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Celebrating diversity through art

The Brown, Black, Fierce Festival focuses on creativity in the face of marginalization The Brown, Black, Fierce Festival, coming this fall, is going to be one of the most important arts events in Edmonton this year. For and by Indigenous and racialized queer, trans* and two-spirit people, the festival will include a half-day of workshops and an evening of arts performances.

The organizing collective is currently seeking submissions (due August 15), and group collaboratively answered questions about the festival, what they are looking for and their wish for Edmonton.

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lective.

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Brown, Black, & Fierce collective (comprised of Alex Felicitas, Ruby Diaz Smith, Leila Sidi, Jenni Roberts and Aurélie Lesueur) is dedicated to centering the experiences and voices of queer, trans* and two-spirit Indigenous people, Black people and people of colour (IBPOC). We are inspired by all the talent and power within IBPOC communities who sur-

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vive, heal and create every day in the face of much adversity.

VW: What is your vision for the festival?

BBFF: We want to create a space for IBPOC to come together, exchange ideas, be inspired by each other and build allyship among and between our communities.

This festival is extremely important in Edmonton-Amiskwacîwâskahikan given the current context for queer, trans and twospirit IBPOC communities in the city: Indigenous women go missing without their disappearances being investigated. Hundreds of migrants have been and continue to be deported due to racist changes in Canadian immigration laws creating a system of

permanent impermanency. Black and Indigenous youth continue to be profiled and targeted by police violence.

The picture is clear: we are under attack and we need to come together to create solutions made by and for us.

VW: What kinds of submissions are you looking for?

BBFF: We want people interested in putting together workshops around topics of art and gentrification or appropriation, organizing as IBPOC, making art in w h i te - d o m i nant communities, slam poetry, rap, spoken word, displaced peoples living on the land of displaced peoples, spirituality and diaspora, youth and community building or resistance, diaspora, immigration and more. If folks have other ideas they are welcome to run it by us.

We're also looking for IBPOC performers of any kind. As with our workshops, we are looking for firsttime performers as well as those with more experience.

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the new People's Democratic Party (HDP), which seduced most of his Kurdish voters away. The party is liberal, pluralistic, all the things that Erdoğan isn't. But conservative Kurds had already got the religious freedoms they wanted, and the HDP was also advocating equal political rights for the Kurdish minority. Of course they switched their votes.

So now, if Erdoğan wants to form a coalition government (or even win a new election), he needs the support of the hard right— but they are ultra-nationalists who loathe his willingness to make deals with the Kurds. To win them over, therefore, he has started bombing the PKK. He might be re-starting a TurkishKurdish civil war (the last one killed 40 000 people), but that's a risk he's willing to take. And on the side he has dropped a few bombs on Islamic State to make the Americans happy.

Erdoğan's problem with Washington was that it finally had the goods on him. A US Special Forces raid in Syria last May killed Abu Sayyaf, the IS of-

ficial in charge of selling black-market oil from IS-controlled wells into Turkey. The American troops came away with hundreds of flash drives and documents that proved that Turkish officials were deeply involved in the trade, which has been IS's main source of revenue.

Turkey has now bombed a few IS targets to show willing—but if you look at the videos, the Turkish planes are launching missiles at single buildings out in open fields, not exactly where you'd expect IS to have weapons stores and command centres. It's as if the Turkish forces were ordered to hit targets that wouldn't do any real damage. But least the coalition gets to use Incirlik.

Is Erdoğan still in cahoots with IS? Maybe. Is he actively supporting the other big Islamist group, the Nusra Front, which dominates the battle in western Syria? Yes he is, quite openly, and the difference between these two terrorist groups is only skin-deep.

So if you're expecting a radical change in the military situation in Syria— don't. Assad is still losing slowly, the Islamist extremists are still winning, and Turkey is still playing a double game. V

We live and create here every day and yet our voices are only allowed to be heard in predetermined contexts in which we play no part.

As IBPOC, we are all touched by experiences of racism, lateral violence, homophobia and forced assimilation and as such desire self-determination in defending and creating our futures.

No longer will we be underrepresented in Edmonton arts scenes and no longer will we censor our experiences to be palatable for the Canadian "multicultural" narrative.

monton, what would it be?

BBFF: Self-determined diversity. We live

and create here every day and yet our voices are only allowed to be heard in predetermined contexts in which we play no part. People want to consume our cultures, our languages, but only in ways that are palatable to them. It is time for people to let us take our space, for allies to stand in solidarity as we clear a path for our communities. It is time for stakeholders and people in positions of power in the arts community to listen when we speak up. Our truths need to be heard so that no other IBPOC has to be scared to represent their culture, to go missing, to experience any kind of violence or to ever be made to feel ashamed of their culture, gender, sexual orientation and/or identity.

For more information—including the festival date, which is to be determined—email brownblackfierce@gmail.com, or find them on Facebook (BrownBlackFierce), Twitter (@brnblkfierce), and Tumblr (brownblackfierce). V

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Turkey joins the war

Is the country's president fighting against IS or the Kurds?

Last Friday, Turkey joined the war against Islamic State (IS), the terrorist-run entity that now controls eastern Syria and western Iraq. After four years of leaving the border open for supplies and recruits to reach IS, the Turkish government sent planes to bomb three IS targets in Syria.

At the same time, Ankara ended a four-year ban on its anti-IS "coalition" allies using the huge Incirlik air base near the Syrian border. There was rejoicing in Washington, since coalition aircraft (mostly American) will now be much closer to IS targets in Syria, and Turkey will also presumably close its border with Syria at last. But there may be less to this change than meets the eye.

On Saturday, Turkey broke a twoyear ceasefire with the PKK, a Kurdish revolutionary group that fought a 30year war to establish a separate state in the Kurdish-majority southeast of Turkey. In fact, since then Turkey has carried out considerably more air strikes against the PKK than it has against IS. The Turkish army has even shelled territory controlled by the PYD, the Syrian branch of the PKK, although the PYD has managed to drive IS troops out of most of the Kurdish areas of northern Syria.

So which war is President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan really planning to

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fight, the one against Islamic State or his own private war with the Kurds?

And why now?

The only person who knows the answers is Erdoğan, and he's not saying.

But you can work it out if you try.

Erdoğan has spent more than a decade subverting a secular and democratic system and establishing his own unchallengeable power. At first he was responding to real popular demands for equal civil rights for religious people and for an improvement in living standards.

He delivered on his promises, and he won three successive elections by increasing majorities.

But he reduced the once-free mass media to subservience, undermined the independence of the judiciary and staged show trials of his opponents. He also allowed his own political associates to engage in massive corruption.

As his power grew, he began to indulge his obsessions. He is a deeply conservative Sunni Muslim who shares the widespread Sunni belief

that Shia Muslims are not just heretics, but heretics whose power is a growing threat.

From the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, therefore, Erdoğan supported the Sunni rebels against the regime of Bashar al-Assad, which is dominated by the country's Alawite (Shia) minority—and he didn't much mind if

Turkey has now bombed a few IS targets to show willing—but if you look at the videos, the Turkish planes are launching missiles at single buildings out in open fields. the Sunni rebels were head-cutting extremists like Islamic State or not.

That's why the Turkish-Syrian border stayed open, and the coalition didn't get access to Turkish air bases.

At the same time, Erdoğan opened peace negotiations with the PKK, because conservative Kurds who voted for his party on religious grounds were an important part of his electoral base. But then his party lost its majority in parliament in last month's election (June 7).

What cost him his majority was

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A lack of representation

Current federal representation doesn't reflect Canada's growing diversity

Bishop and NDP Edmonton Centre contender Reakash Walters talking with Cheri Harris and her children // Muntaka Shah

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iven that politics was one of the reasons Fasoranti Oluseyi Taiwo immigrated to Canada three years ago, it isn't much of a surprise that he has become politically active in his new home.

"My political and social views didn't align with the ruling party in Nigeria," he explains of his motivation to immigrate.

Taiwo, who goes by the name of Bishop, says that while his father is a politician of some renown, he didn't participate in politics back home because the system there is quite corrupt.

"Here in Canada, I understand that I can contribute by joining a political party that has the same values and ideology I believe in," he explains.

Through his involvement with organizations like the Ontario Council for International Cooperation, the Alberta Council for Global Cooperation and the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights, Bishop came to have a different view about politics.

"Here in Canada, we actually have the chance to elect a government that will be government of the people, for the people and by the people, not government that serves just some group of people," he says.

As Heritage Days celebrates 40 years of "showcasing Canada's vibrant multicultural heritage" (from its website), and on the eve of the country's 42nd federal election, just how much has Canada changed, and how well is that change is reflected in our political institutions?

Environics Analytics reports that based on the 2011 National Household Survey, there were 6.8 million foreignborn people in Canada, accounting for 20.6 percent the total population. "This is an increase from 19.8 percent in 2001 and means that Canada's immigrant population is now at its highest level in 80 years," the report states.

However, a demographic study released earlier this year and reported in the Toronto Star concluded that despite these distinct changes in our country's makeup, there remains a distinct lack of diversity in our federal Parliament; researcher Kai L Chan reported that women and visible minorities remain under-represented in the House of Commons, indigenous people even more so.

While women represent 50 percent of the population, Chan found, they hold just a quarter of the seats in the House of Commons. And while 23.3 percent of Canada's population is made up of visible minorities, they occupy just 12.3 percent of parliamentary seats. He also found that younger voices are also underrepresented.

With a median age of 57, the last Parliament was much older than the country, which has a national median age of 40.6 years.

Chan's findings echo previous studies as well. In "Racial Diversity in the 2011 Federal Election: Visible Minority Candidates and MPs," published in the Canadian Parliamentary Revue, Jerome Black found that even though the last election established a record for racial diversity in Parliament, representation reflecting the population remains at the same level it was almost 20 years ago.

"It did little to alter the fact that visible minorities remain significantly underrepresented in Parliament relative to their incidence in the general population," Black wrote of the 2011 election results.

According to him, in 1993, 13 visible minorities were elected as MPs, just 4.4 percent of the seats in Parliament, despite accounting for 9.4 percent of the population at the time.

"What is really happening is that vis-

ible minority MPs have been elected in numbers that are enough to keep the representation deficit from getting larger, but not enough to reduce it," Black concluded.

Part of the problem might be the media inadvertently acting as gatekeepers.

Erin Tolley, an assistant professor in political science at the University of Toronto, is the author of "Framed: Media and the Coverage of Race in Canadian Politics," a study set for publication in book form this November.

Tolley examined empirical data collected during the 2008 federal election and interviewed candidates, po-

litical activists and journalists to look at how race factors into news stories about politicians and political candidates. While Tolley's analysis found no obvious examples of racism, she notes that media coverage of candidates indicates that race still matters in Canadian politics.

"What I found is if you're a visibleminority non-incumbent you're portrayed as a long shot, an unlikely winner—basically you don't have a hope," Tolley told New Canadian Media in a recent interview. She found that this wasn't the case for white non-incumbents who don't face this challenge.

"No one ever talks about the fact that white candidates also appeal to

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white voters. I mean, no one would write that," Tolley said. "No one even describes white candidates as 'white candidates' or really talks about where they were born. Whiteness is basically put forward as the default and therefore not worthy of being mentioned, whereas minority or immigrant background is something that is covered because it is seen to be outside the norm or atypical, and therefore newsworthy."

Tolley's comments bring to mind Ron Leech, the Wildrose candidate in the 2012 provincial election who told a multicultural radio station that he, as a white man, was able to speak to the whole community, rather than just members of his own ethnic group.

"I think, as a Caucasian, I have an advantage," Leech said. "When different community leaders, such as a Sikh leader or a Muslim leader speaks, they really speak to their own people in many ways. As a Caucasian I believe that I can speak to all the community."

Bishop begs to differ. He feels it's important for him and others to see themselves reflected in our representative institutions.

"The only way our voices can be heard is if we fully participate," he says. He urges both new and old Canadians to get involved as candidates and behind the scenes, where policy and decisions are being made.

"It's necessary to be involved in the issues that affect our daily lives," Bishop says, speaking passionately about how it's in everyone's best interest to engage by attending public meetings like city council and by joining a political party.

"Whether you participate or not," he says, "government actions will affect you."

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Voting hurdles For all intents and purposes, the 42nd federal election is on. Sure, it's still only "on" in an unofficial capacity, but we're creeping evercloser to that fixed October 19 vote-by date, and the political noise is amping up accordingly: political parties are starting to tease out big, bold statements about what they would do with if they form government, and there are signs the writ could be dropped as early as this Sunday.

As we head into a season of political bombardment, it's worth keeping yourself aware of the increasing number of barriers between you and the ballot box. Recall that the Fair Elections Act, introduced by the Conservative government, is now law.

This federal election will be the first time we brush up with the Act's new limitations on what's allowed. And in case you've forgotten, here are a couple of the things the Act has changed: you can't simply vouch for your neighbour's identity—something done by some 120 000 people in the last federal election. In addition to having someone ready to vouch for you (which, in smaller districts can already prove problematic), you'll still require two pieces of ID. If you moved recently and don't have proof of address—if your driver's licence has an old residence on it, or you're a university student, or a senior citizen living in a care facility—this can also prove challenging. Those pre-

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viously handy voter-identification cards no longer work as standalone proof, either, even though it was something that 400 000 voters used in the 2011 election.

While none of those new rules will prove impossible to surpass for prepared voters, the more telling point is what all of these hurdles suggest: that there's blood in the water—federal polls, and Alberta's provincial election, suggest the potential for a sea change— and the Conservative government knows it, and appears to have been preparing accordingly, trying to hedge its bets and to make it as difficult as possible those votergroups (and expats, too) that typically skew left, because the election looms large. It's on. V UP FRONT 5

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COVER // URBAN AGRICULTURE

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ankering for fresh, homegrown berries but don't have the resources, time or cash to grow/buy them yourself? The solution lies just north of the river in the MacKinnon Ravine, where our city's first food forest has just passed its first birthday.

Bring a pail and get picking.

"Most of the stuff did quite well over the winter," Dustin Bajer says.

"The fairly dry spring is a little tough on it, but the city's been pretty happy with [the] results, so we're going to expand the food forest this summer."

As a master gardener, permaculture designer, beekeeper and teacher, Bajer is one of the leading voices in Edmonton's urban-agriculture move-

to a number of species, chiefly berryyielding shrubs and trees, including saskatoons, highbush cranberries, pin cherries, currants, gooseberries, raspberries, chokeberries and elderberries. Bajer is leading another round of planting on August 15 (volunteers are welcome), which will expand the food forest's area and hopefully add some additional species; all of the plants come from a city-operated nursery, so he's limited to what they have available. Additionally, part of the Root for Trees mandate is that all species must be native to Edmonton, so we won't see any apples, plums or leafy green vegetables in the MacKinnon Ravine anytime soon.

I think that often what we view as 'native' is a snapshot in time. We kind of have this idealized picture of what was growing here at a very specific moment in time, and we say this is native and everything after that isn't. But what actually happens in ecology is things change and things move all the time. ment. One of his latest projects has been spearheading the MacKinnon Food Forest, a City of Edmonton initiative that's pretty much exactly what it sounds like: a forest of food in the heart of the city. Last June, a team of volunteers, headed by Bajer, planted dozens of edible shrubs and trees throughout an open patch of the MacKinnon Ravine. Anyone and everyone is encouraged to visit the ravine and glean fruit as they please, though Bajer notes that as the plants are still quite young, the yields aren't as high as they will be in the coming years.

The MacKinnon Food Forest originated at the confluence of a few separate entities. The primary driving force was Edmonton's Root for Trees program, which has a mandate of doubling the number of trees in Edmonton as well as naturalizing various underused lands around the city: converting those spaces—which currently requiring mowing and various city-funded maintenance—back into a fully natural environment so that they are self-sustaining and maintenance-free. The program is headed by Travis Kennedy, the City of Edmonton's principal horticulturalist as well as the owner and operator of Lactuca Urban Farm. His background in urban agriculture caused him to consider a food-based application of Root for Trees; Bajer was enlisted to design and plant the MacKinnon Food Forest due to his previous work in permaculture and gardening.

The food forest is currently home

The MacKinnon Food Forest is a great foundation for Edmonton's urban-agriculture movement. But beneath its primary purpose as a source of free local food, it's also the site of a debate that is going to become increasingly important as our city's urban agriculture and naturalization movements grow and converge: what makes a species native?

"I think it's a very philosophical question," Bajer says. "I think that often what we view as 'native' is a snapshot in time. We kind of have this idealized picture of what was growing here at a very specific moment in time, and we say this is native and everything after that isn't.

But what actually happens in ecology is things change and things move all the time."

Bajer would love to plant a host of other species in the MacKinnon Food Forest that are not considered native. While some of those have obviously never been a part of Edmonton's ecological history until very recently (apricots, for example), others have been around for so long that many people would probably be surprised to learn they aren't actually considered native: apples, for instance.

"I view, very much, that a stronger indicator of success than native versus non-native would probably be to measure the biodiversity of the space," Bajer says. "So if you were to take a snapshot of the site pre-food forest, not a lot of diversity, then you add all those fruits in there—

we haven't actually removed anything, but we've added a tremendous amount of diversity to it.

"So I think that you can measure the strength of an ecosystem not based on what's native and what's not, but the total amount of biodiversity there," he continues. "I think if you can view nature that way, then you can start bending the rules a little bit. You can say, 'OK, by adding this apple here, is it likely to increase or decrease biodiversity? If we throw this plum in here is it going to increase or decrease biodiversity?'

Now, under that lens, adding the apple or adding the plum is actually an ethical thing to do."

Bajer is optimistic that eventually this will come to pass. He points to the miniature orchard that Operation Fruit Rescue planted at the McCauley School back in September 2014, which is a full fruit orchard with both native and non-native species. It's just the flipside of the same movement, Bajer states: the MacKinnon Food Forest is a naturalization project that happens to include food, and the McCauley orchard is a food project that happens to benefit nature. Once those lines begin to blur together, we're likely to see significant overlap between these two movements.

In the meantime, he's content to continue operating the MacKinnon Food Forest within the city's nativeonly mandate. He also notes that there's a few things that citizens of Edmonton have to do before we

Sat, Aug 15 (10 am – 2 pm) MacKinnon Food Forest planting day

MacKinnon Ravine (parking at Government House Park) rootfortrees@edmonton.ca will see widespread food forestry of any type, native or otherwise: actually utilize the one that we have now, and continue maintaining an ongoing conversation about urban agriculture and local food.

"You have a culture in the city interested in those local foods, who are interested in gleaning and going down to the river valley and picking," Bajer notes. "I think the city's going to see, 'Oh, if we plant it, it doesn't make a mess, it doesn't become an eyesore; people go, they take it, they take care of it, and the community's engaged in it.'

"The more people who go, 'Hey, can we plant apples?' and start asking those questions, it moves that social edge and at some point down the road that becomes a possibility," he continues. "Likewise, I think with the orchard-type thing, you start seeing the benefit of bringing in different birds, bringing in different insects and organisms, and so you start seeing the benefit of throwing these food systems in there. And it's not just benefitting the people: it's benefitting the ecology. So I think on a long enough timeline, the two movements will sort of fuse together."

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Orange wines got a fair bit of mainstream attention last year as the newest wine du jour. It was really a load of rubbish, however: orange wines are simply too obscure to be anything more than an oddity, an estranged and mostly overlooked corner of the vast ocean of the world's wine industry. Plus, many people who have had an orange wine probably assumed it was just a particularly salmon-coloured rosé.

Orange wines are named for their colour: typically a rusty hue ranging from pale gold to deep amber. Orange wine is a white wine that's made like a red: rather than crushing the grapes and sending the juice immediately to the fermenting tank—as in the usual process for white-wine making—orange wines spend some time soaking (macerating) with the grape skins for a period of time, ranging from a few days to a few months or even years. Though they often have a similar colour to rosé wines, rosés are made from red grapes whereas orange wines are made exclusively from white varieties.

Not all white grapes have completely white skin, however—Pinot Gris, notably, has a dusky pink skin that makes it a prime candidate for transforming into an orange wine, and the majority of orange wines on the Alberta market are made from Pinot Gris. Macerating the juice with the skins imbues the wine with a deeper colour and some astringent tannin, as well as flavours that are atypical and often more complex than those found in the white-wine version of that variety. Maybe it's the persuasion of the colour, but a lot of aromas and flavours in orange wines tend to be of similarly hued items: dried apricots, marmalade, orange pith, under-ripe pears or walnut skin.

Most orange wines hail from Old World producers in Italy (especially the Friuli region), France (notably in the Loire Valley and Jura), as well as Slovenia and Georgia—the latter of which is an ancient seat of winemaking and historical home of orange wines. It's often difficult to spot orange wines based on the label alone since they usually aren't identified as such; if you spot the term ramato on a label you've found one, as ramato means auburn in Italian. If the colour is orangey and the label isn't sporting the terms rosé, rosato, rosado or saignée, then you've likely found an orange wine. Research is key to verifying this, however, which is another reason why orange wines are a seriously niche item and unlikely to take over as a truly popular type: there simply aren't a lot available.

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The unusual flavour profile of orange wines also means that they aren't as readily consumed by novices and wine lovers alike, as are the much-more-approachable rosés. Still, the buzz that orange wines has garnered abroad means that we'll likely see more of these trickle into the province as time goes on—and they're certainly worth trying if you can find one, if only for their sheer idiosyncrasy. V Recommendations: Dal Cero Ramato Pinot Grigio (Italy) Gravner Anfora Breg (Italy) Radikon Linea S Pinot Grigio (Italy) Pheasant's Tears Rkatsiteli (Georgia) Mel Priestley is a certified sommelier and wine writer who also blogs about wine, food and the arts at melpriestley.ca

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fter a year of spent touring productions around the country, Toy Guns Dance Theatre is remounting Bright Lights Cold Water (Watching Netflix at 3am Questioning Your Mortality). In it, the quirky dance company invites audience members to bring flashlights and water pistols to illuminate and soak the performers as they frolic across the grass in Light Horse Park.

Although this audience interactivity has remained the same, Bright Lights Cold Water has undergone

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some changes since last summer's production.

"The script has evolved a little bit," says artistic director Jake Hastey.

"Some of the text has definitely changed, as well as there's different energies in some of the roles ...

A couple new members have joined, so that's changed the dynamic of the show."

Bright Lights revolves around the difficulties of romantic relationships.

Its dozen performers are paired up,

broken apart and recombined, playing with age and gender dynamics to tease out the different ways we relate to each other throughout our relationships. The show is structured as a series of vignettes—movement pieces which represent the stages of a relationship.

"The inspired moment that became the theme of the show was the idea of being in bed with someone and having that doubt creep into your mind—where you're not sure if it's the right place for you anymore,

if this person is right, or if you're right for this relationship," Hastey says. "And you start to question, and go back through all these moments and memories—from when you met to where you are now. You kind of know from that moment it's never going to be the same."

The performers laugh, kiss, cry, fight and make jokes at the audience's expense. They go through the entire range of emotion, the ups and downs in every partnership.

"For me [the shows] all start out

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Fri, Jul 31 & Sat, Aug 1 at dusk (about 9:30 pm) Bright Lights Cold Water Light Horse Park (8511 - 104 St), admission by donation as tragedies," Hastey laughs. "And then at some point it's not that much fun to tell sad stories every day. You've got to at least spice 'em up a little bit."

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anadian artist and cartoonist Marc Bell's Stroppy is a blast of fullfrontal weirdness. But beneath the surreal, dystopian setting is an allegory about the how the expansionary nature of commerce, work and gentrification crushes people under its bootheel.

The 64-page Stroppy, released by Montréal's Drawn and Quarterly, shows one extraordinary day in the life of the titular blue-collar schlub. His day job is processing villagers—as Bell notes in an asterisk below the panel— from an underdeveloped area who have had their brains removed.

These villagers, little yellow beings, come to Stroppy on a conveyor belt— who then implants a helmet that programs them for their lives as security guards and servants of his boss, the ridiculous Mister Monsieur.

His comfortable status quo is interrupted by the shirtless Sean, who rudely gums up the workline by putting up posters for a song contest—with cash prizes!—sponsored by the monstrously popular All-Star Schnauzer Band.

It gets weirder from there, befitting Bell's detailed and absurdist art.

Stroppy is steeped in psychedelic altcomix styling. It's mostly told in fourpanel square strips with blasé titles— except for the few ornate, full-page drawings jam-packed with jokes and infinitesimal detail.

Bell's grotesque style oozes from the page. The titular protagonist is a pinheaded giant who just wants to work his "jobbie" and survive, while Mister Monsieur is a bulbous French stereotype with a wire-thin, undulating moustache, and who wants to win the song contest with a little diddy about his cat.

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By Marc Bell Drawn and Quarterly, 64 pp $24.95 Monsieur is also one-half of the two corporate overlord organizations in the book. Monsieur himself doesn't do any work—he's got the programmed villagers for that—but profits off the work of others. He's a rent-extracting fool, unlike the entertainment empire that usurps his hold on Lord Rupert's Manor, which kicks off the crux of the book's plot.

Monsieur's enemies are the All-Star Schnauzer Band, another empire that, as it becomes more and more clear, is just another voraciously expansionary capitalistic enterprise as anything else in the world. The band even has its own cadre of brainwashed villagers, with various followers given minor titles like Sean—who, due to his hard work for the band, becomes Sean The Humback Whale Poodlesnake Schnauzer.

Stroppy is a political work, but its politics are facile. In little footnotes identified by asterisks, Bell handwaves away his lack of female characters without actually doing anything about it—which is almost worse. In another instance, a placid, handcuffed Stroppy gets beaten black-and-blue by Mister Monsieur's security forces for resisting, which is far too on-the-nose. Yet Stroppy, despite its flawed and heavyhanded politics, is a surreal and engaging read with oodles of detail packed into Bell's grotesque art style—and that alone warrants a read for fans of bizarre and odd comics-with-an-x.

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Heritage Festival / Sat, Aug 1 – Mon, Aug 3 The most diversely delicious festival to take place in Hawrelak Park, this year finds Heritage Fest celebrating its 40th-annual showcase of multiculturalism in our community: some 62 pavilions will represent close to 85 cultures with food, performance, artwork and more. (Hawrelak Park) Andy Warhol Birthday Bash / Thu, Aug 6 (9 pm) To commemorate the legendary Warhol's birthday—this year would've been ol' Soup Can's 84th spin around the sun—a number of Edmonton artists are banding together to put on a show: from Brendan Anderson's drone sounds to Holly Von Sinn's burlesque, it's angling itself to be an eclectic celebration of counterculture revelries.

(Bohemia, $10)

Robin Phillips

Former artistic director passes One of the Citadel Theatre's former artistic directors, Robin Phillips, passed away on Saturday, July 25, at the age of 73. From 1990 to 1995 he spearheaded our city's flagship theatre, directing 38 productions over that span. Before that, Phillips had acted as head of Ontario's Stratford Festival. In 2010, he was awarded the Governor General's Award for Lifetime Achievement. V

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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

BODY IN QUESTION(S)2 • University of Alberta - Enterprise Square Gallery, 10230 Jasper Ave • bwdc.ca • View the visual art and watch the ongoing dance performances by premiere dance company Van Grimde Corps Secrets • Aug 20-22; 7pm, 7:30pm or 8pm • $20

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

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 • 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 • 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: 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 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!: Chinatown (Aug 1-3), Easy Rider (Aug 8-10) MOVIES ON THE SQUARE • Sir Winston Churchill Square • edmonton.ca • Enjoy movies in the Square that will be playing on a three storey high inflatable screen.

Closed captioning will be off when available • Each Tue in Aug, 7pm (pre-entertainment, movies start at dusk) • Free

VIDEO PRODUCTION FOR SOCIAL MEDIA • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivaplace.ab.ca • Participants will create their own YouTube channel and learn to produce short, gripping videos for social media • Jul 2731, 9am-5pm

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GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 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

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

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Tyler Los-Jones: A Panorama Protects its View: Jan 23-Jan 31, 2016 • The Double Bind: Conversations Between Modernism and Postmodernism; May 2-Sep 13 • Jack Bush: May 30-Aug 23 • Illuminations: Italian Baroque Masterworks in Canadian Collections; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Wil Murray: On Invasive Species and Infidelity; Jun 27-Oct 4 • 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 : 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) • all Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 124pm; 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

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 ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • Body in Question(s)2: View the visual art and watch the ongoing dance performances by premiere dance company Van Grimde Corps Secrets; Aug 20-22

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • After: artwork by Laara Cassells; Jul 10-Aug 30 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Jul 28-Aug 31; Opening reception: Aug 6 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Sep 1-28; Opening reception: Sep 3

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • After: Artwork By Laara Cassells; Jul 10-Aug 30

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • Open Door: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: Between Reality and Transcendence: Chun Hua Catherine Dong; Aug 6-Sep 10 JEff AllEn ArT gAllEry (JAAg) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Together Again: Instructors and Students; Jul 28-Aug 26 • Artist Greg Doherty; Aug 27-Sep 24; Reception: Sep 9, 6:30-8:30pm

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 MarchyshynShymko; Aug 6-Sep 26; Opening reception: Aug 6, 6-9pm • Flow of Traffic Theory: Gerry Dotto; Sep 3-26; reception: Sep 3, 6-9pm • The Winter That Was: Pierre Bataillard; Oct 1-31; reception: Oct 1, 7-9pm • 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; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

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

ArTwAlk • Perron District, downtown St

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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 BOHEMIA • 10217-97 St • bohemia@ artmuzak.ca • artmuzak.ca • Warhol Birthday: a tribute to the late artist on what would have been his 87th birthday • Aug 6, 9pm • $10; 18+ only

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

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

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Summer exhibition; until Aug 22

Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • The Language of Flowers: art by Elaine Tweedy; Jul 4-Aug 23 • Weather Report: Andrzej Maciejewski; Aug 29-Oct 18; Opening reception: Sep 3, 7-9pm

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

• creativepracticesinstitute.com • 99 x 2 Tears: artwork by Sheri Barclay; Jun 24-Aug 1

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

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • facebook.com/pages/ Scott-Gallery • Stockwell Depot 1967 – 79; Jul 24-Sep 12 • Summer Group Exhibition; until Aug SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print -Artists, 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

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • MAIN GALLERY: Feature Artist David Pettis; through Jul • MAIN GALLERY: Members Novelty Show “Hidden Gems”; through Aug STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM & ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum. ca • Paving the Way: Pioneers of the country Part 2; until Sep 30

TElus worlD of sciEncE • 11211142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton. com • Dinosaurs Unearthed: until Oct 11 • Velociraptor Safety Awareness Week; Jul 22-26 • Dark Matters "Nerdgasm"; Aug 20, 7-10pm U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • museums@ualberta.ca • museums. ualberta.ca • Thu-Fri: 12-6pm; Sat: 124pm • 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 •TREX Alberta Foundation For The Arts Travelling Exhibition; Aug 6-Sep 26; Opening reception: Aug 6, 7-9:30pm • off-site (Jubilee): OPEN IMAGE: Partnership between Visual Arts Alberta - CARFAC and the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society; Late Aug-Mid Oct

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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

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 •

101 Street, north of 102 Ave, Edmonton City Centre Mall • paradegallery.ca • Work in Process: artwork by Megan Stein; Jul 17-Aug 30

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DEVONIAN BOTANICAL GARDEN • 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • devonian. ualberta.ca • Parkland County Art Show; Jul 31-Aug 3 • Devon Pottery Guild Show; Aug 1-3

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

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, 9am4:30pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • In the Money: A Bilingual Exhibition from The Currency Museum; Jun 30-Aug 30 • The Street Where You Live; Sep 8-Nov 15

volunteer@thenina.ca • Closed Jul 24-Aug 4 • Summer Republic III: Art from the NHCA's collective; Jul 6-Aug 14

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040

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

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

Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Over/Under Paths: artwork

by Frank Van Veen; Jul 30-31 • The Iconic Alberta Rose: artwork by Cindy Barratt and Susan Casault; Aug 5-31; Opening reception: Aug 6, 6-9pm

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • kc dyer "Finding Fraser" Book Tour Extravaganza!; Jul 30, 7pm

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

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

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

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

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their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

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

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

THEATRE BrighT lighTs colD wATEr (wATching nETflix AT 3AM QuEsTIONING YOUR MORTALITY) • Kids Fringe Area, Light Horse Park, 8511-104 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 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. Upon maturation living with two wastrels, Simba is given some valuable perspective from his friend, Nala, and his shaman, Rafiki, before returning to challenge Scar to end his tyranny • Jul 14-Aug 9 EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL • Various locations throughout Old Strathcona • Thirtyfour years of Fringe!This year's theme?

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Quentin (Nat Wolff) and Margo (Cara Delevingne), across-the-street childhood pals, have eddied into different high school circles. But after one night, late in their final year, when Quentin helps Margo wreak revenge on her cheating boyfriend, she runs away, again, and now he's determined to track her down.

The title refers to made-up places (Agloe, NY) used as copyright traps on maps, though Margo applies it, the night of her vengeance-spree, to Orlando as a hometown starchily unreal, a hollow land where Quen-

tin's straitjacketed in his comfort zone. As Quentin follows her trail, it's people who seem made of paper—our childish perceptions of them often superficial, conforming to basic archetypes. (Or, as one character puts it, rather unbelievably for an 18-year-old, "Santa's just a construct.")

Too bad, then, that tag-along Lacey (Halston Sage), vexed about being dismissed as "the hot girl," remains a cardboard-cutout; Quentin's wisecracking buddy Ben (Austin Abrams) and quirky-nerd pal Radar (Justice Smith) don't fare much better. (And can't a teen movie offer more music that's hormone-surging, not just hormone-ebbing?) What intrigues is the wide-screen sprawl of mystery.

Nighttime scenes are imbued with an almost Fincher-like menace, from an abandoned store (though this flick drops the eyeball on post-housing-

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bubble Orlando as a white, mortgagepapered town) to Margo dissolving into the inky dark (Gone Girl, indeed).

Margo herself hovers between Enigmatic Object of Desire and the young woman who'd reject that stereotype—much of that's down to Delevingne, impressive here.

Well before the ending, the flick's anti-romance has Möbius-stripped back into formula-indulgence, its darker moments of mystery blotted and smudged into comfort and assurance. Paper Towns is more like it's-a-wrap than the messy, crumpled-up drafts of life.

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Valentine Road takes an infuriating look into a high school tragedy The most stunning and enraging moment of remarkable access in Marta Cunningham's Valentine Road (2013) doc comes late. It's a seemingly cozy scene—a conversation, at a home on Trigger St, between two jurors and an alternate juror in the trial of teenager Brandon McInerney for his killing of classmate Larry King on February 12, 2008. These three bourgeois white women, extolling the cheapness of wine from Trader Joe's, move on to the case, which ended in a mistrial (five jurors held out for manslaughter; seven backed the first-degree murder charge). "Where are the civil rights of the one being taunted by the person who is cross-dressing? ...

The school was so pro-Larry King's civil rights;" "Larry didn't get it. Had he followed [another teen's selfsuppressing] example, we wouldn't be here today;" "[Brandon] had a plan to resolve this terrible problem ... no one was taking care of this problem."

Their glib chat, as they casually cast judgment on the murder victim—his identity and "behaviour" reduced to favoured "civil rights" or a "problem" he "didn't get"—curdles like bad milk in the bottom of the film's kaleidoscopic glass.

Whiteness—and white-washing— sloshes through this documentary. In the Oxnard, CA class where King was murdered, the students were work-

ing on an assignment about Anne Frank. King was biracial; McInerney may have been influenced by white supremacist notions (a notebook of his had pages of drawings of swastikas, SS insignia and the like). A former teacher who told King to keep his gayness—though King was more likely trans—private is surrounded in her home by crosses and a painting of the Last Supper as she declares, "I can relate to Brandon. I don't know if I would've taken a gun, but a good swift kick in the butt might have worked really well." She wonders, as if talking about a shadowy conspiracy, "Who orchestrated that gay pride parade [in honour of King]?"

Just before those ex-jurors' conversation, Cunningham (for this debut, she was embedded in Oxnard for almost five years) offers a fleeting shot of a peacock strutting across a sidewalk. And so much of the accusatory language swirling around King—shot twice at close range with a .22 by McInerney in a computer classroom—is of the "s/he was flaunting it" or "s/he was shoving it in our faces" kind of we-don't-need-to-see-that homophobia. (It seems, in fact, that King had only been accessorizing and putting on makeup for about two weeks before his death.)

In teasing out the threads of intol-

erance, thinly veiled homophobia, and passed-down, simmering turmoil and anger—King was abused as a child and moved from group home to group home; McInerney grew up amid a longtime drug-addicted mother and an unstable, violent father—Valentine Road reveals the hypocrisies, neglect and passivity behind so much of the bullying and ill-treatment of King. The school did little for the kids who witnessed that classroom horror, it seems; the one teacher who seems to have cared about King gets quickly sidelined.

Meanwhile, even one of McInerney's defence attorneys has "Save Brandon" tattooed on her arm, though McInerney remains a dark void at the heart of the film. (The bright spots can be found in some of King's classmates, articulate and emotional as they try to find their way through their post-traumatic pain.)

This film plumbs the pathetic depths of intolerance and distorted compassion in one of the supposedly most liberal states in the union. Valentine Road has one or two potholes—its few animation interludes, in particular, are hokey and awkward—but its panoramic and both-sides approach to a brutal, traumatizing act of retaliatory violence chills and stills the heart, as only the best truth-seeking documentaries can. V

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his guy's so smooth," said a 10-year-old moviegoer as Adam Sandler flirted atrociously with Michelle Monaghan. Sandler—playing washed-up nerd Sam Brenner, or the same schleppy character he plays in virtually every movie—appeals to the young boys in the audience. They ape his lines and bleat with delight at the technicolour CGI and off-colour humour of Pixels.

Sandler is joined by Kevin James as an incompetent President of the Unit-

ed States, Josh Gad as a creepy conspiracy theorist, and Peter Dinklage as a mullet-sporting ex-con. Video-game champions from childhood, they band together to save the world from alien invaders who take the form of classic '80s arcade characters.

Such an absurd premise demands high-quality animation, and Pixels' visual effects are indeed dazzling. Each enemy, from Pac-Man to Pong, glows beautifully as it rampages through the world, crumbling everything it

touches into gleaming cubes. But the lazy and insulting jokes undermine the film's cartoonish charm.

Gad in particular sucks the life out of every scene with his mewling manchild performance (which is saying something, because it's hard to outAdam Sandler in an Adam Sandler movie). He shrieks out a stereotypically sexist and homophobic drillbit monologue and obsesses over a video-game character named Lady Lisa—a buxom blond warrior who

never speaks and is explicitly described as a trophy at the end of the film.

On top of being misogynistic, Pixels is predictable. From its "We Will Rock You" montage to its incomprehensible British slang jokes, there is nothing in this movie that hasn't been done a hundred times before. There's a halfhearted attempt to inject some social commentary into the film—Sandler bemoans how today's video games

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make kids antisocial and waxes poetic about the golden age of arcades—but mostly the film jumps between giant CGI battles and clunky exposition.

Above all else, Pixels is nostalgia porn for old dads. They can bring their young sons to watch the old losers reclaim their glory days and bond over rampant misogyny and homophobic punchlines.

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t's a really different thing to watch bands out there," Amelia Aspen says, referring to a particular patch of farmer's field near Ardmore where, for the past two summers, a scatter of musicians, comedians, artists and audiences have gathered for the Golden West Music Fest. For three days, tents dot the pasture (there's also a hotel fairly close to the site), bands play, art is installed and a weekend-crowning bonfire reaches tall into the prairie sky above. The northern lights seem to show up with regularity, too; hosting a festival in that setting offers a different sort of rural Alberta advantage, but one Aspen and the rest of the festival's organizing committee have happily put to good use for two summers

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now, and will do for just one more: the third iteration of the festival is also set to be its last .

"We actually thought we were only going to have one, I think, in the beginning," Aspen explains. "But you get attached to things when you build them.

We're all busy people with other projects, and to a certain extent we've had to shelve those while we were doing the festival. So we kind of just decided it was time to let it go."

Golden West first arrived in the summer of 2013, alongside a number of likeminded festivals that suddenly emerged together. Hot Plains, Bermuda and Golden West all popped up that year, all looking to fill a particular void among Alberta's other

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"It was in response to the fact that there weren't that many festivals that were serving those genres of music," Aspen notes. "Indie-punkgarage-psych-metal-kinda stuff."

Golden West was the only festival of that emergent crop to position itself out of town. Aspen was in charge of booking bands; the inaugural festival was all Edmonton acts—"We just got everybody on the organizing team together and made a big list of all the bands that we felt like watching," Apsen recalls. "And then I just went and tried to get as many of them as I could to play."—but that city-limit criteria's been relaxed in subsequent years.

This third and final outing has close to 30 acts set to play the field over three days; two of its three headliners are out-of-towners, bracketing one of our own. The metal behemoths of Bison will crown Friday's opening salvo of bands, with Edmonton's rock 'n' roll marching band the Wet Secrets reigning over Saturday and Saskatoon's heavy psych-act Shooting Guns closing Sunday night. It's a raucous trio of night-enders—nobody's going to accuse Golden West of going out with anything less than a bang.

"The neighbours are very far away," Aspen explains. "So it's a good place to let people crank it up."

As the festival draws itself to a close, Aspen notes her gratitude for the com-

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"The thing that was really amazing as we started to do this—and as we realized what we were getting ourselves into, and that this was a really big job—is that [in] Edmonton, you can do anything and people will help you," she says. "No matter what it is you're trying to work on, there's always people who are willing to throw their time and resources and money and help.

People just help here."

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lberta-born folk artist Wendy McNeill has spent the past decade making a home for herself in Europe— first in France, then Sweden and now in Spain. It's through these travels that she's realized how lucky she is to come from where she does.

McNeill is a story-driven songwriter, whose folk-noir compositions are known for intricate, poignant and at times sombre tales, and living in new countries has allowed her to take on an outsider's perspective in her writing.

"When you're in a country that isn't in your bones you tend to—or I do anyway—observe a bit more maybe than when I was here [in Canada]," she says, back on Canadian soil for a string of shows and festival appearances.

These observations come together on McNeill's latest album, One Colour More, and the complexities of immigration in particular. While living in Sweden, she was enrolled in a Swedish for immigrants class, and her classmates came from an array of countries and circumstances— many leaving their homes because they had no other choice, a stark contrast to McNeill's self-propelled relocation.

"I'm more considered like an expat, and some of these people were running for their lives, basically, so I'm not saying I have this similar experience," McNeill ex-

plains. "But what I am saying is being in a classroom with them when you're all struggling to learn Swedish together, it's a bonding thing, and you start to hear a lot of really interesting stories."

She noticed a large contingent of Kurdish people in these classes and started to dig deeper into their stories—one of which became the inspiration for her song "Civilized Sadness." The lyrics are about a Kurdish woman recalling her family fleeing for their lives during the Halabja poison-gas attack on March 16, 1988 that resulted in the deaths of nearly 10 000 Kurdish people.

"It was just a nightmare," McNeill says.

"And it's not like that was the first time: they were getting attacked from all sides. To not really have an area on a map that you can point out as your country, it's not really validated by anybody, and then you're going into a new country, like somewhere in Scandinavia, that is completely, completely different. My heart went out to them."

The Roma people also play a part in One Colour More on "Papusza And The Crows." McNeill has encountered a great deal of discrimination against the Roma in various parts of Europe, to the point where they are not seen as people but rather a "scourge," as she puts it.

"A lot of this stuff that gets said is [that] they're just trying to come into cities and take advantage of cities," McNeill says.

"In Sweden it's been really bad. In Stockholm there were people actually attacking Roma camps and burning them. It's no joke; it's scary stuff."

McNeill notes that while she's struggled to learn different languages and felt like an outsider at times, her experience as an immigrant has been relatively easy compared to those of the people in her songs. She adds that we often don't fully grasp the concept of white privilege until we're exposed to other people's struggles, as well as how certain doors don't open quite as easily for people from other cultural backgrounds. For example, McNeill has a Swedish passport while people who have been in the country much longer are still unable to obtain one. "[It's] this idea of where you're swimming with the current and you think life is a certain way because you're swimming with this one current, but if you try to swim the other way and you're against the current it's kind of a metaphor for white privilege," she adds. "Try swimming against the current and then you're like, 'Oh, that's what I had."

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ig Ups guitarist Amar Lal discovered the power of live music in his hometown of Ottawa, thanks to the city's at-the-time bustling ska scene.

"I went to some punk shows [in Ottawa], but I actually went to a lot of ska shows," Lal says, over the phone as the group rolls into Grand Rapids, Michigan on the third stop of its tour.

"On a recent trip back home, I went to White Lung at a new venue in Ottawa called House of TARG, and it was put on by [Ottawa concert promoter] Sean Scallen. He was still running the door, and [I got to] say, 'It's really great you're still doing this cool thing,'" Lal says. "That definitely had a big influence on [me] coming to New York and making sure I found people who played music and were like-minded."

Lal met the other three band members of Big Ups—Brendan

Finn, Joe Galarraga and Carlos Salguero—at New York University, and they started jamming together. The foursome first played parties with goofy pop-punk, and the band slowly morphed into the fiery brand of snarling punk-rock that gained some notice for its debut album, Eighteen Hours of Static.

"Brendan, Joe and I have been playing music together for, like, six years at this point and the four of us have been playing together for five years," Lal explains. "I think we have gotten better at listening to each other and hearing what each other's doing, and that makes the writing process really fun."

The group is in the last stages of mixing its newest, as-yet-untitled album and "finding it a home" Lal says, with plans to release it sometime in 2016. Where Eighteen Hours of Static was a scattershot recording

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process—half composed of songs the band had wanted to record and half composed of songs to fill out the album—the new album was purposefully recorded differently.

"We actually sat down and tried to write songs for this record, so

it's a lot more cohesive than the old record," Lal explains. "I think we're also trying to push ourselves a lot harder as musicians—there's a more work with time signatures and dynamics and more melodic things that are happening than on

the previous record.

"This is the first time I've brought a song to the table," Lal continues. "It's great—it's very fulfilling, basically."

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t's been said that growing old is inevitable, but growing up is optional. Pine Tarts singer-songwriter Jesse Powell would prefer to stay in that latter state of eternal adolescence, and plans on showing that idea with the band's upcoming record, Teenage Heaven.

"It's kind of teenage rock 'n' roll bravado," Powell explains of the album, which is to be recorded with Victoria's Shake Records in September. "[It's] about being a teenager when you're about 40 years old."

That's a theme Powell has been working with since he began writing Pine Tarts songs back in 1998. While the group's sound has morphed over time, with different members coming and going through the Calgary-based band, the essence of the California fuzz-pop style has stayed intact through multiple stops and starts.

After a recent rough, but temporary, breakup of the band, Powell decided to release a compilation of Pine Tarts songs recorded between 1998 and 2011. The 17 songs feature Pine Tarts' work with a vast variety of members, highlighting how much Powell has created with the band over the years while keeping its core sound stable.

Looking through the band's past output is also what inspired Powell to reunite Pine Tarts, with a few lineup changes and a more collaborative effort going into the upcoming record.

"Maybe I was going through a period where I felt I wasn't excited anymore, or I was lost," Powell says. "I forgot about how passionate I had been at various points in the past, and it was kind of rejuvenating."

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From the band's 1998 bedroom recordings to its most recent fulllength record, 2014's Wolves Named the Moon, the band's summer vibes transports listeners to a beach far from the prairies.

"I got into the Beach Boys and became sort of an acolyte," Powell says.

"Like a disciple. Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys was in my DNA." That explains a lot. Pine Tarts' sound is one you're used to hearing from LA bands like Best Coast, but not something you would expect to develop in the prairies.

"It kind of comes from that idea that Canadians love summer more than any other country on Earth," Powell explains. "We just get such a small taste of it so it's almost glorified."

While romanticizing summers at the beach through music, the reunited Pine Tarts still find a way to connect the hot days under the sun to Alberta listeners who are still teenagers at heart through lyrics about running around mountain towns in the Kootenays.

For Powell, what best describes the essence of adolescence, especially as it comes through in the band's material, is a particular scene from Boogie Nights, where the camera pans over the protagonists' bedroom to reveal an array of possessions that manage to timelessly define a teenager.

"You see all these shiny idols and trophies and posters and cool stuff," he says. "It kind of seems where we're headed with our new stuff."

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igeon Breeders' music is emotional. It ebbs, flows and sweeps up a listener, a sonic canvas evoking powerful feelings. For the group, composed of Will Scott, Tyler Harland and Myles Bartel, their music's emotions are expressions of themselves.

"I guess it's therapy, a little bit?"

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"Yeah—first and foremost for our own personal enjoyment," Harland. adds, beside his bandmates over webcam audio. "There's definitely times where you're feeling emotion and trying to express it in what you're playing."

"We don't really think about creating emotions for the audience as much," Scott continues. "It's mainly our own emotions—so some days, say I had a shitty day or whatever—then it's a good way to get it out with jamming with these guys. It's a good release.

Sometimes we're really happy and it sounds completely different than a day we're angry or sad. We always feel good after a jam."

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The trio's standard recording process for its upcoming Concrescence release was more exhaustive than previous efforts. The group records every time it plays a show or jams, and then Bartel digs into the recordings to find the best ideas to develop into a track.

"In the past, for our other albums, it's mainly come from one or two nights of jamming and it's all in the same kind of mindframe," Scott explains. "For the first time we culled recordings from two years and edited them together to have one cohesive piece."

The trio, releasing the Concrescence cassette at Wunderbar this Tuesday, says the album represents two different sides to the group— and that each side of the tape can be roughly divided into two different kinds of sound.

"We used to all live together, so this is the first release where we haven't been in the same home," Scott says.

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kind of stuff we've done before—so it's a good introduction to us. Side B, we take it to a new place where we haven't been before."

At the same time, the group's inherently experimental nature means that the two sides of the tape only represents what the band has done—not what's ahead of it.

"It doesn't necessarily present a past and future kind of thing—it's just sort of eases people into the new material," Bartel says.

"Eventually we will probably change a lot—we get bored of playing sounds we know we can go to if we have to," Scott adds. "I think the only way the band can work properly and keep us interested is [to] go and travel further ... it's a good feeling."

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VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE 24 Boudreau Road, St. Albert ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, 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 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 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

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HAWRELAK PARK 9930 Groat Road HERITAGE PARK–STONY PLAIN 4905-51 Ave, Stony Plain HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Phase II West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave 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 MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE 16615-109 Ave MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave,

780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PALACE CASINO–WEM West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St REXALL PLACE 7424-118 Ave RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE 9797 Jasper Ave NW SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St UNION HALL 6240-99 St UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog

much more • First Thu each month, 7-9pm

Balce, 780.463.5331

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Down-

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98

town • Practice group meets every Thu

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

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

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

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

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall,

Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

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

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Brian Link; Jul 31-Aug 1 • Bob Angeli; Aug 7-8

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 • Mike Dambra; Jul 29-Aug 2 • Jamie Lissow; Aug 5-9

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

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

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

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

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

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

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm 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

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • Crazy Loon Pub, 10208-99 Ave N.E., Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

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

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 LGNYEG (LADY GEEKS UNITE) • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • lgnyeg. blogspot.ca • Geek out with fellow geek ladies.

Featuring movies, board games, artists and so

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

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS FALSE FLAG EPIDEMIC • Rossdale Community Hall, 10135-96 Ave • 780.468.7117 • truthjihad.com • Dr. Kevin Barret introduces his new book on false flag terrorism • Aug 16, 7-9pm • Free, books on site SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP •

QUEER

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

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

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, 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)

9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups. yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave •

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm.

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

Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

TAI CHI IN THE PARK • Louise McKinney Riverfront Park on Grierson Hill Road just below Shaw Conference Centre, west end of Riverfront Promenade, directly across from the Edmonton Queen dock • 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

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

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

TOASTMASTERS

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings:

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

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

LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving.com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm 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

Round 2 (Jul 30), Water Painting en plein air (Aug 6), Oh So Boho! Bohemian (Aug 13), Salsa Dance Lessons (Aug 20), Movie Night with Life of Pi (Aug 27) • Each Thu until Aug 27, 6pm to dusk • $11 (adults), $6 (student), $8 (seniors, friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

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

EASTWOODFEST 2015 • Eastwood Park, 118 Ave & 86 St • Featuring a free beginner’s Yoga Class in the park, live music, bouncy castles, mobile library and so much more • Aug 8, 10am-5pm

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

SPECIAL EVENTS 8TH ANNUAL HOPE CLASSIC FOR SPINA BIFIDA AND HYDROCEPHALUS • Rundle Park, Site #6, 2909-113 Ave NW • 780.451.6921 • kyra@sbhana.org • sbhana. org • 5K or 8K non-competitive run, walk, or wheel for spina bifida and hydrocephalus • Aug 8, 10:30am • $20 (individual), $60 (team of 4), $15 per additional member; Free BBQ

2ND ANNUAL CASKAPALOOZA • Craft Beer Market, 10013-101A Ave • 780.424.2337 • craftbeermarket.ca • Featuring 18 cask beers from western Canadian breweries • Aug 2, 2-6pm • $25 (per person, include 12 x 4 oz. cask beer samples), $3 (additional sampling tickets)

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 70TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE A-BOMBINGS: COMMEMORATING THE LIVES LOST IN HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI • Alberta Legislature Grounds, Reflection Pool • 780.453.2638 • tatiana@jhcentre.org • Commemorating the lives lost during the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki • Aug 6, 8-11pm

ANIMAL MYTHBUSTERS • Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Road • edmonton.ca • Uncover the truth about animal myths! Such as the popular if touching a toad will really give you warts? Or do porcupines shoot their quills?

• Aug 9, 12-4pm

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 CARIWEST • Various locations throughout downtown Edmonton • cariwest.ca • A three day celebration featuring dazzling costumes, lively music, street theatre and delicious food • Aug 7-9 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). The schedule: Craft Beer and Croquet

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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

DRIFT FOR THE KIDS • Castrol Raceway, Hwy 19 just west of Hwy 2 • jenn@driftforthekids.com • driftforthekids.com • Professional drift competition in Support of the Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation • Aug 3, 10am-4pm • $20 (16 and over), free (16 and under)

EDMONTON DRAGON BOAT FESTIVAL • Louise McKinney Riverfront Park • edmontondragonboatfestival.ca • Ninteen years and going strong! Watch the boats race and teams compete for glory • Aug 14-16 FAIRY BERRY FESTIVAL • Prairie Gardens, 56311 Lily Lake Road, Bon Accord; 25 Km north of Edmonton • prairiegardens.org • Fairies, pirates, fairy-strawberries, shortcake, folk music, the Mindbender and Kidz Corn Mazes come to life this weekend. Celebrate the fairy-tale end of the Alberta strawberry season with a fun kids fest • Aug 1-3 FRAGAPALOOZA 2015 • Leduc Recreation Center, 4330 Black Gold Drive, Leduc • fragapalooza.com • A festival/LAN party dedicated to gaming, where attendees bring their own computer and play PC or console games.

Includes official tournaments, and unofficial fan run tournaments • Aug 6-9 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

NORTHLANDS URBAN FARM TOUR • Northlands • northlands.com • Check out Northlands Urban Farm. See the transformation of surplus urban space into a commercial farm and beekeeping operation • Aug 1; 9am, 11am, 1pm • Free (space is limited) REVOLUTION LOVE LIVE • Hawrelak Park • revolutionlovelive.com • An interactive music and art event for families and all ages • Aug 9, 2-5pm • Free RIDE WALK RUN FOR CELIAC 2015 • Gold Bar Park, Site #1 • 780.485.2949 • info@ celiacedmonton.ca • celiacedmonton.ca • A run/race geared to people of all ages and abilities followed by refreshments, gluten free sampling and games • Aug 9, 12:30-4:30pm • $30 (per person), $60 (family)

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 SIDESHOW INVASION - EDMONTON BURLESQUE FESTIVAL'S ONE NIGHT STAND • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • Magic, striptease, clowns and weirdos come together in this collaboration of carnival and peepshow. Features Dew Lily • Aug 8

TOUR DES TREES • Rundle Park • 780.919.7126 • katelynne.webb@edmonton. ca • edmonton.ca/activities_parks_recreation/ parks_rivervalley/tour-des-trees-edmonton. aspx • Celebrate Edmonton’s urban forest on this 9 km bike ride and short hike in the river valley • Aug 8, 10am-1pm • Free

UALBERTA SUSTAINABILITY WALKING TOUR • University of Alberta, North Campus • sustainability.ualberta.ca/tours • See what makes the U of A sustainable by discovering how landscaping is kept naturally green, which buildings save and recycle precious water, where food scraps end up each year and much more • Daily until Aug 14 • Free

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Rubber Processing Machine Operator (NOC 9423); Line-X Edmonton is in need of Rubber Processing Machine Operator (NOC: 9423); F/T-Permanent; Duties: Set up and operate machinery used for mixing, moulding and curing rubber materials or products; Load or feed rubber, pigments, filler, oil and chemicals into machines; Check and monitor processing conditions and product quality; Adjust machines to proper setting as required; Train or assist in training new workers; Perform other related duties as required; Working Hours: 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, 2 fixed days off on weekends; Wage/ Benefit: $20.00/hour + Medical, Dental and Disability Insurance; Requirements: Completion of secondary school is required; Ability to lift 50 lbs; Experience is an asset but not required; On-the-job training is provided; Mail, Fax or E-mail resume: Employer: 1214646 Alberta Ltd o/a Line-X Edmonton; Work Location: 17395 108 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5S 1G2; E-mail: jag@linexcoatings.com; Phone: 780-487-9720; Fax: 780-444-2715

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TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): In her io9.com article on untranslatable words, Esther Inglis-Arkell defines the Chinese term wei-wu-wei as "conscious non-action ... a deliberate, and principled, decision to do nothing whatsoever, and to do it for a particular reason." In my astrological opinion, the coming days would be a favourable time to explore and experiment with this approach. I think you will reap wondrous benefits if you slow down and rest in the embrace of a pregnant pause. The mysteries of silence and emptiness will be rich resources.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): "I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road—there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt." The character named Dmitri Karamazov makes that statement in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel The Brothers Karamazov. And now I'm thinking that you might like to claim his attitude as your own. Just for a while, you understand. Not forever. The magic of the side paths and back-alleys may last for no more than a few weeks, and then gradually fade. But in the meantime, the experiences you uncover there could be fun and educational. I do have one question for you, though: What do you think Dmitri meant by "precious metal in the dirt"? Money? Gold? Jewelry?

Was he speaking metaphorically?

I'm sure you'll find out.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): "Sometimes the road less travelled is less traveled for a reason," says comedian Jerry Seinfeld. His implication is that rejecting traditional strategies and conventional wisdom doesn't always lead to success.

As a professional rebel myself, I find it painful to agree even a little bit with that idea. But I do think it's applicable to your life right now. For the foreseeable future, compulsive nonconformity is likely to yield mediocrity.

Putting too much emphasis on being unique rather than on being right might distract you from the truth. My advice: stick to the road more travelled.

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LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): I expect you to be in a state of constant birth for the next three weeks.

Awakening and activation will come naturally. Your drive to blossom and create may be irresistible, bordering on unruly.

Does that sound overwhelming?

I don't think it will be a problem as long as you cultivate a mood of amazed amusement about it.

(PS: this upsurge is a healthy response to the dissolution that preceded it.)

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): Expiration dates loom. Fond adieus and last laughs and final hurrahs are on tap. Unfinished business is begging you to give it your smartest attention while there's still time to finish it with elegance and grace. So here's my advice for you, my on-theverge friend: Don't save any of your tricks, ingenuity, or enthusiasm for later. This is the later you've been saving them for. You are more ready than you realize to try what has always seemed improbable or inconceivable before now. Here's my promise: if you handle these endings with righteous decisiveness, you will ensure bright beginnings in the weeks after your birthday.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): A company called Evil Supply sells a satirical poster that contains the following quote: "Be the villain you were born to be. Stop waiting for someone to come along and corrupt you. Succumb to the darkness yourself."

The text in the advertisement for this product adds, "Follow your nightmares ... Plot your own nefarious path." Although this counsel is slightly funny to me, I'm too moral and upright to recommend it to you—even now, when I think there would be value in you being less nice and polite and agreeable than you usually are. So I'll tinker with Evil Supply's message to create more suitable advice: "For the greater good, follow your naughty bliss. Be a leader with a wild imagination. Nudge everyone out of their numbing routines. Sow benevolent mischief that energizes your team."

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): "Every time you resist acting on your anger and instead restore yourself to calm, it gets easier," writes psychologist Laura Markham in Psychology Today.

In fact, neurologists claim that by using your willpower in this way, "you're actually rewiring your brain." And so the more you practice, the less likely it is that you will be addled by rage in the future. I see the coming weeks as an especially favourable time for you to do this work, Scorpio.

Keeping a part of your anger alive is good, of course—sometimes you need its energy to motivate constructive change. But you would benefit from culling the excess.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): Much of the action in the world's novels takes place inside buildings, according to author Robert Bringhurst. But characters in older Russian literature are an exception, he says. They are always out in the forests, travelling and rambling. In accordance with astrological omens, I suggest that you draw inspiration from the Russians' example in the coming days.

As often and as long as you can, put yourself in locations where the sky is overhead. Nature is the preferred setting, but even urban spots are good. Your luck, wisdom and courage are likely to increase in direct proportion to how much time you spend outdoors.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): Has a beloved teacher disappointed you? Are there inspirational figures about whom you feel conflicted because they don't live up to all of your high standards? Have you become alienated from a person who gave you a blessing but later expressed a flaw you find hard to overlook?

Now would be an excellent time to seek healing for rifts like these.

Outright forgiveness is one option. You could also work on deepening your appreciation for how complicated and paradoxical everyone is. One more suggestion: meditate on how your longing for what's perfect might be an enemy of your ability to benefit from what's merely good.

AQUARIUS (JAN. 20-FEB. 18): French and Italian readers may have no problem with this horoscope. But Americans, Canadians, Brits and Aussies might be offended, even grossed out. Why? Because my analysis of the astrological omens compels me to conclude that "moist" is a central theme for you right now. And research has shown that many speakers of the English language find the sound of the word "moist" equivalent to hearing fingernails scratching a chalkboard. If you are one of those people, I apologize. But the fact is, you will go astray unless you stay metaphorically moist. You need to cultivate an attitude that is damp but not sodden; dewy but not soggy; sensitive and responsive and lyrical, but not overwrought or weepy or histrionic.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): Which signs of the zodiac are the most expert sleepers? Who best appreciates the healing power of slumber and feels the least shame about taking naps? Which of the 12 astrological tribes are most inclined to study the art of snoozing and use their knowledge to get the highest-quality renewal from their time in bed?

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Unnecessary fear

Same-sex marriage is not a slippery slope of social acceptance A few weeks ago I wrote a column celebrating the United States Supreme Court's ruling in support of same-sex marriage, and in doing so, I challenged the argument that socalled "gay marriage" hurts children.

But there are other arguments being made that are equally deserving of attention: in particular, the notion that institutional support of same-sex marriage is somehow a slippery slope that will lead to social acceptance of polygamy, pedophilia, incest and bestiality.

To really challenge the slippery-slope argument, we must first explore what makes the aforementioned decision threatening. Generally speaking, traditional polygamy, pedophilia, incest and bestiality involves some form of perpetration against a vulnerable party—often an abuse of power and a violation of will that may result in profound emotional and/or physical trauma for the victim. This is obviously a bad thing that should be—and is— legally prohibited. But what does this have to do with being gay? Absolutely nothing.

Conflating homosexuality with a cluster of proclivities that potentially involves perpetrating against the vulnerable suggests the erroneous premise that being gay is in some way harmful to others, and that if we let society walk down that road, we will be opening up other ways that people can be harmed.

It is one thing to hear Fox News pundits spouting bigoted fear rhetoric, but it is quite another to see people I like and care about make ignorant comments on Facebook such as, "If gay marriage passes, what's next? Can I marry my dog?" It can be difficult to reconcile where these statements come from, but I understand that their reaction almost certainly derives from fear of the unfamiliar or a belief that same-sex marriage will in someway directly impact their lives or undermine their beliefs. I can also appreciate how important it must be for them to make sense of their instinctive

discomfort by searching for logical reasons to be concerned. However, the issue is that these arguments are flawed and far from logical.

Identifying as LGBTQ is not the same as having a predilection for taking sexual advantage of a powerless party, such as a child, sibling or animal, and permitting same-sex people to marry will not lead to a

same gender, and no religious institutions have been sued for maintaining their stance on traditional marriage. The only thing that has changed is that a once severely disenfranchised segment of society now has the right to express their love the same way everyone else does. No one's "traditional" marriage vows mean any less than they did before, and the divorce rate hasn't skyrocketed, signaling the end of the world as we know it. In other w o r d s , same-sex marriage is nothing to be afraid of. V

Conflating homosexuality with a cluster of proclivities that potentially involves perpetrating against the innocent suggests the erroneous premise that being gay is in some way harmful to others. carte blanche license for menacing sexual deviants to violate the will of others.

In the decade since Canada recognized gay marriage, we have not slid into dereliction. We still do not recognize unions between humans and animals, and our children are no more screwed up than anywhere else. No one has been forced to have sex with someone of the

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

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I have always wanted to have a girls-only sex party, but I'm not sure how I feel about actually organizing one. What's the etiquette if I do organize one myself? Do I need to provide the dildos for people's harnesses? Or just the condoms and lube? And how do I find people who want to attend? Do I just tweet out an invite? Is there a better way that makes me seem less sketchy?

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What I know about hosting girlsonly sex parties could fit inside what I know about the Marvel universe with room left over for what I know about the Higgs boson—and all of that could fit inside Lindsey Graham's chances of being president with room left over for Donald Trump's humanity.

But luckily for you, NSA, I know someone who knows quite a lot about both girl sex and sex parties.

"Hosting a play party is much like hosting any other party," said Allison Moon, a San Francisco–based writer and sex educator. "You want guests to feel welcome and comfortable— this means you provide lube, safer sex supplies, refreshments, and towels and/or puppy pads."

Moon is the author of two popular lesbian werewolf novels—more are hopefully on their way—and the really terrific memoir Bad Dyke: Salacious Stories from a Queer Life. Her most recent book is Girl Sex 101, a terrific sex-ed book "for ladies and ladylovers of all genders and identities" that features girl-sex wisdom from an array of sex-positive superstars.

Moon has also hosted numerous sex parties, and says hosting a girlsonly sex party does not obligate you to break open a piñata full of dildos as your guests arrive.

"Toys are the responsibility of guests," said Moon. "If NSA has a few sparkling-clean vibes and dildos that she doesn't mind using as party favours, by all means put them out. I have a couple of Magic Wands that are great for getting the party started, because there's always someone who's wanted to try one. But she doesn't have to spend a ton of cash outfitting her friends' crotches."

As for finding people who might want to attend your sex party, Moon and I both agree that putting an invite on Twitter—or Facebook or Instagram or Farmers Only or Yik Yak—is a very, very bad idea.

"NSA should stay away from social media to start," said Moon.

"Instead, she should make a list of friends who might be down and give them a call to see if they have friends they'd want to bring. Bonus points if she has friends who are up for being used as 'ringers.' Lady parties are notorious for taking hours

to warm up—someone has to be the first one in the pool, and a ringer can help get the party started.

Or she could consider some icebreaking games, like spin the bottle, as a goofy way to get the girls ready to grind on each other."

But let's say you don't have any friends who might want to come to your girls-only sex party—or you're too chicken to ask your friends—is there another way?

"If her slutty-friend pool is small, she could look at sites devoted to sex-positive folks, like FetLife or her local chapter of a leather women's group. But she should be super explicit about her women-only policy if she does post anywhere online, and she should also consider screening guests with a phone call. And I strongly recommend a closed-door policy—folks must arrive by a certain time or they can't come in. This keeps you from having to monitor the door all night so you can enjoy your own damn party."

You can follow Moon on Twitter @TheAllisonMoon—and you should listen to a really moving story she shared recently on RISK!, Kevin Allison's amazing podcast, about her friend Hans ("Four Orgies and a Funeral"). You can find RISK! on iTunes or at Risk-Show.com.

question hurts your feelings despite having been told it hurts your feelings (stupidity!). Then you'll have to ask yourself why you're wasting your time on someone who's malicious, stupid, or both.

THE GRADUATES

I've been my boyfriend's girlfriend for two years. We recently graduated high school and are heading off to different colleges in the fall.

Is it stupid for us to stay together?

We're in love, he's my best friend and he's my family. But we haven't had sex yet. We've made some progress (oral, hand stuff, etc), but we've never had penis-in-vagina sex.

I asked for it once, and he informed me that he had a moral conflict with sex. That hardly seems plausible: We've done so much else, and he's not religious at all. Is he just not attracted to me? Is he gay? Sometimes I wonder if the difference we have libido-wise is a deal-breaker. I can picture a sexless yet emotionally happy marriage with him, but I'm not sure how to feel about that.

CONFUSED, UNSEXED, NAIVE TEEN First things first: Sometimes I create a sign-off that, once abbreviated, spells out something cute or funny or relevant. This is not one of those times: I did not come up with this letter writer's sign-off.

Okay, CUNT, it's entirely possible that your boyfriend is gay.

Speaking from experience: It's easier for a closeted gay boy to pretend his girlfriend is his boyfriend during (nonrecip) oral and hand stuff than it is during vaginal intercourse. He could be claiming to have a moral conflict with PIV (penis-in-vagina intercourse) when what he actually has is a strong preference for PIG (penis-in-guy intercourse).

It's also possible that your boyfriend isn't that into you, or he's terrified by the thought of impregnating you, or he actually does have some sort of moral qualm about vaginal penetration. Only your boyfriend knows what's up with him, but here's what we know for sure about you: You're 18 years old, you're headed to college, and you and your boyfriend don't click sexually. Break up. You can get back together in a few years if you're both still single, you're both still straight, and you're both still into each other.

But don't settle for someone whose libido and/or sexual interests don't come close to matching your own, CUNT, because a sexless marriage is only happy when sexless works for both spouses.

You're 18 years old, you're headed off to college, and you and your boyfriend don't click sexually. Break up.

QUIT ASKIN'

I'm an early-30s gay man who's never had much success with relationships. However, I'm writing about a female friend of mine. We've known each other since college, and she's generally wonderful but frequently pesters me with some variant of "So, when are you gonna settle down with a nice fella?" I try to deflect these comments without being too confrontational because I realize she wants me to be happy, but she never seems to get how annoying this is. I'd like some way to indicate, "You know relationships are not my forte and you're hurting my feelings," without having to risk hurting hers.

FRIEND'S ANNOYING QUESTION So you've allowed a friend to hurt your feelings over and over again because you're worried that telling her to knock it the fuck off might hurt her feelings? Speak the fuck up already, FAQ: "I have no idea if I'm ever going to settle down with a fella, nice or otherwise, and it hurts my feelings when you ask about it.

So stop asking." If she persists, then either your friend doesn't care that she's hurting your feelings (malice!) or she's too dense to realize this

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