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Proudly Canadian?

Pride's a funny thing. While it's a reasonable emotion to feel when we've personally accomplished something, pride manifests itself in other ways far less explicable. Like national pride. "I'm proud to be Canadian" is a phrase we've all heard and many of us have said. But what exactly do we have to be proud of, especially those of us who were born here? While it might be reasonable for you to puff out your chest a bit for putting together that IKEA wardrobe without having any pieces left over, it is certainly less so to claim any credit for the fact that you happened to be born here in this place instead of over there in that one. But reasonable or not, national pride is a thing and it's about to rain down upon us big time.

It bothers me to see governments spending this kind of money and then pleading poverty a few years later as they close Veterans Affairs offices.

Except for a number of instances of armed conflict, at no time is national pride more palpable than during the Olympics, when perennial rivalries are put aside and the entire country comes together to fret about medal counts. Calgary vs Edmonton? Who cares. Leafs vs Habs? Forget about it. Will Quebec have another referendum? Doesn't matter right now. We're Team Canada and we're all in this together—at least for the next 16 days.

Sure, the Olympics have become ridiculously expensive and commercialized.

Those of us of a certain age can remember Montréal mayor Jean Drapeau boldly predicting the 1976 Olympics could "no more lose money than a man can have a baby." Never mind that the Games left Montréal with a $1.5-billion debt that took 30 years to pay off, but the price tag was nothing compared to the 2010 Olympics held in Vancouver, which cost more than $7 billion.

So, yes, it bothers me to see governments spending this kind of money and then pleading poverty a few years later as they close Veterans Affairs offices and tell grandmothers they'll have to keep working until they're 67 before they can collect their pensions. With the cost of the Sochi Games estimated as high as $50 billion, the burden the citizens of Russia are going to bear for generations is unimaginable.

But that doesn't mean I'm not going to watch the Games, because if sitting up just a little more proudly on the couch when the Canadian anthem is played and our young people climb the podium is misplaced, then I'm as guilty as the next guy. And so I'll be one of the millions of Canadians who will spend a great deal of time over the next couple of weeks basking vicariously in the achievements of our athletes. And trying to forget how much it all cost. V

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NEWS // MAYOR

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t was late in the evening on October 22, 2013 when Don Iveson rose to the podium inside a small ballroom at the modern-chic Matrix Hotel in downtown Edmonton. Moments before, his two main opponents running for mayor, Kerry Diotte and Karen Leibovici, had given their concession speeches. Now it was time for Iveson to give his acceptance speech. He had just officially become Edmonton’s mayor-elect.

“I am humbled and I am thrilled to be your next mayor,” Iveson said, to the cheers of hundreds of people in attendance and those watching on television. “It’s time to stop underestimating Edmonton, and it starts here tonight. ... Let’s work together to build the city that we always wanted. Let’s build it!”

With those words he raised his first mayoral fist, smiled his first mayoral smile, and then made a beeline straight to bed.

“I was exhausted,” Iveson says. “Running for mayor is one of the most gruelling things that I’ve ever done.

“There were two hours between when I was the candidate and when I essentially had to start acting like the mayor. Those were the two hours of sleep that I got on election night.”

For Edmonton blogger Mack Male—who worked on Iveson’s campaign—the acceptance speech lived up to his expectations. It was, in his opinion, a manifestation of Iveson’s vision for Edmonton, that he has worked diligently to set into motion during his first 100 days in office. But it was the final three words of Iveson’s speech that had the most impact on the collective consciousness of the City of Champions.

“A lot of people in Edmonton have used the term ‘Let’s build it’ since then,” Male says, who witnessed Iveson’s victory speech in person. “With that phrase he sort of laid out that we’re not going to stop the progress that we’ve made over the past nine years under Mayor Mandel, but we’re going to be smarter about it, we’re going to do it a little better than we’ve done in the past.”

Time flies On February 6, 2013, Iveson will have officially spent 100 days in Edmonton’s mayoral office.

For many politicians—particularly for American presidents—this period represents the apogee of a political career. Granted, because of the inherent differences between Canadian municipal politics and American federal politics, the first 100 days for Iveson has held less importance than for, say, Franklin Roosevelt. Nevertheless, for those of us interested in gauging the political climate in Edmonton over the next several years, it’s important to take stock of how Iveson has

fared in his first 100 days at the helm of city hall.

Seven days until officially mayor Election night. The climactic moment when hope is at an all-time high, critics at an all-time low. But Iveson wanted to build on the momentum.

One hundred and 20 minutes of sleep later, he woke up and made his way to 1 Churchill Square—city hall. He was still seven days away from being officially sworn in as mayor, but it was time to get to work. Things needed to be built.

Since Iveson had previously spent two terms as a city councillor, today was just like any other— except for two things. The first difference was that instead of taking the west staircase to the offices of the councillors, he took the east staircase up to the office of the mayor.

The second difference became apparent when he made it to the top of those stairs.

“The first half of the day was a whirlwind of media,” Iveson says. “One of the really positive things was that Edmonton media outlets of all stripes wanted to talk to me about the day after the election. But there was considerable interest from the national media as well, which is really positive for Edmonton to be able to put an unexpected story out there about Edmonton, and change perceptions about the city.”

After a few hours the media left to edit and file their stories and the mayor was left, for the first time, to reflect on the campaign and begin to devise a plan for the road ahead.

“And that’s the first and only time that the desk will ever be un-cluttered with papers and stuff to read,” Iveson says. “I had this great sense of possibility, but also this realization that I would have a lot to learn, and there would be a lot coming at me over the next few days. The city manager came to me that afternoon, brought me a bunch of good news, a little bit of bad news, and we’re off.”

Day 1: Off on the right foot “I will diligently, faithfully and to the best of my ability, execute according to law, the office of chief elected official—mayor—of the City of Edmonton,” a beaming Iveson declared on October 29, 2013. With that oath Iveson officially became the 35th mayor of Edmonton.

There were, however, two notable words he omitted from the festivities: Capital Region. Instead, those two words were synthesized into a single one: Edmonton. According to Edmonton Journal columnist Paula Simons, Iveson used the city’s proper name as a way to galvanize civic pride. It was classic city building.

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“By saying that we live in Edmonton and this is the Edmonton region, that really set a tone for going forward,” Simons says. “It was always capital this, capital that. The phrase is meaningless and it erases Edmonton from the face of the province.

“I think it’s really important if we’re going to market ourselves nationally and internationally.

We can’t market ourselves as the capital region; we need to be Edmonton.”

Day 31: The perfect storm Snowfall in late October is not unusual in a self-described winter city. What was unusual about this winter was that the snow kept falling and piling up. By November 29, nearly 45 centimetres of snow had accumulated in Edmonton—half the city’s average annual snowfall—in one month.

Whether it was because of his next-to-perfect campaign, or because of his youth, both Male and Simons agree that Iveson was cursed with a kind of wunderkind syndrome the moment that he was elected to the mayor’s office.

A galvanized electorate expected perfection.

Nothing could possibly go wrong under Iveson’s leadership. And all that snow building up on the city’s roads wasn’t perfect.

“I’m a self-diagnosed recovering perfectionist.

[But] the problem with perfection in anything is that it seldom exists in our lives and in our civilization,” Iveson says, reflecting on the troubles he faced in light of the criticism he received from many Edmontonians as the snow continued to build, making the task of clearing that snow from the roads increasingly complex and challenging for city workers.

“For some people, it just seems like unless there’s a city worker catching every snowflake before it hits the ground, they’re not going to be happy. ... Those people were really up in my grill that week,” he adds.

To expect perfection from a new mayor, or any politician for that matter, is unreasonable. Iveson never gave into unrealistic expectations. He blogged and tweeted, made radio and television appearances, imploring Edmontonians to be patient. Not every snowflake is going to be cleared from the roads by sunrise.

Now that the snow has settled, Iveson’s response to the snow surplus is considered by many to be his first major success in office. He showed a calm pragmatism under stress.

“The first crisis in quotation marks was in reaction to people’s reaction to the snow,” Simons says. “And I think that he dealt with that as well as a person could deal with it by being honest about it and communicating with the citizens.

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Mayor Don Iveson's first three months in office

He managed public outrage, and that’s not an unimportant thing.”

Day 77: Building a foundation Iveson hasn’t completed any legacy projects in his first 100 days as mayor. The LRT hasn’t magically made its way to the city’s west end. Nor has anybody witnessed the sudden rise of infills on the land previously occupied by the City Centre Airport. There’s been very little progress to find affordable housing for Edmontonians living in poverty.

What Iveson has accomplished, however, is to yield his charisma to reshape the tone inside city hall. And while this may seem a little more intangible, it’s no small feat for a young leader.

“Culture change is a very subtle thing, but I think it’s happening,” Iveson says. “I’ve worked very hard to establish collegiality with the city staff. We’ve got 10 000 people that come into work to serve the citizens of Edmonton. And I really value their work, and I want them to feel empowered to bring us innovative ideas, tough decisions, and for council to be an honest broker there.”

He has a magnetic personality and isn’t afraid to admit that he’s used his charisma to build the foundation for success as Edmonton’s mayor.

Male explains that Iveson’s charisma goes much further than merely positioning the city for future success. It’s that charisma that’s allowed him to consolidate power in city council.

“The mayor is just one vote out of 13. If council isn’t able to work together, you’re not going to get anything done,” Male says. “Having a council working well together is a positive thing. It’s not super apparent or super visible, but it’s an important foundation piece for the next four years in order to be successful. Not to say that things can’t go off the rails, but he’s started off on the right foot.”

Day 82: Edmonton vs the province of Alberta Edmonton has a very peculiar regional governance structure, with funding for many of its capital projects coming from regional municipalities like St Albert and Sherwood Park, not to mention the province of Alberta.

Now more than ever, with projects like the expansion of the LRT and other infrastructure improvements on the horizon, Simons explains that Iveson will need to be able to use his charisma to effectively politick with the regional mayors and the provincial government to see these projects through.

“It’s very cumbersome,” Simons says, with a hint of optimism that Iveson is the right person for the job. “Mandel, bless his buttons, diplomacy wasn’t always his longest suit. It’s prob-

ably good for the sake of those relationships to have somebody new, but [Iveson] started off sending a very strong signal about the role of Edmonton and Edmonton’s autonomy in the region. For all of his times in office, that’s going to be a persistent issue.”

It’s clear that manoeuvring through the complex jungle of regional politics has already presented itself as a challenge. While there haven’t been any public outbursts between Iveson and the other leaders of governments crammed into the capital region, discord has reared its head.

When Edmonton Chamber of Commerce’s president and CEO James Cumming pushed for amalgamation in the region, Iveson was suddenly caught off guard, and alluded to his frustration trying to find a balance between the interests of Edmonton and maintaining strong relations with the surrounding municipalities.

“There have been a couple of times when there was a problem to solve, say a miscommunication with another government, that felt really complicated” Iveson says. “If I have to solve it all on my own it’s pretty daunting, but if I can tap into the smart people who lead this city, we’ve been able to come up with strategies, solve the problems and move ahead.

“I feel like we can take on anything.”

I had this great sense of possibility, but also this realization that I would have a lot to learn, and there would be a lot coming at me over the next few days.

Day 100: Taking on everything, together Iveson’s first term in office will end on October 21, 2017. That’s a lot of time to mould Edmonton into the great city that he described in his victory speech. For Male, the most pressing challenge for Iveson over the next few years will be trying to find a way to expand the LRT. “It’s really important for the city; it’s really important for Don. He’s been pushing for it for a long time. He wants to move that forward and he needs to figure out a way to do it,” Male says. “I think he would be very disappointed if in a few years from now his term is wrapping up and we’re no further along with how the LRT is going to roll out.”

Simons sees many more hurdles standing in front of the newly minted mayor. Iveson needs to figure out a way to manage the expectations of voters without substantively raising taxes.

He has to keep the downtown arena on budget and on time. He has to find a way to keep the

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streets clear of snow. And, not least of all, he has to figure out a way to keep our city safe from flooding.

“Drainage is not sexy, and it’s something that Iveson has spent a lot of time thinking about,” Simons says. “But he knows as well as anyone, that we need a major investment in our sewage and drainage system. Everybody can get excited about choo-choo trains, nobody even wants to think about the sewage system.”

Now, everything falls on the desk of the mayor. Despite the ups and downs of the first 100 days in office, the always optimistic Iveson remains just that: optimistic that he can build Edmonton into the city that he’s always dreamt it to be. But not without the help of the rest of us.

“Yes. I feel challenged by expectations, some-

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times. The general rule of thumb is under-promise and over-deliver. And the good news is that Edmontonians are really excited for the future for the first time in a long time,” Iveson says. “I turn back around and say Edmontonians need to sustain that optimism themselves. And they need to do it by contributing to community, and by being entrepreneurial, by being community minded, by being good citizens. That’s what makes it happen. I’m not the city builder. There are 840 000 city builders out there. I’m a coordinator, I’m a champion, I can lead, but I only hope that Edmontonians feel energized and go out and actually do the work, too. If we all stay energized, we can meet those expectations.”

MATT HIRJI

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RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Not so sunny

Whose interests does the "sunshine list" really serve?

What on earth is the point of this?

What does it accomplish? Whose interest does it serve? These are questions that should be asked of any new piece of legislation or public policy, but they seem especially pertinent in the wake of the Alberta government's release late last Friday of their employee "sunshine list."

In case you missed it, the sunshine list makes public the salaries, benefits and severance of all government employees earning more than $100 000 per year. The searchable list, which resides on the Government of Alberta website, includes the employees' names as well as their positions and compensation details for the years 2012 and 2013.

On the surface the public disclosure appears to make sense. These are senior public servants who are being paid by our tax dollars to oversee the delivery of our public services and infrastructure. We should not only know how much they make, but what exactly they are doing to earn that money and how well they are doing it.

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It enables us to see, as local blog- they played a significant part in draft- rose up through the ranks of the pubger David Climenhaga points out, ing this new policy with and for the lic service and took their frontline exthat the deputy minister of Service Alberta government. The publication perience with them to their positions Alberta is being paid $406 379 in of this information gives them am- in the bureaucracy. A person could base salary and benefits (an increase munition they can use to all but elimi- certainly make the case that it made of 49 percent over 2012) to spear- nate the jobs, salaries, benefits and for a much better managed public head the government's efforts to pensions of Alberta's frontline public service, at far lower prices.

Enter the extremist right and their freeze the salaries and gut the pen- servants. The CTF is all about calling sions of those public service clerks out any government expense as too ideological mantra that government should be run like a making just corporation rather than over $30 But is being able to point out that hypocrisy enough a public-interest enter000 a year. to warrant the publication of what is, by all accounts, prise. The inevitable But is beresult of that push has ing able to very personal information? been a government point out structure that exactly that hypocresembles that of corrisy enough to warrant the publication of what high, and the publication of these porations, with grotesquely overpaid is, by all accounts, very personal in- extreme senior salaries will enable CEOs and VPs working hard to eliminate frontline jobs and squash the formation? Wouldn't we be able to them to continue on that war path.

The great irony here is that it is pre- salaries and labour rights of those gain the same level of understanding and analysis by posting aggre- cisely because of the extremist right- employees that are left. At the same gate salary and benefit information wing attitude espoused by groups time, it has become nearly impossible like the CTF that the salaries of se- for public servants to rise through without people's names? nior government bureaucrats have the ranks to management positions.

The idea of a sunshine list for Al- grown to the obscene levels they are Instead, the focus has been on bringberta has been pushed for a long time at today. Forty years ago, the sala- ing in professional bureaucrats with by the anti-tax and anti-public service ries of public sector managers were MBAs and no frontline experience to folks at the Canadian Taxpayers' Fed- only moderately higher than those of run the show.

Ultimately, the main interests being eration, and all indications are that frontline public servants. Managers

served by this warped understanding of accountability and transparency are those of the people and corporations working for the elimination of taxes and the full privatization of government. If you want real transparency and accountability, the better place to start would be with the publication of the currently secret contracts between government and the private for-profit businesses who are delivering services like registries, highway maintenance, long-term care, lab services, infrastructure maintenance and so many others: services worth billions of dollars that we depend on daily and for which we are paying through our taxes.

This is the type of sunshine list Albertans should be demanding.

Anything else does absolutely nothing for the public good and only reinforces the ongoing attack on our public services. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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Mea culpa

Geoengineering climate study might have been off in its conclusion Confession is good for the soul and my soul is certainly in need of improvement, so here is a confession. I got it wrong in my article "Geoengineering in trouble," sent out on January 15. I couldn't be happier about that.

The article said that a new scientific study, carried out by Angus Ferraro, Ellie Highwood and Andrew Charlton-Perez of Reading University, showed that the most widely discussed geoengineering method for holding the global temperature down would have disastrous consequences for agriculture. The method is injecting sulphur dioxide into the stratosphere; the (unintended) result would be devastating drought in the tropics.

The idea of using sulphate aerosols in the stratosphere to reflect back some incoming sunlight, thus lowering surface temperatures on Earth, has been the leading contender for a geoengineering solution to runaway heating since the whole subject came out of the closet eight years ago. And then along come "Ferraro et al" (as the scientists put it) to tell us that the side effects will be disastrous.

So I ended the article by saying:

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"The sulphur dioxide technique was the cheapest and seemingly the best understood option for holding the temperature down. A great many people were glad that it was there, as a kind of safety net if we really don't get our act together in time to halt the warming by less intrusive means. Now there's no safety net."

Almost immediately I got an email from Andy Parker, now a research fellow in the Kennedy School at Harvard University and previously a climate change policy advisor for the Royal Society in the United Kingdom. You've been suckered by the publicity flacks at Reading University, he said (though in kinder words).

They have spun the research findings for maximum shock value. In other words, read the damn thing before you write about it.

Well, actually, I did read it (it's available online), but the conclusions are couched in the usual science-speak, with a resolute avoidance of anything that might look like interpretation for the general public. I didn't look long enough at the key graph that undercuts the dire conclusions of the publicists, presumably because I had

already been conditioned by them to see something else there.

Drastic consequences would indeed ensue if you tried to geoengineer a 4 C warmer world all the way back down to the pre-industrial average global temperature by putting sulphate aerosols in the stratosphere. But nobody in their right mind would try to do that.

In contrast, if you were using sulphates to hold the temperature down to 1.8 C, in a world where the carbon dioxide content of the atmosphere would otherwise give you 4 C, then the effect on tropical rainfall would be small. And that is a far likelier scenario, because we are most unlikely to resort to large-scale geoengineering until we are right at the threshold (around 2 C) of runaway warming.

So the correct conclusion to draw from Ferrero et al is that geoengineering with sulphates is still one of the more promising techniques for holding the temperature down, and should be investigated further. As Parker put it, "this does not tell us that we should do geoengineering, but it does mean that the paper is a long way from being the nail in the coffin that the press release implies."

And then I got another email, this time from my old friend Amory Lovins, co-founder and chief scientist at the Rocky Mountain Institute, who took me to task for assuming that human greenhouse-gas emissions "probably will not drop" fast enough to prevent us from going into runaway warning (unless we geoengineer) later this century.

Not true, he said. "Since the Kyoto conference in 1997, most efforts to hedge climate risks have made four main errors: assuming solutions will be costly rather than (at least mainly) profitable; insisting they be motivated by concerns about climate rather than about security, profit or economic development; assuming they require a global treaty; and assuming businesses can do little or nothing before carbon is priced.

"As these errors are gradually realized, climate protection is changing course. It will be led more by countries and companies than by international treaties and organizations, more by the private sector and civil society than by governments, more by leading developing economies than by

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mature developed ones, and more by efficiency and clean energy's economic fundamentals than by possible future carbon pricing," he said.

He pointed out how strongly China is committed to clean energy. Last year renewables, (including hydro) accounted for 43 percent of new generating capacity in China, as the extra coal plants ordered long ago taper sharply down. India is showing signs of moving in the same direction, and there's even hope that Japan may decide to replace all the nuclear capacity it is shutting down with renewables rather than coal.

So I shouldn't be so pessimistic, they were both telling me. I believe Parker is right, and I hope Lovins is right, too. But just in case Lovins is a bit off in the timing of all these turn-arounds on greenhouse gas emissions in Asia, I would still like to see a lot of research, including small-scale experiments in the open atmosphere, on the various techniques for geoengineering. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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FEATURE // ORGANIC

A closer look at organic produce reveals a complicated process

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esticides are on almost half of organic produce—or so declared a CBC headline in January.

Reading further, the story clarified that in actuality, only 1.8 percent of organic produce violated the maximum limit permitted under the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA)'s legislation. More than 70 percent of nonorganic produce, in comparison, showed pesticide residues, with 4.7 percent violating the maximum limit.

Understandably, the news didn't sit well with consumers, discontent that was compounded when the CBC ran another story revealing that the CFIA was

remiss in reporting that the testing results had been sent to the organic certification bodies for follow-up and investigation; this hadn't actually happened. The news has raised many questions about organic food in Canada, a complex issue in which finding information can be a confusing and frustrating process.

"Organic is much more than the absence of toxic and synthetic pesticides," says Becky Lipton of Organic Alber-

ta, a not-for-profit association that represents and promotes organics in the province through communication, marketing and education at all levels, from producers and processers to consumers. "Organic is about the use of humane standards for animals, increasing biodiversity on farms and fostering resilient and adaptable plants and soils. Consumers who choose organics know they are purchasing products that do not use GMOs, artificial colours, additives or flavours."

The demand for organic products has grown rapidly, even during the recent recession. Approximately 360 farms in Alberta and 3700 farms nationwide are currently certified organic (just less than two percent of Canada's total farm operations). While many of them have been following organic practices for decades, Canada's organic legislation was only formally introduced in 2009. Canada has had a pesticide residue testing program for many years, but only since 2011 have the results been specifically aimed at

weeding out the products that violate Canada's organic standard.

"The organic industry is extremely regulated and, because of that, has a lot of integrity," Lipton says. For a product to be labelled as organic, the farm or food processor must obtain certification by a certifying body, a third party responsible for ensuring that the producer upholds all aspects required under the law. This includes being free of synthetic chemicals for at least three years prior to obtaining certification, as well as undergoing an annual inspection to ensure all standards are continually being met. Imported products must also meet these standards, either through an equivalency agreement (such as Canada has with the United States' USDA organic legislation) or by meeting the Canadian standard. Certification costs roughly $500 to $2000 per year, depending on the size and type of the operation.

"Organics is about a direct connection to the food—traceability right down to the grower, to the field, to the animal," says Byron Hamm, Assistant Manager of Pro-Cert Organic Systems Ltd, a certifying body based in Saskatoon that certifies more than 100 operators in Alberta and about 1600 others throughout North America. "The conventional side doesn't have this capability and I don't think they ever will—it has been built for mass consumption and a loss of identity. But if you're buying organic beef, we can find out who the slaughterhouse was, where those animals were finished; we can figure out what specific animal it

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"Those testing results just show that even with following all of the regulations, there are still places within this world where pesticides exist and they get on the food," Lipton says. Pesticides can get onto organic products anywhere throughout the trip from field to fork: spray drift from adjacent non-organic fields, or in transportation and at grocery stores; even sharing airspace (such as in a warehouse) can cause some level of contamination.

The Canada Organic logo is the only true guarantee of a product's organic status; things get a little murkier with local products, such as produce from farmer's markets.

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The pesticide problem French winemakers face tough legislation Imagine you're a winemaker who grows organic grapes, and your government has just decreed that unless you spray pesticides on your vineyard, you will go to jail.

Though it seems difficult to imagine, this exact situation is playing out in France right now—a wine producer in the Burgundy region has been ordered to spray Pyrevert, a pyrethrin pesticide that kills leaf hoppers. He refused, and is therefore facing six months in jail and a fine of 30 000 euros.

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This situation is decidedly foreign to Canadian grape growers: our young wine industry and significantly different policies on pesticide use, not to mention a lack of many vineyard diseases, spells a very different environment for organic wineries here. "We're not nearly as draconian and we don't have those extra thousand years of laws on the books," says Eric von Krosigk, winemaker of Summerhill Pyramid Winery. Summerhill is certified organic through the Pacific Agricultural Certification Society (PACS); like food, wine must also be certified organic through a third-party certifying body. Summerhill was one of the first wineries in Canada to obtain organic certification: the vineyard stopped spraying pesticides in the late '80s and became certified in the early '90s, while the cellar was certified organic in 2007. (For a wine to be certified organic it must not only use organic grapes, but all its processes and additions to the wine— yeast, for example—must also be completely organic.)

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goes on to explain that Summerhill has found its organic grapes able to withstand pests and diseases much better than conventional ones.

"It's kind of like fast food for grapes, if you give them chemical fertilizer," he says. "The salts end up annihilating all the microbes in the soil, but the grapes get hooked on the sugar.

When you get them in balance, either organically or biodynamically, they don't produce as much fruit— they don't need to—but they are a lot stronger; they need a lot less sprays because they are just a lot healthier and they can take care of themselves in a lot of cases."

Pesticide use is a slippery slope and this particular instance in France highlights just how difficult it will be for the country to meet its commitment to the 2007 Grenelle law on the environment, in which it vowed to reduce its pesticide use 50 percent by 2018. While France's share of organically produced wine rose from 2.6 percent in 2007 to 8.2 percent in 2012, France is still the biggest sprayer of pesticides in Europe and the third biggest in the world (behind the United States and Japan); a study in February 2013 also found pesticide residues in 90 percent of the French wines that were tested, including those labelled as organic.

Many aspects of France's wine industry are enviable, but they are also simultaneously faced with significant, large-scale problems— rampant pesticide use being only one of them. Canada may not produce wines at the same level as France's highest tier (yet), but we are also unencumbered by the weight of history and heavy-handed legislation; hopefully more wine (and food) producers will heed the warning of France's current situation and follow Summerhill's example of curtailing their use of chemical sprays—lest our vineyards and winemakers end up facing the same problems. V

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body who is growing organic carrots in Alberta, and they only sell them at the local farmer's market or through local Albertan retailers; in that case, they are subject to the laws of Alberta only." The kicker is that Alberta doesn't have any formal organic legislation—only Quebec and Manitoba do. Ultimately this means that unless the producer can show you the Canada Organic logo, you must take it on faith that they are actually organic.

Grocery stores are also rife with products that have been "greenwashed" to seem organic and/or eco-friendly: conventional food corporations have realized the potential extra revenue from tapping into the consumer demand for organic products. Watch for words like "natural," "clean," "free-range," "eco-friendly" and even the use of the colour green on labels and packaging—all of these are completely meaningless.

Though the CFIA was remiss in reporting that the follow-ups had already been done when they spoke with the CBC, this was an error in timing. Government never works quickly, and they got ahead of themselves.

"They are developing a protocol for which we have to respond, and it's being ironed out right now— that's why this delay has happened," Hamm says. He goes on to state that

he hasn't yet been contacted about any of his growers' products violating pesticide limits, and is confident that he won't be, because he believes very strongly in the integrity of the growers they certify.

"The system is developing; it's getting to this point a lot faster than some of our trading partners did in their evolution, so we're happy about that," Hamm says. "Our reaction has been the system works—it should show the consumer that yes, by and far, organic products are trustworthy, and as an industry we have the ability to track them down and deal with them."

Ultimately, organic produce is more important now than ever, if we ever want to live in a world where pesticides, even in trace amounts, aren't ubiquitous. The government still has significant work ahead of itself in terms of communicating more efficiently with all parties to ensure that organic standards are upheld, and any violations are immediately addressed. Consumers must also take the initiative to educate themselves about the food they eat so as to make more informed decisions in the grocery store—and to always look beyond alarmist headlines before making any judgments.

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t may sound hokey, but history has proven that a musical revue of Craigslist ads—complete with live music and choreographed dance numbers—has staying power.

“It started out as a lark; part of an evening of 20-minute musicals, with ideas too ridiculous to be sustained for a whole show,” Amiel Gladstone, director of A Craigslist Cantata, says. The overwhelming response to the first incarnation of Bill Richardson and Veda Hille’s show (at Vancouver’s 2009 PuSh Festival) prompted the development of an expanded version that has since

enjoyed successful runs in Toronto and looking for connection. Even if it’s a Calgary, and now arrives in Edmonton commerce ad or an employment ad, via the Citadel Theatre. it’s still about reaching out to another “In the beginning it was this hodge- human and hoping that someone’s podge of ads that we were just struck going to respond.” by, for whatever reason—whether Until Sun, Feb 23 (8 pm) Craigslist, that they were very Directed by Amiel Gladstone infamous online den of interperfunny or whether Citadel Theatre, $35 – $63 sonal ads ranging they were sad or from the banal very bizarre,” Gladstone explains. “As we were develop- (selling your old couch) to the biing it, we started to look for themes zarre (soliciting a partner for videoand recurring characters. We realized game-themed sex), was the first site this is really about a group of people of its kind, created in 1995 by Craig

Newmark. The first Craigslist page was for Newmark’s hometown of San Francisco, though its huge success prompted dozens of pages for other cities across the United States and later the world. Vancouver, hometown of Cantata, was the first Canadian Craigslist page.

Albertans may not be as familiar with Craigslist as they are with another classified ad site, as Gladstone discovered in a pre-show audience chat for Cantata’s just-completed Calgary run.

“It felt like everybody knew what we

were talking about in Vancouver, and then [in Alberta] it was Kijiji,” he says.

Gladstone goes on to point out that Kijiji’s origins, unlike Craigslist, are corporate—the site was created by eBay to compete with Craigslist.

“We feel comfort being aligned with Craigslist,” Gladstone says. “Because [Newmark]’s never sold, he’s kept it small, he’s kept it esthetically the way it is. It feels like he’s a bit of a character—he’s trying to do things his way.

It feels like the spirit of the show is kind of like that, too.”

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Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh

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arie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh is an indulgence into an indulgent time: a peek under the skirts of two powerful historical women (and one imaginary man) in 18th century France.

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Joel Gross's sharp-tongued script also delves Until Sun, Feb 16 (7:30 pm) into the hisDirected by John Hudson torical figVarscona Theatre, $11 – $22 ure of Antoinette's portraitist Élisabeth Vigée le Brun: Alana Hawley deftly plays her as both impassioned artist and wily social climber. As the story progresses, we watch le Brun rise out of the impoverished masses into the circles of the nouveau riche, where she atre's production is Antoinette, of is entirely unsympathetic to the course: Nicola Elbro delivers a queen plight of the class she left behind, of France that's much more sympa- instead content to enjoy the spoils thetic and well-rounded than usual of her privileged position at Andepictions. Here, she is a bright yet toinette's right hand (or rather, in naïve child bride, whose intelligence front of and sketching that hand). is wholly wasted in a marriage to a

And then there's Count Alexis de Ligne (Frank Zotter), a fictitious character dreamed up to be the apex of the love triangle. The Count is a thoroughly ridiculous character, both historically and dramatically: he waffles between ardent professions of love and careless dismissals of same; he claims to be a monarchist and yet harangues his fellow nobles with socialist ideals. History buffs will undoubtedly take issue with this character, unsubstantiated as he is by historical fact. (Then again, the buffs tend to find issues with any historical recounting, don't they?) But while the Count is as perplexing to his lovers as he is to the audience, Zotter's performance makes this character too darn likeable—even when he's being rather unlikeable—that one wants to

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looks past the contradictions.

A contemporary flair imbues much of the dialogue, something that comes off surprisingly well: temporally and culturally accurate colloquialisms just wouldn't have the same impact as modern ones. Brian Bast's costumes are also period-specific with a twist: washed-out and fleshtoned rather than richly-coloured and embroidered, they are perfect symbols of le Brun's portraits; each character becomes a blank canvas on which their inner minds and desires are inscribed by the crackling dialogue. Reality checks and incongruities aside, this snappily-paced production is a witty sidebar to conventional recounting of that formative time in France's past.

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hat happens in Vegas stays in "In the play, the men of Navarre Vegas—it's a cliché, sure, but have decided to devote themselves it also sums up perfectly the mental- to study and a very monastic lifeity of the vacation caper, of which style—basically working on their Shakespeare's mental and spiriLove's Labour's tual selves," Sutley explains. "And Lost may be the Until Sat, Feb 15 (7:30 pm; 12:30 first in the genre. pm matinee on Thu, Feb 13) then the girls "When you're at Directed by Kevin Sutley show up. There's a physical aspect of home you have Timms Centre for the Arts, $11 certain responsi- – $22 ourselves that we need to acknowlbilities and rules that you live by, edge as well—I and when you're away, we give our- think Shakespeare's making more of selves the freedom to forget about a comment on that, the idea of fastthat," says Kevin Sutley, guest direc- ing and abstinence and those kind of tor of Studio Theatre's production of things; they're not really what we're this earlier comedy of the Bard. built for."

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"One of the really interesting things that I discovered with this play is the amount of rhyming," Sutley says.

"Shakespeare uses so many rhyming couplets that at first I was quite afraid; I wasn't sure how to deal with it because there are chunks where it sounds like Dr Seuss—it kind of becomes Green Eggs and Ham in some places."

"But it works!" he continues. "It's fun and it keeps the language go-

ing and it's a large part of the wit of the play. There's some places where he even points it out, where some of the characters' lines aren't about sense or meaning, they're just about rhymes. It's true in all of his plays that with the poetry and heightened language, there's also the base and vulgar world below that's so much fun. It's that idea of the different layers of society, and how as human beings we sometimes like to think of ourselves and our ideas as very lofty, but underneath we have a base, animal side."

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hough a parody of a very particular style and era of movie, Mel Brooks' Young Frankenstein has proven itself more enduring than the very thing it's spoofing. The classic monster horror-film is caked in cultural dust—today, bloodier fare pervades—and yet Young Frankenstein's significance is such that in 2003, 29 years after its release, it was added to the US Library of Congress' National Film Registry, deemed "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant" enough to be forever preserved.

To be fair, the original Frankenstein film was given the same designation, but it's doubtful that would ever get the same sort of replay value today as Brooks' comedy. The spoof outlasts the spoofed, and for Luc Tellier, portraying the titular Frank in Grant MacEwan's production of the musical version of Young Frankenstein, the parody's lasting endurance can be boiled down to a few key factors.

"There's a lot of physical humour in it—and a lot of just raunchy jokes," he chuckles. "And those somehow never get old."

The Grant MacEwan Theatre Arts student hadn't actually seen the film before this stage version—also written

by Brooks—was programmed as part of the university's theatre season.

"It's not afraid to just tell the audience, flat-out, we are here to make you laugh," he says. "It has a great story, it has great characters, but the bottom line is we're just trying to get as many laughs out of the audience as possible—which is fun. I'm so thrilled that movies, and especially musical theatre, this musical, gives us permission to just sit down and laugh."

Tellier's young Dr Frankenstein pronounces that last name Fronk-en-steen, so as for the young physicist to try and distance himself from his infamous grandfather. Yet, when he inherits the Transylvanian family estate, it turns out he has the family knack for reanimating the dead. (Maybe it skips a generation?)

This stage version offers a full-on musical extravaganza which, Tellier notes, was only hinted at in the movie version.

"All of those iconic, huge laugh moments in the movie have now been fleshed out into huge music-theatre numbers," Tellier says. "There is no such thing as a small number in Young Frankenstein. Everything is a huge show-stopper. It works so perfectly:

Until Sat, Feb 15 (7:30 pm) Directed by Jim Guedo John L Haar Theatre, $16.75 – $25 Inga's 'Roll in the Hay,' she sings four bars of it in the movie, and it's now this huge, hilarious yodelling song.

And 'Puttin on the Ritz,' with Frederick Frankenstein in the movie was, y'know, a quick little tribute, and now is a nine-minute tap number, featuring a whole entire monster chorus."

That said, the importance of an awareness of the film version's legacy, and the expectations that come saddled with it, isn't lost on Tellier.

He credits director Jim Guedo's love of the source material—"He says he probably saw it 15 times in the first year that it came out."—as the cast's barometer for where to tip their hats to the movie and where, as actors, they can run free of expectation.

"I feel that I'm able to bring a fresh pair of eyes to the story, and to the character of Frederick," he says. "And if there are moments where Jim says, 'OK, this has to be a tribute to the movie,' then he sets it up exactly how it has to be, and tells us where we need to go with it. And within that, we still have wiggle room to be the characters that we've created throughout rehearsal."

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Apples and Oranges

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s a child, Chris Bullough had an especially close bond with his grandfather.

"He passed away when I was 10, but he left an indelible sort of mark on me," the actor and occasional playwright recalls. "I had this memory of him in my head of just unconditional love."

But when Bullough got a bit older, he began to hear some other stories about the man: particularly tales about his membership to The Orange Lodge, an Protestant fraternal society with a layer of secrecy and a reputation for, among other things, actively antagonizing the Catholic belief system.

"It just didn't fit with this image I had with my grandfather," Bullough recalls. "That he would be someone

oncile these two very different ideas of my grandfather, and what it meant ... I just tapped into the absolute ridiculousness of the whole thing."

The allegorical plot concerns two cultures living on the same island; each peoples have told big tales of the other side's evil ways, but when a young Papple Fri, Feb 7 (7 pm); Sat, boy and OrangeFeb 8 (11 am & 2 pm) Folk girl meet, Directed by Mieko Ouchi the two discover ATB Financial Arts Barns, there can just as $12.50 – $18 easily be friendwho hated people ship between because of what them, without they believed in. So I had a bit of a the pre-existing prejudice to clutter crisis with it, really trying to put this things up. together in my head, and reconcile It's all told in rhyme, too— these two very conflicting images of Bullough happily admits to taking a my grandfather." page from a certain Dr Seuss's MO in the name of adding a fun dynamic Apples and Oranges was born out to the story. of that crisis. The Theatre For Young "I liked the idea of kids trying to Audiences script that Bullough began process the world that's being reback in 2003, which saw an initial run vealed to them as they grow older," in 2009 with Concrete Theatre, and he says. "As adults reveal more and is now being remounted by the same more about their own prejudices company, was Bullough's attempt to and try to justify them. I just poured sort through some of those feelings everything I talked about before in a way that was both child-friendly into this, and started broadening my and didactic. approach, and really tapping into "I'm trying to make it fun, and trying the farcical nature of it all." to express what I was going through PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM at the time," he says. "And try to rec-

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or a play that's ostensibly about bait and switch: Act Two picks up in communication, Clybourne Park the same house in 2009—there's a sure revels in its characters' failures pretty spectacular set-change that to do just that. Bruce Norris's Pulit- lets 50 years of decay and damage zer-winning script basks in watch- warp the set (as well as intermission music that ing its characters leaps a decade fail at making Until Sun, Feb 16 (7:30 pm) with every song, points, or get- Directed by James MacDonald leading us to the ting hung up in Citadel Theatre, $35 – $93.45 play's present)— trying to defend and finds an opbad ones. We're not talking about people misunder- posite scenario playing out: a much standing one another: these people rougher Clybourne Park neighbourcrash and burn a conversation, try hood now finds itself experiencing to clarify, and only make it worse. gentrification, and a (white) couple Misappropriate arguments and trying to move into the neighbourmistimed responses turn molehills hood find a petition attempting to into a full Rocky Mountain range of head them off, apparently due to incorrectness, and, in doing that, their plans to aggressively renothe Citadel's production, directed vate the property.

The switch is that 2009 isn't so

by James MacDonald, makes watching it all go wrong as hilarious as it detached like watching racism play out in the '50s is, yet their pairing is squirm-inducing.

It's a curiously structured play: it here shows how those same atfeels, in a way, more like two par- titudes can exist, wrapped up in a ticularly biting, thematically linked moral politeness and platitudes. one-acts paired together than a cohesive singular show. Act One, set The cast runs headlong into all of in 1959 and directly connected to this with aplomb. It's an impressive Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the ensemble: there are fewer standSun (it shares a character), finds out players as particular moments a couple, days away from moving where each get to shine: in Act away from the neighbourhood, set Two, after the negotiations spiral upon by their (white) neighbours into a toxic battle of "racist" jokes, to try and prevent the sale of their Sereana Malani perfectly delivers property to a (black) family. Every- the room-destroying best of them; one practises verbal gymnastics to doing double-duty as the most misget around saying what they really guided figure in both halves, Martin mean about race in the '50s, and re- Happer gives us glorious downward ally, it's an easy batch of arguments spirals of thinking in each (only few of his arguments, in the 2009 segto watch get skewed.

But that half sets up a bit of a ment, feel unintentionally clichéd

as written); Doug Mertz commands the first half with presence, a potboiler performance; and Michael Blake, while more sedated in each era than most other characters, is compelling in how that quietness hides more than it reveals.

At the very end of Clybourne Park comes a beat that bridges the two halves. I'm not sure, as it plays out here, that it hits with full impact: overlapping with the end of an act that just savages (with comedy) the characters onstage, the heart-tug tones of the show's final moments seem a little too condensed, too connected to what just happened, to resonate as it should. But it's an important beat regardless, as it underlines the biggest, most poignant point Clybourne Park makes (between your squirms): that as we get caught up in illusions and arguments and artificially constructed prejudices about the world we live in, more important sentiments are quietly ignored, left to erode on their own and threatening to cause permanent grief, unexpectedly, from the background of it all.

PAUL BLINOV

PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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hen winter hits Edmonton can be fun and joyous,” Cournoyer and daylight dwindles, tem- says of the tale, which has had peratures plummet and the land- several different versions crafted scape appears bleak, the tempta- throughout its existence. tion to stay bundled up indoors can be difficult to resist. But recent Along the way, participants will years have seen a push to embrace encounter the canoeists—who the climate, and to that end, the act as park interpreters, welcomFlying Canoe Adventure is back for ing guests into the story and local another year to celebrate the cold, history—as they are pursued by local history and even the darkness. a pack of wolves along with base “We can’t stay inside forever, and camps featuring live Métis jigs and I think it’s making the best out of reels from the Dave Cunningham winter and using the snow as this Family Band, stories told by Roger white canvas of creation for art- Dallaire and light installations creists, which ated by Dylan is original in Fri, Feb 7 and Sat, Feb 8 Toymaker its work—it’s Mill Creek Ravine (6 pm – 10 pm) and students creative, it’s La Cité Francophone (6 pm – midnight) from MacEinnovative in wan Universiits style, it’s ty. There are contemporary,” says La Cité Fran- no set times, so visitors can encophone’s executive director Daniel ter the ravine anywhere between Cournoyer. “It’s discovering a city 84 and 92 Ave and leave as they park at night, which we don’t tend please, at which point they will be to do; we tend to stay out of our greeted by a horse-drawn sleigh to parks after darkness.” take them to the City of Lights at The trek along the Mill Creek La Cité Francophone—also known Ravine will immerse visitors in the as the ultimate warming station, world of the Flying Canoe Adven- complete with a music cabaret ture, a combination of French Ca- courtesy of local Anglophone and nadian and First Nations legend of Francophone talent, an outdoor the voyageurs who made a deal patio, snow slide, children’s activiwith the devil to get them back to ties and refreshments. their loved ones on New Year’s Eve. “We kind of look at La Cité as the There were stipulations—no drink- mecca,” Cournoyer says. “Because ing, no swearing and don’t run into we’re talking about flying canoes church steeples while in flight—but we very much believe that the sky’s of course, things go awry. the limit in what we can do.”

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DANCE ALBERTA BALLET–AILEY II • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Ailey II dancers captivate audiences and translate their strength, agility and grace of body and soul into powerful performances. Artistic Director: Troy Powell • Feb 14-15, 7:30pm • Tickets at box office 78O.428.6839

DANCESPORT ALBERTA • Central Lions Senior

Open Studio: Adult Drop-In Workshops: Compose: Card

Making: Feb 12; Wed 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member) • Special Event: Float away on Cloud Nine—your AGA’s first Refinery late-night art party; Feb 15, 9pm-2 am; $45/$39 AGA Members | AGA Ultra Members 2 for 1 Tickets

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • AT ODDS: Works

by Sydney Lancaster, Susan Seright and Claire Uhlick • Feb 6-Mar 1-2 • Ageless Art: For mature adults; Subtractive Drawing: Feb 20, 1-3pm; $12/$10 (member) • Preschool Picasso: For ages 3-5; Smudge & Smear: Feb 8, 10:30-11:30am; $10/$9(member) • Artventures: Drop-in art program for children aged 6-12; Charcoal Rubbings: Feb 15, 1-4pm; $6 (per child)/$5.40 (member)

ART HABITAT • 10217-106 St • PAINTING A BOOK 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 • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • FORGE AND FORM: Landscapes by Clint Hunker and Kerensa Haynes • Feb 27-Mar 12

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

artworks • Until Feb 25

EBDA BALLROOM DANCE• Lions Senior

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51

Recreational Centre, 11113-111 Ave, 780.893.6828 • Feb 7, 8pm

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

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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • Fri 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)

VINOK WORLDANCE • Chateau Louis Hotel, Grand Ballroom, 11727 Kingsway • Mardi Gras: Vinok Dance, musical styles of New Orleans with Elizabeth MacInnis; silent auction; guests encouraged to dress the part– masks will be available • Feb 15, 6:30pm • $75 at front desk of Chateau Louis Hotel, mardigras.vinok.ca

FILM BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • nordlysfestival. com • Nordlys Film & Arts Festival: Weekend of great films, conversations with filmmakers, local music and a concert from the Once • Feb 14-16 • $75 (weekend passes) at the Bailey Box Office or online

THE CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton • fortedmontonpark.ca • Casablanca (1942, PG), 1 hr. 42 min; Feb 6, 7:30pm • Love Me Tender (1956, STC); Feb 13, 7:30pm • $10

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Library Theatre, Stanley A. Milner Library bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases little-known films every month • The Hunt (18A) Denmark, 2012, Danish with English subtitles; Feb 12, 6:30pm

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285 • Rear Window (1954, PG) • Feb 10, 8pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books • Every Fri, 2pm • Nights in Rodanthe (PG) 2008; Feb 7, 2pm • A Walk to Remember (PG) 2002; Feb 14, 2pm METRO CINEMA • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 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)

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St, 780.488.6611 • Feature Gallery: PAYCE: Celebrating Greg Payce's 2013 Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Craft; until Mar 29 • Discovery Gallery: HANJI: Alberta artists creating new work with traditional Korean paper; until Feb 8 • TROPHIES FOR THE RANCHLAND: Works by Jill Nuckles; Feb 15-Mar 22 • WHERE DOES YOUR FISH LIVE? Ceramics by Gillian Mitchell; Feb 15-Mar 22

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, Spruce Grove Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • JOURNEY OF AN IDEA 1996 to 2013: Artworks by Peggy Gahn • Until Feb 22 • Opening: Feb 8, 1-3pm; artist in attendance

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • ART PARTY: A live art show and auction drinks, munch some snacks, live music, and artworks. Various artists will be working through the night, bids start at 10pm • Proceeds to the Edmonton Down Syndrome Society • Feb 5, 7pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • 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: until Apr 27 •

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

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • SOCIETY OF WESTERN CANADIAN ARTISTS SIGNATURE SHOW: Artworks by Karen Bishop, Teresa B. Graham, Saeed Hojjati, Anne McCartney, Rick Rogers, Heidi Smith • Until Feb 15

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.200.2711 • Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks; antique jade sculptures and jewellery; 17th Century bronze masterworks and artworks by Richard Dixon DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Represents some of Canada`s leading contemporary artists as well as artists gaining recognition in the international art scene. Committed to making Canadian historical art available

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • drawingroomedmonton.com/events • SO DEEPLY A PART OF YOUR BEING: Photos and a site specific installation by Bryan Birtles • Until Feb 8 ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • CROSS CONTAMINATION: Artworks by the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts staff and artist collective; Feb 6-Mar 28 • FRESH PAINT: A Snapshot of Painting in Edmonton; Feb 6-Apr 12 • DUETS: Shared Ideas in Painting: Feb 6-Apr 12 • DINOSTARS: Baby Chasmosaurus and mummified Edmontonosaurus dinosaur specimens; Feb 6-Mar 8 • VISUAL MUSIC: Five Films by John Osborne; Feb 6-Mar 29 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

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION: Photos by 17 year old Kleianne Eubra. All sale proceeds from Kleianne's work will go to Make a Wish Foundation; Feb 8, 2-4pm • IN THE HEART–SUITE 2014: Group show featuring new work from gallery artists • Reception: Feb 13, 7-9pm; enjoy a glass of wine, chocolates, artists in attendance

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main Space: WE: Laura Aldridge, Jonathan Owen, James

Works by the Edmonton Art Club • Through Feb

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: 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

Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • CELEBRATING ALBERTA: Artworks by ASA members; a portion of the show being held at VAAA • Feb 8 and 15, 10am-3pm

DEATH TRAP • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • Broadway thriller, with a skillful blend of suspense and humor • Feb 11-Apr 6 • Tickets at 780.483.4051

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

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

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 • Until Feb 23 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • HOUSES/HOMES: Drawings of houses in the Garneau neighbourhood by Wendy Gervais with short stories by Shirley Serviss, and historical reference by Ken Tingley • Until Mar 16

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • PATTERNS OF CONSUMPTION: Works by C.W. Carson • Until Feb 14

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St 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 • Community Arts Night: Learn techniques, become familiar with new mediums; Every Tue until Jun 10, 6:30-8:30pm; Pre-register 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 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

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • A selection of Japanese Prints: From the 1800s to the 21st century • NEW PAINTERS/NEW WORK: Works by Tim Rechner, Campbell Wallace, Gillian Willans • Feb 6-28 • Opening: Feb 6, 6-9pm

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-

METAMORPHOSIS: Elaine Berglund • Until Mar 18

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

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St

SNAP PriNtShoP • 12056 Jasper Ave • PRINT

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 •

Albert • Artworks by Vincent Duffek; until Feb 24

YOUR HEART OUT • Feb 8, 12-5pm • $20

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM ARCHIVES •

Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • epl. ca/art-gallery • A ROCKY MOUNTAIN MINUTE: Landscape painting by Donna Miller on the Gallery at Milner walls; until Feb 28 • QUIRKY QUILLERS: Selected works from the Quirky Quillers’ Guild membership in the teak display cases in the Gallery at Milner; until Feb 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 St • Front Room: DEJA VOUS: Works by Emilie St Hilaire; until Feb 28 • Main Gallery: ALL THE WORLD: Works

by Clare Samuel; until Feb 28 • Hall Project Space: Edmonton Wayfinding Project: until Feb 28

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona 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 • Until Feb 26 • Reception: Feb 12, 6:30-8:30pm

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • IT'S WARM INSIDE!!: A selling exhibition of gallery artists and secondary market works • Until Feb 19

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

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

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • GALLERy A: GALLERy B: CELEBRATING ALBERTA: Alberta Society of Artists; until Mar 15 VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • POINTS OF VIEW:

WALTERDALE–ASA Gallery • Walterdale

THE WORKS GALLERY • 10635-95 St • MEET ME IN MCCAULEY: NOVANTACINQUE 95 BENVENUTI: The McCauley Revitalization Committee, The Places 52 sculptural art banners installed on 95 St between 106A and 109A Ave. The banners feature imagery created by Dennis Lenarduzzi • Through Feb

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Adam Pottle reading from his novel Mantis Dreams • Feb 18, 7pm

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)

CANADIAN LITERATURE CENTRE • Student Lounge, Old Arts Bldg, U of A • arts.ulberta.ca/clc • Brown Bag Lunch: Reading with Kim Thúy, author of Ru (lecture en français et en anglais) • Feb 12, 12 noon • Free EmPrESS AlE houSE • 9912-82 Ave • The Olive at the Empress present Paul Zits. No minors • Feb 11, 7pm

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tue: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com ST ALBERT PUBLIC LIBRARY • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • Robin Esrock, author of The Great Canadian Bucket List: One-of-a-Kind Travel Experiences, talking about his book and his travel experiences • Feb 15, 2-3:30pm • Free; Pre-register at 780 459 1682 STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8601 • Metaphor And Metonymy: A hands-on writing workshop, with Writer-inResidence Margaret Macpherson; Feb 6, 7-8:30pm; free; pre-register at 780.410.8600

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door) • An Evening of poetry: Spoken word artists Matt Dekker, Jenine Dumont, Cheryl McConnell, Diane Robitelle, and Vanna Tessier; Feb 10; $5

WUNDERBAR • 8120-101 St • Hidden Passions: The Edmonton Poetry Brothel presents spoken-word and literary poets on stage and in the Boudoir–an intimate space reserved for private readings. Belly dance by The Wayward Collective, burlesque by Forbsie Flare, music

by Laura Raboud • Feb 9, 9pm • $10 at the door + tips for private readings

THEATRE ONGOING UNTIL APR 11:

THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri • Feb 7, Feb 14

APPLES AND ORANGES • Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave, Boardroom, 780.439.3905 • 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 • Until Feb 15 • $12-$18 at TIX on the Square; Feb 6: 2-for-1 at door

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

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014 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 • Live

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improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

The Club: Contemporary Comedy Revue • By Veda Hille and Bill Richardson; directed by Amiel Gladstone. An Acting Up Stage Company and Factory Theatre Production • Until Feb 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 HANSEL AND GRETAL • Festival Place, Sherwood Park • Festival Players for Kids production of the classic Grimm's fairytale will scare the adults and thrill the kids. Complete with a witch, a cauldron, an enchanted wood and a delicious candy house • Feb 14-17 • $24 (adult)/$16 (child)

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

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 8, 15: $16; $11 (Under 18 any performance); • 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

NEVERMORE • Westbury Theatre, 8529 Gateway Blvd, 780.431.1750 • Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a whimsical and chilling musical fairytale for adults • Feb 15-Mar 1 • Tickets start at $24.50 (student/senior)/$31.50 (adult) at TIX on the Square; $10 (at door youth under 21 years)

NEW WORKS FESTIVAL • 2nd Playing Space, Timms Centre, U of A • Until Feb 9 • Night A: The Comedian, Solitaire, and All That’s Left: Feb 6, 8, 7:30pm; Feb 9, 2pm • Night B: The Young Revengers’ Society, Gandhi’s Last Words, and The Only Other One; Feb 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 SAME TIME NEXT YEAR • Kinsmen Korra Dinner Theatre, Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • stalberttheatre.com • St Albert Theatre Troupe, by Bernard Slade • New Jersey accountant George and Oakland housewife Doris meet at a Northern California inn in February 1951.

They have an affair, and agree to meet once a year, despite the fact both are married to others and have six children between them • Feb 14-16, 20-22, 27-28, Mar 1 • $47.50 at box office, 780.222.0102 THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 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 • Feb 9, 23, 11am • 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 • Until Feb 15, 7:30pm • Tickets start at $15

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ADVENTURE // AVALANCHE

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EDITOR : MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

HEADING INTO THE BACKCOUNTRY TO LEARN THE BASICS

easy to focus on the rush you hope to feel as you see a fresh powder field rather than the potential for, well, death.

// Jane Marshall

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he weekend I went to Canmore to do my avalanche training, bulletins for the area were rated as high. Red flags and alarm bells were going off for all experienced backcountry adventurers and the go-to websites (The Canadian Avalanche Centre and Parks Canada) warned, "A deep natural and human-induced avalanche cycle continues. An increase in avalanches is expected Saturday with warming and increased sun. ... Please avoid all avalanche terrain."

That's more than enough danger to warn off inexperienced backcountry adventurers, and though our group of five Edmontonians was bound for this exact terrain, it was with guide Olivia Sofer of Wild Trips to do our Avalanche Skills Training (AST) Level 1 course. The adverse conditions in fact provided us with a real-time learning ground. This was no bestcase scenario, but rather a time to see what is dangerous and learn to minimize our risk.

My husband Mike was eager to increase our snow knowledge. He's been lured by adventures at Battle

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Abbey (where Sofer and her family run a winter lodge accessible by helicopter) and suspected I might enjoy breaking away from the resort experience and heading into the wilds.

I've always been attracted to the backcountry in summer months— the quiet trails, the smell of pine pitch and picking wild strawberries. But the thought of travelling through uncontrolled mountainous terrain in winter scared me. I'd mostly skied at resorts where avalanche control and first aid are handled by trained professionals. But, as Yamnuska Mountain Adventures writes of its introductory backcountry course, "With unlimited potential for ski lines and descents, the backcountry is where the heart of every true skier resides." And that was true for our group of five. We all wanted to glean more knowledge so we could expand our skiable terrain options.

The Course Day one of the AST Level 1 course is a classroom day. We drove to Canmore

late Thursday night and crashed at the Alpine Club of Canada clubhouse.

Mountain Equipment Co-op offers free rentals of probes, transceivers and shovels for anyone taking their avalanche safety course. All renters have to do is show their certificates upon return. Alternately, it's $25 for a weekend rental (Thursday to Sunday)—great encouragement for backcountry lovers who want to be safe out there.

On Friday, Sofer led us through a wide array of info, from visuals on how an avalanche beacon transmits, to analyzing photos to pick out hazards and plan hiking lines, to trip planning and what to bring.

We even watched a clip from a documentary that showed friends talking about an avalanche that nearly took them out. I was nearly in tears watching them recount the terror they experienced as they were swept into and buried beneath a large avalanche. Broken bones, blood staining the snow red—the course did a good job at sufficiently alarming us, but in a good way. It's

Field Training The next day as Mike and I drove to Bow Summit where we'd spend our field day (in high-risk terrain), the mountains looked different to me. I was no longer perceiving them from a hiker's perspective, but instead by focusing on the fluid element of snow.

It's an intimate thing to look at a mountain's terrain—her rolls and contours and the way her shape will hold the snow. Picking a route up becomes a nearly mathematical procedure with lots of forethought.

Things to consider include avoiding terrain traps where an avalanche could hold you captive, convex rolls where snow is more apt to slide, crystalline cornices formed by prevailing winds that might drop when the temperature rises. When you enter the backcountry, it enters you, too. Your mind becomes full of input and this input helps you form decisions that will keep you alive.

At the Bow Summit area in Banff National Park we practiced companion rescue by using our avalanche transceivers to find hidden victims.

We donned our skins (a sticky layer that's attached to the ski base and is like Velcro on the side that contacts the snow, enabling skiers to hike up steep inclines without sliding downhill), hiked up to interpret the terrain and dug snow pits to check for weak layers.

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"deep persistent slabs," meaning that at the very bottom, or basal layer, the snow was unstable. Imagine the base of a Jenga tower being porous and wobbly—no matter how strong the tower is, the base is weak and could give out. The result: a slab avalanche with major consequences.

When Sofer showed us how to dig a snow pit and do our testing, we could clearly see that at the bottom where the snow met the Earth was fluffy and weak. It was strange to see, and totally invisible unless you dug down and investigated.

We also did a Reusch Block test where a large block of snow is cut out. I then stood on top and jumped to see if it would release, indicating danger. Luckily, it was pretty strong.

Our final day was an add-on where we hired Sofer to take us into the backcountry for some actual skiing and riding. We went to the Crowfoot Glades above the Icefields Parkway, and there we skinned up tight switchbacks and were afforded views of rugged stone, moraines and toes of the glacier. We also saw the remains of a large slab avalanche on the opposing slopes. We climbed through a forest with snow that looked like mashed potatoes seasoned with pepper, for strong winds had littered the ground with seeds and bark. After seriously sweating and working to get to the tree line, it was time to ski. We dug in and turned around the tight subalpine spruce trees and somehow, the tough climb up made the trip down all the sweeter.

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lodge at Lake Louise will be converted into an enormous nightclub.

Krowd Clothing and its This Is How We Ride tour is hitting town with great plans for the night. All you need is to buy a $30 ticket and you get great hotel deals, cheaper lift tickets, direct lines to lift access and a rockin' night with Dj's REVOLVR, Robbie C and Michelle C. And the Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise and Lake Louise Inn are participants, so you don't have to go too far to catch a shuttle back to the hotel.

Canadian Birkie

Are you going to the Canadian Birkebeiner Ski Festival?

I know there aren't many fall lines in cross-country skiing, but the Birkie is definitely worth writing about in this feature. On Saturday, February 8, approximately 2000 participants will head out to the Cooking Lake-Blackfoot Provincial Recreational Area to participate in Canada's largest classic ski event. This event is so popular that participants from all over the world join in the fun and competition.

Depending on your skill level, there are five events this year ranging from the gruelling 55 km with a pack to a much easier mini Birkie just for kids.

Later that day, participants, volunteers and friends gather at the Strathcona County Community Centre for a Viking Feast Banquet to celebrate the day's events. Nick Lees is hosting so it should be pretty entertaining. Do they allow forks at a Vikings Feast?

We'll have to wait and see.

Last year, skiers from Canmore dominated the top two events, so if you want to see who reigns supreme this year, head out there and cheer them on. For detailed information, check it out at canadianbirkie.com.

Massive party at Lake Louise Lodge of the Ten Peaks On Saturday, February 8 the main

Mother Nature's inconsistencies Thankfully this winter when it decides to snow, we've been getting big enough dumps to get us through to the next one. However, it appears that at most Alberta ski resorts the snow hasn't been its steady, normal self. But we are starting to enter the season where typically prolific snowfalls come around. These heavy February snowfalls make for amazing Champagne powder conditions and set resorts up for a long run into the spring. The long-term meteorological forecasts look good for this month, so I'm hoping they deliver the goods. V

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SNOW ZONE ADVENTURE // OLYMPICS

A different path to Sochi Speed skater Jeremy Wotherspoon returns as a coach

// KIA Speed Skating Academy

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lympian speed skater Jeremy Wotherspoon's attempted return to the competition at Sochi was shot down by "the blink of an eye," according to the athlete himself. Wotherspoon, 37, skated to an impressive sixth place finish overall in the 500-metre trials in Calgary in late December 2013, but it was not quite enough to have him on his way to Russia as a skater.

Having relocated from Calgary to Inzell, Germany a few years ago to take on a coaching position, Wotherspoon had come out of retirement for one last attempt to go for gold.

"I just knew I had to give it my best shot, and I honestly felt I was still improving every day, but time was not on my side," he explains. After failing to garner an advancing slot in the 500-metre, he chose not to try out for the 1000-metre race, as he had injured his knee in the 500 and felt it was not worth the risk.

Twenty years after he first set foot in the Olympic Oval in Calgary, Wotherspoon was returning to the place that began his expansive career, which includes four Olympic competitions (and a silver medal at the 1998 Olympics in Nagano), countless World Cup Championships, and more long-track speed skating World Cup medals than anyone else.

Wotherspoon had some close competition to deal with at the trials in December—both on and off the ice. He was racing against his brother-in-law, Jamie Gregg, who succeeded in grabbing a coveted spot to represent Canada in Sochi. Gregg is married to Wotherspoon's sister Danielle, who made the long-track team and will be on her way as well.

Wotherspoon has had other disappointments during his career, but has learned how to turn things around. After failing to reach the podium at the 2006 Olympics in Turin, Italy, he decided to do a personal retreat on a remote Norwegian island near the Arctic Circle.

"If you burn out mentally, your body will follow naturally," he says. After his time in Norway, Wotherspoon set a world record of 34:07 seconds in the 500-metre event on

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November 9, 2007 in Salt Lake City, and that record still stands to this day.

However, Wotherspoon will still be participating in this year's Olympics in an official capacity: now the head coach of the Sprint Group at the KIA Speed Skating Academy, his role is to help speed-skating talents from countries that may not otherwise have such an opportunity. He'll be at Sochi coaching four skaters who have succeeded in reaching their dreams to compete for their home nations. Beixing Wang of China will be competing in the women's 500-metre and 1000-metre races, ChingYang Sung from Taiwan will be gunning for the 500-metre and 1000-metre men's medals while Poland's Artur Waś and Norway's Espen Hvammen will be giving it their best in the men's 500-metre races.

Wotherspoon, who was inducted into the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame in 2012, sees his role as coach continuing and enjoys mentoring a new generation that he can pass the torch on to.

"It's great seeing these skaters improving their skills and believing in themselves, and knowing I can be a part of that process," he adds. Wotherspoon also wants to move toward teaching health, nutrition and overall personal development, which he explains could be applied to many other disciplines beyond skating.

While Wotherspoon returned to Germany feeling a little disappointed at not making the Olympic speed skating roster, he took it all in stride.

"I didn't want to have any regrets for not trying, as I was still not feeling totally fulfilled after the Vancouver Olympics. I also look at it as more training for my role as coach at the academy," he says.

Despite his valiant attempt to return as an on-ice competitor at Sochi, he is still recognized as one of the fastest skaters in the world, and will be fulfilling a dream of others by attending as a coach representing four different countries, and as a proud supporter of his sister and brother-in-law.

BRYEN DUNN

BRYEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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FILM

FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // CHARLIE CHAPLIN

The Kid in action

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ebruary 7, 1914. In the United States, a 24-year-old Englishman—who had spent months in London paupers' schools and workhouses by the time he was 10—had recently appeared in his first work in an art form nearly as young as he was. These remarkable new "moving pictures" were not yet in their third decade of flickering existence.

But the first picture in which Charles Spencer Chaplin appeared to cinemagoers as the Tramp—the figure who would make Chaplin, in just five years, the first-ever worldwide celebrity— was his third film, Kid Auto Races at Venice. Chaplin actually came up with the wandering, jobless, hungry but wanna-be-gentleman persona (the narrow mustache beneath that small

bowler hat; the too-tight coat and baggy trousers; the scuffed, oversized shoes; the thin whangee cane) for his second Keystone picture with director Henry Lehrman and Irish-Canadian producer Mack Sennett. (It was shot first but released two days after Kid Auto Races.)

Now, we can watch the six-minute short—shot January 10, then edited, its negative sent from LA on January 17 and received in NYC on January 26— on YouTube on just a phone, almost anywhere. But the Tramp's public debut—marking the true start of the career of the presiding spirit of cinema, celluloid's Shakespeare—is all about that strange, amazing, even befuddling newness of watching on-the-fly and off-the-cuff, of pointing a camera at real life and recording it for all to see.

Kid Auto Races at Venice is a docucomedy. It was an "event" film, shot on location and quickly—45 minutes one Saturday afternoon at a boys' soapbox-cart race, the Junior Vanderbilt Cup. The basics of the Tramp are sketched out before our eyes, from his hat-tipping back-kick, and tumbles

to his obtuseness and meddling. Only here he's disrupting a film shoot, a process he sneers at, even grimaces at in the final shot. He's a reel-life rebel against the very art form that would make the man in costume a superstar.

As a spectator, when the Tramp first emerges from the crowd, he seems intrigued by the camera. The camera, meanwhile, seems intrigued by people and its own power to document them, taking in the crowd, filming the cars, and trying to avoid this increasingly annoying fellow who keeps finding his way into the shot. The Tramp variously poses or shows off for, mocks or sticks his nose up at this powerful new medium which, 91 years later, would help usher in YouTube—started in February 2005—and a new way of mediating the world and "connecting," ie, screen culture.

The director, Lehrman himself, as if trying to deal with an unruly actor, gets into the frame to get into the farcical fray, forced to enter and disrupt his own film in order to push the Tramp out of it. (Frank D Williams plays the camera-

man; it's thought everyone else isn't acting but is truly caught up in Chaplin's act.) A second camera's even used, to show the Tramp nonchalantly standing around before the film crew. Amid all the playfulness, Kid Auto Races at Venice is in fact one of the first films to show a camera and a cameraman at work, simultaneously demystifying and remystifying the act of capturing playacting on strips of celluloid.

All this metacinematic comedy comes second, of course, to the basic antics and physical comedy of slapstick, that choreography of disruption which Chaplin would perfect, turning layered, subtextual gags into bittersweet projections of the class struggle, hunger pains and labour woes of his tramping American Dreamer. Chaplin himself toiled for the art of it—he spent more than 21 months on City Lights alone, demanding 300 takes for its famous last shot. A century later, the work endures and Chaplin shines above all, the king of comedy and the genius of film.

BRIAN GIBSON

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REVUE // EXPERIMENTAL

Visitors T

he first of Visitors' 74 images is that of a gorilla, framed in a pleasing, square, headand-shoulders, detail-saturated close-up, exuding calm intelligence, seemingly aware of the cam-

Ready for his close-up

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era. The illusion, of course, is that he's mistake to take this for actual interlooking at us from up there on the est in individuals or any kind of rigbig screen. We might project upon orous exercise in empathy. After the his gaze quiet accusation or resigned film's first, and by far best, quarter or dismay. That's the nice thing about so, in which the use of close-ups of ambiguity: it allows varied readings sundry, nearly still faces, framed in to accrue. But this arresting image the same manner as the gorilla (none doesn't last quite cause genuine dis- of them examined long or thoroughly comfort. And as Visitors goes along, enough to gain, for example, the despite its wordlessness, that ambi- vulnerability or behavioural revelations of Warhol's guity dissolves into screen-tests or an air of general fac- Fri, Feb 7 – Thu, Feb 13 Directed by Godfrey Reggio Bill Viola's video ile sanctimony. works), we come Which was pretty Metro Cinema at the Garneau to realize that much the drill with  Reggio isn't actuGodfrey Reggio's ally invested in previous films, collectively referred to as The Qatsi Tril- his subjects as individuals so much as ogy, the first and best-known being sculptural objects to manipulate in a Koyaanisqatsi (1982), whose raptur- numbingly systematic schema. ous Philip Glass score and fecund images of American wilderness and A telling sequence from late in Visiurban alienation left a powerful tors: we see a dead swamp, then a impression—powerful enough to cemetery, then vast amounts of trash mitigate the annoyingness of the cascading over a landfill. The film film's faux-profundities. While stops short of melting icecaps. If they keeping Glass in the mix, weren't so expensively assembled, Visitors is a departure for the such sequences would seem little Qatsi films in that it is black different from a mawkishly symboland white and promi- laden first-year art-school video nently features people, project. With its frequent resorting not in blurred masses to slow-motion and its tastefully but rather in ultra-crisp even lighting, the film is ham-fisted close-up. It would be a in the most sombre way. Another

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key sequence finds hands, isolated, like much here, in a void, pantomiming the manipulation of a mouse or touch-screen. The absence of an actual mouse or touch-screen is the thudding point, an invisible finger wagging at us consumer-puppets for our soul-killing dependence on timewasting devices. (It occurs to me that there are several similarities between Visitors and Stanley Kubrick's sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968): the reminder of our simian heritage, the lack of fleshed-out characters, the meditation on tools and general warnings about ceding control to machines. But that film was vastly more fascinated with what it critiqued, it had story and was so much less preachy.) You might argue that this sequence could just as easily be interpreted as a celebration of technology—the same technology used to make this very film—but that would require one to detect in most of Visitors a drive to celebrate anything. This is a resolutely pooh-pooh movie, and truth be told, I think I'm on board with everything it's pooh-poohing. But pooh-pooh with panache, pooh-pooh with complexity. Show us something we don't know.

JOSEF BRAUN

JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // SOUTHERN GOTHIC

A man and his knuckle tats

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ords—of the God-defying cellmate Ben Harper hid his bank-roband the God-fearing—enfold bery loot; he sets out to woo Harper's The Night of the Hunter. A Southern widow, Willa (Shelley Winters), and Gothic '50s classic, director Charles sniff out the cash. His talk's precurLaughton's only film (a flop on re- sor to murderous action—Powell's lease) makes up, in atmospherics Biblical chastisements turn Willa into a woman bent on and its horribly her past sins, even righteous wrong- Mon, Feb 10 (7 pm) as he declares the doer, for lapses Directed by Charles Laughton into talkiness and Metro Cinema at the Garneau Old Testament, that "book full of staginess. A man Originally released: 1955 killin's," as justificatalks aloud about tion for his future where to hide stolen money as police sirens wail crimes. (In this grotesque take on their approach; a girl, open-mouthed, Southern fundamentalism, it's the points at the shadow of a man sud- closest a film character's come to denly dwarfing her brother's little sil- Flannery O'Connor's killer The Misfit; its own influences are many—in just houette on their bedroom wall.

That man, with his black Boss of the the past decade, Undertow and Mud Plains hat and his knuckles tattooed have floated in its wake.) with four-letter words—his sinister hand bespeaking HATE, his right Amid some stiltedness and overpreaching LOVE—is Reverend Harry elaborated acting, Laughton lends Powell (Robert Mitchum). While some nice touches to critic James in Moundsville Penitentiary for car Agee's adaptation of Davis Grubbs' theft, he hears that execution-bound novel (based on lonely-hearts killer

Valentine’s Day Gifts with buzz!

Harry Powers, hanged at Moundsville). There are God's-eye aerial views of small-town West Virginia during the Depression (when the country seemed, like the children here, orphaned and adrift); there are lullabies, songs and stories wrapping their sinuous sorrows around this story of seductions. (Powell sermonizes to self-convince, to sear his mark, and to sway others to his will; others' songs try to soothe.) There are the moody, often German Expressionist shots: a shadow-shrouded bedroom like a chapel of death; Willa's body in a car on the riverbed, her hair streaming in the current; switchblade-wielding Powell crashing through brush towards the children, trying to set off in a skiff downriver in the moonlight.

And there's that twinkling gleam to the word-crafty, preaching predator's malice, which ensures this film glints and glitters on.

BRIAN GIBSON

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FILM REVUE // WAR

The Monuments Men T

My best guess is that Clooney hat familiar solemn bugle you hear near the start of The Monu- wanted to make this history lesson ments Men whilst art historian Frank as kid-friendly as possible—the final Stokes (George Clooney) solemnly scene actually has an elderly Stokes asks FDR, "Who will make sure the (Nick Clooney, the director's pa) visiting a rescued treastatue of David is sure with a kid we still standing, the Now playing presume to be his Mona Lisa still Directed by George Clooney grandson. It is anysmiling?" is the  way one manner sound of the Holof explaining why lywood prestige The Monuments picture machine rendering history as stuffy as possi- Men is so bloodless and chaste, why ble. This star-studded homage to the its ethical arguments for the MFAA's men who made up the Allies' Monu- risking lives to protect art sounds so ments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) oversimplified (think of it as Saving program, which formed in the spring Private Rembrandt), and, I suppose, of '44 to rescue masterpieces from why its characters are so sketchNazi clutches, is watchable, friendly ily drawn. They include art restorer and bland. Adapted from Robert M James Granger (Matt Damon), BritEdsel's eponymous nonfiction book ish museum head (Hugh Bonneville),

by Clooney and Grant Heslov, The former Ecole des Beaux-Arts paintMonuments Men is Clooney's fifth ing instructor (Jean Dujardin), sculpstab at directing and shows nothing tor Walter Garfield (John Goodman), of the promise of his first two efforts, Chicago architect Richard Campbell Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (Bill Murray), and New York theater (2002) and Good Night, and Good impresario Preston Savitz (Bob BalaLuck (2005), which similarly dealt ban). It is remarkable that those last with lesser-known chapters of US his- two get so much screen time togethtory but did so with far more atten- er and so little of it is fun or funny, tion to exploring craft and facilitating filled mostly with lame ornery old the enrichment of his fellow actors' man jokes. Though their jokes aren't anywhere near as lame as the running performances.

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gag concerning Granger's middling French—he claims to have studied it in Montréal. At least it'll get a laugh in Canada. There is also a French curator played by Cate Blanchett. Apparently all the world-famous French actresses who speak English were busy.

Nothing monumental here, to say the least, but what's good in The Monuments Men? The story, however embellished and de-complicated, has some inherent cinematic value.

Clooney at least generates a little Hawksian camaraderie among his ensemble. There is a bit in which Campbell gets a recording from home of his family singing "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" that is very affecting and totally unearned. We rarely actually see many of the artworks so arduously fought for, but when we do catch a glimpse or two of Michelangelo's marble-sculpted Madonna of Bruges or Hubert and Jan van Eyck's 12-panel altarpiece "The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb" there is some cathartic magic to their appearance.

Masterpieces within the frame of the pleasantly mediocre.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // DRAMA

Labor Day A

man serving 18 years for murder says he didn't kill anyone on purpose, escapes during a hospital visit and why shouldn't the divorcée beand holes up in the semi-rural home lieve him? He's so nice. And patient. of a paralyzingly depressed divorcée And intuitive. And strong. (He's Josh and her sensitive and impressionable Brolin!) And anyway, the divorcée pubescent boy. The escapee is tough needs a man's love and attention. but tender, a sort of ideal man, really, She's fragile, but super-desirable. one whose very (She's Kate Winposition as the sub- Opens Friday slet!) The boy is drawn to the ject of a manhunt Directed by Jason Reitman radiates danger  escapee and gets loving baseball without exuding any real threat. He ties the divorcée tips from him. But he's also jealous up just right; he fixes the furnace and maybe, especially once he kens onto tunes up the station wagon; he cleans the heat rising between the escapee the floor, gets rid of the squeak in the and his mom—this is, after all, a boy screen door hinges, and makes hearty who gives his mother a "Husband-forchili and mouth-watering cobbler. He a-Day" coupon book for back-rubs

and breakfast in bed. A key scene has all six of these characters' hands in a bowl, fondling ripe, sticky peaches in a kind of familial food-porn orgy.

As with so much about this movie, a little light perversion goes a long way.

Labor Day is a brooding coming-ofage story and the fairly chaste tale of a heady long weekend-long romance.

Directed by Jason Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air), it takes itself very, very seriously, though if, for example, you just remove the hushed, portentous scoring from that first scene where Brolin makes his weirdo entrance, bleeding, furtive, politely asking the boy to help him discreetly exit a department store, the whole thing would easily play as comedy. (Cyrus, maybe?)

Screwball comedy? (Cary Grant: "I'm neighbour with the handicapped son sorry, my dear, but I just can't seem to who nearly spills the beans), pretty shake these policemen.") Or as Harle- much everything in Labor Day is utquin romance (obviously). Or as red- terly preposterous. Brolin and Winsmeat noir. Any of these would have let (both of them actors I love), and made the film's story, taken from the even Gattlin Griffith, who plays the Joyce Maynard novel, a little easier boy, each go the extra limit to dignify to swallow. From the very notion of these characters and make them plauWinslet's financially strapped shut- sible. But that might be the problem in and devoted mother trusting this (along with the spells of PBS classiguy enough to dump everything and cal guitar that accompanies scenes leave the country with him and her of secret fleeting domestic bliss). son, to the escapee's complete lack of It's certainly what makes Labor Day any alarming qualities, to the pretty so laughable. It's just impossible to pastoral flashbacks to young love and take this stuff seriously. Though who heartbreak, to the numerous shame- knows? Maybe you'll swoon in spite lessly artificial obstacles that accu- of yourself. Especially if you get hot mulate as the movie enters its third and bothered over manly men baking. act (the nosy cop, the nosy ex, the JOSEF BRAUN JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM nosy bank teller, the nosy, intrusiveT:3.7”

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A Sisyphian career

Reflecting on Philip Seymour Hoffman's body of work

Hoffman in The Master

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hether embodying a near shutin, choking on loneliness, his body collapsing in on itself, or a master communicator and manipulator, drunk on his own Kool-Aid, given to sudden ecstatic gestures and charismatic dance, Philip Seymour Hoffman conveyed a sense of bearing heavy burden like few others could. He was imminently melancholic, weighty, the most corpulent yet full-bodied of actors. He rarely looked comfortable in his body, but that doesn't mean he didn't use it, often with tremendous nuance. He was Sisyphian. Which is to say that, no matter how elephan-

his work increasingly seemed focused on finding truth in the grotesque, as though the only empathy worth earning was the sort that rose from weakness. In Capote (2005) he gave a precision performance that hinges on his insistence on giving equal attention to the titular character's fascination with others and his ultimate ruthlessness.

Capote won Hoffman the Best Actor Oscar, but that performance was easily bested only a couple of years later in, for example, The Savages (2007), as Laura Linney's brother, or Before the Devil Knows You're Dead (2007), as Ethan Hawke's brother. We see him shoot heroin in that movie, and we see him die. He played the much-doubted priest in Doubt (2008), who you keep feeling for even when you're almost sure he really is a pederast. He was the only one who could have starred in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche New York (2008), in which he's attacked by his own sink, dates a woman in a burning house, and watches his adult daughter deteriorate before his eyes.

He plays a nobody playwright who gets genius grant and decides to make a play about everything. Rehearsals go on for all his life. His character's art becomes infinite, boundless, beyond the frame. Life itself. The film is unbearably sad, but I'll be damned if Hoffman doesn't make every scene feel relevant, forward-moving. It was his most Sisyphian role.

What I will admire most in this filmography is Hoffman's mesmerizing, Wellesian convergence of hysteria and colossal confidence in Anderson's The Master (2012), about a very American

longing for self-made religion, and one of the great films of this young century. As L Ron Hubbard stand-in Lancaster Dodd, Hoffman seemed older than ever, but that fatherliness made him eerily persuasive, repeating questions like a relentlessly applied balm to Joaquin Phoenix's wounded Freddie, and later, in that strange and haunting final meeting between master and pupil, singing to Freddie about how he wants to get him alone on a slow boat to China. The Master also emphasized how much Hoffman could do with repressed anger, that scene where Dodd is so determined to shame a guy bold enough to confront him publicly by using only wit and a sense of wonder, yet he can't help but suddenly spit out "Pig fuck!" The rage is always there, but he masks it with playfulness and ambition and that weird bonhomie.

I write all this to remember Hoffman, who died of an alleged heroin overdose last weekend at the age of 46, leaving behind three kids, his partner, Mimi O'Donnell, and countless colleagues and friends. He was a prolific actor who I've had the immense pleasure of spending much time watching, listening to, thinking about and writing about. I interviewed him only once. He could be prickly, and it wasn't the easiest conversation, but it was rewarding. Our talk ended with the topic of death in Capote, and Hoffman's last words stick in my mind now. "It's like Capote has come to bear witness to all these deaths," he said. "And the truth he discovers is that they don't pass through him without leaving marks." V

we could also extend "The So" to de- ping into a relationship with his best scribe that point in a movie's devel- (female) friend, a woman he normally opment when the filmmakers need uses to help him snag other women. to decide what kind of movie they're As for the latter, Ed Burns-y qualities, making, where it's going, and what's is Awkward is mostly a shambles, espeall about. I wish director Tom Gormi- cially when dealing with Jason, whose can's debut was titled The So. insensitivity is grossly overplayed in That Awkward the script (he Moment awkwardly doesn't, for extries to find some Now playing ample, go to the balance between Directed by Tom Gormican funeral for his the ribald (eg: The  girlfriend's dad) Hangover) and the and underplayed sentimental and in Efron's frequasi-thoughtful (eg: an Ed Burns quently shirtless, always ingratiating movie). With regards to the former performance. Jason's smarmy apquality, Awkward has its moments, proach to wooing the ladies makes particularly when they concern Ja- the clubbing knuckleheads in Don Jon son's wise-ass skirt-chasing buddy suddenly seem endearing.

Daniel (played by the comically gifted Somewhere in the bland middle sits Miles Teller), who finds himself slip- our third buddy, Mikey (Fruitvale Sta-

tion's Michael B Jordan), whose wife ditches him for another guy. Mikey enters the trio's no-commitment pact only hesitantly—the fact is he'll do anything to get his wife back. After all, he's already "checked all the boxes." By which he means that he's gone through adulthood like a conventionadhering robot. Perhaps like the robot that seemingly spat out this script, a marketing robot trying to squish every current trend in popular movies into a single, uneven, fundamentally humdrum, crowd-pleasing product.

Admittedly, I did like the one-liners Daniel spits out when Mikey shows him his dick after accidentally masturbating with tanning lotion. And yes, that is most definitely a highlight.

est attention to interesting American movies in the past 15 years and not know him. The high forehead, vulnerable, pale, a seawall against which all manner of earthly pressures crashed.

That voice, typically nasal, often sounding like he'd dragged it out of bed, the mattress sweaty and halfstripped, before bashing it on the night table on the way up. Those cupping paws that looked like they had to have the cigarettes pushed into them.

The eyes—they seemed to change all the time, hard to soft, pinned to orb-like, sometimes sexy. I first saw Hoffman in Hard Eight (1996), Paul Thomas Anderson's debut. He played an arrogant mullet trying to bend a craps table to his will through sheer bullying. By Boogie Nights (1997), Anderson's follow-up, I was really paying attention. He was a chubby, anguished pubescent in a man's body, underdressed, not easy to cuddle, though he tried to kiss Dirk Diggler with so much closeted passion. A small but memorable role in The Big Lebowski (1998) found him more uptight, nervous and really funny. It made clear that there was no limiting his range; no matter the lack of movie-star handsomeness he would break out from the character-actor ghetto. In Happiness (1998), this burden I keep thinking about was already fully formed. He was so pathetic yet so watchable, savouring Todd Solondz's writing, even when its comic despair felt a little cheap.

tine the burden he carried, he felt it incumbent upon himself to keep going up that hill. He was never not doing something active and compelling, never resigned to playing mere attitude. I'm struck, now, by how often his characters' burdens involved ingestible vice: bad food, alcohol, drugs. He played a gas-huffer, a heroin addict, Lester Bangs. He perspired need. He was an all-round gifted, hard-working actor, but at this especially he was extraordinary: desperation. I just wish that the way he died didn't so closely mirror his work.

You couldn't possibly pay the slight-

As Hoffman's boyishness fell away, which it did rapidly, he became a go-to guy for a certain anxious weariness, and

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That Awkward Moment

Post-Wildcat life has been rough for Efron

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hat Awkward Moment begins with Jason (Zac Efron), one of the movie's three more or less commitment-resistant, NYC-based, J Crew mannequin-yuppies, sitting anxious and alone on a Gramercy Park bench contemplating the nature of some-

thing he calls "The So." "So," as in, "So, we've been dating for X number of weeks and I need to know where this is going." "So," as in that point in a relationship, or whatever, when the woman you've been seeing, or something, wants some direction. Perhaps

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LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language)

6:30; SUN 3:40, 6:30; MON-TUE 6:40

6:50, 9:20; MON-WED 6:20, 8:50

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ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not recommended

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not recom-

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language)

for young children) VIP 18+ WED 6:30, 9:45; THU 8:00; ULTRAAVX: WED-THU 6:45, 9:45

mended for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital WED 6:05, 9:00

Digital DAILY 9:00

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LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:00, 3:40, 6:45, 10:15

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: RUSALKA (Classification not available) SAT 10:55

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MON-THU 2:25; 3D : FRI-SAT 3:05, 5:40, 8:15; SUN 3:10, 5:45; MON-THU 5:00, 7:35

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG not rec for

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

THE NUT JOB (G) SAT-SUN 2:00

young children, violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 12:55, 3:20, 5:50, 8:25, 10:45; SUN 12:25, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55; MON-TUE 2:20, 4:55, 7:25, 9:55; WED 2:20, 5:05, 7:25, 9:55; THU 2:15, 5:10, 7:40, 10:00

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ENDER'S GAME (PG violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned DAILY 9:35

CAPTAIN PHILLIPS (PG violence) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE 1:15, 4:25, 7:35; MON, WED-THU 4:25, 7:35

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE 1:45; 3D : DAILY 4:10, 6:55 THE SECRET LIFE OF WALTER MITTY (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE 1:10, 3:45, 6:40, 9:25; MON, WED-THU 3:45, 6:40, 9:25

LAST VEGAS (PG coarse language, sexual content) Closed Captioned DAILY 4:45, 9:55

FREE BIRDS (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE 1:40; 3D : DAILY 3:55, 6:50

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY: THE MARKED ONES (14A

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) No passes, Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo FRI 6:55, 9:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:40, 3:25, 6:55, 9:30; MON,THU 3:25, 6:55, 9:30; WED 3:25, 7:05, 9:30 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) No passes, Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo SAT-THU 3:00; 3D : No Passes, Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Digital Presentation, Dts Stereo FRI, MON, WED-THU 6:30, 9:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:10, 6:30, 9:00

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not recommended for young children) DTS StereoClosed Captioned, Digital Presentation WED-THU 3:55, 7:35, 10:00

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VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG violence, not recommended for

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ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned WED-THU 2:00, 4:55, 7:45, 10:40

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THE NUT JOB (G) FRI-SUN 12:00, 2:15; 3D : FRI-SUN 4:30, 6:45; MON-THU 6:30

HER (14A sexual content, coarse language, mature subject matter) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 7:20, 10:15; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:05, 3:55, 7:20, 10:15; MON 3:55, 7:20, 10:00

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LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 1:40, 4:25, 7:15, 10:25; SUN 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:35; MON 1:35, 4:20, 10:00; TUE 1:35, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05; WED 1:35, 4:20, 10:05; THU 1:35, 4:20, 7:20, 10:05 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45; SAT 11:15, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10, 9:45; SUN 1:10, 3:45, 6:35, 9:20; MON-WED 1:10, 3:45, 6:35, 9:10; THU 3:35, 6:10, 9:00; Star & Strollers : THU 1:00

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI 12:40, 3:05, 5:30,

12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, disturbing content) FRI 9:10; SAT-SUN 3:30, 9:10; MON-THU 9:10

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FROZEN (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-MON, WED-THU 3:45; 3D : FRI-MON, WED-THU 7:00; TUE 3:45, 7:00

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THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 12:40, 3:20, 6:00; MON-TUE, THU 2:15, 4:50; WED 3:50; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00; 3D : FRI-SUN 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10; MON-TUE, THU 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20; WED 1:40,

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THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG violence,

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LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language)

FROZEN (G) FRI-TUE 12:55, 3:10, 5:15, 7:20; WED-THU 1:10, 3:45, 6:15

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2:50, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30

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METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

9:00; WED 9:35; THU 7:00

THE ROOM (14A nudity, sexual content) FRI 11:30 A LITTLE PRINCESS (STC) Reel Family Cinema : SAT 2:00; Free admission for Children under 12

KING: A FILMED RECORD MONTGOMERY TO MEMPHIS (PG) SAT 4:00 ; SUN 6:15; THU 8:45

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed

Matter) Arabic with English subtitles; SUN 2:00

Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital

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

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI 12:00, 3:50, 8:45; SAT-SUN 3:50, 8:45; MON-TUE 12:45, 4:45, 8:45

Stereo Digital SAT-SUN 2:55; 3D : Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 7:00; SAT-SUN 12:15, 7:00; MON-WED 6:30

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language)

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

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI-SUN 11:45, 2:05, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40; MON-THU 6:50, 9:15

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby

Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN 9:15; MON-TUE 8:45

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Closed Captioned FRI

AUGUST: OSAGE COUNTY (14A coarse language) Closed

4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

MON-THU 9:00

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) WED 6:30, 10:00; THU 10:00

VISITORS (G) FRI 9:35; SAT 7:15; SUN 4:15, 9:35; MON

THE NUT JOB (G) FRI-SAT, MON-TUE 1:00; SUN 12:55; WED-THU

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

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:25; MON-THU 6:40, 9:20

Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 7:15, 9:40; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:45, 3:35, 7:15, 9:45; MON 3:35, 7:15, 9:45; WED-THU 3:35, 7:15, 9:40

LANDMARK CINEMAS 10 CLAREVIEW

1:00, 7:00; MON-THU 7:00

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Ultraavx DAILY 1:20, 4:20,

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) DTS Stereo,

tioned FRI-SAT 12:45, 3:50, 6:45, 9:55; SUN 12:40, 3:40, 6:45, 9:40; MON-WED 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; THU 1:20, 4:15, 7:10

10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

PHILOMENA (PG language may offend) FRI 7:00; SAT-SUN

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; MON-TUE 6:45, 9:40

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed Cap-

sification not available) SAT 10:55

THE SQUARE (14A Disturbing Content, Mature Subject THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER (STC) Crime Watch MON 7:00

ROMEO + JULIET (14A) Art Gallery of Alberta TUE 7:00; $2

FRI 6:35, 9:30; SAT-SUN 12:05, 3:10, 6:35, 9:30; MON-WED

off for AGA Members

6:05, 9:00

BOOGIE NIGHTS (R) Gateway to Cinema WED 6:45; Free

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) No Passes,

admission for Students with ID

Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital

LANDMARK 7–SPRUCE GROVE

FRI 7:10, 9:50; SAT-SUN 12:25, 2:50, 7:10, 9:50; MON-WED

130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove 780.962.2332

6:40, 9:20

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: RUSALKA (Classification not available) SAT 10:55

FROZEN SING-ALONG (STC) DAILY 1:00 ANOHANA THE MOVIE: THE FLOWER WE SAW THAT DAY (G) SUN 12:45; WED 7:30 ODD THOMAS (14A) THU 7:30 ROBOCOP: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG coarse language, violence, not recommended for young children) WED-THU 1:50, 4:45, 7:30, 10:20

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

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) DAILY 7:00, 9:20; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:30

THE NUT JOB (G) SAT-SUN, TUE 2:00 RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) FRI-TUE 7:15, 9:15

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not recommended for young children) Starts Feb 12 WED-THU 7:15, 9:30

THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) DAILY 6:50, 9:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:45, 2:50

LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc, 780.986-2728 DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, FEB 6

THE NUT JOB (G) THU, FEB 6: 3D : 7:00 JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

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

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) Digital FRI-SUN, TUE

language) THU, FEB 6: 9:40pm

for young children, violence) Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN 9:45; MON-WED 9:15

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LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language)

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Digital FRI-SUN,

THU, FEB 6: 6:50, 9:40

TUE 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:45; MON 7:10, 9:45; WED-THU

ANOHANA THE MOVIE: THE FLOWER WE SAW THAT DAY (G) SUN 12:45; WED 7:30

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) Closed Captioned,

SAVING MR BANKS (PG mature subject matter) THU, FEB

Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 7:15, 9:55; SAT-SUN 12:35, 3:15, 7:15, 9:55; MON-WED 6:45, 9:20

FROZEN (G) Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 4:20; 3D : Reald 3d FRI-

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LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:55, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:20, 3:10, 6:55, 9:40; MON-WED 6:25, 9:10

young children, violence) REALD 3D FRI-TUE 10:00

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) No Passes, Closed Cap-

DATE OF ISSUE ONLY: THU, FEB 6

tioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:40, 9:25; SAT-SUN 12:10, 3:05, 6:40, 9:25; MON-WED 6:10, 8:55

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 1:30, 4:00, 6:40; MON, WED-THU 6:40; 3D : REALD 3D FRI-SUN, TUE 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; MON 7:00, 9:30; WED-THU 7:00, 9:40

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language)

VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG violence, not recommended

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00, 3:40,

THE NUT JOB (G) THU, FEB 6: 3D: 7:00

Captioned FRI-SAT 10:00; SUN-WED 10:05; THU 10:10

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE, THU 12:50, 3:45, 7:00, 9:50; WED 3:45, 7:00, 9:50; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00

MON-TUE 1:05

FROZEN SING-ALONG (STC) FRI, SUN 12:00; SAT 11:55;

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual

A CINDERELLA STORY (G) SAT 11:00

content) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 2:40, 6:20, 9:20; SUN-TUE, THU 2:40, 6:20, 9:30; WED 6:20, 9:30

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not recommended for young children) No Passes THU 9:10

VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG violence, not recommended for

WINTER'S TALE (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed

30 FILM

VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG violence, not recommended

English subtitles FRI 6:25; SAT 9:00; TUE 9:30

frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN-TUE 12:20; 3D : FRI-TUE 3:50, 7:30

THE NUT JOB (G) DAILY 12:00, 2:15; 3D : DAILY 4:30, 6:40

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 9:00; MON-THU 8:45

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Digital Presentation,

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG violence,

Captioned DAILY 8:50

1:30, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15; MON-THU 7:00, 9:50

language, mature subject matter) THU 7:25, 9:50

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: RUSALKA RUSALKA (Clas-

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed

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BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR (R) French with

language) Closed Captioned DAILY 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 10:00

young children) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN-THU 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20; SAT 1:15, 4:50, 7:40, 10:20

language) FRI-SUN 10:25; MON-THU 10:00

ABOUT LAST NIGHT (14A sexual content, crude coarse

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

tioned FRI 12:40, 3:10, 8:10, 10:40; SAT-SUN 12:30, 5:20, 8:10, 10:40; MON-THU 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

Digital Presentation FRI 6:45, 9:45; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:25, 3:15, 6:45, 10:00; MON, WED-THU 3:15, 6:45, 10:00

7:55, 10:15; SAT 1:05, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05, 10:25; SUN 12:15, 2:35, 4:55, 7:25, 9:45; MON-WED 2:15, 4:40, 7:00, 9:20; THU 1:45, 4:05, 7:00, 9:20

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

language) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 7:30, 10:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:00, 3:50, 7:30, 10:00; MON 3:50, 7:30, 10:00; WED 3:50, 7:30, 9:55; THU 3:50, 7:30

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital THU 9:55

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual

HASEE TOH PHASEE (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. FRI-SUN, TUE 1:00,

MON, WED-THU 4:20, 7:00, 9:40

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

ANCHORMAN 2: THE LEGEND CONTINUES (14A language

content) FRI-SAT 2:40, 6:25, 10:10; SUN 3:20, 7:05; MON-TUE 3:50, 7:40

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 11:30, 2:00, 4:30; 3D : FRI-SUN 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10; MON-THU 7:05, 9:35

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual

Captioned FRI-SAT 12:25, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:40; SUN 12:25, 3:00, 5:25, 7:50, 10:15; MON 2:05, 4:35, 7:30, 9:35; TUE 2:05, 4:35, 7:30, 10:00; WED 2:05, 4:35, 7:40, 9:40; THU 1:30, 4:35, 7:30, 9:55

frightening scenes, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRISUN, TUE 1:35, 3:50, 7:20, 9:30; MON, WED-THU 3:50, 7:20, 9:30

mended for young children) Closed Captioned WED-THU 6:45, 9:40

Captioned FRI-SUN 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20; MON-THU 7:25, 9:55

10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7018

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse language) FRI-SAT 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:05, 10:35; SUN 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; MON-WED 1:20, 4:00, 7:20, 9:50; THU 1:20, 3:50, 6:35

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not recom-

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI 3:40, 6:00, 8:35,

LANDMARK CINEMAS 9 CITY CENTRE

for young children) Closed Captioned WED 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:55; THU 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:00

MON-THU 7:20

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed

Closed Captioned FRI 3:50, 7:00, 10:15; SAT 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:20; SUN 12:30, 3:35, 6:40, 9:45; MON-TUE 6:40, 9:50; WED-THU 6:45, 9:50

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not recommended

FROZEN (G) FRI-SUN 11:40, 2:20; 3D : FRI-SUN 5:00, 7:45;

Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 9:15; MON-TUE 9:45

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

SAT 11:10, 1:50, 4:30, 7:00; SUN 1:50, 4:25, 7:00; MON-WED 1:15, 3:55, 6:25; THU 1:15, 3:45, 6:25; 3D : ULTRAAVX FRI-SAT 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10; SUN 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:10; MON-THU 2:00, 4:25, 7:05, 9:30

2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language)

10:45; SAT 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00; SUN 12:40, 3:10, 5:45, 8:30; MON-TUE 6:50, 9:20; WED-THU 7:00, 9:40; VIP 18+: FRI 4:45, 9:00; SAT 2:30, 5:15, 8:00; SUN 12:45, 4:15, 7:00; MON-TUE 7:30; WED 8:15; THU 9:00

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Closed Captioned FRI 1:50, 4:30, 7:00;

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 7:00, 10:30; SUN 7:00; MON-THU 7:40

tioned FRI 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; SAT 12:40, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; SUN 1:20, 4:30, 7:45; MON-THU 6:30, 9:35

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 12:30; SUN 12:35;

SAT-SUN 2:15

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

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed Cap-

1525-99 St 780.436.8585

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) DAILY 7:15, 9:30;

Sat 1:00, 4:15, 6:15, 10:45; SUN 1:15, 3:40, 6:00, 9:50; MON-TUE 6:30, 9:45; WED 7:30; ULTRAAVX: FRI 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; SAT-SUN 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; MON-TUE 6:45, 9:45; WED-THU 6:40, 9:30 content) Closed Captioned FRI 5:45, 9:45; SAT-SUN 1:30, 5:20, 9:30; MON-THU 8:00; VIP 18+: FRI 6:00, 10:10; Sat 1:45, 7:20, 9:30; SUN 1:50, 7:45, 9:10; MON-TUE 8:30

FROZEN SING-ALONG (STC) DAILY 12:05 CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH

young children, violence) Closed Captioned FRI 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50; SAT 6:40, 9:50; SUN 3:15, 6:40, 9:50; MON-WED 1:40, 4:50, 8:00; THU 1:05, 4:15

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) VIP 18+: FRI 5:30, 7:30, 10:45;

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual

A CINDERELLA STORY (G) SAT 11:00

SAT-SUN 1:00, 3:00

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 4:30, 7:30, 10:30; SAT 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:10, 10:45; SUN 1:10, 3:45, 6:20, 9:00; MON-TUE 7:00, 9:30; WED-THU 6:50, 9:20

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Captioned THU 10:05

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

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned SAT-SUN 1:00; 3D : FRI-SAT 3:45,

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) No Passes, Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:30, 9:00; SAT-SUN 12:00, 2:30, 6:30, 9:00; MON-WED 6:00, 8:30; 3D: Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:50, 9:20; SAT-SUN 12:30, 3:00,

6:45, 9:45 SUN, TUE 1:40, 7:15; MON 7:15

I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG frightening scenes, not rec for

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ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not recommended for young children) Digital WED-THU 7:10, 9:50

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse language) Digital DAILY 9:20

THE NUT JOB (G) Digital FRI-SUN, TUE 3:30; 3D : Reald 3d

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THU, FEB 6: 9:20

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) THU, FEB 6: 7:05, 9:40 I, FRANKENSTEIN 3D (PG frightening scenes, not rec for young children, violence) THU, FEB 6: 3D : 6:55, 9:25 RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) THU, FEB 6: 7:10, 9:35

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COLIN LINDEN TALKS BLACKIE & THE RODEO KINGS AND BOB DYLAN

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t's difficult to decide where to begin with at a radio station and play in front of one miColin Linden. He's built a successful solo ca- crophone. There's a kind of quiet chemistry. In reer, produced records for a roster of artists some ways, you hear more of where we're at as that continues to grow, currently works on the individuals, but in some ways you also hear that music for ABC's hit musical drama Nashville, re- X-factor thing that happens when people sing cently toured with Bob Dylan and is one-third together and play together, and wherever their of roots-rock band Blackie & the Rodeo Kings personal grooves are they meld together. It's (his cohorts in that group, Stephen Fearing and just some kind of cool, unidentifiable but unique Tom Wilson—you may also know him as LeE blend and that was really how the record was HARVeY OsMOND—have established careers born, and that's what we're trying to bring to the live show." outside the band, too).

When Linden speaks of his cohorts, there's a But let's start with Blackie & the Rodeo Kings?

The trio formed nearly 18 tangible sense of admiration. years ago for what was in- Sat, Feb 8 (7:30 pm) He views Fearing and Wilson tended to be a one-off trib- Festival Place, sold out as one of the strongest songwriting combos he knows of, ute album honouring the and notes that after all these late Willie P Bennett. But things didn't stop there and the band is current- years together, being situated so far apart isn't a hindrance on the group's songwriting. ly on tour promoting its seventh album, South.

"We all bring in stuff that we have. For me, I "Well, we love each other, that's really what it is more than anything else," says Linden while would say maybe 25 percent of what I write on the road to Meaford, ON for the eighth is appropriate for Blackie & the Rodeo Kings. I stop on the band's as-of-now 20-date tour. don't plan it that way, but when I write a song "Somehow or other we continue to get better ... if it's a blues-based song most of the time it's as a band, I think, and get better as individuals. not right for Blackie at all, and I think of myself mostly as a blues player," Linden explains. "But Hopefully the bar gets higher."

South brings a different sound and feel to 25-percent of what I write I want it to feel like Blackie and the Rodeo Kings' catalogue than when we play it that it's a Blackie song more predecessors like Kings and Queens, an album than it is one of my songs, and when Stephen where the Kings teamed up with a cast of fe- and Tom are up there they're not just putting male music royalty including Emmylou Harris in time, that they believe in the song too and it and Rosanne Cash. This time, the group has speaks to them."

"You play it because you love it, you want to crafted a largely acoustic album that takes a creative step forward while keeping one foot sing it and that's kind of permeated the whole firmly planted in its signature lyrical depth and vibe of the band," he continues. "Even in our own songs that we bring to it I want to feel unmistakable musicianship.

"We kind of thought of this as being a quiet like every night when we play 'I'd Have to be a kind of side project from our side project, be- Stone,' or every night when we play Tom's song, cause we were just going to do it as this acous- 'North,' I just want to be playing those songs and tic one-off record and we're getting a ton of I hope the other guys feel the same way—that radio play on it—more than ever, in America we're doing it because we love it." especially," says Linden, noting the show on this tour is a much more intimate experience than Of course, as previously mentioned, Blackie & Kings and Queens shows. "There's a thing that the Rodeo Kings is one of many ventures for its happens when Stephen and Tom and I show up prolific bunch of musicians. Linden is continuing

his solo work and hopes to have a new album out in early 2015, and in the meantime he'll continue producing and making sure the music on Nashville is done with verisimilitude—each actor sings and plays their own instruments, but Linden is in charge of teaching them the score and making sure the pre-recorded tracks appear as though they're being done live during tapings.

Look closely and you might even catch Linden on screen as part of Deacon Clayborne's backing band. And, with any luck, there's also the potential of more touring with a certain Mr Dylan.

"I told them if they call it'll take me about 40 seconds to pack my bag," he says with a laugh.

Linden, a long-time fan of Dylan, got the opportunity to share the stage with him thanks to his connection with Buddy Miller, who also works on Nashville. When Miller was unavailable to fill the guitar slot in Dylan's band, he recommended Linden.

"I remember telling my wife—my wife and I actually celebrated our 30th anniversary of being together the day after I did my first show with Bob—I had said to her so many times over the years, because there were a few times that I had thought I might be in line for the gig, so I always referred to it as 'getting the call,' because it was the call I wanted to have my whole life,

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so I said, 'I got the call' and we couldn't believe it," Linden recalls when asked about his reaction to the news.

So what's Bob Dylan like to be on stage with?

Focused is the first word that comes to mind for Linden. It's all about the music and the band pays strict attention.

"The players are all incredibly players, and it's not like a scripted-out show. There's a real dialogue that goes on between all the players on stage, and that makes it incredibly stimulating," he says. "His influence is so gigantic. In roots music I don't think any of us would be even playing music without him. He created what we think of as a singer-songwriter—he changed everything."

Linden jokes this is a topic he could go on about all day as he launches into Dylan's influence on other revered musicians like John Lennon and the Rolling Stones.

"I don't think there's any artist, really, in any medium, not just in music, but really any medium that's been as revolutionary as him," Linden adds bluntly. "I think that's at least an arguable point, maybe, but I don't think it's even an arguable point that he's certainly one of those people that changed everything."

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The Montréal Guitar Trio & California Guitar Trio

Sat, Feb 8 (7:30 pm) Arden Theatre, $40 This isn't just a classical guitar concert. The California Guitar Trio (CGT) and Montréal Guitar Trio (MG3) have each gained a reputation around the world for the ability to transcend genres of progressive rock, jazz and world music. They'll perform separately and as one, taking on each other's music as well as the songs of those that may be more familiar—think Queen, the Beatles and Pink Floyd. Prior to the performance in Edmonton, members of each trio shared their soundtrack picks with Vue.

At home

On the road

Morning: Sébastien Dufour: Reggae: Peter Tosh, Jimmy Cliff or Bob Marley.

Glenn Lévesque: Sleeping.

Marc Morin: Schubert Lieder, Glenn Gould, Bert Lams solo recordings of Bach or often silence.

Paul Richards: Silence. At home, I usually enjoy quiet mornings without music.

Bert Lamas: Listening to my yoga-class teacher at 6 am, then enjoying hearing my little baby daughter wake up.

Hideyo Moriya: None.

Morning: SD: Nina Simone and Esperanza Spalding.

GL: Still sleeping.

MM: Leonard Cohen, Italian tarantella, Rufus Wainwright.

PR: Robert Barto performing lute music by Sylvius Leopold Weiss. I often enjoy listening to this music during flights or long drives.

BL: Warming up and repertoire for the evening's concert. I tend to always fit in a little music by Bach (cello suites or violin partitas).

HM: None.

Noon: SD: Flamenco: Moraito [Chico] and Vicente Amigo or Indian slide guitar [by] Debashish Bhattacharya.

GL: The Beatles—never tired [of] listening to this band.

MM: Quebec [traditional] like Ni Sarpe Ni Branche, André Marchand, Lisa Ornstein or others. Lots of metal, death and classic rock, too, like Meshuggah, Iron Maiden, Kansas, lots of Rush, Neil Young and the Beatles, of course.

PR: During the day, I often listen to music posted by others on Facebook, which can be almost anything.

BL: Practising guitar, transcribing and working on current projects, transcribing, looking for ideas, working on scores.

HM: If I have time, practice with guitar, so no particular music.

Noon: SD: Béla Fleck.

GL: A large selection: Black Sabbath, Radiohead, classical music, jazz crooner and more.

MM: Prog-rock mostly—Genesis, Gentle Giant, Frank Zappa, lots of Zappa.

PR: My own guitar playing. Midday is often the time I can practice when we don't have long-distance travel.

BL: While we travel I mostly listen to projects I'm working on. Currently, that is. Piano music by Thomas de Hartmann.

HM: Warming up for performance, so [my] own guitar playing.

Night: SD: Baden Powell and Astor Piazzolla.

GL: Film music (I'm watching movies during the night).

MM: Lots of jazz, Coltrane, Esbjörn Svensson Trio, Vijay Iyer, Paul Anka and other crooners, Miles, and lots of live jazz of the awesome Montréal jazz scene.

PR: Radiohead, In Rainbows; Andrew Bird, I Want to

See Pulaski at Night.

BL: Listening to my lovely wife's voice when she talks to me.

HM: Sometimes I listen to the music from Elvis Presley, Chet Atkins for [going] to sleep.

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Night:

SB: Emilie Simon, Patrick Watson, Radiohead.

GL: Some music I can sleep or relax [to] like Mozart's "Requiem" or audio books (some classic stories are good to sleep).

MM: Other than ourselves in soundcheck or concert, none. I usually prefer to read or watch documentaries.

PR: Montréal Guitar Trio. I get to hear them every night when we are on tour together.

BL: California Guitar Trio and Montréal Guitar Trio in concert.

HM: MG3 and CGT's music.

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MUSIC PREVUE // BLUES

The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer

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t was one of those nights where windows of opportunity they get to it's like an eating-drinking mara- write, travelling between Hall's home in thon," says Shawn Hall of the previ- Nanaimo and Rogers' in Vancouver.

"The parent and the artists are oil ous evening, in which he ended up attending a Matt Anderson show last and water, and it's become apparent," minute—and is, as of this conversa- Hall says, joking that despite being "blues daddies," the pair haven't starttion, still recovering.

He briefly turns his attention away ed writing kids' songs just yet. "I think both of us have refrom the phone to alized that utopic a small voice pip- Fri, Feb 7 (8 pm) vision of being in ing up in the back- Artery, $18 (advance), $24 a cabin and writing ground—"Sorry, I (day of show) and looking out may get cut off ocinto the sea or the casionally because I've got a little naked guy running mountains or the plains or wherever you might be, that's squashed. That around with rubber boots on."

That little guy is one of Hall's two romantic notion, I think I've realized at children—Quincy, age three and Leo, this point in my life that it's squashed eight months—who have drastically and I have to figure out how to turn changed the way Hall (aka The Har- on inspiration for writing in life's poonist) approaches music. He and his smaller moments." bandmate Matthew Rogers (aka The Axe Murderer, also a father) don't The blues duo, who met while respend more than 10 days on the road at cording a radio jingle and coined its a time, and take advantage of the small name from a lyric in Kris Kristof-

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ferson's "Bobby Mcgee," began to gain recognition after the release of Checkered Past in 2011, and has been busy working on a new album due out in June. The currently untitled disc continues building on The Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer's gritty, soulful style of funk-tinged blues, moving into a new chapter of Hall and Rogers' lives and career. "[On] Checkered Past we were both transitioning out of phases of our lives—me probably more so. I was leaving a bunch of bad years behind," Hall notes. "This one, it's coming out of that place, but the content of it, it's almost like we're channelling characters."

The push to expand the band's storytelling chops came after sharing the stage with the likes of Whitehorse and Jason Collett during the summer.

Hall explains he and Rogers realized the depth of the songwriting those artists were putting out and decided it was time for them to do the same.

So far, Hall and Rogers have 15 tracks written—which might end up pared down on the finished album—with subject matter touching on things like aging in "Act My Age" ("Which is a big load of crap. As you know, musicians don't tend to grow up," Hall jokes).

Others are third-person tales involving the likes of seedy characters visiting a red-light district and being affected by the very nature of doing ostensibly bad things—but it's not preachy, Hall promises.

"It's like method singing, in a way.

That's what I felt like singing the record: it felt like I had to really channel just strange places or places I was in a very different past. It's cathartic ... it's a different practice for us," Hall says, noting the songs were intended to be universally relatable in some way, writing blues for a modern era yet maintaining a sense of timelessness.

"We don't want to write for a frozen time period that's already been written, and so we're trying to keep things relevant and add new stuff to a songbook that's sort of got frozen in time."

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Lindsay May

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he year 2012 was a particularly difficult one for Lindsay May. The singer-songwriter lost her grandmother and mother in the span of three months, but these events also proved to be the final push for her to leave corporate life as an account

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exectuive behind and pursue music Now she's released her EP Girl With Grit, an alt-country disc in which stofull-time.

"Some people have asked me, 'Do ries of strong women are brought to you regret not being a full-time musi- life by her smoky, soulful voice and cian earlier?' And I say, 'No, because I thoughtful lyrics.

"It's almost like I'm playing my don't live my life like that,'" says May en route to Kelowna, BC for a house therapy in a lot of ways, because I made Shimmer and concert. "If I died at Girl With Grit at the how young my mom Wed, Feb 12 same time and I had died, I would always With Jodi Doidge to decide, at the look back at my life Cha Island Tea Co time, how to sepaand say, 'Why didn't rate the songs," May I do that?' I was getting busier every year. I was getting says, adding Girl With Grit is making asked to play more small festivals ... I her feel better about the curveballs had a solid base because it was like I life has thrown her. "I had a fairly strong mom. She was an indepenhad two jobs."

Not wanting to leave room for dent single parent and really pushed any potential regret, May took the me to make sure I got my education plunge. While she admits she still has and to take care of myself. I think one her rough days in the wake of her of my biggest lessons in life is defilosses, music has helped her push nitely that I need to take my power forward. It also seemed that once she back and take control of my life in chose music as her full-time profes- the most ways that I can. Especially being an independent musician now, sion, the doors began to open. there's not record companies, there's May has been writing songs for not other people that are going to more than a decade, but she released help you out. You really need to take her first album, Shimmer, in March your power back and look after your2012, and began making her rounds self in life." on the festival circuit, picking up MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM songwriting accolades along the way.

PREVUE // ROCK

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t one time, it was perfectly nor- The band released its first album, mal—and accepted—for a band Presenting: The Electric Revival in or artist to take years to release a 2012 and didn't keep its growing new record. But fan base without now, when infor- Sat, Feb 8 (9 pm) new material for mation is demand- With Blind Roots, Back VIII long, releasing a ed instantaneous- Brixx new single every ly and music from week for 13 weeks all over the world in the summer of is more accessible than ever, it's easy 2012. Its next album, Pirate Radio, for artists to get lost in the shuffle if came along in the summer of 2013 new material isn't being churned out and was quickly followed up by a at a consistent rate. five-song EP later that year.

The Electric Revival, a rock trio "It's got a lot to do with the way mefrom Calgary whose style is reminis- dia is changing and being shared," says cent of the Black Keys and Led Zep- guitarist and vocalist Ian Dillon, who pelin, has embraced the new norm. started the band in late 2009 as an

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music video on its social-media channels and YouTube last Friday for the song "See That My Grave Be Kept Clean," is currently at the start of a cross-Canada tour to re-release Pirate Radio under Cruzar Media, with plans to head down to the US for its second North American tour following the release of its new album this September.

"It's a little bit more aggressive, it's a little bit more rock 'n' roll," Dillon says of the new material. "I've been really getting into the Stooges and early Iggy Pop, and I really like how their records are solid rock songs and there's not a concept tied to it or anything like that. That's what we're trying to achieve—just put out a great, solid 10-track rock album."

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PREVUE // FOLK

That hat is far from Beginner

Marlaena Moore T

"A lot of the songs have a really hough she's been writing songs since her mid-teens, until fairly similar theme of not really knowing recently Marlaena Moore wasn't anything about life, and love," she says. "Which is awesome. I think it's sure she'd ever release an album.

"When I was younger—even a few really great, not knowing anything, years ago—when 'cause then you someone would Sat, Feb 8 (8 pm) never stop learnask, 'Are you With Diamond Mind, Smokey, ing, ever. I regoing to do an Nolan Bossert ally like to live by album?'" she be- Wunderbar, $10 that. I'm always gins, "I'd be like, trying to be a little bit unsatis'Are you allowed to do that? Are you allowed to be fied, so I can find new things." local and make your own album? Is Before recording, Moore, often perthat a thing that happens?"

Moore's aware of the naiveté of forming these songs solo, had begun that thinking now, on the cusp of considering a backing band to fully her debut release, Beginner. But flesh out some of her arrangements.

"A lot of people told me you could though the album collects some of her early songwriting, its songs get a lot more shows, and make it are anything but what the title sug- even bigger if you had a band," she gests: the eight silvery folk mus- recalls. "I thought that was a really ings here prove themselves nimble good idea, but it was just a matter ruminations on love, the loss of it of finding the people I would trust and the yearning that comes in the with my songs."

That trust revealed itself soon aftermath. And cutting through the air like a beacon through fog, enough: after playing in one of Moore's voice leaps, yelps, shifts Blair Drover's side projects, Moore from quiet to loud like a Pixies brought him aboard, along with, song, and offers up the emotions Laine Cherkewick and Jerome Toviher songs reach for with unusual llo—on their own, the trio are the impact. It's Moore's secret weapon, math-punk band Desiderata, but minus the secrecy, and it gives her here they act as a sparse-but-muscular back-up. lyrics extra punch.

"I'm convinced they can play every genre of music," Moore says.

"We'll just be jamming, and there'll be a moment where one of us has to tune, and Jerome and Laine will start doing a weird Bossa thing— they can pretty much do anything.

"I think it really helps that they've been playing [together] a long time as well," she continues. "They really know each other and how to play off of each other. I'm lucky they already had a band formed that I could just steal."

That said, Moore has her own punk bent on the side: she fronts the all-grrl punk trio the Sweathearts, a band of joke song titles crowning strong feminist lyrics. "[There's] overlap," she opines about the pair of genres she's presently playing around with, "because lots of musicians need a balance.

When you're just constantly doing folk music—to quote High Fidelity, 'Sad bastard music'—it can get a bit much. A lot of people have their vacation band, basically, because I think a lot of musicians all have a very wide, eclectic taste in music. They do love the sad folk, but they also love rocking out to Jay Reatard, right?"

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Dum Dum Girls Too True (Sub Pop) 

Dum Dum Girls' Too True is a wormhole back to the darker, neon-lit '80s, where longing-heart rock 'n' roll was drenched in washes of production and hazy club mood.

Drenched, but not drowned: while Too True is a much slicker record than 2011's Only In Dreams —it's produced, like Dreams , by Richard Gottehrer, who's been present for every major Dum Dum Girls release (as well as early Blondie), and Sune Rose Wagner of the Raveonettes— but by polishing the band's rawer edges, Too True grants the Dum Dums' a greater emotional ubiquity than before.

At least, on a song-by-song basis it does: each of its 10 tracks seems to dig deeper into the heart of its own matters (usually the heart).

Opener "Cult of Love" launches with an urgent, driving bass throb, couched in choir-like synth chords and some breathy sighs from band fronter Dee Dee as she celebrates a new love. It's probably the most hopeful the album gets: afterwards, the big sigh washes of "Are You Okay?" wallow in morning-after regrets; "Too True to Be Good"

internalizes that title sentiment in a mix of longing, hope and doubt.

Generally speaking, the lyrics retread some well-explored territory for the band— wounds gained on the battlefield of love: "Why be good?

Be beautiful and sad / It's all you've ever had" Dee Dee offers in "Evil Blooms," and later, over the echo-chamber guitars of "Rimbaud Eyes," she admits "sharp love has swollen me up." It's usually either the nervous excitement being on the cusp of love—those jittery feels of knowing the direction you're headed in—or regret for watching that all crumble around you. Or feeling like it's about to crumble all around you. Still, Dee Dee's a compelling songwriter, even if she doesn't tread too far from the territory she's already marked out for the band.

The downside of that song-andproduction-focused approach is that Too True feels like a less varied album, with every track maximizing every layer it can, leaving less room for song-to-song variety.

It's a collection of finely tuned parts, each a little better than their total sum. The big peaks—and album-long builds to catharsis like Dreams' "Coming Down"—seem nullified under this new level of production gloss, and, without the exposed rawness of previous Dum Dums' records to keep the emotion up, Too True seems to get a little lost in its own sheen.

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Chase Lifted To the Suburbs and Back (Independent) 

Torontonian Chase Lifted takes a big step in achieving his music-making dreams on his debut mixtape To the Suburbs and Back. As he says on "Cigarettes (I Need A Vice)" Chase is "just trying to make a living off talking fast" and he does it with aplomb, spitting over nine tracks of woozy samples with production by DeAndre Freeman, Jazz Notes and Chase himself.

Chase identifies himself as an intellectual on "A Million Votes" and has one ambitious goal: he wants to "push the culture forward." He shows that promise on the anthemic "No Body's Perfect" a song devoted to pleasing women of all shapes and sizes.

To the Suburbs and Back is a big risk, but one that works out well in Chase's favour. It's short, sweet and is a good first showing for the young Toronto rapper.

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Four IN 140 Various artists, Sweetheart 2014 (Hear Music) @VueWeekly: Some really good modern artists covering some heartwarming, lovely older songs, just in time for V-Day. Worth a listen.

Lawrence Arms, Metropole (Epitaph) @VueWeekly: Rough and gruff, these alcohol-soaked punks had 8 years to create a nice batch of sing-a-longs.

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DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri CHICAGO JOES Colossal Flows: Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm2am; 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 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 MERCER TAVERN Homegrown Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture 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 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 UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT FEB 8 APEX CASINO–Vee Lounge Chronic Rock ARDEN THEATRE California Guitar Trio; 7:30pm; $40 at Arden box office ARTERY Paris and the English, Civic Radio, Mat Harrison, Carl for Breakfast, Fiction Smiles, others; 8pm ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Wyddershynns BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Lynne Chwyl and the Collective; 7pm (door); $10 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Two Bears North (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLIND PIG PUB & GRILL Live jam every Sat; 3-7pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Tzadeka and Bardic Form; 8:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening show: Michael Charles BOHEMIA Tomas Marsh, the Hecklers, Eticpo, Betty Sue’s a Tramp, Atomic Alice BONNIE DOON HALL World Fit For Children Present: Wool On Wolves (pop rock), Scenic Route to Alaska, the Nulls; 8pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door) BOURBON ROOM Friday Nights: Joe Piccolo and Swing the Cat “B” STREET BAR Rockin Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Saturday Night: Joe Piccolo & Swing the Cat; 8pm BRIXX BAR The Electric Revival, guests CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK Great Stone Jones BAILEY THEATRE– Camrose Camrose Country Opry: Traditional country music by local artists; 6pm (door), 7pm (show); tickets at Shoppers Drug Mart (Duggan Mall), Valu Drugs (Main St) CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO YELLOWHEAD Whiskey Boyz DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Joanne Janzen DUKE OF ARGYLL PUB Rob Taylor; 8-12midnight DV8 Resurrection of the Shreddin’ Onions, Bleed, Cast in Stone; 8pm FESTIVAL PLACE Blackie and the Rodeo Kings; sold out FILTHY MCNASTY’S Free Afternoon Concerts; 4pm; Sweet Vintage Rides with guest Hayley Morgan; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm HORIZON STAGE Africville Stories: Joe Sealy (jazz); 7:30pm; $35 (adult)/$30 (student/senior) JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Lucette (singer-songwriter); 8pm; $20 JUBILEE 27th Annual Black History Month Gospel Concert; 7pm; tickets at TicketMaster L.B.’S PUB The Blazers LEAF BAR AND GRILL Sat Jam: hosted by Terry Evans; 5pm start; Late show: South

of Sanity NAKED CYBER CAFÉ Guilty Company (EP release, folk, pop rock), Our Good Wolf; 8pm; $15 (adv) NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm OMAILLES IRISH PUB Ron Pederson ON THE ROCKS The Dungarees with DJs OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PALACE CASINO (WEM) The Classics; 9pm-1am; no cover PAWN SHOP Greater Than Giants (alt rock), Daniel and the Impending Doom. Down the Hatch, guests; 8pm; $10 (adv) RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS Global Genocide Commencing Human Desperation; 8pm (door); $10 THE RIG Marshall Lawrence ROSE AND CROWN Stu Bendall SET NIGHTCLUB Chris Lake–Helium Tour, Nudii and Bill, Fusion, Luis Rocas; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Andrew Scott SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon WUNDERBAR Marlaena Moore (album release), Diamond Mind, Smokey, Nolan Bossert YARDBIRD SUITE The Best of Alberta Jazz Series: From Edmonton: Humane Beings; 8pm (door),9pm (show); $14 (member)/$18 (guest)

FEB/14 FEB/15 FEB/28 MAR/6 MAR/7 MAR/8 MAR/15 MAR/17 MAR/22 MAR/26 MAR/27 MAR/29 APR/4 APR/8 APR/15 APR/28 MAY/9

NIGHTVISION PRESENTS A DIRTY BIRD VALENTINES FEAT

MAY/13 MAY/16

THE UNION PRESENTS

KILL FRENZY & ARDALAN

SEPTEMBER STONE

W/ MARKET FORCES AND THE THREADS THE UNION AND SONIC 102.9FM PRESENTS WITH GUESTS HAGFACE AND I AM MACHI THE UNION PRESENTS

THE PACK A.D.

ROYAL CANOE WAKE OWL W/ LYON

AND GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESENTS

OUTREACH

ELECTRIC SIX AND THE MOHRS AND GUESTS THE UNION PRESENTS

THE WONDER YEARS

W/ DEFEATER, REAL FRIENDS, CITIZEN & MODERN BASEBALL THE UNION AND CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS W/ GUESTS AFTER THE BURIAL, ALBUM RELEASE TOUR NAVANEK & CHON THE UNION PRESENTS

ANIMALS AS LEADERS

ISLANDS

AND GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE MOUNTIES

ACT A FOOL THE UNION PRESENTS

THE JEZABELS AND BOY AND BEAR MRG PROSUCTIONS PRESENTS

STEVEN J MASKUS THE UNION PRESENTS

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN

UNITARIAN CHURCH OF EDMONTON Cabaret Evening: Chorealis, Edmonton Vocal Minority, with Janet Smith, Tony Olivares, Andrea Graham, Tim Maskell, Marla Jenkins, Erin VandermolenPater 6:30pm (door), 7pm (show); $15 (door); Cookie Dough Unison Festival Fundraiser E: sing@evmchoir. com WINSPEAR Robbins Pops: ESO: Life is a Cabaret!, Jack Everly (conductor); 8pm; $24-$89

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...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It’s Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

W/ TRASH TALK, RETOX AND SHINING

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE 1975

CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS THE WORLWIDE PLAGUES TOUR FEATURING:

ICED EARTH

W/ SABATON & REVAMP

BATHS STARLITE ROOM AND CBC PROUDLY PRESENT THE RETURN OF TORCHES TO AUTHORITY ZERO W/GUESTS TRIGGERS, THE MISFIRES, ABANDIN ALL HOPE

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Moravian Composers: Ernst & Janácek; Guillaume Tardif (violin), Elias-Axel Pettersson (piano); 8pm

W/ GUESTS

UBK PRESENTS

FEB/7 UNBALANCED W/ PEOPLE CALL IT HOME, OAK AND ELM FEB/8 THE ELECTRIC REVIVAL PISTOL WHIPS, RUBEN FLEX FEB/14 THE AND MERCY FUNK FEB/15 THE MIGHTY STEEDS 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 MAR/7 MAR/8 LOUDER THAN LOVE MAR/14 ALTERRA, AND OF WHALE AND WOLF MAR/15 MATCHBREAKER, 20 CENTURIES OF STONY SLEEP MAR/21 SHARKS ON FIRE!, LOVE AND LIES & HOLIDAY MONDAY MAR/29 PAX ARCANA W/ BLIND ROOTS & BLACK XIII

W/ VANGOHST & PALE BLUE DOT WITH GUESTS TBA

TASTE OF ICELAND FEAT

CYGNETS, KALEY BIRD, I AM MACHI, LAY LOW (ICELAND) SIN FANG (ICELAND) TASTE OF ICELAND CONTINUES WITH

HERMIGERVILL (ICELAND) AND UBK DJS DEGREE, TEN-O AND THE SPECIALIST (ICELAND)

W/ GUESTS

REUNION SHOW W/ SPECIAL GUESTS SPOIL 5, KMA W/ LEFT AS OBJECTS AND LOVE TAPPER

METAL TUESDAYS LAUNCH FEB 18TH ALL METAL ALL NIGHT, DRINK SPECIALS AND FOOD SPECIALS ALL NIGHT.

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook PAWN SHOP Transmission

VUEWEEKLY FEB 06 – FEB 12, 2014

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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

FRI FEB 7

HEAVISIDE, RED CANNONS, WHALE AND A WOLF & THE DRYLAND BAND SAT FEB 8

GREATER THAN GIANTS W/DANIEL AND THE IMPENDING DOOM, DOWN THE HATCH AND MORE

TUE FEB 11

MOONSPELL W/ LEAVES EYES, ATROCITY & SAMANDRIEL

FRI FEB 14

VALENTINES W/

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

DAVE HAUSE & NORTHCOTE

W/ GUEST WORST DAYS DOWN FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

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

Gillani Sufi Ensemble, Soka Gakkai Buddhist chant, Debbi Spence; presented by Edmonton’s Interfaith Centre; silent auction; 3pm; $25/$20 (member/senior/student) ar 780.413.6159, E: intfaith@ shaw.ca SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm WUNDERBAR Poetry Brothel

Classical

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL Pro Coro Canada, Elmer Iseler Singers; 2:30pm; $30 (adult)/$25 (student/senior)

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

BETHEL LUTHERAN Winter Wonderland: with Matt Day; Concordia Concert Choir: silent auction; 7pm; $25/$15 (door, Concordia student Accounts); music. concordia.ab.ca

SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Alberta Baroque Ensemble: Elizabeth Faulkner (flute), Jeanette Comeau (viola), Joanna Ciapka (violin), Ronda Metszies (cello); 3pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) at Gramophone, TIX on the Square, door

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN FEB 9 BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 9am-3pm; donations BLUES ON WHYTE Michael Charles CHA ISLAND TEA CO Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm DUGGAN’S IRISH PUB Celtic Music with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS The Almightly Turtlenecks THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM Building Bridges Among Faith Traditions: Inspirational music, prayers and chants: Anna Beaumont, Andrew Glover, Karim

WINSPEAR U of A High School Honour Band, the Symphonic Wind Ensemble, featuring U of A Dept of Music (big band, classical, jazz); 2:30pm; $20

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

Park Monday Open Stage

Downtown Stan Gallant

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Mike Letto

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm WUNDERBAR Braden Gates, 100 Mile House, Alex Vissia, Jenie Thai

DJs 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 11 BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Tue Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Sabrina Weeks and Swing Cat Bounce BOHEMIA Acoustic Tuesday: Featuring Matt McKeen, the Son of the Sea, Dan Smith, Lacy Krol DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue: this week: Jay Gilday; 9pm

FIDDLER’S ROOST Tuesday Nights fiddle circle jam; all levels of musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

L.B.’S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

MON FEB 10

MERCER TAVERN Tue Nights Alt Tue with Kris Harvey and guests

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover ARTERY The Wilderness of Manitoba (alt folk), Field Assembly, guests; 7:30pm; $10 (adv) BLUES ON WHYTE Sabrina Weeks and Swing Cat Bounce DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Joanne Janzen 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

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy Arthur Ordge O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

WUNDERBAR Calvin Love, Cantoo, Mark Mills YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: John Sweenie Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

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 BRIXX Launch Tue session 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 12 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY Corin Raymond (country folk), guests; 7:30pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door)

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Robbie’s Reef Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Sabrina Weeks and Swing Cat Bounce BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Jazz evening every Wed; 8-11pm: This week : Jerold Dubyk Trio (tenor sax) COOK COUNTY The Young Guns Tour, Brett Kissel, One More Girl; $20

OVERTIME Sherwood

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

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

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover

PAWN SHOP Moonspell (metal), Leaves’ Eyes, Atrocity, Samandriel; 8pm; $22 (adv)

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy Arthur Ordge

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

OVERTIME–Sherwood

SHERLOCK HOLMES–

CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750-124 St CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park

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 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove ISBE EDMONTON 9529 Jasper Ave, 587.521.7788; isbeedmonton.com J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160-118 Ave MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL–Alberta College Conservatory of Music 10050 MacDonald Dr

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy Arthur Ordge OVERTIME Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm-12am SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Stan Gallant SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Amy Weymes SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Mike Letto WUNDERBAR The Archaics, Rattle Rattle, Bailey Sutton, Math Debate ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Brass Fireworks: U of A Dept of Music: Robin Doyon (trumpet), Sylvain Beyries (trumpet), Allene Hackleman (horn), Alden Lowrey (trombone) and John McPherson (tuba); 7:30pm; $20 MUTTART HALL–Alberta College Conservatory of Music Edmonton Recital Society: Main Series Concert 3: Recital by Benjamin Butterfield (tenor), Peter Dala (piano, Edmonton Opera, Alberta Ballet); $35 (adult)/$25 (senior)/$10 (student) at TIX on the Square

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 Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St APEX CASINO–Vee Lounge 24 Boudreau, St Albert, 780.460.8092 ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave 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 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG PUB & GRILL 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BONNIE DOON HALL 9240-93 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

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CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604-111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Sask 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan DUKE OF ARGYLL PUB Four Points Hotel, 7230 Argyll Rd 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, 8882170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100

VUEWEEKLY FEB 06 – FEB 12, 2014

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM

12845-102 Ave ST BASIL’S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave SET NIGHTCLUB 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 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166A St 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 UNITARIAN CHURCH OF EDMONTON 10804 119 St 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

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 842495 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 THE INNER PEACE MOVEMENT OF CANADA • St Albert Curling Club Bldg, Meeting Rm, 3 Tache St, St Albert • innerpeacemovement.ca • Lecture: Discover your true life purpose. Find inner peace, feel happy and fulfilled. Understand cycles of life and eternal life.

Learn about communication with your angels, levels of consciousness, your 4 psychic gifts and how to develop them, and more • Tue, Feb 18, 1pm and 7pm • $21 (door) LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • That's Improv; Feb 6-8 • Tim Koslo; Feb 13-15

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

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm

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

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS AS-

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SOCIATION • 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 ATHEISTS GROUP CHANGE:

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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 • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331 • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com 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 WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKES • Meet at McDonalds, Capilano, 9857-50 St • Weekly 10km guided hikes; this week hike the trail from Goldbar to Rundle Park • Feb 9; Car pool available from mtg place; hike leader Johanna 780.428.8561

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

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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)

YOGA MEDITATION-FITNESS • Rosslyn Community Centre, 11015-134 Ave • New year! New you! Free meditation-Yoga-Fitness; all levels welcome. Drop-in • Mar 5 • Wed, 6-7:30pm • Info: FitSteenfitsYou@gmail.com

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LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS AN AGREEABLE OCCUPATION: WOMEN'S EMBROIDERY • Telus Centre, U of A • Learn about the intricacies of embroidery and how it figured heavily in the livelihood of women making a living before the 18th century in the British Isles • Feb 11, 7-8pm • 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 10, 7pm • $12, proceeds to support the Canadian Obesity Network TAKING ACTION: STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC SERVICES • Chateau Louis Hotel, St Michael’s Rm, 11727 Kingsway • Public forum featuring speaker, Allyson Pollock, (one of Britain’s leading authorities on Public Private Partnerships (P3s) and the privatization of public services). Q&A follows the presentation • Feb 13, 7pm • $15 (preregister at pialberta.org, pick up at door) 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 VOICES FROM ELSIPOGTOG: MI’KMAQ WARRIORS SPEAKING TOUR • Telus Bldg, Rm 217/219, U of A • Suzanne Patles, Mi'kmaq Warriors Society, speaking to raise awareness about the struggle at Elsipogtog against shale gas fracking • Feb 11, 6:30-8pm • Free, donations to Mi’kmaq Warriors legal defence fund accepted; e: volunteer@apirg.org by Feb 6 to req childcare 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 WHEN ALGAE MET FUNGI: A LICHEN LOVE STORY • Royal Alberta Museum, Museum Theatre • Free talk on the lichens that bejewel Alberta's landscapes with Dr Diane Haughland • Feb 12, 7pm • Free

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/ bwedmonton BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash • 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 •

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Habitat For Humanity Women Build Week Mar 18-22 Are you a woman who has always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site,but were unsure if you had the necessary skills? Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Kim. Contact Info: Kim Dedeugd kdedeugd@hfh.org 780-451-3416 ext 232 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 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 the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!

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

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

Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org 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.

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RUNNERS WANTED Run Wild for Wildlife is a campaign that raises money for the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton . This year’s Walk/Run is taking place on April 13th, 2014. We are looking for vegan/vegetarian runners to join the VVoA’s team for this event! Please email info@vofa.ca if you are interested in participating, or if you have any questions.

Representatives of the VVoA will also be selling vegan cookies at the event, with the proceeds going to the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton.

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.

Skills in event planning, PR, marketing, graphic design are needed, but not essential. We welcome all volunteers. If this sounds interesting, email us at Edmonton@roomtoread.org

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2013 Palaeo Arts Contest at the Royal Tyrrell Museum, Drumheller, AB. 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.

Download Application here http://visualartsalberta.com/blo g/wpcontent/uploads/2012/05/2014 -Foote-Art-Prize-FINAL1.pdf 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.

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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 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!

CALLING ALL YOUTH ARTISTS! We are looking for submissions for Tabula Rasa, an evening to celebrate artistic talent of Edmontonians under 24! Accepting submissions in the form of visual or performing arts (send us your music, poetry, photography, paintings, choreography..etc) The event will be held at ROAST coffee house downtown, April 11th.

Find the link to our submissions on tumblr, twitter and instagram: @tabularasa_yeg . Help us show you off!

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> 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.

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The Vanguard Journal invites undergraduate students of Edmonton to submit articles (max. 1500 words) for the Spring 2014 issue, Changing Climates. Send inquiries and submissions to vanguard.journal@gmail.com.

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ARTIST Wanting to donate artwork to ANY CHARITY. 8” x 10” prints of pencil drawings. 100% of proceeds go to charity.

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PACE is very fortunate to have Catch the Keys as our producers for the 27th Annual Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts. You can expect to be hearing a lot from them as they work their magic on our wonderful event. You can track our hash tag #mca2014 to keep abreast of developments.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "You know it's Saturday when you are wiping off vodka stains from your face with a marshmallow," testifies the woman who writes the Tumblr blog "French Fries Absinthe Milkshakes." I really hope you don't even come close to having an experience like that this week, Aries. But I'm worried that you will. I sense that you're becoming allergic to caution. You may be subconsciously wishing to shed all decorum and renounce self control. To be clear, there's nothing inherently wrong with relaxing your guard. I hope you will indeed give up some of your high-stress vigilance and surrender a bit to life's sweet chaos. Just please try to find a playful and safe and not-tooinsane way to do so.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): What is the single best thing you could do to fulfill your number-one desire? Is there a skill you should attain? A subject you should study? A special kind of experience you should seek or a shift in perspective you should initiate? This is a big opportunity, Taurus. You have an excellent chance to identify the specific action you could take that will lead you to the next stage of your evolution. And if you do manage to figure out exactly what needs to be done, start doing it!

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): When songwriters make a "slant rhyme," the words they use don't really rhyme, but they sound close enough alike to mimic a rhyme. An example occurs in "The Bad Touch," a tune by the Bloodhound Gang: "You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals / So let's do it like they do on the Discovery Channel." Technically, "mammals" doesn't rhyme with "channel." I suspect that in the coming week you will have experiences with metaphorical resemblances to slant rhymes.

But as long as you don't fuss and fret about the inexactness you encounter, as long as you don't demand that everything be precise and cleaned-up, you will be entertained and educated. Vow to see the so-called imperfections as soulful.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "Almost," writes novelist Joan Bauer. "It's a big word for me.

I feel it everywhere. Almost home. Almost happy. Almost changed. Almost, but not quite.

Not yet. Soon, maybe." I'm sure you know about that feeling yourself, Cancerian. Sometimes it has seemed like your entire life is composed of thousands of small almosts that add up to one gigantic almost. But I have good news: there is an excellent chance that in the next 14 to 16 weeks you will graduate from the endless and omnipresent almost; you will rise up and snatch a bold measure of com-

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pleteness from out of the evershifting flow. And it all kicks into high gear now.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): One of the chapter titles in my most recent book is this: "Ever since I learned to see three sides to every story, I'm finding much better stories."

I'm recommending that you find a way to use this perspective as your own in the coming weeks, Leo. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, it's crucial that you not get stuck in an oppositional mode. It would be both wrong and debilitating to believe that you must choose between one of two conflicting options.

With that in mind, I will introduce you to a word you may not know: "trilemma." It transcends a mere dilemma because it contains a third alternative.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): In 1984, Don Henley's song "The Boys of Summer" reached the top of the Billboard charts. "Out on the road today / I saw a Deadhead sticker on a Cadillac," Henley sings wistfully near the end of the tune. He's dismayed by the sight of the Grateful Dead's logo, an ultimate hippie symbol, displayed on a luxury car driven by snooty rich kids. Almost 20 years later, the band the Ataris covered "The Boys of Summer," but changed the lyric to "Out on the road today / I saw a Black Flag sticker on a Cadillac." It conveyed the same mournful contempt, but this time invoking the iconic punk band Black Flag. I offer this tale to you, Virgo, as an encouragement to update the way you think about your life's mythic quest ... to modernize your old storylines ... to refresh and refurbish the references you invoke to tell people about who you are.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Food aficionado Michael Pollan says that Americans "worry more about food and derive less pleasure from eating" than people in other countries. If you ask them what their association is with "chocolate cake," they typically say "guilt." By contrast, the French are likely to respond to the same question with "celebration." From an astrological perspective, I think it's appropriate for you to be more like the French than the Americans in the coming weeks—not just in your attitude toward delicious desserts, but in regards to every opportunity for pleasure. This is one of those times when you have a licence to guiltlessly explore the heights and depths of bliss.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In the Inuktitut language spoken among the eastern Canadian Inuit, the word for "simplicity" is katujjiqatigiittiarnirlu.

This amusing fact reminds me of a certain situation in your life. Your quest to get back to basics and reconnect with your core sources is turning out to be

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rather complicated. If you hope to invoke all of the pure, humble clarity you need, you will have to call on some sophisticated and ingenious magic.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree?" asked environmentalist Edward Abbey. His answer: "The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse." I suggest you meditate on all the ways you can apply that wisdom as a metaphor to your own issues. For example: what monumental part of your own life might be of service to a small, fragile part? What major accomplishment of yours can provide strength and protection to a ripening potential that's underappreciated by others?

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "To burn with desire and keep quiet about it is the greatest punishment we can bring on ourselves," wrote the poet Federico García Lorca. I urge you to make sure you are not inflicting that abuse on yourself in the coming weeks, Capricorn. It's always dangerous to be out of touch with or secretive about your holy passions, but it's especially risky these days.

I'm not necessarily saying you should rent a megaphone and shout news of your yearnings in the crowded streets. In fact, it's better if you are discriminating about whom you tell. The most important thing is to not be hiding anything from yourself about what moves you the most.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Back in 2002, three young men launched YouTube, in part motivated by a banal desire. They were frustrated because they couldn't find online videos of the notorious incident that occurred during the Superbowl halftime show, when Janet Jackson's wardrobe malfunction exposed her breast. In response, they created the now-famous website that allows people to share videos. I foresee the possibility of a comparable sequence for you, Aquarius. A seemingly superficial wish or trivial interest could inspire you to come up with a fine new addition to your world. Pay attention to your whimsical notions.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil." That's what 20th-century author Truman Capote said about his own writing process. Back in that primitive pre-computer era, he scrawled his words on paper with a pencil and later edited out the extraneous stuff by applying scissors to the manuscript. Judging from your current astrological omens, Pisces, I surmise you're in a phase that needs the power of the scissors more than the power of the pencil. What you cut away will markedly enhance the long-term beauty and value of the creation you're working on. V

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What is the best way to sanitize a latex dildo? At least I think it's a latex dildo. I actually don't know. I had a yeast infection a few months ago, and before I knew what was up, I used my toy. Now I'm afraid to touch it until I know it won't re-infect me!

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nies that make low-quality toys. A silicone toy will last a lifetime, and when you buy one, you're investing in a company that cares about quality and your sexual and reproductive health. Progressive sex shops, like those that are members of the Progressive Pleasure Club (progressivepleasureclub.com), can help ITCH figure out which toys are safe and which should be avoided."

Jorden recommends a few trustworthy brands: toys from Fun Factory, Tantus and Vixen Creations are safe, nontoxic and phthalate-free.

And here's a nonporous, nontoxic, non-silicone option for you, ITCH: the stainless steel toys made by NJoy (njoytoys.com). They're pricey, it's true, but they are as indestructible as they are beautiful.

you, and you want to spend the rest of yours with her. And the woman you want to spend the rest of your life rimming wants to marry the man she spends her life rimming. Since you would be willing to marry her if you lost a coin toss, RING, then clearly marriage isn't something you couldn't bring yourself to do. That means you're the one who should compromise.

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21-year-old Mexican employee came "Sex toys aren't regulated like food to me and blurted out, "I had sex with when it comes to packaging," Jorden a woman. Then two months later, I says. "There's no list of ingredients on met her husband at a bar. I did NOT the back. It could be latex, some other WEDDED BLISS know that she was married! She didn't porous rubbery substance, or even I'm a 30-year-old straight guy 18 tell me! As it turns out, her husband is a nasty, rash-inducing, endocrine- months into a relationship with a a good guy. Now I really feel bad and disrupting, cancer-causing mixture of 30-year-old bisexual woman. We get I don't know what I should do." Then PVC and phthalates." along wonderfully and fuck wonder- he asked me what he should do. I told For someone who works in a sex- fully. Have you ever tried to see who him I was not a good resource, but toy shop, Jorden sure makes sex can out-rim whom? Fun stuff. We that I knew of one. This young man toys sound scary—and phthalates, want a life together. The snag is that is a very spiritual guy and really does a chemical comappear shaken. I pound found in evasked him how If you were my boyfriend, RING, and you told erything from cosmany times me—right after I had defeated you in a rimming he "dated" this metics to shower curtains to sex contest—that you would marry me if you lost a woman. He said toys to food packmaybe five and coin toss, but not because marriage mattered to that the sex hapaging, are pretty fucking scary. pened only once. me, I would never rim your ass again.

Phthalates block What should I male hormones, tell him? harm fetal genital development, in- while she's nontraditional in many Employee Relations Resource terfere with adult brain function, and respects, she also has a certain dedimay put people at greater risk of cation to Catholicism and wants us You should tell him that some marbreast cancer and testicular cancer. to marry. I'm agnostic on God, but I ried people cheat on their spouses, But the good news is that you don't don't care at all for his earthly repre- ERR, and that some married cheaters have to settle for shitty, dangerous, sentatives; the idea of a priest giving fuck people who wouldn't fuck 'em potentially toxic sex toys. me permission to kiss her is repellent. if they knew they were married. It's "The trick," Jorden says, "is to buy A secular courthouse wedding isn't unfortunate—and it's unnecessary, as only nonporous, nontoxic toys much more appealling to me. I know there's no shortage of people, marfrom trustworthy manufacturers that a marriage licence doesn't auto- ried and single, who will happily fuck and retailers." matically come with a dead bedroom married people.

So maybe your best course of ac- and a dresser full of pleated jeans to Then you should tell him that some tion, ITCH, would be to toss that old put in it, but it seems utterly unneces- married couples have open relationdildo and buy yourself a new one. So sary. It's also a binary sort of thing, ships, some have "don't ask/don't what should you look for when you and thus our go-to solution when tell" understandings about outside go dildo shopping? we have a conflict—compromise— sex, some married men are into cuck"The best option is medical grade, doesn't work here. I suggested flipping olding, and some people "cheat" beplatinum-cured silicone," Jorden says. a coin as a sort of probabilistic com- cause they're married to "good guys" "Silicone dildos are popular because promise. She wasn't interested. Break- or "good gals" who have sexually nethey come in lots of different tex- ing up over the details of your future glected and/or rejected them. Unless tures and firmnesses, and you can life together seems like a dumb thing he can depose this woman and her quickly sterilize them by putting for two smart people in love to do, but husband, your employee has no way them in boiling water for a few min- that's the outcome we're inexorably of knowing if this woman's husband was wronged. But if a wrong has utes or running them through a hot moving toward. been committed here—if your emdishwasher cycle. As long as they're Running Into No Go ployee was party to an infidelity—he sterilized between uses, silicone dildos can be safely shared with differ- If you were my boyfriend, RING, and didn't knowingly do anything wrong, ent partners, and they can be used in you told me—right after I had de- ERR, so the wrong isn't his. Nor is it different orifices without risk of bac- feated you in a rimming contest— his to right. that you would marry me if you lost He should avoid further contact terial contamination."

Those platinum-cured silicone toys a coin toss, but not because marriage with this woman—unless he gets an are going to be pricier, of course, but mattered to me, I would never rim explanation from her that eases his aren't our orifices worth it? And our your ass again. Because if my feelings, conscience—and he should avoid bebreasts and balls? And our children however contaminated they were by coming buds with the husband, howand their genitals? But if you can't Catholicism, mattered less to you ever good a guy he might be. afford silicone, or if you have a senti- than a coin toss, well, then your ass HUMP!, my amateur porn festival, mental attachment to older sex toys, would have to learn to eat itself.

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