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"Do we want to see some changes?

Yes, but who can say if that's really going to happen? Change, for us, comes slowly." // 5

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Choice laws apply to queers, too

Religious freedom and freedom of choice aren't just hetero or American issues Call it Arizona 2.0: Indiana lawmakers have come under fire recently for passing the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, which prevents future laws from being passed that "substantially burden" a person's (or business') freedom of religion.

The law has been receiving quite a bit of press lately; detractors worry that it is overly broad and can be used to discriminate against the queer community. As of this writing, good-ish news is on the horizon: amendments will be added to the law which will, according to Senate President Pro Tempore David Long, "unequivocably state that [the law] does not and will not be able to discriminate against anyone, anywhere, at any time." These amendments will also include specific language about

"sexual orientation" and "gender identity" which, while not making gays and lesbians a protected class of citizens, will be the first time such language is used in Indiana state law.

Indiana saw another first-time milestone last week, and it was much more chilling. On March 30, it became the first state to charge, convict and sentence a woman with feticide: 33-year-old Purvi Patel was sentenced to 20 years in prison. She was arrested in July 2013 after arriving at a hospital, where she was suffering from heavy vaginal bleeding.

She denied she was pregnant, but eventually admitted that she had a miscarriage and disposed of the dead fetus in a plastic bag placed in a dumpster. Patel wanted to keep the pregnancy quiet from her

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Canadian TV is no joke For Canadians holding out hope for engaging, homegrown television, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission is making some overdue changes that will delight consumers and give the industry the much-needed creative boost.

Among several changes announced by the CRTC in recent months, two in particular bring good tidings to a Canadian television industry that has virtually flatlined under the weight of encroaching US and UK networks.

First, the CRTC is doing away with the overdose of channels included in most cable packages by mandating a toned-down pick-and-pay option that requires a basic package under $25 supplemented by individual channels offered à la carte.

At the very least, this will restore viewers' interest in cable after years of being forced to pay for hundreds of channels they do nothing more than surf over. It's a feedback mechanism that will surely see smaller, niche networks squeezed out, but those that remain will be larger and more creative, yet still subject to the threat of easy disconnection to consumers.

Secdonly, to appease networks faced with higher stakes and stronger competition, Canadian content (or can-con) quotas will be lessened.

Networks will no longer need to produce cancon for daytime TV, allowing them to invest more money in high-quality Canadian productions in reliable primetime slots without having to stretch their budgets to reach can-con quotas in the daytime dead zone.

Of course, these changes are only part of the equation; Canadian networks will have to get creative to steal viewers' attention from behemoths like HBO, AMC and the BBC. But if networks take full advantage of the CRTC's boost, then we might soon see a day in which the words "Canadian TV" are no longer laughable, keeping talented writers, actors and directors north of the border and making the Canadian media landscape something to be proud of once again. V

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conservative Hindu family and panicked when she went into very early labour—she was between 20 to 25 weeks pregnant.

The issues here are too complex to untangle in such a short space, but what remains is a woman sentenced to jail for having a miscarriage, setting a worrisome precedent for other late miscarriages or even abortions. This brings me to a reaction I find shockingly common amongst queers when the subject of abortion comes up: that's too bad, but why should we care? It's not like queer sex will get anyone pregnant.

Why indeed. To imagine that queer sex only ever consists of identical genitals being mashed together does a great disservice to the wide

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diversity of folks who make their home under a queer umbrella. To say that abortion is not a queer issue ignores bi-folks and trans-folks. It ignores the gay man who sleeps with his cis-gender female best friend while drunk one night because they were both lonely. It ignores the lesbian who, after spending two years waiting to access the fertility clinic, finds herself 20 weeks pregnant and with a cancer diagnosis.

But even if we could claim with certainty that no queer would ever need access to abortion services, queer and abortion issues both exist on the reproductive-rights spectrum. We have seen time and again in the US that anti-abortion rhetoric and laws are almost always accompanied by regressive sex-education

policy; I have yet to see an abstinence-only curriculum champion the benefits of gay sex because it rarely leads to teen pregnancy. In fact, abstinence-only education is by definition heterosexual and that does have a direct impact on our community.

Granted, we have a different context in Canada—politicians aren't as obsessed with abortion laws here as they are in the US and abortion is relatively accessible, as long as you don't live in a rural area, in parts of the Maritimes or up North.

However, as both the fervour over Ontario's new sex-ed curriculum and last month's gruesome anti-abortion demonstration during the U of A's Pride Week show, these issues are all too alive in Canada. V

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The Middle East: Iran is back The Arab world's status quo is off now that Iran is playing again ger stand against Israel was very popular in the Arab street. The solution was to paint Iran as a crazy terrorist state and isolate it as much as possible from the rest of the region.

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"This [Arab] nation, in its darkest hour, has never faced a challenge to its existence and a threat to its identity like the one it's facing now," said General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, now the ruler of Egypt.

Sisi was addressing the Arab League summit in Cairo last week that created a new pan-Arab military force to confront this threat, so overheated rhetoric was standard issue, but still. The air forces of Saudi Arabia and its Gulf neighbours are blasting Yemen from the air, and there is talk of Saudi Arabian, Egyptian and even Pakistani troops invading on the ground, but it all smells more of panic than of strategic calculation.

The panic is due to the fact that the status quo that has prevailed in the Middle East since approximately 1980 is at an end. Iran is

back, and there is great dismay in the palaces of Riyadh—especially because it was Saudi Arabia's great friend and ally, the United States, who finally set Iran free.

It was the agreement in Lausanne last Thursday between Iran and the group of 5+1 (the United States, Russia, China, Britain, France and Germany) that marked the end of the status quo. It was about ending the various trade embargoes against Iran in return for 10 to 15 years of strict controls on Iran's nuclear power program, but it will also let Iran out of the jail it has been confined to since the 1979 revolution.

Initially that revolution was quite scary for Iran's Arab neighbours, because Iran's example in overthrowing the local proWestern ruler and taking a stron-

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Those measures worked for 20 years, assisted by some really stupid Iranian actions, like holding US embassy personnel hostage for 444 days, but by the end of the 20th century they were losing credibility. What saved the "quarantine" policy in 2002 was the discovery that Tehran had been working on nuclear weapons design.

The alleged Iranian nuclear threat provided the basis for another decade and more of political quarantine and trade embargoes that have crippled Iran economically and isolated it politically. All that came to a sudden end last week with the agreement in principle in Lausanne (unless the Saudi Arabian and Israeli lobbies in Washington manage to torpedo the deal in the next few months).

Iran has about the same population and GDP as Egypt, the biggest Arab country by far, but it is far closer both to the Arab Gulf states and to the Sunni-Shia battlegrounds in Iraq and Syria (both of whose governments are closely linked to Tehran). That's what Sisi was really talking about when he spoke of an existential threat to Arab existence and identity. However, he's still talk-

ing through his hat.

Arab existence and identity are nowhere at risk, and Iran has no need to paint the Sunni Arab countries as enemies. The Iranian regime may be losing its support among the young (or maybe not), but it has absolutely no need to inoculate them against the attraction of Arab political systems and foreign policies by promoting an Arab-Iranian confrontation.

They hold no attraction whatsoever for young Iranians.

As for the notion that the Houthi militia that now controls most of Yemen is really an Iranian tool (which is the main justification for the military intervention there), it is nonsense.

The Houthis, like the Iranians, are Shias, but they have their own local interests to protect, and Iran has no plausible reason to want some sort of strategic foothold in Yemen. It is a safe bet that there is not now even a single armed Iranian in Yemen.

If the United States could send troops into Iraq in 2003 in the delusionary belief that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction, then Saudi Arabia can believe that it is fighting Iranians in Yemen now. No country has a monopoly on stupidity, and Riyadh will probably have ample opportunity to regret its mistake.

V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

NEWS // CUBA

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istory was made in a handshake between Barack Obama and Raul Castro when they announced their intent to normalize diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba on December 17, 2014.

Western media jumped on the news, projecting ideas of what would seismically change in Cuba now that political leaders were hinting at finally putting an end to the 53-year-long bloqueo— the US-imposed economic blockade— against the tiny island nation.

Some changes were made effective immediately: most notably was the release of political prisoners in both countries. On the same day as the handshake, Cuba released Alan Gross, a US AID government official who was arrested in December 2009 for allegations of subverting Cuban society as an American intelligence operative. In the US, three remaining prisoners of the "Cuban Five," intelligence officers convicted in Miami for espionage, were finally released after 16 years in prison.

Obama revealed the US was loosening travel restrictions to Cuba, allowing for US residents and citizens to visit family in Cuba, along with government officials, university students, journalists and other professionals meeting criteria—though not yet for tourists.

Many are predicting a flood of American tourism in the near future.

Airbnb, a US-owned home rental company, announced last Thursday it would be expanding its services

to Cuba, after witnessing a sudden 70-percent increase in US searches for rentals following Obama and Castro's announcement.

Many predict that once the US tourism floodgates open, Cuba will be transformed into a New Florida, complete with Starbucks, McDonald's and

tourist-saturated beaches and resort towns in Cuba. I was eager to ask my friends, colleagues and acquaintances about their thoughts on the announcement of US-Cuban relations. What would they have to say about the potential changes ahead?

Not a lot, I quickly discovered.

But what remains uncertain to the Western world is how Cubans living in Cuba feel about the situation and the potential changes that US-Cuban relations could bring about. the entire range of the usual global corporate-brand suspects. It's been reported that since the December 2014 announcement, the rate of tourism has doubled, even tripled with visitors from non-US countries, including Canada, flocking to the Caribbean island.

But what remains uncertain to the Western world is how Cubans living in Cuba feel about the situation and the potential changes that US-Cuban relations could bring about.

In a country where the vast majority of the population lacks access to engaging in Internet and social-media sites, it's difficult, if not impossible, to ascertain social attitudes and trends in Cuba from the outside.

A few months following the ObamaCastro announcement, I had the opportunity to travel beyond the narrow

Contrary to the passionate discussion I thought would ensue, I was met with vague half-answers, a shrug of the shoulders or a rather anti-climactic sigh.

"We've been living with the bloqueo for many years, for most of our lives, actually," comments Carmen Perez*, 56, who works as an agronomist. "Do we want to see some changes? Yes, but who can say if that's really going to happen? Change, for us, comes slowly."

The average Cuban who works a state job earns between the equivalent of $12 to $20 US dollars per month, and while the state provides partial foodration support, it's steadily decreased over recent years to less than 50 percent of an individual's food needs.

Most Cubans are already accus-

tomed to engaging in informal work activities to earn enough money to pay for the increasing cost of living, but in recent years, Castro has made it easier—not to mention "legal"—for entrepreneurial work.

Cubans can now operate and profit from small businesses. Many do so from their own homes, converting living rooms and front steps into restaurants, hair salons, bookstores and clothing stores. There have been other changes in Cuban society, as well. It's now easier for Cubans to own cellphones, send emails through a local Intranet service, and there has even been the faint whispering of Wi-Fi access on the horizon.

But Perez's cautious, if not reluctant, response to the US-Cuba relations buzz appears measured. In late January, Castro announced that normalization wouldn't be possible until the US leave the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, end the embargo and compensate the country for losses after half a century of economic sanctions.

Though a recent poll by Beyond the Beltway in the US indicates that 64 percent of Americans support Obama's policy to end the economic embargo in Cuba, the final decision must be passed in Congress. The Republican majority of the house and senate may not be so sympathetic to Cuba's cause to end the embargo and be compensated for their losses.

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will be "normalized" between the US and Cuba until American firms and citizens are compensated for over $7 billion-worth of assets that were "confiscated" from the Americans by the Communist Party following the Cuban revolution in 1959. Indeed, the issue of compensation between the US and Cuba presents yet another elephant in the room for the two countries.

The third round of discussion between officials wrapped up in Mexico on March 18 and, though there has been talk of opening official embassies in both countries by mid-April, officials report there's been no official deadline set.

Many Cubans continue to wait, cautiously hopeful, though recognizing the complexity of the situation and that it could be a long road ahead.

"There is so much I love about my country," says Oscar Hernandez*, 24.

He's a university graduate and teaches at a state primary school, and he also works in a privately owned ceramics business to make ends meet.

"Our education and healthcare systems, our strong sense of community," he pauses. "But, yes, some change is needed here—so we'll wait and see what happens."

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ocal food: it's a mantra to some and a buzzword to others.

Whether you're an enthusiastic supporter of local food or completely ambivalent towards it, there's no denying that regionalism is becoming firmly rooted in Edmonton's food personality, with many restaurants putting it at the forefront of their ethos—or at least their branding.

But when local food is on the table, dinner conversations tend to avoid one particular aspect of it: it costs more—often a lot more—than food grown elsewhere.

"If you Google something like 'eating on a budget' or 'where to get vegetables for super cheap,' all of the American websites say go to the farmers' markets—but it's the complete opposite here," Carley-Jane Stanton says. "It's because our growing season is so short. It's because input costs are a lot more expensive in Alberta. It's because our wages for farm labour are higher than in the States. It has to be more expensive here—but I think as a community it's our job to make sure that, while it is more expensive and we can't expect farmers to charge less for it, we need to make sure everyone can have access to it."

Stanton is sitting beside me on the Number 9 bus, an impromptu change in meeting location caused by a collision in the 97 Avenue tunnel that halted all traffic for half an hour. It turned out to be a rather appropriate setting, given the topic of our

conversation, Stanton's new endeavour: the Alder Food Security Society.

This impressively ambitious project, announced at the beginning of the year with the launch of an Indiegogo campaign, involves a twopronged approach to local food.

Stanton is founder and head of the Alder Food Security Society, a nonprofit group aimed at establishing long-term food security for all members of the community, especially marginalized individuals. The Society is partnered with the Alder Room, an intimate, 18-seat fine-dining restaurant headed by local chef (and Stanton's partner) Ben Staley, formerly of North 53.

"It's built off of my education and [Staley's] background and growth as chef; he's come more into regional cuisine," explains Stanton, who is studying Agriculture and Resource Economics at the University of Alberta. "From there the idea sort of snowballed and it turned into a food justice, local food on a larger scale, food-security idea."

The Alder Room is novel for its approach to food as well as its physical arrangement. Rather than pay lip service to local food, regional foods and seasonality are the restaurant's entire raison d'etre. The Alder Room will also dispense with a traditional dining room and instead seat guests at a counter surrounding a U-shaped open kitchen, where they will interact directly with the chefs preparing

a menu in a tasting format of six, nine or 12 courses.

The Alder Room has received most of the attention so far, due to its novelty in Edmonton's dining landscape and clear alignment with the world's top movements in cuisine, especially those in Scandinavia.

Stanton notes that they hope to open sometime in the fall of 2015, but the date is still up in the air. They only achieved 12 percent of their $100 000 Indiegogo goal, but the campaign did generate serious interest amongst private investors and provided enough capital for Staley to secure the keys to the premises: a heritage building in the heart of Chinatown, currently a scruffy area but one that's slated for revitalization.

The Alder Food Security Society is already well underway, however, and will operate independently of the Alder Room.

"We decided to separate it into a non-profit so that the success of the programs wouldn't be as linked to the success of the restaurant," Stanton notes. She has just finished assembling the Board of Directors and organized their first major milestone: #AlderEats, a collaborative fundraising dinner featuring a handful of Edmonton's chefs du jour, to be hosted on June 5 at Toast Fine Catering in the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market.

One of the society's programming objectives is a community-kitchen initiative, which will be led by

Kathryn Joel of Get Cooking.

"The idea's gone from being just a one-time deal where people come through the farmers' market and learn how to cook together and learn food buying, to sort of a curriculum that's six sessions long," Stanton explains. "One time we'll go through a grocery store and then come and cook together, and another time will be geared towards young teens learning how to cook for their little siblings, and then one dealing with a food box."

The Alder Food Security Society is also working on establishing a farmers' market subsidy program as well as a food chat program, the latter of which will be headed by local food blogger Liv Vors.

"We're trying to give voices to people in the Edmonton food community who don't really have a voice now," Stanton says. "[Vors] was talking about focusing on aboriginal perspectives or perspectives from people who are actually living with food insecurity, instead of just cool, 'I'm a chef' kind of talks."

Circling back to the bigger picture behind these programs raises two fundamental questions: what is food security, and why does Edmonton need it?

"Food security isn't necessarily just about being able to grow all of your food within your country or region; it's about people not being able to afford food, and people not hav-

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ing access to food," Stanton says.

"We want to mobilize all of the Edmonton food community, and then ultimately politically mobilize legislation and city policy to make it so that as a community, we ensure that everyone can have access."

Reflecting on the origins of both the Alder Food Security Society and the Alder Room, Stanton hits upon a darker side of the eat local/shop local movement: sheer inaccessibility. "[Staley] and I were sitting at Bar Bricco and we were talking about his food and the prices for the menus and then I just said to him, 'This is all kind of elitist,'" Stanton recalls. "He was a little bit offended, but I asked how can you make it not elitist, and then we came up with the idea of, why don't we have a restaurant and do community programs or invite people into the restaurant to eat for free so that anyone who's interested in the type of food [Staley] does, or local food, can have the opportunity to try it at least once."

"I think a big barrier to people accessing local food isn't even always income," she continues. "It's about feeling excluded from the community. Right now, it's honestly a bunch of affluent white people doing their thing—and it's vibrant and it's great, but it would be a hell of a lot better if everyone would be able to get involved, and everyone would be able to have their voices heard."

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The Albertan gem of Canadian whisky Alberta Premium may look deceptive, but it's one of the world's best whiskies Canada's contribution to the whisky world is often an unsung hero. Scottish and Irish whiskies always get a lot of press, while recent years have seen a rise in whisky from unlikely spots around the world: India, South America, Japan. It's easy to overlook the whisky we make, quite literally, in our backyard, but a few surprising gems lurk among all those familiar domestic bottles—and one of the best ones is made in Calgary.

Whisky is usually made from corn, wheat, barley or a blend of these cereal grains. Scottish and Irish whiskies are usually distilled

from barley, while the United States' bourbon is mainly made from corn. Canadian whisky is distinctive for its use of rye, a crop that thrives in our cold northern climate and contributes a distinctive spicy, bitter edge to whisky.

The use of rye became so synonymous with Canadian whisky that it is often simply referred to in shorthand as "rye." This is actually somewhat of misnomer, however, as most Canadian whiskies are actually made from a blend of grains; corn is usually predominant and rye often plays a very minor role.

But within an old-fashioned, cutglass bottle with a plain black label—the design of which hasn't changed in decades—resides one of the world's best whiskies, and one of very few 100-percent rye whiskies left in the world: Alberta Premium.

You're not alone if that fact seems unbelievable: Alberta Premium is a ubiquitous presence lurking in liquor cabinets across the country, easily overlooked for the fact that absolutely nothing about its branding or price (around $20 for a 750-mL bottle) indicates that it's a great whisky.

But great it is: leading whisky expert Jim Murray has consistently rated Alberta Premium very highly in his annual Whisky Bible. He usually scores it around 95 points, and he also named it the best Canadian whisky in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2010.

Alberta Premium is produced by Alberta Distillers Limited in a massive, unremarkable factory in a Calgary industrial park. The distillery also produces whiskies under the Alberta Springs, Tangle Ridge and Windsor Canadian brands, as well as the Alberta Pure and Banff Ice vodkas. It also exports a slew of other products

to dozens of countries around the world.

Ignore (or admire) the outmoded bottle and revel in the fact that we have such a great whisky available for such a great price, and that it's local, too—not only is Alberta Premium distilled in Calgary, it is also made from rye grown on the Canadian prairies. And contrary to its tragically popular use as a highball mixed with Coca-Cola or ginger ale, Alberta Premium is a great addition to your home bar, as it makes a surprisingly good basis for many cocktails. V

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A comedy of menace // Marc J Chalifoux

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wanted to write a comedy of menace," Belinda Cornish says. "It's an offbeat black comedy with a big subject at its heart—but I really don't want it to come across as a social action play, because it isn't."

Cornish is reflecting on Category E, the first script she's written since 2012's Little Elephants. The Maggie Tree enlisted her to write a script for the company, so Cornish used the opportunity to tackle a squirmy subject she has long been interested in: animal testing.

"I always feel that if a play has an issue at its heart, and then it spends the whole play telling you about that issue and how important that issue is, I actually come out of that play caring less," Cornish says, explaining

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that she was keenly aware of the common pitfalls of the "issue play" when writing this script. "If you kind of smack people over the head with it, I know I, for one, end up feeling slightly apathetic. [Category E] is not presented in the sense of, 'Look how terrible this is!' The play will not tell you how to think."

Cornish thus approaches her subject sidelong, which caused a secondary effect of making the show "hilariously hard to talk about"—the play's promotional materials are rather apocryphal.

She describes the plot as simply three people in a room getting to know one another; occasionally one of them leaves for a period of time to undergo unseen and undiscussed experiments.

Fri, Apr 10 – Sat, Apr 18 (7:30 pm; 2 pm matinees Apr 11 and 18) Directed by Nancy McAlear Varscona Theatre, $15 – $20 "One of the things that interested me was taking people and putting them in a confined environment, where an unseen force was doing potentially terrible things to them, but not allowing them to rail against 'the system' or be actively afraid or try to escape," Cornish explains. "Essentially, forcing them to behave like human versions of rabbits in a test facility. There is something both mortifying and darkly funny about people just naively accepting their menacing surroundings without question."

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inners and Losers was never intended to be the show audiences saw. It was a game James Long and Marcus Youssef created to help develop a different show they were working on, one exploring the idea of competition through two Russian novelists trying to write a better novel than the other.

"Before we started writing it, we started to play a warm-up game, and this is what we came up with: quick debates on topics—on people, places or things—with the potential of using the text from the debates to put into the actual written play between these two guys," Long says, on the phone from Vancouver. "So we would record them, we sent them away to get transcribed, and then they came back and they were much more interesting than the play we were writing."

The two eventually abandoned the script and chased the game, and subsequently have toured Winners

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and Losers for more than two years, booking some 150 shows in that time.

Reducing drama down to a binary argument, it turns out, is capable of leaving a significant impression with an audience.

"I think it has something to do with the fact that kind of bare-bones, essential competitive paradigm is obviously, to our rational minds and our hearts, absurd," Youssef explains, in a separate phone call. "It's an absurd idea. It's so reductionist, it's kind of meaningless. And yet I think it resonates—this has been our experience making it, and doing it—because despite its absurdity, I think it's ticking away for a lot of us, all the time.

We're doing it without thinking."

The show is as spartan as it sounds: the two sit onstage, debating whether the topic at hand is a winner or a loser. They eventually turn their argumentative aim on each other, assessing to see who gets the W and who's left with the L. About 20 percent of the arguments are improvised night of, and the rest were previously created through the game, with generous room for ad-libbing lines in the more structured segments. There are some rules, both performers note: no talking about families (though the two do discuss each other's parenting skills), and, most pertinently, no lying.

At first, the pair note, it took some time to shake off those arguments; even scripted, it still felt raw to attack each other on stage. They've found a certain truth in that minimalist approach to conflict, though. They're being themselves up there, Youssef notes, and taking each other to task live offers an alternative sort of drama than that of a more customary scripted world.

"Those moments of true, in-themoment drama are fundamentally different from most of the kind of performance we experience," he says.

"And I think the audience senses that.

There's an aliveness to it that's real. "

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rmstrong's War brings together two people who have suffered through similar traumatic experiences, though their coping strategies couldn't be more different. Halley Armstrong (Eva Foote), a precocious 12-year-old Girl Guide, sits up straight in her wheelchair, avoiding her vulnerability with radiant pluck and cheer.

"This is my story and my story has a happy ending!" she shouts, determined to escape the harsh realities of tragedy.

Her counterpart, 21-year-old wounded corporal Michael Armstrong (Jamie Cavanagh), questions her tactic

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ho would win in a fight: Hamlet or Richard III? Local theatre troupe Thou Art Here is stepping outside its usual sitespecific approach to the Bard's work for a one-night staged production of Kill Shakespeare. Based on the eponymous graphic novels by Anthony Del Col and Conor McCreery, the show is akin to a staged version of a radio play, incorporating projections of the comic-book panels with dialogue provided by actors onstage, along with performances of scenes, live sound effects and music. Toronto's Soulpepper Theatre first adapted the graphic novels into a live staged reading in 2011, and it's since popped up at various comic-book conventions; Thou Art Here performed the first half of it at last year's Edmonton Expo.

"Some people think Shakespeare is a god," Ben Stevens says, explaining Kill Shakespeare's plot. "Some people think he's a wizard. Some people think he's just a myth. They're all trying to find this mythical Shakespeare."

Stevens plays the role of Hamlet, who is shipwrecked and washes up in the graphic novel's strange fantasy world, ruled by the tyrannical

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Despite their confrontations, Halley and Michael's relationship is frequently hilarious. For a show about painful psychological scars, Armstrong's War has a surprising number of laughs. The fast-paced, detail-rich writing is animated by the actors' strong chemistry.

From their first interaction they develop a witty banter, and they never let their energy fall off when their scenes turn more quiet and serious.

Foote and Cavanagh are electric in their challenging roles, flowing organically from conflict to comedy to tear-choked confession. Their physicality is perfect, especially Foote's fidgety tween energy, frustrated by her wheelchair's confinement.

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Richard III. The story is peopled by Shakespeare's various characters, heroes and villains alike all imbued with various mystical or superhuman abilities—Hamlet has the ability to speak to the dead and is the only one who can enter the enchanted Globe Forest wherein resides the reclusive Bard.

"One of my favourite things about Hamlet in this series is that they go a little bit into, what could his relationship have been with his father?"

Stevens says. "The challenge is differentiating these characters and making them stand out and live up to what you would expect them to be, and also at the same time we want to defy your expectations a little bit. Oh, this is what you think Hamlet is like?

Well, if you put him in a new situation, imagine how he could change.

And if you know Juliet so well and you know Othello so well, well, what happens if they meet? How does that change them and how do they grow, while at the same time honouring these characters that we've heard so much about for 400 years?"

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Otherwise, Armstrong's War portrays the very human, decidedly unglamorous consequences of war.

Over the course of the 90-minute one-act, Halley and Michael slowly let their guards down, acknowledging their pain to each other and to themselves. But they don't fix each other; their wounds are too deep and too traumatic to ever fully heal. All they can do is admit that they're hurt and try to stem each other's bleeding a little, like battlefield sutures.

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CATEGORY E • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • themaggietree.com • Two individuals in a white cell with two beds, two chairs. One is a half-blind paraplegic. The other might be a clinical psychopath. A third individual arrives.

Within 36 hours, it will come to pass that there will be only two again. In the meantime, they will play monopoly, try to figure out who's next door, and do their best not to kill each other • Apr 10-18 CBC IRRELEVANT SHOW • Eva O. Howard Theatre, 10210-108 Ave • cbc.ca/ irrelevantshow • The final taping of the season for CBC Radio's award-winning sketch comedy show • Apr 11, 7:30pm CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13 CURSED BY A WOMAN • Campus SaintJean, U of A, 4-8406 91 St • Eleanor has lost everything in the Great Depression. With nothing left to lose, she is urged by her dying grandmother to set off to L.A. to fulfil her dreams as a singer. While there, she runs into unsuspected friendship, a villain for a boss, and quite possibly love • Apr 15-18 DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30pm • Until Jun 1 • $13 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN • La Cite Francophone (L'Unitheatre), 8627-91 St • Cell mates in a Latin American prison, Valentin is a tough revolutionary undergoing torture and Molina is an unabashed homosexual serving eight years for deviant behavior. Molina shares his fantasies about an actress, Aurora with Valentin. One of her roles is a Spider Woman who kills with a kiss • Apr 11-19

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

MARATHON • PCL Studio Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns • fringetheatre.ca • 780.409.1910 • Intertwines two stories from TJ Dawe's own life, the struggle he faced as a terrible long distance runner, and how he attempted to deal with a big personal blind spot • Apr 17-18

OH BOY, BUDDY HOLLY! • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690, 8882-170 St • It's Shallow Water's last graduation before it closes and to save it, the grade 12 kids, have written letters to their favorite rock and roll stars, begging them to play at their graduation dance. The kids have tried everything, and now the whole town is being swept away by the campaign!

In response, Buddy Holly, The Everly Brothers and Chuck Berry arrive to save the day • Feb 7-Apr 12 OVER THE EDGE WITH 4-PLAY • ATB Financial Arts Barns - Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • catalysttheatre.ca • A fundraiser. Four plays created in just one day, with the help of some of Edmonton's most fantastic playwrights, actors, directors and designers • Apr 10, 9pm THAT'S TERRIFIC • Varscona Theatre • last Sat ea month • An enthusiastic celebration of all things notable, important, encouraging, and superior • Nov 29-Jul 25 THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • Examines the breakdown of the marriage of a middleaged couple, Martha and George. Late one evening after a university faculty party, they receive an unwitting younger couple, Nick and Honey as guests, and draw them into their bitter and frustrated relationship • Apr 8-18 WINNER & LOSERS • Citadel Theatre • Part of Beyond the Stage • Theatre artists and long-time friends Marcus Youssef and James Long sit at a table and play a game they made up called “winners and losers,” in which they name things and people — Pamela Anderson, microwave ovens, Goldman Sachs, their fathers — and debate whether, from their perspective, these things are winners or losers • Apr 8-19

COVER // FAVA FEST

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ust picture it: you've stepped on stage to accept an award from your peers.

You're dizzy as the waves of applause wash over you—hot damn, this thing comes with a cash prize! And then they hand you … an old boot?

Are you upset? No, because this is FAVA Fest—a six-day celebration of Edmonton's independent film community, put on by the Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta—and that old boot is a symbol of the scrappy tenacity it takes to make moving pictures in this isolated land we call home.

The boot, explains Trevor Anderson, filmmaker and director of programming for FAVA, was inspired by legendary German director Werner Herzog's visit to Edmonton in the '90s for the Local Heroes festival, precursor to the Edmonton International Film Festival.

"He gave us a pair of his old boots to represent DIY filmmaking," Anderson says. "This year, we've got awards called Herzog's Boots: anyone who wins gets $1000 and an old boot— but not his old boot."

The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta was started by 16 artists back in 1982. Back then, it was damn-near impossible for an independent filmmaker in Edmonton to have both the gear and the practical experience to make movies and videos. Acting as the Northern Alberta hub for video artists, animators and filmmakers, FAVA grew from a small equipment co-op to a dynamic creative force that now boasts hundreds of members.

Today, FAVA acts as a network and an invaluable resource for budding and established filmmakers, Anderson says.

"It's for independent-minded Edmontonians to seize the means of productions and do it themselves to make their own video art," he notes. "We have a lot of gear, and basically you can get the info and the community that you need. The community is important—knowing there are other people making art, that you're not in total Edmonton isolation."

That community, says Lindsay McIntyre, local filmmaker and FAVA's film chair, is what keeps her in this city.

"It's why I don't work in Vancouver, Toronto, New York or Montréal," McIntyre says from her home, shortly before leaving for a video project in Peru.

"Because the support here is so strong and so solid. It's absolutely essential; I wouldn't want to think about what Edmonton would be without it."

McIntyre is one of the FAVA members screening work at the 2015 festival.

A collaboration with Dave Morgan, McIntyre's short film Castaway Art: Art from the Wasteland is a portrait of local artist Chad Baba, who makes sculptures, lights and other artwork from Edmonton's garbage. Shot in black and white on "clunky old 16 mm," the film was made with grants from Make Something Edmonton and cash from FAVA's Helen Folkmann Film Award.

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Folkmann was the long-serving executive director of FAVA before her death in 2004. Local filmmaker Eva Colmers remembers meeting Folkmann back in 1997, when Colmers was "pretty green."

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how to get a crew together," Colmers says. "She was always the producer and production manager for my short films.

To me, she is still there each time I do a film project; each time I honour her."

Colmers will be the MC for an evening at this year's festival called Hooray for Helen. To remember the influential Folkmann—"She was very brave and bold," Colmers says. "She took the message of importance of media to the mayor and ministers, provincially and nationally"—they'll be screening some of her film work and sharing stories, as well as handing out an outstanding achievement award in her name.

The awards are a big part of FAVA Fest. This year, FAVA members are set to score $66 000-worth in cash prizes, commissions and services. While the dollars and kudos are a huge benefit to Edmonton's independent filmmakers, perhaps equally important is the fact the festival screens and celebrates local works.

"Its a weird thing: it's hard to get your film work shown in the city you live in—it's almost easier to get shown at international festivals than in your own city," McIntyre notes. "It's a way to get buns in seats, to get people to recognize what's happening in this city.

And the awards get a lot of people to make sure they finish their work, because of the cash prizes. It's actually increased production in Edmonton."

Along with local films, Anderson helped bring in some compelling work from outside Edmonton. Anderson, also known for his work with the Wet Secrets, has shown his short films and music videos at high-profile festivals in Toronto, the US and Berlin. He recently showed his short The Little Deputy at the Sundance Film Festival and SXSW, and he is sharing some of the cutting-edge art he saw there with his hometown crowd.

FAVA Fest will feature selections from the Calgary Underground Film Festival, short films that Anderson say will be "edgier." And Edmonton audiences can save the airfare to Utah as FAVA is screening eight short films from Sundance.

"I think we're the only place in Canada that shows this package, it usually only tours in America," Anderson says. "That's very exciting."

Another treat for this year's fest is the screening of Bye Bye Blues, a made-inAlberta movie that premièred at the Garneau Theatre 25 years ago. Due to copyright issues, the movie has been unavailable to the public for decades.

But, that settled, FAVA will be showing the film in a mint-condition 35-mm print from the University of Alberta archives—and Anne Wheeler, the film's director, as well as star Rebecca Jenkins and copyright lawyer Joel Bakan, who helped save it from obscurity, will be in attendance.

With such a wide range of film and events to enjoy, Colmers says FAVA Fest isn't just for members or diehard Edmonton movie buffs—it's for everybody.

"The event is amazingly fun," Colmers adds. "People dress up and celebrate.

And there is good booze and good food."

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A passive protagonist (with payoff) The elegant noir of Odd Man Out, delivered by the underrated Carol Reed

But I don't wanna serve dramatic action!

Even before he was wounded, abandoned by his colleagues and hiding out like a dying animal in the shadows of a refuse-strewn bomb shelter, repurposed in these immediate postwar years for children's games and lovers' trysts, Johnny McQueen (James Mason) had been holing up in a safehouse after escaping prison, drastically revising his ideas about violence as a means to an end, becoming pensive, melancholic and prone to dizzy

spells. Whatever he was like before, by the time we meet Johnny, his senses have all gone askew. Johnny appears to be the hero of Odd Man Out (1947), yet he spends much of this story virtually inert. Which is to say that this remarkable film defies the advice of thousands of story editors throughout cinema history: it features a passive protagonist. Yet there's a marvelous payoff: when your protagonist is relieved of the

imperative to act, when his wellbeing becomes dependent on several other characters with disparate agendas, each of those other characters must then become proactive.

The imperative is turned outward into a larger social sphere.

The social sphere in question is Belfast in the '40s, though the place-name is never uttered. Johnny leads a cell of the Irish Republican Army, though disputes between

Protestants and Catholics are never discussed. Based on the novel by F L Green, Odd Man Out, available next week from Criterion, was the first British film to deal with urban life in post-partition Northern Ireland— except that it doesn't, really. Director Carol Reed's adaptation doesn't exactly erase politics from the narrative; rather, it neutralizes them.

Politics become incidental. Near the film's start, Johnny's crew robs a mill. The loot is presumably being stolen to support the organization's political activities, but in the existential, noir cosmology of Reed's conception, the loot might just as well be to pay for Johnny's sick mother to get an operation—anything that could be used to justify a crime and bring a little sympathy to an antihero. Reed isn't concerned with ideology. Like The Killers (1946), say, Odd Man Out is really about a state of mind. The film's most colourful supporting character is a batty alcoholic painter who wants to apprehend Johnny so that he can use him as a model, to paint the gaze of a man who knows he's dying. What this artist sought to capture in oils is more or less what Reed sought to capture on celluloid.

Do you know the grossly underrated Carol Reed? He made at least one undisputed masterpiece, though there are those auteur-theory purists who diminish his credit for The Third Man (1949), claiming that Orson Welles, who played the film's enigmatic villain, coached Reed through the film's more inventive effects. One look at Odd Man Out, which, like The Third Man, was shot by Robert Krasker, and it becomes obvious that Reed was more than capable of such feats of high style without any help from the kid from Kenosha: the image of backlit bodies scurrying down narrow passageways or the montage of police inspecting papers clearly anticipate similar sequences in The Third Man. Reed and Krasker were good students of German expressionism and French poetic realism—they came to Odd Man Out's elegant noir style honestly. It was the right style for Reed's take on the story. There's a moment in Odd Man Out when Johnny is briefly convinced that everything that's happened to him so far has been just a dream. And the way he describes it, it does sound like a dream. The wonder of Reed's art is how it manages to render Johnny's story as something that seems like realism and dream at the same time. V

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ere we go again, and it's more absurd than ever. Describing the plot of Furious 7 is as relevant to the consuming process as reading the ingredients from a pack of hot dogs: the brother of the bad guy from the last movie is out for revenge on our heroes in this movie; the hero (Vin Diesel) has to assemble his team to stop the bad guy. Throw in a second bad guy, a half-

dozen supporting protagonists competing for screen time, some cars parachuting from a plane and a CGI drone, and you have this movie. Characterization?

What's that? Basic consideration for dramatic conventions? Don't be pretentious!

If anything, Furious 7 should be considered an example of the "sequel" genre because it bears far less resemblance to the 2001 original, The Fast and the Furious, than it does to nearly every other action film around today.

This movie has the exotic locales and diabolical world-threatening plot of a Bond sequel, the faux-tech gadgetry and nonsense hacker espionage of a Mission: Impossible sequel, the gratuitous slow-motion objectification of women of a Michael Bay flick, the excessively large cast and Stallone-groaner "sense of humour" of an Expendables sequel, with the fast-cutting fisticuffs of a Jason Statham thriller and the cartoonish eye-

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brow-raising macho antics of anything with the Rock in it, complete with the overdone CGI and city-destroying climax of a superhero movie.

What it doesn't have are the first movie's spare simplicity, its focus on a trio of central characters and their very manageable and relatable human drama, its reliance on a few key stock narrative tropes (outlaws versus society, authenticity in the outlaw life, etc), and at least a minimal lip service paid towards things like believable characters or coherent story structure.

This movie may not win an Oscar, but it's sure to make a lot of money, and as long as it does, we're sure to see another seven movies. It will be interesting to see how far they can go. Thermonuclear devices? Space ships? A Guardians of the Galaxy tie-in? No idea is too absurd, and as long as the movies are there, the audiences will follow.

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hile in the air, an airplane's passengers realize they all share a connection to one particular man; a waitress serves the loanshark who drove her father off the mortal coil; a flash of road rage is returned, and then returned again, and again, and again and on; a demolitions expert's life is sent into a tailspin when his car is towed; a rich family attempts to spare their son the consequences of reckless driving; a wedding goes off the rails when the bride realizes her newly minted groom is a cheat.

A disparate spread of stories, to be sure, but it's revenge, people giving or getting their comeuppances, that snakes a connection through Wild Tales' six black-comedy vignettes.

Sweet vengeance, here served cold, hot or in an escalating scale, filters into every tale. Written and directed by Argentinian Damián Szifron, the film was

in contention for the Best Foreign Language Oscar this year. Too dark for the win, perhaps, but Tales proves a lively examination of the idea, even if it defaults to violence over other forms of getting even.

That opening airplane story, "Pasternak," slow-burns its series of apparent coincidences, adroitly setting the tone for itself and the rest of the tales (though, man, through no fault of its own, it now parallels a recent airplane tragedy that, in ugly coincidence, makes the vignette feel a little too relevant for its own good). "The Strongest" is maybe the most ridiculous—as its name suggests, it's about two men trying to out-do each other, starting with a middle finger on the highway and ending with both guys bloodied, battered, and trying to escape an about-to-explode car—but

the escalation actually feels believable enough for the premise, complete with a clever reversal in the ending.

The rest have different vibes, approaching the idea from different directions, but without pointing out any particular conclusions about revenge, either. Some are rewarded for theirs, others are punished, and rather than embrace or condemn the idea, Wild Tales seems content to simply enjoy the ridiculousness of its retribution scenarios: how the need to win can drive otherwise regular people into a savage state. Szifron sculpts it all into an energetic, violent rumination of a idea; he seems happy to revel in these comic inflations of a darker shade of human nature. He does without delving much deeper, but here, that's more than enough.

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Anyway, it all unfurls in a garbled, messy mix of intrigue and violence, as an unexpected retaliation overtakes the initial scheme. You pretty quickly realize who's in on the scam and who isn't, but the revelations never really pack much punch. The increasingly going wrong around edits feel awkward, with scenes him, the bodies start to pile up. seeming cut-off before their point or image can really hit home, and There are some big, quality names the comic moments it reaches for up in that cast—also, Billy Bob Thor- rarely land—an exception there ton plays Theresa's dad, and A Seri- being made for whenever Oliver ous Man's Michael Stuhlbarg plays Platt's greasy insurance figure, obthe town's recluse—and supporting- sessed with small-town food, is on role acting's likely the strongest part screen. of Cut Bank, a thriller that seems to But, hey, at least those familiar envision itself as a summery Fargo, blue-skies are nice. but comes out thin instead of pulpy. PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM The script (by Roberto Patino, one That prairie sky seem famililar?

ilmed right here in Edmonton— our rural Albertan advantage repurposed into the titular town in Glacier County, Montana—Cut Bank first trains its lens on a postal worker (Bruce Dern) going along his delivery route; as he passes an open canola field, where youngins Dwayne and Cassandra are filming a video, he's shot dead. But as Sheriff Vogel (John Malkovich) starts to put together how this was maybe just all an insurance-money scam that's

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title like Leave No Bridge Unburned conjures images of pushing ahead with no looking back, and it seems that's just what Melissa McClelland and Luke Doucet have done on Whitehorse's sophomore album.

Where the duo's Polaris Prize-shortlisted The Fate of the World Depends on this Kiss resonated a softer, more romantic statement, Leave No Bridge Unburned is an inferno of cinematic, Americana—ahem, Canadiana—noir accented by plenty of swaggering '60s surf-guitar and bluesy melodies.

It's an album that doesn't allow for easy definition, but that's part of its intrigue. The tracks move effortlessly through elements of folk, blues, rock and a little country, with McClelland and Doucet's sultry harmonies front and centre.

The duo's full-band sound comes from loops and deft musicianship as the pair layers and swaps instruments.

But Bridge marks a first for McCelland and Doucet: the use of a producer.

The duo met Gus Van Go at the Polaris gala in 2013, and, after learning he had produced The Oceans Will Rise by the Stills—an album McClelland and Doucet were admiring the production on—they decided to record a song with Van Go and his collaborator, Werner F. McClelland says they sent Van Go the 20 or so songs they had written for a new album, but he wasn't happy with the original versions.

"It was really good to have someone tell us we need to do better, because it's usually just us in the studio patting ourselves on the back telling ourselves how great we're doing," she says with a laugh. "That was kind of harsh to hear at first, but I think we were happy with that reaction, because it meant he was really going to put everything into this and put his heart into this ... I think

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some of our best songs came after he told us that and we went back to the drawing board. I felt like the floodgates kind of broke down at that point."

But that didn't mean starting from scratch. McClelland notes they did end up using the majority of those songs on the album, but only after chipping away at them and making them as strong as possible. Van Go's main complaint? The tracks sounded too happy.

"Not that the subject matter was necessarily happy, but they were all in major keys and kind of peppy," McClelland explains. "I think we were actually making a concerted effort to write songs like that because we were thinking, where can we take things musically on this next record? We've got to do something different, it's got to change in some way and at some point we thought, well, maybe we should write some more upbeat songs. And Gus said to us, 'This isn't Whitehorse.

You guys, this is what you do and this is why I like it.'"

The experience was akin to having someone describe your own personality to you, she adds. While criticism may not always be easy to hear, McClelland says it brought out a positive result and a strong set of songs. In addition to being sonically bold, Bridge is filled with a captivating cast of anti-hero characters, from Toronto's mayoral debacle in the new single "Downtown," to a sinister lover in "Baby What's Wrong" and a rich man on a quest to send a couple to Mars in "Sweet Disaster."

"The way Luke and I both write, it's important to us to be fiction writers as well as telling the truth—I mean, you tell the truth in fiction one way or another," McClelland says, noting most of the stories are inspired by their constant travels. "I think that's how you write successful fiction: to have ker-

30 years of diverse and

nels of truth in there, but it's always been important to both of us not to just tear pages from our diary, and actually challenge ourselves as writers."

A stand-out for McClelland is the "superhero prostitute" at the centre of "Evangelista," a song inspired

by Bill C-36, in which the Supreme Court overturned the pre-existing prostitution laws.

"The women that brought that case forward, they were retired sex workers and I just thought they were very brave and bold, and definitely the antiheroes," she says. "I loved the idea of telling that story in a non-shameful, victimized way, and, of course, it's supposed to be a fun and playful song.

You know, there might be a bit of a political statement in there somewhere, but it's really just a celebration."

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hen touring brought Caribou around to Vancouver's Commodore Ballroom this past March, Dan Snaith, the band's central creative figure, found a man waiting for him outside the venue. A musician himself, the guy explained, he'd been inspired by what Snaith was doing, and was bearing a gift.

"It was a recording of this Vietnamese ethnic group called the Hmong," Snaith explains, weeks later from his home in London, UK. "He got me this amazing rare record that, if I'd have found it in a record store, I would've been so excited to find it. And this guy had just showed up to share it with me."

It's this sort of give-and-take of gratitude that Snaith is currently engaged in as an artist. As the melodic, electronic grooves of Caribou—creatively just Snaith, but rounded-out live with a fuller band—take him across latitudes behind the band's latest album, Our Love, he's trying to find ways to connect with fans beyond the usual artist/audience relationship.

Our Love is part of that. A cooler, more introspective release than 2010's Swim—which let its electronics and melodies warp and wrap around each other into a warm, emotive, danceable mix—Snaith tried to anchor Our Love in moments of stillness, simplicity and more vulnerability: more sharing of himself directly instead of hiding behind layers of sonic effects.

"I've made lots of records where there's lots of layers of vocals, covered in reverb, to kind of get away from it sounding too much like my actual singing voice," he says. "And if you're thinking about exactly the opposite—sharing things as directly as possible—you definitely make some production decisions like making sure the vocal is just one layer, just one take, as clear as possible in the middle of the mix."

A more honest album isn't the only way Snaith's found of expressing his gratitude: a few months back, he posted a 1000-song mixtape online, a bulging collection of YouTubeposted songs that have mattered to him most over the years. He wanted to offer some sort of thank-you in the wake of Swim's success—then by far Snaith's most successful Caribou album—and liked the idea of connecting to music fans as just another one of them.

"I just feel so fortunate in that, that I was thinking of a way that would repay that somehow. Even though the album [Our Love] was made with that intent, [this was] something that was out of the blue, something I could really share with people on a music fan level."

In response to the mixtape, fans started sharing songs they thought he might like. Or, in some cases, they started showing up to venues Caribou was playing at with records; but either way, it still plays into the sort of mutual exchange that seems to be what Snaith's currently chasing.

"I made a comment about it [on the mixtape post], to hope that this would be a dialogue," he notes. "It's not like I'm the only person that knows about music, [it's not] 'I'm the authority here and you have to listen to my picks.' I was reading those comments, and learned about lots of awesome music I didn't know about before through that. Or, also, people who I haven't talked to in years emailed me the next day: 'Hey, I saw that mix, and I just noticed that this track I loved wasn't on there, do you know this record?' That kind of thing."

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Colleen Brown

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n a creative level, I like being able to curate, and put things together, and have a concept," Colleen Brown says. "Have some control over the flow, over the order the songs go in, and how they play off one another. ... I know a lot of people, if they get this album, will put it into their computer and they'll have their songs on shuffle and they'll never listen to it in sequence. But there will be some people. And I wanted to hear them that way."

Brown's discussing the differences between a full-length album and a shorter release; the multi-instrumental singer-songwriter had originally envisioned her just-released Direction LP as a series of EPs, set to trickle out over the course of a year.

The first of which, Major Love, came out last February, but she found her perspective shifting after that initial release.

"I kind of wanted to just put it all out," she grins. "Let's not drag it out anymore—just release it out into the world. Such a huge weight is lifted; it's an exciting thing, whenever you have a project that you put into the world."

As a unified LP, then, Direction is less about a direction, and more about Brown expanding the full horizons of musical territory in every which way. Its nine songs run a spread of sounds, from guitar

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chugs of "Soap and Denim" through the sunshine tones of "Randy Newman"—which, like many tracks here, favour guitar chops over piano chords—to the stripped-down title track and keys-and-strings of "Come to Arizona." Direction draws strength from that variety (and, as always, Brown's ivory-hued voice), as well as what feels like a sense of purpose affirmed. It's the sounds of a songwriter increasing her command of every element of the craft.

That sonic variety stems partly from production: Brown enlisted a couple of producers to create Direction, including Joel Plaskett—whom she recorded with over in Dartmouth, NS—as well as LA's Raymond Richards (formerly a member of the Brian Jonestown Massacre).

Brown also helmed some production duties herself, demoing songs on GarageBand at home.

She also stresses the input of engineers, like the ones who worked on Direction—Taylor Kernohan, Ben Leggett, Mike Post and Thomas Stajcer—as a unifying force in the recording process.

"Sometimes I wonder if engineers don't get enough credit," she ponders.

"They are the kind of people who facilitate an organization and flow in the studio, making some order out of the frenetic creative chaos that usu-

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ally occurs in the studio."

Direction's release means that, after a quiet year of debt pay-off and album prep, the winds of tour are calling to Brown: she's just back from a run of release shows out in Ontario—"This was like pre-show warmup," she says.

"Doing some stretches, getting everything back in business, back in working order"—and in February, she ventured into the US for Kansas City's Folk Alliance's Music Fair. Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield sat in on one of her sets ("He came up to me after and shook my hand and congratulated me, and I was like, 'You've been in space,'" Brown recalls, giddy). Brown's heading to Europe in the next few months, and then, likely, back to more releases upon her return: the Direction songs were written in 2013, and while Brown's eminently pleased to see them out in the world, now she's also free to move on to the next batch.

"For a few years people have been asking me what I've been up to, and I'm like, 'Well, I recorded these crazyawesome songs with Joel Plaskett— And you can't hear any of them,'" she says with a laugh. "Finally it's out, and then immediately I'm thinking about the next two albums."

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t was this time last year that J P Cormier uploaded the lyric video for "Hometown Battlefield," a song about the soldiers dealing with PTSD that has since attracted more than 700 000 views on YouTube and more than one million hits on Facebook.

The Nova Scotia-based folk singersongwriter was soon flooded by letters from soldiers around the world, each expressing their gratitude for the track as well as the acknowledgment of what they were going through. Cormier says he receives about 20 to 30 letters per day, and that number hasn't lessened since the song was released.

"There were many that were basically telling me they were just about to eat their gun when they heard the song and decided against it because the song meant to them that somebody else knew what they were going through, which I don't. I don't have PTSD," Cormier says. "I think I often

write about things I don't know about, guitar-picking tracks, complemented that I've only heard about or see or by simple production that allows the stories to be at the whatever, and I forefront. write them with Sat, Apr 11 (7 pm) "The album's about all an accuracy Queen Alexandra Community the different chances that doesn't Hall, $20 in advance, $25 at we have to take evbelong to me, the door ery day of our lives, and that song is definitely one of those times I was and they come in different forms, so able to put myself in the shoes of one there's a common thread to it," exof those people." plains Cormier, about 33 years into his career now. "As most of my albums "Hometown Battlefield" has since do, I think it means different things to become the catalyst for Cormier's different people. But all the songs on new album, The Chance, due out at this record have been performed live the end of this month. This will mark at one point or another, and I've althe 16th record in Cormier's current ways received a lot of attention when catalogue (some titles are no longer they've been performed. That's how in print), and he says he's always got they get on the record in the first "four or five records in the can," rang- place, anyway, so I know that every ing from gospel to instrumental, but title that's on there has some conneche felt it would be a waste not to tion to someone, somewhere—and build an album around this particular that's sort of why I do what I do." song. So he crafted a collection of 12 MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM original songs, plus two instrumental VUEWEEKLY.com | APR 9 – APR 15, 2015

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Soon, Nash had enough material to record and enlisted Sparrow, Doc de Groot—a former bandmate in Murder City Sparrows and Owls By Nature— and producer Brad Smith to help out.

"It was great to do a record; I got to hang out with my friends again," Nash says. "To come back and see how good Brad and Doc are, how much they've advanced in their craft—watching them and being around them brought out the best in me."

Hard Stuff Radio is not a blueprint for global domination, Nash adds. The record is the sound of him and his good buddies having fun. He's already done the international touring thing— flying across North America with the Sparrows and Europe with Owls—so he's happy to spend time in Edmonton, where his home and family are.

"Just playing music makes me extremely happy," Nash says. "I don't have to play all over. It doesn't matter where I play or for how many people.

The whole idea of the record was to be with my friends, the people I care about. It was a lot of fun, and I think that's all that matters. If more people did things that made them happy, everything else would work out."

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hat's more important: fame and fortune or doing right by yourself and your friends? Local musician Mike Nash would say the latter.

Nash, former guitarist for Murder City Sparrows and current bass player for Owls By Nature, is releasing his first solo record, Hard Stuff Radio. The album is seven songs of good-time music played with country twang, complete with stories of heartache and draining bottles with friends.

"It's rock 'n' roll played through country instruments, like pedal steel and mandolin," Nash says from his home, watching the Tim Burton classic Beetlejuice on a day off. "That was a switch for me—and it was something that scared the hell out of me. Acoustic is scary; it's very exposing and it's out of my comfort zone."

It was Jay Sparrow, his former bandleader in Murder City Sparrows, who helped push Nash into new territory: picking up the acoustic guitar and recording his own songs. Nash had gone through a "massive" breakup and was writing music to work through it—Sparrow egged Nash into writing a song per week.

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The aptly titled disc, Here Comes Peter & the Wolves, is straight-up rockabilly, full of '50s-style swing rhythms capped off with frontman Peter Cormier's Elvis-like vocals. Cormier and bassist Theo Waite have known one another since they were kidsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; their dads played in a band together in their hometown of Bowness (now part of Calgary)â&#x20AC;&#x201D;so music has been an integral part of both their lives, though that didn't mean rockabilly initially. Cormier landed on the genre after some trial and error as he tried to figure out the appropriate outlet for the type of songs he had been

writing, which he describes as dance gan, which further enhances the music that wasn't necesvintage, dance-ready sarily lyrically intense. esthetic that permeates Sat, Apr 11 (4 pm) "Just that simple rock Black Dog, free its new album. 'n' roll, swingin' jukebox "If someone's buying a style," he says, noting CD without having seen the Stray Cats as a prominent in- us live, I want them to come not to fluence on his music. "I used to just see us, but just to come dance do play drums; I still think I'm mostly us," Cormier says, noting he's struga drummer, but I played drums in a gled finding the right type of shows punk band and it was just kind of for that in the past. "I mean, I like too much to manage at once. I fig- dancingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;not jumping about with ured I should stick to one project your fists in the air, not that kind and see where I can take it." of dancingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but it was just hard to find the right kind of shows to go Cormier and Waite recruited drum- to. I want to be that sort of dancing mer Angela White, a veteran of the show: no matter how much room Calgary rockabilly scene, whom there is for a dance floor, there's they met after hanging around at always a dance floor." shows. The band has since added MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM Paul Rodermond to the mix on or-

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MICHAEL JEROME BROWNE / FRI, APR 10 (8:30 PM) Michael Jerome Browne's stacked up accolades like a hungry man stacks flapjacks: a triple-Juno nominee and two-time winner of the Canadian Folk Music Awards' Solo Artist of the Year title, the Montréal-based musician's now touring behind Sliding Delta, an album made in tribute to the rural blues of the deep south. Expect some deep cuts from the legends and lesser-knowns alike. (Blue Chair Café, $15)

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KALLE MATTSON / SUN, APR 12 (8 PM) The Ottawa-based Kalle Mattson is still riding high on the back of Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold, his 2014 album that let a mournful elegy to his mother exist in tandem with a joyful sense of looking to the brighter skies beyond. Those sentiments are delivered in the sort of golden, boisterous folk music that angles Mattson as one of the country's budding songwriters to watch. (Denizen Hall, $12)

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MOTORBIKE JAMES / FRI, APR 10 (9 PM) Despite the moniker, Motorbike James currently rides on the back of a Fire Tiger—the band's synthtinged, electronica-tweaked release that manages to find an intuitive, venn-diagram overlap between electro and rock in its five songs. It grooves as it goes, capturing in its lyrics that sense of shifting from adolescent to adultself that eventually engulfs us all.

There are also some sweet sax and guitar solos. (Wunderbar, $10)

GREEN JELLŸ / WED, APR 15 (8 PM) Remember Green Jellÿ? The band that began back in '81 with the explicit intention of being the worst band in the world? That made the claymation video for Three Little Pigs which burned itself into your long-term memory when you were a child? The band with comic hard-rock songs that were more an excuse to make a ridiculous mess onstage than any actual sort of musicality?

That two members of which went on to form Tool? Yep, Green Jellÿ is back to a touring existence, and from frontman Bill Manspeaker's own update, sounds as dedicated to its original cause as ever. "27 YEARS AND 202 BAND MEMBERS LATER GREEN JELLO STILL SUCKS AND I AM VERY PROUD OF THAT," reads his press release.

The caps lock is all him. (Brixx, $15 – $20)

DANKO JONES / WED, APR 15 (8 PM) Danko Jones seems to make rock music the way you and I make coffee: out of compulsive, energizing need. The Toronto-based musician continues to bust out strutting power-chords and leather-jacket hooks with workmanlike rigmarole. His latest, Fire Music, features a tracklist to continue the vibe: you probably already know if you're into songs like "Do You Wanna Rock," "Gonna Be a Fight Tonight" and "Getting Into Drugs." (Starlite Room, $20 – $22)

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RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos

APR/18

Routes; 9pm

KELLY’S PUB Jameoke Night with

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

W/

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Cody

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu;

Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

APR/17

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A The Rural

Open Jam Nights; no cover

BJÖRN THORODDSEN

BEEBEE AND THE BLUEBIRDS, JON HILMAR KARASON

W/

Andrew Scott; 9pm

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild

APR/15

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder

FT/ W/

Stone

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your Own

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

#TASTEOFICELAND IN EDMONTON

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

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

THE VIOLET HOUR

APR/11 REYKJAVIK CALLING - GUITARAMA

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano

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

SPOTLIGHT STUDIOS PRESENTS

FEATURING SPECIAL GUESTS THE TRI-CITY RAT PACK

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old

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

APR/10

NIM VIND, THE NIELSENS, COUNTERFEIT JEANS

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

Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and

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

electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

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

AUCTION! online bidding until April 12:

www.bcmusicianmag.com/auctions Bid on vintage clothing, vinyl, books, t-shirts, and Festival Packages!

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance

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

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

SUN APR 12 BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun

BLUES ON WHYTE Shawn Holt & The

BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

Teardrops

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch with Jazz

BRIXX BAR Charlie A’court; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $15-$20; No minors

Passages Trio; 9-3pm; Donations

THE BUCKINGHAM Del Barber & The

DENIZEN HALL Dave Hause with Kalle

Mattson and guest; 8pm; $12 (adv)

Profiteers with guest Alex Vissia; 8-11:30pm; $15 (adv)

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Monday open

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

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic Monday

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Celtic Music

with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the Hog Jam:

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

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Party Crowd

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

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

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

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

Outsiders World Tour; 7:30pm RICHARD’S PUB Sunday Jam hosted

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

9pm L.B.’S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

Classical ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL

RCCO Edmonton - A Royal Affair, James McVinnie; 3-5pm; $20 (general), $15 (students/seniors), $10 (members)

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

Edmonton Kiwanis Music Festival Gala Concert; 2:30pm ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE

Stravinsky Untamed; 3pm

DJs

Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance

Lessons: 7-9pm • LATER: Party Crowd O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue;

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

Toonz every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous

Flirts Jameoke Experience (singalong with a live band); 7:30pm12am; no cover; relaxed dress code RICHARD’S PUB Tue Live Music

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Shawn Holt & The

Teardrops BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm BRIXX BAR Green Jelly with Nim Vind, The Nielsens, Counterfeit Jeans; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $15-$20 DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Wed open mic

with host Duff Robison NEW WEST HOTEL Party Crowd 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)

SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing

ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open

every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm STARLITE ROOM Paint Nite; 7pm;

No minors YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Mallory Chipman Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover STARLITE ROOM Danko Jones with guests The Lazys; 8pm (doors); $20-$22 UNION HALL Caribou with guests;

8pm; $25 (adv) WUNDERBAR Nadine Kellman & The

Black Wonders with Billie Zizi

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

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

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

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live:

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

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

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

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

Be the Lord; 7:30pm; $20 (adults), $15 (students, seniors), $5 (kids 12 and under)

Trevor Mullen

DJs

Classical JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE The MacEwan Big Bands; 7:30-9pm; $10 (students), $12 (adults)

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Blessed

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DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue;

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris

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)

EDMONTON PETROLEUM CLUB Lucia di Lammermoor brunch; 11am

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BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

CONVOCATION HALL Xia Quartet; 2pm; Admission by donation

We are actively seeking consignments to upcoming auctions.

These can include but are not limited to: music memorabilia, vinyl, posters, shirts, hats, drawings, prints, paintings, instruments, books...

Contact Leanne: hello@bcmusicianmag.com

Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre; runs Apr 13-May 1

Teardrops

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

REXALL PLACE Eric Church - The

Vintage varsity blue and yellow leather jacket, circa 1950s

107TH ANNUAL KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL Various locations such as

BLUES ON WHYTE Shawn Holt & The

Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

9:30pm-1am

Woodstock original vinyl recording, triple gatefold, 1970

MON APR 13

Geoffrey O’Brien; 8-11pm

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam:

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

The Very First Dream Music Festival!

4 passes, prime seats, May 2, Penticton BC. Jim Byrnes, Michael Kaeshammer, Paul Pigat, Rita Chiarelli, and many more on one stage!

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

Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every

BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm

Tiny Lights Festival Package: Family Pass, 2 t-shirts, sticker, poster!

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,

Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Swing, Funk, Soul, R&B,

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori

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

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Whitehorse with

guests; 8pm; $29.50; All ages

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

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

TUE APR 14

WED APR 15

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats

107TH ANNUAL KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL Various locations such as

THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop

107TH ANNUAL KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL Various locations such as

Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre; runs Apr 13-May 1 BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday

Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and

Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre; runs Apr 13-May 1

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

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage

Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALL SAINT'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 10035-103 St NW ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "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 NW CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-

118 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 CITADEL THEATRE 9828-101A Ave CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave 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 EDMONTON PETROLEUM CLUB 11110-108 St 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

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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 JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE 10045-155 St KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LENDRUM MENNONITE BRETHREN CHURCH 11210-59 Ave LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 Macdonald Dr NW 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 MERCURY THEATRE 11315-106 Ave MUTTART CONSERVATORY 962696a St NW 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

O'MAILLE'S 398 St Albert Trail, St Albert 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 QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL 10425 University Ave NW RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St REXALL PLACE 7424-118 Ave RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 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 12845-102 Ave NW SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE 9797 Jasper Ave NW

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY UNITED CHURCH 8810 Meadowlark Rd NW UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780. 702.2582 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

EVENTS WEEKLY

to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com

jamesk2004@hotmail.com

2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A

Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

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

social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups. yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

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

8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

COMEDY

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • Crazy Loon Pub, 10208-99

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 • Jamal Doman; Apr 9-11 • Marvin Krawczyk; Apr 16-18 • Brian Link; Apr 23-25 • Cory Robinson; Apr 30-May 2

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 • Bryan Callen Special Performance; Apr 9-12 • Tom Rhodes; Apr 15-19 • Tait's Tales; Apr 20 • Ben Gleib; Apr 23-26 • Sean Lecomber; Apr 29 • Alonzo Bodden Special Performance; Apr 30-May 3

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With David Husereau and Craig Sherburne • Apr 8, 7:30pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave •

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 MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.orgs/en • Program for HIVAID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm • NAWCA Annual Show & Competition; Apr 25-26; Free

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

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall,

Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

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

KRUSH_IT PART DEUX COMEDY CONTEST • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

St • Presented by Connie's Comedy, 100.3 the Bear, Krush Ultralounge. Proceeds going to Bear Children's Fund • Apr 21

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

A NIGHT WITH OIL RIG GUY FEATURING TRENT MCCLELLAN • Royal Alberta

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP •

Museum Theatre, 12845-102 Ave NW • Apr 11, 7pm • $28 (adv)

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave,

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY

Groove every Wed; 9pm

Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

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

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP

• Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext.

234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

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

EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King’s University College, 9125-50 St • A monthly meeting.

The speaker will be Owen Watkins, fisheries biologist with Alberta Fish and Wildlife who will speak on “Life History Of Lake Sturgeon In The North Saskatchewan River” • Apr 17, 7pm • Admission by donation

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

jessem@pilgrimshospice.com • 780.413.9801 ext. 107 • Learn the principles of selfcompassion and how different self-compassion techniques can help you as you grieve • Apr 15, 7pm • $30

VEGGIE BRUNCH - VEGANS & VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA • Mercury Room, 10575-114 St • info@vof.ca • vofa. ca • Enjoy a vegan brunch and meet others interested in a vegetarian diet • Apr 11, 11am12:30pm • No pre-registration, order off the menu

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION • waskahegantrail.ca • Edmonton River Valley: Meet at McDonalds (110 St & 23 Ave); Hike leader: Karen (780.642.6372); Apr 12, 9:45am • Terwillegar Park: Meet at McDonalds Riverbend (494 Riverbend Square); Hike leader: Karen (780.642.6372); Apr 19, 9:45am • RB Hill (Battle River near Duhamel): Meet at Superstore at Calgary Trail, 51 Ave; Hike leader: David M. (780.434.2675); Apr 25, 9:45am • Guests welcome; annual membership $20 WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy

USING SELF-COMPASSION AS YOU GRIEVE • Pilgrims Hospice, 9808-148 St •

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

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/ session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

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

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

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

INTEGRATIVE MEDICINE SERIES • Roots

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 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)

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

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

SEE A LIVE OWL • Wild Birds Unlimited, 12204-107 Ave • wbuedmonton@gmail.com • 587.521.2473 • Dr. Court will let you pet an owl, show its ears, and tell how it helps conserve our environment • Apr 11, 11am-4pm

• 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

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA •

QUEER

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

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;

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the

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

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/ student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@ teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton. ca, sillum.ca

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

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

LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving.com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and nonjudgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information

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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)

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 33RD ANNUAL LAW DAY • Edmonton Law Courts, 1A Sir Winston Churchill Square • lawdayalberta.weebly.com/edmonton.html • Promoting access to justice with opportunities to meet lawyers, judges police officers and many others • Apr 18, 9:30am-3:30pm • Free

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 BEAD MARKET • Ramada Inn Edmonton South, 5359 Calgary Trail • treasurestonebeads. com • Apr 11, 11am-5pm

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 ENTERPRISE EDMONTON PRESENTS EXPRESSIVE ARTS FOR WOMEN • Roots on Whyte, 305 8135-102 St • 780.919.8416 • Express your creative self through movement, music and visual art • Apr 16, 7-9pm • $25

E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY PRESENTS: E-VILLE DEAD VS AVALANCHE CITY ROLLER GIRLS • Edmonton Sports Dome, 10104 32 Ave NW • Apr 18, 7-8:30pm • $15 (door), $10 (adv), free (kids 10 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

OIL CITY DERBY GIRLS VS. EVILLE LIVING DEAD • Sportsdome, 10104 32 Ave • Apr 10, 6-9pm • $15 (door), $10 (adv), free (kids 10 and under)

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

ORCHID FAIR 2015 • The Enjoy Centre, 101 Riel Drive, St. Albert • orchidsalberta.com • Celebrating the hobby of orchid growing • Apr 17, 12-4pm • $10, Free (kids under 12) 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 EDMONTON WOMAN'S SHOW • Edmonton EXPO Centre, Hall A - Northlands, 7515 118 Ave NW • womanshow.com • Featuring guest speakers Jeff & Jordan of Big Brother (Sat only), cheese-tasting seminars, puppies, Make & Take workshops, and much more • Apr 18-19, 9am-5pm • $12 (ages 13+), $10 (senior, student), free (kids 12 and under)

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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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Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help someone Who can’t!

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

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

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Artist to Artist

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

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 Wanted

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.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

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Tools

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

Phone 587.520.9746. Leave message, no text.

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

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.

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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2020.

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

Leave message, no text.

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Musicians Wanted

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.

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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Cleaning Services

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

ALBERTA-WIDE CLASSIFIEDS •• ANNOUNCEMENTS ••

•• coming events ••

DO YOU KNOW a great volunteer? The Alberta Weekly Newspapers Association and Direct Energy are now accepting nominations for the 2015 Volunteer Citizen of the Year award to recognize someone who goes above and beyond to help others in the community.

Nominations are open to all residents served by an AWNA newspaper with the award going to the person who most exemplifies the volunteer spirit.

A $5000 donation will be made to a community organization of the winner’s choice. Just visit: directenergy.com/vcoy or awna.com. Nominations close Friday, April 17, 2015.

ANTIQUE SHOW - Edmonton - Western Canada’s longest running collectors show - antiques, collectibles, and pop culture. 40th Annual Wild Rose Antique Collectors Show & Sale. Sellers from across Canada. Special collectors displays. Antique evaluations by Canadian Antiques Roadshow appraiser Gale Pirie - $12 per item. Saturday, Apr. 18, 9 - 5 p.m.; Sunday, Apr. 19, 10 - 4 p.m. Edmonton Expo Centre.

780-437-9722; www.wildroseantiquecollectors.ca

•• auctions ••

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

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

ACREAGE AUCTION for Lawrence Nonay. Saturday, April 18. Sale Features: Ford diesel truck; tractors; antiques/ collectibles; tools; misc. items & much more. Details at: www. spectrumauctioneering.com.

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

UNRESERVED AUCTION. Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 8 a.m., 9320 - 52 St. S.E., Calgary. Partial Listing: 2013 Deere 544K; (2) 2011 Hyundai HL740TM-9’s; (2) 2011 Hyundai HL757TM9’s; 2009 Cat 950B; 2007 Hyundai HL740TM-7; Case 621B; 2009 Cat 14M; 2008 Cat 140M; John Deere 570A; 2009 Cat 627G; 2005 Deere 755C; (2) 2009 Kenworth T800’s; Gravel Trucks: 2006 Sterling Acterra T/A; Volvo T/A. Trailers: 2001 Thermo triaxle tilt deck; Landall T/A tilt deck; Arnes end dump, Midland pup; Renn pup, etc. For information www. canadianpublicauction.com.

WHEATLAND AUCTIONS Spring Consignment Auction.

April 18, 10 a.m. in Cheadle, Alberta. Farm equipment, vehicles, heavy equipment, RVs, etc. Consign now! Call 403669-1109; 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.

•• employment •• opportunities

INTERIOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT Operator School. In-theseat training. No simulators.

Real world tasks. Weekly start dates. Funding options. Weekly job board! Sign up online! iheschool.com. 1-866-399-3853.

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.

GPRC, Fairview Campus, Alberta urgently requires a Heavy Equipment Technician Instructor to commence immediately. Visit our website at: www.gprc.ab.ca/careers.

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION! In-demand career! Employers have work-at-home positions available. Get online training you need from an employertrusted program. Visit: CareerStep.ca/MT or 1-855-768-3362 to start training for your workat-home career today!

•• equipment •• for sale A-CHEAP, lowest prices, steel shipping containers. Used 20’ & 40’ Seacans insulated 40 HC DMG $2450. 1-866-528-7108; www.rtccontainer.com.

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

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

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

SAWMILLS from only $4,397. Make money & save money with your own bandmill. Cut lumber any dimension. In stock ready to ship. Free info & dvd: www.

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

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 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 •• 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.

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.

GRAVEL PROPERTY w/River Frontage, Spruce View, Alberta.

Ritchie Bros. Auctioneers Unreserved Auction, April 29 in Edmonton. 148+/- acres titled, gravel pit w/stock piles, North Raven River frontage, 65+/acres cult, fenced, $4800 SLR. Jerry Hodge: 780-706-6652; rbauction.com/realestate.

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

U.S. travel waiver. Divorce?

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

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

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

WELL, GET NOTICED!

BOOK YOUR CLASSIFIED AD TODAY CALL 780.426.1996

FREEWILLASTROLOGY

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Uitwaaien is a Dutch word that means to go out for a stroll in windy weather simply because it's exhilarating. I don't know any language that has parallel terms for running in the rain for the dizzy joy of it, or dancing through a meadow in the dark because it's such nonsensical fun, or singing at full volume while riding alone in an elevator in the mad-happy quest to purge your tension. But in the coming weeks, you don't need to describe or explain experiences like this; you just need to do them. Experiment with giving your instinctive need for exuberance lots of room to play.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Your nasty, nagging little demon isn't nasty or nagging any more.

It's not doing what demons are supposed to do. It's confused, haggard and ineffective. I almost feel sorry for the thing. It is barely even keeping you awake at night, and its ability to motivate you through fear is at an alltime low. Here's what I suggest: now, when the demon's strength is waning and its hold on you is weak, you should break up with it for good. Perform an ultimate, non-reversible exorcism. Buy it a one-way bus ticket to the wasteland and say goodbye forever.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): When he was in his fifties, French painter Claude Monet finally achieved financial success. He used his new riches to buy a house and land, then hired gardeners to help him make a pond full of water lilies. For the first time in his life, he began to paint water lilies. During the next 30 years, they were his obsession and his specialty. He made them a central feature of 250 canvases, which now serve as one of his signature contributions to art history. "I planted my water lilies for pleasure," he said. "I cultivated them without thinking of painting them. And then suddenly, I had the revelation of the magic of my pond." I regard the imminent future as a good time for you to do something similar, Gemini: Create or find a source of beauty that will stimulate your sense of wonder and fuel your passion to express yourself for a long time.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "Everything we do in life is based on fear, especially love," said Cancerian comedian Mel Brooks.

Although he was joking, he was also quite serious. More often than we like to admit, desperation infects our quest to be cared for. Our decisions about love may be motivated by a dread of loneliness. We worry about whether we are worthy of getting the help and support we need. It's a fundamental human problem, so there's no reason to be ashamed if you have this tendency yourself. Having said that, I'm happy to report that you now have the

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necessary power to overcome this tendency. You will be able to summon tremendous courage as you revise and refine your relationship with love. It's time to disappear the fear.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Do you ever feel reverence and awe, Leo? Are there times when you spontaneously yearn to engage in acts of worship? Is there anyone or anything that evokes your admiration, humility and gratitude?

The coming weeks will be a good time to seek out experiences like these. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will get tender jolts of transformational inspiration if you blend yourself with a sublime force that you trust and respect.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): A lot has happened since you were ... uh ... indisposed. You've missed out on several plot twists. The circle has been broken, repaired, broken again and partially repaired. Rumours have been flying, allegiances have been shifting and riddles have been deepening.

So are you ready yet to return to the heated action? Have you learned as much as you can from the commotion that provoked your retreat? Don't try to return too early. Make sure you are at least 70-percent healed.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Rent, but don't buy yet. That's my $250-per-hour advice. Keep rehearsing, but don't start performing the actual show. OK? Flirt, but don't fall in love. Can you handle that much impulse control? Are you strong enough to explore the deeper mysteries of patience? I swear to you that your burning questions will ultimately be answered if you don't try to force the answers to arrive according to a set timetable. I guarantee that you will make the necessary connections as long as you don't insist that they satisfy every single one of your criteria.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): The Guerrilla Girls are a group of prankster activists who use humour to expose sexism and racism in the art world. Every so often they take a "weenie count" at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. During their first survey in 1989, they found that five percent of the artists who had work hanging in the galleries were women, while 85 percent of the nudes depicted in the paintings were women. More recently, in 2012, their weenie count revealed that four percent of the artists were female, but 76 percent of the naked people in the paintings were female. The coming week would be a good time for you to take a weenie count in your own sphere, Scorpio. Conditions are more favourable than usual to call attention to gender disparities and to initiate corrective action.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): The English term "engine" refers primarily to a machine that transforms energy into mechanical power. But its roots are in the Old French word engin, which meant skill or wit, and in the Latin word ingenium, defined as "inborn talent." I'd like to borrow the original meanings to devise your horoscope this week.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, your "engine" is unusually strong right now, which means that your cultivated skills and innate talents are functioning at peak levels. I suggest you make intensive use of them to produce maximum amounts of energy and gather more of the clout you'd love to wield.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): What I'm about to say is not a hard scientific fact, but it is a rigorous poetic fable. You don't need to go to the mountain, because the mountain is willing and able to come to you. But will it actually come to you? Yes, but only if you meet two conditions.

The mountain will pick itself up and move all the way to where you are if you make a lot of room for it and if you are prepared to work with the changes its arrival will bring.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): If you were a four-year-old, cookies might be a valuable treasure to you. Given a choice between a bowl of stir-fried organic vegetables and a plate full of chocolate-coconut macaroons, you'd probably choose the macaroons.

For that matter, if you were four years old and were asked to decide between getting a pile of macaroons and a free vacation to Bali or an original painting by Matisse or a personal horoscope reading from the world's greatest astrologer, you'd also opt for the cookies. But since you're a grownup, your list of priorities is screwed on straight, right?

You would never get distracted by a sugary, transitory treat that would cause you to ignore a more nourishing and long-lasting pleasure. Right?

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): On June 23, 1917, Babe Ruth was the starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in a Major League Baseball game against the Washington Senators. After the first batter drew a walk, Ruth got upset with the home-plate umpire and punched him in the head. Ejected! Banished! The Babe had to be dragged off the field by the cops. The new pitcher was Ernie Shore. He proceeded to pitch a perfect game, allowing no further Washington player to reach base in all nine innings. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I see you as having the potential to duplicate Ernie Shore's performance in your own sphere. Coming in as a replacement, you will excel.

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My boyfriend, "Jack," is into pretty intense bondage (in addition to the vanilla sex we have all the time).

Some light bondage with sex is fine, but I don't like the kind of bondage he does because it's way too much for me—and we can't exactly have sex when he's in layers of latex gear, hooded and gagged, strapped down inside a coffin-like "bondage box" When something awesome, inwith the lid closed and padlocked teresting or commendable about shut. We don't have that kind of you scares someone off—your fun gear, but he knows some older guys and sexy kinks, your sexually adwho do. I'm uncomfortable with the venturous hisidea of him gotory—your ing over to play best course with these men If you find that you're unable to locate any LTRof action is without me worthy women in the vanilla world—just like you there, but I find to shrug and say "good these bondage couldn't find any in the fetish scene—then the riddance." sessions really problem was you, not the scene.

But if you're tedious. I also afraid the don't like feelotherwise ing pressured to GGG woman you recently met on Tons of stories were written at the get tied up myself by two guys that a vanilla dating app or in a vanilla height of the Great Recession about I like well enough but don't find atdrinking establishment will panic average people doing sex work to tractive at all. Is letting him go over and bolt, SHARE, you can wait make ends meet, PBR. So lots of there without me the only workable to disclose your history of tying "regular people" have done sex work. solution? people up in front of crowds until (And sex workers? They're regular Jack In The Box she's gotten to know you better. people, too.) And while I don't think Your past as a bondage performer you should feel bad, PBR, I do think Yup. doesn't present a health risk for you should tell the wife. Regular STI the GGG women you'll be tying up testing will only let you know that PANTY PARANOIA in private, SHARE, so you can go you've caught an STI, if you should Longtime reader, first-time writer. ahead and roll it out slowly. But do ever catch one—it doesn't immu- I recently acquired the panties of a roll it out eventually. nize you against catching an STI. So young lady after replying to her ad If you find that you're unable to your wife, if you're having sex with on Craigslist. She'd offered to "enlocate any LTR-worthy women in her, too, has a right to know where hance" them for me for a small extra the vanilla world—just like you the rent money is coming from. charge. They arrived enhanced, all couldn't find any in the fetish right—heady aroma(s), but nothscene—then the problem was you, TOE TIME ing truly memory-inducing since I'd SHARE, not the scene.

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