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"To be fair, Harper has won a couple of rounds at the SCC, but the criticisms of the judiciary from Harper and his cabinet when they lose overshadows their few victories." // 5

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"The café spends Sunday to Wednesday doling out le dejeuner to daytime patrons, but offers evening hours so everyone can try their continental delights with some Canadian nods." // 6

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Opportunity for Wildrose?

Party poised to become Alberta's only relevent right-wing force History bodes well for Alberta's Wildrose Party. In Alberta, every party that has lost government (all four of them) has virtually disappeared from the political landscape in the years following its loss, and none of the first three has ever returned to government.

It is perhaps still too early to determine if the Conservatives will meet the same political fate as its predecessors, but the extent of its election loss, its poor performance in the legislature and recent polls suggest this will be the case.

What this means for the Wildrose Party is that it is well-positioned to become the only relevant party on the right of Alberta's political spectrum, and one of two parties with enough support and credibility to play a significant role in Alberta's legislature and government moving forward.

That notion of credibility, however, is one that the Wildrose has struggled with in the past. From

denying climate change and lakes of fire to having its leader and a majority of its caucus defect to the Conservatives, it has seemed that every time the party has come close to making a significant breakthrough it has failed to do so because of something that has damaged its credibility in the eyes of Albertans.

As Official Opposition to a New Democrat government, the Wildrose is perhaps better equipped than ever before to build its profile as Alberta's party of the right.

Well-researched and thought-out alternatives to the NDP platform of tax reform, changing royalties, increased minimum wage and action on climate change will help the party build its base and move into the ideological space previously occupied by the Conservatives.

During the legislative session, Brian Jean and his party did a very good job on the issues, pushing back effectively on the government's political fi-

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Policy and pancakes The Calgary Stampede is one of the main political events of the summer where politicians gather to serve up policy suggestions, with a side of syrup.

But one particular suggestion put forward by Premier Rachel Notley will take a lot of sugar for environmentalists to accept. The Calgary Herald reports that Notley stated Alberta's oilsands are a "tremendous asset which have transformed Alberta into one of the world's leading oil producers."

It's safe to say no one expected the NDP government to shut down the oilsands. The New Democrats, while in opposition, did an expert job of distancing the party from more radical environmental perspectives. But it must be disappointing for environmentalists, and a growing world opinion, that environmental progress cannot happen if the oilsands continue to expand. To hear language used in Notley's speech at the Stampede Investment Forum include "expanding existing oilsands projects," and "establishing new ones" must be a worrying one for those hopeful the sector may have been slowed.

While Notley's response to the messages put out by business leaders over fear of lost jobs and revenue is not surprising, it comes at a time when world scientific opinion on the environmental damage of the sector is growing. More than 100 scientists from around the world recently signed onto the idea of a moratorium in the sector and argued for a Plan B approach, which would see an investment in renewables such as geothermal. While the speech by Notley on Tuesday is not game over for a renewed effort for true environmental regulation in the oilsands sector, it is a worrying one for environmentalists, and a reminder that while an ND government is good news for progressive policy, the work of advocating for that change is far from over with its win. V

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nance reforms and minimum wage increase, while proposing solid alternatives on small business taxes and other policies. This is the kind of work that could do big things for the party's credibility and electoral prospects, especially in the province's major cities.

However, the party seems to keep slipping into messaging and positioning that continues to hurt its credibility. Most significant among these is the party's willingness since the election to embrace the rants and attacks of online rage monger Ezra Levant.

Levant, who has largely become a caricature of a video columnist, has focused his energies since the election on digging endlessly through absolutely every aspect of the past personal and professional lives of every member of the NDP caucus and staff. Every time he has found anything that he decides is significant, from a former job at an environmental

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organization to writing the intro to a book for activists to a conviction for a drunken fight at a high school party 23 years ago, he has turned up the rage meter, posted videos of himself ranting and raving, and demanded resignations and firings. Levant has taken the modus operandi of the outraged extreme Tea Party Fox News right in the US, and pushed it even further, almost to the point of farce.

Almost nobody who is serious about politics, democracy and journalism takes Levant seriously. Somehow, though, his talking points and research keep showing up in Wildrose press releases and in its questions during Question Period. While focusing on these kinds of sensationalized witch hunts may provide good fodder for the handful of angry Levant disciples on twitter, it does absolutely nothing for the Wildrose Party's credibility as a serious and legitimate political party in the eyes of most Albertans. In fact, it does damage.

With a caucus full of fresh, eager MLAs, the party is finally in a position to bridge the credibility gap it has historically faced among Albertans. The way to do that is to focus its work as Official Position on thoughtful and well-researched responses and alternatives to government policy. Continuing to align itself with the likes of Ezra Levant will only move it further away from mainstream acceptance and open up the door for a Conservative resurgence. All Albertans benefit from a credible and effective opposition. Hopefully for all of us Brian Jean and his team choose to go down that path instead of Levant's. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta. The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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Greece and the euro: What now?

Eurzone's terms for a third bail-out rejected In theory, it could still work. It only requires three miracles.

Maybe the resounding "no" to the eurozone's terms for a third bail-out in Sunday's referendum in Greece (61 percent against) will force the euro currency's real managers, Germany and France, to reconsider. French President François Hollande is already advocating a return to negotiations with Greece.

Maybe the International Monetary Fund will publicly urge the eurozone's leaders to cancel more of Greece's crushing load of debt. Last Thursday, the IMF released a report saying that Greece needed an extra 50 billion euros over three years to roll over existing debt, and the country should be allowed a 20-year grace period before making any debt repayments. Even then, it said, Greece's debt was "unsustainable."

And maybe Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras will accept the terms he asked Greek voters to reject in the referendum if he can also get a commitment to a big chunk of debt relief —say around 100 billion euros, about a third of Greece's total debt—from the eurozone authorities and the IMF. It's all theoretically possible. It even makes good sense. But it will require radically different behaviour from all the parties involved.

Tsipras has already made one big gesture: on the morning after the referendum victory, he ditched his flamboyant finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis. The hyper-combative Varoufakis had needlessly alienated every other eurozone finance minister with his scattergun abuse, and

it was hard to imagine him sitting down with his opposite numbers again after calling them all "terrorists" during the referendum campaign.

The IMF's gesture was even bigger, if much belated. It knew the eurozone's strategy was wrong from the time of the first bail-out in 2010, and it is finally getting ready to admit it.

There was no debt relief at all in the 2010 bail-out, and only private-sector creditors were forced to take a "haircut" (around 30 percent) in the second bailout in 2012. Most of Greece's debt was owed to German and French banks, and that wasn't touched. Indeed, 90 percent of the eurozone loans Greece has received go straight into repaying European banks.

Why didn't the IMF blow the whistle on this long ago? Because it was not taking the lead in these negotiations, and after it took part in the 2010 bail-out anyway it was deeply embarrassed. It had broken its own rules, and found it hard to admit it.

It was also aware that devaluation, usually a key part of IMF bail-outs, is impossible for Greece unless it actually leaves the euro (which Greeks desperately don't want to do).

So the usual post-bailout economic recovery didn't happen. Over five years Greece's debt has increased by half, its economy has shrunk by a quarter, and unemployment has risen to 25 percent (50 percent for young people). The referendum question was deliberately obscure and misleading, but most Greeks know

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that the current approach simply isn't working. That's why they voted "no" in the referendum. It was a valid choice.

If the eurozone authorities know that much of Greece's debt can never be repaid (which they do), why don't they just give Greece the debt relief it needs? Partly because Chancellor Angela Merkel knows that her own German voters will be angry at more "charity" funded by their taxes, whereas they stay fairly quiet so long as the debt is still on the books. And partly because other eurozone countries would see it as special treatment for Greece.

Italy, Spain, Portugal and Ireland have also been through harrowing bail-out programs, and these countries are still making proportionally bigger interest payments on their debts than Greece. Some other countries using the euro—Estonia, Portugal, Slovakia and Slovenia—have about the same GDP per capita as Greece, and Latvia is even poorer. They don't see why they should pay for Greece's folly in running up such huge debts.

So it really isn't possible to predict whether Tsipras and Greece will be offered a better deal or not. It's equally impossible to say what will happen to the euro "single currency" if there is no deal and Greece crashes out of the euro in the next couple of weeks, although the eurozone authorities insist that they could weather the storm.

We do live in interesting times. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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ast week, the Council of Canadians and the Canadian Federation of Students asked the Ontario Superior Court of Justice to grant an injunction against parts of the Conservative government's Fair Elections Act. If the application is successful, it will be the latest in a long list of legal losses for Stephen Harper's government.

Since a constitutional challenge of the legislation won't be heard until after the October election, the organizations sought immediate relief, arguing that "irreparable harm" may be done to Canadians at risk of being turned away at the polls. The judge was asked to grant the chief electoral officer the discretion to allow voter identification cards as proof of residence when used with another form of ID at polling stations.

That Harper's legislation is being challenged as unconstitutional is not unusual. What is unusual is that Christine Mohr, appearing on behalf of the Attorney General of Canada to argue against the injunction, cited as precedent a 2004 Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) decision in a case Harper launched before he became Prime Minister. Harper didn't get an injunction, she said, so why should these people?

Fifteen years ago, Harper challenged the "level-playing field" section of the Elections Act, which limited the amount corporations and interest groups (such as the National Citizens Coalition that employed him) could spend on political advertising during elections. Having spent many years denouncing activist judges, Harper had to reconcile his actions with his words.

"Yes, I share many of the concerns of my colleagues and allies about biased judicial activism and its extremes.

I agree that serious flaws exist in the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, and that there is no meaningful review or accountability mechanisms for Supreme Court justices," Harper wrote in a Globe and Mail opinion piece. "But these things pale in comparison to the dangers and deceptions inherent in Bill C-2."

In other words, judicial activism was only bad when it served other people's interests. Harper went on to suggest that the government would be "laughed out of court" when the case was heard. It wasn't. He lost.

Harper subsequently became leader of the Canadian Alliance. A week prior to the SCC granting him leave to appeal, he created a media maelstrom by accusing the Liberals of deliberately stacking the country's courts with "progay judges" in order to force same-sex marriage on an unwilling public.

Deciding to take his chances with the "pro-gay judges," he got his day in court in February 2004. The decision, that the spending limits were constitutional, was handed down weeks before

the federal election in which Harper, now leader of the Conservatives, unsuccessfully challenged Paul Martin for the position of Prime Minister.

Throughout the campaign, Harper hammered home the point that rampant "judicial activism" emanating from the SCC needed to be reined in and vowed to limit the degree to which the courts could play in defining and interpreting legislation passed by parliamentarians.

Two years later, Martin's minority government fell and Harper became Prime Minister. To head off the activist judges, Harper knew he had to nip activist citizens and lawyers in the bud.

Within months, his government cancelled the Court Challenges Program, which provided financial assistance to Canadians seeking equality rights through constitutional challenges and eliminated funding for the Law Commission of Canada, an independent agency that had a mandate to advise Parliament on how to modernize and improve Canada's laws.

Harper dismissed critics who warned that Canadians would be voiceless and that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms would be rendered ineffectual.

Responding to questions about the cuts in the House of Commons, Harper was indignant.

"Mr Speaker, this government intends to behave in a constitutional manner," he said. "We do not intend to adopt unconstitutional legislation. We intend to respect the Constitution."

Guy Joubert of the Canadian Bar Association suggested the cuts were tantamount to silencing marginalized Canadians.

"It removes from them an opportunity to challenge federal and provincial laws which may affect them at some point in the future," he told the Law Times. "What the Court Challenges Program did is it enabled Canadians that did not necessarily have the resources and who believed their rights were infringed; it enabled them to take on the government and question the law."

Almost 10 years later, we can conclude both men were wrong. While Harper's government has taken a shining to passing unconstitutional legislation, it turns out that Canadians refused to be silenced.

From ordering that Vancouver's controversial Insite safe-injection facility remain open after Harper's government attempted to close it down to unanimously striking down the country's prostitution laws, the SCC has consistently rejected the Harper government's socially conservative views. Although seven of the nine judges are now Harper appointees, his recent track record shows no signs of an upswing.

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prevented judges from giving offenders sentencing credit for days spent in pre-trial custody. Five years later, the SCC unanimously overturned the law, arguing that it violated the "sentencing principles of parity and proportionality."

That same year, the court ruled that the government's retroactive changes to parole eligibility were unconstitutional. The legislation, which lengthened the amount of time a non-violent, first-time offender had to spend behind bars before being eligible for parole, was deemed by the court to be a form of double jeopardy. A year later, they would strike down mandatory minimum sentencing for gun crimes.

Also in 2014, the SCC ruled that Marc Nadon, appointed to the SCC by Harper, was ineligible; he did not meet the criteria laid out for candidates from Quebec. Harper, inexplicably, decided it was a good idea to publicly call out Chief Justice Beverley McLachlin and accuse her of inappropriate behaviour surrounding the Nadon ap-

pointment. (She attempted, through a phone call, to warn the government that the appointment was unlikely to pass constitutional muster.)

Despite censure from the International Commission of Jurists for intruding on the "independence" and "integrity" of Canada's judiciary, Harper refused to apologize.

If 2014 was bad for Harper, this year wasn't much better.

In January, the SCC struck down Saskatchewan's essential services law. By ruling that public servants had the right to strike, the court paved the way for Bill C-4, which placed similar restrictions on federal workers, to meet a similar fate.

In February, the court unanimously declared the ban on providing a doctor-assisted death to mentally competent patients unconstitutional and gave Parliament a year to draft new legislation. In May, the SCC thwarted the Harper government's continued attempts to treat Omar Khadr, the for-

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mer child soldier now living in Edmonton, as an adult. To add insult to injury, the court delivered that unanimous ruling from the bench minutes after the hearing ended. Typically, decisions come several weeks or even months after a case is heard.

To be fair, Harper has won a couple of rounds at the SCC, but the criticisms of the judiciary from Harper and his cabinet when they lose overshadows their few victories. Just last month, Health Minister Rona Ambrose expressed "outrage" about the SCC decision that expanded the definition of medical marijuana to include oils, teas, brownies and other forms of cannabis.

Justice David Stinton of the Ontario Superior Court will hand down his decision on voter identification by July 20. As we await that, it's worth noting that Harper's most enduring legacy may be that he appointed the most activist court of them all and if that isn't ironic, nothing is.

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NO PRETENSIONS Café Bicyclette offers a humble introduction to the delights of French food

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hough it resides in Edmonton's ostensible French quarter, Café Bicyclette's neighbour and one of the city's longest-serving Korean ambassadors, Bul Go Gi House, might be the more prominent foodie landmark in the area; it also might help for orienteering purposes given Bicyclette's slightly hidden location.

As my co-diner and I walked down the concrete steps of La Cité Francophone's weirdly retro-futuristic sunken plaza on a long Saturday evening, we were encouraged by the advent of a soothing breeze to think that maybe it wasn't too hot to sit on the patio after all. Hence I don't have much to say about Bicyclette's interior décor, though I can endorse its exterior, which makes up for a lack of landscaped splendour with its substreet level setting that enables you

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to forget you're mere yards from a well-used automotive thoroughfare.

The café spends Sunday to Wednesday doling out le dejeuner to daytime patrons, but offers evening hours so everyone can try their continental delights with some Canadian nods (ie: poutine finished with maple syrup). The small but roomy brick-lined space serves a small but heartfelt selection of openers and elegantly prepared meats (plus ratatouille with goat cheese and polenta, because vegetarians have to eat, too) for a relatively reasonable price in an unpretentious setting: servers don't wince when you butcher the pronunciation of the French-language menu, Quebecois folk-pop burbles cheerfully in the background like some announcerless Radio-Canada drive-time show, and your weekend shorts and

T-shirt are as welcome as you are.

Only by ceding the right to order the roast duck ($23) to my co-diner did I secure agreement on an appetizer portion of steak tartare ($14) to share. The entrées of peppered Angus steak, tarragon chicken and pork cutlets appealed, but the day's sweltering temperatures made the lighter-sounding ahi tuna ($23) seem more appropriate.

As an introduction to steak tartare, Bicyclette's textbook version went some ways to making my co-diner drop her objections to the dish: velvety minced raw beef bound with egg yolk and lightly dosed with onion, dijon and minced caper, just enough of it to heap generously onto four rounds of crostini. It was simple, flavourful and perfect for assuaging

our pre-meal hunger.

Co-diner's roast duck, served in a raspberry-cassis sauce, was accompanied by an intriguing side of fried gnocchi faintly redolent of nutmeg.

The duck was succulent, of course— it's duck!—but a shade overdone.

The pool of dark, fruity sauce with whole raspberries was an apt pairing for both the viande and the spongy dumplings.

My slab of tuna was perfectly prepared: seared just enough so the interior stayed meltingly rare, a light lemon-dill seasoning allowing the superb flavour of the fish to assert itself. Likewise, the sides of perfectly articulated basmati rice and earthy red and golden beets subtly set off the centrepiece of the meal.

Dessert seemed like the only reasonable thing to do on such a

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fine evening, so co-diner asked for the chocolate mousse cake while I deigned to take Bicyclette's crème brûlée for a spin—like the glasses of French wine, all desserts are priced to move at $9. My crème was wellbrûléed to be sure—it took a couple of swings to break through the glassine, scorched-sugar surface to reach the creamy custard beneath.

This was ideal. Co-diner found her mousse cake surprisingly light, with a refreshing stripe of raspberry cream seaming the rich strata of chocolate.

As I lied awake later that night with an ill-advised post-dinner Americano swirling through my system, I was glad to at least have the memory of an enjoyable inaugural experience at Café Bicyclette to keep me company.

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Pairing wine with summer fare Vue's down-to-earth summertime wine and food selections This is absolutely not the obligatory article on wine pairings for your summer barbecue/patio/long weekend camping trip. Rather, this is a selection of foods that we all eat every summer but which normally don't feature prominently (or at all) on all those summer wine-pairing listicles. Because really, while I'm sure it pairs beautifully with wine, who has the energy to make grilled rabbit with burnt-herb rub, slowcooked cherry tomatoes and lemon Dijon aioli when your kitchen's temperature approximates that of the seventh circle of Dante's hell?

Salads A robust repertoire of salads are your saving nutritional grace when it's too hot to cook. (Unless you opt for the mayo-slathered variety.) Your wine choice will be driven by the type.

Green salads: So long as you're dressing the greens with some sort of vinaigrette, any crisp white wine or dry rosé will work nicely.

Recommendations: Cedar Creek Pinot Gris, Martín Códax Albariño, Ventolera Litoral Sauvignon Blanc, Mirabeau Cotes de Provence Rosé.

Grain salads: Barley, rice, quinoa, buckwheat—pretty much any grain can serve as a hearty backbone to a salad. Mix in some beans or chopped leftover meat and you've got your protein covered, then add any combination of chopped veggies, toss with some vinaigrette and you're set. Because these salads are quite hearty, choose a full-bodied white wine or rosé.

Recommendations: Bellingham Old Vine Chenin Blanc, Harcourt Valley Rosé .

Pasta or potato salad or coleslaw: Because these are all fatty and creamy they will play havoc with most wines. Stick to off-dry whites like Riesling, Chenin Blanc or Muscat, and avoid reds altogether.

Recommendations: Spark Tawse Estate Limestone Ridge Riesling, Joie Farm Muscat.

Hot Dogs The king of street food, the paean of tubular meat, the cornerstone of cookouts: hot dogs are having a moment right now as a food du jour. Various gourmet and CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 >>

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gussied-up versions have been popping up throughout the food sphere, but no matter if you prefer the most tarted-up dog out there or a simple grocery store 12-pack, your wine choice is driven not so much by the actual cylinder of meat but rather by whatever you're slapping on top of it. Choose off-dry rosé if you like the basic ketchup and mustard combination, a sweet white like Riesling if you go heavy on the peppers or spicy chili, a grassy Sauvignon Blanc if pickles are your thing, and a fruity red wine like Gamay if you're more austere with your toppings.

Recommendations: Villa Wolf Riesling, Pascal Jolivet Sancerre, Culmina Saignée Rosé, Cave Spring Gamay.

Cold Cuts Call it antipasto or charcuterie if you want to be fancy, but regardless of its label, a colourful mélange of cheese, meats and assorted other fresh, pickled and cured items is one of the most satisfying meals in the heat. An added bonus is that this is also a time when you can break out nicer bottles of red wine and it won't be a total waste, like if you had cracked an aged Bordeaux with a hastily grilled and anemically garnished frozen hamburger patty.

Now, the variations on cold cuts/ charcuterie platters are endless, so there isn't one wine that will go with all of them. Let your pairing be guided by the specific meats and cheeses you pick: peppery Syrah or spicy Rhône wines for peppercorn salami, aromatic left-bank Bordeaux or Chianti for herb-crusted meats. Pinot Noir goes with pretty much any type of meat. For hard cheeses like parmesan and piave vecchio choose a robust white like Marsanne or Roussanne; for soft cheese like brie and Camembert choose an unoaked, round white wine like Pinot Blanc or Gewurztraminer. Or, just open a bottle of bubbly and call it a day.

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Popsicles and Freezies Why are you bothering to pair wine with frozen treats when you could actually incorporate it right into an icy delight? Check out this recipe for strawberry-mint Champagne popsicles.

I don't actually advocate using real French Champagne in these unless you've got far too much disposable income. Instead, pick a cheap sparkling wine: Cava or Prosecco will do nicely. Make it a sweeter bubbly if you like sugar, though personally I prefer a drier version since you're adding a fair bit of sugar already.

Ingredients ½ cup sugar ½ cup water 1 sprig mint 2 cups fresh strawberries 1 cup sparkling wine Method Make a simple syrup by simmering the water and sugar for about five minutes. Set aside to cool and add a sprig of mint, bruising the leaves first to impart more flavour. (If you want a more pronounced minty flavour, make the simple syrup a day ahead and let the mint infuse overnight.)

Meanwhile, purée the strawberries in a food processor or chop into very small pieces if you like it chunkier.

Remove the mint from the simple syrup and mix with the strawberries and sparkling wine in a measuring cup. Pour into a popsicle mold and freeze until completely solid. V Mel Priestley is a certified sommelier and wine writer who also blogs about wine, food and the arts at melpriestley.ca

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Until Sat, Aug 29 Latitude 53

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'm hoping by the middle of August we'll have a microcosm of Edmonton in here," Todd Janes says, gesturing around a small, sunny gallery space on the main floor of Latitude 53. Spread out around the room are the first four entries of Incubator, Latitude's annual summer-long exhibition centered on giving audiences a taste of the behind-the-scenes feel of artists and their process.

Janes did a few things differently this year. He issued the gallery's first call for Incubator submissions and chose nine photo-based artists from the 40-plus applications. All but one of

those artists have never been shown in Latitude before, and most haven't been shown anywhere in Edmonton.

He also designed it around the concept of cumulative exhibition and started out with just one artist's work on the walls; each week a new set of prints will be added, which can be hung anywhere the artist chooses.

Janes is also allowing each artist the opportunity to move their work one time throughout the course of the exhibition, which runs until the end of August. So far, all of the works have been organized along the prime realestate of the central, eye-level line

around the room—save for one entrant, who hung double-sided photos from the ceiling in the middle. Janes is hoping that as the weeks progress, work will fill all corners of the space.

"It's a bit of an experiment to have a sense of play with their work," Janes says, explaining that some artists have been regularly checking back to see how the exhibition has developed and revise their own submission. "I've been thinking a lot about how artists play with each other or how they negotiate or people who may not know each other; is there a written code of politeness?"

Part of this year's Incubator was inspired by the overlapping poster kiosks along Whyte Avenue and Jasper Avenue. While Janes is not sure if anyone will actually do it, technically an artist could choose to cover up—in whole or in part—the work of another artist.

While less than half of the work has been put up so far, there's already a sense that the subjects chosen are quite varied: architectural street shots, grainy black and whites, grids of small images taken of building interiors shot from outside, images from Lagos, Nigeria juxtaposed

with those from Edmonton, people taking pictures of themselves with selfie sticks.

"It's one thing to say, 'You're an amazing artist, here have a show,'" Janes says. "But I think it's a greater service if we're able to place artists in context with other artists who are also doing work, because then it creates different types of dialogue.

And their work can be great, but it's not just work in a vacuum; it's work that's related to what other people are doing in that medium."

MEL PRIESTLEY

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PREVUE // VISUAL ART

Art Walk T

wenty years ago, a few dozen artists gathered on Whyte Avenue to work en plein air—to show off both their work and their process to curious passersby.

Since then, Art Walk has grown into a massive affair spanning an area greater than that occupied by West Edmonton Mall and featuring over 450 artists.

"You see everybody, from people who are just starting out and they'll have a table with art on it; some people just show their sketchbooks," says Kim Fjordbotten, owner of Art Walk's sponsor, the Paint Spot. "The more Art Walks that you do, you gather your more-professional booth, and you have your grid wall and your tents and it's quite a professional set-up."

This year's Art Walk features an homage back to the first one in 1995

with a large mural that's currently buying art. It's always interesting to being painted on the back of the see who buys what; it's never what Varscona Hotel; the first Art Walk you expect."

Ultimately, Art Walk showcased a similarly collaborative mural on Fri, Jul 10 – Sun, Jul 12 is about exposure: the Cosmopolitan Mu- (10 am – 5 pm daily) getting the general sic Society at the other Whyte Avenue between public to see as much end of Whyte Avenue. 101 & 108 Street art, and as many difThe rest of the festival art-walk.ca ferent types of art, as features everything possible.

"It's nice to see that from traditional florals to contemporary graffiti art, along artwork isn't hiding in closets and with a comics alley sponsored by under the bed, but it's out there for Warp One and Happy Harbor Comics, people to see," Fjordbotten notes. a pop-up market for handmade crafts "I think it's nice that people don't and a pancake breakfast hosted by have to be intimidated by going into Premier Rachel Notley. a gallery; they can just go out and "I think it's neat, not only to see talk to the artist. And if they're insomebody sell work for the first terested in getting started in doing time, but also to see somebody buy art, you can kind of peek into peowork for the first time," Fjordbotten ple's materials that they're using, says. "Just to see how many young ask them questions—there's a lot kids are out engaging in the art, of art teachers out there."

PRIESTLEY talking to the artists, critiquing art, MEL MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM VUEWEEKLY.com | JUL 9 – JUL 15, 2015

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ARTS REVUE // THEATRE

A witty, Wilde-ish musical // Douglas Stewart Photography

A Man of No Importance 'W

e're all amateurs. We do it for love."

A Man of No Importance is the perfect play for the Walterdale Theatre. The musical focuses on a Dublin amateur theatre troupe that puts on grandiose performances in the basement of St Imelda's Church, escaping their humdrum lives and worshipping at the altar of Art. The strong ensemble of characters, each more eccentric than the last, bears a marked resemblance to the Walterdale artistic community itself.

At the heart of the play is Alfie

Byrne (Morgan Smith), a closeted, Oscar Wilde-obsessed bus conductor-turned-theatre director. Smith brings a terrific physicality to his role, shuffling across the stage in his grey sweater vest. He has a timid stoop in his shoulders, a sweet, simple smile on his face and a relentlessly cheerful chime in his voice. His true desires are so smothered and sublimated into his art that he sometimes comes off as an endearingly naive cartoon man.

Watching him cake on such a pristine porcelain mask makes us crave

the moment when it will shatter.

But even when Alfie's life falls apart, Smith never quite reaches that satisfying eruption of intense rage or total despondency that would blow the mask apart.

Another standout performance comes from Phillip Zyp, who plays Carney, the butcher/scorned leading man. Zyp overacts every single word, milking laughs with his vocal and facial contortions. His intense, bug-eyed, somewhat methy stare and

his jittery energy give him a hammy charm. Athena Gordon, who plays Alfie's long-suffering sister Lily, has great chemistry with both Zyp and Smith. Gordon gets two of the show's the best songs, duets about the evils of books and her frustration that her brother still hasn't married.

Most of the background actors only get one line per scene, but they absolutely kill it with their delivery—especially Emily Burden, who continually nails her small moments as Mrs Curtain in each large scene.

Until Sun, Jul 12 (8 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinee) Directed by Lauren Boyd Walterdale Theatre, $12 – $18

A Man of No Importance should be a better-known musical than it is. With wit to rival Wilde himself, the Walterdale's self-reflective production is a fitting tribute to amateur theatre.

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(L'Uni Theatre, $20) StreetFest: Late Night Madness / Fri, Jul 10 and Sat, Jul 11 (11:11 pm) So, yes, StreetFest is already in full swing in Churchill Square this week, but most people know the festival to cap off at a reasonable, you-can-still-getyour-full-eight-hours-of-sleep sort of time. This weekend, the assumption proves false: down in the Stanley Milner Library Theatre, StreetFest's performers convene for two evenings of one-of-a-kind cabaret shows.

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DANCE 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

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

There; Jul 11-Oct 3; Opening reception: Jul 18, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: Coming Up Next: artwork by Michelle Atkinson, Holly Boone, Corinne Cowell, Soma Mo, Dena Seiferling and Bart Simpson; Jul 18-Aug 29

(artist in attendance) • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Jul 28-Aug 31; Opening reception: Aug 6

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona. ca/artgallery • 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)

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

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 : Camera Shy (Jul 15); Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • conversation with the artist: 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) • 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 • 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)

Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Two Days, One Night (Jul 15), Blue Ruin (Jul 22) • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free

ARTWALK • Perron District, downtown St 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)

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal

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CAPITOL THEATRE CINEMA SERIES: BLAZING SADDLES • Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Enjoy classic films on the big screen • Jul 16, 7:30pm • $10.50 + taxes and fees

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner

Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@ gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/movies/movies. cfm • 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 • 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, 8712-109 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)

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 VIDEO PRODUCTION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivaplace.ab.ca • Participants will create their own YouTube channel and learn to produce short, gripping videos for social media • Jul 27-31, 9am-5pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • 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

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

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.com • Art by Jacques Martel, Emma Cayer, Travis Ladouceur, Joanne Sauvageau and guest Sandee Smith Armstrong; Jul 19-21

CONCOURSE WALL • Near Parkade, ATB

AB-60, Parkland County • devonian.ualberta. ca • Rooted III: Perspectives on the Natural World; Jul 19

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 EDMONTON ARTS COUNCIL • Borden Park, 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

St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Jun 30-Jul 27 • After: artwork by Laara Cassells; Jul 10-Aug 30; Opening reception: Jul 10, 7pm

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

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • 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, 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 • Girls, Women, Lives, Images: a group exhibition of paintings by Larissa Hauck, Carmella Haykowsky, Brandi Hofer, Riki Kuropatwa, and Dave Thomas • Artisan Nook: Little Monkey in a Tree: ink drawings on paper by Yong Fei Guan • Vertical Space: Life Itself: A group show by members of the Art Mentorship Society of Alberta • Jul 6-Aug 17 • Reception for all 3 shows: Jul 16, 7-9pm, artists in attendance 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

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304

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GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron

• 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

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

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Art in Bloom; Jul 9-12

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

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PARADE GALLERY • Window Display Box

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

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave,

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • Open Door: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm

Jul 22-26 • 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 • ThuFri: 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 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

LITERARY 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

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

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

NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm

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

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

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

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STORIES FROM THE TRAIL • Strathcona

• 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

by Gabriela Jolowicz; Jun 4-Jul 18 • Atavistic: artwork by Daniel Evans; Jun 4-Jul 18

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 • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Dinosaurs Unearthed: until Oct 11; $26.50 (adult), $19.50 (child), $23.50 (youth/student/ senior) • Velociraptor Safety Awareness Week;

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; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

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)

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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

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL STREET PERFORMERS FESTIVAL • Downtown Edmonton • edmontonstreetfest.com • Watch different street performers use their special talents to amaze audiences of all ages • Jul 3-12

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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 SAME TIME NEXT YEAR • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Strathcona County • festivalplace.ab.ca • 780.464.2852 • A story about a love affair between two people, Doris and George, who are married to others but secretly rendezvous once a year. Twenty-five years of manners and morals are hilariously and touchingly played out by lovers • Jul 1820, 25-27; 7:30pm • $20 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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mong the elements that distinguish Gustave Flaubert's debut novel as a timeless masterpiece and a watershed moment in the development of the modern is Flaubert's intricately detailed apprehension of both his heroine's inner life and her material world. If you remove inner life and material details from Madame Bovary, which is to say, if you reduce it to plot, what do you get?

A young woman marries a nice, dull guy, gets frustrated, has disastrous affairs, goes shopping, gets deep in debt—hardly a distinctive narrative trajectory. (If you haven't read or seen any of the many interpretations of Madame Bovary I won't spoil the

ending, though, again, what's happening on a plot level is far less interesting than what's really happening, with character, place, atmosphere, things, feelings.) Sophie Barthes' new Bovary does little to capture Emma Bovary's inner life and, more surprisingly for a movie, pays relatively scant attention to the tones and textures of Emma's rapidly accumulating things. So, to a degree, this really is a movie about bourgeois frustration, adultery, shopping and bad finances in 19th-century France. Fortunately, it is also about acting, great costumes, swift pacing and handsome imagery, which isn't nothing.

Barthes' Bovary begins with Emma

(Mia Wasikowska) as a young lady at the convent, but from there it exercises a number of admirable ellipses: Why work over Emma being courted by Charles (Henry LloydHughes) when we can seize the nature of their early encounters in a nicely staged country wedding? But as the film progresses, those who know the novel will begin to sense that some things being elided are actually integral to the story—that sequence in which Flaubert darts between the speeches at the agricultural fair and Rodolphe's seduction of Emma is delivered by Barthes in visual point-form, despite Flaubert practically handing the filmmaker

an engaging crosscutting sequence on a platter. As well, Emma's period of finding God after romantic disappointment is tossed out altogether, which deprives her next romance of context and deprives the story of key dynamics.

But we do have the always remarkable Wasikowska, unabashed about exuding Emma's unhappiness and childishness and playing the emotional stakes as high and unyielding.

We have Rhys Ifans as the dastardly micro-marketing maestro Monsieur Lheureux and Paul Giamatti as the pharmacist Monsieur Homais. Each of these actors offers something

intermittently captivating. We also have a few pretty boys as Emma's husband and lovers, and they are all boring, shallow and, to be fair to the actors, woefully under-written.

In an imaginative straying from the source material, we have a striking, beautifully photographed final image of villagers carrying lit torches ambling out into the dusky countryside in search of our heroine, calling her name, "Emma? ... Emma?" Where is Emma Bovary? As the image fades to black and the credits appear, you might be asking yourself the same question.

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t's the sort of high concept that could only be born of some unholy marriage between direct-toVHS-addled imagination and untapped international co-production incentives. Helmed by Jalmari Helander and drawing funds and resources from Finland, Germany and the UK, Big Game strives to imagine what might happen when an unfathomably wealthy sociopathic quasi-terrorist douchebag decides to take down Air Force One and crash it in the vast and soon-to-be-spoiled wilderness of Northern Finland so as to render the President of the United States of America the ultimate poseur hunter's trophy.

Apparently game for just about anything these days—but curiously unwilling to alter his trademark cadences even while portraying a world leader— Samuel L Jackson plays President Moore, who eventually learns of at least one snake on his plane and perhaps another in the Pentagon. The film's actual protagonist, however, is Onni Tommila's Oskari, a sneering Finnish country boy out alone in the mountains, where his people's tradition dictates that he must slaughter a large animal on the occasion of

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his 13th birthday. Oskari finds President Moore and attempts to keep him from getting killed by the bad guys.

Am I the only one who misses the days when Bmovies had B-movie budgets, B-movie effects and B-movie stars and unfolded at a brisk B-movie pace?

Big Game certainly has its charms—Ted Levine as a constipated US general is quite lovely, and the boys' narrow escape from capture via a jumbo freezer dangling from a helicopter makes for a fairly riveting set-piece—but it could have been a lot more charming without the protracted and boring preamble or the knee-jerk use of slow-motion, the amateur's replacement for actual style. The most expensive production in Finnish history was probably bound to be something like this, I suppose, but given the film's ending, it will doubtlessly soon be followed by an even more expensive sequel, perhaps with a clever title like Bigger Game. Anyway, I mostly had fun.

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Who is Emma Bovary? We can read and re-read Gustave Flaubert's 1857 novel and somehow know and not know. There's so much of her in Madame Bovary, which places her wounded, capricious psyche in its highly sensitive crosshairs—but she's a moving target. Great character development of the sort Flaubert mastered is not sculpture, not about chipping away at some fundamental self, but is, rather, closer to music: changing, fluid, dynamic. It's also close to cinema, but cinematic interpretations of Madame Bovary, the most recent being Sophie Barthes' (reviewed on page 13), have frequently had a hard time with the material. (Flaubert's genius: to borrow or even divine elements from other forms while creating something that does what only the novel can do.)

Whatever their shortcomings, there are film versions of Madame Bovary that can enhance our understanding of the novel and, at their best, do something only films can do.

The version I was most familiar with is Claude Chabrol's 1991 Madame Bovary, characteristically unsentimental, almost procedural; rigorous in its recreation of 19thcentury France; highly attentive to

spaces, attitudes and the allure of made things that Emma covets more and more as her dissatisfaction burgeons, as well as to the brutish natural world that stands in stark contrast. Chabrol's Emma was the formidable Isabelle Huppert, who, depending whom you ask, is either the best or the worst Emma we'll ever get. (I'm of the former opinion.)

She's icy in demeanour, yet runs hot.

Huppert once described Emma as proto-feminist, but that reading is external to what Huppert does on screen, which doesn't comment on the action—on the contrary, she's immersed in it. Chabrol's Bovary is transporting and bracing and remains worth seeing for its own sake.

By contrast, the 1949 version directed by Vincente Minnelli is glossy and softening, yet, having just seen it, I'm amazed at how complex and uncompromising it is, considering that this is a studio film, from an era when happy endings were considered de rigueur. In an odd meta-twist, it opens with Flaubert (James Mason) on trial for indecency (the novel, says the prosecutor, is "an insult to womanhood!"); what follows is the dramatization

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of Flaubert's defence. Jennifer Jones at first seems too pretty and chipper to play Emma, but as the film goes along her initial amiability renders her descent into selfish despair that much more striking. Mason's Flaubert seems to be conducting an apologia for Emma, but Minnelli and Jones actually keep her fairly difficult to like, while Charles (Van Heflin), her dull country-doctor husband, is made more sympathetic by, in a departure from the novel, having him be suspicious of Emma early on, and thus seems both smarter and still more forgiving.

Less surprising, given that this is a Hollywood movie—but no less impressive or appropriate—is Minnelli's scrupulous attention to opulence: every other frame of the film teems with the glint and glow of lamps, vases, furniture, drapery, gowns, candelabra, busts and, of course, clocks.

For all of its narrative detours—like the dubious cure for clubfoot—Madame Bovary is about inevitability, things embedded in human nature, the ticking clock. Rather than ask us to feel sorry for poor Emma, Mason's Flaubert is placing her poor decisions in context, and Minnelli's film establishes that context brilliantly. V

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ewbie-male-dancer-gone-bad tale Magic Mike (2012) was a bit coy and moralistic; sequel Magic Mike XXL is anything but(t). Far less dark or subtle—plenty of pelvic thrusts in faces; more thongs and codpieces than at a seaside restaurant; lots of talk of treating women like queens—but far more boisterous, raunchy and exuberant, this is a movie that neon-lights the "entertainment" in "male entertainment," even if it isn't much more than one last roadtrip down memory lane.

Rapidly reuniting the stripped-teesand-tease gang—Mike (Channing Tatum) rejoins Tarzan (Kevin Nash), Tito

A talk with older Southern belles comes off as a third-rate Vagina Monologues mixed up with a lame sex-advice column, though. Mike's interest in photographer Zoe (Amber Heard) never sizzles much (their conversations don't quite have the ragged, lifelike crackle of his and Brooke's scenes). And for all the riotous energy of the thong-and-dance routines amid hordes of laughing, whooping, money-shucking women, the movie can take Mike and his magic-stripshow a Now playing little too romantically and Directed by Gregory Jacobs slickly at times: a few too  many close-ups tell us he's the hero-with-the-pecs of this pic; the slow-tracking (Adam Rodriguez), Ken (Matt Bomer), reveal of a luxury convertible is blingand Big Dick Richie (Joe Manganiello) bling fetishizing at its worst. as they travel to a strippers' convention At its best, the lighthearted knowingin Myrtle Beach for one last tear-off- ness of what's on show in Magic Mike the-pants—the movie shruggingly dis- XXL, with everyone up for some gyratpenses with its predecessor's two best ing good times, makes for song-andcharacters, Brooke (Cody Horn) and dance that fizzes with the exhilaration Dallas (Matthew McConaughey), right of a smartly self-aware pop-song. All this big-screen glorying and revelling in from the starting pole-position.

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few years ago, if you had anything to do with the local music scene, you couldn't really avoid Old Ugly. A record label that was really more of an umbrella title over particular community of musicians, it nevertheless released 53 albums from its 2009 start until now, most of those coming out in a four-year span—a feat, especially considering there was never really much money involved.

With those albums and a perpetual live presence, Old Ugly served to anchor a particular era of Edmonton's music scene, the after-effects of which show though in the number of Old Ugly-affiliated bands that have continued to craft compelling music that's seeing acclaim both within and beyond the city.

But they are now after-effects: Old Ugly's over now, and officially so. After a few years of dormancy, the label's released its final album, Bike Month III: Bike To The Future, and its head honcho, Joe Gurba, is playing one final show before moving to Halifax. With that in mind, it felt like a fitting sendoff to collect the story of what Old Ugly was from the mouths of many of those involved in its arc.

--In the years leading up to Old Ugly's emergence, much of its future membership already knew each other through social circles, the existing music scene or elsewhere.

--JOE GURBA (Old Ugly founder, rapper): What I remember being really conscious of at the time were Push

Pins events, Champion City Records and K Records. All of [the Push Pins] shows were all ages: that wasn't a thing for us, but it had this very artcentred feeling to it. It was really about the music. Likewise, K Records felt very inspiring. Because to me, it felt like selling records was really posterior. And then lastly, Champion City I just saw as a really cool label in the city that were doing it with no money.

They were just making it happen. I was like, if it's possible, why not?

DOUG HOYER (musician): There was also Labrador City Records, which was Layne L'Heureux and Tyler Butler. They had been doing some stuff with Jessica Jalbert and Caity Fisher and some other people too, and putting out some CD-Rs: short run, 10 copies.

GURBA: Old Ugly started in 2009, partially because I knew a lot of people putting out records, who had music and were just releasing records on their own, paying all the costs to do it, all the costs associated and playing shows together a lot. It sort of all seemed obvious: It was as if all the ingredients were there, and it just needed that sourdough starter, something that we could all be under at once.

JESSICA JALBERT (musician): Around 2008 I had just moved back to Edmonton from living in Ontario for a year, and I was just finding my feet. I was just starting to write my own songs and stuff, so I fell in with a crew of people who were doing the same. But we weren't playing many shows; we were mostly just showing each other new songs and getting drunk. I can't say that I had any kind of awareness of Edmonton's "scene" at that time—I was just following my friends around trying to impress them with new songs.

RENNY WILSON (musician): I spent the first half of 2009 in India deciding what I wanted to do with my life; in this time I had messaged Mitch [Holtby, rapper and multi-instrumentalist] about collaborating musically. When I returned that summer, me and Mitch started fooling around recording at my parents' and his houses. I also got a job at Steeps on Whyte Ave, where I met and eventually became close friends with my coworker Liam Trimble [musician, Illfit Outfit, solo and Diamond Mind], who just so happened to be Mitch's roommate. The rest is history. [...] I just got involved from my natural association. I fell in with Mitch and Liam, and because I was into recording I started doing that for other Old Ugly crew.

CAITY FISHER (musician): I guess I was living in the "Old Ugly" house— called that because a bunch of us lived there at some time or another.

GURBA: This was a time where I was trying to build those friendships as much as possible. I found those people so fascinating, interesting, so fun to talk

GURBA: These were our homies.

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The scene [at the time] was ... hard to remember now. I wasn't really playing much or going to that many shows, so I'm inclined to say there wasn't a whole lot of action.

to. Music was almost posterior to it all.

I enjoyed the music but I enjoyed the company. It was just good community.

WILSON: [Joe] would have people over at his tiny apartment, which was tackily decorated with '70s rustic Value Village scores. It was directly above Steeps, so it was hard for me to miss the parties.

--Gurba settled on a name for his endeavour. Old Ugly was "the two most offensive words that don't get blanked out that you could call someone," he notes.

"I liked that it was so socially rejected.

It's something everyone is trying not to be, is old and ugly."

The "OU" logo started appearing on albums in 2009: the first release was Gurba's own Cool-School Geek-Rap Backpack Weird-Core The Mixtape. The next few Old Ugly releases were rap, too, from people already close to Gurba: his rap crew CBT and Mitchmatic. Then came the first Bike Month release, led by Doug Hoyer, which opened Old Ugly up beyond the genre, even while what Old Ugly was, exactly, remained somewhat aloof.

--HOYER: [to Gurba] I had the impression you had started Old Ugly just as a label for the rap friends, and just an outlet for you to be under an umbrella.

GURBA: I think I might have been a little bit guarded. I didn't want to be too vulnerable: "Come be on my label" and then have people say no, and I just have this lame label no one wants to be on.

30 years of diverse and

HOYER: I was working on the Bike

Month record. ... I was using these breakbeat records that were like a minute long as the basis for the songs, so the songs couldn't be any longer than that. It was a fun thing, and I said, "Joe, rap on a few of them!" I knew Joe had just started this label, and I thought, "Oh man, that'd be so cool." I don't remember who exactly put it out there, but we basically decided, "Why don't we put it out on Old Ugly? Why don't we just do it as a free album?"

GURBA: [Collaboration] was the best thing about that album. Suddenly, the label had an album that had Michael Rault on it.

JALBERT: To me, the parameters of being involved in Old Ugly are very vague.

I'm honestly not sure I know completely what Old Ugly was, in spite of having been there at the beginning. Old Ugly to me seemed to be a name we put to the group of friends who were all supporting one another in their music.

Joe was the head of Old Ugly, primarily because he had the loudest and most generous voice for hyping his friends' releases through press or just personally: he put on a lot of shows, and he made the website, the logo, etc.

FISHER: Old Ugly wasn't really presented to me as a label—it was more happening around me [...] Joe was kind of just absorbing the people around him that were making music on their own and supporting each other. So I guess he built Old Ugly around something that was already there, and gave us a name CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 >>

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hat would the quintessential Against Me! setlist look like?

It might go a little something like the track listing for 23 Live Sex Acts, a live album from the Florida punk group, due out on September 4, which sums up 15 years and six studio albums.

"In a way, the record is almost like a greatest hits," says lead singer Laura Jane Grace during a stop in Madison, Wisconsin. "We were like, let's do the ideal setlist, all the songs that always get the biggest reaction, and make sure each album is equally represented."

The album was recorded over the course of 2014 while the band toured in support of Transgender Dysphoria Blues. It moves from tracks early in Against Me!'s career like "Pints of Guinness Make You Strong" and "Cliché Guevera" to more recent staples like "I Was a Teenage Anarchist" and

"True Trans Soul Rebel." Grace explains that the album title is a nod to the idea of performances being an expression of gender, and the impact that's had on her—particularly her publicly coming out as a transgender woman in 2012 and going through that transition in front of an audience. It also serves as a snapshot of where the band's at in its current iteration with James Bowman (guitar and vocals since 2001) and more recent members Inge Johansson (bass) and Atom Willard (drums), who both joined Against Me! in 2013.

"I think everyone's a hell of a player, and I think everyone really brings everything they can to the show and leaves it all onstage," Grace says. "We really made an effort with the live record to not polish it and go back and make it not raw. It still has all the elements—if someone jumped up

and grabbed my mic and is screaming into it, then it's on there, even if they're not in key, or if a song came to a crashing halt.

"What happens during a live show, it's not always the best technical performance," she continues. "Sometimes it's really sloppy and loose, but it has that spirit and that's what matters, you know? Recording records in a studio and playing shows are just such opposite ends of the spectrum.

It's really hard to capture the magic of both scenarios."

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other people's material.

having him be 20 people's hype-man: buy this record, come to this show, announcing on the mic—almost MCing the night sometimes. Just being able to rally up people behind [something], that was actually crucial. A lot of the artists couldn't speak up for themselves in that way, I feel.

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to kind of fall under/release under.

--Even without firm direction, releases branded "Old Ugly Recording Co" kept coming from a deepening pool of musicians, who would often draw on each other for musical back-up, both in recordings and live shows.

--GURBA: That's an important thing to highlight: the whole scene, the label, and who was on it was already in a way this, [but] became a place where you could source people to play with you, record you, all of that. Everyone ended up playing in each other's bands, recording each other's music.

HOYER: You would go to one concert, and the exact same band would just switch instruments [to be the next band]. I think that was a real amazing thing: to be able to work on other people's songs and help add things to other people's songs and learn from

JALBERT: The early days of Old Ugly were pretty fun. We just went to each other's tiny shows all the time, we always knew that all our friends would be at our shows and we always went to each others' shows. It felt really familial, super safe, a little insular.

HOYER: It was also problematic at times: someone's busier than someone else, or [scheduling] rehearsals, things like that. That became a bit draining at times.

GURBA: Another cool thing that happened was very disparate genres were playing together all the time. The Joe [rap] was playing with Diehatzu Hijets [distortion rock], who's playing with Tyler Butler [folk], who's playing with Doug Hoyer [pop].

HOYER: And Mitch played with everyone. [...] Joe came from this rap background where it was totally normal and accepted to push your stuff at the show, where it's overt. I remember

Grace's growth as a songwriter is also evident on the album. There were songs from the first record, she says, where she didn't have the same understanding of structuring or dynamic that she does now, but she's pleased with the development she's had over the years, and there's

GURBA: That's the whole point of a label, is to have a person that vouches for you. Especially if you want to be a folk artist or something—you have to keep your mystique.

--In among regular shows, Old Ugly started to produce the occasional daylong showcase, wherein everyone associated with Old Ugly would play a set.

The first one, the Old Ugly Circus, was kind of a mess, but it's also the one that almost everyone interviewed for this story marked as an early highlight.

--GURBA: I'd love to talk about how huge a disaster the Old Ugly Circus was, but how wonderful it was: the

still room to grow.

"A lot of it was more just like luck if it happened to work as a song, or we'll have these oddly structured songs where it's like verse-bridgeverse-no chorus-end—stuff like that.

If you were to tell somebody [that] on paper they'd be like, 'No, that won't work.' But it works, for whatever reason," she says. "It's almost like a naiveté with that kind of songwriting, where once you've being doing it for long enough you can't go back to that same kind of innocence or approach; you have to have grown, otherwise it's kind of fake."

Touring as much as Against Me! does, it's difficult for Grace to pinpoint any particular favourites on 23 Live Sex Acts, noting that she often cycles through songs she enjoys more than others, depending on the tour. She explains that songs change

ambition. It was December of 2009. It turned out to be the coldest day in Edmonton history since the '60s. Edmonton, at the time, was the coldest place on Earth. It was a Sunday, it was at Avenue Theatre. Everyone who came had to bus there—we're talking an hour on the bus, in a blizzard, in the coldest weather you could possibly imagine.

We could see our breath in the venue.

JALBERT: The heating in the building seemed broken or something, so we all had to wear our winter jackets, and the show was hours and hours long. It was really fun.

HOYER: Earlier that day—I had my minivan at the time—we go to pick up Joe and Beth [Gurba, musician], and we were going to get candies and other supplies. It was so cold the air-pumps on the back of my door wouldn't stay up. They're compressed, I guess. It ended up falling on Joe's head, and cut his head. He wore this whole bandaged crown the whole day.

GURBA: Fifty people paid, I think, at the

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"It became one of the band-favourite songs to play," she adds. "It's weird how it works like that, and a lot of that has to do with the band that's playing it—like the rhythm section specifically that's playing it—but sometimes it just takes a second for a song to reveal itself to you, what it's really about or what it really means to you, in order to put that emotion behind it when you play it live. Songs are weird. They're living things."

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end of the day. Which is actually great, considering. […] The best thing about the Old Ugly Circus is we set up tables, and made all this fake merch, all of this dollarstore merch. I had access to unused Halloween candy that the Safeways had just given away, basically. We covered every table with a mountain of candy.

HOYER: There were people that we looked up to in the scene, some that came, that we were embarrassed, at this point, that they came.

GURBA: We're like, "Oh no, there's only 50 people here; why are you here?" [laugh] WILSON: I met Mary Wood [Feverfew] and a 16-year-old Thomas Mamos [Ghibli, Jaded Hipster Choir] that night.

JALBERT: I think it was the night before Liam Trimble and Beth Gurba's birthdays, so we celebrated while we were cleaning up. It was a special night.

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WILSON: I think there was a hot minute where a lot of us thought [Old Ugly] could be something great with some pruning, but that it hadn't happened yet.

FISHER: We did big shows like that where pretty much everybody hung out all day and did a set. Denim Show was another one.

GURBA: A lot of our weird shows ended up making us look crazy. But that allowed us to put out a lot of weird records, too.

--Old Ugly records continued to arrive at a ridiculous pace—the collective nature of the releases continued, too, and started to manifest in new ways: over the years came three Christmas releases, each containing original festive songs written by the OU collective. In lieu of Circussized shows, Old Ugly started doing occasional Folk Fires, acoustic performances down on the banks of the North Saskatchewan River. With the perpetual avalanche of new sounds and a consistent live presence, in 2010, Old Ugly started getting noticed by the media.

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GURBA: We'd play shows at Wunderbar, Hydeaway, Artery and Likwid Lounge.

The way it ended up being Wunderbar more than anywhere was almost by chance. First of all, we noticed we got better turn-outs there, because it was on Whyte Ave. CRAIG MARTELL (co-owner of Wunderbar): We had agreed begrudgingly to participate in a festival but had some wires crossed as we had booked some acts for the weekend and so had they.

They had given us all Old Ugly all weekend. I recall we had Doug Hoyer, Illfit Outfit, The Joe, Michmatic, Rappers are People, Racoonsuit, Jaded Hipster Choir and more.

GURBA: Wunderbar became more important to Old Ugly as Craig continued to be so supportive. He started to say, "I have this touring band, would any of your artist make sense to have on [the bill]?" That's another level of support.

MARTELL: The very first impression was how nice everyone was and how everyone involved was good. There were no weak links.

FISHER: Wunderbar was/still is an oasis in the venue desert that is Edmonton.

CHAD BRUNET (music director, CJSR): I started out at CJSR in 2010. I was getting a lot of music sent into the station, obviously, but I was also listening to the station on a daily basis. I was hearing people playing certain tracks—hearing tracks by The Joe or Mitchmatic stood out. It was noticeable that [Old Ugly] seemed to be highly collaborative; they were all working together. There was, I guess, an Edmonton-specific nature to it. You could hear references to things in Edmonton, especially with Joe's songs.

There's references to things I actually did, stuff I cared about.

HOYER: It's the CBGB kind of thing: You have a space where you can play, and you can hone your chops.

GURBA: I think 2010 felt so good because all of a sudden people cared what we were doing.

MARTELL: The [Old Ugly] crowds were always very friendly and supportive. We had never really made much money on those shows. I don't think anyone who ever came to an Old Ugly show during that period left drunk. The music, though! Man, it was good. And it was the crowd we wanted to feel at home there. To be fair, I've seen all of them very drunk since then.

HOYER: People were excited to come out, and actually listening to records too. People were saying, "Oh, I heard this song on CJSR," or "I bought it." Someone would talk to me about another artist's lyrics. It was like, "Oh, this means something to people outside of ourselves."

GURBA: You'd turn on the radio and hear your friend. That was the best.

BRUNET: Having that consistent name, Old Ugly, on every record; from our perspective, it would tell a DJ, oh, I already like pretty much everything else Old Ugly's done, I'll probably like this, or at least give it a listen. You can discover more favourites that way.

--Somewhere along its way, a bulk of Old Ugly shows seemed to settle around Wunderbar, which then was becoming an anchoring venue for the local music scenet at large. Eventually Gurba started booking shows there as an independent promoter. The room and the label, during the period, seemed inexorably, if unofficially, linked.

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GURBA: Obviously, Wunderbar made enough money to keep itself open, sometimes. But Craig could very easily be doing the shittiest shows that pack in more people. It's part business, but it's very much part altruism. We never had to clean a bathroom, or kick out a drunk, or do any of the legwork. But he provided that space, and that's absolutely crucial to the whole entire enterprise of music.

--As Old Ugly drew more focus, the fact that it was, effectively, a group of musicians without much in the way of financial backing, started to show signs of wear. Differing opinions about the label's direction started to emerge. In 2012, Gurba went back to school, and Old Ugly started to fade as a presence on the scene.

--GURBA: Pretty early on, we just decided we wouldn't involve money, at any point.

Everyone would always pay for their own records, and at best we'd try and write grants, and sometimes play group shows to pay for little things, here and there. But try not to involve money.

HOYER: When it came time for Joe to go back to school, we were hoping to delegate a lot of responsibilities to dif-

ferent people. And it just didn't work.

GURBA: I was hardcore about school, so I wasn't able to do as much. Plus, I was also managing a building [as a landlord], and managing ER [the nowdefunct venue Elevation Room].

WILSON: I had previously been trying to claim a bit of ownership of the label by getting Joe to convince people outside of our immediate friend group to release on the label: A release by Brazilian Money, as well as the OU Christmas sampler that I was attempting to curate with Joe at the time. I think Joe wanted it this way as well, but had trouble actually letting this thing that he built go into the arms of someone else.

GURBA: There's a dialectic to it all. We got more popular, people started taking their careers more seriously. It was probably hubris of me to continue taking their art so lightly—I don't take it lightly at all, but to make its presentation to the public always such a crazy, loose-termed thing.

WILSON: At the time, Joe and I got in a big fight, because he thought I was stealing the label from him. I didn't want to hurt him, really, so I almost unhesitantly threw in my towel for Old Ugly and eventually started my own imprint, Value Records.

GURBA: I think people were worried that real labels were seeing them as signed, and not interested in them for that reason. That concern was being repeated a lot. There was definitely the talk of "Let's just take this real."

I didn't have the money to do that. I didn't know where in the world you'd get the money to take a label to the next level.

WILSON: Did I want to change the image of Old Ugly? Yes, I totally did, and it probably wasn't really mine for the changing. However, I feel like I played a substantial role in the whole that the "collective" was, and wanted to use my energy with more freedom. Joe always wanted Old Ugly to be grassroots and intentionally obscure, and offered community as a label commodity. I wanted it to run in a more classic capitalist way: I wanted to help bands (financially)— that I thought had more talent than others, that weren't necessarily my friends—to release records I thought would receive more acclaim outside of our Edmonton sphere.

JALBERT: I never had a specific split with Old Ugly, but there was something about the insular nature of the thing that made it hard socially to stick around when anything sort of personal came up within the group. I'm not totally sure what releases have come out as a part of Old Ugly after, say, late 2012. I guess I sort of felt like it was ending, but by then my perspective was largely an outsider's one.

WILSON: The tension died pretty fast.

Joe was in school, I'd hung up the proverbial hat with OU and my ideas of where to take it.

FISHER: I guess for me Old Ugly was like an encouraging hand-holder as I

found a way to "get out there" on my own. I probably wouldn't have played even half as much if there weren't Old Ugly events and stuff. But as much of a foundation as Old Ugly provided for me, I started to feel like I could just do my own thing. I guess a lot of us felt like that.

GURBA: At the end, it was a combination of me going to school, not being able to put in the same work, and just general discontent in some of the ranks with us not moving up to the next level, when we were poised to. Constantly.

--There were a few more Old Ugly releases in 2013, but 2014 and 2015 were effectively dormant years for the label.

The musicians that had been involved with continued to make records, attract interest and perform around town, albeit without the Old Ugly moniker.

Then a few weeks ago, the label resurfaced with a third Bike Month album, chock-full of OU guests and others. It's meant to serve as an "official" capstone to the label's discography. There was recently a final Folk Fire down by the river, too.

--HOYER: We just wanted to officially end it. With Joe and Beth [Gurba] moving away, it just kind of hit us. "Oh, we should formally close that chapter." And I [was] working in Europe on tons of different songs and these little fragments.

The more I worked, the more I realized I had a Bike Month album on my hands.

And I thought, trilogies are good.

GURBA: We talked about doing a big funeral show for the longest time. But the Old Ugly Folk Fire just seemed to make more sense. There were so many logistics to doing a full show, and to getting everyone there and doing all the stuff. It just seemed like more work than fun, and I think that's a testament to the what whole thing was supposed to be: it kind of ended because it became more work than fun.

JALBERT: I'm grateful for Old Ugly in a lot of ways, but I think the legacy only goes so far as the people who felt encouraged to keep trying with music when otherwise they may have given up. I know I owe some of what I'm doing to OU, but I wouldn't say I'm contributing to any legacy.

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BRUNET: Just look at what it produced.

Look at who came out of that label: all these names that are consistent, that we're seeing making music now, that we know are great.

GURBA: It was a ton of work, but it was a labour of love. It gave my life purpose: I enjoyed it more than I enjoyed making music. At some point I started being more interested in playing other people's music on the radio, talking about other people's music on [my blog] Argue Job, putting out other people's music on Old Ugly, putting on shows for other people, than I was in being talked about on radio, being played on blogs, making music or playing music. At the end of the day, everyone makes music for different reasons. Personally, I think I made it for respect, and I found just as much of that in talking about other people's music as I did in my own. I just wanted to be respected by people I liked.

MARTELL: In my mind the peak of Old Ugly is actually right now. While some of the crew has slowed down, all of the rest have reached new levels with bands made of new and old faces.

Mitchmatic, Caity Fisher, Jom Comyn, Ghibli and Doug Hoyer are making the best music of their lives. Faith Healer, Diamond Mind, Slow Girl Walking, Tee Tahs, Maude and Feverfew are all new projects that are all making major waves on various levels. None of that would be possible without what Old Ugly did, and none of them could have kept evolving without Old Ugly dying.

WILSON: Truthfully, I think what Joe provided people at the time was unparalleled and heartfelt. He cared and worked hard to put on the countless shows at Wunderbar, the Folk Fires and numerous OU releases, plus more. Anyone who knows Joe could tell you that he is, if anything, unfiltered: he's loud and proud and half the time doesn't know what he's talking about. But his intentions were always good.

GURBA: The people out there trying to make a career of it, that's great. It just wouldn't make sense in the context of Old Ugly. But where they are now might not have been possible without Old Ugly. It was just part of the journey. And the journey for the whole scene, I think, in Edmonton— our part of it, at least.

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Ground Level Falcons T

he last time Vue spoke to Edmonton's Ground Level Falcons was around this time in 2014, for the release of The Revealor - Side A—a two-part album similar to the A-side/B-side format circa the 1960s—and the band will be releasing The Revealor - Side B this Friday, a disc that serves as a contrast to Side A. "There's a storyline that goes through the two. It's sort of like the end of a relationship," frontman Matt Gardiner says over the phone. "Side A is the ini-

tial feelings you would go through from the end of relationship. Side B is more [about] developing a healthy detachment from those raw emotions you would have at the beginning. [It's about] moving on, or being OK with where it is and where you are in your life, and sort of where you fit in with your surroundings and that kind of thing. [This album] is a little more external as opposed to the first side, [which] is more internal."

When taking in the two albums to-

gether, listeners will notice an apparent polarity between each. Side A emphasized the keyboard skills and vocal harmonies of Angela Power, giving it a more intimate, ballad-like sound, while Side B returns to the four original members of the band—Gardiner (vocals and baritone guitar), Adrian Armitage (lead guitar), Greg Kolodychuk (bass) and Brendan Kobayashi (drums)—and it emphasizes Kolodychuk's bass playing and a heavier, garage-rock feel.

"The idea is to have Side A and Side B as

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For Side B, Matt Gardiner used a more DIY approach of recording than Side A, which the band members worked on exclusively alongside producer Stew Kirkwood during the recording and mixing phase.

Gardiner was completely involved in the recording and engineering of Side B, which he completed in his home

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studio. That DIY feel is apparent: there are some slips in the timing and the click track is not always perfectly locked in, but it gives it that raw feel the band was looking for.

"It's not perfect, whereas the first album was quantized and everything," Gardiner says. "It's a more clinical approach to emotions."

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Sam Outlaw L

os Angeles and southern California aren't as synonymous with country music as, say, Nashville or Memphis, but as Sam Outlaw sees it, there's a "small but mighty" scene that resides there.

"When I started branding my music as SoCal country or California country, I think what I was trying to do was tin a few different influences, and they're really the Bakersfield sound, the honky-tonk sound that just sounds like straight-ahead country music," says Outlaw during a drive from a ranch in the "middle of nowhere" Wyoming to Idaho to meet up with his band. "Then you have that singer-songwriter influence and all

the greats from the '60s and '70s, like Jackson Brown; Crosby, Stills & Nash; James Taylor; the whole troubadour scene ... And then if you live in Los Angeles, the ubiquitous nature of Mexican culture is highly influential."

Outlaw (his mother's maiden name) released his debut full-length album Angeleno in June, and it has enough twang and pedal steel to impart nods to the old-school days of country, but there's a laid-back California vibe that resonates on the tracks, too. Despite its vintage sound, the album wasn't meant to be a kitschy throwback.

Rather, it captures what drew Outlaw to the genre in the first place.

"The songwriting, the stories, the

soul and pedal steel ... these things, to me, are what make country music country music, and if a song has a good story and has some soul in it and a singer really makes you feel that song, then I think that's a special thing," he explains, adding he doesn't really keep tabs on modern country.

"I've still got plenty of great old music to catch up on, so I feel lucky that there's still that music out there at our fingertips."

Outlaw points out that a writer compared his music to a soft-rock song with pedal steel as a bit of a dig, but that's precisely what he was going for on Angeleno. He grew up listen-

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Cooder, who also played guitar on the album—span the last five years or so for Outlaw, capturing what he describes as a "sad optimism," wherein a person is aware of love and positive things but still cognizant of the struggles in life.

"Somebody said, 'Even happy songs are written from a place of sadness,'" he notes. "There's some sad songs, and there's some happy songs, but at the end of the day, that's life. Life is made up of joys and sorrows, and if you didn't have both of those things, then really, what the hell are you writing about?"

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Gianna Lauren T

he first single from a new record can often set the tone for what's to come, but this isn't the case for Gianna Lauren.

The Halifax-based folk singer released "Mistakes" in April, and she points out that the ambient yet gritty track is the only one that sounds quite like it on her forthcoming album, Moon Through Window. (There's no firm release date yet due to talks with record labels.) "'Mistakes' is a real jangly, sort of psych-folk song, and we were aiming for that all along with that song, and the record you'll hear draws on a lot of other styles as well," she says over the phone from Vancouver before heading east. "There's a lot of dreamy atmosphere on a lot of the tracks. There's some tropical tones on some of the songs and there's some really stripped-down four-piece-band songs as well, so it really ranges."

The breadth of sonic influences present on Moon Through Window made it difficult to choose which song to release as its first single, but Lauren says "Mistakes" captures the energy and camaraderie of the group she recorded with—the same band present on her 2013 EP On Personhood made up of JJ Ipsen, Justin Nace and Marshall Bureau.

Ardmore, AB.

"Some of us have jazz back- the purpose of writing arrangements grounds and some of us have clas- and for really thinking the songs sical composition experience, or through a little bit more—trying to some of us are sound engineers challenge ourselves, really, and do a who don't actually play guitar very bit more than the live-off-the-floor often, so we're all coming at it from concept of On Personhood," Lauren explains. "I haven't dea different place," she cided which [method] adds. "But also, folks Fri, Jul 10 I like better: that sort in this band are really With Mauno good at listening, and of jump in and do your Wunderbar piece and then it's now that they know done, or letting parts me fairly well I think sometimes without communicating marinate or thinking about songs a they can pick up on where a song is little longer. I think there's certainly headed or what the theme of the things about both that I like."

Despite its variances in style, Moon song is."

Through Window is tied together On Personhood marked the first by its exploration in observation. time Ipsen, Nace, Bureau and Lau- Lauren says the songs are shaped ren had been in the same room around a series of stories that are to make music together, and they observations about other people spent five days tracking it live off coming and going, in which she takes the floor. The band followed Lau- on the role of an outside observer.

"I like to make music for leather ren across the country for festival dates after On Personhood's re- wing-backed chairs and scotch," lease, as well as two overseas trips she says, noting she listened to in 2014, and she invited them back the finished record in different setto record with her in Halifax for ting, such as in her car (minus the Moon Through Window with Daniel scotch, in that case) or on different Medwell at Echo Lake. They spent stereos to see how it sounded. "It about 10 days in the studio this really is a good night-time record time, but then set to work on ad- or relaxation record." ditional tracking for percussion, vo- MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM cal and guitar parts after the fact.

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The Bottom Shelf Bourbon Trio has been hiding in Vancouver's music scene for way too long. The trio's finally making its debut east of the city with six stops to promote its eponymous debut EP. Bourbon not included.

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What's Bonnie's State of Mind? We don't know, but it's the name of Freak Heat Waves' new album, which was released this past winter—but think of it more as a mixtape. (Wunderbar, $10)

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THU JUL 9 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live

Music every Thu; 9pm ALBERTA PIANOFEST Various

with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

Pianos; 9:30pm

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro

Generation; 7pm

Eyed Blonde; 9pm

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Ryan Andrew; 9pm

Suite; 7pm (doors); $39.95; No minors

SHERLOCK HOLMES– U OF A Rob

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Adam Holm;

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

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY'S Taking Back

Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;

locations around Edmonton and Pigeon Lake

7pm; no cover

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Open Mic

ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every

with Stan Gallant BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Thirsty

Thursday Jam; 7:30pm BLUES ON WHYTE Johnny Mc-

Cuaig; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays:

rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI JUL 10

PALACE CASINO–WEM The Beat

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Green

mic; 7pm; $2 CENTURY CASINO Honeymoon

Taylor; 9pm

9pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon

Letto; 9pm STARLITE ROOM Dawes with Sam

Outlaw; 8pm (door); $25-$28 TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music

every Fri YEG DANCE CLUB First Class

Fridays; 9pm; $20

Concerts: Spencer Vaughn Band with guest Brooke Woods; 4pm; No cover FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN

ReWine Saturdays Presents: The Galaxy Truckers; 8pm; No cover; All ages GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

Classical HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH

Corey Hamm; 8pm

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam

locations around Edmonton and Pigeon Lake

DJs

APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE The

Friday DJs on all three levels

LB'S PUB Jakked; 9:30pm; Free

CAFE BLACKBIRD Washboard

Last Calls; 9pm ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Doug

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage

Hank; 7:30pm; $10

THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu

Long Weekend; until Aug 2

disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

MERCURY ROOM CD release Stereo Villain with Ear Protection and with the Government Officials; 7pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; 7pm

Stroud; 9pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tim

Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ An evening with Lionel Rault; 7-10pm

Vaughn; 9pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your

Own Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pmlate; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

NEWCASTLE PUB Nick Samoil and Jericho West (pop, rock and boogie dance party); 9pm; No cover

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Open Jam Nights; no cover FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN

Cuaig; 9pm BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos

every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm BRIXX BAR Bassfarmers; 9pm; $15

floor; 9:30pm

8pm; $10

CAFE BLACKBIRD Greg Drummond;

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri;

9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

every Fri THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep RED STAR Movin' on Up: indie,

rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified

ON THE ROCKS Vera; 9pm ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform every

week; $10 OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling

Pianos; 9:30pm RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by

every Fri: this week with Natasha Divina; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

CASINO EDMONTON Trace Jordan

SAT JUL 11

K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am STARLITE ROOM Bend Sinister,

(rock)

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Various locations around Edmonton and Pigeon Lake

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Adam Holm;

APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE The

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Green

Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

(rock)

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Oddibles

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues

every Thur: This week with Graham Guest; 7-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am YEG EVENT CENTRE ¡Mayday! with

Aileron, Kap Kallous & Ghost; 9pm

Classical UKRAINIAN YOUTH UNITY CENTRE

Support Ukraine Troops; 7-9pm; $20

WED AUG 5, MERCURY ROOM

ECONOLINE CRUSH

9pm DV8 Ground Level Falcons CD

Release Party with Call Apollo, Poor Life Choices & Something Mechanical; 7:30pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door); No minors JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23 LB'S PUB Rebels and Lace;

9:30pm; Free MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

Long Weekend; until Aug 2 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and dance

floor; 9:30pm NEWCASTLE PUB Nick Samoil

Last Calls; 9pm ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Doug

Stroud; 9pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the

Dog: this week with Mohsin Uz Zaman (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFE Twin Kennedy with the Doll Sisters; 8:3010:30pm; $17 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Johnny McCuaig; 9pm BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays:

Industrial - Goth - Dark Electro with DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; 9pm; $5 (door); (every Sat except the 1st Sat of the month)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main

NEW WEST HOTEL Jim Walker

Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

Fl: Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll,

O'MAILLE'S The Rurual Routes;

BRIXX BAR Baptists With Guests

BOURBON ROOM Live Music every

ON THE ROCKS Vera; 9pm

Erosion, Adolyne, Dead Again, The Weir And Scrapbooker; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $15

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling

CAFE BLACKBIRD Ben Sures;

9pm

W/ GUESTS

8pm; $15

SEPT 3 & 4, MERCURY ROOM

JR. GONE WILD W/ GUESTS

SAT SEP 19, MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH JCL AND THE EDM FOLK FESTIVAL PRESENT

MARTIN SEXTON

Ryan Andrew; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– U OF A Rob

Taylor; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Mike

Letto; 9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks

and Jericho West (pop, rock and boogie dance party); 9pm; No cover

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

Electronic, roots and rare groove

W/ WAYNE MACLELLAN BAND, & ELECTRIC RELIGIOUS

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Eyed Blonde; 9pm

SHIKAOI PARK–STONY PLAIN

FIVE ALARM FUNK

Blues and Roots Jam hosted by Jimmy Guiboche; 3-7pm

stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)

Thursday Night Concerts - Kidz Night Out Featuring Alyssa Strand; 6:30pm; Free

THUR JUL 23, MERCURY ROOM DOORS AT 7 PM, NO MINORS

RICHARD'S PUB The Mad Dog

NEW WEST HOTEL Jim Walker

most Thursdays; 7-10pm

12340 Fort RD • sandshoteledmonton.com

9pm

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

RIC'S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz);

Come in & Check Out our NEW LOUNGE RENOVATIONS!!

O'MAILLE'S The Rurual Routes; BLUES ON WHYTE Johnny Mc-

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and dance

pianos at 8pm

Hosted by "One Percent"

3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open

SUNDAY JAM 8pm – 12am

O'BYRNE'S Live band every Sat,

Thu; 9pm

MERCURY ROOM Fast Romantics with Unwed Mothers and Mike Nash; 7pm; $12 (adv), $14 (door)

All contestants need to register at 8:30 with JR

NEW WEST HOTEL Jim Walker

Craft Addict Thursdays Presents: Jake Ian; 7pm; No cover; All ages

Long Weekend; until Aug 2

Big Valley Jamboree Karaoke Contest:

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

Sat

Mahood; 7pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

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

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands every

DRAFT BAR AND GRILL Beverly

L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight open jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23

The Mcgowan Family Band Presents Jamtron with The McGowan Family Band, The Gibson Block and more; 3pm; $20 (adv). $25 (gate)

Beach Party Jam hosted by the Barefoot Kings; Ukulele lessons 7:30pm followed by Jam at 8:30pm

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23

9pm – 1am with our Host: JR!

METIS CROSSING– SMOKY LAKE

CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar:

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

Friday & Saturday Karaoke

every Sat; 3:30-7pm

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

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Various

SUMMER FUN!

W/ GUESTS

FRI OCT 2, THE STARLITE ROOM

PATRICK WATSON W/ GUESTS

The Nulls, High Kicks, Mobina Galore; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $12

FRI OCT 23, THE WINSPEAR LIVE AT THE WINSPEAR AND JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

HAWKSLEY WORKMAN

WUNDERBAR The Moas with

Kevin Maimann and the Pretty Things, Susan, and with Strange Fires; 8pm; $8 (adv)

W/ GUESTS

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

The Menace Sessions: alt rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimez & instigate; Underdog: Alternating DJs THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat;

9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

THUR OCT 29, THE WINSPEAR

XAVIER RUDD & THE UNITED NATIONS W/ GUESTS

THU NOV 12, MERCURY ROOM

SEAN MCCANN (GREAT BIG SEA)

WED NOV 18, THE WINSPEAR JCL AND LIVE AT THE WINSPEAR PRESENT

BAHAMAS W/ GUESTS

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

every Sat

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THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,

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

global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

BLURRED LENZ AND THE STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

BEND SINISTER THE NULLS, HIGH KICKS, MOBINA GALORE W/

JUL/18 JUL/24

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

STANTON WARRIORS W/GUESTS

JUL/28

ALL AGES

JUL/29 JUL/30 AUG/1 AUG/6 AUG/8 AUG/15

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

WATSKY W/ A-1

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

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

NORTHLANE W/ LIKE MOTHS TO FLAMES, IN HEARTS WAKE &

CLEAN UP YOUR ACT AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

BAPTISTS

MEATBODIES

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

DREAMS DEBUT ALBUM

W/ GUESTS SOUND EVOLUTION AND JAY M

24 MUSIC

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

7pm; $45

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)

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

9pm

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays:

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite;

BLUES ON WHYTE Bluessmyth;

7pm; $45 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

open mic FESTIVAL PLACE Garage Band;

SUN JUL 12

9am-5pm JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Various

locations around Edmonton and Pigeon Lake

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm

Long Weekend; until Aug 2

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

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

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Twin Kennedy

NEW WEST HOTEL Jim Walker

with the Doll Sisters; 9am-3pm; Cover by donation

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live

on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music

with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm DV8 D'bomme Squad Presents:

Another Sassy Burlesque Show; 8pm; No minors HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog

Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23 MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

Long Weekend; until Aug 2 NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

9:30pm-1am

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

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

9am-5pm JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23 L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison FESTIVAL PLACE EARLY: Garage

Band; 9am-5pm • LATER: Qualic Patio Series featuring Black Umfololsi and Daniel Moir; 7:30pm JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

Long Weekend; until Aug 2

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

Long Weekend; until Aug 2

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country

NEW WEST HOTEL Jim Walker

Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • LATER: Jim Walker O'BYRNE'S Celtic jam every

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

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

Live music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm

guests; 8pm; $27.50

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE The

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW

Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover

Boys, The Bottom Shelf Bourbon Trio & The Whiskey Sheiks; 8pm; No minors

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays:

Classical

Classical

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Disney's

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

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Disney's

the Lion King

the Lion King

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

DJs

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO & Winspear Overture Tour; 12-1pm

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

TUE JUL 14 locations around Edmonton and Pigeon Lake

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday

9pm; $20

FESTIVAL PLACE Garage Band;

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

ON THE ROCKS Owls By Nature, Needles To Vinyl & Stone Iris; 9pm

YEG DANCE CLUB Mule Fest;

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

tour with LAIKA and guests; 7pm; No minors

WUNDERBAR The Give 'em Hell

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

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

DV8 Vesperia Northern Conquest

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

9pm

UNION HALL Against Me! with

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

locations around Edmonton and Pigeon Lake

Tue; 9pm

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

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Various

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

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

Jam: Trevor Mullen

every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

O'BYRNE'S Open mic every Sun;

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

JUL/28

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

UBK & NIGHT VISION PRESENT

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.

JUL/11

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

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

MON JUL 13

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

W/ SPECIAL GUEST

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

locations around Edmonton and Pigeon Lake

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

OCEANS ATE ALASKA

SHAMBHALA DECOMPRESS YEG EATS EVERYTHING & DJ SOUP GANZ

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Various

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

JUL/11

DJs

Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien; 8-11pm • Tuesday Night Jam with special guest Justine Vandergrift; 7:30pm BLUES ON WHYTE Bluessmyth;

9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90's, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,

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

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

WED JUL 15

THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Various

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

VENUEGUIDE 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 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 DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER'S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 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 HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455-87 Ave NW KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.'S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O'BYRNE'S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766

O'MAILLE'S 398 St Albert Trail, St Albert ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PALACE CASINO–WEM West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St 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 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 UKRAINIAN YOUTH UNITY CENTRE 96150-153 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 EVENT CENTRE 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Chris Heward; Jul 10-11 • Danny Acappella; Jul 17-18 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 • Michael Somerville; Jul 9-12 • Sean Lecomber; Jul 15 • Derek Seguin; Jul 16-19

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With Andrew Albertas as headliner with Dan Taylor, and more • Jul 8, 7:30pm CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS COMEDY @ THE TOP • Hilltop Pub, 8220-106 Ave • With Dar Germin, Celeste Delera, and Lisa Baker • Jul 11, 9pm

DATING GAME • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 Ave NW • Starts with Sterling Scott as MC. To be a contestant, email conniescomedy@gmail.com • Jul 14, 8pm

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

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • Crazy Loon Pub, 10208-99 Ave N.E., Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • vbatten@hfh.org • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • hfh.org/volunteer • Learn about taking the next step and what opportunities are available • 3rd Thu of the month, 6-7pm, until Nov 2015 • Free

ILLNESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS • Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209-123 St • 780.235.5911 • Crohn's Colitis, I.B.D. Support and Solutions • Every 2nd and 4th Tue, 7-9pm

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

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

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

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall, 10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and

gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia Society of

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-

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

105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

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

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

LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving.com • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

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

ment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women's Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

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

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

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 INTERNATIONAL STREET PERFORMERS FESTIVAL PRESENTS LATE NIGHT MADNESS • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • edmontonstreetfest. com/programming/late-night-madness • Shows that are zany, one-of-a-kind cabaret performances and a favourite of 'mature' StreetFest patrons • Jul 10, 11pm • $21 (adv), $25 (door)

GUIDED TOURS OF THE KURIMOTO JAPANESE GARDEN • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@ hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

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

north of Devon on Highway 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • 780.987.3054 ext. 2223 • Learn about the history of the Kurimoto Japanese Garden and the symbolism behind the landscape features and structures as you stroll through this renowned contemplative garden • Jul 13, 11:30am & 1:30pm • $11 (adult), $6 (student), $8 (senior, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

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

K-DAYS • Northlands Park, 73 St & 116 Ave • 780.471.7210 • k-days.com • The biggest thing to hit town every summer, with a whole new attitude. Experience the sights and sounds of the fair with a midway, shopping, food, music and... oh hey did we mention food? LIGHTS, Headstones, Theory of a Deadman and so many more will performing at this event • Jul 17-26

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St

NIGHT MARKET EDMONTON • Beaverhill House

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

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

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

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

QUEER

SOURDOUGH RAFT RACE • River Valley, starting at Terwillegar Park (northwest end of Rabbit Hill Road, NW) ending at Rafter's Landing • Celebrate the North Saskatchewan River • sourdoughraftrace.com • Jul 12 • Free (spectators), $150 (entry for large rafts)

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/ group/bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue: 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

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

room, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for

Centennial Plaza, corner of 100 St NW and 101a Ave • fiveholeforfood.com • Playing ball hockey to raise food, funds and awareness for the Edmonton Food Bank and thousands of clients who struggle daily with poverty and food shortages. For all ages, and skill levels • Jul 15, 12-6pm • Free (please bring a donation to the Food Bank)

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

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

BEAD MARKET • Ramada Edmonton South, 5359 Calgary Trail • 780.486.7543 • linda@wholesalebeads-supplier.com • treasurestonebeads.com • Beads, charms, gemstones, and the BEST jewelrymaking supplies • Jul 11, 11-5pm • Free

FIVE HOLE FOR FOOD DAY EDMONTON •

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

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

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MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities. com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a.

QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environ-

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm-1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am

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TAIKO DRUMMING DATE NIGHT • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Highway 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • Two hearts beat louder than one! Take a mini taiko drumming workshop with your sweetheart. The Patio Cafe will have a teriyaki dinner on special for the occasion • Jul 9, 6pm to dusk • $13.50 (adults), $7 (student), $9.75 (seniors), free (Friends of the Garden Members and Season Pass Holders) TASTE OF EDMONTON • Sir Winston Churchill Square, 100 St & 102 Ave • tasteofedm.ca • With 54 new menu items, seven culinary workshops, and seven culinary adventures, it's one of the most anticipated events of the summer. There is a large stage on the Square with daily entertainment as well. What's not to love? • Jul 16-25

WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • rutherford.house@gov.ab.ca • historicedmonton.ca • Today's fads are yesterday's way of life. Eating local and making household and personal items from scratch isn't new; these practices were just forgotten with the conveniences and discoveries of post-World War I society. See what's new is actually old • Jul 6-12, 12-5pm

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 AT THE BACK 25

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naess gallery call for submissions The Naess Gallery at The Paint Spot is a space for the exploration of artistic ideas and innovative processes. We are now accepting applications for 2016 exhibitions. Our 6-week exhibition of solo artists or groups are inclusive: you don’t have to be emerging or established - just interesting!

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Many singing and non-singing roles for both male and female performers are available. No appointment is necessary, drop in and be part of a zombie apocalypse! Please provide a resume and head shot at the time of your audition. Email promnightofthelivingdead@hot mail.com or visit our website at sherardmusicaltheatre.org for more info.

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): How can you fulfill your potential as an Aries? What strategies will help you become the best Aries you can possibly be? Now is an excellent time to meditate on these riddles. One of my Aries readers, Mickki Langston, has some stellar tips to inspire you: 1) One of your greatest assets is your relentless sense of purpose.

Treasure it. Stay connected to it.

Draw on it daily. 2) Love what you love with pure conviction, because there is no escaping it. 3) Other people may believe in you, but only sometimes. That's why you should unfailingly believe in yourself. 4) It's your duty and your destiny to continually learn more about how to be a leader.

5) Don't be confused by other people's confusion. 6) Your best friend is the Fool, who will guide you to laughter and humility when you need it most, which is pretty much all of the time.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): While making a long trek through the desert on a camel, British author W Somerset Maugham passed the time by reading Marcel Proust's novel In Search of Lost Time. After finishing each page, Maugham ripped it out and cast it away. The book weighed less and less as his journey progressed. I suggest that you consider a similar approach in the coming weeks, Taurus. As you weave your way toward your next destination, shed the accessories and attachments you don't absolutely need. Keep lightening your load.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): "I have gathered about me people who understand how to translate fear into possibility," writes John Keene in his story "Acrobatique."

I'd love to see you do the same, Gemini. From an astrological perspective, now is a favourable time to put your worries and trepidations to work for you. You have an extraordinary capacity to use your doubt and dread to generate opportunities. Even if you go it alone, you can accomplish minor miracles, but why not dare to think even bigger? Team up with brave and resourceful allies who want to translate fear into possibility, too.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): When novelist John Irving begins a new book, his first task is to write the last line of the last page. Then he writes the secondto-last line. He continues to work backwards for a while until he has a clear understanding of the way his story will end. Right now, Cancerian, as you hatch your next big phase of development, I invite you to borrow Irving's approach.

Visualize in detail the blossoms that will eventually come from the seeds you're planting. Create a vivid picture of the life you will be living when your plans have fully ripened.

LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): You have cosmic permission to lose your train of thought, forget about what was so seriously important and be weirdly amused by interesting nonsense. If stress-addicts nag you to be more responsible, tell them that your astrologer has authorized you to ignore the pressing issues and wander off in the direction of nowhere in particular. Does that sound like a good plan? It does to me. For now, it's your sovereign right to be a wise and innocent explorer with nothing much to do but wonder and daydream and play around.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): Even the most provocative meme cannot literally cause the Internet to collapse from overuse. It's true that photos of Kim Kardashian's oiled-up butt spawned a biblical flood of agitated responses on social media. So did the cover shot of Caitlyn Jenner in Vanity Fair and the Youtube video of a tiny hamster noshing tiny burritos and the season-five finale of the TV show Game of Thrones. But none of these starbursts unleashed so much traffic that the Internet was in danger of crashing. It's too vast and robust for that to ever happen. Or is it? I'm wondering if Virgos' current propensities for high adventure and rollicking melodrama could generate phenomena that would actually, not just metaphorically, break the Internet. To be safe, I suggest you enjoy yourself to the utmost, but not more than the utmost.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): The coming weeks will be a favourable time for you to acquire a new title. It's quite possible that a person in authority will confer it upon you, and that it will signify a raise in status, an increase in responsibility, or an expansion of your clout. If for some reason this upgrade doesn't occur naturally, take matters into your own hands. Tell people to refer to you as "Your Excellency" or "Your Majesty." Wear a name tag that says "Deputy Director of Puzzle-Solving" or "Executive Vice-President of Fanatical Balance and Insane Poise." For once in your life, it's OK to risk becoming a legend in your own mind. PS, it wouldn't be a bad time to demand a promotion—diplomatically, of course, in the Libran spirit.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): Between now and July 22, your password and mantra and battle cry is "serendipity." To make sure you are clear about its meaning, meditate on these definitions: a knack for uncovering surprising benefits by accident; a talent for stumbling upon timely help or useful resources without searching for them. Got that? Now I'll provide clues that should help you get the most out of your lucky breaks and blessed twists: 1) Be curious and receptive, not lackadaisical and entitled. 2) Expect the unexpected. Vow to thrive on sur-

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prises. 3) Your desires are more likely to come true if you are unattached to them coming true.

But you should formulate those desires clearly and precisely.

SAGGITARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): On behalf of the Strange Angels in Charge of Uproarious Beauty and Tricky Truths, I am pleased to present you with the award for Most Catalytic Fun-Seeker and Intriguing GameChanger of the Zodiac. What are your specific superpowers?

You're capable of transforming rot into splendour. You have a knack for discovering secrets that have been hidden. I also suspect that your presence can generate magic laughter and activate higher expectations and wake everyone up to the interesting truths they've been ignoring.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): "Who is that can tell me who I am?" asks King Lear in the Shakespeare play named after him. It's a painful moment. The old boy is confused and alarmed when he speaks those words. But I'd like to borrow his question and transplant it into a very different context: your life right now.

I think that you can engender inspirational results by making it an ongoing meditation. There are people in a good position to provide you with useful insights into who you are.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): What's hard but important for you to do? What are the challenging tasks you know you should undertake because they would improve your life? The coming days will be a favourable time to make headway on these labors. You will have more power than usual to move what has been nearly impossible to move.

You may be surprised by your ability to change situations that have resisted and outfoxed you in the past. I'm not saying that any of this will be smooth and easy.

But I bet you will be able to summon unprecedented amounts of willpower and perseverance.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): Franz Kafka produced three novels, a play, four short fiction collections, and many other stories. And yet some of his fellow writers thought he was uncomfortable in expressing himself.

Bertolt Brecht said Kafka seemed perpetually afraid, as if he were being monitored by the cops for illicit thoughts. Milena Jesenská observed that Kafka often wrote like he was sitting naked in the midst of fully-clothed people.

Your assignment in the coming weeks is to shed such limitations and inhibitions from your own creative expression. What would you need to do to free your imagination? To get started, visualize five pleasurable scenarios in which you feel joyful, autonomous, generous, and expansive.

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Abstaining from sex until marriage appears to be an outdated ideal Bristol Palin, daughter of former US Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, is pregnant again. Both Sarah and Bristol have been outspoken advocates of sexual abstinence before marriage. Bristol shot a series of ads for the Candie's Foundation warning of the perils of teenage sex and motherhood. This, her second pregnancy outside of marriage, highlights why encouraging people to postpone sex until they get married makes no sense—particularly in the 21st Century.

The average age of first marriage for women in Canada has increased from 22 in 1972 to 29 in 2008, according to Economic and Social Development Canada. Humans are sexual beings.

Most of us have the biological desire and need to have sex. Yet for social and economic reasons, we don't get married until we are almost 30.

That's a long time to try to suppress our natural desires, and most of us just aren't able to do that.

Palin's story also exemplifies what we've learned from the research on abstinence-only sex education. It does not stop young people from

having sex outside of marriage, and it makes them less likely to be honest and responsible about it when they do. A 2009 study on purity pledges showed that within five years of vowing publicly to stay virgins, 82 percent of pledgers had forgotten about it or denied they ever took such a vow. The pledgers were also much less likely to use condoms than those who had not taken a pledge.

second pregnancy, she described it as "a huge disappointment," as if she had somehow failed. She later said that the pregnancy was planned but it was a mistake because she was getting ahead of herself, allowing this to happen before she was married. All she did was have sex with someone she was in a relationship with, a natural thing that most people do. Having sex outside of marriage is the norm, not the exception. Yet she seems to feel that she's obligated to publicly explain and justify her private sexual choices.

The ideal of no sex before marriage is just that, an ideal.

With most of us waiting later and later to get married, and many of us choosing never to marry at all, it sets up an outdated and unrealistic expectation—one that not even the celebrity spokesperson for abstinence can live up to. V

All she did was have sex with someone she was in a relationship with, a natural thing that most people do. Having sex outside of marriage is the norm, not the exception.

Teen birth rates in the USA hit an all-time low in 2013, after a steady decline over the past 25 years. Surveys show, however, that the age at which teens start having sex has risen only slightly, and almost half of Americans have had sex by the time they are 17. This tells me that trying to convince teens not to have sex hasn't worked, but access to birth control may be helping to keep them from getting pregnant.

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I entered into a civil union with another woman in Vermont in 2000.

My ex and I were together until 2003, when we decided to go our separate ways. It is now 2015, and my new partner (who happens to be male) and I are expecting a baby and talking about getting married.

We live in Texas. I know that there are ways to dissolve my civil union in Vermont, but I can't get ahold of my ex (ex-wife? Ex-CUer?) to sign any of the forms. Neither do I want to, because frankly it was an abusive relationship and I still bear emotional scars. She threatened my life, encouraged my suicidal thoughts, and told me I was a loser who didn't deserve to live. I feel I have finally found peace, but now that it has become an issue again, I don't know. I have intense thoughts of wanting to kill her if I should ever see her. Thank goodness she lives in another state! She used to stalk me until she finally moved back to the Pacific Northwest. Is there a way to dissolve my civil union without having to directly contact my ex?

Undoing Niggling Compact in Vermont Isn't Legally Uncomplicated Vermont played a groundbreaking role in the fight for marriage equality in the United States. (Spoiler alert: We won the fight on June 26, 2015.) A little history ...

Way, way back in 1999, before same-sex marriage was legal anywhere in the United States, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that same-sex couples were entitled to the same "benefits and protections" as opposite-sex couples. Vermont's highest court ordered the state legislature to come up with a solution.

Instead of allowing same-sex couples to marry—a simpler fix legislatively but a more explosive one politically—in 2000, Vermont's lawmakers created a separatebut-equal compromise, aka "civil unions." (One of the chief ironies of the fight for marriage equality: listening to the same people who violently opposed civil unions in 2000 bitterly complain that "unreasonable" marriage-equality supporters wouldn't settle for civil unions—a "compromise" opponents of equality got behind only after it became clear that we were going to win marriage.) Full marriage equality came to Vermont in 2009, making it the fourth US state to allow same-sex couples to wed.

So what became of your civil union after 2009, UNCIVILU? Did it become a marriage after same-sex marriage became legal in Vermont, like domestic partnerships did in Washington State?

"Our marriage law didn't automatically convert CUs to marriages," said Elizabeth Kruska, an attorney in Vermont who handles family law.

"And although civil unions were (and are) legal in Vermont, other states did not have to recognize them as legal unions. That's where UNCIVILU has a problem. Her civil

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union is still legal and on the books here in Vermont. Now, I'm pretty sure Texas didn't recognize civil unions—I'm not a lawyer in Texas, so I don't know for sure, but I am a human being with functional brain cells who lives in the United States, so I think it's probably fair to say."

So if Texas doesn't recognize your Vermont civil union, does that mean you're in the clear? Sadly, no.

"There is an interesting case from Massachusetts that hit this same issue square on the head," Kruska said. "A couple got a civil union in Vermont, the parties then separated, and one of the people got married to a different person in Massachusetts. The court in Massachusetts said that the civil union invalidated the subsequent Massachusetts marriage."

Even if Texas doesn't recognize your Vermont civil union—and it probably wouldn't—Vermont would recognize your Texas marriage.

"That would create a situation where the letter writer, at least in one state, would have two legal spouses," Kruska said. "And that's not legal. So the smartest thing for UNCIVILU to do is to dissolve her Vermont civil union. The last thing she wants is to try to get married to the new person and for the marriage later to be found void because she had this other union out there."

Kruska suggested that you contact legal service organizations in Vermont to find a lawyer who can help you. And if you don't want to contact your ex, or if your ex won't respond to you, she recommended that you file for a dissolution and let the court serve your former partner.

"UNCIVILU and her ex may both be able to participate in the hearings by telephone, since they live in other states and it would be burdensome for them to travel back to Vermont," Kruska said, "and as an added bonus, UNCIVILU wouldn't have to see her ex in person." Elizabeth Kruska works at rivercitylawyers.com in White River Junction, Vermont, and blogs about legal issues at scovlegal.blogspot.com.

PAST VERSUS PRESENT

In a former life, I was a staunch Republican and voted for antigay ballot initiatives. Then, after a bad divorce 18 years ago, I moved to another state and fell in with an artistic crowd. Over the years, I became close friends with people with vastly different life experiences, and I've developed an entirely new attitude toward gay rights. My dilemma: When SCOTUS handed down their ruling making marriage a right for all, I congratulated all my nonstraight friends on Facebook. One of those friends posted a note thanking me for "always being in [their] corner." My asshole brother then commented that not only had I not "always" been supportive, in my previous life I campaigned against gay rights. Several non-straight friends

jumped to my defense, stating that it couldn't be true. I am ashamed of the person I was and have worked hard to be a better person. Is there any point in apologizing?

Don't Have A Clever Acronym Anthony Kennedy, the Supreme Court justice who wrote the majority decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage in all 50 states, also wrote the majority opinions in Lawrence v. Texas (2003), which declared laws against sodomy to be unconstitutional, and Windsor v. United States (2013), which overturned the Defense of Marriage Act. Kennedy will obviously go down in history as a hero to the gay-rights movement—but his record isn't perfect.

Anthony Corbett Sullivan, an Australian citizen, legally married Richard Frank Adams, a US citizen, in 1975 in Boulder, Colorado.

The men had been issued a marriage license by a county clerk who couldn't find anything in state law that prevented two men from marrying. Sullivan and Adams applied for a spousal visa for Adams. Here's the response the couple got—the entire response—on official US Citizenship and Immigration Services letterhead: "You have failed to establish that a bona fide marital relationship can exist between two faggots."

The couple sued, and Kennedy, then a circuit court judge, heard their case—and he ruled against the "two faggots." Sullivan and Adams had to leave the country to be together.

Exactly 18 years passed between 1985, when Kennedy signed off on the deportation of Adams, and 2003, when Kennedy wrote his first major gay-rights decision.

In Obergefell, Kennedy wrote that "new insights and societal understandings" changed the way many Americans—including a majority of Americans on the Supreme Court—see gay people. The same goes for you: new insights and understandings have changed how you think, feel and vote about gay people. And that's exactly what the queer-rights movement has been asking of straight people all along: to think, feel and vote differently— and you have done all three. You can and perhaps should apologize to your gay friends for the antigay attitudes you once held—and for antigay votes you once cast—but they should immediately thank you for being the person you are now.

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