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The halo effect A little while ago, I expressed disappointment on Facebook that my MLA was absent for a particular vote in the legislature.

Given the legislature sits, on average, less than 50 days a year and that our MLAs are paid quite generously (at minimum, $134 000 each year), it's not unreasonable that we expect our elected representatives to show up every single day for every single vote.

Although there was nothing partisan or personal behind my remarks, they generated a fair number of negative comments, three private messages, two phone calls and one "unfriending." The people who rose to my MLA's defence were, predictably, members of the same party as him and they helpfully offered all sorts of reasons as to why his absence was acceptable. The response was symptomatic of the halo effect which is serving to seriously hamper how accountable our elected representatives need to be.

The halo effect, a term first coined by psychologist Edward Thorndike, refers to a cognitive bias that allows our positive impression of someone to cloud our judgment about everything that person does, including accepting or excusing behaviour we wouldn't tolerate in someone we hold in lesser regard. The opposite of the halo effect—when one bad quality or experience clouds your view of a person—is known as the "devil" or "horn" effect.

It's pretty obvious how this plays out politically. You can see it just about every day in Ottawa, where Stephen Harper's Conservatives point their fingers at the sense of entitlement and incidents of corruption at the hands of previous Liberal governments while outperforming them in both at every turn. The hyper-partisan times in which we live means that if anyone in our own political tribe does anything disreputable, it should be met with either stony silence or talking points explaining why it's only wrong when the other guys do it.

It's important not to confuse the halo or horn effects with outright hypocrisy, the likes of which we saw last week when Minister of Labour, former deputy premier and potential PC leadership candidate Thomas Lukaszuk took issue with former premier Alison Redford's continued absence from the legislature. "My constituents expect me to show up to work every day and that's what taxpayers are paying me for," he said, conveniently forgetting that last year, while he was Minister of Advanced Education, he missed the presentation of the provincial budget which drastically slashed postsecondary budgets across the province because he was on vacation building playgrounds in Vietnam. Similarly, he missed at least six days of the fall legislature session the year before that while he took a personal trip to Poland and Israel.

Hypocrisy driven by self-interest is a different threat than the more systemic one I'm talking about. The halo effect restricts our ability to hold elected representatives as a whole to a higher standard and until that occurs, public disengagement from the political process is going to continue to get a whole lot worse. Partisans of all stripes might want to consider that and check their biases the next time they feel the urge to enthusiastically defend one of their own. V

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here's been a long, slow decline in legalaid funding. The result in Alberta is a maximum-income cut off that leaves some people on AISH, or working a full-time minimum-wage job without full support because they make too much money.

Legal aid provides services such as legal advice and representation to those unable to afford it. It's funded by both the federal and provincial governments, but when people deemed medically able to work are unable to access it, something is surely wrong. Liberal MLA Laurie Blakeman has been raising the issue at the legislature.

"The people affected by this are low-income, generally speaking," she says. "What happened most recently is that legal aid had to develop some guidelines. If they were really pinched for money, who are they not going to give support to? They have had to implement those really tough rules recently."

The tough rules include the income cut off for representation being $1348 per month for a family size of one. A person living alone working full time on minimum wage earns around $250 per month too much to qualify. Without full support, many finding themselves going to court have little choice but to turn to self-representation, and the people in these situations are hardly on level ground.

"Sometimes the judge will say 'You know what, this is so not going to work.' And they will appoint someone for them, and particularly that will happen in criminal cases," Blakeman says. "A lot of the cases we're talking about are people in small-claims court, dealing with tickets, bylaw infractions that they need to fight, custody, maintenance."

Blakeman, unsatisfied with Alberta Minister of Justice Jonathan Denis' explanation that the federal government is the problem, expects more from the provincial government. The Canadian Bar Association is aware of the situation and has long been advocating in favour of more funding.

"I think it is entirely justified to be deflecting a good proportion of the hate here to the federal government," says Patricia Hebert, a privatepractice family-law lawyer and chair of the

CBA's National Standing Committee on Legal Aid. "But I think there's always more that can be done at the local levels as well. The province also makes choices about where to spend dollars on a regular basis. I think most of us who work in these areas, these under-served communities and vulnerable marginalized populations, think that the funding for things like legal aid have to be made a bigger priority."

The risks cut deeper than just the surface of individuals being denied access to justice. The consistent lack of funding to this program, which disproportionately affects the lives of some socioeconomic groups more than others, results in something less tangible than dollars.

"The dangers are huge," Hebert says. "We know that people are getting more and more frustrated and disenchanted with the legal system. The surveys that we conducted and the contacts that we make when were doing [the Reaching Equal Justice Report] for the end of last year told us that people have a perception that we have a great system of laws in Canada, but no one can access it—that it's justice for the rich and not for the poor.

"We know that our world's becoming increasingly legalized and more legally complex, but we see more and more people representing themselves because they are either unable, or in some cases not willing, to get legal assistance."

Although dollars are saved on paper by not pumping in more money, the whole system suffers anyway. Hebert argues that by giving access to justice through funding legal aid, it allows people to earn more income longer term, empower them to use fewer government services and rely less on social assistance.

Though specifically Canadian studies have not addressed this question, a collection of studies done in Australia, the UK and the US show that an average of six dollars are saved elsewhere for each dollar spent in legal aid, and that's besides the social cost of denying legal aid, and the cost to the individual.

With cuts to legal aid beginning in the '90s, damage has been done and little seems to be happening to reverse it. While the federal gov-

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ernment used to directly fund the provinces and territories for civil legal aid, they moved toward rolling that money into the Canada Social Transfer, which supports post-secondary education, social services and early childhood development. There are other things to fund with the same pot, and it's hard to tell how much money is actually available. It's left to the provinces to figure out how to spend it.

"They kind of end up taking a step back from responsibility about what happened for civil legal aid funding," Hebert says.

While Hebert wants to see more money for legal aid, she's looking for accountability, too.

She wants to see leadership and a national standard, so that people in all places can get the help they need. It's a question of what we, as a society, think about access to justice.

"Do we think that legal aid is an essential service, like health care or social services, where we want to know that as Canadians we can access a standard across the country that can make us proud? And that we don't leave every community to its own devices?" Hebert asks.

While the legal-aid funding issue is not exactly at the forefront of the news, it's a conversation that needs to happen. The provinces can blame the feds, and the feds can hide behind obscuring the money—not to mention not having a minister or department individually responsible on a national scale. The provinces can decide not to budget it as a priority, and the feds can keep funding steady, without regard for population growth or inflation, and both can pretend that it's someone else's problem.

But there are people on AISH and people working full-time minimum-wage jobs in need of help. Blakeman asked Denis directly what he'd recommend they do.

"Mr Speaker," he replied, "as I indicated earlier, the Legal Aid Society of Alberta sets its own criteria. We'll continue our funding of legal aid.

We'll also continue our advocacy for the federal government to live up to its obligations."

In the absence of an answer, those who might need the help of legal aid but don't qualify can only hope they won't have to deal with the legal system at all. ryan bromsgrove

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Selling sex between loads of laundry For one Western escort, the girlfriend experience is more than just cuddles and kisses

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rostitution has been in the headlines this year since the Supreme Court struck down Canada's prostitution laws last December, giving the government a year to write new ones. But between booking ads, hotels and doing a surprising amount of laundry, some of the people most affected by the changes have the least time to deal with it.

Melody, a 29-year-old from British Columbia, is a touring escort, who travels from town to town, offering a service called "the girlfriend experience," which is a type of sex work more personalized than traditional escort services.

In April she advertised for a few days at a time in Edmonton, Lac La Biche, Cold Lake, Bonnyville, Edson and Lloydminster, according to her Twitter account @DeviantMelody, where she tweets with other escorts and posts pictures of her horses. She lives in Winnipeg, but only technically.

"I'm never there, ever," she says.

"All winter, I was there 25 days of the whole winter. I have two horses there that I never get to ride. It sucks. That's the downside."

At a restaurant for lunch, Melody, who stands 6'2", is wearing a blackand-grey jacket and drinking white wine and arranging her waist-length brown hair. Two cellphones lay in front of her on the table: a white iPhone 5 and a cracked HTC handset whose number she gives out to clients. As a touring escort, Melody independently books her own clients and ads on websites like backpage. com, arranges a hotel or a condo and leaves town after a couple of days.

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they've got their shit together, because it takes a lot to book the hotel in advance and do your ads and respond to your emails and manage the review boards," she says. "I even struggle with it. It's a lot of work."

Her past careers include training problem horses and commercial fishing. In 2011, she was working a retail job full time while trying to apply for nursing programs. That's when she started paging through the Craigslist Casual Encounters section.

"When I turned 27 ... I was going to leave for school, so I didn't want to get attached to anyone," she says.

"So I turned to Craigslist, because I had a fantasy I wanted to play out. It was fantastic. "[After a summer] I was like, I kind of enjoy this whole sex-with-strangers thing. ... I know girls that are doing the same thing that I'm doing, but they make money. Why don't I just turn this into my job?"

She started working part time and was initially surprised by the popularity she says accompanies any new escort.

"I had a full-time job, I had a retail job, I was perfectly fine, I was set up.

I just get really bored sometimes in life, and I live for excitement, and this is exciting for me," she says. "You'd be amazed at how many emails you get when you post a new [ad]."

The girlfriend experience, or GFE, can simulate a relationship with kissing and cuddling, but varies from client to client.

"There's no set routine ... it's different with every person that you meet," Melody says. "Typically, for the non-girlfriend experience—they

call it fluid exchange—there's no kissing or anything like that. The girlfriend experience, there is. It's a little bit more passionate in that way."

When Melody tours the north, she ends up booking a lot of clients from the oilsands.

"It's hard for them to have a home life if they're just a single guy living 30 to 40 days in camp, and they get lonely," she says. "They don't say it in those specific words, but yeah, you hear it.

"I like that they really appreciate that you're there. They're really glad that you're there!"

But Melody doesn't book in camps, usually trying to get rooms in hotels or booking short-term condo spaces instead.

"I'm getting used to hotels. I used to work out of condos I met through other girls," she says. "It was great because I could stock the cupboards with my favourite teas and it was like a second home."

But the biggest challenge, hotel or condo, is one that you might not expect.

"People don't realize how much work is involved that's not work you'd think you'd do ... it's laundry, 'cause laundry is a way of life," she says. "It's not the clothes, it's towels and sheets, because every person you see, they have a shower, and so there's a towel. I had an in-call in Vancouver I worked out of, three girls were there, the washer and dryer went 24/7. It's a monumental amount of laundry, it was unreal."

Melody says the community among escorts, which often involves whis-

pers along review boards—"There's a Yelp for [escorts]"—is particularly good in Alberta.

"Here, there's meet-and-greets, and we had a barbecue in September.

Everyone gets along ... and there's no drama, no crap, and everybody's really friendly," she says.

When it comes to staying safe, she relies on references from other girls.

"I just screen, and when you're working in places where there's bylaw and stuff, I take references. You don't see someone without a reference from another girl that you know," she says.

And she relies on her gut instinct, which she says is always right.

"You've got to really fuck up to get caught. Just don't be stupid, man. It's not hard," she says. "This is a terrible analogy, but if you watch Cops, every time you see them bust someone with like six kilos of cocaine in their trunk, it's 'cause they ran a stop sign and got pulled over for a traffic violation. Just don't be stupid!"

Melody has always been independent and she's never seen human trafficking firsthand. While she doesn't use drugs, there are some in the community that do.

"There's all these stereotypes, right, and it holds true for some people but certainly not all, and unfortunately we all get painted with the same brush in that way," she says.

"It's frustrating for me ... people think that we come to the industry for the wrong reasons."

While she speaks to advocates involved in the Supreme Court case on Canada's prostitution laws, she says she's been reading a bit, but is not as well-versed in it as they are.

There's been a lot of discussion of what kind of new laws may be introduced, with "the Nordic model"—the philosophy in Sweden of targeting the buyers of sex rather than the sellers of sex—posed as an option.

"I don't think it'll affect me, if it does come into play, because all they have to do is go to a review and find out that I've been around for a while and I'm not a sting," she says. "That, I don't think, will affect the girls that are well established really, but I think it'll really cut the flow of new people coming into the industry."

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prostitutes are "predominantly victims." Melody disagrees.

"It doesn't objectify. It puts us in a position of power. Think about it: we're not calling them, they're calling us," she says. "Girls have onenight-stands all the time, at least girls that work get paid for it. And who do you have more respect for?

Honestly? Because she's not getting money, do you have more respect for her? It doesn't make sense."

That being said, Melody says she's considering transitioning out of the industry.

"It's getting watered down, is what it is. There's barely enough work for me," she says. "It's totally hit-andmiss, which is really frustrating, because you can go to one town and do really well and then return there and not see a single person the next time. And then you go there again and you do really well."

Though it has a reputation for sex work, one town she's crossed off her list is Fort McMurray.

"It's too expensive and it's too hit and miss. It's a big gamble, and there are a lot of girls that don't go there any more. You could do very well, but if you don't, you're losing a lot of money," she says.

"You're not getting rich. I'm not retiring on it, I'm doing it because I enjoy it right now. But it's changing a lot; there's a lot of new girls coming up and touring out here, and so work's thinned right out."

She's been spending a lot more time in Cold Lake.

"I have a really close friend there, so I spend a lot of time with her," she says. "Although I find that I don't work [there] as much as I could, because I'm too busy having fun with my friend."

As she gets ready to leave the restaurant, Melody gets a text from a client in Lloydminster, where she was the day before.

"This is one of the biggest frustrations for me: it seems like whenever you leave a town, your phone starts ringing for that town," she says.

"I've gambled on it a few times and stayed the extra day, and of course your phone doesn't ring. It's frustrating, so now I've realized, don't gamble on it, just leave and if they want to call you when you come back they can." andrew bates

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POLITICALINTERFERENCE

RICARDO ACUña // ricardo@vueweekly.com

Time to stop making inequality worse Alberta's income divide drastically impacts the health and economy of our province Last week, while their lawyers fought in the courts to be able to bypass collective bargaining and impose salary freezes on Alberta's public servants, the Alberta government fought in the legislature to pass legislation drastically reducing the retirement incomes of those same employees. Should the government succeed in both those battles, they will almost certainly ensure a reduced standard of living for this generation of public servants, both in their working lives and in their retirement. In the process they will have contributed to making one of Alberta's most worrying problems even worse.

Alberta already has the highest and fastest growing rate of economic inequality in the country.

Policies such as the single-rate or flat tax, our over-dependence on the oil and gas sector, encouraging an out-of-control boom and bust cycle, and a singular focus on economic austerity in both good times and bad have made the problem what it is today.

The research on the impacts of inequality is virtually unanimous, and comes from sources as diverse as the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, the World Bank and the Con-

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ference Board of Canada. All of them have found that inequality is bad for economic growth, health outcomes and myriad social outcomes.

In their groundbreaking book The Spirit Level, Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett meticulously identify the correlation between increased income inequality and variables ranging from life expectancy and obesity to illegal drug use, crime rates and the status of women. It is important to note that those impacts are not just on the poor, but on the entire society. The more unequal a jurisdiction is, for example, the more unhealthy are the people in every income bracket.

The World Bank has gone as far as suggesting that inequality is the largest single threat to economic growth that exists today.

Alberta increased by $320 000, while those of the bottom 90 percent grew only by $3900. It's a serious problem—one that the government refuses to acknowledge or address.

The result is that while the government works to cut spending on things like education, health

billion. Improving the health of all Albertans by the same amount would result in up to $5.7 billion in health-care savings.

That's a significant impact: reduce inequality, save money and promote economic growth.

Most jurisdictions around the world address inequality in two significant ways: progressive taxation and public services.

Progressive taxation evens out distribution of wealth by ensuring that those with lower income get to keep a larger portion of it while those with higher incomes contribute more. Well-funded public services ensure that all people have access to the services they need—services that facilitate income-generation and social mobility—without having to pay out-of-pocket for them.

In Alberta, however, the flat tax has actually resulted in the portion of taxes being paid by the middle class increasing and the portion being paid by the wealthy going down. Albertans in the middle are

getting to keep less of their income than before while those at the top are keeping more than they would anywhere else in Canada.

The flat tax has also ensured that the government cannot properly fund public services without going into debt, resulting in cuts, privatization, delisting and service fees, all things which further exacerbate inequality.

In fact, it seems every move this government makes, including its recent attacks on the living standards of public servants, is specifically designed to make inequality worse, ensuring that the rich will get richer, the poor will get poorer and the middle will slowly disappear.

It's time for the Alberta government to actually start paying attention to the evidence and stop introducing policy that will ultimately hurt the economic and social well-being of the province. A fair and progressive tax system and well-funded public services would be a good start. V

Crimea and is toying with the idea of seizing more of Ukraine, precisely because that country does not fall under the NATO umbrella. And it does not belong to NATO because NATO didn't want to take military responsibility for its defence.

That was an entirely rational decision, because the Russians clearly thought Ukraine fell within their sphere of influence. This is the first time it has been independent from Russia for any appreciable period of time in the past three and a half centuries.

Moreover, the post-Soviet governments in Kiev had been horrendously corrupt and incompetent, the country, as a result, is even poorer than it was in Soviet times—and the population in the eastern part of Ukraine is terrified of getting tangled up with the West because it inhabits an industrial museum whose products are only salable in Russia. What eastern Ukrainians really fear for is their jobs, not their right to speak Russian.

All this was clear 20 years ago, and that's when NATO decided that Ukraine's independence would have

to depend on Russia's goodwill, not on NATO's tanks. And for 20 years Russia more or less respected Ukraine's independence, while seeking, naturally enough, to ensure that its governments were friendly.

The collapse of the status quo is partly the European Union's fault, for demanding that Ukraine choose between closer trade and travel ties with the EU and full membership in Russia's proposed "Eurasian Union."

It is even more the fault of Moscow: President Vladimir Putin has been both emotional and opportunistic.

He's scaring people, which is never a good idea.

But if he does take more or even all of Ukraine, the West will not fight him. It will just take in all the Ukrainian refugees, strengthen its eastern defences, and begin the slow process of bringing down Putin by crippling the Russian economy. That would take years, but nobody would forget about Ukraine. It is a UN member, and even China has stopped supporting the Russian position. Remember East Timor. V

Albertans in the middle are getting to keep less of their income than before while those at the top are keeping more than they would anywhere else in Canada.

Alberta's richest one percent currently earn 18 times more than the bottom 90 percent. In 1982 it was only 10 times more. Between 1982 and 2010 the real incomes of the top one percent of earners in

care, policing and social services, growing inequality places greater demands and increases costs in all those areas.

Health care provides a very clear example. There is extensive research to show that people with higher incomes tend to be healthier and access the health-care system less. A recent report from the Parkland Institute calculates that bumping the health of the lowest quintile of income earners in Alberta just up to that of the next lowest quintile would save Alberta's health-care system $1.2

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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Donetsk is not Sarajevo

Any war that erupts in Ukraine will not spread to the rest of Europe With due apologies to God, Voltaire and the Ukrainians, I must point out that if Ukraine did not exist, it would not be necessary to invent it. It is not a great power, it has no resources the world cannot do without and it is not a "vital strategic interest" to anybody except the Ukrainians themselves. Not even to the Russians, although, they are acting at the moment as though it were.

Bosnia was nobody's vital strategic interest either. It isn't now, and it wasn't 100 years ago. But Bismarck warned in 1898 that if there was ever another major war in Europe, it would come out of "some damned silly thing in the Balkans," and an assassination in Sarajevo in 1914 fulfilled his prophecy to the letter.

Some things have changed since then, however. The next world war will not come out of Ukraine (which is only slightly northeast of the Balkans) no matter what happens in the next few weeks and months. Russia might invade Ukraine, there might even be a new Cold War for a while, but there will be no fighting in Europe beyond Ukraine's borders.

Indeed, apart from the Balkans there has been no full-scale war in Europe for the past 69 years, and

there was never the slightest risk that the fighting in the '90s would spread beyond the borders of former Yugoslavia. Indeed, there was probably never a single day during the 45 years of the Cold War when either side seriously considered attacking the other.

The reason was simple: they knew what would happen next, even if neither side used the thousands of nuclear weapons at its disposal.

Twice in 30 years, in 1914 – 18 and 1939 – 45, a major war using modern weapons had been fought over almost all of Europe's territory.

On the first occasion, they lost a generation of young men. The second time, most countries from Germany eastwards lost around 10 percent of their populations—and most of the casualties that time were civilians. Half of the continent's great historic cities were reduced to ruins even without the help of nuclear weapons. It was a very expensive education, but the Europeans did finally learn their lesson: don't do this any more.

That is why, even as Russian tanks drive right up to Ukraine's eastern borders and the Ukrainian army prepares to die in a fight it knows it would lose, nobody else in Europe is getting ready for war. If the Russians want part or all of Ukraine, they can have it—and pay the long-term price

Nothing in Europe is worth blowing all of Europe up for. for taking it, which would be very high. But nothing in Europe is worth blowing all of Europe up for.

Do not be alarmed by the fact that troops and planes from as far away as the United States and Canada are currently being sent to NATO countries that have borders with Russia.

The numbers are militarily insignificant. Their purpose is simply to remind the Russians that the alliance will protect its own members should Moscow ever decide that it has also a right to "protect" Russian-speakers in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia.

Moscow does not actually need to be reminded of that. It has seized

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Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Destitute folks // Eden Munro

Y

ou'd hope a story like The Crackwalker—about four destitute Canadians struggling to survive in the gaps of a flawed social-support system—would be less on the nose 30 years after it was written, not moreso. But, well, here we are.

Judith Thompson's seminal script premièred back in 1980. It began with a character she'd created while at the National Theatre School, a mildly mentally challenged Native American woman named Theresa, based on real people Thompson had met as an assistant social worker in Kingston, Ontario. Around her, Thompson built the first in what's become a long, acclaimed career of plays, and while the initial reaction to The Crackwalker was polarizing, the play's now heralded as a classic, albeit a tough-as-nails one.

But despite its legacy, director Kevin Sutley had never seen the play himself.

"For people my age, or a little bit younger, it's just one of those plays that everybody knows, but not everybody's seen," he says. "There's four fantastic monologues in it that, in the late '80s early '90s, got done to death. They're just so good, so raw,

and edgy, and Canadian. So a lot of lecture, The Crackwalker draws people know the play through that, its characters in vivid, unflinching or scene work. It was kind of surpris- portraits. The sympathy for them is ing to think I'd never seen a produc- yours to find.

You could call it a Canadian tion myself."

In a conference room turned re- Trainspotting, if you transplanted hearsal hall in the Arts Barns— that story's fringe-of-London characters to the the approximate small Canadian stage area taped Until Sat, May 10 city, and sandout over carpet, (7:30 pm; 2 pm Saturday matinee) ed off some of a prop motor- The Crackwalker its more overt cycle idling in Directed by Kevin Sutley comic angling. place—Sutley is Westbury Theatre, ATB Financial But there's parked at a table Arts Barns, $15 – $25 comedy to be with actor Nathan found here, Cuckow, who's sporting a baseball cap and bushy too; Cuckow notes that one of the character moustache. He plays Alan, strengths of Thompson's script is its who, along with Theresa, forms one ability to offer some levity against of two pairs of The Crackwalker's the weight of its subject matter. "[Thompson]'s so great at combindown-and-out couples in Kingston.

All of them are living under the ing humour and horror," Cuckow cusp of a reasonable standard, yet says, with a rueful laugh. "She refind themselves stuck in destruc- ally is. It's this really strange kind tive patterns, due to a combina- of balance where comedy can come tion of mental illness, addiction, from how extreme the situation is, unemployment and poor decisions or how intense a situation is." (usually related to one of the first three). The Crackwalker reads as a Like in Thompson's writing, intencry for compassion, certainly, but sity and social issues aren't an unnot a pedantic one: rather than usual mix in the repertoire of Kill

Your Television Theatre, a company dedicated to exploring the margins of society, and pulling no punches in the process.

"We wanted to do a Judith Thompson piece for a long time," Cuckow says. "She's obviously one of Canada's great contemporary playwrights. We were big fans of all of her work, but this one just seemed to resonate on a number of different levels: thematically, what the play dives into, people in our society that are ultimately marginalized and made to be invisible, kind of forgotten—being able to give them a voice is something that's appealing to us as artists, I think. That's why we like to present work that explores the other in society."

The timing seems appropriate, too: mental-health issues are more widely and publicly being discussed than ever before, but for all that talk, little progress seems to be stemming from it. If anything, we've gotten better at compartmentalizing our care: we're happy to champion a cause in discussion, but avert our eyes when it passes us on the street.

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our social perception of what [mental-health issues] are that's most disturbing," Cuckow says. "Because I feel like the Canada of the past that I knew, the Canadian values that I knew—maybe that's a fuckin' illusion as well, but I thought of Canada as being this compassionate country that cared about its people, and all of its people. The least fortunate especially. And I feel like something has shifted, where [poverty]'s now this ugly, disgusting thing that nobody wants to acknowledge or think about."

"We wrestled with the idea, 'is it dated?'" Sutley says. "[The Crackwalker] is certainly of a time, but I think a lot of it is more relevant today. I think there's more and more people falling through the cracks. We talk about the crack-falling cliché; that's kind of the whole idea the play's based on. I think it's more relevant than ever." "[Thompson]'s really ahead of the curve in calling this stuff out," he adds. "It really seems to me that things aren't getting better—they're getting worse."

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East of Berlin A story like this certainly has plenty to consider: East of Berlin finds a young man deeply shaken when he discovers his beloved father had been an SS scientist at Auschwitz. In dealing with that, he has to confront the long, dark shadow of the Holocaust from the aftermath, as well as his own feelings of culpability in its legacy, one that he had no real part of, but finds himself entangled in (and damaged by) all the same.

Sins of the father(land) // Mat Simpson Photography

A

s part of the University of Alberta's requirements for his MFA in directing, Simon Bloom spent six weeks rehearsing and honing his version of East of Berlin—a luxurious amount of time by theatrical standards—only to perform it in a limited, weekend-long run.

"You rehearse it for six weeks and then you perform for two days," he says, of that part of his now-acquired

degree. "Which was funny on this show, and even funnier when we did Hamlet; We rehearsed all of Hamlet and then did three performances of it."

The Prince of Danes be damned, though: Bloom heard an overwhelming praise for Berlin, which is part of the reason it's resurfacing now: as the final part of Punctuate! Theatre's season, Bloom, along with two of the three main actors from its first run, are giving

A deep, grave premise, certainly; it was Moscovitch's first full-length script, which earned her considerable clout as a Canadian playwright and enjoyed a nationwide tour (it came Until Mon, May 5 (7:30 pm) through town via Directed by Simon Bloom Theatre Network C103 (Catalyst Theatre), in 2009). But be$15 – $20 their acclaimed take yond the gravitas of its subject maton Hannah Moscovitch's script a second life. ter, the script's perspective on the "I've never gotten to revisit any show 20th century's weightiest subject before," Andréa Jorawsky notes, sitting matter is unique, too: rather than beside Bloom on a lunch break from focusing purely on the victims' narrehearsal. "I feel like, for myself as an rative, as most Holocaust stories do, actor, there is a base of information Berlin looks at the greater, fartherand understanding that I already have reaching implications of the tragedy: that I get to then take and deepen it. what comes after, left to struggle in And revisit it. And find new things." atrocity's long shadow.

"It's funny; it takes a Jewish playwright to write this play, which is not about a Jew," Bloom says. "Do you know what I mean? Because there's such sensitivity around those issues of the Holocaust—understandably so—that it feels like a huge portion of the stories we see, they're all focused around the Jewish story. But what we don't consider is Jews were not the only ones who were affected by the Holocaust. And what's interesting about this play in particular is that it's more focused on people who live in the legacy of the Holocaust.

Which is sort of affecting the world, as opposed to just Jewish people.

"Because it's a narrative about a German, after the war," he continues. "It has the opportunity to resist cliché.

Because there is no precedent for this kind of story."

"It's such a fresh and different perspective," Jorawsky adds. "This is the only piece of art I've ever been exposed to that has looked on the Holocaust from that perspective, of the generations after, and how that affects both sides. No matter what side of the war you were on, it has these lasting consequences."

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Mistakes Were Made

Why can't it just be easy? // Walter Tychnowicz

A

Broadway producer with a God complex: probably not the most unusual typecast out there.

Shadow Theatre's season capper delves into the mania behind putting together a major theatre show from scratch. Written by Baptist ministerturned-playwright Craig Wright, Mistakes Were Made follows the troubles of theatre producer Felix Artifex (Latin for "Happy Creator") as he attempts to put together a brand-

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new, large-scale Broadway produc- nity to make things happen—that's tion about the French Revolution. what Felix would say," he contin"Felix sees it as a chance at redemp- ues. "That overriding desire to— tion, in an odd sort of way," says whatever it is, whatever field, from Glenn Nelson, who's playing the gardening to whatever—make role. "The play just speaks to him on something happen. I can cause such levels of hope for his career— something to be created where this is gonna be the hit. And it's also there wasn't anything before: that's going to correct mistakes in his own a wonderful feeling." life, and be a new starting point.

So the stakes for Lest you think him are very, very Until Sun, May 18 (7:30 pm) Felix's problems Directed by John Hudson high." are relegated to The bulk of the Varscona Theatre, $11 – $27 the ranks of New show consists York's theatre of Felix on the community, think phone with various interests in his again—Edmonton show, from the mega-movie star probably has an unusually high numhe's trying to land for the lead role ber of these producer-creators. to various financial backers. These "Just do a Fringe show!" says Nelunseen characters are familiar the- son with a laugh. "It's all a matter atre tropes, a parade that's prob- of degrees. Felix's problems are ably familiar even to those who huger problems, but they're the haven't spent much time around same problems: you're three weeks the stage. away from the opening of the Fringe "There's God producing theatre, and you lose an actor. Or, 'What do basically, or trying to make things you mean we don't have a couch? happen; trying to create things— What do you mean our space isn't hence his name, Happy Creator," available for that time?' Any time Nelson says. "He meets with noth- you do your own show with your ing but frustration because of man- own money, the problems go right kind running amok and wrecking up through the ceiling. Nightmares everything that he's trying to make happen."

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Contractions N

o kid grows up wanting to be an office drone. But what if you can't afford to quit working for The Man? Or Woman, in the case of Northern Light Theatre's final show of the season: Contractions sees a manager putting her employee under a corporate microscope, examining just how far corporations can govern the lives of their staff—and how much freedom workers are willing to forfeit for the sake of a paycheque.

"I would be a terrible employee in a corporate situation," director Trevor Schmidt says. "I'd talk too much and I'd have opinions that disagreed with people; I have a problem with authority. I feel like my soul would die in a corporate situation."

This is resonant sentiment in pop culture, not to mention well-mined comedy fodder. (Read: the 1999 film Office Space and the hugely successful television series The Office.) Written

by English playwright Mike Bartlett in

the early 2000s, Contractions delves instances of companies taking siginto a darker world of fraught corpo- nificant strides in controlling their rate-employee relations—and is a re- employees are already well-estabminder that you really shouldn't skip lished. Most companies have policies over any sections of your employment governing interpersonal relationcontract. ships; there are "It's super, super also documented unsettling and Until Sat, May 10 (7:30 pm) cases of comit's kind of like Directed by Trevor Schmidt panies requiring something spiral- ATB Financial Arts Barns, employees—and ling down a drain," $16 – $28 sometimes even Schmidt says. "It's a just potential slippery slope that candidates—to you can't get off of. Each step is just provide their Facebook passwords. an incremental step to the next thing "I wouldn't be surprised to find that that happens; it keeps getting crazier it's very close to reality in terms of and darker and bleaker and more op- how larger corporations govern their pressive until you go, 'How did we get employees," Schmidt says. "It's about here—how did we get to this spot?' nipping in the bud anyone's strength And it all seems quite logical along of character that will lead them to conflict with the company. I think we the way." would want to believe that it's abAs farfetched as some of the play's surdist, but I think it's probably closer situations may seem to an audience to reality than we think." peering from behind the fourth wall, MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Read the fine print ... // Ian Jackson, Epic Photography

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The Fever E

ntering The Living Room Playhouse's cozy confines, the show's lone actress, Melissa Thingelstad, is already present in the space. Well, present might not be right: she's lost in thought, face troubled, perched on a chair that's been toppled onto its side—a sign that something's amiss on an otherwise bare, stark-white stage.

What's troubling her will unfold over the course of The Fever, Wallace Shawn's fervent, blazingly intelligent take-down of the costs of first-world living. As a script—originally produced in the '90s but revised by the playwright a few years ago—it proves a deft criticism of the paradigm of western culture: why it is the way it is, why it probably won't change, how culpable we all are in our complacency. It's challenging, certainly, to confront an audience with, well, itself, especially in a time when theatre seems desperate to shuffle anyone through the doors: but it's all very skillfully, unflinchingly executed in this Theatre No 6 production.

The Fever takes the shape of an increasingly acerbic rant from a nameless traveller, unwell in a never-specified third-world nation's hotel. Her concerns are many, taking aim at our social constructs big and small: why the maid cleans your hotel and then goes and sleeps in the slums; why the idea of gradual change, of slowly improving conditions for the poor, is inherently dishonest; how our comfortable existence is impossible to morally justify. The Fever can be funny—more in how particular moments are played here, rather than being inherent to the text—but more often it's savage in its

criticisms. It starts slow, but picks up clip as the traveller begins to pull conclusions out of her myriad thoughts.

That probably reads like a lot of finger-wagging, and in less accomplished hands, it could easily play that way.

But Thingelstad's an actress capable of bridging into the emotions necessary to make so much heady, intellectual ruminating affecting, too—and capable of maintaining interest and pace in a 90-minute solo—using an undercurrent of a sense of realization that seems to make us complicit in her thoughts. Director Ian Leung finds variety in the approach, too: that chair finds quite a few uses, and though the fourth wall never quite breaks, there are moments when Thingelstad will make and hold eye contact. It's confrontational, and effective.

The Fever does seem to simplify some of its arguments, to easier land its points—in his critique of art's ability to provide any sort of meaningful change, Shawn tends to generalize it into operatic-sized indulgences, totally detached from the masses, ignoring any sort of amateur creations—and it doesn't really give you any solutions, either. But that's because The Fever posits that you already know the answers, what it would take to push towards a more honest equality in the world, and yet you won't act. With an argument this carefully considered, it's difficult to disagree in the aftermath.

But it's a discussion worth having all the same.

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Until Sun, May 4 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by Ian Leung Living Room Play House, $20 What's for dinner? Food for thought // Ryan Parker / PK Photography

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Wind Rose

Gear to make sound into sound art

W

hen Gary James Joynes (also known as noise artist Wind Rose) lost his father two years ago, he was hit with a wave of tumultuous emotions spanning sadness, anger, frustration and confusion, which he channelled into his new recording Lamentations.

He hadn't intentionally set out to

create it, though. His Wind Rose gear (a vintage Minimoog and '70s analog delay box) just happened to be set up at the time and, as he says, he was smart enough to hit play and captured what was initially meant to be a cathartic experience.

"Essentially I was just really trying

to process the emotion I was feeling at the time," Joynes says, noting he had also felt a sense of relief because his father had been suffering for some time. "I was with him when he died, like I was physically with him. I was alone with him when he passed and so it was just sort of still

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being in that moment. It was just in- Joynes adds. "I guess I believe that our credible to be the one that was with energy goes on, moves on and that's him when he passed and holding his the simplest way I'll put it. It's really hand. He looked at me in the eye and hard for me to imagine that this is it."

I said, 'Dad, it's OK for you to go,' and he thanked me and then he left. That Lamentations will be released on was it." limited-edition cassette featuring It sounds heavy, and Joynes ad- custom Mezzotint-designed artwork mits it is, but he

by Shaun Caulfield at the inaualso believes the Sun, May 4 (2 pm – 10 pm) pulse-noise pieces Part of the Sound Art & Noise gural YEG Sound Art & Noise Festiare accessible— Festival but he'll leave dc3 Art Projects, $5 val. The show will be presented on that judgment call up to his auan 8.1-channel surdience. Regardless, Lamentations is round system that local artists like a journey, not only for Joynes but Scott Smallwood, Raimundo Gonzafor his father: the piece has four dis- lez, Borys, Gene Kosowan and others tinct phases that imagine the stages will be experimenting with. Joynes of his father's spirit passing over to notes the space itself is unique to the the other side. It begins with the genre as well.

"To stage a sound art and noise initial stage of grief before building in an intense crescendo into an genre in an art gallery setting is a inevitable explosion and release, unique opportunity here for the city," meant to symbolize the moment of he adds. "I think these are very conhis spirit breaking through before temporary artist forms, as important as any other genre or media. The fact translation and arrival.

"I was trying to imagine what that that dc3 Art Projects is supporting might be like and the confusion he was this is a real testament to the galprobably feeling, and I guess also in my lery's vision of pushing things here own personal belief that it's actually a and taking some risks in the city."

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Abra-Kid-Abra / Sat, May 3 (1 pm and 3:30 pm) Need something to keep the kids entertained? (You just might be, too.) The Edmonton Magic Club has put together its yearly extravaganza of magicians, balloon twisters and clowns to raise money for local charities and family organizations. (Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, $10) Heart of the City Festival Invades Riverdale / Sat, May 3 (5:30 pm) The Heart of the City Music and Art Festival is still a few weeks away (June 7 and 8), but the organizers are working to connect Edmonton’s core neighbourhoods in the meantime. Riverdale is a particularly musical neighbourhood, so why not enjoy some good food and some good tunes? It’s a potluck, so bring something delicious as well as your own dishes and cutlery.

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West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave

com/TheWorksArtandDesignFestival • The YMCA Community Canvas Works Gallery: Don Wheaton

Literary Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.233.3635 • thearter.ca • A Book: Of Sex and Little Else: Book Release with Danielle Cousineau; musical guest Tiff Hall Family Band • May 14

112 St • 780.407.7152 • Measuring A Year: By the Minute: Knitted sculpture, installation

by Margie Davidson; until May 16 • Breathing Space: Spring art auction and fundraiser; May 13, 11am-5:30pm • Engagements: Display of sculptures and photographs by Candace Makowichuk and Ruth Anne French; May 17-Jul 13

• Mothers of Invention: Readings by authors Theresa Shea, Jessica Kluthe, and Lisa Martin-DeMoor; May 3, 1:30pm • Writers from a Hat: For amateur writers to share: May 5, 7pm

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51

780.989.2861 • Story Slam 2nd Wed each month @ the Chair: Share your story, sign-up at 7pm, 7-10pm • $5 (suggested, donations go to winners)

St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • multicentre. org • Sculpture Installation by Kelly Johner • Until May 21

Bedding Plant Sale: Thu, May 8-10 • Rejuvenate: Mother's Day: May 11, 12-4pm • Music at Muttart: Swing into Spring: with Greg Dust and Don Erhet; May 15, 6-8pm

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Artisan Nook: COLOURS, TEXTURES AND PHOTOGRAPHY: Small, affordable mixed-media works by Ana Feher; until May 17 • Vertical Space: THE TWO CONTRARY STATES OF THE HUMAN SOUL: Paintings by Father Douglas, until May 7

Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts • 9225-118 Ave • thenina.ca • Community Arts Night: Learn techniques, become familiar with new mediums; Every Tue until Jun 10, 6:30-8:30pm; Pre-register at 780.474.7611

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Spring Group Show: by gallery artists • May 10-Jun 3 deerartscouncil.ca • totems of the masculine: Personages in leather, wool, wood, and steel by Matt Gould • Until May 11

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102

Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Give it Some Thought: Silkscreen prints by Joanne Madeley; Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild: Handmade Books and Papers: Selected works from the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild membership in the Gallery at Milner display cases May 1-31

Gallery Walk • Gallery Walk Galleries: Bearclaw, Bugera Matheson, Daffodil, Douglas Udell, Front, Garage Photographic, Lando, Peter Robertson, Scott, West End • First Thursday Event: Galleries open late for an informal gathering of culture lovers the First Thursday each month, year round

Lando Gallery • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Lando Art Auctions Preview: May 2-4; Fine Art Auction: May 4, 2 pm • Works by gallery artists and secondary market works; May 9-27

Red Deer Museum & Art Gallery • red-

780.488.2952 • Works by Tony Baker • May 10-26 • Opening: May 10, 2-4pm

Hairspray–The Broadway Musical •

YMCA downtown (10211 102 Ave): Jenny Keith's nature-inspired paintings; until May • Jackson Power, 2nd fl. 9744-60 Ave: The Sisterhood of Longing: Encaustic paintings and mixed media installations by Marlena Wyman • The Memory Rooms: History based works by Caitlin Richards, Patrick Arés-Pilon, and Mallory Gemmel; until May 4; closing: May 3, 4-7pm; performance by musician Dave Wall at 5pm • Open: May 1-4; 12-4pm

MUTTART CONSERVATORY • 9626-96A St •

Front Gallery • 12312 Jasper Ave •

Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave • Starless is a play about losing your way in a world where everything is pre-determined and structured for you • May 12-17 • $12-$18 at TIX on the Square

Into the Woods Jr. • La cité Francophone

St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Hands On Nature: Discover Biodiversity: Until Jun 8

FAb Gallery • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112

From Cradle to Stage–Starless •

works Gallery • 10635-95 St • facebook.

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5

Enterprise square galleries • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • Let us remember that we are all related: mixed-media works on paper by Carl Beam; until May 24 • kiyas aspin: Works by Alberta artists Jane Ash Poitras, Dale Belcourt, Joane CardinalSchubert, Edward Harpe, Faye HeavyShield, Alex Janvier, George Littlechild, Ann McLean, Kimowan Metchewais, Ken Swan, Sam Warrior, and Lauren I. Wuttunee; until May 24 • AGA at Enterprise Square Galleries: Regions of Distinction: Works by the Edmonton membmers of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; until Oct 26

Walterdale–ASA Gallery • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • THE ARTIST LENS • Until May 18

THE FEVER • Azimuth Theatre, 11315-106 Ave • A stranger in a strange land wakes in a state of delirium that turns her comfortable understanding of the world, and her place within it, completely inside out • Until May 4

Public Library • The 29th Middle Schools Awesome Art Show • Until May 25 • First Friday/ Opening: May 2, 6-8pm

Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer

Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: A Personal Phytopia: Paintings by Pamela Thurston • Gallery B: Works by Susan Kristoferson • May 8-Jun 14 • Opening: May 8, 7-9:30pm • Gallery A: Hometown Dreams: Paintings by Linda Craddock; until May 3 • Gallery B: Labyrinth of the Eternal Archetype: Installation by Shyra Desouza; until May 3

• punctuatetheatre.com • Presented by Punctuate! Theatre. Dark comedy by Hannah Moscovitch; directed by Simon Bloom; starring Jamie Cavanagh, Andréa Jorawsky, and Matthew Hulshof • Until May 4, 7:30pm; May 4, 2pm • $20/$15 (student/senior/industry) at TIX on the Square, door

• 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Cityscapes by Fraser Brinsmead • May 3-15

Life2: Portrait photos of parolees; curated by Mark Power • Until May 3, Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm

Exuberance: Works by Doris Charest, Mormand Fontaine, Keith Nolan, Zoong Ngyuen, Dana Rayment; May 2-13; reception: May 2, 7-8pm

St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Events: Science Research and Educational Showcase; Sat, May 3, 10am-4pm • Events: Dark Matters: An Evening For Adults; Thu, May 15, 7-10pm • Wildlife Rescue: Opening May 17-Sep 1 • K'NEX: Thrill Rides: Opening May 17-Sep 1

East Of Berlin • C103, 8529-103 St

mayfieldtheatre.ca • Musical-comedy • It's 1962 in Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad, a big Teenaged girl with big hair and a big heart wants to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show • Until Jun 15 • Tickets at 780.483.4051

King’s University College • 9125-50 St •

IMAX Theatre • TELUS World of Science,

THE living Gallery, St John's Insti-

Telus World of Science • 11211-142

Human Ecology Building–U of A • 1st Fl Gallery • Colour Catch: Aesthetic experiences through West African Textiles and Nature • Until Jul 20

Theatre/Art Gallery of Alberta/Royal Alberta Museum • May 8-15 • Tickets and info: GlovalVisionsFestival.com 11211-142 St • Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Fri-Sat 11:00am, 1:10, 3:25, 4:35, 6:55; Sun 11:00am, 1:10, 3:25, 4:35; Mon-Thu 3:10 • Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri-Sat 2:15, 5:45; Sun 2:15; Mon-Thu 4:20 • Rocky Mountain Express (G) SatSun 12:00 • May 1

Harcourt House Gallery • 3 Fl, 10215112 St • Main Gallery: JJ Levine, Queer Portraits • Front Room Gallery: Josée Aubin Ouellette • Until May 23 • Free Grant Writing Workshop with Ross Bradley; Sun, May 11, 1-3pm 2nd Fl, Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • Somewhere in the Hills: Works by Samantha Williams-Chopelsky • Until May 3

St • 780.492.2081 • Affinities: Bachelor of Fine Arts Graduate Show 2014; until May 3 • Rutherford Library: Book as Weapon of Change II: Works by the U of A Sculpture class, winter 2014; until May 10

Global Visions Festival • Metro Cinema

snapartists.com • Shift: Printworks installation by Heather Huston; until May 31• Out of the Ether: Printworks series by Joanne Madeley; until May 31

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer •

Bearclaw Gallery • 10403-124 St • 780.482.1204 • Woodland Treasures: Featuring artworks by the Woodland School Painters • Until May 9

kenzie Hall, College Plaza • albertaballet.com/ outreach/ballet-101 • Evening lecture: Class Acts–A Tribute to Hollywood Musicals: Alberta Ballet Artistic Director Jean Grand-Maitre gives behind-the-scenes insight into the creative process of the latest ballet • May 7, 5:30-6:30pm • Pre-register at 780.702.1225

each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm

Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Western Threads: Contemporary Fibre Art, wall art, whimsical dolls, colourful quilts, stunning wearable art and pictorial rugs; until Aug 4 • Edmonton Film Society Movie Series: Great Expectations (1946, PG), May 5, 8pm • Sabrina (1954, PG); May 12, 8pm • My Gal Sal (1942, PG); May 26, 8pm • Scarlet Street (1945, PG); Jun 2, 8pm • Holy Matrimony; (1943, PG); Jun 9, 8pm • Easy Living (1937, PG); Jun 16, 8pm

Royal Bison Craft and Art Fair • Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre, 8426 Gateway Blvd • Featuring artworks and craftworks by Edmonton artisans • May 9-11; Fri 5-9; Sat 10-5; Sun 11-5pm • $2

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St • Lake's Edge: Loretta Kyle and Pamela Thurston • Until May 3 sNAP Gallery • Society of Northern Alberta Print­-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 •

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave

Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave •

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

Edmonton Story Slam • Daravara, 10713124 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner Naked Cyber Café • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@ gmail.com

Theatre The 11 O'Clock Number • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented

by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri until Jul 26; Last show Jul 26

The British Invasion • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM, Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Until Jun 15 Chimprov • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014

Contractions • PCL Studio, Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.471.1586 • northernlighttheatre.com • Northern Light Theatre •

By Mike Bartlett • An Orwellian depiction of absolute power with a savage twist to end the negotiations • May 2-10; Preview May 1

The Crackwalker • Arts at the Barns, 10708-124 St • Kill Your Television • Set in Kingston, Ontario, The Crackwalker is a graphic and harrowing glimpse at four down-and-out individuals battered by poverty, mental illness, and addiction, who find themselves living life on the edge • Until May 11 Die-Nasty • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

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Theatre, 8627-91 St • An adaptation of Stephen Sondheim’s musical, presented by Visionary College Teen Musical Theatre Production Program • Directed by Curtis Labelle, assistant director Mackenzie Reurink. Accompanied by a live instrumental ensemble • May 8-10 • $20 (adult)/$15 (student) at TIX on the Square; free for children age 5 and under

MAKE MINE LOVE • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre. com • Screwball Comedy • World Premiere by Tom Wood, directed by Bob Baker, starring Rebecca Northan, and John Ullyatt • May 10-Jun 1 • Tickets start at $35 Mistakes Were Made • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Shadow Theatre • By Craig Wright, starring Glenn Nelson, and Erica Conway • An off-Broadway producer has won the rights to stage an epic production about the French Revolution, but, he has just one night to make it work • Until May 18 • Fri-Sat, 7:30pm: $27 (adult)/$24 (students/senior); Tue-Thu 7:30pm, Sun 2pm: $23 (adult)/$21 (student/senior); Tue: 2-for-1; No performance: Sun, May 4

The Music Box • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • irquenuit.com • Bass Caravan & The Roving Company of Curiosities present A Fable Entertainment and Le Cirque de la Nuit production; Marissa Puff director • May 2-3 • $25 (adv, adult)/$15 (adv child 12 & under)l $30 (door, adult)/$20 (door, children 12 and under)

Nino Nina Show • Expressionz Café • 780.450.6462 • Live monthly classic variety show • Last Sun each month, 5:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • $10 (door) PlaySlam 2014 • Queen Alexandra Community Hall • Think story slam or poetry slam but with bits from plays, by terrific actors from the Edmonton theatre scene. PlaySlam will take you into the worlds of ten playwrighting brilliant minds • workshopwest.org • May 2 (7:30 pm) • 25 SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright • The Five Stages Of Death by Blaine Newton • May 4

SHREK THE MUSICAL • Strathcona Christian Academy Secondary School, 1011 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park • Until May 2 • Tickets at scafinearts.com

Shrunken sHeads • Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert • St Albert Theatre Troupe • By M.Z. Ribalow • Until May 10, 6pm; May 4, 5pm (door), 5:45pm (buffet), 7pm (show) • $47.50 at box office, 780.222.0102 TheatreSports • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

THE VIP KIDS SHOW • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • Music, comedy, art, puppets, and special guests! Watch as the V.I.P. troupe of zany characters celebrate the thin line between clever and silly with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach and friends • Nov to May (selected Saturdays); May 4, 11am • All Seats $6 VIP Pass $60 When the Rain Stops Falling • Timms Centre, 112 St, 87 Ave • By Andrew Bovell • A sweeping portrait of fathers and sons, strangers and lovers, husbands and wives, that spans across eighty years and four generations • May 15-24 • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); Mat: $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 (senior); Preview: $5; Mon: 2-for-1

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SPRING STYLE // JEWELRY

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EDITOR : MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Spring bling

Name: Corly Eggen Company: BlueTree Studio In business since: 2008 Where to find it: Old Strathcona An-

tique Mall, Enjoy Centre Cocoon Popup Shop, Musée Héritage Museum St Albert, bluetreestudio.etsy.com

Local designers have new wares for a new season

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s the seasons change, so do our choices in clothing. While we're busy building a wardrobe designed for sun rather than piles of snow, it can be easy to forget about the details, but a unique piece of jewelry can add a whole different twist to an outfit. Rather than head for cheap, mass-produced offerings, consider a piece from one of the city's local designers. We've rounded up five of them to tell you about their lines and accessorizing for spring.

Name: Rachel Bingham Company: BangBang Bijoux In business since: 2010 Where to find it: Bamboo Ballroom, Thread Hill, and online at bangbangbijoux.com

Vue Weekly: How long have you

been designing jewelry and how did you get into it?

Rachel Bingham: In all honesty, I have been designing jewelry for as long as I can remember. I started making jewelry again in university. After I graduated, I decided that I wanted to start my own business. I have my fiancé, parents and friends to thank, as they really pushed me and gave me the confidence. I kept thinking that it was an unlikely career path, and I’m just so grateful that I had people surrounding me who could give me such wonderful pep talks when I faced the inevitable self-doubt early on.

VW: How would you describe the style of your jewelry lines? What type of esthetic characterizes your work?

RB: I feel quite strongly that I am always influenced by the past. It really does hold a certain romance for me. As for the esthetic, my line mixes delicate accents with bold lines and colours. I have a complete obsession with asymmetry in all of my necklaces, and if anything looks a bit too even I find myself recreating that piece.

VW: What materials do you work with and what draws you to those?

RB: I work primarily with vintage

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components and semi-precious stones. I started off by sourcing my materials from antique and flea markets throughout Europe, and that expanded to old factories throughout the States and Europe as well. I don’t feel the same pull from new materials, as I like to know where all of my materials have come from. I often meet the most fascinating people this way who know such detailed histories of the materials that I am purchasing, plus they are all so incredibly kind and helpful. It’s quite wonderful to travel to these fascinating places and find materials that are either about to be discarded or that have been sitting around for decades. This is honestly one of the best parts of the job.

VW: How is your jewelry influenced

by changing style seasons? What inspired your latest collection?

RB: I believe that my jewelry is influenced by changing style seasons, but only to an extent. I realized this year that finding your own style, and temporarily being at odds with the current trends, is much better than trying to reevaluate your esthetic to specifically fit the styles of the season, as the latter has led me to some pretty frustrating creative blocks in the past. I find that Pantone-colour trends dictate a lot for fashion, so I always find myself looking at old textiles and patterns to see how these specific colours can blend with other colours.

VW: What advice would you give Edmontonians looking to acces-

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sorize for spring?

Vue Weekly: How long have you been designing jewelry and how did you get into it?

Corly Eggen: I have been designing jewelry since 2007. I worked for Sabrina Butterfly Designs and put together vintage bead in-house earrings for her store. That inspired me to start designing at home and selling at small craft shows.

RB: As cliché as it sounds, my go-to

VW: How would you describe the style of your jewelry lines? What type of esthetic characterizes your work?

CE: I have been told it has Parisian flare to it. I am attracted to the art nouveau/art deco jewelry and time period. I piece together my jewelry with beads, brass stampings and chain. The supplies there are out there are endless, and finding a jewelry line that works took me a lot of trial and error.

VW: What surprises you most in

VW: What materials do you work with and what draws you to those?

CE: I use a lot of use brass, Swarovski crystal, Austrian crystal chain and semi-precious beads. I like how versatile brass is; I can change the colour of it using patina wax or by simply heating it. I use semi-precious beads [because] I like how they look and their potential healing properties.

RB: Since there are so many trends

right now, I would tell people to follow their intuition—to wear jewelry and accessories that feel the most enchanting to them personally. I like the idea of people shopping locally and ethically, so I hope that people will purchase a few items that they can wear for years to come.

VW: What’s your go-to piece of jewelry?

piece of jewelry is my engagement ring. It is pretty darn special, and I’ve never seen anything quite like it.

It’s made by a lovely lady who runs a company called Andronyk Jewelry.

I’m a pretty sentimental person, so I like my jewelry to either be really old, have a great story or remind me of a magical moment in my life.

this business? Is there anything in particular that stands out about jewelry demands in Edmonton?

RB: What has surprised me the most is the inevitable reality that I will deal with a certain degree of self-doubt in some form almost daily. There is this constant need to self-improve and to evolve with my designs. Although, this is not necessarily a bad thing and has taught me a lot about myself. Specifically, it has made me realize that all designers and artists go through a very similar process, which has made me appreciate the work of others a whole lot more.

VW: How is your jewelry influenced by changing style seasons? What inspired your latest collection?

CE: I do notice what is in each season, but I tend to still do my own thing. I use lighter colours in the spring and more rich, dark colours in the fall and winter. I use similar designs each season with different colours, and then do statement pieces on top of that.

VW: What advice would you give Ed-

montonians looking to accessorize for spring?

CE: If you see a piece that you love and can afford, especially if it’s something you don’t usually wear, go for it.

I don’t think you can go wrong wearing a simple flattering blouse or dress with a statement necklace or earrings.

VW: What’s your go-to piece of jewelry?

CE: I wear my bird necklace a lot.

What I like about my jewelry is that it is really light. I wear my chandelier earrings a lot as well for the same reason and it dresses up an everyday outfit.

VW: What surprises you most in this business? Is there anything in particular that stands out about jewelry demands in Edmonton?

CE: A lot of women like to play it safe with colour and practicality. Then there are quite a few who like a statement necklace, recently more so than with earrings.

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Name: Nicole Cooper Company: Kiko Jewellery In business since: 2005 Where to find it: The Royal Bison,

the City Market Downtown, Make It Edmonton, Modern Sole, Miss Boss, the Bamboo Ballroom and online at madebykiko.com

Vue Weekly: How long have you

been designing jewelry and how did you get into it?

Nicole Cooper: Although I’m pretty much self-taught, 17 years ago, I took a couple of night classes in wire jewelry-making and silversmithing. I’d make jewelry as gifts for my friends, family and myself to wear, and also to accessorize the clothing I was making at Ryerson [University] while studying fashion design there. Through positive feedback and a constant flow of requests for custom pieces, I realized I could make a living at this.

VW: How would you describe the

style of your jewelry lines? What type of esthetic characterizes your work?

NC: Minimalist design, clean workmanship and whenever possible I try to incorporate some versatility in its wearability.

VW: What materials do you work

with and what draws you to those?

NC: Mostly semi-precious stones,

ther brass, nickel, 14k gold or sterling silver that best complements the stone. I’ve always gravitated to colour, the psychology of it and the moods it can evoke, as well as the inherent beauty and healing properties of stones.

how some styles remain popular several seasons after their initial design. Like myself, the majority of my customers in Edmonton want

pieces that can be versatile enough to be dressed up or down and worn on a daily basis, all the while remaining affordable.

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VW: What advice would you give

Edmontonians looking to accessorize for spring?

NC: You can’t go wrong with stacking bracelets or a bold statement bracelet. A piece with fringe or tassel would be right on-trend as well.

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VW: What’s your go-to piece of jewelry?

NC: Usually I’ll wear a pair of my

simple threader earrings, and often whatever the latest style of bracelet I’ve been working on to match.

VW: What surprises you most in

this business? Is there anything in particular that stands out about jewelry demands in Edmonton?

NC: I’m often pleasantly surprised

Make It Shows, Folk Festival

Vue Weekly: How long have you been

VW: How is your jewelry influenced

by changing style seasons? What inspired your latest collection?

NC: Colour trends are what primarily influence my collections, and right now the focus is on bright bold hues, the contrast of black and white, and even quite a few pastels.

As far as metals go, gold tones are still strong. Most recently, though, I’ve definitely been inspired by geometrics and tribal looks.

Name: Robyn Cornelius Company: Little Rock Jewellery Studio In business since: 2005 Where to find it: Bedrock Supply,

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designing jewelry and how did you get into it?

Robyn Cornelius: I have been making jewelry for 15 years. My grandfather was a hobby jeweller and opened a local store for jewelry supplies. I have been around the jewelry-making industry my whole life. I have a degree in jewelry and metals from the Alberta College of Art and Design in Calgary.

Although I have been into art my whole life, making wearable objects has become my passion. It is the only art form that I have endless ideas to create.

VW: How would you describe the style of your jewelry lines? What type of esthetic characterizes your work?

RC: My work has been described in very different ways. Some lines I create are organic, messy or rustic. Other lines I strive for order and geometry. I approach each piece as an experiment and rarely plan my work. I like to see what happens making different elements, adding them to each other until they please me.

VW: What materials do you work with and what draws you to those?

RC: I primarily work in sterling silver, copper, bronze, gold and gemstones.

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I am always searching for unusual materials to add into my designs.

VW: How is your jewelry influenced by changing style seasons? What inspired your latest collection?

RC: In the spring I add a lot more colour into my jewelry by adding enamel and Patinas into my work. I use a lot of nature motifs like birds and trees leading into summer. By winter I make more metal, playing with geometric forms. I am inspired by everything around me, especially the texture and colour of nature.

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VW: What’s your go-to piece of

jewelry?

RC: I always keep my wave bangles and spinner rings on hand. I fidget with my jewellery and like to spin them as I wear them.

VW: What surprises you most in this business? Is there anything in particular that stands out about jewelry demands in Edmonton?

RC: I see a surge in people wanting to support anything local, whether it be locally produced food, art, music or craft. Every time I do a local show I am reminded of how supportive Edmontonions can be in helping keep the arts culture alive.

room, The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse, online at CloudandLolly.com

Vue Weekly: How long have you

been designing jewelry and how did you get into it?

Cheryl Currie: Nine years. I got into it when I stumbled upon etsy.com in June 2005. The thought of making a living from a hobby was foreign to me.

The website really ignited my creativity and the rest is history!

VW: What advice would you give

Edmontonians looking to accessorize for spring?

RC: Be bold and wear conversation pieces. Layer old and new pieces together. Don’t be afraid to mix different metals together.

Name: Cheryl Currie Company: Cloud+Lolly In business since: 2009 Where to find it: The Bamboo Ball-

VW: How would you describe the

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style of your jewelry lines? What type of esthetic characterizes your work?

CC: The styles range from pretty and delicate, nostalgic to unique and trendy. Each line has a variety of characteristics, but overall I would say they’re edgy, quirky, avant-garde with a vintage touch.

VW: What materials do you work with and what draws you to those?

CC: I love working with a variety of materials, but lately it’s been with copper, raw gemstones and crystals. I’m drawn to the warmth and history of copper, how it ages over time and the fact that it’s been around for millennia is definitely intriguing! As for gemstones, they’re made in nature over time and the shape and colour of each piece is inspiring.

VW: How is your jewelry influenced by changing style seasons? What in-

spired your latest collection?

CC: The changing styles in the fashion world always lend a fresh perspective, however, I don’t rely 100-percent on it to dictate what I will be making. I might use similar elements or colours, but like to take things in a different direction. As for my latest collection (Reverie) utilizing the growing popularity of mixed metals and raw gemstones has been a key element. There are a number of factors that have inspired Reverie: nature’s treasures and colour, geometry, the organic and the industrial.

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The Railway Man

Railway man: waiting for his train to come in

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et's say you were busy getting settled in your seat during the opening moments of The Railway Man, in which Eric Lomax (Colin Firth) is lying on the floor, muttering some eerie rhyme to himself.

This would mean that, for you, the film would begin, more or less, with Eric meeting Patti (Nicole Kidman) on a train. It's all rather comforting at this point: the Technicolor tones of the cinematography, the two attractive stars sharing a table as the landscape passes between them, swapping travel routes as a way of making love. How old-fashioned!

There's even mention of Brief Encounter. Firth almost looks like Robert Donat in that moustache.

Perhaps the rail-riding lovers-in- material, not from this awkwardly waiting are playing a variation on structured, numbingly somber North by Northwest. Though the piece of prestige cinema.

My reservations are in no way truth is that Eric is far too tormented to be Cary meant to make light of the sufGrant, and Patti, Opens Friday fering of the real a nurse, will come Directed by Jonathan Teplitzky to more closely  Eric Lomax, an resemble Ingrid engineer who Bergman in Spellserved the British bound, the singleArmy in the war, minded woman determined to heal was taken prisoner and tortured, her damaged man. But Bergman and who never recovered his psyhad a personality and authority. She chic health until his spouse made liked liverwurst. And she was in a his recovery her mission, and until movie that, however artificial, even Lomax went back to Southeast Asia silly, had gravitas. All The Railway to confront his chief tormentor and, Man has is gravity, and that grav- amazingly, wound up becoming his ity comes entirely from the source tormentor's friend. That last part,

the confrontation that turned into reconciliation that turned into camaraderie, deserves a smart, lucid, searching movie, yet this entire development, the most extraordinary chapter in an extraordinary story, is barely even touched on here. It's all but reduced to a closing title card.

At first it seems like Patti might be our protagonist. While tight-lipped Eric is going semi-catatonic or lunging at strangers with a box-cutter, Patti is relentlessly questioning Eric's wartime buddy (Stellan Skarsgård) about what really happened. "Wherever there's been a war there are nurses like me to put people back together," she declares. We know Patti's some-

thing of a bossy pants from the very start of their romance—right after their first kiss she's already giving Eric the moustache ultimatum. But whatever promise Patti had of turning into a real and active character quickly dissolves under the film's poorly handled flashbacks, which are spread out as evenly and indiscriminately as David Hirschfelder's overly busy, obtrusive score. Why is Kidman even in this thing? Firth at least gets to flail and be agonized, though the character's lack of texture and the film's lack of curiosity does no favours to Firth or anyone else. Lomax died in 2012, but his memoir is still in print.

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Heavenly Creatures

Friends 'till the end

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he peaceful idyll of a small town, suddenly shattered by murder, is a staple of crime stories. But Peter Jackson's fever-dream fable of girlhood, Heavenly Creatures, shatters the bucolic facade with brutal suddenness. The opening frames are a

wildness erupts. Two girls are running through foliage, past hedgerows, their legs bloodied and begrimed, their crimson-spattered faces before us as they scream that something has happened to Pauline's mother.

Pauline Rieper (Melanie Lynskey) and Juliet Hulme (Kate Winslet) meet at their stiflingly prim and proper high school. SurMon, May 5 (7 pm) ly, wild-haired Directed by Peter Jackson Pauline quickly Metro Cinema at the Garneau tangles up the Originally released: 1994 intense all-or'50s newsreel-tour nothingness of of Christchurch, a her teenage fanstodgily colonial town—cricket on cies with Juliet, by turns smug and the oval in Hagley Park; rowing on starry-eyed herself: "It's all frightfulthe Avon River; Canterbury Univer- ly romantic!" The gliding or rushing sity College; a girls' school—on New camera swoops us in among these Zealand's South Island. And then the two, so caught up in what becomes

a frighteningly close friendship, soaring along on the sprawling lawns of the Hulmes' estate, swooning over Mario Lanza and films at the local cinema, enraptured by an evolving, enacted novel, fervid letter-writing, and Juliet's imagined "fourth world."

The story's based on Pauline's diaries; the case was infamous in New Zealand (and, around the time of the film's release, it emerged that Juliet Hulme had become Anne Perry, bestselling author of more than 60 mysteries). Art's a cracked looking-glass of life here; Jackson and co-writer (and wife) Fran Walsh's adaptation is about youthful creativity and fantasy turned violently perverse (with a twist of social division: Pauline's acutely aware of, when she's not em-

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barrassed by, her cramped, workingclass home—grim Riepers, indeed).

The girls cling to each other all the more as Juliet resents her parents' frequent abandonment of her and soon their friendship's seen as unhealthily close.

A few figures flirt with caricature (the scowling headmistress) and adult authority can seem a tad too stiff and sour (the close-up of a psychiatrist's mouth as he proclaims "homosexuality" is simply over-the-top). But Heavenly Creatures remains, two decades on, a vertiginous, surreal psycho-portrait of adolescent girlhood's dramas and despairs—Little Town on the Prairie gone Badlands.

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hat is the supernatural?" Ox- Jane's "manifestations" and their acford professor Joseph Coup- companying revelations about their land (Jared Harris) posits the question origins come in dribs and drabs over to his students in that vaguely conde- the course of The Quiet Ones. In the scending, more or less rhetorical way meantime, Coupland gradually proves that bespectacled smarty-pants Eng- his scummy ruthlessness, some randy lishmen do in the movies. Coupland youths get busy, and hunky cypher has some strong opinions on the sub- Brian (Sam Claflin) captures the ject, strong enough to justify confin- whole process on 16mm—the story is ing young Jane Harper (Olivia Cooke) set in the '70s. Brian likes to watch, and not much else. to a single room He's something of and essentially an empty vessel, torturing her for Now playing our Brian, a Chrisher own ostensible Directed by John Pogue tian, if we're to go good. Jane seems  by the tiny cross to be the source hanging from his of some rather big neck, his vacuousness/innocence nasty paranormal activity—"Her brain waves are off the making him vulnerable to mad sciencharts!"—and Coupland's aim is to tists and evil spirits alike, and to the harvest her "negative energy" through allure of poor Jane, those eyes, that séances, isolation, sleep deprivation gorgeous smile, the undulating 15and other punishing techniques, to ex- foot demon tongue slithering out of tract the bad vibes the way a surgeon her mouth. might extract a tumour.

After his superiors at Oxford cut The Quiet Ones is, we're told, "based their funding for the project Coup- on true events." What appear to be land decides to whisk Jane and a team photos from said true events—an of student volunteers away to some experiment conducted by the Tocreaky old country manor where they ronto Society for Psychical Research can continue their work without the in 1972, which you can read about on interference of the academy or any- the webs—are displayed at the film's one with a lick of common sense. end, as if to say, "See! What'd I tell

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you? True events, guys!" Had scenarists Tom de Ville, Craig Rosenberg, Oren Moverman and director John Pogue adhered more closely to the source material they'd likely have made something far more intriguing and provocative, but this Hammer production's many concessions to genre only serve to render The Quiet Ones more, well, generic, predictable, and a little dull. Among those concessions is some dopey looking CGI and an entirely tokenistic use of found footage. It's a shame because there are items of interest here: Harris, most obviously, a fine actor too rarely used to full effect (though he was wonderful in seasons three, four and five of Mad Men); Coupland's use of peculiar technologies like Kirlian photography and Brion Gysin's dreammachine; the dissonance between the film's hoary setting and the deployment of Slade and T-Rex records to keep Jane awake; and the battling parapsychological theories regarding the source of paranormal activity.

Perhaps somewhere during the film's genesis someone wanted to make something more sophisticated—then the evil spirits took over.

its ambitions as this self-consciously zany comedy, it is incumbent upon one to, I dunno, come up with a semicoherent character or two. Maybe a joke that flies, while we're at it. And hey, maybe, if the material seems a little thin, and the plot fairly easily exhausted, and the soundtrack already bursting with despairingly cliché pop songs, maybe consider not making the movie nearly two hours long.

I don't know which gender is more insulted by The Other Woman. Mark King is a lazily conceived monster out of a forgotten drive-in horror, but the women, which include Kate (Leslie

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Mann), a kept woman prone to bursting into baloney Peg Bundyesque whine-streaks, Carly (Cameron Diaz), a hotshot attorney who lives in greyand-beige luxury in a Manhattan high rise, and a barely legal boobilicious with absolutely no reason for being in this movie (Kate Upton), are convincing neither as friends nor as an unknowing harem. The first one is Mark's wife, the second his mistress and the third his mistress. None knew Mark was banging everything within three feet of his dick. The three meet, get mad, if not very sad and plan a revenge that takes forever to play out.

Besides being the stupidest variation on Les diaboliques ever, this movie, supposedly made in the spirit of female solidarity, forgets to have its women connect in any feasible way or have them realize anything meaningful about how they got sucked into Mark's nefarious vortex of romantic delight. Isn't it a convention in these movies that people are supposed to learn something? Here's what I still haven't learned, even after perusing a filmography that includes, most notably, The Notebook: how does the offspring of John Cassavetes and Gena Rowlands, cinematic geniuses both, wind up directing this shit?

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The ol' college try The Freshman a silent campus comedy

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ilent-film comedian Harold Lloyd remade himself in the '20s as a hapless everyman, but his ordinary Joe persona was an extraordinary hit; even his youthful character's trademark round horn-rims made glasses hugely popular across America. (Lloyd said they were all the difference between the role and the man; people didn't recognize him on the street without those spectacles.) The Freshman (1925), rereleased by Criterion (in a new digital transfer, along with a new score, a segment on the film's locations, a critic's essay, three shorts and more), is Lloyd's campus comedy, but it's really about the silliness of emulation, idolizing and popularity.

The meek and mild Harold Lamb (Lloyd) is a naïf eager for college—he has a poster on his wall for the movie The College Hero and imitates that character's daft jig, not to mention calling himself by the same sobriquet, "Speedy." Off to what one title card notes (in a statement all the more relevant in 21st-century America) is "Tate University—a large football stadium with a college attached," where Harold's oblivious to his peers' mockery even as he falls for Peggy (Jobyna Ralston).

So, college turns out to be all about humiliation and embarrassment (classes are never shown), a place where people laugh at you and exploit you, while you remain desperate to be the Big Man on Campus. The surface story's all about the comic danger of losing all sense of self in the eagerto-please, constant effort to be everyone's favourite. Harry tries to spend his way into people's affections, from ice creams for all to hosting a Fall Frolic.

But it's the flimsy mannequin models of manhood that really stand out, as Harold can only seem to give the old college try to becoming a fresh man by

being a stale model. He pretends to be The College Hero in his bedroom; he's suddenly on stage to give an address to the school (he can't get out much more than "We are all here"); he's the rag-doll-like tackle dummy for the football team before being made the squad's water boy; Harold's suit barely holds together at the Frolic, his tailored simulation of a catalogue image falling apart at the seams.

The gags are thinner and less rapidfire than Chaplin's; the romance can be overwrought. (Much of the humour's in the subtitles—one example: the Dean is "so dignified, he never married for fear his wife would call him by his first name.") The football scenes happen to be more disturbing these concussionconscious days—in the big game, Harold is taken off on a stretcher but rushes back to the line of scrimmage, soon sees triple, then reels around in a daze ... all before finally sharpening his determination to a fever pitch as he barrels towards the end zone, dead-set on not being brought down before he gets across that line. "The ordinary guy will make good on his chance to be a star, damn it!" Lloyd seems to say.

A movie, too, can have imitations and iterations of its own—other lives beyond the marquee lights. The Freshman sparked a craze for college movies in the Roaring '20s; it got a poorly received sequel in Preston Sturges' The Sin of Harold Diddlebock (1947), Lloyd's last film. Humorist HC Witwer sued Lloyd in 1929, declaring the film ripped off a 1915 short story he wrote; the judgment went against Lloyd but was overturned on appeal. Seventy years later, Lloyd's granddaughter sued Walt Disney Studios, alleging the Adam Sandler movie The Waterboy plagiarized from The Freshman; in 2002, the courts ruled against her. V

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NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young child) Fri-

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THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D ULTRAAVX (PG violence,

ROBOTS (G) Sat 11:00

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frightening scenes, not rec for young child) FRI, SUN 12:40, 4:00, 7:20, 10:40; SAT 10:30, 1:45, 5:00, 8:15, 11:30

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec for young child) FRI-THU 1:00; 3d: FRI, SUN 4:10, 7:15, 10:20; SAT 4:10, 7:20, 10:30; MON-WED 4:15, 7:20, 10:20; THU 4:15, 7:20, 10:30

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THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) Vip 18+: Thu 8:00; 3d: Thu 7:00

Bears (G) FRI-SUN 12:10, 2:10, 4:20, 6:30; MON-THU 12:10,

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER 3D (PG violence, not

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HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) FRI-THU 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:00

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TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec

abuse) FRI 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 11:00; SAT 2:40, 5:10, 7:35, 11:10; SUN 2:40, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; MON-TUE 2:30, 5:30, 7:50, 10:15; WED 2:30, 5:30, 7:50, 10:30; THU 2:00, 4:30, 7:00

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) Fri 3:40, 6:30, 9:15; Sat

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NEIGHBORS (18A crude sexual content, substance abuse) Thu

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) Fri-Thu 8:00; Sat-Sun, Thu 1:00

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI 11:55, 2:15,

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779 Date of issue only

Frozen (G) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:30; 3d: Daily 4:00, 6:45, 9:15 ROBOCOP (PG coarse language, violence, not rec for young child) FriSun, Tue 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:30, 7:20, 10:00

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THE MONUMENTS MEN (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:20, 3:55; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:55

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THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes,

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LE WEEK-END (14A coarse language) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:45, 4:20, 7:25, 9:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:20, 7:25, 9:50

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THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not

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12:30, 3:35, 6:50, 10:00; Sat-Sun 3:35, 6:50, 10:00; Mon-Thu 12:30, 3:35, 6:50, 9:55

Rio 2 (G) Fri-Sun 11:55; Mon-Thu 1:15 3d: Fri-Sun 2:25, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05; Mon-Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:30

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TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance abuse) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:15, 5:50, 8:10, 10:40; Mon-Thu 12:45, 3:10, 5:30, 7:55, 10:15 OCULUS (14A violence, frightening scenes) Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:35; Mon-Tue 2:30, 5:10, 7:45, 10:25; Wed-Thu 1:20, 4:20, 10:25 TRANSCENDENCE: The Imax Experience (PG violence) FriWed 1:00, 7:00; Thu 1:00

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2: An Imax 3d Experience (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) Thu 7:00, 10:15

The Amazing Spiderman 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D ULTRAAVX (PG violence,

9:15; Mon, Wed-Thu 5:15, 9:15

2:50, 4:55, 7:15, 9:20

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young child) Fri

THE PRINCESS BRIDE (PG) Sun 12:45

Wed-Thu 4:05, 6:40, 9:20

Jatt James Bond (STC) Punjabi W/E.S.T. Fri-Sun, Tue 2:15, 5:15,

Bears (G) Fri-Sun 12:40, 2:50, 4:55, 7:15, 9:30; Mon-Thu 12:40,

Mr Peabody And Sherman (G) Daily 12:55 2:45 4:40 6:40

NON-STOP (PG coarse language, violence) Daily 8:45

Wed-Thu 5:00, 8:30

12:35, 3:45, 10:05; Tue 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05; Wed-Thu 12:35, 3:45, 6:55, 10:05

Transcendence (PG violence) Daily 7:15 9:30

7:20, 10:15; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:10; MON, WED-THU 4:00, 7:20, 10:05

for young child) FRI-SAT, MON-THU 1:20; SUN 1:20, 4:25, 7:30; 3d: FRI 4:30, 7:45, 10:50; SAT 4:30, 7:50, 10:50; SUN 9:50; MON 4:25, 7:30, 10:25; TUE-THU 4:25, 7:30, 10:30

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:45, 7:10, 10:20; Mon

Sat 10:55

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI 5:15, 7:40,

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Daily 12:40 2:55 5:05

The Wind Rises (PG) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:15, 4:05, 6:40, 9:20; Mon,

for young child) Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45; Mon-Tue 1:10, 4:45, 8:30; Wed 4:45, 8:30; Thu 1:10; Star & Strollers: Wed 1:00; 3d: Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:45; Mon-Tue 2:10, 7:10, 10:20; Wed 2:10, 10:20; Thu 2:10; 3d: Wed 7:10; Thu 7:10, 10:20

The Metropolitan Opera: Cosï Fan Tutte (Clas not avail)

abuse) Fri 4:10, 6:45, 9:45; Sat 12:10, 2:45, 5:10, 7:40, 10:05; Sun 1:40, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30; Mon-Wed 7:20, 9:55; Thu 7:30, 10:00

Brick Mansions (PG violence, coarse language) FRI 1:00, 4:00,

Wed-Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45

not rec for young child) Thu 7:15, 10:30

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Mon-Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D ULTRAAVX (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) FRI 12:50, 4:10, 7:30, 10:50; SAT 1:45, 5:00, 8:15, 11:30; SUN 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00; MON-THU 1:00, 4:30, 8:00

3 Days To Kill (14A) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:35, 4:15, 7:00, 9:45; Mon,

WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400 Date of issue only

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance

Edmonton Film Society

1525-99 St 780.436.8585

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM

SAT-SUN 1:50, 4:35, 7:20, 10:10; MON-THU 6:45, 9:30

9:30; Sat 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30; Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:50, 8:15; Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:30; Thu 7:20, 9:55

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not

child) Fri 6:55, 9:05; Sat-Sun 2:00, 6:55, 9:05 Mon-Thu 6:55, 9:05

language) Fri 3:30, 6:20, 9:00; Sat 12:40, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15; Sun 1:20, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40; Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:40

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) Fri 4:30, 7:00,

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH

The Railway Man (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) FRI 4:35, 7:20, 10:10;

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY PRESENTS: IRREPLACEABLE (PG) ROBOTS (G) Sat 11:00

Fri 6:50, 9:10; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:15, 6:50 , 9:10; Mon-Thu 6:50, 9:10

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A sexual content, coarse

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance

RIDE ALONG (PG violence, coarse language) Fri-Sun, Tue 1:55, 4:25, 7:15, 9:55; Mon, Wed-Thu 4:25, 7:15, 9:55

12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40; Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:10, 9:00; Mon-Thu 6:35, 9:20; Vip 18+: Fri 4:30, 7:30, 10:45; Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:30; Sun 2:00, 5:30, 9:00; Mon-Wed 6:45, 9:45; Thu 7:00, 9:45

4:35, 7:00, 10:45; SAT 2:15, 4:45, 7:10, 10:40; SUN-TUE, THU 1:40, 3:50, 6:05, 8:20, 10:40; WED 3:50, 6:05, 8:20, 10:40; STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING: WED 1:00 WEd 7:30

Mon-Thu 9:00

rec for young child) SAT-SUN 12:40; 3D FRI-SUN 3:50, 7:00, 10:20; MON-THU 6:50, 10:10

Rio 2 (G) Sat 12:20; Sun 12:40; 3d: Fri 3:30, 6:10, 8:50; Sat 2:55, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45; Sun 3:15, 6:00, 8:40; Mon-Wed 7:00, 9:35; Thu 6:50, 9:30

10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

The Grand Budapest Hotel (14A sexual content, coarse lang)

THE RAID 2: BERANDAL (18A gory brutal violence) Fri-Sun 9:30;

3:50, 10:30; Sat 3:40, 10:00; Sun 3:50, 10:10; Mon-Wed 10:00

Rio 2 (G) Fri-Thu 7:00; Sat-SUN, THU 2:00

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) Fri-Thu 6:30, 9:00;

12:30, 3:05, 6:45, 9:25; Mon-Thu 6:15, 8:55

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not

10:50; SAT 2:50, 5:40, 8:10, 11:20; SUN-TUE 2:50, 5:40, 8:10, 10:35; WED-THU 2:50, 5:40, 8:10, 10:45

for young child) Fri-Thu 7:30; Sat-SUN, Thu 1:15

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) Fri 6:45, 9:25; Sat-Sun

7:00; Mon-Wed 6:50

Heaven Is For Real (PG) Fri-Thu 6:45, 9:10; Sat-SUN, Thu 1:45

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) FRI 2:50, 5:40, 8:30,

Muppets Most Wanted (G) Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:50

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young child) Fri

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) Fri 4:20, 7:30, 10:45; Sat 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10; Sun 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05; Mon-Thu 6:40, 9:45 Vip 18+: Fri 5:30, 8:45; Sat 3:00, 6:30, 9:45; Sun 3:00, 6:30, 9:50; Mon-Wed 8:45

6601-48 Ave Camrose, 780.608.2144

6:30; Mon-Thu 6:00

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) FRI 4:40, 8:00; SAT 1:20, 4:40, 8:00; SUN 1:30, 4:40, 8:00; MON-THU 7:50; 3D: FRI 3:50, 6:30, 7:10, 9:50, 10:30; SAT-SUN 11:40, 12:30, 3:00, 3:50, 6:30, 7:10, 9:50, 10:30; MON-THU 6:30, 7:00, 9:50, 10:15

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Fri 7:20; Sat 12:30, 6:50; Sun 12:40,

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI 8:10; SAT-SUN 8:30

Heaven Is For Real (PG) Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:20; SUN-Thu 8:00

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE

CINEPLEX ODEON Windermere Cinemas

12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:05; WED 12:30, 3:40, 10:15

The Sound of Music (STC) May 8

6094 Connaught Dr Jasper, 780.852.4749

WWE EXTREME RULES - 2014 (Class not avail) Sun 6:00

Mr. Peabody & Sherman (G) Sat-Sun 2:55; 3d: Sat-Sun 12:00 SON OF GOD (14A brutal violence) Fri 6:30; Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:20,

PRINCESS

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG violence, not rec Rio 2 (G) Daily 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:05

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

All About Eve (PG) Fri 6:45, Sat 4:00, Mon 9:15 THE EMPEROR’S NEW GROOVE (G) Sat 2:00; Free Admission for

BRICK MANSIONS (PG violence, coarse language) Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:00, 8:20, 10:45; Mon-Thu 12:30, 3:15, 5:40, 8:00, 10:20 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec for young child) Fri-Sun 3:50, 10:15; Mon-Wed 3:50, 9:45; Thu 3:50

National Theatre Live: King Lear (Clas not avail) Thu 7:00

TELUS World of Science–IMAX 11211-142 St, 780.452.9100 Date of issue only

Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Fri-Sat 11:00am, 1:10, 3:25, 4:35, 6:55; Sun 11:00am, 1:10, 3:25, 4:35; Mon-Thu 3:10

rec for young child) FRI 12:15, 6:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 10:00, 12:15, 6:45; MON, WED-THU 6:45 3D: FRI 12:00, 3:15, 3:20, 6:45, 9:50, 10:00; SATSUN, TUE 10:15, 12:40, 3:20, 3:50, 7:05, 9:50, 10:15; MON, WED-THU 3:20, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50, 10:10

Children under 12

Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri-Sat 2:15, 5:45; Sun 2:15; Mon-Thu 4:20

FINDING VIVIAN MAIER (PG) Fri 9:30 Sun 9:15, Wed 9:30; all ages

Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat-Sun 12:00

GOD'S NOT DEAD (PG) Fri 12:00, 3:00; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:45

THE GREAT BEAUTY (14A, nudity) Italian w/ English Subtitles Sat

Mon, Wed-Thu 3:00

ON THE WATER FRONT (PG) Sat 7:00; Sun 3:30; Tue 9:15

NEW FORT CINEMA 9922-100 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.1707

9:15; Wed 6:45; Thu 9:15

Heaven is for Real (PG) Fri-Thu 7:00, 9:15; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:45

NOAH (PG violence, disturbing content, not rec for young child) FRI,

CITIZEN KANE (G) Sun 1:00

Rio 2 (G) Fri-Thu 9:00; Sat-Sun, Tue 2:00

MON, WED-THU 6:25, 9:20; SAT-SUN, TUE 6:30, 9:25

OHM SHANTHI OSHAANA (G) Malayalam with English subtitles

Need for Speed (PG violence, not rec for young child) Fri-Thu 9:00

THE LUNCHBOX (Not Rated) FRI 12:05, 3:10, 6:30, 9:30; SAT-SUN, TUE 1:25, 3:50, 6:35, 9:20; MON, WED-THU 3:10, 6:30, 9:30

Sun 6:15

The Amazing Spiderman 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not

HEAVENLY CREATURES (UNCUT) (14A) Mon 7:00

rec for young child) Fri-Thu 8:00; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:30

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) FRI 12:30, 3:40, 7:10,

LAMB OF GOD: AS THE PALACE BURNS (STC) Tue 6:45

1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40; Mon, Wed-Thu 7:00, 9:40; Tue 6:50, 9:40

11:10, 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25; SUN, TUE 1:50, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25; MON 1:35, 10:35; WED 1:50, 4:50, 10:15; THU 4:50, 7:40, 10:20; STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING: THU 1:00

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:10;

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) FRI-SAT 12:15, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20;

Mon-Wed 7:20, 10:10; Thu 7:20, 10:10

SUN 12:10, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20; MON-TUE, THU 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:20; WED 2:40, 5:05, 7:50, 10:25

The Quiet Ones (14A frightening scenes) FRI 12:40, 3:45, 7:05; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:25, 3:40, 7:05; MON, WED-THU 3:45, 7:05

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) Thu 7:00, 10:15 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence, not rec for young child) Fri-Sun 2:00, 5:00, 8:30; Mon, Wed-Thu 8:30; Tue 8:35; 3d: Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 10:00; Mon-Thu 6:40, 10:00

Rio 2 (G) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:10, 6:20; Mon-Wed 6:45; 3d: Fri-Sun

HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:00, 6:50, 9:30;

Rio 2 (G) FRI-SAT 11:55; SUN 11:50; MON-THU 2:20; 3d: FRI-SAT 2:30, 5:05, 7:35, 10:15; SUN 2:20, 5:00, 7:35, 10:15; MON-TUE, THU 5:00, 7:35, 10:15; WED 5:00, 7:35, 10:10

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI 2:00, 4:50, 7:40, 10:25; SAT

10:00; SAT-SUN, TUE 12:10, 3:30, 7:10, 9:50; MON, WED 3:40, 7:10, 10:00; THU 3:40, 7:10, 9:45

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) Daily 7:00, 9:25; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:25

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:30,

8:00, 10:40; SAT 12:00, 2:35, 5:20, 7:55, 10:40; SUN-WED 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:05; THU 4:45, 7:25, 10:05; STAR & STROLLERS SCREENING: THU 1:00

TRANSCENDENCE (PG violence) FRI 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 9:55;

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:50, 7:10, 9:50; Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:50 OCULUS (14A violence, frightening scenes) Fri-Mon, Wed 9:10; Tue 9:25

GOD'S NOT DEAD (PG) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20; Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:20

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) FRI 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 9:15, 9:55, 10:10; SAT 11:00, 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 9:30, 9:55, 10:10; SUN 12:15, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10; MON-THU 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45; 3D: FRI, SUN 11:45, 3:00, 6:15, 9:30; SAT 11:30, 2:45, 6:00, 9:15; MON-WED 1:20, 2:20, 4:40, 6:00, 8:00, 9:15; THU 1:00, 1:45, 4:15, 5:00, 7:30, 8:15

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 3D ULTRAAVX (PG violence,

SAT-SUN, TUE 12:10, 3:25, 6:50, 9:45; MON, THU 3:30, 6:50, 9:55; WED 3:30, 9:55

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) FRI 4:35, 10:10; SAT 11:05, 4:35, 10:10; SUN-THU 4:35, 9:45

LANDMARK CINEMAS 10 CLAREVIEw

THE GRAND BUDAPEST HOTEL (14A sexual content, coarse

avail) Mon 6:30

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance

11:05, 4:35, 10:10; SUN-THU 4:35, 9:45

OCULUS (14A violence, frightening scenes) FRI 12:25, 3:05, 5:35, 8:15, 10:45; SAT 12:25, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 11:10; SUN 1:55, 10:30; MON-TUE, THU 1:55, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50; WED 12:55, 3:30, 6:55, 9:35

NEIGHBORS (18A crude sexual content, substance abuse) NO PASSES THU 9:45

FOCUS ON THE FAMILY PRESENTS: IRREPLACEABLE (PG) Wed 7:30

9:40; THU 6:15

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DRAFT DAY (PG coarse language) Fri 6:50, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:05,

THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not

6:40, 8:40

rec for young child) FRI, SUN, TUE 12:30, 6:50; SAT 10:00, 12:30, 6:50; MON, WED 6:50; THU 6:00; 3d FRI, SUN, TUE 12:00, 3:10, 3:40, 6:20, 9:30, 10:00; SAT 10:30, 12:00, 3:10, 3:40, 6:20, 9:30, 10:00; MON, WED 6:20, 9:30, 10:00; THU 6:30, 9:10, 9:40

Brick Mansions (PG violence, coarse language) Fri 7:00, 9:45;

RIO 2 (G) FRI, SUN, TUE 4:10, 6:40; SAT 10:15, 4:10, 6:40; MON, WED

BEARS (G) Fri 7:10, 9:10; Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:45, 7:10, 9:10; Mon-Thu

THE QUIET ONES (14A frightening scenes) FRI 4:35, 10:10; SAT

DIVERGENT (PG violence) FRI, SUN-WED 6:30, 9:40; SAT 6:30, HEAVEN IS FOR REAL (PG) FRI, SUN, TUE 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05; SAT 11:00, 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 10:05; MON, WED 7:20, 10:05; THU 6:50, 9:45

3:00, 6:50, 9:45; Mon-Thu 6:20, 9:00

abuse) FRI 1:25, 7:25; SAT 1:30, 7:25; SUN-THU 1:30, 7:10

not rec for young child) FRI, SUN, TUE 1:00, 6:40; SAT 1:00, 6:40; MON, WED 6:40; THU 6:10; 3D FRI, SUN, TUE 4:00, 9:20; SAT 4:00, 9:20; MON, WED-THU 9:20

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE 3D (18A gory brutal violence) FRI 7:05, 9:35; SAT-SUN 12:25, 3:20, 7:05, 9:35; MON-THU 6:35, 9:05

4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

language) FRI 10:30; SAT 10:35; SUN-THU 10:20

NATIONAL THEATRE LIVE: WAR HORSE - ENCORE (Class not

130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove 780.962.2332

Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:10, 7:00, 9:45; Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:15

DIVERGENT (PG violence) Fri 6:40, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:15, 3:15, 6:40,

6:40; THU 9:15; 3D FRI, SUN, TUE 1:40, 7:00; SAT 1:40, 7:00; MON, WED 7:00; THU 6:40

9:40; Mon-Thu 6:10, 9:10

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) FRI, SUN, TUE 1:30,

The Lego Movie (G) Sat-Sun 2:45; 3d: Fri 6:55, 9:20; Sat-Sun 12:05, 6:55, 9:20; Mon-Thu 6:25, 8:50

4:20, 7:10, 9:50; SAT 10:45, 1:30, 4:20, 7:10, 9:50; MON, WED 7:10, 9:50; THU 6:20, 9:30

NEED FOR SPEED (PG not rec for young child) Fri-Sun 6:50, 9:40;

NEIGHBORS (18A crude sexual content, substance abuse) Thu 9:00

Mon-Thu 6:20, 9:10

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Transcendence (PG violence) Daily 6:55, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:30

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (PG violence, not rec for young child) Fri-Wed 6:45, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:30

The Amazing Spiderman 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) Opening Thu, May 1 3D: 6:30, 9:25

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS

Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922

Rio 2 3d (G) Daily 3D: 6:55, 9:15; Tue 2D: 6:55; Sat-Sun 2D: 12:55; Sat-Sun 3D: 3:40

Heaven Is For Real (PG) Daily 7:00, 9:20; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:20 Transcendence (PG violence) Daily 6:55, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:30

Captain America: The Winter Soldier 3d (PG violence, not rec for young child) Daily 3D: 6:45, 9:30; Tue 2D: 6:45; Sat-Sun 2D: 12:45; Sat-Sun 3D: 3:30 The Amazing Spiderman 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not rec for young child) Opening Thu, May 1 3D: 6:30, 9:25

3.75” wide version

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20 film

(G) Daily 3D: 6:55, 9:15; Tue 2D: 6:55; Sat-Sun 2D: 12:55; Sat-Sun 3D: 3:40

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER (PG violence,

THE OTHER WOMAN (14A crude content) FRI 12:00, 2:35, 5:20,

abuse) Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:30; Mon, Thu 7:40, 10:15; Tue 7:45, 10:20; Wed 7:40, 10:10

4702-50 St Leduc, 780.986-2728

Rio 2 3d 3” wide version

Landmark 7–Spruce Grove

Bears (G) FRI, SUN, TUE 1:20, 3:20; SAT 1:20, 3:20

Mon-Thu 6:50, 9:30

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance

LEDUC CINEMAS

TRAILER PARK BOYS: DON'T LEGALIZE IT (18A substance abuse) FRI-SUN, TUE 10:15; MON, WED 10:10

10:20; Mon-Thu 7:30, 10:20

THE MALTESE FALCON (PG) Thu 7:00

PREVUE // VEGETARIAN

DISH

DISH EDITOR : MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Ernest Tubb, keeping an careful eye on Cafe Mosaics // Meaghan Baxter

F

ull disclosure: I was once an employee of Cafe Mosaics, back in its early days as incipient vegetarian mecca. The restaurant was in the process of being made over from ersatz Euro-bistro to inventive meatless diner by the marvelous Shenkarek family, who also lent the wee space to painters and performers of various stripes. It became a way station for local artists and touring acts, and was always a font of great music, owing to the fact that some employees did double-duty at a local record shop.

The kitchen coined such legendary comfort food as the tofu clubhouse, the secret burrito, the veggie cowgirl breakfast and the much beloved vegan chocolate cake.

That was 15 years ago and, somehow, I hadn't been to Mosaics since the Shenkareks sold the business a few years back. Still I can't help but feel an almost proprietary affection for the spot. So when I walked into the familiar-feeling dining room recently and spotted the portrait of grinning country great Ernest Tubb sitting on the top of the dessert case—exactly where it was a sitting

a decade and a half ago—I figured it mentioned meatless clubhouse and burrito to the grilled, spinach-stuffed must be in good hands.

I'm not saying it's exactly the same, mozza pita with a spicy-creamy slathbut this is still Cafe Mosaics in most er, to the cowgirl breakfast and vegan of the ways that matter, as in: tofu chocolate cake with ganache. But clubhouse, Falafel the menu's also Fridays and, yes, Cafe Mosaics grown to include vegan chocolate 10844 - 82 Ave more vegan secake. The red walls 780.433.9702 lections and an are covered in local cafemosaics.com unruly number art, a sign warns you of meatless that you, the paburgers.

My favourite Mosaics dish was altron, have no control over the volume or content of your meal's soundtrack ways the falafel, which now goes and the various flyers tacked up by for $14 but can be had for $10 on the doors and on the plank panelling Fridays—"Falafel Friday," if you will. I around the till attest that it's still a could scarcely pass up the opportucrossroads for local culture-bearers. nity to revisit that old friend. I should You can even see the lingering es- have remembered, though, that orthetic imprint of Penny Buckner (nee dering a side house salad with the Shenkarek), a gifted visual artist falafel is a bit like ordering a salad whose distinctive style pervaded the with a side of salad, so packed is the dining room and gave Whyte Avenue pita with tomatoes, onions, lettuce, banana peppers and pickles, not to its most beautiful sandwich-boards.

Co-diner and I weren't there to eat mention the massive discs of falafel dolloped with thick tahini sauce. It's the past, however. actually a bit of a problem to handle, I was pleased the current regime has so make sure to get extra napkins. seen fit to retain a number of Mosa- The falafel balls themselves are just ics' signature dishes from the afore- about perfect, crisp on the outside

but big enough that they're still soft and fluffy at the core. Even though redundant, the side house salad (with pumpkin seeds, purple cabbage and raspberry vinaigrette on top) was generous, fresh and really tasty.

The curry dinner ($16) was beautiful, a gorgeous array of colourful, tender-crisp vegetables (red pepper, carrot, eggplant, cabbage) and tofu enrobed in a coconutty curry sauce that packed a nice cumulative kick of spice. Even the mound of rice—a rice blend to be precise—was handsome and inviting. House-made apple chut-

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ney was also part of the deal. I was reminded that vegetarians make the very best curry.

My nostalgia trip almost over, I was informed by the prompt, pleasant server that the place was scheduled for a makeover. Judging from the artabused walls and the presence of bric-a-brac that had been adorning the joint for close to two decades, it's long overdue. But I hope they find some room for Ernest Tubb on top of the dessert case all the same.

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Two worlds unite

German and US breweries collaborate to create Hopfenweisse Collaborations in the beer world are a big thing these days. A collaboration is when brewers from two different breweries pair up to make a single beer. Most collaborations are oneoffs: a brewer visits someone, they design and brew a special beer, and that is that.

But sometimes a collaboration works out so well the resulting beer gets brewed again. A case in point is Schneider/ Brooklyn Hopfenweisse.

Brooklyn is one of the larger and higher profile craft brewers in the US. Schneider & Sons is a very old, very traditional wheat-beer brewer in

Germany. These two breweries play tight, bright-white head. In the aroma in very different segments of the beer I pick up citrus, lemon, clove pepperimarket, but both make high-quality ness, soft wheat malt and some other fruitiness. I can beer.

They got together Hopfenweisse sense touches of hop character, but a few years ago at Brauhaus Schneider & Sohn, Schneider's brew- Germany/ Brooklyn Brewing, they are someery to brew a Ger- New York what masked by other qualities. man wheat beer $4.60 for a 500-mL bottle with an American The taste shows hop character.

The result was Hopfenweisse, its dual heritage. The front is fruity and they liked it so much the beer with banana, soft wheat graininess has been produced regularly ever and a bit of a yeast-inspired earthisince. ness, while the body has a moderI decided to give the beer a try ately full malt character offering recently to see what the fuss was some breadiness. Some clove and about. It pours a very cloudy light pepper rise in the middle, but not too orange hue and builds a thick, much—just enough to give you a Weizen character. I find in the background lurks a grassy, fruity hop character that at the end bursts forth to take over the beer. The hop is earthy, fruity and fresh. To be clear, I am not talking about bitterness here. The hop presents as flavour and overall impression. I like how it blends with the weisse yeast character, which is a signature of German wheat beer. The hops sharpen the finish more than would normally be the case with weizenbocks, which is why this beer is so interesting.

There is no question this is a beer that combines the best of both the old world and the new world.

Schneider's commitment to traditional weizen flavours with the curious addition of Brooklyn's openness to hop character. On the surface it seems like it might be a bad arrangement, but it turns out to be one of those marriages that work. And a good thing for us. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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Tasty fungus Truffles are classified as ectomycorrhizal fungi, which is a fancy way of saying they typically reside closely to the roots of trees. In order to keep the species (truffles are part of the Ascomycete fungus), spores are dispersed by fungivores—fungiconsuming animals.

Valued the world over The name comes from the Latin word, tuber, which translates to swelling or lump. The fungi are prized in cooking around the world, particularly in Middle Eastern, French, Spanish, Italian, Greek and Georgian cuisine—not to mention contemporary North American.

The most expensive white truffle was purchased for $330 000 during an auction held simultaneously in Macau, Hong Kong and Florence. It weighed 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) and was unearthed near Pisa, Italy.

It might be tasty Truffle oil has become a popular cost-effective substitute for whole truffles, as it is often made from synthetic ingredients. However, truffle vodka can carry the true flavour without the aid of synthetic flavourings. The first variety was manufactured by Black Moth Vodka, which consisted of natural vodka infused with black Périgord truffles. V

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Animal assistance Specially trained truffle hogs are used to source truffles, although the practice has been banned in Italy since 1985 as the hogs were damaging truffle's mycelia (its vegetative component). The hogs have a keen sense of smell and an innate ability to sniff out the truffles, although dogs have been trained to do the task in more recent years. Pigs will often be tempted to eat the truffles once they discover them, whereas dogs are easier to control in this regard.

Pricey ingredient Truffles have been dubbed "the diamond of the kitchen" by French gourmand Jean Anthelme BrillatSavarin, and they can be pricey enough to live up to that statement.

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've always loved rock 'n' roll," ter transforms into something a little Caity Fisher begins, absentmind- harder. You take on the personality edly chewing on a coffee stir-stick of the sonic environment of what as she works through the thought. you're doing."

Which, even in terms of simple "But when I started to write songs, I was in a phase of listening to more presence, certainly seems the case ... You know Smog's A River Ain't with Fisher: perched in a Whyte Too Much to Love? I was listening Ave coffee spot in the AM hours— to that, and Billie Holiday, and Rob- a time of day that very few musiert Johnson—stuff like that. And I cians favour—she still emanates found the structhe genre's effortless cool. ture easy to Fri, May 2 (9 pm) navigate, and Caity Fisher Across the very simple to With Diamond Mind, Strange Fires middle and channel some- Wunderbar, $7 ring fingers of thing honest and her hand are a emotional and pair of Fs—the expressive, and lyrically clear, in band's initials, proud and permanent stick-and-poke trophies recently acthat genre."

The genre of mention is folk: Fish- quired. "My roommate did it," she er had been exploring its acoustic grins, recalling the party it hapmusings as a solo act while most of pened at. "Everyone got stuck and her friends were in louder, brasher poked that night." bands. Her first album embodied its fleet, singular parameters, but now, The Final Frontier is also Fisher's the appeal of the latter has caught album's title, the crowning appellaup with Fisher: she's shed her folk tion over eight songs of tough-andsound, surrounded herself with a lonesome lyrics (see: "I am the afbacking band, the Final Frontier, and tertaste of a good time" or "I've had embraced an amped-up, last-call more wishes in me / Than a wishing well") refracted through gloritake on rock 'n' roll.

"It gives a whole new point of ori- ously messy riffs, solos and boozy gin, in a way, to songwriting," Fisher rhythms. If you don't get swept up says of full-band rock. "Your charac- in its potent, barroom energy, you

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might notice there's as much introspection as one might find on a folk record; it's simply adorned in much grittier, brasher traditions of sound.

"I think it's important to retain all the important things about songwriting when I write louder music or whatever," Fisher says, "but I wanted to have energy, and share energy.

"Before, I felt static. But in a band, you can run around, you can have a whole different thing. Every night, you can. You can do that in folk, too," she ponders. "I guess I just didn't."

The pull of that energy on Fisher goes beyond her own namesake project. In addition to the Final Frontier, Fisher's presently pounding out brash garage-fuzz as part of the Tee Tahs, and also filling in bass duties with punk outfit Switches.

As the interview wraps up, in fact, Fisher's off to a full day of recording with the latter band.

"They want to do a whole record in like two days," Fisher says, hints of morning exhaustion lining her voice.

Maybe all this rock takes its toll on one's sleep schedule, though she seems unphased.

"I'll drink a Redbull, and I'll have fun."

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've been through high school, not to be too involved; I tried not middle school, preschool and to get too involved in the way the Home Depot today because my songs went and I kinda just took wife has me fixing things around their lead, which was easy for me the house before we go on tour," because when I first got in the says Pennywise bassist Randy band I was a fan ... I didn't want to Bradbury, juggling press duty with be too much of an influence on a taking his 14-year-old daughter to band that was already one of my track practice. favourite bands. It wasn't until I He's also got a 13-year-old son, spent some time in the band that three-year-old daughter and two I started trying to include myself year-old-son; Bradbury may be deal- in a lot of the writing process, ing with a very different aspect of which I ended up doing a lot. This life from that associated with be- time I just tried to stand back, ing in a punk band, but it'll be busi- and the songs were already writness as usual for Pennywise once ten before, so there were demos the guys get back and it's kinda on the road. Origi- Fri, May 2, (8 pm) like how do you nal lead singer Jim Union Hall, $32.50 – $36.50 want me to play Lindberg has been this, and Fletcher back at the helm [Dragge, guitar] for two years now, taking over from helped me with that."

Zoli Téglás, who covered vocal duIt was also important for Bradties from 2009 to 2012. Pennywise bury to stay true to the style of also happens to be gearing up for Thirsk's bass lines, whom he did the release of Yesterdays (July 8), have the opportunity to play with its first album with Lindberg back on a few occasions. on vocals. The core of the 11-track "I think he had a natural gift for disc is comprised of songs written writing music. You could just hear prior to the release of Pennywise's it on the songs that he wrote on debut self-titled album back in 1991, the first album," Bradbury says. "I with several tracks penned by origi- really don't think I could even come nal bassist Jason Thirsk, who passed close to what I think, for him, was away in 1996. just naturally a writing gift. I think "It's a lot of kind of nostalgic stuff our talents were just a little bit difthrough the years," Bradbury adds ferent, like I may have been more of Yesterdays, noting it sounds of just, you know, a bass guy who reminiscent of punk in the mid-'80s. tried to be a shredder—years later "Some of [the songs] I was around I've learned I'm not ever going to be for, but the ones that I wasn't I tried the most shreddingest bass player.

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Way back in 1989 I learned that and started to learn how to write songs and shift my focus because I wanted to figure out what is this secret to making this music that I love."

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Yesterdays was an opportunity for Pennywise to dig into its back catalogue and release some of the countless songs that haven't yet been recorded—the band writes about 40 or 50 per album—but Bradbury feels it was a positive way to get Lindberg back into the fold. He notes it's no secret there was conflict in the studio during previous albums, but since the songs on Yesterdays were already in the bag it was simply a matter of recording, which left little room for potential disagreements.

"It's like if you could imagine Rembrandt—I mean, not to put us on that level—but if you could imagine Rembrandt and Van Gogh in painting a picture together, like Rembrandt would be like, 'No, don't put weird stuff up in the sky, I don't want that,'" Bradbury chuckles, using the analogy to describe the band's previous creative dynamic.

"Having Jim back and knowing we've been together for a long time and there's a history there, the most important thing is to try to harmoniously keeping moving ahead as a band and keep the good things about the band."

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I actually bought 45s before buying albums. I think the first one was "The Long and Winding Road" with "For You Blue" on the flip side, although it might have been something by Jan and Dean.

First concert

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Last album

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Last concert

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t's been four years since Wunderbar opened as its current incarnation, but owner Craig Martell still doesn't consider it a successful business—financially speaking, at least.

"We still struggle month to month to figure out ways to pay rent and, you know, we still haven't gotten paid, ever, which whatever, I don't care that much," says Martell, who owns Wunderbar 3:39 PM alongside Levi Christensen and Ryan Jeneroux, who bought in this past year. "I still don't think we're very good at business. I think we're good at running a fun bar, though. [Business is] just not our area of expertise. I think we've been successful in a lot of ways—we're just not successful as business owners so much."

The money may not be pouring in, but the small, well-worn room has become a music hub in Edmonton, and gained a reputation within the city and across Canada as a venue that genuinely cares about what they do and takes care of musicians who come through.

"I think we treat people with respect and enthusiasm, like we generally like having shows here and I know not every venue is like that. Sometimes you'll play a show where the bar staff looks like they're working a job ... it's like they're working at A&W taking your order—but it's weird to me when people walk into the venue and say, 'I love this place. And I'm like, really?'" Martell says with a laugh. "I don't think the room itself is very special. It's pretty small and

as Wunderbar sat empty for a good portion of the day before the show began.

"I always said that if I opened a hamburger joint that hadn't made money in four years and we still fought tooth and nail to pay rent, I wouldn't own that anymore," Martell says, adding the whole point of a business like that is to make money, Sun, May 4 (3 pm) whereas Wunderbar has Wunderbar, free become something more. scuzzy and then they "The easiest thing in the inevitably say every city needs a room like this, and I do world would be just to fold, to say this think every city needs a room like this: is it; we had a good run. I'm sure that day that treats people fairly, that's small will come someday, but it always hits you, 'Well, I have three months of shows and easy to fill sometimes."

Martell's dedication to Wunderbar booked, so I can't do it this month. I'll is evident—it would have to be, to keep going.' Whenever I get bummed stick it out for this long—and he's out, we always have one show that will putting together an all-day celebra- sort of renew my enthusiasm for the tion with a ton of bands to mark whole thing and it's fine again."

Wunderbar certainly isn't going anyWundi's fourth anniversary. All this makes it difficult to fathom that in where any time soon. The shows just the beginning, Martell had no inter- keep on coming, satisfying a niche that brings in multifarious genres est in starting a live music venue.

"All the cities I've lived in see great live while staying true to its undermusic venues come and go, and the ones ground ethos, whether that means where they seem like they're doing ev- local acts or touring acts—Martell erything right sometimes just seem like can still recall seeing Grimes play a they disappear and can't do it anymore, Tuesday-night slot about three years and that was sort of the fear I had go- ago, before she'd gained her current ing into this, was that it's a bar that's prominence in the indie-pop scene.

"One of the biggest things is openimpossible to build regular clientele," says Martell, who worked downtown ing people up to new music and never at Sherlock Holmes before he and the compromising," Martell says. "I don't original Wunderbar co-owners decided think we've ever compromised on what we wanted to do. We still sell to venture out on their own. local beer on tap and we still sell inA live music venue is not the place dependently owned beer only and we where the after-work crowd comes ev- still book bands that we really believe ery day to spend its money, and Martell in. I tried briefly selling out a couple knew a less-than-consistent clientele times—if you can call it that—and was going to be the biggest challenge compromising and it never really facing Wunderbar. Initially he strived to worked. It doesn't sit well with me or make the room both a music venue and the vibe of the bar." an after-work watering hole, but that MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM notion quickly proved it was not viable,

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he country-tinged folk melodies of do: write songs that hopefully people Miles Away, the latest from Ontario might keep playing." singer-songwriter Trevor Alguire, are a It was during Alguire's mid-20s that summation of his musical roots, but it's he made the shift towards his current difficult to believe those included punk style, but he still maintains a rock edge and rock once upon a time. to some of his tunes—albeit a toned"My dad said, 'One of these days you'll down version. Regardless, Miles Away come back around; you'll start playing serves as an organic depiction of Althe music you were raised on.' And he'd guire's multifarious songwriting and sort of smile at me and I musical chops. Among the thought, 'OK, whatever,'" Sat, May 3 (4 pm) songs, which formed over the past year while on the Alguire chuckles, noting Black Dog, free road, are the country-rock his parents were always encouraging his musical endeavours, stomper title track, "Rusty Old Strings," regardless of genre, but had brought an ode to a favourite instrument and him up on singer-songwriters and clas- the lament of small-town life that's nevsic country. "The funny thing is, it never er going to return on "Long Gone Away."

"I can't really write fiction. I don't do left me. I've always loved good songwriting and a good song. And a good well with just sitting down and writing song, to me, it stands the test of time— a song for the sake of writing a song," someone will readdress it or listen to it Alguire says. "Songs just come to me down the road and that's what I try to and I put them down. It usually has to

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be something pretty real or something that hits me pretty hard, and that's where [on] some of my album you'll get ballads and other times you'll get more rockin' songs or whatever the deal is. It's a mix of where I came from."

To capture this authentically, Alguire chose to record live off the floor—a first for him, as his previous four albums had been pieced together track by track.

"I think I'm getting to an age and a stage where I'm finally feeling comfortable in my shoes," adds Alguire, who recorded alongside Jason Jaknunas at Metropolitan Studios in Ottawa. "I know what I want to play and I know the type of music I want to put together and I want to make an album that's a range of songs that usually ties together at the end."

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songs together and then build on The Living Proof, the new album that with all the fun stuff. If you from Toronto roots-rock duo Sunparlour Players (Andrew Penner don't get a strong and interesting core, you're just pissing in the wind. and Michael "Rosie" Rosenthal) encapsulates shared influences of folk, electronic and punk, creating VW: Were there any other songs tracks that are firmly planted in written that were left off the album? the present while embracing the AP: Yes. We always overwrite. future. Oh, and there's a song that We've found some songs just don't want to be on explains how Fri, May 2 (8 pm) to make your certain albums.

Artery, $18 in advance, $22 day own version of "Erie Lake Moof show ses," for exthe Sunparlour ample, I wanted Players' infamous Sunparlour Preserves. Prior on every record, but the song just never came together until now. to the duo's show in Edmonton, Penner answered a few questions They're hard things to catch somefor Vue about the process behind times. Other times groupings of songs bully other songs out, no The Living Proof. matter how much you like them.

It's an entertaining process.

VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make The Living Proof from the VW: How did you decide which initial songwriting through to the songs to include on the album? end of the recording?

Did you have an idea of what you ANDREW PENNER: About a year. wanted The Living Proof to be Although some songs are a few years old and some where written when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing two weeks before we recorded them. But I'll go with a nice an- and recording went along? swer of around a year.

AP: The shape of a record has always shown itself during the process. It may sound a bit odd, but it (the album) kinda lets you know what it wants.

VW: You

worked with Chris Stringer to produce the album.

What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?

AP: We did our last record with him, too (Us Little Devils), and we had a blast. This time around he was our first choice and we don't regret it. He's doing amazing work and he did it again with us. His love of old country and metal is close to our hearts. I'm not really joking about that either.

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an isolated and uncaring universe. Her harsh, roiling synthesized soundscapes are tense and hypnotic, as on the instrumental "Vie et mort d'un égo."

The single "Abduction" is a menacing track with a dark, pummelling synth line and skittering electronic drums that gets even heavier when Davidson's looming vocals start up, echoing and rattling around in the mix like a cosmic crone.

There is a little light in the darkness—Davidson's coos "I'm not trying to hurt you/I'm just trying to give my heart to you" on the sexy "Shaky Leg" is a fun diversion from the bleakness of the rest of the album. But that bleakness is what makes Perte d'identité special.

CHRIS GEE

CHRISGEE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

longtime listener. "Shit Shots Count" has Cooley country-rock swinging with horns for possibly the first time.

While its structure is reminiscent of past winners, that familiarity is a detractor. You hear tracers of DBT classics and think that maybe the band has run out of ideas. Yet, subtle as it is, there is some new flair to this record. "Made up Oceans" finds Cooley running along at a steady gallop, telling one of his more stern tales. Then, on "Natural Light," he trades it in for a countrified Sinatra.

For the first time the primary songwriters pretty much split their numbers down the middle, and it feels like it's Cooley who comes out on top, even though the Hood-penned closer "Grand Canyon" certainly nails the heartfelt slow goodbye.

The characters having much more sadness in their lives than humour, and it's difficult to take at times, especially when it feels like you've heard it all before. But with English Oceans, the DBT remind us that having some stability in our lives can be a good thing.

LEE BOYES LEE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Neneh Cherry Blank Project (Small Town Super Sound)

 This record is sinister. The maternal quality of Neneh Cherry's voice easily draws you in with its absence of range, calming you in the casual delivery most of us save for housework. Yet her voice is very high in the mix—everything else is built around it. Sparse electro percussion opens the album with seemingly incongruous beats that work despite your brain telling you they shouldn't.

You could call it trip hop, but however you name it, Blank Project puts you in an uncomfortable place.

You can't really dance to it and you can't rock out to it—even just sitting still and listening feels wrong. It can be intimidating and difficult, but not necessarily unpleasant. It's almost like a form of meditation. "Spit Three Times" is a calm swarm of arpeggio. "Weightless" reinterprets rock with percussion so precise it seems random. "Dossier" opens into a jarring dance party you can't recall how you arrived at, and by the time the record finishes, warbly, twisted hooks have burgled your ear. All the music comes from RockNumberNine, who does an amazing job harnessing the album's title, creating sparse delivery and presentation that simply makes you feel like few things do. It's not what most people call good music—in fact, it's what very few people call good music. Are you one of those people?

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Four IN 140 The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, Midnight Sun (Chimera) @VueWeekly: Swirly-whirl kind of stuff. To Sean Lennon: happiness is a warm guitar ... draped in psychedelics.

Pixies, Indie Cindy (Pixiesmusic) @VueWeekly: If iTunes ads mean anything, the Pixies are finally relevant. Solid grisly indie without many surprises except the unfortunate album title.

Brody Dalle, Diploid Love (Universal) @VueWeekly: If you miss the '90s & want to relive it, here you are.

A younger Courtney Love would really find a home in this album.

Future, Honest (A1) @VueWeekly: Odd waves of spurted rap/rhyme/sing make Honest stand out in a very, very cool way. A dizzying affair.

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

THU MAY 1 Accent European Lounge

Live Music every Thu This week: Lauren Busheikin Artery Daisy Blue Gröff;

7:30pm Avenue Theatre Destroyer

(electric folk), Field Assembly; 8pm; $20 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$25 (day of) Big Al’s House of Blues

Fred Larose Song Writer’s Evening; 7pm (door); no cover Brittany’s Lounge Michael

Chenoweth (acoustic tribute to the greatest folk-blues singer-songwriters of the twentieth century); every Thu, 8-11pm; $8 Café Haven Music every

Thu; this week: Overtones Music Showcase students; 7pm Carrot Coffeehouse

Thu Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm cha island tea co Bring

Your Own Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm Cook County Saloon

Shooter Jennings and Waymore’s Outlaws; 10pm; $59 (with dinner Package)/$34 Early Stage Saloon–Stony Plain Open Jam Nights;

no cover Expressionz Cafe Open

Stage hosted by Dr Oxide; 1st Thu each month, 7:30pm-10:30pm Fionn MacCool’s Mister

Wrong; 8:30pm

Harvey Band April 29-30; May 1- 3 Sherlock Holmes–U of A

Rob Taylor April 30-; May 1-May 3 Sherlock Holmes–WEM

Mike Letto April 29-30; May 1- 3 Starlite Room RAW:

Natural Born Artists; Revolution–Art Fashion Music Film Performng Photos: DJ Nik 7, hosted

by Carla Turner; Jenie Thai, Ken Stead, Jennifer Jane (music), Gg (performing), Bonbon, Patrick Ennis, Juan Lopezdabdoub (visual art) and many more ; 7:30pm1am; dress code is cocktail attire

Pianos (variety by request); 9pm

artists, hosted by D.T. Baker $24-$79

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Winspear Centre The Miraculous Mandarin: William Eddins (piano, conductor), Richard Eaton Singers; SAT: 8pm SAT: Symphony Prelude: Upper Circle lobby: informative presentation about the evening’s program, 7:15pm $24- $79

Catalyst (Caribbean); 9pm May 2-3 CKUA Party in the Park: launch of Edmonton’s Street Piano project with Colleen Brown; Live broadcast of How I Hear It: Le Fuzz; CKUA’s Ukulele Choir; 11am2pm; free CKUA Performance Space

The Celtic Show: the Derina Harvey Band; 6-9pm; free

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

The Club–Citadel Lynn

Friday DJs on all three levels

Miles and Keith Gall; 8pm; $35 May 2-3

THE BOWER Strictly Goods:

DV8 The Motherfuckers, the

Gnars, Kroovy Rookers; 9pm EXPRESSIONZ CAFé

Uptown Folk Club: Stewart MacDougall (country singersongwriter); 7:30pm (Door), 8pm (show); $15 (adv)/$18 (door) at Alfie Myhre’s, Acoustic Music Shop

Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri Chicago Joes Colossal Flows: Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm-2am; no cover THE Common Good Fridays:

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

nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh

Smokehouse BBQ Live Blues every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

Jeffrey’s Café Randall

Druid Irish Pub DJ every

MacDonald (jazz classics, showtunes); 9pm; $10

electric rodeo–Spruce

Tavern On Whyte Open

New West Hotel Hurtin’

Grove DJ every Fri

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

Gardens, Jom Comyn and Creaks

J+H Pub Every Friday:

Horsemen (country) April 28-May3 O’mailles Irish Pub ‘80s

Weekend; no cover May 2-3 On the Rocks Rock ‘N’ Hops

DJs

Kitchen Party: Mustard Smile with DJs May 2-3

Black dog Freehouse Thu

Overtime Sherwood Park

Main Fl: Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays. Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ’s Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

Century Room Lucky 7:

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

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week! electric rodeo–Spruce

Dueling Pianos: Shane Young and Amber Schneider May 2 -3 Pawn Shop Good Riddance,

the Weekend Kids, the Old Wives, Down the Hatch Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am Rose and Crown Amie

Weymes May 2-3 Sherlock Holmes– Downtown The Derina

Fri; 9pm

FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri Mercer Tavern Homegrown

Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SET Nightclub NEW Fridays: House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep’n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge

Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door) Suite 69 Release Your Inner

Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri Union Hall Ladies Night

Thu; 9pm

Grove DJ every Thu

Harvey Band April 29-30; May 1- 3

every Fri

Jeffrey’s Café Andrea

FILTHY McNASTY’S Taking

Sherlock Holmes–U of A

Fridays

Krush Ultra Lounge Open

Rob Taylor April 30-; May 1-May 3

stage; 7pm; no cover

SAT MAY 3

Sherlock Holmes–WEM

Level 2 lounge Funk Bunker

Thursdays

Mike Letto April 29-30; May 1- 3

9pm May 2-3

On The Rocks Salsa Rocks:

Sideliners Pub • Green

every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow

Artery Good Tunes: Good

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

J R Bar and Grill Live Jam

Willson trio (jazz, soul classics); 8pm; $10 Kelly’s Pub Jameoke Night with the Nervous Flirts (sing-along with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover L.B.’s Pub Thu open stage:

the New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12 Lit Wine Bar Sugarfoot

(blues roots); 7-10pm; free Live at Sly’s–THE RIG Every

Thu Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8pm-12am Naked Cybercafé Thu open

stage; 8pm; all ages (15+) New West Hotel Hurtin’

Horsemen (country) April 28-May3 NORTH GLENORA HALL

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 PAWN SHOP Zerbin, Good for

Grapes, Nature Of; 8pm Ranch Roadhouse Swillen

Back Thursdays

Outlaws Roadhouse Wild

Life Thursdays Union Hall 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

FRI MAY 2 APEX CASINO Chronic Rock;

9pm May 2-3 Artery Sunparlour Players;

8pm Avenue Theatre Rend, Lana Lenore, guests; 6pm; $12 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$15 (day of) Blue Chair Café Chloe

Albert and friends; 8:3010:30pm; $15

Members, Madchild Slaine, Supreme Villian, Brothers Grim, more; 8pm-2:15aml $30

Bohemia Magic in the Kill, Death By Robot, Atomic Alice

Red Piano Every Thu:

Bourbon Room Dueling

Dueling pianos at 8pm Richard’s Pub Blue

Thursdays (roots); hosted by Gord Matthews; 6:30-9pm Ric’s Grill Peter Belec

(jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm Sherlock Holmes– Downtown The Derina

Eyed Blonde; 9 pm; free Exciting Times; 8pm https://www. facebook.com/groups/ TheStudioGroupMembers/ events/

Tiramisu BISTRO Live

music every Fri UNION HALL Pennywise; 8pm (door); $32.50 WUNDERBAR Caity Fisher

(tape release), Diamond Mind, Strange Fires Yardbird Suite From New York/Vancouver: Champian Fulton, Cory Weeds Quartet May 2-3

“B” Street Bar Rockin Big

Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm Black Dog Freehouse Hair

of the Dog: (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover Blue Chair Café Afternoon:

World music; 1-3pm; Evening: The Flying Saucers; 8:3010:30pm

A Time for Jazz: Champain Fulton, the Cory Weeds Quintet; noon-3pm; free

FILTHY McNASTY’S Choir & Marching Band with guest Braden Gates - no cover; 4pm Gas Pump Saturday

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth Hilltop Pub Open Stage,

Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm Edmonton Irish Society 12546-126 St , 780.453.2249

Edmonton Irish Society

Peter Kelly Jeffrey’s Café Louise

Dawson (funk, soul, jazz); 9pm; $10 Leaf bar and grill Open Stage Sat–It ‘s the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Vent Legends Open mic and jam every Sat with Nick Samoil and the Kyler Schogen Band; 3-6pm NEWCASTLE PUB Edmonton

Blues Hall of Fame fundraiser: The Flying Crawdads with Jimmy Guiboche and Tom Roschkov; 8:30pm; $15 (adv)/$20 (door) New West Hotel Hurtin’

Horsemen (country) April 28-May3 O’byrne’s Live band every

Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm O’mailles Irish Pub 80’s

Weekend; no cover May 2-3 On the Rocks Mustard Smile

with DJs May 2-3 Overtime Sherwood Park

Dueling Pianos: Shane Young and Amber Schneider May 2 -3 PAWN SHOP Good Riddance,

Miraculous Mandarin: William Eddins (piano, conductor), Richard Eaton Singers; FRI: 7:30pm FRI: Afterthoughts: main lobby: post-concert conversation with guest

jam every Sat; 3-7pm Blues on Whyte Every Sat

afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan Bohemia Rock n Roll Gypsies Bourbon Room Live Music

every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRIxX BAR Early show:

Market Forces (rock, CD release); 6:30pm; $10 (door); Late show: Willhorse, Superstack, Superstack; 9:30pm; $18

aStral HarVeSt & zODiaC SerieS preSeNtS: ruNNiNG OF tHe BullS

& GueStS

may/9 iCeD eartH may/10 the spoons may/12 evan dandO may/13 BatHS may/15 aarON Carter may/15 KaYtraNaDa may/16 AUTHORITY ZERO CONCertWOrKS preSeNtS tHe WOrlWiDe plaGueS tOur FeaturiNG:

W/ SaBatON & reVamp

W/ D treVlON BaND & CHOir aND marCHiNG BaND

Starlite rOOm preSeNtS (OF lemONHeaDS) Sara jOHNStON & GueStS tHe uNiON preSeNtS

W/ YOuNG FatHerS & GueStS

earlY SHOW 6:30 pm

late SHOW NiGHt ViSiON preSeNtS

starlIte rooM In assocIatIon WIth calGarY Beer core presents W/ torches to trIGGers, aBanDIn all hope, the MIsFIres & VanGohst tIx Onsale at tIcketFly.cOm & BlackByrd myOOzIk

may/17 may/24 may/29 may/30 may/31 jun/4 jun/6 jun/7 jun/12 jun/13 jun/18

Fire Next Time, E-town Beatdown, LAMS; 8pm; $23 (adv) at Blackbyrd

alterra & tHe WilD! w/ guests uBK aND timBre CONCertS preSeNtS

BONOBO Dj Set tHe uNiON preSeNtS

HeaD OF tHe HerD W/ GueStS

TUPELO HONEY

w/ specIal guests the unFOrtunates (cd release), death By rOBOt & kIng’s FOIl

tHe uNiON preSeNtS

tHe jezeBelS

tOOtH BlaCKNer preSeNtS

CHAD VAN GAALEN w/ VIET CONG - TIX ONSALE APR 4 tHe uNiON preSeNtS

jONatHaN riCHmaN

pure priDe jCl prODuCtiONS preSeNtS

timBer timBre

W/ GueStS

Girl: priDe 2014

tHe uNiON preSeNtS

BlitzeN trapper

W/ GueStS

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

may/2 may/3 may/3 may/9 may/10 may/13 may/16 may/17 may/22 may/23

Richard’s Pub The Terry Evans Sat Jam (rock): every Sat; 4-8pm Rose and Crown Amie

Weymes May 2-3 Sherlock Holmes– Downtown The Derina

Harvey Band April 29-30; May 1- 3 Sherlock Holmes–U of∂ A

Rob Taylor April 30-; May 1-May 3 Sherlock Holmes–WEM

Mike Letto April 29-30; May 1- 3 Starlite Room Astral

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

Church Early Music

raW: Natural BOrN artiStS & Starlite rOOm preSeNt

Miles and Keith Gall; 8pm; $35 May 2-3

Blind Pig Pub & Grill Live

Big Al’s House of Blues Sat

may/1 raW:reVOlutiON may/3 DIRTY DUBSTERS, PLANTRAE, SKIITOUR

The Club–Citadel Lynn

Holy Trinity Anglican

Winspear Centre The

CASINO EDMONTON Dueling

Township (country pop rock), Short of Able, guests; 8pm; $10 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$15 (day of)

CKUA Performance Space

Classical

Brittany’s Lounge Jazz

Carrot Coffeehouse Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

Women; 8pm Avenue Theatre The

Catalyst (Caribbean); 9pm May 2-3

Afternoon Jam: with Rott’n Dan and Sean Stephens, noon, no cover

pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

5-8pm: This week: PJ Perry

APEX CASINO Chronic Rock;

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Harvest and Zodiac Series: Running of the Bull: Dirty Dubsters (Ireland), Plantrae (Portland), SkiiTour (Whistler), Aura Bora Dancers, Immortal Fire; 9pm; $30

Festival: full schedule: earlymusicalberta.ca; Three Sopranos–A Roman Evening: Concerto Della Donnna; 8pm; $40 (adult)/$30 (member/ student/senior) May 2

evening every Fri after work;

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

Carrot Coffeehouse Sat

Open mic; 7pm; $2

Misery Signals, the Equinox, Bring Us Your Dead, Riot in Paradise; 8pm Wunderbar Ryan Locke (CD

release party)

tHe jOllY GOOD

& guests

earlY SHOW 6:30

Market Forces cD release late SHOW 9:30

WillHOrSe

w/ superstack & guests

aBuse OF suBstance w/ snakeBIte, reckless reBels the IMplIcate orDer w/ guests ruSS DaWSON w/ lIttle IndIa tHe FrONtS & guests

BestIe w/ guests Black pUssY, GYpsYhaWk & guests

seBastIan Owl w/ guests

TRASH & THRASH THURSDAYS

Yardbird Suite From New York/Vancouver: Champian Fulton, Cory Weeds Quartet May 2-3

w/ sammy slaughter * FOOD & DriNK SpeCialS *

Classical Holy Trinity Anglican Church Early Music

Festival: full schedule: earlymusicalberta.ca Morning

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show: Renaissance Reading Session; 9:30am; Afternoon show: Organ Excursion, 14501750; 3pm; Evening show: Tim Rayborn, Poetry and music of the Vikings; 8pm

Winspear Centre The Miraculous Mandarin: William Eddins (piano, conductor), Richard Eaton Singers; 8pm; Symphony Prelude: Upper Circle lobby: informative presentation about the evening’s program, 7:15pm; $24-$79

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

Hot Philly and guests

(one-day event)

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

Diversion Lounge Sun

Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm

SET Nightclub SET Saturday

Duggan’s Boundary Celtic

Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous

Music with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

Sugar Foot Ballroom

Live at Sly’s–THE RIG

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

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

St Andrews United

McDougall United

Church To Make a

Suite 69 Stella Saturday:

retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests Tavern On Whyte Soul,

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

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

Sat; 9pm

Artery Mark Mills, Jesse

and the Dandelions, Two Bears North, LA Cops (DJ set); 6pm Blackjack’s Roadhouse–

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

hosted by Tim Lovett

Level 2 Lounge Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

cha island tea co Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm

Mercer Tavern DJ Mikey

dc3 art projects YEG

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

Holy Trinity Anglican

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Encore–WEM Every Sat:

PAWN SHOP Transmission

Psalms and Songs of Celebration: Da Camera Singers, RJ Chambers (conductor); 3pm

HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the

Druid Irish Pub DJ every

Wong every Sat

First Baptist Church

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge

SUN MAY 4

Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

Ensemble Inaugural Concert; 2-3:30pm; donation

Nisku Open mic every Sun

Sound Art & Noise Festival: Wind Rose (Lamentations release), K.M. Toepfer, Scott Smallwood, DNE, Aaron Macri, Skrunt Skrunt, Borys, Raimundo Gonzales, Gene Kosowan, Ocra, Bong Sample, Wayne DeFehr; screening of artworks by Sean Caulfield; 2pm; $5

Church These Are Our

Songs: Vocal Alchemy and friends present Canadian folk music; 3 pm Newcastle Pub The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks James Murdoch, Sherry-Lee Wisor and The Give ‘Em Hell Boys Richard’s Pub Sunday

Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky Ritchie United Church

Jazz and Reflections: Tommy Banks; 3:30-5pm; silver collection at door Riverdale Rinkhouse

(next to the community hall on 92nd street) Heart of the City Festival potluck and open stage; $2 or free with dish or song; 5:30 pm WUNDERBAR Wundi 4th

Anniversary Party; 3pm Yardbird Suite MacEwan

Outreach Big Band

Classical

Alberta College and Conservatory PCL Hall, 10050 Macdonald Dr

Alberta College and Conservatory Ridere

Church Early Music

Festival: full schedule: earlymusicalberta.ca Vivaldi, 4 Seasons; 8pm

Prairie: Kopelli Choir with the Guelph Youth Singers, and the Camrose Children’s Choir; 3pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (student) at TIX on the Square, door Winspear Centre

Edmonton Youth Orchestra: Thelma Johannes O’Neill Concert featuring the winners of the 33rd Northern Alberta Concerto Competition; 2pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

8pm Jubilee Auditorium

George Thorogood and the Destroyers: 40 Years Strong, Trampled Under Foot; 7:30pm NEW ONGOING: Mercury Room Music Magic Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4 New West Hotel Back

Street Affair (country) May 5-10 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

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

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

Classical

DJs

DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: Soul Sundays:

A fantastic voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LeveL 2 lounge Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am http://www.facebook.com/ groups/214433451919439/

MON MAY 5 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Big Crush

May 5-11 Duggan’s Boundary Mon

singer-songwriter night: hosted by Sarah Smith;

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays:

Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave Tavern on Whyte Classic

Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE MAY 6 Big Al’s House of Blues

Tue Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover Blues on Whyte Big Crush

May 5-11 Bohemia Michael Cain

Band; 8-11:30pm; $10

VENUEGUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 "B" Street Bar 11818-111 St Big Al's House of Blues 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blind Pig Pub 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St Bourbon Room 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca Brittany's Lounge 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 The Buckingham 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Café Haven 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca Café Tiramisu 10750-124 St Caffrey's in the Park 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT Coffeehouse 9351-

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118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 Central Senior Lions Centre 11113-113 St Century Casino 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 Chicago Joes 9604 -111 Ave Common 9910-109 St Cook County Saloon 8010 Gateway Boulevard Daravara 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 dc3 art projects 10567-111 St Diversion Lounge 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Sask 870084 St, Fort Saskatchewan Duggan's Boundary 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 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 Expressionz Café 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667

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Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 Fort Lounge 13403 Fort Rd Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 Hilltop Pub 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St Holy Trinity Anglican Church 10037-84 Ave Irish Sports Club 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 isbe edmonton 9529 Jasper Ave, 587.521.7788; isbeedmonton.com J+H Pub 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 Java xpress 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 Kelly's Pub 10156-104 St L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 Leaf bar and grill 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 Legends Sports Bar and Tap House 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132104 St Live at Sly's 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 Mercer Tavern 10363 104 St,

587.521.1911 Mercury Room 10575-114 St Myer Horowitz Theatre 8900114 St, U of A Naked Cybercafé 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 Newcastle Pub 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 New West Hotel 15025-111 Ave noorish caFé 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2's–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'mailles Irish Pub 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Overtime–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Pleasantview Community Hall 10860-57 Ave Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-149 St Richard's Pub 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235-101 St St Andrews United Church

9915-149 St Sands Hotel 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 Set Nightclub Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca Sideliners Pub 11018-127 St Smokehouse BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St Sugar Foot Ballroom 10545-81 Ave Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Tavern on Whyte 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 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 10015-149 St Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yardbird Suite 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG Dance Club 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 Zen Lounge 12923-97 St

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COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog

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

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Leif Skywing; May 1-3 • Brian Work; May 8-10 • Dennis Ross; May 15-17

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 • Ari Shaffir; May 1-4 • Alonzo Bodden; May 8-11 • Bryan Callen; May 15-18

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

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

Empress Ale House • 9912-82 Ave •

Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

Fionn MacCools/Connie's Comedy •

4485 Gateway Blvd • Small Pints Saturday Comedy with Howie Miller closing the show • May 3, 7pm • Call 780.914.8966 to get on the roster

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 • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave,

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

Amnesty International Edmonton

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

Argentine Tango Dance at Foot Notes Studio • Foot Notes Dance Studio

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

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group

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

Canadian Injured Workers Association of Alberta (CIWAA) •

Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of Justice denied by WCB

Compost Awareness Week • John

Janzen Nature Centre, Fort Edmonton Park • edmonton.ca/Compost • Reduce waste and live Green • May 4-10 • $10 for a two hour workshop-dress for the weather and expect to get dirty

Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month • May 6, Roundtable discussion, guest speaker Bradley Peters from Dying with Dignity will be presenting information about the organisation and the status of physician assisted dying in Canada Edmonton Needlecraft Guild •

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

Edmonton Ukulele Circle • Bogani

Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com

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

Wild Rose Antique Collectors Society • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood

Fertility Awareness Charting Circle • Justisse-Healthworks for Women,

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

10145-81 Ave • justisse.ca • Meeting • 6:30-8:30pm • $10 (donation)

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

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

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

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.org/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register The ManKind Project • 10256-112 St

• menmentoringmen.ca • A support group for men to talk and be heard, be acknowledged and recognized for the gifts you offer, challenge yourself and other men. A group of men committed to better themselves, their families, and their communities • Sun, May 4, 9:30am-4pm • Sat, May 10, 9:30am-4pm

3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

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

sAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

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

Seventies Forever Music Society • Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul.ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50

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

Songwriters Group • The Carrot, 9351118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters. com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

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

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519 • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Westend TNT Toastmasters: Trinity United Church, 8810 Meadowlark Rd; Public speaking: Parliamentary practice based on Robert's Rules of Order; vpm2291@toastmastersclubs.org; weekly meetings every Tue, 7-9pm (Jul-Aug off) • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:458:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

SPECIAL EVENTS

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

Accelerate AB • U of A's Centennial Centre

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

for Interdisciplinary Science (CCIS), Rm 1-430 and 1-440 • accelerateab.com • Startup. Scale.

Celebrate.: Celebration of entrepreneurship and tech startups in Alberta • Until May 1 • $60 (adult)/$25 (student); pre-register

Illusions Social Club • Pride Centre,

CEASE Benefit and Men of Honour Awards • Sawmill Banquet and Catering

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

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 LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

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

Fermented Foods Workshop 101– Introduction • King Edward Community

OutLoud–LGBT Youth Group • St Paul's

League Smalll Hall, 8008-81 St • Discuss how and why these foods are so important for your health and the planet's, the basics of safe fermenting and how to adapt recipes. Together we'll make a batch of cordito (Mexican sauerkraut) and find recipes for preserving your garden bounty through fermentation • May 7, 9pm • $25 EventBrite https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/ fermented-foods-workshop-101-introductiontickets-11082466957

Great Expeditions • St Luke’s Anglican

Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month: Holland & Germany (2013), presentation by Enneke Lorberg; May 5, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $2

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 UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY OIL PAINTING MATERIALS • The Paint

Spot, 10032-81 Ave • Phil Irish discusses and demonstrates contemporary oil painting issues, and studio safety • May 9, 6:30-8:30pm • Free; pre-register at 780.432.0240

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

Beers for Queers • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo. com/group/bwedmonton BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave •

780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted

by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105

Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Evolution Wonderlounge • 10220-103

Community gardens 101: water

United Church, 11526-76 Ave • Group for LGBT teens from religious backgrounds • Meet the 1st and 3rd Wed ea month, 7-9pm • Until Jun 18 • Free

Pride Centre of Edmonton •

Centre, 3840-76 Ave • MC: Bruce Bowie (630 CHED Morning News), and John Archer (CBC News Edmonton, weeknights), honorary chiar: Edmonton City Councillor Amarjeet Sohi • May 2, 6pm (Men of Honour VIP Reception; cocktails and silent auction); 7pm (Banquet and Awards Ceremony) • $100 ($55 charitable receipt), at TIX on the Square; table-of-eight: at info@ceasenow.org

Child Haven • Meridian Banquet Centre, 4820-76 Ave • East Indian Dinner; benefit to support Destitute children and women in India, Bangladesh, Nepal, and Tibet • May 4, 3-8:30pm, 4:45pm (dinner) • $60 (adult)/$20 (child 5-12)/ free (4 yrs and under) at 780.454.6216 • childhaven.ca/fundraiser_edmonton.html

pus • Featuring workshops and panels; featuring kenote speakers Amir Hussain, and Dawn Waring • May 1-4 • Pre-register at edmontoncpwr.ca

QUEER

Sugar Foot Ballroom • 10545-81 Ave •

St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except

rium, 11150-82 St • CARP meeting, advocating for social change that will bring financial security, equitable access to health care, and freedom from age discrimination; with Susan Eng as guest speaker • May 2; 12:30-1pm (register), 1-3pm (presentation) • $5 (member)/$10 (non-member); pre-register at 780.450.4802; E: CARP.Edmonton@gmail.com

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • Sun-

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

Wiccan Assembly • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98

CARP Advocacy • Norwood Legion Audito-

Faiths Coming Together • U of A Cam-

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall,

Toastmasters

LECTURES/Presentations

at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

catchment • McCauley Community Garden, McCauley School, 9538 - 107 Ave • 4 pm

callingwood farmers' market •

Marketplace at Callingwood, 6655 - 178 St 10 am

Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and nonjudgemental 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

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) dog wash fundraiser • Pet Planet Riverbend, 9:30am-3:30pm; Heritage Sq, 9am3pm • Alberta School of Dog Groomers, Calgary Tr: 9am-2pm • Cuddles and Bubbles Grooming: 9am-6pm • Gallerie Beaumont Pet Planet: 10am6pm • For Paws Ltd, Leduc: 9am-3pm • Mutts Adored, Stony Plain: 9am-3pm • E & E Kennels (Stony Plain)12 Boulder Blvd., Stony Plain, AB 9am-5pm • In support of ACTSS (Animal Cancer Therapy Subsidization Society) • May 3 Get Growing Day 2014 ! • Earth's

General Store (parking lot), 9605-82 Ave • Annual gardening day: Plants, seeds and demos; Amanda from Sprout Farms will do a short grafting demonstration workshop; other demonstrations • May 11, 12-3pm • Free; register at: eventbrite.ca/e/getgrowing-day-2014l-tickets-11301640511 or Facebook https://www.facebook.com/ events/726454134061197/

Jane's Walk YEG • janeswalk.org/canada/ 3” wide version edmonton • Various walks for details on all the

walks, go to: www.janeswalk.org/canada/edmonton • Launch: at City Hall Plaza on May 2, noon • May 2-4 • Free

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PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St •the 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

Spero Gala • TransAlta Arts Barns, 1033084 Ave • sperogala.ca • Gala fundraiser for ACT Alberta (Action Coalition on Human Trafficking), art auction, catering by Elm Café, music by 100 St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Mile House • May 15, 7:30pm • $40 (early bird Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientickets)/$50 tations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) with a combined circulation on Ice • Rexall Place • Presented WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 womonof •over 800,000 Stars for only...

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G.L.B.T. sports and recreation •

teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/ student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes

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Art Society of Strathcona County Mothers’ Day Tea and Art Sale May 11, 2014, 12 to 4 pm A. J. Ottewell Community Centre 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park Featuring ASSC artists and the Strathcona County Potters Tea, Dessert, Loft Art Gallery and Gift Shop!! (www.artstrathcona.com) “Student Art Competition, Show and Sale” May 9, 7 to 9 pm (Show, Sale, Presentation of Awards) May 10, 10 to 4 pm (Show and Sale) A. J. Ottewell Community Centre (Red Barn) 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park Over 100 pieces of amazing art!! (www.artstrathcona.com) THE LOFT ART GALLERY AND GIFT SHOP May 3 to June 29, 2014 Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 4 pm, at the A. J. Ottewell Arts Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park.

Featuring artwork and unique gifts made by the artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County Phone 780 449 4443 for information. www.artstrathcona.com

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Courses/Classes

EPL Free Courses: Edmonton AB Check out the Free Online Interactive Instructor Led Courses offered through the Edmonton Public Library.

Some of the courses for visual artists would include: Creating WordPress Websites, Secrets of Better Photography Beginning Writer’s Workshop many more…

For a list of Free Courses visit: https://www.epl.ca/learn4life For information and instruction on how to get started https://www.epl.ca/learn4life

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Volunteers Wanted

Build a home with Habitat for Humanity!

All Habitat Volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation & training.

Beginners to trades skill levels, groups and individuals welcome. No minimum number of shifts required. Visit www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch!

Follow us on Facebook /HabitatEdm and Twitter @HabitatEdm 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 Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

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Give some, Get some. Come have some fun, a little exercise and be recognized.

We require volunteers almost every day of the week to help at various bingo locations around the city (WEM, Castledowns, south side). You give your time (4-6 hour shift) and we recognize your efforts.

You do not need any experience as everything will be taught to you and you will be completely supported. Calll Christine at 780-953-1510 or email at christine.poirier@cnib.ca for more information Bingo is a smoke-free and friendly environment.

Habitat for Humanity hosts Women Build Week June 17 21, 2014 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?

Contact Kim at 780-451-3416 ext 232 or kdedeugd@hfh.org or register online at our website!

Habitat for Humanity Tool Training Workshop and Info Session Have you often considered volunteering with Habitat for Humanity but just need more information about our charity and some guided practice with the tools we use on site? Sign up for our original Basic Tool Training and Volunteer Information Session! Visit our website at www.hfh.org/volunteer/learn-tools

Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Needed for our Long Term Care residence, daytime volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit!Needed for our Long Term Care Residence, weekday morning volunteers for various activities. Especially for assisting with transporting residents to rehab, church services and hairdresser within facility. All volunteers must pass a Police clearance.

Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 StreetFest wants to celebrate a very special milestone with its favourite people! Volunteer for the 30th Annual Edmonton International Street Performers Festival, running July 4 - 13, 2014 in Sir Winston Churchill Square. Make friends, have fun, win prizes and gain access to a post-festival party in exchange for a minimum of 20 volunteer hours!

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Volunteers Wanted

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Gallery @ 501 Presents: Art Object D’Sport Call for Entry In celebration of the Canada 55+ Games (to be held in Strathcona County, Sherwood Park, AB), Gallery @ 501 will be hosting the exhibition Art Object D’Sport, July 7 – August 31, 2014

Whyte Ave. Artwalk VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! If you are interested in meeting & supporting the local arts community take the opportunity to help out with the festival this year!

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Artist to Artist

All you poets out there, do you know about the CBC Poetry Prize? First Prize: $6000 and 4 runners-up get $1000.

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Art Object D’Sport is an open call for entries from artists and artisans across Canada.

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The City of Lacombe requires an artist is to create a low maintenance, hardy, weather resistant, permanent threedimensional artwork that integrates a water feature (fountain, spray, burbler, or aeration system).

Budget:22,500 CAD Eligibility:All Canadian Visual Artists Completion:2014 Deadline for Submissions: May 30, 2014, Noon For more information contact the City of Lacombe’s Recreation & Culture Manager, Sandi Stewart at 403.782.1266 or sstewart@lacombe.ca

The Friends of the Alberta Jubilee Auditoria Society is pleased to announce a call for submissions for their Rotating Art Exhibition Program: if you are an artist interested in showing your work in the Kaasa Gallery; the Alcove Gallery or the Lower Lobby (Southern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium) please head to: http://visualartsalberta.com/blo g/wpcontent/uploads/2014/04/Callfor-submissionsAJAS_2014.pdf Deadline for proposals is May 12

Works to Work Summer Internship The Works is currently looking for hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join the team for summer 2014!

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "Dear Astrologer: we Aries people have an intense fire burning inside us.

It's an honour and a privilege.

We're lucky to be animated with such a generous share of the big energy that gives life to all of nature. But sometimes the fire gets too wild and strong for us.

We can't manage it. It gets out of our control. That's how I'm feeling lately. These beloved flames that normally move me and excite me are now the very thing that's making me crazy. What to do? - Aries."

Dear Aries: learn from what firefighters do to fight forest fires.

They use digging tools to create wide strips of dirt around the fire, removing all the flammable brush and wood debris. When the fire reaches this path, it's deprived of fuel. Close your eyes and visualize that scene.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "My personal philosophy is not to undertake a project unless it is manifestly important and nearly impossible." So said Taurus-born Edwin Land, the man who invented the Polaroid camera. I have a feeling these might be useful words for you to live by between your birthday in 2014 and your birthday in 2015. In the coming 12 months, you will have the potential of homing in on a dream that will fuel your passions for years.

It may seem to be nearly impossible, but that's exactly what will excite you about it so much— and keep you going for as long as it takes to actually accomplish.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): I wish there was a way you could play around with construction equipment for a few hours. I'd love it if you could get behind the wheel of a bulldozer and flatten a small hill. It would be good for you to use an excavator to destroy a decrepit old shed or clear some land of stumps and dead trees. Metaphorically speaking, that's the kind of work you need to do in your inner landscape: move around big, heavy stuff; demolish outworn structures; reshape the real estate to make way for new building projects.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): In the Transformers movies, Optimus Prime is a giant extraterrestrial warrior robot. His body contains an array of weapons that he uses for righteous causes, like protecting Earth's creatures. His character is voiced by actor Peter Cullen. Cullen has also worked extensively for another entertainment franchise, Winnie the Pooh.

He does the vocals for Eeyore, a gloomy donkey who writes poetry and has a pink ribbon tied in a bow on his tail. Let's make Cullen your role model for now. I'm hoping this will inspire you to get the Eeyore side of your personality to work together with the Optimus Prime part of you. What's that you say? You don't have an Optimus Prime part of you?

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Do you finally understand that you don't have to imitate the stress-addled workaholics and self-wounding overachievers in order to be as proficient as they are? Are you coming to see that if you want to fix, heal and change the world around you, you have to fix, heal and change yourself? Is it becoming clear that if you hope to gain more power to shape the institutions you're part of, you've got to strengthen your power over yourself? Are you ready to see that if you'd like to reach the next level of success, you must dissolve some of your fears of success?

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): "Beauty is the purgation of superfluities," said Michelangelo.

Do you agree? Could you make your life more marvelous by giving up some of your trivial pursuits? Would you become more attractive if you got rid of one of your unimportant desires? Is it possible you'd experience more lyrical grace if you sloughed off your irrelevant worries? I suggest you meditate on questions like these, Virgo. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, experiencing beauty is not a luxury right now, but rather a necessity. For the sake of your mental, physical and spiritual health, you need to be in its presence as much as possible.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): I'm pretty sure God wants you to be rich. Or at least richer. And I know for a fact that I want you to be richer. What about you? Do you want to be wealthier? Or at least a bit more flush? Or would you rather dodge the spiritual tests you'd have to face if you became a money magnet? Would you prefer to go about your daily affairs without having to deal with the increased responsibilities and obligations that would come with a bigger income? I suspect you will soon receive fresh evidence about these matters. How you respond will determine whether or not you'll be able to take advantage of new financial opportunities that are becoming available.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): The US military budget this year is $633 billion. In comparison, the United Nations' peacekeeping budget is $7.8 billion. So my country will spend 81 times more to wage war than the UN will spend to make peace. I would prefer it if the ratio were reversed, but my opinion carries no weight. It's possible, though, that I might be able to convince you Scorpios, at least in the short run, to place a greater emphasis on cultivating cooperation and harmony than on being swept up in aggression and conflict. You might be tempted to get riled up over and over again in

the coming weeks, but I think that would lead you astray from living the good life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Actor Matthew McConaughey prides himself on his willingness to learn from his mistakes and failures. A few years ago he collected and read all the negative reviews that critics had ever written about his work in films.

It was "an interesting kind of experiment," he told Yahoo News.

"There was some really good constructive criticism." According to my reading of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, now would be an excellent time for you to try an experiment comparable to McConaughey's. Be brave!

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "Dear Oracle: I might be hallucinating, but recently I swear my pet iguana has been getting turned on whenever I disrobe in front of it. My naked body seems to incite it to strut around and make guttural hissing sounds and basically act like it's doing a mating dance. Is it me, or is it the planets? I think my iguana is a Capricorn like me. - Captivating Capricorn." Dear Capricorn: only on rare occasions have I seen you Capricorns exude such high levels of animal magnetism as you are now. Be careful where you point that stuff! I won't be shocked if a wide variety of creatures finds you extra alluring.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): "Eat like you love yourself," advises author Tara Stiles. "Move like you love yourself. Speak like you love yourself. Act like you love yourself." Those four prescriptions should be top priorities for you, Aquarius. Right now, you can't afford to treat your beautiful organism with even a hint of carelessness. You need to upgrade the respect and compassion and reverence you give yourself. So please breathe like you love yourself. Sleep and dream like you love yourself.

Think like you love yourself.

Make love like you love yourself.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): If blindfolded, most people can't tell the difference between Pepsi and Coca-Cola. But I bet you could, at least this week. Odds are good that you will also be adept at distinguishing between genuine promises and fakes ones.

And you will always know when people are fooling themselves.

No one will be able to trick you into believing in hype, lies or nonsense. Why? Because these days you are unusually perceptive and sensitive and discerning.

This might on occasion be a problem, of course, since you won't be able to enjoy the comfort and consolation that illusions can offer. But mostly it will be an asset, providing you with a huge tactical advantage and lots of good material for jokes. V

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Masturbation in May

A look back at the events that inspired National Masturbation Month She has never backed down. "If I tion, substance-abuse prevention and Masturbation Month begins today. was asked that same question today programs to promote self-esteem. In Last September, I was able to meet in that same set of circumstances, I that post, she also nearly doubled the inspiration behind this monthwould do it the same way," she said. childhood immunizations, expanded long celebration of self-love, Dr "I feel I gave the right answer the first the state's prenatal-care program, Joycelyn Elders. time." and increased home-care options for Elders is one of my personal hethe chronically or terminally ill. This roes. She came from a poor family In reaction to this incident, the sexis a woman who gets things done. in Arkansas and went on to become toy shop Good Vibrations declared However, as Clinton's administhe first board-certified pediatric enMay National Masturbation Month. tration had predicted, as Surgeon docrinologist in that state, the first Since its inception African American Surgeon Strangley enough, it wasn't marijuana or condoms in 1994, it has been by other General of the that became the final straw, it was masturbation. adopted stores and organizaUnited States tions all over North and only the America and even internationally. Yet General her controversial opinions second woman to ever hold that Elders herself did not know about stirred up a lot of trouble for the post. Those acheivements are imMasturbation Month until her keydemocrats. Strangley enough, it pressive enough, but that's not why note speech at CatalystCon when the wasn't marijuana or condoms that she's my hero. I love her because moderator thanked her for inspiring became the final straw, it was masshe fights hard for what she knows such a movement. She was thrilled. turbation. Elders delivered a speech is right and doesn't back down when Elders is 80-years-old now and still to the UN on World AIDS Day 1994. she gets bullied by people in power. working hard. She has spent the past "Someone at the conference asked Elders was a controversial choice few years putting together a chair of me about masturbation," Elders told for Surgeon General. She was an outsexual-health education at the Unithe audience at CatalystCon in Sepspoken advocate of the legalization versity of Minnesota Medical School. tember, "and so I said that I felt that of marijuana and an avid promoter It will be the first of its kind in North masturbation is certainly something of comprehensive sexual-health eduAmerica and it will bear her name. V that we should talk about and that cation and access to free birth conwe should educate our young people trol. Both democrats and republicans Brenda Kerber is a sexual health about." were critical of Bill Clinton's decision educator who has worked with local Several days later, after her comto appoint her, but he defended her. not-for-profits since 1995. She is the ments hit the media, the Secretary She had served as head of the departowner of the Edmonton-based, sexof State asked her to resign. Elders ment of health in Arkansas where positive adult toy boutique the Travrefused until the president asked she had helped to institute a K-12 eling Tickle Trunk. her directly. Later that day, he did. curriculum that included sex educa-

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“BRB”--I gotta go get changed BI AND BI

I've heard your calls for bisexuals to come out to their friends and family and I think it's a great idea. Here's my conundrum: I'm not sure I technically classify as "bisexual." I'm a 40-yearold guy who strongly prefers sex with women to men (percentage-wise I'm 70/30). I've had sex with dudes in the past (five or six times) and loved it, though I've never had the same emotional attachment and attraction that I've had with women. Most people seem to think that bisexuals are equally attracted to both genders— sexually and emotionally—like they could decide by flipping a coin. So am I bisexual or just a juicy boner hobbyist?

Just Understanding Identity Causing Erotic Delirium

even into kissing men (getting fucked by men, yes; swapping spit with men, no)—but they love them juicy boners. These guys invariably tell me that they're confused about their sexual orientation. They know they're not straight (not with all the cock they've sucked), and they're pretty sure they can't be gay (not with all the pussy they've eaten), but they're convinced they can't be bisexual—aren't bisexuals open to sex and relationships with both men and women? Isn't that what everyone says?

These guys are bisexual, JUICED, and so are you. The reason so many guys like you are confused about their sexual identity—sorry, but "juicy boner hobbyist" is not a sexual identity—is because the popular definition of bisexuality, "someone who is equally attracted to men and women," excludes guys like you. But there's an improved definition mak-

star. "You are still gay, my friend.

Trans men like myself who present 'male' consider ourselves men.

So THROWN is still attracted to a man—just one who happens to have a different set of 'balls.' It does not make him any less gay. He's attracted to the masculinity of the trans man.

Some people think that genitals are the deciding factor in gender. This is far from the truth! So don't stress it, THROWN, and go have some fun!"

HUNGRY FOR HOOKUPS

I'm a 20-year-old guy in a long-distance relationship with my boyfriend of almost two years. Before I met him, I had a history of anonymous sex with men on Craigslist. I've recently been having urges to have anonymous sex again and urges that are hard to satisfy in a long-distance A quick word about my calls for birelationship. We tried having an open sexuals to come out to their friends relationship but decided to stop beand family ... cause it left us feelB i s e x u ing unhappy. I'm Some argue that most bisexuals won't feel als complain only comfortable safe enough to come out until straight and gay about anti-bi with both of us people get over their biphobia. That's a bullshit having anonymous stereotypes and misconhookups, while my argument. ceptions— boyfriend is only about biphobia comfortable hookand bi-erasure—and quite rightly. ing the rounds. It was coined by ing up with people he knows and is It's awful, it sucks, it's gotta stop. bisexual activist Robyn Ochs: "I call familiar with.

But just as coming out has always myself bisexual because I acknowl- Gay Boy Problems been the most effective way for gays edge that I have in myself the potenand lesbians to combat homophobia, tial to be attracted—romantically Unless you guys have a concrete coming out is the most effective way and/or sexually—to people of more plan that lands you in the same city for bisexuals to combat biphobia. than one sex and/or gender, not nec- soon, your best course of action is And while 77 percent of gay men essarily at the same time, not neces- to officially break up, do whatever/ and 71 percent of lesbians are out sarily in the same way, and not nec- whoever you wanna do, keep in to "most of the important people in essarily to the same degree." touch while sparing each other the their lives," according to a 2014 Pew You say you're attracted to men details of your (now separate and Research survey of LGBT Americans, and women, but not in the same way private) sex lives, and then pick up only 28 percent of bisexuals are. or to the same degree? Congratula- where you left off if and when you're Some argue that most bisexuals tions, JUICED, you're bisexual. But living in the same city. won't feel safe enough to come out that may not be all you are ...

If you can't bear the thought of until straight and gay people get "Of all of the bi guys I've known over breaking up and you can't resist over their biphobia. That's a bullshit the years," gay journalist Charles your urges for immediate, real time, argument. Yes, biphobia makes it Pulliam-Moore wrote in a post at in-person sexual contact, GBP, the more difficult for bisexuals to come Thought Catalog, "the majority of second-best course of action is a out—in the same way that ho- them have been what I would de- don't ask/don't tell arrangement. mophobia makes it difficult for gays scribe as bi-sexual but hetero-amo- You do whatever/whoever you wanand lesbians to come out. Someone rous. That is to say that while they'd na do (safely!), he does whatever/ could argue that the culture is less certainly get into some sweaty bro- whoever he wants to do (safely!), homophobic today, and they would on-bro action, guys simply couldn't while—again—sparing each other be right. But that wouldn't be the provide the kind of emotional sat- the details.

But the way your boyfriend case if gay people hadn't risked com- isfaction necessary for a romantic wants to hook up—with people ing out when "insanely homopho- relationship." bic" was the near-universal default So if identifying as bisexual feels he knows—discomforts you, most setting for "most of the important dishonest—since many folks will as- likely because his hookup preferpeople in our lives," ie, friends, fam- sume it means you're open to a rela- ences seem more threatening. A ily, coworkers. tionship with a man—go ahead and known-and-familiar hookup could I've been accused of "blaming the say you're "bi but heteroamorous," easily turn into a relationship, right? victim" when I make this point. and rest assured that you're not the True enough, GBP, but the gay world is filled with loving couples in staThat's absurd. I'm not blaming bisex- only bi guy like you out there. ble, long-term relationships who uals for biphobia any more than I'm met during anonymous or nearly blaming gay people for homophobia. ALL THE WAY GAY But biphobia will continue to thrive I am a 58-year-old gay man. I have anonymous sexual encounters, aka so long as the majority of bisexuals never, ever been attracted to women unknown and unfamiliar hookups. remain closeted. That's just a fact. sexually and never had sex with a So demanding that your boyfriend I've also been accused of being bi- woman. However, a few months ago adopt your preferred model of hookphobic for making this point. That's I stumbled across some trans man ing up is no guarantee that he won't just nuts. ("That guy hates bisexual porn (thank you, Buck Angel!) and meet and fall in love with someone people so much, he wants there to was incredibly turned on. I would to- else—and it's no guarantee that tally go down on or fuck a hot trans you won't meet and fall in love with be way more of them!") someone else, either.

Okay, JUICED, on to your question: I man. Am I still gay? get letters like yours every day. Guys Transmen Have Ripped Open On the Lovecast: How to answer the tell me that they enjoy fucking men Wonted Notions question "Honey, should I get breast and women but they fall in love only with women. They're not interested in "I get this question all the time," implants?" at savagelovecast.com. relationships with men—some aren't says Buck Angel, a trans male porn V

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28 Heart readout, for short 30 Mississippi River explorer 32 Breakfast item that’s only around for a short time?

35 “Alice” diner owner 37 Apprehension 38 TV series set in the Tanner household 39 1980’s Punky as an impediment?

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48 Blown away 51 Made an “Old MacDonald” sound 53 One of the Carpenters 55 Thread target 57 River by the Louvre 58 Big boats 59 “I’m getting seasick in this jail,” e.g.?

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7 Distinctive atmospheres 8 Game for little Little Leaguers 9 Lend a hand 10 “3 Feet High and Rising” hip hop trio 11 Drink before dinner 12 Tiny machine 15 MLB banned substance 17 Shiba ___ (dog breed) 21 Average grades 23 Big name in ‘80s hair metal 25 “Same here” 29 “Pretty Woman” star 31 Mufasa’s malevolent brother 32 French cheese 33 Hardly any 34 Big shindig 35 Oscar-winning role for Meryl 36 ‘ neighbor 39 Troubled region of Europe, with “The” 40 Word in many cereal names 41 Hulu offering 44 Telluride top 45 Basic doctrines 46 1926 English Channel swimmer Gertrude 49 Spine-tingling 50 Fizzling out 52 Circus precaution 54 Secaucus clock setting 56 Frozen waffle brand 59 Consumer protection org.

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