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Pride waves high When the Olympic Games began almost two weeks ago, tensions were high. The implementation of an anti-gay law by President Vladimir Putin had caused months of anger leading up to the Games, and as athletes, media and visitors prepared to travel to the country, many worried for the safety of the LGBTQ community and their supporters.

Since the opening ceremonies, many have shifted their focus towards the medal count and performances, and there’s been less attention on the issue of gay rights, but that doesn’t mean it’s left everyone’s mind. The last several days have proven Canada to be incredibly dedicated to supporting the LGBTQ community, and it all started with a single flag.

As a demonstration of solidarity with LGBTQ athletes, the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has raised a Pride flag on Confederation Hill. The act has considerable significance considering it’s the first time in

The raising of a flag may not seem all that important or significant to some, but in a situation where most of us can do very little, it says a lot. its history the flag has been raised there.

Within days, several other cities across Canada had followed including Vancouver, Edmonton and Ottawa. Most of them have said the flags will remain raised until the end of the Games and that it is a demonstration of protest against Russia’s anti-gay law and support for LGBTQ athletes who are performing there.

The raising of a flag may not seem all that important or significant to some, but in a situation where most of us can do very little, it says a lot. It shows a willingness to educate others about LGBTQ rights, and even if the message doesn’t reach Russia, it could reach someone here. The negative reactions towards Rob Ford, who opposed raising the flag in Toronto, is also telling, and with only days left in the Olympics, a Pride flag was finally raised at the Ontario legislature. Putin’s homophobic actions have spurred such a wave of support from other countries, which we can only hope continues into the Paralympic Games that follow.

The support of the LGBTQ community as a result of Russia’s oppression hasn’t been restricted to Pride flags alone. In a perfectly timed announcement, the University of Alberta revealed that their Sexual Minority Studies and Services has partnered with the You Can Play Project to combat discrimination against gay athletes. Although most athletes have remained silent on the matter, Canadian snowboarder Michael Lambert made headlines earlier this week when he became one of the first to openly question why reporters weren’t asking him “controversial questions” about the situation in Russia.

What’s happening in Russia isn’t right, but at least many Canadians are taking measures to fight back in one way or another. V

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The vaccine debate

Weighing the benefits and risks of vaccinations

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tter any sentiment about vaccines and chances are the resulting opinions will be as conflicting as the information presented about them. For decades, childhood vaccinations were considered extremely necessary to prevent the spread of potentially lethal infectious diseases.

There was often no question as to the potential effects of the ingredients of each vaccine, or how individuals might react to them.

These days, vaccines have churned up some pretty rampant controversy and have been blamed for causing autism, illness and even death in some cases. Some people are now opting to forgo vaccines for themselves and their children in order to avoid potentially adverse effects and alleged toxic chemicals.

However, some members of the health-care sector are concerned that declining rates in vaccination will open the floodgates for infectious diseases to spread again. For example, measles—which, like rubella, had been eliminated by vaccination—is being imported to North America from Europe, where vaccine infrastructure isn’t as strong, notes Dr Lynora Saxinger, an infectious disease specialist and associate professor in the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Alberta.

“Measles specifically is very sensitive to a drop in vaccination rates, and so we have seen measles imported a number of times in North America over the last five years, and it’s probably going to continue,” Saxinger says. “In areas and communities where there’s more vaccine mistrust, we will see things come to a head a lot quicker.”

But it may not be as simple as that says Dr Chris Shaw, a neuroscientist and professor in the Department of Opthamology and Visual Sciences at the University of British Columbia with cross appointments in experimental medicine, neuroscience and pathology.

“The concern is that parents now will not vaccinate their children and there’ll be these breakthroughs of disease in people who don’t do it.

The problem with a lot of that is that a lot of the so-called little mini-epidemics seem to be happening as well in vaccinated kids and unvaccinated kids,” Shaw explains. “Measles is a real problem in that regard because, again, when you look at the stats on these things, it looks as if it’s kind of proportional to those different populations, so the idea is that you’ve somehow degraded herd immunity and put other people at risk doesn’t, to me, make a lot of sense.”

Shaw notes that cases of rubella and pertussis (whooping cough) are an example in which mathematical analysis does not support the idea that the vaccine had anything to do with declining rates of the diseases, while for measles it did.

“The vaccine really seems to have done something, there’s no question about that, so if you don’t vaccinate a bunch of kids [or] when you stop vaccinating kids, there is a possibility measles could come back, but that does not seem true for all the others,” Shaw says, noting the issue is a larger grey area than most people would like to believe. “Again, the concept of herd immunity has to be taken with a bit of caution because, actually, it’s one of those principles that could be true because it makes sense to be true, but hasn’t actually been demonstrated.”

“To me,” Saxinger says, “vaccination is something that is incredibly important and the antivaccination movement, I think, is rooted in concern and gets very hyped up about details

of things and conspiracy theories, but the big picture is vaccines prevent death and if they don’t prevent death they also prevent miserable illness, and the lack of vaccines is something if we didn’t have them we’d be agitating for them.”

Saxinger also acknowledges all vaccines are different and there will be variability among them.

“I get quite upset when people get all worried about these infinitesimally small risks compared to the risk of what would happen if we actually got to the point where we no longer had enough community immunity and these diseases were rampaging again.”

One of many concerns surrounding vaccines is related to the chemicals within them—particularly aluminum. Shaw explains that most vaccines contain an adjuvant, which is essentially something that makes it work better. Throughout the 20th and 21st centuries, the main adjuvant in vaccines has been aluminum in the form of aluminum salts, and it is added because some vaccines that contain weakened strains of a virus or cloned bits of a virus don’t generate a great deal of antigenic response and need something to enhance their effectiveness.

“It’s very effective, but the problem is aluminum is very toxic, and so the argument goes, ‘Well, it’s not toxic in small amounts,’ which could be true, except as we increase the number of vaccines in the vaccine schedule, people get more and more of them, so the amount of aluminum you’re exposed to through vaccination actually increases,” Shaw explains. “This becomes, I think, particularly problematic in children, where you’re taking small human beings and putting a lot of stuff into them, some of which—the aluminum in particular—can have detrimental effects on the developing nervous system.”

The counter argument exists that there is more aluminum present in certain foods, but Shaw points out that this food is being passed through our digestive system, and the bulk of the aluminum is filtered out, whereas injected aluminum is not and one of the places it ends up is in the brain. He also notes the benefits of vaccines for preventing infectious diseases needs to be equally balanced by recognizing that for some people there are adverse effects that can be quite serious.

“There’s actually quite a dramatic shopping list of things it can do, and this depends on age, so developmentally it can disrupt the normal conductivity in the brain, it can interfere with the cell-to-cell communication, it can make your blood-brain barrier leakier, it can make proteins in your brain glom together, it can interfere with transmission between cells, it can interfere with the interaction between nerve cells and the supporting cells,” Shaw explains, noting aluminum is often considered a neurotoxin and both ends of the age spectrum have a more difficult time filtering it out.

“Aluminum has no role in any biology on Earth, normal biology,” Shaw says. “In fact, it was never part of any evolutionary process and that’s because geologically it tends to be bound up in complexes that were not available for life on Earth until relatively recent times ... aluminum as a metal has remarkable properties and it’s great to build airplanes out of and all kinds of other things, but it doesn’t do any good in biological systems because we don’t know what to do with it.”

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record,” Saxinger counters, noting it is important to look at lab-based effects such as interfering with cell transmission in a real-world context.

“The exposure from vaccine is much less than from every-day sources and the aluminum salts are cleared in exactly the same way. No one thinks twice about taking an antacid, but the dose of antacid (like Maalox or Rolaids) has at least 1000 times more aluminum than a vaccine does. All food elements that are not eliminated by the gut are transported through the blood.

Whether injected into muscle or absorbed through tissue into the bloodstream—we don’t inject vaccines directly into the bloodstream, by the way—or eaten and absorbed through the wall of the gut, aluminum salts in the blood are bound to carrier proteins and taken to the kidneys to be eliminated.”

Then there is thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative used in multi-dose vaccines such as those for hepatitis B and influenza. The Public Health Agency of Canada states on its website that there are no health concerns associated with thimerosal, but the long-term goal is to remove it from vaccines entirely, provided a safe alternative is found. The PHAC also states the best science available to date has not found a link between thimerosal and neurological disorders like autism, which has been a red flag raised in the past, most publicly by actress Jenny McCarthy, who blamed her son’s autism on chemicals in vaccines.

“People are afraid of autism and people always—and I understand that—want to know why something has happened to their child, and so that’s one of the problems with vaccines, that anything that happens around a time a child gets a vaccine is attributable to the vaccine no matter what,” explains Saxinger, noting much of the research creating a link between vaccines and autism was done unethically, and has been officially retracted. “Because it’s something you did versus something that just happens, so I think that causality problem also makes people uncertain.”

The HPV vaccine in particular has caused much uncertainty since its introduction in 2008, when it was offered to girls entering Grade 5 with a three-year catch-up offered to girls in Grade 9 beginning in the 2009 school year. HPV is a family of viruses consisting of more than 100 different strains. The vaccination—known as Gardasil produced by Merck & Co or Cervarix produced by GlaxoSmithKline—has been administered voluntarily (parental consent is required in school-age children) to girls between the ages of nine and 26, and is said to protect against four types of HPV. This includes types 16 and 18, which are linked to approximately 70 percent of all cervical cancer cases. Types 6 and 11 are the other two the vaccine protects against, and they are responsible for approximately 90 percent of all genital warts cases.

Most HPV infections will clear on their own and exhibit no symptoms, but the vaccine—administered in three doses over a six-month period—is believed to provide protection against the virus for five years after injection.

The HPV vaccine is made from killed viruses and the Alberta Health website states it has gone through rigorous testing to ensure quality and safety. There are side effects, as with most vaccines, such as pain, redness and itching at the swelling site, potential fever, nausea, dizziness, headaches and vomiting.

Shaw and his research partner, neuroscientist Dr Lucija Tomljenovic have been studying the vaccine and believe it may trigger fatal autoimmune or neurological reactions and have published a study called “Death after quadrivalent human papillomavirus (qHPV) vaccination: Causal or coincidental,” which focuses on two young women who received the Gardasil vaccine and died after exhibiting symptoms similar to those of cerebral vasculitis—inflammation of blood vessels in the central nervous system. In this study, Shaw and Tomljenovic wrote that HPV antibodies binding to the wall of blood vessels in the brain could have triggered autoimmune vasculitis. Their work is ongoing, and the pair have joined forces with a team in France to further their research, which includes examining the brains of several deceased young girls who were given the vaccine.

“We’re seeing very interesting, disturbing pathologies inside the brains of these young girls that we think can link to the vaccine itself,” Shaw says. “Again, it’s always a bit of a stretch because we don’t know how they died, but we’re finding evidence that things associated with the vaccines show up in their brains ... that doesn’t mean the immediate cause of death, but it could be, and raises concern that we should be looking at this a little more rigorously. The weight of the claim against that is that it’s going to prevent cervical cancer. We don’t even know if that’s true—20 years from now we might discover that’s completely true.

Right now we don’t know that’s true.

We haven’t prevented any cervical cancer death because these pilot studies were done on women who were 14 to 20 years old and cervical cancer occurs in people who are considerably older.”

“I feel very comfortable with the idea of giving it to young people before they start having sex, and even some after they’ve become sexually active,” Saxinger notes. “It might still protect them against strains that are more prone to cause cancer, and as vaccines go it’s quite a clean one.

“HPV is a little different in that it doesn’t kill people quickly like polio or meningitis or some of the other diseases. That’s kind of very much a First World vaccine because we’re reducing eventual cancers and unsightly genital lesion. Because it’s not a life-threatening condition, I guess the threshold for wanting it to be a very, very safe vaccine is much higher, but when you also look at the fact you’re preventing an eventual cancer, that’s pretty cool” The HPV vaccine was recently approved for use in boys, as the virus can cause head and neck cancer in males. It will be offered to Grade 5 boys beginning in September 2014,

The problem with a lot of that is that a lot of the so-called little mini-epidemics seem to be happening as well in vaccinated kids and unvaccinated kids.

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with a four-year catch-up program for Grade 9 boys. Saxinger believes that, biologically speaking, the possibility of it affecting boys differently than girls seems unlikely. However, Shaw feels that with autism rates being higher in boys, an increase in aluminum adjuvanted substances could cause problems. He says more research should be done before boys are injected.

Despite the vast amount of conflict-

ing information available—particularly online—both Shaw and Saxinger note how it is important for people to do their own homework.

“There’s some very good vaccine resources through things like pediatric societies, which tend to have good websites, the Centers for Disease Control in the US has a nice website, but people also have to be prepared to actually accept those things rather than going in feeling that conspiracy

theory makes sense about things,” Saxinger says, acknowledging it can be difficult for people to trust answers they receive: “I think we can do a better job providing those answers because I’ve never met anyone in public heath or infectious diseases that had malignant intent.”

Shaw notes that people should take a more active role in their health.

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not everything on the web is true ...

I’m obviously referring to some of the anti-vaccine stuff ... I think parents do have to, in everything, have to be a little more proactive in how they seek out credible information and at least go into these things with a little more knowledge so they are indeed giving informed consent when they accept a treatment.”

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RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Social Impact Bonds threaten social services

Stage is being set for SIBs to enter Canada, forecasting less funding for social non-profits and more for investors The British are coming! The British are coming! Well, maybe not the British themselves, but it's becoming increasingly clear that the import of one more of their extreme right-wing ideas for destroying public services is about to be complete.

Ever since the poster child of the extremist right, Margaret Thatcher, was elected Prime Minister in 1979, the British have been exporting their anti-government, anti-labour and anti-poor policy schemes around the world. Beginning with Ralph Klein in 1993, our provincial government has been at the forefront of importing these pro-corporate, anti-people policies to Alberta.

Last week, British professor and public policy researcher Allyson Pollock told audiences at public presentations in Edmonton and Calgary that the most dangerous and destructive of these has been the Public Private Partnership (P3)—a scheme by which government pays more for public infrastructure and services, citizens lose the ability to keep government accountable and the private sector has a guarantee of 30 years of healthy profits.

As we know, Alberta has embraced the practice of P3s fully, and Albertans will be suffering the consequences for at least the next 30 years. But there is a new, and poten-

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tially bigger, threat now making its way to Alberta from the UK: that of the Social Impact Bond.

If you've never heard of SIBs, you are likely not alone. Despite the fact that Premier Alison Redford has promised to implement them in Alberta on a number of occasions, including in her platform during the 2011 PC Leadership Race and in a January 2013 conference call with supporters, the media has paid almost no attention to SIBs and next to nothing has been written about them in Alberta.

The basic premise is that private investors will fund a program or project delivered by a non-profit or charitable agency. If that project meets its previously agreed-upon measurable goals, then the government will pay back the investors the full amount of their initial investment plus a 10- to 20-percent return on their investment.

The main argument made by proponents of this scheme is that it allows government to transfer risk by only having to fund the successful projects as, at least in theory, projects that fail to meet their objectives will result in the investors not having their investment paid back by the government. They also argue that successful projects will ultimately save the government money through reduced long-term costs in areas like health and justice.

The reality, however, is that these SIB schemes will only serve to further pad the bank accounts of wealthy investors while turning the very concept of public services on its head and eliminating funding for a broad range of projects and activities.

The truth about private investors is that they are fundamentally risk averse and that they will do everything in their power to avoid losing money. What are the odds that a private investor will invest in projects with only a 50-percent chance of success? The truth is that the private money will only flow to those projects which can guarantee success and leave any innovative or creative projects out in the cold. If an SIB were to go south and the investors lose their money, you can be sure that they will pursue any means necessary to get that money back, including suing the implementing agency for mismanagement and failed implementation. How many non-profit agencies have the resources to fight the likes of RBC or Goldman Sachs in court? Realistically, in Alberta, all it would take is for one high-profile SIB project to fail before money managers flagged them as poor investments.

An SIB at Riker's Island Prison in New York demonstrates the riskaverse nature of investors. In that project, investor Goldman Sachs has

written a guarantee into the project that, no matter what happens, they will not lose more than 25 percent of their investment. In that project, it's the charity that's actually back-stopping that guarantee. So, if the project fails to fully meet its stated objectives, then the implementing charity will have to pay Goldman Sachs 75 percent of its investment. We're talking multi-million dollar projects here.

What would that kind of payout do to a local non-profit agency?

In the end, SIBs accomplish none of their promises: there is no risk transfer, because investors will not fund projects that might fail; they accomplish no government savings, because government will still be the only ones willing to fund the truly creative and innovative programs; and they will ultimately cost the government more money in the long run as an SIB will be 10- to 20-percent more expensive in every instance because the government will need to pay out a rate of return to investors.

What they will accomplish is make the delivery of public and human services exclusively about meeting the needs of wealthy investors rather than about the needs of the public, the community or the province.

These things are coming to Alberta and Canada. RBC has already set

aside $20 million to invest in SIBs when they become available, and SIB brokers have started popping up across the country. One of the most active on that front is an Albertabased outfit calling itself Finance for Good and which boasts the presence of Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson on its advisory board. Since there are no SIBs currently in place in Canada yet, brokers like Finance for Good are dedicating their energy to lobbying government departments to move forward on SIBs, bringing together groups of potential investors and trying to get social-service agencies on board. They have every reason to be excited about this, as these brokers have almost as much to gain financially from SIBs as the investors do.

By the time the government announces that they are moving on SIBs they will be a fait accompli. If Albertans are interested in stopping this latest British invasion, then it is imperative that they get informed and get active on this issue today. If we don't, the face of our social services will be transformed forever. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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It's abrupt climate change, stupid Not likely to see end of extreme weather affecting Northern Hemisphere This is not how it was supposed to happen. The standard climate-change predictions said people in the tropics and the sub-tropics would be badly hurt by global warming long before the people living in the temperate zones, farther away from the equator, were feeling much pain at all.

That was unfair, because it was the people of the rich countries in the temperate zone—North America, Europe and Japan, mainly—who industrialized early and started burning large amounts of fossil fuel as long as two centuries ago. That's how they got rich. Their emissions of carbon dioxide over the years account for 80 percent of the greenhouse gases of human origin that are now in the atmosphere, causing the warming, yet they get hurt least and last.

Well, what did you expect? The gods of climate are almost certainly sky gods and sky gods are never fair. But they have always liked jokes, especially cruel ones, and they have come up with a great one this time. The people of the temperate zones are going to get hurt early after all, but not by gradual warming. Their weather is just go-

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ing to get more and more extreme: heat waves, blizzards and flooding on an unprecedented scale.

"In 2012 we had the second wettest winter on record and this winter is a one-in-250-years event," British opposition leader Ed Milliband told The Observer newspaper last Friday. "If you keep throwing the dice and you keep getting sixes then the dice are loaded.

Something is going on."

The "something" is abrupt climate change. In Britain, it's an unprecedented series of great storms blowing in off the North Atlantic, dropping enormous amounts of rain and causing disastrous floods. In the United States and Canada, it's huge blizzards, icestorms and record low temperatures that last much longer and reach much further south than normal. Welcome to the "temperate" zone of the Northern Hemisphere.

There have been extremes in the "temperate" parts of the Southern Hemisphere, too. Australia has just had the hottest year ever, with record-breaking heat waves and severe bush-fires. Argentina had one of its worst-ever heat waves in De-

cember, and parts of Brazil had record rainfall, floods and landslides.

But that is probably just the result of gradual, relentless warming. The abrupt changes seem to be mainly in the Northern Hemisphere.

Geography may explain the differences. There isn't all that much land in the southern temperate zone, and the vast expanses of ocean that surround it moderate the land temperatures. Moreover, the polar jet stream in the Southern Hemisphere simply circles the Antarctic continent, and does not operate over land—whereas the northern polar jet stream flows right across North America and Europe. And it's the jet stream that matters.

The extreme weather trend in North America and Europe is less than five years old, so the science that might explain exactly what is happening is still quite tentative.

The first hypothesis that sounded plausible, published in 2012 in Geophysical Research Letters, blamed a slowing of the Northern Hemisphere's polar jet stream.

The paper, titled "Evidence link-

ing Arctic amplification to extreme weather in mid-latitudes," was written by Jennifer Francis of Rutgers University and Stephen Vavrus of the University of Wisconsin-Madison. The authors' methodology has been challenged by other climate scientists, but I think that in the end, Francis and Vavrus will turn out to be largely right. That is not good news.

They start with the fact that the Arctic has been warming faster than anywhere else on Earth, so the difference in temperature between the Arctic air mass and the air over the temperate zone has been shrinking.

Since that difference in temperature is what drives the jet stream that flows along the boundary between the two air masses, a lower difference means a slower jet stream.

Now, a fast jet stream travels in a pretty straight line around the planet from west to east, just like a mountain stream goes pretty straight downhill. A slower jet stream, however, meanders like a river crossing a flood plain—and the big loops it makes extend much further south and north than when it was moving fast.

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In a big southerly loop, you will have Arctic air much further south than usual, while there will be relatively warm air from the temperate air mass in a northerly loop that extends up into the Arctic. Moreover, the slower-moving jet stream tends to get "stuck," so that a given kind of weather—snow, rain or heat—will stay longer over the same area.

Hence the "polar-vortex" winter in North America this year, the record snowfalls in Japan in 2012 and again this winter, the lethal heat waves in the eastern US in 2012 and the floods in Britain this winter.

"They've been pummelled by storm after storm this winter (in Britain)," said Francis at the American Association for the Advancement of Science conference in Chicago last week. "It's been amazing what's going on, and it's because the pattern this winter has been stuck in one place ever since early December." There's no particular reason to think that it will move on soon, either. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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ake a moment and think about what you ate today. Do you know where it came from? Hint: "the grocery store" doesn't count.

In today's fast-paced milieu, convenience can often trump quality and sustainability. It's much easier to pop something in the microwave or order fast-food take out than to cook something from scratch, or even grow our own food. This has led to a reliance on supermarkets and industrialized food production, where livestock is crammed into inhumane living conditions and processed foods are filled with additives and GMOs, raising myriad health concerns.

Slow food, a global movement founded by Carlo Petrini in 1986, began in protest to a McDonald's restaurant opening near the Spanish Steps in Rome, Italy. The idea was to promote "A healthy alternative to fast food that strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine. The movement encourages farming, seeds and livestock that are characteristic of the local ecosystem." This essentially means replacing fast food in favour of homemade, local and sustainable products. The international slow-food movement was founded in Paris in 1989 and there are now more than 1300 local convivia chapters around the world.

The objectives of slow food include developing an Ark of Taste for each ecoregion in order to celebrate local culinary traditions, creating grassroots organizations to promote the movement to the public, organizing small-scale processing, promoting

taste education, educating consumers regarding the health risks of fast food and the drawbacks of commercial agribusiness, preserving family farms, lobbying against pesticide use and encouraging ethical buying at local marketplaces.

Edmonton's convivia has more than 100 members—ranking it among the top five in the country, and it is one of four Canadian convivia that have adopted a garden in Africa. The convivia maintains a strong national and international presence at conferences like Terra Madre, which happens every two years in Italy, and is continuously working to expand its reach on a local level, which means more events throughout the year to expose Edmontonians to what slow food has to offer. But as newly-appointed president Chad Moss notes, there's no pressure to join. It's all done in the name of enjoyment and offering accessible opportunities to enjoy slow food, such as the upcoming Hawker's Market on February 22 or the Hijacked event with Drift Food Truck on March 8. (Visit slowfoodedmonton.ca for more information.)

Moss points out there is often the misconception that the movement is elitist, but that is exactly the opposite of what slow food is based on. It is meant to be inclusive and encouraging, with members ranging from those who are just beginning to learn about slow food to those who maintain a staunch, 100-percent slow-food diet.

It's all about helping people reach what Moss calls the "ah-ha" moment

about food on their own.

Moss, a chef by trade, has been a member of Slow Food since 2007 and reached his "ah-ha" moment when he realized he didn't have to settle for subpar, processed alternatives and there were better options out there—for himself and for the local economy.

"The first thing is just—and it costs no money at all—but just think about what you're putting in your mouth.

Just think about it and ask yourself, 'Is this good enough for me? Do I want to change anything about this," says Moss, who would place himself at the more hardcore end of the Slow Food spectrum, as he and his wife Thea (a past Slow Food Edmonton president) have adopted a complete Slow Food lifestyle. "If the answer's no, fine; if the answer's yes, well why don't you go down to the farmer's market and instead of shopping at the grocery store for that product, and maybe while you're there pick up half a dozen things that you don't need to get at a grocery store."

"I think the big thing about Slow Food is it was started as an objection to fast and so if someone's got a fast-paced life and they can't make time for food, the first question isn't about food, it's about your priorities and how you're living your life," adds Kevin Kossowan, who has been a board member of Slow Food since about 2008, though he was introduced to the movement in Tuscany

in 2001. He's also teamed up with Moss for Shovel & Fork, which teaches classes based on slowfood practices. "Making some choices to spend more time with food, but also one thing I like about Slow Food that removes it a bit from the food purism sometimes that might get to be too much for people is it's hugely about conviviality; it's about people spending time together with food."

Kossowan, who grows much of his own produce and sources meat and other products from local producers, notes that even if people do eat out frequently and don't cook often themselves, they can still take advantage of slow-food practices by dining at locally owned restaurants where chefs haven taken an interest in slow food.

Despite there still being a prevalent reliance on industrially produced food, Kossowan says he has seen a shift, particularly among the younger demographic who seems to exhibit a new sense of pride in food.

"Honestly, I think it's driven by the 20-somethings and 30-somethings who just seem to give a shit about food and are willing to spend more money on good-quality food and are willing to spend the time, largely often for health reasons," Kossowan adds. "I think information availability and education is a huge part of it. Once people begin to understand what their options are—that was the kicker for me—I wasn't militant in any way, shape or form but I was like,'OK, I can eat that pig, this barn

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is disgusting, I never want to be near this again or I can eat this pig and it lived in a chunk of bush and is super happy and doesn't stink at all, not even close.' It was a no-brainer what I wanted to eat and where I wanted to put my money."

Moss and Kossowan point out that Edmonton is essentially food central, making it simple to find local producers who can provide alternatives to industrially produced products. A large part of Slow Food is celebrating regional cuisine, and the Edmonton area is a rich source of independently raised protein, grains and produce— and developing relationships with these producers ties into the educational aspect of Slow Food as well.

"Now when I eat something or I serve it to somebody else I pretty much know exactly where it came from, who grew it, who caught it, what it was fed down to the vegetables, is it organic," Moss says. "So when I experience my food it's like every night is like having a dinner party because even if I just look at my plate I can think of all those people and put a face to all those people ... so the fact that all my food was cared about from the beginning just makes me feel better eating it."

One such producer is Jeff Senger at Sangudo Custom Meat Packers. He and his business partner, Kevin Meier, bought the business from its previous owner nearly four years ago when Senger left his corporate job as an CONTINUED ON PAGE 11 >>

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about charcuterie Save the meat Before refrigeration became widespread, charcuterie was used as a solution to preserve meats. Charcuterie is still prepared today because of the flavours brought out in the meat during the preservation process.

The trade In France during the 15th century, local guilds regulated tradesmen in food production, and those that were in charge of charcuterie were known as charcutiers.

The meats used varied depending on the region, and consisted of products such as pâtés, rillettes, sausages, bacon and more.

Not exclusive to pork The term charcutier translated to "pork butcher," but charcuterie is not limited to pork products.

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Salty business Charcutiers use two main types of curing salt mixture. The first is 93.75-percent sodium chloride and 6.25-percent sodium nitrate, and known by many names, including "tinted cure mix," "pink cure," prague powder" and "insta-cure #1." The other is known as "prague powder II" or "insta-cure #2." As with the first salt mixture, it is pink in colour, but produced from salt and sodium nitrate, and is best for dry sausages.

Multifaceted flavours Since salt is so prevalent in cured meats, sweeteners and other flavouring agents are necessary to combat the salt's harsh flavours. Dextrose, sugar, corn syrup, honey and maple syrup are among those used in addition to spices like cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, mace and chilies. V

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Hailing from the hills of Verona in Italy's Valpolicella region (which is why you'll see "della Valpolicella" on the label), Amarone is made from the Corvina, Corvinone and Rondinella grape varieties. The wine undergoes appassimento, a very old winemaking technique originating in Ancient Greece in which the grapes are partially dried prior to fermentation. This concentrates the sugars and stabilizes the acids, resulting in a wine with concentrated flavours of raisins and dried fruits, as well as higher alcohol and tannins.

The grapes for Amarone are specially selected for superior quality and dried in whole bunches. Traditionally this was done in special drying lodges, usually on mats or wicker shelves, or even hung from the rafters. Nowadays most producers pack the grapes into special slatted packing cases and dry the grapes in temperature- and humidity-controlled drying rooms, which is much better at preventing the grapes from rotting before they dry properly. Grapes for Amarone are often dried for three or four months before being fermented into the final wine, although the efficiency of a modern drying room often reduces this time. While Amarone can be enjoyed immediately upon bottling, it only gets better with more time in the cellar.

Recioto, another type of dried grape wine from the same region and grape varieties as Amarone, is a sweet dessert wine made from super ripe grapes that have been dried even longer—sometimes up to six months. Recioto is even longer-lived than Amarone, capable of evolving in the cellar for decades.

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This adds structure and tannin to the Valpolicella, which is otherwise an everyday drinking wine: light in body, with bright cherry flavours, high acidity and fairly low tannins.

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accountant to pursue an endeavour he felt was more fulfilling: providing quality, healthy meat products to consumers. Senger, who learned how to cut meat during hunting and fishing trips with his father, and his wife, Heather, also traded in their urbanite status in Calgary for a "pathetically slow" rural lifestyle on a 160-acre farm nine-and-a-half years ago. Now the Sengers grow their own produce, make their own honey and cheese and own a host of livestock, so it's not uncommon for them to sit down to 100-percent homegrown meals.

Senger, a member of Slow Food Edmoonton, was nominated to attend Terra Madre in Turin, Italy in 2012, and says he was surprised by the amount of regional pride exhibited by different vendors. Senger "caught the bug" and began thinking about what he could do that was unique in Alberta and began making bresaola, which is dried beef that he renamed Alberta Dried Eye Round. He also began delving further into dry curing, utilizing the 30 or so pigs Sangudo processes each year. None of the pigs are grain fed and are allowed to run around freely, rooting through the bush for their food, which Senger says has resulted in better tasting, higher-quality meat.

"When you're eating just dried meat, the flavour's concentrated and you really get to know the animal better and how it was raised because you're tasting a super concentrated version of it in wafer-thin slices," he says.

Sangudo specializes in custom meat cutting for local farmers as well as for the food-service industry. Sangudo products can be found on the menus of numerous locally owned restaurants such as Culina Mill Creek (it's first restaurant client), Three Boars Eatery, Woodwork, Corso 32 and RGE RD. "Once a week we deliver into the city to some really cool kind of slow-philosophy restaurants," says Senger, who hopes to open a retail

DISH meat store in Edmonton in the near future. "So the really high-quality restaurants that maybe aren't pushing through the volume, but they want quality and have supported us right from the beginning of us introducing ourselves."

Chefs from these restaurants and food-lovers alike have been invited out to the farm on numerous occasions to see exactly how the slaughterhouse operates, from the processing floor to the cured meat products at the front. Senger has no qualms about visitors on kill days, and maintains an open-door policy for viewing—and even participating, if someone feels so inclined.

"We knew the mega industrial plant in Brooks would never allow cameras in, so we knew as long as we were doing the opposite of the giant, industrialized plant then it's got to the be right because we're not competing with them," Senger says. "The thicker they build their walls and the

more they excluded the press and media, the more we needed to include the press, media and relationship with producers and food bloggers and food consumers."

Sangudo has nothing to hide because it has ensured its slaughterhouse operates in the most humane way possible. Animals ranging in size from lambs to elk and bison are moved through the facility, and their needs are accounted for. The plant is built around elk-handling facilities Senger and Meier visited and include larger holding cells where the animals are able to turn around—if they can't do this, they get stressed—constructed of wood to prevent robbing heat and creating noise if the animal bangs into it. The chutes the animals are moved through are constructed using rounded corners, feature adequate lighting to remove shadows that could scare them and feature heated ramps. When the animals do

make it to the knock-off cell, Senger says they're often in a relaxed state (music is often played throughout the slaughterhouse to soothe them), and a mechanism moves into place so the animal is held tightly with padding to prevent them from hurting themselves before the final shot is delivered.

A great deal of care and time goes into the products Sangudo produces, but Senger notes that slow food is not a new concept—it's simply getting back to basics and appreciating what goes in our bodies.

"It's slow; nothing happens fast, but we don't call it that anymore— it's normal," Senger adds. "I think slow food is another [term] for 18 000 years of human food culture, except for the last 50 ... when people thought farming with chemicals was a better idea and on an industrial scale, which is sick."

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itie Ballet's newest work offers an unusual collaboration, where neoclassical ballet, contemporary dance and the sweeping movements of a painter meet on stage. Edmonton's only resident professional ballet company (Alberta Ballet is Calgary-based) has signed up contemporary dance improviser Tony Olivares and painter Levi Etherington to bring life to Cave Beat, the third installment of Citie's annual Mosaic presentations.

Inspired by the ancient cave paintings in Lascaux, France, Cave Beat features a three-act show with Etherington painting (and dancing) in tandem with the Citie corps. Acting as storyteller for the tribe, Etherington leads the way as a shaman of sorts for the dancers. Each 20-minute act—called Awakening, Quest and Exodus, respectively—show the progression of human life, similar to the depictions in the original cave drawings. The same progression through history, says Citie's artistic director François Chevennement, is also reflected in the choreography.

"There is evolution in the dancing also," he notes. "The first act is bare feet and floor work; it's a little bit more contemporary. The second act is more neoclassical, with the dancers standing up on two feet, and the third act is in pointe shoes—more lyrical and classical."

While Olivares is used to working with improvisation, ballet choreography requires a different rigour, especially in keeping time with the mus-

cular score by contemporary Latvian composer Pēteris Vasks.

"To me, just to count for the dancers was difficult," Olivares laughs, "so François was the counting master in here. Of course any process is very challenging, but François allowed me to work with the dancers in a summer intensive, so they knew a bit of my vocabulary and they knew they were going to use a lot of the floor work that I do."

Etherington has been working hard, too, preparing the canvases (and his physical stamina) for the live performances ahead. The paintings—six of them to be produced during each performance—will be auctioned for sale following each show.

"My role has been painting, painting, painting, morning until midnight," Etherington says. "I have 12 5x5' panels that are the cave walls for the show, and also 12 costumes. I'm in an expressive arts therapy course right now, so the movement factor has been something that has really interested me not just to stay stuck in one modality, but to really explore."

"This show, I haven't seen anything like it before," he says. "I really enjoy painting and this was something totally new for me, to be able to move and perform and bring out every level of expression, and each level is really supported: the art supports the dancers and the dancer support the art."

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The Clean House

Comedy, tragedy and cleanliness // Jon Ward

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he title is beguilingly simple but layered with meaning: Sarah Ruhl's 2004 play The Clean House aligns literal housecleaning à la Windex and furniture polish with a metaphysical cleaning house: an exorcising of emotional baggage.

"I love Sarah Ruhl's writing because she has these fantastic poetic images, but they're always very specific to the characters; it's always founded, even when it's poetic," says director Amy DeFelice of Trunk Theatre, who describes The Clean House as a "magic-realist comedy drama"—so, a show that resists being pigeon-holed at every turn.

A script that calls for three female acUntil Sat, Mar 1 (7:30 pm) tors over 40 and one Directed by Amy DeFelice male—which DeFeVarscona Theatre, $20 – $25 lice finds a refreshing change from the usual roles actresses often

find themselves taking. The Clean House follows Matilde, a Brazilian housekeeper who is trying to become a comedienne. She's inspired to this path by her late parents: her mother died of laughter from the funniest joke in the world, which was crafted by her father, who then committed suicide in despair. "[Matilde] will be attempting to clean a house and then she'll be distracted by her parents, and they'll tango across the living room she's in," DeFelice explains. "Instead of playing the griefstricken character, which isn't that interesting for an audience to watch, it's much more interesting to go, 'No, let's see them dance!' And then you understand more why she misses them."

With death as a cornerstone of the play, one might assume the script is morose, or maudlin, even; but DeFelice emphasizes this isn't Ruhl's treat-

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ment of the material.

"There's a lovely woman who's helping us with the Portuguese in the show, and she's telling us how, more specific to Brazil, there's not quite that need to separate the dead in your life; there's more connection to the spiritual world, in a way," she says. "I think that's why we [in North America] find it harder to mourn sometimes—we don't know how to deal with remembering our dead sometimes."

"If it was somebody else writing this play it would be a drama; some of the characters are in a comedy and some of the characters are in what would be called a domestic drama," she continues. "There's moments when characters are at their most serious and earnest, that they're also at their most comic—the dramatic event is so close to the comedy sometimes."

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Dirt

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sshole. It's probably the most succinct way to describe Murphy, the main character and possible murderer in Punctuate! Theatre's second production of 2014, Dirt. "[Dirt] really calls into question, what is the value of human life?" explains director Elizabeth Hobbs. "And is just being alive enough to make you a valuable member of society? Should we take care of you, just because you're alive?"

A grisly comedy by Alberta playwright Ron Chambers, Dirt was last seen in Edmonton in 1996. Eighteen years later, two of the original cast members, Jeff Page and Rebecca Starr, are back to rediscover a story Hobbs says is just as relevant now as it was years ago, perhaps more so.

"It's an interesting examination or exposure of mentalities towards people who are on welfare," Hobbs says. "Kind of exposing this idea that we can treat people as second-class citizens if they don't contribute to society in the way that we deem appropriate."

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when his girlfriend dies in a suspicious fire and he quickly becomes the prime suspect, a lack of evidence notwithstanding. In order to coerce a confession, local cops put Murphy under an unorthodox house arrest, paying another welfare recipient who could use the cash to keep watch over him.

"None of the characters are particularly likeable in the traditional hero-likeable way," Hobbs says. "We're not really sure who we fight for, for most of it."

Tense, twisted and laced with dark, situational humour, Hobbs is sure audiences will laugh at the most inappropriate times—"Ultimately, at the end of the day, the play is very, very funny," she assures. And she also thinks it will make audiences reflect on their belief systems, noting that, even if the characters are despicable at times, their lines still resonate.

"I think we all get frustrated with people who give up or don't seem to want to succeed in the way others fight for, but we might not know why that is or take the time to bother to find that out," Hobbs says. "I think [Dirt] is challenging to anybody with any beliefs at all."

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e don't truly know why Edgar death in a series of bleakly fantastiAllan Poe penned such haunt- cal figures: after she dies, Poe enviing tales—but from the kernels of sions his mother, shrieking and with truth embedded in Catalyst Theatre's grotesquely long claws scratching at fantastically macabre Nevermore, it her coffin walls; he turns to find the certainly seems viable that having raven figure that became so synonydeath as a constant companion could mous with his writing.

Bretta Gerecke's drive someone to an obsession Until Sun, Mar 2 (8pm) costuming and scewith the darker Directed by Jonathan nography designs Christenson aspects of life. are as much their As the full ATB Financial Arts Barns, own characters as title suggests, $24.50 – $31.50 the script's actual Nevermore: The ones. Their extravagance is belied by Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan an excessively simple set design, Poe is not to be taken as literal truth, featuring eight sheer panels rolled but rather as a fanciful surmising of open or closed as required to allow what key life events may have been the passage of the figures, clad in significant influences on Poe's work. ostentatiously gothic regalia. AsymChief among those is death, particu- metrical lines, stark black and white larly the scourge of tuberculosis that contrasts and exaggerated—almost claimed his mother when he was six to the point of being deconstructand is here symbolized by a bloody ed—accessories are characteristic of handkerchief and an ominous wheez- Nevermore's visual appeal. All those ing cough that echoes from the shad- peculiar angles and shadow contrasts ows. This production, revised from evoke an esthetic similar to German the original 2009 version, fleshes out expressionism and are absolutely

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intrinsic to the development of the mood and tone of the play.

There's not a single weak link in the actors clad in those flamboyantly noir costumes, though each one infuses their set of characters (all, save Scott Shpeley as Poe, play multiple roles) with peculiar eccentricities and hallmarks. Beth Graham and Vanessa Sabourin in particular stand out in their roles of Fanny Allan and Sissy Clemm, Eliza Poe and Louise Gabriella, respectively.

The single element of the production that doesn't stand out as notable is the music: although well-composed, none of the songs are a single in the way that we expect with musicals. Nonetheless, the songs flow well and accentuate the script nicely, a background onto which are painted the specific, punctuated moments in Poe's life as it unfolds through Nevermore's striking images and evocative poetry.

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DANCE CITIE BALLET • Timms Centre, U of A Campus • Mosaic Three–Cave Beat: choreography by Tony Olivares and François Chevennement; live on-stage painting by Levi Etherington • Feb 22, 7:30pm; Feb 23, 2:30pm • tickets at tixonthesquare.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) MILE ZERO DANCE • The Artery • milezerodance.com • AIR (Artists in Residence): Mia van Leeuwen • Feb 20 • $12/$10 (MZD member)

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)

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

ZUMBA BASHFIERY FRIDAYS • Central Senior Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • Shake your body to the Latin beat, and freestyle dance to live DJ music.

Featuring Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko and Zumba instructors Dru D, Manuella F-St, Michelle M, Sabrina D. and Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri each month • 7pm • $20 (online)/$25 (door)

FILM THE CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton • fortedmontonpark.ca • An Affair to Remember (1957, STC); Feb 20 • Gone with the Wind (1939, PG); Feb 27

CHA ISLAND • 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 • Movie Night: Mbira Night and Afrobeat Party; film: Music by Prudence;• Feb 21, 7pm • $5 (door CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley A.

the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Sun: 1pm; Wed: 4:20pm • Born to be Wild 3D (G) Mon, Thu: 4:20pm • To The Arctic 3D (G) Fri: 12pm; Thu: 2pm • Gravity 3D (PG) Fri-Sat: 4:35pm, 9:10pm; Sun: 3:25pm; Thu: 7:45pm • Feb 21-27

METRO CINEMA • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Canada’s Top Ten Film Festival: Asphalt Watches: Feb 21, 7pm, Feb 26, 9pm • Top Ten Shorts Programme; Feb 23, 7pm • When Jews Were Funny; Feb 22, 2pm • Sarah Prefers to Run (Sarah préfère la course) Feb 24, 7pm • Enemy; Feb 22 7pm • Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme); Feb 25, 7pm • Vic + Flo Saw a Bear (Vic et Flo ont vu un ours); Feb 23, 12:30pm • Rhymes for Young Ghouls: Feb 28, 7pm, Mar 3: 9:30 & 4 @ 9:15pm • Watermark; Feb 23, 2:30pm • Gabrielle: Mar 2, 4pm • Feb 21-Mar 4

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 • Art for lunch: Ledcor Theatre Foyer: Curious Collections: The Work of Lyndal Osborne with Devon Beggs; Feb 20, 3rd Thu each month, 12:10-12:50pm; free • Book Club: The Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio; Feb 26, 7pm at Green Studio, Singhmar Centre for Art Education, Lower Level; free, pre-register • Open Studio: Adult Drop-In: Illusions: Scale Collage: Feb 26; Wed 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member)

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • FORGE AND FORM: Landscapes by Clint Hunker and Kerensa Haynes • Feb 27-Mar 12 • Reception: Feb 28, 6-9pm, and Mar 1, 1-4pm

EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY • Landmark Cinemas 9 City Centre • Oscar® nominated short films 2014 • Live Action (105-

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

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.439.5285 • A Place in the Sun (1951, PG) • Feb 24, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior)/$5 (student)/$3 (child 12 and under) 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 by Feb 25 at alumni.ualberta.ca/events

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Message in a Bottle (PG); Feb 21, 2pm • The Last Song (PG); Feb 28, 2pm IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • Jerusalem 3D (G): Fri-Sat 11am, 2:10pm, 3:20pm, 6:50pm, 8:00 pm; Sun: 11am, 2:10pm, 5:15pm, 6:30pm; Mon-Wed: 2pm, 3:10pm, Thu: 3:10pm, 5:15pm, 6:30pm • Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun: 12pm; Tue: 4:20pm • Flight of

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • A ROCKY MOUNTAIN MINUTE: Paintings by Donna Miller; until Feb 28 • QUIRKY QUILLERS: in the teak display cases; 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

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir

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

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); Feb 26-27, 6:30pm, 9pm; Feb 26, 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 26, 6:30pm; Feb 27, 9pm • Ticket info at edmontonfilmfest.com

St Albert • Artworks by Vincent Duffek; until Feb 24 • ILLUMINATION: Encaustic artworks by Barbara Mitchell; Feb 25-Mar 13

• Library, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • JOURNEY OF AN IDEA 19962013: Artworks by Peggy Gahn • Until Feb 22

DREAMSPEAKERS FESTIVAL SOCIETY •

of members' artworks; until Feb 25 • Art by Antony Cummings, Nadia Tanguay, Barbara Kowaleski, and Léon Tremblay; Feb 28-Mar 11

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

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211 • LANDSCAPE: Fresh look at landscapes • Until Mar 15

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • SIX TRAITS IN UNITY: Shapes of Canada West, paintings by Bernadette McCormack • Feb 25-Mar 15 • Opening: Mar 1, 1-4pm

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) • 10332124 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 • DREAM HUT: New work by Adam Maitland • Feb 21-Mar 8 • Opening: Feb 21, 7-11pm

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • CROSS CONTAMINATION: Artworks by the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts staff and artist collective; until Mar 28 • FRESH PAINT: A Snapshot of Painting in Edmonton; until Apr 12 • DUETS: Shared Ideas in

780.467.8189 • strathconacountymuseum.ca • ESSENCE OF ELEGANCE: Lifestyles of the Past • until Mar 21

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St,

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL–SPRUCE GROVE

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

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • IN THE

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

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; reception: Mar 22, 2-4pm • WHAT DOES YOUR FISH LOOK LIKE?: Ceramics by Gillian Mitchell; until Mar 22

Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Dirty Wars (14A); Feb 29, 6:30pm

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta

GALLERY@501–Strathcona County • 501

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

ART HABITAT • 10217-106 St • PAINTING A BOOK

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • THE SPACE BETWEEN US: Works by Alysha Creighton • FIELD NOTES: Works

by Lisa Matthias • Feb 26-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

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

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • AT ODDS: Works by Sydney Lancaster, Susan Seright and Claire Uhlick • Until Mar 1-2 • Ageless Art: For mature adults; Subtractive Drawing: Feb 20, 1-3pm; $12/$10 (member)

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

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

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

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) •

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

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • Front Room: DEJA VOUS: Works by Emilie St Hilaire; until Feb 28 • Main Gallery: ALL THE WORLD: Works by Clare Samuel; until Feb 28 • Hall Project Space: Edmonton Wayfinding Project: until Feb 28

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 780.433.5807 • HILLVIEW ARTISTS IN HARMONY: Works with Chiu-Min Chiang, Katherine Dyck, Joyce McCoy, Nancy Rae, Debbie Radke and Ghodssi Razavy • Until Feb 26

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • Lando Art Auctions Preview: Feb 21-23; Fine Art Auction: Feb 23, 2pm • March Exhibition and Sale: Gallery artists and secondary market works; Feb 28-Mar 25

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • The Art of Accessibility: Qmunity League and Mindhive presents: queer party; Mar 1, 9pm • Parka Patio: Ice/Land–the winter parka party: Featuring artwork by Kayla Callfas and Chris Perron, and Giulliano Palladino, silent auction, Easy Love, Cygnets, and giveaway trip to Iceland courtesy of Icelandair and EIA; Feb 22, 8pm; $15 at latitude53.org/parka

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.559.4443 • OUR PASSION–TWO ARTISTS WHO SHARE THE SAME OBSESSION: Artworks by Joyce Boyer and Elaine Tweedy; until Feb 23 MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440112 St, 780.407.7152 • HOUSES/HOMES: Drawings of houses in the Garneau neighbourhood by Wendy Gervais with short stories by Shirley Serviss, and historical reference by Ken Tingley • Until Mar 16

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • 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 • JUST DRAW: Drawings by staff members, Feb 21-Mar 31 • 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 NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS • 9225-118 Ave • Community Arts Night: Learn techniques, become familiar with new mediums; Every Tue until Jun 10, 6:30-8:30pm; Pre-register at 780.474.7611

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jas-

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

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

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • HARRY POTTER: THE EXHIBITION: Peer into the wizard’s world in an interactive exhibit featuring hundreds of authentic props and costumes from the Harry Potter films; until Mar 9; start: $14 • How to MAke A MonsteR– THE ART AND TECHNOLOGY OF ANIMATRONICS U OF A MUSEUMS • museums.ualberta.ca • Human Ecology Gallery: Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave: THE RE-BIRTH OF VENUS: Fashion & The Venus Kallipygos: Explores the influence of art on fashion through the study of Venus Kallipygos, and its pervasive influence on dress • Until Mar 2

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • GALLEry A: GALLEry B: CELEBRATING ALBERTA: Alberta Society of Artists; until Mar 15

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • POINTS OF VIEW: Works by the Edmonton Art Club; through Feb • Works by Deborah Catton • Through Mar VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • UNTITLED: Paintings by Amber Jackson • Until Feb 28 WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • Guy Roy, landscapes of the Charlevoix region of Quebec; Until Feb 20 • Paintings by Claudette Castonguay; Mar 1-13

WORKS GALLERY • 10635-95 St • MEET ME IN MCCAULEY: NOVANTACINQUE 95 BENVENUTI: Banners by Dennis Lenarduzzi • Through Feb • The yMCA Community Canvas Works Gallery: Don Wheaton YMCA–DT (10211-102 Ave): Jenny Keith's nature-inspired paintings; through Feb

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Adam Kehler will be chatting about his new book, Stepping Out of the Shadows: A Guide to Understanding and Healing From Addictions; Feb 22, 11am-12pm • Leanny Myggland-Carter's launching her new book, Orange; Feb 23, 3:30-4:30pm • Poet's Haven: readings; Feb 23, 2pm • Julie Robinson launches her new book Jail Fire, with poet Chris Wiesenthal; Feb 26, 7pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm CHA ISLAND CAFÉ • 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 • BLACK Her-Story: Natty Dread Literary Celebration: featuring Elsa Robinson, Ellen Kartz, Althea Cunningham, and Sima Robinson • Feb 22, 8pm • $12 (door)

FREEDOM TO READ WEEK • freedomtoread. ca • Feb 23-Mar 1 • Various EPL Branches: Banned Books Café; Freedom to Listen • U of A: Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, Rm 1-430, 11455 Saskatchewan Dr: \Amanda Lindhout: Freedom in Forgiveness; Feb 24 • City Room–City Hall: Freedom to Read Week: Local authors read from controversial works that inspire them: Jason Lee Norman, Shirley Serviss, and poet, Trisia Eddy; Feb 25

JASPER PLACE HIGH SCHOOL'S GLOBAL CAFÉ • 8950-163 St, Rm 138 • 587.926.3391 • Living Books for the Global Cafe Living Library Event • Feb 25-26, 9:15am-3:15pm

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 STANLEY A. MILNER LIBRARY • Books2Buy: used books, CDs and DVDs • Feb 21-23

STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY • Rm 5, 6 Fl •

per Ave, 780.455.7479 • Works by Tricia Firmaniuk and Nomi Stricker; until Mar 4

Cultivating Attentiveness, Fearless and Gentleness: Writing From The Heart; presented by: Jannie Edwards • Feb 22, 9:30am-4pm • $35

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401

780.453.9100 • CHOP SUEY ON THE PRAIRIES: Until Apr 27 • Feature Gallery: PATTERN WIZARDRY: until Mar 9 • Orientation Gallery: SPECIES AT RISK: until Mar 16 • Lecture Series: Museum Theatre: Questions and Collections IV: A Geological Pattern Mystery: How patterns large and small provide insight into Earth's history by Melissa Bowerman; Feb 26, 7pm

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • A selection

Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8601 • The Big Speakeasy: Freedom to Read Week: Margaret Macpherson, guests, jazz music, Charleston demo, performances from banned/challenged works, discuss censorship from local authors • Feb 28, 7-8:30pm • Free; pre-register at 780.410.8600

T.A.L.E.S.–Strathcona • Strathcona Library, Willow Rm, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed, 7pm,

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each month, Sep-Apr • Free

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

THEATRE THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri, Feb 21, 28

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and oneact plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014

THE CLEAN HOUSE • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • Magic realist comedy drama by Sarah Ruhl, presented by Trunk Theatre. Starring Shannon Boyle, Coralie Cairns, Troy O’Donnell, Elena Porter and Liana Shannon; directed by Amy DeFelice • Feb 20-Mar 1 • $20 (student/senior)/$25 (adult)

THE COMING OUT MONOLOGUES • Dewey's, U of A, 116 St, 85 Ave • prideweek.ualberta.ca • Part of U of A;s Pride Week, iSMSS is presenting a community-based theatre production–a collaborative storytelling event celebrating LGBTQ coming out stories • Feb 28, 6:30-9:30pm; Mar 1, 1:30-4pm • $15 (adult)/$10 (student) at TIX on the Square DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

diRt• The Tacos Space, 10005-80 Ave • By Ron Chamber • Presented by Punctuate! Theatre, Elizabeth Hobbs directs in this dark and gritty comedy starring Jeff Page, Elliott James, Andréa Jorawsky, Cliff Kelly, and Rebecca Starr • Until Feb 24, 7:30pm • $20/$15 (student/senior/industry) at TIX on the Square, door 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 DO YOU WANT WHAT I HAVE GOT? A CRAIGSLIST CANTATA • Citadel Theatre, 780.425.1820 • In The Club: Contemporary Comedy Revue by Veda Hille and Bill Richardson; directed by Amiel Gladstone • Until Feb 23

NEVERMORE • Westbury Theatre, 8529 Gateway Blvd, 780.431.1750 • The Imaginary Life and Mysterious Death of Edgar Allan Poe: a whimsical and chilling musical fairytale • Until Mar 1 • start: $24.50 (student/senior)/$31.50 (adult) at TIX on the Square; $10 (at door youth under 21 years) NINO NINA SHOW • Expressionz, 780.450.6462 • Live monthly classic variety show • Last Sun each month, 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • Free, donations SAME TIME NEXT YEAR • Kinsmen Korra Dinner Theatre, Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • St Albert Theatre Troupe, by Bernard Slade • Two people 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 20-22, 27-28, Mar 1 • $47.50 at box office, 780.222.0102 STAGE STRUCK! 2014• Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave • Annual adult one-act play festival: Plays by Edmonton-based playwrights Maria Colonescu, Nicole Grainger, Michele Vance Hehir, Tai Grauman, Phil Kreisel, Barbara North, Sarah Elliott, and Gerald Osborn • Feb 21, 7pm; Feb 22, 1pm and 7pm • $35 (3-session Fest Pass); $28 (student/senior); Single: $14/$12 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square A TALE OF TWO CITIES: THE MUSICAL • Festival Place, Sherwood Park • 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

VAUDEVILLE MADNESS • Sugarfoot Ballroom, 10545-81 Ave • vaudevillemadness.com • Featuring Annie Dugan, Andrea House, the Great Balanzo (circus, comedy), Ron Pearson (mystery wonder show), Gustavo the Impossibilist (stunt clown) • Feb 22, 2pm • $15/$50 (family pack of 4); proceeds to Street Performers Festival THE VIP KIDS SHOW • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Music, comedy, art, puppets, and special guests! • Feb 23, 11am • All Seats $6 VIP Pass $60

WEST SIDE STORY • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Broadway Across Canada • Musical set in New York's West Side in the mid-'50s amidst widespread racial and social tension • Until Feb 23 • Tickets at 1.866.540.7469

WILDFIRE FESTIVAL • edmonton.ca/city_government/initiatives_innovation/winter-festivals-events. aspx for details • Improv festival for students • Until Mar 1

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SNOW ZONE

EDITOR : MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

ADVENTURE // MONTANA

Historic railway town keeps the vibe local at a ski resort

// Tiffany Burns

T

he experience of skiing Whitefish Mountain Resort is intertwined with visiting the western town of Whitefish, Montana. As you walk along Central Avenue, ducking in and out of locally owned shops, you can see the ski hill just eight miles to the north. After the drive from Alberta, it's a charming place to stretch your legs, and a hot drink from Montana Coffee Traders is vital. On this day, the café was abuzz with talk of how

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unusually cold it was. Rumour had it that mountain officials were threatening to close the main chair for safety reasons. No one wants to get stuck on a stalled lift when the wind chill is -30 C, so to cover my bases, I popped into Stumptown Snowboards to pick up a face mask.

The next morning, no matter how cozy the fireplace was in my hotel room, staying inside was not an option after commuting all the way

from Wild Rose Country. Thankfully, the sunny day took the sting out of the bitter temps. On the way to the hill, the shuttle driver told us we were lucky as the runs at Whitefish can often be steeped in fog.

The good news continued when we arrived at Chair 1, also known as the Big Mountain Express. It was open for business, although some other lifts weren't. As we floated to the top, the static Chair 5 appeared on our right,

frosted white against the dazzling azure sky.

When I'm a newcomer to a mountain, I tend to ride runs a few times over to learn the terrain. So on this day I stuck to the front side, with a Toni Matt migration that became progressively faster. The trail is fairly flat for the first two minutes, but from the second it switched from a road to a run, I felt like a hero. It's a wide-open slope with a pitch that's not steep enough to intimidate, yet sheer enough to bless you with some big speed. I detoured onto Bench Run, but jumped back onto Toni Matt to return to Chair 1, one of three highspeed quads at Whitefish.

The resort formerly known as Big Mountain feels like a local's hill, despite the name change in 2007 to ease marketing efforts to non-locals confused about the location. For Northern Montana residents of the historic railway town, the change is no biggie—even before the ski hill was originally founded in 1947, its moniker was a moving target. In 1935, Whitefish skiers with a thirst for speed formed the Hell Roaring

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Ski Club, but changed it to Whitefish Lake Ski Club to placate townspeople who weren't fans of fire and brimstone. Haskill Mountain was another handle and many places on the trail map nod to these moments in the mountain's history.

Do your best to carve into the 3000 acres of skiable terrain, but don't forget to carve out time for a hearty lunch. We stopped in to Summit House at the top of Chair 1: elevation 6817 feet. When skies are blue, sudssipping snowboarders and skiers enjoy a crystal-clear view of Glacier National Park and the Canadian Rockies.

After a day of skiing the Fish, as the locals say, it's time to thaw those flippers in hot water. If you're lucky enough to be staying at the Lodge at Whitefish Lake, like I was, you can continue your Big Mountain experience during your après ski. The Lodge's lakeside hot tub offers an incredible view of the slopes through a veil of steam as they catch the setting sun's final rays.

TIFFANY BURNS

@TIFFANY_BURNS

ADVENTURE // AVALANCHE

How to control an avalanche Controlled slides conducted in the name of public safety

own terms.

"There are a lot of paradoxical processes that happen with snow," Blake explains. "What the temperatures have been; how much snow is on the ground; what the wind has done to it; all affects how the snow changes on the ground over time.

"This is why we have a meeting of the minds every morning; it's not as simple as 'this weather equals this avalanche condition.'"

This season, avalanche risks are par-

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t 8 am on January 16, a group of Parks Canada employees sat in an office planning the best way to bomb the mountains.

The morning began with a review— in painstaking detail—of the weather conditions. That's a common topic for the park's avalanche-control team, who meets every other morning for a briefing.

On this day, however, the team's discussion went a little further, with a review of the detailed plan for the day's avalanche-control work. Visitor safety specialist Steve Blake was in charge of the operation, and he went over the day's agenda.

The team would start by meeting at a rendezvous point to build the bombs. When the helicopter arrived, the first "strike team" would load it up and begin the bombing. The other team would move out to the second rendezvous point, build more bombs and when the helicopter landed to refuel, the team would sub out and tackle the second run.

After the briefing, Blake described in more detail just what the team does, first explaining that in a park with as many mountains as Jasper, avalanches are bound to happen.

To keep the public safe, Parks' avalanche-control team closely monitors avalanche conditions and responds when risks are too high.

Part of that response is triggering avalanches in a controlled manner so they don't happen unexpectedly.

The main way Parks does this is by dropping explosives in high-risk areas to set off slides on the team's

ticularly high due to light snowfalls in November and December, compounded by January's warm temperatures and big storms.

The team is responsible for the area north of the Columbia Icefields to Saskatchewan River Crossing, as well as Maligne Lake Road.

"There's hundreds of potential avalanche paths in there," Blake says.

Following the morning briefing and the closure of Highway 93, the team met at its first rendezvous point, where the bombs were made.

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specialist, explained the process standing next to a pickup truck loaded with materials.

The well-trained and experienced team starts with bags of ammonium nitrate/fuel oil (ANFO), which looks a lot like a bag of bright blue fertilizer. The stuff is basically inert by itself, says Horton, and "the only way you can make it explode is by having a strong explosive charge to set it off."

To achieve that, they stick a small primed charge into the bag. Then, they attach a wick, plunk the whole thing in a burlap sack marked "explosives," and tie it with duct tape.

They create about a dozen such bombs for a single run, and throw in a few smaller hand charges to supplement them. Then, the whole lot gets loaded into the helicopter.

Next, the two bombers, the pilot and the observer squeeze in amongst the explosives and take off. They spend about an hour and a half in the air and hit about a dozen targets.

Once the helicopter swoops into view, it hovers close to the mountain.

A small black dot falls from it and disappears into the mountainside. Then everybody waits.

Despite their terrifying power, most controlled avalanches start off surprisingly weak. After the sharp bang of the explosives, a spindly puff of smoke curls toward the sky and a small patch of snow shifts and begins to slide.

From a safe vantage point, avalanches don't make much of a sound. But watching the growing cloud of snow tumbling down the mountainside, swallowing trees and ricocheting off the rocks, it's tough

not to either shudder in terror or whoop with laughter.

Even the guys who have been triggering avalanches for decades watch with craned necks and big grins as the snow cloud barrels down the mountain and across the road.

Avalanches are measured on a scale from one to five, with one being harmless to people and five being big enough to take out a village. (Jasper doesn't have slopes capable of producing a five).

Blake says the goal is to never have a natural avalanche bigger than a controlled one happen in the park. If the conditions are controlled, however, bigger slides are fine, as evidenced by the size three the team set off early in the day last week.

Along with the helicopter bombing runs, Parks' avalanche control team has another tool at its disposal: the "Avalauncher."

Avalaunchers are used for smallerscale work, but that makes the tool no less impressive.

Used for clearing snow off roadside cliffs, the Avalauncher is essentially a long metal tube hooked up to compressed air. The team loads tiny bombs into the tube, cranks up the pressure and blasts them into the cliffs.

The bombs hit with a sharp crack and a flash of orange, sending snow tumbling from the cliffs. Following a shot, the smell of acrid smoke lingers in the air; a burnt odour that signifies the end of a successful day of avalanche control.

TREVOR NICHOLS

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Originally printed in the Fitzhugh Jan. 23.

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Jan Hudec breaks Canada’s alpine skiing drought at Olympics It’s been 20 years since Edmonton’s Edi Podivinsky stood on the podium following an Olympic alpine skiing event. Last weekend Banff’s Jan Hudec captured the bronze medal in the Super-G, breaking Canada’s absence on the alpine skiing podium. During those 20 years we’ve had many favourites to medal but Hudec, a most unlikely candidate, came through in the clutch.

Hudec was doubtful to even compete after suffering a herniated disk back in January, but an elevated pain threshold that helped him through four complete knee constructions between 2003 and 2010 saw him through to give it one more shot. Hudec did get a little help from the lucky Loonie he planted near the finish line the day before the race. This lucky Loonie has previously helped our hockey teams

and curlers medal and now its mystical powers have returned Canada's alpine ski team to the podium.

Pajama Day at Marmot Basin Friday, February 28 is the third-annual Pajama Day in Jasper up at Marmot Basin in support of autoimmune disease research. So put on your pjs—or don’t even take them off in the morning— and head to work, the slopes or to wherever life leads you that morning.

Marta Rode is the most enthusiastic organizer of this event and for more information on the day and the widespread suffering effects of the overwhelming number of auto-immune diseases, check out her web page at findthecommonthread.com Eventful Weekend at Sunshine Village February 22 ad 23 will be a busy time at Sunshine Village. On Saturday,

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Alberta’s Women's Snowboard Federation will be hosting its one-day camp. As you can already guess, it’s for ladies only. These $100 camps are a fun and busy all-inclusive day with personal coaching and plenty of prizes. On the same day, Salomon will be on the hill hosting demo days. If you want to try a new board or skis just take your driver’s license and a credit card to their tent and take the gear for a few free turns. On Sunday, Sunshine Village and Rockstar Energy Drink are teaming up to host a slopestyle event for both boarders and skiers. Multiple youth and adult categories are available for entry. If you had a chance to catch this event during the Olympics you know how exciting it can be. A little Rockstar sampling, barbecue and good tunes in the spectator area will only enhance your experience. V

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The steam-punk stylings of Mr Hublot

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ew of us digest those cinematic hors d'oeuvres, short films, even when they pop up as specialprogram platters at red-carpet festivals or as the appetizer before the feature's main course. No Oscar categories are more overlooked but can be more second-guessed at than Best Live Action Short and Best Animated Short. Second-guessed because the shortlisted—an international smorgasbord—get served up on some cities' screens just before the awards; this time, the Alisted hit E-town to be letter-graded and taste-tested by you. For the long and the short of it, here's my Michelin star-rating of what's "For Your Consideration".

"Helium" (1 star) is pure treacle, a hokey Hallmark card dipped in syrup and sobbed-out saline solution.

This Danish short tosses all the clichés into the maudlin mix: adorable, terminally ill blond boy; man tells story to lift him with hope and prepare him for heaven; the dead walking into white light. Exploitatively morbid, with moments of magic-realist mawkishness, trite lines by the ton, and plenty of predictable shots, here's what happens when the hot air of cute-puppy pictures and coolly critic-proof MakeA-Wish stories mix—an overblown Hindenburg of sickening sentiment, bound on a fiery crash-course into your heart via your tear ducts. Pray Academy voters see through this pandering piffle.

"The Voorman Problem" (4 stars),

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adapted by director Mark Gill and on with teary white eyes, but why Baldwin Li from part of David Mitch- can't we simply witness the conflict ell's novel number9dream, evades through the Africans' experiences? its two-hander play-ness with top- (War Witch did all this far better.) notch acting and some deft visuals Suffers wildly from the earnestness to make its conceit just eerily plausi- of seeming important.

The shortest and snappiest of the ble enough. Straitjacketed Voorman (Tom Hollander) claims he's God live lot, director Selma Vilhunen and and psychiatrist Dr Williams (Mar- writer Kirsikka Saari's "Do I Have to tin Freeman) is the visiting skep- Take Care of Everything?" (4 stars) tic. Careful close-ups, on further is a comic snowball of one Finn famexamination—a butterfly encased in ily's frazzled, frenzied rush to get glass; an atlas page's revelation that to a wedding. Joanna Hartti, as the mother, offers explodes scientific a fantastic I'vef a i t h — u n s e t t l e Animated Shorts: had-it! expresin their framings' Wed, Feb 26 (6:30 pm) sion to cap off echoes of impris- Thu, Feb 27 (9 pm) the disaster of onment and the her clan's Satcontrast between Live Action Shorts: urday-morning tiny details and the Wed, Feb 26 (9 pm) careen to the devilish Voorman's Thu, Feb 27 (6:30 pm) church.

The professed omnipobright colours tence. The music's Landmark City Centre Cinemas and crisp look twee, but this only make the short's mostly a Ketonen family's chilling little metastumble, trip and fall—while mom physical story.

Esteban Crespo's "That Wasn't keeps trying for a near-childish, Me" (2 stars) proves too much for a we're-going-to-get-through-thisshort—too much trauma, brutality, together! determination—all the and decontextualized racial violence. funnier.

But the runaway winner is actor As a former African child soldier recalls to a rapt audience of teens, two Xavier Legrand's stunning directodoctors and their fixer were trapped rial debut, "Just Before Losing Everyin the midst of his unnamed na- thing" (5 stars), a social-realist thrilltion's civil war; murder, black-man- er à la the Dardennes. It starts with a on-white-woman rape, and carnage boy saying goodbye to the family dog quickly follow. Lines can be cring- as he heads out from home, but it's ing—"You've lost your humanity!"— soon clear that he won't be getting to and the plaintive score insistent; the school that day. Where it goes from framing-device demands we look there is his mother's (Léa Drucker, su-

perb) workplace ... amid the urgency and fear, it's clear the social system isn't set up for her riveting, dead-set resolve, and escape is a desperately far cry from happiness.

For visual splendour, it's the animated slate that scintillates. Lauren MacMullan's "Get A Horse!" (5 stars) riotously re-imagines a '20s blackand-white Mickey Mouse 'toon, slapsticked into our century via colour and 3D. Mickey-turned-director uses the screen like a flip-book or a spin-sign to rejig time and space, all to rescue Minnie from Peg-Leg Pete.

It's a perfect marriage of past and present, old-timey and new-fangled, stop-motion and mouse-mania.

"Mr Hublot" (4 stars) lives in a steampunk city; the title character, a whimsical 21st-century update of Tati's Mr Hulot, is a goggle-wearing OCD shut-in (with a tally counter in his head). He's drawn to his balcony by the barks of a stray robo-dog down on the curb. Director Laurent Witz and co. suffuse shots with gorgeous slants of light; there's a view of Hublot, trapped by his tics in his apartment, from within the face of his old clock. The music's cutesy but the twist in the tale—where Hublot's growing emotions mean he must move out of his shrinking home—is delightful.

Shuhei Morita's "Possessions" (4 stars) is both spirit-story and ecofable—based on the tale of "tsukumogami," objects which take on a life of their own after a century. During

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a storm, a travelling repairman in 18th-century Japan stops in a mountain-forest shrine, where he's confronted first by torn umbrellas, then scraps of kimono cloth, and finally a flying dragon of discarded and disused objects; he must repair and honour them all. It's done in crisp, clean animanga-style, with shattering colour and painterly beauty.

"Room on the Broom" (3 stars) enlists some top-flight British actors for voice work in Max Lang and Jan Lachauer's rendering of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler's picturebook. The tale of a generous witch, her cat and a dragon, the creatures here have a clay-model look (appropriately childlike), though the story seems slightly stretched-out in places; more sweet "family film" than striking animation gem.

A stunning shadow-and-light show, "Feral" (5 stars) should take the statuette for taking mood-rich impressionism to new depths and wonders.

Daniel Sousa's fable is a wondrous, wordless wild-boy tale, set in the 18th or 19th century; a child's found in the woods, among wolves, by a hunter and taken into town. The strangeness and cruelty of his civilizing and taming, then a rapturous escape sequence, are silhouetted out for us in throbbing blacks, greys and whites. A magnificent showcase for the form—it'll reward your feasting eyes, even if it doesn't get its just desserts come Oscar buffet-night.

BRIAN GIBSON

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A growing divide

About Elly marks a potent period in Iranian cinema We want to know more about her, and the camera seems to let us in—but only so far.

Out to sea, emotionally

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sghar Farhadi seemed to burst on to the international scene with A Separation (2011), the first film to sweep the top three prizes at the Berlin Film Festival; then it caught Oscar's eye in two categories (winning Best Foreign Film).

Now his latest, The Past, is here. But Farhadi had been making films for about a decade before what appeared, to foreign glances, to be his masterful breakout ... in fact his fifth film.

His fourth, About Elly (2009), winner of the Berlinale's Silver Bear for Farhadi as Best Director, begins with a semi-circle of light in the distance—the opening of daylight at the end of a tunnel. In the lead car of three, en route to the beach for the weekend, two women yell and laugh and wave their hands out the window, hearing their echoes ring off the tunnel walls. Farhadi shows a sure hand for group dynamics and ensemble energy; he's also expert at lacing a film with foreboding, and these vacationers' sheer exultation is soon limned by a sense of life as coming tragedy, its sure and steady sadness rolling on in, like the surf whose noise caps the film, rippling

onto the beach over the final credits.

Farhadi's recent films have been Chekhovian, too, in their concerns with middle-class, fraying families having heated discussions in houses. Here, the villa on the Caspian Sea that the three couples rent, with their kids—plus Elly (Taraneh Alidoosti) and a divorced friend with whom Sepideh, one wife and the trip's organizer, has set her up—adds to the Chekhovian feel, but events lurch into dire concerns about very Iranian notions of honour and shame. Farhadi, just 41, has brought Iranian cinema—so masterfully led in the '90s and early '00s by veterans like Abbas Kiarostami, midperiod maestros like Jafar Panahi, and newcomers like Samira Makhmalbaf— into yet another potent run of films by merging Western tragedy with Iranian social-drama (Farhadi got a BA and MA in theatre).

The film's about Elly, but never clearly so. Elly's mysterious, and intriguing, and quietly pained, and the camera watches her, returning to her, especially in one elegiac sequence where she flies a kite, happy and carefree and almost childlike.

Although About Elly isn't as masterful visually as A Separation, with all its glass barriers, the villa is another character, its sprawling, dilapidated state a foreshadowing of the mess and brokenness that the couples will soon find themselves in.

And the story's twist of fate does bring a stunning, 10-minute set-piece—rarely has handheld camerawork conveyed such alarm and panic. As water sloshes over the lens, we strain to see into the turbid deep, to make out the truth ... but only murky ambiguity washes over things, until the realization of what must be sinks in. The divorced man (Shahab Hosseini, also in A Separation) tells Elly that his ex-wife left him with the words "A bitter end is much better than a bitterness without ending." And at least this film gives us that end.

Golshifteh Farahani, as Sepideh, does so much good work here with her tearful face alone—the definition of "distraught." Small lies become muddled with half-truths, children are coached on how to fib, and blame is tossed around like a grenade with the pin just pulled.

The couples go from joyful friends to spiteful, disagreeing enemies to a colluding cabal. The men talk amongst themselves to decide on the importance of a woman's honour; a wife is left alone, at the kitchen table, to live with what she feels she's done. There are only wounds, and losses, and so much knotted, tangled, balled-up pain, rolling on and on. V

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Robocop

Now playing Directed by José Padilha  to the American public and the salvaged Murphy's robotization is managed and publicized until what's left of the man starts to disappear amid all the machinery.

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iscarding the original's gory violence and satire for a more personal yet coldly dystopian shell, the new RoboCop is sleek and formfitting, but with not quite enough going on inside to make it the hardhitting futuristic action flick it could have been.

Detroit cop Alex Murphy (Joel Kinnaman) suspects crooked colleagues are backing a crime lord; a car bomb in his driveway puts his wrecked body in the hands of Raymond Sellars (Michael Keaton) at OmniCorp and Dr Dennett Norton (Gary Oldman). The company's looking for a way to sell its mechanized robots

Brazilian director José Padilha— whose Elite Squad films weren't merely the fascistic, police-supportive blockbusters some critics accused them of being—can shoot street warfare well, but it's the stark sense of an America sucked into a paranoia-vortex about safety and security that hits hardest here.

(Myopic on-air polemics from a Fox News-like TV-show host, played by Samuel L Jackson, bookend the film.)

Offering a bit of a counterpoint to all the killing-machine fetishizing of many recent blockbusters, here the US has become a full-metal-jacketed military-industrial complex, though the irony of rust-belt Detroit being the hub for all this isn't explored (perhaps because the film was most-

ly shot in Hamilton and Toronto).

In a strong, eclectic cast, Oldman and Abbie Cornish, as Murphy's spouse, do their best with the scientist and grieving wife characters they're given. But there's still something video-game-ish, comic-bookish, and even Bond-ish about RoboCop, especially the blowhard Blofeldian villainy of Sellars. The Frankenstein nature of Murphy's transformation— a man reduced to head, throat and pulpy torso; programming vying with bio-chemistry for control—is what steel-grips. And Padilha and writer Joshua Zetumer, updating Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner's 1987 screenplay, alarmingly and chillingly see no way out of becoming a soulless, police-and-surveillance state. A man loses touch with his family, becoming all killing-machine; a nation loses sight of its humanity, so hellbent is it on feeling safe and secure.

BRIAN GIBSON

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FILM PREVUE // CANADIAN FILM

Canada's Top Ten

Jake Gyllenhaal is his own Enemy

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s our national cinema a spell to summon up an evil twin, an unnerving mirror reflection that calls into question the very uniqueness of our character?

(A reflection that, naturally, must feature an American star at its centre just to get our attention—or even to get made.) Is it a personal search for identity, for one's neglected roots, disguised as a chatty, wide-ranging cultural survey (eg: the history of Jewish comedy)?

Is it our way of reckoning with guilt, anxiety and a nagging sense of not deserving what we desire, an ongoing story of redemption and hope doomed to remain unfulfilled? (And where better to act out this dead end narrative than in the backwoods of Quebec?) Or is it a way of looking outward at the wider world for meaningful spectacle and testimonies, a mediation in which acknowledging national borders is less important than examining some fundamental, elemental experience (the uses of water, say) shared by every being on the planet?

These are, to an extent, rhetorical questions I'm posing. By which I mean

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that they are all correct, all examples and Calvin Thomas' The Oxbow Cure of our national cinema, if for no other from this year's list. I'm well aware that reason than they each refer to a new it has its detractors, but it is a far more Canadian film. Respectively: Denis Vil- distinctive, daring and accomplished tilenueve's Enemy (starring the very tle than many of the films selected. Its good Jake Gyllenhaal), Alan Zweig's main problem is that it has barely been When Jews Were Funny (also, inciden- seen, and is of the sort of quiet, spooky, tally, full of Amerielliptical, slowcans), Denis Côté's Fri, Feb 21 – Tue, Mar 4 burning nature Vic + Flo Saw a Bear Full schedule of Canada's Top Ten that won't necand Jennifer Baichwal showtimes at metrocinema.org essarily grab a and Edward Burtynpanellist's atsky's Watermark, tention as he four distinguished titles that all made or she works their way through god the final cut for the most recent edition knows how many screener discs.) Useof Canada's Top Ten, the Toronto Inter- ful because it offers the rest of us a national Film Festival's annual selection chance to catch up with ourselves as a of the best in Canadian film. CTT is a movie-making country, to digest and asflawed but enormously useful institu- sess a condensed version of the year in tion. Flawed because the selection Canadian cinema. Metro's CTT program is made by a panel instead of a jury, is showing all 10 of the winning shorts which means that there's no dialogue and all but one of the winning features. involved in the decision-making pro- (Michael Dowse's The F Word has been cess, which practically guarantees that excluded on account of its distributor certain less-seen or more difficult titles not wanting people to see it before never get a fair shake because no one its theatrical release. Or something.) is championing or arguing over them. I haven't seen all of these films yet, (Consider the absence of Yonah Lewis but I've seen enough to prompt me to

strongly urge you to take the time to see at least the few that intrigue you most.

Jews, Vic + Flo, Watermark and Gabrielle have all already screened here, and the middle two received extensive coverage in Vue, including interviews with Côté and Baichwal and Burtynsky.

But Vic + Flo and Watermark are complicated, layered films, both very much worth revisiting, both very much specimens of what might be deemed some larger national project, the former drawing upon a distinctly regional take on disparate genres, the latter offering an overwhelming sensory experience that might distract you from its arguably very Canadian, even-handed, wise yet intellectually unobtrusive (some might say vague) thesis about our relationship to natural resources.

Among the films I haven't seen, Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver's Asphalt Watches, a wildly idiosyncratic animated road movie and gonzo cultural critique based on Ehman and Scriver's experiences hitchhiking across Canada, seems fresh and very promising, a work that bears little resemblance to the sort of features typically made within the Canadian system of funding and development.

Jeff Barnaby's Rhymes For Young Ghouls I have decidedly mixed feelings about. Superbly shot and menacingly energized, this gruesome coming-ofage thriller has been getting plaudits for its unsentimental portrayal of life on First Nations reserves, and there's something to that. As our teenage drug-delivery girl heroine puts it, following an inventory of abused sub-

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stances, "This is what brings our people together: the art of forgetting." Yet Barnaby seems far too eager to exploit cynicism and Tarantino-like grotesquerie for stylistic effect, his characters are largely one-dimensional, and his plot is riddled with gaping holes.

Based on José Saramago's novel The Double (or, to translate directly from the Portuguese, The Duplicated Man) Enemy, by contrast, is nearly perfectly realized. It concerns a depressed University of Toronto history professor (Jake Gyllenhaal) who rents a seemingly inane movie to cheer himself up.

He watches it in a sort of absent daze, goes to bed, dreams of the movie, and only then realizes that one of the bit actors (Jake Gyllenhaal) bears an uncanny resemblance to him. The discovery of his doppelgänger makes him deeply uneasy, but he sets about finding the actor, who lives in Mississauga. It is as though he has no other choice. Is the GTA big enough for the both of them?

Villenueve does a marvellous job of rendering Toronto as anonymous and uninviting as possible, containing his views to its freeways and skyscrapers and its pockets of brutalist architecture. Everything seems touched by sickly tones. The whole world seems to reflect the protagonist's burgeoning sense of alienation. No doubt, somewhere in here is a thesis about English and French Canada, two sides of a mirror that seem unable to cohabitate. It may not be as ambitious as Villenueve's other films, but I feel it's his best. If this is a prime example of Canadian film, I think we're in very good shape indeed.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // UFC DOC

Takedown: The DNA of GSP

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n the opening moments of Takedown: The DNA of GSP, we see shots of the titular abbreviation/ UFC darling trading blows in the octagon. Slo-mo, black-and-white shots of gloved-fists crashing into heads, mouthguards revealing themselves with every grimace and blow; those shots are interspersed with those of a wolf prowling the same space, in what will be the film's central (and pretty obvious, on the nose) motif: that the UFC superstar is some sort of elite lone wolf, a savage animal in the cage.

up to his title-defending brawl with Nick Diaz in 2013. Takedown was completed before GSP's had his bizarre, post-title defence retirement announcement at UFC 167, meaning the most interesting, recent developments in the guy's life are totally absent from the screen.

Instead, what we do get feels like an in-house doc, the sort that seems to be gaining popularity these days, built more to generate hype than probe depths (after this weekend's brief theatrical stint, Takedown will be screening on HBO in the spring). The chronology is broken up by animated transitions of that motif-wolf traversing some unforgiving winter wasteland, watching other animals fight and trying Thu, Feb 20; Sat, Feb 22; to survive. Each Mon, Feb 24 little short is acAnd it doesn't Directed by Kristian Manchescompanied by move too far past ter and Peter Svatek some disciplinethat, either, con-  y quote from structing a famila founder of iar portrait of the legend that anyone some martial art (the last quote bewho gives the sport the time of day ing reserved for GSP himself). It's cool will probably already know. This is, first in the same way that a convenience and foremost, slick brand-enforcement: store's two-for-$4 deal on Monster enKristian Manchester and Peter Svatek's ergy drinks is cool, which seems to be doc is a nicely shot but certainly broad, the general rule of thumb here. hardly journalistic look at the former face of UFC, chronologically tracing GSP himself comes across well enough, Georges St Pierre's ascent from the ear- though we don't really get a sense of ly days as a 9-year-old Hulk Hogan fan him (or anyone else, except maybe his

mom) being anything but well behaved for the camera. We're told, through myriad talking heads—UFC honchos Dana White and Joe Rogan, GSP himself, family, his various trainers in various martial arts disciplines—about his kindness and humility. It barely touches on his own self-proclaimed issues of ego, or the seeming contradiction of the two, but—hey, look, GSP fighting another dude!

There's a kind of fun bit where he goes home for dinner and his mom tries to pull out the nice glasses while he tells her just to be natural. And it's sort of amazing to see, as it is in all UFC events, a battered and bruised fighter don a full suit for a post-fight press conference,

trying to answer questions while holding ice to his head.

Takedown's most interesting sequence is the fighter's recovery from tearing an ACL in training. Seeing some behind-the-scenes moments there, and a blessed few minutes of montage-y training and sports-doctor advice actually start to reveal the man's determination and drive, rather than simply describe it. But the rest lacks substance, preferring to bask in cheap style that's more concerned about placing GSP, the product, for the further financial benefit of the UFC itself, than it is about truly revealing anything about the man.

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REVUE // ROAD TRIP

Asphalt Watches drifter-ness and pointlessness to the nation's seemingly endless TransCanada Highway, zipping past more and more commercialized spaces and franchised places, that's intriguing.

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sphalt Watches is a road trip so trippy, even dippy, that you may well think the panelists for the TIFF Top Ten were drinking magic mushroom-peyote-pot brownie smoothies out of their sippy cups when they chose it. Shayne Ehman and Seth Scriver's 90-minute Flash cartoon follows two characters—Skeleton Hat and Bucktooth Cloud—as they hitchhike cross-country in the summer of 2000, west to east, with oddballs. It's a bit like South Park meets Strange Brew, only stranger and much more lagging and dragging.

Synth-mixes, funky and freaky enough to be the most compelling feature of the film, burble in

But there's not much more to the flick than that (unless you're sipping illicit smoothie blends—then it may seem like there is). There's the odd pun, often a groaner or chuckler at best. Much of Fri, Feb 21 (7 pm), Wed, Feb 26 the action seems (9 pm) like grotesque Directed by Shayne Ehman, for grotesque's at times. The Seth Scriver sake. Some doopair sees burgers Metro Cinema at the Garneau dling ditties, like and there's much  "Come Over for talk of "Wendz" Some Boiled and Boston PizHot Dogs," make za; straws sticking high out of the Mr Oizo's "Flat Beat" seem like an ground drip oil. Characters look- orchestral symphony. A man claiming a little like Ren and Stimpy fig- ing to be St Nick orders the hitchures (veiny eyes and peculiar noses ing duo to return for Santa training abound), as drawn by a six-year-old in a sequence that quickly becomes Dali, populate our true north strange tedious; a trucker's CB talk drones and free. The look's crude, but some away. A stoner epic that gets so of that crudeness is fitting—this is stoned-out it falls a bit flat, Asphalt a Canada of crude oil, gas stations, Watches stretches and ticks on and suburban sprawl, malls and fast-food on, past sights peculiar but to nojoints, of a guy who's obsessed with where in particular.

"Bingo!" or a swearbox of a mother. BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM This wacky road movie gets at a

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Facing the past

Kalle Mattson deals with loss and looks to the future

There can be moments of hope in even the bleakest moments, and Ottawa-based singer-songwriter Kalle Mattson embodies this on his latest album, Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold. The 22-year-old returned to his childhood home in Sault Ste Marie, where his music career began, and fully dealt with the death of his mother six years prior. The songs that came through are honest, touching and above all, hopeful. Prior to his show in Edmonton, Mattson answered a few questions for Vue about the album.

VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

KALLE MATTSON: I began writing the album in mid-2011 right after I finished my last full-length album, Anchors. We started pre-production in May 2012, but we didn’t officially finish the very last master of the record until June 2013. All in all it was about [a] two to two-and-a-half-year process from writing to recording and mixing/mastering.

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

KM: I always write the music first and I let the mood/vocal melodies/

arrangements of the songs inform the lyrics that I write later on. This was the first record where I was specifically writing songs with my band mates and their instrumentation in mind, while still being conscious of really layering and orchestratWed, Feb 26 ing the songs Wunderbar later in the recording process.

There’s a lot of horns on this record, and that was basically because JF (Beauchamp, trumpet/flugelhorn in my band) had started playing with me and I had to give him stuff to play.

VW: Where did the lyrics begin for

you and what did you want to express with this album?

KM: The lyrics for this one were a really long process. I had essentially written most of the songs (musically speaking) for the record before we started preproduction, but the lyrics had yet to be really figured out or honed in. In the summer of 2012 I moved back to my hometown of Sault Ste Marie for the first time since I started writing songs. I had just finished university and was essentially moving back to work a job so I could make enough money to record this album. I was living in my childhood for the first time

since my mom passed away when I was 16, and that experience really led to me to figure out what this record was going to be about and the lyrics I was going to write for it.

What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? KM: We tracked the majority of this record in Toronto at Lincoln County Social Club and at Gavin (Gardiner)’s home studio, but we also did a lot in Ottawa at my home. I’d say at least half of what you’re hearing on the record was recorded live in a room with my band and I, but the rest was pieced together just out of necessity, money and schedule-wise. I tracked all the vocals at Gavin’s house in January and February of 2013, though, and I would fly up from Sault Ste Marie for a few days, track vocals, then fly back on Sunday nights so I could work and make enough cash to keep making the record. It was a really long, drawn-out process, but I’m really happy with how we did it because the album remained VW:

fresh the entire way through and we could constantly keep reevaluating it.

to come through near the end of the album because the first half is so dark.

VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album?

KM: Yeah, definitely. Gavin chopped quite a few during pre-production and there were a couple we started to record but aborted once I really got the vision for the record that I wanted. I’ve always written a lot of songs for each of my records, though, and not all of them make it in the end.

VW: You worked with Gavin Gar-

VW: How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

KM: Well, I tried to pick the 12 best songs, that’s for sure, but this is an extremely personal record and I really wanted for that story to come across throughout the entirety of listening to it. I really wanted the record to start in one place and end in another, that’s why you see the record start with a dream (“An American Dream”) and “Darkness” and it ends with “In The Morning Light” and “Pick Me Up.” I wanted that underlying hope

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diner to produce the album. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?

KM: One of my first shows ever was opening for the Wooden Sky in Sault Ste Marie, and Gav and I really hit it off. I guess in about January 2012 Gav was in Ottawa (where I live) on his way to Montréal to finish the Wooden Sky’s newest record, and we hung out and basically just decided we were going to make a record together. I love his band and his songs and we had a lot of similar philosophies about recording and making albums, and I think we worked really well together.

VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Someday, The Moon Will Be Gold what would it look like?

KM: I think if you look at my past releases there’s a pretty obvious evolution between each of them, but this one really feels like a debut in a lot of ways. I keep making this joke that if I were a rapper, all of my other releases would be mix tapes and this one would be my MAJOR LABEL DEBUT, except, you know, not on a major label at all. V

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MUSIC PREVUE // POP FOLK

Mark Berube

The Arden Theatre presents Chic Gamine in search of a good meal

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The Fugitives

Chic Gamine & The Fugitives Nostalgic soul with a modern twist

f the less idealized moments some mainstay eateries staked of life on tour—long drives, di- out—Winnipeg's Mondragon Café, minished options involving hygiene The King and I in Edmonton—and maintenance—one of the least con- while other cities are less certain, trollable seems to be dietary con- Berube notes that generally, he's cerns: passing through unfamiliar feeling pretty optimistic about his towns puts a premium on consuming chances of a good meal. The opsomething that doesn't come from a tions have improved significantly convenience store in the form of a since his early tours.

"When I first started touring across two-for-one deal. Not that it's solely a musician's burden—think about any Canada in 2001, 2002, it was tough roadtrip you've ever gone on; how in Northern Ontario," he laughs. "And well did you eat?—but it is some- parts of the prairies. But it's gotten thing Mark Berube's been ruminat- better now." ing over lately, in advance of his own But it's not an eating tour that's travels.

"When you tour a lot, you're always taking Berube from city to city; it's trying to find a good, healthy place to Russian Dolls, his fourth (or fifth, "depends on how you eat in the city," want to look at it,") Berube says from Wed, Feb 26 (7:30 pm) album, and like the his home in Mon- With The Bros Landreth nesting matryoshtréal. "And there The Artery, $8 (advance), $12 kas it's named for, isn't really any (door) it finds the songguide for touring writer—previously musicians. So we thought, 'Well, we're going to throw known for pinning storyteller lyrics to curious rhythms and acoustic anour own two cents out there."

Those pennies are adding up into a choring—experimenting with added blog: as Berube and his band cross layers of sound. The results are a joywestern Canada over the next few ful mishmash of sounds, as indebted weeks, they'll be posting restaurant to the musicians around Berube as to reviews as they go, with the goal of the man himself. "[On] the other albums, I really charting out some decent and affordable spots across the country for fu- tried to go for the acoustic thing.

Especially with [2011's] June in Siture reference.

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a live off the floor, have everything acoustic, nothing tampered with.

And I just got to the point where it's like, well, I think it's time to change things. Kristina [Koropecki] was really getting interested in pedals, and putting her cello through pedals and the autoharp through pedals. I just kind of followed suit."

To guide that expansion of sound, the band brought in Jace Lasek of Besnard Lakes—a guy who's certainly no stranger to building throughlines into massive walls of sound— to produce. The recording period was split between April and July, which "just gave us time to think and revisit and go back," Berube says. "It just gave us time to experiment, and often the experimentation ended up being the final thing."

That try-everything approach also requires a level of trust in the musicians around you, and while Berube notes there were in-studio debates over the directions of songs, that was all just part of the refinement process.

"If something's working, you just know it," he adds. "And if it isn't, you know it, too. But I think you really have to go to the end of the idea to know for sure, and that's where it's cool."

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Brenda Earle Stokes

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freedom when she was introduced to over songs have always been an injazz, as it allowed room for improvitegral part of Brenda Earle Stokes' sation and the band setting offered a albums, but her forthcoming disc, Right sense of camaraderie that playing solo About Now, contains a track that cardid not. ries a surprising history.

Right About Now, due out this fall, "There's a cover of Joe Jackson's song continues Earle Stokes' exploration of 'Got the Time,' which is a song from an the genre, building on her catalogue album he did back in the '80s, and the of original material while adding her version of it that I know is actually from own flair to songs that have influenced an Anthrax album, Persistence of Time," her—the album title borrows its name Stokes says from her home in New York from a tune by Ron Sexsmith—but City, prior to travelling to Edmonton there's a higher ration of original matefor her upcoming show and a two-day rial this time around. residency with the EKO Singers. "PersisEarle Stokes' new original material is tence of Time came out when I was in well-informed by high school and we the history of jazz, used to listen to it Sat, Feb 22 (8:30 pm – 10 pm) drawing on her exat parties and have Blue Chair Café, $15 tensive studies in a mosh pit, and that the genre and inwas the thing that spiration from the likes of Miles Davis. we listened to. I didn't realize it was ac"I think that's very much the undercurtually a Joe Jackson tune ... so I always rent and at the heart and soul of what introduce the song that 'this is Brenda I write, but it's also been very much inEarle Stokes covering Anthrax covering fluenced by great singer-songwriters: Joe Jackson.'"

Elvis Costello is a big influence, BrazilEarle Stokes has since traded in rock ian music is a big influence and then and metal for jazz, explaining that when contemporary rock radio by like Dave she started out playing the piano she Grohl," she adds. followed the standard Royal Conservatory repertoire, but admits she didn't In addition to covers and originals, have the focus to play classical music.

Earle Stokes is penning lyrics to two She discovered a new sense of creative

well-known instrumental compositions—well known in the jazz world, at least. The first is "Meant For You" by saxophonist Dick Oatts and the other is "Água & Vinho" (Water and Wine) by Brazilian composer Egberto Gismonti. "'Meant For You' is a very slow ballad and there's a lot of warmth to it and it's very tender, but it also had an intensity to it. There was a harmonic intensity to it and around the time I was starting to write lyrics was around the time I actually met my husband, so I was experimenting with the sounds and really feeling the sounds; I was able to relate emotionally to the sound of the piece, so that's where I came from in the lyrics," she explains.

"The lyrics that I wrote for the Egberto Gismonti piece, there was an existing lyrics in Brazilian Portuguese that I didn't relate to so much, but the concept of it again, it has a real melodic and harmonic intensity to it and I took the loose translation of 'water and wine' and changed it to 'water into wine' and the idea of this intense, burning desire for somebody where you feel like you can turn water into wine—it's that passionate."

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MUSIC PREVUE // ELECTRONIC

Scott Fox

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on't be bashful. Come up and say hi, have a look at what I'm doing and maybe I'll suck you into the show for awhile," says Scott Fox. His name might be familiar for his work with local industrial electronic group IVardensphere, but this time, Fox is playing solo, and he's going into his set completely blind—no preconceived ideas, just total improvisation.

"Typically, it's not the best fit. I like having a certain amount of structure.

I like being able to translate the music

you hear on the CD to a live show in Aside from creating a personal conan interesting way, but for this show nection with his audience, a unique in particular I want to be surprised one is formed by the music itself. Fox myself as to what comes out," he ex- describes it in contrast to a rock conplains, adding that performing previ- cert, where it's fairly obvious what ously released material would involve you're going to get. The bands may all bringing in the rest of the band and its sound different, but there's a vision of elaborate drum and synth set up. what's going to unfold, and that's not Fox's gear is a little more simple in the case in electronic music. comparison to IVardensphere's, fa"You don't know if the guy's going vouring small modto be playing ule equipment— super hardcore perhaps a drum Fri, Feb 21 (9 pm) electronic 180 machine or two, a Uncivil War: North Against bpm, nothing sampler and a cou- South featuring Tekhnotron, but a kick drum ple of effects ped- Pandemik9, Digital Winter, the and distortion, als—and ditching GothFater or is he going to the digital, laptop- Bohemia be playing some based setup utilized sort of downby most electronic tempo-style artists these days. He plans on per- thing that's super heavy on sound deforming right in front of the crowd, sign, or is it going to be ambient and and encourages his audience to come not have any drums at all?" adds Fox, up, check things out and talk to him— who is expanding his own take on just mind your drinks. electronic music through a new side "The main reason I don't use a lap- project called Voster, which takes a top is it severs any connection you much more straightforward approach have with the crowd," Fox says. "I to the genre than the tribal tinges of mean, there's nothing I distaste more IVardensphere. in electronic live performance than "It opens up the sonic palette a riwatching a guy staring at the lap- diculous amount, really." top screen for 40 minutes. It doesn't MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM scream performance to me."

PREVUE // ECLECTIC

Fool's Tongue

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e've come to the realization that we're really awful at writing pop songs," laughs Luke Ertman, one-half of the genre-melding duo Fool's Tongue.

"We've tried and we've failed, and that's OK. We're not all in the dumps about it."

As it turns out, not being able to write a conventionally popular type of song has worked out just fine for Fool's Tongue. Ertman and longtime friend Jeff Ramsey began playing music together in junior high when they bought guitars in the hope of becoming rock stars—"Of course that didn't happen, but such is life," Ertman says with a chuckle. The band began to take shape a few years ago, as Fool's Tongue searched for its niche. After trying out the rock and folk scenes and realizing neither was

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palette is a story inspired by Alice in Wonderland. The tale begins when young man is woken up by a strange woman who beckons him into the forest and leads him on a journey to embrace ideas of freedom, spirituality and stepping away from a materialistic life—there's a subtle love story thrown in the mix, too.

Fool's Tongue will be playing New World live for the first time and in its entirety, accompanied by a seven-piece band featuring vocalist Cassia Schramm at their CD release show this Saturday.

"It's something that really tripped us out, actually, when we wrote it ... we wanted all these world influences and the best fit for the band's style—and things, but we also wanted it to be a losing band members along the way— concise album. We didn't want it to Ertman (who plays the Chapman stick) sound like it was a different artist on and Ramsey (who plays a custom in- every single track. At a certain point we decided that it was strument called a gong to be Alice in bowguit that re- Sat, Feb 22 (6 pm) sembles an electric Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Wonderland and that we'd just go cello crossed with Park, $20 down the rabbit a guitar) decided hole and whatever to forge ahead as a happens, happens," says Ertman, nottwosome about two years ago. ing the musical style was also strongly After an uncertain start, Fool's Tongue influenced by Peter Gabriel and Sting. has found its footing on its debut album "The Alice in Wonderland analogy kind New World, a rock opera where pop- of happened because it was like, we're rock blends with cultural sounds to just going to follow this thing wherreveal influences from Asia, the Middle ever it goes."

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DAVE HAUSE / THU, FEB 20 (8 PM) Hey, look, we found you something to do tonight.

Plus, Northcote is headlining. (Pawn Shop, $12)

PAUL OSCHER / FRI, FEB 21 AND SAT, FEB 22 This guy used to play harmonica for Muddy Waters, so obviously he knows a thing or two about tearing up a blues harp. (Big Al’s House of Blues, $25 in advance, $30 at the door)

DONNA DURAND / FRI, FEB 21 (7:30 PM) After a little gig hiatus, singer-songwriter Donna Durand is back for what she describes as an “intergenerational show” with Brett Nelson. (The Carrot, $5)

KOKOPELLI’S UBUNTU / SAT, FEB 22 (2 PM – 7PM) This performance introduces Thato Ntatleng, Kokopelli’s newest exchange chorister who’s here from South Africa.

Good Women Dance Collective will also be on hand for a few numbers.

(West End Christian Reformed Church, $15 for students, $20 regular)

JEREMY FISHER / FRI, FEB 21 (7 PM) Word is, the two-time Juno nominee singer-songwriter sounds like Simon and looks like Garfunkel. Maybe you should go and decide for yourself.

(St Basil’s Cultural Centre, $18 in advance, $22 at the door)

ALLEN TOUSSAINT / SAT, FEB 22 (7:30 PM) Injecting our chilly city with some New Orleans soul, funk and flair. (Festival Place, $50 – $60)

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W/ ANDY SHAUF, JESSE & THE DANDELIONS, & REVENGE OF THE TREES

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DOPE SODA / MON, FEB 24 (7:30 PM) Imagine a punk-reggae show played by a bunch of guys wearing animal onesies. It’s happening tonight down at the Artery. (Artery, $8 in advance, $10 at the door)

GUNNER & SMITH / TUE, FEB 25 (9 PM) The Saskatoon-based group just released its debut full-length titled He Once Was a Good Man. He’s probably still a good man, but sometimes things happen you just can’t control, or so goes the story behind the title track. (Wunderbar, $8)

CHILDREN OF BODOM / SAT, FEB 22 (7 PM) Meanwhile, over at Union Hall, things are getting loud and rowdy with the return of Children of Bodom—or COB as the kids call ‘em these days. (Union Hall, $34.50 – $37.50)

THE CARLINES / THU, FEB 27 (7:30 PM) The folk-rock group is a summation of four storied individual experiences, and while you can’t find much of the band’s music online, the wait will be over as of tonight, when the Carlines release its EP, Still the Sun Will Rise. (Artery, $8 in advance, $10 at the door)

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GRANT MACEWAN FACULTY CONCERT / WED, FEB 26 (7:30 PM) This is the last chance to catch a MacEwan Faculty Concert, and the series is going out featuring the head of MacEwan’s Guitar Department, Jim Head.

(John L Haar Theatre, $16.75 students / senionrs, $21.75) SISTER SABBATH / WED, FEB 26 (8 PM) A nun singing Black Sabbath songs. Enough said. (DV8)

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WANTING / WED, FEB 26 (8 PM) Fun fact: Wanting can sing in Mandarin, and her song “When it’s Lonely” was featured on the Chinese version of the Hunger Games: Catching Fire soundtrack.(Myer Horowitz Theatre, $32.50)

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True black metal hails from Norway, and coming from anywhere else it walks a line between ideology and shtick. But, seeing as we here in the YEG are on almost the same longitude, it's understandable that our own frigid, quasi-isolated climate could nurture its own frosty metal legions. Ides of Winter has little

down and sobered up quite a bit over the last few years. Somewhere Else jumps sub genres a touch, with these 11 tracks being more easily classified in the pop-country realm, but let's make it very clear: this ain't no Taylor Swift. Loveless has just cleaned up her sound. "Really Wanna See You" is a textbook example of indie-pop twang and tracks like "Wine Lips" and "Head" (I'll let you guess what that one's about) stay true to her matter-of-fact sense of humour. The over-arching theme of her work has gone from "fuck everybody" to confessions of sad or absent romance, which is fine— there's been a lot of incredible music made as a result of heartbreak— but there are few variations in the tempo, style or construction of these songs, so it doesn't take very long for it all to blur together.

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compassion for the damned, and this Edmonton group has created its own iconography laden with icy corpse paint and names that belong in an HP Lovecraft story. The double kicks ride high in the mix and pummel relentlessly, flanked by frostbitten guitars that help unravel legends of sorrow and loss, with most of the songs revolving around tortured heroines. Not you average fair, and a welcome change from the genre's often shrill blasphemy.

The elements combine in a frozen collage of misery and lore with an elegance not commonly associated with the genre. This ain't the blackest of metal you will ever hear, but it's still a decent soundtrack to bleed out to.

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Mogwai Rave Tapes (Sub Pop)

 When living in the realm of the instrumental, music tends to be much more expansive and geared toward mood and experience. Scotland's Mogwai has built its career on the fringes of art rock, architects of layered soundscapes that expand over time, With Rave Tapes, the group's eighth full-length, Mogwai reminds us why the band garners so much respect worldwide. "Heard About You Last Night" opens it all softly with an organic timbre, but if the opening has the earthiness of a tree taking root, then that tree quickly expands through the thermosphere, and it all gets spacier from there. By the time the dark, moogy ambience of "Remurdered" kicks in, your thoughts are split between the song's beautiful tension and wondering if that is indeed the best song title in the history of the world. The simple key riff of "Simon Ferocious" is almost belched out, yet manages to still come across as soothing. Keys helm these tracks in seemingly dreary form, but in reality they have a mature, graceful mood that's patiently paced and futuristic in it's minimalism. If music is the soundtrack of our lives, then when listening to Rave Tapes you're starring in an early Michael Mann film. To be matter of fact, this album is super fucking great and despite it being only February, this record will certainly see its way onto many a top-10 list.

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Four IN 140 The Notwist, Close to the Glass (Sub Pop) @VueWeekly: Hand-clappy positivity. Electro meets indie at the Fun Factory. Nice & peppy listen.

Beck, Morning Phase (Fonograf) @VueWeekly: The long-awaited follow-up to Beck's Sea Change provides you the calmness you require on this day. Excellently soft & subtle album.

Slates, Taiga (New Damage) @VueWeekly: Fuzzy & distorted goodness recorded by the impressive Steve Albini, Slates have made a very solid rock beast to tour Canada behind.

Sam Roberts Band, Lo-Fantasy (Universal) @VueWeekly: Just when you thought he was gone, Roberts & crew are back with a pretty stale new album.

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Guests each week!

THU FEB 20 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE

Live Music every Thu; This week: Kings and Cathedrals; 10pm; no minors; no cover BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Fred Larose Song Writers’ Evening; 7pm (door); no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Grady

Champion BRIXX Rock and Roll Circus Thu: featuring comedians (7-9pm) and open jam with Christian Maslyk, Justin Perkins and Kevin Gaudet CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu;

7pm; this week: Calico

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove

DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking

Back Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open

stage; 7pm; no cover LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker

Thursdays ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow OUTLAWS Wild Life Thursdays UNION HALL 3 Four All

Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

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

FRI FEB 21

EARLY STAGE–Stony Plain

Reuben Anderson (the Best Bad Thing That Ever Happened to Me); 8pm

Open Jam Nights; no cover FESTIVAL PLACE Winter Roots

APEX CASINO The Nervous

Flirts; 9pm-1am; no cover ARTERY Breezy Brian Gregg,

Roundup V: Women of Folkways:

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Duff

Hosted by Maria Dunn, with Cara Luft, and Lizzy Hoyt; 7:30pm; $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) at Festival Place box office

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Nights acoustic circle jam; only acoustic instruments; 7:30pm; $3 cover J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam

Thu; 9pm JAVA EXPRESS–Stony Plain

Acoustic/singer songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Tim Isberg

and Terry Knutson (singersongwriters); 8pm; $10 KELLY’S PUB Jameoke Night

with the Nervous Flirts (singalong with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover L.B.’S Thu open stage: the

New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12 LIT WINE BAR Sugarfoot,

Sophie Hunter and Mike Chenoweth; 7-10pm MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE Jukebox

Leigh (‘50s ‘60s sock hop); 6:30pm NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open

stage; 8pm; all ages (15+) NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and

the Hurricanes NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by

Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Thu; no cover

RIG Every Thu Jam hosted by

Lorne Burnstick; 7pm-11pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Duane Allen

ROSE AND CROWN Derina

Harvey ST BASIL’S CULTURAL CENTRE Full Moon Folk Club:

Jeremy Fisher; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (adv at Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square)/$22 (door)/child under 12 half-price (door only) SET NIGHTCLUB Khan with Milo

and Otis; Pas De Nom with Friends Vol 2, with DJs Dusty Grooves, Peep This, Nudi&Bill; 9pm; $10 (before 11pm)/$20 (after 11pm)

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating

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3-7pm

UNION HALL Children of

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brenda Earle

Vs. South (industrial and dark-electro): Tekhnotron, Pandemik9, Digital Winter, Gothfather (DJ betw sets), Scott Fox (of iVardensphere); 9pm-2am; $10 (door) BOURBON ROOM Dueling

pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling 8pm BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Jazz

evening every Fri after work; 5-8pm: This week: PJ Perry Trio CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK

Hy Jinx CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live

Bodom, Tyr, guests; all ages; 7pm (door); $34.50 at Unionevents.com, Ticketfly. com, Blackbyrd WUNDERBAR Tallest to

Shortest, the Misery Mountain Boys, Joey D; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE International

Oscher (fr Austin Texas); 7pm (door); $30 (adv)/$35 (door) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair

of the Dog: Jay Bowcott (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLIND PIG Live jam every Sat;

Stokes; 8:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat

afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Grady Champion “B” STREET BAR Rockin Big

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

Jazz Series: From New York/ Holland: Amina Figarova Sextet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Miss Rae and the Midnight Ramblers (blues); 10pm; $10 (door)

YEG DANCE CLUB Ryan “Real

CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturday!

music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door); this week: Donna Durand and Brett Nelson

Deal” Ford,

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CASINO EDMONTON Catalyst

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CASINO YELLOWHEAD Shannon

CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton Fools Tongue (CD

MUTTART HALL Ensemble

release); 6pm; $20 (adv) foolstongue.ca

Smith CENTURY CASINO Herman’s

Hermits starring Peter Noone; $49.95 DOW CENTRE–Shell Theatre– Fort Saskatchewan An Acoustic

evening with Sass Jordan; 7:30pm; $45 (adult)/$42 (senior/youth) at Ticketpro.ca FESTIVAL PLACE Café Series:

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

Band (Gypsy jazz quartet); 9pm; $10

Transmission; 7:30-9:30pm; $20/$15 (student/senior) $10 (NME member) at TIX on the Square, door WINSPEAR CENTRE

Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony: William Eddins (conductor), Benjamin Grosvenor (piano); 7:30pm; $24-$79 at Winspear

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

Friday DJs on all three levels

presents: Perspectives in Edmonton, David Haley; 9:30pm; no cover LIZARD LOUNGE Rock ‘n’ roll

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO YELLOWHEAD Shannon

Smith CENTURY CASINO Herman’s

Hermits starring Peter Noone; $49.95

and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri

Time Zine release party); guests DJ KTF; 9pm-2am; free before 10pm; $5 cover after 10 Roundup V: Allen Toussaint with his Trio; 7:30pm; $60 (table)/$55 (Box)/$50 (Theatre) at Festival Place box office,

FESTIVAL PLACE Café Lounge: Winter Roots Roundup V: The

Blues of Folkways: Tim Williams and Del Rey; 7:30pm; $20 at Festival Place box office FILTHY MCNASTY’S Pre-party show featuring: Ground Star and Colfax, 6pm; party bus leaves at 7:30pm to go to the Studio for Raised Fist Productions, Glorification of the Fist III concert

open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

MERCER TAVERN Homegrown

MACLAB CENTRE–Leduc Hotel California: The Original Eagles Tribute Band; 7:30pm; $33 (adult)/$30 (student/senior)

Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie,

HILLTOP Open Stage, Jam

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and

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

the Hurricanes

SET NIGHTCLUB NEW Fridays:

OMAILLES Pete Kelly

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

L.B.’S The DemoGraphics

SSOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

every Sat; 3-6pm; evening:

ON THE ROCKS Love Junk

with DJs OVERTIME Sherwood Park

OLD TIMER’S CABIN Edmonton Blues Society: Matt Walker Band; 7:30pm (door); $5 (member)/$10 (guest) OMAILLES IRISH PUB Pete Kelly ON THE ROCKS Love Junk

with DJs OVERTIME Sherwood Park

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

Zodiac Series pres. Featuring Picon with Adam Shaikh and Blue Lunar Monkey with the Aura Bora Dancers REDNEX BAR AND GRILL– Morinvill Sweet Tequila (rock

rodeo) RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Delilah and

the Douchettes RICHARDS PUB The Terry

Evans Sat Jam: every Sat; 5-9pm THE RIG Down in the City ROSE AND CROWN Derina

Harvey SET NIGHTCLUB House Party–

Park Style: incl bus from Sherwood Park to SET and back at the end of the night; no cover; info: 780.977.5637 SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Duane Allen SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

Stu Bendall SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Andrew Scott STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

Glorification Of The Fist– Anniversary Party: Skyline, Eye of Horus, Elements, These Colours Don’t Run, Bring Us Your Dead, the Equinox, Heroes Start Here, Red Skull Ritual; 7:30pm (door); $15/$20 (party bus tickets); $25 (door) WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH Kokopelli

Choirs present Ubuntu, with special guests the Good Women Dance Collective; 2pm show features Kikimasu; 7pm show features Shumayela; 2pm and 7pm; tickets at TIX on the Square YARDBIRD SUITE International

YEG DANCE CLUB

unplugged, Alee; 8:30pm; $15 (show)/ $45 (dinner and show)

FESTIVAL PLACE Winter Roots

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop

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

Cunningham

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

DJ every Fri

O’BYRNE’S Live band every

COOK COUNTY Charlie Major

CHA ISLAND TEA HOUSE Althea

DV8 Tighten Up! Club (Soul

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

Sonny and the Hurricanes

Jazz Series: From California: Lorca Hart Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove

THE COMMON The Common

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Duff

BOHEMIA Uncivil War: North

LEVEL 2 Darin Epsilon

‘80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

the Trees, Andy Shauf, Jesse and the Dandelions; 8pm (door); no minors; tickets at Blackbyrd

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro

ARTERY Rah Rah, Revenge of

Andrew Scott

DRUID DJ every Fri; 9pm

Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ’s Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

Gauthier, Lori McKenna, Rose Cousins and Chloe Albert; 7:30 pm; $35

Champion

Band (blues)

Floor: wtft w djwtf–rock ‘n’ roll, blues, indie; Wooftop:

Flirts; 9pm-1am; no cover ARDEN Storytellers: Mary

BLUES ON WHYTE Grady

L.B.’S The Marshall Lawrence

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

APEX CASINO The Nervous

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

DJs

SAT FEB 22

Stu Bendall

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ Felt Hat String

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

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

Fridays

Ladouceur and the Broke Ensemble; 8:30pm; $15

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues

RIG Duus Blues

every Fri

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Paul

Stu Bendall Andrew Scott

RENDEZVOUS Face First

UNION HALL Ladies Night

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

Headwind and friends (vintage rock ‘n’ roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

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

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

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Dale

FIDDLER’S ROOST Barbara’s

Thu, 7-10pm

rodeo)

SUITE 69 Release Your Inner

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Duane Allen

Hause, Worst Days Down

RIC’S Peter Belec (jazz); most

Whitey Houston, Labadoodle REDNEX BAR AND GRILL– Morinvill Sweet Tequila (rock

Oscher (fr Austin Texas); 7pm (door); $30 (adv)/$35 (door)

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling

pianos at 8pm

PAWN SHOP We Hunt Buffalo,

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

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

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Paul

Winter Roots Roundup V: Cara Luft and Hot Club Edmonton; 7:30pm; $20; Winter Roots Roundup V: MonkeyJunk (blues); Sold Out

PAWN SHOP Northcote, Dave

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

every Sat; 3:30-7pm JEFFREY’S Jeff Hendrick (R’n’B

sax and vocals); 9pm; $10 LEAF BAR AND GRILL Northern

Comfort; 9:30pm NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam

Highmaintenance

Classical HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH About the Music–

Voices: i Coristi Chamber Choir, Rob Curtis (music director), Megan Crane (piano); 7:30pm; $18 (adult)/$13 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square WINSPEAR CENTRE

Beethoven’s Pastorale Symphony: William Eddins (conductor), Benjamin Grosvenor (piano); 8pm; $24-$79 at Winspear

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions:

Alt Rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who

Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down

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

FRI FEB 21

WE HUNT BUFFALO W/ WHITEY HOUSTON & LABRADOODLE SAT FEB 22

PICON

FEAT. ADHAM SHAIKH, BLUE LUNAR MONKEY & AURA BORA DANCERS THU FEB 27

RIDLEY BENT

W/ THE DUNGAREES & JAKE IAN AND THE HAYMAKERS FRI FEB 28

SONIC BAND OF THE MONTH...

TUPELO HONEY

W/ BIG CITY SUPREME, HEARSAY AND MORE

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

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

FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:

VUEWEEKLY FEB 20 – FEB 26, 2014

MUSIC 29

FEB/28 MAR/6 MAR/7 MAR/8 MAR/15 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

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

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESENTS

OUTREACH

style meals offered from Peter and Karens Kitchen

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop

HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the Hog

and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

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

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday

Saturdays underground: House and Techno

Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

PAWN SHOP Transmission

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and

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

the Hurricanes

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,

ELECTRIC SIX AND THE MOHRS AND REND 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

ISLANDS

Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

THE MOUNTIES

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

AGAINST ME! THE KIN

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

THE JEZABELS AND BOY AND BEAR

THE 1975

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

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

BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose The

Bailey’s Buckaroos Classic Country Extravaganza; 1pm (door), 2pm (show); $12 at Bailey box office BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Jazz

FEB/21 FEB/22

ATTACKED BY RAPTORS, NICK WATT, BRANDON BYERS & CROWDED CITY SKYLINE THOMPSON HIGHWAY, CALL APOLLO, THE LAKER BAND

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 STARTING FEBRUARY 25TH. DOORS 7PM

MARSHALL LAWRENCE’S

FEB/28 BLUES REVUE SHOW LENORE & CO., THE RIVER AND MAR/1 LANA THE ROAD & DRYLAND BAND MAR/7 MAR/8 LOUDER THAN LOVE MAR/14 ALTERRA, AND OF WHALE AND WOLF MAR/15 MATCHBREAKER, 20 CENTURIES OF STONY SLEEP MAR/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

30 MUSIC

RICHARDS PUB Jam with The

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous

SUN FEB 23

THE UNION PRESENTS

DJs

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

SET NIGHTCLUB SET Saturday

THE ZOLAS

W/ GUESTS

Nightkeepers featuring Dave Babcock and Alex Harriot

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

Saturdays

EXCALIBUR PRODUCTIONS AND FARMEGEDON PRESENT

Smith, Eyes on Ivan, Ian McIntosh

SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Hair of the

THE HEAD AND THE HEART

W/ TRASH TALK, RETOX AND SHINING

WUNDERBAR Gunner and

mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

UNION HALL Celebrity

THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN IRONSTORM CD RELEASE

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

by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm

Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

MRG PROSUCTIONS PRESENTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest:

SUICIDE GIRLS BLACKHEART BURLESQUE

W/ JAMES YOUNGER & GUESTS

MacEwan University: the Season’s 3rd Faculty Concert; Jim Head (guitar), Chris Andrew ((piano), Dan Davis (sax), Josh McHan (bass), Owen Howard (drums); 7:30pm; $21.75/$16.75 (student/ senior) at door, TIX on the Square

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

THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted

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

STEVEN J MASKUS

JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE

Rob Taylor

Normals; 5-9pm

SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro,

W/ GUESTS

ON THE ROCKS The

welcome; 7:30pm; $3

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

W/ GUESTS

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

Downtown Joanne Janzen

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

THE UNION PRESENTS

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

Monday Open Stage

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Fall

City Fall: Show of the Month; 5pm; free; all ages; proceeds to Edmonton Food Bank

Classical ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Mythologies Recital:

New Works: Petar Dundjerski (flute), Court Laslop (percussion), Clayton Leung (viola), Nora Bumanis (harp), and the composer herself, on violin; 3pm; $20/$10 at TIX on the Square, door WINSPEAR CENTRE Edmonton Youth Orchestra in Concert: Michael Massey (conductor), Edmonton Intermediate Youth Orchestra, Edmonton Senior Youth Orchestra; 2pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic

voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 Stylus Industry

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

brunch: Jazz Passages Trio; 9am-3pm; donations

MON FEB 24

BLUES ON WHYTE Grady

Orchestra; 7:30pm

Champion BOHEMIA Love’d Vintage PopUp Shop Social CHA ISLAND TEA CO Open mic

with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm DUGGAN’S 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

ARTERY Dope Soda, Wild Rose BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover FIDDLER’S ROOST Monday Nights Open stage hosted

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

the Hurricanes OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Tony Dizon WUNDERBAR Gunner and Smith (Saskatoon); Eyes On Ivan, Ian McIntosh; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Session: Ryan Davidson Trio; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and

not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

TUE FEB 25

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

ARTERY Boreal Sons, guests;

RED STAR Experimental Indie

7:30pm

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

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES Tue

Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover BOHEMIA Acoustic Tuesday THE BUCKINGHAM Simpsons Trivia (Bi-Mon-Si-Tri-Con!); 9pm DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage

Tue: featuring this week: Lindsey Walker; 9pm FIDDLER’S ROOST Tuesday

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

Jam: Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday

with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and

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

SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED FEB 26 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open

stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY Mark Berube with

The Bros. Landreth; 7:30pm BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose

Chic Gamine , Oh My Darling (folk roots); 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $20/$10 (student) at the Bailey box office BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

Robbie’s Reef Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio:

Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

OVERTIME Sherwood Park The

BRITTANY’S LOUNGE Jazz

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

evening every Wed; 8-11pm: This week: PJ Perry Trio BUCKINGHAM The Nulls; 8pm

RED PIANO Every Tue: the

DV8 Sister Sabbath,

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

open stage hosted by Mark Ammar; every Tue; 7:3011:30pm THE RIG Jam hosted by Rockin’ Randy every Tue, 7-11pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–

Motorhezbollah, Etic Po DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Wed

open mic with host Duff Robison ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed

(unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover

MERCURY ROOM Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm OVERTIME Sherwood Park

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

Wanting, Cody Karey; all ages; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $32.50, LiveNation. com NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and

the Hurricanes PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass

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

Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 THE RIG Open jam every Wed

hosted by Will Cole; 7pm -11pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Joanne Janzen SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

Rob Taylor SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Tony Dizon WUNDERBAR Kalle Mattson 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 Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and

FIDDLER’S ROOST

‘80s metal every Wed

Wednesday Nights Folk and Roots Open Stage: amateur and professional musicians

RED STAR Guest DJs every

Wed

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 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 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, 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 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 EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 HILLTOP 8220 106 Ave

VUEWEEKLY FEB 20 – FEB 26, 2014

HOGS DEN Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave ISBE EDMONTON 9529 Jasper Ave, 587.521.7788; isbeedmonton.com J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JOHN L. HAAR Grant MacEwan, 10045-155 St 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 LIZARD LOUNGE 13160-118 Ave MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL Alberta College, 10050 MacDonald Dr MYER HOROWITZ 8900-114 St, U of A NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730

NEWCASTLE 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 OLD TIMER'S CABIN 9430 Scona Rd O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO 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 GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE

10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SIDELINERS 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 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 UNION HALL 6240-99 St VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WEST END CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH 10015149 St WINSPEAR 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LiSTiNGS@VuEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FriDAY AT 3pM

Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

• The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com

EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King’s Univer-

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

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

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

COMEDY

Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy

EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani Café,

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: Explore the Spruce Grove City trails.

Contact JoAnne 780.487.0645; Feb 23 • 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

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

2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKES • Each week our group plans a 10 km guided hike • Car pool available meeting place to trail • Meet at McDonalds 10375-51 Ave • Join us this Sunday for a hike from Whitemud Creek Nature Reserve to Snow Valley.

Contact Johanna 780.428.8561 • Mar 9

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY • Edmonton

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-

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 • Jamie Hutchinson; Feb 20-22 • Marty Hanenberg; Feb 27-Mar 1 COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM •

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Steve O Special Presentation; Feb 20-22, 7:30pm; sold out; Feb 22 added late show, 11:15pm • The Underground Railroad; Feb 25, 7:30pm; $20 • Darren Carter; Feb 26-28; Mar 1-2

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm EDEN EXOTIC NIGHTCLUB/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 13120-97 St • Tits and Giggles 2: an Open Mic in between dancers • Feb 26, 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; Feb 27, 9pm

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm

RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway Blvd • Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm

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

Hostel Meeting Room, HI Edmonton, 10647-81 Ave • Organizing Meeting to plan the rally and march , Corbett Hall on Mar 8

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

Books, 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • Talks on Iceland • Tue, 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 • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio

(South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BOYLE STREET COMMUNITY LEAGUE •

9538-103A Ave • LIVINGbridge Information Session • Thu, Feb 27, 5:30pm • livingbridgeedmonton. com/events/2014/2/27/information-session

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP

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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana

Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm •

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G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre,

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

BOTTLED LIFE • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • Free film documenting Nestlé’s S.A. Introduction by a member of the Council of Canadians • Sun, Feb 23, noon; for child care call in adv: Rev Audrey Brooks at 780.489.8842; Rev Brian Kiely’s sermon on Social Justice at 10:30am

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

SOUTH EDMONTON GARDENING VEGETARIAN & VEGAN GROUP • Park Allen Hall,

GRID-TIE SOLAR SYSTEMS–A SOLAR INSTALLERS FORUM • MacEwan University

City Centre Campus, CN Theatre, Rm 5-142 • solaralberta.ca • Presentation and panel discussion by Alberta solar professionals • Feb 26, 7-9pm • Free

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

KREISEL LECTURE • Timm's Centre, U of A

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-118

11104-65 Ave • Potluck (bring a vegan/vegetarian/ raw dish for six) or, just come for the lecture at 6:30pm followed by a talk on Making a Bee Hive in Your Back Yard presented by Greg Greenleese • Feb 23, 5pm • $6

Campus • By Tomson Highway • Mar 6, 7pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-

THE PRIVATIZATION OF ALBERTA’S PUBLIC SERVICES • Allendale Community Hall,

106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

6330-105A St, behind Allendale School) • Should this Invasion Continue?: Presented by the Council of Canadians Edmonton Chapter featuring Tom Radford and his film, Common Ground–Defending the Public Sector; a panel discussion with Bill Moore Kilgannon and Rod Loyola • Feb 20, 7-9pm

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY •

ADVENTURE TRAVEL COMPANY • Audreys

teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton. ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Bowling: Bonnie Doon Bowling Lanes: Every Tue, 6:30pm; until Apr 1, 2014; $15/week • Volleyball: St Matthew Elementary School (NE): Tue, until Mar 11, 8-10pm; Stratford Junior-Senior High School (west end): every Tue, Mar 18-Apr 29, 7-9pm, $65 (season), $35 (Half season), $5 (drop-in) • Curling: Granite Curling Club: Every Tue, until Mar 25, 7pm • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

WINSPEAR CENTRE •780.428.1414 • Paul

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION •

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

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

comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

Community Centre, 11015-134 Ave • New year!

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

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

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

ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize

YOGA MEDITATION-FITNESS • Rosslyn

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam

Mercs present Brent Butt, Almost A Movie Star • Sat, Mar 1

cona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

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

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

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

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

• Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10-min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

WELLNESS NETWORK SERIES • Boyle Street Plaza, 9538-103 Ave • 780.424.2870 • MoneyMatter$: with Linda Mak from Money Mentors; Feb 20, 1:30-3:30pm; free • Writing For Recovery: with David Prodan from E4C; Feb 27, 1:30-3:30pm; free

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

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sun-

nybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

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)

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A

social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo. com/group/bwedmonton

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

TOASTMASTERS • Fabulous Facilitators

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave •

Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331 • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@ hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St

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

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

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

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

AN EVENING TO SUPPORT • Winspear

Centre's Lobby Spaces • 780.732.6655 • Network : Enjoy : Support presented by MNP, The Support Network • Feb 20, 5-9pm • $160 at abn.mnpevents.ca/an-evening-tosupport

ANNUAL NATIONAL HOMELESSNESS MARATHON • A cross radio event: through-

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

THE BIG HIT AT SNOW VALLEY •

edmonton.ca/city_government/initiatives_innovation/winter-festivals-events.aspx • Snow Valley Ski Club • Mar 1

BLACK HER-STORY • Cha Island Café, 10332-81 Ave • 780.757.2482 • altheacunnigham.weebly.com • Natty Dread Literary Celebration: song, poetry and spoken-word featuring Elsa Robinson, Ellen Kartz, Althea Cunningham, and Sima Robinson • Feb 22, 8pm • $12 (door) DEAD COLD RUN • Rundle Park • edmonton.ca/city_government/initiatives_innovation/winter-festivals-events.aspx • Zombies, mashed up with 'white walkers'; timed 5k winter run/obstacle. Course challenges your fitness against the best winter can throw at you • Feb 22, 2pm • Proceeds from this event will benefit North Saskatchewan Riverkeeper

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

OSCAR NIGHT AT THE VARSCONA •

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

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

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian

SWING 'N' SKATE • City Hall Plaza • edmon-

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

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

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

Confidentiality assured

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

VUEWEEKLY FEB 20 – FEB 26, 2014

Varscona Theatre, 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

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

ton.ca/city_government/initiatives_innovation/ winter-festivals-events.aspx • Rhythm Gunners Big Band of the Royal Canadian Artillery • Don Berner's Little Big Band; Feb 23

U OF A PRIDE WEEK • prideweek.ualberta.

ca • FruiT LOOp: Yellowhead Brewery–DT: Mixer and Silent Auction; benefit for the Edmonton Pride Festival Society; Feb 22, 7pm • Feb 26-Mar 8

VALENTINES AT THE MUTTART • 962696A St • Learn to pair JACEK artisan chocolates with fine wine, view a local artworks, and tour through the most romantic pyramids • Feb 22, 6:30pm • $60; pre-register at 311 WINTER WARMTH BONFIRE • edmonton. ca/city_government/initiatives_innovation/ winter-festivals-events.aspx • Learn about local wild animals through song and story, artifacts.

Hot beverages and marshmallows (for roasting) provided. Dress warm and bring a chair and re-usable cup or mug • Feb 23

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Art Society of Strathcona County DVD LECTURE - The World’s Greatest Paintings.

Tour more that 60 of the world’s greatest paintings. .

The visuals are excellent and the presenter is easy to hear and understand.

Sunday, March 2, 2014 1pm 4pm.. FEE: $5.00 A.J. Ottewell Art Centre - 590 Broadmoor Blvd. Sherwood Park. Contact 790-449-4443 or www.artstrathcona.com ATTENTION! OPEN CALL FOR SPEAKERS: TEDxEdmonton is looking for potential speakers to present their ideas worth sharing! If you know somebody or are that somebody that can follow through with this years theme of ‘For Certain: Uncertainty’ apply through our website http://www.tedxedmonton.com/ speakers/application.html or email at info@tedxedmonton.com If you were 16 and homeless, what would you do? That is the question Youth Empowerment & Support Services is asking with a brand new fundraising initiative, the Backpack Project, which is now open for registration.

Registration is open until February 26, and The Backpack Project goes live on March 7. Participants can register at http://yess.org/thebackpackproject

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AGA seeks Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator The Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA), a non-profit arts institution, is seeking an energetic, innovative and highly organized candidate to fill the full-time position of Special Events & Volunteer Coordinator.

Salary commensurate with experience. Please submit resume and cover letters to careers@youraga.ca by 5pm on Thursday, February 20, 2014. No phone calls please. Only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

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Can You Read This?

Help someone Who can’t!

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

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Growing Facilitators Volunteer Opportunity Sustainable Food Edmonton offers a Little Green Thumbs indoor gardening program to schools and childcare agencies and we are looking for volunteers. For info and volunteer application form:

www.sustainablefoodedmonton.o rg

Habitat For Humanity Women Build Week Mar 18-22 Are you a woman who has always wanted to volunteer on a Habitat for Humanity build site,but were unsure if you had the necessary skills? Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Kim. Contact Info: Kim Dedeugd kdedeugd@hfh.org 780-451-3416 ext 232 Habitat for Humanity is building at Neufeld Landing!

We are actively scheduling individuals and groups of volunteers for Canada’s largest project located in South Edmonton’s Rutherford area.

To get involved, go to www.hfh.org and register as a volunteer.

Kim Dedeugd 780-451-3416 kdedeugd@hfh.org Habitat for Humanity requires volunteers for our ReStores We are recruiting customer service volunteers to help us at least one shift per week at store locations in north, south or west Edmonton.

Contact for more info about the event: Evan Hammer 780-451-3416 ehammer@hfh.org Habitat for Humanity requires volunteers for our prefab shop.

We are now booking 10 – 15 volunteers per day Beginners to trades people welcome to help us build walls for our build projects. We provide all tools and equipment. All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training. No minimum number of shifts required.

Contact for more info about the event: Kim Dedeugd 780-451-3416 kdedeugd@hfh.org

Are You Looking for a Great Volunteer Experience?

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

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

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Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

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

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Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!

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

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

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

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

Volunteering - Does your employer have a Day of Caring program?

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

For more information, go to our website at www.hfh.org or contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232.

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

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

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Artist to Artist 2005.

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

Artists Wanted

Artists Wanted The City of Calgary is currently looking for artists and/or a team of artists to explore creative avenues with a design team to create the plans for new skateboard parks around Calgary.

“The artists’ role will be to bring new ideas and vision through consultation with design and capital team members, to prioritize creative experiences and to examine possibilities for site activation. The Public Art Program will also design and lead Community Cultural Development (CCD) opportunities, in collaboration with the artist and design team.”

Deadline for submissions is Monday, February 24.

For more information, visit The City of Calgary’s site: http://www.calgary.ca/CSPS/R ecreation/Pages/Skateparks/S kateboard-amenitiesstrategy.aspx

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

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

For more information on the prize and submission guidelines, please contact Nicholas Mather at (780) 422-8174 or visit www.writersguild.ab.ca 2014 Eldon & Anne Foote Edmonton Visual Arts Prize Application Form Open to Greater Edmonton Artists nominated by a Gallery.

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

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

Download Application here http://visualartsalberta.com/blo g/wpcontent/uploads/2012/05/2014 -Foote-Art-Prize-FINAL1.pdf Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA), seeks submissions from artists working in all styles and mediums for exhibition in the 2015 calendar year.

Deadline for submissions: Saturday, March 1, 2014, 5 pm For more information: Jenny Willson-McGrath, Exhibition Curator 780.651.5741 I jennyw@artsheritage.ca ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY WORKSHOPS Joyce Boyer, Oils, Feb 10-Mar 17 (Deadline for Reg Feb 1) Leslie Degner, Photography, Feb28/Mar1 (Deadline for Reg Feb 12) Gregg Johnson, Watercolors Mar 15/16 (Deadline for Reg Mar 1) Visit www.artstrathcona.com for DVD workshops and DVD Paint Along Days, and more information and upcoming workshops!

ARTIST requires agent/manager to assist in selling ART. Commission is generous percentage % .

Contact BDC at monkeywrench@live.ca Call for admissions: Graffiti Art Competition hosted by Toy Guns Dance Theatre – all styles of visual/installation art are welcome .For more information or to fill out an online application please visit our Facebook page: Toy Guns Dance Theatre (www.facebook.com/toygunstheatre) Questions: toygunsevents@gmail.com Tickets for the reception and art showing will go on sale February 15, 2014 Call for Vendors: Spring 2014 Royal Bison Craft & Art Fair, Edmonton Application Deadline: March 9, 2014 The 16th Royal Bison Craft & Art Fair Dates: May 9, 10 & 11, 2014 Location: Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre, 8426 Gateway Blvd, Edmonton Full vendor application information can be found here.

Please give this a thorough read before applying. http://royalbison.ca/forvendors/

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Call to Makers, Mercer Collective: A Maker’s Market You must MAKE, BAKE or CREATE what you sell. You can not be a reseller of goods not produced by you.

Costs: $60 per market December show is $200 Additional Fees Table Rental is available at $10 per show. Please specify 6 ft or 4 ft. Limited quantities available.

Show Dates: March 29,April 26, Sept 27,October 25, November 22 December 13-14 – $200

http://www.emailmeform.com/ builder/form/er27bvY7c0dhM9 0B9dX49 Calling all talented Canadian artists! Artailer is an innovative online gallery dedicated to showcasing and selling the work of new and emerging Canadian artists.

Inviting all artists who wish to turn their passion into a career to submit their art for review.

For more information, please see the FAQ page on our website (www.artailer.ca), or contact us directly: info@artailer.ca; 416-900-4112 CALLING ALL YOUTH ARTISTS! We are looking for submissions for Tabula Rasa, an evening to celebrate artistic talent of Edmontonians under 24! Accepting submissions in the form of visual or performing arts (send us your music, poetry, photography, paintings, choreography..etc) The event will be held at Mercer Building downtown, April 11th. Find the link to our submissions on tumblr, twitter and instagram: @tabularasa_yeg . Help us show you off!

EIFF: Submit Your Film Now www.edmontonfilmfest.com Edmonton International Film Festival… Earlybird submission deadline is February 28! Full program schedule and festival program guides available in September. www.edmontonfilmfest.com <http://www.edmontonfilmfest. com> Live Model Figure Drawing Drop-in sessions every Tuesday, February 11 – June 24, 6-9PM. $15/session; 11-pack only $150. Instruction

by Daniel Hackborn available 1st Tuesday of each month.

Save 20% on supplies.

Reserve your seating – space is limited. 10032 81 Avenue, Edmonton; ph. 780.432.0240. www.paintspot.ca; accounts@paintspot.ca OR info@paintspot.ca Make It Edmonton is looking for artists, craftspeople, and any other kind of maker to sell work in this marketplace type setting. If your work is made in Canada, you can submit to Make It Edmonton by Feb, 21st.

For more information, check out Art Rubicon: http://artrubicon.com/6269/calllocal-artists-artisans-makeedmonton-deadline-feb-21/ Marking the Valley A juried art exhibition Call to artists Leave Your Mark on the Capital Region River Valley Visual Arts Alberta-CARFAC is partnering with the River Valley Alliance to showcase the Capital Region River Valley through your artwork.

Submission Guidelines can be downloaded at:

http://visualartsalberta.com/ marking-the-valley/ Deadline for this juried exhibition: May 30th, 2014

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Painting Group(Acrylic & Oils) in Edmonton At the very beginning stage of starting a painting group, for all skill levels, and seeing if anyone else would be interested.

The aim would be to: - provide an agreeable regular time to meet with others and paint - meet like-minded people, or at the very least, people with similar interests - Keep creativity level up or revitalized - learn from other members and share skills Contact info: becausepaint@gmail.com Paintings done especially for sale, its a type of pop art and they’re female. 26 to choose from, 16” x 16”.

Triangle Lips Mr. Jim Willans 780-438-1969 Recognize your favourite greater #yeg artist and/or arts investor with a nomination for a Mayor’s Celebration of the Arts award.

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

E-mail admin@pacedmonton.com

The McMullen Gallery is accepting applications for the 2015-16 Exhibition Season until March 31, 2014 For details please head to: www.friendsofuah.org

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Experienced Female Blues / Swing Singer New to city and looking for a band with semi-regular gigs, mature/senior players and with a healthy ethic and environment. Have great range, power and good chops.

Can draw a crowd.

Please contact (780) 988-1058 or

edmontonblueswoman@gmail.com

Auditions for “THE ULTIMATE BOOK SHOW!” DIRECTOR MARIE NYCHKA MUSIC DIRECTOR RANDY MUELLER SCRIPT BY BOB RASKO SPECIAL GUEST ARTIST VANCE AVERY (Marius in the 1st Canadian & US touring productions of Les Miserables) Join us for a musical journey inspired by literary classics!

Featuring excerpts from Les Miserable, Anne of Green Gables, Oliver, My Fair Lady, Into the Woods and more!

Music and stories loved by millions leap from the pages to the stage for an evening of pure entertainment!

Saturday, February 22nd 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the E. M. T. Studio 13915 115 Avenue, Woodcroft Hall Please prepare 1 musical theatre song that showcases your vocal range, Accompanist will be provided Female and Male roles and chorus will be cast (age 16 and older) Strong Male Singers Needed To book an appointment or for more information please call 780-452-8046

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

Details at www.thevanguardjournal.word press.com

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Rates start as low as $30.

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

Contact BDC for more info: monkeywrench@live.ca

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Experienced drummer wanted Double-kick, influences Judas Priest, Iron Maiden and Black Sabbath. Rehearsal space a possibility as well.

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MEIER GUN AUCTION. Saturday, March 8, 11 a.m., 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton. Over 150 guns - Handguns, rifles, shotguns, hunting and sporting equipment.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): A woman from New Mexico wrote to tell me that after reading my horoscopes for three years in the Santa Fe Reporter, she had decided to stop. "I changed my beliefs," she said. "I no longer resonate with your philosophy."

On the one hand, I was sad that I had lost a reader. On the other hand, I admired her for being able to transform her beliefs and also for taking practical action to enforce her shift in perspective. That's the kind of purposeful metamorphosis I recommend for you, Aries. What ideas are you ready to shed? What theories no longer explain the nature of life to your satisfaction? Be ruthless in cutting away the thoughts that no longer work for you.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): In Arthurian legend, Camelot was the castle where King Arthur held court and ruled his kingdom.

It housed the Round Table, where Arthur's knights congregated for important events. Until recently, I had always imagined that the table was relatively small and the number of knights few. But then I discovered that several old stories say there was enough room for 150 knights. It wasn't an exclusive, elitist group. I suspect you will experience a similar evolution, Taurus. You may be wishing you could become part of a certain circle, but assume it's too exclusive or selective to welcome you as a member. I suspect it's more receptive and inclusive than you think.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): The renowned Lakota medicine man Sitting Bull (1831 – 1890) wasn't born with that name. For the first years of his life he was known as Jumping Badger. His father renamed him when he was a teenager after he demonstrated exceptional courage in battle. I'd like to see you consider a similar transition in the coming months, Gemini. You're due to add some gravitas to your approach. The tides of destiny are calling you to move more deliberately and take greater care with the details. Are you willing to experiment with being solid and stable? The more willing you are to assume added responsibility, the more interesting that responsibility is likely to be.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): The English noun "offing" refers to the farthest reach of the ocean that is still visible as you stand on the beach. It's a good symbol for something that is at a distance from you and yet still within view. I suggest that you take a long, thoughtful look at the metaphorical offing that's visible from where you stand. You'll be wise to identify what's looming for you in the future so you can start working to ensure you will get the best possible version of it.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): A large

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plaster Buddha statue was housed at a modest temple in Bangkok, Thailand from 1935 to 1955. No one knew its age or origins. In May of 1955, workers were struggling to move the heavy 10-foot icon to a new building on the temple grounds when it accidentally broke free of the ropes that secured it. As it hit the ground, a chunk of plaster fell off, revealing a sheen of gold beneath. Religious leaders authorized the removal of the remaining plaster surface. Hidden inside was a solid gold Buddha that is today worth $250-million dollars. Research later revealed the plaster had been applied by 18th-century monks to prevent the statue from being looted. I foresee a comparable sequence unfolding in the coming weeks for you, Leo. What will it take to free a valuable resource that's concealed within a cheap veneer?

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Holistic-health teacher Deepak Chopra suggests that we all periodically make this statement: "Every decision I make is a choice between a grievance and a miracle. I relinquish all regrets, grievances and resentments, and choose the miracle." Is that too New Age for you, Virgo? I hope you can drop any prejudices you might have about it and simply make it your own. It's the precise formula you need to spin this week's events in the right direction—working for you rather than against you.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): In the savannas of Africa, waterholes are crucial for life. During the rainy season, there are enough to go around for every animal species to drink and bathe in comfortably. But the dry season shrinks the size and number of the waterholes. The impala may have to share with the hippopotamus, the giraffe with the warthog. Let's use this as a metaphor to speculate about your future.

I'm guessing that the dry season will soon be arriving in your part of the world. The waterholes may dwindle. But that could ultimately prove to be a lucky development, because it will bring you into contact with interesting life forms you might not have otherwise met. Unexpected new alliances could emerge.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In his book The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human, literary scholar Jonathan Gottschall muses on the crucial role that imagination plays in our lives. "[The] average daydream is about 14 seconds long and [we] have about 2000 of them per day," he says. "In other words, we spend about half of our waking hours—one-third of our lives on Earth—spinning fantasies." I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because you are entering a phase when your daydreams can serve you well. They're more likely than usual to be creative, productive

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): The Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Eighth Symphony in a mere two months during the summer of 1943. He worked on it in an old henhouse on a former chicken farm. The location helped relax him, allowing him to work with extra intensity. I wish you could find a retreat like that for yourself sometime soon, Sagittarius.

I think you would benefit from going off by yourself to a sanctuary and having some nice long talks with your ancestors, the spirits of nature and your deepest self. If that's not practical right now, what would be the next best thing you could do?

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Is there one simple thing you could do to bring a bit more freedom into your life? An elegant rebellion against an oppressive circumstance? A compassionate breakaway from a poignant encumbrance? A flash of unpredictable behaviour that would help you escape a puzzling compromise? I'm not talking about a huge, dramatic move that would completely sever you from all of your burdens and limitations. I'm imagining a small step you could take to get a taste of spaciousness and a hint of greater fluidity. That's your assignment in the coming week.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): There are 15 074 lakes in Wisconsin, but more than 9000 of them have never been officially named. That's strange to me. In my view, everything is worthy of the love that is bestowed by giving it a name. I have named every tree and bush in my yard, as well as each egret that frequents the creek flowing by my house. I understand that at the Findhorn community in northern Scotland, people even give names to their cars and toasters and washing machines. According to researchers in the UK, cows that have names are happier: they produce more milk. Your assignment, Aquarius, is to name at least some of the unnamed things in your world. It's an excellent time to cultivate a closer, warmer personal relationship with absolutely everything.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): From 2010 to 2012, Eric Garcetti worked as an actor on the TV cop shows The Closer and its spin-off series Major Crimes.

He played the mayor of Los Angeles. Then in 2013, he ran for the office of LA's mayor in real life, and won. It was a spectacular example of Kurt Vonnegut's suggestion that we tend to become what we pretend to be.

Your assignment Pisces, is to make good use of this principle.

I invite you to experiment with pretending to be the person you would like to turn into. V

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She speculated it is because I have a sentially, the theory goes that men One of our favourite things to do big ego—if other men want her, her get physically aroused when they is for me to deep-throat their cock. value is higher. That sounded weird know that their sperm might have It's long and thick—definitely bigto me. For me, it is all about sex. The to compete with those of another ger than average—and I take pride idea of her letting another guy in, man, in order to possibly (even the- in being able to fit it all the way going down on him, etc, is exciting oretically) impregnate a woman. In down my throat. They sometimes to me. We will be breaking the rules such circumstances, the men thrust fuck my throat, quite roughly at for what married couples are sup- harder and deeper during sex, they times. Is there a medical danger posed to do. I have been on cuckold- ejaculate harder and their ejaculate to deep-throating? Sometimes it makes my throat a little sore for a ing websites. It seems a lot of guys contains more sperm." go in for humiliation. Some claim As for your wife's restrictions— few days after. We've tried to stop they have small dicks and want a you can't be there, she'll share deep-throating while we figure out larger man to satisfy their wives. some details but not all—Ley if it's dangerous or not. But when None of those things apply to me. I thinks your wife is testing you. we get caught up in the moment, just think it is hot, exciting sex. My "She's setting boundaries," he says. it's just so hot that we can't stop question: has there been research "She wants to see how serious ourselves. What should we do? into cuckolding? Why do husbands CUCK is, how he's going to react. Could we be harming my throat? find it hot and desirable?

And she's also establishing some Two Wondering If Naughty Kink's Clearly Understanding Cuckold level of independence. It's her Safe Kink body and her sexuality, too, after all." Ley thinks you guys are com- I could go find an expert for you, "There hasn't been a lot of research ing at this from a good place. Your TWINKS, or search the medical litinto the cuckolding phenomenon," marriage is on the upswing, you're erature. But if deep-throating were said David J Ley, PhD, a clinical talking about your desires openly dangerous—if cocks were doing psychologist and the author of In- and honestly and you're willing permanent damage to throats— satiable Wives: Women Who Stray to compromise. "I've worked with I would've heard about it by now. and the Men Who Love Them. "His- couples who have made this fan- An intense deep-throating session torically, men whose wives cuck- tasy and lifestyle work," says Ley. is physically taxing and you feel it olded them were publicly humili- "And the key component is commu- for a few days after. Snowboarding, ated, and their wives were often nication, grounded by mutual trust which I'm off doing with husband severely punished. It is only in the and respect. If you pursue this, do and son this week, has the same efpast decade or so that this fantasy it with honest communication on fect on my legs. My advice: take it easy for a while after trashing your has catapulted itself into the public both your parts." consciousness, largely due to an inYou can follow Ley on Twitter @ throat, just as I take it easy after trashing my legs. tersection of female sexual libera- DrDavidLey. tion and the ability of the Internet Hear the Lovecast recorded live at to allow men with these fantasies WILD CARD to find each other and learn they I am a straight 19-year-old girl in Seattle's Neptune Theatre on Valencollege. I broke up with my boy- tine's Day at savagelovecast.com. V are not alone."

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