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"People do experience housing crises, but [the system] has to be able to respond so that it is rare, brief and nonreoccurring." // 4

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"In the beginning we were just told by so many people that he's a picky eater and that he would grow out of it—and he never did grow out of it." // 5

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FRONT RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Mission accomplished or failed?

A look at the Canadian Energy Strategy and its goals With words like "monumental" and "visionary" being tossed around, the announcement felt like perhaps it should have been made atop an oil tanker off the BC coast with the words "Mission Accomplished" emblazoned on a banner high above the speakers.

The mission in question was the one set by former Alberta premier Alison Redford back in 2012 as she worked to bring the rest of Canada's premiers on-side in promoting, cheerleading and fast-tracking pipelines to take Alberta bitumen to points east, west and south. Redford framed her efforts at the time around the need for a Canadian Energy Strategy, but her intention was less about a comprehensive strategy for the country's energy going forward and more about how to export more Alberta bitumen with the blessing of the other Canadian premiers.

So, in that sense, Redford's mission has been accomplished. Last week, all of Canada's premiers signed on to a joint Canadian Energy Strategy that reinforces the goals of developing

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new energy transportation infrastructure, improving the timeliness and certainty of regulatory approval, and promoting market diversification for our energy products.

To the degree that those areas of focus translate to "we will work together to develop more pipelines, get them approved more quickly and easily, and start getting our bitumen to ports where it can be exported," they sound like checkmarks beside each one of Redford's objectives from 2012.

At the same time, however, our new Canadian Energy Strategy also includes a number of statements about the need to improve Canada's overall energy efficiency, support the development and expansion of carbon-reducing technologies and greenenergy alternatives, and transition to a lower-carbon economy.

But these environmental commitments are so vague and non-specific that they seem almost explicitly designed to take a back seat to the goals of expanding production and expansion of existing energy sources. For

example, a commitment to pursue absolute GHG emissions reductions, which, according to the Globe and Mail, was present in a previous draft of the strategy, did not get included in the final draft. Nor does any specific commitment to work towards a common approach to carbon reduction, be it through a specified price on carbon or through emissions trading, make it into the energy strategy.

Yes, there is mention of both strategies, but where the commitment to build and approve energy transportation infrastructure is understood to be a collaboratively shared priority, the carbon-reduction strategies are mentioned only as possibilities that provinces might consider implementing on the their own. It is very clear where the energy strategy places its priorities.

The problem is that there is absolutely no willingness to even consider the possibility that the goal of continued expansion of bitumen production and the goals of reduced emissions and a lower-carbon economy may

be entirely incompatible. Expansion of bitumen production is seen as de facto positive and desirable. Reducing greenhouse-gas emissions is seen as something we should aspire to, but only to the degree that it does not interfere with the primary imperative of expanding bitumen output.

In the same vein, the strategy pays some passing lip-service to building transportation infrastructure that is safe and reliable, but there is no mention of what that looks like and of what level of spill, rupture and contamination risk is acceptable for communities and natural spaces across the country and on our ports.

This exclusion was made particularly poignant by the fact that, in the same way that George W Bush's famous "Mission Accomplished" moment played out while Iraq was still in chaos, the premiers' announcement came at the same time as crews worked to clean up five-million litres of bitumen emulsion that spilled from a practically new pipeline in northern Alberta—one of the largest spills in Canadian history. It is irresponsible to

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The dead cat bounce

The Chinese government's interference in the country's stock markets a play for its own security year. Since then, prices have fallen 30 percent on the Shanghai market and 40 percent on the Shenzhen. Around $4 trillion in paper values have been wiped out—but so what? Chinese stock prices are still far higher than they were a year ago. Indeed, at an average of 20 times earnings they are still overvalued by real-world standards.

Why would any government intervene over this? Some investors will win, some will lose and it will all work itself out. But the Chinese government intervened in a very big way. First it cut interest rates to the lowest level ever. When that didn't stop the slide in prices, it banned large investors (holding more than five percent of a listed company's shares) and all foreign investors from selling their shares for six months.

Anything and everything to stop the prices from falling, and lo! They did stop. Last week, prices even rose a bit.

This may just be what traders call a "dead cat bounce"—if the price falls from high enough, there is bound to be a little bit of a bounce at the bottom—but that is mainly of interest to Chinese investors. The interesting question for the rest of us is: why did the Chinese Communist regime do all this?

Because there are 90 million private investors in the Chinese stock markets. They tend to be older (two-thirds of them didn't finish high school), they have been betting their savings on the market—and according to state media they have lost, on aver-

Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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A few weeks ago, at the height of the panic in the Chinese stock markets, a sour joke was doing the rounds: "Last month, the dog was eating what I eat. Last week, I was eating what the dog eats. This week, I think I'll eat the dog." A lot of people have lost a lot of money.

The Chinese government is permanently terrified. It is terrified of climate change, of slowing economic growth, even of a fall in the stock market—of anything that might cause the population to turn decisively against it. When you are running a 66-yearold dictatorship, and your only remaining credibility in the public's eyes is your ability to keep living standards rising, any kind of change is frightening.

How terrified is it? Consider its reaction to the recent sharp fall in the two main Chinese stock markets. China has a capitalist economy, albeit a highly distorted one, and stock markets are a normal part of such economies. They go up, they go down, and normally governments do not intervene in the process.

The Chinese stock markets have recently been on a roller-coaster ride. After treading water for years, prices exploded in June 2014. Over the next year, there was a 150-percent average rise in prices on the Shanghai Composite exchange, and almost 200 percent on the Shenzhen. Obviously this was not sustainable, especially since growth in the real economy has been falling for years. A "correction" was inevitable.

It came with a bang, on June 12 of this

speak of promoting pipeline expansion and approval without specifically addressing the growing frequency of these kinds of spills.

It could be argued that the Canadian Energy Strategy is actually a win because, unlike previous efforts to work on energy issues, it actually references carbon reductions, climate change and pipeline safety. The sad reality, however, is that those issues are only mentioned as an afterthought to what is clearly the overarching imperative of the strategy: expanded bitumen production. That makes this less of an actual strategy for moving forward in new ways and more of a strategy for formalizing the status quo and current attitudes towards energy in Alberta and Canada. That makes this particular strategy a failure. V

age, 420 000 yuan ($67 000) in the past six weeks.

So the regime intervened. This may be because the Chinese Communist Party loves the citizens so much that it cannot bear to see them lose. It is more likely to be because it is frightened that those tens of millions of stock-market losers (who were officially encouraged to invest) will start protesting in the streets. Whether the Chinese regime's power is secure or not, it certainly does not FEEL secure.

This latest government action is part of a pattern that extends back to the global bank crisis of 2008, after which China was the only major country to avoid a recession. It did so by flooding the economy with cheap money. So few people lost their jobs, but the artificial investment boom created a bubble in the housing market that is now starting to deflate: millions of properties lie empty, and millions of mortgages are "under water."

Sooner or later, this game is going to run out of road. The risk is that China's road ends where Japan's 30 years of high-speed growth ended in the late 1980s, with a collapse to two-percent growth or less and a quarter-century of economic stagnation.

China is around the 30-year point now, and its regime is doing all the same things that the Japanese government did just before the collapse there. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Inconvenient spill The Nexen oil spill could not have happened at a more inconvenient time. Reuters has dubbed the spill the largest in terms of volume on land in North American history.

Meanwhile, the Canadian premiers were meeting to push the construction of pipelines across the country.

Maybe it's this inconvenient timeline that has Albertans hesitant to share the story.

It took over 48 hours after the spill before Nexen was trending on Facebook, and it wasn't trending at all on Twitter in Edmonton. There are a few environmentalists and many First Nations people near the area tweeting updates and their disappointment, but definitely not the masses. The spill was getting some attention from mainstream media, but they have generally stuck to covering press releases and reports rather than delving deep into the muck of the situation.

It shouldn't be too surprising then that the everyday person isn't talking about the issue a year after plummeting oil prices put the province in a bit of a panic. It should be even less surprising that Nexen is downplaying the spill as much as possible by skimming over the fact that the pipeline was only a year old and was equipped to detect leaks. However, the leak was detected by a worker walking the pipeline path, not by the technology that was designed to do so. The smaller this huge oil spill seems, and the better companies claim the technology is, the better we can all feel about building more of the same pipelines.

The less we speak about the oil spill, the less we have to learn about the spill. We can accept and take information that's shown to us at face value, like that the claim that the five-million litres of emulsion over 16 000 square metres did not affect wildlife. We can also take Nexen's word that the spill that could fill two Olympic-sized swimming pools did not seep into the lake just 100 metres away.

Nexen appears to be sitting with its fingers crossed hoping that Alberta won't make too much noise about the spill, and so far it seems like it's working. V UP FRONT 3

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A PERMANENT PLACE TO STAY A housing-first approach aims to end homelessness in the city and beyond

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lberta faces a growing challenge of homelessness," begins A Plan for Alberta. It was developed by the Alberta Secretariat for Action on Homelessness and officially submitted to the provincial government back in 2009, as a response to a rising level chronic homelessness in the province. In accepting that report—commissioned by then-premier Ed Stelmach and former Housing and Urban Affairs Minister Yvonne Fritz—Alberta became the first province in Canada to commit to preventing and reducing homelessness. Around the same time, the Edmonton Committee to End Homelessness delivered its own localized plan, A Place To Call Home, with a similar end-goal and timeline.

Both plans seek to reframe how we view homelessness, switching it from something that's managed— through shelters, drop-in centres and emergency systems—to something that could, actually be ended. "[Previously], the response to meeting the needs of people in crisis has been driven largely by a sector that is based on a charitable model," Susan McGee, CEO of the non-profit Homeward Trust Edmonton, explains. "It focuses on often meeting very critical and serious immediate needs, like food, and shelter, and safety. That system, as it's developed, has created and attributed a value to those emergency things that are often life-saving. But there hasn't been a parallel process really focusing on getting people off

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the street as quickly as possible."

Now there is, and we're six years into those 10-year plans: 2019 was pegged as the end-goal for the elimination of homelessness in the province and city. To gauge the successes and difficulties being faced along the way to that end, it's best to start at that goal-post: what defines "the end?"

"The functional zero, is what it's being referred to," McGee explains.

"People do experience housing crises, but the system has to be able to respond so that it is rare, brief and non-reoccurring. So to have a system that—when there is an experience of homelessness—responds in such a way, that is the ultimate goal."

Which is where Homeward Trust positions itself: it's a not-for-profit organization that primarily focuses on finding housing for those who need houses. Beyond that, it helps its clients find ways of sustaining themselves within those permanent residencies, working in tandem with other systems and agencies.

That approach seems to be working: Homeward Trust just released its annual report, and it notes that "province-wide, homelessness has

decreased 18 percent since 2008, and in Edmonton it has decreased 27 percent."

The reduction in numbers endorses the Homeward Trust's housingfirst approach, which acts to get those afflicted with homelessness into permanent housing as soon as possible, so they can start dealing with the challenges that removed

in Edmonton has certainly demonstrated that housing-first works," she continues. "I don't think anybody can qualify those efforts."

There's broader data available that extols the virtues of housingfirst strategies, too: a four-year Canada-wide study, At Home/Chez Soi, was conducted in seven cities across the country. Its results suggested both that quality housing often proves a catalyst for people to achieve other goals, and that housingfirst is a more effective use of public dollars.

(And when Medicine Hat made headlines earlier this year for ending homelessness, it was with a housing-first approach).

"People do experience housing crises, but the system has to be able to respond so that it is rare, brief and non-reoccurring.

So to have a system that—when there is an experience of homelessness—responds in such a way, that is the ultimate goal." them from a permanent residence in the first place.

"People just can't do that on the street," McGee explains. "People can't make appointments when they're staying in a shelter, having to leave the shelter at 6:30 in the morning, and their sense of time and day—when most of it is going to be oriented around, 'When am I going to be able to eat next?'—isn't [focused] around, 'I've got a meeting tomorrow at two o'clock with a worker to see if I can get on income support, and I don't even have an address for it.'

"I think the housing-first program

Overall, the number of those facing homelessness has diminished since the plans were enacted: in 2014, the approximate number of homeless living in Edmonton was 2307, which was down from 2009, when the city's Place To Call Home report counted 3079 people without a permanent home.

That said, McGee notes there are ongoing struggles: finding and maintaining access to permanent housing chief among them. And de-

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spite the reduction in homelessness overall, the aboriginal population is still a very high representation of that figure—just under half. The 2014 count revealed a surge in an unexpected population as well: "A surprising number of people who are new to the community experiencing homelessness," McGee says.

"Sixteen percent of those people counted had been in Edmonton for less than a year.

"We see new people as they come to the community and don't know where the services are," she explains. "They can create a different kind of demand on the system—not that their needs are greater or more important, but they're interacting a lot more with the system."

So while progress has been made, much more is still yet to be done before 2019 rolls around.

"I think it was a really well-received process in the community, but I certainly do acknowledge, now in year six, it's an ongoing process," McGee says. "We can't take for granted the work that we've done, that early work, and that we need to be doing that all the time: that we need to be putting that message out. That's one of our challenges right now—just to maintain the momentum. It was a very intense level of planningwork: we're not suggesting we have to go through that every year, but we certainly need to keep people's awareness up."

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DISH // HEALTH

ARFID is a new, widely misunderstood eating disorder

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magine eating only chicken nuggets, French fries and plain noodles for every meal, every day, with no exceptions. While that may sound like a picky toddler's dream, the majority of us would quickly find that pretty bleak. (Or beige, as it were.)

But for some people, that diet is their reality—and not by choice.

Avoidant-Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID), also known as Selective Eating Disorder (SED), was recently added to the newest version of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) in 2013. Unlike picky eaters, who are choosy about what they eat but can and will eat a variety of foods (at least in certain situations), individuals suffering from ARFID limit themselves to a very small number of foods—usually less than 20. Given its very recent addition to the DSM, AvoidantRestrictive Food Intake Disorder is still very poorly understood. It is also very different from the two most common eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia, in that it is not rooted in issues with weight gain or body image.

"It's a fear-driven, kind of an obsessive approach to food," says Beth Murray, a registered psychologist and eating-disorder specialist who has treated many people for eating disorders in her 16 years of practice. Those with bulimia and

anorexia account for the vast majority of her patients; while she has treated people with similar symptoms of ARFID, until the DSM-5 officially recognized it, they were classified within the catch-all diagnosis of Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified (EDNOS).

"It probably is one of the lesserexperienced or lesser-known eating disorders, and some of that could be that people just seeing it as, 'Well, I'm just picky,'" Murray says.

"They might not see it as a problem. The difference is, a picky eater can be flexible, whereas someone who has a selective-eating disorder, they're very rigid. Someone who's just being picky can still find something to eat, whereas someone who has definitely got that selectiveeating disorder, they will have just a handful of foods that they allow themselves to have."

ARFID individuals tend to gravitate towards typical comfort foods that are high in carbohydrates and will often completely reject entire food groups (commonly fruits and vegetables, as well as meat).

While ARFID's origins are still unknown—it's often linked to foodrelated trauma and/or obsessive disorders—the key difference is that while the majority of children grow out of being picky, having ARFID means maintaining very rigid dietary restraints.

"[ARFID individuals] probably have some rules about eating that would be very much eating-disorder-driven," Murray notes. "It would be the kind of thing that would end up affecting social things, too. The food would basically be an issue that would lead to less social events, less hanging out with friends and stuff, because you feel like, 'I can't do that in front of them, or I can't eat with them, or I can't eat what they're eating.'"

Of the many people who have reached out to the Eating Disorder Support Network of Alberta (EDSNA), an agency that provides programs and support to people suffering from eating disorders, only one person has ever contacted them for support for ARFID. "Because it's not well-known, people just don't understand it," Kathy Bell says. She got in touch with EDSNA earlier in the year for support for her 12-year-old son Zachary, who has been diagnosed with ARFID and who has had a troubled relationship with food since he was a baby.

"They just think that he's just a picky eater and I'm just catering to his needs—I'm being a short-order cook when I shouldn't be; I should just be laying a meal out and if he eats it, he eats it and if he doesn't, he doesn't," she says. "But it just doesn't work that way."

Bell's son only eats a handful of foods: fries, buttered toast with

peanut butter, pretzels, cinnamon buns, cookies, garlic bread, ice cream, McDonald's chicken nuggets and Cheerios in milk (though he won't drink the milk). As one might imagine from that menu, long-term sufferers of ARFID become malnourished, sometimes severely so. Bell's son takes a multivitamin and three liquid nutritional supplements every day, but he is also very underweight and his pediatrician warned that he might not experience the usual growth spurt for a child his age.

Bell has tried innumerable strategies to get her son to expand his diet. Friends and family have also tried various tactics, and he has visited a horde of psychologists, psychiatrists, hospital clinics and occupational therapists—all to no avail.

EDSNA doesn't have any programs designed for such individuals, but Bell notes the organization has been very keen to work with her in revising its support tools and programs.

Their latest avenue is hypnosis: this week, Bell's family will be talking to a London-based hypnotist who specializes in treating individuals with ARFID. If it seems like a good fit, they will either travel to London or do a Skype session.

"In the beginning we were just told by so many people that he's a picky eater and that he would grow out of it—and he never did grow out of it," says Bell, who believes that

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her son will not overcome ARFID without intervention of some sort.

"So I think it's just laying off of him and stopping the pressure; we just let him guide himself into what he wants to eat and whether he wants to try it, giving him more power and more control."

People with ARFID often find themselves increasingly cloistered in adulthood. Food is so integral to our daily schedules and everyone seems to have such strong opinions on diet that individuals with ARFID often become social pariahs. Additionally, the little mainstream information that does exist on the subject is often a disservice to affected individuals, such as the television show Freaky Eaters: the name alone reveals that the show is focused on exploitation, not healing.

Bell is very open about her son's situation in the hopes that the stigma and misinformation about it will disappear and that individuals will be able to get the help they need. In the meantime, she encourages people to educate themselves on the subject and to not dismiss unusual eating habits as merely being picky.

"Sometimes you can do more harm than good by forcing these people to eat," she says. "And by putting such pressure on them that you're making it worse, and they're miserable."

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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DISH TO THE PINT

JASON FOSTER // JASON@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Brew in the capital

A look at what's new in Ottawa's craft-beer scene Brewing Company, which offers some accessible beer, but nothing really stood out for me.

I often wonder how the hardworking citizens of Ottawa deal with sharing a city with likes of disgraced senators Mike Duffy, Pamela Wallin, Patrick Brazeau, and the list goes on, or even (depending on your political leanings) Stephen Harper and Peter McKay. How do you wash away the bad taste of the never-ending Senate spending scandal or the government's latest attack on civil liberties like Bill C-51?

Well, good beer does the trick, it turns out.

I have been to Ottawa a few times over the years and have been underwhelmed by its craft-beer offerings. The Clocktower Brewpub was decent but not particularly handy.

And there was the always reliable Beau's All-Natural Brewing just

outside the city. But generally the pickings got pretty slim pretty fast.

It turns out that is changing, and quite rapidly. Over the past two years there has been a miniexplosion of new breweries in the nation's capital. And I got to experience them firsthand during a trip there this spring.

On the brewpub front, Clocktower, which has basically been the sole brewpub in Ottawa for years, is now accompanied by a trio of upstarts. The most notable is Mill Street's new Ottawa brewpub. Mill Street is a longtime Toronto brewer, and so it's not exactly new, but the location is something else. At the end of Wellington Street (Parliament's street) it is tucked into a historic pulp mill built in 1842 over-

looking the river and a series of historic sites. The stunning location certainly makes pints of its Ottawaonly offerings, including the pleasant Valley Irish Red, go down easily.

On the opposite end of Wellington, in the ByWard Market, is the brand-new Lowertown Brewery. In its early days of operation (I sampled some of the first batches off the brewpub brewhouse), the establishment has three house beer, the most interesting of which is the white, a krystalweizen that spotlights a soft, sharp character most wheat beer lack. As it turns out, despite the brewery's newness it is not really a newcomer either, as it is owned by Clocktower and, I am told, Mill Street.

The third new brewpub is Ashton

While almost a dozen breweries have opened in the Ottawa area in the past couple of years, I want to highlight three in particular. Beyond the Pale has only been open since November 2012, but it has developed enough of a reputation that even a westerner like I knew enough about the place that I knew I had to stop by.

Beyond the Pale is currently in a hole in the wall near Tunney's Pasture, operating on a three-anda-half barrel brewhouse that it has already outgrown and the business is soon to open a new 20 hectolitre brewery a short distance away.

The place isn't much to look at, and retrograde Ontario regulations restricted it to offering me only 20 ounces of beer in total, meaning I had to make do with small tastings.

But, man, were the tastings good.

The beer ranges from a grapefruit wheat to an oatmeal stout to a couple versions of an IPA. Across the board the beer were well made, but I particularly appreciated Darkness, Beyond the Pale's oatmeal stout. It has a soft, almost creamy body with a quiet coffee roast and a deceptive linger. The Breaking Bitter (get it?) is also a quality British ESB. More under the radar is Bicycle Craft Brewery, which opened last year. The brewery quietly produces some interesting ales, including its latest seasonal, a Pomegranate Pale Ale, and an oatmeal porter which is a creative option. I had a lot of time for Bicycle's IPA, called Velocipede IPA with a fruity citrus hop character accented by some

alluring biscuit flavours. The place can be a bit hard to find, so you need to ask around.

The third brewery is so new it doesn't even show up on the standard online brewery lists. Open only a few months, Waller Street Brewing is literally tucked into a basement corner of a heritage building that houses two bustling pubs—Lunenburg, a traditional beer pub and The Loft, a boardgame lounge. Right downtown, it is amazing how low-key the operation is. I only learned of it through the advice of a brewer I interviewed elsewhere.

I only got to try one Waller Street beer, as the rest were "out." The Moonlight Porter is a big, robust beer with a silky body and a noted coffee roast. Apparently formed by three bridge engineers, Waller Street brews sporadically and, for the moment, has a select list of tap locations. It is definitely on my list of must-dos the next time I am in Ottawa.

Finally, if you want to try some of the best Ontario breweries have to offer, plus a sweet sampling of quality imports, spend an hour or so at Brothers Beer Bistro. Just around the corner from Lowertown Brewpub, it is a small, elegant restaurant that has a fabulous bottle and tap list and likely some of the best-educated staff I have seen in a long time.

Ottawa is growing up—at least in beer. Now if there is only something we could do with those senators. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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ARTS

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Neil Simon's Chapter Two takes a light-butmeaningful look at relationships

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hances are, if you've ever been single for "too long," someone or something has come along to try and play matchmaker, whether it's been a friend setting you up or Tinder prompting you to "swipe" your way to companionship. Each scenario hosts its own potential for humour and horror, and Chapter Two is a play that's primed to explore both.

"The show is full of emotion, full of comedy, and full of dramatics," explains actress Elizabeth Marsh. "That's why we chose it as one of the summer productions at Festival Place. We didn't want to present anything in the summertime that didn't have some fun and lightheartedness to it, but we also wanted it to be a meaningful journey for our audience."

Marsh plays Jennie Malone, a divorcée who is set up with recent widower George Schneider by his brother, Leo. The two end up falling in love and abruptly getting married, while Leo and Jennie's friend Faye, each of whom

are married to other people, get into it on the side. This tangled web is playwright Neil Simon's way of creating a scenario that doesn't want for comedic opportunity, or for painful face-to-face encounters with the prickly aspects of love and loss. Marsh is playing opposite her longtime collaborator Gary Carter, and Simon's characters have proven particularly challenging for the experienced duo.

"Every show we do together is certainly very different, requiring us to tap into different emotions and experiences," Marsh says. "But [George's] character is extremely unlike Gary, [Jennie] is extremely unlike me. When I first read the script, it was a bit of a struggle to come to terms with Jennie. She's very subservient in some ways to George—insomuch as she's allowing him to explore his feelings and be sort of dumped on because of it—and I thought, my god, what woman would do that, you know? It hasn't been the easiest journey for

me to tap into Jennie's character, but it's certainly been very rewarding."

Simon wrote Chapter Two somewhat autobiographically, with his wife ultimately playing Jennie in the 1979 film adaptation of the Broadway show. It's one of Simon's most well-known and well-liked shows, probably in part because of the consistent juxtaposition between light and dark that each couple gets to play with, both with their individual partner and as opposing units.

"Simon didn't exactly paint himself in the greatest light in terms of how he handled his own relationship," Marsh states. "But, the autobiographical style of the show is probably what will give a lot of people the opportunity to look at themselves and see that it's OK to live your life and let things go, even when you're in a situation where you've lost a loved one that is so precious to you.

"I think, when we look at life, even in our saddest moments, we can still find laughter, and this play really highlights

Thu, Jul 23 – Wed, Jul 29 Directed by Ian Johnston Festival Place, $22 that," she continues. "It wasn't on the top of my list when we sat down for the first read, but it's slowly becoming quite an important piece for me to portray. I've come to think that there really is something for everyone to connect to in the show, and I think that's the beauty of what Simon's done here."

SALIHA CHATTOO

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REVUE // BOOKS

Go Set A Watchman N

ever in American literature has there been such an unexpected follow-up, arriving in bookstores and libraries soon afterwards with such great expectations; its re-appearance seemed a surprise to its author, full of modest hopes: "'It's a pretty decent effort.'" Thus spoke Harper Lee of Go Set a Watchman, her mid-'50s "sequel" to To Kill A Mockingbird (1960), recently rediscovered by her attorney.

(In a post-print culture, this 60-year-old work topping presales lists, then smashing sales records, is a freakish "singularity," as one former editor put it.)

Lee wrote the manuscript before reworking and fleshing out parts into what quickly became her best-selling (40-million copies and counting) classic, still widely taught in North American schools and so over-loved that it's become as distortedly adored as the Mona Lisa. Its story does draw you in and on wonderfully, but Mockingbird's glaring flaw is young Scout's too-rosy view of her lawyer father, Atticus Finch (who blames the lower-class woman in the Now available rape case that's the book's cenBy Harper Lee trepiece, a turn that seems even HarperCollins books, 288 pp, nastier today). Her view's simply $34.99 channeled, never complicated, by the adult narrator looking back.

In sharp contrast, Go Set A Watchman slips into a Southern idyll only to shatter it, but its third-person-limited narration and constant blatancy make it more like a play-by-play commentary broadcast at us, treating readers like

children to be told. Jean Louise (Scout) is now 26, returning to Maycomb to visit arthritis-wracked Atticus, 72. A few pages in, brother Jem is conveniently killed off to be instantly replaced by Jean Louise's paramour and Atticus' likely successor, Hank Clinton. The novel settles into a sleepy, cozy small-town pastoral— avoiding its predecessor's Gothic undertones—though for a time Jean Louise shows her tomboyish flashes of exuberance and defiance, while elegiac recollections slant back in.

The book's best early on in these small, remembered stories: Colonel Maycomb's hapless military tactics; Uncle Jimmy's retreat from Aunt Alexandra; an anticsfilled recollection of Scout, Jem and Dill enacting a church revival one sweltering summer day; Scout's sexual ignorance soon after her first period. And Lee continues Mockingbird's sharp sense of the small-town, generational pressure that Alexandra levels at her niece to be a proper lady: "with one twist of the tongue she could plunge Jean Louise into a moral turmoil by making her [...] doubt her own motives and best intentions, by tweaking the protestant, philistine strings of Jean Louise's conscience until they vibrated like a spectral zither." (Some of the problems of the manuscript's merely "'very light copy edit'" are clear in this sentence's initial patness, mixed metaphors and overwritten-ness before that sharp closing image; the book's division into

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parts, too, seems pointless.) Jean Louise and Hank's back-and-forths about what men and women want have that halfflirting, half-witty playfulness which is only engrossing to the sparring partners.

Racism first rears its ugly head 100 pages in. Jean Louise finds an antiNegro pamphlet that belongs to the barely-sketched-out Atticus, and soon realizes, in the mixing of class and race that Mockingbird offered, too, that her father and Hank—members of a citizens' council in staunchly pro-South, segregationist reaction to Supreme Court rulings—have become what she considers "trash:" "fear-ridden, red-faced, boorish, law-abiding, one hundred percent redblooded Anglo-Saxon." Worst is Chapter 14's half-amateurish, half-rambling lecture on Southern pride and identity from Jean Louise's eccentric Uncle Jack.

All this consideration of the complex little particularities of Cold War-era bigotry is as inappropriate and unsubtle as a mallet hammer pound-pound-pounding a finishing nail into cheap drywall; the book's not so much a betrayal of Mockingbird as a shame unto itself as a far lesser, shallower and unpolished distant relation. We're a loooong way from, say, Flannery O'Connor's darkly brilliant short-story explorations of the same era.

In terms of Go Set A Watchman as literature, "'pretty decent'" proves to be a grand overstatement.

BRIAN GIBSON

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ARTS REVUE // THEATRE

The Lion King // Joan Marcus

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here's a reason that The Lion King's stage-version has proven one of the most enduring shows on Broadway (the fourth longestrunning in its history). Just take the opening number as example, a little ditty you may know called "The Circle of Life": it starts with Rafiki alone onstage, belting out the song's a cappella earworm opening, which proves to be a snowballing call-and-response: soon there's a parade of puppety animals emerging from the wings, streaming the Jubilee Auditorium's aisles, birds on sticks above you and a giantic setpiece sun (and then Pride Rock) rising out of the stage.

The sheer spectacle on display is unparalleled, yet it's also efficiently orchestrated and operated with a drill sergeant's crisp precision. So, as if there was ever any doubt: this touring Broadway version of The Lion King is dazzling, a marvellous marriage of technical elements and spectacular song.

The story's simple—jungle Hamlet, a friend called it—but an effective arc: young lion Simba, future heir to all that the light touches, is misled, in the wake of tragedy, by his cun-

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Until Sun, Aug 9 Directed by Julie Taymor Jubilee Auditorium, $27 – $170

ning uncle Scar. He runs away, he grows up and meets some wacky new friends, he returns to fight for his rightful place atop the big rock.

Even the production's filler moments are strangely satisfying: dialogue-free scenes of lions enacting the hunt, or antelope in the grass that subtly reinforce the themes of an ecosystem in balance (and later, a system out of it). The big set-piece moments are technical feats—Mufasa's ghostly head appearing to Simba.

Sure, some of the extra songs feel like cheap, forgettable padding— Scar's brief tango about wanting to marry Nala comes to mind, though her song about leaving Pride Rock is a much stronger add-on—but anything that doesn't stick is gone in a blink, replaced by something more spectacular. The whole thing is engineered to impress, and does so with aplomb.

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

EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St • Aug 1, 8pm SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome.

Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

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

CAPITOL THEATRE CINEMA SERIES: THE SOUND OF MUSIC • Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Enjoy classic films on the big screen • Jul 23, 7:30pm • $10.50 + taxes and fees

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/ events/movies/movies.cfm • Three Smart Girls (Jul 27), Summer Stock (Aug 10), The Toast Of New Orleans (Aug 17), Lullaby Of Broadway (Aug 24), For Me And My Gal (Aug 31) • 8pm FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • The Lesser Blessed (Jul 24), Away From Her (Jul 31), The 100 Year Old Man who Climbed out the Window and Disappeared (Aug 7), In Darkness (Aug 14), Life Above All (Aug 24), Quill (Aug 28) • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm •

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • India Film Festival of Alberta; Jul 9-Aug 3 • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Despicable Me (Jul 25), Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, (Aug 1) • CULT CINEMA: Dog Day Afternoon (Aug 25) • MUSIC DOCS: Salad Days: A Decade of Punk from Washington, DC (Aug 4) • DEDFEST: Straight to Video: A B-Movie Odyssey With Surprise feature! Theatrical Premiere (Aug 7) • APU TRILOGY: Pather Panchali (Aug 3), Aparajito (Jul 24, Jul 29, Aug 3), Apur Sansar (Jul 31, Aug 3) • METRO BIZARRO: Tetsuo, The Iron Man (Aug 12) • STAFF PICS: Wild At Heart (Aug 24) • TURKEY SHOOT: Fifty Shades of Grey (Aug 11) • YOU DON’T KNOW JACK!: Five Easy Pieces (Jul 25-27), Chinatown (Aug 1-3), Easy Rider (Aug 8-10) MUSIC VIDEOS BEHIND THE LENS • Festival

Between Modernism and Postmodernism; May 2-Sep 13 • Jack Bush: May 30-Aug 23 • Illuminations: Italian Baroque Masterworks in Canadian Collections; Jun 27Oct 4 • Wil Murray: On Invasive Species and Infidelity; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Douglas Haynes: The Toledo Series; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Charrette Roulette: Language; Jul 18-Nov 15 • BMO Word of Creativity: Presto Lumo; Jul 26-31 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Postmark: Mail Art (Jul 22), Clay Figures (Jul 29), Drawn Outside (Aug 5), Relief Printing (Aug 12), Found Texture (Aug 19), Altered Books (Aug 26); Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • Conversation with the Artist: Jack Bush: A Garden of Colour (Jul 29) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • What is Left Behind: art by Sarah Pike & Erin Ross; Jun 4-Aug 1 • Parallel Topographies: art by Etty Yaniv; Jul 2-Aug 1 • Verve: artwork by Patricia Coulter & Donna Marchyshyn-Shymko; Aug 6-Sep 26; Opening reception: Aug 6, 6-9pm • Art Ventures: Wonderful Window Clings (Aug 15); 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Vibrant Views (Aug 20), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Marbled Masterpieces (Aug 8); for 3-5 yrs; preregister; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

ARTWALK • Perron District, downtown St Albert.

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

ATB FINANCIAL BUILDING • Concourse south near food courts, 10025 Jasper Ave/10020-100 St • 780.489.7304 • donnamiller99@shaw.ca • Mountain High: Nine large, colorful mountain inspired acrylic on canvas paintings by Donna Miller; Jul 14-31

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava. com • Featured: Rita VanRoodselaar, Gordon Ramsey, Diane Thériault, Simon Morin-Plante and Maureen Pirker Curtis; Jul 24-Aug 4

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

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • 99 x 2 Tears: artwork by Sheri Barclay; Jun 24-Aug 1

4-Aug 23

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Landed: artwork by Judy Weiss & Sharon Rubuliak; Jul 16-Aug 10

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place,

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

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen

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

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 • August Group Show: New arrivals from gallery artist Jonathan Forrest; Jul 25-Aug 15 • Artwork by Julian Forrest; Aug 22-Sep 12

PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • Canada Scapes & Spaces; Jul-Aug

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

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Glimpses Of The Grasslands: The Artistic Vision of Colin Starkevich; May 16-Aug 23 • The Grand Tour; Jun 28-Aug 27 SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • SNAP Klusterfak: A Collaborative Community Installation; Aug 1-Sep 5 • SNAP Members Show; Jul 30-Sep 1

BRIGHT LIGHTS COLD WATER (WATCHING NETFLIX AT 3AM QUESTIONING YOUR MORTALITY) • Kids Fringe Area, Light Horse Park, 8511104 St • Performed at dusk, fans will use flashlights and water guns as tools to illuminate the second half of the show and be invited to shoot the dancers with water guns creating a rain effect • Jul 24-25, Jul 31-Aug 1; 9:30pm • Admission by donation, flashlights and water guns will be available for purchase ($5-$10)

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

DISNEY'S THE LION KING • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • jubileeauditorium.com • Based on the classic Disney movie. Tells the story of Simba, a young lion who is to succeed his father, Mufasa, as king; however, after Simba's uncle Scar murders Mufasa, Simba is manipulated into thinking he was responsible and flees into exile in shame and despair • Jul 14-Aug 9

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. George and Jennie stumble on, overcoming both their hesitation on the rebound and emotional neediness • Jul 23-29, 7:30pm • $22

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 don't remember how their stories unfold and now these tales are in jeopardy. There is one King who can fight the evil Queen, 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 show 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 • Jul 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, 9828101A 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

through Aug

780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Off-Whyte 2015: Whyte Avenue Art Walk Holdover Show; Aug 1-14

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Dinosaurs Unearthed: until Oct 11 • Velociraptor Safety Awareness Week; Jul 22-26 • Dark Matters "Nerdgasm"; Aug 20, 7-10pm

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

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Summer Show: Jul 1-31

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Jun 30-Jul 27 • After: artwork by Laara Cassells; Jul 10-Aug 30 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Jul 28-Aug 31; Opening reception: Aug 6

U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • museums@ualberta.ca • museums.ualberta.ca • Thu-Fri: 12-6pm; Sat: 12-4pm • Le corps en question(s) 2/The Body in Question(s) 2: A cross between visual art, spatial and acoustic architecture, choreography and interactive digital technology; Jun 18-Aug 22 • Found Flock: a whimsical and playful, yet powerfully representative of Edmonton's bird species; Jun 11-Aug 1 VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Gallery A: Salva Corpus Amanti: artwork by David J. Kleinsasser; Gallery B: Familiars, Out-of-Towners, As Well As All the Others: Erika Andriashek; Jun 4-Jul 25 • TREX Alberta Foundation For The Arts Travelling Exhibition; Aug 6-Sep 26; Opening reception: Aug 6, 7-9:30pm

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Colouring

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Tyler Los-Jones: A Panorama Protects its View: Jan 23-Jan 31, 2016 • The Double Bind: Conversations

THEATRE

MAIN GALLERY: Members Novelty Show “Hidden Gems”;

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St •

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir

WHY GROW HERE BOOK LAUNCH • Central Lions Seniors Association, 11113-113 St • monika.igali@ ualberta.ca • A special talk by Kathryn Merrett on the history of gardening in Edmonton • Jul 27, 7:30pm • Free

MY FAIR MOUNTIE • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Our men in red foil are ready to defeat another Klondike super villain while they juggle their romantic adventures with plenty of laughs and songs. Starring members of the troupe Die-Nasty • Jul 24-25; 8pm • $21

Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com

LITERARY

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

Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre. com)/$15 (door)

• MAIN GALLERY: Feature Artist David Pettis; through Jul •

VIDEO PRODUCTION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA •

106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • FEATURE GALLERY: Here and There; Jul 11-Oct 3 • DISCOVERY GALLERY: Coming Up Next: artwork by Michelle Atkinson, Holly Boone, Corinne Cowell, Soma Mo, Dena Seiferling and Bart Simpson; Jul 18-Aug 29

Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A monthly play reading series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

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

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave,

happyharborcomics.com • Open Door: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-

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

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97

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

Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivaplace. ab.ca • Will give participants the opportunity to learn about this cultural art form and create their own for the world to see and hear • Jul 6-24, 9am-5pm Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivaplace.ab.ca • Participants will create their own YouTube channel and learn to produce short, gripping videos for social media • Jul 27-31, 9am-5pm

presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

• 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • After: Artwork By Laara Cassells; Jul 10-Aug 30

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Over/Under Paths: artwork by Frank Van Veen; Jul 30-31

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave •

• 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: Between Reality and Transcendence: Chun Hua Catherine Dong; Aug 6-Sep 10

Party; Jul 28-29, 7pm • kc dyer "Finding Fraser" Book Tour Extravaganza!; Jul 30, 7pm

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Instructors and Students; Jul 14-Aug 26

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave •

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15

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

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

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Community Gallery: Incubator: Jun 9-Sep 1 • Main Space: Off Route 2: art by Amanda Dawn Christie; Jul 16-Aug 29 • ProjEx Room: A Conversation: artwork by Roselina Hung & Mary Porter; Jul 16-Aug 29

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di Rukun is an ophthalmologist living and working in the Indonesian province of Aceh. He's handsome and soft-spoken and seems very patient. He embodies an ideal of the country doctor, but for many members of his community, a visit from Adi comes with a heavy burden. Over the course of The Look of Silence, American director Joshua Oppenheimer's companion piece to his 2012 film The Act of Killing, Adi calls on several neighbours, sometimes with medical equipment in tow, sometimes not, and begins to ask questions about their shared past.

"You ask too many questions" and "I don't want to remember" are common responses. On one occasion Adi is told that if people of his generation aren't careful, if they don't leave wellenough alone and learn to "get along like the military dictatorship taught us," what happened in the past will happen again.

What happened in the past, some 50 years ago now, was the slaughter of at least a million Indonesians, ostensible communists, in the wake of a military coup. One of those mur-

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dered was Adi's brother Ramli, killed by the Komando Aksi. His story is not unusual. Ramli was hacked by machetes. He ran home, was stolen from his home under the pretense of being escorted to a hospital, then he was hacked some more, his intestines spilling from his torso, and thrown into Snake River. And when it seemed to his murderers that he was still alive he was fished out and dismembered and thrown back in.

Those murderers became the leaders of Adi's community, where they remain in power to this day. A scene in The Look of Silence finds a teacher explaining to schoolchildren that the slaughtered communists were evil and the government had no choice but to exterminate them. In another scene one of the leaders of an Aceh death squad declares, "We did this because the Americans taught us to hate communists."

The Act of Killing, in which Oppenheimer, collaborating with several locals forced to remain anonymous, focused on the perpetrators of the killings, their legacy and continued self-glorification. The Act of Killing

is the only film I can think of that afflicted me with prolonged nausea.

Not because of the physical violence, which we don't see (except in the bizarre, crude reenactments staged by Oppenheimer's subjects), but because of the film's portrait of human nature.

Call it existential nausea. The Look of Silence concerns the same horrors as The Act of Killing, but it's the reverse shot: it assumes the perspective of the victims. As he makes his rounds, Adi isn't out for revenge. He's too young to remember the most violent years—though he lives in a world permanently transformed by those years, one where living in fear has become the norm for much of the population. But his unwavering, silent gaze, one of this film's most potent motifs, feels like the gaze of an entire traumatized nation's conscience. Talking to the children and spouses of killers or to the killers themselves, Adi is out for forgiveness—this is what makes The Look of Silence one of the most moving films I've seen. But in order to forgive a crime the crime must be recognized, which is something almost no one Adi visits is willing to do.

The Look of Silence features no scoring, no voice-over commentary, no archival footage (save a brief NBC report from 1965, one of many videos we watch Adi watching on TV), but it is a film in which every frame is infused with context, compassion, curiosity, and over a decade of Oppenheimer's life, doing the hard work, opening his heart, earning people's trust, finding the story.

And Oppenheimer is an inveterate storyteller. There are many images of people in repose and every one seems essential. There is a central question woven through the film, one concerning the value of remembering versus that of forgetting, and Oppenheimer conveys this question elegantly and diversely through interviews with killers who jocularly boast of their acts of torture, rape and murder, through the contrast of Adi's mother, who remembers everything, and Adi's father, who is severely demented, believes he's an adolescent and sings naïve love songs, though in certain moments of confusion is overcome with panic and terror.

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Taken as stand-alone films, The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence are masterpieces of the documentary form at its most rigorous and creative. Taken as a pair they constitute one of the most important cinematic events of our time.

I had the honour of attending the Canadian première of The Look of Silence at last year's Toronto International Film Festival, where both Oppenheimer and Adi were in attendance. After the screening they took the stage to answer questions, but Adi was overcome with emotion and, weeping, was unable to speak.

Perhaps sharing this story with so many people at once yielded more feelings that he'd expected. But his presence was intensely affecting, and, as though so much of the film, his silence spoke volumes.

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udd Apatow's movies usually unspool in a comfortable world where white people have cool jobs (that they don't do much) but relationship or family pressures get the amusing better of them. Trainwreck sees commitmentaverse men's-magazine writer Amy Townsend (Amy Schumer) fall for sports doctor Aaron Conners (Bill Hader). But while Amy's never really believable as a writer and the comedy doesn't play much with female stereotypes, Schumer's script does offer, for much of its game-time, some anti-heroine unlikeableness, anti-rom-com laughs, and a sense that, hey, pretty much all relationships—family, friends, lovers—are wonky and wrecky.

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Trainwreck's strongest in its first two periods: a hilarious sex-scene with Amy's not-quite-hetero quasi-boyfriend—and chiseled "ice sculpture"— Steven (John Cena); some droll bromance moments between Aaron and buddy/client Lebron James; a funeral with all the honesty, grief and resentment that can flare up after a difficult dad's death. And alongside Swinton's snitty editor, there's Amy's nephew, one of those kids just that bit odd

Now playing Directed by Judd Apatow  and eager, and an intern whose keenness turns out to be the flipside of a dark kinkiness. The rom-com's usually undercut, especially when the iconic bench-near-the-Queensboro-bridge scene from Woody Allen's Manhattan is cheekily reworked.

Some of the pro-athletes scenes lapse into star-gazing, though. The final third slips into some sentiment that feels forced as the flick runs long (over two hours), losing some of its snark and snap. It all began with dropped knickers and well-earned snickers, but it ends with a drawn-out New York Knicks City Dancers routine—going out with more of a forced chuckle than a gut-busting guffaw.

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COVER // PUNK SPIRIT

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e are, it seems, hard-wired for ritual. Whether it takes a macro or micro form in your life—participating in mass worship, or always starting to brush your teeth in a particular quadrant of your mouth—it's through endless little patterns and traditions that we organize our lives, to build comfort against chaos.

For Tanya Tagaq, it's the little rituals that have proven paramount: as her world's expanded—greatly so, in recent times—it's the familiarities she knows are waiting for her, place to place, that let her draw comfort out of a touring cycle.

"It's so interesting how humans crave ritualistic habits," she says, over the phone from Yellowknife, where she's playing that city's Folk on the Rocks Festival before heading to Hawrelak Park for Interstellar Rodeo.

"As I travel more, I find that I crave these certain places, and certain res-

taurants and even certain bathroom stalls in airports [laughs]—just to have that kind of familiarity.

"I go to different cities," she continues, "and if I'm feeling adventurous, I'll go try a totally new place. But if I'm feeling lonely for home, I'll go to the same places that I have before, in order to feel safe."

The Cambridge Bay-born artist performs a modified style of throat singing: traditionally done by two women together, it's a technique Tagaq adapted to do by herself while at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, based on tapes her mother sent her. Ostensibly, it was to help her remain connected to her roots, but a side effect of that has proven to be an indelible, unpredictable musical career: she guested in Bjork's 2004 album/tour Medúlla, and has released a string of albums to her own name.

Her 2014 release, Animism, vaulted

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her work into a much-larger public consciousness: it won that year's Polaris Prize, and a glacial mass of acclaim has now emerged behind her, growing as she goes.

It really, truly sounds like nothing else: Tagaq's music is punk in spirit and unpredictable in practice. There are elements of electronic and metal and hip hop and other familliar sonics, but all of them rearranged in new ways, capable of conjuring up moments of serene beauty as easily as guttural release. It's the loud-quiet-loud esthetics of say, the Pixies (the first song on Animism is a cover of "Caribou") without any sort of predictable structure: Tagaq carves a sonic trail that's rawer, deeper, more intuitively affecting than traditional songwriting provides. And for all the sense of root and ritual that it's based in, it's also a completely unpredictable experience:

Tagaq improvises her concerts with a pair of collaborators—violinist Jesse Zubot and percussionist Jean Martin—drawing on moments of inspiration as they happen.

"The concerts we do are always a one-off; they don't occur again in the same way," she says. "I really enjoy this thing that's going to pass and never happen again. It's an exemplification of the present moment. It's like threading a needle, and someone keeps pulling the thread through—that's how time works. We're always worried about the thread that just passed or the thread that's coming up. It's kind of a waste sometimes."

Even though Tagaq's shows are spontaneous in their creation, the act of performing those improvisations with a familiar duo of musicians (she notes they do occasionally bring guests into the fold), is

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"That's what the land in Nunavut teaches you: to just be there," she says. "I like to search out circumstances that allow me to just be there. It's like when you're exercising and you're sweating, and you just forget you're running, or during concerts, or giving birth—even eating a really good meal. It's the opposite of escapism."

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t's a strange time to be a metal fan.

Few bands can find the balance of technicality and taste to continuously create tunes that push genre boundaries and still satisfy the true metalheads. The dawn of the Djent era has provided listeners with a slough of musicians—albeit talented—who are unable to procure a proper mix of organic sound and studio magic. The distinct growl of down-tuned eightstring guitars and wandering rhythm sections spawned by Meshuggah in the '90s has mutated into a style that embraces an abundance of cold, technical skill—and tosses any warmth of a soul out the window.

That said, there are those few bands dabbling in enough styles, and pushing enough individual limits, to produce sounds that capture the raw energy and excitement that lies at the root of great metal music. And this one just happens to call Calgary home.

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False Flag has been on the Alberta metal scene since 2012. Playing most of its early gigs in Calgary, False Flag has finally found the road, playing shows in Red Deer, and making its way to Ryley earlier this summer for the Farmageddon Festival. With an eclectic mix of tunes from 2013's Orbas EP, and 2014's full-length Suffer in Silence, guitarist/ vocalist Russ Gauthier and company are hitting the road to support the August release of a new EP, Nest of Vipers.

This offering sees the band pushing its overall sonic quality with the tightest production values yet, and excellent levels of flow between band members.

"I'd call the upcoming set of dates a 'test run' to see how the band functions on the road," Gauthier says. This will be his the first time touring with a band as a guitarist and lead vocalist.

With Gauthier on eight-string and vocals, Mike Harach on eight-string and a

dirty, groovy rhythm section comprised of Dan Ishak and John Byskal on bass and drums, respectively, False Flag comes prepared to hit audiences with its imposing, impressive and diverse bag of tricks.

"I would recommend coming to see us before actually listening to us. We really shine in a live setting—and we have fun doing it," Gauthier says.

Each band member has played Edmonton individually, but never together as a single entity. False Flag's cohesive concoction of metal sub-genres only continues to mature with age—if Nest of Vipers is evidence, anyway—and False Flag's live presence goes hand-inhand with its album experience.

"It's finally the first time we really love the tone and feel of the album," Gauthier says. "There's nothing we really turn our nose up at."

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usic festivals have recently become synonymous with long line-ups, over-priced food and a limited selection of beer served in a "garden" with a terrible view of the stage. But 20 years ago, John Armstrong started a small festival on a campground that remains untouched by these festival trends.

Sasquatch Gathering began as a non-profit camping festival in 1995 to help support The Christmas Carol Project, a take on Charles Dickens' work that showcases Edmonton musicians. The festival didn't actually raise any money for the project, but Armstrong stuck by the idea of Sasquatch Gathering.

"I sort of thought it was a one off," Armstrong says. "But then we did another one and another one; it's just sort of become an unstoppable force."

The festival has been hosted at seven different sites throughout Alberta over the coures of its run, and it's nestled alongside the Pembina River in Rangeton Park for the fifth-straight year. The commitment to "leave no trace" means everyone attending the festival helps keep the grounds clean (sometimes cleaner than when they

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arrived, Armstrong says), and the Saturday potluck will have hundreds of festival goers and musicians join together for a big family-style meal.

"It feels like a family affair," says ninetime returning musician Scott Cook.

"There's no line-ups, there's no separate zones for this and that. Everyone kind of takes part; people all bring the food for the potluck. Anyone who goes might find themselves being voluntold something at any point."

Cook first played Sasquatch Gathering in 2002, and it was a memorable one for him. Before the stage had even been set up, a huge storm caused massive delays and threatened to tear through the festival grounds.

"We were backstage in the greenroom tent holding it down because it was going to blow off," Cook recalls.

"It was cold and John passed around a bottle of scotch and said, 'So this is probably your hospitality for the weekend.' We shared the scotch and held the tent down. That was my introduction to how participatory of a festival that is."

The festival is raw, not commercialized or set to follow a strict schedule,

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The festival's anniversary will also have Juno Award-winner Bill Bourne playing with a group he brought up from India, Ganges Delta.

Armstrong is excited to present all of this to his giant family at this year's festival, no matter how exhausting the planning and organizing becomes.

"There have been times, a couple of years, where I've thought 'I'm done, this is too much, there's too much hassle," he says. "And then all the people at the festival are saying, 'Oh, thank you, it's so good ... can we come back next year?' and I just can't say no. I'm sort of stuck with it. I think."

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MUSIC PREVUE // FOLK

Olenka and the Autumn Lovers // Jensen Gifford

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eturning to one's hometown isn't always a simple transition. You often have a memory of what the place and those who dwell in it were like. But just as you've grown and changed, so has the community you once knew.

Olenka Krakus has become reacquainted with her home base of Vancouver after spending nine years in London, ON, and the first word out of her mouth to describe how that's been is "weird." She's been back sev-

eral times within those nine years to visit family, but each time she's been shocked at the urban development of homes and condos, and the increasingly alienating cost of living.

"You really get the sense that people who are part of the actual, let's say arts community, are shut out from being part of the broader community because there's no way to think about buying and settling, and it's hard to even rent," she says. "So it's been a strange sort of experience of

feeling welcome and unwelcome— certainly welcome in terms of the artists and musicians that I know and have known from when I was younger and lived there, but unwelcome just in terms of the prospect of being able to stay."

Exorbitant cost of living aside, Vancouver has played a role in shaping the musician Krakus is today. She cut her teeth in the Lower Mainland punk scene, through what she admits

is cliché rebellion that occurs among youth in suburbia. She developed a love for the energy of the scene and the social ideas that came along with it, listening to bands like Dead Kennedys, Minor Threat, Sonic Youth and the Pixies. This certainly isn't a link a new listener would make upon hearing Krakus' music now, though—her melodic, poignant and story-rich folk songs seem like a juxtaposition to her punk roots—but she doesn't see the genres as entirely disparate.

"Despite the fact that I'm writing quieter, reflective folk songs, I've never seen any of those genres separated from each other because I've always felt like, especially within the more revolutionary folk, it's talking about human experience and questioning the experiences that people find troubling," explains Krakus, who plays alongside her backing band, the Autmn Lovers. "Whether it be through your own personal narrative of here is my suffering, let me give voice to that, or the narrator's expression of suffering, or whether it's on a kind of grander scale, [a] social scale. So I've always seen a continuity, at least in my sense of musicianship and writing."

Krakus, whose brand of folk music incorporates a range of instrumentation like upright bass and strings, and deftly woven storytelling (she has a master's degree in English literature and two years of a PhD), says the genre appealed to her for its ability to allow people to respond to their circumstances personally or socially.

She composes her lyrics with characters in mind, allowing them to convey the message in the song, rather than writing directly from a first-person point of view. Krakus is in the midst of writing material for a new record, and she notes she finds herself returning to broader social commentary.

"The last album (Hard Times) was really focused in on the experience of hardship and alienation, and I'm still kind of dealing with that, except that I feel like some of that is kind of rooted in the music industry itself, and aging and feeling your age while being a participant in the industry," she explains. "And feeling a sense of strangeness in terms of doing something that is so youth-oriented and trying to find a sense of your identity, I guess, in it as you move through it."

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The journey to Zero Liam Cormier of Cancer Bats on making the band's latest album Cancer Bats came out swinging with its debut album in 2006, and the Canadian four-piece continues churning out bombastic hardcore melodies on its fifth studio album, Searching For Zero. Prior to the band's show in Edmonton, lead vocalist Liam Cormier answered a few questions about the album for Vue. VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to

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what we had written. We were stoked on all the riffs we had at that point.

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the music first?

make Searching For Zero from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

LIAM CORMIER We started writing the album in November of 2013, and we finished recording by July of 2014

LC: We always do music first. I'll have

VW: When you were writing the

you and what did you want to express with this album?

LC: There were a lot of events that happened in 2012 and 2013 that I knew I wanted to write songs about.

In a lot of ways I was looking for those songs to help deal with a lot of the things that had happened and to work through them for myself.

Sometimes its easy to make sense of the positive or negative things in your life when you're looking to

songs, did you come at them in a particular way?

LC: When we first started writing our plan was just to write a song a day. We had mics and recording gear set up in our practice space, and we would just meet up and jam out a full song and then record it by the end of the day.

Then the next day we would show up and do it again. Our goal was to write 30 songs, and we made it to 25 before we stopped and just focused on

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some ideas for songs and lyrics here and there, but I find it's really the mood of the song that will dictate what the lyrics will be about.

VW: Where did the lyrics begin for

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magine walking into a recording studio, showing a wellknown and respected producer 15 of your songs and having him respond with, "OK, what else do you have?"

That was the reaction Pigeon Park was met with when the band gave Garth Richardson (Red Hot Chili Peppers, Mötley Crüe and countless others) a batch of songs it had spent around six months writing prior to heading into the studio to record its recently released EP, Stripes. The Vancouverbased rock five-piece had the opportunity to record with Richardson after taking the title of Platinum Winners in the Seeds competition presented by 99.3 CFOX in 2013.

"It was kind of a back-to-the-drawing-board situation where we realized we had to really focus on what makes a song really great. Not to say the songs we were writing weren't good songs, they just weren't the best product we could put out," says lead singer Nick Weber. "It's really helped us grow as songwriters, and I think ultimately it shows on the album and the growth between EPs and maturity, so that was definitely the hardest part: going back and starting from scratch and trying to do it all over again, but way better."

It may have been a disheartening thing to hear at first, but Richardson's request for more pushed Pigeon Park— rounded out by Logan Pocholack on guitar and vocals, Kevin Okabe on guitar, Artur Lepert on bass and Hunter Elliott on drums—to craft an EP of six slick, infectious tracks that honed in the band's rock sound rather than trying to incorporate elements from different genres, as its previous recordings had. Lyrically, Stripes—as in earning them—touches on the strife of the everyday working person, persevering, self-discovery and moving on from heartbreak, whether it's your own or knowing you were the cause of someone else's.

Thu, Jul 30 (7 pm) With the Gibson Block, HungryHollow, Van Funk Mercury Room, $12 in advance, $15 at the door Weber notes Richardson taught the band the importance of making each track strong in its own right, since people rarely sit through an album from start to finish anymore.

Not to mention, Weber says, it's not financially viable to release a 12-song, full-length album when your band is still gaining traction—Pigeon Park has been around since 2008 and has since opened for Aerosmith, Slash, the Tea Party and Sam Roberts. It's also had two radio singles from its previous EP, Black Widow, crack rock Top 40 charts.

"I think I learned about perspective, and although it's really hard to lose the magic that comes with being a musician and making rock 'n' roll—and performing and the whole glitz and glamour of it all—to the business side of it, where you really have to look at what you're doing after a certain point in time. [But] when you hit a certain age it's like, 'OK, we're either going to try to make a living out of this or it's just going to be for fun,'" Weber adds. "I think I've started to learn how to split the difference there and really try to look at music objectively, but at the same time you have to really not go too far into that, because then you start to lose why you started doing it in the first place, and you'll start to hear that in the music."

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explain it to someone else—if that makes sense. In a lot of ways I want to make sure that I can get my point across to the listener, because I can't be there with them to make sure they know where I'm coming from.

So I need to really understand what I'm writing about first.

everyone else's performances would be. Even though we were tracking the rest of the record solo all of us were still moving around and giving it the same energy we did in the room with Mikey [Peters]. If you watch the video for "Arsenic In The Year Of The Snake" you get a bit of an example of what the recording was like.

VW: What were the recording ses-

VW: You worked with Ross Robinson

sions like for this album?

LC: The recording of this album was amazing! We went down to Venice Beach, California to work with Ross Robinson and record in his house right on the beach. It was three weeks of 14-hour, non-stop days of music, burritos and incredible hangs—just laughing, jamming and scarfing all day, everyday.

VW: Is this the kind of thing you re-

corded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? LC: With any of our records we always track the drums first and have that be the foundation for everything. This album was no different, but we did track the drums live with all four of us playing together in a small room. We were all playing as hard as we could, as if we were playing a basement show. On the album there's still vocals that were picked up from the drum mics from just Jaye [Schwarzer] and I yelling at the top of our lungs. So that livesounding drums set the vibe or what

careful not to stand too close to the psychedelic waterfalls as you venture down to the murky bog of sludge and doom. From there you must journey through the wild and untamed wastelands of thrash and finally up to the towering mountains of metal. It is a treacherous journey, but if you are brave and of true heart you will finally arrive at Zero. V

Ardmore, AB.

07.31.17 – 08.02.15 bison the wet secrets shooting guns The Archaics Black Thunder Bebop Cortez Betrayers Bradley Jordan Smokey & the Feeelings Physical Copies Switches Diamond Mind Mitchmatic Hag Face the Lad Mags Faith Healer Power Buddies

to produce the album. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?

LC: We've all grown up listening to the amazing albums that Ross has worked on over the years, and he was someone that I would have never dreamed that we would get a chance to work with, let alone become friends with. He was recommended to us from a friend who knew that he was looking to record some heavier bands and they figured we would get along well. So I got his phone number and within 10 minutes of us hanging out on the phone I knew he was our dude, and one month later we were at his house having the best time!

VW: If you were to trace the musical

map that led you to Searching For Zero, what would it look like?

LC: The musical map leading to Searching For Zero is such an epic journey! From the vast reaches of the crust-punk forest, past the urban decay of hardcore to the flowing pastures of stoner rock, but be

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KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano

7pm; no cover ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

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

CHURCHILL SQUARE Part of Taste of Edmonton: 36? (7pm), Hot Panda (8:15pm), JPNSGRLS (9:30pm)

RIVER CREE April Wine; 7pm (doors),

COURTYARD MARRIOTT DOWNTOWN

9pm (show); $59.50

UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock,

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN Stan

Panoramic Patio Party; 7:30-10:30pm; $55 (per ticket), $100 (per couple)

Gallant; 9pm

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mark

dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Andrew

McGarrigle; 9pm

Scott; 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon

Concerts: this week with Sail With Kings with guest Darryl Matthews; 4pm; No cover

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live Music

FRI JUL 24

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Cody Mack;

every Thu; 9pm

APEX CASINO Jukebox Leigh; No cover

9pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Thirsty

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jason Greeley;

STARLITE ROOM Chasing A Mad Decent

Thursday Jam; 7:30pm

9pm

Summer Pt.2 Stanton Warriors with guests; 9pm (doors); $20

BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis Jones; 9pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Studebaker

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

John; 9pm

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music every Fri

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sam Spades -

WUNDERBAR The Chain with Bog

dance party; 8:30-10:30pm; Cover by donation

Bodies, Janitor Scum & Narkotta; 9pm (doors); $10; 18+ only

BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis Jones; 9pm

YEG DANCE CLUB Adrian Marcel;

BRIXX BAR Jean Paul De Roover, Layten Kramer; 8:30pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); $12

BOHEMIA Sandinistas with Sound Bodacious and guests; 8pm; No minors

CAFE BLACKBIRD G.W. Myers; 7:30-

Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

9:30pm; $6 CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; 7pm

BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos every

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

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

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your Own

BRIXX BAR Olenka & The Autumn

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open Mic:

Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm CHURCHILL SQUARE Part of Taste of

9pm; $20

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

Lovers with Doug Hoyer and Feverfew; 8:30pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); $10

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

CAFE BLACKBIRD Jeremy Borschneck;

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm

8pm; $10

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every

Sat; 3:30-7pm INTERSTELLAR RODEO–At the

Heritage Ampitheatre in Hawrelak Park Featuring NQ Arbuckle, Justin Townes Earle, Colleen Brown, Rhiannon Giddens, Mike McDonald, Elle King, Jay Nowicki, Tanya Tagaq, Ryan Boldt, and Father John Misty; 12pm; $75-$225

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Disney's the

Lion King; until Aug 9 LB'S PUB Phil's Retirement Bash with

the Cool Dad's; 9:30pm; No minors LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage

Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm MERCURY ROOM B1g Br1cks (rap) with

Snappz, J-Reds, Coal BMC, Collective Conscience, and more; 9pm; $15 (adv)

Edmonton: White Lightning (6:45pm), Terra Lightfoot (7:45pm), Kim Mitchell (9pm)

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar: Beach

THE NEWCASTLE Sophie and the

Live Local Bands every Sat

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

Shufflehounds; 9pm; No cover NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald NORTHLANDS–NORTH STAGE Part of

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

K-Days: Wayne Lee (1:30pm, 4pm, 6:30pm), The Mankind (3pm), Six String Loaded (5:30pm), Heather MaKenzie Band (8pm)

Open Jam Nights; no cover J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu;

9pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Disney's the

NORTHLANDS–SOUTH STAGE Part of K-Days: Harman B (7pm), The Presidents of the United States of America (9pm)

Lion King; until Aug 9 L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight open

jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

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

MERCURY ROOM Five Alarm Funk with

Wayne MacLellan Band, and Electric Religious; 7pm; No minors; $20 (adv), $25 (door) MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage;

8pm; all ages (15+) NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild

Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 NORTHLANDS–NORTH STAGE Part of

K-Days: Wayne Lee (1:30pm, 4pm) White Chocolate Dance Crew (3pm), Talent Search Finals (5:30pm)

NORTHLANDS–SOUTH STAGE Part of K-Days: Harman B (7pm), Arkells (9pm) RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos

at 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most

Thursdays; 7-10pm SHIKAOI PARK Summer Sessions in

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Carling Undercover (pop/rock); 9pm; No cover CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Capital Newz (rock)

O'MAILLE'S Quentin Reddy; 8pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

every Fri THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights:

Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep

Pianos; 9:30pm

pop) CHURCHILL SQUARE Part of Taste of

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified

Edmonton: Joe Vickers (7pm), MayDay and the BeatCreeps (8:15pm), The Strumbellas (9:30pm)

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

DRAFT BAR AND GRILL Quentin Reddy

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

(country); 9pm; Free DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mark

McGarrigle; 9pm HILLTOP PUB Boneyard (hard rock/

rock); 9pm; Free INTERSTELLAR RODEO–At the Heritage

Ampitheatre in Hawrelak Park Featuring The Wet Secrets, Shakey Graves, Joe Nolan, St. Vincent; 4:30 (gates); $75-$225

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Disney's the

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT JUL 25 APEX CASINO Jukebox Leigh; No cover ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jason Greeley;

9pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: This week with Garrett Olson (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ An evening with

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every

indie); 9:30pm; Free

Lionel Rault; 7-10pm; Cover by donation

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm THE NEWCASTLE Sophie and the Shufflehounds; 9pm; No cover

DJs

NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl:

NORTHLANDS–NORTH STAGE Part of

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

Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s

K-Days: Wayne Lee (1:30pm, 4pm, 6:30pm), Mandy McMillan (3pm), Van Funk (5:30pm), Five on the Side (8pm)

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon:

Jam with Back Door Dan; Dennis Jones; 9pm BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays: Industrial - Goth - Dark Electro with DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; 9pm; $5 (door); (every Sat except the 1st Sat of the month) BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat

Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL Dead Fibres,

Blü Shorts, Gender Poutine, Pyramid// Indigo; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show) RANGETON PARK, AB Sasquatch Gathering 20th Anniversary. Featuring: Backporch Swing, Mile Zero Dance, Rob Taylor, The Wet Secrets; until Jul 26 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano

show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RICHARD'S PUB The Mad Dog Blues and Roots Jam hosted by Jimmy Guiboche; 3-7pm SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE

Danzig (hard rock/metal/punk) with Pennywise, Cancer Bats and Monarch Sky; 7pm; $46.50+ SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN Stan

Gallant; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Andrew

Scott; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Cody Mack;

9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks K-DJ

Show; 9pm-1am UNION HALL The Order Of Chaos CD

release with guests Scythia, Tylor Dory Trio, and Atrates; 8pm; 18+ only YEG DANCE CLUB Mud Puddle; 9pm; $5

8pm; $10

Classical

O'MAILLE'S Quentin Reddy; 8pm

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Carling

Undercover (pop/rock); 9pm; No cover

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Part of the Edmonton Mozart Festival: Una serata brilliante; 7:30-9:30pm; $15 (general), $10 (student/senior), $5 (children under 12)

CAFE BLACKBIRD Jamie Philips Trio;

ON THE ROCKS Mustard Smile

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic;

THE COMMON The Common

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling

7pm; $2

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

Pianos; 9:30pm

CASINO EDMONTON Capital Newz (rock)

PALACE CASINO–WEM Mojave Iguanas

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

(rock/pop/indie); 8pm

pop)

every Thu

RANGETON PARK, AB Sasquatch Gathering 20th Anniversary. Featuring: Backporch Swing, Mile Zero Dance, Rob Taylor, The Wet Secrets; until Jul 26

CHA ISLAND Woodhouse, OJ Pimpson, Good Nature, and The Peavees; 7pm; $7 (door), All ages

Thursdays

(rock/pop/indie); 8pm

NORTHLANDS–SOUTH STAGE Part of K-Days: Harman B (7pm), Brett Kissel (9pm)

with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back

week; $10 OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling PALACE CASINO–WEM Mojave Iguanas

LB'S PUB The Introverts (rock/pop/

Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am

ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform every

funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

Lion King; until Aug 9

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with

ON THE ROCKS Mustard Smile

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock,

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Uptown (rock/

Stony: Danielle Edge; 6:30-7:30pm; Free Thur: this week with Tom Olsen; 7-11pm

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ReWine Saturdays Presents: Ben Sures; 8pm; No cover; All ages

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CASINO YELLOWHEAD Uptown (rock/

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

The Menace Sessions: alt rock/Electro/ Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimez & instigate; Underdog: Alternating DJs

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...:

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

NORTHLANDS–NORTH STAGE Part of

K-Days: Wayne Lee (1:30pm, 4pm, 6:30pm), Klondyke Kapers (3pm), Oil City Sound Machine (8pm)

NORTHLANDS–SOUTH STAGE Part of

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

K-Days: Harman B (7pm), Lindsay Ell (8:30pm), MacKenzie Porter (9:30pm)

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound

and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

every Sat THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights:

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

electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

DJs

LunchPail

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

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

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,

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

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

9:30pm-1am

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with

ON THE ROCKS Boom Chuck Boys, Jay Sparrow and Clayton Bellamy & The Road Hammers; 9pm; $5

TUE JUL 28

RANGETON PARK, AB Sasquatch Gathering 20th Anniversary. Featuring: Backporch Swing, Mile Zero Dance, Rob Taylor, The Wet Secrets; until Jul 26 RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam hosted

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

DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday

Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien; 8-11pm BLUES ON WHYTE Uncle Wiggly's Hot

Shoes Blues Band; 9pm BOHEMIA Art+Muzak; 8pm

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Classical

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

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

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH

Part of the Edmonton Mozart Festival: Kammerkonzert - Chamber Music Concert; 3-4:30pm; $15 (general), $10 (student/senior), $5 (children under 12)

BRIXX BAR Meatbodies; 8pm (doors),

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

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

RIVER CREE Lou Gramm; 7pm (doors), 9pm (show); $59.50

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

DJs

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every

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

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

MON JUL 27

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun BBQ

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

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

Shoes Blues Band; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

6pm (doors) DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic

with host Duff Robison

Lion King; until Aug 9 Brian Sklar

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Disney's the

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam:

Trevor Mullen

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

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

jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm

Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; with Trick Ryder with Brian Sklar

9am-3pm; Donations

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: Mod, Brit Pop, New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR’s Heavy Metal Lunch Box)

BLUES ON WHYTE Dennis Jones; 9pm

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite; 7pm; $45 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday open

with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo Toonz

ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch: PM Bossa;

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

mic MERCURY ROOM Music Magic Monday

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue;

every Tue

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover STARLITE ROOM Bliss N ESO with

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with

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

Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder with

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori

HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam:

Brian Sklar

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

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

4-8pm; 18+ only; No cover

INTERSTELLAR RODEO–At the Heritage

Ampitheatre in Hawrelak Park Featuring Oh Susanna, Lee Harvey Osmond, Colter Wall, Lake Street Dive, Clinton St. John, Black Joe Lewis, Lucette, Buffy Sainte-Marie, JJ Shiplett, All-Stars: Luke Doucet, Kathleen Edwards, and Joel Plaskett, Charles Bradley; 12pm; $75-$225

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Disney's the

Lion King; until Aug 9

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

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

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

DJs

REXALL PLACE 5 Seconds of Summer

7pm (doors); $22.50-$25

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

with guests; 6:30pm (doors), 7:30pm (show); $32.50, $42.50, $64.50, $79.50; All ages

WINSPEAR CENTRE Lucinda Williams;

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Open Mic

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

STARLITE ROOM Watsky with A-1;

8pm; $52

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

'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

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave APEX CASINO 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002; thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHURCHILL SQUARE Downtown Edmonton COMMON 9910-109 St COURTYARD MARRIOTT HOTEL Jasper Ave NW & Thornton Ct NW DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN Edmonton City Centre, 10200-

102 Ave HAWRELAK PARK 9930 Groat Rd NW HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455-87 Ave NW KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave NORTHLANDS 7515-118 Ave NW O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY

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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 Aug 2 LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

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

TODAY’S WOMAN TRAVELLER • Stan-

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

ley A. Milner (Central) Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 1.888.830.5324 • info@ twtraveller.com • todayswomantraveller. com • An opportunity to meet other women who love to travel • Jul 27, 6:30-8:30pm • Free (RSVP: info@twtraveller.com or 1.888.830.5324)

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

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-

3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Chris Heward; Jul 24-25 • Brian Link; Jul 31-Aug 1

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 • Byron Bowers; Jul 22-26 • Mike Dambra; Jul 29-Aug 2

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With Nigel Lawrence • Jul 29, 7:30pm

DATING GAME • Krush Ultralounge, 6648109 St • Sterling Scott as gameshow host • Jul 28, 8pm

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

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

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

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

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

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul. ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place,

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

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

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81

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

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

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

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

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

FOOD ADDICTS • 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

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 Edmonton Queen dock • 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

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma Tashi Ling Society, 10502-70 Ave • Tranquility and insight meditation based on Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings.

Suitable for meditation practitioners with Buddhist leanings • Every Thu, 7-8:30pm • Donations; jamesk2004@hotmail.com

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • Crazy Loon Pub,

TOASTMASTERS

10208-99 Ave N.E., Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOSTS WOMEN BUILD WEEK • Neufeld Landing, 11403-17 Ave SW • 780.451.3416 ext.

232 • hfh.org/volunteer/women-build • Volunteers are trained and equipped to perform their tasks safely and accurately by expert Habitat staff • Aug 11-15, 8:30am4pm • Free

ILLNESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS • Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209-123 St • 780.235.5911 • Crohn's Colitis, I.B.D. Support and Solutions • Every

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Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors. ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton.

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

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings:

• 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@

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

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

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

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net 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 • 1152676 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

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

Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm-1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am 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. Enjoy delicious cultural food, creative performances, crafts, artwork, clothing, and so much more • Aug 1-3 • 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

3RD ANNUAL RIG CRUISE - SHOW AND SHINE • Katch Kan, 8210 McIntyre Rd NW • 780.414.6083/780.721.9318 • katchkan.com • All in support of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation. Includes a 50/50 draw, games, bake sale, BBQ and much more • Jul 25, 11-4pm • Free

ANIMETHON 22 • Grant MacEwan University Downtown Campus, 10045 156 St NW • animethon.org • A Japanese animation (anime) themed festival, featuring screenings of anime, music, improv, gaming, costume contests and so much more • Aug 7-9 • Free-$55 BURLYPICKS REGIONAL COMPETITION • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • burlypicks.com • The search to pick out the best of burlesque and variety arts from around the world. It's the ultimate burlesque showdown • Jul 25

CALLINGWOOD CARS & COFFEE • The Marketplace at Callingwood • info@ callingwoodmarketplace.com • Bring your wheels to the Marketplace at Callingwood parking lot and meet up with fellow car fans • Jul 24, Aug 28; 6-8pm • Free

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

DASHING DIVA 5KM RUN/WALK • Rundle Park, 2909-113 Ave • 780.935.2310 • events.mec.ca • Wear your best diva outfit for this second annual fun run. Proceeds go to Team Diabetes • Jul 25, 9am-11am • $28 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: Craft Beer and Croquet Round 2, featuring croquet mal-

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lets that are lined up, green grass, flowers blooming and craft beer that's deliciously chilled • Each Thu until Aug 27, 6pm to dusk • $11 (adults), $6 (student), $8 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

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 23-26, 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

PANORAMIC PATIO PARTY • Courtyard Marriott Downtown • 780.994.3303 • tamena.powers@gmail.com • Patio Party, entertaining you with live music, delicious appetizers and cocktails. Supporting the Humane Society • Jul 25, 7:30-10:30pm • $55 (per ticket), $100 (per couple) PUPUSA FESTIVAL 2015 EDITION • Alberta Avenue Community League, 9210118 Ave • 780.473.7735 • A family-oriented afternoon with live music, dancers, ethnic food, games, pupusa eating contests and more. Take the opportunity to savour a different taste and to practice your Spanish • Jul 25, 12-8:30pm • Free RAWR FOR TIGERS • Edmonton Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Road • edmonton.ca • There's only approximately 3200 tigers left in the world. Learn all about these wonderful large cats as well as the other SSP animals • Jul 26, 12-4pm

RMHCNA BLOCK PARTY • Ronald McDonald House, 7726-107 St NW • kayla@ rmhcna.org • rmhcna.org/event/block-party • An outdoor event for families • Jul 26, 11am-7pm • Free (donations accepted)

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 SUNNY SUMMER FAIR • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.3995 • rutherfordhousehistoricsite.org • In the spirit of an old-fashioned summer fair, try a variety of classic carnival games and activities. Play with old-fashioned toys, make a historic craft and enjoy an afternoon of musical entertainment and support local artisans and growers in the outdoor market and enjoy some cool lemonade • Jul 26, 12-4pm

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

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): The Latin motto "Carpe diem" shouldn't be translated as "Seize the day!", says author Nicholson Baker. It's not a battle cry exhorting you to "freaking grab the day in your fist like a burger at a fairground and take a big chomping bite out of it." The proper translation, according to Baker, is "Pluck the day." In other words, "you should gently pull on the day's stem, as if it were a wildflower, holding it with all the practiced care of your thumb and the side of your finger, which knows how to not crush easily crushed things—so that the day's stem undergoes increasing tension and draws to a tightness, and then snaps softly away at its weakest point, and the flower is released in your hand." Keep that in mind, Aries. I understand you are often tempted to seize rather than pluck, but these days plucking is the preferable approach.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): When I talk about "The Greatest Story Never Told," I'm not referring to the documentary film about singer Lana Del Rey or the debut album of the rap artist Saigon or any other cultural artifact. I am, instead, referring to a part of your past that you have never owned and understood ... a phase from the old days that you have partially suppressed ... an intense set of memories you have not fully integrated. I say it's time for you to deal with this shadow. You're finally ready to acknowledge it and treasure it as a crucial thread in the drama of your hero's journey.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): The ancient Greek philosopher Thales is credited as being one of the earliest mathematicians and scientists. He was a deep thinker whose thirst for knowledge was hard to quench. Funny story: once he went out at night for a walk. Gazing intently up at the sky, he contemplated the mysteries of the stars. Oops! He didn't watch where he was going, and fell down into a well. He was OK, but embarrassed. Let's make him your anti-role model, Gemini. I would love to encourage you to unleash your lust to be informed, educated, and inspired—but only if you watch where you're going.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): Charles Darwin is best known for his book The Origin of Species, which contains his seminal ideas about evolutionary biology. But while he was still alive, his bestseller was The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms. The painstaking result of over 40 years' worth of research, it is a tribute to the noble earthworm and that creature's crucial role in the health of soil and plants. It provides a different angle on one of Darwin's central concerns: how small, incremental transformations that take place over extended periods of time

can have monumental effects.

This also happens to be one of your key themes in the coming months.

LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): A researcher at the University of Amsterdam developed software to read the emotions on faces. He used it to analyze the expression of the woman in Leonardo da Vinci's famous painting, the Mona Lisa. The results suggest that she is 83-percent happy, nine-percent disgusted, six-percent fearful, and two-percent angry. Whether or not this assessment is accurate, I appreciate its implication that we humans are rarely filled with a single pure emotion. We often feel a variety of states simultaneously. In this spirit, I have calculated your probable mix for the coming days: 16-percent relieved, 18-percent innocent, 12-percent confused, 22-percent liberated, 23-percent ambitious and nine-percent impatient.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): "What makes you heroic?" asked philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche.

Here's how he answered himself: "simultaneously going out to meet your highest suffering and your highest hope." This is an excellent way to sum up the test that would inspire you most in the coming weeks, Virgo. Are you up for the challenge? If so, grapple with your deepest pain.

Make a fierce effort to both heal it and be motivated by it. At the same time, identify your brightest hope and take a decisive step toward fulfilling it.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): Actress and musician Carrie Brownstein was born with five planets in Libra. Those who aren't conversant with astrology's mysteries may conclude that she is a connoisseur of elegance and harmony. Even professional stargazers who know how tricky it is to make generalizations might speculate that she is skilled at cultivating balance, attuned to the needs of others, excited by beauty, and adaptive to life's ceaseless change. So what are we to make of the fact that Brownstein has said, "I really don't know what to do when my life is not chaotic"? Here's what I suspect: In her ongoing exertions to thrive on chaos, she is learning how to be a connoisseur of elegance and harmony as she masters the intricacies of being balanced, sensitive to others, thrilled by beauty and adaptive to change. This is important for you to hear about right now.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): You're entering a volatile phase of your cycle. In the coming weeks, you could become a beguiling monster who leaves a confusing mess in your wake. However, you could activate the full potential of your animal intelligence as you make everything you touch more interesting and soulful. I am, of

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course, rooting for the latter outcome. Here's a secret about how to ensure it: Be as ambitious to gain power over your own darkness as you are to gain power over what happens on your turf.

SAGITTARIUS (OCT 23 – NOV 21): I'm a big fan of the attitude summed up by the command "Be here now!" The world would be more like a sanctuary and less like a battleground if people focused more on the present moment rather than on memories of the past and fantasies of the future. But in accordance with the astrological omens, you are hereby granted a temporary exemption from the "Be here how!" approach. You have a poetic licence to dream and scheme profusely about what you want your life to be like in the future. Your word of power is tomorrow.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): A philanthropist offered $100 000 to the Girl Scouts chapter of Western Washington.

But there were strings attached.

The donor specified that the money couldn't be used to support transgender girls. The Girl Scouts rejected the gift, declaring their intention to empower every girl "regardless of her gender identity, socioeconomic status, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation." Do you have that much spunk, Capricorn? Would you turn down aid that would infringe on your integrity? You may be tested soon. Here's what I suspect: If you are faithful to your deepest values, even if that has a cost, you will ultimately attract an equal blessing that doesn't require you to sell out. (The Girl Scouts subsequently launched an Indiegogo campaign that raised more than $300 000.)

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): Consider the possibility of opening your mind, at least briefly, to provocative influences you have closed yourself off from. You may need to refamiliarize yourself with potential resources you have been resisting or ignoring, even if they are problematic. I'm not saying you should blithely welcome them in. There still may be good reasons to keep your distance. But I think it would be wise and healthy for you to update your relationship with them.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): Over 10 000 species of mushrooms grow in North America.

About 125 of those, or 1.25 percent, are tasty and safe to eat. All the others are unappetizing or poisonous, or else their edibility is in question. By my reckoning, a similar statistical breakdown should apply to the influences that are floating your way. I advise you to focus intently on those very few that you know for a fact are pleasurable and vitalizing. Make yourself unavailable for the rest. V

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A few travel sex tips to keep you out of trouble Most of us never plan to have sexual adventures when we travel, but they do seem to happen—sometimes with the one we brought and sometimes with the one we met there. The spontaneity is exactly what makes travel sex so great. Unexpected situations, unfamiliar places and perhaps new people bring a new level of excitement that you just can't find at home.

Although it may seem like planning for sex takes the fun out of it, if you head off for your destination at least having considered that opportunities for hot sex might arise, you can actually make it more fun by cutting down on some of the problems.

Think about your safer-sex needs.

Condoms are not as easy to find in some countries as they are here in Canada, so bring some with you.

Every country has its own standards for condom testing, so what you do find will probably be different than what you're used to at home. If you prefer a particular type or if you need non-latex condoms, you may be out of luck.

When you fly, keep condoms in your carry-on bag. Temperatures in cargo holds can vary greatly, and extreme heat and cold damages latex. You might want to bring your own lube, too, especially if you have allergies or sensitivities to many types of lube. You may not be able to find something that agrees with you while you're away.

If you're carrying it in your checked bag, get a travel bottle that's 100mL or less, otherwise your precious lube might be confiscated at security.

tually illegal. Having sex with, or even being in a private place with someone of the opposite sex to whom you are not married is also illegal in the UAE. Sadly, there are 75 countries in which homosexual sex is illegal, and same-sex PDA can be risky in some of these places. Although it varies from place

sex clubs where you can participate in or watch live sex are not hard to find. In Copenhagen, there are parks where public sex is condoned, they just ask that you clean up after yourself. I once saw a couple having sex in a public park in Paris in broad daylight. No one seemed to care. But don't just go for it because you've heard it's OK. Spend some time finding out what's actually acceptable so you don't embarrass yourself or get into trouble.

A little bit of preparation can allow you to say a confident and enthusiastic "yes" to the safer opportunities that come your way, without the worry of consequences later. V

We tend to assume that what goes here goes elsewhere, but in many countries, public displays of affection—even kissing and handholding—are socially unacceptable and considered disrespectful. to place as to how strictly any of the laws are enforced, it's better to know they exist than to be surprised.

On the flip side, there are some places in the world that are much more open about sex than Canada.

Although public sex is technically illegal pretty much everywhere in the world, there are some places where the law looks the other way. In Germany and Amsterdam,

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Before you go, spend some time researching the laws and culture around sex in your destinations countries. We tend to assume that what goes here goes elsewhere, but in many countries, public displays of affection—even kissing and handholding—are socially unacceptable and considered disrespectful. In some places, like the United Arab Emirates, they are ac-

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My wife and I have been together for more than 10 years, practicing some kind of nonmonogamy for more than seven. We tried different things— open, dating others, FWBs—but after a bi threesome with another guy a year ago, we knew that was our thing. For a while, everything was great, but roughly a month after that defining threesome, I came down with a bad case of mono. In a couple of months, we resumed our bi sexdates with our FWB, and I noticed I had a hard time getting horny and even had a hard time getting (and staying) hard. More foreplay was needed and fewer distractions were acceptable. I even resorted to pharmaceutical help. We assumed I was still recovering and that diet and exercise would make it all better. Then I had a work-related crisis that lasted until March (and blamed stress from that, since things didn't really change), and finally in March I got shipped off to a war zone. And I still don't have the drive I had a year ago.

My brothers-in-arms ogle every female who happens to be around, and sometimes they hook up even though they're not in open relationships— unlike me, who is in one but has no desire to hook up with anyone. I rarely masturbate these days, and if I do, I need sexts and naughty pictures from my wife (and our FWB) back home to get in the mood. I just recently started to get morning wood again, and I blame all this on the stress of being in a war zone. But I fear these are just excuses and I may have to accept the fact that I'm just getting older and this is how my libido is gonna be from now on. I'm turning 30 in a few weeks, so that doesn't help, either. What are the chances that this is just an unlucky chain of events, and when this is over, I could go back to being my old horny self?

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can persist to some degree for one to two years in more severe cases. None of the effects of mono are typically considered 'permanent.' So it would be important to reassure someone that the effects of mono that are still present after 12 to 18 months could still likely resolve as more time passes."

You came down with mono less than a year ago, COMBAT, so you're still in that one-to-two-year symptoms-could-persist window. You also dealt with a work-related crisis before being shipped off to a combat zone—that sounds extremely stressful, and not everyone reacts to stress the same way. The stress of being in a combat zone could make the guys around you horny while having the opposite effect on you.

Be reassured, like the doctor said, that things—your dick included— will most likely right themselves in another six to 12 months. The fact that morning wood is returning seems like a good sign, as is the effect a few dirty texts from the wom-

The people your wife met at that munch are kinksters, MONONA, not psychics. If she's not interested in playing with anyone other than her spouse—if she has a hot Dom at home and is there only to make kinky friends—all she has to do is say so. Munches are informal meetups where kinky people, from nervous novices to wizened pros, get together without the pressures or expectations of a play party. Your wife's presence at a munch is not an invitation to fuck, of course, but someone who respectfully expresses an interest in playing isn't guilty of bending Emily Post over a bondage bench with the intent to fuck her ass. Most people who go to munches are open to play, MONONA, but those who aren't are welcome. Your wife just needs to let her new friends know she's interested only in socializing. You could help her send that unambiguous, nonmixed signal by accompanying her to the next munch.

HAPPY ENDING?

I'm a 24-year-old heterosexual female. I discovered that my boyfriend still had an online dating profile up and was checking it regularly. We had a calm discussion about it, and he assured me that he just found the messages he got flattering and offered to take it down. I told him if that's all he was doing, then there was no reason he couldn't have those ego boosts and a monogamous relationship with me, too. Had I not been such an avid reader of your column, Dan, that discussion would've gone very differently. And, really, it's not like he was going to forget that other women existed—nor would I want him to.

Though I may look back on this and cringe, right now we're in a great place. We have fun and are sexually compatible and have really excellent conversations. Thank you!

HIS ANSWER PERFECTLY PLAUSIBLE, YES?

I enjoy letters like HAPPY’s because it’s nice to be reminded that not everyone is cheating or being cheated on, miserably single and looking to get into a relationship, or trapped in a miserable couple and looking to get out.

I asked a doctor—Dr Barak Gaster, a physician at the University of Washington and a regular (if sometimes mortified) guest expert around here—if mono could damage and/or diminish a guy's libido, his ability to stay hard and his masturbatory routine for nearly a year.

"Mono is a viral illness for which there is no real treatment other than the tincture of time," Dr Gaster said.

"Mono is a pretty insidious illness in that it typically causes really severe fatigue, which can linger for a long time. Other common symptoms are muscle and joint aches."

Could fatigue and aches still be affecting mood and interest in sex?

"They could," Dr Gaster said. "It would not be typical, but they could. The duration of mono symptoms is typically around three months, but they

an (and FWB) waiting for you back home has on your dick.

Come home safe—and props to you and your wife for continuing to grow together sexually. That's probably why you're still together, and still in love, despite having married so young.

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My wife is a submissive. I'm not a natural Dom, but I've become more comfortable assuming the role. Recently, she stopped hormonal birth control, and her sex drive and interest in capital-S Submission kicked into high gear.

She joined FetLife and went to her first munch a couple of weeks ago. She's not shopping for a Dom. She's looking to socialize, discuss this part of herself and not feel like such a freak. She thought she hit it off with a few folks but now realizes she may have been sending mixed signals. The munch was advertised as casual, but she says most left that night with a hookup or play plans. One man in particular seems to read her interest in friendship as sexual. My wife is quite upset. How can she find a group of kinksters who will socialize and share their experiences without assuming her presence as an unaccompanied submissive female is an invitation to fuck?

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I enjoy letters like HAPPY's because it's nice to be reminded that not everyone is cheating or being cheated on, miserably single and looking to get into a relationship or trapped in a miserable couple and looking to get out, kinky and stuck with a vanilla partner or vanilla and stuck with a kinky one.

Some people are doing just fine.

And yes, HAPPY, I do think your boyfriend's answer is perfectly plausible—some people are on dating apps for the ego boosts alone (they're called "time wasters")—and here's hoping it's totally truthful as well. V On the Lovecast, Dan speaks with author Joan Price about sex for the senior set: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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