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POLITICALINTERFERENCE

FRONT RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Opposition failing in critical role The Wildrose is letting down Albertans by not offering policy alternatives

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ince the new Alberta government took office after the election last year, the official Opposition Wildrose Party has taken their role quite literally—they have loudly and aggressively opposed pretty much every major piece of policy introduced by the government.

Of course, opposition parties are free to oppose and critique in whatever way they want and reinforce whatever base sentiments in the population they feel will get them more donations and ultimately see them be elected to government. And there is no question the Wildrose has found a formula that has served them, their bank account, and their standing in the polls reasonably well.

However, in our system of government the role of the Opposition isn't to raise money and get elected. The role of the Opposition is to make government policy better and promote the public interest by holding government accountable and making policy better by providing solid critiques of initiatives and recommending functional alternatives. It is on that last point that the Wildrose opposition has been a complete failure.

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To date their response to the government’s major policy initiatives can essentially be summed up as 'don’t do it.'

Don’t change our tax system. Don’t increase corporate taxes. Don’t raise the minimum wage. Don’t phase out coal.

Don’t bring in a carbon tax. Don’t legislate basic worker safety on farms.

This approach was on full display at the Wildrose Party’s recent policy convention where delegates overwhelmingly approved a trio of policies which would see a future Wildrose government bring back a single-rate tax, eliminate the carbon tax, and undo the government’s farmworker safety legislation.

None of these policy positions, however, has been accompanied by one iota of information of how they would accomplish their goals, or what alternative policies they would put in place.

Reversing the move to a progressive tax, for example, would mean taking some $800 million to $1 billion out of government revenue this year. Because the Wildrose has failed to present anything resembling an alternative budget for the province, they have given Albertans no indication whatso-

ever of how they would make up that revenue shortfall. You would think that a party so adamantly anti-deficit and anti-debt would not seek to eliminate that much money from a government that, according to the Parkland Institute and others, is already facing a structural $6 to $10 billion revenue shortfall. At least, not without explaining how they'd make up for it, but that is exactly what they have done.

They've done the same with the promise to kill the carbon tax, even though it has been acknowledged by economists and analysts around the world as the most effective way to reduce emissions within the context of a capitalist economy.

The Wildrose has acknowledged, albeit reluctantly, that man-made climate change exists and that we need to reduce emissions, but they have yet to put forward any credible or sciencebased plan for how they would do that. It is entirely possible that there are alternative ways to reduce Alberta’s contribution to climate change, but it seems that the official opposition is much more interested in making

political hay than actually exploring or proposing any of those.

On Bill 6, the government’s farmworker safety legislation, the Wildrose has only said they will repeal it, and then talk to Alberta farmers about it. Lack of protection and compensation for farmworkers in Alberta is a well-documented problem, and is an area where the province has lagged far behind other jurisdictions. But the Wildrose seem to have absolutely no interest in suggesting alternative ways to protect vulnerable agricultural workers in Alberta. All they will do is talk to farmers about it, which, by the way, the Alberta government is already doing as they work to design the regulations that will enable the full implementation of the bill.

During the 2015 provincial election the Wildrose Party was adamant that Alberta’s Progressive Conservatives were destroying the province and that it was time for a drastic change in direction. In the 18 months since the election, however, all they have seemed interested in doing is stopping all progress by the NDP govern-

ment and taking us back to the status quo that they opposed so fiercely in 2015. It makes you wonder if they would have actually implemented any changes to policy had they become government.

The NDP has embarked on an aggressive agenda of major policy reform since they became government. Admittedly, some of their major policies have been better thought out than others, and pretty much all of them are open to legitimate and valid critiques and improvements. Albertans entrusted the Wildrose Party with the responsibility for making those critiques and suggesting those improvements, but they have completely failed on both fronts. We need to hold them accountable and loudly demand that they do better. The public interest depends on it. 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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'Freedom of thought no longer exists'

Turkish president uses failed coup attempt to silence the press and squash his opposition

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n Turkey, we are progressively putting behind bars all people who take the liberty of voicing even the slightest criticism of the government,” wrote author Orhan Pamuk, Turkey’s first Nobel Prize winner. “Freedom of thought no longer exists. We are distancing ourselves at high speed from a state of law and heading towards a regime of terror” that is driven by “the most ferocious hatred.”

Pamuk wrote those words in Istanbul, but they were not published in Turkey.

He sent them to Italy’s leading liberal daily Repubblica, because no Turkish paper would dare to publish them.

Indeed, almost the entire senior editorial staff of Turkey’s oldest mainstream daily Cumhuriyet, was arrested last weekend, allegedly for supporting both Kurdish rebels and the Islamic secret society controlled by exiled Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen.

This is rather like accusing the Wall Street Journal of supporting al-Qaeda and the Maduro regime in Venezuela.

Cumhuriyet always defended Turkey’s secular constitution from those who dreamed of creating an Islamic state (like the Gulenists), and it always condemned Kurdish separatists who resorted to violence.

But now its editorial staff is in jail, alongside 37,000 other people who have been arrested, often on equally implausible charges, since the attempted coup last July. (President Recep Tayyib Erdogan’s government has amnestied 38,000 ordinary criminals to make room in the jails for the political prisoners.)

Erdogan’s govenment holds the Gulenists responsible for the attempted military coup last July, and they probably were. But he is exploiting the “state of emergency” (which he has just extended for another three months) to suppress all possible centres of opposition to his rule. Whatever their real views, they are all are accused of being either pro-Gulenist or pro-terrorist.

The Gulenist menace has been in-

flated to preposterous proportions.

Erdogan’s deputy prime minister Nurettin Canikli, said in a recent interview with the BBC that members of the group have “practically had their brains removed. They've been hypnotized. They're like robots. Each one of them is a potential threat. They could commit all sorts of attacks, including suicide bombs.”

Erdogan now even blames the Gulenists for shooting down a Russian combat aircraft on the Syrian-Turkish border one year ago—although at the time he proudly claimed that it was done on his orders. He also forgets to mention that he and Fethullah Gulen were once close allies dedicated to the task of “Islamizing” the Turkish public services.

Their shared objective was to ensure that most of the jobs in the government’s grant—military officers, teachers, police, judges, the senior civil service—were held by pious Muslims.

This was a huge task, since for almost a century these jobs had largely been the preserve of secular Turks who thought that religion had no business in politics.

The change was accomplished by giving Gulenist candidates the answers to entrance exams, by manipulating military and judicial appointments, or just by the naked exercise of political power, and by 2016 it was an accomplished fact.

But eventually Gulen and Erdogan had a catastrophic falling out—probably over which of them actually controlled these tens of thousands of deeply religious officials—and Erdogan belatedly realized that he had created a hostile force in the heart of his own government apparatus.

He showed as little foresight in his dealings with the Turkish Kurds. In an earlier, more responsible phase of his political career Erdogan actually engineered a ceasefire with the PKK, the main and most violent Kurdish separatist group.

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But when he lost an election last year and needed to win back the Turkish ultra-nationalist vote, he did it by breaking the ceasefire and re-starting the war against the Kurds.

So he has alienated a lot of people, his plate is very full, and he urgently needs to thin out the number of his enemies.

The failed July coup gave Erdogan an excuse for taking extreme action against them, and even against other domestic opponents who have always played by the democratic rules. He has seized the opportunity with both hands.

It is ugly and sad, for ten years ago Turkey seemed to be entering an era of stable democracy and growing prosperity. This tragedy was not bound to happen: one man’s ruthless ambition has derailed an entire country’s promising future. It’s not clear when, or even if, it will get back on track. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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VUEPOINT DON’T LOOK AWAY FROM TRUMP So much for a post-racial America. The United States’ 2016 election burst a bubble for many progressives here in Canada. Apparently “because it’s 2016” has a different meaning south of the 49th parallel.

Of course, many were fearful heading into Tuesday night’s vote, and elections are always jittery experiences. Panic and high emotion are seen at every level. Even city council elections—with their non-party affiliated candidates and focus on mundane municipal issues—can seem extremely high stakes. But this election induced a different kind of anxiety. There seemed to be a widely held belief that people’s rights were at stake, and many people were genuinely worried about global stability.

Women, minorities, immigrants, and disabled people all had solid reasons for nausea-inducing fear on election night.

But the impulse to look away from President-elect Donald Trump is not a good one. Political discourse has become very polarized, but disengaging from people with diverse political perspectives—as tempting as it is—is not the answer.

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Rather than feeling demoralized, progressive Canadians could take this as a confirmation that more work is indeed needed. Electoral reform and working to strengthen our own democracy seem extremely urgent in this new political climate. For those fighting for the rights of minorities, women, and immigrants, a renewed vigor and confidence in the vital necessity of this work could perhaps be the silver lining here.

On the local front, it was disturbing to hear two women—Sandra Jansen and Donna KennedyGlans—have dropped out of the Alberta Progressive Conservative leadership race. Jansen pointed to harassment both online and in person as reasons for her backing out of the contest. In an atmosphere that accepts ‘locker room talk’ as a part of our culture, getting women involved in politics will only become more difficult.

It is 2016. A black man was president of the United States. Women do hold positions of leadership in our society. But it doesn’t mean that everyone is happy about that.

Let’s hope this is a wake-up call, rather than the closing of a progressive period in our history.

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Training candidates

A new progressive campaign school supports political newcomers

Reakash Walters, one of the organizers of Bread and Roses campaign school // Supplied photo by GIRL NAMED SHIRL

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read and Roses is a progressive campaign school for women and non-binary folks interested in engaging in political action. The brainchild of Jenn Prosser and Reakash Walters, it was put together to empower people with the tools to engage in politics.

Held on Nov. 5 at the Edmonton Clinic Health Academy, the event drew over 70 participants and was a humbling success for both Walters and Prosser. While they weren’t sure how

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the event would go, they believed it was very necessary.

“It came from a vacuum of events like this,” says Prosser. “We didn’t feel like there were very many spaces for young women, for non-affiliated, nonpartisan progressive activists.”

Traditionally, Prosser says, these types of campaign schools are organized through unions, political parties or organizations with very specific goals. “But these particular ‘how to organize’ schools don’t really exist for people who want to be involved in political change.”

Walters, who ran for the recent federal NDP nomination in Edmonton Centre, says that her experiences during that time led her to helping create this event.

“There was a lot of knowledge that I gained from making mistakes,” she says.

She adds that there were a lot of people she met during her campaign that didn’t know a lot about the tools needed, but there were also a lot who did.

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knew the knowledge was in our community but we weren’t sharing it very well,” she says. “We wanted to create a space to share that knowledge.”

The topics of discussion were diverse, with an agenda that was filled with panels on how to set up an anti-racist and anti-oppressive campaign office, social media for political feminists, and "fucked up things that have happened to good people." Panel participants were equally diverse. MLA Stephanie McLean, the minister responsible for the status of women, spoke as well as Erica Bullwinkle (constituency assistant to Linda Duncan), activist Parker Leflar, journalist Mariam Ibrahim, MLA for Calgary-Bow Deborah Drever and advocate Janis Irwin amongst others.

With the event now over, Walters and Prosser have time to reflect. That was until they started getting emails asking about when the next school will be held.

“That is the million dollar question,” says Walters, laughing.

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PROFILE // CARAMELS

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The sweet science of Caramia Caramels Tammy and Alysia Lok couldn't stop until they found just the right buttery flavour

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wo Edmonton entrepreneurs, Tammy and Alysia Lok, set out with the modest goal of creating their own European-style caramels. Thanks to word of mouth, and a consistent presence in local markets, their company Caramia Caramels is preparing for growth.

“It really does deserve more attention than it currently has because it’s such a versatile candy, and it’s delicious,” says Tammy Lok. The venture was initially inspired by caramels that Tammy Lok brought home from her honeymoon in Europe.

The two enjoyed the unique flavours so much that they searched around Edmonton for a similar caramel experience. Alas, they couldn’t find anything.

With Tammy Lok's marketing background and her sister-in-law Alysia Lok's nutrition education, they set out to create their own brand of caramels.

The next step was formulating a recipe. The Lok sisters experimented with hundreds of batches, honing in on a unique taste. Long nights of trial and error eventually led them to the recipe they’re using today.

“It took us at least a few months, pretty much cooking everyday. We went off a base recipe, but it was a North American version that was very sweet and sticky,” Alysia Lok says.

“We wanted to get away from that and get it to a more European style with a buttery finish. We kept on tweaking it as we got closer, until we were both happy."

The next step was getting their product out for the masses to taste.

Their first expedition was at City Market downtown.

“Seeing the reactions on the people’s faces when they tried our caramels for the first time, it really struck a chord in us. I think from the first market, this is

what I wanted to do,” Tammy Lok says.

Caramia Caramels has little to no advertising budget, besides social media. And of course their presence at various markets. To expand production they needed a boost in funding, and they decided to start a Kickstarter campaign with a goal of $13,000. The Loks have already exceeded their goal, and are using the money to increase their caramel volume.

Currently, the caramels are made in small batches but thanks to the donations, they have researched and tested new machines that will increase volume.

“We really wanted to be able to pick up production," Tammy Lok says. "One way to do so was to purchase a cooker that was designated for making caramels. With the new machine we’re able to produce three times more caramels.”

Cooking caramel is a precise art, with any variance of temperature affecting the viscosity of each batch.

“It’s very difficult to find a thermometer that is very, very accurate. So a couple degrees difference in how you cook your caramels will either make it too soft or too hard,” Alysia Lok says.

“In order achieve the consistency that we want, it’s really important to make sure you’re cooking at the same temperature every single time.”

The sisters are hoping to launch an online service across North America in the new year. Until then, you can catch them every weekend selling their product at various markets around the city.

Tammy Lok believes this is just a taste of what’s to come.

“Alysia has the ability to create any flavour that comes into her imagination, so there’s no limit to the possibilities.”

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Tammy and Alysia Lok, founders of Caramia Caramels // Shawn Bernard

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Justine Chambers watches intently as Good Women rehearse their piece // Trent Wilkie

ancouver-based choreographer Justine Chambers doesn't like perfection. So in working with Good Woman Dance on their new piece Convergence, she specifically included elements of improvisation.

“I don’t like people to get too practiced, or too slick, or too good at things,” she explains. “I love watching dancers work because dancers are extraordinary beings who can do outrageous things and they just shut up and put up and work on stuff.”

She is working with the collective of Ainsley Hillyard, Alison Kause, Alida Kendell and Kate Stashko to create a contemporary dance piece. According to Chambers, this new work is an exploration of everyday gestures and unconscious movements compiled into one challenging piece.

“It's a humdinger, I’m glad I’m not dancing it,” Chambers says, laughing.

The piece is more than just gestures.

Chambers infuses elements of Motown into the piece, and says the Motown back-up singer is one of her influences. She sees the back-up dancer moving to centre stage in this study of nuance and subtlety.

It is a complex idea, but she feels the perspectives and experience of Good Women makes this a perfect fit.

Thurs., Nov. 10 - Sat., Nov. 12 (8pm) L’Uni Theatre, $20 general, $15 student/senior “These are not 20-year-olds,” Chambers says. “You can offer things to them and their egos can handle not being immediately good at stuff.

“They are a collective, they’ve decided to work in a non-hierarchical model which is already radical for dance.

They are all women taking equal amounts of power. They are already coming up against some of the status quo structures we see in dance.”

The world of dance is rife with conflict, she says. Both internally and externally, there is more to it than just what is presented on the stage. With this in mind, a tough piece can sometimes create problems for dancers.

“It brings up all your dance garbage,” Chambers says. “Dance is a sick place.”

The other half of the double bill is titled Within/Between which is a collaboration between creator/performer Stéphanie Morin-Robert, Edmonton-based dancer Bridget Jessome and spoken word artist Ian Ferrier.

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Map-based YEG Storyhood project still looking for local tales

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ast June, Edmonton participated for the first time in 100 In 1 Day— a national event where people across Canada come together to celebrate their local neighbourhoods through community-building projects. Edmontonians created more than a hundred citizen-driven initiatives, including a wind chime forest, a pop-up round dance, and a rainbow bench for the Pride festival.

But one of the event’s most interesting initiatives wasn’t tied to a specific neighbourhood in Edmonton and it didn’t just happen on one day. Instead, the ongoing project seeks to include every neighbourhood in the city—all 286 of them.

YEG Storyhood is a map-based storytelling project in which local writers

(both amateur and professional) submit location-specific stories and poems. Each piece is inspired by a unique place in Edmonton and is pinned to that location on the project’s map.

Jeremy Bibaud, the project’s founder, was inspired to create YEG Storyhood after travelling in Europe and observing local storytelling and mythmaking in older cities.

“I was in neighbourhoods where communities have these wonderful, beautiful stories that they pass down through generations,” he says. “And when I came back to Edmonton I felt like we just didn’t have that. As I was travelling around, a lot of the stories were grounded in iconic structures or

communities themselves. And so when I came back here, the map idea felt like a natural way to share these stories.”

So far the map includes 20 stories, representing such diverse places as the Mill Creek Ravine, Remedy Café, Rundle Park, and the Art Gallery of Alberta. YEG Storyhood encourages its writers to go beyond the factual histories of these places, urging them to blur the line between truth and myth.

Local author Thomas Wharton, whose Rat-Hole inspired piece won YEG Storyhood’s Summer of Story contest, agrees that local histories are always a blend of fact and fiction.

“I think we tell stories about the

places we live in all the time,” Wharton says. “And our stories are partly true and partly fiction. And I would also say that our fictions about a place are part of what it is, and how we think about it, and how we respond to it…I think people need to see how their community or their city has been reflected in art and people’s imaginations.”

Wharton encourages his creative writing students at the University of Alberta to write stories set in Edmonton and contribute to the project.

“Even if they’re setting their stories somewhere else—or on some other planet, or in some imaginary world— they’re going to draw so much from

the place where they are, in terms of sensory detail in their stories and their own lived experience of things,” he says. “Those are the details that are going to ground whatever they write in a real kind of authenticity.”

As for Bibaud, he hopes that YEG Storyhood will continue to grow and attract more Edmonton stories—particularly from indigenous storytellers, who’ve been sharing tales about Amiskwacis long before Edmonton ever existed.

The project is starting to commission pieces from specific writers, but anyone is welcome to contribute. After all, there are over 260 neighbourhoods left to go.

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INTERVIEW // SCENE BUILDER

Gagnon on the go

NAIT business student Kyle Gagnon opens VR café on Whyte Avenue

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t’s pitch-black. Then I turn on my flashlight, and the abrupt sounds of growling and moving flesh encompass my ears. I turn to my left and jolt back as my flashlight detects a flesh-eating zombie. He swipes away at the air and starts to run toward me. I hold the crosshair of my pistol forward and fire two precise shots. His chest cavity explodes and he falls to the ground, dead. 'You Survived' appears in big bold lettering in front of me.

Next I’m in the jungle with blood-

drunk velociraptors springing towards me. They go down easy, and I run towards a bow and arrow set on top of an army jeep. I lose my balance, as the ground shakes from a unhappy mother triceratops. Her gigantic foot crushes me into nothingness.

“You should have run away,” someone calls out from the outside world, as I take off the noise-isolating headphones and HTC Vive headset. My immersion is over.

Inception VR Inc. on Whyte Avenue opened as a cost-effective space to

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reality—local artists have created various kinds of pieces for viewers to experience.

“Say you’re standing in a field. You can shrink the field as if you’re literally looking at the planet and at the field. So artists can manipulate the world to make and magnetize their art while people will be able to view these. There has been nothing like it.”

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Even with being in school fulltime, Gagnon is at the space everyday capping out at about 70 hours a week. But due to the positive experience he gives to people, he says it’s worth it.

“I’m exhausted always, but even if one person comes in and they’re excited and stoked about it, I just draw so much energy," he says. "The best is when people have never heard about VR and I throw them in and they start laughing during the tutorial where you play with a balloon.

It's like you’re a child again.”

This weekend Gagnon is holding a virtual art event. Using Google Tilt Brush—a platform that allows users to create art in 3D with virtual

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Kyle Gagnon, owner/manager of Inception VR. // Stephan Boissonneault

experience the fascinating world of virtual reality.

“I just wanted to make a community space where people can go and play VR if they don’t have the money or the space,” says Kyle Gagnon, the founder of Inception VR. Very recently, virtual reality has taken the gaming world by storm, allowing people to experience and interact with scenarios in a three-dimensional environment. Sometimes this can be terrifying when a horde of zombies is charging towards you in The Brookhaven Experiment or a group of dinosaurs is lashing at your neck in Island 359. Other times the experience can be lighthearted like in Job Simulator, where a group of robots 'teach' you to be a chef, mechanic, or office worker. The technology uses sensors to detect your movement from two handheld controllers.

It's a bit of a one-man show at Inception, with Gagnon as the manager, VR guide, and creator. And the venture is still in its early stages.

Right now there's only three units, but the dream is to turn it into a community café.

“They could come here with friends, have a coffee and take turns switching out of VR. I want to have like 15 units, and really immerse the person in the world by having certain sounds over the headphones and smells in the room to really put them in the world they want.”

It’s not going to be cheap transition, especially on Whyte Avenue, but Gagnon’s willing to take the risk. Actually, as a student taking NAIT’s business program, he has been using his RRSPs from his time as a journeyman electrician to fund the business.

“It’s all out of my own pocket so hopefully I can keep it going and make the rent,” Gagnon says.

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DANCE CONVERGENCE • L’Uni Theatre, 8627-91 St •

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • cleave & trench: artwork by Shawn Serfas; Nov 4-Nov 18

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Artwork by Jill Stanton; Oct 7-Nov 25

cava GallERy • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 •

JAKE'S GALLERY • 10441-123 St • karen@

galeriecava.com • Artwork by Curtis Johnson, Jermann Poulin, Ute Rieder, Sylvie Pinard and Louise Piquette; Oct 28-Nov 15

jakesframing.com • Resonance: artwork by Meghan; Oct 17-Nov 12

Dc3 aRt pRojEcts • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Art Toronto 2016; Oct 28-31 • She Loves Me. He Loves Me Not: artwork by Craig Le Blanc; Nov 10-Dec 10

FAB GALLERY • Fine Arts Building Gallery,1-1 FAB (University of Alberta) • ualberta.ca/artshows • Exhibition

by Erik Waterkotte (‘05 MFA); Nov 1-26 • Annea Lockwood: A Sound Map of the Housatonic River; Nov 1-26

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Inspirations: artwork by Gladys Mathison and Darlene Comfort; Nov 3-Dec 15

latituDE 53 • Latitude 53, 10242-106 St NW • latitude53.org • Ghost Dance: Artwork by Tony Stallard; Oct 7-Nov 13 • Game Start: Artwork by a community of collaborators; Oct 7-Nov 13

goodwomen.ca • Exploring the choreography of the everyday • Nov 10-12, 8pm • $20 (general), $15 (student/ senior/CADA)

FILM CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • CODE: Debugging the Gender Gap; Nov 15, 7-9pm • DEDfEmmE: Near Dark (Nov 11) • REconciliation in focus: (Dis)placed: Indigenous Youth and the Child Welfare System (Nov 13) • REEl family cinEma: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (Nov 12, Nov 14) • sciEncE in thE cinEma: Memento (Nov 17)

MOVIE NIGHT • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • mcdougallunited.com • Movies that are family friendly and always inspiring and entertaining. Popcorn and lemonade are available • Monthly, 7:30pm • Free

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ACUA GALLERY & ARTISAN BOUTIQUE • 9534-87 St • 780.488.8558 • info@acuarts.ca • acuarts.ca • Signature Artist Series: artwork by Larisa SembaliukCheladyn; Nov 4-28 • Signature Artist Series: artwork

by Oksana Movchan and Oksana Zhelisko; Nov 2-28 • Poppies and Podushky: artwork by Larisa SembaliukCheladyn; Nov 10-26

assembly.ab.ca/visitorcentre/borealis/CD1.html • Canada: Day 1: Explore first steps, first impressions and first experiences as a newcomer to Canada; Aug 27-Dec 4

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pictuRE this GallERy • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • The Great Fall Art Event: artwork by Terry Isaac, Patrick Markle, Audrey Pfannmuller and more; Sep 15-Nov 15 pRovincial aRchivEs of alBERta • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta. ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Alberta Ballet & the Documentation of Performance: celebrating Alberta Ballet's 50th anniversary; Sep 1-Dec 17

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery. com • The Wetlands: artwork by Michael Matthews; Oct 22-Nov 12

Snap GallERy • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • A Modern Cult of Monuments: artwork by Colin Lyons; Oct 13-Nov 26 • To Do: artwork by Graeme Dearden; Oct 13-Nov 26 • Snap Members Show & Sale: Dec 8-24

spRucE GRovE aRt GallERy • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Feature artist: Lyle Zutz (3D); Nov 1-26 • fireplace Room: Red Deer College Award winners; Through Nov

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Textural Dimensions: artwork by Pam Baergen and Rick Rogers; Oct 18-Nov 18

Don’t miss this live theatre musical performance about life, love and luggage featuring Beth Portman and her ‘Good Find’ of musicians.

WEst EnD GallERy • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • W.H. Webb–30th Anniversary Exhibition; Nov 5-Nov 17

LITERARY auDREys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Don Braid and Sydney Sharpe "Notley Nation" Book signing; Nov 12, 11:30am-1pm • Susanna Pfisterer "50 Percent of Mountaineering is Uphill" Launch; Nov 12, 1-2:30pm • Rich Theroux "Stop Making Art and Die" Book Launch; Nov 12, 3-4:30pm • Richard Van Camp "We Sang You Home" Book Launch; Nov 13, 1-2:30pm • Matt Cahill with special guests Tim Bowling and Greg Bechtel; Nov 13, 3-4:30pm • Lauralyn Chow "Paper Teeth" Book Launch; Nov 14, 7-8:30pm • Rick Lauber Book signing; Nov 15-16, 11:30-2:30pm • David Irvine "Caring is Everything" Book Launch; Nov 15, 7-9:30pm Book GRoup • McDougall United Church, 10086

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron

BOREALIS GALLERY LEGISLATIVE ASSEMBLY VISITOR CENTRE • 9820-107 St • 780.427.7362 •

paint spot • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • naess Gallery: Landscape in Memory: paintings by Ellen Andreassen • artisan nook: Journey Through Expression: ink/watercolour drawings by JoAnne Denis • Both exhibits run Oct 13-Nov 22

visualartsalberta.com • Art + Activism: artwork by Mary Joyce, Paula Kirman and Juan Lopezdabdoub; Aug 31-Nov 26

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dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Open Walls Two; Oct 29-Nov 26

olD stRathcona antiquE mall • 10323-78 Ave • edmgrandmothers.org • Silent Auction of Tiny Trees; Nov 18-28 • Kids Christmas Shoppe; Nov 26-27

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Mise en Scene: artwork by Triniruth Bautista and more; Oct 8-Dec 24 • Distil: artwork by Jenna Stanton; Oct 22-Nov 26 • Material Witness: artwork by Dirk van Wyk; Oct 22-Nov 26

BlEEDinG hEaRt aRt spacE • 9132-118 Ave •

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina.ca • Still Myself: artwork by Kate Collie; Nov 3-20; Artist talk: Nov 15, 5:30-6:30pm

12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • A Little Bit of Infinity Part 1; Aug 11-Jan 28 • A Little Bit of Infinity Part 2; Sep 22-Jan 28 • Floods, Blood, and Bitumen; Oct 13-Nov 19

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106

BEAR CLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • New works by Jim Logan; Nov 5-17

Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca • Weiller and Williams Co Ltd: Building a Livestock Empire; Sep 20-Nov 13

U OF A MUSEUMS GALLERIES AT EntERpRisE SQUARE • Main floor, 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri,

Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Fri-Sun • ASSC Christmas MarketPlace; Nov 11-12

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Blood, Toil, Tears: artwork by Marcel Belley, David Bowering, Bruno Canadien, Tony Stallard and more; Oct 29-Dec 3 • Guilded: “A River Runs Through”: artwork by St. Albert Place Visual Arts Council Guild Members; Nov 3-26 • Art Ventures: Snow Globes (Nov 19), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: (Nov 17), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Snow Globe Paintings (Nov 19); for 3-5 yrs; preregister; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM • St Albert Place, 5 St

telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Daily activities, demonstrations and experiments • Wild Africa; opens in late Oct • Angry Birds Universe; Oct 8-Apr 17

AJ OTTEWELL GALLERY • 590 Broadmoor Blvd,

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Beauty’s Awakening: Drawings by the Pre-Raphaelites and their Contemporaries from the Lanigan Collection; Jul 23-Nov 13 • JASON DE HAAN: Grey to Pink: Jul 23-Nov 13 • Every Story Has Two Sides: artwork by Damian Moppett + Ron Moppett; Sep 17-Jan 8 • The Vessel: artwork by David Altmejd; Oct 8-Jan 29 • The Edge: The Abstract and the Avant-Garde in Canada; Oct 8-Jan 29 • BMO Children’s Gallery: Touch Lab: Leave your Mark: Opens Jul 24 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: 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 for lunch: 3rd Thu of the month, 12:10-12:50pm

multicentre.org • Euphotica: artwork by Hilary Mussell; Nov 6-Dec 20; Reception: Nov 10, 6-8pm

tElus WoRlD of sciEncE • 11211-142 St •

AFTER HOURS GALLERY • University of Alberta Hospital, 8440-112 St • 2016-17 Art Show and Show: artwork by Edmonton Art Club members; Nov 7-Jan 6

• Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Exhibition of sculptural wood works by Lyle Zutz; Nov 1-26

MULTICULTURal cEntRE puBlic aRt GallERy (mcpaG)–stony plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain •

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Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • mcdougallunited.com • Discussing the current reading selection. The group chooses mostly current fiction or longtime favourites • 3rd Wed each month, 7pm

thE DaD DialoGuEs. GEoRGE BoWERinG anD chaRlEs DEmERs • Empress Ale House, 9912-82 Ave • Nov 10, 7pm • Free • 18+ only

EDmonton stoRy slam • Mercury Room,10575FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery. com • Artwork by Kari Duke & Tom Gale; Nov 17-Dec 5

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Reflections: by Richard Borowski; Nov 4-Dec 18

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/ gallery-at-milner • on the Walls: Art from Within: Paintings works by Perla Ibarra; Through Nov • in the cases: Eqraa: Fused glass works by Dalia Saafan; Through Nov GALLERY U • 9206-95 Ave • contact@galleryu.ca • galleryu.com • Viva Cuba!: Cuban artists from Matanzas and Camaguey; Sep 18-Nov 18

lanDo GallERy • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • November Group Selling Exhibition; Until Nov 26

MACEWAN UNIVERSITY • City Centre Campus, 7-266 • amatejko@icloud.com • I Don't Want To Die in the Digital Age/Windows of Light and Text; Oct 31-Feb 21 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Connections Made Visible: artwork by Nancy Corrigan; Nov 5-Dec 4; Opening reception: Nov 9, 12-2pm

misERicoRDia hospital • 16940-87 Ave • 201617 Art Show and Show: artwork by Edmonton Art Club members; Nov 19-Jan 16

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

EnD of thE EaRth siGninG With chaD HUCULAK • Variant Edition, 10132-151 St • 780.452.9886 • variantedmonton.com • Nov 12, 1-3pm

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

RouGE poEtRy slam hostED By BREATH IN poEtRy collEctivE • BLVD Supper x Club, 10765 Jasper Ave • Every Tue

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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 uppER cRust café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: featuring Susana Chalut, Hank Binnema, and Cheryl Luck (Nov 14) • Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRE 3c • Kinsmen Banquet Centre, 47 Riel Drive, St. Albert • Performed by the St. Albert Theatre Troupe. With the war in Vietnam over, an ex-serviceman, tries to make a new life for himself. After trashed in a kitchen, he and two others strike a deal • Nov 10-26 (Thu-Sat) • $50-$55 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Basement Theatre at Holy Trinity, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatre.ca • This completely improvised musical comedy is based on the suggestions from the audience who will get to experience a brand new story unfold in front of them, complete with impromptu songs, dance breaks and show stopping numbers • Every Fri, starting Sep 30-Dec 9 & Jan 20-Jul 30, 11pm 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 • $15 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun

DiE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 6:30pm (doors), 7:30-9:30pm • Oct 17-May 29 (except Dec 26 and Jan 2) • $18 or $13 with a $40 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

hoW to succEED in BusinEss WithOUT REALLY TRYING • McMahon Auditorium, Campus St. Jean, 8406 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • A satirical musical comedy from the “Mad Men” era, the story follows the rise of a man, who climbs the corporate ladder from window washer to high-powered exec with the help of a little handbook • Nov 11-19 • $21-$25

MAMMA MIA! • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave NW • jubileeauditorium.com • Mamma Mia! tells the story of Sophie, a bride-to-be with one wish: to have her absent father walk her down the aisle. After reading passages about three old lovers in her mom’s diary, Sophie sends each a wedding invitation in hopes of learning which is her dad • Nov 11-13 million DollaR quaRtEt • Shoctor Theatre, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Memphis, 1956. Four icons of rock ‘n’ roll have a chance meeting at Sun Records where they sing and record together for the first and only time • Oct 22-Nov 13 NEVER LET THE CREW SEE YOU CRY • McMahon Auditorium at Campus St. Jean, 8406 Rue Marie-Anne Gaboury • A story of the women who stepped into ‘male’ jobs at a hundred air bases across Canada during World War 2 • Nov 12-13, 7:30pm • $20 (plus applicable fees)

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM OF COUNTRY MUSIC • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, #2061 8882-170 St • 780.484.2424 • infoedmonton@ Jubilations.ca • edmonton.jubilations.ca • Nashville Tennessee is known as the legendary home of the Country Music Museum & Hall of Fame. On an average day the museum attracts thousands of visitors… but at night is when the real fun starts • Oct 28-Jan 22 (Wed-Sun) • $33.25-$77.95

ONLY IN VEGAS • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Celebrating all things past and present that Vegas has to offer, “Only in Vegas” features the great music, comedy and theatrics of “Sin City" • Nov 8-Jan 29

RED kinG's DREam • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • shadowtheatre.org • A chance encounter with an intriguing neighbour sends Stephen Tudor’s carefully ordered life through the looking glass and contrary to all rational analysis, the man who thinks too much just might find himself falling in love • Oct 26-Nov 13

takE a tRip: a musical jouRnEy • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • A performance about life, love and luggage featuring Beth Portman and her ‘Good Find’ of musicians • Nov 18-19, 7:30-9:30pm • $24.15 (adv), $28 (door)

thEatREspoRts • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $15

toRnaDo maGnEt • Roxy on Gateway, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • SuperMom of The Wild Rose Trailer Court, Dotty Parsons, returns to the stage to continue her battle against mobile home-ophobia. Dotty aims to leave no souvenir cushion left unturned: rituals, diet, furnishings, collections, family and new to her life – winning the lottery • Nov 10-27, 8pm (2pm on Sun) unDER thE influEncE • Backstage Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • 780.951.6302 • info@bridgetryan.ca • bridgetryan.com • Part musical theatre, part stand-up comedy, and one hundred percent entertainment • Nov 3-12 • $25 (adult), $15 (students/seniors/"I Only Got 15 Bucks")

SNOW ZONE

Ripping up a cornice at Lake Louise // Chris Moseley

FALLLINES

Marmot Basin rolls out the welcome mat Marmot Basin staff are gearing up for another season and—if mothernature cooperates—the lifts will start turning on Fri., Nov. 18. The upper mountain already has a fair bit of snow, including nearly 50 cm that fell in late October. Unfortunately near the bottom of the hill, seasonal temperatures have melted much of the snow. In fact, it’s been so warm day and night, the snow guns couldn’t be activated much of the time. Next week I’ll be attending Marmot Basin's season launch event after which I can give you the lowdown on the latest news.

I can tell you about one thing— the Marmot Escape Card. For years, most resorts have had discount cards but this year’s card for Marmot is really unique. Instead of the typical third to fifth and seventh day

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free specials, this card is 50 percent off of your lift ticket—period. This is available, every day, all season long, with no blackouts. As well, there are deals on rentals, lessons, accommodations and 50 percent off lift tickets here in Edmonton at our local ski hills including Snow Valley, Rabbit Hill, Sunridge and the Edmonton Ski Club. If you plan to go skiing to Marmot for more than one day this year, you should consider buying the $75 Marmot Escape Card—it will pay off in just one weekend. Check out all the details at www.skimarmot.com/Card On the cheap, and more • Sunshine Village was the first resort to open and until Sun., Nov. 13, their Mountain Lodge is offering onhill room rates for $109 per night.

Lift tickets are extra but if you’re sharing the room, this is a great deal.

• Lake Louise has added a smokehouse to the Kokanne Kabin near the base lodge. This has always been a great place to enjoy a burger or beavertail. Now, smoked meats will be available as well. The food smells near the lift lines are going to be amazing.

• Magic Bus is promoting a pretty sweet deal called The Boarding Pass. Adult passes are $149 each or better yet $1190 for a ten pack.

These passes are good for a ride on a luxury coach to Marmot Basin or Lake Louise including a lift ticket that you get on the bus. No standing in line when you arrive. The passes are transferable, are good for two years and can be used as credit for accommodations if you plan to stay for a night or two. For the complete lowdown go online to magicbus.ca

Snow Days Midweek Ski & Board Package Sunday through Thursday 30% off room & lift tickets.

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INTERVIEW // OUTDOOR ENTHUSIAST

Learning to mush

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utdoor professionals face many obstacles. Lightning, unsurpassable natural borders, guests who are afraid of crapping in the woods—it is an ever growing list.

Also on this list is keeping busy during the shoulder seasons.

Priscilla Haskin views the off season as a chance to do something different than her regular winter activity of snowshoeing. (In the summer, she's out paddling as the owner of Haskin Canoe.)

While waiting for the snow this year, she's teaching her dog to mush.

“Two weeks ago I got a husky mix from a northern community,” Haskin explains. “[Chewie] has a lot of energy and I am not that athletic. ... I needed something to expel his en-

ergy that I could also do.”

Haskin joined a Meet Up group organized by Marty Springstead and decided to dive into learning to train her dog to pull a scooter.

“I was surprised at was how much Chewie loved to pull,” says Haskin.

“It did take a few minutes but once he started he was off. Now I know why helmets are so important as it was a little intimidating traveling so fast with Chewie. I have to admit I am glad he didn’t see any squirrels on the first run. The squirrels came later.”

Haskin, whose only experience was the purchase of a kick sled— a smaller version of a dog sled— pointed out that the proper gear is imperative to the experience.

“You need a dog and a scooter of course,” she says. “You’ll also need a dog harness with a bungee coupler and a leash with bungees built in for easy of tension that attaches to the scooter.”

She adds to that a personal waist band for the leash. This will allow you to transfer the dog to yourself which helps in maneuvering the scooter when packing up to leave.

Her passion for the outdoors is equaled by her passion for learning.

"Becoming proficient with a skill takes time," she says. "While one course is nice, there is nothing like taking the time to learn more from those that have the experience."

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SNOW ZONE 9

REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

FILM

MEMORABLE MEMENTO MORI NFB documentary invites viewers into the emotional world of organ transplants

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eath takes everything eventually. It's the meanest, dumbest machine there is. It keeps coming and it doesn't care." -Lake Mungo

Memento Mori is about death, but it is also a documentary about keeping death at bay through organ transplants.

This locally made documentary from Gemini winning writer/director

Niobe Thompson is an unflinching look into this world. A well paced and evocative journey, telling the story of organ donators, organ recipients, and those still on the waiting list.

The film evokes great sympathy, and inspires self-reflection. The viewer is left feeling like some floating soul watching as families are torn apart and others are put back together. It is a form of visual narrative that is sustained skillfully throughout the entirety of the film.

Further intimacy is reached as back stories of those involved are offered in their own words. The film does very little telling and a lot of showing in this regard.

The cinematography never feels intrusive. It keeps the viewer in the conversation while still offering visually interesting scenes. Transitionally— and this is the hallmark of thoughtful shooting—there isn't a shift in theme. The shots tastefully continue through hope and sadness without a heavy hand. There is a subtlety to the camera work, engaging the audience without jarring them.

In one emotionally wrought scene, a family says goodbye to a young man about to be taken off life support.

Q & A with director Niobe Thompson Thurs., Nov. 10 (7pm) and Sun., Nov. 13 (1pm) Metro Cinema at the Garneau  Then, the scene changes and is contrasted with the operating room of awaiting surgeons. There is an overarching seriousness at this point, a feeling of sombre duty that has been there for the whole film.

While the son is taken off life support and being wheeled to the operating room, his mother follows him to say goodbye. As his bed is wheeled into an elevator and the doors shut, his mother yells goodbye and that she loves him. The doctors' faces reveal emotional turmoil, but they are steadfast in the reality of their roles.

Momento Mori invites us to look into a world that we never want to see.

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REVUE // ACTION

The black-and-white world of Mel Gibson Hacksaw Ridge presents yet another self-sacrificing hero, and yet another group to be vilified

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welve years ago (MMIV AD), Mel Gibson’s anti-Jewish take on Jesus’ martyrdom was anointed with $612-million at the box-office.

After an exile in the wilderness for making anti-Semitic comments to a police officer, Gibson returns for his latest braveheart-warrior passion-play, Hacksaw Ridge. Once more, guts and gore glorify a saint-

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ly, self-sacrificing hero, only this time the Japanese are vilified.

The movie’s first half is rife with tableaux and slo-mo, meant to engrave in our visual cortexes Desmond Doss’ (Andrew Garfield) seriousness of moral purpose and latent heroism. The boy climbs a ridge near home in West Virginia, foreshadowing his grit and endur-

ance atop the titular ridge in a hellish assault during the Battle of Okinawa. He has a quasi-revelation about pacifism after savagely hitting his brother in a fight. As a young man, he both glimpses his higher purpose as a medic and sees his true love, nurse Dorothy Schutte (Teresa Palmer), at a hospital. And then this Seventh-Day

Adventist’s Christ-like trials and tribulations at boot camp begin . . . climaxing in a ludicrous court-martial scene (his conscience forbids him to carry a gun), where Doss’ father—the most speechifying, openly honest WWI veteran ever— arrives to save the day.

The Hacksaw Ridge battle’s riddled with brutality (shot-through

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Meanwhile, we’ve witnessed Our Great American Hero save dozens of wounded (even one Japanese!) on his own, lowering them to safety—it’s “a miracle” and all those recruit-disbelievers who spurned him are now comrades looking upon him with reverence. A sunlit baptized-by-battle image is soon followed by a shot of Doss on a stretcher which makes it look as if he’s ascending to Heaven. Beatified and blessed by the camera, Doss is another holier-than-thou hero in another of Gibson’s violence-as-a-means-to-salvation bigscreen sermons.

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REVUE // DRAMA

A question of identity

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s a child, Chiron (Alex Hibbert) is nicknamed Little. He takes up little space, speaks little, and is of little concern to anyone save his single-mother Paula (Naomie Harris).

Her time and patience however is circumscribed by hard work and drug addiction. There's also the local bullies, from whom Little hides in a boarded up Miami housing project. His diminutive status is alleviated somewhat when Little is befriended by Juan (Ma-

hershala Ali), a seemingly benevolent Afro-Cuban drug dealer, and Juan’s girlfriend Teresa (Janelle Monáe).

As an adolescent, Chiron (Ashton Sanders) is only more relentlessly bullied, while Paula is only more neglectful and abusive. The emergence of Chiron’s sexuality, and the retribution engendered by the first real expression of his sexuality, lead to actions that dramatically change Chiron’s path.

As a young man, Chiron (Trevante

Rhodes), now dubbed Black, has left Miami and lives outside Atlanta. He has erased all traces of his once-skinny frame, having developed a hulking body and sundry blingy accouterments, such as bejeweled teeth. He’s become fearsome. He has money and respect.

The troubled boy Chiron is still there somewhere beneath Black’s protective armor, though by now the only person capable of recognizing him is probably Kevin (played over the years by Jaden

Piner, Jharrel Jerome and, with tremendous seductive charm, André Holland), the childhood friend with whom Chiron experienced his life’s peaks of camaraderie, tenderness, and betrayal.

If you’ve heard anything about Moonlight, the second feature from writer-director Barry Jenkins, based on Tarell Alvin McCraney’s play In Moonlight Black Boys Look Blue, you’ve probably heard of its revelatory revisionist portrait of African American masculinity, and the complexity of its central character, for whom race, class, and sexuality coalesce to determine his destiny in America’s most effective systems of marginalization: ghettos and prisons. Intelligent and perceptive, Moonlight indeed fulfills these promises. I can think of no other movie so laden with questions of identity so pertinent to the most urgent issues in contemporary American life.

Yet, at its best, Moonlight is also intimate, deeply personal and poetic, as delicate as a Zen haiku.

During a scene in which Juan teaches Little to swim, Jenkins keeps the camera at sea-level: we are right there, with Little, learning to breathe, to keep our head above water. During a scene in which Chiron is granted his first kiss

and the only validation of his desire he will ever know, Jenkins provides us with a gorgeously evocative image of a fist grasping at sand. When Black reunites with Kevin, Jenkins captures what may be Moonlight’s most startling image, that of Rhodes, through the simplest and subtlest of gestures, offering us a glimpse of Little, the wounded boy inside the colossal man.

All of which is to say that while Moonlight illuminates social issues, it is also lit from within through its particularity. I didn’t find each of its three parts to be equal: the middle section, with its strained performance from Harris and its escalating crimesaga narrative, feels a bit too calculated, a little too neat in its causality.

But overall the balance struck here is so impressive, the atmospheres so precise and, for the most part, the performances so rich, that I urge you to see Moonlight. It isn’t for black audiences or art-house audiences or liberal audiences or whatever reductive cultural niche people might try to shove it into. Simply, it is one of the most striking films of the year and it is, I believe, for everyone.

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Takin' it to the House

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uffhouse Records is a homegrown Edmonton based hip-hop label, built from the ground-up over the past 20 years.

The name is inspired by CEO Orvillehavana Green's upbringing as a child in Jamaica. He described his mother running a "tough house" where everyone was expected to understand and respect the rules. Green runs his label in a similar manner, working only with artists he feels have the drive and passion to be successful.

The label was originally formed in 1996 when Green tagged along with a friend who was fighting a traffic ticket. He noticed the business registry section and inquired about starting a business. Soon after the encounter, he came up with the money to register his dream, and began Tuffhouse Records.

Since then, the label has been home to a wide variety of up and coming artists, both locally and around the world. Green has been integral in organizing some of hiphop’s biggest acts to perform in the city (Jadakiss, Styles P., French Montana etc.). Promoting these shows are a win/win for fans and Tuffhouse artists alike, he says.

“You do concerts to help promote your artists moving forward. I brought

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Edmonton's Tuffhouse Records continues to expand after 20 years the Wu-Tang Clan here, that changed my whole life. I got to the pinnacle,” Green says. “A lot of people doubted that we could do it, but we did the impossible. I’ve earned that link with them because we’ve worked so hard to establish this company.”

Personally, Green has chosen to stay local, describing Alberta and Edmonton as his “Queen.” With the label’s upcoming 20-year anniversary in December, he reflects on how his surroundings have influenced the rise of Tuffhouse.

“Community, first and foremost," he says. "There’s no place like Alberta.

Edmonton is home, Edmonton is all heart for this guy here. When you look at the beauty of what we possess and the growth, it’s fantastic to see how far it’s spread. Not everyone can tell their story, but as a musician if I get the right to tell my guys’ story and help them balance their goals, that’s all we ask for.”

His 20 years of hard work received recognition this year when Tuffhouse received the 2016 CUT (Canadian Urban Television) Hip-Hop Award for Independent Label of the Year. Although he was honoured, it was difficult for him to soak it in at the time.

He was actually helping produce the event at that moment.

“I was running around and it was just like a regular night for me because I was working. Receiving [the award]— I was in shock. I felt jubilation and it made me want to drive that drive even more.”

Currently, he has 17 artists on his roster who are prepping for the global release of their collaborative album Don’t Bet Against The House on March 28, 2017. The album has been in the works for the better part of a year, featuring 26 tracks and a shout out to the label from hip-hop kingpin Rick Ross.

“What I was going for with this album is the feel of The Fugees The Score, with No Way Out the Puff Daddy album, and a touch of Kanye’s [The College Dropout],” he says. "I want people to dance, cry, call up their mamma or even call up their exgirlfriend because that’s the energy we’re putting into it.”

Tuffhouse has grown into a thriving hub for Edmonton hip-hop, but Green doesn’t forget the years of hard work and sacrifice it took to develop the label.

His nurturing of artists, trust in business partners and continuous hustling of the brand are key philosophy's to the label's success.

“In the music business, you’re gonna owe people money at times, and they’re going to owe you money at times," he says. "If you build a solid friendship, it will work. I’ve lost money at times, but I still sleep like an angel as long as my partners are still happy with how we’re working.

We still invest in us and we still invest in the process.”

Green allows artists time to develop and doesn’t rush their creative process. He believes this method allows creative people to reach their full potential and release the best possible material for the label as a whole. This balancing act is something that some people aren’t used to, but he feels it’s for the benefit of everyone involved.

No matter what, Green will always give it to his crew straight.

“I give the realistic answer to everybody," he says. "You’re on my label, you’re a part of my family. I’m not going to beat around the bush. I’m going to correct it, and teach you. We help to develop artists and give them the time to make their sound better...

You have guys that become selfish but I just shake them up quickly.”

Hip-hop culture in Edmonton has been somewhat stifled, he says. He feels there have been negative connotations placed on the community due

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to previous incidents and stereotypes of the culture. Green hopes that local hip-hop listeners will continue to support the local scene and help grow the art form, leading to greater prominence in our city.

“The next thing is just to support our own. In the city here, a lot of people are scared of urban music, because a lot of people say violence comes with it,” he says. “At the end of the day, we can’t live in the past.

Urban music isn’t a force that brings violence with it. If you’re a violent person you’re still going to be a violent person, it’s the environment that creates that.”

Looking back on 20 years of hard work, Green thinks back to his mother's rules. His Tuffhouse has succeeded as a result of the lessons he learned many years ago, in his mother’s tough house. Now he gets to make her the benefactor of his own philosophies.

“My mother told me straight-up: ‘Son, get yourself a real job,’" he says.

"Now my mom is semi-retired because the job I wanted to do was music and I decided to invest in it. Now she doesn’t even say much because I knew my determination and my will.”

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PREVUE // JAZZ

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Quinsin Nachoff sends off the Festival of Canadian Jazz

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enor saxophonist Quinsin Nachoff will be presenting his group Flux at Yardbird Suite’s 10th annual Festival of Canadian Jazz.

The four-piece ensemble is comprised of musicians Nachoff has been longing to write with throughout his career.

Flux features David Binney on alto sax, Matt Mitchell on keyboards and Kenny Wollesen on drums and percussion. The non-traditional setup leaves out a bass component in the jazz group.

He chose the players solely based on his admiration of their skill and how they all coexisted musically.

“I brought some new stuff into rehearsal the other day and when you have the right people, you barely have to say anything," he says. "They know what you’re going for or they’ll add their own thing to it which is surprising. Really that’s the whole point of it.”

Nachoff and Binney have worked on other records and tours together in the past. The juxtaposition of the two jazz saxophonists’ styles adds to the experimental aspect of the group.

“I’m a huge fan of David’s writing and playing and have been for a very long time. We have very different approaches, so it works in that way... Hearing him interpret stuff that I’ve written is always great.”

He compares Flux’s music to a journey, with unforeseen twists and turns throughout the performance. The story they’re telling

on stage has surprises in store for listeners, but also with a cohesive narrative throughout.

“Each piece has it’s own little rules and constructs and sort of vibes, maybe not just one, but it’ll try to take you somewhere maybe you didn’t expect it would go,” Nachoff explains.

Flux’s ambience follows the same rule of thumb. What you get in one performance, may not be the same as one you’d see the following week.

“It varies, hence the name of the group. I try to think about it like each piece is the part of its own story. I’m really into magic realism where there’s a story line but things will take you off of the beaten path.”

As a consumer of media himself, he has learned how to use the element of surprise to his advantage on stage.

“I like being surprised as a listener, reader or filmgoer and I don’t like clichés happening over and over.

If you’re going to use a cliché you can twist it in some way I wasn’t expecting. I try to do that in addition to all the musical nitty-gritty that needs to be dealt with.”

Following the tour, Nachoff and Flux plan to record new music when they play their upcoming show in Calgary. Additionally, Flux will be working with producer David Travers-Smith, who will layer new sounds using a modular syn-

Thurs,. Nov. 10 (8pm) Yardbird Suite, $24 for members, $28 for guests thesizer, making the group even more dynamic.

Flux hope to have their new record released by the fall of 2017.

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Stylin' and profilin' the funk

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f you’re not having a good time at a Mercy Funk show, you’re probably doing it wrong. Equal parts pop, funk, R&B and a glitzy style, Mercy Funk feed off their audience and bring the party everywhere they go.

The group performs in various incarnations. At low-key shows you may only see the five core members, or they may expand the roster to eleven performers at larger capacity events. At bigger shows they

add keyboards, a horn section and back-up vocals to accentuate their already full-bodied sound.

If you’re expecting to hear the songs on their self-titled debut EP exactly as they are recorded, you may be out of luck. Bassist and co-founder Angela Proulx explained that their recorded material is a template for what comes out on stage.

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We’ll judge who is playing with us and what we’re feeling in the moment,” she says of the live show.

“It’s very much like a head nod on stage like ‘you take this one.’ Or if I’m feeling a bass solo, then usually they can tell I’m getting all fired up and ready to go.”

Collins and Funkadelic and I went absolutely nuts. I decided that’s what I’m doing from now on—playing funk music.”

After falling in love with the bass guitar, her next step was to find cohorts to help her create the sounds she was envisioning. She called up a few of her musically inclined friends who introduced her to vocalist Crystal Eyo. The two hit it off and performed a few shows together, but let the project simmer.

Proulx began jamming with drummer Christan Maslyk and guitarist Allan Pangburn in Morinville where they all worked. The trio was eventually joined by Eyo, solidifying the core of the band.

When writing songs, the core members bring in the foundation of the song and the rest of the band fills it out equally. This dynamic changes once other members join on stage.

“Some of us will individually write a song that is pretty well fully formed and we’ll bring it to the band. Of course it’s going to change from there when you add other people.

Sometimes Crystal and I will sit there and just play and it’ll turn into a song,” Proulx says.

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Flashback Friday; Every Fri

FESTIVAL PLACE Rita

MERCER TAVERN

Chiarelli & Sweet Loretta; 7:30pm; $37-$41 • Colleen Brown; 7:30pm; $20

Movement Fridays; 8pm NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Time Warp Late Night Throwback Dance Party with DJs Joses Martin & Thomas Culture VJ Owen;

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every Sat; this week: JellyBean NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Warp (fundraising event); 7:30pm; $31-$35 FIDDLER'S ROOST Acoustic

ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks:

HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE Bistro Jazz; Every

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

Thu, 7:30pm; Free

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE

House Function Thursdays; 9pm

COMING SOON: CANADA’S TRIBUTE TO ABBA, THE STAMPEDERS, IRISH DESCENDANTS AND MORE!

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Edmonton's best solo musicians ON THE ROCKS Crazy Dave's Renegades; 9pm PALACE CASINO WOW;

9:30pm RIVER CREE–The Venue

FRI NOV 11

Olivia Newton-John; 7pm (doors), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $69.50

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

ROSE & CROWN PUB Danny

Jimmy Whiffen; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Pete

Coady; 9pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Jack

Turland; 9pm

Semple (blues); 9pm

BOHEMIA STLNDRMS; 9pm;

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday

Nights: Video Music DJ; 9pm-2am SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Artzy Flowz: featuring DJs and artists teaming up; 9pm VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB

Electric Fridays; Every Fri, 9pm; No minors Y AFTERHOURS Freedom

Fridays

SAT NOV 12 THE ALMANAC Brad Roberts

(rock) with Ego the Jackal and guests; 7pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

$10; 18+ only BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

(rock); 9pm

Live music; Every Fri; Free

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

9pm

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu

BOURBON ROOM Live music

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm

ARDEN THEATRE Jayme

NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour featuring Rebecca Lappa; 5:30pm • Justine Vandergrift with Lonesome Dove and Mariel Buckley; 9pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

each week with a different band each week; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Silverado; 9pm

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

NORTH GLENORA HALL

BRIXX BAR Dub Kontrolla

NEW WEST HOTEL

TICKETS AVAILABLE AT CENTURY CASINO AND TICKETMASTER

Silverado; 9pm

Every Fri, 11:30pm; $5 (door)

Moonshiners Jam Night with Rockin' Rod; Every Thu, 7pm; No minors open stage; 7pm

FRIDAY NOV 18

NEW WEST HOTEL

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Stan Gallant

MOONSHINERS

FRIDAY NOV 11

HAVE MERCY Slam Back

Thursdays hosted by DJ Thomas Culture & DJ Fuzzy Dice; Every Thu, 9pm

Night; Every Thu, 7-11pm

STARLITE ROOM Skiitour &

Luca Lush; 9pm (doors); $20-$25; 18+ only TIRAMISU BISTRO Live

music every Fri with local musicians WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music

Fridays; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; 7pm

2nd Year Birthday featuring Lost; 9pm; $20; 18+ only

O’BYRNE’S IRISH PUB Live

Shimoni; 8pm; $10

music

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

RICHARD’S PUB Soul Train

Electrik Squirrels; 9pm

Live-Single and couple dance; Every Thu, 7:3010:30pm; Free

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live

YARDBIRD SUITE Double Bill: Modo Trio and Ken Aldcroft's Convergence Ensemble: Celebrating the life and music of Ken Aldcroft; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

Classical

CASINO EDMONTON Mojave

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

SANDS INN & SUITES

CAFE BLACKBIRD Orit

Jimmy Whiffen; 9pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Hair of the Dog: Rebecca Lappa; 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ The

Suitable Men; 8:3010:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Pete

Turland; 9pm BOHEMIA Hewson

Grey, TGera & WeUsedToBeFriends; 8pm (doors), 8:30pm (show); $10

Night Guitar; 9:30pm; $24

CENTURY CASINO– EDMONTON

DJs

The Dungarees with Mike Plume; 10pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Early:

Saturday Country Jam (country); Every Sat, 3pm • Later: Silverado; 9pm ON THE ROCKS Crazy Dave's Renegades; 9pm PALACE CASINO WOW;

9:30pm ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Beers & Steers

featuring Sam Spades with DJ Cowboy Mike; 8pm; $10 (adv) ROSE & CROWN PUB Danny

Coady; 9pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Jack

Semple (blues); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Stan Gallant

(rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm STARLITE ROOM The Struts

with guests; 8pm (doors); $25; 18+ only TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE

Mikey Wong and his lineup of guest DJs YARDBIRD SUITE Matthew Stevens Trio; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

Classical ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Organ Concert

Live music; Every Sat; Free

by Janos Palur; 3pm; $30 (adult), $20 (student/ senior), free (kids under 12)

BOURBON ROOM Live music

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB

BRIXX BAR Savage Henry

Shannon Smith; 9pm

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ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

WINSPEAR CENTRE Late

SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Big

Shanneyganock; 7pm

Stone's Lomax Project; 7:30pm; $38

each week with a different band each week; 9pm

Iguanas; 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD

ARCADIA BAR Live music;

Mama Mia!

Karaoke Thursdays with JR; Every Thu, 9pm-1am Daddy Thursday Jam. With host Randy Big Daddy Forsberg; 7pm

featuring Edmonton's best cover bands playing hits from the 60s to today; Every Fri-Sat

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

LIZARD LOUNGE Jam

HAVE MERCY Live music

Tides, Our Tombs Tour featuring Shark Infested Daughters with The Body Politic, Corvus the Crow and Counted Among Saints; 8pm; $12 (adv), $15 (door)

The Roadhouse feat Chris Janson; 10:30pm; $25

hosted by Cody Forsberg; 7-11pm

GAS PUMP Saturday Jam;

3-7pm

MERCURY ROOM These

EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE

L.B.'S PUB Open Jam

EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Live

Tour Kickoff; 8pm

NOV 11 & 12

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mark

McGarrigle (rock/pop/ indie); 9pm

music; 9:30pm

DV8 Dead Standing Mini

Open stage with host Naomi Carmack; 8pm every Thu

9pm; Free

LB'S PUB Persons of Interest (rock/pop/indie); 9pm; No minors

Thursdays: weekly punk, alternative and hardcore music; Every Thu, 8pm

JOHN BEUHLER

CENTURY CASINO–ST. ALBERT (FORMERLY APEX CASINO) Head Over Heels;

Resident DJs playing the best in Hip Hop, Dance, Indie Dance, T40 & Classics; Every Fri-Sat; 9pm; No cover

DENIZEN HALL Taking Back

Circle Jam; 7:30-11:30pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD CASK AND BARREL John Guliak; 4-6pm; No cover

Thu; 7pm

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Iguanas; 9pm Shannon Smith; 9pm

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO

Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Mojave

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

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

FESTIVAL PLACE Time

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

THE BOWER Strictly Goods:

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Karaoke; Every Thu, 7pm

Electrik Squirrels; 9pm

and The Infamous One Pounders, The Preying Saints, The Nielsens; 9pm (doors); $10; 18+ only

Mama Mia! WINSPEAR CENTRE Guitar Treasures; 8pm; $29-$79

DJs 9910 Greazus with DJ

Phatcat, OpenEnd and

Kiytek; 9pm; $20 (adv) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Chris Bruce spins Britpop/Punk/Garage/ Indie; Every Sat; Wooftop: Sound It Up! with DJ Sonny Grimezz spinning classic Hip-Hop and Reggae; Underdog: Hip Hop open Mic followed by DJ Marack

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down

It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with Wright & Wong, Dane EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR

Resident DJs playing the best in Hip Hop, Dance, Indie Dance, T40 & Classics; Every Fri-Sat; 9pm; No cover EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

Rotating DJs Velix and Suco; every Sat KELLY'S PUB 104 Street

Beats; Every Sat, 10pm; No minors MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

Wong every Sat THE PROVINCIAL PUB

Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice; 9pm-2am SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Psyturdays: various DJs; 9pm SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

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

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

Saturdays

SUN NOV 13 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Jazz

Brunch - Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am-2:30pm; By donation BLUES ON WHYTE Pete

Turland; 9pm

DANCE CODE STUDIO

Flamenco Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am12:30pm DIVERSION LOUNGE Sunday

Night Live on the South Side: live bands; Free; All ages; 7-10:30pm HAVE MERCY Local

Spotlight Sundays featuring up and coming as well as established YEG bands; Every Sun, 9pm MERCURY ROOM Melanie

Brulee & Anique Granger with Celeigh Cardinal; 8pm; $10 (adv) NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN Soul Sunday Brunch: Crystal Eyo and Angela Proulx; 12:30pm; No cover • Soul Sunday Dbl Dip; 9pm; No cover

KELLY'S PUB Open stage; Every Mon, 9pm NEW WEST HOTEL New West

Hotel; 9pm NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour featuring Bobby Dove; 5:30pm ON THE ROCKS Killer

Karaoke Monday PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild

Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Association: Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm RED PIANO BAR Swingin'

Mondays; 8-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Monday Jam with $4 Bill; Every Mon, 8-11pm

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Sun; 9:30pm

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

RICHARD'S PUB Mark Ammar's Sunday Sessions Jam; Every Sun, 4-8pm SANDS INN & SUITES Open Jam; Every Sun, 7-11pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE The Sunday Happening Jam featuring The Todd James Band; 4pm

Classical JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

Mama Mia!

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Zyppy;

Every Sun

MON NOV 14 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: Metal Mondays

with Metal Phil from CJSR's Heavy Metal Lunchbox BLUES ON WHYTE Troy

Turner; 9pm CAFE BLACKBIRD Edmonton

SIDELINER’S PUB Singer/

HORIZON STAGE Joe Trio; 7:30pm; $35 (adult), $30 (students & seniors) KELLY'S PUB Open Stage:

featuring host Naomi Carmack and guest; 9pm; No cover L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm; No charge NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour - Rising Star featuring Benjamin Williams; 5:30pm • Big Dreamer Jam featuring Son Lion; 8pm NEW WEST HOTEL New West

Hotel; 9pm O’BYRNE’S Guinness Celtic

jam every Tue; 9:30pm SHAKERS ROADHOUSE

Crazy Dave's Rock & Roll Renegade Jam; 7:30pm STARLITE ROOM Coleman

Hell with guest Ria Mae; 8pm (doors); $25; 18+ only

Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted

by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30pm

Session: Tom Van Seters Quintet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

DJs

DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Substance with

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Eddie Lunchpail TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE NOV 15 BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE

Corb Lund; 8pm; $49.99 at the Bailey Box Office or online BLUES ON WHYTE Troy

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Main Floor: Chris Bruce spins Britpop/Punk/Garage/ Indie; Every Tue

ON THE ROCKS Turn't Up

Tuesday

WED NOV 16 BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst;

9pm

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

BOURBON ROOM Acoustic singer songwriter jam; Every Wed, 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

Jam Circle; 7:30-11:30pm GAS PUMP Karaoke;

HAVE MERCY Mississippi

9:30pm

Mondays featuring Dylan Farell Band; Every Mon, 8:30pm (sign-up)

HAVE MERCY King of Tuesdays with Live Elvis Impersonator; Every Tue

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm

FIDDLER'S ROOST Fiddle

Karaoke Kraziness with host Ryan Kasteel; 8pm2am NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN

Happy Hour featuring Lyra Brown; 5:30pm NEW WEST HOTEL New West

NOV/10

VOLUNTEER PARTY

Hotel; 9pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic

Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Guests and newcomers always welcome; every Wed, 7pm; $2 (donation, per person), free coffee available THE PROVINCIAL PUB

Karaoke Wednesday RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Rock

n' Roll Jam with Gator & Friends; 7:30pm

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Music Wednesdays

At Noon: featuring Kathleen de Caen and Ewan Fortier-Taylor (cello and accordion); 12:10-12:50p; Free

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: DJ Late Fee;

Every Wed

RANCH ROADHOUSE DJ

Shocker and Seelo Mondo; Every Wed

LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

SKIITOUR & LUCA LUSH THE STRUTS W/ THE PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE

NOV/15

LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

COLEMAN HELL W/ RIA MAE

NOV/18

MRG CONCERTS & FOURCE ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT

DRAGONETTE W/ LOWELL

NOV/19

UBK PRESENTS

KRAFTY KUTS W/ DYNAMITE MC, STYLUST BEATS

NOV/20 NOV/25 NOV/26

LANDMARK EVENTS PUP MRG CONCERTS & FOURCE ENTERTAINMENT PRESENT

W/ CHASTITY

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

SONATA ARCTICA W/ LEAVES EYES, OMNIUM GATHERUM

DEC/2

UBK PRESENTS

TURN UP FOR TOYS W/ STICKYBUDS & JPOD

DEC/3

STARLITE ROOM PRESENTS

AUDIO ROCKETRY 10 YR ANNIVERSARY CD RELEASE

W/ CHRIS CRESSWELL, THE WEEKEND KIDS, FORESTER

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St NW, 780.709.4734, 99ten.ca ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 THE ALMANAC 10351-82 Ave, 780.760.4567, almanaconwhyte. com ARCADIA BAR 10988-124 St, 780.916.1842, arcadiayeg.com ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542, stalbert.ca/ experience/arden-theatre ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South, 780.432.4611, atlantictrapandgill.com THE AVIARY 9314-111 Ave, 780.233.3635, facebook.com/ arteryyeg BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780. 672.5510, baileytheatre.com BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLVD SUPPER X CLUB 10765 Jasper Ave BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BORDERLINE SPORTS PUB 322682 St, 780.462.1888 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 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW, 780.451.8890, cafeblackbird.ca CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523,

W/ ALUNA GEORGE & GUESTS

NOV/12

PINT DOWNTOWN Wild Wing

Wednesdays at the Pint with DJ Thomas Culture; Every Wed, 10pm

NEXTGEN CITY JAM UBK PRESENTS

Karaoke; 9pm TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY Live music

PRESENTED BY EDMONTON’S NEXTGEN WITH CANADIAN WESTERN BANK

NOV/11

TAVERN ON WHYTE

Classical

FIDDLER'S ROOST Open

Karaoke night; Every Mon, 9pm; Free

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE

Wednesday's; Every Wed

Stage; 7-11pm

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB

Wednesdays Live Piano Karaoke featuring the Fab Tiff Hall; Every Wed, 8:30pm

Taco Tuesday with DJ Bad Fad

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations; Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm • Wednesday Night Jazz; Every Wed, 9pm

Ukulele Circle; 6pm; Free

HAVE MERCY Whiskey

EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR

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

GAS PUMP Karaoke;

9:30pm

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 CASK AND BARREL 10041104 St; 780.498.1224, thecaskandbarrel.ca 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 CHVRCH OF JOHN 10260-103 St, 780.884.8994, thechvrchofjohn. com COMMON 9910-109 St CONVOCATION HALL Old Arts Building, University of Alberta, music.ualberta.ca DENIZEN HALL 10311-103 Ave, 780.424.8215, thedenizenhall. com DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB 1111387 Ave NW, devaneyspub.com DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DV8/MAMA'S PIZZA 7317-101 Ave NW EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE 7515118 Ave NW EL CORTEZ MEXICAN KITCHEN + TEQUILA BAR 8230 Gateway Blvd, elcortezcantina.com EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE 10220-103 St NW, 780.

424.0077, yourgaybar.com FARGO'S–CAPILANO 5804 Terrace Rd FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave, 780.439.9788, fiddlersroost.ca GAS PUMP NIGHT CLUB & BAR 10166-114 St HAVE MERCY SOUTHERN TABLE + BAR 8232 Gateway Blvd HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW, 780.433.5530, holytrinity.ab.ca HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995, horizonstage.com HUMMINGBIRD BISTRO CAFE 8336-160 Ave, 780.401.3313, hummingbirdbistro.ca IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 1145587 Ave NW, 780.427.2760, jubileeauditorium.com KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St NW, 780.451.8825, kellyspubedmonton.com L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LIZARD LOUNGE 11827 St. Albert Tr, 780.451.9180, facebook.com/ The-Lizard-Lounge MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW, mcdougallunited.com 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 MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr, 780.633.3725 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEEDLE VINYL TAVERN 10524

Jasper Ave, 780.756.9045, theneedle.ca NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW, 780.444.2112, palacecasino. com PINT–DOWNTOWN 10125-109 St NW 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 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS INN & SUITES 12340 Fort Rd, sandshoteledmonton.com SHAKERS ROADHOUSE Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail 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 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW, 780.434.4288, stbasilschurch. com STUDIO 96 10909-96 St NW SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TILTED KILT PUB AND EATERY 17118-90 Ave TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW, 780.433.1604, trinity-lutheran. ab.ca TWIST ULTRA LOUNGE 10324-82 Whyte Ave UNION HALL 6240-99 St NW, 780.702-2582, unionhall.ca UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 11150-82 St, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, CENTURY CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VIDA LATIN NIGHT CLUB 10746 Jasper Ave, 780.951.2705 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOODRACK CAFE 7603-109 St, 780. 757.0380, thewoodrackcafe. com Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428

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NOV/11

DUB KONTROLLA PRESENTS

DUB KONTROLLA 2ND YEAR BIRTHDAY FEAT/ LOST

NOV/12 SAVAGE HENRY AND THE STARLITE ROOM IS PROUD TO PRESENT

INFAMOUS ONE POUNDERS W/ THE PREYING SAINTS, THE NIELSENS

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COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Chris Heward; Nov 11-12 • Chris Heward; Nov 18-19

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Piff the Magic Dragon Special Presentation; Nov 10-13 • Sam Tripoli; Nov 16-20

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • Voted "Vue Weekly Best Comedy Night in Edmonton". Stand up comedy open mic hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm (8:30pm sign-up)

El Comedy • El Cortez Mexican Kitchen +

a larger story arc. For all levels of gamers and those brand new or experienced to D&D • Every Tue, 7pm • $5

Drop-In Dance & Movement Classes • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • admin@ milezerodance.com • milezerodance.com • Drop-in classes. For all ages and experience levels. Mon-Thu & Sun • Runs until Dec 18, 10am-5pm • $15 (regular), $12 (members), $100 (10-class card)

EC (Infant Pottying) and Potty Training Support Meeting • Lendrum Community League Hall, 11335-57 Ave • danielle@godiaperfree.com • facebook.com/groups/ gdfedmonton • For anyone doing EC (elimination communication or infant pottying) or hoping to, or those looking for potty training support • 3rd Wed of every month, 10-11am • Free

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

Edmonton Photographic Historial Society • Highlands Library • 780.436.3878

Ron White • River Cree, 300 E Lapotac Blvd, Enoch • rivercreeresort.com • Nov 12, 7pm (doors), 9pm (show) • Tickets start at $49.50 • 18+ only

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, Thu; 7-9pm

Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • amnesty@edmontonamnesty. org • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, Dec) • 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

Babes In Arms • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave

• A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

Brazilian Zouk Dance • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • 780.974.4956 • hello@ludiczouk.com • ludiczouk.com • Drop in and check out a totally painless partner dance class.

No partner required • Every Wed, Sep 28-Dec 7, 6:30-8pm

DeepSoul.ca • 780.217.2464; 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

Drop-In D&D • Hexagon Board Game Café, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • An epic adventure featuring a variety of pre-made characters, characters that guests can make on their own, or one that has already been started.

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Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • 780.452.4661 • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta offers a variety of services and support programs for those who are living with the illness, family members, caregivers, and friends • 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm • 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 Seventies Forever Music Society •

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave •

FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply

spear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square NW • winspearcentre.com • Featuring comedians Dane Cook, Vinny Fasline and John Campanelli • Nov 10, 7pm • $50-$60

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia

Edmonton Stamp Club • St. Joseph High School, 10830-109 St, main floor cafeteria • edmontonstampclub.com • Get into a new hobby. Featuring circuit books, catalogues and packets that can be browsed and lectures • Nov 21, 7:30-9:30pm

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: Highlighting the best stand-up Edmonton has to offer. New headliner every week • Every Sun, 9pm • Free

Just for Laughs Comedy Tour • Win-

Sacred Circle Dance • Riverdale Hall, 9231-100 Ave • Dances are taught to a variety of songs and music. No partner required • Every Wed, 7-9pm • $10

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

Flamenco Dance Classes (Beginner or Advanced) • Dance Code Studio, 10575-

Blvd, Enoch • rivercreeresort.com • Nov 16, 6pm (doors), 8pm (show) • Tickets start at $49.50 • 18+ only

#103-10324-82 Ave • capoeiraacademy.ca • Brazil's traditional game of agility and trickery • Every Sat, 2:30pm • Free • All ages

• All interested in sharing the joys of film photography, such as experiences or favourite equipment • Every 3rd Wed of the month, 7:30pm

Tequila Bar, 8230 Gateway Blvd • Hosted by Dion Arnold with weekly headliners & guest comics • Every Wed, 7pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • No cover

Howie Mandel • River Cree, 300 E Lapotac

Roda de Capoeira • Capoeira Academy,

115 St NW #204 • 780.349.4843 • judithgarcia07@ gmail.com • Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

Done Cafe), 10728-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

Habitat for Humanity Volunteer Information Night • Habitat for Humanity Prefab Shop, 14135-128 Ave • 780.451.3416 ext. 236 • vbatten@hfh.org • hfh.org/volunteer/ vin • Learn about taking the next steps and what opportunities are available at Habitat for Humanity • Every 3rd Thu of the month, excluding Dec; 6-7pm • Free

Lotus Qigong • SAGE downtown 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.695.4588 • Attendees can raise their vital energy with a weekly Yixue practice • Every Fri, 2-3:30pm • Free Monday Mingle • Hexagon Board Game Cafe, 10123 Whyte Ave • 780.757.3105 • info@ thehexcafe.com • thehexcafe.com • Meet new gamers. Go to the event solo or with a group • Every Mon, 5-11pm • $5 (one drink per person)

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Open Door Comic Creator Meetings • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • 780.452.8211 • happyharborcomics.com • Open to any skill level. Meet other artists and writers, glean tricks of the trade and gain tips to help your own work, or share what you've already done • 2nd and 4th Thu of every month, 7pm

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • 780.479-8667 (Bob) • bobmurra@telus.net • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm

Toastmasters • Chamber Toastmasters Club: 6th

floor, World Trade Centre, 9990 Jasper Ave; Contact: 780.462.1878/RonChapman@shaw.ca (Ron Chapman); 780.424.6364/dkorpany@ telusplanet.net (Darryl Korpany); Meet every Thu from Sep-Jun, 6-7:45pm • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Conquer Your Fear of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion, 11150-82 St; 780.902.4605; norwoodtoastmasters.org; Every Thu, Oct 13Jun 29, 7:30-9:30pm; Guests are free • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Generating Power Speakers: EPCOR Tower, 10423-101 St NW: Meeting will take place on the 8th floor, 780.392.5331 (Phil); 1st and 3rd Tue each month, 12:05-1:05pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact vpm@norators. com, 780.807.4696, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until Jun, 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@ yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); 780.437.1136 (Mark) or 780.463.5331 (Antonio); yclubtoastmasters@ gmail.com; Meet every Tue starting in Sep, 7-9pm except last Tue each month

Waskahegan Trail Association Guide Hike • waskahegantrail.ca • Whitemud Creek Nature Reserve to Snow Valley; McDonald’s Century Park, 11007-23 Ave NW; 780.428.8561; Johanna.Fischer@web.de; Nov 20, 9:45am-3pm

Painting for Pleasure • McDougall United Church, 10086 Macdonald Drive (south entrance) • 780.428.1818 • karenbishopartist@ gmail.com • mcdougallunited.com • Welcomes artists to join this weekly group who like to paint, draw or otherwise be creative on paper • Every Thu, 10am-noon

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98

RASC Regular Meeting AlbertaSat’s Ex-Alta 1 and 2 Missions and Vision for the Future

Edmonton Podcasting Meet-Up •

• Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St NW • edmontonrasc.com • Nov 14, 7:30-9:30pm

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

LECTURES/Presentations Variant Edition, 10132-151 St • 780.452.9886 • variantedmonton.com • Nov 19, 1pm

Glass ​Blowing ​C​lasses ​• Pixie Glassworks, 9322-60 Ave • 780.436.4460 • pixieglassworks.com/pages/classes • Offering

three levels in each of: hollow body work, implosions, sculpture, pipe-making and beads. Call to book. No classes on holidays • Every Mon, Wed-Thu, 6-9pm • $150

Introduction to Aquaponics: How to build a small home system • Earth's General Store - Whyte, 9605-82 Ave • Aquaponics is a sustainable form of agriculture that has a 90+% water conservation rate and gives you the ability to grow plants and fish year round. Featuring a workshop that will allow guests to construct their own system • Nov 20, 7-9pm • $45 (available at Eventbrite)

• Spin: Blitz Conditioning, 10575-115 St; Every Tue, 7-8pm• Volleyball: Stratford Elementary School, 8715-153 St; Every Fri, 7-9 • Meditation: Edmonton Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; 3rd Thu of every month, 5:30-6:15pm • Board Games: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; One Sun per month, 3-7pm • All Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8468-81 St; One Sat per month 4:30-5:30pm

SPECIAL EVENTS 8th Annual Santa’s Little Helpers Christmas Shopping Extravaganza

• Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • info@ milezerodance.com • milezerodance.com • A series of dance seminars with invited guest artists • Nov 19, Dec 10, 2-4pm • $20 (per class); Pre-registration important as readings will be emailed to participants

• River Cree Resort and Casino – Marriott Hotel – Enoch and River Cree ballrooms, 300 East Lapotac Blvd • Over 140 vendors on display to help you start and finish your Christmas shopping. There is something for everyone • Nov 13, 10am-5pm • $2 (50% donated to the Edmonton Christmas Bureau)

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Affirm Group • garysdeskcom@hotmail. com • mcdougallunited.com • Part of the United Church network supporting LGBTQ men and women • Meet monthly at Second Cup, Edmonton City Centre for coffee and conversation at 12:30pm; Special speaker events are held throughout the year over lunch at McDougall Church

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Mon: Drag Race in the White Room; 7pm • Wed: Monthly games night/trivia • Thu: Happy hour, 6-8pm; Karaoke, 7-12:30am • Fri: Flashback Friday with your favourite hits of the 80s/90s/2000s; rotating drag and burlesque events • Sat: Rotating DJs Velix and Suco • Sun: Weekly drag show, 10:30pm

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, main floor Cafe, Or in confidence one-on-one in the Craft Room • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance.

One-on-one meetings are also available in the craft room • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@ telus.net Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • pridecentreofedmonton.org • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7-9pm Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Drop in hours: Mon, Wed 4-7pm; Fri 6-9pm; Closed Sat-Sun and Holidays • JamOUT: Music mentorship and instruction for youth aged 12-24; Every other Tue, 7-9pm • Equal Fierce Fit & Fabulous: recreational fitness program, ages 12-24; every other Tue, 6-8pm, every other Tue • Queer Lens: weekly education and discussion group open to everyone; every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Mindfulness Meditation: open to everyone; every Thu, 6-6:50pm • Men's Social Circle: A social support group for all male-identified persons over 18 years of age in the LGBT*Q community; 1st and 3rd Thu each month; 7-9pm • TTIQ (18+ Trans* Group): 2nd Mon of the month, 7-9pm • Art & Identity: exploring identity through the arts, a wellness initiative; Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Edmonton Illusions: cross-dressing and transgender group 18+; 2nd Fri of each month, 7-9pm • Movies & Games Night: Every other Fri, 6-9pm • Thought OUT: Altview’s all-ages discussion group; every Sat, 7-9pm • Seahorse Support Circle: facilitated meet up for families with trans and gender creative kids aged 5-14; 2nd Sun of the month, 3-5pm • Men Talking with Pride: Social discussion group for gay and bisexual men; Every Sun, 7-9pm

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau School, 10925-87 Ave; Most Mon, 7-8pm • Swimming: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 7:30-8:30pm and every Thu, 7-8pm • Water Polo: NAIT Swimming Pool, 11665-109 St; Every Tue, 8:30-9:30pm • Yoga: New Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, #301,10534-124 St; Every Wed, 7:30-9pm • Taekwondo: near the Royal Gardens Community Centre, 4030-117 St; Contact for specific times • Abs: Parkallen Community League Hall, 6510-111 St; Every Tue, 6-7pm and Thu, 7:158:15pm • Dodgeball: Royal Alexandra Hospital Gymnasium; Every Sun, 5-7pm • Running: meet at Kinsmen main entrance; Every Sun, 10am

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1800-8 Ave, Canmore • canmoreartisansmarket.com • Join over 75 artisans and artists from Canmore and surrounding areas, for the Bow Valley's premier market of handcrafted items. Jewelry, photography, pottery, paintings, furniture, body products, clothing, fine foods, and so much more • Nov 19-20, 10am-4pm • $3 (in support of the Canmore Preschool Society)

Art Spirit Festival • Holy Trinity Anglican Church (101 St & 84 Ave) • 780.433.5530 • church.office@holytrinity.ab.ca • holytrinity. ab.ca • Featuring visual arts, films, music, dacning and much more • Nov 17-20 Country Craft Fair • St. Albert Place • Features over 75 exhibitors from St. Albert and surrounding areas • Nov 19-20 • Free (parking and admission)

Dark Matters DIY • TELUS World of Science - Edmonton, 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • telusworldofscienceedmonton. ca • For the adults only. Featuring local experts on site to show guests the tricks and trades of gardening, cooking, metal work and more.

Think of it like Pintrest, but without having to scroll through everything • Nov 17, 7-10pm • $14-$28

DBA Christmas on the Square Holiday Light-Up • Sir Winston Churchill Square • edmontondowntown.com • Including family entertainment, a visit from Santa, lighting of the giant Xmas Tree, and an amazing fireworks show • Nov 12, 4-7pm

MEC Snowfest • Mountain Equipment Coop, 12328-102 Ave • events.mec.ca • Featuring clinics on ski waxing, cross-country basics, avalanche safety and more • Nov 13

Red Fish Blue Fish Christmas Marketplace • Lakeview Inn and Suites Fort Saskatchewan, 10115-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 587.783.4747 • Nov 12-13 • Free (bring non-perishable food donations for the Food Bank)

Santa's Little Helpers Christmas Shopping Extravaganza • River Cree Resort Marriott Hotel • 300 East Lapotac Blvd • kingsleyevents@shaw.ca • kingsleyevents.com • Over 145 vendors in one spot to help you with your Christmas shopping • Nov 13, 10am-5pm • $2 and 50% goes to the Christmas Bureau of Edmonton

Santa’s Parade of Lights • Downtown (check website for parade route) • edmontonsantaparade.com • A magical event where every entry is lit to twinkle in the dark • Nov 19, 4-7pm • Free Scotch Tasting and Silent Auction in support of Valour Place • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • Combining a tasting of premier scotch selections hosted by local scotch experts with an auction of unique items generously donated by local businesses and organization • Nov 12, 6:30-9pm

Whyte Christmas • Throughout Old Strathcona • oldstrathcona.ca • tineke@ oldstrathcona.ca • Christmas is magical in Old Strathcona - contesting, sleigh rides, Santa and more • Nov-Dec

World Kindness Day • Edmonton Valley Zoo, • 311 • edmonton.ca • Help the zoo and guests “Be Kind” to our environment, animals, and each other. Featuring crafts (environmentally friendly!), experiments and much more • Nov 13, 11am-3pm • General admission

FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (March 21-April 19): Now and then you display an excessive egotism that pushes people away.

But during the next six weeks you will have an excellent chance to shed some of that tendency, even as you build more of the healthy pride that attracts help and support. So be alert for a steady flow of intuitions that will instruct you on how to elude overconfidence and instead cultivate more of the warm, radiant charisma that is your birthright. You came here to planet Earth not just to show off your bright beauty, but also to wield it as a source of inspiration and motivation for those whose lives you touch.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): "How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else," said inventor Buckminster Fuller. I don't fully endorse that perspective. For example, when I said goodbye to North Carolina with the intention to make Northern California my new home, Northern California is exactly where I ended up and stayed. Having said that, however, I suspect that the coming months could be one of those times when Fuller's formula applies to you.

Your ultimate destination may turn out to be different from your original plan. But here's the tricky part: If you do want to eventually be led to the situation that's right for you, you have to be specific about setting a goal that seems right for now.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If you were an obscenely rich plutocrat, you might have a pool table on your super yacht. And to ensure that you and your buddies could play pool even in a storm that rocked your boat, you would have a special gyroscopic instrument installed to keep your pool table steady and stable. But I doubt you have such luxury at your disposal.

You're just not that wealthy or decadent. You could have something even better, however: metaphorical gyroscopes that will keep you steady and stable as you navigate your way through unusual weather. Do you know what I'm referring to? If not, meditate on the three people or influences that might best help you stay grounded. Then make sure you snuggle up close to those people and influences during the next two weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The coming weeks will be a good time to fill your bed with rose petals and sleep with their aroma caressing your dreams. You should also consider the following acts of intimate revolution: listening to sexy spiritual flute music while carrying on scintillating conversations with interesting allies . . . sharing gourmet meals in which you and your sensual companions use your fingers to slowly devour your delectable food . . . dancing

naked in semi-darkness as you imagine your happiest possible future. Do you catch my drift, Cancerian? You're due for a series of appointments with savvy bliss and wild splendor.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): "I have always wanted . . . my mouth full of strange sunlight," writes Leo poet Michael Dickman in his poem "My Honeybee." In another piece, while describing an outdoor scene from childhood, he innocently asks, "What kind of light is that?" Elsewhere he confesses, "What I want more than anything is to get down on paper what the shining looks like." In accordance with the astrological omens, Leo, I suggest you follow Dickman's lead in the coming weeks. You will receive soulful teachings if you pay special attention to both the qualities of the light you see with your eyes and the inner light that wells up in your heart.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The Passage du Gois is a 2.8-mile causeway that runs between the western French town of Beauvoirsur-Mer and the island of Noirmoutier in the Atlantic Ocean.

It's only usable twice a day when the tide goes out, and even then for just an hour or two. The rest of the time it's under water. If you hope to walk or bike or drive across, you must accommodate yourself to nature's rhythms. I suspect there's a metaphorically similar phenomenon in your life, Virgo. To get to where you want to go next, you can't necessarily travel exactly when you feel like it. The path will be open and available for brief periods. But it will be open and available.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Modern toilet paper appeared in 1901, when a company in Green Bay, Wisconsin began to market "sanitary tissue" to the public.

The product had a small problem, however. Since the manufacturing process wasn't perfect, wood chips sometimes remained embedded in the paper. It was not until 1934 that the product was offered as officially "splinter-free."

I mention this, Libra, because I suspect that you are not yet in the splinter-free phase of the promising possibility you're working on.

Keep at it. Hold steady. Eventually you'll purge the glitches.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): "Don't be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away," advises novelist Paulo Coelho.

I'm tempted to add this caveat: "Don't be someone that searches, finds, and then runs away—unless you really do need to run away for a while to get better prepared for the reward you have summoned . . . and then return to fully embrace it." After studying the astrological omens, Scorpio, I'm guessing you can benefit from hearing this information.

ROB BREZSNY FREEWILL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

JONESIN' CROSSWORD

“Oh, Be Serious!”–they’re seriously in there.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): Go ahead and howl a celebratory "goodbye!" to any triviality that has distracted you from your worthy goals, to any mean little ghost that has shadowed your good intentions, and to any faded fantasy that has clogged up the flow of your psychic energy.

I also recommend that you whisper welcome to open secrets that have somehow remained hidden from you, to simple lessons you haven't been simple enough to learn before now, and to breathtaking escapes you have only recently earned. P.S.: You are authorized to refer to the coming weeks as a watershed.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Musician and visual artist Brian Eno loves to dream up innovative products. In 2006, he published a DVD called 77 Million Paintings, which uses technological trickery to generate 77 million different series of images. To watch the entire thing would take 9,000 years. In my opinion, it's an interesting but gimmicky novelty—not particularly deep or meaningful.

During the next nine months, Capricorn, I suggest that you attempt a far more impressive feat: a richly complex creation that will provide you with growth-inducing value for years to come.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Do you know about the Lords of Shouting? According to Christian and Jewish mythology, they're a gang of 15.5 million angels that greet each day with vigorous songs of praise and blessing. Most people are too preoccupied with their own mind chatter to pay attention to them, let alone hear their melodious offerings. But I suspect you may be an exception to that rule in the coming weeks.

According to my reading of the astrological omens, you'll be exceptionally alert for and receptive to glad tidings. You may be able to spot opportunities that others are blind to, including the chants of the Lords of Shouting and many other potential blessings. Take advantage of your aptitude!

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Greenland sharks live a long time—up to 400 years, according to researchers at the University of Copenhagen. The females of the species don't reach sexual maturity until they're 150. I wouldn't normally compare you Pisceans to these creatures, but my reading of the astrological omens suggests that the coming months will be a time when at long last you will reach your full sexual ripeness.

It's true that you've been capable of generating new human beings for quite some time. But your erotic wisdom has lagged behind.

Now that's going to change. Your ability to harness your libidinous power will soon start to increase.

As it does, you'll gain new access to primal creativity. V

MATT JONES JONESINCROSSWORDS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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6 Chris of the “Fantastic Four” series 11 Agcy. of the Department of Health and Human Services 14 Stress, cigarettes, handing car keys to your teen, e.g.

15 1976 Olympics star Comaneci 16 Letters on a tombstone 17 Comedian Mandel, shaped like an oval?

19 Mentalist’s claim 20 “The BFG” author Roald 21 Word on some campaign signs 23 Station posting, briefly 26 Japanese buckwheat noodle 28 Also 29 Barbecue needs 31 Noted streak enders of 2016 33 “___’s Irish Rose” 36 “Who’s the Boss?” role 38 Like some news days 40 Actor Max ___ Sydow 41 Good bud 42 Indecent, or a description of this puzzle theme?

44 Abbr. at the bottom of a business letter 45 Linguistic suffix with morph or phon 46 Vehicle with its own path 47 “All in the Family” daughter 49 “New Look” designer Christian 51 Person of the Year awarder 53 “___ Wedding” (“Simpsons” episode involving a fortune-teller) 54 Place walked into, in classic jokes 56 Cash register part 58 Aloha State goose 59 Winter product also known as rock salt 62 Lacking much flavor 64 “___ G. Biv” (They Might Be Giants tune) 65 Look inward?

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3 Unaware of office politics, maybe 4 Pancake cooking surface 5 On the blue 6 As a group, in French 7 “Top Gun” actor Kilmer 8 Too cute for words 9 The yellow striped ball 10 Bob of “Fuller House” 11 Side of the coin that comes at no cost?

12 Platter shape 13 Abbr. in an organizer 18 Exclamations of surprise 22 Mauna ___ 23 Suffix after land or man 24 Video game company with a famous cheat code 25 Philadelphia NFLer followed his coach’s orders?

27 Steve who played Mr. Pink 30 “Just a ___ like one of us” (Joan Osborne line) 32 Word with bird or fight 34 Sea off Sicily 35 Prepare for shipping 37 “This won’t hurt ___!”

39 Water source 43 “Taste the Rainbow” candy 48 Pigs, slangily 50 Aries beast 52 Jake’s brother in blues 55 Prepare for another take 57 Country with a tree on its flag: Abbr.

59 Flatten out 60 Feature of some Ben & Jerry’s pints 61 “Return of the Jedi” princess 63 “___ example ...”

66 “Bah!” 67 “Curious George” author H.A. ___ 68 Singer Morrison 69 “Exit full screen” button ©2016 Jonesin' Crosswords

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POLY PROBLEMS

I am a bi man in my late 20s in a poly relationship. My primary partner’s name is Erin. One of the rules she mandated is that I cannot date anyone else named Aaron or Erin. She thinks it would be confusing and awkward.

Since those are fairly common names, I have had to reject other Aarons/Erins several times over the last couple of years. My name is very uncommon, so she doesn’t have to worry about this on her side. Overall, it seems like a superficial reason to have to reject someone. Is there any sort of compromise here? We haven’t been able to think of any work-arounds.

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I can’t count the number of gay couples I’ve met over the years where both men or both women had the same first name. OK, OK, it’s not a parallel circumstance, I realize. But having a hard-and-fast/deal-breaky rule about names—“I can’t date someone named Dan, you can’t date someone named Erin, my ideal has always been to love someone of the name of Ernest”—strikes me as silly and reductive. We are not our names, and our names are not ours. (I am not the only Dan Savage out there, nor am I the only Dan Savage capable of giving decent sex advice, as my substitute Dan Savages ably demonstrated this summer.) So here’s my suggested work-around, NAME: Your primary partner stops being a ridiculous control queen.

But just in case you want a second opinion…

“This poor woman wants to make sure that when her lover cries out her name, he really means her,” said Dossie Easton, coauthor of The Ethical Slut: A Practical Guide to Polyamory, Open Relationships & Other Adventures. “I can understand this, but I’m wondering if there could be a work-around with nicknames—actually, that could get kind of sexy. ‘Hey, Bear! Gimme a hug.’ ‘Ooh, Tiger, you are so fierce tonight!’ In all seriousness, many lovers have very personal nicknames for each other, and perhaps that would make the ‘Aaron/ Erin’ problem manageable.”

Would you like a third opinion?

“It sounds like Erin has that most common of polyamorous fears: the fear of being lost in the crowd,” said Franklin Veaux, coauthor of More Than Two: A Practical Guide to Ethical Polyamory. “Some folks deal with this by passing rules against taking a date to a favourite restaurant or forbidding certain pet names. It sounds like Erin is dealing with her fear by saying, ‘Don’t date any more Erins.’

The problem is that names don’t make you unique. Erin isn’t special in NAME’s eyes because of her name.

But sometimes putting words on a fear is the first step toward eliminat-

ing it. She says dating another Erin would be ‘confusing and awkward.’

What does that mean? What are Erin’s concerns? If it’s only feeling awkward, well, being an adult means feeling awkward sometimes!”

To recap: Your primary partner needs to get over it (Dan’s advice), your primary partner might be mollified if you swore to use only pet names for other Aarons/Erins (Dossie’s advice), keep talking and maybe your primary partner will get over it (Franklin’s advice). All in all, our expert panel doesn’t have a lot of sympathy for your primary partner’s position. So in the interest of fairness, I’m going to offer a defense of Erin’s position.

It’s not uncommon for people in open relationships to insist on a rule that seems arbitrary, even capricious, to their partners. I call these rules “Brown M&Ms,” a reference to 1980s hair rock band Van Halen. The band’s touring contract stipulated that bowls of M&Ms be set out backstage with all the brown M&Ms removed. To see if their contract had been followed to the letter—a contract that included a lot of technical requirements for their elaborate

cally compatible, and he is solid and kind. The only issue is that I don’t feel the level of sexual chemistry that I’ve felt with others. Part of me feels like, at 26, I’m too young to settle in the passion department. The other part of me feels like it’s a dating hellscape out there and I’d be an idiot to walk away. Please advise.

SEEKING HOT AND LASTING LOVE OR WHINING? Dating is a hellscape, SHALLOW, but it has always been thus. Before Tinder and OkCupid and FetLife came along, women (and men) complained about singles bars, blind dates, moms who gave their phones numbers to dentists, and aunts who invited the mysteriously-single/obviously-gay sons of their best friends to Thanksgiving. It wasn’t unheard of for people to be single for a couple of years, and mundanely heartbreaking flings have always been a feature, never a bug.

As for the guy you’ve been seeing, SHALLOW, if the spark isn’t there— no strong physical attraction—you should bail. You say you’re “monogamously inclined,” and that’s wonderful, and I support your lifestyle choice. But monogamy would preclude entering into a companionate marriage with Mr. SolidAndKind while Messrs.

ComeAndGo meet your needs in the passion department. The monogamously inclined need to prioritize strong sexual connections (chemistry) and sexual compatibility (similar interests/kinks/libidos) right along with kindness, solidity, and emotional and political compatibility.

Dating is a hellscape, SHALLOW, but it has always been thus. and potentially dangerous stage shows—all the band had to do was glance at those bowls of M&Ms. If a local promoter couldn’t be trusted to get something simple and seemingly arbitrary right, they couldn’t be trusted to get the bigger stuff right.

And if the promoter didn’t get the big stuff right, it wasn’t safe for the band to perform.

Arbitrary rules in open relationships are like Van Halen’s brown M&Ms: a quick way to check if you’re safe. If your partner can’t be trusted to not sleep with someone else in your bed, not take someone else to a favourite restaurant, not use your favourite/special/beloved sex toys with someone else, etc., perhaps they can’t be trusted to get the big things right—like ensuring your physical and emotional safety and/or primacy. So, NAME, if obeying a rule that seems silly and arbitrary makes your partner feel safe to “perform,” i.e., secure enough to be in an open/poly relationship with you, then obeying their seemingly silly rule is the price of admission.

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