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"[Gerrymandering] is not impossible—nothing is—but it is very unlikely in Canadian politics. And it is not reflected in Edmonton at all." // 5

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"There are a few basic rules to follow with edible flowers, the first of which is common sense: don't eat anything you're not sure about." // 6

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"The star system can make or break a show ... I've seen a lot of bizarre reasons for either twos or threes or fives." // 8

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"Transphobia is out there, it's very difficult, but not every film about trans life needs to be a documentary." // 12

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"My goals in the band were to tour the country, maybe go see something overseas and release an album, and in the last year we've done all that." // 14

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Queer Fringe options

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A selection of shows featuring obviously queer content Summer may be quickly coming to a close, but Edmonton always saves the best for last: the 34th-annual Edmonton International Fringe Festival starts this week. Of all the events in the city, Fringe is hands-down my favourite festival of the summer. (Full disclosure: I love it so much that I joined the Fringe board). With over 200 indoor shows and 1600 performances this year, it can be a daunting task to decide what to see and what to skip. Never fear, though—I have scoured this year's program guide and pulled out the shows which feature obviously queer content. This isn't to say that there won't be queer themes in other shows, but the following shows made an effort to highlight it.

I make no guarantees about quality; keep an eye out for reviews by Vue writers on edmontonfringe.ca.

Darrin Hagen and his team at Guys in Disguise have two shows this year: Typhoon Judy and Witch Hunt at the Strand. The first stars Christopher Peterson as Judy Garland; here, Garland

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recalls the events of her life through song and story. Witch Hunt, a new play written by Hagen, explores a piece of Edmonton's gay history.

Drawing from legal transcripts and archival material, the play tells the story of the 1942 police raid targeted at Edmonton's theatre scene.

In a similar vein, (un) Known Stories, presented by In Arms Queer Theatre Company, is a series of vignettes highlighting the unknown stories of our queer community. According to the program guide: "approached from an anti-oppressive and feminist perspective, the In Arms ensemble worked through a series of storytelling workshops

homosexual," presents his one-man show Cootie Catcher. The show follows Brooks' close encounters with sexually transmitted infections and his attempts to remain sex positive in an HIV-negative society.

The last show, MAN UP, promises to explore sexuality, m a s c u l i n i t y, vulnerability and authenticity. It also promises to feature four very attractive men dancing in high heels for an hour. I'll let you decide which reason is more compelling.

The last show, MAN UP, promises to explore sexuality, masculinity, vulnerability and authenticity. It also promises to feature four very attractive men dancing in high heels for an hour. I'll let you decide which reason is more compelling. one: in an interview on his website, Bailey is asked to describe the show in five words. His answer? "Fag Takes on Hell: Wins?"

Lucas Brooks, who describes himself as a "professional intellectual

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No smiles for you This past weekend, CBC reporter Megan Batchelor was filming a live broadcast from the Squamish Valley Music Festival when a man ran up and kissed her on the cheek.

She filed an RCMP complaint in response, a move that has been both praised and condemned: some agree that the act was completely unacceptable while others say she is simply being too sensitive—she was at a music festival, after all. The tacit assumption in the latter argument is that for whatever reason, simply entering a music festival is apparently a free pass on behaviours that are otherwise unacceptable in the outside world.

I wasn't kissed by a stranger at the Edmonton Folk Music Festival, but I did experience several instances of casual sexual harassment, though my experience was less blatent and therefore more easily dismissed: on three separate occasions I was approached by a man who told me to smile. In each case they either followed me a short distance repeating their entreaty, or they stopped to badger me while I was waiting in various queues.

This phenomenon—strangers, almost always men, telling women to smile—has been discussed at length, as it's something experienced by the vast majority of women at some point in their life. It's also one of the most easily dismissed examples of street harassment because it seems so trivial—but ultimately it comes down to a male passing judgment over a female's appearance and purposefully trying to change it to suit his own preference.

Music festivals, because they exist outside the boundaries of usual social mores, are often spaces where nonmainstream behaviours are magnified—good and bad.

Their convivial atmosphere makes it seem like anything goes, but make no mistake: you are not free to harass someone no matter where you are.

So please stop telling me to fucking smile while I'm waiting in line for the porta-potty.V

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where personal stories transformed into semi-fictional narratives."

Adam Bailey is on Fire is a comingof-age story about the gay son of an Evangelical minster. I'm going to let Bailey's words stand alone on this

While these were the six shows with obvious queer content, there are a number of others that might

also touch on the queer community. The Seminar: Breakthrough features a bunch of sexy women satirizing the beauty industry. …didn't see that coming is Beverley Elliott's one-woman musical show about, amongst other things, Hollywood and gay bars. Naked Ladies is a feminist show about why women get naked on stage. If I really start to stretch things, there's the third iteration of God is a Scottish Drag Queen. Finally, while probably not queer in any way, shape or form, there are a number of burlesque shows this year promising sexy people parading on stage in sexy underwear: Oh Manada!, A Burlesque Satire: The Second Breakfast Club and Burlesque-Prov.

Happy Fringe, everyone: may your green onion cakes be crackling hot and your taco-in-bag disgusting but oddly compelling!

For more information, including tickets, performance times and venues, check out fringetheatre.ca. V

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More trouble dead than alive

Mullah Omar has been dead since 2013, but no one told his followers Islamist fanatics, as you would expect, are very earnest about their beliefs. They accept that secrecy and deceit are necessary to mislead the enemy, but they do not expect their leaders to be lying to them.

When they find out that they have been lied to, consistently and over a long period of time, they get very cross—and this has repercussions in the real world.

From the time that the Taliban conquered Kabul and took over most of Afghanistan in 1996, Mullah Muhammad Omar Mansoor was the man who ran the show and was effectively the head of state. He was the man who allowed Osama bin Laden to set up camp in Afghanistan. And although the Taliban lost power after the US invasion in 2001, Mullah Omar remained in control of the organization until his death in 2013.

The trouble is that nobody told his faithful followers that he died more than two years ago in Pakistan. Until last week the Taliban was still issuing statements in his name—most recently, on July 15, a message endorsing the Taliban's recent peace talks with the current Afghan government.

Now all Mullah Omar's statements since April 2013 are in question, and so are the men who made them in his name.

This matters a lot, because Mullah Omar was not just the leader of the Taliban. He was also the most important figure in the broader alliance of Islamist groups known as al Qaeda. Indeed, he had as much right to claim to be its founder as the man who actually gets the credit, Osama bin Laden.

With his long record as a real fighter,

Mullah Omar was much more respected than the man who formally inherited al Qaeda's leadership after Osama bin Laden was killed in 2011, the reclusive Egyptian theorist Ayman al-Zawahiri. Indeed, Zawahiri felt compelled to renew his pledge of allegiance ("baya") to Mullah Omar when the rival jihadi group, Islamic State, declared its leader, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, to be the "caliph of all the Muslims" in 2014.

This is not just internal politics in a local jihadi group. Al Qaeda and Islamic State are in a frequently violent competition for the loyalty of all the scattered Islamist groups in the Muslim countries. It was therefore very important for al Qaeda that Mullah Omar rejected Baghdadi's claim to be the caliph—and it is very important to the rest of the world that the two jihadi organizations remain divided and hostile to each other.

Al Qaeda has been losing ground in this competition for some years now. Indeed, Islamic State recently set up its own rival franchises in the two countries where al Qaeda still dominates the struggle against the local regime, Afghanistan and Yemen. The two groups are currently at war with each other in both countries, but that could change fast if al Qaeda's leadership is discredited by the lies it has been telling.

If Mullah Omar actually died in 2013, he could not have denounced Baghdadi's claim to be the legitimate caliph in 2014.

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Similarly, Zawahiri's pledge of allegiance to him in 2014 was either a deliberate lie, or a demonstration that he is hopelessly out of touch with what is actually happening beyond his hide-out, presumably somewhere in Pakistan. Either way, al Qaeda loses credibility.

There would be no reason to mourn the decline of al Qaeda except that the main beneficiary will be Islamic State. There is no strong reason to prefer one organization to the other, either—except that the last thing the world needs is for Islamic State to take over all of al Qaeda's franchises and create a single, much more powerful and attractive Islamist fighting front.

The current state of division of the extreme Islamist movement is deplored by almost everybody in both organizations.

There is little ideological difference between them, although Islamic State is more apocalytic in its vision. If al Qaeda's claim to leadership is seriously undermined by its lies about Mullah Omar, the unification of most or all the Islamist groups under Baghdadi's authority is a real possibility.

The first victim of that would be the Assad regime in Syria, which is already tottering, and an Islamist takeover of the whole country. But much more might follow, and none of it would be good news.

V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

Redrawing the map What will Canada's electoral changes mean on election day?

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anada's new map of electoral ridings is only one reason why this year's federal election is going to be a fascinating, potentially groundbreaking race—but it's also one that has given many people pause.

The Globe and Mail ran an article back in January 2014 suggesting that the Progressive Conservatives stand to benefit the most from both the newly minted ridings and redrawn boundaries, a sentiment that has been echoed (or at least mentioned) in many conversations about the impending race. Some have even outright accused ridings of being gerrymandered, a term from US politics that refers to the establishment of electoral districts that provide a political advantage to one party (typically the one in power at the time the districts are redrawn). Gerrymandering is based on past voting preference and the assumption is that if a neighbourhood voted a certain way in a past election, they will vote the same way in future ones.

But Jim Lightbody, a political science professor at the University of Alberta, dismisses these suggestions. "We really do, in Canada, have one of the most fair ways of aligning electoral boundaries," he says.

The federal electoral ridings are redrawn every 10 years by Elections Canada to account for population growth and movement based on

the federal census; the most recent changes are therefore most significant in British Columbia, Alberta and the Greater Toronto Area. After October's election, the House of Commons will have 30 new seats, six of which will be in Alberta: two are in Edmonton and one is in Calgary. Additionally, dozens of ridings across the country have had their boundaries redrawn, including several in Edmonton.

The changes are required under the Constitution of Canada, and the process is conducted by independent commissions working in each province, which are comprised of politically neutral people like justices and provincial electoral officers.

"They do the best they can to ensure the constituencies are roughly similar in size," Lightbody says.

"Within that framework they do a reasonably good balancing act, and it's largely free from political meddling. It's all in law.

"That's one thing that Harper hasn't got around to fixing yet," he adds with a sarcastic snicker. "[Gerryman-

dering] is not impossible—nothing is—but it is very unlikely in Canadian politics. And it is not reflected in Edmonton at all."

But while the new ridings were likely free from political interference, the Harper government has made two other moves that are blatant attempts to hedge its bets: changing the identification process at the polls and, most significantly, calling the election early.

The first item is similar to what

nates against certain categories of people," Lightbody says. "That discriminates against students, certainly people with lower incomes who are highly mobile, some seniors. But I suspect that the people who are actually going to make it to the polling stations are intelligent enough that they'll be OK." What the Conservatives are really banking their campaign upon—and the real reason why they called the election early—comes down to one thing, Lightbody states: money. " T h a t ' s where the Harper government did fiddle with the rules," he says. "They changed the law to have a fixed election date."

Nothing in the Election Act, however, prevents the government from calling an election early. Lightbody argues that Harper did so because the Conservatives have an almost two-to-one advantage over the other two parties in terms of the money candidates have in their war chests: in the 37 days leading up to the election, the Fair Elections Act ensures that each candidate have

[Gerrymandering] is not impossible— nothing is—but it is very unlikely in Canadian politics. And it is not reflected in Edmonton at all American Republicans have done south of the border: instead of just being able to bring your voter card to the poll on election day, all Canadians must now provide proof of address. This means that people either have to show a piece of photo ID with their current address or two other pieces of ID, one of which must show the address on it. (The list of acceptable forms of ID can be found on the elections.ca website.)

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a fixed spending cap of roughly $100 000. But if the election campaign is longer than 37 days, the Act permits candidates to spend one 37th of that cap each day. Therefore, because the election is about twice as long, candidates can spend a total of roughly $200 000.

"Now, all candidates can do that— the Greens, the Liberals and the Conservatives," Lightbody says. "But the reality is that only the Conservatives have the money."

The election is still in its early days, so Lightbody cautions against anyone drawing conclusions yet. He's looking to the post-Labour Day poll for the first true indication of what might transpire in October.

One thing to consider, he notes, is that Harper called this election without consulting his local party officials, which is exactly what Jim Prentice did a few months ago in Alberta. As well, Canada's current economic climate will play a significant role in swaying voters' minds come election day.

"This is a difficult time for a national government to go to vote," Lightbody says. "The problem is the economy, and that problem is for all of Canada across the board. It's very hard for a government to win reelection in the midst of a recession."

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NOSH SOME BLOSSOMS Edible flowers add pizzazz to your plate

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et your garden go to bloom, pick them in a park or grab some at the farmers' market: edible flowers are a great way to use plants that are otherwise non-edible ornamentals, or to extend the usefulness of fruits and veggies once they have passed their usual harvest period.

There are a few basic rules to follow with edible flowers, the first of which is common sense: don't eat anything you're not sure about.

Some flowers are toxic, even ones from plants that have other edible parts (tomato and potato flowers are great examples); many ornamental flowers are very poisonous.

Second, never harvest flowers where there is a risk that they may have been sprayed with pesticides, herbicides or other chemicals—call the city if you're harvesting from green spaces in Edmonton to make sure nothing has been sprayed there.

Also avoid harvesting from roadsides due to accumulation of automobile pollution.

Before using, wash flowers by swishing them in lukewarm water to remove dirt and any insects, then allow them to dry on paper towels. When edible flowers are quite large, usually you should remove the pistils and stamen (the inside

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parts) before preparing them. If they grow in a compact head (like chives) break them apart and scatter the petals over the dish.

Due to their delicate nature, most edible flowers are best when sprinkled on salads, soups or other dishes as a final garnish—cooking over high heat and/or for extended periods will destroy their flavour. Also, a large reason for including edible flowers in a dish is purely esthetic: they look fantastic and even though they may not comprise the dominant flavour of the meal, they are a feast for the eyes.

The following is a list of edible flowers commonly found growing in Edmonton's green spaces and gardens; most are also readily available from various sellers at local farmers' markets, either on their own or as part of salad mixes.

Nasturtiums Nasturtiums are a longtime favourite edible flower as they add a distinctively sweet-spicy flavour to salads.

They are also visually quite stunning and they're easy to grow, to boot— they thrive in poor soil, so even

novice gardeners should be able to grow a good crop of them. If you're into pickling, let some of the flowers go to seed and then pickle the seeds—they are an inexpensive (not to mention homegrown) substitute for capers.

Chive and garlic tops Known collectively as alliums, this species of plants includes a number of kitchen essentials that also produce edible flowers: onions, chives and garlic. They form a ball-like top on mature plants, which can be plucked and shredded over salads to add a mild onion-y flavour without the bite of the fresh leaves/roots.

Squash Blossoms Large and striking, squash blossoms make a bold statement on the plate.

All squash, both summer and winter varieties (butternut, pumpkin, acorn, zucchini) are monoecious, meaning they produce both male and female flowers. Only about 10 percent of the flowers on a squash plant are female, which are the ones that, once pollinated, will go on to produce fruit. The rest are male and will drop off and die quite quickly. It's easy to identify the sex of these flowers by simply looking at their base: if there's a swelling,

that's a female flower (the swelling will grow into the fruit); male flowers are also usually on longer stalks whereas female flowers are closer to the base of the plant. Pluck off the male flowers and eat at will: they are great battered and fried (and stuffed with cheese first if you're feeling decadent), thinly sliced over salad, soup, pasta or rice, made into soup or simply lightly roasted on a pizza or in a quesadilla.

Beans The flowers of scarlet runner beans (a tall pole bean variety) are great to use in salads as they have a striking bold red colour. Once these plants produce pods they quickly go from young and tender to old and tough— the window seems to be annoyingly short (at least in my garden), so I've largely given up on them for producing actual beans and instead grow them as ornamentals/edible flowers.

Herb Flowers Most culinary herbs have edible blossoms. Leafy green herbs (and most other greens, for that matter) tend to bolt in hot weather—meaning they shoot up a flowering stalk.

This will happen regardless of whether the herbs are growing in your garden or in a pot on your deck or windowsill. (The small potted herbs sold in the supermarket—basil is probably the most common—are particularly notorious for bolting immediately, as they are potted and sold when they've reached or just surpassed peak maturity.) After bolting, the greens become bitter and not very palatable. The good news is that you can eat these flowers, so when your herbs inevitably bolt you can still pluck the delicate flowers for use in salads or as garnishes for soups and other dishes.

Dandelion This list would not be complete without the humble dandelion, the flower despised by urbanites who value lawns over food. The dandelion was originally brought here by European settlers as a forage crop because the entire plant is edible and very nutritious. Care must be taken to ensure you're not harvesting dandelions that have been doused in herbicide.

The yellow dandelion tops are at their most prolific in early spring, so you might want to stake out an area now that's safe for harvesting next spring when you'll be jonesing for something bright and fresh to eat, but their ubiquity means they aren't hard to find all summer long. Those who are particularly industrious can even try making dandelion wine—or you can buy a bottle of Dande from Spirit Hills, a honey winery in southern Alberta.

Rose Petal All types of roses are edible, from the wild ones growing in abundance throughout the ravines and river valleys around Edmonton to the many cultivated varieties proliferating in gardens and backyards. They are also an ancient food that has been used for centuries for various culinary and medicinal purposes.

The simplest way to use them is to pluck off the individual petals (don't eat the centre part) and sprinkle over your dish, but they can also be used in countless other preparations ranging from h e r b a l teas, cordials, rose lemonade, ice cream and rosewater, the latter of which can be used in place of plain water in desserts.

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Luck of the Irish (Red)

A small Irish brewery comes to Alberta

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ne of the joys of travelling is ery—a six-person operation that enjoying craft beer from small opened just over five years ago—lobreweries whose products aren't cated in the little city of Waterford found around our part of the world. on the south coast of Ireland. The Sometimes, however, the craft beer business is significantly smaller than comes to us.

Edmonton's Alley Kat Brewery, A couple of Copper Coast Irish Red Ale weeks ago I disyet it's developed Dungarvan Brewing Company, covered some a strong reputaWaterford, Ireland tion for its English new beer on the $8.25 for 500mL bottle store shelf from and Irish styles of beer in a very a brewery I had never heard of, an Irish brewery short time. It seems unusual that called Dungarvan. On a lark I picked such a small brewery would ship its beer as far afield as Edmonton. up a bottle.

As I sipped the beer I looked it up The beer I sampled was Dungaronline and was surprised to learn ven's Copper Coast Irish Red Ale, that Dungarvan is a small craft brew- which seems an appropriate name given its hue: a deep copper with red accents. It builds a big, fluffy white head that hangs around for quite a while. The aroma has a very inviting and satisfying toasted bread character, along with some toffee and caramel. Light fruitiness plays back-up.

Soft caramel, toffee and berry fruit flavours show up first, along with a delicate sweetness that is present but not too cloying. The initial body could use a bit more fullness to give a stronger start, though the mid-palate brings up a soft sharpness from a touch of hops and just a hint of darker, toasted malt, creating a nice mitigating balance to the sweetness and preventing it from carrying away the beer. The finish is moderately dry with just a hint of floral hop flavour and a dry toasted malt note.

Copper Coast is a deceptively complex beer. It starts simple but builds intriguing dimensions of toast and floral hop. It's a finely executed example of the style.

I can't say how long this beer will be around—Dunvargan is very small, after all—and I'm unlikely to visit its hometown anytime soon, so that means I need to enjoy this beer while I can: another trip to the store is in order. V

come get some patio while there’s still time!

Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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An evaluation of the star-rating system used by Fringe critics

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here's a glorious sort of madness that sets over Edmonton during our International Fringe Festival. Its vast swath of performances—some 203 shows this year—is proudly unjuried, with no censorship to limit the content or forms on display. As long as you can pay the festival's entry fee (or a lower fee, if you arrange your own venue in the BYOV [Bring Your Own Venue] system), you can have a stage, a spot in the program and a chance to carve out a slice of the 100 000 Fringe tickets purchased annually.

Of course, that uninhibited artistic freedom also means the quality of work varies wildly, and poses a challenge to audiences looking to navigate an eclectic festival—they do so by making use of a mix of personal interest, word of mouth, being handbilled by artists and, of course, reviews.

Vue Weekly is among the outlets that attempt to critically access as much of the festival as possible (we review every show in the first few days, actually, all of which you can find at edmontonfringe.ca). In doing so, we make use of something we don't make use of during theatre coverage the rest of the year: a starrating system, ranging from zero to five stars, that helps quantify the festival's hundreds of works.

It's a system that I'm certainly willing to admit, as arts editor of this paper, is somewhat problematic. Flack comes in from all sides: artists (most often about three-star reviews, curiously enough) claiming we've ruined Fringe runs to writers agonizing over how many stars to give a show. But audiences also seem to bank on them being there, with "how many stars did it get?" ringing out as a constant beer-tent refrain.

Any piece of criticism is, of course, a person's opinion (however wellversed in the artform at hand they

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may be), with whatever star-rating acting as a quick-look reflection of that opinion. But longtime Fringe artist Jon Paterson—who did his first Fringe back in 1993, and has toured the circuit regularly since 2000—notes the damage that stars can do, when the rating doesn't seem to match up with the review it lords over.

"The star system can make or break a show," he says. "I've seen a lot of bizarre reasons for either twos or threes or fives. Just, 'I didn't get this show,' or [a] show is amazing in its own way, and then someone doesn't understand it so they gave it one [star]."

It's not that Paterson can't see the appeal. In addition to being a performer himself—this year he's in a thriller, Inescapable, alongside fellow Fringe mainstay Martin Dockery—he programs a few stages in the ever-more-popular cluster of BYOVs centred around La Cite Francophone. It's off the main Fringe grounds, but features multiple stages and significant audience pull these days (the Varscona Theatre atists are setting up there this year while the Varscona is out for renovations). With his producer hat on, Paterson knows that stars can attract audiences to a particular show that they might skip out on otherwise.

"When I see that five stars, or even four stars, great—that looks good on a poster, it's going to suck people in," he says. "But I actually prefer not to have them. If I were to have a choice between that and some laurel leaf from some sort-of award, I'd put that on a poster more than I'd put stars, because stars give people a warped view."

To him, that warping that comes with ratings is two-fold: the first is that the lack of consistency between the abundant number of critics, which makes it

difficult to find objectivity in the starrating itself—someone's three stars is another person's four, and so on. The second is audiences chasing stars instead of seeking out the shows that actually appeal to them. "[Audiences] should go see what interests them," Paterson says. "Oh, this is a space show, it got three stars, but I love space, let's go and see it. As opposed to, oh, this is a cowboy show, I know nothing about cowboys but it got five stars, so let's go see it. It's the wrong way of looking at it."

Bad reviews can be weathered Paterson notes. He's been doing this long enough to know what to do to bring in audiences when the star ratings aren't behind him. He also notes that in a place like Edmonton, there's three major outlets doing significant amounts of criticism, plus blogs; enough variety in voices that a bad review can usually be offset by a good one at another paper. Elsewhere on the Fringe circuit can be different story: over in Winnipeg, where there's just two major outlets offering Fringe criticism and thus less conversation overall, reviews can be vital for a show playing to either full houses or empty rooms.

"It can make a difference between Pita Pit and a steak," he laughs, ruefully. "It really can."

Of course, star ratings aren't unique to the Fringe. They took much of their present shape and status in the early 20th century. American author Edward O'Brien introduced a threestar system for ranking The Best American Short Stories, the anthology of US-penned stories he edited, back in 1915. The New York Daily News started grading films on a star scale (zero to three) back in 1928, and more papers adopted the practice for cinema after that, spilling out into other mediums and persisting until this day. Stars have been loved

and hated as a simplification of criticism ever since, whether in the form of stars or some other signifier, from the classic Siskel and Ebert thumbs up/down system to the aggregate percentages of websites like Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.

At a certain level, it seems we've come to expect a quick symbolic summary of a review, and use it to help make our decisions—including whether or not to read any further— from there.

Venerable Edmonton Journal theatre critic Liz Nicholls echoes some of Paterson's thoughts. Having covered more Edmonton Fringes than virtually any other person around (her very first Journal assignment was the very first Edmonton Fringe), she points out, to her chagrin, that stars can make more of an impression on a reader than whatever was actually written in the review.

"Wouldn't you rather have your review read than your star-rating read?" she muses, accurately.

"The Fringe is such a collection of works in progress, bright ideas, new, risky ventures by talents you know, and up-and-comers making their showbiz debut with a great idea, big amateur musicals, church groups and community theatre," Nicholls continues. "It would be hard, in some cases, to have any sort of coherent throughline on reviewing them anyway. And then at the Fringe, when they're all thrown together into one marketplace, the stars emphasize the arbitrary nature of that, I think."

There was a year or two she can recall, ages ago, where the Journal experimented with skipping out on star ratings at the Fringe. The paper's readership demanded they come back.

Nicholls notes that she agonizes over star ratings almost as much as the reviews themselves—"I'm exaggerating slightly," she says, "but only slightly."

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"The main problem: what does a three-star review even mean?" she says. "It could mean a middling experience, [or] an OK show that didn't have massive impact on you as an experience. Or, it could mean a show that had some really fabulous insights and sublime scenes, and some really disastrous scenes that should be cut immediately. And what do you do with that? You give it three stars, and it means something quite different. I think that's problematic."

Why do star ratings at all then?

They may prove troublesome for artists to accept and critics to settle on, but the system seems to offer something that audiences still enjoy using as a guide, even while acknowledging the flaws and inconsistencies. And as far as dedicated audience members go, Jim and Barb Beck would fall into the most hardcore percentile of Fringe-goers: on average, the retired couple estimate that they see "somewhere between 50 and 60" shows a year. They use star ratings as part of their selection process, but they also read beyond them: there are critics whose opinions they trust and ones they know they frequently disagree with—"You got to look at whose doing it," Barb notes—but, especially when they first started attending the Fringe, criticism and star ratings are something they found invaluable.

The pair parse the Fringe program for what they deem "must-see," based on their own interests, or artists whose work they already know they like, then look for reviews coming out of Winnipeg's Fringe.

"Anything from Winnipeg that rates a three-point-five or above, it gets some extra thought from us," Jim says. "Anything that gets below three-point-five goes into my discard pile for a while."

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Of course, they've been steered wrong by critics before: when, a few years ago, most outlets erupted in universal acclaim for musical comedy duo Die Roten Punkte, the Becks bought tickets only to find the show not to their taste. "It got fives from everyone," Jim says, "and it didn't cut it from us."

But they don't hold it against the system, either: the Becks use a combination of review, word of mouth and personal interest to guide their marathon Fringe sessions.

"I would miss if the star ratings aren't there," Jim notes.

Perhaps, more than any condemnation of the star-system itself, this is simply an acknowledgment of its flaws, and a call to read the words behind the ratings as well—that one person's three-star review can be a four (or two) for someone whose interests align more (or less) with the show's content than the reviewer's

did. If the system of criticism is a bit messy, well, so is the whole Fringe: a massive, beloved potpourri of high and low quality art, the mixing of which manages to bring out huge crowds of potential audience members, some of whom might not attend any theatre at all during the regular season.

To Paterson, regardless of reviews, in the end it's the conversations that happen between those potential audience members—in line-ups, in beer tents or while aimlessly wandering the grounds—that proves the most effective way of finding a show its crowd.

"I still believe in this—maybe it's just my ideals—but word of mouth is just the best way," he says. "In the end, it's word of mouth. And if people talk at the beer tent, people talk. And we know people talk. That's always going to be safe. Hopefully."

PAUL BLINOV

PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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ust over 200 ticketed shows make up the 2015 Fringe Festival's final roster. That's actually a slight decline in number from last year, but still a dizzying selection of theatrical opportunities to consider.

So, on outset of the Fringe, a few members of our intrepid reviewer team have offered their earlybird picks: the shows that, from the outside, seem the most intriguing to their particular sensibilities. These aren't reviews or guarantees, per se—and really, half the fun of the Fringe is chasing your intuition and taking some risks— but all of the below should prove to at the very least intriguing experiences to witness. And, of course, check out our Fringe reviews as they come tumbling in all weekend at edmontonfringe.ca.

Picks by Bruce Cinnamon (BC) and Mel Priestley (MP).

How Often Do I Dream (Venue 10: Acacia Hall) There comes a moment at every audience-participation Fringe show when we shrink down in our chairs and pray silently that we won't be picked.

Halifax artist Katie Dorian erases this anxiety by welcoming each audience member personally, learning their names, then guiding them through her "memory museum" as she shares stories about her grandfather. Everybody has been picked, and everybody gets to experience the full sensory immersion of this show—from tasting Jell-O to touching fur to writing down their own memories. A meditation about dementia and the fluidity of memory, How Often Do I Dream sounds more like a gentle conversation than a conventional play. BC Post Traumatic Super Delightful (Venue 3: Walterdale Theatre) Making its international debut at the Edmonton Fringe, Post Traumatic Super Delightful uses humour to disrupt the culture of silence that surrounds campus sexual assault. Antonia Lassar performs as four characters— a flamboyant Title IX coordinator, an anxious professor, a perpetrator who isn't just a one-dimensional villain and a silent, nameless clown who dramatizes dozens of survivor interviews and brings to life Lassar's own experiences. Aside from using laughter to put audience members at ease with an uncomfortable topic, Lassar will also provide resources for anyone who is triggered by her performance. PTSD is the type of show that won't just be fun and enlightening to watch— seeing it will also provide tangible support for survivors, since Vassar is touring the show across college campuses and crisis centres in the fall. BC Reincarnation Soup (Venue 10: Acacia Hall) As a soup fanatic I admit to being hooked by the name alone, but I was

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further intrigued upon reading the description of what looks to be a thoughtful, curious tale. Reincarnation Soup debuted at the 2010 Orlando Fringe, and this will be its Canadian première. It's the work of Vie t Nguy en, who responded to the dearth of Vietnamese stories and voices in American theatre by creating a show about the myth of M nh Bà, an old blind woman who guards the border between death and rebirth and gives souls a bowl of memory-erasing soup before they move on to the next life. MP (un)Known Stories (Venue 3: Walterdale Theatre) Formed last year at the University of Alberta, In Arms Queer Theatre bills itself as Edmonton's first LGBTQ+ theatre company. But in many ways it's carrying on the tradition of Workshop West's Loud & Queer Cabaret, which for the past 36 years has maintained a space for queer narratives in Edmonton theatre. In (un)Known Stories, a handful of young performers will tell tales about their experiences as queer Edmontonians. This new generation of intersectional queer artists is taking up Loud & Queer's torch—determined to make feminist, anti-oppressive theatre that shows off the true heterogeneity of our city's queer community. BC Who Am I? Unauthorized Stories From The Varscona Parkade (Venue 33: Varscona Parkade) Toy Guns Dance Theatre exploded on to the local arts scene at last year's Fringe with a pair of innovative, immersive and ramblingly titled contemporary dance shows: Propylene Glycol, Maltodextrin, Retinol Palmitate and Other Words I Don't Understand Like Love and Red Wine, French Toast, And The Best Sex You've Ever Had. They've gone on to maintain this reputation with shows over the course of the past year, so it will be interesting to see if it's further sustained with the company's entry to this year's Fringe—which takes place in the Varscona Hotel's parkade and features an assortment of couches, garbage cans and "a plethora of deodorant." MP Witch Hunt at the Strand (Venue 13: Old Strathcona Public Library) Darrin Hagen has unearthed a dark facet of Edmonton's theatre history in a new work, which is based on the real court transcripts of a group of high-profile gay men who were rounded up and charged after a police sting in 1942. This is probably something that most Edmontonians, even ardent theatre buffs, knew nothing about (myself included), so it should be worth seeing just to find out what happened. But it should also prove interesting to see how this show is informed by and engages with our city's contemporary narratives on LGBTQ+ rights. MP

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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

SALSA DANCE LESSONS WITH THE U OF A DANCE CLUB • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Highway 60 • 780.987.3054, ext. 2227 • devonian.ualberta.ca • Dance lessons start at 7:30pm. No experience required. Members of the U of A Dance Club will teach you and your date how to salsa in a fun and supportive environment • Aug 20, 6pm-dusk

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 CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • The Last Five Years (Aug 19), The Salt Of The Earth (Aug 26) • 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 • 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 • 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 • CULT CINEMA: Dog Day Afternoon (Aug 25) • STAFF PICS: Wild At Heart (Aug 24)

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

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 LosJones: 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 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Found Texture (Aug 19), Altered Books (Aug 26); Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Verve: artwork by Patricia Coulter & Donna MarchyshynShymko; Aug 6-Sep 26 • 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: Colourful

Collages (Sep 19); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Off-Whyte 2015: Whyte Avenue Art Walk Holdover Show; Aug 1-14 • Tea & Watercolours at The Tea Girl; Aug 16, 6:30-9:30pm • Art & Teas Pairing; Aug 22, 2-4pm •

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

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Stockwell Depot 1967 – 79; Jul 24-Sep 12 • Summer Group Exhibition; until Aug

DEVONIAN BOTANICAL GARDEN • 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • devonian.ualberta.ca • Perseids Pyjama Party: Bring your pillows, blankets, flashlights and lawnchairs and sit back to enjoy one of the busiest times in the night sky; Aug 14, 8pm until midnight

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Intellectual Play: art by Devon Beggs and Richard Boulet's collaborative drawings and textiles; Aug 6-Aug 22

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • SNAP Klusterfak: A Collaborative Community Installation; Aug 1-Sep 5 • SNAP Members Show; Jul 30-Sep 1

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • MAIN GALLERY: Members Novelty Show “Hidden Gems”; through Aug

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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 • Recollections: An Imperfect Schematic: art by Erin Pankratz-Smith; Aug 20-Oct 10 • Mind Games: art by Lisa Turner; Aug 20-Oct 10 • Arche-Textures: artwork by Amy Loewan, RCA; Aug 20-Oct 10

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 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl. ca/art-gallery • Com·mu·ni·cate: to transfer information, thought, or feeling: The Sculptors' Associtation of Alberta group exhibition; Aug 5-31 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

• 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 • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Dinosaurs Unearthed: until Oct 11 • Dark Matters "Nerdgasm"; Aug 20, 7-10pm

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com •TREX Alberta Foundation For The Arts Travelling Exhibition; Aug 6-Sep 26 • Off-Site (Jubilee): OPEN IMAGE: Partnership between Visual Arts Alberta - CARFAC and the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society; End of Aug-Nov

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • The Iconic Alberta Rose: artwork by Cindy Barratt and Susan Casault; Aug 5-31

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

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury Room,10575114 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • facebook.com/ mercuryroomyeg • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (signup); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

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

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POETRY PICNIC • Devonian Botanic Garden, 51227

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Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm AB-60, Parkland County • devonian.ualberta.ca • With performances by Edmonton's Poet Laureate, Pierrette Requier and award winning poet Alice Major. Alice will read

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 •

from her new collection Standard Candles (UofA Press). An open mic will follow • Aug 13, 6:30pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Eve0ry 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

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY ANNUAL BOOK SALE • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Pick up some great deals on gently-used books, CDs and DVDs. Proceeds go towards purchasing new materials for the library’s collections • Aug 14, 9:30am-8:30pm; Aug 15, 9:30am-4:30pm; Aug 16, 1pm to 4:30pm • Free

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

THEATRE _AN ANONYMOUS CONTRIBUTOR_ • Academy at King Edward, 8525-101 St • fringetheatre.ca/box_office_hours.php • A richly imagined journey into the morally ambiguous world of an academic ghostwriter. Part of the Fringe Festival • Aug 13, Aug 15-17, Aug 19-21 • $5 (students/seniors), $10 (adults) BURLESQUE-PROV • Upstairs at the Armoury, 10310-85 Ave • Presented by Burlesque A La Carte and part of this year's Fringe Festival! Featuring an improvized burlesque show and a dance battle. With performers Kiki Quinn, Letabby Lexington, host Lee Boyes, and the sidekick music man Reverend Charlie Scream, each show the cast will be joined by two different special guest Burlesque Artists • Aug 14-17, Aug 19-20, Aug 22 • 18+ only 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

CRUX • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 587.989.6838 • citadeltheatre.com • albertaaboriginalarts.com • A conversation of cultural appropriation and exploration of what is love. Set in a dystopian future where the earth is

no longer habitable, a society in space is trying to create a perfect Indigenous nation by cloning natives and teaching them how to be native • Aug 14, 7:30-9:15pm • $26.25

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FRINGE THEATRE FESTIVAL • Various locations throughout Old Strathcona • Thirty-four years of Fringe! This year's theme?

SupercaliFRINGEilistic! Featuring some of the world's greatest performers and plays • Aug 13-23 • Ticket prices vary

GO FOR BROKE IMPROV • Blues on Whyte • An improv show for horrible people. Part of this year's Fringe Theatre Festival • Aug 13-14, Aug 16-21

HEY, COUNTESS! • Campus Saint-Jean, U of A Auditorium, 8406-91 St • teatroqu.com • This play hasn't been seen since 2006! In this Fringe Holdover, a lawyer at loose ends with his own life sets out on a surprise transcontinental quest for consumer justice, accompanied by the unruffled assistant manager of a local multiplex cinema • Aug 26-29 • $22 (adults), $20 (students/seniors) ONCE UPON A TIME IN GRACELAND • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, #2690, 8882-170 St • jubilations.ca • The evil Queen has placed a strange curse upon many of our most loved fairy tale characters. They don't remember how their classic stories unfold and now these tales are in jeopardy of being retold. There is one King who can fight the evil Queen, a man who rose from being an incredible performer to becoming a legend himself, a legend that became the King, the King known as… Elvis? • Jun 19-Aug 23

THE SECOND LINE: TWO LADIES AND THE OLD-SCHOOL BLUES • La Cité Francophone, 8627 Marie-Anne Gaboury • Follow the personal stories of two women who have made their lives as performers – the challenges and excitement of being women on the road, finding their voices in the trenches of touring life – and discover the hidden history of women’s seminal role in the development of blues and rock and roll, going all the way back to the early 20th century • Aug 14-22

UNDER THE BIG TOP • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivaplace.ab.ca • A unique program teaching children and youth the brilliant skills of the circus: stilts, wire walking, juggling, rolo bolo, clowning, magic, puppetry and silks • Aug 4-28, 9am-5pm WE HAVE YOUR KING: THE ELVIS ABDUCTION STORY • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • capitalcityburlesque.com • Featuring Capital City Burlesquewith Les Trois Femmes. On the eve of the anniversary of Elvis’ death, Edmonton’s favourite teasing troupe of glittery, shimmying, tongue-in-cheek dancers are paying high-kicking homage to The King and revealing the celestial truth of the icon’s end • Aug 15, 8pm • $35 (adv) • 18+ only, no minors

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

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A 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

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

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Girls, Women, Lives, Images: a group exhibition of paintings by Larissa Hauck, Carmella Haykowsky, Brandi Hofer, Riki Kuropatwa, and Dave Thomas • Artisan Nook: Little Monkey in a Tree: ink drawings on paper by Yong Fei Guan • Vertical Space: Life Itself: A group show by members of the Art Mentorship Society of Alberta • Jul 6-Aug 17

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina.ca • Closed Jul 24-Aug 4 • Summer Republic III: Art from the NHCA's collective; Jul 6-Aug 14

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At least one of us is pregnant

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e meet Adam (Gavin Crawford) at what seems to be the start of some yet-unnamed life transition, unaware he's already in the middle of one. Moments after he schedules an initial consultation for something, old flame Miriam (Naomi Snieckus) calls him out of the blue— "How did you get this number?" he asks, a question she handily ignores—in desperate need of his help with what turns out to be a home-go at artificial insemination. Their relationship, you can probably figure, is kind of complicated.

Anyway, what starts out as a fun memory-lane hookup with an added goal of baby-making ends with Adam finding himself the one pregnant, a rather-large complication preventing him from completing his FTM transition from the Melaine he used to be.

Just out on iTunes, Two 4 One offers something that seems uncommon in the oeuvre of transgender films: a family minded romantic comedy. Its focus is not so much on one's initial transition as it is the living that comes after. Which was

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part of the point, writer/director Maureen Bradley explains.

"I didn't want to make a Queer 101 or Trans 101 film," Bradley explains.

"I've been going to queer film festivals for more decades than I'd like to admit, and I haven't seen a ton of films that really deal with family in a nuanced way."

Bradley, who teaches screenwriting at the University of Victoria, had the idea for Two 4 One back in 2008; her own partner was trying to conceive via home insemination, and a midwife's book warned of the possibility of the unintended partner getting pregnant.

"A lightbulb went off," she recalls.

"Right, OK—that's the interesting narrative. The reluctant hero who accidentally falls into a situation that he doesn't want."

That said, Bradley didn't write the film until 2012; she'd been uncertain there was an appetite (or, more pressingly, funding) for an idea like hers. But as more trans figures began appearing in more mainstream areas—Bradley flags

Chaz Bono's appearance on Dancing Beyond settling on having a comic With The Stars as a sign of grow- framework to her story, though, ing acceptance—possibilities began Bradley found herself caught up in to appear. The filmmaker got her casting. Limited by budget to hire idea into the National Film Insti- within the country—("To cast outtute's Features First side of Canada I program, there was a would've had to Now available successful Indiegogo pay almost twice Two 4 One campaign, and out as much for all Written & directed by came Two 4 One. the actors," she Maureen Bradley Framing her story as says)—Bradley a comedy, she notes, was unable to find a trans accame partly as a response to a perceived lack of com- tor around Adam's age to play the edy in the trans films that were al- role. Eventually, on the advice of her casting director, she called up ready out there.

"I think audiences—and not just Crawford of This Hour Has 22 Minqueer audiences—deserve to have utes' fame.

"We went back and forth: do we these stories where we get to have humour," she says. "The films about want a dramatic actor? Do we want trans issues are so heavy. People somebody with comedy?" Bradley die, yes. Transphobia exists, yes. recalls. "[Crawford]'s connection to Transphobia is out there, it's very the LGBT community, he has a lot difficult, but not every film about of trans friends, he's in the commutrans life needs to be a documen- nity, he, like me, has seen this world tary. I think we can have both, and for decades and he understands it.

"He had hesitations about the role," I think viewers deserve to be able to see a film that tackles drama and Bradley continues. "He showed the script to friends, and he talked to comedy at the same time."

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his trans friends. And both of us thought, OK, people buy this."

Though the lead isn't played by a trans actor, Bradley notes she did have trans consultants on the script and a scatter of trans actors in the film, all cast in non-trans roles.

As Two 4 One tours the film fest circuit, Bradley notes that, casting aside, the most frequent questions all surround where Adam is in his life—that we aren't dealing with the beginnings of his transition, but what happens a little farther down that road.

"Whenever I go to Q&As, I always get this question: 'Is this really realistic? Everybody seems so accepting,'" she says. "Well, that's because we're four years into his life [after transition]. This is about a 40-yearold. The coming out, the transition story, they're just the beginning of the story. And I wanted to jump ahead, and give viewers a glimpse of contemporary queer life that's beyond the 101. "

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Man on the run

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Night and the City among the most emblematic of noirs Harry Fabian is running from the very start of Night and the City (1950) and hardly stops for the film's duration, which, true to its title, does indeed unfold in an almost exclusively nocturnal world made of urban nightlife and rubble. Even Harry's fiancée Mary, who possesses the closest thing in Night and the City to a pure heart, keeps vampire hours, singing songs to sling drinks to in the very same over-lit tavern into which Harry nightly corrals sucker-tourists. Harry is always on the run because he is always deep in a grift. Mary dreams of saving enough cash for the two of them to get married, whereas Harry just wants to "be somebody" by any means necessary. Ambitious without vision, a hyperactive rat scurrying his way through a vast maze he mistakenly believes he can navigate, Harry has his charms but he's surely doomed: because he's myopic, because for this time and place he's the wrong kind of dreamer—an optimistic American stuck in gloomy postwar London—because he's played by the inimitable Richard Widmark and because he is an antihero in this thing called noir. Directed by Jules Dassin (Rififi) and adapted by Jo Eisinger (Gilda) from Gerlad Kersh's eponymous novel, Night and the City

is fast, serpentine and poetic, one of the most emblematic of all films noir.

Criterion has just released it on DVD and Blu-ray.

Harry is always owing somebody money, so Mary (achingly melancholy, lovely Gene Tierney) is hardly scandalized to catch him with his fingers in her purse—in just a few years Widmark would famously finger still more purses as the pickpocket in Sam Fuller's Pickup on South Street (1953).

Harry is chronically afflicted with big ideas, but the one that's destined to ruin him for good is sparked by an encounter with an aging, imperious Greco-Roman wrestler known as the Great Gregorius (real-life wrestler Stanislaus Zbyszko, a fascinating screen presence). Gregorius' son is impresario of London's lucrative wrestling scene, but Gregorius is disgusted by the mockery the local muscle-bound showboats are making of his beloved sport. Harry pretends to share Gregorius' old school convictions, and after applying a bit of flattery, a business card and a sly proposal, Harry is certain that he "holds the means to control wrestling in all London!" Of course, he needs money, he needs friends, and he needs to find some way to negotiate with both a corpulent tavern proprietor (Francis L

Sullivan) and the proprietor's scheming wife (Googie Withers), with whom Harry has a special secret arrangement. The walls slowly close in on Harry, and Dassin and his team illustrates this with images of cages, towers, bombed-out buildings and winnowed confines of the wrestling ring.

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While we're talking noir, have you heard of Barry Adamson's Moss Side Story (1989)? It's a record, not a movie, but it is as cinematic as anything comprised of sound can be—it's not for nothing that Adamson would eventually be invited to collaborate with David Lynch. Adamson started out playing bass for Magazine and Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds—to whom he's recently returned—and Moss Side Story, a concept album or soundtrack for a non-existent noir, was his knockout solo debut, drawing upon bone-like percussion, bracing industrial rhythms and curtains of shimmering electronics, upon phantasmagoric sound effects, haunted horns, plaintive piano and a street-funeral chorus. The record looks back to Charles Mingus' Black Saint and the Sinner Lady and forward to Tricky. It's just been reissued by Mute with bonus tracks and I've only just discovered it. It's dark, enveloping and brilliant. V

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THE PISTOLWHIPS ON MOVING FORWARD AND ITS NEXT ALBUM

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lot of people, they think going and playing the gig is the work, right? But that's not. That's the payoff," Zach Davies says.

Davies plays bass for the Saskatoonbased rock four-piece the Pistolwhips alongside Rylan Schultz (vocals, guitar), Paul Kuzbik (guitar) and Tallus Scott (drums), but instrumental duties are merely one facet of what's involved in keeping an independent band moving forward. He lists off a litany of tasks like handling social media, paperwork and applying for grants as the "work" required, while driving to any given city to play a show is the proverbial gravy.

"We're opening up a bank account now, we're a registered business and, you know, it's work," he says with a laugh. "It's not just going and playing a gig for fun because we want to try it out."

And the band is finding itself increasingly busy these days—since the beginning of January, the Pistolwhips have played gigs in 28 cities across Canada and reached a precarious point where music is nearly full-time, but the band members can't give up their day jobs just yet.

However, a full-time music career wasn't the endgame when the Pistolwhips formed three years ago—it was "just for fun" at that point—but the release of the album On Your Side last July marked a shift in direction for the group. The record garnered positive reviews (including being named the Best Album of 2014 by readers of Planet S, Saskatoon's bi-weekly alt paper), the band's shows started getting larger and its reach extended beyond its home city to larger markets in Canada and Europe.

"When the album came out we started

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Wed, Aug 19 (8 pm) With Tallest to Shortest, Eugene Ripper, Moving Bodies, Colin Close Wunderbar, $10 to sell out shows local, and to me that was kind of the turning point where we were making enough money at our local shows that our dreams could get a little bigger," Davies recalls. "My goals in the band were to tour the country, maybe go see something overseas and release an album, and in the last year we've done all that."

Davies notes the band is nearing the end of its touring cycle for On Your Side, and new songs are making their way into its current set list in order to road-test them before deciding to record them on the next album. He likens it to a comedian trying out new jokes, adding the group is looking to see how the crowd reacts to the new material.

The reactions have been positive so far, and Davies says the final versions of the new songs are likely to follow in the stylistic vein of On Your Side, which is filled with blues-tinged rock anthems that wouldn't sound out of place alongside Kings of Leon.

"Every type of music that we play, whether it's a hard, kind of riff-rock song or if it's a slower ballad, we always kind of put the Pistolwhips into that, so I think in that sense you're always going to have it," he says. "But I think the new album is going to be a lot of fun and still accessible."

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Heartbeat City

I

n a world of cross-genre collaborations and remixes, artists don't often pride themselves on staying in their lane. Heartbeat City's frontman Ian La Rue, however, is finding growth in sticking to the sounds that raised him.

Thunder Amongst Us, the first album from the Winnipeg indie-rock

trio, is symbolic of La Rue's association with what he calls "a bigger movement:" respecting the timehonoured traditions of folk without switching things up for the sake of doing so.

"Sometimes you can come at songwriting from the point of view of wanting to make something re-

ally unique and different and bending time signatures," La Rue says.

"We're not afraid to wear the Winnipeg, late '90s, early 2000s indierock sound, and I think that's a big part for us. We're not afraid to be not cutting-edge, sound-wise."

The album, released on August 7, is largely a nod to La Rue's Weath-

erthans-narrated upbringing, and a pre-occupation with social-justice somewhat of a departure from his themes in his earlier work. Now, storied past in the Winnipeg music he's less concerned about being scene dating back to 1998 (includ- a political activist and starting to write about ing his time with prairie strongthings that are Sat, Aug 15 (4 pm) hold the Papermore personal to Black Dog, Free him, like mental backs).

La Rue says the health.

The track "Brophy," for example, first track off the album, "Small Victories," is the greatest example illustrates La Rue's experience of of this throwback, and it was the losing a friend to suicide. In a new easiest to write. The song contains move for La Rue, he focuses on the the same unpretentious nostal- personal emotions he felt during gia of re-listening to the playl- the tragedy, instead of discussing ists of your adolescence, fluently the topic as broadly as his younger capturing the unpleasant winters self would.

While he can't boast a cuttingand transit system of La Rue's hometown. edge genre-bend, La Rue sees an "There's no tricks we really pull— honest Manitoban collaboration in it's just fun to play," he adds. "It's Heartbeat City—and for him, that's not too irreverent. It's not too revolutionary enough.

"Where you're from—like it or condescending." not—shapes you," he says. "I'm not He stresses that the content of the ashamed of that, and I think it's imsongs reflects the back-to-basics portant to show that and be a part nature of the album's sound. After of that movement." cutting his teeth in Winnipeg's ac- KATE BLACK KATE@VUEWEEKLY.COM tivist community, La Rue describes

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North of Here I

f you're from Sherwood Park, then North of Here may sound familiar to you. The group has made its rounds through the community playing at coffee shops and during Festival Place's Patio Series last summer. West of the community, however, the band remains relatively unknown.

"There's nothing wrong with being from where you're from, but [Edmonton's] where the scene is. This is where the community is," Ian St Arnaud says, sitting alongside his bandmates at a Whyte Avenue café.

"Sherwood Park is where you start your band, and then you go learn to be a band in Edmonton," Luke Jansen adds with a laugh.

North of Here, rounded out by best friends Jansen (bass, vocals), St Arnaud (mandolin, vocals), Caleb Sinn (guitar, vocals) and Will Holowaychuk (drums, vocals), met in high school during band class. They soon began performing as a group at high school concerts and various venues around the Park, but their setlist was comprised of cover songs by the Head and the Heart, Dan Mangan and the Oh Hellos at that point. After graduating high school, the guys decided to pursue music on a professional level, writing original songs and recording an album.

In February 2014, North of Here released its first record, To The Wild, a four-track EP that was produced,

recorded and mixed by Mel Gargus at Premier Recordings. To The Wild showcases the group's talents with traditional band instruments like trombone, glockenspiel, trumpet and tambourine, giving the record an eclectic modern folk vibe. For its second EP, Make Hay While The Sun Shines, slated for a November release, North of Here will focus on a meatier folk sound that draws on influences like Fleet Foxes and Dan Mangan.

"I think it shows a natural progression in songwriting and understanding the recording process and production," St Arnaud says.

For Make Hay While The Sun Shines, the band worked with Jared Salte (one-half of folk duo the Royal Foundry) at Salt Shaker Records in Sherwood Park.

"Working with Jared gave us an ear for the particular sound we were trying to get with this record," Holowaychuk says.

"Finding a producer that was in the scene [and] actually creating the music that was in our realm was really important," Jansen says. "The folk scene sees potential in young artists and is totally willing to wait for them to grow up. It's not as competitive as you would think. ... If they see a young band, and maybe [that band doesn't] sound great the first time but has the ability to write good songs, they're willing to stick around."

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MUSIC PREVUE // EXPERIMENTAL

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nfilm is a young band in flux. The Calgary duo—who were very recently a trio—of multi-instrumentalist Zach Howie and synthesist-vocalist Samantha Pekarchuk make glittering experimental music that, like the band itself, shifts like quicksilver.

Released in 2014, Infilm's debut album Emporium is cavernous. Howie's delicate instrumentals collide with former member Keegan Sawatzky's undulating bass as Pekarchuk's vocals soar and echo on songs like "North" and "Command."

"We're definitely excited to start making a new record—it's going to be a lot different, I think," Howie says. "It's going to be a lot more in-your-face, a lot more upbeat, a little less deep."

When Howie says deep, he means the vast sound of Emporium. The album is still like water, gently rippled

by Pekarchuk's breezy vocals. She explains that the group "based a lot of

everything on our last record off of a feeling."

"So we really tried to dig as deep as possible into which emotions made us feel and tap into that a lot," she says. "So a lot of it was like, a very vulnerable record in that way. A huge part of it being our first record made it feel very vulnerable that way.

"You feel like a bit of a virgin," she adds wryly. "You don't really know how to write, but you want to know and you're almost there."

Howie—who plays guitar, electric piano and also programmed drums and synthesizers on Emporium—makes the Japanese zither delicately dance with Pekarchuk's vocals on "Advent."

All thanks to her.

"I had brought up to Sam that there was this Japanese zither thing I love the sound of," Howie explains. "I love the way its resonation is so rich

and sharp."

"The harp tones as well," Pekarchuk adds.

"Sam is a good version of a compulsive buyer," Howie explains, getting cut off as Pekarchuk interjets.

"So naturally I went and bought one!" she says with a big laugh.

As Infilm's music shifts and changes, the duo's thoughts on their native city are changing as well. It's tough out there for every band, let alone an experimental band in a city known for its riotous rock 'n' roll and more infamously for its country-loving ways.

"We're not taking it personally by any means—there's such things as taste," Howie says. "We just realize that definitely Calgary's been frustrating, so we're trying to figure out where our place is going to be outside of here."

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Eugene Ripper Wed, Aug 19 (8 pm) With Pistolwhips, Tallest to Shortest, Colin Close, Moving Bodies Wunderbar, $10 Thu, Aug 20 (8 pm) The Buckingham

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ugene Ripper's name, his music, his lyrics and how that all comes together is a collage of the work he's done over years of touring with punk bands and showcasing his once-buried love of folk music.

"There's two sides to it for me," explains Toronto-based Ripper, also known as Bruce Charlap. "There's the sonic side which, coming from a punk and post-modern guitar approach and production approach, might be a bit disruptive to what might be considered traditional folk sonics. But on the other side, on the storytelling side, I'm very respectful."

After some thought and looking into his song "Go Van Gogh," which picks apart the inner workings of the titular artist's brain through a first-person narrative, Ripper pauses and realizes his previous statement wasn't completely accurate.

"I will investigate these great folk narratives and then bend them into the

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modern era, which I suppose is disruptive as well. So I guess I'm a disruptive folk artist," he adds Blending the genres of punk and folk doesn't seem like an obvious mix, but Ripper manages to make it work in what he calls "fast folk." It's a term that has been the focus of a set of four EPs: Fast Folk Underground 1.0, 2.0 and 3.0.

The fourth instalment in the series was released this past spring.

"It's all a collage," Ripper says. "It's an idea that I really like. I know this sounds like I'm oversimplifying, but sometimes I just don't have a title that resonates with me for a title of work and Fast Folk Underground represents what I do in so many ways."

Ripper's music will take him on two European tours and a few trips down to the US this year, but there's one place in particular that calls him back over and over: New York City. Ripper lived there for two years, and although

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he resides in Toronto now, that feeling of home never really left for him.

"It kicks my ass ... I crave it like a vampire craves blood," Ripper says.

"The energy of that city is incredible, and it just makes me want to be better at what I do. It just makes me want to embrace culture and music and life and just take a big bite and gulp out of it."

From his origins attending folk festivals with his aunt as a child to discovering garage punk-rock when he was older, Ripper has channelled his travel experiences into his music. No matter how large the collage of records, songs and cities gets, the music at its core remains the same.

"It's universal," he says. "You get into a pub with people who are into rock music or folk-punk music in Edinburgh or Edmonton, you've got the shared experience there."

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Run Chicken Run E

dmonton, a bastion of dreary winters, is one of the unlikeliest settings for a surf-rock trio, but local bassist John Richards has long relished in the genre's dreamy, psychedelic sound.

"I think reverb-soaked guitar just speaks to me," Richards says. "Thinking about the hot California sun—I like the tone. It appeals to me."

And Richards is hoping that appeal resonates with his new surfrock band, Run Chicken Run, which is debuting its act at Wunderbar this week. The group will perform a handful of its own tunes plus renditions of surf classics by pioneers such as Dick Dale. (The band's name pays homage to another surf-rock legend, Link Wray, who penned a song by the same name.)

The band draws on two waves of surf music: the darker, more aggressive variety—including a splash of Reverend Horton Heat—that could shake an amp, and the popular sound of the Beach Boys, whose airy vocals and four-part harmonies typified the carefree Californian lifestyle.

Ten years ago, a friend gave Richards a CD by a Portland surf band called Satan's Pilgrims. Its darker, psychedelic vibe stuck with Richards as he pursued other projects, most notably in the local rockabilly group Sam Spades.

"When I heard that album, I thought, man, I've got to do that at some point in my life," he says. "I think they had a pretty big influence on me to get my project going. I still listen to them."

Tue, Aug 18 (8 pm) With MIP Power Trio, the Frolics Wunderbar, $10 For Run Chicken Run, Richards tapped into collaborators from past efforts, including guitarist Stacy Robichaud, whom he played with in the Benders, and Sam Spades drummer Greg Hann. After jamming together for the first time in March, the trio quickly assembled four songs for the new group.

"We had so much fun," Richards says. "We thought, why don't we keep this going and eventually get a show somewhere? I love the old surf bands from Edmonton like James T Kirks and South Side Riots, and I just wanted to contribute to that sort of sound."

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Edmonton will play host to the 45th National Music Festival. The threeday event showcases the talents of Canada's best young musicians from age 12 to 28. Visit fcmf.org for more information. (Various venues)

Blues-rock musician Kyler Schogen is releasing his first instrumental album and fifth studio album, Starlight Dreams, and he wants you to celebrate with him for a two-hour jam fest. (Vinyl Rock Cafe, $10 advance, $15 at the door)

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If you're a true death/thrash-metal fan from Edmonton, then you might have already come across With Malice—formerly known as the Others. After a few lineup changes, the group has finally settled on a four-piece with Jessy Leduc (vocals), Alex McIntosh (drums), Ryan Kippen (guitars) and Jonathan Schieman (bass).

Edmonton's Enduring the Fall and Driven to Exile will be performing, too. (Rendezvous, $10)

SARAH BURTON / SAT, AUG 15 (8 PM)

If you like the sounds of Elvis Costello, Wilco, Jenny Lewis and Belle & Sebastian, then you might want to check out Sarah Burton. She blends acoustic melodies, rock, blues, country psychedelic—you name it. (Big Al’s House of Blues, $10)

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SWITCHES / SAT, AUG 15 (4 PM)

It's Switches last show—for a while, at least. Guitarist and vocalist Tara McMahon is leaving Edmonton for the East Coast to do a master's degree. There's no better way to say sayōnara than live music, a dance party and booze. Oh, and there's no cover charge. Even better. (Empress Ale House, Free)

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CADENCE AND NATHAN / WED, AUG 19 (7:30 PM)

Local sibling pop-folk duo Cadence and Nathan will be performing alongside Cuban musicians El Grupo Cubano as part of Sherwood Park's Festival Place Patio Series. (Festival Place, $8)

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Casper Hollands is on a North American tour hitting indie hotspots like Portland and San Francisco. He'll be stopping in his hometown of Edmonton, too. (Tip: While you're taking in the sweet musical sounds, why not indulge in Cha Island's infamous waffles—they're hella good.)

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MUSIC

WEEKLY

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl: Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll,

THU AUG 13

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

Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro

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

Music every Thu; 9pm ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Open mic featuring Stan Gallant (rock); 9pm

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

RENDEZVOUS PUB Bad Communicators, Medical Pilot, ShotGun From Altamont, Matt Machete; 8pm

CAFE BLACKBIRD Karen Porkka And Whirldish; 8pm; $10

(music); $65 (adv), $75 (gate); 18+ or with adult

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam

RIVER CREE CASINO Marty

CASINO EDMONTON Stars

Tonight; 9pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Blackboard Jungle (rock); 9pm

Cody Mack (alt/rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Stan

Gallant (rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Jack

STARLITE ROOM HROM (Legends

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Andrew

LB'S PUB Pete Turland; 9:30pm;

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove

DJ every Thu

Rootbeard + Raebot; 9:30pm; No minors

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back

Thursdays

BLUES ON WHYTE Ediie Turner;

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music

9pm

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open

every Fri

stage; 7pm; no cover

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks:

WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music Fridays:

BRIXX BAR & GRILL Ripple

Illusion, Vera, Old Jack Tap; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10; No minors CAFE BLACKBIRD Sofiella Watt & The Huckleberry Bandits; 7:30pm; $10 CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu;

7pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open

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

Your Own Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar: Beach Party Jam hosted by the Barefoot Kings; Ukulele lessons 7:30pm followed by Jam at 8:30pm EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Open Jam Nights; no

cover J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam

FRI AUG 14 ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Sweet

Of Powerheart CD Release) Riot City, Sleeping in Traffic, Dahlmer's Realm; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10; No minors

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Vanity Red with Winter City and Haynstalk; 9pm; No minors

stage; 8pm; all ages (15+) NEW WEST HOTEL 4's A Crowd

Aug 10-15 NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by

Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling

BLUES ON WHYTE Ediie Turner;

9pm BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos

every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

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

8pm; $5 CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live

music every Fri: this week with G. W. Myers; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Stars

Tonight; 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Scott (alt/country); 9pm FILTHY MC NASTY'S Filthy's Free

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday

Birthday Bash with L.A.M.S And Kroovy Rookers; 8pm; Free

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep

HAWRELAK PARK AMPHITHEATRE

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie,

Edmotnon Rock Music Festival: featuring The Sweets, The Stampeders, Punch Drunk Cabaret; 4pm (gates), 5:15pm (music); $55 (adv), $65 (gate); 18+ or with adult JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Once Upon a Time in

Graceland; until Aug 23 KNOXVILLE'S TAVERN Big

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

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

MERCURY ROOM Kandle and

every Thur: this week with Kevin Cook; 7-11pm

the Krooks (rock/pop/indie); 7pm; $12

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and

dance floor; 9:30pm

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Sweet

VIntage Rides BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Sarah Burton Band; 8pm; $10; All ages

Artists Friendly Chemist and NAP with guests; 9pm; $10; 18+ only

O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB The Rural

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY

and guests

Sparrow & Stone CD release featuring Eva Foote (folk) with Braden Gates; 7pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old

Music Festival; 9am-5pm; $10 ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE Singspiration 2015;

12:15pm; Free

ON THE ROCKS Tyrants Demise

School DJ; 9:30pm PALACE CASINO–WEM All the

Rage (rock/pop/indie); 9:30pm PRIVE ULTRALOUNGE Boodang and Pearl Entertainment presents: Henry Fong; 8pm; No minors RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

THE BOWER For Those Who

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

Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:

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

every Sat THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

BOTTOMS UP COME OUT TO EDMONTON’S HOTTEST FRIDAY NIGHT PATIO PARTY! Dress to impress as you catch exciting racing action with a live DJ, great games and prizes.

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Sun BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

hosted by Tim Lovett

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; LATER: Ediie Turner; 9pm

Afternoon Concerts: this week with Winter City with guest Sean Herbert; 4pm; No cover

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

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays:

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade

Band, w/ North of Here, and Eyes On Ivan; 7pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door); No minors

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

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

SUN AUG 16

NORTHLANDSPARK.CA

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free

BOURBON ROOM Live Music

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

Saturdays

EVERY FRIDAY FROM JUNE TO SEPTEMBER POST TIME: 6:30 P.M.

of the Dog: this week with Heartbeat City (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

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

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Y AFTERHOURS Release

PARK AFTER DARK

SAT AUG 15

NEW WEST HOTEL 4's A Crowd

Routes; 9pm

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

THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues

ALBERTA COLLEGE CAMPUS, MACEWAN UNIVERSITY National

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

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

Fridays

Classical

DJs

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old

DJ every Fri

Classical

WINSPEAR CENTRE Federation of Canadian Music Festivals Grand Concert; 7:30pm; $25

Friday DJs on all three levels

Fri; 9pm

Ball; 9pm; $15

ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove

YEG DANCE CLUB Deception

CHURCH Aref Qazvini by Farid Kheradmand; 7-10pm

DJs

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Andrew

VINYL ROCK CAFE The Kyler Schogen Band's, "Starlight Dreams",CD release show; 8pm

Final concert, followed by refreshments and fellowship; 3pm; campers receive two tickets to the concert, $10 additional ticket

Singspiration Adult Choir; 7pm; $10

(country); 8pm

UNION HALL Aviator Shades, Thrillhouse, Wheelhouse & Savage Playground; 8pm; $15; 18+ only

ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE Singspiration 2015:

ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE Singspiration 2015:

LB'S PUB Jeremy Dallas (rock/ pop/indie); 9:30pm; No minors

WUNDERBAR 1080p Recording

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

Music Festival; 9am-5pm; $10

most Thursdays; 7-10pm

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

Rage (rock/pop/indie); 9:30pm

ALBERTA COLLEGE CAMPUS, MACEWAN UNIVERSITY National

every Fri

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz);

School DJ; 9:30pm PALACE CASINO–WEM All the

9pm; $25

Summer Bash (rock/pop/indie); 7pm

pianos at 8pm

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Old

Classical

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

dance floor; 9:30pm

every week; $10

YEG DANCE CLUB Code Black;

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Roger West

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open

ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform

VIntage Rides

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage with One Percent (R&B/ soul); 8pm every Thu

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and

ON THE ROCKS Tyrants Demise

and guests

Pre-Party Infilm (alt/folk/pop) with Versions, The Faps, and with Will Scott Band; 8pm; $8 (adv), free with Bermuda Festival wristband prepurchase

Blackboard Jungle (rock); 9pm

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

No minors

Decompress YEG - Eats Everything & Ganz with special guest DJ Soup; 9pm-3am; $25; No minors

Routes; 9pm

WUNDERBAR Bermuda Festival

Graceland; until Aug 23

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Once Upon a Time in

Scott (alt/country); 9pm

STARLITE ROOM Shambhala

this week featuring; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation

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

Thu; 9pm

Graceland; until Aug 23

(country); 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

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

Later Days; 9pm; No cover

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Once Upon a Time in JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Brit Floyd - Space and Time World Tour 2015; 8pm; $47-$87

Thirsty Thursday Jam; 7:30pm

UNION HALL 3 Four All

CROWN AND ANCHOR PUB The

Frank & Friends (pop/rock) with Charan Huns and Garry Keiller; 9pm; Free

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Roger West

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

every Sat; 3:30-7pm JR BAR AND GRILL Fearless

Buckley (blues/country/folk); 9pm

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

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

mic; 7pm; $2

Stuart; 7pm (doors), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $49.50

3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB The Rural

BLUES ON WHYTE Ediie Turner;

Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAWRELAK PARK AMPHITHEATRE

Edmotnon Rock Music Festival: featuring Pat Benatar & Neil Giraldo, Kenny Shields & Streetheart, Rik Emmett, Barracuda, The Joint Chiefs, The Stephanie Harpe Experience; 11am (gates), noon

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open

MERCURY ROOM Devin Cuddy

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands

RENDEZVOUS PUB With Malice, Enduring The Fall, Driven To Exile; 8pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN

Cody Mack (alt/rock); 9pm Aug 14-15 SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Stan

Gallant (rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Jack

every Sat

Buckley (blues/country/folk); 9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL 4's A Crowd

SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat,

K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am

VUEWEEKLY.com | AUG 13 – AUG 19, 2015

9pm DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night

Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm DRAFT BAR & GRILL Sunday Draft Jam; 4-8pm; 18+ only; No cover DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Once Upon a Time in

Graceland; until Aug 23

MUSIC 23

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

REXALL PLACE Family Channel

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave

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

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

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE

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

Classical

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

TUE AUG 18

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

ON THE ROCKS Underground Rebels Unplugged RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam

HROM

FROMAGERIE ST ALBERT Festival

W/ RIOT CITY, SLEEPING IN TRAFFIC, DAHLMER’S REALM

de la Curd; 11am WINSPEAR CENTRE 10th

AUG/21 INSOMNIUM & CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

Anniversary Cultural Gala; 7pm; $10-$50

OMNIUM GATHERUM

AUG/29 SEP/3 SOLD

UNION EVENTS, BOODANG & PEARL PRESENT

Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

ODESZA CHRISTIAN HANSEN W/ JAI WOLF

W/ PORT JUVEE AND BIG BEN

SEP/7

UBK PRESENTS

KRAFTY KUTS

9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Alex Zayas;

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite;

9pm

7pm; $45

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23

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

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite;

open mic JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

GANZ

DJ SOUP

AUG/21 MELTED MIRROR MANARAY SERIOUS CLOUDS AUG/22 PUBLIC ANIMAL W/ NAPALMPOM AND COUNTERFEIT JEANS

AUG/26 LETTUCE PRODUCE BEATS AUG/27 UNION DUKE W/ BANJPIPE

24 MUSIC

CD CONCEALER RELEASE W/ RAE SPOON AND ATLAAS BERMUDA FEST KICKOFF WITH

FAITH HEALER W/ 36? AND BIG BEN

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

YEG DANCE CLUB DJ Boof; 9pm;

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

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

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

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

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

Jam: Trevor Mullen

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

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; LATER: Herbs O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

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

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

WED AUG 19

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open

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

DJs

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

Black Thunder, Cutoffs; 9pm; $8; No minors

W/ SPECIAL GUEST

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

WUNDERBAR Rebuild/Repair,

AUG/15

7pm; $45

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

Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

SEP/5

Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE Alex Zayas;

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Open

SEP/4

ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

RIPPLE ILLUSION W/ VERA AND OLD JACK TAP

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason

Big Ticket Summer Concert; 7pm; $37-$200

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs

AUG/13

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs

and guests; 8pm

Tue: featuring this week: Naeem Letendre; 9pm

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

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

REXALL PLACE Family Channel

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

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

KRISIUN & ORIGIN W/ AEON, ALTERBEAST, SOREPTION & INGESTED

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW

RENDEZVOUS PUB Tyrants Demise

W/ MAT THE ALIEN

DEVASTATION ON THE NATION TOUR

Once Upon a Time in Graceland; until Aug 23

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

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

TRUTH

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

UBK PRESENTS

FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio Series: featuring Cadence & Nathan (singer/songwriters) with El Sauce Quartet (world); 7:30pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

MON AUG 17

NIGHT RALLY TOUR W/ LANY

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

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

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

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

SEP/5

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

AUG/22 LANDMARK EVENTS SHOWCASE AUG/28 TWIN SHADOW

SEP/4

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Big Ticket Summer Concert; 6pm; $35-$65

DJs

W/ GUESTS

OUT

Toonz every Tue

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

9:30pm-1am

AUG/14

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

(LEGENDS OF POWERHEART CD RELEASE)

DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

$25 • DJ Boof; 9pm; $40 • Dej Loaf; 9pm; $25

DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

BLUES ON WHYTE Alex Zayas; BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

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

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VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALBERTA COLLEGE CAMPUS MacDonald Drive NW ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580

CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St CROWN & ANCHOR PUB 15277 Castle Downs Rd NW DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FROMAGERIE ST-ALBERT 150 Saint Paul Street, St-Albert HAWRELAK PARK AMPHITHEATRE 9930 Groat Rd NW HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126

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St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Phase II West Edmonton Mall, West Edmonton Mall, 8882170 St JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455-87 Ave NW KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St KNOXVILLE'S TAVERN 10736 Jasper Ave NW KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE 16648-109 Ave NW L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 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 West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St Northwest #2710 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave PRIVE ULTRALOUNGE 10304111 St NW 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 ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE Concordia Campus 73 St & 112 Ave ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St NW ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VINYL ROCK CAFE 24 Perron St, St Albert 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 YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229105 St NW YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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their tasks safely and accurately by expert Habitat staff • Aug 11-15, 8:30am-4pm • Free

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

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

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

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Paul Sveen; Aug 14-15 • Chris Heward; Aug 21-22

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 • Closed for renovations until Aug 18 • Barry Rothbart; Aug 19-23

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill 12912-50 St • With Shawn Gramiak and Jamie Hutchinson; Aug 19, 7:30pm CONNIE'S COMEDY PRESENTS KOMEDY KRUSH • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 St • Starting with an open mic, followed by Casey Corbin as headliner • Aug 18, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show)

THE DATING GAME • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 Ave • With Sterling Scott as gameshow host • Aug 25, 8pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

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

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

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

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

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

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

EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

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 • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY HOSTS WOMEN BUILD WEEK • Neufeld Landing, 11403-17 Ave SW • 780.451.3416 ext. 232 • hfh.org/volunteer/womenbuild • Volunteers are trained and equipped to perform

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam. orgs/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

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

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

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

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

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)

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

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS A DAY OF FOCUSING WITH DR. GREG MADISON • St Stephens College, U of A campus, 8810-112 St • groundingchange@gmail.com • groundingchange. com/a-day-of-focusing-with-greg-madison.php • Learn how to be with even difficult feelings so that participants begin to change, bringing relaxation and relief • Aug 28, 9:30am-4pm • Payment by donation ($150 suggested) - deadline to register: Aug 21

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

WHAT COMES AFTER OIL? • Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Public roundtable. Featuring speakers who will discuss how will societies continue to thrive and prosper once our dominant source of energy becomes expensive, no longer readily accessible, or too damaging to the environment to use in ways that we do today • Aug 21, 7-9pm • Free (RSVP to afteroil. eventbrite.ca); seating is limited

QUEER

edmonton.ca • Learn all about the animals that are found in your own backyard as well as the simple things that you can do to be a hero in your habitat. Activities include hands on science experiments, airbrushed tattoos, crafts, and animal encounters • Aug 23, 12-4pm • General admission

780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

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

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

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm-1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am SPECIAL EVENTS 3RD ANNUAL PEACE IN THE PARK • Louise McKinney Park, 9999 Grierson Hill • edmonton.eventful. com • An afternoon of yoga and music in support of the Old Strathcona Youth Society. No yoga experience is necessary. Yoga by Meg Mielnichuk; music by Girls Club • Aug 16, 12-3pm • $20, all proceeds go to Old Strathcona Youth Society

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP

ART OF WINE TASTING • The Grow Centre, 10516-

• Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net 105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based

• Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave •

12TH ANNUAL LEBANESE FESTIVAL • Sir Winston Churchill Square, downtown Edmonton • Savour a taste of Lebanon in the heart of Edmonton. Enjoy food, live music, belly dancers, and shisha • Aug 20-23

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY

Enjoy live music, dancers, Latin food and artisan marketplace • Aug 15-16, 12 pm • Free

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

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

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

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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities. com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • 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, 5:308:30pm, 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 femaleidentified persons +18 years in the GLBT community;

82 Ave • 587.986.3618 • yegartyparty@gmail.com • letsartyparty.com • A combination of a step-by-step painting instruction paired with five summer selections of European Rosé’s. Appetizer pairings are included and wine is unlimited • Aug 16, 7-10pm • $100, with 15% of ticket cost going to Youth Empowerment and Support Services (YESS)

CANADIAN DERBY • Northlands Racetrack, 7410 Borden Park Rd • northlandspark.ca • 780.471.8174 • Featuring horse racing and so much more! The mustsee, must-attend event of the season for horse racing fans • Aug 15, 1-5pm

DARK MATTERS "NERDGASM" • Telus World Of Science, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • Twose.Ca/ Darkmatters • An 18+ event. Explore the weird, wacky and wonderful things that get your nerdy juices flowing - the possibilities are truly endless • Aug 20, 7-10pm • $14 (adv), $20 (door)

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: 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) 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 EASTER SEALS DROP ZONE – 10TH ANNIVERSARY • The Sutton Place Hotel, 10235-101st St • 780.429.0137 ext 308 • darla@easterseals.ab.ca • thedropzone.ca • Dress up as your favourite superhero and rappel down the 29-storeys of The Sutton Place Hotel to help provide services that foster inclusion, independence and recreation for individuals with disabilities and medical conditions • Aug 27, 7:30am-4pm

EDMONTON AIRSHOW • Veilleneuve Airport, Range Road 271 & Secondary Hwy 633, Villeneuve • edmontonairshow.com • Celebrating both the rich history and the modern evolution of aviation, particularly in Edmonton • Aug 22-23, 10am-4pm • $20-$25 (portion of the profits will be directed to the Alberta Aviation Museum, Edmonton Garrison Military Family Resource Centre and Youth Employment & Support Services) 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

EDMONTON LATIN FESTIVAL • Churchill Square • edmontonlatinfestival.com • For two days, Churchill Square will be transformed into a tropical paradise.

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FOOD FOREST • MacKinnon Ravine, Parking at Government House Park • rootfortrees.ca • 780.919.7126 • rootfortrees@edmonton.ca • Help plant an edible forest in the river valley • Aug 15, 10am-2pm • Free HEROES FOR HABITAT: EXPLORE, RESTORE, SUSTAIN • Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Road •

MISSION HILL DAY • Father Lacombe Chapel, Mission Hill, St. Vital Avenue, St. Albert • history.alberta.ca/ fatherlacombe • 780.459.7663 • Costumed historical interpreters show visitors around the site which includes the chapel, crypt, grotto, and cemetery. Enjoy historic photo displays, historic demonstrations and a tall glass of lemonade while you take in the view from atop Mission Hill. There will be crafts and games as well • Aug 16, 12-4pm • Admission by donation 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

PERSEIDS PYJAMA PARTY • Devonian Botanic Garden, 5 kms north of Devon on Highway 60 • devonian.ualberta.ca • 780.987.3054 • A pyjama party under the stars, nothing could be better. Wear your cozy pyjamas, bring your pillows, blankets, flashlights and lawnchairs, and sit back to enjoy one of the busiest times in the sky during the annual Perseids Meteor Shower • Aug 14, 8pm-midnight • Free with regular admission; $13.50 (adults), $7 (student), $9.75 (seniors), free (friends of the garden, garden season pass holders)

PICNIC IN THE PARK • St. Albert Botanic Park, 265 Sturgeon Road, St. Albert • stalbertbotanicpark.com • 780.458.7163 • Bring your picnic and enjoy children's activities and entertainment, popcorn, lemonade and ice cream • Aug 16, 1-4pm • Free, donations welcome

PRIDE OF THE NORTHSIDE 4 ON 4 STREETBALL TOURNAMENT • Londonderry outdoor basketball courts, 7104-144 Ave • andrewgparker.com/ Pride_of_the_Northside.php • Family-friendly event. A two-day outdoor basketball tournament with three point and slam dunk competitions, live music and barbeque • Aug 15-16 • $100 per team; Free to all spectators

SCOTCH TASTING • Keg n Cork Liquor Company, 3845-99 St • 780.461.0191 • A drop-in tasting of several exclusive single cask, cask strength whiskies, normally reserved for members of The Scotch Malt Whisky Society • Aug 14, 4-8pm • Free, drop-in 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 TRACK JUNKIES OPEN LAPPING EXPERIENCE • Castrol Raceway, South of Edmonton, Highway 2, and 2kms West on Highway 19 towards Devon • castrolraceway.com • 780.461.5801 • Want the full-blown lapping experience? Want to give a friend the full-blown lapping experience? Track Junkies is Alberta’s premier open-marque performance driving program. Track Junkies offers owners and drivers of high-performance and sports cars the opportunity to drive their cars on a road course at speed • Aug 16, 9am

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

WALTERDALE BLOCK PARTY • John Walter Musseum, 9180 Walterdale Hill • edmonton.ca • 311 • Celebrate John Walter's 165th birthday! With activities, crafts and games to celebrate Walterdale and the Walter family • Aug 17, 1pm-4pm • Free

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): To ensure the full accuracy of this horoscope, I have been compelled to resurrect an old-fashioned English word that isn't used much anymore: "gambol." It means to cavort and frolic in a playful manner, or to romp and skip around with mad glee, as if you are unable to stop yourself from dancing. The astrological omens seem unambiguous in their message: In order to cultivate the state of mind that will enable you to meet all your dates with destiny in the coming weeks, you need to gambol at least once every day.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): Do you remember your first kiss?

How about the first time you had sex? Although those events may not have been perfectly smooth and graceful, they were radical breakthroughs that changed your life and altered your consciousness. Since then, there may have been a few other intimate rites of passage that have impacted you with similar intensity. No doubt you will experience others in the future. In fact, I suspect that the next instalments are due to arrive in the coming months. Get ready for further initiations in these mysteries.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): Two-thirds of us don't know what our strengths and talents are.

That's the conclusion of a study published in The Journal of Positive Psychology. One reason for the problem is what the report's co-author Dr Robert Biswas-Diener calls "strengths blindness," in which we neglect our real powers because we regard them as ordinary or take them for granted.

Here's the good news, Gemini: If you suffer from even a partial ignorance about the nature of your potentials, the coming months will be a favourable time to remedy that glitch. Life will conspire to help you see the truth. (Read more: bit.ly/truestrengths.)

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): In 1504, Michelangelo finished his sculpture of the Biblical hero David. But he hadn't been the first person to toil on the 17-foothigh block of marble. Forty years earlier, the artist Agostino di Duccio was commissioned to carve David out of the stone.

His work was minimal, however.

He did little more than create the rough shape of the legs and torso. In 1476, Antonio Rossellino resumed where Agostino had stopped, but he didn't last long, either. By the time Michelangelo launched his effort, the massive slab had languished for 25 years.

I see parallels between this story and your own, Cancerian. I suspect that you will be invited to take on a project that has been on hold or gotten delayed. This may require you to complete labours that were begun by others—or maybe instigated by you when you were in a very different frame of mind.

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LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): Many people harbour the unconscious bias that beauty resides primarily in things that are polished, sleek and perfect. Celebrities work hard and spend a lot of money to cultivate their immaculate attractiveness, and they are often treated as if they have the most pleasing appearance that human beings can have. Art that is displayed in museums has equally flawless packaging. But the current astrological omens suggest that it's important for you to appreciate a different kind of beauty: the crooked, wobbly, eccentric stuff. For the foreseeable future, that's where you'll find the most inspiration.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): "No tree can grow to Heaven unless its roots reach down to Hell," wrote psychologist Carl Jung in his book Aion. My interpretation: We earn the right to experience profound love and brilliant light by becoming familiar with shadows and suffering. Indeed, it may not be possible to ripen into our most radiant beauty without having tangled with life's ugliness. According to my understanding of your long-term cycle, Virgo, you have dutifully completed an extended phase of downward growth. In the next extended phase, however, upward growth will predominate.

You did reasonably well on the hellish stuff; now comes the more heavenly rewards.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): In some phases of your life, you have been a wanderer. You've had a fuzzy sense of where you belong. It has been a challenge to know which target you should aim your arrows at. During those times, you may have been forceful but not as productive as you'd like to be; you may have been energetic but a bit too inefficient to accomplish wonders and marvels. From what I can tell, one of those wandering seasons is now coming to a close. In the months ahead, you will have a growing clarity about where your future power spot is located—and may even find the elusive sanctuary called "home." Here's a good way to prepare for this transition: Spend a few hours telling yourself the story of your origins. Remember all the major events of your life as if you were watching a movie.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): You have been slowing to a crawl as you approach an exciting transition. But I'm here to advise you to resume normal speed. There's no need for excessive caution.

You have paid your dues; you have made your meticulous arrangements; you have performed your quiet heroisms. Now it's time to relax into the rewards you have earned. Lighten your mood, Capricorn. Welcome the onrushing peace and start planning how you will capitalize on your new freedom.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): The Great Balancing Act of 2015 doesn't demand that you be a wishy-washy, eager-to-please, self-cancelling harmony whore.

Purge such possibilities from your mind. What the Great Balancing Act asks of you is to express what you stand for with great clarity. It invites you to free yourself, as much as you can, from worrying about what people think of you. It encourages you to be shaped less by the expectations of others and more by what you really want. Do you know what you really want, Libra? Find out! PS: Your task is not to work on the surface level, trying to manipulate the appearance of things. Focus your efforts in the depths of yourself.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): "Most people reach the top of the ladder of success only to find it's leaning against the wrong wall." Aquarian actor Paul Sorensen said that. It's no coincidence that I'm bringing this theory to your attention right now.

The coming months will be a good time to determine whether the ladder you have been climbing is leaning against the right wall or wrong wall. My advice is to question yourself at length. Be as objective as possible. Swear to tell yourself the whole truth. If, after your investigations, you decide it is indeed the wrong wall, climb down from the ladder and haul it over to the right wall. And if you're satisfied that you are where you should be, celebrate!

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): Muslims, Jews and Christians are collaborating to erect a joint house of worship in Berlin. The building, scheduled to be finished by 2018, will have separate areas for each religion as well as a common space for members of all three to gather. Even if you don't belong to any faith, you may be inspired by this pioneering effort to foster mutual tolerance. I offer it up to you as a vivid symbol of unity. May it help inspire you to take full advantage of your current opportunities to heal schisms, build consensus and cultivate harmony.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): When he served as Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi denigrated the cuisine of Finland.

"Finns don't even know what prosciutto is," he sneered. At best, he said, their food is to be "endured."

He mocked the "marinated reindeer" they eat. But Finland fought back against the insults. In an international pizza contest held in New York, their chefs won first Prize for their "Pizza Berlusconi," a specialty pizza that featured marinated reindeer. The Italian entry finished second. I foresee you enjoying a comparable reversal in the coming months, Pisces.

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SEX-OLOGY

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The dating yo-yo

Even smart and self-respecting people can get yanked along Ten years ago, my roommates sat me down, intervention style, and forced me to read He's Just Not That Into You by Greg Behrendt.

They did this because I'd spent the previous 10 months of my life dangling on the end of an emotional yo-yo that was carelessly wielded by a boy whose dizzying shifts in interest had me suffering. I must admit that I hated the book. I found it to be incredibly sexist (which it totally is), and I used my disgust at the tone to undermine the arguments it made, vehemently denying its truths in defence of my romantic delusion.

My roommates could see something that I couldn't about this guy's actions. Blinded by infatuation and deeply invested in the hope that I would one day marry this "perfect" man, I overlooked all the obvious signs that it wasn't going anywhere—in retrospect, those signs are excruciatingly clear. He would go weeks without contacting me, and he frequently blew me off at the last minute. When we did get together, it was usually initiated the day of and mostly involved making out. When I finally got him to agree to officially date me, he openly shared the reasons it didn't seem like a good idea (including "I don't think my parents would like you"—ouch!) before begrudgingly agreeing. And then he wouldn't acknowledge our relationship to any of our friends. Looking back, I'm mortified. There I was, a relatively confident, self-respecting woman justifying, ignoring and defending the behaviour of a guy who clearly didn't like me.

I hear a similar story all the time.

In fact, this week alone I encountered no less than six clients, male and female, who shared their own version of this tale. Every one of them describing anxiety, self-doubt, confusion/neurosis, obsessiveness, insecurity, sleeplessness and alienation from protective friends—all resulting from the rapid shifts between disappointment and euphoria proffered by their crush.

So how do otherwise smart and self-respecting people end up on the end of the dating yo-yo? I think there are two main factors at play.

First, we tend to value things that are harder to come by, including affection. We inherently believe that if someone is a challenge, they must be worth it. Second, the cycle is addictive. Literally. The principles of operant conditioning teach us that rewards reinforce behaviour.

We also know that the strongest reinforcement for conditioned behaviour comes when a reward is issued on an intermittent-variable schedule. Take slot machines, for example: you never know when you'll win—the next pull of the lever could be the jackpot—so it's harder to stop playing. Relationships are the same. Every time my guy would call me, I'd get a little rush of euphoric reward. And his unpredictability meant that there was always the hope that the next call would be the proverbial jackpot and my "dream boy" would finally realize he loved me and we'd live happily ever after. How could I walk away from the possible win?

Fortunately, my subsequent dating experiences have been a lot better, which is ultimately where I solidified this lesson: if someone likes you, you will know it. It will

be obvious because they won't be afraid to make plans, they won't blow you off, make conspicuous excuses for being unavailable or ignore your texts. You won't have to wonder if it's "OK" to text them.

They will want to spend time with you and talk to you, and you will feel cared for.

For those of you reading this thinking, "But that's not always the case; people are busy or they don't want to come on too strong" ... I will concede that there are always exceptions and not all excuses/ dating strategies point to rejection—that said, most do. Or at a minimum, this behaviour reflects traits you might want to avoid. But seriously, chances are that if you're feeling defensive in reading this, you're on the end of someone's yoyo, and it might be time to cut the string. V 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've been reading your column for a while, and you always advise kinky people to go seek the same within the kink community. But in my experience, the kink community is very "sex right away, get to know you later"-oriented.

So I have two questions. First, as someone who's a bit of an old-fashioned romantic, is there somewhere I can go to find sexually compatible people who are willing to let me get to know them before we fuck? And second, it's very difficult for me to come in vanilla situations, which has caused some awkwardness in the past. My fetish is intense CBT (cock and ball torture), it's pretty specific, and in my (admittedly limited) experience, most guys aren't very willing to let me inflict that kind of pain. Seeing as I'm probably not going to stop dating people from the general pool (shy 24-year-old cub, not into hookups—I take what I can get), do you have any advice for making conventional sex a little better for me?

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cleCBT—that guy is notorious), he can put up a few pictures, and most importantly he can write out what he's looking for. He can tell people if he's a top or a bottom, give some indication of what experience he's had, focus on what he wants, but also tell people what his no-fly zones are—as in 'no unsafe sex, no drugs and no Republicans.'"

You can also find kinky guys at Adam4Adam, Manhunt, and BigMuscle—and you'll find kinky guys in the general dating pool, too—and you're not obligated to jump into bed and/or immediately start torturing the cock and balls of someone you've just met.

"HISBALLS can suggest going to a movie or dinner, or taking in the entire opera season together first," Roger said, "or go straight to bed if it seems right. He should go at the speed that's right for him. And he'll be surprised— or more likely stunned—at just how many romantic, CBT-oriented men there are out there."

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Your advice to UGH last week was fine in general—he's the frustrated man whose wife isn't interested in sex—and a pretty solid rehash of your standard advice for people trapped in sexless marriages. But I'm writing because you missed something that may have been key: "Currently, she can last having sex for nearly half an hour before feeling exhausted and stopping, regardless of me reaching orgasm or not." Two things: 1) Half an hour of PIV sex when you're not feeling it would take a vat of lube and probably still be painful. 2) His wife lies there getting the inside of her vagina sanded off by Jackhammer McGee here and then has the nerve to ask him to stop when it's too much "regardless" of HIS orgasm?!? What about her orgasm?

What about her delicate vaginal tissue getting torn up? Not that he will magically consider her pleasure if he's blind to her comfort and general well-being, but it might help him put his marriage in perspective.

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My working definition of sex includes mutual masturbation, oral, fantasy play and PIV/PIB. So when someone says, "My partner can only last having sex for half an hour," I imagine half an hour of oral and mutual masturbation and penetration all jumbled together.

" C o n g r a tu l a tions to HISBALLS for admitting to himself that he has a creative sex drive," said Donald Roger, the sadistic entrepreneur behind Shotgun Video (shotgunvideo.com), a gay BDSM porn studio that specializes in CBT. "Instead of wasting his time on why-am-I-bored-with-this sex, HISBALLS can look forward to a passionate and fascinating sex life."

To say that Roger shares your kink, HISBALLS, is putting it mildly: Just torturing another man's balls—listening to that man moan and groan—is all it takes to make Roger come.

"People say that has to be trick photography," said Roger, whose "nohands loads" are featured in Shotgun videos. "But it's not a trick! Doubters are welcome to purchase our 100th video, which is coming out this week.

Loose Cannons features an hour and a half of ball-torture scenes that end in no-hands loads that I shot and no-hands loads shot by bound guys whose balls are being tortured. I think it's my masterpiece."

I'm going to quickly answer your main question, HISBALLS, and then let Roger give you some advice that might actually be useful: Hardcore kinksters—kinksters who find it difficult to come in vanilla situations— make conventional sex a little better by entertaining fantasies about their kinks.

But you know what's better? Dating guys who share or are open to your kinks.

"Finding appropriate partners is harder for seriously kinky men, but it's a lot easier now than it used to be," Roger said. "Recon is a worldwide cruising site (recon.com) that caters to alt-sex men. HISBALLS can choose a profile name for himself (like Mus-

A quick programming note about CBT: You can really hurt someone— you can really damage someone—if you attempt CBT without knowing what you're doing. That's why Roger produced a series of instructional videos for men who are curious about CBT. Look for videos number 59, 60 and 62 at shotgunvideo.com, a series of lectures/demos. They're just $10 each. Follow Roger on Twitter @RogerOfShotgun.

LOSS EQUALS KINK?

I lost my dad young, and I had a bunch of issues growing up. I'm probably gay, I love the idea of light bondage, and I've been this way for as long as I can remember. I feel like I've been on a self-discovery thing over the past year and have caught tidbits that bothered me. I have depression/anxiety and the old "abandonment complex," and I'm still insecure about a lot of this. Is it reasonable to blame psychological trauma for my sexuality—the possibly gay thing and the kinks?

TROUBLED OVER YEARNINGS The inclination to blame your sexuality and kinks on your loss is understandable, TOY, but it's not reasonable. (Sorry about your dad, kiddo.)

Because when you think about it— when you apply reason—you quickly come to this: There are lots of gay men out there who are into bondage who didn't lose their dads at a young age, who don't suffer from depression or anxiety, who don't have abandonment issues and whose childhoods were comparatively issue-free. It's natural to wonder how you got to be kinky, TOY, but kinks are pretty ran-

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Thanks for your email, ERR, and I really should've spotted that. We all have our blind spots, and this is definitely one of mine: When someone says they were having sex for half an hour, I don't think of 30 minutes of PIV/PIB, as I don't define "sex" as "penetrative vaginal or anal intercourse." My working definition of sex includes mutual masturbation, oral, fantasy play and PIV/PIB. So when someone says, "My partner can only last having sex for half an hour," I imagine half an hour of oral and mutual masturbation and penetration all jumbled together. I need to bear in mind that not all of my readers define sex the same way I do—indeed, far too many people believe penetration is sex and vice versa.

Thanks for the reminder, ERR.

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