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"Wiccan used to be a religion for single young people. Really, that was the only kind of support that they needed, was what was necessary to support that kind of community." // 6

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It's time to stop subsidizing coal Sustainable energy can't grow until Alberta levels the energy playing field It's dirty and bad for our health. It's responsible for a huge chunk of Alberta's carbon emissions. We burn more of it than anyone else in Canada. And it's a natural resource that we own collectively and that industry buys from us by way of paying royalties. Yet somehow, it's also a piece of the province's resource royalty structure that has been left entirely out of the mandate of the current royalty review process.

The resource in question, of course, is coal—subbituminous coal, to be precise: the stuff we use to generate most of our electricity in this province, and which is the second-largest single source of Alberta's greenhouse gas emissions.

Alberta's Climate Advisory Panel is currently looking at different ways to reduce the climate impact of coal, including possibly accelerating the projected phase-out of coal-fired power plants and some kind of carbon tax or stronger capand-trade system. What is not being discussed anywhere, however, is moving forward on terminating the generous and unnecessary subsidies that the Alberta government has been providing coal producers for decades.

In 1992, the Alberta government

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introduced a new royalty system for coal that it hoped would capture a fair portion of coal's market value for the resource's owners. The review determined that, at that point in time, a royalty of $2 per tonne of subbituminous coal would be a fair price for the resource. Given that the royalty being charged at the time was in the neighbourhood of $0.55 per tonne, the province decided it would be a good idea to phase in the royalty structure to minimize the immediate economic impact.

The province set $2 per tonne as the maximum royalty and introduced something called the Coal Royalty Adjustment Factor (CRAF), which gave the Minister of Energy the power to adjust the rate annually in order to slowly transition existing coal mines to the identified fair royalty value. The fee was set to $0.55 per tonne, approximately matching the 1991 royalty rate.

The problem is that the province quickly forgot about the intention to slowly increase the rate to $2 per tonne. In fact, since 1992, the province hasn't even adjusted the rate for inflation or economic growth— over 20 years later, we are still only charging coal producers $0.55 per tonne of coal produced. For the

ince's coal industry.

The folks at Greenpeace Canada crunched some of these numbers in order to gain a better sense of the approximate size of that subsidy.

Had the royalty been increased to $2 per tonne as originally intended, the government would have collected an extra $24.6 million in 2014 alone, and a total of $129.3 million since 2008.

Even just adjusting the original $0.55 rate for inflation would have resulted in an extra $6.3 million in 2014 and a total of $29 million since 2008. As it stands, however, by not adjusting for inflation or increasing the rate, royalties collected in 2014 were actually 67-percent less, in real terms, than they were in 1991.

To make things worse, it cannot even be said that the industry is investing the money it is saving into new transmission capacity, since in Alberta those costs are being paid for by electricity consumers. This 23-year subsidy is even further ag-

gravated by recent statements from Calgary's TransAlta, among others, that if the government were to accelerate the eventual phase-out of coal power in the province, it would expect some form of financial compensation from taxpayers.

In a time of increasing carbon-constraint in the economy and with a full transition to renewable energy sources necessary in the near future, the provision of this kind of subsidy to coal in the province is simply unacceptable. Moving immediately to a $2 or higher royalty (the inflation-adjusted rate would be $3.33 today) for coal would not only level the playing field and allow renewable energy to compete fairly with coal, it would also provide a revenue stream for the government that could be used to support further innovation and development of sustainable energy resources in the province. The only question that would remain is why it isn't being done—or even considered—by the royalty panel. V

two cases of mistaken identity Jews have killed or wounded other Jews.

There appears to be no central direction behind the attacks. Most observers believe that the phenomenon is mainly driven by the despair of young Palestinians who see their land slipping away and don't believe that Netanyahu will ever let the Palestinians have their own state in the occupied territories.

That would put the blame for the outbreak squarely on Netanyahu's policies, which he cannot accept. So he is trying to prove that Palestinians just naturally hate Jews: "My intention was ... to show that the forefathers of the Palestinian nation—without a country and without the so-called 'occupation,' without land and without settlements—even then aspired to systematic incitement to exterminate the Jews."

That is Netanyahu's explanation for the current attacks: incitement by Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas, whom he blames for the rumours about Israel's intention to expand Jewish access to the Haram al-Sharif, the area around Jerusalem's al-Aqsa mosque. It is Islam's third-most sacred site, but it is also sacred to

Jews as Temple Mount, and these rumours certainly played a role in stimulating the attacks.

There is no evidence that Abbas was behind the rumours, however, and it's unlikely that he would have encouraged them: what these attacks are actually showing is his own people's loss of faith in his ability to get a Palestinian state. Nor is Saturday's agreement in Amman between US Secretary of State John Kerry, Mahmoud Abbas and Jordan's King Hussein to guarantee the current rules for access to the holy site likely to quell the violence.

The rumours were a trigger for the violence, but the gun is always loaded. The Palestinian revolts in 1929 and 1936, which were indeed incited

by Grand Mufti Husseini, were already about the Jewish colonization of Palestine. It was always about the land, and it still is today.

Netanyahu knows that very well.

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Had the royalty been increased to $2 per tonne as originally intended, the government would have collected an extra $24.6 million in 2014 alone, and a total of $129.3 million since 2008. sake of comparison, Saskatchewan currently charges a 15-percent royalty on coal. Estimating that fair market value for coal is in the range of $20 to $25 per tonne, this would yield a royalty of $3 to $3.75 per tonne. That's approximately six times more than Alberta charges for the same resource. There is no way this can be seen as anything other than a direct subsidy by the Alberta government to the prov-

Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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Netanyahu and the truth Israel's prime minister caught in a lie "I can't stand him. He's a liar," thenFrench president Nicolas Sarkozy told US President Barack Obama four years ago, in a conversation about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Obama replied: "You're fed up with him? I have to deal with him every day." It was a private conversation, but we know about it because it was accidentally broadcast to journalists.

Politicians may deliberately mislead people, omit vital facts, spin the truth a dozen different ways to serve their purposes of the moment, but they usually avoid outright lies. It's just too embarrassing to be caught in a lie. And other politicians generally accept that some of their colleagues shade the truth to fit their own agenda as one of the regrettable realities of their trade.

They all swim in the sea.

What drove Sarkozy and Obama to talk about Netanyahu like that was the sheer brazen effrontery of his lies—and he was at it again last week. In public, this time.

Speaking to the 37th World Zionist Congress in Jerusalem, Netanyahu declared that Hitler decided to exterminate the Jews on the advice of

a Palestinian, Haj Amin al-Husseini, the grand mufti (senior Islamic cleric) of Jerusalem. Husseini met Hitler in Berlin in November 1941, he said (although there is no record of the meeting), and that was why the Holocaust happened.

"Hitler didn't want to exterminate the Jews at the time, he wanted to expel the Jews. And Haj Amin al-Husseini went to Hitler and said: 'If you expel them, they'll all come here [to Palestine].'" According to Netanyahu, Hitler then asked: "What should I do with them?" and the mufti replied: "Burn them."

So, you see, it was the Palestinians, driven by a vicious and unreasoning hatred of the Jews, who really thought up the Holocaust, and Adolf Hitler was merely a tool in their hands. Historians instantly denounced this travesty of the historical record, and the greatest outrage was expressed by Jews who felt that Netanyahu had given a great gift to the Holocaust deniers.

Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel was so appalled that she effectively called Netanyahu a liar to his face. Standing beside him in Berlin, she said: "We don't see any

reason to change our view of history, particularly on this issue. We abide by our responsibility, in Germany, for the Holocaust." Yet Netanyahu continued to insist that it was Husseini who first suggested genocide to Hitler.

Experienced journalists know that the most useful question to ask yourself when confronted with an implausible story is not: "Is this bastard lying to me?" It is: "Why is this bastard lying to me?" So why did Netanyahu say that? In particular, why now?

Because he needs to show that his policy of creating and expanding Jewish settlements in the West Bank, the one-sixth of former Palestine that still has a Palestinian majority, is not responsible for the recent rash of violent attacks on Israeli Jews by young Palestinians.

It is getting quite serious, though it is not yet a "third intifada." Ten Jews have been murdered in the streets by Palestinians in the past month. About 50 Palestinians have been killed, including most of the killers and would-be killers. The fear and suspicion have grown so intense that in

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Local Wiccan church improves services to Edmonton's pagan community

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ou shouldn't need to be told that Wiccans aren't a pack of green-skinned hags riding brooms, black-clad teenagers wearing too much eyeliner or animal-sacrificing devil worshippers. Now's the time of year when the standard-issue Wicca-themed public service announcements crop up throughout the media; almost invariably these are general puff pieces reminding everyone that Wicca is a legitimate religion and its adherents are nothing to be afraid of. That's true, of course, but there's much more to it than that.

Wicca is currently at a crossroads.

Edmonton's local community, in particular, is at a major transitive point in its growth, taking steps towards a more formal organizational structure than is commonly found or historically precedented in Wicca.

The two individuals spearheading these efforts are Samuel Wagar and Ali Hammington, the High Priest and High Priestess (respectively) of Edmonton's Ravenwood Temple, a public temple that typically sees anywhere from two to three dozen members regularly in attendance at its monthly open circles.

"We're moving from being, I guess for lack of a better word, a cult movement—a movement that was principally focused on the individual satisfaction of the members who were involved—to a multi-generational movement that addresses everything from birth to death to what lies beyond," Wagar says. He's seated across from Hammington at the kitchen table in their house (they're roommates) near the Mill Creek Ravine.

"In other words, a standard church," Hammington adds.

"Well, yes, but we're trying to evolve in that direction without losing our soul," Wagar replies. "It's an interesting and difficult problem."

That problem stems from the very nature of Wicca itself. A new religious movement founded in the 1950s by Gerald Gardner, Wicca is a decentralized, largely individualist religion. Many practitioners remain solitary their entire lives; some form small groups (covens). But as the

decades have passed, an increasing number of Wiccans and other similar pagan religions—Wiccans generally consider themselves pagans, and this word is often used as a stand-in for a host of sympathetic religious paths—have found themselves in need and want of something more solid.

"We have one family, who are members of our Temple, where we have three generations of that family," Hammington says. "My children were raised Wiccan. Wiccan used to be a religion for single young people. Really, that was the only kind of support that they needed, was what was necessary to support that kind of community. But we're really changing now and we need more than that."

"Thirty-three years ago when I started off on the path, I was quite firmly opposed to the idea of organized religion," Wagar says. "Gradually, over the course of many years of trying to do stuff and recognizing that groups come and go, and then once gone they often leave no real trace on the landscape—unless they are organized, unless they make explicit provision for things like rites of passage: recognizing births, recognizing marriages, recognizing deaths, recognizing transitions to adulthood; some way to recognize that what you do doesn't just vanish away."

Wagar has been practicing Wicca since 1982. He founded a federally recognized Wiccan church, the Congregationalist Witchcraft Association of Canada, back in 1991. He also currently serves as the first Wiccan chaplain at the University of Alberta, where he provides spiritual support for the faculty, staff and students in the pagan faith, education for the general public about Wicca and engages in interfaith work. He has also been involved in activism for both religious and feminist causes for some time. He ran as an NDP candidate in BC in 1994 but was stripped of his candidacy after it became public that he was Wiccan; he took the BC NDP (then the governing party) before the Human Rights Council and won a full apology in 1995.

Lacking diversity "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." So read a sign outside the Strathcona Baptist church last week, confirming the idea for this column that had been planted by a conversation with a friend.

Earlier this month, I wrote a column for Vue which pointed out that our provincial government's most senior political appointments (10 of 12 min-

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isterial chiefs of staff) were white men, and that of 58 appointees, just two were visible minorities (one man, one woman for those keeping track on the intersectionality scoreboard).

Following the announcement of another completely white panel—this one mandated to advise Premier Notley on economic diversification— I suggested on social media that the government might need a panel to

help it diversify its panels. I noted that of the three major panels struck to that point, 18 of 19 appointees were white, the other a Métis woman. My friend happens to be one of those white, male chiefs of staff and he was displeased. Oh well.

This is not to suggest those appointed aren't qualified, but the absence of representation from visible minority groups suggests that there

aren't competent people to be found within those populations, confirming a pervasive societal bias that the "other" is also "less than."

As I explained to my friend, I'm an activist journalist—not a partisan one—and speaking truth to power cannot depend on who holds the power. So far, however, it appears that my criticisms have fallen on deaf ears: the new Alberta Health

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Services board announced on Friday is again completely white, although the minister said she hopes to add an indigenous person down the road.

I'm not calling for an insurrection.

I'm calling for this government to do better. If that means asking why this province's diversity isn't reflected in the corridors of power until it is, I'll do it—because somebody has to.V

Hammington has been practicing Wicca since her early 20s. After moving from the strong pagan community in Winnipeg to Edmonton—where the vast majority of Wiccans and pagans were still deep in the "broom closet"—she began hosting open circles and working with various organizations to build up a community here. She founded a Wiccan church in 2007 at the provincial level, the Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta (CWAA—essentially the provincial equivalent of the one that Wagar founded federally). There are also sister chapters in BC (2004) and Saskatchewan (2014).

The very concept of formal religious organization may be anathema to some followers of the Wiccan faith, but those individuals do benefit from the existence of such legally recognized bodies—even if they don't choose to join it.

"Organization provides you with legal shelter," Wagar states bluntly.

"People may want to be like rugged individualists and all that kind of crap, but frankly, when the rubber hits the road and you actually have some crazy nimrod who wants to attack your religious freedom, or some institutionally biased thing, [you need it]."

He provides the example from 2012 of Vic Toews, then public safety minister who reversed the hiring of a Wiccan prison chaplain in BC. That led to the federal government cancelling contracts for about 50 parttime non-Christian chaplains, under the argument that Christian chaplains could attend to the needs of adherents to any religion. In the face of immediate and severe backlash against that move, the government instead decided to privatize the prison chaplaincy. New Brunswick-based Kairos Pneuma Chaplaincy now holds the vast majority of the fulland part-time chaplaincy contracts across Canada. (Kairos does employ a few Wiccan chaplains, though currently none in Alberta.)

It's easy to overlook the actual religious aspect of Wicca, arguably more so than any other religion. We can thank the enduring inaccuracies in the representation of witches and pagan practices put forth by movies and television, as well as the rise of "New Age" commercial ventures—bookstores, gift shops and innumerable other vendors who lump together items and literature associated with various minority religions (especially pagan ones) for consumption by the general public.

There's obviously nothing inherently wrong with these businesses; they might even normalize pagan faiths by exposing more people to them.

But they may also serve a contrary

purpose in making Wicca seem like an esthetic, a choice of fashion and home decor as opposed to an actual religion—one in which adherents view the divine as immanent, are duo- or polytheistic and usually celebrate the earth as sacred.

"The most important things that make us different from other pagan organizing activities ... is we have a formal process for authorizing and setting up our clergy," Wagar says, noting that both he and Hammington are licenced to perform legal marriages. "Our clergy are actually trained; they know what the heck they're doing."

"They have police record checks, and they have ethical obligations that they have to hold to," Hammington adds.

The CWAA also engages in a lot of charity work, including a Kiva Club that raises micro-loans to support women in developing countries. It is a public and congregationalist organization, which separates it from most other top-down pagan groups: anyone can run for the board of directors and leadership is determined democratically by vote. At its recent annual general meeting, Hammington was unanimously elected as the chair for the ninth year in a row.

The CWAA has accomplished much in the way of legal status and continuing to dispel stereotypes about Wicca, but still faces hurdles in its growth.

"One of the things that restrains us from being all that we can be—and this is something that I hope to address shortly, following the federal election—is that we have been de-

nied charitable status repeatedly by the Charities Commission of Canada," Hammington says. "They do not accept the sincerity of our belief, despite the fact that this church has existed since 1991. I'm sure it's a case we could win, but we've decided it would be better to wait for a change in government before fundraising to find a lawyer, which is basically what we'd have to do. It is very much discriminatory, and it's from this Christian-era mindset of the 1950s that says [we] must be evil."

Given that Canada did vote in a new government shortly after this conversation, the CWAA may very well be proceeding down this path shortly.

Other items of ongoing consideration include reinterpreting its spiritual beliefs and practices to situate Wicca, originally a European-based faith, within the Alberta landscape ("becoming native is an ongoing issue," Wagar notes), and increasing the diversity of its church membership. Ultimately, however, most of the CWAA's work centers on very practical efforts of simply serving its community's needs.

"On a day-to-day level: you're in the hospital; you're sick. You want to have somebody come and pray with you. OK: we can do it," Wagar says. "Why can we do it? Because we're ridiculously legit. This is practical, real-world stuff that impacts people's real lives. ... These things are not small things; if you've ever been sick and needed someone to come and visit you, you'll know how desperately important that is."

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Advancing urban agriculture Expect more vacant lots to be filled with urban farms and community gardens

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hose carrots and cabbages growing in that vacant lot are totally legit: no need to fret about seemingly rogue gardens.

The city just announced a major overhaul to the zoning bylaws concerning urban agriculture. Previously, Edmonton's two major urban agriculture tenants—Lactuca's operation at Northlands and Reclaim Urban Farm's locations throughout the city on assorted lots and lawns—

were in a grey area when it came to the legalities surrounding their occupancy. That's all changing thanks to some newly minted bylaws, which go into effect on February 1, 2016 and establish three new classes of urban agriculture ventures: outdoor urban farms, indoor urban farms and community gardens.

"The most immediate impact is that it's going to facilitate and encourage local economic development," says

Colton Kirsop, senior planner for the city's zoning bylaw implementation team. "Now we've got a very welldefined legal pathway for [urban agriculture businesses] to continue to do what they do, and maybe see additional operations crop up as well."

Both Lactuca and Reclaim worked extensively with the city to develop these changes. Now that they are coming into fruition, those two businesses can safely look at expansion

plans where previously they were at the mercy of potentially losing a significant chunk of their business due to a lack of legal footing.

"The immediate effect on our business is that these new policies remove uncertainty from our use of land within the city for agricultural purposes," Cathryn Sprague, Reclaim co-owner and operator, writes in an email. "Previously, there was no allowance for urban agriculture in zoning regulations, meaning agriculture was technically not a designated land use within Edmonton.

Now what type of land can be used, and how, is a lot clearer, which is great because it allows us to better plan our future."

That future includes moving indoors: Reclaim has just partnered with Sustainable Produce Urban Delivery (SPUD) to create a vertical indoor garden in SPUD's warehouse space to grow micro-greens, herbs and shoots year-round. That move is legislated under the new rules for indoor urban farms, and will be the first of its kind in the city—though Kirsop notes that this trend (indoor greenhouse growing) is increasing.

The city also launched a vacant lot inventory alongside these changes: a searchable database of empty spots that small businesses like Reclaim, or residents interested in setting up a community garden, can use to suss out new space. The

bylaw changes also reference the existing legislation governing livestock, so beehives will be allowed in these spaces and, if the pilot project is accepted, hens.

"A lot of these operations start small, and they start with a guy or a girl or a couple doing something in their house, or their basement, or their garage, kind of on the side," Kirsop notes. "We've done a bunch of research and noticed that's how many urban agriculture movements begin, and we have heard anecdotally there are people that want to do additional growth of vegetables or fruit produce in garages. Right now that's perfectly OK as a homebased business; it's not much different than someone who's a quilter or an accountant out of their home.

So if that takes off and escalates to a bigger size, now we have a bit of a framework to work with if they wanted to move it into a commercial operation of a bigger scale."

Edmonton's urban agriculture landscape isn't going to change radically overnight, but these changes bode well for longer-term growth.

"I think in the long term, [we] can look forward to better food in Edmonton," Kirsop says. "I hope residents can expect to see more local food businesses appearing, whether that's at farmer's markets or on the menus of our restaurants."

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Relish Food on Film Festival Year two brings even more food and film pairings to the table

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e live in a time when chefs can reach the level of celebrity usually reserved for rock stars and actors. Especially the latter: television's trained its small-screen lenses on skillful kitchen types with great success, and, increasingly, the silver screen has too: think of sleeper hits like Jiro Dreams of Sushi, or wine-doc

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Somm—there's something about food and drink that's compelling to watch.

"I think it's universal: think of the drama around Sunday dinner, or Thanksgiving dinner, or Christmas—all these meals," Mary Bailey says, with the sort of eagerness reserved for chatting about a favoured topic. "Food is

about relationships, because we generally eat by ourselves—so the relationship's just with the food—or eat with friends or family. I think there's really a lot of interesting things there to mine, from a filmmaker's perspective. And now there's so many people who are interested in food issues."

For her part, Bailey, editor of foodmag The Tomato, has been leading that charge: the Relish Food on Film Festival that she's founded and coproduced, now in its second year, is set to offer another veritable charcuterie of cinematic offerings, pairing eat and drink with the big screen.

Bailey notes that last year's inaugural fest proved a bit of a learning curve—"We threw ourselves upon the people at Metro and said, 'If we do this will you help us, because we know nothing,'" she laughs—and that it's shifted focus slightly. This year, all of the films being shown at Metro are documentaries (with the exception of an all-ages screening of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory). They are

all Canadian, too, from the close-tohome festival's opening screening of short-doc An Alberta Farm, which examines the shifting world of family run farming, to closing film The Empire of the Scents, which underscores smell's subtle power over how we take in the world.

The Metro screenings will have some light refreshments, pre- or post-screening, but Relish is also doing a number of screenings in kitchens around the city, pairing a film with a full, multi-course meal. One is German flick Soul Kitchen, which will be paired with award-winning chef Doreen Prei's five-course creation based on the food in the film, to be screened at culinary school Get Cooking. Another is Brew Love, a BC-made short about the province's growing craftbrew scene, which will screen at Alley Kat Brewery alongside a sampling of local beers and selected cheeses.

There are a few others, too; the dinner and a movie pairing was a one-off

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Thu, Oct 29 – Sat, Nov 7 Various locations Schedule at relishfilmfest.org last year, but something Bailey saw fit to expand for year two. Attendants will watch a portion of the movie, have a course, return to the movie, return to the food, and so forth. So, on either prong of Relish—the Metro tip or in-the-kitchen tip—there's a mix of food and cinema; the ratio of each to each depends on what events you seek out. But no matter how much food you prefer with your film, to Bailey, the pairing is simply an effective one.

"Again: it's a situation with a lot of drama," she says. "There's great narrative there. It's a quest story; all those wonderful things we look for in narrative, and look for in stories, we're going to find with food."

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HAPPY HOUR You couldn't ask for better bottles to pour during the Halloween season: Nanaimo-based Arbutus Distillery has brought its product line into Alberta; the branding alone is reason enough to pick it up, especially at this time of year.

At just over a year old, Arbutus has already established a solid name in Canada's craft distillery world. Its vodka just took the best-in-class spot at the Alberta Beverage Awards, and Arbutus has attracted a fair bit of attention for both its eye-catching branding and high-quality, unique products.

I visited Arbutus this past July when I was in Nanaimo and was so impressed that I bought a bottle each of the distillery's core products: Coven Vodka, Empiric Gin and Baba Yaga Absinthe.

It was pleasantly surprising to discover that these products followed me to Alberta—now I don't need to ration them so carefully.

"We kind of do a lot of things," chuckles Michael Pizzitelli, owner and distiller of Arbutus, over the phone a few months after my visit. "Our style tends to be [a] more flavourful rendition of everything, and there's always like a unique tweak ... than maybe the classic rendition of things."

Craft distilleries almost invariably launch clear spirits, chiefly vodka and gin, to start. The reason is simply a matter of timing: those spirits are made fairly quickly and continually, while others require more time before they can be released—whisky in particular, which must be aged a minimum of three years before it can be bottled and sold. Whisky is often the end game for many craft distilleries and while Arbutus does have some already socked away, aging in barrels, Pizzitelli is focused on the spirits he's producing now. He is particularly excited about experimenting with some "small batch weird stuff" marketed under Arbutus' Third Eye Series.

"We just did a harvest-hopped gin," he says, noting that the Third Eye spirits may feature seasonal releases,

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though not exclusively. "Harvesthopped ales are a big thing right now, where the beer gets made from hops that are basically taken right off the vine, before they would normally get dried. We basically took that model and applied it to our gin, which is really interesting because it has hops in it to begin with—so the level is just kind of cranked up on that one."

While the Third Eye spirits aren't available in Alberta just yet, Pizzitelli is hoping to have them in our market soon.

A major part of what distinguishes Arbutus' spirits is the use of locally grown Vancouver Island botanicals.

The distillery grows a lot of its own herbs, the evidence of which can be found drying in bunches from the ceiling throughout the distillery's tasting room; others are sourced from nearby growers. This distinguishes Arbutus' gin in particular, which isn't modelled on a London Dry style but rather aims to encapsulate the essence of Vancouver Island itself, with lemon verbena instead of citrus peel, hops, lavender, fennel and rosemary.

Herbs also play a vital role in the Baba Yaga Absinthe, though the comparative rarity of that spirit means that it's distinguishable already by virtue of simply existing—Pizzitelli notes there's only about four absinthes made in Canada. Arbutus steeps Baba Yaga in a blend of lemon balm, mint, fennel and anise, along with grand wormwood—the ingredient that marks a true absinthe.

Undoubtedly, many people will pick up a bottle of Arbutus' spirit solely for the striking label designs (and there's no shame in that) which were created by Hired Guns Creative, a fellow Nanaimo-based company.

"It has kind of a black magic, alchemy theme to it," Pizzitelli says. "We find that kind of suits us; we're a bunch of mad scientists working on kind of interesting and wonderful versions of things." V

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1½ oz Arbutus Empiric Gin ½ oz honey syrup ½ oz lime juice 5 basil leaves 1 sprig rosemary, stripped of all but the top leaves (reserve for garnish) Muddle a one-inch piece of cucumber with the basil, rosemary and ½ oz of the gin. Combine with the remaining gin, lime juice and honey syrup in a cocktail shaker with ice. Shake and strain into a chilled class. Garnish with a round of cucumber skewered with the sprig of rosemary.

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ARTS EDITOR: PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM Arcing through a relationship // Ian Jackson

Beginning at the end

The Last Five Years a musical with unusual structure

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irector Bradley Moss describes The Last Five Years as "a cycle of beginnings and endings." In many ways it's a typical failing-marriage story, but what sets this Off-Broadway musical apart from thousands of other relationship-breakdown dramas is its unique structure. Jamie the novelist's scenes unfold chronologically, moving from his first meeting with the enthralling Cathy through to the bitter end of their relationship. Cathy the actor's scenes play out in reverse. Their stories meet

in the middle at the moment when Jamie proposes to Cathy, giving the show an unusual balance.

"Having been someone who's gone through a divorce, it was nice to see a play where, I think as much as [playwright] Jason Robert Brown could be, [the story] is really empathetic to both characters," Moss says.

Working with production designer Cory Sincennes, Moss devised a set which complements that emotional and structural balance. There are doors constantly opening and clos-

ing. There are boxes strewn about a pure white stage. Our characters could be in the midst of moving in or moving out.

Cathy and Jamie are constantly in a state of flux, one reaching a peak while the other sinks into a valley.

As opposed to facing struggles as a united team, they are always out-ofstep with each other—especially in terms of their careers.

"I think success is more damaging than hardship," Moss says. "Look at

the classic example of a couple [who] are married and they move to Hollywood and then suddenly one of them becomes a star. They're usually soon divorced and they're marrying someone else. I think success is a really hard thing to navigate in a marriage."

The Last Five Years may not be typical fare for Theatre Network fans— Moss notes that in recent years the company has produced pretty heavy content from mostly Canadian playwrights. But he hopes that this quick, funny American musical will

Until Sun, Nov 15 (8 pm) Directed by Bradley Moss The Roxy on Gateway (formerly C103), $18 – $36 reignite the company's energy after a rough year.

"I felt really responsible to kind of push the reset button a little bit in this new location," he says. "For lots of reasons. So people can find us. To have something that people could enjoy and celebrate with us."

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The Best Brothers 'G

rieving is a selfish act, and I don't mean that negatively. But grief is all about you, and your feelings," Andrew MacDonald-Smith says.

"And how you deal with the loss of your mother, or grandparent, or anyone. And you don't always take into account the feelings of the other brother or sister or family member."

Kyle Best (MacDonald-Smith) and his big brother Hamilton (Garrett Ross) have never quite seen eyeto-eye. Kyle is an emotional realtor who's dating a male sex worker; Hamilton is a reserved architect with a conventional wife-and-kids domestic life. But when a drag queen named Piña Colada falls off a float at a Pride parade and lands on top of their

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mother, Bunny, killing her on impact, the Best brothers must reunite and face their grief together, in Shadow Theatre's season opener, scripted by Daniel MacIvor.

"As kids it's amazing what we latch on to and the little resentments we find or feel or we suddenly remember," MacDonald-Smith says. "Those sorts of things that we just grab [onto] and in our forties still remember and have an emotional connection to."

Kyle and Hamilton have always resented each other's relationship with Bunny. One of The Best Brothers' most fascinating choices is not to cast a third actor to play her, but to have MacDonald-Smith and Ross take

turns performing as their mother. We get to see Kyle and Hamilton projecting their unresolved feelings onto her and filtering her actions through their skewed perspectives.

"There's a slight difference between the way Garrett and I will play her that I think is interestingly informed by the brother character we are," MacDonald-Smith says. "And Garrett and I have slightly different timing and things like that. But [we're] still finding a way to make her a cohesive character that doesn't seem like we're playing two different people."

The other major character in The Best Brothers never makes an appearance on stage, but his presence is felt

profoundly by all three Bests. Shortly before her death, Bunny bought a greyhound named Enzo. Now, Kyle and Hamilton must take care of this third quasi-brother that Bunny might have loved more than either of them.

Despite being raised as a cat person, MacDonald-Smith says that The Best Brothers has converted him into a dog lover.

"This play, I would absolutely say, has made me want to get a dog. Very much," he says. "I think that anyone who comes and sees it who has a dog will leave so happy to see their dog when they get home. They will be so excited to see their dog. Anybody who leaves who doesn't own a dog will want to get one."

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Until Sun, Nov 15 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by John Hudson Backstage Theatre, $15 – $27 No matter how much Kyle and Hamilton are grieving, Enzo's suffering is all-encompassing. And yet it's the hyperactive greyhound who just might save the quarrelsome brothers from their pain.

"You are the centre of their universe.

You are the sun that their planet revolves around. And that's incredible.

And what could be better for you in a time of grief than having a dog near you?"

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Enigma WHAT’S ON AT UALBERTA? Convocation Hall: The Voice of the Whale and other creatures

Performed by Shelley Younge (flute) with guests Eileen Keown (piano) & Colin Ryan (cello).

Sun, Nov 1 @ 3 pm Convocation Hall

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Citie Ballet parallels two Enigmas

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t a glance, in cursory mental Venn-diagramming, the two share few similarities. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was the influential composer whose body of work still anchors the classical canon centuries after his death in 1791; Leonard Cohen is Canada's enigmatic poet and songwriter, still with us, known for elevating brutal honesty to an artful, seductive come-hither.

And yet there are parallels between them, if only in how far they stood out from their contemporaries, something that Jorden Morris clued into while he was working on Mozart-scored choreography for the Royal Winnipeg Ballet. To take a break from Mozart's music, he put on Cohen. But as he listened, his mind started knitting the two together.

"I just thought, OK, Mozart was a pretty eccentric, eclectic composer-musician-artist in his own time," he recalls. "Leonard Cohen is a pretty eccentric, eclectic enigma himself in the current timeframe.

And I thought, maybe I'm just tired or crazy, but what if I did a show that showcased an enigma from 300 years ago and an artistic enigma that is still relevant today?"

It's from this (com)pairing that Enigma found its shape. A two-part ballet featuring the music of each legend: it's the first offering from Morris as the newly minted artistic director of Citie Ballet. One of the halves, "Leonard Cohen's Doorway," is a work he's done before, albeit in a shorter form; this Edmonton version will include a few guest musicians, Andrea House and Chris Andrew. The other half, "Mozart:42," is a world première.

Applying the composers' respective music to movement, Morris notes the nuance of each musician's craft becomes visible in the dancers.

"The Mozart is more mathemati-

Iphigenia At Aulis

Euripides translation by Don Taylor

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cal," he says. "The choreography is much more orchestrated; there's an architecture to the choreography of Mozart. There's a lot of patterns and canons and very specific angles and shapes that the music dictates. Whereas with the Cohen, what I'm really doing is sculpting bodies around his words. There's a lot more curves, and there's a lot more wavy motions and movement.

You're sort of going from looking at an algebra equation to looking at a geometrical kind of thing. It contrasts itself that way."

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A classic presented through a contemporary lens.

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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, 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

EBDA Ballroom Dance • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • Nov 7, 8pm

Sing-a-Long-a SOUND OF MUSIC • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic movie, the classic smash hit 'Sing-a-Long-a' musical will be screened in its complete and unedited magnificence to the delight of Julie Andrews fans everywhere • Nov 6, 7:30pm • $22

galLeries + Museums 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Masterworks: signature pieces by some of Alberta’s brightest fine craft stars; Oct 10-Dec 24 • Less Is More: artwork by Keith Walker; Oct 24-Nov 28

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 • 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 Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19

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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

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: 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

Metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • Reel Family Cinema: Ghostbusters (Oct 31) • Halloween Extravaganza!: Rocky Horror Picture Show (Oct 30), 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)

Politik Presents - The Official Canadian Premiere of Katie Cleary's "Give Me Shelter" • El Cortez Cantina, 8230 Gateway Boulevard • Robert@politik.io • picatic. com/givemeshelter • Canadian premiere of the powerful award-winning documentary titled, “Give Me Shelter” • Nov 6, 5:30pm • $25 (full pass), $50 (door), $125 (VIP)

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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 • Take Your Best Shot: Youth Photo Contest; Nov 24-Jan 24 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 • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@ thenina.ca • The Artist Inside: Removing Barriers Through Art; Oct 15-30

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Happy Halloweener • Club at Citadel

Underground Showcase Black Mass • DV8 Underground, 8130 Gateway Blvd

780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Gordon Self "Drowning in Iowa" Book Launch; Oct 30, 7pm • Marty Chan's "Fire and Glass: Keepers of the Vault #1" Book Launch; Oct 31, 2-3:30pm • Stella Leventoyannis Harvey "The Brink of Freedom" Reading; Nov 2, 7pm • Dave Olesen "Kinds of Winter" Book Launch; Nov 4, 7pm • Laurel Deedrick-Mayne & Caterina Edwards Reading and Signing; Nov 5, 7pm

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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

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The Carrot Gallery • 9315-118 Ave • Featuring the work of two local artists, Mark Hughes and Naomi Pahl • Until the end of Nov

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Picture This Gallery • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery. com • The Great Art Event; Sep-Oct 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 Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Out of Bounds: The Art of Lynn Malin; Sep 5-Nov 15

122 St, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute. com • Living Room: artwork by Jeffrey Klassen; Oct 14-Nov 7 • Colloquium: Margaret Witschl: Theme: Being a Full Time Artist; Oct 28, 7-9pm; $10 (general public, door)

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery. com • Landscape Up Close: artwork by Leslie Poole; Oct 17-Nov 7

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Be Your Own Bird: artwork by Cindy Revell; Oct 14-Nov 7

Print­-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Jule & McGarth; Sep 27-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) • 10332124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Dystopia: artwork by Jessica Korderas; Oct 31-Nov 14

front gallery • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Kari Duke & Tom Gale; Nov 12, 7-9pm

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: Almond Blossom, Sunflowers, The Harvest, Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, Boulevard de Clichy, Undergrowth, The Bedroom, Fishing Boats on the Beach of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, and Landscape at Twilight • Oct 16-Nov 15 • $5 (per person), free (kids 10 and under) SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave,

Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Land Shadows: artwork by Annette Sicotte; Nov 6-Dec 20; Opening reception: Nov 6, 6pm

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main 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 Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital • 10230-111 Ave • artbynv.com • Alberta Landscapes: Large scale acrylic mixed media paintings by Natasha Vretenar; Oct 20-Dec 14

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215112 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 Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Group Selling Exhibition; until Nov 10

Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Intersecting Sets: artwork by Sarah Burwash, Sweet Smelling Ashes; and Willa Downing; Oct 2-Nov 14

Loft Gallery • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Art Society Christmas MarketPlace; Nov 14-15,

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Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • Main Gallery: Open Photography Competition; through Oct • Fireplace Room: Artwork by Malissa Lea

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Beyond Rubik's Cube; Nov 7-Feb 15 • Terry Fox – Running To The Heart Of Canada; until Nov 8

U of A Museums • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • museums@ ualberta.ca • museums.ualberta.ca • Thu-Fri: 12-6pm; Sat: 12-4pm • 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 • Gallery A: Cultural Exchange; Dec 3-Feb 27; Opening reception: Dec 3, 7-9:30pm • Gallery B: Alberta Artists Collect Alberta Art; Dec 3-Feb 27; Opening reception: Dec 3, 7-9:30pm 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 • Glen Simple; Nov 14-20 • Annual Winter Collection Group Exhibition, featuring works by Peter Shostak, Annabelle Marquis, Claudette Castonguay, Peter Wyse and more; Nov 21-Dec 24

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Charrette Roulette: Language Book Launch • Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • youraga.ca/booklaunch • Oct 30, 7-8:30pm • Free

Edmonton Story Slam • Mercury Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner 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, 1022597 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

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

Storytelling Workshop • Stanley Milner Library, main floor southeast corner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • Learn how to tell your own stories in your own words. Generate ideas for stories from your own life, craft them into tellable tales and build confidence to tell these stories, without notes, to an audience • Nov 3, 12-1:30pm • Free (tickets at Eventbrite)

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

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep-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 freespirited mother in a freak accident, feuding brothers Kyle and Hamilton Best are forced to make her final arrangements together. In the bustle of obituarywriting, 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

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

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Roy Orbison, one of the most influential and iconic pioneers of American rock 'n roll • Sep 4-Nov 1

Die-Nasty • The Backstage Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-83 Ave • communications@varsconatheatre.com • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30-9:30pm • Until May 30, 2016 (no show Dec 21 or 28) • $14 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com Evangeline • Shoctor Theatre, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre. com • Evangeline is the epic story of star-crossed lovers Evangeline and Gabriel, torn apart on their wedding day as a result of the British expulsion of the Acadians from Atlantic Canada in 1755. The story was immortalized and achieved legendary status through the poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Edmonton native Ted Dykstra, cocreator of the world-renowned 2 Pianos 4 Hands, has given new life to this powerful drama by creating a new Canadian musical • Oct 31-Nov 22

girls' night out • St Albert Theatre Troupe, Kinsmen Hall 47 Riel Drive, St Albert • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • Four women stop for dinner at the establishment owned by the ex-husband of one of them. Between the salad and entrée, he ends up dead. Each has a reason to wish him dead, but perhaps one did more than wish • Nov 5-8, 12-15, 19-21

The Glorious 12th by Raymond Storey • Concordia University of Edmonton, Trish and Al Huehn Theatre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • 780.479.9269 • howarth.caroline@concordia. ab.ca • concordia.ab.ca • It is 1927, a difficult year for the Orange Lodge. The House of Commons is now officially bilingual. French appears on Canadian postage stamps and refugees from continental Europe are arriving in record numbers to share in the Canada’s prosperity. The MacKay family fears that their way of life is under siege. Into this atmosphere, opportunistic Klansmen cross the Canadian border to prey on the anxiety of citizens.

The world is changing and Mackay family has dark secrets to face • Oct 30, Nov 1, Nov 6, Nov 7, Nov 8, Nov 31

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 MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

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. But things don't go as planned when the playboy meets Billie Bendix, a bubbly and feisty bootlegger who melts his heart • Oct 28-Nov 7, 7:30-9:30pm • $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 • Presented by Sherard Musical Theatre. 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

The Rocky horror show • La Cite Theatre, 8627-91 St • twoonewaytickets.com • A humorous tribute to the science-fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist unveiling his new creation, a muscle man named Rocky Horror • Nov 6-15

Spring Awakening • Timms Centre for the Arts - Second Playing Space, Corner of 87 Ave and 112 St, University of Alberta • facebook.com/ abbedam • A group of teen-aged classmates are desperate to understand shame, mortality, and where babies come from. As they test the waters and defy the structure of their community, the consequences are more than anyone expected • Nov 5-8, 7:30pm (2pm matinee on Nov 8) - Nov 4 is a preview 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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Marlon on Marlon

BETWEEN THERAPY AND CREATIVITY T

here will never be another Marlon Brando. He was a walking, talking, sexually charged sea change.

The movies had never yielded such a subject before, all those impulses conveyed on-screen with such nuance and just enough control. He was smouldering confidence and mischief wrapped around an almost childlike psyche riddled with doubts and a naked capacity for self-loathing. He was seemingly hyper-masculine yet so vulnerable, even effeminate in his tenderness—along with Monty Clift and James Dean, his stardom would instigate an attack on Hollywood gender stereotypes from the male perspective. He was the greatest, and he fell from grace many times over.

Listen to Me Marlon an intrinsically interesting look at a legend

He played many memorable characters: Stanley Kowalski, Terry Malloy, Don Corleone, Colonel Kurtz, and a desperately lonesome, middle-aged American in Paris named Paul who was in so many ways an invention of Brando, who beautifully blurred the boundary between therapy and creativity in a scene in which autobiography spilled over into fiction.

Brando himself was a real character, and while fiercely protective of his privacy, the guy could really let it all hang out. He told his story once before in his candid and enormously readable memoir Songs My Mother Taught Me, and he tells it again, though somewhat differently, in Listen to Me Marlon, the new biographi-

cal documentary by Stevan Riley. Riley won the documentarian's lottery: he was given unprecedented access to a trove of private audio recordings Brando made over a span of decades.

Thus this film is narrated by a dead man. Was Brando thinking of posterity or just getting some things off his chest? An opinionated raconteur, Brando may have had contempt for showmanship but he was a hell of a showman, as these tapes prove.

Listen to Me Marlon is, to say the least, intrinsically interesting. You have to see it, regardless of what you think about the film as a whole.

Riley's sculpting of archival material is mostly to be commended. The

way he marries Brando's musings and recollections to well-chosen images of Brando and interviews with Brando and clips from Brando's films is very fluid and sometimes illuminating. I have only two reservations, though they're both big ones and both are motifs introduced right at the very start of Listen to Me Marlon. 1) Brando had his face digitized sometime before his death, and Riley keeps using the cheesy-looking digiBrando-head throughout the film to no interesting effect whatsoever. 2) Riley makes a thriller-like teaser out of news coverage of the 1990 murder of Dag Drollet by Christian Brando, Brando's son, an event to which Riley will later return, making it seems as

Until Sat, Oct 31 Directed by Stevan Riley Metro Cinema at the Garneau  though this tragedy is the defining moment in Brando's life. It's a fairly sleazy device and seems too far from the spirit of the rest of the film. At one point Brando speaks of his lifelong "unquenchable curiosity about people." Listen to Me Marlon works best when its own sense of curiosity is as broad and generous as Brando's, and not needlessly focused on tabloid sensationalism.

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REVUE // BIOPIC

Steve Jobs I

Now playing Directed by Danny Boyle 

Not the best job, Steve

n 2010, David Fincher pitch-perfected his neo-Kubrick, chill-thriller esthetic, turning Aaron Sorkin's script for The Social Network into a scalpel-sharp dissection of Mark Zuckerberg and his pet-projectturned-social-media-monster, Facebook. But director Danny Boyle and Sorkin's take on Apple guru Steve Jobs—making him both much more asshole-ish and far more visionary than Zuckerberg—is too theatrical, hyper chatty and self-involved to become truly involving or insightful. Then comes its crash of an ending, a system-error so staggeringly redemption-reaching that you may glimpse the ghost-image of Christ himself on the frozen screen.

In its play-like structure—three acts, all backstage before a product-launch (1984: Macintosh; 1988: NeXTcube; 1998: iMac), with Jobs

talking to the same colleagues and family—Sorkin's script pins down the fluttering-moth genius of Jobs (Michael Fassbender) in three glass cases for our examination. But scene after scene—the camera moving and turning and pivoting around Jobs—has not just us but associates, confidante (Kate Winslet), jilted co-founder Steve Wozniak (Seth Rogen), spurned lover, neglected daughter, even Apple staff watching him, transfixed, agog, enthralled. Everyone's supposed to be in awe of this diehard, driven tech-prophet, out-talking and out-thinking us all. In its enclosed-ness, Sorkin's strutting, super-crackly script—un-reined in by Boyle, who can't impress his counter-vailing visual signature on the screen—makes Steve Jobs more of a showcase for Writer and

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Actors to Show Their Wares. (Sorkin seems to admire Jobs as the ultimate pitchman, talking his imagination into reality.)

There's plenty of whip and verve to all this writing and acting, sure, though the clash of professional anticipations and personal tribulations before each launch remains too convenient (as does, say, Jobs' one-line detonation of Wozniak's enthusiasm for his Nixie watch).

There's some overwriting and overdirecting: spelling out what an "OS" is or a boardroom vote that's darkened into Julius Caesar levels of backstabbery. And the let'sredeem-this-jerkoff-now ending, with not one but three "Rosebud" moments, is a complete iHand-Job. BRIAN GIBSON

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Dissolving might actually be the film's modus operandi. Based on a quartet of stories by Lafcadio Hearn, aka Yakumo Koizumi, all of them drawn from Japanese folktales, Kwaidan lures us into a space where whatever it is that separates the past and the present, the living and the dead, the material and the

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Kobayashi trained as a painter before making films. By the time of Kwaidan he had already helmed projects of tremendous ambition, such the tripartite The Human Condition (1959 – 61) and Harakiri (1962), though Kwaidan would take his gift for scale, precision, high theatrical style and constructed things

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to another level. The film was shot on hand-painted sets mounted in an airplane hanger. The first shot of "Black Hair" moves through the swordsman's provincial home like a ghost detective surveying a crime scene. "Hoichi" begins with a protracted depiction of a legendary sea battle teeming with soldiers astride long ships decorated with flags while bodies hurtle into red waters. There are always gates to enter—we're always moving deeper into worlds within worlds.

Extraordinary as Kwaidan's spectacles are, I'm even more impressed by its soundscape, the work of the great composer Toru Takemitsu.

Takemitsu conducts an orchestra of creaks, rattles, rumbles and eerie silences that build tension with as much cumulative power as Kobayashi's gloriously disorienting editing schemes. Cinema is an audiovisual medium, so if we apply auteurist logic to Kwaidan it should probably be referred to as a Kobayashi-Takemitsu film. However you credit it, it is a truly one-of-a-kind horror film, one far too hypnotic to leap out and scare you as you watch it, but one that will settle deep into your consciousness and perhaps dissolve into your dreams. V

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The Last Witch Hunter Now playing Directed by Breck Eisner 

A hocus-pocus hodge-podge

"How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is't you do?"– Macbeth (Act 4, Scene 1)

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he Last Witch Hunter plays like somebody's doobie-inspired eureka!, right after watching Red Riding Hood (2011) and Snow White and the Huntsman (2012) back-to-back, to merge Highlander and Blade. The latest Vin Diesel vehicle sees him roaring out of the Fast and Furious franchise—in another flashy, drifting car—into a New York City full of witches, hags and "dreamwalkers."

(Mayor Giuliani didn't get rid of them all in the '90s?)

Storming off into a 13th century where Diesel can sport a braided

beard and almost not look ridiculous, the movie opens in a snowy nest of witches, though only our hair-dangling hero, Kaulder (Diesel), is able to kill them. As he sword-skewers the Witch Queen, she condemns Mr Knotty-Chinned Knight to immortality; cut to today and Kaulder's nabbing nasty necromancers for imprisonment by the Witch's Council (like a magicky UN that meets in a dark, dank sub-basement). In flashbacks (to the most radiant medieval peasants ever, aka Kaulder's wife and daughter), exposition, backstory and action-dialogue cliché ("You're going to get who did this, right?") are all tossed into the pot and stirred up real bad.

By the time Kaulder's priest buddy, Dolan the 36th (Michael Caine, cashing a quick check), has been nearfatally cursed, replaced by Dolan the 37th (Elijah Wood), a club-running dreamwalker (Rose Leslie) joins Team Kaulder, a bakery serves bugs-spellcast-into-pastries to eager customers, runway models are revealed as crones, Kaulder detects witches by breathing on windowpanes or putting a staple in a glass of water, and the Witch Queen returns amid swarms of "plague-flies," the flick's become a hocus-pocus hodge-podge of balderdash and humbuggery. The only smells wafting from this cauldron are the odour of silliness and stench of stupidity. And so, of course, the ending here sets up a sequel ... or perhaps a crossover: Double, double, toil and trouble! Get ready for The Second Last Witch Hunter Hotel!

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HOLISTIC // SENSORY

HOLISTIC Step in and relax

Float tanks making a comeback Flotation therapy is a new take on an old holistic modality

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loating in complete darkness, with no sense of where your skin ends and the water or air begins: no light, no sound, no smell or taste—nothing but you and your own mind.

It's an intriguing idea to some, terrifying to others. Sensory deprivation/isolation tanks have been around a long time, but they died out a couple of decades ago, only to experience a rebirth in the last few years; they've been rebranded under the much friendlier-sounding moniker "float tanks." The Edmonton area is currently home to four float-based businesses—with more on the way—and all of them aren't much more than a year old.

Flotation therapy is pretty much exactly what it sounds like: you float in a tank filled with water, which has been saturated with Epsom salts to the point that it's actually impossible to sink, allowing you to lie back and fully relax your body. The tanks are some variant of an egg-shaped bathtub with a lid, though float chambers also exist—small rectangular rooms with water in the bottom. Both the air and the water in float tanks are heated to skin temperature (about 34C), and the tanks are usually completely dark (some have soft lighting options) and devoid of any other stimulus. The whole idea is to cut off all external sensory input so that you can simply relax with your own mind.

When Michael Smith and Jamie Phillips started Modern Gravity Float Studio at the beginning of 2014, they had just a single tank

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in Smith's basement. Though they were the only ones in town offering floats to the public, they knew it wouldn't be long before others followed, so they decided to expand.

Modern Gravity is set to reopen its doors on November 15, and it will feature six float rooms.

"It was something that I loved as a therapy," Smith says. "It helped me in sports; it got me kind of into meditation, whereas before I never really thought about it too much."

Smith's first float was in a private residence in Red Deer. He decided to pursue it purely from a health standpoint: he was heavily involved in athletics at the time and had been taking his own Epsom salt baths at home, so the idea of a large saltwater tank was very appealing. After getting a little freaked out upon being led to an unfinished basement with just the tank in the middle of the room—"There's just this coffinlooking treasure chest just sitting in the middle; I was like, 'Oh my god; this is terrifying!'"—he quickly eased into the experience. To his surprise, he emerged over four hours later with no idea so much time had passed. Since then, he has gone in for as long as 12 hours at a time—most people will only experience floats in hour-long sessions, the most commonly offered choice at float studios.

Admittedly, floating sounds a bit hokey—even bizarre—but these sensory deprivation tanks are founded on science. They were invented in 1954 by neuroscientist John C Lilly as part of a series of psychological

tests he was conducting to see what would happen to the human brain if it were deprived of all sensory input. The tanks have evolved since then—and thank goodness, because if you look up some pictures of the apparatus people had to wear in order to use the original model (like a skin-tight latex mask that would definitely make you feel like you were being smothered), they sure wouldn't be marketable today. Contemporary float tanks and rooms can look downright futuristic, like something right out of science fiction—a much more welcoming, or at least intriguing, prospect.

Flotation is often described as a meditative experience, and some people have even reported having transcendent or out-of-body-experiences while doing it. This, along with its representation in popular culture (most famously in the 1980 horror movie Altered States), made flotation associated with the New Age crowd.

Smith's approach has always been fundamentally practical. He wants everyone to experience flotation's multiple health benefits—many of which have been corroborated in recent scientific studies, with some doctors beginning to prescribe flotation therapy to their patients as an alternative to more invasive and/ or drug therapies. Smith is also the vice-president of the Canadian Float Collective, which is hoping to get flotation therapy added to the list of services covered under benefits plans.

"It doesn't matter what you think, feel or believe: it's going to a float

tank and being able to cut off all that stimulus and being able to spend time with yourself," he says.

"People compare it to meditation; I just compare it to the same results as meditation. Meditation is one tool to get to more of that present state so you can recharge and get on with the rest of your day, the same way floating is a similar tool to get you to a similar state of mind."

There's no denying that being alone with only our thoughts, even for just an hour, could be quite emotionally confronting. And that might be just what a lot of people need, even more than relaxing their muscles and joints: facing the things buried deep in our subconscious minds in order to make it through the rat race, day after day.

"There's a lot of people that don't like to be alone in their own company," Jenelle Dufault says. "There's just so many people that have no clue what they're thinking and are just not in tune. They're trying to find their place, but they have no idea that they're nowhere near where they should be, and that's why they're struggling."

Dufault works as a denturist and did her first float a few months ago in Calgary. Though she found it a pretty weird concept at first, she absolutely loved the experience and is planning subsequent floats. In addition to immediate physical health benefits that floating provided her ("I felt finally like my neck had released a lot of stuff," she describes), Dufault also experienced a boon to her mental wellbeing.

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"I've always been a little bit more on the spiritual side anyway, so I was finally getting to a point of meditation and what I felt to be like receiving messages from higher sources and things like that," she says, noting that it's unfortunate people often dismiss or even ridicule spiritual pursuits. "You almost get some sort of backlash for having that spirituality sense to it. It comes with almost like a stigma."

Like yoga, chiropractics, acupuncture and other therapeutic modalities, floating is a mixed bag: some people will love it and some won't. Its price tag means that it's not something most will be able to experience on a regular basis: single floats usually cost between $60 and $80, but some places offer memberships or multiple pass deals. If you're interested in it at all, however, both Dufault and Smith suggest giving it a try to see if it works for you.

"There really isn't that much difference from the relaxation, physiological side of your mind and body, and the more spiritual side of our body, the emotional side," Smith says. "Stress is a physical thing and can make you sick if you're stressing out about stuff; at the same time it can make you depressed on more of a chemistry, emotional level.

"People are sick and tired of being sick and tired," he continues. "I think people are just becoming more aware that they don't want to feel like shit."

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HOLISTIC // ENERGY

Tuning in

A look at different forms of energy healing not true. One of the most important requirements of learning or receiving energy healing is maintaining an open mind.

"If you don't, then you can talk yourself into not feeling it," says VcToria, an Edmonton-based psychic who has been teaching reiki for 15 years. She also offers tarot, astrology and palmistry readings through her business, the Alternative Universe. "A person who would accept reiki would be a person that believes in energy."

For those interested in learning how to do reiki, VcToria notes it's important to take classes in a group rather than one on one.

"You need the energy to work with and feel a connection with the actual teacher," she says. "Don't forget to ask questions: where did they get trained? That's the best question they can ask. I give out sheets of paper [that say] who taught me, who taught my teacher."

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e often acknowledge energy in the sense that we have too much or too little of it, but in holistic therapy it is viewed as the balancing force that keeps our physical, emotional and spiritual wellbeing in check. This is the premise behind energy healing, an alternative treatment for myriad ailments that is performed simply through touch—be it your own or that of a trained practitioner.

One of the most common forms of energy healing is reiki, a type of hands-on alternative treatment in which a therapist activates the body's natural healing processes through touch. It is also one of the most user-friendly types to learn, says Cassaundra Paolini of Divine Energy Healing in Calgary.

"It's actually quite a linear energy healing: it has the foundation and the principles, the structure, and I just find people are very comfortable using it," says Paolini, who has been practicing reiki since 2012 and teaches courses throughout the year. "There is the odd person that has what we call 'disconcerting effects' when they learn energy healing—that's their own drama or thing they have to work through. But it's a wonderful program."

A western style of reiki has been adapted from the traditional Japanese iteration of Usui reiki, but the fundamental principles and goals of each type are the same. Glenyce Hughes—an author, speaker, certified reiki practitioner and medium who worked as a psychiatric nurse before switching career paths in 2002—says reiki is about tapping into whichever form of energy the

recipient happens to believe in (the universe, God—it doesn't matter) which then comes through her as the practitioner.

"You're touching the body from the head to the toes, and it just balances whatever is imbalanced," says Hughes, who is based in Vermillion, AB, but travels to conduct workshops. "When we have, let's say, neck pain or we have depression or we're stressed or we have cancer, energetically there's a big imbalance.

So when you're doing a reiki treat-

ment, all you're doing is just being the space for the energy to go in and do whatever it needs to do. It's best with reiki, and really any energy stuff, that we do not have an, 'OK, I'm going to do this and they'll feel better' type of expectation to it: just be in the space and allow it to contribute in whatever way it's going to."

A widespread misconception is that an individual must possess some form of intuitive or psychic ability in order to learn different forms of energy healing, but generally speaking, this is

All three recommend reiki to anyone looking to take their first steps into exploring energy healing, whether they're interested in taking classes or receive treatment. But there are plenty of other types of energy work as well, including divine energy healing: a form that's much more intuitive than reiki, which Paolini also practices. She explains that the focus of reiki is physical healing, with the understanding that physical pain is derived from something mental or emotional—even spiritual, in some cases. Divine energy healing, however, taps into the metaphysical.

"Reiki isn't about—with a few sessions or one session—removing entrenched locks, shifting energy, pastlife retrieval, energetic retrieval," she

says. "It's not about getting a psychic reading, but divine energy healing is."

Hughes offers another form of energy healing called access donsciousness bars, which involves 32 points on the head that correlate to different facets of our lives—control, aging, the body, finances, and so on.

"You basically go and catch all of those points and hold them, and it's kind of like defragging your computer," she explains. "Just by going and touching each bar it clears whatever gunk is in there."

There are plenty of options out there when it comes to energy healing, but all three practitioners stress the importance of using your intuition to choose which form is right for you. They're fine with the curious asking questions, because if you're not comfortable going into a session, you will not get the ostensible benefits from it. And if want to work with your own energy, there are plenty of ways to do that, too.

"Meditation is number one," Paolini says. "Even if you can only devote five minutes a day to it, that five minutes is a world of benefit. Meditate on your chakras—go get some reading material if you don't know what they are— [and] understand that we have them, whether you admit to them or not."

"I'm also a really big on what you're focusing on, what you're talking about, what you're thinking about, what you're expecting is really what you're going to create," Hughes notes, using chronic migraines as an example. "So if you spend all day thinking about or talking about, oh, the migraines are so bad, and I get them every third Friday; what we're doing then is creating more of that."

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The Chinese herb andrographis paniculata (chuan xin lian) can also be used for preventing a cold by taking one gram per day, or three grams per day if you already have cold symptoms. Andrographis is a natural immune booster, which means it is good for getting rid of a cold fast and reducing symptoms like fever and sore throat.

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If that still isn't working—or you're desperate to find fast results for that 8 am meeting with your boss—you can get a special IV drip, which is available at Dr Muradov's office, that will pump B-vitamins and other good stuff into your body as an instant hangover relief. This method will cost you around $100 to $300, though.

DIGESTION

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MIGRAINES

Certain foods can often trigger the onset of migraines in individuals, so dietary augmentation may help. Using 50 mg of butterbur two to three times a day or 400 mg of riboflavin (vitamin B2) can prevent migraine occurances, but it might not weed out the underlying cause. Dr Muradov notes that "it's more complicated than taking this and taking that" for migraines as it depends heavily on a person's situation. Allergy testing and blood-based testing is required to determine the root cause of the migraines.

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Heed the Wino oracle The Zolas on the band's new EP

into the studio and make a record, and then after the fact figure out, live, how we were going to do it," Dobrzanski explains of the shift in writing dynamic on Wino Oracle.

The addition of a permanent rhythm section has pushed the Zolas to write "bangers" that are more groove-heavy—like the recently released single "Molotov Girls"—than some of the band's previous tracks.

Dobrzanski notes that while writing this EP, which is actually three songs plus a B-side for a record that's due out next year, there was more agreement on creative vision than the Zolas have experienced before. It also helped that the band was able to take its time with the EP, which was recorded in small chunks over the course of four or five sessions at Dobrzanski's Monarch Studios in Vancouver.

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ello, this is Tom from the Zolas."

It's a more formal greeting than one often gets when calling for an interview, but Tom (last name: Dobrzanski) is quick to explain the reason behind his new phone greeting.

"People are usually looking for Zach, and they got confused, so I went with the whole professional answer," Dobrzanski says, his bandmates throwing in some good-na-

tured jabs about his response in the background.

The pianist and his bandmates— the aforementoned Zachary Gray (vocals, guitar), Cody Hiles (drums) and DJ Abell (turntables), all on speaker phone—are on the road between Philadelphia and New York.

The Vancouver-based indie-pop foursome is touring in support of its new EP, Wino Oracle. It's the band's

first release since 2013's Ancient Mars, the last album done with Gray and Dobrzanski spearheading the Zolas as a duo. Hiles and Abell now make up the rhythm section, having joined shortly after Ancient Mars debuted.

"Zach and I had never written with a band before; we would just kind of borrow a couple of our favourite musicians from other bands and go

While the lyrics on Ancient Mars are entrenched in nostalgia, those on Wino Oracle are cemented in the present. Dobrzanski describes it as the feeling of running outside for a cigarette during a party, pulling out your phone and passively scrolling through all the destruction and chaos going on in the world—then putting it away and going right back to enjoying the party.

"It's sort of that fucked up feeling that we all experience now, simply for the fact that we can be aware

Fri, Oct 30 (8 pm) With Sister Gray Mercury Room, $16 in advance, $20 at door of everything that's happening but still have our lives to live in the present," he says.

That disparity and disconnect spills into the album title, a line from the Zolas' new single, "Fell In Love With New York." Dobrzanski, a self-professed English literature nerd, explains it in connection to the fool character that's everpresent in Shakespearean prose: a low-status individual who no one respects or pays attention to, despite the fact that they are often quite wise. It's an archetype the can often be found in our modern society, too.

"In New York you go on the subway and there's all these people rubbing shoulders," he says. "Some of them are models who don't get out of bed for less than $10 000 a day, and they're rubbing shoulders with, you know, a 50-year-old homeless guy in a big winter coat in the middle of summer who is spouting off what seems like complete insanity. And when you actually listen to what he's saying, he's telling the truth."

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ac DeMarco admits it was a strange choice, ending Another One—the mini-LP he released back in August—by listing his New York address and offering to make you a cup of coffee if you ever stop by. Not a bad choice, per se, but he definitely underestimated the implications: people have taken him up on the offer in droves.

"In the winter, my neighbourhood is really kind of desolate, and lonely, and that's when I made the album." he reflects, over the phone from West

Texas, where he's touring. "I wasn't really thinkin' about how it turns into a beach town in the summer. Also, [I] don't think I was really thinkin' about the scope, of the amount of people that would hear the album."

Indeed, Another One debuted at number 25 on the Billboard 200, selling 13 000 copies of gorgeous, stumbling pop in its first week. And

by DeMarco's estimate, somewhere between 400 and 500 people have shown up for a cup of java. All sorts of folks: "One guy was driving back

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to the south, he stopped by with his whole family before he headed down," he recalls with a laugh.

DeMarco, an Edmonton expat, gets fanmail sent there now, too: demos from hopeful musicians, sometimes gifts like weird shirts. Occasionally, it's a little more than he bargained for: one night, a fellow turned up with a request to film DeMarco reading part of a script—something that's now popped up online as the trailer for a horror movie called Dark Prism,

claiming to feature DeMarco's acting debut.

"It was like one in the morning, I was trying to step out the door, but he was sitting on my porch," he says.

"Nice enough kid, but he asked me to read some lines from his movie. I was like, 'OK, fine,' a high school film project or something. And he actually edited the trailer together so it seems like I'm starring in the movie, when I actually read some lines off a piece of paper. And then he sent it out to a couple news sources, and they all

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"So I got played, a little bit, by that little guy," he continues. "But, whatever: [the movie] looks interesting.

There's like a giant animatronic penis in it and stuff. It's pretty weird."

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f I had to sing only other people's music, I don't think I'd be a singer," Jocelyn Alice says.

The Calgary-born songstress is speaking over the phone from her new home base of Vancouver (she recently moved west from Toronto) about her early involvement in the music industry, which started when she was 17. She landed in second place on the reality show Popstars, which showed her a pre-packaged side of the industry that didn't interest her.

"The songwriting is the engine, the heart, the whole reason for all of it, really," she adds.

Jocelyn is now in the midst of launching her solo career, but prior to that she was writing and recording music for movies, TV shows and ad campaigns, as well as performing as part of the duo jocelyn & lisa with Lisa Jacobs.

Solo opportunities for Jocelyn eventually began to present themselves, and it was actually Jacobs who encouraged her to pursue her own career.

"I think some people think, 'Oh, the band broke up and Lisa's not going to be in the picture anymore,' but

it's quite the opposite," Jocelyn says.

"She's, in some ways, even more in the picture than ever: she handles my band, she's our musical director, she still writes the songs with me and she's my biggest cheerleader. Now that I'm a much, I think, stronger woman and a little more aware of what's important to me as an artist and as a human being, I think the timing of all of this is really perfect. I don't think I could have handled the pressures that I'm now facing a year ago."

Jocelyn is at the scary yet exciting precipice of an emerging artist—her catchy debut single, "Jackpot," was certified gold in Canada back in August and cracked the Top 15 on a litany of radio charts—but her future is still relatively uncertain. She's captured the attention of industry professionals and other musicians across Canada (including Ryan Guldemond of Mother Mother, whom she's been working with out in Vancouver), but she admits that come January, she'll be relocating again. Where that is, she's not sure, but she ticks off possibilities like Los Angeles and Nashville.

Jocelyn's style is steeped in pop melodies with hints of R&B and soul, and the idea behind the tracks on her upcoming EP was inspired by Beyonce's latest self-titled record—or, rather, the feelings created by her sultry and captivating lyrics. Jocleyn recalls being curious as to how the musical powerhouse could maintain her ostensibly super-human qualities after recently giving birth, but it wasn't until she started digging through interviews with Beyonce that she discovered that many of those empowering anthems had developed from a place of insecurity.

"She, at the time of that album, was overweight and struggling with a lot of different things in terms of her selfconfidence, and she decided to write about what she wanted instead of what was actually happening," Jocelyn explains. "And something clicked in me. I was like, Oh my god, I can create hope; I can create anything that I want and instil it into my life in a beautiful way. ... I hope my EP captures self-preservation and persistence and hard work and challenge and sorrow and joy and, you know, talks some real shit, because that's everything to me."

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thought my recording days were over," Andy Kim says.

The Canadian songwriter (Kim cowrote the Archies' novelty hit "Sugar, Sugar" and "Rock Me Gently"), whose career spans more than five decades, had no intentions of making an album again after 2011's Happen Again. But Broken Social Scene founder and lead vocalist Kevin Drew coaxed him out of studio retirement for It's Decided, which Kim released in February.

"He made sure that I lived again for another album," Kim adds with a laugh.

The unlikely friendship began after the two musicians met in Toronto five years ago at Kim's annual Christmas show—an event that raises money for mental illness charities.

It's Decided is a collection of old tracks from Kim and Drew's respective back catalogues (including Kim's "Shoot 'Em Up Baby" and Broken Social Scene's "Who Came First") as well as some new songs. The album was co-written and produced by Drew, and it enlists the likes of indie-rockers Ohad Benchetrit (Do Make Say Think) and Dave Hamelin (the Stills). Across the album's 10 tracks are collaborations with Ron Sexmith, John McEntyre (Tortoise), Kevin Hearn (Barenaked Ladies) and Jimmy Shaw (Metric).

Recording for the album—Kim's eighth full length, and his first on indie label Arts & Crafts—took about two years to complete, as it was created in tandem with Drew's solo record, Darlings (2014). That back and

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forth process, Kim notes, allowed for more exploration and creativity to happen on both records.

"This was a brand-new experience for me," Kim says. "The way we went into the studio, the way it was recorded and the songs we wrote in the studio—it was all in a different way. I usually come prepared going into the studio, and for this one, I came unprepared, [which] is what Kevin wanted.

He wanted to create something on the spot."

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OIDS is lucky. The fearsome foursome has unleashed its sophmore album, Superbafrango, and is in the midst of a cross-Canada tour with Cancon stalwarts Gob, which band member Patrizio declares has been a "fucking blast."

On the road in Prince Edward Island the day before Superbafrango was officially released (October 16), the punk-rock outfit is grinding it out—the group's travelled from Montréal to Kelowna, to PEI and then back out west to Vancouver— with a stop in Edmonton in-between.

"We were doing some road math yesterday, and it looks like we've done 10 000 kilometres in the 10 days, which puts us at 1000 kilometres a day," Patrizio says, who prefers not to use his last name. "It's

tough, but, you know, there's not a group of guys I'd rather be doing this with.

"Obviously, you lose all your personal space and you're fucking stuck in a tiny little cell, basically, a van for four people," he adds. "It's great—I love doing it; we all love doing it."

Superbafrango is a fiery album, mixing sun-kissed melodies with a snarling sense of fun. It's a little more mature, a little more playful than BOIDS' debut album, We Stalk Each Other Like Animals, a product of the band members starting to mesh as much in the recording booth as much as they do outside it.

"It's definitely a record that we can stand behind, you know, it's our second record," he says. "I would argue

After spending nearly a year working on We Stalk Each Other Like Animals, BOIDS decided to go outside its comfort zone on Superbafrango.

"We created a deadline to get a record done—at the moment that we created a deadline, we had no songs for it," Patrizio explains. "In basically the span of four months we wrote 16 songs. We fuckin' rehearsed the hell out of them, we put them through the process, we recorded them in six days in Montréal with a stellar fuckin' engineer, Rod Scheer."

With a new album comes new songs to play the hell out of during gigs, too.

"It's fun for us because they've had no time to stagnate, you know? " Patrizio says. "They're new and exciting for us—and what better way to enjoy them with an audience then just, like, play them fresh off the press?"

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rom the music to the matching outfits, Rosie & the Riveters exude the 1940s. But it wasn't planned that way at the onset.

The Saskatoon-based group—Allyson Reigh, Alexis Normand, Melissa Nygren and Farideh Olsen—was rooted in gospel music initially. Founder Olsen held auditions to form a band that was inspired by "African-American spirituals," but the band that formed noticed that its vocal harmonies were leaning towards a vintage folk sound, comparable to the harmonies of 1920s group the Andrew Sisters. As a result, Rosie & the Riveters chose to follow that trajectory, accompanying it with a 1940s esthetic (thrift-shop-sourced outfits and hairstyles reminiscent of the era).

In order to maintain those '40s vocal arrangements, the band had to find some

commonality despite its members' diverse musical backgrounds.

"The challenge was finding common ground between us," Normand explains over the phone from Toronto. "To find something where we could each express what we had to say in a way that we enjoy expressing ourselves, but making it sound more like a Riveter."

For its debut album, Good Clean Fun, the individual musical backgrounds of each band member comes together in a cohesive way, blending the sounds of bluegrass, folk and gospel.

"We took in some of Melissa's bluegrass influences, Farideh's folk influences, my jazz influences and Allyson's classical training and took the best elements of these things to make this album," Normand says.

Sat, Oct 31 (8:30 pm) Blue Chair Cafe, $15 The record was produced by Juno Award-winner Murray Pulver (the Bros Landreth, Doc Walker, Harlequin II) at Musirex Studios in Winnipeg.

Songwriting for the album involved a "creative retreat" which saw all four girls working together to enhance individual songs brought by the band members. The quartet was also mentored by gospel-roots musician Ken Whiteley, who flew to Saskatchewan from Toronto, assisting the group with song development and writing.

When it comes to lyrics, Rosie & the Riveters try to stay away from singing about relationships and instead focus on core values of faith, family and female empowerment. "[The songs on the album] go with the mandate of the band: we strive to bring positive, uplifting music to our audiences and to spread joy," Normand says. "Good Clean Fun really resonates with us and who we are as a group and what we want to do. We wanted to show people that female musicians can do more than sing about broken hearts and failed relationships."

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This is a one-day event devoted to black metal, doom and death genres—which seems fitting, given the day it falls on. Performances by Noire, Ossific, the Weir, Numenorean, Spaewife, Vile Insignia, Korperlose Stimme and more. (Rendezvous Pub, $35)

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CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; 7pm

BOHEMIA Black&Bleu; 8pm; No minors

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos every

Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Monarch Sky, Fear Of

City, Tymo, Juliet’s Ruin; 8pm; SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE 100.3 The Bear's 23rd Halloween Howler: Godsmack, Buckcherry & guests; 8pm; $59.95 SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Quentin Reddy (country); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Adam Holm

(folk/pop); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike Letto

(folk/rock); 9pm

8pm; $35

WILD EARTH BAKERY–MILLCREEK Live Music Fridays: this week featuring; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation

tribute); 9pm

Classical

(cabaret); 9pm

CASINO EDMONTON Robin Kelly (Elvis CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Pinheruppers CENTURY CASINO Darkroom - Halloween

at the Century Showroom; 7:30pm; $38; 18+ only

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Duff Robison

(folk); 9pm DV8 Halloween Bands As Bands (metal/ hard rock/punk); 9pm; $10 ($5 with costume); No minors EL CORTEZ Freak Show; No cover;

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Dinner reservations reccommended FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon

Concerts: this week with The Uncas Halloween Bash; 4pm; No cover

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage;

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic;

7pm; $2

YARDBIRD SUITE Tia Fuller's Angelic Warrior; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $26 (members), $30 (guests)

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm

Undercover; 9pm

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Karac Hendriks (country); 9:30pm; No minors

Craft Addict Thursday Presents: Gavin Bradley; 7pm; No cover; All ages

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

COOK COUNTY SALOON The Monsters Ball (country); 9pm; No minors

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN

Sole Pursuit and Stereo Villain; 7pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door); No minors

- Goth - Dark Electro with DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; 9pm; $5 (door); (every Sat except the 1st Sat of the month)

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Carling

Open Jam Nights; no cover

MERCURY ROOM Needles To Vinyl with

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays: Industrial

CAFE BLACKBIRD Jack Semple Trio;

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; until Nov 1

Jam with Back Door Dan; LATER: Boogie Patrol; 9pm

UNION HALL Machinedrum; 9pm

Party Jam hosted by the Barefoot Kings; Ukulele lessons 7:30pm followed by Jam at 8:30pm

jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon:

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music every Fri

CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar: Beach

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Rosie and the Riveters; 8:30-10:30pm; $15

BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat

Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm

L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight open

BLACKJACKS ROADHOUSE Halloween Howler featuring The Oddibles; 9pm; No cover

STARLITE ROOM Gob with Boids, Worst Days Down & Old Boys Club; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $21; 18+ only

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your Own

with One Percent (R&B/soul); 8pm every Thu

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: this week with Rosie and the Riveters (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Traffic

Halloween SPOOKtacular with The Fuzz Kings; 8pm; No cover; All ages

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

Jam Concerts: Fridays at Five: featuring Organ, Piano, Saxophone Charles Stolte, Joachim Segger, Marnie Giesbrecht; 5-6pm; $10

BRIXX BAR Aaron Jackson (Audiophile I CAFE BLACKBIRD Charlie Austin Trio;

HORIZON STAGE Strathcona String Quartet; 7:30pm; $35 (adult), $30 (student/senior)

with Lora Jol; 7pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

8pm; $10

WINSPEAR CENTRE Mozart &

LB'S PUB Halloween Bash with the

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Carling

Tchaikovsky; 7:30pm; $24-$79

Undercover; 9pm

DJs

Usa); 9pm (doors); $19; 18+ only

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam:

Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every

Sat; 3:30-7pm KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Cairo (folk/Rock)

Ramifications (rock/pop/indie); 9:30pm; No minors

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri: this week with Dave Von Bieker; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

DJs on all three levels

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild

CASINO EDMONTON Robin Kelly (Elvis

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark

and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco,

Live Local Bands every Sat NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider

8pm; all ages (15+)

Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

tribute); 9pm

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos

(cabaret); 9pm

at 8pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Pinheruppers DENIZEN HALL Electric Circus 90's

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday

Thursdays; 7-10pm

Halloween; 8pm (90's themed costumes are encouraged)

hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Karac Hendriks

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most

Thur: this week with Kevin Cook; 7-11pm

(country); 9:30pm; No minors

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with

(folk); 9pm

Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am WINSPEAR CENTRE Xavier Rudd; 8pm;

$39.50 YARDBIRD SUITE Joey Defrancesco

Trio; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $22 (members), $36 (guests)

Classical JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The Merry

Widow; 7:30-10:30pm; Tickets start at $40

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Duff Robison DV8 The 1st Annual Devil's Night Devil Party: with Aku Aku, Electric Audrey Ii, and Tÿre Iron; 8pm; $10 FESTIVAL PLACE Nathan Rogers (folk);

7:30pm; $20 • Andy Kim (pop/rock); 7:30pm; $38-$44

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

every Fri THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights: Indie

rock and dance with DJ Brodeep RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

Cabaret de Halloween; 8pm

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

LB'S PUB Miss Understood (rock/pop/

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH La

indie); 9:30pm; No minors MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; until Nov 1

SAT OCT 31

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl:

MERCURY ROOM The Zolas (adult pop/

9910 Bands as bands 138 (alternative/

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s

with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close THE COMMON The Common Uncommon

Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Bonafide; 9pm ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform every

week; $10 OVERTIME Sherwood Park Live Music;

9pm PALACE CASINO–WEM The Nervous

Flirts (rock/pop/indie); 9:30pm; No minors RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Black Mourning Light

Festival Idoltary, Noire, Altars Of Grief and more; 12pm (doors), 1pm (show) RITCHIE COMMUNITY HALL Halloween

DJs 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

Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; until Nov 1

Night: Enchantment Under The Sea Featuring Amy Van Keeken's Rock And Roll Sing-A-Long; 8pm; $20 (adv), $25 (door)

alt/pop) with Sister Gray and with guests; 8pm; $16 (adv), $20 (door)

punk) with Social Distortion; 8pm; $10 (adv)

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

ATB FINANCIAL ARTS BARNS - PCL STUDIO Cadaveret 2015; 9:30pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Sweet Vintage

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Adam Holm

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Welcome

Quentin Reddy (country); 9pm

to Night Vale with musical guest Eliza Rickman; 8pm; $30 (adv)

Rides

(folk/pop); 9pm

BAILEY THEATRE The 5th Annual

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike Letto

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider

Halloween Masquerade Ball with live music by Third Degree; 9pm; $5; No minors

ON THE ROCKS Bonafide; 9pm

(folk/rock); 9pm SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Halloween Special Event -featuring the Tony Kaye Trio

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OCT/30

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GOB

NOV/4 NOV/6 NOV/7-8

Steve; 9pm (door); $25; 18+ only

Austin; 9am-3pm; Cover by donation

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

UNION HALL Spooked; 8pm; $20 (adv),

BLUES ON WHYTE Bob Cook & The

$25 (doors); 18+ only

Barefoot Kings; 9pm

Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

YARDBIRD SUITE Jacam Manricks Trio; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on

Classical

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with

the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

11:30pm; $24 • Mozart & Tchaikovsky; 7:30pm; $24-$79

UBK PRESENTS

ZOMBIE SOUNDCLASH - FT.:

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JOCELYN ALICE

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday

TROYBOI

Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday

Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien; 8-11pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott Band;

(jazz); 11:30am

BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott Band;

Classical

9pm

BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH Concordia

Symphony Orchestra - Orchestral Fireworks; 2pm; $13-$17

Michael Gfroerer; 3pm; No cover

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global

sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

9pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Barenaked

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam:

Trevor Mullen

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

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)

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo Toonz

BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott Band;

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite; 7pm; $45

Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

9pm

AARON JACKSON (AUDIOPHILE I USA)

NOV/4

EATS AND BEATS DOORS OPEN AT 6PM

NOV/5

TIM CHAISSON W/ GUESTS

NOV/6

LIBRARY VOICES W/ SURF DADS. & GUESTS

BEN DISASTER

W/ ULTRA GASH, DREAM WHIP, VERSIONS JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

JESSE ROPER W/ STONE IRIS, & GUESTS

THE TOWN HEROES W/ STONE IRIS, & GUESTS

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780-655-

Lessons: 7-9pm; Later: Trick Rider O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with

every Tue ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm

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 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover STARLITE ROOM Jocelyn Alice with

guests; 8pm; $15 (adv); 18+ only ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori

Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays:

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday open mic

every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic Monday

UNION HALL Mac Demarco with

Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

SUN NOV 1

Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4

guests; 7pm; 16+ only

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session:

'80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle FREE LOVE PRESENTS

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris

Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic

with host Duff Robison

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

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

8520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M 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

9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

Ladies - Silverball Tour with special guest Alan Doyle; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $35-$185

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm

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DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue;

Harvey and guests

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun BBQ

NOV/14

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite; 7pm; $45

MON NOV 2

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.

NOV/13

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

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Scream 2015 (electronic/dance/DJ); 8pm

W/ GUESTS

NOV/7

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

TESSERACT

PLATINUM BLONDE

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY PJ Perry

ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH

electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

Wednesdays Jam; Every Wed, 7:30pm; All ages

TUE NOV 3

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights: RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Wailin'

Mark Ammar; 4-8pm

every Sat Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

B STREET BAR Live Music with Lyle Hobbs; 8-11pm, every Wed

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam hosted by

9:30pm-1am

Whale And Other Creatures Featuring University of Alberta Department of Music with Shelley Younge and Eileen Keown and with Colin Ryan; 3pm; $20 (adult), $10 (student), $15 (senior)

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

WED NOV 4

'80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds

CONVOCATION HALL The Voice of the

and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

W/ THE CONTORTIONIST, ERRA, SKYHARBOR

OCT/30 -- HALLOWEEN --

Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The

UBK PRESENTS:

THE NOISE PRESENTS

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30-11:30pm; Free

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

W/ GUESTS

RICH AUCOIN

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Billy Connolly MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE Dark

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

Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

DANCE CODE STUDIO Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

High Horse Tour; 8pm; $45-$70

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit

SIDELINERS PUB Singer/Songwriter

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Open Mic

Star: The Life & Times Of Roy Orbison; until Nov 1

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...:

PROTEST THE HERO

jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

DJs 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

W/ THE ELWINS

NOV/14

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with Charlie

WINSPEAR CENTRE Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde;

W/ MANDROID ECHOSTAR (NOV 8), & GUESTS

NOV/13

STARLITE ROOM Bassenji, Eprom, Neon

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

8pm; $35 (adult), $30 (senior), $10 (student)

(KEZIA 10YR ANNIVERSARY)

NOV/11

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open

CONVOCATION HALL Ensemble Caprice;

W/ BOIDS, WORST DAYS DOWN & OLD BOYS CLUB

OCT/31 -- HALLOWEEN --

SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am

Full Circle Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

DJs

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 ST NW 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 AND GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose BETHEL LUTHERAN CHURCH 298 Bethel Dr, Sherwood Park 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 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 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta COOK COUNTY SALOON 8010 Gateway Blvd NW DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 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,

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780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 St FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10025-105 St NW HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove 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 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE 16648109 Ave NW 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 MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE 8900-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 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 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 RITCHIE COMMUNITY HALL 7727-98 St NW 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 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 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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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 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

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta,

how they have negatively and positively affected the flourishing of Indigenous peoples in Canada • Nov 3

and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com

FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE •

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave •

Remedy Cafe, 8631-109 St • faccedmonton@gmail. com • fertilityawarenesschartingcircle.org • First Mon each month (Oct-May), 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (suggested donation) • RSVP at faccedmonton@gmail.com

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

GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE • St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 (Gerry)/ 780.435.6406 (John)/ 780.454.6216 (Sylvia) • Cuba (2015) - by Jim Cochrane (Nov 2)

HEALTHY LIVING CONFERENCE & FAIR • OTS

5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm

(Oilfield Technical Society) Hall 2104-156 St • Wellness options, mini sessions, vendors, speakers • Nov 7 • $2, free (kids under 17)

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

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

• Robertson-Wesley United Church, 10209-123 St • rwuc.org/sac.html • Every Sun, 3-5pm; Oct 18-Dec 6

Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Sean Thomson; Oct 29-31 • Marvin Krawczyk; Nov 5-7

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 • Kevin Iso; Oct 28-Nov 1

CRAIG FERGUSON: THE NEW DEAL TOUR • River Cree, 300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch • rivercreeresort.com • Nov 4, 7pm (door), 9pm (show) • $49.95 (and up); 18+ only

THE DATING GAME • On the Rocks, 11740 Jasper Ave NW • Nov 8, 7:30pm

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 ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side),

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

Henry Marshall Tory Building (Room B-95), University of Alberta • museums.ualberta.ca • Introducing lesserknown aspects of Kangxi’s personality and action, concentrating in particular on the major political gestures that were his first visits to the still insecure metropolises of the lower Yangzi valley • Oct 29, 4-6pm

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-118

THE MACTAGGART ART COLLECTION LECTURE SERIES HOW IS ORDER POSSIBLE IN A STATE THE SIZE OF CHINA? • TELUS International

Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519 TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma

EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner Library, 7

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters

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

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • vbatten@hfh.org • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • hfh.org/volunteer • Learn about taking the next step and what opportunities are available • 3rd Thu of the month, 6-7pm, until Nov 2015 • Free

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

LGNYEG (LADY GEEKS UNITE) • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • lgnyeg.blogspot.ca • Geek out with fellow geek ladies. Featuring movies, board games, artists and so much more. This month features: D&D FAQ; Nov 5, 7pm

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Centre (Room 150), University of Alberta • museums. ualberta.ca • Oct 31, 1-2pm

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave •

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

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

THE MACTAGGART ART COLLECTION LECTURE SERIES AN EMPIRE AND AN EMPEROR IN CONSTRUCTION: REFLECTIONS AROUND KANGXI’S EARLY TRIPS TO THE SOUTH •

• 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)

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

Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month

HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNIVERSAL: A MUSICAL EXPLORATION WITH MICHAEL GFROERER

THE MACTAGGART ART COLLECTION LECTURE SERIES THE CURSE OF EPIGONISM: QIANLONG’S CONQUESTS IN CENTRAL ASIA • Henry Marshall Tory Building (Room B-95), University of Alberta • museums.ualberta.ca • Examining the origins and significance of the magnificent album of etchings of the Qianlong Emperor's conquest of the Eleuths and Dzungars that is in the Mactaggart Art Collection • Oct 30, 3-5pm

THE MACTAGGART ART COLLECTION LECTURE SERIES FLOWS: ROUTES OF WEALTH AND POWER IN IMPERIAL CHINA • TELUS International Centre (Room 150), University of Alberta • museums.ualberta.ca • Examining the importance of flow or movement to the construction of political and economic order in late-imperial China • Oct 31, 10:30am-12pm

TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and recreation activities • All-Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8648-81 St NW; pridecentreofedmonton.org; Every 3rd Sat of the month, 9:30-10:30pm • 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)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace. org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area.

Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured 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 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 PHOTOGRAPHIC TRADE SHOW • U of A Universiade Pavilion (Butterdome), 87 Ave & 114 St • 780.420.0404 • byoung@mcbaincamera. com • edmontonphotoshow.com • Featuring 13 of the industries key suppliers demonstrating the latest in photographic technology • Nov 1, 9:30am-5pm • $12 (adv), $15 (door)

EDMONTON ROCKY MOUNTAIN WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL • Shaw Conference Centre, Halls A – C, 9797 Jasper Ave NW • rockymountainwine.com/ edmonton.html • Offering the opportunity to sample

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

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, 12:051pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail. com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@ yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward.toastmastersclubs.org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

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 WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS 27TH ANNUAL MCDONALD LECTURE JOHN BORROWS: CANADA'S COLONIAL CONSTITUTION • McLennan Ross Halls A and B, Law Centre (111 St and 89 Ave), University of Alberta • Join Professor John Borrows as he looks at two very different stories that animate Canada's Constitution and

VEGTOBERFEST DINERS’ EVENT: OLYMPIA ETHIOPIAN RESTAURANT CAFE • 15608-103 Ave • Vegan Buffet – everyone welcome • Oct 29, 6-6:30pm • $18

QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue: Retro Tuesdays with Dj Arrow Chaser; 9pm-close • Wed: DJ Griff; 9-close • Thu: Wet underwear with Shiwana Millionaire • Fri: Dance all Night with Dj Arrowchaser • Sat: Weekly events and dancing until close • Sun: Weekly Drag show with Shiwana Millionaire and guests; 12:30am

an extensive variety of world-class wine, scotch, premium spirits, import and micro-brewed beer along with gourmet culinary creations from local restaurants, hotels and food purveyors • Nov 6-7

FaBulous@50 experience • The Venue at River Cree Casino, 300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch • fabulousat50.com • Creating the golden days of Old Las Vegas, which comes complete with Elvis and friends. Featuring speakers, comedy, and trade show • Nov 7

GIRLS' NIGHT OUT • St. Albert Theatre Troupe • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • Four women meet for dinner. They have a mutual acquaintance in common, with whom they all share some volatile history of one sort or another. Said acquaintance ends up dead! Who did it? A prize draw will be held after each performance for those who guess correctly • Nov 5-8, Nov 12-15, Nov 19-21

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

NORTH WEST EDMONTON SENIORS SOCIETY ANNUAL BAZAAR • 12963-120 St • 780.451.1925 • Featuring crafts, knitwear, home baking, books, puzzles, novelties, crocheting, mini raffles, door prizes and a delicious lunch from the kitchen • Oct 31, 9am-3pm • Free

SCARE ON THE SQUARE • Sir Winston Churchill Square, 9930-102 Ave NW • 780.970.7766 • brasko@ edmontonarts.ca • edmontonarts.ca • Hosting activities such as illusions, local acts, jack-o-lantern carving and much more • Oct 31, 12-4pm • Free 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

GHOULISHLEFFUAN FOR THE MILY WHO A portion of the proceeds will go to:

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 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre 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, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:308:30pm, 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 anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay

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Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

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

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Volunteer At The Carrot Be part of a great team by volunteering as a barista at The Carrot! If you have a hankering to learn coffee art and the ins and outs of being a barista, or just getting involved in the community, please contact Eva at carrotassist@gmail.com.

Volunteers can enjoy gettogethers throughout the year, as well as incentives and gifts.

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Earth Magic Media Group A First Nations television production company is looking for interested native people who would be interested in tv production as a possible career. We are embarking on a documentary tv series about our People and want to provide training in all aspects of, as we give voice to our community and to empower our People.

Please send your resume and letter of intent to: Raymond Yakeleya Earth Magic Media Group Box 327 10654 Whyte Avenue Edmonton, Alberta T6E 2A7 ryy1954@hotmail.com

2005.

Artist to Artist

Call For Artisans - The Carrot Christmas Bazaar The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse is hosting a Christmas Arts Bazaar on November 27 and 28 in conjunction with Just Christmas, a Fair Trade Justice at Christmas craft fair at the Alberta Ave Community League. 2000 people expected to come to Alberta Avenue in pursuit of artisan Christmas gifts, and we are looking for local artisans to be part of our boutique sale at The Carrot.

We are a small venue, looking for artisans who can be assured great traffic with Just Christmas happening a block away, as well as other local art galleries open at this time.

Venue: Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse (9531-118 Ave).

Bazaar Dates: Friday, November 27 from 7:00pm 9:00pm. Saturday, November 28 from 10:00am - 4:00pm.

For more information and table fees, please email Eva at carrotassist@gmail.com along with photos of your work for jury consideration. Submission deadline: Friday, November 6, 2015.

Call for One Act Play Submissions: Stage Struck!

2016 is a one-act play festival sponsored by the Alberta Drama Festival Association, Edmonton Region. The festival will be held at La Cite on March 11-12, 2016. For more information or to request a registration package, contact Syrell at 780-493-0261 or email syrellw@telus.net.

Submission deadline is December 21, 2015.

2005.

Artist to Artist

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2020.

Musicians Wanted

Black/Death Metal Band Seeks Drummer Drummer needed for a 3 piece Black/Death Metal band. We are established and have played a few shows around the city. We recorded our 7 song debut album with our old drummer, which we are releasing soon. Our jam space is located just outside of downtown. Check us out here www.facebook.com/anthroplague

or www.reverbnation.com/anthropl ague9. Phone - 780.292.3397.

Serious inquiries only.

Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677

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

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

7020.

Legal Services

Final Estate Planning Wills, Powers of Attorney and Personal Directives.

Please call Nicole Kent with At Home Legal Services(780) 756-1466 to prepare your Final Estate Planning Documents.

MEIER GUN AUCTION. Saturday, October 31, 11 a.m., 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton.

Over 150 guns - handguns, rifles, shotguns, hunting and sporting equipment.

To consign 780-440-1860.

ANTIQUE COLLECTIBLE AUCTION. Sunday, Nov. 15, 10:30 a.m., Breton Community Hall.

3’ X 5’ Coke sign, automobilia, auto books, crystal, crocks.

780-696-2428 (speak loud); www.AndresensAuctions.com.

UNRESERVED AUCTION SALE for Thunder Lake Ranches (Estate of Ed Paull).

Saturday, October 31, 2015.

Sale Starts: 11 a.m. 175 - Black & Red bred cows. 9 - 4 year old Black & Red Angus bulls.

Selling at 12 Noon. Selling a very large selection of cattle handling equipment plus tractors, trailers, trucks, grain bins, construction equipment & much much more. Call Allen for more info: 1-855-783-0556; www. allenolsonauction.com.

(2) UNRESERVED PUBLIC AUCTIONS. Tuesday, November 3, 2015. CPA Canadian Public Auction Ltd., 9320 - 52 St. SE, Calgary, Alberta. Wednesday, November 4, 2015. Lauren Constructors. Shop Dispersal, 9241 - 44 St. SE, Calgary, Alberta.

Call 403-269-6600 or visit: canadianpublicauction.com.

UNRESERVED AUCTION NOV. 4 - GLM Industries (Nisku, Alberta). Heavy equipment, construction equipment, metalworking, tools, shop tank Mfg, inventory, skid offices. Phone 780-566-1831; www.CenturyServices.com.

CLOSEOUT AUCTION for Paragon Machine & Tooling Ltd. Tuesday, November 3, 11 a.m.

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): On a January morning in 1943, the town of Spearfish, South Dakota experienced very weird weather.

At 7:30 am the temperature was -4F. In the next two minutes, due to an unusual type of wind sweeping down over nearby Lookout Mountain, thermometers shot up 49 degrees. Over the next hour and a half, the air grew even warmer. But by 9:30, the temperature had plummeted back to -4F. I'm wondering if your moods might swing with this much bounce in the coming weeks. As long as you keep in mind that no single feeling is likely to last very long, it doesn't have to be a problem. You may even find a way to enjoy the breathtaking ebbs and flows. Halloween costume suggestion: roller-coaster rider, Jekyll and Hyde, warm clothes on one side of your body and shorts or bathing suit on the other.

TAURUS (APRIL 20 – MAY 20): How dare you be so magnetic and tempting? What were you thinking when you turned up the intensity of your charm to such a high level? I suggest you consider exercising more caution about expressing your radiance. People may have other things to do besides daydreaming about you. But if you really can't bring yourself to be a little less attractive—if you absolutely refuse to tone yourself down—please at least try to be extra kind and generous.

Share your emotional wealth.

Overflow with more than your usual allotments of blessings.

Halloween costume suggestion: a shamanic Santa Claus; a witchy Easter Bunny.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): In the last 10 days of November and the month of December, I suspect there will be wild-card interludes when you can enjoy smart gambles, daring stunts, cute tricks and mythic escapades.

But the next three weeks will not be like that. On the contrary. For the immediate future, I think you should be an upstanding citizen, a well-behaved helper and a dutiful truth-teller. Can you handle that?

If so, I bet you will get sneak peeks of the fun and productive mischief that could be yours in the last six weeks of 2015. Halloween costume suggestion: the most normal person in the world.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): Members of the gazelle species known as the springbok periodically engage in a behaviour known as pronking. They leap into the air and propel themselves a great distance with all four feet off the ground, bounding around with abandon. What evolutionary purpose does this serve? Some scientists are puzzled, but not naturalist David Attenborough.

In the documentary film Africa, he follows a springbok herd as it wanders through the desert for months, hoping to find a rare

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rainstorm. Finally it happens. As if in celebration, the springboks erupt with an outbreak of pronking. "They are dancing for joy," Attenborough declares. Given the lucky breaks and creative breakthroughs coming your way, Cancerian, I foresee you doing something similar. Halloween costume suggestion: a pronking gazelle, a hippety-hopping bunny, a boisterous baby goat.

I don't think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about how strong it feels. To help maintain your poise, keep in mind that your growth spurt is a natural response to the dissolution that preceded it. Halloween costume suggestion: a fountain, an erupting volcano, the growing beanstalk from the "Jack and the Beanstalk" fairy tale.

LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): "A very little key will open a very heavy door," wrote Charles Dickens in his short story "Hunted Down."

Make that one of your guiding meditations in the coming days, Leo. In the back of your mind, keep visualizing the image of a little key opening a heavy door.

Doing so will help ensure that you'll be alert when clues about the real key's location become available. You will have a keen intuitive sense of how you'll need to respond if you want to procure it. Halloween costume suggestion: proud and protective possessor of a magic key.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): "Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again." So says Buddhist teacher Jack Kornfield. Can you guess why I'm bringing it to your attention, Sagittarius? It's one of those times when you can do yourself a big favor by sloughing off the stale, worn-out, decaying parts of your past. Luckily for you, you now have an extraordinary talent for doing just that.

I suspect you will also receive unexpected help and surprising grace as you proceed. Halloween costume suggestion: a snake molting its skin.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): The ancient Hindu text known as the Kama Sutra gives extensive advice about many subjects, including love and sex. "Though a man loves a woman ever so much," reads a passage in chapter four, "he never succeeds in winning her without a great deal of talking." Take that as your cue, Virgo.

In the coming weeks, stir up the intimacy you want with a great deal of incisive talking that beguiles and entertains. Furthermore, use the same approach to round up any other experience you yearn for. The way you play with language will be crucial in your efforts to fulfill your wishes. Luckily, I expect your persuasive powers to be even greater than they usually are. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate salesperson.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): Speaking on behalf of your wild mind, I'm letting you know that you're due for an immersion in revelry and festivity. Plugging away at business as usual could become counterproductive unless you take at least brief excursions to the frontiers of pleasure. High integrity may become sterile unless you expose it to an unpredictable adventure or two.

Halloween costume suggestion: party animal, hell raiser, social butterfly, god or goddess of delight. Every one of us harbours a touch of crazy genius that periodically needs to be unleashed, and now is that time for you.

LIBRA (SEPT 23 – OCT 22): I encourage you to be super rhythmical and melodious in the coming days. Don't just sing in the shower and in the car. Hum and warble and whistle while shopping for vegetables and washing the dishes and walking the dog. Allot yourself more than enough time to shimmy and cavort, not just on the dance floor but anywhere else you can get away with it. For extra credit, experiment with lyrical flourishes whenever you're in bed doing the jizzle-skazzle.

Halloween costume suggestion: wandering troubadour, street musician, free-styling rapper, operatic diva, medicine woman who heals with sound.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): I expect you to be in a state of continual birth for the next four weeks. Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly.

Does that sound overwhelming?

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): I hope you will chose a Halloween costume that emboldens you to feel powerful. For the next three weeks, it's in your long-term interest to invoke a visceral sense of potency, dominion and sovereignty. What clothes and trappings might stimulate these qualities in you? Those of a king or queen?

A rock star or CEO? A fairy godmother, superhero or dragontamer? Only you know which archetypal persona will help stir up your untapped reserves of confidence and command.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): It's time to stretch the boundaries, Pisces. You have licence to expand the containers and outgrow the expectations and wage rebellion for the sheer fun of it. The frontiers are calling you. Your enmeshment in small talk and your attachment to trivial wishes are hereby suspended. Your mind yearns to be blown and blown and blown again! I dare you to wander outside your overly safe haven and go in quest of provocative curiosities. Halloween costume suggestions: mad scientist, wild-eyed revolutionary, Dr Who.V

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New wave of toy companies Technology and crowdfunding are changing the toy-making game Getting a new sex toy on the market is an expensive undertaking.

Developing a prototype for a new product and bringing it through to manufacturing can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. Until recently, there were only three ways to do it: work for a large company with the resources to develop your ideas; sell your ideas to a large company; or have the money yourself, or find a major investor or lender.

The advent of technologies like digital modelling and 3D printing, along with the birth of crowdfunding, have changed all of that, opening up opportunities to a new wave of young innovators and designers.

A few weeks ago at eroFame—Europe's biggest business-to-business sex-toy trade show—I got the chance to talk to the people behind

one of these new companies: Dame Products, whose hands-free clitoral vibrator, Eva, has created enormous buzz on the web. "[We have] an extremely engaging story ... and an intriguing product with testimonials and data from real people," Tracy Blakely, sales manager for Dame, writes in an email. "Here you had two insanely intelligent women [sex educator Alexandra Fine and mechanical engineer Janet Lieberman] joining forces to create a truly innovative product. Things are changing rapidly, and they represent part of the next exciting wave."

In a conversation at eroFrame, Lieberman stated that having a small team and using new technologies allowed them to quickly fine-tune the product in response to feed-

back from their field testers. Instead of waiting weeks or months to get prototypes back from thirdparty manufacturers, they could create 3D digital models and produce them on a 3D printer in days.

This allowed them to stay on top of current trends and get the product to market in less than two years.

The crowdfunding model was key. "Crowdfunding opens opportunity to everyone in a unique way," Blakely writes. "Instead of going the route of getting a product to market and a company off the ground through traditional methods, you get to pitch to the masses who tell you in real time whether or not they want what you have to offer."

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to the design and marketing, making the product more useful and appealing to the intended customer, all before it's even complete.

These new possibilities have paved the way for what may just be the next sex-toy renaissance, injecting much-needed creativity and alternative viewpoints into the industry. The big toy manufacturers often stick to variations of triedand-tested products, while the new small companies are looking to shake things up and distinguish themselves from the mainstream.

Often, they turn out to be more in tune with what consumers actually want. Case in point: Lieberman and Blakely said they've been told by several large industry players that Eva will never sell because it's too different and hard to un-

derstand. Consumers don't seem to agree: Dame sold out its first production run of the toy with crowdfunding orders alone. They had to do a second production run just to complete all the pre-orders.

It's an exciting time not only for potential toy makers but also for those of us who love toys. We finally have the opportunity to communicate with designers. Instead just choosing which toy we want up from the store shelf, we can actually shape what it will be before it even gets there.V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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REVENGE AND THE LAW

I am a straight, married, 38-year-old woman. My husband and I have two children. I have been with my husband for 12 years, married for six. Three years after we were married, we found out that he was HIV positive. We had both had multiple tests throughout our relationship because of physicals and the process we went through to get pregnant. Both of us were negative then, but only I am now. Needless to say, he was infected as a result of him cheating. We worked through that and remained married. Recently I saw a message from a woman saying, "Call me or I am calling your wife." I identified myself, and she and I spoke briefly. I asked her how long they were having a relationship, and she told me since January. I did not mention his status. I confronted him, and he claims she is a crazy stalker.

He says there was a brief flirtation but then she became clingy and "crazy," and he did not know how to tell me without compromising our relationship. He blocked her calls and emails.

He is undetectable, and we use condoms. He has never tried to not use a condom when we have had sex. In the state where we live, a positive person who does not inform a person of their status before having sex faces up to five years in prison. I have brought this to his attention. He is sticking to his story that he did not have sex with her. I do not believe him. We met with a therapist last week, only for a placement consultation. We did not mention his status. This is my biggest issue: I don't think we can work through our problems without honesty. I need him to come clean and admit to me— and our therapist—that he had sex with this woman. If he does, I believe the therapist will be legally obligated to report his behaviour to the police.

I am preparing myself for divorce, something he doesn't know, and while

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I don't want to have him arrested, I feel we need the therapy in order to respectfully co-parent—and lying to a therapist or omitting the full truth seems crazy.

Seeking Truth About This Unpleasant Situation "Where to start?" asked Peter Staley, the legendary AIDS activist, founding director of the Treatment Action Group and longtime board member of the American Foundation for AIDS Research. "I'll leave the relationship issues to you, Dan, but isn't the level of distrust here the most toxic part of the story?"

The level of distrust does strike me as toxic—but seeing as your husband cheated, STATUS, and not for the first time, your distrust is understandable. What I don't understand is your desire to see your husband sent to prison. You don't want honesty (he doesn't seem capable of that), you don't want to "work through your problems" (your marriage is over), you just want your soon-to-be ex-husband to rot in jail.

But since you don't want to call the police yourself—you don't want your fingerprints on this—you want to con your husband (with my help!) into telling "the full truth" to a therapist who will have to call the police.

"STATUS really does appear to be plotting her revenge here," Staley said. "Divorce, checking her state's HIV criminalization laws, drawing her husband into making a confession

that could land him in prison."

And the instrument of your revenge—laws that require HIV-positive people to disclose to their sex partners—are unjust and unworkable.

"I stand with every public-health organization, including UNAIDS and the World Health Organization, in abhorring HIV criminalization laws like the one STATUS cites," Staley said.

"We already have laws on the books that can adequately deal with someone who knowingly and intentionally transmits HIV to someone else.

So even if he didn't use condoms with this woman—and you don't even know for sure if he was fucking her (and he'd be a fool to admit to you that he was)—he didn't put her at risk of acquiring HIV. "There's a great organization called SERO (seroproject.com) fighting these laws," Staley said. "Their website is filled with frightening cases of people with HIV rotting in jail for supposed nondisclosure, even when no transmission occurred. There are no similar convictions for nondisclosure of hepatitis C, HPV, syphilis, herpes, etc., some of which can kill.

People with HIV are being singled out by legislatures trying to 'protect' the public from 'AIDS monsters' created by local TV stations looking for ratings."

Follow Peter Staley on Twitter @ peterstaley and on Facebook at facebook.com/peterstaley.

We already have laws on the books that can adequately deal with someone who knowingly and intentionally transmits HIV to someone else. Adding additional laws around HIV disclosure, especially when no transmission occurs, ends up causing more harm than good.

Adding additional laws around HIV disclosure, especially when no transmission occurs, ends up causing more harm than good. Stigma rises. Fewer people disclose. Jilted partners use the laws to lash out."

That's exactly what you sound like, STATUS: a jilted partner who hopes to use an unjust law to lash out at her soon-to-be ex-husband. And while you have cause to be angry (serial adulterers suck), you don't have grounds to destroy your husband's life. And you can't rationalize your plot based on the "danger" your husband presented to the other woman.

Your husband is taking his meds and has an undetectable viral load. That means he's effectively noninfectious.

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My boyfriend of two years and I broke up because I found out that he was having sexual relations with anonymous men he contacted through Craigslist. My ex will not admit to being bisexual. He claims that he has these urges only when he smokes marijuana. But through our computer history, I caught him watching gay porn at times when I knew he had not smoked marijuana. I check CL periodically, and he is still posting ads regularly, even though he denies this and insists that he has the situation under

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control. Disturbingly, he is also dating women. I think this is dangerous because there is such a strong chance that he will give these women an STD, such as AIDS, and destroy both of their lives. Since I am the only person in his life who knows his secret, I feel some sort of responsibility. I am very emotionally troubled by this knowledge and I don't feel right about ignoring this.

Anxiety Infuses Distressing Situation Your ex is obviously bisexual—or if not, AIDS, then his heteroflexibility is downright acrobatic. But policing your ex's sexual identity, his love life and his Craigslist presence is Not Your Job. Knocking dicks out of his mouth is not your responsibility, and you are not responsible for alerting other women to the porn, the personal ads, the dicks and the laughable excuses.

(Contrary to an infamous Reddit thread, marijuana does not make men "temporarily gay.")

You could, however, speak to your ex as a friend—a creepy friend who cyberstalks him, but still a friend. You could urge him to accept that, even if he isn't bi, he needs to own up to not being entirely straight, either.

If he's going to engage in risky sex practices with men—and you don't know that he's doing that (he could be using condoms correctly and consistently)—he should talk to his doctor about getting on PrEP, aka preexposure prophylaxis, aka Truvada.

Then, having said your piece, you can butt the fuck out his life with a clear conscience. V On the Lovecast, Dan chats with rival podcaster Debby Herbenick about condoms and PrEP… for ladies: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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