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Shelter for the marginalized

SAFQEY aims to increase social services for homeless queer youth Over the last few columns, I've been fairly critical about the state of queer activism and have railed against what I see as the abandonment of the wider queer community in favour of actions that benefit largely cisgender, white and middle-class queers. However, this isn't to suggest that there isn't important work being done, and I am going to spend the next few columns highlighting some of this work for those who are looking for ways to support the more marginalized members of our community. (Also, if you were one of the more than 26 million people who used Facebook's rainbow filter on your profile picture, I trust you will be at the front of the line supporting these

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initiatives, right?)

This week, we are going to start with homeless queer youth. Fifteen years ago, a Canadian study reported that between 25 and 40 percent of homeless youth identify as LGBTQ2S ("2S" means two-spirit and aligns with the language from the report). There has been little research conducted since then, but what we do know is that LGBTQ2S youth are massively overrepresented amongst street-involved populations. Until this year, there were no supportive housing services for queer youth, until Toronto city council announced in March that it would provide housing for a transitional housing program. As far as I know, this is the only housing program in the country and, aside from

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Historic homes Amidst the developmental trends circling Edmonton these days, both infill and heritage preservation are perched high on the list of priorities. But instead of a balanced push forward, city council has left them rather precariously teetering back and forth, headed for mutual letdown.

The City of Edmonton has fortunately begun a long-overdue initiative to densify our mature neighbourhoods, but it has done so without first ensuring that the historic character of the areas has a chance of surviving. There are now more than 50 000 residential lots suitable for subdivision, and new bylaws have been put in place to help developers do so. With so much potential space opening up essentially out of nowhere, developers are chomping at the bit to create prime real estate in the city's central neighbourhoods.

Unfortunately, a number of these lots hold important historic homes, eager for new lives themselves but stunted by high costs and next to no support from the city. They're routinely left to crumble beyond repair, then sold and demolished to make way for another home, or two or three.

Such is the case with Strathcona's 105-year-old Arthur Davies Residence, which was demolished in 2014, as well as The Villa, a 103-year-old manor overlooking Groat Ravine. It's currently up for sale with no buyer in sight, but surely with sharks circling the 16 000-square-foot lot.

If left solely to the market, heritage houses are in a battle with infill that they simply can't win. That's not to say there isn't a market for the relics. They could be repurposed as bed and breakfasts, museums or offices. Some have been fortunate enough to be given new life, but we're resigned to praying for wealthy saviours to do so. The city is only now considering strategies to help owners save their houses, another reactive policy change to counter the fact that they've done it backwards. Infill is already booming, so council had better act fast, because Edmonton doesn't have enough saviours to help The Villa and most certainly more houses to come. V

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some very talented individual outreach workers, few other programs exist.

A new grassroots action group is hoping to change this locally. Called SAFQEY (Safe Accommodations for Queer Edmonton Youth), the group is hoping to spark conversation amongst the public and social service providers in order to increase the service options available to, well, Edmonton queer youth. According to the group, they "believe that culturally sensitive supports are essential and that the current 'one size fits all' approach is failing trans* and non-binary youth on the streets. We hope to challenge some of the misconceptions about the reasons why trans* and queer people become homeless; we hope to

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help create a society where gender identity and/or expression does not preclude any child from accessing safe housing and shelter."

In order to achieve these goals, SAFQEY is creating a documentary to highlight the voices and experiences of homeless queer youth. The group plans to present two screenings in September in Edmonton and Calgary; each will feature a panel discussion to encourage public conversation about the issue. The group's timing coincides with the provincial government's recent musing about the need for specialized housing services for queer youth; SAFQEY hopes the additional public awareness generated by the documentary will make it easier to secure funding for some pilot projects.

In the meantime, SAFQEY is raising

money in support of its plans and will be hosting a fundraising event at the end of the month. "Drag Down Disparity" happens July 25, starting at 8 pm at Evolution Wonderlounge.

MCed by Teen Jesus Barbie and featuring performances by Gogo Fetch, Queer Royale Drag Troupe, Harvey Steele, Lucy Lips, Christy Heely, Sister Mary Clarence and others, the event will also include a silent auction, dancing and door prizes. Tickets are $10 each or two for $15 and can be purchased at Evolution, the Pride Centre or on Eventbrite. The event is 18-plus.

If you can't make it out to the party but still want to support the cause, visit safqey.com. SAFQEY will also be releasing details about the documentary screenings toward the end of the summer. V

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The hardest word to say

Sorry is difficult to say, but so is genocide, at least for the Serbians It's hard to say you're sorry, but it's even harder to say you're sorry for a genocide. The word just sticks in the throats of those who should be saying it, as the Turks have been demonstrating for the past 100 years in the case of the Armenians of eastern Anatolia. And the Serbs have just shown themselves to be just as tongue-tied in the case of the Bosnian Muslims slaughtered at Srebrenica.

Saturday was the 20th anniversary of the murder of between 7000 and 8000 people when Srebrenica was taken by Bosnian Serb forces in 1995. The town's population was swollen by refugees who had fled there to escape the "ethnic cleansing" that was being carried out against Muslims elsewhere in eastern Bosnia, because it was a United Nations-designated "safe area" defended by NATO troops.

Or rather, not defended.

When the Bosnian Serbs, having surrounded Srebrenica for three years, finally moved to take it in July 1995, the UN and NATO commanders refused to use air strikes to stop them. And the Dutch troops, who were there to protect the town, decided they'd rather live and let unarmed civilians die.

So all the Bosnian Muslim men and boys between the ages of 14 and 70 were loaded onto buses—the Dutch soldiers helped to separate them from the women and children—and driven up the road a few kilometres. Then they were shot by Serbian killing squads, and buried by bulldozers. It took four days to murder them all.

The crime has been formally declared a genocide by the UN war crimes tribunal for former Yugoslavia. Both the Bosnian Serb president of the time, Radovan Karadžić, and the Serban military commander at Srebrenica, General Ratko Mladić, are awaiting verdicts in trials for directing genocide. You would think

that even the Serbs cannot deny that it was a genocide, but you would be wrong.

There are certainly some Serbs, like journalist Dušan Mašić, who are willing to call it what it is. His idea was to have 7000 volunteers lie on the ground before the National Assembly in Belgrade on Saturday, symbolizing the approximate number of Muslim victims at Srebrenica. "On July 11, while the eyes of the whole world are on the killing fields near Srebrenica", he said, "we want to send a different picture from Belgrade."

"This will not be a story about the current regime, which has failed to define itself in relation to the crime that happened 20 years ago," he continued, "or about a place where you can still buy souvenirs with images of Karadžić and Mladić. It will be a story about ... a better Serbia." But the better Serbia has not actually arrived yet.

Serbia's interior minister, Nebojša Stefanović, didn't like the picture Mašić wanted to send. When right-wing groups threatened to disrupt the demonstration last Thursday, Stefanović banned it in order to guarantee "peace and security in the whole of Serbia." And the Serbian government had already asked Russia to veto a UN Security Council resolution describing the Srebrenica massacre as a "genocide."

Russia was happy to oblige, and vetoed it on Wednesday. Maybe Moscow was just sucking up to the Serbs, whom it would like to steer away from their current ambition to join the European Union—but maybe President Vladimir Putin was also thinking that he didn't want any precedent for some future attempt to describe what he did during the second Chechen war in 1999 – 2002 as a genocide.

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sandar Vučić, who seems to have changed his mind about Srebrenica since his early days in Serbian politics, still cannot bring himself to use the word "genocide" when he talks about it.

Back in 1995, Vučić was a radical nationalist who declared in the Serbian National Assembly, only a few days after the Srebrenica massacre, that, "If you kill one Serb, we will kill 100 Muslims." By 2010, however, he was saying that a "horrible crime was committed in Srebrenica."

Vučić even travelled to Srebrenica on Saturday to take part in the commemoration of the events of 20 years ago, a brave gesture for a Serbian prime minister who must contend with an electorate most of whom do not want to admit that Serbs did anything especially wrong. But he still doesn't dare say the word "genocide." The voters would never forgive him.

Most Serbs would acknowledge that their side did some bad things during the Balkan wars of the '90s, but they would add that every side did. They will not accept the use of the word "genocide"—whereas that is the one word Bosnian Muslims have to hear before they can believe that the Serbs have finally grasped the nature and scale of their crime.

That's why, when Vučić was at Srebrenica paying his respects in the cemetery, some Bosnian Muslims started throwing stones at him. His glasses were broken, and his security detail had to hustle him away.

It was a stupid, shameful act, and the Bosnian Muslim authorities have apologized for it. But like the Turks and the Armenians, the Serbs and their neighbours will never really be reconciled until the Serbs say the magic word.V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Vegetables for City Hall

Edmonton Youth Council pushes for vegetarian or vegan catering—and sustainability

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he vegans are coming for your steak!

No, not really, but you could be forgiven for having that impression after the confusion last week around a City of Edmonton Youth Council presentation to Edmonton City Council.

As modest a proposal as they come, the youth council suggested that city council stick to vegetarian or vegan catering for the few occasions that meetings are catered— such as the single time it happened in 2014.

"It's not a meal, it's just snacks in the back rooms," says Cameron Somerville, a member of the youth council.

"There's two veggie plates and then one plate of sausages and cold cuts," he gives as an example. City council has these plates occasionally, just so people can grab some calories during long meetings.

He's quick to note that the youth council got a great deal of positive feedback when news of the proposal got out. Aiming to address issues of environmental sustainability, economic savings and leadership, the idea resonated with many. It's the kind of suggestion that plenty of people would never much consider until somebody finally brings it up.

"One interesting thing we got was a message from a city councillor in Montréal who says she wants to institute something similar at her city council," Somerville says.

But closer to home, Somerville points out that much of the positive feedback the group received came from Edmonton youth—which perhaps not coincidentally, are who the youth council is supposed to be representing. The youth council is an advisory committee to city council, filled with engaged Edmontonians between 13 and 23 years old, tasked with bringing issues important to Edmonton's youth to council.

While the group made some noise in the fall regarding the original Bill 10, before it was halted and rewritten to allow kids in Albertan schools the right to form gay-straight alliances without opposition, its usual focus is on Edmonton City Council, presenting directly to it or to committees. After some discussion, the vegetarian and vegan proposal itself was deferred to a Council Services Committee in October, a venue that Somerville agrees is appropriate. With this time, the youth council will be able to incorporate some of the feedback it got, and if changes should be made, it can make them work for everyone.

Of course, not all of that feedback is helpful, because despite an about-turn in provincial governance, this is still Alberta, and this idea is still at its heart about eating less meat.

From the perennial refrain of "doesn't council have anything better to waste its time on?"—and don't worry, it somehow found time to discuss more than one issue and tackled the LRT that same day—to being dismissed as kids, the backlash was predictable. But taking on exactly that sort of thinking is nothing new.

"This is the purpose of the youth council, to give the youth a voice, and I think this is something we need to continue working on with city council: to establish that the youth are a population with valid ideas and they should be given a voice in this city and in politics in general," Somerville says. "I do worry that it could potentially lead youth to be afraid of voicing their opinions, and I

think that's an issue."

Somerville suspects that much of the negative reaction came down to confusion over what, exactly, those ideas were about.

"There was an idea that we were trying to impose our diet on other people," he adds.

"This was not us trying to hurt the agriculture industry, this was us trying to give city council an opportunity to once again show they support environmental sustainability."

It might not be a large thing in direct terms given the scale of the catered meals that it orders, but the point would be that city council could take a leadership role in Edmonton reducing its meat consumption. Not to mention the leadership it could show for the country, with Edmonton having the opportunity to be the first major city in Canada to have this policy.

That's a role the city might want to embrace, given that a reduced-meat diet comes with reduced land use, water use and carbon emissions, to name a few. And because of the scale of the effect that meat consumption has on the environment, you don't have to give up meat entirely to make a significant difference.

"One of the really interesting things that I came across," Somerville continues, "and one thing that I really think is important is the water use of meat. Producing one hamburger requires 2500 litres of water, which is equivalent to two months' worth of showers. So you could cut out one meat meal every two months, or not shower for that entire period—the choice is yours.

"We often think that when we try to reduce our water use, we reduce it domestically," he adds. "We turn off the tap when we brush our teeth, get an efficient toilet. While those changes are fantastic, they pale in comparison to our meat consumption. Fifty-five percent of water use goes to animal agriculture.

Five percent goes to domestic use."

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Edmonton's youth haven't come to the realization of the intensive requirements of our meat-rich diet from nowhere, either. In a UN report, Assessing the Environmental Impacts of Consumption and Production, the organization notes that "more than half of the world's crops are used to feed animals, not people. Land and water use, pollution with nitrogen and phosphorus, and GHG emissions from land use and fossil fuel use cause substantial environmental impacts."

And Edmonton's own Green Living Guide suggests starting your week off with Meatless Mondays for the same environmental reasons. When you do opt for meat, it encourages chicken or pork, both of which require fewer resources than beef, and to buy local if possible, which reduces the environmental costs of transportation.

The issue will be back in front of city council in October, but in the meantime, Somerville reminds the public that applications for the youth council are now open.

"I'd encourage any youth between 13 and 23 to apply," he says. "You have such a good opportunity to voice your opinions, and meet fantastic people. And you get to work with Andrew Knack, who is an amazing councillor and always hears out the youth on what they believe is important." ryan bromsgrove

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aiting in a half-hour line for green onion cakes: Taste of Edmonton is one of the biggest food events in town, but for many years that was pretty much all that distinguished it—sheer volume. Tens of thousands of people attended and the participating restaurants doled out countless small plates of nibbles, but variety and innovation usually weren't part of those food samples.

Spurred by mounting criticism of the festival, Taste of Edmonton undertook a major overhaul of its image and focus three years ago. The changes have been numerous, immediately noticeable and wholesale for the better.

"The board wanted to dispel some of the rumours that were going around that we were supporting the big chain restaurants and that we were becoming very much greasy spoon with the same old, same old, menus not changing, not very interesting; the event was getting a little tired," Paul Lucas says. He took over the position of general manager of Events Edmonton, the organizing body that hosts Taste of Edmonton, about two-and-a-half years ago.

For most people, Taste of Edmonton is a big walkabout outdoor tasting alley in Churchill Square where vendors distribute a range of sample-sized menu items. It's the main feature of the festival, and it is also the part

that came under fire in recent years as being tired, stagnant and generally uninspiring.

"What we undertook to do was a stakeholder review with the provincial government assisting us, to facilitate a complete review of the event from the eyes of our public, from the restaurant owners, from the industry," Lucas says.

"Really, that put us on the journey of instituting so many changes to where it's evolved to today."

Those changes included the addition of constraints on menu item duplication and replication year after year, as well as the inclusion of many new vendors: 2015 will see 12 new restaurants and 54 new menu items.

But the biggest change for Taste of Edmonton was the advent of ancillary events designed to offer new experiences and increase attendees' exposure to smaller vendors who wouldn't (or couldn't) participate in the main vendor portion of the festival. In 2012 the festival added a cooking competition and food trucks. In 2013 Taste of Edmonton formalized these additional events under the Sip 'N Savour component and added pop-up tastings and cooking workshops. Last year the organizers added off-site culinary adventures that take Edmontonians away from Churchill Square to various locations in and around the city. (This

year will include tours of Yellowhead Brewery, Jacek Chocolate and Gold Forest Grains Farm, for example.)

"A lot of times, the smaller restaurants tend to get a bit of a rude awakening in terms of the volume of food that can be served through an event this large," Lucas says. He describes Sip 'N Savour as an "incubator" event where they hope to give potential new restaurants a sample of what it would be like to participate as a full-fledged vendor for the entire 10-day run.

This year will continue the previously established Sip 'N Savour events and will add a kids' component, but the biggest coup d'état was the inclusion of the Canadian Food Championships (CFCs).

"We see it as putting Edmonton kind of on the culinary map of being aggressive and being out there in terms of we're not just a bunch of rednecks," Lucas explains. "We've got a very, very vibrant culinary scene here in our city, and we want to support that by trying to promote and bring the best of the best that we can from right across the country to compete."

From July 21 to July 25, a qualifying event for the CFCs will be held in a series of 20 temporary kitchens built on Centennial Plaza (directly south of the Stanley Milner Library). Atten-

dance is free, and people are encouraged to walk around and watch the competitors in action, some of whom are Edmonton and Alberta locals. The winners in each of the six categories will go on to represent Team Canada in the World Food Championships in Florida this November.

The CFCs signed a three-year contract and will therefore have an event in town for the next two years as well, though not necessarily at Taste of Edmonton. Events Edmonton is currently in the middle of those negotiations.

Closer to home, Taste of Edmonton is also hosting the fifth and biggest instalment to date of Edmonton Food Fight, which will see four (instead of the usual two) local chefs competing head-to-head over three mystery ingredients on July 19. Tickets to this event include a food and drinks menu featuring wild game and wild flowers.

"We heard loud and clear from some really top-notch chefs that Taste of Edmonton wasn't for them," Lucas notes.

"We think now that we've gone on this journey, a lot of them have changed their mind and they see it as a celebration of coming out and showcasing who they are, what they're about and promoting their business."

Rebranding aside, the biggest challenge facing Taste of Edmonton—and

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one that has the potential to seriously curtail the momentum it has built up in the past three years—is the LRT construction that will force the festival off Churchill Square for the next two years. Lucas notes that they are still in the process of figuring out a temporary new home; they are considering Legislative Plaza and Capital Boulevard on the legislature grounds.

Taste of Edmonton could have very easily just continued to remount the festival without any changes and would probably still be doing OK: Edmontonians love their green onion cakes, after all. But it's incredibly encouraging that the festival wasn't willing to simply accept the status quo and that they organizers have chosen to keep pace with the city's food scene, if not lead it.

Taste of Edmonton's changes mean that greater numbers of people are gaining exposure to foods, restaurants and culinary experiences outside their usual comfort zones while at a familiar, safe event. In this regard, Taste of Edmonton's greatest contribution to the city's culinary landscape isn't in being an outlier itself, but rather in showing the average person that they can and should engage in our city's food evolution.

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Better bitters

Step up your cocktail game with homemade bitters

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Bitters are the salt and pepper of cocktails, and bartenders will often dabble in making their own—but you won't see any of those homemade versions on drinks lists in town.

Like many devoted bartenders, Evan Watson began making his own bitters some time ago, partly out of curiosity and partly due to availability—or lack thereof—of bitters in the Alberta marketplace.

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"At Three Boars we have, I think, 120 bottles of bitters right now; it's not as though we're struggling," Watson says. "But we don't get a distribution for Peychaud's bitters here, and it's probably the second-most important cocktail bitters of all time—which is kind of funny. Most bartenders, myself included, the bitters that we'll try and mess around with are ones that, for whatever reason, we can't

get here because that way we can play with those instead of having to worry about getting our friends to fly to the States and bring us some kind of thing."

As the name suggests, most bitters are just that: bitter tasting. However, they are also quite complex and countless types exist in as many different flavours as you can imagine, from fruity to floral to spicy and sa-

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voury. Watson likens them to tannins in wine, as they often form a crucial cocktail component—for proof, Watson suggests making a Manhattan but omitting the Angostura bitters.

"It just tastes completely unfinished and washed out," he says. "The bitters just add a little bit of a backbone and sturdiness to the drink."

Resources abound on all aspects of drinks culture, including making bitters, but Watson cautions that whipping up a batch isn't as easy as a lot of those online "how to" articles would have you believe.

"Making your own bitters is certainly not the easiest thing in the world, but it's definitely a pretty neat art," Watson says. He recommends reading up on the subject and cites Bitters by Brad Thomas Parsons as a comprehensive, canonical starting volume for both history and technique; the book contains several recipes that are great for those just starting out, too.

"As bartenders, we kind of follow the lead of chefs in that regard," he adds.

"If you want to learn a new technique, it's often important to copy what someone else has done and then kind of riff on it a bit."

There are two main types of bitters: ethanol-based and glycerin-based.

The vast majority of bitters used in cocktails are ethanol-based, for obvious reasons; Watson notes that glycerin bitters add a very different mouthfeel to a drink. The method he follows is fairly straightforward: steep an ingredient or set of ingredients in very high-proof, neutraltasting alcohol (Everclear is a great choice) for a period of time (usually between a couple of days and a couple of weeks), then strain. The trick is in the blend: while you can steep a bunch of different ingredients together in one batch—indeed, that's how a lot of beginner bitters recipes are written—Watson says the best bitters are made by steeping each ingredient separately to create a set of liquids called tinctures, and then blending those together in various proportions.

While Watson has been perfecting his own personal stash of bitters, he's unable to include them in the drinks he pours at Three Boars.

"There's a really archaic and awful AGLC law that bartenders consistently make fun of: you're not allowed to take alcohol out of the vessel," he explains. "As soon as the alcohol leaves the vessel you have to either sell it or discard it."

This law covers both homemade bitters as well as simple infusions right in the original bottle—vodka infused with herbs or coffee beans, for example. The law partially exists for good reason: many of the ingredients used to make bitters can be toxic if used in too high concentration, like tobacco or cinchona bark. But Watson hopes the AGLC will eventually recognize certain people, perhaps those such

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as himself with designations like the Certified Specialist of Spirits (CSS), as having the proper knowledge and proficiency in making bitters that are safe for public consumption.

Making your own homemade bitters means that you can also experiment with local ingredients. Watson developed his own recipe for sour-cherry bitters that uses locally grown Evan's cherry, a species native to Edmonton.

The recipe is below: the cherries can be found growing throughout the city (try contacting Operation Fruit Rescue if you can't find a source), while the Silk Road Spice Merchant on Whyte Avenue stocks the more exotic ingredients.

As an added bonus, many people swear by bitters as a hangover remedy; their original historical use was medicinal, after all. The day after a heavy night of cocktail and bitters experimentation, add five to 10 dashes of bitters to soda water.

Evan's Cherry Bitters—easy method* (recipe c/o Evan Watson of Three Boars) *check Vue's blog for the more complex tincture version of this recipe, as well as for a drink made using these bitters Ingredients 1 cup whole (seed in) Evan's sour cherries 1/2 tsp wild cherry bark 1/2 tsp gentian root 1/2 tsp cinchona bark 1 stick cinnamon bark 2 pods crushed star anise 2 pods crushed tonka bean 1/2 vanilla bean pod 1/4 tsp dried orange peel 2 cups cask strength bourbon (Bookers works well) 1 Tbsp honey Method Combine all ingredients (minus honey) in a large mason jar, shake, and store in a cool location away from direct sunlight. Shake the mixture every few days. Once the ingredients have extracted to your personal liking (typically around three weeks), strain off all solids through fine mesh cheesecloth and add the honey to the filtered mixture. Shake/stir vigorously to incorporate the honey, then transfer to a final vessel (an eyedropper bottle works well).

Note: When making bitters, it is important to taste/smell them regularly to ensure your desired level of extraction. Place a small dash of bitters in the palm of your hands and rub them together, then cup your hands up to your face and inhale deeply. If the overriding smell is ethanol, the bitters need more infusion time. You can also taste the bitters to ensure proper extraction of the flavour compounds; again, if the overriding taste is ethanol the bitters need more infusion time. V

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t may be a circle, but the life of The Lion King began, at least on the stage, with David Benken.

The acclaimed technical director—responsible for the behind-thescenes achievements of Broadway stage shows like The Little Mermaid, Mary Poppins and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang—has been with Simba and the gang for more than two decades, well before The Lion King became one of Broadway's top-grossing, longestrunning shows.

"Isn't that amazing?" Benken says, over the phone from New York. "I started out with it before it actually went to Broadway. Its first out-of-town tryout."

And though the tech has improved over two decades, and they've stream-

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lined the process—especially for its touring production—much has remained the same, Benken notes. There were some ideas they tried out back then that didn't quite fly, though.

"If you remember the end of the movie, there were large flames all over the place: we looked at doing that," he says, with a chuckle. "We put that to the side—a little too complicated and dangerous—and we actually came up with a better idea after we thought about it."

Benken's still involved with the show, even in its touring iteration. Before The Lion King heads to any new city, he's one of the people who travels there in advance to check the theatre, to ensure it can hold up to the specifics of the show. And there are many specif-

ics: the show built its acclaim on epicsized puppetry that brings the animal kingdom alive, as Simba goes from naive cub to misled-and-grieving exile to adult ready to take his place upon Pride Rock.

The original Broadway show took five weeks to load in, Benken says; for its touring iteration, they've pared that down to five days. There's actually two sets that travel The Lion King around, leap-frogging each other: while the cast is performing in one city, another identical set is already setting up in the next.

"We carry two complete sets with the show: sets, lighting, sound, everything," he says. "They'll spend five days this week setting it up, lighting

it, making sure it works. The only parts we bring with us show-to-show are, obviously, the actors, the puppets, and some of the other things."

Benken found his way into technical theatre while attending high school in Cincinnati. After college, he worked a technical director job in Kentucky, and was briefly drawn out of the theatre world to work as a programmer for Hewlett Packard, but found his way back with The Lion King.

The show's enduring appeal, Benken notes, is likely tied to its spectacle, which is massive even by Broadway standards—"It's still very different," he affirms—and the story's universality.

"It's a simple story, people know it

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from the animated film, and people know it from before that—it works across languages," he says. "We do the show in 11 different countries, and though when we do open a show in another country, we'll translate it to that language, it [still] works in New York if you have a tourist from Japan, China, a European country. They do come and enjoy the show without understanding every word."

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play videogames. But that sort of fandom, taken out of the basements and into, um, real stadiums, is a thing now, as videogames have transitioned from pure recreation to competitive, paid jobs for some.

In a "cinema event series" hosted

by Cineplex Theatres across the country, the fledgling world of professional videogaming—eSports, if you prefer—is getting a proper showcase, beginning with a showing of a All Work All Play, a documentary that focuses on the worldwide scene. The film will be followed by a live Q&A and demo; then, in August, there will be a live screening of the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive finals, which will be broadcast from the secondlargest stadium in Europe. For real.

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PREVUE // BOOKS

Paging Edmonton

A selection of summer reads that all feature Edmonton only three months from the first frost. A particularly moving passage discusses the ice breaking up on the river, and how Edmontonians crave the arrival of spring. Required reading for any local literary buff.

The Studhorse Man by Robert Kroetsch If The Betrayal is the mournful grandfather of Edmonton fiction, The Studhorse Man (1969) is the salty old uncle who corners you at the family reunion to tell you fantastical stories of dubious credibility.

Our ribald hero, Hazard Lepage, wants to find a mate for his prize stallion Poseidon. He goes to absurd lengths to get his horse laid, including sleeping with the curator in the legislature's old museum and stealing a mountie uniform from a waxwork statue in its collection.

Kroestch's writing cracks with sarcastic wit, and his book ridicules booming Edmonton's desire to banish the horse in favour of a suburban, car-infested future. The city's highest literary award is named after Kroetsch, so you can't go wrong here.

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e is a very bold man who dares to alter in the presentment, still more to deform, whatever he has seen and heard." So claimed James Joyce in his mission statement for Dubliners, a collection of 15 short stories that paints a panorama of Dublin life. Depicting real locations and customs, Joyce sought to distil his city into its purest essence. Dubliners is indeed a masterpiece of local writing, holding up a mirror and forcing the city to observe itself.

Every city has such writers—authors who unspool a place's mythology, imbue its mundane corners with dramatic meaning, build its narrative infrastructure. Dublin has Joyce.

Paris has Hemingway. Montréal has Mordecai Richler.

But what of Edmonton? Richler himself infamously described our city as the boiler room of Canada—functional, industrial, not worth visiting.

Margaret Atwood wrote a short story where a Margaret Atwood-esque poet slowly goes insane after being forced to move here from Toronto.

But Edmonton has been lovingly (if self-deprecatingly) depicted by dozens of local writers, whether they're paying tribute to their own experiences or imagining sensational scenes.

So, if you're looking for a summer read and tired of poorly written bondage fan fiction, why not try one of these four great books which feature our fine city?

The Betrayal by Henry Kreisel The Betrayal (1964) is the grandpappy of Edmonton literature, written at a time when urban prairie fiction was

simply not a thing.

Our protagonist, Theodore Stappler, has tracked down the man who betrayed his mother and sent her to her death during the Holocaust. Our traitor, Joseph Held, has since fled to this anonymous prairie city, which seems so far from the drama of the world.

The short, melancholy novel takes place in the depths of winter. Kreisel's depiction of snow-choked Edmonton will remind you that we're

The Night Watch by Sean Stewart Sean Stewart is a very bold man. In his 1997 novel, he deforms the presentment of the city to hysterical effect, throwing us into a sci-fi/fantasy world of Edmonton circa 2074.

Everything north of the river has been taken over by primal spirits of magic, gods and demons which live in the ruins of downtown in a perpetual winter. The Southside is a technocratic haven for the humans, ruled by a military dictator who keeps the magic at bay by sacrificing a child to the Northside every year.

The High Level Bridge is the only conduit between the two realms,

The Edmonton Queen by Darrin Hagen This is not a riverboat story. Rounding out our cast of characters is silky vixen Gloria Hole, Hagen's drag alter-ego and the potty-mouthed narrator of Edmonton's queer history in the '80s and '90s.

In The Edmonton Queen (1997) Hagen documents the politics of the drag universe which bubbled beneath the conservative façade of Alberta's capital city. From earning her crown at Flashback nightclub to floating in the City Hall fountain dressed as a mermaid, Gloria Hole turned the whole city into a stage for her performances.

and the site of the book's most dramatic scenes.

This list is by no means exhaustive and admittedly lacking in diversity.

If none of these strikes your fancy, try Janice MacDonald's Randy Craig murder mysteries, Minister Faust's Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad, Linda Goyette's historical writing or Alice Major's poetry.

No matter what you end up choosing from the rich smorgasbord of Edmonton-set writing, you're sure to find something you recognize.

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Festival Players Presents: Chapter Two • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivalplace. ab.ca • Recent widower, writer George Schneider, is encouraged by his younger brother Leo to start dating again. Leo comes up with Jennie Malone, and she's a keeper. Still it's a bumpy trip on the road to Dreamland for these not so young lovers. George and Jennie stumble on, overcoming both their hesitation on the rebound and emotional neediness. Leo, meanwhile, has a fling with Faye, Jennie's neurotic, married, friend • Jul 23-29, 7:30pm • $22

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

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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 • Nina Fused Glass Art Night; Jul 17, 7-10pm; $49-$69, available at Eventbrite

Parade Gallery • Window Display Box 101 Street, north of 102 Ave, Edmonton City Centre Mall • paradegallery.ca • Work in Process: artwork by Megan Stein; Jul 17-Aug 30 Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Summer Heat Group Show: by gallery artists; Jun 27-Jul 18 • August Group Show: New arrivals from gallery artist Jonathan Forrest; Jul 25-Aug 15

Picture This Gallery • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • Canada Scapes & Spaces; Jul-Aug

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Off-Whyte 2015: Whyte Avenue Art Walk Holdover Show; Aug 1-14

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51227 AB-60, Parkland County • devonian. ualberta.ca • Rooted III: Perspectives on the Natural World; Jul 19 • Photographer's Drop-in Morning; Jul 25 • Parkland County Art Show; Jul 31-Aug 3 • Devon Pottery Guild Show; Aug 1-Aug 3 •

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern

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

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

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain •

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The Grand Tour; Jun 28-Aug 27

• 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 •

Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art. com • Over/Under Paths: artwork by Frank Van Veen; Jul 30-31

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 Somnio: The Way We See It • Edmonton Room, Stanley Milner Public Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • tipsypress.com • writersguild.ca • Three poets, former Borderlines Writers’ Circle members, come together with an artist to dream, to imagine, to create a resonance of culturally diverse echoes through voice and image–to offer a new perspective • Jul 28, 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 Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show:

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Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a highstakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

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

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 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 18-20, 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 Under the Big Top • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivaplace.ab.ca • A unique program teaching children and youth the brilliant skills of the circus: stilts, wire walking, juggling, rolo bolo, clowning, magic, puppetry and silks • Aug 4-28, 9am-5pm

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lease," says the affable voice coming over the telephone. "Call me David."

David Turpin, the newly installed University of Alberta president, sets the tone for our telephone interview and quickly establishes who, had we been dancing, would have been leading. Before I'm able to ask him a question, he asks me where I'm from. Hearing that I'm a graduate of the U of A's political science department, he mentions his son has just started a degree there.

"He's loving it," he tells me, sounding more proud father than university head-honcho. "And he's over the moon with his instructors this summer and just thinking it's the greatest thing."

Undergraduates might be heartened by the presidential offspring among them. Turpin once said that he and his colleagues, faced with their own children attending their institution, gained a very different appreciation for it.

"It allows you to see it through some other eyes," he told the Saanich Times.

He asks me, as smoothly as Astaire, if he might just talk a bit about education, before we get into any questions.

He mentions students. He mentions students housing. He mentions faculty.

He mentions community.

"Universities are all about people," he says. "They are about talented students, motivated faculty and incredible support staff really working to build a better community, and to come up with ideas and innovations that improve the quality of life for people not only in Edmonton but around the world."

He talks about recruitment.

"About half of our faculty are over the age of 50, so we know we're going to be moving into a period of significant retirement," he notes. "How are we going to recruit and retain the best in the world? That is a key question that we're going to be looking to answer in the months ahead."

He talks about financial resources and the responsibility of government.

He mentions students' financial contributions and that of donors, and that's when I snap out of the dance and manage to squeeze in my first question: one in regards to the university's cozy relationship with industry and concerns about ever-increasing corporate sponsorship. How much is too much?

Turpin explains that the private sector—like government and society at large—are beneficiaries of what universities produce and that they have an obligation to be benefactors of the means of production. He doesn't,

of course, use that particular term, but he is quick to point out that academic freedom isn't a casualty of corporate influence.

"Every single faculty member has the freedom to carry out research in whatever area they so choose, and to report on it in whatever way they like," he says. "No one is forced to take resources from anyone."

What about industry's inclination to donate to those faculties and programs from which they can expect to receive a direct financial benefit? Turpin says the responsibility falls to senior leadership to "ensure that those areas that may not be attracting external resources as well as others are still supported."

Turpin seems a little reluctant to talk about how, four days prior to May's provincial election, Doug Goss, chairman of the U of A's Board of Governors, participated in a news conference where he and four other CEOs urged Edmontonians not to vote for the NDP, with one of them going so far as to suggest that com-

hired him for pushing him to believe that, "I should be accomplishing things of a quality that I never imagined I could." Now considered one of the top plant physiologists and biochemists in the world, Turnpin also expresses a deep appreciation for the arts.

"Every great university on this planet is based on the liberal arts tradition," he notes. "The core is liberal arts and sciences. If those areas don't happen to be drawing the level of external philanthropic support that others may be, it's incumbent upon people in my office to be sure they are being supported in other ways.

"The challenge for senior leaders is to take the message to government and to talk about how important investment in post-secondary education is," he continues. "This is an investment in the next generation. It's [an] investment in our future social, cultural and economic prosperity, and one of the roles of the university president is to get out and talk about that and to ensure that our elected officials fully appreciate how important universities are for the

"How are we going to recruit and retain the best in the world? That is a key quesiton that we're going to be looking to answer in the months ahead." panies would stop making donations to charities and the Stollery Children's Hospital if the NDP was elected. This generated a social-media backlash and had the president of the Academic Staff Association and others calling for his resignation. He says that if Goss had asked him, "I would have advised him that ... he probably shouldn't have been actively speaking in the media just prior to a particular election."

"The university is powered by volunteers," he says. That includes the Board of Governors. "We don't say to these volunteers, 'Leave your personal thoughts at the door if you want to come to the University of Alberta.' We're not going to be telling them what they can and cannot do in their private lives."

Inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 1998 for his work in plant biology, Turpin expresses gratitude to the first department head who

development of our society."

Turpin recalls that when he was 15 years old, well before he envisioned an academic career, he was influenced by a scuba-diving instructor "who took me under his wing and treated me like an adult and moved me into a community of responsibility and leadership that I could never have imagined." He's determined to pay that back.

Inducted as a Member of the Order of Canada in 2010 for his contributions to education as a scholar, scientist and administrator, as well as for his community service with United Way of Greater Victoria and Leadership Victoria and awarded a Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Medal, Turpin is focused on the series of mentors he's had along the way.

"They really opened incredible doors and opportunities for me," he says, exceedingly grateful to be on his way to following in their footsteps.

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EDUCATION // ART

Art gets educational

The Art Gallery of Alberta offers adult classes, with no experience necessary

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hen it comes to the Art Gallery of Alberta, coverage usually revolves around its countless exhibitions and displays, the quarterly Refinery parties and even its on-site restaurant, Zinc. But many people may be unaware of the educational component of the AGA—in fact, there's an entire department dedicated to it. The first floor of the building is known as the Singhmar Centre for Arts Education, and it features three studios as well as an Education Gallery that provides an interactive

learning environment for children, youth and adults.

"There's lots of research to suggest that art education is a really important component, and it enables the gallery to touch audiences in a different way," explains Dara Armsden, education programs manager for the AGA. "When there is an art-making component then not only are you engaging people on a conceptual level, but also giving them opportunities to play, to make and to do."

As part of the AGA's mandate, the

arts-education programs provide a point of entry into the AGA and current exhibitions by offering publiclearning programs that encourage creative expression and visual literacy. Visual literacy—the ability to interpret images and construct meaning—is at the core of the AGA's education programs.

"We want to offer unique programming that allows people to connect to not only the art that they are seeing, but how that art relates to their lives outside of the gallery," Armsden

says. "The gallery is very interested in that dialogue. "[Participants will] be exposed to something they've never done before, something that they can't do at home," she continues "We have this really playful approach. We talk a lot about experimentation and exploration of art materials. They don't have to make a masterpiece; they can just explore the material and find out what they like about it and what they don't like about it. Or they can use or think about an idea that maybe an artist was engaged with and how they respond to that same idea. You don't have to have all of the skills in order to participate."

The AGA offers three types of adult studio classes: drop-in, registered and Art Express, all of which do not require participants to have previous arts knowledge or skill to join.

The classes are held in the Singhmar Centre for Art Education and provide participants with all of the materials necessary for that particular workshop. The drop-in class takes place every Wednesday night from 7 pm to 9 pm and explores art in a playful and casual two-hour session. The cost for

the class is $18. Some of the workshops for summer include clay figure making, working with 16-mm film, relief painting and outdoor drawing.

The registered course is a six-week in-depth exploration of either a conceptual topic or of an artistic medium that is offered on a seasonal basis.

The classes are three hours in length and cost $200 for those who do not have an AGA membership. Art Express offers a hands-on arts education course for adults with developmental or physical challenges, and costs $48.

Each course, whether drop-in, registered or Art Express, explores an exhibition currently on display at the AGA. However, the class might not always be a direct how-to session.

"When it's connected to exhibitions, it's a balance of what the artist is good at or comfortable with or interested in, [which] all plays a factor in what gets presented," Armsden notes. "It's not an interpretation, but an exploration. So the artist or educator will look at the key messaging of the exhibition, pull out themes that they might find interesting and then develop a class around that."

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Success Centre A library without books can't really be called a library, so Archbishop O'Leary High School renamed theirs the Success Centre after the building's 2014 renovations.

The revamp replaced rows of bookshelves with computer pods and couches to promote self-paced and social learning habits. Students have access to more online programs, Alberta Education-approved modules and four staff members specialized in each of the four core subjects to help guide self-learning, as well as counsellors and advisors to help students with life beyond high school.

The change to the library came in the midst of an Alberta Education redesign that focuses on "discovery learning." Dubbed the "21st-century teaching method," the redesign has been slowly integrated into the school system since spring 2014 with more free time for students, access to iPads in the classroom and WiFi to connect personal devices.

Alberta Blue Cross post-secondary grants In June, the Alberta Blue Cross announced it will provide up to $350 000 in funding through its Post-Secondary Wellness Promotion Grant Program to "support and promote student wellness iniatives" in the province's post-secondary institutions. Universities and colleges can apply to fund a variety of programs depending on what the institution is lacking, from helping students quit smoking, encouraging healthy eating habits, to mental health and stress relief.

University of Alberta newly elected provost Newly appointed University of Alberta president David Turpin won't be the only one making big changes at the institution this year.

The U of A's board of governors also elected Steve Dew as Provost and Vice-President Academic this past spring. The search committee, which included both Turpin and outgoing president Indira Samarasekera, chose Dew based on his work as associate dean in the Faculty of Engineering, where he helped increase the faculty's growth in undergraduate and graduate students, as well as a huge growth in research funding.

Dew will be responsible for overseeing all aspects of academic operations for students, staff, alumni and university associations. He will also work closely with the provincial government and its Ministry of Innovation and Advanced Education.

Bike to university Both the University of Alberta and Grant MacEwan University student associations are finding ways to educate students about efficient ways to bike to class again. The post-secondary schools have taken to social media and blogs this summer to promote their indoor bike storage and tune-up centres around campus. With the downtown and the University areas becoming highly congested with traffic, the institutions are giving students and staff a way to avoid highpriced parking passes with a free and safe place to store bikes, while promoting a more sustainable lifestyle.

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REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

FILM

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Winehouse documentary Amy captures the troubled star's fade to black

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ou should be stronger than me," goes one of numerous queasily portentous lyrics heard during Amy, Asif Kapadia's documentary about the late British jazz and soul singer Amy Winehouse. Winehouse delivered those words with the same playful, dexterous, at times almost abstract vocal style that characterized all of her music—like Billie Holiday, Winehouse had a way of rendering heavy sentiments with a disarming, sometimes teasing coo. But the words of "Stronger Than Me" reverberate through this devastating film because we can't help but wonder if things would have turned out very differently had Winehouse's family, friends, lovers, collaborators and business partners been a little stronger. It's not an unreasonable

expectation, given that Winehouse was still a teenager when she began her career, which rocketed her to stardom before coming to a screeching halt in 2011, when Winehouse, at age 27, died from alcohol poisoning and complications arising from various addictions and bulimia.

Amy features a running voice-over that weaves together several new interviews with those who knew and worked with her into a grand collective testimony (or port-mortem). But, echoing Kapadia's earlier documentary Senna, Amy restricts its visual component entirely to archival materials, including a great deal of casual video made on consumer-grade cameras and cellphones—Winehouse was young enough to be a member of

a generation accustomed to making videos of virtually everything they do.

The result can be arrestingly intimate, as well as crappy looking, and, given the deep, morbid unease that grows over the course of the film, it is not altogether dissimilar to a found-footage horror film. We start out watching someone with tremendous talent come to realize her potential for creative and commercial success, but it's not too long before we get wise to where this is all inevitably leading: we're watching someone fall into a pit, grasping at loose dirt along the way. We're watching someone devoid of coping tools struggle to navigate addiction and fame at its most oppressive. We're watching someone die in public.

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Which is to say that Amy makes a perfect companion piece to Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck, replete with the codependent and enabling addict spouse as a key character in the story. (Though in Winehouse's case the figure in her life who appears to carry the heaviest burden of guilt in facilitating her collapse is her father, who's actually mentioned in "Rehab," Winehouse's brilliant, blackly comic hit, as dissuading her from seeking help.) There is, of course, an obvious difference between Amy and Montage: Montage made extremely creative use of archival materials— home movies, journals, tape recordings, et cetera—to create a film bearing a certain esthetic kinship to its

Winehouse in a happier moment

subject's work and incorporated new material—interviews, animation—when necessary.

Amy, by contrast, is slavish about its formalist conceit—other than the use of written lyrics superimposed on screen, there's nothing visual in Amy that isn't archival. I often admire films that apply rigour to a formal proposal, but so little of what's on screen in Amy is compellingly cinematic, and there are several scenes where the clumsily shot footage feels like a placeholder as we work through the narrative. I wonder whether or not this choice really helps the film tell its story or simply limits how that story is told.

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Let's talk about—and celebrate—sex SMUTfest offers a safer space for empowering sexuality of all sorts

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fter SMUTfest's celebratory debut last year, Edmonton's premier (and only!) queer feminist amateur porn festival was clipping along in its preparations for a second edition. It had the Boyle Street Community League locked down as a venue months ago. And then, suddenly, it didn't.

"We had the booking for about four months," Kiyl Keys, one of SMUTfest's organizers, recalls. "Then we got a phone call from the community league saying that the City of Edmonton had deemed our event a 'detriment' to the community, and then they pulled our booking."

Keys and the other organizers sought out the people who'd made that call, and attempted to make their case via email, but received only silence in response—nobody ever engaged with them on the decision.

"I guess the official reason was 'screening of smutty amateur films,'

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and then they deemed that a detriment to the community, with no real explanation as to what that meant," Keys explains. "It's unfortunate that no one was willing to engage with us in some constructive conversation around that."

Unfortunate, indeed: a general lack of a constructive, inclusive spaces for sexuality to exist in, judgment-free, is part of what SMUTfest is looking to address.

There's an exploitative association that lingers around pornography, yes, but it isn't inherent to the form: SMUTfest instead seeks to show how sex and pleasure can be celebratory, positive and empowering for people of every body type and (a)gender.

"The work that we're doing is the farthest thing from being exploitative," Keys says. "Its entire purpose is to really break down that system. ... When you're coming from a

place that rejects those systems, or that challenges them, then you've got something that's quite empowering, and for some people very healing."

The festival emerged out of a conversation Keys had with fellow organizer Chuck Laban; driving home from Calgary, where Keys had been facilitating a few workshops on sexual health for queer women, the two started discussing what they felt was missing from Edmonton's community.

"Part of the conversation we had was focused around safer spaces,” Keys explains. “Where folks from the different parts of the queer community could come together to celebrate our bodies, our sexuality, the way that we have sex— which can be inherently political for a lot of people—in a space that was safe, or safer, free of shame

and judgment, and was really just about celebrating those pieces of our identity."

Since that conversation, SMUTfest's organizing group has grown into a quartet—Keys, Laban, KoKo Carlson and Robin Chow. Undaunted by the sudden lack of a venue, they're simply found another: the second SMUTfest will be held at Harcourt House, where, in addition to the submitted films, there will also be photo installations and a DJ-powered afterparty.

About 150 people attended the inaugural SMUTfest, but the cozier size of Harcourt House might mean this year's numbers are reduced, though a reduction in size doesn't make the emerging festival's place in the community any less salient.

"Throughout the year, between then and now, [we've] had folks from the community come to us and say they felt the event was re-

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Sat, Jul 13 (3:30 pm) Harcourt House, $10 – $30 (sliding scale, nobody turned away for financial reasons) ally important," Keys says. "I've had people express that it was a space where they finally felt like they could talk about and share what they found pleasurable and desirable, without the worries of being judged or feeling like there was any sort of shame they need to carry or feel attached to that.

"Not often do you get the opportunity to have a hot and sweaty good time in a space where you know the organizers—and everybody else around—is very aware of what consent culture is, and very much interested in keeping the space as safe as possible."

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PREVUE // FILM FEST

India Film Festival of Alberta I

ndia's film industry dwarfs that of Hollywood and is far more diverse: with 20 official languages (and many more unofficial ones) and an individual film industry in almost each one of India's dozens of states, there's no way of easily defining Indian film as a whole—but it's certainly a lot deeper than the handful of splashy Bollywood blockbusters we get at the Cineplex Odeons in Edmonton.

"We're not focusing on cool, commercial movies from Bombay," Madhan Selvaraj says, a few days away from the first India Film Festival of Alberta.

"We are focusing on other languages spoken in India. A lot of people from India move to Canada as immigrants— people come from different states in India and they speak different languages. They don't get the opportunity to watch these movies in Alberta."

Selvaraj would know, too: he came to Edmonton from his home in the southern Indian city of Chennai about 13 years ago to study environmental engineering at the University of Alberta. Yearning for the films from back home but unable to find a place that regularly screened them in the Cana-

dian west, he founded the nonprofit group Edmonton Movie Club just over two years ago. The group meets about once a month and has quickly spread to chapters in Calgary and Fort McMurray; to date the club has screened almost 70 independent and regional films from India.

The Movie Club's inaugural festival will feature 10 films that will be shown in three screening centres in Edmonton, Calgary and Fort McMurray. Selvaraj chose the films, which span classics to contemporary choices,

as a sampling of the diversity of Indian cinema, as well as for their insight into various economic, political and social aspects of Indian culture.

A few directors and actors will also be in attendance at some of the screenings: director Churni Ganguly will attend the screening of Nirbashito and actor Suraj Venjaramood will be at the screening of Perariyathavar. Selvaraj hopes this first festival goes well enough that they'll be able to host one each year, and hopefully branch out to some of the smaller communities in Alberta as well.

Fri, Jul 17 – Sun, Jul 19 Metro Cinema at the Garneau, $12 (single ticket), $40 (fourmovie pass), $70 (festival pass) edmontonmovieclub.ca "The main theme of this group is to bridge cultures through cinema," Selvaraj says. "It's to educate the local community about the diversity that exists in Indian culture. If local Canadians can understand Indian culture better, then there will be a better sense of tranquility [and] peace among them."

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erhaps the most resounding, if grave, endorsement of Dead Venues—which trains a documentary lens on some of the many shuttered music venues in the city—is this: between its May debut at the Global Visions Film Fest and this encore showing, another venue closed its doors.

Add Whyte Avenue's Pawn Shop to the list of places set to ascend to legendary, rather than "open," status, for the people who were there to pass the stories down those who weren't and now won't ever get the chance. It's those sort of stories that NTT Films' Eden Munro and Mike Siek were looking to document. (Full disclosure: both Munro and Siek used to work at Vue Weekly. Which means I can exclusively confirm they've been going on about this for years.)

That said, neither had envisioned Dead Venues as a documentary, at least not a full-length one: the project was simply going to be "a complicated website," Munro explains, "that people could put band bios [onto], tracing the history of the Edmonton music scene."

As part of that, they wanted to do a couple of filmed interviews, all short form, anchored around a couple of the most beloved of the now-historical venues from the '80s and '90s.

"And then we did our first interview with Steve Derpack," Munro says. "Which was about three hours long."

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panded into the film it is now. Focusing itself around six or so Edmonton venues—the Ambassador, the Sidetrack Café, Bronx (and the Rev Cabaret), the Power Plant, Rebar (and Stars) and New City—it collects the memories surrounding each. In addition to the doc itself, this encore screening features live performances from Everett LaRoi, Sherry-Lee Heschel and Bob Prodor.

Part-way through the filming process, Munro and Siek put out a call for archival material: out of basements and boxes came posters and footage, much more than they were expecting. The pair thought they wouldn't be able to track down any live footage from the Ambassador, for example, until LaRoi called them up.

"He was like, 'I've got video of Idyl Tea at the Ambo. It's on beta,'" Munro recalls.

"We raced over and picked it up—that was the one thing we had to get someone to transfer for us. We got it, and it's amazing. It's one of my favourite moments in the film, because it takes you into a place that's really vague in people's memories. It's long-enough ago that, even people that were there, it's hard to remember all the details of a place."

Which is, in its own way, telling: while the venues themselves may grow to legendary status, it's the scenes that anchored themselves in those spaces, the stories that happened in their confines,

that carry the most memory weight.

"When we started the process, it was about venues," Siek says. "And by the time we were done, it had almost nothing to do with venues. The venue was just a place; [in interviews] there wasn't a lot of, 'Oh, the bricks ... '. People would describe the smells, or the friends, or the way that they got into the building, but the buildings themselves are secondary.

The surprise is that the venues aren't the important part; the important part is the scenes and the people." "[A venue] becomes part of your memories, and part of the good memories," Munro adds. "It's easier for it to be a good memory, the farther away it is. You don't have to use that bathroom, you just have to laugh about it."

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cott Lang (Paul Rudd, also credited as co-scripter) is a burglar with a master's degree in electrical engineering. He gets out of San Quentin after doing time for some sort of genius Robin Hood caper. Scott finds he can't even hold down a Baskin-Robbins starting position with his prison record, which is a problem since he needs a job and an apartment before he can apply for shared custody of his little girl, so he gets lured back into a burgling by his buddy Luis (Michael Peña, who gets the best laughs in the movie in twin sequences involving rapid-fire flashbacks and ridiculous lip-synching). But, a-ha!, the burgling was covertly masterminded by entomologist, physicist and former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Hank Pym (Michael Douglas), who figured out how to "change the distance between atoms."

Which, as it turns out, is dangerous! It

means that you can turn normal-sized guys into super-small super-soldiers, which is something Pym's former protégé Darren Cross (Corey Stoll), with the aid of Pym's foxy daughter Hope (Canada's own Evangeline Lilly), is hot to develop and sell to obviously nefarious fellows in suits. Thus Pym needs Scott to become Ant-Man, right? Complications ensue.

Sound complicated? It is! But no more so than your average superhero movie, which, it always seems to me, would work better as a superhero mini-series, since there are always at least three complete three-act narratives squashed into one of these tentpole epics. Nevertheless, Ant-Man, directed by Peyton Reed (Bring It On) with the right balance of magnitude and irreverence, feels surprisingly fleet. The film could have done with-

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out several of the requisite plot twists or the entirely superfluous Avengers cameo, but these detours are made up for by some inventive set-pieces, including one that involves a giant Thomas the Tank Engine falling out of a suburban house while two guys the size of peas duke it out in the carpet jungle. Unlike some other recent spectacle films (Terminator: Genisys), it helps immensely that Ant-Man has experienced actors with actual personalities in the lead roles, and it helps still more to have a writing team like that of Rudd, Edgar Wright, Joe Cornish and Adam McKay fleshing out the boiler-plate plot. Also: there are lots of actual ants doing heroic things. Let's hear it for ending the cinema's unjust tradition of demonizing ugly insects.

n Despicable Me, those yellow underlings—looking like bananas crossed with pencil erasers, then fitted with aviator goggles—grew on you. It was only a matter of box-office-machinating time before the minions—à la those car-passing planes of Pixar or Madagascarred, tuxedoed birdbrains of Dreamworks—got their own spinoff. But this DM prequel's a few hired flunkeys short of OK. There's little of the verve, inspired zaniness or sheer rhythm and vigor of that first film from Pierre Coffin and company.

We follow the aspiring henchmen from prehistoric times to 1968 in their search for a truly bastardly boss to slavishly serve. Leaving their tribe,

listless in its lack of lackey-ness, mission leader Kevin along with Stuart and childish Bob (all three voiced

by Coffin in a gibberish interspersed with romance-language phrases) find Scarlet Overkill (Sandra Bullock), her she-devilish designs set on the Queen of crown.

Only Scarlet's not all that interesting an evil-doer, even in her loveydovey marriage to groovy Herb (Jon Hamm). After quick nods to incoming president Nixon and hippie clothing, the movie really doesn't play at all with the women's revolution or any other interesting '60s elements ... save some period music, culminating in the film's best scene—Stuart's gift of a Hendrix-style electric guitar,

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That joke's delivered with perfect rhythm and rambunctiousness as a character's likeable flaw quickly tailspins. But so much here's fairly uninspired, lacking depth and detail, or not so zippily zany. Even the black humour of the minion trio merrily playing on a hangman's noose, defying their torturous fate, isn't pushed further. There is a fun little escapade with a hit-'em-and-run robbing family. But from a villain convention and a bevy of baddies chasing the three sponge-coloured stooges through London streets to Herb's heist-helping gadgets and Bob's unexpected coronation, the film just doesn't lend as much heft, hilarity or hi-jinks to such moments as it should. Its only slightly nasty, needling little point of interest comes in its poking-fun at the inflated parade-float balloon of the English monarchy (the crown changes heads three times). But mostly these underlings just underperform.

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My Beautiful Laundrette plunged audiences into an all-but-invisible community seems perfectly natural—though it's not to interfere with Omar's singleminded fixation on making lots of money. Homophobia takes a backseat to racism in any case, with the local white thugs threatening Johnny simply for accepting a brown man as his employer. Eventually, in a sequence Frears stages like a late western, those thugs launch a vicious attack on the whole lot of them, making for a ugly climax—though that's not the end of the story.

How many times in the history of the medium have we seen a single film rattle as many socio-cinematic paradigms—and done it with as much brio—as My Beautiful Laundrette (1985)? Scripted by Hanif Kureishi— his first film credit—and directed by Stephen Frears, this incendiary entertainment made stars of London's teeming South Asian community.

It features a central romance that was both interracial and gay, and embraces the tenants of Thatcherite hyper-capitalism only to expose it as fundamentally corrupting and ineffectual with regards to the populace at large. Yet at no point does the film draw attention to its importance or iconoclasm. In one of the excellent supplements contained on Criterion's new DVD and Blu-Ray releases of My Beautiful Laundrette (both available on June 21) Frears claims that he initially didn't really notice the fact that the story was queer. The film feels so utterly focused on story, character

development and milieu that I'm inclined to believe him.

My Beautiful Laundrette begins with second-generation AngloPakistani Omar (Gordon Warnecke) essentially trading in his former socialist journalist father, Hussein (Roshan Seth), a man seemingly broken by emigration, for his businessman uncle, Nasser (Saeed Jaffrey), a man eager to assimilate—complete with a white mistress—and capitalize on every carrot of opportunity life in Britain dangles before him. "You have to know how to squeeze the tits of the system," Nasser insists, and Omar is an apt pupil, rapidly going from washing cars in a garage to refurbishing a dilapidated old laundromat in a predominantly Asian South London neighbourhood. Omar does this with the assistance of a lanky white working-class factotum named Johnny (Daniel Day-Lewis in his breakout role), who along the way becomes Omar's lover, a development which

So few films had previously plunged a mainstream audience into what was until then an all but invisible immigrant community, with its own rules and ideals and wild contrasts.

My Beautiful Laudrette launched a new wave of Asian-centered British films, not to mention Kureishi's career—he would go on to script Sammy and Rosie Get Laid (1987), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), My Son the Fanatic (1997), The Mother (2003) and Venus (2006), continuing a thread not only of immigrant representation but sexual audacity. Frears would begin a winning streak that would peak with The Grifters (1990) and Day-Lewis, having emulated Robert De Niro and Clint Eastwood here, would become like them a star of the first order, known for transforming himself through methody immersion in vocal and body work. Though one could argue that the greatest moments throughout the rest of DayLewis' career, from Christy Brown to Lincoln, are only ever on par with that delicious furtive lick of Omar's neck, a gesture Criterion has fittingly placed right on the cover of its superb new package. V

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his semi-autobiographical feature debut from US writer/director Maya Forbes certainly hits the ground running, with the Stuart family patriarch Cam (Mark Ruffalo) in high mania, riding a bike while wearing only sneakers and red briefs, hollering something about his testicles, and speeding toward the car in which his understandably terrified wife and children have locked themselves— a car that Cam will dismantle so as to hold his family hostage until he learns to chill. Cam has bipolar disorder and, this being 1970s, his unpredictable, sometimes outrageous, sometimes menacing behaviour generates little sympathy and renders him essentially unemployable, despite his being the handsome, imaginative and intermittently charming scion of New England aristocracy.

Cam has a big heart and clearly wants to be a superdad, but medication for his condition tends to be debilitating and mood management a formidable task. Cam's profoundly patient wife Maggie (Zoe Saldana) no doubt also wants to be a supermom, but that's not easy when the family doesn't have much bread—she's the breadwinner, and she's also an AfricanAmerican woman of humble roots trying to forge a law career.

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Romi Mayes on the struggle to be good and finding inspiration for her latest album

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ometimes it's just hard to be good.

"I think everybody knows that, and if they say that's not true, they're lying," says Romi Mayes with a raspy chuckle. "It's really a lot easier to be bad, and that's why most people are bad.

It's hard to wake up in the morning and go to work; it's hard not cheat on your wife if you're not in love with her after 50 years; it's hard not to grab the wallet that was left in the bathroom and not go return it, when it has $8000 in it, to its owner, you know?"

But that's the beautiful thing about actually being good, she notes: everyone has the capacity to do it, but it just takes a little bit more work— even though, let's face it, it can be a hell of a lot more fun not to be, every now and then. This ongoing push-pull between the two is the dichotomy at the core of her latest album, Devil on Both Shoulders—her first since the release of her live record Lucky Tonight in 2011. Mayes had been churn-

ing out records every couple of years until that point, but she recognized that making albums and a heavy touring schedule was beginning to take its toll. She decided to pull back and catch her breath, and there was even a brief period where Mayes wasn't sure if she would release another record at all.

"What I spent the last four years [doing] when I wasn't writing, I was flushing out a lot of demons even," she explains. "There's a lot to be bitter about for everybody, and I was feeling pretty bitter. I was like, 'You know what, man? It's like there's a devil on both shoulders.' And I couldn't get away from that for a long time."

Of course, Mayes did get back into songwriting, and she was able to take her time fleshing out this album since there was no push from a label. It's a gritty, emotionally charged record that most will be quick to slap a blues label onto, but Mayes doesn't

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feel that's the most accurate descriptor for it, or for her work in general.

"I don't really like being called a blues singer and a blues artist," she notes. "I don't consider what I do blues. I think there's a lot of blues influence, the same way there's a lot of rock 'n' roll influence, and the same way there's a lot of even country and bluegrass influence in the traditional roots that I come from."

So what is it, then? Mayes has been a mainstay on blues bills and festivals— "which mostly have pop music now anyway," she laughs—but she says her music leans more towards roots and rock 'n' roll. Despite some slower tracks, like the sultry swing of "Gonna Miss Me," plus a dose of twang and crunchy, dare-I-say-it bluesy guitar riffs winding through Devil On Both Shoulders, it's a rock record—just listen to the title track—and one Mayes is glad she decided to make.

"If I never made a another album

Sun, Jul 19 (7 pm) With Sean Bishop Mercury Room, $10 in advance, $14 at the door again, I would be really happy that that was my last one," she says. "I think it really touches on the sound that I've been wanting to hear out of myself. Someone described it as a '70s Bonnie Raitt album, and that appeals to me quite a bit ... and I just like that it has a lot of groove rather than driven blues, straight-ahead rock.

I think it's my best lyrics, my best melodies and some of my best songs."

Mayes credits some of that inherent groove to Grant Siemens—part of Corb Lund's band, and whom she's dubbed "groove-meister." The two have been close friends for some time and had played together over the years, but they had never worked so intensely on one project together. The pairing turned out to

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be beneficial, as Siemens pushed Mayes to attempt bigger melodies as well as strive for more as a writer and as a performer. For example, Mayes had planned to drop the key of the track "Make Your Move," because it's quite high for her voice and a difficult track to sing, but Siemens encouraged her to leave it as is— something Mayes says she wouldn't have done otherwise.

"I think really what it comes down to is a producer's role is very simple: the songwriter has to trust them and respect then, they have to have good ideas and they have to be someone that encourages you," she notes. "If you can do that, you're going to be able to make a better album for the person, which is what you're there for. You're there because they want your expertise to make what they're going to do better than what they would on their own."

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Renny Wilson Punk Explosion

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enny Wilson was getting tired of Sugarglider.

He'd been playing that debut album for years; on the cusp of another tour, Wilson didn't want to play the same well-worn songs he'd been trotting out since before Sugarglider's 2012 release.

"I really wanted to swear off playing those songs for a bit and play a new set," Wilson recalls. There was an alternative, at least in concept: since 2007, Wilson had been slowly amassing a library of caustic punk songs, far more attuned to his early days with high-school

upstarts the Subatomics than Sugarglider's slick discoball grooves.

The songs had been tentatively targeting a release on Montréal's Psychic Handshake Records, but that end goal had seemingly fallen away due to a slow-going process.

"I'd get the creative energy to make one of those songs every year, pretty much—once a year, twice a year, maybe," Wilson says. "I'd still email Graham [Langdon, Psychic Handshake co-founder] periodically, being like, 'Hey, are you still interested in doing this album?' It

awareness—a cover of Foreigner's very-unpunk "Juke Box Hero" ends the album—as well as a level tunefulness to back it all up, but the more prominent thoughline here is abrasion.

Conjuring up the sort of spirit necessary for sounds like this isn't always readily on hand, Wilson notes.

"That was very easy when I was young; I had a lot of that kind of energy, when I was doing Subatomics," Wilson says. "It would be at certain times, during the year, that I would be driven to make Fri, Jul 17 (9 pm) something like that: I find that often With the Strugglefucks, the songs' subject matter was someGender Poutine thing that made me mad.

Wunderbar, $10 "This sounds so cliché, but it's true," he adds. "When you have that angry was like three years of me sending him energy, you want to like destroy someemails [...] he stopped responding to me thing, so why not the musical art form as a thing?" at some point."

Still, that impending tour proved to be the deadline Wilson needed: he fin- Wilson wrote and recorded four more ished a tapes' worth of songs, stuck a Punk Explosion songs for the album's title on it—on his iTunes, he'd labelled expanded release on Mint records; as the songs as the Renny Wilson Punk an antipode to Sugarglider's studioExplosion, a placeholder name that's wrought sound, Wilson recorded the stuck—and hit the road with a much Punk Explosion tracks quickly, when more combustive set. In Punk Explo- he'd actually get around to them: write sion, Wilson lets loud blasts of punk the part and record it, then fit the lyrics pogo up beside metal-sized riffs and to what was there, rather than overtnimble hooks. There's plenty of self- weaking it in advance.

"When you're writing songs of any type, you can get over-the-top with massaging the lyrical flow and cadence, whatever, before you even hear it to music," Wilson says. "And then as soon as you put it to your musical idea, it doesn't fit; you just have to throw all of it out the window.

"With this, I would just sketch out a lyrical idea, and then change it so it fit over the music," he adds. "And it would all happen in one day, usually, maybe two."

The volatility of the result is part of the Punk Explosion's appeal.

"All the songs are almost equally off-the-cuff, but some of them are genius and some of them are the opposite. You know what I mean?" Wilson laughs. "I think sometimes you luck out and other times you don't. If that's the way you work.

"When it comes to making an album, you can't necessarily have everything be gold—it's like driving your car down the highway," he continues, an ironic tone taking over as he fleshes out the comparison. "Sometimes you see nice little cute towns and little monuments. And other times you're looking at canola fields. It's all about the journey, man."

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The Weekend Kids

Older, wiser, badder

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he Weekend Kids are back. After almost a year-long hiatus, the Edmonton punk four-piece—Andrew Nguyen (lead vocals, guitar), Pete Nguyen (lead guitar, vocals), Philam Nguyen (bass, vocals) and Daminh Nguyen (drums)—is returning to the stage. But what have the boys been up to since we saw them last?

"Getting old, growing up," Andrew says with a laugh. "We're always so busy. Growing up just made us that much busier."

Growing up is an inevitable process that happens to us all, musicians included. Rest assured, the Weekend Kids are still kids; don't expect the

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band to reflect its coming-of-age by becoming the Weekend Adults, much like hip-hop artist Bow Wow, who dropped the Lil' from his name in 2002 because he was getting older.

Still, it seems as though the Weekend Kids have done a lot of growing up in the past year. Andrew recently got married and bought a house; Philam is getting ready to get married this summer—the boys just returned from his bachelor party in Nelson, BC—and Pete is "always busy" being the art director for Avenue Edmonton. However, the foursome are at a point where they can focus on the band again.

"We're itching for it. It's summer.

That's another thing—we don't like playing in the winter," Andrew says.

"It's been so long, and people [kept] asking us when we're going to play again. It's not that we didn't want to play at all. We just wanted to take a breather. We put a lot of time into it before."

The Weekend Kids will be playing the classics at its upcoming show, but with some new songs mixed in as well.

Fans will notice a maturity in the new songs, which Andrew explains will have more substance to the lyrics, and the sound will be heavier and faster.

An album release isn't in the band's near future, but that doesn't mean a

new record won't be coming down the pipe eventually.

Growing up has also meant some changes to the group's dynamics. Previously, songwriting was a process that involved the group getting together to write a song, which meant churning them out much more quickly.

Now, as a result of busy schedules, writing a song takes much longer since the band is unable to get together to work on them. Andrew describes it as a "take home" process where he might write some verses and then sends it to the others, who will look at it when they have the time.

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"I might write some verses or whatever, but we still all have a say in it," Andrew explains. "The songs come out a bit slower. We'll write a song and forget about it—sometimes for the better. When we come back [and look at the song], we'll change something and it'll sound better than it did the last time."

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You can't mention local punk music without talking about these dudes. SNFU, which got its start in Edmonton but now calls Vancouver home, has been punkin' around since 1981. And, well, if you did your math right, that's a loooooong time. (Union Hall, $20) Danny Olliver

COLTER WALL + DANNY OLLIVER / MON, JUL 20

This pair of Saskatchewan-based singersongwriters have teamed up for the Prairie Gentlemen Tour. Colter Wall is out in support of his debut EP Imaginary Appalachia while Danny Olliver is on a tour for his selftitled full-length album. (Cha Island Tea Co)

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Groove-hitters Texture and Light will attempt to liven up a Tuesday night with some electronica dream-rock sounds. Space Classic, Leap Year and Firewoodpoetry will be performing, too. (Bohemia, $10)

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ocal rock quartet Electric Religious is gearing up for the release of its first full-length album, titled Yeah, Yeah, No, later this year.

But the group is giving listeners an opportunity to hear it well in advance, playing it front to back at its upcoming show—plus a few tracks from its 2013 self-titled EP. "The reason we have [to play] the album in the order that [the songs] are on the CD is because it makes sense," explains lead singer and guitarist Brandon Baker. "We wanted to recreate those ups and downs. We want to create a show where people can feel something."

Electric Religious has opted to create an album for the iTunes age—that is, one that's filled with radio-friendly singles. By avoiding long ballads or "eight-minute epics," the band plans to fit the entire album into an opening set and hopes to keep a new audience's attention with shorter song lengths.

"It was definitely a business move," Baker explains. "We wanted to be band with songs on the radio and be

happy with those songs. I think we Wednesday Night Jam," Baker says.

"We hit it off right away. We just refound a really great balance."

Yeah, Yeah, No was fully funded fined our songs for a quartet instead by the Rawlco Radio 10K20 grant, of a trio, applied for grants and here which provides we are."

Pulling its sound financial support Thu, Jul 23 (7 pm) for emerging art- With Five Alarm Funk from the band ists during their Mercury Room, $20 in advance, members' collectime in the stu- $25 at the door tive influences, dio. The grant has which vary from folk to psychepreviously gone to bands like the Sheepdogs and Li- delic rock, Electric Religious evokes a blend of sounds that are easy for brary Voices. listeners with different music tastes Electric Religious formed in 2010, to connect with. While its previous but Baker has ties to bassist Paul EP was rock influenced, Baker hints Bergeron from previous endeav- that the new album will stretch furours, such as the now-defunct Bran- ther across a variety of genres.

"It's a move that I don't really see don Baker Trio.

The pair set out to form a new too many bands making," Baker project with a clear direction and vi- explains. "An album too often sits sion, which led to the beginning of inside the lead singer's closet and Electric Religious—they just needed doesn't get any radio time, doesn't to round out its roster. After adding get sold at shows, just because drummer Jay Der to the lineup, Elec- the songs aren't typically what you tric Religious was just one more step would throw in your CD player and listen to while you're driving." away from being the band it is now.

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hris Cresswell the Flatliners frontman and Chris Cresswell the solo artist are two polar opposites. In the first setting, you'll find him frenetically running around the stage belting out punk tunes, and in the latter you'll find him with nothing more than an acoustic guitar, singing much more sentimental material than the aforementioned band does.

"I can sing about different kinds of stuff that I would maybe feel a little lame singing in the band about—like love songs," he says.

Cresswell enjoys both settings, but admits he finds the smaller acoustic shows more intimidating than a packed house at a Flatliners gig. For starters, he doesn't have his bandmates to back him up, and he points out that there's a sense of intimacy present during the acoustic shows that he doesn't want to ruin.

"It might make it even more intimate because it's proving that an artist is only human and nothing more," he says. "You have no one else to cover up your mistakes ... so you're just very vulnerable and out there and alone."

Some Flatliners songs may make their way into Cresswell's solo setlist, but it will be comprised predominantly of tracks from his One Week album, recorded in 2014 with Joey Cape as part of Cape's One Week Records project, which involved different artists spend-

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ing a week with him in the studio to produce an album. The Flatliners spent some time touring with Cape's band Lagwagon throughout 2012, and Cresswell says he's always admired Cape's work, so recording with him was a no-brainer.

And while he's been writing and recording songs for 13 years with the Flatliners, he notes that recording 10 acoustic songs in seven days was more difficult than he had anticipated.

"I thought, 'Oh, this is will be easy; it's an acoustic record.' You play the song once, maybe twice, because they're just chords. They're pretty easy," he says. "But what I didn't realize was in those small moments there's a big opportunity to screw this up—in those small moments it's so much easier to hear everything. There's so much more clarity to it than a band because it's so stripped down."

But it was in that sparse sonic landscape that Cresswell and Cape were able to capture the small but powerful aspects of the songs, too.

They kept the production simple, employing a "less is more" ethos that Cresswell says spans across all of the albums in Cape's One Week Records catalogue.

"I think I learned that there could be a lot more to every song, rather than just the parts that make the song up," he says. "You can find really powerful elements to the song in the tiniest moments."

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Cresswell is "slowly, quietly" working on new solo material, but he's prioritizing a new Flatliners record before he releases another acoustic one. In the meantime, he's working with a website called Downwrite, which allows users to request a bespoke song from Cresswell that's tailored to a topic of their choice. The majority of the inquiries Cresswell has received are for love songs, but they span the gamut, including one from a single mother who wanted to show her 13-year-old son how proud she is of him.

"The beautiful kind of thing about this thing, and this site, is that the lyrical inspiration is there for you, because they fill out a little questionnaire that the site and I kind of designed together," he explains, adding sometimes he gets a long backstory, and other times it's as simple as "I want a song for my girlfriend." "That's kind of tough, but I think they're just looking for a love song, and it's not an easy thing to accomplish, but it's an easy thing to find those words. That's another exciting thing now, because I can focus on writing music for all these different projects and it keeps me on my toes, keeps the mind sharp."

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ust as songs can grow and change from their original iterations, so can an artists' views on the subjects imbued within the lyrics. This is true for Aly Spaltro—better known by her stage moniker, Lady Lamb—as she reflects on her evolution between the release of Ripley Pine in 2013 and her latest record, After.

"I felt like my last record was thematically not really about me, and at the time I wrote it I felt like it was completely about me," she says, noting the songs on Ripley Pine were written when she was 18 or 19, and the record

was released when she was 23—she feels more confident in the time stamp on After and its representation of who she now. "Looking back, it was actually more about what I wanted from other people and less about myself, so [on] this album I made a conscious effort when writing lyrics, which is the thing I do first, to explore more about what I really care about and what I think about and people I care about ... things that scare me and all that stuff. I feel like this album is more personal than before and musically it's more direct."

Spaltro admits she has a propensity to write songs that meander and don't follow a standard form—like tracks with no choruses—but she challenged herself to be more direct on After, penning hooks and chords that hadn't been present in her previous compositions.

The outcome is a genre-bending one, filled with crunchy guitar, strings, horns and keys blending together to serve as a backdrop for her insightful, visceral lyrics about family, love and childhood memories. For example, her mother has been diarizing her own childhood memories for the past few years, some of which have found their way into Spaltro's music. Her mother often describes the memories from her perspective at the age in which she experienced them.

This means they could be as simple as seeing an eagle catch a fish (which Spaltro describes in a song called "Ten") to more detailed recollections.

"There's so many tender entries about her remembering her grandmother and her parents, and her dad was in the navy and her remembering him coming back from being out at sea and the little gifts he brought her," Spaltro adds. "My mom and I have always been close ...

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These memories have served as a new way for Spaltro to get to know and connect with her mother, and After extends that sense of connection to perfect strangers, too—that is, those fleeting moments of camaraderie, much like the mad-dash to catch a train on "Billions of Eyes" and being met by warm smiles from passengers who have found themselves in the same predicament at one time or another.

Spaltro calls Brooklyn, NY home now (she's originally from Maine), and she points out that the tendency there is to assume you need to keep your head down and go about your day to day in a solitary manner. Admittedly, making those connections can be easier said than done.

"Outside of music, that's where it's really difficult," she says "I think that's part of my struggle, because I'm so introverted and so reserved, and I've always been the type of person just to have a very small group of close friends. I'm not really one to be in big groups, so I feel like I really feed off that extroverted time in my life where I'm able to perform and meet people and talk to people and be vulnerable in that way."

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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 96 10909-96 St 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 UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 YOUCAN YOUTH SERVICES 11124-130 St NW ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old

school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu

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

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands every Sat

NEW WEST HOTEL Jim Walker NORTHLANDS–NORTH STAGE

Part of K-Days: Rellik (3-3:30pm); Wayne Lee (1:30-3pm, 4-5:30pm, 6:30-8pm); Sarah Smith (5:306pm); Pepperland (8-9pm)

NORTHLANDS–SOUTH STAGE Part of K-Days: Harman B (78:30pm); LIGHTS (9pm)

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Andrew Scott; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Adam Holm; 9pm

SHERLOCK HOMES–WEM Acoustic Slave; 9pm

SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am STARLITE ROOM Chasing

A Mad Decent Summer Pt.1 Kastle (Symbols) with guests; 9pm (doors); $20; 18+ only

STUDIO 96 Third Annual C'mon Festival; 8pm; $15

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

Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong every Sat

dance; sugarswing.com

seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4

DJs

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

NEW WEST HOTEL Joe

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

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

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays:

every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN JUL 19 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

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

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

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

UNION HALL Ladies Night

every Fri Fridays

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

ALBERTA PIANOFEST Various

locations in Pigeon Lake and Edmonton; until Jul 18

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Duff Robison

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES David James & Big River - A Tribute to Johnny Cash; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair

of the Dog: Al Lukas (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Mbira Renaissance; 8:30-10:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat

afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Later: Toby; 9pm

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

Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

DV8 TAVERN Lung Flower With

CASINO YELLOWHEAD All the Rage (rock); 9pm

Taste of Edmonton: Lab Coast (7pm), Diamon Minds (8:15pm), Hollerado (9:30pm)

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Party

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Crowd; 8pm

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Cody

Mack; 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free

Afternoon Concerts: this week with Folksy Mama and the Suitcase String Band; 4pm

FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN ReWine Saturdays

Presents: Peter and The Wolves; 8pm; No cover; All ages

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade

Jam: Mike Chenoweth

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam

9pm

ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform every week; $10

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old

UNION HALL SNFU (punk/

rock) with Raygun Cowboys, Ben Disaster and Julius Sumner Miller; 8pm; $20 (adv)

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

Hope 9; 7pm; $25-$70

PALACE CASINO–WEM The

YEG DANCE CLUB Rock It Africa;

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted

by Darren Bartlett, 5pm

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Disney's the Lion King

MERCURY ROOM The Township

(country/pop/rock) with Paul Woida; 8pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

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Beat Generation (rock/pop/indie); 8pm piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

REXALL PLACE Journey; 7:30pm RICHARD'S PUB The Mad Dog

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

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,

WINSPEAR CENTRE Hip Hop for

School DJ; 9:30pm

Free

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

LB'S PUB Chillfactor; 9:30pm;

every Sat; 3:30-7pm

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

9pm; $15

DJs

Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

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

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

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

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

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed

open mic with host Duff Robison

DV8 TAVERN Witch of the Waste

TUE JUL 21 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

(blues/Canadian) with Sean Bishop and guests; 7pm; $10 (adv), $14 (door)

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

FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

NORTHLANDS–NORTH STAGE

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scram-

NEW WEST HOTEL Joe

bled YEG: Open Genre Variety

McDonald

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

NORTHLANDS–NORTH STAGE

Jones; 9pm

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite; 7pm; $45

CHURCHILL SQUARE Part of

Taste of Edmonton: Dirt Road Angels (6:30pm), Livy Jeanne (7:45pm), Alee (9pm)

COMMONWEALTH STADIUM

Disney's the Lion King

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue

Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

MON JUL 20 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Blue Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

Part of K-Days: Wayne Lee (1:30-3pm, 4-5:30pm); Talent Search – Youth Semi-Finals (5:30-7:30pm); Gibson Block (8-9pm)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

NORTHLANDS–SOUTH STAGE

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite; 7pm; $45

CHURCHILL SQUARE Part of Taste of Edmonton: VVOAVeggie Cook-off Competition "Dispelling Veggie Myths" (12pm), Le Fuzz (7pm), Bongeziwe Mabandla (8:15pm), Delhi 2 Dublin (9pm) DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday open mic

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Part of K-Days: Wayne Lee (1:303pm, 4-5:30pm); Talent Search – Adult Semi-Finals (5:30-7:30pm); The Red Cannons (8-9pm)

NORTHLANDS–SOUTH STAGE Part of K-Days: Harman B (78:30pm); Phillip Phillips (9pm)

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Tue; 9pm

STUDIO 96 Third Annual C'mon Festival: Music Spoken Here; 3-5pm; Pay what you can

Jones; 9pm

Disney's the Lion King

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis

Series: Derina Harvey Band (celtic) & Braden Gates (folk); 7:30pm

Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

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)

with guests; 7pm; No minors

One Direction: On The Road Again Tour 2015; 7pm

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

Floor: Blue

ON THE ROCKS Mourning Wood;

CHURCHILL SQUARE Part of Taste of Edmonton: The Almighty Turtlenecks (7pm), The SuperBand (8:30pm)

MERCURY ROOM Romi Mayes

Floor: Soul

CHURCHILL SQUARE Part of

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

Disney's the Lion King

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

$39.95; No minors

THE BUCKINGHAM Shannon and The Clams, with Whitey Houston and The Allovers; 7pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

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

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

The Dabs; 7pm; No minors

Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

Jones; 9pm

Floor: Blue

HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the

DJs

CENTURY CASINO Prism; 8pm;

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

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

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam

CASINO EDMONTON Mojave Iguanas (country rock); 9pm

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

DJs

Grief, NachTTerror, Numenorean, Ye Goat-Herd Gods; 7pm; $15; No minors

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Floor: Alt

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night

RENDEZVOUS PUB Altars Of

Open mic; 7pm; $2

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open

WINSPEAR CENTRE The Decemberists; 7:30pm; $47 (adv), $50 (door)

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

8pm; $10

WED JUL 22

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scram-

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

CAFE BLAKBIRD Grid Pickers;

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis

THE BUCKINGHAM Chris Cresswell of Flatliners with Jesse LeBourdais; 8pm Heather McKenzie (pop/rock); 9pm; No cover

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

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

Part of K-Days: Harman B (78:30pm); Theory of a Deadman (9pm)

every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

Part of K-Days: Harman B (78:30pm); July Talk (9pm)

of Taste of Edmonton: Jordan Norman and the Wisdom Teeth (7pm), The Royal Foundary (8:15pm), Choir! Choir! Choir!

(9pm)

NORTHLANDS–SOUTH STAGE

BOURBON ROOM Live Music

BRIXX BAR Metal night every

Tue

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Part of K-Days: Wayne Lee (1:303pm, 4-5:30pm, 6:30-8pm); Olivia Wik (3-3:30pm); Sister Gray (5:30-6pm); The Dungarees (8-9pm)

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays:

Main Floor: Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-soretro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail

NORTHLANDS–SOUTH STAGE

BLUES ON WHYTE Toby; 9pm CHURCHILL SQUARE Part

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic

SAT JUL 18

Part of K-Days: Wayne Lee (1:30-3pm, 4-5:30pm); Talent Search – Junior Semi-Finals (5:30-7:30pm); Olivia Rose (8-9pm)

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

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

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

NORTHLANDS–NORTH STAGE

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 9am-3pm; Cover by donation

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

McDonald

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • McDonald

LATER: Joe

NORTHLANDS–NORTH STAGE

Part of K-Days: Harman B (78:30pm); Trooper (9pm)

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 YEG DANCE CLUB Flatbush Zombies; 9pm; $25

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

REXALL PLACE Keith Urban (country) & Five Seconds of Summer (pop/punk) with Hey Violet; 7pm

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

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

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

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

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

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

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

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

Edmonton Queen dock • Jul 19, Jul 26, Aug 2; 10-11am

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

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

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-

Illness support and solutions

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Danny Acappella; Jul 17-18 • Chris Heward; Jul 24-25

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Derek Seguin; Jul 16-19 • Byron Bowers; Jul 22-26 Connie's Comedy • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With Kris Labelle • Jul 22, 7:30pm

Connie's Comedy • Draft Bar & Grill 12912-50 St • With Nigel Lawrence • Jul 29, 7:30pm

Connie's Comedy presents Komedy Krush • Krush Ultralounge,16648-109 St • Open mic to start, then later headliner Kris Labelle • Jul 21, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show)

Dating Game • Krush Ultralounge, 6648109 St • Sterling Scott as gameshow host • Jul 28, 8pm

• 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

Insight & Music • Life Enrichment Centre, 9648-54 Ave • 780.462.4491 • Ideas of health and happiness shared for those interested in "power of thought" and spiritual awarenss • Every Sun, 11am, until Jul 30

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

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

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

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

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave •

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

Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group •

Groups/CLUBS/meetings

Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio

• edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

• Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook. com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo. com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward. toastmastersclubs.org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/Presentations

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

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 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for 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 • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

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

Seeing is above All • Acacia Hall,

Seventies Forever Music Society

9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

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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)

• 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

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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 Tai Chi In The Park • Louise McKinney Riverfront Park on Grierson Hill Road just below Shaw Conference Centre, west end of Riverfront Promenade, directly across from the

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

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220103 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

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• 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; 7pm1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am

SPECIAL EVENTS 40th Servus Heritage Festival • Hawrelak Park • heritage-festival.com • A three-day showcase of Canada’s vibrant multicultural heritage with 62 pavilions representing over 85 cultures will be there. Enjoy delicious cultural food, creative performances, crafts, artwork, clothing, and so much more • Free; Food tickets: $1 (individual ticket), $5 (6 tickets), $10 (12 tickets), $15 (18 tickets), $20 (24 tickets), $25 (30 tickets); art and craft items at pavilions will be sold for cash • Aug 1-3

Burlypicks Regional Competition • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • burlypicks.com • The search to pick out the best of burlesque

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Canadian Food Championships • Centennial Plaza, Churchill Square, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Watch Canada’s best chefs come together and put their culinary skills to the test in this high-stakes cooking competition. Our very own account manager, James Jarvis, will be there to judge the seafood competition! • Jul 21-25

Date Night • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Highway 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • Stroll the garden until dusk and then learn a dance step, catch some live music, or take in an outdoor movie (different each week). This week: Inspired by India, featuring music a henna tattoo, and add a special Indian dinner • Each Thu until Aug 27, 6pm to dusk • $11 (adults), $6 (student), $8 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

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Ikki Izakaya • 11931 Jasper Ave • 780.454.4230 • A grand opening celebration featuring a traditional sake ceremony as well as a ribbon cutting ceremony. There will also be various free tapas and drink samples • Jul 18, 6-11:30pm

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

Nutella Truck Tour with celebrity chef Stefano Faita • Northlands - North Gate Entrance 116 & 73 St • addjoy. nutella.ca • The first-ever Canadian Nutella Truck Tour. enjoy a complimentary all-day breakfast option of a Belgian Waffle with Nutella or Fresh Fruit Skewer with Nutella, as well as activities for kids and adults alike • Jul 23, 12-8:30pm • Free

One-Day Meditation Retreat • Providence Centre, 3005-119 St • 780.479.0014 • A very relaxing yet informative day of instruction and guided meditation practice with Kushok Lobsang Dhamchoe, a Buddhist monk who is a very knowledgeable teacher and lifelong practitioner. For all skill levels • Jul 25, 9:30-4:30pm • $60 (includes lunch) pay before July 20 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 Slide the City • Edmonton Downtown, Girierson Hill NW • It's been a hot summer out there. What better way to cool down than to slide on over to the biggest slip-and-slide ever at 1000 ft (or 3 football fields) of slippery fun.

With live music, food, drinks and tons of water • Jul 18-19 • $20-$45

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

Taste of the Past • Father Lacombe Chapel, Mission Hill, St. Vital Avenue, St. Albert • history.alberta.ca/fatherlacombe • 780.459.7663 • Take a step back in time! Sit in the shade and enjoy the view while sampling different historic foods, or take a walk with one of the interpreters to discover more about St. Albert’s history • Jul 19, 12-4pm • Admission is by donation to the food bank

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Stop Making Sense was originally the name of the film and music soundtrack produced by the Talking Heads in the '80s, and now it is the central theme of your horoscope. I think your brain would benefit from a thorough washing. That's why I invite you to scour it clean of all the dust and cobwebs and muck that have accumulated there since its last scrub a few months back.

One of the best ways to launch this healing purge is, of course, to flood all the neural pathways with a firehose-surge of absurdity, jokes and silliness. As the wise physician of the soul, Dr Seuss, said, "I like nonsense. It wakes up the brain cells."

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): When you read a book that has footnotes, you tend to regard the footnotes as being of secondary importance. Although they may add colour to the text's main messages, you can probably skip them without losing much of the meaning. But I don't recommend this approach in the coming days. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, footnotes will carry crucial information that's important for you to know. I mean this in a metaphorical sense as you live your life as well as in the literal act of reading books. Pay close attention to the afterthoughts, the digressions and the asides.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): The English word "quiddity" has two contrary definitions. It can refer to a trivial quibble. Or it can mean the essential nature of a thing—the quality that makes it unique. I suspect that in the coming weeks you will get numerous invitations to engage with quiddities of both types. Your first task will be to cultivate an acute ability to know which is which.

Your second task: Be relentless in avoiding the trivial quibbles as you home in on the essential nature of things.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): "A poet must not cross an interval with a step when he can cross it with a leap." That's an English translation of an aphorism written by French author Joseph Joubert. Another way to say it might be, "A smart person isn't drab and plodding as she bridges a gap, but does it with high style and brisk delight." A further alternative: "An imaginative soul isn't predictable as she travels over and around obstacles, but calls on creative magic to fuel her ingenious liberations." Please use these ideas during your adventures in the coming weeks, Cancerian.

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Another few days of this productive mayhem and you may be eligible for inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records.

I could see you being selected as "The Soul Wrangler with the Craziest Wisdom" or "The Mythic Hero with the Most Gorgeous Psychospiritual Wounds." But it's my duty to let you know that you could also just walk away from it all. Even if you're tempted to stick around and see how much more of the entertaining chaos you can overcome, it might be better not to. In my opinion, you have done enough impossible work for now.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): "People who have their feet planted too firmly on the ground have difficulty getting their pants off," said author Richard Kehl. That's good advice for you in the coming weeks. To attract the help and resources you need, you can't afford to be overly prim or proper. You should, in fact, be willing to put yourself in situations where it would be easy and natural to remove your pants, throw off your inhibitions, and dare to be surprising. If you're addicted to business-as-usual, you may miss opportunities to engage in therapeutic play and healing pleasure.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "A failure is a person who has blundered but is not able to cash in on the experience," wrote American author Elbert Hubbard. In light of this formulation, I'm pleased to announce that you are likely to achieve at least one resounding success in the coming weeks.

At this juncture in your destiny, you know exactly how to convert a past mistake into a future triumph. A gaffe that once upon a time brought you anguish or woe will soon deliver its fully ripened teaching, enabling you to claim a powerful joy or joyful power.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): The poet Mary Ruefle describes reading books as "a great extension of time, a way for one person to live a thousand and one lives in a single lifespan." Are there other ways to do that? Watching films and plays and TV shows, of course. You can also listen to and empathize with people as they tell you their adventures. Or you can simply use your imagination to visualize what life is like for others. However you pursue this expansive pleasure, Scorpio, I highly recommend it. You are set up to absorb the equivalent of many years' experience in a few short weeks.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): Sagittarian rapper Nicki Minaj is not timid about going after what she wants. She told Cosmopolitan magazine that she's "high-maintenance in bed."

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): A college basketball player named Mark Snow told reporters that "Strength is my biggest weakness." Was he trying to be funny? No. Was he a bit dimwitted? Perhaps. But I'm not really interested in what he meant by his statement. Rather, I want to hijack it for my own purpose, which is to recommend it as a meditation for you in the coming weeks. Can you think of any ways that your strength might at least temporarily be a weakness? I can.

I suspect that if you rely too much on the power you already possess and the skills you have previously mastered, you may miss important clues about what you need to learn next. The most valuable lessons of the coming weeks could come to you as you're practicing the virtues of humility and innocence and receptivity.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): In Margaret Mitchell's novel Gone with the Wind, Rhett Butler delivers the following speech to Scarlett O'Hara: "I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken —and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived." Your oracle for the near future, Aquarius, is to adopt an approach that is the exact opposite of Butler's. Patiently gather the broken fragments and glue them together again. I predict that the result will not only be as good as new; it will be better.

That's right: The mended version will be superior to the original.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): Australian actress Rebel Wilson has appeared in several successful movies, including Bridesmaids, Bachelorette and Pitch Perfect.

But she didn't start out to be a film star. Mathematics was her main interest. Then, while serving as a youth ambassador in South Africa at age 18, she contracted malaria. At the height of her sickness, she had hallucinatory visions that she would one day be "a really good actress who also won an Oscar." The visions were so vivid that she decided to shift her career path. I foresee the possibility that you will soon experience a version of her epiphany. During a phase when you're feeling less than spectacular, you may get a glimpse of an intriguing future possibility. V at the back 35

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No sound evidence that having same-sex parents negatively effects children On June 26, 2015 the United States Supreme Court ruled that it is illegal for individual states to ban same-sex marriage. This decision made the US the 21st country to legalize so-called "gay marriage," joining Canada, which became the fourth country to recognize samesex unions in 2005. This decision is a long overdue acknowledgment that identifying with a "non-traditional" sexual orientation does not revoke a person's worth or dignity as a human being, and it does not supplant their right to participate in society.

Sadly, I'm not surprised that there has been a tremendous backlash from people who fear what this decision will mean for them. Some make the ironic argument about how "we can't redefine marriage"—an ever-evolving institution in which the current incarnation of being an equal union between loving partners has only existed for around 50 years. Others argue that we are on a slippery societal slope that will have our nation's citizens devolve into a bunch of animal-marrying derelicts. But the issue I'd like to challenge is about how gay marriage hurts children.

Opponents to gay marriage have taken the "noble" position of protecting the children, arguing that kids thrive best in a loving environment with two different-gendered parents, as children need to relate to both sexes in order to achieve

healthy development. It's difficult to argue that kids will do better when they have stable sources of love and that they need role models of both sexes, but it's ignorant to assume that a "traditional fam-

that children raised by same-sex parents are different than other kids in any of the aforementioned areas. The research did, however, show that children raised by same-sex parents might actually have healthier gender identity, including respect for other genders, and that they may possess more resilience and determination.

I do feel that it's important to acknowledge that some children with same-sex parents may experience hardship as a result of their parentage, though I would posit that the origins of those difficulties might be more inherent to neurosis inspiring societal bigotry than by virtue of having LGBTQ parents. How hard would it be for a child, who loves and feels loved by gay parents, to reconcile the constant messaging that their parents are "wrong" or that they should be ashamed? I would argue that if there is a risk to the children, it's the judgment that's destructive, not the right for their parents to marry. V

The research did, however, show that children raised by same-sex parents might actually have healthier gender identity, including respect for other genders.

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ily" is the only way a child can receive this vital learning. It is also ignorant to pretend that quantity (two hetero-gendered parents) is more important than quality of parenting—of which there is zero evidence to suggest that heterosexuals are better.

This argument also presupposes that a child raised by same-sex parents will inherently face challenges distinct to their position, including behavioural/psychological/social maladjustment, sexual confusion and sexual experimentation. First of all, I'm not sure that sexual experimentation is unique to this particular demographic of kids; nor do I think safe (emotional/physical) sexual exploration is necessarily a bad thing. But to the main point, the research has overwhelmingly not supported these predictions. In 2005, The American Psychological Association (APA) published a review of the research on homosexual parenting. In the many studies reported, there is no evidence to suggest

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

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SHARESIES?

I have been happily married for 12 years. I'm deeply in love with my wife—she's amazing, very sexy and gorgeous. I used to be jealous, but about six years ago, I lost my feelings of jealousy. In their place, I developed a strong desire to share my wife with other men. It's my only fantasy. She knows about this, but she says it's wrong. I never asked her to actually do it. Am I wrong for feeling this way?

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Objectively speaking, ASHAMED, there's nothing wrong with your fantasy—hell, there would be a fuck of a lot right with your fantasy if your wife were turned on by it. So when your wife says, "It's wrong," try and hear what she should be saying: "It's wrong for me."

And if you're the optimistic type, ASHAMED, you can opt to hear, "It's wrong for me at the moment."

There are lots of women out there happily cuckolding their husbands—or happily playing the role of hotwife— who rejected the idea when their husbands first shared their fantasies. Don't allow yourself to be shamed—"It's not wrong, honey, but I understand it's wrong for us"—and don't pressure your wife to do it, and she may surprise you one day.

ing for something else.

Perhaps your boyfriend feels the same way—or maybe your boyfriend is a hoarder and a slob. Either way, EVIDENCE, my advice is the same: Own up to your insecurities—tell him that there's nothing about his past that should prevent you from enjoying your present— and then ask him to make a reasonable accommodation. Tell him you would like to place his ex's pictures and letters, as you run across them, into a box that's clearly labeled and easily accessed, but out of sight and mind.

If he says yes, EVIDENCE, take that yes for an answer. That means putting whatever you find away, refraining from griping at your boyfriend about the stuff he chooses to hold on to, and reassuring yourself that a day will soon come when your shared environment is completely ex-proofed.

municate and setting rules. Lately, though, I feel like my feelings are changing. While we do all our communicating with other women in group-chat settings, my husband has more free time than I do. Some days I wake up to literally hundreds of message exchanges, and I can't keep up or get a word in. Making it worse: I oftentimes have to talk to him about mundane things, like bills and what we are having for dinner, while his conversations with other women revolve around hot sexts. We have better sex than ever, and I come harder, faster and more often after he has been with another woman. But I am not sure how to reconcile these feelings of jealousy and inadequacy. I worry that he's thinking, "What am I doing with her when I could be by myself and get all the pussy I want?" I do not want him to quit seeing other women (see the bit about hot, hot sex), but I do not know how to balance my fears and jealousy.

Trouble In My Intense Desires

Your cuckqueen marriage, which he should regard as a paradise, is only gonna work so long as you feel included (in the fun) and secure (in his commitment).

OUT OF SIGHT, SORT OF

My boyfriend and I have been together for two years. I moved in a year ago, and we have been happy living together since. During the past year, I've come across a lot of his ex's old belongings—letters and pictures. It's not like I snoop. He's kind of a hoarder, and I frequently find this stuff tucked in books or drawers. It's starting to frustrate me. I long ago threw away most of my ex's things, and the stuff I did keep is stored in a box that's out of sight and mind. I don't necessarily want him to throw all this stuff away, but I want to feel comfortable in our shared environment. I also want to be able to think about our life together and not his past.

How do I communicate this?

Ex's Various Items Disturb Entirely New Couple's Environs

I'm like your boyfriend—not a hoarder, but definitely a tucker. I tuck letters and photos and other keepsakes into books, stuff them in the backs of drawers, set them on shelves or beside the rest of the tchotchkes. I do this because 1) I'm not organized/ depressed enough to scrapbook, and 2) I like running across old photos or letters when I'm look-

SWEAT SWAP

With my past four serious girlfriends/sexual partners, I noticed that my sweat began to smell more like theirs after we had been sleeping together for a while. Is that a real thing or is it all in my head?

Sweat Turning Into New Kink I haven't heard of this, STINK, and it might be all in your head—but my hunch is that it's all in your diet.

The things you ingest impact the scent of all of your bodily fluids, some more noticeably than others, and the longer you're with a particular woman, the likelier you are to be sharing the same meals, the same wines, the same beers, juices, recreational drugs, etc, and this is probably what's causing your sweat to smell more like theirs the longer you're together.

MOM AND BONDAGE

Mom came for a week and snooped.

She found our bondage stuff, just a set of cuffs and a blindfold, and completely lost her mind. What do we say to her?

My Outraged Mom's Madly Yelling "It's a hotel for you next time."

CUCKQUEEN QUERY

I am a wife and a cuckold. I'm turned on when my husband sleeps with other women. I have wanted to pursue these fantasies pretty much for as long as I have been in serious relationships. My husband and I have been married for four years, and we worked hard to get to where we are today, learning how to com-

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Always nice to hear from the exception that proves the rule—typically, husbands get straight couples into cuckolding—but you're not a cuckold, TIMID. Cuckolds are men. Women who are turned on when their husbands cheat on them are cuckqueans. (Credit to Annie W, a former coworker who introduced me to that term.)

OK, TIMID, let's make a list of everything your husband would lose if he dumped you: love, stability, history, family, intimacy, hot sex and someone to co-tackle the day-to-day crap (cleaning, bills, dinner) that he would otherwise have to tackle all by himself. He would also lose a wife who's happy to let her husband fuck other women—lots of other women—and those wives are few and far between. I'm not saying you're wrong to feel insecure, just that you have more leverage—and more value—than you seem to realize.

Inform your husband that these feelings of jealousy and inadequacy—which are fuelled by his thoughtlessness and inconsideration—are putting your arrangement and maybe even your marriage at risk. Your cuckquean marriage, which he ought to regard as a paradise, is only gonna work so long as you feel included (in the fun) and secure (in his commitment). Tell him he has to cut way, way back on the sexting, which has gotten way the fuck out of hand, and that he has to make an effort to include you more, or he risks getting cast out of paradise. V On the Lovecast, Dan talks with special guest Tristan Taormino: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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