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Fighting the terrorists?

Militarized vehicles at Pride raise questions about violence faced at home Queermonton, can we talk about the tanks in the Pride Parade? Before I get into this, I must confess some apprehension in broaching this subject: I lived in Hamilton when someone made a similar complaint about the presence of militarized vehicles in the Pride parade, which led to the Canadian Forces being banned from it in 2008. There was uproar in the media, and the resulting debates tore the local queer community apart. So from the outset, I want to make it clear that I am not suggesting banning service people from the parade. I also want to make it clear that I come from a family with a long line of service in the military: my father and both grandfathers were in the navy, my brother served a tour

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of duty in Afghanistan with the army and my uncle currently serves with the RCMP. The military has put food on my family's table for generations, and to say that I don't "support the troops" (whatever that means) would not be true.

All that said: was anyone else really uncomfortable when those three tanks rolled by? (Sidebar: my brother told me that technically they were Light Armoured Vehicles, or LAVs, but they are all armoured vehicles bristling with weapons, so the difference is rather moot.) I think it's great that service people feel confident and proud to march, and I think that should be celebrated, regardless of how you might feel about Canada's military actions

more broadly. But it's precisely Canada's military actions that make me so uncomfortable with those tanks.

Canada is currently at war. Our government tells us we have to send service people to Iraq in order to stop ISIS and its terrorists. I imagine that some of you reading this might agree with this decision, and I look forward to debating that with you another time. But it's the word "terrorist" I want to spend some time thinking about. Up to 10 years ago, many queer activists would have been branded with that label. Think of Edmonton's first Pride parade, 35 years ago, when the participants wore paper bags on their heads.

Think of AIDS activism. Think of the "fruit machine," that infamous test

developed by the RCMP in the '50s to identify and root out queers in the military and civil service. (The RCMP collected files on more than 9000 people, well into the '70s.

Imagine if Bill C-51 has been around at that time.) Tanks rolling down the street would inspire fear, not clapping.

So yes, the queer community has made strides, and most of us aren't objects of state surveillance anymore. In fact, I would say that tanks rolling down the street are a good indication that parts of the queer community are being welcomed as full members of the state. But this certainly isn't true of all of us—look back only to February of this year

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Waterloo—the fall of a superpower This battle was not the history changer you're bound to hear about today Thursday is the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo, and in the course of the day you are almost bound to hear or read somebody claiming that it "changed history." It was a very big battle, after all, and it would be a century before Europe saw war on that scale again. But did the events of June 18, 1815 "change history"?

Probably not.

The really decisive battle was fought a year and a half before that near Leipzig in Germany: the "Battle of the Nations."

Three times more men were involved in that battle than fought at Waterloo. There were many more battles before the Russian, Austrian and Prussian armies entered Paris and Napoleon finally abdicated as Emperor of the French in the spring of 1814, but he never won another battle.

Napoleon was given a mini-kingdom on the island of Elba, off the Italian coast, to keep himself busy. The victors began to put Europe back together after 20 years of almost unbroken war, around three million combat deaths and a comparable number of civilian casualties. And after only 10 months, Napoleon escaped from Elba and went back to France for another try.

He moved fast, hoping to defeat the British army in what is now Belgium before the other allies arrived to reinforce it, and he almost succeeded. The British commander, the Duke of Wellington, said the battle of Waterloo was "the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life." In the end, late in the afternoon, the Prussian (German) army showed up and turned the tide. But if Napoleon hadn't lost at Waterloo, he would have been defeated a little later.

Britain had already overtaken France as Europe's biggest economy (and in those days, that meant the world's biggest economy). The industrial revolution in Britain was already into its second generation, while France had barely entered the first. Even in sheer numbers of people, a low birth rate meant that France would fall behind Russia, then behind Germany, and eventually even behind Britain in population.

So even if Napoleon could go on winning battles, he couldn't win the war. In the end

is, the more wars it fights and the more people it loses. More power doesn't give you greater security; it just gets you into more trouble.

Secondly, about half the time there is no undisputed top dog. That was the situation for the century 1600 – 1700, when Spain was in visible decline but France was not yet ready to assume the mantle of sole superpower. It was equally true in 1945 – 1990, when nuclear weapons (the great equalizer) meant that the United States and the Soviet Union were co-equal superpowers even though the US economy was far bigger than the Soviet one.

And now, with the American superpower allegedly in decline, there is obsessive speculation about when China will step in and take over the role—or might it turn out to be India instead? As though it were still the early 19th century, when France was going down and Britain was taking over. It isn't.

Military power doesn't deliver the goods anymore. The United States has lost almost every war and mini-war it has fought in the past 50 years (except Grenada and Panama), even though it accounts for around half of the planet's spending on defence. In the present global strategic environment, decisive victories are about as rare as unicorns.

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Waterloo only confirmed what everybody with eyes could see already: France was finished as Europe’s superpower. he couldn't even win the battles. He was running out of soldiers, and his enemies had spent a generation at war learning (very expensively) to fight battles just as well as he did. Waterloo only confirmed what everybody with eyes could see already: France was finished as Europe's superpower.

Then Britain got a century at the top (and after 500 years of Anglo-French wars, it never had to fight France again). The United States is now about 75 years into its term as the reigning superpower—and you are probably assuming that I am now going to speculate who gets the crown next.

Wrong on two counts.

First of all, it's a thorny crown, and nobody in their right mind would want it.

The relevant statistic (which hides in plain sight) is that the more powerful a country

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when Bill C-279 was amended by the Senate to deny trans* people protection in washrooms, change rooms and prisons. Mainstream queers might have moved from "rabble-rousing terrorists" to holding the right and privileges of full citizenship, but we need to make sure we're not leaving behind the rest of our community. More importantly, we need to make sure we're not accepting progress while sacrificing the rest of our community.

When lawmakers deny someone the right to use a washroom without fear, I'd call that a form of state violence. When we clap and cheer for tanks rolling down the street, I want to make sure we're not also cheering for that same violence. V

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The ethics of CBC It's been a tough few years for the CBC. Two stars fired, three more under watch and a wounded public broadcaster heavily scrutinized over the ethics of its top journalists. But as the violations continue to mount, the CBC is showing that it means business, and that it's more important than ever for Canadians to show faith in the national institution.

It started in 2014 with a triple whammy of conflict-of-interest allegations against high-profile hosts Rex Murphy, Amanda Lang and vaunted CBC patriarch Peter Mansbridge, who were all paid top dollar to speak at events for banking corporations and the energy sector. And then, of course, there was Jian Ghomeshi. Some dismiss the CBC for creating a poisonous and egotistical host culture, especially given the company's languid response to these controversies.

But when news broke that Evan Solomon— CBC's rising star and heir apparent to Mansbridge for the mightiest chair in Canadian news—had been moonlighting as an art dealer for the exorbitantly wealthy, it was mere hours before he was terminated. Shady as it is, it's arguably the least egregious ethics violation in the CBC lately, but it appears to have been the last straw with the CBC now hell-bent on proving that its integrity is worth more than its star rating.

Given CBC's precarious financial situation, canning one of its most visible journalistic faces is a bold move. What the company lose in viewership it deserves to gain in trust, not only from Canadians who question its importance in the media landscape, but also from an antagonistic government dedicated to grinding it to a halt.

The CBC still has a ways to go to tighten up its admittedly foggy ethics standards, but its most recent fiasco points to it being back on track, rebuilding its reputation of ethical journalism and aiming for the good graces of the Canadians who fund it. V

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Arguably, Drever is just the fourth woman to sit as an Independent in the history of the Alberta Legislature.

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tarting a new job is a big step for anyone. For Deborah Drever, the newly elected Member of the Legislative Assembly for Calgary Bow, it's been nothing short of an emotional roller coaster.

The 26-year-old, elected as part of the NDP wave that took out the 43-and-a-half-year-old Progressive Conservative dynasty, has enjoyed much of the excitement that all her other brand-new counterparts have experienced since May 5. She's also had to contend with the intense scrutiny that political life entails to the degree that the other 69 newly elected legislators hope only ever to traverse in their nightmares.

Calgary Bow is a seat that was held by the Progressive Conservatives since 1975, 13 years before Drever was born. Asked when she felt there was a real chance that she was going to win and that the NDP would form government, she replies, "That's hard to say. Our message was resonating on the doors, for me, from day one."

Recruited by the party to run about two months before the writ was dropped on April 7, Drever says she couldn't have imagined any of

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what followed, though she begs to differ with those who paint her as a paper candidate, or just a name on the ballot. It was a hard-fought victory; she defeated her PC opponent by just 263 votes.

"My team and I worked very hard during the campaign, knocking on doors every night," she says. "We connected with voters on issues like flooding in their communities, health care and schools."

And she won. But following some well-documented errors in judgment discovered on social media revealed following her election, Drever was first censured and then suspended from the NDP caucus.

As revealed in an interview with the CBC in May, a large part of Drever's childhood was spent in and out of foster care. She talked about how she and her sisters experienced firsthand the effects of domestic violence against women. On why she felt it was important to open up about that, she explains, "I really want to make a difference in this job, and it seems to me that a good place to start is with what I already know."

She's quick to add that she's looking

forward to working on the practical issues facing her constituents and that she wants to be a strong advocate for women's rights and children in care.

"I can relate to a lot of families in Alberta," she says.

This week, Drever found herself sitting as an Independent behind the third party Conservatives with the full realization that she was both watching history unfold and being a part of it. Drever talked with me about what has brought her to this somewhat unexpected juncture and where she hopes her path may take her.

Back in May, at the height of the controversy surrounding Drever, Allison Dube, one of her past professors at Mount Royal University, wrote an empassioned op-ed for the Calgary Herald in which he stated that she possesses a "wonderfully irreverent sense of humour." He also brilliantly pointed out, "Ms Drever is not an old person in disguise." Both of these things shone through over the course of several conversations with the newly elected member.

Despite the hectic pace involved in getting offices in her constituency and at the legislature up and running and learning about the human tragedies that face her constituents every day, Drever's finding balance. She's found a place to live when she's in Edmonton for legislature sessions and snuck a few hours away on Sunday to shop for a few items she'll need during her extended stays in the capital city.

"A lot of people have been incredibly helpful," she says. "I'm listening and I'm learning every day."

While being briefed on files ranging from flood mitigation to the building of schools, Drever was faced with the darker side of the reality of life as an MLA last week when she was asked to speak a few words at the memorial service for Maryam Rashidi at the Bowness Community Association.

Rashidi was killed in a tragic "gas and dash" incident in Drever's riding.

"I have confidence in this government to fully investigate what happened here and put forward measures to ensure that workers are safe at work," she says.

Drever counts among her own role models Niki Ashton, the NDP

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Member of Parliament for Churchill, Manitoba. Drever says she admires Ashton's tenacity and commitment to public service. Drever intends to follow in those sort of foot steps.

Arguably, Drever is just the fourth woman to sit as an Independent in the history of the Alberta Legislature.

On the federal government's Women in Canadian Parliaments website, the first recorded is Louise McKinney, one of the Famous Five. Technically, McKinney didn't run as an Independent.

She ran as an Alberta Non-Partisan League candidate: a party that refused to call itself a party.

Drever didn't run as an Independent either, but she's determined to make a mark.

Asked about circumstances that have put her on a short list with McKinney, Drever doesn't skip a beat and that irreverent humour reveals itself.

"Well, I'll probably never have a park named after myself and I'll never be a racist," she says. "But I do plan to make a difference. So I hope she and I will at least have that much in common."

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Arcadia serves satisfying and well-priced vegan bar fare—without the sanctimony

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rcadia Bar is the kind of place you'd like to see more of in Edmonton, if only to make our town more closely resemble Canada's other big cities in terms of those little hole-in-the-wall gems; those locales that proliferate like dandelions in the nooks and crannies of the urban concrete-scape and express a personal vision of a spot where someone might like to hang out and have a drink.

Arcadia has taken root on 124 Street, just slightly north of the new concentration of stylish eateries and drinkeries that stretch toward Jasper Avenue. Small but spacious, discerning in its booze offerings, idiosyncratically decorated, set to a hip and varied soundtrack: Arcadia checks all the boxes and ups the ante with a menu of completely vegan pub grub, affordably priced ($7 – 12) and tailored to pair well with your favourite adult libation.

The somewhat austere room has bench seating and is adorned with big graffiti murals. The area by the window is set aside for live musicians and DJs, the schedule for whom can be found at on Arcadia's website. There's also a TV above the bar showing sports, if that's a draw for you.

Notwithstanding the "YOUR FOOD SHOULDN'T HAVE A FACE" sticker on the men's room towel dispenser, the vegan menu is a point of pride rather than an occasion for sanctimony at Arcadia. And, as my codiner pointed out, it's nice to go for a drink and have something other than the usual assortment of fried/ cheesed/salted things thrust at you by way of nutriment. Instead, here you're presented with the vegan equivalents of burgers (with bacon!), chicken and waffles, tacos, donairs and even seitan ribs in a

rainbow of flavours. There's also popcorn, served with a Clash reference on the menu.

Our server, who was not vegan, settled things for me by unhesitatingly plugging the chicken and waffles. Co-diner insisted on something spicy and asked for the Cajun burger, though I questioned the wisdom of ordering the burger without bacon on it. Ravenous and craving something to go with the pints of Yellowhead lager that had been set in front of us—for Arcadia's taps are dominated by local craft brews—we also asked for the YEG Unite Cakes (though I believe we actually call them green onion cakes).

Those three cakes were boast-

fully "not fried!" Unfortunately, they were probably the weak link of the meal as they weren't particularly well-imbued with green onion; they'd been nicely crisped on the edges but were otherwise a little doughy in consistency and a touch monotonous, leading one to rely too heavily on the provided sriracha and, subsequently, not be able to taste anything but burning.

Co-diner was quite taken with her Cajun burger, an ample seasoned chickpea patty topped with red pepper strips, corn and spicy salsa.

She would have liked the slaw a tad sweeter, but approved of the shreds of red and green cabbage

and carrots that comprised it. The than the waffles did. waffle component of my entrée was I'm going to guess that Arcadia is surprisingly savoury, flavoured with still a work in progress—in fact, a chalkboard near sundried tomato and basil, and in- Arcadia Bar the bar promises the addition of a vested with crispy 10988 - 124 Street brunch menu in chunks of coco- 780.916.1842 nut bacon made arcadiayeg.com the near future— by the geniuses but I'm optimistic who run the that the friendly Sailin' On food nook will nail truck. On their own terms, the waf- down its strengths forthwith. I was fles were tasty, if a bit spongy. The certainly pleased enough with my steakhouse-fry-sized strips of not- experience, not least because the chicken, baked in spiced breading, tab was under $40 all in, to keep it were a pleasing balance of crunchy on my list of worthy watering holes and supple. They also tasted better along 124th.

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Southern barbecue comes north Porkapalooza kick starts Edmonton's nascent barbecue culture

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or a city with instant local access to some of the world's highestquality meats, Edmonton's sure lacking an established barbecue culture.

That has been changing slowly over the last few years with the arrival of a few true barbecue joints in town.

But Porkapalooza might just be the catalyst for a sea of change in Edmonton's relationship with barbecue: over 25 000 Edmontonians got a taste of true southern-style barbecue at last year's inaugural festival.

"We grill here: we throw a piece of meat on the barbecue for 10 minutes and think that's barbecue," says Karen Gurba, marketing manager of Alberta Pork (the organizing force behind Porkapalooza). "But that's not barbecue, that's grilling. Barbecuing is slow cooking over a low flame."

Porkapalooza is essentially a barbecue competition, officially sanctioned by the Kansas City Barbecue Society (the largest sanctioning barbecue body in the world). Gurba explains that this means the judges have taken a class in the proper judging method.

Contestants are competing in the four main barbecue categories: pork ribs, pork butt, beef brisket and chicken.

A few dozen teams have thrown their hats (or tongs, as it were) into the ring, but Porkapalooza is much more than just the competition: it's a celebration of all things barbecue and all things local. The festival kicks off with a Ribfest on Friday

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night, where you can enjoy local music courtesy of Sam Spades and DJ Thomas Culture while noshing on buck-a-bone ribs served up by a half-dozen of our city's barbecue afficianados: Smokehouse BBQ, Sloppy Hoggs, Meat, Local Omnivore, Fired Up BBQ and Moose on the Run. Food vendors will be serving up barbecued foods the rest of the weekend too, and there will be ample other activities: cooking demonstrations, a marketplace of local artisans, a kids' zone, beer gardens, an entertainment stage and a Father's Day brunch on Sunday catered by the Century Hospitality Group.

Porkapalooza is also hosting the fourth instalment of Edmonton Food Fight on Saturday evening: a barbecue edition featuring Andrew Cowan of Packrat Louie competing against Eric Hanson of Get Cooking.

This is something that Food Fight organizers were hoping to achieve this summer, as the festival's space will allow far more audience members than the Food Fight's regular space at the Get Cooking kitchen.

(And it's free, to boot!)

"I think it's the prehistoric caveman instinct of fire plus meat—there's some sixth sense with humans that they have to be doing this kind of thing," Gurba says. "I think it's in everybody to cook over a flame. Everybody wants to do that."

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ommunications technology, it breaks down the sense of community," says lesbian activist Agathe Gaulin, miming a smartphone in her hands. "People think they're part of a community. [But really] it's a relationship thing. A community is built around the relationships and the people who are there. It takes that face-to-face contact."

Gaulin's interview, along with those of Michael Phair and Darrin Hagen and countless other queer Edmontonians, plays on an iPad hanging on the wall in the AGA's Ledcor Theatre lobby.

For two weeks, this small space will be crammed with artifacts and esoterica that highlight Edmonton's LGBTQ heritage, as part of We Are Here: Edmonton's Queer History Project. It began as a series of interviews; archivists recorded the testimonies of queer community members as oral histories, documenting the living memory of a long-invisible subculture.

"With all the rulings and the laws and the protections that we now have, the rights that we now have, it maybe makes people more individualized," Gaulin continues in her video. "[They] live more their relationship, their little family unit, and don't need community as much. Whereas back then, we needed that community. ...

We'd die in our closets if we would've continued thinking we were the only ones in the world."

Michelle Lavoie, the exhibition curator, describes the queer history display as an intergenerational space, which inspires those face-to-face in-

teractions and instills that feeling of community.

She points beyond the iPads to the huge array of photos, pamphlets, nightclub membership cards, a partially redacted police report and a landmark Supreme Court decision.

"Six weeks ago I had boxes and boxes and boxes," she says. "Thousands of documents, hundreds of items."

Gathering the material was "a really organic process, [with] junk boxes from people's basements and garages," she notes. Once people heard about the project, they were eager to contribute their own memorabilia.

"The hope is that it will grow from here," Lavoie says. She notes that the project is ongoing and will continue to collect material, hoping to expand beyond its current timeline.

"It's like the tip of an iceberg. There's so much in terms of space and time that we couldn't fit in. At the same time, I do think we have a good introduction to that slice of history between 1970 [to] present."

The exhibit includes dozens of stories which have taken on mythological magnitude in the queer community: the Pride parade where marchers wore bags over their heads; the opening of Club 70 shortly after the decriminalization of homosexuality in 1969 (and the decision to round up the name to a less-salacious number); the Pisces Raid, which Lavoie describes as Edmonton's Stonewall.

"It galvanized the community to start being much more overt about

Until Sun, Jun 21 The Edmonton Queer History Project Art Gallery of Alberta (Ledcor Theatre Lobby, lower Level) Gallery walkthrough and reception on Sun, Jun 21 (1 pm)

demanding rights," she says, setting the stage for Delwin Vriend's Supreme Court case in the 1990s, which led to a nationwide ruling on employment discrimination.

While discussing these historical episodes with Lavoie, an older patron approached and shared his own first-hand perspective on many of these events. Though declining to be included in this article, he expressed interest in contributing to the project.

"I think this [exhibit] is so important because of the intergenerational content," Lavoie says, after.

Even without a spontaneous interaction with a wise stranger, the exhibit is a great way for young queer Edmontonians to learn from their elders.

"The world has changed so much," Mickey Wilson, executive director of the Pride Centre, says in another video. "And it's a good thing! But I don't ever want us to forget who we are. Because we're a people—with a decided worldview and a history, a unique history, that makes us who we are."

BRUCE CINNAMON

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PREVUE // IMPROV

Improvisers from around the world, uniting // Andrew Paul

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've been doing improv since high school, but it really wasn't until that festival that I really considered myself an improviser," Fraz Wiest says.

That festival would be Improvaganza, the annual international improv festival hosted by Rapid Fire Theatre, now going into its 15th year. Wiest is one of several dozen performers collecting in Edmonton for 10 days of improv, sketch comedy, stand-up and musical comedy shows, workshops and events.

In addition to Edmonton's homegrown comics in Rapid Fire, many of the performers at Improvaganza hail from farther abroad. Wiest is from Winnipeg, while others are coming from Argentina, Oslo, New York and the UK; he'll be performing with these international guests in the International Ensemble, as he did in his first 'Ganza

a couple of years ago. It's an amazing experience, he says, for both performers and audiences alike, to witness the silliness that comes from introducing performers who would ordinarily never share a stage.

"It was a really kind of profound experience for me, even though I had tons of improv experience," Wiest adds. "Doing that festival and being in that atmosphere and doing all of these shows and meeting all of these people, it gave me a confidence not just as an improviser or a performer, but as a person, that I didn't have before that festival."

Improvaganza features a full roster of shows, and Wiest suggest checking out some of them early in the festival so that you can better inform your decisions for the rest of the events. Though,

he also encourages everyone to simply see as much as they can: Edmonton audiences are well familiar with our longstanding improv artists in Rapid Fire, but this is the chance to see how our local acts compare with what the rest of the world is doing.

"Rapid Fire has something very, very unique, in that not only are they kind of these darlings on the Edmonton theatre scene, but they have created this huge, giant international improv family," Wiest notes. "I couldn't make Until Sat, Jun 27 it last year, but I knew I just had Citadel Theatre to come back. Because not only is Schedule available at it a great festival but it's also the rapidfiretheatre.com biggest party of the year—Rapid Fire really knows how to host and show everybody a good time."

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ARTS PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

The Works Art & Design Festival to any easy encompassing throughline. Even its own: Amber Rooke, the festival's executive artistic director, notes that Making Space, this year's Fri, Jun 19 – Wed, Jul 1 Churchill Square and downtown theme, is as loose a guiding principle Edmonton as ever. theworks.ab.ca "The themes aren't meant to be very solid, especially for arts festivals," she says. "I thought it was a good, flexible theme that could tie together the stories that are being told on the square. So 'making space' means making room, making space for installation work in a physical sense. This applies to a lot of our installations in Churchill Square, as well as making space for representation, and considering the space that we occupy in thoughtful ways, and how that comes through in various art projects."

Which is, effectively, the reputation The Works has built for itself over three decades. Though it certainly makes use of gallery space around the downtown core, anchoring itself in the outdoor square gives its artists—some 500 of them this year, all counted—a beachhead outside the n its 30th year of filling the down- traditional gallery boundaries, opentown core with visual art—most ing up access to those who might prominently by installing it in the not enter any of art's usual haunts of open air of Churchill Square, but also their own accord. The Works also has across venues spread over about a trained art ambassadors in the space, kilometre of downtown Edmonton— able to offer context or insight for The Works Art & Design Festival re- those who want it. mains steadfast in its refusal to bend

See What I Saw, one of many works on display at The Works // Brandon Atkinson, Starving Spirit

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At The Bazaar / Sat, Jun 20 (7 pm) & Sun, Jun 21 (2 pm) The Viter Ukranian Dancers and Folk Choir been dancing and, uh, folking for 20 years now, known for taking its traditional music and dances and blending them with some some modern influence. To celebrate the milestone, its presenting At The Bazaar, a tale of two young lovers trying to reach each other in a busy market square.

If you've ever gotten separated from your friends in the snaking lines of the Strathcona Farmer's Market, you'll know the feeling.

(Arden Theatre, $35) Queers Never Die! / Sun, Jun 21 (10 pm) For one night only, Teen Jesus Barbie and the now-Toronto-based Igby Lizzard are resurrecting the infamous drag revue they used to host in town. Are any drag revues not infamous? (Evolution Wonderlounge, $5) Guys and Dolls / Until Sat, Jun 27 (7:30 pm) ELOPE theatre, an enduring educational institution in Edmonton's musical-theatre scene, is presenting its season-end performance of the classic 1950s Broadway smash. An oddball romance between a noncommittal gambler and his longsuffering performer fiancée as the former tries to set up the biggest craps game in town while the cops are in hot pursuit. (Timms Centre for the Arts, $22.50 – $27.50)

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That openness has given the festival both root and reputation here: Rooke points to one the work of Françoise Thibault, one of the Festival's gateway artists this year—designing one of two big festival entrances to the Churchill Square. Thibault's work is a tracing, then painting, of how the festival appears within the square.

"Her notion is The Works festival itself is a special place," Rooke says.

"It's a place where, when you enter— presumably through the gate—your senses are heightened: you're more open to understanding, or considering, art and design. And so to try to mark how your perception of a space changes if you're open to having your perception changed."

And as for what happens to the discussion around art when it's taken out of its usual home and audience, Rooke notes she hears discussions just as effective as anywhere else.

"People who you wouldn't imagine entering an art gallery, or entering into an art dialogue, have engaged in conversation just as complex [as any others], as far as understanding what a rather esoteric piece is about," she says. "It might start with a comment like, 'Whoa, what is this guy doing?' but then, with a little bit of information, it develops into a conversation where that person is, in many ways, repeating the artist statement without ever having been given it."

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PREVUE // CIRCUS ARTS

Varekai F

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Just for Cats Film Festival / Fri, Jun 19 – Mon, Jun 22 You watch cat videos. And now you can do that on glorious big-screen size you've always dreamed of seeing said videos on. Collecting the year's best in felines on film, the festival also benefits Canadian Federation of Humane Societies. Unless, of course, I've misunderstood the title and the festival is, in fact, just for cats, meaning you'll need to drop your favourite feline off, and pick it up a couple hours later.

Either or. (Metro Cinema)

rom a teenage boy dancing hip hop in the streets of smalltown Puerto Rico to the lead role in one of Cirque du Soleil's longestrunning shows, Fernando Miro's backstory reads like a perfect Hollywood rags to riches tale.

"I got discovered in the streets in Puerto Rico, dancing hip hop, and I got a full scholarship to the dance school—which turned out to be one of the biggest schools of art in Puerto Rico," he says over the phone from Victoria, BC. "I had the whole shebang training of contemporary and ballet and all this stuff."

All of that led him to his current lead role in Varekai, which just concluded a European tour and has returned to tour North America. With more than 4000 performances to date, Varekai is one of Cirque du Soleil's signature shows: it opened in Montréal in 2002 and never closed, though it did transform from a bigtop show—Edmonton audiences will remember the blue-and-yellow tent that held Amaluna a couple of years ago—to an arena show.

While not as intimate an environment, arena shows allow for a bigger audience and cheaper tickets, plus acts on a grander scale than in the big top.

"When I was very young I used to see it on TV, the Cirque du Soleil shows, and actually Varekai was the first show I saw," Miro notes.

After finishing school in Puerto Rico, Miro moved to Las Vegas and performed in two Cirque du Soleil shows, Believe and My Immortal, with a two-year hiatus in between to perform with Taylor Swift on her Speak Now world tour. His true goal, however, was always to be part of a full circus show like Varekai.

A loose interpretation of the Greek myth of Icarus, Varekai features synchronized tumbling, single-point trapeze, hand balancing on canes and Russian swings,

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Until Sun, Jun 21 (various times) Rexall Place, $40 – $105 the latter of which Miro identifies as the most daring act of the show.

Miro's own act is an aerial contortion number performed in a net.

"You get to hit so many different age ranges: you get to impress little kids that have never seen a show before, and you get the adults that just want to go for fun and they're gasping like little kids," he says. "Every day is very rewarding; you go home and you're like, 'Wow, I probably changed a few people's lives.'"

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PREVUE // THEATRE

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f all the places to set a play, St Albert sure doesn't seem the most likely. But who wants another show set in New York? Certainly not Stewart Lemoine, who's made a point of setting many of his scripts within local confines. Saint Albert is his newest, the second show in Teatro la Quindicina's season, set in that eponymous municipality tucked onto the northwest edge of Edmonton.

"I think anyone who comes to see the show from St Albert will be very happy to hear all the wonderful landmarks of home," says Rachel Bowron, who plays one of the show's three characters. She's not from St Albert herself, but she's got connections—as do many of our local theatre artists— through her work with the St Albert Children's Theatre.

Saint Albert tells the story of a real estate agent who's showing a "vast and unsellable" house, which has been listed for 10 years, to two unlikely buyers.

Bowron plays one of those buyers, a Euro-pop sensation seeking anonymity and escape within the confines of this immense manor. That's about it for the story's details, though: throughout our conversation, Bowron hedges her comments with a laugh, dropping a lot of "maybes" and generally avoiding

Until Sat, Jul 4 (7:30 pm) Directed by Stewart Lemoine Backstage Theatre at the Arts Barns, $16 – $30

any plot details, even those that seem relatively minor.

"Things happen for a reason, which we don't understand until the end of the show," she says. "Once you learn why everyone in the show has come together and they're together in this house, that's what's so—I don't want to say magical, because it's more mystical than magical, but that's kind of where that spark happens. It's not just an easy answer as to why they're all together; there's something else behind it all."

History buffs will enjoy the show for its foray into a lesser-known side of local history: Lemoine discovered some surprising deviations from the city's commonly accepted timeline.

"The history isn't as cut and dry," Bowron begins, then stops mid-sentence. "It's so hard to talk about! What we learn is a big surprise in the show.

It's something that [Lemoine] learned when he was doing research for the show, and that's kind of what spurred the show in his mind. It's the history that I found the most fascinating: you think one thing but the actual facts are different."

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FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Howl (Jun 19), The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Jun 26) JUST FOR CATS FILM FESTIVAL 2015 •

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ART IN THE PARK (ALLEN) • 65 Ave to 68 Ave on 111 St • artgalleryfor.us • Artists will display their art on the streets of Park Allen, transforming 111 St into an outdoor gallery and market place, from 65 Ave to 68 Ave. Browse an exciting catalogue of original artwork, all for sale and meet other like-minded individuals, friends and neighbours. Enjoy music, foods, artwork and so much more • Jun 20,12-6pm • Free (register

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BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Large Places and Lofty Spaces: large scale works by gallery artists; Jun 12-Jul 12

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Artwork by Patricia Trudeau, Zoong Nguyen, Marie Manon Corbeil and Monique Béland; Jun 26-Jul 7

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute. com • 1st Birthday: Featuring music by Max Urlich, Meat Force, Old Towns Band, an art market, gallery, beer gardens and so much more; Jun 27, 7-11pm

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Sacred Space: artwork by Veronica Funk; Jun 10-Jul 4 • Art in Bloom; Jul 9-12

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DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Robert Lemay: 30th Anniversary Exhibition; Jun 6-Jun 20

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-

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ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Language Of Craft; Apr 4-Jul 4 • Small Joys: Jogakbo inspired small needlework by Calgary fibre artist Diana Un-Jin Cho; May 30-Jul 11 • Thinking in Threes: Explore ten themes in groups of threes; May 30-Jul 11 • Feature Gallery: Here and There; Jul 11-Oct 3; Opening reception: Jul 18, 2-4pm

ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/ child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Tyler Los-Jones: A Panorama Protects its View: Jan 23-Jan 31, 2016 • The Double Bind: Conversations Between Modernism and Postmodernism; May 2-Sep 13 • Charrette Roulette: May 19-Jul 12 • Jack Bush: May 30-Aug 23 • Illuminations: Italian Baroque Masterworks in Canadian Collections; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Wil Murray: On Invasive Species and Infidelity; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Open Studio adult Drop-In: Small Figures (Jun 24); Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • Art For Lunch: Jack Bush with Adam Whitford (Jun 18) • Conversation with the artist: Wil Murray (Jun 26) • all Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

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GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Mireille Rochon, Mireille Péloquin, Mireille Cloutier and Maria Sieben; Jun 12-24 St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Jun 2-29 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Jun 30-Jul 27; Opening reception: Jul 2

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Strathcona Salon Series Acquisitions and Loans; May 15-Jun 28 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • The Works Art & Design Festival presents: For the Love of Design; Jun 16-Jul 3 HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: Muted Forces: Nika Blasser; Jun 18-Jul 9 • New Territories/Exposed Double Opening BBQ; Jun 18, 6-10pm HAPPY HARBOR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • Open Door: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre. org • Artists Edmonton Needlecraft Society; May 28-Jul 14

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • It's Summer: A selling exhibition of works by gallery artists and works on consignment; until Jul 6 • Art in Bloom Edmonton; Jul 9-17

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MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Artwork by Igor Woroniuk; Jun 13-Jul 10; Opening reception: Jun 14, 1-3:30pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Francophones In Alberta; Apr 21-Jun 22 • In the Money: A Bilingual Exhibition from The Currency Museum; Jun 30-Aug 30

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • The Structure of Sky: dramatically textured acrylic paintings by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky • Artisan Nook: Morning Flight: small, poetic paintings by Linda Corbitt • May 22-Jul 2

PARADE GALLERY • Window Display Box 101 St, north of 102 Ave, Edmonton City Centre Mall • paradegallery.ca • After Hours: art by Brandon A. Dalmer; Jun 8-Jul 12

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • Spooky Action Up Close: artwork by Andrew Rucklidge; Jun 5-24 • Summer Heat Group Show: by gallery artists; Jun 27-Jul 18

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Natural Hi-Stories: Showing plants in their native habitats in a given location; Mar 28-Jun 21 • Glimpses Of The Grasslands: The Artistic Vision of Colin Starkevich; May 16-Aug 23 • The Grand Tour; Jun 28-Aug 27

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Metro Cinema, 8712-109 St, Garneau Theatre • metrocinema.org • 780.425.9212 • For the catlovers. The 2015 edition features an exclusive reel of the best cat videos on the Internet programmed

by Will Braden ("Henri, le Chat noir") • Jun 19-22 • $6 (kids 12 and under), $6/$9 (seniors/students with ID), $10/$12 (adult) 109 St • 780.425.9212 • Pride Film Fest; Jun 5-25 • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Hook (Jun 20), E.T. (Jun 28) • CULT CINEMA: Cool Hand Luke (Jun 23)

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Fri-Sun 10-6pm • Artwork with Dianna Sapara; May 2-Jun 26

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Present Density: artwork by Gabriela Jolowicz; Jun 4-Jul 18 • Atavistic: artwork

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SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • MAIN GALLERY: Open Seniors Show; Through Jun • FIREPLACE ROOM: Lorna Kemp; through Jun

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • Daring Dames: Experience The Lives Of Pioneer Women; until Jun 30

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Dinosaurs Unearthed: until Oct 11; $26.50 (adult), $19.50 (child), $23.50 (youth/student/senior) • Dark Matters: With a theme of "sex", this event includes, music, bar & special cafe menu, exclusive access to galleries, and grown-up science experiments; Jun 18, 7-10pm

U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • museums@ ualberta.ca • museums.ualberta.ca • Thu-Fri: 12-6pm; Sat: 12-4pm • Le corps en question(s) 2/ The Body in Question(s) 2: A cross between visual art, spatial and acoustic architecture, choreography and interactive digital technology; Jun 18-Aug 22 • Found Flock: a whimsical and playful, yet powerfully representative of Edmonton's bird species; Jun 11-Aug 1 VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Gallery A: Salva Corpus Amanti: artwork by David J. Kleinsasser; Gallery B: Familiars, Out-of-Towners, As Well As All the Others: Erika Andriashek; Jun 4-Jul 25; Opening reception: Jun 18, 7-9:30pm

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Women Portraying Women: featuring art by Glenys Switzer, Bettina Matzkuhn, Brandi Hofer, Karen Bishop and many more; Jun 2-Jun 27

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presents: Ella Coyes, Alberta (singer/songwriter), Dymphny Dronyk (Calgary editor/poet), Michael Hingston (Edmonton journalist/novelist), Inge Trueman (Calgary author). Also will include a display of Mill Woods Pop-Up Museum. Books and CDs for sale • Jun 25, 7-9pm • Donations accepted

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 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 STORIES FROM THE TRAIL • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Storytellers from the Strathcona County Museum and Strathcona County Library will capture your imagination with accounts of some of the County's not-so ordinary residents, whose legacies are still a part of our modern lives • Jul 11, 7-9pm • Free

TED BISHOP AND THE SOCIAL LIFE OF INK • Provincial Archives of Alberta, 8555 Roper Road • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits • Tales of his adventures exploring the history of ink • Jun 24, 7-9pm • Free (Please RSVP at paaevents@gov. ab.ca or 780.427.1750)

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

CALVIN BERGER • ATB Financial Arts Barns - PCL Studio, 10330-84 Ave • threeformtheatre. com • All about awkward. Boy meets girl, boy feels awkward about size of nose, boy gets other boy with reasonable sized nose to woo girl using awkward boy’s words…Remember that one? • Jun 24-Jun 27

CIRQUE DU SOLEIL PRESENTS VAREKAI • Rexall Place, 7424-118 Ave • cirquedusoleil. com • From the sky falls a solitary young man, and the story of Varekai begins. Parachuted into the shadows of a magical forest, a kaleidoscopic world populated by fantastical creatures, this young man sets off on an adventure both absurd and extraordinary. On this day at the edge of time, in this place of all possibilities, begins an inspired incantation to life rediscovered • Jun 18-21

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

THE COMIC STRIPPERS: A MALE STRIPPER PARODY & IMPROV COMEDY SHOW • Myer Horowitz Theatre-U of A, 8900-114 St • These guys try to be sexy and it just comes out funny. No extreme nudity (just semi-undressed) but constantly grooving and gyrat-ing in between scenes they banter with the crowd and perform their hilarious twist on improv sketches. 18+ only • Jun 19, 8-10pm • $35

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MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door) MISS SAIGON • La Cite Theatre, 8627-91 St • twoonewaytickets.com • 780.242.2824 • Based on the book by Claude-Michel Schonberg and Alain Boubil. A musical adaptation of Puccini's 1904 opera Madame Butterfly that explores love and loss during the Vietnam War. Chris, an American soldier, and Kim, a Vietnamese girl, fall in love and marry but are separated when Saigon falls. Due to years apart, Chris, unable to contact Kim, remarries but Kim, with Chris' son, waits for his return• Jun 12-28 • $28 (adult), $21.75 (student)

ONCE UPON A TIME IN GRACELAND • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690, 8882-170 St • jubilations.ca • The evil Queen has placed a strange curse upon many of our most loved fairy tale characters. They do not remember how their classic stories unfold and now these tales are in jeopardy of being retold. There is one King who can fight the evil Queen, a man who rose from being an incredible performer to becoming a legend himself, a legend that became the King, the King known as… Elvis • Jun 19-Aug 23

OUR TOWN • Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • devonian.ualberta.ca • 780.429.1000 • Based on Thornton Wilder's Pulitzer Prize play. An outdoor operatic performance following the lives of two families living in Grover's Corner, New Hampshire • Jun 19-Jun 21 • $18 (adv, student), $26 (adv, adult) SAINT ALBERT • ATB Financial Arts Barns Varscona Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • teatroq.com • A vivacious and enterprising realtor is faced with an unsellable house and a potential buyer who is a village of contradictions unto himself • Jun 18-Jul 4; No shows Jun 20, Jun 28, Jul 5 THAT'S TERRIFIC • Varscona Theatre • last Sat ea month • An enthusiastic celebration of all things notable, important, encouraging, and superior • Nov 29-Jul 25

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ubris has always been the key sequence in Jurassic Park's DNA. From Michael Crichton's 1990 novel onwards, the series' most persistent axiom has been about the perils of humankind using science to play God, only to find its prehistoric (re) creations unwilling to bow down to anything other than their own violent nature. Which most assuredly finds a way, every time, to cause some carnage, eat some folks and generally remind us why dinosaur means "terrible lizard."

That emphasis on human progress overstepping the proper controls doesn't change in Jurassic World, the fourth entry in the series, taking place a few decades after the first films: the Isla Nublar Park is now comfortably open, seeing thousands and thousands of visitors every year, its owners more concerned with finding new attractions than ethical quandaries:

"Dinosaurs aren't enough anymore," a bunch of potential investors are told early on.

The park is set to debut its first true creation: Indominus Rex, a dinosaur gene-spliced together out of other dinosaurs to be bigger, badder, chompier, etc, and of course, we know how this goes. But World's scenario— based on a Spielberg idea, fleshed out by a handful of writers after years spent in development hell—plays out as an overstuffed, underthought monster movie, one that fails to offer the same cup-shaking thuds and thrills of the franchise's first two instalments.

It isn't for a lack of action, though: things go wrong pretty early into World's two-hour runtime, meaning the film blows through a blur of introductions off the top: Zach and Gray Mitchell (Nick Robinson and Ty Simpkins, respectively), whose par-

ents are sending them on vacation while beginning divorce proceedings; Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard), the high-strung park exec who's also their aunt; ex-navy guy turned raptortrainer Owen Grady (Chris Pratt); an eccentric new billionaire park owner; Dr Henry Wu (B D Wong) the park's chief geneticist and only actor to return from a previous film; a Guy Fiery-looking military guy, and a couple others to boot.

But they're almost all charmless, flat and rushed introductions, offering little beyond surface-level sentiment or motivations. Juggling that ensemble of characters proves burdensome for the script and director Colin Trevorrow as World splinters into a twopronged situation: trying to rescue the kids trapped in the park (sound familiar?), while tracking down Indominus, which is out on the loose and

tearing through everything it encounters. But if we don't care about the people in peril of being squashed and chomped, then when it comes time to be in dire threat of being squashed or chomped, there's little thrill to the squashing and the chomping. There's a kids-trapped-in-a-vehicle scene here like the original Park film, and while it's intended as a nod to the series, it only makes World's lifelessness more apparent.

Fitfully, the film finds moments, more often in its small allotments of comedy: Pratt's more comic lines read, even if he's kinda stiff in bad-ass mode. There's also a really endearingly fun guy (Jake Johnson) working in the park's control room who offers a needed sense of personality. The initial panic and attempt to control a dino escape has some genuine thrust to it. But it proves unsustainable, as more and more angles get piled on:

there's also a could-dinosaurs-beused-as-military weapons angle that feels like one plotline too many while others—Wu as arrogant, unlearning geneticist—get underplayed.

There's an irony to a big-budget blockbuster that comments on hunger for profit overtaking more practical, human concerns while basically succumbing to the very same problem. Of course, Jurassic World has already grossed $500 million, and done so with a lacklustre entry to its franchise. Dinosaurs are enough, at least in terms of getting audiences into a theatre, but the film is right on its stated other point: dinosaurs aren't enough for a lively attraction. It's the human element, the sense of wonder, that gives us our in to that, an idea that handily gets ignored here. But I guess that's hubris for you.

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Seymour: An Introduction T

he name of Ethan Hawke's new film is borrowed from a J D Salinger story, but the greater significance of Seymour: An Introduction is, it seems to me, tripartite. 1) Hawke's documentary portrait of Seymour Bernstein serves as an engaging and affectionate introduction to the 87-year-old New York piano teacher and former concert pianist. 2) The film was prompted by a fateful dinner where Hawke was introduced to Bernstein; they were seated beside each other, and over the course of their inaugural conversation Bernstein helped Hawke with an existential-vocational crisis that no one in Hawke's own profession—he is, you may recall, a famous actor—had been able to help him with. 3) Hawke's directed

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What's the opposite of serendipity?

For corruption-crisis-mired FIFA, it's blatterseppity, timing so bad that the gods seem to be conspiring to drop you and all your dirty laundry into shit creek without a plungerpaddle. The notoriously bankrupt (morally; this not-for-profit's got a billion-dollar reserve fund) international soccer organization saw the release of its vanity project, United Passions, stateside (and on VOD) the same week that the US Department of Justice brought indictments against nine FIFA officials. President Sepp Blatter announced he'll resign a few days after trying to brazen out the crisis and getting re-elected for a fifth straight term. There are allegations of €5 million in hush money to Ireland's Football Association and World Cups awarded thanks to bribes (including arms shipments).

So, how bad is FIFA's corporate history/hagiography United Passions, the title of which sounds like a Benetton-sponsored romance novel?

Here's the report on this boardroom drama (red card for contradiction).

Starting lineup: Tim "Mr Orange" Roth, Sam "The Piano man" Neill, and Gérard "French taxes are merde" Depardieu are the three star offenders.

Kick-off: Kids of all races play in a derelict stadium. I suspect (just guessing here) they're united in their passion. Spiffy clothes, considering their town seems bombed-out and struggling to be a metaphor in a FIFA promo-movie.

Fifth minute: It's 1904 and snotty

Brits have no time for these Continental upstarts and "blasted frogs" with their talk of "organization" and a "federation." Their football association has already ruled the pitches triumphant for 40 years, don't you know?

Seventh: It's as if all the most boring Heritage Moments were spliced together into a Möbius strip of celluloid.

Ninth: Dramatic close-ups as the acronym FIFA is decided on and defined for us. And then: "Being FIFA's president means nothing. Nothing good will come—no glory and no money."

20': "Negroes playing football?

Why not women while we're at it, heh? Ha!" Ah, those silly early-1900s white people, with their racism and sexism—at least the he-knows-better FIFA President Jules Rimet (Depardieu) and daughter Annette (token angelic woman who brings men to their senses) can help us scoff and smirk at them!

25': It's 1930—Rimet and company are off to the first WC in Uruguay!

But wait—WILL THE STADIUM BE READY IN TIME??? (It will.)

30': The Depression; Rimet talks of Jews and gypsies being scapegoated—he's basically predicted the Holocaust. An ahead-of-his-time "visionary," indeed!

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Bernstein tell his story on his own terms. Bernstein gave up performing at age 50. He never stopped feeling unbearable nerves before a show—something Hawke claims he was beginning to suffer from in his stage work. But Bernstein's passion for music is inspiring and infectious.

We see him teaching in his home and offering a master-class in a theatre, at once gentle and stern with his students, encouraging and exacting. We hear of his discoveries as a young man growing up in a house without music. We hear his thoughts on the troubled neurotic genius of Glenn Gould. We learn—and this is especially fascinating—of the tour he did of the frontlines in Korea during the

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a sly bit of humble-bragging. We could also just call it context. The result, interestingly enough, is by far the best and most successful thing Hawke has directed.

It's also extremely pedestrian in its approach and, in certain respects, a little stiff. There are some needless cutaways, some corny drifting newspaper headlines, and at times conversations between Bernstein and, say, New York Times critic Michael Kimmelman, feel a bit too stagey.

But Hawke has strong instincts about what really matters, which in this case has to do with how to let

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with Monty Python's (intentionally) hilarious "Philosophers' Football Match." OK, now back to this bloated historical diorama of FIFA office-life highlights.

59': Bit-of-a-jerk president João Havelange (Neill): "Where are you, Blatter? ... There is Blatter. ... He is apparently good at finding money."

61': Blatter (Roth) nabs Coke as a sponsor!

63': Now Adidas!

65': I consider melon-balling my eyes out.

77': Poor FIFA's unloved by the media and in financial trouble—WILL THEY EVER MAKE MONEY? (Spoiler: they will. And spend $27 million of it on this tripe.)

82': It's like watching blank celluloid and hoping a movie will magically appear.

86': Blatter: "This sport is spotless ... conduct yourself as an honest gentleman."

100': Allegations (unspecified!) against Blatter; Blatter walking in slo-mo before sitting down at the 2002 Congress to discover his fate!

Match statistics: five smarmy Brits; seven scenes of FIFA presidents orating; four meetings of white men blathering; 70-percent exposition, 25-percent factoids, five-percent soccer-playing, zero-percent drama.

Final analysis: Watching this company ego-trip is like being forced to watch a corporate-training video of executives circle-jerk for 103 minutes—it's a ghastly, stiff orgy of self-love. V

war. We are introduced to myriad aspects of Bernstein's life in and love of music, and we hear him speak articulately about his sense that life and art must be integrated.

About Bernstein's actual personal life as it pertains to anything other than music, we don't learn so much.

Which, if you ask me, is just fine.

Many documentary portraits, as with most biopics, strain to cover more biographical ground than any one film can effectively contain. Seymour focuses on what this charismatic and brilliant man lived and continues to live for, and that's more than enough.

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COVER // NOISE

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as any band kept itself as willfully oblique as Deerhoof? Punk in spirit and restless in approach, the band's been churning out unpredictable albums since 1994, when it was a San Francisco-based improvisational bass and drum duo of Rob Fisk and Greg Saunier. Since then, it's added members and scripted its songs but retained the bombastic spirit of spontaneity, working through spiralling lo-fi (The Man, The King, The Girl), dabbled in electronics (Reveille), and generally offered up a consistently unpredictable mix of sonic permutations. As a band, Deerhoof is a rolling stone that gathers all of the moss, and goes on to form its own shifting ecosystem of sounds as it clips along.

Deerhoof entered its third decade of being a band last year, though the lineup's shifted around considerably over the course of that span. Gutiarist John Dieterich joined the band back in 1999, when it was already two albums in, after meeting Saunier at a Californian music school.

"A few of us would get together after class just to play each other what we're working on, or things we've worked on recently; just talk about them, get feedback and stuff," he recalls, over the

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phone from his Albuquerque home.

When Saunier played a Deerhoof track, something clicked for Dieterich: there was an elasticity to its rhythm that piqued his interests. So when part of Deerhoof's then-lineup moved up to Alaska, he stepped into its ranks.

"That was my first year of school and I never finished," he laughs. "We just started touring."

Now Dieterich, alongside Saunier, vocalist Satomi Matsuzaki and guitarist Ed Rodriguez continue along unabated.

2014's La Isla Bonita marks out the band's 12th album, a pop-tinged permutation that—big surprise—is difficult to pin down with any sort of unifying description. It goes from lush, streamlined pop to rawkus guitar punk to kaleidoscopic, exploratory compositions.

If there's a throughline, it's in the general esthetic, but even there seems to lie exceptions to any perceptible limits you could define.

Bonita was recorded in Rodriguez's basement in Portland, where everyone else assembled from across the country. Deerhoof's members live in different cities these days: Rodriguez is in Oregon and Dieterich in New Mexico, while Matsuzaki and Saunier call New York home.

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The distance isn't unconquerable— "We're about to have a Skype meeting right after I get off the phone with you," Dieterich says—but it does mean its membership tends to be in varying headspaces at the onset of an album.

"We're starting a new record right now, and everybody is coming at it from very, very different directions, Dieterich notes. "I guess the trick is to figure out how to get on the same page."

But as for how Deerhoof actually goes about doing that? Dieterich can't point to any firm rules that ground the band's creative process on an album, aside from eventually reaching a collective sense of agreement. Even the starting point varies from session to session.

"There are times where we'll come in where we've demoed everything out, so it's quite specific: this is the guitar part throughout the whole song, this is the drum part, this is the bass part," he says. "And there's times where—and even in that case—everything's up for grabs. Once we get together, everything can change."

So when unpredictability is your stock in trade—especially live, where the band's known for taking wide liberties with what's been recorded—how do

you settle on an album take: the ver- ally, the last two albums—[is that] sion of songs that most people will Satomi would bring in something she'd composed on her iPhone on come to know them as? some electronic mu"Right, the 'deFri, Jun 19 (8 pm) sic app," he says. "And finitive' version,'" he Deerhoof chuckles. "Definitive it's this really insane, With Gary Debussy, fast dance music, or in a sense that it's a Faith Healer, Service:Fair something, and [she] version that, we got Starlite Room, $20 brings it to the band, to a point where all and it's like, OK, here four of us in the band agreed that it was we are with guitars, good. And so you could say that's drums, a bass: what do we do with definitive, but ultimately, all that is this? Are we going to make a recordjust one of a million possible 'goods.' ing from this, or are we going to try That was just the one we happened to play it?

"To me, a lot of times, what's most upon when making the record. It really evolves when we play music live. interesting is that translation," he Sometimes the quote-unquote defini- continues. "Taking something from tive version doesn't work live. All of a one language, and applying it to ansudden it loses its pizzazz, or our abil- other. And I would say it's one of the ity to play it well, or maybe our inter- things I'm most interested in music: est in it. We have to find something to what's retained when you have these translations? What's retained and pique our interest."

Remaining open for interpretation, what's lost? I find that to be the most then, seems just as important as what- fun thing, in a way, in music. And it's ever touchstones for a song the band the most tricky, in terms of being able sets to tape. Maintaining that elastic- to predict. It's not as cut-and-dry as ity in approaching its own material still you might think. What makes someseems to be what fascinates Dieterich thing have a certain mood might not always be so obvious." about his band.

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ook the Sweets up online and you'll be met with a description that appears to be a sharp contrast to its saccharine moniker. The Calgary-based band's bio states that it comes "at you like a hungry wolverine high on speed," and that the fourpiece's music is "high-energy blues rock for the animals in the forest."

But it's a descriptor that ties into the Sweets' new EP, Wild, named for the fivesong disc's title track about a man trying to make it in the wilderness before realizing nature is the stronger force.

"I have a lot of nature influences in my songs," vocalist Claudia Maria explains. "It's just that kind of need to, or want to, escape into nature and get lost in nature."

The nature theme permeates the other tracks on the album, even if it's in more subtle ways. Maria says the songs range from an Ala-

bama Shakes-inspired pop tune to ones that are heavier and grittier. Maria has a proclivity for storytelling within her lyrics, whether they're about her, people she knows or made up entirely—and telling those stories in ways that may be unexpected.

"Like 'Prairie Blues,' for example—one of the songs that'll be on the EP—it's about a husband and wife fighting," she says. "There's lots of blues tunes where the guy talks about killing his wife. I'm not really sure why, but there's a lot of them, so in this tune he kills his wife. But he regrets it hugely and it ends up killing him. It makes me think of the prairies a little bit— vast open space and being isolated."

Wild was supposed to be released at the Sweets upcoming Edmonton show, but Maria says she's unsure if the disc will be ready in

time—such is life in the indie music industry. However, the band will be playing the songs from the EP, so it'll be a preview of what's to come. It's also a hometown show for Maria, who moved to Calgary about five years ago and started pursuing music more seriously. It was there that she met guitarist Mitch Wolfe, who she says has a more blues-based, Jimi Hendrix approach to guitar while she came from a Cat Power-like singer-songwriter background. The pair melded the styles together and played around town as a duo for a while before adding "fuzz-driven" bassist Kevin Sullivan to the lineup.

The Sweets are in between drummers at the moment.

"We're calling it fuse blues," she says. "Because we're using kind of like old blues sounds and then mixing them with new sounds, like fuzzy bass riffs."

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or Ross Burns, one of the members of Halifax jazz band Gypsophilia, recording the band's latest studio album Night Crossing was a purposefully different experience.

Previously, the group recorded its eclectic take on Django Reinhardtinspired hot jazz live in studio, but it went through the traditional process at Joel Plaskett's Halifax New Scotland Yard studio in Nova Scotia with producer Jason Von Tassel.

"When we're recording live, there's a certain pressure on the perfor-

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mance," Burns says. "But we were glad to be able do that this time because we've made those live records—we just didn't want to be doing the same thing we've already done a few times.

"It felt really easy to be creative, to try some different stuff and to not be too precious about everything we were recording."

The Halifax septet has played together for eight years, with only one member changing in that whole time—and that was back in 2008.

"Often when we're travelling around, people—especially people who are into the music scene— they're like, 'Yeah, good music, congratulations on that, but really, congratulations on not breaking up in the last decade,'" Burns says with a bit of a laugh.

This familiarity means the band members equally contribute something different to the group, a "unique thing" in instrumental bands, Burns says—five members

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of the band contributed compositions to Night Crossing.

"The sound of the band is the mixture of those, y'know, seven voices," Burns explains. "It's a neat kind of process the way that the band works."

The group, whose slinky, cinematic jazz is composed by those voices, is coming to Edmonton to play two shows during the Edmonton International Jazz Festival—which will mark Gypsophilia's third appearance at the festival since its debut at it in

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2011.

"We've played a number of times in Edmonton and each time it's because the jazz festival has been supportive of us and the records that we're putting out. So, it's cool to have a relationship with a city so far away. We've been a number of times and it's always been a really beautiful experience."

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or psychedelic-pop group Grounders, finding an album name—let alone agreeing on one—is just as challenging as the recording that goes into it.

"We couldn't agree on anything else," keyboardists Daniel Busheikin says of the band's self-titled album. "We had some other ideas that we would either disagree [on] among ourselves or someone would tell us it was a stupid idea. For a while, [the album] was going be called Breezy Nugs, because we thought it was really funny, or something. We just really liked that [name], and then everyone we told it to was like, 'That's a really bad idea.'

OK, so self-titled [album] then? We're really happy with the decision in the end. It felt right."

For Grounders' eponymous debut album, the Toronto four-piece— Andrew Davis (vocals and guitar), Busheikin (keyboards), Mike Searle

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(bass) and Evan Lewis (guitar)—collaborated with DIANA's Kieran Adams, who contributed his drumming, sound engineer Marcel Ramagnano (Born Ruffians, Absolutely Free) and producer David Newfeld (Broken Social Scene) to create a sound that Busheikin describes as a "statement of who [they] are" musically. "[The album] took a long time. It took us about a year, which in the grand scheme of things isn't that long for an album," he notes. "It was hard for us to understand our own identity and our own music without really having a recorded document of it. It's a lot more fun [than EP Wreck of a Smile]. The songs feel more special to us and it embodies our voice a bit more."

That fun sound was achieved through Newfeld's "interesting sonic palette" and the use of ana-

log mixing, which, according to Busheikin, has become increasingly rare, as more artists are using digital recording methods.

Grounders is a nine-track compilation that personifies summer through its pillowy synths and soft vocals, with each song blending seamlessly into the next. The first track "Secret Friend" is a psychedelic trip; "Bloor Street and Pressure" is a beachy hit and "Pull It Over Me" is reminiscent of lazy summer days laying on the grass with your SO, or for you Mac DeMarco fans, it might remind you of the tracks on Salad Days.

"We've been really looking forward to the moment where we can finally hold the record in our hands," Busheikin says. "We can feel a little like we have arrived."

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GEAR GUIDE // MUSIC STORES

Stang Guitars // Meaghan Baxter

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e're not quite as addictive as Starbucks, but close," says Rory Brown, store manager at Stang Guitars, located just off 99 Street on 76 Avenue.

The shop—owned by Tyler Stang, who's been in the business for over a decade—has only been open for about a month now, but it's beginning to establish a clientele of regulars.

Brown, who has worked in music retail since graduating from the Grant MacEwan music program in 2007, says there is a culture surrounding music stores comparable to that of record shops, where customers come by every week looking for gear to add to their collections or to hang out and test drive new equipment.

"When I was at one store, there was a pair of buddies, they'd been childhood friends, and they were competing to see who could buy more guitars," Brown recalls. "So every day they'd come in and they'd see something. ... They were at like 30 guitars a piece, and they were just seeing who could get more guitars.

I can't quite justify that many guitars myself, but yeah, there are regulars."

The same seems to hold true in the drum and percussion world as well.

"Small, independent businesses, we're sort of make and break by the loyalty of our clientele," says Nathan Ouellette of Brandenburg Music, a drum shop on 100A Avenue and 159 Street that carries equipment synonymous with standard kits as well as pieces required for orchestral percussion. "In today's

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culture it's sort of larger, big-box kind of stores and things like that. To be an independent business you really have to offer your clientele something that other people aren't doing, so that's what we sort of have with our specialty, and just this one very specific—but very large—end of the music spectrum."

Big-box retailers aside, Brown notes that the Internet has posed a challenge for brick-and-mortar businesses. People can look up any piece of equipment they might need and have it shipped to them directly. But while the Internet can offer useful resources such as reviews and comparisons, it doesn't allow customers to try things out for themselves before buying. Plus, the people working in music shops have a wealth of knowledge to tap into—the majority of them are musicians, after all.

"In the long run, I want to save you money," says Brown, who is trained in classical violin and has been playing guitar since he was 13—he started with a pawn shop find, but his first "real" guitar was a Gibson ES 335. "Expensive doesn't necessarily mean better."

There are always going to be the diehards who know exactly what they're looking for, but there are more accessible options available to those who are just getting into music, too.

Brown notes that entry-level guitars have vastly improved over the years, and for $500 a new musician can get a decent guitar, whereas when he

was starting out, $500 meant heading down to the local pawn shop and hoping you got lucky.

"The Fender Squier line used to be atrocious, but they're amazing now," he adds. "They're by no means a master-built, hand-built, one person start-to-finish guitar like some of the guitars we sell, but they stay in tune, they can intonate, you set them up and they play well."

"It always surprises me, just the diversity of people," Ouellette says of his clientele. "Drums, I think, are one of the most universal instruments. You can travel anywhere, to any corner of the globe, and you're going to find some version of drums and percussion, so we deal with everybody under the sun."

The age and experience level of customers at both stores varies, and so does what they're searching for.

The types of guitars and drums that are popular often correspond to the music styles that are prevalent at any given time. For example, Brown notes that when Mumford and Sons was having its heyday a couple of years ago, banjos were in high demand at the guitar shop he was working at.

But he hasn't had a single request for one since Stang opened.

"I find a lot of people are going back into that '80s, Bruce Springsteen-style of rock," he says. "I think maybe you're seeing a lot more of everything, where it's less of, 'If you're not playing folk rock, you're not doing it right.' Now it's

like, 'Well, I play in a folk-rock band, I play in an electronic duo and I play in a banger rock band afterwards.'"

"There's certainly trends in percussion," notes Ouellette, who has been playing drums for about 20 years and plays in local band the Fuzz Kings.

"Three or four years ago, it was the African djembe drum. That was the coolest thing, and in recent years it's been the cajon, which is a drum that's essentially a box that you sit on, and some of them have snares and things like that.

"I've always said it's kind of the antiinstrument," he continues. "It's the instrument you play when there's a lack of instruments to be played. It came out of circumstances of slaves in Africa coming over into a new world, and they didn't have their very specific or ceremonial drums, so they recreated their traditions in their music using whatever they had—boxes and drawers and tables, everything was fair game. But it's also a very universal instrument: you can play traditional rhythms on it, you can play drum-setstyle rhythms, so it's very adaptable."

With so many choices present in any facet of music, be it guitars, drums, keys or otherwise, it can be daunting to know where to begin. Brown suggests choosing an instrument that's going to make you want to keep playing, and don't get in your own way—if you're thinking about picking up an instrument, do it. Visit a shop and try a few different

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models out to see which one feels best for you and suits the type of music you are interested in playing.

"I view guitars and effects and amplifiers like paints and colours in a palette," says Brown, who advises getting lessons if you're just starting out in order to avoid developing bad habits and potentially injuring yourself—it happens. "Trying to explain to my wife why I need another guitar, why I need another distortion pedal ... this one's different because it does this or it feels different.

The scale length, which is the length of the neck to the nut to the bridge, sometimes they're shorter, sometimes they're longer, and each one of them feels a little bit different and has a different tension to the string, which means they play differently."

"Drumming is a big world, so at least here we always like to challenge people to maybe move beyond the popular idea of just learning to play a drum set or listening to only the styles of music you hear on the radio or that your particularly like," Ouellette notes. "Between all the ethnic and world instruments and classical instruments, it's a really large, exciting world, so perhaps sometimes the people that only know playing rock 'n' roll music on the drum set are missing out on some pretty exciting things happening in the world or drumming and percussion."

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The gear: I love my '70s Mosrite hollow-body more than most things.

The draw: It has a custom neck that's super thin, the tone is super full and warm and it has a killer sustain. It's a pretty rare guitar and I feel very lucky to have it. Mitch Holtby I'm a Mitch. I make solo music under the name Mitchmatic, and I currently play drums with Faith Healer and Born Gold and sometimes keyboards or sax in Renny Wilson and Doug Hoyer.

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The gear: I've lately been most excited about my Eventide H3000B. It's a stereo multi-effects processor that I can apply almost seamlessly while mixing songs.

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Next show: The Edmonton Arts Council's 20th Anniversary Party on July 12 in Borden Park with Switches. I can't wait!

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Nik Kozub I'm primarily a producer / recording engineer and musician. I play in the band Shout Out Out Out Out, and I also make my own "solo" electronic music as the Paronomasiac.

The gear: I'm quite in love with the Roland TR-727 drum machine. It is a very specific drum machine from the mid-'80s that consists entirely of Latin percussion sounds. No bass drum, no snare drum, just stuff like congas, bongos, agogo bells, timbales, etc.

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The draw: I love using percussion in my tracks, and I also love having it sound kind of unnatural and robotic. I'm never trying to fool anyone into thinking my congas or whatever are "real," I want them to sound like drum-machine percussion. Having a box that is dedicated entirely to this purpose is both very useful to me, and also a little bit hilarious. I always laugh a little bit when I am programming this thing. The 727 is used extensively throughout both the most recent Shout Out Out Out Out album (Spanish Moss and Total Loss), and the Paronomasiac single ("Stress Appeal"). The latter actually includes a bonus beat track that consists almost entirely of 727 patterns and not much else.

Nuela Charles I am a solo artist that sings and plays acoustic guitar. When it comes to the live show I usually just sing and am backed by my amazing band.

The gear: The one piece of gear that has really amped up our show has to be my Roland - SPD-SX sampling pad that my drummer, Andrew Miller, uses.

The draw: Prior to purchasing this we used to play my tracks off of an iPod, which did the trick, but now, with the SPD-SX we're able to play the necessary tracks and trigger different sampled sounds as well—giving the whole set a bigger sound. Most of my songs have some kind of electronic element to it, and the SPD-SX allows us to actually play them live. It's pretty rad.

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Counterfeit Jeans (all three band members answered individually) Spencer Heykants (bass) The gear: I play a Fender standard jazz bass, which runs through a simple pedal board utilizing a Boss PH-3 Phase Shifter and a Boss DS-1 guitar distortion [pedal]. The output setup is an Orange Terror Bass 500 head ran through a 600W Traynor TC1510 speaker cabinet.

The draw: I like the Mexican-made jazz bass. It has rich [and] versatile tone, great attack and a thinner neck. It has a lot of punch and gets some serious lows. The playability is pretty much the same as an American-made but it's cheaper, so when I beat it up, I don't feel so bad (ha!). My pedals, paired with the Orange head, give a great sound too. It creates something heavy, expansive and loud. Everything I run allows me to create a sound that gives the bass in Counterfeit Jeans a unique and crunchy-as-hell sound.

Tyler Bedford (drums) The gear: Four-piece Gretsch Catalina kit, which I kind of stole from my brother. Fourteen-inch Sabian AA hi hat, 18-inch Sabian AAX X-plosion crash and 20inch HHX stage ride. It's a tight kit, which allows for quick movement.

The draw: The drum tones out of the Gretsch pair great with the cymbals, I think. The cymbals give a nice combination of deep, bright and dark sounds, which are the tones I've always been attracted to and I feel give Counterfeit Jeans a nice festering pitch.

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Jed Gauthier (guitar and vocals) The gear: 1965 Fender Jaguar.

The draw: It's a bit obvious for a guitar player to choose their guitar, but I couldn't imagine making music with any other instrument. It was my dad's guitar. He bought it brand new in the '60s and eventually gifted it to me. I've been playing it my entire musical life, and now I've been spoiled. It has a small dainty neck and the frets have been worn down to almost nothing. Every other guitar neck feels like a two-by-four now to my wussy hands. I love everything about that guitar: its dirty switches, its creaky whammy bar. Every idiosyncrasy of its sound and shape has absolutely affected the way I approach music.

Next show: June 19 at the Pawn Shop.

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MUSIC PREVUE // METALCORE

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even years have passed since These Colours Don't Run (TCDR) chugged its way from Ottawa to Edmonton.

Founded by drummer and backing vocalist Brett Reid and guitarist Greg Funston, TCDR has carved out a significant groove in the Edmonton hardcore scene, playing a steady stream of shows and constructing a significant fan base.

Now, with a finalized lineup, shiny new music video, a debut EP titled Northside Dreams out next week, and a Western Canadian tour with Nanaimo's the Body Politic, TCDR is ready to take its fun, heavy and dirty metalcore style to a brand-new batch of ears.

"Where we're at now, we're writing the best music we ever have and playing some of the biggest shows we ever have," Reid says. "It's gotten to the point where we really want to go out and show the world our music."

The collective talent of TCDR's members—guitarist and clean vocalist Kalen Little, lead vocalist Ryan Walraven, bassist Cory Skerlak and guitarist Tres Thomas—is prominent, and the sheer energy and diversity on Northside Dreams is likely enough to incite most kids to toss some weight around in the pit.

Recorded and mixed by Edmonton producer Justin McDonough of Resonate Studios, Northside Dreams is a hammered-out-and-polished concoction of the TCDR's top material, capturing its hard-partying spirit—and a love for the city it calls home.

"It took a little bit longer than we thought it would, but [McDonough]was very patient and very helpful and motivating in the process to make it the best we could make it," Reid notes.

Who's ready for an arm wrestle?

Sat, Jun 20 (9:30 pm) With the Body Politic, Dieuponaday, Corvus the Crow Pawn Shop, $10 in advance, $15 at the door After the final takes were mastered by Jamie King (Between the Buried and Me, the Human Abstract) at the Basement Recording in North Carolina, Reid and his bandmates couldn't be happier—or more confident—with their work: "It sounds fuckin' awesome," he says.

But the guys aren't letting anything go to their heads. After this Saturday's release and a quick tour through Western Canada, TCDR plans to record more tunes, film a

second video (check out the first, "Northside Dreams," captured by Tatiana Zagorac), and expand its touring cycle into eastern Canada, the US and Europe.

"We just want to try and push as hard as we can and push as far as we can with what we have right now and work on the future of the band," Reid says.

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PREVUE // CLASSICAL

Sara Davis Buechner S

ara Davis Buechner has had the opportunity to work in both the American and Canadian classical music scenes, but the latter came about after she revealed a crucial piece of information about herself in her home country.

The Baltimore-born classical pianist moved to Canada in 2003 upon receiving a job offer at the University of British Columbia, which followed a five-year gap in her career after coming out publicly as a transgender woman in 1998.

"I transitioned in the late '90s, and it had a real chilling effect on my career. At that time it caused a lot of jaws to drop. I had been playing a lot of concerts [previously] and I was teaching at a well-known New York conservatory," Buechner recalls over the phone from her Vancouver home.

"Pretty soon after the transition, I was doing neither. I wasn't employed at that school anymore and I couldn't get any performance work. I actually

had some presenters who called my manager asking me not to come. I actually got paid for not playing."

With the help of a friend, Buechner was able to book shows throughout Canada, eventually making her more successful than when she was performing as David Buechner.

"I'm playing much more than I did in the late '90s," she says.

Buechner has found success in Canada, Asia and gradually in the United States again. This year, Buechner joins the roster on several music festivals including: Aloha International Piano Festival & Piano Competition (Honolulu, Hawaii), the Summer Solstice Festival (Edmonton), Bear Valley Music Festival (Bear Valley, CA) and Qingdao Music Festival (Qingdao, China).

For Buechner, US and Canadian classical music scenes are comparable— the business models for both countries are the same, with "the same managers [dominating] the scene and

Thu, Jun 18 – Sun, Jun 21 Part of the Summer Solstice Music Festival Various locations, $15 – $35 edmontonchambermusic.org same orchestras kind of tower one another"—though she notices a slight variance in Canadian classical.

"I still feel somehow that Canadian musicians and composers are still in a time where they're trying to find a particularly Canadian sound to their music. The sound of Canadian music [is] a very wide, mixed bag," she notes. "There are composers from both coasts that write very different styles. Then there is a very separate French-Canadian kind of school of composition as well. If you were to ask, 'What's American [classical] music?' Then people are going to say [George] Gershwin or [Aaron] Copland—it's very strongly defined."

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Fall City Fall's debuting new music along with free download cards for those attending the show. You probably shouldn't sleep on this one, then.

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SENSELESS LIVE / SAT, JUN 20 (7 PM)

Senseless Live is the marriage between DJ/producer John Glassey and songstress Kim Sykes, creating deep electronic music that will get your groove on.

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GAYTHEIST / SUN, JUN 21 (8 PM)

The Portland post-hardcore trio's only playing four Canadian dates. Consider yourself lucky, #yeg. (Brixx, $10)

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Birdstriking was born when Carsick Cars guitarist He Fan met drummer Wang Xinjiu at a Carsick Cars show.

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RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most

MERCURY ROOM Michael Feurstack with

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FRI JUL 3, MERCURY ROOM

DOMINIQUE FRICOT

Jazz Festival: A/B Trio with Mike Murley; 11pm; $10

OSPAC (OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE) Edmonton International

Jazz Festival: Mars Hill Trio Featuring Chris Andrew (Emerging Artist Showcase); 6:30-7:30pm; Free

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YARDBIRD SUITE Edmonton International

Jazz Festival: Robi Botos Quartet Featuring Seamus Blake; Two shows (8pm & 9:30pm); $20 (show), $30 (Two shows)

Classical ARTS LOUNGE, CONVOCATION HALL

FRI JUN 19

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ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff Robison

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FAST ROMANTICS

Mack; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Andrew

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BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Lex Justice;

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Gary Debussy, Faith Healer, Service:Fair; 8pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); $20; 18+ only

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FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back

THE WOODEN SKY

Roots Jam hosted by Jimmy Guiboche; 3-7pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald

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Master Class with Sara Davis Buechner; 4-6pm; Free

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june 27

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NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald

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MERCURY ROOM CD release Featuring

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PATRICK WATSON

FORT EDMONTON PARK Opera Nuova: Our

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MARTIN SEXTON

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SEAN MCCANN (GREAT BIG SEA)

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NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado

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MON JUN 22

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Trevor Mullen

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ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

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HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam:

STARLITE ROOM PRESENTS

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WED JUN 24

BLUES ON WHYTE Ross Neilsen and the

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Edmonton International Jazz Festival: Club Series' Father's Day Brunches Featuring Charlie Austin; 9am-3pm

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STARLITE ROOM PRESENTS

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TUE JUN 23

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on

JUN/21

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DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo Toonz

Concert on the Footbridge; 2-4pm

LADIES IN ROCK & METAL

YARDBIRD SUITE Edmonton International

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with

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CAFE BLACKBIRD Edmonton International

JUN/19 CELEBRATION OF

Miller; 6pm (doors), 8pm (show); $39.50

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

Sufferin' Bastards

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open

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BEAUMONT BLUES AND ROOTS FESTIVAL

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FORT EDMONTON PARK Opera Nuova: Our

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Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

W/ CHALI2NA & NEON STEVE

JUL/10

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every

UBK PRESENTS

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam hosted

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JUN/19

DJs

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

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Teeth and guests; 9pm; $10; No minors YARDBIRD SUITE Edmonton International

Jazz Festival: Renee Rosnes Quartet; Two shows (7:30pm & 9pm); $30 (show), $50 (two shows)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: 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 DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock

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ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780-6558520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley

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with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover WUNDERBAR Monomyth with Grounders,

Nap Eyes, Power Buddies and Quaker Parents; 9pm; $12; 18+ only YARDBIRD SUITE Edmonton International

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ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori

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HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave NORTHLANDS EXPO CENTRE 7515-118 Avenue O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 8426 Gateway Boulevard ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St

ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St 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 ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 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 UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA 116 St & 85 Ave UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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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 • Danny Acappella; Jun 19-20 • Paul Sveen; Jun 26-27

COMEDY NIGHT • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Highway 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • Laugh out loud with Atomic Improv • Jun 25, 6pm to dusk • $13.50 (adult), $7 (student), $9.75 (senior, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Monroe Martin; Jun 17-21 • Jimmy Shubert; Jun 24-28 CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With Keith Sarnowski, Stu Hughes, and Tommy Savitt as headliner • Jun 24, 7:30pm

CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS KOMEDY KRUSH • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 St • Starting off with an open mic then headliner is Tommy Savitt appears • Jun 23, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show)

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

KYLE DUNNIGAN • Yuk Yuks in Century Casino, 13103 Fort Road • yukyuks.com • cnty.com • Jun 19-20 • $25

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

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

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

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

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

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • 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

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for Humanity

STAND UP FOR PROGRESS NATIONAL TOUR WITH HARRY LESLIE SMITH • Ledcor Theatre,

Solutions • Every 2nd and 4th Tue, 7-9pm

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown •

Art Gallery of Alberta • broadbentinstitute.ca • Jun 22, 7:30pm

Practice group meets every Thu

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam. orgs/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

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

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651,

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue: Retro Tuesdays with Dj Arrow Chaser; 9pm-close • Wed: DJ Griff; 9-close • Thu: Wet underwear with Shiwana Millionaire • Fri: Dance all Night with DJ Arrowchaser • Sat: Weekly events and dancing until close • Sun: Weekly Drag show with Shiwana Millionaire and guests; 12:30am

room, 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

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.

• Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave •

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craft-

Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm-1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am

com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive

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

SPECIAL EVENTS

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall, 10135-96

BEAUMONT TOWN & COUNTRY DAZE • Beaumont • beaumont.ab.ca/events • Most events are free. There is a cost for the Midway • Activities include a parade, midway, entertainment stage, petting zoo, horse competition, trade show, and more • Jun 19-21

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

DARK MATTERS • TELUS World of Science, 11211142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca • Science is served on the rocks & the adults come out to play. This event's theme is "sex" • Jun 18, 7-10pm • $14 (adv), $20 (door)

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

DATE NIGHT • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Highway 60 • Stroll the garden until dusk and then learn a dance step, catch some live music, or take in an outdoor movie (different each week) • devonian.ualberta.ca • Jun 18, 6pm to dusk • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student), $9.75 (seniors)

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

DAY OF PLAY • Martin Deerline, 17104-118 Ave • martindeerline.com • 1.877.627.8468 • Kids activities, bouncy castles, a pedal tractor course, farmyard animals, free lunch and much more • Jun 20, 10am2pm • Free

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

EDMONTON COLLECTOR CON • Italian Cultural Centre, 14230-133 Ave NW • edtoyshow.com • Toys, toys and more toys! Get lucky and find the one you've been looking for or find something you weren't • Jun 21, 10am-4pm • $5 (kids 12 and under are free); bring a donation for the Edmonton Food Bank and enter to win one of several door prizes

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun

E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY PRESENTS: TRY ROLLER DERBY AND FRESH MEAT INFORMATION NIGHT • Edmonton Sportsdome, 10104-32 Ave

and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma

• evillerecruitment@gmail.com • Get your skates on and give roller derby a try. Loaner gear will be available free of charge and experienced skaters will be on hand to teach participents a few skills • Jun 22, 6:30pm • Free (no need to sign-up in advance)

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

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TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon;

fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@ hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • 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

BOTTOMS UP GET READY TO CELEBRATE, BECAUSE PARK AFTER DARK IS BACK! Edmonton’s hottest Friday night patio party returns June 5. Dress to impress as you catch exciting racing action with a live DJ, great games and prizes.

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton.

Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

9808-148 St • jessem@pilgrimshospice.com • 780.413.9801 ext.107 • pilgrimshospice.com • For those who wish to connect with same-aged peers who are also grieving. Trained facilitator will guide the group in topics related to grief • Jun 24, 7pm

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

EVERY FRIDAY FROM JUNE TO SEPTEMBER POST TIME: 6:30 P.M.

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

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St

FDI 101: ENGAGING ASIA FOR PROSPERITY • Mercury Room, 10575-114 St • Presented by the Canadian International Council Edmonton. Featuring Gordon Houlden (guest speaker) and Mei Huang (moderator) • Jun 23, 6-8:30pm • $40 (RSVP by Jun 19 to sRosskopf@opencanada.org)

ILLNESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS •

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

PARK AFTER DARK NORTHLANDSPARK.CA

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

Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • vbatten@hfh.org • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • hfh.org/volunteer • Learn about taking the next step and what opportunities are available • 3rd Thu of the month, 6-7pm, until Nov 2015 • Free Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209-123 St • 780.235.5911 • Crohn's Colitis, I.B.D. Support and

QUEER

monton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

• 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@teamed-

swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • 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, 5:308:30pm, 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

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• Commomwealth Stadium, 11000 Stadium Rd • fifa. com/womensworldcup/index.html • cindy.medynski@ fwwc2015.ca • 1.855.915.2015 • Watch as the best soccer players duke it out for the World Cup • Jun 6-Jul 5 • $20.15-$125

THE FOOD TRUCKS ARE COMING… • St Albert Grain Elevator Park, 4 Meadowview Drive, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • museeheritage.ca • A food truck picnic date for all ages that includes a penny arcade, face painting, beer gardens, tours of the grain elevator and so much more • Jun 21, 1-7pm • Admission by donation

FUN WALK & BBQ • Inglewood Linear Park, 118

Ave-121 A St (Walking Trail) • Celebrating community relations. The Edmonton Native Healing Centre will be gifting the Edmonton Police Service a painting to honour the memory of our Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women • Jun 20

NIGHT MARKET EDMONTON • Beaverhill House Park, Jasper Ave & 105 St • nightmarketedmonton@ gmail.com • 780.934.1568 • nightmarketedmonton. com • Watch an old movie, eat some food, or shop at the vendor’s stalls • Every Fri, 7-11pm, May-Aug • Free

PORKAPALOOZA BBQ FESTIVAL • Borden Park, 7507 Borden Park Road • porkapalooza.ca • Experience the art and culture of barbequing. Festivities include food demonstrations, Bare Bones RibFest, ethnic takes on BBQ, beer gardens, Kids Zone and a Father’s Day Marketplace (new for this year) • Jun 19-21 • Free ($10 cover for Fri night Bare Bones RibFest)

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm SUPER MAGICAL FAMILY FUN DAY • Marketplace at Callingwood, 6655-178 St (in the courtyard) • callingwoodmarketplace.com • Let the kids meet some real superheroes and princesses. With photo ops, a bouncy castle, face painting, live entertainment by young musicians from Dominelli School of Music, and so much more • Jun 20, 1-4pm

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Would you like to stop pushing and struggling for a while? Is there a clenched attitude you would love to let go of? Do you wish you could take a break from having to give so much and try so hard and be so strong? Then do it! Now would be a good time to take a sabbatical from any situation that feels too demanding or frustrating. You wouldn't incur the wrath of the gods or the twists of karma if you snuck away to indulge in some recreational frivolity. For the foreseeable future, "relax" and "surrender" are your words of power.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Theologian Karl Barth speculated that when the angels get together to praise and honour God with music, they perform the compositions of Bach. But when they are playing for each other, they are more likely to choose Mozart. I guess that's because Mozart's stuff is loose and free and inventive compared to Bach, who's formal and sober and systematic.

Mozart is more for parties, while Bach is for serious occasions. I'm seeing the coming days as a time when you, like the angels, should be especially willing to express yourself in very different ways, depending on the audience.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Before E Annie Proulx became a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, she wrote a series of how-to books, including a dairy foods cookbook and an instructional text on making your own hard cider. But the manual of hers that I especially want to call your attention to right now is Plan and Make Your Own Fences & Gates, Walkways, Walls & Drives. It might be inspirational for you to read it. You're in a phase when it makes perfect sense to create new paths for yourself to travel on. This will allow you to forgo at least some of the paths that others have built and that can't actually take you where you need to go.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): I'm getting itchy to see you blow your own cover. I would love you to come all the way out of your hiding place, even if just for a while, and see what happens if you make full disclosures and brave displays. My hope is that you will close the gap between the real you and the images that people have of you. Does that sound interesting? Or have you become so fond of being a big riddle that you can't imagine any other way to be? Maybe I can tempt you to be more self-revelatory if I add this: taking your disguises off even briefly will enable you to discover intriguing secrets about yourself. And then once you put your disguises back on, you will seem more mysterious than ever.

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your birthday. Between now and then you will be wrapping up the current cycle. I invite you to do so with a flourish. Don't just wait around passively for the themes of the last 11 months to fade away or go to sleep. Instead, set an intention to bring them to a climactic close. Schedule a splashy graduation or a grand finale. Plan a cathartic party or a celebratory rite of passage. Take a playful leap of faith or try that magic trick you've been saving for the perfect moment. Or all of the above!

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): "I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin deep," said author Jean Kerr. "That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?" In accordance with the current astrological omens, Virgo, you should feel free to play around with that impish idea. Just for now, appreciate and enjoy the surfaces of things. Make decisions based on first impressions and instant analyses. Give your attention and energy to what looks appealing to you, and don't think too hard about stuff that presents a boring appearance.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct.22): Now is a favourable time to wish upon a star. In other words, you can enhance the likelihood that your wish will come true if you choose this phase of your cycle to enlist the assistance of a higher power.

It's your duty to make sure, however, that you wish upon the right star. Pick a higher power that can truly help you with your wish, not necessarily one that has worked for other people's wishes. Here's another crucial detail: be precise in formulating your wish. No foggy thinking or sloppy language allowed!

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): If you are fully committed to being both honest and kind, you will have more power to heal other people than you've had in a long time. You will have a resemblance to a magic potion or a wonder drug. Here's a caveat, however: The therapeutic influence you have to offer might be scary to those who aren't ready to be cured. The solutions you propose could be disruptive to anyone who is addicted to his or her problems. That's why I advise you to be discerning about how you share yourself. PS: The medicine you are generating is not too potent for your own use. It's exactly what you need to transform limitation into liberation.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Each of us has at least one pesky ghost or nagging demon that occupies a dark corner of our psyches. It may have been there for years, or we might have picked it up more recently during a phase of temporary insanity. In any case, most of us can benefit from conducting a peri-

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odic banishing ritual. Now would be prime time for you to do just that. Ready? With your imagination, draw a clockwise circle of your favourite-coloured light on the floor or ground. Next, identify an image that makes you feel happy and safe, and visualize four versions of it at the four cardinal points, hovering three feet above your circle. Then say this: "I dissolve any hex and banish any pest that has been draining my energy. I purge any wasteful emotions, unsound ideas and trivial desires that I may have grown attached to." To put the seal on your magic, laugh for two minutes.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): By my estimation, 97 percent of the population is chronically starving for the pleasure of being listened to with deep empathy and focused intelligence. Very few of us enjoy the prolonged and undivided attention of a receptive ally on a regular basis.

It's rare to be in the presence of a person whose sole agenda is to be innocently curious about you.

Your assignment, Capricorn, is to go on a quest to remedy this shortfall. Figure out how you can get the skillful listening you're missing. (PS: One way to prime the magic is to offer yourself up as a skillful listener to others.)

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): At this year's Grammy Awards ceremony, British singer Sam Smith won in four categories. His tune "Stay with Me" was named Song of the Year. In one of his acceptance speeches, Smith expressed appreciation for the difficult muse who inspired the song. "I want to thank the man who this record is about, who I fell in love with last year," he said. "Thank you so much for breaking my heart, because you got me four Grammys." I invite you to come up with a comparable expression of gratitude, Aquarius. What experience that seemed like tough luck at the time has actually turned out to be a blessing? Now would be a perfect time to acknowledge and relish and make full use of the unexpected grace.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): The Bay of Fundy is a branch of the Atlantic Ocean between the Canadian provinces of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick. It's renowned for its tidal range. When high tide comes, the water may be as much as 53 feet higher than what it is at low tide. The shift back and forth happens twice a day. I'm wondering if in the coming weeks your emotional ebb and flow will have a similar variability. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience both very high highs and very deep depths.

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A look at the little pink pill Female Viagra has been backed by the FDA, but at what cost?

This past week, the American Food and Drug Administration officially backed what has been marketed as "female Viagra" or "the little pink pill." More formally known as flibanserin, this medication supposedly has the ability to increase sexual desire in women. As someone who works extensively with sexual health issues, you'd think I'd be thrilled about this news. I'm not.

After twice being rejected by the FDA, Sprout Pharmaceuticals, the company that sells flibanserin, hired a PR firm that did some pretty effective public relations. The company's strategy was to attach the pill to outrage surrounding patriarchal social inequality. One of the ways it did this was by highlighting that there are 26 drugs for male sexual dysfunction and none for women, perpetuating an emotionally fuelled surge for support of this supposedly equalizing, but ironically sexist, drug.

To make sense of why this is a problem, it's important to understand the different mechanisms of action. Viagra is a pill a man takes about an hour prior to sex. It operates on the vascular system, helping men who desire sex but have erectile dysfunction sustain an erection.

It is an anatomical solution to a physiological problem. Contrarily, flibanserin does not operate on an anatomical level: it operates neurochemically to manufacture desire.

Note that it does not enhance the ability to have sex—if it were truly the female equivalent of Viagra, the indications would be soaking panties. As well, flibanserin is a pill that is taken every day and has significant side effects. This is because the medication is classed as a Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor (SSRI), which is a commonly prescribed type of antidepressant medication. The use of psychopharmaceuticals for this purpose subtly implies that a woman not wanting sex has a mental health issue. And, again, the medication does nothing to treat actual physical dysfunction, so Sprout's statement that there are no drugs for female sexual dysfunction remains true.

Beyond the patriarchal bullshit, it appears that the medication doesn't really work. Studies have shown only marginal increases in positive sexual activity (a vaguely defined rubric), and the side effects are substantial. First, the medication targets premenopausal women, yet it requires that users abstain from birth control and alcohol due to potentially danger-

is just a receptacle for a penis. That is probably what bothers me most: creating desire while decreasing satisfaction potentially suggests confused priorities and external pressures.

I do not want to downplay how difficult lack of desire can be, but I'm not convinced the best answer is in a pill. While the root of that problem may be related to a chemical imbalance, it may also be related to a host of other factors (emotional, relational, physical, psychological, etc) that are potentially more deserving of attention than the quick fix would suggest. V

The use of psychopharmaceuticals for this purpose subtly implies that a woman not wanting sex has a mental health issue. ous contraindications. Other risks include low blood pressure, dizziness and fainting. But what really strikes me is that a common side effect of SSRIs is sexual dysfunction, including decreased ability to orgasm and increased sexual discomfort. Admittedly, I don't know if this is something that the manufacturers have mitigated—but if not, it's a massive problem. What is the purpose of sexual desire if you have a decreased ability to enjoy sex—unless, of course, your vagina

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My boyfriend and I both spent a lot of time masturbating when we were young and pretty much trained our brains to come only one way. He can only come from masturbating furiously, or sometimes from a marathon of jackhammer sex. A few years before I met him, I toned down the masturbating to retrain my brain and pussy and tried a bunch of new things, and I can now come from different acts and positions. It wasn't easy, but I am so happy with this versatility.

I'm starting to get annoyed that he isn't working harder to overcome this jackhammering reliance.

It hurts, it's super boring and it makes me feel like I might as well be an inflatable doll. We've talked about it, and he says he'll masturbate less, and that does help (read: now it's a half hour of jackhammering instead of hours), but I'm still eager for more variety—and to be able to walk after sex and ride a bike the next day. For what it's worth, about half the time he just lets me come buckets and then gives up on himself. Can you recommend anything that would help him? Since I know firsthand this can be overcome and I accommodate him as much as possible, I think I'm being reasonable, but I'm sure you'll tell me if I'm not.

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Oh God, Dan! Help! How do I get over my jealousy over my bisexual boyfriend, who now wants to act on his urges for women? We've been together and had a happy gay life for 15 years, open with men for only three of those years. He has integrity, and he says he would never cheat on me, but he's getting to the point where he is gonna hook up with women, whether I am OK with it or not. There's more to it, though. He is perfect in every facet of his life. A perfect person and a gift to the world, so any woman would be crazy not to want him for herself. We are deeply in love, but I'm afraid of a woman's ultimate intention for a guy like my partner.

Jealousy Annoys Gay Guy Gay and bi men are just as interested in having partners who are perfect in every facet of life, JAGG, and yet you trust your boyfriend to fuck other guys and come home to you. You'll just have to trust your gift-to-the-world boyfriend to do the same with women: fuck a woman now and then but come

Dating is what people do before entering into a relationship—or it's what most people used to do— and you two are already in a relationship. It was a FWB relationship, yes, but it was still a relationship.

And people in relationships don't typically go out on dates. So, yeah, the reason going out on a date with your boyfriend feels awkward is because you're not dating, LID, not at this stage. You're together. So be together: go places, do things, have dinner, see friends, go home, sex amazingly. Spend more time together, build on what you've already established, (ie, the emotional and sexual connection that carried you through the last four years), and stop stressing about performing the roles of "boyfriend" and "girlfriend."

OW OW OW

Recently, while masturbating, as I was approaching climax, I had a sharp pain in my abdomen. It felt like my intestine wanted to burst though my abdomen, kind of like a hernia. It really sucked and it ruined my orgasm.

This has happened a handful of times in the past. I mentioned it to my doctor once, and I tested negative for a hernia. I'm a 52-year-old male in reasonably good shape; I've been going to the gym on the reg for the past few months. This sucks in that when my wife and I play, part of it involves my wife putting me in four-point restraint, masturbating me, then tickling me post-orgasm.

It would really suck for this to happen while tied up and has me concerned about our sex play. Advice, an explanation, or a good theory would be welcome.

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But the only way to find out if your boyfriend's dick can be retrained is to try and retrain it.

Here's how you retrain his dick: your boyfriend stops doing what he's always done—no more masturbating or fucking in the style to which his dick has become accustomed—but he keeps on having sex and he keeps on masturbating.

But he is not allowed to revert to jackhammering away at your pussy or his fist if he doesn't get off. If he doesn't come, he doesn't come.

Eventually his dick, in desperation, will adjust to newer, subtler sensations, and he'll be able to get off without jackhammering.

Or not.

Some guys can retrain their dicks—and some women can retrain their pussies—but some people have carved too deep a groove into themselves and their junk.

Other people really do require intense stimulation—jackhammers and death grips and powerful vibrators—to get off, and they have to figure out how to incorporate that intense stimulation into partnered sex without destroying their partners' orifices. But the only way to find out if your boyfriend's dick can be retrained is to try and retrain it. The fact that masturbating less cut his jackhammering down from hours to half an hour is a positive sign.

home to you after. The "ultimate intention" of whatever woman your boyfriend fucks should concern you less than your boyfriend's ultimate intention. Does he ultimately intend to stay with you? Or would he ultimately prefer to be with someone else? If he wants to stay with you—and he's likelier to wanna stay if being with you doesn't mean he never gets to have sex with a woman ever again—then you'll have to trust that your same-sex relationship is strong enough to withstand a little opposite-sex hooking up.

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I'm a 25-year-old heterosexual female, and I've been in a long-term friends-with-benefits relationship for a little more than four years.

My FWB partner and I have recently decided to move from being FWB to actually dating. The issue is that we've both become so accustomed to the late-night sextingand-hookup routine that going on dates seems awkward and forced.

It doesn't help that neither of us has been in a relationship before, so we both feel a little in the dark on how to navigate this. I really do like the guy (and our sex life is amazing), but I'm not sure how to move past the in-between phase we've found ourselves in. Have we been in FWB-land too long to come back?

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I would advise you to speak to your doctor, GROAN, but I don't think you should worry about this too much. And I would theorize that you tense a particular muscle or set of muscles when you masturbate and every once in a great while this muscle group revolts and spasms painfully; your return to gym-going may have contributed to your most recent spasm.

So long as your doctor gives you the all clear, GROAN, I don't think you should stop going to the gym—or masturbating or letting your wife tie you to the bed. Risking the occasional spasm, however painful, seems a reasonable price to pay for regular orgasms and adventurous sex.

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