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"Multiple studies have noted the potential of anti-drug PSAs to weaken anti-drug norms among youth, which may in turn lead to increases in the prevalence of drug use." // 5
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"WingsNBeer recently partnered up with Alberta Beer Festivals and launched an iPhone app, with an Android version soon to come. They're also working on an inaugural chicken-wing festival in Calgary this November." // 6
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NEWS EDITOR: mel priestley MEL@vueweekly.com
Ricardo Acuña // ricardo@vueweekly.com
Royalty review redux
Assessing Alberta's policies on oil industry royalties Here we go again! On August 28, after eight weeks of media speculation, industry criticism and opposition fearmongering, Alberta Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd announced the make-up of the royalty review advisory panel and provided some insight into how their work would be conducted. The panel, which is chaired by ATB President and CEO Dave Mowat and will include renowned energy analyst Peter Tertzakian, former Alberta deputy finance minister Annette Trimbee, and Beaverlodge Mayor Leona Hanson, was surprisingly well-received by typically proindustry, anti-royalty voices on the right including the Calgary Herald's Deborah Yedlin and former Wildrose leader Danielle Smith. Those on the left, concerned by the kudos of Yedlin and Smith, take solace in the fact that the review panel is made up of folks with a wealth of technical and industry knowledge and experience, but who are not industry insiders. Given the supportive voices on both sides of the issue, it would appear that government got this first part of the process right. Likewise, there has been much
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positive feedback about the online conversation the panel has begun with Albertans via the Let's Talk Royalties website. Unlike past consultations, which were clearly designed to provide participating Albertans with one-sided information and then force them to choose from a very limited number of responses, this one is actually beginning with open-ended questions about what people generally think about royalties, what their questions are, and what they would like to see the review accomplish. The real test will be to see if the panel actually takes the responses seriously and sticks with the conversational format, but for now it certainly seems to be on the right track on this front as well. The final part of the government's royalty announcement was that the current royalty framework will remain in place at least through 2016, a move clearly designed to ease industry uncertainty and to highlight the mandate of the panel itself, which is to optimize: returns to Albertans as owners of the resource; industry investment; diversification and innovation as well as responsible resource development. It should be
noted that, of those four parts of the mandate, the only one that is properly the concern of a royalty regime is the first one. It should not be the role of a royalty system to promote or increase investment, drive innovation or contribute to environmental stewardship. Hopefully the panel interprets those elements of its mandate loosely to mean that it should be conscious of how royalties can impact policy in all those areas, rather than that it should specifically seek to impact those areas through royalties, but that will remain to be seen. The commitment by the government to put any incremental revenues that may arise as a result of the review in the Heritage Savings Trust Fund is a positive one, but is perhaps being asserted a bit too definitively. Yes, it's true that the government should be relying on tax revenue rather than royalties to pay for services and infrastructure, but might there not be room at some point to use increased royalties to fund a concerted renewables or energy transition strategy? Some of the starting points for the panel include a number of
things that have hopefully become self-evident over the course of the last decade. The reduced royalty rate until a project was paid off was introduced by Ralph Klein to encourage investment during a time when the economic potential of the bitumen sands was not yet widely known. That inducement is no longer necessary and should be eliminated. Companies will reduce investment when the price is low and increase investment when the price is high, and the pre-payout royalty has no impact on that calculation. It is also very clear that royalties need to be price sensitive. At very low prices, like we have today, royalty rates should be low with most of the economic rent going to industry. At high prices, royalties should be very high with the lion's share of the rent going to the resource owners— Albertans. This is a difficult balance to strike, but in many jurisdictions when prices are high, as much of 90 percent of available rent gets captured by the owners. The deep-well drilling incentive and other royalty holidays introduced by the Stelmach government
in 2008/2009, and eventually made permanent, did virtually nothing to improve industry investment and should be rolled back. As with the pre-payout royalty, all royalty breaks accomplish is the gutting of the provincial treasury. Investment will resume on its own once prices go back up. Regardless of how this all plays out, this is certainly a very valuable opportunity to get it right and build a royalty regime that will serve Albertans well for years to come. We are the owners of this resource, and we have a responsibility to play a part in this process. We know that the industry and its representatives will be working hard to ensure that its needs and wants are made clear to government, and Albertans must do likewise. Participate in the online conversation, speak to your MLA, and encourage your friends, neighbours and family to get involved as well.V
is growing at the lowest rate in three decades. Nobody outside the regime knows for certain, but it may scarcely be growing at all. The hard landing is now close to inevitable. Now for the second crisis. While China's artificial boom was rolling along, its appetite for commodities of every sort, from iron to soya beans, was insatiable, so commodity prices went up. The other emerging market economies grew fast by selling China the commodities it needed, they attracted large amounts of Western investment because of their rapid growth and they borrowed freely because Western interest rates were at rock-bottom. The collapse of Chinese demand ends this party, too. From Brazil to Turkey to South Africa to Indonesia, exports are falling, the value of the local currencies is tumbling, and foreign investors are fleeing. Capital flight from the 19 largest emergingmarket economies has reached al-
most one trillion dollars in the past 13 months, and the outflow is still accelerating. And the third crisis, in the West? The problems that caused the crash of 2007-08 have not really been addressed, just papered over. What limited growth there has been in Western economies is due almost entirely to absurdly low interest rates and "quantitative easing" (governments printing money). The average time between recessions in the West is seven to 10 years, so one is due around now anyway. The likeliest trigger for that is a collapse of demand in China and in the other emerging economies, which is now practically certain. And when it hits the West, neither of the traditional tools for pulling out of a recession will be available. Interest rates are already near zero and the money supply has already been expanded massively. It would be rash to talk about a long-lasting global depression in the style of the 1930s, because a lot has changed since then. But it is certainly safe to say that the global economy is heading into a perfect storm.
Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.
GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@vueweekly.com
A perfect storm
The global economy is headed for one, one financial crisis at a time You know how it is with buses? You wait ages for one, far longer than seems reasonable—and then three arrive all at once. Financial crises are a bit like that, too. The financial crisis everybody in the business has been waiting for is a "hard landing" of the Chinese economy, now one of the two motors of the global economy. (The other is still the United States.) Everybody thought it was bound to come eventually— well, everybody who was not too heavily invested in the Chinese market—and it now appears to be here, although the Chinese government is still denying it. The second crisis, less widely anticipated, is a credit crunch that is sabotaging economic growth in almost all the developing countries except India. In many cases their currencies have fallen to historic lows against the dollar, making it harder for them to repay the dollars they borrowed. Moreover, it's getting harder for them to earn dollars from their exports because commodity prices have collapsed. And a third crisis is looming in the developed economies of Europe, North America and Japan, which can see another recession looming on the horizon before they have even fully recovered from the effects of the banking crash of 2007-08. It's hard
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to pull out of a new recession when your interest rates are still down near zero because of the last one. These crises are all arriving at once because they are all connected. When the huge misdeeds and mistakes of American and European banks caused the Great Recession of 2008, China avoided the low growth and high unemployment that hurt Western countries by flooding its economy with cheap credit. But that only postponed the pain, and be t we e n 2007 and 2014 total debt in China increased fourfold. The Chinese government is more terrified of mass unemployment than anything else. It believes, probably correctly, that the Communist regime's survival depends on delivering continuously rising living standards. So the Chinese economy went on booming for another six years—but the "solution" was fraudulent and now it's over. The huge amount of cheap credit sloshing around the Chinese econo-
my mostly went into building unnecessary infrastructure and, above all, housing. That did preserve employment, but property values soared and a huge housing bubble was created. There was nobody to buy all those houses and apartments, and there are now brand-new ghost towns all over China, so property values are falling fast.
The average time between recessions in the West is seven to 10 years, so one is due around now anyway. The likeliest trigger for that is a collapse of demand in China and in the other emerging economies, which is now practically certain. Since the crash on the Chinese stock markets began last month, the government has done everything it could to stop it. It has dropped interest rates repeatedly, it has devalued the currency, it has ordered state institutions to invest more—and nothing has worked. Chinese exports have fallen eight percent in the past year, and even the regime admits that the economy
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Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
NEWS // DRUGS
Losing the War on Drugs
Federal candidates are silent on reforming national drug policy
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ichard Nixon coined the phrase, Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy gave it a celebrity boost and Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has embraced it with open arms. Considering skyrocketing deaths due to drug overdoses, prisons bursting at the seams and ever-increasing gun violence on our country's streets, it seems reasonable to assert that the War on Drugs has been a resounding failure. But that doesn't mean any of the federal political parties has plans to alter course any time soon. In fact, International Drug Overdose Awareness Day came and went this past Monday without a peep from any of them. In the 54 years since the United Nations adopted the Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs (an international effort to prohibit the growth, production and sale of narcotics), all Western nations have struggled with rising rates of drug abuse. Given the choice of two paths to deal with the issue—medical rehabilitation with a focus on harm reduction, or criminalization—Canada, like many other countries, pursued the latter. Despite a decades-long war on drugs, this summer has seen a spike in drug overdose deaths across the country, with Alberta leading the way. Law enforcement and health officials have raised the alarm about fentanyl, a synthetic opiate narcotic 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine and 20 times more powerful than oxycodone (better known by its trade name, OxyContin). Fentanyl is normally used as an anaesthetic under medical supervision or prescribed as a slow-release patch to treat chronic pain; combined with heroin, cocaine and other street drugs, it is proving to be a lethal combination of epidemic proportions. In our province alone, 145 people died of fentanyl overdoses in the first seven months of 2015, a significant increase from
the six deaths reported in 2011. Alberta Health Services has responded with an educational campaign titled "It's never going to be you ... until it is" in hopes of raising awareness about the dangers of fentanyl. "The campaign that we're putting out there is stressing that you have to be cautious because when you buy a drug from a drug dealer you don't always know what's in there, so you can't trust it," Dr Gerry Predy, a medical officer of health with AHS, told Global News last month. But a 2011 study led by the BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS found that many anti-illicit-drug public service announcements do little do dissuade drug use and, in some cases, even had the opposite effect. "Multiple studies have noted the potential of anti-drug PSAs to weaken anti-drug norms among youth, which may in turn lead to increases in the prevalence of drug use," the authors noted. Meanwhile, at a campaign rally last month, Harper made it clear that his party intends to continue the same approach. His government dropped reference to harm reduction in 2007 when it changed the National Drug Strategy to the National Anti-Drug Strategy and introduced mandatory minimum sentencing for drug offences. The Conservatives have promised increased funding to the RCMP to prosecute people operating drug labs and marijuana grow-ops and announced the party would spend $500 000 a year over four years on a national toll-free hotline for parents to get information about drug use among youth. No new money for mental health initiatives or addiction treatment services was announced. The opposition parties have, to date, proposed little in terms of substantial drug policy reform. While the Liberals have talked about legalizing marijuana and the NDP vowed to de-
criminalize its use, the party has been silent about a comprehensive national drug strategy that places harm reduction at the forefront. Other jurisdictions have taken a different approach. Portugal, for example, decriminalized all drug use in 2001—be it marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, crystal methamphetamine or anything else—and went from a country struggling to manage its addiction problems to a nation with one of the world's lowest rates of drug use. In Portugal, anyone found in possession of less than a 10-day supply of any drug is sent to the Commission for the Dissuasion of Drug Addiction, a three-person commission usually comprising a lawyer, a doctor
and a social worker. (Anyone caught with an amount exceeding the personal consumption limit is charged with possession for sale.) The commissions recommend treatment, a minor fine, or no penalty at all; addictions counselling is the most common result. Dealers are still sent to prison, fined, or both, but by treating drug abuse solely as a public-health issue and not a criminal one, Portugal has made significant improvements in the health of its citizens. According to a 2011 article in the New Yorker, in 1999 nearly one percent of Portugal's population was addicted to heroin and its drug-related AIDS deaths were the highest in the European Union. Information compiled by the Transform Drug Policy Foundation shows that while an initial increase in drug use was experienced immediately following decriminalization, a decline followed, with the greatest decline among those in the 15- to 24-year-old demographic. Last year, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction Policy reported that Portugal has seen a significant decline in both drug overdose deaths and HIV infection rates among injection-drug users. Other countries have taken note, with the Czech Republic going down a similar path of decriminalization in 2009. Canada, however, has resisted following that path and is paying the price in several ways: consider the case of OxyContin. In early 2012, the federal government took OxyContin off the market and replaced it with a somewhat tamper-resistant formulation called OxyNeo. Writing in the Calgary Herald in March 2014, addictions special-
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ists Dr Hakique Virani, Dr Ian Forster and Dr Omar Rahaman cited experts' predictions that the government's action to halt abuse of OxyContin would see spikes in the use of heroin. This was not only realized, but the rise in fenantyl use currently plaguing Alberta can also be traced back to the same action. Alberta Health Services has said efforts are underway to improve access to treatments but, as Dr Virani noted in an op-ed in the Globe and Mail earlier in 2015, they've been saying the same thing for years. Last month, Global News reported that Edmonton's opioid dependency program is actually treating 150 fewer patients than it was two years ago and that the Calgary program has a threemonth waiting list. The Canadian Drug Policy Coalition has repeatedly called upon policy makers to review current drug policies to determine the benefits and harms to individuals and communities that can be traced to the criminalization of drugs. "We can continue to work within the paradigm of drug prohibition or we can begin to explore alternative approaches and chart a new course that can help save lives, respect human rights and be more cost effective," they wrote in a 2013 report. The coalition called upon the federal government to replace National AntiDrug Strategy with one focused on health and human rights, the decriminalization of all drugs for personal use and the creation of a regulatory system in order to make adult cannabis use legal. And while the death toll mounts, they're still waiting.
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Royalty review
Despite calls from the Wildrose, Conservative and Liberal parties to put off the impending royalty review, the NDP government is going ahead with one of its major campaign promises. Last week, the government announced the four members of the royalty review panel, to be led by ATB President and CEO Dave Mowat. The review is slated to end in November, though Energy Minister Margaret McCuaig-Boyd has promised that the current royalty regime will remain in place until the end of next year. While the opposition parties have absolutely nothing good to say about the review, the government's plan has some surprising cheerleaders, including the upstream oil industry's most influential lobby
group, the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP). Even before Rachel Notley was elected in May, disgruntled critics have had a steady stream of complaints about—well, just about everything. This week, the peanut gallery is somehow claiming that announcing the royalty review panel took too long while also insisting that it should be delayed, if not cancelled entirely, until oil prices rebound. It's all too obvious that certain parties are rooting for the government—and, in fact, the province as a whole—to fail. This reaction makes industry's generally cordial response to the review refreshing. CAPP president Tim McMillan, speaking to the editorial board of the Calgary Herald, was optimistic, saying he expects
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the new system will be sensitive to current low prices while also providing more revenue for the province when oil prices recover. David Collyer, the retired president and CEO of CAPP and a corporate director of Canexus, was pleased by the names announced for the review committee. The NDP can't possibly please everyone, but so far evidence suggests that they're committed to getting things right, working with both everyday Albertans and big business to find a solution that will actually work in the long term. That may not be as exciting as the sky falling, but if the province's most beleaguered industry can find reasons to be optimistic, then it might not be the end of the world after all.V up front 5
COVER // WINGS
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Choose your own wing adventure Cash-strapped students rejoice: WingsNBeer is your new favourite website but generally satisfying. Friday & Saturday Wing deals are most difficult to find on the weekend simply because most places don't need them: people are already going out to the bar. The places that do offer weekend deals tend to be neighbourhood pubs and sports bars tucked away on the edges of the city or deep in residential areas away from the main drags of Whyte Avenue and Jasper Avenue. A few places also include wings in their happy-hour deal on Fridays (the Billiard Club on Whyte being a notable example). Vue chose Mary Brown's for our weekend wing-night choice, which is admittedly cheating a bit: it's a fast-food joint that offers a "pubstyle" wing meal, rather than a wing deal—but hey, that's splitting hairs. For $10.99 you get seven wings, a small cup of mayonnaise-heavy salad (macaroni, colseslaw or potato) and fries or the restaurant's signature taters. This is not a place for those who prefer dry-style chicken wings— or wings that vary significantly in flavour—as Mary Brown's is all about messy, sticky sauces that all taste remarkably similar to one another. Still, if you're hankering for wings and don't feel like asserting much effort in obtaining them, this will do in a pinch.
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ehold the wing night: an unassuming basket of fried poultry bits that has become the lynchpin of a cultural phenomenon unto itself, drawing people out of their houses in the middle of the week to raise a glass (and lift a drumette) in pubs and bars across North America. For students, the appeal of wingnight deals is especially obvious: affordable, high-protein food and cheap liquor are a balm for schoolinduced stresses. Wing specials aren't limited to Wednesdays, though it's on this day that you'll find the lion's (chicken's?) share of deals. Finding specials on the other nights of the week can be a bit of a headache, especially if it's an impromptu decision made at the end of classes/work that day. An enterprising Albertan web designer has your back, however: from its beginnings as a site dedicated solely to wing-centric places in Calgary, WingsNBeer has expanded over the past decade into a complete chicken-wing resource with listings for the best wing deals—seven days a week—in over 560 cities across North America. "We haven't really seen any drop in wing passion or wing traffic," Michael Wynn, the site's founder, says. "When
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we look at our Google Analytics back from the past five, six years, it's just been a steady sort of upward climb. It's a phenomenon, for sure." Wynn developed the site almost 10 years ago, mostly on a whim—he had recently moved to Calgary, and one of his friends suggested he start a site targeted at wing deals when they found themselves searching for just such a place after a hockey game one night. He started the site under the Canadian domain hotwings.ca but rebranded to its current form, wingsnbeer.com, after they began expanding in the US. WingsNBeer is still a small operation—there's only about four people involved in the daily business, including Wynn and his mother, who handles the bulk of the content management. The site features a page for each city, where you can find hundreds of establishments with wing deals, ranked by price and user review. They've got a big advertising push planned for this year and hope to encourage businesses to buy a subscription to "claim" their page on the site, so as to relieve WingsNBeer of the burden of daily updates— 100-percent accuracy is simply impossible, Wynn explains, given the sheer volume of establishments, not
to mention the dynamic nature of restaurant management. WingsNBeer recently partnered up with Alberta Beer Festivals and launched an iPhone app, with an Android version soon to come. They're also working on an inaugural chickenwing festival in Calgary this November. If that goes well, we can expect one to land in Edmonton shortly after. With the invaluable help of WingsNBeer, your intrepid Vue Weekly staff ventured out to a different place each day for a week to assess some of Edmonton's top spots for chicken-wing deals. Thursday A fair number of places have wing deals on Thursdays to entice patrons to get a jump on the weekend. Vue headed down the street from our office to B-Street Bar on 111 Avenue and 119 Street for its Thursday-night wing deal, which offers the mind-bogglingly cheap rate of 20 cents per wing. This has to be an unsustainably low price, given the cost of meat alone: the average wing-night deal of 35 cents a wing is already a slim margin. B-Street's wings were quintessential pub wings, just as B-Street itself is a perfectly typical example of a neighbourhood pub: unremarkable
Sunday While not a conventional wing-night deal, DaDeO's Sunday wing special easily qualifies as the highest quality and arguably tastiest wings of the week. Chicken wings certainly aren't the first thing that comes to mind when you think of cajun cuisine, but DaDeO does them extremely well. The signature flavour is southern fried: a dry rub infused with just the right amount of spice, mitigated by a housemade buttermilk sauce (which costs 50 cents extra, but is well worth it). The barbecue wings were a bit vinegary and tasted a lot like the sweet and sour sauce common in takeout Chinese food, while the honey garlic wings were easily the best iteration of this flavour that any of our group had tasted: rather than a gloppy sweet glaze, it actually had a bite of garlic to it. What a concept. DaDeO's wings were the most expensive of the week: $8 for eight wings on Sunday, so one buck each. However, given the size of the wing— much larger than anything you'll get on a pub wing night—and the sheer quality of both the meat and the flavour, this is actually a great deal. Monday After the lean selection of chickenwing deals on the weekend, The Druid's Monday-night special seems a veritable cornucopia of choice. Over a dozen different flavour alternatives
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are available in both wet and dry rubs at 35 cents a wing. They were good but not great, playing it pretty safe in flavour: neither the Guinness barbecue nor the chipotle mango particularly tasted like any of the named ingredients. The dill pickle were the best of the lot, though admittedly they did seem like someone just applied a liberal dose of that powdered dressing normally reserved for dumping over your popcorn at the movies. However, The Druid's mediocre wings are augmented by pretty good drink specials: $3 for domestic and $4 for import beers on tap, and $5 highballs. Tuesday Original Joe's is in the running with DaDeO for best wings of the week. Like most pubs of its ilk, it offers a robust selection of wing flavours at 35 cents a pop. Unlike most pubs, however, Original Joe's flavours were actually quite distinguishable from one another. The salt and vinegar wings were delicous, permeated with a vinegary kick and overall feeling remarkably like eating a bag of the eponymous chips—only in chicken format. The dill pickle wings were pretty tied with The Druid in terms of flavour, the Caribbean jerk wings were quite unique, and the lemonyoregano Greek wings were fantastic. Kudos to Original Joe's for also offering $5 pints of Alberta craft beer rather than the standard generic domestic alternatives. Wednesday As the penultimate day for wing deals, you're spoiled for choice on Wednesday. Vue concluded its week of wings at O'Byrnes on Whyte. The price is a little bit higher than average (40 cents per wing, instead of 35) and the flavours are fairly congruent with what other pubs offer. O'Byrnes was most notable for how shockingly (even suspiciously) fast the wings came out: we waited over 10 minutes for our drinks to arrive, but the wings landed on the table within a couple minutes of ordering them. Still, even if they had been sitting under a heat lamp for a while, they were fairly decent overall. The lemon pepper was zingy and nicely breaded while the sweet Thai had just a little spicy kick to offset the otherwise very sweet sauce. The curry wings were the most disappointing of the lot, without any heat to speak of and a gummy consistency that was probably due to sitting for too long under that aforementioned heat lamp. Overall, O'Byrnes is a thoroughly typical wing-night experience; let's just hope that its price creep doesn't expand too quickly around town.
MEL PRIESTLEY
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TO THE PINT
QUIZNOS LEDUC COMMON Now Open!
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Montréal beer revisited
Some oldies and some newbies in Montréal's beer scene
How do you keep things fresh when you've visited a place a few times? I found myself asking this question a few weeks ago when I was in Montréal, a city I have been fortunate enough to visit a few times in the past six or seven years. Montréal is one of Canada's most inviting cities with lots to offer every kind of traveller—including the wandering beer geek. But I had already been to many of the essential beer locations in the city, and therefore debated how to spend my beer time: should I return to reliable old haunts, knowing I will appreciate the offerings, or should I venture onto new turf, risking disappointment but potentially broadening my experience? My solution? Do a bit of both, of course. I visited some of my favourite places, including Dieu Du Ciel, where the beers are always impressive and you can count on an intriguing pub-only offering. This time I appreciated the Saison St-Louis, an earthier and grainier interpretation of the saison style. I also headed to the Benelux brewpub, which I visited the first time I was in Montréal but hadn't been back to since. It was nice to see its beer still holds the same quality; the barley wine was particularly lovely. The highlight of my trip was the new places. Montréal's beer scene is so vibrant that the past couple of years have brought a number of enticing new entrants. One that particularly caught my fancy is Isle de Garde Brasserie. Tucked away in the quiet neighbourhood of La Petite Patrie, it is part brewpub, part craft-beer bar. It offers four beers made by the pub and another 20 taps that highlight some of the best Quebec has to offer. It is a quiet pub with an elegant but understated décor, with wood and stainless steel accenting a modernist character. The house beers are quite good and the guest-beer selection is impressive, including a daily cask ale. The day I was there it was a red ale from Microbrasserie La Memphre, dry-hopped with Columbus hops which created a pleasant pine flavour. What really sets Isle de Garde
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apart is that it's the first beer bar I've experienced that has committed to a tap system, allowing the establishment to serve beers at different temperature. Every beer is best served at an ideal temperature, which varies by type: Isle de Garde serves its lagers at four degrees, standard ales at eight degrees and specialty beer (like Belgian ale) at 12 degrees. Very impressive. Another new-ish place in Montréal is the brewpub La Succursale, a small but bustling place in an upscale neighbourhood near Olympic Stadium. The place brews a surprising range of styles; when I was there it had the expected amber and pale ales, along with a hefeweizen, an altbier, an IPA and a tripel, the latter of which (called Triple de la Reine) was the highlight. I am a bit of a sucker for small places that specialize in being the local neighbourhood go-to: every town needs one. Montréal's small pub with a big heart is L'Espace Public. Tucked into a quiet corner of the Hochelaga neighbourhood, it is an unassuming place that you could easily miss if you weren't looking for its low-key signage. Inside, the space features a long bar and a single row of tables on the opposite wall. Despite its diminutive size, it offers some pretty big beers—all of which are made on site. The P'tit Dej Stout is an assertive, full-bodied stout that can easily stand up to the best in the country. I also appreciated the Monty Python, an English Special Bitter. Its soft toffee notes are well balanced by a floral, earthy hop bitterness. Many of the newer places in Montréal, like L'Espace, are away from the main strips and designed to satisfy locals and beer-wise visitors, not tourists. As time goes on there are increasingly more Montréalers—and the occasional wandering beer writer—demanding places like this.V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer. org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond. VUEWEEKLY.com | SEP 3 – SEP 9, 2015
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niversity is expensive. An undergraduate student, or parent of one, would know that tuition can cost around $5959 per year, the national average stated in a 20142015 StatCan report. Add up that amount over four years, and a bachelor's degree would cost a Canadian $23 836. By the 2016-2017 school year, the cost of tuition is expected to increase another 13 percent. Interestingly, many Canadians are taking advantage of the studyabroad programs made available through their chosen post-secondary institutions. The reason? The professed benefits of it, particularly the notion that studying abroad is advantageous in the work force. (In a study conducted by Global HR News, eight out of 10 human resources executives said that study-abroad experience was an important factor for overseas job placement within their companies, while 73 percent said that studying abroad was important when evaluating the résumés of a job candidate.) However, there are additional costs for studying abroad that aren't included in the typical tuition fees paid by someone staying local, such as airfare and a student visa. The application process can also be exhausting. Considering all of this, is studying abroad worth it? The answer is an immediate yes
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from a program advisor at a postsecondary institution that offers the program or a student who has studied abroad. However, those enrolled in study-abroad programs account for only three percent of the Canadian student population—so why aren't more people studying overseas? Tristan Lai, a recent pharmacy graduate from the University of Alberta, spent a semester of his last school year in Uppsala, Sweden. He says the lack of students studying abroad is due to the lack of available funding. "Offering more scholarships and bursaries would make it more accessible," he says. "It's not realistic to expect students to afford studying abroad [without financial support] other than student loans." The University of Alberta offers a handful of awards (about $500 000-worth) while MacEwan University has none—cuts made to university budgets have resulted in scholarships, bursaries and other funding taking a financial hit. "I tell students when it comes to budget, there is a want budget and a need budget," Nina Christine Delling, education abroad advisor at MacEwan University, says. "The needs is you pay your tuition and your fees as a student does, accommodation, food and transportation.
If you were living here in Edmonton on your own, then you have a good idea what your needs are. On top of that, the real expenses are the flight, visa costs and health insurance. These are expenses [on top of] of what you would normally pay going to school." In order for Lai to do a semester abroad, he had to work three jobs, take out a student loan and use a $4500 scholarship he received for good academic standing (this was not given to him specifically to study internationally). His grand total for studying in Sweden: $15 600 for 18 weeks. "The [funding] can definitely be a barrier," he notes. "I think in most cases, it is a priviledged thing to go abroad, simply because the cost is so high." "There is funding, but is it enough funding? Hopefully it's making a difference to some students," says Doug Weir, executive director at the University of Alberta International. "It's something we know is a challenge, but we are trying to address it. When we build programs, we're building it with the cost perspective in mind. We try to keep the cost as low as we can, as it is critically important to students." Lai was surprised to see that his tuition for going abroad included VUEWEEKLY.com | sep 3 – sep 9, 2015
service fees, student union fees and gym membership fees at the University of Alberta. "Why is an exchange student paying U of A facility fees or gym membership, when in fact you won't be using that during your semester abroad?" he says. "For a student to pay a full semester of tuition, it should be cut down to reflect them being abroad." Financial institutions offer specific lines of credit for students studying internationally. But many of these come at a cost and have some limitations to who can receive them. At the Royal Bank of Canada, a student must show confirmation of enrolment at a post-secondary school outside of Canada, a summary of education costs, be a Canadian citizen or have landed immigrant status and have a co-signer. This isn't necessarily a solution to funding as it is still a loan and requires the student to pay it back at the end. If you do manage to get the funding to study abroad, then comes the issue of whether you will receive transfer credit. Post-secondary institutions cannot promise that you will get transfer credit for a course taken abroad. Final credit determination takes into account the student's individual requirements to complete a degree. However, it
is possible that some courses will not transfer over if it does not fit a student's program or a course does not meet transfer requirements (for example, not enough hours of instruction). So should you study abroad? The process gives you soft skills, people skills, communication skills, critical-thinking skills, problemsolving skills of getting around between point A and B in a city you don't know, Delling says. More importantly, studying abroad puts things into perspective. "It's this idea of putting yourself in other people's shoes," Delling notes. "You learn who you are yourself. And you ask, what about me in this context? You're basically renegotiating your identity. If you're from Alberta and you have never left Alberta, it's hard to understand what it means to be a Canadian. But if you go to a different country, [you start to ask yourself] what does it mean to be a Canadian?" For Lai, he would do it again. "Despite the hard work I had to put in and the inconveniences and the process, the experience of being abroad was well worth it," he says. "My semester in Uppsala [was] one of the best experiences I have had during my six years in school." Jasmine salazar
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A guide to good citizenship
Handbook set to offer an overview of Canadian policy changes regarding sexual and gender minority youth
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hough you could say that progress is being made in how we talk about and support sexual and gender minorities in Canada, that progress is happening in uneven increments. The support systems in place, particularly for youth, can vary wildly, depending on where you are and especially when it comes to schools: here in Alberta, for example, only six or so school boards have actual standing policies about sexual orientation and gender identity. Taking note of those patterns—of which places are making progress, what factors were driving those changes—is something of a focus for Dr André Grace, director of research at the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services, whose own research looks at K – 12 education in Canada. And, though the country's progress may be uneven, he does see policies heading in a positive direction. "The provinces and territories each set their own agendas in terms of K – 12 education in policy and things like that," he says. "So I wanted to see common patterns, but I also wanted to be able to say that the sum of the work that's being done across the country is show-
ing progress and momentum. From my perspective, I think it's really important to acknowledge all of the good work that has been done." To do so, Grace and iSMSS have crafted a national handbook, an overview of the policies regarding sexual and gender minority youth across Canada. The handbook—currently being translated into French, and set to be publicly released both in print and in digital formats later this year—is the first of its kind in the country, collecting community/educational resources, as well as a history of policy changes. It's intended to be a resource for those who work with sexual and gender minority youth. "In a larger context around teachers and school principals and other people who should be caring professionals," Grace explains, "I want them to be able to look at this handbook and say, 'Hey, a lot of people have done a tremendous amount of work to meet the needs of LGBTQ students in our schools, I can learn from them, and if I'm not doing this work, now I have a resource book that can help me get started.' Or if they've done some work, that can help them keep building, and enhancing policy and every-
day practice in their schools." The handbook also collects chronologies of progress from the provinces and territories to help gauge the changes that have occurred, as well as when and why. "We went back over the years, really back [from] the 1970s to the current moment, and just gauged what was happening over the years," he says. "From about 2000 on, that's when we see this real surge in advancing the rights of sexual and gender minorities, and having them included in policy-making in education." Noting how and when policies change in our education systems is key, Grace notes. The reason to focus there is that that's where and when a great many people's attitudes towards sexuality—their own and that of their peers—is shaped. "If we can educate children and youth while they're in the K – 12 system around citizenship," Grace says, "around what it means to include sexual and gender minorities, ethnocultural minorities, other groups, and help them while they're young to learn about the damage, for example, that homophobia and transphobia do,
then if these young people are well educated, hopefully they'll grow up as Canadian citizens with a more inclusive eye, and that they'll act more inclusively. "That's the whole idea," he continues. "Once students have a good sense of who lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans students are, the kinds of stresses and risk-taking that's part of their lives because of the hurt that comes from homophobia and transphobia, and just being able to hang out with kids across sexual and gender differences, it improves the quality of life in schools." The importance of that sort of education is hard to overstate: Grace also runs a program called the CHEW project (Comprehensive Health Education Workers), which focuses on health (mental, physical and sexual) and education for sexual and gender minorities, and can see the results of lacking support and resources. "Right now, in Edmonton, we have a crisis with the whole issue of HIV/ AIDS again," he says. "We have an increase of the number of newly diagnosed HIV cases among 15-to29-year-olds. Last week, we had a 17-year-old diagnosed with HIV. We
had a 19-year-old a couple weeks before that. We've had several suicides among street-involved youth because, once they're diagnosed HIV positive, and they don't have any resources or support, suicide often they see as their solution. And I track that back to a failure of schooling to do good work on comprehensive health education." So there's still a long way to go. But there has been a great deal of positive change, too, and Grace notes that part of the goal of the handbook is to celebrate the progress that has been made as it provides resources for those looking to continue the progression. "It's very easy to talk about the void, or this group should be doing that, or whatever," he says. "But I think this handbook indicates that there has been a tremendously positive momentum by different interest groups, whether it's government, educational interest groups—even community groups who've advocated, parent groups and so on—to move inclusion of sexual and gender minorities forwards. That's a really, really good thing."
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VIDEO GAME MOOC ADDS ONLINE EXAMS
After a successful first year (nearly 30 000 online users from 154 countries enrolled) the University of Alberta's Understanding Video Games MOOC (Massive Open Online Course) is preparing for its second instalment—this time with an online exam component that allows students to receive university credit for the course. Previously, the credit component of the course remained an in-person exam, which limited those in different countries from getting credit. The new system allows those interested in the course to register in open studies at the U of A and sit the exam online, with the assitance of a proctoring service. "They'll take the same exam our U of A students will take, online and closely monitored by a proctor," UVG professor Sean Gouglas says. "The students will be monitored via a webcam during the exam, and their keyboard, desktop and Internet connection will be closely watched."
$2.6 BILLION FOR FIRST NATIONS EDUCATION
Liberal Party leader Justin Trudeau is promising to close the gap in quality of life between First Nations people and other Canadians by promising $2.6 billion to First Nations education over four years and $500 million over three years in infrastructure for First Nations schools if elected. Trudeau's plan would invest more per year in First Nations education than the Conservative Party, which earmarked $1 billion over five years and $500 million over seven years for infrastructure starting in 2015/2016. The Green Party has plans to remove the two-percent funding cap on First Nations education and fully fund the program back log ($424 million). The NDP has not listed any funding plans to First Nations education.
AUGUSTANA MIQUELON LAKE RESEARCH STATION OPENS
Last week, a new research station opened in Miquelon Lake Provincial Park, located 30 kilometres north of Camrose. The new facility, Augustana Miquelon Lake Research Station, will help promote research, enhance teaching and foster collaboration between University of Alberta researchers and partners around the world while facilitating research in wildlife, ecosystems and sustainability. The station is housed in a 1500-square-foot modular building with wet and dry laboratories, computing resources, multi-purpose office space, kitchen and overnight accommodation for up to eight people. To address issues of waste, water and energy use, the facility has a sustainability plan built into its operations. The facility received funding from community partners including the U of A, Alberta Parks, Camrose County, Beaver Country and the Beaver Hills Initiative.
BIRDS AND THE BEES
By 2017, schools in Quebec could adopt a program in which sex education will become mandatory for all students from kindergarten to the last year of high school, regardless of the religious or personal convictions of parents across different cultural communities. No exceptions will be made. The sexuality education pilot project will kick off in the next few days in about 15 schools and will run for two years. By 2017, if successful, Quebec will adopt the program.
FLIPPED CLASSROOM
LUNENBURG COUNTRY PROPOSES FIREFIGHTING CLASS
In an attempt to increase firefighter recruitment, a city council member for the Muncipality of the District of Lunenburg in Nova Scotia proposed introducing firefighter training in high schools. The idea is for volunteer departments to provide free training in schools, and students would earn a credit for taking the course. In order for the course to qualify for credit, the program must be provincially, nationally or internationally recognized and applications must be reviewed by a commitee at the department. The proposal was influenced by a similar program in Newfoundland. Since 1987, high school students in Grand Falls-Windsor, Newfoundland have had the option to take a firefighting course. Since 2012, Nova Scotia's Department of Education has approved several personal development credits, including ballet, 4H and lifeguard training.
A classroom environment where kids watch instructional videos at home and do homework at school, coined the "flipped classroom," is gaining traction across Canada. In this flipped learning environment, students are assigned to watch an online video of a lesson as homework and then work on problems during class time. Sir William Mulock Secondary School, a high school in Newmarket, ON, is calling itself a "Bring-Your-Own-Device" school since every student has to have a laptop or tablet, which has allowed teacers to flip the classroom setting. In this setting, teachers are able to focus more on the student than being up at the board. It's not limited to high schools, though. Donna Feledichuk, a University of Alberta professor, used the flipped method during the second semester of an economics course in 2013. She saw an increase in class attendance (65 percent to 90 percent) and an increase of 11.4 percent in the final grades.
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Challenging theatre's status quo Devour Content Here explodes the usual theatrical expectations
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ou're going to laugh at how The cast is 20-some people, a mix I have to get in," Kristine of professional and amateur perNutting says as she zeroes in on formers, including a coal miner, an the Old Muttart Manufacturing astrophysicist and a firefighter in Warehouse's entrance, walking its ranks. past the corrugated metal siding, In terms of its content, Devour a boarded up stakes out non-restreet-entrance alist territory for Fri, Sep 4 – Sun, Sep 6 (8 pm) and a large chainitself: it's a preMon, Sep 7 (2:30 pm) link fence to arsentation of NutDevour Content Here rive at an imposting's script, Of Old Muttart Manufacturing ing garage door Wheat Love and Wheat, Warehouse (10930 - 84 St), $20 on the building's a prairie fantasy west side. Sure that tumbleweeds enough, Nutting through the Great has to, uh, roll her way into the Depression (when many of the sysbuilding, vanishing for a few mo- tems that still guide art and art ments while she unlocks the nor- funding were established, Nutting mal-sized door nearby. It's pitch- notes). There is a narrative, but it'll black inside; an iPhone flashlight be a loose, very self-aware one. helps navigate a minefield of props "It purposely borrows and steals en route to the actual lighting rig, from everything," she says. "It's Robut Nutting walks along with con- meo and Juliet; it's The Black Rider; fident clip: she seems to know her it's a Tino Sehgal piece; it's totally way in the dark. derivative, but we're talking about As far as "site-specific" theatre that endless repetition within culgoes, an empty warehouse on the ture. And within it, something new edge of downtown is about as is alive." far as it gets from theatre's usual housing (for the record, Nutting Nutting—who's previously created does have approval to be here). Pig, Meat Bikini and Three Sisters: But then again, it isn't quite theatre A Black Opera In Three Acts—carthat Nutting's after, either: Devour ries a mischievous but informed air Content Here is looking to wilfully, about her, fully aware of the difjoyfully explode the usual expec- ficulties of challenging the status tations and experiences of perfor- quo, but happy to do so anyway. mance, and in doing so examine the Devour's the result of a creative systems of creation—economic or process she began to explore while otherwise—that forces art and art- taking an MFA in Berlin (Her thesis: ists into certain confines. The result "on the modes of artistic producof those systems, Nutting posits, is tion, and the impact of late capitala very particular, problematic kind ism on that.") of creation, problematic by virtue "It's trying to address failure in a of its ubiquity. fun way—while failing," she says. "Canadian theatre is in trouble," "What would it look like if we she says, perched under a tempo- failed? What if we don't have the rary lamp on some wooden stairs, money? And then, also re-evalu"because the writing is being lim- ating: what if we are our greatest ited by budgets. So everything's a resource? If it is just time, and we four-person, five-person realist nar- can provide that for ourselves, and rative. Maybe Catalyst [Theatre] do if we're not doing it for the money, [shows with] eight people, and it's a how does that alleviate us artististylized romanticism. But that's the cally? How does that relieve the only stuff that can survive a profes- pressure? sional theatre. "So far it's been a noble experi"Compile that with funding—what ment, for sure," she continues. "At gets funded—and the cuts to fund- the end, I think it will be interesting," she continues. "I think the spir- ing and fun regardless—mostly beit of even regional theatre, and the cause of the space, mostly because Massey Commission looks at what of the amateur quality juxtaposed Canadian artists can contribute to with the tight qualities. I'm really our culture, is in peril." into this idea of alleviating moneDevour, then, looks to address tary pressure, and what the impact that in both its structure and con- is on the artistic process. And that's tent. In terms of the former, it why we agreed to do it. Everybody seems defiant of limitations, will- was excited about that." ing to embrace impossible tasks. PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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ucien "Lucy" Minor doesn't want much from his life. "To not die," is his first response when asked by a mysterious stranger. When the unknown trespasser inquires further, Lucy offers, "For something to happen." And so "something" does, for in that moment Lucy knows he has to escape the uneventful town of Bury where he is not particularly liked or welcomed. He decides to move along in the world and pursues his future as a servant. With the invented title of Undermajordomo, Lucy begins his new role in the darkness, mystery and dry wit of Castle Von Aux where he finds thieves, sadomasochistic aristocracy, mad men, suicide, the darkest of humour and, of course, true love. In his third novel, Patrick deWitt
once again shows off his mastery of genre mixology. He turns from the magical realism of his western-set Sisters Brothers to the fabled, dark humour of the medieval-esque countryside. DeWitt has created an adult fairy tale with an adventure-seeking, kindhearted but inherently selfish liar of a main character who, like the rest of us, is just trying to take advantage of opportunities presented to make the best go of it. Lucy manages to possess something of an innocent dimwittedness, easily taken advantage of early on in his adventure, but capable of taking care of himself in his own way. And as events unfold around him, Lucy slowly strengthens his possession of self to determine what that "something" is that he truly wants.
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Art in the Alley In a Banksy-inspired collaboration with the Stony Plain Road and Area Business Association, a group of former Grant MacEwan students have created a series of artworks in the alleys of Stony Plain Road. That backroads aren't usually a place you find art is partly the point: the group's goal lies in "reclaiming spaces that aren't usually associated
DeWitt's ability to tell familiar tales in entirely new, unexpected and quietly hilarious ways is in great form with Lucy and all the strange characters he encounters. There's no mistaking this for a children's tale with its very adult humour and situations, but the adventurous, light-heartedness of the story itself sets it apart: creating the sense of a man out to find himself and a love to dedicate himself to is reminiscent of children's stories of adventure and woe. The structure of the novel, set in short, sometimes page-long chapters, works to not only give some the odder events space, but also provides its own humour and relief in the titles of chapters. Lucy moves from luckless and weak and easily taken advantage of, to being an author of his own fate. He begins to be able to make the choices that feel right to him, knowing the other option is unhappiness in allowing a wrongness or mere acceptance of fate to continue. "I could spend the rest of my life staring out a window," one character tells Lucy, and for once he knows firmly what he does not want. By the end of the book Lucy is closer to the definition of the something he wants. More importantly perhaps, as he stares out his own window, he knows what he doesn't. Undermajordomo Minor is deWitt playing to his dry wit, black humour strengths, but with a structure that skips along, delivering quiet mirth and repressed laughter in the face of absurdity we all feel in the attempt to start a new life.
with art and colour," according to a press release. The artists worked with the Business Association, but were more or less free to create whatever art they wanted around the theme that focuses on children, and the sense of boundless joy that youth can carry. So, while the weather's still good, you can go alley-spelunking for visual delights. (Stony Plain Road)
Over at FAB Gallery / Until Sat, Sep 19 The pair of exhibits currently up at the University of Alberta's FAB Gallery together offer a pastand-present look at what our visual artists are creating. From Time To Time takes a era-hopping tour through the university's acclaimed printmaking program— currently celebrating its 50th year—by collecting the work of 27 accomplished artists (whose work, collectively, has won more than 90 international awards). The other exhibit, Make Good: Design for a Better Now showcases the work of five graduate designers, all focused around the idea of how thoughtful design can improve our everyday living. (FAB Gallery) V
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Plain • multicentre.org • York: art by Sydney Lancaster and Marian Switzer; Aug 10-Sep 23
Wash, and Walls: artwork by Jim Davies; Sep 19-Oct 10; Opening reception: Sep 19, 2-5pm
Vandersteen, Victoria Armstrong; Sep 1-Sep 26; Opening reception: Sep 3, 6-9pm
MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca •The Street Where You Live; Sep 8-Nov 15
SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-
WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Twelve on the 12th: A special collection of12 paintings by Montréal artist Jean-Gabriel Lambert; Sep 12-24
NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Artisan Nook: Compact Layers: Nancy Corrigan. Small drawings in several media; vigorous interpretations of nature; until Oct 1 • Ever-New: three mixed-media artists and nature; artists bring new methods to the practice and new insights into the traditions of depicting nature; until Oct 1
SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce
PARADE GALLERY • Window Display Box 101 Street, north of 102 Ave, Edmonton City Centre Mall • paradegallery.ca • April Dean; Sep 4-Oct 4
Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • SNAP Klusterfak: A Collaborative Community Installation; Aug 1-Sep 5 Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • MAIN GALLERY: Open Art Competition; through Sep • FIREPLACE ROOM: OAC Hanging; through Sep
STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Paving the Way: Pioneers of the country Part 2; until Sep 30
LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Edmonton@ opencanada.org • opencanada.org/event/cic-edmontonbook-club-event-thomas-piketty-capital-in-the-21stcentury • CIC Edmonton: Book Club Event – Thomas Piketty, Capital in the 21st Century; Sep 18, 6-8pm; Free
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm FACES OF EDMONTON BOOK LAUNCH • Mercury Room YEG, 10575-114 St • An exhibition of Faces of Edmonton portraits and stories, giveaways, a performance by the local band Aviakit and the author will talk about some of the stories behind the photos • Sep 18, 6:30pm (doors), 7pm (talk)
HAVEN READING SERIES LAUNCH • Upper Crust Café, 10909-86 Ave • strollofpoets.com • Two poets laureate, Pierrette Requier and Charlotte Cranston will host the upcoming Haven reading series • Sep 17, 7pm • $5
CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • September Focus Group for the Creative Practices Emerging Artists Program; Sep 12, 1-3pm • Colloquium Series: Stephen Williams; Sep 16, 7-9pm
MASTER THE ART OF WRITING QUERY LETTERS WITH JOAN MARIE GALA • Stanley Milner Library, Program Room, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • Tackle the mystery of the query. The query is where you make your first impression with decision-makers in publishing. What information belongs in your letter? What is forbidden? Discover how to best present yourself and your work • Sep 16, 7pm
DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • People and Places of Inspiration; Sep 9-Oct 3; Opening reception: Sep 10, 5-8pm
DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Wilf Perreault: Dark to Light; Sep 19-Oct 2
NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The
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Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm
Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • Recollections: An Imperfect Schematic: art by Erin Pankratz-Smith; Aug 20-Oct 10 • Mind Games: art by Lisa Turner; Aug 20-Oct 10 • Arche-Textures: artwork by Amy Loewan, RCA; Aug 20-Oct 10
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
FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: The Imitation Game (Sep 4), Jobs (Sep 11), The Fifth Estate (Sep 18), The Social Network (Sep 25)
FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St •
SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St
780.492.2081 • Make Good: Design for a Better Now; Aug 25-Sep 19; Closing reception: Sep 17, 7-10pm • From Time to Time: 50th Anniversary Print Portfolio; Aug 25-Sep 19; Closing reception: Sep 17, 7-10pm
GOTTA MINUTE FILM FESTIVAL • Stanley Milner
SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper
FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.
FILM CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free
Library • gottaminutefilmfestival.com • Wait for it! Watch for it! For one week, One Minute Silent Short Films will light up platform screens throughout the Edmonton Transit LRT system, bringing media art to Edmontonians on the go • Sep 14–20
METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • PAST FORWARD: THE GARNEAU THEATRE AT 75: The Philadelphia Story (Sep 18), Amy (Sep 18, 22-23, 27-28), Cooties (Sep 18, 23, 28), Saturday Morning All-You-Can-Eat-Cereal Cartoon Party! (Sep 19), Flash Bash! Featuring Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe (Sep 19), The Thief of Baghdad (Sep 20), The Usual Suspects (Sep 20), It Follows (Sep 20), The Great Dictator (Sep 21), What We Do in the Shadows (Sep 21) • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet (Sep 5-7, Sep 9-10, Sep 12-13, Sep 17); The Thief of Baghdad (Sep 20), Paddington (Oct 3), Dr. Seuss’ Horton Hears A Who! (Oct 10), Ghostbusters (Oct 31) • DEDFEST: Cooties (Sep 18, Sep 23, Sep 28) • METRO BIZARRO: Bizarro Mixed Tape: Revenge of Beyond Bizarro (Sep 16), Two Thousand Maniacs! (Oct 21) • TURKEY SHOOT: Tango & Cash (Sep 8)
VUE WEEKLY'S BLUE REVUE • Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712-109 St NW • bluerevue.ca • Sexy films, beer and burlesque combine for one amazing night that you won't soon forget, this is Canada’s only pornography-based film festival • Sep 16, 6:30pm (doors), 7:30pm (show)
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ACUA GALLERY & ARTISAN BOUTIQUE • 9534-87 St • acuarts.ca • The gallery will feature unique and original works of art and music created by artists of Ukrainian heritage from Canada and abroad • Artwork by Marianna Savaryn and Linda Craddock; Sep 11, 5-9pm
ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • FEATURE GALLERY: Here and There; Jul 11-Oct 3 • A Second Look: Simon Wroot in collaboration with Five Yukon Artists reinterpret Alberta and Yukon landscapes; Sep 5-Oct 17
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Tyler Los-Jones: A Panorama Protects its View: Jan 23-Jan 31, 2016 • The Double Bind: Conversations Between Modernism and Postmodernism; May 2-Sep 13 • Illuminations: Italian Baroque Masterworks in Canadian Collections; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Wil Murray: On Invasive Species and Infidelity; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Douglas Haynes: The Toledo Series; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Charrette Roulette: Language; Jul 18-Nov 15 • Sincerely Yours: By Alberta artist Chris Cran; Sep 12-Jan 3 • Lectures: A Conversation with Chris Cran and Bruce McCulloch (Sep 11, 6:30-7:30pm); Collecting Italian Baroque Painting in Canada (Sep 16, 7pm), $15/$10 AGA members • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA
• 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 Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright
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GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St
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Albert • 780.459.2525 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Sep 1-28; Opening reception: Sep 3
• St. Albert Public Library, 5 St. Anne Street, St. Albert • 780.459.1530 • sapl@sapl.ca • starfest.ca • A literary festival featuring authors such as Heather O'Neill (Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night); Sean Michaels (Us Conductors); Lawrence Hill (Book of Negroes); Kim Thuy (Ru); and Nick Cutter (The Troop) • Sep 11-Nov 10 • Tickets from $5
GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Un: artwork by Walter Jule; Sep 11-Oct 25; Opening reception: Sep 11, 7pm, artist in attendance
GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl. ca/art-gallery • Meeting Creek: watercolour paintings by SuChang Yi; through Sep • Display Cases: Edmonton Weavers’ Guild; through Sep • Plexi-glass cubes: Nature in Focus: winners of the Edmonton Master Naturalists photo contest; through Sep • Plexi-glass cubes: Edmonton Stamp Club: featuring World Wildlife Fund for Nature (WWF) stamp exhibit; through Sep • Stanley A Milner Library: IBBY Silent Books Exhibit: a collection of over 100 renowned wordless picture books from around the world; through Sep
TALES ALBERTA STORYTELLING RETREAT • Camp Kannawin, AB • 780.437.7736 • talesstorytelling. com • Professional development, discussions and readings. • Sep 18-20 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
THEATRE BOOM: THE MUSIC, CULTURE AND EVENTS THAT SHAPED A GENERATION • Citadel Theatre–
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: Between Reality and Transcendence: Chun Hua Catherine Dong; Aug 6-Sep 10 • Waterscape: Marlene Jess' practice explores the marketing of convenience food and water products; until Sep 10 • State of Grace: State of Grace is part of Chun Hua Catherine Dong's research about shame. It consists of 15 pieces of performance-based photographs; until Sep 10
Shoctor Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • A play that chronicles 25 turbulent years of the post-war Baby Boom and gives voice to over 100 influential politicians, activists and musicians • Sep 19-Oct 11
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 13
JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artist Greg Doherty; Aug 27-Sep 24; Reception: Sep 9, 6:30-8:30pm
DARK STAR: THE LIFE & TIMES OF ROY ORBISON • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • This original from the Icon series celebrates the life and music of Roy Orbison, one of the most influential and iconic pioneers of American rock 'n roll • Sep 4-Nov 1
LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Good Walls Bad Art: 3 Street Artists go head to head to head in a creative competition where the audience has the rare opportunity to bid on these contestants work; Sep 11, 8-11:30pm; Free private event - register to attend (info@minbidauctions.com) • Visualeyez: Artists make performance-based work while sharing a space. This year's theme: expanding and collapsing; Sep 16-21
• 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Artwork by Julian Forrest; Sep 3-Sep 22
LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor
PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood
Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona. com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Opens Sep 12 • Margaret Klappstein; through Sep
MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Weather Report: Andrzej Maciejewski; Aug 29-Oct 18; Opening reception: Sep 3, 7-9pm
MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Dinosaurs Unearthed: until Oct 11
ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave •
VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com •TREX Alberta Foundation For The Arts Travelling Exhibition; Aug 6-Sep 26 • Off-Site (Jubilee): OPEN IMAGE: Partnership between Visual Arts Alberta - CARFAC and the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society; End of Aug-Nov
780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Out of Bounds: The Art of Lynn Malin; Sep 5-Nov 15
VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St
Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • Jonn Einerssen and Vance Theoret Workshop; Sep 16-17, 9:30am-5pm
SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Stockwell Depot 1967–79; Jul 24-Sep 12 • Splinter,
Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Wild At Heart: artwork by Natasha Vretenar, Carol Johnson, Heather Howard, Marylinn Jeffery, Miles Constable, Shirley
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MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid 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)
MODERN FAMILY VACATION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, Phase II West Edmonton Mall, West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • edmonton.jubilations.ca • Jay and his beautiful Columbian wife have decided to celebrate their anniversary by taking a romantic cruise just the two of them. No kids, no family, no problems. Except the rest of the family has decided to surprise them by taking the cruise as well • Aug 28-Oct 25
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COSMIC TROUBLES The Prophet an infantilizing take on Gibran's best-selling book of spiritual poetics
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hanks to his super-successful (anywhere between 11 and 100 million copies sold) book of wise words in verse, The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran (1883 – 1931) stands atop the Best-Selling Poets podium with a bronze medal.(Behind Tao founder Lao-Tzu and Shakespeare.) The author shouldn't be confused with his famous work's title, though. The Lebanon-born, made-in-America Gibran, long fame-hungry, posed and muddled about in Boston- and NYCarea artistic circles for years before hitting it big with his 1923 book, edited, like all his works, by Mary Gaskell. (She remained loyal even after he broke off their engagement, though he'd borrowed much money from her and she'd helped him improve his English.) Most critics pooh-poohed Gibran's
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work, with some even preferring another quotable little book that appeared three years later—A A Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh. But Gibran's slim volume has remained comforting and consoling in its inspiring counsel's been for many readers; now The Prophet, so popular during the counterculture '60s, gets its own animated adaptation for our more New Age-y times. Awkwardly, the main story focuses on a little girl, Almitra, whose muteness—since her father died two years earlier—and mischievousness leave her mother, Kamila (voiced by Salma Hayek), at wit's end. Kamila tends to Mustafa (Liam Neeson), a poet imprisoned for seven years in a countryside villa with one guard, but Almitra tags along one day and is entranced by him. This story, too child-
Fri, Sep 4 – Thu, Sep 17 Directed by Roger Allers Metro Cinema at the Garneau directed and broadly characterized, is interrupted by differently drawn and conceived interludes, illustrating eight passages from Gibran's book, but their more complex adult ruminations can be at odds with the main story. The focus on young Almitra (an adult seeress in the book) and the remaking of Mustafa as a poetprisoner are infantilizing and unnecessarily high-drama plot changes, respectively, jarring with the book's calm, musing tone. Mustafa's even released, only to have his freedom revoked—he's seen as a dangerous,
Christ-like figure. All this commercial-minded, Disney-style high-stakes is a padding out of pondering-ness to ponderousness. The metaphorical implication—we are mere spiritual children, eager to drink in Mustafa's excitingly rebellious wisdom—seems condescending and unnecessarily presumptuous; after all, if you're watching this movie, you probably know Gibran's book already. Still, even if your preferences for provocative paradoxes tend more towards Wilde's witty quips than Gibran's pseudo-mystic lines— "That which you call freedom is the strongest of these chains"—some of the interludes' different, lovely animation-styles are stirring. A wedding toast becomes a violet-tinged rumination on alone-ness and apart-
No Escape T
We're in trouble!
Pointing towards enlightenment
ourism horror (Hostel, Turistas, etc) from the brothers who previously dropped us into demonplagued underground Paris (quelle souterreur! Pas vraiment), No Escape is stupidly political. Spiritually, that title's a warning to your soul, via your vulnerable eye-windows. This is like watching The Amazing Race remixed as a disaster-film and stewed into The Killing Fields as a base-flavour of antiAsian racism simmers hatefully up from the bottom of the pot.
An American family—water-company engineer Jack Dwyer (Owen Wilson), wife Annie (Lake Bell), daughters Lucy and Beeze—having just moved to an unnamed Southeast-Asian country, finds themselves caught in a coup d'état. The moment Jack sees Unnamed White Guy murdered in the street, it's clear Americans are especially ripe targets for all these marauding Eastern hordes' machetes. It's a savage, jungle-style hack-attack—in hotels, offices, shops. Only four natives, all men, help the neversay-Dwyers, resolutely led by Macho Dad, along the way: one says nothing amid a scary street crowd; one's old and kindly; one wants Jack's watch and shoes in return; one's an ever-grinning, Kenny Rogers-loving pal of "British CIA" guy Hammond (Pierce Brosnan), who executes 007-style shootouts to help everyone's favourite Yankee Clan Brimming Over With Love. The xenophobia tailspins on, reaching peak-plummet-speed when Annie, captured by the posse of nasties long
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ness; an ode to work swirls through colour-vibrant, impressionist canvases. But, even here, the tone can slip into monotony and preciousness: "Your children are not your children but the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself," becomes a crooned song here. The interludes' wispiness and the genericness of the setting—somewhere Mediterranean and Middle East-y, with fezes, market bazaars and the hamsa a recurring motif—match the allegorical, sometimes vague, ambiguities of Gibran's writing ... but it can also make much here all the more free-floating, untethered, even a bit spacey. In the end, this adaptation's more pose-y and cutesy than question-posing or poetically profound. BRIAN GIBSON
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pursuing them like demon-hounds, is immediately almost raped (only to be saved by Super-Hammond). Vietnam's just half-a-mile downriver, though—so convenient in a sudden SE-Asia travel emergency! (Cambodia, implied as the story's setting, has a strong case for cultural libel here.) Forget that there's never been a coup like this in the region. Never mind Annie's panicking-female stereotype. Shrug off Hammond's explanation of the West's meddling, so simplistic that even a 9/11-truther would scoff. Because it's not just the fetid feeling that "Slant-Eyed Devils!!!" may as well be blazoned in a scarlet chop-suey font on screen. It's all the political turmoil and revolt here as revolting horror—with so many scattered dead and live Asian bodies just obstacles for America's No 1 tighty-whitey family—that makes No Escape an atrocity in its retrograde, racist exploitation of civil strife for cheap and nasty, lowdown dirty, tawdrily thrilling ends.
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Look! A body!
When I saw Stand By Me (1986) I was exactly the same age as the kids in it. I was 12 years old and, watching Stand By Me, I experienced a midlife crisis— the movie made me feel like my life, the good life, was already passing me by. Which is what the movie is designed to do. I completely identified with Richard Dreyfuss' narrator, who, if I think about it, is about the age I am now. He's the grown-up version of Gordie (Wil Wheaton). I identified with Dreyfuss when I was 12, but I don't much now that I'm actually his age. I don't relate to the ridiculous assertion that, at 12, he and his friends "knew who we were and exactly where we were going." And I don't relate to his closing sentiment that he never had friends like the friends he had when he was 12. Stand By Me, at least to me, is a film about an adult man who misses the kinship he felt with other kids when he was 12, but the adult man only makes sense to you when you're 12, which is very likely a time in your life when you don't feel such a strong kinship with other kids. It's a 12-year-old's idea of being a nostalgic adult. Is there a word for nostalgia you feel for something you never experienced? The film was perfectly well-directed by Rob Reiner, who apparently could only get enough money to pay for about 20 seconds of any period song. If you don't know the story, it follows Gordie and his buddies— crazy Teddy (Corey Feldman), gullible Vern (Jerry O'Connell), and the wounded, brave and beautiful Chris (River Phoenix, whose hair in the sunshine looks like spun gold)—as they go on an overnight excursion in search of the dead body of a missing local boy. It's small-town Or-
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egon, Labour Day weekend, 1959. Also looking for this dead body are a bunch of older idiots led by Kiefer Sutherland, who has a terrible dye job and sculpted stubble. The confrontation with the Sutherland gang near the movie's end is pretty dumb. There is a scene in which Chris talks about his family to Gordie and cries, and a scene in which Gordie talks to Chris about his family and cries, and those scenes aren't exactly silly but simply too on-the-nose and, more to the point, poorly written. The adults are all cartoons. There is a superfluous dream sequence that feels like pure filler—the source material is a Stephen King novella and I guess they felt they needed to pad it out to make it a feature—and a barf fantasy that is, frankly, awesome. But the scenes of the boys just hanging out, doing stupid kid stuff, are gold. Walking down train tracks, spitting into a tin can, sitting around a fire, insulting each others' mothers—it's precisely in the scenes not working hard to feel poignant that feel most poignant. It's lines like "Pile of shit has a thousand eyes." It's seeing 12-year-old boys with their arms around each other because why not throw your arms around each other? I didn't see a dead body when I was a kid. (That came later.) I didn't fend off bullies with bad stubble with a .45. (That, thankfully, still hasn't happened.) When I first saw Stand By Me I mourned the lack of such experiences in my life, which was already hurtling mercilessly forward. But what matters more to me now is that I never had friends like the boys in Stand By Me. Or I had friends, but never felt so easily part of a group of friends, that sense of acceptance and camaraderie. Did you? V
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A CREATIVE FORCE Gay Nineties' Parker Bossley on change and inspiration
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t's a gloomy, rainy summer day in Vancouver, and Parker Bossley swears he could taste the downpour's chill in the air two days ago. He prefers sunshine, stating somewhat dramatically that he doesn't know how many more autumns he's got left in him. In between sips of his morning coffee, his tone becomes more animated as the topic of conversation turns to what's on the horizon for Gay Nineties, the four-piece rock band (named for the decadent art and societal scandal of the 1890s, not the '90s most of us remember) he's at the helm of on vocals and guitar. "This summer, for us, has been a summer of creativity and kind of rebirth where we're working on our LP, we built a studio, and we've just been writing ... it's a very inspired time," he says. "There's been a few
changes, particularly in my life, which have definitely pushed forward that creative energy and then also just changes. Gay Nineties, there's changes happening, and it's great and it's wonderful and we're all on board." There's a palpable sense of excitement in Bossley's words, though he chooses them carefully—he often stops to note how a previous sentence isn't exciting in an interview. He feels the band—which includes Daniel Knowlton (bass/vocals), Malcolm Holt (drums) and Bruce Ledingham (keys)—is in an exploratory state of mind as far as writing the band's new LP goes, which will be the follow-up to Liberal Guilt, released earlier this year. The plan is to record in January (at the aforementioned recently built studio constructed by Ledingham, who's also a "genius carpen-
ter"), allowing ample time to write and flesh out ideas, a process Bossley notes is more collaborative now. The melodies that are surfacing from that have an undeniable '80s vibe, but Bossley insists he's never been into the notorious decade. "It's amazing, but it's definitely pulling influences more from Don Henley ... I'm making the new record sound terrible, but that's the truth," he laughs. He's not entirely sure where that came from—his regular playlists more often include the likes of Kate Bush, Rufus Wainwright, Paul McCartney and Cameo. "My only goal was, well, is, to really streamline everything; to make a record you can put on and forget about or you can pay attention to, kind of soften the peaks and valleys and then also lyrically be really proud of it."
Bossley is proud of the outcome of Liberal Guilt, too—an EP with plenty of charismatic rock anthems that has earned the band spots at Canadian Music Week and the Pemberton Music Festival—but he says he's never been more inspired than he is right now. "I feel like I've spent most of my 20s trying to get to the point where as a lyricist I can truly write about what's happening in my life and not feel self-conscious about it—like, to be able to write about it and also mask it, but be truly honest about what's happening in my life," he explains. "I feel like I'm at the point where I am doing that, and it also happens to be kind of a tumultuous point in my life. There's quite a bit happening and I'm writing about it and it feels so good, and it's so inspired.
Sat, Sep 5 Gay Nineties Part of Sonic Boom Sat Sep 5 – Sun, Sep 6 Borden Park sonicboomfestival.com "I'm thankful because I feel like if I wasn't able to write about it I would be very frustrated right now, and it would feel like there was a gate on my creativity," he continues, though he doesn't go into specific detail about that tumultuousness. "Right now it's open and shit's going down, but I have this beautiful release with Gay Nineties and it's quite wonderful." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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Concealer G
oing into Concealer's first rehearsal, Mark Davis was a blank slate. He had a few song ideas—fragments that didn't quite gel with his own solo guitar-driven endeavours—to present to missmannered, a DJ and socialite more than a decade younger than him. Davis knew the instruments they planned on using and nothing else. "I just knew he was going to bring a couple of synthesizers, and I was going to play bass, and I was going to use the drum machines," Davis recalls. "But we had no plan whatsoever. It was an extremely whimsical beginning." That was six years ago. Concealer's now releasing its debut Fêted:Fetid—which doubles as the first-ever release on Rae Spoon's imprint, Coax Records—the nine songs of oscillating, FX-coloured synths and singular bass lines over drum machines and under Davis' level voice. It's difficult to place— the duo's dubbed it heavy wave— but compelling to hear. It was a sound that emerged organically, without anything in the way of pre-imagining: before Concealer, Davis and missmannered had been acquainted, but only that ("we knew of each other," Da-
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vis clarifies). Davis wasn't one for do so much," Davis says. "Neither of the bar scene anymore, but found our playing was terribly sophistihimself out for a drink one night, cated from the get-go: I was playwhere missmannered saw him and ing solid quarter-root-notes, and missmannered was playing onedecided to say hello. finger keyboard. "I was at the It was that kind Black Dog order- Fri, Sep 4 (8 pm) of start." ing a drink, and With Rae Spoon, ATLAAS Still, by the [ m i s s m a n n e r e d ] Brixx, $15 end of that first came up behind jam, there was me and put his arms around me, and said, 'Hey, enough of a sense of something Mark Davis, when are we starting a happening, of a sound emerging, band?'," Davis recalls. "I knew it was for both musicians to want to continue. That it's taken six years for a bit of whimsy at the time." And then it happened again. And a debut album to emerge—Davis notes it's actually been finished for again. "By the third time, I just said, 'Next more than a year—was as much Thursday, 7 pm, my place,'" Davis about trying to line up the proper laughs. "I think he was a bit shocked marketing and publicity as anything else. (They'd just about given it was actually going to happen. "I sort of liked the idea of taking a up, Davis notes, and decided on an risk," Davis continues. "And taking a independent release when Spoon chance with someone I knew noth- called him up out of the blue and offered to release the record.) ing about." "I think by the end of our first Neither of them were working rehearsal, we knew what we were with instruments they knew well: doing," Davis says. "And we were pedals became an effective way for shocked; we were like, 'Well, that both of them to shape the sounds went well, hey?' Because our getting together in the first place at play. "Both of our approaches were was kind of a joke. We were really pretty simplistic, I would say, which thrilled with the results." was another characteristic of Con- PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM cealer: we're a duo, and we can only
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KEN Mode M
uch like KEN Mode's recently released album Success, the band is a little bit snide and antagonistic—you have to be when you don't fit in. The wryly titled album, released in June on record label Season of Mist, is a great example of where the group is at at this stage in its career. Produced by Steve Albini (whose prodigious production credits include Nirvana's In Utero and the Pixies' Surfer Rosa), Success is a snarling and sarcastic album that straddles the line between hardcore, noise and crushing metal guitars— just like the band itself. "It's just kind of snotty and doesn't give a crap," says guitarist-vocalist Jesse Matthewson. "A lot of the vibe of the lyrics—even the music itself—it just has more of a punk vibe than on any of our previous records.
That's kind of where the antagonism comes from, I think." That antagonism is in-part because of the non-stop touring the Winnipeg iconoclasts have been doing over the past five years, living the unglamorous life of a full-time musician: sleeping on people's floors and spending hours upon hours in a van with each other. That can make anyone a bit twitchy, but the group's bleak sense of humour, as evidenced on Success tracks like "Failing at Fun Since 1981," helps deal with the pain. "Realistically, because you're either laughing or crying—and we'd rather laugh at things," Matthewson says. "It's such a bleak industry, so you're either on top and you're the happiest you can be or you're eating shit constantly, and you're either crying
Thu, Sep 10 (8 pm) Part of Bermuda Festival Wunderbar, $12 in advance, $15 at the door or laughing about it. We're choosing to laugh at things." The group has been making music for 16 years. That wears on a band, and Matthewson admits this is probably the last regular tour for "a while." "We're starting to burn out," Matthewson says. "We've just been a full-time touring band for the last five years and it's, I don't know, it's kind of a young person's game to do it that way, and it'd be financially irresponsible for us to do it any other way at this point. "I'm turning 34 this year, and sleeping on floors is starting to get pretty old to me." JORDYN MARCELLUS
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PREVUE // COUNTRY
Belle Plaine & Blake Berglund I
t's often been said that imitiation is the sincerest form of flattery, but what do you call it when two musicians dictate a whole vinyl recording in your name, cover not one but two of your tracks, and then go on a month-long tour for said release? Regina-based country songstress Melanie Hankewich, better known by her stage name Belle Plaine, collaborated with country crooner Blake Berglund to record a self-titled album for friend and fellow Saskatchewan musician Zachary Lucky, and the pair are going on a month-long tour across Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia. "The project started in 2014. We were in Kansas City—Blake and I— and Zachary was there and performing at Folk Alliance International, which is a conference and a bit of an industry event that isn't open to the public," Hankewich says from her office in Regina. "We were [there] working to showcase and network, and we saw Zachary play 'Saskatchewan,' and there was this moment when I leaned into Blake and I was like, 'How talented our friends are'
and he said, 'We should record some of our friends' songs.'" The album was recorded live at Studio One Recording in Regina, under the production of Jason Plumb (The Waltons), the record features two songs from Lucky's back catalogue: "Town to Town" and "Saskatchewan." "'Saskatchewan' was set in stone once we heard it, because it's a love song to the province and it just suited what we were doing with our careers and sound. It was a nice place to meet," Hankewich explains. "We chose 'Town to Town' after we went through some of Zach's back catalogue. We wanted to take something of his and recreate it and interpret it in a different way. I could hear the two-step in it." This project was something Berglund wanted to do for a long time, Hankewich says. Back in 2012, Berglund tweeted Hankewich that he wished he would have collaborated with her on his album Coyote. But, at that time, Hankewich was focused solely on her career and music.
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"I sort of kind of ignored—I think for the most part—anytime he tweeted me," Hankewich says. "I didn't get it and had my blinders on for my own career and wasn't thinking about that community aspect at that point." The accompanying video for Hankewich and Berglund's version of "Town to Town" captures the essence of community that the duo was trying to evoke through this recording. The video follows the reaction people around Regina had upon hearing the track for the first time. "The idea was to give them the headphones and let them listen and try to get those subtle, facial [tellings] of what people think," Hankewich says. "You know, people are so polite. They don't come right out, but I think you get a great idea of those inner thoughts from people's faces." JASMINE SALAZAR
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PREVUE // ROCK
Copilots
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kye Brookes didn't exactly set out to write an album of long songs. But while recording Copilots' third album, Sunstroke, a string of eightand nine-minute tracks just seemed to fall into place. The Vancouver fivepiece's frontman says the move was more in the direction of honouring his creative intuition rather than fulfilling a specific intention. "The music came out like that," he says. "I just felt that I didn't want to ruin my creativity in order to fit a preconceived format of what rock songs, or whatever, should be." Brookes adds that the length of several songs on the album isn't wholly unusual. Other bands he's played in, such as the instrumental Fond of Tigers, tend to run a tad long, and rock bands historically haven't shied away from more ambitious song lengths, he points out, citing Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin as examples. Listeners don't necessarily notice the length, either. The longer tracks have different "movements," he describes, and can often feel like three songs in one. The diverse movements in the songs are just one of the ways Brookes sought to incorporate more experimental works into the latest Copilots album.
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"I like music that sounds adventurous," he says. "If the band sounds too derivative to me, I have a little bit of a hard time getting into it. My brain kind of turns off." Jesse Zubot, the man behind the screaming, experimental violin heard in Tanya Tagaq and Dan Mangan's recordings, is partly to thank for Sunstroke's creative boost. In addition to his strings being featured in most songs on the album, he also produced it. Brookes lauds Zubot's attention to detail and "esthetic for adventurous sound" for bringing a new intensity to the band's recordings. Zubot suggested Copilots record each song live off the floor, and while it was challenging, Brookes thinks the band sounds better than ever. From writing to recording, Sunstroke was a venturesome project for Copilots—one that Brookes feels paid off in the final product. "I hope people listen with an open mind," he says. "The idea with this album is to take people somewhere unique, somewhere they haven't been before, sonically."
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JR GONE WILD / THU, SEP 3 AND FRI, SEP 4 (7 PM)
What exactly is the genre of Jr Gone Wild's music? Cowpunk? Alt-country? New roots? Who knows, who cares. This band has been making music since the late '80s, so you know it's good. (Mercury Room, $25)
JOINT CHIEFS / FRI, SEP 4 AND SUN, SEP 5 (9 PM)
If you've lived in Edmonton since 1991, then there is a good chance you've seen a Joint Chiefs show. The band's played now-defunct hotspots the Sidetrack Cafe, the Boiler and the Power Plant. (Big Al's House of Blues, $10)
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JEREMY BORSCHNECK / SAT, SEP 5 (4 PM)
When he's not doing the solo thing, you can catch Jeremy Borschneck fronting and guitaring BC band Willhorse. He'll be flying solo this time around, though. Expect something new and fresh. (Black Dog, free)
OPEN MINDS COLLECTIVE / SUN, SEP 6 (7 PM)
Open Minds Connective runs on a mantra that connects local musicians while inspiring others. This will be a night of performing arts, music and more. Come for the show, stay for the inspiration. (Mercury Room, $10 in advance, $15 at the door)
ORIGIN & KRISIUN / MON, SEP 7 (7 PM)
Devastation on the Nation tour stops in Edmonton with six death-metal bands including Origin & Krisiun, Aeon, Alterbeast, Soreption and Ingested. Don't forget to bring a towel, because you will get sweaty. (Starlite Room, $25)
BERMUDA FESTIVAL/ WED, SEP 9 – SUN, SEP 13
Summer might be over, but that doesn't mean that the music festivals are. Bermuda Festival is back for a few days of musical fun. The lineup includes Chad VanGaalen, Shred Kelly, Mark Mills, Scenic Route To Alaska and more. Visit bermudafest.com for more information. (Various locations)
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SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks
Friday DJs on all three levels
CASINO EDMONTON Live
(jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM
Mike "The Party Hog"; 9pm
alt rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic HipHop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonn y Grimez & instiga te; Underdog: Alterna ting DJs
THE BOWER Strictly Goods:
L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight open jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle
RIC'S GRILL Peter Belec
MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER
Hansen with guests Port Juvee and Big Ben; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $18; 18+ only
Andrew Scott; 9pm
Floor: The Menace Sessions:
BOURBON ROOM Dueling
sta ge with One Percent (R&B/soul); 8pm ever y Thu
Dueling pianos a t 8pm
MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE
Dark Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; until Nov 1
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Ever y
music ever y Fri; all a ges; 7pm; $5 (door)
RED PIANO Ever y Thu:
Stage Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm
rock); 9pm
DJs
Band, Laska, Brandi Bailey, JESS; 9pm; $10
KR USH ULTRA LOUNGE Open
NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open
LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open
SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Mike Letto (folk/
ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Sa turdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live
dance floor; 9:30pm
Jam ever y Sat; 3:30-7pm
dueling piano sho w fea turing the Red Piano Players ever y Sa t; 9pm-2am
Nachtmusik; 8:30pm; $15 (general), $10 (student/ senior), $5 (children under 12)
DJs
CAFE BLACKBIRD Around Midnight; 8pm; $10
MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and
HILLTOP PUB Open Stage,
RED PIANO BAR Hottest
BOHEMIA Spencer Vaughn
Thu; 9pm
J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam
Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth
School DJ; 9:30pm
BRIXX BAR Harpdog Bro wn
with Little Victor; 8pm (doors), 9pm (sho w); $19; 18+ only
$25; 18+ only
DENIZEN HALL Sonic Boom After Party with DJ Human Kebab; 8pm
UNION HALL Dannic; 9pm;
DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night
$20 WUNDERBAR Blood y
Diamonds, N.N., Skin; 9pm; $5 YEG DANCE CLUB I Octaine;
9pm; $40
Chisolm; 9:30pm; No minors
ON THE ROCKS Rockzilla; 9pm
Classical
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Jake
ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform
Live on the South Side: live bands; all a ges; 7-10:30pm DRAFT BAR & GRILL Sunday Draft Jam; 4-8pm; 18+ only; No cover DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm
CHURCHILL SQUARE
MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE
Buckley (blues/countr y/ folk); 9pm
ever y week; $10
Symphon y in the City; 7pm; Free
Dark Star: The Life & Times Of Ro y Orbison; until Nov 1
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free
OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old
HOLY TRINITY EDMONTON
MERCURY ROOM Ima gina tion
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Miscellany Featuring Open Minds Connective; 7pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door); 18+ only NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday
Soul Ser vice: acoustic open stage ever y Sun O'BYRNE'S Open mic ever y RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam hosted by Mark Ammar; 4-8pm
sep/3 sold oUt
sep/4
ODESZA ChriStian hanSen w/ Jai wolF
w/ pOrt JUVee and Big Ben
sep/5
sep/11
KraFtY KUts
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike
"The Party Hog"; 9pm UNION HALL Madball with
guests No Problem, E-town Beatdown, Tarantuja, and Slumlord; 8pm (doors); $25; 18+ only
BErmUda FEst PrEsEnts
Villainizer
sep/13 razOr w/ gAtEKrASHör, MOrtillEry AnD ViBES BErmUda FEst and concErworKs PrEsEnt
sep/21 CATTLE DECAPITATION W/ KINg PArrOT, bLACK CrOWN INITIATE & DArK sErMON concErtworKs.ca PrEsEnts
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.
Floor: Blue Jay's Messy Nest:
mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay
concEalEr w/ rae spOOn and atlaas CD release
Band Swap 2015
HArpDOg BrOwn
w/ little ViCtOr BErmUda FEst KicKoFF with
Faith hEalEr w/ 36? and Big Ben
sep/10 COMEDY EDMONTON WOWIE hostEd BY Jon micK BErmUda FEst PrEsEnts
BErmUda FEst PrEsEnts
moBina galorE
W/ WOrsT DAYs DOWN, sNAKE LEgs, THE WOrsT
sep/12 BlacK thUndEr w/ Counterfeit JeanS, eleCtriCity for everyBody and verSionS BErmUda FEst PrEsEnts
sep/13 Fist City W/ bETA bLOCKErs, TuquEs, AND HOusEWArMINg BErmUda FEst PrEsEnts
sep/22 sage FranCis W/ sONIK & TrIPPz AND guEsTs
9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled
YEG: Open Genre Vari-
Bingo Toonz ever y Tue ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE
BRIXX BAR Bermuda Fest
Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park
Live music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Ever y Tue, 9pm
Kickoff!! with Faith Healer, 36? and Big Ben; 8-11:30pm; $10 (adv); 18+ only
MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE
Dark Star: The Life & Times Of Ro y Orbison; until Nov 1 NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeo wind
DJs
ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW
Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; ever y Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780-655-8520
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic
OVERTIME–Sherwood Park
Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, countr y, Top 40); 9pm-2am ever y Wed; no cover
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue
Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay's Messy Nest:
Mod, Brit Pop, New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunch Box) BLUES ON WHYTE Sam Spades;
9pm CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Night;
TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip
hop with DJ Creeazn ever y Mon; 9pm-2am
TUE SEP 8 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday
Tuesday Night Jam with host Harr y Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien; 8-11pm
open mic
BLUES ON WHYTE Sam Spades;
7pm; $45 (sold out)
MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE
9pm
Dark Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; until Nov 1
BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled
MERCURY ROOM Music Magic
Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberr y Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4 NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind
YEG: Open Genre Variety
Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Ever y TueFri, 5-8pm CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Night;
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY
7pm; $45 (sold out)
HALL Acoustic instrumental
DR UID IRISH PUB Open Sta ge
ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open
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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main
BLUES ON WHYTE Sam Spades;
ety Sta ge: artist from all mediums are encoura ged to occupy the sta ge and share their crea tions • Ever y TueFri, 5-8pm
O'BYRNE'S Celtic jam ever y
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Gurdas
old time fiddle jam ever y Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510
sep/11
Countr y Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • Rodeo wind
Classical
MON SEP 7
w/ DAncE Spirit(SpAin), DEKO-ZE (tOrOntO), FlipSiDE (tOrOntO)
sep/9
NEW WEST HOTEL Tue
Cool Joe and DJ Do wntrodden on alterna te Weds
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison
KriSiun & Origin W/ AEON, ALTErbEAsT, sOrEPTION & INgEsTED
devaStation on the nation tour
local UndErgroUnd PrEsEnts
sep/6
with Kris Har vey and guests
industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave
voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy
sep/12 insPiration sEriEs
sep/5
on the Nation Tour - Krisiun & Origin with Aeon, Alterbeast, Soreption & Ingested; 7pm (doors); $26; 18+ only
DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots
concErtworKs.ca PrEsEnts
w/ Bleed, Bloated pig, tylor dory trio & taleS of the tomB
sep/4
MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday
Maan; 7pm; $30-$107
UBK PrEsEnts
w/ Mat tHe alien
sep/7
Ro y Orbison; until Nov 1
STARLITE ROOM Devastation
DJs
Sun; 9:30pm-1am
Union EvEnts, Boodang & PEarl PrEsEnt
Adam Holm; Ever y Mon
Tue: fea turing this week: Chris Wynters; 9pm L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm
SANDS HOTEL Countr y music dancing ever y Tue, fea turing Countr y Music Legend Bev Munro ever y Tue, 8-11pm WUNDERBAR Ken Mode, Conduct, Garrett Jamieson; 9pm; No minors
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit Pop, Synthpop,
Alterna tive 90's, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and notso-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail BRIXX Metal night ever y Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallo we'en horrorpunk, dea throck with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cada ver; ever y Tue
Open Sta ge with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; ever y Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover
DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize ever y Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post
Punk, New Wa ve, Gara ge, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Do wntrodden on alterna te Weds BRIXX BAR Ea ts and Bea ts THE COMMON The Wed
Lyle Hobbs; 8-11pm, ever y Wed BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A
MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE
Punk, New Wa ve, Gara ge, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL
Dark Star: The Life & Times Of
ROSSDALE HALL Little Flo wer
B STREET BAR Live Music with
Jam: Trevor Mullen
Open Mic Night hosted by
RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5
WED SEP 9
Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; ever y Mon; 9pm
LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open
presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; ever y Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember)
Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post
Experience: Classics on Vin yl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs ever y Wed
VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave APEX CASINO 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, apexcasino.ca ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South; 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill. com "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 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, edmonton.ca 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 BUDDY'S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523,
cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CLINT'S HAUS 9922-79 Ave NW, 780.710.8879 COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall.com DOWNTOWN FARMER'S MARKET Along 104 St, 780. 429.5713, city-market.ca DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW, 780.371.7272, draftbargrill. com DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER'S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 EMPIRE BALLROOM Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, 10065-100 St NW
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ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY'S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FORT EDMONTON PARK 7000-143 St, 780.442.5311, fortedmontonpark.ca HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY EDMONTON 10037-84 Ave IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.'S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE 16615-109 Ave NW, 780.483.4051, mayfieldtheatre. ca 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 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-
109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O'BYRNE'S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave PRIVE ULTRALOUNGE 10304-111 St NW, priveultralounge.ca THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RANCH ROADHOUSE 6107104 St NW; 780.438.2582, theranchroadhouse.com RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St REXALL PLACE 7424-118 Ave, 780.471.7210, northlands.com RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC'S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 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 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St 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 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 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 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St
EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM
COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover
Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre,
Illness support and solutions • Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209-123 St • 780.235.5911 • Crohn's Colitis, I.B.D. Support and Solutions • Every 2nd and 4th Tue, 7-9pm
Practice group meets every Thu
Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651,
Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999
Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm
• Krush Ultra Lounge, 16648-109 Ave • With host Sterling Scott • Sep 8, 9pm • Free
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow
Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress
Poor Vote Turnout • Rossdale Hall, 10135-96
sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm
Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm
Sculptors' Association of Alberta Annual General Meeting • Harcourt
Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove
House Annex - Art Ed Room, 10211-112 St • info@ sculptorsassociation.ca • sculptorsassociation.ca • Encouraging and promoting the creation of sculpture • Sep 8, 7:30-8:30pm • Free but to become a member it is $30 or $15 to students who are currently enrolled or a recent graduate of an Arts Program
every Wed; 9pm
Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 970845 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
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
FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan
Toastmasters • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon;
WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 1011am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence LECTURES/Presentations An Evening with Dr. Jane Goodall • Winspear Centre, #4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • chowaniec@esaa.org • winspearcentre.com • In support of the Jane Goodall Institute of Canada. A presentation followed by a Q&A, and book signing • Sep 9, 7:30am9:30pm • $41 CIC Edmonton: Does Canadian Beer Still Exist? The Global Dynamics of the Beer Industry in the 21st Century • The Black
Seventies Forever Music Society • Call
Dog Freehouse, 10425-82 Ave NW • A talk that will look at global trends in the beer industry over the past 30 years and how they have affected the shape of beer in Canada • Sep 10, 6-7:30pm • $5 (CIC Member), $10 (Non-Member)
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
Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 •
CRACKING THE ENIGMA. WHAT'S BEHIND THE IMAGINATION GAME MOVIE? • Bernard Snell Hall
Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/ session (goes to the Alzheimer's Society of Alberta)
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 TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace
Tashi Ling Society, 10502-70 Ave • Tranquility and insight meditation based on Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings. Suitable for meditation practitioners with Buddhist leanings • Every Thu, 7-8:30pm • Donations; jamesk2004@hotmail.com
fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • 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 bradscherger@hotmail. com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 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, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331
Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown •
obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free
Dating Game Featuring Connie's Comedy
TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma
LGNYEG (Lady Geeks Unite) • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • lgnyeg.blogspot.ca • Geek out with fellow geek ladies. Featuring movies, board games, artists and so much more. This month features EXPO Cosplay DIY Tutorials • Sep 3, 7-9pm
34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Marvin Krawczyk; Sep 4-5 • Sean Thomson; Sep 11-12 • Wed-Fri, Sun 7:30pm; Fri-Sat 9:45pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; every Mon at 7:30pm • Triple Threat Tuesday; every Tue at 7:30pm • Angelo Tsarouchas; Sep 2-6 • Paul Myerhaug; Sep 9 & Sep 13 • Josh Wolf Special Performance; Sep 10-12
United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519
• 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm
in Walter C. Mackenzie Health Science Centre (U of A). Use 112 St entrance, same side as Emergency • amgmitch@ gmail.com • A talk that will describe the work of Alan Turing, a computer forerunner • Sep 16, 7pm • $15 (suggested donation; cash or cheque)
Fracking and Earthquakes: A cause for concern? • University of Alberta, 1-430, CCIS 11455 Saskatchewan Drive • uofa.ualberta.ca/physics/ research/institute-for-geophysical-research/activities/ public-lecture-fracking-and-earthquakes • A panel of experts from government, industry, and academia will discuss whether the ongoing development and expansion of hydrofracturing might pose a hazard to surrounding communities by the earthquakes they might create • Sep
10, 7:30-8:30pm • Free
Gluten Free Living 101 • Hope Lutheran Church,
2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com
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Seeing is above All • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm
QUEER BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue: Retro Tuesdays with Dj Arrow Chaser; 9pm-close • Wed: DJ Griff; 9-close • Thu: Wet underwear with Shiwana Millionaire • Fri: Dance all Night with Dj Arrowchaser • Sat: Weekly events and dancing until close • Sun: Weekly Drag show with Shiwana Millionaire and guests; 12:30am
Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash
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10th Annual Kaleido Family Arts Festival • Alberta Avenue Arts District, 118 Ave between 90-94 St • kaleidofest.ca • An arts and cultural experience with multi-arts collaborative performances such as music, dance, theatre, film, literary and visual arts with performances on rooftops, sides of buildings, back alleys, parks and found spaces • Sep 11-13 • Free (donations accepted)
Edmonton ITU Triathlon Festival • Hawrelak Park (swim main venue) and surrounding river valley (cycling, running courses) • 587.759.0415 • edmonton. triathlon.org • Catch the world's best triathletes as they compete for a world championship crown. Cheer on Canadian athletes as they compete head to head with current Olympic medallists • Sep 5-6 • Free (throughout main venue and course); Grandstand is ticketed for Elite races only ($15-$25) Plant the Pond • The Hamptons Pond, 57 Ave & 208 St • 780.919.7126 • katelynne.webb@edmonton. ca • Have fun while you plant trees and enhance the beauty of habitat for residents and wildlife • Sep 3, 5-8:30pm • Free
Red Shoe Crawl • 124 St • 780.439.5437 ext. 239 • darcie@rmhcna.org • A fundraising event in support of Ronald McDonald House Charities featuring culinary delights from a variety of restaurants and shops • Sep 13, 1-5pm • $45 (adult), $150 (adult four pack), $20 (child) Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm YEGfest • Hawrelak Park Heritage Amphitheatre, 9930 Groat Road NW • into@yegfest.ca • yegfest.ca • A celebration of the local music scene with visual art installations, food trucks, and a variety of other performance arts • Sep 11-12 • $40 (weekend pass) • 18+ only
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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "Excess is the common substitute for energy," said poet Marianne Moore. That's a problem you should watch out for in the coming weeks. According to my astrological projections, you're a bit less lively and dynamic than usual. And you may be tempted to compensate by engaging in extreme behaviour or resorting to a contrived show of force. Please don't! A better strategy would be to recharge your power. Lay low and take extra good care of yourself. Get high-quality food, sleep, entertainment, art, love and relaxation. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): For a pregnant woman, the fetus often begins to move for the first time during the fifth month of gestation. The sensation may resemble popcorn popping or a butterfly fluttering. It's small but dramatic: the distinct evidence that a live creature is growing inside her. Even if you are not literally expecting a baby, and even if you are male, I suspect you will soon feel the metaphorical equivalent of a fetus's first kicks. You're not ready to give birth yet, of course, but you are well on your way to generating a new creation. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): "Since U Been Gone" is a pop song recorded by vocalist Kelly Clarkson. She won a Grammy for it, and made a lot of money from its sales. But two other singers turned down the chance to make it their own before Clarkson got her shot. The people who wrote the tune offered it first to Pink and then to Hilary Duff, but neither accepted. Don't be like those two singers, Gemini. Be like Clarkson. Recognize opportunities when they are presented to you, even if they are in disguise or partially cloaked. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "Going with the flow" sounds easy and relaxing, but here's another side of the truth: Sometimes it can kick your ass. The rippling current you're floating on may swell up into a boisterous wave. The surge of the stream might get so hard and fast that your ride becomes more spirited than you anticipated. And yet I still think that going with the flow is your best strategy in the coming weeks. It will eventually deliver you to where you need to go, even if there are bouncy surprises along the way. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): "Money doesn't make you happy," said movie star and ex-California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "I now have $50 million, but I was just as happy when I had $48 million." Despite his avowal, I'm guessing that extra money would indeed make you at least somewhat happier. And the good news is that the coming months will be prime time for you to boost your economic fortunes. Your ability
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to attract good financial luck will be greater than usual, and it will zoom even higher if you focus on getting better educated and organized about how to bring more wealth your way. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): "I stand up next to a mountain, and I chop it down with the edge of my hand." So sang Jimi Hendrix in his raucous psychedelic tune "Voodoo Child (Slight Return)." We could view his statement as an example of delusional grandiosity, and dismiss it as meaningless. Or we could say it's a funny and brash boast that Hendrix made as he imagined himself to be a mythic hero capable of unlikely feats. For the purposes of this horoscope, let's go with the latter interpretation. I encourage you to dream up a slew of extravagant brags about the outlandish magic powers you have at your disposal. I bet it will rouse hidden reserves of energy that will enhance your more practical powers. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): It's the phase of your cycle when you have maximum power to transform yourself. If you work hard to rectify and purify your inner life, you will be able to generate a transcendent release. Moreover, you may tap into previously dormant or inaccessible aspects of your soul's code. Here are some tips on how to fully activate this magic. 1) Without any ambivalence, banish ghosts that are more trouble than they are worth. 2) Identify the one bad habit you most want to dissolve, and replace it with a good habit. 3) Forgive everyone, including yourself. 4) Play a joke on your fear. 5) Discard or give away material objects that no longer have any meaning or use. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): I hope you're not getting bored with all of the good news I have been delivering in recent weeks. I'm sorry if I sound like I'm sugarcoating or whitewashing, but I swear I'm simply reporting the truth about the cosmic omens. Your karma is extra sweet these days. You do have a few obstacles, but they are weaker than usual. So I'm afraid you will have to tolerate my rosy prophecies for a while longer. Stop reading now if you can't bear to receive a few more buoyant beams. This is your last warning! Your web of allies is getting more resilient and interesting. You're expressing just the right mix of wise selfishness and enlightened helpfulness. As your influence increases, you are becoming even more responsible about wielding it. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): When 16th-century Spanish invaders arrived in the land of the Mayans, they found a civilization that was in many ways highly advanced. The native people had a superior medical system and
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calendar. They built impressive cities with sophisticated architecture and paved roads. They were prolific artists, and they had a profound understanding of mathematics and astronomy. And yet they did not make or use wheeled vehicles, which had been common in much of the rest of the world for over 2000 years. I see a certain similarity between this odd disjunction and your life. Although you're mostly competent and authoritative, you are neglecting to employ a certain resource that would enhance your competence and authority even further. Fix this oversight! CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): If you have ever fantasized about taking a pilgrimage to a wild frontier or sacred sanctuary or your ancestral homeland, the next 10 months will be an excellent time to do it. And the best time to plan such an adventure will be the coming two weeks. Keep the following questions in mind as you brainstorm. 1) What are your life's greatest mysteries, and what sort of journey might bring an awakening that clarifies them? 2) Where could you go in order to clarify the curious yearnings that you have never fully understood? 3) What power spot on planet Earth might activate the changes you most want to make in your life? AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): When he died at the age of 77 in 1905, Aquarian author Jules Verne had published 54 books. You've probably heard of his science fiction novels Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. He was a major influence on numerous writers, including JeanPaul Sartre, J R R Tolkien, and Arthur Rimbaud. But one of his manuscripts never made it into book form. When he finished it in 1863, his publisher refused to publish it, so Verne stashed it in a safe. It remained there until his great-grandson discovered it in 1989. Five years later, Verne's "lost novel," Paris in the Twentieth Century, went on sale for the first time. I suspect that in the coming months, you may have a comparable experience, Aquarius. An old dream that was lost or never fulfilled may be available for recovery and resuscitation. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "I enjoy using the comedy technique of self-deprecation," says stand-up comic Arnold Brown, "but I'm not very good at it." Your task in the coming weeks, Pisces, is to undermine your own skills at self-deprecation. You may think they are too strong and entrenched to undo and unlearn, but I don't—especially now, when the cosmic forces are conspiring to prove to you how beautiful you are. Cooperate with those cosmic forces! Exploit the advantages they are providing. Inundate yourself with approval, praise and naked flattery. V at the back 27
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Choking legitimate business Sex-related businesses are often unfairly denied financial services To the general public, paying for adult products like toys and pornography might seem like a simple business transaction. Unfortunately, getting the financial services necessary for operating a sex-related business is anything but easy. When I started my sex-toy store, I called six payment-processing companies before I found one that would work with an adult business (there were only about eight operating in Canada at the time). Many of my colleagues in the adult industry have also been turned down for processing and basic business bank accounts. I have been told that sex shops are considered a high-risk category, but it has never been clear what this means. Recently, however, I learned some things about a covert operation in the US that has helped me put some of the pieces together. The Obama administration started a program called Operation Choke Point which targets businesses that may be associated with illegal activity, such as arms dealing or organized crime. The goal is to choke them out by crippling their access to money. Now, this would be a great idea if all of the businesses affected were actually involved in crime, but it's not that precise. Instead of targeting specific busi-
nesses suspected of illegal activity, Choke Point tells the banks which industries they are concerned about— making it clear they will monitor these financial records closely. As banks can be held responsible for the criminal activity of their service users if it can be proven they were aware of it, or should have been suspicious but failed to investigate, the banks therefore draw a large circle around anything that could be remotely related to the named industries and refuse service. Although we don't have an Operation Choke Point in Canada, a similar dynamic happens here. Some banks are afraid of perceived extra scrutiny and liability, so they simply won't work with any business they think might pose a risk. Simply because it has something to do with sex, some banks conclude that completely legal retail operations—like sex-toy stores—are too risky to support. This may seem like an issue that only concerns business owners until you consider where it can lead. Last year, Chase Bank closed the personal bank accounts—not business accounts—of several adult film stars. Although Chase denied that this had anything to do with Choke Point, one
of the actresses said she was told her account was closed because she was considered high risk. More recently, American Express, Visa and MasterCard stopped processing payments to classified advertising site Backpage.com. Visa and MasterCard stated that this was because some of the people who advertise adult services in Backpage could be involved in human trafficking. Now, a large portion of the ads in Backpage aren't even for adult services, but neither company will process any of them. Banks and credit cards are a public service that neither businesses nor individuals can function without. This very open definition of what constitutes risk essentially gives financial services full power to decide on a whim what we, as consumers, can and cannot do with our money. Our governments should be regulating these decisions in order to ensure fair and equal access—yet it seems they might be the cause of the problem in the first place.V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.
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I'm confused about my sexuality. For many years, I thought I preferred hetero-romantic asexual relationships. Exposure to select reading material—thanks to my gender-studies classes—has me convinced I'm an asexual t-type (ie, "top," but I prefer not to use such connotative terms) female who is attracted to slight and feminine men. I do not want to take off my clothes or engage in oral, anal, digital or vaginal sex. Instead, I want to design sexual situations that comely young gentlemen will consensually enter: restraints, CBT, whippings, play piercings, fisting. To make matters worse, I've never been in a sexual situation or romantic relationship. I am 23 years old. Extremely low self-esteem and a lack of trust in other people— especially men who are attracted to women—prevented me from reaching out to others, let alone informing a potential partner about my unusual interests. Fortunately, extensive therapy sessions have improved my selfimage and willingness to take risks. Developing a romantic friendship with a potential partner is essential. I doubt I will have much luck on the Internet or at munches given that so many men doubt the existence of exclusively t-type females. I also don't fit or wish to fit the stereotypical Bettie Page– esque image of a t-type female. Dressing up in PVC and playing Mistress is not my thing. Do you have any recommended how-to guides or communities for ttype females? PS: I'm trapped in the closet. Beyond Envisioning Any Solutions T-type
by knowledgeable players. These are varsity-level kinks—they are skill sets that take time to acquire. You're going to need instruction from people with experience before you start torturing a guy's balls or sticking (clean and sterile) needles through the head of his cock or his nipples, BEAST, as you could do serious and lasting damage to someone if you're winging it. Munches are your best bet for meeting the players and educators in your area who take mentorship seriously. Be open about who you are (an asexual t-type female/Dominant woman), your ideal partners (slight and feminine sub guys who are into SM, not sex), and your experience level (nonexistent). Ask about classes, don't do anyone/anything that makes you uncomfortable, and do the reading. (Check out Greenery Press for titles on female dominance, CBT, flogging and other varsity kinks.) You know who else you'll meet in the kink scene? Women who don't fit stereotypical Bettie Page–esque images, don't dress up in PVC and don't play Mistress games—but you'll also meet women who enjoy doing all of those things, BEAST, as well as wom-
flavour of/theories about asexuality?) PS: You're not trapped in the closet—that door locks from the inside. You can open it whenever you're ready.
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I'm a foot-fetish guy who split up with my girlfriend of four years. She was into all the foot stuff, and we got into lots of other kinks. My concern is about meeting new women. I'm worried I'm not going to be able to perform for vanilla sex. I feel almost doomed to being solo unless I meet someone who is into the same stuff I am. I was able to do vanilla with my ex, but I don't know if I can do vanilla stuff with other girls. Do you have any advice on what I can do to change my mindset? Is it possible for me to perform vanilla activities if I am present and relaxed with a girl? Just Asking You You told your last girlfriend about your kink, JAY, and you can tell your next girlfriend about it. Act like it's no big deal—"I have a thing for feet"— because ... it's no big deal. But if you're too shy to say anything, or you're afraid of being dumped by a girl who's a foot-fetish-phobe (you should be in a hurry for those girls to dump you), there's only one way to find out if you can perform vanilla activities with a new girl: give it a try.
You know who else you'll meet in the kink scene? Women who don't fit stereotypical Bettie Page–esque images, don't dress up in PVC and don't play Mistress games— but you'll also meet women who enjoy doing all of those things.
You should go to munches and put yourself out there on the Internet, BEAST, because in both those places/ spaces you'll meet—I promise—other t-type/Dominant women and the men who want to worship them and suffer at their hands. Your knowledge of the BDSM/kink/ fetish community seems pretty distorted—it sounds like your exposure has been limited to reading materials distributed in your gender-studies classes—but I can assure you that there are men out there, some of them slight and feminine, who not only don't doubt the existence of exclusively t-type/Dominant females but are actively seeking them. But you're not going to find them under the rocks in your garden or at the back of your fridge. You're going to have to enter kinky places/spaces to meet kinky guys. There's another type of person in those kinky places/spaces you need to meet: mentors. It's particularly important for someone with your interests—CBT, whippings, piercings and fisting are not JV kinks—to meet, speak with and be mentored
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en who could take or leave Bettie Page, Mistress games, etc, but who dress up because it turns on their partners and/or attracts the kind of men/women/SOPATGS* they're interested in restraining and torturing. When someone is indulging your thing (a slight and feminine guy is giving you his cock and balls to torture), it's simply good manners to indulge his things (letting him call you "Mistress," if that's something he enjoys, or pulling on a little PVC). And give yourself permission to grow—or to continue growing. You used to think you were one thing (a hetero-romantic asexual), and now you realize you may be another thing entirely (an asexual t-type/Dominant female who is attracted to slight and feminine men). Who knows what you'll learn about yourself once you actually start having IRL experiences? (Also ... most guys into hardcore BDSM—particularly hardcore masochists—regard CBT and whippings and piercings as sex. Not foreplay, not a substitute for sex, but sex. Something to think through before you have a slight and feminine guy's balls in your hands: Your "victim" may experience your play as sexual even if you're experiencing it differently, ie, you may not feel like you're having sex with them, BEAST, but they're going to feel like they're having sex with you. Is that OK with your particular
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I had an Ashley Madison account. But I did not create "my" account. Anyone can register an account using anyone's email address, and deleting fake accounts costs money. Now my email address is on a public database of AM users. People with accounts on AM are victims of the hackers, which you thankfully addressed in your last column. But members—actual and fake—were first victims of Ashley Madison. Shitty security aside, AM is a hub of extortion: no email verification, pay-to-delete (not that your account is actually deleted!), and tons of fake accounts purporting to be women (to balance the real, paying accounts from men). My happily monogamish wife and I use OkCupid and FetLife, which helped us find our way to local swinger and BDSM clubs. There are websites that aren't reliant on fake users and extortion to build and then entrap a user base. Fuck Ashley Madison Everywhere Thanks for sharing, FAME. V *Some other point along the gender spectrum. On the Lovecast, NYT religion writer Mark Oppenheimer on the Jewish-Mormon connection: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter
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