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Redford: one year in On April 23, 2012, Alberta elected the Progressive Conservative Party back into power, crushing the then-looming possibility of an upstart Wild Rose majority—what would've been the first non-conservative Albertan government since 1971—with almost 44 percent of the popular vote. To commemorate the first anniversary of her government, Premier Alison Redford released a letter on Tuesday applauding her party's accomplishments, and underlining the promises it's kept in that time.

Examining what they present as achievements is as telling as what they skim over.

For starters, it downplays the provincial government's effect on post-secondary education. Discussion of post-secondary is limited to noting that there's been a tuition freeze, while nothing is said about the unexpected and deep gouges in funding faced by the province's post-secondary institutions.

Curiously, there isn't even a mention of the province's maligned Campus Alberta idea, which suggests even the provincial government doesn't have all that much faith in its proposed unified system of higher education to consider it an accomplishment.

Of course, the government also offers its lack of increased taxes as a victory. In terms of a sales tax, the government's hands are actually tied by the Alberta Taxpayer Protection Act—a cloyingly titled Klein-era bill that made a referendum necessary to introduce a sales tax, which polls suggest Albertans would vote overwhelmingly against.

But a recent Parkland Institute report suggests that a similarly overwhelming number of Albertans would happily return to a progressive tax system, where tax rates increase as income does.

In short, it would help assuage the deficit, and, having just won an election, now was the least vulnerable time for the provincial government to introduce a new tax system. It didn't.

The letter's chief acknowledgment of financial difficulties is blaming the "bitumen bubble." It doesn't acknowledge that the Redford government could start to steer us away from such a volatile dependency on oil prices—upping the low royalty rate that was implemented in a time when we needed to attract company interest to the area, which we certainly don't need any help with anymore.

The government's Family Care Clinics, included in the letter, is an idea on health care that is yet to be clarified. Right now, nobody really knows exactly what these are, though more than $100 million has been budgeted to build them. Meanwhile, Dr Mark Ewanchuk's impassioned letter in the Edmonton Journal earlier this month criticized them as unproven and unrealistic. It's telling that Albertadoctors.org has a seven-page document of questions health-care professionals should ask themselves before considering joining the system.

Shouldn't some of these questions have been answered for the professionals before the government dedicated such a massive chunk of budget towards an untested idea?

So, has Redford's government been keeping her promises? Some of them. But what's telling is that some of those promises are proving to be very hollow indeed, lacking the sort of consultation, foresight and open leadership Albertans want and deserve. V

Sustainable student moving Eco Move Out aims to divert student waste from the landfill

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ith over 39 000 students and 15 000 staff—mainly stationed at North Campus—the University of Alberta generates a lot of waste. But an initiative started by the U of A's Office of Sustainability will reduce all waste that now ends up in the garbage to 50 percent on the North Campus by 2015. One of its ideas to get there has been Eco Move Out. "With 3800 students moving out this time of year, there's a lot of barriers to being able to

the opportunity to do that because nobody feels good throwing out something that could be used again," Dockman says.

Last year was the first year for Eco Move Out, and while there are similar programs in other parts of Canada and the United States, it was a first for Alberta. Over six tonnes of waste and recyclables were collected—912 lbs of Campus Food-Bank donations, over 2650 lbs

Throughout the year you collect things and you buy things and you buy more food than you think you're going to need and then you have limited space leaving at the end of the year ... recycle and donate their things. Our main goal is removing those barriers and making it a lot easier," says Lisa Dockman, one of the organizers of Eco Move Out. "Instead of it all ending up at a landfill, there's a lot more ending up in the hands of people who can use it."

Eco Move Out runs until May 3. Students can donate their used clothing, household items, electronics, empty beauty containers and unused food and toiletries at drop-off centres set up at each residence.

"Throughout the year you collect things and you buy things and you buy more food than you think you're going to need, and then you have limited space leaving at the end of the year, so that cycle through the year creates a lot of stuff that is still perfectly usable and we're just finding new homes for it," Dockman says. She adds that Eco Move Out makes it easy for students who are catching a flight or leaving with family as soon as they finish writing their last exam to dispose of their things properly.

"It warms your heart to hear that they are so happy and excited to be able to donate and recycle their things—almost relieved to have

of clothing and household items for Goodwill, 2890 lbs of electronics and 645 empty beauty-product containers. Eco Move Out works with Terracycle to collect the empties—and no, they don't have to have every last bit of lip balm, mascara or toothpaste scraped out of the tube. Electronics are picked up by Shanked Recycling—a company that automatically shreds every data-containing device like computers and cell phones.

"Everything is taken apart and separated into its components," says Lorraine Haasbroek, Shanked's director. Every little piece of plastic, copper or steel is recycled or reused. Old cathode ray tube (CRT) monitors are taken apart by specialists to separate the lead from the glass—a potentially hazardous process. For security reasons, electronics are dismantled instead of reused, but also because Alberta is one of many developed areas that will not send electronics (e-waste) to developing nations.

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to recover valuable materials, have heavy impacts on human health and the environment."

The products that should not end up in landfills include lead in circuit boards, CRT glass and mercury in LCD backlights. Toxic gasses form when e-waste is burned, and that's why Alberta has very strong recycling standards regarding electronics.

Betty Gray, communications manager with Alberta Recycling, says the primary objective is to prevent e-waste from being exported to developing countries where environmental and safety abuses may occur. All products collected by Alberta Recycling are dismantled into their basic components before being recycled. Shipping whole computers or TVs is not allowed.

"Since 2004, the electronics recycling program has kept over five-million units of computer equipment and televisions from filling up landfills," Gray says. "The majority of electronics being recycled is still largely comprised of the older-model TVs and monitors and desktop computers."

Although the total tonnage of items collected in last year's Eco Move Out was recorded, the total diversion rate from the landfill was not calculated.

"In order to get a diversion rate, you need to know everything," says Shannon LeBlanc, another Eco Move Out organizer. "It's the percent that was diverted from landfill out of the entire amount of waste generated. The total amount of goods that was donated was 6576 pounds. We're hoping and expecting to get even more this year and this year we will be able to calculate a diversion rate."

For more information about Eco Move Out times and locations visit sustainability.ualberta.ca.

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A history of violence

Edmonton struggles to shake off rough reputation as murder and violent crime rates drop

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s Edmonton a violent city?

Gordy Loos will tell you that it can be; he'll tell you he's already been killed twice here. At 20 years old he's already survived a hatchet attack, been shot near the groin and stabbed nine times. The tall, lean young man has scars to match a veteran soldier's. His short life, much of it spent in foster homes and on Edmonton's streets, has been defined by violence.

"I was outside this bar on 118 Avenue on my 17th birthday, and this guy kept bugging me for a smoke—he wouldn't quit and he ended up pulling out this huge, like 11-inch machete and stabbed me in the arm ... then he plunged it down through my shoulder and diagonally through my lungs," Loos says, tugging aside the collar of his T-shirt to reveal a mean, six-inch gnarl of scar tissue. "I should have died— it took 23 stitches inside and 32 staples outside to fix me up."

That violence, he says, has messed him up pretty bad. He's aggressive. He gets into fights three times a week. He carries weapons for self-defence. Being homeless—where, he says, problems are solved with fists and knives, not handcuffs—is not a safe lifestyle.

But he has hope. He's moving into his own apartment soon—his first. Having his own space means he controls who he spends time with, unlike on the streets where he's often forced into dangerous situations. His life, much like the city he lives in, is heading down a safer path.

Edmonton is struggling to shake off its violent stereotype. People call it Stabmonton and Deadmonton, or warn you to stay out of Kill Woods (Mill Woods). Edmonton has been labelled— fairly or not—as a place where stabbings and murders are routine. But does the City of Champions deserve to be called the "City of Homicides?" Yes and no—it's a complex question that yields no easy answers, just like there is no simple way to define what makes Edmonton unique.

First, the good news: violent crime in Edmonton is down. The City of Edmonton says violent crime dropped 13 percent in the last two years. And Superintendent David Veitch, head of the Edmonton Police Service's Office of Violence Reduction, says that violent crime is down a further 5.9 percent in the first quarter of 2013. That's welcome news, considering there were 8271 incidents of violent crime in 2012, up 2.7 percent from the year before.

That pacification is part of a nationwide, decades-long trend. Crime in Canada is at the lowest it's been since 1972. Canucks, it seems, have mellowed; excluding homicides, all major categories of violent crime and crime severity are down.

Veitch says Edmonton's drop in violence is thanks to a focused, coordinated effort to tackle assaults and homicides. He says there are seemingly countless motivating factors behind violence, so the response has to be equally diverse.

"We made a commitment to reduce violence," Vietch says. "And that means

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more than waiting to arrest and charge individuals. It means working with distressed neighbourhoods, partnering with organizations, focusing on mental health, addictions and homelessness. It's prevention and intervention."

The trends and efforts are promising, but Edmonton is still rougher than most urban centres. Two years ago, Edmonton had a murder nearly every week, for a city record of 50 total homicides in 2011. That gave the City of Champions the third-highest murder per capita rate in the nation, behind Winnipeg and Halifax. That same year, Edmonton ranked second for aggravated assaults per capita, behind Saskatoon. In 2011 Calgary's per capita murder rate was just 1.1 per 100 000, a quarter of Edmonton's.

most common murder instruments in Edmonton.

"We were seeing a high number of edged weapons used in homicides and assaults, so that's definitely an area of concern," Veitch says. "So we started to send the message that it's not acceptable to be walking around with a machete or an even more dramatic weapon on you."

Edmonton had the second-highest murder per capita rate from 1981 to 2009, second only to Winnipeg. (Winnipeg remains the most murder-prone Canadian city, leading the country in homicides more than 14 times). So what gives?

University of Alberta Sociology Professor Dr Bryan Hogeveen argues there

Crime in Canada is at the lowest it's been since 1972. Canucks, it seems, have mellowed; excluding homicides, all major categories of violent crime and crime severity are down.

Consider that Edmonton had 4.2 murders per 100 000 people in 2011, a number that dropped significantly in 2012, as there were 29 murders instead of 50.

Compare that to San Pedro Sula, Honduras, known as the most dangerous city in the world for the last two years, which had 1218 murders last year—a per capita murder rate 40 times Edmonton's.

Relatively, Edmonton is an extremely safe place to live. But it could be better.

Stabmonton, unfortunately, is not a totally unfair nickname. After a grisly 2011, the EPS came up with four ways to fight back against the violence: they focused on social disorder, distressed neighbourhoods, alcohol and drugs, and edged weapons.

Knives, Vietch says, are among "top three"

is no simple answer to the "incredibly complex" question of what makes Edmonton violent—and Calgary less so.

Anger, masculinity, drugs and alcohol, parenting, desperation, marginalization, the legacy of residential schools; these ingredients combine in infinite combinations to create violence on our streets and in our homes, Hogeveen says.

Look around your neighbourhood: do you see lots of people living alone, loneparent families, more aboriginal people, unemployed people, people who haven't finished high school, more renters, apartments, older houses or houses needing repair? According to a Statistics Canada analysis of Edmonton's crime by neighbourhood, any one of those factors can

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contribute to a community being more prone to violent crime.

Those were all issues facing Alberta Avenue, the north-end strip once known as the main street of Edmonton. After a post-war heyday as the city's main shopping and entertainment district, the young families started moving away to the suburbs, the houses and the residents started getting older and the community stagnated. By the '70s, it was a mess of prostitution, drugs and violence.

But some residents saw opportunity.

Community groups and individuals banded together to clean up the streets and storefronts, reporting drug-houses and prostitution, and most importantly, working together. Now the area is attracting young families, professionals and artists who are making Alberta Avenue one of the most vibrant communities in Edmonton.

"I don't know if there will ever be a day when we can say crime is over," says Karen Mykietka, president of the Alberta Avenue Community League. "But talk to people who have lived in this neighbourhood for a long time and they'll tell you there is a huge difference. We live in one of the most connected areas in the city— you run into people you know in the street all day long."

The City of Edmonton hopes to replicate that success, announcing earlier this month that they're offering up to $20 000 for home beautification in the innercity neighbourhoods of Alberta Avenue, Boyle Street, Central McDougall, Eastwood, McCauley and Queen Mary Park.

But, for the homeless population, most common victims of violence in Edmonton, having a house to beautify seems like an impossible luxury. Veitch says 60 percent

of the homicide victims in 2011 were either involved with or had contact with a homeless shelter. Julian Daly, the executive director of Boyle Street Community Services—an inner-city agency that offers programs and services for homeless people—says the street lifestyle can be extremely dangerous.

"There's this misconception that the homeless are the source of violence," Daly says. "But stats say they're disproportionately the victims."

Homeless people, Daly says, often struggle with addictions and are exposed to violence through crime and dealing with drug dealers. More resources for housing, mental health counselling and addictions work would do a great deal to keep people off the street—and safe. Indeed, Vietch says that 85 percent of homeless people who find housing tend to stay housed, as long as they have access to the services that keep them out of trouble.

Focusing on how to support society's most vulnerable people and addressing the underlying causes of their struggle is the only real way to see real, lasting improvement Hogeveen says.

"We need to think about what justice means, how we ought to be with one another," Hogeveen adds. "There's no simple answer as to how to get rid of violence, but we do need to relate with each other and support the marginalized people in our society."

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MOSAIC MINDS UNCONFERENCE III • Creators Code, 10981-127 St • The Food of Our Lives: Dirty Secrets, Future Affairs • Apr 28, 1-8pmApr 29, 5-9pm • $15-40 (sliding scale)

sionz Café, 9938-70 Ave: George Hrab • May 1, 7-10pm • $15 (SEA member)/$17 (non-member)/$20 (door)

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95

Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.710.2119 • Comedy night

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)

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm SEVENTIES FOREVER CLUB • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion,

Sundays 4:30-6:30pm

SOUTH EDMONTON VEGETARIAN & GARDENING CLUB • Park Allen Hall, 11104-65 Ave,

SUGARSWING DANCE CLUB • Orange Hall, 10335-

SOWING SEEDS OF POSSIBILITY: FROM FOOD MAPPING TO ASSET MAPPING • Robertson Wesley United Church, 10209-123 St • Hands on Consultations that Create Action for Food Initiatives • Apr 26-27 • $15 (Fri evening)/$20 (Sat only)/$30 (both days); pre-register at 780.458.9286

URBAN GREEN COHOUSING INFORMATION SESSION • Old Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St • Live

84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave, 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

sustainably. Live well. Urban Green Cohousing is holding an information session. Come learn more about cohousing and meet our group. Singles, families, young, and old are welcome • Apr 30, 7-8:30pm

WALKING ALBERTA–St Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club • Lacombe Park Shelter, McKenney

QUEER

Ave, St Albert • 5 and 10k walks in St. Albert • May 4, 10am-12:30pm

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave,

• Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton.

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

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (north door, stairs to the left) • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month. Help develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS AFTER U–DAN RISKIN LECTURE • 1-430 CCIS, U of A • Vampire bats, leeches, and celebrities. Oh, the dirty consequences of a degree from the U of A, lecture by Dan Riskin (host of the Discovery Channel's Daily Planet), talks about where your education can take you and reminds you to have fun along the way • May 2, 7pm, reception to follow • Free (U of A student)/$5 (alumni/non-student guest); preregister alumni.ualberta.ca/stay-connected/students/ dan-riskin-lecture

ANTIQUE TEA GOWNS • Rutherford House, 11153 Saskatchewan Dr • An educational evening on vintage High Tea Fashion presented by U of A curator Anne Bissonnette who will display some antique tea gowns from the Dpt of Human Ecology's textiles collection and will give a program on the tea gown, its origins, and its associated etiquette • Apr 25, 7-9pm • $40 (non members), 7804274033 BREWING IDEAS WITH AARON PAQUETTE, CREE8 SUCCESS • Citadel's The Club, 9828 101A Ave,

Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • Older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, meeting, speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper.

Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St, 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Hockey: Quuer Hockey League (QHL) • Blazin' Bootcamp: Every Mon, 7:30-8:30pm at Garneau Elementary School, 10925-87 Ave; $30/$15 (low income/ student) • Badminton (Co-Ed): Every Wed, 6-7:30pm; St Vincent School, 10530-138 St; $5 (drop-in) • Yoga: Gay/ Lesbian yoga every Wed, 7:30-9pm, at Lion's Breath Yoga, 206, 10350-124 St; Instructor: Jason Morris; $10 (drop-in) • Indoor Cycling: Terwillegar Recreation Centre; drop-in • Running: Every Sun, 10am, at Kinsmen • Swimming– Making Waves: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) pool, 11762-106 St • Edmonton Storm–Women's Tackle Football: info: Edmontonstorm@teamedmonton. ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu

780.425.1820 • percolateyeg.tumblr.com • An exploration of sustainability in the fields of arts, heritage and cultural management. Aaron Paquette, Cree8 Success lecture • May 2, 7-10pm • Free; ticketed event

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craft-

EXPRESSIONZ HEART TO HEART LUNCHEONS

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St, 780.488.5768 •

• Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Mike Hudema of Greenpeace Canada, speaking on the Tar Sands and the necessity of civil disobedience: Q & A follows • Donation

THE FUTURE OF TRANSPORTATION SYMPOSIUM AND CAR SHOW • NAIT Central Campus, 106 St, 118 Ave • Symposium on alternative transportation options including electric, hybrid, biodiesel, humanpowered, hydrogen and solar technologies. The car show will showcase over 40 alternative vehicles from electric bicycles, converted cars and trucks, R&D prototypes on up to the latest available-now high efficiency green vehicle technologies • Apr 27, 11am-6pm

room, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities. com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave, 780.488.3234 • 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 SunMon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St, 780.474.8240 • 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave, 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area.

Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured • Celebration Dance: Apr 27; $10 (member)/$15 (non-member) WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave, 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS ARTISTS FOR LIFE • The Club, Citadel, 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • Fundraiser for HIV Edmonton, Camp fYrefly and YESS hosted by JTMF West featuring roots-rock music by Wil, after the show a reception, silent auction, post-show dance party by Audrey Ochoa and the Crashers, with the Urban Monks (DJ) • May 4, 7-11pm • No minors • $100 (VIP)/$50 (general)

BIKE DAY • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Barbecue; free bike tune-ups by EBC (11am-pm). Barbecue in the parking (12-4pm) • May 5, Sun, 11am-3pm

CANCER FUNDRAISER WINE TASTING • Baseline Wine Spirits, 11 Athabascan Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.449.4448 • For a minimum donation sample 20 wines, enjoy a silent auction, complimentary appetizers • Apr 27, 1-5pm • $10 (min donation; funds to Prostate Canver Research) CREATIVE HEARTS • Artery, 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.667.3798 • Heart of the City fundraiser: Music

by Andrew Scott, Doug Hoyer, Erasmo Coco, E-ville Turntable Choir. Silent auction, Tarot card readings, art exhibit by Aynsley Nisbet, Kryssa Kennedy, Sebastian Barrera, Adrianne Olszewski, Kyle Schneider, and Nataliya Bukhanova • Apr 25, 7pm (door), 8pm (music) • $10

EDMONTON'S INTERNATIONAL BEERFEST • Shaw Conference Centre • Apr 26-27 • $19 (day pass)/$29 (weekend pass )

THE EDMONTON RUG HOOKERS GUILD • Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • Annual tea and rug show • May 2, 11am-2pm • $5 MAD HATTER'S GALA–OFF TO THE RACES • Shaw Conference Centre • A night at the races; don your most creative hats, fascinators and derby chic attire. Presented by MacEwan University • Apr 27, 5:30pm (Run for the Roses Reception), 6:30pm (Queen's Plate dinner), 9:30pm (Down and Derby After Party) • $500 at TIX on the Square

MAYOR'S CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS • Winspear Centre • Performance and entertainment showcase celebrating some of Edmonton's artistic talents • Apr 29, 7pm, followed by after-party

COMMENT >> FOSSIL FUELS

The third carbon option

The 'carbon bubble' may soon burst if countries keep a blind eye turned There are, we are told, only two options: either we stop burning fossil fuels before our carbon dioxide emissions drive the planet's average temperature up a full two degrees C, in which case we will push the world into the biggest-ever recession. Or we continue to burn fossil fuels and push the planet into runaway warming, with lethal consequences for a large part of the human race.

The 2008 bank crash that triggered the recent recession was caused mainly by reckless investment that created a "bubble" in house prices. When the bubble burst, hundreds of billions of dollars' worth of investments suddenly became worthless. The losses were so great that they nearly brought the whole banking system down.

This time the problem is a "carbon bubwarming forces governments to curb ble." The market valuation of the world's the burning of fossil fuels, so that much 200 biggest oil, gas and coal comof those reserves have to stay unpanies is about $4 trillion, a derground forever? figure based on the assumed value of their confirmed reThis is the focus of a new m ekly.co e w e serves that are still in the report titled Unburnable u e@v gwynn e n n ground. Or, more precisely, a Carbon 2013. The report's auGwy r e figure based on the assumption thors, the Grantham Research y D that they will eventually be able to Institute at the London School sell all of those reserves to customers of Economics and the Carbon Tracker who want to burn them.

Initiative, have the support of organizaOn the strength of that assumption, tions like the HSBC and Citi banks, the the fossil-fuel companies have been Standard and Poor's rating agency, and able to take on $1.5 trillion of debt, and the International Energy Agency. last year alone they spent $647 billion Their conclusion is that if we are to in the search for even more oil, gas and have a 50 percent chance of stopping coal reserves. But what if they will nevthe warming before +2 degrees, then at er be able to sell all of their reserves? least two-thirds of the currently listed What if the need to avoid runaway fossil fuel reserves will have to stay in

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the ground permanently. If they cannot be burned, then they have no economic value. Therefore, the market valuation of the fossil fuel companies is three times higher than it should be.

The report assumes that rationality will prevail and that at some point a limit will be imposed on the burning of fossil fuels. In this new reality, the debt burden of the fossil fuel companies becomes unsustainable and there is a financial meltdown that dwarfs 2008. Global warming is held to +2 degrees, but at the cost of the Mother of All Recessions.

The other option is that no controls are imposed on burning fossil fuels and the carbon bubble does not burst until the warming breaks through the twodegree limit and triggers the natural

feedbacks that will carry us inexorably up to +6 degrees Celsius. That implies mass death and possibly civilizational collapse by the end of the century, but the fossil fuel reserves will retain their assumed value for the meantime and there will be no financial crash.

This is the scenario that the market is betting on and at the moment, most of the evidence supports that wager. The ideological and commercial interests that oppose action on climate change have triumphed in the United States and Canada, and without the Americans, decisive action is hard to imagine.

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COMMENT >> ECONOMY

Another boom is not what we need

Alberta's economy isn't as bad as what you might have heard Don't let the government's talk of bibecause they could not find or afford set on following the same policies as tumen bubbles, belt-tightening and staff. Crime, poverty, illegal drug use her predecessor Ed Stelmach when revenue shortfalls fool you. Alberta's and homelessness sky-rocketed. High it comes to exerting control over Aleconomy is not hurting. It is also not school completion and post-secondberta's economy and energy resources: in a holding pattern. In fact, accordary participation rates plummeted. none. She refuses to adjust our roying to a report released last week by Economic inequality in the province alty regime (which was designed at a the Parkland Institute, we are in reached unprecedented levels and time when Alberta needed to entice a growth pattern and headAlbertans found themselves oil companies to invest) and refuses to ing full-speed into another working the longest hours ensure that oil companies pay the full E in the country just to make cost of their activities vis-a-vis public C N bitumen-fuelled boom.

E R ERFE The numbers are actually INT @vueweekly.com ends meet. infrastructure and the environment. a ric rdo o d pretty clear. Investment, Yes, a small number of We are essentially subsidizing an inr a c Ri production and total expenAlbertans did very well for dustry that is profitable and attractive Acuña ditures in Alberta's bituminous themselves during the out-offor absolutely no reason. sands are all higher today than at any control boom period, but the majorIn fact, Redford's moves to streamline point in Alberta's history, including during the 2008 peak of our last bituWhat Albertans learned during our last boom men boom. Energy economists and inwas that there is a big difference between healthy dustry groups alike are projecting that economic growth in the public interest and an outthe current levels of investment will of-control resource rush. at least double over the course of the next five years, bringing Alberta's bitumen production up to a level of some ity of us faced higher living expenses, project approval (no project applica3.7 million barrels per day by 2021—a reduced access to public services and tion has ever been rejected) and soften number more than double what even paycheques that seemed to cover less environmental regulations make her the most optimistic of folks were prewith every passing month. At the same blind encouragement of out-of-control dicting just 15 years ago. time, we saw extreme growth in the growth even worse than Stelmach's.

So there is no question we are on our pace of environmental degradation in Her government also continues to way to another boom. The question is, the province, and workplace injuries spend millions of dollars in advertisedo we want it? and deaths also reached new levels. ments and junkets to Washington to What Albertans learned during our court even more industry to develop Our most recent bitumen boom last boom was that there is a big difour bitumen and get it to more marshould still be a pretty fresh memory ference between healthy economic kets more quickly than ever before. for most Albertans, as should the growth in the public interest and an Alberta does not need another outmany social and economic ills that acout-of-control resource rush. Even of-control oil boom. In fact, that's the companied it. Inflation and the cost of right-wing economists and former last thing we need. Our infrastructure living in the province went through the Conservative politicians have spoken and public services are already overroof, while people's salaries and wages out about the need for the governstretched and being cut, we already largely stagnated. Public infrastrucment to step in and moderate the have the highest inequality in the ture and services could not keep up pace of bitumen development and country, and our land, air and water with the population growth, resulting economic expansion. The problem is cannot even handle the current rates in over-crowded classrooms, emergenthat the provincial government does of production. We still haven't recy-room lineups and crumbling roads. not appear to have learned the same covered from our last boom and our Local businesses had to reduce hours lesson.

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government is trying to drive us fullspeed ahead into another one.

One of the primary responsibilities of government is to ensure that our resources and our economy are developed in a way that meet our interests over the long term. That means actually governing, regulating, saying "no" once in a while and charging a fair price. The Redford Conservatives, however, have abandoned this responsibility completely, and opted instead to give largely foreign-owned

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years of recession in Europe have had much the same effect, sapping the will of governments to spend money fighting climate change. Last week, for example, the European Parliament refused to fund a scheme to rescue the carbon emissions trading scheme, once the centrepiece of the EU's climate strategy.

In big, rapidly developing countries like China and India, the race for growth takes priority over cutting carbon emissions. And just when you think things couldn't get worse, along comes shale gas to expand the fossil fuel reserves even further.

It's a grim choice: either financial meltdown if we act decisively to halt climate change, or physical meltdown if we don't. But there is, unfortunately, a third alternative. In fact, it's the likeliest outcome by far.

First we go on growing our emissions at the current rate (three percent per

oil corporations full control over how and when our resources are developed. The result, just like last time, will be another out-of-control boom that yields huge profits for huge corporations and leaves nothing good behind for the rest of us: the ones for whom the government is supposed to be working. Albertans deserve better. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta. year) for the next couple of decades, and the fossil fuel industry thrives.

Then, when it's already too late and we have crossed the +2 degree limit, the actual warming (which always lags the growth in emissions by a decade or more) frightens us into taking action at last.

So we lurch into a crash program to cut fossil fuel use—and suddenly the market wakes up to the fact that a lot of those reserves will have to stay in the ground forever. If you liked the sub-prime mortgage fiasco in 2008, you'll positively love this one.

It's not either Disaster A or Disaster B. It's first one and then the other, interlocking and mutually reinforcing.

And Disaster B will mean there's no money left to do anything about Disaster A. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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REVUE // GHIBLI

Goldfish, memories and samurai raccoon dogs Metro's Ghibli retrospective continues into the studio's lesser-known works Thu, Apr 25 (7pm); Sun, Apr 28 (4:30 pm), Wed, May 1 (9:15 pm) Pom Poko Directed by Isao Takahata

 Fri, Apr 26 (5 pm); Sat, Apr 27 (7 pm); Sun, Apr 28 (12:45 pm); Tue, Apr 30 (9 pm) Ponyo Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

 Sat, Apr 27 (1:30pm), Mon, Apr 29 (7 pm) Only Yesterday Directed by Isao Takahata

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he Studio Ghibli retrospective continues with Miyazaki's most deceptively minor masterpiece and two works by writer-director Isao Takahata, the lesser-known and less productive co-founder. Takahata, less visual than Miyazaki—Takahata doesn't draw himself—and more influenced by music and poetry, usually lends a quieter, more elegiac air to his entries in Ghibli's canon of already-classic animation.

Under its sparkling surface, Ponyo (2008)—Little Mermaid-ish, with a goldfish determined to become human—is Miyazaki's ode to motherhood; the sea is the greatest nurturer of all. It begins under the moonlit waves, where clouds of jellyfish, tangles of eels, schools of fish and countless other creatures swirl, float and swim. The underwater sequences— where the pre-Ponyo goldfish, called

Brunnhilde, is often rendered in more limpid, storyboard-like images—are some of Ghibli's most luminous, complex reflections of nature's teeming beauty.

The point of this animation is to have us, like Sōsuke, fall in love with the ocean— and with love comes responsibility, the five-year-old learns soon after finding the goldfish near shore, naming her, and putting her in a green pail. Eco-love's struck right away (especially when a bottomtrawler drag-nets all fish and garbage on the sea floor)—the rest of the film rides that feeling's ebbs and swells while Miyazaki accords his usual profound respect to the child-protagonist.

Still, beyond Ponyo's unbridled joy and the marvelous looks on children's faces—tired-out from crying; drowsy contentment after eating so much delicious food—surges maternity. Fragile amniotic bubbles of water envelop characters. Sōsuke's mother Lisa is a drivingforce, racing off to work at an old folks' home (full of spirited women) when she isn't making lunches or dinners. She even meets with Ponyo's beatific, floating ocean-mother. But the sea isn't just a metaphor for maternal grace and care— the sea's rage, reflecting Ponyo's bitter father, can roil. Painter Hokusai's "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" is echoed in the rolling credit-sequence and in an astoundingly semi-expressionist, semirealist stretch where waves crash and lash around the coastal village's roads as Ponyo runs gleefully along the tongues of the surf.

Takahata's Only Yesterday (1991), adapted from a manga, moves with barely a ripple along a woman's memories of her girlhood in 1966. (This film—

whose Japanese title means "memories come tumbling down"—is the only Ghibli production not yet released on disc in the US or Canada, making it that much more valuable as a big-screen curio.) Some memories are Ozu-like recollections—eating a carefully-cut pineapple, then such a rare delicacy— while others are Judy Blume-like (the confusion and embarrassment after being taught about periods). Watercolour-light drawings, with white space and white backgrounds, make Taeko's memories of her '60s schooldays an eggshell-fragile, near-heavenly space.

These typically manga sequences are soon seamlessly juxtaposed with Hungarian and Bulgarian peasant tunes as Taeko, working in the city, takes a trip to the countryside near Yamagata, where she grew up.

When Taeko arrives, Takahata offers an exquisite sense of what it's like to find yourself in a new place, as she's driven through it by a local—Toshio, a distant relative of her brotherin-law (he's the one who plays the Eastern European "farming

music"). Little details accrue poetic power—the mists over safflower fields; little Taeko's failed sulking over an enamel purse—as Taeko's memories become less nostalgic and Toshio worries about the decline of Japanese farming. Here, as love blossoms (blooming in one of cinema's most touching endcredit sequences ever), the environment's imbued with memories of families and workers—the entire Japanese landscape, we're reminded by Toshio, is human-made.

Takahata's probably best known for Grave of the Fireflies (1988), a stately, sombre, heartbreaking look at war-ravaged Japan through the eyes of two little siblings. His Pom Poko (1994), though, is a serio-comic oddity. To call it one part nature doc, one part animal fable, and one part samurai-like adventure is to only partly sum it up. Takahata's tale of raccoon dogs—mischievous creatures i n

Japanese legend—offers a documentarylike voiceover throughout even as the raccoon dogs are shown as four-legged wild creatures or, when in their village, two-legged (and two-balled—testicles, or "pouches" in the English dub, are prominent parts of "tanuki" folklore) cheerful folk. The animals, using their abilities to morph into any object or being, launch a trickster offensive to halt destruction of their land, in Tama Hills, near Tokyo, for dense housing devtelopments.

The film moves among serious community meetings, the comic antics of basically lazy, tempura-craving mischiefmakers, and dramatic episodes of romance or voyages afar to bring back transformation-masters. But these shifts in tone and approach, while not jarring, aren't quite smooth sailing, either. This is also the only Studio Ghibli film that feels like it just can't quite translate to a Western audience, with the "tanuki" tales coming off like an in-joke that "gaijin" outsiders will never quite be able to get. Given Ghibli's environmental concerns, though, there's a strange sort of relief in this— even films, Pom Poko proves, flourish best in their natural habitat.

BRIAN GIBSON

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COMMENT >> FILM

Slipping into a surreal fog The Woman in the Fifth an eerie, puzzling thriller

Director Pawel Pawlikowski left PoKennedy's novel. After receiving tepid he's there to take care of his daughter land in his teens, eventually settling reviews and scant distribution, it was and see his spouse. But soon, as she's in England. His feature-length debut, released, unnoticed, onto disc calling the police from her apartLast Resort (2000), followed a Ruslate last year—but this is a ment in the city, this seemingly T sian mother and son who are trying better, more intriguing film concerned parent's become ASPEC to enter the country, but are confined than many critics gave it the estranged, and strange, ly.com k e e to an immigrant detention-centre in credit for. (Mostly, scribes man of concern—a threat to w vue brian@ Brighton. His next, the superb My kept putting it some stohis ex-wife. Tom, a literature n Bria n o Summer of Love (2004), adapted ries below Polanski's The professor and a writer, was res Mysterious encounters, leading to more mysterious encounters Gib from the Helen Cross novel, was an inTenant or Frantic.) This Frenchcently "in hospital," he admits to timately English affair—between two Polish co-production's jarring start, its young daughter Chloe. Reality and ficYorkshire girls. Two years later, he'd unnerving gaze at a fracturing writer, tion blur (are the forest scenes out of shot more than half of his adaptation and its parade of hybrid identities— his one published novel, Forest Light?) of The Restraint of Beasts, Magnus American and Polish ex-pats in a mulas Tom writes—not a novel but letters, Mills' dryly tragicomic novel, when his ticultural Paris—elevate it to a surwith illustrations of animals, to Chloe. wife fell ill. The film was scuppered; real, strange atmosphere above most Pawlikowski's wife died. thrillers.

As we try to interpret this film of douPawlikowski returned in 2011 with When Tom Ricks (Ethan Hawke) bles and a divided self, sifting truth from The Woman in the Fifth, from Douglas checks in with customs, he tells them dream, identities blur and translations

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multiply. Tom meets a French-Romanian, Margit Kadar (Kristin Scott Thomas), who was a translator of her late author-husband's Hungarian texts. But there's also, vying with this middle-aged brunette and apparent femme fatale for competition as his muse, a blonde Pole at the café where Tom's renting an upstairs room from a French Arab—she buys and reads a Polish translation of his novel. Do all these people, like Tom, "have no 'home'?" His office work is curiously non-descript. In this film of staircases (those spiraling ones, so often suggesting madness in the cinema) and doorways, Tom monitors a camera-view until people show up at the bottom of some steps, say the right words, and he keycode-opens a door for them to come

on in to ... what secret goings-on?

Pawlikowski, and his glinting-sharp eye, manages to translate the book for the screen so that the literary (novels, writing, even graffiti) and the filmic (cameras and eyes—Tom's are alert, or is that manic? while Margit's are dreamily distant) slide together here in an eerie sheen. Ultimately, the film suggests, so many of these non-French people in Paris are not really there—but Tom, most of all, is slipping away. Yet The Woman in the Fifth's never evasive but elusive, slipping into a fog that unsettles us but doesn't artfully obscure or blankly bore. Instead, we're left, like editors in a room, sitting down to the scribbled page or flashing screen, to piece together the puzzle before us. V

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Beyond the Hills

The bonds of deep friendship get tested

Fri, Apr 26 – Thu, May 2 Written and directed by Cristian Mungiu Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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by Tatiana Niculescu Bran, Romanian writer/director Cristian Mungiu's Beyond the Hills chronicles a fraught reunion between two young women at an Orthodox convent in wintry Moldavia. Voichita (Cosmina Stratan) and Alina (Cristina Flutur) were raised in the same orphanage. Whether their bond is most akin to that of best friends, lovers or surrogate sisters is somewhat ambiguous and finally unimportant—each is clearly the most important person in the world to the other. So when Alina comes to visit Voichita at her convent after living for a time in Germany, the film's conflict, fortified by the protago-

nists' mutual devotion, immediately states itself. Alina believes Voichita is trapped in this place and needs to be rescued. Voichita believes in the power of her vocation and the virtues of the convent, most especially in the leadership of its self-serious priest (Valeriu Andriuţă), and desperately wants her wayward friend to take equal comfort in religious discipline and a sense of community, however restrictive. Alina believes Voichtia to be under the sway of an oppressive patriarchal master; Voichita believes Alina to be under the spell of Satan. Theirs is a battle of equally powerful wills driven by the best intentions—but Voichita has God on her side.

Two young women, a compromise, an older male figure and ostensible aide who will attempt to commandeer the situation by taking control of one a young woman's body: Beyond the Hills

shares certain key ingredients with Mungiu's celebrated, Palme d'Or-winning 2007 feature 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days, which doggedly followed one young woman's attempt to facilitate an abortion for her friend during the twilight of the Ceaușescu era. The similarities are fascinating, but the differences between these two feminist narratives are equally notable. Beyond the Hills doesn't operate with the same breathless urgency as its neo-neorealist predecessor; at two-and-a-half hours, this new film is far more measured, refusing to force an incongruously propulsive pace upon this slow burn of a drama.

And though based on real and ultimately scandalous events, Mungiu wisely refrains from making his male authority into an outright villain. Rather than satisfy a desire in his target audience to condemn an archaic and gynophobic religious practice, Mungiu above all carefully traces the way one bad idea leads to another.

back and forth for much of the film, and just when you're thinking that things might never resolve and Mungiu is content to meander his way toward a stalemate, the final act kicks into high gear, and features a prolonged exorcism undertaken during a snowstorm. The final effect is one of immense compas-

sion balanced by outrage and a longing for other solutions for the likes of Alina and Voichita, both of whom remain firm in their conviction that life is rife with disappointment, but there must surely be more than this.

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Style is closely tied to story, and to a sophisticated political critique. Mungiu films each scene in a single take, yet his formal rigour never feels severe. The camera is hand-held yet controlled. The surroundings are stark, yet the lighting is beautiful. Interestingly, the compositions often convey a triangularity that subtly echoes religious painting. The struggle between the two girls teeters

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Silent Running

Gardening in space

Tue, Apr 30 (7 pm) Directed by Douglas Trumbull Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1972

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ouglas Trumbull made his directorial debut with a science fiction picture, set in outer space. Which seems like a no-brainer, given that he'd made his name supplying stunning special effects to 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and The Andromeda Strain (1971). But Silent Running (1972) is not your run-of-themill genre exercise. It probably remains the only science fiction movie about gardening. (Or does WALL-E [2008]

count?) It features songs written and performed especially for the film by Joan Baez. It stars Bruce Dern, who blows a gasket in several scenes, as Bruce Dern is wont to do. He plays Freeman, the ornery hippie gardener on a vast freighter fitted with geodesic domes filled with flora and fauna, miniature Edens kept adrift in space because the Earth is now devoid of plant-life. (Though, somehow or other, humans survive.)

One day Ground Control calls and says to nuke all the gardens and return to Earth so that the ships can be repurposed for commercial usage—the project backer isn't NASA but American Airlines. So Freeman goes rogue, murdering his colleagues, pushing through the rings of Saturn, and setting out alone, or rather, in the company of a trio of wobbly dwarf droids (actually paraplegics in costumes) whom he teaches to perform surgery, plant trees and play poker.

Running next week as part of its Cult series, which, now that I've rewatched the film for the first time in many years, seems to be the right category. Like many cult films, its premise is juicier than its execution. There are an awful lot of gear shots, and shots of Dern's pained visage, which I always find endearing but certainly has its limits. The droid humour quickly grows tiresome, much of the story in inert, and the ecological message is vague as can be—Freeman isn't concerned about sustainable ecosystems, just "beauty" and "imagination," which, oddly enough, are two things Silent Running lacks. Trumbull has proven himself some kind of genius—I interviewed him a couple of years back and he was simultaneously busy finishing up effects for The Tree of Life (2011) and coming up with a solution for the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

But his watchable debut feels like soft-headed '60s didacticism.

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Wouldn't these planets be rotating and spinning at speeds that make connections ... nevermind. Adam (Jim Sturgess) And Eden (Kirsten Dunst) find themselves as lovers from opposing earthly bodies, whose first youthful pangs of inter-planetary romance get cut short by some gun-happy government agents and a nasty fall; 10 years later, Adam attempts to bridge the gravitational gap once more by offering the big corporation his miracle anti-aging cream as a way to try and sneak onto the other planet and find

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REVUE // CAUTIONARY TALE

Wake in Fright Fri, Apr 26 – Wed, May 1 Directed by Ted Kotcheff Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1971

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he Australian film industry had more or less ground to a halt by the '60s, but a pair of remarkable premieres at Cannes in 1971 helped spark what would become known as the Australian New Wave. Both were helmed by foreign directors, though they were Australian productions and told what were very much Australian stories, using the phantasmagorical desolation of the Outback to depict the frailty of civilization when confronted with barbarism and impulses older than memory. One of those films, Walkabout, has been widely seen, dubbed a masterpiece, and written about in these pages not so long ago. The other, Wake in Fright, is far too little seen, was long considered lost, but has recently been restored and re-released, and will be screening

at Metro Cinema through the coming week.

Based on Kenneth Cook's eponymous 1961 novel, the film stays close to its protagonist, a handsome, big city, middle-class, casually snotty educator stuck teaching grade school in some impossibly remote village dubbed Tiboonda, a place with a bar no one goes to and a train station comprised of a platform slightly larger than a diving board.

John (Gary Bond) has plans to visit Sydney during school holidays, but a stopover in the mining town of Bundanyabba gradually and insidiously thwarts his trajectory.

The aggressively friendly locals ply him with beer until his overstated contempt for them and their uncultured lifestyle is softened, and soon John is gambling away his earnings in some rowdy backroom game that involves nothing more than tossing coins, is waking in strange places (with a sinisterly charming Donald Pleasence), and going on horrific hunting trips in which kangaroos are slaughtered, their carcasses left to rot. John

is initially repulsed, but something in him responds to all this, something drawn to oblivion, longing for permission to destroy without discretion. A local cop (legendary Aussie actor Chips Rafferty, in his final screen appearance) brags of Bundanyabba's low crime rate, but notes that the town does have its share of suicides.

Elements of Wake in Fright recall the stories of Paul Bowles, or films like Woman in the Dunes (1964), but a key difference here is that the world that appears to be swallowing up our hero isn't one of ancient ritual, unbreachable cultural difference or obscure, conspiratorial strategy; it is, rather, a sort of post-colonial hell, a chaotic cesspool of white male-dominated debauchery and corruption. No doubt the film was not popular within the Australian tourism board. Toronto-born director Ted Kotcheff would go on to make First Blood (1982) and Uncommon Valor (1983), perhaps because

it was not difficult to sense in him a facility with tales of men in need of excuses to become animals. And I should emphasize the word "men" here, because Wake in Fright is nearly devoid of women, and the one woman that does appear (played by Sylvia Kay, Kotcheff's spouse at the time) seems traumatized, cloistered and abused, accustomed to sexual assault as a sort of local pastime.

I suppose all of this reads as unremittingly dark, yet Wake in Fright takes some surprising turns and is interested in more than mere entropy. Call it a cautionary tale of sorts, and a great film about a time and a place and the dangers of classist arrogance.

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To be young and gay

Sissies and Psychopaths explores the moulds of sexual identity

"Every Time We Played House, I Wanted to be the Pet Monkey" // Daryl Vocat, Peter Kingstone

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up their collaborative show Sissies and Psychopaths, a teen girl was attacked by a group of boys at a bus stop in Calgary. What motivated this vicious beating? The police are still investigating, but the probable cause is hate: she is openly gay. This incident brings to light the urgency behind the work of these Toronto-

based artists; work that address issues of growing up gay with captivating humour punctuated by poignant and shocking commentary.

Their collaboration began with a requisition by the Hamilton Print Studio. "What was gay like when I was five?" was the question. The artists responded with a series of

digital images culled from popular culture, such as cartoons and television shows. Each print was built up or collaged over email, one image at a time (the artists happened to be temporarily continents apart). The resulting artwork forms an intimate conversation, one that unveils incipient sexual identity.

For instance, "Every Time We Played House, I Wanted to be the Pet Monkey" began with Vocat's selection of a photo of rubber gloves, an image that to him connotes looming danger. Kingstone then nestled a tiny monkey in this oversized palm— a role he often took when playing house. "It wasn't that they played mom and dad," Vocat laughs. " He wanted to be the pet monkey. It's not in every kid's imagination."

Above the cute monkey hovers a photo of Vocat as a small boy. The cartoon bubble reads: "being gay is not just okay ... it's a feast of fun."

"It's what you always wanted someone to say and nobody ever told you," Vocat says. Being gay meant one of two things: you were either a sissy or a psychopath. "What would have happened if someone said that there is not one way of being in the world?" he wonders.

the innocence and humour of popular culture lies an ominous message. Childhood play, TV shows, cartoons and games reinforce—even command—adherence to prescriptive norms. This astonishingly uncompromising message carries a profound cost. The Journal of Pediatrics (published online, April 19, 2011) states that gay youth are five times more likely to attempt suicide.

"Why we have gay people killing themselves" says Kingstone, "is that they feel that they should not be a part of society."

But social costs are not confined to gay youth. Any deviation from sanctioned sexual norms be it weight, size or body shape carry shame and suffering. As Kingstone and Vocat's show gently, humourously and powerfully illustrates, children are immersed in imagery that moulds sexual identity: that mould is uncompromisingly small.

This show makes invisible social forces come to light. In the midst of the innocence and the joy depicted in their work lie hints of a savage truth.

"Why don't you fucking die," reads a cartoon above one boy playing with another in "The Nightmare is Me." That's the message youth, like the teen girl recently beaten in Calgary, learn all too well.

It's not a message that either Vocat or most children often hear. Amidst

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venturous night of motel sex, the characters instantly endear themselves to us. Actors Jesse Gervais and Lora Brovold, while primarily playing the couple, also play every character that is a part of their story. You'll find yourself laughing almost entirely through those first scenes as they plan and act out each character through the fourth wall.

Collin Doyle's script is phenomenal. The story's arc is such that the audience is afforded the time and the motive to become very attached to the main characters, and so when the laughs eventually taper off and the tragedy seeps in, we care a great deal about what the couple is going through. Doyle's script offers emotional and comedic depth with innumerable opportunities for risktaking, and Gervais and Brovold are up for the challenge. The two actors play with every chance for comedy,

emotion and thought in this script, and it is a joy to watch their range unfold on stage.

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Let the Light of Day Through Until Sun, May 5 (8 pm) Directed by Bradley Moss Roxy Theatre, $23 – $27

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oss can be so overwhelming sometimes that moving on seems like an unattainable luxury.

Instead, grief as a way of life becomes a terrifying possibility. When high school sweethearts Bobby and Tina lose their 12-year old son Ben, they slip into an alt-life of denial necessitated by their profound grief.

Unable to cope with the tremendous loss, they close the door of Ben's room and walk away, reinventing new lives for themselves.

It's here in Let The Light of Day Through that we meet Rob and Chris. Having changed their names in an attempt to run away from tragedy, we get to know a vivacious couple very much in love. In a hilarious opening scene of the two attempting to arrange an ad-

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So, Let the Light of Day Through has the acting, the writing and the story. It also has the set. Cory Sincennes's set design is a credit to the production. As each scene unfolds, Ben's bedroom door remains in the background, standing as a painful reminder of a grief not yet tended to. This constant image is quite affecting, and forces us to be aware of what the couple is hiding from throughout each scene. What's done with the set in the end (I suppose I'd better not ruin it for you) had a palpable emotional effect on the entire audience, and opening night saw the house leap to their feet for a tremendously well-deserved standing ovation.

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All the Devils Until Sun, Apr 28 (8pm) Directed by Jenna Greig The Living Room Playhouse, $17

petitions, making this a refreshing change of pace from the norm.

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taging a one-man drag show is a bold move. Making that same show a sequel to an HP Lovecraft short story and interspersing the Cthulhu references with drag show lip-sync numbers is—well, it's mighty peculiar, but in All the Devils,, it also works startlingly well.

Lovecraft is an early 20th-century horror writer whose work, while receiving more favourable treatment in recent days, has long been scorned by the literary elite and relegated to the realm of obscurity and B-movies—which is precisely why it responds so well to a drag treatment.

That treatment comes in the form of Lilith Fair, the drag persona of performer Zachary Parsons-Lozinski.

Lilith is a bad actress whose career has been brought to ruin by poor film choices. Desperate to stay afloat, she accepts the leading role in a trashy horror film and heads out to study the script in an old farmhouse in Dunwich, Massachusetts—picking up from where Lovecraft left off in his short story "The Dunwich Horror."

All the Devils is bold for its vulner-

ability: Lilith's character is a Bmovie bimbo, for sure, but ParsonsLozinski also manages to capture some convincing depth and true emotional pain.

So, too, does Parsons-Lozinski himself put forth his own vulnerability, alone on stage in a very tiny venue; so often we're used to seeing drag queens group together in cabaret-style shows or comLip-synch to Lovecraft

The show really shines in its musical numbers—no less than what you'd expect from a drag performance—though the sound level definitely needed to be turned up a few notches; it was just too quiet and the lip syncing felt odd because of it.

Nonetheless, Parsons-Lozinski has very obviously rehearsed these numbers (which were themselves interesting and fitting choices) so many times that he was still able to carry them off with considerable panache.

The show's humour is very much in the drag show vein: irreverent, frequently offensive, but consistently droll throughout. All the Devils has obvious appeal for fans of drag and/or Lovecraft, but for those who are neither, it's still an hour of raunchy entertainment that you probably won't see again for quite some time—that is, until Parsons-Lozinski reprises the role (and let's hope he does).

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(un)earthed/ Thu, Apr 25 – Sat, Apr 27 (7:30 pm) Undercurrent Theatre sifts, digs, seeds and uproots as a group of five women searches for sense of place in the final instalment of director Nikki Shaffeeullah's Staging Diversity project.

(4-104 Education North, University of Alberta, entrance by donation) Slow Art Day/ Sat, Apr 27 (11 am) Did you know the standard length of time a person views a piece in a museum is only eight seconds?

Instead of hustling through, Slow Art Day—a global movement tak-

ing place through 50 events around the world—encourages participants to look at five pieces for 10 minutes each, followed by a discussion with their fellow viewers. (Latitude 53) Sinners, Freaks and Geeks/ Fri, May 3 and Thu, May 16 (9 pm) New City Legion is no more, but burlesque fans need not fret. The ladies of Sinners, Freaks and Geeks may be in need of a new home, but that means you'll be able to get a double dose this month as they search for the right fit. (May 3: Hooliganz Pub, $8; May 16: Filthy McNasty's, free) V

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t's one of those shows where you can start quoting lines of dialogue in a crowded room and have several people chime in immediately with their own favourite bits.

I'm speaking of Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the 1975 film from the beloved British sketch troupe. It's probably the best known of all of their wellknown works, perfectly embodying the "Pythonesque" brand of humour for which the group became famous. Spamalot is a musical adaptation of the movie created by Pythoner Eric Idle, which debuted on Broadway in 2005 to huge success and is now set to cap off the Citadel's 2012/13 season.

"It certainly appeals to the absurdity, or absurd sense of humour in all of us," says John Ullyatt in a phone conversation between rehearsals. Ullyatt, who is playing Sir Lancelot (among several other characters), explains that there's a timelessness to the show's humour that lends it broad appeal, even to those who aren't die-hard Monty Python fans.

"It has aged really well," he says. "We're able to dig into it and find the meat in each scene and still have the same pay-

off, still find the same humour. We're all killing each other laughing and having such a good time with the jokes."

That the actors must be having a great time rehearsing the show is immediately evident by the way Ullyat regularly breaks out into laughter reminiscing over favourite parts.

"I love the brains behind it," he says. "I think that's what's appealing about the humour in Monty Python, why it appeals to such a wide base, is that these gentleman who wrote this stuff, they were themselves quite brilliant; they were quite intelligent men. Although the humour is absurd, it comes from an intellectual point of view."

Staging a production of such a beloved show is not without its perils, however.

Ullyat notes that while anyone can do an impersonation of John Cleese or Michael Palin, for this show the actors have to go beyond mere imitation.

"The intention was not to just get up and 'do' Monty Python, because I think that would just be deadly," he says. "The trick was to hear the scene playing out, but to try to have a real objective and a real goal and mission for each character, without being just a silly voice."

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totems, birdbaths, lanterns and many other garden pieces; May 1-31; reception: May 4, 11-3pm

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • MIDTALE: Works by Daniela Schüter; ELEG: and Stefan Demming • Until May 11

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • ALBERTA COLOURS: Watercolours by Frances AltyArscott • Until May 4

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DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY • 10332-124 • 45th Annual Spring Exhibit • Apr 27-May 11

DANCE

Ave, 780.914.4149 • The Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society (ECAS) present works by ECAS member artists and invited guests • Opening: May 3, 7-11pm; Thu-Fri, 12-6pm; Sat, 12-4pm

BALLETLUJAH! WORLD PREMIERE • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Alberta Ballet's contemporary ballet inspired by KD Lang’s repertoire • May 3-4 • $29 start at Alberta Ballet box office • Activities: free event on Apr 30, 10:30am • Artistic director Grand-Maître and Alberta Ballet's Artistic Team lead a lecture: a look at the inner workings of ballet creation: May 1, 5:30pm • RSVP: E: davidb@albertaballet.com, T: 780.428.6892

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave • Olive Tree Project, Peg Barcelo-Jackson, Ginette D'Silva, Alice Dolphin, Dara Loewen • Ongoing

AROUND ALBERTA: Landscape and still life paintings

by Daniel vanHeyst; until Apr 30 • DESIGN'S A VERB, NOT JUST A NOUN: Works by the U of A Design Students; until Apr 30

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: GALERIE ABSTRACTION: Jehra Patrick; until May 24 • Front Room Gallery: TWO-PART INVENTION: Adam Waldron-Blain; until May 24

JOHNSON GALLERY–South • 7711-85 St, 780.465.6171 • Paintings by Joe Haire, Andrew Besse, moose hair rufting by Vivian McDermott, Bartlett prints, pottery by Noburu Kubo • Through Apr and May

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 •

other injustice • Until Apr 29

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • BOTANICALS – South Africa by members of the Keiskamma Trust: The Keiskamma Trust will bring 30 textile-based artworks from those living Eastern Cape of South Africa who suffer a life of extremes; endemic poverty, disease, unemployment, and poor education; until Jun 2

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE • 9502-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.7888 • ANIMATED DELIGHT: 7 short animated films and 15 artworks by Brian Batista, Leslie Bell, Stefanie Wong & Chris Melnychuk • Through Apr • Tickets: $30 (Fri)/$40 (Sat)/$30 (Sun); $95 (3-day pass) MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • ARCTIC LIFE: Lomen Brothers photography • Until Jun 16

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • SHIFT: Works by Claire Uhlick and YESS youth; until May 15 NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118

BIOTA • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave,

Ave, 780.474.7611 • "WHATEVER" ART SHOW: Works

by Scott Berry, Jill Stanton, Nickelas "Smokey Johnson", friends • Until Apr 25

780.222.7928 • Kathleen Hughes Dance Association, choreography by Justin Hughes, guest performances/

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper

interpretations by Tony Olivares • May 4, 8-9pm • $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

Ave, 780.455.7479 • Works by Alice Teichert • Apr 27-May 14

EDBA BALLROOM DANCE • Panko Dance Studio, 16122-114 Ave, 780.893.6828 • May 4, 8pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

WHAT'S COOKING? 2013 • 10005-80 Ave (t.a.c.o.

780.453.9100 • RIVER'S EDGE: Until May 5 • INUUJAQ: Dolls of the Canadian Arctic; until Apr 28 • ARCTIC 4: Exploring tales and traditions from Canada's North; until May 20 • COLD RECALL: Roald Amundsen's Reflections from the Northwest Passage; until Apr 28 • ECHOES IN THE ICE: History, Mystery and frozen corpses; until May 20 • IRENE AVAALAAQIAQ–Myth and Reality; until May 20 • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27

space), 780.802 6867 • Good Women Dance Society.

Artists present works in process, raw and unfinished, then dialog with the audience about their process thru question and answer sessions after each piece. Buffet style meal is also provided in a casual come and go atmosphere • Apr 28, noon (lunch), 6:30pm (dinner) • Sasha Ivanochko workshop: Apr 30-May 4, 10-11:30am, $20 (drop-in)/$75 (5 days)

ST ALBERT PLACE • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • CATCH

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OF THE DAY: St Albert Painter's Guild Spring show and sale • Apr 26-28 • Opening: Apr 26, 7-9; meet the artists: Fri 7-9, Sat 9-5, Sun 2-4

BUMP 'N' GRINDHOUSE • Varscona Theatre, back alley, 10329-83 Ave, 780.446.6940 • Great movies and shorts by local cult heroes • May 4, 11pm

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619 • FIELD OF VISION: Works by Jim Visser; until Apr 26 • Works by Lynn Malin; May 2013

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • With A Song In My Heart (1952, colour, PG); Apr 29, 8pm • A Tale of Two Cities (1935, PG) • Each film: $6/$5 (senior/student)

SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • SISSIES AND PSYCHOPATHS: Works by Peter Kingstone and Daryl Vocat; until May 11 • Community Gallery: WONDERWRAP INC.: Jennifer Konanz (SNAP's Emerging Artist in Residence); until May 11

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Audio Visual Rm (main fl), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Films adapted from books • The Pianist (2002); Apr 26, 2pm

SNAP PRINTSHOP • 12056 Jasper Ave, 780.423.1492

NFB FILM CLUB • Calder Library • Monthly film series featuring animated and documentary films from the National Film Board of Canada • Who Cares? (80 min); May 1, 6:25pm • Free

• U of A Graduating Printmaking Class: GRAVITY AND FLIGHT • Until May 9

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • Allied Arts Council is hosting its annual Melcor Juried members show; until Apr 27

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St, 780.488.6611 • Feature Gallery: Barb Tipton and Bee Kingdom; until Jul 2 • Discovery Gallery: URBAN WILD: Works by Calgary Clay Arts Association; until May 4; reception: May 4, 2-4pm

STEEPS TEA • 11116-82 Ave • HOW I REMEMBER IT: Works by Corey W Hamilton; through May

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY @ 501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • FROM THE OUTSIDE IN: Photos by Brenda Francis Pelkey, curated

by Brenda Barry Byrne; until Apr 28 • STRATHCONA SALON SERIES: Works by local Strathcona artists; May 3-Jun 16

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.667.3798 • CREATIVE HEARTS: Works by Aynsley Nisbet, Kryssa Kennedy, Sebastian Barrera, Adrianne Olszewski, Kyle Schneider, and Nataliya Bukhanova • Until May 25 • Opening: Heart of the City presents fundraiser with live music, silent auction, free Tarot card readings: Apr 25, 7pm (door), 8pm (music); $10

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • 2nd Fl, Outside Explorer Gallery: Chemistry of Candy; Apr 27-28, 12:30-4:30pm

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • Enter-

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Win-

prise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave, 780.492.5834 • SIZE MATTERS: Big Prints from around the World • Until Jun 29

ston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • THE NEWS FROM HERE: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: Curated by Nancy Tousley; until May 5 • This Alberta Biennial showcases the work of several Alberta filmmakers and performance artists. Filmmakers with guest curator Nancy Tousley for an interactive Q&A session • THE STORY OF CANADIAN ART: As told by the Hart House Art Collection; until Jul 1 • THE BEQUEST: Ernest E. Poole and the AGA Collection; until Jul 1 • DAVID JANZEN: TRANSFER STATION: until Jun 16 • DUTCH LANDSCAPES FROM REMBRANDT TO VAN GOGH: Until Jun 16

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: COUNTING CROWS: Works by Penny Corradine, Natalie Kurzuk, Kathryn Manry and Pam Weber • Until May 25

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert, 780.460.5990 • BOTANICA: Works by Elaine Funnell and Rayma Peterson; until Apr 29 • WET PAINT: Works by VASA members; May 2-Jun 1; opening: May 2, 1-4pm

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • MAJESTIC LANDSCAPES: Works by Raynald Leclerc; until Apr 25

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • PLANE-SPACE: Works

by Duncan Johnson; HYBRID FORMS Works by Angela Lane; Until Apr 27

LITERARY

ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • Loft Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artwork by society members, and a gift shop of artist made items; open to Jul • Student Art Show, Competition and Sale; May 3-4; reception: May 3

AUDREYS BOOKS • 107 St, Jasper Ave • Tim Bowl-

BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St, 780.482.1204

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • Prose

ing book launch of his new volume of Selected Poems (Nightwood Editions), reading, refreshments, followed by a book signing • May 2, 7-8:30pm • Free

• THE RISE: Works by Jason Carter • Until May 2

Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

BELLEVUE COMMUNITY HALL • 7308-112 Ave •

CITY HALL • Word Nation–Community Cultural

Whetstone Pottery Guild's Pottery Show: Handmade pottery pieces • Apr 27, 9am-3pm • Free

BLOCK 1912 • block1912.com/events • John YardleyJones Art • Through May • Opening: Apr 28, 7pm

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • New work by artist Gisa Mayer; May 4-17

Forum at the Edmonton Poetry Festival • Apr 26, 2-4pm • Free

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 FINE ARTS BUILDING • 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • BFA 2013: A graduating exhibition of students completing the Bachelor of Fine Arts Program • Until May 4 • Opening: Apr 25, 7-10pm FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 •

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Rachelle

EARLY PRAIRIE SPRING: ARTWORKS BY Steve Coffey; Apr 27-May 16

Bugeaud, Normand Fontaine, Léonie Poole, Monique Béland, Adel Laifi and Sawsen Abdellawi • May 3-31 • Reception: May 3

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • TRAN-

CROOKED POT GALLERY • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • Return of the Loon; an exploration of all things Loon, by Dianne Meili; until Apr 30 • Garden Show with Marian Majeau, Robert Ford and friends: featuring large and unique garden sculptures,

SITIONS: Works by Curtis Johnson • Until May 29

GALLERY 7 • 7 Perron St, St Albert, 780.459.2552 • Photos by Dianna Hanna; until Apr 29 • Jim Henderson, Liz Meetsma, Father Douglas; May 2-Jun 4; opening: May 2, 6pm, artists in attendance

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 •

Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Artworks by the Mill Woods Artists Collective visual artists, Dolly Dennis, Kathy Dyck, Bess Rassmussen, Sophia Shaw, Marjorie Thomas, Ardith Trudzik, Theresa Wynn, Lorraine Young • Until Apr 30

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Winter salons: nights of performance and interactive art curated around winter themes of Light, Wind, and Cold/ Warmth; last Thu every month • EVERY VICTIM MATTERS, YOUTH MULTIMEDIA ART SHOW: Every Victim Matters Committee (EVMC) event on behalf of the Edmonton Restorative Justice Network (ERJN). Young people, 12-24 yrs, have created artworks expressing what it means to be a victim of crime, know a victim of crime, or suffer from bullying, racism, homophobia or

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EDMONTON POETRY FESTIVAL • edmontonpoetryfestival.com/schedule • Until Apr 28 • AFRICA CENTRE 13160-127 St: • CBC at Noon/African Beats: Apr 26, 12-1pm, free • African Poetry & Arts Day: Apr 27, 10am-4pm; free • Workshops/African Arts & Poetry: Apr 27, 10am-12, free • AUDREY'S BOOKS: 10702 Jasper Ave: Youth Café Reading, Apr 28, 2:30-4pm, free • DAFFODIL GALLERY: 10412-124 St: Words With Friends/ Symbiotica: Apr 25, 6-8pm, free • DUCHESS BAKERY 10720-124 St: French Twist: Apr 25, 7-9pm, free • CBC CENTRE STAGE: 10062-102 Ave: CBC at Noon/Aboriginal Stories: Apr 25, 12-1pm, free • CKUA STUDIO 9804 Jasper Ave: • Canadian Poetry Party: Apr 26, 8-11pm, $5-$10 • Poetry & Music for a Spring Afternoon: Apr 27, 2-4pm, free-$10 • CITY HALL: Market Fresh Poetry: Apr 27, 10am-1pm, free • CITADEL RICE THEATRE: 9828-101A Ave: • Map of Canada Gala Event, Apr 27, 7-10pm,

$25-$40 • CONCORDIA COLLEGE: 7128 Ada Blvd: Youth Slam: Apr 26, 6pm (signup), free • KOFFEE CAFÉ: 6120-28 Ave: Glass Door Coffee House: Apr 25, 7-9pm, $5 • NINA HAGGERTY: 9225-118 Ave: The Play & The Poem/Liz Lochhead: Apr 25, 7-9pm; $5-$10 • PAVILLON LACERTE: 8406-91 St: The Great Black North: Apr 25, 4-6pm, free • STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY: 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq: Mastery with Class: Apr 27, 10am-12, free • Writers Corner/BIP Collective, Apr 28, 1:15pm, free • VARIOUS DOWNTOWN CAFÉS: Café Readings: Apr 28, 1:30-4:30pm, free

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS VOL 1 • 10729-104 Ave, 780.452.8211 • Annual worldwide Free Comic Book Day • May 4, 10am-5pm

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave, 780.863.4522 • Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: Monthly readings with new headliner • Last Thu each month, 7-9pm • Apr 25 with Evelyn Lau, Marty Gervais, Naomi MacIlwraith, Andy Northrup, Audrey Seehagen (MC) • $5 PROVINCAL ARCHIVES • 8555 Roper Rd, 780.492.8832 • Launch of Disinherited Generations and celebration of the Indian Rights for Indian Women Collection

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP)

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

THEATRE 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL • Mayfield Dinner Theatre • Music and lyrics by Dolly Parton, book by Patricia Resnick • Until Jun 9 THE 11 O’CLOCK NUMBER! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Grindstone Theatre presents a two act improvised musical • May 3, 11pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square ALL THE DEVILS • Living Room Playhouse, Azimuth Theatre, 11315-106 Ave • Presented by Rabid Marmot Productions. By Zachary Parsons-Lozinski and Jenna Greig • Until Apr 28 • Warning: This production deals with mature themes, it is not recommended for a young audience • $17 (door), adv at TIX on the Square

CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show • First three Sat each month, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May 27, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office

FLIGHT OF THE VISCOUNT • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Shadow Theatre, by David Belke • Noble born James Westerley’s carefree European tour is derailed when Maggie delivers news of his father’s death • May 1-19 LET THE LIGHT OF DAY THROUGH • Roxy, 10708124 St • By Collin Doyle. Director, Bradley Moss, stars Lora Brovold and Jesse Gervais • Until May 5 MONTY PYTHON’S SPAMALOT • Citadel's Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • Book and Lyrics by Eric Idle, Music by John Du Prez and Eric Idle, directed by Bob Baker, featuring John Ulyatt • Until May 19 • The Club: After Hours with the Spamalot Cast: Featuring members of the cast of Monty Python’s Spamalot Susan Gilmour, Julien Arnold, John Ullyatt and more perform their favourite songs; May 3, 10:30pm-1am

MY BIG FAT EDMONTON WEDDING • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882-180 St, WEM, 780.484.2424 • A huge family wedding with crazy relatives, a rookie wedding planner and a surprise mystery guest • Until Jun 16

RED NOSES • Avenue Theatre • A dark comedy by Peter Barnes; presented by the Austin O'Brien Drama Department, directed by Tina Kenny. Amid the devastation of the Black Plague in 1300's France, a monk sets out on a sacred crusade like no other: to get his whole country laughing, even if they're dying • Apr 25-26, 7pm; Apr 27, 2pm • $12.50 (adult)/$10 (student) SEUSSICAL THE MUSICAL • Strathcona Christian Academy, 1011 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park • Apr 30May 5 • Tickets at 780.464.7127, door SNOUT • Transalta Arts Barns PCL Studio • Azimuth theatre • By Megan Dart, directed by Beth Dart, choreography by Ainsley Hillyard • Stiff scotch and ruby red lipstick. A savant and his dog. A criminal of sorts and an affair gone awry. Love and death and all that lays between • May 2-12

THE SOUL COLLECTOR • Westbury Theatre, 1033084 Ave • Catalyst Theatre • Something unexpected happens that shatters Memory McQuaid's perfect life in the city of Frostbite Flats • May 1-12, 8pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

THE SOUND OF MUSIC • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995 • The Horizon Players • The story of Maria, a young nun who is sent to be a governess to the seven Von Trapp children • May 2-4, 9-11 at 7:30pm, May 5, 1:30pm • $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) STRIKE! • Timms Centre, U of A, 87 Ave, 112 St • Workshop West Theatre and the Alberta Federation of Labour present the musical, Strike!, an epic story of the battle for Canada's democratic dream • Until Apr 28 • $32 (adult)/$30 (student/senior)/$25 (WWT Flex Pass holders) at Workshop West box office

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Euro-style variety show with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros • Last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change)

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm

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DISH

State of the union COVER // WINE

Alberta Winery Sidebar (organized alphabetically)

A look into Alberta's wine culture

Barr Estate Winery

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ne day tourists will flock to Albernecessary when fermenting other fruits, full-time since opening in 2010. ta's fertile prairies, seeking a taste as they don't have enough sugar to reach "The true advantage some of the existof the province's renowned wines. An imtable wine strength.) After a few years of ing wineries and meaderies have is that possible dream? Not really—after all, Almaking these wines, Bonjean realized the they had an existing business, and all the berta already has a wine industry. While viability of selling them commercially. hard labour and the years it takes to get you're not alone if you had no idea such While it is extremely difficult for a those fruit farms started was done," Barr an industry existed, rest assured there small-scale beekeeper or fruit-grower to says. "I'm a bit behind the eight-ball bewill come a time when Alberta wine will sustain a viable trade on their raw prodcause I have to go through all the hard be as familiar as Alberta beef. uct alone, the business model changes work that they did when they first startIn order to understand the current state entirely when you turn that honey or ed their farms." of the industry from the level of the winfruit into wine. This is the root of AlberBarr's experience touches on a couple of eries themselves, I spoke with the wineta's cottage wine industry, which was eskey challenges in the Alberta fruit-wine makers at five out of Alberta's seven cottablished by legislation in 2005 as a valindustry that affects all wineries: it takes tage wineries. What became immediately ue-add proposition for fruit farmers and plenty of fruit to make wine (about one apparent is that, while each winery has a honey producers. The legislation allows pound of saskatoon berries goes into very different story to tell, they all share smaller producers to enter the industry a single bottle), and that fruit is at the a common vision: to create a uniquely by hugely reducing the minimum producmercy of Alberta's weather.

Albertan product in which we can take tion requirements to 1500 litres per year "You are limited by what will survive great pride. here," notes Gill, whose "Anywhere in the raspberry plants were Alberta actually produces two percent of the world's world you go, people mangled last summer honey supply. We have now three honey wineries. It are proud of their local by a violent hailstorm; would be the equivalent of France having 10 wineries. fermented beverages. he doesn't expect to They share them and have any raspberthey take pride in them and that's the for a brand-new winery and 4500 litres ries for at least a year while the plants first thing you have to try when you visit by its fifth year of operation. recover. There is a provision in the cotthem. We don't have anything like that in "For a young industry I think it's come a tage winery legislation to help producAlberta, and that's sad," says Hugo Bonlong way in a short time, and I think it's ers in the event of such a shortfall: while jean, winemaker and proprietor of Spirit going to keep growing as more people 75 percent of the fruit must come from Hills Winery, which opened last year in become aware and are looking for opporthe grower's own land, 25 percent may Millarville, about an hour southwest of tunities to do some small-scale farming come from elsewhere in Alberta. (For Calgary. and have a different kind of return," says honey wines, that 25 percent may come Bonjean began making wine when he arTonia Chrapko of Birds & Bees Organic from anywhere else in the world.) But rived in Alberta 16 years ago, using the Winery & Meadery (previously called even though wineries may use fruit from fruits at his local farmers' market. The en Santé), located two hours east of Edelsewhere in the province, there isn't necnative of Antwerp, Belgium explains that monton near Brosseau. Tonia and her sisessarily a reserve of raspberries or black he added some beehives to his 13-acre ter Xina (the winemaker at Birds & Bees) currants available for purchase. property a few years ago to increase his inherited the winery from their father, garden yield, but soon discovered that his who was one of the main cottage winery Aside from the challenges of climate wines were fundamentally changed for lobbyists. and sourcing enough fruit, Alberta's winthe better when he began making them The other lobbyist was Marvin Gill, eries face another major issue: bureauwith honey instead of just regular sugar. winemaker of Field Stone Fruit Wines in cracy.

(Chaptalization—the addition of sugar to Strathmore, 40 minutes east of Calgary.

"We've dealt with eight regulatory bodfermenting fruit in order to increase alGill comes from a farming background ies and I think I've got more than a dozen cohol levels—is a strictly regulated pracand pushed for the change in legislation licences now—the red tape of it is huge," tice in the grape wine industry, but it's as a way of profiting from his excess fruit.

Bonjean says. Recognizing this, the Al"The people who've been in it, for three berta Gaming and Liquor Commission or four years now, are establishing them(AGLC) is taking active steps towards selves quite well," he says. "They certainly supporting existing wineries and faciliseem to be getting a loyal following and tating the creation of new ones. In 2009 that's really the basics of what you need they passed legislation allowing for the to keep your product going, repeat cussale of Alberta wines at farmers' markets, tomers. And from that will come new a huge boon in expanding their distribucustomers." tion. The AGLC also met with the wineries in January of this year, out of which Once the cottage winery legislation came the appointment of a single liaison passed, it created an opportunity for enfor wineries to connect with the AGLC. trepreneurs as well.

But Bonjean suggests a stronger ap"We started in this business as winemakproach to the issue. ers as opposed to being fruit farmers," "I think the essential problem with the explains Rick Barr, winemaker of Barr liquor industry in Alberta is that the LiEstate Wines located just outside Sherquor Act starts from the premise that wood Park in Strathcona County. Barr, a liquor and gaming is not allowed, with exformer medical researcher at the Univerception of whatever is defined in the Act," sity of Alberta in the Cardiovascular Rehe adds. "I think it would simplify things search Centre, had been making his own a lot, because Prohibition is now past us wine at home for nearly two decades, and by quite a number of years, if they actuhas since moved on to running his winery CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE >>

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thebarb.ca • Established: 2010 • Winemakers: Rick & Amy Barr • Location: Strathcona County, just east of Sherwood Park • Wines: rhubarb and raspberry • Availability in Edmonton: City Market Downtown, Southwest Edmonton Farmers’ Market, Salisbury Farmers’ Market (Sherwood Park), Sherbrooke Liquor, Keg n Cork (see website or download their app for full list)

Birds & Bees Organic Winery & Meadery birdsandbeeswinery.com • Established: 2006 • Winemakers: Tonia & Xina Chrapko • Location: Brosseau, 2 hours east of Edmonton • Wines: wild cherry, saskatoon, rhubarb, raspberry, highbush cranberry, apple, alfalfa and mead—all certified organic • Availability in Edmonton: Old Strathcona Farmers’ Market, Sherbrooke Liquor

Chinook Arch Meadery chinookarchmead.com • Established: 2008 • Winemakers: Art & Cherie Andrews • Location: Okotoks, 20 minutes South of Calgary • Wines: several varieties of mead made from different types of honey • Availability in Edmonton: n/a

Fallentimber Meadery fallentimbermeadery.ca • Established: 2010 • Winemakers: Colin Ryan • Location: Water Valley, 50 minutes Northwest of Calgary • Wines: several varieties of mead including meads infused with spices and fruits • Availability in Edmonton: Sherbrooke Liquor, Sunterra Cellar, Aligra Wine & Spirits, Keg n Cork, Liquor Depot at Windermere, Liquor Outlet Heritage, Safeway Wine & Spirits

Field Stone Fruit Wines fieldstonefruitwines.com • Established: 2005 • Winemakers: Marvin Gill & Dominic Rivard • Location: Strathmore, 40 minutes East of Calgary • Wines: saskatoon, wild cherry, rhubarb, raspberry, black currant, strawberry, raspberry • Availability in Edmonton: online

Lake Saskatoon Winery • Established: 2013 • Winemaker: Art Lipon • Location: Grande Prairie • Wines: saskatoon, wild cherry • Availability in Edmonton: coming soon

Spirit Hills spirithillswinery.com • Established: 2012 • Winemaker: Hugo Bonjean • Location: Millarville, one hour Southwest of Calgary • Wines: several varieties of honey wine (not mead) made from a blend of honey and spices, herbs and fruit • Availability in Edmonton: coming soon

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ally would just rewrite the act from scratch and say, 'It is allowed, with exception of these things you can't do.'"

"I kept on telling them, 'Al Capone has left the building. Prohibition is finished. We're in a modern age now,'" says Art Lipon of Lake Saskatoon Winery in Grande Prairie, who just received his licence in January. Lipon, a former high-school teacher, has been growing saskatoons as a part-time venture and is one of the only growers left in the Grande Prairie area; he notes that making it easier to open wineries might revitalize the orchard fruit industry.

Where is the Alberta wine industry headed from here? All of the wineries agree that there is still a huge growth potential; Bonjean notes that given the sheer size of Alberta's honey industry, he's shocked there aren't more

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honey wineries here.

"Alberta actually produces two percent of the world's honey supply," he says. "We have now three honey wineries. It would be the equivalent of France having 10 wineries."

Lipon also notes that there might even be opportunities overseas, especially in the rapidly growing Asian marketplace.

"I think we've got a unique product here in Alberta that's not readily available to any other places," he says.

"And with the amount of restrictions in Alberta—we wouldn't have those restrictions if we moved out of Alberta."

However, most wineries are content to remain within Alberta for now.

"I would say there's a number of people that don't know the wines even exist, and of the ones that do know there are wineries in Alberta, not all of those have even tasted it,

let alone bought a bottle," Gill says.

"So we have a long way to go just to saturate our own market here in Alberta, let alone expanding outside of the province."

While Alberta's wine industry is still decades away from approaching the scope of the industry in British Columbia or Ontario, it is nonetheless conceivable that one day Alberta could have wine regions as celebrated as the Okanagan or Niagara regions are today.

"There is no greater reward for mom and dad's vision than when someone asked their granddaughter what she wanted to be when she grew up, and she said she wanted to be a winemaker," Xina Chrapko says. "I can almost guarantee you that no other eightyear-old girl in the province of Alberta has ever said that before."

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its relative Blanche de Chambly). With a strong nose of apple, citrus, pear and tart earthiness, it presents as a bold, fruity white. It has a moderately light body and presents with a fruity sweetness. Its high carbonation will sharpen the taste at first, but as it calms down, the soft earthiness and fruit move forward.

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Some like to argue that there are wine lar. Take these adjectives: fruity, musty, people and then there are beer people. I peppery, sharp, balanced, earthy, floral, know far too many people who aphot, leafy, oaky. Think they describe preciate both (myself included) wine? They do. But you would to believe that the world is be surprised how often they that easily categorized. Howare used to describe beer. .com weekly e u ever, I do know lots of peoBeer and wine have more v int@ tothep n o ple have a great passion for in common than you might s a J wine, but beer simply doesn't think. Let me prove it by sugFoster get their motor running. gesting some beer that your favouThere is no question the two beverages rite wine-lover will appreciate. are very different. One comes from a sinIs a sweet, fruity white wine like a Sauvigle, albeit versatile, ingredient; the other gnon Blanc or a Chenin Blanc your thing? is a creation of intricate recipes. But Then grab a bottle of Unibroue's Blonde the end result can be remarkably simide Chambly (not to be confused with

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If you prefer a drier white, like a Riesling, then you might want to head for a Westmalle Tripel, which is one of the rare Belgian Trappist beer brewed by monks.

It is a light and spicy ale that starts with a delicate sweetness. In the middle an earthy pepperiness rises and the beer dries out, finishing with a complex yet refreshing spiciness. It can be highly carbonated, but that only accents its prickly, dry-mouth feel.

A wonderful replacement for a rosé would be Unibroue's Éphémère Black Currant. It is a very attractive pink colour. The base wheat beer is soft, earthy and gently sweet, but the pungent black currant fruit addition (they do add black currants) creates a sweet and sharp character. Flavours of citrus and grape also shine through. This is a floral, fruity beer that balances fruit with soft malt.

However, it is with red wines where I believe beer best match up. A lighter bodied, fruity red like Pinot Noir or Merlot is—in my opinion—almost a dead ringer for a Flanders Red, such as Duchesse de Bourgogne or Rodenbach. These are lightly-carbonated, light-bodied, very fruity beer with a sweet front and a touch of clean tartness at the end to sharpen the beer and make it whisk away on your palate. The hint of tartness is what makes it very much like a red wine.

If a fuller-bodied, spicier red is your thing, then pop open a bottle of Ommegang Three Philosophers. Dark and spicy, the beer starts with a full, deep earthiness and some noticeable cherry and

other dark fruit, and then brings in some rich spices to add complexity. The finish is surprisingly dry and accents some carbonic prickliness, musty spicing and a very pleasant alcohol warming. Sounds like wine to me.

Many wines feature a woody, oaky character. Oak-aging is all the rage in the beer world, with many being laid down in oak for a few months. I could recommend many such creations, but one that reminds me of the kind of oak you get from wine is Innis and Gunn's Irish Whiskey Cask, a seasonal release this spring. It pours a dark ruby red (sounds like wine, eh?) and gives off clear notes of vanilla, sweet caramel and whiskey oak. In the flavour, chocolate, vanilla, brown sugar and toffee are balanced by a moderate tannin character, some woodiness and a touch of earthiness.

It calls itself a stout, but don't be put off by that. It is lighter and sharper than a stout, making it more like an oak-accented wine.

And then there is bubbly champagne.

Other than carbonation, it might be hard to see a connection between champagne and beer. And then you stumble across Brut—a Belgian-style of beer that is produced in exactly the same way as traditional champagne—with the remuage and dégorgement processes of freezing and inverting the bottled product before final preparation. It is scary just how close Brut is to grape champagne. Highly effervescent, fruity with a bit of a spicy bite and a hint alcohol warming. They are hard to find, but Dominus Vobiscum Brut from Quebec brewery Charlevoix is a particularly nice example.

I suspect these suggestions won't turn your wine devotee into a pint-tipping beer aficionado, but it should give everyone a bit more respect for both ends of the beer-wine spectrum. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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s anyone who has dined on Japanese food here on the prairies will be able to tell you, not all sushi is created equal. That said, there's a basic level of palatability and competence below which none who vie in Edmonton's well-populated sushi-scape may fall lest they find themselves removed from the field of play completely. Above that level, though, there are many things the creative sushi-preneur can do to set themselves apart from the status quo in the areas of ambience, service and innovative offerings.

Koi Sushi House may face a greater challenge than most in distinguishing themselves, owing to the detractions of its location. Its unbeautiful environs on the verge of a vast, litter-strewn strip-mall parking lot are probably a big enough handicap, but said strip mall also represents a dense clustering of dining-out options including another sushi restaurant (Miso), alongside wellregarded non-sushi restaurants like Il Forno and Tropika, plus a Vietnamese place, a halal donair shop and that redheaded stepchild of the fast-food world, Mary Brown's Chicken. (It's also haunted by the ghost of an awful Chinese buffet that was the scene of a heinous and incomprehensible crime that grabbed headlines a few years back.)

This situation was compounded by the fact that they'd forgotten to turn around their OPEN sign the first time my co-diner and I went there on a wintry spring weeknight, which almost sent us straight to their direct competitors across the parking lot. Undeterred, we proceeded into the muted elegance of Koi's unoccupied dining room. Gentle music and a huge tank full of the eponymous ornamental fish burbled gently in

the background. We were quickly seated at one of the bench tables lining the walls. Not to indulge in stereotype, but the service was uniformly polite and efficient across two separate visits to Koi, and the food was attractively presented.

Koi's menu hits all the expected notes vis-a-vis Japanese fare from nigiri, sashimi and maki to tempura, udon and rice bowls, and the bento boxes that give you a bit of everything. Our two visits allowed us to range around a decent amount, and while Koi certainly has a firm command of the expected, there were a couple of nominal side items that really stuck with me.

First to the expected: Koi's beef tataki ($8.95)—diaphanous slices of seared blue-rare beef in a pool of citrusy ponzu sauce with thin-sliced onions and chewy seaweed (wakame)—made a mouthwatering starter. The individual pieces of raw fish on rice (nigiri) were of a respectable size and, on the first visit anyhow, the tuna belly ($4.50/two pieces) was exceptionally buttery and flavourful.

Rainbow maki is another common sushi yardstick for me, with its attendant divergence of opinion about which foodstuffs should feature at the heart of the inside-out roll wrapped in strips of sashimi and avocado. Koi's version ($10.50) comported for my own preference of the surplus crispy nuggets of batter that are a byproduct of tempuramaking mixed with orange beads of roe as a complement (rather than a distraction from) the featured fish. Lesser versions sometimes have a tempura shrimp or, more gallingly, imitation crab-shreds mixed with mayo.

I confess to a slight aversion to novelty maki, of which the Great Canadian seemed to be Koi's prime contribution to the genre. My co-diner felt compelled to try the concoction, which threatened to marry tempura shrimp and smoked

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salmon with cucumber, avocado, yogurt and maple syrup. I diverted her toward the Red Samurai roll ($14.95) with its outer layer of velvety ahi tuna and an interior of avocado, mango and mayo.

Mysteriously, they decided to top the coveted and increasingly rare featured fish with a slice of fresh hot pepper, which more or less obscured all the other flavours in the roll. Fortunately, it was easy to remove this blandishment. We were not surprised by the spiciness of the spicy tuna roll ($7.50/eight pieces), which was typical of the form. The Wil-

drose maki ($12.95)—shrimp tempura, grilled asparagus and avocado rolled up in salmon—was fine, but somehow not more delicious than the sum of its component parts.

Strangely, one of the stand-outs of both visits for me was the merest of the plates, the moyashi shoga ($2.95), a hot yet crunchy beansprout salad tossed with a gingery sesame-based dressing that also boasted a lively jolt of black pepper. I liked the battered prawns and veggies of the assorted tempura ($14.95) just fine, but would give the edge to the

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Washed down with glasses of light, fizzy Japanese lager, our two repasts at Koi were enjoyable—with a dash of the unexpected—and consistent with the going rate, which is entirely respectable in the oversubscribed realm of Sushi-onthe-Prairies.

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wo-thousand and twelve wasn't the easiest year for Raphaelle Standell-Preston. The Montréal scene she belongs to was splintering: Standell-Preston was watching members of her musical family cross thresholds of growing success while feeling her own creative endeavours—she's the voice of both Blue Hawaii and Braids—stagnate.

"I myself was like, 'Oh, what I'm doing isn't valuable, or valid, because I'm not achieving as much success as so and so,'" she says, reflecting a year onwards while waiting for a pancake in a San Francisco breakfast joint. "It just became a big head game."

There were other tensions: feelings of complacency between her and longtime boyfriend/Blue Hawaii's other half, Alex Cowan (who also tours as Agor), and—as one to pull inspiration from the climate she finds herself in—Standell-Preston was recording an album in the midst of a Canadian winter, which only intensified the isolation she was feeling.

That troubled season culminated into Untogether, an unusually reflective take on electronica: its melancholic sentiments are set adrift within its minimalist electronic compositions, constructed out of chopped-up in-

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strumentals, ghostly vocals and programmed drumbeats. Untogether feels haunted, in need of an exorcist, or at least a really good pep talk.

It comes in stark contrast to Blue Hawaii's debut: the electric-blue ripples of pop that made up the eight-song Blooming Summer EP, written while the pair were touring Central America, was a lush, mini-masterpiece of electropop that emphasized a serene bliss.

Untogether could be aptly described as its shadow, but furthering down Blooming Summer's pop path wasn't something Standell-Preston was in the proper headspace to do.

"It's really difficult to make dark pop music," she says. "Like, if I'm feeling dark, I don't want to write a pop song, and I feel like on this record, there were a lot of darker emotions.

A lot more feelings of insecurity that I wanted to express. I definitely wasn't feeling super-confident as an individual. I felt like I understood myself more as an artist on this record than on Blooming Summer but I just felt kind of bad about my life, so I didn't want to write pop songs. " Reflective of Untogether's darker sounds was the way in which the album was pieced together: StandellPreston and Cowan recorded it in isolation from each other, alternating nights in the studio, only asking the other for help when necessary. They'd make changes to what the other had

done in the studio, without discussion, or the opportunity for resistance or agreement—though the way Standell-Preston puts it, that method actually helped overcome a certain bullishness the pair share.

"I find that Alex and I are both really stubborn—in a wonderful way," she laughs. "Sometimes the other one doesn't want to budge, so it's a battle of who wants to budge, who wants to make the compromise. So it was a lot easier to have the conversation be musical, rather than verbal. We didn't have to discuss it: we would just show each other in the music. I could come back, and everything I'd done could've been erased, and Alex would've taken a small part of it, and same for me.

We had to be really good about being like, 'OK, this is what that person wanted, and now I'm going to move on from that point.'"

Another reason for the isolation was the freedom it provided: StandellPreston notes that working alone allowed her to get as personal as possible, without having to think about another person listening in the room.

"It became such a personal endeavour. I was kind of embarrassed to do that in front of anybody. There were moments when it was getting really personal, and was kind of like a diary entry that I wouldn't want anybody to read. Even my partner."

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t may take a listen or two to decode the message buried within the reflective songs on Anberlin's latest record Vital, but that's precisely the point.

As drummer Nathan Young explains over the phone during a particularly wet and rainy stop in Poughkeepsie, NY, Vital reaches deeper into current events and issues than the band has in the past in the hopes the words spark some discussion amongst listeners. But the lyrics aren't the only element of Vital that's acted as a catalyst for debate.

Online message boards have heated up over the album's cover photo, which depicts a wave crashing into a young man.

There's another arm clinging to him that does not attach to anyone visible in the frame. Young says it was this sense of mystery and dynamic movement that caught his eye and made the image stick with him.

"You know, I think nowadays, sadly, people don't really think about the

art as much. I feel like it's almost an afterthought," states Young, who is also a photographer and has taken on the role of art director for the band's albums, in collaboration with Jordan Butcher for Vital. "I'm a huge fan of visuals and when you see something it should evoke something in you. I'm really a fan of iconic covers, y'know?

When you see it you know exactly what it is. You don't even have to see the band's name on it, but you've just seen it so many times so when you see it again it speaks to you."

Young set out to create just that for Anberlin, and when he came across the photo that now graces the cover of Vital, shot by Aaron Feaver, he knew nothing else would compare.

"For album covers, I've noticed [the photo] is always kind of still, maybe some form of still life or something where it's like, 'Oh that's a pretty photo,' but this, it just showed movement and it showed life and it showed so many different things in one photo and it has a little bit of darkness for some reason," he explains.

All in all, Vital has become a success for the band among fans and critics, launching it on a seemingly non-stop touring schedule since its release in October 2012. Although, touring has become a regular part of life for Young, who was 15 when Anberlin released its first album Blueprints for the Black Market in 2003.

"I'm so used to it and I've been doing it for so long that it's just part of me and it's how I grew up," Young says of life on the road, acknowledging it's a path that's likely not the best one for every 15-year-old. "Even picturing myself touring that young—and some of it does feel like kind of a vague dream—when you're that young and for that long it can kind of all blur together ... but it's been good. All of the guys in the band were great and understood that I was young and treated me well and took care of me and didn't throw me into situations where someone that young couldn't take care of themselves."

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hen did Satan become such an fucking chore? We're obligated to throw up the horns for stone-faced bands making their way on the Dark One's image, but they slather on the satanic posturing while never having a shred of fun with any of it. Isn't the devil supposed to be seductive? A handful of exceptions are out there, but especially with younger, European bands, metal's presentation is less Iron Maiden and more Slayer. One isn't necessarily better, but the lack of balance is a God damned (well, duh) travesty.

Which is exactly what makes Ghost BC's more irreverent, Broadway-sized take on devil-rock—quasi-religious costuming, inverted-sermon imagery and lyrics, a singer who goes by Papa Emeritus II—seem like a fresh blast of brimstone. The Swedish six-piece tour like the Illuminati's house band, their identities shrouded in long, hooded robes, dark masks and actual sustained anonymity: when a label rep introduces you to your scheduled interview with a

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The particular Ghoul who answers is one who plays guitar (of two in the band), and admits that maintaining actual secrecy—in a time when bands Instagram their breakfasts with the same frequency as the rest of us—takes some effort.

"It's so much easier being in a threepiece punk band, when you can just go up with a guitar and plug in and rock 'n' roll," the Ghoul says. "Whereas everything we do has to be carefully planned and considered. We say no to most things, just because of our image: we do meet-and-greets, but we cannot do them as spontaneously as other bands do. We cannot do an acoustic quick performance in the lobby and all that—that's sort of in the ABCs of how to make it in rock, and [for us], that requires you have to make everybody turn on to the idea that you don't do a lot of shit. You have to minimize."

That said, the anonymous approach has actually worked out quite well for them. The band's first album, Opus Eponymous, took home the

Swedish equivalent of a Grammy in the hard rock category, and the band's had some fellow named Dave Grohl guest on drums (on an Abba cover, of all things). That's all led up to its second album, Infestissumam, which amps up the band's production values while doubling down on the evil church imagery that Ghost BC first embraced. Which, the Ghoul notes, was the agreed-upon idea before the band first started writing.

"We felt already in the drawing phase of the project, that in order for us to create this horror vibe, it needs to be full on. It needs to be 100 percent," he says. "It cannot be big horror show with six dudes in T-shirts. It needs to be big horror show with six creatures. It's like still having the green screen visible on the movie; you can't go halfway.

And even if all that horror imagery is being presented with a wink, it doesn't mean that subverting religious imagery isn't an effective way to draw out some potency, even today.

"Most people have been religious, or [if] not religious, there's still an element of a feeling of authority when you see someone in a cloak," the Ghoul says.

"And church liturgy, and ritual, strikes a chord of importance; there's always something solemn about a church. The holiness. Even if you're not religious yourself, there's always an element of silence when you go into a church.

And that whole thing combined with horror creates this sort of epitome of a nightmare, evil powers in command, which I think most people find a little bit thrilling."

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3.75” wide version PREVUE // FOLK ROCK

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Steve Coffey & the Lokels

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ing back this barn to the land before it actually goes back to the land, so it's this really trippy thing."

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fter 20 years together, sometimes it doesn't hurt for a band to branch out and let its members do their own thing for a little while.

Steve Coffey & the Lokels have been working on various other projects since the release of its last album Bovine World Rail in 2012. In addition to being a venerable figure in Canadian music, frontman Coffey is a prolific painter, with a new body of work opening at The Front Gallery on Saturday, April 27.

Coffey, who began his artistic career as a metal sculptor, describes the collection of large-scale oil paintings as prairie expressionism, a continuation of his el-

emental focus on nature.

His artwork has also become the subject of a short film that's in its final stages of production, with band member Russ Baker working on the jazz-influenced soundtrack.

"It's been kind of a collaborative thing that we've done over distance because the guy working on it is Pat Philips and he's out in Toronto. We're all spread out but we get together to play a few shows every now and then," says Coffey of the currently unnamed collaborative film, which is essentially an eight-minute time-lapse of him working on a painting on the side of a large barn, using a stationary camera to find the horizon line in relation to the barn and continue painting until the structure melds into the natural scenery. "It's almost like giv-

While art is a prevalent part of Coffey's life, music remains a priority as well.

Whether it's the changing of the seasons and the renewed energy that comes with spring, he's not sure, but whatever the case, Coffey says he's been putting his guitar to work lately. One of his most recent compositions was essentially an ode to his band, noting his lyrics have digressed from his usual metaphor-driven style in favour of ones that focus more on straightforward storytelling.

"What it's about, it's hard for me to say; it's all over the place. I'm constantly between the studio painting and music. I almost let the paintings direct me with colour and lyrics and I get inspired by so many different things that verses just kind of fall on the table," he adds, noting painting and music tend to go handin-hand. "They're built on similar worlds like melody and lyric and composition and rhythm. I use a lot of the same language to describe each medium, y'know? It's interesting because if I'm in a real aggressive state of mind and I'm going full-tilt on a canvas, it quite often falls into what I might be writing about ... it's this constant back and forth thing.

Painting's so much music and vice versa."

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FIRSTS, LASTS AND FAVOURITES

Christina Martin was interesting when in 2009 I played after Don McLean on the main stage at the Stan Rogers Folk Festival in Canso, NS. I made a joke and said, "It is an honour to have Don McLean open up for me." I don't know how well that went over with Don. First concert My father took me to a Tina Turner concert in Montréal directly after watching the movie What's Love Got To Do With It about her life story. It was absolutely amazing. I'm a huge Tina Turner fan.

Last album Loretta Lynn, Coal Miner's Daughter

Wed, May 1 (6:30 pm) Haven Social Club, $7 (advance), $10 (door) Hometown: Halifax, NS Genre: Alt-country, pop Debut album: Pretty Things in 2002 Latest album: Sleeping With a Stranger Fun fact: In 2012, Martin completed

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an Artist in Residency with Geriatric Medicine Research (GMR) at Dalhousie University and The Canadian Dementia Knowledge Translation Network (CDKTN).

First album A Don McLean Greatest Hits album called Then & Now, which had both "Vincent" and "American Pie" on it. It

Last concert The last concert I bought a ticket to was Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

Crosby Stills & Nash were the opening band. Not too shabby!

Favourite album One album that comes to mind that I keep listening to is Rumours by Fleetwood Mac. Favourite musical guilty pleasure I have always been a fan of Brian Adams and Celine Dion. There, I said it. V

ON THE RECORD

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The ties that bind

Family of the Year collaborates to produce Loma Vista

Fri, Apr 26 (8 pm) Haven Social Club, $15 (advance), $20 (day of show) Family of the Year, a tight-knit group from Los Angeles, released its breakthrough album Loma Vista last summer. Initially, the band had plans to produce the album themselves, but after reconnecting with producer Wally Gagel, a new partnership was formed. After sharing the stage as a supporting act, Family of the Year is out on the road for its first headlining tour, and drummer/ vocalist Sebastian Keefe spoke with Vue about the recording process that led to Loma Vista.

How long did it take to make Loma Vista from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

SEBASTIAN KEEFE: From the very first idea to the final album was just about a year. It was sporadic. At first our intention was to record and produce it ourselves, so we bought some extra mics and all the other stuff. We just began to chip away and bring ideas out. Some songs came easy—in bursts—and others took months to finish writing.

We weren't rushing because, in truth, we didn't know who was going to release our next album. We just knew we had a lot of feelings within us we wanted to get out and record. At a party Joe (Keefe, lead vocalist) ran into an old friend, producer Wally Gagel, and he got on board to produce the album shortly afterward. Our homemade headway became the demos we worked off of with him. We spent a couple of months doing pre-production with him, picking 15 songs out of the bunch and tightening them up— adding or subtracting where needed. The album was recorded mostly on nights and weekends at his stu-

dio in Hollywood that winter.

VW: When you were writing the songs,

did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

SK: Not really. Sometimes words happened first, other times it was the music.

Did the songs come from one person fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group?

SK: Both. Joe brought a lot of completed songs to the album—he writes most of the stuff. The rest is a group collaboration. A lot of the goofier songs are the group ones, but the tender ones are typically Joe. VW:

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Wally for a long time to carve out which songs we'd end up recording.

When we started, it was still up in the air which ones would fall flat or which ones would work.

What drew you to Gagel, and what did he bring to the process?

SK: Joe and I had worked with Wally on an album in our old band, The Billionaires. He mixed it. We stayed in touch and Joe ran into him while we were writing Loma Vista. He joined the project shortly afterward and took control. He really pulled it all together. He really pulled our band together as well; he helped us more than we realized.

VW:

If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Loma Vista, what would it look like?

SK: A face that is either crying or laughing. V VW:

What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? SK: We were broke, so we couldn't afford to block out the studio time, so we could only record when the studio was available. We spent the first weekend doing all of the drums and basic tracks live with everyone playing together. The singing and some guitars and keyboards were done the following weekends and random nights when the studio was open.

VW:

Were there any other songs written that were left off the album?

SK: There were a whole bunch. We had about 30 songs before we cut it down to the 15 we ended up recording with Wally. Eleven are on the album.

VW:

How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Loma Vista to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

SK: We didn't have a clue how the album would end up. We worked with VW:

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The album gets off to a mournful start, a lone piano driving a balled about how love is the baddest blues, before a crescendo unleashes the full fury of Hart's raspy, sultry alto. Hart's dynamic vocal range is belted to its full potential over the course of the album, complimenting lyrics that are frank and uninhibited in their emotions, with highlights including "Better Man" and the bonus track, a revamped version of Etta James's "I'd Rather Go Blind" featuring Jeff Beck on guitar.

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Shotgun Jimmie Everything, Everything (You've Changed)  Everything, Everything seems to be in a shambling hurry, from it's title to the cover—looking like a snapshot of a cluttered attic—to its track list: run time ratio. The album races through 16 songs in just under 40 minutes, with a handful of them barely clearing the one-minute mark.

The sense of scatter translates to the music, too. And you know what? That chaotic vibe is something Jim Kilpatrick has long-since mastered. The guy can blast through more insta-classic hooks in a five songs than most bands can do in an album, all delivered with effortless slacker abandon and, given that, surprising depth of affect. These are sparse, romantic, gritty little rockers or ballads that embed themselves quickly and deeply: an urgency drives "North!" to hit its chorus some 20

seconds in—"I hope it's not to fast to ask ya / To move to Alaska / Live with me, happily ever"—and manages to get there again, plus a guitar solo, in barely a minute-thirty. "Skype Date" captures a sweet moment of modern romance, while "3212" makes outerspace imagery endearing: "Thankfully, I got caught in your tractor beam / I was drifting gracefully / Through the harsh black infinity."

The palate of sounds isn't incredibly diverse, but Kilpatrick still manages to make each song feel unique, even placed side by side. And the little details, too—the guitar flourishes at the end of the chorus in "Growing Like a Garden," the hand-clap hook that closes out the title track. Everything, Everything may have the air of clutter, but there's an incredible attention to detail. All of that mess just means every little thing is in its proper place.

Steady piano, clacking drum sticks and the soulful voice of lead singer Sabrina Halde launch Groenland's The Chase with the do or die "Our Last Shot." The fast-driving verses open up into a powerful, half-time chorus, given additional weight by a small horn section. The Chase is a record of varied sounds, between tracks and often even within songs—it moves from the defiant opener into the subtle, quiet sounds of "Superhero," a song which then lifts up into majestic swirls of melody—and there are many layers to the record's tracks. It's orchestral indie pop, but with an organic edge to the recording—it plays out as if band and listener are in the same room—that brings the band's songs to life.

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SOUNDTRACK

Royal Canoe

Noon: Funkadelic, Maggot Brain

Fri, Apr 26 (8 pm)

Canoe. With a couple of EPs now in the

With Rococode

books, the six-piece is set to release its

Artery, $10

debut full-length album Today We're Be-

Night: James Blake, James Blake

lievers. Before arriving in Edmonton, gui-

On the road

Winnipeg isn't an easy city to love. Much

tarist/vocalist Bucky Driedger shared his

like Edmonton, warm summers offer

Soundtrack picks.

an all-too-brief reprieve from relentless,

At home

harsh winters. However, it's these juxtaposing climates—and the accompanying moods of the city's inhabitants—that

Morning: Sparklehorse, It's a Wonderful

have become lyrical inspiration for Royal

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FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110, 780.452.1168 J+H PUB (Overdraught Pub), 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave NAKED CYBERCAFÉ AND BOARDGAME EMPORIUM 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL

13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2 JOES–North 13509-127 St, 780.451.7799 O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 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 THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209123 St ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE

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ARTERY Romi Mayes (blues), guests; 8pm; $15 (adv) at Blackbyrd ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Duff Robison BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Sean Burns (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Blue Chair House band; 8:30pm; $12 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Kelly Richey BRIXX BAR The Gibson Block, guests; 9pm; $10 CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK The Ruminators CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON The Classics; 9pm1am; no cover CASINO YELLOWHEAD Al Barrett (rock); 9pm CENTURY CASINO Bonnie Kilroe–Country Queens; 7pm; $59.95 (dinner and show)/$29.95 (show only) CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, 2-6pm; Evening: Down to the Crown: Marshall Lawrence presents great blues with Trevor Duplessis, Mad Dog Blues Band, every Sat 10pm-2am, $5 (door) DEVANEY'S Andrew Scott DV8 Clean Up Your Act (variety night) EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Luc Blue and Elizabeth (blue country roots); $5 cover EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Open stage jam with host Tommaso Zillio (Edmonton Guitar); last Sat each month, 2-5pm; admission by donation FANDANGO'S Sarah Beth Keely FILTHY MCNASTY'S Drake’s Theory, guests Justine and Dennis; 4pm; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Market Forces (rock), Marco Corbo, Jeremy Kornel; 8pm; $10 (adv)/ $12 (door) HIGH RUN CLUB The Salesmen; no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Jack Semple and his band (blues) $35 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm; Evening: The Flying Saucers LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:30-11:30pm; no cover NEW CITY Van Gohst, Upsidedowntown, the Alaska NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Jakked OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Striker, Cauldron, Mortillery, Gatekrashor; 8pm; $15 (adv) PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat; $5 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am THE RIG Whiskey Business RIVER CREE–The Venue David Clayton Thomas (Blood Sweat and Tears front man); $24.50 ROSE AND CROWN Amy Weymes SHERLOCK HOLMES–Downtown Stan Gallant SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Doug Stroud SHERLOCK HOLMES–Downtown Stan Gallant SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Doug Stroud STARLITE ROOM Early Show: Anberlin, Paper Route, guests; all ages; 5pm (door); tickets at unionevents.com, ticketfly.Com, Blackbyrd STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Shark Infested Daughters (metal), Young Sparrows, Submerge, Unity Through Tragedy; 8pm; $10 (adv) WUNDERBAR Needles/Pins (punk), the Ballantynes, the Mandates; 9pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) YARDBIRD SUITE International Jazz Series: From New York: René Marie's "Experiment In Truth" Quartet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

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WINSPEAR CENTRE Live from the Ultra Lounge! Robbins Pops: Robert Bernhardt (conductor), Five by Design (vocals); 8pm

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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: House

and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN APR 28

ARTERY Ruth Moody (folk), the Awesome Hots; all ages; 6:30pm; $12 (adv) BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 10am-2:30pm; donations CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; every Sun, 7pm DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic Music with Devaney's House Band 5-8pm O2 JOES–North Sunday Jam hosted by Andrew White; 4pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm1am ON THE ROCKS Edmonton Music Awards After Party: Apresnos, Thrillhouse, Mars and Venus REXALL PLACE Mötley Crüe, Big Wreck; 7:30pm (show); all ages; $20, $45, $55, $85, $115 RICHARD'S PUB Sun Jam hosted by Better Us Than Strangers; 5-9pm THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Better Us than Strangers; 5-9pm ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE 2013 Edmonton Music Awards; all ages, licensed; 6pm (door); $20 (adv)/$25 (day of ) WINSPEAR Live at the Winspear: Taj Mahal and Shemekia Copeland; 8pm; $47 at Winspear box office WUNDERBAR 3rd Birthday Bloodbath; 2pm

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CONCORDIA COLLEGE–Robert Tegler Student Centre Nordic Connections: Concordia Symphony Orchestra Concert with Maestro David Hoyt; 2pm; $16.75 (adv adult)/$13.75 (adv student/senior) at TIX on the Square HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Praise His Holy Name!: Concordia Concert Choir Concert; 3pm; $16.75 (adult adv)/$13.75 (adv student/senior) at TIX on the Square, door ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Telemann's Water Music: Alberta Baroque Ensemble; 3pm; $25 (adv adult)/$ 20 (adv student/senior) at TIX on the Square

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MON APR 29 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Jason Elmore and

Hoodoo Witch BLOCK 1912 Monday Music night: Music by Cathleen Lesperance and Loren Gray; 7:30pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer songwriter night every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly; this week Scott Cook FANDANGO'S Mon Blues Jam hosted by Marshall Lawrence; 8pm-midnight OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm STARLITE ROOM Purity Ring, guests; 8pm; tickets at ticketfly.com

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with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: It’s One Too Many Tuesdays: Reggae, funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard CROWN PUB Underground at the Crown Tuesday: Trueskool and live hip-hop with residents Jae Maze, Xaolin, Frank Brown; monthly appearances by guests Shawn Langley, Locution Revolution, and Northside Clan DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

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TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): In 1921, Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev—born under the sign of the Bull—premièred his opera The Love for Three Oranges in the United States. Here's how The New York Times felt about it: "There are a few, but only a very few, passages that bear recognizable kinship with what has hitherto been considered music." It's possible, Taurus, that you will get a similar reaction when you debut your new approach or endeavour, and that may disturb you. But I think it would be a good omen—a sign that you're taking a brave risk as you try something innovative and unfamiliar.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): I'm passionate about doing whatever I can to make the world a better place.

How boring and sad it would be if I only thought of satisfying my personal needs. But I also remember what Aldous Huxley said: "There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self." Even if you have mad skills at healing and fixing everyone whose life you touch, Gemini, Huxley's reminder is good for you to honour right now. The place that's in most pressing need of transmutation—and where you're most likely to be successful—is within you. Now here's the trick ending: to the degree that you regenerate yourself, you will improve everyone around you. Your inner work will be contagious.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Thomas Jefferson almost pulled off a miracle in 1784. America was a young country. There were only 13 states and a few unorganized territories. As a representative to the Continental Congress, Jefferson proposed an ordinance that would have prohibited slavery in those territories, including what would later become Tennessee, Mississippi and Alabama. By just one vote, alas, the provision failed to pass. Can you imagine what the United States would have been like if slavery had been partly extinguished decades before the Civil War? The moral of the story, Cancerian, is that at cer-

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tain pregnant moments, small shifts can have big consequences. The astrological omens suggest your life will be proof of that in the coming weeks.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): I believe you will crawl or scramble or glide to the top of some mountain in the next four weeks. What mountain do you want it to be? A crumbly molehill? A pile of cheap but useful gravel? A lofty peak where you can see for miles and miles? I urge you to decide soon on which of the possibilities you will choose. Then affirm your intention to call on all your resources, allies and powers to help you make the ascent. This is a chance for serious expansion, Leo. Unleash your soulful ambitions.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Have you ever seen a moonbow? It's like a rainbow but is created by the reflected light of the moon instead of the sun. For this phenomenon to occur, the sky must be dark. The moon has to be full and setting in the west, near the horizon, and rain must be falling. So it's a rare event.

All the conditions have to be just right. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it's more likely than usual that you'll spot one of these exceptional beauties in the coming days. Your affinity for curious wonders and mysterious marvels of all kinds will be at a peak. I suspect you will have a knack for being exactly where you need to be in order to experience them.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Lonesome George was about a hundred years old when he died last year.

He was the last remaining member of a giant tortoise species that had lived on Ecuador's Pinta Island for thousands of years. But scientists say his kind is not necessarily extinct forever. They believe that by cross-breeding tortoises of other related species, they could recreate a 100-percent pure version of Lonesome George's species. I suspect, Libra, that you may be able to pull off a metaphorically comparable resurrection—especially if you initiate the effort in the coming weeks.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Let's imagine ourselves near the snowy summit of Washington's Mount Rainier. We're in an unusual kind of cave. Volcanic steam rises from cracks in the rocky floor. Above us is a roof made of ice. As we stand between the heat and the chill, we find the temperature quite cozy.

The extremes collaborate to produce a happy medium. Can you accomplish something in your life that's similar to what's going on in this cave? Metaphorically, I mean?

I think you can.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "We cannot accept the world as it is," remarked Belgian author Hugo

Claus. "Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth from the injustice of things." I don't subscribe to the idea that each day should begin like this. On some mornings we should rise and greet the world singing songs of praise for the great fortune of being alive. But I do think Claus' approach is precisely right on certain occasions—like now, for you Sagittarians. The time is ripe to tap into your reservoir of righteous anger. Fight to right the wrongs that disturb you the most.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "Your story begins the moment Eros enters you," says Anne Carson in her book Eros the Bittersweet.

"That incursion is the biggest risk of your life. How you handle it is an index of the quality, wisdom and decorum of the things inside of you.

As you handle it you come into contact with what is inside of you, in a sudden and startling way. You perceive what you are, what you lack, what you could be." I want to extend Carson's dramatic hypothesis.

I'd like to propose that eros enters you again and again in the course of your life and your story resets each time. How will you handle it when it makes its next incursion? Get ready, because here it comes.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): "I prefer by far warmth and softness to mere brilliancy and coldness," wrote Anaïs Nin in one of her early diaries. "Some people remind me of sharp dazzling diamonds. Valuable but lifeless and loveless. Others, of the simplest field flowers, with hearts full of dew and with all the tints of celestial beauty reflected in their modest petals." I suspect that even if you normally love cold brilliancy, Aquarius, you will need an abundance of warmth and softness in the coming days. To attract the best possible embodiments of this influence, get clear about your favourite forms of it. Be picky! Don't accept sloppy sentimentality.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Ludwig Wittgenstein was a genius.

His last book, which influenced many different fields of thought, is regarded as one of the most important philosophy tomes of the 20th century, and yet he was a big fan of foolishness. "If people did not sometimes do silly things," he observed, "nothing intelligent would ever get done." Another time he said, "Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness." Here's one more of his opinions: "Don't be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense."

I hope that's enough evidence to support my advice, Pisces, which is: now is a good time for you to get both smarter and wiser. And a good way to do that is to play and play and play some more.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): How we react to the sound of the wind gives clues to our temperament, said philosopher Theodor W Adorno. The unhappy person thinks of "the fragility of his house and suffers from shallow sleep and violent dreams."

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Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Join us as a volunteer...

The 2013 Edmonton International Fringe Festival seeks volunteers to fill positions on a variety of teams. A minimum of 16 hours gets you a t-shirt,show opportunities, program guide, invite to the Wrap Party and more!

To apply online visit www.fringetheatre.ca or call the volunteer hotline at 780-409-1923 Room to Read is changing children's lives in the developing world through literacy and gender equality. Join us in planning events to support our work, and spreading the word about our amazing results.

Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org SACE is recruiting volunteers for our 24 hour crisis line. Please visit our website: www.sace.ab.ca Share Your Love of Art With Preschool Children ARTS FOR TOTS ARTISTS/Workshop Facilitators wanted to lead a workshop to our Preschool kids Honorarium & materials fee paid email: volunteeramity@telus.net The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) is the world's foremost television and digital media content creation event, bringing together over a thousand television professionals from dozens of countries. In a conference setting at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. As a beneficial catalyst for growth and prosperity in Canada's television industry, BANFF could not happen without our invaluable team of volunteers!

The event will be taking place from June 9 – 12, 2013. Please have a look at our website for more information. www.banffmediafestival.com The Brick Sport Central is searching for volunteers to donate their time helping with collection, inventory, repairing, as well as outfitting children in need of sports equipment. Call for more information and a tour 780-477-1166 Volunteers required for St. Albert's RunWild Marathon May 5, 2013 www.runwild.ca WALK TO FIGHT ARTHRITIS June 9th at Laurier Park Event day volunteers needed, for more info or to register online please visit: www.walktofightarthritis.ca Walking is not easy for elders as their joints do not work well anymore...so we need younger walkers with a vehicle to help drive them to important appointments within Greater Edmonton area. We reimburse gas monies of $10.00 a trip! It is easy to help them! They make the walking and driving entertaining: Look up www.satsofedmonton.org or call 780 732-1221 and/ or drop in at 9907-108 Avenue to register to drive Welcome Home, a befriending program that provides companionship to recently rehoused individuals, is seeking volunteers to engage newly housed individuals in activities that reduce loneliness and isolation. Activities may include going for coffee, a walk, or a movie. Time commitment: 4-8 hours/ month for 6 months.

Contact: Jacqueline.Bass@catholicsocial services.ab.ca

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What happens during “The Most WONDERful Time of the Year”?

Find out when you volunteer for the 2013 International Children’s Festival, taking place May 28th – June 1st in St. Albert!

Individuals interested in volunteering at this year’s Festival are asked to attend the Volunteer Orientation on Wednesday, May 8th at 7pm at the Arden Theatre. All volunteers must be at least 12 years of age and willing to commit to at least three shifts over the course of the Festival. The deadline for volunteer registration is Friday, May 17th. A Criminal Record Check and Vulnerable Sector Check is required for all volunteers and can be completed at the Orientation between 5:30pm – 7pm.

For more information, call the Volunteer Information Line at (780) 459-1522 or visit www.childfest.com to register.

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Acting Classes

$1000-$6500 off tuition for the March Acting Program Up to 50% OFF! Apply at: www.vadastudios.com

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Artist to Artist

Akokiniskway Gallery of Rosebud, AB is currently accepting submissions and is sending out a call to artists from around the province and at all stages in their art careers. For more information on this call please contact the curator, Valerie Speer at vals@rosebudmerc.com Call for Featured Artists - 2014 The Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove welcomes all Alberta Artists to submit a proposal as a Feature Artist for a solo or group show to be held at the Spruce Grove Art Gallery located in the Melcor Cultural Centre at 35 – 5th Avenue, Spruce Grove. The portion of our gallery dedicated to our Feature Artists is about 32 feet of wall space. Application dealine is June 30, 2013. For details on application criteria please visit www.alliedartscouncil.com CALL FOR PROPOSALS: VISUALEYEZ 2013 The fourteenth annual Visualeyez festival of performance art happens from 10–16 September 2013 in the downtown core of Edmonton, Alberta, exploring on the curatorial theme of Vulnerability.

A conversation that begins by asking artists to explore issues around the curatorial theme of Vulnerability on an individual level and to confront issues of access, the body and social anxiety.

Proposals should include: a CV; artist statement; a detailed description of the work you wish to present, or explore; and support material which can include images, video, print or digital documentation of your work, catalogues, and press.

The deadline for submission is Friday, 31 May 2013, Proposals by email to: todd.janes@latitude53.org Please be courteous of image size and materials that you are sending. Please place Visualeyez 2013 submission in the subject line.

CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Artist in Residence 2013/2014 | Deadline May 31st @ midnight Harcourt House Artist Run Centre is currently accepting submissions for 2013/2014 Artist in Residence (AIR).

This one-year residency includes a studio space, access to our art education courses and facilities, teaching opportunities and a $150 monthly art supply stipend.

For detailed submission info please visit: http://harcourthouse.ab.ca/ Please mail submissions by May 31, 2013 to: Harcourt House Artist Run Centre 3rd Floor, 10215 – 112 Street Edmonton, Alberta.

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EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (EIFF) : Call for Entries now OPEN! Alberta filmmakers and High School Student filmmakers pay no submission fee.

Accepting shorts, features, documentaries, animation, and a new category that will make you want to find a warm coat – “SNOW, MAN”.

Film submission deadline is June 15. Submit online at edmontonfilmfest.com Exhibition Opportunity: Edmonton (Bridge Songs) Bridge Songs is an arts experience combining original music and performance, spoken word, an album release and a visual art gallery.

We are currently seeking submissions of visual art for our gallery and short film, spoken word and drama (limited stage space) for performance.

Submissions should tie in to the event theme (see below). To submit a song, find our Call for Submission for songs online at bridgesongs.ca.

The event runs June 14th and 15th. Submissions must be received by May 19, 2013.

Gallery at Milner Call for Submissions The Edmonton Public Library invites emerging artists working in any two dimensional medium to submit proposals to show art work in the Gallery at Milner, located on the main floor of the downtown Stanley A. Milner Library. We are seeking to exhibit the works of Edmonton and area artists who have achieved consistency in style and form.

Submission Requirements: An artist’s statement of the intent of the show, including title for the show The artist’s curriculum vitae A cd or flash drive of electronic images of art work for the proposed show Electronic images in jpg, bmp or png web-capable format Images of 12-14 works, with the size, date, title and medium indicated A stamped, self-addressed envelope must be included for return of material.

For more information visit: www.epl.ca/art-gallery Each successful candidate will exhibit for up to four weeks during FALL 2013 through SPRING 2014.

Deadline for submissions: April 26th, 2013 Please forward all inquiries or applications to: Art Selection Committee Stanley A. Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square Edmonton, AB T5J 2V4 Telephone: 780-496-7000 Email: milnergallery@epl.ca Prairie Wood Design Awards 2013 Call for nominations!

The Annual Prairie Wood Design Awards celebrate excellence in wood construction in the Prairie Region and the Territories.

Nomination forms and details are available online and are due June 15, 2013 wood-works.org/alberta The Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove welcomes all Alberta Artists to submit a proposal as a Feature Artist for 2014 for a solo or group show to be held at the Spruce Grove Art Gallery located in the Melcor Cultural Centre at 35 – 5th Avenue, Spruce Grove.

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2013. Please see their website for full details alliedac@telus.net.

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The Harcourt House Art Market features over 25 Alberta artists whom are awarded a 6’ table to make all their own. We encourage all emerging/ experimental artists to submit and we open to all varieties of mediums including but not limited to the following: painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, mixed media, collage, performance (oh yes), video, photography, etc.

Date: May 25th, 2013 Time: 2 – 6pm Location: Harcourt House Gallery, 10215 – 112 Street Please email all submissions and submission questions to: marketsubmissions@gmail.com (one email per submission) All submissions must be received by the Harcourt House Artist Run Centre by April 20th, 2013 @ midnight.

Only accepted exhibitors will be contacted.

The Mikisew Cree First Nation (MCFN) in the community of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta is holding an Open Call for Design Proposals to select individual artists or artist-led creative teams to conceive, create and install sitespecific works of public art at the Elder Care Centre (currently under construction) located on MacKenzie Avenue, Fort Chipewyan. Two art installations are required and proposals may address either one or both items.

These include: 1. Eagle Canopy (Exterior) 2. Medicine Wheel (Interior) Deadline for Submissions: May 15th, 2013 For more info please email: bills@group2.ca University City Public Sculpture Competition: University City Condo's in Calgary has launched a Sculpture Competition that is open to students to established artists. The budget is $100,000 CAD, the deadline for submission is June 1, 2013, and it is for Albertan artists only. More information about the competition can be obtained from the website. http://www.universitycity.ca/sculpturecompetition

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Musicians Available

Old School Bass Player Available to play classic rock, country, blues & some originals.

Contact Waylen at 780-477-3488

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Musicians Wanted

Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677 Original band looking for bass player and drummer. Have songs written and a gig booked for May 4. Influences include PJ Harvey, Radiohead, and Cocteau Twins. Call Andrea at 780 488 2596 or email at acwhite08@hotmail.com Singer /songwriter looking for mature musicians to collaborate with in songwriting and performing.

Influences- Jazz, pop, country and blues. Please e-mail me at: cdguen@telus.net.

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Auditions Fringe Production Searching for Normal the Musical May, 5, 2013 Actors, Singers, Dancers.

Ages 8 to 65.

To book an audition time www.alisonneuman.ca/blog/searc hing-for-normal-the-musical/

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AUCTIONS MEIER - 2 DAY Classic Car & Truck Auction. Saturday & Sunday, May 4 & 5, 11 a.m. Both days.

6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton. 150 Classics. Consign today, call 780-440-1860.

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION! 6th Annual Calgary Collector Car Auction, May 10 - 11, Grey Eagle Casino. Over 100 pieces of memorabilia selling No Reserve. All makes & models welcome. Consign today 1-888-296-0528 ext. 102; EGautions.com.

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ONLINE AUCTION May 23 - 28, 2013: three commercial lots - 4.87 acres prime property in Battleford Industrial Park. Kramer Auctions Ltd., 306445-5000; www.kramerauctions.com.

UNRESERVED AUCTIONS. Friday, April 26, Ron Zellweger, St. Paul, phone 780-645-9705.

JD 9230, 234 hours, JD 4450, 2011 - 40' Seed Hawk Air Drill; Case 7110 MFWD; tillage & haying equipment; seed cleaning plant. Saturday, April 27 - Andy Kopin, Grassland, phone 780-525-2481.

JD 9450 - 30' Hoe Drills; JD 8440; JD 4020; Cat D4D; JD 230 - 25' Disc plus full line-up. Tuesday, April 30 - Charles Yushchyshyn, Vegreville, phone 780-632-4861. AGCO 8425 tractor, 2457 hours; 2 Case 2388 combines; MF 220 - 25' swather, 1161 hours; Morris 7300 tow behind tank c/w Morris 40' Cult. Full line-up. Thursday, May 2 - Michael Topp, Athabasca, phone 780-689-6720. 1998 Western Star c/w 2010 Knight Manure Spreader; 2007 Kenworth W900B needs engine work; 2008 Castleton tridem clam dump trailers. View full listings online www.prodaniukauctions.com.

ANGEL'S COUNTRY CREATIONS Antique Store Dispersal. Saturday, April 27, 2013 at 9 a.m., DeWinton Community Hall, DeWinton, Alberta.

South of Calgary. 1-877-494-2437. PL324317AB; www.bodnaursauctioneering.com.

75 QUARTERS LAND, Oyen, Alberta - Ritchie Bros Unreserved Auction. 1HQ, 30 Parcels Farmland, 6 Parcels Grazing Lease, $37,300 Surface Lease Revenue. Jerry Hodge 780-706-6652; rbauction.com/realestate.

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LOVE MOTORCYCLES? Love a career as a Motorcycle Mechanic. We have over 200 training aids - street cruisers, touring motorcycles, ATV's; 2 and 4 stroke engines or bring your own! GPRC Fairview Campus. 28 week program. 1st and 2nd period and 320 hours credit towards Motorcycle Mechanic Apprentice. 1-888-999-7882. Ask for Brad or Mike; www.gprc.ab.ca/fairview.

CENTRAL PEACE NATURAL Gas Co-op Ltd. requires full-time Gas Utility Operator. Experience, safety tickets an asset. Clean valid driver's licence required. Forward resume: cpngc@telusplanet. net. Fax 780-864-2044. Mail: Box 119, Spirit River, T0H 3G0.

NEWCART CONTRACTING LTD. is hiring for the upcoming turnaround season. Journeyman/ Apprentice; Pipefitters; Welders; Boilermakers; Riggers. Also: Quality Control; Towers; Skilled Mechanical Labourer; Welder Helpers. Email: resumes@newcartcontracting.com. Fax 1-403-7292396. Email all safety and trade tickets.

THE ALBERTA SEVENTH Step Society Public Legal Education Speaker. The successful candidate would be responsible for giving presentations designed to demonstrate the realities of the criminal lifestyle. These talks take place in junior and secondary school settings with the objective of encouraging young people to consider the consequences of choices they make throughout their life. Speakers seek to dispel myths by way of example, offering their personal experiences and insights with the criminal justice system. The applicant must be an ex-offender to apply. The Public Educator will have demonstrated at least one year of stability in the community and possess a keen interest in being actively involved in a truly unique service. As travel throughout the province is necessary, a reliable vehicle is essential.

Training and orientation is provided. Competition remains open until a suitable candidate is found.

Resume may be faxed, emailed, or posted to: Gayle MacAdam, Community Services Coordinator, Alberta Seventh Step Society, 1820 - 27 Ave., SW, Calgary, AB, T2T 1H1. Fax 403-228-7773.

Email: comworker@albertaseventhstep.com.

FOR SALE STEEL BUILDINGS/METAL BUILDINGS 60% off!

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SCRAP FARM MACHINERY and vehicles.

Yard clean-up of metals. We pay cash for large amounts. Call 780-918-9000.

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METAL ROOFING & SIDING. Best prices! 36" HiTensile TUFF-Rib 29ga. Galvalume $.67 sq. ft.

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JOURNEYMAN OR Apprentice Heavy Duty Mechanic. Work in shop/field. Neilson Mechanical specializes in servicing and repairing highway tractor/trailer units and construction equipment.

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LEVEL 2 WATER and Waste Water Operator required for Elinor Lake Resort. Call 780-623-3993.

PYRAMID CORPORATION is now hiring! Instrument Technicians and Electricians for various sites across Alberta. Send resume to: hr@pyramidcorporation.com or fax 780-955-HIRE.

NOVA SCOTIA'S Eastern Shore waterfront lots for sale. Excellent climate near the Atlantic Ocean.

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WANTED - Water & Vacuum Truck Operators.

Class 3 w/Q-endorsement, H2S, First Aid, PST, CSTS. Mechanically inclined. Day-rate benefits.

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DRIVERS WANTED. Terrific career opportunity with outstanding growth potential to learn how to locate rail defects. No rail experience needed!

Extensive paid travel, meal allowance, 4 weeks vacation & benefits package. Skills needed - Ability to travel 3 months at a time, valid licence with air brake endorsement. Compensation based on prior driving experience. Apply at www.sperryrail. com under careers, keyword Driver. Do not fill in city or state.

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NOW LOCATED in Drayton Valley. BREKKAAS Vacuum & Tank Ltd. Wanted Class 1 & 3 Drivers, Super Heater Operators with all valid tickets.

Top wages, excellent benefits. Please forward resume to: Email: dv@brekkaas.com. Phone 780621-3953. Fax 780-621-3959.

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Rates start as low as $30.

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COMMENT >> LGBTQ

Tips to beat the blues Time for some good news—and weather

Queermonton readers, how are about feeling blue, I want to dediyou feeling? I want to diverge cate this column to things we can from our usual format this week do to bring a little bit of cheer and ask everybody to check in back into our days. on their mental health. It's been a rough few weeks. The 1) Escaping bad news is not news has been full of as easy as turning off the earthquakes, bombings, TV these days, especialshootings and financial ly if you are a social-meom eekly.c @vuew meltdowns. Closer to dia junkie. One evening ashley Ashley h this week, turn all of it home, the effects of the rg Drybu "once in a lifetime budoff—your cellphone, comget" are beginning to be felt. puter, tablet, TV—and go for a And let's not forget about the stroll in your favourite park. Yes, weather—on April 20, Edmonton it's still brown and dull outside, reached the official six-month but bring some ice cream along. mark for continuous snow on the Don't tweet, Instagram or Faceground (although our first snow book. Just walk and eat. of the year was on October 10, it didn't stick). Let that sink in 2) Paint your nails a ridiculously for a moment. We have had snow bright colour. If you're too butch on the ground for more than half for that, paint your toenails. No a year. As of this writing, the one's going to see it under your snow's still here. In fact, there socks and you get a fun surprise are flurries occurring as I write when you wake up in the mornthis. ing.

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29 "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" role 30 Store runners, for short 31 What one undecillion contains 36 Last word in a 1978 #1 song title 37 Hot time in Paris?

38 Accident-___ 39 85003, 85004 and 85007, for example 42 Kitchen items 43 Porker's pad 44 Start for nob or goblin 45 Deflating beach ball sound 46 Leader once known as "The Four Greats" 47 City in the Allegheny Mountains 51 Making attempts at 54 Pants, as it were 55 Grandma, in Granada 57 Bond villain played by Christopher Walken 59 Miss Montana?

60 Native Canadian 61 "Was ___ das?"

62 Ire 63 Comcast, e.g.

64 47-down successor

9 Optimist's worldview 10 Eggs 11 Paycheck line 14 Bashful companion 15 Notorious Exxon tanker 17 They confirm you signed 21 Kovalev of hockey 23 More ___ than not 26 "Fame" actress Cara 27 Stubborn critters 29 Like, totally unfocused 30 1983 song where the title character gets thanked a lot 31 Baseball card brand 32 Hostess selection, once 33 "Ow, a bee!"

34 Poet Anne 35 Center of Florida?

40 Washington dropped from "Grey's Anatomy" 41 Purple perennials 46 Silvery balloon material 47 Pitfall platform 48 Senator Hatch 49 Bump in the night 50 Momís sisters 52 Philosopher Descartes 53 Yukon XL manufacturer 55 "Now I see!"

56 Outlaw 58 ìHouses of the Holyî band, to some fans

4) Be inspired by laughter yoga: find a few friends and start laughing. Fake it, that's fine. You'll probably feel silly and a little weird and after a while you'll find that you're actually laughing.

5) Have really good sex with yourself (optional: a friend or two). I'm not talking about a quick wank in a bathroom stall but an hour or two dedicated to your pleasure. Break out your favourite toys, your hottest fantasies and your sexiest music and spend some time feeling sexy.

6) Watch funny cat videos on YouTube (my favourite: tinyurl. com/epiccatfail).

7) Re-read your favourite book or re-watch your favourite movie, the fluffier the better.

Most importantly: if you are in crisis, if your mental health is negatively impacting your day-today life or if you have thoughts of self-harm, please seek the services of a professional. There are resources out there to help you. You deserve to be mentally healthy. V

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COMMENT >> SEX

No problem here

Dan keeps it light and fun in the wake of heavy US events DEAR READERS: last week was Thanks for sharing, HSP! made of problems. The bombing of the Boston Marathon, the exI just started dating a guy who plosion that levelled a small town seems perfect in almost every way. in Texas, the rising tide of anti-gay (I'm a guy, too.) He's cute, fun, violence in France, the North charming, smart and successE G Koreans being North Koful. There's only one thing A SAV rean. And when I sat down that's bugging me: he has to write this week's cola super-furry ass crack. m o ekly.c vuewe umn—while the manhunt savagelove@ The funny thing is, I can Dan was still under way for the tell he trims the hair on his Savage legs with the longest guard second bomber in Boston—it occurred to me that the last thing on the trimmer. All he'd have to the world needs right now is more do is keep going up onto his ass and problems. So instead of the usual into his crack. Yes, I know some guys sex problems, STI problems, CPOS find a furry crack to be a big turn-on. problems and DTMFA problems, I am not one of them. We've been on this week I'm only running letters four dates, and actually gotten fully from people who don't really have naked only once, so it's not like I feel problems, because we could all use so totally comfortable with him that a break.

I can just come out and say it.

Really Into Men Smooth No problem here. I'm a straight 36-year-old guy. My wife has alYour letter reminds me of a funny ways been great about indulging my conversation I overheard at the kinks—some femdom role play, lots gym: of OTK spankings, rare D/s threeGuy #1: "You should grow a goaways—so when she announced at tee—it would feel great when you age 34 that she had a kink of her rim me." own, I regarded it as my mission to Guy #2: "I have a goatee when I rim make it happen. We just got back you." from a trip to see a safe and trustSounds like you have a beard when worthy friend in Los Angeles who you rim your new boyfriend, RIMS, "paid" me to have sex with my wife. and I would advise you to get used (He put 20 $100 bills on the bar at to bearded rimming for the time bethe hotel, but it was money that I ing. You're only four dates and one had given him.) My wife was so fully naked Big Gay Sex Romp into turned on, but she was also gratethis new relationship, RIMS, which ful. When it was over, she kept sayis too soon to start asking for body ing how much she loved me for being mods. But once you hit, oh, 20 dates the person who made her paid-forand a dozen Big Gay Sex Romps, I sex fantasy come true. People who think you could offer to give him a stand in the way of their partner's hand with those clippers. fantasies don't realize what they're depriving themselves of—so much Whenever this female college stulove and gratitude! dent studies, she gets incredibly Her Sub Pimp horny! At peak times during the semester, when I am constantly read-

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ing or studying, I find it almost impossible to go more than a couple of hours without having to masturbate.

The more aroused I get, the less focused I am, so denying the feeling is not a solution, in my experience. But there are definitely times when my productivity is negatively affected by my need to relieve myself. I have an active sex life! I am not bored sexually or mentally! Is there a physiological explanation for this?

Lady Hits The Books

probably need to be hospitalized if she wore latex clothing. I want to work around this; she's been GGG about anal, which was something I wanted to explore. She did that for me and I want to do this for her. Is there a good alternative to latex?

Thanks In Advance There's no working around an allergy so severe it can land you in the hospital—and with everything else you two have going for you, TIA, forgoing latex is the price of admission

Your son needs you to meddle lovingly, to criticize constructively and to help him pull his big gay head out of his big gay ass when it needs pulling.

Some people are turned on by completely random shit, LHTB, and no one quite knows why. Probably something to do with our big brains—I mean, just think of all those billions of nerve endings, all those synapses making connections, all those formative childhood experiences that get all synapsed up and become adult erotic obsessions.

Think of all that and then count your lucky stars that studying turns you on. If there were a way to bottle and sell your kink, LHTB, no one would ever need to take Adderall again.

I'm a 19-year-old newbie lesbian Dom starting a relationship with a smart, sexy, wildly kinky 22-yearold. We share a lot of fetishes and our relationship, so far, could not be better. One issue: she's very, very into latex clothes. I have a severe allergy, to the point where I would

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your new girlfriend should be willing to pay.

No question here, just a thank you.

Last week, my 16-year-old son told me that he has a crush on his best friend ... who just so happens to be a 16-year-old boy. I've known he was gay since he was about four, but without your column, I don't think I would've been prepared for his "revelation." You and your readers taught me the importance of letting him know that I will always accept him, love him and support him in any decision he makes. The best part: he wasn't really worried about telling me he's gay; he was worried that I wouldn't let his crush spend the night anymore. (And he was right to worry!)

Proud Mom After reading that you intend to

"support [your son] in any decision he makes," I started to compose a mildly scolding response in my head. ("Why would you do that?

Gay kids, like straight kids, need their parents to be their parents.

Your son needs you to meddle lovingly, to criticize constructively and to help him pull his big gay head out of his big gay ass when it needs pulling. And it will, PM, because gay kids make bad decisions, too.") But you made it clear at the end of your letter—he was right to worry about those sleepovers being over—that you aren't confusing "support my gay son" with "sign off on any damn thing my gay son wants." Well done, PM! I am an 18-year-old British queer girl who was recently involved with an older woman while visiting the United States. She told me about your "campsite rule," and she followed it to the letter and was generally wonderful. I've since moved back to London and told everyone I know about your column. As a result, there's a small group of teens running around North London that adore you. I hope we can spread your excellent advice and make as many people as possible into GGG partners.

CC Thanks for the lovely note, CC, and tell the older woman I said thanks— for honouring the campsite rule and for helping to build my readership in the UK by turning you on to my column. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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