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Gender on campus Between rape chants at UBC and Saint Mary's, the misogynistic Facebook posts at Dalhousie and a general increase in attention paid to sexual assault on Canadian university campuses over the last few years, you might be left wondering exactly what is going on with college-aged young adults lately. There's a whole conversation to be had about the topic to be sure, but it's worth taking a moment to look at something good that's happening. The University of Alberta's Students' Union announced Project Feminist U last week, in an effort to tackle gender-based barriers to leadership involvement as well as talk about structural and institutional gender problems on campus. The programming is due to start in February, and there's an open call for presentations, screenings and workshops, welcoming participation from anybody in the U of A or Edmonton communities. Because, while equality is going strong on paper, there can be all sorts of unseen pressures on people of various backgrounds when it comes not only to pursuing leadership roles in university environments and society, but even deciding to attend at all. Notably and embarrassingly, the U of A's SU went four straight years with solely male executive teams—until its current roster. One of the first posts in the project's Facebook group is a note from a female engineering student about how she doesn't feel like she completely belongs, despite nobody saying it. We can hope the reason we haven't heard about any particular instances of outright discriminatory or insensitive behaviour at our city's campuses is because it hasn't happened to that degree, but it feels refreshingly proactive of the U of A's SU to get this thing going in the current Canadian university climate. If we do have our own Dalhousie-like Facebook group brewing misogyny, then hopefully this effort creates an environment where it can be rightfully flushed out. But perhaps, more importantly, while those structural gender issues have long been batted around insular academic circles, airing them out in the open could be a great example for the whole country to follow. V
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Russia's list of "disorders" is sick
Those banned from driving include transsexuals and others outside the norm News from Russia: if you don't drive a car with your genitals, you're doing it wrong. I'm referring to the latest in a series of bizarre laws coming out of Russia—in this case, the one that forbids trans* people from having a driver's licence. I realize that the linking of a trans* identity solely to genitals is an offensive one, but it's about the level of sophistication this new law has with regards to trans* lives. The law is essentially this: on December 29, in an attempt to reduce the number of car accidents in the country, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev signed into law legislation (benignly named "On Road Safety") that is basically a laundry list of people with "sexual and emotional disorders" now forbidden to drive. This includes "disorders of sexual preference" (sadomasochism, exhibitionism and extremes such as pedophilia), "gender-identity disorders" (transsexualism and dual-role transvestism), epilepsy, colour blindness, pathological gambling, compulsive stealing and those who are extremely short (under 4'11"). You'll note that gay, lesbian or bisexual isn't explicitly included under the "sexual preferences" category, but there is some speculation that the enforcement of this law will allow for a generous interpretation of the categories and may include GLBs, too.
I can imagine a scenario where someone with a gambling addiction is playing online poker on their phone while driving and causes an accident. Or if I really stretch, I suppose it's possible that in the history of the internal combustion engine, one time some Dom made her sub drive around blindfolded for some reason. But I can't imagine Russian roads are
on for all things queer and trans*, why include all the other categories? It isn't as if Russian lawmakers are afraid of being blatant in their discrimination. Two thoughts about this: first, the wacky "disorders" on this list might just be padding to distract from a goal of targeting trans* people. But it's also important to remember that mid-December saw the sharpest one-day drop in the Russian ruble's value since the crisis of 1998. Against the backdrop of the economic and social certainty that this drop precipitated, it makes a certain kind of sense to double-down on national scapegoats to distract from the financial troubles. And given the ill-conceived nature of this law, it certainly has the look of something that was pulled together in a hurry. Another possibility is that this has nothing to do with driving at all. I am not familiar with Russian bureaucratic systems so I might be totally off-base here, but a driver's licence is a primary form of government ID and, at least in Canada, is essential to access certain services. If the same is true in Russia, then the driving part of this bill may be the actual distraction if lawmakers are trying to actively disenfranchise trans* people. Whatever the reason, this bill is a travesty and I hope it is repealed soon. V
I can't imagine Russian roads are clogged with people flashing their junk or compulsively stealing while driving. I also can't imagine that driving while trans* is actually causing any accidents, either. clogged with people flashing their junk or compulsively stealing while driving. I also can't imagine that driving while trans* is actually causing any accidents, either. So what's the point of the law, other than baseless random discrimination? In their reporting, most of the major news outlets are hypothesizing the most immediate consequence: trans* people will be less likely to seek mental-health support (for whatever reason) for fear of having their licences revoked. Given Russia's recent spate of laws targeting members of the LGBTQ community, I suppose a law like this isn't really a surprise. But if Russia just wanted to extend its hate-
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The strategy of the Paris attacks The Charlie Hebdo murders are wicked and tragic, but do not equal a war After Ahmed Merabet, a French policeman, was killed outside the Charlie Hebdo offices in Paris last week, his brother Malek said: "My brother was Muslim and he was killed by two terrorists, by two false Muslims. Islam is a religion of peace and love." It was moving, but to say that all Muslims who commit cruel and violent acts in God's name are "false Muslims" is like saying that the Crusaders who devastated the Middle East 900 years ago were "false Christians." The Crusaders were real Christians. They believed they were doing God's will in trying to reconquer the formerly Christian lands that had been lost to Islam centu-
ries before, and they had the support of most people back home in Europe. Similarly, Saïd and Chérif Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly believed they were true Muslims doing God's will, and some people in Muslimmajority countries agree with them. But there is an important difference from the Crusades: the supporters of the young French terrorists are a minority everywhere and among Muslims liv-
ing in Western countries they are only a tiny minority. This is not a "war of civilizations." Seventeen innocent people killed
There is a war going on, but it is a civil war within the "House of Islam" that occasionally spills over into non-Muslim countries. As foot soldiers in that war, the three killers in Paris probably did not fully understand the role they were playing, but they were serving a quite sophisticated strategy. Two of these Muslim civil wars, in Afghanistan and Iraq, were ignited by US-led invasions in 2001 and 2003. Four others, in Syria, Libya,
The best way to do this is to convince Muslims that modernization—democracy, equality, the whole cultural package—is part of a Western plot to undermine Islam. in Paris is not the equivalent of the Crusades. For that matter, neither was 9/11. These are wicked and tragic events, but they are not a war.
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Yemen and the northern, mostly Muslim half of Nigeria, have begun since 2011. Others go back even further, like the war in Somalia, or have flared up and then become dormant again, like Mali and Algeria. In every one of these wars the victims are overwhelmingly Muslims killed by other Muslims. From time to time non-Muslims in other countries are killed too, as in New York in 2001, London in 2007, Bombay in 2008 and last week in Paris, and these killings do have a strategic purpose, but it's not to "terrify non-Muslims into submission." Quite the contrary. CONTINUED ON PAGE 07 >> UP FRONT 5
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ineteen months after floods ravaged their town, some High River residents are still unable to go home, while others have gone home only to be evacuated all over again. Town officials are optimistic that former Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith's recent floor-crossing to the government side might pave the way to help them through the bureaucratic morass, but critics are saying the whole mess is a just another example of the government playing politics instead of making every effort to help the people affected. "This has been a case of the province putting politics before people from the very beginning," Alberta Party leader Greg Clark says after his most recent visit to the town last week. "It's all about messaging, spin and the Progressive Conservative government making this all about politics instead of about doing the right thing." He points out that while the government has spent about $45 million on claims for the floods, about $20 million was paid to LandLink Consulting—a firm with "stellar Tory connections," according to Clark—to process the claims. When the rains came that June day in 2013, nobody could have anticipated what was to come next. Heavy rainstorms in Alberta in June come as surely as night follows day, but this storm just didn't let up. According to Environment Canada, the 18-hour storm was akin to "a fire hose aimed directly at southwestern Alberta." The department's website says that
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rainfall rates of three-to-five milli- says they have been trying to work ing the province was tripling the staff meters per hour are usually labelled closely with the government to at the DRP office in an effort to clear high; the rates during this storm identify problems with the system, the backlog of outstanding claims were 10 to 20 mm/h in higher eleva- which are legion. The provincial Di- and appeals. As of December 19, howtions with Burns Creek, located just saster Recovery Program provides ever, 1007 of the 4596 original claims west of High River, recording a phe- financial support for basic, essential remained outstanding, along with 85 nomenal 345 mm of rain over two- property damage that is not covered appeals. by insurance. and-a-half days. "The number of impediments to Matthew Grant, press secretary for By June 20, as the Highwood River crested its banks, the town declared individual recovery in High River im- Municipal Affairs Minister Diana Mca state of emergency and all 13 000 pacts the overall recovery of our Queen, advised in an email this week that all of the appeals that existed as residents were ordered to evacuate. community," he explains. After dealing with a long list of of September 26, when the governSome had to be rescued from their ment committed to rooftops. At least clear those appeals, three people died, have been closed. one while trying to It's all about messaging, spin and the Grant advised that rescue a friend. As Progressive Conservative government the process is fluid the second anniand that since Sepversary of the tragmaking this all about politics instead of tember, 160 more apedy approaches, one about doing the right thing. peals have been filed, town official says the including 85 in the community is still High River area. trying to heal. "With regards to the "People here are hurting. People here are still in shock," ministers of municipal affairs (four number of total cases, there have High River town councillor Bruce to date) as well as Calgary Southeast been approximately 10 500 DRP casMasterman says. "And while that MLA Rick Fraser who served, for a es opened related to the 2013 floods," might sound weird so long after the time, as Associate Minister of Re- he wrote. "Approximately 81 percent, flood, you've got to take into account covery and Reconstruction for High or 8500, cases have been closed. In the emotional and mental issues that River, Masterman questions whether the majority of remaining cases, inarise when people are displaced from the government is grasping the ur- formation from the applicants—such as engineering reports, receipts or gency of the situation. their homes." "This flood caught us like deer in the quotes—is required to proceed." Apologizing to the residents of Masterman met with provincial ofSlave Lake who experienced a dev- headlights, and a great many people astating fire in 2011, Masterman says have simply thrown up their hands ficials last week and questioned how that many people have told him that when it comes to dealing with the aggressively the province had pursued that information. The answer a fire would have been "a whole lot DRP," he adds. In September, among growing criti- was unclear. One bureaucrat I spoke easier to recover from." Masterman, who serves as the cism about the length it was taking with on background acknowledged it town's liaison to the province's Di- to resolve claims, Premier Jim Pren- would be extremely difficult for peosaster Recovery Program (DRP), tice issued a press release announc- ple to know they had to provide more VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 15, 2015 – JAN 21, 2015
information if nobody had told them they needed to. "We can always improve our communication," he said. While it is unknown how many people have been unable to go home since June 2013, some residents who thought they had put the whole nightmare behind them have been displaced yet again. Two neighbourhoods that had been submerged for weeks after the flood, the Hamptons and Sunrise, were evacuated again last month due to mould being discovered in homes that had just been rebuilt. "Those people have been turned into refugees twice by the same flood," Masterman says. While High River's mayor has expressed optimism of Danielle Smith's abandonment of her role as leader of the official opposition to join the government benches, Masterman was somewhat more circumspect. "I'm hopeful that some of the passion and fury that she directed towards various ministers regarding the DRP will be converted into passion and fury into getting it fixed and getting these files closed," he says. "We're definitely going to hold her feet to the fire." Smith's office advised that she was out of the country and unavailable for comment. The deadline for Albertans who were affected by the 2013 floods to apply for relief under the DRP is January 20, 2015. MIMI WILLIAMS
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The great Muslim civil war is about the political, social and cultural modernization of the Muslim world. Should it continue down much the same track that other major global cultures have followed or should those changes be stopped and indeed reversed? The Islamists take the latter position. Some aspects of modernization are very attractive to many Muslims, so stopping the changes would require a lot of violence, including the overthrow of most existing governments in Muslim countries. But that is the task that the Islamists in general, and the jihadi activists in particular, have undertaken. As they are minorities even in their own countries, the Islamists' hardest job is to mobilize popular support for their struggle. The best way to do this is to convince Muslims that modernization—democracy, equality, the whole cultural
package—is part of a Western plot to undermine Islam. This will be a more credible claim if Western countries are actually attacking Muslim countries, so one of the main jihadi strategies is to carry out terrorist atrocities that will trigger Western military attacks on Muslim countries. That was the real goal of 9/11, and it was spectacularly successful: it tricked the United States into invading not one but TWO Muslim countries. But smaller terrorist attacks that lead to the mistreatment of the Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries also serve the cause. They can create a backlash that victimizes the local Muslim minorities, thus generating yet more "proof" that there is a war against Islam. This strategy actually has a name. Appropriately it is in French: "la politique du pire." It's the strategy of making things worse in order to achieve one's ultimate goal—in this case, revolutions that will sweep away the existing governments in
almost every Muslim country and put the Islamists in power instead. There is a sub-theme in some of the Middle Eastern wars that muddies the waters a bit: in Syria, Iraq and Yemen the general radicalization has also revived and militarized the age-old conflict between Sunni and Shia Muslims. But even in these countries most of the killings are of Sunni Muslims by other Sunni Muslims. There will be more attacks like the ones in Paris, because lost young men seeking a cause abound in every community, including the Muslim communities of the West. We can't arrest them all, so we will go on having to live with a certain amount of terrorism from both Muslim and non-Muslim extremist groups and trying not to overreact—just as we have been doing for many decades already. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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guess this is more of a take-out place," I said, upon entering the foreshortened foyer of Silina's Mediterranean Grill. I was meeting my co-diner for a no-fuss, post-holiday supper on a lung-searingly cold Saturday evening. We walked into the impeccably clean interior, with a chest-high counter and a few stools ringing the small service area. Every seat seemed way too close to the front door on this chilly night, so we opted for take-out. Silina's particular stretch of the Mediterranean is Lebanese, instantly evident from a quick scan of the menu board and chafing dishes behind the sneeze guard: witness the perfectly formed orbs of goldenbrowned falafel, the iridescent turnip pickles, the deep parsley green of tabouli salad awaiting your perusal. Silina's menu makes ordering pretty simple. You can have falafel or meat—beef or chicken, spit-roasted or charbroiled in different configurations—in a pita or on a platter with pita, garlic potatoes, rice pilaf, salad, hummus and the intense garlic sauce called toum. Or the former home of
Burger Express—the sign is still outside—will make you a burger. My co-diner wanted a falafel platter ($9.95); the chicken shwarma came highly rated on Silina's Facebook page, so I ordered a platter ($11.95) of that as well, plus a side of tabouli ($4.95). I then watched the courteous counterperson make my supper: he slathered hot sauce and garlic sauce on discs of pita and tossed them on the charbroiler, then draped them over mounds of food to go. He had me on my way in minutes. The drive home was tantalizingly aromatic. At the kitchen table with a desirably priced Mediterranean red wine, we unwrapped our bounty. Co-diner unveiled a six-pack of crunchy falafel balls scribbled with tahini sauce over rice accompanied by a salad of cucumber, tomato and radish, a blob each of hummus and toum and that grill-crisped, steamy, savoury hunk of pita strewn with seasoned red onions. My takeout container fairly overflowed with marinated roasted chicken chopped in chunks, over a half-and-half pile of pilaf and cubed,
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roasted potatoes. We had no qualms with the portion sizes. I mean no slight when I say that a Silina's platter constitutes a medicinal dose of garlic, a radiant beam of vital wellness you can practically feel coming out of your pores. It tasted great with the crispy, non-greasy falafel as well as with the juicy bites of chicken, free of overcooked rinds that, in too great proportion, can mar a shwarma platter experience. The crunchy salad, creamy dips and duo of starches tasted great spooned together into a fold of warm pita with the chicken. The tabouli was closer to the parsley end of the parsley-bulgur wheat continuum, with a snap of lemon that was palate-renewing in the midst of all that chicken and garlic. Thus does Silina's join the ranks of noteworthy ethnic eateries along our Avenue of Nations. It has a comfortable place alongside such stalwarts as Acajutla, Quán Ph¤ o, long-lived Sahabah and recently resurrected Blue Nile. Let the gentrification begin. SCOTT LINGLEY
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Every breath you take
Your wine might need to breathe, but not through an aerator Wine aerators suck. The only time of year I have to deal with them is during the justconcluded holiday season, when I'm visiting family or friends who still insist on using the unnatural devices. Letting wine "breathe" or "open up" is largely irrelevant for most cheap and cheerful wines (ie, those under $20); they are just fine when opened and sipped immediately. The reason is simple: exposing wine to oxygen is akin to aging it in the cellar, and most wines are made to be consumed soon after bottling— they don't need to breathe because they don't need to age. Plenty of wines do benefit from breathing, however. Robust and tannic reds like Cabernet Sauvignon, Syrah and Nebbiolo are often "closed" when first opened: they don't yield much in the way of aroma or flavour upon first sniff and quaff. With just a bit of exposure to oxygen, these wines unfurl to reveal all sorts of secondary characteristics. This happens naturally in your glass, but many people prefer to decant such wines to speed up the
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process. Decanting is also useful for older red wines in which sediment has formed, as you can remove the grit before it ends up in your mouth. Decanting is really just pouring the wine from the bottle into another container and letting it sit awhile. The market is flush with all types of decanters, from simple budget models to ornate objets d'art. The most practical decanters have a wide base, which increases the surface area of wine to air for more efficient breathing. You certainly don't need a vessel designed specifically for decanting, though—a good friend of mine (and an experienced sommelier and wine agent) uses a ceramic rooster jug. Some prefer the look of wine in a decanter (or a rooster) and there's certainly no shame in using them for purely aesthetic purposes—even with white wines, which usually never need decanting. Just be careful when pouring, as wine moves much faster out of a decanter's wide mouth than a narrow bottle. An hour in the decanter roughly
translates to about a year in the cellar. That's not an absolute rule by any means, however, and every wine responds differently. Decanting is also not a close substitute for extended aging. A fine Bordeaux or Barolo, decanted for a day, will certainly not taste the same as a bottle that has spent two decades in the cellar. Sorry, that's just not how it works. Back to wine aerators: these contraptions claim to miraculously age your wine, enhancing its aroma and flavour, in seconds—no need for all this decanting business. They exploded in popularity a few years ago as the newest "it" wine gadget; I guess the market for rabbit corkscrews was tapped out. I find them worse than useless: they force the wines through some sort of unnatural process—making an alarming squealing, choking sound as they work—that mimics rapid aging but throws the wine out of balance and causes the alcohol to poke out. Every aerated wine I've tried was either flat and lifeless or flabby and hot. As with decanting,
cheap wines do not need to be aerated because they don't need to be aged; I wouldn't want to potentially ruin a bottle of nice wine by seeing what effect an aerator would have on it. Ultimately, decanting is largely a matter of preference. Do it, or don't; the choice is yours. But please, for the love of grape, never use an aerator. V Mel Priestley is a certified sommelier and wine writer who also blogs about wine, food and the arts at melpriestley.ca
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Carnivores, Rejoice: Brazilian Cooking Classes If you've ever wanted to master the fine art of all things barbecued meat, sign up for one of Pampa's cooking classes on Saturdays and Sundays throughout January and February. During the three-hour classes, which include both demonstration and handson experience, you'll learn the traditional methods of Brazilian barbecue and how to make some of Pampa's signature menu items. Classes are $100 per person, plus tax. Call 780.756.7030 to reserve a spot. Pampa is also set to open another location in southwest Edmonton sometime later in the year, and the first Calgary location opened last week. pampasteakhouse.com
Unwined in Edmonton City Centre St Albert wine shop Unwined has quietly opened a second location in downtown Edmonton, right in the City Centre Mall. The business is a welcome addition to the downtown core, and a major bonus for those of us who live and/or work downtown and don't feel like stepping into the cold outside the pedway system to visit one of the other shops in the area. unwined.biz
Alsace Week at The Marc Beat the post-holiday blahs (and tight budget) with a three-course, prix-fixe Alsatian menu at The Marc. For $49, you can choose between a pair of appetizers, entrées and desserts, all based on the cuisine from that stretch of land along France's northeastern border with Germany. Optional pairings of Belgium beer or Alsatian wine are also available with the menu, which runs until Saturday, January 17. themarc.ca
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Of pointe shoes and chest hair Trockadero offers an all-male comic take on classic ballet
all the Trocks are trained primarily as ballet dancers, so learning pointe is part of the interest in joining ("Of course, they wouldn't be auditioning for Trockaderos if they weren't," he says). Though it's not common for men to train en pointe, it's a bit of a different game when the end goal is to incite laughs. "We have the same problems that any ballet company has with injury and overuse," Dobrin explains. "The other thing is that a woman is trying to achieve a kind of lightness and ethereal style in a lot of the choreography—well, we're not trying to do that. We're trying to show male brute force, and that's where some of the comedy comes out. It's more like blunt instrument pointe work."
Tue, Jan 20 & Wed, Jan 21 (7:30 pm) Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo Jubilee Auditorium, $29 – $95 A different sort of ballet // Sascha Vaughn
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n the delicate world of classical ballet, chest hair is generally frowned upon. Even for male dancers in topless roles, there's rarely a follicle visible to the audience. But, in the instance of Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo (thankfully, usually shortened to the "Trocks"), manly manes are everpresent, peeking out of feathery, jeweled bodices topped with masques of lipstick and eyeshadow.
The Trocks—a New York-based, allmale comedic-ballet troupe—have spent the past handful of decades dancing in drag, prodding snickers from even the most uptight of ballet audiences. Its send-ups of Swan Lake, Balanchine, Russian ballets and even modern choreographers like Isadora Duncan have been welcomed on stages all over the globe. The troupe toured through Edmonton back in the
'80s, and is gearing up for its 40th year of hamming it up for the ballet world. "The reason we're still in existence— because so many companies come and go, as we know—is because the show is a lot of fun," notes artistic director Tory Dobrin, who started out with the company as a dancer in 1980. "It appeals to the woman who loves ballet, and to her husband who hates it. They can bring their kids,
they can bring their grandkids. ... There's a huge possibility for a large section of society to enjoy it." Dobrin adds that while seasoned dance audiences might get more out of the in-jokes, most will enjoy the show for its comedy. And really, the rarity of men dancing en pointe is enough to intrigue anyone curious about the work that goes in to donning those slippers. Dobrin notes that
The first act presents the group's signature piece, Swan Lake Act II (where the Prince enters the forest to find the swans—one of the most iconic ballet scenes of all time). The second act is a number of shorter, well-known pieces, while the show wraps with its third act by staging Paquita, a seminal example of Russian-style ballet in its prime. "Any time you put a man in a dress or a woman in armour, it's making you look at something that is very familiar in a completely fresh way," Dobrin says. "That might be called subversive, but our intention is to bring a big audience into the theatre of all different types of people, all sitting together, enjoying something that is fun and well done."
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Birdie on the Wrong Bus
Tue, Jan 20 – Sun, Jan 25 (7:30 pm) Birdie on the Wrong Bus Directed by Andrew Ritchie C103, $16 – $28 Fri, Jan 23 (9:30 pm) Back of the Bus: An Adult Fundraiser for Children's Theatre C103, $15
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aking the wrong bus is pretty nerve-wracking, no matter what your age. Ellen Chorley recalls getting lost in Calgary due to a bus misadventure; the experience was part of the inspiration for her script Birdie on the Wrong Bus, which premièred at the 2012 Snow Globe Festival. “It was the kind of show that our adult friends loved, but not a lot of kids saw,” Chorley recalls. “We weren’t able to sell any student matinees; teachers just weren’t interested in it compared to the other shows. We wanted to give it a chance to shine on its own, so that’s why we decided to remount it.” Birdie tells the story of a young girl who, after getting a bad mark on her “Why I love Edmonton” paper, fights with her sister and ends up on the wrong bus home from school. She goes on an impromptu city tour, meeting new people and visiting various hidden places that even local Edmontonians may not know (“you’re never a tourist in your own town,” Chorley notes), like the aluminum bat on 118 Avenue, the End of the World, the Garneau Theatre and the Alexander Circle.
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“I think it’s super important for kids to see things that they can identify with,” Chorley says. “I thought it was really important that Edmonton students and Edmonton kids see a play that’s very similar to their own experiences.” Birdie hasn’t changed too much in the couple years since it was first staged, aside from some minor rewrites; all of the original cast are reprising their roles. ETS has thrown in its support and is lending some authentic props, including an actual bus-stop pole. During the run, Chorley is also hosting a fundraiser for her company, Promise Productions, which she describes as “Sesame Street on speed”—a variety show with comedy, music and burlesque. “I’m always surprised by the way kids interact with theatre,” Chorley says. “They’re such honest audience members. If they don’t like it, they just don’t like it, and they’re going to tell you—and they’re probably going to tell you during the show, or they’ll get up and leave. I think when you can captivate an audience of kids, that’s a pretty powerful thing.”
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Circle Mirror Transformation premise, inherently seems to offer broad humour, though the cast have found it offering much more nuance than that. "I was surprised when I heard it was a comedy, after my first read," Cochrane offers. "I saw a lot of the tragedy in the characters' lives, and hadn't yet seen the humour within that. So I was like, 'Are we sure this is a comedy?' Then as soon as we started reading it together, it was outrageously funny."
Better living through theatre games // Mat Busby
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id you ever do 'Waving Goodbye?'" Lora Brovold asks. Beside her, Mikaela Cochrane smiles in recognition. "Do you mean on the dock? The neutral mask exercise?" Brovold cracks up: "Yeah." The two actors, backstage in one of the Varscona Theatre's dressing rooms, are trading memories of acting-school exercises, laughing and gri-
macing in equal measure. Such is the potent weirdness of theatre games: part icebreaker for a group of strangers, part technique to teach actors how to access usually unreachable emotional depths. But for the uninitiated, they're pretty funky to watch play out, depending on how much you buy in. That precarious balance between
Neither Cochrane nor Brovold went through the community-theatre process—both went the theatre-school route, and found their way into the professional commuUntil Sun, Feb 1 (7:30 pm; 2 pm nity from there—but Sunday matinees) they've found Circle Directed by John Hudson Mirror TransformaVarscona Theatre, $11 – $27 tion's account of the tion process to be familiar affect and awkward forms the back- regardless. The fact that the characters bone of Circle Mirror Transformation, have a spread of background—much Annie Baker's acclaimed comic play of which is only hinted at—offers the being produced in town by Shadow actors plenty of depth to explore. Theatre (as what's slated to be the "There's such a huge off-stage life final show in the Varscona Theatre component," Brovold explains. "It's before its long-awaited renovation like a well that sits in the character. begins). The script finds five strang- It leaks out in scenes, so you really ers together in an adult drama class have to go, 'What is happening?' It's in small-town Vermont. Which, as a not always shown what's internally
Remembering the Roxy n its first opening night 77 years ago, the Roxy screened Deanna Durbin's Mad About Music. Brandnew then in 1938, its plot concerned a girl (Durbin) studying at Swiss boarding school who invents an explorer father, right down to sending herself letters from him. When her classmates start to doubt her story, she has to prove he exists—which, through the sort of hijinx musicals are known for, she manages to do. So right from the beginning, the Roxy was a theatre concerned with making the impossible come true, letting lofty ambitions of imagination find purchase in reality. The Roxy went up in flames on Tuesday, in the middle of its resident company Theatre Network's 40th-anniversary season; its next show Cheerleader! was slated to begin previews that night. Its absence now marks not just the loss of a historical building and theatre, but the loss of another stage in a city where affordable arts space is slowly, surely, being squeezed away; in the last few years alone, we've lost the Living Room Playhouse and the Third Space, with the Varscona set to go down for a year or so of renovations any day now. The Roxy made sure indie companies and youth had
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happening. So it's like, 'Oh, this is kind of Jacobean ... I dig it.'" Both Brovold and Cochrane point to Baker's writing—very particular, right down to the exact length of its silences—as the key offering that balances between theatre-game comedy and deeper, more affecting reveals. "They have such depth and nuance." Brovold explains, of Baker's characters. "She writes ums, and ellipses, and dashes and pauses and people getting hung up on their own, blaaah,"—Brovold gestures at being tongue-tied— "That's all in there. You can see the characters battling through something, which is sometimes hilarious and sometimes painful. "The humour really is more human, and more tragic, at the same time," Brovold continues. "The device of using theatre games as a way to unlock secrets and keys and push buttons is clever." "There's a little part of me that's really hoping all my non-theatre friends will come to see this play," Cochrane says. "I'll be like, 'See, this is what I was talking about for all these years! I'm not crazy, this stuff happens! And it did help me!'"
In the wake of the Roxy fire, a number of arts groups are rallying behind Theatre Network, the company affected by the blaze. Some of the immediate efforts are collected below; if you’re wondering what you can do for the Roxy and Theatre Network, these are the places to start.
a professional stage to work on through its performance series as well as Nextfest, which got approximately 600 young artists on board every season. Whatever rises out of the ashes of the space—and assuredly something grand will, given a few years—the immediate loss of that sort of artistic safety net is palpable and difficult to fathom. And yet it still feels strange to write an obituary for a building, however historical and beloved a space it may have been. Nobody died. As grievous of a blow as it is today, the ideas and the artists that called it home will live on, and continue to create. On those first fliers for Mad About Music, Roxy owner Bill Wilson added a particularly empathetic line onto the tickets: "Your Own Theatre." In its years as a cinema and then certainly as a playhouse, that statement never stopped being true. Not for audiences that wandered in, and not the arts community that embraced it. Whatever the shape the future takes for the company and space, it will always be ours. Like the Roxy was, is and forever will be. PAUL BLINOV
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Blow The Roof Off / Sat, Jan 17 (7:30 pm) Freewill Players—a company that’s coming off a year of its own venue woes, after a winter storm destroyed Hawrelak Park amphiteatre’s new protective tarp as it was being installed—is sharing the proceeds of its own fundraising concert. It features musician Cayley Thomas and the syllabic gymnastics of Edmonton’s Poetry Brothel. (C103, $27.50) Rapid Fire Theatre / Fri, Jan 16 (7:30 pm) The local improv company is donating all ticket sales from its early Friday show to support Theatre Network. (Citadel Theatre, $12 in advance, $15 at the door) Spring Fling / Wed, Apr 29 This one’s a-ways into the future, but worth marking off on your calendar now: Theatre Network’s annual Spring Fling fundraiser will happen at Chateau Lacombe in April. Donations / Canadahelps.org Donations to Theatre Network can be made through canadahelps.org. Just search “Theatre Network Society” on the main page.
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Go take in some art You heard me. A 77-year-old theatre just vanished off the map overnight, but the arts scene in Edmonton remains active and diverse and wholly dependent upon audiences to show up and engage with the ideas on display. Let’s not just appreciate the creative spaces we have when they’re gone. ARTS 11
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Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • OUR LUMINOUS LAND: Paintings by Jim Visser; Dec 4-Jan 31, 2015 • art Ventures: Watercolour Views (Jan 17), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • ageless art: Needle Felted Landscapes (Jan 15), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member)
EVENING OF DANCE • Concordia University
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WEEKLY College - Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • music.concordia.ab.ca • With a performance by Concordia Symphony Orchestra with a dance lesson at 6:30pm • Jan 17, 7:30pm • $16.75-$22 at Tix on the Sqaure
LES BALLETS TROCKADERO DE MONTE CARLO • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • An all male group of ballet dancers who perform a range of dance repertoire, bringing non-stop laughts by incorporating and exaggerating the quirks, accidents, and underlying incongruities of serious dance • Jan 20-21, 7:30pm
ORCHESIS DANCE GROUP • Myer Horowitz Theatre, Students’ Union Building, University of Alberta • 50th Anniversary performance and gala • Performance: Jan 30 (8pm), Jan 31 (3pm) • $18 (adv), $22 (door) • Gala: $60, $30 (students) SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing. com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry
FILM CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Shut Up Little Man!: An Audio Misadventure (not rated), Jan 21 • Tom at the Farm (14A), Jan 28 • Free
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 • Walk the Line (PG); Jan 16 • Hedwig and the Angry Inch (14A); Jan 23 • The Phantom of the Opera (PG); Jan 30
METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • Canada's Top 10 Film Festival 2015; Jan 22-Feb 2 • CULT CINEMA: The Professional; Jan 27 • Crime WatCh: Crime Wave; Jan 20 • GateWay to Cinema: American Beauty; Jan 21 • metro Bizarro: Vampyros Lesbos; Jan 21
UALBERTA MUSEUMS • Metro Cinema, 8712-109 St • Clive Coy, Chief Technician of the U of A’s Dinosaur Research Laboratory, will introduce you to one of the earliest dinosaur tales told by Hollywood, the 1925 production of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World. Clive will discuss University of Alberta dinosaur excavations and current research, show footage of the U of A’s 1921 George Sternberg expedition, and dispel some of the silver screen’s dinosaur myths • Jan 22, 7pm • $6 (adv online), $10 (adults, door), $8 (students/seniors, door)
Whitemud LiBrary • 4211-106 St • Monthly film series presented by the John Humphrey Centre for Human Rights and Whitemud Library • This month: The Sterilization of Leilani Muir (Jan 18), Scottsboro: An American Tragedy (Feb 15), A Class Apart (Mar 15) • Resumes Jan-Mar
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS aLBerta CraFt CounCiL GaLLery • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Feature Gallery: 15 ON 35: artwork and written insights by a selection of 15 longterm, mid-career, emerging and new members; Jan 17-Mar 28 • The Recipients: Recipients of the 2014 Alberta Craft Awards, Anna Rasmussen, Shona Rae and Andrea Blais, three talented and passionate artists; Jan 10-Feb 14 art GaLLery oF aLBerta (aGa) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • BMO World of Creativity: World of Boo: Jason Carter and Bridget Ryan; until Apr 16 • VIEW FROM A WINDOW: Photos by Edward Burtynsky, Robin Collyer, Eamon MacMahon, Laura St Pierre; Dec 6-Mar 1 • FUTURE STATION: 2015 ALBERTA BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART: Jan 24-May 3• SUBURBIA: A MODEL LIFE (Photographs 1970s-80s); Dec 6-Mar 1 • LeCture: Kristy Trinier: Making a Biennial (Jan 25) • FILMS: Waydowntown A film by Gary Burns; Jan 21, 7pm • Open Studio adult Drop-In: Paint: Introduction to Oils (Jan 21); Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA
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Art Fuse: An evening to celebrate local creatives and share poetry, prose, fine art, music and good coffee • Jan 15, 7-9pm • Free
BuGera matheSon GaLLery • 10345124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Every Room With A View; Jan 1-31
CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CaVa) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Exhibition of a selection of member's artwork; Jan 7-Feb • Jazz'Art: Visual Artists: Jacques Martel, Sylvia Grist, Nathalie S. Paré, Antony Cummings and Susan Woolgar; Jan 24
Corridor GaLLery–Red Deer • Downtown Recreation Centre • FOR THE LOVE OF PLEIN AIR: Group show; Dec 1-Jan 28 CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • BRIDGE: Works by Sergio Serrano; until Jan 17
daFFodiL GaLLery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • Not Your Parents' Watercolour; Jan 14-Feb 14; Opening reception: Jan 22, 5-8pm; Artist-in-Attendance: Jan 31, 1-4pm • All The Flowers; Feb 25-Mar 18
ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • DISCOVERING DINOSAURS: until Jan 31 • Huge Tales: Dino Myths on the Silver Screen at the Metro; $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior) (door)/$6 (alumni/student/senior) (adv); Jan 22, 7pm • DESIGN WALL: I-Week Photography Exhibit: Notions of Home and Belonging; Photographers near and far reveal what home and belonging mean to them; Jan 19-Feb 5
FaB GaLLery • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • Jesse Thomas: Alcuin Awards for Book Design; Jan 20-Feb 14; Opening reception: Jan 22, 7-10pm
GaLLery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood
Exhibition and Sale: Featuring works by the artists and secondary market works; Jan 7-31
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Vaillant, "The Jaguar's Children" Book Launch; Jan 21, 7pm
• Main Space: CLASSROOM OF CULTURE REFLECTION—CONFUCIUS: City Edmonton Project, photogram-based floor pieces by Jing Yuan Huang; Until Jan 17 • WE: Jan 10-Feb 15; Opening Jan 10, 7pm • Parka Patio; this year's theme is FortYEG featuring installations from Edmonton's early heritage; Jan 31, 8pm
MACEWAN UNIVerSity CaFé–City Centre Campus • Rm 7-266 • ARTIFACTS: Paintings by Michelle Lavoie • Until Jan 28
mCmuLLen GaLLery • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • The Iconic Alberta Rose: Cindy Barratt and Susan Casault. Mixed media of Alberta’s provincial flower including paintings, drawings, and collections of historical items; Dec 11-Feb 1
MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GaLLery (mCpaG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Cheryl and Brian Hepperle: Natural History Carving; Jan 3-Feb 11
muSée héritaGe muSeum–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT: Explore St Albert through the lens of young photographers; Until Jan 18 • Wus’kwiy / Waskway: From Berry Baskets to Souvenirs; Jan 27-Apr 12
naeSS GaLLery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Growing Up, a series of oil paintings by Daphne Cote; Jan 5-Feb 17 • ARTISAN NOOK: What Can’t You Do with A Sketchbook!?!, a group exhibition of personal sketchbooks; Jan 5-Feb 17 • VERTICAL SPACE: Maximum Energy, a solo exhibition of Stephen Ferris’s visually complex paintings; Jan 6-Feb 16 • Opening reception: Feb 12, 6-9pm (all three exhibits) PRINCE OF WALES ARMOURIES HERITAGE CENTRE • 10440-108 Ave • Project Heroes: The Faces and Stories of Sacrifice: Get to know the Canadian soldiers who died in the Afghanistan war through their eyes, in photographs, videos and letters • Nov 3-Mar 4 • info@projectheroes.ca • projectheroes.ca
royaL aLBerta muSeum • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: Nov 28-Apr 12 • NOWHERE PEOPLE: Photos, giving a human face to the global issue of statelessness, by Greg Constantine; Dec 6-Mar 22 • QUESTIONS AND COLLECTIONS V: RESEARCH AT THE MUSEUM; Jan 28-Apr 8
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Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Lina Ma: oil; Dec 23-Jan 26 • THE ART OF NUIDO, TRADITIONAL JAPANESE SILK EMBROIDERY: Bev Bunker: Japanese emroidery; Jan 30-Feb 21; reception: Jan 31, 1-4pm
Palestine-Israel: Living in a Context of Conflict; Have a closer look at walls, snow, protests, olive trees, peace activists, checkpoints and World Cup Soccer in this context of seemingly unending conflict • Jan 20-Feb 9
GaLLery 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Lina Ma (oil medium); Jan 1-26 • Bev Bunker (embroidery); Jan 27-Feb 23
Snap GaLLery • Society of Northern Alberta
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BROWN BAG LUNCH READING SERIES: aLi Bryan • Student Lounge, Arts and Convocation Hall, U of A • Jan 21, 12pm
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm
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
FamiLy LiteraCy CarniVaL • Multipurpose Room, building 6, MacEwan University City Centre Campus • famlit.ca • 780.421.7323 • donna_lemieux@famlit.ca • Interactive activities for readers, pre-readers and the whole family • Jan 25, 2-4pm • Free
the KoFFee CaFé • 6120-28 Ave • Glass
Door Coffeehouse Reading Series: presents the February Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series with the following headlines: Authors: Astrid Blodgett, "You Haven't Changed a Bit"; Audrey Whitson, "The Glorious Mysteries"; and Bobbi Junior, "The Reluctant Caregiver". Musical act: Stawflowers with Genoa Porteous, Pamela Johnson and Bruce Ziff. Host: Writer, Donita Wiebe-Neufeld. Two-minute open mic. Books and CDs for sale • Jan 29, 7pm • Donations accepted
meet the 2015 metro Federation REGIONAL WRITER IN RESIDENCE • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary. ab.ca • Come share a cup of coffee and welcome the 2015 Metro Federation Regional Writer in Residence, Gail Sidonie Sobat. Gail will be working at Strathcona County Library from January through April. Drop in and learn more about the workshops Gail has planned, and find out how you can work one-on-one with her to develop your own writing skills • Jan 17, 1-3pm • Free
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 SCALES AND TALES: AN EVENING OF PROSE AND MUSIC • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.222.7243 • Featuring Christina Harvey, Canadian Tuxedo, and Tommy Runningblake • Jan 21, 7-9pm • Free (door prizes will be available)
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
Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Eunkang Koh: The Human Shop; Jan 8-Feb 14 • Karen Cassidy: Daughter of a Dead Father; Jan 8-Feb 14
SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church,
Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Serene Vistas: Paintings by Natasa Vretenar; Jan 2-31 • GaLLery diSpLay CaSeS: Speaking with Second Nature: Small watercolor work created by Yong Fei Guan; Jan 2-31
SpruCe GroVe art GaLLery • 35-5 Ave,
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STRATHCOna County muSeum & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park •
GaLLery at miLner • Stanley A. Milner
• As the Flowers Unfold: featuring Cheryl Feragen; Jan 17-Mar 3; Opening reception: Jan 17, 1-4pm
happy harBor ComiCS • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • Artist-in-Residence: DANIEL HACKBORN; until Apr 25, 2015 • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm harCourt houSe GaLLery • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Alison Hitner: This exhibition will concentrate on films set in worlds that have experienced distinct or drastic environmental alterations; Dec 11-Jan 22; Navigating Boundaries: Jes McCoy and Kelsey Stevenson; Jan 29-Mar 5 • Front room: How Would Mary Feel? by Lori Victor; Dec 11-Jan 22 JeFF aLLen art GaLLery (JaaG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Life Is My Muse: Artist Erin Cayley; Jan 5-Jan 29; Opening reception: Jan 14, 6:30-8:30pm
JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages
Lando GaLLery • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • January
Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • Main Gallery: SNOW: Member Novelty Show; until Jan 24 • Raw Humanity: Ashleigh Spence; Jan 27-Feb 21; Opening reception: Jan 31, 1-3pm
780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Celebrating Pioneer Women; Jan 20-Mar 21
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • GPS ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: Combining technology, nature, and hidden treasure; until Jun 1 • INDIANA JONES™ AND THE ADVENTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGY: until Apr 6; $26.50 (adult)/$19.50 (child 3-12)/$23.50 (youth 13-17), student, senior) • Dinosaurs Unearthed: May 15-Oct 11; $26.50 (adult), $19.50 (child), $23.50 (youth/ student/senior)
U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • LOIS HOLE: THE QUEEN OF HUGS; until Mar 22 • Discovering Dinosaurs: Sep 18-Jan 31 • Charles Stankievech: The Soniferous Æther of The Land Beyond The Land Beyond; Jan 22-Mar 21
Vaa GaLLery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Violet Owen: Modern Woman; Dec 11-Jan 24 ymCa (Don Wheaton) • 10211-102 Ave • yMCa Community Canvas wall: Rotating year
round exhibits • UNCANNY BREACH: Works by Lucille Frost • Until Jan
Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun ea month With A Different Play By A Different Playwright Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • sclibrary.ab.ca • To Market, To Market: Discover some of the different markets that exist both in print and online, whether for novels, short stories, poetry, creative non-fiction, articles or comics. Ask Writer in Residence Gail Sidonie Sobat questions about the publishing field • Jan 20, 7-8:30pm • Free
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: Every Mon, 7pm; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)
THEATRE the 11 o'CLoCK numBer • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, until Jun 26, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) • grindstonetheatre.ca
the antySSey • ATB Financial Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • A song-filled play about identity expectation that celebrates the uniqueness of individuals. Learn about ants while you're at it! • Jan 23, 7pm; Jan 24, 11am & 2pm • $19 (adults), $16 (seniors/students), $13 (kids 12 and under)
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BIRDIE ON THE WRONG BUS • C103 (formerly known as Catalyst Theatre), 8529 Gateway Boulevard • promiseproductionstheatre. com • Nicknamed after the squeaking noise she makes when something goes wrong, Louise Reiner, AKA Birdie, is given a failing grade on an assignment. Accidently getting on the wrong bus home, you can only imagine the notes she squealing at the back of the bus. For young audiences • Jan 21-24 • $17.75-$21.75 (Tix onthe Square) Canoe theatre FeStiVaL 2015 • ATB Financial Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre and PCL Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • Cutting-edge works by local, national and international performing artists • Jan 28-Feb 1
CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13 CIRCLE MIRROR TRANSFORMATION • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • shadowtheatre.org • Five lost strangers impulsively enroll in a community centre drama class not expecting that within the harmless theatre games more will be revealed than anyone could predict. Hearts will be quietly torn apart while tiny wars of epic proportions are waged. The author of last season’s hit comedy Body Awareness intricately crafts a hilarious diorama of overlooked lives swept up by subtle changes that lead to liberating transformations • Jan 14-Feb 1
date niGht 2015 • Citadel Theatre, 9828101 A Ave • An evening of improv performaces and a live auction where attendees will have the chance to bid on dates with the players. All proceeds will go to the support of the 2015 Improvaganza Festival, each year where mprovisers and comedians from around the globe take art in improv insanity • Jan 17, 7pm
DIE-naSty • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until Jun 1 • $13 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com
it taKeS tWo: Kate ryan & SuSan GILMOUR SING SONDHEIM • The Club at the Citadel, 9828-101A Ave • A smart, poignant, funny and provocative evening of song by Stephen Sondheim, musical theatre’s foremost composer and lyricist of today • Jan 23-24, 8pm • $30
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) pLayinG With Fire: the theo FLeury Story • Maclab Stage, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Based on the true story of NHL player Theo Fleury and the personal issues that haunted him, ultimately derailing his career • Jan 28-Feb 15
SHERLOCK HOLMES • Jubilations Dinner Theatre • The greatest detective in the world, Sherlock Holmes, is retiring and his old chum and confidant Dr. Watson is throwing a farewell dinner • Until Jan 31 that'S terriFiC • Varscona Theatre • last Sat ea month • Nov 29-Jul 25
THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square
TOP OF THE POPS: A BRITISH ROCK INVASION • Mayfield Dinner Theatre • Celebrating all things British. From the '60s to the '70s, the new wave of the '80s, right up to the superstars of today, Top Of The Pops captures it all. With the Beatles, the Stones, the Hollies, the Who, Adele, Amy Winehouse and more • Until Feb 1
the traGiComiC deStiny oF tuBBy and nottuBBy • L'Uni Theatre, 8627-91 St • This play explores the fundamental questions of life and death all through the ridiculous adventures of two naive clowns. English surtitles for each show are available • Jan 29-31, 8pm; Feb 1, 2pm
VENUS IN FUR • Shoctor Stage, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • About a write and director in New York who is preparing to begin his new play that he has written based on the 19th erotic novel, Venus in Furs. He's unable to find the right actress for the role, until a woman appears and begins to exert dominance over the director and the balance of power shifts as a reading proceeds • Jan 17-Feb 8
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he Little Deputy begins unassumingly enough, in the same place where virtually every '80s Edmonton story that isn't about the Oilers begins: West Edmonton Mall. Through vintage RCA camcorder footage we see shots of the dolphin show, the roller coaster and the skating rink before settling on what Trevor Anderson's idiosyncratic overdub tells us is "the rarest sight of all:" he and his dad, spending an afternoon together. "It was one of those relationships where we were fine, if mom was around," Anderson recalls, sitting in the Common, awaiting the arrival of chicken and waffles. "But if she wasn't there to lead our activities, it was awkward. But I think a lot of people have that: a lot of people [were] raised by their mothers leading. The Little Deputy was one of those days. It's just us. Mom's not here to lead our father-son relationship. Let's go to the mall, there's a million distractions, there's stuff to do." That particular mall trek culminated in an old-timey photo the pair took— dad as sheriff, Anderson as deputy— a photo that used to hang on the wall of Anderson's childhood home. Whenever university friends would pop by, Anderson would explain the side of the story not visible in frame: that the photographer had at first mistaken him as a girl, offered him a sparkling red dress, and that while even then he knew he wanted the photo of him in a dress, he corrected the man, worried of what his father would say. With that all front-loaded into The Little Deputy's first few minutes, the short's latter half recounts an adult Anderson's quest to get that photo as originally intended—dress and dad— with a burst of cinematic grandeur: from the handcam footage we're vaulted into a crisp, cinematic western set in 1880s Edmonton, replete with a long train shot, a bar brawl, a moustachioed cameo by Mayor Don Iveson and all scored by the dustbowl guitar howls of Luke Doucet. "As soon as I realized we could jump back 100 years in time and do this almost-fantasy sequence about Fort Edmonton in the 1880s, I realized it would be very cinematic," Anderson says. "It would be a great opportunity to stretch out with production design, and make a movie-movie, a Hollywood-western-looking kinda movie." It was shot down in Fort Edmonton Park; graciously, cinematographers aAron Munson and Peter Wunstorf agreed to split that title credit, each taking one half of the film to lend
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both segments a totally separate feel. In doing all of that—and like with many of his films—Anderson's taken what could've remained a good story for friends and given it a far grander, more resonant treatment. "If I find myself telling the same anecdote, repeatedly in various circumstances, then I know it means that I'm hooked by it," Anderson says. "Usually that means there's an audience for it, because if I'm telling it again, it means it's having an effect on the people I'm talking to." "By making it a movie, it does something the story can't do," he continues. "So it's bigger and better and more than just a story I'd tell a friend. It depends on [the format], for its meaning. It's always gotta be something where it's not just the story. Because if it was just the story, why not just tell the story and pay your bar tab and go home? It's gotta be something that becomes more through the process of becoming." Now complete, The Little Deputy's set to take the filmmaker down some particularly happy trails: it's the second of Anderson's films accepted to the prodigious Sundance Film Festival (the first being 2011's The High Level Bridge), one of 60 selections out of more than 8000 submissions. To celebrate that impending festival date, Anderson's screening The Little Deputy here in town, alongside a trio of other bentwesterns he's pulling from across the film-festival circuit. There's Matthew
Rankin and Mike Maryniuk's Cattle Call, a high-energy blend of stop-motion animation and footage (and rapidfire sounds) of an auctioneer brokering the sale of cattle. The second, Christina Choe's I am John Wayne, finds a young New Yorker, brooding over the death of his friend, stumble across a horse. The third, David Lowery's Pioneer— "one of my all-time favourite short films," Anderson notes—finds Will Oldham (that's Bonnie "Prince" Billy, for the music-inclined among you) playing a father calming his four-year-old, woken in the middle of the night, with an epic bedtime story. In keeping with the western theme, the evening also features Capital City Burlesque, ragtime piano duets and an after party at the Empress featuring OK Corral, Ben Disaster and Jessica Jalbert's country cover band. Then it's off to Sundance. Of his inaugural trip to the Utah festival, Anderson recalls not quite being prepared for the atmosphere he found around him. "Overwhelming," he summarizes. "Everyone's telling you stuff that you know better than to believe, but you find yourself believing anyways. Like, 'You have one shot at this!'—what 'this' is, you don't know. But it's 'A once-in-alifetime opportunity! Narrow window! Brass ring!' All of those horrible metaphors. So I went there not wanting to miss my chance, but not knowing what that meant." What Anderson learned "his chance" seemed to mean was having a full-
length feature idea ready to go, and that your short film was only supposed to be a stepping stone towards a bigger thing. For a filmmaker who's worked almost exclusively in shorts, that isn't presently in the plan. "So far, those are the ideas I've had," he offers, of his draw towards shorter works. "So that part of it's out of my control. But I do like the form because it forces you to be economical in your storytelling. And because it's not market-based, people take way more risks in short form." This time around, his priorities have adjusted towards the screenings, to meeting other filmmakers and to a particular type of festival score-keeping. "I'm collecting, 'I was in the same bathroom as ...' celebrity sightings," he says. "So far I've got Leonardo DiCaprio, Matthew McConaughey and Snoop Dogg—not all at the same time, unfortunately. This time I'm hoping to add to that list of bathroombuddy tales." This second Sundance trip comes hot on the heels of a huge success in Anderson's other current artistic endeavour: he drums with the Wet Secrets, recent winners of the Peak Performance Project and the $100 000 prize that comes with it. Juggling film and music is gonna be, well, a juggling act for Anderson's next year or so, but it's a burden he's happy to find himself facing. "Ridiculous time, isn't it?" he laughs. "It's a good year. It's been a very nice little run I've been having."
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Trevor Anderson now counts some 14 short films/music videos to his name, all of which except The Little Deputy (due to film fest agreements), are currently streaming online on his website, dirtcityfilms.com. If you're unfamiliar with his work, here are a couple of highlights to start you off. The High Level Bridge The short that netted Anderson his first ticket to Sundance, The High Level Bridge recounts the history and some curious facts about Edmonton's most iconic connector. He also throws his camera— still rolling—off the edge, in tribute to all those who have jumped. The Man That Got Away Anderson's longest film (clocking in at a luxurious 25 minutes) is also a musical: his long-lost uncle's story of Alberta beginnings to rehab in New York, where he met the legendary Judy Garland. The Island A "what if?" response to a piece of homophobic fanmail Anderson received. Floating in the Sky A Wet Secrets video which finds the band playing doubles tennis like the fate of the cosmos hangs in the balance.
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A problematic shot
Opens Friday Directed by Clint Eastwood
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merican Sniper is based on Chris Kyle's memoir, and I'm led to understand that the film is quite a faithful adaptation. But the problems one encounters when turning memoirs into movies are myriad. In this case, they include having a famous actor embody a real person, a military hero with a fascinating and fraught legacy (Kyle accumulated a record 160 confirmed kills during his four tours throughout the Iraq War), and shifting perspective from the book's firstperson to the movie's inherent thirdperson, which inevitably imposes a political reading on personal reportage—and with that political reading comes an enormous moral responsibility. Whatever you might think of director Clint Eastwood and screenwriter Jason Hall's personal politics, their take on American Sniper renders a thorny chapter in the history of US foreign policy as a somewhat dunder-
headed white hat/black hat rah-rah western. It doesn't help that some scenes are the sort of thing that should land Hall in the screenwriters' stockade. Take the early scene in which Kyle (a beefyburly and uncharacteristically opaque Bradley Cooper) comes home to find his live-in girlfriend with another man. "I do this to get attention. Can't you see that?!" cries the cheater, who has apparently never heard of subtext. Kyle later meets his real love interest in a bar. She acts all tough but vomits after downing shots, which is another way of saying that, unlike Kyle, she ain't no Navy SEAL. There's a later scene in which PTSD is invoked by having Kyle seated before his television, from which we hear, as though through his ears, the sound of a war movie, but when the camera spins around the TV isn't even on! Much of American Sniper's dialogue fits into
the Lone Survivor model: when soldiers aren't punctuating every word with "fuck" it's because they're saying nothing but "fuck." Defenders may cry verisimilitude, but that hardly excuses redundant, unimaginative verbiage that might otherwise be used to help tell a story. American Sniper is one of Eastwood's least inspired films as director; visually speaking, its incredibly boring coverage harkens back to TV movies of the '80s. But the more troubling issues concern point of view: the way we're invited to watch countless foreigners get shot to hell while Kyle's tragic death is only alluded to in the film's flat final moments, or the way Kyle's nemesis, a dreadlocked sniper rumored to be a Syrian Olympic medalist, is provided with counter-close-ups yet still comes off as mere caricature. Perhaps this ma-
terial needed Sam Fuller to inject it with manic energy instead of Eastwood's macho solemnity. Perhaps it simply needed a screenwriter with moral vision, one capable of finding a dramatic way to grapple with the deeper questions about what Kyle's life, career and untimely death mean to us as we survey the consequences of 9/11 and the Bush administration's
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irrevocable response to that day that, one way or another, really did change everything. I think of that speech Kyle's dad makes about how there are three kinds of people: sheep, wolves and sheepdogs. Kyle was one hell of a sheepdog. But let's talk about who was his master.
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Crippled and cursed
Boy Meets Girl an early jewel by an eccentric master
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Boy Meets Girl, now available on DVD from Carlotta, was Leos Carax's first feature film. He was 23 when it debuted at Cannes in 1984—not quite a boy, but boyish enough—and its melancholy is so very much that of a 24-year-old anticipating the realization that all true love is crippled and cursed. The film possesses the cool esthetic of resignation to heartache in advance of a deeper knowledge of such heartache—though heartache is something Carax would come to know far too well years later, with the tragic death of his wife and collaborator Yekaterina Golubeva. Boy Meets Girl's hero is an aspiring filmmaker named Alex, which is Carax's given name—Leos Carax is an anagram of Alex and Oscar. On the wall of Alex's studio apartment is a hand-drawn map of a Paris whose arrondissements are designated by the milestones in Alex's life that transpired there. That might sound sentimental, but the scene in which we see this map is giddy with invention and economy and is a small masterstroke of poetic storytelling—we know this character better by glancing at it. Carax's nouvelle vague roots ripple up from the soil,
but he's breaking ground too. Boy Meets Girl is the exact contemporary of Jim Jarmusch's breakthrough Stranger Than Paradise, and in both films we sense a fresh, playful approach to manner and form, comedy generated by expansion and pauses instead of compaction and mania. Both films are distracted with minutia, place, rock 'n' roll and jokes, a deaf man complaining of too-quiet youth, a love story initiated through an intercom system, a mystery tea bag. But Carax had something Jarmusch didn't: a genius actor in his first major screen role. Denis Lavant, less than a year Carax's junior, plays Alex with a fierce earnestness and you cannot take your eyes off him, even when he's wearing stripes and checks, a headache-inducing combo in black and white. Alex is bummed, has been dumped, but finds himself drawn to young a woman, Mireille (Mireille Perrier), who has also been dumped and is even more bummed—suicidally bummed, in fact. When these two meet face-toface at a party Carax completely eschews the tropes of romantic awakening in favour of long, peculiar
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conversation, which would probably mean so much more to these types anyway, who find solace in voices and talk, and it surely means something to Carax, who fills Boy Meets Girl with scenes in which sound, whether from a pinball machine or a photocopier, frequently competes with vision for our attention. So this debut is jejune in the best sense. It tries something new at every turn, and reconfigures the fabric of its narrative as it does so. From here Carax went on to make Mauvais Sang and Les amants du Pont-Neuf, both of which featured Lavant and increasingly showcased his astonishing physical skills, and both featured Juliette Binoche in superb roles—one as a homeless woman—which would kill anyone's notion of the actress as another pretty ingénue. Since Les amants Carax has made only the Melville adaptation Pola X, a segment for the omnibus Tokyo! and, of course, Holy Motors, in some ways the crown jewel of his work with Levant. Watch any one of these films and you'll see a tremendous talent. Watch two and you'll see an eccentric master. I've seen all of them and just wish there were more. V
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Cinematic horizons Our 2015 film preview, part two
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ur gaze into cinema's crystal ball concludes with a plethora of coming attractions, from a '50s lesbian pulp-novel adaptation and a riff on Vertigo set in postSecond World War Germany to a film about the DJ who pioneered the "French touch" and a harrowing Syria documentary. THE OLD MASTERS Winnipeg's eclectic, old-timey director Guy Maddin returns with The Forbidden Room, starring Udo Kier, Mathieu Amalric and Charlotte Rampling in the tale of a woodsman in a trapped submarine. Today's Hollywood is the place-setting for Terrence Malick's Knight of Cups,
about LA mogul (Christian Bale) drifting through life. Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven, Mildred Pierce) adapts Patricia Highsmith's 1952 pulp-romance—Carol features Rooney Mara as a department-store clerk and Cate Blanchett as the older married woman she falls for. Sang-soo Hong's Hill of Freedom sees a Japanese man struggle to reconnect with his old flame because so many people at his Seoul guest house want to hang out with him. Pedro Costa's Horse Money sells us a vision of Ventura (Colossal Youth's lead) retreating to a labyrinthine infirmary, where he slips into gaps and trips of memory. And Christian Petzold's Phoenix has a
concentration-camp survivor (Nina Hoss), her face reconstructed, rise up from near-death with the help of the man who detects the echo, but not the original, of the wife he may or may not have betrayed to the Nazis. THE NEW MASTERS Experimenter, from Michael Almereyda and starring Peter Sarsgaard, re-examines social psychologist Stanley Milgram's 1961 obedience tests. Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden's Mississippi Grind rolls the dice on a comedy-drama about a gambler, on a losing streak, who teams up with a younger player on a road trip through the
South. Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig (Frances Ha) reunite for Mistress America, where a college freshman (Gerwig) enjoys urban exploits with her soon-to-be stepsister. Blue Ruin director Jeremy Saulnier builds Green Room, where a punk band's caught up in the violence of a neo-Nazi group (led by Patrick Stewart). Ramin Bahrani's 99 Homes inhabits the life of Dennis Nash (Andrew Garfield) as he strives to regain the house he lost by working for the greedy realestate broker (Michael Shannon) whom he blames for his family's eviction. Shannon works again with Mud director Jeff Nichols in Midnight Special, his first major-studio work and a "sci-fi chase film" where a father and son go on the run. Mia Hansen-Løve's Eden enters the realm of '90s clubs, following Paul, the DJ behind French house music. Pascale Ferran's Bird People is the two-runway tale of a maid and American businessman in a Paris airport hotel. Beautiful Youth, from Jaime Rosales, moves in with a couple in recession-mired Madrid as they decide to film amateur porn to make money after they discover she's pregnant. In 45 Years, Andrew Haigh (Weekend) checks in on anniversary plans for a long-married couple (Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling) just as the news arrives that his first love's body has been discovered, frozen and preserved, in the Swiss Alps. Paolo Sorrentino (The Great Beauty) takes to those same mountains for The Early Years, starring Michael Caine. And Yorgos Lanthimos (Dogtooth, Alps) makes his English-
language debut with sci-fi romance The Lobster—in a near future, lonely hearts must make a match within 45 days or they'll be turned into animals and sent into the wild. TBD (TO BE DISTRIBUTED & TO BE DETERMINED) Two of the many promising films that haven't yet secured distribution in the US or Canada: Lisandro Alonso's Jauja, starring Viggo Mortensen in the tale of a father and daughter's journey from Denmark into a desert beyond the known world; Ossama Mohammed and Wiam Simav Bedirxan's Silvered Water, Syria Self-Portrait, an assemblage of eyewitness footage of the Syrian civil war and schoolteacher Bedirxan's video shot during the siege of Homs. And we may or may not see new films this year from: Michael Haneke, who's been waiting for one particular actress, apparently, before going into production on Flashmob; Matteo Garrone (Gomorrah, Reality), whose Tale of Tales adapts a 17th-century fairy-tale collection; Werner Herzog, with biopic Queen of the Desert; Gaspar Noé (Irreversible), with "sexual melodrama" Love; Terence Davies (The Deep Blue Sea), whose early 1900s-set Sunset Song stars Peter Mullan; and Andrea Arnold (Red Road, Fish Tank), whose American Honey is reportedly about a teen runaway, selling magazine subscriptions, drawn into a world of hard partying, law-breaking and turbulent love.
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Taken 3 I
n die-hard action flicks, the line between implausible and ludicrous understandably blurs and rips past, like the bullets from a machine gun missing our hero at close range in a penthouse apartment or the yellow median during a 90-mph car-chase through busy downtown streets. Yet preposterous + choppy editing = the inexplicable three times in Taken 3, the latest (and supposedly last, but don't believe the poster's tagline; Tak3n's takings will talk truest) in producer and co-writer Luc Besson and director Olivier Megaton's franchise. Action-American dad Bryan Mills (Liam Neeson) is back in LA, still concerned about daughter Kim (Maggie Grace) and still fond of exwife Lenore ... but when he's suddenly put in a Fugitive-like frame for her murder, he races around town in less than 12 hours to in-
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vestigate the terrible truth, protect his doting daughter, hunt down the Reel Krazy Russkie Killers™, and escape the Keystone-ish cops led by cerebral exception Inspector Franck Dotzler (Forest Whitaker), who likes to fondle a chess piece and snap an elastic (cliché-aversion therapy? Not really working, then). The close, near-excluding bond between father and daughter has a gritty, flaring power, suggesting the traumas they've been through. But the villain's obvious early on, with a motive out of a bad cableTV murder-mystery. The sudden close-ups, quick cuts and odd angles of action sequences get old and confusing, quick; worse, they turn three enjoyably silly moments into preposterous stupidities: 1) Super Dad's first escape comes off as Mills having impossibly specific knowledge of entrances to LA's
sewer system; 2) another escape, via reversed-then-exploding-cardown-a-shaft, is nonsensical; 3) a Holy Houdini! from a rollover crash isn't even made clear in a strobelight-fast flashback to it later. The cool cars, cool LA-nightline credits sequence, and cool interiors smack of Europeans ogling SoCal's megacity (when not retro-endorsing CIA torture with a waterboarding scene; welcome back, war crimes circa 2005!). And no one wants to be on the same side as the villain, but it's revealed Big Baddie had, all along—just like the writers and director and their presumed audience—been relying on Hero Daddy to dash all over town, smashing up cop cars and highway traffic and variety stores(!?) ... maybe this movie was just subliminal advertising for property insurance.
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hen the Alberta government cut a historic $147 million from post-secondary education funding in the spring of 2013, institutions across the province were blindsided by the loss of seven percent of their budgets. It led to job losses, fewer spots for students, higher tuitions and a stain of instability and worry that persists today. The cuts, under the leadership of Alison Redford, were blamed on a "bitumen bubble"—a price gap between Alberta's oilsands product and other North American fossil fuels. And with oil prices taking a spectacular nose-
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dive, the Alberta government is pre- that's going to make a difference to MacEwan University president Dadicting a gap of up to $7 billion for the this province in the next 10 years and vid Atkinson says the loss of fundspring budget. that is investment in human capital. So ing in 2013 was actually more acute None of this bodes well for Alber- cutting post-secondary at this point in than the reported number. The govta's universities, colernment had already leges and polytechcommitted to stable nics—or Alberta's funding increases of Just tell us how much money we're going future. The province two percent for three to have for the next three years and we already has one of years—money Grant can plan—but don't surprise us. the lowest post-secMacEwan administraondary participation tors had already calrates in the country. culated into their bud"We are progressively weakening our time is one of the most, sadly, coun- get forecast. The government also investment in human capital," says terintuitive steps to take—one that slashed infrastructure maintenance University of Alberta president In- would seriously affect the long-term funding by two-thirds, funds used for dira Samarasekera. "There's one thing prosperity of this province." capital expenses like new boilers or VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 15, 2015 – JAN 21, 2015
fixing air conditioners. "By the time you add it all up, [the loss in funding] was actually 15 percent," Atkinson says. Job and program losses Administrators scrambled to make ends meet. The University of Calgary cut 200 students from its Faculty of Arts program in May 2013. Mount Royal University planned to stop accepting students in three diploma programs and four certificate programs. The University of Alberta is CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 >>
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down 122 academic staff and planned to suspend 20 arts programs and to accept 300 fewer science students. Grant MacEwan lost 48 positions, 38 of them vacant, meaning there were 10 direct job losses. Atkinson says efficiencies, centralizing and aggressive restructuring of programs generated the bulk of the money MacEwan needed to respond to the cuts. But it was an extremely stressful time of uncertainty. "I have a few more grey hairs than I had earlier in my life," he says. "I don't want to diminish the challenge." After the 2013 cuts, NAIT lost 91 staff. "That clearly did have an impact," says Glenn Feltham, the polytechnic's president. "It is change and there is uncertainty. ... Those degrees of freedom that you have to be able to expand programs are somewhat limited when the number of individuals you have to support certain activities and programs are reduced." A weak return The Alberta PCs did kick some money back into post-secondary in November 2013. Then Advanced Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk announced that $50 million would be returned. The 2014 – 2015 budget saw another $32.5 million kicked back in, or a 1.6-percent bump—short, again, of the promised two-percent increase for three years. In total, $82.5 million, or about 56 percent of the lost post-secondary budget, was returned. Craig Loewen, press secretary for
Minister of Innovation and Advanced Education Don Scott, hinted that schools shouldn't be holding their breaths for that two-percent increase. "That promise was now three premiers ago and probably several postsecondary ministers ago," Loewen says. "That hasn't been something that's been promised for the upcoming budget." Don't surprise us But all three presidents of Edmonton's major post-secondaries stressed the need for stable, growing investment. Feltham notes that more than 40 000 people moved to Alberta last year mand most of them settled in either Edmonton or Calgary. He says the government needs to account for this huge influx. And Atkinson shows evident frustration with the bait-and-switch funding the Alberta government has employed. "Just tell us how much money we're going to have for the next three years and we can plan—but don't surprise us," Atkinson says. "That seven-percent reduction a couple of years ago; nobody, nobody had anticipated. It just happened, and suddenly we were left having to commit unbelievable amounts of time and energy in a very short period to try to manage our fiscal situation." Samarasekera says the institution is basically "on hold" as far as planning for the future. She notes that since 2008, the great global recession, Alberta has had just two years where post-secondary budgets were increased by two percent. The rest of the years they lost money.
"That is six years of negative funding for post-secondary while inflation is one or two percent per year," Samarasekera says. "Costs are going up and we keep losing money. We are now less well-funded than we were in 2008. "A top priority" Loewen says the government has heard that message and calls it "a top priority." "One of the things [Premier Jim] Prentice mandated Minister Scott to do is to develop a plan for stable and predictable funding," the spokesman says. "And we want that in place as soon as possible." However, he was not able to provide a timetable of when that plan would be released or what the plan might contain. Nor could he comment on whether Prentice's election promise to return the money slashed from the 2013 budget still holds weight. This uncertainty weighs heavily on the minds of the province's top post-secondary administrators. And the future, with the prospect of sustained low oil prices and even the possibility of a recession in Alberta, is not inspiring. "We are worried—I think everyone in the province is worried," Atkinson says. "We've been working on developing new programming and all of that was on an assumption that at least the money we had then we'd still have today. And that's no longer the case. And so, as far as our future is concerned, it's a big worry."
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A not so "happy holidays" for students Alberta government hikes tuition in 25 programs across the province
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nly three days before Christmas, the news of the province's approval for massive tuition hikes in 25 separate post-secondary programs in Alberta dropped "like lumps of coal" into the stockings of many student leaders and advocacy organizations. "We were disappointed with the results," says Beverly Eastham, executive director of the Council of Alberta University Students (CAUS), a post-secondary education advocacy group that represents more than
100 000 university students across the province. "It felt like a strategic move on the government's part to bury [the announcement] into other news like the Wildrose story, and with the Christmas season hope that students wouldn't be tuned into the final decision." Advanced Education Minister Don Scott revealed the province's decision to approve student-tuition increases—ranging from six percent to 71 percent—for 25 different programs at 10 universities and colleges in Alberta. The tuition hikes will generate a projected $21 million in additional revenue to post-secondary institutions and, according to Scott in a press release, "Allow institutions to enhance quality and make these specific programs more responsive to student needs." While tuition is currently tied to the Consumer Price Index and can't
for increasing tuition and demanding that it be closed. "Market modifiers enable the government and institutions to go around the tuition cap we have in place to make increases," explains Justin Benko, executive director of the Alberta Students' Executive Council (ASEC), a student advocacy group with a membership of 17 associations from 15 institutions. Navneet Khinda, VP External at the University of Alberta Students' Union, echoes Benko's concerns and stresses that market modifiers will create an unpredictable market for students. "For a family that's planning to save money for next year's education, it drastically changes what you have to pay. It does put pressure on young people and families," Khinda says. Market modifiers to tuition fees were introduced in August 2010 when the government approved eight programs to bring tuition fees in line
The fact that it's going to cost a lot more to get a legal education means there will be less diversity, and that could also lead to further ramifications for our justice system. be increased more than annual inflation—as legislated in the Post-Secondary Learning Act (2006)—the government is using market modifiers to correct what they call "anomalies" between the cost of programs in Alberta and across the country. Student leaders are calling market modifiers a "loophole" in legislation
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ted not three, but five applications for market modifiers—and all five programs were approved. Pending the approval of the Board of Governors, students enrolled in economics courses, the Faculty of Law, pharmacy, the Masters of Business Administration program and rehabilitation medicine will be facing a tuition increase. "To me, the fact that five programs were approved indicated that the process wasn't really honest, nor transparent, because the government wasn't following their own guidelines," Khinda says. But not all students at the U of A are disappointed with the marketmodifier outcomes. Scott Meyer, president of the Law Students' Association, felt as though the student consultation
with the Faculty of Law was "substantial" and that the increased revenue will improve educational quality and better prepare students for an "increasingly complex legal marketplace." The Faculty of Law program currently costs students $10 221 per year and is one of the most affordable programs in the country. The recent approvals allow for a 56-percent tuition increase, bringing the total cost to $15 995 per year. "Because we did go into it willing to discuss tuition increases, we got a number of concessions from the faculty about how we wanted the money to be spent," Meyer explains. "We're getting an expansion of experiential learning opportunities by 20 to 25 percent, as well as a significant enhancement in career-service support. We want to make sure as many dollars as possible goes towards educational quality."
Meyer also states that 20 percent of the revenue generated will be spent on scholarships and bursaries that will help law students gain access to education and articling. But even with increased funding for scholarships, Khinda and other student leaders are worried that the 56-percent tuition increase will ultimately create barriers for prospective law students. "The fact that it's going to cost a lot more to get a legal education means there will be less diversity, and that could also lead to further ramifications for our justice system," Khinda says. She argues that when the cost of non-instructional mandatory fees is added to the equation, U of A students are already paying among the highest tuitions in the country. Further, she and other student leaders believe that comparing cost of tuition province to province can be
disingenuous. "The funding model for Ontario is very different from Alberta, so it's not quite fair to compare across jurisdictions like that," Khinda points out. "If we were to compare, though, we could look at the University of British Columbia who are ranked higher than the U of A, but the tuition is lower." What Meyer, Khinda and other student leaders in Alberta can agree on, is that students alone shouldn't be responsible for investing in post-secondary education. Meyer stresses that it can't be a "one-sided conversation" of asking students and their parents to foot the bill for high-quality post-secondary education. "If we want to get off the boomand-bust cycle of oil-and-gas prices, we need to have a very well-educated population," Meyer says. "We
need to work towards innovating under a knowledge-based economy versus a resource-based economy." But as the unveiling of the 2015 provincial budget approaches, student advocacy groups, including CAUS and ASEC, are bracing themselves for more government cutbacks to post-secondary education—given the price of oil that's plummeted in recent months. Student leaders say the best way of moving forward is encouraging post-secondary students to take their issues to the ballot box. "There's rumblings of an election coming up," Eastham says, "Whether or not that happens—the next steps for us are to send the message to the government that postsecondary students do vote, and it's important they keep their promises to students." TRINA MOYLES
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he fact that Blackalicious is back Emoni, which is Swahili for faith, like its making music together is very debut full-length Nia meant purpose. good news for fans of underground Gab says Emoni will be an extension of hip hop. the duo's previous work: expect soul Gift of Gab—possibly one of the samples, lush production and his remost talented rappers to pick up a nowned dextrous flow full of intricate mic—and world-renowned DJ and internal rhyming structures. producer Chief Xcel have been workBlackalicious will be debuting the ing with one another since they were new material live, and Gab wanted teenagers in California in the late to stress there would be some "sur'80s. The duo's prises" at the end albums Nia, Blaz- Tue, Jan 20 (8 pm) of the show. He ing Arrow, and The Blackalicious wouldn't elaboCraft are classics, With Dragon Fli Empire rate except to say fusing Gab's in- Starlite Room, $20 how excited he is credibly complex to be working with rhyming style and Chief Xcel again: conscious lyricism with Xcel's soul- "It almost feels like a second wind." drenched samples and production. This was stuff for the hip-hop Gab's lyrics almost always have a heads, with collaborations alongside positive vibe—but he hasn't had an Lyrics Born, Jurassic 5, DJ Shadow easy road. He's struggled with alcoand soul-jazz legend Gil Scott-Her- hol, and his kidneys failed three years on. But The Craft came out in 2005, ago. Gab is on dialysis three times a meaning there's been dry times for week while he waits for a transplant. Blackalicious fans. But even that hasn't stopped him. Of all people to bring these un"It was shocking at first, [when my derground legends to the masses, kidneys went]," Gab says. "But a big it was Harry Potter—alright, Daniel lesson I learned is that everything is Radcliffe—who flawlessly covered a state of mind. And I realized they'll Blackalicious's tricky-quick "Alpha- never take my creativity away. They'll bet Aerobics" on The Tonight Show never take away my ability to express Starring Jimmy Fallon. Nobody saw it and create myself. And once I learned coming—especially the guys in Black- that, I realized I was still free." alicious—and a viral video was born. A giant in the hip-hop world, Gab "It was really dope, man. He did says he still gets excited by young a great job," says Gift of Gab, real rappers coming up. He was quick name Timothy Parker, from his Bay to highlight some of his current faArea home. "Now there's, like, 30 vourites: Homeboy Sandman, Action million people who now know that Bronson ("he grew on me … at first there is a group called Blackalicious I thought he sounded too much like with a song called 'Alphabet Aero- Ghostface [Killah]"), Kendrick Lamar, bics.' You can't pay for that kind of Joey Bada$$, J Cole and Canada's promotion. And for it to be Daniel own Drake. Radcliffe, of all people." And Gab doesn't plan on slowing Now there are dozens of wannabe down. He looks at guys like Chuck D, viral YouTube stars covering "Al- who is 54 and still tours, and Jay-Z, phabet Aerobics." The song has be- who is 45 and was the second-highcome a benchmark for rap skill. Gab est earning rapper of 2014, according says he wants to organize a contest to Forbes. where the best cover of the song "Hopefully when I'm in my 60s and wins a prize from the band. But he 70s I'll still be out here—that's my doesn't even consider "Alphabet Aer- goal," he says. "I don't see the creobics" to his most difficult rap: that'd ativity running [out]. I don't see the be "Chemical Calisthenics," he says, a passion for wanting to be an emcee song that tap-dances across the peri- or be a creative person running out. odic table before an ending verse he When I was 20 I had this guy tell me, spits so fast it sounds impossible. 'When you're 30 you're not going The timing for the Radcliffe-buzz to be rapping.' And here I am [in my couldn't be better. Blackalicious is set 40s], and I'm still rapping." to release its first album in a decade JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM this spring. The record will be called
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rt's Birthday is back in Edmonton for its eighth year of celebrating all that is experimental and weird. The event is based on a proposal by French artist Robert Filliou in the early '60s. Filliou said we should all acknowledge art on a certain day—and he picked his own birthday, January 17. Today, Art's Birthday is an international collection of do-whatever parties. This year's Edmonton party, hosted by the Boreal Electro-Acoustic Music Society, is a broad sampling of the local experimental music scene, including the "schizophrenic camp" of Pizzarhea!, the brutal gore-metal of Himiko and the digital noise of Skrunt Skrunt, among others. Alessandra Zerbinati, an Italian dancer, choreographer and noise artist will have one of her static soundscapes performed live by Edmonton's Agaperaygunexperiment. What follows is our email conversation with Zerbinati, stage name Lametåfisica, where we ask her about art and her habit of travelling with a plastic toy pony she calls her "bodyguard." VUE WEEKLY: How did you first come to be
involved in the Art's Birthday event in Edmonton? Edmonton is a long way from Italy. ALESSANDRA ZERBINATI: An artist/ghost friend from Edmonton [local experimental musician Gene Kosowan] who was on the same compilation cassette as me had contacted me, saying how he liked my noise art—maybe after a vodka challenge. He suggested that I submit a track to the Art's Birthday celebration in Edmonton, so I did, very surprised and honoured! VW: What will the live performance be like in
Edmonton? I understand that you won't be there personally. AZ: I sent them a piece called "Yummy Gummy Corpse," a track about abortion made of vinyl and a modified old turntable. I understand they will be playing the MP3 and a group called Agaperaygunexperiment will do some live improv over it. I have no idea what to expect. I hope it's creepy, sweet death and love. VW: What do you know about Edmonton? It's probably a lot different from where you live in Italy.
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AZ: All I know about Edmonton is that it's a small city in cold weather, almost ice-coloured as silver, baby-blue and white. I didn't know they had an experimental music scene, but I guess you have good places to buy cigarettes, ice cream and mittens.
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of sounds are there and what are you trying to do? AZ: My sounds began with abandon, trouble and a pretty fucking pony. It came from my depression, my lovelessness and my high rate of blood sugar because I always find candy shops opened. I use old turntables, I destroy the vinyl's surface, I record all the sea sounds of my land, I play tapes and toys, effects and vintage tools. I speak about death, love, sex and toyland. VW: You use a lot of props and collected
things in your performances. Why? AZ: My setup is made of old tools, tape recorders, turntables, toys, a carillon and a bunch of effects pedals.
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pony. AZ: The pony has been with me since 1983. My sister gave it to me when I was three years old. I've had it onstage with me for every show ever since I was five, when I danced for an opera season in a theatre. VW: You're a dancer in addition to your other
art. What came first: dance and choreography or the sonic art? AZ: I have danced since I was three years old. I started playing noise last summer. Now I do choreography for the visuals of my performance. I'm also studying to find a way to mix butoh dance, contemporary floorworks and compulsive movements to imitate how some diseases work. VW: Anything else? AZ: Hugs to Edmonton. I hope to come to
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For a song aptly called "Toronto" Silverstein recorded on the streets of its adopted city, and Told played guitar by the chilly waterfront. The guys also got friends in other cities to record local sounds like a passing train, the water or even just the sound of people talking. A casual request to the group's Facebook fans—it's got well over a million—for recordings yielded even more aural texture to work with. "We wanted to capture the realness of being in these places," Told says. The upcoming tour has a couple of major milestones for the band: 15 years together and the 10-year anniversary of its breakthrough album Discovering the Waterfront. So there's lots of throwback going on: the band programmed its website to look like a vintage MySpace page, a nod to its huge following on the preFacebook social-media site. Discovering the Waterfront is still Silverstein's best seller. Told says he's shocked when young fans—like, 14-years-old young—come up to him to say it's their favourite album, even though they were still in diapers when it was released. "It's very important to our fans … but it's special to us too," he says. "Our first album we were just a local band
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and we recorded around town. But for [Discovering the Waterfront] we went to California and recorded in Capital Records—that big, round building in Hollywood. That people still care enough about it that we can do this huge tour is very cool." While the upcoming tour is a bit of a nostalgia trip, Told says the band has eyes on the future. He says Silverstein is in it for the long haul, making music that is an honest reflection of the band and not a desperate attempt to latch onto a flavour-of-the-week trend. He groans when he talks about some bands who tried to capitalize by changing up their sound. "I remember this one band decided to do a breakdown with dubstep rhythms—I was like, 'Come on, you're just going to look back on that and say, what was I thinking?'" Told notes. "There are certain trends that are unavoidable. Haircuts have changed and clothes have changed—some old photos are pretty embarrassing. But with our music we're trying to make it as timeless as possible."
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ave you ever heard of the acoustic test? It involves a band stripping down a song to its bare bones— an acoustic guitar and vocals—in order to see if it works without the power of a full band behind it. If the song is deemed to have passed, it stays on the album; if not, the song gets cut from the roster. "I feel like that's a way of weeding out songs that are made good by the thrills but not by the actual content of them," says Friends of Foes guitarist Matt Stinn, admitting he borrowed the tactic from Metric after hearing the group discuss it in an interview. The Saskatoon-based folk-rock foursome used the acoustic test during the writing process of its newest single "Winter," released in October 2014 (along with an accompanying video, filmed in the juxtaposing summer sun) as a stop-gap between Friends of Foes' debut album Chronophobic (December 2013) and its next EP, due out in February 2016. The lyrics were penned by lead vocalist Celeste Nicholson, and Stinn says he takes a sense of longing and regret from them, but there's an underlying positivity there, too. "As a band we kind of make a point of not discussing what the lyrics mean
[with each other]. I think it's good because it gives each member their own chance to interpret the lyrics and kind of find their own reason to perform and play the song," Stinn explains of the group's writing dynamic. "I like that sort of mystique to it because if I knew exactly what in Celeste's life she was referencing with those lyrics I probably wouldn't be half as invested in it as I am now. ... You know, there's something to be said for blissful ignorance." Friends of Foes had its inaugural jam session on the first day of 2013 and wrote around 20 songs during its first six months in existence, which were trimmed down to the final 12 on Chronophobic. Stinn was originally part of a punk band called Come Hell or High Water, along with Friends of Foes drummer Keegan Stretch, but admits the group didn't put a lot of initiative into pushing itself forward, something he takes much more seriously with Friends of Foes. He also sees himself finding more longevity in this new genre. "Honestly, playing Come Hell or High Water shows, they were really high-energy and everything like that, but it just didn't really come off as the
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music and the kind of scene I could see myself being happy and fulfilled in when I was, like, late 20s, early 30s," he adds. "I guess my musical taste was shifting a lot at the time." There's something of a shift within Friends of Foes' music as well. Stinn explains that the forthcoming sixsong EP will be more "thought out" than Chronophobic was, and the melodies will possess a more complex quality. Stinn feels Chronophobic marked the nascent days of Friends of Foes, the band throwing its best material on an album for the sake of getting something out and starting the onerous process of building a name in a saturated market. "It gave us good songs, but not necessarily a coherent final product," he notes, adding the new material will follow a much more cohesive theme rather stand-alone songs. "The other thing we've done is really work on our writing, because what we found, after Chronophobic was done and looking back on it, you know, we used three or four different song layouts— which is OK, but as musicians we kind of want to hold ourselves to higher standards." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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Dan Mangan + Blacksmith Club Meds (Arts & Crafts)
Dan Mangan has become a familiar name in Canada over the past few years, due to the compounding success of his second and third albums, Nice, Nice, Very Nice and Oh, Fortune, respectively, and his continual touring across the country. In the past, Mangan has been known as a charming, totally-normal-guy folk singer. On his fourth record, Club Meds, Mangan takes a bold step towards expanding his work into darker themes. Club Meds is officially credited under Dan Mangan + Blacksmith, signifying a full collaboration between Mangan and his usual, but newly named, backing band—and it definite-
Gender Poutine Dear Mom (Independent)
The lovable lads in Edmonton's Gender Poutine officially released its Dear Mom EP on cassette this week. It's not innovative, but thanks to some catchy hooks, sneering gang vocals and goofball lyrics, the disc manages to be a solid taste of the group's laid-back, ramshackle rock. The unpretentious trio con-
Government Town II (Independent)
Government Town's songs live in that folk-pop-rock-country realm that is easily accessible and most often the soundtrack to end off episode montages. You know, the three minutes at the end of the show where we see a slow-motion glimpse of the characters reflecting. Heartfelt sentiment is a big theme here. Though there really isn't anything exceptional about the falsetto vocals or the musicianship, tracks like "Paper Heart" and "This War" are pleasant enough. Where the group succeeds is in its
ly shows. The arrangements are more elaborate: looping synths, roguish strings, damp brass instruments and shakey guitars all resonate through a chamber of electrified fog. On occasion, the album feels disorienting, but austere and deliberate at the same time. Club Meds features a moodier, more insightful Mangan; he is patient with his contemplative words, and the pop hooks are a bit more subtle than we're used to. However, multiple listens bring out the nuances of the record, showing the immense growth of Mangan's craftmanship. Mangan's latest record is his most inspired and rewarding and marks his exit out of the conventional CanCon-folk circle into a broader musical realm. CHRIS GEE
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sists of Adrien Jian riffing on his fuzzbox guitar over bassist Andy Danny and drummer Chris Gustav. Tackling pizza-for-breakfast ("Mourning"), beat-up cars with back seats full of McDonald's ("Dirty Car") and not knowing what the hell you're doing with your life ("Twenty-Three") with an easy affability, Gender Poutine's debut EP offers a fun taste of what the young band can do: make entertaining pop-rock with a side of sardonicism. JORDYN MARCELLUS
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ability to blend an array of instruments in a fashion that never seems excessive, while still peppering in its individual contributions. Eight people in one band can be too much, and it's a difficult task to rein in so many ideas. That being said, you get the idea pretty quick here, and though this record has a few sweet moments and certainly won't offend any sensibilities, it really doesn't do much to excite them, either. LEE BOYES
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Four IN 140 J Cole, 2014 Forest Hills Drive (Roc Nation) @VueWeekly: Clearly hitting the full stride, J Cole's thoughtful narrative is remarkable. Very honest words over a beautiful ribbon of beats. Foo Fighters, Sonic Highways (Sony) @VueWeekly: Coupled with the HBO series, this is a pretty large homage to American music. Without that plot the impact is lost. TV on the Radio, Seeds (Harvest) @VueWeekly: A slight departure from its previous work, this fidgety 5th is just as comfortable as anything you might be listening to. Give this a spin. Wu-Tang Clan, A Better Tomorrow (Warner Bros) @VueWeekly: Much more research & investigation here than a group missing key components–missing a key appetite–than a you’d hope for on their 20th year.
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SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm
with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue
STARLITE ROOM Dark Tranquility,
Insomnium; 7pm (doors); $33.50$70; 18+ only
Craig Brennan Trio; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5
DJs
ZEN LOUNGE Jazz W ednesdays:
Sanders (solo classical guitar); 12-1pm; Free WINSPEAR CENTRE Natalie MacMaster with Donnell Leahy & Family; 7:30pm
DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,
Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock
Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience:
Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed
VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 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 C103 8529 Gateway Boulevard 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 CITY HALL 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DIVERSION LOUNGE 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700
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HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St 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 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LA CITE FRANCAPHONE 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025-101 St MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766
OLD STRATHCONA ANTIQUE MALL 10323-78 Ave OLD TIMER'S CABIN 9430 Scona Road ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 ORTONA ARMOURY 97 22-102 St OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PALACE CASINO–WEM 8882170 St PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave POLISH HALL 10960-104 St THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RANCH ROADHOUSE 6107104 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 REXALL PLACE 7424-118 Ave RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 RIVER CREE CASINO 300 East Lapotac Blvd Box 179, Enoch
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ROSSDALE HALL 10135-96 Ave SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 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 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St
EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM
Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam. orgs/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register
NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free
COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Danny Accapella Jan 15-17 • Kirk McHenry Jan 22-24 • Kirk McHenry Jan 25-27 COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Brent Morin Special Performance; Jan 15-18 • Chris Franjola Special Presentation; Jan 21-25
CONNIE'S COMEDY AT THE DRAFT BAR & GRILL • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With Sean Lecomber as the headliner and Ryan Paterson as the MC • Jan 21, 7:30pm
CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS KOMEDY krush • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 Ave • Open mic with Craig Sherburne as headliner • Jan 22, 9pm
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
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15
BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB
EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King’s University College, 9125-50 St • Speakers will be Ann Carter and John Jaworski. Join the ENC President and her husband as they transport us from the winter landscape of Alberta in January to the warmth of colour in Costa Rica as visitors travel through three different areas of the country • Jan 16, 7pm • Admission by donation
EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 842495 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • 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 LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St
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, 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
SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm
SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/ session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS THE #BRINGBACKOURGIRLS CAMPAIGN AND HUMAN RIGHTS ADVOCACY IN NIGERIA • University of Alberta, Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science 1-430 • A keynote presentation with Obiageli Ezekwesili • Jan 29, 7-9pm
AN EVENING TALK WITH BUDDHIST TEACHER GEN-LA KELSANG DEKYONG • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • 780.271.2137 • Shows you how changing the way you think can increase your happiness significantly without changing your lifestyle • Jan 19, 7-8:30pm • $15 (adv), $18 (door)
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY TOOL TRAINING WORKSHOP AND INFO SESSION • Habitat Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • Gain the confidence you need to come out to a build sites through careful instruction and hands-on practice • Jan 16-17, 8:30am-4pm • Free
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • Learn about taking the next step to volunteering and what opportunities are available • Jan 15 & 22, 6-7pm • Free
I-WEEK: KIM CAMPBELL - WOMEN'S LEADERSHIP IN PEACE AND SECURITY • ECHA L1 190 (Edmonton Clinic Health Academy), University of Alberta • globaled.ualberta.ca/InternationalWeek • A lecture with Canada's first and only female Prime Minister • Jan 30, 12-1:30pm • Free
THE LANDSCAPE OF HUMAN SYSTEMS • University of Alberta, Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science 1-430 • A keynote presentation with Edward Burtynsky • Jan 28, 7-9pm
LEARN @ YOUR LIBRARY – THE “ARAB SPRING” • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Understanding the Middle East conflict. Nermin Allam, PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Alberta, will share her views and insights on this area of the world • Jan 25, 2-4pm • $10 (adult), $5 (students)
MIGRATION WARS: VIOLENCE, REFUGEES, AND REMEDIES • University of Alberta, Edmonton Clinic Health Academy L1-490 • A keynote presentation with Jennifer Hyndman • Jan 27, 7-9pm
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
THE NEW WORLD DISORDER? • University of
TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma 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
OUR LOCAL GROUP • University of Alberta Observatory, University of Alberta • 780.492.9445 • Dr. Erik Rosolowsky will describe some of the Local Group galaxies and how our Milky Way compares to these systems • Jan 15, 7-7:30pm (public observing until 8pm) • Free
TOASTMASTERS
RECOVERING FROM GRIEF FREE OPEN SEMINAR • Concordia University College of Alberta in
• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St; Jean:
Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw. ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; SepMay; 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
WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION • waskahegantrail.ca • Meet at McDonalds Capilano, 9857-50 St; A guided hike from Kennedale Ravine to Sunridge; Jan 18, 9:45am; Guests welcome, annual membership $20; Hike leader Sandra 780.318.6883 • Meet at McDonalds Westmount, 11260-Groat Road; A hike at River Lot 56 in St Albert; Jan 24, 9:45am; Guests welcome, annual membership $20; Hike leader Rob 780.478.5622/780.264.7570
WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm
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
Alberta, Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science 1-430 • A keynote presentation with Gwynne Dyer • Jan 26, 7-9pm
the Robert Tegler Student Centre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • A seminar on recovery from significant emotional loss. feelings that are experienced as a consequence of the death of a loved one or other significant emotional losses will be discussed as well as myths and misinformation regarding grief • Jan 22, 7-8:30pm • Free
SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm
STUDENT SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT • University of Alberta • sustainability@ualberta.ca • A conference to provide students with the tools and resources needed to accomplish sustainable change by providing opportunities to develop relevant leadership and employability skills. This year's theme is: Food for Thought - Exploring pathways to sustainable food systems • Jan 24, 9am5pm • $20 non-refundable registration fee includes three vegetarian/vegan friendly meals and attendance at all keynote and concurrent sessions (deadline Jan 19)
VIEWS OF THE NIGHT SKY • University of Alberta Observatory, University of Alberta • chat with astronomers who are currently undertaking research in astronomy, and look through telescopes to explore the universe. Free public talks during the first half of our observing session (should the sky not cooperate) • Weekly until Feb 26 • Free
WALKABLE, GREAT WINTER CITIES • Art Gallery of Alberta, Ledcor Theatre, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • A presentation about transforming a city into a place where people can walk, bike, access public transit and visit vibrant parks, streets and other public places • Jan 28, 7:30-9pm • Free
QUEER BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n
Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
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 FRUIT LOOP • Yellowhead Brewing, 10229-105 St • facebook.com/fruitloopedmonton • A silent auction, entertainment DJ Showboy and a drag superstars Teen Jesus Barbie, Chelsea Horrendous, Jon Benet Ramsmee, Tiara Misu, Fellatia Rimbottom and Roxie D’Cradle. All Tease All Shade Queer Cabaret starring Beau Creep and more will be joining them • Jan 24, 8pm • Reccomended donation of $5 G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@ teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca 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
MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities. com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, shortterm by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/ supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) 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: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm
SPECIAL EVENTS BEAD MARKET AT RAMADA • Ramada Inn Edmonton South, 5359 Calgary Trail • TreasureStoneBeads.com • Huge selection of beads, gemstones, charms, crystals, pearls & more jewelry-making supplies in Edmonton • Jan 17, 11am-5pm CELEBRATE ROBERT BURNS • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • history.alberta.ca/rutherford • 780.427.3995 • A celebration of Scottish heritage. The day salutes the birthday of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns, with Scottish dancers, live pipes and drums and the pageantry of Burns’ own Address to a Haggis. Sample haggis cooked to perfection in a wood fired stove • Jan
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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 PET EXPO 2015 • Expo Centre, Hall A, Northlands • With presentations, animal demonstrations, courses and so much more. For everyone's safety, please leave your pets at home • Jan 24-25 • $11 (general), $9 (kids 5-11), $35 (family pass of 2 general and 2 kids)
GREEN & GLOW WINTERFEST • University of Alberta, North (main) campus • uab.ca/winterfest • Celebrate the University of Alberta Alumni Association’s 100th Anniversary, including lectures, a lantern parade & pyro show, snow play and so much more • Jan 29-Feb 1
HUMAN LIBRARY: A PLACE FOR ALL OF US • University of Alberta, Rutherford Library South, Foyer • globaled.ualberta.ca/iweek • Visitors can speak one-on-one or in very small groups to “people on loan” or human “books.” The “books” are individuals from various demographics who have experienced stereotyping or prejudice or who have undergone a life experience that is often mischaracterized or misunderstood • Jan 28, 2-7pm • Free
ICE ON WHYTE • Whyte Ave, Old Strathcona • Outdoor fun, includes a giant ice slide, ice carving competition, music, movies, crafts, face painting, fire pits, hot chocolate, s'mores and so much more • Jan 23-Feb 1 INTERNATIONAL WEEK 2015 • University of Alberta • globaled.ualberta.ca/InternationalWeek • Trying to make sense of the world’s most current and pressing conflicts. Considering causes, consequences and possible solutions, and will devote special attention to the plight of refugees and displaced persons • Jan 26-30 IORDAN- FEAST OF THE EPIPHANY • Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, located 25 minutes or 50 km (30 miles) east of Edmonton along Highway 16, just 3 km (1.8 miles) east of Elk Island National Park • One of the most important holy days of the Ukrainian church calendar. Attend a water blessing ceremony at an ice cross following church services. Bring a glass jar and collect a small amount of holy water to take home after the blessing. Explore a number of historical buildings where costumed role players can demonstrate how Ukrainian pioneers celebrated this special day • Jan 19, 10am-2pm
MALANKA: UKRAINIAN NEW YEAR CELEBRATION • Ukrainian Centre, 11018-97 St • 780.434.1690 • Held every January to summon the Spring. Cocktails and a huge buffet followed by a Floor Show and a Dance to the Hammertones • Jan 17, 5:30pm • $40 (adv for dinner, floor show & dance); $20 (dance only)
NERD NITE #18 • The Club (Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • Come to Nerd Nite #18 in your own onesie, and you'll be eligible to win prizes. If you don't come in a onesie... well, we'll all know who the real nerds are. Celebrate the new year with your fellow nerds. Kids 17 and under will not be admitted • Jan 21, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show) • $15.75 in advance (includes fees and GST); $23.40 (includes fees and GST) A NIGHT IN NEPAL • Prana Yoga Studio, #203, 18332 Lessard Road • pranayogastudio.ca/night-nepalkirtan-fundraiser • 780.721.2226 • janemarshall@ seejanewrite.ca • Enjoy Nepal while supporting the The Compassion Project, a grass roots charity seeking to help the villagers of Tsum, Nepal. Featuring a Buddist monk and a film about his birthplace, Writer Jane Marshall will also read from her book. A silent auction, and Kirtan concert will also take place • Jan 17, 7-10pm
OIL CITY ROLLER DERBY DOUBLE HEADER • Fun Dome, 10104-32 Ave • Taking on E-ville Roller Derby Berzerkers • Jan 17, 5-9pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door)
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ACRYLIC ARTISTS! Don’t miss GOLDEN Working Artist Samantha WilliamsChapelsky’s lecture/demo on the 1001 ways you can use GOLDEN acrylic paints, mediums, gels & pastes, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015, 7-9PM in the Studio at The Paint Spot (10032-81 Avenue, Edmonton). Admission, $10, confirms your place and is refunded to you at the event as a coupon. Plus, GOLDEN gives a generous Just Paint goodies bag to all attending artists! Further information or RSVP: 780.432.0240; accounts@paintspot.ca; www.paintspot.ca. Call For Exhibition Proposals: Red Deer, AB Harris-Warke Gallery, Red Deer Deadline: January 31 annually The gallery encourages exposure to a wide variety of Arts. In addition to painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and all combinations of mixed and multi-media, They hope to feature some of the less often exhibited art forms, such as literary art, landscape art, culinary art and music. We are open to an eclectic definition of art. In concert with this mandate, the downtown location facilitates a viewing public from various walks of life. Questions and comments should be directed to: harriswarke@gmail.com
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Call for One Act Play Submissions: Stage Struck! is a one-act play festival sponsored by the Alberta Drama Festival Association, Edmonton Region. The Festival will be held at La Cite on Feb 27-28, 2015. For more information or to request a registration package, contact Mary-Ellen Perley at 780-481-3716 or email at mperley@shaw.ca. Award winning playwright Vern Thiessen is our adjudicator this year! Call For Submissions for Prairie Wood Solutions Fair Award recognition for outstanding wood architecture. New online submission process is now open, visit the following link to our website for information on the nomination process and to create and application. Contact Communications Coordinator, Barbara Murray at 780-392-0761 or bmurray@wood-works.ca for more information. Important dates: Nomination deadline: January 23, 2015 Gala and award presentation on March 17, 2015 Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, Edmonton, AB EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL October 1-10, 2015 Call For Submissions is now OPEN! Categories include dramatic & documentary features, short films and movies made by Albertans. 30% off entry fees until March 15 (earlybird deadline). Submit NOW to Alberta’s longst running international film festival. www.edmontonfilmfest.com
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Opportunities for artists to exhibit in Budapest: Open call for book artists! Library Thoughts 5 :An exhibition of the Book as Art Artist’s Books and book-related art Deadline: March 1, 2015 fee: USD$ 35 Book as Art exhibition organized at MAMU Gallery, Budapest June 12 – July 3, 2015 . The exhibition curator Beata Szechy. Part of the AIR/HMC, Budapest, International Artists in Residency program. info, application form e-mail Beata Szechy bszechy@yahoo.com http://www.hungarianmulticultural-center.com Facebook: Budapest International Artist Residency
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TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): What does your soul need on a regular basis? The love and attention of some special person? The intoxication provided by a certain drink or drug? Stimulating social interaction with people you like? Music that drives you out of your mind in all the best ways? The English poet Gerard Manley Hopkins said that the rapture his soul needed more than anything else was inspiration—the "sweet fire," he called it, "the strong spur, live and lancing like the blowpipe flame." So the experience his soul craved didn't come from an outside stimulus. It was a feeling that rose up inside him. What about you, Taurus? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your soul needs much more than usual of its special nourishment. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): In 1987, California condors were almost extinct. Less than 30 of the birds remained. Then the US Fish and Wildlife Service launched an effort to capture them all and take emergency measures to save the species. Almost 28 years later, there are more than 400 condors, half of them living in the wild. If you act now, Gemini, you could launch a comparable recovery program for a different resource that is becoming scarce in your world. Act with urgency, but also be prepared to practice patience. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Daniel Webster (1782 – 1852) was an American statesman who served in both houses of Congress. He dearly wanted to be President of the United States, but his political party never nominated him to run for that office. Here's the twist in his fate: two different candidates who were ultimately elected president asked him to be their vice-president, but he declined, dismissing the job as unimportant. Both those presidents, Harrison and Taylor, died after a short time on the job. Had Webster agreed to be their vice-president, he would have taken their place and fulfilled his dream. In the coming weeks, Cancerian, I advise you not to make a mistake comparable to Webster's.
LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In one of his poems, Rumi writes about being alone with a wise elder. "Please," he says to the sage, "do not hold back from telling me any secrets about this universe." In the coming weeks, Leo, I suggest you make a similar request of many people, and not just those you regard as wise. You're in a phase when pretty much everyone is a potential teacher who has a valuable clue to offer you. Treat the whole world as your classroom.
VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Have you been tapping into your proper share of smart love, interesting beauty and creative mojo? Are you enjoying the succulent rewards you deserve for all the good deeds and hard work you've done in the past eight months? If not, I am very upset. In fact, I would be livid and mournful if I found out that you have not been soaking up a steady flow of useful bliss, sweet revelations and fun surprises. Therefore, to ensure my happiness and well-being, I COMMAND you to experience these goodies in abundance. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Libran engineer Robert Goddard was the original rocket scientist. His revolutionary theories and pioneering technologies laid the foundations for space flight. Decades before the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, he and his American team began shooting rockets aloft. Members of the press were not impressed with his unusual ideas, however. They thought he was a misinformed crank. In 1920, the New York Times sneered that he was deficient in "the knowledge ladled out daily in our high schools." Forty-nine years later, after his work had led to spectacular results, the Times issued an apology. I foresee a more satisfying progression toward vindication for you, Libra. Sometime soon, your unsung work or unheralded efforts will be recognized. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In the plot of the TV science-fiction show Ascension, the US government has conducted an elaborate covert experiment for 50 years. An outside investigator named Samantha Krueger discovers the diabolical contours of the project and decides to reveal the truth to the public. "We're going full Snowden," she tells a seemingly sympathetic conspiracy theorist. She's invoking the name of Edward Snowden, the renegade computer administrator who in the real world leaked classified information that the US government wanted to keep hidden. It might be time for you to go at least mini-Snowden yourself, Scorpio—not by spilling state secrets, but rather by unmasking any surreptitious or deceptive behaviour that's happening in your sphere. Bring everything out into the open—gently if possible. But do whatever it takes.
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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): In 1939, author Ernest Vincent Wright finished Gadsby, a 50 000-word novel. It was unlike any book ever published because the letter "e" didn't appear once in the text. Can you imagine the constraint he had to muster to accomplish such an odd feat? In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to summon an equally impressive expression of discipline and selfcontrol, Sagittarius. But devote your efforts to accomplishing a more useful and interesting task, please. For example, you could excise one of your bad habits or avoid activities that waste your time or forbid yourself to indulge in fearful thoughts. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Most plants move upwards as they grow. Their seeds fall to the ground, are blown off by the wind or are carried away by pollinators. But the peanut plant has a different approach to reproduction. It burrows its seeds down into the soil. They ripen underground, where they are protected and more likely to get the moisture they need to germinate. The peanut plant's approach to fertility might be a good metaphor for you Capricorns to adopt for your own use. It makes sense for you to safeguard the new possibilities you're incubating. Keep them private, maybe even secret. Don't expose them to scrutiny or criticism. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): In his poem "The Garden," Jack Gilbert says, "We are like Marco Polo who came back / with jewels hidden in the seams of his ragged clothes." Isn't that true about you right now, Aquarius? If I were going to tell your recent history as a fairy tale, I'd highlight the contrast between your outer disorder and your inner riches. I'd also borrow another fragment from Gilbert's poem and use it to describe your current emotional state: "a sweet sadness, a tough happiness." So what comes next for you? I suggest you treat yourself to a time out. Take a break to integrate the intensity you've weathered. And retrieve the jewels you hid in the seams of your ragged clothes. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "All the colours I am inside have not been invented yet," wrote Shel Silverstein, in his children's book Where the Sidewalk Ends. It's especially important for you to focus on that truth in the coming weeks. I say this for two reasons. First, it's imperative that you identify and celebrate a certain unique aspect of yourself that no one else has ever fully acknowledged. If you don't start making it more conscious, it may start to wither away. Second, you need to learn how to express that unique aspect with such clarity and steadiness that no one can miss it or ignore it. V AT THE BACK 35
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My fiancée is extremely bothered by me looking at porn. It revolves around insecurities that have gotten so bad that even other girls bother her. (We can hardly go to a beach anymore.) I don't have any weird relationship with porn—no addiction, no violent stuff and I look pretty infrequently. She acknowledges that it's a normal thing but is unable to get past it. She has gone through two counsellors on her own, and we have gone through two couples' counsellors. They have ALL said the same thing: "It's completely reasonable to want him to not look at porn and if he loves you, he won't look at it anymore." I have been asked how often I look at it, why I won't stop looking at it, why is it so important to me. They have recommended "clinics" to help me abstain from porn. This all happens after both of us say that our goal is for this—me looking at porn very occasionally—to not be a problem and even after we've told them that she used to be totally OK with it (four years ago) but now she feels crazy and doesn't want to feel this way about it. Our last therapist said my refusal to go to a clinic showed that we had a toxic relationship! I'm dumbfounded. Every time we see a therapist like this, it damages our relationship. Lack Of Sane Therapists
therapy (the 'other kind of CBT') for anxiety disorders may be helpful and less likely to get distracted by blaming porn." To find a therapist who specializes in CBT and isn't a batshit-crazy, smutshaming sexphobe, Ley suggests you find a therapist through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (aasect.org) or the "Kink Aware Professionals Directory" at the National Coalition for Sexual Freedom (ncsfreedom.org). "The therapists LOST will find there are more likely to be
that's fine and it works great to let off steam. But if you're not taking care of the real issue—loneliness, depression, stress—then the porn use can sometimes become its own problem." Which is what seems to have happened in your case, PAR. Ley agrees that your husband should get some solo counselling in addition to the couples counselling you're planning on getting together. As for your out-of-sync libidos, PAR, try to bear in mind that all of this— the discovery that it wasn't just porn, the communication that's happened in the wake of that revelation, the reawakening of your libido—basically just went down. It may take some time (and counselling) before you two reconnect and reestablish your sexual groove. "PAR's husband might be intimidated by his wife's libido and desire—if he is a guy who is struggling with unmanaged feelings of depression and anxiety," Ley says. "So he could benefit from seeing a therapist and doing some work around how he is coping with these feelings while on deployment and how he communicates these feelings to his wife. This way, she would know that when he's not interested in sex, it's because he's stressed or depressed, not because of the porn."
The most obvious issue that needs addressing is your fiancée's evident and apparently metastasizing insecurity. (Yesterday you had to stop watching porn, today you can't go to the beach, tomorrow you won't be able to have female friends.)
"The therapists seen by LOST have drunk the Kool-Aid: porn is automatically bad, stopping porn use is always the best answer, the person who doesn't like porn is always right," says Dr David Ley, writer, clinical psychologist and author of The Myth of Sex Addiction. "Such therapists develop target fixation when porn is involved and lose sight of other, real issues that need to be addressed." The most obvious issue that needs addressing is your fiancée's evident and apparently metastasizing insecurity. (Yesterday you had to stop watching porn, today you can't go to the beach, tomorrow you won't be able to have female friends.) But since all the therapists you've seen thus far were batshit-crazy sexphobes—or "fixated" on porn, as Ley put it—her issues haven't been addressed. "LOST's fiancée probably sees his use of porn as a reflection of his level of attraction to her," Ley says. "Or she's worried that a man who looks at porn is a man who will cheat. I understand and empathize with her fear." But Ley wonders if something else is at work here. "LOST's fiancée might be dealing with a form of anxiety disorder, where obsession is sometimes expressed through irrational fears of infidelity," Ley says. "A therapist who specializes in cognitive behavioural
sex-positive," Ley says, "and less likely to jump on the 'porn is the root of all problems' bandwagon." You can follow Ley on Twitter @DrDavidLey.
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My husband and I have been married for 10 years and have two children. We had a wild sex life in the beginning, but his job (he's military) took him away so many times that our relationship (and the sex) took a nosedive. Upon coming back from deployments, he would always have an addiction to porn. I would believe him when he'd tell me that he stopped, but every time he'd come back it would start again. Last fall, he was gone for four months, and the addiction is still there. For the past year, he was going onto anonymous webcam sites and engaging in mutual masturbation with random women. I found out and we are talking now about our problems and working to resolve them. The camming has stopped and we are going to attend counselling as a couple, but I also think he should attend counselling for himself. Our newfound communication and intimacy has reawakened my libido and now I want it more than him. I'm angry that the lack of frequent sex is what drove him to porn, but now the problem is that I want it too much! I don't know how to handle my newfound libido and his lack of interest. I need him to be more adamant about showing me he wants me. Am I reading too much into it and being too needy? Paranoid And Reawakened "Increased porn use in men is very often a response to loneliness—due to divorce, separation, etc—or stress or depression," Ley says. Deployment to a war zone, needless to say, can be highly stressful and very lonely. "Sexual arousal is VERY good at diverting us from things we're bothered by," Ley says. "For many people,
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My boyfriend likes to watch porn, but I do not. (Male couple, both 22, together two years.) He sometimes wants to watch it "with" me, and this is our compromise: he sits on my face, I rim him while he watches porn, we stroke ourselves. He's not "present" when we do this—he's focused on his porn. My best friend says this isn't sex and isn't healthy. She says I'm being used and she thinks less of my boyfriend now. I don't feel like I'm being used. We still have good "regular" sex with no porn. But it's true that I wouldn't do this (rim him while he basically ignores me) if it weren't for my boyfriend's desire to watch porn sometimes instead of having "regular" sex with me. Should I stop doing this? Am I being used? Really Into My Man PS I love eating his ass and I always come when we do this. "If it's working for him and his boyfriend, RIMM shouldn't let anybody tell him what he should be feeling," Ley says. "This is the epitome of healthy GGG compromise. Rim away." On the Lovecast, Dan and Heather Havrilesky of Ask Polly discuss unfortunate tattoos: savagelovecast. com. V @fakedansavage on Twitter
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