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"If city councillors want to be taken seriously as a level of government, they should clean up their act and stop being tax dodgers." // 4

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"Urban wineries have been criticized as a fad unlikely to have true staying power: something kitschy that caters to the egos of those who can afford to release a vanity wine label." // 6

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Ricardo Acuña // ricardo@vueweekly.com

Larger lessons behind Keystone XL

The pipeline's rejection highlights Alberta's need to redefine our relationship with bitumen The writing has been on the wall, for at least two years now, that the Keystone XL pipeline project would never meet with approval from Obama's White House—yet somehow the outrage and anger expressed by some Alberta politicians would suggest they actually believed the outcome was still in question.

In his press release responding to Obama's decision, Wildrose leader Brian Jean expressed disappointment that Premier Rachel Notley "failed to stand up and fight for this important project over the past several months." His implication, of course, was that had Notley only jumped up and down, screamed and yelled and demanded White House approval, then somehow the project would have been approved.

He also doubled-down on the assertion that Alberta bitumen could not possibly be described as dirty, because there are two other types of oil that are even dirtier: Venezuela's and California's.

This, of course, had been the preferred strategy of former Alberta premiers Stelmach, Redford and Prentice, as well as Prime Minister Stephen Harper. Jean seems to think that had Notley arranged one more meeting with angry right

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wing US congressmen and senators, or one more ad in the New York Times, or one more electronic billboard in Times Square asserting that Alberta bitumen is clean and environmentally friendly, it would have been enough to tip the scales.

The problem with that rationale and line of argument, however, is that it assumes that what TransCanada and the provincial and federal governments were caught up in was a battle of public relations; that what was required to get the project approved was the right mix of advertising, lobbying, posturing and threats; that labeling opponents of the project as radicals and criminals and asserting loudly that our bitumen is not a dirty resource would be enough.

were doing something very different. The opponents succeeded in building a movement of individuals, groups and communities that were there not simply to oppose for the sake of opposing, but rather for much deeper reasons.

Nebraska ranchers were there to protect their land and water table from the contamination that re-

pipeline designed to extract even more bitumen would take our society closer to environmental collapse and away from seriously embracing the need to transition away from fossil fuels. For all these folks, and the millions around the world that supported them, this was not merely a public relations campaign but rather a battle for their lives, their communities and the kind of planet they wanted to leave their children and grandchildren.

No amount of political posturing and no number of lobbying meetings was ever going to succeed in getting in the way of that kind of passion and commitment, and of that kind of mobilization of such diverse communities and people behind a common cause.

In her response to the Keystone rejection, Notley also expressed disappointment at Obama's characterization of Alberta's bitumen as dirty.

For all these folks, and the millions around the world that supported them, this was not merely a public relations campaign but rather a battle for their lives, their communities and the kind of planet they wanted to leave their children and grandchildren.

The reality is that while they were busy placing all their bets on that strategy, the project's opponents

sults when pipelines leak and spill.

Canadian Indigenous communities were there because of the impact that bitumen extraction was having on their communities, their environment and their health. Environmentalists were there because they fundamentally believe that a

She did go on to point out, however, that the decision and characterization of our resource as dirty highlight the need for Alberta to get its environmental house in order. She clearly understands that this was not a question of pipeline or no pipeline, but rather a deeper question about what our focus on expanding bitumen extraction is doing to our environment and communities.

Hopefully that consciousness is accompanied by a realization that the issue here is not our image or that of our resource. Rather, it is about our apparently blind pursuit of expanded bitumen production.

Our pursuit of climate, environmental justice and indigenous justice goals cannot be seen as simply a way of buying social licence for further production, but rather as worthy pursuits in their own right. If that does not happen, then we will completely have missed the lesson that Obama's rejection of Keystone offers up to us, and keep fighting a battle we simply cannot win. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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Don't touch that button!

It's time to make good on the NPT and disarm the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons "When people say they're never going to use the (nuclear) deterrent," said General Sir Nicholas Houghton, "I say you use the deterrent every second of every minute of every day. The purpose of the deterrent is you don't have to use it because you effectively deter."

You sort of know what he meant to say, although his syntax needs some work. But the general's incoherence is forgivable, because it is grounded in the greater incoherence of the strategy he is trying to defend: the notion of an independent British nuclear deterrent.

As Britain's most senior-serving military officer, Houghton went on the BBC last weekend to denounce the leader of the opposition, Labour's new leader Jeremy Corbyn.

Why? Because Corbyn had said he would never press the nuclear button in the (rather remote) contingency that he becomes prime minister after the 2020 election.

Indeed, Corbyn has said that he would like to get rid of Britain's nuclear weapons entirely. "There are five declared nuclear weapon states in the world," he told the BBC a month ago. "Three others

have nuclear weapons. That is eight countries out of 192; 187 countries do not feel the need to have nuclear weapons to protect their security. Why should those five need them to protect their security?"

Now, there are a few errors and omissions in that statement. 192 minus eight is 184. The five "declared" countries—the United States, Russia, Britain, France and China—were already nuclear weapons powers before the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) was signed in 1968, and their bombs were "grandfathered" by the treaty. They promised to get rid of them eventually, but half a century later "eventually" has still not arrived.

The four (not three) other nuclear weapons countries—India, Pakistan, North Korea and Israel—never signed the NPT because they all had powerful enemies. Just like the original five, they were all thinking in terms of sheer survival when they developed their first nuclear weapons.

But what Corbyn failed to mention (to the great disadvantage of his argument) was that six other countries either had nuclear weap-

ons or were on the brink of getting them—but then turned around and walked away from them.

Brazil and Argentina frightened each other into a race to develop nuclear weapons under the ultranationalist military regimes of the '70s and '80s, but they didn't really pose a threat to each other and the programmes were ditched by civilian governments in the '90s. Both countries signed the NPT just before the century ended.

After the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, the former Soviet republics of Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan all wound up with ex-Soviet nuclear weapons on their soil. But they had no real enemies, so they all agreed to destroy them or give them back to Russia, the legal successor to the Soviet Union.

And South Africa developed nuclear weapons in the dying days of apartheid, fearing that Cuban and Russian military help to the "frontline states" of Africa might grow into an all-out military assault on the white-ruled state. After white minority rule ended peacefully in 1994, the new government led by Nelson Mandela quietly dismantled

the six South African bombs.

Nobody developed nuclear weapons just to feel more powerful: they were all driven by fear of attack. And when that fear vanished, as it did for some countries, they promptly got out of the nuclear weapons business again. Logically, both Britain and France should now belong the latter group.

They both built their bombs just after the Second World War because they feared an overwhelmingly powerful conventional attack on Western Europe by the Soviet Union, and didn't trust the United States to use its own nuclear weapons to save them.

After the Soviet Union fell, they faced no threat that was even remotely comparable. They still don't today. Yet they cling to their irrelevant nuclear weapons, presumably because they think that is what guarantees them a seat at the high table.

Maybe it does, but it is a very expensive way to keep a seat of such dubious value. The military forces that Britain actually uses from time to time are being hollowed out to

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maintain this ludicrous deterrent (which depends on missiles leased from the United States).

It wouldn't transform the world if Britain got rid of its nukes, but it would be a down-payment on what all the declared nuclear powers said they would do when they signed the NPT. French nuclear disarmament would also be a good idea.

Like people who live on the slopes of a volcano that hasn't erupted in 70 years, we have mostly forgotten the appalling danger that still looms over us. The Cold War ended 30 years ago but the weapons are still there, waiting for some fool or madman to pull the trigger.

I know what you're thinking: Ukraine gave up its nuclear weapons, and now it has a real enemy in Russia. So tell me: would you feel safer if Ukraine had nuclear weapons too? Would Ukrainians?

No. The stakes would be 100 times higher, and we would have been living in a terrifying nightmare for the past two years. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. up front 3

FRONT FEATURE // TAX FREE

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Alberta's hypocritical tax exemptions Elected officials across the province still don't pay tax on their entire salary

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inance Minister Joe Ceci's budget speech reiterated what we heard from the NDP throughout the provincial election campaign: those who can afford to contribute a little more will be asked to do so. As it turns out, a significant number of people in this province won't be asked to do so—namely, those elected municipal and school board representatives who receive a portion of their publicly-funded salaries tax-free.

With the exception of Calgary, representatives across the province receive one-third of their salaries tax-free, a practice which some critics have called "absurd" and others say flies in the face of transparency.

Introduced in 1947 under the federal Income Tax Act, the purpose of a one-third tax-free expense allowance is to provide "an allowance for expenses incidental to the discharge of the person's duties as an elected officer." Alberta's Municipal Government Act reiterates that the purpose is to cover incidental expenses.

But officials receiving these allowances are not required to account for these so-called expenses in any way: no receipts are produced and no reporting is required. The money is simply added to the councillors' and trustees' paycheques. Jim Lightbody, a professor at the University of Alberta specializing in municipal government and politics, calls them an "absurd anachronism."

With the original purpose of the tax exemption eliminated by the in-

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troduction of expense accounts and budgets for office expenses, putting an end to this perk has been a growing trend across the country at all levels of government. But not in Alberta municipalities, where taxpayers foot the bill for expenses and politicians continue to receive the tax-free allowance.

Federal politicians ended their taxfree status in 2000 and Alberta eliminated the tax-free allowance for MLAs in 2012. Today, Quebec is the only province that continues the practice. Calgary's city council eliminated their tax-exempt status is 2006, as did their school trustees.

"It's a throwback to a happier time when being elected to municipal office was considered a civic duty," Lightbody says. "Any reasonable person, if they knew about this— and most don't—would see this for what it is: city councillors perpetuating a legal tax evasion that no citizen would ever get away with."

Lightbody notes that when politicians gave themselves allowances to cover the costs of these extra expenses, they should have also given up the tax-free allowances, but didn't.

"This is the best-paying job that any of these people will ever have," he adds, noting that there's little chance they will do anything to mess with that.

In Edmonton, city councillors receive a salary of $99 994. However,

since one-third of that is tax free, the fully taxable equivalent is a salary of $118 824. The mayor receives $176 145, which translates to a fully taxable equivalent of $213 272.

In addition, all members of city council receive vehicle allowances ($14 173.92 per year for the mayor; $7074.72 for councillors) which are also one-third tax free.

According to information found on the Departments of Municipal Affairs and Education websites, Alberta has 180 municipalities and 61 school boards. (There are 62 school districts but one—Northern Lights—is being run by a provincially-appointed administrator.) The province's 17 cities have a total of 122 elected council representatives, including mayors. There are five specialized municipalities, including the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo and Strathcona County. The province's 108 towns have a total of over 740 elected town officials and, as of May 2015, there were 64 municipal districts with approximately 440 elected officials. It's unclear what impact there would be on the provincial and federal treasuries if all of these people started paying tax on their full salaries.

The provincial government has committed to introducing changes to the Municipal Government Act next spring. "The MGA review is focused specifically on how municipalities are empowered to govern,

how they are funded, and how they collaborate with each other," wrote Laura Tupper, acting press secretary to Municipal Affairs Minister Danielle Larivee, in an email. "All proposed changes flowing out of the review are within these three categories. Our work with municipalities will not end with the MGA review, and we expect to have ongoing discussions about how to ensure our municipalities remain strong, accountable and effective."

In Edmonton alone, the amount of tax revenue foregone due to the exemption is likely in excess of $300 000, based on the figures reported in 2013 by the city's Independent Council Compensation Committee. The Committe's recommendations included that members of council's annual salary, annual retirement benefit, annual car allowance and transition allowance be made fully taxable and that the remuneration be "grossed-up" (increasing the salary to offset the increased tax payment) so as not to impact the take-home pay received by the mayor and councillors. Their report said "restating the current remuneration as a grossed-up amount allows openness and transparency, fairness, direct comparison, and ease of understandability to the public."

Council rejected the recommendation, arguing the change would put the public on the hook for an additional $286 000 a year. Mayor Iveson has, to date, remained opposed

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to the idea.

"For us to make it taxable would just ship a few hundred thousand dollars worth of taxes to the province and Ottawa at precisely the time we're trying to convince those orders of government to invest in local government," he told Global News last January. The mayor's office was unavailable for comment when contacted to clarify those remarks.

Ontario revised its Municipal Act in 2001 and most of its major cities have since eliminated the tax-free provision. Municipalities that do not remove the provision are required to review their remuneration by law at a public meeting once during their four-year term. Paige MacPherson, Alberta spokesperson for the Canadian Taxpayers Federation—which has long called for an end to the tax-free allowances—thinks that's a great idea.

"We've never really approached the matter from the perspective of lost revenue," she says. "But we do believe the change needs to be made in the interests of transparency.

Taxpayers should be able to easily determine what their elected representatives are being paid."

Lightbody is more blunt in his assessment: "If city councillors want to be taken seriously as a level of government, they should clean up their act and stop being tax dodgers."

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Mulcair's gotta go I took a vacation right after the election, and a few weeks later, it feels like I'm coming back to a brand-new country: a new prime minister; a new cabinet; a new attitude. But one thing still hasn't changed: Tom Mulcair is still leading the NDP. The party will vote in 2016 on whether to have a leadership convention and yeah, that may be enough for most—but let's say it plainly: Mulcair fucked this election up. The NDP went into it with a victory easily within grasp for the first time. Everyone can (and will) analyze all the reasons

why it didn't happen, but for many, Mulcair just didn't do it.

He spent too much time trying to say the "right" things with little regard for actually saying the right things. He seemed more concerned with appearing "prime ministerial" than being the progressive voice that progressive voters actually want. Late in the game he did start saying better things, but by then, Trudeau had handily outflanked him in the hearts of voters.

The man's got little left to give Canada's progressives. He saw them go from the best position

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they've ever been in to a dismal third place of 44 seats. It may be the second-best seat count in federal NDP history—but it's also surely their worst defeat.

If the party will turn things around, the first step is removing Mulcair. They'll have a hardenough time building their brand with a kinder-looking Liberal party in power than they had as the official opposition to a truly nasty Conservative party, so they might as well get an early start.

Mulcair had his chance and he blew it. Why wait around pretending he'll have another? V

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The growth of Canada's urban wineries When will Edmonton be home to a winery within city limits?

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reweries have long been residents of urban spaces, but wineries? Not so much.

The rural location of most wineries is admittedly a main factor in their appeal: grapevines undulating in picturesque rows around a vine-clad brick château—or a sleek, ultra-modern edifice—is a bucolic setting ripe for romantic platitudes and Hollywood movies. Those of us who have to remain city-bound are left out of this experience—unless you live in one of the increasing numbers of cities where urban wineries have set up shop.

No, sadly Edmonton is not on that list (yet). The urban winery—which is pretty much exactly as it sounds, a fully functioning winery within city limits—is a trend that's been around for several years in the US. It's also a phenomenon that was quite common prior to Prohibition, when most wine was made in warehouses on the edge of town.

But in the decades since then, wineries moved out of the city and into the country, only recently returning to urbanity in a new form.

Most urban wineries are located in cities near wine regions, for obvious reasons: though the wine may be made in town, the grapes are grown outside it and trucked in. Urban wineries are often hybrid creatures, not simply a winemaking operation but also part wine bar, event space and fine dining experience.

In the case of Vancouver Urban Winery (VUW), it's also part craft brewery—complete with a built-in growler fill-up station. I visited VUW on a work trip last week, keen to check out one of the few Canadian examples of an urban winery. It's Vancouver's first, though it fits right in on the west coast thanks to the proliferation of urban wineries in cities along the coast, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, Portland to Seattle.

VUW is located in Railtown, an area that abruptly shifts in setting from the trendy, touristy haven of Gastown located just a couple blocks to the west, to a scruffier industrial warehouse district. (I expect this corresponds both to a much more affordable rent and a sign of the area's impending gentrification.)

With clean whitewashed walls, towering dark wood doors and an elegantly rustic decor that I've dubbed "warehouse chic," the Settlement Building— which houses VUW—is immediately impressive. The open space is warm and inviting, with servers bustling about and, on the day I visited, an encouraging number of patrons were filtering in on a brisk Wednesday evening.

Though three distinct companies operate within the space (Vancouver Urban Winery, Postmark Brewing and the Belgard Kitchen), it feels like one unified operation—collective is very much the correct word here.

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Vancouver Urban Winery 55 Dunlevy Ave, Vancouver 604.566.9463 vancouverurbanwinery.com Vancouver Urban Winery offers 36 wines on tap, mostly local-ish Okanagan Wines and a couple that are their own made-in-house brand. I tried two of their wines, the VUW Backyard Merlot and Pinot Gris, which were both well-made examples of the variety— not extraordinary, but not disappointing either. I also enjoyed their Grilled Postmark Sausage Board, a charcuterie plate of beer-infused sausages, cured meats, assorted cheeses, pickled veggies and toasted bread, all fixed in place by a liberal mortar of smoked mushroom pâté. If that is representative of what the kitchen offers, locals are well-fed indeed.

Urban wineries have been criticized as a fad unlikely to have true staying power: something kitschy that caters to the egos of those who can afford to release a vanity wine label. While that's true of some examples, I feel confident that urban wineries will endure, at least in some form, due to the valuable niche they serve as a bastion for wine education within a city. There are lots people who want to learn about and taste wine but aren't able to tour around wine regions; hopping on a bus to a winery just a few blocks away is eminently more accessible. (Vancouver Urban Winery regularly hosts sold-out wine education and tasting sessions.)

Further, with an increasingly wine-literate public, any winery that makes subpar wine—wherever they are located—is going to flop. Finally, if they can draw nightly crowds for an impressive dining experience like VUW seems to be accomplishing, the business would have nothing to worry about.

It would be incredibly unsustainable (and just downright silly) to have a grape-based winery housed in Edmonton. But a fruit- or honey-based operation? This is a very achievable goal and one that would fit perfectly within our ever-burgeoning urban agriculture movement. Much, if not all, of the fruit and honey used to make such wine could even come from within Edmonton's city limits. It may seem like an impossible idea now, but I believe this will eventually happen here, following the path of all the other food and drink trends that originate in the US and eventually trickle up north. The only question is when. V Mel Priestley is a certified sommelier and wine writer who also blogs about wine, food and the arts at melpriestley.ca

PREVUE // CUBAN FOOD

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Coral de Cuba

A slice of Cuban life (with pho for lunch) in Capilano

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t first glance, Coral de Cuba's eclectic menu of Cuban, Vietnamese and Western foods is odd. Owner Geoff Lowe even admits that many of the menu items don't exactly belong together, but kept the menu that varied to serve the neighbourhood and their clientele.

"The space we took over was a Vietnamese restaurant called Fusia," Lowe says. "It was a popular lunch spot for a lot of the offices around the Ottewell area. So, when we moved in, we looked at how different the Cuban food was going to be compared to the Vietnamese that the lunch crowd was used to. We decided to keep the Vietnamese menu and a lot of the cooking and waiting staff from Fusia so the lunch crowd could still come in and know what to expect, while we still started slowly pushing more of the Cuban cuisine."

Coral de Cuba first opened its doors in 2010 after Lowe brought his wife, Cuban native Nestora Estevez, to Edmonton. Quickly realizing Edmonton lacked any restaurants serving Cuban cuisine, the couple opened the original location on Whyte Avenue, next door to the former home of Polly Magoo's.

Unfortunately, they quickly ran into issues: the space was very small—so small, in fact, that they didn't even have a full kitchen—and lacked parking; the building landlord even refused to let them get a liquor licence. (Cuban food is simply incomplete without rum.) When the opportunity came in 2012 to move into the current location in Capilano, Lowe and Estevez saw it as a chance to not just continue serving Cuban fare, but also to help create a hub of Cuban and Latin culture in Edmonton.

Lowe began hosting Latin-themed events in the relatively unused lounge space, including live performances from Latin music group Sonbachata and local Latin guitarist Marco Claveria. Word about Coral de Cuba started spreading throughout the Cuban and

4990 – 92 Ave Coral de Cuba 780.468.2888 coraldecuba.com other Latin communities in town; Lowe began meeting people with Cuban heritage who had no idea Coral de Cuba even existed.

"We had a lot of Cubans, who live in Miami but come to Edmonton for work, stop in—sometimes 10 at a time," Lowe says. "They come in and have the food and they tell us how authentic everything is and it's so rewarding to hear that."

The current Cuban menu selections consist of five entrees and two sides, plus a regular Cuban buffet on the weekends. Some of the most popular dishes include the ropa veja, a traditional Cuban shredded beef dish served with rice and black beans, and side dishes like fried plantains and cassava root—staples of Cuban fare.

"People automatically assume Cuban food is spicy, but it's actually not," Lowe says. "Cubans tend to be very meat-and-potatoes kind of people, so the flavours are rich and distinct but don't need to be masked by heavy spices."

The future of Coral de Cuba looks bright as Edmonton's Latin communities take more interest in the authentic Cuban fare that Lowe and Estevez have to offer. Lowe hopes to serve the Vietnamese cuisine only at lunch while offering an expanded Cuban menu at dinner, complemented by touches from the breadth of Latin culture.

Coral de Cuba brings much of what Lowe and Estevez loved about Cuba to Edmonton—save the weather. Envisioning the warm Cuban climate isn't doing much to help Lowe acclimatize to our harsh Albertan winters.

"Reality bites," Lowe laughs. "I still have to go outside and it's still cold."

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Fighting backH

Fringe play Wind In Her Sails remounted as fundraiser for rare condition

Playwright Elizabeth Bowering and the MSA Shoe

aving Wind in Her Sails return to the stage was always playwright Elizabeth Bowering's intention—after its inaugural run at the 2006 Fringe, there was a planned post-festival tour that never quite materialized at the time. Now, the script's long-awaited remount comes in the face of adversity.

A few years ago, Bowering was diagnosed with Multiple System Atrophy (MSA). It's a little-known, little-understood degenerative condition that's often mistaken for Parkinson's. It doesn't have a cure.

"I had never heard of it—no-one I'd talked to had ever heard of MSA," Bowering reflects from her apartment. "The first thing I noticed was micrographia, they call it—tiny, tiny handwriting. It was microscopic!"

The play's second staging is a fundraiser for the cause: everyone involved in this remount—a quartet of actors, director Kristen Finlay—are donating their time to maximize the staging's contribution to MSA awareness and research. (There will also be a silent auction over the course of the run, with a painting by local visual artist Kari Duke up for grabs.) For

her efforts, Bowering's been sent MSA Shoe, a travelling item that follows MSA fundraising efforts around the world. The funds from Wind are destined for Dr Anthony Lang in Toronto, whom confirmed Bowering's diagnosis and is working to develop new diagnostic tools for MSA. "It's a way of fighting back," Bowering says, of the play's staging. "I couldn't think of anything else to do."

Beside her in the apartment, Bowering's friend Judy Unwin attests to her friend's bravery.

"Elizabeth is a fighter," Unwin says.

"Elizabeth has never said 'poor me', and this is not a 'poor-me' piece."

Bowering had no shortage of options of shows—she's written a number of Fringe plays over the years—but Wind In Her Sails carries a particular poignancy: it is about her grandmother, a story Bowering never heard during the woman's life.

After her passing, Bowering's father was given a strongbox of her papers: in there, the family learned not only that her name was Mable— not, as her family had known her, Jean. The box also contained a poem she'd written, recounting one fate-

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Moscow Ballet / Wed, Nov 18 & Thu, Nov 19 (7 pm) Of the countless variations that have cropped up over the decades, one might assume that if any company can execute The Nutcracker with its original Russian verve, Moscow Ballet would be the one to do it.

But even Moscow Ballet—which is actually a Massachusetts company that imports dancers from Russia to annually tour the holiday cash-cow through North America— has had to update the ballet’s character list.

Historically, the well-known second half set in the Land of Sweets is dominated by dance segments representing different nationalities and their corresponding “sweets”: chocolate for Spain, tea for China,

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Thu, Nov 12 – Sat, Nov 21 (7:30 pm; 2pm Sunday matinee) Wind in Her Sails Directed by Kristen Finlay PCL Studio, TransAlta Arts Barns, $25 – $29 ful night on the sea off the coast of NWLD wherein the 16-year-old Mable took the wheel of a boat during a storm and saved the entire crew. Again, her family had heard nothing of the story—though Bowering has a few speculations as to why she kept it to herself.

"The shipping disasters were a dime a dozen," she says, of the time.

"Shortly after that, Titanic happened.

She wouldn't have told her sons, because you don't tell your kids those things, maybe. Her son, my uncle, got killed overseas—there's so much family history, but it made her a cantankerous old woman. Feisty. To know one of the reasons why is fabulous now."

Given what Bowering's doing in the wake of a terrible diagnosis, maybe that resilient feistiness is hereditary.

PAUL BLINOV

PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

FAWNDA MITHRUSH

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and so on—the candies usually represented more by costuming, not so much by movement.

In the second half of Moscow Ballet’s Great Russian Nutcracker, Masha (ie: Clara) and her Nutcracker Prince are brought instead to the Land of Peace and Harmony.

They’re not greeted by a Sugar Plum Fairy, but are escorted into this happy dream zone by the Dove of Peace, which is embodied by two single-winged dancers whose duet creates the Dove’s boasted 20-foot wingspan.

While in the Land of Peace, the global promenade of dance ensues.

Spanish, Chinese, Arabian, Russian and French couples demonstrate the nuances of each country’s dance styles, while accompanied by 10-foot tall puppets that also

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illustrate their storied cultures: a bull for Spain, elephants for Arabia, a Chinese dragon, Russian bear, and, rather imaginatively, a French unicorn all appear. The party scene, Rat King, and Waltz of the Flowers are all included in Moscow Ballet’s repertoire, and Tchaikovsky’s masterful score is preserved throughout.

If anything, audiences can expect lush and grandiose sets, costumes with Eastern European flair, and technically superior performances from the company’s corps of 16 dancers, including the multiple award-winning principals Karyna Shatkovskaya and Vladimir Tkachenko as Masha and the Nutcracker Prince. (Myer Horowitz Theatre, $37.50 – $175) V

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hen Evangeline first opened in Charlottetown two years ago, The Globe and Mail compared it favourably to Les Misérables. The comparison at first seems apt, since Evangeline shares many of Les Misérable's trademarks: star-crossed lovers torn asunder, common folk rising up in revolution, French people singing about injustice.

But if you look beneath these surface similarities, you might suspect playwright Ted Dykstra to have been influenced by another equally famous musical: Fiddler on the Roof. That show ends with the Jews of Anatevka being forced to leave their homes by the Russians who have brutalized them for years.

Although it takes a long time to get warmed up, Evangeline's story really begins with the Acadians of Grand-Pré being forced onto ships and deported by the British.

"What we have accomplished today will be infamous for many generations to come," says the English commander in a haunted tone. At moments like these, Evangeline feels a bit too aware of its status as an Important Historical Play.

But to be fair, the Expulsion of the Acadians is not as infamous as it should be in the Canadian popular consciousness. Although its opening scenes are more Disney than

Star-crossed lovers in song

dismal, Evangeline pulls no punches in its second act, showing the aftermath of an attempted cultural genocide. Grand-Pré's community is scattered and destroyed. At one point we see genuine historical lists of the names of the deported projected onto the backdrop behind the ensemble, reminiscent of Nazi bureaucracy during the Holocaust.

We witness the long-term consequences ripping apart not just our two romantic leads, but a large cast of sympathetic characters.

The young boy we see at the start of the play becomes a traumatized alcoholic, dancing like a monkey for a few coins from British soldiers.

The pacifist priest has his faith shredded by the horrors he can do nothing to prevent.

Amidst all these movingly broken people, Evangeline herself is an inexplicably flawless heroine. Her determination to succeed (as she searches the eastern United States to find her husband Gabriel) and her relentless inspiration (she runs into some of her old neighbours and leads them like Moses to the promised land of Louisiana) are admirable, but a few moments of doubt and despair could go a long way towards humanizing this goddess-among-men. Every other per-

Until Sun, Nov 22 (7:30 pm; weekend matinees at 1:30 pm) Directed by Bob Baker Citadel Theatre, $30 – $99.75 son in Grand-Pré worships Evangeline even before she becomes their saviour, and just once you wish that she would stop being so noble and do something selfish to knock her off their altar. It's hard to root for a protagonist who never fights against any internal struggles or loses her cool or faces opposition from people who aren't comic book villains.

Josée Boudreau sings the hell out of her part though, and brings a lot of energy to the role. The show's greatest sequence comes at the start of Evangeline's journey, when the play borrows from cinematic montage to string together a series of mini-scenes. Boudreau climbs all over the rotating set, encountering a series of people who are shocked to see a woman travelling alone.

Given its epic scope, Evangeline is a long play. Although some scenes can drag on a bit, the show ultimately succeeds at knitting together rousing chorus numbers with small, intimate moments.

BRUCE CINNAMON

BRUCE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Dance Brazilian Zouk Dance • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St NW • 780.974.4956 • hello@ ludiczouk.com • ludiczouk.com • Drop-in Brazilian zouk social dance classes. Classes are inclusive; everyone is welcome. No partner needed • Every Wed, 7:30pm-9pm. Runs until Dec 16 • $18 (single class), $150 (ten classes)

Convergence • L’Uni Theatre, 8627-91 St • goodwomen.ca/201516-season • Featuring two new works: We’ll be fine by Mélanie Demers, and A Necessary Fable • Nov 26-28, 8pm • $20 (general), $15 (students/seniors/CADA Members); Available at Tix on the Square or at the door Second Saturdays Dance Seminar with Lin Snelling • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St • milezerodance.com • 780.424.1573 • admin@milezerodance.com • Discussing various ways of making performance today. Artists from all disciplines are welcome • Nov 14, Dec 12; 2-4pm • $20 (drop-in), $75 (session); register at info@ milezerodance.com

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

FILM Cinema at the Centre • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free • Schedule: Love & Mercy (Nov 18), Citizenfour (Nov 25)

Earth's General Store - Downtown • 10150-104 St • michael@egs.ca • Saturday Documentary Screening - "Disruption"; Nov 14, 7-9pm; Free • Saturday Documentary Session "The Ghosts in Our Machine"; Nov 21, 7-9pm; Free • Saturday Documentary Session - Edible City; Nov 28, 7-9pm; 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 • Schedule: Regeneration (Nov 13), American Sniper (Nov 20), A Farewell to Arms (Nov 27)

Metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Reel Family Cinema: Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (Nov 14), Shaun the Sheep Movie (Nov 21, 23) • They Came from Projector X: This Island Earth (Nov 28, 29, Dec 2) • Gateway to Cinema: Space Jam (Nov 25) • Spotlight: Aardman Animations: Shaun the Sheep Movie (Nov 21, 23), The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Nov 28, 30) • Turkey Shoot: Entourage (Nov 19)

The Sounds of Movies • Capitol Theatre - Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Watch the stage and screen merge as attendees celebrate some of the most exciting and magical songs and dances from the early years of movie making • Nov 12-14 • $23.70

galLeries + Museums A.J. Ottewell Centre • 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Christmas Market Place; Nov 14 (10am-4pm), Nov 15 (11am-4pm) • Free (accepting Food Bank donations)

Alberta Avenue Community Centre • 9210-118 Ave • 780.426.5642 • epg@shaw.ca • edmontonpottersguild.wordpress.com • A pottery sale featuring the works of more than 80 local artists • Nov 14, 10am-3pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Masterworks: signature pieces by some of Alberta’s brightest fine craft stars; Oct 10-Dec 24 • Less Is More: artwork by Keith Walker; Oct 24-Nov 28

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Tyler Los-Jones: A Panorama Protects its View: Jan 23-Jan 31, 2016 • Charrette Roulette: Language; Jul 18-Nov 15 • Sincerely Yours: By Alberta artist Chris Cran; Sep 12-Jan 3 • Rough Country: The strangely familiar in mid-20th century Alberta art; Oct 3-Jan 31 • Living Building Thinking: Art and

Expressionism; Oct 24-Feb 15 • She's All That: artwork by Dana Holst; Oct 24-Feb 15 • METAL Refinery, Late-night art party; Nov 28, 9pm; $45 (regular), $39 (AGA members) • Fabric: Charrette Roulette; Nov 21-Apr 10 • FABRIC Workshop; Nov 21, 12-3pm; $15 (general), $10 (members) • Artist in Conversation: Tyler Los-Jones; Dec 13, 2-3pm; Free • 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

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Frozen Asset: art by Tony Stallard; Sep 22-Nov 28 • Posed and Poised: artwork by Andrzej Maciejewski & Juliana Rempel; Nov 5-28 • Art Ventures: Fruit and Vegetable Portraits (Nov 21), 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member) • Ageless Art: Come to Life (Nov 19), 1-3pm; for mature adults; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Preschool Picasso: Still Life Painting (Nov 21); for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member)

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Poem for Francis Beans Boyfriend: artwork by Casey McGlynn; Nov 6-20

Cafe Blackbird • 9640-142 St • 780.451.8890 • cafeblackbird.ca • Janet Sutanto; Nov 1-29 The Carrot Gallery • 9315-118 Ave • Featuring the work of two local artists, Mark Hughes and Naomi Pahl • Until the end of Nov Creative Practices Institute • 10149122 St, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute. com • 63 Hours: artwork by the students of ‘Intermedia 540’ a course at the University of Alberta; Nov 18-Dec 12

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Heritage Handmade Hauliday; Nov 14, 10am-3pm • The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts Exhibition; Oct 30-Nov 25

Musée Héritage Museum • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca •The Street Where You Live; Sep 8-Nov 15 • Take Your Best Shot: Youth Photo Contest; Nov 20-Jan 24 Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Meandering: two artists capture the roving line at rest with Susan Bailes and Bette Lisitza. ARTISAN NOOK: The Fabric of Life: colourful fabric art by Kathryn deBree • Both exhibitions, Oct 5-Nov 16 • VERTICAL SPACE: The faculty exhibition, staff artists offer their works for pleasure & purchase Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@ thenina.ca • Joyeux Visages: Ceramic masks from the Nina Collective; Nov 9-Dec 23; Opening reception: Dec 9

Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Artisan nook: Projekt Kitsune; Chris Jugo. Pop manga inventions and plays on wellknown characters; Nov 19-Jan 4 • Naess Gallery: Mighty Chroma!: artwork by Patricia Coulter, Meghan MacMillan, Michael Conforti; Nov 19-Jan 4

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Ever Widening Rings: artwork by Peter von Tiesenhausen; Nov 12-Dec 1 • EDIT: Hold My Beer and Watch This...: Artwork by Scott Cumberland; Dec 5-Dec 22

Picture This Gallery • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery. com • The Great Art Event; Sep-Oct

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780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Elemental Sky: Artwork by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky; Nov 18-Dec 12

Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/paa/eventsandexhibits/default. aspx • Voices from Our Past: artwork by Katherine Braid; Sep 25-Jan 23

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St •

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave

DAffoDil GAllery • 10412-124 St •

780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Exhibiting Sound; Oct 14-Nov 14 • Téte Jaune; Nov 18-Dec 19

• 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Out of Bounds: The Art of Lynn Malin; Sep 5-Nov 15

Douglas Udell Gallery (DUG) • 10332-

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.

124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Dystopia: artwork by Jessica Korderas; Oct 31-Nov 14

com • Bone Creek Basin: artwork by Kelly Krueger; Nov 14-Dec 5

Enterprise square galleries • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • Do It Yourself: Collectivity and Collaboration in Edmonton; Nov 26-Mar 31

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta Print­-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Snap Members Show & Sale; Nov 21-Dec 19 • SNAP Print Affair 2015: Bows & Stripes; Dec 5, 8pm; $20 (members), $30 (early general admission), $40 (door)

front gallery • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Kari Duke & Tom Gale; Nov 12-Dec 3; Opening reception: Nov 12, 7-9pm

Southgate Centre • Southgate Centre,

Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Land Shadows: artwork by Annette Sicotte; Nov 6-Dec 20 • Lake, Land, and Sky: artwork by Annnette Sicotte; Nov 6-Dec 20

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Gallery walls: Maze: Mixed media works by Stephen Ferris; Oct 17-Nov 30

Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital • 10230-111 Ave • artbynv.com • Alberta Landscapes: Large scale acrylic mixed media paintings by Natasha Vretenar; Oct 20-Dec 14

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main space: 13th Annual Artist in Residence Exhibition; Oct 22-Nov 21 • Pearls, Peaks & Prairies Pop-up Art Auction; Nov 21, 8-11pm; minbidauctions.com for tickets

Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artist Wendy Morris; Nov 12-Dec 16

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Gallery Group Selling Exhibition

Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Intersecting Sets: artwork by Sarah Burwash, Sweet Smelling Ashes; and Willa Downing; Oct 2-Nov 14 • The Fine Art of Schmoozy; Latitude 53's premiere gala fundraiser returns; Nov 21, 8 pm Loft Gallery • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Art Society Christmas MarketPlace; Nov 14-15, 10am-4pm

5015-111 St • 780.435.3721 • Visit the Canadian premiere of the Van Gogh Museum Edition Collection, consisting of nine carefully selected masterpieces: Almond Blossom, Sunflowers, The Harvest, Wheatfield under Thunderclouds, Boulevard de Clichy, Undergrowth, The Bedroom, Fishing Boats on the Beach of Les Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, and Landscape at Twilight • Oct 16-Nov 15 • $5 (per person), free (kids 10 and under)

Steppes Gallery • 1253 & 1259-91 St • acuarts.ca/events.html • Two Shows by three Ukrainian artists; Nov 14, 2-5pm

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • Main Gallery: Feature Artist Al Dixon; through Nov • Fireplace Room: High School Show Award Winners; through Nov

Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Free-$117.95 • Beyond Rubik's Cube; Nov 7-Feb 15

U of A Museums • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • museums@ualberta.ca • museums.ualberta.ca • Thu-Fri: 12-6pm; Sat: 124pm • Brain Storms: UAlberta Creates: hundreds of creative and visually inspiring works from University of Alberta Alumni in support of the University of Alberta Alumni Association centenary; Sep 25-Jan 23

VAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.com • Alberta Spirit: Acaca Alberta Community Art Clubs Association; Oct 1-Nov 28 • Gallery A: Cultural Exchange; Dec 3-Feb 27; Opening reception: Dec 3, 7-9:30pm • Gallery B: Alberta Artists Collect Alberta Art; Dec 3-Feb 27; Opening reception: Dec 3, 7-9:30pm

VASA Gallery • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Kindred: artwork by Karen Blanchet; Nov 3-Nov 27

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/ mcmullen-gallery • Father Douglas: Inspired by William Blake's writings Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, Father Douglas' surrealist portraits of animals metaphorically explore various complexities of the soul and human experience • Oct 24-Dec 6

West End Gallery • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Ken Faulks, An Exhibition of New Work; Nov 7-19 • Glen Simple; Nov 14-20 • Annual Winter Collection Group Exhibition: featuring works by Peter Shostak, Annabelle Marquis, Claudette Castonguay, Peter Wyse and more; Nov 21-Dec 24

Literary AGA Reading Club • Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • youraga.ca/readingclub-2 • In the context of the exhibition Charrette Roulette: FABRIC, Curator Kristy Trinier will facilitate a reading session on a text related to design.

Further discussions include themes of the exhibition, particularly the artists’ interest in the Bloomsbury Group • Nov 18, 7:30-10pm • Free (pre-reg at youraga.ca/reading-club-2)

Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Evening with Robert Bateman and his new release "Life Sketches"; Nov 13, 7pm • Suzanne Lamontagne "I Have a Dream...

Do You Have One Too?" Book Signing; Nov 14, 12-2pm • G.C. McRae "Seven Tales" Book Launch; Nov 14, 2pm • Shelley Arnusch "Too Many Teddies" Book Signing; Nov 15, 12-2pm • Bren Simmers "Hastings-Sunrise" with Emilia Nielsen "Surge Narrows" Poetry Reading & Signing; Nov 15, 2pm • Dianne Warren "Liberty Street" Reading and Signing; Nov 16, 7pm

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

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

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

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

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

Theatre 11 O'Clock Number • The Backstage Theatre, 10330 84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25-Dec 18 then Jan 22-Jun 24, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) • grindstonetheatre.ca

Back To The 80S: A Most Excellent Musical Adventure • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave NW • mayfieldtheatre. ca • Amongst all the bad movies, hairdos, fads and faux pas of this much maligned decade some of the greatest pop tunes of all time were realized • Nov 10-Jan 31

The best brothers • Shadow Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.434.5564 • shadowtheatre.org • After losing their free-spirited mother in a freak accident, feuding brothers Kyle and Hamilton Best are forced to make her final arrangements together. In the bustle of obituarywriting, eulogy-giving, and dog-sitting, sibling rivalry quickly reaches the exploding point before the brothers begin to understand themselves, their connection and the unconventional woman who gave them life • Oct 28-Nov 15 Chimprov • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun Die-Nasty • The Backstage Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-83 Ave • communications@varsconatheatre.com • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:309:30pm • Until May 30, 2016 (no show Dec 21 or 28) • $14 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

Evangeline • Shoctor Theatre, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre. com • Evangeline is the epic story of star-crossed lovers Evangeline and Gabriel, torn apart on their wedding day as a result of the British expulsion of the Acadians from Atlantic Canada in 1755. The

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story was immortalized and achieved legendary status through the poem Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Edmonton native Ted Dykstra, co-creator of the world-renowned 2 Pianos 4 Hands, has given new life to this powerful drama by creating a new Canadian musical • Oct 31-Nov 22

girls' night out • St Albert Theatre Troupe, Kinsmen Hall 47 Riel Drive, St Albert • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • Four women stop for dinner at the establishment owned by the ex-husband of one of them. Between the salad and entrée, he ends up dead. Each has a reason to wish him dead, but perhaps one did more than wish • Nov 12-15, 19-21

The Glorious 12th by Raymond Storey • Concordia University of Edmonton, Trish and Al Huehn Theatre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • 780.479.9269 • howarth.caroline@concordia.ab.ca • concordia. ab.ca • It is 1927, a difficult year for the Orange Lodge. The House of Commons is now officially bilingual. French appears on Canadian postage stamps and refugees from continental Europe are arriving in record numbers to share in the Canada’s prosperity. The MacKay family fears that their way of life is under siege. Into this atmosphere, opportunistic Klansmen cross the Canadian border to prey on the anxiety of citizens. The world is changing and Mackay family has dark secrets to face • Nov 31

Hey Ladies! • The Roxy on Gateway (formerly C103), 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • Edmonton’s premier comedy, info-tainment, musical, game, talk show spectacular that’s suitable for all sexes! Featuring Baking Bad - Cakes Gone Wrong, and much more • Nov 20, Jan 22, May 20; 8pm • $25

Improv Open Jam • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@ gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/openjam.html • A space to share, swap games and ideas. For all levels • Last Thu every month until Jun 28, 7-9:30pm • Free

The Last Five Years • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • Novelist Jamie and actress Cathy fall hopelessly in love. However, in the city that never sleeps, the lure of professional success can be a dividing force. An intimate, musical deconstruction of a five-year love affair, told both forwards and in reverse • Oct 27-Nov 15

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door) Once • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • jubileeauditorium.com • Tells the enchanting tale of a Dublin street musician who's about to give up on his dream when a beautiful young woman takes a sudden interest in his haunting love songs. As the chemistry between them grows, his music soars to powerful new heights, but their unlikely connection turns out to be deeper and more complex than your everyday romance • Nov 10-14: 8pm; Nov 14: additional show at 2pm; Nov 15: 2pm & 7:30pm The Rocky horror show • La Cite Theatre, 8627-91 St • twoonewaytickets.com • A humorous tribute to the science-fiction and horror B movies of the late 1940s through to the early 1970s, the musical tells the story of a newly engaged couple getting caught in a storm and coming to the home of a mad transvestite scientist unveiling his new creation, a muscle man named Rocky Horror • Nov 6-15 The Social Scene • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca/scenestudy.html • Fellow theatre lovers share excerpts of plays that they have been reading • First Mon of every month, 6-8pm; until Jun 6 • Free Star Warz: A Galactic Rock Comedy • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, West Edmonton Mall, Phase II West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St • jubilations.ca • It is a period of galactic civil war! There are rebels with spaceships, Jedi with lightsabers, a princess, a smuggler, and robots, the Evil Darth Vador and singing… yes you heard me… singing of your favorite galactic rock tunes of the 70’s and 80’s. May the force be with you • Oct 30-Jan 30

TheatreSports • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Sep-Jun • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

Wind in Her Sailes • ATB Financial Arts Barns, PCL Studio, 10330-84 Ave • windinhersails.com • A historical play that takes place entirely on a schooner off the coast of Newfoundland in 1907. Based on the inspirational true story of the playwright’s grandmother who, at age 16, showed great courage on board a sailing vessel when it met with peril at sea • Nov 12-15, Nov 17-21, 7:30pm • $29 (regular), $25 (student/senior), Pay-what-you-can (Nov 17); No kids under 5 years old

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SNOWZONE // SKIING

Skiiers' almanac A look at the snow-loving season to come o paraphrase Tennyson: In the fall, a young Edmontonian's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of skiing (and snowboarding).

While England's most famous Poet Laureate was writing about spring (and love), the sentiment holds true for this time of year as snow lovers gear up with breathless anticipation for the start of the season.

As always, the resorts are pumping up their new offerings and changes for this winter in hopes of attracting ever-greater visitor numbers.

This season's highlights are topped

by Sunshine Village's replacement of the old Tee Pee Town double chairlift with a whizzy detachable quad, complete with bubble shields that cover the seating area and heated seats.

"Anyone who knows that [Tee Pee Town] area knows that it's very cold and very windy," Sunshine's marketing coordinator, Lindsay Gallagher,

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explains. "It's going to be a real treat for people to ride on the first chairlift in Canada with heated seats."

The Tee Pee Town LX quad will be twice as fast as the 30-year-old double, and some recontouring of the lift's base area means there will be less of a trudge to get to the loading station.

In Jasper, Marmot Basin's big news is this summer's approval of their first long-range plan by Parks Canada. The approval means in the next few years, snow-making can be expanded into the mid- and upper-mountain; it also includes increased parking and expansion of the access road, expansion of the Caribou Chalet at the base of Marmot and some minor re-glading in the mid-mountain area. It's a major accomplishment for the resort, though the impact will not be felt by visitors this season.

Similar approval by Parks Canada

of Lake Louise's long-range plan will have the Lake Louise ski area shrinking in some areas and growing in others. The Whitehorn Lodge will no longer be used for summer operations and a new lodge on Eagle Ridge, at the top of the Grizzly Gondola, can be constructed with the intention of reducing visitor's proximity to important grizzly bear habitat. In exchange for vacating the Whitehorn Lodge area in the summer, Lake Louise has the option to develop such currently out-of-bounds areas as West Bowl, Hidden Bowl, Richardson's Ridge and West Juniper.

Some of those areas could be opened up for public use as early as this winter, hinted Lake Louise's communications director Dan Markham.

"It's too early to tell, but the potential is there," he says.

The lifts are already turning at Banff's other ski resort, Mount Nor-

quay, as it took the honours as being the first resort in Alberta to open this season with its November 5 start.

Nakiska in Kananaskis Country is touting improvements to its already expansive snow-making operations as the big addition this season. Modernized pumps and new pumping stations have made their snow-making more efficient than ever.

Down at Castle Mountain in Southwestern Alberta, the resort is looking for a bounce-back year after a disastrous 2014 – 15 season which ended in mid-February due to a lack of snow. Back-to-back bad-snow years are not the norm for Castle, so keep an eye on their snow reports, as it is expected to be a much better season this year.

Across the BC border at Fernie and Kimberley, fat-tire biking is the hot new offering this year, with bike rent-

als available at both resorts and a selection of trails to ride being offered.

Kicking Horse in Golden, BC worked throughout the summer on making parts of their famously challenging terrain more user-friendly.

"There was some massive earthmoving and re-countouring to make runs like Blaster and Tailspin more accessible for intermediates," says Matt Mosteller, senior VP of marketing for Resorts of the Canadian Rockies. (The company owns Kicking Horse, Fernie, Kimberley and Nakiska.) "We've also got some new winch anchors in place which will allow grooming of much steeper terrain than in the past, meaning more grooming in the upper alpine."

In Revelstoke, the resort's first terrain park will make its debut this winter under the Stoke Chair. A terrain park has been a long time coming for Revy,

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After years of focusing on lifts and operation at Marmot Basin, this summer was spent securing a new food services operator. Dana Hospitality will be running the show for the near foreseeable future, promising healthy, nutritious meals cooked fresh daily under the watchful eye of a chef who most recently fed the athletes at the Pan Am Games in Toronto. There are major renovations on the near horizon for the lower chalet, but for now, expect to see a new coffee bar between the cafeteria and Caribou Lounge.

Lake Louise and Sunshine Village are Open Lake Louise opened last weekend and Sunshine was expecting to crank their lifts on Wednesday. Like Marmot Basin, Lake Louise’s summer focus was on food services. New to the resort are a sushi bar, a smokehouse in the Kokanee Kabin and a top executive chef from Las Vegas. I love sushi, so you know I’m going to give the sushi bar a visit on my first day. I hope they can make me a flaming lobster roll—which may get a different name, as the maki rolls will be named after some of the famous runs and terrain at Louise. That should make for some good conversation.

At Sunshine Village, the restaurants and menus were updated a couple of years ago. So this year they directed their money back at the mountain, and in a big way. Canada’s first heated bubble chair will be moving snow enthusiasts up the old Tee Pee Town lift. This chair has sensors galore that activate heating in the base area and shut it down when the chair is empty. The orange bubble is a European standard signifying the heated-chair concept. I imagine with this state-of-the-art upgrade, Tee Pee Town will no longer be the least-traveled area on the hill. V

which had previously prided itself on their vast and varied landscape being a natural terrain park.

At Panorama, a larger gladed section of the Taynton Bowl is going to be accessible to resort guests this year, as terrain formerly reserved for heliski operations will now be patrolled and controlled for avalanches.

All the new offerings the resorts are touting this year are aimed at making you forget last year. While the ski industry may be loathe to admit it, the winter of 2014 – 15 was a not a good one for the Alberta and BC ski areas.

The double whammy of overall belowaverage snowfall and an economic downturn lead to a severe dip in the number of people on the slopes.

A 14-percent decline in skier visits over the previous year was reported for 2014 – 15 by the Canada West Ski Areas Association, while the 7.4 million visits to Western Canadian resorts represented the lowest totals in

more than a decade.

The majority of that loss came from the BC Coast region, where warm weather shortened seasons for several resorts. But a lack of snow was also experienced in many areas of the Canadian Rockies as well.

One of Western Canada's few bright spots was Marmot Basin. "Our numbers were actually up compared to 2013 – 14," says Marmot's communications coordinator, April Callow. "We had great snowfalls, consistent cool temperatures from base to summit and few wind events. As a result, we had great coverage and great snow all over the mountain from November to May." Both the ski industry and the skiing public are eager to get the ski season underway and, Marmot Basin excluded, put last year behind them. I guess now may not be the best time to mention the predictions of another strong El Niño warming event this winter.

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Morality at play

Ally Was Screaming lets a complicated scenario ask difficult questions

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n its surface, Ally Was Screaming is a morality play on film, if a somewhat-unconventional spin on the genre. A mix of drama and comedy, it hinges on one particular should-we-shouldn't-we quandary: Seth and Nole discover a winning

$30-million lottery ticket among the belongings of the titular deceased, who was killed suddenly in a fire. They decide to keep the ticket's rightful owner a secret— connecting it to Ally would impart a large sum of the winnings to her

abusive ex, thanks to the will she hadn't changed before her death— yet find resistance from her sister Casey, a stickler for the rules, and who's also in on the ticket.

At its core, however, the film's offering a more complicated situation than asking which action is the morally correct one.

"This isn't just a movie of how grief corrupts the soul, of which there's many great examples of already," writer/director Jeremy Thomas says, noting his favourite to be the Humphrey Bogart film The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

"With this, it's about how what starts off as rationalizing to keep the money becomes an actual shift in their morality."

Moral quandaries are clearly something that piques Thomas' interest—when he first picks up his phone, he has to call back: he's in the midst of returning a copy of 15th-century morality play Everyman to an old favourite professor

in Calgary. He's also building a reputation for skillfully creative screenplays: his first feature film, 2008's The End, balanced on a mid-film twist that drew scores of acclaim.

Ally Was Screaming is his second feature, mostly shot in Calgary, though not quite in the season he'd imagined.

"It was actually supposed to be a summer shoot, then the production got delayed, and it became a winter shoot," he notes. "But a few of the shots in fantasy scenes just would not work in a totally winter setting.

So we had to go to Vancouver."

It's also been gathering acclaim wherever it happens to land on a screen—the National Post gave it a glowing review, among other publications, after its Toronto premiere, though Thomas missed that due to airline issues. He'll be in Edmonton for the first Metro screening, where he can see how his moral questioning plays out with an audi-

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"If on the surface, this is about if two nice guys will fall from grace and sin to keep a bunch of money, what it's actually about is questioning your moral intuition, and reevaluating if you're doing the right thing," he says. "And as these two characters shift away from their moral intuition, I want the audience to shift away from theirs.

"I think it's important to always re-evaluate morality—I think sometimes moral intuition leads us astray," he adds. "What is the correct answer? That's to be discussed by the audience."

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REVUE // BOND

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raped in the leaden chains of its weariest tropes, floating up there on screen for more than two hours of lifeless franchise autopilot, this new, 24th James Bond movie, the fourth to star Daniel Craig and second to be helmed by Sam Mendes, could be called a mere Spectre of its predecessors, though Zombie might be a more apt manifestation of the undead to select as a title. Scripted by the committee of John Logan, Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and Jez Butterworth, Spectre walks and talks and blows plenty of stuff up, but there's no light in its eyes. It dabbles in garden-variety moral complexity—Bond defies his current superiors because he's paying a debt to a previous one—and appropriates a hot-button topic—in this case, global surveillance—as a sort of bogeyman-of-the-week. In other words it assumes the same qualities as the other films in the Craig-era revamp, but does so only superficially.

There are, of course, other, less sophisticated ways of making a Bond movie.

There are plenty of fans who would happily accept a silly Bond caper with over-the-top villains and, to crudely repurpose a beloved character's moniker, pussy galore, but Spectre conveys little interest in indulging even those tawdrier tactics. There is perhaps no greater disappointment in Spectre than Christoph Waltz as ostensible über-villain Oberhauser, who tortures our hero and is tender with a feline but does both with an astonishing paucity of zeal. Or even interesting costumes. (Did Waltz simply feel like he'd already done a perfect

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Bond villain in Inglourious Basterds?)

Rather than go for flamboyance, Waltz, presumably in keeping with the script and direction, seems mildly depressed.

He has a backstory, but it's both preposterous and cliché.

Waltz seems wasted, but no more so than each woman in Spectre's parade of lovely ladies: Miss Bala's Stephanie Sigman shows up to escort Bond to a Mexico City hotel room and utter a single line of dialogue; Monica Bellucci mourns briefly for a man Bond killed, gets some Bond action, and then is swiftly dismissed; Blue is the Warmest Colour's Léa Seydoux gets more screen-time than the others but her character is a mere cypher, initially resistant but finally, inexplicably opting to go along for the ride— in both senses of the word. She and our protagonist have (off-screen) sex but no chemistry, probably because the story framing their exchange is so perfunctory.

There's also the nagging feeling that Craig is bored with Bond. In none of the previous films did he seem unengaged.

He strikes the Bond poses and still looks fearsome in a tux, but unless he's in the midst of a punch-up he mostly looks distracted in Spectre. At one point he's told that he's "a kite dangling in a hurricane."

It's one of the few lines in Spectre that someone put extra effort into. It's also all-too apt a description: this Bond indeed seems like an inanimate object being tossed about by a very, very expensive, very, very familiar weather pattern.

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n a curious twist of film-fate, the same week our multiplexes first witness a villain warning 007, "You're a kite dancing in a hurricane, Mr Bond," along comes that lovable loser who couldn't make his kite dance in a hurricane if he tried. It's Brown, Charlie Brown, and while The Peanuts Movie would be better retitled after Charles Schulz's "insecure, wishywashy failure" (CB's own words, not mine), it's pretty much the least disappointing feature-film adaptation the most famous American comicstrip ever (1950 – 2000) could get.

The story's initially episodic but settles on Charlie Brown's blushing infatuation with the new kid in town, The Little Red-Haired Girl; echoing romantic interludes, typed up by the intrepid Snoopy, see Brown's beagle whisking himself off in flights of fancy to save beloved Fifi from the dastardly clutches of The Red Baron in First World War France (these get too action-adventure blockbustering).

The style's CGI and 3D-ish but Linus, Lucy, Schroeder, Pig-Pen, Woodstock and the gang still have those ink-lines of worried looks, angry grimaces, or crinkly smiles. (And CB's remembrances of screw-ups past come in

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black-and-white comicstrip format.) The setting, a northern state during winter (Schulz's Minnesota?), sees Charlie and company play hockey or baseball with snowmen, or has Charlie struggling to avoid the KiteEating Tree, while the time remains cozily '60s-ish: rotary phones, toy planes, fountain pens.

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The movie can be a bit frantic and antic, which strangely makes it feel a tad dragged out, even at 90 minutes; the ending's more schmaltzy than Schulzy, its message heavily outlined.

Crucially, the strip's sad-sack, what'sthe-point-of-it-all? adult humour sneaks in: Lucy, at her psychiatrist's booth, tells her most frequent customer he has "a classic failure face"; there's that AAUGH! of anguish and dismay; Charlie Brown worries that his (barely beginning) relationship with The Little Red-Haired Girl is

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moving too fast ("I can't afford a mortgage!"). There's a nifty section, too— satirical of the movie's own commercial aspirations?—where Charlie Brown becomes a star and his little sister's quickly giving home-tours and selling souvenirs branded with his face, cashing in on his celebrity while she can. Now let's just hope Peanutssequel-allergy kicks in and Blue Sky Studios makes this one the limit.

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Tales of the Grim Sleeper examines the world around a murderer "I just hope that her death doesn't go in vain and that we change the way we look at those most vulnerable in our society because a lot of times instead we shove them, degrade them, pushing them to the streets, leaving them to predators like Pickton and others."

—Karin Joesbury, whose daughter Andrea was one of Robert Pickton's East End Vancouver victims, after his December 2007 conviction for six of possibly 49 murders.

Google Earth is used to eerie effect as Tales of the Grim Sleeper opens, inexorably zooming in on Los Angeles and Lonnie Franklin's pinmarked home until, now via Google Street View, there's his pixellated self, caught in the drive-by camera's shooting, chatting with someone on the sidewalk. Cut to July 2010 and aerial footage of police all over and around the property. Franklin's been arrested.

The garbageman-turned-mechanic's charged with 10 murders and suspected of more than 100.

(Treating lives like trash is a recurring theme here.) 180 pictures of as-yet-unidentified women, found in his possession, are released by police as the long road to trial, for crimes first committed 25 years earlier, begins. Back in 1985, as the first strangled or shot victims of

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whom the media later dubbed the "Grim Sleeper" were being found in South LA, the Black Coalition Fighting Back Serial Murders tried to raise awareness about the murders and pressure police to do more. But the police didn't declare there was a serial killer until 2008, 20 years after ignoring a surviving victim's eyewitness testimony. Besieged by unemployment (factories moved or closed) and a crack epidemic in the '80s, South LA wasn't taken seriously by police as a site of serial murders; most of the victims were black women working as prostitutes. So this is also a "story," director Nick Broomfield observes, "about a people in one of the world's most prosperous cities who have been left behind."

At first, three of Franklin's friends staunchly defend him to Broomfield, but later two of them offer disturbing details and recollections.

The direct, matter-of-factness of Broomfield's approach—characteristically walking the streets with his boom mike—is outdone by former prostitute and ex-crack addict Pam, who, when not telling it like it was and is, criss-crosses the neighbourhood with Broomfield in his car and talks to women passersby about whether or not they hung around with Franklin. She tracks down Photo #147—a woman who

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dated Franklin's son for a time and considered the accused then just a "horny old man"—and some survivors. Chilling, harrowing tales of Franklin emerge.

Even as Broomfield's trying to make patchwork sense of Franklin through his film, it turns out Franklin photographed and later filmed women in sexual poses. So the camera's a truth-teller or an accessory to crime, depending on who's wielding it. Gang shootings, bodies dumped in alleyways (not just this killer's victims), men's casual attitude towards sex and nude photos of women and pornography—the larger narrative's an increasingly sordid yet mundane (making it all the sadder) story of a black community plagued by police unconcern, with the men closest to Franklin almost shruggingly inured to his voyeurism and predation on women. (The impressive fighters here are female, from Pam to two BCFBSM activists.) Broomfield, who made two documentaries about Florida killer Aileen Wuornos, utterly de-sensationalizes serial killing. Murder's only one sub-stratum below the neglect and violence cracking seismically through the surface of this community. And it's not over—nor ever will be for victims' families—as Franklin's trial is set to begin, at last, in late June. V

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Guilded pipes Bahamas' Afie Jurvanen talks vocals, tacos

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t's kind of like banging on a drum—there's an ancient power to singing together, and commuting together through music," Afi e Jurvanen begins. "Maybe that's sort of a loft y way of thinking about it, but I do think there's something really elemental about singing on its own."

Jurvanen, better known as Bahamas, is refl ecting on the particular powers of voice and harmony, two things he's made an integral part of at least two albums. He's anchored his sparse, surfside folk songs with voices used the way other bands might use a second guitar: as an integral part of shaping the sound.

The Juno-winner is speaking from LA, out on a small vacation with his

family before starting another leg of shows behind his 2014 album Bahamas is Afi e. ("Our taco levels were low," he says of the coastal jaunt, noting a dearth of quality taco off erings at home. "I had to replenish them before the tour starts.") The recording, Jurvanen's

only after I made the second album [2012's Barchords]; I had done a lot of singing, building up the tracks with my own voice, and I thought, 'OK, how am I going to do this live?

What elements do I want to translate?' At that point, I was just playing with a drummer; the next thing I

I realized voices can do a lot of the things that guitars do or keyboards do. third as Bahamas, found him expanding his use of voice as a key instrument.

"My fi rst record [2009's Pink Strat] didn't really have too much of that at all," he continues. "It was

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added was two singers.

"That was really cool, a musical experiment, in a way," he adds.

"I realized voices can do a lot of the things that guitars do or keyboards do."

Jurvanen built Bahamas is Afi e in (mostly) solitude: he wrote and played the bulk of its instrumentation, pulling in guests when he saw fi t. In its creation, he found himself drawn to rhythms as he went.

"More and more lately, I've started to think of how you get people's heads moving," Jurvanen says.

"What just feels good. On the last album, I started getting to that in a bigger way: if your head starts moving a little right as the track starts, I feel like that's a good sign; you've probably figured out a good rhythm to suit the song.

"It's kind of hard, when you're just sitting with your own voice and a guitar, and you're writing a song, to

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I really enjoy that part in the studio, where it's just pure inspiration.

Where you're just creating out of nothing, like, 'Oh my god, I want to follow this road for 10 minutes, and see where it goes.'"

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Dear Rouge A

debut album is like a first impression: it lays the foundation for an artists' sound and serves as a benchmark for subsequent releases.

Black to Gold, the first full-length album from Vancouver synth-rock duo Dear Rouge, has been two years in the making, with the endgame being to craft a record of honest, genuine songs that would be taken seriously.

"You have to earn your place in the music industry, and with your fans you have to earn their trust that you put your heart into your music and that you're going to deliver honest music," says Danielle McTaggart, on the road between New York City and Halifax, her husband and bandmate Drew at the wheel. "I think we tried our best just to be real and organic with everything we did with this album."

Dear Rouge took home the grand prize at the 2012 Peak Performance Project, at which point the duo had released two EPs. The $102 700 prize money meant there was no financial burden ahead of them when it came to recording their debut album, which also allowed them to quit their day jobs to focus on making music fulltime. They released the single "I Heard I Had" in December 2013, which climbed to the top five on alt-rock

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"We had kind of made a plan that if we win first place, let's go for this full on," Danielle says, noting the new aim is working on their followup album.

"That was our goal, was just to be able to do music full-time. Now obviously our goals have changed, but that was the big one for that year."

Some of the songs—namely "I Heard I Had" and Black to Gold's second single, "Best Look Lately"—have been around for some time now, and Danielle says they've reinvented a few of the tracks for their live set, which includes a full band.

"When I go to a show and a band plays a song exactly like they have it on the album, I like that, but at the same time, it's fun to make it different and leave an impression that's a little bit different," she says. "It gives

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them a new feel to the song. We also do radio interviews with acoustic versions—we've done acoustic sets with the songs, too, which can give them a whole new feel. We're not afraid to play with our own songs."

Dear Rouge has added a couple of new tracks to the setlist, too, which they worked on with Thomas Coulter (Lights)—they've also done some

writing with Steve Bays of Hot Hot Heat and Mounties, but those songs are yet to come.

"A lot of what was coming out at the time, for me lyrically, was based on past relationships, and I had a lot of drama situations in my life that I could pull from. And then I met Drew and we got married and it's actually interesting: a lot of the songs

close

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Kirby Sewell Band Friday, Nov. 20 – 7:30 p.m.

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I want to write now are a lot more positive—there are positive songs on [Black to Gold], but there are a lot of breakup songs," she says. "Now I feel like this next season is going to be maybe pulling from experiences that we have now, or just conversations or people we've met along the way."

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// Kristen Herrington and Julia Ryan

The Town Heroes T

echnology is ostensibly unescapable: we're tethered to our cellphones and social media, with much of our daily interactions transpiring through screens rather than genuine human contact.

Please, Everyone, the third fulllength album from the Town Heroes, serves as a rallying cry to listen up and pay attention; to unplug and look around at what's right in front of you.

"I'm not [an] exception to it," admits Mike Ryan, who performs in the Cape Breton-based duo alongside bandmate Bruce Gillis.

He points out references to George Orwell's 1984 on the album, but rather than the usual "Big Brother is watching" approach, Ryan alludes to the novel's push towards nonconformity.

"It's alright to be yourself; it's alright to not do what everyone

else tells you to do," he says, adding that the purpose of the record isn't simply to highlight negativity.

"I reiterate on every song that this may be happening and it may be bad, but there's always hope, no matter what. So I think the overall message of the album is no matter what you're going through, no matter what the world—the man, or society—tells you to be, it's alright to be yourself. You can get by just being who you are."

Of course, Ryan isn't telling anyone to quit texting or using Facebook cold turkey. He acknowledges that technology has provided us with a number of benefi cial tools— but they can't consume our lives, either.

The wide-reaching topic is all part of the Town Heroes expanding their lyrical horizons. The East Coast Mu-

Sat, Nov 14 (9:30 pm) Brixx, $12 sic Award-winners' work has been largely inspired by Cape Breton— particularly the duo's fi rst album, Birds and Fear (2010). But Ryan notes that as much as he and Gillis love their home island, they want to push their own creative boundaries as well.

"I think as you keep going on you try to make broader references [to] things that more people can relate to," explains Ryan. "So I think [with] this album as a whole, no matter who listens to it, they'll hear something they can potentially relate to or understand, whether they're from Cape Breton or Tanzania."

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Towers and Trees 'I

never really liked playing by myself," Adrian Chalifour says over the phone from Victoria, BC, of his involvement in Victoria-based folk band Towers and Trees.

Where most bands have a typical roster of musicians that tour and record for an album, Towers and Trees, which formed in 2012, has an everevolving lineup that features a cast of Victoria-based musicians. At the forefront of it all is Chalifour, the founder of the group, who started the band in response to a divorce from his "high school sweetheart." That period marked a watershed for the former solo musician, which resulted in Chalifour re-evaluating his music career to become a group effort.

"You meet a lot of artists like Bon Iver or Bright Eyes, for example, where it's kind of like the creative vision of a particular songwriter or particular mu-

sician, and then they build something around that," he says. "It's an opportunity for people to come in and become a part of that collaborative group.

That has always been the most comfortable for me."

Chalifour calls the first album "an almost solo project," because he worked alongside his friend, Ben Lubberts, to record and produce the EP Broken Record (2011) in Lubberts' apartment.

That collaborative process, however, was what inspired Chalifour to create Towers and Trees.

"Beyond writing a song that has a story to tell, I really do like creating musical moments that are stirring emotionally," he says. "And I think that's hard to achieve running as a oneman show."

Thus, The West Coast—Chalifour's second album, but his first full-length

as Towers and Trees—saw a collaboration with a gang of BC-based musicians including Dave Zellinsky (electric guitar), Jesse Boland (drums, vocals), Lubberts (keys, vocals), Andrea Lubberts (vocals), Donovan Rush (bass guitar), Stephanie Chatman (violin), Alex Hauka (cello) and Dean Boland (horns). The 10-track album was recorded at Electric City Sound in Victoria and The Bird's Nest Studio in Nanoose Bay, and encompasses the west coast within its lyrics and its musicians.

This album is a very personal one for Chalifour, as it covers the different emotions one feels coming out of a failed relationship.

"It's an album that believes in love even in the midst of losing it," he says.

"It's an incredibly personal record, and it's incredibly earnest and ambitious."

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PREVUE // STONER

Chron Goblin F

or Calgary's Chron Goblin, practice and preparation paid off big time as they crafted their new album, Backwater. The eight ferocious, riff-heavy tracks are the result of ceaseless dedication from a band oft-marked with the stoner-metal label.

After meeting—and becoming fast friends with—Adam Pike at a show they both performed at, the group decided to book the studio time and make the long drive out to Portland to record with Pike.

"We didn't want to appear amateurish, so we practiced up a lot," bassist Richard Hepp says. "And so we got there and [Pike] said we were one of the most prepared bands he's dealt with there. We were just jamming stuff out and we were like, 'This is great!'"

The band, which recorded its past two full-lengths and an EP in Calgary, wanted to take step outside its comfort zone for Backwater.

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"We really wanted to kind of remove ourselves from the usual, I guess you could call it operating procedure of recording," Hepp explains. "Not that it was bad experience or negative or anything; we just wanted to broaden our horizons a bit."

Seven of the 12 days in the studio were spent recording everything the group needed on the album. In comparison, its previous album, 2013's Life For The Living, took 11 days. After that, the band and Pike took five more days to toy with new ideas while recording. "'The Wailing Sound' is a perfect example of that," Hepp says. "There's a part where we wanted to do, just on the spot, some whispering and some talking in the background. That was on a whim ... the mics [were] set up, so we just got up there and started whispering, and it just sounded awesome."

Backwater is Chron Goblin's most

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Sat, Nov 14 (8 pm) With Snake Legs, Rebuild/Repair, Withermoon, Leg Witch Bohemia, $10 Part of Endless Bummer festival Until Sun, Nov 15 diverse album to date, with the driving rock 'n' roll of "Hard Living" and the headbanging riff-metal "Fuller" mixed with more plaintive tracks like "The Wailing Sound." This is part-maturation, part-comfort as the foursome starts to understand each other's musical quirks.

"The album kind of shows how much better we play together now," Hepp adds. "Every time we play a show our chemistry is getting better and better and better."

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ChiC Gamine w/ Chloe albert

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Chic Gamine T

he onset of the Internet has altered the music industry; band members no longer have to live in the same city to operate as a unit, with the Internet allowing them to overcome any geographical challenges. Chic Gamine is one such band: the five-piece group—Adrina Turenne (vocals), Alexa Dirks (vocals), Annick Bremault (vocals), Sacha Daoud (drums) and Benoit Morier (bass/ guitar)—is geographically split, with Turenne and Dirks in Winnipeg and Bremault, Daoud and Morier in Montréal. The band functions by way of the Internet, and its members meet in one of the two cities when it comes time for tour rehearsals and recording sessions.

"Being in two cities is just our challenge, and it is our unique gift and burden at the same time," Dirks says over the phone from her Winnipeg apartment. "Since we are on the road as much as we are, it's just logistical, schedule sorting that is one of the most fun things the Internet has brought us. So if we're going out west, we'll meet in Winnipeg and rehearse. If we're going out east, we'll meet in Montréal and rehearse there.

We just figure it out. It's wonderful that we like each other so much, and

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that's why we make it work."

Light a Match, the group's latest release and third album in its repertoire, comes five years after its Juno Awardnominated sophomore album, City, City. Within that five-year gap, the band was "evolving musically," Dirks notes—a result of the departure of founding member Ariane Jean, who left to be with family. Morier joined in 2014 and brought in a stronger instrumental element that the band was looking for after focusing on its members' harmony-driven vocals for so long. The addition of Morier came naturally as a result of his familiarity with the group—he was a longtime friend of the band, went on tour with the group in Louisiana and produced its first, self-titled album in 2008.

Light A Match was recorded in Montréal, with Dirks and Turenne coming to the city for the recording, which was completed at Daoud's home studio and the home studio of Montréal producer Sébastien BlaisMontpetit (Groenland, Champion, Secret Sun).

"We were sitting with these songs for so long, and we wanted to take it to the next level, so we knew we needed an outside ear," Dirks says.

Sat, Nov 14 (7 pm) Studio 96, $15 "[Blais-Montpetit] was the perfect person [for this album]. He was so passionate about making music and experimenting with music."

That experimental factor was necessary, as the band was looking to expand from its former a cappella rankings, which, Dirks notes, has pigeonholed the group due to its vocal offerings; it never intended to be known as an a-cappella band. As such, the record departs from the genre that marked Chic Gamine and City, City, and gravitates towards pop-rock.

"The vocals are still at the forefront.

That's what we do, us women," Dirks explains. "We experimented with our voices in different ways than past releases where [previously] we did a lot of unison singing, and we experimented with different harmonies than we did before. We tried to push ourselves out of our comfort zone where we had been for the past two albums."

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WILFRED KOZUB / Thu, nov 12 (7 pm)

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Wilfred Kozub is throwing an art party with music—showcasing his latest solo endeavour, What’s Gonna Become of Us—and a visual art show with Kozub’s paintings, photography and videos. (Latitude 53)

The Paperboys play everything: Celtic, Mexican, bluegrass, folk and ska. And, that’s not all of it. (Festival Place, $32 – $36)

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MELISSA LAUREN / fri, nov 13 (8 pm)

It’s a double bill featuring jazz and classic post-bop sounds, brought to you by Toronto’s Melissa Lauren Quartet and Griffith Hiltz Trio, respectively. (Yardbird Suite, $28)

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The tesseract is to the cube as the cube is to the square. Thus, UK-based Tesseract is to the djent movement—a style of heavy metal music that uses a distinctive high-gain, distorted palm-muted low-pitch guitar—as Marcel Duchamp is to Dada.

(Starlite Room, $22)

If you’re a Sons of Anarchy or Californication fan, then you’d already be acquainted with the music of the White Buffalo (née Jake Smith). He’s on tour with his latest album, Love and the Death of Damnation.

(Union Hall, $20)

BLIND GUARDIAN / sat, nov 14 (8 pm)

The German group needs no introduction, as it holds a track record that only Iron Maiden can match. (Union Hall, $34.50)

DANIEL WESLEY / Sun, nov 15 (7 pm)

Some good ol’ rock music performed by Vancouver-based Daniel Wesley. What more do you want? (The Mercury Room, $25) COMEDY AT THE CENTURY CASINO

PLATINUM BLONDE / sat, nov 14 (8 pm)

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THE GREYS / Tue, Nov 17 (8 pm)

Warning: the Greys is not responsible for the heavy breathing and moshing that will ensue for the release of its limited edition EP Repulsion. (The Mercury Room)

THE LONELY

SAT NOV 14

NOV 13 & 14

If you don’t know who Platinum Blonde is then we suggest raiding your parents’ vinyl records. The band has been releasing power-pop music since 1983! (Starlite Room, $34.50)

FRI DEC 4

FRI NOV 27

LEE AARON

gogol bordello / wed, Nov 18 (7 pm)

The New York-based gypsy-punk octet is on tour for the 10th anniversary of its third album, Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike. (Shaw Conference Centre, $35)

RYAN BOLDT / Thu, Nov 19

The folk-rock songwriter is touring behind Broadside Ballads, an album inspired by the likes of Shirley Collins, Bob Dylan and the Stanley Brothers. (The Mercury Room)

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Stan Gallant Big Al's House of Blues Thirsty

Thursday Jam; 7:30pm Blues on Whyte Pete Turland; 9pm Brittany’s Lounge Not Enough Fest Presents: Quantum Tangle and Greyson Gritt; 7:30pm; $12 The Buckingham Mike Mcdonald (of

Jr. Gone Wild), Ben Stevenson, Seth Anderson and Ben Sir; 8pm; $10 Cafe Blackbird The Sweet Low-

down; 7:30pm; $10

slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays.

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

Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

Century Room Lucky 7: Retro '80s

Escape City; 8pm

with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close The Common The Common

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week! electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ

Sherlock Holmes–Downtown

Thursdays

Gallant (rock); 9pm

Caffrey's in the Park Jakked; 9pm

Krush Ultra Lounge Open stage;

Sherlock Holmes–WEM Cody Mack

Carrot Coffeehouse Sat Open mic;

7pm; no cover

(alt/rock); 9pm

7pm; $2

On The Rocks Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

Starlite Room Tesseract Bringthenoise.com, The Contortionist, Erra, Skyharbor; 7pm (doors), $22-$25; 18+ only

Century Casino The Lonely - Roy

Union Hall 3 Four All Thursdays: rock,

dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

Tiramisu BISTRO Live music every

Fri Union Hall White Buffalo with

FRI NOV 13

Spencer Burton; 8pm; $22 (adv)

9910 Tim Sweeney (DJ) with Dane;

9pm; $20 (adv) Arden Theatre Frank Mills; 7pm;

$55.50 8pm Big Al's House of Blues Dave

Babcock and the Nightkeepers; 9pm; $13; No minors Blackjacks Roadhouse Big Sugar

(blues/rock) with Triggerfinger; 8pm; $45 (adv), $50 (door)

Wild Earth Bakery–Millcreek

Live Music Fridays: this week featuring; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation Yardbird Suite Griffith Hiltz Trio &

Melissa Lauren Quartet (Part of 9th Annual Yardbird Festival Of Canadian Jazz); 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

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

MKT Fresh Food and Beer Market

J R Bar and Grill Live Jam Thu;

Live Local Bands every Sat Blue Chair Café The Fusionauts;

8:30-10:30pm; $15

with One Percent (R&B/soul); 8pm every Thu

Blues on Whyte Pete Turland; 9pm

L.B.'s PUB South Bound Freight open

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

Bourbon Room Dueling pianos

Brittany's Lounge Scrambled YEG:

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

Iris, and guests; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $15; 18+ only Cafe Blackbird Jon&Rose with

guest Tyler Johnson & Opener Shawn Mackenzie; 8pm; $10

Hurricanes Nov 9-14

Caffrey's in the Park Jakked; 9pm

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild

Carrot Coffeehouse Live music

Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; 7pm; contact Gary 780.998.4904

every Fri: this week with Jesse Cunningham; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

Red Piano Every Thu: Dueling pianos

CASINO EDMONTON The Whiskey

piano Longlac Tableaux Duo Majoya; 5-6pm; $10 (door) Holy Trinity Anglican Church

New Music Edmonton presents: Là où vont les nuages… the music of Gilles Gobeil featuring Suzanne Binet-Audet, ondes Martenot; 7:30-9:30pm; $20 (general), $15 (student/senior), $10 (NME members)

New West Hotel Sonny & The

3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm; All ages Featuring Two Blue then Dylan Farrell Band; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $20

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday

9:30pm

and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri THE Common Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh Druid Irish Pub DJ every Fri; 9pm electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ

Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am Rendezvous Pub Bermuda, Obliterate, Weston and Elements; 8pm

(door), 9:30pm (show); Tickets start at $99.50; 18+ only Sherlock Holmes–Downtown

Duane Allen (adult contemporary/adult pop); 9pm Sherlock Holmes–U of A Stan

every Fri

Ric’s Grill Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Trace Jordan;

9pm

Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep

River Cree Paul Rodgers - "Singer

Cha Island Tea Co Spekters (alt/rock)

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock,

with Sister Sarcophagus and Heaven and the Ghosts and Hooch; 9pm; $10 (door)

funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

Show; 9pm-1am

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Amplified

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

Studio 96 Chic Gamine (gospel/R&B)

Duggan's Boundary Joanne Janzen

Smokehouse BBQ Live Blues every

(ault contemporary/country/pop); 9pm

Thu: this week with Two Blue; 7-11pm

Edmonton Expo Centre CFR Concert Series - The Road Hammers; 9pm; $25

Tavern On Whyte Open stage with

Festival Place Gordie MacKeeman &

Annual Yardbird Festival Of Canadian Jazz); 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

Classical Winspear Centre Fantástico! The

His Rhythm Boys; 7:30pm; $20 • The Paperboys; 7:30pm; $32-$36

Sneaky Pete's Sinder Sparks K-DJ

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Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the

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jesse roPer w/ sTone iris, & guesTs

nov/14

the town heroes w/ sTone iris, & guesTs

nov/17

JcL ProducTioNs aNd sTarLiTe room PreseNT

indian handcrafts w/ greYs, & guesTs

nov/19

JcL ProducTioNs PreseNTs

KaCY & ClaYTon

w/ ryaN boLdT (of the deep dark woods), & alameda

faiTh healer

nov/27 kickiN’ iT couNTry fT. The shawn oaTes Band, emo leBlaC,

MKT Fresh Food and Beer Market

Blue Chair Cafe Blind Dog Blues Band; 8:30-10:30pm; $15

Born ruffians

Yardbird Suite Start/Depart &

DJs

Hurricanes

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nov/21

Big Al's House of Blues Tracy Wells and the Overdue Blues Band; 9pm; $10

New West Hotel Sonny & The

PaPer kiTes

Union Hall Blind Guardian with Gravedigger; 8pm; $34.50 (adv); 18+ only

Nov 15

Dog: Tyra Whitson (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

uNioNeveNTs.com PreseNTs

w/ Young rival

with guests; 7pm; $15 (adv)

8pm

Jubilee Auditorium Once; until

X ambassadors w/ old man CanYon

guests; 8pm (door); $34.50-$39.50

Two-Fisted Friday Present: Marshall Lawrence; 8pm; No cover; All ages

Atlantic Trap & Gill Duff Robinson;

w/ guesTs

The VhS Tour w/ grizfolK

(alt/rock); 9pm

Andrea Superstein (Part of 9th Annual Yardbird Festival Of Canadian Jazz); 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

DJs

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

Sherlock Holmes–WEM Cody Mack

SAT NOV 14

Sounds of Spain; 8pm; $24-$79

Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone

Union Hall Ladies Night every Fri

Gallant (rock); 9pm

Fionn MacCool's–Downtown

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm

Black dog Freehouse Thu Main Fl:

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River Cree Dwight Yoakam; 7:30pm

The Provincial Pub Friday Nights:

Yardbird Suite Duchess (Part of 9th

nov/20

dear rogue

Overtime Sherwood Park DJ JAxx;

Boyz; 9pm

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

LiveNaTioN.com PreseNTs

Orlando's 1 Bands perform every

week; $10

DJs on all three levels

sLum viLLage

On the Rocks Live music; 9pm

DJs

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school

platinum blonde

nov/18

O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, Old Timer's Cabin Double Bill:

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w/ The X PresidenTs, miTChmaTiC, & n3K

Hurricanes

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and songwriter from Bad Company, Free and The Firm"; 7pm (door), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $49.50; 18+ only

nov/16

Vriend Featuring Ann Vriend (alt/R&B) with guests; 8:30pm; $15 (adv)

9pm

TesseracT w/ guesTs

Mercury Room An Evening with Anne

northlands.com

Addict Thursday Presents: Jake Ian; 7pm; No cover; All ages

New West Hotel Sonny & The

nov/14

Nov 15 Leaf bar and grill Open Stage

The Noise PreseNTs

w/ The ConTorTionisT, erra, sKYharBor

Jubilee Auditorium Once; until

Concert Series - Terri Clark; 9pm

8pm; all ages (15+)

Sat; 3:30-7pm

Horizon Stage Christine Tassan et les Imposteures; 7:30pm; $35 (adult), $30 (student/senior)

Fionn MacCool's–Downtown Craft

Naked Cybercafé Thu open stage;

FILTHY McNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: this week with Lyra Brown with guest Olivia Wik; 4pm; No cover

nov/13

Canadian Journey Concert Series; 7:30pm; $25

Edmonton Expo Centre CFR

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm

Duggan's Boundary Joanne Janzen (ault contemporary/country/pop); 9pm

Holy Trinity Anglican Church

Open Jam Nights; no cover

MKT Fresh Food and Beer Market

Goose Comedy Presents Weird Al Karaoke (comedy/pop/rock); 8pm; $5 (door) • Later: Dead Fibres (alt/punk/ rock) and Space Classic and Masks; 10pm; $7 (door)

Hilltop Pub Open Stage, Jam every

Jam Concerts: featuring Organ and

Early Stage Saloon–Stony Plain

Sean Mccann (adult contemporary/ Canadian/celtic/country/folk/rock); 7pm; $25 (adv)

Cha Island Tea Co Early: Booty

First Presbyterian Church Traffic

Coral de Cuba Beach Bar: Beach Party Jam hosted by the Barefoot Kings; Ukulele lessons 7:30pm followed by Jam at 8:30pm

Mercury Room An Evening With

Orbison Tribute; 5pm (doors, dinner & show), 5:30pm (dinner), 6:45pm (doors, show only), 7pm (show only); $59.95 (dinner & show), $29.95 (show only)

Gas Pump Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

(blues/pop/R&B); 8pm; $31.50 and up (adv)

jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

Cafe Blackbird Luke Thomson & The

Howl; 8pm; $10

Classical

Club at the Citadel Men Of Motown

Krush Ultra Lounge Open stage

Brixx Bar The Town Heroes; 8:30pm (door), 9:30pm (show); $12; 18+ only

Sherlock Holmes–U of A Stan

All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

Nov 15

Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

every Thu

Carrot Coffeehouse Thu Open Mic:

Jubilee Auditorium Once; until

Bourbon Room Live Music every Sat

FILTHY McNASTY’S Taking Back

Atlantic Trap & Gill Duff Robinson;

Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm

River Cree Wynonna and The Big Noise; 7:30pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); Tickets start at $79.50; 18+ only

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

Duane Allen (adult contemporary/adult pop); 9pm

Café Haven Music every Thu; 7pm

cha island tea co Bring Your Own

Rendezvous Pub SteinBand with

Bohemia DARQ Saturdays: Industrial

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

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guests; every Sat THE Common Get Down It's Saturday

Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm Encore–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten Mercer Tavern DJ Mikey Wong The Provincial Pub Saturday Nights:

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Winspear Centre Beethoven &

Brahms; 2pm; $24-$59

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M 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 Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every

Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4 New West Hotel Sonny & The PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild

Duggan's Boundary Celtic Music

Sherlock Holmes–U of A Open

Nov 15

Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

Yellowhead Brewery PJ Perry

Classical

Mercer Tavern Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests New West Hotel Tue Country Dance

Lessons: 7-9pm • With: Sonny & The Hurricanes with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

Overtime–Sherwood Park Bingo Toonz

every Tue Rocky Mountain Icehouse Live

music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm Sands Hotel Country music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm Yardbird Suite Tuesday Session: Stefan Kijek Trio; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

guests The X Presidents, Mitchmatic and N3k; 8:30pm (door), 9pm (show); $20; 18+ only

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

(jazz); 11:30am

L.B.'s PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

Starlite Room Slum Village with

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

by Mark Ammar; 4-8pm

featuring this week: Chris Wynters; 9pm

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

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

9:30pm-1am

with Brian Christensen & guests; 8-11:30pm; $8

Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30-11:30pm; Free

Sideliners Pub Singer/Songwriter

DJs

Richard's Pub Sunday Jam hosted

The Buckingham Towers and Trees

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue;

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

Jubilee Auditorium Once; until

with guests; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $15; 18+ only

Leaf bar and grill Tue Open Jam:

the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

7:30pm; $38-$42 • Little Miss Higgins & The Winnipeg Five (folk); 7:30pm; $20

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

Trevor Mullen

Rouge Resto-Lounge Open Mic

Festival Place The Leahys (celtic);

Brittany's Lounge Scrambled YEG:

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

Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm

with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

Blues on Whyte Bill Durst; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

Diversion Lounge Sun Night Live on

Newcastle Pub The Sunday Soul

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Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

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

guests; 7pm

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Druid Irish Pub Open Stage Tue:

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Dance Code Studio Flamenco Guitar

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

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SUN NOV 15

9910 Good For Grapes with guests;

Brixx Bar Indian Handcrafts, Greys

DJs

Blues on Whyte Bill Durst; 9pm

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

Blues on Whyte Pete Turland; 9pm

Solid Brass Grand Ole Opry Belt Buckle estimate: $20-40

Robertson Wesley United Church From Bach to Blues; 5pm;

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and

the Jim Findlay Trio; 9am-3pm; Cover by donation

The Real Deal Scottish Tam O’Shanter estimate: $60 Look like Nardwuar!

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

Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

Blue Chair Cafe Brunch featuring

Vintage BC Ferries Captain’s hat circa 1979 estimate: $200 Authentic!

First Presbyterian Church The

$11.75-$22

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Wizardry of Worthington; presented by the Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus; 3pm

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Herbert Howells Requiem: war and peace life and death with Jordan Van Biert, Conductor; 7:30pm; ADV: $20 (adult), $15 (student/senior); DOOR: $23 (adult), $18 (student/senior)

Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave Tavern on Whyte Classic Hip hop

with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,

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

'80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds Blues on Whyte Bill Durst; 9pm Brittany's Lounge Scrambled YEG:

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

Girls Tribute Band (pop); 8pm; $10 (adv) Duggan's Boundary Wed open mic

with host Duff Robison Festival Place Jason Blaine / Tebey

Featuring James Otto - Three's a Party Tour 2015 (country); 7:30pm; $54-$58 New West Hotel Sonny & The

Hurricanes Original Joe's Varsity Row Open

mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520 Overtime–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 River Cree Kenny G; 7pm (door), 9pm (show); Tickets start at $39.50; 18+ only Rossdale Hall Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover Shaw Conference Centre Gogol

Bordello:Gypsy Punks Underdog World Strike 10th Anniversary Tour; 7pm; $35 Starlite Room Dear Rouge with

guests; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $17; 18+ only Zen Lounge Jazz Wednesdays: Kori

Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical Winspear Centre Early: ESO & Winspear Overture Tour; 12-1pm • Later: Bahamas; 8pm; $37

DJs Billiard Club Why wait Wednesdays:

Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

B Street Bar Live Music with Lyle Hobbs; 8-11pm, every Wed

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

Big Al's House of Blues Wailin'

Brixx Bar Eats and Beats

WED NOV 18

Wednesdays Jam; Every Wed, 7:30pm; All ages BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

THE Common The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 St Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave All Saints' Anglican Church 10035-103 St NW Arden Theatre 5 St Anne St, St Albert Atlantic Trap & Gill 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" Street Bar 11818-111 St Big Al's House of Blues Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St Bourbon Room 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca Brittany's Lounge 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 The Buckingham 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Cafe Blackbird 9640-142 St NW Café Haven 9 Sioux Rd,

Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca Caffrey's in the Park 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT Coffeehouse 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 Central Senior Lions Centre 11113-113 St Century Casino 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 Club at the Citadel 9828101A Ave Common 9910-109 St Daravara 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 Denizen Hall 10311-103 Ave Duggan's Boundary 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 Edmonton Expo Centre 7515118 Ave NW Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Encore–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park,

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780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 Fionn MacCool's–Downtown 10200-102 St First Presbyterian Church 10025-105 St NW Hilltop Pub 8220 106 Ave Holy Trinity Anglican Church 10037-84 Ave Horizon Stage 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove Irish Sports Club 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 Java xpress 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 Kelly's Pub 10156-104 St L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 Leaf bar and grill 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT Fresh Food and Beer Market 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 Mercer Tavern 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 Mercury Room 10575-114 St Naked Cybercafé 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 Newcastle Pub 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 New West Hotel 15025-111 Ave noorish caFé 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2's–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255

O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 Original Joe's Varsity Row 8404-109 St Orlando's 1 15163-121 St O'mailles Irish Pub 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Overtime–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 Pleasantview Community Hall 10860-57 Ave The Provincial Pub 160, 4211-106 St Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-149 St Richard's Pub 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 Robertson-Wesley United Church 10209-123 St NW Rocky Mountain Icehouse 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235-101 St Sands Hotel 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 Shaw Conference Centre 9797 Jasper Ave NW Sherlock Holmes– Downtown 10012-101A Ave Sherlock Holmes–U of A 8519-112 St

Sherlock Holmes–WEM 1650-8882 170 St Sideliners Pub 11018-127 St Smokehouse BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 Sneaky Pete's 12315-118 Ave Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 Studio 96 10909-96 St STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St Sugar Foot Ballroom 10545-81 Ave Tavern on Whyte 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 Tiramisu 10750-124 St Uptown Folk Club 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 Vee Lounge, Apex Casino–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 Wild Earth Bakery– Millcreek 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yardbird Suite 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG Dance Club 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 Zen Lounge 12923-97 St

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COMEDY Andre-Philippe Gagnon • Festival Place, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Nov 19-20, 7:30pm

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

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Sean Thomson; Nov 12-14 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 7:30pm; Fri-Sat 9:45pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; every Mon at 7:30pm • Triple Threat Tuesday; every Tue at 7:30pm • Andrew Schulz; Nov 11-15 • Pete Correale; Nov 18-22

Connie's Comedy • Draft, 12912-50 St • With Michael Harrison and more • Nov 18, 7:30pm Connie's Comedy • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With Monty Scott and Travis Nelson • Nov 25, 7:30pm

Derek Edwards: Baloney and Wine • Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Nov 19, 7:30pm • $42 DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow

Edmonton Photographic Historial Society • Highlands Library • 780.436.3878 • Gather and marvel over the latest finds in photography, discussions, and much more • 3rd Wed each month, 7:30pm

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5 FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm Fort Saskatchewan 45+ Singles Coffee Group • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

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

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

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.orgs/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome.

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

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

Toastmasters

• Club Bilingue

Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs. org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook. com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 1370874 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters. org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward. toastmastersclubs.org; reader1@shaw. ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331 Toastmasters Meetings:

WEDNESDAY NITE Faith Focus • First Presbyterian Church, 10025-105 St • 780.422.2937 • firstpresbyterian.ca • fpc@ telus.net • Continuing in-depth examination of the action-packed ‘Acts of the Apostles’ • Every Wed until Nov, 6:30-8pm

3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey

Hollywood Game Night • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 St • Nov 17, 7:30pm

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

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Com-

Poor Vote Turnout • Rossdale Hall,

Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors. ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton.

Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave •

edy Groove every Wed; 9pm

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm Amnesty International Edmonton • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

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

Babes In Arms • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Mount Zion Lutheran Church,

11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) • Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

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

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

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm

Sensational Ladies Night • Warp 1 Comics & Games, 9917-82 Ave • 780.433.7119 • facebook.com/sensational. ladies.night • A night dedicated to women indulging in various geekeries with other women once a month in a friendly and safe environment. Featuring a book club, board game nights, art jam and much more. No prior geekery knowledge required • 3rd Wed of every month, 6-8pm • Free Seventies Forever Music Society • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul. ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence LECTURES/Presentations Human Rights are Universal: A Musical Exploration with Michael Gfroerer • Robertson-Wesley United Church, 10209-123 St • rwuc.org/ sac.html • Every Sun, 3-5pm; Oct 18-Dec 6

Integrated Medicine Series • Roots on Whyte #305- 8135-102 St • 780.414.1466 • rootsonwhyte.ca • Presented by the Office of Global health at the U of A. Iron man athlete Colin Hackett shares his journey with cancer • Nov 19, 7pm The People's Climate March Edmonton • Alberta Legislature Building, 10800-97 Ave • michael@egs.ca • Guest speakers will share information about climate change and new technology • Nov 29, 2-3:30pm • Free

Seeing is above All • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

Women's Wellness Program Presents: Annual Prime Time for Conference "Feeding Your Soul" • Grey Nuns Community Hospital, 1100 Youville Drive West (Millwoods Area) • 780.735.9919 • deysi.campos@ covenanthealth.ca • covenanthealth.ca • Exciting topics to nourish the soul. Bring a friend, sister, coworker and enjoy a day just for women • Nov 14, 8:30am-3:30pm • $40 (registration fee and lunch)

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BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue: Retro Tuesdays with Dj Arrow Chaser; 9pm-close • Wed: DJ Griff; 9-close • Thu: Wet underwear with Shiwana Millionaire • Fri: Dance all Night with DJ Arrowchaser • Sat: Weekly events and dancing until close • Sun: Weekly Drag show with Shiwana Millionaire and guests; 12:30am EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

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

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net

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Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm-1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am SPECIAL EVENTS 7th Annual Santa's Little Helpers Christmas Shopping Extravaganza • River Cree Resort Marriott Hotel, 300 East Lapotac Blvd • kingsleyevents.com • kingsleyevents@shaw.ca • Over 140 local vendors in one place. Featurinh home decor, jewelry, bath and beauty products, baby and children's items, gourmet food, clothing, and more • Nov 15, 10am-5pm • $2 (50% of proceeds go to the Christmas Bureau)

8th Annual Festival of Trees at Festival Place • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way • festivalplace.ab.ca • View the trees, enjoy local musical entertainment and celebrate with a children's art and craft area • Nov 21 • Donations (proceeds used to continue to promote and support arts programming for children and youth in Strathcona County)

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Edmonton's Community Energy Forum • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave NW • 780.442.0259 • robyn. webb@edmonton.ca • edmonton.ca/city_ government/environmental_stewardship/ community-energy-forum.aspx • Discussing issues of energy transition, climate change and building a sustainable future • Nov 14, 8:30am-5:30pm • $20 (pre-register)

E-Ville Roller Derby Presents: Berzerkhers vs Las Pistolitas • Edmonton Sportsdome, 10104-32 Ave NW • e-villerollerderby.com • facebook.com/ EdmontonRollerDerby • Bring along a toy donation in support of 630 CHED Santas Anonymous. Miliary members and families can attend this bout free of charge • $10 (adv), $15 (door), $40 (five bout multi-pass), free (kids 10 and under)

Keeping Evenings Fun Board Game Convention • Queen Mary Park Community League, 10844-117 St NW • kefconvetion@gmail.com • kefcon.ca • All skill levels can participate. Instructors and a games library of over 200 games will be available • Nov 14-15 • $30 (Sat), $20 (Sun)

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Nerd Nite 23 • The Club at the Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • edmonton.nerdnite.com • This month's topics include: How to Dupe Friends and Manipulate People: The Fine Art of Bamboozlement, Ice-cold neutrinos and you, Heart Attacks, Chinese Hamster Ovaries, and Obduracy • Nov 26, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show) • $20 (adv), $25 (door); Kids 17 and under will not be admitted

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Santa's Parade of Lights • Downtown Edmonton, Parade begins at Jasper Ave & 99 St • edmontonsantaparade. com • Celebrate the glow of lights, the wonder of winter and the arrival of Santa Claus, outdoors at twilight. Featuring 25 festive entries • Nov 21, 4:30-6pm 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

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – Apr 19): "I demand unconditional love and complete freedom," wrote Slovenian poet Tomaž Šalamun. "That is why I am terrible." In accordance with the astrological omens, I'm offering you the chance, at least temporarily, to join Šalamun in demanding unconditional love and complete freedom. But unlike him, you must satisfy one condition: avoid being terrible.

Can you do that? I think so, although you will have to summon unprecedented amounts of emotional intelligence and collaborative ingenuity. taurus (apr 20 – may 20): You have the answers you need, but you keep sniffing around as if there were different or better answers to be had. Moreover, you've been offered blessings that could enable you to catalyze greater intimacy, but you're barely taking advantage of them—apparently because you underestimate their potency. Here's what I think: as long as you neglect the gifts you have already been granted, they won't provide you with their full value. If you give them your rapt appreciation, they will bloom. gemini (May 21 – jun 20): Edgar Rice Burroughs (1875 – 1950) tried to earn a living by selling pencil sharpeners, but couldn't make it. In frustration, he turned to writing novels. Success!

Among his many popular novels, 27 of them were about a fictional character named Tarzan. The actor who played Tarzan in the movies, based on Burroughs' books, was Johnny Weissmuller. As a child, he suffered from polio, and rebuilt his strength by becoming a swimmer. He eventually won five Olympic gold medals. Burroughs and Weissmuller are your role models in the coming weeks, Gemini. It's a favorable time for you to turn defeat into victory. cancer (jun 21 – jul 22): Artist Andy Warhol had an obsession with green underpants. In fact, that's all he ever wore beneath his clothes. It might be fun and productive for you to be inspired by his private ritual. Life is virtually conspiring to ripen your libido, stimulate your fertility and expedite your growth. So anything you do to encourage these cosmic tendencies could have an unusually dramatic impact.

Donning green undies might be a good place to start. It would send a playful message to your subconscious mind that you are ready and eager to bloom. leo (July 23 – Aug 22): In the coming weeks, take special notice of the jokes and humorous situations that prompt you to laugh the loudest. They will provide important clues about the parts of your life that need liberation.

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Any time you roar with spontaneous amusement, you will know you have touched a congested place in your psyche that is due for a cleansing. virgo (Aug 23 – sep 22): For each of the last 33 years, the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in Los Angeles has selected a "National Hero Dog." It's an award given to a canine that has shown exceptional courage in helping or rescuing people. In 2015, the group departed from tradition. Its "National Hero Dog" is a female cat named Tara. Last May, she saved a four-year-old boy by scaring off a dog that had begun to attack him. I'm guessing you will soon have an experience akin to Tara's. Maybe you'll make a gutsy move that earns you an unexpected honour. Maybe you'll carry out a dramatic act of compassion that's widely appreciated.

Or maybe you'll go outside your comfort zone to pull off a noble feat that elevates your reputation.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – Oct 22): According to cartoon character Homer Simpson, "Trying is the first step towards failure." I don't agree with that comic advice. But I do think the following variant will be applicable to you in the coming weeks: "Trying too hard is the first step toward failure." So please don't try too hard, Libra!

Over-exertion should be taboo.

Straining and struggling would not only be unnecessary, but counterproductive. If you want to accomplish anything worthwhile, make sure that your default emotion is relaxed confidence. Have faith in the momentum generated by all the previous work you have done to arrive where you are now.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – Nov 21): Elsie de Wolfe (1859 – 1950) was a pioneer in the art of interior design. She described herself as "a rebel in an ugly world." Early in her career she vowed, "I'm going to make everything around me beautiful," and she often did just that. In part through her influence, the dark, cluttered decor of the Victorian Era, with its bulky draperies and overly ornate furniture, gave way to rooms with brighter light, softer colours and more inviting textures. I'd love to see you be inspired by her mission, Scorpio. It's a good time to add extra charm, grace and comfort to your environments.

SAGITTARIUS (NOv 22 – Dec 21): At the age of 36, author Franz Kafka composed a 47-page letter to his father Herman. As he described the ways that his dad's toxic narcissism and emotional abuse had skewed his maturation process, he refrained from lashing out with histrionic anger. Instead he focused on objectively articulating the facts, recounting events from childhood and analyzing the

family dynamic. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend that you write a letter to your own father—even if it's filled with praise and gratitude instead of complaint. At this juncture in your life story, I think you especially need the insights that this exercise would generate. (PS: write the letter for your own sake, not with the hope of changing or hurting or pleasing your dad. You don't have to give it to him.) capricorn (dec 22 – jan 19): Shizo Kanakuri was one of Japan's top athletes when he went to compete in the marathon race at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Partway through the event, fatigued by sweltering heat, bad food and the long journey he'd made to get there, Kanakuri passed out.

He recovered with the help of a local farmer, but by then the contest was over. Embarrassed by his failure, he sneaked out of Sweden and returned home. Fast forward to 1966. Producers of a TV show tracked him down and invited him to resume what he'd started.

He agreed. At the age of 74, he completed the marathon, finishing with a time of 54 years, eight months. I think it's time to claim your own personal version of this opportunity, Capricorn. Wouldn't you love to resolve a process that got interrupted? aquarius (jan 20 – feb 18): In most sporting events, there's never any doubt about which competitor is winning. Each step of the way, the participants and spectators know who has more points or goals or runs. But one sport isn't like that. In a boxing match, no one is aware of the score until the contest is finished—not even the boxers themselves. I think you're in a metaphorically comparable situation. You won't find out the final tally or ultimate decision until the "game" is complete. Given this uncertainty, I suggest that you don't slack off even a little.

Keep giving your best until the very end.

PISCES (feb 19 – MAR 20): One night as you lie sleeping in your bed, you will dream of flying through the sunny summer sky.

The balmy air will be sweet to breathe. Now and then you will flap your arms like wings, but mostly you will glide effortlessly.

The feeling that flows through your body will be a blend of exhilaration and ease. Anywhere you want to go, you will maneuver skillfully to get there. After a while, you will soar to a spot high above a scene that embodies a knotty problem in your waking life. As you hover and gaze down, you will get a clear intuition about how to untie the knots.

Whether or not you remember this dream, the next day you will work some practical magic that begins to shrink or dissolve the problem. V

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Two to tango, three to ...

Learn how to avoid the common pitfalls of threesomes Threesomes. They're one of the top sexual fantasies, yet few people know how to make them happen—or if they can make them happen, how to keep them from going horribly wrong.

Sarah and Brian (last names withheld at their request) of Yay! Sex! Coaching and Education are hoping to help Edmontonians with that problem. I met up with the pair last week to find out more about their upcoming event, Smooth and Sexy Threesomes.

"Lots of people have had awkward group sex experiences," Sarah says. "And they're looking for ways to get past that."

Why are so many people intrigued by the idea of sex with more than one person? Sarah

and Brian cited a lot of the more obvious reasons, like the urge to have new and exciting sex, wanting to try having sex with someone of a different gender than you usually do, and the influence of porn; but they also noted some deeper desires. For people in long-term relationships, it can be a valuable—and hot—learning experience to watch their partner enjoying pleasure with someone else. Sarah notes that many couples find pleasuring someone else together as a team to be deeply bonding.

Threesomes can be amazing, but they often go sideways.

Brian thinks one of the main reasons for this is what he calls the "scarcity mentality." There is a common belief that finding the

right person and the right situation for a threesome is incredibly rare. This makes people feel they have to strike while the iron is hot: they might rush into sex before talking about what all parties really want and need, and covering important issues like boundaries, ground rules and safer-sex practices. Sarah notes that it's not unusual for people to be afraid that asking for what they need will ruin their chance of making a threesome happen.

"We try to be the person our partner wants us to be," Sarah says. She explains that most people are afraid to be their authentic self in their relationships and their sex lives, yet that's where the best sexual experiences usually come from.

The word threesome conjures up images of wild, spontaneous onenight stands and no-holds-barred sex. It's not hard to see where this comes from when you look at the way threesomes are portrayed in movies and porn. But Brian says group sex can be, and often is, slow sex. Many people take some time to get to know each other before any sex happens, and emotionally intimate bonds and friendships can develop.

The Smooth and Sexy Three-

somes session on December 1 will be a chance for people to explore these ideas in a low pressure, nonjudgmental atmosphere. It will combine information on the common questions and problems related to threesomes, with exercises to

help people practice important skills like verbalizing their desires, saying no without guilt and hearing no without feeling rejection. While the session will cover things like how to find participants for your threesome and how to get the sex started once you've found them, Sarah also notes that "the majority of what we end up talking about is communication and self-acceptance."

You can get more information on threesomes and this session at yaysex.ca. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995.

She is the owner of the Edmontonbased, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

Dan savage savagelove@vueweekly.com

BROADWAY, BABIES

I'm a hetero guy in need of advice.

Back in college, I met this girl. Suffice it to say she was into me but I had some shit to work through.

So we ended up being a missed connection, romantically. Despite that, we still became fast friends.

I'm less awkward now, in large part because our friendship changed my life. We each married other people, and everything worked out great.

Except I still love her. I think about her often, want to share things about my life with her, find myself wanting to rely on her when things are tough. I don't know what to do with it. On one hand, she means an awful lot to me—she is the kind of friend that comes along once in a lifetime—and I know that I mean a lot to her. So this is a relationship worth protecting, even as asymmetrical as it is. On the other hand, these feelings are starting to seem kind of pathetic. We are barely part of each other's lives anymore—do I even have a right to feel the way I do? I see three options, each of which is shit. (1) Keep my feelings to myself and endure/enjoy a painful but deeply meaningful friendship.

(2) Disappear, either abruptly or gradually, with no explanation. Or (3) damn the torpedoes and bare my soul, which might painfully explode the relationship. After years of option 1, I am strongly leaning toward option 3—just blowing shit wide open and dealing with whatever happens.

NO GOOD AT ACRONYMS

You're going to need a gay dude to act on the advice I'm about to give you—and not just any gay dude, NGAA, but the kind of gay dude who obsesses about Broadway musicals. And not just any gay dude

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who obsesses about Broadway musicals, but the kind of Broadwaymusical-obsessed gay dude who has good taste. (Look through his record collection: If Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is in there and Mame isn't, he does not have good taste.)

Okay, here's my advice: listen to the original Broadway cast recordings of Company, Follies and A Little Night Music—music and lyrics, in all three cases, by Stephen Sondheim (peace be upon him).

Yes, you can get all three recordings on iTunes, NGAA, but you need to listen to them on vinyl, and you need to discuss these shows, and three songs in particular, with someone who already knows them by heart.

Hence the need for a gay dude with good taste in Broadway musicals and an extensive collection of original Broadway cast recordings—on vinyl. As any Broadway-musical-obsessed gay man will tell you: epiphanies, insights, and breakthroughs come most reliably in moments of silence, ie, when you have to flip the record over.

Here are the songs you need to pay close attention to: "Sorry-Grateful" from Company , "The Road You Didn't Take" from Follies and "Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music . (You might be a little too fragile for "Too Many Mornings" and "Losing My Mind," both from Follies .) Listen over and over again—until you know the lyrics of all three songs by heart. Discuss

what these songs mean with your new gay friend. Then you'll know what to do.

INSECURE BOASTING

A friend of mine talks about his sex life almost constantly. Not quite like bragging, more matter-of-fact.

For instance, out of the blue he will come out with this: "I was sitting in a bar and this broad looks at me and asks if I want to fuck. She had the tightest pussy I've ever had."

It just seems like conversation for him. I'm baffled by this. What's going on with him?

NOT SO TALKY

NO LUBE? NO PROBLEM I was stroking my partner and went for the lube, when he informed me that he prefers to have his handjobs sans lube. He says that lube is messy.

For the past three years, he has raved about my handjobs and said my skills are professional level, and never once did he complain about the lube. I attempted to follow through, but all my old techniques didn't work. I asked him to show me how, what he likes, and he said just do the same as I've always done. The sliding, gliding, twisting motions that I usually use, all with a reasonable amount of squeezing, just DO NOT WORK without lube. My hand stuck to the dampish skin and would not slide. He says I am making a big deal out of nothing, but I am upset. One of the best tools in my sexual toolbox has just been rendered unusable.

I've known plenty of guys who bragged constantly about getting tons of ass, and they weren't all liars. Almost every one of them, however, was deeply insecure.

I want to say something like this: "The amount of pussy and/or cock a man is actually getting exists in inverse proportion to the amount of pussy and/or cock a man brags about getting." But it ain't necessarily so. ("It Ain't Necessarily So," Porgy and Bess , music by George Gershwin [PBUH], lyrics by Ira Gershwin [PBUH].) I've known plenty of guys who bragged constantly about getting tons of ass, and they weren't all liars. Almost every one of them, however, was deeply insecure—they bragged about the ass they were getting because they feared people saw them as guys who couldn't get ass in a donkey storm.

SINCERELY LAMENTS STRUCTED WANKING

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You need to listen to the original Broadway cast recording of Wicked, music and lyrics by Stephen Schwartz (PBUH). When Idina Menzel sings "Defying Gravity," pretend she's singing "defying aridity." Apparently that's your boyfriend's superpower, or his cock's superpower: aridity— "being without moisture, extremely dry, parched"—is no impediment to pleasure. And it's not an uncommon superpower, SLOW. Lots of guys prefer lubeless handjobs. So have your boyfriend jack himself off while you listen to Wicked, see what works for him, and then try not to make a big

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deal—try not to make any sort of deal—out of his handjob preferences going forward.

DEFENDING STATUS

I usually like your advice, Dan, but I was dismayed when both you and Peter Staley got it wrong in your response to STATUS, the woman who was preparing to divorce her HIV+ husband after the revelation of another affair. You both seemed to think she was trying to get her husband sent to prison. I think she was trying to avoid that outcome! She wants her husband to tell the truth in therapy, but she's concerned doing so will land him in prison. Here's something else you both missed: when someone tells a therapist what they have already done, the reporting requirements are far less stringent than when a patient tells what they plan on doing. If a therapist believes a patient is likely to harm themselves or others in the future, the therapist may have to act.

Patient confidentiality carries a lot of weight when it comes to past actions.

REALLY REGULAR READER

You weren't the only reader who came to STATUS's defense. It's possible Peter and I got it wrong—our familiarity with cases where vengeful exes abused reporting laws to go after HIV+ people may have coloured our response. On the off-chance I got it wrong, RRR, I'm going to need to be punished. It should be something that really hurts. Oh, I know: I'll listen to the original Broadway cast recording of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. Twice. V On the Lovecast, Salon writer Debra Soh on the tricky subject of pedophiles: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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