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"My point is, keeping up isn't possible, so the best one can do is stick one's head in at an unfamiliar Vietnamese place once in awhile and hope for some magic."

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Thinking renewable The time is right for Alberta to seriously invest in renewable resources.

Alberta is an energy powerhouse, a place mentioned in the same breath as Saudi Arabia and Venezuela when it comes to oil riches.

But wind, solar and other renewable resources have more potential than the oilsands.

These alternative resources have the potential to create 300 times more energy annually than all the fossil fuels extracted in the province per year, according to a 2011 report by Edmonton's Renewable Energy Task Force.

Calgary and Edmonton lead the country with 333 and 325 days of sunshine every year, respectively—an average of more than 2300 hours of bright sunshine annually. World solar-leader Germany, with more than a quarter of the world's peak generating capacity, thanks to heavy government investment, averages an anemic 1600 hours of annual sunlight in most cities. Alberta is considered to be the province best suited for wind power in Canada, yet has only developed one percent of its potential, according to a report by the Pembina Institute.

Alberta is blessed with money, jobs and talent. Much of that can be directly attributed to the Alberta government's direct involvement in developing the oilsands in the '70s. Peter Lougheed's Progressive Conservatives threw out all the stops to entice development with tax breaks, low royalties and direct investment.

It worked. And, arguably, it can work again for renewable resources. Consider the challenge of the oilsands, a deposit some argued would be extremely difficult if not impossible to develop economically. Today, thanks to government support and local ingenuity, the oilsands are Canada's economic driver and a world-renowned oil reserve.

But—with any sanity—the fossil-fuel party will be winding down in the next few decades. Experts are cautioning that 80 percent of the world's known oil reserves will have to stay underground in order to avoid the ill effects of disastrous climate change.

Considering that nearly 90 percent of Alberta's electricity generation comes from coal or natural gas, it's wiser to make the switch gradually and intelligently over the next 40 years than to be forced to quit fossil fuels cold turkey. That'd be one hell of a hangover.

Of course there will be challenges. Ontario's commitment to renewable energy, mostly wind, has seen higher power bills— but also substantial cuts in greenhousegas emissions. Power storage—either with batteries, air compression or other means—needs to progress before renewable resources can truly compete with cheap coal and natural gas. But there's no reason why Alberta can't lead the research and use of this globally important push for renewable energy.

The Alberta PCs announced in their throne speech in early March that they'll be introducing an "alternative and renewable energy framework." That's promising; especially if they intend to create real, meaty incentives for companies and talent to come to Alberta to innovate. The alternative is to be an energy has-been that couldn't see the future—even with all the sunlight in the world. V

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NEWS // CLOVERDALE FOOTBRIDGE

Valley Line LRT ignores livability

Edmonton group could save the city $50 million in costs with alternative LRT route

// Meaghan Baxter

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popular Edmonton footbridge is slated for of money because our route enhances, rather clists despite the occasional train going across it.

But for Kowalchuk, the bridge is more than just demolition in order to make way for Edmon- than degrades, the livability of the downtown ton's Valley Line LRT, but there's a group of Ed- core. This translates into less sprawl, better air a space to get from point A to point B. "The footbridge is important for livability and as a public quality and increased active transportation." montonians fighting back.

In March, Mayor Don Iveson said the issue of space," she says.

Save Edmonton's Downtown Footbridge In a recent TED talk held in March, Amanda formed last summer in opposition to parts of the changes to the southeast route was settled, proposed southeast line. They say the city could saying that administration could not spend any Burden, former animal behaviourist turned New save $50 million in the immediate costs of this more time looking at the issue. But the devel- York City's director of urban planning, made the opment of the Valley Line is still in the design case for public spaces as the key for planning line with their alternative route. great cities. She states that public spaces like SEDF is trying to save the Cloverdale Foot- stages with construction slated for 2016.

Kowalchuk says there are three myths that parks have a powerful impact on urban develbridge—a pedestrian bridge that crosses the opment. In contrast, open concrete North Saskatchewan River from Louise McKinney Park If we want to make the city more dense and more spaces may provide opportunities for commercial investment, but they look to the community of Cloverdale—from being torn down. sustainable, we must create public transportation desolate and dangerous.

Take, for instance, the case of The Valley Line will conthat respects the core.

Churchill Square. What was once a nect communities in Mill green space filled with trees has now Woods and Lewis Farms to become a concrete playground. downtown using a low-floor line, which places mechanical equipment on the need to be dispelled about the new lines: first, "What we now have is a dead zone, which is used roof of the light-rail car, allowing passengers to the idea that extensive public consultation has for public events," Kowalchuk says of the square. board the vehicle at street level. The new LRT happened; second, that it is too late to persuade "But on a daily basis it is not visited. People just line will follow a path that enters the River Val- municipal leaders to change the current route seem to wash up there. ... This is a perfect exley through a tunnel and portal structure in the since work is not slated until 2016; and third, ample of the city not understanding the livability north valley wall and crosses the river following that the new route will disturb any part of the and qualitative elements of how someone feels in a physical space. We don't want to see this the line of the current Cloverdale Bridge. A new River Valley wherever it crosses.

"The City of Edmonton has looked at the func- happen with the River Valley." bridge will replace the pedestrian bridge to carry SEDF proposes a route that prioritizes livthe LRT over the river and will feature a lower- tional elements of the LRT rather than looking at it on the ground of livability issues," Kowalchuk ability, preserves the Cloverdale Footbridge and level walkway for pedestrians and bikes.

Chinatown, adds a stop at the Shaw Conference In December 2008, city council approved a says.

The new LRT line will also disrupt parts of Centre and makes use of an existing vehicle cornew set of criteria for LRT-route planning. LRT routes are evaluated using these criteria to en- Chinatown. The city plans to take down the Har- ridor.

"If we want to make the city more dense and sure potential routes meet the policy goals and bin Gate on 102 Avenue, as the line is set to go objectives in Edmonton's transportation plan through that area. City council is currently ex- more sustainable, we must create public transploring options for the gate with potential for it portation that respects the core. If we have an "The Way We Move."

The Valley Line is estimated to cost the city being rebuilt in the same area or placing a new LRT that sacrifices our livability and River Valley $1.8 billion and is already $2 million over bud- gate at the Chinese Elders' Mansion and seniors' to serve the suburbs, we are actually further behind," Kowalchuk says. get, according to Kristine Kowalchuk, organizer recreation centre.

Even "The Way We Green," Edmonton's plan for SEDF. The provincial government has agreed to fund up to $250 million in GreenTRIP funding, Larry Ksionzyk, principal urban designer for for sustainability, makes notes of this. "The city up to $150 million in additional funding and up Edmonton's Transit Orientated Development, is must prioritize active transportation, then public transportation, then vehicles," it states. to $200 million in a 10-year interest-free loan, sympathetic towards the group.

Edmontonians interested in showing support "I live in Rossdale, so I use that bridge all the joining the city's own contribution of $800 miltime," Ksionzyk says, adding TOD has not looked for the Cloverdale Footbridge and the Harbin lion.

Gate can sign an online petition found on the "Five million dollars will go towards tearing at SEDF's alternative route.

Regardless, Ksionzyk is hopeful that the new group's Facebook page. down the Cloverdale Bridge," Kowalchuk says.

SALAZAR "Our alternative route will not only save the bridge and the accompanying pedestrian walkway JASMINE JASMINE@VUEWEEKLY.COM footbridge, but will save an incalculable amount will be functional for both pedestrians and cy-

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// Courtenay McKay

Falling flat on taxes

Public Interest Alberta determined to end flat-tax rate

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t was 15 years ago when Stockwell Day—slightly before his jet-skiing fiasco—presented a proposal for flat taxes into the provincial budget. The "Alberta Personal Income Tax Act" was passed as the spring 2000 session of the Legislature was finishing up. Albertans across the board have been paying a 10-percent rate on their income taxes ever since. (Although it was 10.5 percent for the first year.)

Former premier Ralph Klein's government was the first (and only) in Canada to introduce flatrate income tax. So while the poorest remained exempt from paying taxes, the financial burden was disproportionately shifted to middle-income earners instead of the wealthy.

Public Interest Alberta recently began a year-long campaign called "Alberta Could" in order to talk with Albertans about improvements that could be made in the province if a progressive tax rate was reintroduced.

"In a lot of people's minds, they think that Alberta's flat tax equals Alberta's low taxes," says PIA's executive director Bill Moore-Kilgannon. "But they don't realize that it's actually low- and middle-income earners who are paying a higher percentage of the total amount we would pay in taxes than if we had a progressive tax system."

On the campaign's website albertacould.org, charts obtained from the provincial government show the savings in the billions that could be had if Alberta adopted a tax structure similar to other provinces. For example, if

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we used Saskatchewan's incometax structure, we would have an additional $3.821 billion in funds each year. Saskatchewan's system is slightly different than the one PIA is proposing for Alberta, as they tax an income of $80 400 at 13 percent and an income of $123 692 at 15 percent, while the proposal for Alberta is to tax $100 000 at 13 percent and $150 000 at 15 percent.

But in the Environics poll PIA commissioned for the campaign, even those in higher tax brackets were not entirely opposed to the idea of progressive taxes— though it would mean they'd be paying more.

"I was pleased to see that onethird of people in that highest tax bracket were willing to pay more taxes," Moore-Kilgannon says. "In fact, 49 percent of income owners over $100 000 were open to this as well."

He says it's a myth that Albertans want tax cuts as their top priority.

The poll showed that 47 percent of Albertans want to put more money into public services. The next two priorities, at 21 percent each, were building infrastructure and paying down the provincial debt. Only four percent of pollsters wanted tax reductions.

Even across the political spectrum those voters typically more right-wing in their views about taxes and public services still chose public services as a top priority for investing in, followed by paying down the debt and then building infrastructure. Reducing taxes remained a low priority for Conservative and Wildrose vot-

ers along with Liberals and New Democrats.

"They know that with 100 000 more people coming to Alberta every year, we absolutely need to be investing in making sure we have enough nurses and enough teachers, that our municipal infrastructure is solid," MooreKilgannon explains of why all types of voters seem to agree, for once. "But the disconnect for a lot of people is we live in an incredibly wealthy province, we're told all the time how wealthy we are. Why then are we struggling to get enough schools?

Why are we seeing class sizes in high school now of 40 kids where they actually don't have enough desks in the rooms? So that disconnect comes back to this central discussion of what type of tax system should we have."

negative, as something that we should look to diminish at all costs is ultimately intellectually bankrupt—it doesn't make any sense," says Shannon Stunden Bower, Parkland's research director. "If we are interested in benefitting from good-quality roads, if we want our kids to go to good schools, if we want to benefit from public-health care that serves our collective best interest, then we need to think about how we're going to pay for those things."

live. It actually impedes economic growth."

This is an irony worth noting as one of Day's reasons for introducing flat tax was, he stated, that taxes themselves reduce economic growth so that the government is not able to fund public services. Yet 15 years later, we have a flat-tax income structure and a provincial government still unable to properly fund public services.

"There's also really strong data coming out from organizations like the International Monetary Fund—not by any means a left-wing advocacy organization," Stunden Bower notes. "But they recognize that the sort of income disparity we're seeing now erodes the possibilities for economic growth, it shortens economic growth, it promotes social instability—none of which are seen as good things, even by these organizations that are not typically on side with the sorts of things that progressive, activist types tend to advocate for."

The campaign is currently touring the province and will hold another forum in Edmonton on Thursday, June 5 at the Alberta Teachers' Association building at 7 pm.

It’s actually low- and middleincome earners who are paying a higher percentage of the total amount we would pay in taxes than if we had a progressive tax system.

The Parkland Institute has been researching the topic of progressive taxes for years, so it was only natural for them to become involved in the Alberta Could campaign.

"I think that people recognize that the narrative around taxes as something profoundly

Stunden Bower says Albertans are increasingly recognizing that income disparity causes a lot of harm. Parkland reported in 2012 that Alberta has the worst financial inequality in the country.

"People recognize that inequality is a bad thing," Stunden Bower says. "It hurts us in all sorts of ways. It hurts everyone, both the rich and the poor. It makes our communities less good places to

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Teacher task force gets it wrong

Task Force on Teaching Excellence recommendations will not improve workload, funding or class-size problems Think back to some of your favourite teachers, the ones that most impacted your learning, your experience of school and possibly even what you chose to do with your life. What was it about them that made them great?

It was ostensibly that question that Alberta Education's Task Force on Teaching Excellence set out to answer. Their mission,

class sizes. There is likewise no recommendation of shifting the current ratio of prep time to teaching time. And there is no acknowledgment of the fact that so many teachers are leaving the profession in early years not because of poor training or incompetence, but out of recognition that being an excellent teacher currently takes around 60 hours a week and an unsustain-

If Johnson is serious about wanting to support teacher excellence, then the answer is simple: increase funding, hire more teachers, reduce class size, and improve work-life balance for teachers. as delivered to them last year by Minister of Education Jeff Johnson, was essentially to figure out what makes an excellent teacher and then make recommendations for how Alberta can better support teachers in achieving that level of excellence.

This really doesn't seem like an overly complicated task. We all have a sense, from our own experiences in school, of what makes an excellent teacher. Great teachers are the ones that take time to focus on our particular learning needs; get to know us as individuals with our own strengths and weaknesses; are passionate and excited not only about their specific subject area, but also about teaching and learning in general; and are able to spend time getting to know students outside the classroom by supporting and accompanying them in extracurricular activities.

Given that definition, coming up with a set of recommendations to support teachers in achieving that level of excellence should have been fairly straightforward and common sense. Teachers need classes that are small enough to enable them to get to know students as individuals and support them one-on-one, and they need the flexibility to be able to support different students in different ways. Teachers need time and funding for professional development so they can hone their subject expertise and keep up with innovations in pedagogy and learning. Teachers need enough prep and planning time to be able to be truly creative in how they plan their lessons and engage students. They also need the time to be able to engage with students outside the classroom without it impacting their work-life balance. And they need school leaders who understand what it's like to be in the classroom and can therefore support teachers in all of the above.

Somehow, Johnson's task force has completely missed the boat on all of those ideas for supporting teacher excellence.

The task force recommendations seem to focus on drawing more time from principals and teachers for a complicated evaluation and recertification protocol, on breaking up the Alberta Teachers' Association, and on forcing the best teachers to spend even more time on mentoring, collaboration and training of other teachers.

There is no recommendation for smaller

able work-life imbalance. A one-year internship and improved mentorship programs, as recommended by the task force, will not change that imbalance. Only improved funding and more teachers will.

The recommendations for a stricter annual review of professional-growth plans and for an in-depth certification review every five years will not only result in reduced flexibility and creativity on the part of teachers (as evaluations will undoubtedly be based on arbitrary indicators determined by bureaucrats), but they will also further turn principals into paper-pushing bureaucrats. The role of principals is to be team leaders who can support and accompany their teachers, not a manager responsible for making teachers jump through bureaucratic hoops.

Perhaps the most nonsensical of all the recommendations, especially given the report's intense focus on qualifications and evaluation, is the one that suggests making it easier for "experts" without teaching degrees to be certified as teachers. That's right, at the same time as the task force is making it harder for people with teaching degrees to become and remain teachers, it wants to begin handing out teaching certificates to the minister's friends from industry and the private sector.

The sad reality is that the many excellent teachers that exist in the system today are there despite that system, not because of it, and not one of the task force's 25 recommendations will change that significantly.

If Johnson is serious about wanting to support teacher excellence, then the answer is simple: increase funding, hire more teachers, reduce class size and improve work-life balance for teachers. If his real mandate is to break up the ATA and centralize control over teachers in his ministry, then he needs to be honest with Albertans and stop pretending it's about teacher excellence. Either way, this task force report provides a serious disservice to Albertans and should be scrapped in its entirety. Our kids, our teachers and our province deserve better.

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REVUE // VIETNAMESE

Vietnamese double bill Two noodle houses, two different experiences

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ry as I might, there's virtually no way to keep up with the ebb and flow of Vietnamese noodle houses around here. I assumed this happened everywhere, purveyors of ph ở and bun fetching up in nooks and crannies all over the city, some of them appearing almost franchise-y with their Anglicized names and their laminated, logo'd, typo-free menus. As it turns out, Edmonton is inordinately blessed, on a per capita basis, with such noodle-oriented establishments of Vietnamese extraction.

And they're all over the map. I used to believe the best phở was found in Chinatown, but an unbeatable little place in Queen Mary Park taught me to never overlook the neighbourhood Viet-staurant. Incidentally, if anyone knows anything

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about the whereabouts of Thai Binh (formerly of 113 Street and 109 Avenue) or the people who operated it, I'd be right obliged to know.

My point is, keeping up isn't possible, so the best one can do is stick one's head in at an unfamiliar Vietnamese place once in a while and hope for some magic. If a really excellent dish is rarer than one would hope, the fact is that an unpalatable dish is far rarer, and Vietnamese restaurants tend to skew less expensive so you don't feel so bummed if it's not great.

A few years back I spent a month travelling in Vietnam. While I always try to pick up enough of the local language to at least be polite, I doubt that I ever uttered a single word any Vietnamese person would recognize as their native tongue.

Uyên ƯơUong 10626 – 97 St 780.497.8280

// Meaghan Baxter

Delicious Pho 10418 – 124 St 780.488.9943

So I'm guessing I have no chance with the correct pronunciation of Uyên Ương , a recent addition to the tight knot of noodle houses on and around 97 Street and 106 Avenue.

I don't know how recently, but within the past couple of years the restaurant was formerly known as the Golden Lotus. Uyên Ương still bears its predecessor's esthetic— bright yellow and white interior— which strikes a startling contrast to comparatively drab nearby phở landmarks Tau Bay, Pagolac and the Golden Bird.

Co-diner and I ran in for a quick bite on a weeknight just past seven o'clock and found the place lightly busy, certainly not enough to slow down the speed of the service or meal delivery. We both wanted bún tô, the handy-dandy meal-in-a-bowl comprising of vermicelli tossed with shredded veggies, herbs, spring rolls and grilled/pan-fried meats, served with fish sauce. My response to rereading that description is Pavlovian. First though, we'd share a mango salad ($9.95), a surprise switch from the salad rolls or green onion cake we often choose.

Unlike the fierce papaya salads of Thailand, Uyên Ương mango salad was more subtly dosed with garlic, fish sauce, lime and chilies, allow-

ing the mild sweetness of the barely ripe mango, tossed with shreds of carrot and cilantro, to assert itself. The ring of plump steamed shrimp around the perimeter of the plate was a very good idea.

The vermicelli bowls were certainly within spec—generous skeins of noodles with shreds of lettuce, carrot and cuke, nicely seasoned grilled pork and spring rolls in mine ($8.95), the fabled three colours (pork, shrimp, spring roll, $8.95) in hers—and presented in unusually attractive, gleaming white dishes. It's probably just my ardour for Pagolac's legendary number 57 that keeps me from awarding full marks. In any case, co-diner and I got well fed for about $15, and co-diner had a fair heap of mango salad for lunch the next day.

I was less thrilled overall with Delicious Ph o (10418 - 124 St), or at least with the eponymous delicacy. Located in the former home of the Makk (with another branch in Sherwood Park), Delicious has a handsome space to do business and one somewhat incongruous with the grating FM radio being pumped into it. The menu runs the gamut of Vietnamese comfort food, from familiar appetizers to soup to rice and noodle dishes, even subs. We ordered some salad rolls ($6) to

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share, phở for me and bún tô for my co-diner. The salad rolls came in an order of three and I wished they had cut them in half, not only so they would have been easier to dip in the small dish of hoisin with which they came, but so co-diner would stop flopping them around, pointing out how phallic they looked. They were solidly salad roll-ish, with sliced pork, shrimp and basil.

At first I was afraid my bowl of beef noodle soup ($9.25) came without the requisite side of sprouts, citrus and fresh basil, but they had just forgotten to bring it. Usually thin slices of raw steak are dropped in the soup just before serving to get just-cooked in the broth in the moments before eating. This steak seemed rather more cooked than that. The brisket—aka, "the bacon of beef"—was underrepresented. The bigger issue for me was that the broth, usually so complex and aromatic, was stronger and saltier than I'm accustomed to, which made it harder to finish once the meat was all gone.

Co-diner fared better with her bowl of vermicelli ($11.50), which certainly looked appetizing and seemed well supplied with grilled pork and grilled prawns.

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Don't mind the shards

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If you ever see something that looks like little shards of glass in your wine, rest assured they are in fact a completely harmless substance known as wine diamonds.

It's admittedly a rather romantic name for what is otherwise a banal by-product of winemaking. Alternatively known as tartrates, argols, tartes (in French) or weinsteins (in German), wine diamonds are naturally-occurring crystalline deposits of potassium acid tartrate (the potassium salt of tartaric acid).

These crystals form during the winemaking process, adhering to the sides of fermentation tanks and oak barrels. Cream of tartar, a common baking ingredient, comes from these crystals; they are also used as an acidulant (something that makes things more acidic) in non-alcoholic drinks and foods. They also have scientific applications as part of Rochelle salt, which is used in electroplating solutions. The wine industry is the sole source

of commercial tartrate crystals and the wines must be chilled before many wineries capitalize on this by the crystals form. harvesting the crystalline tartrate encrustations that form on their You are most likely to spot tartrates in pale wines like whites and winemaking vessels.

Tartrate crystals are harmless, but rosés, simply because they are eastheir presence in a glass of wine ier to see—they occur just as often can be alarming to those who aren't in reds. Wine diamonds are also sure what they are looking at: they more common in minimally-proresemble large sugar granules but cessed wines, usually those made can also be mistaken for chunks of on a small scale by winemakers glass. This is why they are not near- that have embraced a more natural ly as common as they used to be, winemaking philosophy. Tartrates as the majority of the wine industry are fairly common in white wines has opted to remove tartrates from from cool climates, especially wine completely instead of hoping those in Old World regions; Gertheir customers have knowledge on man Riesling and white wines from Alsace are prime candidates for the subject.

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Five years in development, Make Mine Love tackles the golden age of the silver screen

Lights, camera ... oh, there's the action // David Cooper Photography

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t will make everybody that sees it want to have sex. Or mend a broken relationship."

Rather striking declarations to hear over eggs on a Wednesday morning, but given that their speaker has spent several weeks in the world of 1938 Hollywood, perhaps not overly so.

Rebecca Northan is sitting beside her co-performer John Ullyatt at brunch prior to beginning rehearsals

for Make Mine Love, a brand-new play by Tom Wood that's closing out the Citadel's season. Set in the Golden Age of Hollywood, the story follows a struggling film company that's putting together a musical for the silver screen. Northan plays lead starlet Lily Arlen while Ullyatt is her on-screen counterpart, Broadway star and ex-husband Hale Lane.

Make Mine Love has been over five years in development, the brainchild

and physical, screwball shtick."

"That's the thing with [Baker] and [Wood]—they've spent so many years together working on plays and so much time focusing on story," Ullyatt adds. "Whatever show I've been a part of, it's always been about the story—and not just the over-reaching story, but getting smaller and smaller and smaller with each line. It's really just very satisfying as an actor."

Throughout our conversation, Northan and Ullyatt keep dropping hints on the plot—and the Until Sun, Jun 1 (7:30 pm; 1:30 "staggering" cospm Sunday matinees) tumes—which Directed by Bob Baker leave the mind Citadel Theatre, $35 – $88.20 reeling. The story features everyof long-time Citadel mainstays Wood and Bob Baker. thing from an extended car chase "This story is so satisfying," Nor- with tommy-gun-wielding mobsters than says. "John and I were talking to not one or two but three sepathe other day and—we have so rate love stories; there are scenes much in common—we agree we're on a train and a bus crash. "They both narrative freaks and we get cut the canoe—we were supposed really grumpy at plays that have to do a love scene in a canoe," Ulsort of thin stories. I often leave lyatt says. "But it's not kitschy—it's a theatre furious. But in this story all organically put into it; it's classy. there's the comedy and you get the It all goes back to the narrative and full spectrum of snappy wordplay the story, because ultimately if it's

just a car chase you get bored."

The duo's chemistry is fairly evident right away: at once jovial and (amiably) antagonistic.

"I weep in rehearsal, every day, for joy," Northan says.

"You've been weeping for joy?

Wow—that's a great sound bite," Ullyatt interjects.

"I'm just telling the truth; I'm a crybaby," she replies. "There's just these beautiful story moments, the coming together of theatre and film: there's surfaces that can be projected upon throughout the show. There's this beautiful opening where we're drawn into this character's memory of the Golden Age of Hollywood, and you see clips of the cowboy shooting his gun, the gladiator riding a chariot, Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dancing."

"It feels like their opus," says Ullyatt, speaking of Wood and Baker.

"They've been doing this for so long, and they've been working on this one for a while, and they're no spring chickens anymore—it's like everything has led them up to this point."

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When the Rain Stops Falling Until Sat, May 24 (7:30 pm; 12:30 pm matinee on Thu, May 22) Directed by Megan Watson Timms Centre for the Arts, $11 – $22

A multi-generational Rain // Ed Ellis

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irector Megan Watson realized, pretty early on in the process for When the Rain Stops Falling, that she'd been approaching the script under a somewhat lukewarm assumption.

"At first I thought I was doing this big multiple-period piece," the director says, taking a sunlight break from a day of tech in a darkened theatre.

"When in fact, the most important thing is people are people. … The details of London in the 1960s are secondary to the power of the relationships in the piece, in a way."

It's easy to see the pull of that initial approach, though: for her MFA thesis project (and final show of the Studio Theatre season), the Andrew Bovell script Watson's selected spans an epic 80 years, starting at 1959 and stretching into the close future of

2039 (and it's set in not just London, but Australia, too). Out of that timeline emerge four generations and nine characters trying to reconcile a damaged family struggle in the wake of a dark secret. So thinking of Rain as multiple period pieces stitched together is technically true, even if Watson found that mindset ultimately detracting from

the more connective, humanizing elements of the writing.

"When we started to dig into, 'Oh, what is the particular 1980s hairdo that will indicate to the audience we're in 1980?'—you take a moment, and you get through that, and you realize, 'No, you've really just got to do this love story in this moment, and the audience will feel that, and catch the references.'" she says. "Because Bovell has written them in quite cleverly, I think. To understand where we are in time." "[When The Rain Stops Falling] delves deep into the human condition in a way I hadn't read quite like the way Bovell had written it," Watson continues. "It has an almost Greek-in-scope way of approaching very contemporary rela-

tionship challenges that people face:" A Toronto-based director, Watson was drawn to the University of Alberta's MFA directing program to revitalize her approach. For someone who'd been working as a freelance director, the appeal of the program was in the feedback cycle it offered.

"I was at a point in my career in Toronto where I felt I needed some real new ideas and a real fresh perspective on theatre," she recalls. "It's interesting to get feedback in a process as it's happening, because directors generally work very much alone—and then collaborate deeply, but there's never somebody reflecting your process back to you. And that's what I think I wanted, and that's what I've gotten here."

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Watson notes her biggest take from the two-year program, and having outside eyes on her process, is a greater sense of the nuances of timing. When to wait, most importantly—letting a fuller picture emerge in rehearsal before insisting on making cuts and changes.

"When to really try to quote-unquote solve something," she clarifies. "It's the thing I've learned the most, is having someone there causes me to stop, take a moment, take a breath, look at the big picture, instead of being 'OK, this is absolutely wrong, we have to cut this immediately' ... sometimes you need other pieces of the puzzle to make this piece make sense."

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ARTS PREVUE // DANCE

REVUE // THEATRE

Body Traks T

ony Olivares is on a mission. Men Dancers (Shawn famously went Though he has worked with on to found Jacob's Pillow). "I think many a dance group here in Edmon- it's more of a complementary thing, ton, his desire to see something dif- perhaps more like a balance. A lot ferent from the dance scene forced of dance companies have maybe one or two male dancers, and they don't him to forge a new path.

After spending a decade away in have that many opportunities to Europe and the US, Olivares re- dance in other work. This is my way turned to Edmonton in 2012, and to say to them, 'There's more for you has since collaborated with groups to do here. Stick around.' We don't want to lose our like Mile Zero male dancers to Dance and Citie Wed, May 21 & Thu, May 22 Vancouver or Ballet. He has (8 pm) Calgary or Monmade stunning apWestbury Theatre, $20 tréal. I want to pearances at the Livestream at tonyolivaresdance. be able to give Expanse Movecom them opportuniment Arts Festival ties to continue too, and is now unveiling his own all-male dance working here." company: Tony Olivares Dance.

Olivares assures that his reasoning The company's debut show, Body for forming an all-male group was not Traks, is comprised of three pieces in response to other organizations in that incorporate multimedia and live town—he jokes: "I say, well, if there's visual-art creation. First in the prothe Good Women, why don't we call gram, Olivares performs a solo scored ours the Bad Boys or something like by musician Martin Johann Kloppers, that?" Rather, his desire was to open who plays an instrument called the more floors for male movers in Ed- electric cellotaur (use your imaginamonton. tion—Olivares says it looks like a skel"We are a very endangered species," eton). Next up is a piece previewing he laughs, noting that his inspira- Olivares' upcoming work, danced by tion came largely from the work of Nicholas Kolos, Jason Romero, Joshua José Limon and Ted Shawn and His Wolshansky, and visual artist-turned-

dancer Levi Etherington, whom Olivares met while working on a similar art-meets-dance project for Citie Ballet in Mosaic III. The dancers will transition into the final piece where, using different colours of paint, the dancers' bodies will transform into live paint brushes. As they dance, traces from the body paint will form an original artwork on the papered floor.

"Even though we don't see them when we're driving around or walking, we leave these body tracks everywhere that we go on this planet, so I wanted to create this abstract theme," Olivares says. "I think the paint medium is very fascinating; it reflects and leaves behind what the body perhaps might not be able to say."

Thanks to Marc Chalifoux, the entire show will be filmed from above and projected on a screen during the performance. The video capture will also be live-streamed, as Olivares wanted to be able to share the show with family and friends outside the city. Plus, there will be scissors around the room for audience members to take home a souvenir piece of the finished painting after the show.

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Murderers Confess at Christmastime

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tepping out of a cool spring eve- the third sees a wheel-chair bound "nice ning into a theatre where Christmas guy" trying to cozy up to his disinterestjingles are playing as pre-show music ed, but booze-loving, office coworker. is a somewhat jarring, if effective way of generating some seasonal discord. All three threads pick up clip and focus as Which is only the start of the festive they wind along their respective ways. In inversions contained within the Se- fact, the darker the territory Chinn broachrial Collective's Murderers Confess at es—and it gets pretty dark—the better it Christmastime: if the tunes and the title gets. The wry humour, the gleeful vulgarity, and all that bleak aren't enough of a plot angling eventutip-off, Jason Chinn's ally reveal some sescript is using typi- Until Sun, May 18 (8 pm; 2 pm rious personal damcal seasonal setting Sunday matinees) age bogging down to delve into much Directed by Garett Spelliscy pretty much every darker, far less sug- Roxy Theatre, $20 character onstage. arplum territories. It In that department, the castmemis, in turns, ribald, violent and very funny, bers carry their characters to extremes in a perpetual-naughty-list sort of way.

Like many stories set in December, its pretty evenly, though Laura Raboud's three tales wind their way through the Luba is a particular standout: as the final lead up to Christmas day. Except office worker love interest, she's riding these aren't like any other holiday sto- perfectly unstrung sensibility, a mix of ries: one finds an an actress at home a head in the clouds, with a perfectly with a busted leg (due to mishap while sharp Maritme tongue to match.

It's the opposite of the usual holiday performing A Christmas Carol) when a cross-dressing murderer breaks into spirit, sure. But in that, Murderers ofher house and ties her up; the second fers a fresh meditation on a season best finds a political trophy wife catching known for trotting out well-trod tropes. her husband in flagrante delicto with a Hilarious and horrifying. twink drug dealer, and, in response, sig- PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM nificantly upping her drug gorging; and

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DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • CHRoMatIC RevelRy: Photos and videos by Evann Siebens • Until May 24

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DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • oveR RoCkS, UNDeR tReeS, Up tHe StReaM apIeCe: Paintings by Graham Fowler • May 24-Jun 14 • Opening: May 24, 2-4pm 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 Cardinal-Schubert, 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 members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; until Oct 26 • RCA Reception & Auction Regions of Distinction and Studio Project exhibit; reception: 10 sculptures by Catherine Burgess to be auctioned, $20 atrca-reception-auction.eventbrite.ca; May 17, 3:30-6pm

Space: BlowN Up: Video-game art about war in the Middle East by Wafaa Bilal, Harun Farocki, and Mohammad Mohsen, curated by Vicky Moufawad-Paul; until Jun 14 • ProjEx Room: OURS: Installation by Jennifer Tellier and Brittney Bear-Hat; until Jun 14

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • MeaSURING a yeaR: By tHe MINUte: Knitted sculpture, installation by Margie Davidson; until May 16 • ENGAGEMENTS: Display of sculptures and photographs by Candace Makowichuk and Ruth Anne French; May 17-Jul 13

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • Sculpture Installation by Kelly Johner; until May 21 • Memorial Composite High School Art Programme; May 24-Jun 10

Loose Lips: Competitive storytelling, 5 minute, original, personal stories on the theme Loose Lips. Audience picks the winner • May 23, 7:30pm (slam starts) • $10 cover charge

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

St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • HaNDS oN NatURe: DISCoveR BIoDIveRSIty: Until Jun 8

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

MUTTART CONSERVATORY • 9626-96A St • Music

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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 • tHe two CoNtRaRy StateS oF tHe HUMaN SoUl: Paintings by Father Douglas; until May 15. Oil paintings inspired by William Blake’s poetry and Father Douglas’s love of animals. • Artisan Nook: ColoURS, textUReS aND pHotoGRapHy: Small, affordable mixed-media works

by Ana Feher; until May 17 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 • Until Jun 3 RED PIANO • Bourbon Street, WEM • NOA Magazine launch, art show • May 21, 6:30pm (door) ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • weSteRN tHReaDS: Contemporary Fibre Art, wall art, whimsical dolls, colourful quilts, stunning wearable art and pictorial rugs; until Aug 4

Got a Gun book launch by local artist Gail Sobat, with musical guests Joy Spring, and Le Fuzz • May 22, 7pm • Donation

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 BODY OF COLOUR • PCL Theatre Transalta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • New Music Edmonton presents singer/ actor Michelle Milenkovic, dancer/choreographer Gerry Morita, and designer Daniela Masellis in Body of Colour, a night of voice and dance, storytelling and character, delight and surprise • May 16-17, 7:30pm • $20/$15 (student/ senior)/$10 (NME member) at TIX on the Square, door THE BRITISH INVASION • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM, Upper Level, 780.484.2424 • Until Jun 15

CHIMPROV • Citadel’s Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave

Prince • May 17-Jun 7 • Opening: May 17, 1-4pm

season opening • May 17-19

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • SHIFt: Printworks installation by Heather Huston; until May 31 • oUt oF tHe etHeR: Printworks series by Joanne Madeley; until May 31

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave •

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • Works by Tony Baker • Until May 26

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner 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 • Until May 31 GALLERY ON MAIN–Lacombe • My tUSCaN aDveNtURe: Works by Elaine Tweedy • Until May 23

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

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • paRklaNDS: Hilary

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St •

telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • 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

UKRAINIAN MUSEUM OF CANADA–Alberta Branch • 10611-110 Ave • Open Mon-Fri • Artifacts and homemade implements , embroidered and woven textiles, folk ceramics, wood work, beaded and metal jewellery, pysanky, traditional toys, art by Ukrainian artists • Until Aug 29 • Admission by donation

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 • Until Jun 14

WALTERDALE–ASA Gallery • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • tHe aRtISt leNS • Until May 18

varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until May 26

THE GENIUS CODE • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • Catalyst Theatre • Written and Directed by Jon Lachlan Stewart • Each individual audience chooses what story to follow in a complex and fierce love triangle. Starring Jamie Cavanagh, Cole Humeny, and Laura Metcalfe, choreography by Ainsley Hillyard • May 22-Jun 8; (preview: May 20-21), 8pm • $22/$18 (student/Equity) at TIX on the Square HAIRSPRAY–THE BROADWAY MUSICAL • 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

HEY LADIES! • Roxy, 10708-124 St, 780.453.2440 • Theatre Network • The Roxy Performance Series: Womanly talkshow/gameshow/varietyshow/sideshow starring Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert, Leona Brausen • May 23, 8pm • $25 at TIX on the Square

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

780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Cityscapes by Fraser Brinsmead • Until May 15

Ave, 780.425.1820 • Screwball Comedy • World Premiere by Tom Wood, directed by Bob Baker, starring Rebecca Northan, and John Ullyatt • Until Jun 1 • Tickets start at $35

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St

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Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave • Artist Cynthia Booth • Until May 29

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • tHe 29tH MIDDle SCHoolS aweSoMe aRt SHow • Until May 25

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Works by gallery artists and secondary market works; until May 27 • tHe JoURNey: Paintings by

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

CAPITOL THEATRE–FORT EDMONTON • 7000-143 St • storyfestalberta.ca • Tristan & Iseult: a tragic tale of love, war and betrayal. Action adventure from the Middle Ages: sex and death at every turn! Love, betrayal, loyalty and treason. Featuring Melanie Ray • May 24, 8-10pm

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HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • 2nd Fl, Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • Exhibition 4 works by Erika Shulz • Until Jun 14

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EDMONTON STORY SLAM • Daravara, 10713-124 St • edmontonstoryslam.com • Great stories, interesting company, fabulous atmosphere • 3rd Wed each month • 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm • $5 Donation to winner

• 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

• Main Gallery: JJ Levine, Queer Portraits • Front Room Gallery: Josée Aubin Ouellette • Until May 23

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MAKE MINE LOVE • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A

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

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING • Rutherford House, 11153 Saskatchewan Dr • An Unconventional Shakespearean Love Story performed in an Unconventional Way, presented

by Thou Art Here Theatre • Until May 16 • Tickets at TIX on the Square

MURDERERS CONFESS AT CHRISTMAS TIME• The Roxy Theatre, • A cross-dressing kidnapper falls in love with his latest victim. A housewife cracks under the pressure of the holidays. An office worker is spurned by the object of his affection • Until May 18 • $10-$20 at TIX on the Square 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)

STARLESS • Walterdale Theatre • A Cradle to Stage new works event. A play about losing your way in a world where everything is pre-determined and structured for you, even meaning, even the stars • Until May 17, 8pm • $12-!18 at TIX on the Square THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until June • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

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

REVUE // EXPLOITATION

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Ms 45 a feminist exploitation flick, if such a thing can exist

Ready to deploy some revenge

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he's introduced only at the end gendered implement, an icon of homemaking—and beatof the opening him with it in a ing sequence, Wed, May 21 (9:15 pm) shot that would be when her pater- Directed by Abel Ferrara quoted and grossly nalistic douche- Metro Cinema at the Garneau expanded upon bag employer Originally released: 1981 in Lars von Trier's dismisses her Dancer in the Dark with a pat on the head. Thana (Zoë Tamerlis Lund) is (2000). Thana then appropriates her a seamstress working in Manhattan's assailant's firearm: the voiceless finds garment district, her beauty woman- a vehicle for expression. She becomes childish, her doe-eyes and pouting a ventriloquist, the .45 her dummy. lips arresting but do not express She quietly goes about employing it confidence or wantonness or any in a campaign that might initially seem interest in the superabundance of guided by vigilante vision but graducrudely catcalling lechers who form ally proves driven by pure misandry. ogling hedgerows everywhere she Thana is only able to kill men, so even goes. The epitome of a woman with- when a woman picks up a knife, wieldout a voice, Thana is mute. In no way is she "asking for it." But she gets it.

In fact, she gets it twice in the first 10 minutes of Ms 45 (1981), Abel Ferrara's low-budget rape revenge cult classic, a definitive portrait of pre-Giuliani New York, a feminist exploitation film, if such a hybrid can be reconciled. Drafthouse has re-released the film, and Metro is screening it Wednesday night.

Written by Ferrara's frequent collaborator Nicholas St John, the wellcalibrated Ms 45 strikes a compelling balance between artifice—goopey fake blood, outlandish coincidence— with gritty realism—the brilliant location work—and bracing sociological critique—the ubiquity of rapacious males, not limited to but encapsulated by the pair who perpetrate Thana's consecutive rapes, the first premeditated, the second performed as an afterthought when a robbery is interrupted. The narrative reason for the double-rape is utilitarian: it pushes Thana over the edge and into some fugue state. The rest is opportunity: Thana is able to stun her second rapist before spotting her hot iron—itself a

ing it conspicuously at cock-level, and moves to attack, Thana can't fire in self-defence. Like the tragically programmed titular animal in Sam Fuller's White Dog (1982), transformative trauma renders Thana single-minded in her deployment of violence.

As noted, Ms 45 has been quoted, and it is itself riddled with quotes, from the obvious—Thana's mirror poses with her gun recall Taxi Driver (1976)—to the curious—one shot recreates the poster tableau from Woody Allen's Manhattan (1979)— to the provocative—scenes of dead body disposal and blood swirling down the drain recall Psycho (1960),

and make us wonder if Thana isn't to be regarded as some variation on Marion Crane, who this time around survives her attack but never recovers her wits. The film is a composite of politics, cinephilia and an almost documentary sense of place: the shit-faced panhandlers, the trashstrewn alleys and abandoned boxes butted up against aluminium fences, the bat-shit busybody landlady, the pimps shaking down their ladies for ostensibly hidden reserves. Young Ferrara—who, incidentally, has a cameo as Thana's first rapist (!)— exhibits remarkable control over all of these resources while fully surrendering to the inherent trashy

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outrageousness of the material—a meat-grinder will make a memorable appearance. The striking Tamerlis Lund, meanwhile, is perfect, her fear near-palpable, her character sympathetic but not to be identified with. Tamerlis Lund had a woefully abbreviated career, one that included co-writing the script for Ferrara's sleaze masterpiece Bad Lieutenant (1992). She died in 1999, at age 37, from heart failure prompted by cocaine use. She appeared on screen precious few times, but Thana is enough to burn her face into your memory forever.

JOSEF BRAUN

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FILM 15

FILM REVUE // LARS VON TRIER

Hot and bothered

Nymphomanic offers fits of excitement, a weak climax and a tour of Lars von Trier's past glories

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n some suitably indeterminate pe- ger as a conceptualist or crafter of riod, in a suitably theatrical-looking bold images than as a storyteller or alley-crossroads, our bloodied and filmmaker per se, but complex strucbruised heroine is roused from her tures serve him well. Nymphomaniac death-like slumber by an elder Good finds its narrative models in 18th cenSamaritan, offering only tea, a cosy tury literature, unfolding as picaresque bed, an ear. The pair retires to the confession, and the truth is that the Good Samaritan's hovel. She has a film's protracted duration just flies story to tell and ( by. (Nymphomahe has all the time Fri, May 16 – Sun, May 25 niac Volumes I & II in the world, or at Directed by Lars von Trier are being released the very least the Metro Cinema at the Garneau simultaneously next four hours.  in Canada as two We are one foot in separate tickets, the realm of erotic which strikes me fable, a form that invites tautology as a bit unfair since neither Volume and exhaustion, self-objectification as stands on its own.) There is no shortroute to oblivion. Our other foot? It's age of incident or novel variation. stepped into a hall of mirrors, and ev- There is a truly remarkable sequence ery reflection reveals writer/director in which a character identified only as Lars von Trier.

Mrs H (Uma Thurman, with impresJoe (Charlotte Gainsbourg) tells sive control of hysteria) unexpectSeligman (Stellan Skarsgård), "I'm just edly arrives at Joe's apartment, kids in a bad human being." But Seligman— tow, after learning that her husband, his name, from the German, literally duped into believing that his promismeans "blessed man"—doesn't believe cuous mistress wants him for herself, in sin and he doesn't believe in bad is leaving her and shacking up with people. This is an invitation. She's a Joe. There's a curious if not entirely nymphomaniac, he's an asexual: you convincing episode in which a man could not ask for a more ideal listener. named K (Jamie Bell) accepts Joe's And so she begins her story, the father application to take a regular beating.

(Christian Slater) she adored and the There is Joe's late vocation as a debt mother (Connie Nielsen) she didn't, collector under the tutelage of one L the preternatural interest in her geni- (Willem Dafoe), her vast sexual expetals, the burgeoning sense that she rience giving her unusual insight into is destined to live in contradiction of people's repressed desires. And there society's love fixation. By adolescence, is, alas, the eternal return of Jerôme, young Joe (Stacy Martin) embarks on a fairly tiresome character to whom a journey of self-actualization whose Joe is inexplicably attached—the first itinerary is the indiscriminate accu- cut's the deepest, I guess—though mulation of sexual partners—"lovers" that constant sense of LaBeouf bewould seem far too sentimental a ing totally overwhelmed as an actor word. She describes the loss of her vir- serves the character. ginity to a po-faced cockney mechanic All the while we are always returnnamed Jerôme (ostensible beoufcake ing to that hovel where Seligman Shia LaBeouf) who approaches in- listens and discusses with Joe a smattercourse like he's changing a spark tering of oddly related subjects, such plug. She learns the finer points of ag- as the uses of a cake fork, fly fishing, gressive seduction while cruising on a polyphonic music and Zeno's paradox. passenger train with a girlfriend. She These digressions are pretty delightbriefly flirts with being part of a group ful, though their relationship to Joe's of like-minded girls—"Mea vulva, mea story is tangential at best. All the maxima vulva," goes their motto—be- while we are also treated to veiled fore resigning herself to the inherent allusions to von Trier's greatest hits: solitude of her single-minded lifestyle there are plot developments or imchoice: to fuck a lot. She has no ap- ages that distinctly recall Breaking the parent interest in women, multiples Waves, The Kingdom, Dogville—see or kinks unless dictated by another, Joe laying in a coffin of grass—and, so Joe's story has little to do with no doubt, other von Trier titles that sexual exploration or any sort of joy I missed. Von Trier has said that he that extends beyond the time it takes is closest to his female protagonists, to orgasm. Which should give you fair and indeed, he is a bit like his nympho warning that Nymphomaniac, despite narrator, giving himself a vehicle— its provocative title and promise of ex- this film—through which he can replicit sex, is not at all a sexy movie. Its live his past glories. I read a tweet in titillation is of the intellectual or for- which filmmaker and historian Mark mal or esthetic variety. And like nearly Cousins complained that Nymphomaevery such exercise from von Trier, all niac should have followed Joe into old of Nymphomaniac's most compelling age, and I thoroughly agree, but von elements—and, to be sure, they are Trier is still in his 50s. Perhaps in the numerous—get us all hot and both- coming decades we'll be granted a ered for what is finally a most shallow Nymphomaniac Volume III. Until then, sort of satisfaction, and the dumbest we're stuck with this feeble climax, ending in his filmography, which al- and that empty feeling that follows ready has a few notably dumb endings. fits of excitement.

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REVUE // MUSIC DOC

ASPECTRATIO

As the Palaces Burn

Under a spell

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Sorcerer confused but captivatingly seedy

Traversing a rocky road

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he tricky thing about filming a documentary is that you never know exactly how it's going to turn out in the end. Director Don Argott and Grammy-nominated metal band Lamb of God wanted to make something different from the other live concert DVDs the band has released, something focused on the legion of devoted fans the metal icons have accrued all over the world in their 20year existence. This blueprint turned out to be more of a suggestion, though, and the resulting film definitely feels like a project that suddenly changed direction midstream. And

understandably so: halfway through the band's continent-hopping tour in support of their 2012 album Resolution, vocalist Randy Blythe was detained by Czech police for his involvement in the death of a fan—allegedly of a stage-diving injury resulting from the singer's actions—at a concert two years earlier. What do they say about mice and men?

Suddenly a placid, low-stakes but engaging slice-of-life portrait of metal fans becomes a very high-stakes courtroom drama, a miniature meditation on the responsibility that rock stars have over the chaotic communal energy of

Sat, May 17 (8:45 pm) Directed by Don Argott Metro Cinema at the Garneau  "the pit." And the last 20 to 30 minutes are certainly suspenseful: even knowing the verdict ahead of time, the film feels very real and immediate.

As compelling as Blythe's legal situation is, the film relies mostly on the secondhand testimonials of others to paint the picture of the singer's past alcoholism and the catastrophic blow that a jail term would deal to his personal progress. In other words, the film doesn't show us, it tells us. That being said, fans of the band (likely 99 percent of the audience), already familiar with the band's backstory, will have no difficulty immersing themselves in Randy's plight. And even if the film feels a bit ramshackle and lacking in cohesion, this unstructured quality arguably makes it feel a lot more "lifelike." Life may not offer clean, poetic connections between disparate events, but if you point the camera and shoot, it can make for some compelling viewing.

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he protracted prelude to Sorcerer (1977), William Friedkin's remake of Henri-Georges Clouzot's The Wages of Fear (1953), which itself was an adaptation of George Arnaud's 1950 samenamed novel, whisks us on a world tour of criminal activity, starting in Veracruz, Mexico, before making stops in Jerusalem, Paris and New Jersey. What Friedkin's film takes great pains and many minutes to show us is something the Clouzot efficiently and effectively dealt with in a handful of lines: we're about to be told a story of sundry scumbags who wind up in an unnamed but fairly miserable-looking Latin American purgatory and take a gig transporting extremely sensitive nitroglycerin across 320 kilometres of shoddy jungle and mountain road; Friedkin and screenwriter Walon Green want to know just what kind of scumbags we're dealing with, so they front load Sorcerer with backstory that reveals our quartet to consist of a hitman (Francisco Rabal), a terrorist (Amidou), an embezzling investment banker (Bruno Cremer), and the driver (Roy Scheider) for a gang who rob a church. In every case something goes amiss that forces the characters to flee and hide where their pursuers will hopefully never look for them.

To be sure, these backstories function more as colour than as essential narrative materials, but maybe Friedkin and Green just figured that knowing how people got into a mess will make the mess itself more interesting. That's certainly the tack that Friedkin and everyone else involved in the restoration and re-release of Sorcerer are taking in trying to get audiences to engage with this cursed production. I don't think that any amount of New Hollywood mythmaking is going to make Sorcerer into the lost masterpiece it's being touted as, but the context is fascinating: Fried-

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kin was coming off of the massive success of The French Connection (1971) and The Exorcist (1973), and considered Sorcerer a personal project destined to cement his status as a genuine auteur, but his misadventures in the wilds of a developing country, his running way over budget, and the film's misfortune to open the same year as a little space opera called Star Wars doomed its prospects. Sorcerer is in a sense, Friedkin's Apocalypse Now (1979) or Heaven's Gate (1980), though, really, it isn't nearly as ambitious or artistically successful as either of those legendary films made by his peers. It's a confused movie with fumbling existential visions and half-hearted political statements.

Having said that, it's also extremely watchable, captivatingly seedy, mesmerizing in its use of locations and features an excellent Tangerine Dream score. It has some spectacular and expertly executed suspense set-pieces and a handful of wonderful, almost throwaway details that indeed speak to something that could be deemed almost singularly Friedkinian.

While Scheider's gang is storming the back room of the Jersey church— and senselessly killing a priest while doing so—we get cutaways to the (presumably shotgun) wedding between completely incidental characters transpiring in the chapel—and a close-up of the bride's black eye!

Later a cop will open a bottle of Coke with an automatic. Later still we watch our antiheroes trying to cross a collapsing bridge and blow-up a tree.

All of this, and, of course, the pleasures of watching Scheider, make Sorcerer very much worth rescuing from obscurity. The new print premièred at the Venice Film Festival last year and has since been making the rounds in the major centres. It's now available on DVD and Blu-ray. V

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FILM REVUE // DOCUMENTARY

Le Joli Mai T

he first of two films being screened this month by Metro Cinema that show us what the late, great Chris Marker was up to in 1962, Le joli mai (1963), co-directed by renown cinematographer Pierre Lhomme, is something of a cityportrait of Paris in the spring of 1962.

The Algerian war had finally ended after nearly eight years and the Évian Accords had just been signed. That uproarious May of 1968 was still to manifest, but Marker and Lhomme, responding to Jean Roach and Edgar Morin's similarly conceived if somewhat less politically charged Chronique d'un été (1960), cast their nets wide enough to assemble a cast of interview subjects whose collective desires, anxieties and frustra-

tions, and whose sheer diversity—in class, race, ideology, etc.—give us a very strong sense of something stewing in the air. In hindsight at least, the ironically titled Le joli mai seems to apprehend intimations of future unrest by rigorously attending to its moment.

There are apparently a few different versions of the film out there, but the one I know, and the one I believe Metro is screening, runs just a little under two and a half hours. Immersive, wide-ranging, and characteristically playful—there are many cutaways to cats, a sort of mute, enigmatic chorus—Le joli mai is divided into two parts, the second longer than the first, and, in some ways, more compelling. Compelling in part

because we've spend a certain amount heaven with whoever." We meet a radiof time in the film's terrain and are thus cal union reformer who turned his back able to deepen our on the church, and investment, but more Mon, May 19 (1:30 pm); Sun, who tends to keep his hands flat on compelling to me May 25 (1:30 pm) the table while because the politics Directed by Chris Marker speaking. become more heated Metro Cinema at the Garneau and the conversations Originally released: 1963 more personal, many Time and its uses emerge as a key transpiring in seemingly private spaces instead of public theme: some have no time for love, othones, and the revelations of character ers have no time for God, others still more surprising and delivered with more have no time for current events over at stake. We meet an African immigrant which they feel they have no influence. who jokes about ostracized minorities There is a discussion of leisure time and needing to "civilize" the French, and who how to institute it. And there is a closing utters the memorable line, "I'd rather go sequence featuring voices from a prison, to hell with my ancestors than go to where one's sense of time is unmoored.

This film is filled with extraordinary people, with what feels imminent clashes between generations and sensibilities, with many surprises and dizzyingly different opinions and no coherent notion of what Paris is for. One thing is certain: Le joli mai was one of the myriad ways that Marker helped suggest new ways of thinking about what cinema is for. And another of those suggestions comes our way next week, when Metro screens La jetée (1962), a film, also very much about time, that rejects certain aspects of what would seem to constitute the essence of cinema—and creates a small, perfect miracle as a result.

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remember this girl asked us to play her house party, just her birthday party, and we asked if we could invite a couple of people," Ben Disaster recalls. "She said, well, it's pretty low-key, but you can tell a few people. So the first thing we did was went to the school library and started xeroxing a bunch of handbills, and basically plastered the school. We played this amazingly packed house; she got grounded for a long time, but we had a really good time."

It's a memory that brings Disaster to an audible grin on the phone, and it's not the only one he has of his time with the high school punks of Dance Floor Disasters. He sends along a few more anecdotes after our conversation, including convincing a school Principal to let them play a battle of the bands the day a few of them were suspended for "putting soap on the floor and having a slip-and-slide competition," only to watch the school's VP get caught in a spontaneous circle pit that broke out when the band played, spraining her ankle.

Memories like these are surfacing in the minds of Disaster and and a number of other Edmonton musicians not for reasons of mere recollection, but of impending resurrection: Dance Floor Disasters is one of a half-dozen former local bands reuniting over the

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course of the second Hot Plains Music it's amazing how time removes a lot Festival, the weekend-long brainchild of just hurt feelings and stupid stuff."

It's no secret that Slow Fresh Oil baof long-time Edmonton promoter (and, full disclosure, Vue distribution sically imploded back in 2003, which guy) Aaron Getz. It might be a stretch Oliver attributes to a toxic mix of to call 'reunion' the festival's theme— drinking, anxiety and the uncertainty the number of current acts involved of trying to figure out life direction. significantly eclipses the reunions in The band had a third album recorded, Hot Plains' 30-odd bands, spread out Divided We Stand, which went unreover venues and days, (and including a leased until earlier this year (when few new album releases)—but it's cer- the band put a massive, 90-song tainly a throughline. Bands like Hippy- compendium of SFO songs online).

So this weekend chick, or the Cleats, of shows (plus one who played rooms Fri, May 16 – Sun May 18 down in Calgary) that don't exist any- Hot Plains Music Festival more, are returning Various locations, $10 – $15 indi- offers a chance to give those neverfor a weekend of vidual shows, $50 for a festival properly released shows, marking out wristband songs another goa chance to revisit hotplainsmusic.com round in the live (or verse oneself setting, too. in) the history of "I always loved the songs," says the local music scene.

For Brent Oliver, it's a chance Gravy, the band's drummer, coming to give a band like Slow Fresh Oil in over speaker on Oliver's phone.

'I've listened to them over the past (1998 – 2003) a proper send off.

"Our heads weren't in a good spot 10 years. Especially with the Dipretty much the whole time we were vided We Stand stuff: it's always in the band. And that's just what hap- kinda bummed me out that it didn't pens when you're in your 20s, figuring get out there. So I always listen to shit out," he says. "It's nice to go back it and kinda always wished those to a bunch of songs that we really songs were out for consumption. I like, and the reasons that we were think that's the best part of this: we in a band in the first place—we are get to play those songs again, and friends, Lyle was the best man at my put them out there for the people." wedding, I've known Gravy since he was 16 years old in Wainwright. And CONTINUED ON PAGE 20 >>

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One band in Hot Plains' lineup falls into both the nostalgic and vanguard camps. The Secretaries—whose heyday fell in the mid-to-late-2000s, with guitarist Amy van Keeken and bassist Colleen Brown carrying on for a few years after original drummer Natasha Fryzuk left the band, only to revive as the full, founding unit earlier this year—is not only bringing its dance-party-disguisedas-a-rock-show back at Hot Plains, but releasing a new seven-inch there, too (which doubles as the first-ever release of Hot Plains Records).

"It's amazing to think how long ago we played our first show, which I think was eight years ago this month? So we're all definitely older than we were," van Keeken laughs. "And just playing all the songs that we wrote in 2006 or whatever, is like, 'Oh yeah. This.'"

Van Keeken seems sincerely surprised by the warm response the band's return has been garnering in the scene.

"I didn't realize how many people really liked our band," she admits. "People will be just coming up to us and being, 'Oh, I can't wait for your show, I loved the Secretaries, I've always loved the Secretaries.' And we're like: really?

"I think back then, I didn't realize. I was just in my own world of trying to keep my shit together, and not fuck up too much on stage," she continues with a laugh. "It's kind of special to be like, 'Oh, people really liked our band.

They're excited to see us again.' I'm honoured that that's the case."

It's a sentiment echoed by both Oliver and Disaster, with neither of them harbouring any illusions about getting back on the road and taking a shot at making it with the old band.

Two members of Disasters live out in BC now, and Oliver admitting to a different lifestyle these days.

"I'm almost 40 years old, with three kids," he says. "If we knock these three shows out of the park, and I think we will, I'm not quitting my job to go on the road. Fuck that."

But the chance to return to old form, even for a weekend, still offers a certain satisfaction in its temporary nature. After all, if there's one part of Edmonton's history that we seem to protect instead of tear down and replace, it's connected to the sounds we make: we remember the bands that came before, and Hot Plains is offering a way to actually experience them, too.

"I have so much joy surrounding this," Oliver continues. "There's no awkwardness. We're just in such a better place in our lives. I'm really glad Aaron asked, and I'm really glad, when I texted those guys, it was literally within 30 seconds, both of them went, 'Yep, I'm in.'"

"I guess taking the time away from it has definitely made you appreciate what it meant to be in a band you just started with your friends because there was nothing else to do," Disaster says.

"Now that we're older, and some of us are professional musicians, or trying to be, and jamming in so many different bands, it was definitely a springboard for all of us to get where we are today.

It's kind of nice to look back and see that there are all those roots there, that it definitely meant something—not to just us, but to everyone who had been involved in all those years."

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MacQuarrie, who goes by the stage moniker BMBSHL, turned to friends and support system Jay Sparrow and Brad Smith for feedback on her work, and the pair challenged her to write one song every week during the summer of 2013. The tracks that emerged became MacQuarrie's self-titled debut album, a disc filled with lush, visceral electronic melodies that ebb and flow around her

really wanted to, but they pushed me to soulful and confessional vocals.

"Their encouragement really made a make a large volume of work in a short difference for me because it helped me period of time, and that's exactly where my album came to believe that it was something I was Sun, May 18 (9 pm) from, because I capable of, because With Julie Jonas, Girlsclub DJs, ended up surprising it's really hard to Richelle Ziola, Polyesterday, myself even in the dive into something Thomas Scott way I was able to complete full ideas like that and make The Pint Off Whyte something you feel and then I kept putis complete, because ting out song after it's like you never song after song." really feel like you arrive when you're Of course, there were days when making a song on your own because the words and music emerged more you have full control, so it can never be easily than others. MacQuarrie exfinished, right?" says MacQuarrie, who is plains that, as an artist, it can be difone of the few female producers in the ficult to stand behind what you're docity. "I could spend years on one song if I ing sometimes, and during the writing

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The venues have gotten larger, but Green still wants to keep the shows as intimate as possible. Although, anyone who knows Green knows he's not afraid to get loud, too, he adds, referring to his days with post-hardcore group Alexisonfire, which officially disbanded in late 2012.

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ments, but there's still moments in going tech-free at shows is also an opthe set where I'm up there by myself tion—at least briefly. playing the acoustic guitar and trying "A lot of the time it'll be when I play to make it seem like it's a little the- the song, 'Body in a Box,' which is, to atre even though it's a big 'ol sports me, a very special song," Green explains, recalling shows where kids in the front complex," he says.

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Reflection is a common thread throughout Green's music and the songs often are emotionally driven by things affecting him or his loved ones.

His latest album, The Hurry and the Harm, is no exception, although it sees Green exploring more complex instrumentation than City and Colour's early days when it was Green singing with an acoustic guitar or keyboard. The Hurry and the Harm is decidedly more rockinfluenced, like the moody blues tone and fuzzy bass lines on lead single "Thirst," for example. Green's songwriting may be evolving, but he's certainly not one to be easily satisfied.

"I could overanalyze everything to the point of never releasing anything, to be honest," he admits. "You reach a certain point with songs where you go, 'this is it; this is all that needs to be here, for now.' And then that's the best part of going and playing live is that you can kind of evolve on those ideas, and if you suddenly find something in a song that didn't present itself when you were recording it, I can do it live. That's the best part about playing live, I think."

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DV8 Band Jam

ROSE AND CROWN Rural Routes

YARDBIRD SUITE Azar Lawrence Quintet (from Los Angeles); 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $24 (member)/$28 (guest)

Classical MUTTART HALL Shean Piano Competition: Solo Piano Programs; 1-4pm; 6:30-9:3pm

DJs BLACK DOG Every Friday DJs on all three levels BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri CHICAGO JOES Colossal Flows: Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm-2am; no cover COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh DRUID DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FLUID R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ

SAT MAY 17

BIG AL'S Sat Afternoon Jam: with Rott'n Dan and Sean Stephens, noon, no cover BLIND PIG Live jam every Sat; 3-7pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Early show: World Music Brunch: Saturday Afternoons go Live: World Music Series with D'Cana and friends, this week: Cam (fiddle); 1-3pm, donations Late Show: Lionel Rault; 7pm; donations BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Tim Vaughn BONNIE DOON HALL Back From the Underground: Comeback Kid (punk rock), Counterparts, Backtrack, Alpha and Omega, the Greenery, more; 6:30pm $20 (adv) BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRIXX Bestie, Ghost Cousin; 9pm; $10 BUCKINGHAM Hot Plains Music Fest: Dance Party: The Mod Club VS Tighten Up! Crew, featuring the Fortrelles

WUNDERBAR Early: Hot Plains Music Fest: Camembert, Switches, The Jump Off; Late show: Hot Plains Music Fest: Slow Fresh Oil Reunion, the Allovers, Jom Comyn, Smokey and the Feelings YARDBIRD SUITE Azar Lawrence Quintet (from Los Angeles); 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $24 (member)/$28 (guest)

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Vocal Arts Festival: Song and Aria Showcase: emerging artists; 7:30pm; $16 (adult)/$14 (student/senior) adv at Opera NUOVA box office, 780.487.4844; $20 (adult, door)/$18 (student/senior, door) MUTTART HALL Shean Piano Competition: Piano Concertos performances: 2-4pm, 6:308:3pm; awards to follow (9pm), reception after the awards; 1-4pm; 6:30-9:3pm

DJs BLACK DOG Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK Electrick Squirrels

COMMON Get Down It's Sat Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

CARROT Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm

CASINO EDMONTON Quentin Reddy (pub rock)

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

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 (pop); 9pm CENTURY CASINO David Wilcox; $59.95

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

CROWN AND ANCHOR Mister Wrong; 9:30pm

LEVEL 2 Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

DUGGAN'S Mike Letto

MERCER DJ Mikey Wong every Sat

DV8 The Whiskey Shits, Abuse of Substance, Mass Distraction; 9pm

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

EMPRESS Dirty Dudes FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: Katasaurus Wrecks, the Niven Brothers; 4-7pm; no cover

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

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

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

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

SET NIGHTCLUB SET Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous

HOT PLAINS FEST 2014 Evening: $15; Day: $10; Dance party: $5; Black Dog, Empress: Free; wristbands and tickets at Blackbyrd; hotplainsmusic.com

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

JEFFREY'S A/B Trio (contemporary jazz); 9pm; $10 JUBILEE Bernadette Peters; 8pm L.B.'S Chet DeFreese, Rocko Vaugeois LEAF BAR Open Stage Sat–It 's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Strychin Grinn; 9pm-1am LEGENDS Open mic and jam every Sat with Nick Samoil and the Kyler Schogen Band; 3-6pm

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

NEWCASTLE PUB A Fist Full of Blues, Hot Cottage, and Willy James (Big Hank and Lil Kim Going Away Party); 8:30pm; $15 (adv)/$20 (door)

SUN MAY 18

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs (country)

BLACK DOG Hot Plains Music Fest: Slow Fresh Oil (reunion), the Knifes

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

ARTERY Harlan Pepper (country folk), guests; 7:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

O'MAILLE'S Ron Pederson; no cover

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

ON THE ROCKS Love Junk with Edmonton’s Hottest DJs

BLUE CHAIR Sunday Brunch: Jazz Passages Trio; 9am-3pm; donations

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Dueling Pianos: Amber Schneider and Shane Young; 9pm-2am

BLUES ON WHYTE Tim Vaughn

PAWN SHOP Hot Plains Music Festival: Michael Rault, the Renny Wilson Punk Explosion, the Mants (Victoria), the Archaics (album release), Black Thunder; 8pm (door); $15 (adv) RED PIANO Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RICHARD'S PUB The Terry Evans Sat Jam (rock): every Sat; 4-8pm

MAY/15 KAYTRANADA MAY/16 AUTHORITY ZERO 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

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MAY/16 MAY/17 MAY/21

ALTERRA & THE WILD! W/ GUESTS

MOKA ONLY & DJ DOOWAP 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

AARON CARTER UBK & NIGHT VISION PRESENT

CASHMERE CAT THE UNION PRESENTS

UH HUH HER MAC DEMARCO SHARON VAN ETTEN

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MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS

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THE FRONTS & GUESTS

BESTIE W/ GUESTS LAUREN MANN & THE FAIRLY ODD FOLK

MAY/22 BLACK PUSSY, GYPSYHAWK MAY/23 LANA LENORE & CO. MAY/24 HEADBANGERZ FEAT SPIRAL TIDE, OSYRON, HOUSE OF PINES MAY/28 S. CAREY MAY/30 & 31 ROAD TO INDIE WEEK FINALS 2014 JUN/6 BLACKSTONE HOLLOW CD RELEASE JUN/13 HUNGRY W/ A HUNDRED YEARS, REND AND UPSIDEDOWNTOWN TRASH N THRASH THURSDAYS PRESENTS

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BUCKINGHAM Hot Plains Music Fest: Dance Party: The Mod Club VS Tighten Up! Crew, featuring the Fortrelles CHA ISLAND Open mic with March Music Inc; Every Sun 7pm DIVERSION Sun Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm DUGGAN'S Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm DV8 Burlesque, Attacked by Raptors, Action News Team

VUEWEEKLY MAY 15 – MAY 21, 2014

MUSIC 23

EDMONTON PETROLEUM CLUB Audrey Ochoa, Jamie Cooper, Mike Lent, Tom vnaSeters; 11am-1pm

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

EMPRESS Hot Plains Music Fest: Michael Rault

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

HOG'S DEN Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm HOT PLAINS MUSIC FEST 2014 Evening: $15; Day: $10; Dance party: $5; Black Dog Freehouse, Empress Ale House: Free; wristbands and tickets at Blackbyrd; hotplainsmusic. com LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Steve and Bob; 6-10pm NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Long Weekend Sunday: Sweet Vintage Rides PAWN SHOP Hot Plains Music Festival: Shooting Guns (alt rock); Betrayers, Forbidden Dimension, Gary Dubussy, the Fuzz Kings; 8pm; $15 (adv) RED PIANO Kick off the Summer: May long weekend: Live Dueling Piano Show

WINSPEAR Neko Case, the Dodos; 8pm; $40

Classical FAB–U OF A, ROOM 1-29 Vocal Arts Festival Master Class: faculty at work: guidance to young artists; 7pm; $16/$14 at www.operanuova.ca, door

DJs BLACK DOG 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 20

DJs BLACK DOG Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED MAY 21 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

ARTERY Scott Nolan (folk), Brandy Zdan; 7:30pm; $8 (adv) BIG AL'S Robbie's Reef Break Wed: Host Rob Taylor with guests every Wed, 7-10pm

RICHARD'S PUB Sun showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky

BLUES ON WHYTE Russell Jackson

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

DRUID Open Stage Tue; 9pm

SQUARE ONE Sugarfoot; 8-10pm; no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE Russell Jackson

DV8 Band Jam

WUNDERBAR Early: Hot Plains Music Fest: Lad Mags, Service Fair, sKin; Late show: Hot Plains Music Fest: Arrowz (album release), Hippychick (reunion), Napalmpom, Power Buddies

BRITTANY'S Jazz evening every Wed; 8-11pm

JUBILEE Charley Pride, the Pridesmen; 7pm L.B.'S Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

BRIXX Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk, A La Mer, Paul Woida; 8pm; $10

Classical

LEAF BAR Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

DUGGAN'S Wed open stage with host Duff Robison

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Jam hosted by Rockin' Randy every Tue, 7-11pm

DV8 Haggatha, Bridgeburner, Begrime Eximious

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Edmonton Recital Society: ESO AllStars: Allene Hackleman (French horn), Sarah Ho (piano); 2pm; donation

BIG AL'S Tue Jam with Big Dreamer; 7pm (door); no cover

MERCER Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

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

DJs

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Sonny and the Hurricanes (country)

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Damn the Man, Save the Empire '90s Party at 9:30pm; screening of Empire Records at 8pm

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

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

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Open jam every Wed hosted by Will Cole; 7-11pm

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Open Stage every Tue

JUBILEE CFCW Listener Appreciation Concert; 7pm; $51.65

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

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

REXALL City and Colour, Half Moon Run; 8pm

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

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

MON MAY 19 BLACK DOG Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes (country)

BLUES ON WHYTE Russell Jackson

RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

DUGGAN'S Singer-songwriter Open Stage every Mon (various hosts); this week: Hosted by Joanne Janzen

SANDS HOTEL Country Western Dance featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro; every Tue, 8-11pm

JUBILEE Satinder Sartaaj; 4pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Rob Taylor

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Andrew Scott WUNDERBAR Joel Crichton

RED PIANO Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes (country)

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Marty Majorowicz Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT Rob Taylor

PLEASANTVIEW HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle

PAWN SHOP Merzbow (alt), Zebra Pulse, Holzkopf, Botfly, Borys; 9pm; $20 (adv) PLEASANTVIEW HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A Joanne Janzen SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Andrew Scott WINSPEAR Acura/ELS Presents Ben Folds, Lucas Waldin (conductor); 7:30pm; $49-$69 WUNDERBAR Mac's (album release), Banshee, Diehatzu Hijets, Banshee ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

24 MUSIC

VUEWEEKLY MAY 15 – MAY 21, 2014

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

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican

Church, 8810 Meadowlark Rd; Public speaking: Parliamentary practice based on Robert's Rules of Order; vpm-2291@ 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, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

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

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MARCH AGAINST MONSANTO • End of

Steel Park, 87 Ave, 103 St • 780.995.9234 • No to GM • May 24, 12 noon

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 • Sunee Dhaliwal; May 16-17 • Brian Posehn; May 23-24; $30 • Kevin Stobo; May 30-31 • Laugh out Proud with Ted Morris; Jun 5; $16 • Rachel Feinstein; Aug 22-23; $20

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-

ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu: 8:30pm; Fri: 8:30pm; Sat: 8pm and 10:30pm • Dennis Ross; May 15-17 • Tom Liske; May 22-24

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 • Bryan Callen; May 15-18 • Dan Cummins; May 21-25 • Bob Marley; May 29Jun 1 • Adam Hunter; Jun 4-8

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

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

NORTH WEST VOYAGEURS CANOE AND KAYAK CLUB • Rundle Park Family Centre

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

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

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

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

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

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

TRANSCENDING PARTISAN POLITICS

• Art Gallery of Alberta • A discussion on politics, leadership and culture in Alberta and beyond • May 23, 7-10pm • $10; proceeds to support Leadership Edmonton

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic

Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

• Open house: Learn about paddling opportunities around Edmonton and beyond. Meet club members and find out how easy it is to participate with enthusiastic paddlers. All skill levels from beginner to expert welcome. Light refreshments at no cost!! For more information contact Lisa at: lisa.derksen@gmail.com • May 28, 7.30pm

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIE'S COMCapital City Singles "Name that Tune" with Sean Lecomber • May 22, 9pm

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

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

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

EDY • Komedy Krush • Comedy following a

7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

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

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave •

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall,

QUEER

• 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

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer •

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

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)

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

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave

SOUTH EDMONTON GARDENING VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN GROUP •

Meet at: Tim Horton's Donut Shop (look for the black hat), 12996-50 St • Driving to the Green House where there will be over 3000 plants for sale, cuttings from banana, pineapple, ornamental olive and cotton trees • May 25, 5pm • Preregister at 780.463.1626

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar

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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry)

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

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-

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

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-

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

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp:

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

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 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, trans-identified 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, 10408-

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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

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

OUTLOUD–LGBT YOUTH GROUP • St

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

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

worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper

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

SPECIAL EVENTS CARNAVAL • Edmonton Petroleum Club • Pop-up Market showcasing local artists, businesses and musicians • May 16, 6:30-12 • $15; ticket and raffle proceeds to G.R.I.T. CARP EDMONTON • Cineplex Odeon

South, 1525-99 St • Advance screening of the new Canadian movie, the Grand Seduction • May 21, 7pm • $ 7 at CARP.Edmonton@gmail.com, 780.450.4802; fundraiser fpr CARP Edmonton

CELEBRATE NORWEGIAN BICENTENNIAL– SYTTENDE MAI • Dutch Canadian

Centre Nordic Rm, 13312-142 St • Flag raising, parade, folk dancers • May 17, 3:45pm • Banquet: $30 (adult)/$15 (5-12), under 5 free at ticketsmay17@gmail.com

CLARA’S BIG RIDE • Mill Woods Rec Centre, 7207-28 Ave • Welcoming Olympian Clara Hughes to Edmonton • Jun 1. 2-4:30pm • Free 'DEATH CAFÉ' IN FORT SASKATCHEWAN • First Memorial Riverview Chapel,

11090-86 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • Facilitated by Rayne Johnson (lorainej@shaw. ca), sign up at 780.998.9898 • Sun, May 25, 3-5pm • Free

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)

A FUN NIGHT OF COMMUNITY • Yellowhead Brewery • Exhibition of photos celebrating and sharing the things you love about this great city. Music by Bardic Form, Giselle Boehm, and the Fight, featuring speakers Todd Babiak, John Mahon, Leroy Schulz • May 22 • All profits to profits are going to YESS HOST EDMONTON CONFERENCE • Shaw Conference Centre • Challenge the conventions of food, drink and hospitality.

Parties and tastings, hospitality experts and chefs will share tips, tricks, and dishes: Go Back to Basics with Kevin Kossowan, Farm to Fork & Soil to Service by Marc Murphy; Wine and Food Pairing with Mary Bailey • May 22-24 • Tickets start at $35 at hostedmonton.com RISE UP SINGING VARIETY SHOW •

SEESA’s own Accidental Drama Club •$20 (Dinner and Show) • May 24 Saturday Evening and Brunch and Show $20 May 25 Sunday Morning • Tickets by May 20 at noon at 9350-82 Street. For more info call 780.468.1985

SPERO GALA • TransAlta Arts Barns,

10330-84 Ave • sperogala.ca • Gala fundraiser for ACT Alberta (Action Coalition on Human Trafficking), art auction, catering by Elm Café, music by 100 Mile House • May 15, 7:30pm • $40 (early bird tickets)/$50

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)

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

TOASTMASTERS

• 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

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Coming Events

PEP Society 10 Year Anniversary Celebration Tuesday, May 27, 2014 from 7pm to 9pm in the basement of Strathcona County Hall (L5) 2001 Sherwood Drive, Sherwood Park, AB. Everyone Welcome 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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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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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 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!

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

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

Join a community 30 years in the making! For more information and to apply, visit www.edmontonstreetfest.com, email volunteer@edmontonstreetfest.com

, or call Volunteer Coordinator Liz Allison-Jorde at 780-425-5162

The Canadian Cancer Society’s strongest asset is our dedicated volunteers. By offering the most meaningful opportunities for you to make the biggest difference as a volunteer, we’re having more impact, against more cancers, in more communities, than any other cancer charity.

For more information on how to get involved: http://www.cancer.ca/en/getinvolved/volunteering/ways-tovolunteer/?region=ab#ixzz2vac GwaEX

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The Edmonton Pride Festival is a 10 day festival (June 5-15, 2014) with over 40 different events. It takes many dedicated and passionate volunteers to make these events a success. If you are looking for a rewarding volunteer experience, want to contribute to the LGBTQ Community and be part of one of Canada’s largest Pride Festivals, we hope you will be able to help and volunteer! Get involved at www.edmontonpride.ca!

The Great White North Triathlon is accepting volunteers for the 23rd edition of the race on July 6th in Stony plain for all positions: course marshals, draft marshals, lifeguards, kayakers, canoeists, transition, traffic control, parking control, scuba divers, motorcyclists, massage therapists, security & more.

For more info contact: LeRoy Williams, 780-478-1388, email: royal.legend99@gmail.com or Jaqueline at:

Artist to Artist

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 Art Object D’Sport is an open call for entries from artists and artisans across Canada.

DEADLINE – Friday June 23rd at 6:00 pm Further information contact Brenda Barry Byrne, Curator,Gallery @ 501 brenda.barrybyrne@strathcona.ca www.strathcona.ca/artgallery

Live Model Figure Drawing Drop-in sessions every Tuesday, February 11 – June 24, 6-9PM. $15/session; 11-pack only $150. Instruction

by Daniel Hackborn available 1st Tuesday of each month.

Save 20% on supplies.

Reserve your seating – space is limited. 10032 81 Avenue, Edmonton; ph. 780.432.0240. www.paintspot.ca; accounts@paintspot.ca OR info@paintspot.ca

jacqueline.gwntriathlon@gmail.com.

Volunteer with us!

Team Edmonton is run by volunteers, and we always welcome new people to help us promote LGBT sports and recreational activities.

Volunteers can assist during particular events or can take advantage of other short-term and ongoing opportunities.

If you are interested in becoming a volunteer, or if you would like more information, please email volunteer@teamedmonton.ca.

Marking the Valley A juried art exhibition Call to artists Leave Your Mark on the Capital Region River Valley Visual Arts Alberta-CARFAC is partnering with the River Valley Alliance to showcase the Capital Region River Valley through your artwork.

Submission Guidelines can be downloaded at:

http://visualartsalberta.com/ marking-the-valley/

Whyte Ave. Artwalk VOLUNTEERS NEEDED!

Deadline for this juried exhibition: May 30th, 2014

If you are interested in meeting & supporting the local arts community take the opportunity to help out with the festival this year!

Artwalk needs people to fill a variety of roles both before and during July 11 – 13 this summer.

Paintings done especially for sale, its a type of pop art and they’re female. 26 to choose from, 16” x 16”.

Triangle Lips Mr. Jim Willans 780-438-1969

Contact accounts@paintspot.ca for more info or come into the Paint Spot and apply in person.

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

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

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

http://www.emailmeform.com/ builder/form/er27bvY7c0dhM9 0B9dX49 Figure Drawing with Daniel Hackborn With live models. Tuesday evenings, 6-9PM, until June 24. Instruction available 1st Tuesday of the month.

Drop-in sessions, $15. The Paint Spot, 10032 81 Avenue 780.432.0240 www.paintspot.ca.

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Works to Work Summer Internship The Works is currently looking for hardworking, enthusiastic individuals to join the team for summer 2014!

The Works to Work program, an Enbridge Art Internship, is a unique leadership and professional development program that connects theoretical with practical learning.

For more information about the internship, please visit www.theworks.ab.ca and click “Education”

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Making Music Fun for All Ages - Piano lessons offered Central Edmonton (private) Wendy Jensen is a classically trained musician of 30 years from Edmonton, AB. Upon popular demand from fans, Wendy is now offering piano lessons for beginner students in the downtown area.

Wendy’s mission is to make learning music fun for students of all ages. Wendy is now booking lessons for: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday evenings from 4 PM-8 PM and Saturdays 11:00 AM-3:00PM. Lessons can be booked hourly for $50 or $25 per every half hour (plus cost of materials) For a limited time only, Wendy is offering a special rate of $150 for 4x 1hr lessons. Book now for your free initial interview.

Your lesson plan can include: Learning how to read music Learn basic music theory Learn to play the piano Learn specific pieces of music (music coaching) Coaching for the emerging artist Improving stage performance & presence How to organize events/concerts How to promote your music & build your network What’s in a brand name?

Learning the basics of the music industry (copyright infringement, etc) Visit www.wendyjensenca.com for more information

Phone-In Professional Development with Sydney Lancaster Wednesday May 28th: 6:30 – 8:00 a tele-conference Professional Development Workshop with Sydney Lancaster Limited to 12 participants from small centres of Alberta that do not have access to Professional Development talks and participants living in major centres that have issues of access.

FREE: RSVP as soon as possible as this PD workshop will fill up fast! RSVP to info@visualartsalberta.com or by telephone to 1.866.421.1731 providing name, full address, email address, land line telephone number…

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

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Musicians Available

Blues musician likes to jam in the key of F, but knows no songs in that key. Do you?

Contact sirveggi@telus.net Veteran blues drummer available . Influences include BB King, Freddie King, etc.

780-462-6291

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Musicians Wanted

Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs.

Please call 780-901-7677 Jah-LeLe Band seeks female vocalist, drummers, guitarist, bass guitarist, keyboardist, trumpet players (Men or Women), must be talented in the genre of reggae music.

Musicians must have their own instruments. If interested, please contact: Jones (main):780-757-4757 Collins: 780-802-2139 Albert: 780-680-1959 Rock band seeking female harmonist/keyboardist who wants to play with a serious band. Must be seasoned with touring, performing and recording. Serious inquiries call 587-986-6883 Seeking a musician to participate in a unique exchange. A offering of a short live show, in swap for a holonomic design (art) created for the musician.

To take place this summer Contact and more detail through

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OPEN CASTING CALL for Spanish-speaking Role Players THE CASTING LINE is seeking Spanish-speaking men and women, ages 18 to 65, in good physical condition, to work as Villagers in an upcoming 20-day military exercise taking place at CFB Wainwright, May 12 to 31, 2014. No previous military or acting experience required.

These are paid role player positions. For complete details go to: www.thecastingline.ca under “now casting”.

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RIVERCITY MOTORS LTD 20 plus years of VW Audi dealer training. Warranty approved maintenance.

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Intuitive readings: Oracle cards, crystals and chakra readings.

Sunday evenings: 5 to 8 pm @ 2nd Cup (11210 Jasper Ave).

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Call Desiree: 780-868-0636 for appointment

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YELLOWKNIFE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS is hiring for a French Immersion Primary Teacher. For application instructions please view our employment ad at ycs.nt.ca.

LOOKING FOR COMBOVAC and Hydrovac Operators for Whitecourt, Alberta area. Competitive wages and benefits immediately. Resume to Laurier Laprise at laurier.l@ ironwing.ca or fax 780-396-0078.

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AN ALBERTA OILFIELD company is hiring experienced dozer and excavator operators, meals and lodging provided. Drug testing required. 780-723-5051.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): When the path ahead divides in two, Aries, I am hoping you can work some magic that will allow you to take both ways at once. If you do master this riddle, if you can creatively figure out how to split yourself without doing any harm, I have a strong suspicion that the two paths will once again come together no later than August 1, possibly before. But due to a curious quirk in the laws of life, the two forks will never again converge if you follow just one of them now.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): I see you as having more in common with a marathon runner than a speed racer. Your best qualities tend to emerge when you're committed to a process that takes a while to unfold. Learning to pace yourself is a crucial life lesson.

That's how you get attuned to your body's signals and master the art of caring for your physical needs. That's also how you come to understand that it's important not to compare yourself constantly to the progress other people are making. Having said all that, Taurus, I want to recommend a temporary exception to the rule. Just for now, it may make sense for you to run fast for a short time.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): If you fling handfuls of zucchini seeds on the ground of a vacant lot today, you shouldn't expect neat rows of ripe cucumbers to be growing in your backyard in a couple of weeks. Even if you fling zucchini seeds in your backyard today, you shouldn't expect straight rows of cucumbers to be growing there by June 1. Let's get even more precise here. If you carefully plant zucchini seeds in neat rows in your backyard today, you should not expect ripe cucumbers to sprout by August.

But here's the kicker: If you carefully plant cucumbers seeds in your backyard today, and weed them and water them as they grow, you can indeed expect ripe cucumbers by August.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): "If we want the rewards of being loved," says cartoonist Tim Kreider, "we have to submit to the mortifying ordeal of being known." How are you doing with this trade-off, Cancerian? Being a Crab myself, I know we are sometimes inclined to hide who we really are. We have mixed feelings about becoming vulnerable and available enough to be fully known by others. We might even choose to live without the love we crave so as to prop up the illusion of strength that comes from being mysterious, from concealing our depths. The coming weeks will be a good time for you to revisit this conundrum.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): There's a piece of art on the moon: a ceramic disc inscribed with six

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drawings by noted American artists. It was carried on the landing module of the Apollo 12 mission, which delivered two astronauts to the lunar surface in November 1969. One of the artists, Leo maverick Andy Warhol, drew the image of a stylized penis, similar to what you might see on the wall of a public restroom. "He was being the terrible bad boy," the project's organizer said about Warhol's contribution. You know me, Leo. I usually love playful acts of rebellion. But in the coming weeks, I advise against taking Warhol's approach. If you're called on to add your self-expression to a big undertaking, tilt in the direction of sincerity and reverence and dignity.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): The planet we live on is in constant transformation. Nothing ever stays the same. To succeed, let alone survive, we need to acclimate ourselves to the relentless forward motion. "He not busy being born is busy dying," was Bob Dylan's way of framing our challenge. How are you doing with this aspect of life, Virgo? Do you hate it but deal with it grudgingly? Tolerate it and aspire to be a master of it someday? Whatever your current attitude is, I'm here to tell you that in the coming months you could become much more comfortable with the ceaseless flow—and even learn to enjoy it. Are you ready to begin?

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): "It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder," said English author Vita SackvilleWest, "but it has to be judiciously arranged." That's your theme for the week, Libra. Please respect how precise a formulation this is. Plain old ordinary disorder will not provide you with the epiphanies and breakthroughs you deserve and need. The disorder must be sweet. If it doesn't make you feel at least a little excited and more in love with life, avoid it. The disorder must also be judiciously arranged. What that means is that it can't be loud or vulgar or profane. Rather, it must have wit and style and a hint of crazy wisdom.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): I have three sets of questions for you, Scorpio. First, are you anyone's muse? Is there a person who draws inspiration from the way you live? Here's my second query: are you strong medicine for anyone? Are you the source of riddles that confound and intrigue them, compelling them to outgrow their narrow perspectives? Here's my third inquiry: are you anyone's teacher? Are you an influence that educates someone about the meaning of life? If you do play any of these roles, Scorpio, they are about to heat up and transform. If you don't currently serve at least one of these functions, there's a good chance you will start to soon.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): According to my reading of the astrological omens, you should draw inspiration from this Chinese proverb: "Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down." In other words, Sagittarius, you need extra downtime. So please say NO to any influence that says, "Do it now! Be maniacally efficient!

Multitask as if your life depended on it! The more active you are the more successful you will be!"

Instead, give yourself ample opportunity to play and daydream and ruminate.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): In Raymond Chandler's pulp fiction novel Farewell, My Lovely, his main character is detective Philip Marlowe. At one point Marlowe says, "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun." In accordance with your astrological omens, Capricorn, I'm asking you to figure out how you might be like Marlowe. Are there differences between what you think you need and what you actually have? If so, now is an excellent time to launch initiatives to fix the discrepancies.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): There's a slightly better chance than usual that you will have a whirlwind affair with a Bollywood movie star who's on vacation. The odds are also higher than normal that you will receive a tempting invitation from a secret admirer or meet the soul twin you didn't even know you were searching for, or get an accidental text message from a stranger who turns out to be the reincarnation of your beloved from a previous lifetime. But the likelihood of all those scenarios pales in comparison to the possibility that you will learn big secrets about how to make yourself even more lovable than you already are.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Author Eva Dane defines writer's block as what happens "when your imaginary friends stop talking to you." I suspect that something like this has been happening for you lately, Pisces—even if you're not a writer. What I mean is that some of the most reliable and sympathetic voices in your head have grown quiet: ancestors, dear friends who are no longer in your life, ex-lovers you still have feelings for, former teachers who have remained a strong presence in your imagination, animals you once cared for who have departed and maybe even some good, old-fashioned spirits and angels. Where did they go? What happened to them? I suspect they are merely taking a break. They may have thought it wise to let you fend for yourself for a while. But don't worry. They will be back soon. V

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HOOKUP SHOCK UP

I'm a 21-year-old straight male and I'm mildly autistic. This means that I have difficulty picking up on social cues. I've learned to manage my disability in most areas of my life, but I've recently become concerned about how it pertains to hooking up. My approach to hooking up is how I imagine most other people's must be: find someone who I can have a flowing conversation with, attempt to flirt with them and then awkwardly make a move. But a few weeks ago at a party, I was flirting with a girl when I suddenly realized that she was wasted. I had suspected that she was tipsy like myself, but I didn't understand how far gone she was until she invited me outside and was unable to keep her balance while walking. What followed was a horrifyingly surreal exchange where I struggled to leave, she kept insisting that she wasn't drunk and all the while she kept pressing against me. By the time I got away, she was angry, people were staring and I had history's most shameful erection.

Prior to that night, I thought I could tell when someone was too drunk.

I'd been certain about the agency of everyone I slept with. Now I have doubts about myself. Severe intoxication renders a person incapable of giving consent and taking advantage of someone that impaired is the same as rape in my mind. Am I a rapist? Was it wrong for me to participate in hook-up culture as I struggle to read social signals?

Moral Blue Screen Of Death If your description of events is accurate, MBSOD, that shameful erection of yours—which was nowhere close to being history's most shameful erection (that distinction belongs to the erections on the Catholic priest who raped the most kids)—was an innocent, unconscious, physiological response to some highly awkward and clearly unwelcome bodily contact. Just because your dick got hard doesn't mean you were enjoying yourself. Again, if your recap is accurate: you were struggling to leave and this drunk wouldn't stop pressing her body against yours? You were the victim, not the perp.

As for other women you've hooked up with at or after parties ...

The line between buzzed enough to go for it and too drunk to consent can be fuzzy and subjective. Some people argue that one drink renders a person incapable of consenting to sex.

By that standard, nearly all of us— male and female and SOPATGS*— are guilty of raping scores of people.

(By that standard, millions of sexual encounters are simultaneous rapes, ie, two tipsy/buzzed/drunk people having sex that neither party was capable of consenting to.) But sensible people recognize that alcohol functions as a social lubricant and an effective way to overcome social or sexual inhibitions, and that it's possible for two people (or more!) to have consensual sex after a drink or two or even three.

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“Get Back”--return to what you know.

You say you have difficulty picking up on social cues and you're now worried that you may have misread a previous hookup's ability to consent. I'm sorry to say that it's possible you hooked up with a girl who was completely shitfaced but, unlike that drunk girl at the party, was not giving off too-shitfaced-toconsent cues that you could pick up on. Since you can't go back in time and unfuck all the buzzed/tipsy/ drunk girls with whom you've already hooked up, MBSOD, you can only resolve to be more cautious going forward.

If drunkenness is one of those social cues that you have a hard time reading, MBSOD, you're going to ask a friend for his or her read on the girl you met, or—better still—you're going to stick to dance floor make-out sessions at parties and reserve getting naked for sober/soberer second or third dates. And when you do

Sensible people recognize that alcohol functions as a social lubricant and an effective way to overcome social or sexual inhibitions, and that it’s possible for two people (or more!) to have consensual sex after a drink or two or even three.

decide to really go for it, you're going to err on the side of making active, ongoing, explicit requests for consent, ie, you're not going to "make moves," awkward or otherwise, you're going ask questions ("I'd really like to kiss you—that OK?") and keep asking questions ("OK, I got the condoms out—you still wanna fuck?").

10 YEARS TOO LONG

My best friend is in a relationship with a great guy who is a loving father to their kids. There are no issues in their relationship other than this: zero sex in 10-plus years. She is DESPERATE. She is in contact with a former lover who is not the LTR type. She wants to hook up with her ex. Is she required to disclose? If so, what do you recommend she say? Or does 10-plus years of sexlessness constitute a free pass?

Her Best Friend Ten years without sex frees your friend from an obligation to disclose, HBF, but for your friend's peace of mind—and for butt cover should the affair be discovered—she should sit her husband down and say something like this: "I love you and I want to stay married to you forever. We both know that sex has never been an important

part of our connection or our marriage. If you should ever seize an opportunity to get it elsewhere, I trust you'll be considerate and discreet and leave me in the dark. I promise to do the same."

MEDS AND MASOCHISM

I'm a 23-year-old gay male who was diagnosed four years ago with ADHD. The prescription that I've been taking has completely turned my life around. Within the course of my first batch of pills, I began to notice drastic changes. From the evaporation of my paralyzing academic anxiety to the willpower to practice better hygiene, medicated me has control over my actions. A side effect of this medication is a drastically increased libido. While I've always had kinky tastes in porn, it is only while on Dexedrine that I go on Recon and look for men to tie me up and dominate me. I've only ever pursued kink experiences under the influence of legal amphetamines.

My confusion comes in the interpretation of these facts. Part of me feels like I should be wary of my kinky self, because "sober" me wouldn't make the same sexual choices. The other part just wants to say "fuck it" and embrace my kinks, because the same high that makes me kinky also made it possible for me to graduate from college and practise good personal hygiene. Are my concerns valid?

Aroused Distractible Dominated You were looking at kinky porn before you got on meds and started hooking up with kinky guys, ADD, so your meds didn't make you kinky. Instead, your meds have had the same impact on your sex life that they had on your college career and your commitment to good personal hygiene: they gave you the ability to realize your dreams—educational, sexual and ablutionary. Just as Sober You couldn't get your ass to class or into a shower, Sober You couldn't get your ass into a hot top's dungeon. Medicated You, on the other hand, gets shit done.

The question you should be asking yourself isn't "Is my meds-enhanced ability to make my kinky fantasies a reality a good or bad thing?" but rather "Am I being reckless about how I realize my kinky fantasies?"

If you're not taking unreasonable risks, ADD, and if you're employing best online hookup practices—you meet in public first; you know their real names and phone numbers; before heading to someone's place to get tied up, you tell a trusted friend where you're going, who you're with, and when they can expect to hear from you again—then this isn't a problem. *Some other point along the gender spectrum.

On the Lovecast, Dan chats with filmmaker David Thorpe about gay voices: savagelovecast.com. V @fakedansavage on Twitter

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1 Woodshop tools 5 Dish (out) 9 Florida fullback, for short 12 Fluish, perhaps 13 “Space Invaders” company 15 Mascara’s target 16 Campus letters 17 Convincing 18 “... butterfly, sting like ___” 19 “___ for Alibi” (Grafton novel) 20 Places for missing persons reports 22 “And I’ve got one, two, three, four, five ___ working overtime” (XTC lyric) 24 Nixes a bill 25 1980 running medalist Steve 26 Unobtrusive, as a ringtone setting 29 It’s heard in Houston 31 Affected 32 It may hold up an Arp 33 Sapporo sashes 37 One end of a fencing sword 39 1968 Winter Olympics site 43 ___ apso 44 Lock up tight 45 Convent-ional title?

46 Item exhumed years after burial 50 Hem’s partner 51 Part of NCAA 52 Like mad callers 53 “Born Free” lioness 54 Queens diamond, once 55 Take on more issues?

56 Othello, for example 57 Allergy source 58 QB play 59 Roadside rest stops

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5 Fictional typing tutor ___ Beacon 6 Latin list ender 7 Sound off

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8 Lindros formerly of the NHL 9 Mandrill kin 10 Newsgroup system since 1980 11 Game with 32 pieces 14 Encyclopedia Brown’s hometown 15 Italian word for “milk” 20 2000 Subway Series losers 21 Hinduism, for example: abbr.

23 Hang out 26 Bristly brand 27 Like some congestion 28 Greta Garbo, for one 30 Suave 33 Reactions to fireworks 34 Shooting/skiing event 35 Available, as fruit 36 Series with an upcoming Episode VII 38 Ballerina’s bend 39 Teahouse hostess 40 Former Attorney General ___ Clark 41 First name on the Supreme Court 42 Robertson of CNN 44 Hidden loot 45 A great many 47 Get ready 48 Yemen’s largest city 49 Pac-12 team since 2011 53 Longtime Pet Shop Boys record label ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

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