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"Our problem today is that our elders have been marginalized so much. We want them to get the hell out of the way." // 5

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"Alley Kat won Beer of the Year at the 2015 Canadian Brewing Awards (CBA) for its Scona Gold, beating out 1300 other entries for the title—also no small feat." // 6

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A book-ended decade

Gay marriage legalized in the US, but issues of race remain stagnant July 20, 2005: Canada became the fourth country in the world—and the first outside of Europe—to fully legalize same-sex marriage nationwide. August 29, 2005: Hurricane Katrina makes landfall on the Louisiana coast and levees in New Orleans are breached. The vast majority of those worst affected are black. December 9, 2007: Robert Pickton is charged with six counts of second degree murder. June 17, 2015: a white man walks into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolia, one of the oldest black churches in the US. He sits with a bible-study group for an hour and then proceeds to open fire. Ten people are shot, nine of them die. June 25, 2015: the Harper govern-

ment refuses to fund construction of an all-weather road that would link Shoal Lake 40 First Nation, the source of much of Winnipeg's fresh water and a reserve that has been under a boil-water advisory for 17 years, with the outside world. June 26, 2015: The United States becomes the 23rd country in the world to legalize same-sex marriage. In the decade book-ended by the legalization of gay marriage in Canada and the US, worldwide support for cisgender gays and lesbians has reached unprecedented levels. Support for trans* individuals is still sorely lacking, but thanks to highprofile trans* people like Laverne Cox, Caitlyn Jenner and Andreja Pejić as well as countless activists, trans* issues are slowly making their way into public discourse. Things aren't

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The invisible class Last week's soaring temperatures brought about a number of public health warnings, and they also served as a stark reminder that people living in our communities without homes can be as at much risk in the summer months as they are when temperatures plunge to sub-Arctic levels during the winter ones. While it was heartwarming to see people form impromptu teams to hand out bottles of water to those living on the streets and at real risk of dehydration, the radio silence about homelessness and abject poverty during our recent provincial election campaign, and leading up to the forthcoming federal one, concerns me. As politicians at all levels set off on the barbecue circuit, we're going to hear a lot about commitments to the middle-class taxpayer, but less so anything to do with a national housing strategy. On a provincial level, the Notley government's immediate focus on increases to minimum wage, closing off tax breaks to corporations and the wealthy, and shuttering electoral advantages to unions and corporations is a step in the right direction, but that has left little room for any substantive discussion about people who don't earn wages or income at all. Conversations about affordable housing, child care and funding for educational opportunities to move people off social assistance and into the workforce have either been forgotten about or ignored. Murmurings from municipal politicians and others regarding minimum incomes and living wages haven't translated into any concrete policy proposals and certainly don't provide any immediate relief to the people who have fallen completely off the political radar—the people to whom my friends are handing out bottles of water. As the political class works to grab the hearts and minds of the voting middle class this summer, let's the rest of us demand they address how they plan to deal with the invisible class. V

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great for everyone, but they are undeniably getting better. So what is the significance of the US Supreme Court decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states? If your social media feeds are anything like mine, you've probably seen two reactions (three if we count the crying bigots, but let's not): the first group is busy adding a rainbow hue to their profile pictures and is generally ecstatic. The second group is busy posting about how gay marriage doesn't help trans* people, or racism, or asking whether people should even be getting married in the first place. I've written in the past about my ambivalent feelings towards gay marriage, and I am happy to state for the record that I am glad that

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queers can now get married in the US; it's been a long time coming. But I opened this piece with the timeline that I did to demonstrate that while "gay rights" are becoming more mainstream, issues of race and colonization remain stagnant in Canada and the US. What I haven't seen in Canada over the past decade, and what I fear to see in the US, is the political momentum behind gay marriage translate into further action. This despite the fact that gay marriage has helped cement Canada's reputation for human rights while Indigenous women continue to be murdered and missing. It angers me that my rights as a queer person are being held up as a sign of progress at the expense of indigenous people, of people of colour, of everyone else under the

queer rainbow who isn't middleclass and cisgender. Marriage is not going to stop a police officer from shooting a black gay man in the US, nor will it house a lesbian who lives on a remote reserve. Contemporary queers owe the progress we've made to people of colour—it was Black and Latina butches and drag queens who started the Stonewall Riots and consequently the gayrights movement—but what has become enshrined as the ultimate expression of queer rights does little to address the realities of racism and colonization that many queers face.So to my gay friends here and south of the border: congratulations on your upcoming nuptials. I can't wait to celebrate with you. Consider adding racial equality to your registry. V

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More massacres by Islamic State But this does not mean an "existential threat" to the West Last Friday, in France, an Islamist named Yahya Salhi killed his employer, Herve Cornara. He attached the victim's severed head to the fence around a chemical plant, together with a cloth saying, "There is no God but God and Muhammad is his prophet"—and then rammed his vehicle into a warehouse full of chemicals hoping (but failing) to cause a massive explosion. In Kuwait two hours later, Fahd Suleiman Abdulmohsen al-Qaba'a, a Saudi citizen, entered a Shia mosque and detonated a bomb that killed at least 25 people. He was presumably a Sunni fanatic sent by "Islamic State" to kill Shias, who they believe are heretics who should be killed. In Tunisia one hour later, 38 European tourists, most of them British, were massacred by a 23-year-old man with a Kalashnikov on a beach in Sousse. The perpetrator, Seifeddine Rezgui, was studying engineering at a university in Kairouan, an hour's drive west of Sousse. Islamic State, which has carved out a territory in Iraq and Syria that has more people and a bigger army than half the members of the United Nations, immediately claimed responsibility for all three attacks. Yahya Salhi may have been a lone-wolf, but in the other two cases the claim was almost certainly true. Britain's prime minister, David Cameron, responded to the deaths of 30 British citizens in Tunisia by trotting out the same shopworn drivel that Western leaders have been peddling for the past 14 years. The fight against Islamic State is "the struggle of our generation," Cameron declared. Indeed, IS poses "an existential threat" to the West.

Maybe Cameron doesn't know what the word "existential" means. Could somebody please explain to him that he is saying that Islamic State poses a threat to the continued existence of the West? Does he really think that is the case? Forgive me for making a cold-blooded calculation, but sometimes it is necessary. The population of the West (not counting the countries of Latin America, which don't play in this league) is about 900 million. Thirty-nine "Westerners" have been killed in attacks by Islamist terrorists this month. At this rate, the

the Sunni majority and the large Shia minority in that country, with the ultimate goal of unleashing a Sunni-Shia civil war in which Islamist extremists could take over the Sunni side as they have already done in Syria and Iraq. Only the lone-wolf attack in France could conceivably be seen as directed at the "West"—although that might also have been just a personal grievance wrapped up in an Islamist justification. The rest of the killing was about who controls the Muslim countries, particularly in the Middle East, as it has been from the start. Even 9/11 was about that, designed not to "bring America to its knees" but to lure it into an invasion of Afghanistan that Osama bin Laden believed would stimulate Islamist revolutions in Muslim countries. The Islamists do "hate Western values," but they have bigger fish to fry at home. Islamic State and the various incarnations of al-Qaeda (the Nusra Front in Syria, al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, etc) pose an existential threat to the non-Sunni Muslim minorities of the Middle East, and even to Sunni Muslims whose beliefs diverge significantly from those of the Islamists. The West should help governments in the region that protect their minorities, and of course it should try to protect its own people. But this is not the "struggle of our generation" for the West. It should be nowhere near the top of its own list of priorities. V

The rest of the killing was about who controls the Musling countries, particularly in the Middle East, as it has been from the start. West will have ceased to exist in 1.9 million years. If this is an existential threat, it's not a very urgent one. In fact, it's not really about the West at all. The European victims on the beach in Sousse were killed in order to destroy the tourism that provides almost 15 percent of Tunisia's national income, and thereby destabilise the only fully democratic country in the Arab world. The extremists' real goal is to seize power in Tunisia; the Western victims were just a means to that end. The bombing of a Shia mosque in Kuwait was intended to increase tensions between

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FEATURE // BOOK

LETTERS FROM DAVID SUZUKI The environmental activist on his new book and the importance of learning from First Nations

ome in!" Though I've never met David Su- actively trying to suppress environmentalists. I zuki before, his voice rings through the think the next election is a critical: one, because open door, sounding as familiar as my late grand- we have to ask, 'Do we want a real democracy or father's. My guess is that many other 20- to not?' But I feel really heartened by what's hap30-year-old Canadians would feel the same way. pened in Alberta. We grew up on Suzuki's The Nature of Things. His voice and perspective have influenced the VW: What environmental changes do you think way Canadians see and interact with the environ- we'll see under the NDP government? ment. Meeting Suzuki is like meeting a long-lost DS: I think the interesting thing is that the oilfamily member for the first and-gas industry [in Alberta] already knows that they've time, and I'm nervous. "Man, Letters to My Grandchilden got to change. Suncor is saying you're so young!" he says, and Now available I laugh. Perhaps it's a fitting By David Suzuki that they support the idea of dynamic for this particular in- Greystone Books, putting a price on carbon. That terview. After all, Suzuki was in 248 pp, $27.95 was huge. Virtually every CEO has admitted that there's got Edmonton promoting his book, to be a pricing change. Rachel Letters to My Grandchildren, a collection of letters addressed to his six grand- Notley coming in [to office] isn't revolutionary. children where he writes from the perspective of It's going to be about how she walks that line an elder to explore today's most vital social and and how strong. This is Alberta's moment. It's in environmental issues. times in crisis that you can get something revolutionary done. It's like the Shock Doctrine that VUE WEEKLY: Why did you want to share these Naomi Klein talks about, [crisis] has always been letters with the public? used to reinforce a right-wing agenda, but I think this is Alberta's moment. DAVID SUZUKI: I'm hoping what I write will stimulate elders. Our problem today is that our elders have been marginalized so much. We want them VW: Let's talk about women. In Letters, you dedito get the hell out of the way. But if you look cate a chapter to your only granddaughter, Miin a First Nations community, an elder is like a dori, about gender equality in Canada. rock star. They embody the living memory and DS: The shift in [gender equality] is gigantic. For the living culture they've accumulated over time, example, I've had a lot of experiences seeing it in and they're valued for that. I thought if I could the forestry sector. We've had a long history of put this book out there it would become a chal- fighting against the forestry industry. But now lenge to other elders to share what they think. a third of forestry graduates are women, and My whole life has been an open book—it's why the changes are immense because women tend I never worry about Harper getting some goods to look in a bigger way, in the way they tend to think of family and long-term foresters. Males on me. My life is out there. tend to think more short-term, like, 'How do you VW: Your family's stories have also been shared maximize a yield?' I know they talk about the widely—most recently when your grandson, glass ceiling, and there is a glass ceiling, but you Tamo Campos, was arrested for protesting the can't have so many women coming into these Kinder Morgan pipeline. sectors and not breaking these ceilings.They're DS: Tamo was living with the Tahltans and was just too talented. involved in many protests, but no one even knew that he was my grandson. It only came out when VW: In Letters, you emphasize to your grandchilhe was arrested over the Kinder Morgan pipeline. dren the importance of listening and learning I was ready to get arrested alongside him, but the from First Nations' perspectives to protect the problem was that CBC just went nuts when they environment. heard that I went to [Kinder Morgan]. They said DS: The need that we have today is the shift in they'd have to pull me off The Nature of Things, perspective that First Nations have because their which I would be happy to do, but I was so close- roots are in place. It's about place and our relaly identified with the series that they might have tionship with place. I think what's happening now to cancel it. The show is too important to me, is that we're honouring that much more. If you so I felt very frustrated. But Tamo's mom—my look at the contentious issues that are happendaughter—and his sister—my granddaughter— ing across the country—water [issues] in New they all got arrested. Of course, all the 60 [ar- Brunswick, the Boreal Forest across the north rest] cases were eventually thrown out because or pipelines—it's First Nations that are leading it was proven that Kinder Morgan drew their line the battles, and it's because they have a different in the wrong place, and no one had been tres- sense of commitment to place. After Jim Prentice left federal politics, he was passing after all. But I was very proud of Tamo appointed to negotiate on the pipelines with and his sister, Midori. First Nations, and I said to him, "Jim, these First Nations are desperate for jobs and economic VW: As an environmental activist, you've seen many political changes in Canada over the years. development. The federal government and EnHow is it different for your grandson and other bridge have offered them millions of dollars to let that pipeline through their territory. And yet activists today? DS: The Harper government is the first governthey're saying no. What is that telling you? That ment where he's been very tight on allowing there are things more important than money. access. I've asked three times to see Harper and You guys think it's a matter of giving them a bigevery time he's [deferred] me to speak with En- ger share. That's not what they're saying. They're vironmental Ministers Jim Prentice, Rona Am- saying they don't want to run the risk of losing brose, John Baird. [It seems] he's not interested their culture and territory." That's what the issue is. And that's why environin meeting me. The ministers are all mouthpieces for Harper. When we had Mulroney, Clark and mentalists are realizing they need to work closer Trudeau, I've always been able to have access to with First Nations and indigenous communities. MOYLES them. This is a very different kind of government. TRINA TRINA@VUEWEEKLY.COM It's a very anti-democratic government that is VUEWEEKLY.com | JUL 2 – JUL 8, 2015

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t's been a good month for Alley Kat, Edmonton's flagship craft brewery. A couple of weeks ago it celebrated its 20th anniversary— no small feat in craft-beer-sluggish Alberta. Just before that, Alley Kat won Beer of the Year at the 2015 Canadian Brewing Awards (CBA) for its Scona Gold, beating out 1300 other entries for the title—also no small feat. I'll return to Scona Gold a little later, because right now you'll rightly be wondering what the hell the Canadian Brewing Awards are. In short, the awards are Canada's only national beer competition. The wine world has hundreds of competitions that spread vinous love—and medals—so far and wide you begin to wonder whether each

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award is even worth its weight in metal. This phenomenon doesn't hold true in the beer world, which has far fewer competitions that tend to be regional in focus. This isn't to say there aren't outlandish beer competitions: the biggest American competition (Great American Beer Festival) awards medals in 92 different categories. This is, quite frankly, outrageous— there are simply not that many beer styles. But the CBA has not yet succumbed to medal creep. In 2015 it judged brews in 41 categories, which is quite reasonable given the range of beer produced by craft breweries these days. The CBA also exclusively uses Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) judges. The BJCP is

the most respected organization for beer evaluation, and it is a pre-requisite for any credible competition. Full disclosure: I have been a BJCPcertified judge since 2003. In its early years, the CBA struggled with reputation. It had an Ontario bias, and many breweries grumbled about the process; many boycotted the event entirely. However, the CBA has done a good job of listening to this feedback and has improved the process immensely, which can be quantified by the buyin from breweries: this year over 200 breweries—representing the majority of breweries in Canada— entered almost 1300 beers for evaluation. It was the largest CBA ever. Circling back to Scona Gold: it

bested all of those other entries to capture Beer of the Year, ostensibly Best in Show. This is amazing for numerous reasons. First, Scona Gold is a Kolsch, a light-bodied style with a soft graininess accented by a delicate fruitiness. It is intended to be a summer quaffer that is more about drinkability than competition medals. Second, and far more intriguing, is that the Scona Gold is the newest addition to Alley Kat's lineup—and it's the company's gluten-reduced beer. While its gluten levels are low enough to be considered glutenfree, under Canadian rules it can't label itself that because it started its life with barley: an enzyme that is used to break down the gluten in the brewing process. Yet, Alley Kat hasn't jumped on the gluten-free

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marketing bandwagon and doesn't really market the beer that way, instead allowing it to stand on its own feet. Most drinkers are completely unaware that it is gluten-reduced. I think it is a testament to the CBA judges that they selected a lightbodied, delicate hybrid beer over the big double IPAs, barrel-aged beers and barley wines; this speaks volumes about their ability to detect quality. Alley Kat was also not the only Alberta victor on CBA awards night. Calgary's Wild Rose picked up two medals, both bronze, for its Electric Avenue Lager and its Natural Born Keller. Again, these are two lighter styles given recognition. CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 >>

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Brews to come

The future of craft beer in Edmonton It can be hard to get a handle on the current health of Edmonton's craft-beer scene. The city has two stable, successful craft breweries (Yellowhead and Alley Kat), a sturdy brewpub chain (Brewsters) and a handful of quality beer pubs offering extensive tap and bottle lists. In retail liquor stores, consumers can purchase thousands of different brands of beer, including some from the most highly reputed breweries in the world. Yet Edmonton lags in many ways. Cities of comparable size across Canada and the US tend to have a larger number of local breweries and a handful of brewpubs to brag about. Edmonton's recent local brewery start-ups, including Amber's, Roughneck and Hog's Head, did not find the traction they needed and closed or are struggling. Finding a bar that serves quality—and particularly local— beer can still be a monumental challenge in this town. So, where is it all heading— will Edmonton continue to lag or are we on the cusp of a beer revolution? In the short term, I can con-

fidently attest that the Capital Region will soon be seeing more brewery start-ups. In addition to Fort Saskatchewan's Two Sergeants, I have confirmation of at least two new, independent brewpubs as well as another brewery that will be opening over the next year or so; another couple of breweries are set to open south of Edmonton as well. One of the nice things about having more local breweries is that the (usually) friendly competition drives each of them to be better. As a result, in the coming years I think we will see more styles and creativity in local brewing; there are rumours of ongoing barrel-aging programs in which beer is cellared in oak barrels like wine. Over the long term I feel bullish about craft beer in Edmonton, for the simple fact of our city's burgeoning locavore movement. The drive toward sourcing food locally has been around for a while but has really taken off in the past couple years. To date, the local craft brewers haven't fully leveraged that growing senti-

ment to their advantage, though admittedly this can be difficult when there are only two. With more options and a concerted effort, local beer might become just as much a "thing" as local food. Not everything comes up roses, however. Alberta has the most open borders in the country: it only takes a two-page form and $50 to get permission to import a beer. This means our wide array of import options will continue to dazzle. While of benefit to local beer consumers, this also means that small, local breweries have to compete against the big breweries—and each other—in addition to fighting for shelf space with the world's best imports. So the answer seems to lie somewhere in the middle: more good beer will be in store and, hopefully, more of it will be local. Just don't expect any radical shifts any time soon. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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BEER // CRAFT

One of Alberta’s enduring craft breweries

A brief history of Canadian craft beer Canada is currently riding the third wave of craft brews Edmonton's Alley Kat Brewing Company is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. Wild Rose Brewing in Calgary is also hitting its two-decade mark. Big Rock turned 30 last year. These are significant milestones in Alberta brewing history, which also mirror important years in Canada's craft-brewing industry. Most people generally agree that Canada's craft-beer era began in 1982. The pioneers were a trio of British ale fans who were frustrated with the lack of decent beer options in Canada. They opened the Horseshoe Bay Brewpub in Victoria, BC, but before they could do so, they had to convince the BC government to alter its liquor laws and permit brewpubs of any form. The resultant legislation forced them to locate the brewhouse across the street from the pub (rather than in the same building), requiring an awkward daily transport of beer. As often happens to trailblazers, they were ahead of their time; the pub closed three years later. Meanwhile, the microbrewery bug was catching on across the country. 1984 was a huge year that saw the opening of Canada's first full-fledged microbrewery: Granville Island in Vancouver, which is still going strong today (although recently as an arm of Molson-Coors). Within months, Canada witnessed the launches of Brick Brewing in Ontario, Spinnaker's Brewpub in Victoria, Nobleman Brewpub in Winnipeg and Alberta's own Big Rock in Calgary. Of the quartet, only Nobleman is not currently operating. Over the next two years, Canada experienced a wave of microbrewery openings including Okanagan Springs, Great Lakes Brewing, Upper Canada and Amsterdam Brewing. In 1988, Tom Daly and Robert Herscovitch made Edmonton's inaugural foray into craft beer with Strathcona Brewing, an operation that lasted about seven years before folding. This first handful of breweries rep-

resent the pioneers of craft beer in Canada. Their beer wasn't outrageous, but it definitely stepped outside the pale, corn-laden lager of the big breweries, offering alternatives like brown ales, wheat beers, pilsners and stouts. Most struggled along for a decade or so as beer consumers oh-so-slowly opened their palates to craft beer. As it turns out, most of these craft producers ended up being quite successful, and some even merged with the big breweries. The second wave of craft beer began 20 years ago. Alongside Alley Kat and Wild Rose in Alberta, other Canadian provinces and territories saw a jump in new openings around that time. These newcomers included names that beer drinkers today will still recognize: Fort Garry, Bear Brewing, Tin Whistle, Steamworks, Quidi Vidi, Kawartha, Howe Sound, Tree Brewing and Yukon Brewing. These breweries were different than their predecessors. While the first wave distinguished themselves by simply offering something other than pale lager, the newer breweries branched out even further and started producing pale ales, IPAs, porters and other styles previously unknown to Canadian beer drinkers. Most of these craft breweries eventually prospered, but it was a slow and steady growth—nothing like the exponential growth we have seen in craft beer in the last few years. We are in the midst of a third wave of craft beer, with breweries opening up weekly across the country. How they fare and what contribution they make is still to be determined, but it's important for all the current players— brewers and drinks alike—to take note of everything the first- and second-wave pioneers accomplished for craft beer in our country: we wouldn't be in this great place without them. JASON FOSTER JASON@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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My favourite story, however, is Ribstone Creek's. Ribstone opened up a couple of years ago in Edgerton, a town of about 400 souls just east of Wainwright. The brewery claimed the silver medal in the porter category for its seasonal brew, Old Man Winter. The beer is most certainly medal-worthy, but it is Ribstone's backstory that makes its win intriguing. Ribstone was started by four Edgerton-area ranchers who wanted to do something different for the community and thought a brewery would be an interesting addition. However, they knew nothing about beer, so they brought in one of the fathers of Canada's craft beer industry, David Beardsell, as a partner to anchor the beer side of the business. They launched with an innocuous pale lager aimed at the rural market and didn't seem to be heading down the craft path. However, Ribstone has surprised many by releasing an IPA year-round and producing some interesting seasonals, including the aforementioned Old Man Winter. However, no competition can be completely free of controversy. The 2015 CBA also awarded a bronze medal to Calgary-based Minhas Micro Brewery in the North American Wheat category. Minhas is a controversial player in the beer world. Many call it a faux-craft brewery, meaning that it market itself as craft but the beer doesn't qualify. Minhas is the 14th-largest

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brewer in the US, and most of its beer is made in a large industrial facility in Wisconsin; the bulk of its production is discount segment beer (Mountain Crest and Boxer are two of its big labels). Minhas' bronze medal made many in the industry unhappy, as they feel it gives the brewery undeserved credibility. Of course, Molson also won medals and would hardly be considered craft, so it is difficult to see why Minhas should be the only one excluded due to lack of craft-ness. The bigger question regarding Minhas' medal is whether the beer was even eligible for the competition. While Minhas does have a small brewery in Calgary, the vast majority of its production is located south of the border. We really have no real way of knowing where its beer was brewed. The big takeaway lesson for Alberta brewers is just how far behind our province is in terms of craft beer. BC breweries walked away with the lion's share of medals, including Brewery of the Year, which was awarded to small Delta brewery Four Winds. Alberta simply doesn't have the critical mass of breweries yet to create a truly dynamic scene like our western neighbour. Hopefully that will change, and the sooner the better. In the meantime, pick up a six-pack of Scona Gold and know that you are drinking a champion.

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PREVUE // DANCE

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n live art, especially the independent kind, practicality eventually undercuts ambition. Unless a particularly generous grant is involved, issues of sheer feasibility inevitably lead to a scaling-back somewhere along the way. But Toy Guns Dance Theatre looks to prove an exception to the rule, as evidenced by its verbosely titled Propylene Glycol, Maltodextrin, Retinol Palmitate, & Other Words I Don’t Understand Like Love: the company's not only managed to create a show impossibly stuffed with props (there are 300 pillows) and performers (12 dancers, an opera singer and a storyteller), but tour it, too, the practicalities of which are far from glamorous. "My father has a large truck that he lends us every weekend," laughs Jake Hastey, Toy Guns' artistic director. "Elizabeth Raycroft, our opera singer, has an old pickup. So we basically just load up a couple trucks [with pillows], and it's the oddest convoy you've ever seen, of SUVs and trucks that are stuffed full." That find-a-way brand of impractical ambition is proving to be the benchmark of a Toy Guns show: over the few last years, the company's emerged into the arts scene with shows that leap through unconventional images with kaleidoscopic fervor. Occasionally the company takes work into unconventional locations, too: Toy Guns has danced through the river valley at sunset (audiences were given flashlights to light the end of the performance), and now, with this run of Propylne Glycol—which you may recognize as a held-over hit from last year's Fringe Festival—it's setting up in Mattress Mattress, a bedding store out on St Albert Trail. The audience will perch on the mattresses to watch; you can reserve an entire bed for you and your friends, if you choose.

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Propylne Glycol's initial seeds emerged in the wake of a tragedy: Hastey was teaching at a dance school in St Paul when one of his students suddenly passed away. "It was a really tight-knit studio; there was 130 kids, everyone knew everyone," he recalls. "This accident happened, and from there, I made the conscious choice that we're going to find some meaning to doing things that are joyful, and abundant, and full." While creating a show with those students, pillows kept factoring in: a couple here, a couple there. "Then one night, the mind-flip happened, and I saw the image of a head coming out of a mountain of pillows built on top," Hastey says. "From that one night, there was tracklist of 28 songs, and pages of notes. It just kind of exploded." Early in Propylne Glycol's genesis, the company talked to the mattress store about performing there, but were turned down, though for reasons Hastey can understand—"at that point, Toy Guns had never actually performed a real show," he says. But after a year of experience and acclaim, the store came around. More than one did, actually: Toy Guns is just back from a Calgary run in a Mattress store down there, too. But Cowtown isn't as far as the pillow-stuffed convoy of vehicles will have to go with the show: Hastey's still expanding on Propylene Glycol, with plans to make it bigger and take it further. "The next incarnation is more like a fulllength evening," Hastey says. "The intention is to take it into a national tour."

Fri, Jul 3 (10 pm); Sat, Jul 4 & Sun, Jul 5 (8 pm) Propylene Glycol, Maltodextrin, Retinol Palmitate, & Other Words I Don’t Understand Like Love Mattress Mattress (13062, St Albert Trail), $20 – $25 (reserve a front-row bed for $80)

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PREVUE // FESTIVAL

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sually people aren't just walking aimlessly around in the street," Denis Lock says. "They've got somewhere to go or somebody to meet or something to do. So you have to be able to stop them and say, 'OK, this is worth watching for a second.' And then you have to be able to give them the confidence that you're not going to waste their time." He'd know; as one-half of the streetperformance duo the English Gents, Lock's spent the better part of a decade learning to intrigue passers-by from the curb. Lock, alongside fellow Gent Hamish McCann, is returning to this year's Edmonton's International Street Performers Festival, now in its 31st year of filling Churchill Square with open-air performances you can wander up to and away from at your whim, paying whatever you decide it's worth. Lock and McCann play two King-and-Country London-types, performing feats of

acrobatic strength and balance while clad in bowler hats and drinking tea. There's a cheeky sensibility to their approach, Lock notes, something he sees as a key not just to their act, but to drawing people into forming a streetside audience. "There's a sense of irony on the street, because we're street performers," he says. "There's a reputation to street performers, a connotation of begging, or pan-handling. So we're not in the upper echelons of society. I think there's a sense of self-deprecation in the humour of street performing that sits well." Apparent in StreetFest—and its myriad equivalents in other cities, as well as the busking portions of other arts festivals—is how indelibly international the outdoor performance circuit is, and perhaps no group illustrates that better than the Gents: two English characters, created by two Australians who met

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while performing acrobatics together in Japan. They do have a day job, sort of: Lock and McCann spend most of the year on the road with La Soirée, a touring cabaret show that has them doing an abridged version of their outdoor act. But Lock notes they jump at the chance to get out of the tent and back to the open-air to perform whenever they can. It's been a few years since the English Gents have made it out to the Edmonton festival, but Lock harbours fond memories of last time: downtime spent reading in the river valley, and generally basking in Canada's peak season. He's well aware of what the other eight months are like here, even if he never encounters it. "We have this image of Canada being an incredibly hot kind-of paradise," he says. "We've never been in the winter."

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Coriolanus // Lucas Boutilier

As You Like It // Lucas Boutilier

Until Sun, Jul 19 (8 pm; As You Like It on odd dates and all weekend matinees, Coriolanus on even dates) Hawrelak Park, $22 – $32 ($53 festival pass)

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he ladies have prevailed!" cries a messenger at the end of Coriolanus, celebrating how the antihero's wife and mother have convinced him to spare Rome from his wrath. The words apply just as well to the Freewill Shakespeare Festival itself, where Belinda Cornish and Mary Hulbert stand out in a large, talented, male-dominated cast. Their chemistry as Celia and Rosalind in As You Like It leads to some hilarious non-verbal exchanges, where our heroines perform their secret handshake, cockblock each other's attempts to get with boys they like and offer each other unwavering support in their hours of need. Cornish in particular owns the Heri-

tage Amphitheatre stage, delivering a show-stopping monologue as Volumnia in the final act of Coriolanus. She pivots mercilessly between flattery, emotional blackmail and strategic wretchedness as she manipulates her son, the short-fused war-hero-turnedpolitical candidate. At first glance Coriolanus seems like a Shakespearean House of Cards, with its scheming power-hungry politicians, or like The Hunger Games, with its grain riots and class oppression (it's no coincidence that the latter series' evil President Snow takes his first name from our aristocratic, democracy-hating hero). But it's really a case of Toddlers in Tiaras, as our war hero/reluctant poli-

tician's mother stage-manages him to his death. Volumnia plucks his puppet strings in every scene, and the Oedipal subtext is just text. His wife Virgilia (Hulbert) is often left standing on the sidelines, watching the sparks fly between her husband and his mother. John Ullyatt's Coriolanus is ragefilled but inscrutable, dealing with internal turmoil that rarely breaks through to his surface. He stomps across the stage, alternating between petulant mama's boy and PTSD sufferer. "I'd rather have my wounds to heal again than hear say how I got them," he confesses in one of the show's more honest emotional moments. Mostly Coriolanus steamrolls over these quieter scenes, its fast-

paced action driving us on towards its inevitable tragic conclusion. Much of the fun of the Freewill Shakespeare Festival comes from comparing the two shows and seeing the same cast of actors swap out their tragic masks for comedic ones. After raging and roaring at the plebeian mob, Ullyatt delights the audience by prancing across the stage in As You Like It. He channels Beauty and the Beast's Lumière as he plays the scenery-chewing French stereotype Le Beau. Robert Benz proves to be a gifted storyteller as Menenius in Coriolanus, giving the show some much-needed humour as he waxes on about bellies

and butterflies. In As You Like It, he plays the much more uni-dimensional Duke Frederick, barking away at his niece and daughter and generally being a dick to everyone. Coriolanus is action-packed, starting off quick out of the gate with a hunger riot and a battle scene. As You Like It starts more slowly, but it picks up steam as it goes along, adding in more and more characters and giving everyone in the ensemble a chance to shine. Touchstone (Ryan Parker) and Audrey (Morgan Parker) are especially charming in their raunchy flirtations. Amiens (Nicholas Donald Rose) is a Kurt Hummel-esque singer who serenades us with a few pastoral melodies. Charles (Jesse Gervais) and Orlando (Andrew MacDonaldSmith) share an intensely funny wrestling scene. Their perfectly choreographed physical comedy draws laugh after laugh as they bumble around the stage. Patrick Howarth deserves great credit for his fight choreography, not only for this scene in As You Like It, but also for the lightsaber-style duels which take up a huge portion of Coriolanus. The two shows, despite being worlds apart, pair together like a bloody steak dinner and a fluffy angel food cake. Coriolanus, rarely performed because of its hero's emotional distance and opacity, offers a meaty critique on the theatrics of democracy and the stupidity of the easily manipulated mob. As You Like It, a perennial crowd-pleaser, which has been featured many times at the festival, offers a sweet escape from such heavy intellectual issues. Whether you take them separately or together, this year's Freewill Shakespeare plays both make for an enjoyable night out in the park. BRUCE CINNAMON

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EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • Jul 4, 8pm

FEATS FESTIVAL OF DANCE • Various locations throughout Edmonton • abdancealliance.ab.ca • info@abdancealliance. ab.ca • 1.888.422.8107 • A multi-disciplinary dance festival • Jul 1-12

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

FILM CAPITOL THEATRE CINEMA SERIES: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD • Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Enjoy classic films on the big screen • Jul 2, 7:30pm • $10.50 + taxes and fees

CAPITOL THEATRE CINEMA SERIES: HUSH, HUSH, SWEET CHARLOTTE • Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Enjoy classic films on the big screen • Jul 9, 7:30 pm • $10.50 + taxes and fees

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Project Nim (Jul 8), Two Days, One Night (Jul 15), Blue Ruin (Jun 22) • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@ gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/movies/movies. cfm • In The Good Old Summertime (Jul 6), Broadway Melody Of 1940 (Jul 13), Deep In My Heart (Jul 20), Three Smart Girls (Jul 27), Summer Stock (Aug 10), The Toast Of New Orleans (Aug 17), Lullaby Of Broadway (Aug 24), For Me And My Gal (Aug 31) • 8pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Souvenir of Canada (Jul 3), The Sweet Hereafter (Jul 10), Whale Music (Jul 17), The Lesser Blessed (Jul 24), Away From Her (Jul 31) • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm •

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • CULT CINEMA: The Last Detail (Jul 21), Dog Day Afternoon (Aug 25) • Music Docs: Dead Venues (Jul 16), Salad Days: A Decade of Punk from Washington, DC (Aug 4) • DEDfEst: White God (Jul 12-17), Big Game (Jul 10-15), Straight to Video: A B-Movie Odyssey With Surprise feature! Theatrical Premiere (Aug 7) • criME Watch: Clue (Jul 21) • MEtro Bizarro: Little Shop of Horrors (Jul 15), Tetsuo, The Iron Man (Aug 12)

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GALLERIES + MUSEUMS 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

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Jun 30-Jul 27; Opening reception: Jul 2 • After: artwork by Laara Cassells; Jul 10-Aug 30; Opening reception: Jul 10, 7pm (artist in attendance)

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)

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Strathcona Salon Series Acquisitions And Loans; May 15-Jun 28

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 : Illustrative Self Portraits (Jul 8); Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • Conversation with the artist: Problem Solving with the Unlimited Dream Company (Jul 8), Publication as Art Practice: A Workshop with Publication Studio Vancouver (Jul 15), Jack Bush: A Garden of Colour (Jul 29) • all Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA)

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CONCOURSE WALL • Near Parkade, ATB Place, 10025 Jasper Ave/10020-100 St • Mountain High: Nine large acrylic on canvas colorful paintings by Donna Miller inspired by hikes in the Rocky Mountains; Jun 22-Jul 30

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

DEVONIAN BOTANICAL GARDEN • 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • devonian.ualberta.ca • Martagon Lily Show: View the subtle shadings and stunning collage of colours from cut stems of locally grown Martagon Lilies in a judged flower show • Jul 4-5

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • No Job More Dangerous–An Exhibition on Two Sites: art by Royden Mills; Jun 17-Aug 1

MY EX-EX • Landmark Cinemas 9 City

EDMONTON ARTS COUNCIL • Borden Park,

Centre, 10200-102nd Ave • kathleen.hansma@ a71entertainment.com • landmarkcinemas.com • When Mary's boyfriend Ted invites her out to a fancy restaurant, she's convinced he's going to pop the question. But instead of getting hitched, she gets dumped. Mary’s friends convince her to see a psychic to reignite her love life, but will it end with her ex or her ex-ex? Rated 18A • Jul 8, 7-9pm • $12.99 (general admission)

7507 Borden Park Rd NW • 780.424.2787 ext 239 • aaslund@edmontonarts.ca • 20th Anniversary Summer Party: Featuring Switches, Mitchmatic, Charlotte Cranston, Karimah and guests on the bandshell stage. While you're there, wander through Borden Park and enjoy the temporary sculpture park. Free water and cotton candy will be available • Jul 12, 4-7pm • Free

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: Muted Forces: Nika Blasser; Jun 18-Jul 9

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 • Instructors and Students; Jul 14-Aug 26

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• 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 9-12; Opening reception: Jul 9, 6pm

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Alarm Songs: Leisure Machine: artwork by Dominique Sirois; Jun 5-Jul 11 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital,

Albert. Includes WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Gemport, Art Beat Gallery, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA) and Rental & Sales Gallery (AGSA), Satellite Studio (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, Crimson Quill, St Albert Constituency, Concept Jewellery, VASA • artwalkstalbert.com • The art hits the streets again for its 15th year! Discover this art destination, a place to enjoy, view and buy art to suit all tastes and budgets. See returning artists and new ones • Jul 2, Aug 6, Sep 3 (exhibits run all month)

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 •

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

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St

ARTWALK • Perron District, downtown St

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Large Places and Lofty Spaces: large scale works by gallery artists; Jun 12-Jul 12

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15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • What is Left Behind: art by Sarah Pike & Erin Ross; Jun 4-Aug 1 • Parallel Topographies: art by Etty Yaniv; Jul 2-Aug 1; reception: Jul 2, 6-9pm • Verve: artwork by Patricia Coulter & Donna Marchyshyn-Shymko; Aug 6-Sep 26; Opening reception: Aug 6, 6-9pm • art Ventures: Painting the Prairie (Jul 18); 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • ageless art: Pastoral Paintings (Jul 16), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Creative Clay (Jul 11); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

MUSIC VIDEOS BEHIND THE LENS • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivaplace.ab.ca • Will give participants the opportunity to learn about this cultural art form and create their own for the world to see and hear • Jul 6-24, 9am-5pm

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112 St • 780.492.2081 • Party Paintings: artwork by Campbell Wallace; Jun 5-Jul 11 • Our Anaerobic Future: Aaron Veldstra, MFA Drawing & Intermedia final visual presentation; Jun 16-Jul 11

8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • The Language of Flowers: art by Elaine Tweedy; Jul 4-Aug 23; Opening reception: Jul 9, 7-9pm

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 541151 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Artwork by Igor Woroniuk; Jun 13-Jul 10

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@ artsandheritage.ca • 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 NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@ thenina.ca • Closed Jul 24-Aug 4 • Summer Republic III: Art from the NHCA's collective; Jul 6-Aug 14; Opening reception: Jul 9, 5-7pm • Nina Fused Glass Art Night; Jul 17, 7-10pm • $49-$69, available at Eventbrite

PARADE GALLERY • Window Display Box 101 Street, 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 • Summer Heat Group Show: by gallery artists; Jun 27-Jul 18 • Art in Bloom: Local Florists interpreting art in their floral designs; Jul 9-Jul 12

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

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Glimpses Of The Grasslands: The Artistic Vision of Colin Starkevich; May 16-Aug 23 • The Grand Tour; Jun 28-Aug 27

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print -Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Present Density: artwork

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SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • MAIN GALLERY: Feature Artist David Pettis; through Jul

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Dinosaurs Unearthed: until Oct 11; $26.50 (adult), $19.50 (child), $23.50 (youth/student/ senior) • Dinos in the Dark; Jul 3, 6-8pm • Carnivore Vs. Herbivore Food Truck Challenge; Jul 4, 12-4pm • Dark Matters "Nerdgasm"; Aug 20, 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 WALTERDALE THEATRE GALLERY • 10322-83 Ave • albertasocietyofartists.com • New Works: May 17-Jul 12

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THEATRE A MAN OF NO IMPORTANCE • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • walterdaletheatre. com • By day, Alfie Byrne dispenses bus tickets and recites the works of Oscar Wilde to his passengers. By night, he is the the artistic director of the St. Imelda's Players, an eclectic group of locals who put on shows in the basement of a church. Though, they're met with criticisms by Father Kenny who is opposed to any less-than-wholesome productions • Jul 2-12 • $21.75 (adult), $17.75 (student/senior)

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13 DISNEY'S THE LION KING • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • jubileeauditorium. com • Based on the classic Disney movie. Tells the story of Simba, a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as king; however, after Simba's uncle Scar murders Mufasa, Simba is manipulated into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile in shame and despair. Upon maturation living with two wastrels, Simba is given some valuable perspective from his friend, Nala, and his shaman, Rafiki, before returning to challenge Scar to end his tyranny • Jul 14-Aug 9

WHYTE AVENUE ART WALK • Between 100 St and 108 St, Old Strathcona • art-walk. ca • An outdoor studio and gallery featuring hundreds of working artists • Jul 10-12, 10am-5pm

Edmonton • edmontonstreetfest.com • Watch different street performers use their special talents to amaze audiences of all ages • Jul 3-12

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15TH ANNUAL STRATHCONA COUNTY GARDEN TOUR • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • info@sclibrary.ab.ca • sclibrary.ab.ca • A unique fundraiser organized by the Friends of Strathcona County Library. Pack a hat and hop in the car for a day of fresh air and sunshine, on this self-guided tour that will take you to ten of the most beautiful gardens in Sherwood Park and rural Strathcona County • Jul 12, 10am-5pm • $12

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780. 423.3487 • audreys.ca • Dee Hobsbawn-Smith "What Can't Be Undone: Stories" Reading and Signing; Jul 2, 7pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

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• Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, 9330 Groat Road • freewillshakespeare.com • The festival returns outdoors for its 27th season with two plays: "As You Like It" and "Coriolanus" • Jun 23-Jul 19; Evening shows start at 8pm, and matinees start at 2pm. There are no shows on Mon • $20 (student/ senior single pass), $30 (general single pass), plus applicable fees; pay-what-youwill performances on Tue evenings and Sat matinees

THE LONG WEEKEND • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave NW • mayfieldtheatre. ca • Max and Wynn are about to show off their beautiful new country home to their best friends, Roger and Abby, but it doesn’t take long to uncover the true feelings behind this long friendship • Jun 19-Aug 2

Room,10575-114 St • edmontonstoryslam. com • facebook.com/mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

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)

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ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

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

SPINE-TINGLING TALES • Edmonton Cemetery–Mausoleum, 11820-107 Ave • 780.907.3231 • tiedynamics@telus.net • Jul 10-11, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (per person); tickets in advence or at the gate • Bring your own seating

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 TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736;

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

PROPYLENE GLYCOL, MALTODEXTRIN, RETINOL PALMITATE, & OTHER WORDS I DON’T UNDERSTAND LIKE LOVE • Mattress Mattress, 13062 St Albert Trail • toygunstheatre.com • A visual spectacular with 300 pillows, 12 dancers, an opera singer, and storyteller. Previously part of the 2014 Fringe Festival • Jul 3-5 • ($80 reserved front row bed for family/friends), $25, $20 for students/ seniors

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

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

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Genisys trots the Terminator franchise out for an entertaining, almost-interesting instalment Now playing Directed by Alan Taylor 

'm old, not obsolete." That's Arnold Schwarzenegger's T-800 (Model 101) defending his—and Schwarzenegger's—continuing role in saving mankind by delivering a quip so quippy it's dispensed no less than three times over the course of Terminator: Genisys. But ol' T-800 could just as easily be defending the entire Terminator franchise, which, in terms of narrative cohesion, has permanently guarded itself against obsolescence by incorporating a confusing series of parallel destinies generated by its characters' ability to travel through time and alter history. No amount of time travel, however, can alter the fact that the original Terminator remains the most inspired, efficient and charming—and cheap!— of the current quintet of Terminator manifestations.

The film is quite entertaining, and so many things in it are almost interesting: the nods toward La jetée and Frankenstein, the nonsensical discussions about free will—and, by the way, where do the robots keep finding the will to destroy mankind?—and the story's overriding anti-consumerist critique. That's right: Terminator: Genisys is critical of you buying stuff, "Genisys" being the name of a new operating system that will link every device you own—and, little do we stupid tech-mongers realize, allow the robots to crush us all in their invincible liquid-metal grips! Which reminds me: do you like monster truck rallies? Because there is this larger question, looming over Transformers, Terminators and superheroes alike, about how long it takes to lose interest in machines

Which is not to say that Genisys is without merit. Beginning in 2029, the story follows post-apocalyptic resistance fighter Kyle Reese (Jai Courtney) as he travels back to 1984—the year of the original film—to protect Sarah Connor (Emilia Clarke) from killer robots so that she can give birth to John Connor (Jason Clarke), the leader of the anti-killer robot resistance. But circumstances are such that Kyle and Sarah, with the help of Schwarzenegger's T-800, whom Sarah affectionately dubs "Pops," then need to travel to 2017, which, now that history has been repeatedly altered, has become the year formerly known as 1997, aka the year of "Judgment Day," when the killer robots take over and slaughter most humans. I can't possibly explain all this without using up my entire word-count, but you'll be glad when

you make it to 2017 because that's when some good actors—J K Simmons!—arrive to infuse the supporting characters with a little life. Genisys, alas, follows the original Terminator in placing the star in a supporting robot role while sticking a robotic actor in the lead, while replacing tough Linda Hamilton with baby-faced and not terribly convincing Clarke. Still, it's fun how "Pops" assumes the role of overprotective dad to Kyle's hubristic suitor. And it's appealingly morbid how Kyle has spent his whole life in love with Sarah, a dead woman he knows only from a snapshot of her wearing a headband. Until, of course, he gets to meet Sarah (sans headband) in 1984 and they take a trip to 2017 together, naked and embracing in the time machine.

fried), working pro bon(g)o, hit court to prove the talking toy should be considered a fellow American.

production-values huffed and puffed into action showdowns at a ComicCon, speeches in court and pointless musical numbers. As in the scenes of a nocturnal mission to jerk off a sleeping Tom Brady or a sperm-bank spill, spurts of comedy come off more often than not as splatting duds. The funniest bit here may be an outré scene of Now playing Liam Neeson buying Directed by Seth MacFarlane kids' cereal in a self-  parody of his gravelvoiced action-film characters. Then it's back to trip-outs, pop-culture references, a dream-field of marijuana plants, decidedly poo-like (not Pooh-like) inquiries into the person-ness of bear-being, and a closing joke about a stinky diaper. Well, if the shit-serviette fits ...

pummeling each other without ever being in danger of annihilation. It's not exactly suspenseful. Also, speaking of boringly invincible robots, that quip—"I'm old, not obsolete"—is made because Kyle notices that Schwarzenegger's T-800's flesh looks less fresh than the other Terminators. The logic being that, while robots stay the same inside, robot flesh is just like human flesh—which is weird because "Pops" gets his flesh ripped to shreds multiple times in Genisys, and within minutes it seems to grow right back to normal 67-year-old formergovernor-of-California flesh. Baffling! But I'm confident the next chapter in the interminable Terminator saga will figure out why this is, and explain it in some expository dialogue.

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orget a teddy come magically to life. Ted must be a cyborg, his name an acronym for Tedious, Ersatz D(r) oll-ness. This soft, squidgy sequel— twice as not absolutely horrible as its mean, small-minded predecessor, only because it's half as crass and stupid— squanders its comic not-quite-crappiness by padding out its length and getting seriously dull in its exploration of a talking bear's "personhood." (Paddington versus Descartes, anyone? I thought not, therefore I zzzzzzzz.) Recently married Ted (voiced by creator, co-writer and director Seth MacFarlane) and Tami-Lynn (Jessica Barth) discover in the process of trying to adopt that Ted's not considered a person but rather property. The bong-hitting bear, along with his bong-hitting pal John (Mark Wahlberg) and newfound pot-partier and lawyer Samantha (Amanda Sey-

This time, the movie's mostly offensive and lazy in its serious pursuit of Ted's personhood, making self-important, earnest analogies to gay-rights and, especially, slaves' emancipation (Morgan Freeman even pops up to pronounce yet another dunderheaded Civil Rights disquisition in his dulcet tones). The class-clowning—millionaires like MacFarlane and Wahlberg posing as just your average Bahstahn working guys who like porn, beer, bongs and popculture—seems even more obvious and slumming this go-around. Ted 2 comes off like a bad Kevin Smith script (a redundant phrase by now) reworked after plenty of hits on the big old Lebowski pipe, but with plenty of money and higggghhhhh

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ized ensemble drama does not make for feel-good television. What it does instead is offer one of the most captivating, fascinating new shows I've come across in a while. I didn't even hear of it during its original broadcast last year, but I caught up with it on Blu-ray. Paranoia is kept at a fever pitch. One of the elements that makes Manhattan work so well as long-form narrative is that the milieu dictates a palimpsest of networks of secrecy. The scientists don't tell their families what they're doing, and the military mostly doesn't know, either; the scientists are divided into competing factions with conflicting theories, and even within those factions there are reasons for individual members to keep things from each other. On top of this, xenophobia, despair over the war's tremendous body count, the rising tide of anti-communist sentiment and the very real fear of spies prompts still more reasons for nearly every one of the show's characters to retain their own private shards of potentially explosive information. As with other recent shows that examine turning points in 20th-century Ameri-

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can history, like Mad Men or Masters of Sex, the placement of women in positions of limited power prompts opportunities for some smartly rendered feminist undercurrents, while one of the more ingenious twists late in season one concerns a shipment of plutonium that can only make it across the country undisturbed in one of two ways: either in a heavily protected convoy moving by train under the watch a hundreds of military personnel—or in the suitcase of a single, unnamed African-American civilian. Lastly, I want to mention some performances that help make Manhattan so compelling. John Benjamin Hickey plays the haggard, antisocial, workaholic physicist Frank Winter (loosely based on Seth Neddermeyer) who leads the group working on the implosion theory, while Ashley Zukerman plays Charlie Isaacs, a young hotshot with the group developing the so-called gun model. (I mentioned Mad Men— there are several reasons why Frank and Charlie's dynamic recalls that of Don Draper and Peter Campbell, though Frank doesn't woo the ladies and Charlie isn't annoying.) Olivia Williams (Rushmore) is complex and sympathetic as Liz Winter, a botanist and Frank's wife; Rachel Brosnahan, as Charlie's wife Abby, has one of the season's most intriguing arcs; and Katja Herbers is wonderfully spunky as Helen Prins, sexually active without the slightest interest in ingratiating herself to men, and one of Los Alamos' very few female scientists. David Harbour is great as Winter's nemesis, Richard Schiff (The West Wing) is chilling as a bloodless interrogator, and Daniel London (Old Joy) is not only a dead ringer for the eccentric Los Alamos scientific director Robert Oppenheimer, but also achieves the remarkable feat of imbuing the show's one extremely famous reallife figure with human traits while still rendering him an absolute enigma—just as nuclear physics is rendered at once mysterious and comprehendible enough to understand the story's stakes. Oppenheimer seems set to play an increasingly larger role as the series continues. Which, thankfully, it is set to for the time being: season two of Manhattan will be broadcast this fall. V

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boy's adventure that's War Horse meets Dolphin Tale but with man's best friend, Max doesn't gallop along but doesn't flipper-flop either. It has its moments—mostly involving the title character, a Belgian Malinois—but its human story remains stock and stodgy. After Kyle Wincott's killed in active duty in Afghanistan, Max, his PTSDafflicted military working dog, is brought back to Texas. Kyle's brother Justin (Josh Wiggins) reluctantly takes Max in, but when Kyle's arms-filching comrade Tyler (Luke Kleintank) returns, plying his illegal weaponstrade on home soil, boy and dog must combine forces to do the right thing. Justin at first seems like just another surly teen, playing video games when he's not ripping-and-burning them to sell. But soon both his quiet resolve

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and mountain-biking athleticism are revealed. For all the film's focus on the dog's trauma, though, Max doesn't know what to do with human grief, tamping down the family's own trauma and denying yet another parallel with this dog—by turns snarling, whimpering and loyal—that's come into their lives. The movie scuppers most of its fascinating potential to reflect a family's loneliness, loss and yearning through the eyes of a dog, preferring to simply twin its buddyadventure to a tribute-to-troops. (The bereaved mother is left as a stiff, bromide-spouting matriarch.) Cringingly, Justin's friend Chuy (Dejon LaQuake) is a slang-dropping Latino whose cousin Carmen (Mia Xitlali) is a savvy-beyond-her-years (and yours and mine) dog whisperer,

Now playing Directed by Boaz Yakin  spunky gal and chic hottie all rolled into one love interest for Justin. If there were some gritty, scruff-of-theneck coming-of-age scenes, the movie might be memorable, but sequences are overscored and overshot (awkward zooms and tracking). As for politics, there's a little questioning of both heroism and the arms trade, but then the movie slips meekly back into its red-state-America kennel. Of course, there's that kids'-movie moment where the moral's baldly announced—Justin's veteran dad (Thomas Haden Church) says that heroes tell the truth. Here goes, then: this movie's got a lot more bark than bite; Max is nothing to go mad over.

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or Sam Roberts, there was a sense of freedom that came with releasing an EP. It wasn't part of the standard album cycle, so there was less pressure and expectation placed on the disc, leaving ample room for experimentation and allowing songs that didn't make it onto Lo-Fantasy, the band's previous album, to find a home. The EP, Counting the Days, was released on Record Store Day in April and lays out four original tracks and a cover of "Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum. It opens with an eightminute psychedelic trip on the title track and touches on various sonic territory, from the upbeat pop singalong "Broken Teeth" to the nostalgic acoustic closer "Durban Days." There's also an alternate version of "Chasing The Light," a tune from Lo-Fantasy, but Roberts points out that the "alternate" is actually the original version.

"That's how the idea came to life, and I think the fact that we deviated from that first idea, that original idea, as much as we did, is sort of indicative of where we are as a band, and certainly for myself where I am as a songwriter," he says during a layover in Toronto before heading to Cuba for a few gigs. "I'm willing to leave the definition of a song open-ended much longer than I was before. It used to be that how it came out is how it's going to be; now there's this willingness to see where it'll take you." Each version of "Chasing The Light" has its own sonic character, with the Lo-Fantasy analogue projecting an '80s-like, synth-driven feel, with the vocals weaving in amongst the bass line. In contrast, on Counting the Days, the song gets new life as a pop-rock anthem, with the vocals at the forefront and accompanied by harder-hitting

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guitar melodies. Each take has its own merits, and Roberts notes the original version wasn't used on Lo-Fantasy because it didn't seem to fit the overall feel of that album, but he didn't want it—or any of the songs on the EP, for that matter—to get lost in the ether. "I wanted the record to be a very cohesive listening experience, because I'm still a believer in the album as a format," he explains. "I want people to follow the trajectory, follow the journey from start to finish, and so there are these songs that I felt that, on any other record, these songs would be front and centre, by my reckoning, anyway. And here they were on the verge of being cut from the roster; it's like cutting your own kid from the soccer team you're coaching." The band teamed up with Youth (aka Martin Glover), the same producer

behind Lo-Fantasy, who's known for his straight-shooting, blunt approach. Roberts says the more the band records, the more open-minded it has become to its recording approach, and sometimes it takes someone with the strength of character Youth has to make that happen. "[He'll] tell you in no uncertain terms what he feels about what he hears. It doesn't mean he's necessarily right ... but when somebody's willing to say that that latest guitar take is lame or sounded cabaret, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean," he laughs. "In a way he sort of shook us up in just the way we needed him to, which was to break us out of all the things we were used to falling back on, all the habits that have maybe worked for us in the past but aren't necessarily going to take us anywhere in the future." That idea has carried into Roberts' re-

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cent writing, too. He's in the midst of working on songs for another record and notes that a lot of Youth's spirit still resonates with him, comparing it to having a devil and angel on each shoulder telling him what to do. "One of the things he was unapologetic about was keeping the song alive, and I mean alive in the sense of don't give it limitations," he adds. "I really feel that as a songwriter that now I'm sort of just trying to keep the door open for new ideas, keep the door open for potentially the song running down the street and you have to chase after it and wrestle it to the group. In that sense, your album, the music you're trying to make is alive until you finally put the cap on the bottle and put it out there, and that's one expression. That'll still only be one version of it." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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Part of the music-inclined Holtby family—which includes rap impresario Mitchmatic and smooth-crooner Teddy—Jessica Holtby anchors her songwriting en français, pairing the language of love with jazz, folk, pop and reggae sounds. She also did a string of gigs opening for Mos Def last summer, which, if you'll pardon my French, is pretty fucking sweet. (Carrot Community Arts Coffee House, $5)

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No Problem's back from a few weeks in Europe—the band's third jaunt across the pond—and the local hardcore outfit is anchoring its homecoming with a bill of like-minded out-of-towners: From Calgary comes Golden Path, and from Minneapolis hails Wild Child. Both sound reaaaal evil. Bring ear protection. (Brixx, $10) MELT-BANANA / MON, JUL 6 (8 PM)

For more than two decades, drawn out across 10 albums and 23 split-EPs, Japan's Melt-Banana has been pushing noise rock into weirder and weirder territories. It continues to do so today: the band's most recent LP, 2013's Fetch, features guitars that shift and shudder like earthquakes, spazzy, glitched-out sound effects, octopus-armed drumming and butterfly flaps of pop sensibility and stillness to anchor the hurricane of sound it conjures up. But maybe the least believable element of Melt-Banana's endurance is this: Yasuko Onuki and Ichirou Agata still operate the band's primary web presence out of a Geocities page. Yes, there's a Melt-Banana Facebook, too, but they keep that original website updated. Now that's hardcore. (Union Hall, $20)

JOM COMYN EP RELEASE / THU, JUL 9 (9 PM)

It's been a quiet couple of months for Jom Comyn, a songwriter whose gravelly baritone and sculptural instrumentals transmute the thoughts and feelings of Edmonton's winters with otherworldly accuracy. But he's coming out of hibernation: following an appearance at this just-past Sled Island, he's set to release The Black Pits EP, a collection of six songs all recorded and mixed by different producers. For the show, he'll be doing two small sets in two different band configurations alongside a performance by Mauno, the new band of the indelible east-coast songwriter Nick Everett. And if staying out late on a Thursday night isn't your thing, it's cool: the whole thing will be over before midnight arrives. (Wunderbar, $10)

Jom Comyn // Dylan Howard

PIANOFEST / SAT, JUL 4 – SAT, JUL 18

Is piano your forte? Did you understand and then immediately groan at the bad pun in that first question? Then Pianofest is probably for you: anchored in Pigeon Lake, AB, but including a scatter of venues across Edmonton, the festival's offering up two weeks of ivory-tickling showcases, everything from a children's concert to a late-night avant-garde cabaret at Brittany's Lounge. The full schedule's over at albertapianofest.com. Check it out or forever hold your fermata. (Various locations)

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e can pull on the heartstrings, but we can punch you in the face," says Ryan Maier over a pint downtown. He's discussing the debut self-titled EP from local four-piece Whale and the Wolf, six songs that alternate between brash, in-your-face rock anthems to more pensive, downtempo tunes, with the gamut covered in between. But it's that sense of range the band was after on the release. "Whether it's a great driving song on the highway, reflective music mixed with, 'Hey, I'm going for a run or I'm doing some sort of sporting activity, I can stick this in for pump-up music on the way.' And then there's songs you can listen to when you're ready to go out for the night," Maier notes. "There's songs where you're just hungover on a Sunday and you've got some drinker's remorse going on, and so on. I want there to be range, which I think we've covered." It's a lot to pack into six songs, but the first three that are available online—the rest are under wraps until the release show—make good on the ethos of exuding sonic diversity. The lyrics, penned by Maier, also don't rest on one particular idea. The

band—which formed in 2013 with Maier on vocals and guitar, Brandon Yaggey on lead guitar, Lucas Holt on bass and Sean Waddingham on drums—has coined its particular style "erotic rock," but Maier notes it's more about the "wet, reverb-y nature" of Whale and the Wolf's music than anything sexual. Sure, the lyrics veer into the rougher side of love— break-ups and the like—but Maier doesn't want to be pigeonholed as a band that only writes those types of

songs, either. "I would say half of the songs are kind of relationship-y, in a rough patch," Maier adds. "[The other half] of the songs, one of them's got that political angle, one's got an epic journey-of-love-type angle, and the other one's sort of got that angle of that girl who just can't seem to get it right and heads off into the world to try and find herself and ends up with the wrong crew."

Whale and the Wolf has what Maier called a "good problem," in that it pumps out more songs than it can fiscally record, and the band plans to get to work on another recording as soon as possible, be it another album or stand-alone singles. He credits this to the group's dynamic and ability to work well together—it doesn't hurt that the guys are all good friends, something that comes across in its live performance, too. "The band has created the sound,

Fri, Jul 3 (8 pm) With Kickupafuss, Tanner Gordon and His Band, the Dear Kills Union Hall, $10 and I'm lucky enough to have these guys that can make these sounds that I can write to so easily," he explains. "So without one of the members of the band it wouldn't be the same band. You take one of them away and this whole writing process would have been out the window."

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The Frolics I

t's been a busy 11 months for the Frolics. Upon recording Sippin' Lemonade in Nashville in 2014, the Edmontonbased trio—Scott Fralick, Amy Fralick and Ali D—were already thinking about getting to work on their fifth studio album. While recording south of the border, the Frolics also applied for the Rawlco Radio grant, and when the band returned to Edmonton, it received an email saying that it had been selected. "We put out two full albums in a year," says Scott, who plays guitar. "It was 11 months." The Frolics decided to use the $10 000 grant to book Nashville

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producer Eric Fritsch—whom they worked with on Sippin' Lemonade— and recording time in Sun Studios in Memphis, TN—the same studio where music greats like Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash recorded in their prime—to record that fifth album, which the band titled Sun Sets. "It's a really small room—not much bigger than your living room. A living room with a window to the control room, which was really small and a toilet right off the control room, which was awkward," Scott laughs. However, recording at Sun Studios came with challenges other than lack

of space. Since the studio is so small, the Frolics had to lower its volume— a stark contrast from its usual highenergy style and hard-hitting surf-rock melodies. "The previous album was really gritty ... [it] was incredibly loud," Scott explains. "[For] Sun Sets we actually had to play quiet. We had to rehearse in Nashville days before to play as quiet as possible. Apparently at Sun Studios ... if you play too loud, everything bleeds into everything and it just sounds like noise. "I'd be hitting and I couldn't hear my guitar," he continues. "I would have to

walk over quietly to where Amy was singing, so I [could] hear her." The Frolics didn't have access to long recording hours at Sun Studio, either. "We only had two nights to record Sun Sets—two eight-hour days," Scott explains. "Not only that, but [Sun Studios] is a museum during the day, so you can only go in at six at night." In typical Frolic fashion, Sun Sets is a combination of surf, punk and camp, but has some country elements to it, too. For previous albums, much like Sippin' Lemonade, the trio made a conscious effort to be more gritty than

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country, but Scott says the group was "thrown back into it with Sun Sets." The first four tracks were written alongside Fritsch, who added more of a surf sound to it. The remaining six have a stronger 1950s-country element to it (think Elvis Presley's "Hound Dog" days). "[Sun Sets] reminds me of summer," notes Amy, who sings and plays bass. "I think that's it. Amy loves summer," Scott adds. "This is what the entire band is based on: Her desire growing up in Seattle for sun instead of rain."

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can't dance myself, so Fred Astaire came to mind," Matthew Angus says. The dance legend appears in the video for Fast Romantics' old-school-inspired pop track "Julia," which features the band spliced (rather well, too) into scenes from the 1950s classic film Royal Weddingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;including one in which the rhythmically gifted Astaire is dancing on the walls and ceiling. "You can't use footage in music videos, but I was reading this thing just by chance and discovered that Royal Wedding, because some guy in the '70s screwed up, is public domain," Angus adds. On top of performing in the videoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; in a way that doesn't involve any fancy footworkâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Angus also sat in the director's chair, though he may be ready to pass those duties on to someone else. "It's a little insane trying to do that and remember that I, you know, make songs and stuff like that," says Angus, who handles lead vocals for the group. Angus's original plan had involved heading off to film school, but music has since become the priority. "I got bit by the music bug before I had a chance to leave Calgary, but I've always done stuff like that," he explains. "I used to work for a couple of different film companies, and it's always been a little thing inside of me that needs an outlet once in a while." Fast Romantics, which now calls Toronto home, formed in 2008 out of former members of Calgary-based band the Mood. It's been gaining steady traction since then following the release of its debut full-length in 2009, an EP titled Kidcutter in 2010 and the album Afterlife Blues in 2013. The band is taking its time with its next record, but Angus says there will be new songs to be heard when it comes through town. "We're doing one of those, 'Who

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cares about how long it takes' kind of records," he adds. "We've been writing songs like 'Julia' that are super upbeat and poppy, and then there's these other songs that are dark and vibe-y and really rhythmic. And we're just sort of experimenting with everything. We'll probably come out with dozens and dozens of songs, so until it gets to a point where it's like, yeah, we've got an album we want to put forward and this is our sound for the next few years, we're just going to keep doing that." That means singles like "Julia" that have already been released could remain as strictly that, he notes. As much as Angus likes Afterlife Blues, he feels it wasn't a cohesive album musicallyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;something he's aiming for on the next record, regardless of the shape it takes. What that may look like, he's not exactly sure yet. "It's funny how your best-laid plans [change] as far as where you think the next record's going to go," he says. "As soon as you start working on it, it sort of takes on a life of its own. In the past I've always tried to really fight that and shape it and really create what I thought I should be creating, and this time it's been very much like, OK, you're going to make a reggae song now. Fine, do that, go nuts. Now, there probably won't be any reggae songs on the record, but it's one of those things where I'm trying not to be such a control freak." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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sk musicians outside of the mainstream which genre they play, and it's rare that you'll be met with a simple answer like "pop" or "rock." The age of the Internet often gets a bad rap for its impacts on the music industry, but it has also opened to floodgates to music from all over the world, and the result of people listening to a broad spectrum of music has meant that the idea of "genre" is becoming less constricting. This is certainly true for K.Flay (real name: Kristine Flaherty): often billed as rap or hip-hop, her music is a far cry from the conventional idea of either of those styles. She churns out rhymes with a lyrical flow that moves from melancholic and intense

to light and airy within a matter of comes, which is a really nice feeling seconds. Her rhythm lines are ham- because I often have some strange mered out by a live drummer inter- ideas that can exist." mingled with synth melodies, which has made for a tough-to-categorize, Flaherty hasn't ruled out working nearly genreless style that's allowed with a label down the road, but she her to resonate with a diverse demo- notes it would have to maintain the graphic, and landed her on bills as spirit of her work. Regardless, bea support act for Icona Pop, Snoop ing independent doesn't appear to Dog and even a spot at Warped Tour. be impacting any of the momentum she's gained since "You have to be making the move either totally unto pursue music derstandable or Tue, Jul 7 (8 pm) full-time. Anyone nobody knows With Awolnation who's been folwhat's going to Union Hall, $33.50 – $115 lowing the growhappen next," she ing amount of says, and case in point: she's en route to her final suppress about her online is well aware port gig for Blur and Dashboard Con- of the fact that music wasn't part fessional before heading out with of her initial plan. While attending Awolnation. "Obviously I'm not going Stanford (she graduated with a douto put out a metal record or some- ble major in sociology and psycholothing—well, I mean, you never know. gy), she and a friend were discussing what was wrong with mainstream I could go through a dark phase." There's no metal record in her im- hip-hop, and her friend challenged mediate future, though, as K.Flay her to write a song. Things picked up tours in support of Life As A Dog, from there, and she's continued to her debut full-length album released hone her songwriting with lyrics that last year, though she's got a back are often poignant, quick-witted, bitcatalogue of EPs and mixtapes to ingly sarcastic and even humorous at her name, too. Life As A Dog also times. "I was focused on writing songs marked her departure from RCA, after spending two years with the la- that made sense," she says of Life bel. It was creative differences over As A Dog, noting she's going to get the direction of her music and how back to work on a new album once it should be presented that led to her touring wraps up in August. "I her heading out as an independent know that's kind of a weird thing to say, but in the past sometimes I artist. "I was kind of doing things on my think I've thought about—when I do own and doing them in a way that write and think about songwriting—I was more in line with how I wanted think I wasn't necessarily considering to release music," says Flaherty, who each song to be its own thesis stateenlisted crowdfunding support for ment, or have a thesis statement on Life As A Dog, and raised the neces- its own. And when I'm writing these sary funds in just six days. "There's songs and thinking about them it no limits on spontaneity, which is sort of feels like each song has a really awesome, and sort of no lim- message." its on how creative or strange or MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM whatever something can be or it be-

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RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,

DJs

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

THE BUCKINGHAM Sun K with

guests; 7pm

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite;

FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio

7pm; $45

Series: Mitch Haney, Lyra Brown; 7:30pm; $8 (single)

and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays:

global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

JUL/10

DAWES

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

BLURRED LENZ AND THE STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

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

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

W/ SAM OUTLAW

JUL/11 JUL/18 JUL/24 JUL/28

ALL AGES

JUL/29 JUL/30 AUG/1 AUG/6

BEND SINISTER THE NULLS, HIGH KICKS, MOBINA GALORE UNION ELECTRONIC, UBK & THE STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

CHASING A MAD DECENT SUMMER PT.1

KASTLE

W/ GUESTS

UNION ELECTRONIC, UBK & THE STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

CHASING A MAD DECENT SUMMER PT.2

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

MON JUL 6

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays:

every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: Mod, Brit Pop, New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR’s Heavy Metal Lunch Box) BLUES ON WHYTE Johnny Mc-

Cuaig; 9pm CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite;

7pm; $45 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

open mic JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

SUN JUL 5 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

W/GUESTS

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with PM

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

BLISS N ESO W/ GUESTS UNION ELECTRONIC, UBK & THE STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

CHASING A MAD DECENT SUMMER PT.3

K-LAB MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

METZ CHRIS LORENZO (CAUSE & EFFECT | DIRTYBIRD – UK) W/ GUESTS

FREE LOVE PRESENTS

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

Once Upon a Time in Graceland

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam

Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm UNION HALL Melt-Banana and

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

Live music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm SANDS HOTEL Country music

Torche with guests; $21 (adv)

Classical

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Locations within Pigeon Lake and Edmonton

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Locations

within Pigeon Lake and Edmonton

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

WHYTE AVE Takin' It To The

TUE JUL 7

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 with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

WED JUL 8

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Locations within Pigeon Lake and Edmonton

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

Classical

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

Classical

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam

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

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

Streets 4; 10am-4pm

Long Weekend

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

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

9:30pm-1am

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

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

Long Weekend

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW

Jam: Trevor Mullen

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE

DJs

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

NEW WEST HOTEL Jim Walker

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open

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

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

Long Weekend

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

Bossa; 9am-3pm; Donations

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

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

Toonz every Tue

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Wild T & The

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

Once Upon a Time in Graceland

presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

NEW WEST HOTEL Jim Walker

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

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

Long Weekend

Spirit; 10pm • Takin' It To The Streets; 10am-11pm • Johnny McCuaig; 9pm

Tue; 9pm

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

W/ A-1

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • Jim Walker

STANTON WARRIORS

BLUES ON WHYTE Johnny Mc-

Cuaig; 9pm

Once Upon a Time in Graceland

Sun BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm

WATSKY

Cuaig; 9pm

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE I Want My

House, Jesse K, Luis Rocas B2B Storo, Jordan M; 10pm ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays:

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

Classical ALBERTA PIANOFEST Locations within Pigeon Lake and Edmonton

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

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

Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

VENUEGUIDE

JUL/3

TALLEST TO SHORTEST

W/ BLACKSTONE AND CADENCE & NATHAN

JUL/4

NO PROBLEM W/ WILD CHILD AND GUESTS

JUL/10 JUL/11

BASSFARMERS BAPTISTS CLEAN UP YOUR ACT AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

W/ EROSION, ADOLYNE, DEAD AGAIN, THE WEIR AND SCRAPBOOKER

JUL/28

MEATBODIES

JUL/31 DREAMIE HOLMAN CROSSTOWN AUTO CENTRE AND RED PRODUCTIONS PRESENT

DREAMS DEBUT ALBUM

W/ GUESTS SOUND EVOLUTION AND JAY M

24 MUSIC

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave APEX CASINO 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St CORAL DE CUBA 4990-92 Ave Nw DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN

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Edmonton City Centre, 10200102 Ave HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Phase II West Edmonton Mall, West Edmonton Mall, 8882170 St 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 MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE 16615-109 Ave NW MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MISSION HILL 8311-101 Ave 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 NORTHLANDS EXPO CENTRE 7515-118 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St,

780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PALACE CASINO–WEM West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

8519-112 St SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 ST. ALBERT UNITED CHURCH 20 Green Grove Dr, St Albert 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 TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324 82 Whyte Ave NW UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

COMEDY BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Bob Angeli; Jul 3-4 • Chris Heward; Jul 10-11

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Jenny Zigrino; Jul 1-5 • Lars Callieou; Jul 8-12

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

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

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

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

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

LGNYEG (LADY GEEKS UNITE) • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • lgnyeg.blogspot.ca • Geek out with fellow geek ladies. Featuring movies, board games, artists and so much more. This month will feature the summer craft market • Jul 5, 12-5pm

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall, 1013596 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm

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

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

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519 TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma Tashi Ling Society, 10502-70 Ave • Tranquility and insight meditation based on Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings. Suitable for meditation practitioners with Buddhist leanings • Every Thu, 7-8:30pm • Donations; jamesk2004@hotmail.com

Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Men 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)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace. org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding

TOUR • Mckay Avenue School, 10425-99 Ave • 780.439.2797 • historicedmonton.ca • Explore the old Warehouse District on 104th Street. Visit old warehouse builidings, storage spaces, and check out the new neon sign museum• Jul 5, 3:30pm • Free CANADIAN TRACK & FIELD CHAMPIONSHIPS • Foote Field, 11601-68 Ave • Watch Canadian athletes compete for various national team selection trials in 100m sprint, Hammer throw, Long Jump, Javelin Throw and more. Food trucks and beer tents on site, as well • tracktowncan.com • Jun 2-5 • $20.07-$63.32

CARNIVORE VS. HERBIVORE FOOD TRUCK CHALLENGE • Telus World Of Science, 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/exhibits-

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 • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward.toastmastersclubs. org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

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

YOUR H T I W 0 O $13 AY K-PASS! T P U E SAV E 10-D C N A V AD

FIFA WOMEN'S WORLD CUP CANADA 2015 • 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

HISTORIC FESTIVAL & DOORS OPEN EDMONTON • Various locations • 780.439.2797 • historicedmonton.ca • This family-oriented festival continues to feature tours, workshops and activities at museums, historic sites and at community events. The festival showcases the stories of our history and cultural heritage in urban and rural settings • Jul 5-12

JAPANESE TEA CEREMONY • Devonian Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • devonian. ualberta.ca • Experience Japanese culture in a unique setting! Traditional tea offerings are hosted at the Ozawa Pavilion, the garden's authentic Japanese Tea House set in the tranquil Kurimoto Japanese Garden. Japanese sweets and tea are provided to guests, as well as an explanation of the tearoom and tea ceremony • Jul 5, Beginning at 11:15am (please note that times will take a maximum of 15 participants)

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

NIGHT MARKET EDMONTON • Beaverhill House

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103

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

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

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

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

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, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 •

Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

EDMONTON PROSPECTS BASEBALL • Telus Field, 10233-96 Ave • prospectsbaseballclub.com • vs. the Lethbridge Bulls (double-hitter) • Jul 3 (2:35pm & 7:05pm) • Free (under 6), $8 (6-14 years old), $12 (student with ID), $14 (adult)

QUEER

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

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for

11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.ca/ exhibits-events/dinosaurs-unearthed • Grab your flashlight or your headlamp and make your own way through Dinosaurs Unearthed. Warning: this task is not for the faint of heart • Jul 3, 6-8pm

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

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

DATE NIGHT • Devonian Botanical Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • devonian.ualberta.ca • The croquet mallets are lined up, the grass is green, the flowers are blooming and the craft beer is chilled • Jul 2, 6pm until dusk

DINOS IN THE DARK • Telus World of Science,

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

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

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): To determine whether you are aligned with the cosmic flow, please answer the following questions. 1) Would you say that your current situation is more akin to treading water in a mosquito-ridden swamp, or conducting a ritual of purification in a clear mountain stream? 2) Have you been wrestling with boring ghosts and arguing with traditions that have lost most of their meaning? Or have you been transforming your past and developing a riper relationship with your roots? 3) Are you stuck in a gooey muck? Or are you building a flexible new foundation? TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): Taurus singer Sam Smith won four Grammy Awards this year, largely on the strength of his hit single "Stay with Me." The song has a lush gospel choir backing up his lead vocals, or so it seems. But in fact, every voice in that choir is his own. He recorded 20 separate harmony tracks that were woven together to create the big sound. What would be the equivalent in your world, Taurus? How could you produce a wealth of support for yourself? What might you do to surround yourself with a web of help and nourishment? How can you amplify and intensify your efforts so they have more clout? Now would be an excellent time to explore possibilities like these. GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): Born under the sign of Gemini, Gustave Courbet (1819 – 1877) was a French painter who upset traditionalists. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he wasn't interested in creating idealistic art based on historical and religious themes. He focused on earthy subjects about which he had direct experience, like the day-today lives of peasants and labourers. So even though he became a highly praised celebrity by his mid-thirties, the arbiters of the art world tried to exclude him. For example, they denied him a place in Exposition Universelle, a major international exhibition in Paris. In response, Courbet built a temporary gallery next door to the main hall, where he displayed his own work. As you strive to get your voice heard, Gemini, I urge you to be equally cheeky and innovative. Buy yourself a megaphone or erect your own clubhouse or launch a new enterprise. Do whatever it takes to show who you really are. CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): "I am trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing," said composer John Cage in describing his creative process. That's excellent counsel for you to meditate on, Cancerian. The less expertise and certainty you have about the rough magic you're experimenting with, the more likely it is that this magic will lead you to useful breakthroughs. To bolster Cage's

advice and help you get the most from your period of self-reinvention, I offer you this quote from Picasso: "I imitate everyone except myself." LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): Your words of wisdom come from Leo artist Andy Warhol: "Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years, when they could just say, 'So what.' That's one of my favourite things to say. 'So what.'" Can I interest you in that approach, Leo? It has similarities to the Buddhist strategy of cultivating non-attachment—of dropping your fixations about matters that can't be controlled or changed. But I suspect you would draw special benefits from the breezy, devil-maycare spirit of Warhol's version. So start there. VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): In her late twenties, J K Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. That's when she began work on her Harry Potter books. Craig Newmark had turned 42 by the time he founded Craigslist. One of the world's most oft-visited websites is HuffingtonPost.com, which Arianna Huffington established when she was 54. As for Harland Sanders, creator of KFC: He didn't begin building the global empire of fried-chicken restaurants until the age of 65. I hope the preceding serves as a pep talk, Virgo, reminding you that it's never to late to instigate the project of a lifetime. The time between now and your birthday in 2016 will be an especially favourable phase to do so. Start ruminating on what it might be. LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): It's the power-building phase of your astrological cycle. To take maximum advantage, convey the following message to your subconscious mind: "I know you will provide me with an abundance of insight, inspiration and energy for whatever intention I choose to focus on. And during the next four weeks, my intention will be to cultivate, expand and refine my personal power. I will especially focus on what author Stephen R Covey called 'the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.'" SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): I'm a big fan of science and logic and objective thinking. Most of us need more of that good stuff. The world would be a saner, safer place if we all got regular lessons on how to be more reasonable and rational. But in the immediate future, Scorpio, I'll steer you in a different direction. I believe you will benefit from injecting your imagination with primal, raw, crazy, wild mojo. For example, you might read utopian science fiction and fairy tales about talking animals and poetry that scrambles your intellectual constructs. You could remember your dreams

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: I'm 21, and the other night I had a one-night stand. I feel really bad about it. My friends do it all the time, and they don't understand why I feel so upset. I'm not even sure why I feel so upset. Logically, I don't think there's anything wrong with casual sex, so why do I feel so awful?

: It's actually a very simple answer: you're upset because your actions strayed from your values. The unsettled feeling you're having is caused by inner discord. If one part of you, (your values) is heading in one direction, and another part of you (your actions) is heading in another, then you are likely to experience an internal friction that is not unlike two sticks being rubbed together to start a fire. That feeling is important. Just like a smoke signal, it cues you to pay attention to something. If unexplored or unresolved, it can lead to feelings of confusion, guilt or shame. But through examination, it can act as a guide that leads you in the right direction. Our views on the world are deeply entrenched yet constantly evolving. Some of our values are formally taught to us, perhaps by our parents, teachers or in church. Others are gained more subtly and exist beneath our level of awareness. For that reason, we learn through trial and error. This means that we wake up to our beliefs by being challenged by them. If you pay attention, there are many subtle examples of this in our everyday lives. For instance, your values about honesty may be confronted when you're under-charged for something at a store and have to make a decision to say something or leave with the accidental discount. Or, if

you're me, they're challenged when you forget to pay for the cat food that was stored on the bottom of the cart and don't realize it until you get to your car. In regards to your recent experience, it sounds like you haven't formally reconciled your views on casual sex as they pertain to yourself—and that's OK. You are at a stage of life where you are learning important things about how you see the world

lationship? What are your emotional expectations around sex? What about that experience felt uncomfortable: Were you drunk? Was he pushy? Was he cold/distant? Did the location feel safe/clean? Did you give active consent? What makes for good sex? What are your sexual safety needs (respect, commitment, STIs, pregnancy)? I don't believe that there is one right way to live. Rather, I think it is important to live intentionally and to act in accordance with your own values. This is called integrity. Questioning your relationship to your beliefs and then acting accordingly is essential for finding contentment in life. We may not always get it right, but we can learn from our missteps, and with time, we require fewer smoke signals to guide us. V

Consider the following questions: What does sex mean to you? What does casual sex say about you? and how you want to exist in it. Those lessons are unique to you. What your friends think or feel about one-night stands is separate, and it is not for you to adopt their perspective, but rather to develop your own. In part, you're doing that experientially, and you can follow that up by taking the time to reflect and find meaning in your experience. Consider the following questions: What does sex mean to you? What does having casual sex say about you? What role does sex play in a re-

Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@vueweekly.com. Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG.

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This is going to sound like bragging, but my appearance is intrinsic to my kink. I'm a gay male gymnast. Most of the guys on my college team are annoyed by the kind of objectification we routinely come in for. (We actually don't want to be auctioned off at yet another sorority fundraiser, thanks.) But I've always been turned on by the thought of being a piece of meat. I've masturbated for years about dehumanization. Being in bondage, hooded and gagged—not a person anymore, faceless, nude, on display, completely helpless. (Just typing that sentence made me hard.) It finally happened. I found a guy on Recon.com (which I discovered on your podcast, so thank you). He is into BDSM, which isn't the goal for me, and he wanted to do some of "his stuff" to me while I was dehumanized and helpless. We had a long talk about what I was OK with (gentle tit clamps, some butt play, very light spanking) and what I wasn't OK with. I didn't want to be marked. He asked what I meant by that, and I said, "No bruises, no welts, no red marks." He didn't bruise me, but he did something that it didn't occur to me to rule out: He shaved off all my body hair—pits, pubes, legs, ass, chest. I'm angry, but at the same time, I'm seriously turned on by the thought of seeing this guy again. I also have a boyfriend. I thought going in that this would be a one-time thing, that I would get this out of my system and never tell my boyfriend about it, but I don't think I can do that now. (Maybe I should've figured out that something I've been jacking off about since age 13 isn't something I could do just once.) What do I say to my boyfriend about being suddenly hairless and about my kink? And what do I say to the guy? I want to go back and continue to explore being an object, but I don't feel like I can trust him. Desire Erased Humanity Until My Aching Nuts Explode

a bone in your jock. Remember: You're not sharing a tragic cancer diagnosis with him. You're sharing something fun, interesting, and exciting about your sexuality. Don't panic—and don't hold it against him—if he reacts negatively at first. This is the start of a conversation, not the end of it, and it's a conversation about his desires, too, DEHUMANE, not just yours. If it turns out that dehumanization/objectification isn't something he can do, and it's not something he could allow you to do with others, then you're not right for each other. End the relationship and date kinksters you meet on Recon, and disclose your kinks earlier to any presumed-to-bevanilla guys you date. (You never know: You could disclose your kink to a presumed-to-be-vanilla boyfriend and discover that he's as kinky as or kinkier than you are.) The full truth would go something like this: Hand him this column. DEHUMANE's boyfriend, if you're

playing with him again. If you do play with him again—a big if—this time anything you haven't ruled in is automatically ruled out. No tricks. With any luck, your boyfriend, if he feels like he can trust you again, will be there to keep an eye on him and to enjoy the sight of your helpless, faceless body.

BI OR NOT?

I'm a 26-year-old guy. I had a fling with an awesome bisexual girl, and I told her about the fantasies I've always had about men. She suggested I was bisexual, and it started to make a lot of sense to me. So like an idiot, I came out to my parents. They don't seem to believe that I'm bisexual, despite my father being a trans woman. I've never been very macho, and they think I'm confusing that with being bi. Some days I don't feel the urge to have sex with men at all, and I feel silly for coming out. I worry that this is something to do with my feelings about my dad. But I've cybered with a few guys on Gaydar, etc, and I've really enjoyed it. So am I bi or not? Or does it even matter? Was I stupid coming out? I am in a rural area far from the LGBT community, but I'm planning a weekend in the city soon, and I'm hitting the gay bars in the hopes that if I at least make out with a guy, I will get some clarity. Can't Retract And Panicked

If it turns out there dehumanization/ objectification isn't something he can do, and it's not something he could allow you to do to others, then you're not right for each other.

You could tell your boyfriend the partial truth, DEHUMANE, or you could tell your boyfriend the whole truth. The partial truth would go something like this: "Guess what, honey? I shaved off all my body hair all by myself just for fun. Do you like it? And, hey, we've been dating for a while, so I should probably lay all my kink cards on the table." Then you tell him about these fantasies—to be dehumanized, to be an object, to be helpless—and you do it with a smile on your face and VUEWEEKLY.com | JUL 2 – JUL 8, 2015

reading this, please know that the mistake your boyfriend made— doing this behind your back in the hopes that one experience would satisfy his curiosity forever—is a common one. A lot of people, kinky and not, believe that kinky desires don't work the same way vanilla desires do, ie, unlike "normal" sexual desires (fucking, sucking, rimming), kinky desires (pissing, spanking, binding) only have to be acted on once. Do it once, get the kink out of your system, enjoy vanilla sex—and only vanilla sex—for the rest of your life. But kinks don't work that way. In the same way that "normal" people don't wanna fuck just once in their lives, a person with your boyfriend's kinks isn't going to wanna be objectified and dehumanized just once in his life. Your boyfriend didn't know that before he did it the first time, but he knows it now. If you can find it in your heart to forgive him, you could wind up with a very hot and very grateful guy. Back to you, DEHUMANE: Put Recon Guy on hold until after you full or partial the boyfriend. If you do want to play with him again— because you're single or because your boyfriend approves—have an out-of-roles conversation with him about what happened last time. He didn't hurt you, he tricked you, and you're understandably wary of

Some days I don't feel the urge to have sex with men—believe it or not—but that doesn't make me any less gay. And there are lots of openly bisexual guys out there who don't have dads who are trans women, CRAP, so I think we can set both the intermittently-disinterested-in-dick and out-trans-parent issues aside. So what's going on? You have a bad case of something that is rarely discussed: coming-out remorse. All the bad falls on your head the instant you come out—shitty reactions from parents, for example, even ones who should really know better—and the good has yet to arrive. Don't panic, give it time, go suck a few dicks and see how you feel. Bisexual is an identity, not a tattoo on your forehead, and if it's not right for you—if it's not who you are—you can round yourself back down to straight. V On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Hillary Frank about sex after pregnancy: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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