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NEWS // ROB FORD

The crazy label

Crazy Town looks at how Rob Ford got to where he is today

We're due for some citizenship reforms, says the Harper Government, and possibly the worst reform on offer would quite literally create second-class citizens. Citizenship and Immigration Minister Chris Alexander says we should revoke the citizenship of dual citizens convicted of terrorism, high treason or spying. This is a move that he implies all Canadians support. Well, there's been enough time since the initial rumours of citizenship reform surfaced that he can only say that with honesty if he has trouble reading. Yeah, I bet a lot of Canadians would support such a thing. But for those of us who think about things critically rather than snap straight to bloodlust, there are some problems with this idea. Most importantly, it would mean one set of rules for one group and a different set for another. The point of our citizenship, as described to me when I became one, is that I would have the full rights of any other Canadian. As a dual citizen myself, these rules will remove some of my rights. Yes,

But the bootstrapping story isn't quite as neat and tidy as the Fords make it seem. "It had become family folklore that Doug and Diane started Deco out of the family basement," writes Doolittle, when, in fact, she discovers that a man named Ted Harriott co-founded the company with Doug Sr while Harriott was a salesman for an American label company. Doolittle interviews Harriott, who says he "really never understood" why he was excised from Deco's origin story.

This would make those dual citizens who ... happen to be citizens of both countries, easy scapegoats.

those rights might include things I don't need to worry about like "keeping Canadian citizenship after being convicted of serious crimes," but, regardless, it's a bad precedent to set that some citizens can have fewer rights than others. Terrorism is a broad term, and among the acts defined as the crime of terrorism are levying war against Canada, assisting a nation at war with Canada or assisting any armed forces against which Canadian forces are fighting. For one, this would make those dual citizens who, while wanting no part in any war, through no fault of their own happen to be citizens of both countries, easy scapegoats. For both of those things, you just have to look at how the world's leaders spent December gushing over Nelson Mandela to see how much more complicated reality can be than a set of rules called a "criminal code." If you look at his actions, he committed his country's equivalents of terrorism and treason. We revere him now because, it turns out, sometimes you have to do something that seems immediately harmful to a nation to foster the much greater long-term good. I'm not saying it should be a free-for-all, but we ought to at least not be in the business of attempting to simply purge these people and denying ownership of whatever factors led one of our citizens to commit a crime. And don't forget, there will always be wrongful convictions, and there's never anything we can truly do as a society to undo the harm of convicting and imprisoning an innocent person. We might as well not make it worse for the relatively low cost of dealing with our legitimately guilty dual citizens ourselves. V

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t was on June 13, 2013, that police executed 39 different search warrants in Edmonton, Toronto and Windsor, ON as the culmination of Project Traveller, a year-long investigation into the Dixon City Bloods and their gun pipeline from Detroit to Ontario and Edmonton. Besides the guns and drugs swept up in the arrests, those raids netted a laptop containing a video of Rob Ford smoking crack-cocaine— the same infamous video Toronto Star reporter Robyn Doolittle describes watching in the prologue of her new book Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story out now from Viking Press. Crazy Town is billed as "the astonishing inside story of the world's most infamous mayor and his troubled family," and Doolittle does an admirable job profiling the man known worldwide as "Toronto's crack mayor." But Crazy Town is more than a book on how Ford became mayor of Toronto and ended up on video smoking crack. It's the story of what happens when a group of people care more

Rob Ford's political career is laden with these kinds of bizarre untruths. When he ran for council in 2000, and mayor in 2010, he ran on the coattails of his business experience—he was billed as Deco's chief financial officer—but Doolittle's sources reveal Ford as an amiable, aimless young man who "dabbled in cocaine" while working in his father's company's sales division after dropping out of Carleton University and its football program. As one anonymous Deco employee said in a May 25, 2013 Globe and Mail article, "Robbie just didn't have a passion for labels." Ford didn't find his passion until he discovered politics—a passion shared by his brother Doug Jr, who now holds his brother's city council seat and is eyeing a run for provincial parliament with the ultimate goal of becoming Ontario premier. Nothing is more emblematic of the noxious Ford family relationships than the strange sibling rivalry between Doug Jr and Rob. While Rob calls Doug his best friend, Doolittle paints Doug as the son who inherited the responsibility for his father's company and resents Rob for going off and playing politician. According to Doolittle, "As far as [Doug] was concerned, Rob might be mayor, but it was the Ford family that was running the city. ... This caused a great deal of tension between the Ford brothers, sometimes publicly." That tension between siblings isn't just between Doug and Rob. When Ford first admitted to crack use after months of denial, Doolittle reports eldest daughter Kathy Ford—an admitted addict—and his mother Diane would later defend Rob in an interview on Toronto television. Doolittle Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story writes that Kathy told the Viking Press, 367 pp. interviewer, "As my dad al$29.95 ways said, 'United we stand; about gaining power and divided we fall.' And we have privilege for themselves and their family than lived by that as a family." Later, Doolittle reflects: "To me, it was the the health and well-being of the members of clearest windows ever provided into the Ford that very same family. While a lot of the book's information isn't family. The spectre of Doug Ford Sr, the loynew to Ford obsessives, Crazy Town is a thor- alty and tension between the siblings, the deough, well-sourced account of Ford's ascent nial, the shifting of blame, the entitlement." Crazy Town is best when Doolittle devotes from rich kid to city councillor to mayor of Canada's most populous city, alongside his space to uncovering the Ford family, using her reporting skills to find the truth in the obfusfamily's quest to create a political dynasty. The Fords, Doolittle reveals, think of them- cation. Those looking for the deeper rationale selves as the Canadian version of the Kenne- in why the Fords have such sway in Toronto dys, destined to rule not only Toronto, but will need to look elsewhere—whenever she Ontario and eventually Canada. That's right, turns her eye to the city and its problems, her Rob Ford's ultimate dream is to become prime analysis is thinly researched and facile. This is Crazy Town's core weakness: while minister one day. This political dynasty starts with the patri- Doolittle is adept at revealing surprising anarch of the Ford clan. Doolittle paints Doug ecdotes, she's a reporter and Crazy Town is Ford Sr as the product of an impoverished mostly just-the-facts with little overarching family during the Great Depression who, theme. MARCELLUS through hard work and innovative thinking, JORDYN JORDYN@VUEWEEKLY.COM created label company Deco Labels and Tags.

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NEWS // POWER LINES

or Albertans, emotions can get electrically charged when the topic of overhead versus buried power lines is brought up. There’s 25 000 km of line strung across the province. Why should this be an issue when electricity is regarded as a clean form of energy and very few of us have stepped off the grid in the past 100 years? For some, the issue stems from the transmission towers and lines blocking the view and the accompanying loss of property value. Some farmers don’t like the thought of the lines being set up on their land and interfering with their farming operations. Others think high-voltage transmission lines have a negative impact on health, and some are shocked at the number of birds that are killed annually due to collisions with the lines. John Kristensen, biologist and vice president of Responsible Electricity Transmission for Albertans, along with his wife, moved from their home in Bretona Pond in June after the Heartland Transmission Line was built. They had lived there since the ‘70s and took a considerable financial loss on their home and five acres of surrounding property due to the new line, but felt the move was worth it as they had researched the negative effects of living near a high-voltage power line. “I think a lot of people don’t realize the power companies very smugly say, ‘Well if you don’t like the power lines, move,’” Kristensen says. “Well, lots of people have, so maybe that’s good. The downside is, there’s a property devaluation and loss that goes along with that.” The Kristensens’ decision was made after plenty of consultation with the transmission companies and a hearing with the Alberta Utilities Commission to offer their reasons why the highvoltage line should be buried. “But if you could believe it, AltaLink and Epcor tried to have me dismissed as an expert witness because I had a vested interest because I was the vice president of RETA,” Kristensen says. “They actually made a big case in front of the AUC, which took several hours of arguing that I was a biased individual making a submission and therefore I could not be considered an expert.” The reason Kristensen has been fighting with AltaLink for the past few years about not building the Heartland line above ground and was involved in creating RETA in 2009, is because he doesn’t think the electromagnetic field that surrounds high-voltage transmission lines is healthy. RETA’s website cites numerous studies that link exposure to the lines to Alzheimer’s and Lou Gehrig’s diseases, behaviour and mental disorders, birth defects, brain cancer, breast cancer, dementia, depression and suicide, fatigue, headaches, heart problems, intestinal cancer, leukemia, lymph cancer, miscarriage, nausea, sexual dysfunction and sleep disorders, among others.

Kristensen says the negative im- even overhead lines. they attach themselves to diesel expacts wouldn’t affect someone driv“It’s important to remember that haust or any other aerial pollutants ing under an overhead line every day EMF is everywhere, whether it’s from that are floating around in the air ... to and from work. It’s those who live the clock radio next to your bed, from they positively charge the diesel fuel next to, work next to and go to school the computer that you’re probably sit- molecule and now when you inhale next to the lines that may experience ting in front of right now, the lights that positively charged molecule, it negative impacts. on in your office, EMF is everywhere,” sticks to the alveoli of your lungs 10 “The electromagnetic field has two Schreiner says. “The fields that are times as much as if they were not posiparts to it: an electric field and a mag- produced by power lines are very low tively charged.” netic field. The electric field is entirely and they dissipate very, very quickly, In Alberta, underground lines are typeliminated when you bury the line and to the point that once you’re 150 to ically found in densely populated areas that’s through shielding by the soil,” 200 metres away from almost every where there’s a lack of land available. Kristensen says. “The magnetic field is power line, the field is so small that In 2008, Epcor buried a line in downdecreased tremendously because the you wouldn’t be able to specifically de- town Edmonton from Castle Downs to closer you lay electricity conductors— termine where it’s coming from.” Victoria Composite High School. the lines that the electricity flows Kristensen doesn’t disagree that AltaLink relies on the research of through ... it’s called phase cancella- EMFs emanate from buried lines, but Health Canada, the World Health Ortion; they cancel ganization and each other out.” decades worth of Kristensen says studies that have the lines are usubeen done on the ally laid in groups potential effects of of three below magnetic fields on ground and the plants or animals magnetic field runand Schreiner says ning through one the conclusion is line is cancelled by that it’s perfectly the one next to it. fine for people to “Whereas when be near high-voltyou hang conducage power lines. tors (wires) from However, a look towers, the power at WHO’s website companies have regarding static to spread them magnetic fields far enough apart shows: “It is not so that when they possible to desway in the wind, termine whether they won’t slam there are any longinto each other, term health connor will they hit sequences even the tower,” Krisfrom exposure tensen explains. in the millitesla “By spreading range because, to those lines so far date, there are no apart, now you w e l l - c o n d u c te d eliminate most of epidemiological or the magnetic field long-term animal cancellation that studies. Thus the takes place if you carcinogenicity of // Jasmine Abbey lay them only a static magnetic few inches apart fields to humans underneath Shouldn't we be looking at the total cost of above is not at presthe ground. So ent classifiable ground and underground rather than just what it (IARC, 2002).” that’s why the magnetic field is WHO’s webcosts to build?" so much higher site also states above ground that few studies than underground.” says they taper off fast when you have been carried out regarding static But AltaLink’s external engagement move a few steps to either side. He electric fields and while body hair director Scott Schreiner says the is concerned that overhead lines still movement and discomfort from spark electromagnetic field exists on both get EMF readings a couple hundred discharges have been noted, chronic underground and overhead lines, so metres on either side of the line and or delayed effects have not been propburying the lines won’t necessarily be he points out that the electric field is erly investigated. a safer alternative. He says the mag- eliminated when buried. netic fields are not actually stopped “The other thing that is totally Then there’s the issue of dead birds. by being buried. eliminated is this corona effect,” Kris- Just before Christmas, scientist David “They go through ground, they go tensen says. He explains that positive McIntyre, who sits on the board of through cement, they go through ev- corona ions are created around over- the Canadian Parks and Wilderness erything. They aren’t stopped because head power lines through the electric Society and spent two decades as a they’re buried,” he explains. current and this cloud of positively study leader for the Smithsonian InstiSchreiner says the ground and insula- charged corona ions moves with the tution leading tours to national parks tion around the lines doesn’t stop the wind or circles around the wire if there and equivalent reserves all over the magnetic field. He says grouping them is no wind. North American west, started receivunderground can reduce the width “Those corona ions in and of them- ing messages about hundreds of dead of the field, but the strength directly selves aren’t necessarily harmful to ducks that had been found beneath a above these lines may be higher than you and I,” Kristensen says. “But when new high voltage transmission line in

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Pincher Creek. “So many dead ducks were in the road that when the snowplow was going through, it was just plowing the dead ducks,” McIntyre says, noting that no transmission line runs over that stretch of Highway 785 so the ducks were hitting the line west of that spot and following a trajectory into the road. It’s an interesting fact, because usually when counts of birds that die due to collision with power lines are done, the birds counted are the ones just below the line. “Lots of birds don’t get killed right off the bat,” Kristensen says. “They’ll hit the line, fall to the ground and they’re maimed. Now they crawl around and they will either die later or they’ll be predated on by coyotes, foxes or a bunch of aerial predators like hawks and eagles and owls and so on.” Kristensen says that studies that count birds killed by lines low ball the number as many birds land elsewhere or are scavenged before they can be counted. A North Dakota study estimated 124 birds killed per kilometre per year, one in Holland estimated 214 birds per kilometre and the US Wildlife Service estimated that 174 million birds are killed every year by highvoltage lines in the United States—far more than are killed by hunters—but Kristensen says all of those numbers are too low. So when McIntyre made a trip into Pincher Creek from his home about half an hour away in Crowsnest Pass a week or so later, many birds had already been scavenged. “I was only at the site where the ducks were killed for about 10 minutes, but I saw seven different eagles at the sight at that time, and one of them was carrying off a dead duck,” McIntyre says. “We know there were at least hundreds of ducks killed and we know that there were a few other bird species as well, we don’t really know the full picture of things because weeks went by with seemingly and almost certainly a really large number of scavengers on that landscape.” McIntyre was shocked that so many people were aware of the dead ducks and yet it wasn’t reported. “Apparently no one reported it to AltaLink,” McIntyre says. “That’s conjecture on my part, but I’ve talked to a couple of AltaLink and one Stantec biologist and they say they didn’t know about the story until it broke I think on January 7.” AltaLink sent experts to the site to investigate the situation. “We had a team on site the next day and have been working to understand what may have happened in that particular circumstance,” Schreiner says. “What we’ve found during our investigation and understanding some of the weather that we saw in DecemCONTINUED ON PAGE 10 >>

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Celebrating the human rainbow

University of Alberta's second Pride Week is a chance to reconsider the meaning of pride I am filled with excitement as the second year of Pride Week at the University of Alberta is quickly approaching. What exactly does pride mean to me? As I mentioned in my first column, I identify as gender creative and therefore I take pride in my gender as a domain of agency and freedom. For me, Pride Week is politically charged by legitimizing people to be true to themselves, to be out and proud about who they are and about those they love. It is about creating safe, supportive spaces that celebrate the actual lived experiences and realities of what it means to identify as LGBT*Q. From

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my experience, it is a powerful feeling to fully embrace not one, but all colours of the human rainbow. But I am also left wondering about what happens after the week is over. It saddens me that Pride Week only lasts 11 days. Afterwards, we all carry on with our day-to-day lives and everything goes back to "normal." I think Pride Week should actually be more than 11 days—pride should happen every day. Don't get me wrong, I am thankful for the U of A's continued leadership and hard work in creating a queer-friendly campus for all students, faculty and staff. However,

there is potential for us to do so much more to ensure that we are always inclusive of all gender and sexual diversity. Outside of Pride Week, many are still deeply affected by homophobia, transphobia and other forms of oppression that create unsafe and unwelcoming environments. This is because we are in gender-dichotomous spaces that normalize heterosexuality, making it difficult to openly embrace a queer identity. This is seen in the way that derogatory comments such as "that's so gay" are still being tossed around.

To address this, we need to engage in language that is appropriate and respectful towards all of us. In addition, there is still a lack of information and support that fails to adequately address the unique needs of queer students and staff. For instance, it wasn't until recently that I was fully aware that the term trans* is an umbrella term that encompasses my identity as gender nonconforming. It is important that we remain conscious of these issues, even after Pride Week is over. We do not need to have pride parades every single day, but rather a queer-affirming environment that

enhances the overall feeling of pride in ourselves. In making this support fully accessible, we can start to expect that our needs will be fully addressed within an academic institution. However, this is only possible if changes are made towards policies and practices that now largely favour heteronormative gender-conforming identities. I hope we can start thinking beyond the black and white standards of "normalness" and open our eyes to every colour of the human rainbow, as it can be something more beautiful than we have ever imagined. V

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Burma's next president

Aung San Suu Kyi might be wise to not fight for the top job Aung San Suu Kyi, Nobel Peace Prize winner and champion of Burmese democracy, declared last June that she would run for president in the 2015 election. If she ran, she would surely win: she is to Burma what Nelson Mandela was to South Africa. However, as things now stand she is not legally allowed to run for president—and maybe she should see that as an opportunity to reconsider whether becoming president is the best use of her talents. Burma is part-way through a transition from a 50-year military dictatorship to democracy, and Suu Kyi is the unquestioned leader of the democratic movement. Unless the military rig or cancel next year's election, her National League for Democracy (NLD) will certainly win a large majority in parliament in 2015. But she has no executive experience of any kind.

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ber is that over a few days in December there was extreme high winds, extreme low visibility in the Pincher Creek area, winds ranging up to 135 km an hour that made it obviously challenging for birds to see the lines and to be able to avoid the lines in flight.” Schreiner says they’ve never experienced an event like this before along any of AltaLink’s 12 000 km of power lines across the province. “However, any aerial facility—it’s not just power lines, it could be cellphone towers, it could be a skyscraper, it could be a house—any aerial facility presents an obstacle to birds,” he says. He also points out that AltaLink was the first utility in Canada to develop and implement an avian protection plan to understand where there may be higher risk areas and to install bird diverters on the lines to make them more visible to birds.

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Despite that, she may be a wonderful natural leader, but such people are very rare. She is much more likely to be, like Mandela, an inspiring symbol of democracy with quite limited administrative skills. If so, she should rethink her position. The law that bans her from the presidency is Clause 59F of the constitution that was written by the military in 2008, which states that the spouse and children of a prospective president cannot owe their "allegiance to a foreign power." It applies to her because her two sons with her late husband, the British academic Michael Aris, have British citizenship. This is not just an unfortunate coincidence: the law was written that way to ensure that she could never become president. She presumably thought she had a deal to get rid of that clause when she agreed with the current

president, ex-general Thein Sein, to run for parliament under the militarydrafted constitution in late 2011. But clause 59F is still in the constitution. A parliamentary review committee with a majority of members from the generals' tame political party reported last week that it had received 30 000 submissions for changes, including more than 5000 on the "Suu Kyi clause." But it just listed all the submissions, making no recommendations about them—except to say that changes not requiring a referendum or that help to consolidate peace with Burma's many armed ethnic minorities should be given priority. Changing Clause 59F would require a referendum and it's obviously not about rebel ethnic groups. It looks like Suu Kyi has been had.

Suu Kyi has devoted half her adult life to bringing democracy to Burma, at great personal cost, and she clearly sees winning the presidency as the final validation of her long struggle. But before she launches a battle over Clause 59F that will use up all the political oxygen for the next year, she should ask herself if the presidency is really where she can be most useful. Is there nobody in her party, perhaps somebody a bit younger (she is 68), who has the right skills for the demanding job of executive president at a time of huge political and economic transformation? Maybe she should consider the example of Sonia Gandhi, the widow of India's assassinated former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi, who led the Congress Party to a resounding election victory in 2004. Sonia Gandhi could have become prime minister if she wanted, but

she had a "foreign" problem, too: she is an Indian citizen, but she was born and brought up Italian. So she chose economist Manmohan Singh to be prime minister, a job he has done with reasonable efficiency for the past 10 years, while she remained Congress Party leader and kept it united behind him. The circumstances are not identical, but Burma a) has the right skills for the job and b) has a united party behind him or her. Maybe Suu Kyi's most useful role would be as party leader and moral authority, while somebody else gets down in the dirt and makes the day-to-day decisions that will eat away the popularity of even the most respected leader in the end. V

“Obviously AltaLink goes to great lengths to talk about their record, their commitment, how they prevent bird collisions and never put lines in places where waterfowl or other species would be at risk,” McIntyre says. “What I would say seems to happen, and I don’t have a huge study sample, but here we’ve got 10 000 wintering waterfowl, roughly 5000 mallards and 5000 Canada geese and maybe a few other duck species to boot and we have 10 000 birds that this line is strung right between where they rest by night and where they go by day to feed.” McIntyre doesn’t understand why transmission companies continue to erect transmission lines in areas where waterfowl and other bird species typically congregate, not to mention the eyesore the towers themselves are as they block the “heart and soul view of rangeland going into spectacular mountain backdrop.”

The reason for overhead lines, according to the transmission companies, is cost. “They say it costs in the order of six times more to go underground than it does to go overhead,” McIntyre says. “I have talked to contractors and the standard answer that I get from every single contractor with whom I discuss this is that it costs approximately 30 percent more, not 600 percent.” Regarding the Heartland line, Schreiner says it would have cost exponentially more to bury even some of the line. “It would have increased the cost on that project approximately 500 million dollars to bury a 22 km section, Schreiner points out. “For that little section of line we’re talking seven times to 10 times the cost of an overhead system.” Kristensen remembers things a bit differently and says in the beginning AltaLink and Epcor said the cost of

burying would be four to 20 times as much, but after a lot of consideration, they calculated it would only cost 1.7 times as much to bury one third of the Heartland line through the most densely populated area. “And that’s only based on the capital cost, in other words, the cost to build,” Kristensen says. “When you add in the much higher costs to maintain overhead lines and the much higher costs of transmission loss, that is, electricity to heat, over the life of the line, which is maybe 50 to 65 years ... that’s when buried lines are cheaper than overhead lines and isn’t that what we should be looking at? Shouldn’t we be looking at the total cost of above ground and underground rather than just what it costs to build?” In 2009, RETA commissioned a Leger Marketing poll to ask Albertans about power lines. Approximately 70 percent of the study sample felt power lines should be buried when they were

around homes, school and daycares. “And the average person who was polled, there were 900 Albertans who were polled, was willing to pay an average of $3.55 more per month on their power bill to get the lines buried,” Kristensen says. “We calculated that to bury one third of the Heartland line if would have cost the average Albertan a cup of coffee a year.” This information was presented at the AUC hearing but Kristensen says RETA always got labelled as an antidevelopment group and that’s just not the case. “All of us on the board, and we’ve got about 10 000 members now, everybody uses electricity and we don’t want to stop using electricity, it’s just we can keep using electricity and we can do it smarter and not have all these negative effects and that’s why we really push hard on burying.”

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arrying guitars and donning their signature brightly coloured dresses and balaclavas—a makeshift uniform that calls to mind Zapatistas, Louis Feuillade's beloved silent serial Les Vampires, and the kinky dreamlike drawings of Marcel Dzama—Pussy Riot stormed the altar of Moscow's Christ the Saviour Cathedral to produce about 40 seconds of clamorous punk rock in protest of Russia's integration of church and state. The scrappy band/guerrilla performance art/ political activist group, which formed the day Putin was reinstated, had mounted similar unannounced demonstrations in public spaces before, including a work titled "Putin Pissed Himself," but this piece, unveiled in February 2012, touched a nerve. Three members, Nadya Tolokon-

nikova, Masha Alyokhina and Katya Samutsevich, were arrested for trespassing, inappropriate dress and disrupting social order. All of which are obviously misdemeanours, but the Russian government, perhaps wanting to make an example of these flamboyantly defiant young women, sought to make the charges criminal and lock the trio up for several years. The result, of course, was the transformation of what might have been a fairly minor incident into an international scandal. If you've followed the Pussy Riot saga, you know it ultimately has a happy ending, but Mike Lerner and Maxim Pozdorovkin's Pussy Riot: A Punk Prayer was completed before all three were finally released. This smart, thorough documentary shifts between coverage of Pussy Riot's hugely publicized, absurd and

Fri, Feb 14 – Thu, Feb 20 Directed by Mike Lerner, Maxim Pozdorovkin Metro Cinema at the Garneau  unjust trial, some surprisingly interesting interviews with the group's family members, demonstrations in support of their release and the uproar amongst Orthodox Russians who felt offended by the Cathedral disruption, including big-bearded anti-Pussy activists who look like bikers, wearing "ORTHODOXY OR DIE" T-shirts, claim Tolokonnikova is a powerful demon, and try to make themselves sound enlightened by explaining how not too long ago such behaviour would have gotten all three Rioters executed. Tolokonnikova, an extremely charismatic and seductive figure, who once facilitated

Kick out the jams—the "jams" here meaning Putin.

a performance in a museum of biology in which she and several fellow activists stripped down and got busy inside one of the displays—she was eight-months pregnant at the time— is indeed powerful. As for her relationship to Satan, I'll leave that with the religious hysterics. But Lerner and Pozdorovkin wisely do their due diligence in hearing out those who took issue with Pussy Riot, offering a brief history of religious repression under Soviet communism. They also compare the case against Pussy Riot to Stalinist show trials, which, radically different context aside, is not as far-fetched as it may first seem.

The film is solid journalism and tells its story well. Even if the members of Pussy Riot retired from activism and became homemakers tomorrow, their story would still make for essential viewing given the current atmosphere in Russia, especially with regards to its outrageous anti-gay legislation. That A Punk Prayer is screening here during the Sochi Olympics should make Pussy Riot proud. If they gave out medals for effective and creative forms of activism, these ladies would get the gold.

despite Catherine's full knowledge, will continue until his death. Using hand-held camera, lovely amber lamp light, a not-gratuitous score for strings, most of Fiennes' directorial choices are commendable, even if the bit where a carpenter literally builds a wall between Dickens and Catherine or the multiple scenes of older Nelly traversing lonely beaches feel overwrought. What keeps The In-

visible Woman from fully fulfilling the promise of its premise mostly has to do with the script from Abi Morgan (whose credits include The Iron Lady and Shame, should that sound like a warning), with its flashback structure overburdened with foreshadowing, given to obviousness and loaded with a grossly overstated ending.

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The Invisible Woman B

ased on Claire Tomalin's speculative biography (not that there's any other kind), The Invisible Woman sets out to dramatize a love affair between novelist Charles Dickens and thespian Nelly Ternan that we're almost certain transpired. What prevents us from absolute certainty is a dearth of hard evidence: Ternan's role as Dickens' mistress was apparently safeguarded so effectively, indeed, so ruthlessly and at times cruelly, that insinuation is all we have to go on. But sometimes insinuation is enough. It's certainly more than enough to justify telling this compelling story, which explores the sense of invisibility one feels when consumed with love for someone who loves back but cannot, or will not, acknowledge that love to the rest of the world. The Invisible Woman is Ralph Fiennes' second outing as director, and is, I think, an improvement on Coriolanus in many respects, such as casting. Fiennes is excellent as Dickens, at once

charming and dithering, confident and sion for life that Dickens can't help but conflicted. Fiennes somehow plays all long for in Nelly. of these characteristics in his very first scene, in which Dickens, middle-aged Nelly is embodied by Felicity Jones, and very much a celebrity, is at work who is remarkable in her ability to conon a production of The Frozen Deep, a vey a wellspring of emotion kept under play by his dear friend Wilkie Collins. wraps. Her surrender to Dickens' affecDickens breathlessly introduces his tions is a lengthy process, one involving entire family and fellow collaborators numerous considerations undertaken to the teenaged Nelly, who is to act in by both Nelly and her mother, played the play, whom he's just met, and with superbly by Kristin Scott-Thomas. whom he seems instantly smitten, for While it's relatively easy for someone reasons that are like Collins to denot difficult to dis- Opening Friday clare himself a cern. She's young, Directed by Ralph Fiennes pioneer in breaking smart and lovely, a Princess Theatre from conventions thoughtful reader  in love and domesand admirer of his ticity, for a young work, someone single woman of Dickens can engage with more fully humble means to do so in the Victorian in every way than he can with his wife era would be a potentially catastrophic Catherine (the valiant, very effec- gamble with reputation and prospects. tive Joanna Scanlan), who has grown In any case, Dickens wants to mainplump and seemingly sexless with age tain appearances, and thus their initial and offspring, and who doesn't seem trysts are arranged with the utmost to have ever possessed the sort of pas- secrecy and caution, a pattern that,

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FILM REVUE // LEGO

The Lego Movie The caped lego crusader

olding The Garbage Pail Kids Resistance" that'll stop Lord BusiMovie like a cheap pack of ness from using his "Kragle" weapcards, scattering the Masters of the on to stick everyone in every Lego Universe feature world to their in its wake like a Now playing place forever, primitive tribe of Directed by Phil Lord, Chris The Lego Movie Movie's best when it's poseable plastic Miller figures, The Lego  playing with the wild metamorMovie races out phoses and madof the (interlocking) blocks to become, well, if not cap mash-ups of zippily rearranged the best flick-based-on-construc- Danish mini-bricks: pirate "Metaltion-bricks-that-the-world-never- beard" only still has his head, with knew-it-wanted, at least an antic, his body a jumble of pegleg-like merry, sometimes smart bit of car- parts and crutch-like add-ons; a rotoonish fun. bot's suddenly assembled to sing Building the story of Emmet "How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On Brickowski stumbling on a "Piece of The Farm?" This anarchy's part of the film's point, especially when it

cleverly breaks the brick wall in its latter half. But the satire of blindly cheerful conformity early on, with "Everything Is Awesome" as the neverending song that Emmet and co. sing, becomes unironic by the theme-song end; the final message "Everyone is special" seems like some slogan-engineered echo of the uniformity the script had been mocking (little wonder—there's plenty of advertising here, from DC superheroes to Star Wars figures). And the romance between Emmet and Wyldstyle seems like a testaudience-placating subplot. But there's still enough wacki-

ness, self-aware lines, and scrappy late-night-Cartoon-Network humour to make these Lego larks worthwhile, from Batman's dirge about orphanhood ("Darkness ... no parents") and an anger-repressing Unikitty (half-unicorn, half-Hello Kitty) to a new take on that old bad cop/good cop routine or Lego figures getting beheaded (with one later dangling back down as a ghost). Of course, success—the movie cha-chinged back all its production costs in just its opening weekend—means a sequel's greenlit, so, by the time 12-year-olds are tweeting OMG! TLM III: Block Party!, we'll be saying Lestop.

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ust when you thought you didn't have to think about how deep into the blood-barrel the vampire pop-cult obsession would run, out spurts Vampire Academy. As the title demands, incisor-sharpen your imagination down to two long-before-seen plot-points—a Hogwarts-like school! of teenagey vampires!—and now sink your teeth skin-shallow into the whole idea, Twiwarts and all. Based on a best-selling romance series, this anemic adaptation passes out from unoriginality and super-exposition just 15 minutes into its halls of shame

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(those hormoany teen corridors of Dragomir (Lucy Fry), whose plummy high school shaming, sneering, ru- accent fiendishly grates evermore as mour-mongering and nasty pranking). the movie wears on. She and Lissa The plodding plot, with its castes of fled their Montana (why? the Count colourless characters: Rose Hathaway only knows) academy of bloodsuckers (Zoey Deutch) is and white whiners; a Dhampir—half- Now playing they're forced to human, half-vam- Directed by Mark Waters return but find pire, and always  themselves threatspouting sassy, ened by more than trying-to-be-snappy gossip, cattiness lines that you wish someone would and overpowering teen lust, even as put a damper on. Her kind protect we try not to open up our jugulars to Moroi—royal, mortal vampires— join the blood from our ears as we're and Rose guards her fangness Lissa subjected to the dialogue: "At this point, I don't know who loves us and who hates us. But I do know that we're gonna own this dance. Let's make this night our bitch." (Beware, screenwriters: this is what befalls you when imitating Facebook and Twitter to ventriloquize teen-talk. Blah-zarrely, though, amid SUVs and laptops, Rose receives telegrams from her mom.)

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Clunky, blood-baggy with backstory, jittery-paced, full of tedious, is-he-or-isn't-he teen-talk, and proving yet again that respectable actors should-know-much-better (I'm trying not to look at you, Gabriel Byrne and Claire Foy), Vampire Academy offers no gothic chills, caustic commentary on the suckiness of one's high-school daze, or even B-movie silliness. There are sprinklings of Sapphic softcore piffle, some sexing up of Rose, and then this lifeless husk tries to resurrect itself as a franchise with a sorry stab at a sequel set-up. The single memorable moment—Chvrches' cover of Bauhaus' "Bela Lugosi's Dead"—comes when the screen finally cuts to black.

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One hundred years ago this June, James Joyce's masterful Dubliners— quite possibly the finest short-story collection in the history of English literature—was finally published. The 15 tales are masterpieces of seeming mundanity building to small epiphanies or brutal yet near-invisible disappointments. And Chad Hartigan's This Is Martin Bonner—which could almost be called Renoers— may be the most powerful film of everydayness to come out of American cinema in years—but since others, like this one, may have slipped through the cracks, it's hard to know. Hartigan's film, shot over 18 days in the fall of 2012 and funded in part by money raised online via Kickstarter ($6000), wasn't some invisible disappointment—it picked up an audience award at Sundance in 2013 and screened at a number of other festivals. But after opening in June on a limited release, its box-office take was less than the sticker price of a new car ($13 888). It's a car that, quietly (like everything here), makes all the difference in This Is Martin Bonner—Martin's Volkswagen gets him to and from work as a Christian group's volunteer organizer, and with it he can give just-released Travis Holloway

(Richmond Arquette) a ride from prison into town, where he'll look for work and try to readjust to life on the outside. We watch as Martin (Paul Eenhoorn) does his job, comes home and makes dinner, participates in a speed-dating session that his daughter cajoled him into, referees a soccer game, leaves messages for his busy artist son in Maryland, and talks to that daughter, a new mother who's also back in Maryland. That tenderness for family so far away, though, boomerangs in the film's final half-hour, as Martin and Travis get closer but Travis has his own rapprochement with family looming. All that makes this attentive and gentle film sound a lot more dramatic than it is—there are no sharp plot-twists here, just a steady, nearsilent grasping for grace (the title of one of Joyce's stories). And though it offers a sense of the "real" world's alien-ness for Travis, out of prison after a dozen years, last year's stellar debut TV series Rectify did that even better while sliding inexorably towards the cliff-edge of tragedy. This Is Martin Bonner is merely an unassuming short story, just following two decent men, alone in Reno,

as one comes to look out for and listen to the other. The film's also about faith—Martin's lapsed in his and Travis isn't sure if he can live up to the intimidating faith that emanates from his born-again liaison. Above all, This Is Martin Bonner rewards a faith in film. It's about men on the sidelines who are strangers from Reno—Martin just moved there from Maryland; Travis, never from there, has officially resided there for 12 years, but only because he was forced to—with superb showings from strangers to the star-system. Eenhoorn's an Australian working out of Seattle; Arquette's from that famous film family but has never made it big (he's had small roles in a number of David Fincher's films); Hartigan, of Irish-American descent, born in Cyprus and raised in Virginia, may be best known as one of the main actors in 2006 mumblecore flick Dance Party USA. But the trio has, together, crafted a lovingly patient film that builds such an undertow of obliquely observed, subtle feeling and human (dis)connection that, well, after it washes over you, you're thankful, in some ineffable, almost religious way, to have experienced it. V

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CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE-THU 1:30; MON 11:45, 1:30; 3D : DAILY 4:10, 6:50

I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG frightening scenes, not rec for young children, violence) Closed Captioned FRI 2:50, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45; SAT 2:45, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45; SUN 5:50, 8:20, 10:45; MON 3:10, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45; TUE 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45; WED 2:00, 4:45, 10:00; THU 2:00, 4:45, 7:20 ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Ultraavx, No Passes FRI, SUN, TUE-THU 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; SAT 11:00, 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; MON 11:40, 2:20, 5:10, 7:55, 10:40 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Closed Captioned FRI 12:00, 1:20, 4:00, 5:10, 6:30; SAT 11:00, 12:00, 1:20, 2:00, 4:00, 6:30; SUN 12:00, 1:20, 2:00, 4:00, 6:30; MON 11:30, 1:20, 2:00, 4:35, 7:05; TUE-THU 1:20, 4:00, 6:30; 3D : DAILY 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE-THU 9:00; MON 9:40

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned DAILY 8:45

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 12:45, 3:15, 8:05, 10:35; SAT-MON 12:10, 5:20, 8:05, 10:35; TUE-WED 1:40, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20; THU 1:40, 4:15, 10:20

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN, TUE-THU 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50; MON 12:50,

4:00, 7:00, 9:50

ABOUT LAST NIGHT (14A sexual content, crude coarse language, mature subject matter) Closed Captioned, No Passes FRI 12:10, 2:35, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25;

14 FILM

lence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:05; MON 12:35; TUE-THU 2:10; 3D : FRI-SUN 3:30, 6:55, 10:20; MON 4:40, 8:10; TUE 6:00, 9:25; WED 6:10, 9:35; THU 6:15

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT 12:20, 3:10, 5:55, 8:25, 10:50; SUN 1:05, 3:35, 6:00, 8:25, 10:50; MON 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10; TUE 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 9:45; WED 2:05, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55; THU 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 9:55

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Captioned FRISUN 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:05; MON 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40; TUE-THU 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:00 ABOUT LAST NIGHT (14A sexual content, crude coarse language, mature subject matter) Closed Captioned, No Passes FRI-SAT 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25; SUN 1:00, 3:25, 5:30, 8:00, 10:25; MON 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; TUE 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; WED 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 9:40; THU 2:20, 4:50, 8:10, 10:05

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 10:00; MON, WED 8:05; TUE, THU 7:55

VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG violence, not rec for young children) FRI-SUN 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:05, 10:35; MONTUE 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:30; WED 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25; THU 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:40

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-WED 9:50; THU 9:25

THE NUT JOB (G) FRI-SUN 12:55; MON 1:00; TUE-THU 1:05; 3D : FRI-SUN 3:20, 5:35, 7:50; MON 3:20, 5:50; TUE-THU 3:20, 5:40

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 10:45; MON 9:15; TUE-WED 10:10; THU 10:15

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, No Passes FRI-SUN 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; MON 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05; TUE-WED 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05; THU 2:35, 5:05, 7:35, 10:05

POMPEII 3D (14A) Closed Captioned THU 10:00 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI-SUN 12:35, 2:55, 5:15, 7:35, 9:55; MON 12:45, 3:05, 5:30, 7:50, 10:10; TUE-THU 2:15, 4:35, 7:00, 9:20

13: 6:30, 9:00

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

FEB 13: 6:40, 9:30

young children) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 7:05, 9:40; SAT-MON 12:20, 3:00, 7:05, 9:40; TUETHU 6:35, 9:10

WINTER'S TALE (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:45, 9:35; SAT-MON 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:35; TUE-THU 6:15, 9:05

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital SAT-MON 2:55

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned SAT-MON 11:30, 2:10; 3D : FRI-MON 4:50, 7:30; TUE-THU 6:45

THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) Reald 3d FRI, WED-THU 6:30, 9:00; SAT-TUE 1:30, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Digital FRI, WED-THU 6:40, 9:40; SAT-TUE 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Digital FRI, WED-THU 6:00; SAT-TUE 1:00, 3:30, 6:00

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) Digital DAILY 8:30 ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Digital FRI, WED 7:00, 9:50; SAT-TUE 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50; THU 6:50, 9:50

PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, No Passes FRI 4:05, 7:00, 9:55; SAT-MON 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55; TUE-THU 7:00, 9:55

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Closed Captioned FRI 4:35, 7:10; SAT-MON 11:30, 2:00, 4:35, 7:10; TUE-THU 6:40; 3D : FRI 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; SAT-MON 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; TUE-THU 7:10, 9:50 RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Captioned FRI 5:25, 8:00, 10:30; SAT-MON 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30; TUE-THU 7:35, 10:05

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) FRI 3:50, 6:45, 9:40; SAT-MON 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40; TUE-THU 6:50, 9:45

VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI 4:00, 6:40, 9:20; SATMON 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20; TUE-THU 7:30, 10:10

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

12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, disturbing content) FRI 9:00; SAT-MON 3:00, 9:00; TUE-THU 9:00 THE INVISIBLE WOMAN (PG mature subject matter) FRI 6:50, 9:10; SAT-MON 2:00, 6:50, 9:10; TUE-THU 6:50, 9:10

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

FROZEN (G) FRI-TUE, THU 4:00; Closed Caption & Descriptive Video WED 4:00; 3D : FRI-TUE 7:00

I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG frightening scenes, not rec for young children, violence) FRI-WED 12:50, 3:15, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45; THU 12:30, 3:00, 5:20, 7:50

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) Closed Captioned THU, FEB 13: 5:45, 9:45, 1:30, 5:20, 9:30; 8:00; VIP 18+: 6:00, 10:10

THE NUT JOB (G) FRI 5:20, 7:40; SAT-MON 12:40, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40; TUE-THU 7:15

DAILY 12:40, 3:10, 5:45, 8:15; 3D : ULTRAAVX FRI-MON 12:00, 2:30, 5:05, 7:30, 10:00; TUE-THU 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) Closed

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG 3D (PG

Captioned THU, FEB 13: 6:30, 9:35

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) THU, FEB 13: 7:00, 9:40; VIP 18+: 9:00

language) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 10:10; TUE-THU 9:30

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Closed

12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, disturbing

Captioned FRI-MON 10:00; TUE-THU 9:35

content) Closed Captioned THU, FEB 13: 6:45, 9:50

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for

LANDMARK CINEMAS 9 CITY CENTRE 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7018

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) No Passes, Digital Presentation, DTS Stereo FRI-TUE 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20; WED-THU 3:30, 6:50, 9:20 ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, DTS Stereo FRI-TUE 1:00, 3:40, 7:10, 9:45; WED-THU 3:40, 7:10, 9:45

WINTER'S TALE (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, DTS Stereo FRITUE 12:20, 3:20, 7:15, 9:50; WED-THU 3:20, 7:15, 9:50

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) No Passes, Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Digital Presentation, DTS Stereo DAILY 3:00; 3D : Digital 3d FRI-TUE 12:10, 6:30, 9:00; WED-THU 6:30, 9:00

young children) Closed Captioned, No Passes FRI 4:40, 7:20, 10:05; SAT-MON 1:50, 4:40, 7:20, 10:05; TUE-THU 7:20, 10:00

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI-MON 9:50; TUE-THU 9:15

WINTER'S TALE (PG violence, frightening scenes) Closed Captioned, No Passes FRI 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; SATMON 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45; TUE-THU 6:30, 9:25

CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS 2 (G) SAT 11:00

GRANDIN THEATRE–ST ALBERT Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) No passes DAILY 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) No passes DAILY 1:45,

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video

violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video DAILY 2:20; 3D : DAILY 6:30, 9:55

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-MON 12:10, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:15; TUE-WED 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:00; THU 1:50, 4:40, 10:00; THU 7:30 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) FRI-MON 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:25; Closed Caption & Descriptive Video TUE 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:20; WED-THU 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 10:25 THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-MON 1:00, 4:50, 9:15 VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG violence, not rec for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video DAILY 2:50, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35 AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) FRI-MON 9:40; TUE 9:30; Closed Captioned WED 9:30; THU 10:00

POMPEII 3D (14A) THU 10:15 THE NUT JOB (G) FRI-MON 12:20; TUE-THU 12:30

language) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRITUE 12:50, 3:50, 7:30; WED-THU 3:50, 7:30

4:30, 7:10, 9:30

LONE SURVIVOR (14A gory brutal violence, coarse language) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video DAILY 10:45

FROZEN (G) DAILY 1:10, 3:45, 6:15

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young

AMERICAN HUSTLE (14A coarse language) DTS

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG violence,

JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT (PG violence, coarse

Stereo, Digital Presentation DAILY 10:00

HER (14A sexual content, coarse language, mature subject matter) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-TUE 12:55, 3:55, 7:20, 10:15; WED-THU 3:55, 7:00, 9:55

not rec for young children) DAILY 8:30

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young children) No passes DAILY 1:05, 3:10, 5:20, 7:35, 9:40

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI-MON 12:30, 2:55,

THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) No passes DAILY 1:00, 3:00,

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

THE WOLF OF WALL STREET (18A substance abuse, sexual content) Digital Presentation, DTS Stereo, Closed Captioned FRI-TUE 12:00, 4:00, 8:00; WED-THU 4:00, 8:00

5:00, 7:00, 9:00

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for

CASABLANCA (PG) FRI 7:00; MON 2:15; 2-for-1

young children) No Passes, Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, DTS Stereo FRI-TUE 12:30, 3:10, 7:00, 9:30; WED-THU 3:10, 7:00, 9:30

VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-TUE 12:15, 3:05, 6:40, 9:10; WED 3:05, 6:40, 9:10; THU 3:05, 6:40

POMPEII (14A) Closed Captioned Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo THU 10:10

LANDMARK CINEMAS 10 CLAREVIEW 4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video, No Passes FRIMON 12:00, 2:35, 5:10, 7:45, 10:20; TUE 2:10, 5:00, 7:55, 10:30; WED 5:00, 7:55, 10:30; THU 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00

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

5:20, 7:55, 10:30; TUE-THU 1:00, 3:30, 7:45, 10:20 Caption & Descriptive Video, No Passes FRI-MON, THU 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10; TUE 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:15; WED 4:30, 7:20, 10:10; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00

ROBOCOP: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (PG coarse language,

Valentine’s Day Only: Bring your loved one & they get in for free

violence, not rec for young children) No Passes DAILY 2:00, 4:45, 7:40, 10:40

PUSSY RIOT: A PUNK PRAYER (STC) Russian with

TAKEDOWN: THE DNA OF GSP (14A coarse language, not

English subtitles FRI 9:00; SAT 7:00; SUN 4:00; MON 7:00; TUE 9:30; WED 7:00; THU 9:30

rec for children, brutal violence) THU 7:30

FROZEN SING-ALONG (STC) DAILY 1:10

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) DEDfest : 1987 FRI 11:00pm; Valentine's day special admission; $10 for 1 person, $15 for 2

9922-100 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.1707; Office: 780.992.1878 • Open Family Day, Monday Feb 17th for Matinees

OSMOSIS JONES (PG) Science in the Cinema: SAT

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

1:00; free (incl sm popcorn)

NEW FORT CINEMA

MON-TUE 1:30

FROZEN 3D (G) Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Dolby

ERNEST AND CELESTINE (G) French with English

Stereo Digital FRI 7:00; SAT-MON 12:15, 7:00; TUE-THU 6:30

subtitles SAT 4:00; SUN 2:00; MON 12:30

children) DAILY 7:15, 9:30; SAT-TUE 1:15

BLUE JASMINE (PG coarse language, substance abuse, mature subject matter) SAT 9:00; MON 4:30

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) No passes DAILY 6:50, 9:00; SAT-TUE

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) No Passes, Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 7:15, 9:45; SAT-MON 12:25, 2:50, 7:15, 9:45; TUE-THU 6:45, 9:15

PUCCINI’S TOSCA (STC) Opera in the Cinema : SUN

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-MON 9:45; TUE-THU 9:15 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) No passes, Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:40, 9:30; SAT-MON 12:10, 3:05, 6:40, 9:30; TUE-THU 6:10, 9:00 VAMPIRE ACADEMY (PG violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:45, 9:25; SAT-MON 12:10, 3:15, 6:45, 9:25; TUE-THU 6:15, 8:55

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) No Passes, Closed Captioned,

6:30; $17 (adult)/$14 (senior/student)

BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOUR (R) French with

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young

2:00

LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc, 780.986-2728

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young

English subtitles; SUN 9:30; MON 8:45

children) DAILY 6:50, 9:35; SAT-MON 12:50, 3:35

MYSTERY MEN (PG crude content) Graphic Content

THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) DAILY 3D : 7:05, 9:25; TUE 2D:

TUE 7:00

7:05; SAT-MON 2D: 1:05; SAT-SUN 3D: 3:40

DELICATESSEN (STC) French with English subtitles;

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) DAILY 6:50, 9:30; SAT-

Metro Bizarro: WED 9:00

MON 12:50, 3:30

METRO SHORTS (STC) Mostly Water: THU 7:00

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for

LANDMARK 7–SPRUCE GROVE 130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove 780.962.2332

young children) DAILY 6:50, 9:30; SAT-MON 12:50, 3:30

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922

Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:30, 9:00; SAT-MON 12:00, 2:45, 6:30, 9:00; TUE-THU 6:00, 8:30; 3D : Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:50, 9:15; SAT-MON 12:30, 3:10, 6:50, 9:15; TUE-THU 6:20, 8:45

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young children) Digital FRI, WED-THU 7:10, 10:00; SAT-TUE 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for

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

THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) DAILY 3D : 7:05, 9:25; TUE 2D:

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital, On 2 Screens FRI 6:35, 6:55, 9:25, 9:40; SAT-MON 12:05, 12:35, 3:05, 3:25, 6:35, 6:55, 9:25, 9:40; TUETHU 6:05, 6:25, 8:55, 9:10

FRI, WED-THU 6:10, 8:50; SAT-TUE 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 8:50

7:05; SAT-MON 2D: 1:05; SAT-SUN 3D: 3:40

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

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) DAILY 6:50, 9:30; SAT-

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for

young children) DAILY 6:50, 9:35; SAT-MON 12:50, 3:35

6:50; SAT-TUE 1:20, 6:50; THU 9:30

MON 12:50, 3:30

LABOR DAY (PG mature subject matter) Digital FRI-WED

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for

9:30

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young children) DAILY 6:55, 9:35; SAT-MON 12:55, 3:35

SNOW ZONE

EDITOR : MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

ADVENTURE // KITE SKIING

Ready for take off // Rocky Mountain Snowkite

t 68 years old, Vince Herchmer admits he makes an unusual poster child for kite skiing. Searching for images of the sport, after all, conjures a mosaic of snapshots that look straight out of the X Games: skiers captured mid-flight, suspended only by their kite, harness and the crisp blue and white landscape framing the photo. Herchmer, though, who favours the outskirt slow slopes of ski hills to high-traffic moguls, has found a medium to solitude and stillness in kite skiing. Herchmer has seen a steady increase in popularity for the sport of kite skiing—or, more broadly, "snow kiting," if you're including kite skiing's snowboarding alternative—since opening Edmonton's Horizon Kites in 2004. He says areas such as Cooking Lake and Alberta Beach are beginning to bustle with kite skiers—and the attitude is contagious.

Tom Couture, co-owner and instructor at Rocky Mountain Snowkite in Canmore, says the trend is consistent in the mountains as well, with more people flocking to the open space and favourable wind conditions of the Spray Lakes after realizing you don't have to be a top-notch extreme athlete to snow kite. "There's a real misconception that it's an extreme sport ... we've all seen those YouTube videos," Couture says. "In fact, if you use the proper equipment, even in the strongest winds, you can go kiting as a beginner." Herchmer took this sentiment to heart when he bought his first kites 10 years ago. A confident downhill skier, he skipped out on smaller training kites, bought three "huge" kites and stepped out onto the open field

without any previous experience in snow kiting or kite surfing. Especially in Edmonton, Herchmer says, it's not uncommon for people to snow kite without any formal training. "It's one of those sports that I find in all my years, I have yet to find anyone who has actually taken anything more than a lesson for kite boarding on water. When you're talking snow kiting, most people here already ski and snowboard," he says. "They're pretty steady on their feet, so they just have to learn the kiting part and they're all set. It's not uncommon for someone to come into the store and say 'I don't want to bother with a training kite. I think I can do this and would rather spend the money to actually do the sport.'" Herchmer says you really only need three things to get started: a wide, open space, equipment and, most importantly, caution and common sense. He mentions that your equipment need not be expensive either—he says the older, $10 skis you can snag from Goodwill have harder edges to dig into the snow and ice. But he stresses that the first two factors should never forgo the third: safety. "When you graduate to the big kite it's very intimidating because you are truly aware of how much power wind can generate when you're trying to capture it in a big piece of cloth and it can easily pull you on your face," Herchmer adds.

"But it's pretty hard to wipe the smile off your face because it is exhilarating." Couture, on the other hand, balks at the idea of people snow kiting without a solid training base. Rocky Mountain Snowkite offers three course levels for those who want to familiarize themselves with the course and eventually take their skills to the next level. The first two levels are available separately, or combined in a two-day package that lays down the basics of kite skiing and dealing with more variable winds. The third package introduces guests to "flying," or propelling themselves into the air on their skis. Given the risky nature of the sport, Couture recommends taking a lesson or two before hitting the snow. He says it is easy to become well-versed in the sport, but getting a solid foundation in safety is your best bet no matter what your level is. "Oftentimes when people learned in the past, they used like a baptism by fire almost," Couture says. "Their friend gave them a kite which was far too big and they got tugged in the air. It's all about utilizing the right equipment. Like, if you go skiing for the first time you don't go down a double black diamond." "For a two-day course, our goal is to give the skill set to the client so that they'll be able to do it on their own completely safely," Couture continues. "By the end of their second day, they've ridden 30 or 40 kilome-

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tres and they'll know lots of safety protocols and procedures so they'll feel confident when those situations arise, so they'll have the skill set to deal with them." Once you're confident enough to go it alone, Rocky Mountain Snowkite offers equipment rentals and sales for kite skiers who want to ride the snow without a lesson—but you'll have to prove you're at least a "Level 2" kite skier before taking their equipment for a spin on your own. In the end, whether you opt for a lesson or not, Couture and Herchmer both agree that taking a chance on kite skiing will garner some unexpected results. Couture adds that you'll probably be pleasantly surprised by what you can accomplish between a pair of skis and a kite. "It generates a lot of endorphins. It's exciting. Women are oftentimes better than men. It's more about finesse," he explains. "The kite produces the power and it's how we control that power and manage that power that sets you apart. You don't have to be particularly strong. ... It's a very ethereal type of experience to participate in. I honestly haven't seen one client that doesn't come off the lake that isn't buzzing in such a positive way. "Once you try it, you don't count sheep anymore. You fly kites."

KATE BLACK

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Not just another winter festival Edmonton is well known as Canada's Festival City. During the summer the city hosts the Folk Festival, Street Performers Festival, Heritage Days and the Fringe, just to name a few. Then in the dead of winter, we rejuvenate those cold snowy days with the Deep Freeze, Ice on Whyte, Canadian Birkebeiner and the Silver Skate Festival running over two weekends from February 14 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; 23. This upcoming celebration of art, culture, recreation and sport is now in its 24th year and going stronger than ever. Hawrelak Park is the primary site for the festivities, but there are some skating events at the Victoria Park Oval as well. Last year, 60 000 people attended the numerous events, which included snow sculpting, skating, dog sledding, pond curling and more. The

list is so long and best of all, the events are free for all to enjoy. To get a better idea and to schedule your attendance, check it out at silverskatefestival.org.

that fell onto 50 cm from the previous two days. Needless to say, the lacking resorts are hoping this is one of those once in 100 years weather anomalies.

Wacky weather this year at some North American ski resorts A number of ski resorts along the Northern California and Oregon border are feeling Mother Nature's wrath this year. Conditions are so bad that Mount Shasta Ski Resort in California and Mount Ashland Ski Resort in Oregon have been unable to start their lifts. Last weekend, they had their first serious snowfall of the year, but those 25 cm were not enough to even consider an opening. Surprisingly, a mere three hours to the south, Sugar Bowl and Kirkwood resorts in California had an incredible 70 cm dump overnight

Fun events in the Rockies Marmot Basin has a scavenger hunt planned on Sunday, February 16. Pick up the quiz from the group sales desk in the morning and then hunt the mountain for answers to the many questions. Completed entries will be eligible for a draw for prizes including a Snow Cat ride for up to four people. Want to really impress your date at Nakiska on Valentine's Day? Take him or her to Tube and Dine for $59.99. Included are two tube park lift tickets plus nachos and a jug of beer or bottle of wine. I wouldn't be able to get away with that, but you might. V

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Beyond the grey Revelstoke's beauty best from the top

A view from the top // Tiffany Burns

fter a sunny drive along the Trans Canada Highway, pulling into the railway town of Revelstoke was actually kind of a bummer. A low cloud ceiling gave it a dreary, maybe-mining-should-still-be-themain-industry vibe. "Don't worry," said a Quebecer quaffing wine and cheese in the Sutton Place Hotel lobby. "Tomorrow you'll be in the sun." As the grey gradient of light deepened from dusk to darkness, I stepped out onto the balcony from my top-floor suite and tried to imagine the view above the cloud, but even beneath an oppressive, overcast sky, the scenery was beautiful. I could see the Columbia River, lined with the firs and pines that still fuel the town's logging industry. Inside the room, the fireplace, high-end kitchen and full-sized washer and dryer offered comforts for a long stay, but the mountain was the main reason this ski-in, ski-out slope-side hotel's lobby was bustling. Revelstoke has the most vertical in North America with 1713 metres of lift-accessed terrain on 65 runs, though the ski resort is a newbie to the North American circuit, opening in December 2007 with some of the lowest skier density figures

of any major resort. With visions of serene, sunny ski runs dancing in my head, I had a solid sleep in my king-sized bed. The next morning, the gloom wasn't gone at the base, but five minutes into the Revelation Gondola ride, the enlightenment began. If it's blasphemy to liken a gondola to the gateway to heaven, suffice it to say that once we busted through the clouds, the dour day down below in Revelstoke disappeared. To stay above the weather's leaden pillow, we headed for the Stoke high-speed quad and took Critical Path, which starts off as a supersteep blue run. Note to the uninitiated: some blue runs on Revelstoke are closer to black on the challenge spectrum. Keep the trail guide handy if you're not an expert. But with two green runs also starting at the top, the incredible view from the sub peak of Mount Mackenzie is available to every level of skier. A quick coffee break at Mackenzie Outpost, complemented with an almond croissant—from La Baguette, the coffee shop in the mini village at the base—was more gourmet than I expected from a hut with no running water—and yes, that

means a rustic toilet situation. Then it was off to the North Bowl, where the Ripper quad delivered us to Burn Down, my favourite run of the day. Impeccably groomed, it wasn't as steep as some of the front-side runs, although it still revved me into high speed. At Revelstoke, the names of the runs clue you into the type of experience you're in for. Next up was Chopper, ungroomed, with lots of hits along the rocking and rolling trail. You'll need to maintain momentum to get you through some uphills and flats. For lunch, with the Revelation Lodge still under the cloud, we went back to Mackenzie Outpost. Eating outside, I was torn between protecting my pulled-pork sandwich from the whiskey jacks or feeding the birds by hand. In the end, we all ate well. Magically, just when our legs were starting to crave a dip in one of the hotel's hot tubs, the cloud cleared, allowing us to savour the vista of the Monashee Mountains from top to leg-burning bottom. The long, epic run ended 10 feet from the door to our hotel, allowing the après ski to get started ASAP. TIFFANY BURNS @TIFFANY_BURNS

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Until Sun, Apr 27 Works by Lyndal Osborne Art Gallery of Alberta

ost of us think of sculpture as something created in clay, bronze or marble. The idea that it can be made of ordinary stuff like banana peels or dried grapefruit seems farfetched. Yet, that's exactly the kind of media Lyndal Osborne uses with breathtaking ease. Osborne's retrospective that spans 40 years of her career, Bowerbird, Life as Art, is inspired by stuff most people find useless, even ugly. But in the hands of this artist it's transformed into a veritable Beethoven's fifth symphony of texture. Osborne's nearly alchemical transformation of ordinary materials is visible right from the beginning of her career. One of the first works in the show, "Jellied Moonlight" (created in 1976, not long after she came to Edmonton to teach drawing and printmaking at the University of Alberta) depicts sugar Jujubes. Her inspiration appeared in an unlikely place: a basement. That's where Osborne hid a bag of candy to be doled out to her son piece by piece. One night she happened to shine a flashlight on the gleaming stash. That moment turned into a series of airbrush drawings that turn jellied candy

into sensuous objects. Osborne's uncanny ability to see splendour in the mundane is visible throughout the roughly chronologically arranged exhibition. But part-way through, a dramatic change comes to light: candy, seed pods, stalks and other objects that initially formed the inspiration for prints become the artwork itself. This change occurred during Osborne's show at the Edmonton Art Gallery in 1990. Roger Boulet, the curator at the time, visited her studio and noticed some intriguing objects that served as models for her prints. He asked if she would display these small sculptures—such as wrapped balls of weeping willow branches—alongside the prints. The response was enthusiastic and curators began to invite Osborne to exhibit her sculptural assemblages. Only what started as intimate, handheld objects soon grew to monumental proportions. For instance, "Tracing Tides: A Topographical Investigation" (2001) forms a landscape of tables that hold myriad sorted textures. This sensuous vista undulates like waves across

the gallery. At a distance the texture is mysterious, unidentifiable. On close inspection it's intimately familiar: bright bits of plastic washed up on a beach, mounds of colorful shotgun cartridges, gentle surfaces of intertwined bones and branches. The sensory blast of this installation is so delightful that it's like drinking a cool Margarita on a hot summer evening. But beneath the sensuous charm lie deeply personal experiences: "Tracing Tides" includes a tier of fiber balls inspired by intimate memories. "We lived pretty much along the beach," Osborne recalls, of her childhood home in Coffs Harbour, East Australia. She often walked with her dad along the shore, where they encountered Aboriginal people. "My father knew them and all," she says. They often stopped to watch these neighbours sitting, talking and creating traditional hand-held objects. "I thought of them as artists," she says. This was Osborne's formative exposure to art; a memory she recreates in "Tracing Tides." She wove her myriad of balls together with her sisters as they

Archipelago, 2008, Mixed-media installation // Lyndal Osborne

sat and talked on a beach in Newfoundland. While the beauty of these installations seduces, Osborne's artist statements invite the viewer to reflect on harsh environmental realities; for instance "ab ovo" depicts rows of glass jars that contain oversized seeds—or as Osborne says, "capsules of life." Some were modelled on electron microscope images the artist had transformed into foam replicas. This artwork honours the Millennium Seed Bank in Wakefield Place outside of London where seeds from 48 countries are stored and occasionally used as startup stock in places where indigenous seeds have been destroyed. The sheer scale of Osborne's installations invites the viewer to stroll and reenact what is perhaps her major theme: walking, observing and collecting. As I stroll among thousands of amassed items, it's hard not to marvel at the countless hours the artist spent on picking up this magnificent detritus of nature. It's a task that Osborne describes with infectious joy: she has been collecting since childhood. Walking with her mother and sisters,

they would agree to pick up let's say, only flat yellow rocks. Osborne never ceased collecting and makes it sound as easy as breathing. The large basement of her house is now packed floorto-ceiling with boxes of leaves, petals, stalks and countless other objects. As the title of her retrospective suggests, Osborne is the living incarnation of the bowerbird. This Australian bird stole colourful objects from around her childhood home to build elaborate nests. "We would go into the forest and look at the bower and there was a little bit of my tea set or a doll's eye," she recalls. "What [the male birds] do is watch the reaction of the female, and if she doesn't like it he will change it around and waits again." That's not a task Osborne need undertake. Her work is well loved and admired throughout Canada. It delights the scholar, the artist and the five-yearold child in equal measure. That's an extraordinary accomplishment. Osborne's bower is complete and quite perfect as it stands.

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Leo handstand across the floor. While it's an obvious illusion (especially because the "real" room is seen throughout the entire show), the attraction of the imaginary side, explains Bonnet, is irresistible. "I think after the first five minutes the audience usually stays on the left side [with the projection screen] and follows Leo's internal universe," he says. "On the screen all the qualities and all the tricks of the acrobatics come alive." Born in Avignon, France, and trained in circus arts in Montréal, Bonnet adds that it was a challenge to think differently about his movement for the show. Most of the time, gravity is what circus artists try to defy, but when a show's crux depends on gravity to achieve its illusion, finding the right quality of weight and expression is tough. "At the beginning it was really hard to think about the gravity, because for a lot of it I am upside down," he says. "Most of the show is really difficult for the arms and legs, and it's also difficult to understand where I am in the space. I am in the box and trying to emote and explain myself only with the position of the body. It was demanding, but with time it started to be more easy, and I began to understand how extreme the emotion can be and how to create a great character in these positions." At its heart, the show is about the warring sides of the rational, right-sideup brain, and the fantastical world of imagination, where Leo prods the audience to spend a little more time. "Leo is really a dreamer, and when you are a dreamer you want to discover more and more," he says. "Leo starts to play with his body and tries different ways to explode gravity. It's really about how we can play with a new situation."

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his weekend, Edmonton's Franco- between up and down—and if it rephone L'Uni Theatre looks beyond ally even matters when it comes to the linguistic programcharm and power ming to present of imagination. a show with no Thu, Feb 13 – Sat, Feb 15 (8 pm) Leo, a shy young language at all—at Sun, Feb 16 (2 pm) man, is stuck inleast not the spo- Directed by Daniel Brière side a simple room. La Cite Francophone, $17 – $26 ken kind. Only a red wall and blue floor accomLeo, tagged as the "anti-gravity" show, is at its core a solo pany him. As he begins to explore the physical-theatre piece. The show, con- room, he realizes that something is up ceived by Tobias Wegner in collabora- with the gravity of the situation; the tion with Montréal's Y2D Productions blue floor becomes a wall, and pulls at and Berlin's Chameleon Productions, him to play. What's really happening is ran away with the award for Best in Ed- that as Bonnet performs in the room inburgh at the 2011 Fringe and has been on one half of the stage, the other side hosts a full-size live video projection touring internationally ever since. Performed by actor/acrobat William of the same room rotated 90 degrees, Bonnet, an hour with Leo may leave making it seem like Leo floats up the you wondering about the difference blue wall while he's actually walking in

Sax and Sex / Fri, Feb 14 (7 pm) No doubt that name got your attention. What it really means is you’ll get to indulge in a buffet dinner and hear some music and comedy—which, given the holiday, will focus on all the ups, downs and inbetweens of romance. (Mettera Hotel, $52.50) Glitterball / Sat, Feb 15 (8 pm) Does the thought of roses, chocolates and mushy sentiments of love make you cringe? Don’t worry, you’re not the only one. Luna Dance Fusion presents its third-annual Glitterball, but this time it’s the anti-Valentine’s edition. It’s all about unrequited love, catering to the potentially spurned,

bitter and lonely with performances by Small Matters Productions, Holly Von Sinn, Moon Unit and guests such as Howard Van Zandt and Thomas Culture. (Yellowhead Brewery, $20 in advance, $25 at the door) Improv Burlesque A La Carte: Forbidden Love / Sat, Feb 15 (9 pm) Forbidden love can entail many things—but in this case it means exploring the taboo and even dirty. Basically, anything society thinks should not be indulged in is fair game, so be prepared. Performers are going to start with a little improv burlesque—the audience picks the song—and then show off some choreographed numbers. (Brittany’s Lounge, $10)

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f ever there's been a single line to sum up the current zeitgeist of society, it's right there in the title of Do You Want What I Have Got: A Craigslist Cantata. Gracing the Citadel's Club stage is a show based on an idea seemingly too ridiculous to be sustained: a musical revue of Craigslist ads. While "ridiculous" just barely scratches the surface of the neuroses captured in the show's subject matter, the show actually works wonderfully in full-length format. Classified-style websites, of which Craigslist was the first, fundamentally changed the newspaper publishing industry by effectively wiping out a major source of revenue. But what they also did was extend the word count of those formerly abridged ads, thereby providing a long, hard look into the eccentricities, kinks and general weirdness right out there in the general populace. "Bus boyfriend, I want to smell you again," rates as one of the most memorable opening lines of any musical, and A Craigslist Cantata is rife with hilarious one-liners like this one. ("I glimpsed your florid butt floss" is also right up there. No pun intended.) Those who haven't trawled the pages of such sites might have a hard time believing that all of these are pulled

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directly from the pages of Craigslist and were written in earnest by a real person—but you can Google them after the show. Given how hilarious the subject matter is in its own right, Cantata doesn't need to work too hard for laughs. But these four performers aren't content to sit back and let the script do all the work for them: each performer (including the two musicians) is a superb singer and skilled entertainer. Together they glide seamlessly from ad to ad, role to role; one will grab a flute and pipe an accompaniment while another suddenly appears in the midst of a crowd, miming the dearly departed cat whose hats ("from formal to cute and funny") are now being sold by his morose owner. What makes A Craigslist Cantata truly outstanding is its surprising heart: the masterful way in which it transforms these hilarious ads into a poignant meditation on profound loneliness. The crux of this message is delivered in the number "Did someone see me today?" at which point the show becomes unexpectedly touching, a reminder that behind each of these ads is a person reaching out for some kind of human connection. MEL PRIESTLEY

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Ailey II

and performance line-up, Powell enjoys looking back at his career trajectory. "It is a new generation as we say," he says. "I want to definitely give back what Mr Ailey gave me and what I learned from Judith Jamison and Sylvia Waters, and that is what we call the Ailey Tradition. I do want to bring those works back that I danced, that I learned that made me grow not only as a dancer, but

also as a person." terpiece Revelations, which since 1960 In his program for Edmonton, Powell has remained one of America's most brings the Ailey II company, made up cherished ballets, based largely on Aiof 12 emerging dance talents who will ley's own experience growing up in Rogeach spend two years with the compa- ers, Texas, during the '30s. ny to prepare for professional careers, "I want to bring in choreographies that to perform a mix of dances new and old. will challenge the dancers physically "You're going to see a diverse program, and psychologically, and also I will try to which is what Ailey is all about: diver- bring in work that is Ailey's, those works sity," he says. "We love to give our audi- that were created in the early '60s and ences a selection of something different '70s that he created based on indelible in one night." humanistic qualities," Powell adds. As for Revelations' ability to stand out The External Knot, a group piece choreographed by Powell, depicts the per- within American dance history, Powell sonal journey of adds that it exa dancer trying Fri, Feb 14 and Sat, Feb 15 (7:30 pm) udes Ailey's own charm. to find his place Jubilee Auditorium, $29 – $95 "[Revelations] in society. Also shows lot of in the lineup is a short duet by Robert Battle (the cur- those blunt memories of him in Texas, rent artistic director of the Alvin Ailey being poor, growing up on the other American Dance Theatre) titled We, side of the tracks, racism—where the which explores a mature couple's rela- only revelation is the church," Powell tionship dynamic. That will be followed explains. "The only way to get out of by Rusty, a contemporary piece for nine that depressed emotion or depressed dancers choreographed by Benoit-Swan feeling was this; he basically choreoPouffer, who is acting artistic director of graphed this to celebrate the Africanthe acclaimed Cedar Lake Contempo- American heritage and the modern rary Ballet. dance tradition. I think its so popular today because everyone can relate to it The second half of the evening closes in some way, shape or form." with a final treat: the first-ever Edmon- FAWNDA MITHRUSH FAWNDA@VUEWEEKLY.COM ton performance of Ailey's seminal mas-

a laugh. By his own admittance, the original version of Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe relies heavily on exposi-

tion; this is both a hallmark of Chris- Poe's actual life story; its central tenson's work and a recurring theme premise derives from recurring moamongst those who have expressed tifs in Poe's work. "A lot of Poe's writing is about the reservations about the show. In this new staging, Christenson is focusing fine line between sanity and madon balancing the expositive elements ness," Christenson says. "People with building relationships between don't want to really explore that in characters, as well as revamping the themselves and in their own lives— I think that's a music and adding four new songs; particularly scary only the staging Sat, Feb 15 – Sun, Mar 2 notion for most and original cast (8 pm; 2 pm matinees Feb 16, Feb of us. So I think (save one) have 23, Mar 1 and Mar 2) when you have a remained largely Directed by Jonathan Christenson writer who's inATB Financial Arts Barns, intact. viting you to ask "An ideal re- $24.50 – $31.50 those questions, sponse, from it can be a little someone who unsettling." "But I think it fulfils a necessary had seen the first run, would be that they'd say, 'I didn't notice that role, in reminding us of the valanything had changed,'" Christenson ue of what we have in our lives," says. "Ideally the people who like the he continues. "Horror poses the show as it is won't feel that anything question of what would happen has been lost. We've cut a couple of if everything that you took for small things from the show, but the granted was stolen away from you—your sense of safety, your essence is the same." life, the people you love. I think Nevermore is written almost exclu- horror puts us back in a state of sively in verse, peppered with snip- feeling appreciative for what we pets of Poe's own writing. As the have." full title states explicitly, the show MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM is hardly an authoritative voice on

Dancing a legacy of Revelations // Eduardo Patino, NYC

rom the age of nine, Troy Powell has followed what some might call the "Ailey Path." When Alvin Ailey himself visited Powell's elementary school, the moderndance legend handpicked Powell to attend the then-new Ailey School program for youth. As a teenager, Powell worked with Ailey personally in the Junior company, eventually joining Ailey

II, then finally signed on to the flagship Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, where he performed professionally for 10 years. As his career progressed, Powell shadowed Ailey II's artistic director Sylvia Waters—who held her position there for 38 years—and took over the AD role in 2012. Now in his second year programming Ailey II's intensive touring

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Nevermore

Quoth the Raven, "Well, at least ONE more" // Sean McLennan

t seems a risky business, overhauling a show that swept the Sterling Awards upon its debut. "You can keep preaching to the choir, or you can try to find a way to reach

the people who haven't found a way in yet," explains Jonathan Christenson, writer and director of Catalyst Theatre's Nevermore. "On a certain level I want to win them over," he adds with

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Forget Me Not

A postcard of Denise

s a youth, Andrea House would pass summers at her grandmother Margaret's farm. And there, blocked off by a large piece of furniture, was a closet nobody ever opened. Until House did open it at age 16, bored one afternoon and imbued with that adventurous sense of impunity that teenagers naturally possess. Inside the closet she found a cigar box full of love letters to her grandfather, Forrest (then already deceased), that had been written during the First World War. The letters were not from her grandmother, but from

a Parisian girl named Denise, who Forrest House had met while serving as an airplane mechanic for the American Expeditionary Force, years before he'd return to, then leave, Idaho for Canada on the promise of his own cheap parcel of Albertan land. It was years before he meet Margaret, and years before they'd create a life and family together on the prairies. It's the kind of revelatory find that shakes your knowledge of your own close family—not that House had time to fully process what she'd found in the moment. "As soon as I got into that closet—

it's such a creaky old house—I could ing the show back as an ideal blend of hear my grandmother Margaret com- history and love story for their own ing up the stairs," she recalls. "I pan- MO, just in time for Valentine's Day. "It is a series of songs," House beicked, and I stuck that box of postcards—it's a cigar box—I stuck it into gins, "but in between, I try to tell my shirt and into my pants. Covered this story from what I understand, it up, and I stole it." and what I've gathered and learned, "I didn't know what to do," she la- about these two types of love: the ments of her younger self. "I didn't love that you have when you're know how I could discover it and then young, and you have everything to just give it back to her. And so I took hope for, and what I feel is real love, it. I feel bad that I took it, but I did." which is the love that my grandmother showed When House her husband. She eventually con- Fri, Feb 14 & Sat, Feb 15 (7:30 fessed to discov- pm); Sun, Feb 16 (2 pm) really allowed him to love someone ering the letters, Capitol Theatre, $22 her grandmother else, in the end, and yet she cared cried, and that's when House found the other part of for him, and dressed him, and fed the story from the rest of her family: him everyday. I think that that is that in her grandfather's final years, maybe real love." after suffering a debilitating stroke, Some of those postcards House found are included in the show, prohe began to call his wife Denise. That dual-love story, revealed in jected beside her and her accompapieces through postcards and letters, niment as they perform. They're unforms the heart of Forget Me Not. like their modern equivalents, House It's an Andrea House concert meets notes. storytelling session that was praised "Postcards were emails of the time," with a Sterling nomination back in she says. "Small runs of whatever 2010, when it was first performed at was going on. So the postcards, the that year's Fringe festival. Between images that you see, are just astoundsongs, House will work through the ing. They're pictures of the tents the braided story of Denise and Forrest soldiers slept in. There's pictures of and Margaret. Capitol Theatre's bring- Paris, of the Arc de Triomphe being

surrounded by soldiers, just on a day." As to why her grandmother kept the postcards after Forrest passed, House isn't quite sure: her family reckons she'd simply forgotten them in that never-opened closet. Forget Me Not is not a play, and willfully not so. By House's count, a simulacrum, dressing up actors as these characters, wouldn't quite do the story, especially one so close to her, justice. "I think there really was a sense of urgency in the love of that time," House says. "There was a very real sense that you could just die; there was a saying during that time, that every woman in France was in mourning. So many of the French had died, so many had starved to death. It was pretty brutal. So many of the water sources were contaminated that people had to drink alcohol, even children. It was just a totally different deal. And then to be on the farm—think of being on the farm in the '60s or the '70s, and having a life that maybe you loved, but also having some regret. For me, I don't think you could just do this as a play. I think you have to sing it. Only a melody could capture that." PAUL BLINOV

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Shakespeare in neon // Ed Ellis

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hakespeare has been done countless ways over the past few centuries, but I'd be willing to wager that Studio Theatre's current version of Love's Labour's Lost is as unique as it gets. The reason? It's just so damn eclectic. So preposterous, so extravagant, so completely bizarre that it seems impossible that this show—one of Shakespeare's earliest comedies— could have been done in quite this way before. One needn't look past the costumes, designed by Zsófia Opra-Szabó, for proof: a parade of juxtaposed colours, cuts and eras is layered upon each character. The four men, the king and lords of Navarre who have just signed a pledge of abstinence from worldly pleasures in order to further the pursuit of their studies, begin in Renaissance-esque robes—but they're also wearing neon-hued sneakers, in eye-watering shades that match the two-toned dresses of their soon-tobe chosen mates—the Princess of France and her entourage.

Shakespeare plays around with The real meat of the script, howlanguage in Love's Labour's Lost to ever, is delivered through the bana degree that isn't seen in his later ter between the ladies of France works; for example, the opening and the men of Navarre—a classic scene, wherein the four men de- Shakespearean war of the sexes scend into rhyming couplets that that's ever entertaining. Love's Labour's Lost is a perfect are delivered in a manner almost play for the evocative of Timms Cenhip hop (or tre crowd, possibly Dr Se- Until Sat, Feb 15 (7:30 pm; 12:30 pm given the uss). A pair of matinee on Thu, Feb 13) overarching drunken peas- Directed by Kevin Sutley theme of ants (played Timms Centre for the Arts, $11 – $22 eschewing with panache scholarly by Georgia Irwin and Braydon Dowler-Coltman) studies for play—yet its premise is provide the show's base humour really quite far-reaching, given that through both verbal and non-verbal in this world infinite distraction is vulgarities, while a curate (Mark quite literally in the palms of our Vetsch) and schoolmaster (Mer- hands. While you'll probably walk ran Carr-Wiggin) provide a coun- out slightly dazed by the sheer terpoint of insufferable, overly absurdity of this farcical romp, it'll heightened speech. Oscar Derkx's also be with a smile on your face— Don Armado is an easy crowd fa- and the certainty that you probably vourite, as fantastical a Spaniard won't see anything quite like this as they come—right down to his again. saxophonist sidekick Moth (Andrea MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM Rankin, who also steals the show).

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Vinok Worldance Mardi Gras f you've been feeling a little tainment—showcasing the group's cooped up this time of year, there's rich cultural diversity in a way that's no better time than Mardi Gras to slightly different from its usual performance style. get a little wild. "We don't use traditional costumes; "'Unmask your wild side' is sort of the catch phrase for event," says Vi- we've augmented the musicians with trombone and a trumnok artistic director Leanne Koziak of the Sat, Feb 15 (6:30 pm) pet, so the flavour is annual Vinok Worl- Chateau Louis Hotel & a little more contemporary," Koziak says, dance Mardi Gras, Conference Centre, $75 now in its fourth year. noting the group has a "It's a chance to let go repertoire of 60 differand have fun and let your inhibitions ent cultures from around the world, down a little bit and enjoy the com- and the Mardi Gras event features those prominent in the kaleidoscopic pany of other people." Guests are encouraged to dress the makeup of New Orleans, such as Capart (bold colours and ornate masks, jun, African, Spanish, French and Irish. Koziak, who has travelled to New with some being available for purchase at the event) as they stroll along a rec- Orleans in the past, sees Edmonton reated Bourbon Street in the Chateau as a city that has embraced its multiLouis ballroom. In furthering the spirit culturalism in similar ways. "We are a very diverse city, and I think of bringing New Orleans northward, there will be an assortment of the city's sometimes people don't realize that," fare including jambalaya, po' boy sand- she adds. "You've got schools even that have different languages and it's wiches, gumbo and plenty of seafood. very cohesive and people live very harOf course, Vinok Worldance will be moniously, I think, in both cities." on hand—along with musical enter- MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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West Side Story

"I left home at a very young age, not 'm from Georgia, so it's a tad bit cold, but I'll take it," Benjiman Red- because I didn't have a good family life, ding says, in the midst of his first trek but I think I was just very driven," says through Canada with Broadway Across Redding, who was 14 at the time and Canada's production of West Side Story. left home in Columbus, Georgia for a Redding plays Riff, the leader of a boarding school in Massachusetts. "I Caucasian teen gang known as the Jets was making sandwiches for myself by who are at odds with their Puerto Ri- the time I could crawl on the counter can rivals, the Sharks. The two are in a and make it myself. I've just been very turf war over a neighbourhood in New kind of lone-wolfish and I think that's what's really conYork's Upper West Tue, Feb 18 – Sun, Feb 23 (8 pm; nected me to Riff, side, and tensions 7:30 pm Sunday; 2 pm Saturday escalate with the is I just like to forge and Sunday matinees) Romeo and Julietahead alone." Jubilee Auditorium, $35 – $122 inspired love story Whether it's the that plays out beiconic songs, danctween Riff's best friend Tony and Maria, whose brother happens to be the ing, conflict or tragic love tale, West Side Story still resonates strongly. Redleader of the Sharks. "He is confident and he is powerful ding notes the news is littered with acand he is pretty much fearless. I think counts of youth violence and cultures the thing I love most about him is he in conflict with one another over perlaughs at fear and he's not afraid to ceived differences. "I mean, I'm from a very small town be confrontational, but he has a really deep love for these boys," Redding says in Georgia and even moving to Masof his headstrong character, who he sachusetts, just because of the people notes does have a softer side beneath I was around, it was sort of a wake-up the surface. "It says in the second scene call that I myself was prejudiced—I just he doesn't have a family. He's lived with didn't know any better because it was Tony for four years, so pretty much what was around me," he says. "And I the gang is all he has and no one's ever mean, that's everywhere and I think really taken care of him so he sort of the truth of that will always keep West Side Story [relevant], and honestly, evtakes care of them." This is Redding's first experience with eryone loves a good love story, even West Side Story and its fabled text, but though it's pretty tragic." he admits he relates to Riff and his de- MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM termined nature.

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DANCE ALBERTA BALLET–AILEY II • Jubilee Auditorium,

10229-105 St • Glitterball III: Anti-Valentine's Vaudevillian feast of modern fusion bellydance, comedy and burlesque. Music by Thomas Culture; performances by Luna Dance Fusion, Small Matters Productions, Holly Von Sinn, Moon Unit and guests • Feb 15, 8pm-1:30am

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 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry)

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

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

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 • An American In Paris (G, 1951); Feb 19, 1:30pm; $5

THE CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton • Love Me Tender (1956, STC); Feb 13, 7:30pm • $10 • An Affair to Remember (1957, STC); Feb 20 • Gone with the Wind (1939) PG; Feb 27

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • 20 Feet From Stardom (PG) USA, 2013; Feb 19, 6:30pm

DREAMSPEAKERS FESTIVAL SOCIETY • Landmark 9 City Centre Theatre, 10200-102 Ave • DOT film Premiere of short films from the Aboriginal Youth Film project; followed by Q & A • Feb 21, 11am-2pm • Free

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books • Every Fri, 2pm • A Walk to Remember (PG) 2002; Feb 14, 2pm • Message in a Bottle (PG) 1999; Feb 21, 2pm METRO CINEMA • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival: Asphalt Watches: Feb 21, 7pm, Feb 26, 9pm • Top Ten Shorts Programme; Feb 23, 7pm • When Jews Were Funny; Feb 22, 2pm • Sarah Prefers to Run (Sarah préfère la course) Feb 24, 7pm • Enemy; Feb 22 7pm • Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme); Feb 25, 7pm • Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Vic et Flo ont vu un ours); Feb 23, 12:30pm • Rhymes for Young Ghouls: Feb 28, 7pm, Mar 3: 9:30 & 4 @ 9:15pm • Watermark; Feb 23, 2:30pm • Gabrielle: Mar 2, 4pm • Feb 21-Mar 4

Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • AT ODDS: Works by Sydney Lancaster, Susan Seright and Claire Uhlick • Until Mar 1-2 • Ageless Art: For mature adults; Subtractive Drawing: Feb 20, 1-3pm; $12/$10 (member) • Preschool Picasso: For ages 3-5; $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 (Agnes Bugera Gallery), 12310 Jasper Ave, 482.2854 • FORGE AND FORM: Landscapes by Clint Hunker and Kerensa Haynes • Feb 27-Mar 12 CAFE PICHILINGUE–Red Deer • Untitled, Photographs by Jim McKinley • Until Feb 28

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 461.3427 • Exhibition of members' artworks • Until Feb 25

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 491251 Ave, Stony Plain, 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

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 686.4211 • ... LANDSCAPE: Fresh look at perhaps the most over used cliche in Canadian art • Feb 13-Mar 15 • Opening: Feb 13, 6-10pm

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 760.1278 • Society of Western Canadian Artists Signature show: works by Karen Bishop, Teresa B. Graham, Saeed Hojjati, Anne McCartney, Rick Rogers, Heidi Smith • Until Feb 15 DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 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 • 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 • DREAM HUT: New work by Adam Maitland • Feb 21-Mar 8 • Opening reception: Feb 21, 7-11pm

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; until Mar 28 • FRESH PAINT: A Snapshot of Painting in Edmonton; until Apr 12 • DUETS: Shared Ideas in Painting: until Apr 12 • DINOSTARS: Baby Chasmosaurus and mummified Edmontonosaurus dinosaur specimens; until Mar 8 • VISUAL MUSIC: Five Films by John Osborne; until Mar 29

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 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

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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

10186-106 St, 488.6611 • Feature Gallery: PAYCE: Celebrating Greg Payce's 2013 Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Craft; until Mar 29 • Discovery Gallery: TROPHIES FOR THE RANCHLAND: Works by Jill Nuckles; Feb 15-Mar 22; reception: Mar 22, 2-4pm • WHAT DOES YOUR FISH LOOK LIKE?: 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, 962.0664 • JOURNEY OF AN IDEA 1996 to 2013: Artworks by Peggy Gahn • Until Feb 22 ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 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 • All Day Sunday: From Chagall with Love: Feb 18, 12-

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GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • METAMORPHOSIS: Elaine Berglund • Until Mar 18

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • Artworks by Vincent Duffek; until Feb 24 • ILLUMINATION: Encaustic artworks by Barbara Mitchell; Feb 25-Mar 13

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

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

Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • TINY MOMENTS: Paintings, a Book of Days by Paul Boultbee • Until Feb 15

HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • The Love of Photography: Works by Jessica Swainson • until Feb 28

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 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 JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

KERRY WOOD NATURE GALLERY–Red Deer • Kerry Wood Nature Centre • 403.346.2010 • Red Deer Arts Council: Pop-Up Gallery with eight of its Visual Arts Members at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre featuring works by Susan Barker and Issy Covey • Feb 17

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • THE BEST OF THE WEST TRAVELLING SAQA TRUNK SHOW: Works by the SAQA group (Studio Art Quilts Associates) • Until Mar 2

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 990.1161 • IT'S WARM INSIDE!!: A selling exhibition of gallery artists and secondary market works; until Feb 19 • Lando Art Auctions Preview: Feb 21-23; Fine Art Auction: Feb 23, 2pm

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 423.5353 • Main Space: WE: Laura Aldridge, Jonathan Owen, James McLardy, Rachel Duckhouse, Ciara Philips and Daisy Richardson (Glasgow), and Andrea Williamson, Hannah Doerksen, Kent Merrimen Jr Steven Cottingham, Tyler Los Jones, and Stephen Nachtigall (Calgary); curated by Matthew Bourree & Yvonne Mullock; until Feb 15 • ProjEx Room: THIS IS OUR LAND: TARZAN & ARAB: Curated by Kelty Pelechytik; featuring Paul Fischer's documentary film Tarzan and Arab; until Feb 15 • 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

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park; 780.559.4443 • Sat-Sun 12-4pm • OUR PASSION–TWO ARTISTS WHO SHARE THE SAME OBSESSION: Artworks by Joyce Boyer and Elaine Tweedy; until Feb 23 • The World’s Greatest Paintings: DVD lecture gives a better understanding of famous artworks, and what makes them great; Feb 16, 1-4pm; $5

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 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 • PATTERNS OF CONSUMPTION: Works by C.W. Carson; until Feb 14 • New works by Keith Harder; Feb 16-Mar19; Opening: Feb 16, 1-3:30pm

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 • 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 • 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 • FIFTY SHADES OF BROWN: The art of Leona Clawson; reception: country music by Colleen Rae; Feb 13, 5-7pm

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

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • 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

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 • Until Feb 28

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Main Gallery: HALL OF FAME: POMPEII MMXII: Print works by Dominique Petrin • Community Gallery: THE

ASSASSINATION OF THINKITEM: By The Coward Adriean Koleric • Until Mar 1

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

STRATHCONA COUNTY 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

• Gallery@501 members; Feb 21-Mar 9; reception: Feb 28, 7pm

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • 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 • IMAX Theatre: Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri-Sun: 11am, 2:10pm, 3:20pm, 6:50pm, 8pm; Mon: 11am, 2:10pm, 5:15pm, 6:30pm; Tue-Wed: 2pm, 3:10 pm; Thu: 2pm, 3:10pm, 5:15pm; 6:30 pm; Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Mon: 12pm; Tue: 4:20pm; Flight of the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Mon: 1pm, Wed: 4:20pm; Hubble (G) Fri: 12pm; Born to be Wild 3D (G) Thu: 4:20pm; Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Sun: 4:35pm, 9:10pm; Mon: 3:25pm; Thu: 7:45pm U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Gallery: Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave: THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS: Fashion & The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the influence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive influence on dress • Until Mar 2, 2014

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 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 • POINTS OF VIEW: Works by the Edmonton Art Club • Through Feb

VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • UNTITLED: Paintings by Amber Jackson • Until Feb 28 WALTERDALE–ASA Gallery • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • CELEBRATING ALBERTA: Artworks by ASA members; a portion of the show being held at VAAA • Feb 15, 10am-3pm WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave, 488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Guy Roy, landscapes of the Charlevoix region of Quebec • Until Feb 20

WORKS GALLERY • 10635-95 St • facebook.com/ TheWorksArtandDesignFestival • 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 • YMCA Community Canvas Works Gallery: at the Don Wheaton YMCA downtown, 10211-102 Ave: Jenny Keith's natureinspired paintings; through Feb

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Adam Pottle reading from his novel Mantis Dreams; Feb 18, 7pm • Adam Kehler will be chatting about his new book, Stepping Out of the Shadows: A Guide to Understanding and Healing From Addictions; Feb 22, 11am-12pm • Leanny Myggland-Carter will be launching her new book, Orange; Feb 23, 3:30-4:30pm • Poet's Haven: poetry readings; Feb 23, 2pm • Local poet Julie Robinson launches her new book Jail Fire, with poet Chris Wiesenthal; Feb 25, 7pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Daravara, 10713124 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner • Starts: Feb 19 ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • BIP: Breath in Poetry Collective Presents: poet, Jules Nyx, recite poetry from her debut book, Infinity Breaks • Feb 18; 9pm

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

STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY • Books2Buy: used books, CDs and DVDs • Feb 21-23 UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri • Feb 14, 21 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? • Until 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

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828101A 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

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THE CLEAN HOUSE • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • By Sarah Ruhl, presented by Trunk Theatre. Shannon Boyle, Coralie Cairns, Troy O’Donnell, Elena Porter and Liana Shannon and is directed by Amy DeFelice star in this magic realist comedy drama • Feb 20-Mar 1 • $20 (student/senior)/$25 (adult) 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 improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

DIRT• Tacos Space, 10005-80 Ave • By Ron Chamber • Presented by Punctuate! Theatre, Elizabeth Hobbs directs in this dark and gritty comedy starring Jeff Page, Elliott James, Andréa Jorawsky, Cliff Kelly, and Rebecca Starr. Dirt, centres on Murphy, a local degenerate, who is accused of killing his girlfriend • Feb 19-24, 7:30pm • $20/$15 (student/senior/industry) at TIX on the Square, door DEATH TRAP • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615109 Ave • Broadway thriller, with a skillful blend of suspense and humor • Until Apr 6 • Tickets at 780.483.4051

DO YOU WANT WHAT I HAVE GOT? A CRAIGSLIST CANTATA • Citadel Theatre, 780.425.1820 • In The Club: Contemporary Comedy Revue • By Veda Hille and Bill Richardson; directed by Amiel Gladstone. An Acting Up Stage Company and Factory Theatre Production • 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) 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 • Until Feb 15 • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); Matinee: $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 senior); Preview: $5; Mon: 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 15: $16; $11 (Under 18 any performance);

NEVERMORE • Westbury Theatre, 8529 Gateway Blvd, 431.1750 • 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)

SAME TIME NEXT YEAR • Kinsmen Korra Dinner Theatre, Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • By Bernard Slade, St Albert Theatre Troupe presents this play about two people who have an affair, and agree to meet once a year • Feb 14-16, 20-22, 27-28, Mar 1 • $47.50 at box office, 780.222.0102

STAGE STRUCK • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • Annual adult one-act play festival: Plays by Edmonton-based playwrights Maria Colonescu, Nicole Grainger, Michele Vance Hehir, Tai Grauman, Phil Kreisel, Barbara North, Sarah Elliott, and Gerald Osborn. Performances are adjudicated by Artistic Co-director of Concrete Theatre and Professor • Feb 21, 7pm; Feb 22, 1pm and 7pm • $35 (Three-session Festival Pass); $28 (student/senior); Single admission: $14/$12 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square 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, 1032983 Ave, 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 23, 11am • $6 VIP Pass $60 WEST SIDE STORY • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Broadway Across Canada • Musical set in New York's West Side in the mid-50s amidst widespread racial and social tension • Feb 18-23 • Tickets at 1.866.540.7469

YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN • John L. Haar Theatre, MacEwan, 10045-156 St • Presented by MacEwan, spoof Inspired by the classic Boris Karloff films based Mary Shelley's novel • Until Feb 15, 7:30pm • Tickets start at $15

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ight off the top, you need to know that Afghan Chopan Kebab combines the pleasure of really enjoyable food—and lots of it—with the not-unpleasant sense of disorientation you get dining out in another country, where the allcaps, broken-English menu leaves some room for speculation about what the meal will contain when it arrives, where the owner smilingly visits with each patron and engages in non-sequitur chit chat, and where you wonder how such a small quantity of the local currency could have possibly bought you all that food. The bill of fare is familiar yet exotic, reminiscent of both Middle Eastern and Indian cuisine, heavy on the eponymous skewered meats over rice. And even though the food could well be halal, the premises are not, so you can get an adult beverage if that suits you. I'm not kidding when I say the servings of food are mountainous and, fortunately, quite delicious. Your hosts, the Sana family, are friendly and generous about doling out extra tidbits so you get a little deeper into the menu. In the case of the potato boulani, a stuffed flatbread served with stealthily spiced, radiantly garlicky yogurt-mint dip, it's a shrewd bit of marketing, because who would not want to eat that again? Afghan Chopan Kebab is also charmingly weird, from the oddly psychedelic lighting scheme—colourfully complemented by the

bulbous, tentacled sheesha pipes stationed around the room—to the many, many crooked oil paintings of bearded men handling textiles, to what I hope is a replica of a machine gun hanging from a sconce light over a cordoned-off pen of rugs and throw cushions clustered around some water pipes for that authentic, relaxing-on-the-floor feeling. Afghan pop video pulses from the flatscreen over the bar and you'll probably get sports highlights on the other one in eyeshot. Most, but not all, of the tables were set with glass bottles of Pepsi at each place, bottles that continue to command much-needed real estate after the really big platters hit the table. The menu is pretty straightforward—flat-bready appetizers like the boulani and dips, meat-overrice platters, including a $40 combo platter that gets you a sampling of every kebab on the menu, which would probably take you a full day to finish. It was hard to tell whether they were vegetarian-friendly, but you could get by on the feta and spinach-stuffed Afghan flatbread ($10.95) or just the pullaw, an incredibly fragrant rice preparation featuring lots of cardamom, shreds of carrot, steamed-thenbaked rice, some raisins, olive oil and butter. Both platters we ordered (in the $13 – $18 range) were heaped with it. A green salad with tomato, cucumber, iceberg lettuce and some crispy things like you get in Punjabi mix with not too much

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dressing that tasted like ranch. The meaty parts of our platters gave reason to hope that you wouldn't do too badly ordering anything on the menu. The roasted lamb slid off its generous shank without resistance and fell apart on the tongue. It came with a perfect little side of green relish potent with jalapeño, garlic, parsley and vinegar. The curry-tinted chicken teka kebabs, with more yogurt-mint sauce, were also nicely done. The chicken came with the same salad and superfluous (but, upon reflection, tasty) fries. We filled two to-go containers with the remainder and made a full meal out of it the next night. As if that weren't enough, the house presented us with a sample of fernea, a mildly sweet, milky custardtype dessert with chopped pistachios, this in a small enough portion that we were each able to enjoy the entire serving at once. The light confection didn't linger too long on the palate, unlike the cumulative dose of garlic contained in the rest of the food, which haunted my mouth for the rest of the evening. One final note—even though I wanted to revisit their menu online, the Afghan Chopan Kebab's website is apparently dangerous enough that my web browser won't let me anywhere near it. Decorative automatic weaponry nothwithstanding, it may be much safer to visit the actual premises, perhaps during their daily $12 lunch buffet. SCOTT LINGLEY

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Getting in the mood It's been rumoured that Casanova ate 50 oysters for breakfast every day. Whether that's true or not, oysters are widely considered to be an aphrodisiac due to their high zinc content. Zinc is believed to increase testosterone and improve sperm quality. The way in which oysters are consumed—there's a lot of sucking and slurping—is also attributed to the potential of increased arousal. To each their own.

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Cooking optional Raw is the preferred method of consumption when it comes to oysters, as they are considered most nutritious in that state. They are also low in food energy: 12 of them pack only 110 kilocalories. Store with caution Oysters have a longer shelf life than most shell fish at four weeks, but they will have the best flavour when consumed fresh. For best results, oysters should be refrigerated out of water in 100-percent humidity. If oysters are

stored in water, they will open, consume any oxygen available to them and die—oysters must be either eaten alive or cooked alive. Ethical seafood Some ethicists believe oysters are an acceptable food if consumers are concerned about animal rights because they lack a central nervous system and are generally harvested in an environmentally friendly and sustainable way. Get your calcium Oyster shells are a source of calcium carbonate, which may be found in certain dietary supplements. Precious pearls Pearl oysters are from a different family (Pteriidae) than true oysters (Ostreidae, the type that are edible). However, molluscs such as freshwater mussels are also capable of producing pearls of commercial value. V

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White Oak The Bruery, Placentia, California $19.40 for 750 ml bottle Most of the time it takes a brewery decades to build a reputation of quality. Samuel Adams, Fuller's, Unibroue have been at their craft for a long time and they deserve the accolades they receive. But sometimes a brewery comes along that very quickly develops a reputation of a nature that you have to stop and take notice. An example of that is The Bruery, opened by avid homebrewer Patrick Rue in 2008. In less than six years The Bruery has developed a reputation for unparalleled beer, in particular their Belgianinspired beer and their experiments with barrel-aged beer. As is true for any new, experimental brewery, not every beer makes the cut. But they do seem to produce some amazing, high-end beer. A couple of their beer recently entered the Alberta market, so I picked a bottle to see whether it was worth the hype. I chose White Oak, a beer that is 50-percent Belgian golden strong and 50-percent wheat wine aged in bourbon oak barrels. Not to mention it clocks in at 11.5-percent alcohol. That is no timid beer. It pours dark yellow with a massive, creamy white head. The head builds so much it takes two pours to fill the glass. The foam does have an ice-cream float kind of appearance. I also find the slightest of haze. It is a highly carbonated beer. What hits your nostril first in the aroma is vanilla, bourbon and charred wood, followed quickly by some Belgian yeast spiciness, a bit of pilsner

malt sweetness and honey. The flavour reveals a complex beer. The first sip brings out fruit and honey with a light malt hit as well. The vanilla and sweet bourbon notes drive up the middle quickly, overtaking any malt character. An oaky undercurrent supports it all. The finish is spicy and yeasty. The beer doesn't dry out as much as I would hope. The finish is still

rather sweet and I would like it to dry out a bit more. The body is a bit sticky. I find only traces of hop character, but the wood really makes its impact. There is a high degree of complexity to this beer. I do wonder, however, if it needs 12 or 18 months in the cellar to allow things to meld together. Don't take this as a criticism of the beer. I am tasting it fairly young. It will mellow and evolve. I

just think it might have a better profile 18 months from now. For the moment, it is an intriguing beer that highly suggests its brewer knows what they are doing with oak barrel aging. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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he idea of hard rocker Zakk Wylde playing acoustic versions of his songs might seem a little strange to you, but not to Wylde himself. The 47-year-old former Ozzy Osbourne sideman and leader of Black Label Society is better known for keeping things on the metal tip— after all, this is the man who named two of his kids Sabbath and Hendrix —but he's enough of a classic rocker to appreciate the change of pace. "Man, I love it when Neil Young goes balls out, but he's great when

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he's quiet as well," Wylde says from his California home, where he's preparing for the tour that will bring him to Edmonton on Monday. "Same with Zep; 'Black Dog' is rocking, but I also like 'Going to California' as well." Wylde doesn't have a great deal to choose from himself when it comes to mellow tunes, but he is able to rearrange a song like Black Label Society's "Stillborn" into something that sounds disconcertingly like a Creed unplugged outtake. Other Wylde songs given the acoustic

jaunt amid a period of recording and touring that has him out with the Experience Hendrix guitar extravaganza (including Buddy Guy, Dweezil Zappa and Kenny Wayne Shepherd) in Mon, Feb 17 (8 pm) March, and in The Ranch Roadhouse, April with Black $36 – $40 Label as part of the Revolver Golden Gods package tour. He's also getting ready for the release of the band's 13th album, Catacombs of the Black Vatican, practicing with new Black Label guitarist (and former Lizzy Borden member) Dario Lorina, and taking care of all of the small deand/or piano treatment include tails that go into keeping his band "Parade of the Dead" and "Blessed up and running. Hellride," bookended by stories "I'm thinking about Black Label every taken from his book Bringing Metal day before my feet hit the floor," he to the Children, which came out in allows. "I'm the kind of person who paperback last April. needs something to do, which makes "Rather than promote it by going vacations kind of hard. There's the to Borders or Barnes & Noble I was band shit-list of doom that needs to like 'Why not just book some gigs?' be taken care of, and I have to look We can jam and promote the book really far ahead on what's coming up. at the same time, like Storytellers- Just like with the Super Bowl, I'm five slash-George Carlin meets Black La- years ahead on the planning of what bel minus the walls of Marshalls." needs to be done next." Wylde is a busy man; he's shoeSince he brought it up, it seems horning in this acoustic Canadian natural to ask Wylde his opinion on

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the recent controversy surrounding the Red Hot Chili Peppers' acquiescence to Super Bowl producer's demands that they mime through their half-time performance. "First off, there's so much that can go wrong in a live show like that," he says. "As a producer, you have to think about the fact that the stage has to be wheeled out and put together quickly, and you're running cables to microphones and front of house for mixing, and then out to the network for the live feed. All it takes is for one guitar cable to come unplugged, or for Bruno Mars' microphone to cut out in the middle of the song. You think they're going to take that chance? With 100 million people watching I don't think so. A friend of mine was watching and complained about it; he was bummed out that they weren't really playing. I was like, 'Man, Flea is the biggest, badass bass player out there right now. Boo hoo, he wasn't plugged in. You think that guy can't play? He was playing along to his own playing!' My friend looked at me and said, 'Yeah, you're right.' Of course I was right—I win!" TOM MURRAY TOM@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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olleen Brown arrives at the Wild really abrupt, like it was ending too Earth Bakery a few minutes late, quickly," she says—and so last Christapologetic, but with purpose in the mas, Brown traded Edmonton for brief delay: in hand is a bag of home- Arizona to collect herself and chart made chocolates, a sample of the a new course. While there, she wares the she'll be detoured into Los peddling at both Fri, Feb 14 (6 pm) Angeles, trying this weekend's With Billie Zizi show and, ideally, CKUA (9804 Jasper Ave), tickets to get a sense of at future perfor- available from CKUA the greater music industry, waiting mances as well. on potential pro"I wanted to do a whole aphrodisiac-food-item theme ducers, and, eventually, finding one: for Valentine's Day, specifically," when a friend called her to do some Brown explains. Previously, she's back-up vocals in a session, she met sold her own granola at concerts; Raymond Richards, former slide guinow, in expanding the snack side of tarist with the Brian Jonestown Masher shows, she's experimenting with sacre. He ended up producing two of both recipes and practical questions: the four Directions EPs that Brown's (What's the proper spice/sugar bal- created, set to trickle out over the ance in these chocolates? How many next year. The first, out now, is Direction 1: should she make per show? Why are Major Love, which finds Brown playpine nuts so expensive?). The idea is about Brown forging ing with a lush sonic scope: couched new connections with her audience, by a pair of potent heartfelt ruminaones that go beyond the usual musi- tions ("As The Crow Flies" and "The Great Divide") come the bluesy guitar cian-audience axiom. "It's hard to get and keep people's licks and stomp-march drums which interests with a recording now, be- propel "Mountain Man," while eleccause there's so many recordings tric sitar sneaks into "Place To Put to listen to, so many people grab- Your Love" on the back of its '70s bing for your attention all the time," psychedelic-jam vibe. Its four-songs muse on the titular she says. "I'm trying to reconfigure so that I'm making something that subject matter: heart songs, more people might be more interested in concerned with the big ideas around on a personal level, as a whole pack- the emotion rather than Brown's own age: a connection to me as a person, experiences. "I had to remove myself as the proa connection to me as an artist, the ideas [that] encompass the whole tagonist, in a way," Brown says, becreative process that I'm working fore reconsidering slightly. "Is that true?" she laughs. "I don't with," she explains. That push for greater connection know if I did remove myself as prowas partly motivated, Brown notes, tagonist, but I did put myself in a by a major existential crisis—"Again," bit of a fantasy world when I was she adds with a rueful laugh. "Good doing it. "I think in the past I've wanted to times."—coming after the touring cycle of her previous album, Dirt, make sure what I'm saying in the muwrapped up. She hadn't been fully sic, with the lyrics particularly, is consatisfied with its endurance—"It felt veyed in a very accurate and balanced

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way, so people will understand me," she continues. "And there's a lot of trying to control the message when I'm approaching it from that angle. So in this, because it's a little bit less about me specifically, in my life, I can just put it out there and I'm not really worried about what people think of the message of the songs." Aside from her own EPs—the next one out, riffing on the idea of lust and longing, was produced by Joel Plaskett, who Brown describes as a "boundless ball of energy" to work with— there's another project that's starting to accumulate more of Brown's time: a full-on reunion of the Secretaries is coming at the Hot Plains Music Festival in May. It's not that the band hasn't done intermittent shows over the past few years, but this looks to be a more lasting reconnection of its original trio: Brown on bass, Amy Van Keeken on guitars and drum-pounder Natasha Fryzuk, together whipping up their particular, Heart-ish brand of rock 'n' roll dance party. "We had a rehearsal earlier this week," Brown says. "Actually, we'd intended to have two rehearsals this week, and when we got together on the weekend, we didn't practice, we just sat and talked—had a really lovely lady time together, reconnecting, making plans and just coming up with genius ideas. "And then, the other day, we actually set up our instruments and used them to make music together. And there were a couple times, even just within the first run-through of the first song, where I just got chills and got super excited. I love those women, and I love playing with them, and we are going to kill."

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o you remember what you were doing when you were 11 or 13 years old? Whatever it was, it probably didn't involve releasing your debut album. Luke and Tess Pretty reached that milestone four years ago with diffusion, and now the brother-sister duo is ready to release its follow-up, Nine Lives, a live album of jazz covers recorded at Jeffrey's Café and Winebar in 2013. "I think it's important, just so the listener can see exactly what we sound like live," says Luke, 17, who is finishing up his final semester of high school and also produced the album. "I think it's kind of cooler than having something we made in the studio. I think it's cool we were able to perform it live and get the people in the audience on the album." Nine Lives includes a roster of contemporary jazz tunes such as "I Feel Lucky" by Time Warp Inc, "Steroids"

by Oz Noy, "Monster" by Tingvall Trio and "Adelita" by Robert Walter. Luke explains the duo's approach to cover songs is to choose compositions that are more difficult than ones they've already mastered. "When we learn those solos, we try and learn them exactly how they are on the album, just because it's a challenge to play something that was improvised at first, and that always takes a really long time—a lot of playing and pausing and trying to get all the little things right," he says, adding learning to play covers has helped he and Tess develop song structures for their original material, which finds the duo exploring electronic genres as well. "Like, intros and then how long a section should last before it goes to the next one. I think a lot of electronic music lacks that in a way. There's some 12-minute songs where it doesn't really change and I kind of get bored

with that kind of music. I like a lot of surprises, which I think is more prevalent in music that is not electronic, so I think that is something I can pull into my electronic music." With Nine Lives completed, Luke and Tess are planning to make their next album an electronic one made up of original compositions. Luke has been experimenting more and more with the genre, creating a sound he says has been described as "future bass," which has been gaining positive feedback online. "I'm starting to combine the jazz elements that me and Tess have been playing into the electronic music," he adds. "I didn't know how people would respond to it, but the last song I put out has a little jazz solo in it and people seem to like it a lot." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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hough we're deep into an era forefront. There are themes at of by-the-song consideration of play, and even a narrative of sorts, music, streamed and downloaded though it's not as simple as a story in fragments more than in whole that connects the dots as it goes. "It's not like Tompackages, there's my, in the sense still something my to be said for the Sat, Feb 15 (8 pm) that we had a fully realized al- Blue Chair Cafe, $15 story," LaRoi says. "It's more like bum. The contiguous awareness there are connecthat comes with sequencing songs tions between songs, and characinto a greater sum is something ters that exist between songs, and ManRayGun's Everett LaRoi still then we had to find a way to make considers—though that's more for the songs flow that makes sense him, on the creation side of things. for those things to coexist. " "And [it's] a reflection back," LenaHe isn't nearly as partial about how people take in that album after it's rduzzi adds. "When you've created this body of work, you look back complete. "We're not precious about it: it's not and go, 'What's there?' That was a like you must listen to the album in subconscious process to put those the order prescribed," he says, sitting [ideas] there, in many cases, and beside fellow band member Dennis it was up to us to see what those Lenarduzzi in a downtown coffee threads were." The album's structure—arranged shop. "But it's a way to focus our creinto three acts—came out of uninativity so it holds together." Outside Thoughts, ManRayGun's tentional overlap: LaRoi wrote the fourth album, reveals the fruits of music to some lyrics Lenarduzzi such a labour. Impressionistic in its had sent him, unaware that Lenarpoise, it winds strands of country, duzzi had already finished his own Spanish guitars, rock rhythms and demo of the track. "Then he sent me his demo for [his pop hooks together, among myriad other ideas. Riffs and sounds version], so we had two demos of emerge, rise above the others and a song with the same lyrics," LaRoi then sink into the background, says. Then the idea of using both lurking, waiting to return to the clicked. "Maybe these could co-

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exist in some way, help glue it together. It evolved from that, really." Outside Thoughts follows a period of band reconfiguration: after drummer Silas Grenis moved away, ManRayGun found itself drifting through varied ideas of where to go. "We were actually at a bit of a loss for a while," LaRoi recalls. "We did a gig without a drummer, [and] we were writing songs—that ended up being on this album—but I think we lost our focus there." It was bassist Tom Murray who suggested bringing Scott Lingley into the fold, whose muscular sense of rhythm adds another facet to the band. (Plus, aligning him with Murray reunites the rhythm section of local rock stalwarts of yore, Old Reliable). And for all of those percolating sonic ideas, Lenarduzzi notes the importance of putting too fine a point on it all, as a band. "Nothing's ever fully clear and deliberate," he says. "There's always that fuzzy edge, and I think that's a great way to let people in, and create some of the threads. If we create all of the threads, what fun is it for you as a listener?"

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n 2001, Death ceased to exist. Its frontman Chuck Schuldiner died of brain cancer, a loss that was as much a blow to the metal world as it was his bandmates. Schuldiner is often revered by his peers as a pivotal force in death metal for his unparalleled musicianship and innovation in the genre. He started Death in 1983 and the band released its first studio album, Scream Bloody Gore in 1987 and eventually became one of the top-selling metal bands in the world. Despite the band no longer existing in its original form, past members of Death came together for Death DTA (Death to All) tours, meant to pay tribute to Schuldiner's music. Previous tours have helped raise money for the Sweet Relief Musicians Fund, an organization that offers financial support for musicians facing illness or disability. The tours began in 2012, but the show in Edmonton happens to be a one-off, so if you want to reminisce about Death, now's your chance. "Fortunately, the reaction that we've been getting has been really positive. I wouldn't really have any reason to think there would be anything negative about musicians playing any music for that matter, but apparently going out without the

main guy, without the creator, the visionary of this band has stirred up some people to throw around the negativity. With that aside it's been 99-point-whatever positive," says bassist Steve DiGiorgio, who founded the band Sadus and is the current bass player for Testament. The idea to reunite past members of Death originally came from Ian Macdonald and Anton Hefele, owners of Sick Drummer Magazine, but the band has since distanced itself from them due to financial disputes. "We were more interested in just seeing how we all kind of got fat and grey over the years of not seeing each other," DiGiorgio jokes. "We weren't thinking of implications of trying to steal anyone's name or logo or live vicariously through something that doesn't belong to us. We were just happy to get together and remember the old days." DiGiorgio met Schuldiner in the fall of 1986 not long after Schuldiner had relocated from Florida to the Bay Area of California. The music scene in the area was quickly growing, and DiGiorgio was working on Sadus at the time. When Sadus released its demo, it included the guitar player's phone number as a contact for booking or ra-

dio play. During a jam session, Sadus got a call from Schuldiner, who had picked up the recording. DiGiorgio admits snickering at the name "Death" originally, but the offer of getting together for beer persuaded him to give Schuldiner's band a chance, and a mutual respect and sense of fandom formed between the two groups. "I had a very fortunate experience to work with him from those days, from the early teenage demo days all the way up until his last days," DiGiorgio says, noting he and Schuldiner had a positive working relationship in that they appreciated one another's contributions and Schuldiner pushed DiGiorgio beyond the usual expectations of a bass player. "He was a good visionary. He may not have been the most talented guy in the world, but he really knew how to see things coming up and he pushed me, pushed me to add more and try more ... He was always asking me to dig and search for something that could be better. Maybe not always more; maybe not always over the top, but just always asking the questionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;maybe there's something better, just keep trying. I think I kind of kept that from those days."

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Cara Luft Thu, Feb 20 and Fri, Feb 21 (7:30 pm) Part of Women of Folkways Festival Place, Thursday $28 – $32; Friday $20 (Café Series) Hometown: Born in Calgary, but resides in Winnipeg Genre: Folk Lastest album: Darlingford (2012) Fun fact: Darlingford was one of the most-played Canadian folk albums on the International Folk DJ

list for 2013. Several of the tracks from the album were semi-finalists in the International Songwriting Competition and the Unsigned Only Competition.

First album

Last album

First concert

Last concert

Yes, 90125. I was in grade 3. Crazy ...

Probably my parents (Barry and Lyn Luft). They were folk musicians and carted my sister and I to their concerts from the time we were born. I do remember seeing Stan Rogers when I was really young. That was pretty cool.

Child Ballads by Anaïs Mitchell and Jefferson Hamer.

Last night, I was sharing the stage with the Fretless. [I] got to sit in the audience during their set; it blew me away.

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alentine's Day tends to illicit posting a new video daily on the some strong reactions—it's em- event's Facebook page as well as braced, loathed or met with a tired her website—"gifts" if you will. Each sort of ambivalence by those who short video makes use of songs try their best to from the folk singignore the whole Fri, Feb 14 (7:30 pm) er-songwriter's With the Skips, Raine Radke spectacle. previous albums Regardless which Mercury Room such as Life Is Like camp you may This and Immacufall in, Carrie Day, late Night (she's along with the Skips and Raine Radke, been doing some co-writing for a have put together an evening that new album with Rob Heath, too, but ditches the traditional tropes of V-Day you'll have to stay tuned for any of for something a little more inclusive that), and Day plans to release vidthat celebrates love in a less-conven- eos right up until February 14. tional way. They've also invited you "For one, it gets the songs out there to be their valentine—but only if you on a different want to. site, like YouTube "We got together a couple of as opposed to months ago to sort of plan this and iTunes, ReverbNacame up with the idea of 'Won't you tion, Soundcloud, please be our Valentine,' so that there's so many anyone will feel they can attend the of them. And then show and it's not a traditional Valen- visually, I know tine's night out where you have to for me when I bring a date and all that ... children watch videos, if are welcome, so if couples do want there's a lyric in to come and they don't have a sitter it that kind of they can bring their kids," says Day, grabs me, I want who notes her reaction to Valentine's to keep watching Day depends where she is in her life and reading the at that moment. "I went through a lyrics, so a lot more jaded period where I saw ev- of [the videos] erything as more negative: oh, ev- have the lyrics in erything's commercialized and every- them and then I thing's just for corporations to make think visually you money and stuff to be manufactured can do so much," outside of Canada ... I find now I'm a says Day, whose little more laid back about those sort videos either feaof views and life, is about being joyful ture herself acting out different and sharing and having fun." elements of her Since February 1, Day has been lyrics or utilize

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other tools in her artistic repertoire to create enticing visual accompaniments. "You can really capture the mood of the song. Maybe if someone hears the song and doesn't have the visual aspect they might not pay attention or get what the artists is saying, so you can kind of act it out, too. I don't really have any acting skills at all, but it draws it right out of you because you have to be that character in the song or express whatever sentiment you're singing about." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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BEAR MOUNTAIN / THU, FEB 13 (8 PM) Seeing a bear on a mountain, probably not so good; seeing Bear Mountain, exponentially better. The electro group from Vancouver is coming to Edmonton as part of Scion Sessions in support of its debut album, XO. (Pawn Shop, $12 in advance, $15 at the door)

UPTOWN FOLK CLUB WINTERFEST / FRI, FEB 14 – SUN, FEB 16 “Winterfest is truly a ‘family’ event. After all, folk and country music began with all members of the family, and many of their kinfolk, sitting on the back porch picking out a variety of tunes, accompanied by a variety of acoustic instruments.” - Karen Gosse, event planner (Expressionz Cafe, $20 – $40)

WYRD DISTRO / SAT, FEB 15 (3:30 PM) Wyrd Distro comes from the folks at Weird Canada, and is the first non-profit online store and distribution service that’s dedicated to emerging and experimental music in this fine country. Launch gatherings will in different cities featuring performances, a drop-box where local artists can consign music to the Wyrd Distro and a live video hangout with Weird Canada executive director Marie LeBlanc Flanagan and Weird Canada founder Aaron Levin. (Listen Records)

MAD BOMBER SOCIETY / FRI, FEB 14 (8 PM) Forget flowers and chocolates—or not, if you like that sort of thing—and celebrate punk style. (Pawn Shop, $15) DERRICK MAY / SAT, FEB 15 (9 PM) Have you recovered from Valentine’s Day? OK, good, because Derrick May is putting on a show tonight. (Studio 107)

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NEEDLES // PINS, MANDATES, SWITCHES / FRI, FEB 14 (9 PM) Wundi does Valentine’s Day. As it says on the event page, “Let’s dump booze down our food tank and French each other silly”—doesn’t sound too bad, does it? (Wunderbar, $10)

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Beach Season's Internet Evening EP is a surprisingly sexy electronic take on R&B from Sam Avant. Avant, who has roots in Calgary's nascent hip-hop scene as one part of the rap duo Obey The Crooks, shows an

Gardens & Villa Dunes (Secretly Canadian) 

Dunes, the second album from Californian pop quintet Gardens & Villa, is doused in '80s-styled electro and patted down with the towel of new-millennia groove. The record is an elastic mix of slithering beats

impressive range on his debut, with slow-jams like "Situations" and "Evenings" mixed with ebullient instrumentals like "The Internet." The lyrics, though, are a bit of a disappointment and detract from the overall experience. Avant's production and vocals are great—his voice soars over the zig-zagging samples— but lines like "We make love in the morning / We make love in the evening" (the chorus on "Evening") and the tooclever-by-half "Tell me what it's like to take a day off Ferris" on "Paris" are eye-rollingly bad. Still, despite it's lyrical flaws, Internet Evening is a good debut—and best enjoyed in a sweaty dance club. JORDYN MARCELLUS

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and doubtful piano ballads, held together by a medley of finely tuned haziness. Dunes seems to have a certain coldness at first, but the warmth is in the details. The pop hooks unfurl themselves slowly and glow brightly around frontman Chris Lynch's gloomy lyrics and high-pitched voice, forming an odd sense of nostalgia and comfort. On several tracks, Gardens & Villa juxtapose sticky flute riffs that ooze in between cracks of the down-tempo soft shell of shy synthesizers and slinking basslines. The group blends these types of contrasts so effortlessly it seems natural, but it takes a few spins of Dunes to fully grasp every angle. CHRIS GEE

NOFX Stoke Extinguisher (Fat Wreck Chords) 

There is really no reason for this compact disc to exist. Sure, NOFX are considered legends in the field, and the band's ability to remain the same four dudes putting out records some 30 years on really is a staggering accomplishment that makes them, like, 150 in band years. The point is, they're pros, and rippin' skate riffs laced with Fat Mike's nasally sarcasm is something that this band will never grow out of. But the title track is the only new song on this EP of previously released singles and B-sides from 2012's full-length, Self Entitled. The cover of Tony Sly's "The Shortest Pier" is nifty and standard NOFX goof offs like "My Stepdad's a Cop and My Stepmom's a Domme" are exactly what you'd expect. Putting them all together panders toward the NOFX diehard's, yet because it is a composite of a couple of seven-inches the question must be asked: "What punk-rock purist, driven to own these rarities, is going to choose the cd over their vinyl counterparts?" It just doesn't make much sense only to get one new song and cover art by Strung Out's Jason Cruz, but at $6 for both the CD and mp3's, you're certainly getting your money's worth. LEE BOYES

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Four IN 140 Jay Malinowski & the Deadcoast, Martel (Pirates Blend) @VueWeekly: Some sort of bi-coastal look back at history, the Bedouin singer aims for the ocean, but is a few rock skips away.

Temples, Sun Structure (Rough Trade) @VueWeekly: The heavy handed '60s persuasion going on here is a massive miss. This revival’s dedication to that sound is its breakdown.

Thumpers, Galore (Sub Pop) @VueWeekly: You can be young & celebratory & you can have half-baked songs that come from it. Thumpers prove it with a crowd of bad tunes.

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

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking back Thursdays presents: Lucid Skies, Cold Lungs; 8pm KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage; 7pm; no cover LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

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NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage; 8pm; all ages (15+) NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy Arthur Ordge NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 OVERTIME Sherwood Park Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Thu; no cover PAWN SHOP Bear Mountain; 8pm RED PIANO Two Times the Valentines: Katie Perman (early seating 5:30-7:30pm); Dueling Pianos Show (late seating 7:30pm-close); seatings incl 3-course Valentine menue, glass of Prosecco each, rose for the lady and tickets to upcoming show at Red Piano RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm THE RIG Every Thu Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8pm-12am SHERLOCKS–DT Stan Gallant SHERLOCKS–U OF A Amie Weymes SHERLOCKS–WEM Mike Letto SLY’S Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; every Thu, 8-12pm SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm SUBSTAGE Singer-songwriter Series: Paul Woida; 12-1pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am YARDBIRD SUITE From New York: John Abercrombie All-Star Band; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $24 (member)/$28 (guest)

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Women in Song: Vocal Arts Week recital by Monica Whicher

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

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PAWN SHOP Valentines with the Mad Bomber Society, The Fuzz Kings, Napalmpom

JAVA EXPRESS–Stony Plain Acoustic/singer songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover

KELLY’S PUB Jameoke Night with the Nervous Flirts; every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover

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

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JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Levi Cuss (folk); 8pm; $10

MERCURY ROOM/BLUE SKYS CAFÉ Be Our Valentine: Carrie Day, The Skips, and Raine Radtke; 7pm

ARDEN THEATRE The Art of the Groove: Turtle Island Quartet (contemporary, jazz, and classical); 7:30pm; $38 at Arden box office, TicketMaster AVENUE THEATRE Valentine Bash For Ash: Submerge, EXITS, Riot in Paradise, Of Articulate Design, Construct the Sky; ; 5:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (day of) ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Single’s Night: Nuts & Bolts: the DerinaHarvey Band BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Overdue Blues Band; 7pm (door); $10 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Valentine’s Dinner: Chloe Albert and the Blue Chair Band BLUES ON WHYTE Absofunkinlutley BOHEMIA Valentine’s with Doug Hoyer (harp), Feverfew; 8pm (door), 9pm (music); $8 BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Jazz evening every Fri after work; 5-8pm: This week: Kent Sangster Trio (tenor sax) CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK Dark Roosters CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Trace Jordan CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 CENTURY CASINO Honeymoon Suite CKUA RADIO NETWORK CKUA’s TransCanada Alberta Backstage Series: Colleen Brown; 7pm COMMON Step in the Name of Love: Valentine’s Edition; 9:30pm DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Duane Allen DV8 Valentines Show: Rebuild/ Repair, Kroovy Rookers, Slippyfist, Raptor Strike J+H PUB Every Friday: Headwind and friends (vintage rock ‘n’ roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Valentine’s Day with Rollanda Lee (jazz); 9pm; $10 L.B.’S PUB Valentine Sweethearts Night LIZARD LOUNGE Rock ‘n’ roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

THE RIG Valentine’s Day Sexy Zombie party: Tomas Marsh, Better Us Than Strangers, Amazaria (bloody rock); 8pm; Prizes for best ZOMBIE costume; no cover ROSE AND CROWN The Rural Routes SHERLOCKS–DT Stan Gallant SHERLOCKS–U of A Amie Weymes SHERLOCKS–WEM Mike Letto SIDELINERS PUB Mary-Lee Bird Band (rock blues); 9pm; no cover SLY’S Valentine’s Sexy Zombie Party with Tomas Marsh, Better Us Than Strangers, Amazria; 9-11pm SUBSTAGE Singer-songwriter Series: Lucas Chaisson; 12-1pm TIRAMISU BISTRO A Romantic Valentine’s Day: Lionel Rault Dio (blues, swing); 5-course meal and live music; 6pm and 8pm sittings; $50 each UNION HALL OBIE TRICE / D12 / WC; $40 WINTERFEST– EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Uptown Folk Club: Pretty Taken (Nick, Heather), Audrey & Roy, Joni Delaurier, Andrea England, Wendell and Wheat; 6pm WUNDERBAR Valentine’s Day Party: Needles//Pins, the Mandates, Switches YARDBIRD SUITE From Toronto/New York: Darren Sigesmund Quintet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest) YEG DANCE CLUB Torontos #1 Dj Baby YU flying in

Classical SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Valentine’s Gala: Edmonton Opera; 7pm; tickets at edmontonopera.com/events/gala

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 Valentines Day: ol’school R&B Party Step In the Name Of Love with Gold Blooded Dee Jays, Instigate, Allout DJs 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 LEVEL 2 Bass It Up Valentine’s Day: Dub Pistols (UK); 9:30pm MERCER TAVERN Homegrown Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with

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Tess Pretty (fusion of jazz and world music); 9pm; $10

SET NIGHTCLUB NEW Fridays: House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep’n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials

L.B.’S PUB Troti

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 15 APEX CASINO–Vee Lounge Red Hot Couple’s Valentine’s Day Feat. Travelling Troubadour ARDEN THEATRE A String Quartet is like a Family: Turtle Island Quartet (contemporary, jazz, and classical); 2pm; $18 (adult)/$15 (child/senior) at Arden box office, TicketMaster ARTERY 15 Year Anniversary: The McGowan Family Band, Van Funk, the Lebarons; 9pm ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Single’s Night: Nuts & Bolts: the DerinaHarvey Band BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Sat Afternoon Jam: This week with Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens; noon, no cover BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Sat Afternoon Jam: with Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens, noon, no cover; Evening: Overdue Blues Band, 7pm (door), $10

LEAF BAR AND GRILL River Valley Search Party, 9:30pm LISTEN RECORDS Weird Canada launchof Wyrd Distro, the first non-profit online-store and distribution service dedicated to emerging and experimental Canadian music: launch gatherings across Canada with live music NEWCASTLE PUB Sweet Heart Swirl: Fist Full of Blues, Willy James and Crawdad Cantera, Rita and Kevin McDade; 8:30pm; $15 (adv at bar)/$20 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy Arthur Ordge O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm OMAILLES IRISH PUB Tupelo Honey Live at Omailles ON THE ROCKS Chronic Rock

with DJs OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Thrillhouse, Dusty Tucker, the Motherfuckers, Fight to Swill QUEEN ALEXANDRIA HALL Northernlights Folk Club: Jack Semple; 7pm (door), 8pm (music);$20 (adv at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Myhre’s Music, door)/$25 (door) RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Samara Von Rad and Darryl Matthews (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

RENDEZVOUS PUB Delilah and the Douchettes

BLIND PIG PUB & GRILL Live jam every Sat; 3-7pm

RITCHIE COMMUNITY LEAGUE Nothing Gold Can Stay, Half Way To Hollywood, Innertwine, guests; 8pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Manraygun (CD release); 8:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Absofunkinlutley “B” STREET BAR Rockin Big Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm BOHEMIA DARQ Saturday BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Saturday Night: Boogie Patrol; 8pm; in support of Aid for Little Warriors CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK Dark Roosters CAPILANO CONFERENCE CENTRE Latin Valentine: Domenic Marte presented by Moreno Productions & Latin Roots Society; 7:30pm-2:30am; $45 CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 CENTURY CASINO The Fab Fourever–the Complete Beatles Experience

RICHARDS PUB The Terry Evans Sat Jam: every Sat; 5-9pm

THE RIG Lorne Burnstick ROSE AND CROWN The Rural Routes SHERLOCKS–DT Stan Gallant SHERLOCKS–U of A Amie Weymes SHERLOCKS–WEM Mike Letto SLY’S Black Light Ready; 9-11pm STARLITE ROOM September Stone, Electric Religious, guests; 9pm WINTERFEST– EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Uptown Folk Club: Uptown Expres-Shunz, Jesse Mast, Carolyn Anele, Strawberry Pie at 1-5pm; Shane Chisholm, Eli Barsi, Duane Steele, Finale-Folk Buffet: “Yous ‘R Friendly”, Wendell F, Gary Okrainic, Shane C. at 5-11pm WUNDERBAR Souvs, Modern Aquatics (Calgary), Creaks, Consilience

CREATIVE CLUBHOUSE CRBM’s Funday event: Franz Cannibal (CKMY EP release)

YARDBIRD SUITE From New York: Aaron Parks 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Duane Allen

Classical

DV8 Post-Valentines Freakout: Live At The Dv8 Underground: The Archaics, Catgut, A Hundred Years, the Patterns

WINSPEAR CENTRE Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II: Created and conducted by George Daugherty; 2:30pm, 7pm; $39-$69 (adult)/$29 (youth) at Winspear

FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Café Series: J.P Cormier (singersongwriter); 7:30pm; $20 at Festival Place box office FILTHY MCNASTY’S Free Afternoon Concerts: this week: The Mary-Lee Bird Band; 4pm; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm J & R BAR Valentine’s Day with Mars; 9pm; no cover JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Luke and

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 BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

FRI FEB 14

VALENTINES W/

THE MAD BOMBER SOCIETY, THE FUZZ KINGS & NAPALMPOM THU FEB 16

OWLS BY NATURE

EUROPEAN TOUR WELCOME HOME PARTY

W/ NATURE OF, CASPER HOLLANDS, & MORE

THU FEB 20

DAVE HAUSE & NORTHCOTE

W/ GUEST WORST DAYS DOWN FRI FEB 21

WE HUNT BUFFALO W/ WHITEY HOUSTON & LABRADOODLE

JUST FRI MAR 7 & SAT MAR 8 ANNOUNCED! CRO-MAGS EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN PERFORMANCE

MAR 7 W/ NO PROBLEM, FUQOURED, & SECRET RIVALS MAR 8 W/ ETOWN BEATDOWN, TARANTUJA, & RINGLEADER

FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

COMMON Get Down It’s Saturday Night: House and disco

VUEWEEKLY FEB 13 – FEB 19, 2014

MUSIC 39

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

and everything in between with resident Dane

‘60s hits; 9:00pm; dress to impress

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm

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

SEPTEMBER STONE

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

THE PACK A.D.

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

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

ROYAL CANOE WAKE OWL W/ LYON

AND GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESENTS

OUTREACH

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

ELECTRIC SIX

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

THE WONDER YEARS

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

AND THE MOHRS AND REND THE UNION PRESENTS

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

W/ GUESTS

SET NIGHTCLUB SET Sat Night House Party with DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Sat with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

THE UNION PRESENTS

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance Party: every Sat, 8-12; beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

MRG PROSUCTIONS PRESENTS

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

UBK PRESENTS

ACT A FOOL THE JEZABELS AND BOY AND BEAR

STEVEN J MASKUS THE UNION PRESENTS

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN

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

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

THE PISTOL WHIPS, RUBEN FLEX AND MERCY FUNK

THE MIGHTY STEEDS W/ VANGOHST & PALE BLUE DOT

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

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 APR/5 COWPUNCHER RETURN OF NOBODY LIKES DWIGHT APR/19 THE W/ FRINGE & FAILED THERAPY WITH GUESTS TBA

TASTE OF ICELAND PRESENTS REYKJAVIK CALLING CONCERT SERIES

CYGNETS, KALEY BIRD, I AM MACHI, LAY LOW (ICELAND) SIN FANG (ICELAND)

TASTE OF ICELAND PRES. REYKJAVIK CALLING CONCERT SERIES CONTINUES WITH

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

W/ RAVENSWORD

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

W/ GUESTS

40 MUSIC

FLUID LOUNGE Ginuwine (live in concert, long weekend party); 780-504-1110 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 Red Bull Long Weekend Beach Party: The Boom Booms PAWN SHOP Sonic 102.9 Presents: Owls By Nature (European tour welcome back), Nature of, Mobina Galore, Casper Hollands; 8pm RED PIANO Family Day Long Weekend Dueling Pianos performance; 8pm RICHARDS PUB Jam with The Normals; 5-9pm THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm

BOHEMIA Rude Nite Out Act I: Rude Haus 2012–Forever (Compilation Release Party) THE BUCKINGHAM Ice Cream Social Presents: The Fortrelles; evening of ‘50s and

DOW CENTRE–Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan Fred Penner; 3pm; tickets at Ticketpro.ca FIDDLER’S ROOST Monday Nights Open stage hosted by Norm Sliter’s Capital City Jammers; all styles, skill levels; 7:30pm; $3 cover NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 RANCH ROADHOUSE An evening with Zakk Wyld; no minors; 8pm (door); $36 at Unionevents.com, Blackbyrd

DJs

SLY’S Jam hosted by Bob and Steve; Every Sun, 6-10pm SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair of the Dog acoustic Sun Jam with Bonedog and Bearcat; every Sun; 2-6pm

WUNDERBAR Book of Caverns with Daydreaming and Tuques

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Cramer Brothers; 10am; donations

BLUES ON WHYTE Grady Champion

SET NIGHTCLUB Jay Sean with OHMZ Entertainment and Tuff Urban; 9pm

SUN FEB 16

BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

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

YEG DANCE CLUB Live male entertainment from 9-11pm

ARTERY Paul Reddick with Greg Cockerill; 7:30pm

MON FEB 17

RITCHIE UNITED CHURCH P.J. Perry and Tommy Banks (CD release of Old Friends); 3-5pm

WINTERFEST– EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Uptown Folk Club: Songwriters in the Round workshop; 12-3pm

BLACKDOG FREEHOUSE Night Committee, Daniel and the Impending Doom; 10pm; no cover

FEB/14 FEB/15

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm; Nadine Kellman

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

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Bugs Bunny at the Symphony II: Created and conducted by George Daugherty; 10:30am, 2:30pm; $39-$69 (adult)/$29 (youth) at Winspear

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy THE COMMON HHK Valentine’s Edition: Hiphop Karaoke with Sonny Grimezz, Justin Foosh, DJ Echo, Twist

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 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404

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

TUE FEB 18 BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Tue Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Grady Champion BOHEMIA The Wisest Wolf! Oliver Buck! DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue: this week: Reid Maul; 9pm

FIDDLER’S ROOST Tuesday Nights fiddle circle jam; all levels of musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover L.B.’S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME Sherwood Park The Campfire Heros (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover RICHARDS PUB Barsnbands open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:3011:30pm SHERLOCKS–DT Duane Allen SHERLOCKS–WEM Andrew Scott SLY’S Jam hosted by Rockin’ Randy Every Tue, 7-11pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Bob Kitt 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 Metal night every Tue 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 19 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose Monkey Junk (swamp roots rock); 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $20 (adv at the Bailey box office)/$25 (door)

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Robbie’s Reef Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm; no cover

This week: PJ Perry Trio

DUGGAN’S IRISH PUB Wed open mic with host Duff Robison ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover FIDDLER’S ROOST Wednesday Nights Folk and Roots Open Stage: amateur and professional musicians welcome; 7:30pm; $3 MERCURY ROOM Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes OVERTIME Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Dean Brody, Cassadee Pope; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $39.50 at TicketMaster SHERLOCKS–DT Duane Allen SHERLOCKS–U of A Stu Bendall SHERLOCKS–WEM Andrew Scott SLY’S Jam hosted by Wil Cole; every Wed, 7-11pm ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover 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

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

THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

BLUES ON WHYTE Grady Champion

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Jazz evening every Wed; 8-11pm:

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

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 QUEEN ALEXANDRIA HALL 10425 University Ave RANCH ROADHOUSE 6017 104 ST RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 RITCHIE UNITED CHURCH 9624-74 Ave ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE

10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SLY'S 15203 Stony Plain Rd SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUBSTAGE U of A Campus, Students Union Bldg, 8900-114 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 TIRAMISU BISTRO 10750-124 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 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr NW YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave 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 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 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park

CAPILANO CONFERENCE CENTRE 4960-93 Ave CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave CKUA RADIO NETWORK 9804 Jasper Ave COMMON 9910-109 St CREATIVE CLUBHOUSE 9510-105 Ave, thecreativeclubhouse.ca DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Sask 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan DUGGAN'S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 ISBE EDMONTON 9529 Jasper Ave, 587.521.7788; isbeedmonton.com J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160-118 Ave MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St (587) 521-1911. MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730

VUEWEEKLY FEB 13 – FEB 19, 2014

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

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy

1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

CLOTHING REPAIRATHON • 10950-82 Ave • A free, pop-up event, where anyone can bring clothing to be repaired by volunteers; 1-2 item limit per person; bring replacement zips • Sun, Feb 16, 1-3pm

EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King’s University College, 9125-50 St • Monthly meeting: The Galapagos Islands as seen through the eyes of a naturalist and the lens of a photographer, familiar species in an unfamiliar setting with speakers Ludo Boegaert and his wife Ria • Feb 21, 7pm, 7:30pm (meeting) • Admission by donation

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

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

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Tim Koslo; Feb 13-15 • Jamie Hutchinson; Feb 20-22 • Marty Hanenberg; Feb 27-Mar 1

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 • Tim Young; Feb 13-16 • Steve O Special Presentation; Feb 20-22, 7:30pm; sold out • The Underground Railroad; Feb 25, 7:30pm; $20 • Darren Carter; Feb 26-28; Mar 1-2

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

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

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)

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY • Edmonton Hostel Meeting Room, HI Edmonton, 10647-81 Ave • Organizing Meeting to plan the rally and march , Corbett Hall on Mar 8 • Wed, Feb 19, 7pm

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 • Each week

our group plans a 10 km guided hike • Car pool available meeting place to trail • Meet at McDonalds, 14920-87 Ave • Join us Sunday on the city trail from Whitemud Park to Hawrelak Park with hike leader: Helen 780.468.4331; Feb 16 • Meet at McDonalds, 14920-87 Ave: Join us this Sunday to explore the Spruce Grove City trails. Contact JoAnne 780.487.0645; Feb 23

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS THE PRIVATIZATION OF ALBERTA’S PUBLIC SERVICES • Allendale Community Hall, 6330-

105A St, behind Allendale School) • Should this Invasion Continue?: Presented by the Council of Canadians Edmonton Chapter featuring Tom Radford and his film, Common Ground–Defending the Public Sector; a panel discussion with Bill Moore Kilgannon and Rod Loyola • Feb 20, 7-10pm

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

TAKING ACTION: STOP THE PRIVATIZATION OF PUBLIC SERVICES • Chateau Louis Hotel,

Open Mic in between dancers • Feb 26, 9pm

Practice group meets every Thu

FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION •

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)

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

TOWARD A KINODERM AESTHETICS • Beaufort Bldg, Highlands Rm, 2nd Fl, 10835120 St • Walking Is In(Di)Visible : Introduction, lecture: Toward a Kinoderm Aesthetics; Where Body Meets Image; Skin, Vision and the Artistic Gesture, Politics and (Over)Exposure • Feb 22-23 • $150 (for the weekend); facebook.com/ events/192385594277823/

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

EDEN EXOTIC NIGHTCLUB/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 13120-97 St • Tits and Giggles 2: an

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 16648-109 Ave • Komedy Krush with guest Ken Valgardson; Feb 13, 8pm • Komedy Krush with guest Paul Sveen; following a Capital City Singles Mixer; Feb 27, 9pm

MACLAB CENTRE–Leduc • 4308-50 St, Leduc • Grand Masters of Illusion, Ted and Mar-

ion Outerbridge • Feb 16, 3pm • $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown •

Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.org/en • Program for HIVAID’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

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling

Scott every Wed, 9pm

Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY •

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

TILTED KILT WHYTE AVE/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 10401-82 Ave • Travelling open mic with guest Ken Valgardson • Feb 19, 8pm

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Thu, at 9:30pm ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old

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

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON •

8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP •

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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat,

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)

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

587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music– check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry)

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

TOASTMASTERS • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd

Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw. ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • 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

U OF A VISUAL ARTS AND DESIGN FORUM

• Rm 2-20, FAB, Fine Arts Bldg • Laura St. Pierre speaks • Feb 13, 5:15pm

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 • MoneyMatter$: with Linda Mak from Money Mentors; Feb 20, 1:303:30pm; free • Writing For Recovery: with David Prodan from E4C; Feb 27, 1:30-3:30pm; free

QUEER BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP

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

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-

103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION •

teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/ student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.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, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Curling: Granite Curling Club: Every Tue, until Mar 25, 7pm • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

VUEWEEKLY FEB 13 – FEB 19, 2014

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

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

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank)

FAMILY DAY FUN • Edmonton Valley Zoo–Arctic Ambassador Day • edmonton.ca/ city_government/initiatives_innovation/winterfestivals-events.aspx • Visit the new Edventure Lodge; learn why Edmonton Valley Zoo is an Arctic Ambassador Centre for Polar Bears International • Feb 17, 12-4pm

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based

FOR THE LOVE OF WINE • Delta Edmonton South Hotel • Kid's Kottage Valentine's Event complete with romantic ambiance, gourmet delectables, chocolate buffet and wine • Feb 14, 7-10pm • $100 T: 780.448.1752; E: info@ kidskottage.org

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-

LATIN VALENTINES FEATURING. DOMENIC MARTE LIVE IN CONCERT • Capilano

organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca 124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geoci-

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

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre

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

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian

Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Nonprofit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS ANNUAL NATIONAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON • A cross radio event: throughout

the night: on FM airwaves across Canada, incl CJSR • Opening Hour LIVE at Stanley Milner Library; Feb 26, 5-6pm • Feb 26-27, 5pm-7am; cjsrnews.com/homeless

AVONMORE FAMILY DAY AND PLAYGROUND SILENT AUCTION • Avonmore

Community Hall, 7902-73 Ave • avonmore.org • Fundraiser for the playground upgrade project with sleigh rides, bannock making, sledding and skating, free food • Feb 17, 12pm • Free

DEAD COLD RUN • Rundle Park • edmonton.

Conference Centre, 4960-93 Ave • morenoproductions.com • Domenic Marte with a 10-piece Latin band, the Orquestra Canadian Latin Allstars, DJs • Feb 15, 7:30pm-2:30am • $45/$55 (VIP meet and greet autograph session)/$400 (table for 10, reserve at info@ morenoproductions.com)

PARKLAND'S FUNDRAISING GALA • Faculty Club, U of A, 11435 Saskatchewan Dr • parklandinstitute.ca/calendar • Featuring: Dale Ladouceur and the the Broke Ensemble, silent auction, and a 3-course Prime Rib dinner, 6pm (reception), 6.45pm (dinner) • Feb 27 • $100 at 780.492.8558; E: parkland@ualberta.ca RAW LOVE IN ITALY • Noorish Café,

8440-109 St • 780.756.6880 • A 4-course candlelight dinner of 'raw' Italian food, an aphrodisiac elixir; a pianist playing live • Feb 14 • Info: noorish.ca/2014/01/valentines-dayfour-course-dinner

SILVER SKATE FESTIVAL • Hawrelak Park • silverskatefestival.org • Edmonton Winter Triathlon, long blade skate races and the Kanadian Kortebaan. Also a large-scale snow and fire sculpture, an ice slide, a Folk Trail, roving performers, horse drawn sleigh rides, live music, winter sports, food trucks and a Heritage Village • Feb 14-23 • free • Snow Sculpture Symposium: Feb 14-17, 10am-6pm • Sculpture garden: Feb 17-23, noon-9pm • Family Skate Party: Feb 14, 5-8pm• Heritage Village: Feb. 15-17, 22-23, 1-5pm • Live Music: Feb 15-16: 1-7pm; Feb 17, 1-5pm; Feb 21, 4-7pm; Feb 22-23: 1-7pm • Folk Trail: Hole in the Wall | Feb 15 & 16, 22 & 23 | 4pm-8pm • Lantern-making workshops: 4.30pm-7pm | Lantern-processions: 7.30pm • Fire Sculpture: The Fires of Knowall: Feb 15-16, 22-23, 7.45pm SNOW DAZE FAMILY DAY CELEBRATION

• Snow Valley Ski Club • Snow Valley's Family Day Celebration for all ages • Feb 15-17

SWING 'N SKATE • City Hall Plaza • edmonton.ca/city_government/initiatives_innovation/ winter-festivals-events.aspx • Edmonton’s Annual Valentine’s Day Disco Skate: Feb 14, 4:30pm • Rhythm Gunners Big Band of the Royal Canadian Artillery; Feb 16 • Don Berner's Little Big Band; Feb 23 VALENTINE'S AT THE PARK • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton • Forget Me Not, featuring Andrea House's songwriting, is the true love story of Andrea’s Grandfather; from his romance in Paris during World War I, to his reluctant return to the Canadian prairies • Feb 14: Valentine's Day Dinner • Valentine's Day Dinner and Show • Valentine's Day Overnight Package VALENTINES AT THE MUTTART • 9626-96A St • Learn to pair JACEK artisan chocolates with fine wine, view a local artworks, and tour through the most romantic pyramids • Feb 22, 6:30pm • $60; pre-register at 311 VALENTINE’S DAY DISCO SKATE • City

Hall Rink • Skate or dance to the music, roast bannock over an open fire • Feb 14

WINTER WARMTH BONFIRE • edmonton.ca/ city_government/initiatives_innovation/winterfestivals-events.aspx • Learn about local wild animals through song and story, artifacts. Hot beverages and marshmallows (for roasting) provided. Dress warm and bring a chair and re-usable cup or mug • Feb 23

ca/city_government/initiatives_innovation/winter-festivals-events.aspx • Zombies, mashed up with 'white walkers'; timed 5k winter run/ obstacle. Course challenges your fitness against the best winter can throw at you • Feb 22, 2pm • Proceeds from this event will benefit North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper

WINEFEST • Shaw Conference Centre, 9797 Jasper Ave • celebratewinefest.com/edmonton. html • All inclusive event: try before you buy in a casual yet refined atmosphere–every sip and sample is included in the ticket price; wine experts share their knowledge • Feb 14-15, 7pm

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to:

WINTERFÊTE FAMILY DAY • Alberta

780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; Twilight Zone Razamanaz Tour; all ages • Fundraising for

Legislature Grounds • A scavenger hunt in the Legislature Building, kids' carnival with crafts, face painting, magic, puppetry, storytelling and dancing; horse-drawn wagon rides and skating • Feb 17 • Free

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Art Society of Strathcona County DVD LECTURE - The World’s Greatest Paintings. Tour more that 60 of the world’s greatest paintings. . The visuals are excellent and the presenter is easy to hear and understand. Sunday, March 2, 2014 1pm 4pm.. FEE: $5.00 A.J. Ottewell Art Centre - 590 Broadmoor Blvd. Sherwood Park. Contact 790-449-4443 or www.artstrathcona.com ATTENTION! OPEN CALL FOR SPEAKERS: TEDxEdmonton is looking for potential speakers to present their ideas worth sharing! If you know somebody or are that somebody that can follow through with this years theme of ‘For Certain: Uncertainty’ apply through our website http://www.tedxedmonton.com/ speakers/application.html or email at info@tedxedmonton.com If you were 16 and homeless, what would you do? That is the question Youth Empowerment & Support Services is asking with a brand new fundraising initiative, the Backpack Project, which is now open for registration. Registration is open until February 26, and The Backpack Project goes live on March 7. Participants can register at http://yess.org/thebackpackproject

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AGA seeks Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), a non-proﬁt arts institution, is seeking an energetic, innovative and highly organized candidate to ﬁll the full-time position of Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator. Salary commensurate with experience. Please submit resume and cover letters to careers@youraga.ca by 5pm on Thursday, February 20, 2014. No phone calls please. Only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This? Help someone Who can’t! Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills. Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Growing Facilitators Volunteer Opportunity Sustainable Food Edmonton offers a Little Green Thumbs indoor gardening program to schools and childcare agencies and we are looking for volunteers. For info and volunteer application form:

www.sustainablefoodedmonton.o rg

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 Dedeugd 780-451-3416 kdedeugd@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 Dedeugd 780-451-3416 kdedeugd@hfh.org

Are You Looking for a Great Volunteer Experience?

Help someone in crisis take those ﬁrst steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com

Habitat for Humanity’s On-Tap volunteer program allows busy people to get out and volunteer when they can. For more information about the On-Tap program. angela@hfh.org or 780-451-3416 ext 223. HFH.org

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

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Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit! Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 Room to Read is changing children’s lives in Asia and Africa through literacy programs and gender equality. Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our work, and spread the word about our amazing results. Edmonton@roomtoread.org www.roomtoread.org 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 - Does your employer have a Day of Caring program? Volunteers from beginners to garage “putterers”, to trades people come out and help us to build homes for families in our community. For more information, go to our website at www.hfh.org or contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232. Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving. 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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Artists Wanted The City of Calgary is currently looking for artists and/or a team of artists to explore creative avenues with a design team to create the plans for new skateboard parks around Calgary. “The artists’ role will be to bring new ideas and vision through consultation with design and capital team members, to prioritize creative experiences and to examine possibilities for site activation. The Public Art Program will also design and lead Community Cultural Development (CCD) opportunities, in collaboration with the artist and design team.” Deadline for submissions is Monday, February 24. For more information, visit The City of Calgary’s site: http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/R ecreation/Pages/Skateparks/S kateboard-amenitiesstrategy.aspx

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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. 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! ARTIST requires agent/manager to assist in selling ART. Commission is generous percentage % . Contact BDC at monkeywrench@live.ca Call for admissions: Graffiti Art Competition hosted by Toy Guns Dance Theatre – all styles of visual/installation art are welcome .For more information or to fill out an online application please visit our Facebook page: Toy Guns Dance Theatre (www.facebook.com/toygunstheatre) Questions: toygunsevents@gmail.com Tickets for the reception and art showing will go on sale February 15, 2014

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Having worked in resboy that you aren't gonna give up with women when they're young. taurants myself, and having worked masturbation is to break the fuck up "I like getting older," he says, "be- with a lot of Mexican immigrants, I with him, MOS. Your boyfriend is es- cause for me, the kind of guy I am, thought the detail was germane for sentially forcing you to pick between getting older makes my life better. this reason: new or relatively new him or masturbation, and the choice My sex life? Way better at 45 ... I'd residents are often baffled by our is obvious: masturbation is a pleasur- like to make one of those 'It Gets strange sexual mores, which can inable friend that doesn't judge you or Better' ads for dumpy young guys. clude married ladies sleeping with shame you, and your boyfriend is an We could use a little help, a little restaurant workers who aren't their unpleasant, sex-negative, control- encouragement." husbands. (This never happens in ling, judgmental scold. 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You My advice for you: keep working on social, political and sexual mores, enjoy porn! I could understand you your depression, throw yourself into norms and expectations they were dating a guy who was a virgin and nonsexual pursuits that you enjoy, encountering in the United States. wanted to remain sexually inactive find a job you like and build a career, So the detail struck me as both relfor now—for religious reasons or locate and patronize (and overtip) an evant and benign. otherwise—but dating someone you independent sex worker (which can had to talk out of seeing you as the help you learn to interact with wom- On the Lovecast, why divorce rates spawn of Satan? Dating someone en), and don't allow bitterness to are so high among religious conseryou have to lie to about something ruin you for all those women you're vatives: savagelovecast.com. V as common and healthy as masturba- gonna get with in your 40s. tion? Not worth it, MOS, not in the @fakedansavage on Twitter

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