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Fighting hate in all communities

Islamophobia is no more excusable than homophobia: all lives matter equally I was planning to write something completely different today, but sometimes life has a way of interrupting your intentions—like when you are out shopping (at the last minute, naturally) for a gift for your mother. It is her birthday and you are on your way to have dinner with your family. She will have spent all day cooking and will probably make your favourite dish. She knows how much you love it and she thinks you don't eat enough, anyway. A necklace catches your eye: it is blue, gold and black and reminds you a bit of your mother's eyes. You bend down to take a closer look. Except somehow you are on the ground and all you can hear is a high-pitched whine. A man is screaming; at least you think he is screaming because his mouth is open, but you can't hear anything and his chest is covered in blood and there is smoke everywhere and

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oh, god, you can't feel your legs.

On November 12, three suicide bombers walked down a busy shopping street in a quiet suburb in Beirut named Burj al-Barajneh.

Two of them blew themselves up, taking 43 people with them and injuring more than 200 more.

Did you think I was talking about Paris? I very well could have been, but so much ink has already been spilled on that. (Doubtless by the time you read this, even more will have been spilled; perhaps it will be equal in volume to the blood spilled that November evening, or at least equal to the

blood donated by countless people waiting hours in line at the blood bank—but these sorts of metaphors are not supposed to be in columns like these, so let's move on.) I don't want to talk about Par-

ing in Beirut because I don't know about them. The national media doesn't really report on them, so unless I actively seek them out, they pass me by. There is an insidiousness here that is far too common: I excuse my ignorance because no one told me about it, because there was no Facebook "safety check" option, because no white people died.

I can't help but feel that some lives are valued more than others: we just accept this kind of violence naturally happens "over there" and not here— despite the fact that our bombs are falling from their sky.

Some lives are valued more than others: we just accept this kind of violence naturally happens "over there" and not here— despite the fact that our bombs are falling from their sky. is—not because it isn't worth discussing, but because I have nothing left to say. I have no words.

Which is my point: I often have no words for acts like the bomb-

It bears repeating: some lives are worth more than others. Untold numbers of refugees are pouring out of Syria and no one gave a damn until a dead child washed up on a beach. This, my friends, is an arithmetic the LGBTQ community knows too well. How many gay men died of AIDS before someone paid attention? How many trans* people murdered? For a very long time our lives were not valued, and many of our lives still aren't.

So in the coming days and weeks, I think it behooves our community to find the words to resist the coming hate. Muslims did not cause these attacks. Refugees did not cause these attacks. The more we let Islamophobia and xenophobia leach its subtle poison into us, the easier it is for ISIL to say, "Look.

See how they hate you. Your life is worth less to them but not to us.

Join us." V

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Paris attacks

Evaluating the history and strategic aims behind current jihadi groups As always after a major terrorist attack on the West, the right question to ask after the slaughter in Paris is: what were the strategic aims behind the attack? This requires getting your head around the concept that terrorists have rational strategies, but once you have done that, the motives behind the attacks are easy to figure out.

It also becomes clear that the motives have changed.

The 9/11 attacks on the United States in 2001 followed the classical terrorist strategy of trying to trick the target government into over-reacting in ways that ultimately serve the terrorists' interests. Al-Qaeda's goal was to sucker the United States into invading Muslim countries.

Al-Qaeda was a revolutionary organization whose purpose was to overthrow existing Arab governments and take power in the Arab countries, which it would then reshape in accord with its extreme Islamist ideology. The trouble was that Islamist movements were not doing very well in building mass support in the Arab world, and you need mass support if you want to make a revolution.

Osama bin Laden's innovation was to switch the terrorist attacks from Arab governments to Western ones, in the hope of luring them

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into invasions that would radicalize large number of Arabs and drive them into the arms of the Islamists.

His hopes were fulfilled by the US invasion of Iraq in 2003.

Once the Western troops went in, there was a steep decline in terrorist attacks on Western countries.

Al-Qaeda wanted Western troops to stay in the Middle East and radicalize the local populations, so it made no sense to wage a terrorist campaign that might make Western countries pull their troops out again.

The resistance in Iraq grew quickly and attracted Islamist fighters from many other Arab countries. The organization originally known as "al-Qaeda in Iraq" underwent several name changes, to "Islamic State in Iraq" in 2006; then to "Islamic State in Iraq and Syria"—ISIS for short—in 2013; and finally to simply "Islamic State" in 2014. But the key personnel and the long-term goals remained the same throughout.

The man who now calls himself the "Caliph" of Islamic State, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, first joined "al-

Qaeda in Iraq" and started fighting the US occupation forces in Iraq in 2004. But along the way the strategy changed, for ISIS eventually grew so strong that it conquered the extensive territories in Syria and Iraq that now make up Islamic State. Popular revolutions were no longer needed. The core strategy now is simply conquest.

In that case, why are Islamic State and al-Qaeda still attacking West-

Al-Qaeda backed the Syrians, whereupon ISIS broke its links with al-Qaeda and set up as a direct competitor.

ISIS and the Nusra Front then fought a three-month war in early 2014 that killed several thousand militants and left the former in control of most of eastern Syria.

Soon afterwards, ISIS overran most of western Iraq and renamed itself Islamic State.

Islamic State and al-Qaeda's local franchise, the Nusra Front, are currently observing a ceasefire in Syria, but the two brands are still in a bitter struggle for the loyalty of jihadi groups elsewhere in the Muslim world.

Spectacular terrorist operations against Western targets appeal to both franchises because they are a powerful recruiting tool in jihadi circles. But Islamic State has a further motive: it actually wants Western attacks on it to cease.

It's a real state now, with borders and an army and a more or less functional economy. It doesn't want Western forces interfering with its efforts to consolidate and

Western countries with smaller and better integrated Muslim communities are less vulnerable than France, but they are targets too. ern targets? One reason is because the jihadi world is now split between two rival jihadi franchises that are competing for supporters.

The split happened in 2013, when ISIS, having launched a very successful branch operation in Syria known as the Nusra Front, tried to bring it back under the control of the parent organization.

The Syrian branch resisted, and appealed to al-Qaeda, the franchise manager of both jihadi groups, for support.

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expand that state, and it hopes that terrorist attacks on the West may force them to pull out.

France is a prime target because French aircraft are part of the Western-led coalition bombing Islamic State, and because it's relatively easy to recruit terrorists from France's large, impoverished and alienated Muslim minority. Russia has also become a priority target since its aircraft started bombing jihadi troops in Syria, and the recent crash of a Russian airliner in Sinai may be due to a bomb planted by Islamic State.

So the outlook is for more terrorist attacks wherever Islamic State (and, to a lesser extent, al-Qaeda) can find willing volunteers. Western countries with smaller and better integrated Muslim communities are less vulnerable than France, but they are targets too.

Putting foreign ground troops into Syria would only make matters worse, so the least bad option for all the countries concerned is to ride the terrorist campaign out. Horrendous though the attacks are, they pose a very small risk to the average citizen of these countries. Statistically speaking, it's still more dangerous to cross the street, let alone climb a ladder. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Shifting the economy

New political directions and reducing oil dependency are this year's keynote topics at Parkland Conference

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fter taking a long, hard look at themselves in the mirror, Albertan voters decided to oust Jim Prentice and the Progressive Conservatives back in May, bringing a crushing end to a four-decade political dynasty. Perhaps even more unthinkable, the NDP was given an astounding majority and mandate to lead Alberta. The Liberal Party and its equally staggering federal election win less than a month ago brought an end to nearly a decade of Conservative Party rule at the national level.

The question, for both the Alberta NDPs and Trudeau's Liberals, is what do the parties do now?

What does a province do after 40 years of neoliberal policy—and can Alberta lead the country in implementing progressive policies?

These topics will be tackled at the 19th-annual Parkland Institute Fall Conference.

Closing keynote speaker Kathleen Monk—Canadian political media commentator and the former strategic communications director for Jack Layton—will be speaking on the subject.

"I think a social democratic party can not only survive, but thrive in Alberta," Monk says. "I'd argue that there was nervousness about having all the province's eggs in the commodity economy basket, and voters wanted a non-traditional answer. Premier Notley struck a chord during the campaign with the royalty review and diversification of the economy. Balancing the budget is a clearly lesser priority for them, as it was for Canadians in the recent federal election."

While saying there is still much work left to be done, Monk is equally as optimistic about progressive policy at the federal level with Justin Trudeau's new Liberal government. She specifically identifies the failure of Stephen Harper's Conservative government to act on important issues like climate change—which Trudeau aggressively confronted at the recent Paris talks—and their controversial policies on income splitting and increasing the TFSA contribution limit, both of which the Liberals have vowed to reverse.

Although the federal Liberal

government has made some new fronts on issues important to progressive voters, the dismal showing of the federal NDP may be cause for worry among some social democrats. Monk explains that one of the reasons behind that party's defeat was losing the "air war."

"New Democrats need to take a serious and long look at what happened during this last campaign," Monk explains. "They had no message, or more specifically the message they presented didn't deliver voters to their party. This is really where the campaign fell apart."

Here in Alberta, the oilsands dominate much of the focus in both provincial and federal politics. The price of oil has dropped considerably and is constantly fluctuating, there have been massive layoffs in the oil-and-gas sector, and some experts say another major recession is looming. The future of Canada's once-powerful economic engine seems in doubt as more people are seeing the need to move away from an oil-based economy.

Gordon Laxer, founding director of the Parkland Institute and professor emeritus at the University of Alberta, tackles this contentious topic in his new book After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians. Laxer will be holding a reception to celebrate the launch of his book as one of the events during the Parkland conference.

"I was interested in why Americans frame their energy issues in security terms and Canadians never do," Laxer says of the idea behind After the Sands. "Canadians are energy and ecologically insecure."

Laxer explains that out of the 28 countries involved in the International Energy Agency (IEA), Canada is only one of two countries (Norway is the other) that does not have its own strategic petroleum reserves—a major problem if there's ever a global oil shortage.

The problem, Laxer says, is that Ottawa was never concerned with ensuring the economic security of Canadians when it comes to oil production and reserves. The top priority for Ottawa has always been importing oil to the US and ensuring American economic security at

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Parkland Fall Conference 2015 Fri, Nov 20 – Sun, Nov 22 $95 – $175 ($15 – $20 keynote only; $10 – $15 single session) the expense of Canada's. "[Québécois] rely on about 90 percent of imported oil and in Atlantic Canada it's about 80 percent," Laxer says. "The insane thing is that Newfoundland has enough conventional, non-fracked oil to supply all of Canada, but it doesn't—it exports most of it. Newfoundland gets almost none of its own oil."

In comparison, the Chinese government is buying around 700 000 barrels of oil per day for its strategic reserves, which Laxer identifies as a possible prediction of a looming global oil shortage—something for which Canada is certainly not prepared. Although some may see the construction of the Keystone XL and other proposed pipelines as in Alberta and Canada's best economic interest, Laxer warns that this is not the solution policymakers should be aiming for.

"We don't need a pipeline to New Brunswick: all we have to do is get off this carbon energy exporting kick," Laxer says. "You put a pipeline in place and you're going to have to put oil into it for the next 30 or 40 years to pay for the pipeline."

If Alberta and Canada are to move away from oil, one of the major questions to be answered is what will happen to the myriad oil-andgas sector workers here in Alberta.

As it turns out, moving away from oil will not be as detrimental to the provincial economy as some think.

"In terms of jobs, a unit of carbon energy saved produces more jobs than a unit of carbon energy dug up, burned and emitted," Laxer explains. "Most of the workers in the oil and energy industry are construction workers. Fort McMurray is a huge construction project which has obviously slowed down considerably. When a project is being built you might have 4000 workers, but when that project is completed and operating the number of workers goes down to about 10 percent of that."

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Celebrating Sohi Former city councillor Amarjeet Sohi's federal election win in Edmonton-Mill Woods, followed shortly by his appointment to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet, is an Edmonton story to be proud of. His new role as Minister of Infrastructure & Communities is the perfect fit, as Sohi's work on city council was all about promoting welcoming and inclusive communities.

Critics may argue that Sohi should not have kept his seat on city council while campaigning, because of the costs of a byelection should he win—but what Sohi did was legal, and given the gigantic amount of time and effort it takes to run an

effective campaign, the last thing any candidate should worry about is putting food on the table. Even the most qualified individuals would probably be unlikely to run for political office if it meant having to sacrifice personal time and a secure job.

Detractors may also say that Tim Uppal would have been the better choice, given that he was already an experienced MP and Minister of State (Multiculturalism)—except Uppal didn't seem to understand the unique barriers that newcomers to Canada, who make up a large portion of his riding of EdmontonMill Woods, face in terms of accessing government and commu-

nity resources. In an interview for a recent story in Vue ("Challenging Canadian citizenship"—September 17, 2015), he practically dismissed the role of settlement agencies in assisting new immigrants.

Based on his personal experiences as a political prisoner, immigrant, bus driver and politician, Sohi understands how community supports and available infrastructure can foster social mobility, and he demonstrated this through his political work advocating for the southeast LRT line and communitybased crime prevention. We are lucky to have someone like him represent Edmonton at the national level.V

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The key to keeping workers employed is investing in infrastructure projects—something both the Notley and Trudeau governments have pledged to do. Laxer says those construction workers would no doubt be happier working close to their homes instead of flying in and out of Fort McMurray, working on more sustainable projects like retrofitting buildings, adding on to Edmonton's LRT and building other projects like a proposed highspeed rail between Edmonton and Calgary—the latter being a project that would take more vehicles off the road, thus relieving some of the dependency on oil and gas.

In After the Sands, Laxer lays out what he thinks is the best plan for Canada's oil-and-gas sector over the next few decades.

"Canada should live off its conven-

tional, non-fracked oil because we produce as much of that as Canadians consume in oil," he says. "We should phase out the sands over the next 15 years, and we should phase out carbon energy exports.

We should be moving to higher-level economy—Canadians are very educated people."

By ending the province's and the country's dependency on oil, Canada begins to secure both its economic an ecological future. But it's crucial to act now, Laxer notes.

"Albertans may want go into another a boom—'Lord, give me another boom and I promise not to piss it away' kind of thing, but 35 000 or more people have been laid off around the energy industry and they don't go back into the boom," he says. "This is the point [at] which we should start seriously getting off the oil economy."

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your fund your future

The Legislative Assembly of Alberta’s Standing Committee on the Alberta Heritage Savings Trust Fund will meet with Albertans to discuss the status of the Fund.

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Taste -testing Soylent

It can keep you alive indefinitely, but what does it actually taste like?

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t feels necessary to start out with some sort of qualifier, so: I love solid food. I have no known allergies around which I'm struggling to properly nourish myself and I'm not vegetarian, vegan or gluten intolerant. I'll take all the fixins, please and thank you kindly.

Trying Solyent, a "staple meal" in a glass that's legally a food product— though graded above "supplement" by the FDA, for what that's worth— had nothing to do with cutting physical meals out of my diet, nor any type of "diet" altogether. Created by Robert Rhinehart in 2013—an engineer who developed it in response to having no time to make nutritionally balanced meals for himself—it says it offers a complete meal in a glass, the body-right mix of carbohydrates, fats and proteins. In its current form (available for order or subscription on soylent.com), Soylent is vegan, lactose- and nut-free, comprised of rice protein (not people, despite the name's implications), and comes in either pre-mixed bottles or a powder for the DIY-inclined.

Why should you forsake a day's square meal for what looks like bland eggnog? Curiosity's likely a big factor—it was for me, after a few friends attested to its merits—but also, the promise of a guilt-free convenience meal: having a quick-to-make, complete meal on-hand circumvents the need for other quick snacks, the majority of which veer toward unhealthiness and general unfulfillment. Plus, some days you just don't have the time to make something better.

Having spent the better part of a month swapping out a meal per day (give or take) for Soylent's powdered, nutritionally balanced liquid, I'm ... into it? I tried the powder version: you mix a scoop of the stuff with water and ice and shake it like a James Bond martini (but with vitamins and minerals instead of gin and vermouth), then you're off to the nonfood races. (Alternatively, you can make it in a blender for more of an Orange Julius vibe). The taste is neutral: slightly on the pasty side, which some people might immediately write off as gross—a roommate declared, "It tastes like pancake batter!" upon her first sip. You don't have to drink it straight, however: its neutral basetaste is ripe for flavouring agents of your choosing: a dollop of honey or any sort of spice makes it a sweeter, more flavourful endeavour.

it enough, well, all that undissolved detritus is on you. It's cheap, but you have to order in bulk: 12 bottles for $29 USD, or 28 meals' worth of powder for $54 USD (just under $2 USD per meal).

I'd never want to replace meals outright—that's a little too close to the pill-food future of The Jetsons, especially when food is just so good—but Soylent is a healthy, if oddball, take on the to-go meal.

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A full serving (about 500 kcal worth) fuels you as well as any proper meal would, and for just as long. Granted, it physically feels different to load up on liquid than solids: lighter, in its way, which offers a psychological hurdle—shouldn't I be hungry?—and maybe a bit of insight into how compulsive snacking can be.

But, divorced from any actual nutritional deficit, the body just sort of does its thing.

Preparing Soylent with ice and maintaining an ice-cold temperature is vital—I regret the one time I had it warm—but you could say the same thing about eggnog and many beers.

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New flavours, old recipes

Edmonton's cocktail bars are experimenting with new forms of classic drinks

Woodwork's Cosmopolitan 1.75 oz Ketel One Vodka 0.25 oz dry Curaçao 0.5 oz pomegranate grenadine pinch of powdered citric acid orange twist

Mix the vodka, curaçao and grenadine in a mixing glass with ice. Stir with a bar spoon and then strain into a martini glass. Sprinkle the citric acid on top and garnish with an orange twist.

Cocktail variations are nothing new: even tried-and-true favourites such as Manhattans, Old Fashioneds and Cosmopolitans have their variants. Replace a Manhattan's whisky with Scotch and you have a Rob Roy. In Wisconsin, brandy is the preferred liquor for an Old Fashioned.

Reno bartender Trevor Perry added a new flair to the Cosmopolitan when he used grapefruit-infused vodka, scratch raspberry syrup and Carpano Bianco, ultimately making the Sarah Jessica Parker. (An apt name, since Carrie Bradshaw's favourite drink was a Cosmopolitan).

The trend in re-examining traditional cocktails has been picking up momentum recently, with local watering holes such as North 53, El Cortez and Mercer Tavern all including new twists on old favourites.

"We are trying to add to the culture of drinking with discretion, with enjoyment, with creativity, innovation and curiosity," writes Shaun Hicks, bar manager at Woodwork, in an email. "We are attempting to throw our two cents into the dining experience of Edmonton and hopefully create a better scene for [people to] inhabit and travel here."

Hicks points to new distilling technologies and a better understanding of drink physics as to why there's been a spike in the trend of reimagining classic cocktails.

"With the developments in the technolo-

gies and sciences of distilling, it is possible now to make great volumes of great products all over the world and our disposable incomes and thirsty inhabitants create these demands," he writes.

These new innovations in drink science have created a better variety of quality options to use as ingredients, as well as a demand in the cocktail culture to see these new technologies better utilized in what's being served.

"There is no sanctity in experimenting.

It's a lawless land if the result[s] speak for themselves," Hicks notes. "First though, you really should understand the components of drinks in general before you experiment—unless you don't mind drinking bad drinks or pouring them down the sink."

When it comes to finding a new take on an old favourite, Hicks says that knowing the drink's flavour characteristics helps to dissect it and figure out where new variations can be added. He provides Woodwork's Cosmopolitan as an example, explaining how the typical composition of Triple Sec and cranberry juice is replaced by grenadine and citric acid. The substitution creates that balanced sweet-and-sour taste indicative of a Cosmopolitan, while still making for a new experience.

"We really take an esoteric look at the drinks," Hicks says over the phone, a few days after his email. "We look at the drink's

character and from there we can recreate the drink's architecture and ratio, mixing the same balance in the drink while still creating something new."

One of Woodwork's most popular drinks is the Old World Fashioned, which uses cognac and Amaro (a bitter Italian herbal liqueur) in place of the drink's typical bourbon and bitters. Similarly, Woodwork's Manhattan is typically served with the traditional rye, but its version also plays on other variants including the Emerald, which uses Irish whisky, and the Perfect Manhattan, which splits the vermouth component into half sweet and half dry.

As much as Hicks and the rest of the Woodwork staff love to create new drinks, they recognize that the original recipes for classic cocktails do have their place as well. And they're always willing to accommodate whatever you're feeling, be it something familiar or something completely new.

"We love the classics and if someone orders them here, we try to recreate them exactly the same each time: totally delicious and predictable and showcased as perfect as we can," he writes. "If the customers want something beyond the ordinary, we are happy to venture out there with them and find out what it is they like in a drink and enhance their experience." V

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UNEASY FEELINGS

Living Building Thinking a curious, heavy experience of Expressionism

Until Mon, Feb 15 Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism Art Gallery of Alberta

Selbstbildnis / Self-Portrait, 1924, Collection of McMaster Museum of Art // Käthe Kollwitz

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hen you walk into the AGA's exhibition Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism, you are greeted by lines of text that cover the wall from floor to ceiling. It explains that Expressionism is a movement conveying "the human condition through art." The text educates the viewer on the historical context, but it is also a warning: the human condition can be unpredictable, violent, full of agony and despair.

These conditions are hung, one by one, on the gallery walls. They seem to interact with the gallery space, telling the lighting to cast a kaleidoscope of shadows as you walk, giving you the sensation that something is hovering over your body. The noise of other gallery visitors is filtered through the space, sounding like you're submerged in a pool of water while people talk above the surface.

All the works exhibited in this show

have one trait in common: they plunge the viewer into uneasy feelings. Not all of the works chosen for the show are part of Expressionism, which began in the early 20th century and ended around the Second World War. Some of the pieces in the show, such as Richard Hamilton's "Kent State" (1970), were created well past the end of Expressionism.

This can be confusing, as you wonder why all the works were organized to-

gether. Is the curator trying to show elements of Expressionism in dissimilar styles of art?

One way the works are united is through their disconnection with the viewer. You feel separated from what you're seeing, as if there is a barrier between you and the artwork. Something is off; you look deep into the images, but they cannot be understood.

This is because you are looking at feel-

ings, ephemeral things that come to you as quickly as they pass. Although we relate to each other through feelings, we cannot understand a situation and its grasp on a person unless we personally feel it. What we see on the gallery walls are echoes of situations and feelings past, the lingering aftermath of personal dystopias.

László Moholy-Nagy's "Untitled" (1926) emphasizes this disconnection.

In the black-and-white print, a man is turned to his right and is fiercely concentrating on a woman seated next to him. His gaze is intent yet looks directly past the woman, as if she isn't really there. The woman looks out at the viewer with dull and lifeless eyes.

Like the man, we seem to be looking at the shell of what was once human flesh with a beating heart. The woman in the image is visible yet intangible, like the feelings and concepts evoked in all of the images in the exhibition.

Moholy-Nagy's work, and each of the images in the exhibition, surround you with a sense of death. But in some bizarre way, they leave you breathing, drinking in their forms like toxic nightmares. Once you circulate through all the works in the gallery, you leave much heavier than when you came in.

JULIE-ANN MERCER

JULIEANN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

The Fine Art of Schmoozy I

f you're not an expert at schmoozing, Karen Gill, Latitude 53's development coordinator, has some tips for you.

"Don't be afraid to talk to someone new," Gill suggests. "Maybe some goals would be to try to talk to two new people that night?

Make sure to have a cold cocktail in your hand and have fun! Just be fearless."

"Fearless" should definitely be your watchword at The Fine Art of Schmoozy—a sleek James Bondthemed fundraiser to fuel Latitude

53's artistic programming. Inspired by "The glamourous world of international super spies," this is one charitable event where you can turn up the suave and leave your fun-run gear at home.

At Schmoozy you'll find cool 007-style martinis at the bar, Edmonton's funky cover band the Fitz jamming on signature Bond songs and Motown tunes, and Latitude 53's gallery spaces filled with auction items from some of Edmonton's finest visual artists, including Dana Holst, Richard Boulet and

Sean Caulfield.

"This is the 19th year," Gill says.

"Originally, Schmoozy was an event specifically to raise funds to cover our rent in the Great West Saddlery Building, when we were located in there. It's just a really beloved community event. All the artists come together. It's almost like a little mini-reunion."

These days, the proceeds from the event go directly towards presenting the best in contemporary art from Alberta and beyond. A safe

space to showcase experimental work, Latitude 53 fosters risk-taking and collaboration.

"It creates opportunities for new and emerging people, who are pushing boundaries in contemporary art," Gill explains.

If you are looking to out-class the classy, there's also a VIP ticket, which gives you access to a VIP reception, drink tickets, one entry to win a chef's table dinner for six at the Renaissance Edmonton Airport Hotel, and a charitable receipt for $75. And let's face it, VIP is just

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Sat, Nov 21 (8 pm) Latitude 53, $50 (regular) – $120 (VIP) latitude53.org/schmoozy how Bond himself would roll.

Schmoozing might not come naturally to us all, but with lots of local artists to chat with and after a few shaken (obviously, not stirred) martinis, Latitude 53's fundraiser is the perfect place to practice.

KATHLEEN BELL

KATHLEEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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ARTS PREVUE // RECONCILIATION

#ReconcilingYEG Wed, Nov 25 (6 pm) Edmonton City Hall, Free

One of Artist in Residence Jennie Vegt's paintings // Jennie Vegt

L

ast year, at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission's Alberta National Event, Mayor Don Iveson declared March 2014 – March 2015 a Year of Reconciliation in Edmonton.

Although this officially mandated period has reached its end, the process of reconciliation has only just begun.

A group of citizens created RISE (Reconciliation in Solidarity Edmonton) to organize community events which carry on the conversation that the TRC started.

Next Wednesday, RISE's #ReconcilingYEG event will fill City Hall with art, poetry and dance. According to former Edmonton Poet Laureate Anna Marie Sewell, #ReconcilingYEG will shine a light on the positive relationships which have been overshadowed by the dark truths of our shared history.

"We wouldn't have a city if we didn't have a history of cooperation," Sewell says. "What's the point of looking at our history together if, from the outside, you think: 'Well, it's

always been bad.'"

Just as we are beginning to disrupt our whitewashed Canadian settler mythos, we have to be wary of writing the revisionist history in the other direction—saying that everything was horrible and settlers and aboriginal people never lived together with mutual respect, she notes.

"You look at it from this distance, in the light of the TRC, in the light of people going: 'Gosh, I've been hearing about all these broken treaties and terrible things that happened. It's got to be that it was always terrible.'

It wasn't always terrible. People are people. There are always some people getting along—or there wouldn't be Métis people," smiles the Mi'gmaq/ Anishnabe/Polish-Canadian Sewell. #ReconcilingYEG will include poetry readings by Sewell and Historian Laureate Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, as well as paintings by Edmonton Artist in Residence Jennie Vegt. As inspiration for the paintings, RISE selected

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seven photographs from the municipal and provincial archives, showing aboriginal and settler interactions over 138 years.

"For me it was really important not to overly interpret the paintings," Vegt says. "My angle was more like by spending some time, putting the hours into reproducing them, and maybe a touch of more vibrancy here and there, it would cause people to linger longer on the image instead of passing over it."

The event will also include an interactive element that all members of the community are invited to join: a round dance.

"The first-ever round dance in City Hall," Sewell says. "It's one of the oldest dances of this land. ... It's truly a lot of fun and we're going to make that fit in to the strange shapes of the City Room, so that'll be a challenge."

Ultimately, #ReconcilingYEG is an opportunity for Edmontonians to learn about and to celebrate our history of living in Amiskwacîwâskahikan together.

"This is a way of keeping faith with the best of what the TRC is," Sewell says. "[Which] is to say: look at the truth. Learn the truth. Face the truth.

And then we reconcile ourselves to what that truth is. And so we're trying to bring some of the lighter side of the truth. Which you have to do."

"It's time," she adds, a little later on. "Time to say some of the positive things, and celebrate some of the people who've been doing stuff all along."

BRUCE CINNAMON

BRUCE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

JASMINE SALAZAR

// JASMINE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

HEY LADIES! HOLIDAY SPECIAL / FRI, NOV 20 (8 PM)

Hey Ladies!—Leona Brausen, Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert and Noel Taylor—is throwing its infotainment/musical/game show/talk show just in time for the holidays.

Expect to laugh a lot. (The Roxy on Gateway, $26) DON(N)E WITH CANCER / SAT, NOV 21 (7 PM)

PRAIRIE BOWL THEATRESPORTS TOURNAMENT / THU, NOV 19 – SAT, NOV 21

It's a Battle of the Breadbasket as teams from Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba battle it out in a fierce rivalry of improv. If you wear your favourite sports jersey to the tournament, you'll receive $5 off your admission. (Citadel Theatre, $15)

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In advance of Walterdale Theatre’s W;t, which opens Dec 2, the theatre company will be hosting a special event that intersects local poetry with theatre. For one night only, 11 local poets will read the works of (or original works inspired by) English poet John Donne to raise money for the Alberta Cancer Society. There will also be a preview of W;t. Poets include Charlotte Cranston (current Youth Poet Laureate), Ben Freeland, Nasra Adem, Liam Coady and more. (Walterdale Theatre, $25)

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Dance Appalachian Jam and Dance Party • Fiddler’s Roost, 7308 76-Ave • bziff@ualberta.ca • A workshop on Appalachian dance styles, followed by a square dance and an old-time Appalachian jam session • Nov 27, 7pm • $5, free for students

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

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: Citizenfour (Nov 25)

Earth's General Store - Downtown • 10150-104 St • michael@egs.ca • 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: American Sniper (Nov 20), A Farewell to Arms (Nov 27)

Metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • Reel Family Cinema: Shaun the Sheep Movie (Nov 21, 23), The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Nov 28, 30) • Marilyn - A tribute to Marilyn Monroe: The Misfits (Dec 5-7); Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Dec 12-14); Some Like It Hot (Dec 19-21) • They Came from Projector X: This Island Earth (Nov 28, 29, Dec 2); The War of the Worlds (Dec 26, 27, 30) • Gateway to Cinema: Space Jam (Nov 25) • Music Docs: Mavis! (Dec 1, 4, 6) • Spotlight: Aardman Animations: Shaun the Sheep Movie (Nov 21, 23), The Pirates! Band of Misfits (Nov 28, 30), The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit (Dec 5, 7) • Turkey Shoot: Entourage (Nov 19), Fantastic Four (Dec 17)

galLeries + Museums 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 • 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)

Bear Claw Gallery • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • info@bearclawgallery.com • bearclawgallery.com • Who Is Boo? 3: A Book launch and exhibition of new works by Jason Carter; Nov 28-Dec 3

portraits of animals metaphorically explore various complexities of the soul and human experience • Oct 24-Dec 6

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • 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 • Take Your Best Shot: Youth Photo Contest; Nov 20-Jan 24

Bleeding Heart Art Space • 9132-118 Ave • dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Waiting Room: A multimedia installation by Alysha Chreighton; Nov 21-Jan 16; Opening reception with artist talk: Nov 21, 4:30pm

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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

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

DAffoDil GAllery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Elemental Sky: Artwork by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky; Nov 18-Dec 12

dc3 Art Projects • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Exhibiting Sound; Oct 14-Nov 14 • Téte Jaune; Nov 18-Dec 19 Douglas Udell Gallery (DUG) • 10332124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Alone Together: artwork by Andrew Valko; Nov 21-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 28-Mar 5 • Great Things: A Celebration of Alumni Art & Innovation; Dec 5, 6:30-9:30pm front gallery • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Kari Duke & Tom Gale; Nov 12-Dec 3 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

• paintspot.ca • Artisan nook: Bishoujo Gallery: artwork by Chris Jugo’s exhibition of ‘the pretty gals of anime and manga; Nov 19-Jan4; Opening reception: Nov 19, 7-9pm • Naess Gallery: Mighty Chroma!: artwork by Patricia Coulter, Meghan MacMillan, Michael Conforti; Nov 19-Jan 4; Opening reception: Nov 19, 7-9pm

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • Ever Widening Rings: artwork by Peter von Tiesenhausen; Nov 12-Dec 1 • Hold My Beer and Watch This...: Artwork by Scott Cumberland; Dec 5-Dec 22 Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 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

112 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

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

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

Latitude 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • The Fine Art of Schmoozy; Latitude 53's premiere gala fundraiser returns; Nov 21, 8 pm • Main Space: Clean, Fit, and Decease Free: artwork by Shan Kelley; Dec 4-Jan 16; Opening reception: Dec 4, 7pm • ProjEx Room: Win, Place, and Show: artwork by Lisa Turner; Dec 4-Jan 16

Loft Gallery • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Sherwood Park Quilters; Nov 28-29 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

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, 1022597 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

Story Slam • The Club at the Citadel, 9828-101A Ave • The theme of this story slam is 'perspectives' • Nov 24, 6:30-8:30pm • Free (tickets available at Eventbrite)

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

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

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)

sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta

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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)

11 O'Clock Number • The Backstage

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.

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 • The Science Garage: new gallery opening in Dec • The International Exhibition Of Sherlock Holmes; Mar 25, 2016-Sep 5, 2016

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: 12-4pm • 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 •

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215-

7:30-9pm

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

West End Gallery • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • 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 Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • audreys.ca • Jane Harris "Finding Home in the Promised Land" Book Launch; Nov 20, 7pm • Elaine Gugin Maddex "More than a Wise Women" Reading and Signing; Nov 29, 2pm

Author Talk with Phil Jamison - Hoedowns, Reels, and Frolics: Roots and Branches of Southern Appalachian Dance • folkwaysAlive! 3-47 Old Arts Building, U of A North Campus • bziff@ ualberta.ca • The author speaks on this extensive work, 14 years in the making, on the history of square dancing and other dance forms from early to present day • Nov 25, 12pm • Free

The Carrot’s Poetry Night • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave NW • A poetry open mic.

A wonderful time to share your work and enjoy a night out with an encouraging crowd • Nov 26,

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-Jun 25, 11pm (No performances on Dec 25 and Jan 1, 8 & 15) • $15 (online, at the door) • grindstonetheatre.ca

The 11 O'Clock Number!: The Early Show • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • grindstonetheatreyeg@gmail.com • grindstonetheatre.ca • Presents 90 minutes of improvised musical comedy that unveils scenes, songs, and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Nov 27, Dec 11, 8-10pm • $15 (door, online at Tix on the Square)

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

Big, The Musical • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • Containing all the classic moments from the movie and adding a heartfelt score and energetic dance numbers that make the movie such a hit • Nov 26-28, Dec 2-5, 7:30pm (2pm matinees on Nov 28, Nov 29, Dec 6) • $27 (adult), $21 (children/senior); to purchase call 780.459.1542 or online at Ticketmaster

cafe daughter • Backstage Theatre, ATB Financial Art Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.477.5955 • workshopwest.org • Presented by Workshop West • Ten-year-old Yvette Wong helps out in her parents' café. She's incredibly smart but is put in the slow-learners' class because of her skin colour. Her mother has charged her with a secret: to never tell anyone she's part Cree. Based on the true story of Senator Lillian Eva Quan Dyck, Café Daughter is the powerful, funny and touching tale of one woman's journey to reclaim her heritage • Nov 25-Dec 6

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, 7:30-9:30pm • 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.

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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 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, cocreator 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 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!: Holiday Special • The Roxy on Gateway (formerly C103), 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • It's that time of year again: come and celebrate, the bad, the humorous, the ridiculous and the hysterical…facets of the holiday season • Nov 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 Tue every month until Jun 28, 7-9:30pm • Free

Iphigenia at aulis • Timms Centre for the Arts, 87 Ave & 112 St • uab.ca/shows • When the logic of war takes over, how easily do we sacrifice all we hold dear? • Nov 26-Dec 5, 7:30 pm • $25 (adult), $22 (seniors); $12 (students) 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) The Prairie Bowl Theatresports Tournament Featuring Rapid Fire Theatre • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com/festival/ prairie-bowl • A showdown of improv teams from all across the Canadian Prairies to determine who is the best in the west • Nov 19-21 • $15 ($5 off if you wear your favourite city’s sports jersey)

She Loves Me • Campus Saint Jean Auditorium, 8406-91 St • Budapest shop employees Amalia Balash and Georg Nowack work together at modest Hungarian parfumerie.

Despite being consistently at odds with each other at work, they are unaware that each is the others secret pen pal met through lonely-hearts ads • Nov 20-22, Nov 25-28 • $29.50 (adult), $24 (senior/ student)

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The fable-like Coming Home an intriguingly peculiar film

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ased on Yan Geling's novel The Criminal Lu Yanshi, Zhang Yimou's Coming Home looks back to life in provincial China during the Cultural Revolution and its aftermath, using a metaphor-laden, almost fablelike story about the vagaries of memory as a way of addressing the personal and political simultaneously. It's an intriguingly peculiar enough story to warrant as few spoilers as possible, but it's also tough to discuss the film without explaining at least some of what happens.

Years after being sent to a labour camp during the government's purge of so-called rightists, Professor Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming) escapes. He arranges a secret rendezvous with his wife Feng Wanyu (Gong Li), but their reunion is foiled by their teen-

age daughter, Dan Dan (Zhang Huiwen), who grew up never knowing her father. Partly out of blind political obedience, but more out of normal adolescent selfishness—she's an aspiring ballerina who dreams of playing the lead in The Red Detachment of Women, but knows she won't get it without a display of loyalty to the party—Dan Dan informs the authorities about her father's whereabouts.

Lu is caught and returned to the camp. Years go by, the Revolution officially ends, and Lu is released. Dan Dan has given up dance and works in a textile factory. Feng is now afflicted with psychogenic amnesia, a disorder characterized by sudden autobiographical memory loss. Lu comes home, but Feng doesn't recognize Lu, and much of the second half of Com-

ing Home concerns Lu's attempts to rectify this through various complicated ruses.

That second half of Coming Home doesn't feature a great many dramatic turns; it's more about deepening the essentially irresolvable central conflict and fortifying its resonance.

We don't need to know whether Feng's condition is directly related to trauma or heartbreak because the effects of her amnesia—a somewhat exaggerated version of a real condition—are poignant regardless. The Cultural Revolution fractured her family and then fractured her mind's ability to register family at all. But Coming Home is also a parable about the perils of nostalgia, of marital devotion taken to an eerie extreme. Lu comes home, but the Lu that left, the

younger, hopeful Lu that could have been husband to his wife and father to his child all those years, is never coming back. The film's final suggestion that Lu and Feng will always be waiting—together, at least—for that lost Lu, is haunting.

I mentioned that Coming Home is something like a fable, and it's worth coming to the film with that reading in mind. The performances register as pretty broad. Zhang Huiwen spends the first half of Coming Home with a scowl of heartless determination on her face that renders Dan Dan something of a cartoon, while Gong—who rose to international fame as the star of numerous Zhang films, most famously 1991's Raise the Red Lantern—is most often sporting a carefully sculpted gaze that reads

Opens Friday Coming Home Directed by Zhang Yimou Princess Theatre  "melancholy" and "faraway" in large print. Gong imbues Feng's psychogenic amnesia with a fragility that feels at times too much like a young stage actor trying to embody an octogenarian's dementia. So performative nuance is not Coming Home's strongsuit. And maybe that's OK. Instead we get a fascinating story precisely doled out, and arresting sequences like the beautifully orchestrated sting at the train station. Maybe we should think of Coming Home as a film made for someone with Feng's disorder: forget the subtle details, and just try to absorb the big picture.

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REVUE // DRAMA

The Stanford Prison Experiment I

Just your average ordinary psych experime—oh

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n 1967's "long hot summer," 159 race riots raged across the USA; the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago saw famous protests; NYC in 1969 witnessed the Stonewall riots; protests and strikes sparked a shutdown of more than 450 schools and college campuses nationwide in May 1970. And in August 1971, psychologist Philip G Zimbardo led a two-week experiment at his California university—a hallway was converted to cells, housing students-as-prisoners overseen by students-as-guards.

No one truly rebelled; Zimbardo stopped the test eight days early.

The Stanford Prison Experiment, from Tim Talbott's script (based largely on Zimbardo's 2007 book The Lucifer Effect), revisits the 1971 jailsimulation as a Kubrick-like horrorstudy of a psychologist subjecting young men to humiliating lessons in authority and obedience. There's a basic power to watching the simulation

unravel as the guards increasingly relish their roles: the nastiest one (Michael Angarano) conceives of himself as the sunglasses-wearing bossguard in Cool Hand Luke but drawls like John Wayne. Stripped of their manhood—they wear dresses and refer to themselves by number—the convicts are like actors trapped on a set, their awareness of a line between this-is-just-an-experiment and playing power-games soon dissolved. Prisoner 8612 (Ezra Miller) soon breaks down in screeching anguish.

There's eerie foreshadowing of American soldiers' abuse of prisoners in Abu Ghraib (the dress; bags over heads; sexual humiliation), though the movie never notes that the experiment was funded by the US Office of Naval Research (interested in the relationship between military guards and prisoners). The black-goateed Zimbardo comes off as a Faustian fiend,

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An actress leaves her Paris apartment and is approached by her boyfriend's adolescent nephew. The nephew has run away from the farm where he lives with his taciturn widower father. The actress buys the nephew a pastry and tells him he can go to her apartment—she gives him the building code—and departs for an appointment. The nephew lingers in the busy street, finishes his pastry and drops his refuse into a panhandler's lap. A young teacher sees this and accosts the nephew, demanding that he apologize to the panhandler.

The nephew refuses, the teacher insists, the actress returns, the cops show up, the panhandler tries to slip away. The morning isn't going to end well for anybody—the teacher, who's black, and the panhandler, a migrant without papers, least of all.

Following a brief, emphatically cryptic prologue, the above scene forms the inciting incident of Code Unknown (2000). It unfolds in an unbroken, eight-minute take, and its altercation brings together at least one representative from each strand of its network narrative: we follow the actress and her boyfriend, a war photographer, follow the nephew and his widower father, follow the teacher and his African immigrant family, follow the panhandler through her deportation back to Romania and beyond. The meticu-

lous choreography required to capture this scene without cutting makes it feel somewhat theatrical. The obviously fraught social positions of its characters make it feel somewhat schematic—and Michael Haneke is often nothing if not schematic.

This was the Austrian writer/director's first French production with a big French star—Juliette Binoche, superb as the actress—and was preceded by the highly upsetting Funny Games (1997), a film with the unique distinction of being both intelligent and stupid. The above scene is a bravura directorial performance and announces Code Unknown as a film about Very Important Things. But wait. As Code Unknown advances, one fluidly rendered sequence shot at a time, one self-contained narrative fragment at a time, what begins as suspiciously schematic transforms into something complicated and organic, dictated as much by the vagaries of human nature as by Haneke's sober social analysis. Fifteen years after its release, Code Unknown looks to me like Haneke's best film. Not to mention his most prescient: it's a story for our age, the age of the émigré. That Code Unknown is resurfacing as part of the Criterion Collection just now, as the world is struggling to resolve a burgeoning refugee crisis and Paris, long afflicted with problematic, arguably

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The themes and queries of Code Unknown are hardly dependent on its timeliness, however. The teacher's interference, along with the war photographer's experiences in the former Yugoslavia and the actress being confronted with sounds of domestic violence in her building, posit the question as to whether it's better to observe, intervene or mind one's own business. The actress' audition for a thriller in which her character is told she's about to die is echoed in an extremely interesting way by the war photographer's clandestine snapping of portraits on the Metro: both scenes are about "showing your real face." Code Unknown looks for real faces, knowing that they are the business of real life, not cinema. It's a film whose every transition pivots on dilemmas of charity and shame, kindness and retaliation—would the teacher have been better off consoling the panhandler instead of accosting the nephew? This is Haneke's best film not only because it leaves space for thought and feeling, but because by focusing on the particularities of its characters and their respective professions, relationships and cultures, it attains the universal. V

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ts first words are "Love, the Coopers"—signing off a Christmas card.

But the title is minus that comma: Love the Coopers is a come-on, even a demand, as if we've got no choice. And with its relationships-on-the-icy-skids drama, usually cheap comedy, warmyour-heart's-cockles flashbacks, incessant carolling and kissing, and rabid bring-everyone-togetherness, this movie's about as subtle in its efforts to light up the family hearth as your drunk-on-hot-toddy Dad, only halfdressed as Santa, tottering in front of the fireplace with an acetylene torch.

A constantly irritating voiceover unites Clan Cooper—dad Sam (John Goodman), mom Charlotte (Diane Keaton), sister Emma (Marisa Tomei), daughter Eleanor (Olivia Wilde) and son Hank (Ed Helms), etc—for our Yuletidy viewing pleasure. Sam and Charlotte's marriage seems kaput, El-

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eanor's unmarried and Hank's recently divorced ... but almost everyone will find someone again and dance happily together by movie's end, this shiny, perfect present wrapped up with a red velvet bow. Plus lots of YouTubeinspired shots of cute-widdle little ones—kids and dogs—up to adorable mischief and plenty more Xmas scenes. And from the mall to the Coopers' Crate & Barrel showroom of a house (with designer kitchen!), nearly every scene looks like a TV ad for Christmas.

Pretending to be about a real family struggling to be together, Love the Coopers is actually just lots of photogenic folks serving up white whine, usually weak laughs (a fart joke at the dinner table) or suddenly candid chats with strangers. The Hollywood contrivances are cringing: Eleanor

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This movie's so dundering in its efforts to melt your heart to slush that, to show someone's anguish, said person actually CGI-freezes then shatters, or a granddad will see the magical memory of their little child appear before them. And that voiceover, the one offering such lines as "Alas, the walls built up around her heart ... "?

Turns out it's the family dog, Rags (Steve Martin), that's been leading us along all this time. Bow-wow.

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The 33

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he 2010 Copiapó mining accident is one of the great, strange, soulstirring stories of our troubled era.

Thirty-three miners were trapped 7000 metres under the surface of the Atacama Desert for 69 days. For much of this time the miners had precious little food, water or medical supplies, and their employers, their families and the Chilean government had little reason to believe they were alive. The survival of the 33 feels like a kind of miracle, and indeed the miners themselves attribute their survival to the fortitude of their faith. I've heard rumours that the miners collectively beheld a vision of the Virgin Mary. Which, whatever your feelings about the Catholic Church, is probably more inspiring than, say, a vision of Antonio Banderas' face on a corny looking movie poster.

I'm not sure what to make of The 33, the docudrama chronicling the miners' story from the eve of the disaster to their eventual emergence from the bowels of the earth. As a piece of filmmaking it is flamboyantly pedestrian. It was directed by Patricia Riggen but it might as well have been

by committee. The script, by Mikko Alanne, Craig Borten and Michael Thomas, renders each character into a mere type and is littered with appallingly redundant bits of dialogue and not much sense of overall shape.

The film's first half feels inert, moving back and forth between the miners struggling with morale and those above camping out and holding vigil while not much happens. The second half, which is to say everything that happens once contact has been made, is more interesting in that it concerns the development of a peculiar, at times circus-like culture, both above ground and below. And yet the film never deals with any one significant element of this story, whether it be question of the mining company of Chilean government's corrupt practices or the lifestyle of the vigil camps, to any satisfying degree. The fact that the miners have to this day received no compensation is bafflingly reduced to a title card pasted over the sentimental closing credit sequence.

Everything juicy in this story is simply glazed over, perhaps because the filmmakers know perfectly well that

Opens Friday Directed by Patricia Riggen  there's a colossal emotional catharsis brewing. Sure, I squirted out a few.

You'd have to be made of stone to not feel anything when these guys get pulled up out of the ground.

The most curious aspect of The 33 is in some ways its most banal aspect.

There's something so utterly bizarre about populating this docudrama with an international cast that includes Juliette Binoche, Gabriel Byrne, Lou Diamond Phillips, Rodrigo Santoro and Banderas—note: a Frenchwoman, an Irishman, an American, a Brazilian and a Spaniard—playing a Chilean empanada seller, a Chilean engineer and Chilean miners respectively, all of them speaking English in the goofiest babble of accents imaginable. The reasoning behind all this is, of course, purely commercial, but that doesn't make it any less weird or any harder to take even remotely seriously.

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What the hell is this, then?

Pop! is a new, regular section of Vue Weekly that looks to fill some niches that have occasionally found purchase in other sections of the paper, but felt like they deserved dedicated space of their own. It will highlight pop culture writ large, from comics culture to emerging webseries, as well as science-fiction, video games ... basically, if it seems remotely nerdy, it'll probably end up here.

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Archer's Pam unleashes absurdity in Hart of America

T

here's a moment that lands early in the first episode of Hart of America, effectively setting the tone for the rest: like a scene out of True Detective, two cops approach the body at the centre of a taped-off crime scene. A man's impaled through a tree, cold and bloody and most definitely lifeless, the branch still protruding from his upper chest. One cop impulsively pukes (not for the last time in the series) at the grizzly scene, while the other maintains a grim façade behind his shades, before finally mustering a question: "Is he dead?"

Later, Bigfoot will struggle with substance addiction and a young man will blow off his sardonic dying grandma to try and get laid;

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such are the veins of darkly absurd comedy that runs wild all over Hart of America. The webseries centres around Amber Nash—better know as the voice of Archer's joyfully ribald HR manager Pam, with Nash playing the lead in each of its three stories—a loose-cannon cop investigating a murder, a boy and his grandma at the campsite, and an airy environmentalist who happens upon a drunken Bigfoot—which all knit together throughout the 10part series. It's all online now.

The series began last winter, when Nash was debating taking a trip to LA for pilot season, but she was hesitant to run that sort of emotional marathon of auditions.

"I realized the reason I didn't want

to go is I didn't want to audition for a bunch of shows that I wouldn't get cast in, which is the name of the game," she laughs over the phone from Atlanta, her home. "I was like, 'I'll make my own thing.'"

She talked to Kevin Gillese, artistic director of her improv company Dad's Garage—who also, for disclosure's sake, used to run a theatre company I was a part of, though for the same reasons, he'll be familiar to Fringe audiences as one-half of festival regulars Scratch—who was onboard in putting the company's resources behind her. Nash, Gillese, and his Scratch partner Arlen Konopaki hashed out the three storylines to intertwine.

"I feel like the cop thing came

pretty quick," Nash explains, of plotting its various threads. "I love playing old people, so the grandma was a given. ... It was all in one conversation, and it stayed the same, those three storylines."

While everyone involved at Hart's core has a history of improv, there wasn't much on-set riffing, she notes.

"If we had time, we would do a screw-around thing, or a take where we got to say whatever we want. A few of the grandma scenes [went like that]," she explains. "But it was such a crunch schedule, we didn't have a ton of time to do that."

But a few of those makes it to tape: in particular, a few of her riffs

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"I think originally she wasn't supposed to be so cranky and sassy," she recalls. "That's just kind of how she ended up being, and people really responded to her. She wasn't originally my favourite character, but now I think she is."

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Oh, hi Mark

Greg Sestero's The Disaster Artist goes inside The Room

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hen Greg Sestero signed up for a San Francisco acting class, he probably didn't see The Room coming.

But there his life collided with the enigmatic Tommy Wiseau.

"I had to know who this guy was and what his deal was," Sestero says. "Just the way he operated, his fearlessness, how eccentric he is, how wacky he is—it made him endearing."

Years later the young actor found himself at the centre of an accidental cult phenomenon.

For those who've yet to sit in a theatre surrounded by a storm of a thousand airborne spoons and a handful of footballs, Wiseau's film The Room exists in a space beyond puny descriptions of "good" or "bad." Intended as a serious dramatic film, it's not just a movie, it's an experience, and here in Edmonton, people come out to see it monthly.

This Saturday, Metro Cinema is bringing Sestero to show a behindthe-scenes documentary and to talk about The Disaster Artist, his book about the making of the movie and his experience playing Mark.

"Initially I only agreed to help behind the scenes, and then the night before filming—there was another Mark already cast and [Wiseau] really wanted me to play the role, he didn't like the other Mark, he said the other Mark couldn't perform the love scenes well enough—he made me an offer I couldn't refuse, and I agreed to be in the film, assuming that no one would ever see it."

People did see it, and it slowly gained a special kind of notoriety. Not only was The Room unintentionally hilarious, but it was also so baffling that people kept coming out. Eventually, Sestero decided there was something worth talking about here.

"I thought [the book] was a really

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great chance to share the story behind this movie—you watch it and all you have is questions," Sestero says.

"Why does breast cancer come up and is never mentioned again?

"I never really pushed him on certain things and let him do his thing," he continues. "I never prodded because I felt like that's something he's gone through probably most of his life. It was a chance to let him just be him."

This was about Wiseau's vision, and the book is about how this man, with his funds and ambition, tried to make it happen.

"There is a very human side to Tommy that's really hard to get across when you watch The Room," he says.

"You just figure this guy is totally unrelatable and totally out there but really he had a goal, a dream like a lot of us do, he just went about it a different way."

Sestero's well aware, if endlessly curious, of how the film has been received and what keeps bringing fans back. The Disaster Artist has been much more unironically wellreceived, and has a movie adaptation coming down the line. That's altered Wiseau's opinion of the book, from describing it as "the red Bible," to approving around 50 percent.

Pretty good by Tommy standards, Sestero says. In any case, there's no need to worry about their relationship following his public examination of what seemed to be a tumultuous shoot.

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Ten years later Tracing a decade of city changes through Cadence Weapon's "Oliver Square"

Cadence Weapon: 10 years later

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he time, how it flies: it was this month 10 years ago that Roland "Rollie" Pemberton, better known as Cadence Weapon, released his debut album, Breaking Kayfabe. It was shortlisted for the inaugural Polaris Music Prize, and launched his acclaimed, eclectic rap career: he's since put out two more critically beloved albums, done a term as our city's Poet Laureate and toured with the unusual likes of Liars.

Its first single, and anchoring track, "Oliver Square," was a swaggering ode to the city. And given that a decade is a long time, particularly in a place that's been going through its share of changes over that span, we thought it might be worth taking a look at the song's lyrics—full of 2004-era references to people and places around town—as a way of charting progress since then. Spoiler alert: a lot of venues aren't here anymore.

Pemberton, for his part, was game to chat. Over the phone from his new home in Toronto—where he recently moved from Montréal—he notes that the song predates the album: back in 2004, he'd dropped out of journalism school, was avidly blogging, writing for Pitchfork and working towards his first release.

"At that point, I was just hanging out on my mom's couch," he recalls.

"The reason that I dropped out was mainly I was getting this feeling of tension that, if I didn't really put out the music I'd been working on soon, somebody else would come out and put out something similar—maybe I'd miss the timing. I didn't want to take the chance."

Many of those early songs found a home on the Cadence Weapon is the Black Hand mixtape, including "Oliver Square." He put the song out

into the blogosphere and it quickly found purchase.

"I met a bunch of other people in the music-blog community, one of whom was a guy named Matthew Perpetua.

He had a blog called Fluxblog. Around that time, I sent him 'Oliver Square' and asked if he'd be interested in putting it on his blog, and he did," Pemberton says. "That was really the first taste of people hearing my music, and it really springboarded me out to signing with Upper Class [Recordings]. They discovered my music from that post."

"Oliver Square" itself was partly born from a love of the New York rap his father Teddy Pemberton would play on his CJSR show, The Black Experience in Sound.

"He used to play all kinds of rap tracks that were talking about all this different, specific things about New York," Pemberton notes. "I always used to wonder, 'Why doesn't anybody write a song like that about Edmonton?' I wanted to create an anthem, from my perspective, as a young person in Edmonton, talking about my side of Edmonton. Back then, it still had a reputation for being this stodgy, conservative place."

So: below are some of the song's key referential lyrics paired with some analysis as to how they pertain to modern-day E-town, with Pemberton's thoughts scattered throughout.

Cue the song up and read along.

It's corrupt where I'm from: Edmonton, tough ...

City life will leave you red with blood Punched holes in the wall, then they fed the thugs lunch / After they rocked the party in the literal sense

Over

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Roland Pemberton: "'It's corrupt where I'm from' is a Jay-Z reference, a Jay-Z lyric, but the story I'm telling is actually true. When my mom left town, she went to China with some friends of hers, and I decided to throw a house party while she was gone. I invited everyone at my school, and they invited everyone from Ross Shep and all the surrounding high schools. Everybody came to my house, and they really just tore the place up. It was a very wild party; some jock kids were throwing rocks at people and laughing, and punching holes in the wall."

And with regards to "corruption"— Jay-Z line or not—Edmonton usually ranks above average on Statistics Canada's Crime Severity Index.

That said, the amount of reported crime has been slowly descending Canada-wide over the last decade.

You could be on Whyte Ave havin' the time of your life / Then you get your arm broken by a random cab driver, ask Katie.

RP: "That happened to my friend Katie. It was just a weird incident where a cabbie thought ... I don't want to get the information totally wrong here, but I believe it was about a cab [that] came to pick-up somebody else, and a cabbie got into a fight with her boyfriend, and she tried to pull the cabbie off of him, and he shrugged away, and ended up inadvertently breaking her arm."

Don't generalize, you must think and wonder / Why I drink 40s and memorize BusLink numbers ...

There have been a few innovtations in local bus-schedule technology: now you can simply text the BusLink number to a line to check upcoming bus times. Handy! (Unless you're at the stop, memorization still helps, but at least you don't have to listen through an arduously slow recorded message anymore). In keeping with the times, there was also a city-developed transit app released somewhat recently, but it hasn't quite gained traction.

So I'm drunk at the Funky Pickle, nothing difficult / Came out with just napkins, it was something pitiful

The heyday of the Funky Pickle franchise was seemingly in the mid-2000s around "Oliver Square"'s release, but the pizza company's decline has been swift: it's all but vanished from Edmonton streets, with its key Jasper and Whyte Avenue locations now converted into other, non-branded pizza places.

A decade ago, though, Funky Pickle seemed the de facto slice of choice, known for offering large triangles of 'za adorned with unusual combinations of toppings—corn, red pepper and beer sausage might all share a cheese-bed together. But it's all no more.

RP: "I couldn't believe when I heard that."

public-access channel, was later purchased by CTV and rebranded as CTV Two, which ceased broadcasting over the air in 2011.

I come with the ill shit, still good / More dangerous than Mill Woods Mill Woods remains one of the largest, most-diverse populations of Edmonton, and marks the home of former city councillor/just-elected MP Amarjeet Sohi, who was made part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's cabinet as Minister of Infrastructure and Communities. All in all, not bad for an area of town that's up against a perpetual stigma.

So I let Jane cover my pitchers at The Strat / 'Til I get a little bit of riches from this rap …

I need to listen like records, Y'all oughta get dismissed / On the wake up, I tend to politic with Kris

While Whyte Avenue's seen plenty of change in the past few years, The Strat remains a steadfast anchor against gentrification's growing riptide in the area.

RP: "Some of the stuff is very inside baseball. I give a shoutout to—I say, 'Tend to poltique with Kris,' [or] 'I need to listen like records,' I'm talking about Kris Burwash from Listen Records. Not a lot of people would pick up on that."

Yeah, I take the 7 off 82nd to get to Jasper / So I can hit New City with the electro-clashers The road and bus route remain— though, depending on where you are on 82nd, you could just as easily hop the nine to get downtown—but New City has long since departed its Jasper haunt: it moved to just off Whyte a few years ago, but struggled against the area's high rent and shrinking audience sizes, and eventually shuttered. Also: electro-clash's abrupt status as an it-sound in trendy circles came and went pretty quickly. Remember Fischerspooner?

Exactly.

See me at Victory, don't ask to see the skill / I'm sick of fanboys more obnoxious than Peter Hill Located under the Starlite Room, Victory Lounge still exists, albeit now as a renamed Brixx Bar & Grill.

Peter Hill was an enduring publicaccess television figure, a world that seems to be all but gone online these days. Access, the government-owned

30 years of diverse and

Lamping real pretty, don't care what rapping can get me / I'm just letting y'all know, I'm from Champion City Though still the most pervasive nickname—that and Dirt City—the "City of Champions" slogan was removed from the entrance to Edmonton in early 2015. "We're in a post-tagline era," Mayor Don Iveson said, shortly after city council voted seven-to-five on the removal.

See me on the bill Better follow me there / I solemnly swear I'll make it back to Oliver Square Depending on his show, following Pemberton these days might be more of a Phish-like exodus—the drive to Toronto's two-plus days—but hey, do you. And Pemberton's been known to show up around Christmastime, so there's a pretty good chance he still makes it back to Oliver every once in a while.

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The Paper Kites W

hat are you usually up to between midnight and 4 am?

Chances are you're deep in a REM cycle or up to no good, depending on the day. But Sam Bentley views those nocturnal hours as the timeframe in which an artist's creativity is at its ostensible peak.

The Paper Kites' vocalist and lead songwriter spent two months composing tracks at this time of night— or morning, depending on your perception—and surfaced with around 30 demos, 10 of which now make up the Australian indie rock band's new album, twelvefour.

"When Sam gets an idea and he believes in it he's like a train: you can't stop him, which is a credit to him," says Paper Kites' bassist and synth player Sam Rasmussen before travelling from Los Angeles to San Diego for the group's next tour stop.

Some of those early demos were

a "little bit out there," Rasmussen recalls, noting that while the process varies from song to song, Bentley will generally start a song idea before bringing it to the group to flesh out. While there were surprising elements to Bentley's writing for twelvefour that felt disparaging from the Paper Kites' previous work and resulted in some lengthy discussions, Rasmussen views the whole process as a beneficial one for the band.

"I think those conversations and those struggles and pushing the boundaries were a really positive thing because we ended up with something that challenged us and pushed us," he says. "We wanted to push ourselves. I guess we wanted a bit of a bigger sound and liked the idea of a slightly '80s kind of lush, reverberant sound—bigger vocals, bigger drums."

The resulting album is a quietly

powerful one. Its songs are soft and introspective, reflecting the hazy moonlit hours in which they were crafted, though Rasmussen admits the songs weren't recorded on the same schedule Bentley kept while writing "Once [the songs] were written we worked on regular human hours during the day and in the evenings.

We definitely did long days and long rehearsals, so I guess there's an element of tiredness and exhaustion in there. ... I think most of us couldn't have stayed awake through the whole night," he says, noting he feels his most creative time hits sometime after dinner before midnight.

"You have the day behind you, you've done a few things, you've exercised or whatever it is and then evening comes and you can kind of relax and sink into music and creativity."

The Paper Kites have captured the experience—from Bentley's latenight writing sessions through to recording and leaving for tour—on a yet-to-be-released documentary that Rasmussen says will be out sometime early in the new year.

"When [people] see a band has released an album it's easy to assume that it's like they met up for a few weeks and they practiced [the songs] and they went into a recording studio and they performed them there and you get a CD," he says, noting he hasn't seen the final product yet.

"We don't know what kind of light we're going to be painted in, how

Sat, Nov 21 (8 pm) With Old Man Canyon Starlite Room, $20 we're going to appear. We're hoping that we all look professional and that we know what we're doing, but I feel that, if anything, this documentary is going to show people how normal we are and how much hard work is required to try and release an album, so I hope it's a really interesting insight for people who get to watch it."

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Rend W

hile it's been two years since the 2012 EP release of Winter to Summer, Rend is back with a new single, "Skin and Bones." The Edmonton-based band—Carol-Lynn Quinn (vocals, synth), Jeff Quinn (bass), Steve Roe (guitar) and Jordan Dempster (drums)—has returned from extensive touring with the likes of USS, Mother Mother and Dear Rouge. The quartet will be going on a western Canadian tour, playing two Edmonton shows, and will record two EPs which will be released within a six- to ninemonth period.

"Skin and Bones," is one of two tracks—the second has not yet been released and is titled "Be Still"— that was recorded with producer Howard Redekopp (Tegan and Sara, Mother Mother, Dear Rouge), whom Carol-Lynn met at an event hosted

through the Alberta Music Industry Association, a non-profit service dedicated to helping professionals in the music industry.

"I went to this workshop that he did and I really liked his energy and how he saw music, so we connected there," she says over the phone. "We went down to Vancouver late spring of last year and we recorded it at the Warehouse Studio, [which] is Bryan Adam's studio. ... It was nice to invest a little bit of time there."

The untitled EPs, which will resume in early January after Rend finishes its Western Canada tour, will be recorded in Edmonton at Audio Department. The new songs will expand on the electronic and synth experimentation found on Winter To Summer, but will return to the rock-and-roll

Fri, Nov 20 & Sat, Nov 21 (9 pm) With TAT 9910, $15 in advance, $20 at the door sounds on No Lines (2012). For CarolLynn, the latest albums will be an opportunity for the group to "outdo themselves" musically and lyrically, while keeping true to the rock sound Rend is known for.

"There are a lot of bands that are going down that road [of electronica], which is awesome," Carol-Lynn explains. "But we don't want to forget our roots of rock 'n' roll. My main instrument, other than singing, has always been piano, so we want to bring in all those things."

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ing the instigator of an on-air spat between Don Cherry and Ron MacLean.

It happened during Game 5 of the Columbus Blue Jackets/Pittsburgh Penguins 2014 playoff series. Cherry looked excitedly at MacLean, and blindsided him with one of his classic non-sequiturs.

"There's a band called Slocan Ramblers," Cherry says. "They [sing this song] 'Abide With Me.' It is the best, it gives you chills."

MacLean explained to Cherry his appreciation for the band, and that its music had been featured on Hockey Night in Canada before.

Cherry looked dejected at not having been able to put one over on his friend. In a voice that illustrated the deep love/hate relationship between the two, he barked, "Oh, you know everything!"

While some may take issue with Cherry's opinions on hockey, he's dead-on when it comes to the Ramblers: Based out of Toronto, though hailing from both coasts, the Slocan Ramblers (named for the fabled Slocan Mine in BC) are a hyper-talented four-piece bluegrass/folk band.

Recipients of the Emerging Artist award at this year's Edmonton Folk Fest, the Ramblers are returning in support of the band's sophomore album, Coffee Creek: a 13-track ramshackle jaunt down the back roads

of the Canadian frontier.

Catching up with Ramblers mandolin player and vocalist Adrian Gross, he explains how, like the travelling bands of his youth, he came to a life in music.

"When I was kid I loved classic rock, like Hendrix and Led Zeppelin," Gross explains. "I loved Phish and the Grateful Dead."

Growing up in Montréal, Gross was a scant 45 minutes away from Vermont, home of Phish and ground zero for late '70s hippie jam-band weirdness. This influence permeates much of his contemporary work, as heard in the loose, frenetic pace of Slocan's live shows.

Gross's tastes quickly took a turn to the more esoteric by virtue of exposure to the appetites of his parents (both visual artists) and frequent trips to the Montréal Jazz Festival.

"I loved Robert Johnson, Mississippi John Hurt, Sonny Boy Williamson, all that delta blues stuff." He goes on to list a host of southern blues references that would give Terry Wickham cause to Google.

"The Montreal Jazz Fest brought in tons of great music," he says. "In a way I feel like [it] was actually what influenced me in the biggest way. I loved jazz as a kid, guys like Django Reinhardt."

Listening to Reinhardt now, it's easy to see the how his influence

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has crept into Gross's music and eventual movement toward bluegrass and folk. But it wasn't until Gross immersed himself in the work of bluegrass legend Doc Watson that his interest in the genre transformed into participation.

"He lead me to all this acoustic music, and I realized that having played jazz and blues all my life, that bluegrass is in the middle ground of everything that I loved," Gross explains. "It's very earnest music, it's very exposed; when you listen to a bluegrass musician, the impact will hit you right away."

Indeed, Coffee Creek is earnest.

Each track title (such as "Elk River," "Mississippi Shore" and "Lone Pine") evokes a shared memory devoted to the mythology of frontier romance.

"If people could take away that it's four guys playing together in a room, who are just playing their hearts out, who feel strongly about what they're doing, feel strongly about making music and playing it for anyone who will listen and trying to create an exciting thoughtful experience—then I would be happy."

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just arrived from Australia, so that's why I'm trying to keep the car on the right," Andy White says over speakerphone, while driving to Orillia, ON. "Those four-way stops are kind of weird."

The last time the Belfast-born singer-songwriter (who now resides n Australia) was in Canada was back in September 2014 on tour with Steven Fearing, whom he shares the stage with as part of folk-rock duo Fearing & White. Whenever they went on tour in Canada, it was Fearing who would drive them from show to show while White would drive them around in the UK—it was a simple arrangement for tackling right-hand and left-hand traffic. But White is now experiencing driving on the right-hand side on his own as he has returned to Canada for a nation-wide tour for the release of his solo album, How Things Are. How Things Are comes as the 11th studio album for White, and stands as the most intimate thus far in his solo

career. This personal element comes from a watershed moment in White's personal life that involved the end of his 19-year marriage. Songwriting was his way of coping with the breakup and his heartbreak.

"Mum always taught us to make something beautiful out of something chaotic and distressing," he says.

Keeping that mantra in mind anytime something bad happened in his life, whether it was experiencing the Northern Ireland conflict at a young age or the demise of his marriage, it felt natural for White to write about it, he explains. White wrote songs on love, heartbreak, and just about anything relevant at the time of his marriage ending, which resulted in enough material to make a double album.

"To be truthful, there was more songs than a record; it was almost like two-thirds of a double album, but I didn't want to inflict a double al-

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Sat, Nov 21 (8 pm) With Rae Waters and Shauna Specht The Laugh Shop, $20 bum on the world," he says. "There's only a couple of amazing double albums, so I didn't want to do that."

The album was recorded and produced in the span of six months at White's home studio-—which he calls the Growlery—in Melbourne, Australia, and features the first-time collaboration with his son, Sebastian, on drums and Domini Forster, providing a one-woman string section.

The 12 tracks celebrate life and the relationship he had through an appreciative perspective; instead of producing a bleak album surrounding the melancholy of his breakup, White focused on optimism and empowerment.

"I'm just trying to make something beautiful out of it."

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Matthew Good 'B

eing on the road is somewhat like being on holiday, in a way," says a sleepy-sounding Matthew Good. "I don't have to get up at seven in the morning with my kids, so I sleep as much as I can."

It seems as though the Vancouverbased musician is taking full advantage of his flexible sleep schedule, having just woke up a little past noon. He explains that his wife is a photographer, and a busy one at that, so when he's home he's in charge of running the household—which means touring serves as his vacation, despite its inherently hectic qualities.

Good is on the road in support of his latest album, Chaotic Neutral, his 10th as a solo musician. It's also the followup to his 2013 release, Arrows of Desire, which Good is quick to admit bears some disappointments for him.

"Going back and thinking about it [I] probably should have geared that album towards being a little more trashy," he explains. "I think it would have translated a lot better as far as how I actually wrote the songs in the first place. I mean, there's differences in when you listen to something like Tim by the Replacements and Ten

by Pearl Jam: one sounds trashy, in

a good way—which would be the Replacements—and one sounds produced. So I think [Arrows] was too over-produced, and that's of course my own fault because I produced it."

Chaotic Neutral—a reference to a Dungeons & Dragons alignment that Good feels represents the unpredictable nature of the record—came about after Good scrapped an entire album's-worth of songs he'd written the summer before last. The majority of them were based in musical movements rather than the standard verse-chorus-verse song structure (one of which was 21 minutes long), and they weren't economically feasible to record on Good's budget.

"It's not to say it's not something I'm going to return to in the future, but the only song that kind of survived that session was 'Tiger By the Tail,' which was the last thing I wrote for it," he says, noting that he gravitates towards writing in movements when left to his own devices. "As a musician there's something far more exploratory about it than returning to a common refrain. But at the same time, in modern music the common refrain is what it is. You end up coming back to it a lot ... you can't fight it ... it's one of those things that one

Fri, Nov 20 (8 pm) Jubilee Auditorium, $35 – $42.50 day I'll have the bravery to make the leap."

There's a rawness to Chaotic Neutral that contrasts the slick melodies of Arrows of Desire, which could be attributed to Good taking a back seat when it came to production and allowing himself to solely inhabit the role of artist. He left the production duties to longtime collaborator Warne Livesey, whom he's been working with for the past 18 years.

"After I'd written and demoed everything, he said, 'You know, why don't you just be the artist on this one?' I'll [usually] be there at the board with him and we'll be laying stuff down and I'll be very much present for every little thing, so this time I was basically just laying on the couch at the back of the control room playing solitaire ... and I'd just give him a thumbs up," Good explains. "To tell you the truth, I found it extremely refreshing and liberating."

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If you don’t know who Three Days Grace is, then please go back under your rock. Halestorm opens the show.(Shaw Conference Centre, $39.50)

BLADES OF STEEL / SAT, NOV 21 (8 PM)

Blades of Steel—Ricca Razor Sharp, SoLeo, Smokin’ Jay Schumann, Roopert El Toro, Pastrami Greyheart and Ruadhan Hennessy—make hip-hop music by way of Calgary. Mic drop not included. (Mercury Room, $10)

FAITH HEALER / SAT, NOV 21 (9 PM)

It’s not Christmas—yet. But Edmonton bands are feeling generous, giving the gift of music in this four-band show featuring Faith Healer, Marlaena Moore, the Archaics and Counterfeit Jeans.

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GETTING SCHOOL’D VOL 2 / SAT, NOV 21 (11 AM)

Hip-hop culture, dance and music come together for a second year. Profits from the event will go to iHuman Society, a nonprofit organization that helps high-risk youth. (Harry Ainley High School, $10)

LEE AARON

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PRETTY ARCHIE / THU, NOV 26

Coming by way of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the bluegrass group is on tour for its latest record, North End Sky.(Brixx Bar & Grill)

FRI DEC 4

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TEXAS IN JULY / THU, NOV 26 (7 PM)

Have you ever experienced Texas in July? Well, the state is hot, hot, hot, which is what you will be feeling at this metal show after all that headbanging.

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Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

Live Music every Thu; 9pm

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

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BAILEY THEATRE Adrian Nation (rock/pop/indie); 8pm; $20; All ages

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking

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ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE

Thirsty Thursday Jam; 7:30pm

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ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

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BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst;

Scrambled YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every TueFri, 5-8pm BRIXX BAR Kacy & Clayton,

and Ryan Boldt (Of The Deep Dark Woods) with Alameda; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $15; 18+ only CAFE BLACKBIRD Sarah

Jane Scouten with guest Bombadils Duo; 7:30pm; $6 (adv), $8 (door)

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

FRI NOV 20 9910 Double release party:

Rend (pop/rock) and Tat with guests; 8pm; $15 (adv) APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE

The Whiskey Boyz (rock/pop/ indie); 8pm ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

Derina Harvey Band; 9pm

$30 (students & seniors) JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

Matthew Good with guests; 8pm; $35-$45 LB'S PUB Jack Drebit Blues

Band (blues); 9:30pm; No minors MERCURY ROOM Taggart and

Torrens (Canadian); 8pm; $20 (adv) MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and

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The Hurricanes ON THE ROCKS Live music;

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9910 Double release party:

Rend (pop/rock) and Tat with guests; 8pm; $15 (adv) APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE

stage; 8pm; all ages (15+) NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny &

The Hurricanes NORTH GLENORA HALL

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; 7pm; contact Gary 780.998.4904 RED PIANO Every Thu:

Dueling pianos at 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec

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Blues every Thur: this week with Graham Guest; 7-11pm SUB STAGE Tyler Butler;

12pm; All ages TAVERN ON WHYTE Open

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

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl: Throwback Thu:

Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas

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BalderDash, Reckless Rebels, Puzzled Minds; 8pm RIVER CREE–The Venue

STYX; 7pm (door), 9pm (show); $39.50; 18+ only (alt/country); 9pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

The Wayne Allchin Band; 9pm; $10; No minors

The Rural Routes (folk); 9pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Thirst n' Howl; 8:30-10:30pm; $15

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

BOHEMIA If I Look Strong,

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst;

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Thu and Fri DJ and

The Hurricanes O’BYRNE’S Live band every

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN Craft Addict

Freight open jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny &

Rotten Scoundrels (rock/ pop/indie); 9:30pm; No minors

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

L.B.'S PUB South Bound

Mackenzie “Movin’ On” CD release party; 8:30pm; $20 (door)

PALACE CASINO–WEM Dirty

CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar:

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

every Sat NEWCASTLE PUB Angela

JAxx; 9:30pm

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

J R BAR AND GRILL Live

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET Live Local Bands

OVERTIME Sherwood Park DJ

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring

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release featuring Blades of Steel (rap/regional) with The Gibson Block and Mitchell Lawler; 8pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)

ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform

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

Nights; no cover

MERCURY ROOM Album

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Open Jam

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

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LB'S PUB Jakked (rock/pop/

The Whiskey Boyz (rock/pop/ indie); 8pm

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

DV8 TAVERN Banknotes; No

The Buddy Holly Experience; 2pm & 7:30pm; $40 (adult), $35 (student/senior) indie); 9:30pm; No minors

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Andrew Scott

HORIZON STAGE Rave On!

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open

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

Three Days Grace; 7pm; $35-$70

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm

Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep

every Fri

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

Radio, Killers and Kings, Absinthe From Society; 8pm

GAS PUMP Saturday

9pm You Look Strong (alt/pop/ rock) with Rayleigh, Sunspots and Moth Priest; 9pm; $5 (door) BOURBON ROOM Dueling

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

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

Semple Quartet; 8pm; $15 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

Boom Boom Kings (rock/ pop/indie); 9pm; No minors CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri: this week with Erasmo Coco; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Live

music; 9pm; Free CASINO YELLOWHEAD Live

music; 9pm; Free DRAFT BAR & GRILL Chris Henderson; 9pm; No minors DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mike

Letto (folk/rock); 9pm DV8 Lx One (Tempa, Wheel & Deal), Dub Kontrolla; 1 Year Anniversary; 9pm; $20 (adv), $25 (door) FIONN MACCOOL'S– DOWNTOWN Two-Fisted

Friday Presents: Needles To Vinyl; 8pm; No cover; All ages HORIZON STAGE Kirby Sewell

Band; 7:30pm; $35 (adult),

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

SIDELINERS PUB & PANTRY

Vibram Souls; 9-11:30pm; No cover ST. BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE T. Buckley Trio with

opening act Braden Gates; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $18 (adv), $22 (door); Kids under 12 are half price SUB STAGE Alex Vissia; 12pm; All ages TIRAMISU BISTRO Live

music every Fri UNION HALL Mayhem X

Antiserum + JSTJR; 9pm WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK Live Music

Fridays: this week featuring; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation YARDBIRD SUITE Jim Byrnes With Lindsay Mitchell; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

Derina Harvey Band; 9pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Hot Cottage; 9pm; $10; No minors BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: The Introverts (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

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

Mike "The Party Hog" (blues/rock); 9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder

BLUES ON WHYTE Every

YARDBIRD SUITE Jim Byrnes With Lindsay Mitchell; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Later: Bill Durst; 9pm BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays:

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

Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am

YEG EVENT CENTRE Cosmic Gate (DJ/electronic) with Bhavesh, Eric Dand, DJ Limit; 9pm; $40 (adv)

Classical MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

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

Elements; 7:30pm; $22 (adult), $16.75 (student), $11.75 (kids)

BRIXX BAR Faith Healer, Marlaena Moore, The Archaics, Counterfeit Jeans; 9pm (door), 10pm (show); $10; 18+ only

Northern Lights Folk Club: Small Glories; $20 (adv), $25 (door)

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

Boom Boom Kings (rock/ pop/indie); 9pm; No minors

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Traffic Jam

Open mic; 7pm; $2

Concerts; Operetta! Betty Kolodziej, Ron Long, Joachim Segger; 5pm; $10

music; 9pm; Free

WINSPEAR CENTRE

music; 9pm; Free

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat CASINO EDMONTON Live CASINO YELLOWHEAD Live

Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto; 7:30pm; $24-$79

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Chris Henderson; 9pm; No minors

DJs

Letto (folk/rock); 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

DV8 The Mange with White Label Demo and Zero Cool; 9pm

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

(alt/country); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Terry Morrison & John Gorham; 8:30-10:30pm; $10

Classical

Every Friday DJs on all three levels

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN Andrew Scott

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Mike

FESTIVAL PLACE The

Legendary Downchild Blues Band (blues); 7:30pm & 9:30pm; $44-$48 FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free

PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

WINSPEAR CENTRE

Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto; 7:30pm; $24-$79

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

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

Afternoon Concerts; 4pm

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DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:

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

THE VHS TOUR W/ GRIZFOLK

NOV/21

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

PAPER KITES W/ OLD MAN CANYON

NOV/27

BORN RUFFIANS

NOV/28 DEC/1

STEAM WHISTLE PRESENTS

UNION HALL Celebrity

DEC/4

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

RUIN CHRISTMAS TOUR

Saturdays

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

CANCER BATS

SUN NOV 22 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

W/ LORD DYING & GUESTS

DEC/5

THE FORGE PRESENTS

DANIELLE MARIE

DEC/8

9pm DANCE CODE STUDIO

DEC/10

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

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

AUTHORITY ZERO

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun

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

W/ VERSUS THE WORLD & MORE

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

Perry (jazz); 11:30am

Classical ProCoro Canada: I See Fire; 2:30pm; $30 (adult), $25 (student/senior) JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE

Bookmarks, Portraits & Postcards (The New Edmonton Wind Sinfonia); $20 (adult), $15 (student/ senior), kids (12 and under) are free MACLAB CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS The

Sultans of String; 7:30pm; $35 (adult), $32 (student/ senior) MUTTART HALL Edmonton

Recital Society - Emerging Artists Series 1; 2pm; Admission by donation ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Michael

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst;

W/ YOUNG EMPIRES & DIRTY RADIO

Jam hosted by Mark Ammar; 4-8pm

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am3pm; Admisson by donation

DRAGONETTE

Sun; 9:30pm-1am RANCH ROADHOUSE Steel

Gfroerer; 3pm; No cover

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch:

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O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

Sun BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm

hosted by Tim Lovett

W/ MELODY LOVEJOY, NICKY PEARSON & ALYSSA STRAND

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

ALL SAINTS' CATHEDRAL

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

W/ GUESTS

with Kris Harvey and guests MERCURY ROOM Murder

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

STICKYBUDS & PUMPKIN THE MAHONES

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY PJ

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

UBK PRESENTS

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE

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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

W/ YOUNG RIVAL

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

The Hurtin Horsemen

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday

RED STAR Indie rock, hip

X AMBASSADORS

BLUES ON WHYTE Rockin

hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

SOLD OUT

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

NEW WEST HOTEL Doug &

Panther (hard rock/metal/ pop); 8pm; $39.95

THE PROVINCIAL PUB

NOV/20

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

musicians; 7-10pm; $4

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

Wong every Sat

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

Sean Bishop and The Old Ghost Town; 7pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm DV8 TAVERN Patent Leather

Burlesque's Underground Showcase; 8pm; $10 MERCURY ROOM Jon Bryant

(alt/country/folk/pop) with

DJs Main Floor: Soul Sundays:

DAFFODIL GALLERY Trin

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

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Bingo Toonz every Tue

NEW WEST HOTEL Doug &

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon SIDELINERS PUB Singer/

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

Classical FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH RCCO Edmonton -

From Bach to the Beatles, Jim Picken; 7:30-9:30pm; $20 (general), $15 (student/ senior), $10 (member)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue 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

TUE NOV 24

MON NOV 23

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

Blue Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest:

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

Zizi; 9pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

BLUES ON WHYTE Billie

Zizi; 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 TueFri, 5-8pm DRUID IRISH PUB Open

Monday open mic

Stage Tue: featuring this week: Chris Wynters; 9pm

MERCURY ROOM Music

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY

Magic Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Doug & The Hurtin Horsemen

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

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Murder (bluegrass/folk with Braden Gates) with guests; 8pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)

Jake; 9pm

Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

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: A/C Dixie; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

Classical

James; 6:30pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

The Hurtin Horsemen ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted

by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780-655-8520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm2am 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)

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO & Winspear Overture Tour; 12-1pm

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

DJs

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit Pop, Synthpop,

Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

WED NOV 25 B STREET BAR Live Music with Lyle Hobbs; 8-11pm, every Wed BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Wailin' Wednesdays Jam; Every Wed, 7:30pm; All ages 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

ROSSDALE HALL Little

Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE The Eroica; 7:30pm; $24-$79

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post

Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane RED STAR Guest DJs every

Wed

VENUEGUIDE

NOV/19

JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

KACY & CLAYTON

W/ RYAN BOLDT (OF THE DEEP DARK WOODS), & ALAMEDA

NOV/21

FAITH HEALER

W/ MARLAENA MOORE, THE ARCHAICS, COUNTERFEIT JEANS

NOV/27 KICKIN’ IT COUNTRY FT. THE SHAWN OATES BAND, EMO LEBLAC,

ROCK4SANTA - IN SUPPORT OF THE EDMONTON CHRISTMAS BUREAU

THE WELL WITCHERS & GUESTS

NOV/28 A JINGLE BELL ROCKIN’ EVE FT. RC SINDICATE, ALTERRA & GUESTS

ROCK4SANTA - IN SUPPORT OF THE EDMONTON CHRISTMAS BUREAU

DEC/4

ZION NOIZ AND FRIENDS

FUNDRAISER FOR ZION NOIZ MUSIC & ARTS FESTIVAL W/ NICK DEGREE, BEE, & SKOBE

DEC/8

BETWEEN THE BREAD: FARROW CUSTOMER APPRECIATION PARTY

N3K

W/ DESIDERATA & BONSPIEL

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9910 9910B -09 ST ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALL SAINTS CATHEDRAL 10035103 St NW ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BAILEY THEATRE 5041 50 St, Camrose BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 COMMON 9910-109 St DAFFODIL GALLERY 10412-124 St NW DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN 10200-102 St NW

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FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10025-105 St NW HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 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 JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE 10045155 St NW 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 MACLAB CENTRE FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 4308-50 St, Leduc MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10086 MacDonald Dr NW MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 Macdonald Dr NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255

O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PALACE CASINO 8882-170 St NW PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 9135-146 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RANCH ROADHOUSE 6107-104 St NW 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 ST. BASIL CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave NW STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUB STAGE 8900-114 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 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229105 St NW YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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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 • Hannibal Thompson; Nov 19-21 • Vilmos; Nov 26-28 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

• 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

Himilayan Singing Blows Mat Meditation • Roots on Whyte, #305- 8135-102 St • painreleaseclinic@hotmail.com • rootsonwhyte. ca • Peaceful healing sounds with Philip Wong.

Bring mat, pillow and blanket • Nov 29, 7-8pm • Pay-what-you-can

Illness support and solutions • Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209123 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 •

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 • Pete Correale; Nov 18-22 • Rob Little; Nov 25-29

Connie's Comedy • Draft Bar & Grill, 1291250 St • With Monty Scott and Travis Nelson • Nov 25, 7:30pm

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

@ The Fort Lounge • The Fort Lounge, 13403 Fort Rd NW • With Dave Stawnichy with proceeds going to the Food Bank and United Way • Nov 21, 8pm

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

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

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

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm Kevin Hart: What Now Tour • Rexall

Schizophrenia Society Family Support Drop-in Group • Schizophrenia

Groove every Wed; 9pm

Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia. ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of AlbertaEdmonton 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

Groups/CLUBS/meetings

Seventies Forever Music Society •

Place, 7424-118 Ave • Nov 22, 7pm & 10pm • $49.50-$125

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy

Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

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

Amnesty International Edmonton

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50

Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave,

• 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

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) • Augustana

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

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

All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

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

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave •

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

Toastmasters • Club Bilingue Toastmasters

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

Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519 Meetings: 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

• 3-47 Old Arts Building, U of A North Campus • bziff@ualberta.ca • Listening session and talk about the Folkways recordings of legendary Appalachian musician Jean Ritchie (1922-2015) • Nov 26, 12pm

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

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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 cona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

LECTURES/Presentations 9-Hour Redefining Conflict Workshop Series • MRJC offices, 10066-151 St • Learn conflict management concepts, enhance your understanding of yourself and others in conflict situations, and try out new communication techniques to resolve differences • Starting Nov 27 • $75 (includes all materials); register online mrjc.ca, or 780.423.0896 12845-102 Ave NW • askhertalks@stephenlewisfoundation.org • askhertalks.com • Each series of talks gives the podium to a group of dynamic African women experts to speak about a range of urgent issues • Nov 23, 7-9pm

Beethoven: The Early Period •

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

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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

Ask Her Talks • Royal Alberta Museum,

Winspear Centre, 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.428.1414 • winspearcentre.com • Nov 19, 7:30pm • $42

Derek Edwards: Baloney and Wine •

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Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.orgs/en • Program for HIVAID’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

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Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:458:30pm; 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

Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • sclibrary.ab.ca • An overview of Beethoven’s life, complete with short musical examples, and then explore music from his early period • Nov 22, 2-4pm • $10 (adults), $5 (seniors & students); Available at door

Beethoven: The Late Period • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • sclibrary.ab.ca • Exploring how Beethoven’s music evolved further in his final decade as he sought to express his emotions in the more intimate forms of the piano sonata and string quartet • Dec 6, 2-4pm • $10 (adults), $5 (seniors & students); Available at door

Beethoven: The Middle Period • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • sclibrary.ab.ca • Looking at how Beethoven’s music underwent striking change as the 19th century unfolded. In an explosion of creative energy, Beethoven pushed music in new directions, bending and breaking musical conventions • Nov 29, 2-4pm • $10 (adults), $5 (seniors & students); Available at door Being a Waban-Aki Woman in 2015 • Room 101, Auditorium, Faculté Saint-Jean, 840691 St • Featuring keynote speaker: Canadian filmmaker, Alanis Obomsawin • Nov 24, 7-9pm • RSVP required to hguillem@ualberta.ca

From Waste to Wealth: Turning Cow Dung into a Commodity • Muttart Hall, 10050 MacDonald Drive • 780.497.5082 • Samuel Mugo talks about his research and explores ways to not only counter the negative environmental impact of agricultural byproducts—from both cows and plants—but ways to turn that refuse into valuable resources • Nov 25, 12:10-12:50pm

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

Beers for Queers • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental dropin space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

Team Edmonton • Various sports and recreation activities • All-Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8648-81 St NW; pridecentreofedmonton.org; Every 3rd Sat of the month, 9:3010:30pm • Badminton: Oliver School, 10227-118 St; badminton@teamedmonton.ca; Every Wed (until Feb 24); $5 (drop-in) • Board Game Group: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; Monthly on a Sun, 3-7pm; RSVP to boardgames@ teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Oliver Community Hall, 10326-118 St; bootcamp@teamedmonton. ca; Every Thu, 7pm; $30 (full season), $15 (low income or students) • Equal, Fit, Fierce, and Fabulous: Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave; pridecentreofedmonton.org/calendar; Drop in games and activities for youth; Every other Tue, 4:30-6pm WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Nonprofit lesbian social organization for Edmonton

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• 780.488.6557 • Sun: Last Sun each month, Woodys Jam Session with the talented regular customers; Jugs of Canadian or Kokanee only $13 • Mon: Massive Mondays features talented comedians • Tue: Domestic bottle beer special only $3.75 all night long • Wed: Jugs of Canadian and Kokanee for $13; Karaoke with Shirley from 7pm-12:30am • Thu: Highballs on special only $3.75 all night long; Karaoke with Bubbles 7pm-12:30am • Fri: Comming soon: DJ Arrow Chaser's new TGIF Party • Sat: Pool Tournement, 4pm; Jager shots on special only $4; Coming soon, DJ Jazzy

SPECIAL EVENTS 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)

Arts On The Ave Charity Fundraiser • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave • artsontheave.org • A benefit for Arts on the Ave • Nov 26

Burst of Brightness - Cultural Bazaar • Edmonton Intercultural Centre, 9538-107 Ave NW - McCauley School • A vibrant marketplace of culturally diverse local artists, performers and community members featuring great talents, handicraft and beautiful items of cultural heritage and origin • Nov 27 (5-8pm), Nov 28 (10am-3pm) • Free

Carrot Board Games Night • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • An evening of lattes, laughs and board games! Bring your favourite board games to share or choose one from the collection.

All ages welcome • Nov 24, 7-9pm

The Carrot Christmas Bazaar • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • Be distinctive, buy original and support local! Find great original gifts for those 'hard to shop for' loved ones • Nov 27, 7-9pm; Nov 28, 10am-4pm

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

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 Parkshow Yeg 2015 presented by Simons • West Edmonton Mall, 8882-170 St NW • ourparkonline.ticketleap.com/parkshowedmonton • Will feature new up-and-coming designers from all across Canada. Designed to connect Edmonton's fashion and art lovers with today's young talent • Dec 5, 7-11pm • $30-$80

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 and a route 1.75km long. The parade will take 30-40 minutes • Nov 21, 4:30-6pm

Scrambled YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 1022597 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 Syrian Refugee Family: Fundraiser Dinner/ Silent Auction • Grace Point Church, 720-62 St • facebook.com/groups/ EdmontonSouthCares • An evening of food and entertainment in support of South Edmontonians working to bring at least one Syrian refugee family to South Edmonton early in the new year • Nov 21, 5:30-8:30pm • $25 (adult), $12.50 (kids 12 and under), Free (kids under 5)

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (MAR 21 – APR 19): Urbandictionary.com defines the English word "balter" as follows: "to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy."

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VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): To activate your full potential in the coming weeks, you don't need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): English model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are and who you will become.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): A flyer on a telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a nine-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby's owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work.

She had launched a campaign at gofundme.com to raise the cash.

Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby's well-being. But I thought, "Shouldn't I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?"

Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle "Think globally, act locally" in every way imaginable.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): Normally I charge $270-an-hour for the kind of advice I'm about to offer, but I'm giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful exploration, and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants.

Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): Some athletes think it's unwise to have sex before a big game.

They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory.

There's evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has "as much sex as possible" before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all but one of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her "the world's most dominant athlete." As you approach your equivalent of the "big game," Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey's strategy.

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SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn't be broken in.

They'd be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): Here's how Mark Twain's novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: "Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot."

The preface I'd write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That's because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punchline in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): The Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams.

Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf.

But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach.

Don't scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don't stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): Slavery is illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children.

After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms. Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves. Start here: http://bit.ly/liberateslaves. V

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Considering online dating

Addressing the pitfalls of this tool will make it better for everyone Online dating fascinates me. From my remote position, I've observed countless people explore the realms of Tinder, Plenty of Fish, OKCupid and Match.com. I have seen numerous individuals find their life partners online. In contrast, I have also heard many horror stories: everything from unsolicited performance masturbation on a first date to being screamed at in a restaurant.

Overall, I think online dating is an awesome innovation that is undoubtedly benefiting millions of users, but I'm not without concerns.

Beyond the obvious problems—like the enormous amount of time spent on correspondence and awkward coffee dates, and the somewhat likely risk of being cat-fished— there are other risks present that are shifting the culture at large.

One of my main concerns stems from the obviously superficial nature of some of these mediums.

I can appreciate the importance of physical attraction, but apps

that permit people to impulsively swipe right for a pretty face aren't exactly promoting deep compatibility—which, fair enough, might not be the point. That said, I suspect similar principles are also at play on more serious dating sites, where people may arbitrarily rule out a potential match due to a poorly constructed profile.

Online dating also instills a false sense of control.

We cultivate a profile highlighting our best attributes and selectively prescreen potential candidates before engaging them. The ability to vet people makes us feel somewhat reassured, but we are only magnifying the potential for disappointment. For example, if you meet someone in real life, at least

you'll have an accurate sense of what they look like—which cannot be said for all profile pictures.

There's also the risk associated with the glut of riches. It's hard enough for most people to feel confident that they are making

are we less likely to select a singular option, but when/if we do, we're also more likely to question our decision. I think this is made worse by the ease in which you can start and stop connections.

Sure, there are advantages to being able to treat dating like a casual, low-stakes audition. But this casual attitude also leads to casual dismissals.

This is another big issue: the casual rejection and/or disregard of people.

When something is easy to come by, we don't value it as much. This is not helped by the way we approach contact. It would appear that some take the "cast a wide net" approach, sending hundreds of messages and hoping for one or two responses. Some of these

Apps that permit people to impulsively swipe right for a pretty face aren’t exactly promoting deep compatibility. the right choice when it comes to commitment. How much harder does that question become when there is an infinite abundance of candidates lined up and ready to be dated? Scientific studies have shown that the more options we have, the less satisfied we are with our choices. So, not only

messages may be thoughtful and engaging, but the majority are a copied and pasted "hey" or more direct solicitations, such as "dtf?" and "into anal?" This is not only disrespectful, but it also interrupts meaningful communication from taking place, as it becomes easy to be dismissive of the feelings of the people who invest real time into their messages.

Overall, I think online dating is great, but consideration of the issues above has the potential to make it even greater.V

Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@ vueweekly.com. Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG.

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COLD CUCKED

I've always been a big believer in the common-sense obviousness that monogamy is hard. Additionally, I like the idea of my wife getting fucked. I don't have any desire to be denigrated or emasculated; I just get off on the idea of her being satisfied and a little transgressive.

Early in our relationship, we talked about monogomish guidelines: I'd like to be informed and consulted, and she would rather I kept mine to myself. Last weekend we were having sex, and she asked me if I "wanted to hear a story," code for treating me to a tale of a sexual contact. She'd been out of town for work most of the summer, and she told me that one of her roommates had gotten in the shower with her and fingered her until she came. I asked her if she'd fucked him, and she said yes. It was all hot and awesome. But a few hours later, I was experiencing pangs: Why hadn't she told me or asked me at the time?

Also, I felt very alone and depressed that summer, and when I'd gone to visit her, my wife and this roommate acted very strangely. I told her that I thought it was hot and cool, but that I didn't think it was cool that she'd kept this from me for so long. Things got worse from there: Over the last week, we've had some great sex and open conversations but also a lot of anger and hurt. The truth is that she carried on with this guy all summer. It's not the sex that bothers me so much as the breadth of the deception, the disregard for my feelings, and the violation of our agreement. And,

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yes, I'm feeling a little emasculated.

How does a loving husband who intellectually believes that fooling around is OK—and who finds it hot sexually—get over this kind of hurt and anger? Help me get right with GGGesus.

Cocked Up Cuckold Keeps Stressing Two things have to happen in order for you to move on. One thing your wife has to do, CUCKS, and one thing you have to do.

Your wife has to express remorse for this affair—and it was an affair, not an adventure—and take responsibility for the anger, the hurt and, um, all the great sex you two have been having since the big reveal.

You don't give her version of events—why she kept this from you—but you were depressed and lonely while she was away, and she may have concluded that informing and consulting you about this guy (first when she wanted to fuck him, and then when she was actually fucking him) would've made you feel worse. This conclusion is a massive self-serving rationalization, of course, because she knew you would veto the affair if she informed and consulted you. Figuring it would be easier to ask for forgiveness than permission, she went ahead and fucked the guy all summer long and then disclosed when your dick was hard.

Your wife needs to own up to the deception, the dishonesty and the manipulation, and then take responsibility for the hurt

she caused—that requires a sincere expression of remorse—and promise it won't happen again.

She shouldn't promise not to fuck around on you again. You don't want that, right? What she's promising is not to deceive you again, not to go in for self-serving rationalizations again, and not to avoid informing and consulting you again.

And one more thing that won't do: She won't humiliate you again. You feel emasculated in the wake of this affair because her summer fuck buddy knew what was up when you two met and you didn't. He knew who you were (the husband), but you didn't know who he was (the fuck buddy).

Now here's the thing you have to do, CUCKS: You have to forgive your wife. Mistakes were made, feelings were hurt, massive loads were blown. The fact that there was an upside for you even in this messy affair (see: massive loads, blown) should make forgiving your wife a little easier.

SINGLE AND UNCERTAIN

I'm a 27-year-old straight woman.

I've spent this last year back on the dating market, and it's HORRIBLE. I have a reasonably pretty face, I'm fit and I take care of myself. I have my life together—friends, interests, job—and I'm emotionally stable. I go out, I enjoy meeting people, I'm on Tinder. And I keep hearing that with a huge influx of young dudes, Seattle is an easy place to date as a woman. So why am I finding it so hard? I can get casual sex, and that's fun. But as far as finding a

relationship beyond just fuck buddies, it's depressingly predictable: Guy acts interested, texts me all the time, but eventually starts fading away. I've asked close friends to be honest with me; I even had a heartto-heart with an ex-boyfriend. Everyone says I'm not doing anything wrong. Are they all lying to me? I'm currently seeing someone I really like. When we're together, it seems like he likes me a lot. But now he's starting to do the fade. I'm really sad and anxious. It's killing my soul to be rejected constantly.

Bummed About Dating You've been "back on the dating market" for one year, BAD. Twelve measly months! And in that time, you've dated/fucked a handful of men and nothing panned out. That sounds pretty normal. If you expected to be back in a committed relationship within weeks, BAD, then your unrealistic expectations are the source of your grief, not your thoroughly typical dating/ mating/fading experiences.

There are worse things than being single for a year or two in your 20s. Get out there and meet men, pursue those non-men interests, and throw yourself into your work.

Being single is not an aggressive cancer—there's no immediate need for a cure—and panicking about being single isn't the secret to romantic success. (And being single means being miserable only if you convince yourself that single = miserable.)

So here's what you can do: Chill the fuck out; listen to your friends,

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your ex and your advice columnist; and stop melting down about what sounds like a thoroughly normal love life, BAD, not an unfolding catastrophe.

SONDHEIM SOLUTIONS

This is NGAA, the guy you advised to make a gay friend and listen to some musicals with him. I didn't find a gay friend, but I did buy recordings of the shows you suggested and I've been listening to the songs you recommended. I don't know them by heart yet, so I have more listening to do. But Mr Stephen Sondheim's message seems to be that I need to quietly move on.

Thanks for your answer, Dan. It really helped.

No Good At Acronyms Thank you for writing back, NGAA, and for listening to the shows I recommended: Company, Follies, and A Little Night Music. My advice for you made a lot of my other readers angry—really angry. They accused me of blowing you off and not answering your question and failing at this whole advice column thing.

But I didn't blow you off. I directed you, as I've directed many other readers, to the expert I thought could help you. In your case, NGAA, that person was Mr Stephen Sondheim. V On the Lovecast, Dan chats with Jonathan Eig, author of The Birth of the Pill: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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