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"One thing we all need to brace ourselves for: the next four years are going to be filled with constant comparisons of the younger Trudeau to his father." // 6
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Girl Guides welcome all girls
The new guidelines welcome all female persons, no questions asked By the time you read this, gentle reader, the election to end all elections will have (finally) ended. If the polls at press time are any indication, you're probably witnessing some parliamentary fun with minority governments. However, spare a moment of thought for past Ashley who, as of this writing, is still waiting for the results to come in. As an antidote for this sad state of affairs, I was determined to write about something happy this week— and it did not take me long to find a subject: last week, the Girl Guides of Canada released new guidelines which officially welcome "all persons who live their lives as female" to join. In other words: trans* girls are in, no questions asked. Before I get into this, I want to talk a little about my experience with Guides. The organization comes with some historical baggage: started in 1910 in the UK, its original mission was to teach domestic skills
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and a kind of first-wave feminism that preached middle-class values, outdoor skills and citizenship training. As the organization evolved, it has quietly become a preacher of intersectional feminism. Let me give you a personal example: I joined Girl Guides as a teenager. One of the perks of being a teenaged member was that during the off-season, in exchange for clearing some of the endlessly invasive Scotch broom, you could spend the weekend in a Guide campsite for free, sans adult supervision. To a 17-year-old this was the best deal around, so a few times a year we could usually cajole a parent or
two to drive us out to the sticks after school on a Friday afternoon and abandon us there until Sunday night. (Perhaps someone in our group was 18, which is why we could get away with this, or maybe an adult was there. I don't know; the details are getting hazy.)
was talk: about politics, sex, bodies, feminism. Almost all of us have subsequently come out as queer or trans*. Now, I am not suggesting that Girl Guides is a recruitment camp for proto-queers (would that it was), but rather, it was a space for us to develop our budding political and sexual identity. Our troop meetings had the same flavour: in the days before the Internet really took hold, I learned most of my important lessons about sex from my troop leader.
Since at least 2012, Girl Guides of Canada has been allowing trans* girls to join on a case-by-case basis; the new guidelines are effective immediately. Although many of you might be picturing weed- and alcohol-fuelled debauchery, our naughtiest transgressions involved playing poker with a pack of cheesy naked-man playing cards. What we mostly did
Everyone's experience is going to be shaped by local leaders, but it seems like the national organization is committed to making sure
that every girl has the same experience I did. Since at least 2012, Girl Guides of Canada has been allowing trans* girls to join on a caseby-case basis; the new guidelines are effective immediately. These guidelines are pretty amazing. They include a list of definitions (such as "cisgender," "gender nonconforming" and "two spirit"), a lengthy Q&A section that covers, amongst other things, transitioning not being a single moment, the washroom bogeyman and how to support a kid who comes out as trans*, and they conclude with a list of damn good resources. In short, it looks like Girl Guides of Canada has done their research—they worked with a trans* consultant! And used the right language!—and created a practical, useful set of guidelines that centre and acknowledge trans* girls. It's nice to see that an organization that used to swear an oath to God knows how.V
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The eighth coup fails
Elections in Burkina Faso rescheduled for end of November The dust has settled in Ouagadougou, Africa's capital of military coups (seven in 65 years), and the elections in Burkina Faso have been rescheduled for the end of next month. Don't be cynical about it; that is real progress. Burkina Faso, a land-locked country in West Africa, competes with Somalia for the honour of being Africa's poorest country. You might wonder why anybody would want the thankless job of running such a place, but political power means access to scarce resources (like money) even in the poorest countries—especially if you are in the army. What would have been the country's eighth coup (if it had succeeded) began in mid-September when General Gilbert Diendere, the head of the Presidential Guard, seized and imprisoned the interim president and prime minister. He was doing it, he said, because the party of the last president, Blaise Compaoré, had been banned from running in the election. Compaoré, a former soldier who first came to power in a coup himself, was ousted by popular demonstrations last year when he tried to run for the presidency yet again after 27 years in power. Diendere had been his closest associate for all of that time, and everybody assumed
that his coup was really a bid by Compaoré to return to power. Everybody was right, although, if the coup succeeded Diedere might have decided to stay in power himself. When the demonstrators who had forced Compaoré out of power last year came out on the streets again, Diendere's troops hosed them down with automatic-weapons fire, killing 14 and wounding hundreds. It was not the mob but the institutions that thwarted his ambitions. The coup was instantly condemned by the African Union. "The AU considers the announcement by the military of the 'dismissal' of (interim) President Michel Kafando and the attempt of substituting him with 'new authorities' as null and void," said the AU chairperson, South Africa's Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma. The regional organization, the Economic Community for West African States (ECOWAS), took a softer line, putting together a mediation team and offering the coup leaders am-
nesty despite the killings. But when civil society groups in Burkina Faso protested at the amnesty offer, the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, took the lead for West Africa. Buhari, who was a military dictator 30 years ago, coming to power in one coup and losing it in another, now describes himself as a "converted democrat." He called Diende-
armed and formally disbanded, and the election is back on again for November 29. The election will not solve all of Burkina Faso's problems, but democracy might do it eventually. The country still has the lowest literacy rate in the world, it is still dirt poor, and the population (now 17 million) is still doubling every 25 years. But one thing is definitely changed for the better. Most Burkinabes may be illiterate, but they have become aware of their rights and no longer accept the dictates of armed thugs in uniform without question. African institutions have changed too, and no longer turn a blind eye when a member country faces a military coup. They intervene promptly and decisively, and they generally succeed. They are less good at dealing with countries where dictators hold regular elections whose outcomes they control through bribery, a monopoly of the mass media or just plain police-state terror, like
Most Burkinabes may be illiterate, but they have become aware of their rights and no longer accept the dictates of armed thugs in uniform without question. re's coup a "brazen contravention" of Burkina Faso's constitution and demanded that he withdraw. And Burkina Faso's army, which had always resented the special privileges of the Presidential Guard, moved into the capital and told Diendere to surrender. So he did, although there was a bit of shooting first. Now Diendere is under arrest facing 11 charges including "crimes against humanity," the Presidential Guard has been dis-
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Sudan, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia. But more than half of the continent's 50 countries are now more or less functional (though still quite corrupt) democracies. The real value of democracy is that it requires the rule of law, which is the most important thing you need in order for economic growth to benefit people outside the political and business elite. People just won't bother to invest and work hard if they know the proceeds are likely to be stolen. The rule of law is never complete—even in the most developed countries, there is often one law for the rich and another for the poor—but the closer you get to the ideal the better your growth will be. People often miss this, thinking only in terms of human rights, and arguing that the economy, not democracy, must be the first priority for poor countries. They are wrong. It is the rule of law that gradually shrinks corruption and gives people a reason to invest in their future, and you can't have the rule of law without democracy. Burkina Faso in heading in the right direction, and so is Africa. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. UP FRONT 5
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Election port-mortem
Recapping the results of a 78-day federal election campaign
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ne of the ugliest, most divisive and lengthy political campaigns in recent memory is finally over. Canada's got a new majority Liberal government under Justin Trudeau. The result will come as a welcome relief to everyone who was sick of Stephen Harper's prolonged exploitation of innate racism and anti-Islam sentiment. Harper made the niqab debate and discussions about "barbaric cultural practices" a central feature of this election, clear examples of dogwhistle politics to distract from his party's expense scandal and economic performance. He borrowed these tactics from international conservative counterparts—notably Israeli Prime
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Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who employed blatantly racist tactics during Israel's election in March and whom Harper watched closely via PR and campaign spokespeople sent to observe the Israeli election. The Conservatives also hired Australian campaign organizer Lynton Crosby, credited with leading Australian Prime Minister John Howard to victory four consecutive times as well as securing a victory earlier this year for British Prime Minister David Cameron. Canadians proved they weren't OK with such rhetoric and blatant attempts to make us fear and hate our fellow citizens: voter turnout checked in at 68.49 percent, the highest it has ALIX KEMP ALIX@VUEWEEKLY.COM
Masked voting
My best friend, Mike, wore a luchador mask when he voted. He showed up at the polls wearing white contacts, face paint and the black and white mask of his favourite Mexican wrestler. He wasn't the only one to vote while in costume. At an advanced polling station in Edmonton, Ken Finlayson made news headlines for voting while wearing a cowboy hat and a bandana covering his face. In Calgary, Gail Thorne wore a ski mask. Both said they were doing it to protest the fact that Muslim women are allowed to swear citizenship oaths and vote while wearing the niqab. In a YouTube video Thorne said, "I'm just blown away on how we're just bending over in the name of political correctness." Mike wore his mask for the exact opposite reason. He wanted to ridicule Harper's use of the niqab as a wedge issue and stand
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up for the right of Canadians to participate in democracy—regardless of what they're wearing. "The right to cover your head does not threaten the democratic process, whether you're wearing a niqab, a khustka or a luchador mask," he wrote in an Instagram post, alongside a photo of him outside the polling station. He was able to vote without incident, once the poll clerks verified that his mask was in fact allowed, although he got some weird looks and apparently irritated an old man. Still, it's ironic that those protesting the niqab are doing so by exercising the exact same right they hope to deny others. What they've managed to prove is the opposite of the point they were trying to make, and exactly what Mike was demonstrating with his luchador mask: citizenship doesn't require a dress code. V
been since 1993, as Canadians flocked to the polls to vote out Harper—who made good on his promise of resigning in defeat, albeit only as party leader; he's still serving as MP of the Calgary Heritage riding. He also left this announcement out of his concession speech (the party just sent out a memo to media), robbing frustrated Canadians with the chance to relish hearing those words come out of his own mouth. Instead, he had the gall to say that Canada was "more united than ever before" in his parting words. What happened to the NDP? The NDP started the election strong and up until about a month ago, polls suggested that leader Tom Mulcair even had a shot at becoming prime minister. Those hopes were resolutely quashed in the last couple weeks, however, as the party began to seriously lag behind the Liberals and Conservatives. Harper's divisive niqab debate served to rout the NDP support in Quebec, where voters favour bans on religious jewelry, garments and symbols: 43 of the party's 59 lost seats were in Quebec. NDP supporters also became disenchanted by Mulcair's constant shadowing of Harper—declining to participate in debates, for example, simply because Harper wasn't going to show up—instead of strongly advocating his party's own position and strengths. Strategic voting was a big issue in the days leading up to the election, with numerous discussions on how to avoid vote splitting and cast a ballot for a left win; many of these swing ridings chose the Liberal as the stronger candidate over the NDP. Electoral Reform? A majority government of any colour certainly gives reason for pause. Free of the additional checks and balances that exist under a minority government structure, the Liberals
are now pretty much free to start making wholesale changes. While this makes for general government stability, it also means that Canada is once again saddled with a government that can push through pretty much any bills it wants. That said, back in June, Trudeau promised widespread electoral reform, including the elimination of first-past-the-post voting system. Proportional representation is a possible outcome of that, though not the only one. It seems dubious that the Liberals will introduce full proportional representation, given that the party would have only won a minority government under such a system. On Monday, the Liberals won 184 seats while the Conservatives took 99, the NDP 44, the Bloc Quebecois 10 and the Green Party 1 (leader Elizabeth May kept her seat in Saanich-Gulf Islands). This means that the Liberals won a majority with less than 40 percent of the vote—just like the Conservatives did back in 2011. Under a proportional representation system, those numbers are significantly different: the Liberals would have won a minority with 133 seats, while the Conservatives would have 108, the NDP 67, the Bloc Quebecois 16 and the Greens 12. That said, the Liberal majority is tenuous and the party has an uphill battle over the next four years to convince Canadians that it should be voted in again. Given the sheer amount of anti-Harper messaging throughout this campaign, and especially at the end of it, a good number of votes for the Liberals must have been directly aimed at ousting the Conservatives. A proportional system would provide the Liberals (and other parties, for that matter) a much better chance to remain in an active parliamentary position without having to secure another majority. Edmonton Results Locally, Edmonton became a little less conservative than in previous years. Linda Duncan retook her riding of Edmonton-Strathcona (though not by nearly as comfortable a margin as in 2011). Flanking her island of NDP orange are two Liberal wins: Randy Boissonnault in Edmonton Centre and former Edmonton city councillor Amarjeet Sohi in Edmonton-Millwoods— who won with a mere 80 votes over Conservative Tim Uppal. Many have raised the question as to why Alberta could swing so far left back in May when we voted in the NDP in a crushing victory over the Progressive Conservatives, yet remain staunchly blue on the federal level. This highlights the major difference between provincial and federal politics as well as the party mentality at play in a riding system: a lot of people vote for the party they want to see in Ottawa, regardless of their feelings on the actual candidate next to whose name they're marking with an X. This is unfortunate because a solid, dedi-
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cated local candidate is able to champion the specific needs of his or her riding in Ottawa, as opposed to one who's simply a talking head for that party's speaking points. Again, proportional representation would go a long way towards alleviating the problems inherent in our current first-past-thepost system. Future expectations: legal weed? One of Trudeau's first power plays might very well be the legalization of marijuana, given his strong position in support of it—not to mention Harper's hyperbolic opposition to it. (During the campaign, Harper described marijuana as "infinitely worse" than tobacco.) Legalizing weed sure would be a nice parting blow to the Conservatives. Plus, if the estimates coming out of BC alone are anywhere close to being accurate, the tax revenue from pot sales could go a long way towards alleviating Canada's economic woes. Corporate backlash One of the central tenets of the Liberal's platform is reducing middleclass taxes and hiking corporate tax rates. This is going to have a big backlash, especially in Alberta—though it remains to be seen whether this is mostly in lip service or in actual, tangible measures. While we may have just voted in a provincial NDP government that promised similar corporate tax hikes, much of this victory was likely protest voting to boot the Conservatives out of office; we could very well see a big shift back to the right during the next provincial campaign. The oil-and-gas industry is already limping along in Alberta under the collapse in oil prices over the past 15 months. Those corporations aren't going to be happy about another impending round of tax hikes. Project postponements and mass layoffs are rumoured to come, and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers reports that the oil patch has lost 35 000 jobs so far—but those are directly tied to falling oil prices and not the new NDP leadership. Regardless of whether this corporate backlash actually occurs, you can bank on a lot of really tedious family debates around the dinner table. Trudeau has also clearly stated that the Liberal government will run a three-year deficit, a promise that has been blasted by fiscal conservatives but might actually do our economy some good if it works as planned. The Liberals are hoping that deficit spending will create jobs and economic growth, albeit increasing the size of national debt—but the party hopes that's only in dollar terms and that the debt will actually shrink when measured as a percentage of our GDP. With the current rock-bottom interest rates, now is actually a good time to take on additional debt—so long as the payoffs actually do improve Canada's economic position in the long term.
Still, many people balk at the mention of the word deficit, no matter the context or justification for it, and there's no denying that running a budget deficit for the majority of a new political tenure is a very risky gambit. If Canada's economic situation doesn't turn around sharply in the next four years, the Liberals could easily be ousted again. The Environment Don't expect any major developments in environmental affairs: not only were discussions about the environment almost wholly absent during the campaign, Trudeau's going to have his hands full making good on all the other numerous promises he has made throughout the run. His position on pipelines remains very guarded and measured—understandable, given the polarizing impact that dis-
cussion always has, but ineffective for a political leader who needs to make critical decisions on such things. The United Nations Paris Climate Change Conference is just a few weeks away, however, so hopefully Trudeau will provide a more concrete approach to environmental policies. Invoking Pierre One thing we all need to brace ourselves for: the next four years are going to be filled with constant comparisons of the younger Trudeau to his father. It's the first time Canada has a multi-generational prime ministerial dynasty; you can bet it'll come up at every opportunity. If he ever shows up with a rose pinned to his lapel, however, he just might throw Alberta into a full revolt.
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FEATURE // FOOD HUB
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Sustainable Food Edmonton Local charity aims to be a hub of Edmonton's food system
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central hub for all of Edmonton's food events, distributors, producers, organizations and consumers—and everyone in between. That's the vision Sustainable Food Edmonton (SFE) has, and it is certainly something that our city would benefit from enormously. Stephanie Spafford, president of its board of directors, describes SFE as in the middle of a major shift in focus, with a rebranded identity and new executive director to lead the way. "I've been involved with Sustainable Food Edmonton for a little over three years now and since the very beginning I was like, 'Why is all this information not in one spot?'" Spafford
says. "People access food in so many different ways, whether it's through growing, or maybe people who just love to eat food maybe want to know what restaurants are sourcing organic—things like that. We want to figure out what that looks like and where we can play a role." This is a marked difference from SFE's origins. Founded in 1989 as the Personal Community Support Association, the group has always been a program-based community-support organization. It began focusing exclusively on food in the early 2000s and developed programs like City Farm Team, later merging with the Community Garden Association and changing
its name to Sustainable Food Edmonton in 2011. SFE's current programming is divided into three parts: Urban Ag High, which helps high schools develop their capacity for various urban agriculture projects; Little Green Thumbs, a classroom-based program linked to the elementary school curriculum; and Community Gardens, which assists community members set up gardens around the city. In all three instances, SFE is not the instigator but rather a source of information and networking for individuals who have taken the initiative to look into these projects and pro-
grams independently. "Forward thinking and strategicwise, our goal is to become almost like a hub," Spafford says. "We have a ton of information; we know typically what's going on in the city when it comes to food and I think to become more of a resource base for that, is what's kind of been talked around the boardroom table." SFE's board of directors is a resource unto itself, she explains, noting that it is comprised of individuals from all parts of Edmonton's food system. Even though SFE hasn't yet formalized the structure of a centralization of food information, the organization encourages everyone with any ques-
tion about food—from where you can learn to can tomatoes to finding a list of sustainably inclined restaurants—to get in touch through its website (sustainablefoodedmonton. org). SFE is available to help on a oneon-one basis for now, until something more concrete and wide-reaching is established. "There's got to be more reach than just the program, because we want everyone to understand sustainable food," Spafford says. "It's expanding beyond the classroom and beyond the community gardens. We used to just be in those places and now we want to be all over Edmonton."
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REVUE // LITFEST FOOD
Recapping LitFest's Food Matters Family farms, backyard hens, using up scraps and true Albertan fare
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ood lovers of all walks gathered at the Westin this past Saturday for LitFest's annual Food Matters talk, which always taps into a contemporary issue in food culture. This year's version was based around food waste, a phenomenon that wasn't really on North America's radar until just over a year ago; now it's one of food culture's most-discussed issues. The authors who presented at Food Matters included Albertan poetturned-farmer-turned-food author, Jenna Butler; Torontonian urban henkeeper, Signe Langford; and veteran food journalist and cookbook author Cinda Chavich. Chef Ryan O'Flynn, the head chef of the Westin's Share restaurant, prepared two small
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plates for attendees and also provided his own thoughts on contemporary food issues. It was an insightful afternoon and wonderfully diverse in the topics covered. Butler started off with a lively, annotated reading from her new book, A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail, adding additional commentary to the eloquent, vivid imagery she conjures in her prose. (It should come as no surprise to anyone reading Profession that she was first a poet.) Langford was up next, a vivacious and charmingly candid presence who went from heartfelt to hilarious as she told stories about her "girls"—the hens she keeps in her backyard, which are the
subject of her new book, Happy Hens and Fresh Eggs: Keeping Chickens in the Kitchen Garden. After a short break, in which the audience had a sip of Okanagan wine (Lake Breeze Pinot Gris) and sampled some of O'Flynn's culinary talent— thin-sliced beetroot sandwiching an unctuous blob of goat cheese, garnished with a pretty hibiscus petal (all of which was locally sourced)— Cinda Chavich gave an interview-style talk. (She's a journalist at heart!) The topic of food waste has exploded across North American media, and Chavich is riding the forefront of that wave, having just published The Waste Not, Want Not Cookbook in which she provides a dizzying array
of tips, tricks, solid recipes and general inspiration to help you use up every scrap of food in your fridge, pantry and freezer. After another break for more Okanagan wine (Moraine Red Mountain) and food (a "wild" salad of foraged arugula, morels and chanterelles, and smoked meats), Chef O'Flynn took the stage for a candid discussion of his approach to reducing food waste and championing small local food producers. Some improvements that could be made next year include a more suitable space: the venue was a rather small room that felt cramped when full and was especially awkward
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when everyone got up to get wine and food. Juggling wine glass, plate and fork was precarious; being seated at tables would be ideal. It would also be really interesting to have the authors interact with one another more collaboratively. This would probably push the length of the session to another hour or so—though I doubt anyone present at this year's event would have objected to a longer run time. It was wonderful to hear the authors give their own reading, but the central issues could have been explored even deeper through direct engagement with one another. MEL PRIESTLEY
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President's Choice wine Bottom of the barrel or surprising value? Derision and immediate dismissal: when I heard that President's Choice (PC) wines were being launched in Alberta, my knee-jerk reaction was resolutely negative. That alone prompted me to look into them further—why was I willing to write off these wines without a second glance? I like to think I'm an open-minded wine drinker who will try anything once—and I've publicly decried wine snobbery. In some sense, these PC wines didn't seem "real" to me. This is silly, of course: the liquid in these bottles is fermented grape juice, so of course they are real. I blame my reaction on the stigma surrounding private-brand wines; namely, that they suck. (President's Choice wines have proven this in the past themselves, by releasing a generic plonk under the No Name label and a thoroughly mediocre wine under the PC brand.) Private/store-brand wines aren't a new phenomenon, though we don't see a lot of them in Alberta. The first wine shop I worked at had its own private label, but it was branded under a generic name rather than the actual store moni-
ker—with a really garish, terribly designed label to boot. Now, the juice in those bottles was actually pretty decent, and it was priced very well—the trick was convincing people to give it a shot. That should be the essence of any successful store-brand wine (or beer or spirit, for that matter, because this phenomenon isn't limited to the wine world): they must offer a great value over any other wines at that price. The bottles also need to clearly display all the appropriate information of the wine's origin, because we are no longer in the days when a bottle reading "red wine" under a meaningless name will attract any attention. President's Choice has obviously clued in to this with its new line, which comprises five wines selected by Aaron Bick of the WineOnline marketing agency: two Italian, two Californian and one Spanish. A small PC logo adorns the topright corner, while the rest of the label is devoted to the necessary identifying information: winery/ producer name, region and vintage on the front, grape variety(ies) and producer contact info on the back.
Interestingly, the company decided not to highlight the grape variety as a selling feature, which is actually surprisingly encouraging—grape types are over-emphasized these days. The labels themselves attempt to marry Old and New World sensibilities and while this works in general, it feels a bit like trying to have the best of both worlds. Still, the bottles look pretty good and stand out on the shelf—and they're infinitely better than the vast majority of private-label wines I've seen. Most importantly: what do these PC wines actually taste like—and are they good values? In short, yes—these are all actually pretty solid. (Check Vue's website for detailed tasting notes.) They retail for $19.98 each, or $44.94 in multiples of three ($14.98 each). At the single-bottle price these wines don't really stand out, but they are definitely a good deal at the multiples price. (Note: if you buy more than three bottles but not a multiple of three—five, for example—you'll only get the discount on three bottles and pay full price for the other two. I think this is kind of ridiculous, especially since there are only five bottles— not six or three—in this line.) We'll undoubtedly see more of these store-brand wines as time goes on. More grocery-store chains are entering the liquor-retail world and it's inevitable that they'd want to tap into wine sales under their flagship brands. Moreover, I think we'll eventually see legislation passed to allow wine (and beer) in grocery stores (this has already passed in BC and is on the table
in Ontario): it's a perfect opportunity for large grocers to sell their branded wines alongside items that would pair with them—pasta sauces, meats, cheeses, whatever. Would I seek out these PC wines again? I probably won't make a trip for them specifically, but if I happened to be in a Real Canadian Liquor Store and nothing else caught my eye, I'd certainly consider them. These would also make fantastic entries to a blind tasting, if only
to highlight the innate prejudices most wine geeks have when it comes to these mass market, grocery-store labels. I'd love to see the expression on a true wine snob's face after discovering that a delicious little Cabernet Sauvignon had President's Choice on the label.V Mel Priestley is a certified sommelier and wine writer who also blogs about wine, food and the arts at melpriestley.ca
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PREVUE // BOOKS
Alice Major
Holding a light to cosmologies Poet Alice Major explores form with a universal focus in Standard candles
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standard candle is a way we measure distance. I wanted to explore the ways in which scientists have thought about the expanding scale of the universe, and how we measure things. ... And the ultimate distance is between us and the people we've lost." Alice Major's 10th poetry collection, Standard candles, covers a huge distance in its slim text, racing through a dozen different poetic forms and countless cosmologies. It references everything from Greek mythology to quantum uncertainty to Henrietta Swan Leavitt, the inventor of the standard candle itself. The book is like an ultra-dense kernel containing all things—history, theology, astronomy, geometry, an infinite list. It's the universe right before the Big Bang, titanic forces contained within a few thousand tightly packed words, almost ready to explode and race endlessly out.
Or, to borrow Major's own words, it's like "a silvery egg—which cracked, and from its glowing albumen and globe of yolk came tumbling gods, giants, witchcraft, houses of the zodiac, scythes, snakes, odes, devourings, bellies, caves, firmaments and divine souls salted with corporeal soot." In spite of this sprawling, universal focus, the collection is held together by some basic existential emotions: wonder at the vastness of it all, curiosity about how it all works and what comes next, and mournfulness that our time together must be so short and our perspective so limited. "Poets have been imagining and assuming cosmologies forever," Major says. "Right back to the days of Gilgamesh. Our pictures of the world are often, in human culture, captured in poetry—whether it's John Donne's Holy Sonnets, whether it's
Dante's Divine Comedy [or] Milton's Paradise Lost." Standard candles doesn't just reference these works as inspiration; it incorporates their images and structures into its varied sections. "Let us compare cosmologies" is a modified crown poem, where a sonnet is broken and its 14 lines are used as the opening lines for 14 interrelated poems. "Sins and virtues" draws upon Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queen, an epic poem which contains a parade of the seven deadly sins. Much of the collection unfolds with this kind of structured, mathematical precision. But Major has interwoven freer verse as well, which offers glimpses of her own experiences and emotions. This is particularly poignant in the "Standard candles" section, where she leaps back and forth between moments over the course of her life and the lives
of great historical cosmologists like Leavitt. In one of these poems, a young Alice does something we've all done once as children, writing her address to include Earth, the Solar System and the Milky Way. "When I was about 11 or so, my parents for some reason bought this book called Relativity for the Millions that explained Einstein's relativity theory in popular language. And I was fascinated by it from the beginning," she explains. "I've always had science in just about every one of my books of poetry, as a source of metaphor. And so coming back to cosmology is, in a way, coming
Thu, Oct 22 (7 pm) Alice Major U of A Department of Physics Observatory, Free Part of Litfest Until Sun, Oct 25 Full schedule at litfestalberta.com home to that very early interest. It's a question every kid asks: 'Where'd all this come from? Where were we before we were here?'" BRUCE CINNAMON
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REVUE // THEATRE
The Good Bride E
very night, from mid-afternoon until midnight, Maranatha Graham (Arielle Rombough) perches beside her bedroom door. When we first meet her there, her body is so tensed it's like she's trying to swing it open through sheer force of will. But the door remains shut, and after a few charged-up moments, she settles back into the room around her. Maranatha's waiting for Pete, her husband to be, at the Pullman's house. She's been sent to wait for him there by her father; as soon as Pete arrives, she gets to start her new life as his wife and servant. She's part of the Quiverfull Faith—she can quote the Duggar daughters' book about relationships as easily as she can
scripture—and is, at 15, adorned in her homemade wedding dress and swimming in questions about the part of her life that's about to start—the sex part, largely. Pete, double her age, will teach her what to do, she's told. This reassurance does nothing to help with her immediate questions and feelings and urges that she can't seem to pray away, especially as she waits on what feels like the precipice of the rest of her life. But days tick by and the door remains shut. And the longer it stays like that, the more doubt starts to creep into the picture. Rosemary Rowe's The Good Bride is among the most sharp, funny scripts about faith you're likely to find: as a critique of a belief system it's skill-
ful, aimed not at the believer but the power and gender dynamics it justifies, and of a teenager's uncertainty in the face of adulthood's mysteries. Rowe's script packs its pages with zippy punchlines making use of Maranatha's teenage exuberance and naiveté about sex and what, exactly that is—she has to look up "foreplay," which, given the software on the Pullman's computer, sends an email to the family patriarch at work. But the unspoken things, the questions Maranatha doesn't ask about her situation, are just as effective at making a point. It's all deftly presented here as Northern Light Theatre's season opener, efficiently directed by Trevor
Schmidt, who keeps its myriad short scenes clipping along. There are some parallels you could draw to last season's hit The Pink Unicorn—both onewoman shows exploring a character's faith at pivotal testing points—but it stands as its own: the comedy's a little sharper, a little more modern in its feel. And while the script and handling are skillful, much of its resonance comes down to casting: Rombough plays Maranatha with a motormouthed teenage brio that's both endearing and enduring, anchoring a script that's effectively about waiting for something to happen in a performance that never runs out of steam. Eventually, Maranatha finds herself
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Until Sat, Oct 24 (7:30 pm; additional 11:30 pm performance on Fri, Oct 23) Directed by Trevor Schmidt ATB Financial Arts Barns, $16 – $28 caught between not one door, but two—its comedy doesn't disappear, but drama takes hold—and The Good Bride forces you to take its conclusion on, well, faith. But it's a testament to its handling here that both the light and dark land so effectively, with Maranatha caught somewhere in the middle, trying to decide what to believe.
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Dead Centre of Town J
ohn Rowand, the respected, takecrap-from-nobody Chief Factor of Fort Saskatchewan in the 1800s, died uneventfully: he dropped dead of a heart attack. What happened to his body afterward, though, tells a spookier story. The misfortune of Rowand's remains (hint: he wasn't laid to rest until four years after his death) is just one of the true, ghoulish tales told in this year's Dead Centre of Town. The ninth-annual production brings audience members along on a guided theatrical tour of the Fort Edmonton Park's 1846 Fort, narrated by tragedies that actually happened within the Fort's walls.
Director Beth Dart makes one thing clear: however scary its reputation, Dead Centre is not a haunted house— though she suggests it might be more terrifying. In its very first showing at the Globe Tap Bar and Grill, a grown man fainted while hearing the tale of Edmonton's first female embalmer. Instead of gory, jump-out scares, Dart says Dead Centre gains its horror from true stories, all researched by the historians at Fort Edmonton Park. "The space itself lends so much to the tone of the show," Dart says. "It's incredible what stories Edmonton has. It's an experience that defies explanation." Past iterations of the show have
haunted the halls of Block 1912 and the Artery. The Fort is creepy enough by daylight, says performer Christine Lesiak, but coupled with the rustling fall leaves and howling river valley coyotes by night, this year's location brings a distinct atmosphere to the show. Lesiak plays the role of Alice, who, alongside Jimmy (Adam Keefe), supports the narrator in guiding the audience around the Fort. She's been playing Alice for six years, and says the immersive theatre experience is more intense for some audience members than others. "I've had some audience members who are just terrified at my physical
presence, and others who can't wait to come in close and play," Lesiak says, noting that she'll offer her hand to bring audience members closer to the action. "Some people scream in delight, and some people just scream because they can't handle it." What makes the performance truly horrifying, Lesiak says, is knowing that the stories actually happened. Tales of smallpox victims and people blowing themselves up become all the more real when you roam the building where they took place. "A lot of the psychological elements of it is understanding that these are real stories that happened," she says. "They're presented in these theatricalized, heightened way, but to understand these things actually happened to these people—there's just a fundamental level of horror in that, to me."
Until Sat, Oct 24; Wed, Oct 28 – Sat, Oct 31 (6:30 pm, 7:30 pm, 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm nightly) Directed by Beth Dart Fort Edmonton Park, $20.60 Lesiak says audience members may be surprised with what they learn about their city by taking the plunge into Dead Centre of Town—that is, if they make it out alive. "It's so very rooted in the stories of the Fort's times, which in themselves are full of heartache and drama, and some very brutal, yet funny scenes," Lesiak says. "It gives you a different view on our own past." KATE BLACK
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ARTIFACTS The Merry Widow / Sat, Oct 24 (8 pm), Tue, Oct 27 & Thu, Oct 29 (7:30 pm) Edmonton Opera is opening its 2015/16 season with a laugh: The Merry Widow entrenches the genre's soaring vocals in musical comedy. Its plot concerns the titular figure, Hanna, left rich by her husband's passing and now dealing with a torrent of would-be suitors trying to win her hand (and, really, her wallet). The role's being sung by Canadian soprano Sally Dibblee, who's being backed by fellow Canuck baritone Michael Nyby and Edmonton's own tenor Jacques Arsenault, in among the 14-strong cast. (Jubilee Auditorium, $40 – $140)
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Pop Culture Fair / Sun, Oct 25 (10 am – 4:30 pm) Hot on the heels of Edmonton Expo comes the Pop Culture Fair, a one-day pop-up market for the more discerning of collectors of all things geek: over 200 vendors will be trucking wares into the Alberta Aviation Museum, where fans can meet, browse, collect and discuss everything from toys to music, video games to collectables. (Aviation Museum, $7) Reefer Riches / Thu, Oct 29 (7 pm) The legalization of marijuana is mong the many promises made by Prime Minister-elect Justin Trudeau. Which makes the timing of this CBC doc, exploring the business of legal weed, feel particularly apt: director Cynthia Banks examines the highs and lows of legalization, using the American states that have gone that way as case studies on what to expect. (CBC Television) V
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REVUE // THEATRE
Beyond Therapy Until Sat, Oct 24 (7:30 pm) Directed by Glenda Stirling Timms Centre for the Arts, $12 – $25
Gettin' all '80s up in 2015 // Ed Ellis
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eyond Therapy is an infuriating show. Not because of its actors, who commit to their roles with great energy and empathy (especially Kristen Padayas as the manic, presumably coked-up psychiatrist Charlotte). Not because of its direction, which is well thoughtout (there are plenty of clever choices, like the psychiatrists throwing themselves across their own couches to moan about their problems). And not because of its set design or costumes or music or lighting, which are all solid. No, Beyond Therapy is infuriating because all these talented people are using their considerable artistic skill to produce a bad script. It's a bonkers rom-com about dating life in 1980s Manhattan— where everybody has a therapist and nobody can find love. On its own, there's nothing wrong with this generic premise. But add in some off-colour AIDS jokes, some disgusting myths about bisexuals never being satisfied with just one partner, an undercurrent of misogyny and a completely unearned happy ending, and you have a show that's either cluelessly insulting or deliberately offensive.
The show raises a lot of fascinating questions about the gender binary and social expectations of men and women. About how to negotiate a polyamorous relationship. About mental health and self-harm. But it's not being clever about any of those things. It uses these issues as a punchline rather than actually working through them. On the surface it seems to be satire, but it really just recycles and reinforces the stereotypes it parodies. "If you take psychological suffering in the right frame of mind you can find the humour in it," Charlotte says at the end of the play. You can definitely find the humour
in Beyond Therapy. It may even make you laugh. But the moment you start to think about what it's saying and what it's doing—what sorts of prejudices and attitudes it's continually exploiting and applauding—the whole experience collapses. The valiant cast and crew almost make up for the show's faults, but they leave you wondering what could've been if they'd put on a different play. A smart play, a funny play, a play by a local writer—anything but Christopher Durang's dated 1981 comedy. BRUCE CINNAMON
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"By midnight tonight, I could be in Pete’s arms and then… stuff will happen." LOCATION: PCL STUDIO, ATB FINANCIAL ARTS BARNS, 10330-84 AVENUE TICKETS: FOR SUBSCRIPTION BOOKINGS OR TO PURCHASE A SINGLE TICKET PLEASE CALL NORTHERN LIGHT THEATRE AT 780-471-1586 OR CLICK ON WWW.NORTHERNLIGHTTHEATRE.COM
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DANCE BRAZILIAN ZOUK DANCE • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St NW • 780.974.4956 • hello@ludiczouk. com • ludiczouk.com • Drop-in Brazilian zouk social dance classes. Classes are inclusive; everyone is welcome. No partner needed • Every Wed (no class on Oct 21), 7:30pm-9pm. Runs until Dec 16 • $18 (single class), $150 (ten classes)
CADAVERET 2015 • ATB Financial Arts Barn, PCL Studio, 10330-84 Ave NW • amanda.leblanc336@gmail. com • A two-night Halloweeen debacle featuring burlesque, drag, improv and much more • Oct 30, 9:15pm (burlesque, drag, aerial hoop artist, and more); Oct 31, 9:30pm (featuring Powercub Improv) • $15 (per night), $25 (both nights) at the door or Tix on the Square; 18+ only
DANCE CRUSH • Mile Zero Dance Company, Spazio Performativo, 10816 - 95 St • 780.424.1573 • milezerodance.com • Ben Kamino; "Nudity, Desire" • This season MZD produces four performances with some of our favourite movement-based artists from across Canada. • Oct 22-23, 8 pm • $15 (MZD members); $20 (non-members)
ENIGMA • Timms Centre for the Arts - Main Stage, 112 St, University of Alberta • citieballet.ca • Presented by Citie Ballet. Featuring Leonard Cohen’s Doorway and Mozart:42 • Oct 30-Nov 1 (Fri-Sat, 7:30pm; Sun, 2:30pm) • $20-$40
HAPPY HALLOWEENER • Club at Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • capitalcityburlesque@gmail.com • citadeltheatre.com/event/ccb-happy-halloweener/all • A Capital City Burlesque production. With tricks and teases old and new - and featuring special guests Les Trois Femmes - Happy Halloweener is going to be a treat • Oct 30-31, 8-10pm • Tickets start at $31.50
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
FILM AN INTERACTIVE MOVIE EVENT: GREASE • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • sclibrary.ab.ca • Calling all Pink Ladies and T-Birds! Grease (rated PG) is the word! Grab the poodle skirts and leather jackets, and transport back to the 1950s for a cult classic. Costumes and props are encouraged • Register online at sclibrary.ab.ca or call 780.410.8600 • Nov 6, 7-9pm • Free CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: It Follows (Oct 28)
EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum. ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/movies/movies. cfm • Tall in the Saddle Series: Seven Men From Now (Oct 26); The Wonderful Country (Nov 2); The Man From Laramie (Nov 9)
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 Bourne Identity (Oct 23), Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter (Oct 30) THE INTERNET’S OWN BOY: THE STORY OF AARON SWARTZ • Stanley Milner Library Theatre (bsmt), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • epl.ca/openaccess • Oct 27, 6pm • Free
METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Ghostbusters (Oct 31) • CULT CINEMA: Donnie Darko (Oct 27) • Halloween EXTRAVAGANZA!: DEDfest 2015 Festival (Oct 20-25), Rocky Horror Picture Show (Oct 24 & 30), Donnie Darko (Oct 27), Halloween (Oct 28), Carrie (Oct 29), Ghostbusters (Oct 31), House on Haunted Hill (Oct 31), City of the Dead (Oct 31) • HALLOWEEN METRO MASH 2015: House on Haunted Hill (Oct 31), City of the Dead (Oct 31)
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS
ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Frozen Asset: art by Tony Stallard; Sep 22-Nov 28 • The Winter That Was: Pierre Bataillard; Oct 1-31
St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Masterworks: signature pieces by some of Alberta’s brightest fine craft stars; Oct 10-Dec 24; Artist reception: Oct 24, 2-4pm • Less Is More: artwork by Keith Walker; Oct 24-Nov 28
DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Be Your Own Bird: artwork by Cindy Revell; Oct 14-Nov 7
DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Exhibiting Sound; Oct 14-Nov 14 • Téte Jaune; Nov 18-Dec 19
DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • 48th Annual Fall Show; Oct 10-Oct 24
FESTIVAL PLACE • 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • Christmas in October Craft & Gift Sale: connecting with the local crafters and artists. In support of the Christmas Bureau; Oct 23-25; $1
GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Un: artwork by Walter Jule; Sep 11-Oct 25 Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/ art-gallery • Gallery walls: Maze: Mixed media works by Stephen Ferris; Oct 17-Nov 30 • Gallery display cases and plexi-glass cubes: Edmonton Potters’ Guild; through Oct
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: 13th Annual Artist in Residence Exhibition; Oct 22-Nov 21 JAKE’S PICTURE FRAMING • 10441-123 St NW • Brushstokes: Recent juried works by Edmonton Art Club artists; runs until Oct 31 JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artists Edmonton Japanese Community Association; Oct 8-Nov 11 KEITH TURNBULL STUDIO • 10692-69 St •
LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Intersecting Sets: artwork by Sarah Burwash, Sweet Smelling Ashes; and Willa Downing; Oct 2-Nov 14 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Father Douglas: Inspired by William Blake's writings Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, Father Douglas' surrealist portraits of animals metaphorically explore various complexities of the soul and human experience • Oct 24-Dec 6
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
NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Meandering: two artists capture the roving line at rest with Susan Bailes and Bette Lisitza. ARTISAN NOOK: The Fabric of Life: colourful fabric art by Kathryn deBree • Both exhibitions, Oct 5-Nov 16 • VERTICAL SPACE: The faculty exhibition, staff artists offer their works for pleasure & purchase
NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina.ca • The Artist Inside: Removing Barriers Through Art; Oct 15-30
PARK PENTECOSTAL CHURCH • 1 Brower Drive, Sherwood Park • spqg.ca • Over 200 quilts on display, merchant mall, daily raffles and door prizes. The theme for this event: Quilts are Hugs in Disguise • Oct 23-24 • $6
Oct 30 & 31 • The Enjoy Centre Fri 4–8PM • Sat 10AM–3PM TICKETS AVAILABLE AT WORLDOFVENDORS.CA 14 ARTS
SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Jule & McGarth; Sep 27-Nov 7
SOUTHGATE CENTRE • Southgate Centre, 5015-111 St • 780.435.3721 • Visit the Canadian premiere of the Van Gogh Museum Edition Collection, consisting of nine carefully selected masterpieces • Oct 16-Nov 15 • $5 (per person), free (kids 10 and under)
SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce
U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main
780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • Living Room: artwork by Jeffrey Klassen; Oct 14-Nov 7
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SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Landscape Up Close: artwork by Leslie Poole; Oct 17-Nov 7
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ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Out of Bounds: The Art of Lynn Malin; Sep 5-Nov 15
Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Main Gallery: Open Photography Competition; through Oct • Fireplace Room: Artwork by Malissa Lea
780.983.9789 • keithtur@telus.net • keithturnbull.ca • Sculptures of animals and people • Oct 24-25
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PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta. ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Voices from Our Past: artwork by Katherine Braid; Sep 25-Jan 23
BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Resonanz: artwork by Ernestine Tahedl; Oct 16-Oct 30
GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main
ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106
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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 • Charrette Roulette: Language; Jul 18-Nov 15 • Sincerely Yours: By Alberta artist Chris Cran; Sep 12-Jan 3 • Rough Country: The strangely familiar in mid-20th century Alberta art; Oct 3-Jan 31 • Encounters with the Self and the Triumph of Misery with Ihor Holubizky; Oct 23, 6:307:30pm • Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism; Oct 24-Feb 15 • She's All That: artwork by Dana Holst; Oct 24-Feb 15 • Artist Walkthrough: Chris Cran, Sincerely Yours; Nov 4, 7-8pm • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • Art for Lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Through and Through: artwork by Monica Tap; Oct 22-Nov 10; Opening reception: Oct 29, 7-9pm (artist in attendance)
PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • The Great Art Event; Sep-Oct
Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • museums@ualberta.ca • museums. ualberta.ca • Brain Storms: UAlberta Creates: hundreds of creative and visually inspiring works from University of Alberta Alumni in support of the University of Alberta Alumni Association centenary; Sep 25-Jan 23
VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Alberta Spirit: Acaca Alberta Community Art Clubs Association; Oct 1-Nov 28 VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Documenting: art by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky; Sep 30-Oct 31
WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Artwork by W.H. Webb; Oct 17-29
LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Mark Spector "The Battle of Alberta" Book Launch, Oct 24, 2pm • Richard Van Camp "Night Moves" Book Launch; Oct 27, 7pm
2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com
UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)
THEATRE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Backstage Theatre, 10330 84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25-Dec 18 then Jan 22-Jun 24, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) • grindstonetheatre.ca THE BEST BROTHERS • Shadow Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.434.5564 • shadowtheatre.org • After losing their free-spirited mother in a freak accident, feuding brothers Kyle and Hamilton Best are forced to make her final arrangements together. In the bustle of obituary-writing, eulogy-giving, and dog-sitting, sibling rivalry quickly reaches the exploding point before the brothers begin to understand themselves, their connection and the unconventional woman who gave them life • Oct 28-Nov 15
BEYOND THERAPY • Timms Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave & 112 St • uab.ca/shows • An outrageous 1980s comedy. Two singles looking for love and penning personal ads with the help of their wacky psychiatrists • Oct 15-24, 7:30pm • $25 (adult), $22 (senior), $12 (students)
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
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
IS GWYNETH PALTROW WRONG ABOUT EVERYTHING? WITH TIMOTHY CAULFIELD • Strathcona
THE GOOD BRIDE • Northern Light Theatre, #201, 8908-99 St • 780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • Every night from 3pm to midnight, 15-year-old Maranatha Graham puts on her homemade wedding dress and hopes that today will be the day her groom Pete picks her up from the Pullmans' house, where Daddy has sent her to wait. Pete could arrive at any moment. But as her wait wears on, Maranatha has an increasingly difficult time ignoring Satan's whisperings • Oct 16-24 • $27 (adult), $25 (students/seniors)
County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • sclibrary.ab.ca • In his newest book, health science expert Timothy Caulfield identifies and debunks celebrity culture’s influence on lifestyle choices and health-care decisions • Oct 22, 7-8:30pm • Free; register online sclibrary.ab.ca, or by calling 780.410.8600
THE LAST FIVE YEARS • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • Novelist Jamie and actress Cathy fall hopelessly in love. However, in the city that never sleeps, the lure of professional success can be a dividing force. An intimate, musical deconstruction of a five-year love affair, told both forwards and in reverse • Oct 27-Nov 15
EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury Room,10575114 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/ mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (signup); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner
LITFEST: EDMONTON'S NON-FICTION FESTIVAL • Various locations throughout Edmonton • litfestalberta. comAvid readers with nonfiction content and creators through a series of events chic gatherings and gourmet experiences • Oct 15-25
MÃN WITH KIM THÚY • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • sclibrary.ab.ca • An evening of conversation and story • Oct 29, 7-8:30pm • Free; register online at sclibrary.ab.ca, or by calling 780.410.8600 NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm 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 SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm
SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright STANDARD CANDLES • 5 Floor, CCIS Building (#13 on campus map), University of Alberta campus • Alice Major shares her brand-new collection of poetry, Standard candles, about the wonders of cosmology and the human heart. After a reading and demonstration on the concept of standard candles, audiences can view the heavens through the observatory's telescopes • Oct 22, 7pm
STARFEST: ST. ALBERT READERS' FESTIVAL • 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
TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND:
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LES BLUES DES OUBLIÉES • La Cité Francophone, 8627-91 St • p.boutet@lunitheatre.ca • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • The story of a Franco-Albertan woman who journeys literally and figuratively to discover the truth and source of her roots. With English surtitles • Oct 21-24, 8pm (matinee Oct 24 at 1:30pm) • Opening night: $30 (adult), $25 (senior), $20 (student); Regular: $25 (adult), $20 (senior), $15 (student); Free (kids 14 and under with parent) 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 on a ship called the Titantic II, modeled after the original • Aug 28-Oct 25 NICE WORK…IF YOU CAN GET IT • John L. Haar Theatre, 10045-156 St • 780.420.1757 • macewan.ca/ wcm/schoolsfaculties/ffac/events//nice_work_if_you_can_ get_it • It's the Roaring Twenties and a cast of outrageous characters gather in New York to celebrate the wedding of wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter • Oct 28-Nov 7, 7:309:30pm • $20 (adult), $15 (student/senior) PROM NIGHT OF THE LIVING DEAD: A ZOMBIE HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL • ATB Financial Arts Barns Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • sherardmusicaltheatre. org • Something evil is stalking the halls of John Hughes High School at the worst possible time, just before the 2015 prom! Now it’s up to a Brain, an athlete, some cheerleaders, a couple of drama geeks, and a criminal to put aside their differences, stop the apocalypse, and save the prom and world • Oct 28, 7:30pm
RAVENSCROFT • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • 780.439.3058 • walterdaletheatre.com • A psychological dark comedy that is both funny and frightening. You will not guess the ending, but you will be teased, seduced, bewildered, amused, frightened and led to a dark encounter with truth, or something even stranger • Oct 14-24
THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square
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But how do I know you're my mom?
T
he mommy in question (Susanne Wuest) is a wisp of a woman who, having undergone reconstructive surgery for reasons left unexplained, has her head largely obscured by bandages—she's as much mummy as mommy. For this reason alone it's not completely crazy that her handsome twin boys, Elias and Lukas (Elias and Lukas Schwarz), begin to wonder if she really is Mommy, feeding each other's fecund imagination. Goodnight Mommy (original title: Ich Seh, Ich Seh, or I See, I See) lives in a place where reality is always slipping into realms of suspicion and imagination, nightmare and trauma. Mommy and sons reside at a mod-
ern, tastefully designed country home in rural Austria, a site elegant, cool and interesting enough to be featured in an architectural magazine. The house is within walking distance of a village that seems almost completely abandoned. It's summer and the twins wander the vicinity, traipsing in the wake of a tractor, navigating a nearby wood, exploring a strange cemetery-cave where they have a fateful encounter with a cat. They collect cockroaches. They play on the trampoline. They have burping contests. They do what boys with time and steady companionship do, but something in this idyll is growing sour. Mommy is too often in a bad mood and wants to keep Elias
and Lukas apart. Something is wrong with her. Tests must be conducted to determine if she's a real mommy or a replica. As the tests become more strenuous, even sadistic, we have to wonder what brought this family to such a place of unease, mistrust and terror. The boys, we feel fairly certain, aren't evil—they just need to know. Screening this Sunday as part of DEDfest before receiving a brief Metro Cinema run next month, this immaculately chilling first fiction feature from Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala employs primal anxieties about impostors and the seemingness of things to tell what is in the end a fairly
old-fashioned horror story, one draped in the intricately lensed esthetic of much contemporary art photography (Hellen van Meene) and sculpture (Damien Hirst) and grounded in a fairly profound understanding of grief and trauma as it pertains to undeveloped psyches. Aspects of Goodnight Mommy invoke the work of Ulrich Seidl, who in fact produced the film and is the spouse and long-time collaborator of Franz, but the film distinguishes itself in part by its quietly devout relationship to genre. There is a history of intelligent, sensitive yet deeply sinister horror films about children woven into the fabric of Goodnight Mommy. It is fine-tuned, slow-burn horror, full of
Sun, Oct 25 (5 pm) Goodnight Mommy Directed by Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz Metro Cinema at the Garneau Part of DEDfest Until Sun, Oct 25 Full schedule at dedfest.com deadpan humour, gorgeous photography and countless small moments of ordinary childhood wonder and dread. JOSEF BRAUN
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Meru I
Scaling the unscalable
n 2008, world-renowned mountain climbers Conrad Anker, Jimmy Chin and Renan Ozturk attempted to scale the "Shark's Fin," a hitherto unclimbed peak on the top of Mount Meru in the Himalayan mountain range, but they were forced to stop 100 feet from the summit. This film not only chronicles this ill-fated attempt (which could easily be a gripping and successful 30-minute short in its own right), but also the intervening period in which Ozturk suffers a debilitating injury forcing him to undergo months of intensive physical rehabilitation, Chin is nearly killed in an avalanche, and the group decides, against all logic, to give the Shark's Fin one more try. Meru is successful because it spends as much time demonstrating the harsh conditions and sublime appeal of this particularly extreme "extreme sport" as it does exploring the personality dynamics of the three climbers. They don't climb
simply because they "have to do it;" it's a decision reached with persuasive and logical reflection. Directed by co-climber Chin and his spouse, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, it is perhaps because of their closeness to the subject matter that the personal drama is so believable and effective; by the end, we feel as though we know the climbers so well that we don't question what they're all doing up there, in tremendous danger, on the side of a 20 000-foot mountain. In different hands, the claustrophobia or monotony of an extended mountain climb with the same three people might wear thin, but Vasarhelyi and Chin treat the film like filmmakers, not climbers. They use excellent composition, brisk narrative pacing and emotional depth to lure us into this incredible story, while deploying a dynamic range of visual textures and technologies, achieved with different camera types and shot
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Opens Friday Directed by Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi Princess Theatre types that almost feel like they belong in different films. We see everything from standard talking-head interviews in a controlled studio to small, helmet-mounted GoPros capturing the shaky interiors of bivouacs suspended from a cliff face, as well as grandiose, impeccably composed, (possibly CGI) wide-angle shots of the mountain against a starry sky. Altogether, the film offers a deft mix of philosophical wonder with an utterly visceral cinematic "experience" that can only be achieved by bold human beings capturing something fantastic to show to less bold ones back home. JAMES CUMING
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REVUE // TEEN HORROR
Oh, these zombies? Yeah, I wrote 'em
Goosebumps T
he eeks, freaks and bumps-inthe-night in Goosebumps— adapting R L Stine's ongoing series of bestselling scary books for kids—are fine, even fun. It's the goosing of this adolescent-targeting fright-flick into a teen-romance that takes the wild romp out of it. Zach (Dylan Minnette) and his mom (Amy Ryan) move from NYC to a bucolic neighbourhood in little Madison, Delaware. The girlnext-door, Hannah (Odeya Rush), quickly captures his hormonal attention but her frowning dad, Mr Shivers (Jack Black), has already forbidden him to come near their fenced-off place. Our sudden Romeo, concerned one evening, breaks in with the help of toothy dweeb Champ (Ryan Lee), but the pair accidentally free the Abominable Snowman of Pasadena from his locked Goosebumps book. For Mr Shivers is Stine himself, and his vile villains in his personal library's volumes come alive if opened ... This conceit—the force of a writer's imagination and the power of reading, let loose, as word becomes flesh—is cleverly played with. The ringleader of these book-beasts (homicidal garden gnomes, flying killer poodle, giant praying mantis, etc) is Slappy, a ventriloquist's doll voiced by Stine/Shivers/Black himself. So a
Now playing Directed by Rob Letterman voiced character is trying to take back his voice by killing his ventiloquizing author (playing even more with doubles and authoregos, Stine himself cameos as a "Mr Black"). Amid Goosebumps' enjoyable take on the small-towninvasion B-movie, there are more writing jokes and also allusions: Gulliver's Travels meets Hansel and Gretel in Stine's kitchen; Lord of the Rings and Scarface line-riffs; a Carrie-like high-school dance soon after Stine's snarly about being compared to Stephen King. (Plus, for a Canadian, it's hard not to enjoy a Zamboni joke.) But the long looks, lush lips and near-kisses of the teen-romance keep puffing out and popping up along the way. Zach's a dull character—fan-boy Champ would have been a more daring lead—who's slapped with a quick dead-father backstory early on but otherwise just acts the hero. Goosebumps' creature-feature is a sly, enjoyable escapade; it's the plodding beats of its sub-par sub-plot, featuring those horny-monster teenagers, that's fearfully boo-ring.
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Rock the Kasbah B
ill Murray plays Richie Lanz, an aging rock manager. He still dresses like it's 1975, perhaps hoping to invoke an era when, according to his own reports, he might have been somebody. These days he runs his business out of a seedy motel room in Los Angeles' Van Nuys neighbourhood. His only active client is his receptionist (Zooey Deschanel) and her only gig is karaoke night at Pogo's. That is, until Richie decides to take her to Afghanistan for a USO tour. The girl takes Richie's funds and passport and makes a break for it shortly after their arrival in Kabul—because what spoiled young American woman wouldn't feel more comfortable navigating war-torn Afghanistan on her own?—leaving Richie to figure out how to earn enough bread to make it back home with the help of a pair of high-rolling arms dealers (Danny McBride, Scott Caan). At some point in all the hubbub
Richie spends a night in the desert and happens to hear Pashtun teenager Salima Khan (Leem Lubany) singing Cat Stevens in a cave. He becomes convinced that he's made the discovery of his career, so long as he can convince Salima's dad to let her out of the house/cave and convince the executives at Afghan Star to let a girl on to compete for the first time in the show's history. Written by Mitch Glazer and directed by Barry Levinson, Rock the Kasbah is a plodding comedy of inter-cultural relations. Levinson doesn't seem to know where to put a camera anymore. The pacing is amazingly turgid, with too many token obstacles and superfluous pep-talks meant to emphasize that this is not just another story of Western exploitation of Middle Eastern resources. Of course the AK-toting, Allah-praising rural Afghans are all shameless cutouts, but then so is pretty much every-
Opens Friday Directed by Barry Levinson body else in the film. Deschanel's barroom diva is insufferable— though the role is mercifully miniscule—while Bruce Willis plays a soldier of fortune without about as much expressiveness as a loaf of Wonderbread. Kate Hudson is a hooker with a heart of gold, or a soft spot for goofy old guys, and Beejan Land is a local cabbie who just loves disco. Only Murray comes across as having something more than one bad joke and something akin to a fleshed-out character to portray—it is impossible to imagine this project happening without him—though his interminable howling rendition of "Smoke on the Water" is not likely to enter the canon of Bill Murray bits.
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Tedium and transcendence Reflecting on the brilliant cinema of Chantal Akerman
Je Tu Il Elle
All I ever really wanted from a movie, though for a long time I didn't know it was this I wanted, was to come out of the movie feeling I'd been through something, touched something. No one with eyes, ears or a nervous system can possibly experience Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) from its beginning to its astonishing climax and not feel as through they've been through, or touched, something. Chantal Akerman made Jeanne Dielman when she was 24, and it is a work of audacity and genius. For three hours and 21 minutes we witness the titular Belgian widow (Delphine Seyrig) as she cooks, does housework, tends to her son and to the needs of her clients, men who come to her home to receive sexual favours in exchange for cash. Jeanne is a dual archetype—she's the mother and the whore—yet, through
the careful exhibition of select banal domestic routines, playing out in real time, she's fleshed out to the point of transcendence. Over the course of three days Jeanne's routines start to break down and these breaks will prove traumatic, leading to a violent catharsis. Identification is rewarded with catastrophe. Jeanne Dielman is one of the most persuasive feminist gestures in cinema, cool and formalist in its style, deeply compassionate and finally shattering in its effect. This is a woman's experience, winnowed, curtailed, filling time with tasks so as not to consider what's missing. Akerman's film was designed to make us understand this experience in a way no other film had before. It's a kind of miracle, the way it forces us to feel tedium while allowing us to bask in its exquisite craft—the tedium nestles in the transcendent.
I still can't believe Akerman has died. It was announced on Monday, October 5. A suicide. She was 65. She'd suffered from depression. I had seen her last film, No Home Movie (2015), mere weeks earlier. Like Jeanne Dielman, it's about women in domestic spaces, but the gaze is very different. It's a documentary chronicling final encounters between Akerman and her ailing mother, a Pole who relocated to Belgium after surviving Auschwitz. No Home Movie—a title that offers at least two readings—is a different sort of miracle, less resplendent than Jeanne Dielman. Much of the camerawork looks amateurish, even clumsy, sometimes simply capturing a computer screen for the duration of a Skype call. But the camera also exudes emotional intelligence, capturing things that accrue in desolation, helplessness—homelessness. The film traces so many of the crevasses that exist between an adult child and an elderly parent, spaces that will never be filled, questions that will never be answered. It's a film at once devastating and wise that will resonate with anyone whose parents have reached a certain age. It may not look pretty— though in fact sometimes it does look pretty—but it is in many ways Akerman at her most brilliant. There were, of course, plenty of other brilliant films between Jeanne Dielman and No Home Movie. I'm most familiar with Akerman in the '70s, films
which merge fiction with autobiography or self-portraiture in unforgettable ways: News From Home (1977), in which Akerman reads letters sent from her mother over images of New York City, where Akerman began to live from age 21 after dropping out of film school; Je Tu Il Elle (1976), which stars Akerman as a young woman connecting sexually with partners of both genders and shows bodies in carnal abandon; Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978), in which Aurore Clément plays a filmmaker touring European cities with her new movie. These are all easy to track down and I urge you to see them. (Les Rendez-vous is probably the most approachable of the bunch.)
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What do you mean, 'This house is creepy?'
Crimson Peak A
t Crimson Peak, an estate in northwest England, the clay oozes up so that the ground looks to be bleeding through the staunching snow in winter. In Crimson Peak, the good-but-never-great new movie from Guillermo del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), subtext soon bubbles up as blood; like the ghoulish spectres' long, bony hands here, the action is a bit too stretched out and the plot overelaborated. Visited at 10 by her mother's ghost, warning her of "Crimson Peak," Edith (Mia Wasikowska), daughter of industrialist Carter Cushing (Jim Beaver), grows up to be an aspiring author in early 20th-century Buffalo. She's
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entranced, though, by baronet Sir Thomas Sharpe (Tom Hiddleston), seeking investment in his clay-digging machine; his sister, Lucille (Jessica Chastain), is always by his side. After Carter is mysteriously murdered, Edith marries Thomas and moves with him to his estate, nicknamed, she learns, Crimson Peak ... That house, and its movie—from skeletal spectres to period-piece costumes—is sumptuously stylized and sound-scaped. The house is as much ruined mansion as morbid mausoleum: moth-speckled attic; basement of vats filled with blood-red muck; metal-grilled elevator. There are a
few Victorian moments of sublimated psychosexuality: Edith and Thomas waltz in such a smooth yet exhilarating rush and whirl that the flame of the (phallic) candle they hold never goes out; two men on the house's threshold cling to each other in a near-fatal embrace. And, refreshingly, the film is more a grotesque and macabre tale of spookiness than a frightfilled, explicit-horror flick. But the sensation-novel plot and ghost-story atmosphere are too steamed-out here, chugging and churning on. Even before the ending gets too stabby, brutal and modern, Crimson Peak has poured enough story sauce into its basement vats to overfill them: fairy-tale elements; Gothic atmosphere; women's spirits (eerily dead or stubbornly alive); a poison plot; horrible childhood secrets; Holmes-like sleuthing; the marriage-and-money concerns of most 19th-century literature; even story similarities to Angels & Insects (1995). The film suffers from a surfeit of influences; unfortunately, by its splattering end, Crimson Peak has swirled up too many nasty, creepy strains and colours to quite become its own darkly sparkling thing.
Akerman is the cinema's most important feminist, though she didn't allow her films to be shown at women's film festivals. Akerman was outspoken in her sexuality, though she refused to have her films shown at queer film festivals. She understood that her work was best seen in the context of the highest sort of artistic achievement—feminism and queerness were components of that achievement, not the whole of that achievement. But we're still coming to terms with what Akerman achieved, not an easy thing to do given that her achievement is so singular. There is no one like her. And now she's gone, too soon, and I feel like we've been through something. V
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n a small town deep in the Canadian Shield, Hawksley Workman has just fi nished getting his housecum-recording-studio ready for the winter. "We've just put our garlic in; garlic goes in before any major frost. Let me tell you: there's nothing like homegrown garlic," he says over the phone. In addition to tipping over rain barrels and tilling the garden soil before the cold hits, Workman is also beginning a tour behind his latest album, Old Cheetah. Old Cheetah is his newest solo project in quite some time, and it feels like one of his most exuberant albums to date. "It's borderline desperation, I must admit," Workman says. "I'm just so restless and become so easily tired and bored of myself. I just assume that everybody else feels the same way. "I tend to like the things that I make, but that self-satisfaction only lasts for 36 hours, and then I feel genuinely consumed to go out and fi nd that drug of entertaining myself again." Until recently, Workman has been entertaining himself by collaborating with Christian Barry on a play called The God That Comes; he's also been touring with Mounties, a supergroup he formed in 2013 with Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat and Ryan Dahl of Limblift er. Returning to touring solo, Workman's looking forward to playing songs that's he's never performed outside of his recording studio. This includes new tunes from Old Cheetah as well as older pieces
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Fri, Oct 23 (8 pm) With Fiona Bevan Winspear Centre, $39 from his massive back catalogue. On Facebook and Twitter, Workman posted a list of the 150 or so songs that he's written and asked people which ones they most wanted to hear live. The fi nal setlist was whittled down to 35 tracks. "The response was so overwhelming and wonderful," he notes. "There were even folks who were like, 'Hey! You've missed two songs on this list!' And I was like 'Wow!'" After this winter tour is over, Workman may have a few more projects up his sleeve. "It's funny that you should talk about the [The God That Comes], because I just texted [Christian] in Halifax asking him, 'Do we have another play in us?' Because all of sudden I feel like we should do something new. It's all restlessness ... "And then there's a children's illustrated book out coming out not this Christmas, but next Christmas," he continues. "It's based on the song 'Almost a Full Moon,' and the gist of the song is: 'Let's make some soup because the weather is turning cold.' So yes, there's a song about parsnip, bay leaves and garlic on its way. I must admit that I didn't do the illustrations [for the book] because that would be a disaster, but I just love getting into stuff !"
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We Hunt Buffalo
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ingles are released at a steady pace in today's music industry, and the notion of a concept album may not be at the forefront of many artists' minds. But Vancouver-based psych rockers We Hunt Buffalo have done just that with the release of Living Ghosts. The nine-track record follows in the footsteps of Pink Floyd's The Wall, Neil Young's On the Beach and Mars Volta's Deloused in the Comatorium— all of which have been influences for the band at one point or another. The first half of Living Ghosts comes out swinging with heavy, fuzzed-out guitar licks and pounding drums, while the latter half settles into psychedelic grooves, a disparity lead vocalist/guitarist Ryan Forsythe says was done with a vinyl release in mind. "We had debated whether or not to do two separate EPs because side A and B are quite different, but I'm glad we went with the full one, because that's kind of the cool thing about a record, right?" he says from his home in Vancouver. "You can spin whatever side [based on] whatever mood you're in."
Don't worry, they recycled the cans
Tying the album's juxtaposing sides together is the overarching theme permeating its lyrics—the majority of which were penned by Forsythe, with a few tracks written by bassist/vocalist Brendan Simpson. The songs lean
towards the apocalyptic, zeroing in on how the choices of society affect the planet, as well as the lack of awareness for the potential consequence of those actions. "I think it's kind of an accurate reflection of where we are right now as a human race, and where we are as Canadians with all these natural resources around us—and they're at the risk of being depleted," Forsythe explains. "It just felt like the timing was right for this type of record, in our lives at least. "Humans are kind of at the point right now where we haven't destroyed everything, but if we keep going down this path, it isn't looking so bright, so it's kind of a call to arms." Environmental issues have always been at the forefront for Forsythe and his bandmates; he notes there's a great deal of social activism on the BC coast in terms of pipelines, forestry and fisheries, for example. "None of us went out and got our environmental sciences degrees, so we have to find another outlet," he says with a laugh. "We never wanted to be a 'political band,' you know? We don't want to be influencing people's opinions; we just kind of want to be taking a snapshot of how we feel about a certain issue and presenting it."
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PREVUE // ALT-COUNTRY
Daniel Romano W
hen a musician writes at the frenetic clip Daniel Romano does, it can be easy for songs to get left behind—or entire albums, which was nearly the case for If I've Only One Time Askin', now cemented as his fourth full-length release. Many of the alt-country album's songs were written a couple of years ago, and its title track was nearly featured Come Cry With Me, which Romano released in 2013. "The title track was written late in the game and really sounded nothing like it does now," Romano writes via email. "It was too far ahead of what I was trying to do with Come Cry With Me. In the end I'm not sure that leaving it off the record was a good or bad idea. I started playing it live on the Come Cry With Me tour, and I found it was developing into something beyond me. So I fi gured I ought to try to contain it the best I could. By the time I did I was already recording this record." Romano isn't one to revisit his previous work, but his label, New West Records, encouraged him to return to the emotive, story-laden
tunes. He says he initially felt the tracks were too old, and he was dreading supporting a group of songs that didn't mean anything to him anymore. "I spent a good amount of time trying to understand them," he explains. "Looking back on my records is not something I'm usually comfortable with, and I rarely even entertain the idea. But I suppose I sat down with it on the right day and could see the other end of the garden and then back to where I stood, and the colours seemed to match the season. All I had to do was ask for rain." Romano can't pinpoint what stood out about the songs that made him want to work with them again, but he sums it up as a case of being "the right time for enough time." He chose to self-produce the album, noting he didn't want to make a record that listeners would call or confuse to be "country." "I never do, really," he says. "I felt like with Come Cry ... people didn't understand what it was or who I was at the time. I suppose I want-
Fri, Oct 23 (8 pm) With Steve Lambke, Ayla Brooke Mercury Room, $13 in advance, $15 at the door
ed to be more direct. I didn't want to exist beyond the music. I didn't want to music to exist beyond itself. But really, that it's now how this thing works anymore. Today everything must be alive and beyond a breeze. Nothing is simply whispered anymore."
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MUSIC PREVUE // FOLK
Ken Stead I
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n the spring of 2004, at age 21, Ken Stead sunk down into the starterblocks at a regional track meet in Calgary, ready to begin the 200m sprint. Amid the adrenaline, the feel of the track and the wind in his face, something else happened. "I pulled my hamstring," he laments. "Once you pull a hamstring, you never go back." Though that statement refers to his athletic career, Stead's life is a reflection of this adage. But unlike a sprint, his story expresses many of the elements of a much longer race. At 32, Stead has already lived several lives. From the Broadway stage at age nine (his youth choir was selected to preform in the 1992 Broadway revival of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) to a nationally ranked sprinter in his teens, to the lonely streets of Minnesota in his twenties nursing the wounds of a failed marriage, his path has never been obvious. "I didn't grow up in a musical family at all," he recalls. "Up until my early twenties, I didn't really start diving into guitar—when I pulled my hamstring and decided I should do something with my time." That's not to say Stead had no interest in music. He listened to rap throughout his teen years, much to the dismay of his mother. In fact, it was this family feud that turned
Stead's attention away from Compton and toward the Rust Belt. "My mom hated it," he remembers. "When I was living under my parents' roof, my punishment for whenever I did something wrong was to have to attend the Edmonton Folk Music Festival with my mom Sun, Oct 25 (6:30 pm) With Erin Kay, Red Moon Road and her friends." With a chuckle, Stead con- Mercury Room, $20 cedes that it was "a brilliant this saypiece of parenting." "I saw a guy named Eric Bibb—I ing, 'Fear has no place here.' We'd saw one man and a guitar entertain just repeat it almost like a mantra, 20 000 people on a hill," Stead says. and it got her to able to take on her day." "It just blew my mind." Fear Has No Place Here is an honOver the next 10 years Stead un- est expression of Stead's willingness derwent a long journey of self- to take on the Self, to recognize the discovery and reflection—a journey ugly side of human nature and to that has manifested itself in his lat- explore the boundaries of his own talent. est album, Fear Has No Place Here. "The whole thing was this process The album's title track is a reference to an experience he shared with of being vulnerable," he notes. "And I don't know what's going to be on the his ex-wife's young daughter. "She lived a lot with social anxiety, other side." to the point where she wouldn't want SHAWN BERNARD SHAWN@VUEWEEKLY.COM to leave her room in the morning to go to school," Stead recalls. "We had
PREVUE // FOLK
Tyler Butler and his Handsome Friends 'T
Ensemble Caprice Saturday, Oct 31, 2015 at 8 PM Convocation Hall, U of A Campus 116 St & 85 Ave NW
Tickets available at TIX on the Square, The Gramophone and at the door.
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he more boring my life gets, the more exciting my songs get," Tyler Butler muses, though he's quick to revise "boring" to "stable." It isn't that things are getting rote for the local folk songwriter: just that, as his life finds a steadier rhythm—Butler's now a property owner, and counts four years at his day job—his songwriting reaches richer hues as if in response. More complicated characters are populating his songs as they find distance from his everyday. "There's not a lot of drama," he adds, happily, of his everyday living. But there's definitely an audible sense of drama on Tyler Butler and his Handsome Friends, the folk songwriter's first release in three years. The album's four songs act as melodic character studies, their central figures caught in moral or emotional ambiguities. There's a murder ballad couched in its runtime too, though presented with a little more nuance than usual for the subgenre. "Traditionally, murder ballads will be, OK, this guy murdered someone
based on [how] they broke a moral code, or he committed a crime, here's his punishment," he explains. "I'm trying to write murder ballads, but trying to put some question marks over top of it: Was this justified? Would I have done the same thing? Was the consequence necessary? I find that kind of interesting—hopefully updating the form, a little bit." It's also Butler's first release made with a full backing band. Though he'd worked with varying combinations of musicians beforehand, a firm lineup finally coalesced about a year ago with Jesse Northey on drums, Dylan Howard on bass and Jasper Smith on guitars. They're collectively dubbed, like the album, his Handsome Friends. "They picked the name," he says with an audible grin. "I gave them the choice between the Wild Roses and the Handsome Friends, and it was unanimous." Tyler Butler and his Handsome Friends was recorded with Northey— also acting as producer—at his stu-
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Wed, Oct 28 (7 pm) With Ella Coyes & Jasper Smith Mercury Room, $10 (in advance), $12 (at the door) dio. The album was pieced together instrumental track by instrumental track rather than live off the floor— another first for Butler, but one he quickly took to. "It was nice for a couple reasons," he says of that process. "One, I could screw up and it didn't ruin everyone's day, which, when you're recording everything at the same time, is the case. And I think there's a comfort level with this band, that we still kept some energy to the record. ... I like the sound: It's nice to go into a studio and get a nice, loud, well-recorded record, especially. I think we have a little more of a country sound on this record. Still pretty folky, but I think it's nice to get some real studio power behind that." PAUL BLINOV
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PREVUE // FOLK
karaoke
Sun, Oct 25 (2 pm) With Rusty Wunderbar, $10
THURSDAYS with JR • 9pm–1am FRIDAYS with Bob Gaetz • 5–8pm
friday & Saturdays Live ENTERTAINMENT • 9PM-1AM SWEET TEQUILA Oct 23 & 24 BRAD SIMS Nov 6 & 7 MANDY REIDER BAND Nov 13 & 14 CADILAC JUNKIES Nov 20 & 21 ROGER WEST Nov 27 & 28
halloween party DRINK FEATURES • PRIZES FOR BEST COSTUMES PRAIRIE THUNDER Oct 30th & 31st
Sunday's OPEN MIC 8pm – 12am Host: One Percent // Larry Brandenburg
Joe Vickers J
oe Vickers is a busy man: he fronts Edmonton-based rock band Audio/ Rocketry, works seven months of the year on his family farm in southern Alberta and spends the winter in Portland, Oregon with his wife (who is currently posted there for school), all while trying to juggle his own solo music career. It's his solo endeavour that has been on the back burner up until recently, but Vickers is heading out on a Western Canada tour and releasing three new tracks on an EP titled Cowboy Coffee. The album will be available as a digital download code on a package of coffee beans, roasted under the name Friendly Folk. "I was planning to release [the songs] as a seven-inch, but the waiting time is really long these days with the high demand of vinyl pressing," Vickers explains over the phone, taking a break from
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packing said coffee beans. "So I decided to seek an alternative way of releasing these songs. I had this homeroaster that gave up the ghost, [and] I just thought, well, maybe I could justify a new purchase if I release these songs as a digital download code on a package of coffee." The concept was inspired by a collaboration Vickers saw that involved a band distributing an album on a six-pack of beer, which contained a digital code for download. The trio of songs on Cowboy Coffee were recorded over three days in March at Rock 'N Roll Bed & Breakfast, a residential recording studio in Sauvie Island, OR. The EP will only be available with the coffee until the tour is over, but the tracks will be available as MP3s in November. Vickers' songs carry a strong Canadian prairie narrative. The track "Brokeback,"
for example, tells the story of a son writing a letter to his father about being queer, which was inspired by cowboys Vickers met at the Hand Hills Rodeo who expressed the prejudices they experienced. For Vickers, that prairie narrative comes from growing up on a farm near Drumheller, and continuing to work on it every spring and summer. "It's not something that I try to specifically write about the prairies. It's just I'm a prairie boy, so it's within me ... I'm deeply rooted in the priaires," he says. "I find inspiration in the ordinary, and I try to present a perspective, whether it's something I observe or something I've encountered. I would say, especially with these new songs, they're inspired by moments that I lived or inspired by people that I know."
FRI OCT 23, THE WINSPEAR LIVE AT THE WINSPEAR AND JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS
HAWKSLEY WORKMAN W/ FIONA BEVAN
THUR OCT 29, THE WINSPEAR
XAVIER RUDD & THE UNITED NATIONS W/ JON AND ROY
FRI NOV 5, BRIXX
TIM CHAISSON W/ GUESTS
FRI NOV 13, BRIXX
JESSE ROPER
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PREVUE // JAZZ
SAT NOV 14, STUDIO 96 JCL AND TOP NOTCH PRESENTS
John Stetch H
ave you ever wondered what Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Shostakovich would sound like if they were miraculously transported to the 21st century? It would probably sound something along the lines of Off With The Cuffs, the Juno Award-nominated album from New York-based jazz musician John Stetch. "It was a surprise, because I submitted it to the classical category just so I could get heard, even though I knew I wouldn't have a chance," Stetch says over the phone from a tour stop in Vancouver. "I just wanted them to know what I was up to. And then they bumped it into a different category— the instrumental category—because they thought it would do better, and that's when it got the nomination." Off With The Cuffs is a solo piano recording of Stetch's own recompositions and modern improvisations of Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Shostakovich songs.
Sat, Oct 24 (6 pm, 8:30 pm) The Dish and Spoon, $60 Sun, Oct 25 (2 pm) The Piano Centre, donation
"[The songs are] so written in stone and so impregnated in people's ears that any deviation would sound weird or like a mistake," he says. To tackle that challenge, Stetch made it a priority to keep the songs' core elements alive—classical fans would be able to identify the original song within Stetch's version—but rework them in a way that reflected Stetch's skill and jazz background by adding some contemporary rearrangment. Not wanting to deviate from the orginal songs too much, Stetch made subtle changes to the original songs by adding simple passing notes to the already present posts, as he did with Bach's "Italian Concerto, BWV 971," or by shifting the scales from major to minor. "These derangements, you might call them, or rearrangements ... started off with one small change and going from that, experimenting," he explains. "The thing that kept the momentum going
was to have my own piece at the end of it. I felt like, oh, I'm confident because no one else knows this and no one else would know if I made a mistake on it, and therefore, I could go up there [on stage] with much more confidence." The album title is a play on words of the complaints Stetch heard about classical music regarding the monotonous repetoire and musicians not wanting to improvise within the genre. The title came from the idea of taking off handcuffs or rolling up the sleeves to make an improvised album. "I don't mean that in a derogatory way. I listen to classical music all the time in a very normal way," he says. "I love those players and respect them. It's just I can't do that very well. I didn't grow up in that scene. But what I brought is quality work with a fresh take on it ... I'm only offering one other option in colour."
ALL AGES AND LICENSED
CHIC GAMINE W/ GUESTS
TUE NOV 17, BRIXX JCL AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT
INDIAN HANDCRAFTS, AND GREYS W/ GUESTS
WED NOV 18, THE WINSPEAR JCL AND LIVE AT THE WINSPEAR PRESENT
BAHAMAS
W/ SPECIAL GUEST JOHN K SAMSON OF THE WEAKERTHANS THU NOV 19, BRIXX JCL AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT
RYAN BOLDT KACY AND CLAYTON CURRENT SWELL
(DEEP DARK WOODS), W/ ALAMEDA
SAT DEC 12, UNION HALL
W/ GUESTS
SUN DEC 13, BRIXX
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W/ GUESTS SUN FEB 14, MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH EDM FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL AND JCL PRESENTS
FRAZEY FORD W/ GUESTS
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HEAD OF THE HERD / FRI, OCT 23
Head of the Herd is on tour in support of its third album, Birds on the Roof, which combines southern-style storytelling with a raw rock 'n' roll twist. Finger Eleven is headlining the show. (River Cree Casino, $39.50)
John Kyle, aka Metal John, has been hosting Mind Compression on CJSR for 15 years. To commemorate the milestone, Kyle is throwing a party with performances by the Reckless Rebels, Days I Die, Abigail's Cross, Bogue Brigade and Sweatpants. There's also going to be a silent auction to raise money for CJSR and the show. (Rendezvous Pub, $15)
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STEVE PINEO & THE HEEBEE JEEBIES / FRI, OCT 23 (7 PM)
It's the grand finale show for New Moon Folk Club, and what better way than to close the season with a tribute to Elvis? Steve Pineo & the Heebee Jeebies will be covering the King's greatest hits. Don't forget your dancing shoes. (St Basil's Cultural Centre, $22)
MICHAEL RAULT / SAT, OCT 24 (8:30 PM)
Add one cup of pop rock, two parts acidpsych, a spoonful of jukebox R&B, and what do you get? Something along the lines of Michael Rault. (Wunderbar, $10 in advance, $12 at the door)
STANDING UP FOR PERUVIAN CHILDREN / SUN, OCT 25 (5:30 PM)
It's Latin Music Night at the Yardbird Suite, courtesy of the Marco Claveria Project, Lisi Sommer and Jorge Vargas. The funds from the event will go towards the Peruvian Children Society, which supports children in Arequipa, Peru by providing in-home support and literacy classes. (Yardbird Suite, $25)
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THE BROS LANDRETH / SUN, OCT 25 (8 PM)
Who are the Bros Landreth? It's a four-piece band hailing from Winnipeg that plays electric blues rock. The band has new release out, Undercover Bros, which features covers of Paul McCartney, Steely Dan, Ry Cooder and more. (Starlite Room, $17.50 – $20)
LEISA WAY STARTING IN
SWEET DREAMS
A TRIBUTE TO PATSY CLINE
SAT OCT 24
OCT 23 & 24
STEVE HILL // WED, OCT 28 (7:30 PM)
Steve Hill has been making blues-tinged folk-rock songs since 1997. Do the math, and that's a whole lotta songs. (Festival Place, $20)
SAT NOV 14
THE LONELY DOUBLE BILL!
LEE AARON
FRI NOV 27
WUNDI PRE-HALLOWEEN BANDS AS BANDS / WED, OCT 28 (9 PM)
Local bands perform as other bands all in the name of Halloween. The fourth-annual edition will pay tribute to Modest Mouse, Beastie Boys, the Kinks, Prince and Japandroids. (Wunderbar, $10)
COMING SOON: A TRIBUTE TO ABBA, A LYNYRD SKYNYRD TRIBUTE AND MORE!
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XAVIER RUDD / THU, OCT 29 (8 PM)
Solo multi-instrumentalist musician Xavier Rudd is now fronting a band aptly named the United Nations, which is a collection of eight musicians from all over the world. The band's on tour in support of its first album, Nanna. (Winspear Centre, $39.50)
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THU OCT 22 ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Open Mic with
Stan Gallant; 8pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Thirsty
Thursday Jam; 7:30pm BLUES ON WHYTE Lex Justice; 9pm BOHEMIA Heaven and the Ghosts
Fundraiser Party; 7pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door) BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:
Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm CAFE BLACKBIRD Joal Kamps & Shaun
Bosch -- Double Bill; 7:30pm; $10 CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; 7pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your Own
Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar: Beach
Stroud; 9pm
FRI OCT 23
ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE Full
APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE Head Over Heels (rock/pop/indie); 9pm; No minors ARDEN THEATRE The Official Blues
Brothers Revue; 7:30pm; Sold out ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jimmy
Whiffen; 8pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Gary Martin (blues/R&B) and Heavenly Blues; 9pm; $10 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Canadian
Troubadour Trilogy; 8:30-10:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Lex Justice; 9pm BOHEMIA Magnet and the Magnettes, I Am Machi, special guest; 8pm; No minors BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos
every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:
Moon Folk Club: Steve Pineo; 7pm (door), 8pm (show) STARLITE ROOM Stylust Beats,
Emotionz, DJ Praiz with special guests; 9pm; $25; 18+ only THE TEMPLE Sian (Octopus
Recordings | Barcelona); 9pm; $19; 18+ only TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music
every Fri UNION HALL The Librarian with Addison Groove; 9pm; $25 WILD EARTH BAKERY–MILLCREEK
CAFE BLACKBIRD Jim Findlay Trio;
8pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Monkeys
Uncle; 9pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic;
7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON The Nervous Flirts
(Jameoke); 9pm
YARDBIRD SUITE Hendrik Meurkens
CENTURY CASINO Leisa Way Starring
Toronto Samba Jazz Connection; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests) YEG DANCE CLUB Mat Zo; 9pm; $25
Classical
BRIXX BAR We Hunt Buffalo; 8:30pm
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Traffic
THE CLUB AT THE CITADEL TED
$10
Jam Concerts, Fridays at Five; Mark Eeles, Joachim Segger, Marnie Giesbrecht; Piano, cello; 5-6pm; $10
CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Monkeys
WINSPEAR CENTRE Hawksley
Uncle; 9pm
Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm
CASINO YELLOWHEAD Pepperaland
DYKSTRA (classical/theatre) with guests; 8pm; $30 and up
CAFE BLACKBIRD Opus Three; 8pm;
BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat
Live Music Fridays: this week featuring; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation
Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm (door), 9:30pm (show); $10; 18+ only
BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays: Industrial - Goth - Dark Electro with DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; 9pm; $5 (door); (every Sat except the 1st Sat of the month)
Workman; 8pm; $39
(Beatles tribute); 9pm in "Sweet Dreams" - A Tribute to Patsy Cline; 5pm (doors for dinner), 5:30pm (dinner), 6:45pm (doors for show only), 7pm (show); $59.95 (dinner & show), $29.95 (show only) DAFFODIL GALLERY Lisa Anderson (adult contemporary) and Brandon McIntyre; 6:30pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) DISH BISTRO John Stetch and 12
special Ukrainian Appetizers from Grandm’s Cookbook; 6pm (seating), 8:30pm (seating); $60 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Andrew Scott
(alt/country); 9pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon
Concerts: this week with George Ireland & The Willy Nillies; 4pm; Free
Party Jam hosted by the Barefoot Kings; Ukulele lessons 7:30pm followed by Jam at 8:30pm EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain
GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth
Open Jam Nights; no cover
HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every
FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN Craft
Sat; 3:30-7pm
Addict Thursday Presents: Steven Bowers; 7pm; No cover; All ages
LB'S PUB Kirby Sewell Band (rock/
J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu;
LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage
pop/indie); 8pm; $15; No minors
9pm
Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm
KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage
with One Percent (R&B/soul); 8pm every Thu
MERCURY ROOM Skirtoberfest; 7pm;
$30 (adv), $40 (door)
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LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE Post Script
MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET
CD Release Party; 7-11:30pm; $10
Live Local Bands every Sat
L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight open
NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind
jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle MERCURY ROOM Cowpuncher, Colin
O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music
O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB Mike Dominey
Close and Kayley Bird; 8pm; $5 (to the Unision Benevolent fund)
every Fri: this week with Lora Jol; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)
DJs
MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET
CASINO EDMONTON The Nervous Flirts
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday
ON THE ROCKS Lonesome Dove; 9pm
Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm
(Jameoke); 9pm
DJs on all three levels
ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform every
CASINO YELLOWHEAD Pepperaland
THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school
week; $10
NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage;
(Beatles tribute); 9pm
OVERTIME Sherwood Park Live Music;
8pm; all ages (15+)
CENTRAL SOCIAL HALL Fall Tapestry;
NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind
8pm; $12
and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri
NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Andrew Scott
THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu
Jungle (pop/rock/indie); 9:30pm; No minors
RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos
hard rock/punk); 8pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door); No minors
at 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most
Thursdays; 7-10pm RIVER CREE George Canyon; 6pm (door), 8pm (show); $39.50; No minors SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every
Thur: this week Sugar Foot; 7-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with
Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl:
Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s
with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close THE COMMON The Common
Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!
(alt/country); 9pm DV8 Pre- Halloween Party (metal/
FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN TwoFisted Friday Presents: Dub Vulture; 8pm; No cover; All ages LB'S PUB Blue Yonder (rock/pop/
indie); 9pm MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET
DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ
RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano
show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Tyrant, Tessituria,
every Fri
Global Genocide, Waking Mayhem, Vital, Planteater
THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep
RIVER CREE–The Venue Salt N Pepa;
RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock,
7pm (door), 9pm (show); Sold out; No minors SANDS HOTEL Sweet Tequila; 9pm
Joanne Janzen (adult contemporary/ country/pop); 9pm
O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB Mike Dominey
SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)
(folk/world/roots); 9pm; No minors
UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri
ON THE ROCKS Lonesome Dove; 9pm
Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays
MERCURY ROOM Daniel Romano;
8pm; $13 (adv), $15 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind
OVERTIME Sherwood Park Live Music;
9:30pm PALACE CASINO–WEM Blackboard
9910 The Unfortunates (alt/rock) with Death By Robot and The Den; 8pm; $10 (adv)
RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano
APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE Head
show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am
Over Heels (rock/pop/indie); 9pm; No minors
RENDEZVOUS PUB Bogue Brigrade,
ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jimmy
FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back
RIVER CREE Finger Eleven & Everlast;
KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;
6pm (door), 8pm (show); $39.50; No minors
7pm; no cover
SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN
ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow
Joanne Janzen (adult contemporary/ country/pop); 9pm
UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays:
Buckley (blues/country/folk); 9pm
rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Doug
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Jake
SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Jake
Buckley (blues/country/folk); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Doug
Stroud; 9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks K-DJ
Show; 9pm-1am
SAT OCT 24
Jungle (pop/rock/indie); 9:30pm; No minors
every Thu Thursdays
disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh
9:30pm PALACE CASINO–WEM Blackboard
funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri
Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm
The Gnars Gnars, The Reckless Rebels, Abagail’s Cross, Days I Die, SweatPants
ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ
(folk/world/roots); 9pm; No minors
Whiffen; 8pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Gary Martin
(blues/R&B) and Heavenly Blues; 9pm; $10 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: this week with Wafer Thin Mints (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFE Blue Chair Band;
STARLITE ROOM San Holo with
special guests; 9pm; $25; 18+ only UNION HALL Jay Hardway; 9:30pm;
$25 WUNDERBAR Michael Rault with
Johnny De Courcy (metal/hard rock/ punk); 9:30pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door); No minors YARDBIRD SUITE Berner Brothers;
7pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (member), $22 (guest)
Classical CLUB AT THE CITADEL Ted Dykstra (classical/theatre) with guests; 8pm; $30 and up JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The Merry
8:30-10:30pm; $15
Widow
BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon:
ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE
Jam with Back Door Dan; Lex Justice; 9pm
Praise Fest 2015; 6:30pm; $16-$22
VUEWEEKLY.com | OCT 22 – OCT 28, 2015
MUSIC 23
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
The Menace Sessions: alt rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimez & instigate; Underdog: Alternating DJs
Service: acoustic open stage every Sun
DJs
O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; ON THE ROCKS Jets To Theory
Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay
PIANO CENTRE John Stetch
DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots
9:30pm-1am
DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue
WED OCT 28
(performace and Q&A); 2pm; Admission by donation
industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave
B STREET BAR Live Music with Lyle Hobbs; 8-11pm, every Wed
Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat
RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam hosted by Mark Ammar; 4-8pm
TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Wailin' Wednesdays Jam; Every Wed, 7:30pm; All ages
THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday
Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane
Runaway Train Tour with guest Donovan Woods; 8pm (doors); $17.50-$20; 18+ only
OCT/23 STYLUST BEATS W/ SPECIAL GUESTS
DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm
Classical
ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound
MUTTART HALL Edmonton Recital
OCT/24 SAN HOLO W/ SPECIAL GUESTS
MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong
THE BOWER For Those Who Know...:
OCT/23
FREE LOVE PRESENTS
SIAN
THIS EVENT TO TAKE PLACE IN TEMPLE UBK PRESENTS
and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten
Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice
OCT/25 THE BROS. LANDRETH:
RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and
UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS
electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests
RUNAWAY TRAIN TOUR
ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays:
global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai
W/ DONOVAN WOODS
-- HALLOWEEN --
SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M
CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS
GOB
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com
W/ BOIDS, WORST DAYS DOWN & OLD BOYS CLUB
OCT/31 -- HALLOWEEN --
UBK PRESENTS
ZOMBIE SOUNDCLASH - FT.:
NOV/4 NOV/6
UBK PRESENTS:
NOV/7-8
TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,
BASSENJI, EPROM NEON STEVE UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS
Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays:
TROYBOI
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy
MON OCT 26 ARDEN THEATRE The Wiggles: “Rock & Roll Preschool” Tour; 3pm & 6:30pm; Sold out
BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie Patrol; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:
Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue: featuring this week: Sebastian Bererra; 9pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The Merry Widow; 7:30-10:30pm; $40 L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open
Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm BRIXX BAR Lettuce Produce Beats;
6pm; 18+ only DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic
with host Duff Robison FESTIVAL PLACE Steve Hill (blues);
7:30pm; $20 NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open
Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris
Harvey and guests
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm
NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • Trick Rider
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue;
mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason
Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover
BLUES ON WHYTE King Muskafa; 9pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday
music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm
open mic
SANDS HOTEL Country music
dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm
ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open
BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm
MERCURY ROOM Music Magic Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4
UNION HALL Nero; 8pm
BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku
NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider
Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett
YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session:
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL
The Parkers; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5
ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover
OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo
Toonz every Tue ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live
BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with
UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS
PM Bossa; 10am-3pm; Cover by donations BLUES ON WHYTE King Muskafa; 9pm
ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic
Widow
Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm
DJs
DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm
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.
Maria Phillipos; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:
LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam:
W/ MANDROID ECHOSTAR (NOV 8), & GUESTS
W/ THE ELWINS
BOHEMIA Chef, The Winter Collective,
stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm
Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510
RICH AUCOIN
BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie Patrol; 9pm
BAILEY THEATRE The Bailey
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun
PROTEST THE HERO
ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH
A Baroque Bouquet; 3pm; $25-$30
Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien; 8-11pm
SUN OCT 25 Buckaroos (country); 2pm; $12; All ages
CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS
Concert "Somewhere on the street unnamed..."; 7:30pm; $11.75-$22
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday
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)
Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays
JOCELYN ALICE W/ GUESTS
ARDEN THEATRE Class Of '59;
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds
with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm
every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous
(KEZIA 10YR ANNIVERSARY)
NOV/11
POLISH HALL Agata Slazyk in
THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights:
TUE OCT 27 7:30pm; $39.75
Society - Main Series 2; 3pm; $35 (general), $25 (senior), $10 (student)
every Sat
1 PRICE 1 TICKET 2 DAYS 2 EVENTS
OCT/30
STARLITE ROOM The Bros. Landreth:
hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music
with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm MERCURY ROOM Ken Stead CD
release with guests Erin Kay and Red Moon Road; 6:30pm; $20 (adv) NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul
SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Open
Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon
Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Paco Pena;
8pm; $47
Classical
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL
Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live:
hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover
DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays:
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The Merry
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail BRIXX Metal night every Tue
Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience:
Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed
VENUEGUIDE
OCT/23
WE HUNT BUFFALO W/ GUESTS
LETTUCE PRODUCE BEATS OCT/30 AARON JACKSON OCT/24
FREE LOVE PRESENTS
-- HALLOWEEN --
(AUDIOPHILE I USA)
NOV/5
TIM CHAISSON W/ GUESTS
NOV/6
LIBRARY VOICES W/ SURF DADS. & GUESTS
NOV/7
BEN DISASTER
W/ ULTRA GASH, DREAM WHIP, VERSIONS
24 MUSIC
ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose 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 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 http://thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW 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 CENTRAL SOCIAL HALL 10909 Jasper Ave NW CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CLUB AT THE CITADEL 9828101A Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DAFFODIL GALLERY 10412-124 St NW DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DISH BISTRO 12417 Stony Plain Rd NW 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 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378
VUEWEEKLY.com | OCT 22 – OCT 28, 2015
FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 Ave HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 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 JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Phase II West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St LA CITE FRANCOPHONE 8627 Marie-Anne Gaboury L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr 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 13535109A 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 PALACE CASINO–WEM 8882-170 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave POLISH HALL 10960-104 St NW THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St 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 RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St NW ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM 12845-102 Ave NW SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St 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 ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 THE TEMPLE 10030-102 St 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, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Tim Koslo; Oct 22 • Marvin Krawczyk; Oct 23-24 • Sean Thomson; Oct 29-31
COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • 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 • Jon Rineman; Oct 21-24 • Nigel Lawrence; Oct 25 • Kevin Iso; Oct 28-Nov 1 CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • Featuring Bryan O'Gorman and many more • Oct 28, 7:30pm
CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS KOMEDY KRUSH • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 St • Starting with an open mic, then headliner Bryan O'Gorman takes the stage • Oct 27, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show)
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 Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm
LAUGH FOR LIFE GALA 2015 • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Featuring comedians Chonda Pierce and Jonnie W. • Oct 24, 7pm • $57.50-$79.50 (for Edmonton charities: the Mustard Seed and Kids Kottage)
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove
voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm
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
SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm
SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • 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)
edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com
FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 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 • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm
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 LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam. orgs/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register
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, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free
POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall, 10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting
QUEER BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue: Retro Tuesdays with Dj Arrow
Badminton: Oliver School, 10227-118 St; badminton@ teamedmonton.ca; Every Wed (until Feb 24); $5 (drop-in) • Board Game Group: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; Monthly on a Sun, 3-7pm; RSVP to boardgames@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Oliver Community Hall, 10326-118 St; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca; Every Thu, 7pm; $30 (full season), $15 (low income or students) • Equal, Fit, Fierce, and Fabulous: Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; pridecentreofedmonton. org/calendar; Drop in games and activities for youth; Every other Tue (Oct 6), 4:30-6pm
WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm-1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am
SPECIAL EVENTS BEAD MARKET EDMONTON • Ramada Inn Edmonton South, 5359 Calgary Trail • 780.486.7543 • treasurestonebeads.com • Featuring amazing gemstones, beads, pearls, crystals, jewellery-making supplies for sale • Oct 24, 11am-5pm • Free (register at Eventbrite)
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
CLASSIC VIDEO GAME CHAMPIONSHIPS •
TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters
Sturgeon Heights High School, 50 Hogan Rd, St Albert • info@cvgc.ca • facebook.com/ClassicVideoGameChampionships • An exciting event for anyone who loves classic video games, and new video games alike. Compete against others, see vendors, prizes and so much more • Oct 25, 11am-6pm • Free (qualifying events are $10 per person. per event)
Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon;
780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs. org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs. org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact 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
DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages EDMONTON SKI & SNOWBOARD SHOW • Edmonton EXPO Centre, Hall A, 7515-118 Ave NW • info@ edmontonshows.com • powderfest.com • Hang out with our special guest, Paralympic snowboarder Michelle Salt. The long-standing tradition of the Edmonton Ski Club Equipment Sale is back, so attendees can find great deals on the best used equipment • Oct 24-25, 10am-5pm
WEDNESDAY NITE FAITH FOCUS • First Presbyterian Church, 10025-105 St • 780.422.2937 • firstpresbyterian.ca • fpc@telus.net • Continuing in-depth examination of the action-packed ‘Acts of the Apostles’ • Every Wed until Nov, 6:30-8pm • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm
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of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, shortterm by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch
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AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm
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MEOW MANIA • Italian Cultural Centre, 14230-133 Ave • edmontoncat.com • A unique opportunity for cat breeders, local rescue groups and the general public to network and share their love of cats. Learn about cat shows, get up close to specific breeds, and general cat care • Oct 31, 9am-4pm • $10 (adult), $25 (family), $5 (senior), free (6 and under), $1 off admission with cat food donation for Edmonton Pet Food Bank NIGHT OF FEAR • Enjoy Centre, 101 Riel Dr, St Albert • worldofvendors.ca • The newest Halloween event! Featuring an elaborate haunted house, Gothic punk fashion shows, a costume contest, vampire author Erika Knudsen and a theatrical sketch from her book and so much more. Also featuring vendors • Oct 30-31 • A portion of proceeds goes to Little Warriors
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS AN EVENING WITH BOXING LEGEND EARNIE SHAVERS • Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave • sales@safecomevents.com • safecomevents.com • Relive the greatest era of heavyweight boxing from the personal account of the man considered the hardest puncher in boxing history • Oct 28, 7-9pm • Tickets available at safecomevents.com; unsold tickets available at the door
PURE SPECULATION • Ramada Edmonton Hotel & Conference Centre, 11834 Kingsway NW • purespec. org • A science fiction & fantasy festival. A weekend is packed with authors, panels, merchants, costumes, games, and demonstrations, with a focus on literature, gaming, media, and community • Oct 23-25
AWAKEN WHOLE HEALTH EXPO • Providence Renewal Centre, 3005-119 St • 780.619.7209 • deeanne@yourholisticearth.ca • Featuring an array of alternative/holistic Health care providers showcasing their amazing services and products • Oct 23-24 • $20 (Eventbrite)
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
FALSE SECURITY: THE RADICALIZATION OF CANADIAN ANTI-TERRORISM • McLennan Ross
SKIRTOBERFEST • Mercury Room, 10575-114 St NW • skirtsafire.wordpress.com • An evening of arts, tacos, and tequila. Featuring a taco bar, a tasting of sipping tequilas, music by the Yana Loo Trio and Kimberely MacGregor, a reading from a play SkirtsAfire is developing - The Mommy Monologues, and a spoken word performance. Attendees will also be invited to articipate in creating a painting to commemorate the event • Oct 24, 7-11:30pm • $30 (through YEGlive.ca), $40 (door)
Halls A and B, Law Centre (111 St & 89 Ave), University of Alberta • National security expert Kent Roach looks at how Bill C-51, the Anti-terrorism Act, 2015, affects security and rights – and what it reveals about Canada's dysfunctional policy processes and security systems • Oct 23, 7pm
HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNIVERSAL: A MUSICAL EXPLORATION WITH MICHAEL GFROERER • Robertson-Wesley United Church, 10209-123 St • rwuc. org/sac.html • Every Sun, 3-5pm; Oct 18-Dec 6
MERIT TRAVEL EXPO • La Cite Francophone, 862791 St • 780.439.3096 • edmonton@merittravel.com • Chat with the experts, meet the best tour operators, get inspired with travel talks, win great prizes, and save with exclusive deals • Oct 25, 11am-6pm • Free, RSVP on Eventbrite
SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm
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 G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240
anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com
ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and recreation activities • All-Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8648-81 St NW; pridecentreofedmonton.org •
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SPOOKY SATURDAY • Strathcona County Museum & Archives, 913 Ash Street, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • assist.scm@shaw.ca • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Follow ghostly clues around the Museum to discover where the ghost is hiding. For our younger visitors, participate in spooktacular activities, create a few ghoulish crafts, and have fangtastic family fun • Oct 24, 6-9pm • $5, Free (ages 4 and under)
SUSTAINABILITY AWARENESS WEEK • University of Alberta, 116 St & 85 Ave • 780.248.1924 • lisa.dockman@ualberta.ca • sustainability.ualberta.ca/ saw • With over 55 free workshops, tours and events, it’s a chance to explore dozens of social, environmental and economic challenges and solutions • Oct 19-Oct 23 AT THE BACK 25
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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): According to the online etymological dictionary, the verb "fascinate" entered the English language in the 16th century. It was derived from the Middle French fasciner and the Latin fascinatus, which are translated as "bewitch, enchant, put under a spell." In the 19th century, "fascinate" expanded in meaning to include "delight, attract, hold the attention of." I suspect you will soon have experiences that could activate both senses of "fascinate." My advice is to get the most out of your delightful attractions without slipping into bewitchment. Is that even possible? It will require you to exercise fine discernment, but yes, it is. TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): One of the largest machines in the world is a "bucket wheel excavator" in Kazakhstan. It's a saw that weighs 45 000 tons and has a blade the size of a four-story building. If you want to slice through a mountain, it's perfect for the job. Indeed, that's what it's used for over in Kazakhstan. Right now, Taurus, I picture you as having a metaphorical version of this equipment. That's because I think you have the power to rip open a clearing through a massive obstruction that has been in your way. GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): Filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock did a daily ritual to remind him of life's impermanence. After drinking his tea each morning, he flung both cup and saucer over his shoulder, allowing them to smash on the floor. I don't recommend that you adopt a comparable custom for long-term use, but it might be healthy and interesting to do so for now. Are you willing to outgrow and escape your old containers? Would you consider diverging from formulas that have always worked for you? Are there any unnecessary taboos that need to be broken? Experiment with the possible blessings that might come by not clinging to the illusion of "permanence." CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): Terence was a comic playwright in ancient Rome. He spoke of love in ways that sound modern. It can be capricious and weird, he said. It may provoke indignities and rouse difficult emotions. Are you skilled at debate? Love requires you to engage in strenuous discussions. Peace may break out in the midst of war, and vice versa. Terence's conclusion: If you seek counsel regarding the arts of love, you may as well be asking for advice on how to go mad. I won't argue with him. He makes good points. But I suspect that in the coming weeks you will be excused from most of those crazy-making aspects. The sweet and smooth sides of love will predominate. Uplift and inspiration are more likely than angst and bewilderment. Take
advantage of the grace period! Put chaos control measures in place for the next time Terence's version of love returns. LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): In the coming weeks, you will have a special relationship with the night. When the sun goes down, your intelligence will intensify, as will your knack for knowing what's really important and what's not. In the darkness, you will have an enhanced capacity to make sense of murky matters lurking in the shadows. You will be able to penetrate deeper than usual, and get to the bottom of secrets and mysteries that have kept you off-balance. Even your grimy fears may be transformable if you approach them with a passion for redemption. VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): New friends and unexpected teachers are in your vicinity, with more candidates on the way. There may even be potential comrades who could eventually become flexible collaborators and catalytic guides. Will you be available for the openings they offer? Will you receive them with fire in your heart and mirth in your eyes? I worry that you may not be ready if you are too preoccupied with old friends and familiar teachers. So please make room for surprises. LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): More than any other sign, you have an ability to detach yourself from life's flow and analyze its complexities with cool objectivity. This is mostly a good thing. It enhances your power to make rational decisions. But it sometimes devolves into a liability. You may become so invested in your role as observer that you refrain from diving into life's flow. You hold yourself apart from it, avoiding both its messiness and vitality. But I don't foresee this being a problem in the coming weeks. In fact, I bet you will be a savvy watcher even as you're almost fully immersed in the dynamic flux. SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): Are you an inventor? Is it your specialty to create novel gadgets and machines? Probably not. But in the coming weeks you may have metaphorical resemblances to an inventor. I suspect you will have an enhanced ability to dream up original approaches and find alternatives to conventional wisdom. You may surprise yourself with your knack for finding ingenious solutions to longstanding dilemmas. To prime your instincts, I'll provide three thoughts from inventor Thomas Edison. 1) "To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk." 2) "Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless." 3) "Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait."
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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): Some unravelling is inevitable. What has been woven together must now be partially unwoven. But please refrain from thinking of this mysterious development as a setback. Instead, consider it an opportunity to reexamine and redo any work that was a bit hasty or sloppy. Be glad you will get a second chance to fix and refine what wasn't done quite right the first time. In fact, I suggest you preside over the unraveling yourself. Don't wait for random fate to accomplish it. And for best results, formulate an intention to regard everything that transpires as a blessing. CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): "A waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way," said Irish author Oscar Wilde. I appreciate the wit, but I don't agree with him. A plain old ordinary waterfall, with foamy surges continually plummeting over a precipice and crashing below, is sufficiently impressive for me. What about you, Capricorn? In the coming days, will you be impatient and frustrated with plain old ordinary marvels and wonders? Or will you be able to enjoy them just as they are? AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): Years ago, I moved into a rental house with my new girlfriend, whom I had known for six weeks. As we fell asleep the first night, a song played in my head: "Nature's Way," by the band Spirit. I barely knew it and had rarely thought of it before. And yet there it was, repeating its first line over and over: "It's nature's way of telling you something's wrong." Being a magical thinker, I wondered if my unconscious mind was telling me a secret about my love. But I rejected that possibility; it was too painful to contemplate. When we broke up a few months later, however, I wished I had paid attention to that early alert. I mention this, Aquarius, because I suspect your unconscious mind will soon provide you with a wealth of useful information, not just through song lyrics but other subtle signals, as well. Listen up! At least some of it will be good news, not cautionary like mine. PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): When I advise you to GET NAKED, I don't mean it in a literal sense. Yes, I will applaud if you're willing to experiment with brave acts of self-revelation. I will approve of you taking risks for the sake of the raw truth. But getting arrested for indecent exposure might compromise your ability to carry out those noble acts. So, no, don't actually take off all your clothes and wander through the streets. Instead, surprise everyone with brilliant acts of surrender and vulnerability. Gently and sweetly and poetically tell the Purveyors of Unholy Repression to take their boredom machine and shove it up their humdrum. V VUEWEEKLY.com | OCT 22 – OCT 28, 2015
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Sexy Halloween costumes Sexy or ugly, your costume says a lot about who you are Halloween is just a few days away, and I really want to talk about sexy costumes. When I told my partner that I wanted to tackle this subject, he laughed and responded, "You're probably going to share the misguided opinion that they are bad." This sentiment, I'm sure, is shared by many—but the thing is, I don't think they are bad or good; I'm simply curious about the trend. You see, I love costumes. Despite my best efforts, there are very few opportunities to play dressup as an adult, which is why I love Halloween: it provides a socially sanctioned opportunity for all of us to play make-believe together. We can be whatever we want. We can push boundaries. And I would argue that our costumes expose aspects of who we are, revealing our interests, fantasies and tastes. At least, that's how it is for me. My costumes are a huge reflection
of costumes as sexy suggests that underlying our unique quirks and eccentricities, women can all be reduced to one thing: our sex appeal. My inner feminist shudders.
of my personality and my sense of humour, which often borders on inappropriate/weird. For example, I once dressed up as the lumberjack from the "Log Driver's Waltz"—revealing that I am a fan of Canadian broadcasting and that I can't pull off blonde facial hair. Needless to say, that was not a sexy costume and—just to be clear—it did not reflect my fantasies. So if Halloween is an opportunity to creatively display our unique selves, then it's curious to me that women's costumes generally sharea a common dominant theme of "sexy." First of all, I've never encountered a male costume with the word sexy in the title, yet almost any costume purchased for a woman will be labelled as such and will have been creatively interpreted and adapted to be tighter and more revealing. But gender discrepancy aside, the common categorizing
But there's probably more to it. Costumes are also about selfexpression, right? Perhaps the statement made by wearing sexy costumes might be, "I'm secretly slutty" or "I like my naked body." What upsets me about this is that people feel like they need an excuse to be sexual. If you want to wear revealing clothing and demonstrate a more overtly sexual persona, then that should be something you are comfortable and capable of owning on a broader, everyday level. Society should be more accepting of sex, and sexuality shouldn't need to be camouflaged by a costume. We also shouldn't be afraid
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ties—which are undoubtedly a lot more interesting than our sex appeal alone. And we do not need an excuse to be sexy, nor should we be afraid to be unattractive. With that said, I look forward to seeing all you sexy ghosts on Halloween. I'll be the one dressed as Wayne from Wayne's World ... with no eyeliner!V Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com. Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG.
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I'm a straight guy, married for 16 years, kids in school. My wife cannot find a way to be intimate with me. We've had therapy individually and together. I nearly divorced her, but we decided to stay together—we do love each other, and the economics and child-rearing favour it. After I asked for a divorce, she fucked the shit out of me for the first time in 10 years. That was the last time she fucked me. She's "broken"—her word, not mine, and her final answer. When the subject of affairs came up in the past, she said, "I wouldn't blame you." I could jack off only so many times before I cracked. I went online and met a very sexual woman with a strictly NSA thing for married men, and we fucked. I plan on doing it again. I know this could go all kinds of bad ways, but divorce just isn't realistic. We had that one conversation, but we do not have an explicit understanding. I don't want to head into my 50s with 10-plus years of celibacy behind me and decades of celibacy ahead of me. But I want to keep my marriage. Which kind of idiot am I? HELP UNDERSTANDING BOUNDARY-BREAKING YEARNINGS If I were required to answer particular types of questions based on the percentage of the mail they constitute, I would answer two questions like yours every week, HUBBY. The majority of the mail I receive is from unhappy people in sexless marriages they either don't want to end (they have kids, they do love each other, everything besides the sex is working) or can't afford to end (they don't have enough money for lawyers or two households, one depends on the other for income/ health insurance/caregiving). So which kind of idiot are you? The most common kind, I'm afraid. I'm going to take a break from questions like these—from questions like yours, HUBBY—because I'm sick of the subject and my regular readers must be, too. But for you, HUBBY, and one last time, here's my advice for people in your situation: Do what you gotta do to stay married and stay sane. Have a convo with the wife about the accommodation you require—permission to get it elsewhere—to stay in the marriage. Reassure her that you're prepared to spend the rest of your life with her while emphasizing that you refuse to be celibate for the rest of your life. So every now and then, for your own sanity, and for the greater good, you're going to have sex with other women. You'll do
it discreetly, rarely and NSA-ly, but you're gonna do it. If this isn't something your wife can accept, HUBBY, then your only other option is divorce.
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These are things I (28, gay, male, single) did last night, and they show how fucked up I am. (1) I hooked up with a guy off Craigslist. It was lame, he wasn't cute, I was bored. (2) I came home and went on Tinder (which says I'm looking for an LTR, despite that hookup). I saw a guy from the gym—but he didn't swipe right, and I was devastated. (3) I went online and sold a pair of my used undies. I don't know what I'm doing with my life. I could use some advice. I'm sure what you say won't be nearly as bad as what the voice inside my head is yelling at me. WHAT IS MY LIFE? 1) I hooked up with this dude once, and it happened so fast—and it was so sleazy—that I had to fish his driver's licence out of his wallet when he was in the shower because I couldn't remember his name. And that sleazy hookup led to a relationship so good that I wound
I've come into professional contact with a respected and successful artist. She is a woman in her 60s; I am a man in my 40s. I'm really attracted to women who are strong, talented and smart. She's all that, and funny. I've never been attracted to someone that much older than myself. Nobody bats an eye when a guy gets with a woman who is 20 years younger, but how do I pursue her without her thinking I have some creepy fetish? Am I a creep? I don't think so. I'm pretty average, I have an unusual but boring job developing woodworking tools, and I don't have any kinks or fetishes to speak of. I've gone out of my way to make her feel special on several occasions, but it has only caused her to remark on my great customer service—and not in a flirty way. How can I let her know that I want to move into something else besides a professional relationship without creeping her out? SHE MAKES A REAL TURNON
Resolve to be a bit choosier about who you hook up with, remind yourself to be grown-up about rejection when it comes your way, and refrain from kink-shaming yourself the next time you make an underpants perv's day. up marrying sleazy hookup dude. Twice. So in my experience, WIML, and the experiences of millions of other people in LTRs with people they fucked the first time they met, hooking up isn't proof that someone isn't looking for an LTR. So that underwhelming hookup doesn't make you a hypocrite, OK? 2) Gym dude isn't into you—just like you weren't into the dude you hooked up with last night. Are you into every dude you see at your gym? No. Do you swipe right on every dude you see on Tinder? No. So last night you got rejected quickly and impersonally—Tinder-style— but you've dished out that kind of rejection too. Don't be a hypocritical baby about it, OK? 3) You made an underpants perv very happy, WIML, and you made yourself a little money. Nobody was lied to or misled, no one got hurt, and the total amount of joy in the world ticked up slightly. You have nothing to be ashamed of, OK? One eventful night does not an out-of-control sleazebag make. But if you feel out of control, WIML, take things slower. Resolve to be a bit choosier about who you hook up with, remind yourself to be
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Set aside the age difference, and how you met, and those sexist and dehumanizing double standards. (An older man with a younger woman is an attractive guy with game, an older woman with a younger man is a fetish object with no self-respect.) Set all that aside, SMART, and what do we have left? Person A is attracted to Person B; Person A doesn't know how Person B feels, so Person A has to hit on Person B. Even if Person A does their best to mitigate the risks of creeping out Person B—Person A is polite, respectful and does their hitting on by "asking out" not by "lunging at"—the risk cannot be entirely eliminated. Your best bet, SMART, is to be unambiguously direct with her ("I think you're great, and I'd love to take you out on a date") and to invite her to be unambiguously direct with you ("If you're not interested, just say no—I'm a grown-up and I can handle rejection"). And if she's squicked out by the age difference or wonders if you're a fetishist, urge her to Google the term "sapiosexual." V On the Lovecast, get kinky with Mollena Williams, aka the Perverted Negress: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter
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