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Thinking for themselves
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What a difference two weeks makes! When the election writ was dropped April 7 nobody dared predict the Progressive Conservatives might actually see the party's 44-year reign end. In fact, most of the media and political pundits declared that another PC majority was inevitable. Media coverage like that can easily become a self-fulfilling prophecy, as it has in so many elections past. But then something happened—people in this province decided to think for themselves. And now we have a three-way race with nobody able to predict the outcome. Good. This is what democracy looks like. Unable to campaign on their record, the PCs hitched their wagon in this election to their supposed "star" Jim Prentice, who they presented as a knight on a white horse coming back from his cushy job with one of Canada's largest banks. The PCs painted his successful track record in business and in the federal government as proof positive he was just what we needed to get us out of the mess they themselves had created. That strategy is unravelling faster than a cheap sweater. Young people aren't buying what the PCs are selling, and older people are sick of hearing the same old recycled promises for the third election in a row. People see other provinces change governments repeatedly without slipping into a vast wasteland for eternity and are starting to think, "What's the worst thing that can happen? If we elect another party and they aren't any better, we can give them the boot in four years, too!" That's what democracy looks like, Alberta. We should really give it a try. V
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Counting the blue
A little bit of fun in spotting the colour blue on political party websites I have lived in Edmonton for the past five years, but my introduction to Alberta came much earlier: I spent the summer of 2004 living in the Crowsnest Pass. There was an election that fall, and it was being discussed at the local Legion where I was wont to spend my spare time. One garrulous fellow summarized Alberta politics by saying that you could paint a gopher blue and it would be elected. I laughed, thinking it a great metaphor for this province's commitment to the PCs. Now, after having witnessed a few election cycles, I have a different answer: Albertans just love the colour blue. Humble servant to the people that I am, I spent many minutes scouring the online election platforms of each of the major parties to answer that most vital question: who is the most blue in Alberta politics? Liberals Say what you will about the Liberals, they are certainly committed. Take the party's platform, for example: red as far as a mouse can scroll. Red pictures, red icons, red hair; they even put a red tint on a photo of the Legislature! Special acknowledgement goes to former leader Raj Sherman, who appears on the website in a vibrant blue shirt. At least someone's playing to win!
NDP Other than Rachel Notley's blue eyes, there is not a shred of blue to be seen on their website platform—it's wall-to-wall orange on this site. But perhaps the Dippers are being subtle; if there is one thing I have learned from MSN Messenger, it's the power of the contrast between orange and blue. Maybe like that ubiquitous "bing!" sound, the NDP are trying to get our attention.
Alberta Party The Alberta Party starts strong on its website: a smiling Greg Clark wears blue in two prominent photographs and the header text is a nice bright blue. The platform section drops the ball: although a blue banner announces the "Alberta Party Has A Better Way," the party doesn't live up to that promise by writing entirely in a black font. Albertans are only interested in—nay, can only read!—blue text. More damningly, at one point Clark replaces his blue shirt with a purple one.
Wildrose This is what I'm talking about: the Wildrose website features not one but three different shades of blue (and a nice pink for
disaffected Liberals). The header text is blue and, most importantly, the "Taxes and Budget" section of the platform is written entirely in blue. Now these are numbers I can get behind! The other four priorities are colour-coded in non-blue colours, but that's obviously because they are not as important. However, I worry that the multiple shades of blue reveal a level of disorganization within the party: I'm not sure the Wildrose knows if it's a seafoam party or more of a royal blue.
PC Expectations were high for the PCs and the party did not disappoint. Jim Prentice owns one shirt and it is blue. Much of the text on the site is blue, too. Interestingly, the other prominent colour is orange. A secret alliance with the NDP, perhaps, or are the PCs trying to neutralize the NDP's colour-contrast strategy? Of the 26 people pictured in the platform document, all but six are wearing blue. Even the mountains are blue (and orange!) in this thing. So don't fight the inevitable, Alberta: our very landscape is painted blue. Just surrender to the blue manifest destiny and all your worries will fade away. V
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Half a Titanic
The number of refugees dying in the Mediterranean has dramatically increased The first thing to do, if you want to cut the number of refugees from Africa and the Middle East dying while trying to cross the Mediterranean, is to drop leaflets all along the Libyan coast teaching them about ship stability. Don't all rush to one side when you spot a ship that might save you, the pamphlets will say, because your boat will capsize and you will drown. That's what happened last weekend off the Libyan coast, where a boat filled with at least 700 refugees overturned when the people aboard spotted a Portuguese freighter and tried to attract its attention. (One survivor says there were 950 people aboard, including those locked below decks. ) At least 650 people died—half a Titanic's worth of casualties—although the boat in question was only 20 metres long. Only 28 people were saved. So the second thing to do is to lock the European Union's foreign ministers into a room and refuse to let them have caviar and Champagne until they agree to do something about the silent massacre in the Mediterranean. Something quite effective was
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being done until late last year, but they deliberately stopped it. Until late last year the Italian navy (praise be upon it) was running an operation called Mare Nostrum that went all the way to the edge of Libya's territorial waters to pluck refugees from the sea. The operation cost 9.5 million euros a month ($10.3 million), but it rescued 100 000 p e o p l e from leaking boats or the open sea. More than half of the 170 000 refugees who landed in Italy had cause to thank the Italian navy, and only one in 100 died. The number of refugees arriving in Italy each month is around the same this year, maybe a little higher—but 10 times as many people are dying on the way. That is because the EU's
governments, rather than sharing the cost of the Mare Nostrum project, asked Italy to shut it down and substituted their own "Triton" operation. Except that "Triton" is in no way an adequate substitute. It only gets a third of the funding Mare Nostrum
The argument the European governments made was that if you didn't give the refugees the hope that they would be saved by the Italian navy, fewer of them would come. Right, so if you're fleeing the civil war in Syria or the ghastly dictatorship in Eritrea, and you learn that the danger of dying on a Mediterranean crossing has gone up from one percent to 10 percent, you're going to decide to stay in war-torn Libya instead? "In many countries in Europe at the moment," said Laurens Jolles, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) representative in Italy, "the (political) dialogue and the rhetoric is quite extreme and very irresponsible. ... It's a fear of foreigners ... but it is being exploited for populist or political reasons, especially in election periods."
It only gets a third of funding Mare Nostrum had, and it is only supposed to operate in Italy’s coastal waters, not farther out where most of the refugee boats capsize or founder. had, and it is only supposed to operate in Italy's coastal waters, not farther out where most of the refugee boats capsize or founder. Even this year, with the Italian navy theoretically excused from duty, it has saved twice as many people as the pathetic "Triton" operation. Which, by the way, was INTENDED to be pathetic.
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Too true. Take, for example, Katie Hopkins, columnist for The Sun, a down-market right-wing British redtop (tabloid newspaper) owned by the estimable Rupert Murdoch. Last Friday, in an article headlined "Rescue boats? I'd use gunships to stop migrants," she wrote: "NO, I don't care. Show me pictures of coffins, show me bodies floating in water, play violins and show me skinny people looking sad. I still don't care." Saying that sort of thing is how she earns her living, but it also expresses the true sentiments of a politically significant minority not only in Britain but in most countries throughout the EU. When the UNHCR appealed to the EU to resettle 130 000 Syrian refugees, Germany said it would take 30 000, Sweden (with a tenth of Germany's population) took 2700— and the other 26 EU states only took 5438 between them. So the drownings will continue. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
NEWS // FARMING
Planting Edmonton on the urban agriculture map A
Proposed bylaw amendments would encourage citizens to grow more food in the city
s May approaches, Edmonton's community of gardeners, green thumbs and food enthusiasts aren't the only ones planting and planning for the season: the city itself is getting one step closer to amending a bylaw that would make it easier for urban agriculture to take root and thrive. It could result in more commercial agriculture on vacant lots, edible landscapes on front lawns, aquaponics projects, backyard honey bees and chickens, rooftop gardens or even projects focused on cultivating the art of "entomophagy"— eating insects—in Edmonton. The bylaw is about "enabling and encouraging" blue-sky visioning and creative ways for Edmontonians to experiment with growing food in the city, according to Hani Quan, a principal planner with the City of Edmonton. Quan is a key organizer behind the Edmonton Food Council and fresh: Edmonton's Food and Urban Agriculture Strategy, a guiding framework on food security that was approved in November 2012. "There [was] a gap in our zoning bylaw," Quan says. "There was nothing that spoke to, well, if you wanted to farm commercially in the city what would be that categorized as?" The proposed bylaw amendment would classify urban agriculture as a specific land-use and streamline the process for citizens to apply for permits in the city—with the exception of a few zones—to grow food for community consumption and commercial sale. Citizen support surges "The time is right in Edmonton," Quan notes enthusiastically. "There's a lot of people trying to push the envelope right now around urban agriculture. There's more and more people coming to Edmonton for various reasons, and a lot of them are young professionals who've been in places around the world where food is important, and they want to see that here." In Edmonton there are currently
over 80 community gardens, 40 food trucks and more than 25 farmers' markets—all of these food ventures have exploded over the past decade. Quan credits the work of Edmonton's Food Council, a volunteer board of city professionals who developed the concept of fresh over the past two years and have more recently advised the city on the proposed bylaw changes. "We wanted this zoning bylaw to reflect what we felt could be the reality in the future," says Mary Bailey, co-chair of the Edmonton Food Council. She says the council has played a critical role in doing research on different models across North America to best advise on urban agriculture in Edmonton. While she stresses that it should be "low-intensity and low-impact" to avoid causing problems for neighbours, Bailey also recognizes the opportunity for better utilizing vacant land in the city. "The bylaw [would] leave the door open for people to access land in the city that isn't really being used to grow vegetables and flowers—I think that's a good thing," Bailey says. She points to the success story of urban agriculture in Detroit, a city that's rebounding from economic depression by transforming underutilized lots and spaces into places to grow food, feed local populations and stimulate jobs and market opportunities. "People are growing vegetables in neighbourhoods where houses were falling down because nobody lived in them," Bailey adds. "Why just let land sit there when you can do something with it? If you look at it from any angle, socially or financially, it's a positive approach to land use."
The link with food security Ward 10 City Councillor Michael Walters agrees with Bailey about the potential for urban agriculture to intersect with food security and antipoverty work in Edmonton. He's been a passionate supporter of the food movement in the city over the past five years. "The whole concept of urban agriculture has evolved significantly in Edmonton and people are really excited about it—there's so much participation in it," he notes. "[It's] one
tions to learn about agriculture and grow food. Walters isn't only advocating for urban agriculture, he's also leading the way by example. His family has transformed their front, side and backyard spaces in order to grow fruits and vegetables. They've even ventured into their back alley to transform what Walters calls the "useless grass" behind the fence to grow cucumbers. "Last season we grew enough cucumbers to make upwards of 30 jars of pickles," he says with a chuckle. Abounding opportunities The handful of existing urban agriculture pioneers in Edmonton are also welcoming the proposed bylaw amendments, including Claudia Bolli, sole proprietor of Wild Green Garden Consulting. Over the past five years, Boli has been teaching Edmontonians of all ages about permaculture and how to transform their yards into edible food landscapes. She is also excited about the potential of the bylaw amendment to increase access for Edmonton's youth to learn about growing food in the city. She coordinates a program called Little Green Thumbs, an initiative funded by Sustainable Food Edmonton, which brings farming directly into the classroom for elementary school students. "There's definitely interest of people wanting to learn how to create a more edible type of landscape, whether it's at a school or on their own property," Bolli says. "Lots of people are looking for access to land to grow food. You know, I really feel that it's not just about food—it's about creating healthy landscapes." For Travis Kennedy, who began an experimental backyard urban farming operation in 2012, there hasn't been a more exciting time than today to be involved in creatively growing, pre-
The bylaw [would] leave the door open for people to access land in the city that isn’t really being used to grow vegetables and flowers.
of those unique things that's making Edmonton cooler and cooler. "Nothing teaches us more about the value of eating healthy food than growing it ourselves," Walters continues. "That speaks to the poverty question. If you ask why people are poor, there are education and health factors and many other factors beyond people's control. But if people are healthy, their ability to get out of poverty is so much larger. They have more capacity to change their lives and be a part of a healthy community." He credits a unique partnership between Lady Flower Gardens, a community garden initiative with Riverbend Gardens, and inner-city groups, including Hope Mission, the Mustard Seed and the Bissell Centre. The garden provides a safe space for low-income and marginalized popula-
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paring, selling and consuming local food in Edmonton. He believes there's a growing demand from customers, restaurants and chefs for local food and says the local support is what has enabled him to expand dramatically over the past three years. "It's been fascinating to me how welcoming [restaurants] have been to put local food on their menus and accommodate us as urban farmers," Kennedy says. "We only have a 90day growing season and our varieties are always shifting, so it's been interesting and exciting—the food scene in Edmonton is amazing!" His business, Lactuca (which he runs along with Edmonton Food Council member Kevin Kossowan), has grown from a single backyard plot in a Westmount neighbourhood to a fully flourishing one-acre site on the Northlands grounds property where they're growing a wide variety of edible greens, flowers and vegetables for the 124 Street Grand Market and over 10 different restaurants and food trucks in Edmonton. Kennedy encourages Edmontonians to follow in his footsteps and believes the amended bylaw would make it easier for commercial urban agriculture to take root in the city. He's also quick to point out that urban farmers are better suited to grow niche products like custom herbs, edible flowers or rare types of greens and vegetables versus competing against rural farmers and more conventional crops grown in the Edmonton area. "There's tons of opportunities right now," Kennedy notes. "But as urban farmers we need to think about where we fit into the food landscape, the potential niches out there, and that's where we want to compete." The proposed amendments to the zoning bylaw will be further discussed on May 26 by the city's executive council. Upon acceptance, the urban agriculture bylaw will go to a public hearing in late summer before the final deliberation by city council.
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FEATURE // WINE
THE EVOLUTION OF BC WINE LAW Legislation overhaul is needed to keep up with the growth of the BC wine industry
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s British Columbian wine evolves, so must its approach to one of the less glamorous—but vitally important—parts of the industry: label and content law. The British Columbia Vintners Quality Alliance (BC VQA) program has come under scrutiny in recent years. Some argue the program doesn't work at all while others state that it's just not working properly. In light of this, the industry is coming together to address these issues, and it's likely that we will soon see some major changes in BC wine. First, a primer. BC's wine-labelling regulation is the Wines of Marked Quality Regulation, an appellation of origin program akin to France's Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée (AOC). The Regulation has two categories: the BC VQA and the BC Wine of Distinction. Wines sold as a Wine of Distinction must be made from 100-percent BC grapes and must meet minimum quality standards; BC VQA wines must meet a few additional requirements. BC's VQA system shares a name with Ontario's VQA and is where the
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program originated, but the two are wholly independent from each other and have evolved quite differently. Participation in the VQA is not mandatory but well over 150 wineries do participate, representing approximately 70 percent of all licensed BC grape wineries producing 95 percent of all wine made in the province. To gain VQA designation, a winery must be a member of the British Columbia Wine Authority, the agency that has been delegated the administration of the BC VQA program, and must submit each wine to the Authority for testing. In addition to confirming the origin of wines via audit and inspection, the Authority also puts each wine through a tasting panel aimed at filtering out wines with technical faults. This panel is a particular source of contention amongst the province's wineries. "The tasting panel sucks—it's a hassle," Ezra Cipes says. Cipes is the CEO of Summerhill Pyramid Winery as well as the chair of the BC Wine Appellation Task Group, a brand-new, industry-based group that formed to review the current system and hopefully enact changes to the regulation. "I wouldn't say that VQA is negative right now; it's just not helping us," he explains. "It was designed at a time
when there was not good wine being made here. I like to use the example of training wheels: at the beginning there were a lot of wines that failed the VQA tasting panel. It really did help us develop quality in our industry. And now the market is demanding quality, so the tasting panel is arguably not as important for that. The most important thing for the marketplace is guaranteeing the origin and establishing an identity of our wine and a knowledge of what makes British Columbia such a special place to make wine." British Columbian wine has undergone a massive evolution in the past 25 years, having gone from producing mass quantities of cheap, sweet, bargain-basement wines to a worldclass region making fantastic wine. In those early days, much of the wine was faulty; now only three to five percent of tested wines fail the tasting panel. Unfortunately, some of the wines that fail aren't actually faulty bottles—Cipes explains that one of Summerhill's wines, an aged sparkling wine, initially failed because the wine's oxidative quality was perceived as a fault instead of a feature. He was eventually able to get the Authority to make an exception through the
creation of a new category, but that was a runaround, and he even had to get an endorsement from a Master of Wine. "The most important thing is to get mandatory audits of origin for all wine labelled with anything to do with British Columbia," Cipes says. "Right now it's a voluntary system, which means that if you participate you are audited and your labels are under scrutiny. And if you do not participate, you can put pretty much whatever the heck you want on the label, whether it's true or not. Nobody's checking. That's a problem for the integrity of our identity as a wineproducing region." Another major area that needs to be examined is the permissible regions under BC VQA. There are currently five: the Okanagan Valley, Similkameen Valley, Fraser Valley, Vancouver Island and Gulf Islands. A major milestone just occurred a few weeks ago with the establishment of the Golden Mile Bench as a sub-region of the Okanagan. It's likely that many more sub-regions will be established over time, given the significant climatic and geological differences within the current regions. "The better that we are able to understand our region and what makes
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it special and unique, the more other people from outside will be interested in what we're doing here," Cipes says. "That's another huge opportunity that we have as an industry, is to look at our region and see if we can start creating sub-regions in a meaningful way." It's ultimately up to the industry to decide what changes will be made. The Appellation Task Group will be hosting town-hall meetings throughout May in all of BC's wine regions to spark conversations and get feedback from the industry. If a consensus or large enough majority can be reached, the propositions will eventually be put into law. Cipes notes that while the VQA might be scrapped entirely in favour of a totally new program, he feels there is still value in the VQA— it just needs a total overhaul. "VQA did a huge amount for our industry," Cipes notes. "It's been enormous and it's brought us to the place we are now. The compromises that have been made along the way are starting to show. This is a real potential for the long-term evolution of the quality of the wines that come out of our region. It's time for an evolution."
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FEATURE // SEAFOOD
The Black Pearl Seafood Bar offers fresh seafood on the prairies
Black Pearl Seafood Bar 10132 - 104 Street // Josh Marcellin
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eafood will always be something of a novelty in Edmonton. With the nearest ocean well over 1000 kilometres away, finding seafood in town—let alone fresh seafood—is usually a challenge. Enter the Black Pearl Seafood Bar, 104 Street's newest culinary player located in the space formerly occupied by Lit Wine Bar. It's the second venture for Nicola and Cristo Crudo, the brothers behind Italian eatery Cafe Amore Bistro (10807 106 Avenue). The two will split their time between the two places, with Nic in the kitchen and Cristo running front of house. There's no mistaking what's on the Black Pearl's menu as soon as you walk through the door: the interior is festooned with nautical bric-abrac of all kinds, all authentic and sourced by the Crudos from Nova Scotia fishermen. Nets and rigging hang from the ceiling, an old ship's wheel is mounted to the side of the bar and a rope of weathered cork buoys stretches along one wall. A bank of large saltwater tanks rests at the back of the narrow space, their crustacean and mollusk denizens revealing the key to the freshness of Black Pearl's fare. "I'm trying to bypass any frozen products—everything is coming in fresh," Nic says, sitting across the table from me at the Black Pearl's media launch. "I deal directly with suppliers from the east coast in Halifax and the west coast in False Creek, BC." As we talk, a server drops off the first of several small plates that will give me a thorough tour of the Black Pearl's menu. I look at what has landed in front of me—a large BC sidestripe shrimp, fully intact and head still on, long antenna coiling around its body—and hesitate, my meatand-potatoes heritage coming out.
How do I eat this thing? "The whole point is to have fun, get your hands dirty," Nic says with a chuckle. Under his guidance, I pick up the shrimp with my fingers and take a big chomp. I quickly realize I had forgotten to peel the shell off first, but once I inelegantly extract those pieces I'm able to savour the meat: sweet and tender, balanced by a subtle heat from the sauce. It's unlike any other shrimp I've had before. "We're trying to be very casual and collective here; we're not trying to be on the pretentious side of seafood," he explains. "Many people see it as a higher-class thing. We're trying to make people as comfortable as they can be, just enjoying some great seafood." After he heads back to the kitchen, I try several other dishes from the Black Pearl's menu: albacore tuna salad, spicy snow crab, grilled lobster, king crab legs, seafood mac and cheese, octopus and oysters—both raw and Rockefeller-style. The menu is a la carte, with small plates averaging between $20 and $30 (pretty reasonable, given the quality and freshness of the seafood), as well as more inexpensive side options available for those seeking a fuller meal. Everything is unanimously delicious in addition to offering a host of new firsts to my woefully-lacking seafood expertise: cracking and slicing open crab legs to extract the juicy meat, eating a raw oyster— the latter was shockingly good, albeit foreign to my prairie palate. I'm sure many other Edmontonians will have similar first experiences at the Black Pearl, as it fills a big void in our city's dining landscape—or seascape, as it were.
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In late 2013, the Alberta government amended a basket of beer-related policies in an attempt to make the rules more palatable for local breweries. One of those changes was to tear down the wall separating brewpubs and retail breweries. Under the old rules, a brewpub was restricted to selling its beer at its pub locations only. The businesses could do off-sales, but they were not allowed to hawk their wares in liquor stores or other pubs. Meanwhile, breweries were forbidden from owning an off-site pub (tasting rooms were OK). The changes removed both restrictions, making the difference between a brewpub and a brewery rather blurry. I mention all this because although no brewery has (yet) opened a pub, Brewsters, Alberta's most widely known brewpub, has made the leap into retail sales. After redesigning its packaging a couple of months ago, the company began selling five of its flagship beers in liquor stores around the province: River City Raspberry, Wild West Wheat, Hammerhead Red, Curly Horse IPA and Rig Pig Pale Ale. Brewsters will also be releasing single bottles of selected seasonals. As I contemplated my choices for review, I gravitated toward the Rig Pig, mostly because—years ago—it was the very first beer I sampled at Brewsters. I have always thought a beer named after our local roughnecks should be a light lager or something simpler, so I appreciate the willingness to tack the label to it a hoppier, yet balanced, style like
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nside Mile Zero Dance's new headquarters—a former yoga studio on the corner of Little Italy, sharing a wall with a Venetian barber shop— an unconventional spread of objects has accumulated. Brass-coloured sections of tubing, set vertically, stand together in a pleasant clump; one has a flower poking out the top. Around the room's edges sit lamps covered in white sheets, while in a corner an old film projector periodically hums to life. Among this oddball assortment moves its human elements. Dancers Amber Borotsik and Richard Lee weave their bodies among the ruckus, sometimes together, sometimes alone, while scenographer Patrick Arès-Pilon wanders along, adjusting the objects or activating new ones, as Mile Zero Dance's artistic director, Gerry Morita, surveys the room. It's here, in what is now dubbed the Spazio Performativo, that Mile Zero Dance is grounding itself. The company had to scramble after a forced relocation: its previous home was in the upstairs of the Artery building, now shuttered by the city to make room for an eventual LRT line. And while it's a new room for the company to rehearse and run its administration out of, Morita notes the space holds a certain connection to the company's past, too. "This floor is actually the same floor we used to dance on at 101 Street, when we were across from Victoria school," she notes. "Because it was put in by the same yoga people." That mix of old and new seems fitting for a company looking to vault past a serious milestone: Mile Zero Dance is celebrating its 30th year of existence in Edmonton. "Yeah, you know—birthday parties," Morita says with a certain nonchalance. "Thirty years is getting to be a significant amount of time, and we wanted to just acknowledge that. So we're going to have a little fête." This particular fête includes both a première—Dances / Devices, a piece featuring Morita, Borotsik and Lee that evolved out of a duet Morita and Lee did a few years back at Expanse Festival—and a red carpet gala on the show's Thursday opening, highlighting the history of the company. It'll all be held at L'Uni Theatre (where MZD has frequented the past few years); not at Spazio, though Morita notes the new space is big enough to bring an audience into; in MZD's brief time at Spazio, it has already launched a monthly performance show, the Dirt Buffet Cabaret, as a multidisciplinary anything-goes showcase. "Just to have this space dedicated to dance is important," she says. "Because we're always going to do other art forms too, and it's large enough that we
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can do events here. So we don't have to piggyback on really expensive theatre companies with their leftover times." Morita is the fifth artistic director of Mile Zero Dance. Founded back in 1985 by Andrea Rabinovitch and Debra Shantz, the company emerged with an established connection to Grant MacEwan, where they both taught. "Brian Webb was an early dancer," Morita grins. After Rabinovitch and Shantz, the company was co-helmed by Bobbie Todd and Kathy Metzger, until the latter departed and Todd ran Mile Zero alone. Morita took over in the 20042005 season: having grown up just north of Lloydminster, she'd spent a few years as a wandering dancer, honing her craft across the globe—first in Vancouver, then over to Montréal for four years, then to Tokyo to study under Japanese choreographer Saburo Teshigawara—before coming back to Edmonton in 2002, looking to put down some roots and raise her kids close to home. "I started just as a dancer, doing school shows," she recalls, of her first work with Mile Zero. "And then I was an artist in residence." It wasn't exactly an idealized time for contemporary dance in Edmonton; Grant MacEwan's dance program was about to shut down, which happened shortly after Morita took a job teaching there. "I think the first staff meeting I went to, as an improv teacher, I got told that the program was going to fold," she says with a laugh. When Morita took the artistic director job at Mile Zero, the company didn't have a space—"It was like one person in a closet, when I started," she notes—which became a focus. Mile Zero also started generating work: at outdoor festivals and, once the company found a room across from Victoria school, at its own space. All the while, Morita started to interweaving other disciplines in among the company's contemporary dance work: the popular Salon series, in particular, let oddball art forms brush up against one another. That interest in cross-disciplinary mixing—between artists in varied mediums, as well as experiments in how performer and audience mix—still guides Morita's interests. Last year's Sho-tel brought dance into a roadside motel on 111th Avenue. Motel residents would poke their heads into the open doors and witness dancers and audience, squeezed together, filling unremarkable rooms with remarkable unusual sights, movement-based or otherwise, like someone making toast and serving it to the audience. In that same adventurous spirit, the
30th-anniversary gala will feature music and poetry, in addition to the dance. A sense of true unpredictability—the result of making curious, potentially volatile mixes of art forms and audiences—seems to be what Morita's after. "I get bored really quickly; if there's not diversity, I get really bored," Morita says. "And if there's not ideas going into things, I get bored. I think our jobs as artists is to circulate, and exchange ideas, and to not get trapped in disciplinary boundaries, which are really colonial and old fashioned: what's the difference between folk art and pop art and high art? The more you combine things, and collaborate with people on an individual level with their skill set, the more fun it is, to me. And dance has always been a highly collaborative form." For Dances / Devices, that collaboration includes the audience: the spread of objects that comprise the show's loose set hasn't been fully settled on—certain objects that proved popular in rehearsal have already been removed, in order to keep them from settling into patterns—nor will it be. And there won't be a set vantage point for audiences to watch from: they'll be in among the action, as the performers navigate the space with and around them. "It's like a very contemporary negotiation of boundaries: how do we, in the modern age, renegotiate boundaries?" Morita says. "And that's not just in art. It's in politics and education. The hierarchies are dissolving. So there still needs to be structure, but everyone's making it up as they go along. "Even though we're spending more time in this, we're trying to confuse ourselves, and we're allowing the audience to affect us and confuse us as well," she continues. "So it's not just the audience that's going, 'What are we supposed to do?' That's what we're thinking, too." If that sounds weird, well, that's the idea—more than anything, as she looks past the company's 30-year mark, Morita seems most jazzed on continuing to get weird in Edmonton—Spazio or elsewhere—and in doing so, cast off some of the shackles of Alberta's stereotypes. "We get this reputation of being a backwater tar-pit where nothing artistic happens. And that's why I'm here," she laughs. "That's where I belong ... I would rather live in a place like Berlin, but If I can make a little tiny bit of Berlin in Edmonton, I think that's even more fun, in a way. It's making something where there wasn't something before, instead of just joining a party which is already really awesome." PAUL BLINOV
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Thu, Apr 23 (6:30 pm) Mile Zero Dance 30th Anniversary Affair and Dances / Devices L'Uni Theatre, $85 (includes performance) Fri, Apr 24 & Sat, Apr 25 (8 pm) Dances / Devices L'Uni Theatre, $25 – $35
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Sat, Apr 25 (8 pm) Jubilee Auditorium, $35 – $50 Dance that emphasizes its humanity // Leda & St Jacques
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ome dance companies tout dancers' athleticism, others a focal technique. It's rare for a company to boast its humanity, but the 43-yearsstrong Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal seems to do just that. It's a company that consistently highlights its personality (or personalities); BJM's charismatic dancers often allow their audience the pleasant reminder that they are watching people onstage. BJM hasn't stopped in Edmonton since 2009, but in years past we've seen the company dance works by Aszure Barton, Mauro Bigonzetti and Crystal Pite. It returns to the Jubilee this Saturday with a stacked set by three more international, in-demand choreographers— the program is enough to assume that artistic director Louis Robitaille enjoys name-dropping. "For me it's always looking to go higher and further; this is our goal," explains Robitaille, who has been at BJM's helm for 15 years. "Of course we want to be a company that reflects what is going on in dance creation in our country and the world." First up in Saturday's program is Closer, an intimate and physically demanding 17-minute duet created by Benjamin Millepied, director of dance for the Paris Opera Ballet, (the choreographic whiz is better known for his work in Black Swan and being married to Natalie Portman). "The stamina it requires to do this duet is phenomenal," Robitaille says, noting that Millepied didn't fall into the "circus traps" with acrobatics in the dance, but instead used the mathematical qualities of Philip Glass's "Mad Rush" to set a ballet that is sophisticated and pure in its sensitivity to the couple's emotions.
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Following Closer is Wen Wei Wang's Night Box, a fast-paced exploration of urban life and its relentless stimuli, originally set for the full BJM company in 2012. Wang's piece journeys through the city and its various landscapes; in a series of tableaux, duets and trios (and street-dance styles), the 35-minute work conveys the primal drive to seek meaningful connections, juxtaposed by the incessant din of metropolis. "We are all looking for relationships," Robitaille nods. "Mostly, Wen Wei succeeded in bringing the feeling that all human beings are emotions on two legs." The second act is BJM's newest work, Harry, by Israeli-American choreographer Barak Marshall. Through the trials and efforts of the eponymous character, this theatrical group work examines how people respond to challenges. "In life we all see all kinds of obstacles, and poor Harry is trying to find love. But he is always trapped in something that doesn't allow him to find it," Robitaille explains, noting that Marshall's sensibilities as a singer and performer helped the dancers find their voices, too. "Barak challenged the dancers of BJM not only to move—this is their job—but he pushed them a little further to interpret their characters and talk onstage. He brings very human aspects of the dancer to the creation." With the variety of themes in the evening, Robitaille notes that the company's characters and range of expression are BJM's defining quality. "We are a fusion dance company," he says. "Yes, we see dancers onstage, but we also see human beings."
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rihannaboi95 / Until Sat, May 2 (7 pm; 2 pm on May 2) Told entirely by 16-year-old Sunny, this online-only play is about being young and gay, bullying and the reality of posting content on the Internet that can't be erased. Set in his friend's bedroom in Calgary, Sunny needs help because the videos he made of himself dancing and talking about being queer were found by his family and kids at school. Go to downstage.ca/rihannaboi.shtml to register for the nightly live stream. (Online, free) Going Up? Elevator Party / Sat, Apr 25 (7:30 pm) The Harcourt House elevator is repaired, and that's a good-enough excuse as any to throw a party. Come enjoy the smooth ride between floors with themed cocktails and Champagne. This is a cultured elevator, too: it's been used as a venue for mini-plays for the National Elevator Project. (Harcourt House, by donation) Unleash the Geek / Sat, Apr 25 (8 pm) Capital City Burlesque loves to get geeky. The ladies are performing their most nerd-friendly routines, including new solo and group numbers. Expect some sexy Darth Vader action. (Citadel Theatre [The Club], $30) To Dream the Bear / Until Thu, Apr 30 Local First Nations visual artist Jason Carter creates striking art as a painter and a sculptor. You may have seen his bold animal portraits on the LRT extension by Southgate. His new work explores the importance of bears for Native Americans through carvings and acrylics on canvas. (Bearclaw Gallery, free) GDX Edmonton / Sat, Apr 25 (9:30 am – 7:30 pm) Edmonton's inaugural Game Discovery Exhibition celebrates games— video, board, mobile—and the people who make them in this city. The event will have networking opportunities for game creators, panels and the CMPUT 250 Awards Ceremony for U of A game developers. Visit gdxedmonton.com to reserve your spot. (PCL Lounge at CCIS, University of Alberta, free)
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Routes t started as a fight over Metallica and ended The one-man play follows 15-year-old Tom and takes place entirely on an ETS bus drivwith a man dead. Back in 2006, local playwright Collin Doyle was ing through Mill Woods, his refuge from a commissioned by Edmonton's Concrete Theatre, violent home. Played by 22-year-old emerga company that produces ing Métis actor Colin Dingtheatre for young audiences, Fri, Apr 24 (1 pm and 7:30 pm); wall, Tom is overweight, to write a play about teen vio- Sat, Apr 25 (2 pm and 8 pm) shy and does his best to remain invisible. lence. Around the same time, Directed by Mieko Ouchi Throughout the play, the four local teens were accused C103, $16 – $19 of killing 35-year-old Stefan bus drives by his nine forConley on an ETS bus. mer homes. His alcoholic The four 16- and 17-year-olds got on Route 74 at and violent father has disrupted his family the Mill Woods Transit Centre on March 2, 2006. life, causing Tom and his mother to conThey allegedly got into an argument with Con- stantly relocate. Doyle links the violence in ley about who was a bigger Metallica fan. Wit- Tom's home with bullying and the man who nesses say punches were thrown by Conley and died on the bus. Doyle says Routes will hopefully help the boys—the older man ended up dead from a people be more empathetic—but he doesn't ruptured artery after being pushed backwards. The incident inspired Routes, Doyle's play about have any illusions about it solving the anviolence and bullying geared towards a junior- cient problems of bullying and violence. "There's just no simple answer," he adds. and senior-high audience. "At the time, it stuck out for me because the "And if you try to put that on stage, some bystanders didn't do anything," Doyle says. "But simple answer, those kids are immediately then I started to understand why they didn't: going to know it's bullshit. But I am trying to because you don't know who these people are. get kids to imagine other people's lives, and You don't expect a fight to end in death. Later on, how actions have consequences. And if you when I found out about the Metallica stuff, that need help, then get help." it wasn't these young evil thugs, it turned out to JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM be a more complicated story."
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DANCE DANCES/DEVICES • La Cite Francophone (L'Unitheatre), 8627-91 St • milezerodance. com • A roaming spectacle, featuring some of Edmonton’s strongest talent, playing with a plethora of sound object amid the detritus of both the past and future • Apr 23-24, 8pm
EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • May 2, 8pm
EDMONTON JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL • Landmark Cinemas City Centre • 780.487.0585 ext. 206 • jewishedmonton.org • Presents some of the very best in Jewish cinema from around the world • May 3-12 • $11
LES BALLETS JAZZ DE MONTREAL • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • bwdc. ca • A triple bill consisting of a masterpiece from Brian Webb Dance Company's repertoire, "Closer" by Benjamin Millepied, followed by "Night Box" by Wen Wei Wang and Harry by Barak Marshall • Apr 25, 8-11pm • $40-$60
MZD 30TH ANNIVERSARY EVENT • L'Unitheatre, 8627-91 St • milezerodance. com • Celebrate 30 years of MZD with a performance, campagne reception, speeches, film clips, silent auction, lobby performances and so much more • Apr 23, 6:30pm • $85
SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry
UNLEASH THE GEEK • The Club at Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • capitalcityburlesque@gmail.com • citadeltheatre.com/event/unleash-the-geek • Featuring some of CCB’s geekiest numbers, and debuting several new solo and group acts • Apr 25, 8-10pm • $30 (adv, floor), $25 (door, balcony), $35 (door, floor)
WHAT'S COOKING? • PCL Studio Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • Works in process showing and dialogue • Apr 26, 2015, 12 noon, and 7pm
FILM CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Calvary (Apr 29) • Free
EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@ gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/movies/movies. cfm • Walk In The Shadows Film Series: Sunset Boulevard, Apr 27; Fallen Angel, May 4; Ace In The Hole, May 11; On Dangerous Ground, May 25; The Big Heat, Jun 1; Kiss Me Deadly, Jun 8; The Asphalt Jungle, Jun 15; Touch Of Evil, Jun 22 • All at 8pm • Series membership tickets (all 8 films), $30; Single film: $6 (general), $5 (seniors 65 and over/students), $13 (kids 12 and under)
FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Marvel’s The Avengers (Apr 24); Iron Man 3 (May 1)
METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Willow (Apr 25) • CULT CINEMA: Midnight Cowboy (Apr 28) • Edmonton moviE Club: O Kadhal Kanmani (Apr 25)
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • LANGUAGE OF CRAFT; Apr 4-Jul 4 • LANDED; Apr 11-May 23
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • FUTURE STATION: 2015 ALBERTA BIENNIAL OF CONTEMPORARY ART: Jan 24-May 3 • DAVEANDJENN: NO END: Mar 21-Jun 7 • POP SHOW! DAZZLED BY THE EVERYDAY; Mar 21-Jun 7 • Open Studio Adult DropIn : Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) •
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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 •
artgalleryofstalbert.ca • TALKING CREATURES; Mar 5-May 2 • Art Ventures: 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: , 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: for 3-5 yrs; preregister; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)
BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Between the Light and the Dark: Janice Mason Steeves & Morley Myers; Apr 25-May 8
CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Hélène Giguère, Roma Newcombe, Alouisia Aubin-Desrochers, Danièle Petit and Urmila Z. Das; Apr 17-May 5
DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • GRAVITY: Featuring the work of Blu Smith; May 6-30; Opening reception: May 7, 5-8pm
DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • ALONG MODERNIST LINES: by Michael Batty & Jeffrey Spalding; Apr 18-May 2
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MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 541151 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • FASHION REFLECTIONS: featuring examples of women’s clothing from the early 1900s-1950; Jan 21Apr 29 • FIBRE ARTIST: Magie Davididson; Apr 24-May 20; Reception: Apr 26
MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@ artsandheritage.ca • FRANCOPHONES IN ALBERTA; Apr 21-Jun 22; Opening reception: Apr 23, 6pm NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • CITY VISIONS: New York New Work by Gordon R Johnston & Bridgescapes by Frank van Veen. Two appreciations of the urban landscape; Apr 7-May 19 • Artisan Nook: ADVENTURES OF LE CHAT, THE FRENCH TRAVELING CAT: Sylvia Soo, whimsical ink & watercolour pencil images; Apr 7-May 19
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • ACTUALLY, EVERYTHING IS JUST ABOUT THE SAME: Steve Driscoll; May 1-19 ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102
FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • BFA 2015 GRADUATION SHOW; Apr 21-May 2; Opening reception: Apr 23, 7-10pm • DESIGN LATITUDES: Bonnie Sadler Takach, University of Alberta’s Art & Design faculty; May 12-Jun 6
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Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum. ca • NATURAL HI-STORIES: Showing plants in their native habitats in a given location; Mar 28-Jun 21 • GLIMPSES OF THE GRASSLANDS: The Artistic Vision of Colin Starkevich; May 16-Aug 23
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• thefrontgallery.com • Silent Metaphors: Sculptor Blake Ward; May 2-25
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GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • OUR PAST, OURSELVES: BY OUR PAST, OURSELVES; Mar 7-Apr 28 • Pottery by Dale Dorosh; Mar 7-Apr 28
GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Karen Blanchette (oil); Mar 31-May 4 • Tony Overweel (pastel); May 5-Jun 1
GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • IMAGES AND THE CURIOUS MIND: Robin Smith Peck; Mar 20-Apr 26 • Karen Blanchette: oil; Mar 31-May 4 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • URBAN ECOLOGICAL SPACES; Apr 20-30 • MOMENT IN TIME SERIES: Mixed media on canvas and linen by Gisele Jerke; May 1-31
HAPPY HARBOR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • ARTIST-INRESIDENCE: Daniel Hackborn; until Apr 25 • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: A MOMENT IN THE FLOW: Mayumi Amada; Apr 23-May 27 • FRONT ROOM: UNTITLED (IT’S ALMOST A ONE-LINER): Sarah Beck and Shlomi Greenspan; Apr 23-May 27
JAPANESE CULTURAL SOCIETY • 675088 St • EDMONTON ART CLUB ANNUAL SPRING SHOW & SALE; May 23-24; Opening reception: May 22, 6-9pm
JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • HARMONY: by artist Angela Lee; Mar 27-Apr 29 • Artist Marie Sieben; Apr 30-May 27; Reception: May 13, 6:30-8:30pm
JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages
LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • BIRDS OF A FEATHER EUROPE SERIES & PROTECTED LANDS SERIES: both exhibits by Adele Knowler; Apr 17-28 LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • DUBIOUS TRANSLATIONS: Brad Necyk; Apr 10-May 22 • MUTATIONS: José Luis Torres; Apr 10-May 22
LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: FriSun 10-6pm • MOTHER'S DAY TEA: Enjoy local artwork, pottery, jewelry, and baked goodies with mom; May 10, 12-4pm
SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print -Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • BETWEEN THE LINES: Briar Craig; Apr 9-May 23 • ASS U ME: Ben Weinlick; Apr 9-May 23
SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • FIREPLACE ROOM: Shona Holzer; through Apr • Juried Members Show; through Apr STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • DARING DAMES: EXPERIENCE THE LIVES OF PIONEER WOMEN; until Jun 30
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • GPS ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: Combining technology, nature, and hidden treasure; until Jun 1 • DINOSAURS UNEARTHED: May 15-Oct 11; $26.50 (adult), $19.50 (child), $23.50 (youth/student/senior)
U OF A MUSEUMS • Enterprise Square Galleries, 10230 Jasper Ave • Thu-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat 12-4pm •WHAT'S NEW?: New acquisitions, new discoveries, new species, new ideas, new technologies, new theories and a few new mysteries; Apr 23-May 23; Opening reception: Apr 23, 6pm (doors), 6:30pm (short program)
VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Gallery A: SEARCHING SKIES, SEEING THROUGH TREES: Gerald St. Maur; Gallery B: EDITED REALISM: Jean Pilch; Apr 2-May 31
VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • VIEWS: art by Doris Charest; Mar 31-May 1
WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • 40TH ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION; Apr 18-30
LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780. 423.3487 • audreys.ca • Alison Clarke "The Sisterhood" Lunch Hour Book Signing; Apr 23, 11:45am • Glass Buffalo's Edmonton Poetry Festival event; Apr 23, 7pm • Dawn Magee "What I Wish My Mom Would Have Told Me: Purity 101" Book Launch; Apr 25, 1pm • Edmonton Poetry Festival's Cafe Readings at Audreys; Apr 26, 1pm • SG Wong "Die on Your Feet" Lunch Hour Book Signing; Apr 29, 11:45am • Dan Rubinstein "Born to Walk: The Transformative Power of a Pedestrian Act" Book Launch ft. Tom Babin w/ "Frostbike"; Apr 30, 7pm • W. P. Kinsella "The Essential W. P. Kinsella" Book Launch; May 1, 7pm • Writer's Guild of Alberta; May 3, 2pm • Marc Colbourne "Exiled for Launch: The Journey of an Iranian Queer Activist" Book Launch; May 5, 7pm
DAVID SHEPHERD CAMPAIGN OFFICE • 10184-104 St • Ballots to the Wall: poetry by Ahmed Knowmadic, Ahlam & Aditi, and Megan Dart. Music by Arlo Maverick, Breezy Brian Gregg and more • Apr 24, 8pm • No cover
EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam. com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner
KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • This episode presents: Catherine Graham, Toronto poet, "Her Red Hair Rises on the Wings of Insects", Blaine Marchand, Ottawa poet, "The Craving of Knives", Peter Midgley, Edmonton poet, author, "Counting Teeth: A Namibian Story", Andy Northrup, Edmonton singer, songwriter, actor, "Slow Burn Avenue". Books and CDs for sale • Apr 23, 7-9pm • Donations accepted LITERARY COCKTAILS • Faculty Club, U of A Campus, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive • Readings and refreshments as the University of Alberta Press launches their newest literary titles: "Small Things Left Behind" by Ella Zeltserman, "Trying Again to Stop Time" by Jalal Barzanji, and "A Year of Days" by Myrl Coulter. Part of the 2015 Edmonton Poetry Festival • Apr 23, 4-6pm NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm
POETRY FESTIVAL • Various locations throughout Edmonton • Celebrating poetry in all its forms! Featuring local poets in cafes, book launches, noon-hour events at CBC, Poetry Central downtown, and so much more • Apr 19-26 ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm
SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com
UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, 7pm; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)
THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Backstage Theatre, 10330 84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, until Jun 26, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) • grindstonetheatre.ca THE ADDAMS FAMILY MUSICAL • ATB Financial Arts Barns - Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • sconatheatreco.com • Wednesday Addams is growing up and is challenging her parents’ ideals. She has fallen deliriously in love with a sweet, smart young man from a respectable family. Everything will change for the whole family on the fateful night they host a dinner for Wednesday's "normal" boyfriend and his conservative parents • Apr 21-Apr 25
AVENUE Q • 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • A musical with part felt and part flesh that tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. There, he meets colorful types who help Princeton finally discover his purpose in life • Apr 25-May 24
BECOMING SHARP • Varscona Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • shadowtheatre.org • Recruited as the ghostwriter for the author of the world's most famous mystery series, Judy Parker thinks she's won the chance of a lifetime. But secrets
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and conspiracies surround her and becoming the writer she dreams to become might cost her everything she is • Apr 29-May 17
CABARET • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615109 Ave NW • mayfieldtheatre.ca • A musical set in the strange playground of 1931 Berlin, where the seedy Kit Kat Club reveals a tale of love in the ruins, of hope and ultimately of loss • Apr 14-Jun 14 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 CHRISTINA / PHILIPPE • Westbury Theatre in the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • Queen Christina of Sweden, who dressed and lived as a man, and Philippe, the Duc D'Orleans and brother to King Louis XIV, who dressed as a woman, are locked in a battle of wits and wills. Featuring a mixture of music, live singing, and verbatim interviews • May 1-10 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 EDMONTON SCENE STUDY • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Join members of Edmonton's Arts community in the shared reading of a selection of plays • May 4, 6-8pm • Free (RSVP to briannejang@gmail.com)
HEY LADIES! • ATB Financial Arts Barns Varscona Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • It's tattoos, homemaking tips, booze, prize and even get some culture all in one spectacular evening • Apr 24, 8pm 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)
OPEN JAM (IMPROV) AT THE GRINDSTONE THEATRE REHEARSAL SPACE • Grindstone Theatre Rehearsal Space, (upstairs), 10125-97 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • facebook.com/GrindstoneTheatre • A relaxed environment to grow whether participants are a seasoned improviser or a newbie • Apr 28, 7-10pm • Free (RSVP to kehudson@ualberta. ca)
RISK EVERYTHING BY GEORGE F WALKER • C103 (formerly known as Catalyst Theatre) • 8529 Gateway Boulevard • Young couple Denise and RJ are surprised when Denise’s mother Carol shows up at the door of their motel room. Covered in cuts and bruises, it quickly becomes clear that Carol is on the run from someone. Denise attempts to discover the truth of her mother’s predicament, but Carol will stop at nothing to hide the truth • Apr 29-May 9
ROUTES • C103 (formerly Catalyst Theatre), 8529 Gateway Boulevard • A one man play that delves into the impact of violence through the eyes of Tom, a 15 year old boy living in Mill Woods. Tom escapes violence at home by riding his local bus until closing. As he journeys along the routes of his nine previous homes, we discover the ties that connect the violence at home to acts of bullying between students at his school and the killing of a man by four youth on this very route • Apr 25-25
THE SUBURBAN MOTEL SERIES • Catalyst Theatre , 8529 Gateway Boulevard • punctuatetheatre.com • Six plays, connected by a single motel room • Apr 29-May 11
THAT’S DIRTY DANCING • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690, 8882-170 St • Who doesn't like a good spoof? Featuring songs from the 80s, it's the summer time romance story visitors will want to see. The story focuses on “Baby” Hoseman, the youngest of her family, and just beginning to explore independence, dancing, and the opposite sex. It's all set Kellerman’s posh prairie resort, which also happens to employ a very odd groundskeeper, who is constantly doing battle with a surprisingly clever band of pesky prairie dogs • Apr 17-Jun 14
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
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REVUE // DRAMA
FILM
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Kids these days
While We're Young a likable Noah Baumbach film, but its behavioural observations grow stale
Act your age, Stiller!
J
osh (Ben Stiller) and Cornelia (Naomi Watts) are in their 40s. He's been making his second documentary—about what I'm not exactly sure, though it features a crotchety ideologue and promises to be about something terribly important—for the last
10 years. She's a film producer, though not for Josh, who "likes to work alone," but for her father (Charles Grodin), something of an elder statesman among the New York leftist intelligentsia. Josh and Cornelia can't have kids, or haven't had kids anyway, and are
increasingly alienated by their friends judging from earlier films like Greenwith kids, among them Marina (Maria berg and his relationship with the Dizzia) and Fletcher (Adam Horovitz, significantly younger actress Greta aka Ad-Rock of the Beastie Boys), who Gerwig—who was in Greenberg and has a sonogram of his unborn child was the star and co-scenarist of Frantattooed on his arm. Josh and Cornelia ces Ha, Baumbach's most effervescent are thus exhilarated by an unexpect- work—seems eager to wrestle with ed new friendship with Jamie (Adam hang-ups around age difference. But Driver) and Darby (Amanda Seyfried), the way Baumbach wrestles feels a pair of eccentric-by-design, painfully largely superficial, his targets too self-conscious twentysomething hip- easy. Watts seems especially suited ster types—kids who to the material, already talk and don't Opens Friday committed to need changing!—who While We're Young the light huseem to make every- Directed by Noah Baumbach miliation funthing they do into an damental to art project; who dethis brand of light Josh by not only comedy that knowing who he is but by actually owes a great deal to the films of Paul owning a VHS tape of his one movie; Mazursky and Woody Allen. Which who invite them to hip-hop dance may be part of the problem: Woody at classes and an ayahuasca ceremony his best has an odd knack for writing and on shopping trips for fedoras. But dialogue that shouldn't work—I think wait, could all this rejuvenating flat- when it works it does so because it's tery bestowed upon our self-esteem- so mimetic of Allen's lived-in manimpaired middle-aged protagonists be nerisms and his old school stand-up leading to some sort of foolishness sensibility. But all too often in While We're Young Baumbach has his characand betrayal? ters, like those of Allen's, pronounce There are many things to like about every last drop of subtext, leaving While We're Young, the latest from little to the imagination. We don't get writer/director Noah Baumbach, who, to sense Josh's shameless boy-love for
Jamie because he comes right out and tells us, which renders the entire relationship dynamic a lot less plausible: the fact that he's making such a fool of himself and knows it. The corny satirizing of shifting social mores also feels oddly akin to that of, say, Annie Hall, except it's not 1977 and bourgeois poseurs taking hallucinogens should really be depicted with fresher gags at the very least. (Baumbach would have done better to look to a certain HBO program that Driver costars in for tips on sending up urbane affectation.) Nearly every character in this film is a cliché, nearly every scenario is a cliché, so the humour and behavioural observations grow stale quickly. Again, I think Watts' Cornelia is the most compelling exception to this, yet her character is also paid less attention to than Stiller's. The resolution feels phony, tacked on. No more phony or tacked on that that of your average mainstream comedy, to be sure, but I expect more from Baumbach, a filmmaker who is, no doubt, young at heart. But if he doesn't watch out, he's going to start making movies like an old man.
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PREVUE // CLASSICS
EFS Spring Series: Walk in the Shadows I
A Touch of Evil
n 1962, when Alfred Hitchcock explained suspense as having a clear set-up and quickly involving the viewer—for instance, a bomb going off at a certain time "and the public knows it ... the audience is longing to warn the characters on the screen"—he may as well have been talking about an opening sequence from four years earlier. A man sets a bomb's timer to just over three minutes, surreptitiously plants the explosive in the trunk of a car, a couple gets in, and the vehicle, as people pass by—especially newlyweds Mike (Charlton Heston) and Susie (Janet Leigh)—crawls and stops and creeps along the street to the USMexico border for three minutes and 14 seconds until ... So starts Touch of Evil (June 22),
Orson Welles' famous film-noir and one of the last of the crepuscular genre's classic era. The 1998 cut— re-edited by Walter Murch, following Welles' wishes—closes the Edmonton Film Society's series "Walk in the Shadows," criss-crossed with intrigue, shadiness and suspense. It all begins with Billy Wilder's classic Sunset Boulevard (1950; Apr 27), drifting back from a body in a pool to a down-on-his-luck screenwriter (William Holden) trying to manipulate a silent-film star (Gloria Swanson) in her comeback effort. Wilder's journalism-noir Ace in the Hole (1951; May 11) has Kirk Douglas' anti-hero Chuck Tatum, overlooking the human in "human interest story,"
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dig himself in deep down New Mexico way. Beneath snappy lines and surface swagger, the film's darkly doubtful about a '50s America occupied by the shallow, cocky white man. The femme fatale levels her sultry gaze in Otto Preminger's Fallen Angel (1945; May 4), where a waitress (Linda Darnell) draws a drifter (Dana Andrews) into her small-town world, soon shrouded by murder. Nicholas Ray's On Dangerous Ground (1952; May 25) sees a city cop in the snowbound countryside to catch a girl's killer. Rounding out the series: Fritz Lang's The Big Heat (1953; June 1), with a murder-detective taking on the mob; the Mickey Spillane adaptation Kiss Me Deadly (1955; June 8), crackling with nuclear-war fears; John Huston's jewel-heist picture The Asphalt Jungle (1950; June 15), which paved the way for the caper film. BRIAN GIBSON
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canny nightmare (see 1964's Woman in the Dunes). Among recent films that deal with houses and homes, I think of Olivier Assayas' Summer Hours (2008), a masterpiece about letting go of a family property freighted with collective memories, House of Sand and Fog (2003), a not very successful adaptation of the Andre Dubus III novel, the exceedingly mannered but often brilliant Kazakhstani film The Owners (2014) which, like Sand and Fog, concerns a fateful disagreement over home ownership, or countless horror movies, which tend to regard houses as inherently anxiogenic. Regardless of their various merits, what none of these films do is really examine space and how we inhabit it. That's one of the things that makes British writer/director Joanna Hogg's Exhibition (2013) so special. The film ushers living space from background to foreground. Homeness is its sub-
ject. I rented Kino Lorber's recent Exhibition DVD on a whim, drawn to the synopsis' promise of an exploration into our relationship with our homes, curious about Slits guitarist Viv Albertine's sole foray into acting, and having some vague memory of having seen Hogg's name somewhere and thinking that she sounded interesting. Interesting she is! I now want to see all of her films. (Which, alas, shouldn't be hard as there are only two previous features.) Exhibition follows D (Albertine) and H (real-life artist Liam Gillick), a childless couple in their 50s, both artists. Their house (designed by James Melvin in 1969 for he and his wife to live in after their children had left home), which they've lived in for 20 years, is modernist with a handful of more CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 >>
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If by "house" we mean something material, a corporeal structure, a body that houses a being, a spirit, an inner life, and by "home" we mean that being, spirit or inner life, which of these has been better represented in movies? I'd argue both houses and homes have been largely neglected. Architecture is a weak spot, if not an entirely ignored region of the filmable world, for most filmmakers, and the sense of homeness that architecture can fulfil is generally conjured as a token sentiment rather than something to evoke through the rigorous combination of sound and image. The exceptions prove the rule: Ingmar Bergman was a master of filming interiors as reflections of his character's internal worlds (see 1972's Cries and Whispers); Antonioni could accomplish similar feats with exteriors and alienation (see 1961's La notte); Hiroshi Teshigahara fused nature and living space into un-
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Woman in Gold G
ustav Klimt's Portrait of Adele Bloch Bauer I (1907) offers a woman—at once an object yet ungraspable—who seems to rise out of the backdrop, swathed in gold, her dress replete with eye-like motifs. Simon Curtis' Woman in Gold offers a movie that can't emerge from its Philomena-like formula (spunky older woman pairs up with younger man advocating for her rights) and emotionally goosesteps its flashbacks to late-1930s Austria, turning history into a heartstring-pulling exercise. In Los Angeles, 1999, Maria Altmann (Helen Mirren) asks lawyer E Randol Schoenberg (Ryan Reynolds) to investigate her rights to Klimt's famous
portrait of her Aunt Adele. As they pursue the case, Maria has flashbacks to her younger self (Tatiana Maslany) in her parents' apartment, at salon parties and her wedding, until the day when she and her husband tried to flee the capital as Hitler's forces moved in. The legal case is interesting; the look back at a Jewish family in Anschluss-strangled Vienna is inherently powerful.
holding a doughnut for him. But early are silly—a Supreme Court judge flashbacks jar and the finale, where a cracks wry asides and Schoenberg 21st-century Maria wanders among offers a high-school-level summary friends and family in her 1930s home, of what we've seen before appealis visually redundant and emotional- ing to a new Austria to "rectify the ly browbeating. The script can badly wrongs" of the past. overstate (we're told what Treblinka Historical truth doesn't work like is even as we read the name on a that, but then this movie, avoiding Holocaust memopolitical and perrial). The last two Now playing sonal complexcourtroom scenes Directed by Simon Curtis ity (the toll on
Schoenberg's marriage is shown just once; Maria's post-emigration marriage and life are ignored), prefers to gild today's America, and LA, as the sunlit New World of hope. As for Aunt Adele, she's left an enigma, voicing mere fortune-cookie lines in her two scenes. Her brilliant portrait, at least, endures.
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The picture, though, lacks the colour, passion and detail of Klimt's painting. Maslany is strong—stronger than Mirren, who mostly plays a feisty grandmother-figure, offering a bland Reynolds some coughdrops or
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n 2009, when two different mallcop movies Segwayed into town, there could only be one winner. Kevin James' Paul Blart flick, grossing $183-million, flop-sweated its unfunny way to the top-level. So here's the sequel, making a convincing case that "flop-sweat" should be replaced as a term for a "comedy afraid of failing" by "conedrip"—there's actually a moment where the big screen's big-gutted mall-cop hero, desperate to end his hypoglycemia, shimmies and squeaks his fainting frame along a shiny casino floor so he's beneath a little girl's dripping ice-cream, lapping up its droplets. Desperation's the watch-word here, from lines like, "I'll go to California if I want some smog on my earthquake flakes" to a casino-heist plotline that sees Blart up against a tech-heavy Bond villain. The Blart
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contemporary modifications, such as pocket doors. Enormous windows place these artists on a kind of ongoing exhibition—rather fittingly, given that D's work, which is never entirely defined, seems to explore that liminal space between a traditional gallerybound presentational practice and one that transpires in the mobile confines of the artist's interactions with the world. (A famous prototype might be Sophie Calle; I've read that Hogg was inspired by Valie Export.) The house seems perfectly designed for D and H's situation, with two levels divided in such a way that the couple can be both together and alone, the other being just an intercom call away, or a trip on the spiral staircase, the house's spinal column. Because we sense that D is a highly intuitive, less articulate artist (we often see her performing peculiar, erotically charged actions alone in her studio), while H is a more cerebral, systematic artist (gender
jokes, so lame the first go-around, five times good slapstick? The only cringe to this comedy hobble along again here: Blart acts officious, Blart falls off Seg- comes with the stereotypes: a noway, Blart bounces off glass, Blart nonsense black woman who drops slang ("This just lurches and shimNow playing got real!"), a snotmies and tumbles Directed by Andy Fickman ty young Latino around like an hotshot. Taking o v e r c a f fe i n a te d James' mustacircus clown. chioed boy-man What's new is an added layer of out of a New Jersey mall to drop him misjudgment. Who thought Blart's into the bling-blinging Vegas strip mom getting fatally run over by a only makes his antics all the more "milk truck" a minute in would get tedious and unbelievable: locking laughs? In what comic universe himself in a suitcase and tumbling does it work that some svelte sex- down stairs to knock over a bad pot becomes more and more at- guy? Beanbag-guns against silencertracted to a man just because he's wielding henchmen? Ziplining across convinced she's hitting on him, un- roofs to a helipad? It's as if Ocean's til she says, "I just can't say no to Eleven was rewritten by a six-yearyou"? Or a cleaning lady saying "I old, struck by a lightning-blart of deserved it" after Blart mistakenly inspiration out on the playground. punches her in the gut? How is tas- BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM ing someone, who keeps getting up,
stereotypes are knowingly applied), this portmanteau house could be seen as analogous to a brain, with its right and left hemispheres. The house is spacious and neat, perhaps a little chilly for some tastes, but above all beautiful and comfortable and seemingly perfect for its inhabitants. Which makes it that much more of a fraught event that the couple have decided to move out. Or have they? H seems confident in the decision; D seems unhappy about it. With exquisite craftsmanship and careful attention to detail, to behavior, sound and touch most of all, Exhibition examines a relationship in crisis through the lens of that relationship's living space. I fear my description of Exhibition, what with all these binaries (man/ woman, intuition/intellect, should we stay or should we go?), makes the film seem schematic (and thus in keeping with the implied sensibility of H, rather than D). But Hogg blurs the dividing lines, most notably in the way she explores the couple's sexual relationship, itself undergo-
ing some uncomfortable transition, with H desperate to connect and D merely making her body available to him, as if saving all her sexual energy for her art, which seems tied to the house—we see her conforming her body to its angles and contorting herself to repurpose its objects. What I want to emphasize is that Exhibition is at once outfitted with stimulating concepts and infused with beguiling mysteries. There's so much going on between D and H that's never spelled out or resolved; instead, these things are strongly sensed, in the ways they speak, eat, work, negotiate, make love, interact with friends and strangers, and, above all, by the way they inhabit space. Almost everything in the film is a little strange; almost everything is very familiar. The tension between these forces sustains the film's power to fascinate over its largely plot-free duration. You'll feel at home, I think, without ever taking for granted that a home is a permanent thing. V
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PREVUE // PSYCHOBILLY
MUSIC
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Ten years and counting
T
he Creepshow has existed for approximately 3652.42 days—or 10 years, if you want to keep it simple. It's a notable milestone that caps off a decade of changing vocalists, the release of four albums, support gigs for the likes of NOFX and Dropkick Murphys and a continuously ticking tour odometer. But, as upright-bassist Sean McNab notes, touring wasn't something the psychobilly group had considered when it got together back in 2005 in Burlington, ON. "I was tour-managing Alexisonfire at the time, when the band started, and I just wanted to do something fun on the weekends when I was home," he says from Toronto, shortly before getting back in the tour van to head across Canada. "Then we got offered a couple of things and then 10 years later we're still on tour." You would think coming up with memorable moments after that much
time on the road would be difficult, but McNab—who formed the group alongside keyboard player Kristian Rowles—can quickly pinpoint two standouts, both of which occurred during the group's early trips overseas. The first involves the Creepshow's inaugural trip to Europe for a gig in Germany. A club owner had overheard his DJ playing a Creepshow track, and he immediately flew the band over for a Halloween show, which it played in front of a packed house. "I don't think we had really toured Canada at the time, so it was a crazy thing for us," McNab says, recalling the group didn't even have an album out at the time—it had only formed about six months prior. "I think we only had like eight songs and they were calling for an encore and we were like, 'That's all we have.'" The second instance McNab points to is the Creepshow's first show in
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referencing Sarah taking over from Moscow, Russia, around 2010. "We had no idea what to expect, her sister Jen (the band's original voand the place was packed and ev- calist) while she was pregnant. "After eryone was going the second singer crazy. And after the Tue, Apr 28 (8 pm) there was defifirst song everyone With Sam Spades, nitely thoughts of, starting chanting, the Penske File, the Misfires 'Is this ridiculous? 'Welcome.'" he says. Pawn Shop, $15 Like, you know, is "That was the first it time to just do [time]—aside from something new?'" McNab and Rowles are responsible that first European show—where I for the majority of the songwriting, got goosebumps onstage." and they decided to soldier on. A friend The Creepshow is in a new era of recommended Legaspi, and McNab sorts with the addition of lead vocal- says she was barely 30 seconds into ist Kenda Legaspi; she came on board the audition song before they realized in 2012 after the departure of Sarah they had their new singer. Blackwood, who is now part of Walk "Her voice was a little bit different, but it just sounded amazing with Off the Earth. "When the first singer change hap- what we were doing," McNab adds. pened it was just sort of a temporary "We weren't looking for someone to thing; it started out as just like a fill- sound the same; we just wanted it to in type thing and then it ended up sound right." The band has released one album becoming permanent," McNab says,
30 years of diverse and
with Legaspi—2013's Life After Death—but plans to work on some material during this tour and get back into the studio soon after. As for fans getting behind another change in lead vocalist? The reaction has been positive, for the most part. "I'd be the first person to say when a band I like got a new singer, just pack it in, that's stupid," McNab admits, adding he thought just that when Pennywise got a new vocalist, but he gave it a chance anyway. "It's a crazy thing, because you can lose everything you've put 10 years into over the change of just one person. Luckily, it was a really positive experience for us, and it was way better than I expected. We announced it and obviously there were some people that were negative about it, but there were a lot of people who were positive about it."
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ur vibrato ends up matching and sometimes people don't know which one of us is singing," says Jenesse Graling, who shares vocal, synth and piano duties with her sister Brittany in the aptly named Sister Gray. Indeed, the natural match of sibling harmonies makes it difficult to tell the two apart, and those vocal chops are front and centre on the local rock five-piece's new EP, Burn This Disco. The title comes from a track Jenesse penned about Edmonton's nightlife—like her adventures at Buddy's—and the free-spirited mindset of only caring about the night ahead. "We're going to burn this disco down and we're going to dance in the ashes," Jenesse says with a laugh, referencing lyrics from the track. Burn This Disco, the band's second album since its 2011 debut, boasts a heavier sound this time around, with guitar and synth-driven melodies and frenetic—yet danceable— drum lines.
"We still want tracks that you can dance to, especially live," Jenesse notes. "But we definitely went heavier. We went with a new producer we'd never worked with who really focuses on rock: his name is Brian Moncarz. So everything has a bit more of a rock beat, kind of bass-heavy." The shift in sound was done to better represent how the group sounds live, Jenesse adds. Sister Gray was often put on bills with pop-folk acts, which she feels didn't fit, so they set out to capture the energy of the band exudes onstage on the album. The result is a cohesive sonic palette, though the lyrics have a much broader scope—from party-ready anthems to the espionage-novel-inspired "Moscow's Rules," written by Sister Gray's bassist, David McCargar. "Everyone always contributes their lines and their musical parts, and we always change arrangements, but this was the first song
by one of our band members; the music and lyrics were written by him and we just kind of adapted it to our voices," Jenesse says. "It's kind of great when you can let someone else step in, because they can take it somewhere you never would have gone. It sounds like a song out of a really heavy James Bond movie." Despite Burn This Disco being officially released this Saturday, Sister Gray is already working on another EP to be released this winter. The songs are tracked, but there's still work to be done to finesse them, Jenesse explains. "Some of the songs on the upcoming EP are almost a little slower; it's still got a heavier rock feel, but there's a ballad in there, a kind of '90s rock ballad—I just love it," she adds. "And then there's some kind of sexier, slower songs that are heavy, but a little bit more like slow-jams. We want to have at least a couple dancey songs on there, too."
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Rodney Decroo I
t's been five years since Rodney Decroo released a proper album. Not that the Vancouver-based singer-songwriter hasn't kept himself busy: that span saw him release a book of poetry, Allgheny, BC, which unpacked his fractured childhood, as well as a spokenword album connected to the book and a touring Fringe theatre piece based on it, too. But in the process of developing all that musical-but-not-quite-music stuff, half a decade slipped by. "Last week, it was like, 'Oh, it has been awhile,'" he says over the phone. "I remember what this was like, rehearsing and all the prep you do to get out on the road with a record. It's different." Decroo's a genial chat—apologizing for very slight tardiness ("I was chasing my cat down the hallway of my building. Cry of freedom.")—and far warmer than the revelatory nature of his songwriting, which is as potent as ever on Campfires on the Moon. It's a sparse record—mostly Decroo's voice and nimble guitarwork, rounded out by some combination of cello, bass and piano—one that allots plenty of space to let words and sounds draw emphasis and sonic punctuation. That sparseness is new, and it
might be corollary to the past few years' work. "There's an atmospheric feel to it," he notes. "The way the songs breathe— they move slowly, they're not in a rush to get anywhere. There's no hiding, there's no guitar solo to hide behind. I really think that was a byproduct of speaking poems to music." Atmospheric but in no way sedate, Campfires on the Moon makes use of all that room to emphasize its ideas. Plus, Decroo adds, an overstuffed mix can be as difficult to navigate as an adjective-heavy sentence. "People want to have a space for their imagination, their inner world, to engage with and fill in," he says. "And when you provide them that space, they come. When you fill that space up with too much information and detail, there's nothing there for them to create or bring themselves to. Because that's what happens when we listen to a song, right? We bring ourselves to it, and we're telling a story as we listen. We're telling our own story through the vehicle of whatever song we're listening to."
Gearing up for the tour has finally gotten the album's players all in the same room, too: though Decroo made Campfires with longtime collaborator Mark Haney and pianist Ida Nilsen, the tour prep marks the first time all three have actually been in the same room. Nilsen lives in Detroit, and they'd simply send her the files when working on the record. Crafting these songs live has offered a sense of spontaneity, Decroo notes, as they hone the songs for the live setting. It's the sort of creative finessing that the singer is excited to be returning to as a performing songwriter, as opposed to poet or actor. After time doing both, there's an appeal, he notes, to simply performing his songs on a stage. "I felt free—I felt like my cat running down the hall a little while ago," he says. "I can just sing these songs; I don't have to worry about, well, this is theatre, and we Sat, Apr 25 (8 pm) have to vary up the tempos. With Chris Page, Great Aunt Ida No, this is a record, I can Brixx, $10 throw all that out, and just be in the moment and play these songs." PAUL BLINOV
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Mike Edel
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hat does it mean to "release" an album these days? Former Edmontonian and current Victoria, BC singer-songwriter Mike Edel was pondering that question earlier this month. His new record India, Seattle was set to be released—but it didn't feel real enough. "I got about 12 helium balloons, then I went down to the [Victoria] legislature and tied one of my CDs to the balloons," Edel says from his Vancouver Island home. "It was a spur-of-the-moment thought. I didn't want to just post an iTunes link. I was so stoked I had the idea to basically go and litter." As far as he knows, no one has found that balloon CD release—"we did storm chase it for a bit; the wind was carrying it northeast towards Vancouver," he says—but that wasn't the important part. Edel, who was raised on a 1500acre farm near Linden, northeast of Calgary, says he has a need for tangible, physical acts. "Growing up on a farm you're touching the dirt every day, you're outside every day dealing with animals and machines," he adds. "Even the last three months, pressing vinyl and mailing out pre-orders, it's been really imSat, Apr 25 (8 pm) portant to me that I stay honest With Scenic Route to Alaska, to the fact that I'm a human beTowers and Trees ing with blood running through The Buckingham, $15 my veins." Edel says he's proud of his new album, his first since 2012's The Country Where I Came From. And rightfully so. Recorded with Juno Award-winning producer Colin Stewart (Dan Mangan, the New Pornographers), the record is VUEWEEKLY.com | APR 23 – APR 29, 2015
a personal product of lost relationships and nostalgia. It flows with deep, dynamic textures—it's very much an album, not just a collection of songs. There's a sense of wistfulness to the music. It's right there in the title India, Seattle: two very different worlds— the spicy bustle of Delhi and the grey of the Pacific Northwest—that you can't inhabit at the same time. You've got to choose. It's like ending a relationship, or his decision to leave the family farm when he was 18. "My dad is 68 years old this year, and he's renting out his land for the first time," Edel says. "He's trying to sell his combine as we speak. You have things for a while and then they're gone. You have to be OK with life moving forward. I'm a bit sad but also stoked that I can make music and make art." That he's not carrying on the family farm is tough for Edel. It's also a universal sort of feeling: letting go of a future that could have been. That idea of how people's lives are more the same—same wants, same regrets—than they are different is the core of India, Seattle, Edel says. "This album represents a four-year period of my life," he explains. "It's representative of specific people and means a lot to me. While my experiences—losing someone in a relationship, or losing someone to death or being nostalgic about my childhood—are specific to me, they're all universal human experiences."
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Frankie McQueen
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algary's Frankie McQueen has been churning out its own brand of blues-tinged rock 'n' roll since 2007, injecting the Canadian rock scene with some grit and energy. Comprised of guitarist and vocalist Scotty Charles, drummer Connor Muth and bassist Corey Adams, Frankie McQueen has taken its vibe around Canada after releasing its second EP, Night-
a lot heavier," Charles notes. "I mean, slow songs are fun to play in the studio, but it's nothing compared to having people party and jump around and get drunk to your music."
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ride—produced by Kirill Telichev at Sound Priory in Calgary—in July 2014. "We've been doing a lot of extensive touring, for sure," Charles says. "The touring schedule and the buzz we had off our last album has really carried over." Frankie McQueen's been riding high on the wave created by the Nightride EP, making a run to the finals amongst
250 bands at Indie Week in Toronto last October. But an expansion of its sonic catalogue is in the near future—after some down time this summer, that is. "We're going to take a much-needed break and just kind of chill out, get inspired and do some writing," Charles explains. "Hopefully in the fall we can get in the studio and then start touring again—get ready for the festival sea-
son next year, you know what I mean?" Although the band's 2012 self-titled EP, and the follow-up Nightride EP, possess a tasteful mix of rock sounds—ranging from fast-paced, energetic blues jams to cathartic power ballads—the trio is searching for a bit more focus and cohesion on its next release. "What I'm feeling lately is definitely
But nothing for the trio is ever set in stone. An open philosophy towards music on the road, and in the studio, gives Frankie McQueen the freedom to tap into different creative outlets—all while capturing its live energy and raw, rock sound. There should be space everyone in the room to breathe, Charles says, with a major focus on the individual instruments. It's exciting to see a band carrying such an open attitude, shedding the restrictive coat of rigid formulas and embracing different influences and styles. So while fans can expect the same consistency and passion that Frankie McQueen's prior releases captured, they can surely anticipate surprises and an expansion of its sound. "We'll try it. We'll get it down. If it sounds good then that's sweet. If not we'll just move on," Charles explains. "At the end of the day it is art."
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EXPIRE / FRI, APR 24 (8:30 PM) Prepare to get sweaty. The Milwaukee hardcore-punk fourpiece is playing with Homewrecker, Cross Me, Villianizer and Times Tide at the armouries in Old Strathcona. (Connaught Armoury, $13)
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Hailing from Edmonton, the Willows are a three-piece close-harmony a cappella group that formed through a shared love of the performing arts (all three members have a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in dance). Inspired by the Jersey Boys musical, the trio's live shows are a theatrical performance of synchronized dance moves and classical music. (Blue Chair Café, $15)
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WIN HOUSE CHARITY EVENT / SAT, APR 25 (2 PM) Edmonton musician Vida is hosting a charity event in support of WIN House. The line-up is a mélange of local, national and international artists including the Command Sisters, Vida, Andrea Nixon, Shauna Lynn, Dani Zyp and Stephanie Harpe Experience. (Big Al’s House of Blues, by donation
NON PHIXION / FRI, APR 24 (9 PM) Remember the New York-based underground hip-hop quartet Non Phixion? If you're unfamiliar, Non Phixion has been around since 1995 and became popular for its unapologetic raw lyrics, authentic b-boyisms and tongue-in-cheek humour. The boys¬ Ill Bill, Goretex, DJ Eclipse and Sabac Red¬ are back with a Canadian and European reunion tour for their 20th anniversary. (Draft Bar & Grill, $40)
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ERIC DOZIER / SUN, APR 26 (7 PM) Eric Dozier, former director of the Harlem Gospel Choir, will be conducting a choir of 80 singers for one night. The choir includes Canadian Idol finalist Martin Kerr and U22 founder Rhea March. Local singers can join the roster by signing up for the 72-hour workshop (Apr 23 – 26). More information can be found on tinyurl.com/dozierworkshop (Unitarian Church of Edmonton, $15 in advance, $20 at the door)
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Bid adieu to local hip-hop artist Mitchmatic as he prepares to go on tour with electronic group Born Gold. So long, farewell, auf wiedersehen, goodbye! (Wunderbar)
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Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre; runs Apr 13-May 1
Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre; runs Apr 13-May 1
Unfortunates, Frankie McQueen, 3 bros and a Bud; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10
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Double Bill; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $39.95
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YEG DANCE CLUB Julios Inglesias Jr.; 9pm (doors), 10:30pm (show); $40
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Lucia Di Lammermoor Presented by Edmonton Opera
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Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre; runs Apr 13-May 1
Raging Against the Machine; 7:309:30pm; $20 (general), $15 (students/ seniors), $10 (NME members)
LB’S PUB Jeremy Dallas; 9:30pm;
ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff Robison;
WINSPEAR CENTRE Bond & Beyond;
Tommy Banks Trio; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guests)
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Thursdays
PAWN SHOP Nature of with guests
BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat
KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;
RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano
ON THE ROCKS Vera OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old School
Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm
YES WE MYSTIC W/ CAYLEY THOMAS, & GUESTS
SUN, MAY 17, MERCURY ROOM
THE ASHLEY HUNDRED W/ I AM MACHI, AND THE VELVETEINS
MON, MAY 18, MERCURY ROOM
PETER KATZ PETUNIA & THE VIPERS W/ GUESTS
TUE, MAY 19, MERCURY ROOM
W/ MATT & LAYLA HOTTE
THU, MAY 28, ROYAL MERCURY ROOM
LEEROY STAGGER
The Menace Sessions: alt rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimez & instigate; Underdog: Alternating DJs THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It’s Saturday
W/ MARIEL BUCKLEY
FRI, MAY 29, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE
GREAT LAKE SWIMMERS W/ THE WEATHER STATION, AND GUESTS
HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH
Free
Theory with WeUsedToBeFriends and Low Frequency Angels; 8pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)
WED, MAY 13, MERCURY ROOM
YARDBIRD SUITE Harry Allen With The
9pm
MERCURY ROOM CD release Jets To
W/ JAXON HALDANE, AND GUESTS
Show; 9pm-1am
DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Andrew Scott;
Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays
FRI, MAY 8, MERCURY ROOM
STARLITE ROOM Bass Coast - Mutiny
DRAFT BAR & GRILL Non Phixion
with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close
every Thu
Hogg; 9pm
UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri
NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin
FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back
W/ GUESTS
RICHARD’S PUB The Mad Dog Blues
Ballots to the Wall: music by Arlo Maverick, Breezy Brian Gregg and more. Poetry by Ahmed Knowmadic, Ahlam & Aditi, and Megan Dart; 8pm; No cover
CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro ‘80s
ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ
TASMAN JUDE JORDIE LANE GORDIE TENTREES
THU, MAY 7, MERCURY ROOM
PAWN SHOP Sister Gray – CD release
disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Donizetti’s
SUN MAY 3, MERCURY ROOM
OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old School
DJ; 9:30pm
NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage;
Classical
W/ WE WERE FRIENDS, & THE ROYAL FOUNDRY
week; $10
MERCURY ROOM Spoon River with
Leave The Living with Without Mercy, The Universe Machine and People Call It Home; 9pm; $12 (door)
W/ THE CARNIVAL SONS
ON THE ROCKS The Introverts
jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle
WUNDERBAR CD release featuring
SPOON RIVER TWO BEARS NORTH
FRI MAY 1, MERCURY ROOM
Apr 24-25
L.B.’S PUB South Bound Freight open
Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am
THU, APR 23, MERCURY ROOM
3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm
KELLY’S PUB Jameoke Night with
TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with
12340 Fort RD • sandshoteledmonton.com
O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat,
9pm
Thur: rotating guests (this week with: Raoul Bhaneja & Graham Guest); 7-11pm
SUNDAY LIVE JAM HOST: ONE PERCENT
NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin
J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu;
at 8pm
Special Guest Jammers EVERY WEEK
MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET
EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain
Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm
SUNDAY JAM 7 - 11PM
LB’S PUB The Red Hotz; 9:30pm; Free
Habanera; 8pm
guests; 8pm
APRIL 25
9pm
CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your Own Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm
MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET
9pm – 1am
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic;
CLUB AT THE CITADEL Capital City Burlesque; 8pm; $30 (floor tickets, adv), $25 (balcony), $35 (floor, door)
BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos
Saturday Live ENTERTAINMENT
7pm; $2
Tommy Banks Trio; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $22 (members), $26 (guests)
BLUES ON WHYTE Alex Zayas
9pm – 1am • Hosted by JR
Kings; 9pm; No cover
Tequila; $10
BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Sweet
Thursday - Friday Karaoke
SAT MAY 30, MERCURY ROOM
GREG MACPHERSON BAND W/ GUESTS
SUN MAY 31, MERCURY ROOM
THE LION THE BEAR AND THE FOX W/ SAM WEBER, & GUESTS
THUR JUN 11, MERCURY ROOM
CRAIG CARDIFF MATT EPP MIKE PLUME
W/ GUESTS
FRI JUN 12, MERCURY ROOM
W/ GUESTS
THUR JUL 2, MERCURY ROOM
Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm
W/ GUESTS
ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays:
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MUSIC 23
Kindergarten MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong
every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays:
Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month
APR/24 APR/25
JFR
UBK & NIGHT VISION PRESENT
BASS COAST
MAY/13 MAY/15 MAY/16
Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com
FREE LOVE PRESENTS
MARTEN HORGER
TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,
Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am
SKYPE / SIRIUSXM PRESENTS
Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue
ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE
Hoodoo Witch
DJs
Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm
Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy
DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage
FESTIVAL PLACE Restless Heart; 7:30-10:30pm; $40-$46
BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Big
L.B.’S PUB Tue Variety Night Open
UNION EVENTS PRESENTS
AMARANTHE
NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin
OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo
Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4
Bossa; 9am-3pm; Donations
UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS
BLUES ON WHYTE Alex Zayas
LITTLE DRAGON
DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live
LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with
Kris Harvey and guests
Toonz every Tue
Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre; runs Apr 13-May 1
BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with PM
MERCURY ROOM Music Magic
NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL
Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm
PAWN SHOP Creepshow (10 year
anniversary) with The Penske File, Sam Spades RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous
Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code RICHARD’S PUB Tue Live Music
Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live
music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm SANDS HOTEL Country music
STARLITE ROOM Paint Nite; 7pm
dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm
W/ GUESTS
on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm
DJs
WUNDERBAR Take Pills; 9pm; $10
DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
(door)
CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS
REVEREND HORTON HEAT
HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the Hog
Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm Service: acoustic open stage every Sun
UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS
MILO GREENE
NEW WEST HOTEL Hurtin O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;
W/ GUESTS
Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots
NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul
industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip
hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am
9:30pm-1am
TUE APR 28
ON THE ROCKS Low Frequency
107TH ANNUAL KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL Various locations such as
Angels with Small Town Regular RICHARD’S PUB Sunday Jam hosted
BLUES ON WHYTE Jason Elmore And
Hoodoo Witch
O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm
open mic
Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett
Alt ‘80s and ‘90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds
DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison
107TH ANNUAL KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL Various locations such as
BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE–Nisku
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Later: Hurtin
DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Monday
BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm
ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12
NEW WEST HOTEL Tue
Hoodoo Witch
BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun
Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre; runs Apr 13-May 1
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
BLUES ON WHYTE Jason Elmore And
DESTRUCTION, ARSIS, BORIS THE BLADE & MICAWBER
107TH ANNUAL KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL Various locations such as
Jam: Trevor Mullen
Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays
SEPULTURA
stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm
WED APR 29
Al’s Clean Scene: In support of CleanScene, a 50/50 silent auction will be held; 6pm (doors), 7pm (auction), 8pm (music); $25 • Blue Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm
UBK & BLUEPRINT PRESENT
OPIUO & FKJ
DV8 TAVERN Clean Up Your Act Presents Splitfist with Nothing Gold Can Stay and with Sun Spots and Every Second; 8pm; $10
Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre; runs Apr 13-May 1
every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous
CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS
BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:
Tue; 9pm
MON APR 27
W/ GAVIN JAMES
SUN APR 26
BLUES ON WHYTE Jason Elmore And
Concordia Symphony Orchestra Concert; 2pm
UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays:
W/ NEKROMANTIX, THE BRAINS
MAY/28
Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O’Brien; 8-11pm
KODALINE
W/ I PREVAIL, SANTA CRUZ & GUESTS
MAY/26
DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,
Classical
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)
W/
MAY/25
BRIXX Metal night every Tue
BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday
107TH ANNUAL KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL Various locations such as
ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing
30 YR. ANNIVERSARY TOUR’
MAY/24
electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests
Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M
W/
MAY/2
RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and
SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE
MUTINY TOUR LONGWALK SHORTDOCK, THE LIBRARIAN, SABOTA
runs Apr 13-May 1
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice
W/ THE UNFORTUNATES, FRANKIE MCQUEEN, 3 BROS AND A BUD
by Jim Dyck, Randy Forsberg and Mark Ammar; 4-8pm
YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session:
Stephanie Urquhart Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5
Classical
Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm
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 (nonmember) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live:
hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 REXALL PLACE OneRepublic with
special guest Lights; 6:30pm (doors), 7:30pm (show); All ages ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open
Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori
Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover
DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH
Concordia Concert Choir Home Concert; 7:30pm
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
Grant MacEwan University (Alberta College), McDougall Church and Old Strathcona Performing Arts’ Centre;
BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:
Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail
Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:
Alt ‘80s and ‘90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed
VENUEGUIDE
APR/24
TERRIAN EP RELEASE W/ TAT, JESSIKA HARLING BAND
APR/25
RODNEY DECROO
W/ CHRIS PAGE AND GREAT AUNT IDA
APR/29 MAY/2
LETTUCE PRODUCE BEATS
THE QUICK & DIRTY W/ CROOKED SPIES AND SPEKTERS
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.
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ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARMOURY RESOURCE CENTRE 10310-85 Ave 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 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580
CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CLUB AT THE CITADEL 9828 101A Ave COMMON 9910-109 St CONNAUGHT ARMOURY 1031085 Ave COOK COUNTY SALOON 8010 Gateway Blvd NW CROWN AND ANCHOR PUB 15277 Castle Downs Rd NW DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DAVID SHEPHERD CAMPAIGN OFFICE 10184-104 St DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave NW DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411
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ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St EXPO CENTRE Northlands, 7515 118 Ave FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455-87 Ave NW KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St,
780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St 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 ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE Concordia Campus 73 St & 112 Ave ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 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 ST. PAUL UNITED CHURCH 1152676 Ave NW STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St
EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM
COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover
• edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com
• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings:
EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani
• Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:
Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican
Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm
FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • Crazy Loon Pub,
CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •
780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm
10208-99 Ave N.E., Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway
ILLNESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS
Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • 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 • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • 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 Jim Noble, Charles Haycock, and Dave Stawnichy • Apr 22, 7:30pm
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave •
• 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 HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register
NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,
780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow
3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm • NAWCA Annual Show & Competition; Apr 25-26; Free
EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm
ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey
Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St •
POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall,
Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm
WRECK-ON-SILLY-NATION • Fort
Edmonton Park–Capitol Theatre, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Apr 24, 8pm
GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87
Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.
org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@ edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free
ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pmmidnight • $15
BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church,
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)
WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515
Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors. ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm
WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old
G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION
• teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@ teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub. ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca
G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-
based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca
LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St •
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, 9am4:30pm
MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB
SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •
Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm
SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP •
Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm
SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY
• Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul. ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm
SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place,
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81
EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •
waskahegantrail.ca • 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 • Ministik: A88 to Ministik Lake Part I: Meeting at NW corner parking lot of Superstore, 5019 Calgary Trail; May 3, 8:45am • Guests welcome; annual membership $20
103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •
IAN & VEGAN GROUP • Park Allen Hall, 11104-65 Ave • Bring a vegetarian/ vegan raw dish for six people plus a second dish if bringing a guest or partner. This month's potluck will feature speaker Sheryl McCumsey who will talk about inscticides • Apr 26, 5pm • $6 (per person), call 780.463.1626 to RSVP
WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION •
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-
10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm
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)
EDMONTON GARDENING VEGETAR-
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 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; Sep-May; 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
circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughposi tiveliving.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
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
Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB
Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm
Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)
• Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519
TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA •
Karma Tashi Ling Society, 10502-70 Ave • Tranquility and insight meditation based on Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings. Suitable for meditation practitioners with Buddhist leanings • Every Thu, 7-8:30pm • Donations; jamesk2004@hotmail.com
TOASTMASTERS
Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence
SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm SIMPLE WEAVING • John Walter Museum, 9180 Walterdale Hill NW • edmonton.ca • 311 • Learn the basics of weaving in this introductory course, and create a small project on a variety of table looms. For ages 13+ • Apr 26, 1-4pm • $45 THE WALRUS TALKS ABORIGINAL CITY • Shaw Conference Centre, Hall D,
9797 Jasper Ave NW • events@thewalrus. ca • thewalrus.ca/the-walrus-talksaboriginal-city • Eighty minutes of lively, thought-provoking ideas on Aboriginal life in Canadian cities—from culture, to business, to politics, and more • Apr 23, 7-10 pm • $15 (general admission), $12 (students)
QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale
House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month
BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP
• A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton
BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton,
10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc. webs.com • Free year long course; Family
• geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, 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 femaleidentified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-
76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)
WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 •
womonspace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured
WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip
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Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm
SPECIAL EVENTS 3RD ANNUAL SPRING GIFT SHOW •
Baturyn Community Hall, 10505-172 Ave • Featuring many local shops and home based business • Apr 26, 10am-4pm • Free
BALLOTS WITH A BEAT • 10184-104
St • Performing arts and politics? What a combo! Featuring poets: Ahmed Knowmadic, Ahlam & Aditi, Megan Dart, Eli Assefa; musicians such as: Arlo Maverick of Politic Live, Jake Ian; and visual artists such as Keon Courtney, Emily De Rizzio-Hull. Edmonton-Centre NDP candidate David Shepherd will be sharing some thoughts on the upcoming provincial election and will follow with questions • Apr 24, 8pm • Free
BEAD MARKET • Ramada Edmonton South, 5359 Calgary Trail • Featuring beads, charms, gemstones and so much more • Apr 25, 11am-5pm • Free CALLINGWOOD FARMERS’ MARKET SEASON OPENING • Callingwood Farmers’ Market, 69 Ave & 178 St • callingwoodmarketplace.com • 100 tables with vendors offering the finest of locally grown fresh food, top quality plants, unique arts and crafts, exclusive hand made products and much more • May 3, 10am-3pm DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call
or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages
EDMONTON EARTH DAY • Parklet,
10020-104 St • 780.964.8725 • michael. kalmanovitch@gmail.com • This year's theme: Clean Your Commute. Talk with people that know how to commute green such as walkers, cyclists and sign up for the Commuter Challenge or just enjoy the fun. Food will be provided by Sailin’ On Food Truck • Apr 26, 12-4pm • Free
GAME DISCOVERY EXHIBITION
• PCL Lounge - Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, 116 St & 85 Ave • gdx@vgadclub.com • gdxedmonton. com • Bringing together game creators to show off their work, engage in professional development, encourage entrepreneurship, and build community • Apr 25, 9:30am7:30pm • Free (tickets are required - preregister on event website)
MUSIC AND VERSE IN SUPPORT OF WIN • Big Al's House of Blues (inside of
Yellowhead Inn), 15004 Yellowhead Trail • vidaofficial89@gmail.com • A series of captivating live music and words by seven diverse women in support of WIN House (Edmonton Women's Shelter) • Apr 25, 2pm (doors), 3pm (show) • Donations at the door
NERD NITE #20 • The Club at the Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • The last Nerd Nite of the season. Think along the lines of user experience, squirrels, and foreskin • Apr 27, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show) • $20 (adv), $25 (door) • Kids 17 and under will not be admitted 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 WALK SO KIDS CAN TALK • Hawrelak
Park, 9930 Groat Rd • walksokidscantalk. ca • Help raise money and awareness for Canadian youth counseling services. All proceeds go directly to counseling services • May 3, 9:30am-3pm
THE WALRUS TALKS ABORIGINAL CITY • Shaw Conference Centre, Hall D, 9797 Jasper Ave NW • Thought-provoking ideas on Aboriginal life in Canadian cities— from culture, to business, to politics, and more • Apr 23, 7-10pm • $15 (general), $12 (students) WHOLISTIC SPRING FAIR • Bonnie Doon
Community Hall, 9240-93 St • projects@ hltaa.org • Discover wellness options, experience mini sessions, and design your own care system • May 2, 10am-5pm • Free
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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
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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Diet Study for Ulcerative Colitis Goal: To see if 6 months of healthy diets can reduce the frequency of relapse. Who: People with Ulcerative Colitis, ages 18 to 75 years. What is required: 4 in person visits and 3 telephone visits over 6 months; completion of surveys and provision of blood, urine and stool samples. What you receive: Specific nutrition counseling related to an anti-inflammatory diet. Costs to you: Parking is paid. You also receive a small gift card as compensation. Please contact Ammar, email IBDdiets@ualberta.ca or Melody at 780-492-8691 Ext 2, University of Alberta.
Habitat for Humanity Hosts Women Build Week - May 26-30 Attention Women: Volunteer with us on a Habitat build site to help build homes and hope with other women! Our expert staff provides training with a focus on safety in a fun and welcoming environment. Take home an inspiring sense of accomplishment. Tools, equipment and lunch are provided. Visit http://www.hfh.org/volunteer/w omen-build/, and Follow us on Facebook/@HabitatEdm and Twitter@HabitatEdm.
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Room to Read Event Planner Volunteer Needed Are you a self-motivated individual who wants to use your creativity to plan fun, interesting events to support a great cause? Room to Read, Edmonton Chapter organizes several events every year to raise money to support our literacy and girls’ education programs in Asia and Africa. We require people who are willing to generate ideas for events and execute them, while working with other volunteers and Chapter Leaders. Contact Edmonton@roomtoread.org if you are interested.
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Assistant Director needed. 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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1st Assistant Film Director is needed to assist Main Director on film project. This individual must have experience working with Arriflex motion-picture film camera.This individual must travel when required, to Jasper National Park (townsite) for segments of filming. The film directing schedule might be tight, because Jasper is a tourist town, with many people visiting the area each month. The Main Director can’t always be present on location to direct actors. The Main Director, Craig will send the film script to the assistant; once a qualified film director is chosen. If this Director has film producing experience, and has worked on film budgets before; this would be helpful. For further information, e-mail Craig at crgsymonds49@gmail.com. Please e-mail your Film Directing resume. 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 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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Cast and Crew Call for the Low Budget Short Action Film “Heaven”. No-pay gig. Shoot scheduled for 4 days in September. Please e-mail jeremyalafond@gmail.com for more info.
Outside Advertising Sales Representative Northeast News - Dawson Creek Description
We are seeking a team player with a professional attitude to work and learn in a fast paced, business environment. Qualications The ideal candidate must be motivated and take the initiative to sell multiple media products, including on-line advertising and special products, work with existing customers and develop new customers. Strong interpersonal skills and a strong knowledge of sales and marketing are required. Above average communication skills, valid driver’s licence and a reliable vehicle are necessary. If a rewarding challenge resonates with you, contact us today. Please submit your resume and cover letter to: Brenda Piper, Publisher / Sales Manager Northeast News, 9909 - 100th Avenue, Fort St. John, BC V1J 1Y4 salesmanager@northeastnews.ca
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Loft Art Gallery and Gift Shop – Opens January 31 with new artwork by the artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County. Ottewell Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd. Open Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 4 pm for your viewing and purchasing pleasure. Local artwork for your home, business or gift giving.
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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 a bass player and drummer; heavy metal style. Call Randy at 780.479.8766.
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Open Call for Musicians, Bands, and Composers Toy Guns Dance Theatre and Ecco Theatre are collaborating on an original production titled Disenchanting Facades: A Dream Play About Blueberries, Christmas Lights, and A Rickety Old Shitter. The production will be performed outdoors at dusk featuring Live Music, Dance, and Classical Voice. We are looking for submissions from Local Songwriters to create a score for this original production. We are very open to all styles of music although some reorchestration may be necessary in creating a unified art work. All artists who’s music is used in the production will be given full credit for their work, tickets to attend performances of the show, as well as an honorarium. The show venue and dates are TBD. The pilot of the show will be produced for the end of August, 2015. For further details contact kasia@toygunstheatre.com or visit www.toygunstheatre.com
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ALBERTA’S OWN INDEPENDENT MUSIC FESTIVAL #14, AUG 14-16 @TAIL CREEK RACEWAYS IS NOW ACCEPTING BAND SUBMISSIONS FOR 2015 (must be original music). From all over CANADA. To apply send your EPK to albertasownads@gmail.com. EPK must contain at least 3 original songs + bio and picture. Deadline for submissions by March 15, 2015. Check us out at albertasown.ca. Volunteers also needed.
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Final Estate Planning Wills, Powers of Attorney and Personal Directives. Please call Nicole Kent with At Home Legal Services(780) 756-1466 to prepare your Final Estate Planning Documents.
ALBERTA-WIDE CLASSIFIEDS •• AUCTIONS •• MEIER SPRING Classic Car & Truck Auction. Saturday & Sunday, May 2 & 3, 11 a.m. 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton. Consign today, call 780-440-1860. MEIER UNRESERVED Closeout Auction for Kitter Enterprises. Saturday, April 25, 11 a.m., 11020 - 201 St., Edmonton. Case 9060 Excavator, Samsung SL150 wheel loader, Thomas 173 skid steer, Cat 955 crawler loader, sea cans, roll off bins, industrial & shop tools. For more details phone 780-440-1860. FARM AUCTION. Saturday, April 25 at 10 a.m. Machinery, trucks, trailers, shelters, tools, antiques, variety, tractors, and more! South of Amisk, Alberta. Scribner Auction 780-8425666; www.scribnernet.com.
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12 UNIT MOTEL, net year income $70,000. 5 unit apartment, net yearly income $21,000. Pub, VLT’s, off sales, restaurant, net yearly income $220,000. Mortgage not included. 780-507-7999.
FULL-TIME GRAPHICS DESIGNER required at the Vermilion Voice newspaper. Some weekend scheduling. Some experience is required. Email resume to: vermilionvoice@gmail.com.
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): If you're stumped about what present to give someone for a special occasion, you might buy him or her a gift card. It's a piece of plastic that can be used as cash to buy stuff at a store. The problem is, a lot of people neglect to redeem their gift cards. They leave them in drawers and forget about them. Financial experts say there are currently billions of dollars going to waste on unredeemed gift cards. This is your metaphor of the moment, Aries. Are there any resources you're not using? Any advantages you're not capitalizing on? Any assets you're ignoring? If so, fix the problem.
TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): I usually have no objection to your devoted concern (I won't use the phrase "manic obsession") with security and comfort. But there are rare phases in every Taurus' life cycle when ironclad stability becomes a liability. Cruising along in a smooth groove threatens to devolve into clunking along in a gutless rut. Now is such a phase. As of this moment, it is healthy for you to seek out splashes of unpredictability. Wisdom is most likely to grow from uncertainty. Joy will emerge from an eagerness to treasure the unknown. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): There may be a flood-like event that will wash away worn-out stuff you don't need any more. There might be an earthquaketype phenomenon that only you can feel, and it might demolish one of your rotten obstacles. There could be a lucky accident that will knock you off the wrong course (which you might have thought was the right course). All in all, I suspect it will be a very successful week for benevolent forces beyond your control. How much skill do you have in the holy art of surrender?
If you were in an indie rock band, you'd be ready to move from performing at 300-seat venues to clubs with an audience capacity of 2000. If you have always been just an average egocentric romantic like the rest of us, you might be on the verge of becoming a legend in your own mind— in which case it would be time to start selling T-shirts, mugs and calendars with your image on them. And even if you are none of the above, Leo, I suspect you're ready to rise to the next level. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Free at last! Free at last! Thanks to the Lord of the Universe or the Flying Spaghetti Monster or a burst of crazy good luck, you are free at last! You are free from the burden that made you say things you didn't mean! You are free from the seductive temptation to rent, lease or even sell your soul! Best of all, you are free from the mean little voice in your head—you know, the superstitious perfectionist that whispers weird advice based on fearful delusions! So now what will you do, my dear? You have escaped from the cramped, constricted conditions. Maybe you can escape to wide-open spaces that will unleash the hidden powers of your imagination. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first," says Libra actress and activist Janeane Garofalo. I can think of other ways to measure bravery, but for your immediate future, her definition will serve just fine. Your ultimate test will be to freely give your tenderness and compassion and empathy— without any preconditions or expectations. For the sake of your own integrity and mental health, be steadfast in your intention to always strike the first blow for peace, love and understanding.
CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): What is your biggest excuse? Or rather, what is your THICKEST, SICKEST, MOST DEBILITATING EXCUSE? We all have one: a reason we tell ourselves about why it's difficult to live up to our potential; a presumed barrier that we regard as so deeply rooted that we will never be able to break its spell on us. Maybe it's a traumatic memory. Maybe it's a physical imperfection or a chronic fear. In accordance with the current astrological omens, Cancerian, you'd be wise to do an audit and reassessment of your own LAMEST EXCUSE. I suspect you now have insight about it that you've never had before. I also think you have more power than usual to at least partially dismantle it.
SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): It will soon be that time when you are halfway between your last birthday and your next birthday. I invite you to make this a special occasion. Maybe you can call it your anti-birthday or unbirthday. How to celebrate? Here are some ideas: 1) Imagine who you would be if you were the opposite of yourself. 2) Write a list of all the qualities you don't possess and the things you don't need and the life you don't want to live. 3) Try to see the world through the eyes of people who are unlike you. 4) Extend a warm welcome to the shadowy, unripe, marginal parts of your psyche that you have a hard time accepting, let alone loving. 5) Any other ways you can think of to celebrate your anti-birthday?
LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): If you were a supporting character in a popular TV drama, the producers would be cooking up a spin-off show with you in a starring role.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): As I climb the first hill along my regular hike, both sides of the path are dominated by a plant with glossy, three-lobed
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leaves. They're so exuberant and cheerful, I'm tempted to caress them, even rub my face in their bright greenery. But I refrain, because they are poison oak. One touch would cause my skin to break out in an inflamed rash that would last for days. I encourage you, too, to forgo contact with any influence in your own sphere that is metaphorically equivalent to the alluring leaves of the poison oak. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Today the French Capricorn painter Henri Matisse (1869 – 1954) is regarded as a foremost pioneer of modern art. Some critics say his innovative influence on painting nearly matched Picasso's. But during the first part of the 20th century, his work often provoked controversy. When a few of his paintings appeared at a major exhibition in Chicago, for example, local art students were shocked by what they called its freakishness. They held a mock trial, convicted Matisse of artistic crimes, and burned his painting "Blue Nude" in effigy. I don't expect that you will face reactions quite as extreme as that in the coming weeks, Capricorn. But it will make sense to express yourself with such forceful creativity and originality that you risk inciting strong responses. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Leonardo da Vinci had skills in many fields, ranging from botany to engineering to cartography, but he is best known as a painter. And yet in his 67 years on the planet, he finished fewer than 40 paintings. He worked at a very gradual pace. The "Mona Lisa" took him 14 years! That's the kind of deliberate approach I'd like to see you experiment with in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Just for a while, see what it's like to turn down your levels of speed and intensity. Have you heard of the Slow Food Movement? Have you read Carl Honoré's book In Praise of Slowness? Do you know about Slow Travel, Slow Media and Slow Fashion? PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Modern movies don't scrimp on the use of the f-bomb. Actors in The Wolf of Wall Street spat it out 569 times. The word-thatrhymes-with-cluck was heard 326 times in End of Watch, while Brooklyn's Finest racked up 270 and This Is the End erupted with an even 200. But this colourful word hasn't always been so prominent a feature. Before 1967, no actor had ever uttered it on-screen. That year, Marianne Faithfull let it fly in the film I'll Never Forget What's'isname. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I invite you to break a taboo that's maybe not as monumental as Faithfull's quantum leap, but still fabulously fun and energizing. Be a liberator! End the repression! Release the blocked vitality! V AT THE BACK 27
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swing behind your wife's back, then that isn't an open relationship—it's adultery. If you are saying that she would be aware you are swinging, but would choose to remain monogamous, I'm afraid the prognosis is equally bad. I would venture to say that there are certain factors that increase the likelihood of success in an open relationship, and one of the bigger ones is that both parties are fully on board. This means that there is an open dialogue, shared values about sex/ relationships/ commitment, well-developed emotional-reasoning abilities, and strong boundaries that are clearly defined by both parties. I can completely appreciate where you are coming from, and I'm hopeful you'll find a solution that is mutually satisfying in your relationship. But, generally speaking, if either partner is uncomfortable with the idea of their spouse having sex with other people, and if the relationship is a priority, then this is dangerous territory to enter.
Yes, it's pretty normal for an established couple to be curious about sex outside of their relationship. It is less common that a couple will consensually conclude to have sex with other people, but that happens too.
: Have you seen the Arrested Development episode where Tobias and Lindsay are discussing the possibility of an open marriage? If you haven't seen it, it goes a little something like this: Tobias: "You know, Lindsay, as a therapist, I have advised a number of couples to explore an open relationship where the couple remains emotionally committed, but free to explore extra-marital encounters." Lindsay: "Well, did it work for those people?" Tobias: "No, it never does. I mean, these people somehow delude themselves into thinking it might, but ... but it might work for us." That pretty much sums up my experience working with open relationships. I acknowledge that my sample is
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under your clothes in public. There are countless websites devoted to shaming men with boners in public, and that doesn't help the situation. Despite being mortified, deep down I want to believe that it should be OK to go about my business as long as I'm not being creepy. Is it OK to just go about my business until my hardon subsides? Bummed Over Normal Erotic Raisings The only people who'll notice (or linger over) your unbidden erections are the ones staring at your crotch—and they're the creeps, BONER, not you. So go about your business ... unless you're at the pool, in which case find an open poolside lounger and lie on your stomach until the crisis passes.
tre of these arguments seems to be that I see myself as a strong female and in control of many aspects of my life, and he'd rather have me just go along with whatever he says. I like some BDSM play in the bedroom, but he wants me to be submissive to him 24/7. I've wanted breast augmentation for many years. He joined me at the first consult and was talking about the smallest implants possible. I have a small chest, and he is attracted to small chests, but I knew I wanted something more substantial—especially since I am paying for it and it's my body. I ended up going bigger than what he wanted without telling him, and he's expressed anger about what I did to "his body" (he believes he owns my body) without his consent. I couldn't be happier with my boobs. He hates them. Now I just don't know about my boyfriend. I love him, but I feel like he can't remove himself from decisions I make for myself. Tits In Trouble
She cites some compelling science in support of the idea that what our genitals do is NOT always indicative of what we find sexually appealing.
Be gentle, GTBHF. Also, make it clear b efo reh a n d that you're his girlfriend and not his counsellor or spiritual adviser. If he's still struggling with the sex-negative, woman-phobic zap that his upbringing (and a medieval version of his faith) put on his head, he needs to work through that crap before he gets naked with you. He may have some sort of post-climax meltdown or crisis—like the ones so many repressed gay dudes have the first time they have sex with a man—and you'll be kind and understanding, of course, but you won't allow him to lay responsibility for the choice he made on you. As for the sex itself ... Take the pressure off him by letting him know that this—his first time, your first time together—is about pleasure and connection, not about performance and mastery. Let him know that you don't expect him to know what he's doing at every moment, that a little fumbling and adjusting are normal even with more experienced folks, and that you're both allowed to stop the action, talk about whatever's going on, and then start again. And finally, GTBHF, let him know that you're going to take the lead and reassure him that there's nothing emasculating about being with—and being led by—a sexually empowered woman. Quite the opposite: a truly masculine straight man isn't afraid of a woman who knows what she's doing and what she wants.
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I have an open FWB thing going with a guy. He is my primary sex partner. We recently stopped using condoms when we're together because we both passed STI tests several months ago and neither of us has been with anyone else since. But we are both free to have sex with other people, and it's bound to happen sooner or later. If we always use condoms with the other people, is it safe for us to continue having condom-free sex with each other? What's The Risk? Condoms—when used consistently and correctly—greatly reduce your risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection. They provide excellent protection against HIV infection, gonorrhea and chlamydia (diseases spread by genital secretions); they're slightly less effective at protecting you against herpes, HPV and syphilis (diseases spread by skin-to-skin contact). The condom-free sex you're currently having with your fuck buddy can be regarded as risk-free because you've both been tested, you're both STI-free, and you're both not having sex with other people. But some risk will creep into your condom-free sex after you start having sex with other people, WTR—even if you're using condoms. Your risk of getting an STI will be much, much lower if you use condoms—consistently and correctly—with those other partners, but sex with other partners will introduce some risk.
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Your Master/ boyfriend wants a slave/ girlfriend—he wants (and seems to think he's in) a total power-exchange relationship. But you want a guy who's your equal out of the bedroom (and can't dictate implant sizes to you because it's not "his body," it's yours) and a fun BDSM play-partner/Master in the bedroom. You two need to have an out-of-role conversation/renegotiation about your interests in kink, and your limits and his expectations—and if you can't get on the same page (if he can't dial it way back), you'll have to end things.
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I agreed with most of your response to ADULT, the woman whose boyfriend has a thing for diapers. She said she didn't enjoy diaper play but mentioned that she got wet wearing a diaper. You wrote: "Something about being put in a diaper turns you on." I have to disagree. I just finished a great book called Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski, and she cites some compelling science in support of the idea that what our genitals do is NOT always indicative of what we find sexually appealing. It's called "arousal non-concordance." Nagoski uses the example of a college boy who witnessed a rape: he was physically aroused by what he saw but emotionally disgusted. In the case of ADULT, it may be important to understand that just because your genitals are responsive, that doesn't mean that you are "into it" on some level. Longtime Reader And Fan Thanks for writing, LRAF—and I'm going to pick up Emily Nagoski's book! On the Lovecast, it's Dan vs Cheryl Strayed in Advice Clash of the Titans: savagelovecast.com. V @fakedansavage on Twitter
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