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"Tommy has been kept in captivity.

He's in a cage, in a shed."

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"Traditional-style names exist for a reason; they offer a guidepost to what to expect and are a link to history and region."

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"Shooting his gun at unsuspecting minions is truly an amazing, hilariously intense thrill ride."

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"It's just probably an offshoot of comedy. Trying to knock down these morons that are in my movies."

"It never officially ended. We've talked about having a funeral show but it hasn't happened yet."

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The birth tourists Ripping rights away from babies born on Canadian soil is another Conservative plan to keep our country "safe" from the threat of immigrants and refugees. The secret immigration recommendations report from 2013 that has recently become public uses a scare tactic that singles out birth tourists as a third-world risk that are arriving in droves and abusing the Canadian system.

Brought into question are Nigerian women who have been coming to Toronto to give birth. How many and how often? The Cons aren't too sure on the data, but anecdotally they've heard it's happening quite a bit and they're not happy about it. The best estimate they can give is 500 of the 360 000 births every year are not from Canadian citizens or permanent residents—that's less than one percent.

Two major points here: first, should we really be creating new laws based on anecdotal evidence? I'd prefer our government to rely on facts, but let's be honest here, they don't have a great track record of doing that. Second, what is the actual threat?

There's no denying that some women from poverty-stricken countries are pulling their resources together to ensure their child is born a Canadian citizen, with all of the social benefits that come along with that. And yes, that child will have the opportunity to sponsor their parents to come to Canada at the age of 18. But we're not so overpopulated that allowing new people into our country is going to destroy the system. Do you know many immigrants who don't try hard when they come to Canada or end up begging on the street? It's xenophobia that makes us look at others with contempt and distrust. But each person who comes to Canada is just like natural-born Canadians in that they want to establish a good life for themselves and their children.

Birth tourism is not the huge scandal the Conservatives want us to believe it is. Making 500 children every year stateless seems like a bigger crime than giving birth on Canadian soil. V

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RICARDO ACUÑA // RICARDO@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Air quality report demands action Alberta government sat on data detailing industrial pollution for 18 months In 2012, as part of the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan, the Alberta government set maximum limits for air pollution in the province's bitumen sands areas, and also a number of triggers which, when surpassed, would result in immediate action by the government to bring the pollution levels back under control. This was all part of the Alberta government's efforts to appear to be environmentally conscious and proactive in terms of impacts of the oil industry on human health and the environment.

Last week, the government issued its first report on air quality in the region. In particular, the reporting looked at the levels of nitrogen dioxide and sulfur dioxide as measured at various monitoring stations, mostly between Fort McMurray and Fort McKay. The LARP uses a scale of one to four to assess pollution limits and triggers, with level four being the legal limit for pollution, and levels two and three each representing escalating triggers for action by the government.

The long and short of the province's report is that a number of the monitoring sites reported pollution at levels two and three on the scale. The report is based on the monitoring data for the year 2012, which means it would have all been available as of January 2013.

While it's laudable of the provincial government to have released these reports

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publicly, what is concerning is that they've had their hands on this data for 18 months and appear to have taken absolutely no concrete action to reduce pollution levels.

Their only action in response to those triggers, as of the release of the report, has been to ascertain that the high levels of NO2 and SO2 were not caused by forest fires or other natural events. Beyond that, the only thing the government has done has been to order more investigation into the source of the increased pollution, to be followed by more reporting, followed by conversations with industry, and then, possibly, some corrective action to reduce pollution.

Despite the fact that it has been established that 90 percent of the SO2 emissions are caused by massive upgraders and that two-thirds of the monitoring stations reporting high levels were near bitumensands facilities, Alberta's minister of environment Robin Campbell has so far refused to draw a link between the industry and the high levels of pollution. Campbell's only response has been to insist that more investigation is needed to pinpoint the source of the pollution and to assert repeatedly that the system is working because we were able to identify the problems before the legal limit for human health was reached.

The problem with that assertion is that the level-four limit is based on Alberta's Ambient Air Quality Objectives—a flawed measurement which balances the concern for human health with an evaluation of "economic factors." In other words, damage to human health and the environment may actually occur at pollution levels below level four when the economic needs of the industry are not taken into consideration.

As such, it is completely unacceptable for the government to have now sat on this data for 18 months without taking a single step to reduce industrial pollution. This is especially the case given the expected growth and expansion projected for the industry over the course of the coming months and years. If we were already hitting levels two and three in the first year of reporting in a time of growth, it is almost a certainty that we will surpass level four by the time the government decides to start taking real action. And by that time, the environment, the health of Albertans and Alberta's reputation will already be paying too large a price. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

GWYNNE DYER // GWYNNE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

The United States of Tatooine Naming the stars and planets can't follow the methods of the past "Tatooine" is, you will surely agree, a pretty stupid name for a planet, but there are so many Star Wars fans that some unfortunate world is bound to end up being called exactly that. Let's just hope that its inhabitants, if there are any, never find out. On the whole, though, giving more user-friendly names to newly found planets orbiting other stars is a good idea.

There is, for example, a potentially habitable "exoplanet" only 16-light-years from here that is currently known only as Gliese 832c. As any real estate agent could tell you, it would attract a lot more attention if you renamed it "Nirvana."

zations can propose names for the planets and their host stars (only one planet per group), and in March the general public can rank the proposals in an online vote. They're expecting more than a million votes.

The winning names will be announced at the IAU General Assembly in Honolulu a year from now—and Tatooine will certainly be one of the winners, provided that George Lucas gives his permission. (There might be a copyright issue.)

But Vulcan will not be one of the names (sorry, Trekkies) because he was a Roman god, and names of religious figures aren't allowed.

Gliese 832 was named in a list of 3803 "nearby" stars (up to 72-light-years away) first published by Wilhelm Gliese in 1957, and updated several times since. The "c" was added when Gliese 832 was discovered to have planets two months ago. All very sensible and orderly, but not very romantic. So the International Astronomical Union called in the consultants and the result was (pause for trumpet flourish) a competition!!

The NameExoWorlds contest, announced last year, will give the global public an opportunity to give more exciting or at least more memorable names to about 300 planets circling other stars. Starting next month, a site will open on which astronomy clubs and other non-profit organizations can register with the IAU, and in October they will be asked to pick 25 or 30 of these planets for the first round of naming.

Starting in December, these clubs and organi-

The IAU's naming rules are the most interesting part of the exercise. Names may not be longer than 16 characters, they should only be one word, and they must be pronounceable in some known language (though not necessarily yours). They shouldn't be rude, they must not be of a commercial nature and the names of pets are not acceptable.

Most importantly, they cannot be the names of living individuals, nor the names of individuals, places or events principally known for political, military or religious activities. Which would have caused a lot of problems if the rule had already been in force during the last big round of naming places.

Imagine that the IAU's rule had been in force in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries, when European sailors and settlers were sprinkling names on all the "new lands" in the Americas and Australasia. No New England, no Melbourne and

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certainly no El Salvador. No Sao Paulo, no Los Angeles and no Sydney.

Waterloo in Canada will have to go, as will Washington (both the city and the state) in the United States, and they'll have to do something about Bolivia too. But the biggest problem will be what to do about the Americas: two entire continents called after an individual who was still alive when they were named.

Amerigo Vespucci, originally from Florence, moved to Spain in 1492 and subsequently became involved in organizing various voyages of exploration to the "New World" for the kings of both Spain and Portugal. In 1507 he was credited by the German geographer Martin Waldseemüller with discovering that these lands were not part of Asia, as Columbus had originally believed, but a huge separate land mass between Europe and Asia.

On his world map of that same year, therefore, Waldseemüller named that land mass "America," after the Latin version (Americus) of Vespucci's first name. But Amerigo Vespucci was still alive—he didn't die until 1512. The name caught on, as it happened, but Waldseemüller broke the IAU rules.

It's never too late to fix a mistake, but what shall we call the place instead? I know. How about the continents of North Tatooine and South Tatooine? And, of course, the United States of Tatooine. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

NEWS // ANIMAL RIGHTS

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he idea of acknowledging an animal as a person puts some people off, because many believe that "person" and "human" are synonymous. But a person is a being of which humans are one type. The Nonhuman Rights Project filed a lawsuit in December demanding the right of four captive chimpanzees in New York state to have bodily liberty and to be moved to a primate sanctuary. The NhRP no longer wants chimps to be kept as pets or used for entertainment, but the idea of animal personhood is a challenging one for many to accept.

The group is representing Tommy, Hercules, Leo and Kiko before the New York Appellate Courts.

Nicholas Wright, executive director of Animal Justice Canada, explains what protections animals now have.

"Existing animal protecThe NhRP is tion laws treat anichimpanzee mals as property, and have not kept pace with increased understanding of and changing attitudes about nonhuman animals and the traits that they share with humans," he says. "Despite a widely

animals from poor treatment and directly stating that an animal has a right to certain treatment standards. The NhRP is not trying to make it illegal to own a chimpannot trying to make it illegal to own a zee in New York state— in New York state—they're trying to they're trying make it slavery. to make it slavery. They are trying to prove that harmful animal practices that are Tommy is an auconsidered necessary or standard tonomous person—having the abilindustry practice remain in place." ity to exist independently of human There's a difference between intervention. providing legislation that protects The legal route to personhood the held belief that animals deserve legal protections that reflect the fact that animals can suffer like we do, broad legal exemptions for

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NhRP is proposing requires autonomy and an extremely high cognitive display that very few animals illustrate. It isn't the capacity for suffering, but the capacity for intelligence, which is the benchmark of becoming a plaintiff.

"At the moment, no nonhuman animal has any legal rights," NhRP executive director Natalie Prosin says. "Our current goal is to make sure at least autonomous nonhuman animals have legal rights.

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person, so it failed to be ready to prove that an orca is a 'person.'

Worse, it actually opposed our legal arguments that an orca is indeed a 'person,' thus creating a roadblock that we will have to overcome in the future."

of law. Judges, to some important extent, have deemed autonomy as an important qualifier in terms of granting a living being rights."

PETA agrees with this approach.

"We think it's great," Ashley By- Lori Marino, PhD and lecturer of and behavioural birne, spokesperson for PETA says. neuroscience (Province Wide) ology at Emory University, "Of course all species Iron have Filters •the Softeners • Distillers • Reverse Osmosis is the Tellfor themsuffering.

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say legal person, we mean human.

We don't mean human. The other is this idea that somehow the NhRP is biased towards certain animals, that we have a bias for the animals who are the most like us."

"The NhRP doesn't necessarily believe that a chimpanzee, or an orca, have any more right to personhood than your pet labradoodle," Wise says. "I would support just about any proposal to grant legal rights to animals."

Regarding zoos, Prosin says the group is not looking to make philosophical judgments, "But we do know that some animals, like elephants, do poorly in zoos."

She says the NhRP's next plaintiffs will likely be a pair of elephants. "They roam hundreds of miles. There is just no zoo that could possibly meet the requirements to give an elephant the space it needs to be an elephant."

But right now, the focus is on Tommy and the other chimpanzees. And if the NhRP wins, Tommy will be a person.

"Tommy has been kept in captivity. He's in a cage, in a shed. Because of this it won't be possible to release him back into the wild."

Prosin says. "For the four chimpanzees we're representing, the next best way to grant them bodily liberty would be to put them in the closest place to their natural habitat."

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She is talking about any number of North American Primate Sanctuary Alliance (NAPSA) members that have agreed to take the chimpanzees. "This way Tommy could practically choose what he would like to do with his time."

There's a problem, though. If Tommy is given his freedom as a right, it will be a right in New York State only. Moving him out of state to a sanctuary will effectively strip him of his new and hard fought personhood.

"All of the sanctuaries we're working with are NAPSA members and these sanctuaries have the chimpanzee's best interests at heart. They will respect and honour Tommy's rights," Prosin says.

If humankind is looking to mend our broken relationship with the rest of the natural world, we have to be willing to be more inclusive of the rest of the animals on this planet. The work of the NhRP could be a signal that things are changing for primate researchers.

The precedent set by Tommy's case could mean big changes are coming for animal attractions as well.

"This type of case has never been heard before, and will be used as a precedent in other cases in the state of New York. It would be looked at by other states as well," Prosin says.

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DISH // GASTROPUB

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Gravitating toward the gastropub The Glass Monkey's tasty small plates ideal for snacking in Lendrum I don't know who was responsible, to complement a nice glass of wine but everything conspired to make or two, and the Glass Monkey played sure my first impression was positive. right to this predilection. Their snack After days of muggy heat and the menu invites you to try five out of contemporaneous rise of Edmonton's nine artful taste sensations for a mosquito and wasp populations, a mere $20. Rounded out with a few pleasantly warm, mostly bugless eve- small plates—choices include beef ning found me sitting on a lovely hid- carpaccio, yakitori, fish tacos, roasted den patio, so constructed as to make broccoli, even hot wings—and a salone forget it is mere metres away ad, those smartly chosen glasses of wine would taste from the parking good indeed. lot of a stripmall The Glass Monkey Gastropub Our five snacks, in Lendrum.

5842 - 111 St served in small As strip malls 780.760.2228 bowls on a long go, it's a pretty theglassmonkey.ca wooden paddle good one, espewith a basket of cially if you love food—the wonderful Sushi Wasabi olive oil-crisscrossed crostini, ran sits toward its southern end, Prego's an intriguing gamut. We had lemonPizza to the north was great the last imbued black olives, sundried tomatime I ate it five or so years ago, in the to-tinted hummus, a fluffy heap of middle there's a big Sunterra Market creamy ricotta capped with a dollop for fancy groceries and the patio in of apricot chutney, fragrant parsnip question bedecks the former site of puree and tender, pink-seamed slices the legendary Jack's Grill, in the very of grilled flank steak concealing a spot the Glass Monkey Gastropub scoop of ginger aioli. Lemon also made an appearance in the silky parsnow inhabits.

This stripmall in Lendrum also used nips, which had been whipped with to house the much-better-than-the- mascarpone cheese and hazel nuts, chain-liquor-store-that's-there-now and were my co-diner's favourite Kristall's Wine Market, the owner smear of the night. Only the hummus of which, Rob Filipchuk, now brings failed to make much of an impression, you said contemporary gastropub. but it had a lot to live up to next to It seems like the notion of a gastro- the other dishes.

The small plates followed rapid sucpub was an ascendant thing a few years back—a gourmet drink-porium cession and took up what room was with sophisticated nibbles and an left of our table. Two juicy prawns expertly curated array of boozes. lolled on a bed of quinoa next to a The subsequent flubbing of this ap- perfect slab of wild salmon, lavished proach might have devalued the term with garlic butter; a pair of broiled a bit—usually an excessive emphasis chicken thighs on skewers scribbled on the "pub" part—but that doesn't with yakitori sauce were loosely mean it's a bad idea. In procuring the yoked by a grilled green onion; a boat services of Darcy Radies, the chef of lightly seasoned calamari fairly behind the also-legendary Blue Pear, sizzled next to a side of spicy aioli. I'll the Glass Monkey has not flubbed it, get you next time, carpaccio!

The calamari is not on the regular as his name is nigh-synonymous with the artful blending of quality locally menu, so once again fate seemed to take a hand in bringing us together. sourced ingredients.

There are entrees to be sure, the Dusted with flour and pepper rather menu descriptions of which do make than immured in batter, the al dente the old tastebuds gush. Me, I'd rather tubes of squid were just about pershare some snacks and small plates fect, so much so they didn't really

need the dip—just a spritz of fresh lemon. Co-diner wondered aloud why we don't have chicken more often after tasting the juicy yakitori. The salmon and prawns and quinoa were sumptuous, thanks in part to butter.

We also shared the generous beet salad, which lived up to its name by actually containing ample slices of roasted purple and golden beets, drizzled with balsamic glaze and tossed with arugula, goat cheese, pine nuts and olive oil. I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking a beet salad should have a lot of beets in it.

Thus was my regard for the term "gastropub" restored. What will I do different next time? Invite more people along to share more dishes—and save room for dessert.

SCOTT LINGLEY

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IPA takes a chill pill

Red Racer ISA accessible and well-suited for patio pints

Red Racer India Session Ale Central City Brewers, Surrey, BC $25.70 for 12-pack of cans I tend to be something of a curmudgeon when it comes to the naming of beer. Traditional-style names exist for a reason; they offer a guidepost to what to expect and are a link to history and region, which is why I get grumpy when breweries inappropriately expropriate style names (hello, talking to you, Mr Alexander Keith!).

So I am quite torn about the latest hot trend of so-called India Session Ales. A number of breweries in Canada are now making one. The name implies they are toned-down India Pale Ales, a hop-forward style with long historical grounding. In a way they are—hoppy character but with a lighter body and lower alcohol content, meaning you can have a few without blowing out your palate or your brain cells.

Except ISA is not a "thing." Toneddown IPAs would traditionally be called English Bitter or Pale Ale,

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from which they first arose. These days I would describe such a thing as a hop-accented Blonde Ale. The term ISA is a creation of marketing departments, not brewers.

None of that rant is to suggest they are not enjoyable beer. Case in point: Red Racer ISA. Red Racer IPA is widely considered to be one of the best examples of an IPA brewed in Canada. The recently released ISA has an alcohol content—four percent—that definitely fits the bill as a session ale. How about the rest of the beer?

It pours very clear, medium gold with a finely-beaded white head. The aroma has subtle grassy malt notes and a moderate pine and floral hop aroma. The first sip is very light.

They have kept the malt base very delicate, offering some grainy, grassy sweetness and not too much re-

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sidual sugar. The lack of heavy malt allows the hop to move to centrestage without needing a large amp stack. The hop flavour is very American, offering grassy, piney and citrusy characters, along with touches of woodiness. The bitterness builds slowly, never getting too large, but persisting in the linger to give the beer a drier finish.

Without question it is a pleasant, light-bodied ale well-designed for summer-patio drinking. It can give hop heads a lighter-alcohol lupulin hit, while opening the door to the world of bitter for someone less accustomed.

Now, if only they called it something slightly less irritating for my old-school sentiments. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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REVUE // FRINGE

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Vue's Fringe team has taken in the full span of the 33rd annual theatre festival and, as it heads into its second and final weekend, we offer our picks: here are the plays we gave the highest accolades to (though the full spectrum of our reviews, including more four-star reviews, are up on edmontonfringe.ca as well). Of course, reviews aren't the only way to make your calls—festival buzz and word of mouth are things you should be keeping your ears open for—but, simply, these were our favourites.

Reviews by: Kathleen Bell (KB), Bryan Birtles (BB), Kate Black (KBL), Lee Boyes (LB), Saliha Chattoo (SC), Robin Collum (RC), Chris Gee (CG), Paige Gorsak (PG), Scott Lilwall (SL), Paul Matwychuk (PM), Fawnda Mithrush (FM), Conal Pierse (CP), Mel Priestley (MP), Bryan Saunders (BRS) and Jibril Yassin (JY).

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From the moment Paul Strickland opens his mouth and strums his guitar, he has the audience's full attention. With a twinkle in his eye and amazing stage presence, Strickland weaves a tall tale of Big Fib Trailer Park, filled with characters named Ain't True, Uncle False, Rue Merrazit and twins Faye 'n' Bree Kation.

Set somewhere in the Deep South, the world he creates is fantastical and populated with physically vivid characters (all played by Strickland).

Full of ridiculous, over-the-top origin stories, this play is an unexpected journey into an imagined world. BRS The Deep Blue Sea BYOV 12: Varscona Theatre

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Terence Rattigan's masterful mid20th century drama is a bold choice for a Fringe festival; typically such family dramas are lengthy, tedious affairs, but this production is a brooding, compact and absolutely brilliant gem. Beginning with the attempted suicide of Hester (Belinda Cornish), a woman who left her successful hus-

band (Paul Cowling) a year earlier for a foppish wartime pilot (Mat Busby), The Deep Blue Sea explores the cracks beneath the veneer of an emotionally repressed society and what that means for love and marriage.

Cornish is absolutely spellbinding as Hester, delivering a nuanced, charged performance; she is joined by a solid cast of performers whose own talent draws out hers all the more. MP Eavesdrop: The Coffee Shop Show BYOV 19: Remedy on 109 Street

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Having to adapt to a non-traditional space can be either a bane or a boon for BYOV shows, but Eavesdrop transcends these boundaries by turning the location into an integral element of the show. The actors expertly transition between characters and stories as the audience listens in on their conversations and inner thoughts through headphones. The plot jumps back and forth between a handful of patrons at the coffee shop, subtly drawing them together at the end. Beautiful writing and delicate acting combine to make this immersive performance one of the highlights of the festival. RC FUGLY Venue 6: C103

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Jim McCrackin is a legendary hit-man in a legendary show that is unlike any theatre experience at the Fringe. McCrackin 2: The Whackining is a multimedia, action-packed comedy which uses multiple video screens that are blended into the performance on stage. Actors simultaneously interact with the pre-recorded film sequences behind them, as well as the live action on stage, with impeccable timing. Performers exit the stage only to immediately appear on screen; fight scenes are choreographed so precisely that McCrackin can combat bad guys both on stage and on screen.

Watching McCrackin battle through multiple Mexican wrestlers and ninjas coming at him at every angle or running slow-mo down a hall, shooting his gun at unsuspecting minions is truly an amazing, hilariously intense thrill ride. This show is essentially Tarantino and James Bond movies done live—it is simply awesome and a definite must-see. CG TES Venue 1: Westbury Theatre

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FUGLY's protagonist finds herself lost on an abstract plane with a daunting task ahead of her: she has lost her mind and can't leave until she finds it. Following the surreal journey of a woman wracked with anxiety and a very real fear of being found unattractive, FUGLY explores heavy topics like self-esteem, loving oneself and the glaringly Sisyphean task of aiming for perfection. The three actresses in this show are phenomenal: each of their characters has their own uniquely crafted note to hit, and they hit them with every single line, in every single scene. On top of that, alongside their impeccable comedic timing and the script's sidesplitting hilarity is a dedication to facing deep provocative moments head-on. The verdict is clear with this one: see this show! SC

A modern retelling of Tess of the d'Urbervilles, TES is the story of a teenage boy of a working-class background who is accused of a rape he didn't commit and the consequences for the rest of his life that stem from his condemnation. Writer and performer Steve Larkin manages to fill the tragic tale with humour, poetry, wordplay and enough pathos to leave the audience shaken. In addition, the show is a journey through contemporary Britain and the cracks Larkin sees forming around the culture. It's an involved show—it is, after all, based on a Victorian novel—but Larkin has the skill to weave the complicated plot together without leaving the audience behind. One of the best shows at this year's Fringe, no doubt. BB School of Night: Origin Stories BYOV 13: Strathcona Library

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Josh Darcy and Sean McCann's improvised Shakespearean skits and sonnets—in iambic pentameter and drawn from It's Superman!

It's a Bird! It's a Plane! audience call-outs, no less—will take everything you know about improv and a curious YouTube allegory, this hilariously cynical work stands out and turn it on its head. Watching the as exemplary fringe theatre. LB two perform is equal parts awe-inspiring and hilarious. Hell, they made 3...2...1 a bawdy monologue about bukkake BYOV 46: La Cité Francophone sing like art. Their whip-smart delivL'Uni Theatre ery almost makes it seem like some  of the performance is canned, save With difficult characters that are for the amount of suggestions they somehow made real thanks to some take from the audience, but who stunning and darkly witty writing cares—this is the coolest English-lit by local playwrights Chris Cradrap battle you'll see all Fringe. KBL dock and Nathan Cuckow, 3...2...1 is a rough mix of drugs, desperaShangri-La tion and grief. Mourning the loss Venue 10: Acacia Hall of their best friend Danny, Clinton  This play has a tight, fast script and and Kyle are two leftover grunge Judy Wensel is a wonderful actress, fans who can't figure out what they throwing herself into her characwant out of life. "I may not want ter, Jeanne. Growing up in a small anything [in life], but I'm disaptown in Saskatchewan in the 1960s, pointed," says Clinton. "I'm really Jeanne introduces the audience to fucking disappointed." Replete with her neighbours and family, as well moments of profound honesty, auas the drama that comes with growdiences should be warned: this is a ing up in a place where everybody rocky play to sit through. But some lines are just so skillfully insightful knows you and everybody talks in the most everyday kind of way, about everybody else. A fun show you'll be hanging on every painful with a killer soundtrack and enthusiastic dancing by Wensel in Jeanne's (often funny) word. KB very 1960s bedroom, Shangri-La is a Boys Will Be Girls pleasure to watch. BRS BYOV 42: Planet Ze Design Centre We Glow  BYOV 44b: Roots on Whyte The disco ball spins triumphantly,  peppering the divine women workA power couple deal with their indiing their way down the massive vidual aspirations and the impact on catwalk. One after the other, legtheir mutual goals; all for you: the ends like Liza & Cher are brought board of directors. This site specific to Edmonton with the help of some think piece whips you in as it lashes cheeky night club pieces. A pageant back and forth between seamless of presence and commitment, each scenes and tandem monologues, lady does faithful and passionate making you eager to discover exservice to her inspirations, keeping actly why this meeting was called. most of the repertoire pre-2000.

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he night is dark and full of terrors in Emily Carroll's chilling horror anthology comic Through The Woods.

Carroll, who lives in Stratford, Ontario, has created five compelling stories wallowing in the Grimm side of fairy tales.

The inky-black darkness holds supernatural terrors in Through The Woods, lying in wait to swallow up the book's protagonists as they start their journeys into the abyss.

These protagonists, almost all of them women save for the young man in "His Face All In Red," experience a supernatural version of the horrors women experience in their daily lives.

A newly-married woman is tormented by the wailing in the walls of her new

husband's mansion in "A Lady's Hands Are Cold"—and when she breaks open the walls to find the source of the song keeping her lying awake at night, she finds a frightful revelation.

The lavish lettering conveys the wailing in the walls using scratchy white text on red background streaking across the page like blood spatters, while the freeflowing art provides a surreal backdrop with starkly contrasting whites, blacks, blues and reds.

Carroll creates these frightful worlds using her incredible illustration skills and quietly experimental visual storytelling.

Each story in the anthology looks completely different from the last, each with its own striking visual style.

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What ties the anthology together is red—a red the colour of fresh blood.

It signifies the supernatural, the horrorfilled reality creeping into Carroll's protagonists' worlds throughout the book.

It's a wonderful visual element that ties the whole anthology together in a compelling way.

"Our Neighbour's House" shows the maddening isolation three sisters experience stuck inside their remote home after their father dies on a hunting trip.

As the snow piles around their house and a crimson moon looms overhead, an unnaturally smiling man visits each of the sisters in the night—though he doesn't knock, nor leave any footprints in the snow.

The most skin-crawling story of all is also the last. In "The Nesting Place," Bell, a young bookish woman, spends the summer after boarding school with her brother and his fiancée after their mother dies. The fiancée, Rebecca, is especially excited to meet her—and the reveal of why Rebecca is so excited is grotesquely horrifying. "The Nesting Place" uses a more-traditional grid-style, lulling readers into a false sense of security before pulling the rug out from underneath them.

What makes Through The Woods truly special are the themes surrounding

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By Emily Carroll Margaret K McElderry Books, 208 pp, $16.62 the book. Horror is best when it's used as a metaphor for real life, like in "The Nesting Place," which shows, through its supernatural elements, the horror of having to become pretty and perfect to become a mother.

Through The Woods is an astounding graphic horror anthology, with gorgeous visual storytelling and deep, rewarding themes. Just make sure to read it with the nightlight on.

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fully loud PA. Once these hiccups are remedied, there's little to stop this one from soaring. LB Bridget Ryan's Here's to the Ladies Who Laugh Cabaret BYOV 39: Cook County Saloon

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Here's to the Ladies Who Laugh is a solid 90 minutes of good stories told well. Bridget Ryan delivers a spellbinding collection of autobiographical stories, giving a humorous take on mortifying moments. Punctuated with Foreigner, Abba and show tunes, the performance is a thoroughly enjoyable experience. It's honest, relatable, and just plain fun. CP Chase and Stacey's Joyride Venue 7: Yardbird Suite

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There's a wonderful, very Fringey willingness to surrender to experimentation and chance in this hour of improv, music and sketch comedy from the Portland, Oregon duo of Chase Padgett and Stacey Hallal.

Some of the experiments pay off nicely, as in an unexpectedly lovely closing musical number in which Hallal reads out audience members' memories of their greatest moments of joy while Padgett supplies a mellow Reggie Watts-style soundbed.

Others don't—the decision to present the scenes in random order only throws off the show's pacing (although it's fun to see a play where the intermission takes place five minutes after it begins). But it's the rare sketch show that actually feels too short. I'd take another joyride with these two anytime. PM

the three performers, allowing them to create gorgeous scenes with shadows and light. Beneath the moon, the three women move as though they are the ocean tides and creatures, accompanied by a fourth performer who plays softly on the guitar while telling a poetic tale. Real water is eventually introduced into the movement and the results are striking.

There are some moments when the story unfolds a little too slowly, and others when the movements, voice, music and light all converge into goose-bump inducing harmony. SC God Is A Scottish Drag Queen II: The Second Coming BYOV 47: La Cité Francophone: Suzanne Thibaudeau Auditorium

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God has decided to reveal himself to Edmonton Fringers yet again—descending, well, strolling really, from stage left in a floral powersuit to satiate our divine curiosity. Tackling subjects like circumcision, Scientology, Mormons and Noah's Ark, comedian Mike Delamont (in character as the Lord himself) has succeeded anew in making his venue shake with laughter as he deconstructs all the ways God might not be too happy with how humans have interpreted his works over the years. Delamont could easily talk for hours and the audience would happily listen. God is a Scottish Drag Queen II is simply heaven-sent hilarity!

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It's a bird; it's a plane; it's a superhero story that doesn't need CGI and a 200-million-dollar budget! Plain Jane Theatre delivers a charming, highenergy performance of an earlier incarnation of the Man of Steel's story.

It's a fine example of musical theatre, with a solid cast of seasoned performers and a calibre that surpasses most Fringe productions. While it does seem like Superman escapes the evil villain a little too easily, this is likely due to the play's shortening to Fringe-length; though, that kind of brevity in the wrap-up is also in tune with early comic-book stories—and a minor detail here, given how much fun it is. MP Kitt & Jane – An Interactive Survival Guide to the Near-Post-Apocalyptic Future Venue 6: C103

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Thanks to a botched scientific experiment, two 14-year-olds have come to the conclusion that they are about to die at the hands of Monsanto. Their goals are threefold: hijack their school assembly, disseminate information and prepare everyone for the coming doom.

Amidst the impressive amounts of silliness and charm this duo offers are a few salient points about the environment, awareness and the impact that young people can have on the world today. The script touches on newsworthy topics like Monsanto's "Terminator

seeds" and Malala Yousafzai, and you're encouraged to photograph and tweet as the show unfolds. This doesn't mean the play is a downer, though: Kitt and Jane tell their tale through dramatic reenactments, exciting ukulele/xylophone rock sessions and shadow-world projections that are a testament to the performers' wit and creativity. SC Letters and Words Venue 5: King Edward School

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under its own weight and Letters and Words, to its credit, breezes past them all. JY Tin BYOV 45: Sea Can

quite live up to the wild tension that builds up to it. Still, it's a story that stays in mind long after the audience has escaped from the confines of the container. SL The Untitled Sam Mullins Project BYOV 13: Strathcona Library

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Sitting in a closed cargo container with a dozen other audience members in the sticky August heat isn't, generally, a pleasant experience. But it does forge a close connection with the characters of Tin, two people who hitch a ride in a cramped, sweltering train car.

The space becomes even more claustrophobic with the appearance of a fellow rail-hopper who takes delight in needling the already on-edge pair.

Tin questions our tendency to display near-bottomless patience for the ones we love the most, asking whether it is actually a noble act or a sign of our own insecurity. The finale doesn't

Sam Mullins is the storyteller at the bar that you actually want to listen to. His "untitled project" is a captivating collection of tales drawn from four truths about himself: embarrassing things always happen to him, he will never find love, life is fleeting and he is in a perpetual state of panic. Unravelling his deepest vulnerabilities about the fragility of his own existence, he marionettes the audience through hilarity to heartbreak, never exceeding his welcome, never coming across as overly self-indulgent.

His conclusions aren't necessarily profound, but nevertheless speak to the universal anxieties of being a self-aware twentysomething. KBL

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Essentially, what you need to know about Peter n' Chris and the Kinda OK Corral is that it's funny and you should go see it. But for those who like a little more meat to their reviews, I'll say this: Peter Carlone and Chris Wilson are clever comedians, sharp improvisers and skilled at holstering their mime guns. Demonstrating a tight handle on Western film genre—a wild and rough place where "even the women folk were men"—they create non-stop laughs by picking apart both the Wild West and themselves. If you're looking for fun at the Fringe, this is far more than a kinda OK place to start. KB Real Time Venue 9: Telus Building

 Celebrating its 10th anniversary, Real Time brings the opposites-attract love story of two cyber-nerds— hardened criminal Jessie and marshmallow Billy—back to the Fringe stage. Starring two talented local actors with a long resumé of shows performed together, it's not a shock that Real Time delivers a tight and hilarious 60-minutes. The duo's largerthan-life, physical comedy carries the show, allowing for not only a massive list of goofy characters to come to life, but also crazy stunts like a lifesize re-enactment of a video game and a slo-mo bar fight to feel absolutely real. And maybe make you pee your pants with laughter. PG Promise and Promiscuity: A New Musical by Jane Austen and Penny Ashton Stage 5: King Edward School

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Over the course of Promise and Promiscuity, a one-woman show seemingly set in an alternate English universe that is both archaically whimsical and modern, Penny Ashton works hard to win the audience over, but she already had them in her hands from the moment she began. There's charm to be found in her range of characters, and the Austenesque storyline—aided by fantastic pop culture and Edmonton references—is one respectful of the canon yet not afraid to poke a laugh or two at it. JY Red Wine, French Toast, and The

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Red Wine, French Toast and the Best Sex You've Ever Had explores permutations of lust and sex through dance, with an emphasis on the ridiculous routines that feature so prominently in pursuit of the latter. It's a sometimes silly, often surreal show, which should come as no surprise given that Salvador Dali serves as the audience's guide through the proceedings. The work itself is strong, but suffers sometimes from staging issues: it can become distractingly busy or the stage can become unbalanced to no positive effect.

These issues are, however, overcome in the finale, one of the show's strongest pieces, and it's likely that, throughout the run, increased familiarity with the space will resolve the issue. BB Verbal Diarrhea, Actual Diarrhea, Heartbreak & Disorder Venue 10: Acacia Hall

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A glimpse into the life of Gerard Harris, the title of this show manages to live up to everything it promises.

Part mature humour, part immature humour and part crushed romances, Harris brings an impulsive and frenetic energy to the stage. The audience doesn't have a chance to get bored between spitfire-paced stories of schoolyard rivalries, terrifying lobsters and multiple near-death experiences. If you have to see one Fringe show with "diarrhea" in the title this year, make it this one. BRS

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REVUE // ROM COM

An 'ethical' romantic comedy

Director Michael Dowse and screenwriter Elan Mastai let The F Word defy its genre

Friends!

Opens Friday The F Word Directed by Michael Dowse 

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allace and Chantry meet at a party, the latter commenting on former's choice of socialization: writing bitter fridge-magnet poetry about love, alone. He's a med-school dropout, freshly broken up and generally miserable; she's sharp, quirky and already in a long-term relationship. Still, there's an ease to their jokey banter: chemistry stirs and the two strike up as pals.

And so the f-word of the title is not actually fuck, but friend, or perhaps more modernly, friendzone (though handled in a far better, thoughtful way here than the situations the term usually gets attached to). It's also directed by Michael Dowse, the man who gave us Fubar and Goon, who here gives the rom-com genre a concussive shot of fun: it's legitimately laugh-out loud funny at points, carrying an air of improvisation in its best comic moments, all well handled by a strong support cast and a comfortable pair of leads in Daniel Radcliffe and Zoe Kazan, who generate an easy-riffy onscreen vibe.

And even If The F Word eventually does bend, somewhat, to the desires of the genre towards its climax, it still does so in a more honest, fun way than the bulk of its genre kin. We're given characters who aren't broad archetypes, try to make rational decisions and feel the consequences, for better or worse, all the same.

Dowse and screenwriter Elan Mastai—who adapted the tale from a TJ Dawe & Mike Rinaldi Fringe script—were in town a few weeks ago to promote the film. We met at the Hotel Macdonald and, tucking into a plate of nachos—the Hotel Macdonald has nachos, people—discussed.

In addition to The F Word, Mastai is also the credited screenwriter behind a little chimp-on-a-skateboard movie called Most Vertical Primate, which seemed foolish not to bring up while he was sitting right there.

EM: As a writer, I like to write about the

grey zones. We create these black-and-white ideas—friends or lovers—but to me, it's the in-between that's much more interesting. We've all been in intense relationships that flame out in a month, and we've all had friendships that can last our whole lifetime.

And sometimes in movies, we create the thing where a romance is considered much-more important than a genuine friendship. But in our lives, the friendships can be some of the defining relationships of our lives. So I wanted to take that seriously: two people who, because of the circumstances, it's not gonna be something else. But what happens when they try, genuinely, to be friends, but aren't being totally honest about what's going on in their hearts? And to find the comedy, mostly, in that—it's a comedy, first and foremost. We like how the emotional connection with the characters grows, slowly and subtly, through the film. But more than anything, I've been in this situation so many times in my life, so to be able to look back and pull comedy out of it was a therapeutic relief.

romance: friends.

VW: Given the genre it's in, I kept waiting for them to make shittier choices.

EM: Yeah, the genre's kind of trained you that everybody in a rom com is a sociopath. We wanted to make a movie where, generally speaking, people are trying to make the right decision. I think in real life, you can make the right decision and still screw up your real life. I certainly have.

MD: I always regret the right decision, though. I should've made the wrong decision.

It would've been much dirtier and funner.

EM: We've all seen a million romantic comedies. We all know what the dramatic gesture is. But in real life, sometimes the dramatic gesture's totally the wrong thing to do. I like the idea of writing an ethical romantic comedy.

VW: What was it like to unpack that, as a writer and director?

MICHAEL DOWSE: I related to it, for sure. I've been in that situation, and it's not great, and I think everybody relates to it. ... It's a precarious but completely relatable subject. And I was excited to explore it in a really interesting, deeper way than a just-frivolous take on, 'can men and women be friends?' Instead, actually exploring what would happen if these two people seriously wanted to become friends, and they were both very earnest in trying to do that. To me, I think it's just something everybody can relate to.

VW: The script is very banter-y: there's a lot of rapid-fire back-and-forth. Was there room for improv on set?

MD: For sure. We tried to find moments where the actors could just riff with each other and instill their own personalities and sense of humour into the characters. [For] the diner scene, and them at the party, we would get two cameras and let them go, and film both sides of it. I think it's important you have that openness on set; that as long as there's a respect for the script, and the story, and as long as they know where they're going from A to B. How they necessarily get

VUE WEEKLY: Obviously, 'The F Word' here is

friend, or friendzone.

ELAN MASTAI: We say it's the dirtiest word in

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there, they can put their own two cents into that. It breeds a much funnier, much more honest performance. I can't picture myself ever making a film where it's not like that.

But, the credit to the script is that many times you can't top the script; many times when I'm doing improv, it's more of a BandAid: something's not quite right here, let's try and work this through and figure this out.

And this is just trying to make gravy: trying to get it better and better.

EM: Part what I was going for in the script was that authentic feeling of two very funny people just riffing. And part of what you're doing as a screenwriter is, you're obviously trying to write the best possible joke and the funniest line and the wittiest comeback, but you're also trying to make sure that the characters and their sense of humour are crystal clear to the director and actors, so that they can improvise on set in character. There's a big difference between a joke Daniel Radcliffe would make as himself off camera, versus what he would do on camera, in his character. And part of your job as a writer is to create a character that's rich and textured enough that you can improvise in character.

MD: I'm just a slut for comedy, too, so I try and get as much comedy as you can. It breeds a great sense of creativity on the set: people get invested in the film, and feel like they're contributing in a solid way.

VW: Michael, when I think about some of your movies—Fubar, Goon—there seems to be a throughline to it all, of exploring masculinity, in a way.

MD: [laughs]. The frail masculinity of Michael Dowse. It's just probably an offshoot of comedy. Trying to knock down these morons that are in my movies. Giving Dean [from Fubar] nut cancer is a great way to explore his more sensitive side.

EM: It's something I thought about also in the script: it was really important to me that Daniel's character isn't emasculated. You can see a version of it where it's 'Oh, he's just the friend, he's very sensitive.' But that's not his character. They get into arguments. He pushes back. I wanted a character that felt real, even though he's going in eyes-wide open into a complicated friendship with somebody. I didn't want him to be a push-over.

He's not passive. And that was important to me, that there's a sharpness and an edginess to the humour.

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VW: I feel like I'd be remiss if I didn't ask you a ques-

tion about Most Vertical Primate.

EM: Please do.

VW: Is it different, writing a movie where the protagonist isn't a human, but in fact a chimp who skateboards?

EM: Yes. As you maybe can tell from our conversation, I'm fairly loquacious. And, I mean, when I got that job to write that movie, I was still in university.

Growing up in Vancouver: people go and shoot movies there—when I was growing up, they'd shoot the X-Files, or 21 Jump Street. People came to Vancouver to shoot things. The idea of writing movies, which was my dream, seemed very far away, and a very ridiculous thing to aspire to. So when I got the opportunity to write any movie, I was like I can't believe anyone's going to pay me to write this thing.

But what was great about writing a kids movie where the protagonist literally doesn't speak, for somebody like me who loves to tell stories through dialogue and verbally, was it really forced me to tell stories through structure. I know it's a bit comical to talk about a movie about a skateboarding monkey this way, but it forced me to actually get down to the basics of structure and storytelling, and how you tell a character arc with no dialogue. That was really good for me at that time. And then just seeing a movie you wrote get made was crazy. At the time, when that happened, I was like, well, this may be the only time this ever happens. So I'm on set, and there's literally monkeys on half-pipes doing tricks, and I'm like, I can't believe this came out of my imagination, and I can't believe this is happening, and if it never happens again, at least I got to see this.

MD: Did you come up with [the idea] that there was a monkey skateboarding, or was it given to you?

EM: Most Vertical Primate is the sequel to Most Valuable Primate, which is about a hockey-playing monkey. And they wanted to do a sequel. I had gone to school with a girl who was an assistant to the producer, and she said 'there's no chance you're going to get hired, but I know you wanna be a screenwriter, I can get you a meeting.' They had this idea that in the finale of the sequel, that he would get drafted into the NHL. And I was like, no, he should get drafted into the NHL in the first scene. And then he gets framed by a jealous player, for biting another player, and he has to run away from the cops, and he's befriended by a gang of skateboarding youths.

I didn't really know anything about hockey, but I knew about skateboarding, and they flipped out over the idea of a skateboarding monkey. So I got hired to write this movie. At the time, my options were between getting a job at Starbucks or writing this movie, and here I am, a screenwriter and not a barista.

So it worked out.

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Unjustly obscure

A trio of overlooked classics see re-release Of all the great directors of the golden age, there are few whose legacy seems more unjustly obscure today than that of Max Ophüls. He made great films in his native Germany, the US and France, and remains a giant among the cognoscenti for the baroque elegance of his tracking shots, a camera that could move like calligraphy, and an ability to make melodrama so much more moving by approaching it with the lightest touch. Ironically, the films he made in Hollywood— where his fluid style was more restrained—seem to be among his least known, yet they range from

masterpieces to the merely excellent. Now that Olive Films has made it available on home video for more people to discover, we can argue about whether the perversely fascinating Caught (1949) falls into the former or latter category.

Scripted by Arthur Laurents (Rope, West Side Story) and based on something called Wild Calendar by Libbie Block, the film follows Leonora Eames (Barbara Bel Geddes, Scotty's girl-pal in Vertigo), an aspiring model of humble Denver roots whose studies at Dorothy Dale's School of Charm are interrupted when a chance encounter with multimil-

lionaire Smith Ohlrig (Robert Ryan) leads to a marriage of dubious integrity: Ohlrig is an overbearing, paranoid neurotic and weds Leonora as a way of defying his psychotherapist.

Everyone assumes Leonora married Ohlrig for the money, but when the tenderness rapidly dwindles from their domestic life, she flees, taking only a few haute couture dresses and making no attempt to claim any part of his fortune. She finds work as a secretary in a rundown inner city medical clinic, which is where she meets Dr Larry Quinada (James Mason). They fall in love, but Leonora feels obliged to return to Ohlrig when she learns that she's pregnant.

As far as love triangles go, the two men competing for the heroine's love aren't quite as loopy as those of, say, Daisy Kenyon (1947), but I can't begin to tell you how bizarrely the dramatic causality of Caught plays out—you've just got to see it. The storytelling is wildly compressed and the actors are uniformly wonderful, with Bel Geddes giving an especially endearing, disarmingly naturalistic performance.

Ophüls dapples his cast in shadow and whenever possible has them navigate rooms the size of airplane hangers. Among his Hollywood films Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) and The Reckless Moment (1949) are perhaps more essential, but Caught is such a curious cinematic creature, riddled with story turns that shouldn't work, but somehow do.

Though he may not exactly be a household name, there's far less reason to worry over the renown of Robert Bresson, whose films are, I suppose, more severe, yet never far from any self-respecting cinephile's watch-list. Pickpocket (1959) is one of Bresson's most famous and most influential films and it's justly made numerous best-of-all-time lists. Criterion has just released this beautiful film on blu-ray and it looks nearly immaculate without compromising any celluloid fidelity.

I never tire of watching it.

From the start Pickpocket is a captivating study in hands: hands writing, opening, closing, passing, thieving. Michel (Martin LaSalle) inhabits a tiny room with peeling

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wallpaper and a door he doesn't even bother to lock. He endeavours to become a master pickpocket as a sort of spiritual vocation. He draws your wallet from your jacket or your watch from your wrist like a caress: the film's sensuality is that much more potent because of its utter utility and rigour. Michel is very self-serious, seemingly under a spell. Though an opening title card assures us this is not thriller, the trajectory is oddly in keeping with the crime-doesn't-pay narrative of gangster pictures. What Michel is moving toward so blindly is revelation and, perhaps, true love. Crime and punishment is regarded as "a strange path" taken to recognize the achingly lovely young woman trying to get closer to Michel as he descends deeper and deeper into criminal perdition.

If we stretch the definition we can think of both Caught and Pickpocket as variation on film noir.

While more faithful to noir traditions than either of those films, the Norwegian thriller Insomnia (1997) is also something of a radical variation on noir. Director Erik Skjoldbjærg describes it as "a reversed film noir, with light, not darkness, as its dramatic force." The film follows Jonas Engström, a Kripos police detective (Stellan Skarsgård)

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investigating a murder in Tromsø, a town two hundred miles north of the Arctic Circle where for several months every year the sun never sets—and where Engström never sleeps, though this is as much the result of mental burdens as it is of his inability to find a good blackout curtain. So it's light, light, light, as far as the eye can see, yet the film's most brilliant set-piece is draped in fog. Shots are fired, mistakes are made, someone dies, there is a cover-up, the killer remains at large. This is cold, deeply creepy, highly effective stuff, with Skjoldbjærg making shrewd use of muffled music, slow push-ins and long dissolves, and Skarsgård working to remain as blank as possible while Engström's secrets stack up.

I haven't seen the Christopher Nolan US version (2002) since it came out—though I've considered seeing it again since hearing news of the death of Robin Williams, who has a peculiar role in the film—so I don't remember it well enough to make a viable comparison, but it's hard to understand why anyone would be inclined to remake Insomnia, the original having such a novel, clever concept and being so perfectly executed. If you're interested, please see the Skjoldbjærg first. It too is newly out of DVD and blu-ray from Criterion. V

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EDUCATION EDUCATION // YEAR-ROUND SCHOOL

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The socio-economic divide between rich and poor affects the ability to retain information over summer break

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n a city where there's the potential to see snow fall in 10 out of 12 months, it's hard to make the case that our school boards should shorten the summer vacation for everyone and move towards year-round education. But modified calendars have been received more favourably in the United States: according to the National Association for Year-Round Education, there are about 3000 American schools using it today. North of the border, there are about 100.

The first year-round school in Canada was the Terry Fox School in Calgary, which opened in 1995. The concept has always been more popular in that city than in Edmonton. The Calgary Board of Education has about 20 public schools on a modified calendar, and the Catholic board has seven.

Research conducted at the Johns Hopkins School of Education has found that students from disadvantaged socio-economic backgrounds lose significantly more academic skills over an extended summer vacation than those from more advantaged backgrounds.

One study, conducted in Baltimore in 2006 titled Longitudinal Effects of a Multiyear Summer School," showed that while students from middle and higher-income families lose about one month of grade-level equivalency over the summer, those students from lower socio-economic families lose about three. Worse, the losses had a cumulative effect over the years, contributing to an overall

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achievement gap that could make the difference between a student dropping out of high school or going on to post-secondary education.

All students, regardless of socioeconomic class, experience some learning loss over summer vacation.

However, economically disadvantaged students tend to lose far more reading and writing skills over the summer than those from wealthier families. More affluent familes can afford a variety of learning opportunities during the summer months, whether it be camps or travel or a stay-at-home parent who is available to keep the children engaged intellectually. The result is that children from wealthier homes are further ahead when the new school year starts.

Edmonton Catholic Schools has three schools offering a year-round calendar, which divides the requisite instructional days into four terms with vacation breaks between each of them.

After a five-week summer break that begins at the end of June, the same time as the traditional calendar, students at St Alphonsus Elementary/Jr High, Mother Teresa Elementary and St Catherine Elementary/Jr High returned to school on August 11.

In exchange for the truncated summer vacation, these students enjoy a two-week Thanksgiving break, a two-week Christmas break (same as the rest of the schools), and a twoweek Spring Break in March. They'll

also enjoy two extra-long long weekends. All three schools are located in economically disadvantaged areas of the city.

St Catherine, located in the central neighbourhood of McDougall, began offering year-round schooling in 2010, the year before Dwain Tymchyshyn took over as principal.

He says that while he's not able to offer statistical data to prove the program's success, he says it works for his school, which has an extremely high immigrant population.

"While we saw slight gains in provincial achievement test results for Grade 6 and 9 students," he says, "the biggest impact year-round schooling has had is with language retention."

He explains that the students at his school come from as many as 30 different countries and speak up to 50 different languages. "Eighty-five percent of our students have English as a second language and English is not usually spoken at home," he says.

"The shorter breaks really help them retain their English."

The number of instructional days for year-round students is the same as those following the traditional calendar. Provincial legislation allows that the number of instructional days may vary from 190 to 200 days and gives school boards broad leeway as long as kindergarten students receive 475 instructional hours and those in elementary and junior high receive 950.

Jason Wallin is an associate professor of Media and Youth Culture in

Curriculum at the University of Alberta and the assistant editor for the Journal of Curriculum and Pedagogy.

He thinks we're due for a conversation about how we conceptualize education that goes beyond talking about calendars.

"Cases can and have been made for the potential benefits and disadvantages of year-round schooling. This is not a particularly new debate," he says. "What this debate often obfuscates, however, is the insight that schools might be rethought apart from traditional models or rather, that the structure of the school, from its conceptualization of time to its utilization of space, can always be rethought for the benefit of students and teachers."

With no major Canadian research studies to support the idea that year-round education significantly improves student outcomes, it's important to note that the little data that is available holds a great deal of promise that year-round education is something that might be used as a tool to improve the outcome for those students struggling the most.

Edmonton Public School District had two schools that followed the year-round schooling schedule but both have since been closed by the board.

Eastwood was the first in the city to adopt year-round schooling with a three-year pilot project that began in August 1998 and showed positive results. Parkdale was added in 2001. Re-

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ports presented to trustees indicated that Eastwood student achievement results improved steadily with the introduction of year-round schooling.

Provincial achievement tests conducted for Grades 3, 6 and 9 students at Eastwood produced test scores that were at a five-year high In all subjects. Student attendance improved steadily, reaching nearly 90 percent in 2000 and a report presented to the board after the first year of yearround schooling with the prior year showed that suspensions decreased to 43 from 119 and that the number of students who completed the entire year increased to 60 percent from 40 percent. Edmonton Public closed Eastwood and Parkdale in 2010.

While year-round schooling might be a hard sell for Edmontonians who are confined to the indoors for much of the year, we need to start thinking about whether our school calendars unwittingly perpetuate a system where children from disadvantaged homes will remain at a disadvantage. With both Edmonton school boards grappling with some of the lowest completion rates in the country and the number of ESL students continuing to rise, maybe it's time to reflect on how we deliver education to our students.

As Wallin puts it, "The organization of the school as we know it is not only a relatively recent social invention, but is only one of many ways in which the school can be imagined."

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argely unnoticed by most homegrown Edmontonians, English as a Second Language education plays an increasingly foundational role in our booming economy. With foreign workers arriving at a steady pace from every corner of the globe, the need for convenient and affordable ESL education is growing.

According to the Government of Alberta's 2011 Immigration Progress Report, the number of immigrants arriving in the province each year increased 57.6 percent from 2006 to 2010. In that period, 60.5 percent of newcomers were considered "Economic Class" and were looking for education or job opportunities. Whether they enrolled in post-secondary programs, learned a trade or simply sought to become a citizen, their first and most difficult step was often learning English.

"People's motivation for being in an ESL class are quite varied," says Lisa Rochman, chair of Language Training at Norquest College, "but the ultimate goal of settling and establishing themselves in Canada is the driving force."

Norquest provides career-oriented learning opportunities and is recognized for its ESL offerings. As such, most of its ESL faculty holds high-level education degrees with a specialization in teaching English as a second language, as well as TESL accreditation.

However, experience is only part of what makes a successful ESL teacher.

"Education and experience are critical, but they can't replace the drive or passion for teaching," Rochman says. "Many love what they do and this is something the students can see and feel. And that's critical. You need that spark, plus the education and training in order to really make a career of this."

Amrita Gill, an ESL teacher with the Edmonton Immigrant Services Association, agrees that when it comes to teaching language, there are numerous factors that make a great experience. She says that alongside the language, students are eager to learn about all aspects of Canadian history and culture, from politics to aboriginal issues.

"I try to include all of these things, and it's important to include different voices in your classroom," Gill says. "So if you have an opportunity to bring, say, an aboriginal elder

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into your classroom, it gives students a different perspective."

Since ESL teachers typically play a larger role than simply providing students with the ability to communicate, it's essential to be well attuned with Edmonton's social-services offerings to help newcomers have the smoothest possible transition.

"Often you're the first person they look to for help with everything from how to make a resumĂŠ to where they can find low-cost daycare services, or where they could register for recreational programming. You're connecting them to services within the community, so it's nice to have that social work background."

While the number of ESL teaching jobs hasn't increased dramatically in the city, the types of opportunities are changing. Rochman says that she sees a significant change in how proactively companies are catering to immigrant populations.

"Intercultural communication training is being recognized as important for immigrants in the workplace," she says. "It's important for the immigrant worker as well as for the employer. And this type of training often happens in-house at companies."

And with the increasing use of technology in the classroom, ESL learning is changing just like any other subject. While it has traditionally been taught face-to-face with students meeting many times per week, new opportunities are arising through web-conferencing and online asynchronous classes.

From the non-profit point-of-view, a career in ESL isn't always financially fruitful, but opportunities are consistent even as they shift online. Gill says that even if governments have looked to streamline learning and cut costs, ESL specialists can always find work as online instructors or curriculum developers.

"It's not very easy to make a career out of ESL," Gill says. "You're always dependent on funding to keep your job. But as long as the government continues to receive funding and as long as we have immigrants, yeah, you can make a career out of it."

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around, shooting another movie in the franchise. Even the grand finale has all the air of the old boys' club on a giant playground (in the guise of a bombed-out hotel in ... "Asmenistan"—that's how much work went into this script) that's just there to be shot up and fought in and tankrolled over and bazooka-ed and blown up and 'copter-escaped from.

In a screenplay co-written by Stallone, a Bond-movie-baddie, Conrad Stonebanks (Mel Gibson), buys modern art even as he disparages it, Now playing "I'll ask again: who in here said they didn't like Rocky 5? apparently to ship Directed by Patrick Hughes weapons in crates  he Expendables 3 plays like B a n d e r a s of paintings (a plot some bizarre old timers-meets- for accented point so tin-eared it younger prospects all-star action- comic relief!

Van Goghs belief) but probably behero game, rounding up the gravAn A-team of B-stars in a van- cause Stallone is, himself, a painter. elly voiced, bulked-up gang to see ity project on steroids, The De- And by a half-hour in, you'd rather how many fans of '80s blow-'em- penzables has the team captain see a PowerPoint presentation of ups and MMA will fork out money (Sylvester Stallone) fret, now and his canvases than any more of the to see this reunion tour, featuring: then, about gettin' too old or riskin' rote ideas—rounding up a new Rambo! Rocky IV's nemesis! Arnie long-in-the-tooth guys' lives in an- team; ace hacker cracking a build(post-Gubernator)! Jet Li! Mad Max other mission. But mostly The Reli- ing's security; hero versus villain (post-antisemitism-that-should've- ables has all these guys and one gal fight-off to the death—on display RIPped-his-career)! Blade! Harrison trading weak banter or reminiscing here. But then, this is The UnmemoFord?!? That UK action star guy! or talking about how they're "fam- rables.

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very musician has to take that first step out onto stage somewhere. For Mitch Holtby, otherwise known around these parts as Mitchmatic, that beginning came after he moved to Edmonton with his family in the summer of 2006.

"I played at a fundraiser that the mayor and the premier were at. It was strange," Holtby says with a laugh. "It was my first time playing piano in public."

Before the move, back in Clearwater, BC, Holtby had been playing piano for years, teaching himself a mix of classical and jazz on the instrument. While he says he only ever learned around five proper classical pieces, he did start writing his own songs. And then, just before the move to Edmonton he began recording rap at home as well.

The shift to rap wasn't completely out of the blue: Holtby's older brother Teddy—then known as Well Put, later as Teddy Hotbody Pronounced Holtby, and on Mitchmatic's latest release as Ted Birdie—was already living in Edmonton and performing shows of his own. Holtby says that he's never known anyone whose musical tastes run as close to his own as those of his brother, so they were already talking about the music.

Then, during a trip back to Clearwater, Teddy brought along a friend

and put on a show in his hometown.

That friend was Joe Gurba, then rapping as The Joe, who would soon play a role in the early career of Mitchmatic when Gurba booked Holtby's first rap show, at the now defunct Blackspot Café.

"Joe probably booked my first 20 shows consecutively, I bet. And then I just started getting asked by other people to play after that and I just kept saying yes," Holtby recalls of his entry into Edmonton's indie music scene, adding that he had no real plan for a career in music at that point. "It was more of a realization after it happened then deciding to push for it."

Gurba would figure largely into Holtby's future, putting together the Old Ugly record label in the late 2000s and quickly growing it from a small group of rappers to a selection of some of this city's finest songwriters. The players would record and perform shows together, stepping into each others bands with ease and harnessing a shared spirit of creativity that would mark a highpoint in Edmonton's ever evolving scene.

While Old Ugly has faded to a backburner in recent years as Gurba and everyone else grew and got busy with other projects, it's not gone and Holtby is still in close touch with

Night Lost. "And then Joe didn't use many of the crew.

"It never officially ended. We've them and I ended up taking them."

The record is a soulful 15-minute talked about having a funeral show but it hasn't happened yet," Holtby trip, and it strikes a perfect note, says. "I would've been happy to be Holtby's rapping and singing sitconnected with a lot of those peo- ting just right in the mix between ple—I mean I still am, but to be offi- Teddy's beats and Mason's voice. cially affiliated with all those people He says there will be future colstill, because I still find a lot of them laborations, but they won't follow inspiring. I play in Jessica Jalbert's the same format.

"We'll do more, but it'll be pretty band right now, and I play in Diamond Mind sometimes— that's Liam different," he says. "One time when he came back [from New York, where Trimble's band—and Doug Hoyer's."

Holtby's played with others, too, he's been living since 2008] I played counting more than 20 people that in his band doing soul-rock kind of he's joined on various instruments stuff. It could end up being somelike sax, keyboards or drums. Just as thing like that the next time we colhis solo shows snowballed as he kept laborate. This, to document saying yes, the same thing happened the time period, it does a good job." with his role as a band member.

Documenting the time "I couldn't say no. It was just something I was drawn to, whether I knew period is a big thing for it or not," he says. "In 2012 I actually Holtby, even when he's didn't work, and I played 94 shows not thinking about doing that directly. that year."

"It's something Today, Holtby's priority is the new Mitchmatic album that stands as his that, when in first official collaboration with his the middle of it, brother: Teddy built the beats—sam- it doesn't seem pling soul singer Barbara Mason for as important," all but one of the tracks—and Holt- he says. "But looking back by turned them into A Night Lost.

"He actually gave these beats to Joe I'm so glad I a long time ago," he explains of the Sat, Aug 23 (3 pm) early origins of A Cha Island

released everything that I did and I really regret maybe 10 songs that I never actually recorded or I recorded and then lost on a hard drive or something, just because I didn't think they were worthwhile at the time. I wish I just recorded everything.

"For me, at least with my stuff, it's a window into exactly who I was when I wrote that and that's interesting. I want to leave that to people I know."

So, if there was no master plan

when Holtby first arrived in Edmonton, he's certainly thinking more "big picture" now. It's not like he's sketching out business plans and chasing after the money, though: the Mitchmatic of today is just as much a music fan as the teenager who moved from Clearwater, and he remains driven first and foremost by the music.

"My plan right now just mostly involves making a lot of the right kind of music and then seeing what happens, because that's all it's been so far for me: I do it and then I see what happens, and it usually surprises me."

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Megan Lane, getting over the blues

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t's the real guitar sport," Megan her swapping genre-work for a radical Lane offers about the blues, the realignment of sonic elements. Animal genre she's just abandoned, perhaps is ferocious guitar-led pop, encroaching forever. The Saskatoon-based musi- on club territory on a few spots, but cian cut her teeth in the genre—de- mostly offering itself as a collection of livering a trio of acclaimed albums the sort of songs best heard through a throughout the past decade—yet big stack of amps. has now departed from its fairly regi"A lot of this is riff-rock," Lane states, with an audible mented, reinterpretation-based sound. Mon, Aug 25 (7:30 pm) grin. "My last re"The musician in With guests cord, I was doing a lot of writing with me is full-on guitar- The Artery chording. I would ist, so I think that's $10 (advance), $13 (door) sit down, and I why I think I got so involved in the would write a blues community," she says. "But the melody, write a song over a lot of chord structure of blues is it's always the changes—that's the natural way you'd same. And I wanted to break rules, think you'd write a song. But what I was not work within structure." missing there was, wait a second, I'm a Which is precisely what Lane's lat- monster on the guitar. So this record est, Sounding the Animal, does: finds was based around riffy songs. Songs

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that were tastefully, but really in your face, showing off the guitar moves, and writing songs around these riffs."

The approach attracted a few new collaborators to Animal's process: trans-folk icon Rae Spoon co-wrote the single “Someday We will Leave this Town" lending Lane's guitarchops an almost Robyn-y pop sheen.

In addition, Hawksley Workman took on production duties after hearing an early demo from the album.

Lane credits Workman with encouraging her to chase riffs, and being the one to sift through the nuances tones and textures for a big guitar album.

"It was incredible to watch: we had I think 12 amps set-up, and 20 different guitars, and the whole studio floor was CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 >>

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MUSIC PREVUE // PSYCH-DREAMPOP

Creaks

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here are a number of people in Edmonton who are apprehensive about the fate of Wunderbar, and Christopher Soder-Duncan of Creaks counts himself among them.

As the guitarist/vocalist is first to admit, the Whyte Ave live venue has not only been important to Creaks' growth as a band, it's been absolutely essential.

"We actually didn't know anybody when we first started," he says. "This was our first band, and we walked up to Craig (Martell, Wunderbar coowner) to ask for a show, and then sent him an email. He listened, said

he loved our tunes, and then started putting us on shows. He'd get us to open for cool out-of-town bands, and we'd connect with other people in town. Playing there really pushed us a little, and now I'm not sure what's going to happen."

What will happen in the interim is that the four-piece, which formed in late 2010, will play Creaks' final Wunderbar show under the current ownership and then cross their fingers that someone else comes along with the same respect for music. Whatever fate occurs to the little-bar-that-could, however, the

band will continue along, picking up a growing appreciation for their messy, hooky, psych-dreampop.

Things are finally starting to move along for the band (rounded out by multi-instrumentalists Katrina, Aiden and Adrian), who have been notably absent from gigging all summer after recording earlier in the year with producer Rene Wilson.

Soder-Duncan is expecting a shipment of 7" singles to arrive at the end of the month, final resolution to a long period of back and forth with the pressing plant, and by the time Martell and his compatriots are gone, Creaks will be looking into a release show. Look for it to happen in late September or early October, possibly at Cha Island.

"I guess it's time to start pushing ourselves, now that we're in the waning Wunderbar era," Soder-Duncan reflects. "We've actually been making more of an attempt, but the summer hasn't been the best for us. We've been waiting on this record for so long, just so we can send it out to places like Weird Canada. We really need to get the ball rolling again."

The ball will admittedly still be moving rather slowly, but Creaks has vague plans to travel once it has music to flog on the road. Sled Island and Shake/Arama—the Victoria festival run by Shake! Records—is high on the band's list of dream assignments after already playing some of the local festivals. As far as the more mundane club shows go, westward seems to be the general consensus, simply because that's where Creaks' contacts are all living. Also possible is the notion of hooking up with a betterknown touring band that can draw.

"It would be amazing if we could do gigs with a band like Grizzly Bear or Beach House, but that's just me," Soder-Duncan says. "Everyone in the group is into different things. The one thing we all actually agree on is garage rock; we're big fans of (Edmonton's) Betrayers and (San Diego's) Crocodiles. In any event, we'll need to get out there, because Edmonton is a challenging scene to be part of and it's not like what we do is a huge thing right now."

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PREVUE // INSTRUMENTAL

Mahogany Frog wrong? Well, we'd never had that, all of our tours had been great until our van actually broke down, and we had to leave it in Illinois. That was a very low point, we came home broke and kind of disillusioned, and thinking after we released Senna that it would be our last record."

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t doesn't happen as much as it used to, but every now and again Winnipeg's Mahogany Frog get offers from aspiring singers to help them out.

That the instrumental four-piece is vocalist-free by choice doesn't really enter into the equation for these self-declared future members, but keyboardist/guitarist Graham Epp is quite polite about hearing them out.

"There were times when I'd even write down their numbers," Epp sheepishly admits from his Winnipeg home, while fighting off the entreaties of his young child to go looking for his cap gun. "That seems to have changed a lot since our audience has gotten younger; the kids actually seem to get it."

The kids aren't the only ones to get the band's idiosyncratic, impossible-

to-pigeonhole sound, one which gets them dubbed prog-rock by many critics. Earlier this year Mahogany Frog was announced as a Juno nominee for Instrumental Album of the Year for its latest release, Senna. This not only confounded the band—who had no idea that they were on anybody's radar—it also gave them impetus to continue.

"That was definitely bizarre," Epp acknowledges of the award, which was eventually presented to Esmerine for the album Dalmak. "I mean, we take pride in what we do, and we like our music, it just surprised us when the Junos were suddenly knocking on our door. It always seems like something happens at the right moment for us, what we call the carrot in front of our nose. You know how you hear about the tour where everything goes

Not necessarily the last music they would ever make together, though, since Epp and fellow MF multi-instrumentalist Jesse Warkentin (bassist Scott Ellenberger and drummer Andy Rudolph round out the band) have been making music together for 15 years, 11 of them in Mahogany Frog.

Both had moved to Winnipeg from

Saskatoon just over a decade ago, taking with them the lessons they had learned as part of that city's experimental rock scene.

"That was a great scene. We were in our late teens, early '20s, going to these weird art parties where there was a lot of really atonal experimental music. I had just started to get into jazz at that point and I'd never heard anything like it," he recalls. "I remember seeing one guy with an electric guitar on a table, hitting it with a drum stick. I'd never seen anything like it. Not that it was a direct influence, it was just something I'd never even considered, being from a small town. I just thought 'What

could this guy be listening to?'"

In Saskatoon, Epp shared a house with Steve Reed and Jim Ginther of Shooting Guns, bonding with them over equally mutant music taste and picking up a few tips as well.

"It was actually Steve that turned me on to Tortoise, Sigur Ros and Elevator," Epps says. "They had a whole pile of equipment in the basement and we would just go downstairs and jam. We all listened to a lot of the same music, and 15 years later we might have taken some different musical paths but the roots are still the same."

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just covered in pedals," Lane recalls. "It was just sexy. It was awesome to be surrounded by all that sweet gear. And he was just a madman, plugging and unplugging shit, saying play this note, play something, play something while he's unplugging and turning things up and down until he'd go, that's it, that's the sound. And then we'd record the part."

And so for all the talk of Sounding The Animal's being a departure in sound, it might actually be more of an arrival: for perhaps the first time, an album that balances out both sides of Lane's songwriting urges.

"That's been my life as a writer, actually," Lane says. "Trying to find that sweet spot between me as a guitarist and me as a writer. And I think I've finally hit that with this record. I finally found that sweet spot."

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BRIXX Metal night every

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES– DT (Rice Howard Way)

band:

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays:

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s

Jackson and Alex Zayas DRUID IRISH PUB Open

Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio Series: Daniel Gervais, Clinton Pelletier, and the Slocan Ramblers; 7:30pm; $8 at Festival Place box office

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every

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

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

DJs

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

DJs

RICHARD’S PUB Tue Live Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted

by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

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 AUG 27 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

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

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 SHERLOCK HOLMES– DT (Rice Howard Way)

Quentin Reddy WUNDERBAR Fire Next Time, Worst Days Down, Jon Creeden, Jesse LeBourdais; 9pm ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

Stage Tue; 9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Russell

Jackson and Alex Zayas

Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY

Monday open mic

(folk), guests; 7:30pm; $8 (adv)

Celtic Music with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue

Open Jam: Trevor Mullen

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

Rock ‘n’ Soul Jam; 8-12pm

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

Main Floor: Glitter Gulch:

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

HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’

the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm GRAHAM HEIGHTS– Sherwood Park Acreage

Slocan Ramblers House Concert; 7:30-10pm; $20 (donation to the artists); http://rouseconcerts.ca JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Cody

Simpson; 7:30pm LIVE AT SLY’S–THE RIG

Every Sun Jam with LocoMoFos, hosted by Bob Cook; 8-12pm

L.B.’S PUB Tue Variety

Family Channel’s Big Ticket Summer Concert presented by Lego and friends: Cody Simpson, Megan Nicole, Sabrina Carpenter, Hosted

By Calum Worthy, Performance By The Next Step Dancers; 5pm (door), 6pm (show); livenation. com

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

MERCURY ROOM Music

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

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

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

Open mic every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes

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

23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave CLANSMEN RUGBY HALL 11060-111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DIVERSION LOUNGE 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 901388 Ave, 780.465.4834 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667

FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–South Holiday Inn Conference Centre, 4485 Gateway Blvd FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 GRAHAM HEIGHTS–Sherwood Park Acreage T8B 1B6 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546126 St, 780.453.2249 J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 MCDOUGAL UNITED CHURCH 10060 Macdonald Dr MERCER TAVERN 10363 104

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY Calum Graham

live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Russell

DJs

Main Floor: RetroActive

Radio: Alternative ‘80s and ‘90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe

Jackson and Alex Zayas

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats

BRIXX Lettuce Produce

THE COMMON The Wed

Beats THE BUCKINGHAM Buck’s

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane

summer of Gibson giveaways

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and

DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs

open mic with host Duff Robison

‘80s metal every Wed every Wed

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BEVERLY CENTENNIAL STREET CONCERT 118 Ave, 39 St BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@ thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750124 St CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99,

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VUEWEEKLY AUG 21 – AUG 27, 2014

St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower

School, 10135-96 Ave ST FAITH & ST STEPHEN THE MARTYR CHURCH 11725 93 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 1050782 Ave, 780.521.4404 UKRAINIAN CULTURAL HERITAGE VILLAGE 25 mins E of Edmonton on Hwy 16 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO– St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog

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

BOURBON ROOM–St Albert/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert • Comedy @ the Bourbon: We start with a few open mic spots and Darryl Koszman is headlining • Aug 27, 8:30pm

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm • Rachel Feinstein; Aug 22-23; $20

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Danny Acapella; Aug 22-23 • Sean Baptiste; Aug 29-30 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 • Greg Warren; until Aug 24 • Jassimae Peluso; Aug 28-31 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 KOMEDY KRUSH/CONNIE'S COMEDY •

Krush Ultralounge, 16648-109 Ave • Happy Birthday 1 Year of Komedy at KRUSH!: Starting with open mic comedy, followed by Sterling Scott • Aug 28, 9pm (show) following a Capital City Singles Name that Tune

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87

• edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@ edmontonoutdoorclub.com

EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani

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

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican

TOASTMASTERS

HIKE THE WASKAHEGAN TRAIL

• Meet on the NW corner Superstore parking lot, 51 St, Calgary Tr • waskahegantrail.ca • Carpooling is available from meeting place to trailhead • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership) • A 10km guided hike in the country in the Ministik area towards Dorward Lake with hike leader Sandra, 780.467.9572; Sun, Aug 24 • 10km guided hike along the Bigstone Creek, starting at Fort Ethier on the 309 km Waskahegan Trail with hike leader Bev 780.469.7948; Sat, Aug 30

HISTORIC WALKING TOUR

• Meet at the Little White School, 2 Madonna Dr, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Along the walk archival photographs, stories and historic buildings bring the story of St Albert, both past and present, to life • Every Thu, 6:30pm through the summer • Aug 28 (Downtown) • Sep 11 (Riverside) • $3 (donation)

KIDS WITH CANCER SOCIETY PARENTING GROUP • 11135-84 Ave •

Psychotherapy Group for parents of children with childhood cancer. Upcoming topics include: generating hope; information and problem solving strategies; communication and closeness and more • 2nd Thu each month until Sep 11, 10am-12

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

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

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

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org

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

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP •

Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church,

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY

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

• 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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place,

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

EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner

Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

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

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC)

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, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward. toastmastersclubs.org; reader1@shaw.ca • 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

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, 1092587 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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-

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

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

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

St, 102 Ave • yegmarket.com • YEG Market In The Back Alley Event is a one day public market event featuring over 50 food/craft vendors, 3 food trucks, a stage with live entertainment, a kid's activity, a beer tent with local craft beer and wine. Activities such as 'Cultural Passports' and a live mural painted by a local mural artist will bring fun for all ages at this family friendly event • Aug 24, 9am-5pm

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

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

House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP

• 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

SPECIAL EVENTS BEAVER HILLS–DARK SKY PRESERVE •

Elk Island Park • pc.gc.ca/eng/pn-np/ab/elkisland/ visit/visit4.aspx • A celestial celebration of culture, community and conservation to celebrate the anniversary of the creation of the Beaver Hills Dark Sky Preserve. Featuring astronomy presentations and public stargazing with Royal Astronomical Society of Canada volunteers • Aug 31

DATE NIGHT AT THE DEVONIAN BOTANIC GARDEN–Dance Club • Devonian Gardens,

1227 Alberta 60, Parkland County • devonian. ualberta.ca • The U of A Dance Club is here to teach you some steamy salsa steps • Thu, Aug 21, 6pm 'til dusk

DATE NIGHT AT THE DEVONIAN BOTANIC GARDEN–MOVIE NIGHT • Devonian Gardens,

1227 Alberta 60, Parkland County • devonian. ualberta.ca • A perfect way to enjoy the lingering moments of summer. The culminating event of our 2014 Date Night series–an outdoor movie under the stars, with the 80's classic "Ferris Bueller's Day Off". Proceeds from Movie Night support the DBG Green School • Thu, Aug 28, 6pm 'til dusk

DAUGHTERS DAY • City Hall • daughters-day. com • Celebration of all the daughters in our communities, with music, presentations, an information fair, Commitment Walk, and honouring of Daughters of the Year • Sep 6, 1-3:30pm DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to:

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

EDMONTON SAFEWAY WALK FOR MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY • Gold Bar Park, 10955-50 St

FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL • Devonian Gardens

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale

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

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON •

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave

IT'S TIME TO START COMPOSTING! • John Janzen Nature Centre, 7000-143 St • Winter composting is trouble-free and supplies home-made, organic fertilizer for your house and garden. Learn how easy it is to keep your compost working right through the winter in this two hour, outdoor workshop • Aug 18, 7-9pm • Aug 23, 1:30-3:30pm

space.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Nonprofit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

• walkformusculardystrophy.ca • To raise awareness about neuromuscular disorders and fundraiser for research, equipment, programs and support • Sep 6, 10am-2pm

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womon-

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources.

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

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

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

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

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515

QUEER

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

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

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

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

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot,

rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

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

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

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)

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar

• Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:

YEG MARKET IN THE BACK ALLEY EVENT • Just off Stony Plain Rd, 153-154

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

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

• 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

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall,

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

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio

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

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

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

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

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)

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

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76

Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

VUEWEEKLY AUG 21 – AUG 27, 2014

• 1227 Alberta 60, Parkland County • devonian. ualberta.ca • Sun, Sep 7

THE FOOD TRUCKS ARE COMING… • St Al-

bert Grain Elevator Park, 4 Meadowview Dr, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • MuseeHeritage.ca • Featuring food trucks, beer gardens, tours of the historic grain elevators, music and more • Fri, Aug 29, 5-9pm

HARVEST FAIR • Fort Edmonton • Port Wine Tasting at the rustic Clerk's Quarters: Aug 30-31, 12pm, 2pm PHOTOGRAPHER'S DROP-IN MORNING

• Devonian Gardens, 1227 Alberta 60, Parkland County • devonian.ualberta.ca • A chance to capture the early morning light and stillness of the Garden, before it opens to the public • Sat, Aug 23

RCMP MUSICAL RIDE • Presented by Whitemud Equine Learning Centre Association • Aug 30, 5pm; Aug 31, 12pm • Bleacher seating: $15/Grass seating: $10 at eventbrite.ca/e/rcmp-musical-ridetickets-11781668287?aff=es2=1 SUMMER LOVIN' • Clansmen Rugby Hall, 11060-111 Ave • DJ event and fashion show with a large patio, fun summer decor and funky beats provided by the Faculty of Funk! Nervosa Clothing fashion show at 9pm • Aug 22, 8pm (door) • facebook.com/events/249098068631615 UKRAINIAN MUSIC FESTIVAL • Ukrainian

Cultural Heritage Village • 25 mins E of Edmt, on Hwy 16 • 780.662.3640 • ukrainianvillage.ca • Traditional and contemporary Ukrainian-Canadian musicians live concert hosted by Steven Chwok (CFCW’s Zabava Program). Incl music workshops, historic music performances, historic activities, village market activities for children • Aug 24, 10am-5pm

VIVA ITALIA VIVA EDMONTON • Giovanni

Caboto Park in the Heart of Little Italy, 95 S, 109 Ave • Mangia! Bevi! Balla!: Music and Entertainment for all ages, Kids Corner, Italian car show, cooking demo, wine and cheese tent, soccer tournament, Bocce All Stars • Sun, Aug 24 • Part of the East meets West Festival

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To place an ad PHONE: 780.426.1996 / FAX: 780.426.2889 EMAIL: classifieds@vueweekly.com 130.

Coming Events

THE LOFT ART GALLERY AND GIFT SHOP The Loft Gallery & Gift Shop Reopens September 6, and members will be presenting their artwork created around the “Color Purple”. Come and check out this theme Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 4 pm, at the A. J. Ottewell Community Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park until October 26. The Gift Gallery will also be open with unique items created by ASSC members.

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Parents Empowering Parents (PEP) Society supports & educates families dealing with the effects of substance abuse in youth & adult children. Do you feel embarrassed, exhausted, hopeless, or alone as a result of a child struggling with substance use and/or abuse? PEP can help. Call 780.293.0737 or see www.pepsociety.ca for more information.

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Courses/Classes

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

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

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

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Help Wanted

Fund Development Intern The Abbotsfield Music Program Society (AMP) operates a non-profit music school that provides free music lessons and instruments to underprivileged children in the Beverly area. The Fund Development Intern will locate funding sources, determine grant eligibility and deadlines, prepare funding support materials, and write grant applications. For more information head to http://joinscip.ca/organization-log-in

Membership and Community Engagement Intern The Abbotsfield Music Program Society (AMP) operates a non-profit music school that provides free music lessons and instruments to underprivileged children in the Beverly area. The Membership and Community Engagement Intern will help AMP achieve more visibility in the Beverly area, and will help locate potential new board members .

For more information head to http://joinscip.ca/organization-log-in

Social Media Intern The Abbotsfield Music Program Society (AMP) operates a non-profit music school that provides free music lessons and instruments to underprivileged children in the Beverly area. AMP requires someone to help with their web-based means of information sharing, media and public relations. For more information head to http://joinscip.ca/organization-log-in

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Help Wanted

Special Events Coordinator Intern The Abbotsfield Music Program Society (AMP) operates a non-profit music school that provides free music lessons and instruments to underprivileged children in the Beverly area. AMP is planning a series of special events to promote the school program.

The Special Events Coordinator Intern will work with the Board of AMP to brainstorm, plan and stage these events. To apply, head to: http://joinscip.ca/organization-log-in

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Volunteers Wanted

The 9th Annual Kaleido Family Arts Festival is currently seeking volunteers for the run of the festival September 12-14 2014. The next Volunteer Fun & Social Nite is on July 22, 2014 from 6-8pm at the Alberta Avenue Community League (9210-118 ave), supper will be included!

RSVP for this event is required. For more information on the festival or for a volunteer application form please visit www.kaleidofest.ca/volunteer or call The Carrot at 780.471.1580.

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.

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

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope - WE NEED YOU Join us on September 7, 2014 at Laurier Park, Edmonton.

Walk for HER, Walk for HOPE, Walk for LIFE. We are looking for enthusiastic and dedicated volunteers to help out in various roles for the Ovarian Cancer Canada Walk of Hope.

There is something for everyone: event set-up, cheering on participants, assisting with registration are only few examples. Volunteers are vital in ensuring that everything runs according to plan on the Walk day.

Please contact yegvolunteers.occ@gmail.com for more information

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Visual Arts Committee offers Artists an opportunity to exhibit their works, Exhibitions may be one artist or combined with a complementary display by other artists. See here for Alberta Health Services Call for Art 2015 For more information, please call 780-735-4430 or email volunteer.RAH@albertahealth services.ca Submissions required by September 26,2014

The Safeway Walk for Muscular Dystrophy is a fully accessible fundraising event that’s fun for the whole family!

We need your help to provide essential mobility equipment, build awareness, and fund leading research on neuromuscular disorders.

Encourage your friends, family and coworkers to sponsor your Walk, as you raise funds and awareness to help enhance the lives of Canadians living with a neuromuscular disorder.

Saturday September 6, 2014 10am-2pm Gold Bar Park, 10955 50 Street NW, Edmonton AB T6A 1K8 www.walkformusculardystrophy.ca

Contact: Rachael Chan Fundraising and Community Development Coordinator, Alberta/NWT, 780.489.6322 x5104, rachael.chan@muscle.ca

Volunteer Needed Volunteer Stage Assistant Description: Assist sound man with setting up PA system, running sound check, trouble shooting, and take down.

Arrive at 4:00pm for set up until end of sound check (5:30-6:00ish), return by 7:30pm and stay until end of take down (usually by 11:00).

Qualifications: Enthusiastic, committed, willing to work hard for a return of great music and involvement in a good community. Knowledge of stage set up would be beneficial, or just a willingness to watch, listen and learn. email northernlightsfc@telusplanet.net - include your name, volunteer experience, and a little bit about yourself.

Want to make a difference for patients and their families at the Cross Cancer Institute?

Volunteer with the Alberta Cancer Foundation today and help redefine the future of cancer in Alberta.

Opportunities are available throughout the year. www.albertacancer.ca/volunteer 1.866.412.4222

Volunteers Wanted

Volunteer Opportunities CWY seeks youth participants Canada World Youth (CWY) is now accepting applications for its Youth Leaders in Action (YLA) program.

The YLA program is designed to give youth (aged 17 to 25) valuable international and community development experience. Participating youth can apply to join CWY projects in Tanzania, Benin, Ghana, Nicaragua, Peru, Ukraine, Vietnam or Indonesia. Projects are either 6 weeks or 4 to 6 months in duration.

For more information or to apply head to: http://canadaworldyouth.org/ap ply/youth-leaders-in-action/ Volunteer with us! **Recruiting board members** 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.

We are currently seeking volunteers to spearhead new activities, take over for retired activity leaders (cross country ski and snowshoe, badminton, outdoor pursuits), and to join the Team Edmonton Board!

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

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Artist to Artist

Art on the Patio will join art, music, and food, as artists and artisans display and sell their work during the very popular Festival Place Patio Series.

This is a free opportunity that will be scheduled for four dates this coming summer. Six artists per week will be scheduled.

Artists may book a maximum of two weeks.

This event will occur on Wednesday evenings. Set up time will be from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm, and take down after the evenings performance concludes (approximately 9:30-10:00 pm).

Interested in learning more?

Email artgallery@strathcona.ca ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: BUDAPEST The Open Call will begin on June 25, 2014, we have every months jury selection until April 15, 2015. Apply early!

HMC International Artist Residency Program, a not-forprofit arts organization based in Dallas, TX / Budapest, Hungary – provides national and international artists to produce new work while engaging with the arts community in Budapest, Hungary.

FOR APPLICATION FORM, questions please contact us.

Email: bszechy@yahoo.com CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – EDMONTON TIMERAISER Calls are now open for artists and nonprofits to apply for the 5th Edmonton Timeraiser!

Last year Timeraiser connected 27 nonprofits with skilled volunteers in their community and invested $13,689 into the local arts community. Help us make this year’s event the biggest yet!

Our Call to Community is now Open If you are a nonprofit looking for skilled volunteers or an emerging artist interested in selling your work be sure to apply. Don’t miss out on being part of this exciting event!

Help us spread the word about the Call to Community by sending your networks to: www.timeraiser.ca/edmonton.

Calls close September 12th.

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Artist to Artist

Call for Artists: Art 4 Life Exhibition, Port Moody Arts Centre – Port Moody, BC Deadline for Submission: August 29, 2014 Exhibition Dates: October 16 – November 13, 2014 http://www.pomoarts.ca/gallery /artist-calls The Port Moody Arts Centre invites artists in all media to explore themes in their work that would appeal to children.

The call is for a multi-artist exhibition of 2D and 3D artwork, and participatory features that are geared to a young audience (under 9 years.) The purpose of the exhibition and the related events is to inspire and engage children and encourage art appreciation and participation, so that art becomes a lifelong journey.

Call to Artists :: EAC Request for Portfolios Deadline for Submissions: ONGOING This is an open call to Edmonton-based artists issued by the Edmonton Arts Council, on behalf of the City of Edmonton for public art projects under $20,000.00.

This is not a specific call for projects, it is a request to keep your portfolio on file at the EAC. All artists are welcome to submit a complete portfolio, based on the attached entry form, to be included in the Edmonton Public Art Artist Portfolio Collection.

The EAC acknowledges growth in artistic careers and welcomes artists to update their portfolio on file.

To download the submission form head to: http://www.mailoutinteractive.c om/Industry/LandingPage.aspx ?id=1589040&lm=27313179&q =768295019&qz=c0e91d3de4 0726fff654c1be92bfb2fa Call to Artists for Caprices Fine Arts Pre-Holiday Event Call to artists for Caprices Fine Arts Pre-Holiday Event Saturday Nov 15 at the Inglewood Community Hall , Calgary, 10am to 5pm.

Looking for art work in all mediums ad genres. Please visit http://www.zhibit.org/capricesfi nearts/upcoming-capricesevents for more information and contact Nicole.

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

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

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

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

Drop-in sessions, $15. Ask about package discounts.

Watch for theme evenings!

The Paint Spot, 10032 81 Avenue 780.432.0240 www.paintspot.ca.

VUEWEEKLY AUG 21 – AUG 27, 2014

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Artist to Artist

Cultural Diversity in the Arts grants program Artists from these communities can apply to any Edmonton Arts Council program, but many also face cultural, linguistic or historical barriers to accessing support.

Grants will support the activities of individual, Edmonton artists for a specific time towards a specific project.

Projects can be individual or collective and could include creation of work in any art form. Professional development and mentorship projects are encouraged.

The grants will be given up to a maximum of $15,000 and in the case when an artist wishes to apply but faces language barriers that make a written application impossible, the artist may, at the discretion of the EAC submit a 5-minute video narrative instead of written material.

For more information about grants, or to apply, visit the EAC website… <http://www.mailoutinteractive. com/Industry/LandingPage.asp x?id=1623033&amp;lm=70864 243&amp;q=770212690&amp; qz=77568cdeb7c7e1077b0d92 55657700b4>

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Artist to Artist

New Public Artwork Commission Restricted to artists living in British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba, this call is for a proposal for a new public art work commissioned by the City of Lethbridge for the SLP Skate Park.

Proposal Submission Deadline is: September 30, 2014. Find more information here: http://www.artslethbridge.org/publicart/call-for-submissions/slpskatepark.html

PREMIERE ART FAIR SEEKS ARTISTIC TALENT Art Vancouver is calling on galleries representing artists working in all mediums to enter its four-day art fair May 21 – 24, 2015. Local and international galleries, collectors, designers, architects and media expected to attend this event at Vancouver’s award winning Convention Centre.

Deadline for application is November 1, 2014.

For more information including booth sizing and prices go to www.artvancouver.net or contact info@artvancouver.net.

Free Photographing Artwork Workshop: St. Albert Join Visual Arts AlbertaCARFAC and VASA (Visual Arts Studio Association of St. Albert) for Hochachka in St AB FREE professional development workshop entitled

RSVP to: info@visualartsalberta.com by 4pm on August 20th to attend.

St. Albert Place Visual Arts Council Presents The Country Craft Fair Call for Entries SAPVAC is pleased to invite you to apply for booth space in our annual juried craft show on November 15-16 at St Albert Place. Crafters and artists are able to present their wares in a venue which is as unique as their craft. St. Albert Place is known as a hub of the art scene and cultural activity. The sale includes free admission and free parking for your clientele. Entry fee is $300.

Work for sale must be handcrafted or produced by the applicant. For show info, Email: donnahillier@gmail.com

Make A Movie in Just 24-hours 24/ONE, the 10th anniversary edition is now OPEN for Registration. This annual event is the ultimate, heart pumping, movie making challenge. We kick off the weekend before EIFF opens and World Premiere the Top 10 short films (7-minutes or less and family friendly) during the film festival. Register now.

And catch all the zzzzzzz’s you can. 24/One teams are required to have a minimum of one (1) person 18 years of age as of Sept. 20, 2014. http://www.edmontonfilmfest. com/24one

The Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts is pleased to announce that they are accepting submissions for our new online “Directory of Ukrainian Artists in Alberta”.

Originally printed in 1993, the directory proved to be a comprehensive guide to Ukrainian artists in our province. Unfortunately, much of the information is no longer current.

Additional information and submission forms are available by contacting: Elena Scharabun Directory Coordinator, ACUA directory@acuarts.ca 780-975-307

NAESS GALLERY/ARTISAN NOOK/VERTICAL SPACE SUBMISSIONS Exhibition submissions are being accepted at The Paint Spot. The Naess Gallery’s deadline for the 2015 season is August 31. Neither the Artisan Nook nor the Vertical Space have deadlines. All three exhibition spaces welcome emerging artists and curators. Individuals and groups are invited to make a submission.

For further information please visit www.paintspot.ca or email questions to accounts@paintspot.ca.

The Edmonton Artists’Trust Fund (EATF) is a joint project of the Edmonton Arts Council and the Edmonton Community Foundation. The EATF is designed to invest in Edmonton’s creative community and to encourage artists to stay in our community. The funds are intended to offset living and working expenses, allowing the artist to devote a concentrated period of time to his/her artistic activities, career enhancement and/or development. Head to grants.edmonton.ca for more information, deadline is September 2nd.

“A Simple Approach to Photographing your Artwork” with Corey Hochachka, MPA on Saturday August 23rd between 1pm and 3pm at the Hemingway Centre (25 Sir Winston Churchill Avenue in St. Albert).

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Artist to Artist

The Walter Phillips Gallery Preparatorial Practicum program enables the participant to engage in handson opportunities working alongside the gallery’s curator and preparator.

Candidates for the Preparatorial Practicum must possess a foundation in studio art, art history or museum studies with some previous experience working with tools and building materials.

As this program exceeds 6 months in length, enrollment is limited to Canadian citizens and permanent residents of Canada (due to changes made by the Government of Canada to international student visa regulations, effective June 1, 2014). The application deadline is August 27, 2014.

For more information head to www.banffcentre.ca TRUCK Contemporary Art is currently accepting submissions for its main space. Eight exhibitions for the year will be selected. “TRUCK is dedicated to the presentation of contemporary art. Our goal is to incite dialogue locally, which contributes to the global critical discourse on contemporary art.”

This call is not open for students, specifically asking for artists who have a functioning professional practice already.

Graduate students are eligible only if they meet TRUCK Gallery’s definition of a professional artist.

Applications are due August 29th, 2014.

For more information, check out TRUCK’s website: http://www.truck.ca/page/subm issions/submissions-for-mainspace

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Artist to Artist

The Works is currently accepting applications for exhibits, programs, events, and performance based on the theme: “Making Space.” This theme will explore processes of growth, action, and accommodation and will reflect on new ways of understanding and interacting with our various environments. Applications may consider: construction(s) of all sorts, alternative ways to occupy space, finding room to represent.

Application Deadline: August 29, 2014 http://www.theworks.ab.ca/appl ications/

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Musicians Available

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

780-462-6291

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Musicians Wanted

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

Please call 780-901-7677

I am looking for a bass player and drummer to play original music...contact Dr. Oxide at ....780-466-1975

Looking for players for blues rock Contact Derek at 780-577-0991

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Auditions

Festival City Winds (Adult Concert Bands), under the direction of Artistic Director Wendy Grasdahl, is pleased to announce placement auditions for its 20th Anniversary Season. Auditions will take place by appointment.

Festival City Winds has opportunities for members in the following concert bands: Novice Band (performs band music at level 1-2) – conducted

by Dr. Eila Peterson, PhD (Northwestern) – Rehearsals are Tuesday evenings from 7:30-10:00 PM at Bethel Gospel Chapel (11461 95 Street NW) Intermediate Band 2 (performs band music at level 2-3) – conducted by Wendy Grasdahl, BMus, MMus, Dipl.FA – Rehearsals are Tuesday evenings from 7:30-10:00PM at First Presbyterian Church (10025 105 Street NW) Intermediate Band 1 (performs band music at level 3-4) – conducted by Wendy Grasdahl, BMus, MMus, Dipl.FA – Rehearsals are Thursday evenings from 7:30-10:00PM at Concordia University College (7128 Ada Boulevard NW) Advanced Band (performs band music at level 4-5.5) – conducted by Wendy Grasdahl, BMus, MMus, Dipl.FA – Rehearsals are Wednesday evenings from 7:30-10:00PM at First Presbyterian Church (10025 105 Street NW) For more information on the bands and to arrange an audition time, please contact Artistic Director Wendy Grasdahl at info@festivalcitywinds.ca

FREEWILLASTROLOGY

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): An American named Kevin Shelley accomplished a feat worthy of inclusion in the Guinness Book of World Records. While wearing a blue satin martial arts outfit, he smashed 46 wooden toilet seats over his head in just one minute. Some observers may be inclined to dismiss his efforts as frivolous and ridiculous. But I admire how he playfully mocked his own competitiveness while fully expressing his competitiveness. He satirized his ego's drive to be first and best even as he achieved the goal of being first and best. I recommend you try something similar. You're entering a phase when you'll be wise to add a bit of humility to your bold selfpresentation.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): You are about to make the transition from plodding to skipping; from moping to exulting. You will no longer be bogged down by cloudy doubt, but will instead be buoyed by giddy hope. To what do we owe this imminent turnaround in your fortunes? One reason is that it's Justifiable Narcissism Week—for Tauruses only. During this jubilee, the Free Will Astrology Council on Extreme SelfEsteem authorizes you to engage in unabashed self-worship—and to corral a host of other people who want to join in celebrating you, praising you and helping you.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): An eagle does not catch flies. A lion won't hunt for mice. A gourmet chef shuns recipes that call for canned soup and potato chips. And I trust that you won't indulge

a hankering for non-nutritious sweets and treats that would spoil your appetite for more robust sustenance. You understand I'm not just talking about your literal eating habits, right? Interpret this oracle metaphorically, please.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Now is an excellent time to phase out fantasies that bog you down or drag you backward.

Are you up for that challenge? Can you summon the courage to leave the mediocre past behind? If so, here are your assignments: wean yourself of longings to reconstruct bygone pleasures. Forget about trying to be like the person you used to be and to have the keys you used to have. Stop feeding the feelings that keep you affixed to obsolete goals.

Break any taboo that makes you scared to change what needs to be changed.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): The artist Amedeo Modigliani lived in Paris from 1906 until his death in 1920. For most of that time, he was destitute. Proprietors of local stores and restaurants sometimes accepted his artwork as payment in lieu of actual money. They didn't necessarily appreciate it, though.

One food seller used Modigliani's drawings as wraps for the fried potatoes he sold. Another stashed the artist's paintings in his cellar, where they turned into feasts for rodents. Too bad for these short-sighted people and their heirs: the worth of Modigliani's works eventually increased and some sold for millions of dollars. In the weeks ahead, Leo, don't be like those food sellers. Know the value of what you have, even if it's still latent.

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Auditions

Love singing and want to meet other people that do too?

Come sing with Accord Ensemble - Edmonton’s choir for adults (19-39) with a knack for great sound and stellar hangouts! Previous experience singing in choir is an asset. We’re especially looking for tenor and bass singers!

Auditions held on Aug. 25 & 28 (6:30 - 9:00 pm) Book yours via e-mail accordensemble1@gmail.com or call 780-975-2802. www.accordensemble.com

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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Tools

For Sale Housmann 12” compound rail/mitre saw with stand. New with warranty - $450 587-520-9746 For Sale Rigid 10” portable table saw with rolling stand. New in the box. Lifetime Warranty Model R4510 - $450 587-520-9746

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Wanted to Rent

Wanted Single or double garage to rent in Southeast EdmontonBonnie Doon - Capilano Area.

Reasonable rent for storage preferred 587-520-9746

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Automotive

2000 Acura TC 3200 4 DR V6 Auto, full load, silver, needs transmission $650 587-520-9746

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Automobile Service

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).

Facebook: Follow Your True Path.

Call Desiree: 780-868-0636 for appointment

•• AUCTIONS •• WHEATLAND AUCTIONS Huge Fall Consignment Auction. Sept. 6 in Cheadle, Alberta. Farm equipment, construction equipment, vehicles, RVs, tools and much more! Phone 403-669-1109; www.wheatlandauctions.com.

COLLECTOR CAR AUCTION! 7th Annual Red Deer Fall Finale. September 19 - 20, Westerner Park. Consign today. 1-888-296-0528 ext.

103; egauctions.com.

MEIER GUN AUCTION. Saturday, August 30, 11 a.m., 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton.

Over 150 guns - Handguns, rifles, shotguns, hunting and sporting equipment. To consign call 780-440-1860.

ROB BREZSNY FREEWILL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): I've got three new vocabulary words for you.

I need them to provide you with the proper oracle. First is the German term Schwellenangst. It refers to timidity or nervousness about crossing a threshold and heading into unknown territory. The second word is a new English term, strikhedonia. It means the joy that rises up when you feel the courage to say "to hell with it." The third word is from Portuguese: desenrascanço. It means the spontaneous improvisation of haphazard but ultimately effective plans. Now let's put them all together: To conquer your Schwellenangst, you must summon a bolt of strikhedonia and have faith in your ability to carry out desenrascanço. (Thanks to other-wordly. tumblr.com for the new words.)

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Desire can conquer fear. Love trumps cowardice.

The power that your tenderness affords you may not completely dissolve your doubt and worry, but it will quiet them down so much that they will lose their ability to paralyze you. These truths are always good to keep in mind, of course, but they are especially useful to you right now. No obstacle will faze you, no shadow will intimidate you, as long as you feed your holy longing and unshakable compassion.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): On August 2, 1830, Louis Antoine, Duke of Angoulême, was King of France for 20 minutes. (It's a long story.) I offer this to you as a cautionary tale. A few weeks from

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It's not supposed to hurt Anal-sex study shows what is being ignored in education A study just published in the British Medical Journal Open about teenagers and anal sex is frightening. It's not scary that teens are having anal sex. How they are doing it and what they think about it is scary.

The study was comprised of in-depth interviews with 130 teens aged 16 to 18, most of whom identified as heterosexual. Most of the subjects, whether they had experienced anal sex or not, said that it was normal for anal sex to hurt. Many of the female subjects who had experienced anal penetration said that they were convinced, pressured and, in some cases, not even asked before it happened.

Some male subjects said that it's normal and even necessary to pressure or convince a girl.

As one respondent said "sometimes you just keep going, just keep going till they just get fed up and let you do it anyway." Many male subjects said that they felt pressure from their friends to get their girlfriends to have anal sex with them even if they themselves didn't really want to.

The study, although small, exemplifies some major issues with sex education. Why do these young people think that it's normal for sex to hurt and to push people to do things they might not want to do? I believe it's because we never tell them otherwise.

The study's auther, Dr Cicely Marston, concludes "Currently, this apparently oppressive context, and indeed the practice of anal heterosex itself, appears to be largely ignored in sexuality education for this young age

group. Attitudes such as the inevitability of pain for women, or social failure to recognize or reflect on potentially coercive behaviour, seem to be unchallenged."

We have the same issue here in Alberta.

We do not teach relationship skills like how to ask for what you want and how to listen to your partner. Neither do we teach any in-depth information about how sexual response works and how to prepare your body and your partner's body for sex. We are so freaked out by the idea of anal sex that it's rarely mentioned at all, never mind talking about how to prevent it from being painful. If we want our young people to have the skills to have happy, healthy relationships, these are exactly the things we need to address.

Yet, at the very same time that this study was published, a parent group in Freemont, California, is threatening to sue the school

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There is a major gap between what young people need to know and what we are prepared to teach them. This new study shows us how far we have yet to go. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmontonbased, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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I'm a twentysomething genetic male. else. But being objectified in short, I thought for a while that I might be concentrated bursts by a lover isn't NOSY MOTHER-IN-LAW trans, but I ended up deciding that a problem for most people—quite I am a bi man married to a straight while I hate my masculine features the opposite, in fact. Being objecti- woman for 10 years. We are in a and like girl clothes and want to be fied by someone who doesn't care wonderful GGG relationship. On a "cute," I have no desire to be female about the rest of you? Most people pretty regular basis, we invite othand don't want to have breasts or don't find that sexy. Being briefly ers into the bedroom for fun. We a vagina. I also don't identify with objectified by someone who loves have one friend whom we do this a particular sexual orientation, as the particular thing/things you bring with weekly. Because he is here so I don't find the concept useful. I've to the table/mattress/sling and the often, a bit of his clothing and a been with both boys and girls and rest of you too? Most people find few other essentials are stored in currently I'm with a trans girl. I've that fucking sexy. our guest room. We are careful to never been a fan of real-people porFinally, UGH, while I had Molloy hide our monogamish lifestyle from nography, but recently I've found on the line, I asked her to quickly those who might unfairly judge us, myself indulging in trans-girl porn. address the issues of trans porn and but we figured a few pieces of clothIs it insensitive to have a predilection SRS. "It's no more wrong to indulge ing and a friend who "crashes" with for trans girls? My girlfriend wants in trans porn than it is to indulge in us on the weekends wouldn't raise to get sex-reassignment surgery in porn starring or created by cis peo- too many eyebrows, right? Wrong. the future, and while I support her ple," Molloy says. "Whether UGH's My snooping mother-in-law found a wholeheartedly and have never said favorite trans-porn outlets are sto- drawer with boxers that were obvianything to indicate otherwise, I ries, pictures or drawings—or if ously not my size, lube and a butt think she knows that I'm happy with they're videos of mainstream trans plug. Apparently that jazzed her her current set of equipment and I porn stars like Bailey Jay or inde- up, and she continued to snoop so don't have any desire for pendent queer-feminist performers that she could "find her to go through evidence if I was with SRS. I believe cheating." She Having a sexual preference—whether it's she resents me for found gay porthis. But this isn't nography in our liking guys with red hair, tall women, sports a relationship quesbedroom and a fans, blue-eyed agender individuals, men with few ambiguous tion. My question is more of a catchall: text messages. vaginas or women with penises—is fine. is it insensitive, as a She had no rearule, to be attracted son to look in to trans (or intersex) any drawers—or girls? I like to think of myself as sex- like Chelsea Poe—UGH shouldn't phones!—and I'm infuriated at the ually progressive and I don't want feel ashamed. As to whether his invasion of our privacy. Now she to objectify or disrespect anybody. I girlfriend gets SRS, that's some- thinks her daughter is married to a just think trans girls are real cuties. thing that has to be up to her. closeted gay man. I want to tell her Unavoidable Gender Hullabaloo Quiet resentment, guilt and pres- the truth, but my wife does not. MIL sure to have or not have surgery is religious/conservative and she "Having a sexual preference— should serve as signs that maybe may disown my wife if she finds out whether it's liking guys with red this relationship doesn't have much our marriage is often a threesome. hair, tall women, sports fans, blue- of a future. I suggest that the two What's the right thing to do here? eyed agender individuals, men with of them sit down and have a long Not In The Closet vaginas or women with penises—is talk about genitals, preferences and fine," says Parker Marie Molloy, a deal breakers."

You should tell your MIL to shove freelance writer and trans media Follow Parker Marie Molloy on her fucking money—the inheritance activist whose writing has appeared Twitter @ParkerMolloy. your wife might lose if her mother in the New York Times and the Adwere to disown her—up her relivocate and on Slate. "So long as the HOW BIG WE TALK'N? gious/conservative ass. (I can only preference is not the sole reason for If a woman writes in her Craigslist assume the stress about being the attraction, so long as UGH re- hookup ad that she is a "bigger disowned involves an inheritance, members that trans people are ac- beautiful woman," is there a polite aka big money; otherwise, there is tually human beings with a diverse way to press her for more specific no downside to being disowned by range of emotions, interests and ex- details? How can I determine what this bitch.) But if your wife places periences and aren't solely defined she means by that? Or is it always a higher value on her mom's money by their transness, UGH should be inherently rude to ask a self-pro- than she does on her own indeable to avoid coming off as creepy." claimed BBW just how much she pendence and your shared right Building on Molloy's point: if the weighs and how big she actually to marital privacy, NITC, then she only thing you like about your cur- is—to determine if one will be at- should tell her mother that the plug rent girlfriend is the fact that she's tracted to her? and the gay porn are hers. (Shrug trans, you're probably guilty of ob- Befuddled Baffled Wonderer off the ambiguous text messages.) jectifying her. But if her trans-girl Lots of straight married women cuteness is one of the things you If we were talking about personal with 100-percent straight husbands find attractive about her—even if ads on sites where people look for enjoy gay porn. (Most slash fiction it's the thing that initially drew you relationships—Match.com, OkCu- is written by and for straight womto her, even if it's something you pid, Gun Lovers Passions, etc—it en—why not send MIL some links?) focus on during sex—you're not ob- would indeed be rude to ask some- I guess it boils down to which will jectifying. one precisely how big she is. In that be the greater torment for your "As is the case with any sort of case, I would suggest going on a MIL (and therefore likelier grounds physical, emotional or sexual attrac- low-stakes, no-expectations date for disinheritance): the whole truth tion, a preference crosses over into instead and having a look/actual hu- (her daughter and bisexual SIL are the realm of objectification only man interaction. But we're not talk- sinful, nonmonogamous pervs) or when the person's potential love in- ing about a dating website, BBW, the face-saving lie (her daughter beterest is reduced to a single aspect we're talking NSA hookup ads on ing a bit of a perv). of their life," Molloy says. "So UGH's Craigslist. We're talking about a virpreference for trans women is only tual meat market. And when you're On the Lovecast, is being kinky a sexual insensitive and objectifying if UGH in a meat market—literally or figu- orientation? At savagelovecast.com. V makes it insensitive and objectifying." ratively, physically or virtually— Molloy is right: no one wants to be there's nothing wrong with asking @fakedansavage on Twitter reduced to a single aspect of their a polite, direct question about the

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