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"On top of Bill C-51 and its aftermath, the Edward Snowden surveillance revelations still loom large." // 6

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"OK, look: I just don't see the appeal of spending $9 on a bag of pulverized Doritos laden with greasy beef, processed cheese, sour cream and a few wisps of lettuce and tomato." // 8

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"I realized the body was no longer my instrument to create—it had become my subject." // 10

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"It's not only the messiness of teenage years that Diary offers: the adult world around Minnie seems equally incapable of sorting itself out." // 15

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Putting evidence back in policy Health Minister Sarah Hoffman pushes for policy based on research In March 1994, in the Alberta legislature, Municipal Affairs Minister Steve West clearly articulated what would be the Conservative government's approach to privatization of public services for the next four decades. In the midst of a debate on an opposition bill seeking to make the government show adequate research and evidence before privatizing public services, West said, "I'll make this boldest of statements: There isn't a government operation, a government business, a Crown corporation that is as efficient as the private sector, and indeed they're 20-to-40 percent less efficient. You don't have to do a study. You can guarantee it because of the structure in the way they run their economics. Therefore, you don't have to do a study to save the first 20-to-40 percent."

That blind ideologically driven, screw-the-evidence approach to privatization is what drove the Alberta government to privatize almost everything from highway maintenance to residential care for seniors. The government's blatant disregard for evidence and research was perhaps best personified in its

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attempts to privatize health care in general, and the province's lab services in particular.

Back in 1995 the Alberta government handed over lab services in Edmonton to an amalgamation of private for-profit corporations. Beyond the expected layoffs, reduced wages and benefits, and worsened working conditions, the entire project proved to be a failure in terms of effectiveness, efficiency and reliability. Ten years later the government had no choice but to bring all in-patient lab services in hospitals back into the public realm. In 1996 a similar lab privatization experiment was undertaken in Calgary, with similar results.

Calgary Laboratory Services was brought back under the public umbrella 10 years later and is now a fully owned subsidiary of Alberta Health Services.

Never being ones to let evidence and past experience get in the way of bad public policy, in 2013 the government once again embarked on a scheme to further privatize lab services in Edmonton and Northern Alberta. One year later, in October 2014, the government

announced that Sonic, an Australian company with no presence or background in Alberta, had been chosen as the preferred vendor for a 15-year, $3 billion contract to provide lab services in the area.

The deal would ultimately result in Sonic providing 75 percent of lab services in the contract area.

Last week Health Minister Sarah Hoffman announced that the government would not be moving forward with this new privatization project, and ordered that the request for proposals issued last year to Sonic be cancelled. In her statement announcing the cancellation she explained that she could find no compelling data or evidence demonstrating that this move would be in the interest of Albertans, stating, "I'm of the opinion that this would have been an experiment. And I'm not prepared to experiment with people's health and well-being."

Predictably, the Official Opposition Wildrose Party quickly issued a statement from its health critic, Drew Barnes, stating that "the rejection of successful private health

delivery within a publicly funded and administered system that leads to lower costs and stronger outcomes is bad news for our health care system." His implication, of course, was that privatization had been proven successful, and that Hoffman was acting on ideology rather than evidence.

The failed experiments of 1995 and 1996 prove him wrong on both counts, but he is not likely to let that stop his outrage. Clearly the Wildrose is determined to embrace the longstanding Tory tradition of not letting evidence get in the way of rhetoric and policy.

Had Hoffman moved to immediately bring all privatized lab services (currently 27 percent across Alberta, but 61 percent in Edmonton and northern Alberta) back into the public fold, Barnes' statement might have held some water. But she did not. What she did instead was announce that the government would review and study how best to deliver lab services in Alberta and to ensure the right balance between public and private delivery of those services.

Only then, once that research is

complete, will she decide how best to move forward with lab services.

Albertans should feel incredibly reassured that after four decades of damn-the-evidence privatization at all cost, we finally have a health minister in place insisting that all policy be based on solid evidence and research. It may cost some money in the short term to back out of some of the ridiculous schemes the previous government committed us to, but we will be better off and our province more sustainable for it in the long run.

Now, if we could just get the government to turn that same critical eye on our existing public-private partnerships, privatized seniors' care, infrastructure maintenance, and all those other areas so badly damaged by 40 years of privatization, we'd be good to go. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta. The views and opinions expressed are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of the Institute.

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Dilma Rousseff and the Peter Principle Brazilian president unlikely to ever restore popular confidence in her leadership Protesters thronged Brazil's cities on Sunday demanding the impeachment of Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff, narrowly elected to a second term just last October, but not one of them made any reference to the Peter Principle. But if Rousseff were a senior manager in any bureaucracy, public or private, it would surely have been noticed by now that she has been promoted to her "level of incompetence."

We owe the insight that "managers rise to the level of their incompetence" to Dr Laurence J Peter, who pointed out half a century ago that people are promoted on the basis of their success in their last job, not their aptitude for the next one. Eventually, inevitably, they are promoted into a job they are not equipped to do well—even if they are not your conventional kind of manager.

Rousseff was a success as a leftwing guerilla fighting Brazil's military regime in the 1980s: captured and tortured for three days, she never said a word. She was a success as the chief of staff to Brazil's first working-class president, Luis Inacio "Lula" da Silva, from 2003 to 2010.

She was a political success in getting elected as Lulu's successor in

2010, and was re-elected in a tight race last year. But being a president herself is not part of her skills set.

Two years ago Rousseff had an approval rating of 66 percent. According to the most recent Datafolha poll, only eight percent of the population now gives her a positive assessment, while 71 percent disapprove of her performance. Indeed, two-thirds of those polled believe that Congress should impeach her and remove her from power.

Part of the problem is the economy. Since it peaked in 2010 at seven percent, Brazil's economic growth rate has plunged. This year the economy is predicted to shrink by two percent. It's not all Rousseff's fault: the worldwide collapse in commodity prices has hit Brazil particularly hard. But in practice, the government in power at the time gets the blame.

An even bigger problem for Rousseff is the legal investigation codenamed Lava Jato (Car Wash). The biggest corruption scandal in Brazil's rather impressive history of such things, it involves an estimated $22 billion in "suspicious contracts" going back for almost two decades involving Petrobras, Latin

ers' Party and its parliamentary coalition partner, the Brazilian Democratic Movement, several dozen senior politicians from both parties have been arrested.

However, there is no charge against Rousseff that could justify an impeachment. Even in the absence of such a charge, a twothirds majority in Congress could theoretically impeach her, but no such majority can be achieved in the current Congress.

So Rousseff can just tough it out, and so far she has done just that. Sunday's big demos were mostly attended by white, middle-class people who probably never voted for her anyway. Her own constituency of poorer Brazilians, although angry about her austerity measures and rising inflation, have not yet come out in the streets against her.

That could change if the econom-

Two years ago, Rousseff had an approval rating of 66 percent. According to the most recent Datafolha poll, only eight percent of the population now gives her a positive assessment.

America's largest oil company.

Some of it involved graft for personal enrichment, but most of it appears to be money skimmed off government contracts to pay for election campaigns and other party political activities. Since the governing parties for most of this period have been Rousseff's Work-

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ic situation gets even worse. A major slowdown in China, Brazil's biggest export market, could spell big trouble for Rousseff. So long as no evidence emerges that clearly links her to the corruption at Petrobras, however, she can probably stay in office until her term ends in 2018.

What she cannot do is restore popular confidence in her leadership.

She doesn't lack the intelligence or the experience to be an effective president, and most of the time she gets her economic and social priorities right. There is no reason to believe that Lula, the man who finally brought change for the better in the eyes of poor Brazilians, would have coped any better with the economic headwinds that Rousseff has been struggling with.

But he would still be popular, and she is definitely not.

She tries hard, but it just doesn't work. She has been promoted to her level of (political) incompetence, and it is going to be a long three years for her and for Brazil.

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

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The digital issues

Three things to press candidates on as the federal election heats up

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he launch of the longest national election campaign in decades will provide many opportunities to contrast the various political parties on key issues such as economic policy, security, ethics, the environment and health care.

Digital policies will also deserve some time in the spotlight. Topping the list of concerns include the post-Bill C-51 landscape, support for the Trans Pacific Partnership and the prospect of a Digital Canada 3.0.

1) Bill C-51 and what comes next Bill C-51, the controversial antiterrorism bill, emerged as one of the biggest political issues of the year, with thousands of Canadians protesting against legislation they viewed as excessively restrictive of their privacy and civil rights. The bill passed in June, but not before all three major parties adopted distinct positions. The Conservatives unsurprisingly supported their plan with few amendments, the NDP offered the strongest opposition, and the Liberals voted for the bill but promised changes if elected.

Those positions open the door to a robust debate on what comes next. The Liberals have committed to repealing elements of Bill C-51,

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but leaving some of it untouched.

What would an NDP government do? With a Conservative-backed Senate committee recently proposing additional reforms, do the Conservatives view Bill C-51 as the end or the beginning of legal changes to combat terrorism?

On top of Bill C-51 and its aftermath, the Edward Snowden surveillance revelations still loom large.

The government has largely avoided discussing Canada's role in global Internet surveillance activities even as other countries have eliminated some programs and beefed up oversight in response to public concern. A clear position from each party on Canadian network surveillance activities is long overdue.

nearly 40 percent of world GDP, failed to reach a deal last weekend in Hawaii, yet the government has indicated that it plans to continue to negotiate during the election period. Some have speculated that the prospect of a finalized TPP

from comment until the final deal is disclosed will not be good enough in an election campaign. As politicians go door-to-door in search of votes, it is time to ask all candidates and political parties about their views on specific TPP issues including copyright term extension, patent reforms, intellectual property enforcement and domestic privacy protections.

The government has largely avoided discussing Canada's role in global Internet surveillance activities even as other countries have eliminated some programs and beefed up oversight in response to public concern.

2) The Trans Pacific Partnership The 12 countries negotiating the Trans Pacific Partnership, a proposed trade deal that covers

comes at the worst possible time politically since the deal will likely mandate major changes in the Canadian economy just as politicians are campaigning for re-election.

Yet that is precisely why this may be the best time to put the issues squarely on the table.

To date, each party has offered carefully crafted answers on their general views of the TPP. Comments about "acting in the best interests of Canadians" or refraining

3) Digital Strategy 3.0?

The government's long-delayed national digital strategy was released in 2014 with an updated "Version 2.0" quietly unveiled just before the start of summer. The government made progress on several digital policy fronts, including enacting the Digital Privacy Act, anti-spam laws and spending millions on Internet access in rural and remote communities. Yet the digital policy file is far from complete with Canadians facing higher wireless costs than

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those found in many developed countries and universal, affordable Internet access still years away.

Digital policy questions abound: are there more changes coming to the wireless sector to increase competition and lower consumer costs? Will the parties support programs that ensure both universal access and address affordability concerns that have left millions of Canadians on the digital sidelines? Do the parties have any policies planned to support Canadian content or to address the future of the CBC? Are new regulations over services such as Netflix on the horizon? Are reforms to the copyright notice-and-notice system that has resulted in Canadians facing thousands of demands for settlements forthcoming?

There is no shortage of questions on the digital policy front that require answers. With an election campaign set to run until mid-October, there may finally be a chance at a meaningful discussion about how each party envisions Canada's digital future.

MICHAEL GEIST

This article was originally published in The Tyee on August 4, 2015 as "Three Tough Digital Issues to Press Candidates On."

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Not up for debate

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anada is in the midst of the longest election in recent history, and our debate schedule is a total mess. With the Macleans date down and despite almost nine weeks of campaigning left, we're already done with English-language events featuring all four party leaders.

There's an economic debate set for September 17 and a foreign policy debate on September 28. Harper, Trudeau and Mulcair are all invited, but Green Party leader Elizabeth May isn't. Establishment politicians and media may dismiss her as a crazy outsider running a one-issue party, but they'd be willfully ignoring her performance in the first debate. It was sharp, on-point and nuanced: she was able to play a role that was just as important as the big boys. Yes, we need to establish a legitimacy line—lest we experience something like the shitshow that was the recent American Republican primary debate. But a party likely to run candidates in all 338 ridings that racked up more than half

a million votes last election—and actually elected an MP—is obviously past that line.

May is invited to the Consortium debate on October 8, but Harper has decided it's beneath him. Doing his best to imitate Harper—lest anyone think he doesn't look Prime Ministerial—Mulcair has decided to pull out, too. While these debates aren't mandated by law, they ought to play a central role in helping voters make a decision on election day. It's all well and good for politicians to treat the campaign as an exciting chance to tour this fine country, but they're doing little to influence votes by barfing up rehearsed speeches to vetted crowds of existing supporters.

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ire-spinning buskers, silver-tongued improv artists and quirky clowns are all represented at the Fringe Festival in spades, but quality food is largely neglected. Granted, there are no shortage of places to quell a rumbling tummy when you're stomping around the grounds, given the festival's proximity to Whyte Avenue's main strip. And if you're only after festival staples—elephant ears, green onion cakes—the Fringe has definitely got you covered.

But each year there's always a small handful of food vendors that offer an alternative to the otherwise ubiquitously battered and deep-fried midway foods.

Here's a recap of the most interesting foods on offer at this year's Fringe Festival, for when you're right at ground zero and can't be bothered (or don't have time) to walk a few blocks over to a place on Whyte. Wine and beer pairings are also included: the wines are the ones available in the wine tent, which are all from Peller Estates, while the beers are available in both the beer tents and wine tents; they're from Big Rock.

Cured Topping this list is Cured, a new wine bar that just opened on the south side of town in Ellerslie. It shares ownership with Zaika Indian Bistro, another Fringe staple. Cured has a booth on the far end of the Fringe grounds right outside the wine tent (directly across from the Old Strathcona Farmer's Market), having usurped New Asian Village's usual spot. Though it's outside the main drag of food vendors along 104 Street, this is a great location as their offerings are geared to wine pairing—and you can order from right inside the wine tent.

Their menu encompasses a charcuterie plate ($10) of elk andouille sausage, airdried beef tenderloin, smoked gouda and grainy mustard, sriracha bacon popcorn ($7), wild mushroom arancini ($8) and AAA beef and pork meatballs ($10).

Pair with: Cabernet-Merlot or Traditional Ale (charcuterie and meatballs), Rosé or Warthog Ale (sriracha bacon popcorn), Chardonnay or Saaz Republic Pilz (arancini).

Lunch Pail Catering Company If you've seen some visually interesting food creations in the hands of Fringe patrons (that aren't from any of the Indian places, or a Fat Frank hot dog covered in relish), they probably came from Lunch Pail: their grilled cheese sandwich cone ($7)—which has homemade potato chips in the bottom of it!—is brilliance if you're hankering for some classic comfort food, plus the antennas of celery and carrots poking out of the top of the cone look cool. Their fondue platter ($10) features garlic asiago cheese dip with chips, pita and veggies, and will satisfy even the most tenacious fromage craving. They've also got kebab-style meat skewers ($8) served

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on a slaw-laden pita in your choice of flavour: ginger teriyaki chicken, sweet sriracha chicken or coconut lime shrimp.

Finally, their salad bowls are both tasty and one of the few legitimately healthy options on site. (They've had both Asian and Mexican versions, so the exact type varies each day, but both are great.)

Pair with: Chardonnay or Saaz Republic Pilz (grilled cheese cone and fondue platter), Shiraz or Traditional Ale (meat skewers), Pinot Grigio or Grasshopper (Asian salad bowl), Rosé or Warthog Ale (Mexican salad bowl).

Zaika Indian Bistro, New Asian Village & Curry n'Hurry There's a strong Indian-food contingent at this year's Fringe. Both New Asian Village and Zaika Indian Bistro are pretty much right across from each other on 83 Avenue just south of the southern beer gardens, and to be perfectly honest, their food offerings are pretty darn similar in both type and price; New Asian Village has a slightly larger selection of dishes on offer. There's also the charmingly titled Curry n'Hurry located along the main strip of food vendors, and their prices are a little more inexpensive than the other two; they've also got dessert naan bread flavoured with strawberry, caramel or chocolate.

Why not have a butter chicken face-off, or a channa masala ("chickpeas with rice" at Curry n'Hurry) showdown?

Pair with: Rosé or Warthog Ale (everything).

Rustixx Wood Fired Pizza The wood-fired pizzas from Rustixx's mobile stone oven were a big hit when they debuted at the Fringe a few years ago, and they've been here each year since then. If you're hankering for a good slice of pizza (not something that's been under a heat lamp for a questionable period of time) this is where you want to go—just be prepared to wait in line.

Pair with: whatever you like with pizza—it's all good.

Taco in a Bag The infamous Taco in a Bag is a staple of the Fringe that's here year after year. I'm including them on this list purely as a public-service announcement: this is drunk food, people.

Conduct yourselves accordingly.

OK, look: I just don't see the appeal of spending $9 on a bag of pulverized Doritos laden with greasy beef, processed cheese, sour cream and a few wisps of lettuce and tomato, the combination of which sits like a hot brick in your gut for the next two hours while you shift uncomfortably in a sweaty venue and hope that the music kicks in before the person beside you notices the alarming gastric noises being emitted from your distressed gut.

Pair with: antacids.

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The evolution of Island wine

Blue Grouse is a hidden gem in an overlooked Canadian wine region

Blue Grouse Estate Winery 2182 Lakeside Road, Duncan, BC 250.743.3834 bluegrouse.ca // Matt Boisvert

Scattered throughout the Cowichan Valley's verdant farms and rolling hillsides are a number of wineries.

Most of them are fairly young— less than a decade old—but a couple date back over a quarter century. While Blue Grouse is technically younger than the oldest winery on Vancouver Island (by only a couple of days) its vineyards are home to the island's oldest grapevines.

Back in the early '80s, the British Columbia government funded an experimental grape-growing program to determine whether wine grapes would grow on Vancouver Island.

Almost 150 different varieties were tested on the property where Blue Grouse currently resides. The program folded after a few years, and the vines were left to alternately die or grow wild until Hans Kiltz purchased the property in 1988. He discovered some of these vines still growing and decided to rejuvenate the ones that were still alive, which largely determined the varieties planted in Blue Grouse's vineyards over the next two decades: mainly white varieties and some cool-climate reds like Pinot Noir.

Kiltz slowly expanded his operation until he sold it to the Brunner family in 2012. Blue Grouse is currently at the beginning of its next stage of development: they just opened a brand-new tasting facility in May, built right over and encompassing the old winery. An old house on the property is also being converted into a couple of accommodation suites, and there's plans to build a few cabins closer to the little creek that meanders along the edge of the vineyard.

I had the fortune of visiting the beautiful new facility this past July, where I tasted through the wines as well as toured the winery and vineyards with Blue Grouse winemaker Bailey Williamson.

"You see people who have been in it—very much like here—that have been making wine for years, and then run out of steam or ambition or whatever," says Williamson, looking out over the vineyard from the tasting room's second-floor balcony. "And then somebody else comes in and brings new life to it."

Blue Grouse currently produces a number of wines that are common on Vancouver Island, but pretty obscure elsewhere: varieties like MullerThurgau, Ortega and Siegerrebe. Williamson will continue to make these wines—the vines are already there, after all—but the focus is increasingly shifting to Pinot Gris and Pinot Noir as these varieties stand out in quality.

He has also started making sparkling wines, a wise move for a couple reasons: Williamson spearheaded the sparkling wine program at Okanagan winery Road 13 while he served as assistant winemaker there, and the bracing acidity of many Vancouver Island white wines is naturally suited to bubbly.

Blue Grouse has also launched a new line of wines called Quill that contain grapes imported from other regions, chiefly the Okanagan. The reason is eminently practical: Vancouver Island simply doesn't have the climate to ripen varieties that make bold, heavy red wines, but this is a major category that many wine drinkers choose first.

"I'm not going to grow Merlot and

Cab Franc; I'm just not," Williamson says. "Mother Nature is a fickle mistress; the dirt will tell you what you can grow. If you try and exert your influence on it, it will—in short order—tell you to go back to the drawing board."

Visiting the wineries on Vancouver Island is markedly different than touring the Okanagan: there are no crowds, the roads aren't busy, and it's significantly less expensive on all fronts, from accommodation to food to the cost of the wines

themselves. While that's great for people seeking a respite, it's also limiting the region's growth. The main difficulties are the lack of accommodation and the extreme seasonality: it's pretty quiet in the winter months, though Blue Grouse will keep its doors open year-round nonetheless. Williamson envisions a fairly significant change in the Cowichan Valley's future, but it will require a concerted, collaborative effort on behalf of the entire region and its various stakeholders.

"If everybody stayed open

[throughout the winter], they'd pull their hair out the first year," Williamson admits. "But the second year, they'd see an increase, and the third year and the fourth year, and it would just keep growing.

The Naramata Bench has done that: partially by forming an organization and making a concerted effort to do it. And I think it's paying off." V Mel Priestley is a certified sommelier and wine writer who also blogs about wine, food and the arts at melpriestley.ca

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ARTS EDITOR: PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

// Michael Slobodian

The Body in Question(s)2 casts a multi-disciplinary gaze on our physical form

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here was a moment, after years spent choreographing dance, when Isabelle Van Grimde realized her perspective on the physical form had shifted to something more primal.

"I realized the body was no longer my instrument to create: it had become my subject," she says. "In choreography, and in creating movement, and putting together pieces, I was not using the body to tell the story—I was telling the story of the body."

Since that realization, Van Grimde— who came to Canada from Belgium decades ago—has let her fascination with the hows and whys of the physical form guide her work: not just by putting bodies into motion, but by posing questions of their possibilities and limitations. That's partly why her ever-evolving piece The Body in Question(s)2 takes its shape as a mélange of movement, visual art, digital media and scientific essay: every element is set in pursuit of understanding the skin, bones and muscles that house our minds. Taking over a few evenings of the Univeristy of Albertas's Museums Galleries at Enterprise Square, it lacks a traditional sit-in-thedark audience setup, and encourages wandering the space: visual art and

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media is installed, as well as portions of essays and interviews with from experts in other body-aligned disciplines.

In among the installations, six dancers will perform throughout the space in close proximity to the audience.

The Body's creation began back in 2004, when Van Grimde prepared a questionnaire she took to a variety of "specialists of the body"—scientists, artists, medical professionals—across five countries. The queries were about intimacy, about social and artistic issues of body; the most interesting responses concerned into the future of the body, and how technology can be integrated into the human experience.

"It had to do with the future of the body, it had to do with intimacy, it had to do with more social issues, and more artistic issues," she says.

The results of those studies, as well as chasing further research, has coloured works for more than a decade, including The Body in Question(s)2, which she notes has changed from its 2012 première in Montréal—there's now an online element to everything.

"It's a new creation, pretty much," she says. "It's partly a new cast—a bigger one. It has a lot of new elements."

Over the phone, Van Grimde comes across as an endlessly curious mind, constantly seeking out new information or work to nourish her own. Previously, she's worked with composers and in film, letting those decidedly nonphysical forms of expression alter her ideas for movement. But after years of experimenting with adjacent art forms, she notes her focus came back to the body itself.

"At one point I hit a wall, and I realized there were things that would not work with dance," she says. "I decided to go back to the strength of my medium, and work with the body, space and time. I think that's where the shift happened, and I think that's where I needed more information about the body itself.

"This shift towards the body has given me a lot more clarity, and it's also made me realize that's what I've been interested in since the beginning," she continues. "I just didn't realize it. I was just experimenting with what dance could do, but my fascination was mostly with the human body."

One of the dancers performing in this iteration of The Body in Question(s)2 is Edmonton's own Brian Webb, who was also involved with the show's première run. Webb notes that, despite

Thu, Aug 20 – Sat, Aug 22 (entrances at 7 pm, 7:30 pm and 8 pm) The Body in Question(s)2 U of A Museums Galleries at Enterprise Square, $20

her company, Van Grimde Corps Secrets, enjoying huge popularity in Europe, Van Grimde's work has never made it further into the Canadian west than Ottawa.

He'd met Van Grimde in the capital, actually, as one of her interview subjects about the body. They hit it off— "It was obvious there was some sort of artistic sympatico going on," he recalls.

Eventually, the pair booked a Banff Centre residency together.

"There are huge contrasts in the choreography," he says, of the show's movement components. "Parts of it are very physically rigorous: very unique, and very highly physical. And so you really have to use your whole body, with whole force, in a very original way. And then other parts of her choreography are amazingly subtle, [with] subtle use of gesture—this is interesting because, of course, audience members may be as close as two feet away from you."

Originally, The Body in Question(s)2 was to be called Perspectives Canada— after an earlier work of Van Grimde's called Perspectives Montreal—but the title "was not judged to be very sexy in Montréal," she laughs. So The Body in Question(s)2 stuck.

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Van Grimde's research continues on unabated. Her fascination with the body—and particularly its future, as in the concept of transhumanism (using technology to transform the human condition), and how such an idea interacts with the more instinctual bodily systems that inherent to us from birth—refuses to wane.

"By being interested and inspired by the human body, I'm inspired by humanity, essentially," she says. "But mostly, in dance, by all the things that can be expressed beyond words, beyond the more illustrative and linear approaches. ... What I find fascinating is the fact that we live in a very advanced technological society, and we are influenced by that in our bodies, and wired in a different way because of that. But there's still the more ancient neural architectures in the body, and the more instinctive systems in the body. And it's the meeting of these two places that I find, today, most fascinating."

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cience fiction's different camps are at war. This year the Hugo Awards, literary sci-fi's highest prize, is facing a takeover by a group of right-wing, gamergate-esque campaigners intent on minimizing the liberal voice of change that has begun to dominate the awards. The group, self-termed the Sad Puppies, say science fiction has become too highbrow, taking on issues of social justice that have no place in "traditional" sci-fi. It's fitting then that in the same year as this attempted right-wing takeover, AK Press has released a celebration of one of the Hugo Awards' most radical authors, Octavia Butler.

Butler wrote to capture the lasting impressions that the violence of racism, sexism and other hierarchies have on humanity. She saw the power of science fiction to express this history and understand why it must change.

To celebrate Butler's approach, Octavia's Brood collects science-fiction

stories of women and people of colour, as well as varied race, class, sexuality and gender. As editor Walidah Imarsha writes, the collection is meant to look at "changes we cannot even begin to imagine" and to celebrate science fiction's power to look at the "vast space of possibility." This is where science fiction is at its strongest and most thrilling: our mistakes, and our potential, written large across the sky in the form of alien worlds.

The strength of the stories in this collection use science fiction's imaginative potential to illustrate the possibility of political change. Certain stories can be a bit too overt, heavy-handed in the call for political change, but at its best, the stories illuminate our humanity and continued capacity for change. The most powerful stories focus on the small but potent act of imagining a future for a marginalized voice within a present that barely hears it.

The collection's editors sought out a diversity of perspectives, and its strength is definitely within its voices. It's a sad comment on the state of the publishing industry that a story about time travel from the perspective of two young Ethiopian lovers in Addis Ababa feels so very foreign. In fact, reading from the book's diverse perspectives creates some small moments of tripping over gender identity and pronoun use, names of countries and cities on our own planet, underlining how easy it is to forget that not all stories are told from the perspective of a white male raised in New York. The collection starts strong with two VietnameseAmericans determined to free their compatriots from work camps filled with people of colour whose main job is to keep the white population free of zombies. Right from the start, it's an important reminder that too often the future is published through one dominant lens.

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left to live out their lives on an isolated colony. But the group coalesces to create their own empowered community, resolved to keep their independence.

Many of the stories take this form: one group or voice dares to imagine their own future. Whether it's a dystopic projection of current attitudes or a picture of empowerment and survival, either way it is a reminder that the future belongs to no one voice but to those who dare to imagine the possibilities, despite humanity's violent present. Hopefully it's a lesson that will be delivered at the Hugo Awards this year as science fiction contemplates its own future.

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ARTS PREVUE // FRINGE

The finest of Fringing Our picks for the best of the fest

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s the Fringe festival heads into its final weekend, we've assembled this handy list of the best of the shows that we saw—and we saw everything.

You can read our intrepid reviewing team's thoughts on any show over at edmontonfringe.ca, but these were our picks for the finest shows at this year's festival.

Reviews by Kathleen Bell (KB), Paul Blinov (PB), Bruce Cinnamon (BC), Megan Dart (MD), Alix Kemp (AK), Shannon Kovalsky (SK), Alex MacPherson (AMP), Josh Marcellin (JM), Alex Migdal (AM), Jasmine Salazar (JS), Bryan Saunders (BRS) and Marliss Weber (MW).

Caws & Effect This is a beautiful, spellbinding work of art peppered with gloriously bad puns (the city of Eggmonton features). It's so much fun to watch two projectors create everything from the universe, to eggs hatching to a bear rooting through garbage. It's like live animation mixed with physical comedy—and it's stunning and hilarious to witness the wizardry these two artists spin with such simple elements. But Caws & Effect is much more than visual tricks: there's real emotional pull created by the animal-eye view of environmental destruction, death and displacement. And the pulsing soundtrack—composed and recorded by the two leads—gives the magic artwork a beating heart.

Don't miss this. JM Dark Vanilla Jungle A disturbing psychological drama about a broken woman struggling to find a family that loves her, no matter the cost. Andrea (Eva Foote) snarls, giggles, and recites her tragic life of trauma and betrayal on stage without flinching or blaming. Dark Vanilla Jungle manages to be brutal without being violent, visceral without being gory. The endless nihilism challenges the audience to find any good in Andrea's world—a world of rape, cruelty, objectification and madness. Foote's portrayal of Andrea is flawless. She switches between innocent and deranged in an instant, never letting the audience relax. The subject matter is challenging and dark. Dark Vanilla Jungle is a Lars Von Trier film on stage. AMP Eleanor's Story: An American Girl in Hitler's Germany This is a touching first-hand account of a nine-year-old girl from Stratford, New Jersey who moves to war-torn Germany with her mother, father and 10-year-old brother in 1939. Presented

by Ingrid Garner, granddaughter of titular Eleanor, this autobiographical one-woman performance is powerful, thoughtful and tragic. Garner takes on the impressive feat of playing Eleanor and rotates between her mother, father and brother, transitioning into characters effortlessly. Obviously not born in the 1930s, Garner has done her research: the script manifests the language of that era. Garner is eloquent in

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speech and maintains audience engagement throughout the hour-long performance as she retells the haunting story of her grandmother's young life. This is a must-see, but be prepared to shed a tear or two. It gets emotional. JS Gidion's Knot A parent-teacher meeting unlike any other, Gidion's Knot locks two irreconcilable world views in a room together as a mother and a teacher discuss the shocking act that led to a student's suspension. Saying more would be saying too much, but this is the sort of thing that rarely graces the Fringe, and rarely so well: a lampblack drama of the highest order, bravely acted and executed with an incredible feel for pacing. The story twists and twists again, but each revelation feels earned, sinks you in deeper and carries palpable charge. I'll be thinking about this show for months. PB God is a Scottish Drag Queen III Judging from the sold-out opening night, legions of Fringe goers already know to expect big laughs from Mike Delamont, the cross-dressing Scottish deity back for his third run in Edmonton. Decked out in a floral power suit and black bob, Delamont blazes through the hour with hilarious barbs ranging from religion to gun culture to the weirdness of Edmonton.

Delamont, a remarkably charismatic and quick-witted comedian, improvises brilliant zingers at every turn (opening night saw a man walk out three times, which proved ideal fodder for Delamont's routine). This is stand-up comedy at its finest. AM In Search of Cruise Control James Gangl has been entrusted with the responsibility of giving "the talk" to his teenage nephew, and he's determined to make it the best sex talk that any teenager has ever received. Drawing on his Catholic upbringing and his own humiliating sexual adventures, Gangl weaves a gut-wrenchingly funny tale that bares all his scars and insecurities. Cruise Control starts strong, but a third-act reveal gives the play an emotional depth that's unexpected and takes it to the next level. It could be dark, but Gangl's determination to find humour in even his most traumatic experiences creates a show that is honest, heartfelt and hilarious. Do not miss this one. AK It Started With an Allergy Endometriosis—an incurable disease of the "lady parts" that causes painful lesions and potential infertility—probably doesn't sound hilarious. But as Heather Morrow has discovered, what doesn't kill you is fodder for comedy.

Diagnosed after eight years of intense pain, Morrow shares her horrifyingly absurd experiences with the disease, including her interactions with oblivious friends, boyfriends and physicians who assured her that being in

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constant agony was a normal part of womanhood. Sometimes gory, often gross but always delightful, It Started with an Allergy will be relatable to anyone with a uterus, educational to those without one and entertaining to just about everybody. AK Jon Bennett: Fire In The Meth Lab A show about your brother's meth addiction seems like a premise more macabre than funny, but Australian performer Jon Bennett does the impossible by putting on a satire about his older brother Tim Bennett's addiction and eventual incarceration. Supported by video clips, audio recordings and photos from the family album, this entertaining one-man show chronicles their sibling relationship while reviewing the history of Tim's multiple addictions, including a very hilarious recollection of Tim's obsession with Australian singer Jason Donovan (don't know who that is? That's okay, because Jon will show you via video clips and a titular board game). The performance is bold, honest, and interactive, often calling on audience members to recall their own memories. This show will make you laugh, even after you've left the venue. JS Man Up! Sex, smarts and sky-high heels. This sassy socio-political commentary strips down media-prescribed gender roles with a quick thrust of the hip, begging laughs, cheers and tears from an audience enthralled from the first exquisitely choreographed step. From super-charged drag numbers to sweet clown turns to breathtakingly beautiful dance, this is theatre with something to say that never takes itself too seriously, and it leaves the audience begging for more. Get there early—venue sight lines aren't great, and you'll want to score a front-row seat if only to see up close the 25 pairs of haute heels paraded by this all-male cast. MD Lust & Marriage – A Solo Show About Finding Your Soulmate(s) This show is everything that a Fringe play should be. Venturing into risky territory, this hilarious play explores one woman's search for her soulmate. As it happens, her soulmate turns out to be not all that interested in the idea of monogamy. A respectful but fearless look at the world of Dan Savage, Burning Man, drugs, love, compromise and

polyamory, this is a thought-provoking and groundbreaking work with sharp writing and acting throughout by Eleanor O'Brien. No matter your thoughts on non-traditional relationships, this show is a must see. BRS Miss Katelyn's Grade Threes Prepare for the Inevitable On the last day of school, Miss Katelyn (Elena Belyea) decides to teach Class 3B (the audience) about safety. After attendance is called, our jittery, impassioned teacher launches into today's lesson: how to survive a school shooting. Every sequence comes together perfectly, from a disturbingly comical history of school shooters to a statistical vindication of race and gender profiling to a rap/singalong about how to react in an attack. Unlike so many other dark comedies at the Fringe, this show earns its transformation from laughs to tears as it sinks its teeth into weighty subject matter. By the end, Belyea has made us laugh, terrified us, and tugged at our heartstrings. An A+ show! BC OCD Who would have thought counting rituals, obsessive thoughts and cognitive behavioural therapy would be so darn funny? This charming piece, performed

by Edmonton up-and-comer Louise Large and directed by the talented Beth Dart, explores the dark and light sides of mental illness. This is the Fringe at its best—heartful, hopeful, intimate and smart. The writing is as excellent as the performance, and the intimacy of the space makes for a superb theatre experience. You may spend a fair share of the performance wondering if you left the stove on, but that just speaks to the power of this show. MW Peter n' Chris Explore Their Bodies Can a stage show with two robes and a single chair for props be described as cinematic? Peter n' Chris Explore Their Bodies certainly aspires to be. Peter Carlone and Chris Wilson, with magical logic (because magic doesn't have to make sense) and stellar performances, create a fully realized fantasy-epic spoof, with send-ups to fandom favourites like Lord of The Rings and Game of Thrones. By blending genres (it's a comedic buddy story and a fantasy epic) and breaking the fourth wall by riffing with the audience, Peter and Chris create a memorable experience with plenty of laughs. SK

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Petunia and Chicken A whimsical twist on the classic boymeets-girl tale, Animal Engine Theatre Company's Petunia and Chicken is minimalist theatre masterfully executed. Clever physicalization and heartwarming storytelling combine to create a fantastical world brimming with vibrant characters. Hard circumstance and life's big adventures do their damnedest to tear Petunia and Chicken apart, and though there's plenty of heartbreak along the way, love prevails. This show will leave your heart full, and your Fringe experience complete. MD Post Traumatic Super Delightful A clown show about rape. It's almost impossible to imagine this being successful, but writer and performer Antonia Lassar does a stunning job taking on the subject of surviving sexual violence in this one-woman show.

With merely a red nose to mark her transformation into clown, Lassar's clowning is subtle, with her slightest movements drawing laughter. When she removes the nose in order to depict three characters embroiled in an assault case on her local university campus, her portrayals are well-acted and fascinating. In particular, the rapist himself, whom she portrays as likable and childishly confused about modern-day sex etiquette. You will laugh at Lassar's clown, but bring tissues—there are breathtakingly tearful moments as well. KB The Second Line: Two Ladies and the Old-School Blues Over the course of The Second Line, Dana Wylie and Kirsten Elliott play guitar, piano, flute, ukulele, melodica and a super glam accordion. Interspersed with their bluesy duets are autobiographical monologues about music, aging and gender. Their songs are moving and their musical mastery is impressive, but even more striking is the poetry of their monologues. In one instance, Wylie describes the linearity of the masculine-constructed world—the straight lines of skyerasing office towers and threepiece suits—and contrasts it with the curves of women, whose shapes themselves are a radical defiance.

The Second Line pays homage to the pioneering women of the blues while confronting us with how far we have yet to go. BC

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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

Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Vibrant Views (Aug 20), Expressive Paint Explorations (Sep 17), 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)

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

ARTWALK • Perron District, downtown St Albert.

Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Artwork

by Julian Forrest; Sep 3-Sep 22

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

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • 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 • Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival; until Aug 23 • 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 • 10186106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • FEATURE GALLERY: Here and There; Jul 11-Oct 3 • DISCOVERY GALLERY: Coming Up Next: artwork by Michelle Atkinson, Holly Boone, Corinne Cowell, Soma Mo, Dena Seiferling and Bart Simpson; Jul 18-Aug 29 ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Tyler Los-Jones: A Panorama Protects its View: Jan 23-Jan 31, 2016 • The Double Bind: Conversations Between Modernism and Postmodernism; May 2-Sep 13 • Jack Bush: May 30-Aug 23 • Illuminations: Italian Baroque Masterworks in Canadian Collections; Jun 27Oct 4 • Wil Murray: On Invasive Species and Infidelity; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Douglas Haynes: The Toledo Series; Jun 27-Oct 4 • Charrette Roulette: Language; Jul 18-Nov 15 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: 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 Marchyshyn-Shymko; 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: Textured Landscape Layers (Sep 19); 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts &

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

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

• 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

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

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 19-21 • $5 (students/ seniors), $10 (adults) BOOM: THE MUSIC, CULTURE AND EVENTS THAT SHAPED A GENERATION • Citadel Theatre– Shoctor Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • citadeltheatre.com • A play that chronicles 25 turbulent years of the post-war Baby Boom and gives voice to over 100 influential politicians, activists and musicians • Sep 19-Oct 11

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Wilf Perreault: Dark to Light; Sep 19-Oct 2

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 side-kick music man Reverend Charlie Scream, each show the cast will be joined by two different special guest Burlesque Artists • Aug 19-20, Aug 22 • 18+ only

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

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

FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Michelle Neumann; Sep 10, 7-9pm 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 • Members of the St. Albert Painters Guild; Sep 1-28; Opening reception: Sep 3

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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

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St,

Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/ events/movies/movies.cfm • Lullaby Of Broadway (Aug 24), For Me And My Gal (Aug 31) • 8pm

Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery. com • Canada Scapes & Spaces; Jul-Aug

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

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Art & Teas Pairing; Aug 22, 2-4pm • People and Places of Inspiration; Sep 9-Oct 3; Opening reception: Sep 10, 5-8pm

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal

PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd,

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Mercury

Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • MAIN GALLERY: Members Novelty Show “Hidden Gems”; through Aug • MAIN GALLERY: Open Art Competition; through Sep • FIREPLACE ROOM: OAC Hanging; through Sep

com • Artwork by Mathieu Lefèvre; Sep 25-Oct 6

FILM Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • The Salt Of The Earth (Aug 26) • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free

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Thinkin' 'bout sex

'I

had sex today—holy shit," begins Minnie (Bel Powley), wandering through the sun-kissed streets, away from her first time and back to her home. She's all of 15 years old; it's 1976, it's San Francisco, and it's the beginning of a odyssey of sexual awakening for the high schooler, who wants to be a cartoonist and thinks herself ugly and incapable of finding intimacy. "I think that officially makes me an adult," she later adds, of her first experience, into an audio diary she's keeping. She's not yet aware how wide a floodgate of troubles she's opened, the most pressing of which is that her first partner is her mother's boyfriend.

Based on Phoebe Gloeckner's semi-autobiographical graphic novel, The Diary of a Teenage Girl is a po-

tent, unblinking look at erotic coming of age, a pivotal few months of emergent sexual experience and the strangeness that follows. Minnie pushes headlong into the awkward fumbles of adulthood with a teenager's naive confidence, and the film feels honest in its capture of that, letting her tribulations stand as what they are—a teenager trying to have sex, and then realizing the complications that can follow—without judgment or undue glory. It's a comingof-age story that cares more about conveying the complexity of its moments in the eyes of its protagonist than telegraphing some more stilted narrative arc along.

Director Marielle Heller captures the air of youthful ambiguity and the era, filtering moments of confusion

and realization over Minnie's gaze, watching her try to interpret and understand and conquer this intangible pull she feels. Occasional animations come alive on screen—Minnie's cartoonist mind at work—but feel effectively used as a way of underscoring her feelings in a given moment (there's also an acid trip that achieves a similar effect). She seems to be as infatuated with sex as much as with the people she's having it with: and her slow, exploratory arc to understanding is one that feels as tangible, as it is unstructured.

Anchored by Powley as Minnie, it's all deftly felt. Armed with wide-eyed stare and a bullish teenage self-centredness, she exudes that teenage know it all-ness, only to be easily

thrown into an tailspin when something unexpected rears up. Watching her on screen, a young, passionate firebrand, first testing her limits, as well as those of the people around her, is transfixing.

Kristen Wiig plays her mother, Charlotte, feminist but flawed, bound by a certain fondness for cocaine and a need for a man; Monroe (Alexander Skarsgård), Charlotte's boyfriend and Minnie's lover, reveals his own weaknesses and insecurities as he attempts to manage his life with both. "It's like you have a spell over me," he offers to Minnie, in bed, noting the alarming nature of their relationship while still refusing to actually end it himself: he seems as drawn to her bold-headedness as she by his sense of self.

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age years that Diary offers: the adult world around Minnie seems even more incapable of sorting itself out, just as unsure about everyday living as she is, but with a few more coping mechanisms already in place. So Diary underscoress a tour of flawed people with a tangible passion and the in-the-moment honesty, as raw and unfiltered as, well, a teenager's inner thoughts. It's a rare film, one that manages to be make such big emotions feel so intimate and earned on screen.

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Not that the story's much more than B-rate Bond: newfound enemies Napoleon Solo (Henry Cavill), CIA, and Illya Kuryakin (Armie Hammer), KGB, must become partners to escort Gaby Teller (Alicia Vikander) through a reunion with her former (but reluctant) Nazi nuclear-scientist father, to stop his latest bomb from being used by former Mussolini fascists, led by Victoria Vinciguerra (crude Italian for

"win the war"). What, Ritchie and cowriter Lionel Wigram couldn't have gone for the Axis trifecta, working in a failed kamikaze pilot named Bento Vengeance or Hiro Kirazi?

Ritchie, whose career nearly sank after his remake of Italian director Lina Wertmuller's Mediterraneanisle-story Swept Away flopped, apparently never lost his amore for the country of cappuccino. There's much more interest in, say, the Spanish Steps, foppish young Italians in a washroom at a Roman auto-racetrack, Vinciguerra's grand villa, or even droplets of Latinate rain, than in actual, you know, action. Slickly sliding split-screens break up action set-pieces; overly scored and oddly distilled scenes that almost immediately get re-capped and filled-out to explain What Just Happened. All the dry comedy and snappy style— preferred over any actual intrigue, menace or thrills—turns this into a

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t begins in a bar, the singer declaring her dislike of Obama. It ends in a wedding hall, this mom rocking the starch out of all the super-bourgeois guests. Ricki and the Flash, aka Meryl and the Music, is never as dopey as that bracketing summary sounds, but it is strangely drowsy, an inert coversong of a drama, unable to find any genuine tension or voice of its own.

Ricki Rendazzo (Meryl Streep) released one album, decades earlier; she and the Flash are now the house band at a bar in San Fernando, belting out their takes on classic tunes to the regulars there; she's fallen for lead guitarist Greg (Rick Springfield) but won't commit to him. Called to Indianapolis after daughter Julie (Mamie Gummer, Streep's own daughter) plummets into depression because her husband's ditched her, Ricki's suddenly fronting the family that she left behind.

The ho-humminess of it all, punctu- band cover Petty, Gaga, Pink, Springated by Movie Moments, warbles in steen and more. It's all rather karaoke as soon as Ricki arrives at her ex-hus- night—screenwriter Diablo Cody's band Pete (Kevin Kline) and his wife cameo, dancing with a few coolMaureen's (Audra looking millenniMcDonald) man- Now playing als to Ricki's U2 cover, gives away sion.

Daughter Directed by Jonathan Demme just how genially briefly lashes out  self-indulgent this at long-absent show's getting. mom; awkward reunions with There's no edge sons turn briefly but loudly confron- here from Cody (Juno, Young Adult), tational at a dinner in an über-posh while director Jonathan Demme did restaurant; Ricki and Pete briefly the fractious family drama much betconfront Julie's ex in public (Ricki's ter in Rachel Getting Married (2008). parting shot gets an appreciative Ending on a hokey sense that older"Ooohhh!" from the guy's friends). grrrl-rock just brings the feuding famAlthough Julie tried to overdose on ily together, Ricki and the Flash even pills, "She'll be fine," assures Pete, goes out like a treacly little jingle, and so it all proves. The only sparks not a burst of raging-'gainst-the-light flicker when our rocking Republican rock 'n' roll fury, signifying somebirth-mom confronts super-step- thing—hell, anything.

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'I

think the most important thing for all bands [to do] is paint a picture with what you call yourself," says Jay Mitchell. "Really create something that when you hear that you're like, 'That encapsulates the music I'm listening to'—not these very specific genres that you kind of just put together and you're like, 'Well, it's kind of poppy, but alt-punk-garage.' It gets very confusing."

Mitchell, who started Blue Sky Miners alongside songwriting partner Jena Gogo in 2013 after meeting in a Toronto bar, is discussing the band's use of the bespoke term "Rocky

Mountain Desert Rock" to describe its smooth yet gritty sound. The phrase was coined by producer Todor Kobakov during the creation of the band's debut eponymous EP, to be released on October 23.

"While we were in the studio, we were trying to explain this sound that was coming, because it just kind of organically happened as we were recording," Mitchell says, noting much of that style had to do with the vintage tube-and-ribbon mics, guitars, keyboards and synths used to record the EP. "It's just kind of one of those things where you're just trying to put

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your finger on it and somebody's like, boom, got it."

The vintage instruments and tones pay homage to the artists who have shaped the collective influences of Blue Sky Miners—rounded out

by Eric Duquette, Mark Lavoie and Stefan Hegerat. For Mitchell, this includes Cat Stevens, the Rolling Stones and Paul Simons. He notes that his father had a penchant for vinyl collecting, and it was these artists who sparked his interest in making music.

"They were such great storytellers, but they took the kind of classic sto-

rytelling style of writing [and] applied it to a bit more rock 'n' roll—other than Cat Stevens, of course," Mitchell says. "I feel like that was a bit inspiration for me, and Jena as well. We both really like to write stories and [have] that folk aspect, but we sit more in a rock 'n' roll setting."

The EP's first single, "Cold Water" is an emotionally charged, harmonydriven track that epitomizes the band's ethos of creating songs driven by storytelling. While the lyrics are not cut-and-dry remarks, Mitchell says they touch on the controversial

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"We don't like to label ourselves as a political band, but we are all very concerned about the state of the world, and it's a concern that a lot of people have. And we wanted to capture that," he says. "Everyone who writes music: your job is to inspire people to kind of elevate their visions, kind of influence people to speak up. I think that's what we wanted with the song, is to inspire people to speak their mind."

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Union Duke T

he three core members of Union Duke—which is now a quintet— have spent the past decade or so honing the band's decidedly rootsrock sound, complete with plenty of harmonies, foot-stomping melodies and twang. But as vocalist and percussionist Matt Warry-Smith explains, the band's looking to start incorporating other elements as well.

"It's fun to play a lot of bluegrass, and I know what our band is and what we sound like, but you know, just to keep it interesting for us," he says. "You've got to start changing it up in whatever way works. I also

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think that all of us, especially me personally writing songs, the songs always kind of reflect the music that I'm listening to at the time, so even if it's not a conscious decision, if I start to listen to a whole bunch of new tunes, that'll definitely start to affect the tunes we write."

The band is reaching the end of its touring cycle for Cash & Carry, an album released last June, and there's plans to head into the studio later this year to get to work on another.

They guys have been doing plenty of writing in the meantime, though, and several new songs have begun

to find their way into the regular setlist—but it's early days, and these could go through several iterations before the final recordings.

Even the songs from Cash & Carry have started to evolve from their original compositions.

"It's always interesting to me, when we come out with an album we listen to it kind of nonstop to know what all the changes are and just to know if we like it or not," Warry-Smith explains. "I haven't listened to that record since it came out probably, and if a song comes on it's like, 'Oh, that's strange. This is so much faster

or slower than how we play it live, or now we do this or now we do that.'"

Two of the songs Union Duke wrote since the release of Cash & Carry were recorded as singles last December, but Warry-Smith says it's unlikely they'll be on the next album due to the volume of songwriting the band does. The singles, titled "Set Me Off" and "Country Band" are semi-autobiographical tracks— "'Country Band' is probably a little more dramatic than our actual lives, but that's part of songwriting," Warry-Smith says with a laugh—incorpo-

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rate snare drums and more diverse percussion elements than the band's usual combination of tambourine, cymbals and kick-drum, something Warry-Smith would like to continue with the band's new material.

"You can only do so much stomping for every single song," he adds.

"Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking the stomp. I love the stomp; I'm making a career off it, but I think we'd love to try to experiment with some new songs, some different instrumentation."

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want to see a bear and a moose," Liz Stringer says with a laugh. "I've always wanted to come to Canada. It's just surreal being here."

The Australian folk singer is on her first North American tour, which includes 16 shows across Canada. Since her start in 2006, the songstress has toured Australia, Germany (where she lived for two years), Austria and the Netherlands, but she had never spent much time in the western part of the world—save for a trip to Kansas City for the Folk Alliance International Conference last February.

"I'm a full-time musician, and it's important for me to expand my territories," Stringer says over the phone from Robson Valley, BC. "Now that I have a foothold in Germany, the focus is here [in North America]."

Before embarking on her North American tour, Stringer decided to use her time efficiently and record her fifth studio album. Recorded in Type Foundry Studio in Portland, Oregon, the untitled album—slated for an April 2016 release—is Stringer's first to be recorded outside Australia, as well as without her usual band and crew.

Working alongside studio founder Adam Selzer and Portland musicians

Wed, Aug 26 (10 pm) Blackdog Ben Nugent (drums) and Luke Ydstie (bass), the record departs from the acoustic folk style Stringer maintained on previous albums such as Tides of Time, Pendulum and Soon, or the soulful southern rock on Warm in the Darkness, and exudes a more popinfluenced sound.

"Adam got those guys [Nugent and Ydstie] in. They played a bit together; they knew each other. These songs, this is what was interesting playing with them [is that] they both have pretty different styles," Stringer explains. "But I have been writing differently than I have before, so I found it very fitting to be playing with totally different people with these new songs. I had never played any of these songs live before, so it was the three of us imagining them together in the studio as opposed to me having played them with my band and having really set parts. It was really open working with these guys."

The album encompasses pop influences from the '70s and '80s, like the Pretenders or early Tom Petty, but there is a '90s West Coast feel to it as well. This element is thanks to Portland's geography and Selzer recording rhythm sections and guitar to tape, giving the album an warmer overall vibe than Stringer's previous records. Stringer describes one half of the album as straight-ahead pop-rock, while the other half is reminiscent of Jane Clark, but it maintains a cohesive feel throughout "[Adam and I] worked really well together," Singer says. "The album was made really quickly—eight days of tracking. You can hear that [in this album]. It's kept it awake as opposed to having too much time to think and dragging it out, which has happened with other albums of mine. It really worked out."

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PREVUE // METAL

Insomnium

F

inland's Insomnium is notorious for producing extremely high quality melodic death metal, release after release. The band's sixth studio offering, Shadows of the Dying Sun, was released in the spring of 2014, and it showcased the technical prowess of an outfit at the peak of its songwriting abilities. After garnering positive reaction to the record and the tour that followed its release, Insomnium is bringing its symphonic sound and electric live presence back to North America on a headlining tour. But—this time around, anyway—only half of the original group will experience the journey.

Insomnium's guitarist and vocalist, Ville Friman, had engagements at home that took priority. So the band recruited ex-Arch Enemy guitarist, Nick Cordle, to fill Friman's shoes months before the tour even began. But shortly before the group left for North America, Insomni-

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um's bassist and vocalist, Nillo Sevänen, was faced with a very ill loved one. He was forced to stand by his family, while Insomnium scrambled to save the tour it was heavily invested in.

"It was very stressful because we made the decision [to go], like, four days before the tour began," says drummer Markus Hirvonen.

After a number of meetings, Insomnium reached out to the North American metal network, eventually landing on bassist and growler Mike Bear to fill in for Sevänen. Although Insomnium only has 50 percent of its core members, Hirvonen is confident early on in the tour.

"It has been smooth. Of course at the first show it was kind of weird seeing different guys on stage, and it was kind of like, 'OK, what is this going to be?' But it's been really good," he notes. "Every-

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The stand-ins have been doing an excellent job so far on the tour, Hirvonen says, adding the people the band's encountered have been amazing, the crowds have been active and more and more people have been making it out to Insomnium shows. While it's unfortunate that Sevänen is dealing with dire circumstances in Finland, Hirvonen seems pleased that he and guitarist Markus Vanhala decided to embark on a tour that was seemingly up in the air barely two weeks ago.

"It was Nillo who pushed us to do this and go have fun and do what we do best," Hirvonen says. "Of course, it's a bit worrying. But the important thing is that Nillo is there with his family. We were just happy we were able to pull it out."

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Napalmpom self-identifies as "smile-rock," and it's an apt description for the band's high-flying riffs.

"Watch It Burn," off the group's new split 12-inch with Cancon rock royalty, Ian Blurton and his Torontobased group Public Animal, reflects the band perfectly.

The group describes "Watch It Burn"—the band's first release since of its album The Unconditional Love of Napalmpom last year—as "kind of an anti-anthem to all the macho rock & roll bands Napalmpom tries so desperately to

not be associated with" on its Bandcamp page. The song is fun with a capital-F, with Lavergne's vocals soaring over the pummelling riffs of guitarists Shawn Petsche and Craig Evans "We're five dudes that are really aware we're five white dudes in a rock 'n' roll band, and I think when we try and make rock 'n' roll records that it has to be something more than, 'Oh, I'm angry about my last breakup or I'm upset about, y'know, xyz,'" Lavergne says. "There's certain topics you have to address, but you have to be able to address them like an asshole, y'know?

THU OCT 1, MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE

LINDI ORTEGA

Sat, Aug 22 (8:30 pm) With Public Animal, Counterfeit Jeans Brixx, $10

W/ GUESTS

FRI OCT 2, THE STARLITE ROOM

PATRICK WATSON

"Yeah, sure, I don't like getting dumped—y'know, no one does— but I'm not going to write a rockand-roll song about how that affects the entire opposite gender," he continues. "That's not fun, that's not inclusive and that's not something I want to see my friends sing along too, you know what I mean?"

W/ GUESTS

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

HAWKSLEY WORKMAN

JORDYN MARCELLUS

W/ GUESTS

JORDYN@VUEWEEKLY.COM THUR OCT 29, THE WINSPEAR

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

BAHAMAS W/ GUESTS

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NITEHAWKS / THU, AUG 20 (8:30 PM)

EDMONTON BLUES FESTIVAL / FRI, AUG 21 – SUN, AUG 23

It's a weekend of touring for Edmonton-based trio Nitehawks as the band kicks off a mini-tour of Alberta. Nitehawks will be bringing its garage-R&B sound to Edmonton, Olds and Calgary. (Brixx, $10)

Blues music, an open sky, good weather. What more can you ask for? The Edmonton Blue Festival brings the best blues artists from all over the world to Edmonton's scenic river valley in Hawrelak Park for three days. This year's lineup includes: the 44's with Kid Ramos, Shawn Holt and the Teardrops, Elvin Bishop, Diane Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley, Mr Sipp, the West Coast Blues All Stars featuring Junior Watson and Bob Corritore, Sugaray Rayford Big Band, Henry Gray and many more.

Visit bluesinternationalltd.com for details and ticket information. (Hawrelak Park, $123.50 weekend pass)

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J-REDS / FRI, AUG 21 (8:30 PM)

Edmonton rapper J-Reds is throwing a show for his third album release, but this is unlike your typical EP party—it will also be a video shoot. So put on your best clothes and dancing shoes and get ready to ... Hip-hop hooray, hooooo, heyyyyyyy, hoooo. (Mercury Room, $15)

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Get ready for what is being referred to as the #YYCCIRCUS. Calgary acts Melted Mirror, Manaray, Juicebox and Serious Clouds will take you on a galatic, spiritual ride. (Brixx, $10)

COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO

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FORSAKEN RITE / SAT, AUG 22 (8 PM)

Edmonton-based metalheads Forsaken Rite promise to bring songs of great battles fought, wisdom of its ancestors, drinks, dangerous beasts and adventure. If that doesn't hook you, then maybe support acts Skymir or Valyria will. (Rendezvous Pub, $10)

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STONE IRIS / SAT, AUG 22 (8 PM)

Hometown new-blues rock band Stone Iris has a new EP coming out, and the band's throwing a good ol' fashion rock show with friends the Gibson Block and Darryl Matthews. (Mercury Room, $10)

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Live Music ever y Thu; 9pm

Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players ever y Fri; 9pm-2am

Open mic; 7pm; $2

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ ever y Thu; 7pm-close

RIVER CREE Clint Black; 7pm (doors), 9pm (show); $79.50; 18+ only

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Whiskey Boyz (rock); 9pm

THE COMMON The Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Rob Taylor (adult

Flashback; 9pm; No cover

pop/folk/rock); 9pm

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Grove DJ ever y Thu

The Rural Routes (folk); 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Open Mic featuring Stan Gallant; 9pm

Back Thursdays

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open

Andrew Scott (alt/countr y); 9pm SIDELINERS PUB & PANTRY

Thirsty Thursday Jam; 7:30pm

stage; 7pm; no cover

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Josh

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

& Omnium Gatherum with guests; 7pm (doors); $26

UNION HALL 3 Four All

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music

John (REFUGE MUSIC YEG) + Rootbeard; 9:30pm; No minors BLUES ON WHYTE Alex Zayas;

9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Ever y TueFri, 5-8pm BRIXX BAR & GRILL Antlerses, Nitehawks; 8:30pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); $10 THE BUCKINGHAM Eugene

Ripper with James Renton, John Guliak and guests; 8pm; $10 CAFE BLACKBIRD Daisy Blue;

ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks:

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

FRI AUG 21 APEX CASINO Vera (pop/R&B/

rock); 9pm ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL The

Navigators (celtic/folk) and Jason Greeley; 9pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Johnny McCuaig (rock/pop/ indie); 8pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Alex Zayas;

9pm BOHEMIA Bears in

7:30pm; $6

Hazenmore, Mitch Haney and guests; 9pm; $10; 18+ only

CAFÉ HAVEN Music ever y

BOURBON ROOM Dueling

Thu; 7pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

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

Your Own Vinyl Night: Ever y Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Ever y Thu; 8pm • Casper Hollands CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar:

Beach Party Jam hosted by the Barefoot Kings; Ukulele lessons 7:30pm followed by Jam at 8:30pm DRAFT BAR & GRILL The Irish

pianos ever y 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 • Ever y TueFri, 5-8pm

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam

Thu; 9pm JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Once Upon A Time

CASINO EDMONTON Jukebox

Leigh (countr y cabaret); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD The

in Graceland; until Aug 23

Whiskey Boyz (rock); 9pm

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Kixxsin

stage with One Percent (R&B/soul); 8pm ever y Thu

(countr y); 8pm

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

Holm (folk/pop); 9pm

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and

Blues Festival: featuring Shawn Holt and the Teardrops, The 44’s with Kid Ramos, and Elvin Bishop; 4:30pm; $50

dance floor; 9:30pm NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open

stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Adam HAWRELAK PARK– HERITAGE AMPHITHEATRE Edmonton

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Once Upon A Time

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam

in Graceland; until Aug 23

by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers ever y Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 RED PIANO Ever y Thu: Dueling

pianos at 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec

(jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm SHIKAOI PARK Duane Steele

(countr y); 6:30pm SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues ever y Thur: this week with Graham Guest; 7-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Open

LB'S PUB Cool Dads (blues);

9:30pm MERCURY ROOM J-Reds

and The Swoop present cd release & video shoot: Featuring J-REDS (rap) and Noah23 with DJ WeezL and DJ Brooklyn; 9pm; $15 (adv), $20 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and

dance floor; 9:30pm NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB Mike

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

Dominey (folk/roots/world); 9pm; No minors

DJs

9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl: Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop:

ON THE ROCKS Chronic Rock; OVERTIME Sherwood Park

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Kixxsin

(countr y); 8pm

9:30pm LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open

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

rock/indie); 9:30pm RED PIANO BAR Hottest

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players ever y Sat; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Forsaken Rite EP release with Skymir, Korperlose Stimme, Outlaws of Ravenhurst; 8pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door)

show), Valyria, Krepitus, Protosequence & Sleeping In Traffic; 6:30pm; 6:30 (doors), 7:30pm (music); $10 (adv), $15 (doors); All ages STARLITE ROOM Landmark Events Showcase; 6pm; $14 UNION HALL Tef Zee & Guests Hip Hop Night; 8pm (doors), 9pm (music); $15 (adv), $20 (party bus), $25 (door); 18+ only YEG DANCE CLUB Lisa Lashes;

9pm; $20

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Enchanting

Rhythms of Chinese Music; 7pm; $15-$30

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions:

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

MILLCREEK Live Music Fridays: this week featuring: The Metronomad; Each Fri, 8-10pm; Free

THE BOWER For Those Who

Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; ever y Sat

YEG DANCE CLUB Kutski;

9pm; $15

THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and ever ything in between with resident Dane

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Ever y

Friday DJs on all three levels

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ ever y

THE BOWER Strictly Goods:

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

Sat; 9pm

THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ ever y

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,

ENCORE–WEM Ever y Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

Wong ever y Sat THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday

and electro ever y Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce

RED STAR Movin’ on Up:

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music ever y Fri: this week Paul Woida (alt/rock); all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

DOWNTOWN FARMER'S MARKET EDMONTON Kyler

Schogen; 10am

in Graceland; until Aug 23 LB'S PUB Blue Yonder;

PALACE CASINO Uptown (pop/

WILD EARTH BAKERY–

CAFE BLACKBIRD The Trio

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Open Jam Nights; no

Aggedon (rock/pop/indie); 8pm

JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Once Upon A Time

Dueling Pianos; 9:30pm

– Barely Alive & Dodge & Fuski; 9pm; $20 (adv)

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep

(rock); 9pm; No cover

DENIZEN HALL Arcade-

ever y Sat; 3:30-7pm

OVERTIME Sherwood Park

UNION HALL Alliance Tour

Mirror, Manaray, Serious Clouds; 8:30pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Vent

CROWN AND ANCHOR PUB

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam

ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform ever y week; $10

ever y Fri

Grove DJ ever y Fri

Quartet; 8pm; $10

Leigh (countr y cabaret); 9pm

ON THE ROCKS Chronic Rock;

9pm

STARLITE ROOM Insomnium

BRIXX BAR & GRILL Melted

Descendants (canadian/ celtic/regional); 8pm; $25

cover

Hooliganz Reunion; 9pm

CASINO EDMONTON Jukebox

Marie and Her Groovecutters, The West Coast Blues All Stars featuring Junior Watson and Bob Corritore, and Sugaray Rayford Big Band; 1pm; $55

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

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; ever y Fri

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

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

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

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

UNION HALL Ladies Night

BOTTOMS UP

ever y Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

Fridays

SAT AUG 22 APEX CASINO Vera (pop/R&B/

rock); 9pm

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.

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jason Greeley; (countr y) 9pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Pete Turland; No minors; $10 (door) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair

of the Dog: this week with The Jamies (alt/electronic/ pop) (live acoustic music ever y Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

PARK AFTER DARK

afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; LATER: Alex Zayas; 9pm

Holm (folk/pop); 9pm

BOURBON ROOM Live Music

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free

MERCURY ROOM Stone Iris

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Rob Taylor (adult

Afternoon Concerts; 4pm FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN Whisky Pig; 8pm;

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands

BRIXX BAR & GRILL Public

Free

ever y Sat

GAS PUMP Saturday

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

Andrew Scott (alt/countr y); 9pm

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

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

O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB Mike Dominey (folk/roots/world); 9pm; No minors

Breakdowns For Break-Fest Ft. Death Toll Rising, Great White Shark Fight (last

Dueling Pianos; 9:30pm PALACE CASINO Uptown (pop/ rock/indie); 9:30pm

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Vent

Tales; 8pm; $10 (rock); 9pm; No cover

HAWRELAK PARK– HERITAGE AMPHITHEATRE Edmonton

Blues Festival: featuring Diana Braithwaite and Chris Whiteley, Mr. Sipp, Adrianna

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SUN AUG 23 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Sun BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm • Wammer Jammer BBQ Jam & Allan Beveridge's Birthday Bash; 6-11pm

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

ever y Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

CAFE BLACKBIRD Rye & Fair y

Saturdays

BLUES ON WHYTE Alex Zayas;

- #YEG Album Release with The Gibson Block and Darr yl Matthews; 9pm

Animal with Napalmpom and Counterfeit Jeans; 8:30pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10

Y AFTERHOURS Release

9pm

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays:

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Adam

Saturdays: ever y Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous

Nisku Open mic ever y Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

NORTHLANDSPARK.CA

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

UNION HALL Celebrity

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Ever y Sat

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

pop/folk/rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

The Rural Routes (folk); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

ST ALBERT COMMUNITY HALL

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Sunday Draft Jam; 4-8pm; 18+ only; No cover DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm HAWRELAK PARK– HERITAGE AMPHITHEATRE Edmonton

Blues Festival: featuring Jimmy and the Sleepers with Big Dave McLean and Rusty Reed, The Rockin’ Highliners Reunion, Henr y Gray with Bob Corritore and the West Coast All Stars, Janiva Magness, Canned Heat; 1pm; $55

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JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE

Once Upon A Time in Graceland; until Aug 23 NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday

Soul Ser vice: acoustic open stage ever y Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic ever y Sun; 9:30pm-1am

Miners/Mar ystown; 9pm hosted by Jim Dyck, Randy Forsberg and Mark Ammar; 4-8pm

OMNIUM GATHERUM

AUG/22 LANDMARK EVENTS SHOWCASE AUG/28 TWIN SHADOW UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

NIGHT RALLY TOUR W/ LANY

AUG/29

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OUT

SEP/4

W/ JAI WOLF

W/ PORT JUVEE AND BIG BEN

SEP/5 SEP/7 SEP/11

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic

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

DRAFT BAR & GRILL The Dirrty

SANDS HOTEL Countr y music

Champion; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

MON AUG 24 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite;

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

7pm; $45 DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue: featuring this week: Syd Perr y; 9pm EDMONTON CITY HALL

Enterprise Quartet: L’invitation: A Late Afternoon Concert; 4:30pm; Free L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Grady

Champion; 9pm CAFE BLACKBIRD Paint Nite;

dancing ever y Tue, featuring Countr y Music Legend Bev Munro ever y Tue, 8-11pm

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE The Gipsy

Beats; 6pm (doors) Show; 7:30pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison DV8 TAVERN Tyrant EP release WSG/ Ziege Schwanze & The Diligence; 8pm (doors), 9pm (music); $10; 18+ only

Kings featuring Nicolas Reyes and Tonino Baliardo; 7:30pm; $67.50-$92.50

FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio series: The Moanin' After (blues/rock) and Marco Claveria Project; 7:30pm

DJs

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & The

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Hurricanes

Floor: Brit Pop, Synthpop,

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW

Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and notso-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail

Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; ever y Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780.655.8520

BRIXX Metal night ever y Tue

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

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

Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, countr y, Top 40); 9pm-2am ever y Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam

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

7pm; $45 CONNAUGHT ARMOURY I Hate

Sex/Why, Marilyn/Nothing Gold Can Stay/Year Over Year; 8:30pm; $10; All ages

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower

W/ MAT THE ALIEN

open mic

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

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

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays:

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & The

DJs

KRAFTY KUTS DEVASTATION ON THE NATION TOUR

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

Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; ever y Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Hurricanes

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

BERMUDA FEST PRESENTS

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

W/ BLEED, BLOATED PIG, TYLOR DORY TRIO & TALES OF THE TOMB

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

VILLAINIZER

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open

Jam: Trevor Mullen

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

WED AUG 26 B STREET BAR Live Music with

Lyle Hobbs; 8-11pm, ever y Wed

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday

with Kris Har vey and guests Countr y Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • Sonny & The Hurricanes

Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest:

AUG/20 ANTLERSES W/ NITEHAWKS

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize ever y Wed; no cover

Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; ever y Mon; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam ever y Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

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 BLUES ON WHYTE Grady

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 RED STAR Guest DJs ever y Wed

Champion; 9pm

VENUEGUIDE

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 AUG/28 DIEMONDS W/ SLEEP DEMON

EATS AND BEATS

CD CONCEALER RELEASE W/ RAE SPOON AND ATLAAS

Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

DJs

24 MUSIC

BRIXX BAR Lettuce Produce

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

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

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Ever y Mon

SEP/4

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE

Bingo Toonz ever y Tue

UBK PRESENTS

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TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

BLUES ON WHYTE Grady

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest:

ODESZA CHRISTIAN HANSEN

Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

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

Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

TRUTH

RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live

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

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

DJs

W/ GUESTS

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

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

TUE AUG 25

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam

AUG/21 INSOMNIUM &

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

hop with DJ Creeazn ever y Mon; 9pm-2am

ON THE ROCKS Blue Sky CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave APEX CASINO 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, apexcasino.ca ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill. com "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, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca 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 CONNAUGHT ARMOURY 1031085 Ave CROWN AND ANCHOR PUB 15277 Castle Downs Rd NW, 780.

472.7696 DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall.com DOWNTOWN FARMERS MARKET Down 104th St DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW, draftbargrill.com 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

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FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN Edmonton City Centre, 10200102 Ave, 780.424.4330 HAWRELAK PARK 9930 Groat Rd NW HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JUBILATIONS DINNER THEATRE Phase II West Edmonton Mall, West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St, 780.484.2424, jubilations.ca KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY

ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PALACE CASINO–WEM West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2112, palacecasino.com PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave, 780.426.7784, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St, 780.431.0091, sherlockshospitality.com SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St, 780.444.1752, sherlockshospitality.com SHIKAOI PARK 4905-51 Ave,

Stony Plain 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 ST. ALBERT COMMUNITY HALL 17 Perron St, St Albert, 780.459.1500, stalbertcommunityhall.com 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, 780.702.2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.orgs/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

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

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

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

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

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Chris Heward; Aug 21-22 • Brian Link; Aug 28-29

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Barry Rothbart; Aug 19-23 • Mike Wilmot; Aug 26-30

CONNIE'S COMEDY • Draft Bar & Grill 12912-50 St • With Mike Dambra and The Dirty Show; Aug 26, 7:30pm

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

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

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply

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

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

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • 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

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

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 BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

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

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

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

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

• Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

ILLNESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS

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

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)

FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave,

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

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL ASSOCIATION • waskahegantrail.ca • Saunders Lake; Meeting place is northwest corner parking lot of Superstore, 5019 Calgary Trail; Key volunteer: Stella C. (780.488.9515); Aug 23, 8:45am; Car pool cost $5 • Middle Battle; Meeting place is northwest corner parking lot of Superstore, 5019 Calgary Trail; Key volunteer: Yvette S. (780.756.3623); Aug 29, 8:45am; Car pool cost $5

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave

TOASTMASTERS

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION NIGHT • Habitat for

winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ ualberta.ca

• 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

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 • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

• 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

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings:

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

• 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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/

LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St •

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am

SPECIAL EVENTS 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

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

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: 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)

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

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 • An entertainment spectacle that celebrates 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 MARATHON • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • edmontonmarathon.ca • It's that time of year again where Edmontonians take part in a run/walk on a route overlooking the beautiful River Valley and through several of Edmonton's historic and scenic neighbourhoods. The marathon is a Boston qualifer for 2016 • Aug 22-23, 10:30am (Sat), 6am (Sun)

FOOD TRUCKS ARE COMING… BACK! • St Albert Grain Elevator Park, 4 Meadowview Drive, St Albert • Enjoy great food, beer gardens, tours of the historic grain elevators, art activity with Art Gallery of St Albert, and live music by Paul Woida and Ella Coyes • Aug 28, 5-9pm • Admission by donation

HAIR CUT A THON • Cloverdale Community Hall, Gallagher Park, 9411-97 Ave • 780.554.6961 (Fredda) or 780.264.9240 (Nicole) • nafasi-opportunity@shaw.ca • nafasi-opportunity.org • With haircuts by great stylists, a silent auction, live music, and special guest MLA Marlin Schmidt • Aug 30, 12-4pm • Haircuts: $50 (adults), $30 (kids 12 & under) HEROES FOR HABITAT: EXPLORE, RESTORE, SUSTAIN • Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Road • 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

MARKET DAY • Prairie Urban Farm, 118 St, south of 60 Ave, South Campus • nbmartin@ ualberta.ca • Buy fresh veggies and then rest your arms by sitting down and listen to live music or play games • Free (event), a price list will be available for veggies. Cash only

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

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 WANDERLUST 108 • Louise McKinney Riverfront Park, 9999 Grierson Hill Rd NW • support@wanderlust.com • wanderlust.com/ events/about-wanderlust-108 • A “mindful triathlon” that brings three events together: a 5k run, an outdoor yoga experience, and a guided meditation — but with a twist • Aug 29, 9:30am-5pm • $50-$60

WHAT THE TRUCK?! • Telus Field, 1023396 Ave NW • whatthetruck.ca • Enjoy the different food trucks in our city! Featuring DJ's, glitter tattoos, and food • Aug 22, 4-8pm • Free (with parking) YEG MARKET IN THE BACK ALLEY • Back Alley Stony Plain Rd between 152-153 • yegmarket.com • Featuring local vendors, family zone, entertainment, local wine and cedar beer patio, and many more • Aug 23, 9am-5pm

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Announcements

FRIENDS of GUT KAOK and MARTIN ROGER LEVENSON We invite you to gather together August 22, 2015 at Baraka Gardens to celebrate the spirit of a superb and much beloved human being. In the tradition of the Gut, this event is informal, and contributions of food and libations will be appreciated to share along with stories, laughs and tears.

For more details, please RSVP to 780-221-5023, or visit www.barakagardens.com.

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

For more information about the simple process of making a submission, visit http:/paintspot.ca/naess-gallery or email accounts@paintspot.ca.

Deadline for submissions: August 31, 2015.

Can You Read This?

Help Someone Who Can’t!

Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills.

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S. 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca

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ENJOY ART ALWAYZ www.bdcdrawz.com

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VASA GALLERY 2016 Call for Visual Art Submissions The Visual Artist Studio Association (VASA) Gallery of St. Albert is pleased to announce the 2016 Call for Submissions. Professional and emerging Edmonton area artists are eligible to submit works online to submissions@vasa-art.com by September 15, 2015.

Interested artists, visit vasaart.com for the submissions guidelines. All applicants will be notified by email regarding the result of their submission.

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ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): You'd probably prefer to stay in the romantic, carefree state of mind.

But from what I can tell, you're ripe for a new phase of your long-term cycle. Your freestyle rambles, and jaunty adventures should now make way for careful introspection and thoughtful adjustments. Instead of restless star-gazing, I suggest patient earth-gazing. Despite how it may initially appear, it's not a comedown. In fact, I see it as an unusual reward that will satisfy you in unexpected ways.

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): In accordance with the current astrological omens, I recommend the following activities: Sing a love song at least once a day.

Seek a message from an ancestor in a reverie or dream. Revisit your three favourite childhood memories. Give a gift or blessing to the wildest part of you. Swim naked in a river, stream or lake. Change something about your home to make it more sacred and mysterious. Obtain a symbolic object or work of art that stimulates your courage to be true to yourself.

Find relaxation and renewal in the deep darkness. Ruminate in unbridled detail about how you will someday fulfil a daring fantasy.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 20): The ancient Greek epic poem the Iliad is one of the foundation works of Western literature. Written in the eighth century BCE, it tells the story of the 10-year-long Trojan War. The cause of the conflict was the kidnap of Helen of Troy, reputed to be the world's most beautiful woman. And yet nowhere in the Iliad is there a description of Helen's beauty. We hear no details about why she deserves to be at the centre of the legendary saga. Don't be like the Iliad in the coming weeks, Gemini. Know everything you can about the goal at the centre of your life. Be very clear and specific and precise about what you're fighting for and working towards.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): The comedian puppets known as the Muppets have made eight movies. In The Great Muppet Caper, the muppets Kermit and Fozzie play brothers, even though one is a green frog and the other a brown bear. At one point in the story, we see a photo of their father, who has the colouring and eyes of Kermit, but a bear-like face. I bring up their unexpected relationship, Cancerian, because I suspect that a similar anomaly might be coming your way: a bond with a seemingly improbable ally. To prepare, stretch your ideas about what influences you might want to connect with.

LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): English author Barbara Cartland published her first novel at age 21. By the time she died 77 years later, she had written more than 700

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other books. Some sources say she sold 750 million copies, while others put the estimate at two billion. In 1983 alone, she churned out 23 novels. I foresee a Barbara Cartland-type period for you in the coming months, Leo. Between now and your birthday in 2016, I expect you to be as fruitful in your own field as you have ever been. And here's the weird thing: One of the secrets of your productivity will be an enhanced ability to chill out. "Relaxed intensity" will be your calming battle cry.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): ''On or about December 1910, human character changed,'' wrote English author Virginia Woolf in 1924.

What prompted her to draw that conclusion? The rapidly increasing availability of electricity, cars and indoor plumbing? The rise of the women's suffrage movement? Labour unrest and the death of the King? The growing prominence of experimental art

by Cezanne, Gauguin, Matisse and Picasso? The answer might be all of the above, plus the beginning of a breakdown in the British class system. Inspired by the current astrological omens, I'll borrow her brash spirit and make a new prediction: During the last 19 weeks of 2015, the destiny of the Virgo tribe will undergo a fundamental shift. Ten years from now, I bet you will look back at this time and say, "That was when everything got realigned, redeemed and renewed."

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): "The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble," said psychologist Carl Jung. "They can never be solved, but only outgrown." I subscribe to that model of dealing with dilemmas, and I hope you will consider it, too— especially in light of the fact that from now until July 2016 you will have more power than ever before to outgrow two of your biggest problems. I don't guarantee that you will transcend them completely, but I'm confident you can render them at least 60-percent less pressing, less imposing and less restricting. And 80 percent is quite possible.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): Hundreds of years ago, Hawaiians celebrated an annual holiday called Makahiki. It began in early November and lasted four months. No one worked very much for the duration. There were nonstop feasts and games and religious ceremonies. Community-building was a featured theme, and one taboo was strictly enforced: no war or bloodshed. I encourage you Scorpios to enjoy a similar break from your daily fuss. Now is an especially propitious time to ban conflict, contempt, revenge and sabotage as you cultivate solidarity in the groups that are important for your future. You may not be able to make your own personal

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the Museum of Failed Products is a warehouse full of consumer goods that companies created but no one wanted to buy. It includes caffeinated beer, yogurt shampoo, fortune cookies for dogs and breath mints that resemble vials of crack cocaine.

The most frequent visitors to the museum are executives seeking to educate themselves about what errors to avoid in their own companies' future product development. I encourage you to be inspired by this place, Sagittarius.

Take an inventory of the wrong turns you've made in the past.

Use what you learn to create a revised master plan.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result." Virtually all of us have been guilty of embodying that well-worn adage. And according to my analysis of the astrological omens, quite a few of you Capricorns are currently embroiled in this behaviour pattern.

But I am happy to report that the coming weeks will be a favourable time to quit your insanity cold turkey. In fact, the actions you take to escape this bad habit could empower you to be done with it forever. Are you ready to make a heroic effort? Here's a good way to begin: Undo your perverse attraction to the stressful provocation that has such a seductive hold on your imagination.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): "Everything I've ever let go of has claw marks on it," confessed the late, great author David Foster Wallace. Does that describe your experience, too? If so, events in the coming months will help you break the pattern. More than at any other time in the last 10 years, you will have the power to liberate yourself through surrender. You will understand how to release yourself from overwrought attachment through love and grace rather than through stress and force.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): "Most people love in order to lose themselves," wrote Hermann Hesse in his novel Demian. But there are a few, he implied, who actually find themselves through love. In the coming months, Pisces, you are more likely to be one of those rare ones. In fact, I don't think it will even be possible for you to use love as a crutch. You won't allow it to sap your power or make you forget who you are. That's good news, right? Here's the caveat: You must be ready and willing to discover much more about the true nature of your deepest desires— some of which may be hidden from you right now. V AT THE BACK 27

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nyone who's ever hosted a sex-themed event in Edmonton knows that it can be hard to find a location that won't freak out and boot you when it discovers what you're up to. Nikki Uhryn hopes to solve this problem.

Having been part of Edmonton's kink community for some time, Uhryn was aware of the lack of suitable spaces. In an email, she describes her new venture, Alt. space, as "an adultsonly space where all of Edmonton and area's alternative sexuality communities— from BDSM to LGBT* to swingers and beyond—can come to socialize, shop, learn and play without fear of judgement." The idea arose when Uhryn was looking for more space to house her family business, Ware's and Wear, which makes and distributes kinky toys and apparel.

She found the perfect space, but it came with a second level that Ware's and Wear didn't need.

Uhyrn and crew set up their kinky toy operation on the main floor and converted the two large rooms upstairs into a workshop/meeting room space and a fully equipped dungeon.

"This room [the dungeon] is great for individuals who are seeking a place to play on their own schedule," she explains, "From couples who don't have the ability to play in their home to professional dominants who might not want clients coming to their home."

Both rooms are available for these types of private rentals, but Alt.Space also holds its own events and welcomes community groups to do the same.

"We host our own events every third Friday of the month called Fetish Fridays," she writes, "Which is an event where people can come out and meet friends old and new, play, socialize and have fun."

sex to cross-dressing to introduction to BDSM. When talking about these workshops, Uhryn told me that she wanted to create a space where people can feel comfortable exploring the more taboo areas of sexuality.

This really struck a chord with me: so many of us are interested in learning about alternative sex, but

sponse has been overwhelming.

They've been open for less than two months and have already had a number of couples and private parties book the dungeon, and have hosted a few groups in the meeting room for practice sessions and discussion groups. Uhryn hopes the space will find its niche as word spreads.

"Eventually we aim to be a staple resource for all of Edmonton [and] area's a l te r n a t i v e sexuality scene(s)," she writes.

"We hope to be able to be a cohesive area where all of Edmonton can come to feel comfortable and at home." V

We eventually aim to be a staple resource for all of Edmonton [and] area's alternative sexuality scene(s). We hope to be able to be a cohesive area where all of Edmonton can can feel comfortable and at home. it's so hard to know where to start that many of us don't even bother. We worry that if we just walk into an event or play party we will have no clue what to do, or we'll be expected to do things for which we may not be ready. These seminars are a great way to learn more about the things you've been curious about before diving right in.

The need for Alt.space in Edmonton is evident: Uhryn says the re-

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I'm a woman in a straight relationship. I woke up this morning, and my BF wasn't in bed with me. He felt ill in the middle of the night and went to sleep in the spare room—where he found a condom in its wrapper behind the nightstand. Now my BF thinks I'm cheating on him. I haven't cheated on him and have no desire to. I have an IUD and we are monogamous, so we don't use condoms.

But I used to keep condoms around to use on an old sex toy that I liked but was allergic to. That toy is long gone (I found out it was made of terrible materials and disposed of it), but I kept the condoms in case I met someone. That someone ended up being him—but by the time we met, I had an IUD. I explained all this to him, but he doesn't believe me.

We've lived together for two years and were just talking about buying a house and having kids.

CONDOM RESURFACES AND SHATTERS HAPPINESS Your boyfriend should ask himself—order him to ask himself— which is the likelier scenario: that his girlfriend scatters condoms around the house because she's cheating on him?

Or that his girlfriend, like almost all sexually active adults who have used condoms for birth control, disease prevention and sex-toy safety, has a few loose condoms rattling around her living space?

That your boyfriend can't accept your perfectly reasonable explanation for that one stray condom, CRASH, has me wondering if the recent talk about buying a house and having kids might be the actual issue. Is he looking for an excuse to dump you, and the stray condom is a convenient casus belli? Or is he really that jealous and insecure? If he doesn't want to buy a house and have kids, then you obviously shouldn't buy a house or have kids with him. But the same goes if he's really this jealous and insecure. You don't want to be saddled with a partner who sees evidence of infidelity where none exists, CRASH, because life is a parade of incidents and ephemera—an easily misinterpreted text message from a male coworker, a stray pair of underpants left behind by a boyfriend who predates him, a cute waiter/barista/personal trainer who catches your eye—that could potentially set him off.

Everyone is entitled to moments of insecurity, of course, but you don't want to be with a man who melts down over nothing.

Call that attractive instructor, HEMP, and tell him you're single now so you'll be coming to that second session alone.

WORK-SEX BALANCE

My boyfriend of three years and I have an ongoing problem. His libido is much higher than mine, and at one point I wasn't making enough of an effort to meet him in the middle.

But now we have great sex on average four or five times per week, and I initiate about a third of that.

(If it were completely up to him,

ments when you can't be his human masturbatory aid, and stop feeling guilty about having sex "only" four or five times per week.

DOOFUS OR ASSHOLE?

I'm a bed wetter and am super embarrassed about it. My boyfriend knows, and I know he doesn't mean to hurt me, but he makes jokes about it. He even once saw me wet myself and made a joke. I know I should say something, but I'm afraid to.

WANTS EMOTIONAL TENDERNESS There are only two reasons your boyfriend would be making jokes about your bed-wetting problem: He is trying to be nice (he mistakenly believes these jokes put you at ease; he's trying to make you feel less self-conscious, not more; he wants to make the bed-wetting seem like no big deal, ie, something you two can laugh off together) or he is a giant asshole (he knows you're sensitive about it and makes these jokes anyway because HE'S AN ASSHOLE; he makes jokes expressly to demean you because HE'S AN ASSHOLE; he is intentionally shredding your self-esteem so that 1) you'll think that no one else would ever want you and 2) you'll settle for this guy even though HE'S AN ASSHOLE).

There's just one way to figure out whether he's a nice doofus who's accidentally hurting you or a giant asshole who actually does mean to hurt you: USE YOUR WORDS. Tell him the jokes hurt your feelings—no smile, no ambiguity, no gloss— and then see what happens. If he knocks it off, WET, he was a nice doofus and the relationship may be salvageable. If he keeps it up, if the jokes don't stop, he's a giant asshole and he actually does mean to hurt you and the relationship isn't worth salvaging. (Please bear this in mind: An asshole might claim to be a nice doofus—he'll tell you he was just trying to make you feel better about the bed-wetting thing with humour—but if the jokes don't stop ... he's not a nice doofus.

He's a giant asshole.)

The reason you're afraid to say something is that you don't want to lose him. But you need to flip that on its head: If your boyfriend is a giant asshole—even if he's just a medium asshole—you should be in a big fucking hurry to lose him. Say something. V

Your boyfriend is inconsiderate—in the most literal sense of the word. He failed to take into consideration that sex five times a week is a lot of sex, objectively speaking, particularly in a long-term relationship.

THE TIES THAT BIND

My boyfriend of six months tied me

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up for the first time a month ago.

He didn't know what he was doing, and I didn't get turned on because it hurt. I got him two sessions with a professional bondage top as a gift.

I was the "model," and I was very turned on as the instructor walked my boyfriend through safe bondage techniques and positions. The guy was attractive, but not as attractive as my boyfriend. At one point I shuddered, and my boyfriend is convinced I had an orgasm. He says I cheated right in front of him, and now he wants to dump me. What do I do?

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we'd probably have sex one or two times a day.) This past week, I've been working crazy shifts for a work event—14-hour days with a 1.5-hour commute each way. I told him that I very likely would not have the energy to have sex. But when I got home the other day, knowing that I had to get up and leave again in less than seven hours, he initiated sex and I refused. I was too tired. He got very upset. Whenever I say no, he seems to automatically categorize my refusal as evidence of laziness or selfishness. I'm not sure what to do at this point. I really want to make this work.

WORKING HARD AND TIRED Your boyfriend is inconsiderate—in the most literal sense of the word.

He has failed to take into consideration that sex five times a week is a lot of sex, objectively speaking, particularly in a long-term relationship.

And your boyfriend failed—utterly failed—to take into consideration your current crushing workload when he attempted to initiate sex after you had worked/commuted for 17 hours and had to get up in seven hours and do it all over again.

I suggest you get your boyfriend a Fleshlight, WHAT, for those mo-

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