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Exposing our persistent transphobia Criticize Caitlyn Jenner all you want, but stop calling her a man Let's talk about Caitlyn Jenner. I've purposefully avoided talking about her much in this space because she already receives an enormous amount of attention, and I've never seen an episode of Keeping up with the Kardashians or I Am Cait—Jenner's latest show about her transition—so I haven't had much to say. Recent events have changed my mind; specifically, Jenner being named one of Glamour magazine's 25 Women of the Year in early November.

This is certainly not the first award Jenner has been given: in July, she was awarded the Arthur Ashe Courage Award, which happens to be one of the most prestigious awards in sports. But for whatever reason, the universe seemed to lose its collective mind over this last award. News report after blog after opinion column created a veritable cottage industry of hand-wringing over the entire affair. James Smith, whose wife Moira was given the

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award posthumously for her lifesaving efforts during the attacks on 9/11, exemplified this pearlclutching when he angrily returned his wife's award with a letter that read,"I find [Jenner's win] insulting to Moira Smith's memory, and the memory of other heroic women who have earned this award.

Was there no woman in America, or the rest of the world, more deserving than this man?"

But of course there is a reason why this award would cause so much controversy: naked transphobia that doesn't recognize Caitlyn Jenner as a woman. The fact that the award came from a glitzy celebrity and lifestyle magazine likely

amplified the transphobia, because Glamour represents the heart of heteronormative, cisgender femininity: the very medium that defines who and what a woman is granted its seal of approval to Jenner, and people couldn't deal.

the number of people, who should really know better, who have joined the chorus. These folks want to criticize Jenner but use problematic rhetoric, along the lines of: "Until recently, I understood Jenner to be a rich white man—so does she really deserve the award?" or "The Kardashian/Jenner clan is famous for nothing, so why are we putting her on a pedestal?"

Maybe you've heard—or said—something similar.

But of course there is a reason why this award would cause so much controversy: naked transphobia that doesn't recognize Caitlyn Jenner as a woman.

So, while the bigots are busy rattling their sabres—both real and metaphorical (the Transgender Day of Remembrance was just a few weeks ago, and the list of murdered trans* people is still far too long)—I'm quietly concerned by

I get it: Jenner is a controversial figure. She is a Republican who has spoken in support of "traditional marriage." She's a member of a family who is famous for being

on TV. She is rich, white and cisnormatively beautiful, has an enormous amount of privilege, and her experience of transitioning is, in part at least, very different from almost every other trans* person out there—despite the fact that she's now a de facto spokesperson for the community. There is a lot not to like. I'm not exactly a fan, either.

But our dislike is not an excuse to ignore her basic human rights.

Criticize her all you like—ask why, out of the growing number of trans* women in the spotlight (Laverne Cox, Andreja Pejić, Laura Jane Grace, Carmen Carrera), Jenner was the one to receive Glamour's award. Argue about whether I Am Cait does a good job educating the general public about trans* issues.

Debate about her use of celebrity, her politics and whether she's a good spokesperson for trans* people at all. Criticize away! Just don't call her a man while you do it. V

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Maldives: politics trumps climate change

Rising sea levels may completely destroy countries before climate change comes before political power Do you remember Mohamed Nasheed, the charismatic young president of the Maldives who dramatized the threat of rising sea levels to his low-lying island nation in the Indian Ocean by holding his first cabinet meeting underwater, with all the cabinet ministers in scuba gear?

"This is what will happen to the Maldives if climate change is not checked," he told the cameras as the fish swam past him. (Well, not exactly "told," because you can't talk when you are underwater, but he held up a sign saying that.) Were you wondering where he is now that the great conference to curb global warming is getting underway in Paris?

Nasheed can't be in Paris, unfortunately, because he was overthrown in a coup in 2012 and was then jailed for 13 years last March for "terrorism." And the promise he made to set an example for the world by achieving a carbon-neutral economy (zero net carbon-dioxide emissions) in the Maldives within 10 years has been modified a bit by the new government.

The new rulers felt that a 100-percent cut in emissions by 2020 was too ambitious, so they settled for a 10-percent cut by 2030. This may or may not have something to do with the fact that they are also encouraging drilling for oil in the country.

But only a base cynic would suggest

that it may also have to do with the riches that sometimes mysteriously accrue to those who allocate drilling licences.

How did it come to this? Every country is different, but the changes that brought the Maldives to this low point are a warning about what can happen to the promises countries make about reducing their emissions. Since the whole Paris negotiation is based on each country making voluntary commitments on emission cuts, there are 140 different ways that whatever they agree at Paris can be sabotaged afterwards.

The Maldives has a long record of taking the lead on climate change issues, because it is the most vulnerable country in the world to sea-level rise. Three-quarters of its land is no more than half a metre above sea level, and it will be inundated by the end of the century if the mid-range prediction on sea-level rise proves correct. No part of its 1000-plus islands is more than 2.4 metres high.

Even Maumoon Abdul Gayoom,

the dictator who ruled the islands for 30 years before Nasheed replaced him in a free election in 2008, was a climate-change activist.

Nasheed, then a young journalist, was arrested 15 times under Gayoom's rule and frequently tortured, but Gayoom was the first national leader to highlight the peril facing small island states in his "Death of a Nation" speech at the United Nations in 1987.

Liverpool John Moores University, was not really bringing the subject up for the first time when he held his famous underwater cabinet meeting. It's hard to be Maldivian and not care about climate change. But it can be done, and the current president of the Maldives, Abdulla Yameen, is living proof of it.

To be fair, he does care about it a bit; he just cares about power much more. After Nasheed was forced to resign at gunpoint in 2012, the old gang came back with a vengeance: Yameen is Gayoom's half-brother, and his foreign minister is Gayoom's daughter.

And Nasheed is in prison.

Nasheed was making a political comeback in the 2013 presidential election—he won in the first round of voting—but his victory was annulled by the Supreme Court. After some further manipulation of the voting Yameen emerged as president, with third-placed Qasim Ibrahim as his coalition partner.

And when Ibrahim quit the coalition early this year and joined Nasheed's Maldivian Democratic Party, making him the favourite to win the next

The Maldives has a long record of taking the lead on climate change issues, because it is the most vulnerable country in the world to sea-level rise.

The Maldives was the first country to ratify the Kyoto Protocol, the first international agreement on combating climate change. Gayoom was also instrumental in founding the Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS), now 44 members strong, which campaigns internationally against global warming and is strongly represented at Paris.

So Nasheed, who holds a degree in Maritime Studies from what is now

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election, Yameen responded by having Nasheed arrested on the charge of illegally ordering the arrest of a senior judge while he was in office.

Although no evidence was offered at the trial that Nasheed had actually given such an order or even knew about it, the arrest was defined as "abduction," which is a terrorist offence under Maldivian law. Nasheed was sentenced to 13 years in prison, and joined the 1700 other people (out of a population of 350 000) now detained on politically motivated charges.

The current government is trying to bolster its support by playing the Islamist card: for example, the death penalty has been reintroduced 60 years after it was abolished Now the thieves are quarrelling among themselves, with Yameen's vice-president under arrest for allegedly plotting to kill the president, and climate change is very much on the back burner.

It's not just a fledgling democracy that's going under. In the somewhat longer term, it's the whole country.

But politics is usually a short-term game, and it can get quite nasty. Not all the promises that are being made in Paris will be kept. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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FRONT COVER // HORSE MEAT

Four-legged companion or lunch meat?

Canada's multi-million dollar horse meat industry might be on the verge of change

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anada's multi-million dollar horse meat industry has been described as a dirty little secret, though one that's not been very well-kept given the regular cropping up of news stories in recent years. Canada slaughtered 66 651 horses in 2014, in five slaughter plants across the country (two of which are in Alberta). Nationally, Quebec is the biggest consumer of horse meat, though you can find it in small pockets throughout the country—typically in European delis; the vast majority of Canada's horse meat is exported to Europe. Statistics Canada reports that Canada's total horse meat exports bring in roughly $80 million per year. (Comparatively, Canada's beef exports for January to September 2015 alone were well over $1.6 billion.)

At first glance, the differing opinions on horse meat—companion animal or food source—seems to be nothing more than a clash of cultural values.

"It's a culture thing; I've got people that have been eating it for 60, 70, 80 years," says Dave van Leeuwen.

"I've got older customers that grew up on this stuff, and sometimes I think there's people just grabbing at things to get it off the market just because they don't agree with it."

Van Leeuwen owns Ben's Meats and Deli, a local Dutch store that was founded by his grandfather in 1953.

Like many Dutch individuals, he grew up eating horse meat: smoked, thinsliced horse meat is a staple sandwich ingredient in the Netherlands. Van Leeuwen describes it as akin to prosciutto in the way that it's prepared (cured and smoked, as opposed to cooked), though not in flavour; he describes the taste as very lean, rich and salty. Sliced horse lunch meat is van Leeuwen's fourth-best-selling meat in the store; he sells about 60 to 65 pounds of it each month.

Critics of Canada's horse slaughter acknowledge the horse's position as a companion animal in our culture, but that's actually not the first—or even second—argument against this practice. The main charge levied by critics against the horse meat industry is that it could contain traces of veterinary drugs that are unsafe for human consumption. The most common of these is phenylbutazone (PBZ), an anti-inflammatory colloquially called "bute." PBZ is banned by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) as it can cause potentially fatal blood diseases in humans. While the CFIA claims that its personnel

perform daily inspections in all federally registered meat establishments, and that they test horses regularly for PBZ, a European audit in 2014 caught Canadian horse meat tainted with traces of the drug. It's not known how long PBZ stays in the horse's system; a 2010 article published in the Food and Chemical Toxicology journal stated that traces of PBZ will remain in horse meat for a very long and undetermined period of time.

"Just about everybody who has a horse eventually gives their horse phenylbutazone," Sinikka Crosland says. Crossland is the executive director of the Canadian Horse Defence Coalition (CHDC), a non-profit group she co-founded in 2004 with the goal of banning Canada's horse-slaughter industry.

"It's a drug that should not ever find its way into the food chain," she explains. "Yet, at the same time, the Canadian government just turns a blind eye to the fact that a lot of these horses going through the system actually have very likely had bute at some point in their lives. ... As far as we're concerned, there's no way B:9.5” to control that. Horses should not be food animals, period."T:9.5” All animals sold to slaughter houses S:9.5”

must have documentation identifying their history of drug treatments, but Crosland notes that there are still large gaps in actually verifying this information and it only goes back 180 days. Further, a Global News story in March 2014 revealed that the CFIA only tests an average of 385 samples per year since 2010—less than 0.5 percent of the total horses slaughtered annually in Canada.

The humane aspect of the horse slaughter is also of significant concern to the CHDC. "We think that it's a horrifically inhumane industry," Crosland says.

"The undercover footage that we've looked at, year after year from various slaughterhouses in Canada, show that the horses suffer greatly when they're in that kill box. ... You see them shaking, a head-to-toe shake, and they're trying to get out of that kill box; they're rearing; they're doing everything possible to try to defend themselves. They can smell the blood; they often don't clean up between horses; they just pump them through."

This stands in marked contrast to van Leeuwen's view of these practices. He notes that he's visited slaugh-

terhouses before and that they strive to ensure the animals aren't frightened, because it will negatively impact the quality of the meat.

"There's something in beef called a dark cutter," he explains. "It's been traced back to something called preslaughter stress syndrome. If you put an animal in stress before it is killed, the meat can toughen up and it won't go through rigor mortis process, and it won't break down. They don't want that, because it ruins the meat."

However, van Leeuwen also acknowledges that in horse slaughter, as with any other industry, there will be both good and bad individuals, and that sometimes the proper practices may not always be followed.

One of the most overlooked aspects of Canada's horse meat industry is the export of live horses to Japan.

Raw horse sashimi is a delicacy in Japan, and live horses are sold on the Japanese market for a high price. To ensure the meat is as fresh as possible, these horses are shipped live via air freight, in conditions that Crosland describes as deplorable—they are overcrowded, sometimes three to four animals per wooden crate (when Canada's own laws dictate only one per crate) and have food

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and water withheld for days (up to 36 hours within Canada's borders, but once they hit international airspace, the clock resets). As reported

by Statistics Canada, as of November 2014, Canada had shipped 6976 live horses to Japan, an increase of only five percent from 2013—though that number increased a whopping 560 percent between 2012 and 2013.

In May 2014, NDP member of parliament Alex Atamanenko introduced Bill C-571, which would amend the Meat Inspection Act to ban the slaughter of any horse without a medical record containing all treatments over the course of its lifetime.

Effectively, this bill would end the slaughter of all horses not raised specifically for human consumption. The bill was voted down, though Crosland was heartened to see that the Liberal MPs voted unanimously in support of the bill. She is optimistic that with Canada's recent change in government, passing similar legislation will soon be possible.

Even in the absence of any legislation against it, Canada's horse-slaughter industry is in decline: the number of horses slaughtered has fallen each year since 2008, after a peak caused by a surge in live-horse imports after the US banned horse slaughter in 2007. The US ban was the result of ongoing lobbying by animal welfare groups as well as legal battles between municipalities and abattoirs, which resulted in the passing of leg-

islation to prohibit the agriculture department from spending money on inspecting horse slaughter facilities, effectively killing the practice on American soil. (Over 60 percent of horses slaughtered in Canada are shipped from the US.) Horse meat is becoming harder to find: van Leeuwen used to carry a variety of different cuts like tenderloin and sirloin, but in 2015 only the smoked deli-style horse meat has been available.

Banning Canada's horse slaughter is not at the top of the list of the legislation changes expected to be enacted by the new Liberal government. (Or, likely, even somewhere around the middle.) There is, however, a decent chance that significant changes to the horse meat industry will occur at some point in the next four years. The average Canadian will likely be unaffected, but it would set a significant legal precedent in our country and clear up a lot of the current ambiguities surrounding the horse-slaughter industry.

Before a total ban on horse slaughter arrives (if it ever does), Canada will most likely see legislation like Bill C-571, which would definitively determine what is now only circumspect, and the crux of the argument against eating horse meat as it exists today: whether the majority of slaughtered horses are byproducts of other industries (rodeos, racing, family pets) as the CHDC maintains—and therefore likely contaminated with PBZ—or

whether most of them were already raised for food, as van Leeuwen believes. Given the US's 2007 ban on horse slaughter, and the EU's recent ban of horse meat imports from Mexico due to issues with traceability of veterinary records, the North American horse meat industry could potentially collapse. What this will entail on the world scene, however, is much less clear.

"What we sell in Canada is just a drop in the bucket," van Leeuwen says. "I don't see it disappearing, no.

They have to do something with some of the animals. ... I think there is an industry there."

The CHDC has already considered this, however, and Crosland notes that they and other sympathetic groups would work to ensure all horses find a home in the event of a ban.

"People are always saying, 'What's going to happen; for the next 20 years the country's going to be overrun with horses,'" she says. "No, that's not going to happen. If slaughter were to end tomorrow, yes there would be lots of horses on the market, and everybody would be scrambling to figure out where those horses are going to go. But when you look at the big picture, overbreeding is the worst problem that adds to the horse population. ... Responsibility suddenly would become a way of life in the B:9.5” horse industry."

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Refugee profiling There is no rational justification for the horrendous terror attacks carried out in Paris and Beirut last month at the hands of ISIS zealots.

If there's any kind of message or lesson to be gleaned in the wake of those tragedies, it's that tolerance, compassion and, ultimately, love for all fellow humans are the best weapons to combat the radical hate war that ISIS is desperate to wage.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is making good on his election promise of accepting 25 000 refugees—albeit in a slightly altered manner. Instead of settling 25 000 refugees by the end of 2015, the Liberal government plans to accept 10 000 by the end of the year, with rest to be settled by the end of February 2016.

What's troubling, however, is that the Canadian government will not sponsor male refugees unless they are with their families or identify as gay, bisexual or transgender. This is a terribly divisive and discriminatory policy based on unfair assumptions, used for nothing more than pointless profiling in an attempt to appease security concerns around refugees entering Canada.

Our goal is to exceed your expectations!

Stating that priority is being given to families, women and children, and LGBT individuals makes a nice headline and soundbite for the Liberal government, but it does so at the expense of human lives—single male refugees. Right from the beginning we're showing refugees that they'll be categorized and judged based on what our stereotypical assumptions of a terrorist are. It was a desire to escape those kinds of backwardsthinking ideals that brought Syrian refugees to Canada's doorstep in the first place.

If a potential terrorist hiding out as a refugee wanted to launch an attack with mass casualties in Canada, they most likely wouldn't have a problem lying about their sexual orientation on a form. Plus, female refugees are just as capable of being terrorists as single straight males.

If Canada wants to lead the way in acceptance and tolerance and confront the message of hate that ISIS espouses, it's time to ditch these problematic assumptions of what an extremist is. Why? "Because it's 2015." V

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FEATURE // COMFORT FOOD

THE BIOLOGY BEHIND WINTER CARB CRAVINGS Holiday meals, less daylight and mood changes are responsible for our winter shift in eating patterns

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he winter months are synonymous with heavy, calorie-rich foods and decadent treats. From turkey and stuffing at Christmas dinner to sugar cookies and family gingerbread recipes at office parties, it's hard to escape the influx of food that comes about when the days get shorter and colder.

Loreen Wales, a registered nutritionist and CEO of Revive Wellness, has a collection of her own favourite winter eats, including hamburger soup and her mother-in-law's butter tarts.

"The past couple of days I've been trying to have raw veggies for lunch, but the minute I feel that cool wind I immediately want something more substantial," she says. "People are sometimes surprised by this considering my line of work. But it's not about denying indulgences. It's just a matter of how you balance them."

Wales explains that a lot of research has gone into the actual biology of why humans tend to gravitate towards heavier and more calorically dense foods in the winter. She's read many articles on why other mammals will eat heavier when it starts to cool off; it tends to be a hibernation tactic for when food won't be as plentiful in the coming months.

But for humans—even those of us in Alberta—the reasons seem less biological and more social.

The first thing Wales points out is that, starting in October and continuing throughout the colder months, there are six major celebrations in which food features prominently: Thanksgiving, Halloween, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day and Easter. After Easter, in comparison, the only major celebration that comes up during the summer months is Canada Day. The second factor, and the more prevalent issue identified by Wales, is the changing daylight hours from summer to winter. Edmonton's sunlight time gets cut in half during the winter months, which can cause a whole host of health issues, including Seasonal Affective Disorder. The earlier onset of darkness causes an earlier hit of melatonin in your brain, which is the brain chemical that manages sleep and causes people to be more tired and

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more lethargic. This shift in mood can also cause people to start seeking comfort in food.

"When you eat foods high in fat, salt or sugar, you do experience an endorphin rush in your brain," Wales says. "That endorphin rush is similar to what many experience when they have an addiction."

The last drive towards heavy foods is the typical inactivity that comes about during the colder season. From the chilly weather to the lethargy from a lack of sunlight, people tend to be less active in the wintertime, which can contribute to winter mood shifts and corresponding eating habits.

"When we feel this way, we tend to do things in excess," Wales says. "From shopping to alcohol to gambling, all these are done in extremes when we're feeling down and looking for pleasure, and food is no different."

Trying to moderate the seasonal mood—and especially appetite— changes can be difficult, but Wales points out that doing something as simple as embracing Edmonton as a winter city can help. Being active and spending more time outside can help you reduce stress, get a better sleep and even increase your energy throughout the day.

But Wales also acknowledges that being active in Edmonton's winters can be a serious chore.

"I remember last year, Make Something Edmonton put on a giant snowball fight, and I thought it was just brilliant," Wales says. "It got people active and outside. And that's what people need to do. Mix up their activity and try different things so fitness won't be seen as work."

As for the heavy meals and delicious desserts we'll all soon be facing this holiday season, even Wales knows when it's time to treat herself.

"I know when I want chocolate, that's all that's on my mind," she says. "I can try to have an apple instead or some yogurt, but my body will still want that chocolate. It's better to feed that craving and set a boundary for yourself than it is to completely deny it."

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Reviewing the Rocky festival

This year's top-voted wines reveal a vicious cycle of mass-market mediocrity

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ocky is the wine festival that I love to hate.

It sounds like paradise to any wine enthusiast: hundreds of wine, spirits and beer samples to try, dozens of food items, great people-watching.

The Rocky Mountain Wine and Food Festival (RMWFF) is always well-organized, well-attended and generally a good way to indulge in a bunch of food and booze.

So why do I also loathe it? Because Rocky panders to the lowest common denominator of wine drinkers and strives to keep them there: casual or neophyte drinkers who prefer wines that are one-note, sweet and have a flashy label. Is there anything wrong with being this person? Of course not. Is there anything wrong with the global pressure from giant wine conglomerates spending billions of dollars trying to convince people that this is all the wine world has to offer, and all they should ever ask of and expect from it? You bet there's something wrong with that.

I'm not attacking the RMWFF organization itself or calling for its demise. The organizers are genuinely well-intentioned, engage in a decent amount of charity work and have taken steps to diversify their sample offerings by including small/local/interesting producers; they also introduced a Saturday afternoon tasting session which is by far the preferable slot for more serious wine drinkers to peruse the festival's wares without having to dodge the flailing limbs of drunk people. There's no question that Rocky has value to serious wine enthusiasts who want to taste some new things—as long as they're willing to pay for it, that is. By the festival's own estimation, the average Edmontonian spends $30 on tasting coupons (which is in addition to the

$23–$34 cost to get in the door).

But if you're really serious about using the festival to sample through a number of products—and especially if you showed up hungry—it's not hard to blow through $100 per person on samples alone.

The real problem with the festival is that it's dominated by large corporations hawking their brands with flashy marketing campaigns, which drives out the smaller companies in a vicious, self-perpetuating cycle.

Prime evidence of this is provided in the winners of the Great Big Taste Awards, a "people's choice" style of awards introduced to the festival this year. The winners at Edmonton's festival are almost entirely generic, big brand, mass-marketed wines.

Most egregious is that Apothic Dark won first place in the New World Northern Hemisphere red wine category. This is a wine that's shockingly overpriced for what basically amounts to alcoholic grape juice.

(Yes, I know that is what all wine technically is, but this stuff tastes quite literally like you threw some vodka and a couple squirts of corn syrup into a glass of Smucker's.)

Even more damning, the runners up in that same category were Cupcake Black Forest and Wayne Gretzky Cabernet Sauvignon-Syrah—both of which are very similar to Apothic Dark.

These results are, of course, far from conclusive and not representative of what every festival attendee liked. Nonetheless, they are very telling and essentially confirm my suspicions/fears about the habits and palate of the average wine drinker.

Again, I'm not attacking people for having certain preferences. My problem is that there are so many companies courting those preferences with the cheapest possible product they can make, so as to maximize their profit while simultaneously lowering the benchmark of the entire wine industry. These wines are not good quality—they are loaded with residual sugar and additives like Mega Purple so that, upon first sip, the sheer intensity of the flavour tricks you into thinking it's a good wine (a very common problem with casual/ new wine drinkers—and arguably some seasoned ones too, to trot out

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the old argument against wine critic Robert Parker's notoriously predictable palate). They are the wine world's equivalent of processed food: providing cheap comfort in exchange for missing out on a huge variety of other tastier and healthier options. For the latter, that includes both your own health and that of the planet. All the extra sugar and additives in those wines guarantees a worse hangover than a wine without those embellishments, plus they are made through heavy use of chemical sprays and other destructive agricultural practices to minimize production costs.

When these are the highest-voted wines at a festival, the festival is persuaded not to waste time on products that offer an alternative approach; when picking a wine to try, many customers will rely on what they think is tried and true, and so they will continue to buy samples of those mass-produced wines. Recognizing this, many wineries and wine agents stop bothering with the RMWFF at all, so it becomes increasingly a place for large corporate brands and no one else—and thus the cycle repeats itself.

I'm not calling for a boycott of Rocky—far from it. I want everyone to go to the festival and purposely avoid all of those mass-marketed wines. Walk right past those garish posters and buy some samples from the small winery next to them (the few that are left, anyway). Alternatively, buy a sample from those mass-produced wines and make a point of telling them that it sucks.

(Politely, please: the pourer is just doing their job and they aren't responsible for what you're tasting— unless you're talking to the actual winemaker, but I will chug a bottle of Apothic Dark on the spot if that person actually shows up at Rocky.)

My dream is to see the RMWFF— and all similar events—stop being a corporate parade and start being a wine farmer's market, in which consumers can meet the people who made our drinks, taste some quality stuff and leave with some faith in the wine industry.V Mel Priestley is a certified sommelier and wine writer who also blogs about wine, food and the arts at melpriestley.ca

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Burning Bluebeard closes out Theatre Network's 2015 with the story of, um, a theatre fire ...

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his year will be bookended by fire: in January, actual flames destroyed a landmark Edmonton theatre; in December, Theatre Network's final performance of 2015 will feature the resurrection of six burnt performers.

The Roxy Theatre burned to the ground right around the time that Dave Horak was searching for a script. Burning Bluebeard was too fitting to pass up: Jay Torrence's script is based on the infamous Iroquois Theatre fire, which has the dubious

reputation of being both the deadliest theatre fire and deadliest singlebuilding fire in US history. Over 600 people died while at a matinee performance of the Drury Lane musical Mr Bluebeard in December of 1903, due to a combination of shoddy construction and criminally negligent cover-ups, as well as improper evacuation procedures. Burning Bluebeard was first performed by Chicagoan experimental theatre troupe the NeoFuturists, which has since made it an annual holiday hit in its hometown.

"With this piece I'm keeping an eye on tone—are we walking the fine line between the com[ic] and tragic subject matter?" Horak writes in an email. "With a piece that [has] so clearly been created with a specific company in mind, we need to find our own take on the material while staying true to what [Torrence] is intending."

Burning Bluebeard features six performers, who dabble in clowning, vaudeville, lipsyncing, dance and

magic while attempting to finish the original Christmas pantomime that was interrupted by fire. It's undoubtedly a macabre sort of balancing act, and one that might feel at odds with the cheery holiday season—though Horak points to that most famous of Yuletide tales, A Christmas Carol, as evidence that ghost stories aren't out of place at this time of year.

"The play is actually about competing forces—pain and pleasure, comedy/tragedy, darkness and lightness, and I could go on ... there are some

scenes when both competing forces are happening at the same time," Horak writes. "I think anyone who has suffered loss and has searched for the light after the grief will connect to this piece.

"There is something about us reminiscing about the past, thinking about our ancestors at this time of year that has universal resonance," he continues. "Burning Bluebeard contains this feeling—the beautiful and tragic all wrapped up together."

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Iphigenia at Aulis W

hen you walk into the theatre to watch Iphigenia at Aulis, the first thing you'll notice are the two gigantic walls that dominate the stage, cutting off sightlines for the outermost seats and containing all the action to a single dingy room. It's a drab, linoleum-floored office under harsh fluorescent light that spills out into the audience—the modern equivalent of Agamemnon's command tent. We spend a long time watching the leader of the Greek army wandering around in this fish-

bowl, mumbling to himself, before the play really begins. But once the ball starts rolling, Iphigenia picks up speed continuously, barrelling on towards its inevitable doom.

Agamemnon (David Feehan), Clytemnestra (Jessy Ardern), and Menelaus (Stuart McDougall) are all given long, dense monologues to perform, and the actors sink their teeth into the source material. They sob and shriek and bark orders, toeing right up to the edge of melodrama without ever falling over into it. It proves challenging

for the actors who are not monologuing to have much presence on the stage as they listen, though, and at times it feels like they're just waiting for their turn to speak.

By far the most satisfying part of the show is its small chorus. A tradition of ancient Greek theatre, the chorus typically helps the audience understand the play by commenting on the action and the internal feelings of the main characters.

Here, Sarah Feutl and Natasha Napoleao skitter around the heroes

of the Trojan War, acting as hybrid war reporters/gossip columnists.

They provide some much-needed levity to the tragedy, interjecting phrases like "I literally can't even" into the 2400-year-old text.

The chorus also links the ancient story with modern events, although the play eventually casts the net of social criticism a bit too wide.

It grows muddled as it tries to encompass everything from missing and murdered indigenous women (which the play name drops then never mentions again) to a statis-

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More often than not, though, the play hits its mark. By grounding its characters in the context of 21stcentury war, Iphigenia successfully conveys the complex emotional struggles of millennia-old mythological figures.

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A Christmas Carol

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he Citadel's production of A Christmas Carol is an Edmonton tradition. Over the past 16 years, the show has introduced thousands of new audience members to Edmonton's rich theatre scene.

"A lot of people feel intimidated by live theatre," says James MacDonald, who's played Ebenezer Scrooge since 2011. "They think it's not for them. They think it's high-brow. They think it's elitist."

A Christmas Carol welcomes these skeptics, converting them just like it thaws the heart of its miserly protagonist.

"It's such a beautifully accessible play for people coming to the theatre for the first time," MacDonald says. "And we get a lot of people who've never been to the theatre who come to see A Christmas Carol and think to themselves: 'Wow, that's what live theatre is?

I'm going to go see more of that.'"

Despite having played Scrooge for half a decade, MacDonald still discovers new things about his role that deepen his understanding of the story.

"You'd think at some point it would feel like it's paint-by-numbers, but it's kind of the opposite," he notes. "I find every year that I feel a little more attached to the character."

This year, MacDonald has been thinking about the show's themes of generosity and neighbourliness in connection with current events in Canada.

"Scrooge is an extreme example of selfishness in the world, but you need only look at the reaction to 25 000 Syrian refugees to say we all have Scrooges in us that say: 'No. Keep those people out.'

"People—children—are dying," he continues. "And that's exactly what was happening in Dickens' time. The wealthier people, they didn't care that the children were dying. They

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just didn't even think about the fact that the children were dying. And then Scrooge sees Tiny Tim and goes: 'Wow, that kid is dying because he doesn't have access to basic medicine.' Well, those children in Syria are dying because they don't have access to a life without war. And we have the opportunity to give it to them. So isn't that worth the risk?"

The hope that the show might change some xenophobic hearts and minds isn't necessarily in vain. Over its long run, A Christmas Carol has developed a proven history of inspiring theatregoers to give back.

"We encourage the audience to bring either a donation to the food bank or cash at the end of the show to give to the food bank," MacDonald says. "And over the 15 years we've raised over $750 000 for the food bank. And people are just incredibly generous and it's just so unbelievable to see the amounts that they give—hopefully because they are so affected by the story."

As for MacDonald, playing one of literature's most notorious misers has helped him better understand what it means to be magnanimous.

"It's hard to quantify what generosity means in our society," he says. "But fundamentally it means to appreciate what you have and take every opportunity to give what you can— whether that's time or money or just generosity of spirit."

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ARTIFACTS Capital City Burlesque’s Holiday Fantasy / Fri, Dec 4 & Sat, Dec 5 (8 pm) Chances are good that jolly ol’ Saint Nick himself will be stopping by Capital City Burlesque’s annual holiday show, so if you want to contest your naughty/ nice status, this is the place to do it. Holiday Fantasy’s set to mix some CCB crowd-pleasers in with new numbers from the enduring burlesque company.

Plus, CCB will be joined by Les Trois Femmes, a fusion bellydance trio, both nights, for additional seasonal revelries.

Because the season’s about togetherness, right? (Citadel Theatre, $36.75)

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Royal Alberta Museums’s Goodbye, Hello closing party / Fri, Dec 4 – Sun, Dec 6, (continuous) As the museum gears up for its big move into the downtown core, it’s saying goodbye to its old, west-of-centre location with a massive party—so massive, in fact, it’s running for 48 full hours. There’s a wide swath of programming thoughout the weekend, from Happy Harbor Comics’ 48-hour attempt to build a world-record-sized comic to a performance by the Sugar Swing Dance Club and a horror movie marathon. It’s both a send-off and a celebration of what’s to come. (Royal Alberta Museum)

W;t / Until Sun, Dec 12 (8 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) As part of its 57th season, Walterdale Theatre is offering up this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, not seen in Edmonton for more than a decade. W;t centres around an English teacher facing a terminal cancer diagnosis who finds, the closer she comes to the end, acts of kindness growing more and more vital.

(Walterdale Theatre, $12 – $18)

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Scotty’s Art Show / Fri, Dec 4 (8 pm) Local artist Jet Skybox is putting on an art show: his own works will adorn the walls while bands like Red Hot Gospel and Borrachera bash out some tunes. (DV8)

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“…this richly entertaining and resonant carol should be part of everyone’s Christmas.”

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his is when I knew I wanted to be a doctor," Yvette tells us early on in Café Daughter. At that point, it seems more like a child's wide-eyed desire to help her immediate situation—her mother's sick, seemingly in perpetuity—than anything deeper, but her declaration proves more than a passing fancy in Kenneth T Williams' script, skillfully presented by Workshop West and Alberta Aboriginal Performing Arts. Here we get to trace the arc of a dream, from its early stages into something deeper and more tangible, even as it struggles to find support in a culture that would rather see minorities fit into the confines of stereotype.

Based on the life of Saskatchewan Senator Lillian Eva Quan Dyck, we follow Yvette's progress from a small-town childhood into high school in Saskatoon. Born to a Chinese father who runs a local café and a Cree mother—who expressly forbids her to identify as such—Yvette juggles her mixed heritage by hiding the latter part of it. Identity, then, is as much a secret as a defining feature for Yvette: and as she grows older, that distance grants her immense insight into how indigenous people were (and still often are) treated by the world at large. Not that identifying as Chinese means she gets a pass from small-town racism—far, far from it—but she is while she’s affected by so many micro-aggressions, sometimes she’s simply a sideline witness to them.

Some of those experiences, especially the early ones, occur when Yvette still doesn't quite understand the scope of them get played well for comedy, like her sixth-grade teacher balking at the idea of a student of colour in her class (Despite her straight-A grades), or being cast as "the Indian" in a school play. Later they

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Until Sun, Dec 6 (7:30 pm; 2 pm weekend matinees) Directed by Lisa C Ravensbergen Backstage Theatre, $22.50 – $27 turn more serious, but come as realizations of what a maturing Yvette has to overcome and reclaim to achieve what she wants. in Café Daughter, you get to witness the dawning of a fiercely independent spirit, and it's incredibly satisfying to watch it happen.

It all plays out on T Erin Gruber's gorgeously sculptural set design, which gives the sense of multiple memories converging at once: a mix of painted set, textured framework and projection that moves between classrooms, shifts between starry nights and prairie skies, as well as offering focused moments of quiet intimacy. And Tiffany Ayalik's performance is deft: she flows through scenes, both as Yvette and every other character (it's all sharply directed by Lisa C Ravensbergen, too), playing out both sides of conversations with nuanced brio. Her Yvette proves an immensely likeable kid who you root for, even as the world around her—rural Saskatchewan in the late '50s—tries to write her off.

And on that note: how rare is it to have an aboriginal youth given voice in mainstage theatre? Doubly one that isn't solely linked to trauma—it's around her, certainly, but Café Daugther is never not Yvette's story, whether she's brushing up against personal loss, or facing larger struggles for a sense of place and person. That alone feels like a triumph, but the rest of the production does, too.

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DANCE BRAZILIAN ZOUK DANCE • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St NW • 780.974.4956 • hello@ludiczouk.com • ludiczouk.com • Drop-in Brazilian zouk social dance classes.

Classes are inclusive; everyone is welcome. No partner needed • Every Wed, 7:30pm-9pm. Runs until Dec 16 • $18 (single class), $150 (ten classes)

CAPITAL CITY BURLESQUE'S HOLIDAY FANTASY • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • capitalcityburlesque@gmail.com • citadeltheatre.com/event/ ccb-holiday-fantasy/all • Celebrate the holidays surrounded by glitter, sequins, rhinestones, and feathers. Featuring some of CCB's classic holiday numbers, and debuting several new solo and group acts • Dec 3-5, 8-10pm • $36.75

COME JOIN THE DANCE-SACRED CIRCLE DANCE • Riverdale Hall, 92 St & 100 Ave • sackerman1@me.com • sacredcircledance.com • Nurture the body, mind, and soul with a variety of songs, music and movements. All dances are taught. Open nights are for everyone. No partner required • Dec 9 (every 2nd Wed), 7-9pm • $10

EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • Dec 5, 8pm

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

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Exhibiting Sound; Oct 14-Nov 14 • Téte Jaune; Nov 18-Dec 19

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Fireplace Room: Chico Bulmer; through Dec

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Alone Together: artwork by Andrew Valko; Nov 21-Dec 5

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St •

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • 780.760.7284 • admin@drawingroomedmonton.com • facebook.com/ groups/unwindwednesday • Unwind Wednesdays: Intended for both beginners and those proficient in craft • Every Wed, 3-7pm until Dec 23 • Free (supplies available for purchase) 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

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Night Hours: artwork by The Collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts; Dec 3-Jan 30; Opening reception: Dec 3, 6-8:30pm

cafeblackbird.ca • Artwork by Bernadette McCormack; Nov 30-Jan 3

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 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

St • Be entertained and inspired by the cast of 50 children and youth, who will bring to life the classic story of Christ's birth • Dec 5, 2pm • $9.25-$48

THE CHRISTMAS CAROL PROJECT • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way • 780.449.3378 • festivalplace.ab.ca • Featuring some of the Edmonton’s finest folk musicians to tell the classic Dickens’ tale in original songs and narration • Dec 4, 7:30-10:30pm • $30-$40

DECEMBER 11-31 A rip-roaring good time!

Matinée and evening performances Dinner packages available

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PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave •

SCOTIA PLACE • Foyer, 10060 Jasper Ave • Mountain High: artwork by Donna Miller. Presenting an exhibition of recent large colourful acrylic on canvas paintings of Rocky Mountain moments • Nov 17-Jan 6

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com • Bone Creek Basin: artwork by Kelly Krueger; Nov 14-Dec 5

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 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)

CAFE DAUGHTER • Backstage Theatre, ATB Financial Art Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.477.5955 • workshopwest.org • 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 • 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 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

118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • volunteer@thenina.ca • Joyeux Visages: Ceramic masks from the Nina Collective; Nov 9-Dec 23; Opening reception: Dec 9, 5-7pm

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

BIG, THE MUSICAL • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • Containing all the classic moments from the movie • Dec 2-5, 7:30pm (2pm matinee on Dec 6) • $27 (adult), $21 (children/senior); to purchase call 780.459.1542 or online at Ticketmaster

DIE-NASTY • The Backstage Theatre at the ATB Financial

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CAFE BLACKBIRD • 9640-142 St • 780.451.8890 •

A CHRISTMAS KAROL: THE KAROL WOJTYLA 2015 NATIVITY PLAY • John L Haar Theatre, 10045-156

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

• dave@bleedingheartartspace.com • Waiting Room: A multimedia installation by Alysha Chreighton; Nov 21-Jan 16

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

Theatre, 9828 101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre. com • Now in its 16th consecutive season, this beautiful adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic is a favourite holiday tradition for thousands of Edmonton families • Nov 28-Dec 23

• multicentre.org • Old Fashioned Christmas; Dec 12, 10am-3pm

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

11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Backstage Theatre,

A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Shoctor Theatre, Citadel

Lendrum Pottery Group Christmas Sale; Dec 5, 10am-2pm

PAINT SPOT • 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 •

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theatrenetwork.ca • Inspired by a true story. Tells the tale of six singed clowns who emerge from the burnt remains of a theatre to perform their spectacular Christmas Pantomime.

This time they hope to finally reach the true happy ending of their second act and avoid the fateful fire destroyed Chicago’s Iroquois Theatre in 1903 • Dec 1-13

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; Reception: Dec 9, 6:30-8:30pm

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain

82 Ave (Downstairs at Yiannis) • writersguild.ca • Food, socializing and open mic Raving Poets style • Dec 4, 7pm • $15 (register no later than Nov 30)

BURNING BLUEBEARD • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd •

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: Natural Science: Jennifer Willet; Dec 3-Jan 21 • Riki Kuropatwa's Collide; Dec 3-Jan 22; Opening reception: Dec 3, 7:30-10pm • Big, Small, Short, and Tall Sculpture Show; Dec 5, 11am-5pm; free

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Father Douglas: Inspired by William Blake's writings Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, Father Douglas' surrealist portraits of animals metaphorically explore various complexities of the soul and human experience • Oct 24-Dec 6 • The Steamfitter's Guide: artwork by Robin SmithPeck; Dec 12-Feb 7

WGA HOLIDAY PARTY – THE RAVING POETS: LIFE AFTER WITNESS PROTECTION • Kasbar, 10444

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 • Dec 11, 8-10pm • $15 (door, online at Tix on the Square)

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

Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.449.4443 • artstrathcona. com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • A Winter's Sale - Nikki and Friends; Dec 5-6

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)

THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER!: THE EARLY SHOW • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave •

GLENROSE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL • 10230-

780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Hold My Beer and Watch This...: Artwork by Scott Cumberland; Dec 5-Dec 22 •

bugeramathesongallery.com • The Quieting: artwork by Ken Wallace; Nov 27-Dec 11 • Winter Show: featuring gallery artists; Dec 12-31

Saskatchewan Dr. NW • A 32-page adventure visits such sites as Rutherford House, the Alberta Legislature, Strathcona Library, Princess Theatre, the High Level Bridge and Garneau

Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/ art-gallery • Gallery at Milner walls: shrug: Graphite on paper drawings by Glynis Wilson Boultbee; through Dec • Teak Cases: Illustrating the Journey of Rutherford the Time-Travelling Moose; through Dec • Plexi-Glass Cubes: Just Christmas: crafts by artists involved with Just Christmas; through Dec

BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 9132-118 Ave

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St •

RUTHERFORD THE TIME-TRAVELLING MOOSE BOOK LAUNCH • Rutherford House, 11153

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Tyler LosJones: 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 • Fabric: Charrette Roulette; Nov 21-Apr 10 • 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

St NW • 780.691.1691 • There will be different themes each month • Every 2nd Tue of month, 8:30-10:30pm • $20 (door); 18+ only

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

LENDRUM COMMUNITY LEAGUE • 11335-57 Ave •

St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Masterworks: signature pieces by some of Alberta’s brightest fine craft stars; Oct 10-Dec 24

NAKED GIRLS READING • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park •

ston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106

Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

com • Kari Duke & Tom Gale; Nov 12-Dec 3

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Win-

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • museums@ualberta.ca • museums. ualberta.ca • Thu-Fri: 12-6pm; Sat: 12-4pm • Brain Storms: UAlberta Creates: artwork by University of Alberta Alumni; Sep 25-Jan 23

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen

• audreys.ca • Robert W. Jones "Ornament: The Faith, Hope, and Joy of Kristen Fersovitch" Signing & Meet & Greet; Dec 3, 12-1:30pm • Walter Hildebrandt "Now Time, Jetztzeit, Nunc Stans" Poetry Launch; Dec 3, 7pm • David M. Mannes "The Reptilian Encounter" Signing & Meet & Greet; Dec 4, 12-1:30pm • Emma Pivato "Jessie Knows" Book Launch; Dec 4, 7pm • A Children's Holiday Celebration; Dec 5, 1-3pm

FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit (Dec 5, 7), A Christmas Story (Dec 12) • MARILYN - A TRIBUTE TO MARILYN MONROE: The Misfits (Dec 5-7) • MUSIC DOCS: Mavis! (Dec 4, 6) • SPOTLIGHT: NATIONAL LAMPOON: Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon (Dec 6, 9, 10); National Lampoon’s Animal House (Dec 6) • SPOTLIGHT: AARDMAN ANIMATIONS: The Incredible Adventures of Wallace & Gromit (Dec 5, 7)

U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta. com • Gallery A: Cultural Exchange; Dec 3-Feb 27; Opening

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • 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

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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

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487

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) SO THIS IS CHRISTMAS • C3 Church, 9425-76 Ave • A classic nativity story set in modern day Edmonton and features popular songs with a unique twist. For all ages • Dec 4-6 THE SOCIAL SCENE • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave

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 • Members Winter Exhibition; Dec 1-Jan 29

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Annual Winter Collection Group Exhibition: featuring works by Peter Shostak, Annabelle Marquis, Claudette Castonguay, Peter Wyse and more; Nov 21-Dec 24 • Adorned with Art: Painters include Claudette Castongauy, Rod Charlesworth, Irene Klar, Richard Cole, Brent Laycock, Raynald Leclerc and more; Nov 28-Dec 31

LITERARY

Theatre • Dec 9, 3pm

SCALES & TALES • Cha Island, 10332-81 Ave NW • 780.222.7243 • An evening of music, poetry and and prose.

Featured poets: Mike Gravel and Matt O'Bertos. Featured musicians: McNeely and friends. Hosted (and reading) by Tony Flemming-Blake • Dec 9; 7:30pm start • Donations (door prizes available) SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

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

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

W;T • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • As Vivian Bearing suffers through countless medical treatments alone, she displays her signature intelligence, strength, and wit. But as she moves closer to her final moments, she begins to value the simplicity of kindness • Dec 2-12

WE NEED A LITTLE CHRISTMAS • Knox-Metropolitan United Church, 8307-109 St • A seasonal concert, with a musical play written and directed by Gayle Roberts • Dec 4, 7pm • $15 (adult), $10 (senior/children); available at the door

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PREVUE // TELEVISION

Delmer (and a guest) and Marta

An enduring duo

I

After five years of on-again, off-again progress, Delmer & Marta arrives online

t's taken about five years for Delmer and Marta to go from recurring characters on Caution: May Contain Nuts to having their own spin-off show, but Howie Miller always had a sense that these characters might have some endurance to them.

"Delmer and Marta sort of became the Bob and Doug Mckenzie of our show," Miller explains, of their genesis on Caution. "That's the one we got the most people commenting on, reacting to."

Miller plays Marta in Kids in the Hallstyle of character-based drag: the loving wife of equally loving Delmer

(played by Edmonton theatre regular Sheldon Elter) the duo's spin-off sitcom finds the characters living off the Rez: Marta's now a television host in Morningside, Alberta (population: 40 000), as she and Delmer navigate (and instigate) the hijinks that arise at the television station. Kid in the Hall Kevin MacDonald plays the station's neurotic producer, and a procession of familar Edmonton faces fill out the cast, plus a scatter of special guests.

Three episodes are now online, with the rest slated for a televised run on APTN in 2016.

"The fact that they were indigenous

characters already has a certain charm for the APTN audience," Elter notes in a separate phonecall. "But I think over time, they just became these really sweet people, who have the best interested of everybody before themselves."

Miller points to shows like The Jeffersons as a reference point for the show's style.

"I'm from the '80s—those are the ones that I watched growing up," he says. "I really like getting back to that sense of humour, and style, because that's what made me laugh."

Working with the characters in a longer narrative, rather than oneoff sketches, has been fruitful, Elter notes, and not just for the central duo. The on-again, off-again nature of Delmer & Marta's shooting schedule provided the unexpected boon of allowing the cast to sink further into their roles, which in turn honed the writing.

"We shot three episodes this time last year, and then three episodes in the spring 2015," Elter says. "So shooting it over two fiscal years, which stretched out our timeline, but gave us time to go back to the last

Now online Delmer & Marta Delmerandmarta.com

few episodes, and write more directly for the actors who had already informed us who they think the characters are. Once they brought their own stuff to the table, it was like, 'Oh, we can use that in the writer's room when we go back to the next set of writing.' To take what was already there, and heighten it a bit more."

PAUL BLINOV

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REVUE // GRAPHIC NOVEL Now available

By Alison McCreesh Conundrum Press, 140 pp, $20

Yellowknife T

he title Ramshackle, as Alison McCreesh implies in the introduction to her first graphic novel, refers as much to the city in question—"this book features one snippet of many Yellowknifes," multiethnic and multilinguistic—as to the building of the book itself. It was a comic blog started after graduation, based on sketchbook and diary pages, with panel gags becoming two-panel strips, and finally these "autobiographical comic snapshots" were redrawn and recontextualized, bound together here.

The odyssey begins when McCreesh—graduated from college in Chicoutimi, in Halifax for an art-internship—is convinced by

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her boyfriend, Pat, to head far, far northwest. Once there, they get a tour from a local who gets by as a housesitter; they quickly get jobs they bike to from their home, the "soccer-mom van."

This endearing personal-travelogue-essay's shot through with personality (first impression—"THE TOWN WAS UGLY AND THE PEOPLE WERE NASTY [PAY]PHONEWRECKERS") and curious facts (in Quebec, buyer and seller must go together to change a car's registration). An inky, washed-out look conveys the vast skies and white expanses encircling this Northern capital (62°26'3"N, 400 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle), called

Sombak'e or "Money Place" by the local Dene.

The people in McCreesh's Yellowknife tend not to have mouths—reflecting folks' tight-lippedness out in the cold and/or True Northerners muffling their faces with scarves or parka collars?— so we're left to read into their expressions more. The two-page spread of the place's history is a packed rush of changes, booms and stats. Mirroring the higgledy-piggledy-ness of the Old Town district and its "woodyard," inset snapshots of houses, lots and shacks pile up on or overlap each other. Infostrips ("The Deal with Trucked Water" or "A Practical Guide to Using A Honey Bucket in Your Home") vie with amus-

ing personal encounters and time-in-the-life entries ("Camping Trip #1: Solstice" or "Polyamory"). In places, mind you, the story can be a bit jammed and text-heavy.

But the book remains, ultimately, a droll stroll through a town soon called home—a fun-fact-filled, scrapbook-memory-making, scruffily lived-in place, with our self-effacing host McCreesh never wide-eyed or narrow-minded in her view of this quirky, ramshackle, icy burg.

BRIAN GIBSON

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REVUE // BOXING

FILM

FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Knock out Creed weaves a boxing story together with a look at racial identity in modern America "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.'" — Martin Luther King Jr, August 28, 1963

F

rom its opening frames—a juvenile detention centre where one black boy's fighting another; the boy's visited by a woman who tells him who his dad was—Creed is a picture about African-American manhood today: plagued by high incarceration rates, haunted

by absent father-figures. Subtly, smartly, writer-director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station) bobs and weaves around racial identity even as this Rocky 2.0 expertly does what it's been coached to do—belt us with one bruising, pulsating boxing movie.

The boy, Adonis "Donnie" Johnson (Michael B Jordan), is the illegitimate child of Apollo Creed, Rocky's great rival-turned-friend (until Rocky IV, where Creed was killed in the ring). But Donnie refuses the Creed name, though he was raised as a teen by that

woman who visited him, Apollo's wife. Now in his twenties and selftaught as a boxer, he moves to Philadelphia, seeking Rocky (Sylvester Stallone) as a mentor.

There's a sense of boxing as a sport on the ropes—Donnie's ultimate opponent, the defending light-heavyweight champion, is a Liverpudlian (fighter Tony Bellew) bound for jail, looking for one last payday. There's the cracking, peeling look of this solitary, masochistic pursuit, pounded out in working-class neighbourhood

gyms, day in and day out. Donnie grapples with his hotheadedness, simmering from his time in foster homes and juvie, and sense of legacy—should he take his father's last name?—even as his girlfriend Bianca (Tessa Thompson), a talented singer, faces a short career because of progressive hearing loss.

All this temporariness (Stallone, with that country-road voice and crumpled speed-bag face, lends pathos to Rocky's own shadowbox with mortality) brings more urgency to the bouts, shot and ed-

Now playing Directed by Ryan Coogler  ited so deftly. In the grand finale, there's a flurry of glimpses: a darting glance at Donnie's corner here, a peek under the ropes there. This sense of life's struggle as a series of mere moments, here and there, making the man ... that's what surges Creed well beyond a fightnight flick.

BRIAN GIBSON

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Sister views a steal-to-live existence without judgment The masked thief we follow from the fi rst in Ursula Meier's Sister (2012) isn't a man but a ski-masked boy, Simon. It's a Dardennes-like move that Meier makes here, plunking us down, without judgment, in the middle of a low life: Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) steals skis, gloves, helmets and goggles, selling them off to kids down below, near his apartment, or to other buyers. But crime is work— Simon's up on the lift nearly every day, it seems, trudging around (he can't ski) from ski-stand to lodge to restaurant patio to the next place ripe for the pickings. The money he makes helps him get by: food, water, rent. It soon turns out, though, that Meier and her cowriters, Antoine Jaccoud and Gilles Taurand—who worked with her on her debut feature, Home—aren't as interested in Simon the thief as Simon the boy.

Family is his sister, Louise (Léa Seydoux), an itinerant worker who's in and out of the apartment and in on-again, off -again relationships with men. Her indeterminate age—late-teen? young adult? mid-

20s?—is crucial; there's something off, and uncertain, about her tie to Simon. This criminal entrepreneur, acting above his age at times, gives her money—she says, at one point, "You're not my boss," only to ask him moments later, "Can you give me an advance?"—but both can act, at other times, like kids just let loose in the world. Simon, like Cassius, has a lean and hungry look; later, his nose and knuckles bloodied, he looks almost feral. (Then 13, Klein, who debuted in Home at 10 as the son Julien—a name he uses here as an alias—is remarkable.) But he's lean and hungry for love, too, and it soon turns out that Simon and Louise, bitterly clinched and cinched together, have a desperate stranglehold on each other.

Meier's Home (2008) put us among a family whose life together's upended when an abandoned road is one day completed, sending traffi c whizzing by their house, just on the other side of the new highway's guardrail. But Sister turns social barriers vertical: why shouldn't Simon steal and sell well-off visi-

tors' seasonal props for their Swiss slope holidays? "People don't care up there," Simon says. (With her aquiline nose and in a fur-collared ski-jacket, Gillian Anderson's nicely cast here for her patrician looks; many rungs down the class ladder perches Martin Compston—who debuted at 17 in Ken Loach's Sweet Sixteen—playing a Scottish service worker who fences off some of Simon's goods.) Simon's apartment tower off ers the illusion of ascent, but he's boxed in. Worse, he oft en seems, work-ethically or fi nancially, superior to Louise—the fi lm's original title is L'enfant d'en haut (literally, The Child From Above)— though he's smaller and scrawnier and much younger than she. Their familial love's debased by money.

And their relationship's twisted by a lie of convenience. Horribly but aptly, in a white world of ski-lift s constantly moving hundreds of dollars' worth of snowsuits and poles and fi breglass and polyethylene and gloves and goggles and helmets, it's a lie based on being and feeling unwanted, like a thing, an accessory, a hanger-on. V

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PREVUE // ALT-ROCK

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EMPIRE BUILDING Young Empires bridge fashion and music

F

or decades, music and fashion have gone hand-in-hand. What types of clothing come to mind when you hear a metal song? Punk?

Rockabilly? The list goes on.

"I think fashion and music tend to infl uence culture, and music does have a certain look to it," Jacob Palahnuk says, over the phone from Montréal. "I'm not sure why that is, but I think it's always been that way, so naturally we wanted to pair the esthetic of the band with the way we sound."

To that end, Young Empires—the Toronto-based trio Palahnuk plays bass in alongside vocalist/keyboardist Matthew Vlahovich and guitarist Robert Ellingson—has coined its lush musical style "haute rock."

"Like haute couture," Palahnuk explains. "I think that's what we wanted to represent sonically and also the way we dress. Yes, it's rock 'n' roll, but it's also a little bit more sophisticated, a little more bespoke and detailed."

It's an apt descriptor for the wellstyled trio, which pairs layered, dance-infl uenced beats with altrock melodies akin to the Killers or Foals. Young Empires' style—musically and sartorially speaking—has

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extended into The House of Young Empires, which encompasses clothing, remixes, videos and web design, and its past collaborations have included a line of T-shirts and sweatshirts with Handsome Clothing.

Palahnuk hints at an upcoming music video-meets art piece that will be released in early 2016, but he can't reveal much more than that.

For now, the focus is plenty of touring in support of The Gates, Young Empires' debut full-length album.

It feels strange to write that the band is just now releasing its debut record, considering the success it gleaned from its fi rst EP, Wake in the Youth (2012). The record was wellreceived worldwide and launched Young Empires into a frenetic touring schedule that left little time to write or record—which is admittedly not the worst problem for a band to have, but in an industry that constantly pushes for new material, it's not enough to continuously play the same setlist at gigs, either.

The group got to work writing new songs in late 2013, and The Gates was completed in October 2014, though it wasn't released until this past September.

"It was kind of strategy, or what-

ever, timing-wise with labels and everything like that and aligning international releases," Palahnuk notes. "It was really diffi cult to sit on something that you just want to show the world so badly, but at the same time you've got to trust in the people that work for you and work around you to have your best interests at heart."

The tracks on The Gates may not exactly be new to Young Empires at this point, but Palahnuk maintains that they haven't lost their meaning, even though the way they're performed may have changed—"It's my philosophy that a song is never fi nished; it's just delivered at some point or sacrifi ced or surrendered, so you're always going to want to make changes," he says. Wake in the Youth was infl uenced by fouron-the-fl oor dance beats, and Palahnuk says the lyrics were on the lighthearted side, whereas The Gates digs deeper: the instrumentation is heavier, darker and the lyrics are an honest refl ection of the what life has been like for the group in recent years.

"What we've been through as a band and professionally and per-

sonally, and transitioning from doing this as a hobby to a full-time thing," Palahnuk notes. "And giving up things like your job and RRSPs, and some of us, you know, lost our girlfriends, and it's a really diffi cult thing to make this your number-one priority and say no, we're going to go for it and give up all the comforts of a normal life, so I think that comes out in the songs."

The Gates also marks Young Empires' fi rst foray into working with producers. Wake in the Youth was a decidedly DIY eff ort, with the band writing and recording anywhere it could—bedrooms, bathrooms, hotel rooms—and its members teaching themselves the ins and outs of producing along the way. Palahnuk says they recognized that the music industry has headed in a more independent direction, and with a sizeable number of artists able to produce their own material, they thought they should get in the game too. With that experience behind them, the guys decided to team up with Stephen Kozmeniuk (Kendrick Lamar, Nicki Minaj) in Toronto for the majority of The Gates, as well as Jimmy Messer (AWOLNATION) in LA and Kevin Seaton (Snoop Lion,

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Tue, Dec 8 (7 pm) With Dragonette, Dirty Radio Starlite Room, $27.50 Active Child) for a couple of tracks, which helped them avoid what Palahnuk refers to as "demo-itis." "[It's] where you're so convinced that the fi rst thing you did is right that you can't accept that something else might be better because you're so close to it," he explains, though working with someone new came with its own challenges.

"When you're writing it's a very personal thing to be opening up in front of someone you don't know at all. After a couple of months of working with people we got used to it and understood how that works.

The main thing for us was having an outside ear and outside perspective to give feedback when the three of us just didn't know what was right or what was wrong—having someone we could trust say, 'You know, that's the one, this is the part, or that's the lyric.' That was the most benefi cial part of having an outside producer."

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PREVUE // ROCK

Heaviside M

itchell Reynaud isn't particularly keen on Heaviside's first EP, Pushin' Forward Back, released in 2009.

"The first one was a disaster, actually," Reynaud, who contributes lead vocals and guitar to the band, says over the phone. "It was our very first record, and we didn't know what we were doing and we didn't know who to go with.

"I'm not even going to talk about that one, other than to say that," he adds.

That album came three years after the band formed in 2006, and there's hardly a trace of it anywhere. Trying to find online documentation of it is almost impossible: there is no mention of it on the band's Facebook page, website or iTunes. The only way you'd know it exists is if you've been following the group since its genesis (and have a physical copy of the EP) or from reading the band's press release, which mentions that its latest record, Omnivore, comes as its third full-length album.

Heaviside—rounded out by John Hermary (lead guitar), Kyle Green (bass, background vocals) and Spenny Reynaud (drums, percussion)—considers its 2012 release, Wasted Generation, as its cardinal album. Wasted Generation

garnered radio play via singles "Lady"— which landed a number-60 spot on the Canadian Active Rock Chart—and "War Machine." It's the album that the band wanted, and what it feels the first EP should have been.

"It was a learning curve." Reynaud says. "We did exactly what we wanted."

For Heaviside, that meant achieving a classic-rock sound, which it felt was missing on the first record.

The Edmonton-based group has honed a ‘70s hard-rock sound, conceptualized by the likes of Led Zeppelin.

That approach was established at the onset of the band's career through its live performances, but it fully materialized on Wasted Generation, Reynaud explains, giving the band something to build on when it came time to work on the next album.

For example, on "Wasted Generation," the final track on Heaviside's album of the same name, the group had an idea to end it big, explains Reynaud, which meant adding trumpets and a synthesizer. That horn and synthesizer sound heralded the concept for its third album.

Becoming comfortable with experimentation on the second album made

it easy for the quartet to push even farther on Omnivore, by elevating those brass instrument and synthesizer parts on more tracks. For the eight-track album, Heaviside collaborated with recording engineer Terry Paholek (Two Bears North, Brother Octopus)—who it worked with on Wasted Generation and plan to work with on its next album— at Physic's Lab studio in Edmonton.

"I think for the next one, because we built up such a big sound on this one, [we'll be] doing something more stripped back."

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year and a half ago, Three Boars Eatery tapped local music veteran Laine Cherkewick to head up a sandwich shop in their recently acquired adjacent property. The timing was perfect for Cherkewick, who was planning to open a similar joint on his own anyway. Along with partner Justin Benson, Cherkewick opened Farrow and hasn't looked back since. "[Three Boars] were like, 'Here, this is yours—do what you want.

We're here if you need us,'" he explains. "Creative control is ours, and we make rad sandwiches that keep fl ipping once or twice a week.

Fresh food, local ingredients, super

crazy combinations—just keeping things fun."

Business is fl ourishing now, and Farrow has quadrupled its staff.

Two of those employees are Stu Chell and Ross Nicoll, drummer for choogle-rockers Bonspiel and pianist for hip-hop/jazz trio N3K, respectively. With Cherkewick’s involvement in Edmonton bands over the years, most notably as bassist for post-hardcore act Desiderata, the musicians may be used to sharing a tiny kitchen space, but their upcoming customer appreciation night will mark the fi rst time all three have shared a stage. Does their mutual interest in music make things any easier in the workplace?

"It helps a lot with our music selection," Chell laughs.

"The music scene was always kind of overlapping with this place," Nicoll adds. "Without music I wouldn't work here; it's the reason we all know each other. And a lot of our customer base are people that are doing stuff artistically in Edmonton."

So how did their fi rst customer appreciation night, turn into a night of loading gear and sweating it out on stage, rather than simply a rare

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Tues, Dec 8 (8 pm) Between the Bread: Farrow Customer Appreciation Party With N3K, Desiderata, Bonspiel Brixx, $10 night off for the boys?

"The whole thing stems from [local promoter/hero] Craig Martell, to be honest," Cherkewick explains.

"He called me up and was like, 'I have the greatest idea for a show!'

I mean, we all play music but we don't really ever play the same bills so we thought, 'Sure, why not?'"

Imagining a scenario where they get to create a sandwich for a huge musical inspiration in their lives, the Farrow crew seems to be at a rare loss for words. Eventually Schell off ers up a shrimp po'boy with tiger sauce for John Fogerty, Nicoll whips up a pulled pork sandwich for Freddie Gibbs, and Cherkewick gets the Beatles back together for a round of peanut butter and apricot jam sandwiches.

"Yeah, I'm sticking with that," he laughs. "I think they'd like it."

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In the Whale Thu, Dec 10 (8 pm) With Nashville Pussy Denizen Hall, $16 ley says with a long laugh, referring to their lyrics and overall modus operandi.

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ric Riley wants to knock the iPhone out of your hand.

"They're in a trance," he says of the typical concert-goer. "They're on their phones; we're going to snap 'em out of it. We call 'em out."

Reminiscent of bands like Black Flag, Dead Kennedys, Guttermouth and the Vandals, Denver, Colorado's In The Whale has made an art of the three-chord smash-up.

Formed in 2011 by Riley (drums and vocals) and Nate Valdez (guitar and vocals), the duo has spent the past four years banging out what they describe as "balls to the walls" rock songs.

The only catch: they're pushing the sound of four-piece through a two-man setup.

Riley and Valdez make up the sum-total of an audio calamity that would give the Black Keys (famously also a two-piece) cause to reflect. In speaking to Riley, he did politely ask that a comparison to the famous Ohio duo be avoided.

"When we go up on stage and start setting up, everyone is like, 'Alright, I get it; it's going to be a Black Keys rip off.' We starting playing and it's, 'OK, the bar was set so low,'" he says—take that, Patrick Carney— "And everyone is like, 'Whoa, I didn't expect that.'"

While straying from the typical four-piece band format, In The Whale keeps one foot planted firmly in rock 'n' roll.

"Chicks, booze [and] the devil," Ri-

Riley and Valdez crossed paths over the smell and chaos of the Mile High City punk scene following the collapse of their primary projects. At 31, Riley has spent the majority of his life in music, though he admits that part of the appeal of drumming has been to overcome his own introverted nature.

"I don't like to insert myself into a lot of conversations, I feel like most people are just waiting for their turn to talk," he says. "Drums for me were an outlet. I picked the loudest instrument I possibly could ... now you have to fucking listen to me."

Over the last four years, In The Whale has released two EPs (Nate & Eric and Cake) with a third on the way. They've also recently toured with big-name acts like Slash, Jane's Addiction, Agent Orange and the Darkness.

"We consider ourselves a live band, in order to really get it, you need to see us live," Riley says. "Expect it to be physical, expect it to be loud and if you're in a trance ... " Well, you know the rest.

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unky, high-flying Winnipeg trio Moon Tan, is bringing an element of spectacle back to rock music.

The progressive-rock-minded group, which released its debut full-length, New Age Renegade, earlier this year, is unleashing its live cover of Rush's "Spirit of the Radio" as the band heads out west across the frozen prairies with Johnny 2 Fingers & the Deformities.

The Rush cover is a return to the early days of Moon Tan, when the group was itself a cover band.

"Originally, I had started the band with a singer back in the day—it was just going to be a cover project originally," drummer Nick Kula says. "Then it kind of evolved over time. It came from stretching out musically, and we started getting more heady with the stuff we were doing, so we wanted to create stuff ourselves in that space and time."

The band's music—with slap-bass funk and soaring vocals provided by

Adrian Dyer and thrilling guitar solos from Brady Mitchell—is ideal for sweaty headbanging. The band felt that since its music is so dynamic in scope—with ferocious guitar melodies, driving prog-rock instrumentation and Dyer's high-flying vocals— that its live show should match.

"Each of us are pretty proficient at our instruments—technically proficient—and we really like to deliver something flashy on the musical front," Dyer says. "We really want do something that kind of complemented that, in terms of theatrically."

The trio is one of the rare rock groups which has built-out an entire image, with costumes and onstage guitarhero theatrics. Moon Tan, whose image and dress is based on the phases of the moon, wasn't intentional when the band first chose its name: it was "kind of a flukey thing," Dyer explains.

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some live show, and Nick was pretty adamant on coming up with a cohesive image of the band" he explains.

"I had an idea to paint a crescent moon symbol on my face to play up the name Moon Tan. We just kind of decided to paint a different phase of the moon on our face and dress up all weird."

The group's costumes are created by the individual band members. Dyer has a black wing harness he purchased on eBay, while Kula himself goes topless with white leather pants.

"We all kind of came up with our own motifs," Kula adds. "In a lot of ways, our costuming is reflective of our personalities and the type of image that we lean to."

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The Winnipeg-based band is on tour for its newest album, It’s Tough To Be A Bad Guy, which reveals a progressive, funked-out take on the rock genre. (Mercury Room, $10 in advance, $13 at the door)

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Remember Cancer Bats? Your former high school-self will thank you for attending this show and rocking out. (Starlite Room, $21) CYGNETS / FRI, DEC 4 (8 PM) THE COLD STILL / SAT, DEC 5 (4 PM)

The Cold Still: noun; a Leduc four-piece rock group that plays garage rock, indie riffs and Britpop.

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Cygnets was a decade in the making. Logan Turner worked as a solo artist, but preferred the group dynamic, resulting in the formation of this electronic-rock band. (Filthy McNasty’s, Free)

EYE OF HORUS / SAT, DEC 5 (8 PM)

It’s going to be the last show for a while, reads the Edmonton-based melodic death-metal band’s Facebook page. Don’t sleep on this one. (Rendezvous Pub, $10 in advance, $15 at the door)

FUTURISTIC / SAT, DEC 5 (9 PM)

He’s only 21, but Futuristic is already making waves in the hip-hop industry through his relatable storytelling, the WTF (We’re The Future) movement and super-confident persona. Support acts by Cab’Ral, Jay Rodgers, Divot and Phillip Solo. (Union Hall, $20)

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The Alberta Baroque Ensemble is celebrating its 36th-annual Music For A Festive Season concert for one night only. Expect to hear some of the greatest in classical repetoire such as Tartini, Handel, Buxtehude and Vivaldi. (Robertson - Wesley United Church, $30 adult, $25 senior/student)

Every holiday season, actor-singer Tom Jackson hosts a gala event, the Huron Carole, which raises money to feed the homeless and hungry in Canada. This year, the tour will make 11 stops throughout the country.

The local beneficiary will be Edmonton’s Food Bank. This is a formal event, so wear your best clothes. Ticket includes dinner. (Ramada Hotel Kingsway, $100)

BIG JOHN BATES / THU, DEC 10 (9 PM)

For its latest album, From the Bestiary to the Leathering Room, the alternative rock/orchestral folk-punk outfit found inspiration in anti-social behaviour, religious images, ghosts, addiction, death and betrayal.

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CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar:

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THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old

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Christmas CAFE BLACKBIRD Tamara

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- A Tribute To ABBA; 7pm (door); $29.95; No minors

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Barr Band - Christmas Show; 6:30pm (door), 8pm (show), 9pm (dance); $40

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9910 Morewine (alt/folk/ pop/rock) with Shukov and Feverfew; 8pm; $10 (adv)

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RAYGUN COWBOYS W/ THE GUTTERDEMONS & GUESTS

DEC/31

UBK NYE 2015 FEAT. TAIKI NULIGHT, HUGLIFE, SPACE JESUS, FLAVOURS W/ LOCAL GUEST DJ’S

Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am UNION HALL Celebrity

Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

contemporary/adult pop/folk) and Kyler Schogen; 10:30am; No cover YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Kent

Sangster (jazz); 11:30am

Classical

Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

Christmas at City Hall with EKO Singers; 2-3:30pm; Free (Food Bank donations accepted) ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE A Christmas Mosaic;

3pm; $13.75-$16.75 ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Alberta Baroque

STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE The Metropolitan

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

Orchestra; 3-5pm; $20 (adult), $15 (student/senior), $10 (kids); Cash only

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH The St.

BLUE CHAIR CAFE Brunch with

the Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am3pm; By donation

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

EDMONTON CITY HALL

SUN DEC 6

hosted by Tim Lovett

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Wild Rose Old Tyme

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open

Saturdays

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

NEW WEST HOTEL Boots &

Boogie

ALL SAINTS' CATHEDRAL Pro Coro Canada - ConSept: The Little Match Girl Passion; 9pm; $25 (general public), $20 (Pro Coro subscribers)

Ensemble presents Music For a Festive Season; 3pm

David’s Welsh Male Voice Choir “2015 Christmas Concert”; 2pm; $15

Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

SIDELINERS PUB Singer/

Songwriter Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:3011:30pm; Free

Classical FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

Greenwood Singers presents the Many Moods of Christmas; 7:30pm; $16.75-$22 WINSPEAR CENTRE An All-City

Christmas; 7pm; $7

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

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

WINSPEAR CENTRE Cantilon

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

Choirs: Dancing Day; 2:30pm; $25 (adult), $20 (student/ senior)

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

Christmas

DJs

hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

DANCE CODE STUDIO Flamenco

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

BLUES ON WHYTE J.C. Smith

Band; 9pm; Blues on Whyte Christmas BOW C3 CHURCH So This is

Guitar Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic

Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm DV8 Patent Leather Burlesque

(metal/hard rock/punk); 8pm; $10; No minors FILTHY MCNASTY'S Moon Tan, Johnny 2 Fingers, Primrose Hawkmouth; 9pm NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday

Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Arkavello,

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.

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE Carrie Day (adult

Desperado Pilots, Between Brothers; 9pm RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam

hosted by Mark Ammar; 4-8pm

Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic

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

MON DEC 7

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

TUE DEC 8 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Tuesday Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien; 8-11pm BLUES ON WHYTE Troy Turner;

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

9pm

Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

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 Troy Turner;

9pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

open mic MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

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

YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm BRIXX BAR N3K, Desiderata

and Bonspiel; 8:30pm (door), 9:30p, (show); $10; 18+ only DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

Tue: featuring this week: Alberta Music Christmas Party Jam; 9pm L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm • With: Boots & Boogie

CHA ISLAND Scales & Tales: an

Bingo Toonz every Tue

evening of music, poetry and and prose. Featuring poets: Mike Gravel and Matt O'Bertos.

Featured musicians: McNeely and friends. Hosted by Tony Flemming-Blake; 7:30pm

ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

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 STARLITE ROOM Dragonette with Young Empires & Dirty Radio; 8pm (door); $27.50 (adv), 18+ only YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Session: The J-F Picard Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE God Is With Us; 8pm; $20 (adult), $15 (student/senior), $5 (kids under 12)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit Pop, Synthpop,

Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-soretro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail BRIXX Metal night every Tue

open mic with host Duff Robison NEW WEST HOTEL Boots &

Boogie 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); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

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

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

Classical

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

Edmonton Recorder Society (adult pop/classical/jazz); 6:30pm; No cover

WED DEC 9 ARDEN THEATRE St. Albert

Community Band Annual Winter Concert; 7-9:30pm; $12 (adult), $8 (senior/student) 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

Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Big Dave

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled

Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

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

McLean; 9pm YEG: Open Genre Variety Stage:

LEGISLATURE BUILDING

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

Come Home To Christmas featuring Timothy J. Anderson; 12pm; Free (donations accepted)

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

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 W/ N3K, DESIDERATA & BONSPIEL

DEC/11

T’GERA

W/ MAKE OUT CITY & THE ABLE KIND

DEC/13

JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

WIL W/ GUESTS

DEC/21

ONE LAST JAM BEFORE CHRISTAMS!

MILLIE

W/ VERY SPECIAL GUESTS BLACK&BLEU & JENNA&LAUREN

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9910 9910B-109 ST NW ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALL SAINTS' CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St NW ARDEN THEATRE 5 St Anne St, St Albert ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002, thebuckingham.ca C3 CHURCH 9425-76 Ave NW 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 CITY HALL 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square CLUB AT THE CITADEL 9828101A Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 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 Ave NW FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10025-105 St NW

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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 KNOX-METROPOLITAN UNITED CHURCH 8307-109 St NW L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGISLATURE BUILDING 1080097 Ave NW LIVE CITY 5003-52 Ave, Beaumont 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 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE Concordia Campus 73 St & 112 Ave 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 ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE 12845-102 Ave NW SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SHERLOCK HOLMES– DOWNTOWN 10012-101A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

1650-8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St TRINITY EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH 10014-81 Ave NW 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 WESTBURY THEATRE ATB FINANCIAL ARTS BARNS BUILDING 10330-84 Ave NW 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 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

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

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

Illness support and solutions •

LECTURES/Presentations Beethoven: The Late Period •

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

Comedy @ Draft Country NIghtclub

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 7:30pm; Fri-Sat 9:45pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; every Mon at 7:30pm • Triple Threat Tuesday; every Tue at 7:30pm • Andrew Norrelli; Dec 2-6 • DC Benny; Dec 9-13

The Dating Game • On the Rocks, 11740

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

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Kente Scott; Dec 3-5 • Chris Heward; Dec 10-12

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

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION •

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98

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

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

• Draft Country Nightclub, 12912-50 St • With Mike Dambra, Alex Fortin and more • Dec 2, 7:30pm

except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

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

Fertility Awareness Charting Circle • Remedy Cafe, 8631-109 St • faccedmonton@gmail.com • fertilityawarenesschartingcircle.org • First Mon each month (Oct-May), 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (suggested donation) • RSVP at faccedmonton@gmail.com

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

Gluten Free Living 101 • Hope Lutheran Church, 5104-106 Ave • 780.485.2949 • info@ celiacedmonton.ca • celiacedmonton.ca • Learn the basics of a gluten free lifestyle • Dec 9, 7-9pm • Free (pre-registration required)

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

GREAT EXPEDITIONS TRAVEL SLIDE

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

• St. Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 (Gerry)/ 780.435.6406 (John)/ 780.454.6216 (Sylvia) • Christmas Potluck (Dec 7)

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

Sensational Ladies Night • Warp 1

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

Comics & Games, 9917-82 Ave • 780.433.7119 • facebook.com/sensational.ladies.night • A night dedicated to women indulging in various geekeries with other women once a month in a friendly and safe environment. Featuring a book club, board game nights, art jam and much more.

No prior geekery knowledge required • 3rd Wed of every month, 6-8pm • Free

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave •

Seventies Forever Music Society •

Jasper Ave • Hosted by Sterling Scott, produced

by Connie's Comedy • Dec 6, 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show) • Free; available at On The Rocks or the Druid

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

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

Krush Hollywood Game Night • Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 Ave NW • With Colin Kreiger and co-host Connie from Connie's Comedy • Dec 1, 7:30pm

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

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

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 Carrot's collection • Dec 22, 7-9pm • All ages

Edmonton Needlecraft Guild • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

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

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

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

RASC Regular Meeting 100 Years of Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity • Telus World of Science, 11211-142 St NW • edmontonrasc.com • Over the last century we have learned how to solve the equations and how to apply them to many astronomical observations such black holes, gravitational lenses and the Universe. In this talk, attendees will look at some of the cool images of these legacies of Einstein • Dec 14, 7-9:30pm • Free

Seeing is above All • Acacia Hall,

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

10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

QUEER Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo. com/group/bwedmonton

Songwriters Group • The Carrot, 9351118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters. com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220-103

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

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519 Toastmasters • Club Bilingue Toastmasters 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 Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@ hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward.toastmastersclubs. org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm

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 Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

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

LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving.com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

Pride Centre of Edmonton • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri

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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

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Celebrate the Season • Alberta Legislature Grounds • assembly.ab.ca • Get in the Christmas spirit with the many Christmas lights that surround the grounds. Includes choir performances and much more • Through Dec

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Festival of Light • Edmonton Valley Zoo, 13315 Buena Vista Road • edmonton.ca • Stroll through the zoo's exhibits with the family and take in displays of lights • Dec 4-13

Frostival: Hot Chestnut Roasting • Italian Grocery Centre, 10878-95 St • Taste what winter is with roasted hot chestnuts • Every SatSun, 11am-2pm (until Christmas) Hay Rides & Santa Photos • Marketplace at Callingwood, 6650-177 St • info@callingwoodmarketplace.com • callingwoodmarketplace. com • Visit Santa, colour some festive pictures, decorate cookies and then hop on a horse drawn hay ride • Dec 12 & Dec 19, 11am-3pm • Free Holiday Magic • Edmonton City Hall, 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 311 • edmonton. ca • Ring in the holidays with performances by school choirs from across our city • Dec 7-11, 10am-2pm • Free (food donations to the Food Bank are accepted) Jingle Jammin' Christmas Caroling • Meet at the Carrot Coffeehouse, 9351-118 Ave • thecarrot.ca • Meet for chili (vegetarian or meat) and dress for the weather. Bring your lanterns and flashlights and sing the night away • Dec 18, 6pm (dinner), 7pm (caroling)

Luminaria • Devonian Botanic Garden, 51227 AB-60, Parkland County • devonian.ualberta.ca • At the Kurimoto Japanese Garden. The simplicity of light at the Garden's most popular event of the year. Including a stroll through the candle-lit pathways, hot apple cider beside the bonfires, ice sculptures, delightful "snow sprites" and the seasonal sounds of strolling a capella singers.

Plus: brand new for 2015: family-friendly interactive activities and entertainment, along with food and beverage options, and improved parking and free shuttle arrangements for streamlined entry • Dec 5-6, 5-9pm • Free-$13.50 (must purchase tickets in advance) 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

Pets Pics with Santa at the Edmonton Humane Society • Edmonton Humane Society, 13620-163 St NW • edmontonhumanecosiety.com • Dec 1-24 (WedSun only); 4-7pm (weekday), 12-5pm (weekend) • $10 (Retro Polaroids with EHS Christmas Card), $20 (Digital Photos on a flash drive)

RAM: A Moving Tribute • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • framsociety.ca • The very last night before the museum closes its doors and prepares for it's move to the bustling downtown area. Enjoy food, drinks, pop-up experts, entertainers, and so much more • Dec 7, 7pm • $50 (18+ only)

Royal Bison Art & Craft Fair • 8426 Gateway Blvd • royalbison.ca • Featuring some of the best and most quirky art, craft and design the city offers • Dec 4-6 • $3

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 Wild Things in Winter • John Janzen Nature Centre, 7000-143 St • 311 • edmonton.ca • Enjoy the winter cold! Events include snowshoeing, winterscaping and much more • Sat-Sun through Dec Winter Fun Fest • Ottewell Community League, 5920-93A Ave • 780.496.5926 • Southeast Edmonton is hip and happening with outdoor winter activities, skiing, slides, skating and so much more • Dec 12, 11am-4pm

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TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): I suspect that in the coming days you will have an uncanny power to make at least one of your resurrection fantasies come true. Here are some of the possibilities. 1) If you're brave enough to change your mind and shed some pride, you could retrieve an expired dream from limbo. 2) By stirring up a bit more chutzpah that you usually have at your disposal, you might be able to revive and even restore a forsaken promise. 3) Through an act of grace, it's possible you will reanimate an ideal that was damaged or abandoned.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): To the other 11 signs of the zodiac, the Way of the Gemini sometimes seems rife with paradox and contradiction. Many nonGeminis would feel paralyzed if they had to live in the midst of so much hubbub. But when you are at your best, you thrive in the web of riddles. In fact, your willingness to abide there is often what generates your special magic. Your breakthroughs are made possible by your high tolerance for uncertainty. How many times have I seen a Gemini who has been lost in indecision but then suddenly erupts with a burst of crackling insights? This is the kind of subtle miracle I expect to happen soon.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): In September of 1715, a band of Jacobite rebels gathered for a guerrilla attack on Edinburgh Castle in Scotland. Their plan was to scale the walls with rope ladders, aided by a double agent who was disguised as a castle sentry. But the scheme failed before it began. The rope ladders turned out to be too short to serve their intended purpose.

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Let's apply this lesson to the way you feed your inner child in the coming weeks. Metaphorically speaking, I suggest you serve that precious part of you the kind of sustenance that's both crunchy and healthy. In other words, make sure that what's wholesome is also fun, and vice versa.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): Your mascot is a famous white oak in Athens, Georgia. It's called the Tree That Owns Itself. According to legend, it belongs to no person or institution, but only to itself. The earth in which it's planted and the land around it are also its sole possession.

With this icon as your inspiration, I invite you to enhance and celebrate your sovereignty during the next seven months. What actions will enable you to own yourself more thoroughly? How can you boost your autonomy and become, more than ever before, the boss of you? It's prime time to expedite this effort.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): Police in Los Angeles conducted an experiment on a 10-mile span of freeway. Drivers in three unmarked cars raced along as fast as they could while remaining in the same lane. The driver of the fourth car not only moved at top speed, but also changed lanes and jockeyed for position.

Can you guess the results? The car that weaved in and out of the traffic flow arrived just slightly ahead of the other three. Apply this lesson to your activities in the coming week, please. There will be virtually no advantage to indulging in frenetic, erratic, breakneck exertion. Be steady and smooth and straightforward.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): You will generate lucky anomalies and helpful flukes if you use shortcuts, flee from boredom, and work smarter rather than harder. But you'll drum up wearisome weirdness and fruitless flukes if you meander all over the place, lose yourself in far-off fantasies, and act as if you have all the time in the world. Be brisk and concise, Scorpio. Avoid loafing and vacillating. Associate with bubbly activators who make you laugh and loosen your iron grip. It's a favourable time to polish off a lot of practical details with a light touch.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): "Like all explorers, we are drawn to discover what's out there without knowing yet if we have the courage to face it." Buddhist teacher Pema Chödrön said that, and now I'm telling you.

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CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): "Once I witnessed a windstorm so severe that two 100-yearold trees were uprooted on the spot," Mary Ruefle wrote in her book Madness, Rack and Honey.

"The next day, walking among the wreckage, I found the friable nests of birds, completely intact and unharmed on the ground." I think that's a paradox you'd be wise to keep in mind, Capricorn.

In the coming weeks, what's most delicate and vulnerable about you will have more staying power than what's massive and fixed.

Trust your grace and tenderness more than your fierceness and forcefulness. They will make you as smart as you need to be.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): Aztec king Montezuma II quenched his daily thirst with one specific beverage. He rarely drank anything else. It was ground cocoa beans mixed with chili peppers, water, vanilla and annatto.

Spiced chocolate? You could call it that. The frothy brew was often served to him in golden goblets, each of which he used once and then hurled from his royal balcony into the lake below. He regarded this elixir as an aphrodisiac, and liked to quaff a few flagons before heading off to his harem.

I bring this up, Aquarius, because the coming weeks will be one of those exceptional times when you have a poetic license to be almost Montezuma-like. What's your personal equivalent of his primal chocolate, golden goblets and a harem?

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): "Unfortunately, I'm pretty lucky," my friend Rico said to me recently.

He meant that his relentless good fortune constantly threatens to undermine his ambition.

How can he be motivated to try harder and grow smarter and get stronger if life is always showering him with blessings?

He almost wishes he could suffer more so that he would have more angst to push against. I hope you won't fall under the spell of that twisted logic in the coming weeks, Pisces. This is a phase of your cycle when you're likely to be the beneficiary of an extra-strong flow of help and serendipity. Please say this affirmation as often as necessary: "Fortunately, I'm pretty lucky."

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The legal process is difficult enough without misogynistic judges It has been a few weeks since Canadians were alerted to the egregious comments made by a federal court judge while he presided over a 2014 sexual assault trial, after a recent complaint prompted a review. The "Honourable" Justice Robin Camp asked the 19-year-old female complainant: "Why couldn't you just keep your knees together?" and dismissively stated that "sex and pain sometimes go together." Equally disturbing, the judge requested the prosecution provide case law supporting that a man must seek consent before engaging in sexual activity and, when confronted with an abundance of precedence, responded dismissively by stating "it's not the way of the birds and the bees."

This story deeply disturbed me.

Primarily, it raises questions about how judicial appointments are made.

It is unclear to me how Judge Camp, a commercial litigation lawyer with apparent archaic and sexist values, came to be appointed to Alberta's criminal courts in the first place. I am confounded by how he subsequently managed to be promoted to Canada's federal courts, even after demonstrating such dangerous ignorance of Canadian law.

But the problem extends far beyond this one chauvinistic judge. Let's look at the statistics: of every 1000 sexu-

al assaults, only 33 are reported; of those, only 12 will be prosecuted and only three will lead to a conviction.

These troubling statistics are partly related to systemic issues within the legal system and society at large, as well as the blurry lines we've created around consent and the definition of sexual assault. But another huge factor is the excruciating challenges faced by survivors, which deters them from seeking justice.

Let's look at a typical experience.

First, if a person reports a sexual assault promptly, they have the indignity of having their bodies inspected and photographed for evidence. Then they are required to detail their experience to the police, who—even if sympathetic—are obligated to pick apart the narrative. As the investigation begins, the survivors often find themselves in a "he said, she said" battle with the accused—who will readily dismiss their claims. The victims' credibility will be called into question. Their choices will be scrutinized. And their reputations will be damaged. This is where things often fall apart.

If, by some chance, sufficient evidence is gathered and charges are laid, then years later the survivor is tasked with reliving the horror of the assault in front of a judge—perhaps

a judge like Camp. Then they will face the prosecution, who will systematically tear apart their story and force them to defend every aspect of their lives, from their clothes to their sexual history. Even with the laws that exist to protect the victim, every aspect of pursuing legal recourse for sexual assault has the potential to be additionally violating and traumatizing for the survivor—all in the hopes of obtaining justice.

But what is justice? Validation? Closure? Peace of mind that their rapist will be punished? This is the justice they hope for, but it comes with a significant cost. I recognize the need for due process and that, in the interest of protecting innocent parties, so many of these challenges are unavoidable. But the least we could do is ensure our judges are not ignorant, misogynistic assholes.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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I'm a straight female in my mid 20s.

I've been dating a wonderful guy for two years—but I recently found something that has put me on edge.

Before we met, he was in a relationship with a terrible, alcoholic and mentally unstable woman. They got pregnant early in the relationship and stayed together for about five years.

We met a year after they broke up.

I felt like I'd come to terms with the ugliness of his past, with his trying to stay in a bad relationship for the sake of his child and the rest of it. But recently, thanks to the vastness of the Internet, I came across a suggestive photo of my boyfriend with his ex's sister. I asked him about it, and he admitted to sleeping with her while he was with his ex. He says it was during a particularly bad period, he was very drunk, she made the first move, etc, but I'm just so grossed out. Cheating is one thing, but fucking your girlfriend's sister? And it's not like this was a 19-year-old's mistake; he was near 30 and the father of a child. He also fudged a little about whether it was just one time or a few times. I feel like now I'm questioning his integrity.

This is something that I wouldn't have thought him capable of doing. What do I do?

ALL TWISTED UP What do you do? You ask yourself if you believe your boyfriend when he says fucking his thengirlfriend's sister was a mistake, ATU, one he deeply regrets, and one he never intends to repeat. If you can't be romantically involved with someone capable of doing such a terrible sister-fucking thing, the question is a rhetorical one. You'll have to end the relationship regardless of the answer. But if you could stay with someone capable of doing such a terrible sister-fucking thing, and if you believe your boyfriend when he says it was a mistake, one he regrets and won't happen again, then you stay in the relationship.

And when your find yourself feeling squicked out by the knowledge that your boyfriend fucked around on his previous girlfriend with her own sister, you remind yourself that good and decent people sometimes do shitty, indecent, sister-fucking-ish things—and then you pause to consider all the shitty and/or indecent things you've done in your life, ATU, some, most or all of which your boyfriend presumably remains blissfully unaware.

It's too bad that suggestive/incriminating photo is rattling around out there in the vastness of the Internet, ATU, but I'm curious about how exactly you "came across" it in the first place. If you went looking for dirt—if you were snooping—you found it.

Congrats. I'm not against snooping in all instances. People often find out shit they had both a right and an urgent need to know: the BF/GF/NBF*/ fiancé/spouse is cheating in a way that puts you at risk, they're running up ruinous debts, they're hiding a secret second family, they're attending Donald Trump rallies, etc. But just as often, we find out shit we didn't need to know—something in the BF/GF/ NBF's past, something they regret, something they'll never do again (do you even have a sister?)—and can never unknow.

You learned that your boyfriend did something pretty fucked up. Whether you decide to stay or go, ATU, remember that you snoop at your own risk—sorry, remember that you explore "the vastness of the Internet" at your own risk.

MEASURING UP

I'm a 37-year-old straight male in a relationship with a slightly older woman. I have a GGG girlfriend, and I am completely GGG—until we talk about having a MMF threesome. We have great sex and have experimented together. We tried playing with a couple to give her the "two-dick experience" she wanted, but the other man was of "average" size and she was not into it. I'm of average stature, and she

untreated before it causes infertility?

I told my boyfriend of 10 months, and he seems very sane about it. But I am terrified that he'll leave me. HELP! SERIOUSLY TERRIFIED DAMSEL Some time has passed between your letter arriving and my response appearing in print—so here's hoping you called your gynecologist back, STD, and got the download and the treatment you needed.

Quickly: Chlamydia is a common sexually transmitted infection (STI), men and women are equally at risk, it can be contracted through vaginal, anal or oral intercourse. Your Google search was accurate: Left untreated, chlamydia can cause infertility in women. But you're not going to leave it untreated, right? Fortunately, chlamydia is easily cured. Unfortunately, most people who have chlamydia aren't aware they're infected, as most infected people have no symptoms.

That's why it's extremely important for all sexually active people—adults and adolescents—to get regular STI screenings.

Is your reproductive system already harmed? You'll have to discuss that with your gynecologist, STD, who is in a far better position than I am to have a look inside you. As for your boyfriend: He needs to get tested and treated too, and if his last STI screening was more than a year ago, it's possible he infected you and not the other way around.

If your boyfriend leaves you over this—if he blames you for something he may be responsible for—then he's not someone you want in your life or in your twat.

And when your find yourself feeling squicked out by the knowledge that your boyfriend fucked around on his previous girlfriend with her own sister, you remind yourself that good and decent people sometimes do shitty, indecent, sister-fucking-ish things. made such a fuss of having someone extra large join in that it threw my hang-up about my size into overdrive.

It's paralyzed me sexually. I'm afraid she'll leave me or run off looking to fulfil her need on her own.

AVERAGE NERDY GUY SHUNNING THREESOMES If leaving you is the only way this woman can ever experience an aboveaverage cock again, ANGST, then she might leave you. Depending on how important sitting on an above-average cock now and then is to her, your insecurities may create an incentive for her to leave you or cheat on you.

But if she can have you and all the good times and the great GGG sex you two have together—if she can continue to enjoy your cock and the things it and you can do for her along with the occasional ride on an aboveaverage cock—then you've created a massive incentive for her to stay.

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How bad is chlamydia? My gynecologist left me a voice mail, and I am absolutely terrified. A quick Google search told me that it can cause infertility if left untreated—what it didn't tell me is how long when left

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My younger brother outed me to our parents, our siblings and our only living grandparent. I'm a straight woman and into bondage, SM and kinky swinging—nothing outrageous— and I tried to keep this aspect of my sexuality (and my marriage) hidden.

Things are fine now: Mom and Dad are mad at my brother, not me, and my siblings (save the fundamentalist) are over it. But I wanted to share my grandmother's reaction: She called to tell me that my late grandfather liked to be tied up and spanked too and that their marriage (47 years!) was more fun for it.

KINK ISN'T NEW, KIDDO That's wonderful—and Thanks for sharing.

so

true!

* Nonbinary friend. V On the Lovecast, Dan chats with writer Parker Molloy about relationships with trans folks: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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