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"There is some confusion over the word organic."

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"Just because I was full didn’t mean I was about to stop eating."

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Drinks 'til dawn High fives, everyone: Canada's men's and women's hockey teams each won gold in Sochi (as is our birthright), and there wasn't a single major incident that stemmed from packed bars serving liquor at 5 am to accompany live screenings of the men's finals.

That latter idea, bars being allowed to serve liquor so early, was unprecedented in Alberta, and so successful that out of its warm afterglow come rumblings of allowing longer drinking hours in Alberta, calls to extend last call and generally just keep the party going. Finance Minister Doug Horner has acknowledged a review of the Liquor Act will happen in the future and various political figures are sending out feelers on the subject over social media.

But in that, most seem to be ignoring the context of the situation (a gold-medal hockey game). It's one thing to get up at 5 am to go watch a game and have beer while you're at it.

It's another to just extend the lateness of an average night of drinking in perpetuity.

A hunger to seize on one good, safe night as the sole catalyst to expand drinking hours is rash and fails to take into account the lack of support structure such an idea currently has.

Alberta's 2 am last call is on par with seven other provinces/territories in Canada (only Quebec and Newfoundland go until 3 am, and BC offers a staggered, 1 am to 3 am last-call range). Plus, privatized liquor stores mean we can buy booze until then, too. We're not in wont of access to alcohol.

So the idea of expanding liquor service is a profit-and-business-stoked idea, no question.

Later hours means, ideally, more drinks imbibed by patrons, more money spent at bars, more profit gained at the end of a night. But a hunger to seize on one good, safe night as the sole catalyst to expand drinking hours is rash and fails to take into account the lack of support structure such an idea currently has.

Take, for example, the idea of staggered closing times. It's a reasonable one—less mass exodus from bars would mean taxis are less slammed at that hour, offering some possibility of patrons having an easier way of getting home. But then again, the lack of late-night public transit should be just as considered in those issues: whatever happened to running busses until 3 am on Whyte Ave? The pilot project, envisioned in 2011 and getting a brief test run in 2012 was deemed successful by the city. And it made low-priority, and little progress has occurred since.

I'm sure the bars made some serious money on Sunday morning, and likely paved the way for other one-off opportunities to watch a game and have a drink. But that sort of special event shouldn't be removed from its context for the sake of some financial windfall, and neither should the idea of expansion in bar hours. If that's something we want to start seriously discussing, the context—of transit, of the safeties we have in place—needs to be envisioned and executed first. V

NEWS EDITOR : REBECCA MEDEL REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

NEWS // SCHOOL CLOSURE

Where the axe falls

Strings-attached funding finds school boards considering closures

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omewhat buried in the recent flurry of announcements of provincial funding for schools has been the fact that some of those funds came with strings attached, leaving both Edmonton school boards with some difficult decisions to make.

In January, Alberta's Minister of Education Jeff Johnson announced modernization funding for four Catholic and five public schools, with two of those projects, one per board, identified as replacement schools. With funding being contingent on the Catholic board closing at least two existing schools and the public board at least three, parents in the public system have been left wondering where the axe, now raised, is going to fall.

Lori Nagy, Manager of Media Relations with Edmonton Catholic Schools, confirms her board is looking at a proposal for a replacement school in the southeast, as outlined in its three-year capital plan and that consultations were underway well before this recent funding announcement.

Last March, parents at St Gabriel, St James, St Kevin and St Brendan schools were presented with a proposal which would see students from those schools attend a replacement school to be located on the site of St Bernard school, which has been closed since 1979.

"It is important for all of these communities to know that this is not a done deal, but they can be certain that if this replacement project proceeds, it will be focused on at least two of those four schools,"

Nagy explains.

Community consultation meetings are planned for this month and next and the board intends to make its decision before the end of this school year.

Things are less certain over at Edmonton Public. Despite the fact the board's three-year capital plan identifies two potential replacement projects, in the northeast and south central sectors, EPSB board chairperson Sarah Hoffman was reluctant to acknowledge that the closure of any schools is inevitable.

short- and long-term needs and Hoffman advised trustees would wait to see that report before any discussions about potential school closures would be undertaken.

While a number of factors will be considered by a board when looking at closing schools, the most obvious is low enrolment. With six public schools in the northeast sector with enrollments at less than 50 percent of capacity, one parent has been working diligently to ensure that her school doesn't appear on a list of potential closures any time soon.

Melanie Harmsma has started a

If we want to keep smaller schools in mature neighbourhoods open, we need to find ways to revitalize them.

"I don't think that it's fair to say that any schools are facing closure," she replied when asked what direction the board might take. Directed to the Education Ministry website which states clearly, "This project involves the consolidation of three or more schools in a single replacement school," Hoffman conceded, "I can see now what led to your interpretation," but insisted that the board was a long way away from discussions about any specific schools that might be slated for closure.

In October 2012, the board passed a motion directing the administration to develop a comprehensive infrastructure strategy that identifies timelines and goals to meet both

petition at change.org hoping to garner support to turn Highlands Junior High into a destination school offering a core arts program.

"If we want to keep smaller schools in mature neighbourhoods open, we need to find ways to revitalize them," she explains. Highland, has an enrolment of just 121 students this year, or 27 percent of its capacity. The proposal has the support of the trustee for the area, Ray Martin, and the school's principal, who has a strong arts background and used to be the vice principal at the Victoria School for the Performing Arts.

Another factor the board will have to consider is the shape of the school's physical infrastruc-

ture. Although Highlands is the only school among the six with a rating of "fair" condition (as opposed to "good"), it is hoped that the fact that the school, which will celebrate its 100th anniversary this year, is steeped in history will weigh in its favour.

Harmsma has been working for several months to generate support for her idea, pointing out that it could accommodate students from the arts programs at Mount Royal and Virginia Park elementary schools and would also draw students from across the city.

Confronted with the fact the province's recent announcement about replacement-school funding might see a consolidation of at least three schools, she's more determined than ever to see Highlands spared the chopping block, even if it means the closure of others. Mount Royal, for example, is also operating at less than 50-percent capacity and if the province is going to force the board's hand, it might make sense to turn Highlands into a K-9 arts core school.

"Highlands is a beautiful school and can accommodate hundreds more students than currently attend," Harmsma says. She's hoping that enough people sign her petition (search for Junior High Arts Core Education for Northeast Edmonton Students at change.org) that when the public board starts looking at schools to close, it looks somewhere else.

MIMI WILLIAMS

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FRONT NEWS // ORGANIC FARMS

Alberta's organic farmers brave the cold and the extra paperwork to bring quality food to the table

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ow do oats and wheat and barley grow on organic farms in Alberta? Very well. In fact, organic produce is thriving in our province. Between Alberta and Saskatchewan, who share a database of organic farms, there are more than 1400 organic agricultural producers that grow everything from lentils to lamb.

Approximately 75 percent of organic farmers in Alberta grow cereals, with oats, wheat and barley being the most common. Other agricultural products include livestock, forage crops, fruit and vegetables.

Becky Lipton is the executive director for Organic Alberta. She has worked with the organization since 2008 when they were called Go Organic, and she became interested in organics while studying for her master's degree on women and agriculture at Concordia University.

Despite the popularity of organic foods, there remains some confusion about what the word organic really means. Lipton explains that for the word "organic" to appear on food in Alberta, it has to be certified organic. This means that the food is grown according to the requirements set out in the Canadian Organic Regulation.

There is some confusion over the word organic, because it is often confused with other non-regulated terms such as "grass fed," "local" or "natural."

These terms are not the same as organic.

In order to obtain an organic certification, a farmer must apply to a certification board that is accredited by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency. So those organic labels in the grocery store really do mean that the food was grown according to specific regulation.

The Canadian Organic Standard ensures that contamination on organic farms is very unlikely. This is because of practices such as an eight-metre buffer zone, which would help prevent pesticide drift. The organic standard and the annual third-party inspection is an effective means of identifying and eliminating any products that could be contaminated by prohibited substances.

Here in Edmonton, on an icy Saturday morning, it's a blustery -19 C, but the winter scene fades inside the Old Strathcona Farmer's Market.

Kristine Vriend and her mother-in-law Ruth are tending shop at August Organics. At 11 am the place is packed and their stall is brimming with potatoes and carrots. As the day goes on, when the selection wanes and the customers slow to a trickle, Vriend has time to speak. She says that August Organics was the first organic farm in

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"They used to harvest potatoes into a potato sack and then tie the potato sack and throw it onto a wagon, take the wagon into the yard and then unload each potato sack separately and put in on a pile," Vriend says. "Now we harvest it straight into a box. ... So that saves a lot of physical labour."

So those organic labels in the grocery store really do mean that the food was grown according to specific regulation.

Alberta and they have been selling organic produce for 35 years.

What has changed in that time? "Well things have gotten a little bit larger since they first started," Vriend says. This is due, in part, to the fact that people are more educated about organic food than they used to be.

"Of course the customer base gets larger and more people are getting more educated on organic than they were 35 years ago," she adds. "There's much more of a demand."

There have also been some innovations on the

Vriend farm over the years. When Dan and Kristine saw the toll that manual labour had taken on his parents—who ran the farm until Dan and Kristine took over in 2005—they decided there needed to be some changes.

"We've done a lot more automatization than they used to do," Vriend explains. "They used to do a lot more physical labour and we saw how their bodies were breaking down, so we were like, "OK, we are going to be in trouble if we don't do something."

One of the changes they have made involves how potatoes are harvested in the fall.

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Transitioning to an organic farm from a regular farm takes 36 months.

"There's definitely paperwork involved in organics," Lipton says. "It's a rigorous standard and we want consumers to know that the integrity is being met at all times. Farmers have to keep track of a number of different things."

That sounds a little daunting, but Vriend doesn't think the paperwork is that challenging.

"You know, the regulation is a small thing," she says. "A lot of people say they don't do it because it's too expensive. It's a lot of paperwork in this time of year to sit down and figure it out, but it helps you be aware of what you are doing and you learn a lot by keeping the records that you have to keep."

As for labour, it is common in both organic and non-organic farming to have temporary workers for the growing season. But for August Organics, instead of temporary foreign workers, they pair with students from Olds College.

"We used to be able to have no problem finding Canadians to work, but nowadays that's very difficult because most kids want to sit on their iPods and we don't allow that in the field," Vriend says.

Still, she prefers working with students in order to share the knowledge of organics.

"It's more of a teaching farm," Vriend adds..

"Hopefully it creates a better atmosphere. It's not just 'I'm using you to get this work done quickly.' We had one student last year, we just went to visit him in Mexico, and he's actually taking a lot of the stuff he learned from our farm and he's planting things on his farm now that he never even thought he would do before."

In the quest for fair and sustainable organic practices, there are many considerations, lots of record keeping and the mercurial Alberta weather to contend with. Still, Vriend says it's definitely worth it.

"You see these happy faces every Saturday. I have 400 to 500 regular customers that say to me, 'thank-you for the food,' and it makes you feel good. You are feeding a generation of people."

DANIELLE PARADIS

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QUEERMONTON

ASHLEY DRYBURGH // ASHLEY@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Arizona's fall to the dark ages

Legislation that allows businesses the right to refuse service to queer folk is a big step backwards In an ongoing attempt to retain its title as "Most Bigoted Place in the United States," Arizona has once again passed controversial legislation. You may recall that four years ago, Arizona passed a law that made the failure to carry immigration papers a crime, subjecting the state's Hispanic population to immediate suspicion and harassment.

This time, on February 20, lawmakers passed a bill that protects a business owner's right to refuse service to gay and lesbian patrons based on religious grounds. There is the possibility that Governor Jan Brewer may still veto the bill, but the very fact that it was passed in the first place is a bit alarming.

Certainly the conversation about how to balance same-sex marriage

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rights and individual businesses' freedom of religion is not restricted to Arizona—recall the case in Washington where a florist refused to sell flowers to a gay couple or the Oregon bakery who refused to make a wedding cake for a lesbian couple. In each of those cases, the couple was able to sue; the Arizona legislature would prevent that from happening this time. In fact, the bill seems to have been written in direct response to these cases. At its core, the bill allows a business (or an individual) to cite the new law as a defence in an action brought forward by the government or an individual claiming discrimination and further allows that business or individual to seek an injunction once they have demonstrated their

actions are based on sincere religious belief.

Although the effects of the bill remain to be seen (and given how litigious the US is in general I would not be surprised if we see some cases relatively quickly), proponents insist that it clarifies pre-existing freedom of religion legislation, but its broadness could set some dangerous precedents. Though it was inspired by businesses seeking to refuse wedding services, the bill does not restrict itself to weddings, meaning any business could justify refusal of service to any queer if it violates their religious beliefs. In fact, the bill does not specify which religious beliefs are protected.

What if a straight woman sporting a trendy alternative-lifestyle hair-

cut sues after being refused service at a bar on suspicions that she is queer? Could that business invoke this bill, based on their belief that the client was queer? What if she was wearing a hijab? The bill, after all, is not limited to sexuality.

Where lays the burden of proof for queerness and what qualifies as protected religious beliefs?

I'm really curious as to what inspired this bill. Is it an intentionally provocative one, designed as another volley in the ongoing culture wars over same-sex marriage? Or is it a genuine (though misguided) attempt to work through the uncomfortable relationship between the American State and Christianity?

I'm also curious as to how this bill

will impact resistance strategies for proponents of same-sex marriage. I understand the principle, but suing a business for not making you a wedding cake has never seemed to be a particularly effective strategy to me, given that a negative word of mouth is equally as devastating. In the end, it's not even that important (and if you think that a wedding cake is the ultimate expression of queer love, I encourage you to re-evaluate your priorities). But then again, I am not an American and perhaps am missing some of the symbolic weight of gay-wedding victories. Nevertheless, only time will tell if this new bill signals a major set-back to American same-sex marriage or is merely the dying throes of a conservative religious faction. V

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Ukraine after the revolution

Russia will undoubtedly continue to dog the Ukraine to join its Eurasian Union

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From a Ukrainian point of view, the priority is not to throw their revolution away again like they did after the Orange Revolution 10 years ago. But from everybody else's point of view, the priority now is

to avoid an irreparable breach between Russia and the West. One Cold War was enough.

The Yanukovych era is finished; the former president will not make another comeback. He has killed

too many people, and the vulgar ostentation of his former palace (whose architect understandably chose to remain anonymous) has shocked Ukrainians even though they already knew he was deeply corrupt. Besides, Russia will not bet on this horse again.

On the other hand, the various opposition leaders will have great difficulty in deciding who leads their coalition, if indeed they can even agree on a coalition before the promised election on May 25.

But they'll still win the election, because Yanukovych never allowed any plausible rivals to emerge in his pro-Russian Party of the Regions, and Russia will not be able to find and groom a suitable replacement in time.

This will frustrate people in the Russian-speaking east and south of the country, who did not take part in this revolution and do not share the desire of the Ukrainian-speaking half for closer ties with the European Union. They worry that free trade with the EU will threaten their jobs, and it will require much tact to reassure them that their interests will be protected. But they will not split the country: very few Ukrainians want to be part of Russia.

Who will emerge as Ukraine's next leader? Yulia Tymoshenko, newly released from prison, is the obvious choice, and that would certainly ease matters on the Russian front. She got along reasonably well with Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, when she was prime minister last time.

But many Ukrainians who backed the revolution don't trust her.

Tymoshenko is dogged by questions about how she got so rich after the Soviet Union collapsed,

and she bears some of the blame for the chronic in-fighting that discredited Ukraine's first attempt at running a democratic government after the Orange Revolution of 2004. None of the other potential candidates, however, are acceptable to Putin.

Then there is the wild card: what if Yanukovych goes on trial for ordering the killings, and the prosecutors get their hands on his secret communications with Putin? It would not serve justice well, but it would be better if Yanukovych and his leading henchmen make it safely into exile, having first destroyed all evidence of criminal acts that would implicate the Russian government.

The best that can be hoped for in the short run, therefore, is a cold peace between Kiev and Moscow, which means that the $15 billion Putin promised to lend Yanukovych's regime will not now be forthcoming.

But the money has to come from somewhere, and the only alternative is the West, probably in the shape of the International Monetary Fund.

It is not clear if the United States and the EU are willing to come up with that kind of money. If not, then the upheavals in Ukraine will resume in fairly short order. And in either case Putin will work to sabotage the attempt to entrench a strong democratic system with effective anti-corruption laws in Ukraine.

President Barack Obama can tell Putin that Ukraine is not a square on a Cold War chessboard, but the Russian president does see it as a zero-sum game, and in terms of his own purposes he is right. His pet project to restore the Soviet Union in a non-Communist version by cre-

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ating a "Eurasian Union," for example, dwindles to nothing but Russia and a bunch of Central Asian dictatorships if Ukraine isn't a part of it.

More importantly, Putin does not want to have a large, prosperous and democratic country with strong EU ties on Russia's own border. Especially if it is another Slavic country that also used to be part of the Soviet Union, and it got its democracy as the result of a largely nonviolent revolution carried out in the main square of the capital city. The example would be very dangerous to his regime.

There's no risk of that sort of thing happening on Red Square in Moscow at the moment, but Putin thinks long term. Russia will therefore continue to meddle in Ukraine in an attempt to abort such a dangerous outcome.

Confronting Moscow directly over this sort of thing would be a mistake, and could lead us all down the path that ends in a new Cold War. Russians, for historical reasons, do not see themselves as "outsiders" in Ukraine (although most Ukrainians do), and they will react very badly to attempts to exclude them entirely.

The better and safer path is to support the Ukrainians with trade and aid, but leave it to them to deal with Russian interference in their politics. They are perfectly capable of doing this for themselves, and they can also prosper without joining either the European Union or NATO. But they do need a whopping great loan, right now. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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REVUE // ITALIAN

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Tasty Tomato 14233 Stony Plain Rd 780.452.3594 tastytomato.ca

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ity the humble, dependable, unostentatious restaurant. While it's easy to crank out a few hundred words on a great, terrible or merely weird dining experience, the task of describing an eatery that consistently delivers good quality and value in an unobtrusively pleasant setting is more challenging, which makes it easy to overlook or understate such a venue's merits.

I submit for your consideration Tasty Tomato, a reliable, familyfriendly, go-to Italian restaurant that's been knocking out great meals in a clean, orderly dining room on Stony Plain Road for nigh on two decades, without putting on the airs that might be due to them for surviving so long in a notoriously tough racket. The brick-lined dining room, dominated by a big service counter with a pass-through window on the kitchen, is less ambient than func-

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tional, the lighting a little too bright and even to be considered romantic.

The service is prompt, attentive and friendly, never fussy. And the menu, while not stocked with surprises, offers plenty of selection within the realm of pastas and Italian-style appetizers (eggplant parm, calamari, etc) and entrées (veal, chicken).

Sitting down in such an unpretentious place, where the server addresses your table as "you guys" and the most conspicuous ornamental touch is a cola-branded cooler behind the bar, I instantly felt reassured that the food would be delicious (and most likely copious). The tough part was choosing which Italian staple I would sample, though I've found that waiting until the last moment to choose and blurting something out can achieve positive results. In this case, I blurted out that my co-diner and I would

share the insalata Caprese ($11.95), and that I would have the linguine alle vongole ($16.95). My co-diner was much cooler and opted for the linguine Monte Carlo ($18.95) before I blurted out that we would also like to take advantage of the Monday-Thursday half-price deal on bottles of wine.

Moments after our order was placed (or, in my case, blurted), we were presented with a hungeroffsetting basket of fresh, warm focaccia bread and its complementary dish of olive oil swirled with balsamic vinegar. There was little delay in the arrival of the Caprese salad, a generous portion of tomato slices topped with discs of creamy bocconcini cheese, drizzled with the same oil and vinegar and a few capers. It was pretty much exactly what you expect, provided you expect good-quality ingredients, and

the co-diner and I made short work of the serving.

Our salad plates were dutifully

collected to make way for the big dishes of pasta that were imminent.

And what dishes of pasta they were.

Most people would opt for a traditional white wine sauce on a plate of linguine with baby clams, but to them I say, not so fast. The house tomato sauce is rich and tangy, sure, but it pairs beautifully with the tenderchewy orts of seafood and with the value-priced valpolicella. Like Tasty Tomato itself, a well-structured tomato sauce that integrates all its components, especially garlic, into a seamless flavour sensation is a commendable culinary feat that shouldn't go unremarked but too often does.

My co-diner's linguine featured a generous quantity of chicken, mushrooms and sundried tomatoes in

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white-wine rosé sauce that exquisitely amped up the richness of the house tomato sauce. Where I found my food too appetizing to keep from slurping most of it back, her restraint was rewarded with a sizeable portion of pasta to enjoy for the next day's lunch.

Just because I was full didn't mean I was about to stop eating, so I persuaded the co-diner we needed to share dessert, specifically the bacio nero ($6.55)—a globe of dark chocolate gelato with a heart of tart-sweet raspberry ice. Despite her protestations, she held up her end when it came to finishing it off.

Let the fancy gourmet joints bask in their high-falutin' superlatives. All you need to know is that Tasty Tomato serves great Italian food at reasonable prices, and they deserve your patronage.

SCOTT LINGLEY

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Dale knows his pale This may be a very different pale ale than what you're used to

Pale Ale is one of those styles ales can differ quite substantially. that's hard to pin down. In part Some are more hop forward, while this is because the term has been others accent a biscuity malt. The applied to a wide range of beer— hop can be assertive and grapemany of which fruit-like or soft don't come close Dale's Pale Ale and floral. What to the style de- Oskar Blues Brewing, Longmont is someone to scription—that Colorado make of it all? it can be almost $18.20 for six pack Edmonton-based impossible for a fans of pale ales casual consumer will be familiar to have a sense of what sets pale with Alley Kat's Full Moon. It ofale apart from other types of beer. fers an elegant, sharp interpretaThe problem is compounded by the tion of the style, with a classic hop reality that even legitimate pale character and generally offers a well-balanced version.

In contrast, if I handed you a glass of Dale's Pale Ale, a highly renowned beer from Colorado's Oskar Blues, you might at first doubt they come from the same family.

Trust me, they do.

Dale's Pale Ale pours medium orange with a dense, white head that develops a consistent, creamlike character. The aroma gives off grapefruit, passionfruit and generic citrus hop, some soft candy malt sweetness and a bit of light fruitiness in the background. But the aroma is mostly about the fruity hop aroma.

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In the sip, the first impression is a soft, toasty malt, presenting rounded and almost muddy. The middle drops off for a moment; the sweetness disappears leaving, just for a moment, a gap in flavour. But then the hops kick in to fill the void. Pine, grapefruit with earthy accents and some resin-like stickiness. It offers a blended kind of bitterness that is not too harsh yet enticingly complex. The linger is quite pleasant, bringing out aspects of pine and meadow flowers as an additional dimension. It has a pronounced and quite enjoyable hop linger.

This is a beer that lives up to its reputation as a formidable example of a pale ale. Compared to Alley Kat, it has a more assertive hop presence and a fuller body up front. Its linger is rather remarkable, but Alley Kat's Full Moon has a sharper, more classic angle to it and a malt base that evokes subtlety and fine balance. Its effect creates a consistently appreciated pint.

Two very different beer. Yet they clearly belong in the same family.

Which you prefer depends entirely upon your personal preferences. I certainly am not going to pick one over the other—and a good thing I don't have to. I can have both, thank you very much. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

PREVUE // DANCE

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Movement ACROSS THE PRAIRIES Prairie Dance Circuit pairs contemporary and traditional forms from across Western Canada

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ince its inception in 2010, the winter landscape. The second offering Prairie Dance Circuit has kept is the world première of Usha Gupta's its focus on garnering exposure for Aalaap, which is her fifth production western Canadian dance artists. The presented with BWDC. Gupta has long Circuit annually features a selec- Fri, Feb 28, Sat, Mar 1 (8 pm) been bringing clastion of works by Timms Centre for the Arts, sical Indian dance choreographers $20 – $35 to Edmonton audiences with from Alberta, Sasher performance katchewan and Manitoba, and tours through the prai- troupe, Usha Dance Entourage, and rie provinces each spring. When so over the years she has begun to work much of the dance touring in Canada more with contemporary takes on comes out of Montréal and Toronto, the kathak form—which, in essence, it's refreshing that opportunities like is an ancient practice of storytellPDC exist not only for dancers here, ing through gesture and expression. but also for audiences interested in Since the Mogul era, kathak has programs that go beyond the usual evolved into a highly recognizable suspects. dance technique with its rhythmic This year's PDC is a diverse pairing of footwork, characteristic spins and excontemporary and traditional forms; pressive pantomime.

Aalaap, which in Hindi means improthe understory is a duet choreographed by Regina's Johanna Bundon visation, was choreographed by Gupand Bee Pallomina, and explores the ta and renowned kathak guru Kumubalancing game of survival in a stark dini Lakhia. The performance includes

Aalaap

live musicians performing an original score by Praveen D Rao, and the artists will use improvisation throughout to explore variations in the melody while the five dancers respond.

"Improvisation starts with conversation," Gupta says. "Aalaap explores scatting, in musical terms, like syllables improvised around a given scale of notes. ... We are taking one raga and exploring different channels in every part of the music. It's like a bouquet. You know, there are different flowers in one bouquet, and differ-

ent flowers smell different ways, but they are still in the same bouquet."

As for being cast in a contemporary dance circuit as a prairie-based choreographer, Gupta acknowledges her role with a light-hearted laugh.

"My idea is that we are Indians—no doubt about it—and we are also of course Canadian. My policy is that if we recognize and we appreciate other nationalities or other forms of dance, then you can respect your own dance also," she explains. "I would say that

this particular dance gives beauty and feeling and emotions through the body, and that's what modern dance does, too. We come totally from the heart and I will say the same about contemporary also. I think the audience will take it very beautifully, even for Indian audiences who have not seen contemporary kathak, it will be a wonderful change for them to see how the dance has come into the modern era and is versatile."

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PREVUE // ARTS

The Art of Access/ability 'I

f more marginalized folks are lead- that social movements tend to be ing the movement, that's actually spearheaded by those who are most going to lead to a lot of strength in privileged among a particular group, it," says Taryn Hancock of Qmunity noting economically privileged gay League, a local queer collective that white men in the queer movement has built a community on Plains Cree gain more social acceptance and may and Blackfoot ternot experience ritories, and whose Fri, Mar 1 (9 pm) the same barriers ethos pushes to Latitude 53, as someone with create spaces that sliding scale entry fee vastly different, are encouraging marginalizing exand anti-oppresperiences—and sive. "Even the it's often these idea in ecology that more diversity people who get left behind while creates more stability and resilience more prominent matters are tended in an ecosystem, and I think in human to.

"The exclusion of people has made societies that could be true, too: that we could think about our differences it so we've been less successful," she as a source of strength, rather than continues, "because the people who the people who are outside of what's have been marginalized actually have really valuable insights and they can normal as burdens."

The importance of acceptance and teach us a lot about our society, or at accessibility is lauded in today's so- least some of the truths about it."

Making communities and the arts ciety, but yet, it often remains lacking in practice. Hancock points out more accessible and inclusive will be

explored in The Art of Access/ability, a collaboration between Qmunity league and mindhive collective, a local group that creates experimental and evocative performance-art which strives to bring unconventional voices to the forefront. CRIPSiE, LART and Brooke Leifso will also be performing and the evening will feature artwork, crafts, a lounge space and a dance floor, all aimed to be inclusive and enjoyable regardless of physical ability or social background.

"We like to challenge audiences to step outside their boundaries and rethink their values," says Tonya Rae Chrystian of mindhive, who feels a sense of anger and helplessness towards barriers, but also feels they bring a sense of "ultra-resilience" and provocation to create and push back.

Hancock and Chrystian have both had their own experiences with exclusion and social barriers. Hancock has

faced barriers, both as someone who suffers from mental illness and as a queer person, including day-to-day assumptions as well as the neverending dialogue that is coming out.

"The whole process that you need to come out is assuming that you're heterosexual until proven otherwise," she explains. "I think that the narrative of coming out is really positive, but it's also hard to always be having to come out."

Chrystian's experience has come from the perception of mindhive's work. The collective's recent production called HELD was pigeon-holed as "art for women," by critics, and Chrystian explains that goes back to the adage of women being unable to make work that is universal.

"The reviews also made me realize that there are social structures in place that prevent dialogues from happening, and labelling art as 'for women' or 'for POC' or for 'the dis-

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abled community' is one of them," she adds.

Each situation, while different on the surface, shows that social barriers and exclusion do not have to manifest in the blatant forms we often think of.

They take place in more subtle ways, but the effects are no less negative. "[I have] felt, not excluded in a more obvious way of not being able to enter a building or something like that, but more so with available energy to put out ... believing that myself and people like me have desirable things to bring as well," Hancock adds.

"Your experiences are your strongest asset, so paint, write, perform, sculpt, sauté, mine—do whatever you have to do to use them to create powerfully," Chrystian says. "Make yourself loud and clear, because you have every right to be who you are, to be included, seen and heard."

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ARTS REVUE // THEATRE

The Clean House

HARCOURT HOUSE ARTIST RUN CENTRE

Northern Light Theatre and L’Uni Théâtre present

Dispensing with pesky time and space // Jon Ward

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he Clean House opens with a joke told in Portuguese, untranslated.

It's the first moment in which reality is thrown askew in Trunk Theatre's current production at the Varscona, and certainly not the last. Sarah Ruhl's script requires its audience to accept quirky absurdity and preposterous situations as a matter of course, something that is surprisingly easy to do once you dispense with

the usual conventions of time and disagree more—for her, cleaning imparts meaning to her existence. space—and even death.

The Clean House is rife with fantasti- Cairns is hilarious in the role, delivcal elements, yet grounded in a very ering many of the script's funniest banal situation: Matilde (Elena Por- moments as she secretly takes over ter), a Brazilian maid and the afore- Matilde's task of cleaning her sister's mentioned joke-teller, is working for a house. From there, the script throws pair of doctors, Lane (Liana Shannon) increasingly fanciful twists into the and Charles (Troy O'Donnell), after plot: the characters acknowledge her parents died from an unintention- the deceased, who have just waltzed al murder-suicide. "When my mother into the room, as if they were anydied laughing thing but spectral; my father shot Until Sat, Mar 1 (7:30 pm) a person runs off himself and so Directed by Amy DeFelice to Alaska to cut down a yew tree; I came here to Varscona Theatre, $20 – $25 andsweaters and clean this house," once-bitten apples she explains, delivered by Porter with hilarious dead- are flung from balconies and land in pan seriousness. Matilde's goal is to a living room miles away.

Despite all that whimsy, this is a be a comedienne like her parents, yet she's most funny when she doesn't surprisingly convincing story about mean to be. Herein lies the strength the bonds and attachments between of Ruhl's script, with its plentiful ex- women. It's refreshing to see maamples of comedy aligned so closely ture female characters treated so with tragedy—which sounds rather humanely, and while the fantastical hackneyed on paper, but is nonethe- elements do begin to feel stretched less carried off quite well, thanks to slightly thin as the second act wears on, this weariness is quickly rescued the show's surprising heart. by the poignancy and tenderness of While Matilde finds housework de- what follows. pressing, Lane's uptight, manic sis- MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM ter Virginia (Coralie Cairns) couldn't

PREVUE // MUSICAL THEATRE

A Tale of Two Cities

Mercy of A Storm

maintains that the show is a perfect choice for their company.

"It's not what you're going to expect from a community theatre," she says.

"Elope has a long tradition of doing those grand old chestnuts—Oklahoma!, Annie Get Your Gun. It's really exciting for community groups to be stepping out of those traditional boundaries and moving into lesser known works."

De plein fouet dans la tempete

BY JEFFREY HATCHER

MARCH 6 - 16, 2014 PREVIEWS MARCH 4 & 5

Presented in English and in French in a new translation

by Gisèle Villeneuve.

Presented in English: March 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, and 16 Presented in French: March 5, 7, 9, 11, 13 and 15

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ickens has long been prime fodder for theatre—take the perennial December remountings of A Christmas Carol, for one. Yet, while A Tale of Two Cities may be one of Charles Dickens' greatest novels, until very recently it hadn't undergone the theatre treatment. 2006 saw the release of Howard Goodall's adaptation Two Cities in Salisbury, England, a production that only ran for a short time and received lukewarm reviews. A year later Jill Santoriello's musical version of the story debuted on Broadway and was much more successful, garnering glowing reviews and prompting the folks at Edmonton's Elope Musical Theatre to

A Tale of Two Cities is a grand, sweeping tale about the plight of French peasants during the French Revolution, which Thu, Feb 27 – Sat, Mar 8 (7:30 is paralleled sharply pm; 2 pm matinee on Sun, Mar 2) by the similar condiDirected by Timothy Anderson tions in England at mount their own Festival Place (Sherwood Park), the same time; van $27.25 – $32.35 Doornum doesn't production. think it a stretch to "We were hopalign it with coning to be the first company in Canada to do the show, temporary times, either. because at the time it was still fairly "It's the one percent versus the nineunknown," says Trish van Doornum, ty-nine; we're seeing the ninety-nine Elope board member and assistant percent just trying to deal with their director of the production. "Because everyday lives and scrape by with we were the first Canadian company whatever they can," she says. "I find to apply for the rights, Jill Santoriello with Dickens that a lot is still relevant has actually been in contact with us consistently throughout. I think that and will be coming for our opening- speaks to the solidity of his work and it speaks to him as a writer, knowing night gala."

As it turns out, a company in Ontario how to write for the human plight." just staged the show, so this isn't the MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM Canadian première, but van Doornum

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ARTIFACTS

peace and quiet, you’re still just fine, dude. (Stanley A Milner Library Theatre, $11.50 – $16.50)

REVUE // GRAPHIC NOVEL

Rage of Poseidon

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s the title of his 2011 Big Ques- What's striking, however, is the estions suggests, artist Anders thetic power of Nilsen's conception Nilsen confronts the enduring and design: the artist strips away althemes: faith, doubt, the examined most all stylization to create imagversus the unexamined life, and basi- es of mythic, monumental density.

The presentation and style are in cally The Meaning of It All. While such weighty themes are fact reminiscent of early forms of present in Nilsen's latest title, Rage of proto-comics such as Frans MaserPoseidon, he's in a lighter mood this eel's and Lynd Ward's woodcut time, bringing a comic logic to various novels Passionate Journey (1919) tales of pagan and Christian deities and Gods' Man (1929), respectively. and their mortal subjects. Such an Like a master Greek vase painter, approach is of course deserved, with Nilsen moves skillfully between the literal absurdity of the respective black-on-white and white-on-black imagery, a rendering of Hades in canons well underlined.

Also dryly pointed out are the im- the Underworld a splendid example plications of how history favours of the latter.

Indeed, the book some immortals over others. Hence Now available contains iconic Jesus is able to By Anders Nilsen renderings of pick up Aphrodite Drawn & Quarterly, 80 pp, $30 such tales as the at a bar by telling trials of Odysher that her husseus, the torment band Mars works for him now: "Me of Prometheus and the Sacrifice of Isaac. Also as with Greek painting— and my Dad run this whole place."

Nilsen's treatment does lack the or Baroque more than a thousand satisfying bite of Scottish cartoon- years later—much power is deist Tom Gauld in You're All Just Jeal- rived from visualizing narrative high ous of My Jetpack (2013), in which points, as when a Divine hand stays the same subject was savaged with Abraham's a moment before it can a precise and understated blade. cut Isaac's throat.

All this is even more effective in the book's accordion format, which allows several related pages to be juxtaposed at once, displaying powerfully the panel-to-panel contrast of specific moments that distinguishes the comics medium. (In other instances, Nilsen sprawls wider compositions across multiple pages.)

What's particularly amazing is the sense of latent movement in some scenes. It's as if Nilsen's figures have not been truly caught within one pregnant moment of high drama, but slowed down to a point of almost imperceptible, yet still unmistakable, movement.

Take the quietly sad panel of Abraham accosting Isaac: the relative positioning of the figures, their hair seemingly ruffled by a desolate breeze; the precise incline of Isaac's head upwards in innocent yet bemused deference to his father; Abraham's one hand resting with seeming despair on Isaac's shoulder, his other hand caught as if in reluctance or uncertainty. The subtlety of the suggestion is masterful.

And that Nilsen lends such gravitas to select instances reflects that he can't completely laugh off the material; in the "What If ... ?" thought experiment that is "The Girl and the Lions," Athena is obsessed by the question: What would it be like to die a mortal death, to know your life would one day end, like that usurping Nazarene?

Setting aside the Christian promise of everlasting life, of course.

It's affecting, the way Nilsen sneaks in such metaphysical wonderment, even when otherwise on a bit of a lark. And it makes Rage of Poseidon a graceful, low-key showcase of artistic virtuosity.

Hawrelak woes Bad news blew into town last week for a city that loves its festivals: a wind storm seriously damaged the canopy covering Hawrelak Park’s Amphitheatre while it was in the process of being replaced. The damage is substantial enough to warrant a new canopy, which will take months and money; all of which to say, likes of Freewill Shakespeare Festival (on the cusp of its 26th season) and the justa-few-years-old Interstellar Rodeo are currently scrambling to find alternative venues for their summer fests.

The new canopy isn’t projected to be ready until mid-July.

Naomi’s Road / Fri, Feb 28 (7 pm); Sat, Mar 1 (11 am & 2 pm) Yep, it’s an opera in the library. But nobody’s gonna shush Opera Nuova’s kid-friendly look into the past: it follows the young Japanese-Canadian siblings Naomi and Stephen through the tumult and issues of tolerance that arose during the Second World War. Plus, it’s in the theatre in the library, so soundproofing is more than adequate. If your weekend plan was go to Stanley A Milner and read in

The Match / Sat, Mar 1 (7 pm) The Match is documentary in progress, with former Edmontonian Kurt Spenrath aiming a lens at the independent professional wrestlers scattered across the country. We’re talking WWE-style, jabroni-rolling wrestling, but in the out-of-the-way rings and community halls where the independents ply their trade, including here in Edmonton. The film’s progression is taking it through town, in fact, to record a live match of the Prairie Wrestling Alliance. So if you ever wanted to experience a veritable mania of wrestling, live, and possibly be immortalized on film in the act of experiencing a veritable mania of wrestling, live, now is your chance. (Northgate Lions Rec Centre [7524 - 139 Ave], $12 – $17 (advance), $15 – $20 (door) Night at the Oscars / Sun, Mar 2 (5:30 pm) Take in one yearly tradition in what’s become another: for a sixth year, the Varscona Theatre will project the Oscars on the big screen (well a big screen, anyways), filling in the commercial gaps with live comedy, musical numbers, prize giveaways and—new this year—an award for the most fashionable audience member in attendance. So dress for the red carpet, and watch the awards show in style. (Varscona Theatre, $25) V

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OPERA for A 45 Minute

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by Ra Music by Ann Hodg o Librett

Delight in the music, warmth and story-telling of opera!

Join Japanese-Canadians Naomi and her brother Stephen in a moving story of tolerance & patriotism during WWII. They prevail over adversity, bullying and racism to defend their identities as Canadians in this passionate opera for families.

PUBLIC PERFORMANCES

February 28 at 7 p.m. & March 1 at 11 a.m. & 2 p.m.

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SAMUEL FRENCH, INC. Book, Music, and Lyrics by Jill Santoriello

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DANCE BWDC–ONSTAGE • Timms Centre, U of A • Brian Webb Dance Company's Art Auction and Brunch: Artworks by some of North America’s hottest artists, including Dana Holst, Julian Forrest, Scott Cumberland, and Patrick J. Reed, event features Champagne reception and entertainment. Dress: Sunday chic • Mar 2, 11.30am • $90/$720 (for table of eight); tickets/preview of art at bwdc.ca EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Senior Recreational Centre, 11113-111 Ave, 780.893.6828 • Mar 1, 8pm

EXPANSE FESTIVAL–BE MOVED • Westbury Theatre, Arts Barns, 780.454.0583 • Featuring body-made art, innovative movement in dance, theatre, aerial/circus arts, mime, for film and more; presented by Azimuth Theatre • Mar 6-9 • Tickets at expanse.ca

GOOD WOMEN AND BWDC • Sugar Foot Ballroom, 10545-81 Ave, 780.802.6867 • Master Class Series: Prairie Dance Circuit • Feb 27, 10am • $25 (door)

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); Every Fri until Apr 25; no dance Mar 21 SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beg lesson at 8pm; all ages/levels • $10, $2 lesson with entry

SKIRTS-A-FIRE–HERARTS FESTIVAL • Alberta Avenue Community Hall, Nina Haggerty Gallery, the Carrot, other venues • skirtsafire.wordpress.com/2014festival-schedule-2 • Theatre, dance, visual arts, spoken work • Mar 6-9

USHA DANCE ENTOURAGE/PRAIRIE DANCE CIRCUIT • Timms Centre, U of A • Brian Webb Dance Company presents: Aalaap by Usha Dance and Johanna Bundon's The understory by Prairie Dance. Choreography

by Kumudini Lakhia and Usha Gupta • Feb 28, Mar 1, 8pm • $35/$20 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

FILM THE CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton • fortedmontonpark.ca • Gone with the Wind (PG); Feb 27 • Historical Oscar Snubs: Citizen Kane (PG) on Mar 6; the Treasure of the Sierra Madre (PG); Mar 13 • Every Thu, 7:30pm • $10 EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY • Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre • Oscar® nominated short films 2014 • Live Action (105-mins): Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) (Esteban Crespo); Avant Que De Tout Perdre (Just Before Losing Everything) (Xavier Legrand and Alexandre Gavras); Helium (Anders Walter and Kim Magnusson); Aquel No Era Yo (That Wasn't Me) (Esteban Crespo); Pitääkö Mun Kaikki Hoitaa? (Do I Have to Take Care of Everything?) (Selma Vilhunen and Kirsikka Saari);The Voorman Problem (Mark Gill and Baldwin Li); until Feb 27, 6:30pm, 9pm; Feb 27, 6:30pm • Animation (110-mins): Feral (Daniel Sousa and Dan Golden); Get a Horse! (Lauren Macmullan and Dorothy Mckim); Mr. Hublot (Laurent Witz and Alexandre Espigares); Possessions (Shuhei Morita); Room on the Broom (Max Lang and Jan Lachauer); Feb 27, 9pm • Ticket info at edmontonfilmfest.com

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum

ORTONA ROOM–ORTONA ARMOURY • 9722-102

Mitchell 8 Until Mar 13

OF ELEGANCE: Lifestyles of the Past • until Mar 21

St • Edmonton Film Collective: In Memory of David Finkelman: Michael Snow's Wavelength, and Lindsay McIntyre's Barge Dirge, and music by Pigeon Breeders, and Zebra Pulse • Mar 7, 8pm (music), 10pm (film) • free

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501

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 • PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG STUDENT: Student works curated by the Visual Arts Student Association, U of A • Edmonton Stamp Club Display • Mar 1-31

• 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • Gallery@501 members • Until Mar 9 • Reception: Feb 28, 7pm

U OF A • ED South 129 • Film screening of Amreeka • Feb 27, 4pm • info: email smithacu@ualberta.ca

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Feature Gallery: PAYCE: Celebrating Greg Payce's 2013 Saidye Bronfman Award for Excellence in Fine Craft; until Mar 29 • Discovery Gallery: TROPHIES FOR THE RANCHLAND: Works by Jill Nuckles; until Mar 22 ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.233.3635 • GRATITUDE: An Exhibition of Local Graphic Design Featuring Perry Gratton with Arrowz Featuring New Collaborative Works with Mat Simpson • Through Apr • Opening Night: Mar 1, 8pm • $10 ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • 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 • Conversation with the Artist: Jill Stanton; Mar 5 • Open Studio: Adult Drop-In Workshops: Blend: Pastel Portraiture on Mar 5; Carve: Illustrative Printmaking on Mar 12, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member) ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • AT ODDS: Works by Sydney Lancaster, Susan Seright and Claire Uhlick; until Mar 1 • FrAgile elements: Works by Susan Casault, Peter Ivens, and Teresa Stieben; Mar 6-Apr 26; opening: Mar 6, 7-9pm • Preschool Picasso: Nifty Nests: for ages 3-5; Mar 8, 10:30-11:30am • Artventures: Drop-in art program for children aged 6-12; Nuts About Nature; Mar 15, 1-4pm; $6 (per child)/$5.40 (member)

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY (Agnes Bugera Gallery), 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • bugeramathesongallery.com • FORGE AND FORM: Landscapes by Clint Hunker and Kerensa Haynes • Feb 27-Mar 12 • Reception: Mar 1, 1-4pm

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Artworks by Antony Cummings, Nadia Tanguay, Barbara Kowaleski, and Léon Tremblay • Feb 28-Mar 11

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51

• SIX TRAITS IN UNITY: Shapes of Canada West, paintings

by Bernadette McCormack • Feb 25-Mar 15 • Opening: Mar 1, 1-4pm

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • ... LANDSCAPE: Fresh look at perhaps the most over used cliche in Canadian art • Until Mar 15

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.200.2711 • Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks; antique jade sculptures and jewellery; 17th Century bronze masterworks and artworks by Richard Dixon

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Represents some of Canada`s leading contemporary artists as well as artists gaining recognition in the international art scene. Committed to making Canadian historical art available

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • drawingroomedmonton.com/events • DREAM HUT: New work by Adam Maitland • Until Mar 8 OSCAR® NOMINATED SHORTS • Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre, 3 Fl, 10200-102 Ave • Edmonton

Library Theatre • Film Screening • Mar 8, 12pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library,

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

8712-109 St • Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival: Rhymes for Young Ghouls: Feb 28, 7pm, Mar 3: 9:30; Mar 4, 9:15pm • Gabrielle: Mar 2, 4pm • Until Mar 4

Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • IMR INSTITUTE OF MORPHOID RESEARCH: Installation by Jennifer Akkermans • Until Mar 22 • Reception: Mar 7, 6-8pm

HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • THE LOVE OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Works by Jessica Swainson • until Feb 28 • THE WONDERS OF ANIME: Works by Deborah Torrance and Sheldon Rabbit Wheatley; Mar 1-28; Reception: Mar 7, 4-6pm

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper

780.492.2081 • THE SPACE BETWEEN US: Works by Alysha Creighton • FIELD NOTES: Works by Lisa Matthias; until Mar 23; opening: Feb 28, 7-10pm • LEBZELTER AND DANNER: PRINTED MATTER: Printworks by Austrian artists; until Mar 22 • Lecture: Winter 2014 Visual Arts & Design Forum Lecture Series: Lebzelter and Danner: Printed Matter; Feb 27, 5:15pm in FAB 2-20

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • POINTS OF VIEW: Works by the Edmonton Art Club; through Feb • Works by Deborah Catton; through Mar 780.488.4892 • Paintings by Claudette Castonguay • Mar 1-13

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • THE BEST OF THE WEST TRAVELLING SAQA TRUNK SHOW: Works by the SAQA group (Studio Art Quilts Associates); until Mar 2 • OPEN AND CLOSED: Artworks

by Wendy Meeres; Mar 5-Apr 27 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • March Exhibition and Sale: Gallery artists and secondary market works; Feb 28-Mar 25

COLOUR OF INNER PEACE: Works by Arts a la Carte • Mar 7, 5-7pm

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 • The yMCA Community Canvas Works Gallery: Don Wheaton YMCA downtown (10211 102 Ave): Jenny Keith's nature-inspired paintings; until May • Jackson Power: 9754-60 Ave: GASTOSOPHY: Group show curated by Olivia Chow; Mar 7-15; opening/ performance: Mar 7, 7-10pm

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Launch of Sam McKegney's book, Masculindians; Mar 3, 7pm • Jo-Ann Vacing (Jo Dibble) presents Frock Off: Living Undisguised; Mar 5, 7pm • Authors of Pure Prairie Eating Plan, meet, greet and sign books; Mar 13, 11am-2pm • Featuring talk by Alexia Lane, author of On Fracking; Mar 18, 7pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

THE CLEAN HOUSE • Varscona, 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 • Until Mar 1 • $20 (student/senior)/$25 (adult)

THE COMING OUT MONOLOGUES • Dewey's, U of A Campus, 116 St, 85 Ave • prideweek.ualberta.ca • As part of this year’s University of Alberta Pride Week, iSMSS is presenting a community-based theatre production of The Coming Out Monologues. This presentation will be a collaborative storytelling event celebrating LGBTQ coming out stories, created and presented by community members with the guidance of Lindsay Ruth Hunt, a community-based theatre practitioner • Feb 28, 6:309:30pm; Mar 1, 1:30-4pm • $15 (adult)/$10 (student) at TIX on the Square DIE-NASTY • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

DEATH TRAP • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615 109 Ave • Broadway thriller, with a skillful blend of suspense and humor • Until Apr 6 • Tickets at 780.483.4051 LITTLE ONE • Roxy Theatre, 780.453.2440 • By Hannah Moscovitch, presented by Theatre Network, Bradley Moss (director), starring Amber Borotsik and Jesse Gervais • For all of his childhood, Aaron had to be careful around his troubled foster sister Claire • Mar 4-23; previews: Mar 4-5; opening Mar 6; Tue-Sat: 8pm; Sun: 2pm • $21-$27 at theatrenetwork.ca

MERCY OF A STORM • La Cite Francophone (L'Unitheatre), 8627-91 St, 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre with L'UniThéâtre • By Jeffrey Hatcher, translated by Gisele Villeneuve; directed by Trevor Schmidt. Featuring Brian Dooley and Gianna Vacirca • Mar 6-16, 7:30pm; preview: Mar 4, 7:30pm; Booty Call Performance: Mar 14, 11:30pm; no show Mon evenings • English: Mar 4, 6, 8, 12, 14, 16 • French: Mar 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 15 • Mar 6-16, 7:30pm • Tickets at 780.471.1586 NAOMI'S ROAD • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • A moving and delightful opera for families about Japanese-Canadian children living in Western Canada during WWII. Presented by Opera NUOVA • Feb 28, 7pm; Mar 1, 11am and 2pm • $15 (adult)/$10 (child)/$40 (families of 4) at TIX on the Square NEVERMORE • Westbury Theatre, 8529 Gateway Blvd, 780.431.1750 • Nevermore: The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe is a whimsical and chilling musical fairytale for adults • Until Mar 1 • Tickets start at $24.50 (student/senior)/$31.50 (adult) at TIX on the Square; $10 (at door youth under 21 years)

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

NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems; 1st Wed ea month, with Gerhard Jason Geick; Mar 5, 7pm

NINO NINA SHOW • Expressionz Café, 780.450.6462

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony

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

780.434.5564 • By Eugene Strickland, presented by Shadow Theatre • An aging theatre actress recruits the assistance of an unruly teenage girl in a last ditch attempt to memorize her lines for an all female production of King Lear • Mar 12-30, Tue-Sat 7:30pm; Sat-Sun 2pm • $16 (Preview); $27 (Fri-Sat night opening)/$24 (student/senior, Fri-Sat night opening); $23 (Tue-Thu, Sun matinee)/$21 (student/senior, Tue-Thu, Sun mat); at TIX on the Square

Plain, 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • New works by Keith Harder; until Mar19

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 • Artisan Nook: DAILY ENCOUNTERS WITH NATURE: Paintings by Natasa Vretenar; until Mar 22 • Vertical Space: UNFINISHED PAINTING CHALLENGE: Jointly created paintings by several artists; until Apr 17 • Reception for Just Draw and Unfinished Painting Challenge: Mar 5, 6-8pm

NINA HAGGERTY • 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 PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Works by Tricia Firmaniuk and Nomi Stricker; until Mar 4 • Works by Paul Bernhardt and James Olley; Mar 8-25; opening: Mar 8, 2-4pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27 • Feature Gallery: PATTERN WIZARDRY: until Mar 9 • Orientation Gallery: SPECIES AT RISK: until Mar 16 • 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

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert • ILLUMINATION: Encaustic artworks by Barbara

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM ARCHIVES • 913 Ash St, Sherwood Park, 780.467.8189 • ESSENCE

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 •

780.421.1731 • GALLERy A: GALLERy B: CELEBRATING ALBERTA: Alberta Society of Artists; until Mar 15

Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 780.433.5807 • CAPTURED MOMENTS: Artworks

by Sharon Vanderwolf • Feb 28-Mar 26 • Reception: Mar 12, 6:30-8: 30pm

METAMORPHOSIS: Elaine Berglund • Until Mar 18

HEART–SUITE 2014: Group show featuring new work from gallery artists

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St,

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave,

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • 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

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • IN THE

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

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY–Red Deer • THE

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278

EducatEd REEl • Metro Cinema (Garneau Theatre), 8712 109 St • Music for Mandela, Pieter de Vos leads a discussion before the film about living in a post-apartheid South Africa • Feb 27, 7pm • $6 (adv)/$8 (door, cash), pre-register at alumni.ualberta.ca/events

METRO CINEMA • Metro at the Garneau Theatre,

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

Tammy Salzl, and installation, stories by Emily Jan; Mar 7-Apr 15; Conversation with the artists: Mar 7, 7pm; opening: Mar 7, 8pm • Qmunity League and Mindhive presents: Art of Accessibility, queer party; Mar 1, 9pm

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

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

IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri 11am, 12, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8pm; Sat 11am, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8pm; Sun 11:00am, 2:10, 5:15, 6:30; Mon-THU 2:00, 3:10, Thu 3:10, 5:15, 6:30 • Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun 12; Tue 4:20 • Flight of the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Sun 1:00; Wed 4:20 • Born to be Wild 3D (G) Mon-Thu 4:20 • Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 4:35, 9:10; Sun 3:25; Wed-Thu 7:45

• 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

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main Space: FALLING THROUGH THE MIRROR: Paintings by

International Film Festival present: Live Action: 6:30pm; Animation: 9pm • Feb 27

Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books • Every Fri, 2pm • The Last Song (PG); Feb 28, 2pm

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St,

Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285 • Gilda (PG); Mar 3, 8pm • I Married A Witch (PG); Mar 10, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior)/$5 (student)/$3 (child 12 and under)

THE END OF IMMIGRATION? • Stanley Milner

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm

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 11:00, 12:00, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8:00; SAT 11:00, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8:00; Sun 11:00am, 2:10, 5:15, 6:30; Mon-THU 2:00, 3:10, Thu 3:10, 5:15, 6:30; Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun 12:00; Tue 4:20; Flight of the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Sun 1:00; Wed 4:20; Born to be Wild 3D (G) Mon-Thu 4:20; Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 4:35, 9:10; Sun 3:25; Wed-Thu 7:45

Ave • Rapid Fire'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

STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY THEATRE • Featuring talk by Marie Battiste, author of Protecting Indigenous Knowledge and Heritage • Mar 8, 7pm

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8601 • The Big Speakeasy: Join Metro Federation Writer in Residence, Margaret Macpherson, and guests for a celebration of Freedom to Read Week. Includes jazz music, a Charleston demo, performances from banned & challenged works, discussions about censorship from local authors, and flapper pie • Feb 28, 7-8:30pm • Free; pre-register at 780.410.8600 T.A.L.E.S. • Park Allen Community League Hall, 6510111 St • Tellaround/Story Circle • Mar 12, 7-9pm • Free T.A.L.E.S.–Strathcona • Strathcona Library, Willow Rm, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed, 7pm, each month, Sep-Apr

U OF A • Humanities Centre: An Evening of Inuit Literature and Performance: Mar 8, 6pm • Timm's Centre: 2014 Henry Kreisel Commemorative lecture by Tomson Highway is giving this year's Kreisel Lecture; and event of talk and music. A reception and book signing will follow the lecture; Mar 6, 7pm

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

WRITERS GUILD • Jasper Place Library, 9010-156 St • A Tale Of Broadway’s Jill Santoriello presented by The Writers’ Guild of Alberta and ELOPE Musical Theatre • Mar 1, 10:30am-12pm • Free (WGA/ELOPE member)/$5 (non-member)

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona,10329-83 Ave • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri • Feb 28, Mar 7, Mar 14,

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A

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

QUEEN LEAR • Shadow Theatre, 10329-83 Ave,

SAME TIME NEXT YEAR • Kinsmen Korra Dinner Theatre, Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • St Albert Theatre Troupe, by Bernard Slade • New Jersey accountant George and Oakland housewife Doris meet at a Northern California inn in February 1951. They have an affair, and agree to meet once a year, despite the fact both are married to others and have six children between them • Feb 27-28, Mar 1 • $47.50 at box office, 780.222.0102 THE SPIDER OR THE FLY • Kinsmen Korral Hall, 47 Riel Dr • By Sam Bobrick, presented by St Albert Theatre Troupe starring Christine Lesiak, Adam Keefe, Krista Kwarok, and Julian Stamer • Mar 13-15, 8pm • Talkback with the artists following the show on Mar 14 • $25/$20 (student/senior/group) at stalberttheatre.com

A TALE OF TWO CITIES: THE MUSICAL • Festival Place, Sherwood Park • A co-production by Elope and Sherard Musical Theatre • Feb 27-Mar 8 THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square THE VIP KIDS SHOW • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Music, comedy, art, puppets, and special guests! Watch as the V.I.P. troupe of zany scharacters celebrate the thin line between clever and silly with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach and friends • Mar 9 • All Seats $6 VIP Pass $60 WILDFIRE FESTIVAL • Improv festival for students from all across Alberta (and sometimes even the Territories). The 16-day festival is created by the marriage of three improv tournaments: The Canadian Improv Games, and Rapid Fire Theatre’s own TheatreSports tournaments, the Nosebowl and the WildFire Junior • Until Mar 1

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REVUE // DRAMA

Moral quandaries The Past a resonant, immaculately crafted drama

Opens Friday Directed by Asghar Farhadi Princess Theatre  A boggling geometry of allegiances play out in The Past

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here Asghar Farhadi's A Separation chronicled the disintegration of a marriage, The Past, the Iranian writer-director's follow-up, begins four years after the marriage of its central characters has ended. In the instantly transfixing opening sequence Ahmad (Ali Mosaffa) and Marie (Bérénice Bejo) find each other on either side of an immense pane of glass, gesturing, mouthing words, neither of them audible to the other or to us. Ahmad has flown to Paris from Tehran to finalize the divorce. Marie comes to fetch Ahmad from the airport in a borrowed car—borrowed from whom she won't say, though the dry cleaning dangling in the back is conspicuous.

This soon-to-be ex-couple are pleasant with each other, all grievances

disapproves of her mother's new relationship so vehemently that she refuses to come home. Is this simply a matter of Lucie's unwillingness to allow an intruder into her already broken family? Is there something more at stake?

presumably having lost their venom years ago. Indeed, the complicated yet completely coherent drama about to unfold is generated not from tensions between Ahmad and Marie but from within a larger circle of characters, all of whom, whether children or adults, present or absent, are somehow ensnared in the powerful force that gives the film its title.

Marie drives Ahmad to her home— his former home—where he finds two children in her backyard, one being the youngest of Marie's daughters from another relationship, the other being a little boy Ahmad has never met. During the first third or so of The Past Farhadi is careful not to rush exposition, focusing neither on explaining the past or foreshadowing the future, and instead living

fully in the moment. He knows that everything to come will carry more weight after we've done some of our own detective work, spent time coming to know these characters in a more organic method. Marie's home, for example, is cluttered and wears layers of varied inhabitants. Messes have meaning, as does the dynamic between she and that temperamental little boy. Let's not get too precious about spoilers: that boy is the son of Marie's new partner, Samir (A Prophet's Tahar Rahim), who Marie wants to marry, thus the sudden urge to sign papers. Marie hasn't informed Ahmad of the details of her current situation, though the reasons for her continual withholding grow only more complex as the story continues. Marie's teenage daughter Lucie (Pauline Burlet)

this Roman mega-drama should have been called Titanacus. Rapidly burnt by a mind-blowingly ludicrous story, Pompeii rumbles and crumbles, overbaking itself into a frothy crisp—puff-

ery on the outside and clichéd pas- founding a PETA chapter in Pompeii. sions within.

A boy watches his Celt tribe mas- The Romans are so villainous here sacred by Romans in Britannia; he's that it seems like even their stansoon a slave, growing into trium- dards' eagle has a beaky sneer. Amid phant gladiator Milo (Kit Harington), the 3D disaster-porn's tidal wave, and shipped off to Pompeii, where earthquake, cinderflakes falling, lava the commander spurting and rock (Kiefer Sutherflying—though land) who led his Now playing an edutainment people's conquest Directed by Paul WS Anderson Imax film, perjust happens to be  haps Krakatoa: forcing lovely patriThe Rekrakencian Cassia (Emily ing would do as ing, Browning) to marry him. Of course, well—no children can be shown dead, though unimaginable then (slaves anyone non-white descends to the Unwere merely property), Cassia's al- derworld with disturbing speed, and ready fallen for Milo. Mind you, eventually only our heroes are left to Cassia's so modern in her thinking flee, after return trips to the fighting(kind to all slaves; hates gladiators arena. (In fact, most Pompeiians likely fighting; detests Rome), she seems died instantly from the intense heat of one dainty sandalled step away from gas currents, up to 300 C.) But then,

I fear that if I overemphasize the immaculate structuring of The Past I'll give the impression that it's been dramaturged within an inch of its life—nothing could be further from the truth. Farhadi simply excels at character and plot development to a degree that's extremely rare in adult, intellectually sophisticated, emotionally resonant drama. Some of what's revealed here is devastating, yet by the time such revelations arise we've beheld a boggling geometry of alle-

giances and have cause to feel such investment in every character that it becomes impossible to delineate who's supposed to be villain and who's the hero. This is a moral tale in the most modern sense, by which I mean there's no moral to be surmised, only recognized, worked through, considered. And while Farhadi's style is relatively straightforward and chronological, utilizing hard cuts, no score and brilliant naturalistic performances, there is something about his approach to working through moral quandaries that, like the mysterious scenes that open and close The Past, recall the films of Kieślowski, which is meant as a high compliment.

JOSEF BRAUN

JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // EPIC

Pompeii

Ash to ash

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n F/X toga-opera offering today's anti-imperial spin to that old rebel slave-gladiator plot and the class-division doomed-romance of that '90s sinking-ship blockbuster,

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the evil commander can still grip a sword after his bicep was impaled, while Houdini-like Cassia can pick a metal lock with a piece of wood. And still the mountain's actual name is never uttered—where's Charlton Heston yelling, "Vesuvius, you damned dirty ash-hole!" when we need him?

It's not just that the recent TV series Spartacus did all this much better and in a much smarter and less sanitized, non-PG way. It's that Pompeii is so formulaic and anachronistic in its epic pains to wedge some romanceadventure into a tragic moment in ancient history. Because cataclysmic doom isn't enough—there's got to be a clash of sparking swords and the clench of luscious lips to seal all those anonymous fates.

BRIAN GIBSON

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'The Elvis of Ideology'

An interview with the director and subject of Pervert's Guide to Ideology We are in urban Los Angeles. A muscly man in plaid shirt and mullet tells a muscly man with no hair that he must either put on a pair of sunglasses or start eating from a trashcan. Suddenly a portly bearded man with a heavy accent—something akin to Dracula with a speech impediment—enters the scene. "I am already eating from the trashcan all the time," he says. "The name of this trashcan is ideology." This third man is sweaty Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek, once famously dubbed "the Elvis of critical theory." Whether you consider Žižek a truly great thinker or merely a great contrarian, his hyper-attentive, Lacanian approach to film analysis is undeniably compelling. In the first sequence of The Pervert's Guide to Ideology, director Sophie Fiennes deposits Žižek directly into a scene from John Carpenter's They Live. As with Fiennes and Žižek's previous collaboration, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema, this is the film's MO: rather than have Žižek sit in front of a library or something and pontificate, Fiennes inserts Žižek, Zelig-like, right into the movies under consideration, whether they be The Sound of Music, Brazil, Titanic or Full Metal Jacket. It's a great source of cheap laughs. It is also a way of making the viewer's identification with movies complete—and reminding us exactly how ideology can work on our consciousness.

Metro Cinema screened the film last month but didn't manage to cover it.

I'm happy to say that now, on the occasion of Zeitgeist's release of The Pervert's Guide to Ideology on DVD, we can finally run the interview I conducted with Žižek and Fiennes during the 2012 Toronto International Film Festival. I'd met Žižek once before, and knew that anything resembling conversation would be challenging, not only because of his spastic garrulousness, but because it can be difficult to parse out his genuine convictions from those statements that sound like sheer provocation—especially those regarding gender, which creates a very odd tension when the other person attempting to interject is a woman. Of course, Fiennes and Žižek are clearly pals, but it's not so much that these two finish each other's sentences as that Žižek finishes everyone's sentences within a twomile radius. Anyway, I can't deny that the following conversation—edited down to perhaps 1/8 of the original transcript—was loads of fun.

taining it. It's even more the case with Avatar. It's clear that those jerks on that stupid planet are a kind of local indigenous population attacked by industrial American imperialist army, blah, blah. But, of course, you need a white man to save the natives. Cameron's ex-wife's movie, Hurt Locker, is maybe worse, though it has different ideology, one very popular now, this idea of limiting story to a narrow experience of the horrors of war. To make army life acceptable you have to remove all context and just focus on personal suffering. But I don't want to dismiss Cameron altogether.

What's that one with Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, where they go down?

VUE WEEKLY: The Abyss.

SŽ: Very nice movie.

SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK: Let's talk about your fellow countryman, James Cameron, the ideal object of ideological analysis today. Superficially his movies can be read as model of Hollywood Marxism. Take Titanic. Upper-class bad, lower-class good. Ridiculous, no? But beneath this Leftist surface you find a very reactionary myth sus-

VW: Maybe if you see the film you'll change your mind.

SŽ: Really? OK! Now we talk men-tomen. Ha, ha.

SF: I love The Elephant Man. SŽ: There is this eternal question.

Do you dare to tell, a little bit, a film where you cried watching? I'll tell you where. You remember this

VW: You mentioned how the Pervert's films allow you to illustrate your ideas, but I wonder if these ideas, originally explored in books, themselves change once placed in this time-based context that favours the visual over the textual.

SŽ: No. I'm very dogmatic. I think alone. I am not engaged. And I am in such a constant panic that I cannot be a cooperative, responsive actor.

SOPHIE FIENNES: My job is simply to make Slavoj's thinking understandable as a movie. That transition from Brief Encounter to Brazil to Last Temptation of Christ, for example, is my attempt to connect Slavoj's ideas in a manner specific to the film's train of thought.

SŽ: Friend from Greece told me this great story. His father stopped getting retirement money. He wrote to the ministry to ask why. The reply was, "Sorry, sir, but I regret to inform you that according to our records you are dead. Could you please come to our office to prove that you are alive?" You know what for me is the best thing in 1984? John Hurt asks Richard Burton, "Tell me, is the Big Brother a myth or does the Big Brother really exist?" And Richard Burton gives him the perfect answer.

"It's not that Big Brother doesn't exist, what matters is that you don't exist." Totally correct answer. Tell me, what do you think of David Lynch?

I still haven't seen Inland Empire.

Friends are telling me it's so-so.

SF: I like it, but it's sort of falling back on titties.

SŽ: [To me] Do you like David Lynch?

SF: Laura Dern is brilliant.

SŽ: [To Fiennes] That's a problem.

She's not fuckable for me. I'm a sexist.

scene near the end, where the French freaks help Elephant Man to go to the boat? Listen, are you a Lynch fan?

VW: Very much so.

SŽ: Let's test you. Reactionary fascist revisionists claim Twin Peaks is good, but only the first half. No! You have to stick it to the end. Now, Dune. Supposed to be bad, but there is something very naïvely, beautifully powerful here. Let's not be seduced by liberal propaganda. You have totems like Leader, Discipline, Sacrifice, Common Good. Liberals say, "Oh, this is proto-fascist." No! There is nothing fascist in the idea of discipline and sacrifice. Fascism is fascism because it includes such notions within a framework of anti-Semitism, certain variations on capitalism, etc. I like Dune. Now, ask me great films of last few decades: Altman, Short Cuts, Ang Lee, Ice Storm, or here, your guy, Egoyan, Sweet Hereafter.

VW: Really?

SŽ: I like it.

SF: Really?

SŽ: What's your problem? You ask me as if I am some hoodlum, as if I am saying I only like women over 80.

a man.

VW: I want to ask you about something the film leaves us with. What does it really mean to "dream differently?"

SŽ: A very Stalinist notion that I took from my friend, Alain Badiou. True change is change in your dreams. In the case of Seconds, the problem with Rock Hudson is that he changed his life, but he remained with old dreams. It can seem relatively easy to break from society, yet you remain trapped in its dreams.

VW: If you want to truly release

yourself from ideology you have to accept that you are going to fundamentally change.

SŽ: Absolutely! Which brings us back to They Live. Release from ideology is painful experience. That's why you need someone there to say, "Fuck you! Put glasses on!" Anti-ideology stories are nearly always about taking glasses off to see things how they really are. No! You need glasses for ideology! This is why in psychoanalytic process, just before it ends, you usually have a depression, maybe even want suicide—because you realize that you're losing your dreams.

V

VW: There is, for example, the romanticization of incest in that film. The barn full of candles.

SŽ: This is for me obvious. What I like is the court scene, the small lie this girl says that ruins everything. I don't like other Egoyans. As American reactionaries like to say against intellectuals, this Egoyan is "too bright for his own good." But your other guy.

VW: Cronenberg.

SŽ: Many of his films I don't like, but you know which one I do? It's flawed.

VW: Let me guess: M Butterfly.

SŽ: Only now do I get how to read M Butterfly and The Crying Game.

Why do you have this shock when the guy discovers that his sex partner is a man? Because he discovers his own fundamental fantasy! Real heterosexual love, where you truly accept that your partner is a woman—I think this is very rare.

SF: Yes. I find it really interesting in Mulholland Drive, for example, how much men love this woman who looks so much like a transvestite.

SŽ: Not Naomi Watts!

VW: No. Laura Harring, the Mexican.

SŽ: Naomi Watts, she is really beautiful. I like women when they abandon their goal to act in fatally beautiful roles. Did you see this totally stupid supernatural hero movie, Hancock?

Charlize Theron plays an ordinary housewife. She wants to be an ordinary woman, and it makes her so much more attractive. Same with Scarlett Johansson. She was OK in Lost in Translation as ordinary girl.

But the moment she wants to become femme fatale, horrible.

SF: Again, it's this whole thing about a woman that's a man.

SŽ: Yes, femme fatale is woman that's

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et in 1976 on a Mi'kmaq reserve, writer-director Jeff Barnaby's already acclaimed, Canadian Film Centre-produced feature debut is a sort of cinematic trickster. Barnaby, a talented young filmmaker of aboriginal descent, presents his

Some of the titular ghouls, presumably

audience with what is explicitly intended to be an unsentimental, unflinching vision of the horrors of life within the residential school system and First Nations reserves generally. Those with no first-hand experience of this woeful chapter in

Canadian history are compelled to accept Barnaby's vision as authoritative, and the brutality he employs as necessary and even noble. Yet Rhymes For Young Ghouls problematizes our response by adopting what increasingly feels like a chic

cynicism for cynicism's sake, replete Antony Krupa), and leading to Aila's with one-dimensional, grotesque detention and eventual elaborate, villains and a lazily conceived plot faeces-infested revenge against that slides ever-deeper into pulpy, Popper and the residential school. comic-book terrain, the final act Barnaby proves riddled with nonFri, Feb 28 – Tue, Mar 4 himself a strong sensical twists Directed by Jeff Barnaby craftsman from that read above Metro Cinema at the Garneau the start, most all as convenient especially in the ways to ramp up  steady rhythms the sleaze and of his editing violence.

During the opening flashbacks, and deft incorporation of a mostly Aila (Kawennahere Devery Jacobs) blues-driven soundtrack, and in his loses her brother to a sad, stupid, use of composition, which transbooze-fueled accident, her mother forms cluttered, junk-laden, overto suicide and her father Joseph grown living spaces into dark au(Glen Gould) to prison. As the tumnal burrows of resignation and present-tense story unfolds, Aila, despair. Yet, rather uncharacteristinow a tough teenager, has taken cally for a CFC production, Barnaover her father's drug-dealing busi- by's script seems wildly under-exness, along with her apocalypse- amined. The story at times feels like obsessed Uncle Burner (Brandon a hasty repurposing of the basic inOakes). Through voice-over and gredients of Winter's Bone, though montage, Aila functions as our tour the model for the film's overall guide through the inferno of the ugly-flamboyant tone is clearly Red Crow reserve, detailing sundry Quentin Tarantino—not necessarily abuses at the hands of the reser- an ideal model when dealing with vation agents, in-fighting between fraught history. (The mishmash of "red trash Indians," internal politics, formal, episodic detours is also very bad health, absence of opportuni- Tarantino: Aila is a gifted illustrator, ties and irresolvable debt. "Indians and there's a handsome, vaguely don't understand money," is one of relevant animated sequence intendher many cold, flat declarations. ed to bring Aila's notebooks to life, Prominent amidst her on-going so- though its contemporary style feels ciological diagnosis is, of course, a much more the product of Barnarundown of substances indulged in, by's imagination than Aila's.)

Barnaby is a filmmaker to watch, itemizing the variety of high-potency weed she sells to most everyone and, given its subject matter and in the community. "This is what irreverent approach, Rhymes For brings my people together," she Young Ghouls is very much worth says, "the art of forgetfulness." The mulling over and will likely endure story eventually shifts into a more as something of a milestone, but it's active mode once the ill-humoured also reckless, its narrative sloppy Joseph is released from prison, and its aspirations toward repreinterfering with Aila's business, sentation dubious. prompting increased attention from JOSEF BRAUN JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM the nefarious Agent Popper (Mark

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SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) No passes DAILY 12:45 3:45, 6:30, 9:10 THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE (PG violence, not rec for young children) DAILY 1:15, 6:45 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) No passes DAILY 4:30, 9:30 FROZEN (G) DAILY 1:20, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30 ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young children) No passes DAILY 9:40 ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) No passes DAILY 1:30, 4:15, 6:55, 9:20 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) No passes DAILY 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:00

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

RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS (14A disturbing content, not rec for children, substance abuse) Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival: FRI 7:00; MON 9:00; TUE 9:10; INSIDE LLEWYN DAVIS (14A coarse language) FRI 9:15; SAT 4:00; SUN 6:45 THE ACT OF KILLING (14A disturbing content, mature subject matter) Director’s Cut: Indonesian and English with subtitles SAT 1:00; SUN @ 8:45 FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Global Visions Film Festival: SAT 7:00

THE HOBBIT: THE DESOLATION OF SMAUG (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI, SUN-THU 2:20; SAT 2:35; 3D : DAILY 6:30, 9:55 RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI, SUN 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30; SAT 12:25, 2:50, 5:20, 7:55, 10:30; MON-THU 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE–AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (18A gory brutal violence) No Passes THU 10:15 THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-TUE, THU 1:20, 4:20, 7:15, 10:15; WED 4:20, 7:15, 10:15; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00 POMPEII 3D (14A) FRI-SUN 12:10, 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35; MON-THU 1:30, 4:10, 7:25, 10:05 ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video DAILY 9:40 NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Ultraavx, No Passes FRI-SUN 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45; MON-WED 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; THU 12:45, 3:45; Closed Caption & Descriptive Video: THU 8:00, 10:30 THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: PRINCE IGOR (Classification not available) SAT 10:00 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) FRI, SUN 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; SAT 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; MON-WED 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25; THU 12:40, 3:30, 10:25 SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video, No Passes FRI-TUE, THU 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; WED 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00 FROZEN SING-ALONG (STC) DAILY 1:10 STALINGRAD: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (14A violence) FRI-WED 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; THU 1:00, 4:00, 7:00 ROMEO AND JULIET (Classification not available) THU 7:00 300 MARATHON (STC) No Passes THU 7:00

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JERUSALEM 3D (G) FRI 11:00, 12:00, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8:00; SAT 11:00, 2:10, 3:20, 6:50, 8:00; SUN 11:00am, 2:10, 5:15, 6:30; MON-THU 2:00, 3:10, THU 3:10, 5:15, 6:30

RAISING ARIZONA (STC) Metro Retro Coen Brothers MON 7:00

BORN TO BE WILD 3D (G) MON-THU 4:20

THE STORY OF DESCENDENTS/ALL (STC) Music Docs: TUE 7:00 with live music performance by POT COP at 6:30pm PECHA KUCHA NIGHT 18 (Classification not available) THU 7:00; all ages

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6:20, 8:50

THE SARATOV APPROACH (PG violence) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:45, 9:25; SAT-SUN 12:05, 3:15, 6:45, 9:25; MON-THU 6:15, 8:55

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Digital FRI, MON, WED 6:20, 9:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:40, 3:40, 6:20, 9:00; THU 6:10, 9:00

POMPEII (14A) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital SAT-SUN 3:25; 3D : FRI 7:05, 9:40; SATSUN 12:35, 7:05, 9:40; MON-THU 6:35, 9:10

POMPEII (14A) Digital SAT-SUN, TUE 4:10; 3D : Reald 3d FRI, MON, WED 7:00, 9:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:15, 7:00, 9:30; THU 6:50, 9:20

NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) No passes, Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:45, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:25, 3:20, 6:45, 9:35; MON-THU 6:15, 9:05

THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Digital FRI, MON, WED 6:10, 9:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:30, 3:10, 6:10, 9:00; THU 6:00, 9:10

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THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15; MON-WED 1:15, 3:45, 6:45; THU 12:30, 3:00, 5:30; 3D : FRI-SUN 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10; MON-THU 2:10, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10

FLIGHT OF THE BUTTERFLIES 3D (G) FRI-SUN 1:00; WED 4:20

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young children) Digital FRI-WED 8:30

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:40; MON-THU 1:50, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30

GABRIELLE (14A) Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival: French with English subtitles SUN 4:15

ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-SUN 7:00, 9:40; MON-THU 6:30, 9:10

FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital SAT-SUN 12:20, 3:00

I, FRANKENSTEIN (PG frightening scenes, violence, not rec for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video FRI-SUN 10:45; MON-WED 9:30

ROCKY MOUNTAIN EXPRESS (G) SAT-SUN 12:00; TUE 4:20

THE LEGO MOVIE (G) Digital FRI, MON, WED 6:00; SATSUN, TUE 1:00, 3:30, 6:00; 3D : Reald 3d FRI, MON, WED 6:40, 9:10; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:30, 4:00, 6:40, 9:10; THU

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence) No Passes, Closed Captioned, Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital THU 8:30

WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

FROZEN (G) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video Daily 3:50; 3D : FRI-TUE, THU 6:50

BROKEN CIRCLE BREAKDOWN (18A mature subject matter) Flemish and English with subtitles SAT 9:30; SUN 2:00

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:55, 9:45; SAT-SUN 12:15, 3:00, 6:55, 9:45; MON-THU 6:25, 9:15

SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) No Passes, Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:30, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:00, 3:05, 6:30, 9:35; MON-THU 6:00, 9:00

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SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Digital FRI, MON, WEDTHU 6:30, 9:40; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:20, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Reald 3d THU 8:00 NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) Digital FRI, MON, WED 6:50, 9:20; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:20; THU 6:40, 9:30

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FROZEN (G) Closed Captioned SAT-SUN 11:40, 2:15; 3D : FRI-SUN 4:50, 7:30; MON-WED 7:20

12 YEARS A SLAVE (14A brutal violence, disturbing content) FRI 9:00; SAT-SUN 3:00, 9:00; MON-THU 9:00

ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) Closed Captioned FRI 3:50, 6:45, 9:40; SAT-SUN 12:55, 3:50, 6:45, 9:40; MON-THU 6:35, 9:30

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ENDLESS LOVE (PG coarse language, not rec for young children) DAILY 7:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:45 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) DAILY 9:15; SAT-SUN, TUE 3:00 THE LEGO MOVIE (G) DAILY 6:50; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:30 ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) DAILY 9:00 NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) DAILY 7:15, 9:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:15

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SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) DAILY 6:45, 9:30; SAT-SUN 12:45, 3:30 NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) DAILY 7:10, 9:40; SAT-SUN 1:10, 3:40 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) DAILY 7:05; SAT-SUN 1:05, 3:40 POMPEII 3D (14A) DAILY 6:50, 9:30; TUE 2D : 6:50; SATSUN 2D: 12:50; SAT-SUN 3D : 3:30 THAT AWKWARD MOMENT (18A) DAILY 9:45

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SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) DAILY 6:45, 9:30; SAT-SUN 12:45, 3:30 NON-STOP (PG violence, coarse language) DAILY 7:10, 9:40; SAT-SUN 1:10, 3:40 THE LEGO MOVIE 3D (G) SAT-SUN 1:05, 3:40 POMPEII 3D (14A) DAILY 6:50, 9:30; TUE 2D: 6:50; SATSUN 2D: 12:50; SAT-SUN 3D: 3:30 ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young children) DAILY 9:35

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ADVENTURE // WRAP UP

SNOW ZONE

HITTING THE SLOPES AT RED MOUNTAIN AND WHITEWATER, PLUS A LOOK AT WHAT’S GOING ON IN FALL LINES ON VUEWEEKLY.COM

EDITOR : MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

A few ways to enjoy the final few months of winter

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d r a o b Snow WILD A Alberta lberta Misty Ridge

Alpine and Nordic Centre

Open weekends 10:00 am - 4:00pm Whether you are an avid snowboarder, cross-country or downhill skier, Tawatinaw Valley Ski Hill is the place for you.

Groomed and marked cross- country trails, 4 lifts, a terrain park and wild jumps will provide more than enough variety for you and your family. Check out the newly renovated super pipe. There are only 2 in Alberta and we have one of them! Open weekdays for school programs.

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shoeing and cross-country skiing day trips, or overnight backcountry adventures for those with proper winter survival and navigation skills. The Alpine Club of Canada maintains huts in some of the more remote regions of the park, and winter camping is also permitted at the Wilcox Pass Trailhead and Wapiti Campground. Nearby Maligne Canyon lets visitors explore the frozen canyon among nature's icy sculptures, and dogsledding is offered in nearby Valemount.

The Canmore/Kananaskis area has an abundance of early spring activities, including an overnight skijoring excursion with outfitter Mad Dogs and Englishmen. The Norwegian sport of skijoring is basically a skier harnessed to one or more dogs that help to accelerate the run. Local outfitter KPOW offers full-day excursions up and down different sections of Fortress Mountain via its cat-ski mountain climber, allowing skiers to experience some of

Ski Club THERE’S STILL TIME TO ENJOY DOWNHILL FUN! Misty Ridge is offering this year a TON of family fun! This year the club is offering downhill and cross country skiing, snowboarding with a great free style area, lessons, rentals, chalet with concession snack bar and a fantastic view of the Athabasca River Valley!

www.WILDAlberta.com

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Lake Louise // Banff Lake Louise Tourism

now Zone is going the distance for those who love the cooler vibes, with a preview of how to enjoy the remaining remnants of winter.

For those not quite ready to hang up their winter gear, there's still plenty to enjoy in the coming months. Obviously the mountains offer some of the best springtime skiing and snowboarding in the world, however, there are plenty of other pursuits off the mountain slopes that can get your adrenaline flowing.

Jasper National Park is home to some of the best outdoor climbing in Canada, including snow and ice lines that reach upwards of 3000 metres along the Continental Divide. Rockaboo Mountain Adventures offers guided excursions that range from quick scrambles to multi-day expeditions, providing anyone the opportunity to have an experience of a lifetime.

There's also a brand-new 20-km trail called Decoigne, that's ideal for snow-

the most pristine powder anywhere with no lift lines to contend with. The all-natural Rat's Nest Cave in Grotto Mountain keeps a consistent temperature of 5 C, making it a perfect yearround adventure.

The Canmore Nordic Centre has more than 65 km of groomed and track-set trails open to the general public for skiing and snowshoeing, and Fat Bike night riding is a fun way to explore some of the Canmore single-track mountain-bike trails in the winter months. Weekly Thursday departures are from the Rebound Cycle parking lot until April 24, with rentals available onsite. For those visiting the area in spring, the first annual Canmore Uncorked Food and Drink Festival is happening April 3 until April 12, which will include an opportunity to dine outdoors with 100 people at a long dinner table on 6th Avenue.

The Lake Louise Ski Resort has a variety of mountain events right up until May, with various competi-

tions, fundraisers and parties. The Mountain Takeovers in April are as much about the après-ski experience as they are about getting down the hills. The Western Canada Ski Cross Series makes a stop there on Saturday, March 22 and Sunday, March 23, and Bikinis for Breast Cancer on Saturday, March 29 is a women-only fundraiser for the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation.

Over at Mt Norquay there is the annual Caribou Cup on Saturday, March 15 and Sunday, March 26, and Bruno Engler Memorial Race on Saturday, March 29. There will also be a full moon ski on Satuday, March 15 and an '80s-themed event on Saturday, April 5.

Alberta residents should make note of Toonie Days on Wednesday, March 5 and Wednesday, April 2, where it costs only two dollars to hit the slopes. Beyond the mountains, Johnston Canyon offers the opportunity to climb along steel walkways high

above the frozen waterfalls, while at Grotto Canyon the walk is partially along the frozen creek bed. The Blitz Snowshoe Fun Run and Walk takes place on Wednesday, March 8, and has a five-kilometre course across Lake Louise and back along the shoreline trail, or a more challenging 10-km course that veers up into the woods with an elevation gain of nearly 300 metres.

For urbanites looking for something within the big cities, the Edmonton Spring Run Off is a five-kilometre or eight-kilometre run happening on Monday, April 14 that loops from Rundle Park along the North Saskatchewan River and back again.

The Edmonton and Area Skijoring Enthusiasts Club is a great place to try this activity, and give both yourself and your canine friends a great outdoor workout.

Calgary’s Canada Olympic Park is primarily used as the training ground

for professional athletes, but it’s also open to the general public to partake in several activities as well. Thrillseekers can ride in a bobsled piloted by a professional driver, travelling at speeds up to 120 kilometres per hour, plummeting down 14 turns in less than a minute. There’s also ice skating, cross-country skiing and shinny hockey available. The Calgary Outdoor Adventure Show is also a great place to plan your next adventure and pick up some deals on sporting equipment over the weekend of March 22.

Other happenings around the province include the Alberta Get Outdoors Weekend starting on Friday, April 11, which encourages people to get active in the outdoors. One groupparticipation event being offered is a free geocaching adventure taking place in Edmonton, Red Deer, Calgary, Medicine Hat and Lethbridge.

Snow tubing is a also a great group activity, and the newly opened snow tubing park at the Nakiska Mountain

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Resort just outside of Calgary features two tubing tracks and a total of three magic carpet rides. As well, Lake Louise and Mt Norquay also have tubing parks, as do Canyon Ski Resort near Red Deer and Sunridge Ski Area in Edmonton.

Finally, the new Glacial Skywalk is set to open in May about 90 minutes outside of Jasper, allowing visitors to learn about this unique ecosystem from a fully accessible, cliff-edge walkway that leads to a glass-floor observation platform 280 metres above the Sunwapta Valley. From the highest mountain tops to the city streets, there are outdoor adventures to be found. It’s also the last chance to catch the tail end of nature’s spectacular Northern Lights, best visible up until April. As we wait to bid adieu to winter, let’s get out and enjoy the final stretch of one of Canada’s four seasons of adventure.

BRYEN DUNN

BRYEN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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EDUCATION EDUCATION // TRADES

ment, training, job placement and job-retention support. Participants leave the program with a number of worksite safety certifications which make them apprentice-ready (or, in some cases, job-ready). The organization boasts a 90-percent employment rate among the women who have completed the program, a significant proportion of which have been First Nations and MĂŠtis, sectors traditionally plagued with circumstances of high unemployment and low wages.

WBF offers a 17-week journeywoman START program, an Integrated Training Program approved by the province, which provides hands-on introduction to six trades (carpentry, electrical, plumbing, steamfitting/ pipefitting, welding and sheet metal), along with the basics about tools, drawing and blueprint reading, and rigging. The next session starts March 31. Women interested in this career path are encouraged to attend information sessions held each Tuesday and Friday morning at 8:30 am in the WBF offices (10326 - 107 Street). Offsite sessions are scheduled for Jasper Place Library and in Fort Saskatchewan in March and April. Details can be found online.

For others interested in the trades, a good place to start is the province's website tradesecrets.alberta.ca. Constitutionally, the province has jurisdiction over training and certification so no matter what trade you might be interested in, the province will be the level of government doing the regulating.

Here in Edmonton, the Boilermakers

As baby boomers retire in droves over the next decade has almost all forecasters anticipating acute shortages over the coming years.

// Mimi Williams

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arning a living as a boilermaker is not for the faint of heart. But if you can bear the thought of working 200 feet above ground, don't mind confined spaces and can withstand being outside in adverse weather conditions, it might be the job for you.

Like other skilled trades, it takes a while to work through the stages of apprenticeship before you're earning top dollar, but once you reach journeyperson level (about four years from start to finish), top dollar is indeed what you are able to earn; anyone with a ticket who wants to bring home more than $125 000 a year right now is doing so.

The trades are lucrative.

The skilled trades remain the most male-dominated occupational group in the country, with Statistics Canada

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reporting that men accounted for 93.4 percent of trades workers, a number that has remained consistent over the past 20 years. Increasing the number of women in the trades would help to bridge our persistent gender-income disparity.

According to a 2012 report by the Certified General Accountants Association of Canada, except for two periods of recession, the unemployment rate for those working in skilled trades has been consistently below that for all other occupations for the past 25 years. The 2014 to 2023 jobs forecast released last week by BuildForce Canada (formerly the Construction Sector Council) predicts steady job growth this year and for the next 10 years in all sectors. The trades of-

fer job security.

For 52 trades categories, certified journeypersons are able to complete a Red Seal examination, which allows qualified tradespeople to practice their trade in any province or territory in Canada. You can move to where the jobs are; the trades offer mobility.

The CGA report pointed out that Alberta has the highest concentration of skilled trades in Canada. While 12 percent of the total Canadian labour force is located in Alberta, 20 percent of the country's skilled tradespeople are employed here. So, a good supply of skilled tradespeople is important to the economic health of our province.

Despite all of this, a career in the skilled trades is often overlooked by

young people (particularly women) as a post-secondary option or by older workers (particularly women) seeking an occupational change. According to Statistics Canada, while 11.6 percent of the country's labour force was employed in trades occupations in 1987, by 2011 this number had dropped to 9.7 percent.

With the trades increasingly viewed as an unattractive option, the huge demographic shift we're going to experience as baby boomers retire in droves over the next decade has almost all forecasters anticipating acute shortages in the coming years.

Women Building Futures is a local organization working to increase the numbers of women in the building trades. They offer assess-

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Union Local 146 has an apprenticeship-training facility and invites people interested in the trade to attend the next information sessions being held on Monday, March 3 The United Association of Pipefitters Local 488 operates the Alberta Pipe Trades College and prospective students are invited to contact them at 780.482.8529 to find out about entrance opportunities through their union.

"Alberta's skilled labour requirements far exceed those of other provinces, and that makes building a strong, permanent workforce a must," said Rosemary Sparks, executive director of BuildForce in a press release upon the publication of their report. "There's a real need to continue promoting skilled trades careers as well as ensuring training and retention programs are sufficient to support the next generation of workers."

MIMI WILLIAMS

MIMI@VUEWEEKLY.COM

iLearn iDesign iCreate

While most people have some level of computer skills, Digital School does not require our incoming students to be experts when they embark on the adventure to train towards a career in computer-aided design (CAD).

“People coming here do not need advanced computer skills to start a computer-aided drafter certificate, or for the Architectural or Engineering (CAD)Technician diploma program,” says Brady Sylvester, Assistant Manager of Digital School. “While new students do need to be comfortable working in a Windows environment, they do not have to have any previous experience with graphics software… That’s what they will be learning, along with a variety of other pertinent subjects” Sylvester says, if you do have experience in those areas already, you won’t be bored. You will be training on the most up-to-date Autodesk CAD software, led by experienced instructors who have a knack for enabling a smooth learning process in a challenging subject.

The range of employment opportunites in computer-aided design keeps growing. The economy continues to improve, construction figures are rising, oil and gas development won’t stop, resulting in the provincial government’s prediction of a labour shortage among architectural and engineer technicians for years to come.

The jobs are waiting for trained professionals.

Digital School includes Building Information Modeling (BIM) training in all of our programs.

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For a once-in-a-lifetime art education in Dawson City, apply today, and for more information on upcoming SOVA scholarship opportunities and deadlines contact us.

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EDUCATION EDUCATION // OER

Book learnin' for free

Open educational resources have much to offer both students and professors

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t seems almost everyone has heard of Massive Open Online Courses by now, but far fewer are aware of the rest of the spectrum of open educational resources. UNESCO coined OERs in 2002 and defined them as: "the open provision of educational resources, enabled by information and communication technologies, for consultation, use and adaptation by a community of users for noncommercial purposes."

The concept of "open" is still varied, and very much debated, but generally it follows the framework set out

by David Wiley, whose work is foundational within the open-education movement. In order to be open, the material must be readily accessible and anyone wishing to use it is able to revise, reuse, remix and redistribute.

Last year I flew to Utah for the 13th-annual Open Education Conference in Park Lake City. Every year in November, educators from all over the world gather to discuss open education, and this year two of the most popular topic were MOOCs and open textbooks. I'm currently writing my thesis on the adoption of open textbooks by instructors and my research has paralleled a time when Alberta is asking a lot of tough

questions about the future of postsecondary education.

2013 saw the largest post-secondary cuts in 20 years. The workplace is changing and students require more flexible options for higher education. At the same time, with the costs of textbooks placed at $900 – $1600 annually per student, it is obvious there are barriers to postsecondary education that aren't solved with eLearning alone.

make textbooks for the 40 highest enrolled first- and second-year programs freely available for students electronically, or at low cost for a print-on-demand version.

Conner Brown, chair of the council at CAUS says initially there was some concern from faculty at the

Dr David Porter, executive director of BCcampus (and in the spirit of full disclosure, also my thesis supervisor), says that government can help with the development of an open textbook.

"Open-textbook programs are funded by two sources generally," Porter says.

"Foundation grants or government funding programs.

Both have a place in helping bootstrap a new approach to authoring and licensing of educational materials.

In a public-education system, government funding support seems a natural extension of the investment governments make in helping to develop an educated citizenry.

Open educational materials are part of a new information infrastructure for education."

Porter says some of the biggest opposition to OERs comes from a lack of good information about how open licences work.

"They work with copyright, not against it," Porter adds. "An open

Given the rising cost of textbooks, it's no surprise that students see real benefit in open-textbook programs.

Alberta students are starting to catch on to the idea of open textbooks. In January, Metro ran a story about the new policy accepted by the Council of Alberta University Students to adopt official policy calling for open textbooks. The policy heralds open textbooks as innovations that are cost-effective and will save both students and taxpayers money. They also cite British Columbia's recent successes in undertaking a successful open-textbook initiative.

The BC government and BCcampus have an open-textbook program that was set up by government to

University of Calgary about moving to adopt the textbooks, but Brown says they have really come around.

He says early talks with Dave Hancock, Minister of Advanced Education, have gone well and there may be something in the works soon.

"Given the rising cost of textbooks, it's no surprise that students see real benefit in open-textbook programs, including personal cost savings and the ability to have their course text available for free in a digital format that they can carry on a tablet or other mobile device."

licence is an expression of rights by an author extending them to peers or the public with specific use rights. The Creative Commons licences have provided an amazing mechanism to support reuse, revision, remixing and redistribution of open resources and open textbooks. But we still need to educate and train more people in the education community to use these licences effectively."

Some of the arguments against open textbooks appear tenuous at best. When professors cite the need for academic freedom, perhaps they should look more closely at what freedom open education provides for an instructor: the ability to manipulate course materials, to update and repurpose at will. As for getting your work out as an academic, the Open Citation Project has collected a bibliography of studies all demonstrating that having your work released on an open licence means increased downloads and citations.

Looking at it that way, those educators locked behind paywalls have a freedom that is beginning to look rather limited.

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INCREASED DEMAND LEADS TO NEW FOUR-YEAR BACHELOR OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN BIOLOGY AT ST. MARY’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

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t. Mary’s University College is pleased to announce it will offer a new four-year degree. The Alberta Ministry of Innovation and Advanced Education approved the four-year Bachelor of Science with a major in Biology. Drawing on the existing strength of St. Mary’s in the Liberal Arts, students will be broadly educated, grounded, practically-minded thinkers able to work across and outside disciplinary boundaries.

“The Biology degree arrives at a perfect time for St. Mary’s,” said President, Dr. Gerry Turcotte. “Certainly we have record enrolments in science and unprecedented interest from students. But we are also building great partnerships with Fish Creek Provincial Park and making use of our extraordinary campus.”

The Bachelor of Science with a major in Biology is unique in Alberta. According to Dr. Turcotte, “Although there are many Biology degree programs in Alberta, this program offers students opportunities not found at larger institutions. The degree draws on St. Mary’s strengths in the liberal arts, the centrality of ethics and social justice to its mission, its small class size and intimate environment, and its proximity to and ties with Fish Creek Provincial Park.”

Students pursuing this degree will be challenged to consider the effect of science on society, and the effect of society on scientific thinking. A vital component of this program will be ensuring that students recognize their responsibility to our community and our world.

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Active for Life @ the Saville Community Sports Centre

By Paula Polman and Susan Lenio Active bodies means an active healthy mind. We’ve all heard the mantra.

Easy to say, not so easy to do, especially in the middle of a long Edmonton winter. That comfy chair in front of the fireplace sounds very good when it’s -20 something and you have a good book calling your name. Tomorrow when it gets nice you’ll go for that walk around the block, right?

Scientific research shows us repeatedly how physical activity bolsters mental health capacities and memory, as well as slowing down some of the physical ageing processes.

Physical activity does not always mean going to a gym or a basement to walk on a treadmill or sit on a bike in front of the TV. While they are excellent ways to maintain a baseline of activity when you just can’t get out, the very best kind of physical activity is the kind that includes other people. When you include others, it becomes fun, it becomes play.

Play is important at any age, whether you’re playing princess & knights with your grandchildren or Friday night

cards with a circle of regulars. Active play is anything that gets you out of that comfy chair and moving, enjoying some time with family, old friends, new acquaintances. As children we know this inherently, but as we grow and the weight of life and responsibilities takes its toll, we forget. As seniors though, we have a chance to rediscover play in our lives. While we may not be climbing trees and skinning knees any more, the exuberance of play is still ours to cherish.

Ah but where can you go? Mall walking? Sure. Swimming at the local pool? That’s great! But did you know there’s a new place in town? It’s called the Saville Community Sports Centre (SCSC) and it’s centrally located on the University of Alberta’s South Campus with plenty of parking and it is right on the LRT line if you use public transit, South Campus Station.

The SCSC is a building built by a passionate group of volunteers in youth sport, called the GO Community Centre, to create a unique space unlike any other in Canada. In creating the building, they realized that this had so much more to offer than just youth

sport. This was something special for the entire community. So whether you’re 3 years old or 103, there is something here with you in mind.

Designed as a full access building, the facility supports children and youth programs, adult and seniors programs, wheelchair sports and a number of disability groups. If you are not independently mobile and require a cane, walker or chair, there is no issue here. The SCSC has something to offer you too.

Check out the indoor track, there are classes like yoga and strength training programs specifically designed for mature bodies. There’s basketball, badminton, volleyball, curling, tennis and yes, even gymnastics. After you play, there are plenty of comfortable seating areas for having a coffee, chatting or playing cards or board games.

play and it is the ultimate anti-ageing device.

Whether you’re a group, a couple of friends hanging together or an individual looking for something new, there is something to discover here.

The Saville Community Sports Centre is in your community and is dedicated to the art of play. With active play come active bodies’ pushing active minds. Bring a friend, come and laugh, come to the Saville Community Sports Centre and be Active for Life.

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MUSIC

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PREVUE // PUNK

Slates

Slates, and Steve Albini's stand-in cat

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here is just one thing a band music or anything," Stewart says. "He needs to do to make a record works under the assumption that you show up with your shit together." with Steve Albini.

Yet for a guy known for his blunt"All you've got to do, to record with Steve Albini," Dallas Thompson says. ness, during the recording process, "is send him an email. Or call him up, Albini's actual opinion rarely, if ever, came out. It wasn't him being oblique or whatever."

Which is just what Slates did: gath- for the sake of it; it's that the man's ered around a pub table, Thompson of the opinion that producers often (drummer), and the rest of Slates— ruin a band's recording. And in that, vocalist/guitarist James Stewart, keeping his input into the recording bassist Lee Klippenstein and guitar- process minimal instigates a converist Stefan Duret—are reflecting on sation more directly between a band a July week they spent in Chicago and itself. "'It sounded good to me, but I'm with the legendary recording maven, notoriously easy where the band crafted its third to please.'" Duret Fri, Feb 28 (6:45 pm) quotes. "That's it: album, Taiga.

With Ben Disaster, Distances, stock response."

"I followed his Catgut, The Paper Moons "It's really differcareer for a really Grovenor Community League long time," Stewent," Thompson (All ages), $12 art says. "Even adds. "But it forces us as a band to in our previous Sat, Mar 1 (9 pm) go, 'OK, let's talk recordings, we've With Stepmothers, Switches tried to take some about this.'"

Barber Ha, $10 "I like the apof his principles, the things he beproach, because lieves in strongly. his thing is like, 'I They're very close to ours as well: wasn't around while you were writstuff should sound authentic, it ing the songs,'" Klippenstein nods. should sound like you playing in a "'I have no idea what it is you're room, not a lot of overdubs. ... Keep going for. You tell me what you're a really organic approach to record- going to do.'"

"Especially in the beginning he realing. So it did seem kind of inevitable that if the opportunity came up, that ly stressed that," Stewart says. "And he'd be someone we'd like to record as we went on, ... [we'd say] 'Did we with. But it was still pretty surreal, speed up?' and he'd be like, 'Yeah, a bit, but who cares?'" when it did line up."

Albini didn't need much up front— "money," Klippenstein says, getting That as-is approach to the recorda chuckle out of the rest—nor did ing process has certainly proven he need to know much about Slates effective over the years—Albini's itself. He still keeps busy recording helped craft legendary albums by bands both known and unknown at the likes of The Jesus Lizard, Fugazi and Nirvana, among countless othhis Electrical Audio studio.

"He didn't need to check out our ers (given his legacy, he keeps his

services pretty cost-effective)—and it suits both Slates and Taiga in particular. The album finds the punk unit at its rawest, most textured and all the punchier for it: there's less pop hook in the mix, but it's a more dynamic recording than they've ever made. Albini's recording studio itself had enough atmospherics of its own—and Albini is skillful enough with knowing where to place mics— to allow the band to play with those sorts of textures more easily.

Still, Albini's approach can either challenge a band to do its best work or reveal the faults—the idea of which has its own sort of allure to bands willing to step up.

"I think it creates the opportunity for music to succeed or fail," Stewart says. "You're on the razor's edge: we strip everything down to its simplest, and it's the test to the band, or the test to yourself. That you're either going to fail spectacularly, or it's going to endure, and become timeless. Those Jesus Lizard records—if they'd been recorded with someone else, I don't know if they'd be the same. But they endure now because it's just super honest recording. You can't hide anything in the hopes to cover your mistakes.

"I think that's the appeal," he continues. "It's a challenge as a band, going in there. If you screw up, it's going to be there forever. You could flame out spectacularly trying to do that. I think that's why we spent so much time [prepping]: the fear of blowing it was huge." he laughs.

"You have six days. You better have your shit together."

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MUSIC COVER // MARCHING ROCK

The Most Serious Fun in The World Free Candy is the sound of one band trying. Like, really trying.

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s any solemn Canadian pact should be, this one was hammered out over Tim Horton's coffee. Lyle Bell had a cherry cheese danish; Trevor Anderson tucked into a cruller. And they arrived at an important agreement, one that would change something profound in their relationship to each other, their band, and their art.

They would try. Together. Like, really try. Really, really, really, honest-to-goodness, give-it-all-ya-got, pour-your-heartand-soul-in-it, actually fucking try.

Doesn't sound like much? Well, consider this: the whole, fucked-up Mortal Express, the way that somehow, for no good reasons when we're actually pressed on it, so many of us wind up leading existences that don't have much to do with what actually matters to us, despite the fact that we all agree that life is fleeting and precious and fragile. Not to disparage the stuff of maintenance and politeness—like changing the cat litter, doing dishes and being kind to people we're indifferent to—because it's not about some weird, self-regarding Byronic trip to wring out intensity from every waking moment at the expense of the social contract and being a mensch. It's not about policing against moments of tedium or obligation or citizenship. But over the last century, as us lucky folks in the West have been increasingly told that we can do anything and be anything our little hearts desire, a lot of us seem to have opted out. Or we "fake try." The more we want something, the more we hobble ourselves, so we have something to blame if we fall down.

Because, if we try really hard and you still don't get it, who's the fool then?

Especially when the Internet exists, to crap loudly all over our best efforts.

So we don't start that assignment until the last possible minute, be-

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chunks of dialogue in them, acting out every part as they go along. Both men are sweetly attentive to each other as they talk, and there's an absence of that kind of compulsive razzing often found in bands of young men.

Anderson is, true to his other calling as a film and theatre director, almost supernaturally observant, and perches on his chair in between laying out cookies and coffee. Dressed neatly and conservatively but for extravagantly beautiful shiny patent shoes, Anderson redirects the conversation when it gets derailed, reminds Bell of what he was saying if he blows off course and inserts pertinent or corrective details when he deems Fri, Feb 28 (9 pm) it necessary, and The Wet Secrets urges Bell on. Bell's With the Dudes, Renny Wilson, a visual artist and Gods designer as well as Old Strathcona Performing Arts a musician, and has Centre, $15 arrived from his side job as a commercial painter, cause if it sucks, we looking like he was jumped by some can tell ourselves we clothes at the bottom of his bed as would have done better with more he struggled out the door. They're aftime. So we don't practise as much as fectionate and encouraging with each we know we need to. So we conceal other, and have a strikingly respectful our most earnest feelings in banter. partnership. Although Bell and Wet So we get drunk and start bands as Secrets tuba-player Kim Rackel are in a longterm romantic relationship, it's a joke.

"It was a drunken dare, essentially," easy to view the Bell-Anderson pairing Bell recalls of the dawn of the Wet as the heart of the band.

"We had one week," Anderson Secrets. "Everybody who's a musician does this, who goes out for a drink. shakes his head, and looks at Bell.

"And instead of just caving and callThey meet someone, and say, 'Hey man, we should form a band. And let's ing the club and saying, 'We can't do call it 'Skullfuck 2000'; it'll be funny!" the show, we don't really exist', we (Although Skullfuck 2000 is funny, got even more drunk and threw the and absolutely should exist, it does band together, wrote the songs and not as of yet. But you can also dis- recorded them, all in that week."

That was A Whale of A Cow, 2005's cern the origins of Bell's band/alterdebut full-length, which was a gritty, ego Whitey Houston in this tale.)

"You know, 99 percent of the time, shambolic piece of exuberant, deit's just a fun joke when you're drink- mented rock, littered with non-seing with your friends. But we were quitor and potty-mouth lyrics and an at Seedy's when this happened, and I unusual musical setup that included don't know if we took the show that a low-down horn section (tuba and trombone) along with bass, drums night—" Anderson confirms that they did. and keys.

"You weren't even going to play "We walked over to the bar and we bass, I will remind you," Anderson booked it in."

"And promptly forgot about it, until says to Bell, who nods. "At the first a week beforehand, when we saw an rehearsal, the plan was for Kim to ad was in Vue and posters were up, play bass, because she was learning and we were like, 'Oh my God!'" Bell bass. She was trying, and she was still sounds horrified, almost nine frustrated, and she was like, 'Can I just play this on my tuba?' And you were, years later.

Anderson recalls being buttonholed 'If you're going to play tuba, I'm going while out for a night on the town. to play bass.' And that was it."

The Wet Secrets quickly became a "On the dance floor, Andrea Lefebvre [from the Skinny] yelled at me, fan favourite in Edmonton and Cal'Which one of you is it?', and I said, gary, and garnered national buzz too.

'What?'. And she yelled, 'There's an ad The rock was powerful and catchy, in Vue: half Vertical Struts, half Whit- and the shows were crazy parties, heey Houston! A new band, the Wet Se- donistic dance-athons led by the Wet crets! Next Saturday! Who is in that Secrets in their vivid marching band band?'. And I went, 'Oh my God!', and uniforms. Fans loved the uniforms, and so did time-pressed music writphoned Lyle." ers, who took to referring to them They groan out the 'Oh my Gods!' as a "marching band" despite the fact together as each of their stories culmi- that if you closed your eyes and lisnate with the phrase. Bell and Ander- tened to their music, that descriptor son are given to relating stories with totally fell apart. This was primal rock

with novel instrumentation; nothing oom-pah-pah about it.

"It's a unifying thing," Bell says of the outfits. "Its like, onstage, we're a little gang, unto ourselves."

"Some people react against the uniforms that way: 'Why are you dressed up? Is it some kind of jokey, try-hard thing?' But it indicates effort," Anderson notes. "We dressed up for you! Dance!"

"Yeah. And I actually find that it's almost like slipping into a persona, in a way," Bell adds. "I find it easier to lose myself, get out of my own head, sometimes—" "Pull that hat right down," Anderson commands him.

"And those boots," Bell finishes. "I actually love wearing those big equestrian boots, and when do you get an opportunity to wear those?"

Their follow-up record, 2007's Rock Fantasy, was more of the same, rock anthems with filthy and funny lyrics, music that stayed just on the right side of novelty. Their popularity grew, especially on the strength of their legendary live shows.

Looking back, Anderson and Bell are touched by how much support the band got—high-profile supporters include reclusive genius Chad VanGaalen, Six Shooter label head Shauna de Cartier and CBC radio folk Lana Gay and Grant Lawrence—and a little sheepish about how little they put into it. There are stories of opportunities taken for granted, but both men find it hard to work up much regret.

"It was never meant to be more than a week-long thing," Anderson explains. "Ever. So, when it kept going because people really liked it, we sort of halfheartedly kept on going with it. But we never really committed to it. It was nobody's priority. I was still establishing myself as a filmmaker, [Bell] was in Shout Out [Out Out Out], Kim had her [burlesque]. We'd do it once in a while, but it was not go-time on it, ever."

Bell adds, "It's not that we sandbagged it back then, but we just didn't really know any better. We didn't make a plan. We didn't quite know what we were doing. It really has taken being in Shout Out and seeing how things get done; things have to be planned out. Up until the second record, it was just seat of the pants, like, 'Oh, we'll play some shows.' Even after that, we were trying, but not ... " "We weren't committed to it," Anderson finishes for him.

"Yeah."

Undoubtably, some of the security necessary to commit has come from the band lineup solidifying over the past couple years, after a few personnel changes: the addition of the hugely talented multi-instrumentalist Paul Arnusch, of the Faunts and Whitsundays, and the band baby, trombonist Emma Frazier, who has basically grown up from teenagedom to young adulthood during her time

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in the Secrets.

Another factor is more personal and intangible. Anderson and Bell both recently and independently arrived at similar conclusions about the negative impact hell-raising has had on their artistic practices. It's hard not to draw the conclusion, watching them together, that this deepened their friendship and allowed them to create better together, as well as apart.

They are firmly mid-career artists, and have both had to come to terms with what that big, scary blank space in the middle part of working life means in an industry that doesn't seem to talk about the middle part much, just hot new things or grizzled veterans, what Anderson calls "lifetime achievement people."

Free Candy, their new release, is very much a mid-career album and reflects their newfound knowledge and recent growth. You can pretty much see what's been obsessing them from song titles such as "Maybe We'll Make A Plan," "Get Your Shit Together," "Death of the Party" and "What's The Fucking Point," which also has the title "Zenko's Theme," named after the late Darren Zenko, writer and beloved fixture on Edmonton's scene for two decades, whose untimely death shocked so many in the community. You can also hear what's been obsessing them—the lyrics talk to each other across tracks, as if the whole album were one circuitous, recursive, difficult conversation about what's really important in life, set amid intricate rock-pop that borrows heavily from a mid '70s soundscape, recalling Nilsson at his most willful, the more tense and paranoid part of Hall & Oates' oeuvre, and nods towards the Beach Boys' Pet Sounds in a few tracks ("We almost called it Wet Sounds, Bell offers, "We even took photos at a llama farm" owned

by Frazier's relatives). It's a killer record; a huge leap forward from the grubby, jokey party rock of yore.

Bell points to the side of Free Candy.

The spine is spangled with a military line of close-together red stars. Three of them are blue.

"That's the plan," Bell states. "We have all of those other ones to go.

Five years to get all those stars."

His face is earnest. Bell means it. The Wet Secrets plan on putting out one record for every one of those stars.

There looks to be, at quick count, more than 20. Consummating their commitment means making a plan as well as a pact. And trying means listening to yourself and not the haters, and taking your art seriously even as you're having fun and being funny.

"Every project I've ever been in was formed with the intention of one show," Bell sighs. "If I'd thought that I was going to be explaining to border guards or my parents about Whitey CONTINUED ON PAGE 35 >>

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aya Miller is enduring a cup of while Miller exudes the force of her bad hotel room coffee in order to pounding kick pedal, Black can be found at some point climbing to the recover from the long drive to Austin.

"It'll do," she says from the hotel room top of the drum kit while still reverbathroom, the location of the coffee berating grungy riffs. It's a straightmachine. "We haven't been to Austin in up rock show, and performing is one of the things that initially attracted a few years. It's a hell of a drive."

But if anyone is used to touring, it's Miller to music.

"Music, more than some other creMiller. Drummer for Vancouver band the Pack AD, she and vocalist-guitarist ative forms, involves everybody in the room," Miller Becky Black have says. "The show taken on their Thu, Feb 28 (8 pm) is ultimately deshare of extended Starlite Room, $15 pendent on the tours across North whole audience America and Europe. They took a previous album, Un- and the energy they invest in being persons, on a packed two-month tour, there. It becomes this great sort of and that was just to start that touring shared experience."

Miller says they've slowed down the cycle off. That was three years ago, which is the longest time Miller and touring lately to switch focus onto Black have spent between albums; the new album, Do Not Engage.

"We started touring less," she says. they were still touring Unpersons as "It actually helps the process, because recently as last fall.

The Unpersons tour included two we're in Vancouver more often and cancelled performances due to can jam things out."

Black injuring herself during a live show at the Culture Collide festival Miller has previously said she tires in October. That might not be a sur- quickly of the band's produced mateprise to anyone who has witnessed rial, and likes to start over with every the crowd-encapsulating bubble of new album.

"You can only pat yourself on the thriving intensity generated when the duo brings its albums to life: back for so long if you want to keep

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growing as any sort of artist," she says. "I think it's very healthy to move on and try and be better."

Do Not Engage reunites the band with producer Jim Diamond and is an evolution of the band's turn toward punk-infused garage rock found on 2010's We Kill Computers.

The new album continues the pummeling aggression and the grit and grunge of the last two releases, but a few tracks also take on some atmospheric vocals along with some spacey, reverberating guitar work.

"It's a little less frantic," says Miller.

But only a little.

Working with Diamond has become a comfortable relationship, something Miller credits to their being fast friends before they set to work on 2Unpersons.

"It's a comfortable place to be in," says Miller. "There's no threat to it, it's just good times."

Miller hopes they continue.

"I just want to be able to make a living at something I enjoy doing."

Five years after the Pack AD's debut album, it seems like a plan that could work.

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hile listening to Chic Gamine's ucts almost to the table and it would latest album, Closer, it's not become a very collaborative thing, but immediately noticeable that the Mo- it started from an individual perspectown-tinged melodies are driven by tive very much so," says vocalist Alexa only four voices and a drum kit. With Dirks, noting that having a group filled no official lead singer, the ladies— with songwriters can be beneficial, but it's also complus the group's lone plicated in the male, Sacha Daoud, Fri, Feb 28 (7:30 pm) matter of honkeeping the beat—in- With the Fugitives ing five differtertwined their pow- Arden Theatre, $28 ent ideas while erful vocal chops on allowing each the album to create harmonies that mimic a broader in- other to remain spontaneously creative. "We're getting more comfortable strumentation.

It's been three years since Closer with different sides of ourselves onwas released in Canada—it made its stage, different songwriting sides; we're US debut in 2013—and the five piece, honing it in with each other so then it which took root in Montréal in 2007, makes it even easier to know where has been building on its inventive people are going to go, where people approach to its music, transcending are comfortable. It's more collaborative R&B, pop, rock and jazz to create a than ever. The ideas still come from sound that's clearly influenced by individuals, but we're jamming more— decades past, but contemporary we're collaborating on every aspect, enough to stand up in today's musical from the lyrics to instrumental parts, landscape. The group—whose name so everyone has a say in everything." translates loosely to "stylish, mischievous young thing" has a new EP Vocals and drums will still be the slated for release this summer with foundation of Chic Gamine, but Dirks explains that the group's instrumenan album set to follow in the fall.

"When we first started it was like, 'OK, tation has slowly built up over the who's got songs? Let's bring them to past couple of years to the point the table and we'll work on them,' so where they're incorporating guitar, then people would bring finished prod- drums, bass and synth into the ar-

rangements. In the process of digger deeper into instrumentation and growing into its style, Chic Gamine has also learned to open up more to one another and delve further into its lyrics. Dirks notes that Closer was firmly centred around matters of the heart, and while the new album will still explore similar themes, it will be from a different perspective.

"I think all of us, in these past few years, were so excited to evolve, so everything from adding more instruments, to going deeper lyrically from just kind of every aspect felt like the natural thing to do, so nothing necessarily felt like we had to sit down and go, 'All right, this next song you're going to go into the depths of your childhood,' and then someone's crying in a corner and we're like, 'Yes! Keep going," Dirks laughs. "This was a very natural progression to get to this point, and I think we've kind of been waiting to be able to feel this comfortable since the beginning ... we've always felt really confident and engaged in what we're doing, but I think this is where we feel most like we're becoming ourselves as a band and as individuals."

The Most Serious Fun in The World I had maybe rolled it back and gotten down to business << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 32 sooner."

"I'm glad you waited," says Anderson, Houston, or that the band name is Shout Out Out Out Out, like 10 years "because now you're coming at it with later, and getting like a blank look— such a vengeance."

I probably would have pressed for Bell nods. "And I am really hungry for something else. But every project was it, at this point."

"We," Anderson corrects himself. "I started with no forethought. If I'm going to be doing stuff at this point, it's all shouldn't say 'you.' That's not in the going to be planned. I want to do this second person. I'm glad we waited to as a career, to be honest." do this now. There's more urgency."

It's an unremarkable statement, except "It's important to me to have you be you know it's coming from someone on the same page of wanting this as who has probably never let himself say badly as I do," Bell tells his friend. "It's that, or want that, until very recently. sometimes hard, you get these inklings "I just chalk it up to me being a slow of self-doubt." learner," Bell shrugs. "But maybe it "Lyle has said this to me before: 'You is a generational thing. Total slacker take all the trophies and throw them generation. It certainly has taken me a away, but you take all the daggers and long time to finally realize I gotta really put them in the display case,'" Andertry, gotta get down to business. I don't son relates.

"Yeah. Well, I don't know what'll hapreally regret all the parties, but I wish

pen," Bell responds. "But if I don't have this, it's depression time. There needs to be more. I don't understand people who fall out of [art] somehow. 'I'm not doing it anymore; I'm going to be a chartered accountant.' There's no way I could leave this behind. And I think it's what I do best in life. And I want to continue to explore. When we say we have a plan, that's part of the plan—how far can we take this if we take it seriously?

I know that I'll always wake up at 2 am with an idea, a melody, a snippet, and I know that I'll have to scamper down and record. I hope and pray that I always will have that. It's the creative process that gives me hope—" Anderson makes a sound like the dinging of a bell, like his bandmate just won the biggest prize in a contest.

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minations on forgiveness, loss, late nights and lonely mornings, delivered in what feels like limitless space out of tiny collection of sounds.

"600 Days" opens the album's oblique inquisitions: voice, guitar and a ghostly sound back lines like "black wax rides its torso down / freezing on lopsided brows / clumsy circled star in chalk / around a body basement locked" before gently saying, as a chorus "you can tell me what you saw." The low synth rumble that appears partway through "My Head is Slit" adds an ominous tone to lines like "please poison my usefulness with health."

That there's a cover of Jandek's "I Passed By The Building," and that it fits snugly in among everything else here is telling: this is still Holtby's indelible work, singular and uncompromising, even in its visions of grey, grey, grey.

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will leave you in a sweaty mess. From there, it is interesting to dive right into 2009's Meeting People is Terrible and hear the progress the band made— perhaps progress is not the right word.

In fact, "decent" seems more fitting as the second record is less erratic than its predecessor, but is also much darker.

The music re-enforced with a deeper sense of dread and hatred; these tunes aren't really a nightmare, so much as a punk-rock dream induced by a nicotine patch. Jarring changes of direction all lead to some frightening territory.

If these tracks were people, they'd be tweaked-out gutter queens. As fucking viciously wicked as these records are, a band this insane is meant to be seen live, and any recorded material serves more as a reminder than anything else.

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Todd Faux and Curtis Delaney's guitars are as sharp as broken glass and—combined with Tim Ostler's steady hand on bass—make the riffs on "Wasted on Wine" and "Do The Dance" fist-pumping, headshaking affairs. Steph Herman does the heavy lifting on drums, ferociously pummelling the skins and providing excellent back-up vocals on songs like "10 Million Leagues."

Average Times isn't the most complicated album of 2014, but the band's sonic tidal wave is an eardestroying force that absolutely needs to be heard by fans of Canadian garage and punk rock.

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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

Dueling Pianos, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Sonic Band of

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am STUDIO Out for a RIP:

Sharktank, B. Rich, Mitchell Lawler and Conch, the Nasty Boys, Jo Thrillz, Straight Gutta, Dunna and the Handsom Mess; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $25

FRI FEB 28

RENDEZVOUS PUB Rewind

APEX CASINO The Dungarees

Throwdown, Riff Raff, Gent and Jawns, Sinden; with locals: Kenny James (Connected) Iconic (Luxiter Events), Nudii & Bill (Therapy Music Group); 9pm; $20 at MDthrowdown.zoobis.com/

ARDEN Chic Gamine and the Fugitives; 7:30pm; $28 ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL

Sweet Vintage Rides BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

SET NIGHTCLUB Mad Decent

Phillip Wilson Burke and Slow Burn (10th Anniversary as a band); 7pm (door); $10

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Joanne Janzen

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Prairie Cats; 8:30-10:30pm; $10

Rob Taylor; 9pm-1am

BOHEMIA NEK Trio, Morewine,

Color Blind, High Tides BOURBON ROOM Dueling

pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 9pm (show) BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Jazz

evening every Fri after work; 5-8pm: This week: PJ Perry Trio

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

MERCER TAVERN Homegrown

Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie,

rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SET NIGHTCLUB NEW Fridays:

SUITE 69 Release Your Inner

CHA ISLAND TEA COMPANY

Heart of the City Arts and Music Festival Fundraising Concert featuring Billie Zizi and Cam Neufeld, Dana Wylie, Kirsten Elliott, the Skips; all ages; 8-11pm; $10 (door)

LIVE AT SLY’S Lyle Hobbs NAKED CYBER CAFÉ Kena Zoro, Rockchilld, Lady Son; 8pm

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam

UNION HALL Ladies Night

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and

every Sat; 3-6pm

every Fri

the Hurricanes

Y AFTERHOURS DJ Czech

O’BYRNE’S Live band every

(Prague/Shambhala), Deeper Underground with D3viant and friends; 11:45pm

OMAILLES IRISH PUB–St

YEG DANCE CLUB Kbh (video

Albert A.J.

release party, live), 4Korners Official DJ (TO’s Raptors, Club DJ of the year)

SAT MAR 1 APEX CASINO The Dungarees

Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

ON THE ROCKS The

Disastronauts with DJs OVERTIME Sherwood Park

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

ARTERY Opening Night of Gratitude: An Exhibition of Local Graphic Design Featuring Perry Gratton with Arrowz Featuring New Collaborative Works with Mat Simpson; $10

PAWN SHOP Transmission: Dance party with Blue Jay, Eddie Lunchpail; customer appreciation party; 9pm

AVENUE THEATRE Oly Roller

COMMUNITY HALL Northern

Productions presents: Our Last Crusade. Our Friends Never Came, Construct the Sky, In Search of Signals, Letters to the Ocean; 5:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

QUEEN ALEXANDRA

Lights Folk Club: Cabot’s Crossing; 8pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door); child 6-12, 1/2 price reimbursed at door; child under 6 free; adv tickets at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Myhre’s Music

SIDELINERS PUB Euphoria’s

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Sat Afternoon Jam: with Rott’n Dan and Sean Stephens, noon, no cover

Edge; 9pm; no cover

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

STARLITE ROOM The Pack

Phillip Wilson Burke and Slow Burn (10th Anniversary as a band); 7pm (door); $10

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

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Joanne Janzen

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Tony Dizon

A.D., Hag Face, Machi; 8pm; $15 (adv) at Unionevents.com, Ticketfly.com, Blackbyrd THE STUDIO MUSIC

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Oliver Swain and Corbin Keep (cello); 8:3010:30pm; $15

Classics

Dolls Magnetic Tour (alt rock), Autumns Cannon; all ages; 7:30pm; $39-$65

Legendary Joint Chiefs; 9:30pm

every Fri

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Goo Goo

LEAF BAR AND GRILL The

jam every Sat; 3-7pm

Pianos

and the Jim Findlay Duo; 9pm; $10

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

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music

CASINO EDMONTON Dueling

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Ruth Blais

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live

music every Fri: sthis week: Lana Lenore; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

ISBE Gyroiid (album release party), Civic Radio, the Haze, the Peavees; 7pm

L.B.’S PUB Bob Cook and the Mucho Nada Party

Replay

CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm

House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep’n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials

FOUNDATION B.Rich and Shark Tank, Mitchell Lawler, Jo Thrillz, the Nasty Boys, Boosh, the Dip, Straight Gutta, Dunna, the Handsome Mess; no minors; all day

BRIXX The Marshall Lawrence Band, Testifying (blues); $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

HILLTOP PUB 1st Annual Gear Swap Jam; 4pm

WUNDERBAR Solids (Montreal)

with Book of Caverns

“B” STREET BAR Rockin Big

Rob Taylor; 9pm-1am SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

BLIND PIG PUB & GRILL Live

WUNDERBAR Love&Lies (Finally Fun EP release), the Universe Machine, Fiction of Fate, Los Calaveras, A Gentlemen’s Pact; 8pm; $10 (door)

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan;

Classical

Cuss, the Wisest Wolf

STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY

pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 9pm (show); Sat: Danita

NUOVA’s opera for families about Japanese-Canadian children living in Western Canada during WWII; 7pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (child)/$40 (families of 4) at TIX on the Square

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm

YARDBIRD SUITE Tilo Paiz Latin Fusion Sextet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

THEATRE Naomi’s Road, Opera

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

BOHEMIA Co-Kaynes, Levi BOURBON ROOM Dueling

Tony Dizon

YARDBIRD SUITE From New

York/Israel: Uri Gurvich’s BabEl; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest) at Ticketmaster

Classical STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY

FRI FEB 28

SONIC BAND OF THE MONTH...

TUPELO HONEY W/ BIG CITY SUPREME, HEARSAY AND MORE SAT MAR 1

TRANSMISSION MONTHLY ALTERNATIVE DANCE PARTY

THEATRE Naomi’s Road,

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The

Opera NUOVA’s opera for families about JapaneseCanadian children living in Western Canada during WWII; 11am, 2pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (child)/$40 (families of 4) at TIX on the Square

Festival, Cabin Fever Band; 8:30pm-12:30; $5

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

Classics

Friday DJs on all three levels

WEST END CHRISTIAN

CENTURY CASINO Prism and

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old

Headpins; 7pm; $34.95

REFORMED CHURCH An

W/ DEEPS & GUESTS

FIDDLER’S ROOST Barbara’s

school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

CROWN AND ANCHOR PUB

Evening in Vienna: Chronos Vocal Ensemble (chamber choir ), Vocal Alchemy; 7pm; $17/$15 (adv)/$20/$18 (door) at TIX on the Square

FRI MAR 7 & SAT MAR 8

DJs

EXCLUSIVE CANADIAN PERFORMANCE

DV8 Cashew, Kozikoz, Cab’ral,

Cannibal Kings, Phillip Solo, Steve Raikou EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain The Blueberry Bluegrass

Old Time Dances Featuring “Friends of the Fiddlers Roost” musicians; every Fri, 7-10pm, 6pm (door); $7 (door); Home style meals offered from Peter & Karen’s Kitchen J+H PUB Every Friday:

Headwind and friends (vintage rock ‘n’ roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover JEFFREY’S CAFÉ The Devil Tree

(indie rock); 9pm;$10 L.B.’S PUB Coaster 44;

9:30pm-2am LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Big Daddy, Van Damage (double CD release); 9:30pm

DJs

CHICAGO JOES Colossal Flows: Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm-2am; no cover THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu

disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

Fri; 9pm

CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK

Replay CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2

Mister Wrong; 9:30pm DV8 Preying Saints, Fight to Swill, Wmd, No More Moments; bands play for Cancer Relief; 7pm EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain The Blueberry Bluegrass

Festival, Cabin Fever Band; 8:30pm-12:30; $5 FILTHY MCNASTY’S Free

Afternoon Concerts: this week: Anchors North, Two Bears North; 4pm GAS PUMP Saturday

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

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

THU MAR 6 SOULD OUT ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS

WAKCUTT CRO-MAGS

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

FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

THE BOWER For Those Who

Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests;

VUEWEEKLY FEB 27 – MAR 05, 2014

MUSIC 39

every Sat THE COMMON Get Down

It’s Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

FEB/28 MAR/6 MAR/7 MAR/8 MAR/17 MAR/22 MAR/26 MAR/27 MAR/28 APR/2 APR/4 APR/5 APR/8 APR/10 APR/11 APR/15 APR/26 APR/28 MAY/9

THE UNION AND SONIC 102.9FM PRESENTS WITH GUESTS HAGFACE AND I AM MACHI THE UNION PRESENTS

THE PACK A.D.

ROYAL CANOE WAKE OWL W/ LYON

WITH BETRAYER

THE UNION PRESENTS

Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

OUTREACH

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE WONDER YEARS

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

ANIMALS AS LEADERS THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE MOUNTIES

E BAR 1st Anniversary: with special guest DJ Bond (London, UK), E-40 and Dru Hill; $30 ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESENTS

ISLANDS

Sat; 9pm

W/ GUESTS

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno PAWN SHOP Transmission

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

THE UNION PRESENTS

AGAINST ME! THE KIN

and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE JEZABELS AND BOY AND BEAR THE UNION PRESENTS

SUICIDE GIRLS BLACKHEART BURLESQUE

MRG PROSUCTIONS PRESENTS

and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SET NIGHTCLUB SET Saturday

Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

STEVEN J MASKUS

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

THE HEAD AND THE HEART

Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

THE UNION PRESENTS THE UNION PRESENTS

THE ZOLAS

W/ JAMES YOUNGER & GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ TRASH TALK, RETOX AND SHINING

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN IRONSTORM CD RELEASE

EXCALIBUR PRODUCTIONS AND FARMEGEDON PRESENT

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro,

old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

THE UNION PRESENTS

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

CONCERTWORKS PRESENTS THE WORLWIDE PLAGUES TOUR FEATURING:

UNION HALL Celebrity

W/ GUESTS

THE 1975

ICED EARTH

W/ SABATON & REVAMP

Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays YEG DANCE CLUB 4Korners

LAWRENCE’S FEB/28 MARSHALL BLUES REVUE SHOW LENORE & CO., THE RIVER AND MAR/1 LANA THE ROAD & DRYLAND BAND MAR/7 MAR/8 MAR/10 MALIBU KNIGHTS LOUDER THAN LOVE MAR/14 ALTERRA, AND OF WHALE AND WOLF MAR/15 MATCHBREAKER, 20 CENTURIES OF STONY SLEEP MAR/29 PAX ARCANA APR/5 COWPUNCHER RETURN OF NOBODY LIKES DWIGHT APR/19 THE W/ FRINGE & FAILED THERAPY RELIGIOUS APR/26 ELECTRIC W/ PUTTIN ON THE FOIL & UNTIL RED W/ THOMPSON MAY/3 WILLHORSE HIGHWAY & SUPERSTACK 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/ THE MOANIN’ AFTER AND GUESTS

MAR/10 MALIBU KNIGHTW/ GUESTS TBA TRASH N THRASH TUESDAYS W/ DEDKEV AND SAMMY SLAUGHTER PRESENTING THE BEST IN MUSIC...HEAVY AND METAL. $4.50 KEITHS, JAGER AND HONEY JACK, TICKET GIVAWAYS, MEET N GREETS AND CONTESTS EVERY WEEK...LETS PARTY. DOORS 7PM

40 MUSIC

Official DJ of the Toronto Raptors,Club dj of the year

SUN MAR 2 BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with Duggan’s House Band; 5-8pm FIDDLER’S ROOST Barbara’s Old Time Dances Featuring “Friends of the Fiddlers Roost” musicians; every Sun, 1-4pm, 12pm (door); $7 (door); Home style meals offered from Peter and Karens Kitchen GRANT MACEWAN’S CENTRE FOR ARTS Showcase Band;

tickets at TIX on the Square HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the

Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday

Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS The Give ‘Em

Hell Boys LIVE AT SLY’S Danger Pay;

Every Sun Jam hosted by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm

Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am; no cover; relaxed dress code

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

GERMAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE Big Band Swing Era:

RICHARDS PUB Barsnbands

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

Bryan Hall (MC). U of A Jazz Band, MacEwan Jazz Band; 6pm (door), 7pm (concert and dance); $20 NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs Live 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 ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

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

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Monday

ST JOHN’S INSTITUTE Ukrainian Jazz (CD release); 7pm

Noon Music: Cello Concert: Students of Colin Ryan; noon hr

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair of the

DJs

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

Classical

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

MUTTART HALL– Alberta College

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

MacEwan University: Aimtac Annual Scholarship Benefit Concert; 2pm; tickets at Conservatory office, 780.633.3725, door

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

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Songs of the Soul: Da

TUE MAR 4

Camera Singers, John Brough (conductor ); 3pm WINSPEAR Violin and Horn

(Sunday Showcase), Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins (conductor), Bella Hristova (violin), Allene Hackleman (horn); 2pm; $24-$69

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

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Tue

Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Lucky and

Tamara Peterson DRUID IRISH PUB Open

Stage Tue

open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:3011:30pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–Downtown

Rob Taylor SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Party Hog YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Session: Brad Shigeta Soul Jazz Experience; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

Classical BERNARD SNELL AUDITORIUM– Foyer Hear’s to Your Health:

Yue Deng (violin), Patricia Tao (piano); 5pm

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

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ PM Bossa: Gary Myers and Jamie Philp; 9am-3pm; donations

DUGGAN’S IRISH PUB Singer songwriter open stage hosted

by Breezy Brian Gregg FIDDLER’S ROOST Monday Nights Open stage hosted

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open

stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY Viking Fell with Choir and Marching Band and Mark Mills; Solidarity Rock fundraiser; 7:30pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door) BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio:

Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Lucky and BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Jazz

RED PIANO Every Tue: the

HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam

presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

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

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY

WED MAR 5

Tamara Peterson

OVERTIME Sherwood Park The

PAWN SHOP Wacken Metal Battles Round I: Bring Us Your Dead, Quietus, These Colors Don’t Run, Malice; 7pm

Downtown Rob Taylor

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs Live

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

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

BLUES ON WHYTE Lucky and

OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

LIVE AT SLY’S Jam hosted

Tamara Peterson

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs Live

SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays:

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

with Kris Harvey and guests

country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm

Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

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

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night

Robbie’s Reef Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm; no cover

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday

Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

MERCURY ROOM Little Flower

RED STAR Experimental Indie

voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

MON MAR 3

LIVE AT SLY’S Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 8pm -12am

THE RANCH Tebey, Leah Daniels, MacKEnzie Porter; 9pm (door), 10:30pm; free before 10:30pm; free all night for students and industry

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic

by Rockin’ Randy every Tue, 7-11pm

FIDDLER’S ROOST Wednesday

Psychobilly, Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

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

DJs

hosted by Tim Lovett

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

by Norm Sliter’s Capital City Jammers; all styles and skill levels welcome; 7:30pm; $3 cover

evening every Wed; 8-11pm: This week: PJ Perry Trio DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Wed

open mic with host Duff Robison

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

The Rural Routes Party Hog 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 BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every

Wed

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte

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 BERNARD SNELL AUDITORIUM– Foyer 8440 112 St, 780.492.8109 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR 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 BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 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 CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750-124 St

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park 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 COMMON 9910-109 St DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Sask 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd E BAR 10018-015 St EARLY STAGE–Stony Plain 491152 Ave, Stony Plain ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte 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

VUEWEEKLY FEB 27 – MAR 05, 2014

FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 GERMAN CANADIAN CULTURAL CENTRE 8310 Roper Rd GRANT MACEWAN CENTRE FOR ARTS 10045-156 St HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St ISBE 9529 Jasper Ave, 587.521.7788 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 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S 10156-104 St L.B.’S 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St LIVE AT SLY'S 15203 Stony Plain Rd LIZARD 13160-118 Ave MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL–Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Dr NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108

St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST 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 OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 8426 Gateway Blvd 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 HALL 10860-57 Ave QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL 10425 University Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S 24 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253

ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ST JOHN'S INSTITUTE 1102482 Ave SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WEST END CHRISTIAN CHURCH 10015-149 St WINSPEAR 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256 YARDBIRD 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy

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

beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15 BOYLE STREET COMMUNITY LEAGUE • 9538-

103A Ave • LIVINGbridge Information Session • Thu, Feb 27, 5:30pm • livingbridgeedmonton. com/events/2014/2/27/information-session FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE •

Justisse-Healthworks for Women, 10145-81 Ave • justisse.ca • Meeting • Mar 3, 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (donation) FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

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

the Starlite Room), 780.428.1099 • Rock and Roll Circus Open Stage: Comedy hosted by Liam Leroux aka Slim Hughes; Alternating headliners • Every Thu 7-9pm • No cover

112 St, 82 Ave, U of A: Women's Dignity Lies in the Fight for the Rights of All; March; Mar 8, 2pm • Luther Centre, 10014-81 Ave: A light meal featuring speakers from labour and community organizations follow the march

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown •

BRIXX BAR • 10030-102 St (downstairs below

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 • Marty Hanenberg; Feb 27-Mar 1 • David Tsonos; Mar 6-8 • Aaron Foster; Mar 13-15 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 • Darren Carter; until Feb 28; Mar 1-2 • Jesse Joyce; Mar 5-9 DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

ta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com

For Recovery: with David Prodan from E4C; Feb 27, 1:30-3:30pm; free

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

THE WORLD IN ROMAN SUNDIALS: PAST, PRESent, anD Future • Tory Breezeway 2, U of A

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: Hike from the John Jantzen Nature Centre to Snow Valley. Contact hike leader JoAnne 780 487.0645; Mar 2 • Meet at McDonalds 10375-51 Ave: Hike from Whitemud Creek Nature Reserve to Snow Valley.

Contact Johanna 780.428.8561; Mar 9 WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence YOGA MEDITATION-FITNESS • Rosslyn Com-

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

Practice group meets every Thu NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St •

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

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 RALLY FOR RETIREMENT SECURITY • Winston Churchill Sq • Mar 2, 2pm • facebook.com/ events/286718934812840/ SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside

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

EDMONTON ISRAELI APARTHEID WEEK • U of A Campus and various locations • psnedmonton. ca • Palestine Solidarity Network presents a week of presentations, workshops, film screenings, and cultural events in solidarity with Palestine and to raise awareness around the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israeli apartheid. Speakers include Yasmeen Abu-Laban, Abigail B. Bakan, Charlotte Kates, Mazin Qumsiyeh, Ghada Ageel • Mar 10-14 • Free

comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

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)

EMPIRE’S SKIN SHOW • Humanities Centre L-1, U of A • The business of erotic dance in the long nineteenth century; Professor Cecily Devereux presents • Instead of dance, they’re doing ideology: notes toward reading a medium on Mar 10, 3:30-5pm • Body capital: Salome and the Head on Mar 12 • Mapping the unsettler subject: travels with Klondike Kate and other worldly women on Mar 14 • These lectures focus on the emergence in nineteenth-century North America of the business of erotic dance, the spectacular display of skin in a system that would grow to become a multi-billion-dollar industry and the contemporary culture of “stripper chic”

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Rose and

GENDER AND SEXUALITY • Wunderbar,

Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9-11pm; no cover KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIE'S COMEDY •

16648-109 Ave • Komedy Krush with guest Paul Sveen; following a Capital City Singles Mixer with guest Howie Milller; Feb 27, 9pm OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic

every Wed, 9pm RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway Blvd •

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

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call

587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet

8120-101 St • susauofa.com • SUSA Monthly presents this lecture by Dr Kaler and Dr Woodman; no minors • Mar 2, 5pm • Admission by donation

Crown Pub 10235-101 St • edmontonatheists. ca; E: info@edmontonatheists.ca; Monthly roundtable • Mon, Mar 3 SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing,

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month • Tuscany and Italy (2013) presentation by Jay P. Smith and Liz Smythe; Mar 3, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $2

WINSPEAR CENTRE •780.428.1414 • Paul Mercs

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

present Brent Butt, Almost A Movie Star • Mar 1

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave •

ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

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)

100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park• Featuring Amanda Lindhout • Mar 7, 5:30pm • $65 (with dinner) at the Festival Place box office

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam

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

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS 5 STEPS TO GROWING ORGANIC FOOD AND SAVING THE PLANET • wildgreen.ca • Wildbird

General Store, 4712 99 St: Mar 4, 7-9pm • Dominelli School of Music, 9104-179 Ave: Mar 9, 2-4pm • Learn some simple steps to creating an organic vegetable garden; presentation by Claudia Bolli ADVENTURE TRAVEL COMPANY • Audreys Books,

10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • Talks on Iceland • Mar 11, 7pm 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 • 8307109 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:

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY • Festival Place,

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 • Westend TNT Toastmasters: Trinity United Church, 8810 Meadowlark Rd; Public speaking: Parliamentary practice based on Robert's Rules of Order; vpm2291@toastmastersclubs.org; weekly meetings every Tue, 7-9pm • 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 • 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

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8601 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Screening of the NFB documentary, Status Quo? The Unfinished Business of Feminism in Canada • Mar 5, 6:30-9pm • Free; Pre-register KREISEL LECTURE • Timm's Centre, U of A • Understanding Each Other: The Essential Importance of Multilingualism through the Prism of Cree, French, and English, lecture by Tomson Highway • Mar 6, 7:30pm • Free; followed by reception and book signing PECHA KUCHA NIGHT 18 • Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre • Presented by Edmonton’s NextGen • Mar 6 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 THOUGHTFUL TUESDAY/MOVIE MONDAY YEG

• Whitemud Crossing Library, 145 Whitemud Crossing Shopping Centre, 4211-106 St • March Meat Out: Speciesism: The Movie • Mar 6, 7-9pm WELLNESS NETWORK SERIES • Boyle Street

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St •

The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alber-

Plaza, 9538-103 Ave • 780.424.2870 • Writing

• Lecture by Richard Talbert, presented by the Edmonton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America • Mar 13, 7pm • Free

QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave •

780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St •

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

ton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton. ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Bowling: Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes: Every Tue, 6:30pm; until Apr 1, 2014; $15/week • Volleyball: St Matthew Elementary School (NE): Tue, until Mar 11, 8-10pm; Stratford Junior-Senior High School (west end): every Tue, Mar 18-Apr 29, 7-9pm, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Curling: Granite Curling Club: Every Tue, until Mar 25, 7pm • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@ teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton. ca, sillum.ca G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg,

Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmliv-

ingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily dropin, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities. com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre

of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/ bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

VUEWEEKLY FEB 27 – MAR 05, 2014

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.

ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership.

Confidentiality assured WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave •

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

SPECIAL EVENTS 4TH PARENTS AS CHAMPIONS • Ekota School, 1395 Knottwood Road E • I've Outgrown It Sale • Mar 8, 10am-2pm ANNUAL NATIONAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON

• A cross radio event: throughout the night: on FM airwaves across Canada, incl CJSR • Feb 26-27, 5pm-7am; cjsrnews.com/homeless THE BIG HIT AT SNOW VALLEY • edmonton.

ca/city_government/initiatives_innovation/ winter-festivals-events.aspx • Snow Valley Ski Club • Mar 1 BOOKS2EAT • Radisson Hotel Edmonton South • epl.ca/programs-and-events/events/ books2eat • Annual EPL Fundraising Gala: Features Incredible Cakes, Amazing Silent Auction Packages And Stories From The Heart • Sat, Mar 8 DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to:

780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; Twilight Zone Razamanaz Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank) DUO LUAU • Cha Island, 10332-81 Ave •

780.720.0505 • heartcityfest.com • Intimate evening of duos featuring Billie Zizi and Cam Neufeld, Dana Wylie and Kirsten Elliott, and the Skips • Feb 28 • $10 at dana@danawylie.net; Proceeds to the 2014 Heart of the City Music and Arts Festival GUIDE TO LIFE ON EARTH • Winspear • Chris

Hadfield • Mar 12 KICK OFF MARCH MEATOUT MONTH • Padmanadi Vegetarian Restaurant, 10740 101 St • Celebrate VVoA’s 25th Anniversary with a 7-course brunch buffet and presentation, All You Ever Wanted to Know about Soy and Its Products, by Dr Ze-ev Gross • Mar 1, 11am-2pm • $30 (adv tickets required) OSCAR NIGHT AT THE VARSCONA • Varscona The-

atre, 10329-83 Ave • Party hosted by Tom Edwards and Matt Alden, there will be commentary, comedy and live entertainment, fasion awards, raffle • Sun, Mar 2, 5pm (door), 6pm (fashion awards), 6:15pm (show) • $25 at door, or at Shadow Theatre box office • Fundraiser for Shadow theatre and ACME Theatre Company P3. PEOPLE PASSION PURPOSE–VOLUNTEER FAIR

• Agora Community Centre, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.464.4242 • People Passion Purpose: organizations showcasing their volunteer opportunities • Mar 13, 12-6pm 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 ST ALBERT'S MAYOR’S CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS

• Arden Theatre • Retro Radio: the theatre is transformed into an old-fashioned radio station with tap dancers, in-house musicians and comedians • Mar 14, 6:30pm • $35 at the Arden box office, ticketmaster.ca SKIRTSAFIRE HERARTS FESTIVAL • Various

Venues • Mar 6-9 U OF A PRIDE WEEK • prideweek.ualberta.ca •

Until Mar 8

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Coming Events

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 Thai cooking Parties www.ithai.ca Edmonton’s only authentic Thai cooking parties!

In your home with a Thai native! Experience Thailand in the comfort of your own home with a accomplished Thai chef with over 20 years of experience. Contact www.ithai.ca or 780-232-5195 today The Arch Angels of the St. Albert Heavenly Rollers will be stopping by to play a bout with the Oil City All-Stars on March 8th. A guaranteed night of thrills, spills, and lots of hitting on the track!

Regular Tickets are $10 advance and $15 at the door.

Kids Under 10 Free!

Doors at 6:00 and the first whistle is at 7 pm Tickets are now available online at www.oilcityderbygirls.ca Oil City Grindhouse 14420-112 Street

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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.

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Are You Looking for a Great Volunteer Experience?

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

HFH.org Can You Read This?

Help someone Who can’t!

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

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca

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Growing Facilitators Volunteer Opportunity Sustainable Food Edmonton offers a Little Green Thumbs indoor gardening program to schools and childcare agencies and we are looking for volunteers. For info and volunteer application form:

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

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

Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106

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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.

Showcase your creativity and love for the environment! Become a Reuse Crafter!

Reuse Crafters lead crafting workshops that focus on the utilization of Reuse materials.

Guide public crafting workshops at locations in the Edmonton community Plan meaningful crafts, suited to participants abilities Engage with participants and educate about Reuse and the Reuse Centre Apply online. Visit edmonton.ca/reusecentre 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.

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Volunteering - Improve the Lives of Children in the Developing World Join our Edmonton team and help us plan events to support our programs, and spread the word about the fantastic results we are achieving.

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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.

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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 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!

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): The battles you've been waging these last 10 months have been worthy of you. They've tested your mettle and grown your courage. But I suspect that your relationship with these battles is due for a shift. In the future they may not serve you as well as they have up until now. At the very least, you will need to alter your strategy and tactics.

It's also possible that now is the time to leave them behind entirely—to graduate from them and search for a new cause that will activate the next phase of your evolution as an enlightened warrior. What do you think?

a love poet," writes Rudy Francisco, addressing a lover, "I'd write about how you have the audacity to be beautiful even on days when everything around you is ugly." I suspect you have that kind of audacity right now, Leo. In fact, I bet the ugliness you encounter will actually incite you to amplify the gorgeous charisma you're radiating. The sheer volume of lyrical soulfulness that pours out of you will have so much healing power that you may even make the ugly stuff less ugly. I'm betting that you will lift up everything you touch, nudging it in the direction of grace and elegance and charm.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "Some people say home is where you come from," says a character in Katie Kacvinsky's novel Awaken. "But I think it's a place you need to find, like it's scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way." That's an idea I invite you to act on in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. It will be an excellent time to discover more about where you belong and who you belong with. And the best way to do that is to be aggressive as you search far and wide for clues, even in seemingly unlikely places that maybe you would never guess contain scraps of home.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "Life is like Sanskrit read to a pony," said Lou Reed. That might be an accurate assessment for most people much of the time, but I don't think it will be true for you in the coming days. On the contrary: you will have a special capacity to make contact and establish connection. You've heard of dog whisperers and ghost whisperers? You will be like an all-purpose, jack-of-all-trades whisperer—able to commune and communicate with nervous creatures and alien life forms and pretty much everything else. If anyone can get a pony to understand Sanskrit, it will be you.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): "You miss 100 percent of the shots you don't take," says hockey great Wayne Gretzky. In other words, you shouldn't be timid about shooting the puck toward the goal. Don't worry about whether you have enough skill or confidence or luck. Just take the damn shot. You'll never score if you don't shoot, or so the theory goes. But an event in a recent pro hockey game showed there's an exception to the rule. A New York player named Chris Kreider was guiding the puck with his stick as he skated toward the Minnesota team's goalie. But when Kreider cocked and swung his stick, he missed the puck entirely. He whiffed. And yet the puck kept sliding slowly along all by itself. It somehow flummoxed the goalie, sneaking past him right into the net. Goal! New rule: you miss only 99.9 percent of the shots you don't take. I believe you will soon benefit from this loophole, Virgo.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): What words bring the most points in the game of Scrabble?

Expert Christopher Swenson says that among the top scorers are "piezoelectrical" and "ubiquitarianism"—assuming favourable placements on the board that bring double letter and triple word scores. The first word can potentially net 1107 points, and the second 1053. There are metaphorical clues here, Capricorn, for how you might achieve maximum success in the next phase of the game of life. You should be well-informed about the rules, including their unusual corollaries and loopholes. Be ready to call on expert help and specialized knowledge. Assume that your luck will be greatest if you are willing to plan nonstandard gambits and try bold tricks.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Does Kim Kardashian tweak and groom her baby daughter's eyebrows? They look pretty amazing, after all—elegant, neat, perfectly shaped. What do you think, Gemini? HA! I was just messing with you. I was checking to see if you're susceptible to getting distracted by meaningless fluff like celebrity kids' grooming habits.

The cosmic truth of the matter is that you should be laser-focused on the epic possibilities that your destiny is bringing to your attention. It's time to reframe your life story. How? Here's my suggestion: see yourself as being on a mythic quest to discover and fully express your soul's code.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): The 19th-century American folk hero known as Wild Bill Hickok was born James Butler Hickok. At various times in his life he was a scout with a combined circulation for the army, a lawman for violent of over 800,000 for only... plus GST/HST frontier towns, a professional gambler and a performer in BufValue Ad Network falo Bill's Wild West Show. WomAlberta Weekly Newspapers Association en found him charismatic, and toll free 1-800-282-6903 x228 he once killed an attacking bear email andrea@awna.com with a knife. He had a brother or visit this community newspaper Lorenzo who came to be known as Tame Bill Hickok. In contrast to Wild Bill, Tame Bill was quiet, gentle and cautious. He lived an uneventful life as a wagon master and children loved him. Right now, Cancerian, I'm meditating on 7/25/11 12:30 PM how I'd like to see your inner Wild Bill come out to play for a while, even as your inner Tame Bill takes some time off.

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LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): If you are the type of person who wears gloves when you throw snowballs, Germans would call you Handschuhschneeballwerfer. They use the same word as slang to mean "coward." I'm hoping that in the coming days you won't display any behaviour that would justify you being called Handschuhschneeballwerfer.

You need to bring a raw, direct, straightforward attitude to everything you do. You shouldn't rely on any buffers, surrogates or intermediaries. Metaphorically speaking, make sure that nothing comes between your bare hands and the pure snow.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In his song "4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)," Bruce Springsteen mentions a disappointing development.

"That waitress I was seeing lost her desire for me," he sings. "She said she won't set herself on fire for me anymore." I'm assuming nothing like that has happened to you recently, Scorpio. Just the opposite: I bet there are attractive creatures out there who would set themselves on fire for you. If for some reason this isn't true, fix the problem! You have a cosmic mandate to be incomparably irresistible.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Sorry to report that you won't win the lottery this week. It's also unlikely that you will score an unrecognized Rembrandt painting for a few dollars at a thrift store or discover that you have inherited a chinchilla farm in Peru or stumble upon a stash of gold coins half-buried in the woods.

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PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Avery, a character in Anne Michaels' novel The Winter Vault, has a unique way of seeing. When he arrives in a place for the first time, he "makes room for it in his heart." He "lets himself be altered" by it. At one point in the story he visits an old Nubian city in Egypt and is overwhelmed by its exotic beauty. Its brightly coloured houses are like "shouts of joy," like "gardens springing up in the sand after a rainfall."

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lent fantasies. Getting help, HOPE, no longer had yogurt, tampons and I'm 21 and still a virgin. I also have is the best way to increase your birth control pills at my place—and depression. I'm not bad looking. I odds of getting laid and/or getting I no longer had a girlfriend. All I did work out and generally keep people a girlfriend. was not get outraged and it cost me laughing. I got a lot of female ata girlfriend. Does this seem a little tention in school, but I was hopeless TOO MUCH GUY FOR BI extreme? Am I crazy? and still am. Most of my friends I'm a 25-year-old bi girl in the South- Her Ex Looks Perplexed have girlfriends, so I don't under- west, and I've been with the same stand why I haven't had a girlfriend hetero guy for almost three years. No, HELP, you're not crazy. You're since I was 10. I feel myself becom- I miss being with women. We made lucky. ing increasingly violent, to the ex- an attempt at being monogamish, Send that friend-of-a-friend a tent that I have tried to provoke a but feelings were hurt and we went thank-you note. Because if he fight that wasn't necessary and I try back to monogamy. He still parties weren't building a website for a to intimidate other guys when I'm like he's in college and is a bit de- swingers club, HELP, you might still out. I've been unemployed for three pendent on me—socially—whereas have tampons, yogurt and scented years since dropping out of college, I crave independence and, quite soaps in your apartment—along and I haven't really met a girl I was frankly, pussy. I've started to with- with the crazy, controlling, insecure interested in since school. I've never draw and resent him, not just for nutjob who came with 'em. made the first move with girls. I nev- the lack of sexual freedom but also er feel compelled to, regardless of because he drinks too much and acts ADVENTUROUS SEX how attractive I find them. I do get a like a slob. I want to move out when During my last relationship, I finally lot of eye contact from girls, and I've our lease ends. I'm willing to work got to explore the kinkier side of my been approached libido. My partby girls, but we ner and I went Send that friend-of-a-friend a thank-you note. Be- to pro doms and barely ever get past exchangcause if he weren't building a website for a swing- sex clubs, and I ing names before to watch my ers club, HELP, you might still have tampons, yo- got they wander off buddy fuck her. gurt and scented soaps in your apartment—along While the relaor their friends pull them away. with the crazy, controlling, insecure nutjob who tionship was illWriting this out fated, sex was came with 'em. has made me not the probrealize I should lem. One year start approaching girls, but I don't on our issues, but I fear that when I and some heartache later, I'm ready think it's just that. Surely I should've have this conversation, it will break to date. But I don't want a vanilla met someone by now? Any advice his heart and he will break up with sexual relationship again. My probwould be greatly appreciated. me as a defensive approach, rather lem is, I don't know how to integrate Hopeless Over Painful Experience than seeing the breathing room as this into my dating life. People ask a way to work on our relationship. to set me up and I keep turning them Women typically expect the guy to How can I express my need for other down 'cause I feel like I don't want do the approaching/asking out/hit- sexual partners and more space to get involved with someone unless ting on, HOPE, so that's definitely without sounding like I'm calling off I know that we're sexually compatsomething you'll have to work on. the relationship? Is it even worth ible. And yet, I feel some internal And if a woman is making eye con- attempting dating, post–living to- angst about using Fetlife or similar tact with you in a space where it's gether? sites for dating, as if somehow I'm generally understood that people Insert Quirky Acronym Here making sex paramount. are open to meeting new people, Nervously Avoiding Intriguing flirting with them and potentially Here's what you should say to your Vanilla Entanglements fucking them (house parties, bars, boyfriend: "You've got some growclubs, CPAC), eye contact is an invi- ing up to do and I've got some eat- Sexual compatibility is hugely imtation to introduce yourself. ing pussy to do. I don't want to end portant, NAIVE, and prioritizing But if women are approaching our relationship, but I'm moving out it doesn't make you a bad person. you and then "wandering off" after when our lease is up." If your boy- But the choice you've laid out for conversing with you for a moment friend breaks up with you, IQAH, yourself—dating only kinksters you or two—or being rescued by their it's probably for the best—and it meet on Fetlife or nice girls your friends—then you're doing some- may not be forever. If he does dump friends set you up with—is a false thing wrong. I'm guessing you came you for purely defensive reasons, one. Date both. You'll have to estabacross as angry and potentially vio- then he didn't really want to dump lish emotional compatibility with a lent because you are angry and po- you at all, right? So once the shock woman you meet via Fetlife, or sextentially violent, and you've made wears off and his anger subsides, ual compatibility with a woman you a self-defeating decision to culti- your boyfriend may decide that hav- meet via real life. Fetlife or real life, vate an intimidating vibe. That shit ing you in his life is more important there's some work to do at the start repels people, HOPE, and you're than having you all to himself. of any new relationship. never going to get anywhere with And don't assume that a woman women—or employers, for that EXTREME REACTION you meet through friends is gonna matter—if you give yourself over to I am a heterosexual male. I was be vanilla. She met you through anger, violence and menace. Bearing dating this girl for six months. We friends and you're not vanilla, right? this in mind might take the edge weren't living together, but there It's a bad idea to give someone a off your anger: fully 15 percent of were two toothbrushes at my place. laundry list of your kinks on the 21-year-old men are virgins, HOPE, We weren't living together, but there first date, NAIVE, as no one—kinky while only five percent of 25-year- were tampons and birth control pills or vanilla—finds that kind of emoold men are virgins. So you have a in my medicine cabinet. We weren't tional cluelessness attractive. Just better than 66 percent chance of living together, but there was yogurt say this when the conversation losing your virginity in the next few in my fridge. You get the picture. turns to sex: "I'm pretty sexually adyears if you can stop 1) wallowing in Anyway, things were going well un- venturous." There's a good chance self-pity and 2) giving yourself over til she told me about a friend-of-a- you'll get a "me too" in response. to anger. friend who was building a website My advice: get your ass to a doc- for a local "swingers club." I didn't On the Lovecast, Dan finally enlists tor and a therapist. Medication get outraged, and this outraged her. advice from an actual ethicist at can help with the depression and a A four-hour discussion followed, savagelovecast.com. V good therapist can help you over- during which I held my "good for come your anger, self-pity and vio- them" ground, and at the end of it, I @fakedansavage on Twitter

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