1004: Back to Life

FREE (TRUNKS)

#1004 / JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2015 VUEWEEKLY.COM

EXPLORING THE FREEZEWAY 6 • SEX AND POWER IN VENUS IN FUR 9

remember me?

I’m Jenna. I grew up down the street from you, but a year ago I ran away from home. My dad abused my mom and me. I just couldn’t take it anymore.

70% of homeless youth have suffered some form of physical, sexual or emotional abuse.

YESS will help them heal.

lp. e h r u o dy that We nee ation ensureasys be lw on a

ill ur d ids YESS Yo YESS wthere for k na. n .org like Je

Paying to have your pet xed isn’t easy.

We can help.

Why do we look after our natural resources?

That’s The Alberta Way™.

It takes AUPE members like Heather to help Alber tans enjoy our natural habitats. She’s just one of your working people who stewards, conser ves and restores Alber ta’s natural resources, ensuring our outdoor summers stay pristine and protected, for current and future generations.

T he Al b e rt aWay.com

INFO SESSION WEEK LEARN ABOUT OUR PROGRAMS FIND YOUR DIRECTION

The EHS’ subsidized spay/neuter program for low-income residents.

Email: pals@edmontonhumanesociety.com Phone: 780-491-3850

MacEwan.ca/InfoSessionWeek 2 UP FRONT

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

ISSUE: 1004 JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014 COVER ILLUSTRATION: CURTIS HAUSER

LISTINGS

ARTS / 13 MUSIC / 24 EVENTS / 25 CLASSIFIED / 26 ADULT / 28

FRONT

4

"For me, this project is about finding ways to get people excited about winter and the climate we live in." // 6

DISH

7

"We started it not really knowing where it would go—it was a new idea in an industry that was not used to this kind of thinking." // 7

"It's smart, it's sexy, it's funny— it's kind of everything theatre should be, these days." // 9

BIG AL’S

"Of course, nothing in the writing of A Most Violent Year feels quite as ham-fisted as the name Abel Morales, who is both able and a man of morals." // 16

BLUES

ARTS

9

HOUSE OF

FILM

16

MUSIC

19

Edmonton's Premier Blues Venue live music • Bar & GRill • call us at 780.482.0202

"I spent maybe a year or so after trying to distance myself from it, and then realized, 'Oh, that's futile.'" // 19

:ıPŎį=Ľæ

SNOW ZONE • 14 vVUEWEEKLY #200, 11230 - 119 STREET, EDMONTON, AB T5G 2X3 | T: 780.426.1996

F: 780.426.2889

FOUNDING EDITOR / PUBLISHER.................................................................................................................RON GARTH PRESIDENT ROBERT W DOULL......................................................................................................................rwdoull@vueweekly.com PUBLISHER ANDY COOKSON ...............................................................................................................................andy@vueweekly.com VICE PRESIDENT / SALES GORD SCHWINGHAMER ................................................................................................................ gord@vueweekly.com OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR VALERIE GROSS ............................................................................................................................. valerie@vueweekly.com MANAGING EDITOR / MUSIC EDITOR MEAGHAN BAXTER .................................................................................................................meaghan@vueweekly.com NEWS EDITOR REBECCA MEDEL.........................................................................................................................rebecca@vueweekly.com ARTS & FILM EDITOR PAUL BLINOV ........................................................................................................................................paul@vueweekly.com DISH EDITOR MEL PRIESTLEY ....................................................................................................................................mel@vueweekly.com ONLINE EDITOR / STAFF WRITER JOSH MARCELLIN ............................................................................................................................... josh@vueweekly.com LISTINGS HEATHER SKINNER....................................................................................................................... listings@vueweekly.com PRODUCTION MANAGER CHARLIE BIDDISCOMBE .............................................................................................................charlie@vueweekly.com PRODUCTION SHAWNA IWANIUK...................................................................................................................... shawna@vueweekly.com CURTIS HAUSER .............................................................................................................................curtish@vueweekly.com ACCOUNT MANAGERS JAMES JARVIS ....................................................................................................................................james@vueweekly.com MELANIE MAYONE-RADFORD ..............................................................................................melanie@vueweekly.com NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTATIVE DPS MEDIA ..........................................................................................416.413.9291 .................dbradley@dpsmedia.com DISTRIBUTION MANAGER MICHAEL GARTH .........................................................................................................................michael@vueweekly.com

CONTRIBUTORS Ricardo Acuña, Josef Braun, Rob Brezsny, Ryan Bromsgrove, Ashley Dryburgh, Gwynne Dyer, Jason Foster, Brian Gibson, Hart Golbeck, Fish Griwkowsky, Steven Kenworthy, Brenda Kerber, Alex Migdal, Fawnda Mithrush, Stephen Notley, Dan Savage, Mike Winters, Curtis Wright

DISTRIBUTION Terry Anderson, Shane Bennett, Jason Dublanko, John Fagan Aaron Getz, Layne L’Heureux, Amy Olliffe, Beverley Phillips, Justin Shaw, Choi Chung Shui, Parker Thiessen, Wally Yanish

If you didn't already know, we are in the midst of moving to exciting new digs at the Yellowhead Inn. Vue Weekly is available free of charge at well over 1200 locations throughout Edmonton. We are funded solely through the support of our advertisers. Vue Weekly is a division of Postvue Publishing LP (Robert W. Doull, President) and is published every Thursday. Vue Weekly is available free of charge throughout Greater Edmonton and Northern Alberta, limited to one copy per reader. Vue Weekly may be distributed only by Vue Weekly's authorized independent contractors and employees. No person may, without prior written permission of Vue Weekly, take more than one copy of each Vue Weekly issue. Canada Post Publications Mail Agreement No. 40022989. If undeliverable, return to: Vue Weekly #200, 11230 - 119 St, Edmonton, AB T5G 2X3

There will be room for way more of you, a bigger kitchen, and the same kick-ass entertainment you've come to expect!

FIND OUT MORE, visit us ON FB

or at bigalshouseofblues.com VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

UP FRONT 3

DYERSTRAIGHT

FRONT

NEWS EDITOR : REBECCA MEDEL REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

A punch from the pope

Pope's suggestion that Charlie Hebdo should not have insulted religion is misguided

// Styeb via Compfight

Vue Weekly welcomes reader response, whether critical or complimentary.

Send your opinion by mail (Vue Weekly, Suite 200-11230 119 St NW, Edmonton, AB, T5G 2X3), by fax (780.426.2889) or by email (letters@vueweekly.com). Preference is given to feedback about articles in Vue Weekly. We reserve the right to edit for length and clarity.

Not every letter will be published.

RE: SHOOTING OF RCMP OFFICERS As a proud and responsible owner of multiple firearms, I want to talk about the situation where two RCMP officers were shot in St Albert last week. We forget just how often these officers put themselves in harm's way to protect us. When they get injured in the line of duty we look at it for a moment and gather as a nation to mourn, but only for a moment. We forget all too quickly that every moment those men and women are at work, their lives are at risk.

Most of us obey the law most of the time, but when we don't and get caught, we need to learn to take our punishment. I got pulled over by a young officer when I was much younger, and he was very angry with me. I took it personally; I never thought for a minute that he might be on the last day of a rotation and his wife went into labour early so now he has just missed the birth of his first child, all to write some teenager a speeding ticket and get disrespect-

4 UP FRONT

ed by that kid. These men and women are people. We don't think of them as people when they put on the uniform. Some of us think of them as the enemy and we introduce unnecessary conflict; we push the limit of what is allowed just because we can and this needs to change.

I spoke with a very close friend of mine today: he is one of these everyday heroes—a random face to you, but very important to me.

I am thankful every day for the risks my friend takes, yet a day does not go by that I don't have a small worry in the back of my mind about him.

Just like a carpenter building a house puts the walls where the blueprints tell him to, a police officer has a duty to uphold the law and protect the safety of citizens who may not agree with every one of those laws, but are responsible to uphold them.

Mark Tucker Edmonton

Islamist website who was highlighting that magazine as particularly insulting to Islam.

The fanatics who run the extremist networks and websites NEED insults to Islam, threats to Islam, attacks on Islam in order to recruit and motivate the impressionable young men and women who will do the actual killing and dying for them. If Charlie Hebdo didn't exist, they'd have found something else. It probably wouldn't have been quite as crassly insulting as Charlie, but it would have served the same purpose.

As a popular slogan on the extremist websites has it, "Media is half of jihad." High-profile targets that will upset the Western public are what they want, and nothing gets the Western media's attention like an attack on the media.

For most of a week, that one event in Paris—17 people killed by three young fools with guns—virtually monopolized international news coverage in the European and North American media. But what was so surprising about it? That you can get KalashA little bit of Latin always raises all. (I'm assuming it's a "him," since nikovs in Paris? That there are quite the tone of an article, so here (with I'm sure the Pope would not punch a a few foolish, lost young Muslim men thanks to the classical correspondent woman.) But does he think violence in Paris? That some of them will be of The Observer) is a sentence that is justified in defence of the honour seduced by Islamist propaganda?

This was a small skirmish in a long may prove useful to Pope Francis: of your mother or your religion? Yes, "agite tentaque si fortiores vos puta- he does. Or if not actually justified, ... I was going to say a long "war," but actually the strategic objective of tis." It means "come on then, if you at least quite understandable.

At this point in the discussion, France and all the other Western tarthink you're hard enough."

It's the manly thing to say if you Western journalists normally wander get nations should be to prevent it have just punched somebody and he off into an extended debate in which from turning into a real war. It's the looks like he's thinking of hitting you some defend freedom of speech at extremists who want a war in which back. Francis has recently expressed any cost and others insist that you the West "attacks Islam," because the view that, "If anyone says a curse must refrain from mocking other that is the best and probably the only route that word against might bring my mother, The fanatics who run the extremist networks and them to power he can expect a punch." So websites NEED insults to Islam, threats to Islam, in the Muslim he should be attacks on Islam in order to recruit and motivate world.

Unfortunately, ready for some the impressionable young men and women who Western media retaliation, cannot resist and saying will do the actual killing and dying for them. turning stories that in Latin like the Paris might deter the victim from hitting the Supreme people's religious views, either be- killings into a media circus. To make cause you shouldn't hurt their feel- matters worse, Western leaders canPontiff back.

In real life, of course, the Swiss ings or just because you're afraid not resist the temptation to do little pantomimes of defiance for the camGuard would give the poor sucker a they'll kill you.

It's a great opportunity to pontifi- eras. "We're not on our knees. We're good kicking for attacking the pope's knuckles with his face, and then drag cate about weighty philosophical standing tall. In fact, look: we're him off to jail. But Francis was not matters (even the pontiff himself bravely walking down the streets really talking about himself. He was could not resist it), but it has al- together." As if the terrorists wanted just saying that the satirists of Char- most nothing to do with the case at them on their knees.

And so you get the ridiculous demlie Hebdo who were massacred in hand: the terrorist attacks in Paris and the various Western responses onstration of "solidarity" among 40 Paris last week had it coming.

"It's normal," Francis explained. "You to them. Or do you really think world leaders that led the march in cannot provoke, you cannot insult that the attacks would stop if ev- Paris. At least Barack Obama had the the faith of others. You cannot make erybody promised to say only nice good sense to dodge that event, although he was sharply criticized for it things about Islam? fun of the faith of others." by all the useful idiots at home who He was defending the right of believers of any faith to be exempt from It is unlikely that Said and Cherif think a war with Islam is just what harsh criticism, caricature and indeed Kouachi and Amedy Coulibaly were the West needs.

Come to think of it, Francis didn't go any comment that hurts their feel- regular readers of Charlie Hebdo. ings—and also their right to use vio- The target was picked for them ei- to Paris either. Maybe there's hope ther directly by some operational for him yet. V lence against those who transgress.

I'm exaggerating, of course. Francis controller in al-Qaeda, ISIS or some didn't say that he would shoot the other Islamist jihadi group—or, if Gwynne Dyer is an independent jourperson who insulted his mother or they were acting independently, nalist whose articles are published in blow him up. Just punch him, that's then indirectly by the editor of some 45 countries.

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

POLITICALINTERFERENCE RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Politics before workers?

Workers' comp is denied to farm workers despite the big-business aspect of most farms

// CJ Berry via Compfight

a dozen types of cancer. The governFarming is one of the most dangerous it was not practical.

Almost 100 years later, the Alberta ment boasts about this exceptional occupations in Alberta. The rates of workplace injury and workplace fatal- government continues to passion- coverage, but does not seem to unity are among the highest of all jobs ately defend the exclusion of farm derstand that the reasons they use to in the province. In 2013 alone, 16 farm workers from workers' compensation. justify this coverage for firefighters workers died on the job, up from 10 This despite the fact that the nature also apply entirely to farm workers. the year before. Farm workers are of Alberta's farms has changed signifi- Farm workers have higher than noralso exposed to numerous chemicals cantly. For the most part we are no mal rates of injury and cancer, farm and substances that are known to longer talking about small ma-and-pa workers cannot refuse unsafe work cause cancer and other occupational operations, but much larger and slick- and it is not fair to farm workers and er operations. Seven out of 10 farm their families to burden them with diseases.

There is no question that farm work- workers in Alberta are on farms bring- the costs and responsibilities of wage ers would benefit tremendously from ing in over $250 000 a year, and the replacement and rehabilitation in the coverage by workers' compensation: number of farms earning more than case of injury and death.

So why does the government concoverage that would provide wage $2 million increased 1187 percent in replacement, vocational rehab and the past 30 years. In other words, tinue to refuse farm workers this coverage?

Sadly, medical treatthe biggest reason ment in the case appears to be crass of on-the-job injuFarmers don't want to be forced to provide unadulterated poliry; coverage that their workers this coverage and farmers vote tics. Farmers don't would provide want to be forced survivor benefits for and donate to the Conservatives, so the to provide their to the families of government continues the exclusion. workers this covworkers killed on erage and farmers the job. vote for and donate This is the kind of coverage that about 86 percent of farms are operating today in terms of to the Conservatives, so the governAlberta workers have in their work- size, scope and number of employees ment continues the exclusion.

Farm workers in nine other provinces places. For most of us that coverage just like virtually any other business and territories are covered by mandais mandatory. The Alberta govern- and sector in the province.

Yet somehow the Alberta govern- tory workers' compensation insurance. ment obliges employers across the province to provide this coverage ment still feels justified in excluding International migrant workers on Alto their workers. There are some farm workers from the injury-com- berta farms, as a result of federal govexceptions to mandatory coverage pensation system that almost all ernment legislation, are also covered that make sense, for people who are other workers in the province have by mandatory workers' compensation self-employed, contractors and some access to. This is in addition to their insurance. Isn't it time that the Alberta ongoing exclusion from virtually all government stopped playing politics temp workers.

There is, however, one exception to the protections and statutory em- with the well-being of farm workers mandatory coverage that makes ab- ployment rights that other Alberta and their families? Perhaps if enough solutely no sense whatsoever—the workers enjoy, including minimum- Albertans make their voices heard by wage rules, hours of work, vacation the government this injustice can be exception for farm workers.

According to a new report released protections, restrictions on child la- reversed. In fact, it may be the only last week by the Parkland Institute, bour and unionization and collective way it will ever happen. V the exemption dates back to 1918 bargaining rights.

Ricardo Acuña is the executive director when farmers first successfully lobbied to have farm workers excluded The Parkland report highlights that of the Parkland Institute, a non-partifrom mandatory compensation cover- Alberta's firefighters, who engage in san, public policy research institute age. The rationale was that the cost similarly dangerous work, have been housed at the University of Alberta. would be prohibitive for small fam- granted privileged access to the The views and opinions expressed are ily operations and that the nature of workers' compensation system, in- his own and do not necessarily reflect small farms in Alberta was such that cluding presumptive status for over those of the Institute.

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

UP FRONT 5

FRONT NEWS // CITY TRAILS

T

he Freezeway project, the newest proposal for updating Edmonton's cultural framework, has actually been simmering for the past two years. It's the thesis of former UBC landscape architecture student Matt Gibbs. (Gibbs has now graduated and is pursuing registration as a landscape architect.)

The Freezeway would turn 11 kilometres of existing city trails, skirting the downtown core, into skating paths in the winter. It's actually little more than an idea at the moment—the proposal has not been presented to city council—but Gibbs will be pitching it next week at the Winter Cities Shake-Up conference in Edmonton.

"For me, this project was about finding ways to get people excited about winter and the climate that we live in," Gibbs says. He adds that cities often choose developmental designs that would be better suited to warmer climates rather than working with what they've got, while landscape architecture tries to unveil the true nature of a space.

"Development North Americaround kind of neglects its climatic context, to the detriment of all the residents living there, making it pretty hard to inhabit those spaces when they're not really designed for that climate," Gibbs explains. "So I really tried to focus on what are some climate-adaptive solutions we can come up with."

His work was based on the findings of the Winter City Strategy, which polled citizens for their ideas to improve the winter months in Edmonton. Gibbs combed through the hundreds of entries and found that, above anything else, people wanted skating trails.

"So that's what solidified what I ended up designing," he says. "I was wondering if we could create crosscountry ski corridors, if we could create snowshoeing lanes or whatever, but it became skating because that was the number-one request in that Winter City think-tank."

Some of the objectives of Winter City were to create a winter tourism economy, create more winter programming, create more climateadaptive designs and to encourage citizens to be active year-round.

"I did a year of research looking at what problems exist in Edmonton and I essentially came to the conclusion that there's a huge challenge in getting enough physical activity in the winter season," Gibbs says. "That really induces a sedentary lifestyle that's just imposed on us and can be very socially isolating and detrimental to our health. So my whole objective was about trying to find ways that we could connect people with getting social interaction [and] getting that physical activity."

Gibbs says smaller stretches of the

6 UP FRONT

Freezeway should be experimented on first, in order to gauge interest.

He suggests the corridor just south of Blatchford to be the first segment of trail used.

"I think that would be the test run that's required to convince people that this could be popular and that people would use it," he adds.

Gibbs' design has been getting noticed outside of Edmonton as well.

Guest landscape architects and urban designers came to critique the thesis, and when the Cleveland Urban Design Collaborative was hosting a Coldscapes competition with three individual $1000 awards for winter urban design ideas at that time he entered.

"So it forced me into putting together that video," Gibbs says, who ended up winning the competition.

"I'd been versed well enough in pitching a three-minute thesis and luckily had enough images on hand and was desperate enough for that $1000.

I ended up cranking out that video that really made a good case for it in that three-minute timeframe that I had. And that lent some credibility to the project that really enabled me to start sharing this idea with the city."

He also presented his idea at the Winter Cycling Congress in Winnipeg last year, as the plan includes both summer and winter cycling trails.

"One of the strengths of this design is that it [uses] already existing city infrastructure," Gibbs says. "They wouldn't have to secure any other resources, all they'd have to do is flip these spaces. I think sometimes twothirds of the battle is gaining possession of that land."

Gibbs is proposing that existing trail systems could be expanded upon to become a multi-use trail

I thought that this would be something that would be so grand ... something that would really put us on the map as a cultural capital within the country, if not internationally.

that would include both a pedestrian promenade and a cycling trail in summer, with the cycling trail becoming the skating trail in winter and the pedestrian trail being shared with cyclists in winter. He says to promote winter biking in the city, and with the reduced amount of pedestrians on that winter path, if it was about a four-metre wide promenade, that would allow plenty of room for both cyclists and pedestrians.

Regarding recent public discourse about the costs the Freezeway could incur, Gibbs says,

// Curtis Hauser

"This project is not meant to be a taxpayer's burden. The Freezeway is meant to upgrade city infrastructure for a multitude of uses, potentially doing wonders for redeveloping the city's core, our international reputation, as well as attracting investment into the city. The proposed route exists entirely on existing city infrastructure, so the land is already secured.

The numerous character areas along the route could be developed incrementally, lending themselves well to

private funding/sponsorship, like Calgary's GlobalFest or Vancouver's Festival of Light fireworks shows which are funded by donations of over $1 million dollars annually."

He adds that projects like this can take 30 years to realize, but longrange visions are responsible for creating internationally recognized spaces like the Seawall in Vancouver and the High Line in New York.

"I proposed an idea not about how Edmonton is, but about how Edmon-

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

ton could be," Gibbs says. "I see this as being a huge opportunity to redefine ourselves as the cultural capital that I think we are. There's this hotbed of culture and activities and festivals that come out of this city and I thought that this would be something that would be so grand, something that would really put us on the map as a cultural capital within the country, if not internationally."

REBECCA MEDEL

REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // MEALSHARE

DISH

DISH EDITOR : MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

E

ighteen months ago, Jeremy Bryant and his cousin Andrew Hall had just ditched their soulless corporate day jobs and started Mealshare, a brand-new non-profit organization.

After a few weeks of mostly fruitless cold-calls to restaurants in both Edmonton and Calgary, they had no idea Canadians would soon become so supportive of their endeavour.

But Mealshare has quickly spread across the whole country and has provided those in need with well over 150 000 meals.

"We started it not really knowing how it would go—it was a new idea in an industry that was not used to this kind of thinking,"

says Bryant, over coffee in a café on 104 Street downtown. "But, once a few restaurants started Mealshare, the result was amazing. Owners loved it because it allowed them to connect to the community in a way that made sense with and for their business, and customers loved it because it makes it so easy to help out—just by going out for a meal!

And, of course the community benefits because meals are given to people who really need them."

Mealshare operates on a simple concept: buy a meal, give a meal. Participating restaurants place a logo beside menu items that, when purchased, send one dollar to Mealshare, which then forwards this money to a charitable organization that provides meals for those in need.

Mealshare works with one partner charity in each city; Edmonton's is the Hope Mission. They VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

have also teamed up with an international nonprofit organization, Save the Children, which allows them to leverage the costs of food in different places: locally, one dollar is not a lot of money for a complete meal, but globally it is often plenty. By working on both local and international levels, Mealshare is thus able to provide meals to people in communities near and far.

"Somebody can't really learn to fish if they can't afford to eat," Bryant says. "So all the charities that we work with are solution-based charities. They give out some food, but also have other programs that can hopefully lift people out of the struggles they're in. That's what gets us really excited, seeing those other awesome programs that people can pair along with the food to make lasting change."

Ten Edmonton restaurants are currently participating in the Mealshare program. Culina Mill Creek and Noorish were the first two to join, though Noorish has since dropped out. The others include Culina Muttart, Creole Envie, Rosso Pizzeria, Block 1912, Knosh Food Truck, Arcadia, Famoso and Tiramisu Bistro. A major boon to the Mealshare program was forging a partnership with the Original Joe's chain, which has placed Mealshare items on the menus of all of its 60-some locations across western Canada. Mealshare will also be adding another major chain to its roster, Panda Hut Express, shortly.

"When we started we were a little hesitant about chains," Bryant notes. "We didn't know if it would be like a big-boss-man mentality where they only care about the dollars and the benefits. But since starting working with them, it's been the complete opposite: so caring about the community; every turn they just want to help and get more involved."

The spring will see an official Edmonton launch of the Mealshare program, hopefully around April or May. Bryant notes they've had launches in other cities already, where the uptake was initially a little higher. Beyond that, their plans are to continue growing their partnerships and making new ones in communities across Canada. (And, perhaps one day, farther abroad.)

"Mealshare is an easy way for you to get involved in the community," Bryant says. "It's also a business benefit: don't see us as coming out of your profits; see us as building into your business holistically. It's going to create a deeper connection with customers; it's going to provide them with a cool experience when they come in."

The next time you're dining out, or even just ordering Chinese take-out, check the menu for the Mealshare logo—it's going to become a familiar sight. And if you're having trouble deciding what to eat, skip the coin toss: a Mealshare dish is the best sort of tie-breaker.

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

DISH 7

DISH TO THE PINT

DISH WEEKLY

JASON FOSTER // JASON@VUEWEEKLY.COM

A Saskatchewan surprise

Black Bridge Centennial Rye Ale is a full-flavoured prairie brew

I will forgive you for expressing skepticism at my next sentence.

There is some really good beer being made in Swift Current, Saskatchewan.

Really.

I know, I know. Swift Current is known as little more than a second-rate stop during a TransCanada Highway trip eastwards. The small city of 15 000 has very little

to brag about—unless you consider having Saskatchewan's oldest continually operating movie theatre brag-worthy (the Lyric Theatre, opened in 1912, by the way).

Yet, in the past few months, Clayton and Kari Stenson have offered both weary travellers and beer fans a reason to give Swift Current a second look. The husband-and-wife team opened Black Bridge Brewery in the fall of 2014.

Named after a local landmark, Black Bridge is attempting to create a true craft beer experience in an unusual location.

Breweries in small towns come in two varieties. Some are wellmeaning and deserving of support, but the beer is a little too timid due to the brewery's isolated location. Then there are the breweries that transcend locality and simply try to make the best beer possible. Black Bridge, at first blush, seems to be the latter.

Three of its beers are available in Alberta; all are well-made and interesting. The one I was most moved to review was the Centen-

Black Bridge Centennial Rye Ale Black Bridge Brewery, Swift Current, Saskatchewan $18.60 for six-pack blackbridgebrewery.ca nial Rye Ale. As the name implies, it is a rye beer using centennial hops, a variety that accents a floral, citrusy character.

Centennial Rye Ale pours a medium bright gold and creates a thin layer of white head, leaving some decent lacing. The aroma wafts up light citrusy fruit with an accent of sharp graininess; some honey and a bit of pine add complexity.

Honey and fruit start the palate, followed by a sharp, spicy malt flavour coming from, I suspect, the rye. The middle offers a citruswoody blend of flavours, making it both refreshingly summery and autumn-like earthy. The finish builds a piney hop character: the hop is not about simple bitterness, which is fairly subdued and below 30 IBU. Rather, the hops contribute noticeable flavour, freshness and linger.

I am quite drawn to this beer. It is fresh, spicy and sharp. The combination of citrus and sharp graininess is quite appealing and creates a refreshing, full-flavoured beer.

If this is only the beginning of what Swift Current has to offer, we should all watch out. The city might be small, but it is clearly formidable. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

MEL PRIESTLEY // MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

The Alder Room Indiegogo Campaign Edmonton’s food landscape has had a very interesting recent development: The Alder Food Security Society is a new non-profit group aiming to provide low-income families, seniors and marginalized groups access to local food as well as working to secure Edmonton’s local food system as a whole. Led by Carley-Jane Stanton, manager of the Southwest Edmonton Farmers Market and chef Ben Staley, the Society is currently in the process of assembling a board of directors. Its main source of funding will be derived from affiliated restaurant The Alder Room, an 18-seat fine dining restaurant co-owned by Staley (the opening chef of North 53). The Alder Room will focus on extreme seasonality and locality, following the grand vision of the major players on the international dining scene.

But all this is still just that, vision: the restaurant’s location (in a historic building on 98 Street and 107 Avenue) needs major renovations before any of this can happen, so the duo are hoping to raise funds through their Indiegogo campaign. Check it out at indiegogo.com/projects/the-alder-room-alder-food-security-society

Edmonton Resilience Festival Love daydreaming about how you’d fare in a post-apocalyptic wasteland? Alarmed at your lack of skills in simple things our homesteader ancestors did every day? The inaugural Edmonton Resilience Festival, presented by The Local Good and the Edmonton Permaculture Guild, aims to arm Edmontonians with the knowledge and skills needed to start a new initiative and sustainably maintain it. The two-day festival is organized into different streams of workshops: you sign up for one stream and participate in a handful of workshops over the whole day, which include things like home canning and vermicomposting, bicycle maintenance and beekeeping. The festival is on February 7 and 8; full details at edmontonresiliencefestival.com

Breakfast: now at the Blue Chair The Blue Chair Café in the Ritchie neighbourhood is now offering breakfast, starting at 7 am Wednesday through Friday. (Sunday brunch from 9 am to 3 pm remains unchanged). The menu includes fresh baked goods and simple breakfast items. The café switches over to a soup-and-salad buffet lunch at 11 am, and then the usual dinner offerings. More information and full café hours can be found at bluechair.ca

New coffee spot on Jasper Avenue Edmonton’s coffee resurgence is still on the upswing: Jasper Avenue will soon see the opening of a new place to get your caffeine fix. Details are still scant on the Coffee Bureau’s opening, but judging by its Instagram feed, the shop should be open within a few weeks in its 105 Street location. See for yourself at instagram.com/coffee.bureau

all roads lead to

8 DISH

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

New tapas spot on Jasper Avenue Downtown continues to ramp up its food and drink offerings: a new tapas and wine joint, aptly named Tapavino, will open ... soon? Vue hasn’t been able to get in contact with the owners yet, but the website is being steadily updated and the space, located just off Jasper Avenue and 110 Street in the venue formerly occupied by Niche, looks almost ready. Stay tuned for more details here, and at tapavino.ca V

PREVUE // THEATRE

ARTS

ARTS EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

O

Power and play in a socio-political // Epic Photography

ne wonders if the Citadel was tempted to pepper its promotional materials for Venus in Fur with hashtags: #Mansplaining! #YesAllWomen! #GamerGate! Social media is certainly rife with the same discussions underpinning the play’s own politics.

"I always wonder, when I direct plays, am I just seeing more of these coincidences because of the play I'm doing, or is it really a topical thing that's coming up?" muses James MacDonald. Speaking over the phone from between rehearsals, he recalls a radio program he heard that morning: a discussion about manspreading (men who sit with their legs splayed apart on public transit). "There's a certain casual sexism in the world that is unconscious and ingrained; the play, to a certain extent, challenges those understandings."

Venus in Fur was the most produced play in the 2013 – 14 American theatre season. A two-hander written by David Ives and premièred off-Broadway in 2010, the play is an adaptation of an 1870 novel of almost the same name (Venus in Furs) written by Austrian author Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. It follows a play within-a-play structure: a brazen young woman is auditioning for a role with a director who's mounting a show based on that novel; the show flashes between the script's present day in a dumpy New York warehouse-turned-theatre space and the Carpathian Mountains during the Habsburg Monarchy.

"Vanda's a particularly tough part because she has to be so many

Until Sun, Feb 8 (7:30 pm; 1:30 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by James MacDonald Citadel Theatre, $35 – $89

different people: she has to be a broad, brassy kind of New York actress type, who may or may not have been a sex-trade worker, as well as being an incredibly ladylike woman," says MacDonald, noting that some 300 actresses applied for the part. He cast Edmonton actress Alana Hawley because of her ability to effectively embody this multifaceted role. Opposite her, in the role of the director who's about to go through a "life-changing experience," MacDonald cast Jamie Cavanagh, another Edmonton native.

"The man kind of plays second banana to the woman, so you really want somebody who's kind of effortlessly charming," MacDonald says. "He really does have to be a likeable jerk. [Cavanagh] was kind of a no-brainer; he's a very charming guy; he's got a bit of an edge and a bit of a moody darkness to him."

Socio-political undercurrents aside, Venus in Fur also boasts a fundamentally broad appeal.

"It's smart, it's sexy, it's funny—it's kind of everything theatre should be, these days," MacDonald says. "I think it is produced [so much right now] because it is topical—but it's probably been topical for 2000 years."

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

ON JANUARY 13TH EDMONTON LOST ONE OF IT’S MAINSTAYS AS THE ROXY THEATRE WENT UP IN FLAMES…

HELP

ATRE

THE ROXY

GAIN

A ONCE TO DONATE HEAD TO: WWW.CANADAHELPS.ORG/EN/CHARITIES/THEATRE-NETWORK-SOCIETY/

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

ARTS 9

ARTS REVUE // THEATRE

PREVUE // THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIENCES

Circle Mirror Transformation The Antyssey A

s the dangling lights blink on in we bumble in our attempts to comCircle Mirror Transformation's municate them.

The dynamics emerge slowly bemultipurpose-room set, we find a quintet of people sprawled out tween the group, in scenes that feel on the ground. Eyes closed, voices less like vignettes and more like straining in effort, they're trying to potent fragments: short, bursting count to 10 together without anyone moments of connection or disconspeaking a number nect between members of the at the same time, Until Sun, Feb 1 (7:30 pm; 2 pm group. I'm not and they're not do- Sunday matinees) ing so well, playing Directed by John Hudson crazy about frequent blackouts the sort of theatre Varscona Theatre, $11 – $27 game you probin theatre, but Circle Mirror ably remember Transformation is written in a way from drama class.

As it documents the few weeks five that seems to necessitate them. strangers spend together in an adult (Though I could've done without the community-theatre class, Circle Mir- transitional music's clunky carnival ror Transformation uses such games vibes in favour of something more (and awkward attempts to navigate directly affecting). them) as a springboard into the depths of the people in the room—a Those little scenes, dry off the top, former New York actress, a recent di- start to add up once you see enough vorcee carpenter, a teen, the instruc- of them to glean the emerging backtor and her husband. Our glimpses ground: extra-curricular romances of their lives outside the room come blossom and wilt, darker secrets leak almost solely through their engage- out, and, by the end, even the simment in these games, or in the few plest theatre game gets charged up minutes of break or moments before with subtext as their lives interlock class. And in the Shadow Theatre's and pull apart outside the classroom.

Performance-wise, Lora Brovold is slow-burn production, you gain a beautiful sense of the complexities in fine form as Theresa, the actress, of basic human nature, and how often trying to recover from a bad break-up

and adjust to small-town living; same goes for Mikaela Cochrane as Lauren, the petulant teen who wants this class to be, you know, like, real acting, with, like, scripts? alongside Coralie Cairns, excellent as Marty, the hippie-ish teacher. I'm not sure Dave Brindle, as Marty's husband James, and Declan O'Reilly, the carpenter, Schultz, manage to convey the same level of emotional complexities, both skewing a little broad, here, but they still hold up their end.

In its mix of comedy and drama— long silences and awkward moments are played for both—the latter lands much stronger here; for all the awkward moments inherent in Circle Mirror Transformation, the comedy of them comes out a bit soft. But this is a show that offers lots to dig into about people, and particularly this: when you stick strangers in a room and ask them to open up, you don't get to control what sorts of secrets spill out, what connections get made and broken and what the lasting impact of connecting with your inner feelings are. The consequences, it turns out, are affecting, human, awkward and unexpected.

PAUL BLINOV

PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

“Smart.

Sexy.

Hilarious.”

VOGUE

Venus PRESENTED BY

in fur BY

DAVID IVES

Jan 17- Feb 8/15 DIRECTED BY JAMES MacDONALD

STARRING JAMIE CAVANAGH & ALANA HAWLEY

SHOCTOR THEATRE • RECOMMENDED FOR AGES 16+

SEASON SPONSOR

10 ARTS

PRODUCTION SPONSOR

TICKETS $ START AT

30

780.425.1820 citadeltheatre.com

CITADEL THEATRE ROB B I N S

ACADEM Y

Apparently marching one by three, hurrah, hurrah // Kim Clegg

F

or the past 25 years, Concrete The- and they all operate according to the atre has birthed dozens of "sprout- same mind, basically—the hive mind." lets"—new plays in the Theatre for The Antyssey spins the tale of Oscar, Young Audiences (TYA) category. a yellow ant who loves being part of "We realized there was almost a black-ant colony and is completely nothing out there in terms of new bewildered when he discovers that Canadian work that explored issues he's not actually a black ant himself. in the way that we He meets up with Andrea, a princess were interested in Thu, Jan 22 (10 am & 1 pm); Fri, exploring issues, Jan 23 (1 pm & 7 pm); Sat, Jan 24 experiencing her that really looked (11 am & 2 pm) own identity crisis: she's rejecting the at things like cul- Directed by Mieko Ouchi expectation that tural diversity. ATB Financial Arts Barns, $13 – she'll become the Sprouts (a festival $19 ($7 school groups) new queen ant. dedicated to such work) was our "I've enjoyed the answer to that," says Mieko Ouchi, fact that when you hit a universal co-founder and artistic director of theme and then you give it a specific Concrete Theatre. She's on speaker story, how it can resonate across phone with Joel Crichton and Richard ages," Lee says. "For the past year Lee, co-writers of a brand-new Con- and a half I've been travelling in and crete sproutlet: The Antyssey. out of Edmonton and looking at what Much has changed since Concrete my idea of home is and where I'm gofirst incorporated in December 1989 ing to set up my base, and of course as an organization working with Oscar goes through a similar journey street-involved youth. in this play. I was watching a run just "It was kind of like an early i-Hu- the other day and I had a moment man," Ouchi notes. "That's actually where I was like, 'Oh, I'm Oscar right where the name came from; it was now!'" sort of from the street."

Concrete shifted focus in 1998 to Concrete has toured its homegrown become a dedicated professional TYA shows provincially and nationally; company.

Ouchi cites this as an active focus for "There was a big sea change in Ed- the company, aside from continuing monton that year," she notes, ex- to produce work that, like The Antysplaining that both Azimuth Theatre sey, captures its three cornerstones. and the Citadel shifted away from "It has to be artistically excellent— TYA, while TYA company Stage Po- we want them to be great shows just laris ended. "Suddenly there was an on their own," Ouchi says. "We also increased need for our work; we were want them to have a sense of relegetting tons of requests." vance to kids' lives, issues that they're Concrete introduced the Sprouts grappling with and trying to work out New Play Festival in 2002, which al- for themselves. And diversity: we relowed the company to "seed" writers ally feel like we want to reflect the and provide them an opportunity to diversity of the schools, the diversity try writing for kids. Crichton and Lee of our communities. That could mean are the two newest local playwrights all the things that make us different to create a Sprouts-founded work. from each other."

"We were trying to find something Both Lee and Crichton are keen to that we had in common to write continue writing in the TYA field after about," Crichton says. "That turned their debut of The Antyssey. In the out to be that we're both of mixed meantime, their message for audiencheritage, mixed ethnicity. It felt like es? "I hope you like puns," Lee says. an especially Canadian thing, to be Crichton agrees wholeheartedly. of nebulous origins. So we kind of "More ant puns than you think are extrapolated on that and [Lee] came possible." up with the metaphor of the ant MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM colony, where everything is the same

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

PREVUE // VARIETY SHOW

The Culture Collective Variety Show T

he Garneau Theatre might only be steps away from the university's frat houses, but twice a year, it stakes its claim as the biggest house party in Edmonton.

The affair, of course, is decidedly artsier. Swap the togas and beer pong for visual installations, film screenings and some of the city's most promising— and eclectic—performers, and you get a sense of how partygoers revel in the Culture Collective's variety showcase.

"You walk in the theatre and immediately you're in it," co-organizer Thomas Scott says. "It's a lot of positive energy and very communal in that respect. There's always something going on. People grab a beer and start chatting and the artists are milling about in the theatre and the lobby."

Scott, a former Fringe Festival program director, and music promoter Kris Harvey are resurrecting the Culture Collective for its fourth edition. The duo launched the showcase in July 2013 as an entrant to Make Something Edmonton—a community-building initiative spearheaded by local writer Todd Babiak—and have

seen each show sell out since.

"It's a sampler pack," Scott says. "You might be totally hip with what's going on with all the bands, but you might not know what's going on with the theatre scene or the comedy scene or film. There's that crossover for audiences and there's also a crossover for artists, too."

But not all great parties are alike. Scott's challenge, at this point, is maintaining the showcase's novelty and drawing back audiences.

"We're not at the point where we've hit that ceiling yet," he says. "Every time we come out with a new showcase, the format stays the same, which I think is important. But there's always something new and fresh and innovative that's coming out."

This month's edition—two 45-minute halves broken up by a half-hour intermission—includes screenings from Bump 'n' Grindhouse and the Global Visions Film Festival, and a visual installation in the lobby by the Edmonton Digital Arts College.

The featured act is local folk

group Owls By Nature.

Magician Sheldon Casavant is trimming his usual 75- to 90-minute show down to a five-minute mind-reading perfor- Thu, Jan 29 (7 pm) mance. It's Garneau Theatre, $20 in a challenge, advance, $25 at the door no doubt, to sway audience members within minutes.

But Casavant says the real excitement comes from uniting with a seemingly disparate group of performers.

"When I'm performing, it's usually solo. The whole time, it's me on stage and my interaction with the audience," Casavant says. "In this sense, it's a great way to collaborate with other performers and other artists in the city to have that same goal of putting on a great show for the audience.

"It's a good way to grow and see what others are up to the city," he adds. "And it's a great snapshot of the varied arts and culture scene that we have within the city.

ALEX MIGDAL

ALEXMIGDAL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Sheldon Casavant

ADVERTORIAL

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

ARTS 11

ARTS PREVUE // VARIETY

Sat, Jan 24 (9 pm) Mercury Room, $10 advance, $15 at the door

Exciting Times H

ow great would it be if your zingers were followed up by the bah-dumpshhht of a live rimshot? Pretty great, right?

Enter the beautiful world of Exciting Times, a comedy-music-arts-whatever variety show that's the creation of comedian Liam Creswick and his jazzmusician brother Andrew. The monthly show has had local stand-up comedians share the stage with bands, burlesque dancers, hypnotists and short films— all to the snazzy interludes of the house jazz band.

"It's a way for me to live out my Conan [O'Brien] fantasies," Creswick (the comedian) says, relaxing in his home before heading to work at a comic book store.

"And Andrew is mic'd, so it's almost like

Andy Richter or Paul Shaffer—I've got someone to riff with."

The show had a successful run of about a dozen shows at the Studio, a venue north of West Edmonton Mall that Creswick says was "a pain in the ass" to access by transit. But bus routes aside, the space is now shuttered, after police seized tens of thousands of dollars in cash and drug-laced baked goods from the premises.

So, now that the Studio is no more, Exciting Times has found a new home at the Mercury Room, a much more central and assuredly legal venue. The latest show is an effort by Creswick to mix established comics with up-and-comers, along with a mix of local music talent.

"I try to change it up on a show-to-

show basis," he says. "If I'm going to book three or four comedians, I try to book different ones every time. And if I had a funk band the last time, then maybe this time it's going to be metal or a young lady singer-songwriter next time. They're all people I feel the world needs more of."

As part of the first Exciting Times in its new home, there's Sean Lecomber, a pro comic who has done Just For Laughs and is one of the bigger comedians in Edmonton right now. Jesse Allen is new-ish to comedy, but Creswick says he's "just been killing it." Charles Haycock is a Canadian national yo-yo champion—and is one of the best in the world—who is now carving out another stage career as a comedian.

There will also be some funny from the Debutantes, a sketch group organized by Creswick. Rounding out the evening is music from local rapper Mikey Maybe and squidgy local duo Brother Octopus.

Creswick has been doing comedy semi-professionally for half a decade and notes it is indeed exciting times to be a comic in Edmonton. Alternative comedy—the underground stuff that happens in local bars like the Black Dog, Empress or Wunderbar—has never been stronger.

"The alt-comedy scene is not just good right now—it's amazing," Creswick says.

"In the time that I've been doing comedy in Edmonton there has not been an ap-

petite for comedy like this. Something is happening. There's a smart, intelligent and nuanced audience like I've never seen before. For anyone who does comedy in the city, it's really nice to have an audience that's eager and you're not trying to win them over in a sports bar. You can take bigger risks, try something you wouldn't have tried."

Creswick hopes to make Exciting Times at the Mercury Room a part of the city's cultural landscape.

"I'd love to see this become an Edmonton staple," he says. "Or maybe put some stuff online and see if people outside the city are interested in it. But really, that's all up to the audience."

JOSH MARCELLIN

JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Contemporary Art from North North America JANUARY 31 – APRIL 26, 2015

One epic Calgary-wide exhibition at Esker Foundation, Glenbow, Illingworth Kerr Gallery and Nickle Galleries OhCanadaYYC.com

Presented by

Janice Wright Cheney, Widow, 2012 Wool, cochineal dye, velvet, taxidermy form, pins and wood.

Oh, Canada_VueWeekly_022.01.15_v2.indd 12 ARTS

1

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

15-01-16 10:19 AM

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

DANCE 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 • 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 • Hedwig and the Angry Inch (14A); Jan 23 • The Phantom of the Opera (PG); Jan 30

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-

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

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)at 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

• WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: Nov

10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca insights by a selection of 15 long-term, 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 • LECTURE : Kristy Trinier: Making a Biennial, Jan 25; Scott Rogers Performance: Grafts, Jan 25 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In; Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • SUBURBIA: A MODEL LIFE (Photographs 1970s-80s); Dec 6-Mar 1 • RBC New Works Gallery: OBSCURE INVERSIONS: Colin Smith; Dec 6-Mar 1 • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • OUR LUMINOUS LAND: Paintings

by Jim Visser; Dec 4-Jan 31, 2015

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 • Employeement: Meditations on Neoliberal Employment Outcomes; reception Jan 28, 7-9pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca

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

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

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron

RUTHERFORD LIBRARY SOUTH, GALLERIA • University of Alberta • Photographs

St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Lina Ma (oil medium); Jan 1-26 • Bev Bunker (embroidery); Jan 27-Feb 23

from 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 AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner 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

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta

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

• FEATURE GALLERY: 15 ON 35: artwork and written

PRINCE OF WALES ARMOURIES HERITAGE CENTRE • 10440-108 Ave • Project

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood

UALBERTA MUSEUMS • Metro Cinema,

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

thenina.ca • CURIOSITY 2: ART FOR THE INQUISITIVE; Jan 15-Feb 7

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

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • As the Flowers Unfold: featuring Cheryl Feragen; Jan 17-Mar 3

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE STOLLERY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 •

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 • Book Design in Canada; Jan 20-Feb 14; Opening reception: Jan 22, 7-10pm • FAB 2-20: Artist talk with Jesse Thomas; Jan 29, 5:15pm

109 St • 780.425.9212 • Canada's Top 10 Film Festival 2015; Jan 22-Feb 2 • EDUCATED REEL: Huge Tales: Dino Myths on the Silver Screen; Jan 22 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)

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)

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 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 • ARTIST ELEANOR LOHNER: Jan 29-Feb 25; opening reception: Feb 11, 6:30-8:30pm LA CITE FRANCAPHONE • 8627-91 St • 780.461.3427 • Jazz'Art Concert: artists to paint to the sound of music • Jan 24, 7:30pm • $20 (per person or table), $140 (table of 8 people)

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • January Exhibition and Sale: Featuring works by the artists and secondary market works; Jan 7-31

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

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, 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

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 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

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Main Space: 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 • Lauren Crazybull's 'Voices of the Silent': Jan 24, 6:30-9pm

YMCA (Don Wheaton) • 10211-102 Ave •

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave

Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Fri-Sun 10-6pm • ARTWORK BY THE ARTISTS OF THE ART SOCIETY OF SRATHCONA COUNTY; Jan 31

• vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

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

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) 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

Theatre, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • edmontonstreetfest.com • Variety of unqiure and amazing performances, featuring circus, comedy, music, magic and more • Mar 14, 2-5pm • $21.75 advance single ticket or $75 advance four-pack, available at Tix on the Square

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)

ONE FLEA SPARE • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • In 1665 the plague has brought chaos to London. A wealthy couple, the Snelgraves have nearly served out their quarantine when two strangers break into their home, seeking refuge • Feb 5-15 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, 9828101A 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

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

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

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

THE TRAGICOMIC DESTINY OF TUBBY AND NOTTUBBY • L'Uni Theatre, 8627-91 St • This

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

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

HARCOURT HOUSE

LITERARY

3 rd Floor 10215-112 th St. N.W. Edmonton, AB.

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

ARTIST RUN CENTRE

ART CL A SSES W I N T E R + S P R I N G 2 015 C L A S S E S AVA I L A B L E

THE KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass

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

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

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97

Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Growing

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)

INTERNATIONAL STREET PERFORMERS FESTIVAL PRESENTS VAUDERVILLE MADNESS • Art Gallery of Alberta, Ledcor

round exhibits • UNCANNY BREACH: Works by Lucille Frost • Until Jan

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert •

St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Cheryl and Brian Hepperle: Natural History Carving; Jan 3-Feb 11

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Learn @ Your Library – Syrian Civil War: Nermin Allam, PhD candidate in Political Science at the University of Alberta, will share her views and insights on the Middle East conflict; Feb 1, 2-4pm; $10 (adult), $5 (student)

YMCA Community Canvas wall: Rotating year

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

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51

from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

FOR CL A S S DE TA IL S + INFORM ATION ON HOW TO REGIS TER , PLE A SE V ISIT:

W W W. H A R C O U R T H O U S E . A B . C A O R C A L L : 7 8 0 . 4 2 6 . 418 0 Thank you to our sponsors:

St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

ARTS 13

FEATURE // SKIING

W

ith Western Canada having some of the best skiing in the world, it would be easy to think there is really no need to go beyond our borders for alpine snow adventure.

Our terrain is varied, the snow (for the most part) is plentiful and light, the resorts are accessible and their lift infrastructures modern and fast.

So why leave home when it's so good right in our own backyard?

You do it for the same reason golfers flock to Augusta National in the US or to St Andrews in Scotland.

It's the sense of going to the very roots of something you love to do in order to better understand and appreciate it.

The experience of a European ski trip is something special largely due to the age of the resorts and the way skiing is ingrained into the culture.

In the Davos-Klosters area of Switzerland that my wife and I visited last winter, skiing has been a part of the valley's identity since the 1800s, when the first pair of telemark skis arrived from Norway. Locals soon began copying the pattern to produce their own skis and started sliding down the mountains that surround the area. It was the birth of the industry that, over the following century, would shape the community's culture more than any other single activity or industry.

Today, the towns of Davos and Klosters are surrounded by six separate ski areas with 200 km of slopes to choose from. Train stops are located right at the base of the lifts and the communities are centred around them, so the integration of the ski resorts and the towns is seamless. It's a pretty typical setup for Swiss ski towns, and that sense of being right in the centre of things the minute you ski off the mountain is a big part of the charm.

While the sidewalks and slopes are inundated with skiing and snowboarding tourists, the locals are also passionate about alpine recreation—be it skiing, mountaineering, back-country touring or any of the other ways the Swiss celebrate their privileged location in the heart of some of the most spectacular scenery anywhere.

Eighty-year-old Germaine Meier is one of those Klosters locals whose life has been shaped by the towering Alps that surround her and her husband's log-cabin-style home on the outskirts of the community.

14 SNOW ZONE

SNOW ZONE

"Our town, Klosters, has always been a good ski town," she boasts.

"I taught skiing all through my life but had to give it up two years ago when my hip had to be replaced. I hope I can get up skiing again sometime, though."

Meier's uncle, Paul Klaas, who immigrated to Canada in the '60s and started West Castle Resort (later renamed Castle Mountain Resort), was our connection to finding her.

Klass returned to Klosters later in life and was known for teaching some of the more elite guests that visited the area including celebrities, royalty and politicians. When asked about Klass's teaching career, Meier smiles coyly and says, "He had his clientele—I had my clientele, too."

Meier's comment best sums up the Swiss demeanour as my wife and I experienced it. It's a proud, yet reserved, disposition that comes from being situated in one of the most desirable places on Earth.

Desirable if you are a skier, that is.

The choice of places to ski at the major Swiss resorts (and there are a couple dozen of them) is hard to wrap your head around. Entire valleys that are serviced by a single lift would take a week to explore fully, and there can be 100-plus lifts at some of the biggest resorts, like Zermatt.

The vast majority of skiers never even venture off the wide, flat, perfectly groomed main runs. While "offpiste" is a way of skiing life in North America, in Europe (or Switzerland, at least) the areas of the mountain that are not groomed are considered dangerous and venturing onto them is taking a considerable risk. Getting hurt while off-piste is the major concern as many visitors fear health insurance will not cover them.

"I guess you could drag your broken, bloodied body back onto the main run," speculates one British skier we shared a lift with. "Your insurance might cover you then."

In a way, the skiing in Switzerland mirrors that proud yet reserved mentality of the people. The resorts boast a huge amount of terrain, but they really want you to stick to the main runs. The people are self-reliant and adventurous but put forward a demure face.

Once you get past both facades, the country opens up entirely new avenues to explore.

EDITOR: REBECCA MEDEL REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

// Steven Kenworthy

It's the sense of going to the very roots of something you love to do in order to better understand and appreciate it.

STEVEN KENWORTHY

STEVEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

// Steven Kenworthy

HART GOLBECK // HART@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Jasper in January Winterstruck dogsled rides // Jeff Bartlett

Jasper in January enters final week We are into the final eight days of Jasper in January. With unseasonably warm temperatures, the outdoor events have really taken off, except for perhaps the ice sculptures that prefer it to be a little cooler. The slopes at Marmot haven't had a big dump in a while, but three to five centimetres of snow per night continues to add to its excellent conditions. I was there a week ago and I loved the DJ spinning tunes in Paradise Lodge—there's nothing like it while you're catching your breath and rehydrating. The Ice Bar and outdoor BBQ were in full swing as well.

If you're taking your kids to the slopes this weekend, there's a scavenger hunt covering the entire mountain with prizes, or you could challenge your friends on the dual slalom run that's open to all.

The party continues until February 1. Mourning Wood is playing at the Atha-B this weekend and next weekend. The festival goes out with a flurry, including the famous Chili Cookoff, Hopscotch and Wines at the Sawridge and Tupelo Honey at the Atha-B. Up on the slopes on January 31, the avi team will be out in full force for its annual Avalanche Awareness Day. Demos will be taking place all over the hill, including a search-and-rescue avalanche dog, transceiver operation and the everpopular explosives demonstration.

Fun and games at Sunshine Village There's a great lineup of events at Sunshine Village next weekend.

Festivities start on January 25 with a Robbie Burns Day party, complete with a bagpiper on the slopes. It should be pretty cool listening to

the sweet sound of pipes echoing through the mountains. I wonder if the Sunshine Inn chefs are offering an extensive menu that includes some haggis. Only tatties and neeps for me, please. On the same day, there's a rail jam taking place on Pando Hill. This is an open event welcoming all ages and categories.

Maybe they can talk the bagpiper into providing the tunes for the tricks on the rails.

On January 26, Sunshine celebrates its annual Australia Day. Many workers on Sunshine's slopes come from Down Under and, on this day, their colours and funky language are out in full force. There will be a number of fun events taking place near the slope-side village as well. No worries mate, the Aussie lifties have to finish their shifts before they go off like frogs in a sock.

January 29–31, 2015 Quad, U of A North (Main) Campus

Earth Day. Everyday.

Reduce time spent tying laces to zero.

Re-use comfy Blundstone boots in all seasons and on all surfaces.

Recycle your closet-full of shoes and boots by donating them to those in need.

Refuse to buy disposable fashion footwear that’s here today and trash tomorrow.

Free events & parking. Everyone welcome.

Register at uab.ca/winterfest

#1402 Green and Brown with two-tone sole

blundstone.ca VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

SNOW ZONE 15

FILM

FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // DRAMA

Opens Friday Directed by J C Chandor  "What's wrong?" "Capitalism. Ugh."

L

et me just start by telling you what it's about, because what it's about is by far the most interesting thing about A Most Violent Year, J C Chandor's third feature and, following Margin Call, second dissertation on the ethics of capitalism.

It's 1981. New York's crawling with crime. Prosperous local oil distributor Abel Morales (Oscar Isaac) puts down a massive deposit on a Queens waterfront storage facility, with another $1.5 million to cough up in the next 30 days.

The bank's got Morales' back, but he's

assailed with obstacles: crusading DA Lawrence (David Oyelowo) is indicting him on vague corruption charges and, at the same time, fuel bandits are hijacking Morales' trucks at toll booths and on turnpikes. The teamsters want to arm Morales' drivers and Anna (Jessica Chas-

tain), Morales' wife, wants to ask favours from her "family," but Morales says no.

Actually, he says something terribly articulate and verbose that's more or less a "no." Morales is not to be corrupted. But Morales is also not to be dissuaded from his dreams of dominating his industry.

He's the embodiment of good capitalism.

"I like to own the things I use," he says.

He also says, "I've spent my whole life trying not to become a gangster." A man presiding over a risky business, trying to avoid getting dragged into a criminal swamp: Morales is clearly modelled after Michael Corleone, and Isaac, a good actor, is, in his understated way, doing Pacino. Oddball, methody details included—he chews gum while going for a run! Isaac's breakout performance was as the titular folksinger in Inside Llewyn Davis, and there's a goofy little call-back to Llewyn in A Most Violent Year: on a dark road Isaac hits, not a cat this time, but a deer. Instead of stalking away into the surrounding brush, the deer is disposed of by Chastain in a laughably portentous Lady Macbeth moment. I wasn't especially hung up on her very inconsistent Brooklyn accent, but Chastain's talents are not well served by this overwrought yet underwritten role.

Much as I liked All is Lost, it is easy to overstate Chandor's chops. The film's tone benefits from an interesting if over-used Alex Ebert score, which at

times echoes the early bits of "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond" with hints of Ravel thrown in. But A Most Violent Year is mostly very baggy, with many needless cutaways to reaction shots that I suspect will, once you start noticing them, prompt eye-rolling reactions from you.

The bagginess extends to the blunt, overemphatic dialogue—"It's a gun.

It's a FUCKING gun" or "I don't know. I don't FUCKING know"—which can also be comically, redundantly on-the-nose: "You seem to be under a lot of pressure from all sides," a highly perceptive union boss says to Morales. Of course, nothing in the writing of A Most Violent Year feels quite as ham-fisted as the naming of Abel Morales, who is both able and a man of morals. "I have always taken the path that is most right, and that is what this is."

In broad brushstrokes, the story is a compelling reflection on a certain time and place, a certain tendency in certain industries, but scene by scene A Most Violent Year is poorly executed. Of course, it's a story of poor executions—are we really supposed to believe that not one, but two hired thugs in this movie can't hold on to their gun? And is it not a serious weakness in the writing that the drama turns on one of its characters—a driver who gets repeatedly ambushed— simply being unbelievably stupid?

JOSEF BRAUN

JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // FAMILY

Paddington

Paddington: a family film that's more than bearable

M

ichael Bond's book series about a duffle-coated, crumple-hatted Peruvian bear—begun in 1958 and still padding right along—gets a snappy, smart, fanciful update. With a deft script and punctilious set design, Paddington pleasingly preserves a decidedly

16 FILM

charming, marmalade-ish Brit-flavour ... even adding some subversive spice.

After stowing away to that country whence an explorer from the "Geographers' Guild" came—teaching the bipedal bear's aunt and uncle a little English and hooking them on

ursine stage direction.) Mom (Sally Hawkins, delightfully boho), Dad (Hugh Bonneville, perfectly uptight), and the kids take this furry asylum-seeker to their Windsor Gardens row house. But icy blonde taxidermist Millicent (Nicole Kidman) is out to add Paddington to her stuffed-animal collection.

The bear-out-of-forest antics are uproarious and the plot's pacey and tight, but it's the mise en scène that's most delightful, even Wes Anderson-ish in places (especially the tour of a cross-sectioned Brown residence, opened up to Now playing us like a doll's Directed by Paul King house).

There are dabs of magic  realism; in one moving moment, marmalade—Paddington is named after the train sta- Paddington's so enthralled by his tion by his finders, London's Brown first film—expedition footage of family. (This is a script that never his beloved aunt and uncle—that makes the obvious joke—our hero's he enters the screen and returns a "Brown bear"—but instead slips in to them in his mind's eye. Quaint or a car-GPS pun—"Bear left"—and a colourful British English flares up: quip about Shakespeare's famous "brolly-buster;" "chucked it down;"

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

"crikey;" "just in time for elevenses."

Refreshingly, here's a modern-day kids' film that's quite adult-centred (the Brown siblings are one-note— probably wise since, with his curiosity and getting-into-everythingness, Paddington's the main child here) but not really anti-adult.

One subtext is pro-tolerance and pro-immigrant (the bears were told they'd be welcome in England; a calypso band pops up now and then). The other subtext is a Pythonesque mockery of Great-Brit colonial exploration, when Englishmen ventured to lands like "Darkest Peru," killed their creatures or took their artifacts, then brought them home for display in London.

Put the two together and you've got a scrumptious rarity—a film of critical, optimistic patriotism, championing both the outsider and his newfound nation-home while taking the stuffing out of its stodgy, white imperial past.

BRIAN GIBSON

BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

ASPECTRATIO

JOSEF BRAUN // JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Marital unease

has a chance for you to bring home a copy of the critically acclaimed movie

Honeymoon proves an inventive take on cabin-in-the-woods horror

CERT FREISFIED H BY EN TO MATO

ROTT

ES!

TO ENTER HEAD TO VUEWEEKLY.COM/CONTESTS CONTEST CLOSES ON JAN 28TH, WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY EMAIL

PRESENTS U OF A MUSEUMS

JAN 22 - JAN 28

THE LOST WORLD TUES @ 7:00 CANADA’S TOP 10

MAPS TO THE STARS THURS @ 9:30 RUSSIAN ESSENTIALS

STALKER

Ugh...no wifi

Marriages changes things—don't let anyone tell you otherwise.

Twentysomething Brooklyn newlyweds Bea (Game of Thrones' Rose Leslie) and Paul (Harry Treadaway) were already intimate, committed, already sharing a life together when they got hitched. Tying the knot, dangling the empty cans from the bumper—which are the subject of Honeymoon's clever opening image—should have been little more than a formality. But Bea and Paul go on up to Canada for a fancy cottage honeymoon, and very quickly, up there, alone, confronted with the person you've just signed away the rest of your life to, it seems something is shifting. Some force has infiltrated the giddy bubble of new coupledom happiness. Honeymoon is a horror movie, and for better or for worse—OK, I'd say for worse— that force is externalized. But what makes Honeymoon work as well as it does, what gives it an edge, is the sense that the real monster comes from within.

Written by first-time director Leigh Janiak and co-scenarist Phil Graziadei, Honeymoon, now avail-

able to watch at home from Video Service Corp, unfolds at a clipped pace without sacrificing atmospherics. Janiak is sensitive to the anxiogenic potential in an understated score and well-chosen location (which is turns out is North Carolina, not Southern Ontario). A passing beam of bright white light is the first flash of weirdness and Janiak builds up slowly from there.

The turning point comes when Bea disappears one night and is eventually found naked in the woods.

Was she sleepwalking? She'd never sleepwalked before. Whatever happened to Bea, it's made her eerily forgetful. She can't figure out how to make French toast or coffee. Numerous personal memories seem to have faded. Something is seriously amiss, as though, somehow, she's an impostor. But she's Paul's beloved, his brand-new bride, so, what, is he going to turn her in to the RCMP? Honeymoon is laudably inventive for yet another two-hander cabin-in-the-woods horror movie. Its survey of marriage as a hall of mir-

rors echoes Gone Girl and, to some extent, Force Majeure. Of course, Honeymoon isn't as good as either of those truly superb recent films, or as arresting as the handful of horror and science-fiction films that feed its DNA—films I won't mention because they're fairly obvious reference points and because mentioning them might spoil the fun. But I have to say that, between the way the characters are written and the way Leslie and Theadaway portray them, I found myself waiting somewhat impatiently for someone's body to be snatched about two minutes into Honeymoon. I know lots of newly married couples are annoying, but these guys take the cake. They keep laughing at shit that isn't funny.

They tease and poke each other in this stupid way, and Janiak really wants us to know that they're having lots of sex. Not very sexy sex, but whatever. These aren't people I want to be stuck in a cottage with for a weekend. But, hey, there's something lurking amidst the trees, something other than Janiak's cameras. And it's gonna get them well before the honeymoon is over. V

SAT @ 6:30, SUN @ 3:30, WED @ 6:30

CANADA'S TOP 10 SHORT FILM PACKAGE SUN @ 7:00

CANADA’S TOP 10

MOMMY

CANADA’S TOP 10

FRI @ 6:45, SAT @ 9:30, SUN @ 12:45, SUN @ 9:30, MON @ 6:45 IN HER PLACE MON @ 9:30 CANADA’S TOP 10

CANADA’S TOP 10

MONSOON FRI @ 9:30 REEL FAMILY CINEMA

TU DORS NICOLE TUES @ 7:00

FLY AWAY HOME SAT @ 2:00 FREE FOR KIDS 12 & UNDER

CULT CINEMA

CANADA’S TOP 10

CANADA’S TOP 10

SOL SAT @ 4:15

LÉON: THE PROFESSIONAL TUES @ 9:30 THE PRICE WE PAY THURS @ 9:30

Metro Cinema at the Garneau: 8712-109 Street WWW.METROCINEMA.ORG

CANADA’S TOP TEN FILM FESTIVAL AT

UNTIL FEB 2!

CANADA’S TOP TEN FILM FESTIVAL

CELEBRATES CANADIAN CINEMA

BY PRESENTING A COMBINATION OF WORKS BY SOME OF CANADA’S MOST ACCLAIMED FILMMAKERS AS WELL AS UP AND COMING AWARD-WINNERS TO AUDIENCES ACROSS THE COUNTRY.

THE FESTIVAL PASS IS REDEEMABLE FOR 1 ADMISSION TO EACH OF THE 10 FILMS IN CANADA’S TOP TEN FESTIVALL

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

FILM 17

FILM REVUE // DRAMA

Cake

Aniston, presumably pretty bummed about this review

C

ake is one of these films you might feel sort of bullied into liking, or at least respecting, because it deals with heavy themes of grief and living with chronic pain and drug addiction among the white and affluent, because it features an ostensibly unlikable heroine whom we're meant to come to love because we witness some arduous process of redemption, because it stars an

actor who became famous years ago when she was young and bubbly and had influential hair, and here she is with greasy hair, facial scars, dumpy clothes and a shit attitude. But that bullying you feel is integral to Cake's cookiecutter schematics. Cake contorts under its own dramaturgy, its only icing here being that, yes, Jennifer Aniston, also conspicuously on board as executive

The set-up has plenty of intrigue: Claire (Aniston) seems to be stalking Nina (Anna Kendrick), a dead woman, who was in Claire's cartoonish chronic pain support group, perhaps because Nina committed suicide and Claire envies her gumption. Claire blackmails her support group leader into disclosing Nina's adOpens Friday dress so that Claire can go Directed by Daniel Barnz snoop around Nina's home,  which is still inhabited by Nina's little boy and—look out!—her hunky husband (Sam Worthington). Also intriguing: producer, is pretty good as the blunt, Claire's only other occupation is to un-ingratiating heroine whose body feed her need for Percs and Oxys, was mangled in some terrible accident which, in one of Cake's better seand whose heart became paralyzed af- quences, she enlists her devoted Chiter the devastating loss of a loved one cana housekeeper Silvana (Adriana in that same accident. Without Aniston, Barraza) to drive her down to Tijuana or someone like her, Cake would not to procure. But the intrigue quickly have been made, and without Aniston dissipates once we get stuck watchyou would certainly have considerably ing the lamely written sequences in less reason to watch it. which Nina appears to Claire as some

sort of bitchy ghost, or bitchy hallucination brought on by addiction and self-loathing. There's also the issue of Claire really never seeming that unlikable a person—just one of many ways in which Cake goes soft. No doubt some will applaud Barraza, who got an Oscar nod for Babel, but those applauding surely don't speak Spanish, because when Barraza goes to town, airing her grievances toward her employer en español, it is a flatly inflected tirade worthy of a telenovela hitting end-of-the-week exhaustion. Don't even get me started on the ridiculous character of a would-be starlet and thief from Boise who gets conveniently and awkwardly squashed into Cake's final act.

To be sure, there are far worse movies than Cake, but the ways in which Cake is bad are really annoying.

JOSEF BRAUN

JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // COMEDY

The Wedding Ringer FRI, JAN. 23 – THUR, JAN. 29

THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING FRI 6:50PM SAT – SUN 1:00 & 6:50PM MON – THUR 6:50PM

FRI, JAN. 23 – THUR, JAN. 29

BIG EYES FRI – THUR 7:00PM

RATED: G

RATED PG COARSE LANGUAGE

BIRDMAN

INHERENT VICE

FRI 9:20PM SAT – SUN 3:30 & 9:20PM MON – THUR 9:20PM

FRI 9:10PM SAT – SUN 2:00 & 9:10PM MON – THUR 9:10PM

RATED: 14A COARSE LANGUAGE

RATED: 18A SUBSTANCE ABUSE

T H E A T R E

10337 Whyte Ave. 780 433 0728

T H E A T R E

10337 Whyte Ave. 780 433 0728

Getting ready to tie the knot

WANTS TO SEND YOU AND A FRIEND TO SEE

IN THEATRES JANUARY 30TH

ONE OF TEN

RUN-OF-ENGAGEMENT PASSES TO BE WON! TO ENTER, JUST LET US KNOW WHAT EVENT FROM YOUR PAST YOU WOULD TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO UNDO.

TO ENTER VISIT: VUEWEEKLY.COM/CONTESTS CONTEST CLOSES ON JANUARY 30TH, WINNERS WILL BE NOTIFIED BY EMAIL

18 FILM

T

he Wedding Ringer features ate, he employs best-man-for-hire a touch-football game on a Jimmy (Kevin Hart) and seven of his ripped-up field that spirals into a sketchy contacts to be groomsmen. taunt-fest and slug-fest, the two Forced antics, schmaltzy bromance and roll-on shtick teams mostly just ensue. The score slinging mud and Now playing writhing around in natters on, as if Directed by Jeremy Garelick sludge for a while. the sound department forgot And the other 90  to turn off a muminutes of this zak mixtape. Gaywashout is even anxiety vies with concerns about more of a sloppy slog.

This movie hits the ground and getting laid—epitomized by the never gets up. It's flat and broad mystical mantra "The only 'we' is from its first scene and first second- me and my balls." Efforts at comedy ary character: Edmundo, a lisping, are weak (fat guy sits on glass table mincing Hispanic wedding planner and it collapses), stupid (playing a (who's actually pretending to be wheelchair and stutter for snickers that—he's really "Dirty Eddie," a His- and smirks) or wildly misjudged (a panic pot-smoking stereotype stuck grandmother catches fire; a dog's in a bad gay marriage). The wed- lockjawed onto Doug's dick). The ding will be Doug (Josh Gad) and only amusing line is the very last, an Gretchen's (Kaley Cuoco-Sweeting), in-joke reference to Lost. but Doug has no friends; desper-

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

But this flick's emptiest in its cynical, dumb use of romance. Turns out hubbie-to-be is a friendless schlub happy to be liked by a hottie-out-ofhis-league, while she wants to marry him because he's a good guy and can give her a "certain lifestyle." So this loveless-fest is a run-around-thechapel, really just meant to leave Doug with a male bestie (Jimmy), a wild night, and, ultimately, a bikinied blonde model. Both Doug and the script remain so moronic that, after going to the hospital to have a dog's mouth-clamp on his manhood removed, then get stitches there, we're still told, "That was the greatest night of my entire life." Uh-huh.

Here's something that's easier to swallow—The Wedding Ringer is the worst servicing you'll get from Hollywood so far this year.

BRIAN GIBSON

BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // DANCE PUNK

S

ebastien Grainger pauses to think, turning his mind over like an engine on idle. It's audible over the phone, with one extended "uhh ... " capping itself off with a moment of silence while he's trying to recall where Death From Above 1979 began for the second time.

"I think it was 'Going Steady,'" Grainger decides. "Which maybe is a metaphor. We use that for soundcheck a lot as well, 'cause it's a song that runs the gamut of what we do.

It's kind of the DNA of the band."

That song was what marked out the first beat of Death From Above 1979's inaugural rehearsal together; a return to its genetic code— Grainger's howl-and-pound vocals and drums, powered up with Jesse Keeler's lumbering, dino-sized bass chugs—to match its return to being an active presence on the landscape.

DFA79 officially broke up in 2006, a casualty of infinite-tour burn-out and splintering creativity; in its aftermath, Keeler chased dance music in MSTRKRFT while Grainger ran a spectrum of bands and solo releases.

By the time they circled back to a reunion in 2011, neither had really touched the DFA material in years.

"I was concerned we were going to be completely off the mark," Grainger explains, speaking from LA. "I hadn't played drums live in years, and I hadn't sang those kinds of songs in years, so I was real worried about that. I think Jesse was as well, but what we found was [that] what we did, way back when, was a very natural thing for us. And so to come back to it was like seeing an old friend from high school or something: you kind of fall back into the same gags. There's a lot of history that you missed between

MUSIC

MUSIC EDITOR: MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

each other, but you come back to it pretty easily."

The afterlife of DFA79 was intended to be indefinite, but the band's shadow proved long and deep. With good reason: the indelible, mechanized dance punk that the band cultivated on its lone pre-split LP, You're a Woman, I'm a Machine, was acclaimed but never copycatted in a major way (and thereby avoided being distilled in the public consciousness). Its spartan approach remained a curio: refusing to fade away, lingering on to be discovered by those too young to have experienced it on the first go. Which, of course, seeds legends and further interest: in its afterlife, DFA79 took on the sort of endurance and growing influence that was, in the early days of the breakup, somewhat to its members chagrin as they attempted to move on with their lives.

"For most of the time away, I didn't pay attention to it at all," Grainger offers. "I spent maybe a year or so after trying to distance myself from it, and then realized, 'Oh, that's futile.' There's no way anyone's ever going to forget about Death From Above as long as I'm still making music. I learned to accept that as a fact. And then I didn't really pay attention to it. I just let it do its thing: it made money for us while we weren't in it—we did licensing things for movies and video games and all those kinds of things.

"I was glad to have it around for that purpose," he continues. "But I was also a little resentful for it: you're trying to cut a path, a creative path, and every time you do something, it gets compared to that other thing."

Coming around to being OK with being caught in his old band's shadow took Grainger some time.

"That was kind of the process of getting back together: accepting what we'd done, and accepting it with pride," he says. "And also with objectivity: when we returned to playing, I'd come full circle. I went, 'Oh, wait, we did something really exciting.' I'd read my lyrics and go—and this is in an objective way, 'cause I was always very critical of it anyways, like, 'that was shitty!'

But I learned to appreciate it in an objective way."

Putting out a second record meant going beyond just appreciating what had been. The result, The Physical

World, still draws its power from the same elements that DFA79 always did. But its edges seem sharpened by the years and bands between: the production is smoother, the songs a little more confident in their own skins—it's all less frantic, more unabashedly muscular.

"I think that we didn't want to plagiarize ourselves," Grainger says.

"But we also didn't want to dishonour the quote-unquote legacy of the band. The band, it continued to exist and gain momentum without us even being active. It didn't go anywhere.

"When we came back to it, what we found was that a lot of the band was already defined," he continues.

"It was defined by what we'd done

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

Sat, Jan 24 (7 pm) Death From Above 1979 With Metz Shaw Conference Centre, $38.50 so many years ago, and how that had affected people, in a way. So to come back to it, there was already a template of how we worked. We were able to expand within that realm, and kind of push it outwards at the edges. Instead of destroying what we were coming back to, we decided w would make it stand, a little bit, outward. We have a very set style and esthetic, and a very set mode. It's fun to play with that. It's fun to play within those limitations."

PAUL BLINOV

PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

MUSIC 19

MUSIC PREVUE // ROCK

The Lad Mags focus and get into the process."

The result of that process was the seven-inch's title track and "Alien Bride," a tune Aspen confesses is about "being in love Sat, Jan 24 (9 pm) with a David Bowie With Fist City alien." The songs are Wunderbar, $10 a psychedelic, retro garage-rock-inspired trip that is an assertion of the Lad Mags' evolving sound, and Aspen says the group is getting close to figuring out exactly what that means.

"Honestly, people kind of decide that for you, I have noticed. We had a writer describe us as 'honeysleaze soul,' which I think is my favourite description ever," she adds.

"It wasn't conscious or anything, but I think I just started actually finishing the song fragments that I had that supported the descriptor that I liked. I am not married to that sound, and hopefully we can hang on to the freedom to make whatever we happen to make. It would stop being fun otherwise."

// Fish Griwkowsky

A

fter nearly two-and-a-half months of waiting to get the records delivered, the Lad Mags can finally release its latest seventh-inch Hypnotized.

"We got stuck behind a massive seven-inch box set that some major label had order for Record Store Day," explains Amelia Aspen (guitar/keys/vocals), who plays along-

side Dara Humniski (keys/vocals), Ashley Hollands (guitar/organ/vocals), Candice Kelly (bass/vocals) and Joe Stagliano (drums). "I felt bad for our broker guy; he tried so hard to keep things on schedule.

There just aren't enough pressing plants. I hear the situation is going to improve in the next year or so, thank goodness."

Hypnotized was recorded during the same session as the group's Halloween EP, released in 2013, at MetroSonic in New York City following a tour of Western Canada and an eventful plane ride to the Big Apple that almost cost the group its instruments.

"I don't know if it is specifically New York or just being away that is

responsible for this, but having the time and space to immerse yourself in recording is really nice," Aspen notes. "The studio we usually use in Edmonton (Edmontone Studios) is really awesome, but there is always work and partners and social life and a million other things that are always floating around in the periphery, and it makes it harder to

The Lad Mags also have a new video to go along with the release of Hypnotized. The video, filmed by Fish Griwkowsky, features a scattering of cameos from venerable local musicians the Wet Secrets, Tee Tahs, Betrayers, Mitchmatic and Corb Lund. Oh, and there's even one from Mayor Don Iveson—"Fish has known Don Iveson for a long time. I think they worked together at the Gateway together a long time ago, so I don't think it was tough to get him on board," she says. "I love having a mayor that is a good sport."

The band also hasn't wasted any time when it comes to recording more material. The ladies (and gentleman) have been back at work at Edmontone Studio working on their next EP, though Aspen is hesitant to divulge any concrete release date after the delays with Hypnotized.

"We are aiming to get this one out in May to align with a big tour project we are undertaking with our band brothers—and sister—Betrayers," Aspen says. "We better get started crossing fingers, meditating on crystals, burning sacrifices, bargaining with deities and so on."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

EDMONTON’S LISTENER SUPPORTED VOLUNTEER POWERED CAMPUS COMMUNITY R A D I O S TAT I O N CHECK OUT THE NEW WEBSITE AT CJSR.COM TO LISTEN LIVE AND LEARN MORE ABOUT OUR ECLECTIC PROGRAMMING SCHEDULE 20 MUSIC

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

780.492.2577 CJSR.COM FM88

PREVUE // INDIE-FOLK

Basia Bulat L

Profile for a profile // Saty + Pratha

ast April, Basia Bulat walked past her microphone to the edge of the stage at Edmonton's Winspear Centre, picking a delicate tune on her tiny charango. She then launched into full-throated song, filling the 1932-seat venue with just her voice—no technology required.

"I like going off mic; it throws me into the fire a little bit," says the Montréal-based singer, taking a break from recording at a friend's studio. "When you're behind the mic, you're kind of separated from the people you're with. Going off mic makes you aware, present in the moment."

The 30-year-old is currently working on a follow-up to Tall Tall Shadow, her third album and the second record that earned her a spot on the Polaris Music Prize shortlist.

But Bulat, right in the middle of the creative process, hesitates to discuss the music she's currently working on.

"When you're in it, if you talk about it then it kind of makes it crystallize before it's ready to set," she says. "Like, I'm making this or that kind of thing, or this is what I'm doing; that starts to omit all the other possibilities or the potential of what I'm making."

Sun, Jan 25 (8 pm) With Harry Manx Winspear Centre, $34

Tall Tall Shadow, an album of genrebending folk—equal parts soaringly bold and honestly vulnerable—was, in many ways, a big album for Bulat.

She paired her mastery of multiple stringed instruments—the autoharp, dulcimer and charango along with the more traditional guitar and piano— with her strong, pure voice.

Along with the Polaris nod, she toured the record across North America and Europe. And last summer she played Toronto's Massey Hall, probably the most famous venue in the country.

Bulat says she hopes her new album will come out in 2015. Where she is in the project—if she's almost done or just scratching the surface—is impossible to say.

"I definitely never want to repeat myself," Bulat says. "That's one of the goals, to push myself out of my comfort zone, always. We'll see what that will end up sounding like when it's done."

JOSH MARCELLIN

JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM

SAT, JAN 31, MERCURY ROOM

ANDY SHAUF W/ MARINE DREAMS, & TYLER BUTLER

TUES, FEB 10, MERCURY ROOM MERCURY ROOM AND BLURRED LENZ PRESENT

GRAND ANALOG W/ KAZMEGA, & THE LIBERATORS

TUE, FEB 17, MERCURY ROOM

MATTHEW BYRNE LINDSEY WALKER, W/ JEFF MORRIS

WED, FEB 18, THE STARLITE ROOM

ELLIOTT BROOD W/ THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA

PREVUE // LO-FI

FRI, FEB 20, MERCURY ROOM

THE ELWINS

Borscht

W/ TWO BEARS NORTH, JESSE & THE DANDELIONS, THE ASHLEY HUNDRED TUES, FEB 24, THE WINSPEAR JCL AND LIVE AT THE WINSPEAR PRESENT

Fri, Jan 23 (9 pm) With Strange Fires, Morewine, the Daisychains Bohemia, $10

JAMES VINCENT MCMORROW W/ KEVIN GARRETT

FRI, FEB 27, MERCURY ROOM MERCURY ROOM AND CUYA PRESENT

SINGLE MOTHERS W/ COLD LUNGS, & GUESTS

WED, MAR 11, THE WINSPEAR JCL AND LIVE AT THE WINSPEAR PRESENT

Smiling, waving

L

ike a good, sturdy beet soup, Borscht the band is just a little bit messy.

Fronted by Maria Martire, formerly of local darkwave band Look Away, Borscht is flavoured

by Edmonton. Martire and drummer Mike Gourley met when they were in different bands both jamming above the Upper Crust Cafe in Garneau.

"He came out of the jam space, sweaty and shirtless," Martire laughs. "For the longest time I didn't know his last name, so he was just 'Jam-Space Mike' in my phone."

The band's first record Dazer is just that—hazy lo-fi tracks that sound like a chilled-out Land of

Talk crossed with a grungier Best Coast. Released last March on cassette, Dazer was recorded live off the floor with a sock over the microphone—so Gourley could hear the vocals as he drummed—in a house frequented by members of the Old Ugly music family.

The songs, driven by Martire's sweetly ragged voice and scrappy electric guitar, tell honest tales— like when she had a breakup over burgers and fries at the Next Act. "I'm pretty loud, pretty messy, pretty emotional and pretty funny, too, on stage," says Martire, a music teacher by day at Backbeat Rock School. "I feel like we don't fit in, so that makes us fit in anywhere."

Borscht has added more to its stew with the new addition of bass player Erin Ottosen, who also drums in local indie-folk band Pretty Taken.

Martire says she hopes to record a new record in the spring, adding synths and "trippy shit" along with more songwriting input from Ottosen and Gourley.

She sounds stoked about being an Edmonton band: Martire credits Wunderbar, under owner Craig Martell, for helping not just her own bands get started but creating a vibrant and exciting music scene.

"These things don't last forever—I find in Edmonton bands get a following here then they move to Toronto, Vancouver or Montréal," Martire says. "But people are sticking around here now, and it seems like it's been that way for the last three years. And that's really cool.

It's been fun to watch who ends up in what band and who is influenced by who."

DAN MANGAN + BLACKSMITH W/ HAYDEN, AND ASTRAL SWANS

WED, MAR 25, MERCURY ROOM, EARLY SHOW, DOORS AT 6 PM

AMELIA CURRAN W/ RYAN BOLDT (THE DEEP DARK WOODS)

FRI, MAR 27, STARLITE ROOM

NEW TIX ON SALE

THE WHITE BUFFALO W/ SPENCER BURTON

THUR, APR 2, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE

AN EVENING WITH

SHANE KOYCZAN CHRIS TRAPPER

FRI, APR 3, MERCURY ROOM

W/ GUESTS

SUN, APR 5, THE WINSPEAR JCL AND LIVE AT THE WINSPEAR PRESENT

THE CAT EMPIRE W/ CURRENT SWELL

FRI, MAY 29, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE

GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS W/ GUESTS

JOSH MARCELLIN

JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

MUSIC 21

MUSIC PREVUE // SINGER-SONGWRITER

Lyra Brown

Fri, Jan 23 (7:30 pm) With guests Artery, $15

Lyra Brown: cultivating a wonderland of sounds

'I

COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO

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

SUNEE DHALIWAL AND THE

FRI JAN 30

JAN 23 & 24

was sitting at work at Packrat Louie, having lunch, when I got the call," Lyra Brown grins. She's sitting just down the street from there, actually, in a Whyte Avenue coffee stop, reflecting on the moment. It was October 2013, and Rawlco Radio was on the phone: Brown's name had finally come up for the station's 10K20 grant, a few years after she'd applied. Suddenly, the pixieish singer-songwriter had all the money necessary to produce and record her debut album—a real debut album, with production values beyond what she could pull off with her four-track at home.

"I don't know if I would've done this this soon if I didn't have the grant," she explains, noting the funding to have catalyzed the recording. "Oh, now I have this money, now I should start making this a reality, instead of it being like, 'One day, one day, one day.' This is going to be within the next year.

"I think everything happens for a reason," she adds. "Something in the universe was like, 'You're ready now— here's the money.'"

Before that, Brown had released some limited-run DIY recordings— when she played Folk Fest back in 2010, she'd recorded a batch of songs and burned a couple hundred discs.

But The Language of Eyes marks her proper debut: 10 songs that let Brown's flair for delivering confident dramatics expand into a fleshed-out, keyboard-led wonderland of sound.

She has a voice that curls like a sorcerer's spell, conjuring strange and beautiful imagery among all the instrumentation.

And while the Rawlco grant may have hurried Brown along her way to an album, she notes that the timing has proven ideal in terms of her life experience, too: before now, she doubts she would've been ready for the process.

"A lot of things happened between the ages of 17 and 20," the 23-year-old says. "A lot of changes. A lot of things collapsed and crumbled—which I think is a blessing, looking back. But I just had no perspective during those years. And wasn't necessarily ready to tackle a music career."

To help her shape The Language of Eyes, Brown enlisted Jay Sparrow as a co-producer, and went to engineer Brad Smith at Red Panda Recorders.

The two helped Brown make full use of her studio situation.

"I didn't have the limitations of a four track," Brown notes. "If I wanted to elaborate on a vocal track, I could do that—on some songs, there's like 13 of me."

The album's 10 songs pull from across years of writing. The oldest here, "Cheek and Bruise," was penned when Brown was 17. But when she finalized the tracklist, Brown found she'd mostly selected songs from a few years ago.

"Jay said, 'Let's try to make it cohesive,'" she says. "So I tried to pick the songs that there was a theme, or a thread running through them, and that seemed to be all the songs that were older. Which is unsurprising: I think songs need time to grow up, just like kids."

PAUL BLINOV

Let us amplify your message!

PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

10442 whyte ave 439.1273 10442 whyte ave 439.1273 12345 CD/ SISKYOU LP NERVOUS CONSTELLATION

FRI FEB 13

Add this feature to your next career ad booking

Call for more details 1-800-282-6903 ext 235

Honeymoon

COMING SOON: IRISH DESCENDANTS, PRISM, BIG RIVER BAND - JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE AND MORE! TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CENTURY CASINO AND TICKETMASTER

Ķř{įGÃæ´ĥ

M

Y

O

O

Z

I

K

w w w. b l a c k b y rd . c a

Let us amplify your message!

SEE MAG: Jan 3, 1c x 2”/ 28 AG

+íæ Pōĥį±ĉàįÂįāřĉà

RB: BLACKBYRD MYOOZIK SALES:Samantha H S01367

Ļďêêį ğ PÕ PĤIJ

12345

ʼn ğŎįG æ Ĥ PŎįêPàįÂįāāPà

Ĭďêêį7ğÃß į9Ãd

Add this feature to your next career ad booking

ʼn ğŎį>ĽğĤ PŎį±ĉàįÂįêĉà

Call for more details 1-800-282-6903 ext 235

13103 FORT RD • 643-4000 22 MUSIC

blackbyrd

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

MUSIC

WEEKLY

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

THU JAN 22 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live

Music every Thu; 9pm

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music

Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

every Fri

UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays:

YARDBIRD SUITE David Braid

rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI JAN 23

CASINO EDMONTON Radioactive CASINO YELLOWHEAD Robin Kelly

Featuring Michael Davidson & Peripheral Vision CD Release; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guests)

CITADEL THEATRE Beyond The Stage: Sing Sondheim Featuring Kate Ryan And Susan Gilmour; 8pm; $30 (adv) CROWN & ANCHOR PUB Basler; 9pm

APEX CASINO The Red Hotz; 9pm

Classical

DUGGAN'S BOUNDRY Andrew Scott;

ARTERY Lyra Brown CD Release

CITADEL THEATRE–BEYOND THE STAGE It Takes Two: Kate Ryan and

DV8 Oh Shit Ep Release with

Party; 7:30-10:30pm; $15; All ages

7pm

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff

Susan Gilmour Sing Sondheim

BLUES ON WHYTE Michael Charles

Robison

LA CITE FRANCOPHONE Opus@12

BOHEMIA Blood Bitch /\/\ Quasi Uomo \/\/ Samasati; 9pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Dinner and

Chamber CONCERT SOCIETY; 12pm; Free

ENCORE–WEM Blackout Ft

WINSPEAR CENTRE Orchestra On

FESTIVAL PLACE Front Porch Roots

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

Dacing with the Lionel Rault Trio; 7:30-10pm BLUES ON WHYTE Michael Charles

Parade!; 8pm

BOHEMIA Strange Fires with

DJs

Borscht and with Morewine and The Daisychains; 9pm; $10 (door) BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos

7:30-9:30pm; $5

every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu: this

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

CAFE BLACKBIRD Mohsin Zaman;

week with Gord Schindell; 7pm

YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage:

Revue; 7:30pm

Friday DJs on all three levels

Concerts: this week with: Hungry Hollow with guest Peter John Rutledge; 4pm

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu

Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your

CAFE BLACKBIRD With Love From

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri;

Own Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm COOK COUNTY SALOON Outlaws

and Outsiders Tour; 6:30pm (doors), 7-8pm (buffet), 8pm (general admission), 10pm (show)

Brazil; 8-11pm; $10

Angerfist; 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon

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

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open

Rebuild/Repair, Swill City and D.I.Y.; 8pm; no minors 18+ only

disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh 9pm

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Bonafide

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri: this week with Sebastien

every Fri

Rural Routes; 8pm GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm LA CITE FRANCAPHONE Jazz'Art

Concert (artists to paint to the sound of music); 7:30pm; $20 (per person or table), $140 (table of 8 people) LB'S PUB Chillfactor; 9:30pm; Free LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage

Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm • EVENING: Marshall Lawrence; 9pm LEGENDS Sat 3pm Jam and Open

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

Open Jam Nights; no cover

Mic with Nick Samoil and guests

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands every

Amber & Jeff; 7pm

Sat

FIONN MACCOOL'S–SOUTH Rural

Routes; 8:30pm

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE Little Prince;

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam

2pm

Thu; 9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado

KELLY'S PUB Jameoke Night with

the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm1am; no cover

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat,

3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS EXIT303

L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight

northlands.com

open jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

PALACE CASINO–WEM Wow;

9:30pm PAWN SHOP Submerge with

LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE Double

Double!; 12-1pm; Free

Barrera; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

MERCURY ROOM CD Release

CASINO EDMONTON Radioactive

Weusedtobefriends with Jets to Theory; 7pm; $8 (adv)

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Robin Kelly

dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

DUGGAN'S BOUNDRY Andrew Scott;

MERCER TAVERN Homegrown

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and dance

7pm

floor; 9:30pm

DV8 Black Earth with Death By

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage;

Robot and White Label Demo; 8pm

8pm; all ages (15+)

HORIZON STAGE Tom Allen's

NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado

Debussy Vs Ravel: The Judgement Of Paris Featuring Tom Allen; 7:30pm; $35 (adult), $30 (students/ seniors)

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by

Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and

LB'S PUB Whiskey Boyz; 9:30pm;

Free

Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJs Brad Wilkinson, the Hügonaut, and thomas Culture RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock,

funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

floor; 9:30pm

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

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues

MACLAB CENTRE–LEDUC

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

International Guitar Night; $35 (adv), $32 (student/senior)

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado

SAT JAN 24

ON THE ROCKS EXIT303

APEX CASINO The Red Hotz; 9pm

PALACE CASINO–WEM Wow;

ARTERY Bad Communicators – CD

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm

every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and dance

UNION HALL Silverstein 10yr anniversary tour with Beartooth, Hands Like Houses, Major League, My Iron Lung; 6:30pm

9:30pm

DJs

with Darryl Matthews; 8pm; $10 (adv)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl:

Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

PAWN SHOP Logistics with Guests;

Release; 7:30pm ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff

9pm; $20 (adv)

Robison

PROVINCIAL PUB The Boom Booms

"B" STREET BAR Rockin Big Blues

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling

piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am RIVER CREE–THE VENUE

Buckcherry; 6pm (doors), 8pm (show); $29.50; 18+ only

and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon hosted by the Jimmy Guiboche Band; 2-6pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Justine Vandergrift (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

Elementsand Riot in Paradisealong with Counted Among Saints; 8pm; $15 (adv) QUEEN ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HALL Ashley Condon with Ian

Sherwood; 8pm; $20 (adv); All ages RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling

piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Ruined Escape

Plan with The Nova Scotiables; 8pm (doors), 10pm (show); $10 RICHARD'S PUB The Mad Dog

Blues and Roots Jam hosted by Jimmy Guiboche; 3-7pm RIVER CREE–The Venue Guns 4 Roses & Walk This Way; 6pm (doors), 8pm (show); $20 (tickets can be redeemed for $25.00 free play after the show); 18+ only SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Death From Above 1979 with Metz; 7pm; $38.50 SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Jingle Bell Rock 2014; 7pm; $38.50 (adv); all ages SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Cody Mack; 7pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– U OF A Adam

Holm; 7pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Tony

Dizon; 7pm STARLITE ROOM Mayhem And Watain, Revenge; 8pm; $32.50; 18+ only

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Music; 7:30-10pm

STUDIO 96 Dana Wylie with Ken Stead and with Locum Tenens Trio; 7pm; Free; All ages

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro

Cody Mack; 7pm

'80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat

YARDBIRD SUITE Warren Wolf Trio;

SHERLOCK HOLMES– U OF A Adam

Holm; 7pm

afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Michael Charles

7pm (door), 8pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guests)

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Tony

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays:

Classical

THE COMMON The Common

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back

Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;

7pm; no cover ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every

Dizon; 7pm SIDELINER'S PUB Rockzilla; 9pm;

Free ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 100

Mile House (opening act), Tim Hus Band; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $18 (adv), $22 (door) STARLITE ROOM Skiitour,

Funkanomics; 9pm; $20

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Dinner and Live

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

Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Bonafide CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open

mic; 7pm; $2

CITADEL THEATRE–BEYOND THE STAGE It Takes Two: Kate Ryan and

Susan Gilmour Sing Sondheim GOOD SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH Bella Baroque; 7:30-9pm;

$25 (family), $10 (adult), $5 (student) WINSPEAR CENTRE Orchestra On

Parade!; 8p m

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

MUSIC 23

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

The Menace Sessions: alt rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimez & instigate; Underdog: Alternating DJs THE BOWER For Those Who Know...:

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

JAN/23 JAN/24

UBK PRESENTS WINTER BREAKS

SKIITOUR FUNKANOMICS MAYHEM AND WATAIN

FEB/12

FEB/15 FEB/18

MAR/18

p

FLYNT FLOSSY & YUNG HUMMA

Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott 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 BRIXX BAR Lettuce Produce Beats; 6pm; 18+ only DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison NEW WEST HOTEL 4's A Crowd

Classical

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason

ALL SAINTS' CATHEDRAL Pro Coro

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with

Tue: 9pm

Jam: Trevor Mullen Kris Harvey and guests

WINSPEAR CENTRE Harry Manx &

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • 4's A Crowd

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

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Open

mic every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous

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

Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: Mod, Brit Pop, New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR’s Heavy Metal Lunch Box)

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live Music

Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle usic Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

Classical

open mic

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

at Noon: Josephine van Lier and Joachim Segger (cello and piano); 12-1pm; Free

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

SANDS HOTEL Country music

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

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

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

SUN JAN 25

NAKED CYBERCAFE Trauma To Tango; 7:30pm; No cover

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session:

ARTERY Cam Neufeld and The

NEW WEST HOTEL 4's A Crowd

Features live swing, jazz and big band music in the City Room.

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

MON JAN 26

CITY HALL Swing 'n Skate:

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

BLUES ON WHYTE Michael Charles

WED JAN 28

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

DJs

Jazz Passages Trio; 9am-3pm; donations

R&B, Rock&Roll and Electro/Disco sounds of the last 70 years with DJ Thomas Culture

hosted by Jim Dyck, Randy Forsberg and Mark Ammar; 4-8pm

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays:

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch:

RED STAR Swing, Funk, Soul,

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520

electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

p

YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage:

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam

Basia Bulat; 8pm

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

TURQUOISE JEEP

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

ON THE ROCKS Radio Active

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and

Gadjo Collective: Balkan and Swing Dance Party; 7pm

WXDREAMS PRESENTS

BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott

9:30pm-1am

Connect; 2:30pm

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

ARDEN THEATRE Marc Cohn;

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

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJs Maurice and Joses Martin

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

W/

Pajama Party Featuring Mary Lambert (children's/pop); 10am; $12 (adults) $6 (students/seniors)

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

BLACK VEIL BRIDES THE BLACK MASS 2015 MEMPHIS MAY FIRE, GHOST TOWN

HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog

Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

Music Legends; 2pm & 7pm

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday

global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

W/

FEB/ 22–23

7:30pm; $52

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

HORIZON STAGE Mary Lambert's

Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month

NAPALM DEATH & VOIVOD ELLIOTT BROOD THE WILDERNESS OF MANITOBA

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound

PAWN SHOP Transmission

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

9pm

ON THE ROCKS Radio Active

AND

W/

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

TUE JAN 27

every Sat

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

KASTLE LINDSAY LOWEND AUGUST BURNS RED: THEMISSFROZEN FLAME TOUR MAY I, NORTHLANE ERRA

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music

DJs

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat;

dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

UBK & NIGHT VISION PRESENT

on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

11am • Evening: 5-6pm • Free

FESTIVAL PLACE Canadian Country

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and

REVENGE

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live

MACKENZIE HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE Hear's To Your Health; 10-

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

and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

W/

JAN/30

THE COMMON Get Down It's

If you enjoy the outdoors, the music will be broadcast directly outside or the enjoyment of ice skaters on City Hall Plaza. This week featuring: Billie Zizi and the Gypsy Jive; Every Sun until Feb 22, 1-4pm; Free

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA– WALTER

MUTTART HALL Adam Zukiewicz -

Piano Recital; 7:30pm; $20 (adult), $10 (senior/student), free (kids under 12)

Jim Head Quintet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

DJs

DJs

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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,

Classical

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Music

Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

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

JAN/28 JAN/30 FEB/6

LETTUCE PRODUCE BEATS TAT W/ TERRIAN

FIVE DAYS OFF W/ THE

ABLE KIND

THE STARLITE ROOM IS A PRIVATE VENUE FOR OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR GUESTS. IF YOU REQUIRE A MEMBERSHIP YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE AT THE VENUE PRIOR TO / OR AFTER THE DOOR TIMES FOR EACH SHOW.

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 http://thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99,

24 MUSIC

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 CITADEL THEATRE 9828-101A Ave 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

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

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 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 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St

NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253

ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 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 96 10909-96 St 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

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 • Kirk McHenry Jan 22-24 • Kirk McHenry Jan 25-27 • Bob Angeli; Jan 29-31

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 • Chris Franjola Special Presentation; Jan 2125 • Battle to the Funny Bone; Jan 27 • Reno Collier; Jan 28-Feb 1

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

ENNEAGRAM: ITS CONTRIBUTION TO COMPASSIONATE & COMMUNITY LIVES

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

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

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

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)

CONNIE'S COMEDY AT THE DRAFT BAR & grill • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St

• 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

EDMONTON GARDENING VEGETARIAN & VEGAN GROUP • Park Allen Hall, 11104-65

Ave, 780.463.1626 • Bring a vegetarian/vegan/ raw dish for six people plus a second dish if bringing a guest. Featuring a presentation using a centrifugal Fruit and Vegetable juicer and the health benefits of juicing • Jan 25, 5pm (potluck & presenation), 6:30pm (presentation only)

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 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 Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.orgs/en • Program for HIVAID’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

• St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • SPAIN by Sandra Konrad (Feb 2) • First Mon of the month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat Prefab

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

• With Tim Koslo as the headliner and Liam Creswick as the MC • Jan 28, 7:30pm

• Open mic with Craig Sherburne as headliner • Jan 22, 9pm

GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE

Shop, 14135-128 Ave • Learn about taking the next step to volunteering and what opportunities are available • Jan 15-22, 6-7pm • Free

• 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

CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS KOMEDY krush • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 Ave

• Westwood Unitarian Congregation, 11135-65 Ave • compassion@westwoodunitarian.ca • westwoodunitarian.ca • Exploring a person's lens (how they view the world) • Feb 7, 9am4pm • $25 (includes lunch); pre-reg before Feb 5

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

THE NEW WORLD DISORDER? • University of Alberta, Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science 1-430 • A keynote presentation with Gwynne Dyer • Jan 26, 7-9pm

OPTICAL WHISPERING GALLERIES: CATCHING LIGHT IN A TRAP • University of Alberta Observatory, CCIS 5th Floor, SW corner • ualberta.ca/~stars • Al Meldrum looks at how light can be used to form optical whispering galleries • Jan 22, 7-7:30pm

• 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

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SERIES • Creative Practices Institute,

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

10149- 122 St • creativepracticesinstitute.com • 780.909.6045 • brittney.cpiyeg@gmail.com • A series that encourages artists to manage a professional art career • Every 2nd Mon until Apr 6, 6-8pm • $10

RECOVERING FROM GRIEF FREE OPEN SEMINAR • Concordia University College of

TOASTMASTERS • 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, 6:458:30pm; 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 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

Alberta in 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, 9am-5pm • $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

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

WALKABLE, GREAT WINTER CITIES • Art

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

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

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave

9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

• 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

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 EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220103 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, 10229105 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

LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving.com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available

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 nonjudgemental 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, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:308:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) 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

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

SPECIAL EVENTS ‘ALHAMBRESQUE’ 6TH ANNUAL, AN EVENING TO SUPPORT PRESENTED

BY MNP • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • kshaw@crisissupportcentre. com • 780.732.6637 • crisissupportcentre. com/about-us/events/alhambresque-6th-annual-an-evening-to-support-presented-by-mnp • Guests will be treated to an evening of wine, spirits, food tasting stations, and 'Alhambresque' entertainment • Feb 5, 5-9pm

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 DINNER CABARET | BY REQUEST • Oliveto Trattoria, 500 Riverbend Square • operanuova.ca • 780.487.4844 • Join Opera NUOVA and the Pavarotti-of-the-Prairies, Henri Loiselle, with pianist Martin Janovsky for a night of music and food in the ways of a 4-course meal • Feb 1 • $90 (dinner, entertainment, taxes, soft drink, gratuity, and a $25 donation) 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)

E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY PRESENTS: NEW YEAR'S RETRIBUTION • Kingsway Hangar, 11410 Kingsway Ave • eville.publicrelations@gmail.com • The Slice Girls and Berzerkhers are going to be hitting the track • Jan 31, 7-9pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door), Kids 10 and under are free

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 NERD NITE +18 • The Club (Citadel Theatre), 9828-101A Ave • edmonton.nerdnite.com • Topics include: Return to Insight: the art & science of advertising, Fan-Fiction: The Stories You WISH Would've Happened and Weird Sex • Kids 17 and under will not be admitted • Jan 21, 8pm SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm WINTER SHAKE-UP • Churchill Square, downtown Edmonton • Make the most of winter with a snow slide, an outdoor winter market with over 35 local vendors, hot drinks, a hot food tent with local food trucks, kick sledding, skating, a 20-foot light installation and fire dancers • Jan 30, 12-8pm

AT THE BACK 25

e SqueethezMOST out of your advertising dollars 3.75” wide version Place your ad in this newspaper 12345 wide and province $ with a combined circulation of over 800,000 for only...

CLASSIFIEDS

995

To place an ad PHONE: 780.426.1996 / FAX: 780.426.2889 EMAIL: classifieds@vueweekly.com

plus GST/HST

Value Ad Network

NOW HIRING!

Alberta 12345Weekly Newspapers Association toll free 1-800-282-6903 x228 Customizable and secure. Join From storage to workspace. our growing team. We have email andrea@awna.com career opportunities available in our Steel containers from - 53'.this 20'community & 40' skids with optional 4' landings or 8' visit newspaper Edmonton location:

130.

3” wide version

available. Mount with twist locks.

• Heavy Equipment Mechanics

• Shop, Field and Resident Technicians

Drayton Valley, Camrose, 780 440 4037 |inandWhitecourt, SEACAN.COM RURAL WATER Barrhead

• Territory Managers 3.75” wide version TREATMENT • Parts Persons (Province Wide)

Iron Filters • Softeners • Distillers • Reverse Osmosis • Warehousepersons Tell them Danny “Kontinuous Shok” Chlorinator Hooper sent you Apply online Reverse at www.brandtjobs.com.

Patented Whole House Osmosis System Enter "Edmonton" into the search field - Within 150 miles of Edmonton, on the Job Opportunities page.

e Squeez MOST

brandtjobs.com

12345 Water Well Drilling out of your advertising dollars the Red Deer, Calgary (New Government waterabout well grant starts career April 1/13) Find out more our exciting

www.brandtjobs.com Time Payment Plan O.A.C. foropportunities water water treatment Place your adwells inat and this newspaper or by calling 306-791-8923.

1-800-BIG IRON (244-4766) and12345 province wide $held Brandt Tractor is the world’s largest privately

995

with a combined circulation John DeereView Construction Equipment our and 29 Forestry patented and patent dealer and a Platinum member of the Canada’s Best of over 800,000 for only... pending inventions online at Managed Companies Program. plus GST/HST

3” wideValue version www.1800bigiron.com Ad Network

NOW HIRING!

Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association toll free 1-800-282-6903 x228 Join our growing team. We have email andrea@awna.com career opportunities available in our or visit this community newspaper February 7, 2015

Edmonton location: 3.75” wide version 9:00am to 3:00pm

Equipment Mechanics CAREER FAIR 10630-176• Heavy Street, Edmonton 12345 Join our growing team. We have career opporunitiesWATER available: RURAL • Heavy Equipment Technicians Managers TREATMENT (Province Wide) • Apprentice, Journeyman, Resident Technicians• Territory in Bonnyville, Edson, Hinton • Parts Persons

• Shop, Field and Resident Technicians in Whitecourt, Drayton Valley, Camrose, and Barrhead

• Softeners • Distillers • Reverse Osmosis • Lead Hand Iron Filters“Kontinuous Danny Chlorinator • Warehousepersons • Customer Support Advisor • Product Shok” Specialist -Osmosis Paving &System Asphalt Hooper sent you • Heavy and Light Patented EquipmentWhole Sales House Reverse Apply online at www.brandtjobs.com.

12345 Enter "Edmonton" Find out more about our-exciting career opportunities atthe search field Water Well Drilling Within 150 miles ofintoEdmonton, on306-791-8923. the Job Opportunities page. or by calling Red Deer,www.brandtjobs.com Calgary (New Government water well grant starts April 1/13)

brandtjobs.com

Program-value-ad.indd Tell them1

Brandt Tractor the world’s largestand privately held View our 29ispatented patent John Deere Construction and Forestry Equipment pending inventions online at dealer and a Platinum member of the Canada’s Best

www.1800bigiron.com 3.75” wide version Managed Companies Program.

February 7, 2015 9:00am to 3:00pm 10630-176 Street, Edmonton

• Heavy Equipment Technicians

• Apprentice, Journeyman, Resident Technicians in Bonnyville, Edson, Hinton • Lead Hand

• Customer Support Advisor •3” Product Specialist - Paving & Asphalt wide version • Heavy and Light Equipment Sales Find out more about our exciting career opportunities at www.brandtjobs.com or by calling 306-791-8923.

NOW HIRING

Brandt Tractor is the world’s largest privately held John Deere Construction and Forestry Equipment dealer and a Platinum member of the Canada’s Best Managed Companies Program.

Lydell Group Inc. is currently hiring

Class 1 Drivers for Log Haul Processor operators 12345(Hornet, Waratah, Logmax) Based out of Drayton Valley Alberta. Competitive wages based on experience, benefits, accommodation, & drives to airport provided. Good equipment.

Also hiring: Contract Log Trucks hauling shortwood

Volunteers Wanted

Crisis Line Volunteers Needed: The Sexual Assault Centre is recruiting volunteers for our 24 hours crisis line on an ongoing basis. We offer over 50 hours of crisis intervention training at no charge. If you are empathetic, caring, nonjudgmental, want to gain experience within the helping field, and/or want to make change in your community this is an excellent opportunity for you! Please call Shannah at 780-423-4102 ext. 226 or email at shannahb@sace.ab.ca for more information.

Habitat for Humanity hosts Women Build Week March 10 – 14, 2015 Volunteer with us on a Habitat build site to help build homes and hope with other women!

Our expert staff provides training with a focus on safety in a fun and welcoming environment. Take home an inspiring sense of accomplishment. Tools, equipment and lunch are provided. Visit https://www.hfh.org/volunteer/ women-build/ or contact Kim at kdedeugd@hfh.org or by phone 780-451-3416 ext 232

Office Volunteers Needed: Duties include: - Reception coverage (i.e. answering and transferring phone calls, greeting clients, etc) - General office work (i.e. photocopying, data entry, etc)

Email: info@lydellgroup.ca Fax: 780-542-6739 Alberta

3.75” wide version

Qualifications - Friendly, non-judgmental - Willingness to learn - Ability to use Microsoft Office

NOW HIRING

Lydell Group Inc. is currently hiring

Class 1 Drivers for Log Haul Processor operators 12345 (Hornet, Waratah, Logmax)

To celebrate 30 years of promoting visual art in Strathcona County, the The Art Society of Strathcona County Is Proud to Present A Special Open Art Show April 15 to 19, 2015 at the A. J. Ottewell Community Centre (Red Barn), 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Open Art Competition for All Alberta Residents • Cash Prizes, Gala Reception • Categories for Visual Art in Various Levels of Skill, including 3D, Photography and Digital • Entries will Close March 29, 2015 • Check our website for the Show Call: www.artstrathcona.com The members of the Society are looking forward to you joining us in celebrating our 30th Anniversary.

7/25/11 12:30 PM

or by calling 306-791-8923.

1-800-BIG IRON (244-4766)

Join our growing team. We have career opporunities available: 12345

Coming Events

1600.

Brandt Tractor is the world’s largest privately held John Deere Construction Equipment and acareer Findand outForestry more about ourdealer exciting Time Payment Plan O.A.C.Companies for water wells and water treatment Platinum member of the Canada’s Best Managed Program. at www.brandtjobs.com opportunities

CAREER FAIR

If you would like more information or are interested in volunteering please contact Shannah at 780-423-4102 ext.

226 or shannahb@sace.ab.ca

Based out of Drayton Valley Alberta. Competitive wages based on experience, benefits, accommodation, & drives to airport provided. Good equipment.

2005.

Artist to Artist

Also hiring: Contract Log Trucks hauling shortwood Email: info@lydellgroup.ca Fax: 780-542-6739 Alberta 26 AT THE BACK

2005.

ENJOY ART ALWAYZ www.bdcdrawz.com

2005.

Artist to Artist

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.

ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: BUDAPEST The Open Call will begin on June 25, 2014, we have every months jury selection until April 15, 2015. Apply early!

HMC International Artist Residency Program, a not-forprofit arts organization based in Dallas, TX / Budapest, Hungary – provides national and international artists to produce new work while engaging with the arts community in Budapest, Hungary.

FOR APPLICATION FORM, questions please contact us.

Email: bszechy@yahoo.com 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 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

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

2005.

Artist to Artist

Canadian Film Centre - Call for Applicants CFC Cineplex Entertainment Film Program: Directors’ Lab, Editors’ Lab, Producers’ Lab, and Writers’ Lab The Cineplex Entertainment Film Program champions original voices, entrepreneurism and collaboration. We encourage filmmakers to take creative risks and help them develop and package original content for the global entertainment market.

Applications are now available online: http://cfccreates.com/programs /1-cineplex-entertainment-filmprogram Application Deadline: January 26th, 2015 The 2014 CFC Film Program Showcase Reel: http://cfccreates.com/programs /1-cineplex-entertainment-filmprogram?child_id=75#tabs CFC Film Program Infographic: https://twitter.com/cfccreates/st atus/540177880668336128 LOCAL ARTIST SEEKS REPRESENTATION Will pay accordingly $$$ .

For more info contact BDC at monkeywrench@live.ca www.bdcdrawz.com Loft Art Gallery and Gift Shop Workshops for January to April 2015 See www.artstrathcona.com for updates on workshops, comprehensive information, supply list and to register.

Register early to avoid disappointment Loft Art Gallery and Gift Shop – Opens January 31 with new artwork by the artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County.

Ottewell Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd. Open Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 4 pm for your viewing and purchasing pleasure. Local artwork for your home, business or gift giving.

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 PRAIRIE TALES 17 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Currently accepting submissions by Albertan film and video artists for the 17th edition of the Prairie Tales touring film collection. Please email Joe at prairietales@amaas.ca for more information. Submit your works through http://amaas.ca/prairietales/prairie-tales-17-call-forsubmissions/

Artist to Artist

The Emmanuel College Art Department offers an eightweek artists residency to four artists each summer. The residency supports a diverse group of artists, providing time and space for established and emerging artists to develop their work.

Applications are now being accepted for the 2015 residency. All applications must be received by Feb 1st, 2015. http://www.emmanuel.edu/aca demics/programs-of-studydepartments/art/artist-inresidence.html UNFINISHED PAINTING CHALLENGE IV Hey artists, we all have at least one painting that we can’t seem to finish, don’t we? How about bringing yours to our Unfinished Painting Challenge IV, and choosing a work someone else couldn’t finish to try your hand at? After all, one person’s junk is another person’s inspiration!

We will be exchanging work and accepting returned, finished work until Friday, February 13. An exhibition of all the finished works runs February 20 – April 20. Join in, or just come and see an exhibition of redeemed paintings and our archive of ‘before-and-after’ images. This is a super-fun event! Further information: The Paint Spot, 10032 81 Avenue, Edmonton; 780.432.0240; www.paintspot.ca; accounts@paintspot.ca.

2010.

Musicians Available

Well developed original Funk, Soul and Rock’n Blues band looking for a Manager. Looking for someone with experience in the industry to work hand in hand with the group in the efforts of the group reaching new heights in it’s career. Dan - 780-932-8159

2020.

Musicians Wanted

Bassist, 53, needs lead guitarist for quiet blues in Leduc, backing tracks available. sirveggi@telus.net, 986-2940 Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677 Looking for players for blues rock Contact Derek at 780-577-0991

2100.

Auditions

Elope Musical Theatre Presents Guys and Dolls June 2015. Auditions Sunday Jan 25 2-5 and 7-10 pm, and Monday January 26 7-9:30 pm.

Callbacks Wednesday Jan 28 7-10pm. Email elopemusicaltheatre@gmail.com

to set up an audition slot.

Please visit

elopemusicaltheatre.ca/auditions

for more details.

3185.

Bicycles

Trek Mountain Bike Marathon 26” tires, like new condition No integral shocks $300 587.520.9746

3320.

Tools

For Sale - North 6 ft self latching quarter inch, 6 mm cable slings. Cable brand new product #ST271HR16 new style 5000lb, 22.18 n breaking visable connections $150 ea 587-520-9746 MSA Dynalock 3/16 stainless steel self retractable lanyard 50ft certified 2013 $500 ph: 587.520.9746

ALBERTA-WIDE CLASSIFIEDS •• AUCTIONS •• ESTATE AUCTION. January 31 - Sand Hills Community Hall, 52032 Range Road 270, Spruce Grove.

Firearms/militaria; furniture; collectibles; tools; household items. Details at: www. spectrumauctioneering.com.

780-960-3370 / 780-903-9393.

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION. 9th Annual Red Deer Speed Show & Collector Car Auction. March 13 - 15, Westerner Park. Special Guests Rick & Kelly Dale American Restoration. Dan & Laura Dotson - Storage Wars.

Consign today. 1-888-296-0528 ext. 103; egauctions.com.

•• BUSINESS •• OPPORTUNITIES THE DISABILITY Tax Credit. $1,500 yearly tax credit. $15,000 lump sum refund (on average). Covers: hip/knee replacements, back conditions & restrictions in walking and dressing. 1-844-453-5372.

GET FREE vending machines.

Can earn $100,000. + per year.

All cash-retire in just 3 years.

Protected territories. Full details call now 1-866-668-6629.

Website: www.tcvend.com.

•• CAREER TRAINING •• MEDICAL BILLING Trainees needed! Learn to process & submit claims for hospitals and doctors! No experience needed!

Local training gets you ready to work! 1-888-627-0297.

NEW YEAR, New Career! CanScribe Medical Transcription graduates are in high demand.

Enroll today and be working from home in one year; info@ canscribe.com. 1-800-4661535; www.canscribe.com.

•• EMPLOYMENT •• OPPORTUNITIES NEED TO ADVERTISE? Province wide classifieds. Reach over 1 million readers weekly.

Only $269. + GST (based on 25 words or less). Call this newspaper NOW for details or call 1-800-282-6903 ext. 228.

TRENCHUK CATTLE CO. (in Smoky Lake) is currently hiring a General Labourer & a PenChecker $20-30/hour depending on experience or ability. Fax resume to 780-656-3962 or call Willy 780-656-0052.

STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% off! 20x28, 30x40, 40x62, 45x90, 50x120, 60x150, 80x100, sell for balance owed! Call 1-800-457-2206; www. crownsteelbuildings.ca.

ADVERTISING SALES - Northern News Services, a weekly newspaper publisher based in Yellowknife, NT, are looking for sales professionals to join our team. We offer a base salary plus commission and benefit package. Send resume to hr@nnsl.com. (Forgivable moving allowance offered).

STEEL BUILDINGS “Really Big Sale!” All steel building models and sizes. Plus extra savings.

Buy now and we will store until spring. Pioneer Steel 1-800668-5422; www.pioneersteel.ca.

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION is an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have workat-home positions available.

Get the online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep. ca/MT or 1-888-528-0809 to start training for your work-at-home career today!

SEEKING A CAREER in the Community Newspaper business? Post your resume for FREE right where the publishers are looking. Visit: awna. com/for-job-seekers.

•• FOR SALE •• REFORESTATION NURSERY SEEDLINGS of hardy trees, shrubs, & berries for shelterbelts or landscaping.

Full boxes as low as $0.99/ tree. Free shipping. Replacement guarantee. 1-866-8733846 or www.treetime.ca.

METAL ROOFING & SIDING. 30+ colours available at over 40 Distributors. 40 year warranty.

48 hour Express Service available at select supporting Distributors. Call 1-888-263-8254.

LOOKING FOR a shop?

Post Frame Buildings. AFAB Industries has experience, expertise, reliability and great construction practices. For a free quote, contact Ryan Smith 403-818-0797 or email: ryan.afab@gmail.com.

EVERY WATER WELL on earth should have the patented “Kontinuous Shok” Chlorinator from Big Iron Drilling! Why? Save thousands of lives every year. www.1-800bigiron.com.

Phone 1-800-BIG-IRON.

•• MANUFACTURED •• HOMES 2013 SRI HOME 20 X 76: mint condition, 3 bedroom, 2 bath $125,000. 1995 Noble Acceptance 16 X 76: 3 bedroom, 2 bath, available immediately. $49,000. For more information call United Homes Canada 1-800-461-7632 or visit us at www.unitedhomescanada.com.

•• PERSONALS •• HAVE YOU HAD a spiritual experience? Discover how the study of past lives, dreams and Soul Travel can help you understand these experiences. For your free Eckankar’s Spiritual Experiences Guidebook visit: www.spiritualexperience.org or call 1-800-LOVE GOD.

•• SERVICES •• CRIMINAL RECORD? Think: Canadian pardon.

U.S. travel waiver. Divorce?

Simple. Fast. Inexpensive.

Debt recovery? Alberta collection to $25,000. Calgary 403-228-1300/1-800-347-2540.

GET BACK on track! Bad credit? Bills? Unemployed? Need money? We lend! If you own your own home - you qualify.

Pioneer Acceptance Corp.

Member BBB. 1-877-9871420; www.pioneerwest.com.

DO YOU NEED to borrow money - Now? If you own a home or real estate, Alpine Credits will lend you money - It’s that simple. 1-877-486-2161.

•• WANTED •• AUTO PARTS WANTED. Scrap cars and trucks wanted. Will clean-up all farmyard metal.

We pay cash. Call for price.

1-780-914-7560; www.sturgeonbusparts.ca.

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Is there a patron saint of advertising or a goddess of marketing or a power animal that rules publicity and promotion? If so, I'm going to find out, then pray to them on your behalf. It's high time for your underappreciated talents and unsung accomplishments to receive more attention. And I am convinced that the astrological moment is ripe for just such a development. Help me out here, Aries. What can you do to get your message out better? What tricks do you have for attracting the interest of those who don't know yet about your wonders? Polish up your self-presentation, please.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): During his 67 years of life, Taurusborn Leonardo da Vinci achieved excellence in 12 different fields, from painting to engineering to anatomy. Today he is regarded as among the most brilliant humans who ever lived. "His genius was so rare and universal that it can be said that nature worked a miracle on his behalf," said one observer.

"He towered above all other artists through the strength and the nobility of his talents," said another. Yet on his death bed, Leonardo confessed, "I have offended God and mankind because my work did not reach the quality it should have." Typical for a Taurus, he underestimated himself! It's very important that you not do the same, especially in the coming weeks. The time has come for you to give yourself more of the credit and respect you deserve.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Where you have been and what you have done will be of little importance in the coming weeks.

Both your mistakes and your triumphs will be irrelevant. In my estimation, you have a sacred duty to spy on the future and reconnoitre the pleasures and challenges that lie ahead. So I suggest you head off toward the frontier with an innocent gleam in your eye and a cheerful hunger for interesting surprises. How's your Wildness Quotient? If it's in a slump, pump it up.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Will you ever find that treasured memento you misplaced? Is there any chance of reviving a dream you abandoned? You are in a phase when these events are more likely than usual to happen. The same is true about an opportunity that you frittered away or a missing link that you almost tracked down but ultimately failed to secure. If you will ever have any hope of getting another shot at those lost joys, it would be in the coming weeks.

For best results, purge the regret and remorse you still feel about the mistakes you think you made once upon a time.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In the early 1300s, the people of the

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

Mexica tribe had no homeland.

They had wandered for centuries through the northern parts of what we now call Mesoamerica.

According to legend, that changed in 1323, when their priests received a vision of an eagle eating a snake while perched at the top of a prickly-pear cactus. They declared this was the location of the tribe's future power spot. Two years later, the prophecy was fulfilled. On an island in the middle of a lake, scouts spied the eagle, snake and cactus. And that was where the tribe built the town of Tenochtitlan, which ultimately became the centre of an empire.

Today that place is called Mexico City. Have you had an equivalent vision, Leo? If you haven't yet, I bet you will soon. Go in search of it. Be alert.

VIRGO (Aug 23-Sept. 22): By the end of the 16th century, nutmeg was in high demand throughout Europe. It was valued as a spice, medicine and preservative. There was only one place in the world where it grew: on the Indonesian island of Run. The proto-capitalists of the Dutch East India Company gained dominion over Run, and enslaved the local population to work on plantations. They fully controlled the global sale of nutmeg, which allowed them to charge exorbitant prices. But ultimately their monopoly collapsed. Here's one reason why: pigeons ate nutmeg seeds on Run, then flew to other islands and pooped them out, enabling plants to grow outside of Dutch jurisdiction. I see this story as an apt metaphor for you in the coming months, Virgo. What's your equivalent of the pigeons? Can you find unlikely allies to help you evade the controlling force that's limiting your options?

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Have you triggered any brilliant breakthroughs lately? Have you made any cathartic departures from the way things have always been done? Have you thought so far outside the box that you can't even see the box any more? Probably not. The last few weeks have been a time of retrenchment and stabilization for you. But I bet you will start going creatively crazy very soon—and I mean that in the best sense. To ensure maximum health and well-being, you simply must authorize your imagination to leap and whirl and dazzle.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): The cassava plant produces a starchy root that's used as food by a half billion people all over the planet.

No one can simply cook it up and eat it, though. In its raw state, it contains the poisonous chemical cyanide, which must be removed by careful preparation. An essential first step is to soak it in water for at least 18 hours. I see this process as a metaphor for the work you have ahead of you, Scorpio. A new source of psycho-

ROB BREZSNY FREEWILL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

logical and spiritual sustenance will soon be available, but you will have to purge its toxins before you can use and enjoy it.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Italian composer Gioachino Rossini (1792 – 1868) didn't like to work hard, and yet he was also prolific. In fact, his desire to avoid strenuous exertion was an important factor in his abundant output. He got things done fast. His most famous opera, The Barber of Seville, took him just 13 days to finish. Another trick he relied on to reduce his workload was plagiarizing himself. He sometimes recycled passages from his earlier works for use in new compositions. Feeling good was another key element in his approach to discipline. If given a choice, he would tap into his creative energy while lounging in bed or hanging out with his buddies. In the coming weeks, Sagittarius, I recommend you consider strategies like his.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Each hour of every day, the sun offers us more energy than oil, gas and coal can provide in an entire year. Sadly, much of our star's generous gift goes to waste. Our civilization isn't set up to take advantage of the bounty.

Is there a comparable dynamic in your personal life, Capricorn?

Are you missing out on a flow of raw power and blessings simply because you are ignorant of it or haven't made the necessary arrangements to gather it? If so, now would be an excellent time to change your ways.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): According to my analysis of the long-term astrological omens, 2015 is the year you can get totally serious about doing what you were born to do. You will be given the chance to slough off all that's fake and irrelevant and delusory. You will be invited to fully embrace the central purpose of your destiny. If you're interested in taking up that challenge, I suggest you adopt Oscar Wilde's motto: "Nothing is serious except passion." Your primary duty is to associate primarily with people and places and situations that feed your deepest longings.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "Give up all hope for a better past," writes Emily Fragos in her poem "Art Brut." That's generally sound advice. But I think you may be able to find an exception to its truth in the coming weeks. As you work to forgive those who have trespassed against you, and as you revise your interpretations of bygone events, and as you untie knots that have weighed you down and slowed you up for a long time, you just may be able to create a better past. Dare to believe that you can transform the shape and feel of your memories.

V AT THE BACK 27

ADULTCLASSIFIEDS

0195.

Personals

Attractive feminine classy TV, over 50 seeks tall, fit, selfaware, masculine white male over 50 for ???

10 am - 10 pm 780-604-7440. No Texts

To place an ad PHONE: 780.426.1996 / FAX: 780.426.2889 EMAIL: classifieds@vueweekly.com

9420.

Adult Services

SteamWorks Bathhouse now offers Co-Ed Mondays. Ladies enter for free until the end of February. Come check us out. steamworksedmonton.com

#1 FetishTwoStudio in Western Canada Locations in Alberta

9450.

Excitement awaits you at

CLEOPATRA'S SPA 11043A-95 St • Edmonton, AB • 780-425-2288

Live out your fantasy at

Red Deer Fantasy Spa 4919- 50 St • Red Deer, AB • 403-341-4445

Adult Massage

Caribbean Hottie Monique Text “I Love Caribbean Ladies” 587-710-0518 www.thenexttemptation.com Click on the north location for pics Lic: 126685216-001

(780) 667-8314 Lic 159119561-001

Text “I LOVE REDHEADS” to (780) 938-3644 Available now Text For Details *slim yet curvy* lic #44879215-002

9450.

Adult Massage

TOP GIRL NEXT DOOR STUDIO www.thenexttemptation.com Open 7am Daily $160 Specials 7-10am CALL US (780) 483-6955 * 68956959-001

9640.

•••••*iTs PlAy TiMe BoYs* •••••

KAYLA #1 TOP CHOICE!!

STUNNING BEAUTY!!

Available For Nisku, Leduc, & Surrounding Edm Area 780 938 8904

Lic. # 7313555-001 Outcall license number: 068956959-001 Hours of operation from 7am to 11pm

EXTREME Bodycare New Asian Massage 780-486-4444 EARLYBIRD SPECIAL

8:30AM-10AM!

Meet Someone New New Asian Girls!!!

Ladies are Free!

Edm’s Coolest Party Line

28 AT THE BACK

• Always 24/7 • 18+ • Selectively Hiring • VIP Companions Across Alberta

Fetishes

A REAL DOMINATRIX Bondage, Spanking, CBT Sissy slut training Mistress Morganna (780) 454 - 1726

9300.

Adult Talk

#1 SEXIEST CHAT. It’s FREE to try! 18+ 780.665.0808.

Nightline, Your After Party Starts Now. Nightlinechat.com

www.secretsultrycompanions.com (780)341-8401 Tollfree 1 (844) 5SULTRY twitter@sscompanions Discreet billing

CALL • CLICK • CONNECT with local women and men in your area.

Call QUEST for your absolutely FREE trial! 18+ 780.669.2323 QuestChat.com

License # 160975240-001

Explore your fantasies with local singles! Try it FREE! 18+ 780.702.8008.

Night Exchange, Where Erotic Adults Come To Play.

NightExchange.com

Open 8:30am – 11pm Same plaza as O2 Bar!

11050 – 156 Street

Lic# 151375442-001 WE’RE GONNA NEED A BIGGER BOAT.

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

LUSTFORLIFE

BRENDA KERBER BRENDA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Fifty shades of warning

Fifty Shades of Grey movie not the first to showcase stalking and abuse The Fifty Shades of Grey movie hits theatres on Valentine's weekend and, before anyone has even had a chance to see it, self-proclaimed "media watchdogs" are freaking out.

Earlier this year, the Parents Television Council protested NBC's airing of the movie trailer during its morning news show.

PTC representative Melissa Henson told media the Fifty Shades trailer should not be shown when children could see it because it normalizes and romanticizes BDSM relationships. The group Morality in Media just released a statement objecting to the movie being Rrated rather than NC-17 and calling on the Motion Picture Association of America to add the following warning: "Promotes torture as sexually gratifying, graphic nudity, encourages stalking and abuse of power, promotes female inequality, glamorizes and legitimizes violence against women."

I am no fan of the Fifty Shades series. Christian Grey stalks Anastasia, attempts to control her movements and her behaviour, and is emotionally abusive and manipulative. This behaviour is only hinted at in the first book, the subject of this movie, but it becomes more overt as the series continues. Sadly, this is nothing new for movies.

and A Streetcar Named Desire to Say Anything, Closer and even The Notebook. One of the most successful movie franchises ever, the Twilight series, depicts a romantic relationship that starts out as stalking. It features a scene in which the romantic lead tells the

cerned about romanticizing sexual assault, they would have picked on a story that actually contains it. There is no shortage of movies to choose from. I suspect that it's not sexual assault that concerns them but rather just sex, and particularly the enjoyment of sex acts that they find offensive.

In fact, I'm willing to bet that if Fifty Shades contained no graphic sex and was just another movie among the many that portrays stalking, abuse and controlling behaviour as romantic, they wouldn't have a problem with it at all. V

I suspect that it’s not sexual assault that concerns them but rather just sex, and particularly the enjoyment of sex acts that they find offensive.

Stalking and abuse against women has been portrayed as romantic in some of the most beloved and critically acclaimed movies, all the way from Wuthering Heights

object of his desire that he could easily kill her if he wanted to. Instead of scaring her, this seems to only make her want him more.

Passionate fight scenes that turn into passionate sex scenes are so common that they've become objects of satire in movies like 22 Jump Street. Sexual assault is used as a casual plot point in Unforgiven, 300: Rise of an Empire and countless more movies and TV shows. I agree with MIM and PTC that these themes are disturbing and problematic and yet nowhere could I find any record of MIM or PTC demanding that any other movie contain a rating warning about stalking and unequal and abusive relationships.

What separates Fifty Shades from most of these movies is that it's chock-full of sex, much of it kinky. And although Grey is certainly controlling and emotionally manipulative as the series progresses, the kinky sex in the book is actually consensual. There's quite a bit of discussion between the two characters before it happens.

If these groups were really con-

Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

E X P L O R E

A N D

C O N N E C T

FREE TRIAL

*

780.669.2323 CALGARY

OTHER CITIES

403.770.0990 1.888.482.8282 DOWNLOAD

APP

QUESTCHAT.COM *18+ RESTRICTIONS APPLY

REAL PEOPLE REAL DESIRE REAL FUN

CHATLINE TM

780.490.2275

Try for FREE

Ahora en Español

For More Local Numbers: 1.800.926.6000 www.livelinks.com

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

Teligence/18+

AT THE BACK 29

JONESIN' CROSSWORD

DAN SAVAGE SAVAGELOVE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

MATT JONES JONESINCROSSWORDS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

“Freestylin’” -- no theme, but big words everywhere.

THE GORE OF VORE

I'm a straight 18-year-old girl in my first sexual relationship. Things are a little awkward, and I could chalk it up to inexperience, but here's what I feel conflicted about: I have a vore fetish. It was a fascination for me as a young child and became a sexual thing around the time I hit puberty.

I'm wondering now whether this is something I need to get off. It works well when I'm on my own, but I always thought "regular stuff" would work too once I was actually getting some. I've told my boyfriend about it, and he's more than willing to role-play with me. But these fantasies are inmy-head-only, as they rarely feature human beings (think anthropomorphic monsters and dragons, strange as this may seem), so I don't know if I could actually do this. Maybe we just need to hold out a little until we know what we're doing and regular stuff will cut it after all? I have a mounting suspicion that it won't and I'm having trouble coming to terms with what seems to be a really warped, messed-up fetish. What if this is the only thing I can get off to? Am I doomed to solo sex forever?

Vore Only Really Excites

stuff simultaneously—they're fully present, getting into and getting off on their partners, all while their impossible/unrealizable fantasies play on a loop in their heads, sometimes in the background, sometimes in the foreground.

So while you may be "doomed" to go through life with this fetish, VORE, you are not doomed to solo sex. You can have your fantasies and partnered sex, too.

But I don't think you've been at this sex stuff long enough to conclude

you found him), if he intends to honour the Tea and Sympathy rule after it's over (when he speaks of this in the future, and he will, he will be kind), then it's not bad, you're not bad, and you don't have to stop fucking him.

SWINGING IN

I live in a small city in a semirural area. I'm a single woman and am attracted to the idea of an underground swinger scene, or something similar, as a way to get some attachment-free action. But everyone around here knows each other or knows of each other, and something like this would be buried way underground. I'm convinced a swinging scene exists here, but I have no idea how to find it. Those who strike me as the people who'd know are people I wouldn't want to ask. So aside from Craigslist, which I do not trust, how does one go about finding the swinging scene in a small town?

Small-Town Girl

The lady centaur fetishist is not and never will be a lady centaur, the guy into giant women has not met and will not ever meet a 50-foot-tall woman on the subway.

Across

1 Cartoon father of octuplets 4 Ironic nickname for a hairy guy 10 Taj Mahal’s setting 14 Slides, handouts, etc. for a speaker’s audience 16 Street ___ (rep) 17 Aquarium fish 18 Mecca trekker 19 “Huuuuuuuh?!”

20 Little toy, for instance?

21 Head honcho 24 Baseball and football star Sanders 25 London music producer Yoad ___ (reverses to something in the kitchen) 26 “Uncle!”

28 Art lovers 30 Shield behind a wheel 32 1994 hit off Live’s album “Throwing Copper” 33 Is uncertain to, in a fancy tone 34 With “The,” 2012 Jessica Biel thriller 35 “Community” actress ___ Nicole Brown 36 Share a facility 37 “Cold as Ice” and “Hot Blooded” group 39 Appeases, as hunger 40 Having a pH below 7 41 Heart link 43 Simple pretzel shapes 44 It folds in a chair 45 Place for December purchases 47 Some small businesses, for short 49 “Let me at ‘em!”

53 Big earthenware jar 54 1988 Bruce Hornsby hit, with “The” 55 “No can do, Dostoyevsky” 56 “The Two ___” (Martha Finley children’s book) 57 Weightlifter’s abbr.

Down

1 Mag that covers blue material (hidden in KAVNER) 2 Key lime, e.g.

30 AT THE BACK

3 Org. that’s hosted Errol Flynn, Wayne Newton and Stephen Colbert 4 ___ salts 5 Follow up on ___ 6 Image created before drinking?

7 Got the carpet all gross 8 Potatoes named for their state 9 Must-have 10 “Oh!” in Osnabruck 11 Tiny red salad item 12 How you feel after a muchneeded rest 13 Quality of some body tissues 15 Like some GPAs 21 He’s often seen up late 22 In an ambiguous way 23 Light and dark ice cream flavor 25 Star of “Gimme a Break!”

27 All together, musically 29 Religious circles?

31 Rare blood type 34 Carla’s surname on “Cheers” 36 Total assortment?

38 “Is this ___?”

42 French lane 46 Lord ___ Baratheon (“Game of Thrones” character) (anagram of ROSY) 48 Posed for pics 50 Company that merged with Time-Warner 51 Dollop 52 NFL gains ©2015 Jonesin' Crosswords

A quick dip into Wikipedia for readers who aren't familiar with the term "vore:" "Vorarephilia (often shortened to vore) is a paraphilia wherein an individual's sexual arousal occurs in response to a fantasy of themselves, another person or an object eating or being eaten. ... The fantasy sometimes involves the victim being swallowed whole, though on some occasions the victims are chewed up and may or may not include digestion."

Makes you wonder how many of the people who were furious with the Discovery Channel after that guy wasn't "eaten alive" by a snake were secretly vore fetishists.

Anyway, VORE, you're not the only person on Earth whose sexual fantasies revolve around or are completely dominated by something impossible or unrealizable. The lady centaur fetishist is not and never will be a lady centaur, the guy into giant women has not met and will not ever meet a 50-foot-tall woman on the subway, you are not and never will be a monster capable of swallowing another monster whole.

While most people with unrealizable fetishes or fantasies enjoy "regular stuff" all by itself, a great many do not. The latter type—kinksters who can't get off to regular stuff— allow their impossible/unrealizable fantasies to play out in their heads while they enjoy the intimacy and physical sensations of non–vore/ centaur/giantess stuff. Most aren't "checked out" during sex—they're enjoying regular stuff and irregular

that you're incapable of enjoying regular stuff on its own. Everyone has their go-to fantasies and years of solo masturbation can carve a deep groove in a person's erotic imagination. Since vore was where you always went when you were aroused prior to your boyfriend coming along, your brain may have automatically gone there when you got aroused with your boyfriend.

Don't mistake what may have been force of habit for complete dependence, or what you seem to fear most—complete dependence on your vore fantasies—could become a self-fulfilling prophecy.

As for your shame about your kink ("a really warped, messedup fetish"), you gotta shake that shit off. Take it from Tynan Fox, a kinkster and public speaker: "We don't choose our kinks—our kinks choose us." You didn't choose your kink, VORE, your kink chose you.

So give yourself a break, OK? Stick with sex- and kink-positive partners (like your current boyfriend), incorporate your kinks carefully and consensually, and don't neglect your partner's interests and possible kinks. You also might want to explore the furry/scalie community, a space where you can be (or meet) the anthropomorphic monster and/ or dragon of your dreams.

YOUNG IS MORE FUN

You said you can't respond to questions that are too long, so I'm going to keep it short: I'm a 44-year-old divorced woman. An 18-year-old man who seemed attractive and confident approached me online and I was intrigued. We hooked up for a one-night stand. We have now been together three times and we're talking and texting about doing it again.

The sex is amazing, the best I have ever had, and he says the same (I know—he's only 18). Is this bad?

Am I bad? Should I stop seeing him?

Acting Young Again My answer in brief: if he's actually 18 (did you card him?), if you're honouring the campsite rule (you will leave him in better shape than

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

"It's a shame none of the 'swinger identifiers' that have been proposed—like white rocks in the front yard or a black ring worn on the right hand—panned out, because they would make finding swingers easier," said Cooper S Beckett, author of My Life on the Swingset: Adventures in Swinging and Polyamory and host of the Life on the Swingset podcast (lifeontheswingset.com). "But the swinger scene isn't as underground as it seems, so she shouldn't have to dig too deep to find it—even in her small town."

Beckett recommends—and I hope you're sitting down for this—going online, STG, where you have options other than Craigslist. "The wonders of the Internet make this far easier than it used to be," Beckett says. "She should sign up for one of the many swinger dating websites, like Kasidie or Lifestyle Lounge or Swing Life Style—but NOT Adult Friend Finder, which is full of fakes and cheaters (and they nickel-and-dime you for everything). She can get a free trial and search for swingers in her area. If there aren't many people, try the closest bigger city. Whichever site has the most locals, buy a month and go to town. Another great alternative is Meetup.com, which has been a real boon for kinky people— and it's free! She can sign up under a pseudonym if it helps. Then search for nonmonogamy or swinging meet-ups in her town or the nearest big city." Follow Beckett on Twitter @swingsetlife.

On the Lovecast: what's in there?

The science of female ejaculation.

Listen at savagelovecast.com V @fakedansavage on Twitter

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014

AT THE BACK 31

MOTHE R ’S FA R M E R S ’ M A R KE T

10251 - 109 STREET, EDM. | 587.521.6255 WWW.EDMONTONFARMERSMARKET.COM FRI, SAT & SUN 10AM - 5PM 32 SKATERS GONNA SKATE!

VUEWEEKLY.com | JAN 22 – JAN 28, 2014