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Halt the high speed For some, the push for a high-speed train link between Edmonton and Calgary is a sure sign the cities are ready to move ahead as allies rather than feuding siblings. However, as amicable as they may be, their commuting cultures are only just starting to mature, leaving them ripe for growing pains. For cities yet to fully come into their own, high-speed rail would be like buying a Mercedes before you've done driver's training.

In what has become a yearly dead-end conversation, the Standing Committee on Alberta's Economic Future is set to release a report in the spring that measures the feasibility of connecting Alberta's two largest cities by rail. The line, pinned at anywhere between $3 billion to $20 billion, depending on the technology, would reduce the travel time between the cities to roughly 90 minutes—cutting the current average commute time in half.

The immediate criticism, coming from the likes of both cities' mayors, is that Calgary and Edmonton haven't yet catered to the transportation needs of their own regions.

But even when those systems have expanded, who's to say their acceptance will be brisk and immediate enough that many will

Beyond infrastructure, highspeed rail demands a commuting culture the likes of which neither Edmonton nor Calgary have ever seen. pretend like their car doesn't exist?

Don Iveson's and Naheed Nenshi's infrastructure worries are spot on and show they are dedicated to changing the status quo, but their reservations neglect to mention an even larger, more difficult hurdle. Beyond infrastructure, high-speed rail demands a commuting culture the likes of which neither Edmonton nor Calgary have ever seen—one that will undoubtedly take time to grow into. Right now, we're at a point where most commuters in Alberta view cars as the quickest and easiest form of transportation. Not only is it essential they come to view public transportation as a better substitute within their own city, but also that it's a faster and less stressful option elsewhere, where one's sense of direction is weakened.

This is an easy sell for the fairly small faction who already rely on public transit and are comfortable exploring other systems, but not so much for the massive portion of inter-city commuters—particularly business travellers and families—that remain devoted to their cars. And why wouldn't they, when a one-way ticket is projected to be around $50, comparable to a tank of gas that can be split between a car of five? With those prices, saving 90 minutes seems much less worthwhile.

Canada is the only G8 country without high-speed rail, and Alberta is certainly not prepared to set a precedent. Right now, highspeed rail is at an inherent cultural disadvantage, but, in time, when sticking to public transit becomes a life choice as attractive as buying that first car, Albertans will buy into inter-city high-speed rail. V

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Democracy lessons from Cuba

Cuba Edmonton Solidarity Committee asks Harper to start supporting Cuba

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emocracy exists more in Cuba's govern- out what major problems they are dealing Some people appreciate that and some people don't appreciate that. Just like anywhere ment than in Canada's, according to the with while searching for solutions.

"Yes, in Cuba there is a level of scarcity of in the world, you're going to have lumpenCuba Edmonton Solidarity Committee. The 12-member committee recently sent a letter specific products," Loyola says. "So, for ex- proletariat people who are like, 'I don't want to Stephen Harper asking him to stop sup- ample, if you need a sidewalk fixed in front to study, so they don't go to university.'" porting President Obama's veto of Cuba at of a particular house, or something like that, the Summits of the Americas until the coun- well, it may not happen because the concrete Loyola notes the committee is not implymay need to be used for something else, like ing that one country is better than the other, try has a duly elected government.

The letter states that Canada might not be at a playground. But what's really interesting but is asking what can be learned from the so democratic itself as the country is ruled is those decisions are made in common with Cuban experience and applied in Canada.

"Now no political system is perfect, but the by an unelected queen and that, as prime the people right there in the committee."

Each CDR elects a representative who has main point that we're trying to get across minister, Harper governs the country with a majority government that received less than to win by more than a 50-percent margin, he to Harper is that Cuba is a democracy and half the vote. It also states the House of explains. Before attending a music festival in should be allowed to participate just like every other American State in Commons may be elected, but the Organization of American is sworn to serve the queen Now no political system is perfect, but the main States and they shouldn't be and not the people and that the Senate and governors are point that we're trying to get across to Harper is penalized," he explains. "This gone on long enough. And appointed, whereas Cuba has that Cuba is a democracy and should be allowed has part of this is the blockade a 31-member Council of State to participate. against Cuba that the United elected by the National AsStates has perpetuated for all sembly of People's Power. these years."

And while Canada's populaThe support for Cuba has been growing tion of 34 million are represented by 308 Cuba a few years ago, Loyola says he'd heard members or elected officials, Cuba's popula- all these things and was skeptical of Cuban over the past decade—Loyola says at the politics, but ended up meeting university last United Nations vote, only three countion of 11 million are represented by 614. tries voted to continue the embargo against Committee member Rod Loyola says peo- students who explained the system to him.

"The particular students that I was with Cuba—but as the United States has veto ple are under the impression that Cuba is a military dictatorship but that nothing could were very happy with the system because power at the UN, they can squash any mothey see that it's serving the people of Cuba. tion to lift what Loyola calls a blockade but be further from the truth.

"We acknowledge that Cuba has a commu- Of course, many people go to resorts, for is referred to as an embargo at the UN. He nist government, but the Communist Party example, in Cuba and they speak to people says the difference between an embargo and is not an electoral party," Loyola says. "So who are working at the resorts who may not a blockade is the first means the majority of the way that the democratic system works be as happy with the system. But I find that countries at the UN level agree that a counin Cuba is that you can either belong to the when you leave the resort area and you start try is perpetuating human-rights offences, party or not, but really it's based on a very exchanging with everyday Cubans that aren't but a blockade is when one country makes similar structure as the community-league necessarily working in the resort industry, the decision for everyone else.

"It would be one thing if the US just didn't you get a much different point of view." model here in Edmonton."

He says the outside influence from tour- trade with Cuba, but what happens is that Loyola says just like you might belong to a central neighbourhood committee in Edmon- ists leads those in the resort industry to through the Organization of American ton, Cubans choose to join neighbourhood see money flowing freely and question why States, the United States flexes its muscle CDRs—Committees for the Defence of the Cuba can't be like Canada, Europe or the and says 'Well, if you trade with Cuba, then we won't trade with you or we will find some Revolution—which began after the 1959 Cu- United States.

"But the reality is that what we may see as way to punish you economically through our ban Revolution as a measure to keep watch over everyone and to protect the country economic value through currency, they get trade relations.'" from invasion. Loyola says the CDRs of to- through specific programs like free universal REBECCA MEDEL day are focused on bringing people from the health care and free education," Loyola says. REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM neighbourhood together and trying to figure "So they're just getting it in different ways.

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Shh, don't say strike

Eroded worker's rights remove any power to stage an 'illegal' strike

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he penalties for illegal strikes are harsher and the province's public workers have more limited options for collective bargaining following Alberta's Progressive Conservative government passing Bills 45 and 46 earlier this month.

Under Bill 45, public sector union dues suspension is now automatic upon even just a strike threat, and starts at three months for the first day or partial day of the strike or threat, increasing at the rate of one additional month per additional day or partial day.

The union itself may be required to pay $1 million per day into a liability fund, and if convicted of an offence may be fined $250 000 per day or partial day of the strike or threat—up from $1000. There's also a $500 fine that can be applied to anyone. One such fine-worthy offence is the counselling, by any person, to a public employee that they should illegally strike.

But the description of a strike as being illegal can be misleading, and the public's potential lack of understanding of the nuance of the language can be exploited, according to James Muir, professor in the University of Alberta's Faculty of Law as well as the Department of History and Classics, and President of the Alberta Labour History Institute.

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"The fact that the strike is an illegal strike makes it sound like a crime, like it's the same thing as driving while drunk or beating somebody up," he says. "And it's not. And that really is an advantage to the government or the employer, because they can say, 'they're striking illegally' and it sounds like they're criminals, as opposed to people doing something that they still have the right to do but for which they don't have protection."

If Muir, as a university professor, went on an illegal strike, for instance, he could face suspension without pay or perhaps firing, whereas a legal strike would not see striking employees disciplined.

"It's not so much that I was breaking the law," he says of this hypothetical. "It's just that by striking when it wasn't a legal strike meant that I was not protected by the law. And even the legislation relating to public-sector workers and [the recent] changes don't really change that. Essentially, what [the] legislation lays out is a very specific set of ways in which the employer can discipline employees who strike illegally, and the reason which the Labour Relations Board can fine unions for allowing illegal strikes.

The workers aren't really breaking the law so much as moving outside of legal protection when they strike illegally."

In a press release, Dave Hancock, former Minister of Human Services and currently the Minister of Innovation and Advanced Education and deputy premier, said "The recent illegal AUPE strike by corrections officers meant more than 850 RCMP officers had to be pulled from communities to ensure

our prisons remained secure—costing millions of dollars. This bill ensures stability of vital public-sector services that keep our communities healthy and safe."

But, as the corrections officers had claimed all along, it was the very fact that the new Edmonton Remand Centre was not secure in the first place and the ramifications that had for the health and safety of those working there that prompted the strike.

Erez Raz, a corrections officer and one of Alberta Union of Public Employees' vice presidents, explains that one of the things they were worried about was the risk associated with the untrained personnel that were being added. They had a five-page document listing many more safety concerns, but he remains unable to speak in much more detail about them because of the risk of inmates exploiting loopholes that become public knowledge. Regardless, he says the document was taken through the normal process for reporting concerns, but no action resulted. Occupational health and safety officers went through the facility, but the workers were not satisfied with them having found nothing.

"To be frank, the officers that came through have no experience within that type of facility," Raz says. "They weren't really given a chance to actually do their job, they were pretty much going through without knowledge or experience within the facility or corrections itself. They're occupational health and safety officers who, for the most part, deal with everything else but have never really dealt with this. I don't know who went through with them, but we were not given the op-

portunity to go through with them and explain each and every thing on those five pages.

"They might have walked around with someone else, but not the frontline staff that initiated the complaints and initiated the list of issues they had once they went on the floor and started dealing with the people we housed."

Additionally, Muir says, the management disciplined some guards who put forward complaints. The illegal strike was a response to the management's decision to discipline rather than address problems.

Having exhausted every other option, the only thing they felt they had left to try was a wildcat strike. They did so without waiting for the union, but AUPE ultimately chose to support its members, facing fines for doing so. Since then, some things have improved, but there are still many issues Raz feels have not been adequately addressed.

Wrapped up along with the issue of illegal strikes is Bill 46, the Public Service Salary Restraint Act. Separate to the strike, the AUPE's collective agreement expired March 31 of this year, and negotiations with the government broke down after the union requested a two-year deal with threepercent increases to salaries per year.

"We used a mediator who wasn't able to bring the negotiations to a conclusion," recalls Guy Smith, President of AUPE. "So at that point, AUPE applied for binding arbitration, which is available to us.

"The history of the Public Service Employee Relations Act is that in 1977, when it was written, the Peter Lougheed government denied the right to strike for government workers, and in its place, put in this provision for binding arbitration if a negotiation settlement couldn't be reached."

People were nominated from both sides, an arbitrator was agreed upon, and a date was set— negotiations being able to continue in the meantime. What Bill 46 does is remove the arbitration process as an option, and imposes a fouryear imposed wage settlement of zero, zero, one percent and

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one percent with an $875 lump-sum payment in the second year if negotiations remain stalled as of January 31, 2014.

"That's obviously totally inadequate in terms of what our members are seeking in this collective agreement," Smith says. "Especially based on the fact that the Alberta economy is red hot right now, and the government itself is predicting annual wage growth in the province of about 3.5 percent per year. Obviously, our members will fall far behind, and will also see a decrease in their take-home pay because of inflation and the cost of living increases.

"With Bill 46, it's very obvious that the government wanted to avoid arbitration at all costs."

Under these new laws, public sector unions do not have the same power to bargain with the government, and frontline workers face not only increased risks for striking, but will face the chilling effect of not being able to talk about striking. Worker power has been eroded.

"There are many examples in Alberta—and beyond—where illegal strikes have been very important," Muir says. "They have been necessary to deal with very important on-thespot issues in the workplace and have compelled changes in the workplace that are for the better."

With a substantially increased nearfatal barrier to striking, the workers must rely on management taking their concerns seriously. The ultimate end to this road, Raz fears, is a destroyed public sector.

"People are going to be turned away from working for a government that treats its employees like that and are going to go elsewhere," he says.

"I know that for a fact because I talk to people, and I hear that, day in and day out."

Fewer attractive government jobs will result in worse public services, making privatization an easier sell.

With government services outsourced to the private sector, government, and the services it might normally provide, becomes less accountable, because the blame for problems can be outsourced with the service. That might be the extreme end-point, but that's the direction aggressive crackdowns point us towards.

"People are talking about leaving, and not choosing the profession or career to work with the government," Raz says. "People seem to think that we have this golden job and everything is hunky dory. We've got members within government that are currently working two to three jobs to make ends meet, and single parents drawing from the food bank.

A government job these days is not the choice, if I could start over, that I would make. And a lot of people are saying the same thing."

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Queer turning point

Time to make 2014 even better for the LGBT*Q community For this week's column I was going to write a year-in-review top-10 list of important queer events since it is the last Queermonton of 2013. While I usually enjoy these ritual reflections on the past year, this year it seems more fitting to write a sort of "State of Edmonton's Queer Communities," since we seem to be at a turning point in our history.

It is common for people to assume that Alberta has small, timid and quiet LGBT*Q communities because over the past 42 years Alberta has gained a reputation as the most conservative and homophobic province in Canada. Since 1971, the Progressive Conservative government—which has governed the province with overwhelming legislative majorities—has maintained power, in part by continually appeasing their religious and socially conservative base. Alberta's oneparty government has accordingly implemented laws and policies that have been punitive and regulatory of Alberta's LGBT*Q citizens. In this climate, it is hard to believe that LGBT*Q communities would emerge. Yet the Pride Centre of Edmonton, for example, may be one

of the longest running LGBT*Q organizations in the country. Students at the University of Alberta started a gay and lesbian student group in the '70s. The student group formed a community centre which, through many incarnations, became the current Pride Centre. I think this conservative atmosphere has actually fostered powerful, diverse and at times conflicting, LGB, transgender and queer community, activist and

For particular kinds of LGBT*Q people, Alberta in 2013 is a fairly accepting place: the PCs have finally added sexual orientation to the province's Human Rights Code, sex reassignment surgery has been funded again and some school districts are allowing Gay Straight Alliances. This brand of acceptance certainly makes life more manageable for many in our community.

I think that this conservative atmosphere has actually fostered powerful, diverse and at times conflicting, LGB, transgender and queer community, activist and social groups in the province. social groups in the province.

I have only been seriously involved in Edmonton's LGBT*Q communities. By the time I realized that I was queer, and that there was a queer community in Ottawa, I was packing my bags to move to Edmonton for graduate school. Still, during the past eight years, I have learned a great deal about our communities' histories, challenges and successes.

Yet with this public acceptance comes complacency and a homogenization of voices within our LGBT*Q communities, and there remains much work to be done for many LGBT*Q Albertans. Our community organizations, especially those with relative power and influence, must be continuously conscious of who is speaking for our communities and who is being silenced. Moreover,

there are diverse social and political goals and a discrepant dispersal of resources within our communities. We must realize that although our goals may be different, it is vital that resources are shared among community organizations. We are all fighting for a better life for marginalized Albertans, regardless of the differences between us. With decades of federal and provincial budget cuts to not-for-profits and social services, we have been forced to fight each other for scraps. We are only exacerbating the problem if we hoard resources—including money, space and labour—at the expense of other organizations in our LGBT*Q and broader social-justice communities.

Let's make 2014 the year of even more social protest actions, community building and resource sharing, as we continue to build strong and diverse queer communities in this unlikely place.

This is my last Queermonton column, due to other commitments, and I am most grateful that it has afforded me the opportunity to learn about our queer communities and to share important stories, actions and issues over the past three years. V

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The North Korean purge

Kim Jong-un forcing senior party members to confess to coups while surrounding himself with younger advisers would be to replace them wholesale Purges in Communist states have rarely of the regime and grandfather of the seemed quite overbearing.

At the same time, he was the prin- with younger men who owe their stopped with the execution of one se- current dictator. Challengers to the Kim nior party member, especially when he family's monopoly of power have often cipal advocate within the regime for positions directly to him. Or maybe has been tortured into "confessing" at been killed, but this is the first public an economic opening on the Chinese something else is at the root of all model to rescue North Korea from its this turmoil: we simply don't know. his show trial that he was planning to show trial in North Korea since 1958.

What we do know is that there is It's also the first time that the re- crushing poverty. To achieve that goal, stage a coup using "high-ranking miligime has publicly admitted there are he first had to wrest control of the great turmoil in North Korea, a nucleartary officers" and other close allies.

"I didn't fix the definite time for the rival factions in the senior ranks of country's leading industries from the armed country with the fifth-biggest coup," Chang Song-thaek, the former the Workers' (Communist) Party. It's military, whose enterprises account for army in the world. Most people asNo 2 in the hierarchy of the world's last hard to believe that this will not be a third of the entire economy. This nat- sume that at some point in the future the regime will totalitarian state, said at his trial. "But followed by a wider collapse, and among it was my intention to concentrate [my bloodbath Challengers to the Kim family's monopoly of some well-inallies in] my department and in all the the leading cadres power have often been killed, but this is the first formed people economic organs in the cabinet and be- along the lines of worry the colcome premier when the economy goes Stalin's purges in the public show trial in North Korea since 1958. lapse could totally bankrupt and the state is on the former Soviet Union (Province come quite and Mao Zedong's in Wide) verge of collapse."

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Neither North Korea's Chinese neighbours nor South Korea's American allies want it to happen, because the collapse of the Pyongyang regime could bring them into direct conflict. As a recent study by the Rand Corporation pointed out, it would cause a race between Chinese troops and South Korean and American troops to take control of North Korea's territory.

The Chinese would be determined to keep American troops away from their own border with North Korea. The South Koreans and their American allies would feel compelled to go to the aid of a North Korean population that was probably facing starvation by then. And both sides would be racing to gain control of North Korea's nuclear weapons before something terrible happened.

In such circumstances, a collision between Chinese and South Korean/ American forces is all too easy to imagine. Kim Jong-un is a very nasty piece of work, but a lot of people are praying for his survival. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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he ramping-up of festive overindulgence has already commenced for some of us, certainly for those of us that are me. In the midst of the obligatory consumption of ambient foods at the office, the booze-fuelled appetizer face-stuffing at the homes of friends and one big hangover breakfast, I did a surprising amount of dining out last week, mostly in newish venues, that I may share tidings of the eating season with you.

A friend in the know led me into Woodwork (10132 - 100 St, woodworkyeg.com), bricks and mortar home of the talents behind the Nomad mobile feast and the Volstead Act, for a soft-launch luncheon.

The bright, spacious dining room instantly makes you wish

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more historic downtown storefronts were converted into modern eating/drinking establishments. I had a beautiful wedge of pork pie in buttery crust with a fancy notquite-pico de gallo, not-really-relish made from Gull Valley tomatoes, and a just-as-beautiful kale salad with charred cauliflower and farm cheese that made the plate feel like a meal. All the lunch platters were $15 that day, and the house treated us to insane pecan shortcake and smoked dark chocolate truffles for dessert. I look forward to more of Woodwork's small plates, expertly smoked meats and fancy tipples in 2014 and beyond.

In a 180-degree turn, my next lunch was at Hawkeye's Too (10048 - 102 St), a downtown fixture since I can't remember when. At first I was resistant to the idea, but I'm glad I went, as my presiding impression of the place was as that dive bar near the Starlite Room where you can sing karaoke and get sozzled on cheap draft. I wouldn't say that ambiance has been effaced completely, but the restaurant side seems to have been spiffed up some and was doing brisk lunch trade. I was completely satisfied with my standard issue clubhouse sandwich and fries ($7.95, I think), but my co-diners all had pizzas and were pleased with the quality. They also serve a serious wor wonton soup, teeming with dumplings and veggies and meat and shrimp and noodles—the guy at my table who had it vouched for its medicinal properties. Ask for hot sauce, he added.

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I had been looking forward to trying a Bannock Burger (10704 - 124 St, bannockburger.com) since I noticed the sign go up a few months ago. While the perennially up-andcoming 124 Street has perhaps more than its share of notable places to eat, it's still a bit short on convenient places to eat when you just want to grab a quick bite. A burger joint would go well—it's just that Bannock Burger still seems to be finding its feet. The novelty of applying the eponymous frybread to burgers, tacos and hot dogs may get people through the door, but some imagination and attention to detail is required to bring them back, especially if a standard burger-side-beverage combo is going to run them in the $15 range. Hopefully innovation will come with time.

As it was, the rather plain bison bannock burger with cheese ($9)

and iceberg lettuce salad with bannock ($4) didn't induce any unique new cravings. And they didn't have any pepper.

Finally, a weekend of festive debauchery necessitated a restorative meal of salad rolls, some beef with vegetables and curried tiger prawns at Hà Phuo n g's Vietnamese Restaurant (9656 - 107 Ave), straight north of the Lucky 97 parking lot. Although painted completely pink inside, including the ceiling tiles, it's no more nor less fancy than your average noodle house and on par price-wise with other Vietnamese joints I'm prone to frequent. I'll have to subject it to a Sunday brunch visit for pho before I can give it my unqualified endorsement, but the salad rolls were fat, tasty and cheap ($4.95), the beef—tender and still just the slightest bit rare—and crisp veggies (broccoli, cauliflower, snow peas, carrots, peppers and onions) were yummy but salty, and the plump

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prawns were smothered in a creamy, spicy curry sauce that begged to be mopped up with rice after all the prawns and pepper and onion spears were gone. Not a bad way to spend $30, and certainly appealing enough to trigger a return visit. Apparently they do vegan dishes as well, though by the time you read this, you'll have missed your chance to try their vegan Christmas feast slated for December 17. Find them on Facebook to get wise to upcoming events of that ilk.

While we're on the subject of yuletide indulgence, I hope we can all take time to remember the Edmontonians who face challenges meeting their nutritional needs and try to devote some portion of our seasonal giving to charities like the Edmonton Christmas Bureau and the Edmonton Food Bank. I'm sure the birthday boy at the centre of our festive frenzy would want it that way.

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Set aside the holiday wine and Champagne

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I don't know why, but it seems grapebased beverages get all the love during the holiday season. It is always wine served with the Christmas meal while Champagne is the order of the night on New Year's Eve. I am not dissing that choice—both are fitting for special events. I just wonder sometimes, as I stand with my flute of Champagne waiting for the midnight countdown, what it would take for beer to become a staple at this time of year.

If I were to recommend a drink for the hockey playoffs, a Canada Day party or the Grey Cup, no one would blink. So why is it so hard to fathom a glass of beer to accompany the Christmas turkey or the New Year's celebratory kiss?

Part of my mission as a beer educator is to change people's perceptions of beer. To that end, I believe beer can serve as an equally appropriate accompaniment to the holiday. Let me offer a few ideas to get you thinking in that direction.

Let's start with what to serve during a holiday-season party. There are always plenty of open houses, celebrations and family gatherings during this time of year, and it is customary to bring a bottle of wine for the host. Spiked eggnog and mulled wine are traditional servings, however, there are some interesting beer alternatives for your holiday party.

Nothing can replace the creaminess of eggnog, but you could go with a rich, sweet beer that can offer the same kind of warming. A nice possibility is Charlevoix's La Vache Folle Imperial Milk Stout. Rich and creamy, it offers both substantive body, a bit of warming and a chocolaty tone. Plus, at nine percent, it is a bigger punch than you'd expect.

In addition to the fact it is served warm, the appeal of mulled wine is its festive spices. Nutmeg, cinnamon,

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cloves and such offer a distinct combination of flavours that speaks of winter—good thing brewers have figured that out. There is no shortage of winter ale for interested beer fans, which offer the same qualities as your favourite mulled wine. One balanced example is Anchor Xmas Ale. The recipe is different every year. This year it has a moderately sweet malt base and a subtle spiciness suggesting clove, cinnamon, ginger and pine that can match up with any mulled wine.

And instead of wine why not present the host with a bottle of Ommegang Three Philosophers, a complex Belgian Ale, some Duchess Du Bourgogne, which remarkably resembles a tart red wine, or Flying Monkey's City and Colour, an Imperial Maple Wheat Ale which is a collaboration with the pop icon of the same name. In all cases, the complex, rich flavours and higher alcohol content make them ideal for sharing and equally appropriate for cellaring.

Then there is Christmas dinner. This is not a time for a big hop bite or complex esters. There is simply too much other flavour on the plate. You want something earthy, delicately sweet and moderately dark. Any amber or brown ale would go well, as will the aforementioned Anchor Xmas Ale. But if you want to be a bit bolder, I would suggest trying Tripel Karmeliet, a recent entry into the Alberta beer market. This spicy Belgian Ale is often an accompaniment for dessert, but I contemplate it might nicely balance the earthy flavours of the turkey, root vegetables and gravy.

Alternatively, you might want to take a stab at mead, which is honey wine. Birds and Bees Winery has a sweet mead called Honey I Have Meads that might contrast the dry, earthiness of the meal.

Finally, there is New Year's Eve. Champagne is ubiquitous, but, if you are honest, do you really like it? Why not offer something with the same effervescence, sharp taste and looks good in a flute? Two options work well here.

The classic is Deus Brut des Flandres, a Belgian-made sparkling beer that is subject to the same production method as traditional Champagne. It is bright, sparkly and very refreshing.

Another option might be to try a lambic beer, something like De Ranke Cuvee Brut, which is infused with sour cherries.

Tart, refreshing with a note of fruitiness, lambics are an intriguing, very non-beerlike addition to any festive event.

Your holiday celebrations deserve something special. This is a festive, special time of year. Good thing beer has enough versatility to meet your seasonal expectations. I have tried to suggest beer that have a unique, extra-special character to them to make sure that your holiday parties/dinner are their best yet. Happy Holidays! 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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When Jews Were Funny

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t is, of course, the use of the past tense in the title of Toronto filmmaker Alan Zweig's latest documentary that gives one pause. What, did Jews stop being funny? To echo the mantra of one of the world's most famous funny Jews, "What's up with that?" Jerry Seinfeld, sadly, doesn't

turn up in When Jews Were Funny, nor, alas, does Woody Allen, but a hell of a lot of other excellent Jewish comics do. While there's a handful of archival TV performance clips— featuring the likes of Jackie Mason, Rodney Dangerfield and Henry Goodman—the film is comprised almost

entirely of talking heads. Some of those heads belong to Shecky Greene, Shelley Berman, Gilbert Gottfried, Ed Crasnick, Judy Gold, Howie Mandel, Andy Kindler, Super Dave Osborne and Marc Maron, whose addictive WTF podcast regularly features interviews with other

comics, many of them of the Jewish film's cultural debate. When Jews persuasion, discussing the history of Were Funny is a little unfocused, only stand-up comedy. Which makes Ma- half-interested in providing a compreron an ideal subject for When Jews hensive history, and lacking in strucWere Funny, and something of a foil ture. Still, it's nothing if not consisfor Zweig, whose tently engaging.

Especially when voice can often Fri, Dec 20 – Thu, Dec 26 the hyper-ornery be heard from Directed by Alan Zweig Super Dave looks behind the cam-  era—so often that like he's about to leap out of his it almost feels perverse that we never actually see him seat and strangle Zweig. until the closing credits.

Few of Zweig's subjects seem to Zweig's films, which include Vinyl, agree with his suspicion that Jewish Lovable, and I, Curmudgeon, tend to comedy is an endangered species, its be driven by very personal questions. main cause of death being integra- Besides his nostalgia for the ostention—if being a persecuted outsider sibly evaporating immigrant culture is essential to the anxiety and frus- that so influenced his childhood notration that drives Jewish comedy, tion of Jewishness, Zweig concedes how could the tradition endure in that he may also be seeking to aban age of mainstream acceptance? solve himself of his guilt regarding Mandel, for one, thinks this theory is his marriage to a goy and decision to hogwash. He suggests that Jews are raise their daughter without much in as funny as they ever were; only the the way of Jewish identity. (For the accents have changed. The real es- record, Zweig's daughter is all of sence of Jewish comedy is incessant two, so there's still plenty of time to kvetching, and Jews, says Mandel, make her aware of her heritage). But have a singular talent for complaint Zweig's passionate questions, not to that transcends circumstance. To wit: mention the very existence of this Crasnick tells a hilarious story about film, would seem to negate concerns an encounter with William Shatner in over the complete loss of the tradiwhich the Star Trek star compared tion When Jews Were Funny seeks afternoon traffic to the Holocaust. to memorialize. As Maron puts it to Kindler feels Jews are funny wheth- Zweig, "If you don't believe in God, er they want to be or not. Which is you don't believe in God. But you not exactly an argument any gentile clearly believe in Jews."

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tion is Lincoln, Nebraska, which even a cursory glance at a map will tell you is a hell of a ways. His name is Woody (Bruce Dern), and he appears touched by dementia, its creeping inwardness a blessing, perhaps, for a man who never said much and habitually took refuge

in alcohol. Dementia is the token explanation for Woody’s insistence on travelling to Nebraska to collect what he claims is an enormous windfall, but for the rest of us is obviously a Publisher’s Clearing House-type scam. Only later in Nebraska does Woody’s son, David (Will Forte), suggest that dad “just needs something to live for.”

David needs something, too—to escape the deadening routine of selling stereos and the recent failure of his relationship. So David decides to drive Woody to Lincoln, though they wind up spending most of their time in the fictional town of Hawthorne, where Woody grew up. Many who remain there still remember Woody from the old days. The farmhouse in which Woody spent his childhood still stands—if barely. Nebraska is David’s journey. It’s about a son wondering who his father is, or was, about how time seems to render our parents fundamentally unknowable. It’s too late for David to get close to Woody in any meaningful sense, but it isn’t too late for him to learn something about Woody that might help him map a

Substantial roles were rare, as was route through his own life.

Alexander Payne’s sixth film is his recognition, though Dern did get an most fully realized since abandoning Oscar nomination for his Vietnam vet satire (Election) for regionally infused in Coming Home. So much of his work character studies (About Schmidt). Phe- is memorable for being singularly hysdon Papamichael’s ashen, monochro- terical (that’s a compliment). After a camatic cinematography mirrors both reer of going off the rails it’s that much the vintage and fogginess of Woody; it more fascinating and strangely moving also reflects new gradations of nuance to see Dern reach this autumnal triin Payne’s characters and offers nod umph, a role that demands he remain to certain traditions in American land- remote, ornery but quiet, slowly disscape photography. (Nebraska’s stark solving into the film’s aluminium siding, highways and turnpikes also echo the wood panelling and flat vistas. Forte image on the cover of Bruce Springs- compliments Dern with patience and amiability—his Dateen’s album of the same name.) Nevid is an easy guy braska’s themes are Now playing who needs some straightforward and Directed by Alexander Payne way to shatter its ambitions mod-  his own passivity. est, but the degree What David discovto which Payne, ers by confronting working from a script by Bob Nelson, the mystery of his father possesses realizes these ambitions make the film a value that one usually needs half a richly rewarding both aesthetically and life to come to terms with. Thankfully, Nebraska’s made with such heart and emotionally.

Which is where I should finally ad- craft we needn’t wait that long to sense dress the enigmatic heart of the film. something special has transpired.

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he old man walks as though his torso belongs to someone else.

Body and mind seem tenuously coordinated at best. Sheer willpower—another term for stubbornness—goads him as he traverses the road leading out of Billings, Montana. His destina-

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nfamously litigious with with a special focus on her regards to intellectual relationship with her father property rights, the Walt (Colin Farrell), a tippler, Disney Company knows a slacker, charmer and dreamthing or two about legacy er whom she adored despite control, so maybe it's not so his not being too fit for fasurprising therhood.

There's a that Dis- Opens Friday ney would Directed by John Lee Hancock one-top r o d u c e  one relathis histortionship ical narrative about the com- between the scenes in 1961 pany's long, arduous cam- and those set in the past—a paign to wrestle the movie blatant, wearying mirroring rights to Mary Poppins from only exacerbated by Thomas its hugely disagreeable au- Newman's awful score—that thor, P L Travers. Old Walt ultimately makes one quescourted the Australian-born tion why so much detailed British writer for two de- backstory is needed in the cades before financial woes first place. Is it merely a way finally prompted her to of softening our feelings tocave in—on the condition ward Travers? Is it all meant that she come to Burbank to explain to us why she's to oversee the project's de- so awful to pretty much velopment, retain the rights everyone she encounters? to vet each and every de- Because if so, Marcel and tail of the production, and Smith needn't have worried bring the whole thing to so much—Saving Mr Banks' a screeching halt if neces- real secret weapon is its star, sary. Thus Saving Mr Banks Emma Thompson, who does is essentially a putting-on- nothing to ingratiate Travers a-show movie, albeit one in to us yet manages to make which the sole obstacle to her consistently watchable, the show's fruition is the in part because she's so rigorously anti-social and unshow's author herself.

There's quite an engaging compromising. Thompson's Hollywood insider story here, severity makes us want more than enough to frame to know more. The movie a movie around, though would probably be unbearscreenwriters Kelly Marcel able with a lesser actor in and Sue Smith felt com- the role. pelled to beef up their script with flashbacks to Travers' The actor inhabiting the childhood in Queensland, role of Travers' gentleman

adversary is a little more problematic. As Walt Disney, Tom Hanks' attempt at a sort of impersonation-based performance seems a little out of his league, while his natural amiability feels far more essential to the demands of the role. The scenes between Travers and Disney are the most affecting in the film. Theirs is a clash of sensibilities, cultures, even comportment: her uppity Englishness versus his folksy Americanness; her aversion to animation versus his belief in the power of fantasy to deliver us from the pain of living; her tight, neurotic curls versus his smooth, slicked-back hair. That these two ever came to an agreement feels like some kind of a miracle, and watching this miracle slowly come into being over the course of Saving Mr Banks imbues the movie with some genuine value, even if, like me, you have no attachment whatsoever to Mary Poppins or Disney movies generally. Given the lifelong wound being nursed by Travers and the inexhaustible faith in movie magic exhibited by Disney, this is finally a story about how storytelling and song can function harmoniously as a way of, if not repairing, at least making peace with the traumas of the past.

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Shadow Dancer is the latest fictionfeature from director James Marsh, who since 2005 has been alternating between documentaries of curious feats and academic obsessions (The Team, Man on Wire, Project Nim) and neo-noir/Gothic thriller-dramas (The King, Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1980). His Red Riding installment was the second in a trilogy (from David Peace’s books) about serial killings in Yorkshire, and Shadow Dancer (with Tom Bradby screen-adapting his own novel) continues Marsh’s brooding minimalism—this time just a tad further north, then west over the water and a decade on.

It’s 1993 and a Belfast nearing the end of the Troubles. Twenty years before, a young Collette McVeigh sent off her little brother in her place to get Da some “fags;" minutes later,

she could only stand, staring, as his body was brought in from the street and laid on the table. Now, Collette (Andrea Riseborough), mother of a young boy, seems a reluctant, wearied “soldier” for the IRA. She’s pursued and turned by a MI5 agent, Mac (Clive Owen), who promises her no jail time and safety if she keeps feeding him information.

Marsh’s Northern Gothic UK is a place of lowering skies, grotty tiles, stucco walls and a grey brick wall whose sole opening looks out onto a grassy scrubland—some of the few jags of bright colour are the blue or red of Collette’s trench coat or, in one scene, the green, white and orange of an IRA flag draped over a coffin. Here are bare walls and bare lives and folks bearing up, barely. And if there’s a sneering

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nastiness to the Republican side, there’s a paper-pusher callousness to the British side, where side-deals get done in back offices. Claustrophobia walls up around Collette as death seems to be closing in—Mac says, “Nobody dies, nobody gets hurt,” but how can he ensure that when, over on the other side she knows all too well, somebody always dies or gets hurt?

The film’s explosive immediacy, sending out shards of its shadowy plot within minutes, adds to the tension. That first sequence, for instance, is expertly done—the sense of dread, of something awful imminent, even as young Collette plays with some beads on the lacecovered table, not noticing the rush of feet outside the window. Marsh is always attuning us to a sense of darkness or tension lurking, barely, beneath the non-descript. And the film plays slyly with noir—it’s easy to forget Collette’s the betraying femme fatale when she seems so grief-stricken and worried about others’ suspicion of her. Romance, though, proves a ruse; a kiss given is soon, it’s clear, a kiss of either desperation or pragmatism or both.

If, in its middle third, it lags a little, the film adroitly twists and turns away from easy expectations in its final minutes; this thriller’s got one sharp, savage ending. Shadow Dancer reels and jigs eerily between an England-run Belfast where people behind desks make life-and-death decisions and an Irish-lived Belfast of homes and pubs and flats, where a plastic sheet’s unrolled in anticipation of a body being dropped. Marsh takes a black-eyed stare out from the gravestone-gray, waning days of the Troubles, when a few hardened men and women knew nothing else but to continue a futile war to the death, a war that had sadly defined so much of their lives. V

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hough bookended by dopey, Feet), features a perfectly serviceable superfluous scenes of familial story about first love, sibling rivalry amateur archaeological digs in Alas- and survival, with a value system ka, Walking With Dinosaurs mostly that prizes brains over brawn and courage over unfolds in the Late Opens Friday arrogance.

On Cretaceous peDirected by Neil Nightingale, a purely visual riod, chronicling Barry Cook level, this simple the annual migra story is brought tions of a herd of to life in frepachyrhinosauri as seen through the wide-set eyes of a quently impressive images: a nocturpachyrhinosaurus runt named—get nal forest fire; two weary dinosaurs this—Patchi. These migrations occur collapsing on some desolate beach; in what would one day become our the Northern Lights ribboning in the neck of the woods—there's even a Alaskan sky; the herd humping their cameo appearance by the edmonto- way along a wide river valley. Unforsaurus, which was apparently incred- tunately, a simple story and stunning ibly stupid. Each species of dinosaur imagery were not enough for certain that plays a role in the film is an- idiotic and interfering backers. Here's nounced in superimpositions that ap- co-director Barry Cook: "I think originally, we were looking pear the moment of their entrance.

In one sense, Walking With Dino- at a film that could stand alone as a saurs seems to want to function as virtual silent movie. You can turn the a sort of primer on life on Earth 70 soundtrack off and still get involved million years ago, but given the many with the story and feel the emotions liberties taken with science and his- of the characters. In its final version, tory, the blatant anthropomorphism, the movie has a narration and goes inand the all-too-brief and sudden side the heads of the animals, so you flashes of expository info, let's just can hear what they're thinking." Alas. say you'd do far better to visit the Actually, it's not just that you hear Royal Tyrrell Museum.

Dubious educational value aside, what they're thinking; apparently the film, scripted by John Col- the characters in Walking With Dilee (Master and Commander, Happy nosaurs communicate through some

kind of interspecies telepathy, ie: their lips don't move but, somehow, they natter on to each other. And man, do they natter. Far more irritating than the anachronistic gag-filled telepathic nattering, however, is the incessant quasi-poetic, compulsively nudgy narration from John Leguizamo. And not only is this narration irritating, it also dulls the impact of the film's tenser, ostensibly suspenseful moments. Just image our hero having to face-off with a deadly predator while Leguizamo keeps chiming in with past-tense colour commentary, dividing your attention while also reassuring you that everything is going to turn out just fine.

Walking With Dinosaurs could have been a spectacular adventure film, but the after-the-fact insertion of lame dialogue and voice-over narration ruins this. It's the worst kind of cynicism, assuming that kids are too stupid to watch anything without goofy voices cramming the soundtrack. Parents: consider waiting for the DVD and showing it to your youngins with volume all the way down. Or at the very least do yourself a favour and bring earplugs to the theatre.

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

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hree hundred and thirty minutes, two of three parts and still counting into the adaptation of a mere 310-page book, The Hobbit has sunk under the middle-weight of its sheer desolation. The opener's little moments of weight and wonder are invisible here. Bilbo's tale has become baggy, boggy, sag-

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gy and smaugy (all those gloomy greys and smothering shadows).

Scenes aren't just predictable but chiselled out in triplicate—with stony dialogue, soaring muzak and restless, blatant visuals sweeping us through that uncanny valley between New Zealand-tourist-porn and video-game sequences. Fan-

tasy drops into delusion—can the movie-makers really be taking this slogging quest-opera's simplistic speechifying and CGI-set silliness seriously?

That Wizard of this newfound Middle-Earth Mundanity, Peter Jackson, is the first face we see, in a carrot-crunching cameo dur-

ing the prologue. Then it's back to rior-princess couldn't hit the target Bilbo (Martin Freeman) and co— with: "It is memory, precious and now Tom Thumb and the Twelve pure, like your promise." Orc me Dwarfs in this simple-minded now, I beg you. But no one's stronfairy-tale, slaying all subtlety. Ex- ger than the mighty mites; there's hibit #761: Somone says, "It's the no risk or suspense, as our miniprophecy of Dorin's cloak," just as heroes can't ever be killed—not someone else is by mega-spiders looking at Dorin's Now playing webbing them up, cloak—on which Directed by Peter Jackson not in a barrelwe can read the  ride downstream prophecy for as they're beourselves—and sieged by arrowmuttering to himself, "Prophecy ..." shooting, sword-swinging Orcs, not Exhibit #689: Gandalf can't nearly by a gigantic winged flame-thrower fall off a ledge without the camera in an enclosed space ... but at least suddenly gliding out to show the there's Freeman. His comic physiimmensity of the mountain he's on. cal acting makes his encounter And on the movie pans and aerials with Smaug initially interesting. and swells, from crisis to crisis ev- And that, along with one farcical ery few minutes. It's a case of AD- barrel-roll in the Orc river-battle, Depicitis, inflamed by the bloated suggests Jackson's utterly missed story—so in this adaptation, Bilbo the mark on this series' tone. Rathmeets the dragon and Smaug talks er than darkness-is-coming stormon and on and on and on, like a cloud-building for five-plus hours, super-scaly Bond villain, apparent- The Hobbit could've been—call it ly trying to Slog us to death with a Tolkien nod to its source-material—a short tale of struggle and pointless exposition. woe bundled up tightly with cheerThis soporofic staginess hits its ful pluck, comedy of camaraderie, creakiest point among the Elves, and even some droll slapstick. At with Bechdel-test-flunking Tauriel least then all of us, not just the (Evangeline Lilly) mooning over studio on its way to the coffers, tallish dwarf Kíli. Lilly's saddled would be laughing. with faux-fantasy-epic guff-and- BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM puff even a non-Vulcan-eared-war-

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Below the Mantle O

n the night of September 25, 1940, Walter Benjamin took an overdose of morphine pills in his hotel room in Portbou, Spain. He had just received news that the Franco government would not allow he and his party of Jewish refugees passage to Portugal and ultimately to the safe haven of the United States. Fearing that he would soon be turned over into Nazi hands, he took his own life. Benjamin's death was a tragedy of historic proportions. He was a philosopher and aesthetic theorist whose ideas continue to be prophetic to this day. His life was lost in vain; the others in Benjamin's group were allowed to continue on to safety the next day.

These final hours of Benjamin's life are powerfully expressed in a collaborative artwork by printmaker Jill Ho-You and poet Richard Cole. This series forms a major, and perhaps most commanding, component of Ho-You's show of prints Below the Mantle. It takes up an entire wall of the exhibition and consists of eight images evocatively composed of etching, digitally printed drawings and spit bite. Ho-You's prints alternate with text and form a limited edition book, Paper Bodies.

What makes this artwork so compelling is that it transforms encyclopedic facts into a

furtive glimpse of one man's final moment.

Ho-You's depictions of body parts, such as delicately detailed ears or what appears to be a throat cavity, transport the viewer into very private spaces—so intimate that only a lover could see such detail. Cole's poetry enhances this uncanny closeness.

Small font floats on the white space of a page, bringing the viewer closer than is conventional in a gallery.

One image in this book is particularly memorable: Dec 5 – Jan 17 soles of feet hover over a Jill Ho-You topographic mountainous Harcourt House landscape. This print surely refers to Benjamin's escape to Spain the day before this death. On foot, with only a hand-drawn map, Benjamin and his small group of fugitives trudged through a treacherous pass in the Pyrenees.

They hid under overhanging rocks to avoid Nazi detection and navigated a path that dissolved into wilderness. Benjamin was in poor heath and barely able to push on, yet he carried a suitcase containing his final unpublished manuscript. Ho-You depicts his exhausted bare feet with tender detail.

This depiction is so personal that it doesn't

merely recount the story of his flight: it allows the viewer to relive it.

At the end there is no spiritual catharsis in Ho-You's and Cole's work. There is nothing to uplift the viewer from this dreadful moment of despair. That is a fitting tribute to a man who was not religious in a conventional sense. Benjamin grew up in an assimilated Ashkenazi family and only later grew to value Judaism's profound contribution to western culture—a concept of religion he idiosyncratically named "cultural Zionism." His last moments were unlikely to have been soothed by faith and this artwork offers no such comfort. Instead, it presents a profoundly intimate but cool, almost medical look into a man whose mind was sharp and uncompromising. Benjamin would not yield to hope where he saw none. In an essay he wrote long before his death, Benjamin prophetically quotes Kafka as saying there is "plenty of hope, an infinite amount of hope—but not for us."

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on't let the shimmering boob be had. But our snarky glamazon has tassels fool you: this drag queen no time for idle small talk—she has is not as open as her get-up may sug- to escape by midnight so she can get to the coveted Christmas Queen Paggest.

Natasha, a seven-foot-tall drag eant in time.

The stubborn elevator doors are queen, is decked out like a Christmas tree: a crown the least of the of glittery red Until Sun, Dec 22 (8 pm; 2 pm obstacles the two have to overcome. ornaments hover Sunday matinee) Te d — s u r p r i s above her head Roxy Theatre, $20 ingly curious and and a flowing skirt non-judgmental of tinsel grazes her two-inch platform heels. "I'm a private of Natasha —is still reeling from person," she barks at an unsuspecting his breakup and struggles to leave acquaintance after the two find them- his apartment, let alone his comfort zone. In contrast, Natasha is hardened selves stuck in an elevator together.

With Bells On transforms the awk- in her self-consciousness of being a ward situation into a charming and drag queen: desiring attention, but hilarious one-act comedy. Darrin Ha- fearing being looked at as a freak. In gen's play—for the third year run- the familiar style of the opposites-atning—traps Natasha and Ted, a mild, tract trope, the two learn from each recent divorcee, in a space that's a other to work on their problems, little too close for comfort, though but it doesn't come without a bit of it leaves plenty of space for jokes to tug-and-pull from Natasha and some

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hearty laughs along the way.

Paul Welch dazzles in his portrayal of Natasha, snarling one-liners to the naive Ted that sent the audience into sidesplitting laughter. His breezy performance is enough to win over all demographics and the stingiest of drag virgins. But we cannot forget, as Natasha asserts, that Christmas is the gayest season of all, in all senses of the word: "Come, they told me?" she cackles. "Fall on your knees?" she winks, while crooning other delightfully suggestive Christmas carols.

With top-notch jokes and a feelgood festive allure, With Bells On is a deserving addition to your holiday entertainment lineup— especially if you want to celebrate the gayest holiday around, minus all the clichéd tradition.

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t's very much written for kids fitness, while the Free2BMe Physiand written for family," says cal Activity for Kids and Teens with Ron Long, one of three directors in Disabilities program at the centre is charge of Edmonton's CoOPERAtive an adapted physical activity program Opera's holiday production, Amahl for children and teens age four to 19 and the Night Visitors, which is back with motor delays, physical, sensory and developmental impairments. for its third year.

The one-act performance by Gian Carlo Menotti offers an accessible The production's first Amahl, Jefexperience for multiple generations frey Swanson—now replaced by as it tells the story of the three 11-year-old Justin Wong due to Swanson's voice wise men. The becoming too matrio are apparentFri, Dec 20 and Sat, Dec 21 (7 ture for a soprano ly on their way to pm; 3 pm Saturday matinee) role—has a disBethlehem when Holy Trinity Anglican Church, ability of his own, they stop for $5 – $15 and Long explains the night at the Swanson's father home of a mother had suggested and her young, crippled son. Long doesn't want to give away too many partnering with the Steadward Cendetails, but there may be a miracle tre, as his son was benefitting from its programs. in store, too.

"In the future, part of my vision is "We wanted to make a little tradition out of it and we're trying to also that we, if we do another opera, allow it to help us start building up whatever the main issue is in that and do other operas throughout the opera, that we would invite a cause year," he says of CoOPERAtive Op- that is linked to that and showcase era, which he founded alongside Eliz- it and help raise money for it," Long abeth Raycroft and Clint Hagel as an adds. "I think it's a part of being in avenue to provide more performance the community. You know, we live opportunities for local opera singers. in this community and it's a way for The opera is presented in partner- us to give back, and I think through ship with the Steadward Centre's story, the arts really, through theatre Free2BMe Program, an aspect that and opera and all that stuff, there's falls under CoOPERAtive's second a lot of problems in society that are initiative: to raise awareness of local reflected in arts and so I think it's a charities. The Free2BMe program al- wonderful way to highlight those lows children, teens and adults facing things and give back to it." disabilities a chance to improve their MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM overall health, lifestyle and physical

t was probably 10 years in or so that the thought crossed my mind: 'Am I going to get bored of this at some point?' And you know what? I don't," says John Armstrong, creator and producer of The Christmas Carol Project, which has dates scheduled in Edmonton and Red Deer this season.

The production, now in its 18th year, presents a retelling of the Charles Dickens classic with musical performances by local talent such as Bill Bourne, Al Brant, Kevin Cook, Maria Dunn, Bill Hobson, Dale Ladouceur, Terry Morrison and Tom Roschkov, with Dave Clarke handling narration to tie it all together. Eighteen years equals 90 shows and counting—Armstrong would like to reach 100 to coincide with The Christmas Carol Project's

but the tradition and infectious spirit of the production keeps him coming back. When asked if his perspective on the source material has changed over time, he explains it wasn't until the Occupy movement that he realized Bob Cratchit is an original icon of sorts for the 99 percent.

Fri, Dec 20 and Sat, Dec 21 (8 pm) "The sentiWestbury Theatre $36.75 ments of the (advance), $42 (door) story have always resonated strongly with me and with the 20th anniversary in 2015.

Very little rehearsal is needed at this whole cast. We're conscious of social point, and Armstrong notes the artists movements and realized the story is are each strong in their own right and very strong in its message about sharkeep one another on their toes on stage. ing, and I think that's one of the real "They come from sort of a roots reasons it's had such longevity and we background, so there's an element of all support it and come back to it every jamming and improvisation in every per- year," Armstrong says. "I think over the formance," he says, adding this can be a years that has become more important challenge for new sound techs, but he's to me, in my mind, as to the message there to guide them through. "We've of what the story is. But it's really nice got three hot-shot guitar players in the seeing all the people coming back and band and they tend to throw it back and coming out of the theatre with big forth and you never know unless you're smiles on their faces, because they enreally keeping an eye on them what's joy the show so much and it's nice to going to happen, so it's a live, vital kind be able to make a few hundred people of performance." happy for a couple of hours every year in the middle of winter."

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JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona

Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • EWG PLUGGED IN: Special Projects from Our Members by The Edmonton Weavers Guild (Founded in 1953) • Until Dec 19

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Educationrich entertainment facility for all ages KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • Red Deer Arts Council Visual Arts Members Juried Exhibition • Until Dec 29

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • HOLIDAY EXHIBITION: Gallery artists and secondary market works; until Dec 24 • IT'S WARM INSIDE!!: A selling exhibition of gallery artists and secondary market works; Jan 3-Feb 18 LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Main Space: BEFORE PHOTOGRAPHY: Chuck Samuels mixes

OF VENUS: Fashion & The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the influence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive influence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014

Productions presents a Newfoundland Christmas tradition by Barbara Robinson; featuring Jeff Black, Kayla Gorman, Natalie Czar Gummer, Cheryl Jameson, Corben Kushneryk, Graham Mothersill and Lindsey Walker; music directed by Kayla Gorman • Dec 19-22, 7:30pm; Dec 21, 2pm • $22 (adult)/$20 (senior/student/child under 15) at door, 780.433.3399, TIX on the Square

CATS • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • Based on the universally popular poetry of T.S. Eliot's Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats. Featuring a cast of 50, a pit orchestra, and beautiful costumes • Dec 19-30 (dinner and brunch are available on select dates) • $37 (adult)/$24 (child) at Festival Place box office CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A

Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014

A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Maclab Citadel Theatre • citadeltheatre.com • Adapted by Tom Wood Directed

by Bob Baker Based on the story by Charles Dickens • Until Dec 23 CHRISTMAS CAROL PROJECT • Westbury Theatre

Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • Arts at the Barns Presentation Series: new musical version of Dickens' classic tale features an extremely talented cast of Edmonton musicians including Bill Bourne, Kevin Cook, Maria Dunn, Tom Roschkov, Terry Morrison, Al Brant, Dale Ladouceur, Bill Hobson, and Dave Clarke • Dec 20-21; 8pm (opening set), 9pm (Carol) • $31.50 (Early bird to Nov 30)/$36.75 (adv)/$42 (door) at Fringe Theatre Adventures, 780.409.1910

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave •

varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm Until May 26, 2014

ELVIS AND THE LAS VEGAS HANGOVER • Jubila-

tions Dinner Theatre • The annual Elvis festival in sunny Las Vegas featuring hit songs by Elvis Presley, and more • Until Feb 14

THE HISTORY OF ROCK ‘N ROLL STARS & STRIPES • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • A musical evening all-American music review of the origins of rock ‘n roll from its infancy highlighting Chuck Berry, Elvis, the DooWop groups of the '50s, the Beach Boys, and R&B groups of the '60s • Until Feb 2

SNOW GLOBE FESTIVAL OF CHILDREN'S THEATRE • C103 (Catalyst Theatre), 8529-103 St • promiseproductionstheatre.com • A five day festival of theatre for families and young audiences • Until Dec 21 • Tickets at TIX on the Square • How To Eat Like A Child: Based on the book by Delia Ephron, John Forster, Judith Kahan • Boogie Monster Club: by Ben Gorodetsky • Brother Platypus and Sister Sukat Go to the Sea: Presented by Azimuth Theatre, by Spirot with Khiara Quigley

THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre,

9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

THE VELVETEEN RABBIT • Fort edmonton Park • fortedmontonpark.ca • This modern take on the classic children’s tale • Until Dec 24 • $28 (adult)/$12 (child)/$20 (student/senior)

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • WET PAINT: VASA Members Show hold over through January

• Special Holiday Show where young and old can enjoy a Variety, Improv and Puppet show all rolled into one, jam-packed with music, comedy, art, puppets, and special guests • Sat, Dec 21, 11am • $6 (door), advance at tixonthesquare.com

780.421.1731 • Gallery A: #ICONICCANUCK: Artworks by Brandy Saturley • GAllERY B: INSTITUTE OF MORPHOID RESEARCH: Works by Jennifer Akkermans • Until Jan 25

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave •

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • ANNUAL CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION: WINTER COLLECTION: A group exhibition from gallery artists • Until Dec 31 • Open: Dec 23, 10-5pm, Dec 24, 10-1pm; Closed: Dec 25-26; Open: Dec 27-28 10-5pm; Closed: Dec 31-Jan 7

LITERARY BOHEMIA • 10217-97 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Edmonton Story Slam • 3rd Wed ea month • Wed, Jan 15, 7:30pm (7pm sign-up) • $5 (donatation) CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@

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V.I.P. KID’S SHOW • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave

WALTERDALE'S NEW YEAR’S EVE MASQUERADE PARTY • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • Celebrate

New Year’s Eve at a a fancy, funky fundraiser dress-up party. There will be food, beverages, dancing, masque making, and photos • Dec 31, 8pm (dor) • Tickets: $45 at TIX on the Square

WITH BELLS ON • Theatre Network, 10708-124 St • “He”, a mild-mannered accountant heads out for his first night of adventure after a nasty divorce, but gets trapped in an elevator with “She”, a 7-foot Glamazon who has created the Ultimate Christmas Queen Pageant Outfit.

Come see these two mismatches try to escape in Theatre Network’s newest holiday tradition • Until Dec 22

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ADVENTURE // BC

HEAD WEST TO

A look at what to expect for the season ahead

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xciting developments are in store for Columbia Valley skiers and snowboarders this winter. Whether you are a die-hard downhiller, crazy about cross country, blissed out in the backcountry or a hardcore heliskier, the 2013-2014 season is shaping up to be a great one.

PANORAMA MOUNTAIN VILLAGE What's new Changes have been made all throughout the resort. From the top of the hill, backcountry riders will now have access to Tayton Bowl and Outback Ridge from the first sharp turn on Get Me Down.

To make way for the new Greywolf Golf Course clubhouse, Nordic skiing trails have been re-established at the Panoramic Nordic Centre, which is known as the Adventure Centre during the summer months.

New businesses have been added to the village, Sapphire Bead and Flameworks and the Fireside Bistro, and the mountain village has extended its season by four weeks, by opening two weeks earlier on Friday, December 6, and staying open two weeks later in the spring.

Getting ready for the extended season was made easier by Panorama's new state-of-the-art snowmaking guns, which is the most advanced snow-making equipment in western Canada.

The runs Stringer and Ski Tip Way have had their average grade reduced and the exits widened.

Major work has also taken place along Rollercoaster, as well as the top of Skyline and Fritz, preparing the runs for a new downhill race course which will be a part of the International Paralympic Committee World Cup which Panorama is hosting January 8 to 16.

The run Pod's has also been regraded and to make its connecting trail to Downhill more enjoyable, and Loose Moose has been widened, changes made to elevation and new routes added.

And for learners, the snow school has moved from a cabin into the Ski Tip Lodge.

You can expect All-inclusive experience with a single lift ticket this year, which now entitles holders to limitless access to activities at the resort, from the alpine slopes to the tubing and tobogganing park, lift tickets also allow for night skiing and use of Panorama's Nordic trails.

"After some time on the slopes, riders can switch into their Nordic gear and then hit those trails," says Panorama marketing co-ordinator Jamie Hurschler.

His favourite run is the C-Spine for

excitement, and he most enjoys View of 1000 Peaks when it comes to cruising.

The stats There are 120 runs that comprise the hill, covering 11.5 square kilometres, which climb a vertical distance of 1220 metres. The resort offers eight lift systems to help riders navigate the hill; at least three of which are required to reach the top. The average winter temperature in Panorama is –5 C. DAN WALTON

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FAIRMONT HOT SPRINGS What's new This year the resort boasts a two-lane tubing area, kids' terrain park and expanded Rockstar terrain park. The new additions at the ski area add to the family experience—the kids terrain park is the perfect learning zone, the Rockstar terrain park offers progressive features for those looking to expand their skills and the tubing area is great for everyone, including the non-skiers.

The ski hill has a fantastic new chef at the resort and also offers some great food in the ski chalet.

You can expect Lots of new smiling faces at the ski area enjoying the new additions. The ski area provides a great start to new skiers, and several pro skiers, including Invermere's Ben Thomsen, who started skiing at Fairmont.

The ski area also welcomes nonskiers who are keen to come out and try tubing. It's going to be a fun and exciting winter.

The stats Fourteen groomed runs, ranging from green to black in skill level.

Three lift systems to accommodate all skill levels, two terrain parks, a learning area and a tube park.

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CROSS-COUNTRY SKIING: GLIDE YOUR WAY THROUGH WINTER WONDERLAND What's new Cross-country skiers in the Columbia Valley can anticipate several exciting new developments this winter. Regulars at Nipika Mountain Resort will be ecstatic to learn all 50 kilometres of the dog-friendly Cross River Canyon trail system have been widened and improved, and a new Bombardier 275 Snowcat grooming machine purchased in partnership with the Toby Creek Nordic Club will ensure world-class grooming of the upgraded trails. Panorama Mountain Village has also teamed up with the Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club

to offer club members a 20 percent discount on Nordic season passes for the first time, while younger members enrolled in the learn-to-ski programs for kids will receive complimentary trail passes during scheduled visits, as will their coaches. Panorama is also offering free cross-country skiing to its regular season pass holders, so if you haven't already tried out Panorama's 20-plus kilometres of groomed dog-friendly Nordic trails, not to mention the toasty warm Hale Hut with its wood-burning stove, this is the year to try it out.

You can expect The Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club will bring back the Lake Windermere Whiteway as soon as enough snow falls to lay the 17-kilometre skate and classic tracks around the frozen lake.

If you plan on cross-country skiing on the Whiteway, be sure to purchase a Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club membership, as the maintenance of the Whiteway is only possible thanks to the club's membership fees. Another way to support the club and the Whiteway is to pay day-use fees using the honour system collection boxes at the two official Whiteway entry points—one at Kinsmen Beach and the other at Windermere Beach.

If poor weather prevents regular use of the Whiteway (as it did over the 2012 – 2013 winter season), Lake Lillian will be used as the backup location. The club is also investigating the potential of developing a small network along the Johnson trail near Lake Lillian.

Nipika continues to operate one of Canada's best cross-country ski schools with lessons available daily. The Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club also offers kids' learn-to-ski programs — Bunny Rabbits for ages four to five, Jack Rabbits for ages six to nine, and Track Attack for 10 years and older. Register for these programs by visiting the club's website at tobycreeknordic.ca. The club is also continuing its ski-school program in the valley's elementary schools, which involves club coaches bringing kids' Nordic equipment to local schoolyards, where groomed tracks are laid and every Grade 3 student in the valley participates in a five-lesson series to learn how to cross-country ski. Adult members can once again look forward

to recreational skiing every Wednesday night, usually followed by a group rendezvous at a local bar or restaurant.

Check the club's website or Facebook page (Toby Creek Nordic Ski Club) the night before for the location (an email will also go out to members) and show up at 6 pm with a headlight.

The stats In addition to the Whiteway access and discounted Nordic season passes at Panorama, club membership also gives you a 20 percent discount on season passes and discounted day passes at Nipika Mountain Resort, free Classic and Skate clinics at Nipika, a 10 percent discount at Crazy Soles, a discount on the registration fee for the club's loppet event at Nipika, registration with Cross Country BC, an annual subscription to Cross Country British Columbia's Ski XC magazine, and a free yearend barbecue. To join the club, go to tobycreeknordic.ca. Trail fees for daily skiing at Nipika are $10 for adults, $5 for youth, while children under six ski for free. Season passes are also available at the Day Lodge, as are ski and snowshoe rentals, waxing, lunchroom and washroom facilities. For Panorama Nordic Centre pricing, visit panoramaresort.com/cross-country-skiing.

RK HELISKI You can expect With 44 years of heli-skiing operations under RK Heliski's belt, skiers can continue to expect the company to deliver the high standards it has offered in the past "We're excited about this season's bookings already being up over last season's," says operations manager Rod Gibbons.

The stats RK Heliski has tenure for 1500 square kilometers of terrain that includes 120 organized landing spots (which means 120 distinct runs). The company accesses all this with three helicopters—a Bell 204 (which accomodates up to seven skiers), a Bell 212 (holds up to 11 skiers) and a B2 Astar.

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You can expect "Skiers can expect the same great experience we offer across all CMH's lodges," says CMH marketing director Jeremy Roche, adding there is already a fair amount of snow on the ground.

The stats CMH has tenure for 1000 square kilometers with 235 different runs (landing sites), all accessed using three helicopters. The CMH Bugaboo Lodge (near Brisco) has been in operation since 1965 and has been renovated and expanded several times since. It now offers modern comforts, such as a workout centre and business facilities, in a remote locations. "I have to say it has absolutely the best view from its hot tub, which is actually on the roof of the lodge," Roche says.

BACKCOUNTRY You can expect An endless number of backcountry ski possibilities are accessible from the Upper Columbia Valley, with literally thousands of square kilometres of snow sitting out there.

The Upper Forster Creek Draianage northwest of Radium Hot Springs is a popular place for backcountry powder hounds, and thanks to an agreement worked out last year between skiers and motorized users, there's little argument around access to the Catamount and North Star Glaciers. A drive east into Kootenay National Park also provides highway-accessible skiing at Vermilion Peak and the Stanley Glacier.

Backcountry skiing can involve significant exposure to avalanche risk, however, and those who venture out should only go with proper experience, equipment, training in how to use the equipment as well as knowledge of specific local snow and terrain conditions.

The stats The Columbia Valley Hut Society maintains five huts throughout the valley, all of which make great bases for backcountry ski trips. To learn more, go to cvhsinfo.org.

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CANADIAN MOUNTAIN HOLIDAYS (CMH):

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Originally published in the Columbia Valley Pioneer on December 6, 2013.

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Slopes in the city

Snow Valley brings skiing within urban limits us very accessible and very noticeable," says Jordan McDougall, Manager of Snow Valley's Winter Sports Training Centre. "That has

buildings—and because we've got those features, it makes it quite easy to take beginners and work through the whole process."

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he fact I don't own a car has seldom been more apparent than when looking for a place to go skiing. There are few options for beginners—distant resorts in the Rockies are technically demanding and expensive, and while the smaller local hills are great for learning, most are

huddled away at the far borders of the city. Snow Valley Ski Club, however, is a welcome retreat for somebody looking for a casual and non-committal entry into skiing.

"Snow Valley has the advantage of having a location that makes

allowed us to have outstanding facilities. We're a not-for-profit organization, so we keep reinvestment in improving our infrastructure— the snow-making, the lifts, the

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Upon arriving at the rentals counter, I see a glimpse of exactly what McDougall is talking about—hundreds of skis, snowboards and boots, each with a glean that suggests everything is brand new. I was siphoned through a quick and encouraging rentals process in which I travelled from counter to counter collecting the various equipment alongside helpful tips and tricks before walking out of the lodge feeling prepared, confident and comfortable. On the whole, the friendly assembly line took less than 10 minutes.

Snow Valley offers eight runs and two terrains parks, with just under half of the runs catering to beginners. With my confidence lifted, I immediately took to the steepest beginner hill, rode the magic carpet and very quickly lost control and bailed on the way down, the triedand-trusted pizza stop maneuver having failed me. Somewhat deflated, I headed towards the bunny hill where I was seemingly doomed to spend the rest of the afternoon.

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ing safety when you feel inclined to graduate to slightly steeper slopes.

Before long, I had cruised down the hill that had initially defeated me and was riding one of two chairlifts to the top of the hill.

Snow Valley's quad chairlift, designed with beginners in mind, soars up to the top before turning around and unloading skiiers facing downhill, eliminating any disembarking and giving you the option of heading immediately // Snow Valley Ski Club down the hill. It's an efficient way to keep traffic moving, giving you a constant wind in your sails that makes it virtually impossible not to want to keep the cycle moving.

"It's a nice, wide-open space, not too much trouble," says Tim Dea, Snow Valley's Marketing and Communications Manager. "It's easy for somebody to find somewhere to stop and not get into trouble."

Dea points out that is beneficial not only to beginners, but also those more experienced, who still find use in Snow Valley's streamlined operations.

"What a lot of people do is they'll try out new equipment," he says.

"They'll bring it down and give it a try before heading out to the big hills."

As an adult picking up skiing for the first time, Snow Valley initially feels like a mixed blessing. The sounds of speeding cars coming from the nearby Whitemud Drive are a noisy reminder that you're a far cry from those serene Rocky Mountain resort hills, but that same passing traffic represents the casual, fun and non-committal experience that Snow Valley's urban location offers—an experience for which I will definitely return.

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Snowboard Cross World Cup at Lake Louise Ski events are fun to watch, but if you want to watch something really exciting on the slopes, you

should head to Lake Louise on December 20 and 21 to watch the 2013 Lake Louise Snowboard Cross World Cup. World champions and Olympic medalists will

be there, so you know the battles will be intense as they attempt to reach the podium or finish strong to qualify for another Olympics.

Boarder cross is exciting to watch

as four riders simultaneously battle each other around banked turns, across tabletops and over rollers and jumps at speeds reaching 70 km per hour. The first and second place finishers move on to the next heat and this battle of eliminations continues to the finals, where medals are awarded based on the final heat finish. Frequently, judges have to make decisions to eliminate riders who cross the boundary of fair play.

Our Canadian snowboard cross teams continue to be very strong, especially the ladies. Competing in this event will be the reigning World Cup champion, Dominique Maltais from Quebec and 2010 Olympic gold medalist Maëlle Ricker from British Columbia. On the men’s side, Kevin Hill from Vernon, BC has already medalled this year, and the rest of the team members have all put in strong performances.

Snowboard cross has only been a competitive event at the past two Olympics, but it’s found a permanent home. The new generation of boarders have embraced the competitive edge, skill and determination, elevating them above and beyond what was once a stereotypical

boarder culture.

Snow conditions are starting to pick up Some resorts, including Marmot Basin, have had a slow start this winter, but Mother Nature is finally starting to cooperate.

Steady snowfalls this week— and more predicted in the near future—are starting to build a decent snow pack. The holiday season is critical to resorts, and having a snow pack that can handle the onslaught of guests is essential to maintain a pack through the two-week period where visitor numbers are at their peak.

Fernie lost power last Sunday and all lifts came to a grinding halt for almost the entire day. BC Hydro worked feverishly to get the power back up, but the day was done for most. I remember years ago when this happened at Marmot Basin after a tree took out the main power line. Thankfully the weather was warm so we just turned a misfortune into a big hillside party.

Nowadays I would just climb up to the terrain park and cheer on the boarders who can survive the loss of a lift for a while.

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Frozen in Dirt

A Jom Comyn record puts the reason in the season

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t's received by Edmontonians with almost universal dread, every year, without fail. Winter comes; winter stays far too long; winter goes, in fits and starts, with sudden, astonishing, blizzardy reversals. The season of weird, most-of-the-clock darkness is a defining feature of Prairie life, an annual disruption that sometimes drags us back in time, to when Nature dominated us instead of the other way around, and seems to be a constant source of frustration for its inhabitants. Human inhabitants, anyway. Beneath the snowpack, rodents do their rodenty thing in a micro-environment around a stable zero degrees, and everything green waits for spring, dreaming of the sun in their seeds, pods, and burrows. Come winter, the land is no longer yours. The land has its own needs and its own desires.

You, my friend, are incidental.

On his latest release, In the Dark on 99, Jom Comyn—aka songmaker Jim Cuming—captures the season and its indifference to us in exquisite detail.

Not necessarily in a physical sense, although there are plenty of references to weather, but in emotional and experiential ways—winter's interiority, its deep silence, its pervasive melancholy and isolated feel. 99 is no concept album, and not all the songs are winterized, but enough are present and explicit ("O Frozen Sidewalk," "Drift" and "Shivering Cold," for starters) that some thematic outlines are clearly visible.

According to Cuming, 99 had a humbler genesis than the epic record it eventually became suggests.

"I had made Sunstroke, a summer EP, so I thought I'd write a winter EP as a companion of sorts," Cuming recalls. "But no. It didn't really work. So I wrote more songs; winter was only one aspect. But I was interested in how the landscape changes in winter:

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how we can be in the same place, but it changes. How you could walk on the ground all through spring, summer and fall, but in winter, you can't walk on the ground. All these places you see in the warmer part of the year, carelessly zipping by on a bike, you see them again when you trudge by, step by step, in the snow, and those places are different then. You feel each block, when it's so cold, and it's snowing and the wind is blowing, and whatever."

The season lends itself to metaphor, especially for the darker areas of human experience, and Cuming made use of the traditional evocations.

"There's that kind of hippy thing of relating the passing of seasons, something that's so impersonal, rhythms that are just imposed on us, to metaphors for cycles of life," Cuming offers. "There are changes; things come to an end. In 2012, when I was writing most of [the record], I knew people who died. I went to, like, four funerals that year. And death went from being on the periphery of my mind to being more central, and I thought to myself: 'I'm going to be going to funerals for people I know for the rest of my life, unless I go first.' So on the album, that's there. It's not explicit, but there's a nod to it. It's such a cliché, but it's also primordial and elemental."

Cuming speaks in a low rumble, like a cartoon bear, and could easily sound gruff if he were not mild, affable and thoughtful. He answers questions in circuitous chunks, during which he strikes out in one direction before he circles and backtracks, qualifies and self-corrects and reconsiders before arriving at his final point. It's like he's machete-ing through a thick overgrowth of ideas and words, hacking away at the foliage until a sudden breathtaking vista

is revealed. You can almost hear his writing process when he talks, and perhaps also his more general stance of being in the world, a kind of attentive, omnivorous curiosity coupled with an introspective temperament.

(The album contains multiple references to wanting to be alone.)

That particular combination of traits serves him well as an artist, as his EPs and albums prove, although it also lays the ground for tortuous selfdoubt. Cuming bats away the suggestion that he's a prolific creator, despite the fact that he is well under 30 and has at least 6 recordings to his credit.

"It seems pretty patchy to me," he contends. "I envy songwriters who can really churn stuff out, like Eamon McGrath and Sean Savage and Renny Wilson and guys like that. Those guys are always writing and they seem to have found a pretty uncomplicated and unobstructed way, like an assembly line, but without the negative connotations of an assembly line, from the impulse. They embrace the fact that they have this songwriting impulse, and they've all kind of taken it more seriously, and I still don't feel I've done that. From the time I've started working on [99] up until now, it's been weird. I haven't really been writing a lot lately, and I've been going in circles about how I feel about what I'm doing, so I sort of feel I haven't come into my stride yet."

If that's the case, he's going to be truly formidable when he does. But then again, he judges himself harshly not so much because of what he's done, but what remains to be done: all the little nuggets of ideas lying around in his brain, all the little lines and seeds of songs waiting to be nurtured into full-blown creations.

Music has been a primary outlet for Cuming since he was a teenager, and

was a defining part of his childhood in rural Alberta.

"We always listened to music, for sure," Cuming notes. "My dad's a lifelong musician. He was a professional; he'd play in bars. I think he did some original stuff, but the emphasis in that generation—like, he was playing it for a living—so there was a jukebox, and you'd come in and learn all the hits of the day. He'd play in blues bands and in country bands, but mostly rock bands. There was definitely a prejudice in the house away from newness and towards the mid '50s to '70s rock music, that sort of canon, and that's definitely where my kind of inclinations lie, still."

You can hear the canon in Cuming's work: elements of doo-wop, spacey and deconstructed, the deep melodicism of pop, but smudged and blurred, and warm AM rock, but spaciously stretched out and rendered with more intimacy.

"It was a very opinionated household on music," Cuming continues.

"He was like everybody's dad, but then the extra push of it was that it was his professional concern as well.

When me and my sister were listening to TLC when we were eight, he'd come along and go. 'What is this?

They're not even playing instruments!'. It was hard for him to grasp.

And then I got into punk, and I realized that this was happening at the exact same time that my dad was playing, that my dad was my age. And just learning that, what a different divide their reality was in London in the '70s than what my parents, and all of our parents, had—living in Alberta in the oil boom, where you go to work and you have lots of money and you go and have steak and you drive your van or car around. It's a different lifestyle. But it was a very mainstream kind of musical palette. We'd listen

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to stuff on the radio, and we'd listen to older stuff from tapes, taped from the record player. But me and my sister would branch out. At first, it was Power 92, so all the top hits, like, hit, hit, hit. Alannis Morrisette. That was the first concert I ever went to."

His father bought him a guitar and other instruments followed, leading Cuming's listening into wilder territory.

"I was not a rebellious kid, at all. I was always into the classic rock of my dad's sanctioning and whatever the pop hits of the day were, and then I picked up guitar, and that's around when I got into Metallica," Cuming remembers. "I don't know how I got into Metallica, but I really got into Metallica, all this tech stuff, like, I taught myself all this really hard stuff that was really fun to play. How I got to punk was very watered down, like I would see it off the TV, MuchMusic and VH1, which is obviously really not the best way to learn about punk. But I got a copy of the best of the Clash, out of curiosity, maybe because I'd heard some of their songs in movies. I got a lot of music from movies, like Guy Ritchie, like Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels. This whole culture of specifically British punk. I was never aware of American punk or hardcore, it was the Clash and Sex Pistols, and maybe from there I ventured off into the Specials, and from there the Pogues, which laid the seed for years later, but mainly the Clash. And of course, you follow the Clash and you're soon out of punk and into world music and reggae and Joe Strummer's solo stuff, and he did all kinds of stuff."

Cuming's limited punk knowledge was a source of mirth when he played in the hardcore scene. "I was in a band a few years ago and we did a Halloween cover show of Minor Threat. I don't know where it

Black Mastiff Fri, Dec 20 (9 pm) With City of Champions, the Fucking Massive Wunderbar, $10 Answered by: Allan Harding Hometown: Edmonton Genre: Rock Lastest album: Pyramids (2012) Fun fact: Between its three members, the band has a combined 35 years worth of experience in music.

First album The first album I ever bought with my own money was MC Hammer’s Please Hammer Don’t

was, probably in a jam, but I said the name of a title wrong, and the cat was out of the bag—they realized I'd never heard Minor Threat up until that point," he laughs. "But I don't go for new bands. I'll find things that I like and I'll just listen to them over and over and over and over and over. I wish I could be a little more encyclopedic and I do try, a little bit, but if I like something I'll listen to it day and night. When I got into Celtic music, I started with The Best of the Dubliners, then instead of branching out, I would just listen to that, over and over and over and over again."

He describes his first, teenaged songwriting and recordings as being "a lot of pop-punk, like Blink-182 stuff," that eventually morphed into "either Weezer ripoffs or Strokes ripoffs, or when I was being really original, I would combine the two." Cuming still has them, but they were recorded on fourtrack, and he doesn't have the gear to bring them to life.

"Part of me wants to listen to them again. It's like having an old photograph. I'm curious about what ideas I had then and how good I was getting them there," he says. "I had a long

Favourite album This question is impossible. Over the last few months one album that keeps me coming back is Good Kid, M.A.A.D. City by Kendrick Lamar.

Hurt Them on compact disc.

First concert The first real concert I saw was Smashing Pumpkins, Mellon Collie tour in 1995 at Sask Place in Saskatoon.

Last album Quasimoto, Yessir Whatever

Favourite musical guilty pleasure I don’t feel guilty about any of the music I like, but people often tease me about my love for early ‘90s Bryan Adams. V

Last concert Pinback at Starlite back in August.

gestation period where, effectively, no one heard me. The first five or so years I had of writing music was a period where if I had an idea and I could write it out, I could record it and arrange it for drums and bass and guitar and play all of those, and no one would hear it. My mom and dad would, because I was in the basement, and I would show the odd friend, but I had to be confident about it, and I wasn't confident about most of it. Because it was only me who ever heard it, I could make my own decisions about it."

Cuming's still uneasy about the desires and conflicts inherent in creating art. "I think every single songwriter—well, it's very common—has this thing. You have to turn off your critical faculties to write. It's a playful balance. You have to have the impulse and you have to make sense of it, and you have to know it's a worthwhile impulse to follow through on to allow the sort of unconscious dreamwork or whatever it is to happen, that will make it a song instead of just a little idea. Afterwards, you can look at it critically, but there has to be a

germ inside of it you believe is worth working on. It's easier when you're young, because your critical faculties are much more developed when you get older. I can make a horrible racket on a guitar when I'm 14, and I don't think it's a horrible racket—I think it's great. And if I thought it was a horrible racket I would not make it. I tried learning accordion and it's hard, because you suck for a while, and it's hard when you're an adult to surrender yourself to that inability. And I think with songwriting, that feeling never quite goes away. The further I go and the more I know people are listening, it's harder. That way of songwriting I got used to when I was younger, when I had to fool myself into thinking that no one could hear me, not even my mom, because otherwise I probably couldn't do it. And now it's weird, when I get an idea for a song, I know in the back of my head that I have the ability to put it on a record if I choose to."

Cuming tapers off and considers a moment.

"And maybe I want to," he concedes.

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Two Bears North 'M

y weaknesses seem to be Melissa's strengths and vice versa," says Sophie Heppell of her musical partnership with bandmate Melissa Walker. "I'm very melodyoriented and she's very rythmically oriented, so it's pretty complementary how we work together."

The duo have worked and toured

together in bands such as pop-jazz six-piece the Consonance and reggae group Third Branch, and have spent the past six years concocting the sonic formula that became its latest endeavour, Two Bears North—rounded out by Nich Davies on drums.

"We both had to learn new things for this band to work because in

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other projects I've played fiddle and saxophone and that's not really a lead instrument," adds Heppell, noting she and Walker have consistently worked well together on the business side of music, so a new project together seemed like a natural progression. "I had to learn guitar, and then I wanted Melissa to sing harmonies, so she basically had to learn to sing."

The result for Two Bears North— a play on the word bipolar in the sense of two personalities melding into one unit—is a pop-rock sound filled with catchy beats accented by thoughtful lyrics. Heppell and Walker's work, which reveals an influence from Metric and early Tegan and Sara, has resulted in the duo's ninesong debut Comeocean.

"It's a cross between a yearning for the ocean—Melissa and I are both from the west coast—so it's sort of a blend of wanting the ocean mixed with the commotion that goes on in sort of a neurotic, obsessive head space," Heppell explains, noting the introspective track "Hold On" as an example of this often conflicting internal dialogue. "I think it's a pretty common theme for your head to be thinking one thing and your heart to be feeling another ... a way to keep yourself sane is to express yourself in the lyrics and figure out what on earth is going on in your head."

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inter tends to be the season camp for this year's Peak Performance when many bands pack it in Project (Willhorse took home $5000 and take some much-needed time for its fifth-place finish) and have off or focus on studio work—but not since collaborated on an anthemic Willhorse. The bearded southern- rock-stomper titled "Let It Roll."

"They send you away to—it's acturock-driven foursome from Golden, BC have teamed up with singer-song- ally a beautiful resort—and you're writer Rolla Olak for the Winter Wolf there for seven days. You can't leave," Menzies says of Pack Tour, making the boot camp, its way across BC Sun, Dec 22 Winter Wolf Pack Tour which required and Alberta. participants to be The tour is a With Rolla Olak up at 7 am—an packed one, too— Mercer Tavern unheard of time 16 gigs in 19 days to be exact, and in the musician world—to work on material and learn Edmonton's the last stop.

"That's kind of how we like to go about the industry. "Rolla bunked out if we're going to tour," says Will- with us in our cabin and we worked horse bassist Todd Menzies while on on the song together, which was two a ferry to Nanaimo for the tour kick- nights writing and two nights recordoff show. "We did 41 shows in 62 days ing to get it done. We worked with this summer across Canada. We love Garth Richardson, who we're big fans the road and we love to play, so why of—he did the Rage Against the Machine album and the Red Hot Chili not, right?"

Willhorse met Olak during boot Peppers album."

Willhorse has released a self-titled album and a four-song disc titled The Farm Sessions so far, taking its time with its sophomore release, currently in pre-production. Although, The Farm Sessions is an interesting story unto itself, as it was recorded at The Farm Studios, the famed space in Vancouver formerly known as Little Mountain Studios where Bon Jovi worked on Slippery When Wet, Mötley Crüe laid down Dr Feel Good and Aerosmith completed Pumped, to name a few from its storied roster.

"I think we're living in a day and age of studios like this not existing anymore, just with ProTools and Macs existing and people are just setting up their own little home studios— which is great, the quality of sound is still there but the energy is not," Menzies says, adding the recording process was filmed by Green Couch Sessions to give fans insight into the making of the disc and a peek inside the studio, which houses the infamous "Steven Tyler bathroom" the singer requested be built in the '70s.

"There's something about going into a big room and working with these people. It's just, I don't know, the couches in the lounge room kind of thing that so many conversations are had on and morning coffees and latenight whiskies have been drank on when they're not doing their parts, whereas in a lot of these homemade studios just whoever's working will come in and do their vocals; nobody else will be there. But in a studio like this you want to be there. Even myself, my bass parts will usually be done in the first couple days, drum and bass, but then I sit around for a few days taking it all in."

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Old Cabin Old Cabin (Independent) 

Old Cabin, the solo folk project from Whitehorse’s Jona Barr, is making a strong push within the Yukon’s often forgotten solitary music community. The swirl of

The Strumbellas We Still Move On Dance Floors (Six Shooter) 

Fresh off of a 2013 Juno nomination (Roots and Traditional) for their debut full-length, the Strumbellas wasted no time to follow-

daydreamy folk-rock and Barr’s curious lyrics about isolation and longing on Old Cabin’s self-titled debut album is a pleasantly warm fit. Barr’s voice has the same solemn fragility as Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold or Edmonton’s own Tyler Butler, meandering through a roomful of stray guitar reverb and puttering drums.

Occasionally breaking through this melancholy mood with spurts of hopefulness, Old Cabin is a comforting band during these cold months. Although the second half of the album slips a bit into sameness territory, Barr is a songwriter poised to have his tunes (and beard) break into Canada’s likeminded folk spotlight.

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up with We Still Move On Dance Floors. After more than a year of touring, the six-piece have fed off its lively audiences, and the result is a more immediate, straightforward folk-pop record. While clocking in at just under half an hour, the album burns little daylight: slow-cooked acoustic guitars, banjo and violin plunge straight into spicy hand-clapping and stomping along with shout-along barnyard choruses. If yelling “Hey!” in a song is still cool, then the group does a fantastic job using it. The group’s sound is familiar, but highly infectious—it’s hard not to want to move on dance floors with the Strumbellas.

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Little Suns Normal Human Feelings (dvrgnt)

 As hip as folksy music is right now, all we’re getting is the same thing: twists on ‘Americana’ bluegrass, country, zydco and any number of sub-genres wherein banjos are readily available. What’s most interesting about this Montréal collective’s debut is that as folksy as it is, the inspiration owes a lot more to tunes from across the pond. Time signatures are much more akin to Eastern Europe and instruments like the bouzouki make you feel like once you throw this on the platter, you should pull on a ushanka and start sippin’ Stoli. Influences seem to come from around the globe as “Children of the Night” has an Asiatic feel to it, while “Antichrist” is a pretty straight-ahead piano ballad that slowly simmers with its darker tinges. It’s almost as though these guys are to Coldplay what Gogol Bordello would be to the Clash; so even though Little Suns’ inspirations are a gypsy convoy of sounds, the band manages to pull it all together in a very friendly way, full of fairly sunny dispositions and clean tones ripe for the folk festival circuit.

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every Sat; 9pm

Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

DEC/21

AUDIOFLY

DEC/31

NYE FEATURING

every Fri and Sat with DJ Stouffer

IO PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

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SHOUT OUT OUT OUT OUT WET SECRETS, CADENCE WEAPON (DJ SET), MITCHMATIC, LOVE ELECTRIC AND KHOTIN (DJ SET)

Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

PAWN SHOP Transmission

UBK PRESENTS

UBK PRESENTS

LOVE AND LIGHT

FEB/15 SEPTEMBER STONE, ELECTRIC RELIGIOUS AND GUESTS

MAR/7 WAKE OWL W/ LYON MAR/15 ELECTRIC SIX THE UNION PRESENTS

AND THE MOHRS AND GUESTS

MAR/17 THE WONDER YEARS THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ DEFEATER, REAL FRIENDS, CITIZEN & MODERN BASEBALL THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

UBK PRESENTS

APR/4 BOY AND BEAR

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook

JAN/24 METZ JAN/26 KASTLE

MAR/27 THE MOUNTIES MAR/29 ACT A FOOL

hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

LUCKY 13 Every Fri and

MRG PROSUCTIONS PRESENTS

FEB/1

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip

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

THE UNION PRESENTS

TAVERN ON WHYTE

AND GUESTS

Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am TEMPLE Step'd Up

Saturdays with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz

ITS A WHITEMUD XMAS WITH WHITEMUD AND STORMING ALICE

DEC/20 BADGER DEC/21 HONEY W/ DIRTY BOOTS & DRAKES THEORY THREADS DEC/27 THE ATOMIC ALICE AND GUESTS SAINT DEC/28 BOOTLEG W/ THE ABLE KIND GUESTS FOR RENOVATIONS JAN 1 - 14 CLOSED HAPPY HOLIDAYS AND WE’LL SEE YOU SOON...

SUICIDE, DELEITE, DEREK LONDON, JAN/17 POLYESTER PAMELA DROVER AND KEVIN FREY OUT CITY, INNERTWINE, JAN/24 MAKE DESOUSA DRIVE AND JESSICA DENISE SKY JAN/25 MONARCH JOE SOLO AND FICTION OF FATE JAN/31 UNBALANCED W/ GUESTS TBA EVERY RUBY TUESDAY TUESDAY LIKE RUBY TUESDAY ON FACEBOOK FOR DETAILS

EVERY EATS AND BEATS WEDNESDAY EVERY WEDNESDAY, $0.35 WINGS

EVERY THE ULTIMATE OPEN STAGE THURSDAY EVERY THURSDAY, OPEN TURNTABLES, OPEN STAGE

NOW HIRING PORTERS, BUSSERS AND SECURITY

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UNION HALL Celebrity

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN Dec 22 ARTERY Its A Beatles

Christmas: Joe Nolan (alt blues), Samara Von Rad, Colleen Brown, Peter Stone, the Archaics, Arrowz, Ayla Brook, More Wine; 7pm

Sunday Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am-3pm THE BOWER J-Roc (Sould

Out DJs) Staff Party

CHA ISLAND TEA CO

Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm DUGGAN'S IRISH PUB

Season: Bob Bernhardt leads the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra (holiday hits new and old), Greenwood Singers, Mela Dailey (vocals), U of A Faculty of Education Handbell Ringers; 2pm; $24-$89

Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

DJs

FANDANGO'S Sun

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Industry Night: House mix with DJ JEZ LF; Show and Shine/open stage every Sun: hosted by Marshall Lawrence; 6-11pm HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin'

the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

TUE Dec 24 DRUID IRISH PUB

Jamhouse Tues hosted by Chris Wynters, guest FIDDLER'S ROOST

Tuesday Nights fiddle circle jam; all levels of musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover J+H PUB Acoustic open

mic night every Tue hosted

by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety

Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair

of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm WUNDERBAR Wundi and

Endless Bummer Present: Mac Demarco, Brazilian Money and Alex Calder; 9pm

YEG DANCE CLUB

Barsnbands open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:30-11:30pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover DUGGAN'S IRISH PUB

Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly FIDDLER'S ROOST

Monday Nights Open stage hosted by Norm Sliter's Capital City Jammers; all styles and skill levels welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover 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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections 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

WED Dec 25 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Classical

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

FIRST CHURCH OF

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

live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

Silent Night, Holy Night: Community Christmas Celebration and carol sing; concert with Judith Richardson, Heather Maclean, Carolyn and John Lambert, Paul Cachia, Rebecca Schellenberg, Michael Kay, Kirk Kryvenchuk, First Church

LEAF BAR AND GRILL

RICHARDS PUB

Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

Havana Brown; 9pm

CHRIST, SCIENTIST

mic night hosted by Lorin Lynne

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

Main Floor: alternative

THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Steve and Bob; 5-9pm

J+H PUB Acoustic open

MERCURY ROOM Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

MON Dec 23

Chiefs and Friends Big Xmas Party Jam; 4-8pm

Wednesday Nights Folk and Roots Open Stage: amateur and professional musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3

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

ON THE ROCKS 4th

RICHARD'S PUB Joint

FIDDLER'S ROOST

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

Main Floor: Soul Sundays:

DJs

Typhoon Haiyan Fundraiser (Canadian country, folk, pop rock); 2pm; $20 (adv); Late Show: Canyon Rose Outfit, Ben Sures, Bill Bourne, Bobby Cameron; 8pm

stage hosted by Michael Gress and Cody Noula; Original artist showcase at 9pm

Wed variety night: with guitarist, Gord Matthews; every Wed, 8pm

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PAWN SHOP Early Show:

FANDANGO'S Wed open

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

Annual Bissel Centre fundraiser featuring 15 local artists and a $5 turkey dinner

an Oilers game); no cover

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays:

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

TAVERN ON WHYTE

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

Main Floor: Glitter Gulch:

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE PJ

Perry every Wed; 8-11pm; $10

DUGGAN'S IRISH PUB

NEW WEST HOTEL Free

classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every

Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am

ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive

Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Really Good...

Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends THE COMMON The Wed

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk

and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs

every Wed

TEMPLE Wild Style Wed:

Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

Wed open mic with host Duff Robison ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic

every Wed (unless there's

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave ARTS AT THE BARNS– WESTBURY THEATRE ATB Financial Arts Barns, 1033084 Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" STREET BAR 11818111 St BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLATCHFORD HANGAR–Fort Edmonton 780.442.5311 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@ thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park,

780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750124 St CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St CROWN AND ANCHOR 15277 Castle Downs Rd, 780.472.7696 DUGGAN'S IRISH PUB 901388 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain EDMONTON CENTRE FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING 7621101 Ave ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave FANDANGO'S 12912-50 St, fandangoslive.com FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SCIENTIST 10810-100 Ave, 780.422.4754 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.7634 ISBE EDMONTON 9529 Jasper Ave, 587.521.7788; isbeedmonton.com J+H 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 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St

VUEWEEKLY DEC 19 – DEC 25, 2013

Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave MACLAB CENTRE–Leduc 780.980.1866 MERCURY ROOM 10575114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303108 St, 780.425.9730 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 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave 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 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO– St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

Kyle: Suit - Paul Smith from Holt Renfrew Shirt - Paul Smith from Holt Renfrew Bow tie - Offal Goods

Amber: Jumper - Club Monaco Belt - The Pretty Secrets vintage Boots - Michael Kors Kimono - Tattered Rose Earrings & bracelets - Karma Victoria

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VUEWEEKLY DEC 19 – DEC 25, 2013

NYE STYLE & PARTY GUIDE 35

APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE

• 24 Boudreau, St Albert • 780.460.8092 • New Year’s Eve with Jukebox Leigh • 9pm-1am • Tickets: $65 (includes plated dinner, party favours, Champagne toast at midnight) call 780.460.8092

ARTERY

• 9535 Jasper Avenue • 780.441.6966 • Kickin’ New Year’s Eve Smasher: Michael Rault (blues rock), Cantoo • 8:30pm (door); no minors • Tickets: $20 (adv)/$25 (door)

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA

• 2 Sir Winston Churchill Square • AfroQuiz New Years Eve Gala: Dinner and cabaret style performances

by George Ali and Mbira Renaissance; Azonto and Soca performances will kick off the dance featuring the best DJs from the African and Caribbean community, music by DJs SQ, Jasper Jones, and Diamond.

Midnight fireworks can be viewed from the glass walled venue • 8pm • Black Tie attire • Tickets: $100 (includes dinner catered by Zinc restaurant, entertainment) for tickets/information E: siyani@afroquiz.ca or text 780.716.3859

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL PUB

• 7704 104 Street • 780.432.4611 • atlantictrapandgill.com/edmonton/events.php • New Year’s Eve Gala with Duff Robison • 7pm • Tickets: $50 (with dinner)/$25 (without dinner)

AVENUE THEATRE

• 9030-118 Avenue • 780.477.2149 • Astral Harvest, Zodiac Series: An Elysium Opera, longwalkshortdock (electronic, from Vancouver), Tim Wisdom, Drumspyder, guests • 8pm (door); no minors • Tickets: $50+ (adv)

B STREET BAR

• 11818-111 Street • 780.414.0545 • New Year’s Eve: Featuring Joe Piccolo and Swing the Cat (9-piece band); Champagne at midnight • 8:15pm • Tickets: $50 (includes 3-course meal)

BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE

• 5041-50 St, Camrose • 780.672.5510 • baileytheatre.com • Burlesque-a-billy New Year’s Eve Masquerade Ball: featuring Punch Drunk Cabaret (rock ‘n’ roll), River City Revue Burlesque • 8pm (door), 9pm (show) • Tickets: $29 at the Bailey box office, online; prizes for best costumes, complimentary snacks

BEER HUNTER BAR AND GRILL–ST ALBERT • 386 St Albert Road • 780.418.7867 • thebeerhunter.ca • Black and White Affair: Top 40. House. Electro with Live DJ • No dress code • 7pm • No cover

• 7pm (door), 10pm (show) • Tickets: $25 (advance at the Black Dog Freehouse)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE–WOOF TOP

• 10425 Whyte Avenue • 780.439.1082 • http://bit.ly/blackdogNYE • New Year’s Eve Edition: Sound It Up with DJ Sonny Grimez • Tickets: $25 (advance at Black Dog)

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

• 9624-76 Avenue • 780.989.2861 • New Year’s Eve Dinner and Dance Party with Lionel Rault • Sold out!

BLUES ON WHYTE

• 10329 Whyte Avenue • 780.439.3981 • bluesonwhyte.ca • New Year’s Eve with Cassie Taylor; • 9pm • Tickets: $25 (adv)/$30 (door); includes 11pm buffet and party favours

BOHEMIA

• 10217-97 Street • 780.669.5236 • Happy F*cking New Years: featuring Catgut, Gary Debussy, Flint, Rude Geeks, Scrapbooker, Cryptic, Black Dracula, the Amazingly Possibles, Borrachera, Busted Femur, the Lamas and Your Mom’s A Prostitute • 5pm; no minors • Tickets: $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

BOURBON ROOM

• 205 Carnegie Drive, St Albert • 587.290.0071 • New Year’s Eve Party: Duelling Piano’s and DJ Paully • 6pm • Tickets: $20 (includes party favours, Champagne, and midnight snacks); call 587.290.0071 to reserve a table/booth

THE BOWER

• 10538 Jasper Avenue • 780.423.4256

• thebower.ca • New Year’s Eve Party: Featuring For Those Who Know residents Junior Brown and David Stone • 8pm (door) • Tickets: $10 (advance, only available at the Bower, more at the door)

CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK

• 1-99 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park • Rockin’ New Year’s Eve Party: with Chill Factor; $15 in prize giveaways • 7pm (dinner), 9pm (party); • Tickets: $30 (dinner and party), $15 (party only) includes New Year’s Party favours, personal Champagne bottle • Tickets at 780.449.7468

CASINO EDMONTON

• 7055 Argyll Road • 780.463.9467 • New Year’s Eve–Island Party Style: with Flash Mob, Showgirls, Reggae funk music by Catalyst, party favours, buffet dinner • 6pm • Tickets: $68

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

• 12464-153 Street • 780.424.9467 • New Year’s Eve–Solid Gold Disco Style: With Showgirls, Go Go Girls, music by Lean Machine, party favours, buffet dinner • 6pm

CENTURY CASINO

• 13103 Fort Road • 780.643.4000 • Ring in the New Year with Kenny Shields and Streetheart New Year’s Eve: Canada’s rock singer returns and will treat you to hits such as Action, Hollywood, Tin Soldier, and more • 7pm (door) • Tickets: $69.95-$81.70 available at Century Casino and Ticketmaster

COAST TERRACE INN–EDMONTON SOUTH

• 4404 Gateway Boulevard • 780.434.6415 • Latin New Years: Sponsored by Copacabana Restaurant and Night Club: Relax to the Latin rhythms of Salsa artist Edgar Joel and Bachata

Amber:

artist Jeyro. Party with Edmonton’s Latin DJs, DJ Fuego, DJ Henry, and DJ L-Sensation playing Latin, and Top 40 • 5:30pm (door)-2:30am; 7:45 pm (dinner); 9pm (Dance until 2:30 am); Doors will open to dance ticket holders at 9pm • Dress to impress family event • Tickets: Ticket Option 2 After December 15 (General Admission) Dinner & Dance Included: $99 (includes 4-course plate service dinner, party favours and entertainment); Ticket Option 3: $60 (advance, dance only)/$75 (door, dance only); Dance only ticket holders doors open at 9pm; Ticket Option 4: Group Rate Table (dance only), Party of 10: $500; includes dance, party favours, entertainment • Ticket & Information Delta Edmonton South Festive Desk 780.431.3457, call Delta Festive Desk to reserve seating and arrangements. Dinner tickets available online and at the Delta Edmonton South Hotel

COAST TERRACE INN–EDMONTON SOUTH–TOP OF THE INN

• 4404 Gateway Boulevard • Jazz New Year’s Eve–TheBest is Yet To Come: an evening with livejazz music and entertainment provided by SandroDominelli featuring Shelley Jonesfrom The Swing Kings 5:30pm (door)-until 1:30am; Dance to Follow at 8:30pm-1:30am • Dress to Impress • No Minors • Tickets: $125 (includes 4-course plate servicedinner at 6:30pm, complimentary noisemakers); GroupRate: $440 (includes plate service dinner, Group of 4); $1100 (includes place service dinner, Group of 10) * To make seating reservations or forticket info call Delta Edmonton South Festival Desk (tickets includes 4-course plate service dinner, party favours, entertainment; reservations/info call Delta Edmonton South Festival Desk at 780.431.3457

COOK COUNTY SALOON

• 8010 Gateway Boulevard • 780.432.2665 • New Year’s Eve 2014: Live With Multiple CCMA Winner Hey Romeo • 7:30pm • Tickets: $20/$60 (4 ticket package, buy 3 get the 4th ticket free)/$160 (VIP Package: meet and greet with Hey Romeo, 4 people, reserved table for 4, includes 1 prepaid drink)/$382.50(Champagne dinner dance package: dinner for two at early seating of Vons, 5 and 6pm, VIP entrance to Cook County before 8pm, includes Hey Romeo concert, premium seating, reserved table and bottle of Champagne at midnight; hotel room for two at the Days Inn, Gateway Blvd, 75 Ave)/$252.50 (Cadillac Dinner & Dance Package: dinner for two at early seating of Vons, 5pm and 6pm; four course meal -drinks, add-ons not incl-; VIP entrance to Cook County before 8pm, includes Hey Romeo concert, premium seating, reserved table and bottle of Champagne at midnight)

COMIC STRIP

• Bourbon Street, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Bring the New Year in laughing at the Comic Strip’s New Year’s Eve special presentation with Craig Ferguson • Tickets: 2 Shows, 3 great packages: Package one: $32 (7:30pm show only); Package two: $56 (7:30pm show and buffet); Package three: 10pm show and midnight appetizer buffet; includes party favours and a glass of champagne to bring the new year

Skirt - Skirt from Holt Renfrew Boots - Lothian Top & clutch - The Pretty Secrets vintage

THE COMMON • 9910-109 Street

• House Party Themed New Year’s Eve: House, disco, rap, electro, funk, Reggae with DJs Allout, Dane, Girls Club playing everything • 5pm (restaurant open), 8pm (door) • Tickets: $20 (door, includes mini bottle of champaign at midnight)

Rhinestone bracelet - Tattered Rose Bracelet - Karma Victoria

CROWN AND ANCHOR PUB

• 15277 Castle Downs Road • 780.472.7696 • New Year’s Eve: Rock with Stonehedge (rock) • 9pm • No minors

BEER HUNTER BAR AND GRILL–SPRUCE GROVE

• 700 Mccleod Avenue • 780.960.8501 • thebeerhunter.ca • New Year’s Eve 2014: Music by the Mandy Mcmillan Band (country) • No dress code • 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm (dinner seating); 10pm (party and band) • Tickets: $30 (dinner), $10 (party at 10pm)

DRAKE HOTEL

• 3945-118 Avenue • 780.479.3929 • New Year’s Eve with Doug Bishop and the Hurtin’ Horsemen • 8pm • No cover

BEER HUNTER BAR AND GRILL–WEM

DRUID IRISH PUB

BEST WESTERN PLUS WESTWOOD INN–EBONY BALLROOM

DOWNTOWN–CHURCHILL SQUARE

• 11606 Jasper Avenue • 780.454.9928 • thedruidedmonton.com • Ring in New Year 2014: New Year’s Eve Party with DJ (dance, DJ, pop) • Dress: casual to semi formal • 9pm (door, varied depending on tickets, party or dinner) • Tickets: $30 (dinner and party)/$10 (DJ and party) available at the Druid and at yeglive

• 7522-178 Street • 780.489.7877 • thebeerhunter.ca • New Year’s Eve 2014: music by the Vinyl Frontier band (classic rock) • No dress code • 7pm, 7:30pm, 8pm, 8:30pm (dinner seating); 10pm (party & band) • Tickets: $30 (dinner); $10 (10pm, party)

• European New Year’s Eve: Show includes the great Leo Gonzalez with his beautiful professional dancers, magician Konrad Misiewicz. Dance to hits from Rio, New York, London and Moscow, and see a magnificent human walking table and other surprising activities • 7pm (door), 8pm (dinner/show) • Tickets: $120/$90 (children); tickets available at ticketscene.ca/ events/9391/

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

Kyle: Bow tie & pocket square - Offal Goods

• 12402 118 Avenue • 780.485.0202 • New Year’s Eve–Big Al’s House of Blues doors opening with the Rusty Reed Band • 7pm • Tickets: $50 (reserve, call 780.482.0202)

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BILLIARD/SQUIRES PUB

• 10505-82 Avenue • 780.432.0335 • squirespub.ca/thebilliardclub.com • Black and Whyte Party: With DJs • Dress to impress, casual+ • 8pm • Tickets: information at thebilliardclub.com, or squirespub.ca

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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

• 10425 Whyte Avenue • 780.439.1082 • New Year’s Eve with Jr Gone Wild • Casual dress

36 NYE STYLE & PARTY GUIDE

• 780.944.7740 • New Year’s Eve Downtown Festival: fun-filled, non-alcoholic family event • City Hall: 7-11:30pm with kids’ crafts and activities, magicians, balloon artists, face painters and live music • The Square: 9pm with a street dance, fire twirlers, stilt-walkers, horse and wagon rides, ice skating, food concessions and more • Main Stage: 10pm, music by Bryan Finlay, Grandtheft, Kay; leading up to a spectacular 10-minute fireworks show at midnight • Free; all ages • Free New Year’s Eve Public Transit Service from 6pm-3:30am

DUGGAN’S

• 9013-88 Avenue • 780.465.4834 • sherlockshospitality.com/duggansboundary • Stan Gallant

DUKE OF ARGYLL PUB

• 7230 Argyll Road • 780.468.6717 • New Year’s Eve with Big Hank and a Fist Full of Blues • 9pm • Tickets: $20 (adv available at the pub or call 780.468.6717)/$30 (door). Includes a Snack Buffet at 11pm, party favours, full menu available until 9pm

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• 4911-52 Avenue, Stony Plain • 780.963.0120 • theearlystagesaloon.com • New Year’s Eve 2014: with the Saloon Boys, Bernie and Gary, featuring players joining them to rock the New Year in at the Saloon • Tickets: $20, call 780.963.5998

ELECTRIC RODEO–SPRUCE GROVE

• 119-1 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.1411 • New Year’s Eve: Red Cannons live, and DJ Clint • 8pm (door) • Tickets: $10 (adv)/$15 (door) includes Champagne, party favours, late night munchies

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE

• 9912-82 Avenue • 780.758.2754 • A Rock and Roll Sing a Long New Year’s Eve: Amy van Keeken’s Rock and Roll Sing-a-Long will provide two sets of intense party jamz for dancing and singing along. Enjoy hits of our past shows plus some new gems. Look out for special guests and please do wear your finery • 9pm • Tickets: $20 (available at the Empress Ale House)

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE

• 10220-103 Street • NYE 2013: Pornstar DJ Tristan Jaxx will spin you into a new year • 9pm-3am • Tickets: $15 • For more info call Rob at 780.424.0077; E: promotions@yourgaybar.com

FACULTY CLUB–U OF A

• 11435 Saskatchewan Drive, U of A Campus • 780.492.4231 • uofafacultyclub.ca • Winspear and Papaschase Rooms: New Year’s Evening Dinner Dance: The Edmonton Swing Band with Charlie Austin; a glass of Prosecco at midnight • 6:30pm (cocktails), 7:30pm (dinner) • Tickets: $85 (dinner with wine) call in your reservation 780.492.4231

FANDANGO’S SALOON

• 12912-50 Street • 780.406.1940 • fandangoslive.com • Dirt Road Angels New Year’s Eve • Tickets: $25 (dance only after 9pm)/$50 (buffet dinner and dance)

FANTASYLAND HOTEL–WEM

• Beverly Hills Ballroom • edgala.com • 2014 International New Year’s Eve Gala: Dinner and Dance with Cirque Du Soleil style variety shows with beautiful displays of aerial acrobatics (8-10pm); music by DJ Tomski • 7pm (cocktails), 8pm (dinner of distinction), 10pm-3am (dance) • Tickets: $140 (in support of the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation) at REGIS, WEM

FILTHY MCNASTY’S

• 10511-82 Avenue • 780.432.5224 • filthymcnastys.ca • New Year’s Eve Bash: free live music • No cover

KELLY’S PUB

FLUID LOUNGE

• 10888 Jasper Avenue • 780.429.0700 • New Year’s Eve Club/Pub Crawl 2013 • 9pm-3am

FORT EDMONTON

• 7000-143 Street • 780.442.5311 • fortedmontonpark.ca • New Year’s Swing party: Swing back to the 1930’s and join our Time travel to a post-prohibition time of celebration and ring in the New Year at the Blatchford Hangar. An evening full of live performances, with Don Berner and Little Big Band, the Sugar Swing dancers will show you dance steps; and a gourmet buffet dinner • 8pm-10pm (dinner, opening act: Ac-Dixie), 8pm-11pm (swing dance lessons by Sugar Swing); 10pm-1am (headliner: Don Berner and Little Big Band); bar closes at 1am • Tickets: $150 (includes taxes and gratuities); $1,080 (table of 8) • Tickets for New Year’s Eve Package: $455 (taxes included; includes: 2 tickets to the 1930’s Swing party; one night, double occupancy, at the Hotel Selkirk; New Year’s Day brunch at the Johnson’s Café)

• 10156-104 Street • 780.451.8825 • kellyspubedmonton.com • ‘80s New Year’s Eve: Matt Robertson hosts New Years Celebration and Sing-Along: A 1980’s Dress and Theme night; Champagne at midnight • 9pm-1am • No cover

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE

• 16648-109 Avenue • 780.444.7474 • krushultralounge.com • NYE party with the resident DJ’s Ed, Colin, and Andrew spinning tunes all night, dance straight through or lounge around in the leather sofas • Tickets: $90 (full dinner service with reserved VIP seating and midnight lunch)/$30 (standing room); includes midnight lunch; free champagne and themed party favours at midnight, prizes and giveaways. Reserve tickets at 780.444.7474

LBS PUB

FUSIA CORAL CUBA RESTAURANT

• 4990-92 Avenue • 780.468.2888 • facebook.com/CoraldeCuba • New Year’s Bash: Enjoy the music of Moreno Chembele • Tickets: $10 cover

THE GLENS

• Montgomery Glen Golf and Country Club, 1km W of inters Hwy 2A and Hwy 13, Wetaskiwin • 780.352.8623 • theglensgrill.com • New Year’s Eve Gala: Dine and Dance with piano man Don Johnston • Tickets: $55; reservations at 780.352.8623

IRISH CLUB

• 12546-126 Street • 780.453.2249 • edmontonirishclub.ca/whats-on/ • New Year’s Eve: with music by Mark McGarrigle, dinner and champagne toast • 7-11:30pm • Ticketed event

ISBE EDMONTON

• 9529 Jasper Avenue • 587.521.7788 0 • isbeedmonton.com • The Midnight Beat: presented by ISBE, Glass Buffalo, Prairie Seen, featuring Lucas Chaisson, Matt Machete, installation by Guilliano Palladino, and more • No minors; members and invited guests only • 8pm (door), 9pm (bands) • Tickets: $20 (includes entrance and ISBE year membership)

J & R GRILL AND BAR

• 4003-106 Street • 780.436.4403 • New Year’s Eve with live music by Fearless Frank and Friends • 9pm-1am • No cover

Kyle: Shirt - Comme Des Garcons from Gravity Pope Bow tie - Offal Goods Cardigan - The Pretty Secrets vintage Trousers - APC from Gravity Pope Shoes - Model’s own

Kyle: Jacket - Gloverall from Gravity Pope Sweater - APC from Gravity Pope Jeans - Rag & Bone from Gravity Pope Sunglasses - Ray Ban Shoes - Model’s own

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• 23 Akins Drive, St Albert • 780.460.9100 • lbspub.ca • New Year’s Eve Gala featuring the Jaks • 7pm • Tickets: $35 (dinner and dance)/$20 (dance); tickets include party favours, midnight Champagne; reservations: call Tue-Sat, 2-7pm

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

• 11607 Jasper Avenue • 780.447.4495 • level2.ca • New Year’s Bash: Presented by the Breakfast Club with Simon Doty (Toolroom, Definitive, 1605, 303lovers) • Tickets: $10 (advance, available at Foosh, Level , level2nye.zoobis. com)/$15 (door)

MAYFIELD DINNER THEATRE

• 16615-109 Avenue • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • The History of Rock ‘n’ Roll Stars and Stripes–New Year’s Eve • Tickets: $165 (includes dinner buffet and table-served appetisers,

show, Champagne, party favours); reserve at 780.483.4051

MCDOUGALL CHURCH

• 10025-101 Street • 780.428.1818 • New Year’s Eve all ages Party, concert and fundraiser for Edmonton Food Bank: With entertainment provided by the Festival City Fiddlers; free face painting and crafts, clowning with Netti Spagehetti; music

by Back Porch Swing, Cam and Caitlin Boyce, Dale Ladouceur and the Broke Ensemble, Breezy Brian Gregg, Dana Wylie and the Two Bob Orchestra, Jay Gilday, Cam Neufeld and the Road to Django Collective • 6:45pm (door), 7:30-10:30pm (show) • Tickets: donation to the Edmonton Food Bank

MORIARTY’S BISTRO/WINE BAR

• 10154-100 Street • 780.757.2005 • moriartysbistro.com/contact-us • New Year’s Eve: 4-course meal with Amuse • Tickets: $80; Optional $30 (wine pairing) • Reserve seatings, 4-10:30pm, limited menu and open seating after)

MUTTART CONSERVATORY

• 9626-96A Street • edmonton.ca/attractions_recreation/attractions/muttart_ conservatory/event-days.aspx • New Years at Muttart: The Mad Hatter is throwing a family friendly tea party celebration for the New Year and everyone is invited. Join Alice and the March Hare for a morning of celebration and merriment to help say goodbye to 2013. Come dressed up and take in one of the hourly New Year countdowns to usher in the New Year • 10am-2pm

NEW WEST HOTEL

• 15025-111 Avenue • 780.489.2511 • newwesthotel.com • Boots and Boogie Live at The New West Hotel • 9pm

• 5pm • Tickets: $60

O’MAILLES IRISH PUB AND EATERY

• 104, 398 St Albert Road, St Albert • 780.458.5700 • sorrentinos.com/omailles.php • New Year’s Eve with AJ; party event package (includes Champagne, gift certificate, decorated table and balloons) • 6:30pm • Tickets: Reserve, call 780.458.5700

ON THE ROCKS

NORTHLANDS PARK

• 7410 Borden Park Road • northlandspark.ca/racing/promotions-events • A Mardi Gras Soiree: Ring in the new year with a celebration to remember with a New Orleans-themed dinner, and live harness racing

• 11740 Jasper Avenue • 780.482.4767 • ontherocksedmonton.com • Ring in the New Year 2014: Oil City Sound Machine (dance, pop, R & B); • Dress: casual to semi formal • 9pm (depending on tickets–party or dinner) • Tickets: $40 (dinner)/$25 (DJ and party) at On the Rocks, and at yeglive

PALACE CASINO–WEM

Amber: Jumper - Club Monaco Boots - The Pretty Secrets vintage Hat - Tattered Rose Jacket - The Pretty Secrets vintage Purse - The Pretty Secrets vintage

• 2710, 8882-179 Street • 780.444.2112 • palacecasino.com/events/event • NYE 2014: Ring in the New Year with Gino Monopoli as he takes the stage with his world acclaimed tribute to Elvis. Gino brings you through the early rock-a-billy Sun Studio recordings, the Army years, the movie years, the ’68 comeback Special, and the concert years. His shows are high energy, electrifying, and leaves the audience wanting more • 9pm

PAWN SHOP

• 10551-82 Avenue • 780.432.5058 • pawnshoplive.ca • The Menzingers (only Canadian date, punk rock), audio/rocketry, On the Brink, Elder Abuse • No Minors • 8pm (doors) • Tickets: $25 (adv) at www.yeglive.ca & Blackbyrd Myoozik & at Pawn Shop Live ticketing Kiosk - Direct Ticket Link - http://yeglive.ca/events/ the-menzingers/dec-31-2013/pawnshop

PUB CRAWL 2013

• GCparty.ca • facebook.com/GreatCanadianPubCrawl • http://bit.ly/eventfulNYE • New Year’s Eve Great Canadian Club/Pub Crawl • 10pm-4am • Check website for details

RED PIANO BAR

• Bourbon Street, WEM • 780.486.7722 • theredpiano.ca • Paris and Pianos New Year’s Eve Party • Dinner and show: Four Course prix fix menu, themed dinner entertainment, glass of Veuve Clicquot dueling piano show, Champagne and party favours at midnight) • Show only: Standing room only for the Dueling Piano Show,

Champagne and party favours at midnight • 21 years or older • Dress: semi-formal (no jeans), complementary, mandatory coat check • Tickets: $50 (show only, 9pm ); $150 (dinner and show, 6:15pm); reservations call 780.486.7722

RENDEZVOUS PUB

• 10108-149 Street • 780.444.1822 • facebook.com/events/1403370736570035/ • Armifera (thrash metal band), Valaryia, Meridian; midnight Champagne and Hors d’Oeuvres; no minors • 8pm (door), 10pm (show) • Tickets: $12 cover

THE RIG

• 15203 Stony Plain Road • 780.756.0869 • Blues NYE with the Marshall Lawrence Band • 6pm-3am (dinner), 9pm-1:30am (Marshall Lawrence Band • Tickets: $25 (includes turkey and ham dinner with all the trimmings, glass of Champagne, party favours)

RICHARDS PUB

• 12150-161 Avenue • 780.457.3117 • richardspub.ca • Spanish Night: with Marco Claviria (Latin solo) • New Year’s Eve Dinner 7-9pm

ROSE AND CROWN

• 10235-101 Street • 780.426.7827 • sherlockshospitality.com • Rock with Celtic rock band, the Derina Harvey Band, sing and dance your way into the New Year with party favours, Champagne • 7:30pm

SAWMILL PRIME RIB AND STEAKHOUSE– GATEWAY BLVD • 4745 Gateway Blvd • 780.436.1950 • New Year’s Eve with Darrell Barr, Don Marcotte, William James Engel • Tickets: $25 (includes a midnight snack, 11pm) call 780.436.1950 to purchase your tickets. If you plan to come earlier for dinner, please let the Sawmill know so they can manage reservations

SET NIGHTCLUB

• WEM • 780.444.5321 • setnightclub.ca/setnightclub.ca • http://bit.ly/setNYE • Celebrating over 20yrs; Therapy Music Group and SET Nightclub present a A LIVE and INTERACTIVE NYE Experience with Ministry of Sound, My Digital Enemy, opening support from K Dub Better Living DJs, Nudii and Bill, Jermaine Still and EpicFail. Ministry of Sound SWAG

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–DOWNTOWN • 10012-101A Avenue, Rice Howard Way • 780.426.7784 • http://bit.ly/sherlocks • Joanne Janzen

Amber: Sequin top - The Pretty Secrets vintage Necklace - The Pretty Secrets vintage Earrings & bracelets - Karma Victoria Jeans - J Brand from Holt Renfrew Jacket - Theory from Holt Renfrew Shoes - Kate Spade

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SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–WEM • 8882-170 St, Bourbon Street, WEM • 780.444.1752 • http://bit.ly/sherlocks • Mike Letto

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–CAMPUS S • 8519-112 Street • 780.431.0091 • http://bit.ly/sherlocks • Amy Weymes

SIDELINERS PUB

• 11018-127 Street • 780.453.6006 • sidelinerspub.ca • NYE Party with Andrew Scott and Celeigh Cardinal (folk, country rock and blues); free midnight lunch and Champagne • 9pm

• No cover

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ

• 10810-124 Street • 587.521.6328 • smokehousebbq.ca • New Year’s Eve: Goin’ Whole Hog, smokin’ up a whole hog and some prime rib. Graham Guest will be playing music for the night • Tickets on sale this week

STARLITE ROOM

• 10030-102 Street • 780.428.1099 • starliteroom.ca • NYE party like no other with Shout Out Out Out Out, Wrt Secrets, Cadence Weapon (DJ set), MitchMatic, Love Electric and Physical Copies, Khotin (DJ set ) • 8pm • Tickets: $20 (adv, available now at Ticketfly, Blackbyrd, Brixx

STRATHCONA COUNTY

• Broadmoor Lake Park, Community Centre & Festival Place • http://bit.ly/strathconaNYE • Strathcona County New Year’s Eve Festival: Ring in 2014 with a night of western-themed family fun and entertainment for the whole family. Including an ice playground, community shinny hockey, blacklight activities, aerial artists, sleigh rides, fire performer and more • 4-8pm • Tickets: $4 (adult), $2 (child), free (age 3 & under), $10 (family of 4) • Free

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

• 10940-166A Street • 780.999.4513 • facebook.com/studiomusicfoundation • New Year’s Eve–A local rock ‘n’ roll Gala: Featuring Alterra, Wheelhouse, the Campus Thieves and special guests • No minors • No dress code but look your best • 8:30pm (door) • Tickets: $15 (advance at Blackbyrd, the Studio Music Foundation, Raised Fist Productions) /$20 (door) • Complimentary surprise offered right before midnight

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

• 10545-81 Avenue • sugarswing.com • Midnight Affair: New Year’s Eve Gala: Immerse yourself in the dark world of film noir with dazzling dames, mobsters, detectives, and gangsters. A film noir-themed party featuring live performances, food and Champagne, vintage attire and cocktails, as well as Sugar Swing’s DJs playing tunes from the 1920s-1940s for your dancing pleasure • Dress to Impress; come dressed as a hard- boiled detective or gangster, or strut your stuff as a femme fatale.

Whatever you choose, we want you to come vintage • 8pm (beginner swing dance lesson); 9pm-2am (gala) • Tickets: $40/$35 (student/member/Out-of-Towner)/$30 (student and member and Out-of-Towner) Includes: drop-in beginner lesson, music, late lunch, bubbly at midnight, entertainment (dance cabaret) • Tickets available at Sugar Foot Ballroom, and, sugarswing. com/nye/index.php

Shannon Blanchet, Leona Brausen, Andrew MacDonaldSmith, and Davina Stewart for an array of Teatro faves as well as special guests for a concert of celebratory music. And, a brand new Red Letter Playlet by Stewart Lemoine, incuding an appearance by Ryan Sigurdson • 7:30pm • Tickets: $26/$23 (student/senior)/$21 (renewing/or new Teatro subscribers); reservations at 780.433.3399, voice mailbox #2

• Y Afterhours presents NYE 2014: DJ Lineup: • The Bedroom: Care Bear, Christian J, Anthony Donohue, David

WALTERDALE

YEG DANCE CLUB

• Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Avenue • 780.439.2845 • walterdaletheatre.com • Walterdale’s New Year’s Eve Masquerade Party: Celebrate New Year’s Eve at a a fancy, funky fundraiser dress-up party.

There will be food, beverages, dancing, masque making, and photos • Dec 31, 8pm (door) • Tickets: $45 at TIX on the Square

Stone, Seelo Mondo, Peep This, Chad Cook • Upper Heaven: DJ Wadjit, Van Damage, D3viant, FireSale!

• Bassment: DJ Nattikk, Jermaine Still, Ju!cebox, DJ Dezire • Underground: BLK, Tianna J • 10pm • Tickets: Tier 1 (sold out)/Tier 2: $25/Tier 3: $30 at viptkts. com/yafterhours-nye, Foosh, Y Afterhours

• 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive • facebook.com/YEGDANCECLUB • New Year’s Eve 2014: Eric Cubeechee (8 pm) • 8pm

WUNDERBAR

• 8120-101 Street • 780.436.2286 • wunderbar-edmonton.com • Wundi New Year’s Party: the Wicked Awesomes, the Famines, Fist City • 9pm • Tickets: $15 available at Wunderbar

Y AFTERHOURS • 10028-1202 Street • yafterhours.com

Kyle: Suit - Paul Smith from Holt Renfrew Shirt - The Pretty Secrets vintage

TAVERN ON WHYTE

• 10507-82 Avenue • tavernonwhyte.com • New Year’s Eve Fiesta: Mexican Fiesta at with an all you can eat taco bar, ice machine for slushy booze, DJ spinning favourites • Dress your best or themed–the bigger the sombrero the better • 8pm-2am

Amber: Slip - Tattered Rose Dressing gown - Tattered Rose Necklaces - Tattered Rose Earrings - The Pretty Secrets vintage Ring - Tattered Rose Shoes - The Pretty Secrets vintage

TIRAMISU BISTRO

• 10750 124 Street • 780.452.3393 • cafetiramisu.ca • Lift Me Up New Year’s Eve Feast: includes a live band, elegant menu, and | Champagne at midnight • Information/reservations call 780.452.3393

TOFIELD HOTEL

• 50 Street and 52 Avenue, Tofield • 780.662.3116 • tofieldalberta.ca • Music by Basler • 8pm

VARSCONA THEATRE

• 10329-83 Avenue • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com • New Year’s Eve With Teatro: Glamourous fun with all bubbly consumed by 9:30pm; Teatro La Quindicina present

Styling & Words: Sandy Joe Karpetz Models: Amber Byrne & Kyle McCrea Photography: Eden Munro Photography assistant: Meaghan Baxter

Amber’s hair: Kate Slemko Amber’s makeup and Kyle’s hair: Melissa Bunker Provided by: Salon Front Suite 120, 10815 - 104 Ave

Shot on location at Fort Edmonton Park

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EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

(carpool); $20 (annual membership)

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican

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

Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

COMEDY

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

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot,

Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog

Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Gary Keshner; Dec 19-21• Bob Angeli; Dec 27-28

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Godfrey; until Dec 22 • JR Brow; Dec 26-29 • New Years Eve: Bring the New Year in laughing at the Comic Strip's New Years Eve special presentation with Craig Ferguson; Dec 31; 2 shows; Package one: $32 (7:30pm show only), Package two: $56 (7:30pm show and buffet) Package three: 10pm show and midnight appetizer buffet; incl party favours and a glass of champagne to bring the new year • Ralph Harris; Jan 2-5 • Jay Pharoah Soecial Presentation; Jan 9-11 DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave •

780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm

RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway

Blvd • Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with

9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

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 MUSIC SOCIETY

• Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul. ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood

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

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave,

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

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org

• Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio

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

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church,

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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •

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

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

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

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

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican

Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, • Christmas In Hawaii (2012) presented by Al Cosh • Jan 6, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $2

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

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

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

• Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 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 EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE • waskahegantrail.ca • Meet: Capilano McDonalds, 9857-50 St • 10 km guided hike on a portion of the 309 km Waskahegan Trail; hike through the Kennedale Ravine to Sunridge with hike leader Sandra 780.467.9572 • Jan 12, 9:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership) WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE •

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

Toastmasters Club: 2nd

Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw. ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE • waskahegantrail.ca • Meet: McDonald's Capilano • 10 km guided hike on a portion of the 309 km Waskahegan Trail; in the Sherwood Park area with hike leader Michele 780.417.6928 • Jan 5, 9:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)

waskahegantrail.ca • Meet: McDonalds, 14920-87 Ave • 10 km guided hike on a portion of the 309 km Waskahegan Trail; hike from Laurier Park to Government House with hike leader Helen 780.468.4331 • Jan 19, 9:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE •

waskahegantrail.ca • Meet: McDonalds, Argyll Rd, 81 St • 10 km guided hike on a portion of the 309 km Waskahegan Trail; hike the Fort Sakatchewan city trails with hike leader Bev 780 469-7948 • Jan 26, 9:45am-3pm • $5

Conservatory, 9626-96A St • edmonton.ca/ attractions_recreation/attractions/muttart_ conservatory/event-days.aspx • The Mad Hatter is throwing a family friendly tea party celebration for the New Year and everyone is invited. Join Alice and the March Hare for a morning of celebration and merriment to help say goodbye to 2013. Come dressed up and take in one of the hourly New Year countdowns to usher in the New Year • Dec 31, 10am-2pm

124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

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

• teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Progressive Core Stability and Abdominal Training with Barb Turner: Parkallen Community League Hall; Every Thu, until Dec 19, 6pm (beginner/ intermediate), 7:15pm (advance); $50 (month), $200 (season) • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.c; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Bowling: Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes: Every Tue, 6:30pm; until Apr 1, 2014; $15/week • Volleyball: St Matthew Elementary School (NE): Tue, until Mar 11, 8-10pm; Stratford JuniorSenior High School (west end): every Tue, Mar 18-Apr 29, 7-9pm, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Curling: Granite Curling Club: Every Tue, until Mar 25, 7pm • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

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graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/ winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ ualberta.ca

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

105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm

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WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

• Stanley A. Milner Library, Centennial Rm (bsmt); edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@ edmontonatheists.ca; Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door)

Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-

based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty,

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 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 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured 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

NEW YEARS EVE AT MUTTART • Muttart

NEW YEAR'S EVE ALL AGES PARTY

• McDougall Church , 10025-101 St • 780.428.1818 • Party, concert and fundraiser for Edmonton Food Bank: With entertainment provided by the Festival City Fiddlers; free face painting and crafts, clowning with Netti Spagehetti; music by Back Porch Swing, Cam and Caitlin Boyce, Dale Ladouceur and the Broke Ensemble, Breezy Brian Gregg, Dana Wylie and the Two Bob Orchestra, Jay Gilday, Cam Neufeld and the Road to Django Collective • Dec 31, 6:45pm (door), 7:3010:30pm (show) • Admission: donation to the Edmonton Food Bank

NEW YEAR’S SWING PARTY • Fort

Edmonton, 7000-143 St • 780.442.5311 • fortedmontonpark.ca • Swing back to the 1930's and join our Time travel to a postprohibition time of celebration and ring in the New Year at the Blatchford Hangar. An evening full of live performances, with Don Berner Don Berner and Little Big Band, the Sugar Swing dancers will show you dance steps; and a gourmet buffet dinner • Dec 31, 8pm-10pm (dinner, opening act: Ac-Dixie), 8pm-11pm (swing dance lessons by Sugar Swing); 10pm-1am (headliner: Don Berner and Little Big Band); bar closes at 1am • $150/$1,080 (table of 8) • New Year’s Eve Package: $455 (taxes included; includes: 2 tickets to the 1930's Swing party; one night, double occupancy, at the Hotel Selkirk; New Year’s Day brunch at the Johnson’s Café)

NORTHLANDS–A MARDI GRAS SOIREE

• Northlands Park, 7410 Borden Park Rd • northlandspark.ca/racing/promotions-events • Ring in the new year with a celebration to remember with a New Orleans-themed dinner, and live harness racing • Dec 31, 5pm • $60

POWER OF LOVE • Noorish Yoga, 8440-109 St, Downstairs • Join Andrew Misle and Teresa Byer for a Power Vinyasa class with the intention of spreading love to those in need • All donations to the Hope Mission and to Education and Action • Fri, Dec 20, 7:30-9pm • By donation STRATHCONA COUNTY NEW YEAR’S EVE FESTIVAL • Broadmoor Lake Park, Community

Centre, and Festival Place • strathcona.ca/ departments/recreation-parks-and-culture/ special-events/new-years-eve-festival • Ring in 2014 with a night of western-themed family fun and entertainment for the whole family. Including an ice playground, community shinny hockey, blacklight activities, aerial artists, sleigh rides, fire performer and more • Dec 31, 4-8pm • $4 (adult), $2 (child), free (age 3 & under), $10 (family of 4) • Free

SPECIAL EVENTS CHRISTMAS REFLECTIONS • Fort Edmon-

ton • Until Dec 23

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Ave • Until Dec 23 • Free

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to: 780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; Twilight Zone Razamanaz Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (worldwide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank) DEEP FREEZE FESTIVAL • Alberta

Avenue Area, along 118 Ave, 91 St to 94 St • deepfreezefest.ca • The Vikings are coming • Jan 11-12

A FILIPINO FUNDRAISER • Pawn Shop • Sun, Dec 22, 2-11pm

NEW YEAR'S EVE DOWNTOWN • City

Hall, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • eventsedmonton.ca • Bring in the New Year at this event featuring fun for the whole family in City Hall (7pm); acts on the outdoor Main Stage (10pm).

Ending in the City of Edmonton's fireworks display (midnight); Public skating all evening • Dec 31, 7pm • Free • ETS will be operating extended hours from Dec, 31, 6pm until Jan 1, 3am; ETS fare will be free from 6pm-3am

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Habitat for Humanity’s On-Tap volunteer program allows busy people to get out and volunteer when they can This is a new volunteer program designed for busy volunteers who need to schedule shifts with very short notice. If you would like to volunteer but struggle to commit to a shift until the last minute because your schedule is so hectic, contact us to get more information about the On-Tap program. angela@hfh.org or 780-451-3416 ext 223.

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Habitat for Humanity’s On-Tap volunteer program allows busy people to get out and volunteer when they can ON-TAP VOLUNTEERS This is a new volunteer program designed for busy volunteers who need to schedule shifts with very short notice. If you would like to volunteer but struggle to commit to a shift until the last minute because your schedule is so hectic, contact us to get more information about the On-Tap program. angela@hfh.org or 780-451-3416 ext 223.

HFH.org Bells will be ringing November 14th - December 24th for the 2013 Christmas Kettle Campaign We are looking for volunteers to come out and ring in Christmas to help us reach our goal of $500,000.

We have 9000 volunteer hours to fill. If you have a few hours we would love to have you join us.

Call 780-423-2111 ext 241 to sign up or email:

edmonton_kettles@can.salvation army.org or online

http://www.salvationarmy.ca/ volunteer/

If you can’t make it out to a kettle but would still like to give visit: www.fillthekettle.com Can You Read This?

Help someone Who can’t!

Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills.

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Growing Facilitators Volunteer Opportunity Sustainable Food Edmonton offers a Little Green Thumbs indoor gardening program to schools and childcare agencies and we are looking for volunteers. A green thumb is not a pre-requisite. However, gardening experience and a passion for children and youth are an asset. For info and volunteer application form: www.sustainablefoodedmonton.o rg

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Habitat For Humanity is building a pool of volunteers to help us with renovations at our newest ReStore.

Flexible hours, no experience necessary If interested, please contact Evan at ehammer@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416 Habitat for Humanity is building at Neufeld Landing!

We are actively scheduling individuals and groups of volunteers for Canada’s largest project located in South Edmonton’s Rutherford area.

To get involved, go to www.hfh.org and register as a volunteer. Questions? Contact Kim. Beginners to trades people welcome. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch.

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Contact for more info about the event: Kim Sherwood 780-451-3416 ksherwood@hfh.org Habitat for Humanity requires volunteers for our ReStores We are recruiting customer service volunteers to help us at least one shift per week at store locations in north, south or west Edmonton. Customer service volunteers at our new and used building supplies stores help customers, load vehicles, clean items, stock shelves and many other tasks.

Help our community to recycle everything from furniture to building supplies!

Contact for more info about the event: Evan Hammer 780-451-3416 ehammer@hfh.org Habitat for Humanity requires volunteers for our prefab shop.

We are now booking 10 – 15 volunteers per day Beginners to trades people welcome to help us build walls for our build projects. We provide all tools and equipment. All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training. No minimum number of shifts required.

Contact for more info about the event: Kim Sherwood 780-451-3416 ksherwood@hfh.org Help someone in crisis take that first step towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

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Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!

Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 Room to Read is changing children’s lives in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our work, and spread the word about our amazing results.

Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org Strathcona County Victim Services Unit Become a Volunteer Advocate and work in conjunction with the RCMP to provide assistance, support, information and referrals to victims of crime and trauma in Strathcona County Advocates must live in the area, complete an RCMP Security Clearance and Alberta Solicitor General Training prior to volunteering. On-going professional development and training sessions are available and are provided at no cost to volunteers. The opportunity to attend conferences, seminars and workshops are also available.

If you have an interest in helping people within your community, and want to engage in challenging work in a team environment.......contact Stacey @ 780-410-4331 or stacey.grilo@strathcona.ca for more information.

Volunteer for I-Week 2014 (January 27 - February 1, 2014) Many volunteers are needed to help make International Week possible. We always have a need for people to help with our publicity campaigns on and off campus during January, plus introduce guest speakers, and make sure the I-Week events run smoothly. We also look for good writers who are interested in global issues to contribute to the I-Week blog.

If interested contact: felicia.liang@ualberta.ca Volunteering - Does your employer have a Day of Caring program?

We invite you to come and spend some time with us at Habitat for Humanity!

It’s easy to sign up a group of volunteers to work on one of our builds. Volunteers from beginners to garage “putterers”, to trades people come out and help us to build homes for families in our community. We provide all tools, equipment, safety gear and lunch. Volunteers work in small crews under the direction of our site supervisors. Our primary focus is safety and we have a fun, welcoming environment that’s great for an employee group to experience giving back to community together.

For more information, go to our website at www.hfh.org or contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232.

Volunteers Wanted

Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Room to Read is changing the lives of children in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality.

Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving. Skills in event planning, PR, marketing, graphic design are needed, but not essential. We welcome all volunteers. If this sounds interesting, email us at Edmonton@roomtoread.org

Volunteers needed at CHED Santas Anonymous CHED Santas Anonymous has been delivering the spirit of Christmas to the less fortunate children for 59 years in the City of Edmonton. To help with this work, we are looking for people to volunteer as 50/50 Ticket Sellers at two hockey games at Rexall place.

Oil Kings Game - Friday, December 6th. This will be a very exciting game as Santas volunteers will not only be selling the 50/50 tickets, we will also be selling Chuck Pucks and there will be a Teddy Bear Toss. At the first Oil Kings goal there will be a cascade of teddy bears as fans toss stuffed toys onto the ice.

Time commitment will be from 5pm to around 9pm, Dec 6th.

Oilers Game - Saturday, December 21st. Because it is so close to Christmas this is a great date for Santas volunteers to be selling 50/50s at an Oiler Game. The public will be responding very positively to our presence making for a very exciting event.Time commitment will be from 4:30pm to about 9:30pm Dec 21st.

For more information, visit our website at http://santasanonymous.ca , email

volunteer@santasanonymous.ca

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Volunteers needed at CHED Santas Anonymous CHED Santas Anonymous has been delivering the spirit of Christmas to the less fortunate children for 59 years in the City of Edmonton.

To help with this work, we are looking for people to volunteer as Greeters welcoming and signing in our warehouse volunteers. Our warehouse is located at 12345 121ST, inside Northgate Industries. Shifts available are: Saturday afternoons from 2pm to 5pm on Nov 16, Nov 23, Nov 30 and Dec7.

Sunday afternoons from 1pm to 3pm on Nov 17, Nov 24, Dec 1 and Dec 8.

Tuesday daytime hours available on Nov 19, Nov 26, Dec 3 and Dec 10.

Thursday afternoons from 3pm to 5pm on Nov 21.

For more information, visit our website at http://santasanonymous.ca , email

volunteer@santasanonymous.ca

or call Janet at 780 428-8697.

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Volunteers Needed for 114th Christmas Bird Count Volunteers needed at CHED Santas Anonymous CHED Santas Anonymous has been delivering the spirit of Christmas to the less fortunate children for 59 years in the City of Edmonton.

To help with this work, we are looking for people to volunteer as Toy Pickup Drivers collecting our toy donations from various locations around the city. To be eligible for this work, you must have a vehicle, show us your valid driver’s license and insurance and be willing to undergo a police check. You will need your vehicle for two or three trips a week to your location, where you will fill up the supplied bags with toy donations and bring them to our warehouse at Northgate Industries (12345 121 ST).

For more information, visit our website at http://santasanonymous.ca , email volunteer@santasanonymous.ca

or call Janet at 780 428-8697

Toy Pickup Drivers for CHED Santas Anonymous are needed at these locations: CHED RADIO STATION (5204 84 ST) - We need four volunteers for this location; one person for each day of the week, Tue-Frid. Pickups must be done before 5pm.

COSTCO SOUTH (2616 91 ST NW) - We would like to see two teams share this location (alternate days).

MILLWOODS TOWN CENTER (2331 66 ST NW) - We would like to see two teams share this location (alternate days).

SOUTHGATE MALL (5015 111 ST NW) WEEKDAYS - We would like to see two teams share this location (alternate days).

WALMART WINDEMERE (6110 Currents DR NW) - We would like to see two teams share this location (alternate days).

ON CALL DRIVERS sometimes a location driver cannot make a trip and the location will call us asking for a pickup as their box is full.

We need people who are available either morning or afternoons in all sections of town.

Between December 14, 2013 and January 4, 2014, hawkeyed volunteers across the continent will brave various weather conditions to count birds during the annual Christmas Bird Count. On Sunday, December 15 birders and nature enthusiasts in Edmonton will take part in this tradition, many rising before dawn to participate in the longest running wildlife census on the planet. Other regional counts include: December 14 Fort Saskatchewan & Lac La Biche; December 15 Stony Plain & Tofield; December 21 Devon; December 26 Elk Island; December 28 St. Albert & Strathcona County; January 4 Wabamun Lake & Camrose.

For more information about the Christmas Bird Count, visit Bird Studies Canada’s website at http://www.bsceoc.org/volunteer/cbc or visit www.christmasbirdcount.org We’re Seeking Volunteers for Our Casino! Workshop West We are holding our casino on January 1 and 2, 2014 at the Palace Casino, located at West Edmonton Mall. If you are interested in volunteering, please contact Natalia at tickets@workshopwest.org Volunteering for Workshop West Theatre is a great opportunity for independent theatre artists who are looking for affordable rehearsal space.

For every hour that you volunteer at our casino, you get three hours of free rehearsal space at EPIC Underground. For more information on EPIC Underground, email tickets@workshopwest.org

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Call for Proposals - Enterprise Square Galleries On behalf of the Enterprise Square Galleries, the University of Alberta Museums is currently inviting proposals from Edmonton visual artists, collectives, curators, and local arts organizations to produce an immediate exhibition or project in our West Galleries for early 2014.

We welcome all types of media, and all sizes of exhibitions and projects.

Programming is adjudicated by the Enterprise Square Galleries Program Committee.

We provide the following: -

Volunteers needed at CHED Santas Anonymous CHED Santas Anonymous has been delivering the spirit of Christmas to the less fortunate children for 59 years in the City of Edmonton. To help with this work, we have been granted a booth at the Edmonton Christmas Show 2013 which runs from Nov 28 to Dec 1st. We are looking for volunteers to help us man the booth. Shifts are mornings, afternoons and evenings. We will be setting up a silent auction table and a table with information on CHED Santas Anonymous.

Please visit our website at http://santasanonymous.ca for more information on CHED Santas Anonymous and the Edmonton Christmas Show 2013 event.

Interested people may contact Janet at

volunteer@santasanonymous.ca

or 780-428-8697.

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Up to 4500 ft≤ of climatecontrolled exhibition space (see diagram of Galleries F, G, H, & I) - 24-hour security - Assistance with installation - Up to $10,000 towards exhibition costs to share amongst successful applicants - Gallery attendants and reception desk staffing during public opening hours - Public opening hours: Thursday-Friday 12-6pm, Saturday 12-4pm Read full call for proposals For more information regarding proposal submissions, contact Riva Symko, Gallery Lead, 780-492-5834.

DEADLINE: January 3rd, 2014, 4:30pm (Note: University of Alberta offices are closed December 25th – January 1st inclusive.)

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2013 Palaeo Arts Contest at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, AB. This year, our scientists have selected a Stygimoloch skull to discover and interpret through art. Our annual Palaeo Arts Contest is open to all grade levels, has prizes for every winner, including two $500 draw prizes that are awarded to schools, and offers the chance to have students’ winning artwork displayed at the Museum.

For more information, including topics for each grade level, visit: http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/ Palaeo_Arts_Contest.htm.

Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), a contemporary public art gallery, seeks submissions from artists working in all styles and mediums for exhibition in the 2015 calendar year.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "Life is best organized as a series of daring ventures from a secure base," wrote psychologist John Bowlby.

Some of you Aries enjoy the "daring venture" part of that formula, but neglect the "secure base" aspect. That's why your daring ventures may on occasion go awry.

If you are that type of Ram, the first half of 2014 will be an excellent time to correct your bad habit. Life will be offering you considerable help and inspiration in building a strong foundation.

And if you already appreciate how important it is for your pursuit of excitement to be rooted in well-crafted stability, the coming months will be golden.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): When did you first fall from grace?

Do you remember? It has happened to most of us. We spend time being privileged or cared about or respected and then, suddenly, we no longer are. We lose our innocence. Love disappears. Our status as a favourite comes to an end. That's the bad news, Leo. The good news is that I think the months ahead may be time for you to climb back up to one of those high states of grace that you fell from once upon a time. The omens suggest that even now you're making yourself ready to rise back up—and sooner than you think, there will be an invitation to do so.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Here's a tale of three renowned Taurus brainiacs: Immanuel Kant, John Stuart Mill and Bertrand Russell. They all had IQs over 175 and made major contributions to philosophy. Yet all three were physically inept. Kant had trouble keeping a sharp point on his writing instrument, the quill, because he was clumsy using a knife. Mill was so undexterous he found it a chore to tie a knot. Russell's physical prowess was so limited he was incapable of brewing a pot of tea. Chances are that you are neither as brilliant nor as uncoordinated as these three men.

And yet, like them, there is a disconnect between your mind and body—some glitch in the way the two of them communicate with each other. The coming year will be an excellent time to heal the disconnect and fix the glitch.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Leonardo da Vinci created the painting St Jerome in the Wilderness around 1480. It now hangs in the Pinacoteca Vaticana, a museum in Vatican City. For several centuries, though, the treasured work of art was missing. Legend tells us that in the early 19th century, Napoleon's uncle found the lower half of the painting in a junk shop in Rome. Years later he stumbled upon the top half in another back alley, where it was being used as a wedge in a shoemaker's bench. I foresee the possibility of a comparable sequence unfolding for you in 2014, Virgo.

You just may manage to restore a lost beauty to its proper place of honour, one step at a time.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): A horticultural company in the UK is selling TomTato plants to home gardeners. Each bush grows both cherry tomatoes and white potatoes. The magic was accomplished through handcrafted hybridization, not genetic engineering. I foresee a comparable marvel in your longterm future, Gemini. I'm not sure about the exact form it will take.

Maybe you will create a product or situation that allows you to satisfy two different needs simultaneously. It's possible you will find a way to express two of your talents in a single mode. Or perhaps you will be able to unite two sides of you that have previously been unbonded. Congratulations in advance!

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "To destroy is always the first step in any creation," said the poet E E Cummings. Do you buy that idea, Cancerian? I hope so, because the cosmos has scheduled you to instigate some major creative action in 2014. In order to fulfill that potential, you will have to metaphorically smash, burn and dissolve any old structures that have been standing in the way of the future. You will have to eliminate as many of the "yes, buts" and "I can'ts" and "not nows" as you possibly can.

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LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): The Italian painter Tintoretto (1518 – 1594) was a Libra. He worked with such vigour and passion that he was nicknamed Il Furioso— The Furious. One of his crowning achievements was his painting Paradise, which is 74 feet long and 30 feet tall—about the size of a tennis court. It adorns a huge wall in the Doge's Palace, a landmark in Venice. I propose that Tintoretto serve as one of your inspirational role models in 2014.

The coming months will be an excellent time for you to work hard at crafting your own personal version of paradise on Earth. You may not be so wildly robust to deserve the title "Il Furioso." But then again, you might.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Between 2002 and 2009, Buddhist monk Endo Mitsunaga spent 1000 days meditating as he did a ceremonial walk around Mount Hiei in Japan. In 2006, English writer Dave Cornthwaite took 90 days to skateboard across the entire length of Australia, a distance of 3618 miles. The first man's intentions were spiritual, the second man's adventurous.

The coming months will be prime time for you to contemplate both kinds of journeys, Scorpio. The astrological omens suggest you will generate extra good fortune for yourself by seeking out unfamiliar experiences on the open road.

To get yourself in the mood, ruminate on the theme of pilgrimage.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Many farms in California's Tulare County grow produce for supermarket chains. Here's the problem: those big stores only want fruits and vegetables that look perfect. So if there are brown spots on the apples or if the zucchinis grow crooked or if the carrots get too big, they are rejected. As a result, 30 percent of the crops go unharvested. That's sad because a lot of poor people who live in Tulare don't have enough to eat. Fortunately, some enterprising food activists have begun to work out arrangements with farmers to collect the wasted produce and distribute it to the hungry folks. I gather there's a comparable situation in your life, Sagittarius: unplucked resources and ignored treasures. In 2014, I hope you take dramatic action to harvest and use them.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Derrick Brown has a poem titled "Pussycat Interstellar Naked Hotrod Mofo Ladybug Lustblaster!" I hope that at least once in 2014 you will get up the nerve to call someone you love by that name. Even if you can't quite bring yourself to utter those actual words, it will be healing for you to get to the point where you feel wild enough to say them. Here's what I'm driving at, Capricorn: in the coming months, you will be wise to shed any inhibitions that have interfered with you getting all of the free-flowing intimacy you'd love to have.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): "Artists who are content merely to hone their gifts eventually come to little," says the Belgian writer Simon Leys. "The ones who truly leave their mark have the strength and the courage to explore and exploit their shortcomings." I'd like to borrow that wisdom and provide it for you to use in 2014, Aquarius. Even if you're not an artist, you will be able to achieve an interesting kind of success if you're willing to make use of the raw materials and untapped potential of your so-called flaws and weaknesses.

Whatever is unripe in you will be the key to your creativity.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): In 2014, you will have the mojo to escape a frustration that has drained you and pained you for a long time. I mean you can end its hold on you for good.

The coming months will also provide you with the chance to activate and cultivate a labour of love that will last as long as you live. While this project may not bloom overnight, it will reveal its staying power in dramatic fashion. And you will be able to draw on the staunch faith you'll need to devote yourself to it until its full blessings ripen. V

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19 Litter critter 20 Bite-size 21 Handy children’s game 23 Advance 26 Deep sleep 27 Consumer protection org.

30 On the Caribbean, poetically 32 Nobel Peace Center city 35 Scenic fly-fishing activity (one hour behind)?

40 Cookie in pie crusts 41 Drone, for instance 42 Frozen drink company with a polar bear mascot 43 The key elixir (one hour behind)?

46 Short footrace 47 PayPal co-founder ___ Musk 48 Electronics co. whose slogan was once “So Real” 49 Baseball stat 52 “Carmina Burana” composer 54 2,640 feet 58 Bird in the constellation Aquila 62 Retail chain that offers meatballs 63 Airline hanging on the edge (three hours ahead)?

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37 “The Voice” judge/coach Green 38 Intense devotion 39 Person who’ll argue about Windows vs. Linux 44 Baba au ___ 45 Derive by reasoning 50 Promotional gimmick 51 Former Washington senator ___ Gorton 53 Viper features 54 The ___ from French Lick (Larry Bird) 55 “Konvicted” hip-hop artist 56 Joking Jay 57 Shakira’s “___ Noche Voy Contigo” 59 Golf lesson subject 60 Maggie’s sister 61 CPR experts 64 Skin design, briefly 65 Star’s propulsion, maybe? ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

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