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Heads in the oilsands Canada and Alberta's Joint Oil Sands Monitoring (JOSM) program—promised to be a "world-class" and highly scientific sentinel— is meant to show Canadians and foreigners that the government is serious about measuring the environmental effects of booming oilsands development. As well they should: Canada is routinely roasted on the world stage for foot-dragging on environmental policies, especially those that would hamstring our black gold mine.

So the recently revealed government decision to remove wetlands and groundwater monitoring from the JOSM mandate is, on the surface, a real head scratcher. Wetlands—aka muskeg, bogs or peatland—cover 40 percent of northern Alberta's oilsands deposits and have been studied by environmental scientists for years. They are important carbon sinks and early indicators of pollution. Basically, ignore at your own risk.

Excluding wetlands from environmental monitoring is a glaring misstep, but excluding groundwater monitoring is a less obvious and potentially more harmful move. Scientists and water experts have long called for more research into the effects of SAGD, or in situ, on groundwater. The SAGD process involves heating up massive amounts of surface water or groundwater in huge boilers then pumping the superheated steam underground to loosen up deeply buried hockey-puckhard bitumen stashes.

In situ is exploding and set to overtake, if it hasn't quietly done so already, the more esthetically displeasing open-pit mining as the dominant way to extract Alberta's oilsands. And it will only grow as 80 percent of the estimated 168.7 billion barrels of buried Alberta crude is only accessible

by SAGD. What effects will displacing these untold quantities of ancient groundwater have on our water table—as groundwater replenishes lakes, rivers and streams? And what are the consequences of the common practice of pumping wastewater deep underground? We have questions, but the government is apparently not even looking for the answers.

The JOSM is set to come online in 2015 but it's already showing major flaws. The decision not to fund monitoring of wetlands and groundwater is a hole big enough to drive one of those huge oilsands trucks through—and makes the development an easy target for critics. And the JOSM is run by the government and funded by the oil industry, partners keen for positive data on the oil sands.

Then federal environment minister Peter Kent said during the announcement of the JOSM in 2012 that the monitoring would be "among the most transparent and accountable system of any oil-producing nation" and even challenged other oil-producing countries to match their lofty ideals. Oil companies and our governments are doing everything humanly possible to convince us, and potential foreign customers, that Alberta's brand of sticky crude is the cleanest/safest/most moral source of energy in history.

But how much can we trust them if they're burying their heads in the oilsands and choosing to ignore potential problems? V

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FEATURE // BITCOIN

A new way to pay

Bitcoin offers peer-to-peer payment network, but with some risk

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n a rented boardroom downtown in January, Bitcoin Pete told 14 people they have a frontrow seat to the most valuable asset on the planet.

It was a meeting of the Bitcoin Edmonton Meet-Up Group, which brings together entrepreneurs, gamers with time to kill and curious investors who want to know more about Bitcoin, a volatile but valuable new digital currency.

"I feel like it's the best opportunity to teach people about the benefits that are coming in the new digital economy," says Peter Dushenski, the man behind the "Bitcoin Pete" nickname.

Dushenski, a former health inspector from Edmonton, organizes the get-togethers and runs bitconomy.ca, a company that designs retail systems in order to allow businesses, like Remedy Cafe, to accept Bitcoin as payment. Currently, Remedy is Bitconomy's flagship business, but Dushenski is in talks with more and hopes to set up 100 companies on Bitcoin by the end of the year.

Bitcoin became operational in 2009 and exploded in value by nearly 800 percent in 2013. Bitcoin traded at $13.12 CAD on the Canadian Virtual Exchange in Jan-

uary 2013 and hit a high of $1047

by December 4 of the same year.

But Bitcoin's value also fluctuates widely. After the Republic of China announced on December 5 that Bitcoin could not be used by banks as legal tender currency, its value fell almost 30 percent in two days. It dropped by more than $100 on December 18 before making it almost all the way back two days later. On January 25 it traded at $881.

More than a few of the people around the table during introductions were long-term holders, or people who are determined to ride out the short-term peaks and valleys. Some owned small online stores that used bitcoin as a payment option, others were precious-metals investors looking to add to their portfolios, and a few were just curious.

Candy Davis, a 28-year-old accountant, got involved last spring after hearing about Bitcoin mining in her online-gaming groups. Bitcoin can be generated by "mining," which means running software on a computer in order to help process the worldwide Bitcoin network.

"It was a difficult process at first," Davis says. "I don't have a good background in that, so think it was kind of frustrating to

set up at the beginning. It turned out well."

The meeting was Davis's first chance to meet Bitcoiners in person.

"I didn't know there was so much interest locally," she says. "It seems really energetic, the community here, but I had no idea."

After the meeting, the group moved to Remedy Cafe for the unveiling of a new product developed by Ashley Fulks, one of the group's members. Fulks, who worked in IT for the energy industry before becoming a Bitcoin broker last spring, developed a gift card called CoinTap, which is now sold at Remedy. The card, worth $55.50, can be exchanged online for $50 worth of Bitcoin.

Fulks, a 34-year-old from Beaumont, talks about Bitcoin as a currency owned by the people, as opposed to governments. He doesn't worry about regulation impacting Bitcoin.

"Regulation can come down, but I think Canada is very smart about it and very open about it," he says.

Kyle B Murray, a marketing professor at the University of Alberta who specializes in consumer psychology, thinks the idea has more legs as a currency, but it may still take years to catch on.

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"The analogy that I often use is that if you remember when the chip started first going in on credit cards, that's a technology that Visa and MasterCard had for a number of years," Murray says, adding that Bitcoin needs to become more user-friendly. "Either Bitcoin would have to evolve substantially, or there's another virtual currency similar to Bitcoin that's going to replace it."

Risk remains a factor for Bitcoin as an investment.

"Even calling it an investment is probably the wrong term, given how speculative and volatile it is," Murray says. "It's probably closer to gambling."

But it's worked for Remedy, which has just cashed in Bitcoin it collected during three months of retail for $14 000.

"No one was doing it, and someone was going to have to start it somewhere," says Remedy owner Sohail Zahadi, who notes Bitcoin's brought in customers from out-of-province. Zahadi says it was a $2000 investment to get started with Bitcoin, and he plans to expand the service to include a Bitcoin ATM. Davis, as an accountant, wants to adapt to the market so she can help clients with it, but also called it a gamble to invest.

"It's really volatile and it's really new and it could go in any direction," she says. "I think it has an equal chance of failing as it does of succeeding."

Fulks says the growth is not going to go away and is 100-percent committed to virtual currencies, but not necessarily Bitcoin.

"I see it as a snowballing effect, and only being a matter of time until virtual currencies are a very common thing," he notes.

Dushenski and the meet-up group are organizing an event on February 15 called CoinFest, which will include information sessions, a DJ and a poker tournament where participants can earn their first Bitcoin.

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Planetary pioneering

Mars One looks to generate buzz about a one-way trip to the red planet

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uring the 40 years since anybody last stepped on the Moon, the space shuttles came and went, government-funded human missions beyond near orbit were cancelled, and while robots and probes sent around the solar system and beyond were all impressive in their own right, and the International Space Station is a solid achievement, it hasn't looked like humans are getting away from the Earth anymore.

That might change. Mars One is a not-for-profit organization that intends to send humans to Mars without getting them back—and more than 200 000 people applied for the opportunity. Recently, that list was narrowed to 1058, including 75 Canadians. One of those Canadians is Christy Foley, who—for now anyway—lives here in Edmonton, but wants to take her talents to a new world.

"I currently work with the Government of Alberta in environment and sustainable resource development as a strategic planner," Foley says. "I have a BA in Philosophy from Simon Fraser and an MBA in Business Administration from the U of A. "I hope to be in the health services side, the food production and biology— those are interesting areas for me."

Why one-way? One reason is for the sake of proving humans can live offworld indefinitely, but it also means the daunting problem of designing a spacecraft capable of take off and landing on two different planets, a months-long trip both ways, the means to sustain humans for a long period of time anyway between the more-than-two-years-apart launch windows when the configuration of Earth and Mars make the trip easiest, and the fuel to make it all happen, doesn't have to be solved.

The resulting obvious question anyone

in the shortlist is going to be asked over and over is "how can you leave behind all your friends and family?" But they're ready: this question was a part of the application process.

"When you signed up and paid your fee, you were asked to answer 10 questions—a lot like normal job interview questions," Foley says. 'Tell me about a time when you dealt with stress or demonstrated leadership.'

"But there are a few others that are a little unique. Like, 'How do you feel with the fact that this is a one-way trip?' 'How would you deal with losing your family and friends support network?' Then you had to write an essay, a longer question about who you were and why you're interested in this project. And also an upto-one-minute video answering those two questions and also talking about your sense of humour."

Foley says she's not too concerned about losing that network. Leaving would happen 10 years from now, and she moved around a lot as a child, so she talks to most of her friends via correspondence anyway.

"I'll miss my husband, though, and my mom and dad are a little concerned.

They're proud of me, but they are concerned that it's one way.

"It's obviously not the best, but the things we will get out of this trip make it worth it."

That question about sense of humour is more important than it may seem.

If the program succeeds, a relatively small number of people will be living in extremely close quarters with one another. Above all, they have to get along.

"Group cohesion is something you can't train for. You can't train personality types. You can't train how people work with each other. You can train them to

be in computer science, or a doctor or an engineer, but you can't train them to be good team workers."

The other obvious question is why someone would want to go to Mars in the first place. You can't go walking around on the surface like you can on Earth. The temperature is low enough that you'd freeze, the atmosphere is unbreathable, you might get caught in a dust storm, and, to put it lightly, your body won't react well to the low pressure.

Places that aren't Earth that we know of are generally inhospitable, but many are deadlier than Mars—the intense temperatures and pressure on Venus destroyed all landed probes to date within a couple of hours each, for instance. If we do want to start a colony, Mars is one of the more promising places—it is at least nearby astronomically speaking, living there in the near future is conceivable technologically, and its day is conveniently less than an hour longer than Earth's. But it will require a lot of preparation, and Mars One intends to send several missions ahead of the humans starting 2018.

"The first one is a lander and a communications satellite so that we can have 24/7 communication with Earth, and so that the lander can start preparing sites," Foley says. "And then further missions will include sending habitats and life support pods that the lander and another rover will set up for the initial humans. And once we get there, we will finish setting them up with some of the stuff the lander won't be able to do."

When the first group lands, they'll need to get to work not only sustaining themselves, but getting the colony ready for more astronauts. As long as they're able, Mars One wants to send further groups of four each launch window.

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"These pods will have about 250 cubic metres of space per person, so 1000 cubic metres in total. We will be able to work and live and grow food with just normal clothing. To go outside, we'd have to then suit up. We're currently designing a Mars suit that will be able to withstand the dust—it's a different environment than what our current suits are designed for, which is just space. We will then be able to go outside in these pressurized suits."

The challenge is part of the appeal that Foley sees in going. The technological feats that will have to be achieved in order to make this possible will have implications outside the mission itself.

"We'll have to live in essentially a closed system, and solar power, really organic food, recycling everything, so I hope that would inspire Earth to live more within their means."

There's also the science that can be done with humans present. Geological, biological and engineering training will be provided to the candidates by Mars One as needed. If Foley's selected, she says she'd be more interested in the geology and biology experiments, which would take up much of her time.

Besides that, day-to-day life would be focused around food production inside the pods, and exercise in order to maintain health in the lower gravity.

Mars One isn't the only organization with plans to get to Mars, nor is it the first to look seriously at a one-way trip.

But they are looking at non-traditional forms of funding for space travel—unsurprisingly, underestimation of cost and overestimation of funding has been a major aspect of the criticism.

A not-for-profit, the organization is relying on sponsorship, crowdfunding, and selling broadcast rights to a

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reality show accompanying the mission through a later selection stage— which will see the world voting by region on the astronauts they want to send—through to the first groups living in the habitats. They estimate the cost of getting the first four people on Mars at $6 billion, and $4 billion for each subsequent group.

Their current Indiegogo campaign, specifically to contribute to the planned 2018 mission, ends on February 9 2014, and has reached just over half its $400 000 goal.

The financial aspect may leave the missions uncertain, but the organization has received other donations and proceeds from merchandise sales. And as it is not reliant upon any governments, it is not subject to the politics and whims of national-budget-making legislators that have killed other space missions. If nothing else, the buzz around the project has gotten people talking.

"I really do think it's important that we get excited about space again," Foley says. "We went to the Moon, we put some footprints, and things started to trail off. We lost the vision that drove the 1960s, and I think this Mars One mission has already started to inspire others. NASA has recently outlined their own Mars initiative, and I don't believe that would have happened without Mars One taking the first step and getting people talking about Mars again.

"I also think the whole democratic process of this being 'The People's Mission' is important for humanity as a whole to work together for goals that cross political boundaries and nationalism. I hope people get excited about this and support the project, pick their favourite potential astronauts and support them."

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Tragedy in the trans community An investigation into the personal life of inventor Dr V went too far Where is the line between responsible reporting and invasion of privacy? Earlier this month, a piece published on Grantland (a popular sports and pop-culture blog, indirectly associated with ESPN) demonstrated the tragic consequences of crossing that line, especially with regards to trans communities.

Here's what happened: on January 15, Grantland published "Dr V's Magical Putter" in which author Caleb Hannan recounts his discovery of a scientifically advanced golf club developed by an aeronautical physicist from MIT, Dr Essay Anne Vanderbilt. The eponymous Dr V was quite reluctant to enter the public eye, insisting that all interviews be focused on the "science, rather than the scientist." Her reclu-

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sive manner and quirky communication style intrigued Hannan, and so what was originally a story about a golf club became a character profile.

When Hannan was unable to confirm Dr V's credentials—there was no record of her attending MIT, for example—he began to dig deeper into her background, contacting former employers. Many of you, I am sure, can see where this is going: Dr V was a trans woman, a discovery that "sent a chill" up Hannan's spine.

Seemingly unable to resist any lurid detail, Hannan goes on to describe aspects of Dr V's early life (including her birth name, birth date and place as well as previous employers and relationships), switches to male pronouns and outs her as trans to one of her investors. Without any

obvious reflection, he blithely describes one of her previous suicide attempts which makes the story's end all the more sickening: in her last email to Hannan, Dr V offers to show Hannan proof of her credentials if he signs a non-disclosure agreement in return. Hannan refuses. Hannan concludes the column by noting that shortly after this communication, before his article was published, Dr V committed suicide.

To say that this is one of the most cavalier, irresponsible, morally reprehensible pieces of writing I have read in a long time is an understatement. A story about an inventor who has falsified their credentials in order to market their product is one story. But treating Dr V's trans status as another "lie"

that needed to be exposed is not only grossly transphobic but demonstrates a basic lack of empathy as well. Time and again, the media depicts trans people as deceitful and duplicitous, and Hannan sadly continues this tradition.

In his apology afterwards, editorin-chief and well-known sports commentator Bill Simmons admits that 13 to 15 people read the article before it went live and apparently no one—not a single senior editor or lawyer—objected to it. To his credit, Simmons' apology is a real one, something that is all too rare these days, and he details all the mistakes Grantland made in publishing this piece. But that's as far as he goes.

He describes Hannan as a protégé

that he has failed; we have yet to hear Hannan apologize or respond about why he made the journalistic decisions that he did. Simmons does not commit to any concrete actions or consequences resulting from this story, merely noting that, "we will learn from what happened ... and we're going to keep trying to get better." A woman is dead and Grantland (but not Hannan!) will try to do better.

There is of course no way to prove that Hannon's investigation directly led to Dr V's decision to end her own life, but it would be as equally hard to argue it played no part at all. What remains is yet another vivid reminder of the consequences about our stunning ignorance of trans communities. V

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The Arab Spring Three Years On The recent revolutions of the Middle East parallel those of Europe, 1848 It has taken a little longer than it did after the 1848 revolutions in Europe, but on the third anniversary of the Egyptian revolution we can definitely say the "Arab Spring" is finished. The popular, mostly non-violent revolutions that tried to overthrow the single-party dictatorships and absolute monarchies of the Arab world had their moments of glory, but the party is over and the bosses are back.

People in the Middle East hate having their triumphs and tragedies treated as a second-hand version of European history, but the parallels with Europe in 1848 are hard to resist. The Arab tyrants had been in power for just as long, the revolutions were fuelled by the same mixture of democratic idealism and frustrated nationalism, and once again the trigger for the revolutions (if you had to highlight just one factor) was soaring food prices.

In many places the Arab revolutionaries had startlingly quick successes at first—Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen—just like the French, German and Italian revolutionaries did in Europe's "Springtime of the Peoples." For a time it looked like everything would change. Then came the counter-revolutions and it all fell apart, leaving only a few countries permanently changed for the better—like Denmark then, or Tunisia in today's Arab world.

The disheartening parallels are particularly strong between Egypt, by far the biggest country in the Arab world, and France, which was Europe's most important and populous country in 1848. In both cas-

es, the revolutions at first brought free media, civil rights and free elections, but also a great deal of social turmoil and disorientation.

In both France and Egypt the newly enfranchised masses thenelected presidents whose background alarmed much of the population: a nephew of Napoleon in one case, a leader of the Muslim Brotherhood in the other. And here the stories diverge for a time—but the ending, alas, does not.

In France, President Louis Napoleon launched a coup against his own presidency, and re-emerged in 1852 as Emperor Napoleon III. It had been a turbulent few years, and by then a large majority of the French were willing to vote for him because he represented authority, stability and tradition. They threw away their own democracy.

In Egypt last year, the army allied itself with former revolutionaries to overthrow the elected president, Mohamed Morsi—and within a few months, after an election which will genuinely represent the wish of most Egyptians to trade their new democracy for authority, stability and tradition, Field Marshal Abdel Fatah al-Sisi will duly assume the presidency. The counter-revolution is as popular in Egypt now as it was in France then.

And if you fear that this analogy is really relevant, then here's the worst of it. After the defeat of the 1848 revolutions, there were no further democratic revolutions in Europe for 20 years. If that timetable were also to apply to the Arab world, then the next round of

democratic revolutions would only be due around 2035. But it probably doesn't apply.

There is one key difference between the European revolutions of 1848 and the Arab revolutions of 2011. The 1848 revolutions were violent explosions of popular anger that succeeded in hours or days, while those of 2010-11 were largely non-violent, more calculated struggles that took much longer to win. Non-violent revolutions give millions of people time to think about why they are taking these risks and what they hope to get out of it.

They may still lose focus, take wrong turns, even throw all their gains away. Mistakes are human, and so is failure. But once people have participated in a non-violent revolution they are permanently politicised, and in the long run they are quite likely to remember what they came for.

The most promising candidate to succeed Gene Sharp as the world authority on non-violent revolutions is Erica Chernoweth, a young American academic who co-wrote the study "Why Civil Resistance Works: The Strategic Logic of NonViolent Conflict" with diplomat Maria Stephan. A lot of their book is about why non-violent revolution succeeds or fails, but most interesting of all are their statistics about HOW OFTEN it succeeds.

Their headline statistic is that violent revolutionary struggles succeed in overthrowing an oppressive regime only 30 percent of the time, whereas non-violent campaigns succeed almost 60 percent of the time.

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By that standard, the Arab world is certainly under-performing.

There have been only two relative successes among the Arab countries, Tunisia and Morocco (where the change came so quickly that hardly anybody noticed).

There were two no-score draws: Yemen and Jordan. And there were three abject failures: Bahrain, Egypt and Syria, the latter ending up in a full-scale civil war. (Libya doesn't count, as it was a violent revolution with large foreign participation right from the start.) So

far, not so good.

But the most relevant statistic from Chernoweth and Stephan's work for the future of the Arab world is this: "Holding all other variables constant, the average country with a failed non-violent campaign has over a 35-percent chance of becoming a democracy five years after a conflict's end."

The game isn't over yet. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Coming of age

Palme d'Or-winning Blue is the Warmest Color insists on its own pace

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till in high school when our story begins, Adèle (Adèle Exarchopoulos) is about as close to a blank slate as an adolescent can be. The daughter of working-class parents, she likes books, but doesn't like too much analysis to get in the way of her reading. She clearly loves to eat, but as yet has no notion of good food. A girl not yet fully aware of her allure, her hair is always spilling in her face, her outfits are utilitarian, her lips most often in an unwitting pucker. She accepts the amorous attention of a boy, seemingly because it's just what girls are supposed to do.

Or are they? That question hangs in the air from the moment Adèle first catches a passing glimpse of Emma (Léa Seydoux) in the streets of the industrial city in northern France where she lives. Those sleepy, sexy eyes, the way she seems so cozy with

her female companion, the blue wash It is a sequence to get lost in, just as in her hair that echos certain hues in they get lost, wrapped in each other, the canvases of Picasso's blue period: a glorious wandering all over each Emma is the first person Adèle has other that director Abdellatif Kechiche ever felt such an intense response to, shares with us in protracted yet carethough Adèle may hardly be able to fully composed, evenly lit doses, long process what that enough to reflect something of a response is. Desire?

Fascination? Envy? Fri, Jan 31 – Sun, Feb 16 lover's trance.

A longing for a Directed by Abdellatif Kechiche But Blue is the Warmest Color mentor?

Emma Metro Cinema at the Garneau is several years  isn't about sex.

Based on Julie Adèle's senior, a student and painter, a lesbian with Maroh's graphic novel Le bleu est une no inhibition or uncertainty about her couleur chaude, Kechiche's film, winner sexual preference or lifestyle. She will of this year's Palme d'Or, is certainly come to change Adèle's life, become graphic, but it is at heart a familiar comher live-in partner, introduce her to ing of age story, as indebted to Pierre a milieu of sophisticates—and pre- de Marivaux's unfinished 18th-century tentious dilettantes. In the film's most novel La Vie de Marianne—which discussed sequence, she will plunge her Adèle is reading when the film beinto languid, elongated, exploratory sex. gins—as it is to Maroh's text. Indeed,

the film's French title is La vie d'Adèle, Chapitres 1 et 2, and its loose sense of time, of events rendered without urgency—the film is 179 minutes long, while the story spans years—is more akin to the rhythms of a novel, a form which cinema has often felt compelled to distance itself from yet from which it still has much to learn. There are scenes that by established cinematic standards would seem to be extraneous, yet one can argue that certain movies are more rewarding when they give story room to breathe.

Not everything in Blue is the Warmest Color coheres. There is a statement about class that isn't fully realized, and some of the supporting characters lack dimension.

I would concede that the sex is photographed in a somewhat voyeuristic

nature—although accusing movies of voyeurism can be a little like accusing a desert of flatness. But the film's insistence on finding its own pace, Kechiche's attention to wordless exchanges, emotional tempests and youth's reckless trajectory are all laudable and absorbing. The film is also a showcase for Exarchopoulos and Seydoux, who you might recognize from Midnight in Paris and Inglourious Basterds. I've heard that Kechiche put his actresses through the ringer, especially while filming the raw, explicit sex scenes. I can't speak to the validity of his methods, but there's no denying that Exarchopoulos in particular, jejune in the best sense, doubtlessly talented yet seemingly artless, is extraordinary.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

The Square P

olitical change so often seems an abstract thing, distant from citizens, shrouded in process, conducive to apathy or cynicism. But the events relayed in The Square, which forges a surprisingly coherent path from the heady optimism of the Arab Spring to Egypt's scary summer of 2013, are proof that the possibility still remains for political change to be something manifested in open air, in the streets, with the world watching, as millions amass to discover what aspirations they have in common—and what among their many differences seems most daunting. Directed by Egyptian-American filmmaker Jehane Noujaim, whose previous works include Startup.com (2001) and Control Room (2004), this extraordinary portrait of Egypt in tumultuous transition is by turns

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hopeful and despairing. Above all it Magdy Ashour is equally amiable, a reminds us that such change is still friendly face for the Muslim Brotherhood. The improbable friendship possible in the 21st century.

A film about actions performed that blossoms between Ahmed and by a people, but individuals still Magdy is one of the most movemerge to tell the story. A part ing aspects of The Square. Khalid of The Square's drama, of what Abdalla, meanwhile, is the son of makes this moment in history so an exiled dissident and an actor dynamic and fragmost known for ile, are the wildly Fri, Jan 31 – Sun, Feb 9 The Kite Runner disparate agen- Directed by Jehane Noujaim (2007) and his das and alliances Metro Cinema at the Garneau work with director within the Egyp-  Paul Greengrass. tian revolution.

Abdalla, along with Noujaim smartly singer-songwriter seeks as broad a cross-section of Ramy Essam, function as camera-ready revolutionaries as possible. Ahmed spokespeople for the revolution. NouHassan is a young working-class jaim's key subjects are by and large man, wide-eyed, energized by the young, urbane and invested in a dream elixir of some promised freedom of democracy—the opposite of the old after decades of brutal oppression guard, who, even after the overthrow under President Hosni Mubarak. of Mubarak, even when they seem to

support sweeping change, continue to rear their hard heads.

Yet within the ranks of Noujaim's subjects the burden of history and conflicting values cause havoc.

Magdy is especially torn. Having aligned himself with the largely secularist interests of his brothers and sisters in Tahrir Square, he's destined to find himself at odds with them after the Brotherhood's Mohamed Morsi, Egypt's first democratically elected leader, falls far short of expectations, prompting the same violence that seemed anathema to the interests of the revolution. (Ahmed says what Egyptians need is not a leader but a conscience—which already sounds like something closer to those troublesome abstractions.)

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Despite the compelling and complicated individuals at the centre of The Square, the images that stay with me most are those of vast numbers of demonstrators filling that titular space and the streets and bridges beyond it, filmed by Noujaim and her collaborators from great heights. It is the inherent nature of such immense groups to speak in slogans—nuance is as elusive as careful organization. So The Square is at once a chronicle of change, betrayal and long-term renewal in nascent form. As anyone who's followed the events in Egypt already knows, the film ends on a far from happy note. But this ending is still only the beginning of a larger story.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // ACTION

I, Frankenstein

I

Abs from the slab

, Frankenstein pits gargoyles against demons in an ancient grudge match and sticks some dunderheaded version of Mary Shelley's famous creature in the middle. Two centuries after being ushered into this world by scientific genius and deadbeat dad Victor Frankenstein, the creature, here dubbed Adam, wanders the Earth in

search of an end to his inexcusably I don't know that there's much point prolonged identity crisis. The evil de- in itemizing I, Frankenstein's numermons, meanwhile, led by a bloodless ous feats of stupidity, though the notion of a garBill Nighy, want to goyle-demon war capture Adam, or Now playing at least figure out Directed by Stuart Beattie being kept a secret from humans how he was made  strains even com(the secret recipe ic-book credibilinvolves electric eels!), so they can build their own ity when you survey the catastrophic zombie army and cause what we're urban property damage alone. What really kills this rehash of the already told would be the end of the world.

All of which might make one worry if unwatchable Underworld franchise is our hero wasn't a reanimated corpse- its reliance on a mythology no one composite who somehow has light- could possibly care about, the amazning reflexes, unbreakable bones, mar- ing drabness of its production design, tial arts training and really knows how and its sheer humourlessness. Aaron to beat demons with a stick until they Eckhart embodies Adam with rigorburst into crazy fireballs. In one of I, ous attention to the character's glumFrankenstein's countless cumbersome ness. You could almost imagine Jason action sequences—most of which are Statham in the role, but he would themselves composites of video game never be able to remain so resolutely clichés—we're meant to be gripped by po-faced. The closest thing to anyone suspense when Adam is dangling from feeling anything other than grumpy in a ledge, even though we've already this movie is when a comely scientist seen him leap out of several windows briefly averts her eyes after catching and fall several stories, only to stand a glimpse of Adam's rippling abs. Othup, grunt solemnly and keep running. I erwise, this tale of war and reanimaguess once you bring this lug to life, he tion is as lifeless as can be.

JOSEF BRAUN just refuses to die.

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PREVUE // FILM SERIES

Rear Window

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oday's tawdry tabloid behaviour of LA's big-screen "glamour girls." She of "celebrities" is a long, Bieber- kicks off the Edmonton Film Society's gutter-slide-into-Miami-vice away Spring series alongside Jane Russell from the crafty buffing and polish- in Howards Hawks' iconic Gentlemen ing of studio-contracted stars in '40s Prefer Blondes (Feb 3), 1953's sixthand '50s Tinseltown. It was the era highest-grossing movie. Monroe, with of manufactured glamour—defined Betty Grable and Lauren Bacall, sends in one 1913 American dictionary as a off the series with How to Marry a "haze in the air," altering perception, Millionaire (Mar 31), '53's fifth-best at ie, an entrancthe box office.

There's more ing mirage—that Mondays at 8 pm, Feb 3 – Mar 31 social-climbing strange force Royal Alberta Museum which, as critic Full schedule at royalalbertamuse- and love-triangling in A Place in Jenny Diski's out- um.ca/events/movies/movies.cfm lined, morphed the Sun (Feb 24), the 1951 adaptafrom the French for "enchantment" or "sorcery" into tion of Theodore Dreiser's novel An "unattached fairy dust, magic looking American Tragedy, starring Elizabeth for somewhere to settle."

Taylor and Montgomery Clift. And Hollywood's special effect was to Veronica Lake is literally bewitching make this lustrous sheen on screen in I Married A Witch (Mar 10), René seem not just elegant fantasy but, Clair's fanciful 1942 romantic-comedy. increasingly, the stuff of erotic fantasies. Marilyn Monroe, whose '53 Play- The darker sides of glamour girls boy pictorial busted the persona out cast their shadows as femme fatales into the curvaceous embodiment of in film noir, from Otto Preminger's the sex-siren, was essentially the last Laura (1944; Mar 17), with Gene Tier-

ney as the spellbinding woman whose death is being investigated by a NYC cop, to Charles Vidor's Gilda (1946; Mar 3), with Rita Hayworth as the titular titillator. The Killers (1946; Mar 24) adapts Ernest Hemingway's short story, with Burt Lancaster making his debut and Ava Gardner as Kitty Collins; Gardner, observes critic David Denby, was expert at projecting "sexual longing and wrathful regret."

Hitchcock's Rear Window (1953; Feb 10) slyly undercuts glamour with ghoulishness, framing Grace Kelly next to James Stewart's apartmentbound photographer LB Jefferies while he neighbourhood-watches.

Certain that one man's killed his wife, he enlists Kelly's blonde socialite Lisa Fremont, risking her cool glamour in his voyeuristic obsession during a sweltering summer heat wave. An entrancing mirage, in which we're complicit as viewers, shimmers into murderousness.

BRIAN GIBSON

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Mmm, another anti-American sleeper-cell breakfast!

FOR THE MOTHERLAND

The Americans offers anti-heroes of Cold War-era nationalism It's hard to imagine a more banal title for an American TV show than The Americans. But Joe Weisberg's FX show, one of 2013's best debut series (out on disc just before Valentine's Day and, of course, just before the second season premieres), is all about maintaining the banality of American everyday-ness and every(wo)man-ness—and keeping a marriage together. Oh, and it happens to be a spy series.

The Americans drives the anti-hero focus of so many superb vieweridentification series—murdering family-man Tony in The Sopranos, vigilante Omar or junkie Bubbles in The Wire, teacher-turned meth-lord Walter in Breaking Bad—into a new frontier: nationalism. The antiheroes who steer our attention and accelerate our concern, hour after hour, are not only non-American but anti-American: Elizabeth and Philip Jennings (Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys) are Russian sleeper agents who came to the US in the '60s and are settled now in a Washington suburb with their two kids, Paige and Henry (Holly Taylor and Keidrich Sellati).

In a twist of fate—one of many the show smoothly pulls off—their new neighbour Stan (Noah Emmerich) is a FBI Counter-Intelligence agent.

The more we want Elizabeth (born Nadezhda), Philip (born Mischa), and

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their marriage to make it, the more that means they'll kill Americans and work against the US. The "bad guys" will beat the "good guys"— of course, it's all set more safely in the past, in 1981, when Uncle Sam and Mother Russia had propagandadriven, pop-cultured notions of capitalist goods and Communist evil. (Weisberg, a former CIA officer, was partly inspired by the 2010 discovery of the Illegals Program, involving Russian sleeper agents in the US since the mid-'90s.)

While Rhys is the one now contemplating getting out and going legitimately Yankee in the first few episodes, it's Russell's season— her leanness is translated into a meanness, an icy patriotism, as she brushes aside her "husband's" concerns (they're not legally married) and even goes against the pair's KGB supervisor (Margo Martindale).

(Elizabeth's coldness begins to be explained in the first episode, which returns us—though the Soviet flashbacks are the one major weakness, as the pair look barely younger—to her rape when she was a young recruit.)

The series is unafraid to kill off important characters when the story demands it; brief side-trips that edge over the rails—the kids hitchhiking home from the mall—careen

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excitingly back onto the tracks (that escapade startles with its sense of just how much Paige could become like her mom). Philip seduces a FBI secretary over months to get access to key information and must go all the way with her ... to the altar. Meanwhile, Stan gets into bed with, and uses more and more, a Soviet embassy worker.

But the pair's state-of-the-union is at the star-sickled, hammer-spangled heart of the show. Romances (that near-Valentine's release date is darkly ironic) are nearly always missionbound con-jobs in The Americans.

Husband and wife are posing in a marriage that's been imposed on them, arranged by superiors in their birthplace. (Come Season 2, Philip will be a bigamist, twotiming as a husband for the love of country.) They're deadly sleeper agents playing sleeping-together roles in a life-long plot, even as they try not to get seduced by the enemy's middle-class material comfort but must watch their kids become more and more natural-born Americans every day. They're working to destroy their children's future even though only we know—making our romance with these characters all the more doomed—their motherland is just a few years away from dissolving altogether. V

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FROZEN 3D (G) Closed Captioned FRI 7:05; SAT-SUN 12:15,

7:05; MON-THU 6:45

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI 7:30; SAT-SUN 4:00, 7:30; MON-THU 6:40

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 6:30, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 9:35; MON-WED 7:00; THU 8:30 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse,

sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI 7:40; SAT-SUN 12:00, 3:50, 7:40; MON-THU 6:50

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

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285

GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES ( PG) MON 8:00 METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

THE SQUARE (14A disturbing content, mature subject

DRISHYAM (STC) No subtitles Edmonton Movie Club: SUN 3:15

FUGAZI: INSTRUMENT (STC) Music Docs: TUE 7:00 VIDEO KITCHEN–FAVA (STC) WED 7:00 SIX STRING NATION (G) THU 7:00; all-ages LANDMARK 7–SPRUCE GROVE 130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove 780.962.2332

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse

language) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 3:45, 6:30, 9:15; MON, WED 6:30, 9:15; THU 6:30, 9:20

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

DEVIL'S DUE (14A frightening scenes) Closed Captioned

I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG frightening scenes, not rec for young

language) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG violence,

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A coarse language) Closed

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A language may offend, crude content) Closed Captioned FRI-WED 9:30; THU 10:20

FROZEN SING-ALONG (STC) FRI-SUN 12:30, 3:10; MON-WED

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse,

sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT, MON-WED 2:30, 6:35, 9:00; SUN 2:40, 6:35, 9:00; THU 2:30, 6:20, 9:00

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Captioned THU 7:00,

1:55, 4:40; THU 2:00, 4:45

CINEPLEX ODEON WINDERMERE CINEMAS Cineplex Odeon Windermere, Vip Cinemas, 6151 Currents Dr, 780.822.4250

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned SAT 12:00; SUN 12:40; 3D : FRI

10:00

4:00, 6:45; SAT 3:00, 6:00; SUN 3:20, 6:00; MON-WED 6:30; THU 6:45

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed Cap-

I, FRANKENSTEIN 3D (PG frightening scenes, not rec for

tioned FRI-SAT, MON-WED 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:10; SUN 3:50, 7:00, 10:10; THU 12:30, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15

THE NUT JOB (G) FRI 12:00, 2:15; SAT 11:00, 12:00, 2:20;

young children, violence) Ultraavx FRI 3:30, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45; SAT 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; SUN 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:30; MON-WED 6:40, 9:10; THU 6:50, 9:20

SUN 12:00, 2:20; MON-TUE 12:10, 2:15; WED-THU 12:10; 3D : FRI-TUE 4:30, 6:40; WED-THU 2:15, 4:30, 6:40

THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Closed Captioned THU 9:15

DEVIL'S DUE (14A frightening scenes) Closed Captioned

language) Closed Captioned FRI 3:50, 6:40, 9:20; Sat 12:30, 3:05, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45; SUN 12:50, 3:45, 6:20, 9:10; MON-WED 6:45, 9:30; THU 7:00, 9:40; VIP 18+ : FRI 7:50, 10:45; SAT 1:00,

FRI-WED 10:35

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

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI, SUN-TUE, THU 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; SAT 12:20, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; WED 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:30; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00 DALLAS BUYERS CLUB (18A) DAILY 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00 MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL (14A) FRI 11:59; TUE 12:00; THU 5:15

TRON (PG) SUN 3:00 IRON MAN (PG not rec for young children, violence) SAT 4:15 BATTLESTAR GALACTICA (G) SUN 12:30 BILL & TED'S EXCELLENT ADVENTURE (PG) FRI 7:15;

SAT 6:50

FLASH GORDON (STC) SUN 7:30 AKIRA (18A) FRI 2:00; THU 7:15 ON HER MAJESTY'S SECRET SERVICE (STC)

children, violence) FRI-SUN, TUE 4:30; 3D: FRI-SUN, TUE 1:20, 6:45, 9:00; MON, WED 6:45, 9:00; THU 6:50, 9:10

THE NUT JOB (G) Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 4:20; 3D: FRI-SUN, TUE

Captioned FRI 6:55, 9:45; SAT-SUN 12:20, 2:45, 6:55, 9:45; MON-THU 6:05, 8:35

1:50, 7:20, 9:45; MON, WED 7:20, 9:45; THU 6:45, 9:00

THE NUT JOB 3D (G) FRI 7:00; SAT-SUN 12:35, 7:00;

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:10,

Mon-Thu 6:10

3:50, 6:40, 9:10; MON, WED 6:40, 9:10; THU 6:40, 9:30

I, FRANKENSTEIN 3D (PG frightening scenes, not rec for

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:40, 4:40,

TUE 7:00

SNATCH (18A) MON 9:45; THU 12:30 SPIDER-MAN (PG may frighten younger children) SAT 1:45 BATMAN (PG violence) SAT 9:35; WED 1:00

THUNDERBALL (STC) TUE 9:50

subtitles FRI 9:15; SAT 12:45, 6:25; SUN 9:15; MON 6:25; TUE 9:15; THU 9:30

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

THE LAND BEFORE TIME (STC) SAT 11:00

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-TUE, THU 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10; WED 4:40, 7:20, 10:10; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR (R) French w/English

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

BOLSHOI BALLET: LOST ILLUSIONS (Classification not

language) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:45; MON-WED 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20; THU 12:50, 3:40, 10:20

BRAZIL (14A) MON 12:00; WED 9:50

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI-SAT 12:40, 3:05,

available) SUN 12:55

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse

matter) Arabic w/English subtitles FRI 7:00; SAT 4:15, 9:35; SUN 12:45, 7:00; MON 9:35; WED 9:35

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) THU 7:00, 9:40

tioned FRI 2:10, 5:20, 8:10, 10:40; SAT-SUN 1:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:40; MON-THU 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 8:10, 10:40

DEVIL'S DUE (14A frightening scenes) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI, SUN-THU 9:55; SAT 11:00

THE AVENGERS (PG not rec for young children, violence)

3:45, 6:30, 9:05

language) FRI-SUN, TUE 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:20; MON, WED 6:50, 9:20; THU 9:50

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Cap-

MON-THU 2:55, 5:15, 7:40

THE FISHER KING (STC) MON 2:45; TUE 4:00; WED 7:00

guage) Closed Captioned FRI 6:40, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:25, 3:15, 6:40, 9:35; MON-THU 6:00, 8:50

Captioned FRI-SAT 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05; SUN-WED 1:15, 4:00, 6:45, 9:35; THU 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35

THE NUT JOB (G) DAILY 12:35; 3D : FRI-SUN 2:55, 5:15, 7:30;

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) DAILY 1:05,

language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 9:40; MON-THU 9:10

frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:10; 3D : DAILY 4:40, 8:15

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:40, 3:50, 7:10, 10:20; MON-WED 12:50, 3:50, 6:55, 10:05; THU 12:20, 3:25, 6:30

MON 5:30; TUE 2:00

2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:10; SUN 2:05, 4:40, 7:30, 10:10; MON-TUE 1:45, 4:25, 7:10, 10:15; Wed 1:45, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15; THU 4:25, 7:10, 10:15; Star & Strollers: THU 1:00

FRI-SUN 9:10; MON-WED 8:30

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Caption & Descriptive

Video THU 7:00, 10:00

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

5:30, 8:00, 10:30; SUN 12:15, 2:45, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55; MON-TUE 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:25; WED 2:15, 4:40, 7:15, 9:45; THU 4:40, 7:00, 9:25; Star & Strollers: THU 1:00

THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Closed Captioned THU 9:20

sexual content) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video DAILY 1:00, 4:50, 8:45

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

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed

Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:55, 3:55, 7:00, 10:15; MON, WED 3:55, 7:00, 10:00; THU 7:00, 10:00

5:20, 7:50, 10:30

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse,

tioned FRI 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; SAT-SUN 2:20, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; MON-THU 7:20, 9:55

5:05 7:15 9:30

THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Closed

& Descriptive Video FRI, SUN 12:30, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45; SAT 12:30, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50; MON-THU 12:30, 2:55,

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Cap-

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Closed Captioned,

Captioned FRI-SAT 1:05, 4:05, 6:55, 9:45; SUN 1:05, 3:55, 6:45, 9:45; MON-TUE 1:15, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05; WED 2:05, 10:05; THU 1:00, 3:50, 6:40

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Caption

for young children) FRI, SUN 2:30, 6:50, 10:15; SAT 12:00, 3:30, 6:50, 10:15; MON-THU 2:30, 6:40, 10:00

Stereo Digital THU 9:25

Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE 1:45; 3D: DAILY 4:10, 6:55

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned SAT-SUN 12:00

TUE 1:15, 4:25, 7:45; MON, WED-THU 4:25, 7:45

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN,

young children, violence) FRI-SUN 12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:10, 10:40; MON-THU 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:25

language) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-WED 1:20, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40; THU 1:20, 4:00

language) Closed Captioned FRI 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; SAT-SUN 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10; MON-THU 7:10, 9:50

GABRIELLE (14A) Closed Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Dolby

I, FRANKENSTEIN 3D (PG frightening scenes, not rec for

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

4:35, 7:20, 10:05; SAT-SUN 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:05; MON-THU 7:00, 9:45

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A coarse language)Closed

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG not rec for

young children, violence) DAILY 9:50

THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) THU 9:40

frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:05; MON-WED 2:10; THU 2:15; 3D : FRISAT 3:35, 7:05, 10:35; SUN 3:35, 7:10; MON-WED 6:00, 9:30; THU 5:45, 9:15

Closed Captioned DAILY 4:05, 9:35

4:20; SAT 5:00; 3D : FRI, SUN-THU 7:15; SAT 7:45

young children, violence) Closed Captioned FRI 4:30, 7:45, 10:20; SAT-SUN 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:20; MON-THU 6:45, 9:20

Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 12:40, 3:45, 7:30, 10:00; MON, WED 3:45, 7:05, 10:00; THU 7:05, 10:00

Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital THU 6:50, 9:45

WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

FROZEN (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI, SUN-THU

GHOST IN THE SHELL (STC) FRI 4:40; THU 9:50 LOCK, STOCK AND TWO SMOKING BARRELS (18A

extremely violent scenes) MON 7:30; THU 2:45

PLANET OF THE APES (PG frightening scenes) FRI 9:20; SUN 5:10

SUPERMAN (STC)

SAT 11:00

LOGAN'S RUN (STC)

SUN 10:00

FROZEN SING-ALONG (STC) FRI, SUN-THU 1:40; SAT 11:30, 2:15

THE DARK KNIGHT (PG not rec for young children, violence,

frightening scenes) SAT 11:59; WED 3:35

NEW FORT CINEMA 9922-100 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.1707; Office: 780.992.1878

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse language) DAILY 9:00

THE NUT JOB (G) DAILY 7:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 2:00 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) DAILY 8:45 FROZEN (G) DAILY 6:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:30 RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) DAILY 7:15, 9:15; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:45 LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc, 780.986-2728 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU JAN 31

young children, violence) Closed Captioned FRI 6:45, 9:15; SAT-SUN 12:30, 6:45, 9:15; MON-THU 6:15, 8:45

7:10, 9:40; MON, WED 7:10, 9:40; THU 7:15, 9:45

THE NUT JOB (G) 3D: THU JAN 31: 7:00, 9:20 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) Closed Captioned

FROZEN (G) FRI-SUN, TUE 4:10; 3D: FRI-SUN, TUE 1:30, 7:00; MON, WED 7:00; THU 7:10

language) THU JAN 31: 7:10, 9:40

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A coarse language) FRI-WED

I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG frightening scenes, not rec for young

FRI 6:35, 9:20; SAT-SUN 12:05, 3:00, 6:35, 9:20; MON-THU

6:30, 8:55

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Closed Captioned FRI 6:50, 9:30; SAT-SUN 12:10, 2:50, 6:50, 9:30; MON-THU

6:20, 9:00

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Captioned THU 7:00 THE NUT JOB (G) Closed Captioned SAT-SUN 2:50

9:30

PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

PHILOMENA (PG language may offend) FRI 7:00; SAT-SUN 1:00, 7:00; MON-THU 7:00

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

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned SAT-SUN 3:05

MON-THU 9:00

I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG frightening scenes, not rec for young

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

children, violence) Closed Captioned SAT-SUN 2:55

SAT-SUN 1:30, 6:50; MON-THU 6:50

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG violence,

12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, disturbing content)

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

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children, violence) THU JAN 31: 7:05 9:35

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) THU JAN 31: 7:05, 9:35

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU JAN 31

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language) THU JAN 31: 6:50, 9:40

THE NUT JOB (G) 3D: THU JAN 31: 7:00, 9:20 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse language) THU JAN 31: 7:00, 9:35

DEVIL'S DUE (14A frightening scenes) THU JAN 31: 7:05, 9:30

FILM 11

REVUE // ITALIAN

DISH

DISH EDITOR : MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

The Parlour takes on wood-fired pies and Italian home cooking

T

// Meaghan Baxter

12 DISH

he higher-end, artisanal, wood-fired, and lime. The aioli, which appeared to have thin-crusted pizza joint has seen an up- separated, was spicy and smoky. Aside from tick in profile around town, if you hadn't no- the orange sheen of oil over the dip, it was ticed. Alongside the proliferation of home- all reasonably well-executed, but I'm not grown franchise Famoso from downtown to sure what benefit I derived from having my the cardinal points; Brewster's launched pre- citrus charred. mium pie-and-suds lounge Beer Revolution Despite our server's compunctions about right across the parking lot from its Oliver beets as a foodstuff, we had high hopes Square operation and now, a well-thrown for the salad. One of my favourite things stone away, we have The Parlour brought to at Century's Delux Burger Bar is the beet you by that purveyor of distinct-yet-linked salad with candied pecans and goat cheese luxury food and drink-poriums, the Century in white balsamic vinaigrette. The Parlour's Hospitality Group. Like its kin, The Parlour beet and arugula salad didn't attain to such commands premium, esthetically pleasing heights. The beets, for one thing, weren't quarters on an open, two-tiered expanse super-copious and the pistachios promised of exposed brick and duct-work, wrought- on the menu were nowhere in evidence (to iron fixtures and, in this case, muted nods to be honest, I didn't know they were missing Italian restaurant decor and the odd stab at until I checked the menu later). We were quirkiness, like the salon dryer chair that in- more curious than troubled by the fact that habits a nook near the upstairs washrooms. the red beets had been roasted, while the Reliably, the bar side has some really big small cubes of golden beet seemed to be TVs and pulses lightly to old jazz mixed with uncooked. But most incongruous was the dance trax. yogurt panna cotta dotted throughout the The Parlour's marquee item is fancy, or- dish. In the absence of a complementary saganic-crusted, etc. pizza, but you can also voury element, the sweet, gelatinous white have pasta (lobster dribs didn't sit well ravioli, "20-layer" lasa- The Parlour with any part of the gna) or sandwiches or 10334 - 108 St, meal except, possibly, a snappy entrée built dessert.

780.990.0404 around meat (osso In a stroke of pro timcenturyhospitality.com/parlour.php buco, chicken, sea bass) ing, our pizza alit just and choose from a long as we finished with the roster of prime tipples. You can also take starters, and it was pretty good, though a the small-plates approach to the appetizer house signature pie ought to attain to more. list and eat a big salad to round things out. The "family jewels" (a coinage I had heretoMuch of the menu is laid out in strings of ar- fore associated with genitalia) pizza ($16) tisanal and locally sourced buzzwords, from was strewn with crumbled Italian sausage, fior de latte and Taleggio to Nefiss Lezizz black olives and eggplant topped with olives, Spirit View Ranch Angus, and Snake Taleggio, bocconcini and smoked gouda, River Farms Wagyu, with plenty of EVOO the blending of which effaced the distincand truffle oil to wash it down. tive qualities of each. The wood-fired crust Clad in black tee, jeans and a spotless was enjoyably crisp yet pliable, and I always white apron, our bearish, affable server approve of crushed tomatoes as opposed to brandished an irreverent Seth Rogen-esque pizza sauce. The small cubes of roasted eggcharm, if you believe those words go to- plant failed to justify their presence, as they gether. He certainly regaled us with a num- didn't add much taste or texture-wise. ber of his waggish opinions as he kept the Even though we were rushing up on the plates flying and the water glasses filled, start time of our movie, we decided to try dismissing the movie we were seeing after dessert anyway, namely the chocolate torta our meal as unworthy (though he had not ($9) with vanilla crema, salted Nutella gaseen it) and questioning the sanity of any- nache and hazelnuts. I would be hard put one who would eat beets, which in his view to tell you the difference between the torta taste like dirt. He did a good job of guiding and a sizable brownie, but the saltiness us through the menu, from which co-diner and toasted hazelnuts definitely elevated and I decided to split a couple of appetizers, the experience. I was more let down by my a salad and a pizza. espresso, which arrived short, lukewarm and bitter (a string of descriptors I prefer We barely had to wait before the food to reserve for myself). As we grabbed our started hitting the table. First came the bill and coats, the mounting din from the arancini ($12) and calamari ($13), with the oncoming dinner rush gave credence to the beet and arugala salad ($13). Five aran- Internet-based criticism that The Parlour cini—crisp-fried balls of risotto imbued can be a bit loud during peak hours. with soft cheese, peas and truffle oil—sat With a glass of wine each, tax and tip, the greaselessly on a liberal dusting of grated tab came to more than $100 and didn't parm and a smattering of fresh arugula. make the kind of first impression that comThey were pleasantly salty and crunchy, mands instant loyalty. But it's still early with a creamy interior, though peas were days for The Parlour, and they may yet ennot a well-expressed part of the ingredient gineer a consistent experience where the set. The lightly breaded rings of calamari food lives up to the promise of the menu.

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Prague in a bottle The search for a Czech Dark ends

Many years ago I did the requi- It is a dark, wood-bark brown site backpacking trek through with some chestnut highlight. It Europe. While even then I was a builds a tight, pock-marked light homebrewer and had already de- tan head that lasts throughout the tasting. veloped a taste for quality beer I The aroma gives off dark had not yet built Bernard Dark Lager toffee, milk up the knowl- (Černé Pivo 13°) chocolate, a edge base about Bernard Family Brewery, touch of nutbeer I possess Humpolec, Czech Republic tiness and today. I appreci- $4.30 for 500 ml Bottle dark toasted ated the beer I malt characdrank, but didn’t always understand the story be- ter. The first sip reveals toasted bread, toffee, light chocolate, hind them.

A case in point is my time in hints of coffee and a generic Prague. In Prague pubs there nuttiness up front. The middle were two kinds of beer: light and is more subdued, offering a bit dark. Both were lagers. I have of chocolate and pecan. The fincome to recognize the light-co- ish dries out with a touch of hop loured offerings were interpreta- bitterness and a subtle, undertions of the classic Czech Pilsner, stated dryness. Interestingly, the with a rounded body and a spicy mouthfeel is silky and creamy hop bitterness. The dark were while the linger is very clean and lager-like. more of a mystery to me.

What I like about this beer is it To compound my trouble, I have not since found a beer that offers complexity and simplicity replicates the particular flavour at the same time. There are lots profile of dark Czech beer. Sure, of flavours but none dominate I have drunk many dark lagers, the overall clean lager character. including examples of German It is surprisingly light in body and Dunkel, Vienna, Schwarzbier, perfectly balanced. The beer is American Dark Lager and so on. drier and offers more hop charWhile some came close, none acter than a German Dunkel, but matched the particular combina- not quite as sharp as a North tion of flavours I remember from American dark lager.

It is a classic version of a Czech my hours in Prague pubs. Czech dark lager may be related to Mu- Dark. Ironically, the brewery only nich Dunkel, but it is sharper and opened in 1991, meaning I likely with a bit more hop note to it. It did not sip upon their interpretais like nothing I have tasted since. tion during my backpacking. ReSurprisingly, I recently found gardless of its age, Bernard has an excellent example of Czech wonderfully zoned in on the eluDark right here in Edmonton. A sive Czech Dark Lager. Much to small Czech craft brewery called my pleasure, I must add. V Bernard recently sent a shipment to Alberta. At my first sip Jason Foster is the creator of I was immediately reminded of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the my time in Prague. prairies and beyond.

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Ice fishing comes down to one crucial moment

Free Fishin' If you just want to get out once to try some ice fishing, make it the weekend of February 15 – 17 when no licence is required. Family Fishing Weekend is a chance to fish free on any public water body in Alberta that has an open fishing season, excluding national parks.

All the normal regulations still apply, but you can save yourself the expense of the WIN card and fishing licence if it's the only time you're going fishing this winter.

Remember, in Alberta you are only allowed to be fishing with two lines on any ice-covered water and you must be within 30 meters of those lines at all times. V

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t all comes down to the twitch.

Or the tickle or the jiggle or the strike or whatever you want to call it when the end of your fishing rod has that little jerk that lets you know something underwater is checking out your lure.

While the twitch is a universal part of all types of sport fishing, it is most eagerly awaited during ice fishing.

Sitting in the middle of a frozen lake peering down a hole in the ice is not hard work in itself, but the preparation to get you to that point involves some effort. The reward for your efforts is the twitch.

That effort includes bundling up for a day outside, finding a suitable lake or pond, hauling all your gear out onto the middle of the ice (usually by foot through deep snow) and setting up a mini campsite with chairs and coolers. If you're really into the sport, your setup might include a tent and underwater sonar camera. Once the site is set up you need a hole, so bring the chainsaw or hand or power auger to bore through the ice and give you access to the watery world under the frozen surface.

Making sure you're on ice that is thick enough to support your group and gear may seem like common sense, but double check with locals about the safety of any ice. Alberta Fish and Wildlife Officer Andy Nestorovich says a couple of vehicles have gone into Wabamun Lake in the past few weeks as people ignore the danger and drive onto the ice. "Your biggest concern should always be the ice

depth," Nestorovich emphasizes.

The common rule of thumb is stay off the ice if it is less than four inches deep (10 cm). At four to six inches foot travel is OK; at six to 10 inches snowmobiles and ATVs should be safe and at 12 inches or more vehicle travel can be considered.

After getting your rod out, hook attached, line in the water and drink filled, the wait for the twitch begin— sometimes it can be a long wait or even not happen at all.

With summer angling there is generally more to do as you cast out your line and reel it in or troll around in a boat dragging your hook behind, but with ice fishing there is little more you can do than wait. There is no water lapping against the shore or side of the boat, teaming with life to distract you. And that's why the twitch is such a big deal.

It's also an experience that can't be duplicated. A large body of frozen water is a very still and desolate place. The landscape of ice and snow is broken up only by the shoreline and to spend time in the middle of it can be calming and introspective.

That can end fairly quickly after a few of your refreshments start warming you up and the stories get longer and louder.

There are plenty of spots to ice

fish close to Edmonton, but to get the full experience you need to find somewhere that at least feels a bit remote. The Chickakoo Lake Recreation Area north of Stony Plain has a good

combination of easy access and lets you feel like you're at least a bit off the beaten path. Six main lakes and several more ponds are scattered throughout the park's 480 acres. The lakes are separated by rolling, forested hills that make each one quite private. It has been a quality trout fishing area in both summer and winter for many years.

Chickakoo Lake is the biggest of the park's lakes and the most desirable to ice fish on as it experiences less winter kill than the other lakes.

Winter kill occurs when there is severe oxygen depletion in the water

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the fish are living in, which is caused by the decomposition of plant material found in the water. As a result, the best ice fishing is usually early or late in the winter when there is more open water compared to mid-winter when oxygen levels are lowest. Unfortunately, the past few months have not been good for fishing on Chickakoo, according to bloggers on the province's best-known ice-fishing website: icefishalberta.com Check it out to find the latest reports from Chickakoo and all the best ice fishing areas in Alberta.

To find Chickakoo, go west on the

Highway 16 from Edmonton to the Stony Plain overpass and exit onto Secondary Highway 779 heading north. Turn west onto Township Road 534 and follow the signs to Chickakoo Lake Recreation Area. It's in the same area the Swiss Valley ski hill was located when it was in operation back in the 1980s. From the west side of Edmonton it should take you about 30 minutes to the Chickakoo parking lot. The area also has 14 kilometers of cross-country skiing trails with set track so there's more to do that just wait for the twitch.

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Curing beginners' nerves

Kicking Horse is much more than its intimidating reputation before you hit the hill. The approach begins with a seemingly endless drive up a winding mountain path to the resort, where you're introduced to a modest and secluded village of condo lodges

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t was only after the long journey to Kicking Horse's radiant summit that my knees started to shake. Wholly unprepared for the panoramic view of mountaintops stretching beyond the horizon, I stood frozen as a stream of seasoned riders glided past me before disappearing over the edge. But there was something about being able to stand tall and look down upon mountain peaks that could bring out the courage in anyone, even a beginner.

I had stepped on skis for the first time

only a few short weeks prior, finally putting myself in a position to join my friends on their annual ski trip.

This year's would be to Kicking Horse, they had decided, and I joined in without hesitation. The mountain's reputation as a mecca for advanced riders was easily suppressed by my eagerness to advance past Edmonton's crowded urban hills.

Isolation and anticipation are at the root of Kicking Horse's allure, and the incoming journey feeds on these desires long

overlooking a strip of shops, eateries and, of course, the Golden Eagle Express gondola ascending into the clouds.

Kicking Horse's five lifts can send you to

a number of points up the mountain, but I opted for the grandest, the Golden Eagle, to take me to the top. The 15-minute scenic ride only amplifies the anticipation, giving riders the chance to look around at virtually all that Kicking Horse has to offer while civilization shrinks away down below. At the summit, the long and meandering It's a Ten trail would guide me back down. The novice run is a huge selling point for Kicking Horse, allowing riders of all skill levels to head to the top and take in the view, while giving everybody a reasonable option to ski down.

"You can get up into the mountains and on top of the world, so to speak," says Andrew Brown, media and marketing coordinator at Kicking Horse. "And then enjoy yourself on the way down, and not just have that overwhelming feeling of, 'am I going to be able to handle it?' Because the answer is that everybody can handle Kicking Horse without a problem."

For those frozen at the top of the world, the nearby Eagle's Eye restaurant offers a refuge to gather your thoughts and take in the view over a glass of liquid courage. You'll soon find yourself sailing down the slopes past steep cliff edges for an immediate blast of adrenaline before dipping

into Crystal Bowl, a wide open expanse between two ridges that calls for wide carves at high speed.

nie Resort will be hosting another Big Mountain Battle. Through the years this has been shaping up to be quite the team event. At the start of the race you and a teammate get a course card with a map and then you ski, walk, crawl and run all over the mountain in search of hidden checkpoints. There is some time between receiving the map and the race start so you'll be able to strategize your route. Teaming up with someone of the same ski calibre and fitness is a good idea because, just like on The Amazing Race, you both have to finish the route.

There are two courses to choose from: intermediate or advanced. If you're not quite ready to challenge the black bowl runs of Fernie, you better pick the intermediate test the first time out. The entry fee is $80 per team, but this is one of those events where there are plenty of prizes to go around. To register visit bigmountainbattle.com

Avalanche Awareness Day at Marmot Basin This is the last weekend for this year's Jasper in January Festival. On Saturday, February 1 a number of avalanche awareness and search-andrescue demonstrations will be taking place at Marmot Basin. Included this year will be a transceiver demo and practice, a rescue dog demo and a live explosive demo that hopefully releases a small controlled avalanche for all to see.

If you're looking for a party in Jasper this weekend there are plenty to be had as Jasper in January winds down.

On Friday the Sawridge is hosting Hops and Scotch with an after party heading to the Jasper Brewing Company. On Saturday, Pascal Lecours and the Bad Characters are playing at the De'd Dog and Tupelo Honey is at the AthaB on both nights.

As the backbone of Kicking Horse, It's a Ten gives beginners a solid base to ride, but also branches off into dozens of intermediate and advanced runs that make up much of the 2800 acres of skiable terrain. Most quickly reconnect with the spine, providing endless options for groups to split off and reconvene at their leisure, while giving everybody room to breathe.

"We have so much terrain that even when we have a lot of skiers on the resort, it doesn't feel like it," Brown says. "Once you get off at the top, there are so many directions to go that even when it's a busier day, it doesn't feel like it at all."

Such calmness and solitude is all too rare at popular resorts these days, but Kicking Horse is both mellow and extreme, covering the full spectrum in between. Pay no mind to its intimidating reputation. In reality, there's no better place for beginners to experience something intense, something to rid themselves of those shaky knees.

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Ski- and snowboard-cross at Lake Louise This weekend on February 1 and 2, Lake Louise is hosting an Evolve Ski and Snowboard Club Cross Race. If you've not seen one of these races before, get ready for some action because with four competitors going head-to-head it can get quite aggressive out there.

The nice thing about this competition is that it's open to the public with multiple categories for skiers and boarders from eight years old and up. You can register at evolvesnow.ca. If the timing is a little tight to compete this time, or you're wondering what it's all about, head up and have a look at the competition and the course. They're doing it all over again from March 21 – 23.

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Pulitzer-winning Clybourne Park takes a then-and-now approach to issues of race

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he thing about this modern, liberal-ish North America we live in—"liberal," here meaning more or less tolerant, and that we've guaranteed a lot of minority rights on paper that weren't there a century ago, (regardless of how flimsy that paper may prove in practice), and "ish" here meaning that's in no way a complete cure-all for those who perpetuate

outdated attitudes towards such things—is that it has, in a way, given us new excuses not to understand one another.

Thus comes a certain sense of entitlement to leverage in such matters; the "I'm not racist, but ... " sort of sentiment is pervasive, a sense of being able to get away with things that one really isn't. Perhaps it's not racist in

the life-or-death way, but in attitudes interesting delving into that. Bruce of, say, doing blackface-d costumes at Norris, the playwright, has said that Halloween? Yeah. That's a thing. he wrote that play for a white liberal All of which to say: navigating mod- audience to be confronted by themern issues of race isn't at all simple— selves—to look at themselves."

I'll skip the "black and white" pun But Clybourne Park's issues go behere—and it's that heady ground yond race, MacDonald notes: "When that gets explored in the Pulitzer- you start to talk about this play, you winning Clybourne Park, focused on start to realize how many different a shifting milieu of race relations in things there are. We had a lot of conversations about a Chicago neighbourhood through- Until Sun, Feb 16 (7:30 pm) race, marital relations, children, esout the years. Directed by James MacDonald tate, yuppiedom."

It offers its own Citadel Theatre, $35 – $93.45 comparative, thenand-now approach: it begins in 1959, In sorting through it all, Clyboune when a black family's set to move Park is a comedy, but one that aims into a mostly white neighbourhood for a particularly biting, "I can't beto the chagrin of most of the block. lieve they said that" sort of laugh. But Act two picks up in 2009 in the same there's truth in that sort of confronneighbourhood, its racial topography tational presentation, which Macreversed over the decades, now fac- Donald's found to be a particularly ing gentrification as a white family at- effective way of posing the play's deeper questions. tempts to move into the area.

"It was based on A Raisin in the Sun, "Comedy, for me, is funny when it's and takes that a step further," says di- recognizable," MacDonald continues. rector James MacDonald, noting Lor- "When it is something that comes raine Hansberry's enduring script. "It's out of the situation that we under-

stand, and it's something that's said in a way that we can identify with.

And, in doing that, it just heightens the situation that they're in and [you] feel more part of it."

"It's like God of Carnage and August: Osage County in that it's acidly funny at times, and it's funny because we recognize what we're going through."

Still, exploring those issues in both the present and the past highlights the differences between the two, for better or worse. Is now actually better than it was, on a day-to-day level?

"I wouldn't say we're worse off," MacDonald says. "I'm not a very politically correct person myself, so I tend to find behind political correctness is often a lot of hypocrisy. I tend to agree with [Norris] in that aspect.

"We're better off when we're able to say what's going on honestly," he continues. "I prefer to think of it as a realistic viewpoint rather than a cynical viewpoint."

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Closer O

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ver the course of any relationship come the moments that somehow emerge as the definitive few, the key highs or lows that tower over the others long after the people who shared them part ways and forget all the rest.

And it's from there, atop those peaks and deep in those valleys of relationship bliss and misery, that Patrick Marber's Closer chooses to mine: all of the big stuff, without worrying about the more neutralized everyday ebb and flow.

Closer's showing up in town for a single weekend, presented by K.I.A. Productions, and its structure seems one of the biggest appeals to director Keltie Brown.

"These scenes exists almost as memory: the things these four people remember looking back, the things looking back," she says. "Meetings or breakups, significant moments. And then you as the audience are asked to connect the dots in between, so it feeds information in a really interesting way."

Closer's interconnected characters mix and match and fall apart as they encounter one another over the course of five years. Dan Until Sun, Feb 2 (7:30 pm; Sat & meets Alice after seeing Sun matinees at 2 pm) her get hit by a car; they Directed by Keltie Brown partner up, but Dan's inATB Financial Arts Barns, $15 terest starts to wander – $20 towards an alluring photographer, Anna; then Larry, a fourth wheel, enters the picture and complicates everything further. (If that all sounds par-

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ticularly familiar, it's because a filmed adaptation of Closer was released back in 2004, starring Jude Law, Clive Owen, Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts.)

The script uses a curious, shifting focus, Brown notes, that shares between all four characters rather than giving just one the big narrative arc to follow.

"It's got a real emotional throughline— and yet, that throughline doesn't rest on an individual relationship between any two characters," Brown says. "The emotional throughline is really about all four characters. And you actually get to invest, one by one, in each of them, as we move through the story. And your opinion of each of them changes, and you become more and less sympathetic towards each of them."

As those relationships twist and bend in on each other, the four of them do some pretty savage things, Brown notes, though in a way that's likely uncomfortable more for its honesty than for its shock value.

"You read the play and go, 'Yeah, I could see myself doing that if I were put under the right kinds of pressure.'

And then they go one step beyond what you would do," Brown laughs.

"But you're with them so much emotionally until that point that you have to follow yourself to the brink, in a way.

It draws you along."

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Sister act (plus a brother) // Dave DeGagne

A Brontë Burlesque his is the type of English literature could stand on its own, stripped away lesson that would make even the from the burlesque numbers, those are still very much required for the most reticent student take notice.

A Brontë Burlesque is the newest mood and tone of the piece; lest all show by Ellen Chorley of Send in the this sound overly serious, know that Girls, a burlesque troupe whose rai- it's also unrepentantly campy and son d'être is as much dramatic story self-consciously demonstrative—the as it is erotic revelation. It spins a latter very much in the same vein as florid, behind-the-scenes (and under- the Brontës' own writing. the-corset) tale of the three Brontë With a contemporary soundtrack sisters: Charlotte (Samantha Duff), that aligns Radiohead with the EuAnne (Delia Barnett) and Emily rythmics and an inventive stage design placing a Vic(Chorley), as well torian four-poster as their under- Until Sun, Feb 2 (7:30 pm; bed in a room of achieving, drunk- Sun matinee at 2 pm) shifting en brother Bran- Directed by Lana Michelle Hughes subtly well (Chris W Roxy Theatre, $16 – $20 projections and Cook). The story occasional stark backlighting (for is framed as a set of recollections by Charlotte as she what's a burlesque show without a lies on her deathbed, the ghosts of shadowy striptease?), A Brontë Burher predeceased siblings visiting her lesque is a celebration of three formain a self-admitted Dickensian fugue. tive writers, a psychoanalysis of famWhile many elements of the story ily politics and a benchmark for local are clear artistic liberties, plenty of burlesque. historical facts underpin the events MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM and provide a solid grounding in reality, allowing the audience to wonder about the truth behind these scandalous exposés.

Burlesque done right means that putting on clothing can be just as stimulating as taking it off; A Brontë Burlesque excels in both regards. We watch each character take their turn in performing classic burlesque numbers, dexterously handling the ties and snaps on their artful costumes; we also watch the sisters don men's button-down shirts and neckties as they adopt the pseudonyms (Currer, Acton and Ellis Bell) that allowed them to publish their first novels in a male-dominated world.

This structure continues throughout the rest of the show: the characters' emotional states and inner thoughts are fleshed out (quite literally) through a series of reveals and subsequent coverings. By maintaining a strong focus on story, and with a cast that displays clear acting chops, A Brontë Burlesque elevates itself above the classic, cabaret-style burlesque medium. But while the plot

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A tale of sweet revenge

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t seems as though the best charac- audiences to further immerse themters are the ones in which we rec- selves in the story and its characters.

"That's a big thing for me is that the ognize aspects of ourselves, and this may be what has made Die Fleder- storytelling be clear and the acting style be modern maus—The Bat, and heightened in English—one Sat, Feb 1 (8 pm); Tue, Feb 4 realism, because of Johan Strauss's (7:30 pm); Thu, Feb 6 (7:30 pm) we are on a great most beloved co- Directed by Allison Grant big, huge, giant medic operettas.

Jubilee Auditorium, $40 – $150 stage at the Jube, The story opens but we have great the night before a man by the name of Gabriel von big, huge, giant sets and costumes Eisenstein is to be sent to jail—al- to go with it, and the orchestra," though his sentence is only for a fortnight—following an opulent ball hosted by Prince Orlofsky. What unfolds is a series of mistaken identities and flirtation, all wrapped up in one man's pursuit for revenge.

"The opera was written in 1874, so it was the year after Vienna was hit by a big stock-market crash. The reason Johann Strauss wrote it with this really effervescent score was to lift the spirits of the poor Viennese people," says director Allison Grant, who is returning to the production for the sixth time, but her first in the director's chair. "But it also has kind of a dark side to it in that the characters are really human. They're not very likable; they're grasping; they're adulterous; there's all these aspects in the storyline, and yet there's something about them that we all love. I guess it's because we recognize ourselves in these crazy characters who are just struggling to survive in their bourgeoisie kind of lifestyle."

Die Fledermaus, unlike many operettas, roots its story—despite its overtly laughable comedy of errors—in a realistic setting, Grant notes.

"The storylines [of operettas] are really unrealistic and sometimes fantasy, and this one, what anchors it is that the characters are actually quite real," she adds. "They aren't just pretty people: they have real needs and wants and foibles, and I think that's one of the reasons the show has lasted as long as it has."

Grant says, noting opera is often performed in the language of the people it is being performed for. "This operetta is a really great one if people are hesitating about going to the opera. If they've never been before, it's a really good one to hear—especially because it's in English. But also you're going to hear great singing in a beautiful setting with a full orchestra.

There's nothing like it."

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Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh

by Joel Gross

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Some pre-revolution lounging // David Rauch

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ainting one of history's most thing! It really transcends time. universally reviled figures in a Yes, it's about things that happened sympathetic light requires a deft a long time ago, but the issues at hand—a metaphor that plays out hand and the power relationships quite literally in Shadow Theatre's are just as palpable as in any conproduction of Marie Antoinette: The temporary play today."

Color of Flesh.

Joel Gross's "Marie AntoiWed, Jan 29 – Sun, Feb 16 actually nette is someone script (7:30 pm) who's painted so has two different Directed by John Hudson black in our hisversions: Shadow Varscona Theatre, $11 – $22 tory," says Alana Theatre is mounting the one-act Hawley, who version, which plays a character who truly did paint Antoinette: Hawley describes as gaining "beauÉlisabeth Vigée le Brun, a peasant tiful momentum" without the intergirl whose portraits of Antoinette mission in the full two-act version.

"The word 'transformation' always catapulted the young painter to the comes up for me in this play," Hawley highest levels of Parisian society.

"If people take the time to actu- says. "We see the transformation of ally look into who Marie Antoinette each of the three characters, and we was, she's not bad; she didn't know see the transformation of France, of any better," Hawley explains. "The America, of politics in that time. So play represents her as not evil at because of the change happening in all; she just didn't get it, and her in- history, this enables the change to occur in the characters. nocence is essentially her demise."

"Le Brun was notorious for bringing The Color of Flesh outlines a love triangle set during an enor- inner beauty to the outside," Hawmously formative period in history: ley continues. "She was very famous 20 years leading up to the French because she made not-so-attractive Revolution, from 1774 to 1793. An- women appear stunning. From her toinette and le Brun are both lovers point of view, she attributed it to the of Count Alexis de Ligne, a figure colour of flesh and taking the glow loosely based on a person who may that is inside of a person's soul and letting that illuminate through the skin in have had an affair with the queen.

"The last thing you would ever call her painting. It really coins the power this play is dry," Hawley says with she had as an artist, to bring somea laugh. "There's sex, there's love, one's inner beauty to the surface." there's war, there's envy, there's MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM balls and parties—there's every-

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ron 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 • Artventures: Drop-in art program for children aged 6-12; Charcoal Rubbings: Feb 15, 1-4pm; $6 (per child)/$5.40 (member)

DANCE

ART HABITAT • 10217-106 St • PAINTING A BOOK

DANCESPORT ALBERTA • Central Lions Senior

Recreation Centre, 11113-113 St • northernlightsclassic.ca • Northern Lights 2014 Classic Edmonton's Premiere Ballroom and Latin Dance Competition • Feb 8

EBE–Edmonton Burlesque Events • Stanley A Milner Library Theatre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • brownpapertickets.com/event/542505 • Peekaboo Pointe: River City Revue Burlesque, Capital City Burlesque, The Baretones, Holly Von Sinn, Beau Creep, Charlie Vegas and more • Jan 31, 9pm •$25 at brownpapertickets.com/event/542505 (incl after party) • After party at Brittany’s Lounge: an opportunity to meet with performers, and additional performances EBDA BALLROOM DANCE• Lions Senior Recrea-

tional Centre, 11113-111 Ave • 780.893.6828 • ebda. ca • Feb 7, 8pm

A MILE ZERO DANCE • La Cité Francophone,

OF EDMONTON: Multicultural art project by Edmonton Multicultural Artists’ Group with the Writers Beyond Borders, and the Borderlines Circles • Until Feb 21

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY (Agnes 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 CAFE PICHILINGUE–Red Deer • Untitled,

Photographs by Jim McKinley • Feb 1-28

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

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 • Until Feb 28

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St •

• Stanley A Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • With River City Review Burlesque, Capital City Burlesque, the Baretones (musical comedy act starring Blondie Bustier, Spank Williams Jr. and Sweet'n'Low), and local soloists • Jan 31, 8pm (door), 9pm (show) • $25 (adv at http://ebe-peekaboopointe. brownpapertickets.com)

monton.com/events • SO DEEPLY A PART OF YOUR BEING: Photos and a site specific installation by Bryan Birtles • Until Feb 8

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

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • SCHISM–Current Austrian Positions In Printmaking: Grace Sippy (MFA Printmaking) Final visual presentation for Master of Fine Arts-Printmaking • ALCUIN AWARDS FOR BOOK DESIGN IN CANADA: including Children’s, Limited Editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Prose Non-fiction Illustrated, and reference books published in 2012 • Until Feb 15

THE CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton •

fortedmontonpark.ca • Casablanca (1942, PG), 1 hr. 42 min; Thu, Feb 6, 7:30pm • Love Me Tender (1956, STC), 1 hr. 34 min; Thu, Feb 13, 7:30pm • $10

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books • Every Fri, 2pm • Safe Haven (PG, 2013); Jan 31, 2pm

METRO CINEMA • Metro at the Garneau Theatre,

EXTENSION GALLERY • Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave • FRESH PAINT: A Snapshot of Painting in Edmonton; Feb 6-Mar 29 • DUETS: Shared Ideas in Painting: Feb 6-Mar 29 • DINOSTARS: Feb 6-Mar 8

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 • Artworks by Vincent Duffek; until Feb 24

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • ALPHABETS EXPOSED: 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 • A Rocky Mountain Minute : Landscape painting by Donna Miller on the Gallery at Milner walls; Feb 1-28 • Quirky Quillers: Selected works from the Quirky Quillers’ Guild membership in the teak display cases in the Gallery at Milner; Feb 1-28

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, 10215-112

8712-109 St • Crime Watch: 2nd Tue each month: The Night of the Hunter; Feb 10, 7pm • $10 (adult)/$8 (student/senior)/$6 (child 12 and under)

St • Hall Project Space: Edmonton Wayfinding Project: until Feb 28

U OF A • ED South 129 • The Namesake • Jan 30,

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • 2nd Fl,

4pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE •

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

Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil. com • MINI SHOW: Members show; through to Jan

HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • The Love of Photography: Works by Jessica Swainson • Feb 1-28 • Reception/ First Fri: Feb 7, 4-6pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona

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

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • ANGAKKUQ: BETWEEN TWO WORLDS; until Feb 16 • DAPHNIS & CHLOÉ: Chagall; until Feb 16 • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30 • 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 • BOWERBIRD, LIFE AS ART: Works by Lyndal Osborne: Feb 1-Apr 27 • The AGA Presents: Special Pre-Opening Talk: Lyndal Osborne for BOWERBIRD, LIFE AS ART opening on Feb 1; Fri, Jan 31, 7pm; $15 • 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, 12:10-12:50pm; free • Open Studio: Adult Drop-In Workshops: Draw:

24 ARTS

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • drawingroomed-

FILM

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 • Until Mar 16

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain •

PEEKABOO POINTE–EDMONTON BURLESQUE

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)

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112

Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • PATTERNS OF CONSUMPTION: Works by C.W. Carson • Until Feb 14

780.760.1278 • Society of Western Canadian Artists Signature show: Featuring the work of Karen Bishop, Teresa B. Graham, Saeed Hojjati, Anne McCartney, Rick Rogers, Heidi Smith • Until Feb 15

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)

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 790.559.4443 • artstrathcona. com • Open: Sat-Sun 12-4pm • OUR PASSION–TWO ARTISTS WHO SHARE THE SAME OBSESSION: Artworks

by Joyce Boyer and Elaine Tweedy • Opening: Sun, Feb 2, 1-4pm; glimpse of Italy artworks presented only for the opening • Feb 1-23

members • Through Jan

8627-91 St • Multimedia Salon: The Great Depression: with Annie Dugan, Mary Pinkoski, Jen Mesch Dance Conspiracy, Mitchmatic, Aaron Munson, Dr. Andriy Nahachewsky, Rubber Nurse and more together to dig deep into the psyche of the Dirty Thirties. A vaudevillian soiree hosted by provacatrix Kristine Nutting • Feb 1, 8pm • • $15 (member)/$20 at the door

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave •

Curated by Kelty Pelechytik; featuring Paul Fischer's documentary film Tarzan and Arab; until Feb 15 • Special event: Film, Tarzan and Arab (documentary by Paul Fischer), conversation, and performances by MeName (music ensemble), and spoken word artists; presented

by Palestine Solidarity Network with presentations by Dr Ghada Ageel, and Dr Mohamed Abuo Hemeid on the personal and political context of the situation in Gaza, Q&A to follow; Feb 7; $5-$10 (donation) • Parka Patio: Ice/Land–the winter parka party: Featuring artwork by Kayla Callfas and Chris Perron, and Giulliano Palladino, silent auction, Easy Love, Cygnets, and giveaway trip to Iceland courtesy of Icelandair and EIA; Feb 22, 8pm; $15 at latitude53.org/parka

Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • Hillview Artists in Harmony: Works with Chiu-Min Chiang, Katherine Dyck, Joyce McCoy, Nancy Rae, Debbie Radke and Ghodssi Razavy • Jan 31-Feb 26 • Reception: Feb 12, 6:30-8:30pm

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 • Reception/First Fri: Feb 7, 6:30-8:30pm; performance by Bradford Lawlor

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; until Feb 15 • ProjEx Room: THIS IS OUR LAND: TARZAN & ARAB:

Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • PIECE MAKERS (QUILTING)–HOW OUR GRANDMOTHERS RE-CYCLED • Until Mar 23

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • MEMORIES AND LIGHT: Paintings by Alison Service; until Feb 15 • Artisan Nook: DAILY ENCOUNTERS WITH NATURE: Paintings by Natasa Vretenar; until Mar 22 NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS •

9225-118 Ave • thenina.ca • FIFTY SHADES OF BROWN: A survey of the visual narratives of Leona Clawson, curated by Harold Pearse; Until Jan 30 • Community Arts Night: Learn techniques, become familiar with new mediums; Every Tue until Jun 10, 6:30-8:30pm; Preregister at 780.474.7611

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • WINTER GROUP SHOWS: New work by gallery artists; until Feb 8 • Works by Tricia Firmaniuk and Nomi Stricker; Feb 13Mar 4; Opening: Feb 13, 7-9pm; artists in attendance.

PROPAGANDA HAIR SALON • 10808-124 St • The Comrades: 11 new paintings by outro • Until Jan 31 PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 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

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 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 • Lecture Series: Museum Theatre: Questions and Collections IV: until Apr 9, 7pm; free • Dr. Diane Haughland, Lichenologist, Alberta Biodiversity Monitoring Institute When Algae Met Fungi: a lichen love story; Feb 12

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • Main Gallery: HALL OF FAME: POMPEII MMXII: Print works by Dominique Petrin • Community Gallery: THE ASSASSINATION OF THINKITEM: By The Coward Adriean Koleric • Until Mar 1

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park • 780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • ESSENCE OF ELEGANCE: Lifestyles of the Past • until Mar 21

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 •

501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 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; until Feb 16 • THE BEAT GENERATION & BEATNIK CAFÉ: until 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

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 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 • How to Make a Monster–tHe ART AND TECHNOLOGY OF ANIMATRONICS

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: GALLERY B: CELEBRATING ALBERTA: Alberta Society of Artists; Jan 30-Mar 15; opening: Jan 30, 7-9:30pm VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St

Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • POINTS OF VIEW: Works by the Edmonton Art Club • Through Feb

VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • UNTITLED: Paintings by Amber Jackson • Feb 1-28

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave •

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Guy Roy, landscapes of the Charlevoix region of Quebec • Feb 8-20 • Opening: Feb 8, 1-4pm; artist in attendance

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

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)

CLC BROWN BAG LUNCH READINGS • Student

Lounge, Convocation Hall, U of A • Readings: Kim Thúy, author of the wildly successful Ru (lecture en franćais et en anglais) • Feb 12, 12 noon • Free

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave •

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

ENTERPRISE SQUARE • U of A, downtown, 10230 Jasper Ave • Self-Editing: A workshop for writers with Caterina Edwards 9:00 am to noon • How to Teach: A workshop for editors writers with Tammy Iftody and Peter Midgley; 1-4pm • Feb 8, 9am • Member EAC, WGA, Faculty of Extension): $80/both workshops; $45/ one workshop only non-members: $110/both workshops; $60/one workshop only; Pre-register at http:// editingdoubleheader.eventbrite.ca

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • 780.863.4522 •

Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: Monthly readings with new headliner • Last Thu each month, 7-9pm; This week with Jennifer Quist (Love Letters of the Angels of Death), Trevor Duplessis (Blues Harp Sensation), and readers from the 40 Below Anthology including Dolly Dennis, Jannie Edwards, Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail, and Robin Young • Jan 30, 7-9pm,

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 STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival

Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8601 • sclibrary. ab.ca • Getting Characters In And Out Of Crisis: Writer in Residence Margaret Macpherson will share methods of creating drama on the page • Jan 30, 7-8:30pm; free; pre-register at 780.410.8600 • Metaphor And Metonymy: A hands-on writing workshop, with Writerin-Residence Margaret Macpherson; Feb 6, 7-8:30pm; free; pre-register at 780.410.8600

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

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

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave •

780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre,

10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri • Jan 31; Feb 7

APPLES AND ORANGES • Financial Arts Barns,

10330-84 Ave, Boardroom • 780.439.3905 • concretetheatre.ca • Presented by Concrete Theatre. By Chris Bullough, directed by Mieko Ouchi starring Patricia Cerra, Nadien Chu, Mary Hulbert and Diego Stredel • Feb 7, 7pm; Feb 8, 11am, 2pm • $18 (adult)/$15

(student/senior)/$12.50 (child 12 years and under) BIG BOOM THEORY 2: TIME TRAVELLING GEEKS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 8882 170 St, WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • It's been one year since Sheldon Cooper visited The Canadian International Science Awards Centre...and he's coming back. Why? • Feb 7-Apr 13

BLITHE SPIRIT • Walterdale Theatre 10322-83 Ave • By Noël Coward's comedy, directed by Curtis Knecht • Feb 5-15 • $12-$18 at TIX on the Square; Feb 6: 2-for-1 at door

A BRONTE BURLESQUE • Roxy Theatre • By

Ellen Chorley, presented by Send in the Girls Burlesque Theatre Network. Blood is thicker than ink. On the last night of her life, Charlotte Bronte is visited by her dead siblings, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte, and Branwell Bronte. Merging burlesque with theatre to share the secret lives of these sister novelists • Until Feb 2

BRUNCH O’ LOVE • Fairmont Hotel MacDonald,

Wedgwood Rm, 10065-100 St • Fundraiser and Live Auction • Feb 9, 11am-2pm • Tickets: $100 at 780.425.8086; freewillshakespeare.com/bol

THE CANOE THEATRE FESTIVAL • C103, 8529-103 St • 780.477.5955, ext 11 • Workshop West Theatre • $20 (adult)/$18 (student/senior); Custom Canoe 4 Pass ($64 (adult)/$56 (student/senior); Voyageur Canoe 5 Pass: $89 (adult)/$71 (student/senior); Expedition Canoe 6 Pass: $110 (adult)/$92 (student/senior); tickets at at www.workshopwest.org or by phone at 780-477-5955, ext *11 • Until Feb 2 • Nanook of the North; live throat singing by Tanya Tagaq; 7:30pm; at Garneau Theatre; Jan 30, 7:30pm; $35 (adult)/$25 (selfidentifying Aboriginal peoples, student, senior, Metro Member) • National Elevator Project Part 2: Theatre Yes: until Jan 31; Feb 1-2 at elevators throughout Edmonton; Tickets $20-$30 at TIX on the Square 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

VUEWEEKLY JAN 30 – FEB 5, 2014

Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014

CLOSER • Arts Barns PCL Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • K.I.A. Productions presents this look at modern relationships through the eyes of four imperfect people searching for intimacy • Until Feb 1, 8pm, Feb 1-2, 2pm • $20/$15 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square CLYBOURNE PARK • Citadel Theatre • Contemporary Comedy by Bruce Norris; directed by James MacDonald • Until Feb 16 • Tickets start at $35 DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26 DEATH TRAP • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Broadway thriller, with a skillful blend of suspense and humor • Feb 11-Apr 6 • Tickets at 780.483.4051

DO YOU WANT WHAT I HAVE GOT? A CRAIGSLIST CANTATA • Citadel Theatre • 780.425.1820

• In The Club: Contemporary Comedy Revue • By Veda Hille and Bill Richardson; directed by Amiel Gladstone.

An Acting Up Stage Company and Factory Theatre Production • Feb 5-23

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

FORGET ME NOT • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton

• Featuring Andrea House's songwriting. A true story of Andrea’s Grandfather, from his daring romance in Paris during World War I, to his reluctant return to the untamed Canadian prairies • Feb 14-15, 7:30pm; Feb 16, 2pm

HEY LADIES! • Roxy, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440

• attheroxy.com • Theatre Network • The Roxy Performance Series: Womanly talkshow/gameshow/varietyshow/sideshow starring Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert, Leona Brausen • Feb 7, 8pm • $25 at TIX on the Square

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

LEO • L’UniThéâtre, La Cité francophone, 8627-91

St • 780.469.8400 • Y2D Productions (Montreal) with Chamäleon Productions (Berlin) • A lyrical world without words • Feb 13-15, 8pm; Feb 16, 2pm • $26 (adult)/$17 (student)/$22 (senior)/ $12 (youth, 12 and under) adv at lunitheatre.ca, before the show at the box office

LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST • Timms Centre, 112 St, 87 Ave • By William Shakespeare • Studio Theatre • Feb 6-15 • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); Matinee: $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 senior); Preview: $5; Mondays are 2 for 1 MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE COLOR OF FLESH

• Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Presented by Shadow Theatre; directed by John Hudson, starring Nicola Elbro, Alana Hawley, and Frank Zotter • Until Feb 16, Fri-Sat 7:30pm • $27 (adult)/$24 (student/ senior); Tue-Thu, 7:30pm and Sun 2pm: $23 (adult)/$21 (student/senior); Tue: 2 for the price of 1; mat: Feb 1: Pay-What-You-Can; mat: Feb 8, 15: $16; $11 (Under 18 any performance); No performance Sun, Feb 2 • Artist Elizabeth Vigee le Brun has the opportunity to paint a portrait of the publicly reviled Marie Antoinette. With the aid of a social climbing Count, Elizabeth intends to exploit the queen for all she can

NEW WORKS FESTIVAL • 2nd Playing Space, Timms Centre, U of A, 87 Ave, 112 St • drama.ualberta. ca/en/StudentFestivalsandProductions/NewWorksFestival • Feb 4-9 • Night A: The Comedian, Solitaire, and All That’s Left: Feb 4, 6, 8, 7:30pm; Feb 9, 2pm • Night B: The Young Revengers’ Society, Gandhi’s Last Words, and The Only Other One; Feb 5, 7, 9, 7:30pm; Feb 8, 2pm • $10-$15 at TIX on the Square, door NINO NINA SHOW • Expressionz Café •

780.450.6462 • Live monthly classic variety show • Last Sun each month, 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • Free, donations

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 THE VIP KIDS SHOW • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • Music, comedy, art, puppets, and special guests! Watch as the V.I.P. troupe of zany scharacters celebrate the thin line between clever and silly with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach and friends • Nov to May (selected Saturdays) • All Seats $6 VIP Pass $60

WILDFIRE FESTIVAL • Check edmonton.ca/ city_government/initiatives_innovation/winter-festivalsevents.aspx for details • Improv festival for students from all across Alberta (and sometimes even the Territories). The 16-day festival is created by the marriage of three improv tournaments: The Canadian Improv Games, and Rapid Fire Theatre’s own TheatreSports tournaments, the Nosebowl and the WildFire Junior • Feb 11-Mar 1 YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN • John L. Haar Theatre, MacEwan, 10045-156 St • Presented by MacEwan • Inspired by the classic Boris Karloff films based on the famed Mary Shelley novel, this zany spoof concerns the skeptical neurosurgeon grandson of Dr. Victor Frankenstein, who returns to Transylvania to find that the legendary monster is more than just a myth • Feb 5-15, 7:30pm • Tickets start at $15

COVER // KLEZMER PUNK

MUSIC

MUSIC EDITOR : EDEN MUNRO EDEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Geoff Berner's first novel salutes the oddness of the folk-fest community

'I

think the appeal of The Festival is that the normal rules are suspended," Geoff Berner says, after a considerate pause. "People who have to do certain things at certain times of the day the whole rest of the year can just do whatever the hell they want. And that's OK. That's what you're supposed to do at The Festival."

Berner would know. The Vancouver-based songwriter, whose musical urges are to fold punk into folk into klezmer music, has thrived on the folk-fest circuits, where likewise oddball musicians can find themselves playing to larger audiences than they'd ever be able to draw on the merits of their indelible weirdness alone. But audience size aside, Berner seems compelled by the wild freedom a festival atmosphere generates, where the suspension of the usual rules of nine-to-five life are replaced, and the effect that seems to have over all in attendance.

"You suspend the rules, [and] it gives you a chance to poke your head above the thicket and see what other ways of being are possible," he says, over the phone from his Vancouver home. "So people often have realizations at festivals, about what they really should be doing in their lives, or, realizations about better ways to organize ourselves, as societies ... you just take a moment out of the way everything works every day, and have a chance to imagine something else."

Which brings us to Festival Man. It's Berner's first novel. (he's got a degree in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia), one fixated on the beautiful madness of the folk-festival setting, collecting the "found memoir" of one Campbell Ouiniette—a band manager/talented slinger of bullshit who's obsessions centre around getting outsider musicians on the inside of public consciousness. He's our particularly unreliable narrator, recalling, from exile in one of those innumerable fadedgrey barns that dot the prairies, the events of one particularly damaging Calgary Folk Festival. After the festival headliner Ouiniette booked bailed to collaborate with a pop star, he decides to try and fake it through without her.

There are kernels of truth scattered throughout Festival Man—some characters based on real folks Berner's known or met on the circuit—but Berner's adamant that the truth is just a place of departure, not a tether for what came afterwards.

"The whole thing is a novel—it's a pack of lies. I don't stand behind any of it, in terms of its ... pedestrian veracity," he laughs.

It's reception's been warm: there was a glowing review in Maclean's, among other publications, and Berner's now in talks with a German publishing

house to have it translated and released in that country. Far more than he expected for his literary debut.

"That's the hardest part of putting out your first novel," Berner says.

"It's like, OK, here it is: everybody can piss on it now. And I was also worried about if there were going to be people who were going to be annoyed by it, who thought I'd put them in it, or something like that. And everybody's liked it. So that's been good, too. " Berner's essentially on the road behind his book (doing a two-night stay at Wunderbar this weekend) as well as a new single, though the novel comes packaged with a downloadable album of Berner's friends covering Fri, Jan 31 & Sat, Feb 1 (8 pm) his songs. The likes Geoff Berner of Corb Lund (with With Doug Hoyer, whom Berner's Kris Demeanor headed off to Eu- Wunderbar, $12 rope with shortly), Rae Spoon, Carolyn Mark and 12 others try on Berner songs like "That's What Keeps the Rent Down" and "The Rich Will Move to the High Ground."

"They're self-selected [in which songs each person covered]," Berner explains. "I just put the word out that I wanted to do something like this. And whoever was into it, did it. ... They're all people who are from the festival world, and people I've met in the travelling small town that is the festival world, for musicians. People like Orchid Ensemble, or Corby Lund, or Kris Demeanor or Rae Spoon. They're all people I've met at festivals, people who became friends partly because they're in one town, and there they are, and you exchange a couple of remarks about what have you—whatever, like, how much Great Big Sea sucks, or whatever—and then you're in the next town, a month later, and there they are. In the same area of the beer tent. And you're like, ah yeah, we can continue our conversation about the denigration of Celtic music."

That camaraderie of the temporary community that is a Canadian folk-music festival extends beyond musicians, Berner notes. Everyone involved creates the strange and beautiful conditions that he covets.

"The people who make the festival happen—mainly the regular audience members that return, every year, and the volunteers—look forward to it every year, as a highlight of their year," he says. "You're in an atmosphere where your work environment is, weekend after weekend, a place where people have been waiting to be for the whole year. There's this amazing feeling, a giddy feeling, of release, and finding a certain amount of chaos in that can be fun."

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f you're in a new metal band and Dillinger Escape Plan side of things, you suddenly get a message from while Soulfly is where I can now go Max Cavalera, don't just write it off even heavier, which is exciting for me."

At 44 you would expect Cavalera to as a prank.

The singer and guitarist for Soul- be softening up a little, but it doesn't fly actually does like to reach out to appear to be happening that way.

"I'm working backwards," he chuckyounger bands, so enthralled is he with all of the new music that he les. "Basically I've been hearing a lot of the more extreme bands out there keeps abreast of.

"A lot of them freak out when I talk to and really getting into them. I love them," he laughs from a tour stop along the new shit, and I want to be part of the way for the band's latest album, that. Actually, Savages isn't even quite as extreme as Savages. "They re[2012's] Enslaved. ally can't believe Wed, Feb 5 (8 pm) It's maybe a little that I'd do some- With Trampstamper toned down." thing like that, but Starlite Room Traditionalists it's very fun. They'll can take heart in tell me about how they've been listening to Soulfly or knowing that Cavalera still salutes (former band) Sepultura since they the old guard of metal, listing Exowere kids, and we'll exchange T-shirts dus, Slayer, Celtic Frost and Napalm or something. It's very important for Death as constants on his playlists. me to connect with these bands, to Even as a kid he's been into metal, to the point where he used it to drift off keep up with what's going on."

Connecting with up-and-coming to at that night.

"At the moment I like to listen to musicians has resulted in Cavalera bringing several musicians into the (grindcore mainstays) Oceano and studio, whether with Soulfly, Cavalera (So-Cal's) Nails when I go to sleep, but Conspiracy (his project with brother as a kid in Brazil me and Igor would Igor, also formerly of Sepultura), or usually put on Slayer at the end of the metal supergroup Killer Be Killed, the night. Our favourite tape was Hell which was formed just a few years Awaits; after the third song we'd be back with members of Mastodon and out like a light." the Mars Volta. Savages, for instance, has contributions from Jamie Hanks Family is clearly a big deal to Cavalof I Declare War, one of Cavalera's fa- era, who played with brother Igor in vourite new bands. It's a continuation Sepultura and has an album slated of the band's move towards extreme for release this year with him. In early metal, which Cavalera has been enjoy- 2013 he took his son Zyon on tour ing a great deal lately. with him as Soulfly's latest drummer, "I'm really lucky in that I get to ex- and he's been enjoying the experience. press myself in so many different While he's still dad enough to glow in ways," he says. "Cavalera is basic the abilities of his son, he's also very metal, really simple and straight, and much the band leader, someone that I love doing that with Igor. Killer Be expects a certain amount of ability Killed is a bit more on the Mastodon/ from his sidemen.

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"When we're on the road I speak to him as musician to musician," he says.

"Zyon is 21, though, an adult, and he's been doing great on this tour. I want him to be as tight as possible, and he is getting better as we go along. At the same time I want to be a better performer, so it works both ways. Actually, this is one of the best tours I've been on, and one of the best versions of the band I've ever had. The members are all great as people as well as performers, which doesn't always happen; sometimes you'll get a great performer who is a complete asshole, you know? But we're actually like a large family right now. It's been a lot of fun."

That might be because Cavalera has most of his family on the road with him. One is acting as tour manager, another is taking on the task of being Zyon's drum tech, and then there's Zyon himself. The extended family motif is perfect for what Cavalera has going on right now, and it seems to suit him. Rather than living out the cliché of the perpetual bachelor on the road, he's enjoying his kid's company. Some onlookers might express bemusement at this arrangement, but Cavalera thinks it's an inspiration for other.

"I'm here to prove people who think it's strange as wrong," he says. "It's actually a statement I wanted to make from the very beginning, that you can have kids and you can have a family and you can still be metal. You can be a father and still be a bad-ass, you know? There's no rule book out there on how this is supposed to happen, and nowhere does it say that you have to mellow out when you have kids.

Hell no; I'm getting heavier and louder as I get older, and crazier, as well."

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hanks to Kijiji, a new genre- kind of compromise and cut down bending musical entity is mak- on something they were doing or ing its rounds in Edmonton: the look at it from a different angle members of Anchors North met on- because it starts taking a different line and fused previous band expe- direction, so I think it kind of forced us to get outside rience into a new of our comfort project in which Sat, Feb 1 (8 pm) zones." country, blue- With the Give 'Em Hell Boys, grass and punk Boxcar Brawlers Getting out of Artery, $10 the comfort zone coalesce. for Kitlarchuk "We had a bit of meant becoming a punk influence starting out and the more we built proficient at country guitar licks, a the more we picked up on influ- skill that hadn't been in his wheelences from everyone," explains gui- house before, but one he's readily tarist and vocalist Jamie Kitlarchuk. adopted.

"At the start it was really simple, but at the time it was only three The band also had to adjust its of us for a while and as we sort of approach in the recording studio built the band a little bit, there are while working on an EP with Liam some songs that just click and ev- Copeland of the Old Wives. eryone can pull them together the The members of Anchors North first time we jam on them. Other prefer performing together live, so songs we really have to work with breaking down each part individually it because people have to either was a new experience for the band.

"It's really difficult to capture the group dynamics and the feel that we get when we're playing a live show or jamming in our jam space. I think it was also a bit of an eye-opener. We went in over a few weekends and some of the things that we can do so easily when we're jamming together, sometimes it would take several takes just to do one persons' track because you get really nit picky and really have to be on the ball," he explains. "And now you've got a guy who you're paying for his time, even though in this case he was giving us a really good deal, so it wasn't that big a deal on our part, but you know we didn't want to be wasting his time.

Everyone else is watching you so you don't want to have too many second takes."

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ou're in the studio for 12 hours one, it's not the type of writing enviand they want a song that's ronment he can see himself in often. going to be better than the next "I mean, I can see taking week-long guy's in that 12 hours," says musi- trips a couple of times a year and cian Scotty Hills of his experience getting to see everything from that at the ole 7th annual pop+urban side ... I think it's going to be a long songcamp he attended in Novem- time before I would be able to be reserved to churning out ber at the storied Sat, Feb 1 (8:30 pm) tunes everyday just for Westlake Studios in Blue Chair Café, $15 that purpose."

Lost Angeles—where With that behind him, albums like Michael Hills is focusing on his Jackson's Thriller and Alanis Morisette's Jagged Little Pill own material for his forthcoming album, a follow-up to his soulful 2012 took shape.

The camp was intended to churn release Year of Septembers. Hills out potential new hits for singers like hopes to have the new album ready Rihanna, and organizers sourced out for this summer, but he'll be giving writers from across the globe for an audiences a taste of what's to come all-expenses-paid writing boot camp. during his current Alberta tour—a Hills caught the creative director's stripped-down set in which Hills is attention with a track he composed accompanied by Jason Cook, who with original One Republic drummer will be manning drums and bass.

"When I went to Jason I told him to Jerrod Bettis (who also produced Serena Ryder's album, Harmony), boil it down to the easiest reference which was praised as "the best song beat, to try and have sort of a Black of the whole camp," but Hills notes Keys-meets-James Blake vision just for the live show and for the upcomthe music industry is a fickle one.

"There's some part of it that felt as ing record as well as mixed with, of though if you were writing the really course, the fact that I always take awesome songs that day, you were left turns on a lot of things," exthe cool person and if you weren't plains Hills, who's been involved writing the cool songs that day they in music since his teens and is curhad to think to remember what your rently studying jazz. "I come from a name was," he says, adding while the lot of blues and country blues, but experience was generally a positive I also am an '80s baby, so I come

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from all the new-wave music and progressive music."

For Hills, who has long been experi-

menting with genres like blues, R&B and roots—as well as the varied instrumentation accompanying each— it would be easy to adorn songs with all kinds of sonic twists and turns, but he's making a conscious effort to rein it all in and let his songs have their space.

"A lot of what I'm trying to do is boil it down two-piece-style ... we played one show already, played our first show last week and it's pretty cool. It has pretty raw blues and rock, just sort of a traditional way of bringing it out, but there's a lot of electronic sounds too and a couple of tasty break beats and just really trying to juxtapose certain things but never lose sight of the essence of the groove, you know?" Hills explains of his new material, noting consistency in production and style is key. "I'm a singer at heart—that's what I do before anything, really. It's going to be a lot about the voice and the minimal beat and really impactful bass that just leaves long periods of time and comes back when it really counts."

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n Monday, January 27, David Finkelman was hit by a car while crossing an intersection on Whyte Ave and Edmonton lost a great contributor.

Dave hosted Big A, Little a, a radio program dedicated to the ethos of punk, for over eight years on CJSR. He opened the show with a warning about strong language, but an open invitation: if you are easily offended you may want to take a break. Or stick around and keep in mind that even though you may not like the words, you may hear some ideas or sounds that you might like.

Dave's humble attitude was punk personified. He was the only one ever surprised when it was voted "best show" by volunteers—three years in a row. He took punk's history seriously, and his abundant charm drew you in.

His perspective made the show about much more than just the sounds.

"The show considered punk not from a musical perspective, necessarily, but the attitude behind the music, boiling punk down to its essential ethos and not its sonic trappings," says CJSR Music Director Chad Brunet.

This dedication was applied to all his projects. Darkness of my Soul pushed CJSR's creative limits with a weekly send-up of the silliness in Goth culture.

Dave and his friend, collaborator and co-host Lex McKie, inhabited alteregos, Raven and Esper in a radio drama unlike any the station had seen before.

It was amazing radio.

Outside of the station Dave's creative energy manifested as the guitarist for the post-punk band Energetic Action. The band's first show was at a small, hard to get to Bonnie Doon hall.

Lit by red light, the stage held a staticfilled television and there were about 20 people there. But CJSR's former music director Aaron Levin described that first show genuinely: "To say it was one of the most intense live music experiences of my life is to sell the experience short. This truly was the manifestation of a year of hard work and dedicated sense of conviction, purpose and vision. At this moment I realized what David was capable of."

Energetic Action created its own label in 2010. It released an LP in 2013 and was the second most played local album on CJSR. Today, the Edmonton music community is missing an intensely dedicated and creative man. As a community we lost a friend and contributor who was only just beginning to shape this city.

Lex McKie says that he and Dave had

started recording for a special episode of Darkness of my Soul and he's working to compile a final show for Esper and Raven.

This Saturday, McKie will host a tribute to Dave on Big A, Little a from noon – 2 pm, Dave's regular timeslot, on CJSR 88.5.

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The Wet Secrets Free Candy (Independent) 

The Wet Secrets' last album of vulgar, fun rock 'n' roll, the shambling Rock Fantasy, came out in 2007. Seven years later Free Candy arrives, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, it finds the band a little less teetering, and a little more considered in its approach these days: there are songs of despising the modern club life ("Nightlife") and of someone needing to getting their shit together ("Get Your Shit Together"), and that tone seems to be more pres-

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ent on Free Candy than the ol' growyour-own-fuckingmoustache-assholetype declarations of boozy irreverence that were the band's prior stock in trade.

But that said, Free Candy isn't a dulling of the Wet Secret's edges: it's the band putting seven years of world-wizening to good use. Free Candy is easily the tightest album the band has ever done. (Granted, A Whale of A Cow was a drunken experiment done in a week, so we're not exactly talking about high bars to leap, here. But still ... ). It's the most varied and nuanced in its approach to electric-guitarless rock, and in that way, the most effective as an album.

Opener "Maybe We'll Make a Plan" sets a reflective mood: over a measured bass line, Lyle Bell admits "We never had to console one another / But now we know / That one of us might go before the other." It then builds to more celebratory kiss-off, grungy riffs over marching beats, complete with a "Joy to the World"

synth to close it out. "Sunshine" might be the most straight-up pop the band's ever been, lyrically retaining its barbs—"Talk is cheap but silence is cheaper / You should try it sometime / Just close your mouth and pantomime"—but musically presenting as if ELO was a '90s' college-rock band.

Single "Nightlife" rides a tight groove-dance riff and vocal '"do do do's," while "Animals in Disguise," peppering live sets for years, feels the most tethered in the Rock Fantasy era, but in the best of ways: stumbling rhythms, spooky keyboards, monkey skreeches and a "let's-bone" mindset is certainly welcome among the album's other reflections.

Later comes the hypnotic, repetitive riff of "Floating in the Sky," and closer "What's The Fucking Point? (Zenko's Theme)" which pulls a similar twist to "Maybe We'll Make a Plan": the saddest parade you've ever watched go by suddenly erupts into a celebratory take on its own heavy sigh. Free Candy is, in its way, an album of chiaroscuro moods channeled through a fun rock band, but in that approach the Wet Secrets prove that age can fit as well as the marching band uniforms do.

In this era of mass musical cross pollination, it's hard to stay positive when you know that d e a t h - m e t a l - d u b s te p grind-pop exists. But it ain't all bad, dear reader: Canyon Rose Outfit is very difficult to label, with roots-style guitars and fiddles blending funky bass and ragtime horns into a sound that doesn't lean too far in any one direction, instead knitting songs that are truly unique.

"Killing is Easy" has such a fun swagger to it that it's kind of shocking when you hear the refrain: "Killing is easy without

dealing with the blood." "Streets of Gold" builds and winds like a blues-rock classic, except with extended fiddle replacing the serpentine guitar solo. This style of twist on the familiar is CRO's greatest asset, but it also seems that they can develop themselves further: these songs are good as they stand, but it sometimes feels as though something is lacking, that these ideas aren't fully realized. Definitely check out Wilted Rose if you're a fan of down-home stylings that think outside the box, but expect bigger and better things from these cats in the future.

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North of Fifty-Four (Independent) 

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sands of people making beats and electronic music in their bedroom is his visionary approach.

Szott, who makes music under the name sirch., integrates found, archival and field recordings to create atmospheric soundscapes that sound like a summer's day as the surf pounds the shore ("beach babies.") or harsh and cold like an open-pit mine ("pierce the sky.")

North of Fifty-Four isn't perfect. It sags near the end with the 8-minute "beach babies." and "last swim of the year." while a short track like "first haze." could be cut from the 9-track album. But it's rare to see someone try something new, and North of Fifty-Four is full of new and interesting ideas.

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THU JAN 30 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live Music every Thu: This week: Tiff Hall BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Open Jam featuring a new artist of varying genres; 7pm (door) BLUES ON WHYTE Kirby Sewell Band 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 CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Zoomers 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 THE COMMON Uncommon Thu: Samara von Rad and the Prerequisites, Dan Smith COOK COUNTY Pony Up Thu: Country, Rock Anthems and Top 40 Classics with Mourning Wood DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Open Jam Nights; no cover FIDDLER'S ROOST Thursday Nights acoustic circle jam; only acoustic instruments; 7:30pm; $3 cover FILTHY MCNASTY'S TBT Presents: The Massive, Good Friday Brawl; 8pm GAS PUMP Sugarfoot, Sophie Hunter with Michael Chenoweth (blues roots) ; 7-10pm; no cover J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm JAVA EXPRESS–Stony Plain Acoustic/singer songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Giovana Bervian (Brazilian pop, singersongwriter); 8pm; $10 KELLY'S PUB Jameoke Night with the Nervous Flirts; every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover L.B.'S PUB Thu open stage: the New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage; 8pm; all ages (15+) NEW WEST HOTEL C.C. and Highrider NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 OVERTIME Sherwood Park Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Thu; no cover PAWN SHOP Back To School Party: Concord Pavilion (alt blues, rock), Big City Supreme, Hearsay, Most of August; $10 (adv) 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– Downtown Rob Taylor SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of

A Joanne Janzen

every Fri

DJs

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Doug Stroud

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Radio Active

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 Beat Generation and Beatnik Café: Jim Findlay Band, the Suitable Men; jam session, bring instruments, poems, tunes; 7pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Raised Fist Unplugged Volume 3: Bardic Form, Fringe, Skyline, I Am Machi, Richelle Ziola; 8pm SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am WUNDERBAR Crooked Brothers, Swear by the Moon; $10

Classical AUGUSTANA CAMPUS CHAPEL–Camrose Augustana Bachelor of Music piano performance majors solo recital with Jane Coop (piano); 7:30pm HORIZON STAGE–Spruce Grove The Romantic Story and Music of the Schmuanns: Sarah Hagen (classical piano recital); Tea at 9:45pm, Concert at 10:30am; $25

DJs

CASINO EDMONTON Dueling Pianos CASINO YELLOWHEAD Emeralds DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Andrew Scott DV8 Zero Cool, Fight to Swill, Betty Sue's a Tramp EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Kickback (rock & roll) FESTIVAL PLACE Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba (World music); 7:30pm; $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) at Festival Place box office J+H PUB Every Fri: Headwind (vintage rock 'n' roll), friends, 9:30pm, no minors, no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Kirsten Rae Quartet (jazz), back up band; 9pm; $10 L.B.'S PUB The Normals Live; 9pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE IO Productions Present: A Family Affair, Sante; 9pm LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

BLACK DOG 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

NEWCASTLE PUB Dark Rooster; no cover

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

OMAILLES IRISH PUB A.J.

THE COMMON The Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage; 7pm; no cover LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Fri

NEW WEST HOTEL C.C. and Highrider NOORISH CAFÉ Friday night music: Nate Kupczak; 7-9pm

ON THE ROCKS Heather McKenzie Band, DJs

PAWN SHOP Sonic Band of the Month: Kickupafuss (rock), Mayday and the Beat Creeps, Them Locals, Russ Dawson; 8pm; $10 (adv) RANCH ROADHOUSE 4x4 Friday Special Edition hosted by William Hung RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

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

RENDEZVOUS PUB Rewind; 8pm

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays

ROSE & CROWN PUB Amie Weymes

THE RIG Danger Pay; 10pm

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 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri ENCORE–WEM Torro Torro, Victor Niglio FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SET Nightclub NEW Fridays: House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep'n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials STARLITE ROOM KLUB OMFG 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 Everybody Dance Now: C+C Music Factory: DJ Suco, DJ Laxy, DJ Salvia Plath, Senshi; 8pm (door); $20 (adv) at ticketweb.com/$30 (door) Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT FEB 1 ARDEN THEATRE Josh Ritter, Gregory Alan Isakov; 7:30pm; sold out ARTERY Anchors North (EP release, country folk), the Give 'Em Hell Boys, Boxcar Brawlers; 8pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Graham Guest Band; 7pm (door); $10

RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Rob Taylor

UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Joanne Janzen

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Boxcar Gloryholes (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Doug Stroud

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Scotty Hills; 8:30pm; $15

SIDELINERS PUB Rockin’ Randy (classic rock, blues); 8:30pm; no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: JK and the Static

ARTERY Red Moon Road (folk trio), Matt Patershuk, Post Script; 8pm (door); $8 (adv)

WINSPEAR Down with Webster, SonReal and D Pryde; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $25, $35; all ages

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

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Navigators; 8pm; $20

WUNDERBAR Geoff Berner, Doug Hoyer; $10

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Joe Piccolo with Hot Cottage; 7pm (door); $10

YARDBIRD SUITE International Jazz Series from Germany: Benny Lackner; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member), $22 (guest)

FRI JAN 31 ARDEN THEATRE Singing his own story: Josh Ritter, Gregory Alan Isakov; 7:30pm; sold out

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ The Felt Hat String Band (Gypsy jazz quartet); 8:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Kirby Sewell Band BOHEMIA Art + Muzak, curated by Christopher Zaystoff!: Skin, Karate Kids, Etphonehome, Bob Clydas, Cabronero!

BRIXX Unbalanced, guests CAFÉ TIRAMISU Live music

Classical CONVOCATION HALL The Edmonton Chamber Music Society: Trio Jean Paul; Eckart Heiligers (piano), Ulf Schneider (violin), Martin Löhr (violo cello); 8pm; $35 (adult)/$25 (senior)/$10 (student) at TIX on the Square, the Gramophone, ECMS

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturday: Tomas Marsh, Kills Millions, Eticpo, Betty Sue's a Tramp, Pin Stomp, Atomik Alice BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Saturday Night; 8pm CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Radio Active CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

DOW CENTENNIAL CENTRE–Shell Theatre– Fort Saskatchewan Strings and Swing: Jesse Peters (piano), Lizzy Hoyt (vocal, fiddle); 7:30pm; $30 (adult)/$27 (senior/youth) DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Andrew Scott EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Kickback (rock & roll) FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Café Series: Brendan McLeod (singer-songwriters); 7:30pm; $20 at Festival Place box office FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: Shiza Maliza, Paris and the English; 4pm; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm JEFFREY'S CAFÉ The Civil Suits (blues rock); 9pm; $10 LEAF BAR AND GRILL Sat jam with Terry Evans, and featured guests; host Terry Evans, and featured guests LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:30-11:30pm; no cover MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Jhankaar; 6:3pm (door), 7pm (concert); tickets at InfoLink booths, U of A NEWCASTLE PUB Grand opening: Willy James; 9pm NEW WEST HOTEL C.C. and Highrider O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm OMAILLES IRISH PUB A.J. ON THE ROCKS Heather McKenzie Band, DJs OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Transmission Alternative Dance Party: 9pm QUEEN ALEXANDRIA HALL Northernlights Folk Club: Dry Bones; 7pm (door), 8pm (music); $20 (adv) at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Myhre's Music/$25 (door) RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am REDNEX BAR AND GRILL– Morinville Tall Dark 'n' Dirty (rock blues); $5 THE RIG Tony Poirer; 10pm ROSE & CROWN PUB Amie Weymes SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Rob Taylor SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Joanne Janzen SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Doug Stroud SIDELINERS PUB Open Stage every Sat, 3-7pm SIGNATURE LOUNGE– Ramada, South Open Jam Session: Bring your guitar, bass, drums or your favourite instrument, or sing; 2:30pm STARLITE ROOM Age of Aquarius: Love & Light, Serial Killaz, G Jones, CMC & Silenta WUNDERBAR Geoff Berner, Kris Demeanor; $10

CASINO EDMONTON The Year of the Hourse; Chinese New Year celebration

YARDBIRD SUITE The Best Of Alberta Jazz Series from Edmonton: Don Berner Sextet (CD release); 8pm (door), 9pm show); $14 (member)/$18 (guest)

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Classical

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JAN/30 FEB/7 UNBALANCED W/ PEOPLE CALL IT HOME, OAK AND ELM FEB/8 THE ELECTRIC REVIVAL PISTOL WHIPS, RUBEN FLEX FEB/14 THE AND LONESOME DOVE FEB/21 DAHLMERS REALM HIGHWAY, MATT STANLEY FEB/22 THOMPSON AND THE DECOYS,THE LAKER BAND LAWRENCE’S FEB/28 MARSHALL BLUES REVUE SHOW LENORE & CO., THE RIVER AND MAR/1 LANA THE ROAD & DRYLAND BAND LOUDER THAN LOVE MAR/14 ALTERRA, AND OF WHALE AND WOLF MAR/15 MATCHBREAKER, 20 CENTURIES OF STONY SLEEP MAR/29 PAX ARCANA W/ BLIND ROOTS AND BLACK VIII

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JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Edmonton Opera: Die Fledermaus; comedy; 8pm;

VUEWEEKLY JAN 30 – FEB 5, 2014

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FRI JAN 31

SONIC BAND OF THE MONTH

KICKUPAFUSS

W/ MAYDAY & THE BEATCREEPS, THEM LOCALS & GUESTS

SAT FEB 1

TRANSMISSION MONTHLY ALTERNATIVE DANCE PARTY TUE FEB 11

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FRI FEB 14

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THE MAD BOMBER SOCIETY, THE FUZZ KINGS & NAPALMPOM THU FEB 20

DAVE HAUSE & NORTHCOTE

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tickets start at $20 at TIX on the Square

with Lolcatz, Yaznil, Badman Crooks, Ootz

Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

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

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO: Once Upon a Time: Symphony for Kids: Lucas Waldin (conductor), 2pm; Pre-concert Activities: 1-1:45pm; $20-$29 (adult)/$13-$17 (child)

UNION HALL Star Killers, Hypercrush featuing Epic fail; 8:30pm (door); $20 (adv) at ticketweb.com/$25 (door)

MON FEB 3

RICHARDS PUB Barsnbands open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:3011:30pm

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 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 Excision 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 SET NIGHTCLUB SET Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am TEMPLE Step'd Up Saturdays

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN FEB 2 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 9am3pm; donations BLUES ON WHYTE Tasman Jude CASINO YELLOWHEAD Chinese New Year: 6pm for buffet dinner at 7pm; Lion Dance Show; 8:30pm; live band at 9:30pm 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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Michael Charles DUGGAN'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; host changes weekly; this week: Andrew Scott 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 NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510

HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

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

DJs

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS The Dungarees THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted

by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm WUNDERBAR EARLY SHOW: Maria in the Shower, FeverFew, Pretty Taken; 6pm

Classical ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE Distant Soundscapes: Concordia Symphony Orchestra Concert, Sarah Hoyt (piano); 2pm; $15 (adult)/$12 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square, Concordia Student Accounts, door; $40 (family, at door only)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable,

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE FEB 4 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tue Jam: with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Michael Charles DRUID IRISH PUB Jamhouse Tues hosted by Chris Wynters, guest FIDDLER'S ROOST Tuesday Nights fiddle circle jam; all levels of musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

THE RIG Every Tue: Rockin' Randy; 8-12 SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Brett Miles Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5 (door)

Classical

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Edmonton Opera: Die Fledermaus; comedy; 7:30pm; tickets start at $20 at TIX on the Square

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED FEB 5 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY Art Party: Edmonton Down Syndrome Society Live Art Show and Auction: Swear by the Moon (folk jazz), guests; 6:30pm; $5 (adv) BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Robbie Taylor; 7pm (door); no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover FIDDLER'S ROOST Wednesday Nights Folk and Roots Open Stage: amateur and professional musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 LEAF BAR AND GRILL Wed variety night: with guitarist, Gord Matthews; every Wed, 8pm MERCURY ROOM Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado OVERTIME Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm-12am SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Andrew Scott SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon STARLITE ROOM Soulfly, Tramp Stamper, Oceans On Fire ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wed: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Guest artist: Dr. Joseph Di Piazza; 8pm; free piano recital

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado

BLUES ON WHYTE Michael Charles

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

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

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

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

TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

OVERTIME Sherwood Park The Campfire Heros (acoustic

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AUGUSTANA CAMPUS CHAPEL–Camrose 780.679.1532 AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 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 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750-124 St CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580

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CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DOW–Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan 8700-84 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 7308-76 Ave FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St

HORIZON STAGE–SPRUCE GROVE 1001 Calahoo Rd HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546 126 St, 780.453.2249 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 13160-118 Ave MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Students' Union Bldg NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108

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St, 780.425.9730 NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave QUEEN ALEXANDRIA HALL 10425 University Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE–Concordia 7128 Ada Blvd 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 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park 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 10028-102 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 • Sean Proudlove; Jan 31-Feb 1 COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Cory Robinson; Jan 30-Feb 1 • That's Improv; Feb 6-8 • Tim Koslo; Feb 13-15 • Jamie Hutchinson; Feb 20-22 COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Ben Gleib; until Feb 2 • Featuring Gilson Lubin, Rodney Ramsey, and Andrew Searles; 7:30pm; Feb 25; $20 DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover FORT EDMONTON • Capitol Theatre • Red Man Laughing: Be part of the live audience for a CBC national radio special starring Ojibway/Metis comedian Ryan McMahon with friends, including singer-songwriter Nick Sherman, and author Richard Van Camp • Jan 31; Feb 1, 7:30-9pm • $20 KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIE'S COMEDY • Komedy Krush: Following Capital City Singles Mixer with Sterling Scott • Jan 30, 9pm • Call 780.914.8966 to get on roster MACLAB CENTRE–Leduc • Hypnotist Wayne Lee • Jan 31, 8pm • $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE • U of A • Just for Laughs present Debra DiGiovanni's tales on the Late Bloomer Tour • Jan 31, 7pm • $35.50 at 1.877.987.6487, ticketfly.com OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free RIVER CREE–The Venue • rivercreeresort.com/ the-venue • Sylvia Browne • Feb 1, 6pm (door), 8pm (show) • $59.50 ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway Blvd • Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm SIDELINERS PUB/CONNIE'S COMEDY • Travelling Open Comedy mic with Dave Stawnichy • Feb 11, 8pm • Call 780.914.8966 to get on roster VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm WINSPEAR CENTRE •780.428.1414 • Paul Mercs present Brent Butt, Almost A Movie Star • Sat, Mar 1 ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side),

9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15 EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King’s University College, 9125-50 St • Monthly meeting: The Galapagos Islands as seen through the eyes of a naturalist and the lens of a photographer, familiar species in an unfamiliar setting with speakers Ludo Boegaert and his wife Ria • Feb 21, 7pm, 7:30pm (meeting) • Admission by donation EDUCATED LUNCHEON–Feeding the world with Canadian Beef? • Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave • Graham Plastow (Dept of Agricultural, Food and Nutritional Science) will speak about how genomics can play a pivotal role in meeting the nutritional demands of Canada and the world • Feb 12 FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta) SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley A. Milner Library, Centennial Rm (bsmt); edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@edmontonatheists.ca; Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month 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 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) TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519 TOASTMASTERS • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 1370874 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators. com WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com 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

LECTURES/PRESENTaTIONS BEHIND THE BRANDS • Telus Centre 236/238 • A Social Justice Scorecard • Jan 31, 12-12:50pm BIG HOLE IN THE 'DALE • Tory Breezeway 2, U of A • Excavating the Origins of the Industrial Revolution: Dr Ron Ross will report on excavations at the site of the 17th Century Cementation Steel Furnace at Ironbridge Gorge in England and their importance in re-dating the origins of the Industrial Revolution • Jan 30, 7-9pm • Free DR. SHARMA SHOW • ATB Financial Arts Barns, PCL Studio Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • Stop Being a Yo-Yo–A light hearted look at the ups and downs of weight loss, debunking obesity and weight management myths and learn about the latest science on what works and what doesn’t • Feb 3, and Feb 10, 7pm • $12, proceeds to support the Canadian Obesity Network GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, Iceland (2013) presentation by Elvira Leibovitz • Feb 3, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $2 HIGHER EDUCATION IN AFRICA'S DEVELOPMENT BEYOND 2015 • CCIS 1-430, U of A • Presentation by N'Dri Assié-Lumumba; kick-off to Millennium Development Goals in Retrospect: Africa's Development Beyond 2015, free conference • Jan 30, 7:30-9pm INTERNATIONAL WEEK • globaled.ualberta.ca/ InternationalWeek.aspxInternational Week 2014 • Creating Solutions for a Healthier World with speakers Alex Steffen, Sujeet Sennik, Severn Cullis-Suzuki, and N’Dri Assie-Lumumba; until Feb 1 • Millennium Development Goals (MDGS) in Retrospect: Africa’s Development Beyond 2015: Jan 30-Feb 1 • Jhankaar: Concert planned by the Indian Students’ Association (INDSA); Feb 1 ROCK AND ROLL SONGWRITERS • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Part of Learn @ Your Library series: Presentation by Michael B. MacDonald, on the history of songwriting in the last century, and the impact that rock and roll had on this timehonoured craft • Sun, Feb 2, 2-4pm • $10 (adult)/$5 (student) at the Check Out Desk, door SAVING LIVES BY SATELLITE • Telus Centre 236/238 • Bringing World-Class Health Care to Hard to Reach Communities • Jan 30, 3:30-4:50pm TAKE CONTROL OF YOUR STUDENT LOANS • Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St • 780.496.1828 • Free lunchtime talk by Jeannine Mitchell, expert in student debt management; tips to get out of student debt faster • Jan 30, 12 noon-1pm • Free TECHNOLOGY, TRANSFORMATION, EXPERIMENTATION • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Part of Learn @ Your Library series: Presentation by Michael B. MacDonald, MacEwan about how rock and roll provided a soundtrack to the social changes of the 60s and 70s • Sun, Feb 9, 2-4pm • $10 (adult)/$5 (student) at Check Out Desk, door SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm URBAN GREEN COHOUSING • Old Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St • Info Session: Live well, live sustainably--find out how to become involved with Urban Green Cohousing; join us as we begin the design process. Singles, families, young and old are welcome • Feb 2, 2-4pm • Free; info E: hello@urbangreencohousing.ca; cohousing.ca WELLNESS NETWORK SERIES • Boyle Street Plaza, 9538-103 Ave • 780.424.2870 • What’s In Your Cupboard? with Sacha Deelstra from E4C; Feb 13, 1:30-3:30pm; Discuss ideas about everyday foods we like to eat and how to make healthy choices when shopping or accessing services. Learn about local programs like the Wecan Food Basket, community gardens and collective kitchens • MoneyMatter$: with Linda Mak from Money Mentors; Feb 20, 1:30-3:30pm; free; How do you like to spend your money? Money Mentors will teach some basics about budgets, debt repayment, and other ways to meet your needs and wants • Writing For Recovery: with David Prodan from E4C; Feb 27, 1:30-3:30pm; free; Explore creative ways to express your thoughts, feelings and life! Writing

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can be a great release! Words are a powerful way to approach healing and recovery

QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month 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 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 • Incredibly Gay Cabaret: amalgamation of story song with Evan Westfal, accompaniment by Daniel Belland; Feb 8; 8pm; $15 (door); E: evanwestfal@ gmail.com 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.ca; 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 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 • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace. ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS BOYLE STREET PLAZE MAKER'S FAIRE • 9538-103A Ave • On the Spot Pot up: Clothing, home decor, jewellery, art • Feb 8-9, 10am-4pm CANADIAN BIRKEBEINER SKI FESTIVAL • East of Edmonton: Cooking Lake–Blackfoot Provincial Recreation Area, Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Village, Elk Island National Park • A premier, affordable, familyoriented, friendly cross-country ski loppet honouring the Norwegian Birkebeiner • Feb 7-8 CITY OF LIGHT/FLYING CANOE ADVENTURE WALK • Mill Creek Ravine and La Cité Francophone • Discover La Chasse-galerie (The Flying Canoe), a combination of a French-Canadian and First-Nations legend told by various lost canoeists along a lit trail in the Mill Creek Ravine. A sleigh ride from the ravine to the City of Light/La Cité en Lumières (La Cité Francophone) to an outdoor show with DJ, a snow slide, live music, hot chocolate and children activities • Feb 7-8 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) EXPERIENCE ETHIOPIA: LUNCH AND ENTERTAINMENT • Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, Empire Ballroom, 10065-100 St • Come Experience Ethiopia and provide life-changing Education Fundraiser: includes lunch, tea, followed by an Ethiopian dance performance, and a silent auction • Feb 1, 12:30pm • $50 each (plus applicable service fees) through TIX on the Square; proceeds will support S.E.E.D.S ICE ON WHYTE FESTIVAL • End Of Steel Park, Gateway Blvd, 103 St, Tommy Banks Way • 780.758.5878 • iceonwhyte.ca • 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 • Until Feb 2 • $5 (adult)/$2.50 (child) under 2 free LUNAR NEW YEAR AND CHINATOWN CELEBRATION • 97 St, betw 106 Ave and 107 Ave • Celebrate the Lunar New Year in Chinatown with a parade and festivities • Feb 1 SHOW YOUR GRIT ALUMNI CLASSIC • gritprogram.com • Leduc Rec Center, Sobey's Arena, Leduc • Fundraising event for the Grit Program with the Montreal Canadiens Alumni Players include-Guy Lafleur, Gilbert Delmore, Pierre Dagenais, Richard Sevigny and more • Feb 6, 7-9pm • $20; $100 (VIP tickets); info at 780.454.9910, ext 200 SWING 'N SKATE • City Hall Plaza • edmonton.ca/ city_government/initiatives_innovation/winter-festivalsevents.aspx • Skate day; Feb 2 • The Edmonton Swing Band; Feb 9 • Rhythm Gunners Big Band of the Royal • Canadian Artillery; Feb 16 • Don Berner's Little Big Band; Feb 23 VALENTINE'S AT THE PARK • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton • Forget Me Not, featuring the Andrea House's songwriting, is the true love story of Andrea’s Grandfather; from his romance in Paris during World War I, to his reluctant return to the Canadian prairies • Valentine's Day Dinner • Valentine's Day Dinner and Show • Valentine's Day Overnight Package VALENTINES AT THE MUTTART • 9626-96A St • Learn to pair JACEK artisan chocolates with fine wine, view a local artworks, and tour through the most romantic pyramids • Feb 22, 6:30pm • $60; pre-register at 311 WINEFEST • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • celebratewinefest.com/edmonton.html • All inclusive event: try before you buy in a casual yet refined atmosphere–every sip and sample is included in the ticket price; wine experts share their knowledge • Feb 14-15, 7pm WINTER WALK DAY • City Hall, and other locations • Public walk at noon starting at City Hall • Feb 5

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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. For 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.

-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

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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. For info and volunteer application form:

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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.

Kim Sherwood 780-451-3416 ksherwood@hfh.org

habitat for humanity requires volunteers for our restores We are recruiting customer service volunteers to help us at least one shift per week at store locations in north, south or west Edmonton.

Contact for more info about the event: Evan Hammer 780-451-3416 ehammer@hfh.org

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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

Volunteers Wanted

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 volunteering - does your employer have a day of caring program?

Volunteers from beginners to garage “putterers”, to trades people come out and help us to build homes for families in our community.

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 Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving.

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2013 palaeo arts contest at the royal tyrrell museum, drumheller, ab.

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

2014 alberta screenwriters initiative The Alberta Association of Motion Picture and Television Unions (AAMPTU) are seeking submissions of feature film scripts of any genre, to a maximum length of 250 pages, from Alberta based screenwriters. The deadline for this award is March 10, 2014.

For more information on the prize and submission guidelines, please contact Nicholas Mather at (780) 422-8174 or visit www.writersguild.ab.ca

2014 eldon & anne foote edmonton visual arts prize application form Open to Greater Edmonton Artists nominated by a Gallery.

The winning artist will receive a $10,000 cash prize.

DEADLINE: The submission deadline for completed nominations is Thursday March 27th, 2014 at 4pm.

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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.

Nominations are now being accepted online.

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.

art gallery of st albert (agsa), seeks submissions from artists working in all styles and mediums for exhibition in the 2015 calendar year. deadline for submissions: saturday, march 1, 2014, 5 pm For more information: Jenny Willson-McGrath, Exhibition Curator 780.651.5741 I jennyw@artsheritage.ca

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art society of strathcona county WorKshops Joyce Boyer, Oils, Feb 10-Mar 17 (Deadline for Reg Feb 1) Leslie Degner, Photography, Feb28/Mar1 (Deadline for Reg Feb 12) Gregg Johnson, Watercolors Mar 15/16 (Deadline for Reg Mar 1) Visit www.artstrathcona.com for DVD workshops and DVD Paint Along Days, and more information and upcoming workshops!

Artists: The Third Annual Unfinished Painting Challenge is under way at The Paint Spot! Bring in the paintings (until January 31) you can’t or don’t want to finish. Take a painting away. Finish it, return it (by February 11) and we’ll exhibit it (February 17-April 17)! This event is popular and fun – and a good way to purge your studio of those haunting, never-finished works. Another person’s work may prove to be more inspiring than your own.

AND to keep up your resolution, why not join in the 12-hour Painting Challenge on Thursday, January 16, 9AM-9PM here at The Paint Spot? For more information, contact The Paint Spot (www.paintspot.ca; accounts@paintspot.ca; 780.432.0240) or drop by, 10032 81 Avenue, Edmonton.

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Previous retail meat cutting experience is an asset. The successful candidate must be able to provide a clean security clearance. High Prairie Super A offers competitive compensation and health benefits package to all eligible employees, as well as the opportunity for personal and professional development. If you believe that you are prepared for this challenging position and have an interest in working within a dynamic organization, please submit your resume, in confidence to: High Prairie Super A, 4920 - 53 Ave., High Prairie, AB, T0G 1E0. Fax 780-5235390. Email: sean.lee@tgp.ca.

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Reporting directly to the Store Manager, the Produce Manager is responsible for all aspects of operating a successful produce department including, supervision, scheduling, ordering, receiving, and merchandising.

You must have a minimum of 3 years retail produce experience, including management experience with a working knowledge of gross margins, sales ratios and expense controls. Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills are essential. It offers a competitive compensation and benefit package as well as the opportunity for personal and professional development. If you are interested in a rewarding challenging career; if you can provide creative solutions through team problem solving while focusing on providing excellence customer service, we would like to hear from you: Human Resources, The Grocery People Ltd., 14505 Yellowhead Trail, Edmonton, AB, T5L 3C4. Fax 780-4475781. Email: humanresources@ tgp.ca. We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those candidates considered for an interview will be contacted.

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EIFF: Submit Your Film Now www.edmontonfilmfest.com Edmonton International Film Festival… Earlybird submission deadline is February 28! Full program schedule and festival program guides available in September. www.edmontonfilmfest.com <http://www.edmontonfilmfest. com> Call for Applicants :: Edmonton Arts Council Public Art Selection Committee Roster The Edmonton Arts Council (EAC), on behalf of the City of Edmonton, requests applications from Edmontonbased, qualified individuals to be included on our Public Art Selection Committee roster.

Deadline is January 31, 2014 We thank all applicants for their interest, but only those selected will be notified.

For more information, please contact: publicart@edmontonarts.ca Call out for Living Books for the Global Cafe Living Library Event (Jasper Place High School) Jasper Place High School’s Global Café is doing a call out for living books! If you are interested in being a living book, please submit a short description of the story you wish to share and a brief biography (100 words) to Julia Dalman. Deadline: February 1st, 2014.

February 25th and 26th 2013, 9:15 AM to 3:15 PM Jasper Place High School’s Global Café Room 138 8950 163 street Edmonton, Alberta Julia Dalman, Global Café Coordinator (587)-926-3391 julia.dalman@gmail.com One Year Acting Apprenticeship with Neil Schell Applications are being accepted for Jan. 2014 start.

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Marking the Valley A juried art exhibition Call to artists Leave Your Mark on the Capital Region River Valley Visual Arts Alberta-CARFAC is partnering with the River Valley Alliance to showcase the Capital Region River Valley through your artwork.

Submission Guidelines can be downloaded at:

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): On my 15th birthday, I finally figured out that eating dairy products was the cause of my chronic respiratory problems. From that day forward, I avoided foods made from cow's milk. My health improved. I kept up this regimen for years. But a month ago, I decided to see if my long-standing taboo still made sense. Just for the fun of it, I gave myself permission to gorge on a tub of organic vanilla yogurt. To my shock, there was no hell to pay. I was free of snot. In the last few weeks, I have feasted regularly on all the creamy goodies I've been missing. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect an equally momentous shift is possible for you. Some taboo you have honoured for a long time, some rule you have obeyed as if it were an axiom, is ripe to be broken.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Psychologist Daniel Kahneman, who won a Nobel Prize in Economics, says that consulting experts may be useless. In his study of Wall Street traders, he found their advice was no better than information obtained by a chimpanzee flipping a coin.

Meanwhile, psychologist Philip Tetlock did a 20-year study with similar results. He found that predictions made by political and financial professionals are inferior to wild guesses. So does this mean you should never trust any experts? No. But it's important to approach them with extra skepticism right now. The time has come for you to upgrade your trust in your own intuition.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): I'm a big fan of logic and reason and I urge you to be, too. Using your rational mind to understand your experience is a very good thing.

The less stock you put in superstitious head trips and fear-based beliefs, the smarter you will be.

Having said that, I recommend that you also make playful use of your creative imagination.

Relish the comically magical elements of your mysterious fate.

Pay attention to your dreams and indulge in the pleasure of wild fantasies and see yourself as a mythic hero in life's divine drama. Moral of the story: both the rational and the fantastical approaches are essential to your health. (PS: the fantastical needs extra exercise in the coming weeks.)

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Sorry, Cancerian, you won't be able to transform lead into gold any time soon. You won't suddenly acquire the wizardly power to heal the sick minds of racists and homophobes and misogynists.

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miracles. For example, you might diminish an adversary's ability to disturb you. You could welcome into your life a source of love you have ignored or underestimated.

And you may be able to discover a secret you hid from yourself a long time ago.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Cosmopolitan magazine is famous for offering tips on how to spice up one's sex life. Here's an example: "Take a few of your favorite erotically appealing flavor combinations, like peanut butter and honey or whipped cream and chocolate sauce, and mix up yummy treats all over your lover's body." That sounds crazy to me, and not in a good way. In any case, I recommend that you don't follow advice like that, especially in the coming days. It's true that on some occasions, silliness and messiness have a role to play in building intimacy. But they aren't advisable right now. For best results, be smooth and polished and dashing and deft. Togetherness will thrive on elegant experiments and graceful risks.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): You are not as broken as you may think you are. Your wounds aren't as debilitating as you have imagined. And life will prove it to you this week. Or rather, let me put it this way: life will attempt to prove it to you—and not just in some mild, half-hearted way, either. The evidence it offers will be robust and unimpeachable. But here's my question, Virgo: will you be so attached to your pain that you refuse to even see, let alone explore, the dramatic proof you are offered? I hope not!

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Kenneth Rexroth wrote a poem called "A Sword in a Cloud of Light." I want to borrow that image. According to my astrological analysis and poetic intuition, you will generate the exact power you need in the coming weeks by imprinting your imagination with a vision of a sword in a cloud of light. I don't want to get too intellectual about the reasons why, but I will say this: the cloud of light represents your noble purpose or your sacred aspiration. The sword is a metaphor to symbolize the new ferocity you will invoke as you implement the next step of your noble purpose or sacred aspiration.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Every autumn, the bird species known as the Clark's Nutcracker prepares for its winter food needs by burying 30 000 pine nuts in 5000 places over a 15-square-mile area. The amazing thing is that it remembers where almost all of them are. Your memory isn't as prodigious as that, but it's far better than you realize. And I hope you will use it to the hilt in the coming days.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Can you imagine what it would be like to live without any hiding and pretending? How would you feel if you could relax into total honesty? What if you were free to say exactly what you mean, unburdened by the fear that telling the truth might lead to awkward complications? Such a pure and exalted condition is impossible for anyone to accomplish, of course. But you have a shot at accomplishing the next best thing in the coming week.

For best results, don't try to be perfectly candid and utterly uninhibited. Aim for 75 percent.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): It's a favourable time to gather up resources and amass bounty and solicit help and collect lots of inside information. I won't call you greedy if you focus on getting exactly what you need in order to feel comfortable and strong. In fact, I think it's fine if you store up far more than what you can immediately use—because right now is also a favourable time to prepare for future adventures when you will want to call on extraordinary levels of resources, bounty, help and inside information.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Extravagant wigs became fashionable for a while in 18th-century England. They could soar as high as four feet above a woman's head. Collections of fruit might be arrayed in the mass of hair, along with small replicas of gardens, taxidermically stuffed birds, and model ships. I would love to see you wear something like that in the coming week. But if this seems too extreme, here's a second-best option: make your face and head and hair as sexy as possible. Use your alluring gaze and confident bearing to attract more of the attention and resources you need. You have a poetic licence to be shinier and more charismatic than usual.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): One of your anti-role models in the coming weeks is the character that Piscean diva Rihanna portrays when she sings in Eminem's tune "Love the Way You Lie." Study the following lyrics, mouthed by Rihanna, and make sure that in every way you can imagine, on psychological, spiritual and interpersonal levels, you embody the exact opposite of the attitude they express: "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn / But that's all right because I like the way it hurts / Just gonna stand there and hear me cry / But that's all right, because I love the way you lie." To reiterate, Pisces, avoid all situations that would tempt you to feel and act like that. V

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Getting to know kink- tionship and sex life improved. But was a plausible excuse for my deci- sters face-to-face doesn't offer 100 I had no idea how much pros cost! sion not to proceed to avoid hurting percent protection from creeps, "but He has been spending hundreds of his feelings. He wouldn't take no for it's a great way to get feedback, rec- dollars each month on his kinks! He an answer. I tried blocking him, but ommendations, and ever-important has been going to see a pro twice a he seemed to have several identi- warnings. Essentially, dating in the month and spends $200+ on each ties on the same site. I deactivated kink world is no different than dat- visit! I was shocked! I expected that my account. So now I'm in a bit of ing in the default world. You don't he would go a few times a year and a quandary as to where to seek out have to drop your drawers because that these "sessions" would cost other options—preferably options you're told to. You don't have to $100 a pop. We are supposed to be that are safer and not so ritualisti- spank someone because they're in- saving to buy a home! He spent more cally restrictive. sisting they NEED it. Always meet going to his pro in December than Fear Of Flying on an equal footing first. Get to he did on Christmas! I asked him to know potential partners and THEN cut back and go see someone cheap"When folks first decide to explore decide if you've got enough in com- er, and he became angry and defena curiosity in kink or BDSM, one of mon to proceed." sive. He accused me of going back the things I let them know is that Two suggestions from me: get a on our agreement. I know he reads this loose band of variegated kinky copy of Playing Well with Others: your column. Please help! What is types—the kink community—is Your Field Guide to Discovering, a reasonable number of times to see NOT a utopia of ultimate sexual Exploring and Navigating the Kink, a pro? What is a reasonable rate? enlightenment," said Mollena Wil- Leather and BDSM Communities What about a couple's budget and liams, a kinky author, activist and by Mollena Williams and Lee Har- plans for the future? blogger. "The kink community is a rington, and follow Mollena Wil- He Spent More Than I Thought microcosm of the broader society, liams on Twitter @Mollena. from the lowest common denomiTwo hundred dollars a sesnator to the crème de la crème." sion—$200 an hour—isn't an unThe buzz tone Sadly, FOF, it sounds like one of I'm a 30-year-old bi girl and have reasonable rate when you consider your first interactions was with a been with my girlfriend for nearly a professional dom's overheard and LowCom, not a CrèmeDe. "I wish I 10 years. We discovered a love of fixed costs. Corsets, floggers, bondcould say her experience is unique," BDSM together and we've had lots age gear and dungeon spaces do not said Williams. "But it is not. The of fun exploring. Until now. I am a come cheap. But unless money is no same creeps, jerks and assholes on natural sub, but my girlfriend asked object and/or you're single, blowing standard dating sites are on BDSM- to switch and for me to dominate $400+ a month on visits to a pro centric sites. And some will utilize her. I have tried to do this half a dom is unreasonable and unfair. the trappings of consensual kink to dozen times, but afterward—or That's $4800+ a year, which could nonconsensually slime people." sometimes during a scene—she tells go a long way toward a down payWhat Williams means by "slime," me it isn't working. She says that ment on a house. Since there aren't FOF, is "manipulate, intimidate and it's not about my actions but about many pro doms out there who work potentially abuse." Creepy assholes my "tone." Hearing this kills my la- for $100 an hour—or many partlike His Majesty King Something dyboner, and the scene fizzles and ners as understanding as you—your will seek out younger and/or less dies. It's gotten to the point where husband should think about cutting experienced subs like you, because I'm wondering if I should bother way the fuck back, getting a secolder and/or more experienced subs anymore if I can never get my "tone" ond job or winning the lottery. But are more likely to recognize his be- right. I want to please her, and that here's something for you to think havior for the red-flag sliminess it usually keeps me trying over and about, HSMTIT: you say all those is—and older and/or more experi- over, but ... I don't know. I feel guilty sessions with a professional domienced subs would tell him to fuck and depressed because I can't seem nant have improved your relationoff without feeling obligated to to return the pleasure she gave me ship and your sex life. If your husspare his feelings. when our roles were reversed. band were spending $100 a week to So what can you do? "Block the Giving Up On BDSM see a shrink—$5200 a year—and trolls," said Williams, "and seek out you were seeing those kinds of rethe awesome folks who are also Either your technique and style sults, would you object? V hanging out at sites like FetLife. are both lousy—maybe every fiber com, ALT.com, iTaboo.com and of your being is (subconsciously) Sports talk with Dan's brother Billy BDSMfriendbook.com.

A kink- screaming "I hate this role" during a at savagelovecast.com. friendly profile on a non-kink site scene—or your girlfriend is one of is another option. I met my current those BDSM switches who has a dif- @fakedansavage on Twitter dominant partner on OkCupid be- ficult time submitting to someone

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JONESIN' CROSSWORD

MATT JONES JONESINCROSSWORDS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

“Large and in Charge” --craaaaazy freestyle time.

Across 1 Like Twiggy’s fashion 4 Mild lettuce 8 Old French Communist Party of Canada inits. (hidden in EPCOT) 11 HBO character Gold 12 Old soap, sometimes 15 Give it the gas 16 Unwilling to move 17 Unit of electrical charge 19 Tom’s wife 20 Tibetan Buddhist practice 23 Checks a box 24 Howitzer of WWI 26 “___ the Beat” (Blondie album) 27 A, in some games 28 Substance that may darken your pasta 30 Series end at Downton Abbey?

31 As of riiiiiiight.....now 32 Z3 or X5 maker 35 Mission of “Pee-wee’s Big Adventure”?

36 Anatomical eggs 37 NASA astronaut Leroy ___ 40 Minor Arcana card 42 Opening opening?

43 DMV requirement 44 “C’est magnifique!”

46 Vitamin-B complex nutrients 49 Indivisible division figure 52 Sine ___ non 53 Wish for the trip back 54 Thurman of “The Producers” 55 All the same 56 Cautious (of) 57 Go down

7 Baseball’s Powell 8 Washing machine cycle 9 Television host Dick 10 Brunch staple 12 “All Quiet on the Western Front” author 13 Scared beyond belief 14 “Am not!” comeback 16 Kid with no commute 18 “Chocolate” dog 21 Temple of films 22 Posted to your blog, say 24 “Moulin Rouge!” director Luhrmann 25 Drink machine freebie 29 Active 32 Little shop 33 AL award won by 7-Down in 1970 34 Never-___ (not even a has-been) 35 Anti-heartburn brand 37 Horse sounds 38 Bit of cheer 39 As we go about our days 41 Palindromic trig function 45 Not tons 47 Unable to sense 48 Car that sounds like it’s crying 50 Week-___-glance calendar 51 Mangy mongrel ©2014 Jonesin' Crosswords

Down 1 Chagall or Jacobs 2 Milkshake flavor 3 Gave out, as a secret 4 Sedative, often 5 Ox tail?

6 Canadian singer/songwriter ___ Naked

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