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Stepping on the workers Alberta's anti-union environment is hurting all of us

Who should we trust more to mark Alberta students' Grade 12 diploma essays: a seasoned teacher or a computer program?

A recent study conducted by LightSide, a Pennsylvania company developing computer software for automated essay marking, on behalf of Alberta Education, is claiming the latter after the study found the computer program could outperform a single teacher by approximately 20 percent.

However, by the company's own admission, LightSide's system cannot evaluate critical thinking. This is concerning considering making comprehensive arguments and connecting literary motifs to real-life issues are normally the basis for whether an essay is good or bad.

But schools may be forced to use it if the amount of teachers willing to grade essays doesn't rise. This past year, Alberta Education had difficulties recruiting enough teachers to grade diploma exam essays—but given Minister of Education Jeff Johnson chopped the grading honorarium teachers receive from $200 to $100, that's not surprising. The full amount, however, was reinstated this week.

Organizations such as the Alberta Teachers' Association have voiced their opposition to computer grading of essays, and rightly so as it is the responsibility of the education system to ensure that students receive a quality education and that means leaving programs like LightSide by the wayside. V

The dominant narrative about Alberta’s economy is a compelling one, and very easy to get caught up in: one of the fastest-growing economies in North America, low unemployment, record levels of new investment and profits galore in oil and gas, the province’s main industry. But there is another side to this story, one that tends to get ignored and brushed under the carpet, especially by the government and the mainstream media.

It shows that the real wages of Alberta’s 99 percent have largely stagnated since 1982, that Alberta has among the highest rates of workplace injury and death in North America and that Alberta has the most unequal income distribution in the country.

A report released last week by the Parkland Institute does a great job of explaining one of the key reasons for that dark side of the story: Alberta’s declining unionization rates and labourunfriendly government.

It is well known that unionized employees fare better in terms of wages than non-unionized workers.

In Alberta union wages are, on average, $4.75 per hour (18 percent) higher than non-union wages. The report highlights that this is especially significant for women and young workers, who do significantly better in union than nonunion environments.

What is not commonly acknowledged, however, is that in areas with high-union density, those unions also serve the purpose of putting upward pressure on all wages. When compared to economic performance, the performance of wages in Alberta has been far lower than in other provinces with higher union density. In other words,

higher union density in Alberta would have resulted in more of the province’s staggering GDP growth going to workers. As it stands, almost all of this growth has gone to profit, and almost none of it to wages.

In 2013 in Alberta, 173 workers died on the job.

That number represents an increase of almost 20 percent over the previous year. The Parkland report uses data from other jurisdictions to draw a direct correlation between unionization rates and workplace safety. Unions allow workers to participate directly in ensuring their workplaces are safe and, in the process, actually empower workers to refuse unsafe work. This direct participation and willingness to refuse is something that happens far less in non-unionized environments for fear of repercussions. Here, too, the evidence is clear that as a result of union lobbying and advocacy, jurisdictions with high unionization rates tend to have better workplace health and safety legislation and enforcement and far lower rates of workplace injury and death.

The report’s final finding is perhaps the most damning of the government’s anti-union bias. It turns out that there is a direct correlation between union density and greater income equality. Graph after graph in the report shows that as unionization rates in Alberta go down, inequality increases in direct proportion. This is not just because of the impact on wages, but also because a strong union sector plays a critical role in organizing and mobilizing for policies that serve the public interest like public health care, a strong public education system and a strong social safety net. There is a huge amount of evidence out

there today, including from sources as radical as the World Bank and the Conference Board, demonstrating the negative impacts of inequality on factors as varied as economic growth, healthcare costs and outcomes, education outcomes, crime rates and numerous others.

The evidence is overwhelming. The dark side of the story of Alberta’s economic success is that it is disproportionately benefitting only the top one percent of income earners and actually doing damage to Alberta’s workers and the public interest in general.

Given all of this, it should be a no-brainer for a government interested in promoting the public interest to ensure a union-friendly policy environment: one that would make it easier for workers to unionize and for unions to properly represent their collective interests. In Alberta, however, we have consistently seen our government move in the other direction, instituting policies which make unionization incredibly difficult and bills aimed at restricting the powers of unions, their collective bargaining rights and even the pensions and retirement security of workers. Does the government just not get it? Or is it rather that they fully get it and are happy to continue governing for their friends in the one percent at the expense of everyone else? Either way, it’s clearly time for a change in direction—the workers who have built this province deserve no less. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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Resisting rape culture

Slut Walk march to address rape myths and sexual consent

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ictim blaming is a major part of rape culture and there are many myths out there that trivialize sexual assault. Slut mWalk Edmonton, now in its fourth year, is preparing to do its annual march on May 31 at Wilbert McIntyre Park to raise awareness about and combat rape myths while advocating the importance of sexual consent.

"Rape culture is where we spend more time focusing on how not to get raped rather than telling people to not rape," says Devonne Kendrick, organizer for SWE. Cristina Stasia, University of Alberta gender studies professor and author of Lipsticked and Loaded: Feminism, Femi-

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ninity and the Female Action Hero, adds that rape culture excuses and encourages the objectification and sexual assault of women.

"It is a culture that glamorizes sexual assault and doesn't take it seriously," she says. "A culture that dismisses the severity of the issue and jokes about the issue."

Formed in 2011, Slut Walk was developed in response to Toronto police officer Michael Sanguinetti's statement that in order to not be victimized, "women should avoid dressing like sluts." Sanguinetti's comment sparked a global backlash with protests in Australia, Denmark, Finland, New Delhi, Argentina and Morocco.

The group is trying to dispel common rape myths, including the notion that victims invite rape by dressing in provocative clothing, being intoxicated, or based on their sexual history.

"When you focus on the behaviour of the victim rather than the actions of the perpetrator, you are creating an environment where it's safe for rapists to keep raping," Kendrick says.

Only six percent of rape cases

are reported, according to Statistics Canada. Assault Care reports that women are sexually assaulted every 17 minutes in Canada, while in the US sexual assault happens every two minutes according to Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network.

In a study published in February 2014, sociologist Heather Hlavka of Marquette University discovered that females between the ages of three and 17 saw sexual violence as normal and harassment and abuse as standard behaviour.

"Young people are socialized into a patriarchal culture that normalizes and often encourages male power and aggression," Hlavka states in the report.

"As men's heterosexual violence is viewed as customary, so too is women's endurance of it."

Rape culture is often manifested in popular culture through the hypersexualization of all forms of media.

"Rape culture is normalized and encouraged at every level in our culture," Stasia says. "So of course we see it in popular culture where we glamorize sexual assault in film, television, popu-

lar music and video games."

R&B singer Robin Thicke made headlines last year for the overly sexualized lyrics in his No 1 hit song "Blurred Lines," where he sings about the grey areas of sexual consent, domesticating a lady-friend and blurred lines—where "no" is often interpreted as "yes."

"There are no blurred lines when it comes to consent," Kendrick says.

"You can't just assume that someone wants to sleep with you because they flirt or dance with you."

California rapper Tyler, the Creator is notoriously known for his lyrics that discuss rape, murder and violence. In "Tron Cat," Tyler raps "I fuck bitches with no permission" and "rape a pregnant bitch and tell my friends I had a threesome."

Although rap music tends to take the brunt of misogynist discourse, rape-insinuating lyrics are found even among country music. Tyler Farr's "Redneck Crazy" has violent overtones with Farr singing "I'm gonna aim my headights into your bedroom windows / Throw empty beer cans at both of your shadows / I didn't come here to start a fight, but I'm up for anything tonight."

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says. "The rates of sexual violence against women are showing no signs of decreasing."

In April, 16-year-old Maren Sanchez was stabbed to death in Connecticut after she allegedly declined an invitation to prom. On May 23 in Isla Vista, California, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger went on a stabbing and shooting spree that killed six people and wounded 13 others—he also took his own life— because he was angry about being a virgin and being rejected by women.

"It's heartbreaking, but it's infuriating because it is hate crime—but we don't treat it that way," Stasia says. "We don't see sexual assault and violence against women as a hate crime."

Kendrick adds that a unified consensus by both men and women of what constitutes rape is necessary.

"Everyone agrees that rape is bad, but not everyone can agree on what rape is," she says. "Some people will use the terms rape and sex interchangeably, which normalizes sexual violence and really downplays rape as a violent crime."

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NEWS // PHOTO ID

Who are you?

Lack of photo identification is a struggle for the homeless and impoverished

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ucked behind frosted windows in an office at Stanley A Milner Library, Jared Tkachuk is photocopying a handful of forms that will change Saud Siddiqui's life. A friend of Siddiqui's brought him here to get help untying a knot of bureaucracy preventing him from moving on after being released from prison. If all goes well, this elixir of ballpoint pen, white-out and photocopied cards and papers will unlock a world most of us take for granted.

A birth certificate, a driver's licence, a permanent resident card: if you don't have ID in Canada today, you can be locked out of everything from housing and banking to getting a job. The province of Alberta has reduced some barriers to getting ID, and several Edmonton agencies offer services for those who have lost it. There are consequences for how deeply we've entrenched identification into our daily lives, though.

Siddiqui is only 29, and was eager to look for work after serving two years in prison. His driver's licence expired while he was incarcerated and he discovered that his bank wouldn't give him access to his account without identification.

Originally from Pakistan, Siddiqui says he has a permanent resident card and a passport, but the police have been holding them. Provincial employment agency Alberta Works offered him housing and job support, but required ID so they could deposit the money into his bank account—money he also needed to buy work boots for a job. Frustrated, he's come for help at the

library.

"This is interesting, too, because he's not born in Canada, and that makes it a disaster to get ID," explains Tkachuk, an outreach worker with EPL. Siddiqui's chances of getting an Alberta identification card are good because he's held on to his health care and SIN cards. With that, Tkachuk can verify Siddiqui's identity on one of the province's new Identity Certification forms and get a card within a week or two.

One or two paychecks away Tkachuk's role at the library has transformed from a temporary experiment into a high-profile success, partly because of the intense demand for services like this.

"It's not difficult—and it's getting easier all the time—to be able to slip through the cracks," he says.

With an increasing number of people living from paycheck to paycheck, Tkachuk says losing even a month or two of income without support from family or friends often plunges people from the middle class all the way down to the streets.

Consciously or not, we've created a society that relies heavily on identity documents, especially when we're most vulnerable. Alberta's income-support system for people with disabilities, AISH, requires ID with your name, date of birth, a recent picture and a signature. If you have a partner and dependents, you could be asked for more than a dozen pieces of income and identity documentation.

Budget hotels, subsidized housing

and even the low-income Edmonton Leisure Access Program for the city's recreation facilities, all require ID. "The other big one we see is family doctors," Tkachuk says. "More and more places are now requiring photo ID. That's a big one, because a lot of people who are on the streets have myriad health or mental-health issues."

Keep it secret, keep it safe For such an essential item, ID can be surprisingly difficult to get and keep safe. MyLe Le runs an ID storage service at Boyle Street Community Services and says she had no idea how deep the issues ran until she got the job as a first-year social-work student.

"I grew up in poverty my whole life, so it was something that I wanted to do," Le says. "I wanted to work with people in poverty, people that have been marginalized. So it was kind of my 'in.'"

Her office at Boyle Street offers a safe place to store original pieces of ID for people living on the streets. Homelessness comes with greater risks of losing ID or having it stolen while sleeping rough or in a shelter. At the moment, Le stores more than 1000 pieces of identification and sees about 10 to 15 clients daily.

"It's a huge deal losing your ID. Sometimes even just the stress of it makes people relapse," she says, adding that social workers need to put a higher priority on making sure clients have it.

While the province of Alberta has lowered barriers for those in need

of birth certificates and provincial ID, the federal government seems to be moving in the opposite direction.

Michelle Maser is client services program manager for Operation Friendship Seniors Society, based in the Boyle McCauley area. Many seniors misplace their ID because of memory issues and are vulnerable of being attacked for their ID, or having it stolen by friends or family.

Service Canada demands a birth certificate sometimes before allowing access to Old Age Security, for example. For those who have immigrated to Canada and lost their proof of entry, it can take more than a year and a half to get that documentation again and get pension supplements flowing.

"Believe it or not, I have seen a small handful of folks," Maser says.

"They came here 40 years ago and they have this ratty piece of smokeand coffee-stained paper that you can barely read, but they still have it. They just knew, 'I better hang on to this thing for dear life.'"

"But if you don't have those documents, it's a hold on so many different avenues, and so that's where we would like to see [Citizenship and Immigration Canada] making it easier, reducing those barriers."

One of the federal government's most public and controversial moves this year has been to make it more difficult for people without ID to vote. Bill C-23, the "Fair Elections Act," is currently moving through the Senate. In the past, those without ID could have someone vouch for who they were or show their voter information card.

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both of those will be scrapped.

Voters will only be allowed to have someone vouch for their address.

Maser says that will prevent "a huge percentage" of people in the Boyle McCauley area from voting.

"Just like ID, that's a right," she says. "It's not a privilege of those who have access to the resources and the means to have ID" Hello, personhood Le says her time coordinating Boyle Street's ID storage makes her wish government agencies processing ID would lower the cost of applying, and speed the process up. Employees at registries and government officials could also be more empathetic, she adds.

Tkachuk agrees that in his work at the library, he often encounters government staff who don't treat the loss of identification as an urgent situation. He also feels frustrated that registries don't store ID digitally, especially in the case of immigration papers.

"When people don't have ID for a long time, it really reinforces the notion that they're outsiders," Tkachuk says. "I was helping this one gentleman who hadn't had ID in years ... and I got his birth certificate, and when we got it, he actually picked it up in his hands and kissed it, and said, 'Hello, personhood.'"

"What really struck me, is what he must have felt without it. To me, it's one of those things, you take it for granted when you have it all the time."

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Conducting an orderly retreat is the throughout Europe and North America, netsk and Luhansk provinces to postpone hardest thing not only in war but also and Putin's aimless belligerence has a planned referendum on union with Rusin politics, as Russian President Vladimir been setting him up in Western minds sia. He even says that he is withdrawing Putin is now learning. His own desire to as the next Hitler. his troops from Ukraine's borders. avoid humiliation gets in the way of rapBut he doesn’t really withdraw the id disengagement from a losing battle, He was very cross when his tame troops yet. He doesn’t use his influence which is why he waited until two days Ukrainian president, Viktor Yanu- to force the separatist gunmen in eastbefore last Sunday's Ukrainian presiden- kovych, was overthrown by protest- ern Ukraine to postpone their referential election to say that he would re- ers after he obeyed Putin's demand to dum, and he doesn’t actually say that spect the result. And even then he said break off trade talks with the European he will recognize the Ukrainian election "respect," not "recognize."

Union. Putin punished Ukraine by an- as legitimate. Putin wants to walk away The Ukrainian election went well. nexing Crimea and he started doing from the game, but it's too embarrassPetro Poroshenko, a minor-league oli- some heavy breathing about Ukraine's ing to do a complete about-face. So he garch with business interests in Russia, eastern provinces as well. leaves the pot of fear and suspicion won convincingly in the first round and He encouraged pro-Russian gunmen boiling for another three weeks.

60 percent of voters FINALLY, only actually showed up at two days before the polls. Even in Dothe Ukranian netsk province, where election, Putin most city centres are says he will occupied by separatist "respect" the gunmen, seven out of result, and his 12 district electoral comtanks start to missions were able to pull back from operate normally. It's a Ukraine's borgood start on stabilizing der. Too damned the country. late. There won't So why didn't Putin be any more just say "recognize" Western sanc// Creative Commons when that is clearly tions against what he will have to Russia, but Putin's aimless belligerence has been setting him Putin has mando in the end if Russia and Ukraine are aged to resurup in Western minds as the next Hitler. to have peaceful relarect the image tions? Why prolong of Russia as a the uncertainty about his intentions in to seize government buildings in east- mortal threat to its neighbours. It will the West, where the belief that he is ern Ukraine and warned that he might not lie down again soon. an "expansionist" bent on recreating the intervene militarily if the Ukrainian govEuropean defence budgets will stop Russian/Soviet empire takes deeper root ernment used force against them. He falling, and the integration of the armed with each passing day? The answer is moved 40 000 troops up to Ukraine's forces of the various new NATO mempride—and Russia will pay a significant eastern border on "exercises." It was bers in Eastern Europe will accelerate. price for Putin's pride. quite pointless, since he could neither Leading-edge technologies like misLast week Prince Charles, heir to the annex the eastern provinces nor remove sile defence will get more funding in British throne, enlivened his royal tour the Ukrainian government without actu- the United States. Foreign investment of Canada by telling an elderly Polish ally invading, but he was VERY cross. in Russia is already declining. And the immigrant that Hitler's relentless takeThree months of that, and the damage countries of the European Union will over of European countries in the '30s to his and Russia's image is starting to move heaven and earth to cut their dewas "not unlike what Putin is doing pile up. Simple-minded people like Prince pendence on Russian gas exports. now". Prince Charles is well known for Charles talk about a new Hitler. Terrified Putin has already turned to China as saying silly things, but what he said in Poles, Estonians and other Eastern Euro- a new customer for Russian gas, but it Canada sounded quite sensible to many peans who used to live under the Soviet will never pay as well as Europe did. He people in the West. That is a big prob- yoke fear that they might be next and used to be able to play the Europeans lem for Putin. demand NATO troops on their soil. And and the Chinese off against each other, His seizure of Crimea from Ukraine, clever people in the Western military- but that game is over. NATO sees him though completely illegal, was not the industrial complexes see an opportunity as a wild card at best, and at worst a first step in his plan for world conquest. to sell more of their wares. real threat. The master strategist has That is preposterous: Russia is a relaSo at last, in early May, Putin sobers lost his touch. V tively poor country of only 140 million up and calls off the fright campaign. He people. But it is a regrettable fact of says that the Ukrainian election could be Gwynne Dyer is an independent jourlife that the Hitler analogy has a pow- a move "in the right direction." He pub- nalist whose articles are published in erful grip on the popular imagination licly urges the pro-Russian gunmen in Do- 45 countries.

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PREVUE // ITALIAN

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Daniel Costa's Bar Bricco offers a casual alternative to Italian fare

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dmonton is home to more than 20 Italian restaurants, but the traditional trattorias are outnumbered by a new type of pseudo-Italian restaurant that giftwraps spaghetti-and-meatballs and prosciutto-anything as authentic Italian cuisine. As such, dabbling in the realm of the Italian restaurant becomes a perilous move. But Bar Bricco, the latest endeavour from Daniel Costa of the acclaimed Corso 32, infuses the concepts of Italian salumerias and spuntini venues in a 28-seat bar located beside Corso on Jasper Avenue.

Where Corso 32 offers traditional Italian dining, Bar Bricco offers the art of Italian snacking—that is, by means of cured meat, cheese, and grissini (thin, crisp bread sticks).

Bar Bricco comes as phase two of a three-phase plan in which Costa plans to open a trio of distinct Italian restaurants side by side. The third will be a traditional trattoria that's set to open in the next six to seven months.

"Bar Bricco is the polar opposite of Corso 32," says Costa of his newest addition. "At Corso, people

have to book in advance and here, five sections: pane (bread), spuntini we just want people to come in. (snacks), salumi (plural for cured We wanted to make it really ac- meat), formaggi (cheese) and concessible for people. ... The service dimenti (condiments that pair well is more casual, the room is more with the cheese, such as housecasual and the whole experience is made pear marmalade, chestnut more casual." honey and balsamico vecchio).

The casual-cool atmosphere of "The intention is not to have a Bar Bricco is full dinner menu," achieved through 10347 Jasper Ave says Costa of the its fare as much barbricco.com Bar Bricco menu. as its esthetic, "It's not for people achieved through to come for dinner a collaboration necessarily, but to with Connect Architecture that have some small bites, a plate of blends modesty with functional- cured meat, and have a glass of ity. The wood bar easily seats 15, sparkling wine—and then be on which invites conversation with the your way." employees as well as other Bricco diners. A large mural, created by The restaurant is inspired by the Vanguard Works, frames the wall aperitivo—the Italian custom of adjacent to the bar, which fuses going out for a pre-dinner snack or 250 Bosch paintings together to drink meant to stimulate the appecreate one-of-a-kind scenery. tite for the meal to follow.

In contrast to Corso's lengthy Within the menu is the fonduta wait list, Bar Bricco's maxim of agnolotti dal plin ($14), morsels of "no reservations" and the concept homemade pasta stuffed with proof late-night snacking and sharing sciutto, spinach and ricotta cheese further emphasizes the establish- served with a sage butter and ment's casual vibe. To encourage shaved parmigiano cheese as well snacking, the menu is comprised of as the increasingly popular egg

yolk ravioli ($13), an egg-infused pasta. Each has been developed as a snack-size pasta dish, ideal for sharing or solo dining.

The salumi section offers cured meats from Italy, Spain and Uruguay. For those feeling a bit adventurous, Bricco offers a tasting salumi plate ($26), which samples five meats including speck (smoked prosciutto), finocchiona (Tuscan salami), an aged 16-month-old prosciutto di parma, mortadella and Bricco's housemade porchetta.

Within the formaggi section are several Italian cheeses from different regions of Italy including Sardinia, Tuscany and Emilia Romagna.

As well, diners can enjoy a sample of Bricco's popular cheeses with the formaggi tasting plate ($28).

Hard spirits such as vodka and rum are absent from the drink menu and replaced with wines (sparkling, white and red), beers, digestifs (after dinner bitters) and three classic Italian cocktails such as the pear bellini ($13) that have been carefully selected to compliment the intense flavours of the salumi and formaggi. Using the Coravin sys-

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tem, Costa is able to serve higherend bottles of wine by the glass yet still keep the bottle intact.

"I think Corso 32 and Bricco are something that stays very true to the tradition of Italian cuisine," Costa explains. "I think that there are restaurants in Edmonton that are Italian inspired, and can be very delicious, but are not actually Italian in such a way where people are surprised when they go to Italy and they don't see every plate of pasta has a tomato sauce or meatballs.

Italian cuisine is much deeper than that and I think we explore that as much as we can."

For Costa, the methods used to make and cook pasta, the way the food is served and not overcomplicating the dish need to be considered in making authentic Italian fare.

"The true mentality of Italian cooking is keep everything very simple and focus on high-quality ingredients. We try not to mess with them too much but instead highlight them."

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is something Morita's been mulling over for a few years now. Putting it into practice with Sho-tel, however, required a certain resolve on her part: the occasional instance of "just too sketchy" aside, most motels she scouted seemed less than thrilled at the prospect of artists taking up a temporary residency.

"There was a generalized fear, and lack of understanding of art," Morita says. "People thought I was going to be hammering things in the walls.

And then they thought I was going to be really noisy. And then I thought, 'Well, why am I even telling them this? I should just have a big crazy party, and say, 'Oops, I did art.'"

Still, one finally said yes: Aurora Motel, out on 111 Avenue, agreed to let Morita and her collaborators take over a couple of rooms. But only a couple: Morita found booking time was as much of a challenge as finding a place. Motel rooms, it turns out, are becoming less transient; more than ever, they're Fri, May 30 – Sat, Jun 1 (8 pm) places of exSho-tel tended stays.

Presented by Mile Zero Dance "[Motels are] Aurora Motel (15145 - 111 Ave), actually turn$15 – $20 ing into permanent space in Edmonton," she says. "Because Edmonton's booming so hard, motels are full of people who are there permanently. So I was trying to find five to eight rooms, and I was only able to get two. And I was really lucky.

"It's families, it's people at NAIT taking a three-month course and working up north," she says. "It's oil compaith the exception of the vehi- nies that block book because they're cles we use to get from place getting people from the Maritimes to place, the roadside motel is proba- and need somewhere to put them. bly the most common transient space AISH people, welfare moms, people that we regularly find ourselves who can't get apartments. It's quite within. Those tiny, pre-wrapped soap a culture. It's really vibrant. There's a bars, a television with Super Channel, lot of issues there." the warm, sterile lighting; the generic-pleasant vibes of those spaces are All of which to say: over its two-night as ubiquitous as they are empty, de- run, Sho-tel will see 10 artists of varisigned to give you a pleasant night's ous disciplines taking up residence in rest but usually utterly devoid of that familiar motel-room setting, filling both with movement, music and their own personalities.

Then again, that's not quite true: other artistic interpretations that can while scouting locations for Mile emerge within those confines. For Zero Dance's Sho-tel, Gerry Morita two hours, it'll basically be an open found most of them to have their house: as audience, you can come and own distinct essence—if not in struc- go as you please.

(As for the Aurora's existing resiture, then in the people who populate them and areas they're found in, dents, Morita says they might try to some of those contexts being seedier have a bit of an open house—"a preopen house," as she puts it—before than others.

'There were places that were too the audience arrives, to let the neighsketchy, where I thought, hmmm bours satisfy their own curiosities.)

One of the artists involved is … our clientele might get killed here," Morita laughs. "There were dancer Jen Mesch, who, paired with a few like that. It was really inter- saxophonist Allison Balcetis, will be esting to see that whole side of performing excerpts of conversations she's picked up while recoverthe rental economy."

Setting a dance show in that sort of ing from a work injury at the WCB familiar-yet-nondescript rented space wellness centre.

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"When Gerry put out the call, I thought, this is perfect," Mesch says.

"Because I have all these new friends, or at least gym buddies, and I've gotten some kind of glimpse into their life. And this is what their life is."

One particular strand of that involves two fellows discussing the finer points of lobster (Mesch will have some live crustaceans as part of her interpretation), as well as a deeper look at the sorts of people who end up living that hard-work, big-money, blue-collar lifestyle.

"We're also looking at people who don't have a lot of education, but have taught themselves several languages, because they've lived in several countries," she says. "So there's an effort to learn things like poetry, or [take part in] online learning. I'm really interested in that sense of being able to rise above whatever your past is that didn't give you opportunities."

While it's never checked into a motel before, Mile Zero Dance is no stranger to non-traditional spaces: last year alone found the company performing in the outdoors (Dances in Unused Spaces), as well as immersing themselves in the history of the Ortona Arts Armoury.

The appeal of site-specific work, Morita notes, is partly connected to cost—"It's cheaper," she admits, "but if I combine my pain-in-the-ass factor, it goes way up"—but also an interest how the traditional audience-artist relationship alters when both sides can see each other clearly.

"The versatility—the ability to get right into places, and closer to people and not [the fourth wall]," she says. "And to actually include the people in the work—whether they know it or not, they're half the work—just by being there, they're implicated, whereas in a theatre, the audience is dark. They're hidden.

They have no effect on the performers unless they make noise. That just gets boring; it's limited. " And negotiating that sort of relationship in this sort of space should prove a compelling exercise for both sides; after all, even on its own, the basic neutrality of a motel can start to feel like more of a canvas than a lack of amenity. Find yourself in one for long enough, and a certain amount of self-reflection is almost unavoidable.

"When you're in that motel, there's something so depressing about it," Morita says. "That synthetic cover on the bed, an actual yellow pages— when's the last time you've even seen one? There's something that's just like, this is the basic existence: this is all you need, now shut up. And so there's something about affirming identity in that space."

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Until Sat, Jun 14 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Saturday matinee) Directed by Stewart Lemoine Varscona Theatre, $16 – $30 A musical mama // Mat Busby

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eatro La Quindicina seems to thrive as a company of performers that all share a nuance for irrepressible energy. But even among that particular fleet, there are those that seem to pass each other in proximity only, never quite sharing the stage. Kristi Hansen and Mat Busby, for two: being part of the Teatro circle (and, more generally, having ongoing acting careers

in town) hasn't actually translated to any stage time together in more than a decade.

"This is the first piece Mat and I have worked together on since 1998," Hansen begins, perched beside Busby in a coffee shop on Whyte Avenue. Back in the pre-millenium, both grew up in Saskatoon, acting in that city's Walterdale equivalent; both were eventually drawn to Ed-

monton, ended up in school ("in different classes," Hansen opines), and then carved acting careers out in the city's creative ether. They just never did in the same shows, at the same time (with the exception of both doing reading at a Teatro fundraiser, but that hardly counts).

"It's funny that it took so long for us to do a show together," Busby adds. "Because we've been doing

shows with Teatro, both of us, different shows during the season, shows here and there. Lots of stuff that almost connects, and doesn't."

The show that's bringing them back together hasn't been seen in almost as long: The Jazz Mother, which premiered back at the now non-existent Phoenix Theatre in 1991, is seeing its first revival as Teatro's 2014 season opener. It sets up in a boarding house in Badger's Bluff; Busby plays the Polish landlord—"It's a new accent for me," Busby says, grinning—and Hansen, a mysterious nurse living in his residence. Both lives are thoroughly shaken up with the arrival of the titular mama (Jocelyn Ahlf), a lady whose taste and delivery of music are somewhat at odds with the Badger's Bluff status quo.

It's not a musical, though there is singing. And nestled in among the music-rooted hijinks, Hansen and Busby note a particularly affecting air lingering around the script's core.

"I was in Calgary, and I was sitting in my billet's house, and luckily she

wasn't there," Hansen says, of her first read-through. "The Lemoine suckerpunch, for me—it's a lovely play, so beautiful, so well-crafted, and then all of a sudden, just this one line, and I just started sobbing.

And I was like, on the floor sobbing. ... I wasn't expecting the suckerpunch. In the beautiful plays, they happen."

"I love that term," Busby notes. "It's the first time I've heard it recently: the 'Lemoine suckerpunch,' where he starts out so brilliantly funny, and witty, and then there's a certain set of his plays that just hit you in the stomach."

"It's just so true," Hansen continues. "This little moment of truth that echoes for you. And I think we have different ones. For me it was just the line I needed to hear at that particular moment."

"This one's got a nice piece of heart at the centre of it," Busby adds. "It's a shorter [play], so it kind of comes right at you: lots of fun, a little bit of pathos, right back to the fun."

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ounties: a formative part of Canada's history, and a subject rife for punning.

"We do like our puns," says Dana Andersen, referencing the newest show to grace the stage at Fort Edmonton Park's Capitol Theatre: Brokeback Mountie. It's perhaps only natural that Andersen—longtime director of Edmonton's live improvised soap opera Die-Nasty!—would bring a similar format to the Capitol's programming upon becoming artistic director about a year ago.

Thus began the Klondike Melodramas series, which follow a similar format to Die-Nasty!: a cast of more than a dozen performs a live, improvised show set in a particular era—in this case, turn-of-the-20th-century Edmonton. Audiences can expect many of the same faces that appear weekly at the Varscona, in both DieNasty! and the 11 O'Clock Number.

The Klondike Melodramas run over three nights, with another set of shows scheduled for the end of July and then again in September; Andersen hopes they'll be able to establish enough of an audience for these to become a more frequent occurrence.

"When we have a new audience, we don't want to alienate them by having too many in-jokes," Andersen says.

"But there are a few for people who have attended all of the shows, so

they have a hook and they can enjoy the fact that there is a continuing story. But it's not essential to the enjoyment of the play itself—it's episodic, so if you only see one episode you're not missing out."

The Capitol Theatre's resources allow the Klondike Melodramas much more sound and video pizazz than is usually afforded to the Varscona shows. Of the characters traipsing across the stage, Andersen notes that there will, of course, be Mounties—including a singing Mountie—as well as other figures from the city's history.

"We like to refer to the show as not so much historically accurate as hysterically accurate," Andersen says with a chuckle. "In a sense it's like The

Flintstones: it takes place in a certain time but the anachronisms are modern.

"This is truly live theatre, because you can literally see the sweat on their foreheads when they start digging themselves into a hole," he continues. "It's something you can't get anywhere else. Some things work, some things don't, but it's always fun to watch them work it out."

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The Genius Code refuses to place blame on one person; regardless of your choice of headphones, all three characters are implicated in the terrible events that unfold.

Playwright Jon Lachlan Stewart has an ear for language, whether it's heightened, almost poetic asides or gritty dialogue, and this truthfulness prevents the play's dark, slippery subject matter from alienating its audience.

Unlike the Disney movies that the characters argue about—and which the audience sees in projected snippets—The Genius Code does not offer a happy ending. Nor is it mere catharsis, though it does leave one reeling. Powerful and gripping, The Genius Code turns what might have been an almost maudlin tale into an inventive, disturbing manifestation.

While not perfect—much like the characters before us—it's not an overstatement to say that shows like this do not come through town very often. Take advantage of the opportunity.

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All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music– check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry ZUMBA BASHFIERY FRIDAYS • Central Senior Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • Shake your body to the Latin beat, and freestyle dance to live DJ music. Featuring Tamico Russell, Ike Henry, DJ Rocko and Zumba instructors Dru D, Manuella F-St, Michelle M, Sabrina D. and Cuban Salsa instructor Leo Gonzales • 3rd Fri each month • 7pm • $20 (online)/$25 (door)

FILM DREAMSPEAKERS INTERNATIONAL ABORIGINAL FILM FESTIVAL • Metro Cinema at the Garneau, 8712-109 St, dreamspeakers.org • Dreamtalkers and offers a unique exploration into Aboriginal cultures from all parts of the globe' until May 31 • Quebekoisie / Uprooted Generation (STC); French, English subtitles; May 29, 7pm • Craters Of The Moon / Mohawk Midnight Runners (STC); May 29, 9:30pm • $10 (adult), $8 (adult matinee)/$8 (student/senior), $6 (student/senior matinee)/$6 (child under 13) at the Garneau 45 mins before each film

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100, royalalbertamuseum.ca • Scarlet Street (1945, PG); Jun 2, 8pm • Holy Matrimony; (1943, PG); Jun 9, 8pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Audio Visual Room (main floor), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Films adapted from books • Dangerous Liaisons (1988) R; May 30, 2pm

IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211142 St • This week: May 30-Jun 5: • D-Da: Normandy 1944 3D (PG); Fri-Sat 2:15, 3:25, 5:45, 8:05pm; Sun 2:15pm; Mon-Thu 4:20pm • Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Fri 11am, 1:10, 4:35, 6:55pm; Sat 10am, 11am, 1:10, 4:35, 6:55pm; Sun: 10am, 11am, 1:10, 3:25, 4:35pm; Mon-Thu 3:10pm • Jerusalem 3D (G) Sat-Sun 12pm; Tue 2pm • Hubble 3D (G) Fri 12pm

MOVIES AT THE CAPITOL–Fort Edmonton, 780.442.2013 • fortedmontontickets.com • The Big Trail • Jun 5, 7:30pm

MUSIC DOCS–Metro • Garneau Theatre • Monthly film series featuring music documentaries, from classic to contemporary. Curated by Tim Rechner, and copresented with CJSR and Blackbyrd Myoozik • Scott Walker: 30 Century Man; Jun 3, 7pm REEL FAMILY CINEMA–Metro • Garneau Theatre • Family films • Free admission for children 12 and under • The Princess Bride; Jun 7, 2pm • The Bad News Bears; Jun 14, 2pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St, 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Discovery Gallery: Coming Up Next: An exhibition of contemporary fine craft by emerging artists; until June 14 • Feature Gallery: FURNISH: Contemporary hand-crafted home furnishings and accessories; until Jul 5

ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34

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

St, 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)

Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • Exhibition 4 works

by Erika Shulz • Until Jun 14

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO World of Creativity: CABINETS OF CURIOSITY: Lyndal Osborne's curious collection; until Jun 30 • HIGH ADVENTURE: Byron Harmon on the Columbia Icefield; until Aug 17 • LAWREN HARRIS AND A.Y. JACKSON–JASPER/ROBSON 1924: until Aug 17 • INSTINCTIVE BREAK: Installation by Andrew Frosst; until Jun 8 • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks

by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Gallery Garden Party: Fundraiser and exhibition gala event in an outdoor garden, with live music, a botanical art bar, hors d’oeuvres, tea and cake, and more; Jun 7, 6:30-9pm; $25 (adv)/$20 (member/participating artists)/$30 (door) • Exhibition: Jun 7-20 • ArtWalk: Jun 5, 6-9pm

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • HEART, SOUL, MIND: Works by Jean Pederson, Alex Peck-Whyte, and NadinaTandy • Until Jun 6

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE–Arnold Guebert Library • 7128 Ada Blvd • FROM FIRST

HUMAN ECOLOGY BUILDING–U of A • 1st Fl Gallery • COLOUR CATCH: Aesthetic experiences through West African Textiles and Nature • Until Jul 20

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave • Artist Cynthia Booth • Until May 29

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • HANG-UPS AND INSIGHTS: IB and AP Art Show from Lindsay Thurber Comprehensive High School and Hunting Hills High School • Until Jun 21 • First Friday Opening: Jun 6, 6-8pm

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • SUMMER ON 124 STREET: Works by gallery artists and secondary market works • May 30-Aug 27

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main 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

SHOOTS: Geneva Moore's tempera painting and intaglio printmaking • Until Jun 20 • Afternoon tea reception: Jun 14, 2:30pm

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • SPRING GARDEN: Marian Majeau and friends present handmade pottery to enhance the garden; until May 31 • RAKU, NAKED OR NOT: Raku and primitive fired pottery by guild members; Jun 3-28 DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • MILES DOES MILES: Works by Miles Constable • Jun 3-25 • Opening: Jun 5, 5-8pm

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

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • OVER ROCKS, UNDER TREES, UP THE STREAM APIECE: Paintings by Graham Fowler • Until Jun 14

THE DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St, drawingroomedmonton.com/events • Work by Suzi Barlow, daily performances in the window of the storefront gallery • Jun 3-8, 12-1pm

EDMONTON’S ST. JOHN’S INSTITUTE • 11024-82

St, 780.407.7152 • ENGAGEMENTS: Display of sculptures and photographs by Candace Makowichuk and Ruth Anne French • Until Jul 13

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Memorial Composite High School Art Programme' until Jun 10

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • HANDS ON NATURE: DISCOVER BIODIVERSITY: Until Jun 8

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • INDICATIONS: WEATHER PERMITTING: Photopolymer prints by Sara Norquay.

Artisan Nook: SMALLER INDICATIONS: Woodcuts and etchings by Sara Norquay Vertical Space: HAMARTIA, WELCOME TO SWINELAND…: U of A artists • Until Jun 30

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 • Summer Group Shows: New work by gallery artists; Jun-Aug

Ave • MONEY, SOVEREIGNTY AND POWER: THE PAPER CURRENCY OF REVOLUTIONARY UKRAINE: Presented by the Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies (ASAUS), travelling exhibit curated by Bohdan Kordan • Jun 1-Jul 26

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • WESTERN THREADS: Contemporary Fibre Art, wall art, whimsical dolls, colourful quilts, stunning wearable art and pictorial rugs; until Aug 4 • WORN TO BE WILD: Jun 14-Sep 7

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • AGA at Enterprise Square Galleries: REGIONS OF DISTINCTION: Works by the Edmonton members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; until Oct 26

ST ALBERT ARTWALK • Perron District, downtown

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • GORDANA ZIVKOVIC: PASSAGES OF THE KINO EYE: Retrospective exhibition, a selection of work from the last seven years of Gordana’s life culminating in her ‘cinematic cycle'. • Until Jun 7 FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • Works by Robert Dmytruk • Jun 14-30 • Opening: Jun 14, 2-4pm

St Albert: WARES (host SAPVAC), St Albert Library, Musée Héritage Museum, Gemport, Elevate Athletic Wear, Art Gallery of St Albert, Rental and Sales Gallery, Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Cloud Nine Pajamas, Cerulean Boutique • ArtwalkStAlbert.com • 1st Thu, 6-9pm; through to Sep; exhibits run all month • Jun 5, 6pm

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • PARKLANDS: Hilary Prince • Until Jun 7

SELFRIDGE POTTERY STUDIO • 9844-88 Ave, 780.4399296 • Summer open house • May 31-Jun 1, 11am-5pm SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print

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 • Display Cases: CANADIAN BOOKBINDERS AND BOOK ARTISTS GUILD: HANDMADE BOOKS AND PAPERS: Works by the Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild membership; until May 31 • EPSB’s First Nations, Métis, and Inuit teen art: Works by teens participating in the Edmonton Public School’s First Nations, Métis, and Inuit art workshop; Jun 1-16; reception: Jun 2, 6-8pm

GALLERY WALK • Gallery Walk Galleries: Daffodil, Scott, Bearclaw, Bugera Matheson, Front, West End, Peter Robertson, SNAP • First Thursday Event: The art galleries will be open late after work, for an informal gathering of culture lovers the 1st Thu ea month, 5-7pm

-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • SHIFT: Printworks installation by Heather Huston; until May 31• OUT OF THE ETHER: Printworks series

by Joanne Madeley; until May 31 • MAKING A GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION: Works by Patrick Bulas and Jordan Schwab; Jun 12-Jul 12; Reception/Talk: Jun 13, 7-9pm; Artists speak about their work at 7pm • ENCUMBERED: U of A recent grads, group show, works by emerging artists, Suzi Barlow, Lauren Huot, Morgan Melenka, Cara Seccafien, and Vanessa Mastronardi; Jun 12-Jul 12; reception: Jun 12, 7-9pm

STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • STRATHCONA SALON SERIES: Showcase of Strathcona County's local artworks by artists who submitted their works to be juried into the Strathcona County Permanent Art Collection • Until Jun

29 • Reception: Jun 13, 7pm E: artgallery@strathcona.ca

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Events: WILDLIFE RESCUE: until Sep 1 • K'NEX: THRILL RIDES: until 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

WORKS GALLERY • 10635-95 St • facebook. com/TheWorksArtandDesignFestival • The YMCA Community Canvas Works Gallery: Don Wheaton YMCA downtown (10211 102 Ave): Jenny Keith's natureinspired paintings; until May

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Writers from a Hat: For amateur writers to share • Jun 2, 7pm • Launch of Tim Bowlings new book, Circa Nineteen Hundred and Grief; May 29, 7pm • Rich Lauber presents Caregiver's Guide for Canadians; Jun 9, 7pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Launch of Chris Westbury's Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelors, Event • Jun 10, 7pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ • 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 • Story Slam 2nd Wed each month @ the Chair: Share your story, sign-up at 7pm, 7-10pm • $5 (suggested, donations go to winners) CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

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

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH • 10037-84 Ave • Exporting Alberta, Gala and Readings • May 30, 8pm

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass Door Coffee House Reading Series: featuring authors, Eva Blaskovic, Katie Bickell, and Fran Kimmel; music by Olivia Rose • May 29, 7-9pm

NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun Each Month With A Different Play By A Different Playwright • Upcoming Readings at SCRIPT SALON: Jun 1 Go West Young Man by Darrin Hagen

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8601 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Polishing The Silver: Using prompts and visual stimuli, seniors are encouraged to step back in time to preserve on paper their early memories of Alberta. Tea, talk, and time to write and remember • Jun 6, 1-3pm • Free, presented as part of Seniors Week, hosted by Writer in Residence Margaret Macpherson

T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St, 780.667.8250 • talesstorytelling.com • Share a story or just listen • 2nd Mon each month until Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Bring inside shoes and your own mug • Last round Jun 9 until Sep

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

Edmonton • Romantic melodrama. returning to the gold rush featuring the the McKenzie Brothers. A different show every night presented by the Die-Nasty troupe • May 29-31, 8pm • $20

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm, until Jun • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun, 2014

CREATIVE AGE FESTIVAL • creativeageedmonton. ca/fest-2014-scedule • Jun 3-8 • Timms Centre, U of A, 112 St-87 Ave: Seniors Theatre, showcasing seniors in theatre, music, dance, and literary arts, evening or afternoon performances or 55+ workshops; $10 (workshop/performance) at TIX on the Square •

Northgate Lions Seniors Recreation Centre, 7524-139 Ave: Creative Age Arts Café: Entertainment, art displays,

presented by North Edmonton Seniors Association; Jun 4, 1-2:30pm • Northgate Lions Seniors Recreation Centre: 7524-139 Ave, 780.496.6969: Creative Age Arts Café: Entertainment, art displays; Jun 4, 1-2:30pm • Churchill Retirement Residence, 10015-103 Ave: Rapid Fire Comedy Improv Workshop; Rapid Fire Theatre; Jun 5, 9:30am-12, 1-3:30pm; pre-register at 780.420.1222

• River Ridge Seniors Community, 78C McKenney Ave, St Albert: River Ridge Arts Café: STARTA Choir, poet

Shirley Serviss, Groovy Gang Choir; Jun 5, 1:30-2:45pm

• SAGE, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 102A Ave, 100 St, 780.423.5635: Festival Launch featuring Churchill

Singers, GeriActors and Friends Intergenerational Theatre and more; Jun 3, 2pm • Churchill Retirement Residence: Rapid Fire Comedy Improv full-day workshop; free (incl lunch); Jun 5, 9:30am-12pm; 1-3:30pm; preregister at 780.420.1222 • River Ridge Seniors Community: STARTA Choir, poet Shirley Serviss, Groovy Gang Choir and more; Jun 5, 1:30-2:45pm; 780.470.7180 • River Ridge Seniors Community: Photographic Memory: Using Pictures to Inspire your Writing with Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail; Jun 6, 9:30am12; 780.470.7180 • River Ridge Seniors Community: Multimedia 'Spring Pinwheel' Project with Carly Greene; Jun 6, 1-3:30pm; 780.470.7180 • Jun 5-8

GARE AUX PLUS DE TRENTE • La Cité francophone, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury, 91 St • L’UniThéâtre • By Céline Gareau-Brennan and Mélissa Masse • Jun 4-8

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 • Until Jun 8, 8pm • $22/$18 (student/Equity) at TIX on the Square HAIRSPRAY–THE BROADWAY MUSICAL • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Musical-comedy • It's 1962 in Baltimore. Tracy Turnblad, a big Teenaged girl with big hair and a big heart wants to dance on the popular Corny Collins Show • Until Jun 15 • Tickets at 780.483.4051 THE JAZZ MOTHER! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Teatro La Quindicina presents Stewart Lemoine’s 1930s comedy starring Jocelyn Ahlf, Mat Busby, and Kristi Hansen • May 29-Jun 14, Tue-Sat 7:30pm, Sat 2pm • $16-$30; Tue evening Pay-what you can

MAKE MINE LOVE • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Screwball Comedy • World Premiere by Tom Wood, directed by Bob Baker, starring Rebecca Northan, and John Ullyatt • Until Jun 1 • Tickets start at $35

NEXTFEST 2014 • Various venues on 124 St • theatrenetwork.ca • The Nextfest Arts Company presents 11 days with over 500 artists. Daring theatre, bold dance, audacious music, visual art, and film. The artistic voice of the next generation • Jun 5-15 • Opening event at the 124 Grand Market; Jun 5, 5pm LA NUIT, LA RAISON DORT • L’UniThéàtre, La Cité francophone, 8627-91 St, 780.469.8400 • L'UniThéâtre • Four young people meet in the midst of the madness in Athens; each of them fleeing their own humdrum reality in search of adventures, only to be trapped in a nightmare • Jun 5-14, 8pm; Jun 8, 2pm • Tickets avalaible at door, lunitheatre.ca

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he movie opens turning, the night's stars unstuck and blurring, the 45 of Wanda Jackson's "Funnel of Love" loping on the turntable, the twin images of our far-apart lovers reclining in their respective nests.

For some minutes, everything moves clockwise. (If only the screen were a circle!) It's an ingenious way of getting us thinking about time in broader terms. It also gets us literally into the groove of Jim Jarmusch's latest seriocomic cosmic concoction, a blend of genre mischief, thing/place/notion fetish, corny comedic routines, ruminations on time, science, civilization and technology, and the sort of normally neglected incidentals that Jarmusch has always aspired to construct movies from—few filmmakers so clearly enjoy just watching people do stuff: roll a cigarette, dance, play dominoes, select books to travel with. Only Lovers Left Alive is itself a trip, an appropriation of vampire lore as a way to address the nature of long-term love. It's been done before but, in my experience, never so resonantly and, despite a heavy-handed moment or two—the historical references get a little old—so lightly.

There comes a point in relationships where living apart emerges as a viable option. In the case of Eve (Tilda Swinton) and Adam (Tom Hiddleston) it may have taken a century or two. Only Lovers begins with Eve in Tangier and Adam in Detroit—an undead city if ever there was—where he

holes up in a dilapidated house mak- enough midpoint momentum to suping smouldering anonymous records port its loveliest, less urgent passages, he may or may not want people to the White Hills concert, or a wee-hour hear. She embraces life and moder- tour of the Motor City, complete with nity, he's a recluse despairing at the a visit to Jack White's house and the world's entropic idiocy, obsessively Michigan Theatre, a movie palaceaccumulating objects from the past— turned parking lot, on the site where though it's notable that only Eve can Henry Ford built the first car. (The carbon-date these objects with a mere building recently featured in Peter touch. Adam's gloom burgeons to the Mettler's The End of Time.)

What else? The revenant fashions degree where suicide becomes a consideration. Eve, sensing this—there is are to die for, the angular drones of some discussion of Jozef Van WisOpens Friday spooky action at a sem's score drape Directed by Jim Jarmusch distance—takes a scenery in aural chain of red eyes smoke, and the  to come meet him. typically eclectic But Eve's arrival is cast, which also infollowed by an unexpected visit from cludes Anton Yelchin, Jeffrey Wright her little sister Ava (Mia Wasikows- and John Hurt, accentuate the film's ka), also a vampire. For a time the supple tonal shifts. Eve is the anchor film becomes, of all things, a comedy in the central relationship, but Hidabout annoying in-laws who invade dleston is the anchor in the cast, emyour place, touch your stuff, put the bodying both the gravity and mirth moves on your buddies, and drink all generated by this film made by a mature artist who, I'd guess, is reflecting your blood. on his own experiences negotiating From Down By Law (1986) to Dead love over the long term. Only LovMan (1995), Jarmusch's films have al- ers is, in a sense, about the special ways transmitted ambivalence toward pleasures of revisiting what's known: narrative, something he seems to re- books, records, friends, lovers. Or the gard largely as scaffolding through work of beloved irreverent filmmakwhich he can weave digressions. Only ers who endeavour over time to keep Lovers has just about the friendliest finding new routes to explore, while balance of story and incident in any adhering to certain old ideas about of his later, woozier, formally looser what their art should be, regardless works. Ava's tempestuous entrance of changing fashions.

BRAUN and an eventual crisis involving dwin- JOSEF JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM dling blood supplies give the film

-Men: Days of Future Past is The break-out of Magneto is less a continuation of Mar- the movie's high-point, capped vel's mutant series than a sequel by a deliciously playful, slo-mo to the early '60s-set X-Men: First fast-guy sequence—to the tune Class, where distrust of homo sapi- of Jim Croce's '72 ditty "Time in ens superior nestled into American a Bottle"—featuring Quicksilver history, right at home among Cold (Evan Peters). There are other War paranoia. Here, the main story- deft touches, too: a Beast-ly alline in a time-travel tale sees Mag- lusion, in Paris, to Victor Hugo's neto's pro-war (against humans) Hunchback of Notre-Dame; bystance and Professor Xavier's pro- standers' Super 8 footage of mutant battles; mupeace position tants' ironic face off in the musings on time early '70s, just Now playing as "immutable" as the Vietnam Directed by Bryan Singer or not—if WolWar is about to  verine must go end. The period back to convince details and zeitgeist echoes—along with one bra- Xavier to be the man he is already vura sequence—make this another in Wolverine's future, is that an entertaining entry, though this re- argument for cosmic fate or for booted, revised and repopulated supremely human free will?

Of course, if all this seems rathfranchise is starting to see diminer silly and comic-book geeky, ishing returns.

Stuffed with mutants, particu- it is. But there's the paradox of larly in the framing storyline—set our sci-fi-, fantasy- and superin a near future time, all doomy hero- dominated movie-present and gloomy and pretty uninterest- (and serious Brit-thespians Pating, when adaptive robot Senti- rick Stewart and Ian McKellen, nels scour the globe, eradicating appearing in the doomy future super-humans—this blockbuster part, blur these genres here, their only really gets going when Wol- roles little different from their verine (Hugh Jackman) travels turns as Captain Picard or Ganback to Nixon's US to convince a dalf, respectively), which X-M: young Xavier (James McAvoy) and DFP freeze-frames perfectly. The Magneto (Michael Fassbender) to more specific, humorous, and huhelp him stop Mystique (Jennifer man the details, the faster time Lawrence) from killing the Senti- will pass in yet another story of nel-inventing Bolivar Trask (Peter a future human, non-human, or Dinklage). The murder would en- adamantium-clawed, self-healing, sure that his creations launch their cigar-smoking X-Man. BRIAN GIBSON mutant-genocide decades later.

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hom would you choose to Jurak points out there were so few tell the story of your cul- aboriginal filmmakers in the world, ture? Someone who has spent that all of them could have fit into their life in it or someone from the the Dreamspeakers office when the outside looking in? Chances are it festival began in 1993.

"It was empty. We had everybody would be the former, and Dreamspeakers Film Festival offers ab- in the world here at that time," Juoriginal filmmakers an opportunity rak says, adding that meant about five or six filmmakers as opposed to do just that.

"Aboriginal cultures have been to the hundreds of directors in the industry today. bent out of shape "People are makin the last 100 ing their own meyears and they're Until Sat, May 31 dia. It's the same coming back into Metro Cinema at the Garneau with you; it's the their own, so I dreamspeakers.org same with print think these films media.

Everycan show that ... we're becoming whole again," says one's getting involved, and that's Dreamspeakers vice president, a good thing. They're telling their Murray Jurak, noting the shift has own stories ... they're not just havstemmed from aboriginal people ing someone else tell the story. If embracing a newfound sense of they don't feel like their story's being done proper justice, they'll go pride in their culture.

"I remember when people would make their own, and that's a beautibe ashamed of who they were. They ful thing." wanted to be someone else, they wanted to be different, they want- The stories told through this year's ed to be mainstream. Now people film lineup don't focus solely on have no problem being aboriginal any particular group. Jurak lists off or Métis or Indian. There might be a few in particular, including Shouta little bit of stigma, but it's not the ing Secrets, a film examining the contrast between urban and rural way it was 30 years ago."

Not so long ago, there were very aboriginal people and the struggle few aboriginal filmmakers not only to fit into both worlds; The Human in Canada, but around the world, Zoo, a disturbing film about aborigwhich meant someone else took inal people in South America and the reins in telling their stories. even Inuit people from Canada who

were put into zoos in Europe; Hi-Ho Mistahey!, a local film with a message for youth that they can make a difference in society, no matter how impossible that may seem; Minerita, the story of women who risk their lives in the silver mines of Bolivia and must resort to carrying sticks of dynamite in order to defend themselves, as well as films such as Craters of the Moon, which features local members of the aboriginal film community, but does not necessarily tell an aboriginal story.

"Now we're seeing people branch out; we're not just saying, 'Well, I'm an Indian so I have to tell an Indian story," Jurak adds of films like Craters of the Moon. "I'm a filmmaker, I can tell a story whether it's about my culture or it's not about my culture. I'm a storyteller."

"We are an international film festival and it's always nice to have films from around the world, but it's always nice to have the local flavour," adds Dreamspeakers CEO Helen Calahasen. "Then we have an audience that comes out to see the actors from their hometowns or the people they know they want to see up on the big screen, so they come out and support that."

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ack and Jill. Grown Ups. Grown fect little middle-class homes and Ups 2. These aren't updated nurs- lead all-American lives (Lauren's ery rhymes or sex-ed films but the greatest trial is her youngest son's three blackest marks in just the struggles with baseball). There's past four years of Adam Sandler's some sophistication and even huwriting, acting morous characand producing cater development reer—attacks on Now playing early on, though, American com- Directed by Frank Coraci along with edy so terroriz-  some shrewd ing that his name plotting.

Still, should've long the schmaltz ago been redacted from people's builds—Jim's middle daughter is thoughts by the NSA for the sake Grief Girl, while his youngest is of the public good. Now comes made by the script to pose for so Blended, blessedly written by many cute kid moments that it borsomeone who's not Sandler—and ders on celluloid child abuse. And it's almost passable, even palatable the action steadily reverts to ret... until the movie throws in vagina- rograde Sandleresque schtick: titsize jokes. And passes off tomboys tering about extra-large tampons; as weird non-men. And goes to "Af- Jim's daughter needing to stop looking like a sporty tomboy so rica."

After a disastrous blind date, wid- she'll land the guy of her dreams. ower Jim (Sandler) and divorcée Lauren (Drew Barrymore) run into Then Jim and Lauren, via respeceach other again in the perfect lit- tive friends cancelling their vacatle town where they reside in per- tion to "Africa" (only noted, once,

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as actually South Africa), end up in a resort there—for "blended" families (interracial, May-December, or second-time-around couples with kids). For a resort ingeniously targeting a niche market, all its black staff are lazy or stupid or worse: a man falls asleep on the job or doesn't put enough gas in a jeep; another gets told by Jim to brush his teeth more. Alongside such racism is "Africa" as exotic themepark backdrop: safari animals; a pop-up all-male choir led by a buff commentator-on-the-action; tribal dancing as an excuse for the white tourists to show off their moves.

Forget basic sensitivity seminars or comedy re-training for Sandler, though—it would be enough to just send his next screen antics on a longer trip, much farther away.

His forthcoming feature should blend in perfectly with the void of deep space.

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s befits an artist-musician whose practice is rooted in the pursuit of glimpsing something elusive, pure and fundamental about the nature of things through spontaneous creation, Chad VanGaalen can be found, this May midmorning, at play. Or, more correctly, wingman to the play of others.

"It's right there ... I left your pony on the table," he's saying soothingly as he picks up the phone. "Sorry, I'm braiding a My Little Pony tail," he explains, drifting to a quieter part of the house once he's assured his daughters are in their own private Equestria.

"The current generation is my favourite generation," he says, given the choice of "vintage" Ponies. "They're just smarter. They're more empowered. It's all about the Friendship Magic." He has the distinctive GenX habit of peppering his speech with so much inflection, mimicry and dialectics with make-believe opponents that English becomes like a tonal language.

Besides Ponies, VanGaalen doesn't seem like he's much for the present.

His music, like his art, isn't pastiche.

It doesn't mine influences, but conveys a fusion of anachronistic and futuristic sensibilities, clarified and intensified by his private esthetic vocabulary, one that's remained remarkably consistent throughout his career, without stunting him. Features of psychedelia, noodling and droney, are present, with the suggestion of the third eye-transcendence of ragas and other circular contemplative sounds, sharpened by the primal urgency of no wave and punk, the expansiveness and discipline of art-rock, and synthetic plasticity of electronic music.

His songwriting, at its heart, is often

squarely in rock and folk traditions, even when striated with disruptive gashes of noise—vocal, mechanical, electronic. Sometimes the squall of noise is the point; objects can sing in his hands, and VanGaalen can use instruments almost catalytically, the way chemists use elements. Production is approached with parallel vigour, giving the music uncanny tactility and heightening its intimacy, and occasionally amplifying the feeling we're living in an estranged, fractured, accelerated, hyper-Babel, perennially five minutes from now, especially when his lyrics reach beyond his emotive sorrows and joys toward the cosmic; Neil Young's silver spaceships imminent instead of in a gauzy dream.

VanGaalen also doesn't seem like much for Friendship Is Magic, either.

Infiniheart, his arresting debut—with its big themes of love, death and beyond, and dystopic futuro-mythos— felt paranoid and alienated as well as fresh, beautiful and haunting, and established him in the public mind as an outsider artist, as did his apparent self-containment as a wunderkind who not only could write songs, produce records and draw cover art, but also make instruments from scratch. Truth is, he has many long, loyal friendships, a loving family and roots in the community—a community shaped by VanGaalen's alma mater, ACAD, the locus of the whole art-music-film-expression continuum in Calgary, churning out creative, inquisitive, reality-hungry artists in the heart of the Pipeline Cowboy Country, where kings of oil parade around affecting good ol' boy airs and gauche bling versions of fantasy frontier life.

"Yeah, I feel like I like it, though," he laughs. "I feel like I like living next to the demon. At least you got one eye on it. If it starts going too far south, I'll buy a couple shotguns and teach my girls how to do some real vigilante justice, you know? I feel like at least I'm kind of prepared and I kind of know what's going on."

Shrink Dust, his fifth full-length release (he's a completist's worst nightmare, prolific to the point of madness, and EPs, cassettes, bootlegs, side projects and random recordings abound), seems to be a counterpart to Infiniheart, the other side of its Möbius strip in the "figure eight, lying down," as he memorably characterized the infinity symbol, and miles apart from his previous record, 2011's Diaper Island.

"To me, Diaper Island was sort of like I'd cast myself out of all the things that I was thinking about at the time," VanGaalen says. "It was more or less just me complaining about my feeling extremely strange about living in such a weird infrastructure. Shrink Dust is more internal, sort of thoughts about, yeah, the same old stuff, life and death, and I would say it's more personal. There were a couple tracks on Diaper Island that could've been on this record, but for the most part it was the most angular, strippeddown rock 'n' roll thing I've done, and then this one is probably the quietest record I've ever done." He reconsiders: "I don't know. I never really know how to explain the records because, you know, two records came out after Diaper Island, that almost nobody CONTINUED ON PAGE 22 >>

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'm slowly being kicked out of the We're one functioning group." band," jokes Tanner Gordon, referring to the recent drop of his name The evolution from solo project to full-on band is largely a result of from the group's moniker.

The band he's referring to went three years spent developing a unithrough a few name modifications be- fied sound out of the range of influfore ultimately becoming the Unfortu- ences brought to the table by the nates. In 2009, Tanner Gordon (vocals), individual band members—there are classics like Neil Tim Plamondon (guiYoung and Bob tar) and Brendan Dylan, alternaUrban (drums) per- Fri, May 30 (9 pm) tive standards formed under the Starlite Room, $12 like Nirvana and stage name Tanner Weezer and pop Gordon. The addition of guitarist Bryce Thornton led to Tan- heroes like ABBA. But beyond even ner Gordon & the Unfortunates. And those are sounds drawn from the it was the development of the second depths of country and bluegrass.

Within Indie Films—the band's latfull-length album that eventually inest album and first under its updated spired the name drop.

"It didn't feel right to have my name name—is a strong presence of melopart of it anymore," Gordon says, "It's dies and harmonies inspired by the simple and neat. It sums up what we soundtrack of Plamondon's upbringing with country music. have become as a band."

All of that, coupled with the past "We're one cohesive unit now," Plamondon adds. "We're the Unfortu- three years of live gigs, has led the nates. It's not just a solo artist with members to mashing those influa bunch of accompanying musicians. ences up into the sound of the Unfortunates.

"Our influences are crazy diverse," Plamondon says. "We've all come together to create this weird—but unique—sound."

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ow does it feel to return home after a nearly 200-date tour run? A little like the woozy, land-sick sensation that comes after getting off a boat—at least that's how Jezabels lead singer Hayley Mary describes it.

"It's a great life, but it's not a balanced life. I think I have an understanding as to why musicians often turn to quite indulgent lifestyles and drugs and that kind of thing, because your normal, everyday life on tour is quite extreme and exciting," says Mary via phone from her home in Sydney, Australia, adding that none of the band has resorted to that. "Everyone else has their lives that are normal and your friends are working. They're not just there waiting for you when you get back. They're living their lives and you've got to fit into people's lives again. Being stationary, it's great because you get into a routine, but you also miss the road and the sense of purpose of travelling."

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than it is accepting the imbalance, Mary laughs. As with most things in life, being a musician has its ups and downs, but the Jezabels seem to be on an upswing as the band gears up to get on the road in support of The Brink, its electro-poprock follow-up to Prisoner, an album that, while equally as intense, embraced a sense of simplicity over the multi-layered, sonically intricate melodies hammered out on the band's debut.

"The way we wrote Prisoner was quite a studio album, getting soundscapes down in the studio, and half the songs were written as we recorded them, not beforehand. They were actually quite a struggle to learn how to play live and to replicate," Mary recalls. "I think we've worked it out now, but that took us a good few years and practice with them. It was quite a struggle so we thought, why not try primarily writing songs, like jamming them and rehearsing them and actually playing them live a few times before we record them rather than hoping we can replicate these crazy sounds that are actually impossible for three instrumentalists to recreate."

Mary feels both albums have their strengths—and weaknesses—but it's part of the learning experience that comes with being in a band. However,

the new approach did result in The Brink being more song-driven than conceptual sounding, as Prisoner was. The album also possesses a sense of optimism that Prisoner did not. The Brink was recorded in London and Mary recalls people groaning that the band was going to produce something very dark that reflected the contrast between the city and easy-going Sydney.

"I think the music got lighter as a kind of reaction because we did get into some low points," says Mary, adding the details aren't really hers to divulge, but the band struggled for a period and it became uncertain if it would be able to continue. "Then we all started thinking about life, as you do, and I think once we started writing again with our mental and physical health issues we just pushed through them and I feel like the music was a bit of therapy. The other thing is that London is a more cynical place than Australia ... as much as I'm quite a cynical Australian I feel like if I'm in the UK I kind of react against it because it's like, come on, guys, there's a sense of romanticism we need to keep alive and I feel like The Brink is a reaction to London. As much as I love London I do feel like it's a reaction to it rather than a London record."

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Our Endless War picks up where the band's self-titled fourth album left off, keeping the heavy riffs, fast drumming, tremolo picking and growled vocals, but diverging to explore an even darker realm by tinkering with different tunings.

"As we are getting older, our music and our sound are maturing, too.

We're focusing on making our music

more serious," Wade says about the album's darker sound. "Back in the day, we were just kids trying to be heavy and brutal. But now we can really care less about how brutal we sound. We're focused on writing good metal."

This perspective rings throughout the album with the band exploring different genres with punk-infused syncopated vocals, Arabic influences and the melodic grooves of popular music.

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cords have multiple genres on them, because I’m not really looking for, like, a common thread; it’s more like a feeling I get when I’m listening to the song that I don’t want, that’s like, ‘Yah, that sounds contrived,’ or, ‘I was working on that for weeks and it never worked out,’ although it might be, like, a better song structure or something. Really, what matters to me is sincerity, more than sonics or anything like that.”

His philosophical stance differs from both outsider artists and the “old-time sound” crowd.

“Sometimes people mistake it for ‘lofi for the sake of lo-fi’; they think that’s cool, but really, maybe I recorded that song on a pocket recorder, then I tried to record it three different ways on a bigger tape deck, and it never worked out, but I’m like, ‘Yeah, that’s the song,’ know what I mean?” he asks. “What happens in the moment is more important than what needs to happen in the future.”

Why? “It allows me to feel OK about why

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heard, Garbage Island I and Garbage Island II, basically sister records to Diaper Island.”

It’s been his habit to record companions for each release for years, because it’s impossible for him to seal off particular eras of creation.

“Maybe I’ll have narrowed it down to, like, 30 songs at that point, but usually when I’m cutting tracks out, I’m cutting ones that don’t seem that sincere. Maybe that’s the wrong word, but when I’m recording everything by myself and playing everything by myself, it’s really easy for those songs to start sounding pretty overworked and un-sincere. So, when I’m making the record and sequencing it, I’m really looking for songs that capture some sort of spontaneity or awkward moment, rather than just being like, ‘Oh! This’ll fit on the record ‘cause it’s another electronic number!’ That also has a lot to do with why the re-

Our Endless War is still very much a Whitechapel album with deathcore at its crux, but this time, some of the band's fastest songs sit alongside some of its slowest, making for what

Fri, May 30 (6 pm) With Devildriver, Carnifex, Revocation and more Union Hall, $30 Wade describes as the band's darkest album yet. "'Let Me Burn' is a song that Phil [Bozeman] and I put together," he explains. "It's really different from what we have done. It's definitely a lot darker than other songs. It's slower.

It's groovier. I like to tell people that it's our radio song in terms of the song's structure. It has that real radio kind of groove to it."

But the band's fanbase can rest assured that Whitechapel has not adopted jovial themes in their lyrics.

"It wouldn't sound right if we were chugging along and Phil [Bozeman] was writing lyrics about Jesus and puppies."

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I’m doing it,” VanGaalen says. “It’s also what I love about a lot of music. If you’re listening to a Vaselines record, it doesn’t sound like a mid’90s U2 record—and for a reason, and that’s why everybody loves it.

Wow, these songs are super-simple, the lyrics aren’t over-thought, it’s hitting on something primal, and I guess I want to feel that. I feel that’s something special. But it seems like that stuff is duly killed. And it’s also been worn through the ringer, too. There’s also people that are trying to emulate that or, on the other spectrum, there’s people like Wesley Willis or Daniel Johnston, people that are just kind of emitting that all the time, and it’s sort of being co-opted. I don’t really know how to explain that. I really don’t know how to think about it, but, you go out to a Wesley Willis show, and I feel like that’s a touchy subject in itself, but you need to pay respect, you know, really.”

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

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

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

JEFFREY’S Marco Claveria

SOU KAWAII ZEN Amplified

(Latin music); 9pm; $15

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

LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG Grave

new World L.B.’S Doug Bishop and the

Hurtin’ Horsemen NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy

SUITE 69 Release Your Inner

Arthur Ordge (country)

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

O’MAILLE’S A.J.; no cover

UNION HALL Ladies Night

ON THE ROCKS Rock ‘N’ Hops

every Fri

Kitchen Party: The Retrofitz, and DJs; 7pm

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Dueling Pianos with Erik Williams and Shane Young; 9pm-2am; no cover PAWN SHOP JFR (CD release, rock), One Day Late, Hearsay, the Wayne McLellan Band; 8pm; $10 (adv) RED PIANO Hottest dueling

piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT

Mike Letto SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

Stu Bendall SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

Tony Dizon SIDELINERS Potatohed; 9pm;

no cover

Fridays

ARTERY Motorbike James

(CD release, alt folk punk), Switches, Diamond Mind; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$13 (door) ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Duff

Robison “B” STREET BAR Rockin Big

Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon, 2-6pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair

BLIND PIG Live jam every

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

STARLITE ROOM Tupelo Honey, the Unfortunates, Death by Robot, Kings Foil; 9pm; no minors; $12

Sat; 3-7pm

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

BLUE CHAIR Afternoon:

every Fri

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat

UNITARIAN CHURCH OF EDMONTON Joy Spring Jazz: A World Tour with the Joy Spring Jazz Ensemble with Vince Waldon (bass), Nathan VandermolenPater (percussion); 7pm (door), 7:30pm (music); $20 (adv)/$25

afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Boogie Patrol

DV8 Hip Hop fundraiser for Alberta Bulldog Rescue EARLY STAGE–Stony Plain

Open Jam Nights; no cover EXPRESSIONZ Open Stage

hosted by Dr Oxide; 1st Thu each month, 7:30pm10:30pm J R BAR Live Jam Thu; 9pm FILTHY MCNASTY Push and

Pull, Revenge of the Trees; 8pm; no cover

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild

Life Thursdays UNION HALL 3 Four All

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

FRI MAY 30 APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE

Shawna Lynne ARTERY The Archers (folk

rock), Ghost Cousin, guests; 8pm; $8 (adv)/$12 (door)

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Celtic Spirit Night, An

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Duff

Evening of Music and Dance

Robison

JEFFREY’S Andrea Willson

AVENUE THEATRE Sub M

Trio (jazz and soul covers and originals); 8pm; $10 KELLY’S PUB Jameoke Night

Bass (CD release), the Body Pollitic, Elements, Knock, of ?? Design; all ages; $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

Whitechapel, Carnifex, Revocation, others; 6pm (door); $30

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

WUNDERBAR Good Friday Brawl Album Release with Sunspots and 3 Special Guests, The Nancees, Renny Wilson Punk Explosion, Chill City YARDBIRD SUITE Blues

from Edmonton: Joe Piccolo and Swing the Cat; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

Classical WINSPEAR The Golden Age of Film Music: Richard Kaufman (conductor); 8pm; $24- $89

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12

BOURBON ROOM Dueling

LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG Every Thu Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8pm-12am

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

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

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open

BRITTANY’S Jazz evening

CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK The

Enduros

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling

pianos at 8pm

music every Fri: This week: Rite; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

RICHARD’S PUB Blue

CASINO EDMONTON Nervous

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live

Thursdays (roots); hosted by Gord Matthews; 6:30-9pm

Flirts “Jameoke” Karaoke with a band; 9pm

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec

CHICAGO JOES Colossal

Flows: Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm2am; no cover THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh DRUID DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON Whiskey

Boyz (country rock); 9pm

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Opera

Emeralds (variety); 9pm CELLAR LOUNGE–Edmonton Petroleum Club The Edmonton

Jazz Festival Society: Audrey Ochoa Quartet, Sketches of Eternity; 8pm; $10/$5 (Student) at TIX on the Square

CHA ISLAND TEA CO The

Rhythm Group: Julia Nicholson (country pop), guests; 7:30pm; $10 (adv) DUGGAN’S Duane Allen DV8 Unbalanced, Anything Goes, Monarch Sky FILTHY MCNASTY’S Free

Presents Songs From the Front; 7:30pm KING OAK STUDIOS

Performance Matters Workshop featuring March Music; all ages; 10am; $78 (adv)

DUGGAN’S Duane Allen

with DJ Thomas Culture

LEGENDS Jam and open mic

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT

DV8 Disciples of Power,

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie,

HILLTOP PSophie and the Shufflehounds; 9pm; no cover J+H PUB Every Friday:

SET NIGHTCLUB NEW Fridays:

House and Electro with Peep

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

THE BOWER For Those Who

MERCER Homegrown Friday:

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

DJs

LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG Tomas

Emeralds (variety); 9pm

Stu Bendall

WINSPEAR The Golden Age of Film Music: Richard Kaufman (conductor); 8pm; $24- $89 Friday, May 30-31

‘s the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Evening: Vent

LEAF BAR Open Stage Sat–It

(jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

Baroque String Ensemble); 7:30pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (senior)/$10 (student) at TIX on the Square

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

L.B.’S Rule of Nines

Marsh

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

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

MORINVILLE CULTURAL CENTRE La Folia (Edmonton’s

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

Skully&The Hyppocrites, Kroovy Rookers

Let’s Sing Out: Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus, David Garber Artistic Director; 7:30pm; Adv: $15 (Adult)/$10 (st/sr)/ $5 (12 and under) at TIX on the Square; Door: $20 (adult)/$15 (st/sr)/$10 (12 and under)

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Trinity Players

with Nick Samoil and guests; 3-6pm MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH

Blue True Dream: Kokopelli Choir; $20 ($15 students) at tixonthesquare.ca/event/ detail/7445/

MAY/31 THE JEZEBELS JUN/4 CHAD VAN GAALEN W/ VIET CONG JUN/6 JONATHAN RICHMAN JUN/7 PURE PRIDE JUN/12 TIMBER TIMBRE JUN/13 GIRL: PRIDE 2014 JUN/18 BLITZEN TRAPPER JUN/19 AARON CARTER JUN/21 DUSKY JUN/22 CASHMERE CAT JUN/27 MAC DEMARCO JUN/28 UH HUH HER JUL/9 SHARON VAN ETTEN JUL/15 & 16 TYLER THE CREATOR

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

GAS PUMP Saturday

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

W/ SPECIAL GUESTS THE UNFORTUNATES (CD RELEASE), DEATH BY ROBOT & I AM MACHI

Nuova’s Vocal Arts Festival: Bernstein: Broadway and Beyond; 7:30-10pm; $18/$20 at Opera NUOVA Box Office, 780.487.4844

blue true dream: five of Kokopelli Choir Association’s six ensembles; 7pm; $20/$15 (student) at TIX on the Square, door

Afternoon Concerts: This week: Noisy Colours, Power Buddies; 4pm

HEAD OF THE HERD W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

TOOTH BLACKNER PRESENTS

- TIX ONSALE APR 4

THE UNION PRESENTS

JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

NIGHT VISION PRESENTS

UBK & NIGHT VISION PRESENT

MRG CONCERTS PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

THE UNION PRESENTS

W/ GUESTS

from Edmonton: Joe Piccolo and Swing the Cat; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

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

Mike Letto

EDMONTON Joy Spring Jazz: A World Tour with the Joy Spring Jazz Ensemble with Vince Waldon (bass), Nathan VandermolenPater (percussion); 7pm (door), 7:30pm (music); $20 (adv)/$25

YARDBIRD SUITE Blues

BLUES ON WHYTE Boogie

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

UNITARIAN CHURCH OF

Enduros

L.B.’S Thu open stage: the

NORTH GLENORA HALL

Arthur Ordge (country)

CAFFREY’S IN THE PARK The

Friday DJs on all three levels

THE BUCKINGHAM Axe and Smash, Dwight Chokem; no cover

NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy

UNION HALL Devildriver,

THE BOWER Strictly Goods:

NEW WEST HOTEL Jimmy Arthur Ordge (country)

Exciting Times Jazz Party: Hosted by Liam Creswick; 8pm; $10 (adv)

(door) at 780.232.3180, E: joyspringjazz@gmail.com

8:30pm; $12

every Fri after work; 5-8pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM

(door) at 780.232.3180, E: joyspringjazz@gmail.com

BLUE CHAIR Blue Chair Band;

stage; 8pm; all ages (15+)

BOURBON ROOM Live Music

Stu Bendall

every Sat Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

with the Nervous Flirts (singalong with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover

Patrol

Mike Letto

STARLITE ROOM The Jezabels, Gold and Youth; 8pm; $16-$19 at Unionevents.com

TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DT

Tony Dizon

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking

ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks:

Evans Sat Jam (rock): every Sat; 4-8pm

Wam Bam Thank you Jam: free chilli hosted by Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens; every Sat, 2-6pm

Grove DJ every Thu

Thursdays

RICHARD’S PUB The Terry

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

CHURCHILL SQUARE/

LEVEL 2 Funk Bunker

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U of A

CENTENNIAL PLAZA

7pm; no cover

Black Pestilence, Eye of Horus, Valyria; 8pm; $10 (adv)

of the Dog: All Mighty Voice (AMV) (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

World Music Brunch with D’Cana and Friends; 1-3pm; donations; Evening: Hot Super Hot; 8:30pm; $15

KRUSH ULTRA Open stage;

ON THE ROCKS The Retrofitz,

and DJs OVERTIME Sherwood Park

THE UNION PRESENTS

hhhh TUPELO HONEY hhhh

O’MAILLE’S A.J.; no cover

APEX CASINO–VEE LOUNGE

3 Inches of Blood, Mortillery, Fuquored, the Lucifer Project!

Back Thursdays; live music; 9pm

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

PAWN SHOP Villainizer (metal),

Shawna Lynne

MAY/29 MAY/30

O’BYRNE’S Live band every

SAT MAY 31

THE COMMON The Common Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

CypherWild: A community gathering: hip hop culture with live music, DJs, MCs, dancing, and art. Hosted by DJ Creeasian; every Thu, 6-9pm; if you cannot find programming as scheduled in the Square, look behind the Stanley A. Milner library in Centennial Plaza; every Thu, 6-9pm until end Sep, weather permitting

Abbottsfield Music Program in conjunction with Blurred Lenz and Pabst Blue Ribbon: The Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra (folk, R&B), George Ireland, Bardic Form; 8pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door)

Dueling Pianos with Amber Schneider and Erik Williams; 9pm-2am; no cover

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

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce

OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE

MAY/30 THE MIGHTY STEEDS MAY/31 LOS CALAVARES JUN/3 MY SISTER OCEAN BRIXX PRESENTS EACH TUESDAY OF JUNE PLAYING SILVERWAVE EP & NUCULARBOY

JUN/6 BLACKSTONE JUN/10 MY SISTER OCEAN

W/ GUESTS

PLAYING INDOCTRINATION EP & THE AUTOGRAPH EP

HOLLOW CD RELEASE JUN/13 HUNGRY W/ A HUNDRED YEARS, REND AND UPSIDEDOWNTOWN

JUN/17 MY SISTER OCEAN PLAYING “THE MONTH OF TUESDAY”

JUN/20 MUSIC COMES FIRST: A DNB PARTY JUN/24 MY SISTER OCEAN REBEL BASS ALLIANCE PRESENTS

PLAYING FUNCTION CONTROL OPTION COMMAND & MESSY CREATION EP

JUN/27 BISON JUN/28 S. CAREY UNION EVENTS PRESENTS

Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It’s Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm

VUEWEEKLY MAY 29 – JUNE 04, 2014

MUSIC 23

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:

Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

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

Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4

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

FLUID &B, hip hop and

DUGGAN’S Celtic Music

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick

dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm

Ryder (country)

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

LEVEL 2 Collective Saturdays

HOG’S DEN Rockin’ the Hog

underground: House and Techno

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

Nineties (rock), the Wet Secrets, Love Electric; 8pm; $13 (adv)

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG

PLEASANTVIEW HALL

Wong every Sat

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

PAWN SHOP Transmission

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

hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE Sat: global sound

and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SET NIGHTCLUB SET

Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous SOU KAWAII ZEN Your Famous Sat: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M 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

SUN JUN 1 ARTERY Paul Cournoyer (alt folk jazz), Mario LePage; 7pm; $12 (adv)/$14 (door) BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

NEWCASTLE PUB The

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

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

PLEASANTVIEW HALL

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

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

YARDBIRD SUITE Tue

Session: Charlie Austin Trio; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

ALL SAINTS’ CATHEDRAL

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

DJs

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Vocal Arts Festival: Music for Contemplation: An afternoon of sacred song: 3-5pm; $18/$20 at Opera NUOVA box office 780.487.4844,

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays:

A fantastic voyage through ‘60s and ‘70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm3am

MON JUN 2 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Shaw and the Wolfgang DUGGAN’S Mon singer-

Nisku Open mic every Sun

songwriter night: hosted by Sarah Smith; 8pm

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

SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro; every Tue, 8-11pm; This weeks band: 3D Country

Classical

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Opera Nuova’s

BLUES ON WHYTE Eddie

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

Legends of Broadway: Chita Rivera in Chita–A Legendary Celebration; 7:30pm MERCURY ROOM Music

Magic Monday Nights:

TUE JUN 3 ARTERY Treeline (country),

Shaela Miller, Swear by the Moon; 7:30pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door) BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

Big Dreamer Sound open jam with guest, hosted

by Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O’Brien; every Tue 8pm-12am (every jammer is entered into a draw for a day of free recording at Big Dreamer Sound Music Studio) BLUES ON WHYTE Eddie

Shaw and the Wolfgang June 2-4, Jun 5-8 DRUID Open Stage Tue;

9pm DV8 Band Jam L.B.’S Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR Tue Open Jam:

Trevor Mullen LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG Jam

hosted by Rockin’ Randy every Tue, 7-11pm MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Trick Ryder (country) O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

CHAD VANGAALEN

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 JUN 4 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES New Music Wed: Featured band hosted by Lochlin Cross and Leigh Friesen (open stage) after the bands set BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with

Doktor Erick every Wed;

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24 MUSIC

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every

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

Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm12am; no cover; relaxed dress code

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

Sirens: Pro Coro Canada Eastern Tour Homecoming concert; 2:30-4:30pm; $30 (adult)/$25 (senior/student) at Winspear box office, door

DUGGAN’S Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

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

with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE–

BLUE CHAIR Sun Brunch: PM Bossa; 9am-3pm; donations

(metal), Silence the Messenger, the Equinox, Break Beat; 8pm; $13 (adv)

ROUGE Open Mic Night

RICHARD’S PUB Sunday

UNION HALL Band of Skulls, guests; 8pm (door); $25 at livenation.com

PAWN SHOP Sworn Enemy

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

RED PIANO Every Tue: the

DJs

Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky

Open mic every Tue; 9pm2am; no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE Eddie Shaw and the Wolfgang

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

ON THE ROCKS Tanys Nixi, the Frolics, the Give ‘Em Hell Boys

Sun Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm

hosted by Tim Lovett

PAWN SHOP The Gay

9pm; Archaics, Diehatzu Hijets; free show; 9pm

VUEWEEKLY MAY 29 – JUNE 04, 2014

Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover NEW WEST HOTEL Trick

Ryder (country) OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover STARLITE ROOM Chad van

Gaalen, Viet Cong; 8pm (door); 8pm (door); $22.50 at Blackbyrd ZEN LOUNGE Jazz

Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical CONVOCATION HALL

Opera Nuova’s Vocal Arts Festival: Song Soirée: English Artsong; 7-9pm; $14/$16 at Opera NUOVA box office 780.487.4844

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

EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LiSTiNGS@VUeweeKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FridAY AT 3PM

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY •

Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul. ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Kevin McGrath; Jun 6-7

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 • Bob Marley; May 29-Jun 1 • Adam Hunter; Jun 4-8

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.710.2119 •

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

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave •

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

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic

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

RIVER CREE RESORT • The Venue • Don Burnstick • May 31, 6pm (door), 8pm (show) • $24.50 ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY • 10229-105 St • Craft Brewed Comedy: Starring from NYC MIke Dambra • May 30, 8:30-11pm • $10 (door)

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

• 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)

SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCES–HAVE YOU HAD ONE? • Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave,

780.490.1129 • eckankar.ab.ca • Find out what they mean and how to keep having them • Jun 8, 1-3pm • Free

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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave •

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

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) •

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

TOASTMASTERS • 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 • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:458:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98

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

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY

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

• Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood Rd • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm

EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-

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

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

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

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

THE GOOD HUNDRED EXPERIMENT • Models

of Change: Annual two day gathering of 100 Edmontonians involved in doing good work. This is a chance to interact with others who work on local food, arts, activism, local business, social enterprise, government, advocacy, indigenous rights, social justice, charity, funding, design, non-profit, alternative media and more • May 31, 10am-5pm; Jun 1, 10am-4pm • Apply through a nomination or application process thelocalgood.ca/the-good-hundred-experiment-2014/

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

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

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS CITIZEN SCIENCE: A GREENER WORLD WHERE SCIENCE GETS SOCIAL • ECHA L1-

490 (Edmonton Clinic Health Academy), 11405-87 Ave, U of A • Environmental scientists, Kamaljit Bawa and David Schindler talk about how science and communities are coming together to address environmental issues • Jun 10, 7-8:30pm • Free

CULTURAL CAFÉ • St. Albert Curling Club, 3

Tache St, 780.459.1692 • Panel discussion on creating and presenting Theatre for Young Audiences, with Marty Chan, Emil Sher, Compagnie les Voisins, and Lenard Stanga, hosted by Tracy Carroll • May 29, 4pm (door) • Free

EXPERIENCE • Allendale Hall, 6330-105A St •

Corporate control of public affairs through tactics such as public service cuts, deregulation, attacks on organized labor, “free” trade treaties, and other means is very real in Alberta and Canada.

Are there lessons for Canadians from the Latin America experience in our own struggle to retain democracy in our growing “petro-state • Jun 4, 7-9:30pm • Free

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83

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

QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave,

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

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St, 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION •

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

7207-28 Ave • Welcoming Olympian Clara Hughes to Edmonton • Jun 1, 2-4:30pm • Free

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to:

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

EDMONTON CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL • Expo

Centre, Northlands Park • Jun 6, 2:30-10pm; Jun 7, 12:30-9pm

FAMILY FUN DAY AT BIRCH BAY RANCH • Ziplines, rock climbing, pony rides, hay rides, BBQ • Jun 7 • $20 (car or family)/$10 (single); proceeds to sending kids to camp FOUNDER'S DAY AT RUTHRFORD HOUSE • Rutherford House, 11153-Saskatchewan Dr • Founder’s Day Tea: Celebrate the success of this year’s graduating class with a Rutherford family tradition. Celebrate the green and gold, enjoy refreshments, crafts and help to plant our new poppy gardens • Jun 1, 12-4pm • $4 (adult)/$3 (senior/youth)/$12 (family)

MARKETPLACE AT CALLINGWOOD • callingwoodmarketplace.com/events • 6655-178 St Courtyard • Super Magical Birthday Bash with beautiful Princesses and amazing Superheroes; Jun 14, 1-4pm • Bike Week at the Market: Bring your bicycles to the Callingwood Farmers’ Market, free tune-up for summer; Jun 8, 10am-3pm, Jun 11, 2-6pm MCC SUMMERFEST AND AUCTION • Millen-

nium Pl, 2000 Premier Way, Sherwood Park • mccreliefsale.com • Mennonite Central Committee's fundraiser for world relief and peace projects. Live and silent auctions, ethnic food booths, kids activities • Jun 6-7; Jun 6: beef supper (5-7pm)

MINCA • Windsor Park Hall, 11840-87 Ave •

minkhasweaters.com • Women's knitting cooperative (Bolivia) hand knit shawls, hats, vests, children’s and adult sweaters, scarves; pima cotton and alpaca • Jun 14, 9am-3pm • Proceeds to knitters

OLIVER COMMUNITY FESTIVAL • Christ Church Anglican, Robertson-Wesley United, Oliver Community League and, 124 Street Business Association • Jun 7, 10-3pm

OVER THE RAINBOW GROUP STRAWBERRY TEA • SAGE, Seniors Association of Greater Ed-

monton, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Gay seniors annual strawberry tea,10 year anniversary featuring three entertaining guests • Jun 12, 1-3:30pm • Free; donations accepted

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INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN’S FESTIVAL •

Arden Theatre, and other venues downtown, St Albert • Until May 31 • Tickets at TicketMaster

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ruweek.com • Commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the Komagata Maru episode when Canada turned away 376 migrants of South Asian origin aboard a Japanese steamship in Vancouver’s Burrard Inlet • Until May 31 • Arts Barns, PCL Theatre, 10330-84 Ave: Spoken word poetry by local poets on themes of race, discrimination, and multiculturalism in Canada; May 29, 6-10pm • Maharaja Banquet Hall, 9257-34A Ave: Lecture by Sadhu Binning (author and poet), in Punjabi; May 30, 5:30-8:30pm • U of A Li Ka Shing Centre: 112 St-87 Ave: Panel: discussing the relevance of historical events such as Komagata Maru to today’s

RUBBER BOOTS AND BOW TIE GARDEN PARTY • Alberta Avenue Community Centre Com-

munity Garden, 9210-118 Ave • albertaave.org/ bloomin-garden • Sculpture garden by members of the Sculptors' Association of Alberta, artworks by local artists, music by Dale Ladouceur and Brett Miles, and appetizers and wine tasting • May 30, 7:30pm • $20 at TIX on the Square; proceeds support the Alberta Avenue Community League Bloomin Garden Show, the Sculptors’ Association and local artists • BLOOMiN GArdeN SHOw & ArT SALe: Plants, artisan gifts, compost sale, activities, raffle. Showing the film, Permaculture: The Growing Edge, at 10am followed by Q&A with the Edmonton Permaculture Guild. Talk on fruit growing by horticulturalist, Thean Pheh, at 2pm. Ask a Master Gardener, all day. Perennial, seed swap, and garden book/magazine exchange. Breakfast and lunch, live music; May 31, 10am-4pm

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Park • walktofightarthritis.ca • Fundraiser for arthritis presented by the Running Room, 1km and 5km routes • Jun 8, Registration: 9am Walk: 10am

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MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

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

OUTLOUD–LGBT YOUTH GROUP • St Paul's

Funded in part by the Government of Canada.

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

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WOMONSPACE, 780.482.1794 • womonspace.

DR OZ COMES TO EDMONTON • Rexall Place

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

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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

• Fort Edmonton fundraiser for the building of the Windsor/Albion commercial building • Jun 5 • Tickets start at $79; proceeds after costs to developing of this project

CLARA’S BIG RIDE • Mill Woods Rec Centre,

livingpositive.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

PRIDE CENTRE • 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; 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 • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com

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SPECIAL EVENTS

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edm-

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

FIREBRAND ATHEISM • Tory Lecture Theatre L-12 U of A • David Silverman, President American Atheists, will be giving a talk on Firebrand Atheism. Presented by the Society of Edmonton Atheists and the U of A's Atheists and Agnostics • May 28, 7-9pm • $20/$10 (SEA/UAAA member) at eventbrite.ca/e/david-silverman-firebrandatheism-tickets-11563096533

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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:

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.

Whyte Ave. Artwalk VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! If you are interested in meeting & supporting the local arts community take the opportunity to help out with the festival this year!

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

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

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Call For The Gotta Minute Film Festival: Edmonton Here’s a project to make those train station TVs a little more interesting. The Gotta Minute Film Festival in Edmonton is calling for minute long silent films to air over these screens between September 15th-21st.

Cash and awards will be given to selected films. Submission due date is July 15th for Canadians and June 15th for International applicants. http://gottaminutefilmfestival.com/

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.

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

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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

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Deadline: June 13, 2014 Intersite Visual Arts Festival (IVAF) actively engages an unsuspecting public and advocates for contemporary art practices through the decentralized presentation of exhibitions, happenings, and performances outside of the traditional gallery setting.

For Intersite 2014, occurring from September 5 to 7 2014, we are interested in alternative ways of conveying discourse and encouraging conversation.

Looking for individuals who want to experiment with the format of “a lecture,” finding unconventional methods or environments for delivering informed opinions and innovating within this academic structure. From street corner soap-boxes and institutional infiltrations to secret papers and Skype sermons, all proposals are welcomed.

Send completed submission packages to: ATTN: Programming Committee

intersitevisualartsfestival@gmail. com

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

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The City of Lacombe requires an artist is to create a low maintenance, hardy, weather resistant, permanent threedimensional artwork that integrates a water feature (fountain, spray, burbler, or aeration system).

Budget:22,500 CAD Eligibility:All Canadian Visual Artists Completion:2014 Deadline for Submissions: May 30, 2014, Noon For more information contact the City of Lacombe’s Recreation & Culture Manager, Sandi Stewart at 403.782.1266 or sstewart@lacombe.ca 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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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 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

www.facebook.com/intuitcreations

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

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

Submission Guidelines can be downloaded at:

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

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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

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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

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Musicians Available

Veteran blues drummer available . Influences include BB King, Freddie King, etc.

780-462-6291

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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”.

3100. Appliances/Furniture Old Appliance Removal Removal of unwanted appliances. Must be outside or in your garage.

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

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

8733-53 Ave NW, Edmonton, AB T6E 5E9 www.rivercitymotors.ca

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Psychics

Intuitive readings: Oracle cards, crystals and chakra readings.

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

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TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Some earthquakes happen in slow motion. These rare events occur 22 to 34 miles down, where tectonic plates are hotter and gooier.

Unlike the sudden, shocking jolts of typical temblors, this gradual variety can take many days to uncoil and never send dishes flying off shelves up here on the Earth's surface. I suspect your destiny will have a resemblance to this phenomenon in the coming months, Taurus. Your foundations will be rustling and rumbling, but they will do so slowly and gently. The release of energy will ultimately be quite massive. The realignment of deep structures will be epic. But there will be no big disturbances or damages.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): I suspect that some night soon you will have a dream of being naked as you stand on stage in front of a big audience. Or maybe not completely naked. There's a strong possibility you will be wearing pink and green striped socks and a gold crown. And it gets worse.

In your dream, I bet you will forget what you were going to say to the expectant crowd. Your mouth will be moving but no words will come out. So that's the bad news, Gemini. The good news is that since I have forewarned you, you can now do whatever is necessary to prevent anything resembling this dream from actually occurring in your waking life. So when you are called on to show what you've got and make a splashy impression, you will be well prepared.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): When I slip into a meditative state and seek insight about your future, I have a reverie about a hearty sapling growing out of a fallen tree that's rotting on the forest floor. I see exuberant mushrooms sprouting from a cow pie in a pasture. I imagine compost nourishing a watermelon patch. So what do my visions mean? I'm guessing you're going through a phase of metaphorical death and decay.

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): "Dear Diary: almost everything that was possible to change has changed these past 12 months. I am not kidding and I am not exaggerating.

Getting just one of my certainties destroyed would have been acceptable; I long ago became accustomed to the gradual chipchip-chipping away of my secure foundations. But this most recent phase, when even my pretty illusions of stability got smashed, truly set a record. So then why am I still standing strong and proud?

Why is it I'm not cowering in the corner muttering to the spiders?

Have I somehow found some new source of power that was never available to me until my defences were totally stripped away? I think I'll go with that theory."

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "Longing, what is that? Desire, what is that?" Those are questions Louise Glück asks in her poem Prism. Does she really not know? Has she somehow become innocent again, free from all her memories of what longing and desire have meant to her in the past? That's what I wish for you right now, Sagittarius. Can you do it? Can you enter into beginner's mind and feel your longing and desire as if they were brand-new, just born, as fresh and primal as they were at the moment you fell in love for the first time? If you can manage it, you will bestow upon yourself a big blessing.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): About 32 000 years ago, squirrels in northeast Siberia buried the fruits of a flowering plant deep in their burrows, below the level of the permafrost. Then a flood swept through the area. The water froze and permanently sealed the fruits in a layer of ice. They remained preserved there until 2007, when they were excavated. A team of scientists got a hold of them and coaxed them to grow into viable plants. Their success has a metaphorical resemblance to a project you will be capable of pulling off during the next 12 months, Virgo.

I'm not sure what exact form it will take. A resuscitation? A resurrection? A recovery? The revival of a dormant dream? The thawing of a frozen asset or the return of a lost resource?

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): You could really benefit from engaging with a compassionate critic—someone who would gently and lovingly invite you to curb your excesses, heal your ignorance and correct your mistakes.

Would you consider going out in search of a kick-ass guide like that? Ideally, this person would also motivate you to build up your strengths and inspire you to take better care of your body.

One way or another, Capricorn, curative feedback will be coming your way. The question is, will you have a hand in choosing it, or will you wait around passively for fate to deliver it? I highly recommend the former.

LIBRA (Sept 23 – Oct 22): For German physicist Arnold Sommerfeld, the good news was that he was nominated for the Nobel Prize 81 times. The bad news is that he never actually won. Actor Richard Burton had a similar fate.

He was nominated for an Academy Award seven times, but never took home an Oscar. If there is anything that even vaguely resembles that pattern in your own life, Libra, the next 12 months will be the most favourable time ever to break the spell. In the next few weeks, you may get a glimpse of how it will unfold.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Now would be an excellent time for you to dream up five new ways to have fun. I'm not suggesting there's anything wrong with your existing methods. It's just that in the next few weeks, life will conspire to help you drop some of your inhibitions and play around more than usual and experience greater pleasure. The best way to cooperate with that conspiracy is to be an explorer on the frontiers of amusement and enchantment. What's the most exciting thing you have always wondered about but never done? What interesting experiment have you denied yourself for no good reason? What excursion or adventure would light up your spontaneity?

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "I should have kissed you longer."

I hope you won't be replaying that thought over and over again in your imagination three weeks from now. I hope you won't be obsessing on similar mantras, either, like "I should have treated you better" or "I wish I would have listened to you deeper" or "I should have tried harder to be my best self with you." Please don't let any of that happen, Scorpio. I am begging you to act now to make any necessary changes in yourself so that you will be fully ready to give the important people in your life the care they deserve. If you do so,

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Now is an excellent time to transform your relationship with your past.

Are you up for a concentrated burst of psychospiritual work? To get the party started, meditate your ass off as you ponder this question: "What fossilized fixations, ancient insults, impossible dreams and parasitic ghosts am I ready to let go of?" Next, move on to this inquiry: "What can I do to ensure that relaxed, amused acceptance will rule my encounters with the old ways forever after?" Here's a third query: "What will I do with all the energy I free up by releasing the deadweight I had been clinging to?” V

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BIG ISSUES

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I'm a 25-year-old straight guy. seems He gave you an amazing Quid Pro Quo Last month, I was in the locker- superpower. I wouldn't question it room at my gym. It was 4 am and too much, lest the Lord peg you What I'm about to propose may I was the only one around. I was for an ingrate and taketh away. seem elaborate, QPQ, but bear getting ready to leave, when I nothis in mind while you read my ticed someone exiting the show- MOM, I'M GAY advice: marijuana is legal where I ers. He kinda caught me looking I'm a 25-year-old lesbian and I live live. (he was very well-endowed) and with my partner of two years. My Take the average number of I quickly turned my head, embar- family is coming to visit from Tex- times you two have sex in any rassed. About 20 seconds later, he as, where they are part of a hyper- given month and divide that numcame around the corner and said, conservative church. I'm not out to ber in half, then divide it in half "Hey, how ya doin'?" He was still my mom. While I want this to be again. You each get a stack of red naked and it was obvious that he a happy occasion, I'm not willing poker chips equal to whatever was wondering if I wanted to try to hide who I am in my own home. the third number is plus one blue something. (Trust me—he was My sister owes me one from when poker chip. So let's say you guys about 10 or 11 inches now!) I didn't I told our mom—at her request— have sex 12 times a month on avknow what to think, so I just got that she was pregnant because she erage. Half of 12 is six, half of six is the hell out of three—you each there as fast as get four chips: If she's rude to you in your own home, kick her I could. I've nevthree red, one ass out. You're a grown woman and it's time to er been with a blue. (You still guy before, but with me? Good. stop being scared of mommy. for the past few Man, I could use weeks, I can't some chips right stop thinking now myself.) about it. I kinda You keep your wish I hadn't left so fast. I guess feared her reaction. I'm considering chips on your nightstand and your I'm really turned on by the size and asking my sister to out me to my boyfriend keeps his chips on his. curious about maybe trying oral? mom so that maybe she'll be done On nights when you want to top That's all I'm curious about try- screaming and yelling by the time your boyfriend, you hand him one ing, nothing else. I am way more she arrives. I know this is chicken- of your red chips. On nights when attracted to girls than guys, but I shit, but I also can't bring myself he wants you to be submissive, he can't shake these thoughts. to come out to her. I've tried before hands you one of his red chips.

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Irrational Diatribes Likewise, you can veto one of his Look, PATDS, you're clearly straight enough to continue iden- My advice for you is the same as red chips by surrendering one of tifying as straight. But as you my advice for all queer kids with yours. When a veto is played, you learned in that locker-room, to get crazy, hyper-conservative parents: default to the sex you have most yourself to straight (or to remain don't fear their rejection—make of the time, ie, your "regular" sexat straight), you have to round them fear yours. Tell your mom ual routine (which seems to enyourself down the tiniest bit. (Or you're queer, AFRAID, and then tail you bottoming for him as his round yourself up the tiniest bit. tell her that you won't speak to equal) and the chip used to veto is Up, down—depends on how you her or see her if she can't treat forfeit. You each have to use your feel about straight.) But you are you and your partner with respect. three red chips in one calendar now consciously aware that you're Remember: the only leverage an month—an unused chip doesn't more than a little curious about adult child has over her parents is carry over to the next month.

Basically, QPQ, you have three dick, and given the right circum- her presence. If your mom treats stances (oral-only circumstances) you like shit, absent yourself. chances per month to top him, and and the right dick (great big dick), If she's rude to you in your own he has three chances per month to home, kick her ass out. You're a dominate you. If he wants to deny you could hit/suck/stroke that.

Since that giant 4 am dick wasn't grown woman and it's time to stop you one of your chances to top him, he loses one of his chances your last chance at dick, PATDS, being scared of mommy. to dominate you. You don't have you didn't miss your only opporto be submissive when you're not tunity to explore your bisexual/ PLAYING THE CHIPS heteroflexible/man-on-man de- My boyfriend and I have been to- feeling it, and he doesn't have to sires. There are other giant dicks gether for four years and we have bottom when he's not feeling it. out there. Hell, you might get a great relationship. In the bed- But if you never agree to submit— another chance at that particular room, I am generally the bottom if you veto all of his requests— dick. The next time an opportu- but I play an equal role during you never get to top him. If he nity presents itself—whether you sex—neither dominant nor sub- never agrees to bottom, then he leave that opportunity to chance missive—and in general, we have never gets to dominate you. And (another encounter with Mr Ten great sex. But both of us have what's the blue chip for? It's a or Eleven Inches Now) or create things that we like to do that the "free veto," a chip you can sacriyour own opportunities (taking other is not a big fan of. I enjoy fice without giving up one of your out a few NSA sex ads)—put your being the bottom, but I like to top chances to fuck or dominate the very limited interests (oral only) as well. My partner, who does not other. and even more limited experience particularly enjoy bottoming, is So there you go! With the help (none whatsoever) on the table turned on by the idea of the oth- of legal marijuana, I've turned and let the dude decide if he's in er person being submissive. Both your compromise into a sexy (your mouth). of us are GGG and willing to ex- game. Have fun! plore these things together. But is BUM COME it OK to put limits on how often On the Lovecast: premature ejacI can orgasm without stimulat- this happens? (Me submitting to ulation—what can be done? At ing my clitoris—but only through him, him bottoming for me?) What savagelovecast.com. V about striking a deal where each anal sex. What gives? person gives a little? How do we @fakedansavage on Twitter A Nosy Admiring Lass compromise, keep it fun and keep

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