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FRONT POLITICAL INTERFERENCE

NEWS EDITOR: REBECCA MEDEL REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Prentice budget a missed opportunity The provincial government will run a $5-billion deficit, despite increased taxes It was supposed to be a historic budget. It was supposed to restore balance, stability and sustainability to our province's finances. It was supposed to ensure that all Albertans were contributing adequately and fairly to the cost of the infrastructure and services we rely on. However, it was none of those things.

What we got instead was some fiddling on the edges in the shortterm and a long-term strategy, once again, based on little more than hope that the price of oil will rise back to at least $82 US a barrel in four years.

Premier Jim Prentice had a golden opportunity to get it right. For the first time in decades Albertans were ready and willing to talk about fair and progressive taxes, increased corporate taxes, removing the natural-resource revenues from the government's books and putting a long-term savings strategy in place.

A government genuinely committed to the public interest and the province's long-term well-being could have easily done all those things.

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Instead of meaningful changes to the income-tax system, however, the government limited itself to charging an extra 0.5 percent per year for income over $100 000 until the rate hits 1.5 percent in three years, and the tax on income over $250 000 will slowly increase to 12 percent, but only for three years, and then it will drop back down to 11.5 percent.

In other words, instead of a truly graduated system, which could have generated billions in revenue each year, Prentice opted for a barely progressive system that will result in no extra funds this year, $330 million more next year and $730 million more in 2018 – 2019.

That's significantly less than the $6.4 billion that could have been generated simply by returning to the personal and corporate income tax rates in place before 2000.

In order to avoid fixing Alberta's tax system, the government opted to increase taxes on alcohol, cigarettes and gas, introduce a new health levy and charge more for everything from birth certificates and marriage licenses to death certificates.

But even all of that was nowhere near enough to compensate for the

million from Albertans this year, ostensibly for health care, while the government actually cuts the health-care budget. In other words, Albertans will be paying more for health care and getting less of it.

Perhaps the biggest indicator of the government's absolute failure on the budget file is the fact that, despite all the changes above, the government will still run a $5-billion deficit this fiscal year. That deficit is the direct result of the Conservative's reluctance to properly tax wealthy Albertans and absolute refusal to make corporations pay their fair share for the services and infrastructure they benefit from.

So how then, you might ask, does the government plan to make good on its promise to balance the books in three years and move toward

Albertans will be paying more for healthcare and getting less of it. government's failure vis a vis income and corporate taxes. Overall spending was cut by $0.3 billion from last year, meaning a cut of almost five percent once population growth and inflation are factored in. Hardest hit, as always, are education, post-secondary education and health care. Yes, that's right, the new so-called health-care levy will raise an additional $396

spending only 50 percent of natural-resource revenues? Well, in keeping with long-established Conservative tradition, the "strategy" appears to be hope that oil prices go up and pipelines get approved.

If either of those things fail to happen, then we will be right back where we currently are.

Ultimately, the budget achieved nothing that the government claimed it would. It did not reduce our dependency on volatile oil prices, it did not fix our flawed revenue and tax system, and it did nothing to improve long-term fiscal stability or sustainability. Somehow, Prentice and the Conservatives still plan to use this budget as the base for their election platform, and sadly, Albertans will likely reward their failure with yet another healthy majority. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Intergalactic pirates again

Astronomers debate if we should announce "we're here" to the universe I really liked the furious debate that broke out recently among astronomers about whether we should send out signals to the universe saying "we're here." It implicitly assumes that somehow, if your science is really advanced, then interstellar travel is possible.

I like it because I hate the idea that the human race will never be able to go beyond this little planetary system "far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy," as Douglas Adams put it in his Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

We need somebody to do to Einstein's physics what Einstein did to Newton's. But while we're waiting for that, it's good to know that some quite grown-up scientists (astronomers, not physicists, admittedly, but I'll take whatever I can get) think it's worth having a debate about whether we should take the risk of letting all the aliens know we are here.

I missed the debate when it took place at the American Association for the Advancement of Science's annual conference in San Jose last month because I was on Mars at the time. (Well, somewhere that felt quite like Mars, anyway.) But here's a couple of quotes to give the flavour of it.

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"Any society that could come here and ruin our whole day by incinerating the planet already knows we are here," said Dr Seth Shostak, senior astronomer and director at the Center for SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) Research in California.

Not so fast, said space scientist and science-fiction writer David Brin. "The arrogance of shouting into the cosmos without any proper risk assessment defies belief.

It is a course that would put our grandchildren at risk," he noted. If we send them messages, they may come here and enslave us. Or just eat us.

Now, the traditional way to shut this debate down is to point out that we've already been sending out radio and television signals for 100 years. Therefore, any intergalactic pirates within 100 light-years of here already know where we are. But it turns out that this isn't actually true: our radio and television signals begin to fade into the background radio static beyond

about one light-year away.

Since the nearest star is more than four light-years away, there's not much chance that the Klingons or Vogons or whomever you're worried about knows we're here yet. (And there goes the plot of Galaxy Quest.)

However, powerful radar signals of the kind that we have been us-

other stars—for more than 40 years already, using large radio telescopes that can pick up very faint signals. But there are quite strict rules about who should reply if they do get a message.

The First Protocol, drafted by the International Academy of Astronautics SETI Panel in 1989, says that "no transmission in response to a signal or other evidence of extraterrestrial i n te l l i g e n c e should be sent until appropriate international consultations have taken place." But the advocates of "active SETI" want to scrap that and send out an "all call" to the universe.

One of the reasons the debate has become more heated is that we now know planets are as common as dirt. It's only 20 years since the first confirmed discovery of an "exoplane," but now we know of 1906 of them, mostly orbiting relatively nearby stars and a very small proportion showing Earth-like characteristics. (But the actual number

Now, the traditional way to shut this debate down is to point out that we’ve already been sending out radio and television signals for 100 years. ing to map the surface of other planets and moons in our own system travel a very long way, and we've already been sending them out for over 20 years. They don't carry much information—they just say, "somebody here can generate microwave radiation"—but just that might be enough to attract unwelcome attention.

This new debate is actually about "active SETI." We have been doing "passive SETI"—listening for messages from civilizations around

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of Earth-like planets may be much higher, since it's a lot easier to find gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn.)

There are probably hundreds of thousands of planets in our vicinity (there are 260 000 stars within 250 light-years). If even a mere few thousand of them are Earth-like, then it is imaginable that somebody might come calling in response to the messages we send—if, and only if, it is possible to travel at near- or trans-light speeds.

Nobody knows how light-speed travel could be done, and our current understanding of physics says that it can't be done. But this would be a very silly debate if scientists were really all convinced that there is no possibility of getting around the current speed limit.

They will never say that it might be possible, because they cannot suggest how it might be done, and the risk to their reputations would be extreme. But they are quite happy to engage in a debate that would be totally irrelevant if they didn't think there is a chance that we—or some other civilisation in our galactic vicinity—will eventually figure out how to do it. And that cheers me up considerably. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

NEWS // TUITION

Provincial funding cuts to post-secondary potentially sets up a deeper gouge of students' wallets

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ne week after the provincial budget was announced, indicating a $5-billion revenue deficit for the province, there's relief among some university administration that post-secondary education in Alberta wasn't hit quite as hard as expected.

But it's not entirely clear if such relief is warranted.

In 2015 – 16, the Campus Alberta Grant will be reduced by $28 million, just 1.4 percent. Compared to the general expectation among many students that the cuts would be much worse, and compared to the nearly seven-percent cut in 2013, 1.4 percent sounds like an encouraging number to University of Alberta president Indira Samarasekera.

"I was incredibly pleased that they hadn't taken any major cuts this year," Samarasekera says. "For me, what was really important was that it was a signal that the government really values postsecondary education, and in this very tough economic climate, that they really spared the post-secondary sector [from] deep cuts. It was very encouraging and very forward-looking."

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But that 1.4 percent is slated to be followed by a further 2.7-percent drop in 2016 – 17, as part of Alberta Premier Jim Prentice's five-year plan to cut back on post-secondary education's reliance on government funding. The budget also includes an increase to student-loan limits and a drop in student bursaries that are currently offered.

Navneet Khinda, Vice-President (External) of the U of A's Students' Union, was expecting much deeper cuts, but she is still concerned with the announced budget and what the implications of this announcement are for future years. The stated intention to move away from the traditional model of relying on public funding raised a "huge red flag," in Khinda's opinion, about accessibility and affordability for students in the next few years.

"When you look at the changes to the loan program, they've added a lot more money to that, but to me that means they're indicating that students will be taking on more loans, because costs will

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Tax the corporations Who is the Alberta Advantage for?

The 2015 budget shows that it's not for you and me, buddy, unless you happen to be a big-ass corporation or oilsands producer.

Alberta's finance department proudly posted this after the budget: "When all Budget 2015 tax measures are fully implemented, Alberta will continue to maintain a tax advantage of at least $9.4 billion."

Hooray! Our province pays $9.4 billion less in taxes. Wait, we just

cut $323 million, mostly from our struggling hospitals and schools, and we're still running a $5-billion deficit?

About a third of Alberta's tax revenues come from corporate taxes. Our province has the lowest corporate tax rate in the country, whittled from 15.5 percent in 2000 down to the current 10 percent in 2006. A pre-budget survey saw 69 percent of Albertans supported increasing corporate taxes.

Historically, the PCs have used oil

revenues to finance our famously low taxes: no PST, no payroll tax, lowest fuel tax and the lowest taxes for the highest earners. Well, resource revenues were about $9 billion annually since 2009; for 2015-16 they're predicted to be $3 billion.

Next year, with the low price of oil and our anemic royalty rates, we're expecting to collect less than $2 per barrel of oilsands crude. That's pathetic. Of course, the government won't raise oil

royalty rates because, well, we're owned by the oil industry.

The argument against raising corporate taxes is that those big companies will move to a lowertax regime. Good luck. Alberta's corporate tax rate is the lowest in Canada and the United States. Jack it up a percentage point, like BC did—with a net gain of $250 million annual revenue while generating 12 200 new jobs—and we'd still have the lowest corporate tax rate in the country.

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Would corporations grumble?

Yes. Would it affect small businesses? No, because companies earning less than $500 000 get taxed at a much lower rate. Can we afford to keep subsidizing corporations with North America's lowest taxes? The budget proved we cannot.

It's perverse that Big Business can make huge profits while our hospitals and classrooms burst at the seams. Tax the corporations. V

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be increasing," Khinda says. "At the end of the day, they're just letting students take on more debt.

"They're talking about decreasing reliance on government revenue, from government funding, and increasing reliance on other sources of revenue, particularly tuition," she continues. "Even though they're not getting rid of the tuition cap this year, I think they're setting the stage for getting rid of it in the following years. I think it's pretty blatant, given their language."

That tuition cap has been the focal point of concern over the budget in the weeks leading up to its announcement. Rumours swirled all year that the cap, just like anything else, was on the table to be cut from this year's budget. Currently, Albertan tuition is restricted to increase at the rate of

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FRONT inflation, but that cap is set to expire in 2016. This is a troubling prospect for Khinda, who pointed out that the U of A is the fourth-highest university in the country when it comes to fees and tuition combined.

Samarasekera is all for looking for

university. She's supportive of more needs-based resources for students who otherwise couldn't afford an education.

"Maybe we need to have a conversation about what's an appropriate level of tuition ... because we've nev-

Even though they're not getting rid of the tuition cap this year, I think they're setting the stage for getting rid of it in the following years. alternate sources of revenue for the university. She says she would like to see some "relaxation" on the rules regarding cost of courses that aren't typical undergraduate programs, but are more professional graduate courses. Another strategy is to better engage alumni to donate back to the

er really had it," Samarasekera adds.

"The view is that we need to look at the student debt issue—how many students end up in debt—but at this point in time, less than half the students who graduate should have any debt at all. Many of them work during the summer and cover their cost."

The worst potential outcome for the U of A is if the expiration of the tuition cap and elimination of several courses or programs, leading to a less accessible, lower-quality education.

Samarasekera is hopeful that the provincial government's support for education will help the U of A reach her longtime goal of making the U of A one of the top-ranked universities in the world, but this will be a difficult task for David H Turpin, the U of A's incoming president, if vital programs or staff members are lost.

"It might be too early to tell, but I do think students will see a lower quality of education. It's either lower quality or higher cost, and neither are good prospects for us," Khinda says.

"We'll have to see how these cuts will be manifested. Last time, it was less options for courses and higher fees, and it might be the same thing again."

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COVER // SPRING FASHION

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ocated in the art deco storefront of the Graphic Arts building on the east end of Jasper Avenue is Local Gifts, a boutique shop specializing in the weird and wonderful. Vintage clothing, locally made art and accessories are just a few things you might happen to find inside.

VUE WEEKLY: Where did the idea for

Local Gifts come from?

NICKELAS JOHNSON: We started conceiving of Local Gifts a number of years ago out of a kind of perceived necessity. I want to live in a city that has a shop like ours, a place more defined by esthetics than by consistent items; a place to go when you're not looking for anything specific but want to find a thing that'll inspire or excite you. We wanted to contribute positively to our community and thought a tactile little storefront, like an old general store, might be more inviting than another gallery. I guess we got tired of waiting for someone with more business savvy to open it, so when we were offered the beautiful space we have now for a price that allowed us to take a chance, we decided to go for it.

VW: Who is Local Gifts?

NJ: Local Gifts is Candice Kelly, Matt

Prins, Cole Kushner, Nickelas Johnson and all the artists whose work we're lucky to sell through our little shop.

VW: What sort of items do you carry?

NJ: The name is as tongue-in-cheek

as it is blunt and factual in that we carry mostly art and items produced and discovered locally, but we also offer the things that we don't generally find locally—like the weirder comics on my Amazon wish list that I'd like to walk into a joint and pe-

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ruse with my real-world hands and senses. We carry carefully chosen vintage clothes, art prints and paintings, ceramics, comic books, woodworking and furniture, moustache wax— whatever oddball things we can and want to fit into the place.

VW: What do you look for when you are curating your vintage selection?

CANDICE KELLY: I look for natural fibres (wool, silk and linen, especially), and classic styles; pieces that are versatile and can work with a modern wardrobe—casual, everyday wearable things as opposed to more formal/ special-occasion pieces. I try and pick things that don't require foundation garments for most women to squeeze into them. Girdle-free dressing.

VW: What sort of spring pieces can we expect to find in-store?

CK: Spring in Edmonton means layering, so you can expect to see a lot of light jackets and sweaters for men and women. Pieces like sleeveless dresses that can be worn over T-shirts or button-ups, lots of light, pastel and neutral colours, and so much denim as well as sneakers and sandals—things you can wear while riding your bike. And, of course, some nice floral prints and stripes.

VW: What are your spring go-tos?

CK: Denim is a constant for me once

the weather lightens up, and vintage denim is the best: denim jackets, longer denim wrap skirts, shorter denim A-line skirts and denim jumpers are all go-tos. Double denim, I'm into it.

Lightweight knits, linen and silk pieces in simple shapes and light colours as well.

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DISH

DISH EDITOR: MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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ore often than not, combination meals do not redound to the bold eater's benefit. Designed ostensibly to give the diner—or group of diners—a little of everything from a selection-intensive menu, combo meals often steer the restaurant patron to the most pedestrian choices, substituting variety for novelty and relying on lowest-common-denominator standbys.

This cannot be said of the delightful—if slightly careworn—Million Thai, which you'll find if you go far enough east on 118 Avenue in the historical neighbourhood of Beverly. It's careworn in the sense that Thai is just the latest veneer applied to its obviously wellutilized strip-mall space, the murky butterscotch paint and Siamese bric-a-brac not quite concealing the proliferation of nail holes and screw anchors that have served previous masters.

But if you want splendid surroundings, try Thailand. Million Thai gives you the almost-next-best thing—really good Thai food—and expedites this with the "Dinner for Four - Set C" ($65), because you should never go for Thai food with fewer than four people so that many dishes may be shared. Rather than giv-

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ing you a set menu of four or five selections, Million Thai offers five courses (plus rice) with room to choose from up to 10 selections in most categories.

Considering that the average Thai entrée goes for $15 – $20, this is, in fact, a bargain.

Well, it's a bargain if the food is ample.

I wasn't so sure at first. The "Million Thai Platter," your only choice of appetizer in the set meal, contains flavourful lemongrass sausage, crunchy and extremely fresh (read: blisteringly hot) spring rolls and parcels of minced pork (called "money bags"), chicken satay skewers with peanut sauce and coconut-crusted deep-fried prawns. But only two of each item are offered, so you either have to undertake negotiations or settle for a bite of each.

But if I was concerned my group might still be hungry at the end of the meal, my fears were soon allayed as our cheerful and attentive server made it rain Thai food. The serving of sweet, savoury pad thai with tender pork, covered with fresh bean sprouts and chopped peanuts (and booby-trapped with pockets of crushed red chilies around the edges)

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wasn't huge, but then came the chickencashew stir fry in a soy-based sauce laced with garlic and tossed with basil, still-crisp peppers, zucchini, carrots and onions, followed by green curry with beef, some of the same veggies and tender slices of simmered gourd. The basilscented coconut sauce was so delicious I would have been happy to eat just a dish of that with rice.

Last, but by no means least, was the glass noodle seafood salad, comprising translucent ribbons of noodle flecked with shredded carrot, chopped tomato, onion, mint and chilies, wrapped around plump prawns, chewy segments of squid and succulent mussels, and spiked with garlic, fish sauce and lime. This was the most potently spicy of the dishes and seemingly the favourite among my co-diners, in a tightly contested race.

In short, it was a terrific, satisfying meal—and all the more extraordinary for coming in around $20 per person before tax and tip. It completely redeemed the notion of a combo dinner in my eyes and put Beverly back on my radar as home to eateries of interest.

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Craft beer: where does Alberta stand?

Benchmarking Alberta beer against the rest of North America How does Edmonton's beer culture compare to other places across North America?

As Vue's beer columnist, it is my job to tell you about all the great craft-beer scenes across the continent: Portland, San Diego, Vancouver, Montréal. I talk about these places for a reason, because they have nurtured a diverse and lively beer scene that provides consumers with lots of great beer choices.

But I am also an Edmonton boy, and I spend a lot of energy engaging in our local beer culture as well.

I am often asked how we stack up compared to other places. In terms of overall beer culture, we have a long way to go. There are not enough local breweries and not enough beer bars that take craft beer seriously; quality, local craft beer is still a niche item in our city.

That assessment is based on my qualitative analysis after visiting some of the best beer cities in North America. Recently, I decided to test my theories by looking at some hard numbers. There are no city-by-city statistics readily available, so I had to resort to provincial and statelevel data. The results are simultaneously predictable and surprising.

The first thing I discovered is that Canada actually stands up quite well to our southern neighbour.

The US naturally blows us away in terms of the sheer number of breweries: the country has more than 2800, compared to about 440 in Canada. However, if you factor in population differences, Canada actually has more breweries per capita: 1.2 per person in Canada versus 0.9 per person in the US. Of course, our craft breweries are much smaller and sell less beer than our American counterparts.

US craft breweries capture nine percent of the beer market, while best estimates put Canadian craft beer at roughly half that level.

How does Alberta rate in this picture? Unfortunately, not so well. Among Canadian provinces, Alberta—with less than 0.4 breweries per capita—rates second-last in terms of breweries per capita, beating out only Manitoba. Unsurprisingly, BC (2.2), Quebec (1.3) and Ontario (1.2) are ahead of Alberta, but even Nova Scotia (2.1), New Brunswick (1.6) and the Northwest Territories (1.7) also leave us in the dust. If we benchmark Alberta against North America, we are in the 59th spot out of 62 total jurisdictions, ahead of only Manitoba, Louisiana and Mississippi.

is maximizing profit rather than consumer choice.

Then there is the plethora of imports. A wide selection of import beer is, in many ways, a good thing: it allows us access to some of the best beers around the world. However, Alberta makes it stunningly easy to list a beer in the province.

Basically, $50 and a two-page form are enough to access our liquor stores. This ease creates enormous competitive pressure and makes it much, much harder for local brewers to sell their product, depressing interest in starting new breweries.

The final factor is the Alberta gov-

ernment's complete lack of interest in building a craft-beer industry.

Provinces like BC and Ontario actively work with local breweries to promote and market local craft beer, creating incentives to bolster consumer interest in local beer.

They do this because they understand that craft beer creates jobs and economic activity; it is money created locally and spent locally.

The Alberta government doesn't understand this. They reject any such proactive measures due to the dogma that the market must be left alone, claiming it is not their job to interfere with market forces.

Now, things may change soon. I am aware of at least eight breweries in Alberta that are currently in the planning stages and hope to open sometime in the next year.

This would almost double Alberta's numbers and bring us into the middle of the Canadian pack. Of course, a brewery is not worth much until it actually starts rolling beer off the line, so we have to wait and see if these all come to fruition.

The reasons for Alberta's laggard status are multi-fold. Part of the problem is that Albertans' inherent conservative culture holds the beer industry back. We haven't fully embraced local in terms of food, businesses or beer; we still gravitate to the reliable but boring chains and macro beers. This culture makes it harder to create space for a new, small brewery.

Alberta's privatized liquor retail system doesn't help, either. There is no central purchasing agent; craft breweries have to persuade thousands of independent liquor-store owners to carry their product— a very resource-heavy task. Plus, most of those stores are either small mom-and-pop shops with little shelf space, or part of the three big liquor-store chains, which focus

By not prioritizing local breweries, they relegate local production to the margins.

Alberta and Edmonton may lag behind other regions in terms of craft beer, but it is not because of bad luck or bad beer. It is due to a combination of bad government policy and a hesitant marketplace. But regardless of what our government does, it can change—and hopefully it will, sooner rather than later. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer. org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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Until Sun, Apr 19 (8 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by Bradley Moss The Backstage Theatre (north side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns), $15 – $29 A different sort of battle // Ian Jackson, EPIC Photography

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n a lot of plays you get good versus evil or right versus wrong," Eva Foote says. "But the most powerful drama is right versus right."

To that effect, Armstrong's War isn't interested in heroes or villains, but in the human beings who are left broken in the wreckage of big dramatic stories—people who want to be good and right, even as the scars they bear bring them into conflict with the people who can help them.

"This story is different from American Sniper," Jamie Cavanagh says. "It's different from The Hurt Locker in that it takes the glory out. It's not about feeling good about the things you did, and it's not about being treated like a hero. It's about your own struggle."

Both Foote, who plays a 12-year-old Pathfinder on the hunt for her next badge, and Cavanagh, in the role of a 21-year-old soldier who's recently returned from Afghanistan, describe

this struggle as the daily battle of living with trauma.

"They're two people coming from totally different stories who are fighting desperately for a really similar thing," Foote says.

Theatre Network couldn't have chosen a more timely moment to open this play. The House of Commons is embroiled in a debate about extending our wars in Iraq and Syria, and

every week brings a new story about veterans' pensions and disability payments. But Armstrong's War is concerned less with political decisions than with the personal consequences that people suffer from them. The actors note that the play doesn't offer any grand, sweeping solutions to the problems of war and its ugly aftermath; it only shows the strategies that survivors need to deploy to go on living the rest of their lives.

"We can't destroy an insurgency," Cavanagh says. "The best we can do is separate it and marginalize it.

And the same goes for our trauma.

It's not about us leaving being like, 'Yeah, we're better now; we won over our trauma.' It's about dealing with your problem. It's going to be there for the rest of your life. You just learn to live with it."

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ho says you can't mix improv with dance, masks and drag?

This year marks the fourth incarnation of the Bonfire Festival, Rapid Fire Theatre's annual showcase of new and experimental types of longform improv. The entrants include a handful of local guest artists who will cross their artistic genres with improvisation, including Gerry Morita of Mile Zero Dance and clown/ mask guru Jan Henderson; some shows will also feature local drag artists and musicians.

Tim Mikula has performed with Rapid Fire since 2007 and has participated in past Bonfires. This year he's embarking on what he describes as an "insane experiment"—a 35-minute lighting fade.

"We have it set up so there will be some kind of monumental event happening when total blackness hits, but

as for the story, it's going to be improvised," Mikula says. "We haven't ran it on the stage with the actual slow fade, so the first time the performers experience it will be when they're performing the show on that Saturday night."

Mikula and some fellow Rapid Fire performers were inspired to try an extended slow fade after doing a two-minute version at the Vancouver Sketch Comedy Festival this past January.

"I'm mostly just curious to see if a 35-minute slow fade is even perceptible," he says. "Or if it will be more like—you know, how when it goes from dusk to night time, you don't notice."

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have a small flashlight and a moveable spotlight. Mikula notes that this form—like the other shows at Bonfire—requires the improvisers to step outside their comfort zones and examine their unconscious tendencies and stage habits.

"We've been working really hard on building a dynamic, interactive environment because, by the time we hit substantial darkness, it's more or less up to the audience's imagination," Mikula explains. "That's not necessarily something that we always focus on, in Rapid Fire—we're a very dialoguedriven company. One of the challenges has been getting in our heads that off the top of the show, the building, the location and the environment take precedence over any story that we're trying to tell."

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“verbal fireworks… the virtuoso wordplay is a delight.” GLOBE AND MAIL

“Winners and Losers is the kind of play that makes you want TIME OUT, NEW YORK to talk and, better still, to listen.”

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Two friends play a simple game: Name any topic or thing and declare it a winner or a loser. Argue your case.

Now get increasingly personal and find out how good your friendship really is.

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y the time the gorilla steps on that can lift us out of the mire of stage, the audience is already the macadam, a trait that's as well on its way to believing this is ephemeral as these dream figures but just as powerful. possibly the weirdest play ever.

This cast of young actors is up for August Strindberg is credited with a formative role in dramatic sur- the rigours of the production and its realism and expressionism. Studio many costume and scene changes, Theatre takes both concepts firmly managing a parade of props and navigating amongst the to heart in its many bodies on production of Until Sat, Apr 4 (7:30 pm) stage at once.

Strindberg's A Directed by David Kennedy A Dream Play will Dream Play. Timms Centre for the Arts, probably leave you That Strindberg $11 – $22 a bit (or a lot) bewrote the script wildered, as though after a bout of psychosis is wholly believable, as it you have emerged from a Dali paintspirals around itself in purgatorial ing. But when else will you see a gocycles of disturbing, incongruous rilla playing a music box in the snow and just plain bizarre imagery. (This beside a French maid and a man in a production uses Carol Churchill's pig mask? adaptation.) The plot centres on Ag- MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM nes, the daughter of unnamed gods who has descended to Earth to soak up all the sufferings endured by humans, so as to better understand what it's like to be one. Studio Theatre cast five actresses in this role, each taking turns in Agnes's shoes as she meets a host of characters.

I really can't describe much more plot, as A Dream Play is just that: a dream-like procession of figures that defies chronology or linear sensibility.

Instead, the play demands it be measured in emotional impact and intuitive understanding. There are recurring themes: the futility of romantic love in the face of abject poverty, the nightmarish cholera outbreaks at the turn of the 20th century, a Godot-like wait for a lover who never arrives.

Pies are literally thrown in the face of the personifications of religion, psychology, science and the judicial system, who then dissolve in hysterical laughter. Everyone is trapped in un8 pm & 2 pm ending cycles of despair and violence, Sunday Matinee poverty and general misery.

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est you assume that a play, written by a decorated English playwright and dubbed as both his finest and one of the world's shining pieces of contemporary theatre, must be impenetrably highbrow, know this: it starts with a conversation about sex.

A chat about the "carnal embrace," to be precise. Tom Stoppard's Arcadia, running presently on the Citadel's Shoctor Stage, is certainly unapologetically intellectual, delving into a fascinatingly complex web of mathematics and scientific theory, literature and

landscape architecture—but it's just as much about base instincts as it is about the laws of thermodynamics.

The story is set at Sidley Park, an English country estate, and it alternates between 1809 and the present day.

The past events revolve around brainy

but naïve 13-year-old Thomasina Cov- characters become nicely fleshed erly and her tutor, Septimus Hodge; out, once they've recovered from a her lessons are interspersed with the slight tendency toward overacting in comings and goings of various residents the show's early moments, and keep and guests of the house. In the present, our attention throughout the admitSidley Park has been opened up by its tedly long runtime (three-and-a-half hours). Indeed, current owners, Valentine Coverly and in spite of the Until Sun, Apr 12 (7:30 pm; 1:30 his sister Chloe, to weariness that pm Sunday matinees) a visiting literature comes with sitDirected by Tom Wood professor seeking ting in a theatre Citadel Theatre, $35 – $89 evidence that Lord for prolonged Byron had stayed at periods, it's the the Park, as well as a landscape archi- plays later moments, in the story as tect studying the Sidley Park Hermit, well as in the performances, that are who took up residence on the grounds the most fascinating: past bleeds into present and suddenly we've got mulshortly after the events in the past. tiple timelines on stage at once, an Much of the cast is comprised of par- elegantly dynamic visual device.

Arcadia demands an active, enticipants of the Citadel/Banff Centre Professional Theatre Program. They gaged audience: pay attention, lest had their work cut out for them to you fall irretrievably behind. But do justice to such a production and worry not if you're a math dunce ensure the audience remains invested (I sure am): the story is concerned in characters that could easily come with the concepts and truths beoff as pretentious and alienating for hind the algebra, not the actual their big brains and stuffy manners. number crunching. "It's the wanting Happily, this lot has clearly done their to know that makes us matter," afhomework: they've got the energy and ter all, and Arcadia delivers a feast have mastered the complex dialogue of knowledge. to show us why this is considered MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM the best in Stoppard's oeuvre. Their

ARTIFACTS Sweet Treat: An Old-Fashioned Easter / Sat, Apr 4 (11 am) It's Easter weekend, everybody. Before you cram a metric-ton of chocolate into yourself on Sunday, you could spend a morning/afternoon down at Fort Edmonton Park taking part in more traditional Easter activities: wool carding, baking, seed planting and more. There's also a scavenger hunt for children over five, and a maze for children under five. All kids, the website boasts, will be rewarded with magical treat bags. “Magic” here most likely means “more chocolate.”

(Fort Edmonton Part, $9.80 for children under 12, $12.50 for people aged 13 and up) Western Canada Fashion Week / Until Sat, Apr 4 Fashion Week's already in full swing, and events are strutting along strong; there's still a week-

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end's worth of high-fashion to take in as you prep for a new season with a new style. (No matter how much you like your parka, it's time to closet it until winter returns— which will be all too soon. Enjoy some lighter wares while you can).

There are also nightly afterparties, to reflect on all that fashion with likeminded folks. (ATB Financial Arts Barns, $25 nightly, $10 for matinees. Schedule at westerncanadafashionweek.com) On The Spot / Sat, Apr 4 (10 am – 4 pm) It's a pop-up craft fair, set to help you welcome in the spring with sweet piles of stuff. More than 40 vendors are setting up shop in Latitude 53 to sell locally made wares of every shape and stripe. Oodles of Chocolate will be providing lunch, and the Rhythm Group will provide some tunes to set the proper vibe. (Latitude 53)

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CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Crea tive Writing Group • Ever y Tue, 7-9pm

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercur y Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstor yslam.com • facebook. com/mercur yroomyeg • Grea t stories, interesting compan y, fabulous a tmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Dona tion to winner

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Authors Theresa Shea (The Unfinished Child) and Thomas Wharton (Ever y Blade Of Grass); Poet Leanne Myggland-Carter (Orange); and music By Singer/Songwriter Erin Kay. Host: Theresa Wynn. Two-minute open mic. Books and CDs for sale • Mar 26, 7-9pm • Dona tions accepted NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Fea turing writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Brea th In Poetr y Collective (BIP); info: E: brea thinpoetr y@gmail.com

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittan y's Lounge,

• scottgaller y.com • ANOTHER TIME ANOTHER PLACE: Gillian Willans; A pr 11May 2 • SPRING APPOINTMENTS: Wayne Mackenzie; A pr 16-18

Poetry festival • Various loca tions throughout Edmonton • Celebra ting poetr y in all its forms! Fea turing local poets in cafes, book launches, noon-hour events a t CBC, Poetr y Central do wnto wn, and so much more • A pr 19-26

10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Sta ge: artists from all mediums are encoura ged to occupy the sta ge and share their crea tions • Ever y Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

Alberta Print -Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Briar Craig; A pr 9-May 23 • ASS U ME: Ben Weinlick; A pr 9-May 23; Opening reception: A pr 10, 7-9pm

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican

sPr uCe Grove art Gallery •

SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND EXPERIENCE • Stra thcona County Librar y,

35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • FIREPLACE ROOM: Shona Holzer; through A pr • Juried Members Sho w; through A pr

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUseuM & arChives • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • stra thconacountymuseum.ca • DARING DAMES: EXPERIENCE THE LIVES OF PIONEER WOMEN; until Jun 30

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211142 St • telus worldofscienceedmonton. com • GPS ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: Combining technolog y, na ture, and hidden treasure; until Jun 1 • INDIANA JONES™ AND THE ADVENTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGY: until A pr 6; $26.50 (adult)/$19.50 (child 3-12)/$23.50 (youth 13-17), student, senior) • Dinosaurs Unearthed: May 15-Oct 11; $26.50 (adult), $19.50 (child), $23.50 (youth/student/ senior) U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecolog y Bldg Galler y, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave •

vaa Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Galler y a: Searching skies, seeing through trees: Gerald St. Maur; Galler y B: Edited Realism: Jean Pilch; A pr 2-May 31; Opening reception: A pr 2, 7-9:30pm

vasa GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • VIEWS: art by Doris Charest; Mar 31-May 1

Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • LARISSA BLOKHUIS AND SYLVIA GRIST: Glass works from artist Larissa Blokhuis and colla ged landsca pes from Sylvia Grist; Feb 7-A pr 5

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St •

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–ston y Plain

LITERARY

• 5411-51 St, Ston y Plain • multicentre. org • Fashion Reflections: fea turing examples of women’s clothing from the early 1900s-1950; Jan 21-A pr 29 • Sculpture and Stories: Karen Mangan ye;

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • ro y alalbertamuseum.ca • WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: Nov 28-A pr 12 • QUESTIONS AND COLLECTIONS V: RESEARCH AT THE MUSEUM: Presenters take visitors into the field to obser ve wildlife, exca va te fossils, and collect pollen samples; Jan 28-A pr 8 • NATURAL HI-STORIES: Sho wing plants in their na tive habita ts in a given loca tion; Mar 28-Jun 21

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern

780.461.3427 • Our Past, Ourselves:

by Our Past, Ourselves; Mar 7-A pr 28 • Potter y by Dale Dorosh; Mar 7-A pr 28

fea turing readings from Stra thcona County Librar y Writer in Residence Gail Sidonie Soba t and a host of other Alberta poets • A pr 18, 7-9pm • $5

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • 40th Anniversar y Exhibition; A pr 18-30

9th annual eveninG of Poetry • Stra thcona County Librar y, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrar y.ab.ca • A pril is Na tional Poetr y Month! Join in for an evening of poetr y,

Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrar y.ab.ca • In celebra tion of Na tional Poetr y Month, explore the connections between rhythm and rhyme, poetr y and song • A pr 14, 7-8:30pm • Free

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

UPPER CR UST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Ha ven Reading Series: Ever y Mon, 7pm; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Thea tre, 10329-83 Ave • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment tha t unveils scenes, songs and choreogra phed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Ever y Fri, until Jun 26, 11pm • $15 (online, a t the door) • grindstonethea tre.ca

ARMSTRONG’S WAR • Backsta ge Thea tre, North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • info@ thea trenetwork.ca • While recovering from his injuries, a young soldier is visited by a girl in a wheelchair looking to earn her ser vice badge for Pa thfinders. As they explore the pa ges of Stephen Crane’s "The Red Badge of Coura ge", they begin to share their o wn stories of love and loss, and together build the coura ge to conquer the memories tha t haunt them • Mar 31-A pr 19

Bonfire festival • Citadel Thea tre Ziedler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • Presented

by Ra pid Fire Thea tre. The annual romp through the wonderful world of experi-

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mental long-form improv • A pr 7-11 • $12, $15 (door), $30 (whole festival)

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 • Ever y Sa t, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv a t TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13

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A DREAM PLAY • Timms Centre for the Arts - Main Sta ge, 112 St NW, University of Alberta • Director Da vid Kenned y will cast all the wonderful ladies from the 2015 BFA acting class as Agnes, daughter of the Vedic god Indra, who descends to Earth to bear witness to the human experience • Mar 26-A pr 4 JEAN ET BEATRICE • La Cité Francophone, 8627-91 St • In her a partment on the 33rd floor, Bea trice waits for a man ca pable of freeing her from an imposed solitude. She’s placed an ad promising a substantial reward to an yone who can successfully respond to three essential conditions. Jean, a professed bounty hunter, greedily a grees to the conditions and sets himself to the task • Mar 25-A pr 5

MAESTRO • Citadel Thea tre, 9828-101A Ave • Ra pid Fire Thea tre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimina tion tha t will see 11 improvisers compete for audience a pproval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sa t each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv a t ra pidfirethea tre.com)/$15 (door)

MARATHON • PCL Studio Thea tre a t the ATB Financial Arts Barns • fringethea tre. ca • 780.409.1910 • Intertwines two stories from TJ Da we's o wn life, the struggle he faced as a terrible long distance runner, and ho w he a ttempted to deal with a big personal blind spot • A pr 17-18 OH BOY, BUDDY HOLLY! • Jubila tions Dinner Thea tre, #2690, 8882-170 St • It's Shallo w Wa ter's last gradua tion before it closes and to sa ve it, the grade 12 kids, ha ve written letters to their fa vorite rock and roll stars, begging them to play a t their gradua tion dance. The kids ha ve tried ever ything, and no w the whole to wn is being s wept a way by the campaign! In response, Budd y Holly, The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berr y arrive to sa ve the day • Feb 7-A pr 12

SONDHEIM ON SONDHEIM • MacEwan University Centre for Arts and Communica tions, Thea tre Lab (Rm 189) • macewan.ca/wcm/MacEwanEvents/sondheim_on_sondheim • An intima te portrait of the famed composer in his o wn words and music. Includes new arrangements of more than two dozen Sondheim tunes, ranging from the beloved to the obscure • Mar 23-A pr 2, 7:30pm • $21.75 ($16.75 students/seniors), adv; $25 ($20 students/ seniors), door THAT'S TERRIFIC • Varscona Thea tre • last Sa t ea month • An enthusiastic celebra tion of all things notable, important, encoura ging, and superior • Nov 29-Jul 25 THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre. com • Improv • Ever y Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) a t TIX on the Square who's afraiD of virGinia WOOLF? • Walterdale Thea tre, 10322-83 Ave • Examines the breakdo wn of the marria ge of a middle-a ged couple, Martha and George. La te one evening after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey as guests, and dra w them into their bitter and frustra ted rela tionship • A pr 8-18

WINNER & LOSERS • Citadel Theatre • Pa r t o f B e y o n d t h e S t a g e • T h e a t r e artists and long-time friends Marcus Yo u s s e f a n d J a m e s L o n g s i t a t a t a b l e and play a game they made up called “ w i n n e r s a n d l o s e r s ,” i n w h i c h t h e y n a m e t h i n g s a n d p e o p l e — Pa m e l a A n d e r s o n , microwave ovens, Goldman Sachs, their f a t h e r s — a n d d e b a t e w h e t h e r, f r o m t h e i r perspective, these things are winners or losers • Apr 8-19

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FILM EDITOR: PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

If I've fooled you once I'll fool you a thousand times!

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or better or worse, we tend to trust the people we're told are experts on a given subject.

Turns out that's often for the worse; as Merchants of Doubt, an inventive, well-executed documentary explores, there's plenty of spin for the sake of spin, where uncertainty, not decision-making, is the end goal. Inspired by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M Conway's book Food Inc, director Robert Kenner's documentary casts light on those who sow the seeds of doubt into policy debates because it's much more effective than actual denial. Sometimes policy people you see on TV really are just fucking with us, and it's working out just fine for them.

As the documentary works through a timeline—from the

early PR swings of Big Tobacco to usual talking-heads and stagnant chemical-flammables in furniture graphs, using animation to attain a to global warming—Kenner offers fluidity of motion in even the sima terribly effective, well-researched plest presentations of its facts. He look at how so few can impact so also includes a few tangental casemany with miles of studies to illusrhetorical red tape. Opens Friday trate the points, One particularly Directed by Robert Kenner including two Chicago Tribune damning early shot Princess Theatre reports chasoffers lines from  internal Big Toing a story on bacco documents fire retardants (like "smoking causes lung cancer," in couches—it took two years of something the companies have working around elaborate deflecknown since 1954) paired with clips tion to get to the heart of the matof talking heads denying the points ter. Occasionally, we check in with with half-answers, decades later, all Jamy Ian Swiss, a sleight-of-hand while knowing the truth. magician who offers his take on It's invective, but Kenner makes manipulation and deceit (and gives sure his doc's also an entertaining away a pretty cool magic trick on one: the visuals go far beyond the screen). His is the most adjacent

thread, but it's also a line of comparison that the filmmakers don't try too hard to force, leaving it a compelling parallel without forcing too much.

Doubt feels like a proper evaluation of the whole situation: Kenner looks not just at those fact-spinners, but those happy to let their facts get spun. He points to the far-too-compliant media (willing to frame global warming as "a debate" when the actual facts and science belong solely to one side), as well as many scientists' inability to argue their points at a convincing-on-television-quality level.

Still, the real treasures here are the interviews with the other side.

Marc Morano is a policy shill for all

sorts of things, and in a shockingly candid, charismatic interview—"I'm not a scientist, but sometimes I play one on TV," he offers with a wry, knowing grin—he happily discusses technique and reasoning behind everything from posting environmental scientists' email addresses online to his own lack of credentials in matters he's involved in.

It all brings to mind one of author Thomas Pynchon's proverbs for paranoids: if they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.

And Merchants of Doubt's realworld demonstration of that is as skillfully presented and entertaining as it is utterly infuriating.

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REVUE // DRAMA

Boychoir

Set to sing his troubles away

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t least the singing is beauti- mom just died—with his undeniable ful. In that, Boychoir lives up talent, under the guidance of choirto its name: it delivers us a bunch master Carvelle (Dustin Hoffman). of boys who are indeed in a choir, a Maybe he'll find some friends, too.

Did I even need to write "maybe" prestigious and talented one at that.

And real, too; the actual American there? Ugh. Boychoir plays out like a Boychoir School choir is present on- liquorice Whiplash: softer, more sacscreen as a fictionalized version of it- charine and certainly less fulfilling. self. It's at the choir's resident private And maybe it's unfair to parallel that film to this PG one, academy that but a musical version t r o u b l e d - b u t - Opens Friday of student-teacher g i f te d - i n - v o i c e Directed by François Girard dynamic lies at the Stet (Garrett  Wareing) soon heart of both, and there's nary a genuine finds himself: his mama dies and his rich, estranged pulse to be found here. The script— dad—happy to keep his family bliss- by Ben Ripley, who also wrote Spefully unaware of the lovechild of an cies III and, more recently, the wellaffair—writes the cheque to enrol received Source Code—offers a Stet and keep him away. There, the meandering run of soft-lob problems boy attempts to reconcile his wild- that are broadly telegraphed, easily child ways—well, we see him throw overcome and occasionally flat-out a tantrum and act kinda anti-socially confusing (Dad sees Stet sing and a few times, which actually feels then tries to send him to boarding pretty justified, given, y'know, his school in Europe? Huh?). But what's VUEWEEKLY.com | APR 2 – APR 8, 2015

worse is that you really don't get a sense of Stet overcoming any of his hurdles, growing or even changing all that much; the world swirls around him, kids are mean, he's in over his head, but he sings well and that's enough to fix pretty much everything for him, given enough time. The lesson? Be talented, or else.

Most of the adult talent in the film—Hoffman, Kathy Bates, Eddy Izzard (who at least has some fun being a guy with a stiff upper lip about helping out troubled orphans)—feels resigned, present to chase a paycheque and offer little else. Meanwhile, their less-pubescent compatriots lean deep on the grating side of child acting. They can hit the literal high notes, but Boychoir feels like it was created with soundtrack more in mind than cinema.

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REVUE // ANIMATED

Home

Now playing Directed by Tim Johnson 

You have to go number what?

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ome doesn't roll out the subtle welcome mat with that moniker, and its other easy fuzzwords could be friendship (learning the value of), mom (reuniting with) and running (to,

not away). That eager earnestness persists, too. And so, despite some nifty re-packaging of the animatedfeature formula—a seemingly daring premise, a casually multicultural

and international story that's seldom pandering, a memorable main character—Dreamworks' latest, for all its snappy colours and crackles of joy, just never quite pops.

The squat, tentacle-legged Boov (rhymes with "move"), aliens fleeing their Gorg enemies, come to Earth and suck us out of our homes, dropping us in isolated, suburban-like compounds. And so we're dared, only at first, to sympathize with Oh (voiced by Jim Parsons), a constantly screwing-up Boov outsider, as he goes on the run from his own species after mistakenly sending out a party e-vite that, zipping across the universe, will soon lead the Gorgs right to them.

More often than not, lines don't quite zing as they should, though, and soon we're too comfortably following the stranded, Barbados-born Tip (Rihanna) as she tries to reach her mom (transported to Australia) with Oh's reluctant help. Oh's voice, mind you, is indelible, from his glitchfilled English grammar ("I bear you no grudgement") to Parson's distinctive rhythm. There's some quirky little humour—the Boov's bathroom visit to mysteriously go "number three;" most of the Boov's misuses of our own odd little inventions—but also plenty of homey, sentimental messaging (via bald dialogue and flat pop songs) and close-ups are over-relied

on to stamp people's large, lustrous eyes on our open hearts.

The bright, pop-cultured hues— Tip and Oh's first encounter is in a convenience store, where Oh soon fixes up Tip's car by making it run on slushie flavours—at first sharply convey Oh's adolescent-like need for parties and friends and a sense of fun that'll make him feel he's fitting in, not a flop among his own folk. But by the end, when the whole universe is ready to party and dance to the beat, all the insistent, bursting happiness feels more like a constant sugar-rush to please.

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REVUE // COMEDY

Get Hard

Oh, shit—this is our new movie?

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Vuexclusive excerpt from Looking in the Dark: The Whispered Audio-Diary of Adrian Mole-Eyes, Movie Reviewer for 12¾ Years. Entry #911: March 28, 2015. Get Hard matinee screening.

3:55 pm—how time, and shit, flies!

Was it really—where's that old notebook—12 years ago I endured Elf, writing that its "gags are lazy, repetitive, and puerile?" Twentyfive minutes into this new Will Ferrell flick and it's only got one basic gag, so hatefully lazy and stupidly repetitive it makes me nostalgic for "puerile." Ferrell's character—James King, some obtuse man-child obviously framed for his boss's fraud—

4:10 pm—ugh [throat-clearing], sorry 'bout that. Had to use my empty popcorn bag just then 'cause I gagged on all this sexism and racism and homophobia. Did I mention James' fiancée, nothing but cleavage and sulkiness? Or that the script goes right along with James' assumptions that all black men are straight out of Thug Life Magazine? Or how James' assumption that Darnell's an ex-con gets answered by the angry black man dwelling vividly on how James'll be interracially raped as soon as he gets to San Quentin?

4:20 pm—more "bitch"-"ass"-"dick""fuck" talk. Here, listen: "My life's asshole is fucked." I wonder what sorta gay-panic-meets-homophobia gag just keeps gagging on the stereo- that's referring to? type of prison rape.

4:40 pm—hey, how 'bout some Oh, now he's trying not to gag af- more of what passes for joking diater his hired "incarceration expert," logue in this tedious odiousness?

Darnell (played by Kevin Hart), has "Please don't sexually assault me— brought him to my heart's already a gay restaurant Now playing been raped" ... "Chokin' to learn how to Directed by Etan Cohen on a mouthful of balls" "suck dick." Right  ... "Nazi titties!"

5:00 pm—"You need after James approaches some man there, just to shoot that bitch anyway." That's waiting for him apparently ('cause, Darnell talking to James about his Darnell says, "Just dive in—that's ex-fiancée. Oh, there's another "keiswhat they do!"), he's kneeling in tering" crack. And now, yep, innuendo the bathroom stall now, trying to about that title-phrase again.

5:05 pm—The end, 95 minutes too late. pilot his mouth towards a waiting groin. And Darnell's fending off a BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM gay man's advances.

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PREVUE // ROCK

Sat, Apr 4 (9 pm) With HighKicks Brixx

The Mohrs team up with Hawksley Workman for debut album // Jess Baumung

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song is hot or it's not.

This is the mantra guitarist and vocalist Jackie Mohr has been applying to her songwriting since working on Kings of Nowhere, the Mohrs' debut album, with the venerable musical force that is Hawksley Workman.

"I've written with some writers where you start an idea and you just keep pounding it out and keep working on it, and it develops into something," Mohr explains from the band's lodgings outside Nanaimo, BC, a drum circle audible in the background. "But with him it's not like that. ... I think that an idea should absolutely take a lot of thought, but it shouldn't be so hard."

Mohr met Workman during her time as a contestant on Cover Me Canada in 2011 while competing with her previous band, Living In Red. Workman was a producer on the show, and he invited Mohr to write with him at his studio following her elimination. The original intent wasn't to make an album to-

gether, but Mohr and Workman got on a roll and after about three months ended up with enough material for full length, so Mohr recruited Living in Red guitarist Marc Girardin (who also did some writing) as well as Greg Markham on bass and Max Trefler on drums to round out the band.

"Working with Hawksley was just a lifechanging experience for me," Mohr adds. "I mean, the band I was playing in before that and all the things I was doing leading up to that were fun—it was a passion thing and I loved doing it—but until I started working with Hawksley I never truly understood what music writing was like and what I could tap into as a songwriter."

Mohr admits writing with Workman was "terrifying" to begin with, and she recalls being very hard on herself during their first week writing together. But it appeared to Mohr as though Workman put just as much pressure on himself.

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"I think it was because we were both so into each other in a musical sense, and it was like I felt nervous and for some reason he felt nervous," Mohr says, adding she and Workman hit their stride on "Lonely One," the second song they wrote together. "We had moments where I would leave for a bit and come back and I was a little scared about the direction it was going in, and so we would have these talks and be like, 'OK, we have to change this up; we have to do something heavy.' We kind of just wrote all over the spectrum and the way it ended up [is] all these songs fit with each other now."

Kings of Nowhere certainly plays with a variety of flavours, from the pop-tinged, hook-laden beat of "Cassette Tape" to the powerhouse sing-along "Better" and the gritty, emotion-charged new single "Youth," but the album remains cohesive despite its multifaceted musical influences. The process

30 years of diverse and

resulted in some tracks that surprised Mohr, namely "Lonely One," which came out of a discussion with Workman about a past relationship that didn't turn out so well.

"We were super into a few bottles of wine, and I didn't think we'd get anything done that night. It was an important night for me because we were listening to that chorus over and over again, and I was in the vocal booth just kind of trying to come up with things, and that just happened, that was it," Mohr explains, adding they tried to redo the vocals later but weren't able to capture the same raw vibe. "And then there [were] songs like 'Youth.' The idea came about early in the process, but we didn't actually think it would ever be on the record—same with 'Better.'

That was a song added at the end and it's become one of our most prominent songs on the record."

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PREVUE // SKA-JAZZ

and just play the tunes and rock out and jam."

These days, the Cat Empire consists of multi-instrumentalist core members Ollie McGill, Ryan Munro, Felix Riebl, Harry James Angus, Jamshid "DJ Jumps" Khadiwhala and Hull-Brown, in addition to the Empire Horns, but the group has included the Empire Strings and the Empire Dancers at different points during its existence.

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t's hard to stay away from North America, especially Canada; it's become a home away from home for us," says drummer Will Hull-Brown in the midst of attempting to feed his 16-month-old twin boys breakfast during some time at home in Melbourne, Australia.

Indeed, the Cat Empire has been back and forth across the Pacific annually or bi-annually for the past 12

years. Hull-Brown credits word of mouth for raising the eclectic ska-jazz group's profile, which has resulted in bigger venues and prime festival performance spots, such as the Winnipeg Folk Festival. The Cat Empire did not do a sojourn to North America in 2014, which resulted in fans lobbying for shows via social media.

"It's very reassuring, especially when you're 14 years into a career," Hull-

Brown notes of the attention. "You kind of think, 'Where are we going?'

We're trying to push ourselves musically and do different things, so it's nice to know that people still want to come to gigs and that we're getting some new people [out] as well. That's what it's all about."

The band has logged more than 1000 shows since its first gig in 2001, and there's a certain amount of spon-

The "full-circle" aspect mentioned earlier by Hull-Brown has been used to describe not only the band itself, but Steal the Light, its most recent album reSun, Apr 5 (8 pm) leased in 2013. Cinema, With Current Swell released prior to that Winspear Centre, $32 in 2010, was a darker, moodier collection of tracks that were less uplifting than the Cat Empire's previous material.

Hull-Brown explains that the change came down to the group deciding taneity and jamming that goes on where it wanted to head next, and its during its live performances, which nascent days provided inspiration.

"We sort of looked back at those keeps things interesting for the audience as well as the Cat Empire as it early days when the band started and goes through its lengthy catalogue— when the first album came out and what made it special," he says. "That seven albums and counting.

"It's never the same two nights in a was definitely that uplifting kind-of row," Hull-Brown adds. "But I guess feel, and the dancey tunes and seeing it's come full circle now and we're how crowds responded to that. We just back to the core band with the sort of wanted to capture that again."

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Chris Trapper as a musician that hasn't needed a hit single to sustain him.

He's a thoughtful writer, often delving into the existential meaning of his job. What does it mean to be a musician—what exactly is he trying to do?

"I'm very self-conscious about self-promotion," Trapper says. "I've never been comfortable with it. From the time my first record label said I should get the bigger hotel suite because I was the singer of the band, as opposed to my bandmates at the time, who were merely 'players,' I've known there is a certain element to the music business that I'm going to need to avoid."

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hris Trapper, the veteran Bostonbased singer-songwriter, cowrote four songs on Great Big Sea's charttopping 2002 album Sea of No Cares, including the hit title track, so he's basically an honorary Canadian.

You've heard his music, too. His song "Everything Shines"—later covered by Great Big Sea, those salty dogs—was in There's Something About Mary. His material seems especially suited to the screen: movies like August Rush, The Devil Wears Prada, Say It Isn't So and TV shows All My Children, Malcolm in the MIddle and ER—in

Trapper says he'll likely have two songs on that movie's soundtrack. But, prolific as he is, the exercise of writing new music got the creative juices flowing. He adds he's glad he still has the gift of songwriting—and that he'll have the

The singer says he's most interested in establishing connection.

His latest tour is solo, acoustic and about a third of his time on stage is spent storytelling.

"I try to make people laugh and then play them a sad song—it's a magical combination," he adds.

Trapper's most recent record was 2013's Technicolor, his ninth solo album; he's recorded nine songs for a new record, to be released on June 4.

The new music was spurred by a the producer of August Rush asking Trapper to write some songs for a new movie called How to Make Love Like an Englishman.

Fri, Apr 3 (8 pm) With Sarah Lillian Mercury Room, $20 the final episode, no less—have all used his tunes.

"I am always on a quest for that perfect song," Trapper writes in an email from a hotel room in Santa Cruz, California. "One that reaches everybody without being manipulative and lame."

Trapper started his music career in the late '90s with the alt-rock band the Push Stars. The band was chummy with Matchbox 20; the two groups toured together, and singer Rob Thomas did some guest vocals with Trapper. A solo artist since 2002, Trapper enjoys a steady career

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chance to connect with more people.

"I think the whole point of music is to connect," Trapper says. "And [to] make people feel less alone."

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t is hard to stay positive when the compressor in your van breaks down outside of Los Angeles in super heat—and you have a gig at the Troubadour in a few hours.

But, guitarist Jake Orrall from JEFF The Brotherhood— which he plays in alongside his brother and drummer Jamin Orrall—did just that by taking those bad vibes and channelling them into a good performance.

"It's nice to have an hour-and-a-half on stage where you can just let everything go," Jake says from the road.

The duo's new album Wasted on the Dream echoes that sentiment. An exceedingly fun collection, the band's most recent work exudes a release of inhibitions.

"There is light, but there is also a bit of darkness in there," Jake explains. "Lyrics come last; we don't really care about the lyrics too much. It's just whatever happens to come out. When it is time to get to the studio it's usually like, "Oh, shit, time to write some lyrics to this song.'

"Don't get me wrong, we try to make them good, but we feel that they don't have to be thoughtprovoking in any way, he continues. "We just want them to be acceptable."

The first song on the album is "Voyage into Dreams" which, if played backwards, could possibly summon the devil with suggestions of eating your pets—but in a cool, rhythmic, catchy way. The track "Karaoke TN" is a distorted modern rendition themed on Jukebox Hero. "Prairie Song," the stand-out track, is a thunder waltz about personal ideals. The album as a whole is a continuation of the Brotherhood's beerand-bohemia feel.

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As for which songs made the cut, Orrall nods toward the cream of the crop.

"I think we wrote about 35 songs and just picked the best," he says. "And nobody will ever hear the other ones. We just bury them in the backyard somewhere."

The brothers have also planned something special for their first gig in Edmonton.

"We've learned some cover songs by some Canadian artists," Orrall says.

As to whether there would be any Dion or Twain, Orrall replies, "You are going to have to come to the show and find out."

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past two years," he adds. "We've rediscovered things that originally turned us all on to music in the first place. Our current objective is to write better songs and be a better band."

And Taiga takes a jump in this manner with the hiring of production shaman Steve Albini (Nirvana, the Pixies, Mogwai). From Thompson's perspective, Albini had the band more focused.

"When we decided to record with Albini, we had direction and we knew exactly where we wanted to take it," Thompson says. "Instead of writing 15 songs for a record, we wrote songs for the studio and thought about how we could best represent those songs in that environment."

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eing in a band is a lot like being in a constantly morphing relationship, according to Slates drummer Dallas Thompson.

"The strengths and the quality of the band are broadened by taking ourselves outside our comfort zones," Thompson said. "For example, when we had to drive our way through the Bosnian border (using pay-offs and bribes during the 2011 border shakedowns), it showed that we have each other's back. We know

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when to be supportive of each other, and at the same time, we know when to take the piss out of each other."

For Slates, consisting of Lee Klippenstein (bass/vocals), James Stewart (guitar/vocals) and Stefan Duret (guitar/vocals), the band's newest album Taiga (meaning Boreal forest or Boreal region), shows that growth. Together since 2008, the group has grown personally and professionally, Thompson says.

"We've really honed it in over the

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lberta has a wild heart: a workBut Dolly Rotten isn't slick Nashville; hard-play-harder core that's it's a witches brew of outlaw country, more at home tearing through mud punk and metal music with blue-coland shooting whisky than living in lar roots and rock 'n' roll decadence. buttoned-down office towers. Ed- Thrash guitars and double-kick bass monton band Dolly Rotten, fronted drums groove on the same track as by gravel-voiced Lace Daryn, is the pedal steel and Telecaster twang. definition of that Daryn formed rough-and-tum- Fri, Apr 3 (8 pm) Dolly Rotten with With Kurt West Express, the ble lifestyle. fellow WestlockBarrhead-area musi"Our material Devil's Bed, Lonesome Dove cian Kurt West late is 100-percent Pawn Shop, $12 last decade, as they Alberta," Daryn says.

"Everyshared a bottle of thing about it. My favourite song on Jack Daniels after hours in a bar she our new album is called 'Working worked at.

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After playing in Cuba and Eastern Europe, and then doing a proper Canadian tour, Slates has carved out an original niche for itself. The band is literally taking the road less travelled.

"We have faced a lot of circumstances and experiences with each other; I think that it gives us more inspiration to keep it going," Thompson explains. "Doing these weird tours in far reaching places and doing the record with Albini shows our potential to keep going."

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Daryn says the band comes by its country-metal sound honestly. A small-town girl, she grew up listening to classic country. Then she left home when she was 16 to join a punk-rock band in Edmonton.

"I was too country for punk rock and I was too punk rock for country," Daryn says. "When I came home I was like the freak in town, but when I moved to the city everyone was like, 'You're a redneck.'"

The band maintains real blue-collar roots: Daryn worked at a lumber mill for five years, co-founding member and guitar player West is a trucker, bass player Tyler Wilson is a hot-shot driver and guitar player Greg Stefishen is a mechanic.

It's only Smokey Fennel—the pedal steel player who keeps Dolly Rotten country in even its loudest moments— who works as a full-time musician.

The band is set to release its debut full-length record, Coming For You. Recorded half in West's garage and in local producer Brad Smith's studio, Daryn describes the album as "intense."

"Don't listen to it when you're trying to go to bed," she laughs. "It makes you want to drive really fast. Every song takes you to this high sort of place—even the slow songs."

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delicately swims in the grungy guitar, rising to the surface of the swampy production.

The other songs on Calm Your Body are slower and more deliberate. Paas' voice echoes and swirls around her guitar on closer "Vessel," which is a good analogy for how Calm Your Body Down ends, crescendoing with "A.D." before petering out.

Acronyms is one of Saskatoon's newest bands, although its members have been a part of the music scene with various other projects.

The four-piece's seven-song debut EP, SimpleComplex, is an inspired disc packed with reverb-heavy guitar, oblique drumming and interesting time-signature changes.

The instrumental density works on some tracks. For example, on "Mirrors" the spine-chilling guitar riffage between singer-guitarist, Billy Tataryn (who sounds like a cross between Fleet Foxes' Robin

Pecknold and Foals' Yannis Philippakis) and guitarist Adan Lemus creates a driving art-rock triumph.

However, there are moments throughout the rest of SimpleComplex that are too congested to let the pop hooks escape and take hold of the listener. At times, it feels like it's building up to something great but it never really fully gets there.

SimpleComplex errs a bit too much on the complex side, but it's still an ambitious debut that shows definite flashes of brilliance.

See U is fairly restrained in its low end; beats feel like they are coming at you through a stethoscope, but it's not long before the blips and bloops that scuttle and twitch around the faint, steady bass seem familiar. The whole thing plays like a distant dream though lands of raccoon tails and A, B up/down combinations. These arrangements will resonate with anyone who grew up in the eight- to 16-bit generation of video games. The racket of power ups and rewards hit in a very textured yet subtle way on See U through tracks with titles

like "Insert Cartridge" and "SuperDenjin." Long before big artists were contracted to soundtrack games, scoring them was the duty of programmers, and their mark on pop culture is indelible—just try humming the theme to Super Mario Brothers or Tetris. So hearing these spastic flashes arranged in a gentle way is incredibly soothing and cheerily rewarding. The only negative to it all is that the entire record clocks in around 20 minutes before it's game over.

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Standout track "A.D." shows a more furious side to Paas's otherwise-spare songs. "I see my death in a bunch of places / I see his death in my sleep and can't wake up" Paas sings, as the song is propelled forward by her snaky guitar and Matthew Steel's explosive drumming. Paas's voice

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RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano

HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the Hog Jam:

WINSPEAR CENTRE Pro Coro Canada: Good Friday at the Winspear; 7:30pm

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

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

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday

RENDEZVOUS PUB Train Digger Monkeys, SilentLine, Blackest Sin; 8pm

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

DJs

RICHARD’S PUB The Mad Dog Blues and Roots Jam hosted by Jimmy Guiboche; 3-7pm

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

SANDS HOTEL Damn It Jim

Kryosphere, Pinky Eats Brain; 8pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Jake

RICHARD’S PUB Sunday Jam hosted

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

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro ‘80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close THE COMMON The Common

every Thu

DJs on all three levels

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school

Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;

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

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

disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance

Buckley and Cam Apr 3-4

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun 9:30pm-1am RENDEZVOUS PUB Tribune,

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MUSIC 23

YARDBIRD SUITE Willie Jones III

pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

Quintet; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests) WINSPEAR CENTRE The Cat Empire;

8pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

DJs

hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

APR/3

6 LAYER PROMOTER BURRITO 6 LOCAL PROMOTERS PICK AND PRESENT 6 BANDS

ACT A FOOL 5

DAY 1

APR/2

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

ACT A FOOL 5

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

MOONTRICKS, KNIGHT RIDERZ, SARATONIN

APR/10

SPOTLIGHT STUDIOS PRESENTS

THE VIOLET HOUR FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS THE TRI-CITY RAT PACK

APR/11 REYKJAVIK CALLING - GUITARAMA

#TASTEOFICELAND IN EDMONTON FT/

W/

APR/15

BJÖRN THORODDSEN

BEEBEE AND THE BLUEBIRDS, JON HILMAR KARASON

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

DANKO JONES

W/

APR/17

GUESTS

STRUNG OUT MASKED INTRUDER & LA ARMADA

PURE PRIDE 10TH ANNIVERSARY COSTUME PARTY: TOGETHER 2015

MISS FAME

AS SEEN ON RUPAULS DRAGRACE SEASON 7!

APR/24 APR/25

JFR

W/ THE UNFORTUNATES, FRANKIE MCQUEEN, 3 BROS AND A BUD

UBK & NIGHT VISION PRESENT

BASS COAST

MUTINY TOUR LONGWALK SHORTDOCK, THE LIBRARIAN, SABOTA

W/

APR/2

TUE APR 7

MON APR 6

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

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

BLUES ON WHYTE Big Hank’s Birthday

Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday

Bash BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

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)

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic Monday

stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

Harvey and guests

PAWN SHOP Jeff the Brotherhood

MERCURY ROOM Brian Christensen

Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris

with Madi Allen and Dunna and the Handsome Mess; 8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance

Lessons: 7-9pm • Trick Ryder O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue;

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

with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

STARLITE ROOM Jeff The Brotherhood;

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo

8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); $17.50

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder

dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Remi Noël Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

SANDS HOTEL Country music

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue;

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

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

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Wed open mic

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

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam:

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm

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

L.B.’S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

open mic

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live

Toonz every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (singalong with a live band); 7:30pm12am; no cover; relaxed dress code

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

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Swing, Funk, Soul, R&B, Rock&Roll and Electro/Disco sounds of the last 70 years with DJ Thomas Culture

with host Duff Robison ORIGINAL JOE’S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

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

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays:

WED APR 8 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage

Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

‘80s and ‘90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BLUES ON WHYTE Big Hank’s Birthday

Bash BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

‘80s and ‘90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience:

Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

VENUEGUIDE

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

W/

APR/18

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

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Monday

DAY 2

APR/4

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

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

LUCAS CHAISSON DAYDREAMING CHARLIE A’COURT

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARDEN THEATRE 5 St. Anne Street, St. Albert ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 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 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St 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 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 MACLAB CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 4308-50 St, Leduc 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 ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE 12845 102 Ave NW SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE 9797 Jasper Ave NW SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO 96 St Stephen’s Church, 10909-96 St STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW 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

W/ 100 MILE HOUSE, NORMAN FIELDS

APR/12

W/ BOOK OF CAVERNS AND SLOW GIRL WALKING

APR/13 APR/15

GREEN JELLY W/

NIM VIND, THE NIELSENS, COUNTERFEIT JEANS

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

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

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm •

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Brian Stollery; Apr 2-4 • Jamal Doman; Apr 9-11

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 • Andy Woodhull; Apr 1-5 • Funniest Person with a Day Job; Apr 7 • Bryan Callen Special Performance; Apr 9-12

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill,

and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • Crazy Loon Pub, 10208-99 Ave N.E., Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

ILLNESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS • Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209-123 St • 780.235.5911 • Crohn's Colitis, I.B.D. Support and Solutions • Every 2nd and 4th Tue, 7-9pm

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

VEGGIE BRUNCH - VEGANS & VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA • Mercury

3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Room, 10575-114 St • info@vof.ca • vofa. ca • Enjoy a vegan brunch and meet others interested in a vegetarian diet • Apr 11, 11am-12:30pm • No pre-registration, order off the menu

OUTDOOR WAY OF THE CROSS • Im-

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION •

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

migration Hall, 10534-100 St • jimgurnett@ yahoo.ca • 780.218.6989 • 35th annual Good Friday walk in the urban core, providing opportunities at several stations to reflect on the relevance of the Gospel to local and world issues of social justice, around the overall theme of "Justice and Reconciliation" • Apr 3, 10am-12pm • Free

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall,

12912-50 St • With Brian Stollery as headliner, and Todd Van Allen • Apr 1, 7:30pm

10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

• Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

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

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

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

DROP-IN GRIEF SUPPORT GROUP • Pilgrims Hospice, 9808-148 St • 780.413.9801 ext. 107 • jessem@pilgrimshospice.com • Connect with others who are grieving in a safe environment. A trained facilitator will guide the group in topics related to grief • Apr 8, 7pm

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

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm

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

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating,

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 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

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

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

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

ALBERTA & THE GREAT WAR • Provincial

9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

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 • 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

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw. ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.

9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups. yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot,

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98

• 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

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)

• Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

waskahegantrail.ca • Mill Creek Ravine; Meet at McDonalds Argyll (8110 Argyll Rd); Hike leader: Bev (780.469.7948); Apr 5, 9:45am • Edmonton River Valley: Meet at McDonalds (110 St & 23 Ave); Hike leader: Karen (780.642.6372); Apr 12, 9:45am • Guests welcome; annual membership $20

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

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

QUEER

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

GLUTEN FREE LIVING 101 • Hope Lutheran Church, 5104-106 Ave • Learn the basics of a gluten free lifestyle, such as the different challenges of a gluten free diet, how to check labels, how to live with CD, and how to use your kitchen wisely • Apr 8, 7-9pm • Free

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-

103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. 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 ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-

St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • "Europe" by Enneke Lorberg (Apr 6) • First Mon of the month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

based 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

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE SERIES • Roots

LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St •

GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE •

on Whyte, 305 8135-102 St • 780.414.1466 • Dolphin & Susan Kasper authors of "The Midas Effect" talk about the impact of openness and honesty on a person's physical, mental and emotional well being • Apr 9, 7-9pm • Free

NATURAL MENTAL HEALTH • Roots on

780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving.com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

Whyte, 305, 8135-102 St • 780.437.6720 • truehopeemp.ca • The discovery of a simple natural solution, that is transforming the lives of mental health sufferers • Apr 2, 6:30pm • Free

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP SERIES • Creative Practices Institute,

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON •

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

RASC REGULAR MEETING - MEMBER'S NIGHT • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St • edmontonrasc.com • Members of the RASC will discuss their interests, such as: algolcam, night sky paintings, and more • Apr 13, 7-9:30pm • Free

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

Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, 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

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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 Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm SPECIAL EVENTS AN EVENING IN TIBET • Meridian Banquet Hall, 4820-76 Ave • gasamling.ca • 780.479.0014 • Enjoy an Indian buffet while bidding on a wide variety of items including textiles and clothing, artwork, home décor, jewelry, gift certificates and much more.

Featuring special performances by Tibetan musicians Sonam Sangpo & Tenzin Namdol • Apr 11, 5:30-8:30pm • $50 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

EASTER SUNDAY BRUNCH BUFFET • Craft Beer Market, 10013-101A Ave NW • edmonton.craftbeermarket.ca • Enjoy a wide variety of classic breakfast items from the Craft Beer Market's Over Easy Brunch menu along with other hand crafted favourites on Easter Sunday • Apr 5, 10am-3pm • $25.95 (per person), $10.95 (kids 12 and under)

EDMONTON VOLUNTEER FAIR • West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • volunteeredmonton.com • Talk with over 80 non-profits looking for volunteers that want to make a difference • Apr 11, 11am-4pm • Free FABULOUS FABRIC FRENZY • Strathearn United Church, 8510-95 Ave • 780.481.5524/780.469.6327 • edmgrandmothers.org • A sale of unused donated fabric, yarn and notions to be sold at bargain prices.

Profits go to the Stephen Lewis Foundation • Apr 11, 9:30am-3:30pm • Free OPERA BRUNCH: LUCIA DI LAMMERMOOR • Edmonton Petroleum Club, 11110-108 St • edmontonopera.com/events/ brunch • 780.429.1000 • Brunch prepared by the Edmonton Petroleum Club's executive chef is accompanied by intimate performances by the cast of Lucia di Lammermoor, featuring their favourite repertoire • Apr 12, 11am-1pm • $85 for single tickets; subscriptions also available 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 SPRING BREAK ON THE SQUARE • Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.970.7766 • brasko@edmontonarts.ca • edmontonarts. ca • Free, drop-in activities for children of all ages and interests. Enjoy bouncy castles, lightsaber training, b-boy lessons, and more (all activities are weather dependent) • Mar 30-Apr 3, 12-4pm • Free

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Coming Events

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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Artist to Artist

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

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

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

FOR APPLICATION FORM, questions please contact us.

Email: bszechy@yahoo.com

Help someone Who can’t!

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

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca

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.

226 or shannahb@sace.ab.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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Edmonton International Film Festival October 1-10, 2015 Call for submissions is now OPEN! Categories include dramatic & documentary features, short films and movies made by Albertans.

We’re also looking for FOOD films, stories with SNOW, MAN (the stuff that falls from the sky), DANCE and COMEDY. Regular submission deadline is APRIL 30. Submit NOW to Alberta’s longest running international film festival. www.edmontonfilmfest.com

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.

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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Musicians Available

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

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

Rates start as low as $30.

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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.

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

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

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If you’ve got a mess, please don’t stress. Call Dust Busters House Cleaning Services: Steph 587-982-3232.

ALBERTA-WIDE CLASSIFIEDS •• 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.

MEIER SPRING Classic Car & Truck Auction. Saturday & Sunday, May 2 & 3, 11 a.m. 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton. Consign today, call 780-440-1860.

UNRESERVED AUCTION. Terarosa Antiques, furniture, oil & gas, slot machine, chuckwagon, advertising, collectibles and more. 10 a.m., Saturday, April 4; www.scribnernet.com or 780-842-5666. Location: Marsden, Saskatchewan.

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 HIP OR KNEE Replacement?

Problems with mobility? The Disability Tax Credit. $2,000 yearly tax credit. $20,000 lump sum refund. For assistance call 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 placement assistance available when training is completed. Call for program details! 1-888-627-0297.

•• coming events •• RARE & EXOTIC Spring Sale.

April 11, 2015, Lloydminster Exhibition Grounds. Sale starts 10 a.m. Contact us for more info: 306-825-5571 or sam@lloydexh.com; www.lloydexh.com.

•• employment •• opportunities PEMBINA RIVER Natural Gas Co-op Ltd. Employment Opportunity - Natural Gas Utility Operator. We are seeking the right individual to join our team as a full-time employee.

Experience in the operation of a Natural Gas Distribution System is preferred. Computer skills, strong public relations and a willingness to learn are also important for this position.

For those without experience we are willing to train the right individual. We offer a competitive salary, benefit package and pension plan. Only applicants selected for an interview will be contacted. Please send resumes to Pembina River Natural Gas Co-op. Attention: General Manager. P.O. Box

122, Jarvie, AB, T0G 1H0 or email: pemgas@mcsnet.ca.

Fax 780-954-3844. Deadline for resumes is April 6, 2015.

INTERESTED IN the Community Newspaper business? Alberta’s weekly newspapers are looking for people like you. Post your resume online. FREE. Visit: awna.com/for-job-seekers.

AUDI EDMONTON North Opening this June. We are looking for Licensed Technicians interested in relocating to join a winning group. Please submit resume to: shebdon@jpautogroup.com.

PROGRESSIVE EMS SERVICE in Southwest Alberta require a full-time EMT Paramedic (Advanced Care Paramedic) currently registered with Alberta College of Paramedics with no restrictions. The opening is located in a rural setting, and based in a vibrant, thriving town with full service and amenities.

Requirements: Current non restricted ACP registration, Valid Class 4 licence, Drivers abstract, ACLS, PALS, ITLS certifications, Criminal Record check with vulnerable sector check, Completion of Alberta Health Services Emergency Medical Services Medical Control Protocols is an asset.

This is an excellent opportunity for an EMT Paramedic who values work and life balance and who wishes to be a leader within a terrific team of dedicated professionals. Please contact Margaret Cox, Pincher Creek Emergency Services at 403-627-5333 or by fax at 403-627-3502. Email: marg. pcambulance@gmail.com.

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

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

•• 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.

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. SILVERWOOD LUXURY Modular Log Homes. Show Home 311 - 36 Ave. SE, Calgary. Discover how we can design, build & finish your custom log home in weeks. 1-855-598-4120; www.silverwoodloghomes.ca.

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 FINAL CLEARANCE SALE. Check out the discounts on all of our 2014 homes left on our lot. We have two 20 wide homes and one 16’ wide left.

For information call Marg at Craigs Home Sales in Lethbridge. 1-855-380-2266. We deliver up to 300 km free.

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.

UNDEVELOPED LAND in Okotoks, Alberta. Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Unreserved Auction, April 29 in Edmonton. 80+/- acres just North of Okotoks town limit. Currently Zoned A - Agricultural District.

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

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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.

•• wanted •• FREE SCRAP and truck removal including farm machinery. We pay cash at our yard. 1-780-914-7560; www. sturgeonbusparts.ca.

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): "Choconiverous" is an English slang word that's defined as having the tendency, when eating a chocolate Easter Bunny, to bite the head off first. I recommend that you adopt this direct approach in everything you do in the coming weeks. Don't get bogged down with preliminaries.

Don't get sidetracked by minor details, trivial distractions or peripheral concerns. It's your duty to swoop straight into the center of the action. Be clear about what you want and unapologetic about getting it.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20):

The American snack cake known as a Twinkie contains 68-percent air. Among its 37 other mostly worthless ingredients are sugar, water, cornstarch, the emulsifier polysorbate 60, the filler sodium stearoyl lactylate and food colouring. You can't get a lot of nutritious value by eating it. Now let's consider the fruit known as the watermelon. It's 91-percent water and six-percent sugar. And yet it also contains a good amount of vitamin C, lycopene and antioxidants, all of which are healthy for you. So if you are going to eat a whole lot of nothing, watermelon is a far better nothing than a Twinkie.

Let that serve as an apt metaphor for you in the coming week.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): You may be as close as you have ever gotten to finding the long-lost Holy Grail—or Captain Kidd's pirate treasure, for that matter, or Marie Antoinette's jewels, or Tinkerbell's magical fairy dust, or the smoking-gun evidence that Shakespeare's plays were written by Francis Bacon. At the very least, I suspect you are ever-sonear to your personal equivalent of those precious goods. Is there anything you can do to increase your chances of actually getting it? Here's one tip: Visualize in detail how acquiring the prize would inspire you to become even more generous and magnanimous than you already are.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22):

People are paying attention to you in new ways. That's what you wanted, right? You've been emanating subliminal signals that convey messages like, "Gaze into my eternal eyes" and, "Bask in the cozy glow of my crafty empathy." So, now what? Here's one possibility: go to the next level. Show the even-more-interesting beauty that you're hiding below the surface. You may not think you're ready to offer the gifts you have been "saving for later." But you always think that.

I dare you to reveal more of your deep secret power.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Some people believe unquestioningly in the truth and power of astrology.

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character and predict the future.

Other people believe all astrology is nonsense. They think that everyone who uses it is deluded or stupid. I say that both of these groups are wrong. Both have a simplistic, uninformed perspective. The more correct view is that some astrology is nonsense and some is a potent psychological tool. Some of it's based on superstition and some is rooted in a robust mythopoetic understanding of archetypes. I encourage you to employ a similar appreciation for paradox as you evaluate a certain influence that is currently making a big splash in your life. In one sense, this influence is like snake oil, and you should be skeptical about it. But in another sense it's good medicine that can truly heal.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): According to the Biblical stories, Peter was Christ's closest disciple, but he acted like a traitor when trouble came. After Christ was arrested, in the hours before the trial, Peter denied knowing his cherished teacher three different times. His fear trumped his love, leading him to violate his sacred commitment. Is there anything remotely comparable to that scenario developing in your own sphere, Virgo? If you recognize any tendencies in yourself to shrink from your devotion or violate your highest principles, I urge you to root them out. Be brave. Stay strong and true in your duty to a person or place or cause that you love.

LIBRA (Sep

23 – Oct 22):

Marketing experts say consumers need persistent prodding before they will open their minds to possibilities that are outside their entrenched habits. The average person has to be exposed to a new product at least eight times before it fully registers on his or her awareness. Remember this rule of thumb as you seek attention and support for your brainstorms. Make use of the art of repetition. Not just any old boring, tedious kind of repetition, though. You've got to be as sincere and fresh about presenting your goodies the eighth time as you were the first.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21):

In Cole Porter's song "I Get a Kick Out of You," he testifies that he gets no kick from Champagne.

In fact, "Mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all," he sings. The same is true about cocaine. "I'm sure that if I took even one sniff that would bore me terrifically, too," Porter declares. With this as your nudge, Scorpio, and in accordance with the astrological omens, I encourage you to identify the titillations that no longer provide you with the pleasurable jolt they once did.

Acknowledge the joys that have grown stale and the adventures whose rewards have waned. It's time for you to go in search of

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a new array of provocative fun and games.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): The English writer Wil-

liam Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) wrote hundreds of poems.

Among his most famous was "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," which is also known as "Daffodils." The poem sprung from him after a walk he took with his sister around Lake Ullswater in the English Lake District.

There they were delighted to find a long, thick belt of daffodils growing close to the water.

In his poem, Wordsworth praises the "ten thousand" flowers that were "Continuous as the stars that shine / And twinkle on the milky way." If you are ever going to have your own version of a daffodil explosion that inspires a burst of creativity, Sagittarius, it will come in the coming weeks.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan.19):

Your subconscious desires and your conscious desires seem to be at odds. What you say you want is not in precise alignment with what your deep self wants.

That's why I'm worried that "Don't! Stop!" might be close to morphing into "Don't stop!"—or vice versa. It's all pretty confusing. Who's in charge here? Your false self or your true self? Your wounded, conditioned, habitbound personality or your wise, eternal, ever-growing soul? I'd say it's a good time to retreat into your sanctuary and get back in touch with your primal purpose.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Sometimes you're cool, but

other times you're hot. You veer from acting aloof and distracted to being friendly and attentive.

You careen from bouts of laziness to bursts of disciplined efficiency. It seems that you're always either building bridges or burning them, and on occasion you are building and burning them at the same time. In short, Aquarius, you are a master of vacillation and a slippery lover of the in-between. When you're not completely off-target and out of touch, you've got a knack for wild-guessing the future and seeing through the false appearances that everyone else regards as the gospel truth. I, for one, am thoroughly entertained!

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20):

How can you ripen the initiatives you have set in motion in recent weeks? Of the good new trends you have launched, which can you now install as permanent enhancements in your daily rhythm? Is there anything you might do to cash in on the quantum leaps that have occurred, maybe even figure out a way to make money from them? It's time for you to shift from being lyrically dreamy to fiercely practical. You're ready to convert lucky breaks into enduring opportunities. V AT THE BACK 27

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I think my husband is addicted to porn. I find porn in his browser history almost every single day. He says I'm the only one he wants, but I find that hard to believe knowing he watches nonstop porn before fucking me. He also parties every time he goes on a business trip.

Needless to say, I also suspect he cheats. He says he would never cheat on me because he "doesn't need to." But what does that mean?

I think he is a liar. Every time I even try to bring anything up with him, it is flung back in my face because I cheated on him. He has the ultimate trump card. In his eyes, he can do no wrong because it will never be as bad as me having slept with someone else early in our relationship. Anyway, my question is mostly related to porn: Why does he watch it? I feel as though I am not enough. I am 29 and attractive.

What should I do?

WIFE IS FEELING ENTIRELY YUCKY You should stop looking at your husband's browser history.

I have no way of knowing exactly what your husband means by "doesn't need to [cheat]," WIFEY, but here's the best-case scenario: You're his only sex partner, he's totally into you, but like all humans—including wife humans—he's wired to desire a little variety and some novelty.

No one is "enough" for anyone, and anyone who tells you otherwise is a liar. Which is not to say that everyone cheats (because not everyone does) or that cheating is OK (because it rarely is), but cheating is common enough that forgiving an isolated infidelity (or two) should be our default setting, not immediately lawyering up and filing for divorce. (And truly forgiving someone for cheating means not flinging it in her face during subsequent disputes.)

Back to the best-case scenario: Your husband wants to have sex with other people (and so do you) but he doesn't (and neither do you). Instead of cheating, WIFEY, your husband scratches that variety itch with porn. He pops into his favourite sites once or twice day, just like millions of other people, but he's not cheating on you. (Unless you define viewing porn as cheating—in which case, good luck finding a man who won't cheat on you.) I would advise you, again, to stop scouring his browser history for evidence of what you already know to be true—your husband is attracted to other people and sometimes looks at porn—and make up your mind to enjoy the effect porn has on your husband, ie, it revs him up and stokes his desire

for you.

Now here's the worst-case scenario: Your husband is cheating on you, perhaps during those business trips, and "doesn't need to [cheat]" was an insincere blandishment. But absent some other compelling evidence of cheating—incriminating text messages, mysterious creditcard charges, brand-new STIs— you're just going to have to take him at his word.

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I have a question about the price of admission. I am a male in an eight-year het relationship. The sex is unquestionably amazing. The thing is, my girlfriend made it clear at the beginning of our relationship that blowjobs were not gonna happen often. She's done it a few times over the years, but I could see her heart wasn't really in it. I love going down on her, but she only tolerates it on the way to penetrative sex. She says this is not open for debate, but I would like to talk about why she doesn't like it. She's

to masturbate! If anything, this has improved my sex life with my husband, as I feel sexier than ever. But my real worry is this: Am I being unfaithful? I'm really guilt-tripping myself about it. But then I think, what am I doing wrong? I've never even spoken to the "other man," I'm in my own home, and I don't intend to sleep with the neighbour. Is it possible to enjoy this flirtation in a way that I don't feel like I'm betraying my husband? Do you think what I'm doing is risky?

WONDERING IF NEXT-DOOR OBSERVER WOUNDS SPOUSE Let's say you went to the beach to lie out because you get a secret thrill from getting checked out, WINDOWS, and then you took that sexual energy home and plowed it into your husband. That wouldn't be a problem. Strangers at the beach make you feel attractive, feeling attractive makes you horny, feeling horny makes you wanna fuck the shit out of your husband.

You win, your husband wins and the strangers at the beach win.

Everybody wins.

There are two big differences between what's going on in your kitchen and what went down on my hypothetical beach: proximity and regularity. You're not going to see the same people at the beach again, WINDOWS, but your neighbour lives right next door.

What happens when you finally and inevitably meet him face-toface? Hopefully nothing, but the odds of something are much higher. And running into your neighbour and not being able to resist the temptation is not the only risk you're running: You don't know anything about this guy. Your innocent flirtation could be his dangerous obsession—and one day, you could wake up to find him standing at the foot of your bed.

But perhaps the minimal risks— you should be able to keep your hands off him, he's unlikely to show up at the foot of your bed— are worth the very real rewards, ie, an improved sex life with your husband. This whole thing might seem less like "cheating lite" if you could tell your husband about how much you enjoy teasing the neighbour and how hot it makes you— for your husband. Then instead of retreating to masturbate alone in another room after showing off in the kitchen, WINDOWS, you can retire to your bedroom and fuck the shit out of your waiting husband. V

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said I don't have an unattractive penis or anything like that, but the conversation quickly devolves into: "If you wanted blowjobs, you should've picked someone else." I feel like we're missing out on something—passionate and mutual oral sex—that could be great.

WANTING INTO SOME HEAD Pick someone else, WISH, but only if getting oral back in your life is more important to you than having this particular girlfriend in your life. She was up-front about her disinterest in oral sex—maybe she had early and unpleasant/traumatic experiences with oral, maybe she tried it and doesn't like it—and just getting her to talk about it is unlikely to result in long sessions of passionate and mutual oral sex. If you can't see yourself going without oral for the rest of your life, WISH, either get permission from this girlfriend to get oral elsewhere or get yourself a new girlfriend.

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I'm 31 and have been with my husband for eight years, married last year, everything's great—sex life included. But I have started a flirtation with a guy who lives next door.

He can see into our kitchen, and I caught him watching me one day, and this was a huge turn-on for me.

Now I wear sexy clothes when I'm home alone, and we stare at each other longingly. Sounds weird, I know, but it gets me so hot that sometimes I have to leave the room

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