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CAtAlonIA: the sIlent mAjorIty

Spain crushes Catalonia’s independence and sits in a new leader for the time being

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t’s been going on for a while.

“Recently in Catalonia we have been living through a kind of ‘soft’ totalitarianism...the illusion of unanimity created by the fear of expressing dissent,” wrote best-selling Catalan author Javier Cercas in the Spanish newspaper El Pais in 2014. Those who didn’t want independence kept their heads down and their mouths shut, in other words.

Three years later, it has just got worse. Last July, leading Catalan film-maker Isabel Coixet told The Observer that “Madrid is deaf and mute and the government here (in Catalonia) is really happy about that. They never really look for dialogue at all.” She added that Catalans are afraid of speaking out “for fear of being called fascists.”

That about sums it up. Opinion polls consistently show that a majority of the people who live in Catalonia want it to remain part of Spain. The latest, published in El Pais on Saturday, showed that 55 percent of those polled opposed the declaration of independence in the Catalan parliament last week, with only 41 percent in favour.

That’s an even more decisive rejection of separation from Spain than a poll commissioned by the Catalan government and

published just before the declaration of independence, which came out 49 percent to 41 percent in favour of remaining in Spain. Yet the news coverage was all about flag-waving nationalist crowds demanding independence, because the silent majority was staying low.

Finally, on Sunday, a big proSpanish crowd came out in the streets of Barcelona: 300,000 people according to the police, more than a million according to the organizers. About the same size as the pro-independence crowds, therefore, but they left it rather late. The separatist strategy has worked well, and by now the fat is really in the fire.

The separatists’ problem was this: no opinion poll has ever shown a majority for independence since the current upsurge in Catalan nationalism began about eight years ago. For the past few years the ‘yes’ vote has been stuck at around 40 percent. You can hardly declare independence for the region without a vote of some kind, so what do you do?

A referendum is better than an election, because it’s a singleissue vote that will really get the faithful out. But how do you prevent the more numerous scep-

tics from voting too? Well, the Spanish constitution is a great help there, because it says that a referendum on independence for any of Spain’s regions would be illegal. So if you hold one, maybe the true nationalists will vote despite the law, while the rest obey the law and stay away.

They road-tested this model three years ago with an ‘advisory’ referendum that the Madrid government sort of tolerated (though it said it was illegal), and it worked just fine.

Only 37 percent of the population voted, but 80 percent of those who did show up voted ‘yes’ to independence That’s the kind of number you could really use to justify declaring independence, even if it’s a bit of a cheat. If anybody complains, just shrug your shoulders, say you wish the turn-out had been higher, and carry on doing what you want to do: declaring independence.

And so it came to pass.

The independence referendum on October 1 was the real thing, not ‘advisory’ at all. Rather late in the day Spanish Prime Minister Maria Rajoy realised that the independentistas intended to use the result as a justification for a declaration of independence, so he got a court judgement confirming that the referendum was illegal and sent the police in to shut it down.

The Catalan nationalists had foreseen this, and welcomed it.

Nothing could be better for the cause than images of Spanish police dragging women out of polling booths, and the uproar would keep even the hardiest ‘no’ voters away. The fuse this time was a bit higher, at 43 percent, and so was the ‘yes’ vote: 90 percent. Very gratifying.

With that manipulated result in hand, the president of Catalonia’s regional government, nationalist leader Carles Puigdemont, declared independence last week. The Spanish central

the independence referendum on october 1 was the real thing, not ‘advisory’ at all. government immediately dissolved the regional parliament, removed Puigedemont and his cabinet from office, and announced a fresh regional election for December 21.

It’s all strictly in accord with Article 155 of the Spanish constitution, and Puigdemont probably foresaw this too. He has always been three moves ahead of Madrid. Meanwhile, Spains’s Deputy Prime Minister Soraya Saenz de Santamaria now has the job

of running Catalonia until the election, and she will probably have a very difficult time.

Puigdemont is now officially a martyr in the eyes of his fellow separatists, and Spain says that he will be allowed to run in the December election, so he has lost nothing. Unless the silent majority find their voices, he may yet be the first president of the Catalan Republic.

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irrelevant war of the catholic church The Catholic school district’s attempted re-write of the sex-ed curriculum raises a lot of interesting questions

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can’t even begin to tell you how much brocade there was. Acres of opulent fabric framed the walls, intricate designs painstakingly stitched onto fabric. The gowns were phenomenal—they draped to the floor and pooled around ankles, lending a feminine silhouette to the wearers.

And the hats! They were architectural miracles, rivalling even the poshest set at a royal derby. The room was lit by candlelight, its soft glow refracted by the moving crowd. It was a breathtaking scene of a community coming together to celebrate. no, I am not describing the Imperial Court’s latest coronation, although I very well could be. Rather, I am describing a funeral for a nun—the one and only time I have ever witnessed a Catholic religious ceremony. not having been raised Catholic myself, I was

And then, as I revisited the memory of that funeral, it came to me: they’re jealous! Picture it: you’re a 15th century peasant, you’re living in Europe, and your life is probably pretty shitty.

The Renaissance hasn’t quite started, the food sucks, and your clothes could generously be described as sack-like.

But Sunday comes around and you’re transported to a whole new world.

Come touch the glory of God! Sure, you probably don’t understand Latin and the priest is diddling your kids, but look at the bright colours and incense!

But then along comes the Protestant Reformation and the Industrial Revolution and Wi-Fi and suddenly shiny stuff that doesn’t smell like sheep shit isn’t as much of a lure as it used to be.

The Catholic Church may have had to cede a lot of ground over the last several centuries, but they’re not go-

Why does an institution that literally believes grape drink and stale crackers turn into the flesh and blood of their saviour can’t get its mind around the difference between sex and gender? stunned at how over the top it was, add a disco ball and some Katy Perry and you’re most of the way to a drag show. At first I thought they were bringing out the big guns for the deceased Sister, but apparently the incense and fancy clothes and the gilt ( everything was covered in gold) are all part and parcel of a typical Sunday around those parts.

I’ve been reflecting on this memory lately as I’ve been watching the Catholic School District clumsily explain why it attempted to re-write the sex ed. curriculum. I keep trying to figure out why an institution that is halfway queer hates us so much. Are they just so deeply in the closet that they can’t even see what’s obvious to everyone else (oh, hi Jason Kenney!)?

Why does an institution that literally believes grape drink and stale crackers turn into the flesh and blood of their saviour can’t get its mind around the difference between sex and gender?

What am I missing?

ing to let go of sex, dammit. If two (or three) ladies can get it on without any guilt, if someone can fully inhabit life as a non-binary person (let’s be honest, the Catholics think all this gender stuff is really about sex), then what’s the point of the Catholic Church? Specifically, what is the point of Catholic education?

Right now, the answer to that question seems to stop at we’re teaching a rigid morality that is linked to genitals.

Take that away and you have a normal public school system. The Catholic school system is fighting a war against irrelevancy and they are losing, regardless of what the constitution says. Indeed, we might not ever be rid of them so frankly, instead of trying to change the constitution, let’s just stop showing up. If you’re a parent with a kid in Catholic school and you care about people, it’s time you also start asking yourself why you’re there.

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A work of sAvoury itAliAn Art Pasta Brioni’s art choice may raise some eyebrows, but the food will surprise your taste buds

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asta Brioni, you sure caught me off guard. I’m mean, in some ways I was completely ready for your sturdy, expertly assembled Italian fare, and I was not surprised to see the overhead lighting and prominent flatscreen TVs or to hear the retro-hits FM radio you relinquished your ambiance to.

You drew me in with your promise of decent pasta and kept me with your extensive, reasonably priced menu. But I couldn’t have anticipated that you’d give me so much food for thought…

Brioni is a big space to be sure, when you add together the dining room lounge, which share a continuous dark-toned colour scheme and off-the-shelf framed Italianate imagery.

Lunch looks like a busy time for them, based on the redactionsmudged chalkboards behind the sandwich counter, its contents veiled under cloths for the evening.

Supper on this night hosted only a handful of tables, which inspired the kitchen to catch up on some noisy prep work that involved pounding.

Co-diner and I were so famished we went straight to work figuring out what to eat. It was only after the server took our order from the range of pastas, entrees, steaks and pizzas that we noticed the enormous mural on the northern wall. It was a representation of a what we found out is a famous photograph called “An American Girl in Italy.” It depicts a young American named Ninalee Craig walking through a street full of ogling, jeering Florentine men.

Craig has claimed she adored the attention at the time, but there’s no way to tell from looking at her averted eyes, or the way she clutches her handbag and shawl. But the artist’s rendering in Pasta Brioni pretty much eradicates whatever ambiguity might abide in the image captured

by Ruth Orkin’s camera in 1951.

Brioni’s artist has added colour, as well as a twilit murkiness to

the scene, turning the men’s shadowed, contorted features faintly monstrous. The girl at the centre of it all seems to be rushing so as to not be caught there when night falls. The artist also added a couple of guys, one passed out on a table, that aren’t in the photo, perhaps for comic relief?

In any case, the painting is its own work of art, stirring troubling resonances not contained in the already controversial original image.

In short, it’s kind of crazy and, yes, entirely unexpected. I invite you to see it yourself and use the occasion to ponder the belated comeuppance (or continued ascendance) of powerful, prominent sexual predators in the current cultural moment.

But while you’re doing so, you might want to enjoy Brioni’s Chicken Gigi ($15.95), which the menu proclaims a house specialty. A whole chicken breast—pounded, breaded and carefully fried—is smothered (and I do mean smothered) in a rich tomato-cream sauce laced with ham and mushrooms. If you like chicken parmigiana but not the upholstery of mozzarella cheese that often covers it, Chicken Gigi is similarly savoury and rib-sticking.

Alternately, Brioni will give the Gigi treatment to a different meat or pasta of your choosing. My order also entitled me to a generous side of al dente penne in simple but effective tomato sauce, to ensure I didn’t walk away hungry or insufficiently redolent of garlic.

Co-diner’s tortellini alla panna ($13.95) was likewise generous and well-executed, its plump vealpockets immured in garlicky alfredo sauce. She admitted defeat just past the half-way mark and took the rest home.

The tomato bocconcini salad ($6.95) was good in that it contained lots of the unripe cheese and quartered romas promised by the name, tossed with green onions and romaine, but the basil vinaigrette did not much assert itself. The house red was also serviceable, especially with food, and a deep pour for $6.

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T.J. Miller discusses his views on malls, cultural differences and emojis

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pon picking up the phone ,the first words uttered to me by T.J. Miller were “we need to talk about the ferris wheel.” It was a unique way to open up the dialogue and a litmus test for Miller’s personality. Miller was talking about West Edmonton Mall and the lunacy of its indoor carnival rides.

“When you’re on a ferris wheel or roller coaster you want to look at a gorgeous view of a carnival when you reach the top of it because you’re trying to get a fourth or fifth chance to woo the person you’re on the ride with,” Miller says. “You don’t want to see a concrete ceiling, I mean Christ, nothing kills a mood faster than that.”

Miller is a comedian, actor and general enthusiast of sarcastic and biting humour, best known for his role of Erlich Bachman on HBO’s Silicon Valley, Weasel in Deadpool and of course, his voice work in The Emoji Movie—a role he wears with the utmost pride.

Miller has been busy lately having moved from Los Angeles to New York. His move was coupled with more than just a change of scenery as he is looking to pursue new ventures, specifically shifting focus to his brand of observational standup.

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Author Debbie Willis and Poet Marco Melfi discuss the common qualms between writers

he space between writing in your notebook and publishing a piece can feel vast, but this is something all writers experience at multiple points in their careers.

In fact, it’s at that point that many writers walk away from the precipice, feeling defeated and unworthy of a press’ eyes.

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The Writers Guild of Alberta (WGA) is one of the many organizations in the city working to propel rookie writers into the ranks of being published. But before getting published, there’s much more to be done.

Edmonton poet Marco Melfi says a big part of crossing that divide is

learning how to expose yourself to people and experiences that will continually sharpen your skills.

He found Edmonton’s strong poetry community to be a great asset when he was refining his craft and looking at creating a manifest to be published. Melfi found places like the Stroll of Poets Society to offer

His current blitz across Canada is part of Just For Laughs’ Alternative Comedy Tour.

It’s Miller’s first proper tour across Canada, having only played a handful of cities. He credits his ability to do a full tour to another recent shake up he’s applied to his life.

Apart from changing cities, he has also departed from his role in Silicon Valley.

“I wouldn’t have time to be doing this tour or anything else I enjoy refining if I was doing a seventh season of a TV show,” Miller says.

He is exited to take in the comforts of northern hospitality as he has always enjoyed his visits to Canada, specifically Edmonton having performed here in his earlier days of stand up.

He shouts the praises of our city and our favourite tourist trap, West Edmonton Mall.

“Sadly I’ve only known the city within the mall, I’m not proud of it, but it’s a great system there,” he says. “You play a set at a club, go right across to a bar and then go smoke weed in some guys car in the parking lot, then go back to the hotel. I feel like I’ve seen everything I need to see.”

Apart from Edmonton’s super

mall, Miller also has an affinity for Canadian audiences. We apparently have a unique trait that isn’t commonly found in the States.

“See that’s the parallel between us and you guys, apart from your lack of political nightmares and looming civil war, you all have a great sense of humour here,” he says. “At home if you riff on certain people or God forbid the city they live in, some of them will just get up and walk away, right in the middle of a set.”

Miller aims to take his unique brand of dry and sardonic humour across Canada and even further, as he has built his entire career’s principle on the act of making people laugh, regardless of who they are.

“Making people laugh is important, I mean that’s why I did The Emoji Movie. I wanted to make something that would make five to seven year olds laugh, not some 32-year-old blogger who thinks he’s a movie critic,” Miller says. “It’s important to make people laugh, especially children because they haven’t been faced with the crushing truth that they’re going to die yet.”

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a productive community where he could grow and The Olive Reading Series to expose him to new ideas and forms of writing regularly.

Fellow author Debbie Willis agrees that people are the greatest asset to succeeding in writing. Whether she’s on a roll with her words or hitting brick walls, the ability to exchange work with people and get honest feedback is fundamental to Willis.

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But it wasn’t easy; “it can be an obstacle if you have a few setbacks and you stop pursuing it, but you’ve got to step back and persevere.”

Willis, who’s been writing for 15 years now echoes his words, saying the divide doesn’t get smaller, even after publishing your first book.

“After publishing your first book—I think this happens to a lot of writers—your second book is this big, looming anxiety,” she says. “You kind of write your first book in a sort of dream, you don’t even really know you’re writing a book and then the second one is this very deliberate, ‘Ok, I’m a professional writer now attitude; I should know how to do this.’”

She says her second book took her much longer than she would have thought at eight years and definitely became a source of unrest at times. Willis mentions she has writer friends that are quite prolific and yet, face similar scenarios and insecurities.

“It’s kind of an act of faith and it’s hard to keep the faith,” Willis says.

“You have to almost believe in a subconscious mind that’s smarter than you and that you are heading in the right direction even though it’s gonna take a long time to get there.”

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But there are ways to ensure you’re doing everything you can to nudge the process. Willis, who now works as an acquisitions editor at Freehand Books in Calgary, says having clean, polished copy is essential as well as researching the publications you pitch to.

“I’ve accepted novels that I think are just extraordinary, but they’ve been rejected for two years straight at other presses,” she says.

She also adds that she can right away tell the difference between a general “kick-at-the-can” query letter and a well-researched one.

Melfi, who’s been been writing poetry for over a decade, did exactly this and researched the press he applied to thoroughly to be sure it would be the right fit, which he saw pay off when he published a poetry collection entitled In Between Trains.

The chapbook, a small collection of poetry, even won him the 2014 Sha-

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n France and many parts of Europe, the name Gad Elmaleh is a household moniker in the comedy world. The French-Moroccan stand-up comedian has sold out many arenas while using his combination of physical and observational comedy.

Two years ago, he moved to New York to blossom his career in North America. It was no easy task. Elmaleh had to not only learn English but write and perform his show in the language. It begs the question of why he gave up his European fame and fortune.

“If I told you ‘I don’t know’ would you believe me?” laughs Elmaleh over a phone in Los Angeles. “I went through a lot of complex explanations, but I really needed something that could make me excited again.

It’s like I have a mistress—France is my wife and English is my mistress and Morocco is my mother.”

It’s no secret that the English language is one of the most complex and difficult to learn. This can be exhausting to someone like Elmaleh.

“Two years ago, I couldn’t even talk like this and have a conversation. I found the difference a few days ago between speaking in English and speaking English,” Elmaleh says. “Speaking in English is thinking in French, my mother tongue, and then translating it in my brain and trying to make people understand you. Speaking

English is you saying the words and the expressions. It’s a psychological thing and you have to understand things like the idioms.”

It doesn’t help that many Americans have no interest in correcting Elmaleh’s English when he mispronounces a word.

“I remember telling someone ‘I’m going on a vayyycation,’ and he had no idea what I was talking about. Eventually, he was like ‘Oh you mean vacation.’ Like, come on.

I’m trying. Just meet me halfway.”

Elmaleh finds himself in these situations constantly and uses it as material for his show. This style gained him the title of the “Jerry Seinfeld of France.”

“Honestly I don’t like when they compare artists, but when they compare you to someone you admire, I’m not going to complain,” Elmaleh says. “It’s funny because we laugh about it, Jerry and I, because we became friends and I love him.”

Seinfeld has helped Elmaleh grow his career in North America.

Elmaleh has opened for Seinfeld and starred in an episode of his web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. This gained the foreign comedian appearances on shows like The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and Comedy Central’s The Daily Show and Conan.

Elmaleh first met Seinfeld when

he voiced his character in the French version of the Bee Movie.

“It was 10 years ago and I felt in a very maybe pretentious way that my comedy connected to his and we needed to share our experiences together,” Elmaleh says. “Sometimes you feel connected to a person’s work and want a chance to meet with them. I looked for that with Jerry.”

While Seinfeld’s show is rooted in the art of nothing, Elmaleh’s is the exact opposite. The comedian loves to critique “everything” about certain cultures, especially Americans.

“Americans are so used to the stand-up of self-deprecation,” Elmaleh says. “It’s in their culture.

It switches when I go to Canada.

They’re so excited that I make fun of Americans.”

Elmaleh has an English Netflix special debuting in March and plans to write a show about his experience moving to America and finding the “American Dream.”

He is also very excited to test out his English show, Oh My Gad, on a Canadian audience.

“When I make jokes in English and people laugh, the satisfaction is so strong because I feel like I’m earning those laughs,” Elmaleh says. “It’s exactly like if a woman who had no idea who I am fell in love with me, which is impossible.”

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ased on the iconic French novel by 18th century author Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Dangerous Liaisons comes to Edmonton for a brief two nights to stun audiences and disappear.

Alberta Ballet’s world-renowned artistic director, Jean Grand-Maître first translated de Laclos’ iconic novel to a ballet for the National Norwegian Ballet in 1999, which he then brought to Canada in 2004. His affinity for pushing himself and his team inspired Grand-Maître to redesign the gritty ballet to suit the larger Jubilee stages.

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The story, which deals with rape and sexual control, is certainly timely, he says.

“It’s interesting because of the Harvey Weinstein scandals and Trump and all that gang, you know with the Cosbys and the Ghomeshis.

“People think it’s an erotic story, but really it’s a terrifying story of sexual manipulation and control,” he says. “It’s a lot of meat and potatoes.”

To tackle the complex story of lust and darkness, Grand-Maître and set designer, Guillaume Lord, decided to add a theatre component that pushes the story forward

in two separate worlds, while ballet dancers transpose the emotions and inner souls of the actors near the apron of the proscenium.

“It’s like you slice the stage in two and through a magic wall that becomes transparent appears a three-dimensional set upstage, where in period costumes people are going through this drama.”

The actors will even speak some of the original words from the novel at certain points throughout the performance.

“And then the wall becomes opaque,” he says, “and we bring the action in front of that wall, where the dancers are.”

The narrative moves forward in both the ballet and the play, something that marks the performance as easy-to-access for anyone normally intimidated by ballet.

“For people who don’t always feel they can understand dance, it’s a great way to go,” Grand-Maître says. “It helps them to understand the psychology of what’s going on in the ballet.”

In fact, he adds that it liberates the ballet because the dancers become what they’re meant to be, which is pure energy. And it’s that freedom that pushes the dance to take on a more contemporary and technical form.

By combining the world of theatre and the world of dance, Grand-Maître does something profound. He creates a fusion of narrative, emotional depth and beauty on stage that has the potential to compensate for each of the separate shortcomings when on their own.

Joining the Alberta Ballet is the immensely talented Denise Clarke (O.C.) from One Yellow Rabbit Performance Theatre. Her technical skills as well as theatrical skills will be put to use in the performance as La Marquise de Merteuil, the infamously bored French aristocrat behind all of the nefarious wrongs that follow.

“In working in a theatrical setting you can exploit that seedy side of everything you’ve recognized and thought, ‘how horrible!’ but as an actor it’s a gas.”

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Clarke says. “There’s so much to draw on.”

At the time Laclos wrote the story, there was no way for her character and accomplice to get away with their actions, which is something she finds very cathartic in today’s world.

“This is where this kind of dark and dirty evil should lurk, it should lurk on stages as a reflection and not as a reality in the society,” Clarke says.

The classical soundtrack, created by Claude Lemelin, includes pieces likely to be widely recognized. A range of composers are featured—Arvo Pärt, Gavin Bryars and Giya Kancheli—helping to compliment the darkness on stage.

Along with Guillaume, the Alberta Ballet’s design team includes costume designer Martine Bertrand, who can be credited for each actor’s period costume and each parallel dancer’s barely-there guise, as well as Pierre Lavoie for lighting design.

While there’s no nudity, the content of the show is not recommended for children Grand-Maître says, as he laughs about how the ballet sometimes shocks even him with its provocative portrayals.

“It’s nice to see that over the years the ballet hasn’t aged that much and people are still reacting quite strongly to it,” he says.

“It’s a challenging show that’s for people that like to go to the theatre to be challenged.”

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NASHVILLE HURRICANE • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • stalbert.ca/exp/arden • Fringe legend Chase Padgett tells the story of The Nashville Hurricane, an unparalleled talent poised to take the music industry by storm…until he vanishes from the scene as mysteriously as he arrived • Nov 2, 7:30-9:30pm

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There she haunts two young women, one who is pregnant and one who is suspected of killing her child • Nov 2-5 • $15 (regular), $10 (students)

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EDUCATION GONE BAD When students get caught in the political crossfire / Steven Teeuwsen

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n 2016 the provincial government announced a massive overhaul of the education curriculum from kindergarten to grade 12; the reconstruction would take six years to complete and go through various stages of working groups, focus groups, face-to-face feedback sessions and online surveys before it was implemented. But a contentious area that’s been hauled into public attention lately is the wellness curriculum.

A grant submission made this spring by the Council of Catholic School Superintendents of Alberta (CCSSA) detailed the proposed revision of certain learning outcomes in the human sexuality portion of the new wellness curriculum.

The aim was to create a parallel curriculum better aligned with teachings of the Catholic church and Catholic schools in the province.

Catholic schools are required to teach what’s in the public curriculum and meet the learning outcomes laid out by Alberta Education. This is not to say however, that Catholic schools use the identical materials to teach said curriculum.

As Deputy Minister Curtis Clarke pointed out in an email denying the grant application, “local school authorities have the flexibility to make decisions about programming and materials, including the selection of learning and teaching resources that support the outcomes outlined in the provincial curriculum.”

The subjects suggested for revision by the CCSSA include: contraception, reproductive technologies, homosexual relationships, masturbation, gender identity, anal and oral sex, pornography, and the way consent is discussed.

While the CCSSA’s proposals were rejected, the clash quickly moved toward a battle between the provincial NDP government and representatives from the United Conservative Party

(UCP) arguing over human rights and religious rights—two sections that are already legally recognized in our country and shouldn’t need to be debated.

Education Minister David Eggen says the document is clearly unacceptable and doesn’t reflect best practices or science.

“The UCP and Jason Kenney doubled down to defend it,” Eggen says. “I mean, you can’t defend a direction that compromises the health and safety of students.”

“There’s nothing wrong with being gay and there’s nothing wrong with practicing safe-sex, and anything that interferes with that is interfering with the integrity and the safety of our community of young people and our population in general,” he adds.

While Eggen is correct in saying the UCP jumped to defend the CCSSA’s proposal, the fact that the issue deteriorated into an ‘us versus them’ battle between the NDP and UCP, overshadowing the original aim and query, is unfortunate.

The current health curriculum hasn’t been updated for 15 years and is long overdue to include things like legalized same-sex marriage, starting to teach consent at a young age, and the emphasized importance of teaching safe sex.

With rates of sexually transmitted infection on the rise in the province, it is essential that students are taught about how to protect their health, the primary method being condoms for those that are sexually active.

And on the topic of consent, it is important to understand that it’s false to understand the CCSSA as against teaching legal consent, as some media outlets have. That is in no way the case when reading the proposal put forth.

The revised Catholic curriculum outline states: “We support teaching about legal consent, in the detail that is written in

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the law, as one of the several important things that guides our decisions about sexual activity...but we guard against a reductionist view of our human sexuality that consent is the most important factor in decision making.”

It seems the question of teaching the law above values or vice versa is what is disagreed upon.

Think of social studies. What do we teach first when learning about governmental systems and parties, the law or values and ideologies?

While there are certainly other areas in the proposal that will forever conflict with the provincial curriculum, and we could deconstruct definitions and values until the cows come home, the importance of correctly educating children and young people is what’s paramount in all this—something politics should not be allowed to overshadow.

Whether it’s a Catholic or nonCatholic school, a growing child has every right to be taught about their own body and the control they have over it.

And while Eggen makes it clear that they’re compelled to follow the curriculum and the law just like anybody else, Catholic districts and boards can develop their own resources to teach the curriculum as long as learning outcomes are still met. And parents can pull their children out of sex-ed. at any time.

It seems that’s the plan now.

Superintendent of Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools Karl Germann says “CCSSA has been working on developing a resource to complement the new provincial wellness curriculum to ensure its seamless implementation once the province has finished its development,” also mentioning that the CCSSA met with provincial officials last week and are hopeful they can reconcile.

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t. Albert’s Bellerose Composite High School is offering a unique program that provides real-life food and business experience for students interested in pursuing a career in the food service industry. While the course may not be unique, the way in which the program is executed is surprisingly different from a traditional course. It offers both the theoretical knowledge and practical experience of operating a small food business.

Taught by Jason Dabbagh, the course provides students with the opportunity to not only run a small business, named Café Belle and situated centrally inside the school near the main entrance and cafeteria, it also gives them the sense of responsibility that comes with business ownership.

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their area. I’m here to guide them but it’s ultimately the students who decide whether this business, at the end of the year, is successful or not,” Dabbagh says. “So far, we have always made a profit each year, enough to take the students on a culinary adventure, usually to Calgary, as a celebration.”

Some of the positions in the business include: food producers, accountants, marketing, maintenance, and public relations. The group is responsible for building menus, setting pricing, creating recipes and making decisions about what’s best for the business overall.

Another part of the responsibility is paying back a loan that is provided through the school in order to purchase a new piece of equipment and then use it to hopefully turn a profit. This year the students planned on purchasing a panini press, but were sent back to the drawing board because of an internal snafu.

“My students really wanted to buy a panini press this year so they could start selling fresh sandwiches but there was a conflict of interest with the cafeteria staff and we have had to start brainstorming a new idea,” Dabbagh says.

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While the students faced a slight setback, it didn’t stop them from successfully having their annual grand opening and continuing to serve students and staff.

“We work as a team and try to keep the café open all the time.

We even started opening 20 minutes before school starts because people want their coffee before classes,” says Teha Gilmore, who runs the marketing for Café Belle and is a grade 11 student interested in pursuing a career in culinary arts. “There is always something to do, and we are always trying to find ways to help each other out so our customers will be happy.”

The café operates throughout the school year, Monday to Friday, and is open whenever students are available to run it.

The purpose of the program is to learn about food, business, and community and it’s clear the students in Dabbagh’s class have a good handle on all three concepts.

“It’s about providing for the people, before we provide for ourselves—that means good health.

Give people good food, all organic, and keep it fresh.” says grade 11 student and Café Belle operator Dylan Warner. “We make quality food and stay true to ourselves and to the food.”

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LOVING VINCENT

the hip bid farewell

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Long Time Running looks behind the scenes of the Tragically Hip’s final tour

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or many Canadians in these last few generations (X, Y, even “post-millennial”), Gord Downie and his band, The Tragically Hip (with that lightly ironic ’60s name), were a sturdy piece of rock ’n’ roll, magnetizing attention at regular patriotic intervals. That first hit “Blow at High Dough,” rippling out from the radio in the cottage by the lake; “Fifty Mission Cap,” about the Maple Leafs’ Bill Barilko, streaming out of the CD player around the campfire; “Bobcaygeon,” blaring from the car at a July picnic in the park.

They seemed to recede from view in the ’00s but then, recently, blazed back into our consciousness, largely because of Downie’s incurable glioblastoma diagnosis. The singer-songwriter, prolific to the end, released the 2016 album Secret Path (along with a graphic novel), about the too-short life of Charlie Wenjack.

His 23-track solo album was released 10 days after his death and was quickly lauded to the point of hagiography by the CBC and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, seemingly set on carving his image into granite pronto.

The last Hip tour documentary Long Time Running (culminating with the band’s hometown show in Kingston) starts off as a selfaware love-in.

We’re amid devotees at one of the concerts, surveying joyful and tearful faces in slo-mo (one man’s saying, over and over, “Thank

you”); we hear bandmates’ reflections as we’re on the road, a bright sun low in the trees; there, along with the live version of “Long Time Running” playing, comes the film title in handwritten script. Unfortunately, all this maudlin fan-service rarely fades away after that.

After a short interview with Downie’s brain surgeon, the frontman’s brother offers a sobering overview of post-surgery: 30 radiotherapy sessions, every weekday, along with chemotherapy. Downie endearingly credits the Beegees with helping him through: “[they’re] my secret—it’s not a band you’re supposed to ... but, God, I love them” (he starts humming one of their songs). By the time we see footage of Downie, long-bearded and shuffling about before a teleprompter in the band’s first rehearsal, it seems incredible he could even practice, let alone hit the road weeks later. Then, as if the directors (longtime friends of the band) don’t want to dwell on this arduous pre-tour period and just get to the inspiring music already, they vault us two months ahead to one of the band’s final rehearsals, where Downie now seems, miraculously, on top of his game again.

This mix of the indulgent triumphalist-tribute and quirky, personal insights continues. So, the first concert’s treated like a biggame event (the press-coverage montages here turn the hype-dial past 11), only for Downie’s wardrobe-designer to discuss her particular thinking behind his hat. Or a health-concern interlude makes way for Downie’s (nearly-in-the-

buff) shoe-shining ritual. Mostly, though, the movie wants to get through the struggles behind the music to the concert-moments.

But the music comes out of that hard work.

It’s impossible to capture on digital-video the live-lightning-in-abottle of what was, one interviewee says, “the energy in that room ... [I’ve] never felt [it] before.” Or, as Downie says, “It’s a night that disappears—and that’s okay, too.”

A montage of deep cuts from the catalogue here certainly comes off more like a jukebox medley, though there is a searing rendition of “Grace, Too.” And the film does end with Downie’s grace-notes of gratitude and togetherness.

Given the passing-of-an-icon circumstances, one can’t expect much critical distance from Long Time Running, and it’s little surprise this doc seems tailored for fans. But it’s the unsteady, un-Hip-like lurching—from hallowed career-retrospective, to cross-country concert-doc, to one-last-success story, to farewell love-letter—that makes this no show-stopper.

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ith lyrical imagery that reads like sacred writings and a rock ‘n’ roll blues-gospel sound backing them, Birds of Chicago have been creating a musical village that audience members can be a part of.

Clusters of people found themselves converging towards the stage during the Edmonton

Folk Fest performance. They were easily drawn to the natural passion emoted by husbandand-wife band leaders JT Nero and Allison Russell while they sang and strummed their guitar and banjo.

“We try to get in that raw spirit and try to commune with the audience. To me, that is very much a gospel thing that has followed us since day one,” Nero says.

Birds of Chicago began after Nero and Russell started constantly collaborating on songs while focusing on their other projects JT and the Clouds and Po’ Girl.

“With Po’ Girl we started covering one of JT’s songs called “‘Til It’s Gone,” and he eventually came on tour with us,” Russell says. “So we were on the road together for three months and that sewed the seeds for our project and of course, we also fell in love.”

Nero found that he would subconsciously write songs for Russell and her voice. In some ways, she became his songwriting muse.

“It’s probably the main reason we went from having separate projects that collaborated to actually forming a band,” Nero says. “I’d be writing tunes and they would immediately present themselves as a song Allison should sing. That had never happened to me before. It was really organic. I had internalized her voice so much that whatever melody or fragment I was thinking of just fit her.”

The musical kinship came first, but eventually the two married and set Birds of Chicago as their main project, playing more than 200 shows a year since the formation in 2012.

“It didn’t seem insane to either of us to be on the road for 250 to 280 days of the year,” Nero says. “That’s no small thing when you’re talking about building a life with someone.”

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Birds of Chicago have released three albums with the latest one being Real Midnight in 2016. The album was melancholy, joyful, and at times, eerily lonesome sounding. It was also a very cathartic release for Nero and Russell.

“I think that somewhere along the line I noticed that the more I was willing to look inward and use songs as a personal life raft, the more I was going to connect with people,” Nero says. “Everybody is wrestling the same demons and can relate to a lifeline.”

One of the most powerful songs is also one of the quietest on the record. It’s a near A capella piece called “Barley,” and is inspired by Russell’s grandmother.

“She was this amazing powerhouse of a woman born in Scotland but raised on a farm in Saskatchewan. She was struck down with early onset Alzheimer’s and it was her worst nightmare,” Russell says. “She lost language pretty quickly, but when I sang her songs she had taught me, she would respond and sing them.

She knew a lot of old murder ballads or creepy Scotland folk songs. So that song is rooted in that traditional Scottish feel and I was trying to channel her presence when I wrote it.”

Nero and Russell have recently moved to Nashville, a city built on the music industry. They are currently preparing for the fourth record, the American Flowers EP, which will release on November 14.

“We also have one recorded full-length record called Love in War Time that we did in four days, Russell says.”

“We recorded live off the floor to try and capture the same spirit and lightning in a bottle as playing a live show,” Nero adds. “It’s definitely more of a rock n’ roll record, but that human energy in a room that’s captured is a very real thing. It’s a universal language.”

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Living in an acoustic universe

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fter a 13-year career and six full-length albums, CubanCanadian singer-songwriter Alex Cuba finally knows who he is as an artist. He shares this with his listeners on “Yo Sé Quién Soy,” (I Know Who I Am) the second song off his latest album Lo Unico Constante (The One Constant).

“The day after I wrote that song, I listened to it for like, two days straight,” Cuba says. “It’s a very powerful message that, for some reason, came down to me fast and organically. I didn’t even have to think about it. It just wanted to be and to exist. I embraced the lyrical content and screamed out loud ‘Yo Se Quien Soy.”’ It’s relatable and probably the most human thing a person can think about daily.

“I also feel that this came at the right moment,” Cuba says. “With

all the internet and all this social media we have crossing so many cultures, it’s important to know who you are and where you come from so you can embrace change, you know?”

Cuba has been an artist to embrace change since day one. Singing in Spanish and sometimes English, each of his albums contain songs that span soul, funk, folk and other arrangements.

His latest album takes inspiration from the Cuban “filin” musical movement that originated in the late ‘40s. It took direct inspiration from the United States’ jazz crooning genre, a specific style of soft-singing. While the U.S.’ style relied on a full band or orchestra, the Cuban movement usually had one singer and a nylon-stringed guitar.

“The songs on this album are my own interpretation of that sort of movement that got to me through my father,” Cuba says.

“My father’s guitar playing was inspired from that and I grew up listening to him a lot, so that style is in me.”

Cuba was already writing acoustic-based music when elements of filin began trickling.

“After three or four songs like that, I decided that was the way to go, because of the sentiment on the songs maybe. It gave the album a more toned-down feel, letting the album be more about the songs rather than what was happening around the songs,” Cuba says.

It also, at times, gives the album a more intimate approach. Even though Cuba recorded in the studio, it sounds and feels like he’s playing these tunes right next to you.

“I go back and forth thinking that my voice sounds better in an acoustic universe,” he says. “For me, I always tend to favour the melodies and songs that come naturally. What you hear from my albums is mostly what has come to me unexpected.”

Melodies and chord arrangements pop into Cuba’s head every day and he has developed a way to only pay attention to the ones that really move him.

“Over the years something cool has happened. A melody starts in my mind and after humming it or whatever, I know at that moment if it’s going to be a really cool song,” Cuba says. “It’s almost like I’ve developed a filter to favour and pay attention to the ones that feel strong to me.

Sometimes I’m on a plane and I might hum it into a phone, so I probably look like a crazy person doing this.”

But it seems to work. Since starting in 2004, Cuba has won two Junos and four Latin Grammys, with the latest album alsobeing nominated.

“I never thought that I would get this much recognition. Especially in the States. I never thought they would embrace what I do so openly because I have this

Latin-Canadian hybrid sound,” he says. “I’ve done this completely independent. Nobody signed me because I’m Cuban. We’re talking like 2003 and there were not many musicians that were Cuban in the U.S.” Still, Cuba has embraced being an independent artist.

“The most horrible feeling is to feel trapped in music. Making things only one way. I enjoy the freedom of creating I get as an independent artist,” he says. “The title of the album reflects that freedom, but also the one constant in the universe is change. I have that ability to change with no particular style. So you put all those things together and you get Alex Cuba.”

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After listening to the posthumous 23-track compendium in its entirety, I realized it didn’t matter.

Much like his 2016 release Secret Path, Introduce Yerself is unmistakably Gord, open and universally raw.

It’s a farewell, filled with love letters to past lovers, stories among friends, and odes to his family. Every song focuses on a person that touched Downie in a unique way throughout his career and life.

Gord Downie To Gord, this was all of us, Introduce Yerself his listeners. Sure, his lyrics are Arts & Crafts sometimes specific, but you can While listening to Gord Down- listen to any song on Introduce ie’s sixth (and sadly, last) solo al- Yerself and immediately find bum Introduce Yerself, I wrestled something to relate to.

The opening track “First Perwith a question: whether or not he knew this release would co- son” echoes the words “goodincide perfectly with his cancer bye,” over a quiet piano with Downie’s voice leading the song. diagnosis and death at age 53.

It’s clearly about Downie’s slowly eroding memory and it slowly burns into your mind.

“Safe Is Dead,” stands out as a peculiarly dark, but powerful track. Slowly, Downie’s poetic verse trickles in and you’re lost in the trance.

The pop-rock ballad “Love Over Money,” is an obvious salute to his Tragically Hip bandmates with the lyrics being an example describing Downie’s immortal writing style—affectionate and sombre, but cryptically playful.

The final track “The North,” has Downie singing in a lower register to his Indigenous brothers and sisters that gave his life a revived meaning before his untimely death.

Introduce Yerself is another gift Downie has given us and like all his work, we can use it to remember and immortalize his name so he’s never truly gone.

showed her prowess as both a masterful guitarist and songwriter. Her most recent release MASSEDUCTION was slated to be her “most personal yet,” but only a few of the songs on the release really fit that description. MASSEDUCTION is a very curious release for St. Vincent. While Clark doesn’t stray away from the abnormal computerized distortion on this record, it listens almost halfbaked. Many of the lyrics are powerful and the instrumentation is unique, but it usually gets trapped in a continuous loop after being introduced.

“New York” offers a unique panoramic chorus, but is so mastered with production tricks that it falls limp.“Young Lover,” falls into the trap of undefin-

able glitter guitar, which fades out into a droney limbo until it gets tired of itself. Clark’s vocal acrobatics, while extraordinary, seem to not mesh well with songs like “Sugarboy,” and “Fear the Future.”

On the other hand, a song like “Pills,” is annoyingly catchy. It’s a hilarious testimony on how medicated our current society is. It also features some of the heaviest and expert guitar work St. Vincent has ever produced.

“Happy Birthday, Johnny,” has to be the most impressive track. It achieves way more with less. Clark’s vocals are at the forefront underneath an echoey piano with the lyrical story being remarkably heart-breaking.

For me, it may be one of Clark’s most impressive tracks. It’s just unfortunate that many of the songs cloud over it.

St. Vincent MASSEDUCTION Loma Vista Chamber and futuristic pop artist Annie Clark (better known as St. Vincent) was always one to dive into the strange and sonically weird since her first release Marry Me in 2007. It

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or the folk duo, The Raven & The Fox, living near a mountain range is serene, breathtaking, and a source of direct inspiration. The members Sean Issac (The Fox) and Julie Chang (The Raven) live in Canmore and make “love-inspired mountain music.”

“The first inspirations were kind of our courtship and then of course living in a place in the middle of the Canadian Rockies,” Issac says. “It would be impossible not to have that affect our songwriting.”

The band name comes from Issac and Chang’s first encounter with one another during a jam session in Canmore.

“The first night I met her she was with her sister. They always had a game to figure out what animal somebody would be,” Issac says. “She asked me what I thought she was and I said ‘raven.’ I guess I pegged it because they had already decided that and then she said I was a ‘fox.’ It must have been for my cunning, wily ways.”

After playing a few open mic

nights with Issac, Chang travelled back to Toronto to finish her herbal medicine diploma.

Issac continued to work his day job as a certified mountain guide, but also started sending Chang letters and lyrics he had been working on.

“They were lyrics and little love letters,” Issac says. “So when she returned, we made those into songs.”

The eventual result was The Raven & The Fox debut album, a collection of Issac’s earthy acoustics, diverse instrumentation, and Chang’s soothing powerhouse voice. The duo is a true collaboration, with Issac writing half the songs and Chang writing the other half. Lyrical themes always seem to focus on love and the different environments both Issac and Chang have been fortunate to visit.

A good representation of this is the song “Where Mountains Meet the Sea,” a mythical love ode to the mountain ranges and bodies of water surrounding Vancouver Island.

There’s also “Desert Alchemy,” a jumbly acoustic ballad that speaks about Issac and Chang’s vacation to Joshua Tree National Park in California.

“I took a 48 hours trip to the desert when I was 18 from Thunder Bay to Joshua Tree to go climbing with some friends.

Since then, I’ve been there probably 30 to 40 times for climbing and mountain biking,” Issac says.

“Julie and I went a few years ago and explored. We found stuff like swimming holes in the desert. So on the way back, I started writing those first lyrics.

The Raven and The Fox sound may be rooted in traditional roots folk, but it’s the little interludes of instrumentation that feature pedal steel, organ, lap steel, and piano, that set the duo apart.

“I think that’s very indicative of living in a small, quiet, mountain town,” Issac says. “The response has been good domestically and even in the U.S. It hit number four on the National Folk Chart.

So, it’s nice to know that it is indeed a good album.”

The Raven and The Fox is still a very new project that has blossomed into a plethora of opportunities for both Issac and Chang.

“It’s a wicked hobby that has kind of taken flight,” Chang says.

“We’re basically seizing every opportunity with this to become better musicians.”

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SAVAGELOVE SMALL PACKAGE PROBLEMS

I am a pretty handsome gay (I have been told) and I am dating a gorgeous man. I am 34, and he is 31.

I am bottom only, and he is top only—so it’s a good match. He seems sincerely interested in me and we are talking about being together. But here is the thing: He noticed that I have a rather small penis. I am under the average, and his dick is quite big and long. Since he discovered this, he fancies about “humiliating” me about my “small pee-pee.” He would even like me to show it to his friends. I am not ashamed of the size of my penis because it’s how I am made and I can’t change it. But I wonder what this idea means for him. I would somehow understand that he would put me down if he suffered from a “small dick complex,” but since he is so well-endowed, I don’t get it. Is it a common turn-on for some top guys to imagine that their partner is smaller than them? Does it hide something else maybe?

HUMILIATED OVER TACKLE

P.S. English is not my mother tongue.

I apologize for this

I don’t have a problem with your English—it’s doubtless better than my [insert your mother tongue here]—I have a problem with your potential boyfriend.

Small penis humiliation (SPH) is a kink popular enough to have spawned a porn genre. There are more than 76,000 SPH-themed porn videos on XTube—and XTube is just one of the various porn tubes out there ruining everything for everyone. Over at PornHub, there are SPH videos with more than two million views. That’s all anecdote, not data, HOT, but it’s anecdote enough to confirm that, yes, small penis humiliation is definitely a thing. And it can be a very good thing for guys whose erotic imaginations transformed their anxieties about having small dicks into a kink

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they enjoy.

But you are not one of those guys.

You like your dick fine, and you’ve got the exact right attitude about your dick—indeed, all men everywhere, regardless of size, should embrace their dicks the way you’ve embraced your own. Your dick is your dick, you can’t change it, and you shouldn’t be ashamed of it.

And big or small, HOT, your dick has all the same nerve endings as that big and long thing on the guy who might be your boyfriend someday (but who’s definitely a presumptuous asshole right now).

As with most kinks—bondage, cuckolding, foot fetishes, diapers, pup play—subs/bottoms are way more common than doms/tops. So it’s usually the guy with the small dick who initiates small penis humiliation games with his partner, HOT, not the boyfriend with the bigger dick and/or the girlfriend with the pussy and/or the bigger dick. (Some women have dicks, all women can purchase strap-ons.)

While there are SPH tops out there—just as there are bondage tops (half of whom are frustrated bondage bottoms)—their numbers are far smaller.

But the issue here isn’t stumbling over a rare small penis humiliation top in the wild, HOT, but whether or not you’re into it. Are you into power play? Do you like being degraded? Does the thought of this dude ordering you to show your dick to his friends—friends who presumably want to see your dick—turn you on in any way? If the answer is no, no, and FUCK NO, then tell your potential new boyfriend to stop making fun of your cock. If the answer is maybe, maybe, and maybe under the right circumstances, then talk it over with him and work out when, where, and how you’re willing to indulge his SPH kink.

If you stay with him, you’re also going to need to have a conversation about consent. SPH isn’t something you surprise someone with. Like

most kinks, it requires advance discussion, the setting of limits, and the consent of both parties.

It’s worrisome that this guy didn’t bother with obtaining your consent in advance, HOT, and if he doesn’t recognize that he made a mistake and swear not to make a similar mistake in the future, well, then you’ll have to DTMFA.

SEXUAL YEARNING

I’m sorry to be graphic, but it can’t be avoided. I’d like to have my fiancé come on my pussy and then have someone else lick it off. My two questions: (1) Does that fall in the realm of safe sex for the extra person involved? (2) How do we find that person? Is there an app to meet a third or how do we find swinger parties in our area? Is that a degrading thing to ask someone to do?

PERSONALLY UNDERSTANDS SERIOUS SEXUAL YEARNINGS

1. Nope. Various sexually transmitted infections—gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, herpes, HPV, etc.— could be contracted by the extra person and/or passed on to you and your fiancé. There’s low to no risk for HIV, PUSSY, but the act nevertheless falls outside the realm of safe sex. Very little actually exists in the realm of purely safe sex.

There’s always risk, we can mitigate for those risks, we can make sex safer, but save for solo and cyber, sex is rarely ever 100 percent safe.

2. This is technically three questions, PUSSY. You find that person by putting ads on hookup sites and/ or by putting yourselves in places where you might meet that person, i.e., pick-up joints, sex parties, swingers clubs. There are lots of apps out there for couples seeking thirds, you can even advertise as a couple seeking a third on big dating sites like OkCupid. It is a degrading thing to ask someone to do—but since there are lots of people out there into erotic degradation, that’s

a potential selling point.

FATHER ISSUES

I am in a relationship with a lovely and amazing man. Everything could be really good, if only his father would stop being a creep. He’s constantly telling me how beautiful, smart, and attractive I am. Last year around Christmas, I sang a few songs when we were visiting my boyfriend’s family, and his father commented that I have an “erotic” voice. A few days later, I received an e-mail from him. Attached was a poem about my singing, where he called my voice “angelic” and “pure.”

It made me really uncomfortable and I told him that I don’t want to receive poems from him and that he should stop complimenting me all the time. He didn’t. When I told him again to stop commenting on my appearance, he responded that I must like myself very much.

I talked to my boyfriend’s mother, and she said she’s “given up” and ignores her husband’s behaviour.

It turns out that he behaved similarly with ex-girlfriends of my boyfriend’s brothers. I’m so angry and don’t know what to do. My boyfriend supports me, but it’s hard to talk about the topic, because it’s his father.

his children. If your boyfriend refuses to run interference and/ or shut his father down, I would advise you to join the list of exes.

However “lovely and amazing” your boyfriend might be when you two are alone, if he’s useless in the face of his father’s sexual harassment, you’ll have to DTMFA too.

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I’m curious what your boyfriend’s “support” looks like, FATHER. Does he tell you privately that his father is a creep and that he wishes his dad would knock this shit off?

Or does he tell his father directly that he’s being a creep and insist he knock it off? The latter is support, the former is not.

I’m thinking there’s a reason your boyfriend’s brothers only have exgirlfriends—you don’t speak of any currents, FATHER, a highly revealing detail—and it’s not just because their dad is a creep. It’s because no one in the family is willing to stand up to this creep. Not his wife, not

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1 “Stay” singer Lisa 5 Actor Kaplan of “Welcome Back, Kotter” 9 Dallas’s nickname 13 Salicylic acid target 14 Canonized women of France, for short 15 Goober’s cousin on “The Andy Griffith Show” 16 They might be mixed 18 ___ Crag (climbing challenge on Nickelodeon’s “Guts”) 19 Some Yosemite employees 21 He, in Paris 22 “Hooked ___ Feeling” 23 Important age 24 On higher ground 26 Barnyard noise 28 Moves lumberingly 31 Lottery commission’s calculation 32 Pearly shell layer 34 Naughty way to live 36 Boxing ring area 41 Play fragment 42 2004 Britney Spears single 44 Arrange in order 47 Beneath 50 Plastic surgeon’s offering, for short 51 Hunt, in the wild 53 Unopened bloom 55 Co. that introduced Dungeons & Dragons 56 DDE beat him twice 57 Deceptive tennis tactic 61 Stick (together) 63 Very quickly 64 Magazine piece, maybe 65 Drink in a red can, usually 66 Saxophone that’s smaller than a tenor 67 PD investigators 68 “Before ___ you go Ö” 69 Place to post online

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1 Parody 2 From Fiji or New Zealand, more broadly 3 Way in 4 Nuthatch’s nose

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): America’s Civil War ended in 1865. A veteran from that conflict later produced a daughter, Irene Triplett, who is still alive today and collecting his pension.

In the coming months, I foresee you being able to take advantage of a comparable phenomenon, although it may be more metaphorical. Blessings from bygone times, perhaps even from the distant past, will be available to you. But you’ll have to be alert and know where to look. So now might be a good time to learn more about your ancestors, ruminate exuberantly about your own history, study the lives of your dead heroes, and maybe even tune in to your previous incarnations.

5 A flat’s equivalent 6 Like some 20th-century compositions 7 Titanic hazard 8 In ___ (in actuality) 9 Marshy area 10 “That’s good news!”

11 Verb functioning as a noun 12 “These aren’t the ___ you’re looking for” 15 “Not that!” sound 17 School opening?

20 Surname of “Captain America: Civil War” directors Anthony and Joe 25 1970s Cambodian leader with a palindromic name 27 Sideshow Bob’s former boss 29 Fixed a squeak 30 Org. with leaked emails 33 “... and more” 35 Old NYC subway inits.

37 Get back together 38 Former “Today” co-anchor Curry 39 Election day survey 40 Excoriates 43 Fairground food on a stick 44 Lost concentration 45 Ultimatum phrase 46 Put up a struggle 48 It keeps your car in place, slangily 49 Apple or potato variety 52 Wild party 54 Twisted Sister frontman Snider 58 “Veni, vidi, ___” 59 Hydroxyl compound 60 Non-striking worker 62 “Illmatic” and “Stillmatic” rapper ©2017 Jonesin’ Crosswords

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I wasn’t in the market to buy a DayGlo plastic fish from a street vendor,” testified a witty guy named Jef on Facebook, “but that’s exactly what I did. The seller said he found it in someone’s trash.

He wanted fifty cents for it, but I talked him up to a dollar. The best part is the expression on the fish’s face. It’s from Edvard Munch’s “The Scream.’” I bring this testimony to your attention, Taurus, because I feel it’s good role-modeling for you. In the coming days, I bet you won’t know exactly what you’re looking for until you find it.

This prize may not be highly valued by anyone else but you. And it will amuse you and be of use to you in just the right ways.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Where are Chinese gooseberries grown? In New Zealand. What is a camel’s hair brush made of? Squirrel fur. When England and France waged their Hundred Years’ War, how long did it last? 116 years.

When do Russians celebrate their October Revolution? In November. Trick answers like these are likely to be a recurring theme for you in the coming weeks, Gemini.

That’s why I advise you to NOT be a Master of the Obvious.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend you indulge in any or all of the following exercises. 1. Dedicate an entire day to performing acts of love. 2. Buy yourself flowers, sing yourself a song, and tell yourself a story about why you’re so beautiful.

3. Explain your deeply-felt opinion with so much passion and logic that you change the mind of a person who had previously disagreed with you. 4. Make a pilgrimage to a sacred spot you want to be influenced by. 5. Buy a drink for everyone in a bar or cafe.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Dear Rob: I saw a photo of you recently, and I realized that you have a scar on your face. I hope you don’t mind me telling you it resembles an ancient Mayan hieroglyph that means ‘Builder of Bridges for Those Who Are Seek-

ing Home.’ Did you know this? If so, do you think it’s an accurate title for what you do? - Renegade Leo Scholar. Dear Scholar: Thanks for your observation. I don’t know if I fully deserve the title “Builder of ridges for Those Who Are Seeking Home,” but it does describe the role I’m hoping to play for Leos. The coming weeks will be an excellent time for your tribe to clarify and cultivate your notion of home.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Author Clarissa Pinkola Estés encourages us to purge any tendencies we might have to think of ourselves as hounded animals, angry, wounded victims, leaky vessels aching to be filled, or broken creatures yearning for rescue. It so happens that now is a perfect time for you to perform this purgation. You have maximum power to revise your self-image so that it resounds with more poise, selfsufficiency, and sovereignty.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I used to scoff at people who play the lottery. The chance of winning big is almost nil. Why not invest one’s hopes in more pragmatic schemes to generate money?

But my opinion softened a bit when the planet Jupiter made a lucky transit to an aspect in my personal horoscope. It really did seem like my chances of winning the lottery were unusually high. I started dreaming about the educational amusements I’d pursue if I got a huge influx of cash. I opened my mind to expansive future possibilities that I had previously been closed to. So even though I didn’t actually get a windfall during this favorable financial phase, I was glad I’d entertained the fantasy. In alignment with current astrological omens, Libra, here’s the moral of the story for you: meditate on what educational amusements you’d seek if you had more money.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the early stages of Johnny Cash’s development as a musician, his mother hired a coach to give him singing lessons. But after a few meetings, the teacher counseled him to quit. Johnny’s style was so unique, the seasoned pro thought it better not to tamper with his natural sound. I hesitate to offer you comparable advice, Scorpio.

I’m a big believer in the value of enhancing one’s innate talents with training and education. On the other hand, my assessment of your destiny between now and October 2018 impels me to offer a suggestion: It may be useful for you to give some credence to the perspective of Johnny Cash’s voice coach. Make sure you guard and revere your distinctiveness.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I used to nurture a grudge against Tony Pastorini. He was the high school math teacher who kicked me out of the ex-

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tracurricular calculus club because my proofs were too “intuitive and unorthodox.” The shock of his rejection drove me away from a subject I had been passionate about. Eventually, though, I came to realize what a good deed he had done. It would have been a mistake for me to keep specializing in math. I was destined to study literature and psychology and mythology, but it took Pastorini to correct my course. Now, Sagittarius, I invite you to make a similar shift of attitude. What debt of gratitude do you owe a person you have thought of as a source of frustration or obstruction?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In the lore of ancient Greek mythology, the god Prometheus stole fire from his fellow deities and sneakily gave it to us humans. Before our patron provided us with this natural treasure, we poor creatures had no access to it. As I gaze out at your possibilities in the coming months, Capricorn, I foresee you having Promethean inclinations. Your ability to bestow blessings and spread benevolence and do good deeds will be at a peak. Unlike Prometheus, however, I don’t expect you’ll get into trouble for your generosity. Just the opposite!

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Here’s a parable you may find useful. An armchair explorer is unexpectedly given a chance to embark on an adventure she has only read and dreamed about.

But she hesitates on the brink of seizing her opportunity. She asks herself, Do I really want to risk having ragged reality corrupt the beautiful fantasy I’ve built up in my mind’s eye? In the end, she takes the gamble. She embarks on the adventure. And ragged reality does in fact partially corrupt her beautiful fantasy. But it also brings her unexpected lessons that partially enhance the beautiful fantasy.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “A game of chess is usually a fairy tale of 1001 blunders,” said chess grandmaster Savielly Tartakower, a Pisces. “It is a struggle against one’s own errors,” he added. “The winner of the game is the player who makes the nextto-last mistake.” I think this is excellent counsel during the current phase of your astrological cycle, Pisces. It’s time to risk bold moves, because even if they’re partly or wholly mistaken, they will ultimately put you in a good position to succeed in the long run. Here’s a further point for your consideration. Remember the philosopher Rene Descartes’ famous dictum, “Cogito ergo sum”? It’s Latin for “I think, therefore I am.” Tartakower countered this with, “Erro ergo sum,” which is “I err, therefore I am.”

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