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"We often think of our neighbourhoods as being static. The reality is they've been nothing but change." //5

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"The server seemed to be struggling with the sheer mass of the thing on the way to our table ... Even the smaller corner pieces weighed about as much as a regulation softball." // 6

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"You realize they all sort of boil down to one or two basic things: it's a lot about justice, and a lot about how the meek, lower people in society don't get their dues." // 8

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"She's tampering with her legacy, acknowledging her age in a viciously age-phobic industry, stepping through the looking glass." // 13

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POLITICALINTERFERENCE

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NEWS EDITOR: REBECCA MEDEL REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

The stakes for each party

Come May 5, Alberta's political landscape could have a whole new look With less than a week to go before the provincial election on May 5, it's a good time to take a look at what each of the major parties are hoping to achieve and what would constitute a win, and conversely a loss, for each of them.

In most places around the world, if you've formed a majority government you have won, if you form a minority government you have neither won nor lost, and if you don't form government at all you have lost. But this is Alberta, where the same party has had a majority government for over 43 years. We have a more nuanced understanding here of what constitutes a political win and a political loss.

The Progressive Conservative party, for example, could find itself in a position where it forms a majority government and still could be seen to have lost. Anything less than the 70 seats the party had at dissolution would be seen as less than a win, especially if that number was to drop below the 61 seats it won in the last provincial election. Losing any of its marquee candidates like Stephen Mandel, Doug Dirks or Tony Caterina

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would be a significant loss for the Tories, as would seeing any of the party's incumbent cabinet ministers lose their seats. Likewise, at this point, any Calgary seats lost to the NDP or rural seats lost to the Wildrose Party would also be a huge loss for the party. Of course, the biggest loss for the party would be not being able to hold on to a majority government. When you take a closer look, it becomes clear that the PCs have the most to lose and the fewest possible avenues to a win. Any combination of the potential losses above and you can expect the calls for a new leader to begin almost immediately.

The Wildrose Party has almost nothing to lose in this election and the most avenues to a win. Given that its leader was elected the week before the election kicked off, that more than half of the party's caucus defected in December, and that as late as the day of the writ people had written off the party for dead, just the fact that it's managed to field almost a full slate of candidates and is actually making a race of this are

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Vote for what you want "[The Progressive Conservatives' policy] contains nothing for the cities, little for the unemployed," Notley says. "It ignores the desperate financial plight of our municipalities and contains precious little to challenge the imagination of our young."

That's Grant Notley, Rachel's late father, in his first speech at the legislature on March 26, 1972. He was the sole NDP MLA, elected the same year Alberta voted in the first of a dozen PC-majority governments. Now, 44 years later and with another Notley leading the Alberta NDP, Grant's words ring truer than ever.

In his speech, he says the PC perspective is "that government should leave the major initiatives to the private sector, that it should only move when private initiative fails, that it should be passive, not necessarily lead—in short, that government should be a repairman for the private sector rather than the primary instrument in forging economic and social justice."

Grant warned of the fatal flaw of market-first conservative government: it's only there to mop up messes. A PC government, he argued, will only help with housing when it becomes a critical shortage; will only propose (weak) environmental policy after pollution has ruined the land; will only advocate for mental health programs decades after other jurisdictions have stepped up.

He foretold the next four decades of reactionary Alberta leadership—Klein, Stelmach, Redford, Hancock and now Prentice—that prioritizes big business over citizens. We've seen increasing privatization, slashed corporate tax rates as well as a pitiful return and basically no savings from oilsands development. We've got the highest income inequality in the country, and we struggle to contain our overcrowded schools and hospitals as we slash education and health budgets.

He ended his speech in 1972 by saying, "There is very little likelihood of convincing any of the [PC] members of my point of view." Well, it's 2015 and a serious chunk of Alberta seems convinced that the Notley view, both father and daughter's, are what this province needs.

This election we've seen the PCs and Wildrose trying to convince Alberta of its right-wing Manifest Destiny, that the free market and low taxes are the priority. But it's up to you to decide, Alberta. Go vote on May 5. V

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already huge wins. As such, for the Wildrose, any of a majority, a minority, official opposition status or even just electing more MLAs than the party had when the writ was dropped would be a win.

In fact, even just winning back the five seats it had would be a win, although a disappointing one. Short of getting wiped out of the Legislature altogether, it's hard to fathom what might constitute a loss for the Wildrose.

Likewise, the NDP has scored many wins already. It is the only opposition party that fielded a full slate of candidates, the only party that achieved, and even surpassed, gender parity in its candidates and its leader, Rachel Notley, was the hands-down winner in the televised debate. Given the party's renewed energy and fundraising success, losing one of its incumbents or not winning any new seats would be a huge loss for the NDP. Beyond that, however, everything looks like a win. Gaining any more seats in Edmonton would be a win; gaining seats outside of Edmonton, especially in Calgary or rural Alberta, would be a huge win for the party. Reaching the

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number of MLAs it had in 1986 and 1989, 16, would be a victory that even the most stalwart NDs would not have been able to imagine just a year ago. It also goes without saying that becoming official opposition or the government in a minority or majority, all of which are in play if the polls are to be believed, would be the largest wins the party could hope for.

For the Alberta Liberal party, the potential wins would be much more modest. Given the state of the party and the poll numbers it is recording, simply coming out of the election with its five existing seats intact would be a huge win.

Anything less, especially any scenario that involves the party losing one of its two incumbents, would be a loss for the Liberals. A loss of that nature, combined with the growing New Democrat surge, could spell the death of the Liberal Party in Alberta after May 5.

The only other party that seems to be in a position to score any type of win is the Alberta Party, and the win it could score would be to have its leader, Greg Clark, defeat incumbent PC education

minister Doug Dirks in Calgary. Conversely, should the party fail once again to win a seat in the Legislature, it is difficult to fathom how it might be able to continue making the case for its particular brand of politics and organizing. Failing to elect anyone would be difficult for the party to overcome, especially given the NDP's success this election in establishing itself as the go-to place for progressive voters in the province.

All in all, May 5 promises to be interesting and exciting, perhaps more so than any election night this province has seen since 1971. Of course, this being Alberta, and it is also entirely possible that all of the polls have been horribly wrong and nothing will change at all. For the sake of democracy and keeping it interesting, let's hope for the former. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta. The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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Displacement activity

The outcry over refugees drowning enroute to Italy has EU leaders scrambling to save face "What's emerging is what we need, which is a comprehensive plan, going after the criminal gangs, going after the traffickers, going after the owners of the boats ... and stabilizing the countries from which these people are coming." And when you have finished "stabilizing" Syria, Somalia and Libya, overthrowing the Eritrean dictatorship and ending poverty in West Africa, could you drop by and fix my plumbing? Oh, and Yemen. Fix Yemen, too.

"These people" are the 1300 refugees who drowned in the Mediterranean in the past two weeks, the 30 000 who will drown by the end of this year while trying to cross if nothing more is done—and, of course, the estimated half million who will make it safely to Italy, Malta or Greece.

The speaker was Britain's Prime Minister David Cameron, but he was just one voice in the European Union choir.

The EU's leaders were meeting in an emergency session because of a public outcry over all the refugees drowning on the crossing between Libya and Italy.

These same leaders were responsible for most of the deaths, because last year they ended a very effective Italian Navy search-and-rescue operation and "replaced" it with an EU operation that had a third of the resources and was not supposed to operate more than 50 km off the Italian coast.

So now they had to fix it somehow, but they were all aware that their electorates at home still don't want millions of migrants flooding into the EU, refugees or not. So they did what

politicians do in circumstances like these.

They came up with a displacement activity.

The problem, it turns out, is not refugees fleeing from places like war-torn Syria and Somalia, from cruel dictatorships like Eritrea, and from impoverished parts of West Africa. It is the evil traffickers—the new slave-traders, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi called them—who lure the migrants away from their homes and charge them $2000 per person for a place on a leaky boat to Europe.

Well, of course. Why would anybody want to leave a nice, safe place like Syria or Somalia unless they had been tricked into it by unscrupulous people-smugglers?

So if we just break up those criminal gangs, maybe even go into Libyan territorial waters and destroy their boats before they leave the coast, then the demand for their services will vanish. Everybody will stay home, and the problem will go away.

Wait, sorry, we forgot. We have to "stabilize" their countries, too. But then the problem really will go away, and we'll all live happily ever after.

Are any of the 28 EU national leaders so naive that they believe this garbage?

Of course not. So why are they saying it?

Because they, like the people who voted for or against them, are torn between a distaste for seeing innocent people die, and a determination that millions of those innocent people cannot come and live in their countries.

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There are millions of people living within 1500 km of the European Union's borders who would move there tomorrow if they had the chance, and that's just the desperate ones who are trying to escape from wars, violent anarchy and extreme repression.

There are now close to one billion people living within 2000 km of the EU's borders.

Thanks to some of the world's highest population growth rates, that will double in the next 30 years, which virtually guarantees that there will be more civil wars, more failed states and even more refugees.

And that's before you factor in the impact of climate change in the sub-tropics.

The EU's own population is about 650 million, and it is not growing. So there is deep concern among EU leaders (though many of them don't want to say it in public) that in 10 years they will be facing illegal migration so massive that it would fundamentally change the cultural identity of European countries.

They want to get the new, much tougher policy towards refugees in place now, before the refugees taking the sea route to Europe start coming in even greater numbers, but they don't want to take responsibility for the deaths that will happen as a result. How to shift the blame? Try this. "It's not our fault that all those poor people are dying at sea; it's the fault of the evil people-smugglers." V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

NEWS // JANE'S WALK

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ven amidst the frenzy of carcrazed mid-century America, Jane Jacobs knew that real neighbourhoods live or die by their sidewalks.

As an early and unrelenting proponent of people-first urban planning, Jacobs' progressive views on urban renewal earned the ire of the planning establishment, but her ability to lead and energize communities saved neighbourhoods from doom and caused many to question the entrenched autocentric vision of cities. As she wrote in her 1958 essay "Downtown is for People," "No one can find what will work for our cities by looking at the boulevards of Paris ... suburban garden cities, manipulating scale models, or inventing dream cities. You've got to get out and walk."

Today, Jacobs' legacy lives on through her writing—generally regarded as required reading for urban-planning students—despite having had neither a planning education nor held positions of political power. Likewise, her ability to identify human connection at the neighbourhood level continues to influence communities in cities everywhere. This is perhaps no more apparent than with Jane's Walk, a movement of citizen-led walking tours that celebrate multiple perspectives, changing landscapes and free exploration.

Jane's Walk began in Toronto in 2007 as a way to annually celebrate Jacobs and her ideas during the first weekend of May. It quickly expanded to cities across the globe, including Calgary in 2008 and Edmonton in 2011. Last year, over 1000 walks were

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For perennial walk leader Michael held in 134 cities worldwide. In Ed- they've seen in the community.

"As you walk, all of a sudden there's Phair, building passion and encouragmonton, Jane's Walk is organized by Walk Edmonton, a City of Edmonton 20 or 30 people walking down the al- ing citizens to share their ideas and initiative that promotes healthy and ley, with people coming out of their opinions is what Jane's Walk is all yards telling us stories about, oh, about. After a long career as an acactive communities.

According to Walk Edmonton orga- there used to be a guy who lived here tivist and politician, the former city nizer Ian Hosler, joining forces with ..." Hosler says. "It's part of everybody councillor has seen collective action the movement was a no-brainer, as having their lens and their story to tell from both sides of the table, and he it was conveniently congruent with of all the different pieces that have understands that events like Jane's Walks are usually where it begins. their goals. But aside from the health shaped our existence."

"I've used [Jane's Walk] benefits, Hosler quickly as an opportunity saw some interesthelp people see that ing tendencies in his We oft en think of our neighbourhoods being interested in walks. They presented as being static. The reality is they've following politics and democratic and unapplying the citizen's pretentious opportubeen nothing but change, and that's perspective is signities for neighbours what history tells us. nificant," Phair says. to meet, for ideas to "Passion has a role to be shared, and perplay in how communihaps even for new comAlthough anybody is free to lead ties develop, and that comes from munity initiatives to sprout.

"The premise of [Jane's Walk] is really walks, local historians and community the people there expressing their just a walking conversation," Hosler organizers typically lead the charge, passion and advocating for their passays. "You get somebody who's willing armed with experience and expertise sion. I think, in some cases, that the to stand up and be the principle and primed for getting conversations start- passion people have had has made a bring the conversation along, but I'm ed and sharing the historic heart of an difference in terms of legislation."

One of Phair's favourite stories (and always amazed at the dynamics of it. area. But Hosler is much more interestAny time you go on a walk, people ei- ed in how the diversity of groups and one that usually comes out on his ther come on the walk because they their ideas illustrate the ever-changing walks through Oliver) is about the Grandin School playground, which have an interest or they have part of nature of their communities.

"We often think of our neighbour- in 1992 was slated to be replaced the story to tell."

As Hosler describes them, Jane's hoods as being static. The reality is by a high-rise condo building. That Walks seem to have a certain mag- they've been nothing but change, is, until a group of elementary stunetic quality. It's not uncommon for and that's what history tells us," Ho- dents from Grandin School spoke to crowds to swell during the 90-minute sler says. "The demographics change, council about what the park meant jaunts, with curious neighbours join- the form of our buildings change, to them.

"It was fascinating to see how votes ing the ranks to contribute their two the transportation patterns change cents, often in the form of interest- and everything effects everything changed after listening to 12-yearing anecdotes about nearby houses, else. It's an interesting conversation olds," Phair remembers.

And so these success stories inevidecades-old memories from their time to have, and of course people have a tably become part of the neighbourat the local school, or the changes range of opinions."

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hood's story. It's a tale that current residents can rally around for their fight to save their neighbourhood when it's at risk of losing part of its identity. And honing in on a neighbourhood's identity doesn't happen by hiding away in your house.

"Many communities are built and operate so that you may not actually know who any of your neighbours are," Phair says. "There's a sense that there was a value in communities in the past where you got to know people. It offered a sense of identity and protection. I think that Jane's Walk helps break through that a bit.

You get to know some of the folks around you, and get a sense of the kinds of people [and] services around you. You feel more like it's a community you can relate to."

The same dynamics unfold in the Westmount neighbourhood, where Hosler lives and walks. Its residents each settled there with their own ideas and at different times in Edmonton's history. For each of them, Westmount has a different identity. Once they realize this, it's easier to see change as one of the area's strengths.

"Change makes people nervous," Hosler says. "Like, what's going to happen to the parking and my property values and my lot drainage? All fair considerations; change does impact you and nobody would disagree.

"But nothing is ever static. There will be change, so what change do we want to see?"

RYAN STEPHENS

RYANS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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REVUE // PIZZA

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xpectation management is a critical part of providing goods and services to the public. If people have a good idea what they're in for, they can calibrate their standards appropriately, and everyone has a better experience because of it.

Dallas Pizza & Steak House barely requires such mediation. If you can't calculate the experience you're likely to have within moments of walking through the door of its Forest Heights strip-mall premises, it might not be the place for you.

Dallas Pizza is every bit a typical family-style restaurant of the old-school stripe, right down to the old Greek travel posters and un-updated décor, AM-radio musical ambiance and ouzo-flavoured after-dinner candies that allude to the ethnic heritage of its proprietors. For many Albertans, dining at Dallas will be rich in nostalgic value; this was certainly true for my group of 40-something co-diners.

This is also how we knew not to take personally the abruptness of our server, who turned on her heel and disappeared without another word when we indicated we weren't quite ready to order. For all her brusqueness, she was also the right amount of attentive, preemptively aware that we were there for food and not chitchat with the staff. Given that the joint was hopping on a Wednesday after work,

there was no question she had many demands on her supply of courtesy.

Dallas' menu works the typical steak-andpizza-house vein, with salads, pasta and staid seafood and poultry options supporting the eponymous features. If you've got it in your head that you'd like prosciutto, marinated eggplant or charred lemon on your pie, you have fetched up at the wrong pizzeria.

Having heard yarns of people travelling from as far away as Spruce Grove to get take-out from Dallas, we felt we had no choice but to try the house special pizza (XL: $26.95), along with one each of the Greek (L: $11.45) and Caesar (L: $9.45) salads. One co-diner insisted he could handle both pizza and steak, so he ordered a seven-ounce steak ($13.95) with fries.

The salads came first, as requested, and didn't meet expectations so much as physically embody them. The generous Greek salad was comprised of plenty of lettuce, with tomatoes, black olives, cucumbers, onions and feta in oregano vinaigrette—in other words, a completely authentic steakhouse Greek salad.

The Caesar, also sizable, was made up of crisp Romaine, a little too much dressing and plenty of pre-fab croutons and simulated bacon bits, identical to countless Caesar salads I ate in

Dallas Pizza & Steak House 7834 - 106 Avenue 780.466.1112 identical venues in the 1980s. We easily polished them both off.

Before long the main event arrived and one co-diner noted that the server seemed to be struggling with the sheer mass of the thing on the way to our table. "She looked like she was carrying a safe," he testified later. You could see why just from looking at it: contrary to prevailing fashion, this pizza was thick, heavily layered with cheese and toppings (pepperoni, ground beef, ham, green peppers and onions) on a visibly sturdy crust, and cut grid-wise.

Even the smaller corner pieces weighed about as much as a regulation softball. In other words, it was a textbook example of a steakhouse pizza: hearty, cheesy, crunchy and satisfying, rather than strikingly unique.

Good thing we enjoyed it because three of us couldn't even put back half of it, guaranteeing future pizza repasts for everyone present.

I don't know if that, or my co-diner's ably made steak sided with peas and fat steakhouse fires, make Dallas Pizza a must-try proposition. But it's definitely a reliable outpost for a, shall we say, timeless and tasty style of cuisine that no chain could ever hope to replicate.

SCOTT LINGLEY

SCOTT@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Five years of Eat Alberta

The founders have moved on, but the event continues to connect food eaters and makers

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he fifth-annual Eat Alberta con- Evan Watson of Three Boars. ference stays true to the format of previous years: a one-day, Eat Alberta's $150 price tag may hands-on series of seminars, talks, cause some people to think twice workshops and tastings, all geared about attending. Carey is very frank towards uniting about this, acE d m o n t o n i a n s Sat, May 2 (8:30am – 5:30pm) knowledging that with some of our NAIT main campus, $150 as a student, she city's best and eatalberta.ca didn't have the opportunity to brightest in the participate in past local food scene.

Eat Alberta was started five years years due to the cost. (They are lookago as a non-profit, volunteer-run ing into bringing in a student rate for event by local food bloggers Valerie future years.) When you parse out Lugonja, Sharon Yeo and Mack Male. everything included in that cost, They have all since moved on, but however, it's actually very reasonothers have taken their place at the able: in addition to the four workhelm. Food blogger and PhD student shops and two plenary sessions, it Meaghan Carey responded to Eat Al- also includes breakfast, lunch, a tastberta's volunteer call last year; a na- ing plate of food, wine and spirits, tive of Nova Scotia, she was search- and any samples made in the handsing for a means of becoming more on sessions.

"Now that it's our fifth year, we're deeply involved with Edmonton's really trying to expand a little more local food scene.

"In its simplest form, it's about con- and reach out to all of Alberta," Carey necting makers and eaters," Carey explains. "There's amazing stuff hapsays, sitting at a table in the always- pening all across the province. We bustling Credo Coffee on 104 Street. want to start reaching out to other "At its core, our mandate has not areas of the province and really dechanged—but it's evolving. We're at veloping the synergy between them."

To that end, Eat Alberta is hoping to a pivotal point where there are so many exciting things going on in the establish a Calgary and/or a southern culinary world, with the producers, Albertan liaison for next year.

Other future plans include the adwith the farmers, and we're really there to support that. We want to dition of a separate children-friendly event, which they hope to do this show people where to go."

Participants in Eat Alberta will sign summer; currently Eat Alberta is up for one of nine tracks of four dif- adults-only due to the inclusion ferent seminars and workshops, at of alcohol. Carey notes they have least two of which will be a hands-on also discussed becoming a liaison cooking experience in NAIT's kitch- between emerging and established ens. Two plenary sessions are also food entrepreneurs in the city, as included; this year's keynote speaker a means of sharing knowledge and is Takota Coen of Grass Roots Fam- growing the food community in a ily Farm. Workshops are small, rang- constructive, integrated manner.

"We have some amazing examples ing from eight to a maximum of 16 participants, and are hugely diverse: of people who really successfully dumpling making with Ray Ma of built their garage business into someHonest Dumplings, bread making thing really great," she says. "So, can with Owen Peterson of Prairie Mill we have some knowledge transition Bread Co, egg cookery with Allan taking place, drawing on their experiSuddaby of Elm Café, offal tasting ence to help new entrepreneurs."

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The Suburban Motel Series links six plays through a single motel

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here's something in the neutral nature former psychiatric-care facility in Grandin, it's of a motel that seems dramatic. Maybe currently finding ample use in theatre and it's the ease of access—anyone, poor or rich, television work. can find reason to end up in one—or that the Staging Walker scripts also marks a repleasant blandness of such a room leaves turn of sorts for Punctuate!: five years ago, you with few distractions to hide from your the company staged a Fringe production own demons. Or maybe it's that, despite the of The End of Civilization, just one the seneutrality, its walls have witnessed an ex- quence of plays that, produced in full rep tremely varied history: there's the lingering or no, have found their way in to the Canasense that you aren't the first, and certainly dian theatrical canon. won't be the last, to call the place home for "I remember in theatre school, I feel like eva night or for much longer. ery acting class I did, someone did a scene "The people who have been in that space from Problem Child," Jorawsky says. "I don't before you leave their imprint," Elliott James know if zeitgeist would be the right word, notes. "We've been doing but I was familiar with most of the plays." tours a lot with [touring Until Mon, May 11 Shakespeare company] The Suburban Motel Series The scripts run a gamut Prospero: we stayed in a C103, $22 (single show); $32 of character types, among Walker's dark, sometimes real dive about a year ago, (double bill), $78.50 (marathon comic writing: characters where every dish that was pass), $83.50 (flex pass) from all social strata find in the kitchen cabinet was Show schedule available at themselves among its six dirty, put away. Cigarette www.punctuatetheatre.com butts burned holes in the scripts, from criminals to the middle-class to little duvet. And everyone who was there when we got there was living white-collar lawyer types. there. We were there for a week; they were "You realize [the scripts] all sort of boil there for months. There's no end-date to down to one of two basic things," James some of these things, even though everyone says. "It's a lot about justice and a lot about wants there to be one." how the meek, lower people in society don't James is returning to such a space, but get their dues." this time in performance: a lone motel "All the characters are trying to get out of room plays home to all six plays in George this space," Hobbs notes later, continuing the F Walker's Suburban Motel Series, which is thought. "None of them are setting up home being presented in full by the indie theatre in this motel; all of them are fighting for a upstarts of Punctuate! Theatre in a hercu- better life, or something outside of it. That lean, mind-boggling sort of theatrical feat. alone gives us immediate dramatic action for More than 40 artists are involved, from every single one of them. Because it's not a production work to the technical side to the permanent space, it's a transitory space." performances—here, 15 actors play 20 char"A waiting cell, almost," Jorawsky nods. acters (some of the same characters appear in multiple plays; other actors play different The plays are being paired two per night, roles in different shows). Three directors but Punctuate! is offering two marathon helm a pair of the plays each: Jeff Page, on days, each Saturday of the show's run, where Problem Child and Risk Everything, Geoffry you can take in all six in a single go, and have Ewert with The End of Civilization and Adult a catered meal and access to a bar thrown Entertainment and Liz Hobbs on Featuring in. But if a six-play run of shows seems Loretta and Criminal Genius. daunting, ask yourself: how fast do you burn James is sitting across a conference-sized through Netflix shows these days? table from Andréa Jorawsky—who, along "From a fun standpoint, you get to binge with James, is part of that 15-strong cast— watch," Jorawsky says with a laugh. "You get and Hobbs, two of Punctuate!'s other core to go, you get this catered meal, you can drink members. Broaching the idea of producing six while you're watching them, have a day of livplays, they note, began when the company ing in this world, observing these characters lost its home TACOS space last year, but still doing what they're doing." wanted to produce a season of sorts.

Adapting the binge-watch cycle of modern "We really didn't want to lose that, work- TV consumption and applying it to theatre ing with a whole bunch of people and doing isn't new to town, either: it's happened most something that employed artists," Hobbs recently with the acclaimed Maggie-Now play says. "We were trying to come up with some- cycle, and, a few years back, for a remount of thing that we could do that we didn't have to Ken Brown's hit Fringe series Spiral Dive. rent theatre space for—which is also, y'know, But unlike those era-spanning shows, impossible to actually book in this city." the Suburban sequence links itself mostly through location—that single, rented The Motel sequence came up in those dis- room—its characters all contemporary (the cussions, but it didn't find much traction at scripts were written in the late '90s), and in the time. Until Hobbs found herself unable to that, it seems to offer curious insight into the sleep one night; as she wondered what her extended history of such a transient space, company could do, her mind wandered to the and the people who find themselves occupyWalker scripts. ing it, for better or worse.

"I started flipping through the plays, and "If you come to one play, you may not see making diagrams and flow charts of all the yourself on stage," James says. "But if you characters and all the requirements," she re- come to all of them, I'm guessing you'll see calls. "Is it even possible? A few hours later, yourself, in some way ... no matter where you I figured out how to rehearse all six of them are on the spectrum. It's kind of like being a in rep with the fewest amount of people pos- voyeur for a week in a real dive." sible, in a way that made sense."

"We have cops, we have lawyers, we have a Doing the full suite of Suburban Motel plays young girl trying to figure her life out, we've has made all of Hobbs's flowcharts into a got criminals," Hobbs notes. "People from evnimble sequence of many moving parts: all six erywhere end up in the same position." productions have been rehearsing in proxim"They all touch the same remote," James adds. ity, two to a floor, in the Eric Cormack Centre, PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM itself a transient sort of space these days—a

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Avenue Q

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uppets. Drunken sex. Postgraduation ennui.

All these ideas share stage space in Avenue Q, which itself occupies a curious position in the pantheon of musical theatre. The script draws heavily on pop culture—it's framed by a parodic Sesame Street landscape, where Gary Coleman's the landlord and a haphazard mix of humans and puppets try to figure out their respective adulthoods— and happily belts out more irreverent raunch than the average Tony Award-winner. Its most beloved songs have titles like "The Internet Is for Porn" and "Schadenfreude;" not quite the revelations theatre is usually known for, but which have landed with audiences regardless— maybe because the bulk of its cast are fabric, not flesh-and-blood.

"There's room for forgiveness with a puppet," Andrew MacDonaldSmith says. "Most of the most offensive things are said by pieces of fabric, foam and felt. But it's also the things that are the most difficult to hear that are also reasonably true. Songs like 'Everyone's a Little Bit Racist;' it's uncomfortable to hear, but because it's two puppets who say it, you're completely endeared, and it allows for some really uncomfortable things to be discussed and accepted quite openly. Which I think is magic."

MacDonald is seated next to costar Rachel Bowron in the Citadel's Normand's Bistro. Show content aside, they note there's plenty of depth to its musical elements: Robert Lopez, one of Avenue Q's composers, went on to co-write The

Book of Mormon and the songs in Disney's Frozen. His work in Q, they note, shows an innate knowledge of musicals in among its more puppety happenings.

"They reference West Side Story, and they reference Judy Garland," MacDonald-Smith says.

"It's all in the music," Bowron adds. "All the songs are so, so, full.

There's lots of those little moments, and I think more educated musical-theatre audiences will be like, 'That was such a West Side

moment.' Which is really fun; little inside jokes, musically."

MacDonald-Smith's been down to the Avenue before: he did a months-long run of Avenue Q in Vancouver back in 2013, as well as a 2006 appearance on the original Broadway run, after winning a "One Night Stand" competition. Bowron was very familiar with the show— "It's been a long-time love of the show," she says. "Singing the songs in auditions, in college for projects

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in school ... "—but notes that working on the inside for the first time means she's had to adjust to her comic sensibilities somewhat: Avenue Q doesn't hide its puppeteers, meaning its performers have to wrap their heads around performing while making their puppet perform concurrently.

"Finding nuance—I think that's the hardest thing," she says. "And thoughts. Or making little takes; takes are different with puppets. You can't just shoot out a deadpan mo-

ment in the same way. It has to read on the puppet first—it's not going to get a laugh the same way."

"Because it's all external—nothing happens internally on a puppet," MacDonald-Smith adds. "You don't get to see that glimmer in the eye that happens naturally to a person. It all has to be external."

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he royals were the celebrities of past cen- Hagen, Kristi Hansen and Schmidt, including turies. It's often only through their accounts music, live singing and verbatim interviews that we get any kind of a history of subjects that with a range of people.

"Lots of the interviews that we're doing and were—up until quite recently and even now in the dialogue that we're some contexts—taboo. having isn't so much about In the case of Christina, transgender, although some Queen of Sweden from 1632 Until Sat, May 9 (7:30 pm; 11:30 of it is," Schmidt says. "A lot to 1654, and Philippe I, Duke pm on Fri, May 8) of it is just about gender of Orléans and youngest Directed by Trevor Schmidt in our society and gender brother of King Louis XIV— ATB Financial Arts Barns, roles as we have grown up the two figures starring in $18.50 – $30.50 with them and how they're Northern Light Theatre's seashifting; how they're changson ender—we can only surmise as to how the pair would have identified in ing and our perception of what makes a man contemporary contexts of gender and sexuality. or what makes a woman or what the role of a "We don't know how they identified," NLT ar- woman in a relationship is." tistic director Trevor Schmidt says. "We don't know whether they were transgendered, Christina / Philippe has the honour of being whether they were transvestite, whether they this season's show that Schmidt purposefully were cross dressers, whether they were a gay chose for pushing him out of his comfort zone. man and a lesbian woman who behaved differ- In addition to his role as director and costume designer, he's also playing the role of Philippe, ently than everyone else."

Northern Light has set a new benchmark which has him, by his own admission, scared.

"I'm going to have to stand there in a dress; I'm for going off the grid by digging up Christina / Philippe, a short, virtually unknown (and going to have to stand there in a dress and sing," likely never-before-staged) script that Schmidt he says. "I've been in a dress before, for Guys in found in a copy of The Malahat Review from Disguise. But that's a character, and it's usually 1986. Essentially a fragmented conversation for comic effect. In this particular instance, I will between Queen Christina and Philippe I, Cana- be up there, in a dress, being vulnerable, in front dian playwright Per Brask agreed to Schmidt's of a large group of people that I don't know. It's proposal of expanding his original script and a vulnerable place to be in." contextualizing it for a 21st-century audience MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM through additional content created by Darrin

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(Alberta Avenue Community Centre parking lot, free)

The Choice / Sun, May 3 (7 pm) A gritty street drama filmed in Edmonton, The Choice finds Kasey trying to make a couple of difficult ones in a pressure-cooker of a situation: his basketball career's got potential, if he can hold on, but his dad's sick, his girlfriend's pregnant and he's this close to being evicted. His cousin offers to cut him in on selling a new street drug, but, as easy as the money is, Kasey still finds himself torn between taking that route and chasing his elusive dreams, as well as challenged by the consequences of both. The Choice was written, directed and produced

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Authors for Indie Day S

haron Budnarchuk is emphatic, hitting the table of the Jasper Avenue greasy spoon with her palm for each word: "Authors are the most important part of what we do—without them we wouldn't be here."

Sharon and her husband Steve own and operate Audreys Books, the longest-surviving independent seller of new books in Edmonton. On May 2, Audreys will be the Edmonton hub of Authors for Indies Day, a national celebration of Canada's independent booksellers. More than 20 local authors—including Todd Babiak, Aaron Paquette and Caterina Edwards—will be staffing Audreys in three-hour shifts, talking books with customers

and running the till.

More than 600 authors across the country are taking part in Authors for Indies Day. Inspired by Indies First in the US, this year marks the first time the day is being celebrated in Canada.

Jessica Kluthe, author of Rosina, the Midwife—a transgenerational story of the Italian immigrant experience in Edmonton—is one of the local writers volunteering her time at Audreys.

"It's clear that Audreys still believes in books—a lot of people don't," Kluthe says, sharing a table and coffee with the Budnarchuks. "Talking about and celebrating books is really important to the whole process. If we don't do that, the books just sit on shelves."

The fact that Edmonton still has an indie bookstore that works so hard to support local writers is worth a party.

Audreys opened in 1975 and has survived the arrival of big-box booksellers and Amazon. Its longevity has meant a lot of hard work, with the store hosting more than 50 literary events and readings annually to connect authors with readers.

"Between the chains, supermarkets, Costco, Walmart and online we only get a tiny piece of the bestseller, or pop-fiction market," Steve says. "So we rely a lot on our local authors— that's where a lot of our sales are. It is really crucial for us that we continue that strong relationship."

Sat, May 2 (9:30am – 4:30pm) Audreys Books Sharon and Steve took over Audreys in 1988 after decades of experience in the publishing world. Thanks to high education levels, Edmonton has long been a strong reading city— but it hasn't been recognized on a national level like Toronto, Vancouver or Calgary. Edmonton, though, has had more than its fair share of literary talent.

"Everybody has to start somewhere: Margaret Atwood, when she taught at the U of A (1969 – 70), she had the autograph signing for one of her poetry books at the Bay," Sharon says. "She sat beside the socks, signing books for like half a dozen people. But I love that—I know I'm going to turn around

one day, when an Edmonton author is really famous, and say, 'We had their first book at Audreys.'"

For its 40th anniversary year, Audreys is going to continue doing what has kept the store alive: connecting local writers to local readers with readings, special guests and events. With that in mind, Steve says making Authors for Indies Day an annual event is a no-brainer. And Kluthe agrees.

"The whole thing just just makes sense to me," Kluthe says. "We should be coming together in more ways like this. We need each other."

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ever underestimate a woman who plans murders for a living."

The twisted psychology of writers is always a fertile source of drama, and David Belke's Becoming Sharp plumbs the depths of the literary mind.

The comic thriller focuses on a pair of novelists. One is well-established, with a best-selling series of murder mysteries and a crafty guile of her own. One is new to the game, eager to see her words in print.

The play begins with the prolific author hiring the young ingenue as a ghostwriter to pen the latest instalment in her acclaimed series of novels. But what seems at first to be a dream job for the up-and-coming writer turns into a drama greater than that of the book she's writing.

Becoming Sharp's famous novelist says she wants a vacation from her gruelling writing schedule. But the motives of the author, like those of the characters in her juicy potboilers, are more than they seem. Still, her protégée can't refuse such an offer, even if it means toiling away in secret.

"We're talking about 1962 in North America," Belke notes. "These kinds of opportunities didn't come up for women."

The playwright drew inspiration from pulp serials like Doc Savage and the Hardy Boys, whose many writers cranked out their work under shared pseudonyms.

"Back in the '30s, the writers of pulp fiction would be writing literally a novel every month," Belke says.

"Twelve books a year for decades.

You have to admire the sheer fecundity of it all."

But this mad pace comes at a cost, and when you're writing a thriller, that blurring of lines can have disastrous consequences.

"When you're writing so much, the fictional world entwines with your real life."

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With the author's Mrs Danversesque housekeeper lurking around and stirring the pot, the agreement between the two writers soon comes crashing down around their ears.

"Three extraordinary women are placed into extraordinary circumstances," Belke says. He notes that audiences can expect "an evening that is a full emotional banquet—some shocks and some laughs, secret conspiracies, plots and schemes."

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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

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 Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • VIEWS: art by Doris Charest; Mar 31-May 1 • MEMBERS SPRING EXHIBITION; May 5-29

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780.423.5353 • DUBIOUS TRANSLATIONS: Brad Necyk; Apr 10-May 22 • MUTATIONS: José Luis Torres; Apr 10-May 22 • ART + PHOTO - THROUGH THE LENS; May 5-12; Opening reception: May 5, 5-7pm

Welcoming 22 authors who will be working in shifts as booksellers - sharing their favourite recommendations & reads, taking time out of their schedules to give back to the independent bookstores that are so important to them • May 2, 9:30am-4:30pm

35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • FIREPLACE ROOM: Shona Holzer; through Apr • FIREPLACE ROOM: Katharina Nebel; through May • Juried Members Show; through Apr

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CANADIAN AUTHORS FOR INDIES DAY • Audreys Books, 10702 Jasper Ave •

8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • OF OTHER SPACES: Videos and new-media works that tell different stories relates to organ and tissue donation; Apr 11-May 3

Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • FRANCOPHONES IN ALBERTA; Apr 21-Jun 22

780.487.0585 ext. 206 • daniel@edjfed.org • jewishedmonton.org • Presents some of the very best in Jewish cinema from around the world • May 3-12

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

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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

• 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre. org • FIBRE ARTIST: Magie Davididson; Apr 24-May 20

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8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Global Visions Festival; May 7-18 • CULT CINEMA: The Peanut Butter Solution (May 26) • Music Docs: Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt (May 5) • DEDfEst: What We Do in the Shadows (May 2) • EDMonton MoviE club: Oru Vadakkan Selfie (May 2) • criME Watch: The Pink Panther (May 19) • MEtro bizarro: Fritz the Cat (May 20)

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

10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Between the Light and the Dark: Janice Mason Steeves & Morley Myers; Apr 25-May 8•

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AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780. 423.3487 • audreys.ca • 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,

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 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

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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

ANNE OF GREEN GABLES, THE MUSIcal fEaturing thE horizon PlayERS • Horizon Stage, 315 Jespersen Ave, Spruce Grove • At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne • Apr 30-May 9

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CABARET • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 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 • May 22, 8pm

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a highstakes 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)

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

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 THE UGLY ONE • PCL Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • A scalpel-sharp comedy about image, identity, and social conformity from acclaimed German playwright Marius von Mayenburg • May 13-23

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n route to Zurich, where she's to accept an award in his honour, Maria Enders (Juliette Binoche) learns that her old mentor, the reclusive Swiss playwright Wilhelm Melchior, has died. Delivered bluntly to Maria

by Val (Kristen Stewart), her personal assistant, a resourceful young American, the news contributes to the growing sense of things ending for Maria, or at least transitioning into something else. Maria is in the midst of a messy divorce. Despite the obvious incentives, she's declining to reprise her role in a superhero movie. She may or may not be accepting a role in a London revival of Maloja Snake, the Melchoir play that made her famous, except that when she first did the play 25 years ago she was the young seductress; this time she's to play the opposing role, that of the middle-aged business woman seduced and shattered by the younger woman, who would now be played by ostensibly talented celebrity train-wreck Jo-Ann (Chloë Grace Moretz). The high-concept casting is tantalizing, and the director is said to be brilliant, but Maria feels vulnerable. She's tampering with her legacy, acknowledging her age in a viciously age-phobic industry, stepping through the looking glass.

Which is not so different from what Binoche is doing by playing Maria, a character very close to Binoche, written specifically for Binoche by writer/director Olivier Assayas, with whom the actress worked on 2008's exquisite Summer Hours. Clouds of Sils Maria brims with such slippage, between real life and the movies, between the play Maria is working up the courage to act in and the fraught dynamic between Maria and Val, who retreat to Melchoir's home in the spectacular, mountainous Sils Maria to run lines and debate the underlying values in conflict in the play. Is it better to be young and arrogant or mature and wise? Certain elements of Clouds recall Ingmar Bergman's Persona—the borrowed country home, the imperious actress and the freshfaced helper in psychic face-off— while Maloja Snake is itself inspired

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by Fassbinder's The Bitter Tears of Petra von Kant. These touchstones, like Binoche and her own stature as a star, are just some of the things hovering in our shared culture that Assayas is responding to and sculpting into something unique, arresting and ultimately haunting. The film is so rife of gestures, ideas, events, subtle little moments in which something suddenly changes. I first saw it nine months ago, and it lingered in my memory as an uncontainOpens Friday able thing. I just watched Directed by Olivier Assayas it for the second time and Princess Theatre had that peculiar experi ence of revisiting a film and remembering that films unfold one scene at a time.

While retaining a rawness, post-Twilight Stewart gives a far more crafted performance as Val than in anything I've seen her do—the twitching and fidgeting has been reduced to a minimum. Moretz too seems to be adopting another, more intriguing register with Assayas and company.

Jo-Ann spills over with faux-stoned bad girl affectations when Maria watches her on trash TV shows, only to transform into a young artist longing to reinvent herself when she and Maria finally meet. Binoche is as inventive, bold, playful and as adverse to the slightest falsity as she's ever been. Her Maria is mercurial, capable of exploding into withering laughter, aware of her power while also aware that her powers could fail her any moment. In the film's first part she's the epitome of glamour; in the second and third she cuts her hair and scrubs her face clean. She looks her age, I guess, with a new nakedness, as if to say, "If I'm going to be the older woman, let's get this over with." She's also radiant, as I imagine she always will be. But radiance quiets with time, and the film's final, quietly brutal scene leaves Maria in a place similar to its first scenes: we see a woman on the move, between things, figuring out what to do next, and how best to survive the journey.

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I know Charles Willeford for his terser crime novels of the 1950s and '60s, High Priest of California, Pick-Up and Cockfighter, which was turned into a marvelously seedy, gaudily gorgeous, somewhat tormented film directed by Monte Hellman and starring Warren Oates as a mute in a motorhome. But Willeford is most known for his Hoke Moseley novels of the '80s, starting with Miami Blues, which was also adapted for the screen and released in 1990, just two years after Willeford's death. I still haven't read these later, quirkier works, but I've had the film of Miami Blues on my radar for a very long time and finally saw it. It's just been released on a handsome Blu-ray.

Hoke, a haggard, good-humoured Miami police sergeant who wears dentures and lives in a hotel full of oldsters, is played by the great Fred Ward, who was having a hell of a career just then, with The Right Stuff and his starring role in Remo Williams under his belt and Henry & June, The Player, Tremors and Short Cuts all coming out around the same time. But Miami Blues is stolen by its handsome antagonist, Frederick Frenger, Junior, played by Alec Baldwin, who exudes a peculiar boyish

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charisma and sociopathic glee. In the first five minutes he steals luggage from a child and kills a Hare Krishna by breaking his fingers. Just released from a California prison, Junior is looking to start a new life in Miami.

He quickly shacks up with an endearingly innocent hooker, Susie (Jennifer Jason Leigh, groomed like Jean Seberg in Breathless and fresh off Last Exit to Brooklyn, in which she portrayed a decidedly non-innocent hooker) and accumulates a considerable amount of capital by robbing people who rob other people. He is, by his own admission, like Robin Hood, minus the part about giving stuff back to the poor. Junior really gets cooking once he assaults Hoke and steals his badge, which he subsequently uses to impersonate an officer and subdue other criminals so that he can appropriate their bounty. It's among the film's amusing ironies that while simply trying to rip people off Junior seems to be resolving a number of Hoke's cases for him.

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Grosse Pointe Blank (1997) and The Big Bounce (2004). His approach to the material, which is so frequently perverse, funny and violent, is all over the place. Armitage clearly loved looking at Baldwin, who looms in frame after frame, often shirtless.

He seems drawn to the Floridian light and the abundance of pastels in nearly every location—Miami Vice was fresh in everyone's minds.

An interrogation scene unfolds over a protracted dinner of beer and pork chops. Later, some fingers get chopped off by a machete-wielding pawn-shop proprietor. Working with cinematographer Tak Fujimoto, Armitage does the oddest things, like shooting a scene with a wild handheld camera, as though he's trying to capture some careening action, even though the only thing happening is Baldwin sitting on a bed imitating Pacino in Scarface. Miami Blues is kind of a go-for-broke movie for virtually everyone involved, and the results make for a sloppy and weirdly fascinating good time watching bad men. The film bombed at the box office but has long held cult status. I wished it had been more of a to-do when it was released. I would have loved to see Ward reprise Hoke in the whole series. V

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ed Army is the story of a team of highly specialized USSR officers, brought together by their elite skills and given a particularly public mission: to strike blows against the West in head-to-head skirmishes, in the name of proving the glory of the communist lifestyle over that of capitalism.

That those elite skills included skating, puck-handling and teamwork on the ice didn't limit their relevance to the cause; and likewise, just because Red Army is, ostensibly, about hockey—the Soviet Union's world-dominating team, capable of going years without losing a game—doesn't mean it can't provide a fascinating peek behind a very specific corner of the Iron Curtain. It certainly does: Gabe Polsky's documentary— Werner Herzog hangs an executive producer credit here—is revealing, thrilling, charming and impressively dense for its just-shy of 80-minute runtime.

It's framed primarily by team captain Slava Fetisov, as well as his closest

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teammates, sports journalists, some American coaches and an incredible bevy of archival footage from both Communist-era Russia and North America (Gretzky looking young, after being defeated by the USSR squad! Don Cherry in a relatively sensible suit!). It uses the team as a glimpse into the Soviet lifestyle: Stalin created the hockey club as a way of demonstrating superiority over the West, which it did, for a long, long time. Polsky also shows the costs of that success: loneliness, the extremes of the team's training camps— the players would be home for 36 days a year—as well as the cruelty of a longtime coach/KGB officer Viktor Tikhonov, who wouldn't let a player leave training go see his dying father. The political parallels on and off the ice are obvious, but Polsky handles their telling very well: as the nation's ideology began to fracture, questions began to arise as to whether or not, in the wake of post-communism Russia, such elite players would be al-

lowed to play in the NHL. There were costs to that, too, for even publicly considering such deals, which Fetisov did, and quickly found himself go from hero to pariah.

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As interviews, the Russians are sort of endearingly ambivalent to traditional interview manner, or, in Fetisov's case, sometimes outright rude to Polsky.

They fidget, phones in hand even while talking. An ex-KGB officer has his granddaughter running around all interview, commenting occasionally, which gives the talking heads set-up a more curious energy than usual.

Hockey fan or not, Red Army angles itself as a grippingly told, well-executed documentary. It's a story about ideology and sport, a game that just so happened to parallel the Cold War that raged all around it, and the consequences of success and failure, on and off the ice.

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Be Here To Love Me

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argaret Brown's textured, elegiac Be Here To Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt is a deeply plangent music documentary.

It begins with the legendary "songwriter's songwriter" (as Kris Kristoffersen puts it) reciting some lyrics in his doleful voice, then musing on how much longer he's got. Death's intertwined with music throughout this tale of a man content, it seems, to remain in the shadows.

Brown melds home-video footage and interview clips with grainy, poetic glimpses of the road: streetscapes, an open motel door, treetops ghosting into the sunlight. For Van Zandt, on the road so much, such a roaming life "takes blowin' everything

it doesn't prettify the man. He "could be really cruel to the people he loved," says his eldest son. A wheelchair-bound Van Zandt wants bigger cups of alcohol to get through what would prove to be his last shot at an album, produced by Sonic Youth's Steve Shelley; "he just blew [chancTue, May 5 (7 pm; performance es] up," claims

by Dan Smith at 6:30 pm) longtime manDirected by Margaret Brown ager Kevin Eggers, Metro Cinema at the Garneau though he seems Originally released: 2004 to have blown the deal for Seven Come Eleven, potentially Van Zandt's off ... and goin'." There's the feel of big breakthrough. washed-out snapshots and yellowed He remained an "underground sucpostcards to much of the doc, its cess" for decades, with covers of his aged, fading celluloid images match- "If I Needed You" (by Emmylou Harris ing Van Zandt's wonderfully weath- and Don Williams) and "Pancho and ered voice. The flickering-ness of Lefty" (by Merle Haggard and Wilmemory also reflects the man's great lie Nelson) making it big. Van Zandt loss. His parents, concerned about seemed unfazed by all that—late in his behaviour in college, had him giv- his life, he says, "I'd like to write some en, on the advice of a doctor, insulin songs that are so good that nobody shock treatment for three months— understands them—not even me." the process erased his childhood rec- Be Here To Love Me, never exposing ollections. its subject to too much harsh light, preserves this enigma just enough While the film slides over Van that it makes you want to go back to Zandt's addiction problems—there's the music after you've caught these little sense of his alcoholism or the glimpses of the man. depth of his heroin use—and his re- BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM lationships (he had three marriages), VUEWEEKLY.com | APR 30 – MAY 6, 2015

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The Raygun Cowboys have a new album, label and cow bass

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akland Valleau, the pompa- Cormack and Nathan Connolly givdoured bass player for the ing the band a brassy, Mad Caddies Raygun Cowboys, was standing in sound that sets it apart from other front of a field of fans under the greasers.

California sun when his Bumble Bee died. His fuzzy It's the band's fourth full-length yellow-and-black Fri, May 1 (8 pm) double bass, Raygun Cowboys and the first record since 2012's maybe dropped With the Resignators Cowboy Up!. and cracked by Pawn Shop, $15 careless roadies, Christopherson says the Cowfell apart in the middle of the Edmonton psycho- boys have been laying low, taking billy band's first song at the 2012 the last couple of years off as he started his education degree.

Ink-N-Iron festival in Long Beach.

"I've been a music maker all my "That bass had been in the band for like 12 years," says singer and life," he notes. "So I wanted to be a guitar slinger Jon Christopherson. music teacher."

One of the standout tracks, "In "Luckily, there were guys at the festival selling basses. They literally These Walls," came from one of his carried a bass across the field for classes. It starts with the haunting sounds of First Nations powus and we finished our set."

The Raygun Cowboys recently wow singing and drums before the gave the Bumble Bee a proper Vi- band kicks in and Christopherson king burial: sending it out in style launches into a devastating story by burning then smashing it with of a child stuck in the residentiala backhoe in a music video for the school system: "In the cold / I walk band's new record Heads Are Gon- and walk and walk / I hope I don't na Roll!. Oh, yeah, Valleau plays a get caught."

The singer, who is Métis, was furry, cow-patterned bass now that taking Native Studies classes and the Bumble Bee is gone.

Instruments aside, the Raygun wrote the song for a final project— Cowboys are survivors. The band and after sharing it with the band, turns 15 this year, having surfed it made it on the new record.

"It's dedicated to and is a tribute waves of rockabilly revival and then obscurity. Bands like Tiger to the survivors of the residential Army, the Living End and Horror- school system," Christopherson Pops—the biggest names in psy- adds.

Now, with the powerful new alchobilly's heyday in the early- to mid-2000s—haven't released re- bum and a shiny-new record deal, the group is back on the road. The cords in years.

"The band has basically stayed the band is doing a cross-Canada tour same over the last 15 years," Chris- and is keen to play through Europe topherson says. "It's the same core." again soon.

One reason the band is still in deIf anything, the local band is just hitting its stride. The Raygun Cow- mand after 15 years? The music and boys recently signed to Montréal's the live show are fun. It's for dancStomp Records, an influential label ing—and people will always love to for Canada's ska scene. Heads Are dance.

"The swing beat and the shuffle Gonna Roll! is a rollicking ass-kicker of an album, rocking confidently beat are huge parts of what we do," from roots-rockabilly to punk to Christopherson says. "When people come to a Raygun Cowboys show, blues then old-school country.

The insistent slap of Valleau's it's a dance show. You come to bass and Derek Thieson's drums dance and have a good time." propel the sound, with the horn JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM trio of Michael Johnson, Jonny Mc-

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MUSIC PREVUE // METAL

Gettin' thrashy

Anthrax W

hat constitutes a perfect album? Can you think of one that you return to again and again, with no critique to be had from start to finish?

The idea of perfection is subjective, of course, and what becomes your idea of the perfect album might even be one you were undecided about upon first listen.

For Anthrax drummer Charle Benante, that album is Number of the Beast

PREVUE // ROCK

by Iron Maiden.

"I remember when they got Bruce Dickinson in the band, the first thing I heard was 'Run to the Hills' and I didn't know if I liked it or not, and then I found myself just humming that tune in my head and it became, 'This is fuckin' killer,'" Benante says, noting his draw to the album ended up being Dickinson's vocals. "He totally expanded the band and their fan base, too.

... That's a perfect record for me from start to finish, although I will have one thing to say about that record: I still don't understand why it doesn't start with 'Number of the Beast.' It starts with 'Invaders,' which to me is like, what the fuck? I still don't get it."

The subject comes up as Benante discusses the new Anthrax album that's currently in the works—the follow-up to 2011's Worship Music, which is expected to be released later this year. He describes the songs on Worship Music as "thrashy" and faster than the the Big Four metal group's previous releases, noting that the more frenetic tempo felt natural during live shows.

"There are songs on [the new] record that just came out like that. There's more thrashier songs, and then there's a song that's almost seven minutes long and takes you on kind of a musical journey, but not in a prog-rocktype way," he explains. "Just in these parts that kind of intertwine, and it takes you to a whole other place.

When you listen to a song for the first time, sometimes you don't get it and

you're not sure if you like it or not, big fans of the show, and the band had a chance to hang and then the third or out on the set in Belfourth time you hear Sat, May 2 (7 pm) it again it opens up With Volbeat, Crobot fast, Ireland during its a different world to Rexall Place, $55.76 – $70 last tour, which gave them better insight you that you didn't get at first. And it into the work that opens up your musical vocabulary as goes into the series. well."

"We sat on the throne, we went to the Wall, we held all the props and Worship Music—which featured the the swords and found out there's return of vocalist Joey Belladonna— like three or four of every sword," was something of a watershed mo- says Benante, who counts Tyrion Lanment, Benante notes, that revitalized nister and Joffrey Baratheon among the band and resulted in top-notch his favourite characters. "There's the material coming out again—"It wasn't real one, which you couldn't even just generic, leftover riffs: it was new," fuckin' lift because it's so heavy, and he adds. That acted as a significant then there's the lighter one, and then inspiration for the yet-untitled new there's the one for CGI that they album, and though Benante can't make. So I think some of the actors promise a lot of new material in An- have to be in pretty good shape to thrax's live set on this tour, there will even lift the heaviest sword, and the be a fan-favourite set (think "I Am The detail that went into all this—that Law," "Antisocial" and "Madhouse") was the other thing: when you look at and a new song called "Soror Irruma- the work and you inspect it, the craftstor (Lords of the Rock)" that was writ- manship, everything about it was just ten for the Game of Thrones Catch the beautiful."

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t was a pretty good, standard tour: our van broke down a few times, everyone got sick, I lost my voice for a few shows," laughs Mikey Muscat, vocalist, guitarist, keyboardist and saxophonist for Revenge Sat, May 2 (4 pm) of the Trees.

Black Dog, free The local progrock four-piece recently wrapped up a two-week jaunt across Canada in support of its new album, Into the Night. The group had already logged some miles in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba after releasing a self-titled disc in 2013, but this was the band's first time venturing into BC, and Muscat notes everything was wellreceived—illnesses and mechanical failures aside.

With any luck, Revenge of the Trees got its tour woes out of the way and the rest of its support for the album will be smooth sailing.

The five-track Night was released earlier in April, and its lyrics are a testament to Muscat's interest in political and environmental issues.

"It's definitely something I've always been interested in, but probably in the last five or six years, that's the time that I've really been trying to change my lifestyle in accordance to those beliefs," Muscat adds. "As a kid I was always the one trying to stop other kids from burning bugs with magnifying glasses and busting up ant hills; I was always the one trying to protect all the little creatures and yelling at my dad for trying to put mouse traps around."

Muscat's proclivity for these is-

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sues led him to participate in his fair share of protests while living in Toronto. Since moving to Edmonton about four-and-a-half years ago, he admits he hasn't been quite as involved in protesting, but he has made lifestyle changes in terms of the food he buys and the businesses he supports.

"I really try not to be preachy," he notes of his music. "I want to be able to reach as wide an audience as I can and just have people be interested in the music, and when they look into it a little deeper they're like, 'Oh, there's a bit more to this music than some cool riffs.'"

The gritty riffs and poignant lyrics have resonated with audiences so far—particularly the blue-collar anthem "Workin'" amongst oilfield workers, Muscat notes. But it's not all serious: Muscat says the title track is the first song he's written in the past few years that hasn't revolved around any socio-political issues of any sort.

"It's actually about a fun night I had last summer long boarding with a bunch of friends," he says, adding that its counterpart, "Into the Night Part 2" concludes the album on a different note. "One of my friends [described] it as dancing to the end of the world. It's got a feel that it could be seen as a bit more positive, but then the lyrics are a bit more doom and gloom. They just sort of fit together; we thought it would be cool to make it more of a piece."

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MUSIC PREVUE // FOLK

Carrie Day 'B

eing a musician is probably one of the hardest career paths, I think. You can be really good at what you do and get nowhere," Carrie Day says with a soft chuckle of disbelief.

"But, even knowing that, I don't want to do anything else."

Success can't always be measured by monetary gains, and Day notes that pursuing a dream or path you feel strongly about can provide fulfilment in other ways. And this is the notion at the centre of her new EP, Chasing Rainbows.

"Go after your dreams; it doesn't matter," she adds. "Life's too short.

One day you want to be able to look back and see what you've done and not feel regretful, and I'm hoping that's the case for me—I'll be able to look back and feel that I created work and it was fulfilling."

Day admits she's had her share of fears about her career path, and whether she should have pursued the ostensibly more stable trajectory of academia. But it's in these moments that she reminds herself she's able to do what she enjoys, rather than toiling away at a profession she feels stuck in.

"I have a couple of part-time jobs,"

she says, noting the flexibility of these positions comes in handy while pursuing her music. "I don't have to think too much about what I'm doing, and I enjoy those aspects of that kind of work. It doesn't feel like something that I don't look forward to, and then sometimes it just gives me a little bit of extra income or even change— change as in change of scene, so that I can work a bit harder at what I really want to do."

Day has captured these sentiments in elegant, delicate, folk-tinged melodies filled with lush instrumentation, while her soothing vocals provide the vehicle for her lyrics. There are some tracks on Chasing Rainbows that may be easily recognizable, too. Amidst her finely crafted original tunes are covers that Day says seemed to fit with the thematic elements of rainbows and weather she found herself writing about—"What a Wonderful World" by Louis Armstrong, "Summertime" by George Gershwin and "True Colors" by Billy Steinberg and Tom Kelly, which became the title track of Cyndi Lauper's second album.

"The covers that I appreciate, that I

Sat, May 2 (7 pm) With Laurel-Lee MacLure Convocation Hall, $15 in advance, $10 at the door hear or listen to are ones where the song is still very, very recognizable, but there's something different or unique about it ... but it still doesn't lose the essence of the original song, just sort of exemplifies it," Day explains of her choices, noting she wanted to keep the jazz elements alive on "What a Wonderful World" and "Summertime," and she began the groundwork on "True Colors" in her home studio, adding programmed drums to the track—something she hasn't delved into a great deal in the past—but she was initially apprehensive about showing it to her engineer, Jeff Kynoch at Sound Extractor Studios.

"I was just really nervous, like, 'Oh, is he going to think this is insane; did I do something ridiculous with the song?'

And he listened to it and was like, 'This is really cool. Right on. I'm excited to work on this,' so that was reaffirming in kind of a thrilling way too, when you stretch out of your comfort zone and take on new skills."

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PREVUE // DARK FOLK

Kevin Maimann and the Pretty Things

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olk music can be dark. Singers have told tales of murder and disaster since, well, forever.

In that context, Kevin Maimann and the Pretty Things isn't that weird. But the local band's music can still make you rethink your idea of folk: songs that mock love or conjure nightmare visions of monsters, war or hell.

Maimann is a different beast in person, though, punctuating a lot of his sentences with a big smile or a laugh.

"I've never been very good at expressing myself to other people," he admits, sitting in a Garneau-area restaurant with his drummer Matt Handfield. "For

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For the EP, Maimann brought Cooke and Handfield, his Pretty Things, into Fri, May 1 (9 pm) the fold in a permanent way. The With Cygnets, Catgut, three have played together in local Blood Bitch bands since they were in high school, Wunderbar, $10 most notably in the thrash-metal group Ways To Kill. More recently, Maimann played in local experimental darkwave band Look Away before its members parted ways last spring.

You might also know Maimann from his other gig as a music and news writer for the Edmonton Sun, where he's interviewed hundreds of bands. He says that experience has taught him one important thing: don't be boring.

"When you get 50 press releases a day from bands, you're not going me, music is the only way I've ever been to pay attention to another group of able to get that stuff out. My music dudes in plaid shirts standing in a field, tends to come off pretty dark—al- describing themselves as indie folk," though I don't think I come off that way Maimann says. "It's made me more in person at all." aware of the need to stand out."

That blackness saturates the band's His music certainly does—nothing self-titled debut EP. Maimann's claus- in Edmonton sounds like it. That, says trophobic, often acoustic, guitar playing Handfield, translates to the live experipaired with the drums and bass bedrock ence. from Handfield and Jake Cooke comes "It can be weird—and that's Kevin," off like a super dark Violent Femmes. Handfield adds. "Kevin can be a wild The four songs were recorded at Ed- character on stage: he'll stare you monton's Sound Extractor studios, with dead in the eye while he's playing the band going hi-fi with more electric and shredding." guitar overdubs than Maimann's solo JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM 2014 debut, Death Perception.

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an you say Zwei Bärs Norden? Local indie band Two Bears North has landed a German record deal, along with a 12-day Deutschland tour and a slot at the About Songs Festival in Hamburg.

The animals in Two Fri, May 1 (7 pm) Bears North include With We Were Friends, singer and guitar the Royal Foundry player Sophie Hep- Mercury Room, $10 pell, bass player Melissa Walker and Nich Davies on drums. The girls have been working on the band for seven years, using a push-pull dynamic between Heppell's love of melody and Walker's earthy sense of groove, and they add- a Garneau cafe. "And when we think ed Davies' drumming a couple of years of where we want to escape to, it's the ocean. We don't feel we want to ago to make it a trio.

The band's most recent record, escape to Saskatchewan."

2013's Comeocean, sounds very much like a West Coast album with ocean Two Bears North scored the deal with vibes, rolling bass lines and sunny Hamburg's DevilDuck Records after harmonies. Not surprising, consider- the band played a music showcase in ing Heppell and Walker are BC trans- Calgary last fall. Since signing, the laplants—Heppell from Gibsons (home bel is re-releasing Comeocean with the of the Beachcombers) and Walker new single "Get The Hell Out Of Here." spent time in Kamloops and the great- And the band played two unofficial er Vancouver area. showcases at this year's SXSW. The band is currently working on its "I think the yearning for the ocean you hear is us yearning for self- second album, with a tentative release growth and improvement," Heppell date of January 2016. explains, sipping a green iced chai in "The new album will definitely

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Before they head to Germany, Two Bears North will be touring east through Canada before a slot at Canadian Music Week in Toronto.

"This definitely feels like a big step," Heppell says.

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Jazz artist Paul Ledding cites Justin Timberlake, Ray Charles, Harry Connick Jr, Amy Winehouse and Stevie Wonder as musical influences. With such an eclectic mix, his latest EP, Play Me A Song, should be interesting.

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afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Jason Elmore And Hoodoo Witch BOURBON ROOM Live Music every

Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRIXX BAR The Quick & Dirty,

Crooked Spies, Spekters; 8pm (doors), 9pm (shows); $10

PAWN SHOP Raygun Cowboys CD

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF ALBERTA AUDITORIUM Zombie

release with guests

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Bonafide

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open

Choral Canon; 7:30 & 9pm; $52.50

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

mic; 7pm; $2

DJs

RENDEZVOUS PUB Construct The

Rainbows EP release Featuring Carrie Day; 7:30pm; $15, $8 (kids)

Fl: Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll,

Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays.

Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro

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

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

every Thu

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

CONVOCATION HALL Chasing

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Jake

Rob Taylor; 9pm

Buckley; 9pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Cody

DV8 TAVERN Zine Fair Fundraiser;

Mack; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Doug

Stroud; 9pm

5pm; No minors EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music

Marry the Night - The Lady Gaga Tribute Ball; 8:30pm

every Fri

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon

VINYL ROCK CAFÉ Michael

Concerts: this week with Kay There House Builder with guests The Yassassins; 4pm; No cover

Chenoweth; 8:30-10:30pm; $5 WUNDERBAR Say Goodbye To

Mitchmatic Featuring Mitchmatic With The Tee-Tahs And With Nolocus; 9pm; $10 (door) • Kevin Maimann And The Pretty Things with Cygnets, Catgut and Blood Bitch; 9pm; $10 (door)

Quartet; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $18 (members), $22 (guests)

Classical

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: this week with Revenge Of The Trees (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

CAFE BLACKBIRD Sparrow Grace and Corrina Keeling; 8pm; $10

Sky, Militious, Waking Mayhem & Black Collar; 8pm; $15

Beatcreeps with Jack Marks & Lost Wages; 9pm; $15

WUNDERBAR Mayday & The

YARDBIRD SUITE Andréa Petrity

Classical

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main

UNION HALL Kill Paris - #FVDED;

9pm; $20

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade

ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL

More Than Magnificat; 7:30pm HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH EARLY: Tea with Mr. Telemann; 3pm; LATER: Bach - the

Brandenburg Concertos; 8pm WINSPEAR CENTRE Heroes &

Villains; 2pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: alt

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

Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It's

Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat;

9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:

Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: 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 THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

Jam: Mike Chenoweth

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage

and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

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

Brass and the Project Saxophone Quartet

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Baroque Winds and Brass; 8pm

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

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

MAY/2 MAY/9

MARTEN HORGER

LANDMARK EVENTS SHOWCASE

MAY/13 MAY/15 MAY/16

the Jim Findlay Trio; 9am-3pm; Donations

Red Hot Gospel, Latcho Drom; 9pm

SEPULTURA

MAY/24

DESTRUCTION, ARSIS, BORIS THE BLADE & MICAWBER

UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

AMARANTHE

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic

Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

W/ I PREVAIL, SANTA CRUZ & GUESTS

MAY/25

HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

LITTLE DRAGON

MAY/26

REVEREND HORTON HEAT

MAY/28

MILO GREENE

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • Rodeowind

BLUES ON WHYTE Tim Vaughn

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

THE BUCKINGHAM Early Show

Toonz every Tue

Featuring Wil

RED PIANO Every Tue: the

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

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

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

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

Classical

REXALL PLACE Neil Diamond;

7pm (doors), 8pm (show) 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

WINSPEAR CENTRE Nobuyuki

Tsujii; 7:30pm

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam hosted by Jim Dyck, Randy Forsberg and Mark Ammar; 4-8pm

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

WUNDERBAR Wundi's 5th

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

TUE MAY 5

CONVOCATION HALL New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia California Dreamin'; 2:304:30pm; $20 (adults), $15 (students/seniors)

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

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH The Bok

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW

Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason

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

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

MUTTART HALL Midday Music; WINSPEAR CENTRE EARLY: ESO

& Winspear Overture Tour; 1pm Kerman; 7:30pm

DJs Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail BRIXX Metal night every Tue

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Tim Vaughn

Classical

• Later: An Evening with Piper

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday

BLUES ON WHYTE Tim Vaughn

12:10-12:50pm

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

Classical

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

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

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

Kaye & The Mean ‘Ole World; 8pm; No cover

SANDS HOTEL Country music

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Counting

Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 BEND LOUNGE Blues with Tony

ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover

Classical

Anniversary; 2pm

W/ GUESTS

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)

DJs

9:30pm-1am

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

Kris Harvey and guests

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

W/ NEKROMANTIX, THE BRAINS

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

Session: Celsius Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

guests; 7pm; $10 (adv)

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Crows; 8pm

MERCURY ROOM Tasman Jude with

W/ GUESTS

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

Jam: Trevor Mullen

Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Rodeowind

BRIXX BAR Real Ponchos, Jake Ian, Kayla Hotte; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10

30 YR. ANNIVERSARY TOUR’

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

And Hoodoo Witch BOHEMIA Soda Pony, Borracherra,

Ranch, Borrachera, and more; 8pm; $10 stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

open mic

BLUES ON WHYTE Jason Elmore

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

W/

MON MAY 4

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with

OPIUO & FKJ

DJs

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

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

UBK & BLUEPRINT PRESENT

Tue; 9pm

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

W/ GAVIN JAMES

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

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

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm

KODALINE

Youth Orchestra in Concert; 2pm

DV8 TAVERN Biipiigwan, Dead

SUN MAY 3

SKYPE / SIRIUSXM PRESENTS

WINSPEAR CENTRE Edmonton

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage

YEG: 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

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

THE FINALS

Beauty Knows No Discord; 7:30pm

WED MAY 6

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

FREE LOVE PRESENTS

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH

BOHEMIA Dale Ladouceur with John Armstrong and Don Ross; 9pm; $10 (adv)

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

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

MAY/2

THE QUICK & DIRTY W/ CROOKED SPIES AND SPEKTERS

MAY/3

REAL PONCHOS PANDACORN JENNIFER CASTLE W/ JAKE IAN, KAYLA HOTTE

MAY/8

W/ SNAKE LEGS, RUSTY

MAY/10

W/GUESTS

MAY/21

RADIO RADIO W/HIGH TIDES

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 ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CHURCH 10035-103 St NW ARDEN THEATRE 5 St. Anne Street, St. Albert 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, thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99,

23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 7128 Ada Blvd NW CONVOCATION HALL U of A, 116 St & 85 Ave DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 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 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

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FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH 10031109 St NW HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW 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 MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 Macdonald Dr NW MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr 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 PIANO CENTRE 10460-170 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St REXALL PLACE 7424-118 Ave RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SAINT MARIA GORETTI CENTRE 11050 90 St NW 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 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St 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 VIYNL ROCK CAFE 24 Perron St, St Albert WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

COMEDY BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Brian Link; Apr 30-May 2 • Danny Acappella; May 7-9 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 • Alonzo Bodden Special Performance; Apr 30-May 3 • Zainab Johnson; May 6-10 • Dave Coulier Special Performance; May 14-16 • Sean Lecomber; May 17 CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill, 1291250 St • With Matt Billon and Peter Hudson • Apr 29, 7:30pm DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow

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

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

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

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

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

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • Crazy Loon Pub, 10208-99 Ave N.E., Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

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

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

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

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

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

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

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

SCIENCE • University of Alberta, Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS), 1-440 • discoveringmars.eventbrite.ca • A light-hearted journey through the 4000 years of Mars-watching that made it possible to get there • May 2, 5pm GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE • St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • Portugal 2013 by Brian & Sylvia Whitson (May 4) • First Mon of the month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3

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

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

(door); no cover before 10pm

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/ student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making

SPECIAL MEETING OF THE EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King’s University College, 9125-50 St • The topic will be “Wildflowers Of Waterton National Park”. This multi-media presentation set to music will show bold blossoms, wild creatures, majestic mountains and autumn colors • May 8, 7pm • Admission by donation

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm.

All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS CALLINGWOOD FARMERS’ MARKET SEASON OPENING • Callingwood Farmers’ Market,

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

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

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters

WHAT IS GRIEF? EXPLORING THE MULTIDIMENSIONAL IMPACTS OF GRIEF • Pilgrims Hospice, 9808-148 St • 780.413.9801 ext. 107 • jessem@pilgrimshospice.com • Learn the different ways that grief can impact you • May 6, 7pm

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

SPEED DEMON OPENING WEEKEND MAY 1 & 2 NORTHLANDSPARK.CA

BEFORE THE CAR, THE MOTORCYCLE OR THE JET, THERE WAS THE RIDER AND THE HORSE—working together to always move faster and get there first.

Celebrate the tradition of speed and bravery at the Opening Weekend of our Thoroughbred season. Come both days to enjoy live music, barn tours, prizes and photos and on Saturday don’t forget to wear your best Derby-styled hat.

SPRING 2015 LECTURE SERIES: LIFE LESSONS IN HEALTH • Grey Nuns Community Hospital, 1100 Youville Dr W NW • 780.735.7064 • Provides clear action steps to facilitate focus and flow in practical ways • May 5, 7-9pm • Free

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave •

University of Alberta, 11435 Saskatchewan Drive • Panelists will address key issues, including environmental and social impacts of resource development, corporate-community relations, and Arctic governance • May 1, 5-6:30pm • Free

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PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental dropin 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 • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper

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WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION • waskahegantrail.ca • 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

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

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

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

Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw. ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs. org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:458:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu, 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

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

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

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

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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 RUG HOOKING GUILD TEA AND SHOW • Pleasantview Community Hall, 10860-57 Ave • May 7, 11am-2pm • $5

JANES WALK KICK-OFF • Front Steps of City Hall by the pool • 780.495.0322 • ian.hosler@ edmonton.ca • janeswalk.org • A movement of free, citizen-led walking tours. The walks get people to tell stories about their communities, explore their cities, and connect with neighbours • May 1, 12-2pm

LOVABLE LITTLES UPTOWN MARKET • Terwillegar Community Church, 1751 Towne Centre Blvd NW • 780.718.2489 • info@lovablelittes. com • Entertainment for the little ones as well as shopping, displays and demonstrations • May 2, 10am-4pm • $3 (adults), free (kids) MOTHER'S DAY WALK FOR BREAST CANCER • Emily Murphy Park • 1.800.567.8767 • mothersdaywalk.ca • The annual walk. Features music, guest speakers, a Zumba warm up, survivor tent, refreshments and activities for the kids • May 3, 12-2pm

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 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

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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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.

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We are seeking a team player with a professional attitude to work and learn in a fast paced, business environment.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Chris Moneymaker was employed as an accountant in Tennessee. On a whim, he paid $39 to enter an online poker tournament. Although he knew a lot about the game, he had never competed professionally.

Nevertheless, he won the tournament. As his award, he received no money, but rather an invitation to participate in the annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Can you guess the storybook ending? The rookie triumphed over 838 pros, taking home $2.5 million. I don't foresee anything quite as spectacular for you, Aries, but there may be similar elements in your saga. For example, a modest investment on your part could make you eligible for a chance to earn much more. Here's another possible plot twist: you could generate luck for yourself by ramping up a skill that has until now been a hobby.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): eBay is a multi-billion-dollar ecommerce business that has been around for almost 20 years.

But it had an inauspicious beginning. The first item ever sold on the service was a broken laser pointer. Even though the laser pointer didn't work, and the seller informed the buyer it didn't work, it brought in $14.83. This story might be a useful metaphor for your imminent future, Taurus.

While I have faith in the vigour of the long-term trends you are or will soon be setting in motion, your initial steps may be a bit iffy.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Poetically speaking, it's time to purify your world of all insanities, profanities and inanities. It's a perfect moment for that once-ina-blue-moon Scour-a-Thon, when you have a mandate to purge all clunkiness, junkiness and gunkiness from your midst. And as you flush away the unease of your hypocrisies and discrepancies, as you dispense with any tendency you might have to make way too much sense, remember that evil is allergic to laughter. Humour is one of the most effective psychospiritual cleansers ever.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): I was in the checkout line at Whole Foods. The shopper ahead of me had piled her groceries on the conveyor belt and it was her turn to be rung up. "How are you doing?" she said cheerfully to the cashier, a crabby-looking hipster whom I happened to know is a Cancerian poet and lead singer in a local rock band. "Oh, I am living my dream," he replied. I guessed he was being sarcastic, although I didn't know for sure. In any case, I had a flash of intuition that his answer should be your mantra in the coming weeks. It's time to redouble your commitment to living your dream! Say it 20 times in a row right now: "I am living my dream."

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): As I awoke this morning, I remembered the dream I'd just had.

In the dream, I had written a horoscope for you. Here's what it said: "The Kentucky Derby is a famous horse race that takes place on the first Saturday of every May. It's called 'The Run for the Roses' because one of the prizes that goes to the winning horse and jockey is a garland of 554 roses. I suspect that your life may soon bring you an odd treasure like that, Leo. Will it be a good thing or too much of a good thing? Will it be useful or just kind of weird? Beautiful or a bit ridiculous? The answers to those questions may depend in part on your willingness to adjust your expectations."

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Don't calm down. Don't retreat into your sanctuary and relax into protective comfort. If you have faith and remain committed to the messy experiment you have stirred up, the stress and agitation you're dealing with will ripen into vitality and excitement.

I'm not exaggerating, my dear explorer. You're on the verge of tapping into the catalytic beauty and rejuvenating truth that lurk beneath the frustration. You're close to unlocking the deeper ambitions that are trapped inside the surface-level wishes.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): American author Stephen Crane wrote his celebrated Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage in 10 days. Composer George Frideric Handel polished off his famous oratorio Messiah in a mere 24 days, and Russian writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky produced his novel The Gambler in 16 days. However, Junot Díaz, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, needed 10 years to finish it. As for you, Libra, I think this is— and should be!—a phase more like Díaz's than the other three creators'. Go slowly. Be super extra thorough. What you're working on can't be rushed.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In her book A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman describes a medieval knight who asked his lady for a strand of her pubic hair: a symbol of her life force. The lady agreed. He placed the talisman in a locket that he wore around his neck, confident that it would protect him and consecrate him in the course of the rough adventures ahead. I recommend that you consider a similar tack in the coming weeks, Scorpio. As you head toward your turning point, arm yourself with a personal blessing from someone you love. Success is most likely if you tincture your fierce determination with magical tenderness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "An escalator can never break,"

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mused comedian Mitch Hedberg.

"It can only become stairs. You should never see an 'Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order' sign, just 'Escalator Is Temporarily Stairs.'" I think a similar principle applies to you, Sagittarius. If we were to try to evaluate your current situation with conventional wisdom, we might say that part of your usual array of capacities is not functioning at its usual level. But if we adopted a perspective like Hedberg's, we could rightly say that this part of you is simply serving its purpose in a different way.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): I've got a tough assignment for you. It won't be easy, but I think you're ready to do a good job.

Here it is: learn to be totally at home with your body. Figure out what you need to do to feel unconditional love for your physical form. To get started on this noble and sacred task, practice feeling compassion for your so-called imperfections. I also suggest you cast a love spell on yourself every night, using a red candle, a mirror and your favourite creamy beverage. It may also help to go down to the playground and swing on the swings, make loud animal sounds or engage in unusually uninhibited sex. Do you have any other ideas?

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): When Aquarian media mogul Oprah Winfrey was born, "Oprah" was not what she was called. Her birth certificate says she is "Orpah," a name her aunt borrowed from a character who appears in the biblical Book of Ruth. As Oprah grew up, her friends and relatives had trouble pronouncing "Orpah," and often turned it into "Oprah." The distorted form eventually stuck.

But if I were her, I would consider revisiting that old twist sometime soon, maybe even restoring "Orpah." For you Aquarians, it's a favourable time to investigate original intentions or explore primal meanings or play around with the earliest archetypes.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): What I propose is that you scan your memories and identify everyone who has ever tried to limit your options or dampen your enthusiasm or crush your freedom. Take a piece of paper and write down a list of the times someone insinuated that you will forever be stuck in a shrunken possibility, or made a prediction about what you will supposedly never be capable of, or said you had a problem that was permanently beyond your ability to solve.

Once you've compiled all the constricting ideas about yourself that other people have tried to saddle you with, burn that piece of paper and declare yourself exempt from their curses. In the days after you do this ritual, all of life will conspire with you to expand your freedom. V AT THE BACK 27

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My partner is 31 years older than I am. I know the math: he'll be 60 when I'm 29. But that isn't the problem. The issue is he's been a lifelong bachelor and never been monogamous. He's fucked hundreds of women and is close friends with a lot of his former fuck buddies. Because of our four-year friendship before we hooked up, I know a lot about his sex life. The problem isn't jealousy—and it isn't knowing he's fucked every woman he's friends with or that he fucked someone else after declaring his love for me. It's that I know too much. We both feel vulnerable at times—him because I'm still in contact with one ex, and me because I feel like I'm fighting his past preference for no-strings-attached relationships. He tells me this relationship is different and he loves me in a way he hasn't loved anyone before. But I still feel like because of how many people he's been with, and how many of these amazing, beautiful, young fuck buddies are still in his life, I'll never attain any sort of primacy.

Notable Age Gap Gets In Newbie's Grill At some point in the future, your partner is going to be 60 and you're going to be 29, NAGGING, which means you're somewhere in your 20s and he's somewhere in his 50s, right? (Math is hard!) And since you two were friends for four years before he realized you were the only woman he wanted to stick his dick in for the rest of his life—pay no attention to the woman he dicked during the brief interlude between telling you he loved you and the aforementioned realization—that means ... um ...

Math is hard, like Barbie says, especially when you don't have all the relevant data. The same goes for giving advice.

Answering your question without knowing your actual ages is difficult, because it makes a difference whether you're 21 and he's 52 (which means this man befriended you when you were a high-school student) or you're 28 and he's 59 (and you met this man after you got out of college). Likewise, it would help to know how long you two have been together. Three months? Three years?

Essentially, you're asking me to game out the odds for both longterm success and monogamous success (and, yes, those are two different things), and that's hard to do without knowing your ages and how long you've been together. Because I would definitely give your relationship slimmer odds of long-term success if your partner were the kind of middle-aged man who befriends and eventually beds high-school students. Conversely, I would give your relationship fatter odds of long-term

success if you were three years into it and your partner had been successfully monogamous all that time.

That said, NAGGING, cheating and breakups regularly happen in the absence of significant age gaps and friendship networks composed exclusively of ex–fuck buddies. (Since people tend to partner with—and cheat on and be cheated on by— people in their same age demographic, cheating and breakups almost always happen in the absence of significant age gaps. But that is correlation, not causation—and sophistry, too!) There are no guarantees. Your partner may revert to nonmonogamous form at some point and either cheat (boo!) or ask for permission to open up your relationship (yay?).

You could find yourself in a caretaker role in 10-plus years and find yourself asking him for permission to open up your relationship. Or you guys could stay together and stay faithful until death comes for one of you—most likely your partner, leaving you plenty of time to hook up with your ex, if he's still available.

Oh, shit—blah blah blah, I haven't answered your question. You'll ob-

people attracted to senior citizens at .15 percent of the population. That means there are more than 11 million gerontophiles of all ages out there.

We've already established that math is hard, WOW, so I'm not going to try to figure out how many gerontophiles are in their 20s and 30s. But there should be lots. And there are probably a few non-gerontophile guys (and gals) out there who are willing to take a walk on the postmenopausal side. How to make it happen? The same way everyone else does: get online and advertise for what you want (clearly and explicitly), and get out of the house (you never know who you'll meet).

Then seize—safely—the opportunities that come your way.

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My partner and I—both fortysomething males—had a threesome with a very cute twentysomething college student who approached us online.

He considers himself straight and has a girlfriend, but he ''has been wondering'' about his sexuality. The evening went incredibly well, but he had the typical ''curious guy'' freak-out the day after. Texts and emails flooded in—he wanted (more) guarantees about our health status even though we played safe during sex. He said he told his girlfriend (''She was understanding but pissed!''). He also said that we could never get together again. Then he started drunk-texting us at night, offering to send us more sexy photos and talking about how much he wanted to see us again.

Sober texts arrived in the morning apologizing for his drunken behaviour. We've tried to be there, not just for the sex but also his process afterward. Did we do this guy a disservice by engaging with him? (Also, I'm not convinced there really is a girlfriend.)

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Since people tend to partner with people in their same age demographic, cheating and breakups almost always happen in the absence of significant age gaps. But that is correlation, not causation. tain primacy—or realize you've already attained it—after a significant chunk of time has passed. So give it more time. Either it will work out or it won't. But even if this relationship isn't a long-term success, it can still be a short-term success. Good luck.

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I'm 62 and happily married for 20 years to a sweet guy who doesn't seem particularly interested in sex any longer. We are open to allowing each other freedom, with full disclosure, and have occasionally done this. When I watch music videos of John Sebastian in his 20s, I cream my jeans. And I have noticed similar reactions to sweet, intelligent young men in their 20s and 30s. I don't necessarily discriminate on the basis of age—or gender, colour, etc—and if a cute guy or gal in my age group came on to me, I'd consider the offer. But what I'd really like is a young man who finds me attractive and would be interested in seducing, or being seduced by, yours truly, even though I'm old enough to be his grandma.

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It might look like you're not honouring the campsite rule (''Leave 'em in better shape than you found 'em'') because this guy is a mess right now.

But some queers can't seem to accept themselves—or even recognize themselves—until after a clarifying queer sexual encounter or three. In all likelihood, this twentysomething will one day look back at his ''typical 'curious guy' freak-out'' as an important part of his coming-out process as a gay or bi man. So you probably did him a favour. (Although I would describe his freak-out as cliché—and increasingly atypical.) As for the realor-imaginary girlfriend: if she exists, she should dump him. Not because of your actions, COCK, but because of his.

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