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"I don't know to what extent they're willing to work like dogs."

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"His poetic take on Michel Faber's novel about an alien woman preying on men."

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"Just think about how nicely something sweet is combined with something smoky and salty like bacon in a dessert."

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"The big thing was that it did not have a happy ending: she dies at the end."

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"It was like I was making excuses for the album before people even heard it."

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U of L Launches Native American Art program This fall, the Faculty of Fine Arts launched the BFA: Native American Art program (NAA), one of only three such programs in Canada, and the only program of its kind to exist in western Canada. Combining courses in Native American Studies, Art History/Museum Studies and Art Studio, this program paves the way for students to succeed and participate in the complex and evolving global dialogue of indigenous art history and contemporary art practices.

With strong support from the University of Lethbridge and collaboration of the departments of Art and Native American Studies, professors Tanya Harnett, Anne Dymond and Jamie Warn directed the program’s implementation. Driven to design a challenging and dynamic program for both Native American Studies and Fine Arts candidates, their contributions have led to a de�ining and groundbreaking focus of study within national and international contexts.

“The NAA program is designed to engage with and broaden our Canadian identity and history,” says Tanya Harnett. “Our students are not only on the cutting edge of this important study, they’ll be making the edge.”

Offering two streams, Art Studio and Art History/Museum Studies, students develop a professional portfolio, incorporating strong theoretical and practical components enriched with courses taught

from a First Nations perspective by the Department of Native American Studies.

“First Nations artists, curators, and art historians are provided the skillset and advantage to give them opportunities in the future,” Harnett says. “We recognize the high demand for quali�ied, educated professionals with these skills, and we know our students will be sought after.”

Studio applicants are required to submit a portfolio showcasing their work for admission to the program. Admissions and Portfolio Advisor, Erin Kennett, is providing opportunity for portfolio feedback and critique before �inal submission, for interested applicants, over the next few months.

BFA (Art), BFA (New Media), BFA (Theatre and Dramatic Arts) and B. Mus (Digital Audio Arts). Applicants are reminded that the deadline to apply for the Fall 2014 semester is June 1, and the deadline for portfolio submission is June 15.

For the surrounding Southern Alberta community and for the greater national communities and peoples, the BFA (NAA) program is poised to make signi�icant contributions through its faculty and students. “We are excited to see the program grow, and to see the U of L continue to take the lead in this important �ield of study,” Harnett adds.

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“Through these workshops, candidates will receive one-on-one feedback for their portfolios, and we will discuss the elements that are successful and those that need further focus and improvement,” explains Kennett. “It’s a great way for those who are interested in receiving feedback to make necessary changes to their portfolio, speci�ically for potential entrance to the program.”

Appointments for individual portfolio workshops are bookable online, lethbridgeportfolioworkshop.eventbrite. com, and any questions may be sent to �inearts.admissions@uleth.ca. Portfolio workshops are available to all Fine Arts applicants with portfolio requirements:

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Confiscation time With the news that a driver went to absurd lengths to watch videos on his laptop while speeding and veering across lanes in a winter storm, distracted driving is once again at the forefront of traffic discussions around Alberta. If drivers don't heed warnings about talking on the phone, let alone balancing their laptops on their dashboards, then it's apparent—as it always has been— that the $172 fine for distracted driving is a laughable deterrent. In a world where gadgets have become habitual extensions of the body, perhaps it's time for a more personal punishment.

What ever happened to good old-fashioned confiscation? When children disrupt entire classrooms by favouring a noisy toy over the task at hand, their gadgets are taken away and they're left feeling singled out and embarrassed. But when drivers are caught splitting their attention between icy roads and their phones, they're allowed to simply carry on, their phone in one hand

The police routinely confiscate alcohol, drugs and even cars if the user is shown to be using them for ill, yet phones have become strangely sacred. and a marginal fine in the other.

The sting of a fine heals quickly. The fear of inconvenience and the shame of having your phone temporarily confiscated, however, might make earnest tech addicts think twice about taking their focus off of the road.

We increasingly consider our phones to be one of the body's vital organs, and that even a day of separation is devastating. Sounds like the perfect opportunity to give distracted drivers a chance to consider their actions. Give police the legal authority to catch badly veering and obviously distracted drivers, confiscate and impound their phones for 24 hours, and leave them to continue on down their lonesome path, cut off from the world and alone with their guilty thoughts. To add to the frustration, the guilty parties will have to answer to friends and families, who will inevitably begin to ask why their calls and texts have gone answered.

The final punishment? Having to pick up their phones from the police station after 24 hours. If the inconvenience of taking time out of their day to visit the cop shop isn't infuriating enough, maybe it will dawn on them how absurd it is that so much stress and anger has centred around the compulsion to use such an insignificant gadget.

The police routinely confiscate alcohol, drugs and even cars if the user is shown to be using them for ill, yet phones have become strangely sacred, despite being an ever-present distraction for drivers. As adults, we should know when to resist the temptation to cling to our flashy devices.

Repeatedly, it seems we need authority figures to embarrass us and make us think about what we've done. V

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NEWS // YEAR IN REVIEW

Mandela's memories

Comic book of late South African president's life focuses on lesser known points

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lready one month ago—an eon in our hyper-speed 24/7/365 news-era—the tributes to Nelson Mandela, dead at 95, flooded news channels, info super-highways and Wi-Fi ports. So what can a comic book offer?

Tribute: Nelson Mandela is, after all, the latest in a line of comics from Bluewater including tributes to Frank Capra, Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor.

Yet this 24-pager mostly avoids being a facile ode to political celebrity, offering instead an imaginative frame for Mandela's life and a fairly complex context for his South African struggle.

Mandela's story is one of belief and obstinacy butting heads with injustice until, at last, the brutality of institutionalized bigotry's ended. It's a post-colonial tale of a man who went beyond that cliché of "one side's freedom fighter is the other side's terrorist" to become, after 27 years in jail, the first democratically-elected leader of his nation—a nation that finally abolished the racial segregation imposed on it by the white minority after more than four decades under its rule.

Still, Mandela's recent political celebrity—as one of last century's still-living great resistance leaders, along with Aung San Suu Kyi—has led to some simplistic tributes. Haroon Siddiqui, in a recent Toronto Star column, notes that, though unreported by the mainstream media, Mandela was a supporter of Israel but also a staunch supporter of the PLO (Israel PM Benjamin Netanyahu refused to attend the Soweto memorial), support that only magnifies the sense of Israel as an apartheid

state, oppressing its own majority population.

Clay and Susan Griffith's story doesn't skip over Mandela's violent opposition to the gov-

Tribute: Nelson Mandela Bluewater, 24 pp. $3.99 (Digital version $1.99)

ernment in the early '60s, where he was part of sabotage and bombing campaigns. But they place it within the nation-wide shadow of the state's constant oppression and violence. Police shootings of protestors in 1976, for instance, just push more to join the resistance.

The book's opening—where, at Mandela's 1994 inauguration as PM, the ghosts of a Thembu chief, a Xhosa warlord and Mandela's law partner and friend Oliver Tambo all gather to look back on his life so far, even arguing with white PM F W Botha—has Mandela informed by the spirits of his past, steeped in a strong historical sense of injustice, and guided and supported by wise elders and brave peers. And he's not merely defined or controlled by apartheid—that system isn't explicitly mentioned until almost a third of the way in.

While there's some stiffness to most frames, with the visuals providing more snapshot-moments than a fluid narrative, Pablo Martinena's images can still be powerful: photo-like drawings of Johannesburg in 1941; police walking among bodies after the 1960 Sharpeville massacre; Mandela's requests to leave Robben Island to attend his mother's and oldest son's funerals, denied each time.

Only in its last few pages—Stevie Wonder and Michael Jackson popping up at Mandela's third wedding, Diana and Bono appearing like Tussaud waxworks—does Tribute: Nelson Mandela stumble into idolatry, lurching between a Westernized political-celebrity parade and flashes of Mandela's late-in-life activism.

BRIAN GIBSON

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NEWS // INFILL DEVELOPMENT

New neighbours, old neighbourhoods City invites community discussion about infilling to combat urban sprawl

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he Way We Grow, Edmonton's Municipal Development Plan adopted by city council in 2010, called for an open-planning process that enabled residents to participate in policy development and planning for growth and change. One of the key priorities identified in the MDP was increased infill development in order to help revitalize neighbourhoods and optimize the use of existing infrastructure.

To that end, the city wants to increase the amount of development in established neighbourhoods to 25 percent of all new development, up from the current 15 percent.

Evolving Infill is a three-step project that was launched in November that seeks to marry both of those goals and engage Edmontonians in a conversation about future development in our city's established neighbourhoods. Step one involves the gathering of residents' feedback regarding infill development.

City staff say the first of two citysponsored workshops, though held on an extremely cold November morning, was well-attended. The second will be held Janurary 9 at 6:30 pm at the Woodvale Community League (at the Millwoods Golf Course, 4540 - 50 St).

For those inclined to stay indoors, the city has set up a number of online discussion forums where residents can offer their opinions on a number of topics related to infill development or just browse through previous comments, where both concerns—such as the ability for deteriorating infrastructure to withstand increased densification—and suggestions for the way the city can improve—like consulting with neighbours before the shovels hit the ground—can be found.

In addition to the workshops and online forums, residents are invited to complete Residential Infill workbooks which are available at

all public libraries and online at edmonton.ca/evolvinginfill.

Recognizing that some people might want to have discussions with others before submitting their comments to the city, the Newton Community League (5520 - 121 Ave) is hosting two Residential Infill Discussion Workshops on Sunday, January 12 from 2 to 5 pm and on Monday, January 27 from 7 to 9:30 pm.

Gordon Tabachniuk, who redeveloped a property in a mature neighbourhood himself and is enthusiastic about promoting this type of development, is helping to coordinate the workshops, which are open to residents from across the city.

"It's an important way for us to combat sprawl, a challenge facing Edmonton and all major cities," he says.

For those who really want to get their teeth into it, the city is inviting residents, infill builders and devel-

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opers, real estate representatives and members of community and civic groups to apply to be part of step three: the Infill Action Collaborative, a group which will work with city staff to make recommendations the city might consider to better support infill development.

Through five workshops to be held between February and April, IAC members will go through the feedback gathered during the first part of the project.

Lisa Larson, Acting Senior Planner with the city, encourages Edmontonians to engage in both steps of the process.

"It really will help us as a city to develop a shared understanding of what is important to us as we move ahead," she explains. "What we gather here will provide the foundation as we move forward to identify and prioritize our future actions."

MIMI WILLIAMS

MIMI@VUEWEEKLY.COM

COVER // FARM CO-OPS

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've helped out on many family farms, and I love them. I think they're great.

It's not my dream. My dream's a little bit different."

David Laing is a young Edmonton man offering me tea to keep warm at his new apartment for the winter. I can picture him during the summer with soil under his fingernails and his heart on his sleeve. Laing is president of Edmonton's Seeds, Feeds, and Needs Cooperative, which just finished its first agricultural season.

"I'm trying to build a co-op farm, a community farm," Laing says. "Something where we're bringing people together.

We're sharing profits. We're making decisions collectively and building community around agriculture."

Using a mix of garden space throughout the city and a farmer's field 45 minutes away in New Sarepta, they were able to start farming before having land of their own.

Laing is one of many young faces around the country actively involved in building an agricultural movement that embraces sustainable practices and local availability. Unlike familiar images of quaint, organic family farms or massive corporate farms, there are more and more people going into agriculture as worker co-operatives.

"When it comes to how we're structured, every member of the co-op has voting power, has equal say, everyone's ideas are valued," Laing says. "We don't hire workers to work for us; we all work together and we're all equals."

Worker co-operatives are diverse. At the base of them, however, is a simple formula: three or more workers can start a co-operative where they—the membership—democratically own the venture. This membership has access to employment. Just like other businesses, owners share the risk, and the returns, of their investment. Some are non-profit.

"In the very sense of the worker-to-boss relationship, we're trying to smash that down from the start and build something different, something new, something revolutionary," Laing explains.

That they're a "revolutionary" co-op isn't surprising given that the group formed out of the Occupy Edmonton protests of 2011 – 2012. Seeds, Feeds, and Needs views "food as a right, and poverty as a form of violence." So far the group has sold vegetables within their networks to afford supplementing groceries for local projects and events that challenge food-poverty.

Occupy was just one of many other social movements around the world to have renewed public interest in cooperatives. The 2008 and onward economic crisis, which fuelled these movements, highlighted the far-reaching economic impacts that a few people can have over many. Co-ops in their very structure expand the eligibility for decision-making to a defined membership. For example, those who rent in a housing co-op, those who bank at the

credit union or those who work at the worker co-op. Canada has a long tradition of co-operatives, the rarest being worker-owned enterprises.

Former National Farmers Union researcher and writer Darrin Qualman describes a "debt-bomb ticking beneath barnhouses." He wrote the chapter "Advancing Agriculture by Destroying Farms?" in the 2011 book Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems. Here he argues that the growing debt farmers are facing is the direct result of policy favouring big agri-business. Canadian farms today, on average, incur more than $20 in debt for every $1 of net income—a figure that has skyrocketed seven-fold since the '70s.

Guaranteed debt surpassing one's income by 20 times is far from a safe career choice. No wonder many young people are leaving farming behind.

From 1991 to 2006, Qualman notes there was a 62-percent drop in the numbers of young farmers in Canada.

Combine this with the overall loss of family farms in Canada during the past 20-odd years, and one sees the likely loss of over half of the country's intergenerational family farms.

Natalie Dyck grew up on one such Manitoba family farm, where "inedible monocrops" and "scary GM experiments" were grown for market. The old family farm now only has one relative running it—the "only one who had the interest, but also ... the capital to take it

power dynamics that they had been a part of. And they just saw a need for this type of education in the community and wanted to see this kind of edible urban space everywhere."

Instead of waiting for the right job to come along, they hired themselves.

"What has kept me in an urban setting," Dyck says, "why I know this is where I want to be right now, and why I love the worker co-op that I'm part of is that we have all these limitations we're forced to work within and be really creative."

The co-op rents a room as an office space from one of its members. "In the backyard we have our makeshift greenhouse. And then down the back lane, we rent a garage from someone else to keep all our tools in. We do all our building in a back alleyway: we can't accumulate any stock, so that really limits our growth. But where are we going to find a space that fits all [of the compost] boxes, that we can afford, that's in the inner city?"

At the same time family farms are disappearing, the mega-farms (organic and conventional) are expanding. Canada's 7500 largest farms—from a total of about 200 000—produce 40 percent of the country's output.

It's these large farms (or at least those who own them) that Qualman argues are benefitting most from inter-governmental subsidies and deregulation over multinational investment and ownership of farmland.

Qualman examines the widely held

It's these large farms (or at least those who own them) that Qualman argues are benefitting most from inter-governmental subsidies and deregulation over multinational investment and ownership of farmland. on," Dyck says. "It was a family affair— many generations living on the same land. We would have some of these cash crops, but we still had our garden and our orchard that people took care of and that actually fed us."

Now Dyck lives in Winnipeg. In a few months, she will have passed her probation at Urban Eatin' Gardeners Worker Co-op. She will no longer be just a worker, but a boss (along with the rest of her co-workers). Their company functions as a contractor. Edible and permaculture landscaping, creating compost systems, assisting community groups launch and sustain community gardens are just some of the things they get hired to do.

Dyck spoke to me at the last annual conference of the Canadian Worker Cooperative Federation, which took place in St Albert in November.

Urban Eatin's founding members "were all interested in making a livelihood from being a gardener," she says. "I think they had all been working in landscaping and realized some really awful

notion that Canadian farms are becoming more efficient in production.

"In the current context," he writes, "'efficiency' does not mean reducing input and energy use within the system, it means reducing the number of farmers, while the use of every other input is increased."

a machete. As her farm's only native English-speaker, she's stuck with the interview request.

"I think there are a lot of people right now who are interested in agriculture, but I don't know to what extent they're willing to work like dogs," she says. "A lot of people come out and they're like 'oh, this is so nice' but no one's coming out to help on days when it's five degrees, you're harvesting carrots and you can't feel your hands." She chuckles, adding, "The paperwork sucks. ...

The start-up costs aren't easy either: tractors and land. There are ways to do it, though."

Elwell's Co-operative Les Jardins de la Résistance, on the outskirts of Ormstown, has made farming possible on a shoestring budget. After having moved to one of Quebec's regions of high unemployment with her partner and child, Elwell was looking for a new line of work that could help pay the bills.

Unlike independent farmers, Elwell and her colleagues can claim employment insurance in the winter like other seasonal industry workers. (Recent reforms to EI by the federal government now make it harder to remain in one's seasonal industry while claiming EI, which worries her.)

Yet, unlike the rest of her coop's members, she hadn't put in the organic agriculture industry's standard entry-level time of doing no-wage and lowwage labour while learning the trade. Now she is a coowner of the business, even though her hourly wage is close to minimum.

Thanks to the local and nearby Montréal residents who signed up in advance, Elwell's co-op knew they had 160 boxes of vegetables and honey to deliver regularly for 20 weeks of the year. The stability of their income throughout the season guaranteed the co-op 160 paid hours of work for each week of the season.

"I definitely wouldn't want to work in any other structure," she says. "I like the co-op structure a lot. I wouldn't want to be by myself doing this. It would be lonely and a lot of work."

These three farms are certainly not the only worker co-op agricultural ventures in Canada. Glorious Organics in BC's Fraser Valley has been operating since the '80s.

In that province, even with a regulated Agricultural Land Reserve, farm land costs skyrocketed by 76 percent between 2001 and 2006, according to Hannah Wittman and Herb Barbolet in Food Sovereignty in Canada.

It isn't just a question of getting started in agriculture in a way that meets one's

ideals. In Canada's agricultural context, it increasingly looks like the most viable option a young farmer can afford is coop farming.

When asked if she has any parting words that she would share with young people considering going into agriculture, Elwell laughs. "Always fertilize your kale every six weeks! Being a farmer's great. Do it. It's not that scary, you've just got to do it."

PETER DRIFTMIER

PETER@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Peter Driftmier is a freelance journalist in Calgary. He can generally be found back in the kitchen where he belongs.

In Ormstown, Quebec Jessica Elwell takes time from her September workday to speak with me as she walks down a row of deep and almostneon-coloured Romanesco cauliflower, harvesting just the big ones with

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RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

To poke or not to poke

The Alberta government fails to make the case for the flu shot Last week, Alberta's Health Minister Fred Horne issued a news release calling on all Albertans, especially health workers, to get immunized against the flu. As always, the release was accompanied by extensive information about the potentially lethal effects of the flu for those with compromised health, especially seniors, small children and those suffering from other conditions such as heart disease, cancer and HIV/AIDS. According to the news release, only 21 percent of Albertans overall, and about 49 percent of health workers in particular, have received the flu shot this year.

"These rates are too low to adequately protect Albertans, their families and communities," Horne said.

The minister seems sincere in his desire to see all Albertans be immunized. And his goal of maximizing the number of health workers who get the flu shot every year seems perfectly logical.

What is missing from the government's communications around the flu, however, is a reason for immunization that would be compelling for a

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majority of Albertans.

Albertans and Canadians see the flu as a fact of life. It happens every year, and for a huge majority of people who contract the flu it requires no medical intervention whatsoever. For most people who get the flu, it just means a week or so in bed feeling really, really crappy.

Yes, we understand that those who are most vulnerable should get the vaccine because they are the ones who tend to end up seriously ill and requiring medical intervention when they get the flu. We also get that those in regular contact with vulnerable populations should get the vaccine to avoid contaminating those folks. But why should everyone else get the vaccine?

The Alberta government has historically provided two stock answers to this question.

The first is the economic argument.

Apparently every year the flu costs the Alberta economy millions of dollars in productivity because of people missing work when they're sick. This is referenced on the Alberta Health website as one of the key impacts of

the flu, and even the minister's press release of last week highlighted that this year's flu is especially concerning because "we are seeing younger working-age adults being hospitalized." Leading with this argument makes clear, or at least gives a strong sense, that the government's main rationale for wanting 100 percent immunization is primarily about business profits and the bottom-line, not public well-being. How compelling is that argument likely to be for Albertans as a whole? Don't get immunized for your sake, do it for your boss and the economy.

The other reason the government gives for wanting people to get immunized is that our emergency rooms can't handle the influx of people showing up with flu symptoms, and the system as a whole can't handle the number of people requiring hospitalization because of the flu. Just to be clear here, the government's news release said that 251 Albertans have been hospitalized because of the flu to date.

That number is apparently start-

ing to "limit access to hospital beds, and put strain on other health-care resources."

The obvious question here is how broken is our health-care system that it becomes overwhelmed by the hospitalization of 251 people across the province? The flu is a fact of life in Alberta. Even if we achieved 100 percent immunization, the vaccine is only 59 percent effective in adults aged 18 – 64, so the influx at the province's hospitals would not be significantly diminished. The problem is a healthcare system that is constantly operating at or over capacity—you don't fix that through increased vaccination, you fix that through predictable and adequate funding and proper management.

The accompanying problem here is a population worked into a tizzy by alarmist media reporting on the flu and government news releases highlighting the number of deaths. Most people do not need medical attention for the flu, yet the province's emergency rooms are full of folks there with nothing more than standard flu symptoms. Perhaps instead of begin-

ning an expensive program to report which health-care facilities have the highest rates of staff immunization, Alberta Health should be investing in educating Albertans about when they should head to the hospital and when they should stay home. It's likely that would have a greater impact on overcrowding in emergency rooms than an increase in immunization rates.

If the government is serious about wanting to increase the rate of immunization, then it is incumbent upon them to provide us with good scientifically based public-health reasons for why we should go get the flu shot every year. If all they're prepared to tell us is that we should get vaccinated because they've underfunded health care and to protect corporate profits, then a majority of Albertans will continue to opt for risk of flu rather than the vaccine. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

EU citizenship: the gold standard

Balkan citizen's right to move from their home countries creates needless "benefit tourism" scare

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New Year's Eve is always loud in our part of London, but it quieted down after all the drunks eventually staggered off home—and to our astonishment, it stayed quiet all the next day. We waited and waited for the predicted hordes of Romanian and Bulgarian "benefit tourists" to throng our streets, stealing and begging and applying for Jobseekers' Allowance (as the dole is now known). But they never showed up.

It's enough to make you doubt the trustworthiness of the popular press.

For months right-wing British politicians and their allies in the tabloid papers have been warning that on

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January 1, when citizens of the Balkan countries that joined the European Union seven years ago finally got the right of free movement throughout the EU, Britain would be inundated by poor Romanians and Bulgarians.

The Conservative Party, which dominates Britain's coalition government, rose to the occasion. Henceforward, the government announced, immigrants will be charged for emergency hospital treatment and they will have to wait three months before applying for unemployment benefit.

Prime Minister David Cameron even suggested last month that the principle of free movement of EU citizens among the member countries should be changed to curb "mass population movements" when new members join. It's too late to impose that rule on Bulgarians and Romanians, who are already EU citizens, he said, but while they are free to come to Britain and look for a job, "There is not freedom to come and claim."

This is the "benefit tourism" notion: that poor eastern Europeans will move to the United Kingdom not to get a job, but to live off the state, claiming unemployment pay, social housing and other benefits that should be reserved for honest British workers. Even Cameron has had to admit that there is no "quantitative evidence" that this phenomenon

actually exists. Nevertheless, he talks about it constantly as if it did.

But the whole thing is a charade, and Cameron's "new" restrictions on immigrants don't actually change anything. In practice, new immigrants to Britain already had to wait three months before gaining access to unemployment benefits and it is not legally possible for Britain to charge EU citizens for medical care. The Conservative Party in Britain has just been churning out fake solutions to phantom problems.

It is doing so entirely to ward off the challenge from its emerging far-right rival, the anti-EU, anti-immigrant United Kingdom Independence Party, which has been poaching alarming numbers of right-wing Conservative voters. With an election due next year, Cameron is running scared, and has got into a "nastier-than-thou" bidding war with UKIP. The anti-immigrant voters Cameron is pandering to will not change their minds when the predicted tidal wave of Balkan immigrants does not happen, nor will he change his story.

He will simply claim that it was his emergency measures that stopped it. But this tempest in a teapot highlights the sheer power of the principle of free movement within the European Union. It is what makes

EU citizenship the gold standard in terms of passports.

Like the United States and the Canadian province of Quebec, several EU countries offer fast-track residence permits to foreigners who will invest a large sum in the local economy: from $400 000 in Greece to $15 million in the United Kingdom.

But they still actually have to live in the country in question for up to five years before getting their citizenship and passport, and the average jetsetter wants more for his money.

A US passport is no longer so desirable, because US tax and reporting requirements apply to American citizens no matter where they live in the world and many countries impose tit-for-tat visa requirements in response to US border controls.

Moreover, it's getting easier to obtain an EU passport.

Last November Malta, the smallest EU member, announced a program that skips the residence requirement and simply sells Maltese passports to "high-value" individuals who are willing to pay the government 650 000 euros ($885 000). It's quite a reasonable price for a passport that confers the right to live and work almost anywhere in Europe and also offers a visa waiver for travel to the United States.

There was an outcry by offended

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Maltese patriots, but they were mollified when Prime Minister Joseph Muscat's government raised the price to 1.15 million euros ($1.6 million) a few days ago. So now we know the real value of an EU passport.

Who buys these passports? Mostly rich Chinese: 248 out of 318 residence permits issued by Lisbon in the past three months to people who invested 500 000 euros ($680 000) in Portuguese property went to Chinese nationals. And there is no shortage of potential customers: a Bank of China survey revealed that almost half of the Chinese citizens with assets worth more than 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) are considering moving abroad.

Any EU passport—Portuguese, Latvian, Irish, whatever—gives its holder the right to live anywhere, work anywhere, set up a business anywhere in a community of 28 countries with a total population of more than 500 million people. It is the principle of free movement that makes it so valuable and no amount of protest by "Little Englanders" on the right of British politics is going to change that. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Alive, sinks its teeth into April, while Jonathan Glazer (Sexy Beast) gets Under the Skin with his poetic take on Michel Faber's novel about an alien woman (Scarlett Johansson) preying on men. David Gordon Green returns to his indie, artsy roots with Joe, starring Tye Sheridan as a Mississippi teen desperate to escape his alcoholic father and make some money.

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orget 3D, sequels and franchises; film's not about the mainstream anymore but the main screen—the big versus the little. So, even if these picks of 2014's pics don't first make a splash in that mega-multiplex or your local art-house, they'll be flowing into your smaller home-entertainment consoles within weeks (Exhibit A: if last year's Cannes winner Blue is the Warmest Color doesn't hit E-town by February, it'll be on disc via the Criterion Collection a few weeks before that LA red-carpet

awards ceremony which is sure to overlook it). Without further to-do, here's a to-Vue list: Winter's Tales After only mainframing major cities in mid-December, Spike Jonze's nearfuture romance-drama Her, about a man (Joaquin Phoenix) falling for his operating system, should reroute its way here, via one device or another, before spring. Asghar Farhadi's tangled Parisian drama The Past arrives trailing awards (two from Cannes

alone) and the glory of his previous, A Separation. Another Cannes good, Paolo Sorrentino's Rome-rumination The Great Beauty, is due in cinemas February, then on disc (Criterion) by March. Also coming from Criterion: Alexandre Moors' take on the 2002 Beltway killers, Blue Caprice (January), and Shaul Schwarz's doc about the pop-cult growing up around Mexico's drug-cartels, Narco Cultura (February).

The Wind Rises, the story of a 1930s Japanese plane-designer and writer-

director Hayao Miyazaki's supposed swansong for Studio Ghibli, should land in February. Also from Japan comes Hirokazu Koreeda's Like Father, Like Son, in which a man discovers the boy he's been raising for six years is not his. The Grand Budapest Hotel is the place and the '20s is the time for Wes Anderson's latest wry and whimsical escapade, come March.

Spring Jim Jarmusch's Detroit-set take on the fang-thriller, Only Lovers Left

The Small Screen More fuel for those pundits blazing on about TV being the new cinema— the first, Southern Gothic season of procedural True Detective, directed by big-screen up-and-comer Cary Fukunaga (Sin Nombre), starring Alisters Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson, and set in Louisiana, debuts on HBO in January. Hot on its heels comes Looking, co-created and directed by Andrew Haigh (Weekend), about three gay men in San Francisco on the lookout for relationships. And the channel will climax its torrid threesome of filmdirector-led projects in the fall with comedy series Togetherness, from mumblecore brother-directors Mark and Jay Duplass. (Meanwhile, it's not clear when or even if Agnieszka Holland's Burning Bush, an HBO Europe miniseries that aired there, about the 1969 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, will be released here.)

Next week: leftovers from 2013 and freshly-wrapped films whose ETAs are unknown, from docs and animation to foreign flicks and strange litadaptations.

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Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

Filmin' a selfie like there ain't no ghosts around

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t's June in Oxnard, California, and cheerfully unemployed best friends and neighbours Jesse (Andrew Jacobs) and Hector (Jorge Diaz) ease into their first post-graduation summer. Jesse gets his hands on a GoPro, which he

uses to document tequila shots with his that not only has Hector drawn a dick abuelita, dancing with his Chihuahua and on his face in Magic Marker, but there's convincing Hector to hurl himself down also an inexplicable, unerasable circuthe stairs of their two-story walk-up in lar mark on his arm. Soon after he's usa rubber storage container. When asked ing an old electronic game as a Ouija how it feels to be out of high school, board, and soon after that he begins Jesse replies, "I feel like a man now." to sense that he has superpowers, or When a shut-in in their building is maybe a guardian angel! Rather than killed and their fight crime, consult a parapsychologist class valedictorian is fingered as prime Now Playing or report to the suspect, Jesse and Directed by Christopher Landon FBI, Jesse opts to Hector decide to  blow up an inflatdo a little private able mattress really fast on camera— investigating—a few hits from the bong is all it takes to which he and Hector immediately put turn these guys into Shaggy and Scooby online and await approving comments.

Doo. They break into the victim's home All of this is pretty hilarious. Think of and find everything covered in dust, in- Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones cluding a huge collection of VHS tapes as a genre/sociological experiment: and a nursery. But wait, the dead lady What happens when you put teenage didn't have any children. Hmm ...

Chicanos into an otherwise garden vaThe next morning Jesse wakes to find riety American horror story? You get

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comedy—or half a comedy, anyway. I wish it stayed a comedy.

Watching The Marked Ones you realize just how rare genuine ethnicity—not to mention class diversity— is in American horror, which is nearly always about white people and their token black/Asian/Hispanic pals. A veneer of normalcy is essential to most horror stories, but it seems that writer/ director Christopher Landon or someone else overseeing the PA franchise clued into the fact that the American normal has shifted since Amityville.

To be sure, The Marked Ones capitalizes on racial or class stereotypes, but this is (half-) comedy, and comedy is partially dependent on the shared recognition of stereotypes. I'd argue that the film doesn't use stereotypes at the expense of its characters.

Now about that other half. As The

Marked Ones burrows deeper into its not-very-mysterious mystery, the hijinx fall away and the humdrum boo moments accumulate. A conspiracy is uncovered. "He said they're witches trying to build an army or some shit," says the MIA valedictorian killer's gansta brother. Where the movie was previously ridiculous in a good way, it soon just gets really dumb. There's too much pointless exposition, the car won't start, and no matter how much hair-raising mayhem unfolds, the camera always stays on and is always pointed in the right direction. At least the final moments forge a connection to the PA mythology that's so absurd you have to laugh. The audience I saw it with laughed like crazy.

They knew exactly what kind of movie they wanted this to be.

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Manufacturing Consent

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Running at nearly three hours without anadian filmmakers Mark Achbar and Peter Wintonick's sprawling, a minute wasted, Manufacturing Coninquisitive and playful Manufacturing sent weaves together archival footage of Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media Chomsky in various public debates—go(1992) serves not only as a useful intro- ing toe-to-toe with withering William F duction to the work and ideas of the Buckley or engaging in a convivial discustitular US linguist, author, political ana- sion about ideal societies with the great lyst and activist—it French philosopher was discovering Sun, Jan 12 (2:45 pm) Michel Foucault— film that got me Directed by Mark Ackbar & and original footreading Chomsky in Peter Wintonick age of Chomsky my late teens—but Metro Cinema at the Garneau on a speaking tour, also as an implicit Originally released: 1992 lining the whole interrogation of itthing with amiself, documentary able, slightly corny filmmaking being not so terribly distant transitions that imbue a winning sense from the other forms of media critiqued of momentum. Given the unavoidable throughout. Returning to the film in gloss on some of Chomsky's complex 2014, it's astonishing to note just how accusations of irresponsibility in newsmany of Chomsky's once controversial making, the film also benefits from its ideas have become mainstream, the granting airtime to representatives of questioning of insidious corporate in- the New York Times, a frequent target fluence, for example, being de rigueur of Chomsky, who rightly point out that for anyone attempting even a passing mainstream media is not guided by assessment of news delivery in almost some cabalistic conspiracy, while failing any platform—including ones that to provide adequate explanations for, didn't exist two decades ago. most pointedly, the grievous dearth of

reportage devoted to the genocide in East Timor. (The film also champions the tireless efforts of independent media to offer alternative viewpoints. Hooray for us!)

Manufacturing Consent screens as part of Metro Cinema's Salute to Peter Wintonick, the film's Montréal-based, Governor General Award-winning coauthor, who died from cholangiocarcinoma last November. He was 60. Aside from being an ideal representation of his life's work, the screening of Manufacturing Consent is especially fitting given Wintonick's numerous amusing appearances throughout, interviewing a train conductor, directing a broadcast in an empty football stadium and reading with his then very young daughter, Mira Burt-Wintonick, who would later become one of his key collaborators.

A portion of the admission will be donated towards the completion of Wintonick's final film, Be Here Now.

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How I Live Now istence as if for a video-diary: two dogs suddenly bound on a teen; a young girl prattles on to her Fri, Jan 10 – Wed, Jan 15 cousin; fighter jets Directed by Kevin Macdonald suddenly whoosh Metro Cinema at the Garneau over a country house. But these  are the fleeting digital snaps of a rural idyll on the brink of dystopia.

Scoffing, hygiene-superconscious American teen Daisy (Saoirse Ronan) is visiting her English cousins just when Europe seems on the verge of World War III. And sure enough, one afterOn the brink of the apocalypse? Probably listening to Morrissey noon, the dust of fallout—a nuclear n 2011, Kevin Macdonald sent out a day in 2010. The best moments of bomb in London—snow-falls from the call for and then helped edit 80 000 Macdonald's similarly titled How I Live sky. (Echoes of kids relocated to the clips into Life in a Day, a crowd-sourced Now, an adaptation of Meg Rosoff's collage of people's recordings one July Young Adult novel, glimpse a fragile exCONTINUED ON PAGE 11 >>

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City of God

Let the Fire Burn even at the time—MOVE exhibits a radicalism that feels a product of the late '60s and early '70s, not the Regan-era, while the recklessness of the authorities (acting, ironically, under the watch of Philadelphia's first black mayor) feels like it could just as easily have transpired in the reactionary present. Despite a commission designed to investigate and dissect the authorities' decisions (the commission's hearings provides the film with its central structural device), no one involved in the siege was ever punished, and Let the Fire Burn ends abruptly and unresolved.

An arresting doc

City of guns, too. Lots of guns.

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ity of God, grossing $30-million towards the suddenly reformed crimiworldwide, was more central to nal—only to shatter the sideviewBrazil's apparent cinematic renais- mirror we've just been watching him sance in the late '90s and early '00s in. There's no knowing quite exactly which alleyway than Walter Salles' the film will turn moving Central down next—and Station (1998) or Mon, Jan 13 (6:45 pm) that sense of kids' José Padilha's cru- Directed by Fernando Meirelles unknown, streetcial Bus 174 (2002). and Kátia Lund side fate in the It even proved Metro Cinema at the Garneau favelas is perfectly popular enough to Originally released: 2002 reflected by City of be spun by its diGod. God rectors into a likeWhether framing one unholy trinity minded (and very good) TV series that ran four years, City of Men (itself spun in the '60s or another in the '70s— the "Tender Trio," then L'il Zé (Leanback out into a film in 2007).

Fernando Meirelles and Kátia Lund's dro Firmino da Hora), Benny (Phellipe film, from Bráulio Mantovani's adap- Haagensen), and narrator Rocket (Altation of Paulo Lins' novel, spans 20 exandre Rodrigues)—the film's full years in the neighbourhood-life of of a sunny toughness and breezy Cidade de Deus, a favela in western chumminess, with boys and men Rio. But it spins and veers and sambas hanging out or smooth-talking or beand bossa novas. Gritty, period-piece ing hoodlums. The amateur actors— social-realism gets remade as an es- nearly the entire cast—are superb, thetically raucous docu-fictional epic, from spirit and swagger to chat and revelling in the camera's zooms and glower. But these criminal lives are no circles, in editing's freeze-frames and more idealized by the zinging, singing camerawork than, say, car thief Mitime-lapses. chel is idealized by Godard's style in One sequence is all about the gen- Breathless; the chilling confrontation erations of dealers that an apartment of two little thieves by Zé and his pals sees pass through it. Minutes after the midway through soon puts a bullet opening, which eyes a soon-to-be-din- through any romanticism. Now into ner cock at ground level, a once-cocky its adolescence, Meirelles and Lund's thief limps off to church to go straight, 2002 film still seems wild, different the police pass right by him to kill an and fervidly new. innocent, and the gun they plant on BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM that kid goes off, the bullet whizzing

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rresting, upsetting and neces- through the use of archival matesary, Let the Fire Burn chronicles rial; the filmmakers' intervention was the catastrophic siege on the black limited to the layering of music and separatist group MOVE's residential expository titles and, of course, the headquarters by Philadelphia authori- editing of the archival material into a ties back in May of 1985. Both sides coherent, informative and relentlessof the conflict contributed to a gener- ly gripping narrative by Osder and his al air of confusion and imminent vio- editor Nels Bangerter. The choice to make Let the Fire lence, with MOVE agitating their Fri, Jan 10 – Thu, Jan 16 Burn a found footage documentary w o r k i n g - c l a s s Directed by Jason Osder was a wise one, neighbours, build- Metro Cinema at the Garneau at once humble ing rooftop bun-  with regards to kers and displaythe imposition ing arms, while the authorities executed a poorly of a thesis or authorial stamp and a planned, apparently revenge-driven brilliant display of Osder's curatoattack (a Philadelphia police officer rial approach to historical assets. was killed during an earlier confron- Most of the archival material, drawn tation), appallingly unprepared yet from TV news broadcasts, judicial armed for overkill. By the time the proceedings and the like, was shot siege ended 11 people were dead, on video, which locks the events in five of them children, and three city time—the qualities of the image and sound place us firmly in the late '70s blocks were reduced to rubble.

First-time director Jason Osder opt- and early to mid '80s. But this dating ed to relay the siege and the events effect only emphasizes how anachleading up to it almost entirely ronistic the event must have felt

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With or without closure, life, of course, goes on. Until it doesn't. Of the two survivors of the siege, one, Ramona Africa, remains committed to MOVE's hazy, "anarcho-primitivist" ideology. The other, Michael Ward, then known as Birdie Africa, was only 13 when the siege occurred. His videotaped deposition provides Let the Fire Burn with its most moving refrain. Ward's parents separated when he was two and he was subsequently raised in MOVE. He was malnourished and illiterate. Forbidden to communicate with the outside world, he had never been to school and could not tell time. He was reunited with his father following the siege and received an education. The film's closing titles inform us that Ward is currently working as a longhaul trucker. In fact, in the months since the film's first screenings, Ward died in a drowning accident while vacationing aboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean. He was 41. His mother died by fire, he by water. The whole thing feels like a tragedy, one that demands to be reckoned with.

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Keeping the faith

David Gordon Green returns to inventiveness with Prince Avalanche

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avid Gordon Green has had one of the more prolific and peculiar careers in 21st century movies. Born in Arkansas and raised in Texas, he made George Washington (2000), his feature debut, after graduating from the North Carolina School for the Arts.

Green was still in his mid-20s, yet his craftsmanship, film literacy, attention to landscape and behaviour, and ability to draw captivating naturalistic performances from a cast comprised largely of non-actors indigenous to his rural location seemed preternaturally mature while running on pure instinct. Somewhat entranced with its own awkwardness, an unkind viewer could call it precious, but George Washington is a film I find impossible to be unkind to; it's gorgeous, warm, curious, race-blind and age-blind, inherently timeless and flowing with tenderness. It remains Green's strongest work, though many of its successors make such an appraisal easy.

All the Real Girls (2003), Undertow (2004) and Snow Angels (2007) retained the authentic regional flavour, sensitivity to character and obvious affection for the maverick directors of the '70s (Altman, Ashby, Malick, et cetera), but they also used genre and semi-famous actors in ways that felt self-consciously quirky. By the end of Green's string of box-office-oriented, high-concept comedies Pineapple Express (2008), Your Highness (2011) and The Sitter (2011), it was easy to forget that he might be one of his

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generation's most distinctive filmmakers. (Though it would be misleading to limit an assessment of Green's career to his feature directorial credits; he's also the producer of numerous independent films and produced and directed episodes of Eastbound and Down.) When praising Green amongst discerning film buffs I've often received glances of incomprehension, but I can't shake the integrity or promise of his early work. I don't believe for a moment that anyone trying to forge a steady and diverse career in the industry is necessarily going to remain in full control of everything they work on, nor do I believe that Green has ever knowingly sold out. I've interviewed him twice and, for what it's worth, I don't detect a cynical cell in his grey matter.

Which brings us to the present and two reasons to feel vindicated for keeping faith in Green's cinematic vision. With some luck, Joe (2013), Green's absorbing adaptation of the eponymous Larry Brown novel, which stars an excellent Nicolas Cage, will find its way to local screens soon.

Prince Avalanche (2013) meanwhile has already had its brief theatrical run—which, alas, did not include Edmonton—and is now available on DVD and Blu-ray. Loosely based on the Icelandic film Either Way (2011), Avalanche—the title an endearingly goofy amalgamation of its twin protagonists names, Alvin and Lance—

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stars Paul Rudd and Emile Hirsch as two guys—one older and engaged, the other younger and preoccupied with getting laid—who spend the summer painting lines on a remote stretch of highway, camping along the way and forging an unlikely but perfectly plausible bond.

The film was prompted by the Texan band Explosions in the Sky, who proposed collaborating with Green on a project to be made in Barstop State Park, which was recovering from a massive fire. Avalanche was then hastily developed and put into production, and the urgency seems to have brought out Green's inventiveness and his capacity for crafting story and character from the simplest ingredients. (The film also exhibits Green's enduring affection for predigital culture, since I can't figure out any other reason for setting the story in 1988.) The focus is squarely on the rhythms of work and downtime, on the funny way time has of transforming misunderstanding into its opposite, or the way men can be oblivious to their own bullshit. Alvin is uptight and pompous and poor Lance is, well, a few quarts short, but it's adorable, not to say frequently hilarious, to observe their struggles to communicate, to express vulnerability and imagine their respective futures.

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he two most appealing charac- her mouth may not actually be canters in August: Osage County are, cerous, it isn't hard to imagine how alas, barely in the movie, but they're extended exposure to her tirades both in the first scene, in which poet may contribute to long-term illness. and patriarch Beverly Weston (Sam The excess of meds probably doesn't help. She's blitzed half Shepard) provides the time and stoned Johnna (Misty Up- Opens Friday the other half. Unham), his new house- Directed by John Wells surprisingly, her kids keeper, with some  (Julia Roberts, Juliette vital details regarding Lewis, Julianne Nichher employers' sundry idiosyncrasies and preferred sources olson) don't much like her, though of inebriation, along with a volume they've got problems of their own, of T S Eliot. Very soon after this ex- mostly involving men, one of whom change Beverly will disappear and all is a first cousin.

The script was adapted by Tracy his adult children and their respective families will descend on the Weston's Letts from his own play (which was sepulchral rural Oklahoma home. The recently produced at the Citadel). ostensible purpose of this dysfunc- There are intermittently riveting, tional family reunion is to put collec- venomous moments in the extendtive wits together and discern where ed group scenes which help those "old unfathomable dad" has run off to. who haven't seen August on stage Yet rather early in August you get the (myself included) imagine its darksuspicion that what passes for story ly comic appeal. But the needless here is little more than a platform transitional scaffolding surrounding upon which a great deal of acting is such moments dampens the impact to be displayed and admired. At least and emphasizes the general air of Johnna has something to read. She phoniness. Letts' characters invite the sort of expansive performances has her work cut out for her.

Headlining August's august en- that might fill a theatrical space, but semble is Meryl Streep as Violet, in a movie as deeply conventional Beverly's wife and mother to his as this one, they mostly come off kids, a woman known for cruelty as wearyingly showy. It's rare to see and garrulousness. She has cancer Streep's legendary chops used as of the mouth, and while what exits such a blunt instrument.

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countryside because of the Blitz ripple through the film.) But romance creeps in, too, with Daisy falling for cousin Edmond (George MacKay); it's all rather precious and hokey, capped by her postcoital declaration to him that if "you don't survive, then I don't want to live at all." (Take that, feminism!) It's a bit like an earthier version of the moon-eyed Meyer-Mormon slo-mance of Ronan's other 2011 adaptation, The Host.

August was helmed by television titan turned feature director John Wells, a tasteful ham. He takes a fundamentally middlebrow approach to material that pleads to be deeply unsettling. Where director William Friedkin was only too eager to exploit the grotesque in Letts (see Killer Joe), Wells seems not to have registered it at all. The cocktail of abuse, incest, racism, adultery, suicide and madness at the story's core are softened at every turn.

Wells clearly likes actors but fails to let them dominate; he overwhelms their work with inserts, reaction shots, ostentatiously poignant framing and, most of all, Gustavo Santaolalla's gentle musical score, which gets papered over anything that might have otherwise made us uneasy, such as Violet vomiting by the side of the road or the eerie deployment of Eric Clapton's cheerful "Lay Down Sally."

It's hardly a spoiler to say that the search for dad, like August as a whole, goes nowhere. There are some excellent moments, and Margo Martindale is very good as Violet's sister, but mostly this is no country for nuanced performances or earned catharsis. You can't really blame Beverly for walking away from it all.

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As the film's digital postcard-flashes become splintered looks at a war-torn landscape, the harshness and bitterness of survival, and of lost daughters' self-blame and hurt amid preying men, seep in more and more. But this adaptation remains too much about one girl just loving, now; it's a post-apocalyptic pop-song that has its moments but doesn't quite chart.

in your

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When Daisy and little Piper (Harley Bird) are separated from the boys and forced to live with a duty-bound suburban couple, some short, sharp images hint at her newfound resolve and survivalist determination to get back to them ... but it's all for love, a simpering, mushy kind at odds with the more cutting visual moments. Daisy's Edmond-obsession and clichéd mantras ("You just have to focus on your goal") could be better explained by her battle with anorexia, but that conflict in Rosoff's book isn't raised here—though Daisy's moments of self-

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WED 10:10

MON-THU 6:30, 10:00

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (PG) Closed Captioned

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse,

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (STC) Closed

SAT-SUN 12:00, 2:30; 3D : FRI-SUN 4:55

9:00; MON-THU 9:00

sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 2:45, 6:30, 10:15; SUN 2:15, 6:00, 9:50; MON-THU 12:20, 4:15, 8:20

Captioned, No passes THU 9:30

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG not rec

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A coarse language) FRI 6:50,

for young children, violence) Closed Captioned FRI 3:30, 6:50, 10:10; SAT-SUN 12:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10; MON-THU 6:55, 10:15

9:10; SAT-SUN 2:00, 6:50, 9:10; MON-THU 6:50, 9:10

Captioned FRI-SUN 12:40, 3:50, 7:20, 10:30; MON-THU 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A language may offend, crude content) Closed Captioned FRI 3:50, 6:45, 9:45; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:20, 6:15, 9:15; MON-WED 6:40, 9:30; THU 6:30, 9:30

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse,

language) ULTRAAVX: FRI, SUN 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; SAT 10:50, 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; MON-THU 1:40, 4:40,

sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI 6:00, 10:00; SAT-SUN 1:30, 6:00, 10:00; MON-THU 8:00; VIP 18+: FRI 8:00; SAT 1:00, 5:15, 9:30; SUN 2:30, 7:00; MON-THU 8:30

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed

7:30, 10:30

DEVIL'S DUE (STC) Closed Captioned, No passes THU 10:00

HER (14A sexual content, coarse language, mature subject matter) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15; MON-THU 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE, THU 12:50, 3:40, 7:00, 9:50; WED 4:00, 7:00, 9:50; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00

PUSS IN BOOTS (G) SAT 11:00 AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (STC) SUN 12:55; WED 7:00 CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585

47 RONIN 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 3:40, 7:10, 10:20; SAT 12:45, 3:50, 7:20, 10:20; SUN 12:20, 3:40, 6:45, 9:45; MON-THU 6:40, 9:45 LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse

THU 9:55

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned SAT-SUN 11:50; 3D: Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 3:25, 7:00, 10:30; MON-THU 6:30, 10:00 SAVING MR. BANKS (PG mature subject matter) Closed

HER (14A sexual content, coarse language, mature

frightening scenes, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 5:25, 7:45, 10:00; SAT-SUN 12:55, 3:10, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00; MON-THU 7:50, 10:05

subject matter) Closed Captioned FRI 4:00, 7:40, 10:40; SAT 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; SUN 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50; MON-WED 7:00, 10:00; THU 7:00, 9:50

LANDMARK CINEMAS 9 CITY CENTRE 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7018

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) , DTS Stereo, FRI-SUN, TUE 12:00, 4:00, 8:00; MON, THU 4:00, 8:00; WED 3:00, 8:00

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 12:00; SUN-THU

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse lan-

1:50; 3D : FRI-SAT 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; SUN-WED 4:30, 7:05, 9:40; THU 4:30, 7:05

guage) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:50, 3:55, 7:15, 10:10; MON, WED-THU 3:40, 6:45, 9:45

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (PG) Closed Captioned

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital, FRI-SUN, TUE 12:20, 3:20, 6:40, 9:35; MON, WED-THU 3:10, 6:20, 9:20

young children, violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 12:40, 4:10, 7:35, 10:45; SUN-THU 1:20, 4:40, 8:00

HER (14A sexual content, coarse language, mature subject matter) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:40, 3:40, 6:55, 9:50; MON, WED-THU 3:30, 6:35, 9:30

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) FRI-SAT

SAVING MR. BANKS (PG mature subject matter)

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG not rec for

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (STC) No passes

language) Closed Captioned FRI 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; SAT-SUN 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; MON-THU 6:50, 9:40; VIP 18+: FRI 7:00, 10:30; SAT 12:15, 3:30, 7:00; SUN 12:30, 4:00, 8:00; MON-THU 6:45, 10:00

Captioned FRI 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35; SAT 11:10, 2:05, 4:55, 7:45, 10:35; SUN 1:05, 3:55, 7:00, 9:45; MON-THU 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00

FRI-SUN 12:20; MON-THU 1:40; 3D : FRI-SAT 2:35, 5:00, 7:25; SUN 2:35, 5:15, 7:40; MON-THU 3:55, 6:45

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Closed Captioned FRI 3:40, 6:30, 9:20; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20; MON-THU 7:30, 10:15

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A language may offend, crude content) Closed Captioned FRI 4:35, 7:30, 10:25; SAT-SUN 1:40, 4:35, 7:30, 10:25; MON-THU 7:20, 10:10

PUSS IN BOOTS (G) SAT 11:00 GRANDIN THEATRE–ST ALBERT Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (PG) DAILY 12:55, 2:45, 4:30

frightening scenes, coarse language) Closed Caption, Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 1:20, 3:45, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45; MONTHU 1:20, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned, DTS Stereo FRI-SUN, TUE 12:55, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00; MON, WED-THU 3:20, 6:40, 9:40

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) DAILY 1:10,

violence) DAILY 1:30, 4:30, 7:05, 9:55

HOMEFRONT (14A substance abuse, brutal violence, coarse language) DAILY 1:20, 4:35, 7:25, 9:45

JACKASS PRESENTS: BAD GRANDPA (14A coarse

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A, frightening scenes, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:40; SUN 1:10, 3:25, 5:45, 7:55, 10:05; MON 1:10, 3:25, 5:20, 7:35, 10:10; TUE-THU 1:10, 3:25, 5:45, 7:55, 10:10

language, crude content, not rec for children) Closed Captioned DAILY 9:20

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) No passes

DHOOM 3 (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. DAILY 1:00, 4:45, 8:45

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A language may offend, crude content) FRI 2:15, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45; SAT 1:25, 5:05, 7:55, 10:45; SUN 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50; MON-WED 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:50; THU 4:05, 6:50, 9:50; Star & Strollers: THU 1:00

ALL IS LOST (PG coarse language) DAILY 9:35 GIRL, BOY, BAKLA, TOMBOY (PG) DAILY 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:40

PATIALA DREAMZ (PG) Punjabi W/E.S.T. DAILY 12:55, 4:00, 6:45, 9:35

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

47 RONIN 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:50; SUN 2:30, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45; MON-THU 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned FRI 2:10; SAT-SUN 11:30, 1:10, 2:10; MON-THU 1:10; 3D : FRI-SUN 5:00, 7:40, 10:20; MON-WED 7:10, 9:55; THU 7:10

THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; MON-WED 4:00, 6:45, 9:20; THU

4:00, 6:45

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (PG) Closed Captioned FRI 1:50; SAT-SUN 11:40, 1:50; MON-THU 1:30; 3D : FRI-SUN, TUE 4:00, 6:10; MON, THU 3:45, 6:10; WED 4:00

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG not rec for young children, violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:10, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00; MON-THU 12:15, 3:20, 6:40, 10:00

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05; SUN 4:15, 7:10, 10:05; MON-TUE, THU 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05; WED 4:10, 7:15, 10:05; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00

THU 9:40

GRUDGE MATCH (14A) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 10:05; MON-WED 9:10

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI 12:15, 12:45, 4:15, 4:45, 8:15, 8:45; SAT-SUN 12:45, 4:15, 4:45, 8:15, 8:45; MON 1:05, 1:35, 4:55, 8:45, 9:45; TUE 1:05, 2:10, 4:55, 6:00, 8:45, 9:45; WED 1:05, 2:10, 4:55, 8:45, 9:45; THU 1:05, 2:10, 4:55, 8:45, 9:35 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG

LANDMARK CINEMAS 10 CLAREVIEW 4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

FROZEN 3D (G) FRI, MON-THU 6:45; Closed Captioned, Digital 3d SAT-SUN 12:45, 6:45

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 8:00; SAT-SUN 12:00, 3:50, 8:00

47 RONIN (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital SAT-SUN 3:40; 3D : FRI, MON-THU 7:05, 9:55; SAT-SUN 12:35, 7:05, 9:55

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A,

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI 12:20; SAT 11:45; SUN-THU 1:00

MON 7:30

AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER (STC) SUN 12:55; WED 7:00

frightening scenes, coarse language) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:50, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:55, 3:30, 6:50, 9:35

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (STC) Closed

EVANGELION: 3.0 YOU CAN (NOT) REDO (14A

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) 3D : FRI 3:00, 6:50, 10:20; SAT 3:15, 6:50, 10:20; SUN-THU 4:30, 8:10

violence) SAT 12:55; THU 7:30 CINEPLEX ODEON WINDERMERE CINEMAS Cineplex Odeon Windermere, Vip Cinemas, 6151 Currents Dr, 780.822.4250

language) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MONTHU 7:00, 9:55; SAT-SUN 12:05, 3:05, 7:00, 9:55

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (STC) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital THU 9:25

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned SAT-SUN 12:10; 3D : FRI

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital

Captioned DAILY 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40

3:40, 6:20, 9:10; SAT-SUN 3:00, 5:40, 8:20; MON-WED 6:35, 9:20; THU 6:40

SAT-SUN 3:20

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A,

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG not rec for

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital SAT-SUN 12:30

SAVING MR. BANKS (PG mature subject matter) Closed

frightening scenes, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 12:30, 3:55, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45; SAT-SUN 12:20, 3:55, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45; MON-THU 1:45, 3:55, 6:15, 8:30, 10:40

young children, violence) Closed Captioned FRI 4:15, 7:30, 10:45; SAT 12:20, 3:40, 7:30, 10:45; SUN 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:05; MON-WED 6:50, 10:10; THU 6:55, 10:10

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A language may offend, crude content) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:35; MON-THU 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) VIP 18+: FRI 5:30, 9:30; SAT 2:00, 6:00, 10:15; SUN 1:30, 5:30, 9:45; MON-THU 7:30; 3D : ULTRAAVX: FRI 3:30, 7:00, 10:30; SAT 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30; SUN 2:30, 6:30, 10:15;

GRUDGE MATCH (14A) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE 8:20;

12 FILM

free admission for child 12 and under

PILGRLIMAGE–Salute to Peter Wintonick (STC) SAT 7:30

IMAGERY AND MUSIC–Live Show (G) TUE 7:00

GRUDGE MATCH (14A) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:55, 9:50; SAT-SUN 12:10, 3:00, 6:55, 9:50

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

47 RONIN 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 7:20, 10:15; MON-THU 7:00, 9:50

FROZEN (G) SAT-SUN 11:40, 2:20; 3D : FRI-SUN 5:00, 7:40, 10:20; MON-WED 7:10, 9:55; THU 7:10

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) DAILY 12:50, 4:45, 8:45

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:40, 3:50, 7:15, 10:30; MON-TUE, Thu 12:40, 3:50, 7:15, 10:25; WED 4:00, 7:15, 10:25; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language) ULTRAAVX FRI-SUN 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:45; MON-THU 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20

AN AMERICAN TAIL–Reel Family Cinema (G) SAT 2:00;

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed

Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-WED 9:25

FRI-SUN 9:50; MON-WED 9:30

DEVIL'S DUE (STC) No passes THU 10:00

CITY OF GOD–Crime Watch (18A violence and coarse

Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:30, 9:30; SAT-SUN 12:20, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

GRUDGE MATCH (14A) Closed Caption, Descriptive Video

SAT 5:30; SUN 9:30; MON 9:30; WED 9:30

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A language may offend, crude content) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 7:10, 10:00; SAT-SUN 12:25, 3:15, 7:10, 10:00 Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MON-THU 6:35, 9:45; SAT-SUN 12:15, 3:25, 6:35, 9:45

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A language may offend, crude content) Closed Caption, Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:40; MON-THU 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:30

THE THING–DEDfest (18A gory violence) FRI 11:30

subtitles: SUN 6:15

V FOR VENDETTA (14A violence, coarse language)

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG

1:00; TUE 9:30; THU 9:30

MANUFACTURING CONSENT–Salute to Peter Wintonick (PG) SUN 2:45

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG

Captioned, No passes THU 9:30

Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI, MONTHU 8:10; SAT-SUN 4:00, 8:10

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Closed

PUSS IN BOOTS (G) SAT 11:00

METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU

HOW I LIVE NOW (14A coarse language, violence) FRI 9:00;

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10; SUN 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10; MON-THU 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:05

3:45, 6:30, 9:10

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (STC) Closed

SAVING MR. BANKS (PG mature subject matter) Closed

HER (14A sexual content, coarse language, mature subject matter) FRI-SAT 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:30; SUN-WED 1:15, 4:25, 7:20, 10:10; THU 4:25, 7:20, 10:10; Star & Strollers: THU 1:00

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) DAILY 1:15, 4:25, 7:55

LET THE FIRE BURN (14A) FRI 7:00; SAT 3:45, 9:30; SUN

Captioned FRI-SAT 12:50, 4:00, 7:20, 10:15; SUN 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:55; MON-WED 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55; THU 1:05, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55 language) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; SUN 1:25, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15; MON-THU 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15

guage may offend, crude content) DAILY 1:45, 4:15, 7:00, 9:20

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, DTS Stereo FRI-SUN, TUE 12:10; 3D : Dolby Stereo Digital DAILY 4:00, 7:45 Captioned, DTS Digital THU 9:15

not rec for young children) FRI-SUN 12:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:20;

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A,

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) DAILY 9:25

OUT OF THE FURNACE (14A coarse language, brutal

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG–AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG violence, frightening scenes,

rec for young children) DAILY 6:15, 9:00

language may offend, crude content) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 4:05, 7:05, 10:15; MON, THU 3:45, 6:50, 9:35; WED 3:45, 9:35

3:45, 6:40, 9:25

Caption, Descriptive Video FRI, SUN 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; SAT 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; MON-TUE, THU 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; WED 4:10, 10:00; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A lan-

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (STC) Closed Cap-

Captioned FRI 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; SAT 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; SUN-THU 1:30, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15

SAVING MR. BANKS (PG mature subject matter) Closed

MON-THU 2:30, 6:45, 10:10

LAST VEGAS (PG coarse language, sexual content)

THE BOOK THIEF (PG) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:05,

Descriptive Video, No passes THU 9:45

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG vio-

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG violence, not

FROZEN (G) DAILY 1:00, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20

SAVING MR. BANKS (PG mature subject matter) Closed

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Closed Caption, Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 1:00, 4:00, 7:15, 10:00; MON 1:00, 4:00, 10:15; TUE-WED 1:00, 4:00, 7:05, 9:50; THU 1:00, 4:00, 9:50

lence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Caption, Descriptive Video DAILY 1:45, 5:30, 9:15

language) Closed Captioned FRI 4:15, 7:10, 10:05; SAT-SUN 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:05; MON-THU 6:50, 9:45

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A

3:55, 7:20

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS (PG) Closed Captioned

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse

Stereo FRI-SUN, TUE 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40; MON, WED-THU 3:15, 6:30, 9:25

tioned, No passes THU 9:50; 3D : High Frame Rate Ultraavx: FRI-SAT 12:00, 3:30, 7:10, 10:50; SUN 12:00, 3:30, 7:10; MON-THU 3:00, 6:30, 10:05

scenes, not rec for young children) FRI-SUN 10:30; MON-WED 9:45

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (STC) Closed Caption,

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:45, 5:20, 9:00; MON-WED 2:30, 6:10, 9:35; THU 2:30, 6:05, 9:30

FREE BIRDS (G) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:40l 3D : DAILY

THOR: THE DARK WORLD 3D (PG violence, frightening

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI 4:25, 8:20; SAT-SUN 12:30, 4:25, 8:20; MON-THU 7:40

RUSH (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned DAILY 9:15 Closed Captioned DAILY 1:35, 4:25, 7:10, 9:50

FROZEN (G) Closed Caption, Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 12:00; MON-THU 1:15; 3D : FRI-SUN 2:35, 5:15, 7:55; MON-THU 4:15, 7:00

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG not rec for young children, violence) Closed Caption, Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:25; MON-THU 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:05

INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A coarse language) DTS

DAILY 1:45l 3D : DAILY 4:15, 6:55

1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:35; MON-THU 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A,

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G)

WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

47 RONIN 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes) FRI-SUN

FRI-SUN 12:20; MON-THU 12:45; 3D : FRI-SUN 2:40, 5:00, 7:20; MON-THU 3:30, 6:55

Closed Captioned, DTS Stereo FRI-SUN, TUE 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:30; MON, WED 3:00, 6:15, 9:15; THU 3:00, 6:15

1:15, 4:10, 7:30

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM

Captioned FRI 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; MON-THU 6:40, 9:40

12:05, 2:45, 5:30, 8:10, 10:50; SUN 1:35, 4:20, 7:20, 10:00; MON-THU 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:45

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) Closed Captioned DAILY

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) FRI 9:00; SAT-SUN 3:00,

JILLA–Edmonton Movie Club (STC) Tamil with English

language throughout) Portuguese with English subtitles: MON 6:45

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PREVUE // PORK

An evening of pork Swine and Dine makes use of local protein

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ork isn't often given the spot- to have such readily available meat light—that is, unless bacon is from local producers all around us. involved. But pork, and Alberta pork specifically, will be front and centre VW: Are you able to give any details at the Swine and Dine dinner, a six- as to what the courses will consist of? course event featuring innovative There was talk of a pork dessert. How (and gluten-free) dishes highlighting did you manage that?

DP: In our new all things pork. cooking world it is The menu was Wed, Jan 15 quite common to originally meant Edmonton Petroleum Club, $75 use bacon in desto be a collabo- (advance) serts. I am not reration between edpetroleumclub.com inventing anything. chefs Doreen Prei and Eric Hanson, who worked togeth- There was a time where you could see er at Alberta Pork's event Christmas so many chefs doing bacon maple vain November and competed alongside nilla ice cream. Just think about how one another at Taste of Edmonton's nicely something sweet is combined Black Box Chef Off (where they tied with something smoky and salty like for first place.) Unfortunately, Han- bacon in a dessert. So that was very son—who is now a chef at North 53— easy, the easiest course to be honest. had to withdraw from the event, as the restaurant is hosting its opening VW: What makes Alberta pork stand the same evening, but was still able out and why is there such a push to to answer a few questions via email get it noticed now? along with Prei regarding the event DP: The Alberta farmers are treating their pigs with a lot of integrity and Alberta pork. and respect. If you go to the Alberta Pork website (albertapork.com) they VUE WEEKLY: What was the concept behind the menu for this dinner? What explain it very easily: "Alberta pork did you want to showcase about pork? producers maintain the highest standards of food safety and animal care.

DOREEN PREI: My friend Sharman Hnatiuk is very passionate about pork. She Our smaller farm numbers, vast land organized many pork-related events mass and climate, along with high and it is always great when someone quality grains, contribute to a superior, else shares a passion with you. Over healthy pork product." For me as a the last two years she made me aware chef, I always want the best product of the great pork producers in our available and I can be lucky to live so province and I used different local close by the best pork product.

Alberta farmers—and truly they are EH: One of the reasons our pork tastes the best pork producers in the world. so good is what we feed them [the Alberta pork tastes delicious and that pigs] compared to the rest of Canada. needs to be highlighted. Pork is very A little barley goes a long way. Heat versatile. It is beautiful confit, made stress is another: we don't get the suinto a beautiful meatloaf, braised, per hot summers like the rest of Canbrined and stuffed. It likes many dif- ada, allowing for better-tasting meat. ferent levels of flavour: sweet, salty, smoky and just softly settled with VW: What are the benefits of pork spices. A pork stock is a wonderful from a nutritional standpoint? It seems base of lovely soups and terrines. The like it often gets passed over for chickfat you can render gives an amazing en or beef. Why do you think it hasn't flavour and is so necessary by the sau- got the same attention in the past? sage-making process. Pork is the best DP: Pork is an amazing source of proanimal for all charcuterie products. tein, vitamin B-12, vitamin B6, phosERIC HANSON: The concept was to phorus, thiamin, zinc, selenium and trade off dishes. I serve a course, niacin. It is also a source of iron and and then Doreen serves one. Back magnesium. Consumers might think and forth. Something I've never done it is high in its fat content (belly, for in a restaurant but would make for example) but they forget about the a very exciting dinner for our guests very important nutritional fact that that evening. pork is extremely high in protein. I also Alberta Pork is well known for being think many times the consumers had a delicious across Canada. We're lucky bad experience of pork being dry, but

there are so many different ways of treating lean cuts of pork by brining to keep them moist during the cooking process.

EH: Well, it's better for you than butter! A lot of us grew up eating overcooked dry pork from our parents. This left a bad taste in a lot of mouths. Placing your pork into a brine before cooking is a crucial step often overlooked, which allows for so much moisture to stay inside. When cooking a pork loin, for example, brining and then searing the flesh before roasting will trap all the delicious juices right in there.

VW: What might people not realize about pork as an ingredient?

DP: Like I mentioned earlier, pork is the main ingredient for making sausages and charcuterie. There are many different cooking methods and flavour profiles you can treat the different cuts with.

EH: Well, the cheeks are one of my favourite dishes that I don't see around very often. They have all the deliciousness of bacon with that "fall apart in your mouth" feel to them.

VW: From a culinary standpoint, what are the benefits of cooking with pork?

What makes it a versatile ingredient?

EH: There are so many parts of the animal everyone can enjoy. I just finished using a lot of pork neck, a lesser section of meat, and we are just finishing a dish at North 53 where we take everyone's favourite, pork belly, and after cooking it for three days pair it with barley and mushrooms. My mouth is watering just thinking about it.

VW: These farm-to-fork-style dinners are continuing to be popular among diners. Why do you think that is? How can they enhance a diner's experience?

EH: Oh man, any time we get to pair up directly with farmers it gets us chefs excited. The majority of chefs like to tie the European standpoint on chef/farmer relations, wherein we design a menu and then ask the farmers to grow what we want. We search out these missing pieces to our dish. The Asian standpoint (my fave) is to talk to the farmers and get them to bring you what they're most proud of. This way, everyone gets to experience the best product possible.

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Swine and Dine menu 1. Amuse: Pork terrine, picked herbs, greens, soft quail egg 2. Pork shoulder, scallops, crispy potato, tomato tarragon chutney 3. Pork-inspired ramen soup, bok choy 4. Pork on pork, carrot purée, garlic, pickled fennel, carbonara 5. Frozen Bloody Mary and pork belly lollipop 6. Apple and bacon Tarte, vanilla ice cream

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Oh, this? It's vintage Vintage wines for a new year A brand-new year means a brand-new vintage of wine. Most bottles of wine bear a vintage date, and it can have a critical impact on a wine's taste, but this is often among wine's most overlooked features.

A wine's vintage is the year in which the grapes were grown, not the year in which the wine was made—sometimes these can be different. For winemakers in the southern hemisphere, harvest occurs right after the New Year, so that's why you'll soon see 2014 appearing on the labels of Australian and New Zealand wines.

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The reason for vintage variation is simple: weather changes. Some years are hot and sunny, some are cold and wet; inland continental climates are much more susceptible to wider variations between vintages than coastal maritime climates due to more intense weather and temperature fluctuations. This is why wines from New Zealand and the coastal regions of California remain relatively stable from year to year, while the wines from inland regions like Canada's Okanagan Valley or France's Bordeaux

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European winemakers, especially those from the biggest and most celebrated wine regions (Burgundy, Bordeaux, Chianti, Barolo, Rioja), have long accepted vintage variation as a major factor influencing their wines; Portugal's port producers "declare" vintages, meaning they only bottle their port with a vintage date if the quality is deemed high enough. Winemakers can offset particularly bad vintages with certain winemaking practices (including reserving a bit of wine from good years to mix with wine from poor years), but it's also simply accepted that wines from different years simply taste different—and that's why certain prestigious wines from excellent vintages will sell for outrageously high amounts (1982 Chateau Margaux, for example).

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Family tree Breadfruit is a member of the mulberry family which grows on trees standing up to 85 feet tall. The fruit was discovered in northwest New Guinea approximately 3500 years ago and it was eventually spread north and west through insular and coastal Southeast Asia.

Fruit that tastes like a vegetable Breadfruit is named for the taste the fruit possesses when cooked, which resembles the potato-like flavour of fresh bread.

Starchy staple Due to breadfruit being a rich source of starch, it is a staple food amongst tropical regions. It is often roasted, baked, fried or boiled and while its flavour is similar to potato when cooked, breadfruit that is very ripe becomes sweet, since its starch has been converted to sugar. Its mild flavour when cooked makes breadfruit suitable for filling with other foods such as coconut milk, sugar and butter, meat or other varieties of fruit.

useful for outrigger canoes. The wood pulp from the tree is used to make paper, or breadfruit tapa and a milky substance produced by the tree known as latex is used for boat caulking.

She's a fan Botanist Diane Ragone is credited for owning the world's largest collection of breadfruit varieties, which she has amassed from more than 20 years travelling around 50 Pacific Islands.

The collection resides on a 10-acre plot outside Hana, Hawaii.

Mythical origins According to Hawaiian myth, breadfruit is the product of a sacrifice made by the war god Kū, who lived secretly among mortals. After marrying and having children, he promised his wife he would be able to free them from hunger, but to do so he had to leave his family. He descended into the ground and after the ground was watered by the tears of his family, a small green shoot began to grow where he had stood. The shoot eventually grew into a tree of breadfruit that saved his family from starvation.

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PREVUE // VISUAL ARTS

ARTS

ARTS EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Unlikely art

Gaza-born twins defy censorship to show This Land Is Ours

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arzan and Arab spent the first 24 despite never having gone to a gallery?

TARZAN AND ARAB: The first and most years of their lives without art.

The twin brothers were born in the important experience in our lives was Gaza Strip in 1988; there, public per- discovering who we were at a young formance and exhibition of art is con- age, and having an idea even then that sidered haram, impure. The brothers we were going to be what we are now. have never trained formally, (or, until There hasn't been one specific importwo years ago, ever stepped inside tant experience in our lives because all a real cinema or gallery), yet found of our experiences are important to us.

Gaza is a simple themselves irrevocably drawn to Until Sat, Feb 15 place in which create. And they This Land Is Ours there are now at have: Tarzan and Works by Tarzan and Arab least four art galArab (their real Latitude 53 leries, but they names are Ahmed cannot be comand Mohamed pared to internaAbu Nasser) have presented works tional galleries because of their size internationally, both films and visual and because censorship in Gaza sufworks. And so the collection of their focates everything. But we hope that works arriving this week at Latitude these galleries will develop to one day 53, titled This Is Our Land, seeks to match international galleries. offer a different, inside interpretation of the pair's homeland, a place we usu- VW: In Gaza, was it difficult to find maally hear about exclusively through a terials with which to create your art?

T/A: Yes, because of the political situconflict-focused news cycle.

The brothers' creativity has come at a ation. Gaza only has one border, with cost: the pair are no longer in Gaza— Egypt, and only a specific number having escaped under death threats, agreed upon by both sides can leave they're living in exile in Jordan, and it's the Strip. Priority is given to the sick not apparent if they'll ever be able to or students over artists. Another probreturn. Still, corresponding from Jor- lem is that you are always scrutinized dan over email via a translator, Tarzan by the authorities, on the Gaza side— and Arab, answered questions with a there are a lot of questions, they can unified, singular response to each, and arbitrarily decide whether they allow seemed unfaltering in the devotion to you to travel or send you back home ...

But practically speaking, it isn't the making art about their home. Here are materials that create art, as we considexcerpts from the exchange. er that a real artist is one who creates VUE WEEKLY: What would you say something from nothing and doesn't your first artistic experience was? What give up due to lack of tools—but made you want to start creating works, thinks of way of replacing them with

what is available to him. I don't deny there is a lack of these materials and tools because of the priority in importing food, beverages and fuel over arts materials—even though I personally believe those materials and tools are as important as food and drink. But there are still minds in Gaza trying to overcome the lack of materials and who create work that still reaches all corners of the world—not, as some might say, because it is from Gaza and the product of miserable circumstances, but because it is work worthy of respect. Artists, directors and others in Gaza are constantly seeking to develop themselves in very difficult circumstances. In the end, yes, it is very important to have materials and tools with which to make art, but if they're not available, we're not going to sit around waiting for them.

VW: Your work was, during that time, being shown in group shows [internationally]—was there any difficulty in getting the paintings/films out of the Gaza Strip?

T/A: Yes, it's very difficult to send works of art abroad—or receive them from abroad. Often artists miss opportunities which may be great for them because he is unable to send his work abroad. I would like to mention and thank the French Cultural Center in Gaza, which was, and still is, the only outlet helping artists get their work from Gaza to the West Bank and beyond. This is because they are protected by being a foreign body—officially residents in Gaza can only use

An image from This Land Is Ours // Tarzan & Arab

the post office for printed papers and documents and nothing else, due to tight Israeli controls.

VW: Is there a theme to the collection of works in This Is Our Land?

T/A: It is the idea we always talk about, whether in our films or our art: the idea of seeking a life of love and safety, far away from the ideology or politics that dominate all of the work that comes out not just from Gaza, but from Palestine in general. The outside viewer has become accustomed to these images and they have made the Palestinian cause a purely political issue empty of all life or love, which we see as much more important to export and promote, much more important than politics the world already knows by heart.

I don't mean to say that all Palestinian artists produce only political work but I, as a Palestinian artist, prefer to go to a gallery where a Palestinian is talking about life, love and human relationships above all else because we have ignored those things to such a large

extent I fear we have forgotten them.

I'm not calling for abandoning the Palestinian cause either, but there is no contradiction in approaching the political cause by focusing on ideas related not to politics but to life, love and hope.

VW: Now that you're no longer in Gaza—and, from the sounds of it, might have a difficult time ever going back—do you think the focus and content of your art will change?

T/A: There is no thing, big or small, that can divert or change our thoughts.

As long as we have the courage to defend and put forward our thoughts the focus of our art will be the same, and if we cannot defend them anymore we will not change them but will instead completely give up art because we will no longer deserve to carry the name of "artists." Gaza is a simple and all too beautiful place that deserves all the credit for who we are. If we cannot return today, we nurture a great hope of returning tomorrow.

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PREVUE // THEATRE

The Silence Project I

"It's about bringing in those people t might be the most taken-for-granted way of experiencing the world who don't see theatre because they we have: sound—both the hearing can't," adds Elliott James, sitting beand making of it, and all of the easy side her. "Finding those little pools of communication that comes along as people who would love to come see a play but just feel like they wouldn't handy perks. understand, But, as its title implies, or be involved The Silence Project is Until Mon, Jan 13 (7:30 pm) enough to be looking to do without TACOS space (10005 - 80 Ave), that: to remove the $15 – $20 able to see it.

We were talkcrutch of words and ing about trying voice and musical score from theatre, and see how we all ex- to find something like that, then we beperience a world (and a narrative) gan throwing out the idea of a totally without them. The collectively created silent thing—at the time not really look at isolation is stripping the stage thinking how difficult it would be."

Developed by a five-strong ensemble, of all unavoidable sounds—a hurdle for its creators in Punctuate! Theatre, The Project's central character is a travcertainly. But the idea came from an eller of sorts: a lone figure, feeling cut urge to make theatre more viable to off from her own world, who escapes into a dreamy alien realm. There, she's those it typically isn't an option for.

"It's accessibility, really," Sheiny forced to try and find her way home, as Satanove begins. "When you start an well as learn to communicate with the indie theatre company, you sit around people and creatures she encounters. and you're like, 'OK, how do we get In other words, sound isn't just being denied to the audience while the actors people to come see our shows?

mime conversation: the script hinges on characters trying to work around a similar impasse.

A world without sounds // Andrew Paul

Both James and Satanove note the importance of breath to the process: not just for the audience—"When you watch someone on stage not breathe, you don't breathe," James points out— but for the other performers as well.

"One of the things that's been very hard so far is hearing our cues," James says. "There aren't any."

"When we go off stage to do a costume change, how do you know when to come on?" Satanove adds.

An atypical sort of challenge for a company, certainly, but a brave one to undertake in independent theatre.

"We just have to trust that we're enough. That silence can be enough," James says. "It's powerful, because when everyone's dead silent, everyone's on edge."

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ARTS PREVUE // MUSICAL

PREVUE // DANCE

Mack and Mabel

Clara's Dream so at home every time I walk into the studio," says Mah, who was introduced to the Shumka dance style while studying at Dance Unlimited under the tutelage of Doug Rachinski, who created the syllabus used by the Shumka dancers.

"For the past three years before I joined Shumka I was really focusing on singing and acting to mainstream myself towards musical theatre, so [I'm] getting back and learning a new style and kind of being tested dance-wise, because I've always been a dancer my entire life. It was a refreshing change."

A Ukrainian celebration

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he holidays are technically over bolism blended throughout the story. for the majority of us, but with Jordan Mah, who will perform in Ukrainian Christmas starting up this Clara's Dream with the Shumka dancweek, you can get back in the holiday ers as part of the core background, has spirit—at least for been dancing in Fri, Jan 10 and Sat, Jan 11 a little while. various styles for 14 Clara's Dream is (7:30 pm) years and has been being remounted Norther Jubilee Auditorium, part of Shumka for

by Canada's Ukrai- $34.65 – $84.65 the past three. He nian Shumka Dancis among a handful ers in collaboration of Shumka dancers with Virsky—The Ukrainian State Folk who are not of Ukrainian descent, but Dance Company—and The Kyiv Ballet. says he has had no trouble becoming The production puts a Ukrainian folk part of the tight-knit group. spin on Tchaikovsky's classic Nutcracker "It's just a completely different feel through the incorporation of Ukrainian from what I'm used to in the dance Christmas traditions, dance and sym- world. It's super family oriented, so I feel

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Mah, who is of Chinese descent, joined Shumka right before the company travelled to China to tour its production, Shumka at 50—presented in celebration of its 50th anniversary.

"Shumka's been to China before to tour other shows, other productions, and so they've been really interested in having us back to perform and tour there," he says, adding the production has also travelled to Toronto, Winnipeg and is on its way to Thunder Bay. "It was fantastic and it's still going; we're still on our quest to get 50 shows done for Shumka at 50."

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hat better way to ring in the life (Normand died at 37 of tubercunew year than staging a Broad- losis), Ryan suggests that at the time audiences were just warming up to way musical in only one week?

"It's been a wild process—we've al- more complex musical storylines.

"It came off as something that they ready had bruises in our two rehearsals!" says Kate Ryan. She is directing just couldn't quite grasp; I think they a production of Broadway musical felt it a bit compromising," she says.

Mack and Mabel through her theatre company Plain Jane, a pilot project for Mack and Mabel's script has unher goal of regularly staging lesser- dergone several revisions from the known musicals throughout the the- original; Plain Jane is using Francine Pascal's revised version, which Ryan atre season.

By virtue of following a "concert" ap- feels is a better showcase of the story's strongest proach, the producelement: the relation will not be off- Until Sat, Jan 18 (7:30 pm; 2 pm tionship between book, save for the Saturday matinees) Directed by Kate Ryan the characters. musical numbers.

This version is also "I was inspired Varscona Theatre, $15 – $20 much scaled-down by a company in from the original, New York called Encore," Ryan notes. "They bring a critical feature in allowing them to musicals to the stage in a limited re- stage the show so quickly.

"Jerry Herman paints with these hearsal time. Doing musicals in the past, I know that three weeks isn't really big, broad strokes: he has even enough—we would need at big passion and big hatred, which least another month to do this show works out perfectly with the silentfilm age," Ryan says. She explains off-book."

Expectations were high for the that the performers have been able original 1974 Broadway production to minfe that pizzazz and splendor of Mack and Mabel, as it was the so that if audiences do notice the brainchild of the same duo (Michael performance is on-book, it's beStewart and Jerry Herman) respon- cause that style is being mined for sible for the previous decade's wild- laughs—using the binders as props ly successful Hello, Dolly!. Mack instead of roadblocks.

"I can't imagine doing this in any othand Mabel tells the love story between Mack Sennett, Hollywood di- er city, because Edmonton artists are rector and king of slapstick comedy, so open-minded and willing to dive and silent film starlet Mabel Nor- into a new process to put a show up mand. Though reviews of the origi- and explore a musical in a new way," nal production were favourable, the Ryan says. "And Edmonton audiences are so smart—they're not just happy show fell into disregard.

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DANCE ALBERTA BALLET/BRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY–UP CLOSE • Timms Centre, U of A • A mixed bill of contemporary ballets by choreographers, Yukichi Hattori and Alexandrous Ballard • Jan 17-18, 8pm • $35/$25 (student/ senior) at TIX on the Square

CLARA’S DREAM: A UKRAINIAN FOLK BALLET • Jubilee Auditorium • clarasdream.ca • A Ukrainian Folk Ballet based on Tchaikovsky’s

FILM CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Library Theatre, Stanley A. Milner Library basement, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases little-known films every month • Smoke, 14A, USA, 1995; Wed, Jan 15 • Frances Ha, 14A, USA, 2012; Wed, Jan 22 • Les 4 Soldats, G, Canada, 2011; Wed, Jan 29

FILM FORUM • Stanley Milner Library, 6th Floor, Rm 5 • A series of film screenings followed by facilitated discussions; running through the summer for 18+ • Myra Breckinridge, 14A, USA, 1970; Sat, Jan 18, 1:30pm • Drop-in; no registration

EDMONTON MOVIE CLUB • Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.246.1140/780.680.1712 • Jilla, Tamil Movie (with English Subtitles) • Sun, Jan 12, 6:15pm

METRO CINEMA • Metro at the Garneau

Nutcracker, presented by Shumka, with Ukrainian Shumka Dancers, Virsky, the Ukrainian State Folk Dance Company, and the Kyiv Ballet • Jan 10-11 • Tickets available at Ticketmaster

Theatre, 8712-109 St • Crime Watch: Crime: City of God, Brazil 2002; Jan 13, 6:45pm; 2nd Tue each month • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior)/$6 (child 12 and under) • Graphic Content: A Comic Book Film Series: Road to Perdition; USA 2002; Jan 21, 7pm

PPS DANSE • Arden Theatre • Danse Lhasa

METRO CINEMA • Metro at the Garneau

Danse • Jan 16

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing. com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm.

All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry); first event this year is on Jan 17

ZUMBA BASHFIERY FRIDAYS • Central Senior Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • Shake your body to the Latin beat, and freestyle dance to live DJ music. Featuring Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko and Zumba instructors Dru D, Manuella F-St, Michelle M, Sabrina D. and Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri each month • 7pm • $20 (online)/$25 (door)

Theatre, 8712-109 St • Imagery and Music: BEAMS plays to the animation of John Osborne.

BEAMS musicians Don Ross (clarinet), Allison Balcetis (saxophone), Cam Neufeld (violin), John Armstrong (theremin) and Wilf Kozub (synths) will create spontaneous soundscapes to match the moods of over a dozen short films • Tue, Jan 14, 7pm • $10 (adult)/$8 (senior/student)/free (child under 16); info@beams.ca

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • MINI SHOW: Members show; through to Jan

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Feature Gallery: PAYCE: Celebrating Greg Payce's 2013 Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Craft ; Jan 11-Mar 29; artist reception: Sat, Mar 22, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: HANJI: Alberta artists creating new work with traditional Korean paper; until Feb 8; artist opening reception: Jan 11, 2-4pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • LADY SPIDER HOUSE: Until Jan 12, 2014 • ANGAKKUQ: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS; until Feb 16 • DAPHNIS & CHLOÉ: Chagall; until Feb 16, 2014 • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30, 2014 • OF HEAVEN AND EARTH: 500 Years of Italian Painting from Glasgow Museums; organized by the American Federation for the Arts; until Mar 9 • SUSPEND: Brenda Draney: until Mar 9 • Lecture: The Of Heaven and Earth, Francesco Freddolini; Sat, Jan 25 • The AGA Presents: Lyndal Osborne; Fri, Jan 31• Bring Your Own Party: BYOP: 3rd Wed each month, 5-9pm; 5-9pm; free with admission • Art for lunch: Ledcor Theatre Foyer: 3rd Thu each month, 12:1012:50pm; free: Jan 16: Glasgow Museums: 150 Masterpieces with Devon Beggs, in conjuction with Of Heaven and Earth • Drop-in Open Studio: Adult Drop-In Workshops: Wed 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member); Jan 15: Glaze: Layer Painting; Jan 22: Transform: Silkscreen & Block Print; Jan 29: Film: Stop-Motion Paper Sculpture

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • FRUITS OFF THE LOOMS: Nina Haggerty Collective • BEYOND TRADITIONS: Hand hooked tapestries by Rachelle LeBlanc • Until Feb 1 • Ageless Art: For mature adults; Woven Wall Hanging: Thur, Jan 16, 1-3pm; $12/410 (member)

ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • Loft Gallery/AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 790.559.4443 • artstrathcona.com • Dvd Lecture: The World’s Greatest Paintings. Tour more that 60 of the world's greatest paintings. Excellent visuals and presenter; gives information about famous works of art and what makes them great • Sun, Jan 12, 1-4pm • $5

BLOCK 1912 10361-82 Ave • EXPLORING THE ROCKIES: Landscape paintings by Donna Miller • Until Jan 15

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4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • A TASTE OF HOME: Featuring the select work of gallery potters. Functional wheel thrown, altered and hand built pottery for the winter table; Jan 10-Feb 28

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • LIFE'S TREASURES: Works by Saeed Hojjati • Jan 9-21 • Opening reception: Thu, Jan 16, 5-8pm

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • ENOUGH IS AS GOOD AS A FEAST: Joe Doherty (MFA Painting); FUR STORIES [YOU ARE NOT WILD ENOUGH FOR ME]: Alexandra Emberly (MFA Printmaking) • Until Jan 11 GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • THE TWO CONTRARY STATES OF THE HUMAN SOUL: Works by Father Douglas • Until Feb 3 GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • MY FAVOURITE PLACES: Paintings by Liz Meetsma • Until Jan 27

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Edmonton Calligraphic Society: Selected works from the Edmonton Calligraphic Society membership on the gallery walls and in all of the display cases • Until Jan 31

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • Main Gallery: THE QUIET REBUILD: Alexis Marie Chute • Front Room: GEORGE BOTCHETT: CURTAIN CALL: A retrospective exhibition of the work of George Botchett; until Jan 17 • Main Gallery: REVERBERATION IV: Graphite on mylar by Jill Ho-Yous; until Jan 17

survey of the visual narratives of Leona Clawson, curated by Harold Pearse • Until Jan 30

Monthly readings with new headliner • Last Thu each month, 7-9pm

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • WINTER GROUP SHOWS: New work by gallery artists • Until Feb 8

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com

PROPAGANDA HAIR SALON • 10808-124

• 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • culture. alberta.ca/paa • VICTORY ON THE FIELD EXHIBIT: Exploring the effects of the First and Second World Wars on sports in Alberta; until Jan 31 • Free

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8601 • sclibrary.ab.ca • How to Write About Your Family: Join writer in Residence Margaret Macpherson to discuss the pros and cons of truth-telling in memoir and creative nonfiction. Learn how and when to soften the facts, and what that means for both the writer and the subject • Pre-Register at 780.410.8600 • Thu, Jan 16, 7-8:30pm • Free

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102

T.A.L.E.S.–Strathcona • Strathcona Library,

St • The Comrades: 11 new paintings by outro • Until Jan 31

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Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27 • Feature Gallery: PATTERN WIZARDRY: until Mar 9 • Orientation Gallery: SPECIES AT RISK: until Mar 16 • Spotlight Gallery: SEEDS IN DISGUISE: The Biology and Lore of Ornamental Seeds; until Feb 16

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Main Gallery: POMPEII MMXII: Print works by Dominique Petrin • Community Gallery: THE ASSASSINATION OF THINKITEM: By The Coward Adriean Koleric • Jan 16-Mar 1 • Opening reception: Jan 16, 7-9pm

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • CHRISTMAS IN THE MUSEUM • Until Jan 15

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park

Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • TINY MOMENTS: Paintings, a Book of Days by Paul Boultbee • Until Feb 15 • Opening reception: Feb 7, 6-8pm; part of Red Deer’s First Fridays

• BEATNIK GENERATION: Artworks created in the 1950s and 1960s by Frank Stella, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Jules Olitski, Toni Onley, Marion Nicoll, Ted Godwin, and others; Jan 10-Feb 16 • Beatnik café/poetry reading space with a 1950s feel.

Music by P.J. Perry Quartet, Jan 24 • THE BEAT GENERATION & BEATNIK CAFÉ: Jan 10-Feb 16 • Reception: Featuring the Jim Findlay Band and guests; Jan 30, 7pm; this is a jam session, so bring your instruments, poems and tunes.

Everyone is welcome

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Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • A TASTE OF EUROPE: Watercolours by Julie Drew • Jan 8-29 • Reception: Jan 8, 6:30-8:3pm

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • THE BEST OF THE WEST TRAVELLING SAQA TRUNK SHOW: Works by the SAQA group (Studio Art Quilts Associates) • Until Mar 2 LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • IT'S WARM INSIDE!!: A selling exhibition of gallery artists and secondary market works • Until Feb 18

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Main Space: WE: Laura Aldridge, Jonathan Owen, James McLardy, Rachel Duckhouse, Ciara Philips and Daisy Richardson (Glasgow), and Andrea Williamson, Hannah Doerksen, Kent Merrimen Jr, Steven Cottingham, Tyler Los Jones, and Stephen Nachtigall (Calgary); curated by Matthew Bourree & Yvonne Mullock; Jan 10-Feb 15; opening reception: Jan 10, 7pm • ProjEx Room: THIS IS OUR LAND: TARZAN & ARAB: Curated by Kelty Pelechytik; featuring Paul Fischer's documentary film Tarzan and Arab; Jan 10-Feb 15; opening reception: Jan 10, 7pm

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • HOUSES/HOMES: Drawings of houses in the Garneau neighbourhood by Wendy Gervais with short stories by Shirley Serviss, and historical reference by Ken Tingley • Jan 11-Mar 16 • Opening reception: Thu, Jan 16, 7-9pm

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre. org • MIGRATING COLONY: OFFSHOOT: Drawings

by Erin Schwab; until Jan 14 • PATTERNS OF CONSUMPTION : Works by C.W. Carson; Jan 16-Feb 14; Opening reception: Sun, Jan 19, 1:00-3:30pm

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT: Youth Digital Photo exhibition • Until Jan 12 NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave

St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • HARRY POTTER: THE EXHIBITION: Peer into the wizard’s world in an interactive exhibit featuring hundreds of authentic props and costumes from the Harry Potter films; until Mar 9; tickets start: $14 • Feature Exhibition: How to Make a Monster–The Art and Technology of Animatronics • Adults Only Night (18+): Explore the science centre without the kids; Thu, Jan 16, 7-10pm

U OF A MUSEUMS • museums.ualberta.ca • Human Ecology Gallery: Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave: THE RE-BIRTH 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

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: #ICONICCANUCK: Artworks by Brandy Saturley • GALLERY B: INSTITUTE OF MORPHOID RESEARCH: Works by Jennifer Akkermans • Until Jan 25 VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • WET PAINT: VASA Members Show hold over through January

VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • Untitled works by Emily Thomson • Until Jan 30 • No First Friday information

LITERARY BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ • 9624-76 Ave • 780.989.2861 • Story Slam 2nd Wed each month @ the Chair: Share your story, sign-up at 7pm, 7-10pm • $5 (suggested, donations go to winners)

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@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Bohemia, 10217-97 St • Competitive story telling event.

Up to 10 tellers have 5 minutes to tell their story.

5 audience judges pick the winner. Winner takes home the donations from the audience. 3rd Wed each month • Wed, 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

Bugera Gallery), 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • ENCORE: Some favourite pieces from the fall exhibitions by Morley Myers, John King, Ernestine Tahedl - RCA, OSA, Jerry Heine, Jane Everett and Edward Epp • Until Jan 31

• 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • MEMORIES AND LIGHT: Paintings by Alison Service; until Feb 15 • Artisan Nook: SMALL TEMPTATIONS: Group show and sale • Until Jan 15

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912 Whyte Ave

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain •

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KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • 780.863.4522

• The Olive Reading Series Presents: Erin Moure; Tue, Jan 14, 7pm; 2nd Tue each month, Sep-Apr www.olivereadingseries.wordpress.com • Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series:

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Willow Rm, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed, 7pm, each month, Sep-Apr • Free

U OF A CAMPUS • Telus Centre Room 150 (corner of 87 Ave and 111 St) • Undoing Border Imperialism: Book launch and discussion with author and activist Harsha Walia • Thu, Jan 16, 7pm

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: presented by the Stroll of Poets Society: Open mic, 2-min poem (entrance table sign-up) • Mon, Jan 13, 7-8:45pm • $5 (incl coffee, tea, dessert)

THE WORKS GALLERY • 10635-95 St • BUNCH OF KIDS AND SOME FLOWERS: Photos

by Eleanor Lazare, Grace Law, Giulliano Palladino, Borys Tarasenko; preview for a mural to be installed at the Commonwealth Community Recreation Centre) • Until Jan 31

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY • 10229-105 St • eighteenbridges.com • Launch of Eighteen Bridges Issue 7: An evening of words and music • Eighteen Bridges fundraiser • Tue, Jan 14, 7:30pm • RSVP to ebmag@ualberta.ca • Donations

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • An Improvised Musical • Every Fri through until Jan 10, 11pm

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 DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26 ELVIS AND THE LAS VEGAS HANGOVER • Jubilations Dinner Theatre • The annual Elvis festival in sunny Las Vegas featuring hit songs by Elvis Presley, and more • Until Feb 14

THE FREQUENCY OF WATER • Arts At The Barns, Fringe Theatre PCL Stage, 10330-84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca • A dramatic revelation of water and the true power it holds. Does water hold emotion? Does it hold memory? Michael is determined to convince you it does. While defending his thesis about water’s memory to his Sonochemistry students, Michael is flooded by memoires from a childhood summer • Jan 17-26 • $20 (adult)/$18 (senior/student) at Fringe Theatre Adventures 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 Doo-Wop groups of the '50s, the Beach Boys, and R&B groups of the '60s • Until Feb 2

THE IRRELEVANT SHOW • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • festivalplace. ab.ca • CBC's The Irrelevant Show, an evening of sketch comedy–an irreverent take on pop culture • Jan 10, 7:30pm • $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) at Festival Plac box office MACK AND MABEL • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Music and lyrics by Jerry Herma; book by Micheal Stewart, revised by Francine Pascal. A musical tale of the ill-fated romance between Hollywood director, Mack Sennett and waitress turned starlet, Mabel Normand. Starring Jeff Haslam, Patricia Zentilli, Mabel Normand, Amber Bissonnette, Frederick Zbryski, Jason Hardwick, Leah Paterson, Steven Angove; directed by Kate Ryan, choreography by Cindy Kerr • Jan 9-18, Thu-Sat 7:30pm; Sat 2pm matinees • Tickets at TIX on the Square (adv), or cash at door

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

SNOW ZONE // DOG SLED

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Join the pack

Take an active or more relaxed approach to dog sledding

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manda Sinclair got her start in dog sledding in the middle of summer. In a stripped-down golf cart, harnessed to eight dogs—with no brakes—18-year-old Sinclair went on a ride to remember.

"So completely out of control, but so much fun," she recalls.

The dry-land training run with a golf course co-worker sparked an inextinguishable passion for Sinclair, who founded and operates Cold Fire Creek Dogsledding near Jasper. Fifteen years after founding her company, Sinclair is still striving to get guests from around the world hooked on the winter activity.

"My favourite thing about dog sledding would have to be actually driving the sled and the escape from reality," she says. "There's nothing more relaxing than being towed through some of the most beautiful scenery behind friendly and enthusiastic huskies ... I think it's important for the guests to take away from the tours what I did the first time I went."

Dog sledding is Canada's oldest form of winter transportation, but chances are you've never seen a husky-drawn sled careening down your neighbourhood street after a snowfall. If you're in the mountains this winter with some time to kill and a bit of an adventurous spirit, you can get behind it all—and it'll probably be more thrilling than driving your car to work.

Four major dog-sledding companies in the Canmore and Jasper area lead tourists through open snowy

scenery from approximately December to mid-March every year, depending on weather conditions.

All four provide guests with the option of driving their own sled, and a run-down on how to guide the sled before heading out on the trails.

As the only major dog-sledding company in the Jasper area, Cold Fire Creek Dogsledding is keeping busy this winter with four package options, usually all filling to the brim on holidays and weekends.

Sinclair notes that the "Moonshiners of Whiskey Creek" tour is by far the most popular package. The three-hour day trip takes guests on an 18- to 22-kilometre trail, including a pit stop to build a campfire and cook lunch on the trail.

Sinclair suggests booking early since tours usually fill up quickly.

And when you do come, make sure to dress warmly in proper winter attire—boots, mitts and toques—and to eat a full breakfast or lunch beforehand so you're well-sustained for the full-blown adventure-tour experience.

"Our tours take place in the Canadian Rockies so there are only two directions: up and down," she says.

"So you will be required to peddle your sled up the hills."

Russell Donald, owner and founder of Mad Dogs and Englishmen Sled Dog Expeditions near Canmore says that every season, he meets Albertans who are surprised that people still go dog sledding for fun.

He says people who are unfamiliar

with the sport are in for a pleasant surprise, though.

"I get a kick out of seeing more and more Albertans coming out to try it," Donald says. "And why not? It's a great part of Canadian heritage ... winter offers a certain type of beauty and to be out there in the back country with a team of dogs, it's just spectacular."

Mad Dogs and Englishmen is the smallest of Canmore's three major dog-sledding companies. Donald says the modest size allows for smaller groups, a more in-depth instruction to guiding the sled and more time to interact with the furry friends pulling you along.

The company offers six different dog-sledding packages, from a moonlit run to a two-day tour.

Donald says the most popular tour is the half-day, which takes guests on an approximately 20-kilometre tour around the Spray Lakes, dipping into the forest and stopping halfway through for a campfire lunch. The two-hour tour, though, is a popular, less pricey option if you want to dip your toes into the sport without breaking the bank.

And if guiding the sled isn't your style, you can hop inside the sled to keep warm and take pictures. But whatever your choice, Donald says the guides won't pressure you into anything you don't want to do.

"What I always say to my clients is that this is your tour: you can be involved as much or as little as you want," he says. "If you want to sit back and take pictures, absolutely.

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If you want to get a little more involved with the dogs and help us hook the dogs up to the harnesses, absolutely, and hopefully that gives you a little more appreciation for what the dogs are doing."

Donald says in the end, dog sledding is the ultimate adventure tour. Combining the unpredictable weather in the mountains with the spirited nature of its dogs, the company takes the phrase "expect the unexpected" as its leading credo, reflecting on times where the weather dropped from -12 C to -44 C in one day trip. And after all, dogs will be dogs. For example, all of Donald's female dogs are in heat right now, "so anything can happen," he laughs.

So whether you want to get back in touch with your Canadian roots,

or if you're a dog-lover who wants to hang out with canine companions on your winter vacation, Donald and Sinclair both agree dog sledding is an exciting option to broaden your winter activity horizons. The two are excited about their dogs and their sport, and Donald only hopes he can spread some of that passion for everyone who comes into his kennel.

"I feel very fortunate to have had the experiences that I've had, and if I can recreate and emulate any of those for my clients, that's ultimately what I'm trying to do," he adds. "I get such a rush out of it, working with the dogs and seeing what they can do."

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SNOW ZONE SNOW ZONE // ICE

Getting kicks while stabbing picks Ice climbing offers a new perspective on Columbia Valley

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vertical world of frozen adventure is lurking in the Columbia Valley, ready to be unlocked by the swing of an axe and the kick of a crampon.

For the few dedicated ice climbers in the valley, winter is a time that means waterfalls become routes, and weeping rock walls morph into amazing opportunities to ascend frozen seeps.

"Ice climbing is fantastic because of the surreal environments that you find yourself in: frozen waterfalls and chandeliered ice caves in remote wintery landscapes," explains Tim McAllister, an experienced, internationally certified mountain guide with the Association of Canadian Mountain Guides (ACMG). "With enjoyable and challenging climbing of these features, it adds up to an exciting day."

The valley's cold winter temperatures and steep walls of Rocky Mountain limestone combine to form a great canvas for the ice to form on, and guides like McAllister—who hold a certification that takes years to achieve, and ensures a client is being guided by someone thoroughly experienced and of strong climbing ability —are keen to introduce newcomers to the sport.

"Ice climbing can be strange at the beginning because of the new equipment required," explains McAllister, who calls Invermere home. "Crampons and ice axes appeal to the gladiator in most of us, and it's very satisfying to stab the picks into the ice.

With coaching, a safe location and proper equipment, ice climbing can be an enjoyable way to experience spectacular and remote locations in the Columbia Valley."

First-time ice climbers will usually learn on a top-rope setup, which normally involves a 60-metre rope that's fed through an anchor set into the ice at the top of a single vertical pitch (30 metres or less) of ice. That allows a belayer to take in rope as the ice climber proceeds upwards, and should they fall, they'll be held from above by the rope without having to fall any significant distance before being caught.

More experienced ice climbers usually lead climb on ice routes by tying into the end of a rope and clipping into ice screws they place into the ice as they proceed upwards. If a climber falls, that screws will act as an anchor to keep the climber from falling very far before being caught.

From Spillimacheen to Canal Flats, the Columbia Valley offers plenty of

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exciting places to climb ice. For those new to the sport, Cedared Creek near Spillimacheen offers some moderately steep grades, measured in the Canadian Rockies waterfall ice grading system as "waterfall ice 2" (WI2) and WI3. (The grading system indicates the difficulty of a climb, but not how long a climb is.) The access involves a 45-minute walk in from Highway 95, but the quality and variety of ice makes it worth the slog.

The Gibraltar Wall in Canal Flats is a three to four pitch climb (approximately 150 metres in height) which has up to five parallel vertical lines that can be climbed. The difficulty ranges from WI3 to WI5, and the area is known to offer warmer temperatures than on the east side of the Rockies.

The wall also offers a southern exposure, keeping climbers on the

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route in warm sunshine for most of the day. The route's size and quality would make it a significantly more popular climb were it located one valley east: Alberta's Bow Valley, an area that's considered ground zero for Canada's top ice climbing.

East from Radium Hot Springs in the east end of Kootenay National Park lies the Stanley Glacier headwall, which boasts three very hard ice climbs: though with names like Suffer Machine, Nemesis and French Reality, that might already be obvious. These multiple-pitch WI6+ routes attract top-level climbers from around the world, and the park is home to many other less-intimidating climbs.

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Mother Nature delivers the goods at Marmot Basin The snow was lacking and the faithful were grumbling until Mother Nature dropped 44 cm of powder in three days and all is well again at Marmot Basin. With the packed base jumping to 91 cm, conditions are excellent and all this just in time for the Jasper in January festival. To top it all off, the mercury has started to climb back to a reasonable range where we can enjoy all that powder. Up until now the interior of BC and central Alberta were getting a ton of snow, but somehow Jasper kept getting bypassed by the big storms. All this went against winter predictions by the almanac and other meteorological models that indicated above normal snowfall throughout the mountain regions.

Typically the almanac is 80-percent correct, so maybe there was just a 60-day offset and now the heavens will unleash a torrent of snow. Here's hoping there's much more to come.

The events calendars at many resorts are starting to fill First up is the Kinky Rail Jam at Fernie on Saturday, January 11. This fun event, open to both boarders and skiers, will give participants an op-

portunity to show off their skills in a competitive environment. It costs only $25 to enter and there are a couple of hours of practice time from 9 am to 10:45 am before the serious business starts. If you've been putting together some tricks at local parks, head down and show your stuff.

Are you into Ski Mountaineering competitions? It looks relly fun and truly exhausting at the same time.

Castle Mountain is hosting an event on January 11 as well. Two courses will be set up for the serious experts, and a recreational/youth course for beginners to the exhilarating sport.

Competitors will be skiing, walking and climbing all over the hill, completing a laid-out course that can take up to three-and-a-half hours to complete. The recreational course has approximately 1100 meters of vertical climb, so some sort of fitness level is required. The expert map appears to track nearly the entire boundary of Castle Mountain Resort. It might be a little late for you to jump right in, but you can head down and take it in to see what Ski Mountaineering is all about. Much more information is available at alpineclubofcanada.ca/ skimo/castle.html.

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// Jamie Hurschler

The pull of Panorama

A longer season means more time to explore the slopes

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icture this: 30 centimetres of Purcell Mountain snow has fallen overnight and you've called in sick to work. It's a shade past 9:30 am, and as you roll off the Summit Quad with a resplendent Mt Goldie catching the sunrise amidst a cloudless sky to the west, the options include hitting the double-black bliss of Taynton Bowl, or taking on a classic run like View of 1000 Peaks.

That's a scenario skiers and boarders can find themselves in when they visit Panorama Mountain Village, a full-service resort just 20 minutes west of Invermere. The mountain boasts 120 runs, three quad chair lifts (and a fourth one on the way for the 2014 – 2015 season) and most importantly, 4000 vertical feet spread over 3000 acres of terrain.

This skier's day of sampling all the mountain has to offer took place on Friday, December 13 —that would've been opening day last year, but thanks to advanced new snow-

making equipment, it was the start of the second week. The season has been extended by two weeks relative to earlier years, meaning skiers can expect an increase in the average annual snowfall amount of 479 centimetres. With an average winter temperature of -5 C, dumps of snow on the mountain aren't usually accompanied by Arctic chill.

"Wind in the valley, snow on the mountains is the old saying," explains marketing coordinator Jamie Hurschler on the way up the Mile One Express Quad. "Here, that usually means really good things happening on the mountain."

The day's first tour stop off the summit was a new feature: a painless access point to Taynton Bowl.

Skiers and boarders familiar with the short uphill walk to access the bowl can now opt to build up speed on the blue run Get Me Down, before hooking left at the run's first sharp right turn, allowing one to

cruise into the steep powder zone without walking.

Glading in Taynton Bowl last summer vastly improved the C-Spine and Ktunaxa runs, thanks to the expert work carried out by heli-ski guides.

"They had a really good eye for the terrain, as to which trees they should take out, which ones they should leave, for the longevity of the run and the enjoyment of the skiers," Hurschler says.

After cruising down the enjoyable Roy's Run, a return trip to the summit led from View of 1000 Peaks to Messerli's Mile (named after one of the mountain's pioneers, amidst other runs in the popular intermediate Founder's Ridge area).

Later runs on World Cup Way and Pod's gave us a chance to sample the new grade that connects Pod's to Downhill and Showoff, which offers the mid-mountain corduroy groomed surface that many skiers crave.

Those runs are better than ever

this year, as Panorama has done extensive work to perfect the grades for the International Paralympic Committee World Cup races that began this week. A treed section that used to divide Skyline and Roller Coaster has been removed, and Roller Coaster has been widened to skier's left. The improvements mean Panorama is now suited for all five alpine ski racing disciplines, as opposed to the two disciplines offered in past races at the mountain.

Despite all the alpine upgrades, Panorama is now catering to those seeking the full mountain experience: the new all-inclusive Pano Pass has replaced the lift ticket, and includes limitless access to day and night alpine skiing and boarding, nordic skiing, tubing and tobogganing.

If choosing whether to ski is a morning decision, Panorama's sharp new summit webcam (found

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online at panoramaresort.com/ webcams/) can help. The cam records a time-lapse video scrolling back to 24 hours earlier, allowing one to check out the previous day's weather, scope out the size of the ski crowds and take a visual observation of how much snow fell overnight.

Anyone looking to upgrade their gear can also cruise to the resort's new ski-gear website, panoramaoutlet.com, which offers massive discounts on Nordica gear from years past, including race and freestyle skis, boots and accesories.

Orders made online can be picked up at The Final Gate store in the mountain village. The website launched last summer, honouring Panorama's long-standing partnership with Nordica.

GREG AMOS

GREG@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Originally published in the Columbia Valley Pioneer on January 10.

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PREVUE // LOCAL

You gotta go there to come back Kaley Bird returns to Edmonton, in terms of both residence and music

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or those who inhabit the city of Edmonton, the relationship that develops with the place is a tumultuous one, but it's still home.

Kaley Bird grew up in the City of Champions, firmly planting personal and musical roots along the way. Music became a full-time venture for Bird in her early 20s before she moved into the realm of presenting Fri, Jan 10 (7:30 pm) and promoting music for With F & M other artists, needing a Old Strathcona Performing Arts break from touring her Centre, $10 – $20 own material. A career change led her to Calgary in 2011, marking the first time Bird had lived outside Edmonton.

Despite the change of scenery, her hometown stuck with her and crept into the lyrics of her latest album Don't Say You're Sorry.

The reflective, genre-bending disc touches on the notoriously cold winters that plague Edmonton for much of the year, the people who have shaped Bird's life here such as long-time friend Scott Cook (a portion of proceeds from album sales will go to the Scott Cook Foundation) and there's even the occasional reference to local landmarks like the High Level Bridge, which actually gets to be its own song title.

"Everyone has this weird relationship, I think, with their home town or where they grew up," says Bird, a staunch arts advocate who has worked for the Art Gallery of Alberta, Alberta Culture Days and the Edmonton Chamber Music Society and SOS Fest.

"Everyone thinks, 'Oh, when I grow up I'm going to get out of here and go on to bigger and better things."

Some time away from Edmonton made Bird realize her love for the city and its vibrant arts and music communities—two

No place like home

factors that drew her back to the place, where she has been able to hone her musical abilities and receive both nurturing and a little tough love.

Bird was not performing a great deal during her time in Calgary, but music was never far from her mind as she continued to write new material. The time away from a fulltime music career allowed her to refocus; Bird admits she always took the results of personal and professional endeavours very personally, but says she isn't so worried about the results these days, a step she credits as simply being part of growing up.

"I really love to play and that for me is the most important thing, and I love creating and I love writing, so no matter what happens I am always going to be doing that," she adds.

Bird has also been able to own her sound more, making a transition from the somewhat apologetic state in which she created her first album.

"It was like I was making excuses for the album before people even heard it," Bird says, acknowledging that despite her insecurities the album did well, garnering steady play on CKUA and CBC. "I was very unsure of myself when I was recording and performing for that matter, and just kind of coming around and playing more and being more confident in my sound and knowing that not everyone's going to like me and I don't have to make excuses for that. This is what I sound like; this is what my music is. You can either like it or you don't, but I'm going to stop making excuses at this point. I'm really proud of this album. It sounds like me; it's a great reflection of where I am right now."

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PREVUE // ROCK

Sandrider F

rom the outset of the pulsing three-count drum beats on "Ruiner," the opening track on Godhead, the latest from Seattlebased trio Sandrider, it's clear the band means business and things are about to get loud—very loud.

And there's only three of them.

As the album continues, with thundering guitars and intense vocals, it's hard to believe there aren't more musicians in the fray creating the pummelling sonic cacophony unfolding. But noisy rock 'n' roll has always been the aim for Sandrider, a group made up of former Akimbo members Jon Weisnewski and Nat Damm (who have been playing together for more than a decade now) and Jesse Roberts of the Ruby Doe. For "pretty much a local band that plays around Seattle" as singer/guitarist Weisnewski puts it, Godhead—the second release for Sandrider—has done well since dropping in November, receiving positive feedback locally as well as in Europe and parts of Asia.

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"We didn't really consciously work on trying to do anything new," Weisnewski says. "We had every intention of making another record after the first one came out, so it was just a matter of practicing the songs, writing the songs and getting a good chunk of songs together that we felt good about recording. We have every intention of releasing another record at some point. This one's still pretty new, so we haven't hit the writing board to write any new songs."

Godhead, which once again enlisted Matt Bayles (Minus the Bear) as producer, may be new for listeners, but it's been around for about five or six months prior to its release. Sandrider was backed by up-and-coming Seattle label Good to Die records for the second time, and it was just a matter of getting the album in line.

"Nik [Christofferson] had a couple releases that he already had lined up that he wanted to make sure he had released, and he's pretty good at making sure all of his releases are

Fri, Jan 10 (8 pm) Filthy McNasty's, Free spaced out so he can put all of his PR efforts on one record at a time as opposed to having to divide his attention. So it was more like we finished our record and it got in line for the Good to Die roster," Weisnewski says with a laugh.

As far as Godhead's content goes, things are kept simple. There's no complicated mission statement behind the lyrics or concept—it's just straight up rock 'n' roll.

"There's not really any conscious things like, 'I need to express something or get it out there," Weisnewski adds. "We just really like playing loud rock 'n' roll and those songs are loud rock 'n' roll, so they give us the opportunity to do that. So yeah, it's less about trying to express something and trying to make a statement more of let's just make some good, loud rock songs and go play them for people who like that kind of music."

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The Gibson Block Fri, Jan 10 (8 pm) With Canyon Rose Outfit, Death By Robot, the Nulls Pawn Shop, $10 Hometown: Edmonton Genre: Rock Lastest album: Self-titled EP being released this weekend.

Fun fact: The band’s name comes from the historic building located at 9608 Jasper Avenue.

First album

JL: Oh man, was I young. It would

CARSON MACDONALD: I can't remember the first album I ever bought, but the first one to have any sort of impact on me was definitely Time Pieces by Eric Clapton.

have been DC Talk's Supernatural tour when they came through Calgary. They were playing the Saddledome. A wild experience for [a] 10-year-old kid.

SEB KING: When I was seven years

DF: My first concert ever was seeing Robert Plant and The Strange Sensation at Skyreach Centre when I was in Grade 7.

old I got my first album. It was by Seal, I can't remember the title but "Kiss From a Rose" was on it. Awesome track.

JON LAGORE: I think the first album

I bought (or rather, begged for at Christmas), was Step Up To The Microphone by the Newsboys.

DENIS FRIGON: My first album was

the timeless classic, Mambo No 5

by Lou Bega (including the Disney version of the title track).

First concert

CM: I saw my first concert when I

was young and on holidays with my family at Baptiste Lake. My dad brought my brother and I to see Trooper at the Athabasca River Rats Festival.

SK: [My] first concert ever was The Pink Floyd Experience, a pro tribute band that sounded like the real thing.

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amazing Christian Hansen at the Pawnshop. Best. Show. Ever.

Favourite album CM: There are just about five albums that are fighting for the top spot, but if I had to pick one that I could listen to any time it would be Brothers by the Black Keys.

Last album CM: I recently bought the local band King of Foxes' self-titled EP.

SK: I have too many favourites so it's hard to name just one, but DFA 1979 You're a Woman, I'm a Machine is definitely up there.

SK: I just picked up Passover by the Black Angels.

JL: Sting's Sacred Love, hands down.

JL: I just picked up Rend's new

DF: Definitely Revolver by the Bea-

EP Winter to Summer. Awesome songs—such a killer a band.

tles. Hearing "Taxman" always gets me pumped.

DF: I recently bought the Hollow Woods EP by Sean Foster & the Vaqueros after hearing him live at the Artery.

Favourite musical guilty pleasure CM: I like me some dubstep now and again.

Last concert CM: Cowpuncher at the Pawn Shop. 'Twas pure rock 'n' roll madness.

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SK: The seductive sound of Savage Garden is definitely my guilty pleasure.

SK: I saw Michael Rault on New

Year's Eve at the Artery—really great show.

JL: Lady Gaga has been my most recent guilty pleasure. She did a tune with Sting for some concert last year, and it totally turned me onto her.—"King of Pain" I think it was.

JL: The last concert I caught was probably Joe Nolan at the Artery.

[It was] one of my favourite shows of 2013.

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ohannes Brahms and Ludwig van Beethoven each possess staggering repertoires that have stood the test of time for their innovation and musical complexity. The Edmonton Symphony Orchestra will be reviving a selection of their works alongside French pianist Jean-Philippe Collard under the direction of conductor Jean-Michaël Lavoie, who has gained an international reputation for his appearances with the Los Angeles Philharmonic, BBC National Orchestra of Wales as well as the Toronto and Montréal Symphony Orchestras. Prior to the performance in Edmonton, Lavoie answered some questions for Vue via email.

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Napalmpom

At home

These five guys from Calgary just want to make music fun, which means celebratory rock and energetic live shows. The band members often end up injuring themselves in the process, but hey, that's rock 'n' roll, right? Prior to Napalmpom's show in Edmonton, guitarist Shawn Petsche shared his soundtrack picks with Vue.

Morning: I like to wake up to a soaring voice that can nudge me towards my day as opposed to pushing me headfirst into it. Lately, that’s been via one of the great American rock ‘n’ roll bands, Los Lobos, and the always stunning Emmylou Harris.

Sat, Jan 11 (9 pm) With Energetic Action, Betrayers, Arrowz Wunderbar, $10

Noon: We’re just locking down the final mixes of our debut LP. Normally I’d say that too much of my day is spent listening to my own band, but lucky for me, I still kind of love listening to it. Otherwise, it’s the greatest Canadian rock ‘n’ roll album ever recorded, Tricky Woo’s Sometimes I Cry. Night: When we’re not playing shows, I find it hard to stay up much past 11 pm. I prefer to wind down with something like the Psi Factor & The Cougar podcast. It’s Jon Cummins (USA Out Of Vietnam, Bionic, Doughboys), Simon Nixon (Royal Mountain Band) and Jace Lasek (Besnard Lakes) ramblin’ on about their experiences opening for Kiss or eating hot wings without much regard for what makes good radio—thus making for really good radio.

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JML: A lot! I could not possibly quantify the amount of time, but as it is generally the case in arts, we should never count or decide at one point that the work is done. My personal preparation [for] this concert is a single part of the whole process—it is a very important one, but the crucial part is coming soon during the rehearsals with the orchestra and the soloist.

VW: The ESO and Jean-Philippe will be

performing Beethoven's "Third Piano Concerto" and Brahms' "Symphony No. 4". What stands out about these pieces among the repertoires of these composers?

JML: Jean-Philippe Collard will be our soloist for the Beethoven concerto and the musicians of the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra will be the star artists for the Brahms. Both pieces are major works in the classical repertoire. In the history of music, Beethoven's piano writing is completely modern and the break with his predecessors is quite obvious, not to say abrupt. I think he opened a window and prepared the field for the romantic piano virtuosos. Pianists can demonstrate all their possibilities playing Beethoven. As for Brahms' 4th

Symphony, it is perhaps the most accomplished work of the late classical/ early romantic period. This masterwork has its roots in the late baroque period, if we think about the form and structure, and is an undeniable starting point of the forthcoming expressive Romanticism. This is why Brahms is for me quite a mysterious figure: his music is always well-balanced, but we never have the feeling that it is rigid.

On the contrary, I always have the image of him, at the piano, improvising his own music.

VW: When did you become familiar

with them? What do you enjoy about conducting them and is there anything new you learn about the pieces each time you approach them?

JML: I do not recall the first time I heard these two pieces, but it certainly goes back to my late childhood, while I was listening to CDs at home.

I really enjoy conducting this repertoire and there is always something new to learn at every corner. Every performance is different, because they are the results of the meeting in context between a conductor and an orchestra. As performers, we need to remain open, flexible and engaged (this is actually a great teaching of

life), because music exists in time and in a space. Every experience needs to be renewed and fully felt.

VW: In modern society, do you think there is still a strong appreciation for classical works such as these or has it begun to decline? How can we keep a younger generation interested and informed about classical music?

JML: I cannot possibly think it has declined. More and more, classicallytrained musicians are invited in elementary and high schools to talk about their profession and show how they can play their instruments. In parallel, symphony orchestras open their doors to welcome school groups and play for them. One just has to look carefully at children observing a musician playing his or her instrument to understand that they are immediately attracted and interested. I would say that the most important word to spread now is that classical music is for everybody and that there is a lot to discover for the public. One must not be trained or informed in classical music to understand or appreciate. As a conductor, my job is also to make things change a little bit on this side.

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On the road Morning: I usually need to be reenergized with music that inspires me. I’d probably go for something new, like UBT’s Ego Orientation and something classic, like Roky Erickson & The Aliens’ The Evil One.

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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

Brendan Benson You Were Right (Readymade Records) 

Jack White recently hinted at a possible Raconteurs reunion (since the band's hiatus in 2009) and White's online faithful have been quietly on edge ever since. Meanwhile, Raconteurs member Brendan Benson packed his sixth solo

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) in Canada's likeminded folk spotlight.

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record, You Were Right, full of bouncy power-pop tunes with a sing-along-in-the-car flair, using several of his songs that were previously released this year. Benson jumps around from jangly '60s ballads to stomping, bluesy love statements—you don't have to dig very deep to find yourself nodding to the nostalgic beats. However, while instantly likeable on the surface, the album is ultimately characterless and disjointed and loses its flavour quickly after a few chews. It seems as though Benson hastily mashed some scraps together to tide himself over before returning to the Raconteurs. Benson is a more-thancapable songwriter, but his all-toofamiliar brand of cheesy anthems is getting old.

The Head and the Heart Let's Be Still (Sub Pop) 

The Head and the Heart got very popular very quickly with its down-to-earth debut album, leading to a re-release with Seattle juggernauts Sub Pop Records, followed by several successful festival appearances and opening gigs for indie mainstays like Vampire Weekend and Iron & Wine.

On Let's Be Still, the folk group's sophomore album, the whirlwind of the last few years seems to have taken a toll.

Much of the record is lost in a cloud of fatigue and exhaustion, only occasionally showing signs of the curious energy from the band's debut. The six-piece's bright spot is its unmistakable sincerity and incandescent vocal harmonies, sounding much more mature than many of their showy indie-folk counterparts.

Yet, unlike the reflective lyrical content, the band's instrumental arrangements fail to keep the songs engaging, instead sounding generic and mostly forgettable. Unfortunately, Let's Be Still is rather dull musically and too rarely rises from their slumping slumber.

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Four IN 140 Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, Wig Out at Jagbags (Matador) @VueWeekly: Another perfect shrug from the elder statesman of indie rock. #WholeFoods #Portland Craig Cardiff, Love is Louder (Than All This Noise) Parts 1 & 2 (Independent) @VueWeekly: After a Juno nomination, Cardiff comes back more slick than usual, which could very well carry him beyond his diehard fans.

Bruce Springsteen, High Hopes (Columbia) @VueWeekly: The Boss' most disorganized effort of songs he seems he always wanted to record (or re-record). I guess he's allowed that privilege.

Sharon Jones & the Dap Kings, Give the People What They Want (Daptone) @VueWeekly: Thoroughly convinced Jones & the Kings can't miss.

Solid, unbroken soul. Congrats to Jones for this & for overcoming her battle w/ cancer.

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VUEWEEKLY JAN 9 – JAN 15, 2014

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

THU JAN 9 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live Music

every Thu

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Every Thu night

a new artist or group of varying genres featured

BLUES ON WHYTE Krystle Dos Santos

THE BOWER Thu: Back

to Mine: Hip hop, funk, soul, rare groove, disco and more with Junior Brown and DJ Mumps

BRIXX Hosted by Christian and Justin of the Canyon Rose Outfit: The Ultimate open stage, open jam, open turntables E: kevin@ starliteroom.ca for info

CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

Thu; 7pm

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Jesse Peters (R&B,

blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

THE RIG Every Thu Jam

hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8pm-12am

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Rob Taylor SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Joanne Janzen SMOKEHOUSE BBQ

Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

TAVERN ON WHYTE

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

CARROT

DJs

COFFEEHOUSE Zoomers

BLACK DOG

Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO

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

COOK COUNTY Pony Up

Thu: Country, Rock Anthems and Top 40 Classics with Mourning Wood

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ

FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

wtft w djwtf–rock ‘n’ roll, blues, indie; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ’s Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm

FIDDLER’S ROOST

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every

Thu

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back Thursdays

California (the Original Eagles Tribute Band); 7:30pm; $40 (adult)/$35 (student/senior) at 780.962.899; horizonstage. com

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE

J R BAR AND GRILL JAVA EXPRESS–Stony Plain Acoustic/singer

songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover

Open stage; 7pm; no cover

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ

Thu open stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)

NEW WEST HOTEL

Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

Dueling Pianos, Variety by Request; 10pm

CONVOCATION HALL

Of Two Minds: New Music Edmonton: Chenoa Anderson (Flute), Allison Balcetis (sax); 8pm; $15/free (student) at door

J+H PUB Early show:

Acoustic Open mic every Fri, 10-15 mins to perform; 5:30-8:30pm, no cover; Late show: Every Friday: Headwind (vintage rock ‘n’ roll), friends, 9:30pm, no minors, no cover

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Six

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Joanne Janzen SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM AJ UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI JAN 10 BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Hot Cottage; $10 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Lionel

Rault; 7pm; donations

BLUES ON WHYTE

LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook RED STAR Movin’ on Up:

STARLITE ROOM KLUB SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays:

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

SUITE 69 Release Your

Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri

TEMPLE Rapture–Goth/

Ind/alt; every Fri 9pm

UNION HALL Ladies Night

every Fri

Day March (indie rock); 9pm; $10

Y AFTERHOURS

LIZARD LOUNGE Rock

SAT JAN 11

‘n’ roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE Kaley Bird (album

release, folk pop), F&M; 7:30pm; $15 (door); all ages

ON THE ROCKS

Foundation Fridays

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Hot Cottage; $10 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Wafer Thin Mints (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

OVERTIME Sherwood

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ The Nightkeepers featuring Dave Babcock; 8:30pm; $15

Park Dueling Pianos, all

BLUES ON WHYTE Every

Hamburger with DJs

Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Krystle Dos Santos

(EP release, alt dance, rock), the Canyon Rose Outfit, Death by Robot, the Nulls; 8pm; $10 (adv)

“B” STREET BAR Rockin Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm

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

BOURBON ROOM Live

ROSE AND CROWN PUB Amie Weymes

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey

Classical

every Thu

hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

OMFG

ON THE ROCKS Salsa

Wild Life Thursdays

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Chronic Rock (pop); 9pm

every Fri

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE

every Fri

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Rob Taylor

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

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ

CASINO EDMONTON

LUCKY 13 Industry Night

Bunker Thursdays

KELLY’S PUB Jameoke

stage: the New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12

Live music every Fri; This week: Zoe; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM AJ

RENDEZVOUS Metal night

L.B.’S PUB Thu open

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Rachel Nightengale (neo soul and jazz ); 8pm; $10 Night with the Nervous Flirts; every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover

music every Fri

PAWN SHOP Gibson Block

Open Jam Nights; no cover

Live Jam Thu; 9pm

CAFÉ TIRAMISU Live

THE COMMON The

SALOON–Stony Plain

HORIZON STAGE Hotel

Damned: Goth/Industrial with DJs Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm

request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

EARLY STAGE

Thursday Nights acoustic circle jam; only acoustic instruments; 7:30pm; $3 cover

BRIXX Silence Be

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro ‘80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

every Thu at 9pm

Krystle Dos Santos

WINSPEAR CENTRE

Music every Saturday Night: The Dryland Band Live; 8pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Dueling Pianos, Variety by Request; 10pm

DV8 Netherward, Moosifix, Agony Spawn, Kryosphere; 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY’S

Free Afternoon Concerts: Electric Religious with guest Ken Stead; 4pm; no cover

GAS PUMP Saturday

ESO: Brahms and Beethoven: Jean-Michaël Lavoie (conductor), JeanPhilippe Collard (piano); 7:30pm; $24-$79

Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm

DJs

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Leina

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage,

BLACK DOG

DeBoer (R ‘n’ B vocalist); 9pm; $10

FREEHOUSE Every Friday

LEAF BAR AND GRILL

DJs on all three levels

THE BOWER Zukunft:

Indie and alternative with Dusty Grooves, Fraser Olsen, Taz, and Josh Johnson

CHICAGO JOES Colossal

Flows: Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm-2am; no cover

THE COMMON Good

Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm

Sat jam with Terry Evans, and featured guests; host Mark Ammar

LOUISIANA PURCHASE

Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover

NEW WEST HOTEL

Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm OLD TIMERS CABIN

Edmonton Blues Society: Dangerous Guise (soulful R&B/Blues/Funk); all ages;

$10 (guest)/$5 (member)

ON THE ROCKS

Hamburger with DJs

PAWN SHOP Collections (metal rock), Riot in Paradise, Of Articulate Design, Submerge, Eternal Prophecy; 8pm; $10 (adv)

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos, all

request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am ROSE AND CROWN PUB Amie Weymes

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM AJ SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Rob Taylor WÜNDER BAR Zuk Till

GUESTS VIET CONG JAN/24 METZ W/ (EX MEMBERS OF WOMEN) JAN/26 KASTLE СМЕРТИ FEB/1 ПОБЕДИТЕЛЬ LOVE & LIGHT | SERIAL KILLAZ | MRG PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

UBK, NIGHT VISION AND SOUNDSCAPES PRESENT

UBK & ZODIAC SERIES PRESENT (AGE OF AQUARIUS) FEATURING

G JONES | CMC & SILENTA

FEB/5 SOULFLY FEB/15 SEPTEMBER STONE, ELECTRIC RELIGIOUS MAR/7 WAKE OWL W/ LYON MAR/15 ELECTRIC SIX STARLITE ROOM PROUDLY PRESENTS THE RETURN OF WITH GUESTS - TICKETS ONSALE JAN 2ND THROUGH TICKETFLY.COM

AND GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

AND THE MOHRS AND GUESTS

You Puke, Energetic Action, Napalmpom, Betrayers, Arrowz; 9pm

MAR/17 THE WONDER YEARS

Classical

MAR/27 THE MOUNTIES MAR/29 ACT A FOOL

WINSPEAR CENTRE Music of the Night Sky: Imperial Oil Symphony for Kids: Lucas Waldin (conductor); 2pm,

WINSPEAR CENTRE

Brahms and Beethoven: Landmark Homes Masters Jean-Michaël Lavoie (conductor), Jean-Philippe Collard (piano); 8pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick

THE UNION PRESENTS

DEFEATER, REAL FRIENDS, CITIZEN & MODERN BASEBALL

W/

THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

UBK PRESENTS

APR/4 BOY AND BEAR APR/8 STEVEN J MASKUS THE UNION PRESENTS

AND GUESTS

MRG PROSUCTIONS PRESENTS

APR/28 THE 1975 MAY/9 ICED EARTH THE UNION PRESENTS

CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS THE WORLWIDE PLAGUES TOUR FEATURING: W/ SABATON & REVAMP

THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests

THE COMMON Get Down

It’s Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month

RED STAR Indie rock,

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

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

FOR RENOVATIONS JAN 1 - 16 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 THE UNIVERSE MACHINE & JESSICA DENISE SKY JAN/25 MONARCH JOE SOLO AND FICTION OF FATE JAN/31 UNBALANCED W/ GUESTS TBA FEB/8 THE ELECTRIC REVIVAL FEB/15 ABERDEEN MAR/1 THE RIVER AND THE ROAD W/ GUESTS W/ GUESTS W/ GUESTS

NEW WEEKLY METAL EVERY TUESDAY COMING SOON

EVERY EATS AND BEATS WEDNESDAY EVERY WEDNESDAY, $0.35 WINGS

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

ATTENTION ALL LOCAL ACTS: STARLITE ROOM IS HUNTING FOR NEW TALENT FOR 2014 EMAIL YOUR EPK TO ART@STARLITEROOM.CA TO GET YOUR SHOT IN ONE OF THE BEST ROOMS IN THE CITY!

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous

Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

SUGAR FOOT

VUEWEEKLY JAN 9 – JAN 15, 2014

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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

Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm

BLACK DOG

Classical

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

DJs

Vocal Ensemble (chamber choir): an evening of choral music by Germanic composers from 4 centuries with guest Jeremy Spurgeon (organ); 7:30pm; $17/$15 (adv at TIX on the Square)/$20/$18 (door, cash only)

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays:

FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and

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

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

TEMPLE Step’d Up Saturdays with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz

DJs

TUE JAN 14

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

BLACK DOG

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous

FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Big Dreamer Sound

SUITE 69 Stella Saturday:

retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

FRI JAN 10

GIBSON BLOCK EP RELEASE

W/ CANYON ROSE OUTFIT, DEATH BY ROBOT & THE NULLS SAT JAN 11

COLLECTIONS

W/ GUESTS RIOT IN PARADISE, OF ARTICULATE DESIGN, SUBMERGE & ETERNAL PROPHECY

TAVERN ON WHYTE

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

Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN JAN 12

FRI JAN 17

FUNKANOMICS

*GERMANY* GHETTO FUNK, MANMADE PRESENTED BY .. SOUL’D OUT ENTERTAINMENT & WOLFCASTLE

SAT JAN 18 SNAK THE RIPPER

W/ BROTHERS GRIMM & SUICIDE KINGS FAILED YOUTH CLOTHING OFFICIAL LAUNCH PARTY

THU JAN 23 RANDY GRAVES (REUNION) W/ THESE COLOURS DON’T RUN, & AS IT STANDS

SAT JAN 25

WEDNESDAY NIGHT HEROES

(REUNION) W/ RAPID LOSS, E-TOWN BEATDOWN & PANIK ATTAK

BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

Open mic every Sun hosted

by Tim Lovett

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

Sunday Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am-3pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO

Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm

DUGGAN’S IRISH PUB

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

HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’

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

NEWCASTLE PUB

Sunday Soul Service: Willy and Crawdad at new location; 3pm

SONIC BAND OF THE MONTH

KICKUPAFUSS

W/ MAYDAY & THE BEATCREEPS, THEM LOCALS

& GUESTS

TUE FEB 11

MOONSPELL W/ LEAVES EYES, ATROCITY & SAMANDRIEL

FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

WEDNESDAY PINT NIGHT’S

$2.75 DOMESTIC PINTS FRI JAN 10

FREE SHOW- SLED ISLAND PRESENTS

SANDRIDER

STONER HEAVY ROCK FROM SEATTLE W/ BLACK MASTIFF

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Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

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

MON JAN 13

Mon: live music monthly; no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE

Russell Jackson, Alex Zayas

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

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

hosted by Steve and Bob; 5-9pm

REXALL PLACE Justin

SHERWOOD PARK AREA ACREAGE HOUSE CONCERT

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

Timberlake

Danny Schmidt & Carrie Elkin; 7:30pm; $20 http:// rouseconcerts.ca/

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

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ

DJs

Hair of the Dog acoustic

BLUES ON WHYTE

Russell Jackson, Alex Zayas

DRUID IRISH PUB

Jamhouse Tues hosted by Chris Wynters, guest FIDDLER’S ROOST Tuesday

J+H PUB Acoustic open

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Jam hosted by Andrew White and the Joint Chiefs; 4-8pm

Tuesday Open Stage: every Tue with Moses Gregg and Grant Stoval; 8pm (show, 6pm (door)

FREEHOUSE Sleeman

ON THE ROCKS The RICHARD’S PUB Sun

TAVERN ON WHYTE

BLACK DOG

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage

Soulicitors

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

Nights fiddle circle jam; all levels of musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover

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

THE RIG Every Sun Jam

FRI JAN 31

ALL SAINTS CATHEDRAL Chronos

FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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 METRO CINEMA

Imagery and Music: The Animated films of John Osborne with BEAMS Orchestra; 7pm; $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior)

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

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

OVERTIME Sherwood Park The Campfire Heros

(acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Party Hog BLACK DOG

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 JAN 15 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed

with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES El Jo Jo Rynde

(blues folk jazz reggae), Moses Gregg; 7pm; no cover

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Jason Greeley

(acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Joanne Janzen

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Derina Harvey SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Party Hog

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

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

BLUES ON WHYTE

DJs

Russell Jackson, Alex Zayas

BRITTANY’S LOUNGE PJ Perry every Wed; 8-11pm; $10

DUGGAN’S IRISH PUB Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave

REXALL PLACE Justin Timberlake

Open mic every Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover

RICHARDS PUB

FIDDLER’S ROOST

Barsnbands open stage hosted by Mark Ammar with Jim Dyck, Randy Forsberg And Sue Ammar.; every Tue; 7:30-11:30pm

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Joanne

mic night hosted by Lorin Lynne

Janzen

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

J+H PUB Acoustic open

sLEAF BAR AND GRILL

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

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310137 Ave ALL SAINTS CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" STREET BAR 11818111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 962476 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@ thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 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 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DUGGAN'S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 730876 Ave

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 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 Road, Spruce Grove 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 Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 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 MERCURY ROOM 10575114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303108 St, 780.425.9730

VUEWEEKLY JAN 9 – JAN 15, 2014

NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NOORISH CAFÉ 8440109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 8426 Gateway BLVD OLD TIMERS CABIN 9430 99 St, 780-468-4322 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108149 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 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030102 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 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

COMEDY BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

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 NATURE CLUB • King’s

University College, 9125-50 St • Monthly meeting featuring speaker Dr Kevin Timoney, (ecologist, researcher, writer) speaking about the Peace-Athabasca Delta: Portrait of a Dynamic Ecosystem. The Peace-Athabasca Delta in Northern Alberta (part of a UNESCO World Heritage Site • Fri, Jan 17, 7pm (refreshments), 7:30pm (meeting) • Admission by donation • Everyone Welcome

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

Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry); first event this year is on Jan 17

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

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

TEN KEYS TO HAPPIER LIVING • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8601 • sclibrary.ab.ca • What makes us happy has less to do with our money or possessions, and more to do with our attitudes and relationships with other people. Learn the ten factors that are important for happiness and wellbeing, and, what we can do about them • Tue, Jan 21, 7-8:30pm • Pre-register: 780.410.8600 • Free TOASTMASTERS • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Tom Liske; Jan 10-11 • Danny Acappella; Jan 16-18 • Brian Work; Jan 23-25

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

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

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM •

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE •

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 • Jay Pharoah Special Presentation; Jan 9-11 • Hannibal Buress Special; Jan 16-18 • Jake Johannsen; Jan 22-26 • Ben Gleib; Jan 29-Feb 2

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

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION •

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

FESTIVAL PLACE • CBC's The Irrelevant Show: sketch comedy • Jan 10 • Sold Out

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 RIVER CREE • rivercreeresort.com/the-venue •

Cheech and Chong • Jan 11 • Sold out

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 Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

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

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

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351118 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 •

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 • 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 (carpool); $20 (annual membership) WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood

Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

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

Community Centre, 11015-134 Ave • New year!

New you! Free meditation-Yoga-Fitness; all levels welcome. Drop-in • Wed, 6-7:30pm • Info: FitSteenfitsYou@gmail.com

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican

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

• Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10min 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)

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

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley A. Milner Library, Centennial Rm (bsmt); edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@edmontonatheists. ca; Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

(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 • 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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave •

587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every

Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, , 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $2

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 1043383 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm UNDOING BORDER IMPERIALISM–HARSHA WALIA • Telus Centre, Room 150 (corner

of 87 Ave and 111 St), U of A • Book launch and discussion with author and activist Harsha Walia • Thu, Jan 16, 7pm

WOMEN IN GOVERNANCE • Alumni Room,

students' Union Bldg • Gender Based Violence Prevention Project and Discover Governance hosting a panel (Janelle Morin, Leah Trueblood, Sarah Hoffman), addressing inaccessibility of governance and introducing solutions to increase representation in politics. Panel members • Jan 9, 7pm

VUEWEEKLY JAN 9 – JAN 15, 2014

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, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • 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 • 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 Junior-Senior 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 G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: 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, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • 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

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 • womons-

pace.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 SPECIAL EVENTS 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 (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank) DEEP FREEZE FESTIVAL • Alberta Avenue

Area, along 118 Ave, 90 St to 94 St • deepfreezefest.ca • The Vikings are coming: free activities, including live music, cuisine, dance, wagon rides, ice skating, storytelling, fireworks, an artisan market and gallery sale, and much more • Jan 11-12 • Free family event

ICE ON WHYTE FESTIVAL • End Of Steel Park, Gateway Blvd, 103 St, Tommy Banks Way • 780.758.5878 • iceonwhyte.ca • International Ice Carving Competition kicks off the festival from Jan 24-26 • All 10 festival days are filled with outdoor fun. Enjoy the ice and snow carving exhibits, the interactive children's play area, the famous giant ice slide, games, ice carving lessons and much more. Every day new ice and snow carvings will be created by the Artists in Residence and special guest artists • Jan 24-Feb 2 • $5 (adult)/$2.50 (child) under 2 free NEW YEAR AT THE MUTTART CONSERVATORY • Muttart Conservatory, 9626-96A St •

edmonton.ca/attractions_recreation/attractions/ muttart_conservatory/event-days.aspx • Opening celebration for the Muttart Conservatory's Lunar New Year feature pyramid and the year of the horse. The Alberta Chinese Orchestra and lion dancers perform in Centre Court; firework display at 5:40pm • Jan 11, 12-6pm • Regular admission rates

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Volunteers Wanted

Are You Looking for a Great Volunteer Experience?

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

Become a Master Composter Recycler Master Composter Recyclers are Edmonton’s community leaders in waste reduction.

-complete a free, 40-hour course -learn about garbage, composting, recycling -volunteer at least 35 hours -teach friends what you learned -share your passion for sustainability Apply online. Visit edmonton.ca/mcrp Application deadline: February 20, 2013 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

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.

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

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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 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.

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities 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 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

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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.

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

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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.

Submissions are adjudicated by a panel of visual art professionals who represent a spectrum of expertise in the visual arts.

The artists chosen to exhibit receive CARFAC fees.

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 1, 2014, 5 pm For more information: Jenny Willson-McGrath, Exhibition Curator 780.651.5741 I jennyw@artsheritage.ca ARTIST requires agent/manager to assist in selling ART. Commission is generous percentage % .

Contact BDC at monkeywrench@live.ca

Artist to Artist

27th Annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts Mayor Don Iveson and the Professional Arts Coalition of Edmonton (PACE) are pleased to announce the 27th Annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts on Monday, April 28, 2014 at Winspear Centre.

The Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts showcases Edmonton’s vibrant arts and culture industry by bringing together the business community, artists, media and arts appreciators to honour the valuable contributions Edmonton artists and arts champions make to our city. A portion of the proceeds from this year’s event will be donated to the Music Enrichment Program, which provides quality, affordable, group instruction in violin, viola, cello and double bass, including the opportunity to play in Enrichment Orchestras, to students of the greater Edmonton area.

Nominations are now being accepted online. The top six nominations will be considered in each of the following categories: Mayor’s Award for Innovative Support by a Business for the Arts Mayor’s Award for Sustained Support of the Arts John Poole Award for Promotion of the Arts ACTO Gas Award for Outstanding Lifetime Achievement DIALOG Award for Excellence in Artistic Direction Syncrude Award for Excellence in Arts Management Northlands Emerging Artist Award Ambassador of the Arts Award Courage to Innovate Award Youth Award Nominations forms and applications information can be found online at: mayorscelebration.com/nomin ate Please note: nominations may only be filed online.

Nomination deadline is 4:30pm on Friday, February 14, 2014.

Botanical Artists of Canada (BAC) – Juried Exhibition, The Four Seasons, March 26 – April 6, 2014, Paper Mill Gallery, Toronto.

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Call for Submissions : FAVA FEST FILM AND VIDEO ARTS FESTIVAL MARCH 25 – 29, 2014 FAVA FEST exposes the larger community to the artistic work of membership, stimulates new work, rewards past success and just generally makes a bigger noise about FAVA. Hosting a media art gear expo and BBQ, screen 30-40 films directed by Northern Alberta filmmakers, hold an Artist Talk or Panel ( 2013-brought in noted Art Director Todd Cherniawsky) and give away $20,000 worth of awards at FAVA GALA – a celebration of excellence in media arts and FAVA’s big fundraiser for the year.

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The Paint Spot, Edmonton would like to extend an invitation to your organization, club, society, school or association to make use of the many exhibition opportunities we offer to members of the Alberta art community.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): You can blame it on the coming full moon. You can blame it on the gorgeous storm or the epic dream or the haunting song or the suffering you're struggling to vanquish. All I ask is that you don't blame it on the alcohol, OK? If you're going to do wild and brave and unexpected things, make sure they are rooted in your vigorous response to primal rhythms, not in a drunken surrender to weakness or ignorance. I'm all for you losing your oppressive self control, but not the healthy kind of self control.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): When was the last time you did an experiment? I'm not talking about scientific tests and trials that take place in a laboratory.

I'm referring to real-life experiments, like when you try out an unfamiliar experience to see if it appeals to you, or when you instigate a change in your routine to attract unpredictable blessings into your sphere. Now would be an excellent time to expose yourself to a few what-ifs like that. You're overdue to have your eyes opened, your limits stretched and your mind blown.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): To help take the edge off the darkness you have been wrestling with, I offer you these lines from a poem by Kay Ryan: "The day misspent, / the love misplaced, / has inside it / the seed of redemption. / Nothing is exempt / from resurrection." In other words, Gemini, whatever has disappeared from your life will probably return later in a new form. The wrong turns you made may lead you to a fresh possibility. Is that what you want? Or would you prefer that the lost things stay lost, the dead things stay dead? Make a decision soon.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "Human beings are often unable to receive because we do not know what to ask for," says the writer Malidoma Somé in his book Of Water and the Spirit. "We are sometimes unable to get what we need because we do not know what we want." With that in mind, Cancerian, hear my two pleas: first, that in the next six weeks, you will work diligently to identify the goodies you want most; and second, that you will cultivate your capacity to receive the goodies you want most by refining your skill at asking for them.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Julia Morgan (1872 – 1957) was the first woman licensed as an architect in California. She designed more than 700 buildings in the course of her brilliant career and thrived both financially and artistically.

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You can't possibly know ahead of time how important it might ultimately be to apply yourself conscientiously to a seemingly small assignment.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): One of Beethoven's music teachers said, "As a composer, he is hopeless."

When Thomas Edison was a kid, a teacher told him he was "too stupid to learn anything." Walt Disney worked at a newspaper when he was young, but his editor fired him because "he lacked imagination and had no good ideas." I'm sure there was a person like that in your past—someone who disparaged and discouraged you.

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LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): As a child, French philosopher and writer Blaise Pascal (1623 – 1662) loved math. But his father, who home-schooled him, forced him to forgo math and concentrate on studying the humanities.

Pascal rebelled. When he was 12 years old, he locked himself in his room for days and immersed himself in mathematical investigations. When he emerged, he had figured out some of Euclid's fundamental theorems about geometry on his own. Eventually, he became a noted mathematician. I see the coming weeks as prime time to do something like the young Pascal did: seal yourself away from other people's opinions about who you're supposed to be and explore the themes that will be crucial for the person you are becoming.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In 1609, Dutch sea explorer Henry Hudson sailed to America and came upon what we now call Coney Island. Back then it was a barren spit of sand whose main inhabitants were rabbits. But it was eventually turned into a dazzling resort—an "extravagant playground," according to the documentary film Coney Island.

By the early 20th century, there were three sprawling amusement parks packed into its two square miles of land, plus "a forest of glittering electric towers, historical displays, freak shows, a simulated trip to the moon, the largest herd of elephants in the world and panoramas showing the Creation, the End of the World and Hell." I mention this, Scorpio, because 2014 could feature your very own Henry Hudson moment: a time when you will discover virgin territory that will ultimately become an extravagant playground.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "If men had wings and bore black feathers, few of them

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would be clever enough to be crows," said 19th-century social reformer Henry Ward Beecher.

That might be an accurate assessment for most people, but I don't think it will be true for you Sagittarians in the foreseeable future. Your animal intelligence will be working even better than usual. Your instinctual inclinations are likely to serve as reliable guides to wise action. Trust what your body tells you! You will definitely be clever enough to be a crow.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Can you guess what combination of colours makes the most vivid visual impact? Psychologists say it's black on yellow. Together they arrest the eye. They command attention. They activate a readiness to respond. According to my reading of the astrological omens, this is the effect you can and should have in the coming weeks. It's time for you to draw the best kind of attention to yourself. You have a right and a duty to galvanize people with the power of your presence.

Whether you actually wear yellow clothes with black highlights is optional as long as you cultivate a similar potency.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): I'm guessing that in a metaphorical sense, you've been swallowed by a whale. Now you're biding your time in the beast's belly.

Here's my prediction: you will be like the Biblical Jonah, who underwent a more literal version of your experience. The whale eventually expelled him, allowing him to return to his life safe and sound—and your story will have the same outcome. What should you do in the meantime?

Here's the advice that Dan Albergotti gives in his poem "Things to Do in the Belly of the Whale."

"Count the ribs," he says. "Look up for blue sky through the spout. Make small fires with the broken hulls of fishing boats.

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Dream of the beach. Review each of your life's 10 million choices.

Find the evidence of those before you. Listen for the sound of your heart. Be thankful that you are here, swallowed with all hope, where you can rest and wait."

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No more than five days after the Supreme Court handed down its decision to strike down Canada's prostitution laws, Dennis Hof, owner of the Moonlite Bunny Ranch in Nevada, announced that he intends to open brothels in Montréal, Toronto and Vancouver.

You may know Hof from his many television appearances. He was featured in the many iterations of the HBO series Cathouse and has been a regular guest on talk shows like The Tyra Banks Show, Howard Stern and Dr Phil. Hof is often on these shows professing that his bunny ranch model is the best way to provide safe sexual services for both workers and clients.

The Adult Video News reported that Hof told them he has been waiting for the ruling, and now that Canada is wide open he intends to make the most of it.

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ter. Although he talks a lot about women's rights and public safety, he makes no bones about the fact that he is in this industry for the huge potential of profit and it's clear that he could not make that money without the women who work for him.

Do we really want guys like Hof starting up a sextrade franchise in our country?

Before, we become too concerned, we should bear in mind that Hof's press release makes the whole prospect seem easier than it is. The Supreme Court has given the federal government one year to draft new legislation to replace the three laws that were struck down—keeping or being found in a bawdy-house, living on the avails of prostitution and communicating in public for the purposes of prostitution. If they do not do that, the laws will simply be removed.

that business exists. Municipalities could, and likely will, create their own rules about under what conditions and where brothels may operate. Many cities in Canada already have bylaws in place to address escort services and bodyrub parlours. Those will need to be adapted to fit the new laws or lack thereof. Those that don't have bylaws will need to act fast in order to be able to respond to the business-licence applications that will inevitably start coming in. It's entirely likely that Hof will find his options severely curtailed by municipalities that are hoping to place limits on where the legal sex trade can take place.

Hof's announcement might make it sounds worrisome—this decision came down only days ago and already we have foreign interest in stimulating a legal sex trade—but there is a long way to go and many questions to be answered before anything actually changes. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

For the next year, the existing laws are still in effect. Hof will have to wait until the end of 2014 to know if running a brothel in Canada will actually be legal. It is still not at this point in time.

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Is there a term that is preferred to "transgendered?" I recently wrote an article that described an MTF person I know as transgendered. The article was positive about transgendered persons I have known (she is one of many). Upon seeing a draft prior to publication, this person flipped out so hard that I felt compelled to cut off all contact with her. I also killed the article. One of her complaints was that I used the word "transgendered" to describe her, and she identifies as something other than that. I feel like an old fart even asking, but have you heard of this? What is the new term if it's not OK to say "transgendered" anymore?

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But Petosky would like you—and glittery me—to keep that misdirected anger in perspective. "People mostly seem to be fascinated by trans people right after we come out," Petosky says. "If CIS's friend recently came out, then he was dealing with a person who is probably going through a lot of trauma and anxiety. When I transitioned, I thought I was going to lose my business, kill my dating chances and end up homeless. Many trans people do. People called me 'he' most of the time in those early months. My self-image was in shambles. I lashed out at some gay friends for saying things that were less than supportive. Gay men were actually some of

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Hope Over Personal Experience

There are tons of women your age who have similar dating histories—there are tons of women your age with no dating histories at all—and you won't be at a disadvantage, experience-wise, if you're willing to date one (or more) of them. Create a few online personal profiles, HOPE, and be up front, honest and unapologetic about your dating history "Let's assume CIS got the subject's and your desire for a relationship. identity right (versus genderqueer State that you are looking for a or agender) and is being respectwoman understanding enough to ful," says Shadi look past your Petosky, a writer, nexperience So the correct term is "transgender man," "trans- iand a trans woman, offer that gender woman," or "transgender person," not and the cofoundyou are willer of PUNY Entering and able to "transgendered man." tainment. "Even if do the same.

CIS showed her Good luck. respect, CIS isn't showing respect LINGERING LOVE for the English language." Trans- the worst because they could be— Any tips on getting over unrequited gender is an adjective like blue or they can be—sarcastic about stuff I love? I'm a 30-year-old straight male tall, Petosky points out. It's not a was really sensitive about. It's not who fell in love with a girl who didn't noun or verb. So the correct term like we trans people have no sense want to proceed with a relationship. is "transgender man," "transgender of who the real bad guys are. We're I have tried the gym, movies, socialwoman," or "transgender person," just getting tons of shit thrown at izing and dating other women, but not "transgendered man." us all at once and want some minor I still can't get her off my mind. To "It might help if CIS thinks about wins. We're just trying to feel safe make matters worse, I will be runthe adjectives gay or black," says close to home first." ning into her a lot in a professional Petosky. "You're a gay man or So something about your article setting in a few months. It has been you're gay. You're not 'gayed.' The rubbed your trans friend the wrong 1.5 years and I still haven't gotten president is a black man. He's not way—maybe it was the way you over her. I fear that my future intera blacked man. Only an ignorant brandished her as proof of your action with her will make it imposperson or a bigot would get gayed/ own high-mindedness?—and she sible to move on. blacked wrong. And to say that Dan suddenly felt less safe around you She Moved On Savage is 'a gay' or Barak Obama is and she blew up. Hopefully you two 'a black' sounds homophobic or rac- will be able to patch things up once For two years, I pined for a guy I ist because it dehumanizes. Trans the glitter has settled. couldn't have, certain I would never people want dignity, CIS, so if you On a related note: Media Matters get over him. So I called him one are saying transgender or trans out- for America has extensively covered day and asked him to have lunch. side of 'they're transgender,' you the outrageous and damaging anti- The plan: throw myself at him and have to put man, woman or person trans bigotry that Fox News rou- convince him to leave his boyfriend (or human) after it. Because that is tinely spews into American homes, for me. Failing that, convince him what we are." hotels, airports and waiting rooms. to resume cheating on his boyIf all you got wrong was that one (These two posts at MediaMatters. friend with me. But five minutes thing, CIS, and your transgender com will bring you up to speed: into lunch, I realized I wasn't atfriend blew up at you, well, that's "Experts: Fox News' Coverage Con- tracted to him anymore. It wasn't unfortunate. (We're both giving you tributes to Violence, Discrimination that I couldn't get over him during the benefit of the doubt, CIS, and Against Transgender Community" those two years, SMO, but that my assuming that "transgendered" was and "Fox News' Transphobia Prob- ego wouldn't let me get over being the only issue.) You were trying to lem.") Far be it from me to give dumped. With that realization, the do right by your friend, her anger the trans-rights movement march- spell broke. We ate our sandwiches was misplaced, an opportunity to ing orders ... but ... if a coalition of and said our goodbyes. Maybe you'll educate a well-meaning ally was queer and trans-rights groups came have the same spell-breaking expelost, a friendship was nuked and a together and called for a big demon- rience when you run into this womtransgender angel didn't get her stration outside the Fox News stu- an in a professional setting? If not, wings that day. dios in midtown Manhattan, I would keep trying the gym, movies, dating, But let's zoom out for a second: be there along with tons of other etc until the spell breaks or your life trans folks have an awful lot to be gay, lesbian, straight and bi cissies. ends, whichever comes first. angry about, CIS, from absolutely How about it?

Follow Shadi Petosky on Twitter @ staggering levels of anti-trans shadipetosky. violence to discrimination against RELATIONSHIP ROOKIE trans people in employment to a I'm a 37-year-old straight male and lack of access to basic health care. I've never had a girlfriend. I lost my On the Savage Lovecast, family law But at times, righteous trans anger virginity when I was 25 and pro- for the polyamorous: savageloveseems to get directed at whoever ceeded to have sex with dozens of cast.com. V is nearest at hand, however well- women over the next five years, intentioned or otherwise support- but none lasted more than a night @fakedansavage on Twitter

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1 Baseball hat 4 Sportscaster Collinsworth 8 Nearsighted 14 ___-de-la-Cite (Notre Dame locale) 15 Eugene O’Neill’s actress/daughter 16 State of southern Mexico 17 Beats the clock?

19 Attic dust collector 20 What the phone ID tells you about Nolte?

22 ___ buco (Italian entree) 23 Half a pay period, often 24 “___ Like Alice” (Peter Finch film) 26 They pop up here and there 27 Body work, for short?

28 Consumed 31 Beloved Blume 34 To ___ mildly 35 Rock venue?

36 “Damned dirty” creature 37 Comes up with a plea, for short?

39 Rhubarb or blueberry 40 DeLuise in Burt Reynolds outtakes 41 Words before remember or relax 42 Leader of pre-1917 Russia 43 Experimental musician Brian 44 Private investigators, for short 45 Afr. neighbor 47 “___ Ninjas” (Nickelodeon show with George Takei) 49 Gut response 53 Long-winded diatribe 55 Ancient Roman building where pigs made noises in pairs?

57 Revealing swimsuit 59 Folk singer’s accompaniment 60 Like stadium seating 61 Angry moods 62 Trapeze artist’s safety 63 Ruined 64 First part of a news story 65 Trick finish?

4 Mimicked 5 Betsy and Diana, for two 6 How contracts are signed 7 ___-Flush (bathroom brand) 8 Shirley Temple, for example 9 Blocking Ming 10 “The ___ Incident” (Henry Fonda movie) 11 Name for a pet-friendly brewpub?

12 Applies frosting to 13 ___ San Lucas (Baja resort) 18 Super Bowl XXXIII MVP 21 Defiant response 25 School bus driver on “The Simpsons” 27 Family tree members 29 Vegas Strip hotel 30 Driving hazards 31 Green stone 32 Immediately following 33 A good band pic on the CD, songs that will appeal to music producers, etc.?

34 Movie with a shower scene 37 :// preceder 38 Numbers after 1 42 Dare alternative 45 Overacted 46 Engaged in rioting 48 “In ___” (Nirvana album) 49 Acclimate 50 Former “Weekend Edition Sunday” host Hansen 51 Less doubtful 52 Bad dashboard reading 53 Quartet after Q 54 Neat as ___ 56 Hit the seas 58 Lion’s place ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

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1 Big name in routers 2 Edgar ___ Poe 3 “Key & ___” (Comedy Central show)

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Sweaters.

Meet Alice.

She’s a 21-year-old Japanese-American born in Zushi, a small beach town about an hour south of Tokyo. Alice spent her childhood in Beijing, her teens in LA, and the past four years studying Economics and Law in Tokyo. In all this travel she has learned to speak English, Japanese, Chinese, and Spanish fluently. Until she was 4, Alice planned to be a mermaid when she grew up, but has since decided that she would prefer to be an Environmental Lawyer in San Francisco. Alice may seem petite, but this young woman has been practicing Aikido for the past 8 years and can pretty much take anyone down. In her spare time, Alice likes to hang out with her friends either at the beach playing volleyball or Frisbee, out singing karaoke, or eating Dim Sum. She also loves watching classic black and white films, particularly those starring Katharine Hepburn. And of course, she has recently picked up the new hobby of modeling for us, which she has a lot of fun doing.

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