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Putin's resurrection

The Russian president emerges after an 11-day disappearance

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If he just had the flu, why didn't they say that he just had the flu?

We'd all have sent him get-well cards, and that would have been the end of it.

The lengthy and mysterious absence of Vladimir Putin ended on Monday, when the Russian president emerged in St Petersburg to greet the visiting president of Kyr-

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gyzstan, Almazbek Atambayev. The only explanation he offered for his 11-day disappearance from public view was that "It would be boring without gossip."

The rumour mill certainly went into overdrive during his absence.

He had suffered a stroke. He was in Switzerland for the birth of his child with his alleged girlfriend,

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Opposition co-operation Sometime between who-thehell-knows and May of 2016, Albertans will head to the polls to vote in our 29th general election. In addition to candidates being nominated and parties dusting the cobwebs off their election machines, there's been a revival of the notions that opposition parties need to co-operate with each other and/or that voters need to vote strategically in order to end the Progressive Conservatives' 44year reign.

Proponents of co-operation were falling all over themselves last week when Edmonton-Centre Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman announced she had sought and received the nomination of both the Alberta Party and the Greens. Blakeman will run as a Liberal and the Liberals will receive her donations. Neither of the other two parties ran candidates in the last election, neither have active constituency associations in Edmonton-Centre and a recent poll showed each had less than five percent of decided voters' support. Nevertheless, the announcement was made

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as if it changed everything. In reality, it changed absolutely nothing, but did result in a flurry of finger-pointing at the NDP, who have rejected calls that they participate in these schemes and have been going about their business doing what parties are supposed to do: nominate candidates and get ready for an election.

And then there are those perennial advocates of strategic voting. These people assume a lot, not the least of which is that the average voter has the ability to know the voting intentions of everyone else. They don't. And, as we have been repeatedly shown, we can't rely on professional pollsters to get it right for us, either. Logistics aside, the worst aspect of this angle is that it relies on getting people to vote against something instead of forcing opposition parties to develop sound policies and platforms and offer candidates who motivate and inspire people to get off their asses and vote for something.

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gymnast Alina Kabaeva. He'd had a face-lift, or maybe just another Botox job. There had been a palace coup, perhaps connected in some way to the murder of opposition leader Boris Nemtsov last month.

All mere speculation, whose only useful function was to hold the ads apart. The Kremlin remains, as it was in Communist and Tsarist times, a place of perpetual intrigue, and Kremlinology is as imprecise a science as ever. There are clearly rival factions struggling to influence Putin's decisions, but nobody can clearly say what they want or even who belongs to which one.

Why, for example, was Putin's first action after his resurrection an order to put the Russian navy on full combat readiness in the Arctic, of all places? That's a long way from Ukraine, which is the focus of the current confrontation between Russia and the Western powers. Is Putin opening up a new front, or just demonstrating his resolve?

And if so, who is the demonstration aimed at? NATO? Some faction in the Kremlin? Both?

The problem with an opaque regime like Putin's is the difficulty in reading its motives and intentions.

Even democratic governments like that of the United States can be reckless and unpredictable—consider President George W Bush's decisions after 9/11 —but American policy is a miracle of transparency compared to the decision-making process in Moscow. The difference is stark, and it has serious effects in the real world.

At the moment, for example, there is a major debate underway in Washington (and in other NATO

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capitals as well) about whether Putin must now be seen as an "expansionist" leader who has to be stopped before he goes any farther.

The debate strongly resembles the one about Soviet intentions after the Second World War, which ended in a Western decision that the Soviet Union was an expansionist power that had to be "contained."

The debate back then drew heavily on analogies with the rise of Hitler in the 1930s and the failure of the policy of "appeasement"—and the decision to surround the Soviet Union with alliances and military bases, right or wrong, led to an extremely dangerous 40-year Cold War. Hitler has been dead for 70 years and the world is now a very different place, but here comes the same old debate again. If you argue in Washington today that Putin's actions in Ukraine are not the first step in his plan for world conquest, but just a clumsy over-reaction to the overthrow of pro-Russian former president Viktor Yanukovych by the rebels in Kiev a year ago, you can be sure that various people will accuse you of being an appeaser.

They don't even understand what the "appeasement" policy actually involved. British defence spending, for example, more than doubled in the five years between Hitler's rise to power and the decision to go to war with Hitler. They knew they might have to fight him in the end, but they used the time before they were ready to fight to see if he could be appeased by giving him back some of the territory Germany had lost after the First World War. If it had worked, it would have

been a lot cheaper than fighting a second world war. In the end it didn't work, and so Britain and France went to war. But it is extremely unlikely that the NATO powers are in a similar situation now. For one thing, they never really disarmed after the end of the Cold War, so they don't have to re-arm now even if Putin does turn out to have big plans.

If Putin really is planning on world conquest—or at least on recreating the old Soviet Union—then he has left it very late. Hitler started grabbing territory within a couple of years of coming to power. Apart from a little war with Georgia (which Georgia started), Putin has waited 15 years to make his first move. If he does have a plan, it's a very slow-moving one.

Besides, his strategists will be warning him that Russia could not hold up its end of a new Cold War for very long. Russia has only half the population of the old Soviet Union, and it is now a largely de-industrialised petro-state with a GDP comparable to Italy's. He is probably just blundering around, trying desperately to save face after his humiliation in last year's Ukrainian revolution.

Unfortunately, what goes on inside the Kremlin is so obscure that nobody can be sure of his ultimate intentions. That leaves a nice large space for the hawks in the West to play in, and they are taking full advantage of it. But Putin probably just had a bad case of flu. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Insignificant regulation New tailings framework a step in the wrong direction Imagine, for a moment, that you happen to be in charge of a jurisdiction that claims to have worldclass environmental standards and regulations. As part of that rhetoric and reputation, imagine that six years ago you put in place a set of regulations that you claimed set strict and enforceable guidelines and rules for dealing with, and eventually eliminating, oilsands tailings. Now, imagine that not one single oilsands operation was able to meet the requirements and expectations of that policy. In fact, instead of shrinking, tailings lakes became even more of a problem.

What would you do?

Would you make a strong statement about how environmental

policies are only as good as the enforcement mechanisms behind them, and then proceed to fine and punish the industry to the extent of the law?

Would you state unequivocally that the government is very concerned about the growth and expansion of toxic tailings lakes, and that if companies cannot develop and deploy technology for safely dealing with those tailings, they will simply be forbidden from producing more?

If you were Alberta, you would simply state that the goals contained in the old legislation were clearly too ambitious, refuse to fine or penalize anyone, and ultimately scrap the legislation. You

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would then set about writing new regulations that made things much easier for the oilsands industry, wouldn't really require them to do anything about tailings in the near future and contained no meaningful enforcement provisions.

That is exactly what the government of Alberta did last week with the introduction of its new Tailings Management Framework. After having suspended Directive 74, the 2009 regulation that set hard targets for dealing with tailings in Alberta with clearly articulated penalties for non-compliance, the government needed to come up with something to replace it.

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f we were being fair to early history and our potential, we'd have a green hemp leaf instead of a red maple on our flag—just don't confuse the stuff with marijuana.

"We've gone a long way towards demystifying hemp," says Dr Jan Slaski, an Edmonton-based researcher and program leader at Alberta Innovates with 14 years' experience working with hemp. "When I first started talking about hemp, people would laugh and ask, 'So you smoke your T-shirts?'"

Hemp was no joke to pioneers, though. The crop, grown and used by people for more than 10 000 years, was brought to the region that would become Canada in the 17th century.

Homesteaders ate the seeds for protein, used the oil like WD-40 and made the fibrous stems into clothes, rope, sails and paper. It was so important to early survival that you could be fined for not growing it on your property.

Hell, you could even pay your taxes with it for more than 200 years in the United States until the early 1900s.

The main difference between industrial hemp and marijuana is the tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) content.

In Canada, industrial hemp can't have more than 0.3-percent THC—while marijuana has THC levels of 10 percent or more. In other words, you'd have to smoke a lot of T-shirts to get high from hemp.

Despite this crucial distinction, North American lawmakers made hemp illegal in 1938 in an effort to stop marijuana use. Slaski says the patent for nylon as a textile and new technology to make paper from wood—hemp was used for paper for millennia—were cynical industry influences that helped rob fields of one of history's most important and useful crops.

It took six decades, and the concerted efforts of Canadian advocates, for industrial hemp to become legal again in our country in 1998. You do need to apply for a permit and pass a criminal-

record check, but hemp-growing is the only licence in Canada that you don't have to pay for, Slaski notes.

It's still against the law to grow and process the stuff in most of the United States—although it's fine to possess and import hemp products. And that's good news for Canadian farmers: 80 percent of all hemp produced for food gets exported, with the vast majority going to the US. Now, the Canadian prairies are seeing a phenomenal boom. Slaski says industrial hemp acreage has seen an annual increase of 20 to 30 percent each year for the last six years. Last year Canada hit a record 100 000 acres of hemp, a sharp spike from just 8000 acres as recently as 2008.

Alberta has gone from a tiny fraction of growers to a powerhouse. Alberta Agriculture stats show that in 1998, the first year industrial hemp was made legal, our province grew only 94 acres, or 1.6 percent of Canada's crop. By 2011, that number ballooned to nearly 16 000 acres—a full 40 percent of the nation's output and the most productive single province.

And Alberta is being eyed by the industry's top players for further growth.

Manitoba Harvest, a hemp-seed company in business for 17 years, is pushing into our province in a big way.

"Last year was our biggest expansion year in Alberta," says Clarence Shwaluk, the company's director of farm operations. "Right now, the majority of our production is in the irrigation belt between Medicine Hat and Lethbridge ... there's good climate and good soil there."

The vast majority of hemp grown in the province is for food. Shwaluk was in Edmonton recently at the Organic Alberta conference, trying to spur local organic farmers to grow the crop for the company. (Shwaluk says there isn't enough supply to meet the demand for organic hemp seed products.) Manitoba Harvest and Hemp

Oil Canada are the biggest names in North American hemp edibles, contracting out most of the acres grown in Canada.

"The profit is very good for farmers," Shwaluk adds. "We've got more demand from people wanting to grow it than we approve."

It's open-minded consumers who are driving the boom. Slaski, one of the country's pre-eminent hemp researchers, says four or five years ago it was nearly impossible to find hemp food products. He says he used to go into specialty health-food stores and the hemp seeds would be on some obscure back shelf, covered in dust.

Now you can buy seeds and oil at Superstore or Costco, enjoying prime shelf real estate. There's even a company called Liquid Chicks making a hemp vodka in Grande Prairie.

"It's because ordinary people, not foodies or health nuts, are buying it," Slaski says. "They want this perfectly balanced protein: it's 30 percent protein and 40 percent fat. I have hemp protein powder in my morning smoothie."

Locals, like Ric Rosboro from Edmonton company Hemp Hollow, are tapping this market. You might have seen Hemp Hollow at Edmonton farmer's markets, selling its own line of hemp sprays, seeds, oils, toothpaste, sunscreen and deodorants. Currently, the company buys its raw hemp from a growing co-op in Manitoba but Rosboro says Hemp Hollow is interested in growing its own crop in the Edmonton area.

There are already industrial hemp crops as close as Devon, just southwest of the city. Rosboro says he has plans for Hemp Hollow to open a hemp food-processing plant east of Leduc as early as this June.

"The building is already pre-constructed," Rosboro says. "We have a line on a [hemp seed] huller from China; we've designed our building to

hold it, so we can do the hulling right here. There are other people who have hemp in the area, and we can hull their seeds. There's going to be a new player on the block—and that's us."

Hemp as food, though, is only just scratching the surface. Slaski works out of the Alberta Biomaterials Development Centre in Vegreville—a joint venture of Alberta's agricultural and environmental departments and Alberta Innovates Technology Futures—where he's developing the next generation of Canadian hemp.

Primarily a plant physiologist and agronomist, he tailors seeds for the northern prairies. His research has led to a crop that can grow four metres in 90 days in Alberta—on a hot June day his hemp plants can grow up to 15 centimetres.

Hemp is the second-fastest growing plant on the planet, behind bamboo.

Why is that useful? Because the real future of Canadian hemp is in the fibre, Slaski says.

There are two kinds of hemp fibres, he explains: long fibres on the outside of the stem, used for textile applications, and short fibres within that look like broken wood chips.

The short fibres, which account for three quarters of the stem's biomass and have been mostly useless until recently, are where hemp gets really interesting.

Those fibres can be used to make a product called hempcrete, a mix of water, lime and the short hemp fibre.

The product can be used to pour walls or make building blocks with excellent R-values. Slaski says there is a Calgary company that's going to require 10 tonnes a day of short hemp fibre for biobuilding products.

And the short fibre can be made into something called a biocomposite. Think of the armrests in your car—that's a biocomposite, but it's likely made with glass fibre. This can be turned into snowboards and

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skateboards, luggage, seats, sporting goods and a dizzying array of other consumer products. A hemp biocomposite, Slaski says, is 30 percent lighter than glass, doesn't shatter and is recyclable.

This makes it extremely attractive to car manufacturers. Indeed, German luxury automakers already use hemp biocomposites in their vehicles. Slaski says there is a hemp biocomposite company outside Lethbridge set to manufacture parts for Ford and Toyota, and it's moving in manufacturing equipment "as we speak."

And Slaski confirmed that investors for a company called Stemia Group are moving forward on a $32-million fibre-processing project in southern Alberta. This facility will reportedly process hemp to be used in the construction, automotive and paper industries.

In 2012, the Alberta government announced a $938 000 investment in a hemp-fibre plant in Leduc County that would be used to make textiles. However, officials with the municipality could not confirm that any work had been done on the project since the funding announcement.

If all this fibre processing were to come online, Alberta would be the undisputed king of North American hemp. And farmers would have huge incentive to grow, since they could sell the seeds as well as the stems.

In his job as an agronomist, Slaski visits farmers to talk with them about hemp: the past, present and the future.

"Sometimes I'm talking with the old Ukrainian babas in the Vegreville area," he says. "And they remember and point to their fields and say, 'When we were young, we were growing this crop here."

And, grandma, it will probably grow here again.

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What they have done, however, is essentially acceded to everything the industry wanted to see in tailings regulation. Under the new framework, companies are given a discretionary three to 10-year period at the beginning of their life during which they can accumulate tailings without limit. At that point, the total volume of tailings they are allowed is capped. In other words, the mines are allowed to keep their tailings volume constant after their initial accumulation.

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Perhaps most concerning, however, is the lack of specificity in the Framework around enforcement. What will happen to mines that surpass the allowed volume of tailings?

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guarantee that the cost of the levy will be higher than the cost of investing in cleaning up tailings, or industry will simply choose to pay the levy and tailiings will continue to grow.

Connected to that is the concern that mines do not have to completely reclaim their tailings until 10 years after they close. Mines can have a life span of 50 years—that's a long time to wait for meaningful reclamation.

The new framework does provide one improvement over Directive 74 in that it provides a mechanism for dealing with all tailings over a

after they close to fully reclaim all of their tailings. In other words, under the new framework, we will not see any significant reclamation for decades to come.

The framework also gives the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) some flexibility in dealing with mines that surpass their allowed tailings volume, suggesting that the AER will be allowed to permit a certain percentage deviation in volume, while not actually detailing what that percentage will be.

Perhaps most concerning, however, is the lack of specificity in the Framework around enforcement. What will happen to mines that surpass the allowed volume of tailings? The regulation speaks of a compliance levy, but it does not say how that levy will be calculated and provides no guarantee that it will be enough to serve as a deterrent. There needs to be some

mine's history, not just future tailings. Outside of that, however, it is clearly a step backward. No absolute limits on tailings are defined, no absolute targets or percentage reductions are specified and no absolute timelines are laid out, only ones that are relative to each individual mine. The government's own press release announcing the framework admits that, at best, it will only serve to slow down the growth of tailings ponds, not make them smaller or in any way reduce their prevalence or toxicity.

For a government that so loves to boast about the quality and thoroughness of its environmental regulations, that's just not good enough. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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dmonton wine drinkers, step up: this is your chance to prove we're not all just a bunch of Kokanee-swilling rednecks.

"It will be the largest all-Canadian wine and culinary festival that's ever been held, anywhere, ever," says Gurvinder Bhatia. He's sitting at a table outside Zenari's in Manulife Place, a few weeks before the start of an event he's been planning for years.

Northern Lands is primarily a wine festival, but it also features Canadian craft breweries and distilleries as well as some of the top chefs from across the country. Bhatia initially planned to do only a Saturday-night tasting event featuring the producers of our country's top-quality wines. But once the list of participants started growing and began to include not just producers but also leading journalists and other industry experts, he realized how big the opportunity was. So the festival added educational tasting seminars, a series of producer dinners and an awards competition, all led by these food-and-drink veterans.

"We are probably the only major wine-producing country that is unknown," Bhatia says. "Part of doing this is to raise awareness of the Canadian wine industry, not just on a local level but on a national level and an international level, because we're not very good at telling the rest of the world what we're doing. I see that when I judge internationally, and I get this all the time from other judges; it's like, 'Oh, Canada? You make icewine?'"

Edmonton is no stranger to big wine and culinary events: we've got the annual Rocky Mountain Wine & Food Festival, Winefest and the International Beerfest, along with various other smaller festivals and events throughout the year. Similarly, there are festivals held in both the Okanagan and Niagara each year, as well as in all the major urban centres across the country. But Northern Lands is different from all of these. First, it unites all of Canada's wine regions, from the two big centres of Okanagan and Niagara to emerging regions like Vancouver Island and Nova Scotia. Second, it's a not-forprofit event: all proceeds are being divided between two charities, the High School Culinary Challenge and the Edmonton Community Foundation Grateful Palate Fund. (The latter of which is an endowment fund established by Bhatia and his wife, which grants to local charities whose main purpose is to feed people.) Third, it is resolutely focused on pairing our nation's craft producers with the world's leading voices in wine and foodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the majority of which have never visited Edmonton before. It's a very different crowd than the usual legion of anonymous rookie liquor importers and hired sample pourers who dole out tastings at the big corporate-sponsored events.

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"Historically, because 95 percent of what's produced in BC is consumed in BC, and 95 percent of what's produced in Ontario is consumed in Ontario, producers never felt the need [to export]," Bhatia says, explaining that the wine competition component of Northern Lands features panels comprised of winemakers, journalists and industry experts. "Ten, 15 years ago I had this conversation with many wineries: you need to let people know. And not just from the standpoint of selling, but also from the standpoint of improving quality. You can't benchmark your wines against other wines in emerging wine culture. You need to benchmark your wines against international wines.

You should be shooting for, 'We want our wines to be compared to the best wines in the world.' Period. People from outside are the ones that are actually able to tell us. We can't rely on people within our industry to tell us we're doing a good job."

Unfortunately, it seems that Edmonton hasn't fully clued in to just how huge an opportunity Northern Lands is. At the time of our meeting, Bhatia expected the Meet Your Makers tasting to sell out shortly (it did). This style of event is familiar to the city, so that makes sense; the producer dinners have done similarly well. But, Bhatia notes, the tasting seminars have been quite slow in ticket sales; at the time of writing only a couple had sold out.

He says this is very disappointing, given what a huge learning opportunity they areâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and especially given that price shouldn't be a limiting factor. (All seminars are $20 except one that also includes food, which is $50.)

"Unfortunately, I don't have a lot of faith in the industry in this city, because I don't think that restaurateurs and store owners put enough value on wine education," he says, noting that several of the panelists were surprised the seminars didn't immediately fill up with industry members, as is common with similar events in other cities. "Industry in this city are spoiled because of the economy. There's money in this city, so restaurateurs don't have to have that edge because customers will just come in and they'll buy stuff because they have the money to burn. We have a great opportunity in this city to evolve our wine culture.

The sad part is, I think it's actually the industry that's holding us back. The consumer, I think, is actually evolving.

"To me, the ability to fill these seminars is actually going to define whether or not this event belongs in Edmonton," he continues. "Because it's more than just coming down on the Saturday night and eating and drinking. It's about raising the culture; it's about actually, substantively, changing the culture, because evolving and devel-

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oping a wine culture is not just about being able to afford to buy something.

Money doesn't buy you knowledge and money doesn't give you the ability to know; you actually have to make the effort to do that. We've become, in this city, very lazy when it comes to the food and wine scene."

Admittedly, sitting in a seminar with some of the world's foremost experts might be intimidating to casual wine drinkers; they might seem designed only for true wine geeks and/or people with years of experience. But Bhatia vehemently denies this: his intention was to create events accessible to everyone,

especially those who still have lots to learn about wine, because what better way to learn than from the mouths of people who have been living and breathing this stuff for decades?

"It's not going to be a heady thing," he says. "What we're really trying to get across is that it doesn't matter what your level of wine experience is.

These people, they're not pretentious: they're not snooty and they're not going to talk above your head. This is what they do for a living: talk to people, whatever their level of wine experience, talk to them at that level and give them a fun learning experience."

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Will Northern Lands be Canadian wine's Judgment of Paris? Probably not. (But, hey, here's hoping.) Still, it should prove to be a major milestone in our wine history, and something that will hopefully help kickstart a sea of change in Edmonton's local wine and food culture.

"What really defines where we are as a city, in terms of our wine culture, is who wants to know more," Bhatia says. "In a very accessible, unintimidating way, who wants to just sit and learn?"

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Made in Alberta

Eau Claire Distillery is creating spirits the farm-to-glass way

David Farran, co-founder and president of Eau Claire Distillery // Matt Palmer

Whisky Ridge: you couldn't pick a better name for the area around a distillery.

It's a quiet, quaint little communtiy in 2015, but back in the early 20th century Turner Valley was a frontier town straight out of the pages of a Wild West novel. It was the site of Alberta's first big oil boom in 1914 and when the province voted for Prohibition two years later, Turner Valley became an epicentre for bootlegging. Illegal stills were scattered throughout the hills surrounding the town, which soon became known as Whisky Ridge.

"I grew up on a ranch that was just south of here, and I remember go-

nothing gold can stay

ing up and seeing some old, abandoned stills that were in the hills, some of which are still there," says David Farran, co-founder and president of Eau Claire Distillery. "If you talk to the old-timers around here, they all talk about making their moonshine in the shed."

Alberta's distillation history began with those illegal moonshine stills and continued—until Eau Claire's arrival just about a year ago—with distilleries churning out mass quantities of crappy rye whisky. It's ironically fitting that Eau Claire should be located in a place with such a history as Turner Valley.

Farran, the former vice-president of Big Rock Brewery, explains that it's actually quite natural to go from brewing beer to distilling spirits, since the distillation process begins with a mixture of soaked grains often called a distiller's beer.

"This is kind of like the pinnacle of anybody's career as a brewer or distiller, to actually start making whisky," he says.

Farran is working with distiller Larry Kerwin to sock away as many barrels of whisky as they can, as whisky has to age several years before bottling—he's hoping to have Eau Claire's first whisky (made out of rye) done within another couple of years or so; their barley-based single malt will take an additional few years.

Until then, Eau Claire is selling its first two products: Three Point Vodka and Parlour Gin, the latter of which is a London dry-style gin made with a blend of botanicals both classic (juniper) and local (wild rosehips and saskatoon ber-

ries). The distillery also produced a limited-run seasonal gin at Christmas which sold out quickly; Farran plans to release regular seasonals throughout the year. The next one, called Spring Equinox, will be released at the end of March and is a highly unusual spirit distilled from prickly pear cactus, a species native to the area.

"That's part of the fun of craft, to be really creative and try to come up with new things and not be stuck in the pigeonholes of the past," he says.

But Eau Claire's ultimate end game is whisky, much of which will be made from local Alberta grain.

"We always say, if Alberta is making the best barley in the world and shipping it to Scotland so they can make Scotch, why aren't we making that here?" Farran notes.

Eau Claire has a "farm-to-glass" mandate and to that end it has established a partnership with Bar U Historical Ranch, from which they harvest a portion of their grain traditionally, using a horse and plough; all bottling is done by hand as well.

"The rye, particularly, will be done with the grain that we farm with our own horses," Farran says, noting that this is actually a relatively new opportunity, as previously all grain had to be purchased from the Canadian Wheat Board. "You had to buy the grain as a commodity; you couldn't selectively go straight to a farm and say, 'I want this particular grain from this soil, from this climate.' But now you can, so there's a lot of fun experimentation that we can do that gives it different terroir." V

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

ARTS

ARTS EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

COMFORT IN THE BREAKDOWN

farsighted seeks the human impressions in urban decay

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ecay, in some measure or another, has always been close to Holly de Moissac's heart. For starters, she spent her childhood summers on a family farm, where she was encouraged to access to a particularly prairie type of dilapidation.

"We were all given these sheds we could build up, tear down, whatever we wanted," she recalls, sitting in a downtown coffee shop.

"Being around decayed spaces has always been important to me."

But de Moissac—who graduated from the U of A's fine arts and design program in 2013—noticed her interest in worn-out spaces growing after a rough year of adulthood: there were a few deaths in her family, as well as the passing

of a friend. All of which has led her to farsighted, the artist's first solo exhibition, which seeks to find a comforting requiem in the thought of personal wear-and-tear, as much as it does for urban spaces.

Those ideas began to emerge out of an interest in urban exploration, de Moissac notes, and wanting to understand the draw of the degenerated. She was trying to piece together how these spaces fit into the community, as well as how they embodied the people around them, and she found her answers growing more intimate as she went.

"I realized throughout this whole process of learning about different things with decay, I was still afraid

of it," she recalls. "I started thinking about the bodies of people I love, and the bodies of myself, my husband, and there is a inherent breakdown, fragility to that. How do I accept that, and make it accessible to other people? That was the end goal, and to have an experience where it wasn't something that was confronting them, or being aggressive. It was just, this is what it is.

This is part of life. It's not positive, it's not negative, it's both.

"I realized it wasn't just me; it was in our culture," she continues.

"People want to understand decay, and are obsessed by it, because we don't have good outlets to actually explore that and to accept decay within our own bodies."

The works that (de)compose farsighted possess a cerebral comfort in how they approach the subject matter: from prints layering broken buildings with spectral silhouettes to a linocut-storybook approach pairing images and words, there's a visible awareness of time's effect on people and places, and the human impression on aging space.

There's also a calm to how she captures it all: those linocut images, for example, offer individual parts of the aging body—a shoulder here, a jaw or a back there—presented in gold and paired with a line or two of a running poem. It's her most recent work in the show, de Moissac notes, and her most upto-date envisioning of the idea.

Until Sat, Mar 28 farsighted Works by Holly de Moissac Latitude 53 As part of farsighted, de Moissac made a research trip to Detroit— "I was looking originally for spaces in Canada, but I found we rebuild everything too quickly," she notes, but found herself wanting to avoid what she calls "wreckage porn:" beautiful shots of abandoned buildings and spaces that—especially in Detroit—ignored the people around those spaces.

"I wanted the spaces to exist as metaphors for the human body, rather than metaphors for how beautiful decay is," she says. "I think that would just be trite, if that's all it was."

PAUL BLINOV

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PREVUE // DANCE

Carmen / Forgotten Land

A new kind of Carmen // Paul McGrath

A

cross its myriad incarnations, the tale of Carmen—most famously known as an opera, but a story that's seeded countless theatre, film and dance versions, all stemming out of Prosper Méri-

mée's 1845 novella—almost always portrays its title character as the seductress. She's an eternal avatar for love's most affected passions and hazards, running wild and free with a trail of would-be suitors,

hearts in hands held out to her, staggering behind.

But when Yukichi Hattori, one of Alberta Ballet's finest movers, was approached to choreograph a new take on the work for his company,

he found himself drawn to a differ- "It's just how the world is becoming.

[Same with] lots of music too; some ing, more modern interpretation.

"In opera, Carmen is portrayed as are remixing classical content into this gypsy who has a little bit of a hip hop, techno, things like that. witchy kind of craft; I think the fo- I think that's something natural cus is more on seducing other peo- about it. It's evolving to that." ple," he explains.

"I wanted to not Hattori's Cargo that route. Fri, Mar 20 and Sat, Mar 21 men is being I saw her more (7:30 pm) paired with a like a person who Jubilee Auditorium, $29 – $95 company prewas born in the mière of Jiří wrong time. If she Kylián's Forgotten was born today, she would be own- Land, a contemporary piece that exing her own company, or run for a plores inevitable loss—of people, president candidacy—a person who memories or connection to placknows her goal and does everything es—over time's unbending march.

Hattori is dancing in the piece, with to achieve it."

His Carmen doesn't want to be the benefit of having seen it before; with a matador, Hattori notes; she he understudied on the show years wants to be the matador, but the ago at the Hamburg Ballet.

"Watching it, you just know it's gender politics of the time force her to make other arrangements. A something great," he explains. similarly progressive scope, he's in- "There's something very organic fused his choreography with a few about it; the movement just flows. scenes of more contemporary, ab- The entire piece, all you have to do is give yourself in to it. The story stracted dance.

"I think the world is changing, and rises from that." no ballet company does only clas- PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM sical ballet anymore," Hattori says.

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ARTS PREVUE // CLOWNS

PREVUE // LAUGHCORE

E-Town Clown Cabaret

Success 5000 Coss laughs. "That's when we adopted the name Success 5000 and everything after that we're relatively proud of."

T

he Joker; John Wayne Gacy; connection, Nadeau adds. To her, that awful thing on American the art form is about breaking down Horror Story: Freak Show—when boundaries and communicating deep, people think of clowns, it's usually personal things in a way that is intensely personal. with a shudder.

"You can tell a good clown if you can Morgan Nadeau was once the same.

As a youngster she watched Stephen feel what they feel, if you're taking a King's It—with the terrifying bas- breath when they do," Nadeau says. tard named Pennywise the Dancing Clown—haunter of so many young She admits that convincing the public dreams. But she rediscovered a dif- that clown is a sophisticated art form ferent, much less horrifying kind of is a challenge. To help, they've reached out to the wider clown as an Edmonton arts comadult—and now Wed, Mar 25 (6:30 pm) munity with their she wears the Evolution Wonderlounge, $5 monthly E-Town face paint herself.

Clown Cabaret.

"When you hear It's a chance for amateur and pro the word clown, you don't necessarily think it's going to be a fun time: you clowns to test new characters and mathink of a scary clown or a birthday terial in front of a live audience. The clown. And that's not something I'd be only rules, Nadeau says, is that the interested in watching either," Nadeau performance has to be physical and says. "But lots of people don't realize character based, and the performers what clown really is. Charlie Chaplin have to have fun doing it.

Edmonton used to have a sometimesis a clown. Mr Bean is a clown. The Minions from Despicable Me are com- annual event called Fool's Gold Cabapletely clowns. People love clowns al- ret, but it was intermittent at best, Nadeau says. She hopes their steady ready, they just don't know what it is."

Nadeau is part of Fool Spectrum monthly showcase and open-stage Theatre, an Edmonton non-profit will nurture the would-be clowns of clown theatre company. She, along Edmonton—and they're out there.

"Jan Henderson at the University of with fellow co-founders Barry Bilinsky and Bill Yong, had been part of a Alberta has been teaching 14 people clown collective for about three years, every summer in her clown class, and doing roving and events-based work she's been doing that at least since the '80s," Nadeau says. "And there's throughout the city.

Nadeau says not to expect squirting also Michael Kennard doing weekend flowers. She and her compatriots fa- workshops [in Edmonton]. There are vour a style called Pochinko Clown, so many opportunities to learn clown, named after a famous Paris-trained but after that there's not much to keep Manitoban who melded First Nations people going. We're trying to create a spirituality with traditional clown- hub of clowns in Edmonton, to get the ing. The work Fool Spectrum does is clowns out of their houses." less about gags—although it's still JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM funny—and more about emotional edmonton > party > drink & draw: missed connections

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t's ironic that the most serious thing that Joshua Lee Coss and Robyn Slack have done is a comedy album called Laughcore. The duo, better known as Success 5000, is releasing their debut full-length record— and in doing so, trying to rebrand as something less weighted than a "musical comedy" act.

"One of the most common reactions to our set is people coming up and saying: 'When I heard there was musical comedy on this show I was really worried—but you guys were surprisingly good," Slack says, taking a break from rehearsing for their album release. "Or, 'I've hated every other musical-comedy thing I've ever seen, except you guys.' So we decided to come up with a genre [Laughcore] we could use that's more than musical comedy and doesn't carry negative connotations."

Coss and Slack grew up together in Chetwynd, a small town in northeast BC. They moved to Edmonton for

The duo's humour is wry, often nihilistic and cynical. They sing about how we're just skeletons wrapped in meat, subjected to the cruel pain of an Sat, Mar 21 (7 pm) uncaring uniWith the Skips verse. ("That one Citadel Theatre, $25.20 is a love song," Coss notes.) And they reminisce Get Success about 1997 as a year of happiness, school and, as broke arts students, when everything was perfect—no lived together as roommates. Slack one died and nothing bad happened is a talented musician and Coss has to anyone.

Coss and Slack are more than songs: a lifelong love of comedy. They combined the two back in 2008, making they're comedy renaissance men. Tovideos and putting them online just gether, they've directed loads of comedy shorts and music videos, created for fun.

"We started doing these dumb and starred in a Fringe play and shot a songs for YouTube, just for ourselves feature-ish length film about rock and mostly," Coss says. "We were just roll Knights of Arthur.

But it's Laughcore that might be singing in front of the webcam. And over time we got more into it, and their most ambitious effort to date. thought: 'Oh, crap, we're really seri- It's the first time they recorded in a professional studio and they enlisted ous about this.'"

They brought their shtick to the the talents of a full backing band. Exstreets, playing gigs with other pect everything from golden-age hipbands. But they found music audi- hop to new wave to rock 'n' roll—all ences didn't appreciate having jokes hilarious, of course.

"It's just been going really well for thrown at them in songs. It wasn't until they played the Dr Jokes com- us," Slack says. "We just keeping edy night at Wunderbar that they throwing things out there on a whim discovered they were targeting the and surprising ourselves when they pan out. It feels like this is the logiwrong people.

"We say that we've been writing cal next step to continue our upward stuff together since 2008, but we've momentum." been doing it well since about 2012," JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // MUSICAL

The Book of Mormon T

rey Parker and Matt Stone of naïve young Mormons on a mission proved television satire can be to a village in Uganda, where a brutal as meaningful as it is offensive with warlord is terrorizing and torturing South Park back in 1997. Almost two his subjects.

"They're 19, and they're only used to decades later, the duo proved the same could be done in a Broadway their little American teenager problems," explains musical.

Ncube, who plays "I was so excited Tue, Mar 24 – Sun, Mar 29 (8 when I first heard pm; Sat & Sun matinees at 2:30 Nabulungi, the daughter of the about the musi- pm) village chief. "They cal because it was Jubilee Auditorium, sold out go here, with the so controversial," (some tickets available by prerape and famine says Alexandra show lottery, $25) Ncube, cast in The and AIDS and really huge problems."

Book of Mormon's touring edition. "I said, 'Wow, you can Having played the role throughsay these kinds of things on stage?!'"

The Book of Mormon needs little out the second US tour, Ncube has introduction. Written by Parker and stepped into Nabulungi's shoes hunStone, along with songwriter Rob- dreds of times in just as many cities, ert Lopez (of Avenue Q fame), the requiring endurance and a much difshow has become one of Broadway's ferent frame of mind than in the usual greatest successes. Netting nine Tony week-or-two runs.

"Maintaining truthful moments right Awards and spawning two national tours (so far), the story follows a pair now is my biggest challenge," she VUEWEEKLY.com | MAR 19 – MAR 25, 2015

says. "I hadn't been in a show for this long; so it's trying to make things feel organic and feel truthful, and getting back to how it felt when I first started."

As for the show's appeal, while Ncube notes more conservative audience members have walked out on occasion, that's not as common as you might think.

"The South Park constituent will definitely be attracted to it," she says.

"But the story's so good; the music's so good. Yes, it's controversial, which means there's so much buzz about it.

It's always being talked about. Just because it's controversial doesn't mean it's bad; it means it sparks conversations."

"And it's so funny," she continues.

"You're laughing the entire time. Even in the most serious numbers, there's a moment to laugh."

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // THEATRE

alberta ballet presents the world premiere of yukichi hattori’s

Vigilante

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pack of vengeful spirits from Canada's past has been unearthed in Catalyst Theatre's newest work. Currently playing at the Citadel, Vigilante explores the history of the Donnellys, a family of Irish immigrants who settled in the southern Ontario community of Lucan in 1840. After a series of escalating feuds with their neighbours, five of the Donnellys were murdered and their farmhouse set ablaze by a vigilante mob on February 4, 1880.

Written, composed and directed by Catalyst artistic director Jonathan Christenson, Vigilante is the Donnellys' version of the events, starting back in Ireland with the elopement of James (David Leyshon) and Johannah (Jan Alexandra Smith). Theirs is a Romeo and Juliet romance as ill-fated as the Bard's own, and indeed this production aims for a similarly epic, Shakespearean feel.

The story, which eschews historical accuracy in favour of dramatic cohesion, is narrated by the six Donnelly boys, chiefly the eldest son Will (Carson Nattrass). Their camaraderie and squabbling feels natural and injects a few moments of levity into what is otherwise an absorbingly sinister tale: though the Donnellys' fate is charted from the beginning, and the force of their blind anger is alarming to behold, it's a testament to both the script and this talented group of performers that we end up rooting for the family in spite of their obvious faults. As the Donnelly matriarch, Smith particularly stands out as an absolute spitfire, dexterously handling demanding vocal work while maintaining poise and gravity in every scene: this is a woman who inspires her sons

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to the same absolute loyalty as the most persuasive of war generals.

Audiences will recognize Catalyst's signature gothic style in Vigilante's costumes (by Narda McCarroll), a mashup of street-punk meets 19th-century farmer. The atmosphere is further enhanced by live music and sound from a five-piece band on stage: Celtic-infused and percussive-heavy rock as dark and gritty as the Donnellys themselves.

Vigilante's one major flaw is a design element: the regular blinding flares from two big banks of lights at the back of the stage, pointed directly at the audience. Dramatic, sure, but also painful and off-putting; I heard not one but three comments about the "epileptic lights" at intermission.

Nonetheless, the rest of Vigilante is quite excellent: a powerful warning tale of the extremes of familial loyalty and the destructiveness of vigilantism, and a provocative visual treat. It's easily Catalyst's darkest show to date—and, dare I say, possibly its best.

MEL PRIESTLEY

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REVUE // THEATRE

First Time Last Time T

he opening scenes of First Time Last Time that to babies?" mirror another romance for the ages, where two lovers meet in unlikely circum- First Time Last Time takes this amusing stances and completely transform each oth- anxiety and runs with it, relying on Suddaby er's lives—the ubiquitous and hilarious Fifty and Busby's comedic chemistry to invigorate familiar scenes which could be plucked from Shades of Grey. any young relationship.

But while Anastasia Our double act establishSteele and Christian Grey Until Sun, Mar 29 (7:30 pm; 2 es a straight man/funny negotiate a contract involv- pm Sunday matinees) man dynamic, reminiscent ing butt plugs and genital Directed by John Hudson of Melissa McCarthy and clamps, eccentric gothgirl Varscona Theatre, $11 – $27 Jason Bateman. Airlea's Airlea (Madeleine Suddadefinitely the more wild by) and hopeless dreamer Ben (Mat Busby) define different, though no and colourful of the two characters, but both less strict, terms for their relationship: "You of them get some great lines and big laughs.

The second act slowly sheds its comedic cosay no commitment. I believe you. You say the coon, until the final scenes become full-blown first time is the last time. OK." Speaking directly to the audience, Airlea romantic drama. If not the script, then certainly and Ben narrate and then act out significant the actors know that they're balancing on the episodes from their relationship. They fumble razor's edge between maudlin melodrama and from a bar into bed, trampling all over each heartfelt humanity. They deliver their more other's attempts to be suave. They mock each sentimental scenes with winking self-awareother's hobbies, from amateur astronomy to ness, which lets them (for the most part) get away with the hokier plot developments. live-action role-playing.

The show's ending is more mushy and conAnd they continually stress the key term of their contract: they can never repeat them- ventional than its quirky, laugh-a-minute beselves, they can never succumb to habit or ginning would suggest. But if nothing else, routine and so they'll never become a stale, with all its cheeky humour, the journey there was worth it. broken couple full of resentment.

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gAllEriE pAvA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Our Past, Ourselves: by Our Past, Ourselves; Mar 7-Apr 28 • Pottery by Dale Dorosh; Mar 7-Apr 28

jEff AllEn Art gAllEry (jAAg) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.

featuring examples of women’s clothing from the early 1900s-1950; Jan 21-Apr 29 • Sculpture and Stories: Karen Manganye; Mar 20-Apr 22; Reception: Mar 22

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NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • AT LEAST ONCE: a group exhibition of Paint Spot staff members working outside their comfort zones; Feb 20-Apr 2 • ARTISAN NOOK: REFUGE: several small encaustic paintings by Jordan Pearson of flora and fauna of the national parks; Feb 20-Apr 2 • Vertical Space: UNFINISHED PAINTING CHALLENGE 3: Feb 20-Apr 20

BOOK OF MORMON • Jubilee Auditorium, 1415-14 Ave • From the creators of South Park. The story of two young Mormon missionaries sent to a remote village in northern Uganda, where a brutal warlord is threatening the local population. Naïve and optimistic, the two try to share the Book of Mormon, one of their scriptures (which only one of them has read). With the locals more worried about war, famine, poverty and AIDS than about religion, the two find difficulty in sharing their religion • Mar 24-29

cAnADiAn norM foStEr'S SElf-hElp • Dinner Theatre in Devon • eastofsixty.com • 587.783.3760 • A married couple of second-rate theatre actors cast themselves as nationally renowned self-help gurus. Their lives unravel in a farce as they try to conceal a body and hold on to their falsely won fame • Mar 20-22 • $35-$40

chiMprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13

10329-83 Ave • shadowtheatre.org • Ben and Airlea have nothing in common except a mutual attraction, but the stars align to bring them together.

The last thing they want is commitment so they embark on a relationship of first dates and last loves, heartbreaks and soul mates...a one night stand that lasts a lifetime • Mar 11-29

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Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • TALKING CREATURES: Patrick Bulas, Megan Gnanasihamany, Gerri Harden Trish Shwart; Mar 5-Apr 18 • art Ventures: Fantastic Fastener Puppets (Mar 21), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • ageless art: Printed Narrative: (Mar 19), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Amazing Masks (Mar 21); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

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jEAn Et bEAtricE • La Cité Francophone, 8627-91 St • In her apartment on the 33rd floor, Beatrice waits for a man capable of freeing her from an imposed solitude. She’s placed an ad promising a substantial reward to anyone who can successfully respond to three essential conditions.

Jean, a professed bounty hunter, greedily agrees to the conditions and sets himself to the task • Mar 25-Apr 5 MAry wAlSh fEAturing SpEciAl guESt SHARRON MATTHEWS • Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne Street, St. Albert • ardentheatre.com • Navigating through pop culture, politics and capitalism while taking on her vibrant and constantly emerging catalogue of characters • Mar 21, 7:30pm • Sold out

OH BOY, BUDDY HOLLY! • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690, 8882-170 St • It's Shallow Water's last graduation before it closes and to save it, the grade 12 kids, have written letters to their favorite rock and roll stars, begging them to play at their graduation dance. The kids have tried everything, and now the whole town is being swept away by the campaign! In response, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry arrive to save the day • Feb 7-Apr 12 SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM • MacEwan University Centre for Arts and Communications, Theatre Lab (Rm 189) • macewan.ca/wcm/macewanevents/ sondheim_on_sondheim • An intimatse portrait of the famed composer in his own words and music.

Includes new arrangements of more than two dozen Sondheim tunes, ranging from the beloved to the obscure • Mar 23-Apr 2, 7:30pm • $21.75 ($16.75 students/seniors), adv; $25 ($20 students/ seniors), door THAT'S TERRIFIC • Varscona Theatre • last Sat ea month • An enthusiastic celebration of all things notable, important, encouraging, and superior • Nov 29-Jul 25

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VIGILANTE • Citadel, Maclab stage, 9828-101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • The Donnellys were a fierce clan, not afraid to stand up for themselves and to take what they felt was theirs. But as time goes on, they find themselves increasingly at odds with their neighbours • Mar 7-29

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"The world isn't simple enough to understand in words." – Hayao Miyazaki

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he news of the end of Studio Ghibli—given all its HB pencils, watercolours and other traditional techniques to alchemize children's books and manga into wide-screen wonders, it seems more like the shuttering of a craftsman's guild or artisan's cottage—echoes like a faint death-knell, faraway and not quite real. That's because it's not yet certain that the studio is kaput—officially, it's only temporarily halted production—and because the studio's films, years in the making, reach us 12 months or more after their Japan debut. So there's still, posthumously, the company's

20th feature film, When Marnie Was There, to come.

This is a studio that's made four outright masterpieces—Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies and Miyazaki's My Neighbor Totoro (both 1988), Miyazaki's Spirited Away (2001), Takahata's The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (2013)— which blow almost everything Pixar's done (save Wall-E and Toy Story 3) out of Nemo's water. And Mami Sunada's documentary, with its Shakespearean title The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness, while quite the insider's and fan's film, is also a deeply elegiac portrait of the labour and laboriousness, flecked with uncertainty and doubt, behind some of the finest art- and imagi-

nation-fuelled films of the past 30 years.

While producer Toshio Suzuki is clearly a driving force at Ghibli, too, promoting and managing and organizing constantly, it's mostly Miyazaki whom Sunada follows.

He looks, at times, with his white beard and apron, like the senior wizard-elf in a magical workshop.

(His routine? 11 am to 9 pm every day but Sunday, when he cleans up his local river.) But the smoking septuagenarian, beavering away on his final film, The Wind Rises (2013), can seem as much gloomy doomsayer as poet-philosopher. He wonders aloud about youth's apathy or if concern about his film's anti-war message heralds the end

of creative freedom. His scrapbook, documenting Year 1 of the 2008 depression, ended up being "snapshots of life as usual." He's sure the studio will, soon, "fall apart."

And while he daily mentions his longtime pal and co-founder, the enigmatic Takahata ("Paku-san"), he wonders if he's "trying not to finish" Princess Kaguya.

Perhaps only a demanding master-animator, reviewing a character's glance with his artists or toiling on storyboards for two years and timing out scenes in his head with a stopwatch, can say without seeming flippant, "Most of our world is rubbish." Concerns about Takahata continue; Miyazaki's son

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Goro frets about taking on a new project. But there are also wryly amusing scenes and whimsical moments between Miyazaki and his schedule-managing assistant. And while the last half-hour is tenderly intimate, Sunada captures Ghiblilike shots, too: the gardens outside the workshop (which employs 400 people and has a nursery); in-house calisthenics to help all the deskworkers limber up; the office cat Ushiko; staff gathered on the rooftop at night to view the sunset. It's snapshots like these which seem to answer Miyazaki's question about whether or not films, "beautiful yet cursed dreams," are worthwhile.

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Picture-pilots like Brad Anderson give the lie to the auteur theory.

The notion of directors as the centre of a film, the controlling artistic vision, can't hold when the same one person makes a comedy-adventure set in Central America, a Boston romance-comedy-drama, a hauntedasylum cult-classic, a psychological character drama (best known for Christian Bale going scarily thin), a cross-Russia train adventure, a forgettable horror remake and a weak 911-call thriller ... with dozens of top TV episodes (for The Wire, Treme, Fringe, Boardwalk Empire and more) in among all those features.

Anderson's career is a reminder that, usually, making movies is about the making—staying in the business, keeping at the work, taking what comes. (Project-picky auteurs like P T Anderson are the exception, not the rule.) And you can try to put your stamp on the material, but sometimes it resists an authorial stamp (or, if it's TV, demands a director's visual flourishes take a backseat to the serialized story). But in the case of Stonehearst Asylum— which never saw theatrical release in Canada and only just snuck out on disc here—Anderson's tackling a classic American author whose hauntingly original stories can overwhelm any celluloid adaptation.

Joseph Gangemi's script is based on

Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 blackly comic tale of role-reversal, "The System of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether," but set in 1899 England, a time of alienists, when diagnoses of dipsomania and neurasthenia were common, and "lunatics" were still put in madhouses. While Gangemi eschews Poe's satirical tone, he does offer some darkly humorous moments early on, as visiting doctor Edward Newgate (Jim Sturgess; evocatively, "Newgate" was a famous English prison, closed in 1902) accompanies Dr Silas Lamb (Ben Kingsley) on his rounds, seeing a patient who thinks he's a horse or eating supper with some of the inmates. (Lamb espouses progressive, tolerant methods, for reasons that soon become clear.)

The story becomes more conventionally Poe-ish and Victorian, from its revelation in a dank, crypt-like cellar to the words of warning— "You must leave this place!"—from hysteric patient Eliza Graves (Kate Beckinsale; her suffering of "hysteria" in front of a lecture hall of voyeuristic, clinically detached medical students is a bravura opener, recalling Charlotte Perkins Gilman's criticism of female hysteria in her classic Gothic tale "The Yellow Wallpaper" [1892]). Still, there are missteps: the asylum's Transylvania-like setting is overripe and decidedly un-Brit-

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ish (the film was shot in Bulgaria); "Mickey Finn," an American term for a drugged drink, was first used in the early 1900s; apart from that wondrous-strange mix of the eccentric, odd and uncanny at that supper or at a New Year's Eve dance, the inmates are painted more as thieves and murderers than social outcasts or cultural misfits.

Rather than blur the line between sane and mad, this tale reveals the nastinesses of Victorian pseudo-sciences and psychiatric medicine, and devilishly dwells on the distinctions between safehouse and jail, cure and torment. The story teeters cleverly on the brink of a new century: the "villain" here is more modern and sympathetic, while the once "good doctor" (Michael Caine) is more Victorian and so less relatable to a 2015 viewer. Victorian anguish, strain and desperation make way for 20thcentury fascination, dread and compassion. And in its fin de siècle-set pulpiness, like Bram Stoker's Dracula (1897) only with more of a sly modern eye, Stonehearst Asylum unveils the era's jittery, twitching repression of women and their sexuality. Gangemi, Anderson, cast and crew wrangle a far-more-than-workmanlike reworking of a Poe story, showing how little, crafted curios can still slip out from under the cogs of Hollywood's grinding industry. V

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nother month, another Liam for this gritty noir—but he gets Neeson actioner. This one sees good mileage out of a nighttime the gravelly-Irish-lilt-with-a-gun car chase through narrow streets, partner up, third time running, with preceded by a roisterous alleyway director Jaume Collet-Serra. On pursuit. The setting's at first a retthe Neeson scale, grizzled, soused, ro-mob neighbourhood, à la the recent (and vastly washed-up mob superior) Lehane hitman Jimmy Now playing adaptation The Conlon ranks way Directed by Directed by Jaume Drop, though below the Taken Collet-Serra Drop the movie's soon franchise's ex-CIA,  sprawling all rottweiler-of-aover NYC. Ed dad Bryan Mills in both professionalism and child-care Harris offers a milder version of his history, but he ain't far from ex- bad boss from Cronenberg's A Hisalcoholic ex-cop Matthew Scudder tory of Violence, while Nick Nolte in A Walk Among The Tombstones. has a nice turn as Jimmy's worn and And, despite a few thrilling scenes weary brother.

After the rain-sodden roads have and some nice neo-noir New York streetscapes, Run All Night doesn't dried and the gunsmoke's wisped stand out much from the crowd of away in the dawn, eternal quesT&A (testosterone and adrenaline) tions linger: why's there always a fight where each puncher gets flicks, Liam-led or not.

Jimmy used to run and hit with more blows, batterings and beltmob boss Shawn Maguire (Ed Har- ings than even a prize heavyweight ris), whose off-the-rails, no-good could handle? Why's there always son Danny (Boyd Holbrook) keeps one photo that tips off the prey's Jimmy around as a favour to his old location to a lucky but sharp-eyed man. But when Jimmy's limo-driving hunter-assassin? And why's there son Mike (Joel Kinnaman), who a NY Rangers motif skating its way wants nothing to do with Dad, gets through 'til we're asked, by telecoincidentally caught in Danny's casters in the background, to belatest scheme gone murderously lieve a Christmas-time game—not wrong, Jimmy has to kill Danny. even mid-way through an 82-game Soon, Shawn and his crew are after schedule!—is crucial to the Broadway Blueshirts' season? C'mon now, estranged father and son.

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t's been 11 years since Limblifter released I/O in 2004, but a re-release of the band's debut self-titled album in 2012 proved there was still an appetite for its tunes, which prompted the group to get to work on Pacific Milk, due out April 7.

"I had written a bunch of songs previously to doing [the re-release] and they just started to sound like what would be a continuation of the Limblifter catalogue," says Ryan Dahle, who has been the constant member throughout the band's nearly two-decade existence. "So those two things combined just made us write the name Limblifter on it."

Dahle—whose name may also be familiar from his work with Mounties and

Age of Electric—released a solo record in 2009 that was originally intended to be a Limblifter album; it was during the nascent stages of writing that Dahle realized the songs weren't quite right for the project.

"Limblifter is name that I put on a certain sound of song that I end up writing, so I think maybe it's more like what I offer creatively to Limblifter," Dahle says of what the band provides for him musically in comparison to his other endeavours. "Like what part of me, what portion of the songs that I create sound like this name that we created a long time ago that seems to still fit, seems to still make sense and have some relevance to people. It seems like people

keep on asking us to play, or they want to hear new music or whatever else.

So there's kind of people driving and wanting to hear us, driving towards just wanting to make music and then people wanting to hear things from that name."

So far, fans can check out the single "Dopamine," a catchy, feel-good alt-rock track that serves as a taste of what's to come on Pacific Milk. The 13 songs took shape over the past three years, though Dahle says he didn't have a definitive direction he wanted to take the album in.

He produced Pacific Milk at recRoom and Greenhouse Studios in East Vancouver, explaining he likes to add and

subtract elements and redo aspects of a track to see what sticks.

"It's one of my favourite things: I really enjoy listening to unfinished material— you know, where the mixes aren't quite right or there's something missing," he adds. "I just kind of slowly tweak them by approaching them each time as a listener and having that impression each time. You can make judgments as to what you want to change or fix or redo."

This also allows Dahle to really get to know a song, which he says means quicker performances in the studio and the potential for greater authenticity.

"It ends up sounding more spontaneous because I've done all this work on

it," he adds, noting he's always had a fascination for songs where one person writes it and another sings it. "Sometimes you hear a cover of a song and it's sometimes a better version, and I believe that sometimes when the singer's not the songwriter it can be a petter performance. I'm kind of trying to stake that into creation in some ways, like kind of put myself in a situation where I'm singing a song that feels like it's been around for a long time ... my hope is that if I'm not super successful at music, iIhope in the future that somebody will cover a song and do a better version of it."

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he Backhomes have called many plac- Indeed, if the Backhomes were to sound es, well, home. Kees Dekker and Aimée like a place, Alberta, and especially Edvan Drimmelen started as a couple in Mon- monton, might be more its style. The band tréal, where Dekker played and collaborat- befriended and has toured with Edmonton ed with the Besnard Lakes, Plants and Ani- hometown psych-rock heros Betrayers and mals and Timber Timbre—and Drimmelen the Lad Mags. And Calgary experimenworked as a professional visual artist and tal psychers Extra Happy Ghost!!!, led by Astral Swans' Matthew performed in the band Swann, are reuniting just Key of K. Thu, Mar 26 (9 pm) to play with the BackBut, after a decade in With Hush Pup, the Lad Mags homes at the band's CalMontréal, and evolving Wunderbar, $10 gary gig. their relationship into But Dekker says he and a musical partnership, Drimmelen are settled Dekker and Drimmelen headed west in 2010. First, they holed and enjoying island life. The duo is set to up in Drimmelen's family cabin for a Sas- release their follow-up LP Tidalwave this katchewan winter, writing the music that May. Dekker says that while Only Friend would become the band's 2013 debut, Only was written and recorded in a time of flux, Friend. The record sounds almost nothing the new music is more the product of worklike the frozen prairies: the music chan- ing away at their art in a comfortable way.

"It's more forward looking," he adds. "[The nels trippy psychedelia, with '60s-reverb guitars floating over ambient sound and new record] is just letting those currents come through. There's maybe a bit less of sunny organ.

Now the Backhomes call Victoria home. the ambient, more drawn-out stuff. If anyThe vibes on the island are a far cry from thing, the new music is more upbeat."

Dekker handles the bulk of the producthe experimental art world of Montréal— more high tea than high times—but Dekker tion and writing, mostly in their living says BC's capital has a vibrant musical room, while Drimmelen works on arranging the music. And as an accomplished artist, scene despite being sleepy.

"We live in a neighbourhood that's pretty she has created projected visuals that go rife with the high-tea set—I'm looking out- with the Backhomes' live set.

"The music we make is minimal and hypside right now and I can see those kind of people walking by," Dekker says. "Mean- notic—those animations, they really go while, I'm in my little hovel with music gear hand in hand with that," Dekker explains. and I'm making music that sounds nothing "It's become really important."

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he Velveteins is a local band, but it's equally the product of a land more than 13 000 kilometres away. Spencer Morphy, the main creative force and songwriter behind the spacey rock group, fell in love with the psychedelic music and lush beaches of Australia when he travelled the country in a campervan last year.

"The first time I heard Tame Impala or Pond, that was the initial spark," says Morphy, sipping a hot chocolate at an Edmonton café before packing the tour van for a show in Vernon the next day. "When I got back I saw there were lots of Edmonton bands my age into psych-rock, like the Archaics and Betrayers—that got me stoked to try it too."

The Sherwood Park native started ter Morphy sent him an early demo. writing and recording music when "He replied immediately and said, he got back to Canada last June, 'Fuck yeah, dude, let's book it in,'" wrangling his friends to play on his Morphy says. "Recording in Nashself-produced EP. The result was ville was one of the most fun experiFresh Claws, three sun-drenched ences ever. We put in lots of organ and reverb-kissed tracks that bring and keyboard parts, even a grand piano part. We just palm-tree vibes to Dirt City. It's Fri, Mar 20 (8 pm) kind of went nuts, a tie-dyed hit With Scenic Route to Alaska, like, 'What can we of psych-rock: Nature Of, the Tourist Company make?' But we wanted to keep it you can almost Pawn Shop, $12 raw enough that we taste the resin dripping off standout track "Gar- could still do it live." den Sleeper."

The untitled Nashville sessions The music was good enough to im- will be released this spring by Wiepress Lincoln Parish, former lead gui- ner Records, a subsidiary of influentar player for Cage the Elephant and tial cassette-loving California label now a full-time Nashville producer. Burger Records. Morphy describes Parish agreed to record the band af- the new music as more experimental, with surf vibes seasoning the more straight-ahead rock sound of Fresh Claws.

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The Velveteins, which right now is Morphy and his friend Addison Hiller on drums, is a love-child of '60s hippie style and millennial hustle. Morphy—who is taking business classes from NAIT—has a company, Murff Skate & Surf, where the 20-year-old sells handmade tie-dye T-shirts and local psychedelic records. The company is named after his green Volkswagen Kombi campervan the Murff Mobile, the Velveteins' tour van and rolling home on wheels.

"I bought that when I was 15 and I fixed it up," Morphy says. "Last summer we went on tour and there were four of us living there for three weeks, sharing beds. We would just sleep behind venues and cook our meals by the side of the road. It was a raw time. And the van is horrible in efficiency: we were going like 40 on the Coquihalla. It takes triple the time to get anywhere."

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'm not known for injecting a lot of hope in my material," says folk singer-songwriter Amelia Curran during a stop in Hamilton for Juno Awards weekend.

"I've done a lot of kind of doom and gloom over the years," she continues. "And I stand by the dreadfully sad numbers. I really like sad music; I can't help myself."

That said, They Promised You Mercy, (nominated for Roots & Traditional Album of the Year at this year's Junos) Curran's most recent album, is filled with a sense of hope amidst even the more solemn numbers. The title track is actually one of the "happiest-sound songs" Curran has ever written.

"It's really about depression ... but I wanted to put a little hope in there," she says with a soft laugh. "'Somebody somewhere is miss-

ing you now / they promised you front lines that changes the world, mercy and I'll find it somehow.' I and I think it's always going to be don't know how seriously I can say like that, so it's not a new idea to how much I really, really mean it, use music and things like this," Curthat it's going to be OK and people ran says, speaking in regards to the album and her are not as alone work on mentalas they think they Wed, Mar 25 (6 pm) With Ryan Boldt of the Deep health awareare."

Dark Woods ness, such as a Curran has had Mercury Room, $20 in advance, promotional video with filmmakher own strug- $24 at the door er Roger Maungles with depresder that has since sion and anxiety, though she stresses the sense of developed into a national campaign hope permeating They Promised called It's Mental. "Music therapy You Mercy is not a new sentiment and art therapy, these are not new in her life. She says she is unsure things. These are tried-and-true what the catalyst was for the tone cures, really. I find myself with a miof the album, but it was a feeling crophone in front of my face more that insisted it had to be put to mu- often than not, so I'm just sort of sic and continued to evolve as Cur- grabbing that opportunity."

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van Murray has been a behind- a career, recording music for local the-scenes force in Edmonton bands and working as a drummer music for the past two decades, for hire.

But it was tragedy that got Murworking as a session drummer, songwriter, composer and record- ray out from behind the kit and ing engineer. But he's now centre to the front of his own band: he stage, playing his own music with lost both of his parents, which he says completely rearranged his his band Marystown. priorities.

Marystown is "Honestly, I was like a straight Fri, Mar 20 (8 pm) shot of hillbilly With Electric Six, the Fronts, the scared and nervous to do it. I moonshine.

It's Mandevilles had stage fright," gritty stuff: songs Starlite Room, $18 Murray says. "But like "Hope, Dope, after my parents or Death" and "Cracked Out Bitch" are unapolo- died, I realized it was really what getically raw expressions of sin and I wanted to do. It altered my attihard living played over a strong mix tude: now all these little things I of hellfire rock, grunge and rebel thought were big problems before, they mattered a lot less." country.

"That country stuff literally came from driving around with my par- He recruited some musicians— ents when I was a kid and having no including old friends Louis Reil choice," Murray says. "I grew up with Bouchier from the Uncas and Amancountry music, and it was only later da Kiernan from Into Eternity—and they recorded a full-length album on that I came to appreciate it."

His first taste of the musician life called A Perfect Reality. Murray was at Edmonton's St Mark's Junior named the band Marystown after High School, where band class was the ship-building Newfoundland mandatory. His hand forced, he community his father hails from, picked the drums—and later scored and he imagined the group would the Grade Nine Musician of the exist purely as a studio project.

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the music, badgered him into forming Marystown into a real band.

Today, that includes a solid core of Bouchier on lap steel and lead guitar, Duane Elais on bass and John Rawlo on drums.

Now the band is generating hype.

Marystown will be on a New York radio show hosted by Twisted Sister's Mark Mendoza, and it has gigs lined up in Toronto and the Maritimes. And the band has a solid fan base in the Old World, too.

"We're getting a lot of attention in Europe," Murray says. "We're getting daily radio play in Portugal and getting play in England, Scotland, Spain and France. That's just from diligence: doing the research and contacting the right people. There's lots of nights I'm up to 6 am because I'm talking with people over in Europe across a time difference."

Murray seems dead serious about getting Marystown to the next level, even if he has to do it by inches.

"All this work, day in and day out, is paying off incrementally," he says.

"It's a DIY thing and it takes money.

This is a business, make no mistake about it."

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The Chokeouts

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he sprit of punk still lives—it just has kids now.

Edmonton band the Chokeouts plays gritty, double-time street-punk hardcore anthems that work best in dark and sweaty rooms. Buzzsaw guitars, pounding snares and giveno-fucks gang vocals are standard, as are crowds whipped into a frenzy.

The band has ripped up stages all over town, from the Artery to Wunderbar and especially the underground punkness of DV8. But their original gig was singer Christoph Janke's engagement party six years ago.

"We just decided to try something new, a new project," Janke says, stepping outside his home for a cigarette before spending some quality time with the wife and young daughter.

"My friends Maz [Marisa West] and Jenny [Budd-Koole], both play guitar, and they were gung-ho."

After some revolving-door lineup changes, the Chokeouts have a solid core featuring Karlin Prokopetz on bass and Dustin Sebzda on drums.

Prokopetz plays in local band the

Bleeders and the Boy and Sebzda stays busy drumming with Power Buddies and the Strugglefucks.

The Chokeouts are strictly word-ofmouth. The band has no records or tours to its name, just lots of local fans who show up to hear some fun music. The group has even played with the biggest legend in Edmonton punk, Mr Chi Pig from SNFU. The band has had the support of so many rooms, and now it's giving back. DV8 Tavern—the home base of so much of the city's punk, hardcore and experimental music—is in trouble itself. It's fighting to stay afloat after moving from the dank pub it occupied on 99 Street to the basement on Gateway Boulevard, the same spot New City Legion moved to, and failed at, after many memorable years on Jasper Avenue.

DV8's Rod Gillis wrote on Facebook that they're one of the Whyte Avenue businesses that have been struggling with the high cost of operating in the area.

Fri, Mar 20 (8 pm) With Royal Red Brigade, the Anatomy Cats, Master Splinter, Johnson from Accounting, more DV8, $10 (or more)

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"I guess if you can imagine trying to give somebody a piggyback up a flight of stairs with somebody behind you trying to kick your legs out from under you, it's kinda like that—it sucks," Gillis wrote earlier this month.

The Chokeouts are playing on a stacked fundraiser bill, featuring a half-dozen other prairie punks.

Janke doesn't want to see another one of Edmonton's venues go down the drain.

"That room is vital," he says. "Nobody supports punk, hardcore, metal or any kind of alternative music in this town like [Gillis]. We're playing so we can keep going what's happening in that venue. It's so important to that scene."

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Local alt-country man Tom Olsen is bringing his twang and rattle to the stage. He doesn't shy away from the darkness, with lyrics channelling the gritty and grim.

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NOW HEAR FESTIVAL OF NEW MUSIC / FRI, MAR 20 – SUN, MAR 22 Get tuned into the cutting-edge with the fourth edition of this annual festival presented by New Music Edmonton. Featured this year is work by composer György Ligeti, as well as late-night sessions of electronic and improvised music. Check out newmusicedmonton.ca for more information. (Holy Trinity Anglican Church, $40 – $65 for festival pass; $10 – $20 for individual shows)

F&M / SAT, MAR 21 (8 PM)

The word refined is thrown around a lot these days, but the classy folks in F&M really get it. Lovers of fine wine, good food and better music, let this local band take you into its world of stylish enjoyment. (Artery, $10 advance, $15 at the door)

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THE DEAD COLD / SAT, MAR 21 (8 PM)

Edmonton death-metal group the Dead Cold are reuniting after four years in the hinterland.

Experience the band's icy fury when as it plays with Exes for Eyes, Dieuponaday, Surrender to Reason and Appraise the Peril. (Rendezvous Pub, $10 advance, $15 at the door)

MICHAEL KAESHAMMER / SAT, MAR 21 (7:30 PM) This guy knows how to tickle the ivories. A gifted boogiewoogie player and singer, Kaeshammer has established himself as a must-see act. (Festival Place, $42 – $46)

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Our city has a proud Ukrainian heritage (hell, people used to call us Edmonchuck). Conflicts in Ukraine are threatening the security and happiness of many people, and the Yes Please Music Club, Picture the Ocean and Le Fuzz Duo are playing this event to raise cash and awareness. (Artery, $10)

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Raised on a healthy diet of Clapton, Page and Hendrix, Philip Sayce is bringing back blues-rock in a big way. The Toronto axe-slinger is set to release his major-label debut, Influence, this spring. (Artery, $15 advance, $20 at the door)

ALLAN SUAREZ / WED, MAR 25 (9 PM) Come get hot with the Latin sounds of this local musician. His guests Robbie Taylor and Lau Mafuru are bringing folk-rock roots and acoustic African hip-hop to the party, respectively. (Wunderbar, $15)

ANVIL / WED, MAR 25 (7 PM)

The 2009 documentary The Story of Anvil plucked these guys from the musical wilderness and put them in their rightful place as heavy-rock gods. Formed in 1978 in Toronto, these guys finally got their due, opening for AC/DC in 2009. (Starlite Room, $15)

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MARCO CLAVERIA / THU, MAR 26 (8:30 PM) Born in Chile, Claveria immigrated to Canada with his family back in the early '80s. As a musician, he's played huge events like the Montréal Jazz Festival, the Edmonton Folk Festival and has opened for Al Green and Aaron Neville.

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These Manitoba boys proudly dub themselves "70s-inspired yacht rock."

They also dream of a future filled with "fame, fortune … and freshly washed clothes." Help 'em out. (Artery, $7 advance, $10 at the door)

Cottage; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

THU MAR 19 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Alfie Zappacosta;

8:30-10:30pm; $15

Music every Thu; 9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Chris Antonik

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Thirsty

BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos

Thursday singer-songwriter open jam with guest host Emo LeBlanc; 8-12pm

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Chris Antonik

BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

BOHEMIA Levi Cuss, CD release party “Night Thief”; 8pm; $10 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

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 Blackberry Wood, George

LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE Rondo;

12-1pm; Free 8pm

DV8 DJ Madd with Ghisha Sound, Skobe, Towken and Remy Flex; 8pm; 18+ only

DJs

FESTIVAL PLACE Michael Kaeshammer; 7:30pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE Ella and Louis;

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

Friday DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old

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

Ireland & The Willy Nillys; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10-$12; 18+ only

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

Release/Tour Kick-Off; 8pm; by donation

CAFE BLACKBIRD Matt Pattershuk;

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri;

8pm; $10

9pm

CAFE BLACKBIRD Lands End Quintet;

CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK The Elektric

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

THE BUCKINGHAM Snake Legs EP

7:30-9:30pm; $6

Squirrels; 10pm

every Fri

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; 7pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights:

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open

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

every Fri: this week with Herky Cutler; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep

CASINO EDMONTON The Nervous

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock,

Flirts

funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Mojave

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

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

Iguanas

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

7pm

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Doug Stroud;

Open Jam Nights; no cover Tour with Etc! Etc!, Truth; 9pm; 18+ only

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RICHARD’S PUB The Mad Dog Blues and Roots Jam hosted by Jimmy Guiboche; 3-7pm SANDS INN & SUITES Nick Samoli and Jericho West; 9pm; No cover

DV8 Royal Red Brigade with The

Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

Chokeouts and Master Splinter; 8pm; $10

PAWN SHOP Wacken Metal Battles

FESTIVAL PLACE Sharon & Bram;

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

Round 3: Feat.Valyria, Cat the Adversary, Dieuponaday, Bleed; 7pm (doors); $10 (adv); 18+ only

2pm & 6:30pm

SAT MAR 21

FIONN MACCOOL’S–DOWNTOWN The

ARDEN THEATRE Mary Walsh feat.

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling

L.B.’S PUB Green Eyed Blonde;

Soul Shots; 8:30pm 9:30pm LA CITE FRANCOPHONE Farm; 8pm;

most Thursdays; 7-10pm

$35 (adv)

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues

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

‘80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close THE COMMON The Common

special guest Sharron Matthews; 7:30pm; $35

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff Robison BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Hot

Cottage; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

Wreckage; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

Dog: Tom Olsen (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Ellen McIlwaine &

Farley Scott; 8:30-10:30pm; $20

Boyz; 9:30pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; • LATER: Chris Antonik

PAWN SHOP Blurred Lenz and

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays:

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling

piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Derina Harvey; 7pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

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 CAFE BLACKBIRD Don Berner;

Hungryhollow; 7pm

8-11pm; $10

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike “The

CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK The Elektric

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

Party Hog”; 7pm STARLITE ROOM Electric Six,

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

The Mandevilles, The Fronts, Marystown; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $18; 18+ only

CASINO EDMONTON The Nervous

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back

Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;

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

Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays:

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

FRI MAR 20 ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff Robison BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Hot

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music

mic; 7pm; $2 Flirts CASINO YELLOWHEAD Mojave

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH

Now Hear This Festival of New Music: featuring the music of György Ligeti; $10-$20

Release with guests First Aid Kit and The Patterns; 9pm; $10; 18+ only YARDBIRD SUITE Harley Card

Quintet; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $20 (members), $24 (guests) YEG DANCE CLUB Paul Wall; 9pm;

$40

Classical HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH

Now Hear This Festival of New Music: featuring the music of György Ligeti; $10-$20 JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE Composition

Concert; 7:30pm LENDRUM MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH Excentrica and Friends at

the OK Chorale; 7pm ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE

Jubiloso! Bells of Concordia; 7:30pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE Ella and Louis;

Success 5000 (musical comedy) album release & The Skips; 7-10pm; $25.20, ticket price will cover a free download of Success 5000’s new album, a pair of 3D glasses and a free hot dog (veggie options will be available)

8pm

CHURCHILL LRT STATION Bach in the

Classical

WUNDERBAR Red Hot Gospel LP

Subways; 12-2:30pm; Free

THE XWRECKS Sophie and the

Herbie Nichols Featuring Jason Marsalis; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

STUDIO 96 Bill Bourne; 7pm

THE CLUB, THE CITADEL THEATRE

Iguanas

YARDBIRD SUITE The Music Of

STARLITE ROOM These Raven Skies, Tattered, River Valley Search Party, Kami Van Haist, Alterra; 7:30pm; $10-$15; 18+ only

ST. PAUL’S UNITED CHURCH Allegro; 7:30-9:30pm; $5 (students), $15 (adult), $25 (family); All proceeds go to AALS

every Fri Shufflehounds; 8pm; Free

Hungryhollow; 7pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike “The

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the

Pawnshop Live Present Tour Kickoff; 8pm (doors); 18+ only

Derina Harvey; 7pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Party Hog”; 7pm

MERCURY ROOM Tom Olsen and

PALACE CASINO–WEM The Whiskey

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

featuring F&M with Caity Fisher; 8pm (doors); $10 (adv), $15 (door)

floor; 9:30pm

ON THE ROCKS Bonafide

SAWMILL BANQUET CENTRE Rock the Cause; 7pm; Net proceeds to Make-A-Wish; Tickets at Tix on the Square

ARTERY Justina Smith Art Show

Squirrels; 10pm

every Thu

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands every

RENDEZVOUS PUB Dieuponaday;

NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro

with The Grounds and Bad Communicators and with Sleep Demon; 9pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

8pm; $15 (door)

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)

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

MERCURY ROOM The Red Cannons

piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

floor; 9:30pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl:

MACLAB CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The Joe Defendants; 7:30pm; $35 (adv), $32 (student/senior)

18+ only

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

DJs

LEGENDS Sat 3pm Jam and Open Mic with Nick Samoil and guests

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling

L.B.’S PUB South Bound Freight open jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

It’s Me, Malkmus. Pavement tribute show; 9pm; 18+ only

Sat–It’s the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm

PAWN SHOP Limblifter; 8pm (doors);

the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover

WUNDERBAR Are You There God?

every Sat; 3:30-7pm LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage

week; $10

KELLY’S PUB Jameoke Night with

with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am

Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam

ORLANDO’S 1 Bands perform every

Thu; 9pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage

Rural Routes; 8pm GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade

ON THE ROCKS Bonafide

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam

every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

FIONN MACCOOL’S–DOWNTOWN

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

Dave Johnston; 7pm

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz);

Concerts: this week with James Beaudry Band with guests Crossroad Renegades; 4pm; No cover

NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald

FIONN MACCOOL’S–DOWNTOWN Fat

pianos at 8pm

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Free Afternoon

Sat

ENCORE–WEM Datsik, Ninja Nation

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild

7pm

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Doug Stroud;

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:

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Alternating DJs THE BOWER For Those Who Know...:

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

RICHARD’S PUB Sunday Jam hosted

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

THE COMMON Get Down It’s

YARDBIRD SUITE Jacek Kochan &

Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound

MAR/20

SFEAR MANAGEMENT AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

ELECTRIC SIX W/

MAR/21

THE MANDEVILLES, THE FRONTS, MARYSTOWN

BLACK STREAM RECORDS AND RCR MANAGEMENT PRESENT

THESE RAVEN SKIES

TATTERED, RIVER VALLEY SEARCH PARTY, KAMI VAN HAIST, ALTERRA

MAR/25 HOPE IN HELL TOUR 2015 FEAT.

W/

MAR/26 MAR/27 MAR/28

ANVIL

KLINGANDE GUESTS

JCL PRODUCTIONS AND MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS

THE WHITE BUFFALO, SPENCER BURTON

HARIS DŽINOVIĆ DJ APOLLON

APR/3

ACT A FOOL 5

DAY 1

W/

KRAFTY KUTS, A SKILLZ, PUMPKIN, JAYFRESH, KURT HUSTLE

APR/4

ACT A FOOL 5

DAY 2

FT/

FT/ BONOBO (DJ SET), TAIKI NULIGHT, BLEEP BLOOP,

MOONTRICKS, KNIGHT RIDERZ, SARATONIN

Adam Baldych Jazz Quartet; 7pm; $20 (adults), $10 (seniors and students), free (TKP/PCS members and children under 12)

Classical

PAWN SHOP Transmission

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

stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & The

Ensemble; 7:30pm

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open

Hurricanes

MUTTART HALL Connections

Jam: Trevor Mullen

Concert Series; 2pm; Free (donations accepted)

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with

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

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

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

MON MAR 23

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

Hoodoos DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Monday MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

ARTERY Fundraiser for Ukraine with Picture the Ocean & Le Fuzz Duo & Yes Please Music Club; 7pm; $10

Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4 NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & The

Hurricanes PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted

by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

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

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with PM

Bossa; 9am-3pm; by Donation

Classical

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live

WINSPEAR CENTRE Rosanne Cash;

on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Celtic Music

with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm FESTIVAL PLACE The Celtic Tenors;

7:30-10:30pm; $40-$44

8pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the Hog

MAR/20

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday

Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

LETTUCE PRODUCE BEATS BLURRED LENZ & SCORPIO SEVENTY-SIX RECORDS PRESENT

LP RELEASE

W/ KAYLA HOTTE & HER RODEO PALS, JODY SHENKAREK

NETHERWARD CD RELEASE DEMISE WITHOUT REASON, VALYRIA, BOGUE BRIGADE W/

APR/2

LUCAS CHAISSON

W/ 100 MILE HOUSE, NORMAN FIELDS

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,

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

every Tue Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code

6pm; 18+ only DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Wed open

Ryan Boldt (The Deep Dark Woods); 6pm (doors)

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason

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

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

RICHARD’S PUB Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open

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

STARLITE ROOM Hope In Hell Tour

SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session:

Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover 2015 Ft. Anvil, Tyrant, Ironstorm, Leave The Living; 7pm; $15; 18+ only WUNDERBAR Allan Suarez, Robbie

Taylor and Lau Mafuru; 9pm; $15; 18+ only

Jeff Hendrick Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs

Classical

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

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

Gordon Ritchie (celtic harp); 12:1012:50pm; Free WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO & Winspear

Overture Tour; 12-1pm

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

DJs

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

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

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

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

WED MAR 25 Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

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

ARTERY Philip Sayce; 7pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon;

BRIXX BAR Lettuce Produce Beats;

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience:

Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

Alt ‘80s and ‘90s, Post Punk, New

VENUEGUIDE

MAR/26 AWESOMEHOTS “NIGHTHORSE” MAR/27

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • Sonny & The Hurricanes

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

W/

MAR/25

Kris Harvey and guests

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage

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

BLACKBERRY WOOD GEORGE IRELAND & THE WILLY NILLYS

L.B.’S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous

open mic

SUN MAR 22

Tue; 9pm

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

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

JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE Percussion

electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

Hoodoos

BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

MERCURY ROOM Amelis Curran with

3pm

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays:

BLUES ON WHYTE Billy D and the

BLUES ON WHYTE Billy D And The

Hoodoos

mic with host Duff Robison

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and

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

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Big Dreamer Sound jam hosted by Harry Gregg and Geoff HamdenO’brien; every Tue 8pm-12am

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

WINSPEAR CENTRE Raga Unveiled;

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

TUE MAR 24

Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds

Now Hear This Festival of New Music: featuring the music of György Ligeti; $10-$20

Canada - Consort: Via Crucis; 8pm

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

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

9pm-2am

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

ALL SAINTS’ CATHEDRAL Pro Coro HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

TYRANT, IRONSTORM, LEAVE THE LIVING

W/

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

every Sat

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

UNIONELECTRONIC & FREE LOVE PRESENT

W/

and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

W/

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100

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Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 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 ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 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 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

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

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • vbatten@hfh.org • Learn what opporunities are available • Mar 19, 6-7pm; 3rd Thu of the month • Free

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown COMEDY Black Do9g 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 • The Amazing Kreskin; Mar 20, 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $39.95; 18+ only

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Brian Link; Mar 19-21 • Ryan Wingfield; Mar 26-28

COMEDY NIGHT • DoubleTree by Hilton, 16615-109 Ave NW • carmen.boyko@youcan.ca • 780.444.3348, ext.26 • Annual YOUCAN Comedy Night. Hosted by Carrie Doll. A fundraiser for programs supporting youth in Edmonton • Mar 21

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 • Eric Griffin; Mar 18-22 • Sam Tripoli; Mar 25-29 CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With Chris Gordon as the headliner, Keith Sarnowski, and Lynette as the special guests • Mar 18, 7:30pm

• 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 NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

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 •

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

Alberta, 8555 Roper Road • 780.427.0669 • claude.roberto@gov.ab.ca • A special tour and workshop highlighting Alberta’s francophone heritage during Les Rendez-vous de la Francophonie, a national celebration of French language and community. Tour will be conducted in French • Mar 20, 1-3:30pm • Free (preregistration is required)

VEGANS & VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA POTLUCK • Riverdale Community Hall, 9231-

SCIENCE FUNDAY • University of Alberta,

100 Ave NW • info@vofa.ca • vofa.ca • Bring a vegan, raw vegan or vegetarian dish to serve at least six people, plus your own plate, cup, cutlery and serving spoon • Mar 22, 5:30-7:30pm • $3

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION

• waskahegantrail.ca • Fort Edmonton to Snow Valley hike; Meet at McDonalds 87 Ave/149 St (14920-87 Ave); Hike leader: Stella (780.488.9515); Mar 22, 9:45am

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

SEXUAL ASSAULT LAW: EQUALITY GAINS THROUGH THE CHARTER • Law

Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

WOMEN'S HEALTH TALKS: PERIMENOPAUSE AND MENOPAUSE • Dr. Trethart's clinic, 10145-81 Ave • Learn about the common cycle changes that women experience as they approach menopause • Mar 24, 7-8:30pm • $10 (register at contactseeds@shaw.ca)

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

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

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia

YOUNG ADULTS (AGES 18 -30) DROP-IN GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP • Pilgrims Hospice,

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

9808-148 St • jessem@pilgrimshospice.com • 780.413.9801 ext. 107 • pilgrimshospice.com • For those who wish to connect with same-aged peers who are also grieving. Trained facilitator will guide the group in topics related to grief • Mar 25, 8:30pm

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

Groove every Wed; 9pm

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

SUCCESS 5000 & THE SKIPS • The

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy

Club, the Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Success 5000 (musical/comedy) will be releasing their new album "Laughcore", and will be partnering with The Skips for this event. The Skips will also be debuting a 3D music video for their song, "Building a Heart" • Mar 21, 7-10pm • $25.20, ticket price will cover a free download of Laughcore, a pair of 3D glasses and a free hot dog (veggie options will be available)

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

• Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music– check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA •

(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

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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •

TOASTMASTERS

Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King’s University College, 9125-50 St • Dr. Colleen Cassady St. Clair will be speaking about the topic, "Bird Protection in the Alberta Oil Sands"; Mar 20, 7pm 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 •

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs. org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail. com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until Dec 17, 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo. com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound

Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Sciences (CCIS), 11455 Saskatchewan Drive • funday@ sciencefundamentals.org • 780.708.0792 • sciencefundamentals.org • Featuring over 40 interactive demonstrations, presentations and tours • Mar 21, 10am-4pm • Free

3 BIG MISTAKES THAT STOP YOU FROM ACHIEVING YOUR GOALS • Whitemud Crossing Library Theatre, 4211-106 St • Presented by the Writers; Guild of Alberta. Certified life coach Laurel Vespi presents ways to learn more about three big mistakes and three simple principles that will help participants stick with your goals and create the outcomes you want • Mar 18, 7:30-9pm • Free (WGA members), $5 (non-members)

ALBERTA & THE GREAT WAR • Provincial Archives of Alberta, 8555 Roper Road • PAA@ gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/ paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • An exhibit that draws upon archival holdings to show the many ways that the First World War changed the province forever • until Aug 29, 9am-4:30pm

BEYOND ANGKOR- CAMBODIA'S WORLD HERITAGE SITE NUMBER TWO • Telus World of Science, Margaret Ziedler Theatre, 11211-142 St NW • A Strathcona Archaeological Society Presentation. By Sarah Youngblutt (University of Leiden) • Mar 20, 7pm • Free with SAS membership or TWoS admission or membership

EDMONTON CAT FANCIERS SPRING CAT SHOW • Italian Cultural Centre, 14230-133 Ave • 780.419.2953 • edmontoncat.com • Come and see beautiful purebred and domestic cats being shown. Learn about the cat fancy, shop for your own kitties, or adopt a rescue cat • Mar 21-22, 9:30am-4:30pm • $8 (adult), $20 (family), $5 (seniors and children under 12); $1 off admission with donation of cat food which will go to the Edmonton Pet Food Bank

NEUROIMMUNOLOGY 101: UNDERSTAND YOU MEDICAITON • Chateau Nova Yellowhead Edmonton, 13920 Yellowhead Trail • 780.471.3034 • sydney.arnold@mssociety. ca • Will discuss Multiple Sclerosis, the immune system, and treatments • Mar 21, 10am-12pm • Free

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SERIES • Creative Practices Institute, 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

RENDEZ-VOUS • Provincial Archives of

10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

Centre, University of Alberta, McLennan Ross Hall (Room 237), 111 St and 89 Ave • edmonton@ leaf.ca • leaf.ca/edmonton-sexual-assault-lawpanel • Features lawyers who have used the concept of substantive equality to advance the rights of complainants in sexual assault law cases at the Supreme Court of Canada • Mar 22, 2-4pm • Free

THE UNIVERSE IN A MATCHBOX • University of Alberta Observatory, CCIS, 5th floor, SW Corner • stars@ualberta.ca • uab.ca/observatory • A closer look into what is in a matchbox will tell participants about the Universe and its birth nearly fourteen billion years ago in the BigBang • Mar 19, 8-8:30pm • Free

QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

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 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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca 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

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• Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed SunMon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth dropin: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • 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 • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

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 Nonprofit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership.

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WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm SPECIAL EVENTS DARK MATTERS FOOD & BEER • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • 18+ only.

Schmooze with local experts, explore kitchen chemistry, discover different brewing techniques and sample some of the best fare that Edmonton has to offer. Then, find out how your other senses impact how things taste, in the Sensory Experience Tasting Lab • Mar 19, 7-10pm • $14 (adv), $20 (door) DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages EDMONTON DREAM BOARD EVENT • Stollery Gallery, Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave • islandflowergirl@hotmail. com • Set goals for 2015 & beyond. Craft your own custom vision board and learn how it can be a powerful tool for self growth • Mar 21, 12-4pm FARM ANIMAL RESCUE & REHOMING MOVEMENT • La Cite Francophone, 8627 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury NW • farrmrescue@ gmail.com • 780.717.2813/780.996.1709 • Live stand-up comedy, a big silent auction, and plenty of vegan hors-d'oeuvres to munch on. All of the proceeds will benefit FARRM and its (close to 60) rescued farm animal residents • Mar 20, 8pm • $35

HACKLAB STUDENT DEVELOPER CONFERENCE • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave NW • studentdevcon.com • A full-day intensive featuring talks, workshops and hands-on projects for developers at university and high school levels • Mar 21 • $35

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 SEEDY SUNDAY - GARDEN SEED EXCHANGE & SALE • Alberta Avenue Community Hall, 9210-118 Ave • EdmontonSeedySunday.org • Swap or donate your vegetable, fruit or flower seeds • Mar 22, 11am-4pm • Free (donations aceepted)

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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.

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CHAKRADANCE Workshop, March 25th, 7 to 9pm, $30.

Workshop West Playwrights Theatre. Come and look deeper into each of your chakras, and experience more within the dance that is uniquely yours. More information at spiritpathstudio.com.

Terrified of Public Speaking?

Join Toastmasters! Overcome fear of public speaking in a safe, supportive and friendly environment. Guests welcome.

Norwood Toastmasters, Norwood Legion. 11150-82 Street NW. Thursdays 7:30pm to 9:30pm. www.norwoodtoastmasters.ca

Wanted: Volunteers for our Long Term Care facility!

Individuals or groups welcome!

Vulnerable Sector search by EPS is required Please contact Janice Graff Volunteer Coordinator – Extendicare Eaux Claires for more information: 16503-95 Street, Edmonton jgraff@extendicare.com 780-472-1106 ext 202

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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.

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) -

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

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

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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.

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1st Assistant Director is required to assist Main Director on film project. The assistant must have experience working with Arriflex Film camera (and not a video camera).Travel is a must, as this project is filming in Jasper National Park (townsite). Some segments will be filmed in town. The Assistant may have to work on a tight schedule in the town of Jasper, as it gets busier in the summer months. The Assistant Director must be capable of directing actors according to the script. Non-union film project. FAVA members and former members, from the Edmonton FAVA film school, are welcome to apply for the 1st Assistant Film Director job.

If the Assistant Director has experience as a Location Manager and in producing; this would be helpful for Main Director Craig. This position as my Assistant Director is a demanding job; since the Main Director can’t always be there to organize the actors. For further information, e-mail Craig at crgsymonds49@gmail.com.

Phone 613-246-0164.

A Film Producer is urgently needed to assist Main Film Director with his film financing (example, Telefilm Canada).

For more information, please e-mail Craig at crgsymonds49@gmail.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.

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The Assistant Director must have Film Producing experience as he/she will be calculating the Films budget. If the Director has experience with being a Location Manager; this would be very beneficial for the Main film Director, since he doesn’t live in the. Jasper town area.

P.S. When an experienced Film director is chosen then the project starts. FAVA Edmonton members are very welcome to apply for position.

You can also Skype video the Main Director for more details crgsymonds49@gmail.com

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Mark (Sharky) Schauer plays pedal steel, DOBRO, lap steel, 5 string, and mandolin. Last employers were Ian Tyson and Tommy Hunter. Looking for full time road work and sessions.

Phone 403-638-3026 or 403-507-0712.

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ALBERTA’S OWN INDEPENDENT MUSIC FESTIVAL #14, AUG 14-16 @TAIL CREEK RACEWAYS IS NOW ACCEPTING BAND SUBMISSIONS FOR 2015 (must be original music). From all over CANADA. To apply send your EPK to albertasownads@gmail.com.

EPK must contain at least 3 original songs + bio and picture. Deadline for submissions by March 15, 2015. Check us out at albertasown.ca. Volunteers also needed.

Bassist, 53, needs lead instrumentalist for blues jamming 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

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Tools

Haussmann 12” compound dual bevel rail miter saw, 24” draw c/w stand. New $375.00.

Phone 587.520.9746. Leave message, no text.

MSA Dynalock 3/16 stainless steel self retractable lanyard 50ft certified 2013 $500 ph: 780.467.5658 or 587.520.9746. Leave message, not text.

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MSA Rose Dynevac Self retracting lanyard galvanized 3/16 cable 50 ft. with emergency rescuer.

Manufacturer date: 2002 $750 Ph: 780.467.8658 or 587.520.9746 North, self-latching cable sling, 6’ length, Model FP271HR/6, new style, visible cable inspection. $150.00 each.

Phone 587.520.9746. Leave message, no text.

Rigid 10” portable table saw, table extension c/w rolling stand. Comes in new box R4510. Lifetime warranty. $400. Phone 587.520.9746.

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ALBERTA-WIDE CLASSIFIEDS •• announcements •• SPRING SALE on now! Test your “Luck o the Amish” & get up to 20% off your Simply Amish furniture purchase.

Custom, solid hardwood, handcrafted, heirloom quality furniture. Simply Amish Edmonton, 780-701-0284.

•• auctions •• COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION. 5th Annual Edmonton Motor Show Collector Car Auction.

April 10 - 12. Edmonton Expo Centre. Over 80,000 spectators. Over 80% sold last year.

Consign today. 1-888-296-0528 ext. 102; EGauctions.com.

WHEATLAND AUCTIONS Spring Consignment Auction.

April 18, 10 a.m. in Cheadle, Alberta. Farm equipment, vehicles, heavy equipment, RVs, etc. Consign now!

Call 403-669-1109; www. wheatlandauctions.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.

HIGH CASH PRODUCING vending machines. $1.00 vend = .70 profit. All on location in your area. Selling due to illness.

Call 1-866-668-6629 for details.

•• career training •• MEDICAL TRAINEES needed now! Hospitals & doctor’s offices need certified medical office & administrative staff! No experience needed! We can get you trained! Local job placement assistance available when training is completed. Call for program details! 1-888-627-0297.

Saturday 10 - 5 p.m.; Sunday 10 - 4 p.m., 111 Ave. & 113 St., Edmonton. Stamps for sale, junior table, exhibits; www. edmontonstampclub.com.

•• employment •• opportunities HIGHWAY MAINTENANCE Class 1 or 3 Operators. Fulltime and Part-time positions available. Openings in several Alberta areas. Fax resume to Carillion Canada 780-4490574 or email: mcroft@ carillionalberta.ca. Positions to start April, 2015. Please state what position and location you are interested in.

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WILD ORCHID SALON & Spa, Jasper, Alberta seeking Licensed Hairstylists & Registered Massage Therapists!

Accommodation available, travel & bonus incentives.

Please send resume & references to: info@wildorchidjasper.com; www.wildorchidjasper.com. 780-852-2111.

EDMONTON STAMP CLUB .

2015 Spring National Stamp Show. March 28 - 29. Central Lion’s Recreational Centre.

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION is an in-demand career in Canada!

Employers have work-athome positions available. Get

the online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep. ca/MT or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your work-at-home career today!

JOURNALISTS, Graphic Artists, Marketing and more. Alberta’s weekly newspapers are looking for people like you. Post your resume online. Free. Visit: awna.com/for-job-seekers.

•• equipment •• for sale A-STEEL SHIPPING Dry Storage Containers. Used 20’ & 40’ Seacans high cube & insulated containers 40’ HC. Winter Specials in stock now. Self unloading delivery.

Phone toll free 1-866-5287108; www.rtccontainer.com.

•• for sale •• 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.

STEEL BUILDINGS - “Spring Sales with Hot Savings!” All steel building models and sizes are now on sale. Get your building deal while it’s hot. Pioneer Steel 1-800-6685422; www.pioneersteel.ca.

SAWMILLS from only $4,397.

Make money & save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & dvd: www.

NorwoodSawmills.com/400OT. 1-800-566-6899 ext. 400OT. 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.

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.

•• manufactured •• homes 75 HOMES BUILT and ready for delivery. Take an additional $5,000 - $7,500 off all stock.

20’ X 76’ models, loaded with options. Toll free 1-855-4630084; www.jandelhomes.com.

CHOOSE FROM 8 Brand New Triple M 20x76 kitchen special spec manufactured homes starting at $138,500 and save over $5000! For more information call United Homes Canada 1-800-4617632 or visit our site at www. unitedhomescanada.com.

•• real estate •• EXECUTIVE BUNGALOW 3842+/- sq. ft. on 33.98 title acres & 5.50 Acre Lot w/32, 440+/- sq. ft. Commercial Industrial Buildings. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Unreserved Auction, May 7, Getkate Property near Lethbridge, Alberta.

Jerry Hodge: 780-706-6652; rbauction.com/realestate.

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CRIMINAL RECORD? Think: Canadian pardon.

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

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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.

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): You're entering a time and space known as the Adlib Zone. In this territory, fertile chaos and inspirational uncertainty are freely available. Improvised formulas will generate stronger mojo than timeworn maxims. Creativity is de rigueur, and street smarts count for more than book learning. May I offer some mottos to live by when "common sense" is inadequate? 1) Don't be a slave to necessity. 2) Be as slippery as you can be and still maintain your integrity. 3) Don't just question authority; be thrilled about every chance you get to also question habit, tradition, fashion, trendiness, apathy, and dogma.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): By 1993, rock band Guns N' Roses had released five successful albums. But on the way to record its next masterpiece, there were numerous delays and diversions.

Band members feuded, and some were fired while others departed.

Eventually, only one original member remained to bring the task to conclusion, with the help of new musicians. The sixth album, Chinese Democracy, finally emerged in 2008. I'm seeing a similarity between Guns N' Roses' process and one of your ongoing projects, Taurus. The good news is that I think most of the hassles and delays are behind you, or will be if you act now. You're primed to make a big push toward the finish line.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): The anonymous blogger at neurolove.me gives advice on how to love a Gemini: "Don't get impatient with their distractibility. Always make time for great conversation.

Be understanding when they're moody. Help them move past their insecurities, and tell them it's not their job to please everyone. Let them have space but never let them be lonely." I endorse all that good counsel, and add this: "To love Geminis, listen to them attentively,

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and with expansive flexibility. Don't try to force them to be consistent; encourage them to experiment at uniting their sometimes conflicting urges. As best as you can, express appreciation not just for the parts of them that are easy to love but also for the parts that are not yet ripe or charming." Now feel free, Gemini, to show this horoscope to those whose affection you want.

think that some of life's troubles also come from saying no too much and not saying yes enough.)

But for you, Virgo, Billings' advice will be especially pertinent in the coming weeks. In fact, my hypothesis is that you will be able to keep your troubles to a minimum and boost your progress to a maximum by being frugal with yes and ample with no.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): You have recently been to the mountaintop, at least metaphorically.

Right? You wandered out to the high frontier and ruminated on the state of your fate from the most expansive vista you could find. Right? You have questioned the limitations you had previously accepted, and you have weaned yourself from at least one of your devitalizing comforts, and you have explored certain possibilities that had been taboo. Right? So what comes next? Here's what I suggest: start building a new framework or structure or system that will incorporate all that you've learned during your break.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): Your mind says, "I need more room to move. I've got to feel free to experiment." Your heart says, "I think maybe I need more commitment and certainty." Your astrologer suggests, "Be a bit more skeptical about the dream lover who seems to be interfering with your efforts to bond with the Real Thing." I'm not sure which of these three sources you should heed, Libra.

Do you think it might somehow be possible to honor them all? I invite you to try.

LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): According to the international code of food standards, there are 13 possible sizes for an olive. They include large, extra large, jumbo, extra jumbo, giant, colossal, super colossal, mammoth and super mammoth. If I had my way, Leo, you would apply this mind-set to everything you do in the coming weeks.

It's time for you to think very big.

You will thrive as you expand your mind, stretch your boundaries, increase your territory, amplify your self-expression, magnify your focus and broaden your innocence.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): "Half the troubles of this life can be traced to saying yes too quickly and not saying no soon enough," proclaimed humorist Josh Billings. That's an exaggeration made for comic effect, of course. (And I

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): "Without your wound where would your power be?" asked writer Thornton Wilder. "The very angels themselves cannot persuade the wretched and blundering children on earth as can one human being broken on the wheels of living."

Let's make that one of your ongoing meditations, Scorpio. I think the coming weeks will be an excellent time to come to a greater appreciation for your past losses. What capacities has your suffering given birth to? What failures have made you stronger? What crucial lessons and unexpected benefits have emerged from your sadness and madness?

long haul, the more important factors are self-discipline, organized thinking, hard work and attention to detail. And yet inspiration isn't irrelevant, either. Brainstorms and periodic leaps of insight can be highly useful. That's a good reminder as you enter a phase when you're likely to be more imaginative and original than usual. I expect creative excitement to be a regular visitor.

a lot of French with my Parisian girlfriend, but my skill faded after we broke up. So I'm not bilingual in the usual sense. But I do have some mastery in the language of music, thanks to my career as a singer-songwriter. Having raised a daughter, I also learned to converse in the language of children.

And I've remembered and worked with my nightly dreams every day for decades, so I speak the language of dreams. What about you, Aquarius? In the coming weeks, I bet you'll be challenged to make more extensive use of one of your second languages. It's time to be adaptable and resourceful in your approach to communication.

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It looked like a dirty mime show without the makeup.

I had find out more, so I tracked down Brock LaBorde, co-producer of Air Sex. "Air Sex is more than just a sexy comedy show," he explains. "It's a sex-positive exploration of humanity wrapped up in a party. It's a rolling circus that provides a safe place for self-expression."

Tim League, who was a producer of air-guitar competitions, came up with the idea in 2009 after seeing a news show about lonely men in Japanese bars acting out sex with imaginary people. After comedian Chris Trew performed at one of the competitions and fell in love with the idea, the two decided to take the show and host competitions in bars across America.

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I'm a straight guy in my 30s dating a woman in her mid-20s. We've been together for a year, and I'm crazy about her. In love, even. She's gorgeous, sweet, kind, loving and very sexual. She's perfect. In her late teens and early 20s, she had a wild sex life.

She attended sex parties, had loads of NSA hookups, sexted with random guys she met online, etc. She revealed this to me slowly and carefully out of fear that I'd look down on her, but what she didn't know is that I have an intense cuckold interest. I've asked her, ad nauseam, for every detail she can recall about these encounters.

The ones centering on "alpha jocks" with extremely large cocks are the ones I enjoy most. I'm a nerdy guy, definitely not muscular or athletic. I have intense fantasies of some alpha male taking her away from me, or catching her with a hot young soccer player or a good-looking musician— any guy at the top of the social pile.

The idea of watching her have sex with one of them is exhilarating. But it's also gut-wrenching. I haven't told her how much I would like her to go through with an actual hookup.

However, I'm certain this would not be well-received on her part; she's made it clear that she's not proud of her wild past. To complicate this, my interest in cuckolding does not come from a healthy place. I experienced a series of rejections in my late teens and early 20s, all of which involved being outclassed by better guys. The first girl I was ever in love with, who kept stringing me along, had sex with another guy while talking to me on the phone. She went into detail about how huge his penis was, how good it felt and so forth, while I shook with envy and misery and excitement. It was a terrible, traumatizing experience, but now it rules my sexual fantasies. Is it OK to indulge an interest that likely stems from a traumatic experience? (Assuming she's willing.)

idea of how receptive she would be to cuckolding you. If sharing stories about her past makes her feel sexy (because the encounters were hot) and it feels meaningful (because the stories enhance your sexual connection), then your girlfriend might be open to the idea of coming home with a brand-new story to tell you.

Or she might not. Like I said, you need to check in with her.

As for you, HURTME, your erotic imagination seized on that experience—that cruel girl on the phone—and through a mysterious process that sex researchers don't quite understand, your mildly-towildly traumatizing early sexual experience emerged in adulthood as a full-blown kink. There may be other boys out there who had the exact same experience—that girl could have had other victims—who don't have any interest in being cuckolded.

setting—they're promising not to fuck other people. But both will still wanna fuck other people. If you can't see yourself sleeping with just one man for the rest of your life—or being in a relationship with just one man at a time—then a monogamous commitment isn't for you, POLY. And if the man you're with wants a monogamous commitment—if being with him means you can't sleep with other men—then he might not be for you either.

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I'm a gay man married to a wonderful man. For most of our 12-year relationship, we've had a boring sexual script that is all about him getting blown. He just doesn't seem interested in much else, and although we've talked about it over the years, nothing has really changed. He is selfish in bed. He's a wonderful husband otherwise, and I love him deeply. Recently, he was out of town, and in a weak moment, I ended up meeting an experienced spanking Dom. We've met several times, and I'm counting the days until he whales on my butt again. Not in my wildest imagination could or would my husband EVER do something like this with me. He just doesn't have it in him. I am more sexually fulfilled than I have been in a decade. I'm also lying and cheating.

I'm deeply torn. If I tell my husband, my guess is that he won't take it well.

It could cause our marriage to unravel. If I keep lying, I bear the moral burden of the lie, and he could find out anyway.

We all have sexual limits, we're all entitled to our sexual limits, but expecting your spouse to do nothing but blow you for 12 years isn't a limit.

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First things first, HURTME: Your girlfriend can't put this period of her life behind her—all those hung alpha jocks, all those NSA hookups—while she's with a man who demands to have every last detail recounted ad nauseam. So you might wanna check in with your gorgeous, sweet, kind, etc girlfriend before she decides to put you behind her, too. It's possible she enjoys sharing her stories with you because your enjoyment makes her feel better about those experiences in retrospect; all those meaningless sexual encounters now mean something because they enhance the relationship she's in.

Checking in with her about how she's feeling will give you a better

The alchemy of kinks isn't fully understood.

There's only one way to find out if you would enjoy being cuckolded, HURTME, and that's to do it. But there are three questions (at least) that you need to ask yourself before you act: Have you built a firewall between your sense of your own sexual desirability and your kink, a kink that's about your eroticized fear of sexual inadequacy and not your actual sexual inadequacy? (You landed a gorgeous, sweet, kind, loving and very sexual girlfriend—you're clearly more than adequate!) Are you sure you won't wind up in the fetal position on the floor after your girlfriend fucks some alpha stud? And if you do react badly, if being cuckolded in reality is painful, not sexy, can you process your feelings without lashing out at or slut-shaming your girlfriend?

A few sessions with a kink-positive shrink might help you answer those questions. You can find one through the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors and Therapists (aasect.org).

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We all have sexual limits, we're all entitled to our sexual limits, but expecting your spouse to do nothing but blow you for 12 years isn't a limit. It's bullshit, SPANK. Your husband's complete disregard for your feelings—for your sense of sexual fulfillment—tips over into the sexual abandonment category.

His actions don't excuse your affair, of course, but horniness, frustration and duress drove you to this, and your husband has to take his share of the responsibility. You say your marriage might unravel if you were to tell your husband about this spanking. But whatever the fallout might be—the end of your marriage or renegotiated terms that allow you to get some/most of your needs met elsewhere—is better than the status quo. Tell him.

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