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Murdered daughters First Nations women are four times more likely to be murdered than non-aboriginal women. That's a glaring, serious issue that simply can't be ignored—unless you're Stephen Harper. Earlier this month, 15-year-old Tina Fontaine was found dead in Manitoba's Red River, her body wrapped in a bag. When asked if this latest sad example of a life cut short would spark a national inquiry into missing or murdered First Nations women, Harper characterized it as a criminal problem for the RCMP and not a "sociological phenomenon." He's saying the best way to deal with the brutally disproportionate homicide rate for indigenous women is to punish bad people after it happens. The thing is, that's how it's always been handled. The RCMP solves female First Nations homicides at the same rate as the rest of the population. And aboriginals, just one out of every 25 Canadians, make up nearly one-quarter of our nation's prisoners. The punishment thing is sorted, thanks. Harper is not stupid, but his statement certainly is. It's like saying that firefighters, not smoke detectors, are best for house fires. Every province in the country, the United Nations, First Nations leaders and even an MP in his own party have called for an indepth, sober look into why 1017 aboriginal women have been murdered and another 164 gone missing between 1980 and 2012. It's easy to say murders are terrible and should be punished. Taking the time and effort to investigate and work on deep, intergenerational issues is much harder. But an inquiry would bring this conversation to the federal level. An inquiry could focus on concrete solutions and the best ways to direct resources. Harper, now is the time to listen to Canadians and act like you give a damn. Maybe it'd help to pretend Tina Fontaine was your daughter. V

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Mare Nostrum

Italy wants asylum seekers arriving by boat to be an EU problem

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The last time "Mare Nostrum" (Latin for "Our Sea") was used as a political slogan in Italy, Mussolini's fascists were claiming dominance over the entire Mediterranean. This time it's different. It's the name of the operation the Italian navy is running to save asylum seekers from drowning on the dangerous voyage in open boats from North Africa to Italy. In a seaworthy vessel with a working engine and a reliable compass, it's a 10-hour crossing and not very dangerous at all. In a leaky, massively overcrowded wreck that was scavenged somewhere along the North African coast by people smugglers and sent off to Italy after a few rudimentary repairs, it can be a death sentence. An estimated 20 000 people went down with their boats before reaching Italy in the past 10 years. The most recent victims, on August 23, barely made it one kilometre off the Libyan coast before their boat sank, leaving 170 people in the water. The Italian navy does not operate in Libyan territorial waters, and the Libyan coast guard station near Qarabouli, east of Tripoli, has no ships of its own. The coast guards borrowed a couple of fishing boats, but only 16 people were still alive by the time they got there. The boats usually founder in international waters, however, and then it's the Italian navy's job. Operation Mare Nostrum began in October, 2013 and since then over 80 000 people

have been pulled from these sea-going death traps (though most were not actually sinking at the time) and safely landed in Italy. Last weekend, the Italian navy rescued almost 4000 more. This policy honours Italy's humanitarian traditions—but since all the people who are saved claim political asylum on coming ashore, setting in motion a legal process that can last years, the Italian navy is actually increasing Italy's problem as the first port of call for over half the undocumented immigrants entering the European Union. Most of them have a good case for claiming asylum: a large majority of the people reaching Italy are refugees from war and tyranny in Syria, Eritrea and Somalia, with smaller numbers from various West African countries. Nor do they really want to stay in Italy, which is going through a prolonged economic crisis and has very high unemployment. They would rather move on to more prosperous EU countries further north. But international law says that refugees must claim asylum in the first safe haven they reach, and in the case of the EU that is almost bound to be Italy, because it is so near to Africa and because the post-Gaddafi chaos in Libya means that there is no control over boats leaving the Libyan coast. Italy is now getting more than half of the EU's entire refugee flow—probably well over 100 000 this year—and all of those people must stay in Italy. It's expensive, it's politically poisonous and the country's facilities for looking after these refugees are being overwhelmed. Yet Italy's EU partners seem quite content to leave Italy to bear the burden all by itself. With almost all of the Fertile Crescent now in a state of war and new flows of refugees starting as a result of the fighting in South Sudan and the Central African Republic, the numbers are going up fast. Five Italian warships are dedicated full-time to Operation Mare Nostrum,

and on many occasions in the past few months they have picked up more than 1000 people in one day. This situation cannot last. Italy has made no threats to stop the rescues and let the refugees drown. "We do not want a sea of death," said Rear-Admiral Michele Saponaro, who runs the operation from the naval command centre. But Rome is losing patience with its do-nothing EU "partners" and there is another way to address Italy's problem. The Schengen Treaty does not include Britain and Ireland, which opted out, and four new EU members have not yet complied with its terms—but 22 of the EU's 28 members allow free movement across their borders for legal residents of all the Schengen countries. This includes Italy, of course. So in theory if Italy just gives the asylum seekers an ID card and a document saying they have permanent residence, then they'll leave for greener pastures. "We'll just let them go," said Minister of the Interior Angelino Alfano last May. "We want to clearly say to the EU that they either patrol the Mediterranean border with us or we will send all those who ask for asylum in Italy where they really want to go: that is, the rest of Europe, because they don't want to stay in Italy." A previous Italian government briefly made the same threat back in 2011 and then the rift was papered over, but Prime Minister Matteo Renzi's new government seems to mean business. Italy not only wants its partners to contribute money and ships to Operation Mare Nostrum; it also wants them to share the job of looking after the refugees AND NOT LEAVE THEM ALL IN ITALY. The EU is famously bad at making hard choices, but it's finally going to have to face up to this one. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Safety over style

Sexual assault and harassment happens to all genders A couple of days ago, I read a beautifully written post on autostraddle.com by Briana UrennaRavelo, a queer feminist writer, who believes that LGBT*Q youth need to hear: "I believe you, it's not your fault." She explains that there is so much power in telling a survivor or victim that they are being heard and that we know it was never their fault. We must continue to challenge patriarchy and rape culture and understand the negative consequences of victim blaming. There is a responsibility to make safe spaces for queer survivors and victims. Urenna-Ravelo says "It depends so much on how we affirm each other and believe one another, how we work to decrease stigma among ourselves and face the hard truths and

engrained bigotries and misconceptions so we can fix the issues." For me, as an individual who has experienced street harassment, this was both emotionally difficult and meaningful to read. Sexual assault and harassment can affect all genders and sexualities, but I would advise us to avoid using the term gender neutral because it dismisses gender all together. Being objectified and gawked at in public has made it challenging to live my life as a gender-creative person. Having strangers honk, whistle and shout lewd comments at me has permanently changed my sense of safety. There is always a fear that one of these unwanted future street harassments could potentially esca-

late into a sexual assault or an extreme act of violence. This impacts the simple decision of what I choose to wear everyday. For instance, I may prefer to wear leggings, but I would feel more "safe" wearing jeans. This is because I feel as though I would get more unwanted attention for wearing leggings, especially for violating traditional gender norms. In reality, though, it really does not matter what I choose to wear, as we are ultimately not immune or invincible to the threats of sexual assault and harassment. Feminist researcher Rebecca Campbell explains that sexual assault is a method of social control. She explains, "We run the risk of

blaming ourselves for things that are not criminal, but day-to-day, activities that we have every right to do as members of society." Depending on our identities, we are trapped in a double bind that makes it impossible for certain bodies to move freely and fully within public spaces. We must hold those who choose to do wrong to others accountable for their actions. I will leave you with the words of Bell Hooks, American author and feminist: "For me, forgiveness and compassion are always linked: how do we hold people accountable for wrongdoing and yet at the same time remain in touch with their humanity enough to believe in their capacity to be transformed?" V

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Legal sell, illegal buy

Worldwide studies examine the actual effects of legalized prostitution

etermining whether legalizing the selling of sex while criminalizing the purchase of it is a good or a bad thing is not an easy task. It's a topic that leads to heated arguments and the spouting off of opinions that are often based on false information. In 1999, Sweden started the trend of banning the purchase of sex, while making the sale of it legal, also known as the Nordic Model. Some believe that criminalizing the purchase causes prostitution to disappear underground, making it more unsafe for the workers and leading to increases in human trafficking (HT). The substitution theory, on the other hand, claims that legalization leads to less HT as locals will fill the need for sex workers. Since Canada is considering the same set of laws—Bill C-36, Canada's new prostitution bill, is being looked at by a special committee of the House of Commons this summer and could make paying for sexual services, publishing sex ads, and discussing a sexual transaction in the presence of a minor illegal—here are the results of studies done around the world on the effects of legalized prostitution.

Violence levels after legalization Norway It was widely reported after Pro Sentret, a centre to help those who have sold sex, released a study in 2012 about Norway's sex industry, that violence against prostitutes had increased from 52 percent in 2008 to 59 percent in 2012. The country adopted the Nordic Model in 2009, and fears that banning the purchase of sex would lead to more dangerous johns seemed to be met. However, the study lumped all forms of violence together, from hair pulling to rape, "Dangerous Liasons: A Report on the Violence Women in Prostitution are Exposed To" (Oslo, Norway) In actuality, verbal abuse increased by 17 percent and hair pulling increased by 167 percent, but being struck with a fist decreased by 38 percent and rape decreased by 48 percent. Smaller abuses increased while the more violent decreased. Seventy-six percent of violence happened outdoors while 43 percent happened indoors. Rape happened more indoors, but it decreased by half, happening to 15 percent of respondents.

Around the world Selling sex is legal in the following countries: Argentina, Armenia, Australia (certain states), Austria, Bangladesh (females only), Belgium, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland (not in public or from a trafficking victim), France, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland (selling only), India (not in public), Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan (only coitus), Kyrgyzstan, Latvia, Luxembourg, Malaysia (no soliciting), Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Norway (selling only), Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Senegal, Singapore, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden (selling only), Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom (except Scotland), United States (parts of Nevada), Uruguay, Venezuela The extent to which these countries allow pimping and brothels differs. Some of these countries are now considering alternate routes to completely legalized prostitution.

Iceland This country adopted the Nordic Model in 2009 and is now looking into banning online pornography.

Ireland Is currently considering the Nordic Model.

Italy In February, Italian prostitutes protested to demand the right to pay taxes so they can receive pensions and not face tax evasion. Prostitution is legal in Italy, but brothels and pimping are not. Italy will include prostitution, illegal drugs, and smuggling in its GDP this year.

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Does human trafficking increase? On average, countries where prostitution is legal experience more HT. This is the conclusion of a 2012 study that analyzed a cross-section of up to 150 countries titled, "Does Legalized Prostitution Increase Human Trafficking?" by SeoYoung Cho, Axel Dreher, Eric Neumayer. The authors say legalization increases the demand for prostitutes because some clients didn't visit prostitutes when it was illegal for them to do so. It also increases the supply, as pimps and sex workers who stayed out of the scene when it was illegal are now part of the market.

Sweden After Sweden banned the purchase of sex, the number of prostitutes decreased from 2500 in 1999 to 1500 in 2002. Street prostitution decreased 30 – 50 percent from what it was before.

Why prostitution? The overriding reason individuals enter prostitution is poverty. The six factors, as reported in the 2002 study which surveyed 146 sex workers: "A Comparative Study of Women Trafficked in the Migration Process: Patterns, Profiles and Health Consequences of Sexual Exploitation in Five Countries (Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, Venezuela and the United States" by Janice G Raymond, Jean D'Cunha, Siti Ruhaini Dzuhayatin, H Patricia Hynes, Zoraida Ramirez Rodriguez and Aida Santos, were: 1) Poverty and lack of economic opportunities. 2) Low levels of education and lack of information about recruitment. 3) A history of sexual abuse. 4) Family pressures. 5) A growing sense of personal and economic autonomy. 6) Alleged success stories from those who migrate for income abroad.

Australia Most states have legalized, or at least decriminalized, prostitution. However, politicians from the Liberal and Labour parties travelled to France, Sweden and South Korea in March to study the Nordic Model and consider it for their own country.

France The country does not allow brothels, pimping, or soliciting in public, and there are now talks of abolishing prostitution altogether. In December, France passed a bill fining purchasers of sex.

England In England, prostitution is legal except for persistent solicitation in public places, pimping, running a brothel, and kerb crawling (driving really slowly in search of prostitutes.) But as of March, some British MPs have been pushing for the Nordic Model. Mary Honeyball is the member of the European Parliament (representing Britain’s Labour Party) who drafted a report recommending European Union member states adopt the Nordic Model. The European Parliament voted 343 to 139 in favour of new laws criminalizing clients in February.

Germany The official estimate of prostitutes in Germany is 400 000 (20 000 are men), earning $19.5 billion every year. Germany has more prostitutes per capita than any other European country, even more than Thailand. This month, a bill was introduced called, "A Law to Protect Those Working in Prostitution," with the aim of improving working conditions for prostitutes.

Netherlands The ban on brothels and pimping was removed in 2000 and the industry is now regulated by labour law. According to studies by the Scientific Research and Documentation Centre of the Ministry of Justice and the national police force, prostitutes' emotional well-being is now lower on all levels than in 2001; the use of sedatives has increased, and 50 to 90 percent of the women licensed in prostitution work involuntarily. In 2003, Amsterdam's Mayor Job Cohen said, "Almost five years after the lifting of the brothel ban, we have to acknowledge that the aims of the law have not been reached. Lately we've received more and more signals that abuse still exists." In 2010 the government said only 17 percent of prostitution ads were from licensed brothels. Because of the high levels of HT to the Netherlands—75 percent of Amsterdam's 5000 – 8000 prostitutes are from abroad—last summer the city raised the legal age of prostitution from 18 to 21; brothels must remain closed between 4 am and 9 am; prostitutes must pass language tests and have shorter shifts; and brothel owners must produce business plans showing how they will protect their workers' health and safety. The Dutch Labour Party is considering criminalizing the purchase of sex. City hall's 1012 project has started downsizing the amount of brothel windows and even coffee shops that sell pot.

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Denmark The authors compared Sweden to Denmark, which legalized prostitution completely in 1999 (purchasing sex is not illegal). The United Nations’ International Labour Organization in 2004 estimated HT in Denmark at 2250 people while it estimated HT in Sweden at 500. Despite Sweden’s population being about 40 percent larger than Denmark’s, HT was found to be four times higher in the latter. They found that the substitution theory does not add up in this case, as Denmark has quadruple the amount of HT victims that Sweden does.

Germany Prostitution has been completely legal in Germany since 2002 when prostitutes gained more rights as workers, including paying taxes, receiving a pension and getting insurance, but only 44 prostitutes have registered for workers’ benefits according to the government. In 2004, the ILO estimated there were 32 800 HT victims in Germany, 62 times more than Sweden, another example dismissing the substitution theory.

Physical and mental well-being According to the above-mentioned "A Comparative Study," trafficked and prostituted women suffer the same levels of violence and sexual exploitation as women who have been physically abused or raped.

70% verbal threats. 70% controlled with drugs/alcohol. 65% self-blame/guilt. 64% anger/rage. 60% sexual assault. 59% difficulty sleeping.

80% said they experienced physical harm. 80% emotional abuse. 78% depression /sadness. 75% of the Indonesian sex workers said their buyers refused to use a condom.

Austria and the Netherlands According to a July 2013 study that was three years in the making, "Final Report of the International Comparative Study of Prostitution Policy: Austria and the Netherlands" by Hendrik Wagenaar, Sietske Altink, Helga Amesberger, more than 90 percent of female sex workers in Austria are immigrants and 70 percent are immigrants in the Netherlands. Sex workers in Austria have increased by 15 percent between 2007 and 2010. Prostitution has been legal in Austria since 1975 and sex workers must register and pay taxes. The report states that even in countries where prostitution is legalized, proprietors aim to maximize profits by denying sex workers basic labour rights and decent working conditions.

Switzerland Last summer Zurich introduced drive-in sex boxes to keep prostitution off the streets. Brothels are legal in Switzerland, but street prostitution is illegal unless it's in designated areas. Venezuela Prostitutes have become currency traders since trading in dollars is illegal in the country, but buying sex isn't. The USD is worth 11 times more than the bolivar as dollars are scarce. Venezuela has also been home to Campo Alegre since 1949. It’s a resort brothel on Curaçao Island where there are no pimps and between 120 – 150 prostitutes rent apartments in the brothel. Doctors check them for diseases, with a turnover of new women every three months, according to the website.

United Nations The United Nations-backed Global Commission on HIV and the Law proposed legalizing prostitution worldwide in 2012, to decrease the spread of HIV/ AIDS and decriminalize the voluntary use of illegal injection drugs.

Norway A government report released this month finds that HT has decreased and violence against women has not increased since Norway adopted the Nordic model in 2009. The 200-page report was based on six months of research. Sweden In 2010, the Swedish government’s inquiry into the Nordic Model’s impact showed the number of men using prostitutes was 7.8 percent in 2008, compared to 13.6 percent in 1996. It states that by tackling the demand for prostitution, Sweden has discouraged criminal networks and the number of street prostitutes has halved. There has also been no increase in hidden prostitution. Police and social services say prostitution can never go completely underground as it needs some form of publicity to attract buyers. There is now more than 70-percent citizen support for the Nordic Model, whereas the majority were against it before 1999. A 2004 report of Sweden’s National Crime Investigation Department estimated that 400 to 600 women are trafficked there each year, compared to 10 000 to 15 000 trafficked to Finland. Stats from Sweden’s National Crime Prevention Council showed the number of reported cases of HT for sex were 35 in 2011, triple the number from 2008, but police say this was the result of more funding for investigations.

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Settlers of Whyte Ave The Hexagon Café offers board games and Calgary-based coffee

o the less-discerning passer-by, the name and logo of The Hexagon Café could simply be a crisply designed logo, one that manages to pop out along the walls-to-wall stores of Whyte Ave. But astute board gamers will know better: the Cafe's namesake shape is two linked Settlers of Catan pieces, a sly little flag tossed up to represent the cafe's true intentions— offering a social environment in which to play board games. "I've always loved board games," coowner Randy Wong begins, sitting beside a demoed-up Catan board. "I'd always want to go to a café myself, bring my own board games and play it there, because it's a better environment than the kitchen table. And then I started thinking about this idea, and a few months later, we found out about this board-game café in Toronto, Snakes & Lattes. And I thought, 'Oh, this might be viable.'" Co-owners Wong and Kelli Ho both graduated school with degrees in Architectural design, but had the misfortune of doing so back in 2008, the start of the recession. After months of a fruitless job search, the two went off to teach English in Korea, where they found a love of board games— Catan in particular—acting as a social unifier between them and their fellow teachers from all over the world. "As an English instructor, you work late hours," he recalls. "And after work we ended up going to someone's house for some tea, and saw a box of Settlers of Catan, and said, oh, let's play this. It ended up being a huge social event between us and the teachers from all over the world: South Africa, Australia, the UK. It could be a huge social event for a bunch of people from a bunch of dif-

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57 Ave and 75 St, which opened last September, and offers another public board-game setting in town.) There's coffee, too, from Fratello When they came back, they began working on a business plan: the two down in Calgary; Wong notes the first-time business owners skipped brothers who run it were particularly out on taking a bank loan, instead generous in offering ideas and advice as they were prochoosing bankgressing the Café. rolling the whole 10123 Whyte Avenue "They've been endeavour them- The Hexagon Café helping us selves. And now, thehexcafe.com through the enarriving slightly ahead of its target University audi- tire process of this, for two years," ence's classes, the Hex is open: for he says. "They've given us a lot of ad$2.50 an hour, you can come in and vice, and they didn't charge us a cent play any of the 400 games spanning a for those consultations. They were significant shelving unit. The staff can like, 'Our goal is to get you guys up recommend options and even instruct and running to sell our coffee. If you you on how to play, if you never have. sell tons of coffee, you're going to (There's also Table Top Café, down on buy tons of coffee. We want you to ferent countries. The thing that was common was Settlers of Catan."

be successful.'" Wong and Ho are working on getting The Hex licensed, too, as soon as they can. But for now, Wong hopes the appeal of public board-game play (and coffee) is enough to intrigue, and draw board gamers away from their kitchen tables into a more open, ac-

tive environment. "I find board games may have had this stigma of it's something you do on a rainy day," he says. "But for me, when you play board games, sometimes it brings out that competitiveness that you wouldn't normally have. This whole new level of thought process."

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You can find it on coffee, chocolate, bananas and sports balls—and it's on wine labels too, though you've probably never seen it. Fair Trade certification has been in place in a number of industries since the 1980s, when an international standards system was established. (Note: "Fair Trade" refers to the concept of marketplace fairness as a whole, whereas "Fairtrade" refers to the specific Fair Trade certification system run by Fairtrade International and its affiliations, including Fairtrade Canada.) Producers and businesses

fee and cocoa in terms of protecting its vulnerable workers. Wine is a labour-intensive product. Large vineyards depend heavily on hired, seasonal labour during harvest; each hectare of vineyard requires the equivalent of 221 working days, but the bulk of this occurs in the fall. Because there's such a huge rush to get the grapes off the vines and into the fermentation tank (significant delays during harvest leads to a poorer quality wine), the industry is ripe for exploitation: without labour standards, hired vineyard workers experience

must adhere to Fairtrade's standards in order for a product to be certified as such; these include fair labour standards, sustainable farming, good governance and democratic participation. Certified products will bear the certification mark on the label, and Canada currently has 13 Fairtrade categories: cocoa, coffee, cotton, flowers, fruit, gold, grains, spices and herbs, nuts and oils, sports balls, sugar, tea, and wine. Fairtrade-certified wine has only been available in Canada since 2007, and until very recently I had never seen the Fairtrade mark on a wine label—and so far I've only found a single one available in Alberta: Ecologica Reserva Malbec from Argentina's La Riojana cooperative. (There are a handful of other Fairtrade wines available in Ontario and there may be others in Alberta that I haven't found yet.) This is actually a huge oversight in the industry: the global wine market is dominated by a handful of large companies that own several thousand labels each, many of which are entry-level wines made from grapes grown in countries with cheap labour—notably Argentina and Chile. Additionally, the legacy of apartheid meant that for decades, South Africa's wine industry was quite literally based on slave labour. There is an obvious, even glaring, need for Fair Trade standards in the wine world and in many ways the industry is decades behind other industries like cof-

gruelling long days of intense physical labour for paltry wages. Forced labour, child labour, dangerous workplace conditions and prohibitions against collectivizing are also major problems that are addressed by Fair Trade. Fair Trade is focused in developing nations where it is most obviously needed, but developed countries have similar problems in their wine industries. Temporary foreign workers are employed in many wine regions around the world: California uses thousands of Mexican and Central-American workers; vineyards in northern France, Italy and Germany employ Eastern Europeans while Spain, Portugal and other southern European wine regions bring in workers from North Africa. Many of these workers are subjected to the same unsafe and unfair working conditions found in South America and South Africa, and while these countries may not fall under the jurisdiction of Fair Trade, they certainly need to institute a similar set of standards. There's nothing necessarily wrong with wine made by a large corporation, but too many are made in exploitative conditions and in a marketplace designed to snuff out the small players; there's obviously something wrong with that. Diversity is always a noble and essential objective; the wine industry is no exception. So, bring on the Fair Trade practices— whether certified or not. V

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OPINION: WHAT TO DO ABOUT FRINGE STAR RATINGS?

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Scream queens

HOMO-CIDAL lets camp drag and horror films collide

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McCrackin 2: The Whackining • August 28, 2014 | 7:30pm | Westbury Theatre This film, but being heckled by drag queens

he place where horror and drag followed by a camp drag show. "I've always had a huge fascinaconverge isn't difficult for Zachtion with cult films, and specifically ary Parsons-Lozinski to pinpoint. 'Drag queens often find their inspi- b-horror movies: the stupider and rations from some of the strongest campier the better," he explains. women in pop culture: that's why "Because there's really nothing betwomen like Beyoncé, Madonna and ter than getting together with your Tina Turner are so important to so friends, drinking beer and making fun of bad movies." many queens," HOMO-CIDAL he begins. "In my opinion, the Thu, Aug 28 (8 pm) began with just Pa r s o n s - Lo z i n horror-film genre Evolution Wonderlounge, Free is also home to ski and another queen, Chelsea some of popculture's most memorable lead- Horrendous, but former one-off ing ladies: think Sidney Prescott guests have become permanent fix(Scream), Ripley (Alien), or Laurie tures: Teen-Jesus Barbie, GoGo Fetch Strode (Halloween)—I, and many and Lourdes The Merry Virgin, who other people, watch these films, all together form the HOMO-CIDAL and are inspired by these women's drag house in town, one dedicated strength. Why wouldn't we want to to camp. "If you're going to put it into the emulate that?" That's one of the overlaps, anyway; most generalized categories, there's for Parsons-Lozinski, the circles of kind of two types of drag," Parsonscult film and drag are close in his Lozinski explains. "There's way more mind, maybe even linked. On stage than that, but in the most generalas Lilith Fair last year, Parsons-Loz- ized sense, there's beauty drag, and inski wrote and performed in All The there's camp drag. Beauty drag is Devils, a comedy/horror/"spiritual pageant queens, and queens who sequel" to Lovecraft's The Dunwich get on stage and fulfil their BeHorror. And for almost a year now, yoncé fantasy, whereas camp drag he's been helping the worlds of drag- is specifically where we're trying to stage shows and camp-horror films make the audience either laugh or come together at HOMO-CIDAL, a be disgusted. Because we're clowns in gowns." monthly film screening/drag show. The premise is basically a raunchier Mystery Science Theatre 3000: That said, they're looking to expand watch a movie with a couch full of the show beyond drag alone: this queens offering up live commentary, month's edition—which features

a screening of Killer Klowns From Outer Space ("the first movie my parents ever watched on a date," Parsons-Lozinski adds, "so it's the reason I'm alive")—also finds burlesque entering the mix, with dancer Le Tabby Lexington drafted into the post-film show. As far as the watch-and-heckle portion of the show goes, ParsonsLozinski notes there isn't too much preparation to be done: sometimes they watch the movie in advance to get a sense of what's to come, but otherwise it's pretty much dolling out reactions as they come in the moment. "We like to think we're as prepared and rehearsed as a group of drunk drag queens could be," he says. And in an ultimate love letter to both drag and horror, Parsons-Lozinski is presently writing a horror film, looking to feature the drag queens of Edmonton in an '80s slasher-film situation. "I'm trying to get the biggest body count in any independent film ever— right now it's sitting at about 36," he grins. "I'm trying to get as many cameos from every respective drag house and all the independent drag queens around Edmonton, because I want this to be not only a homage to horror, which I love, but to the Edmonton drag community, which right now is really tight-knit."

We Glow • August 28, 2014 | 9:00pm | Boardroom -SOLD OUT!!! Red Wine, French Toast, and The Best Sex You’ve Ever Had • August 29, 2014 | 9:00pm | Westbury Theatre God is A Scottish Drag Queen II: The Second Coming • August 29, 2014 | 7:30pm - SOLD OUT!!! • August 30, 2014 | 9:00pm | Westbury Theatre Butt Kapinski August 29 & 30, 2014 | 10:30pm | PCL Studio Propylene Glycol, Maltodextrin, Retinol Palmitate, and Other Words I Don’t Understand Like Love • August 30, 2014 | 7:30pm | Westbury Theatre

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Fringe Holdovers

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We Glow Thu, Aug 28 (9 pm), Boardroom, ATB Financial Arts Barns

Butt Kapinski Fri, Aug 29 (10:20 pm), Sat, Aug 30 (10:30 pm), PCL Studio

God is a Scottish Drag Queen II: The Second Coming Fri, Aug 29 & Sat, Aug 30 (10:30 pm), Westbury Theatre

Red Wine, French Toast and the Best Sex You’ve Ever Had Fri, Aug 29 (9 pm), Westbury Theatre Propylene Glycol, Maltodextrin, Retinol Palmitate, and Other Words I Don’t Understand Like Love Sat, Aug 30 (7:30 pm), Westbury Theatre

One Last Time at the Well of Stories Fri, Aug 29 (9:15 pm); Sat, Aug 30 (7 pm) Swordplay Fri, Aug 29 (7 pm)

The Euphorians Until Sat, Aug 30 (7 pm; extra 2pm matinee on Saturday) It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Superman! Fri, Aug 29 & Sat, Aug 30 (9:30 pm)

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How to make a Blue Revue Entry: Option#2: The puppet show

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dvertising is the lubricant for capitalism's gears—even your friendly neighbourhood alt-weekly needs those precious ad dollars to keep going. In Shoplifter, the debut graphic novel from Toronto's Michael Cho, the advertising industry is a vehicle to discuss the greater alienation brought on by our modern condition where our lives are mediated through screens while we're constantly being sold something by someone at every moment. Cho's wonderful draftsmanship is on fine display in Shoplifter. His use of inky-blacks and crisp whites are beautifully off-set with the book's salmony-pink colouring, adding gorgeous texture to this unnamed city that looks a lot like Toronto. The characters are soft and expressive, his cityscapes richly detailed. Multiple two-page spreads are devoted to the hustling, ad-festooned streets where the book's protagonist, Corrina Park, is lost in a massive crowd, an anonymous face skulking through it all. "God, I've fallen into the classic trap," Park thinks to herself on the subway-ride home from work. She's a copywriter at some nameless advertising agency in some nameless big city, five years on in her post-English literature degree life. Her struggle is the typical quarter-life crisis: she's spent the past five years writing copy for her company's clients while her dream of a career writing novels sits on the back burner.

tough day at the office—is stealing their cashing-in. This constant selling alienates Park, magazines from the local chain conand her alienvenience store. Her ethics requires her ation is further to steal only from Available Sep 2 amplified by her life being comthe giant corporate By Michael Cho chains, not mom- Pantheon, 96 pp, $17.29 pletely mediated through screens. and-pop stores as she explains: "I'd She tries online feel guilty doing it there. I'd be rob- dating, but only deletes the barrage of tacky messages she gets from bing people." Almost everyone is trying to buy idiot men. Where she would once or sell something in Shoplifter, and go back to her small town to catch Park's little rebellion at the conve- up with her hometown friends, she nience store is her way of bucking now watches their lives pass her by the system. Park's boss Rodney ex- on social media. As she stares at a plains to her that advertisers are "the lonely polar bear on an ice floe, she dreamers of capitalism," trying to sell contemplates the gorgeous sunset their client's products by meaning- on screen, and thinks "Sometimes fully connecting with consumers. But I think I only see moments through everyone is trying to sell something, some kind of screen." or themselves, here: at a party for rpShoplifter can be a bit too on-thepl—a start-up that's "something to do nose at times—the rppl party is thewith Facebook ... but, like, with more matically resonant, but the characters shopping" according to Park's bubbly at the party are sneering caricatures colleague Candi—Rodney is sold on a of Millennials—but Cho's debut new advertising platform that can as- graphic novel is an enjoyable, quick sign a value to any human interaction. read that dares to think about some The band on stage at the rppl party bigger issues while telling a small are slagged off as pitch-men by Ben, story about following one's dreams. a freelance photographer Park has a JORDYN MARCELLUS JORDYN@VUEWEEKLY.COM crush on, their authenticity tainted by

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BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • ENDLESS SUMMER: Works by Tanya Kirouac, Gisa Mayer, and Monica Shelton • Until Sep 4

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • savacava. com • COHESION: Rachelle Bugeaud (mixed media), Madeleine Bellmond (fabric collage, acrylic), Danielle Smith (oils), Jo-Anne Farley (oils), Denis Gignac (woodworks) • Until Sep 2

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• Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks; antique jade sculptures and jewellery; 17th Century bronze masterworks and artworks by Richard Dixon

• C’EST OÙ CHEZ-NOUS: Art by Sabine Lecorre-Moore • Craft Exhibition: Coloured glass globes and tiles by Monika Déry, and Barbara Mitchell; until Oct 14

Grove, 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Main Gallery: MARKS OF MEANING: Visual Poetry by Bonnie Patton; until Sep 6 • Main Gallery: OAC Art Show; Sep 9-Oct 4 • Fireplace Room: OAC Hangings; through Sep

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Represents some of Canada's leading contemporary artists as well as artists gaining recognition in the international art scene. Canadian historical art available

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • THAT SHEPHERD: RIGHTEOUSNESS: Series of paintings by Allen Ball using photographs taken during his tour of duty for the Canadian Forces Artist Program in Northern Egypt; until Sep 27 • FROSH1965: Photographs by Norman Kreye; until Aug 30 • DISCOVERING DINOSAURS:

MILE ZERO DANCE COMPANY • La Cité Francophone, l’Unitheatre, 8627-91 St • PHASES: A Canadian contemporary/ballet dance production made in association with Fine 5 Dance Theatre (Estonia) with dancers, Tiina Ollesk, Helen Reitsnik, Tatjana Romanova, Endro Roosimäe, Simo Kruusement; live music by Ridere Ensemble Quartet • Sep 12-13, 8pm • $20-$25 at TIX on the Square, door

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/ art-gallery • OUT OF BOUNDS: Paintings by Emmanuel Osahor • Display Case: SHINO: Pottery created by Ruby Serben • Until Aug 31• Gallery walls: ROOTS: Mixed media works by Paul Holowack • Teak Display Cases: Works by members of the Edmonton Weavers’ Guild • Cube Display Cases: Edmonton Stamp Club: A salute to the World Wildlife Federation • Sep 1-30

GALLERY WALK–Edmonton • Gallery Walk Galleries: Bearclaw, Bugera Matheson, Daffodil, Douglas Udell, Front, Garage Photographic, Lando, Peter Robertson, Scott, West End • First Thursday Event: Galleries open late for an informal gathering of culture lovers the 1st Thu, 5-7pm; each month, year round HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • DENOUEMENT: Lauren Herzak-Bauman; clay installation; until Sep 12 • EASTERN BLOCK: Cassandra Paul; until Sep 12

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • 2nd Fl, Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • CHANNELS: Works by Paul Holowack • Until Aug 29

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

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LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Reopening on Sep 6

ab.ca • MARKING THE VALLEY: Visual Arts Alberta has partnered with the River Valley Alliance to showcase the Capital Region river valley through the artwork of 28 artists. The exhibition represents parts of the river valley from Devon to Fort Saskatchewan • Aug 28-Oct 7

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7070 • Under The Skin, 2014, USA (14A); Sep 3, 6:30pm • Tim's Vermeer, 2013, USA (PG); Sep 10, 6:30pm • Free film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main Space: AFTER FACEB00K: Montréal artists, CharlesAntoine Blais Métivier and Serge-Olivier Rondeau, explore the realities of Edmonton’s social networks; until Sep 6 • ProjEx Room: HOSERS IN CUBA: Photos by Sheri Barclay; until Sep 6 • Visualeyez: Canada’s annual festival of performance art: This year Visualeyez returns to Latitude 53 and downtown edmonton with the theme “Movement”; Sep 10-16

DIRECTOR’S CUT • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Donnie Darko (STC) • Aug 29, 11:30pm (licenced 18+); Aug 30, 9:15pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Friday afternoon at 2pm • Ender’s Game (PG, 2013); Aug 29, 2pm in the Edmonton Rm, bsmt

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 790.449.4443 • artstrathcona. com • Open: Fri-Sun 10-6pm • ACACA ALBERTA WIDE ART SHOW: Presented by the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association

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MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • POINT OF DEPARTURE: Pastel Landscapes by David Shkolny; until Sep 7 • Artists on the Wards: 15 Years of Songs and Stories; Sep 26, 7pm

MUSIC DOCS–Metro • Garneau Theatre • Monthly film series featuring music documentaries, from classic to contemporary. Curated by Tim Rechner, and copresented with CJSR and Blackbyrd Myoozik • 20,000 Days On Earth (14A); Sep 2, 7pm

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Paintings by Cindy Barratt, Doris Charest, Karin Richter; Aug 30-Sep 25 • Artist’s reception: Aug 31

OPERA IN CINEMA • Metro Cinema at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Series Finale: Verdi's Nabucco, screening incl intermission. Sung in Italian w/English subtitles; Aug 31, 3:15pm • $17 (adult)/$14 (senior/ student); Metro Passes accepted

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • JOINING UP!: Our Men and Women in the First World War; until Nov 16 • THE HOME FRONT: Life in St. Albert During the First World War; until Aug 31 • BRIGADIER-GENERAL RAYMOND BRUTINEL: And the Motor Machine Gun Brigade; Sep 9-Nov 16; opening/book launch: Sep 18, 7pm; Book Talk: Brutinel, talk with historians Juliette Champagne and John Matthews; Sep 27, 7-8:30pm

REEL FAMILY CINEMA–Metro • Garneau Theatre • Family films • UP (G) Aug 30, 2pm • The Incredible Journey (G); Sep 6, 2pm • Free admission for children 12 and under

SPOTLIGHT ON KUROSAWA • Metro Cinema at Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Throne Of Blood, STC, Japanese w/ English subtitles; Aug 31, 1pm • Seven Samurai (PG violence), Japanese w/ English subtitles; Sep 1, 7pm • Rashomon (Rashômon, PG); Japan 1950; Japanese w/English subtitles; Sep 3, 7pm

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • DRAWING ON THE CITY: AN EXPLORATION OF PEOPLE AND THE PLACES THEY LIVE: Watercolour cityscapes by Rex Beanland; until Sep 30 • Artisan Nook: WAR PIGS: Benjamin Rennich's photo-transfers and 3-D papier-mache work; until Oct 3 • Vertical Space: OUT OF THE SHADOWS: STUDIO GROUP: Works by Lynn Daviduk, Georgene (Graham) Galusha, Tomas Illes, Ken Kramer, and Mark Munan; until Sep 25

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St, 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: CONTINUUM: Exploring the creative exchange of teaching and learning; until Sep 27 • Discovery Gallery:

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• 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • thenina.ca • Recent work by the Nina Collective RBC emerging artist apprenticeship exhibit • Until Sep 9

ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St, 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • NEW LINES: Contemporary drawings from the National Gallery of Canada; until Oct 5 • 90 X 90: CELEBRATING ART IN ALBERTA; PART 1: FEATURING MANY ARTISTS; until Sep 14 • BMO World of Creativity: WORLD OF BOO: Jason Carter and Bridget Ryan; until Apr 16, 2015 ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert. ca • DELINEATE: Works by Pierre Bataillard, Florence Debeugny, and Tanya Klimp; until Aug 30 • ABSTRACTION INTO THE SIGNIFICANT LINE: Artworks by Pat Wagensveld; Sep 4-27; opening: Sep 4, 6-9pm

ARTWALK–St Albert • Perron District, DT, St Albert: WARES (host SAPVAC), St Albert Library, Musée Héritage Museum, Gemport, Elevate Athletic Wear, Art Gallery of St Albert, Rental and Sales Gallery, Bookstore on Perron, VASA, Cloud Nine Pajamas, Cerulean Boutique • ArtwalkStAlbert.com • 1st Thu, 6-9pm; through to Sep; exhibits run all month • Sep 4, 6pm Take out of ongoing listings after Sep 4

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51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • WHAT'S YOUR HANDLE?: Functional pottery by Lisa Stefura, and Janel Padberg • Until Aug 30

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • THE TANGLED WEB: Works by Denise LeFebvre, accompanied with stories of local writer, Trish Lane • Sep 9-30 • Receptions: Sep 11, 5-8pm, Sep 13, 1-4pm DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • THE RIGHT SIDE OF MAGIC: Works by Blair Brennan, A survey of work from 19862014 including An Unlearned Human Language, a new collaborative performance/installation with Brian Webb and Allyson MacIvor • Aug 30-Oct 11 • Performances (An Unlearned Human Language): Sep 18-20, 8pm • Reception to follow Saturday's Performance

Sep 18-Jan 31, 2015 • AGA at Enterprise Square Galleries: REGIONS OF DISTINCTION: Works by the Edmonton members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; until Oct 26

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St,

Park • picturethisgallery.com • CANADA SCAPES AND SPACES ART SHOW: Works by Brent Heighton, Dean McLeod, Jonn Einerssen, Murray Phillips, Cameron Bird, Bern Will Brown, Audrey Pfannmuller, Roger D. Arndt, Gregg Johnson, Robert Bateman, Jack Ellis, Dominik Modlinski, Bi Yuan Cheng, Jean Peters, Tim Packer • Until Aug 30

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • WORN TO BE WILD • Until Sep 7

780.492.2081 • FA graduating shows: • GRADUATE DESIGN GROUP SHOW 2014: Featuring Master of Design candidates Salim Azzam, Mike Buss, Piyush Mann, Ceren Pektas, Ika Peraic, Layal Shuman and Val Sirbu • Until Sep 20 • Closing reception: Sep 18, 7-10pm

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • Group show of

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert, 780.459.2525 • Works by Liz Meetsma, Betty Tessier, and Sandy Mitchell; until Sep 2; artists in attendance • Artworks by Liz Meetsma, Betty Tessier, and Sandy Mitchell; until Sep 2 • Works by Val Solash, Peg McPherson, and Louise Piquette; Sep 3-29; opening: Sep 4, 6pm; artists in attendance

Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • TWOHALVES: Print works by Koichi Yamamoto; until Aug 30 • Community Gallery: ÉTUDES DE MOUVEMENTS: Works by Patrick Arès-Pilon; until Aug 30 • SNAP Printshop (12056 Jasper Ave): DRINK AND DRAW: CAMP OUT: Community get-together in the printshop on Jasper Ave; Sep 6, 8pm-late; $10

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STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • ART: OBJET DE SPORT: Canada 55+ Games – Aug 27-30 • Until Sep 6

STRATHEARN ART WALK • Strathearn Drive Parkland • Art, a Crafter's Market, children's area, food, beer gardens, live music • Sep 13, 2-6pm (artwalk), 4-8pm (party) • artwalk@strathearncommunityleague. org

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • Events: WILDLIFE RESCUE: until Sep 1 • K'NEX: THRILL RIDES: until Sep 1 • GPS ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: Combining technology, nature, and hidden treasure; until Jun 1, 2015 • DARK MATTERS: ALIENS & COWBOYS; Aug 28, 7pm UKRAINIAN MUSEUM OF CANADA–Alberta Branch • 10611-110 Ave • Open Mon-Fri • Artifacts and homemade implements, embroidered and woven textiles, folk ceramics, wood work, beaded and metal jewellery, pysanky, traditional toys, art by Ukrainian artists • Until Aug 29 • Admission by donation

VAAA GALLERY • OUT OF BOUNDS: The Art of Lynn Malin. An Art Gallery of Alberta TREX Exhibition. A survey of Lynn Malin's artistic career • Until Aug 28 VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • GOOP OF SEVEN: Poured, dripped, flowed, splattered, melted, splashed, and smeared works by a group of artists, the Goop of Seven • Until Aug 29 YMCA (Don Wheaton) • 10211-102 Ave • YMCA Community Canvas wall: Rotating year round exhibits. THE SWEET SUITE: Works by Scott Cumberland; through to end of Aug

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Writers from a Hat: For amateur writers to share: Sep 1, 7pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • Laurence Miall presents his new novel, Blind Spot with Thea Bowering • Sep 5, 7-9pm THE KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass Door Coffeehouse Reading Series • On summer hiatus.Next reading: Sep 25 NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun ea month With A Different Play By A Different Playwright STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • EPL Writers' Corner: Laurence Miall presents his new novel, Blind Spot • Aug 31

THEATRE FOLKSWAGGIN’: MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Celebrating icons such as Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Woody Guthrie, the Band, the Everly Brothers, Carole King, James Taylor and more! This is a trip around the globe celebrating the music and traditions of its peoples • Sep 5-Nov 2 THE FORCE–LIGHTSABRE • Churchill Sq • Janine Waddell Hodder, Alex Mackie instruct Lightsabre Training. Learn Specific Moves And Fight Sequences From The Film Together With Fellow “Jedis-In-Training” From Around The City • Every Wed Night until Sep 24; Kid Training: 7-7:45pm; Adult Training: 7-8:30pm • Free, drop-in (Bring Your Own Lightsabre)

ODYSSEO • Yellowhead Tr, Fort Rd, near 12403 Mt Lawn Rd • cavalia.net • By Cavalia Under the White Big Top, a larger-than-life theatrical production • Extended to Aug 31 • $24.50-$129.50 at cavalia.net, 1-866-9998111

PIRATES OF THE NORTH SASKATHCHEWAN III • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM, Upper Level, 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • The great Admiral Northington has arranged a truce with all prairie pirates. An adventure complimented with rock hits of the '70s • Aug 29-Oct 26

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright • Upcoming Readings at SCRIPT SALON: Eudoxie and Jeanne by Beth Graham; Sep 7 SHE'LL BE COMING AROUND THE MOUNTIE • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton • Watch our Mountie mine all the love he can from his girl with a heart of gold. A different show every night presented by the Die-Nasty troupe • Sep 4-6 • $20

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REVUE // MUSIC "DOCUMENTARY"

DIG YOURSELF

20 000 Days on Earth gets into Nick Cave's truths by telling the right lies

here's a scene in Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard's remarkable feature debut in which the hero, a songwriter and musician reflecting on his life and work as he goes about his business on his 20 000th day (that makes him 54, for those accustomed to measuring in years), explains to a friend (or maybe a ghost), a popular character actor close to him in age, that, for a rock star, the idea of artistic self-reinvention isn't an option. A rock star needs to appear as unchangeable as a god, the hero says, a cartoon you can sketch with a single line. The music itself can be fearsome in its scope and complexity (something that the hero articulates beautifully throughout the film), but the rock star needs to be simple, an icon, a conduit. One of the things I loved about 20 000 Days on Earth is the way the film's very existence belies its hero's philosophy. With its highly creative approach to biography, this film, which we might erroneously call a music documentary, uses artifice to gener-

ate a domestic intimacy that starkly contrasts the hero's carefully sculpted persona. That hero, of course, is Nick Cave (or Nick Cave offering us some version of Nick Cave), in my estimation one of the greatest living songwriters. (Some of those songs: "Tupelo," "The Mercy Seat," "From Her to Eternity," "Do You Love Me?," "Red Right Hand," "Straight To You," "Into My Arms," "Far From Me," "Fifteen Feet of Pure White Snow," "Higgs-Boson Blues.") Along with his band, the Bad Seeds, Cave is also of the most electrifying performer I've ever had the pleasure to witness. I've been going to Cave concerts all my adult life (most recently in the company of Vue editor Paul Blinov), and he's never been anything less than godlike, or devil-like, while his songs speak of love and death, fury and fear, desire and madness in ways that are strewn with details taken from lived experience. The best ones feel unmistakably mortal. That frisson between myth and reality is exhilarating and

Foucault. As Cave drives, old friends appear and then disappear in the passage seat: actor Ray Winstone, ex-Bad Once an apparent antisocial ma- Seed Blixa Bargeld, and singer Kylie Miniac with a fiendish double-focus on nogue, who once did a duet with Cave his career and drug habit (the latter ("Where the Wild Roses Grow") that somehow never briefly inched him overwhelming the Tue, Sep 2 – Wed, Sep 24 and the Seeds into former), Cave has Directed by Iain Forsyth & Jane the mainstream. aged into a studi- Pollard Cave converses ous craftsman with Metro Cinema at the Garneau candidly with these a life regimented  apparitions—and by work and family. he often smiles! He "At the end of the wears a suit, resem20th century I ceased to be a human bling a sort of gangster, though with being," he states in the film's deadpan sunglasses on he can look like an emavoice-over, by which he means that his ciated Neil Diamond. He eats pizza and every day is a routine: wake, write, eat, watches Scarface with his boys. He tells write, watch TV. We see Cave traverse an amazing story about sharing a bill Brighton, UK, where he now lives, by with Nina Simone, whose used chewcar, to go to his office to write; to go the ing gum Ellis still owns. He lays down studio to record; to visit his archives; to tracks for his most recent record, the not-eat with his friend, bandmate and hauntingly stripped-down, smoke-likefellow Australian Warren Ellis; to at- spooky Push the Sky Away. tend sessions with a psychotherapist Some of this will hold a special apwho looks like a caricature of Michel peal for those of us who've long been moving and supplies the current that runs through this film.

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under the spell of Cave and the Seeds, but 20 000 Days on Earth will engage any viewer with an interest in what it means to be an artist with enduring ambitions and a long career. Cave speaks eloquently and humbly about collaboration, memory, fame, formative experience, the essential not-knowingness of creativity, geography-as-destiny, how experience is transformed into art, how things we can't believe in our everyday lives become integral to our storytelling. Perhaps out of a desire to match the drama of a great Cave tune, Forsyth and Pollard end the film on a somewhat corny note, but I find this forgivable, because in getting there they've done something few films do: they get at truths by telling the right lies, and they peer behind the artist's mask to examine the lines in his face, without ever losing sight of the fact that neither mask nor face exists without the other's secret adherence.

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The face of eco-terrorism in Night Moves //

Night Moves F

rom the reunited comrades straining to reconnect in the wilderness of Old Joy to the young woman with a dog and a broken-down car trying to move north in search of work in Wendy and Lucy to the desperate homesteaders lost in the unsettled West of Meek's Cutoff, Kelly Reichardt's characters are restless travellers the lot, folks without homes in any consoling sense, every one an outsider of some sort, marginalized by economics, geography, gender, ideology, searching for a place to call their own in an unfriendly United States. Reichardt herself seems a rogue wanderer in American movies, incorporating elements of familiar genres or styles (the western, the road movie, neo-realism) while largely refraining from generic tropes or token resolution, working with exceedingly limited resources along the industry's peripheries, even when employing some of its famous actors. Collaborating for over a decade now with writer Jonathan Ray-

mond, she's favoured small stories in which drama is restrained and political commentary conveyed solely through suggestion. The trio of radical environmentalists conspiring to sabotage a hydroelectric dam in Night Moves are in certain respects direct descendants of Reichardt's past protagonists, yet they inhabit a narrative in which the political is now thrust right to the foreground, and Josh (Jesse Eisenberg), Dena (Dakota Fanning) and Harmon (Peter Sarsgaard) are far more aggressive than their predecessors, steering, or at least attempting to steer the story, rather than letting the story steer them—they are, after all, activists. If you've seen Reichardt's films you probably have some suspicions regarding which direction her own politics lean toward, yet Night Moves is anything but romantic about its characters Leftist convictions. The chilling final act, which resembles a Kieslowski-esque tale of moral consequence, finds self-preserva-

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tion trumping natural preservation. Though he's young, Josh's idealism seemed wilted to begin with, and Eisenberg is an iceberg, keeping Josh's inner world sealed within an emotional fortress whose formation may have more to do with frustrations over personal powerlessness than frustrations over the powerlessness of his fellow man or animal. We might start out on Josh's side, but by the end we don't want to be anywhere near him or his colleagues, whose myopia, not to mention sexism, belies their ostensible progressiveness. So Night Moves is no manifesto. It is not about heroism or even good intentions. It is very much about plots, in both senses: the story tracks the hatching of a plot with procedural precision, and the film is by far the most plotted of all Reichardt's works. Which might make it more accessible to a broader audience and, perhaps, less appealing to longtime admirers of her characteris-

tically austere modus operandi. I'm not entirely sold on the climax, and I don't know that Reichardt proves herself a master of fight scenes, but I think Night Moves is a smart move for her as an artist, challenging her comfort zone—and ours. There is no one to root for, other the salmon, the forests and the farmers. There's a pervading feeling of helplessness and entrapment, and it's earned. Reichardt is one of the finest, most resourceful directors working anywhere. She seems to me incapable of betraying the integrity of her beliefs, and regardless of what tack she takes or how much she bends to genre dictates, she's not about to let us enjoy a clean getaway. JOSEF BRAUN

Correction In last week's paper, Brian Gibson's review of The Expendables 3 was inaccurately published with a three-star rating. In fact, the reviewer had given the movie just one star. Vue Weekly regrets the error, and sincerely apologizes if anyone was misled into seeing The Expendables 3 under the guise of us saying it was an average movie. In fact, we thought it was way worse than average.

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Crazy in love

Love Streams

Love Streams and Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! follow the heart to extremes

“BRENDAN

GLEESON

SHINES IN POWERFUL

‘CALVARY.’” Kyle Smith, NEW YORK POST

“AN INVENTIVE WHODUNIT

WITH A PITCH-BLACK HEART.” Rodrigo Perez, INDIEWIRE

“IMMENSELY POWERFUL DRAMA, ENRICHED BY

SPIKY BLACK

COMEDY.” David Rooney, THE HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

“BRENDAN GLEESON

roots his character in bone-deep

INTEGRITY.” Justin Chang, VARIETY

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ORIGINAL

We meet Robert (John Cassavetes) first, a novelist living in a spacious Hollywood Hills manor. He has many women around him, most of whom we won't come to know, all of whom were pulled into Robert's orbit by way of his stated determination to be granted women's secrets, though whether this mission is for the sake of his art, a pick-up line, or both, is hazy. He's middle-aged going on dead, divorced and estranged from his children, a hard-living, alternately charming and terrifying figure closing in on the final stages of some slow collapse. Sarah (Gena Rowlands) is Robert's sunnier, manic counterpart, a woman resisting divorce from a man who, like her daughter, cannot endure her aggressive affections. Sarah doesn't believe that love ebbs, ends or gets stopped up—love, once born, flows helplessly. Her psychiatrist tells her to get laid, maybe go on a trip; she does both, but really just wants to get back to the people who don't want her. More than halfway into Love Streams (1984), Sarah and her copious luggage wind up at Robert's, and their reunion is wonderfully moving. At some point we realize that Robert and Sarah are brother and sister, which feels odd, even disconcerting, since we might already know that Cassavetes and Rowlands were not only one of the mov-

ies' great director-actress pairings, but also husband and wife. Jon Voight was to play Robert, and when he dropped out at the last minute Cassavetes, already very ill from cirrhosis of the liver, stepped in. He's falling apart and absolutely brilliant, on par with Rowlands, which is a huge compliment. Love Steams was Cassavetes penultimate and last truly personal work— he died in 1989. Now available in a gorgeously transferred, generously supplemented DVD/Blu-Ray package from Criterion, the film is a masterpiece of finely managed chaos; hilarious, seemingly haphazard, yet fascinatingly structured, it feels more alive with love and loneliness and mystery than any three-hundred other films. Among the extras are Michael Ventura's making-of documentary I'm Almost Not Crazy and interviews with producer/cinematographer Al Ruban and actors Seymour Cassel and Diahnne Abbott, all of which offer tremendous insight into Cassavetes' process. There's also a very good visual essay on Rowlands by critic Sheila O'Malley. Meticulously stylized and colourcoordinated, Pedro Almodóvar's Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (1990) would seem about as far from Cassavetes' rough and tumble maundering as can

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be, yet these films share a remarkably similar theme: once touched by love, crazy people will do anything to be together. Upon his release from a psychiatric hospital, Ricky (Antonio Banderas) immediately seeks out Marina (Victoria Abril), a recovering addict and actress transitioning from porn to B-movies. Ricky escaped the hospital and had fleeting sex with Marina some years back. She doesn't remember it, but it changed his life. Ricky was cured by his love for Marina, or rather, by his obsession. Or not cured exactly, but saved. Or not saved but liberated. And so he breaks into her home, knocks her unconscious and sequesters her until she realizes that they're meant to be together. And, in a perverse twist that only Almodóvar could conceive of, much less pull off, she does realize it. Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! is about half-screwball comedy and half-postHitchcockian romance. It careens between masterfully crafted artifice and moments of arresting intimacy. Banderas and Abril exude a frenetic chemistry and an innate understanding of the essential absurdity and dictatorial nature of high desire. The film was enormously controversial and also happens to be one of Almodóvar's masterpieces. It, too, is newly available from Criterion. V

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Elena the while struggling not to succumb to precisely the same demons that consumed her sister.

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etra Costa was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. Her mother always told her she could do anything she wanted, except acting, and that she could live anywhere she wanted, except New York. Costa began acting at 15. She studied anthropology and theatre at New York's Columbia University. Elena, Costa's heartbreaking and gorgeous feature debut, begins with woozy nocturnal views of New York. Over these images we hear Costa's voice. "Elena," she says, "I had a dream of you last night ... " In this dream Elena, Costa's sister, is atop a wall, tangled in electrical wires. But soon the one being dreamed of becomes confused with the dreamer. It is the dreamer who is now atop the wall. She touches the wires, receives a shock, falls and dies. This is the story of two women, one

Searching for a ghost

an elusive ghost, the other trying to find this ghost, to know her—and, for a long time, very much in danger of becoming her. (Make that three women: Costa's mother also plays a pivotal role in the lives of both Elena and Petra, and in the narrative conveyed in this film.) Elena is a lyrical memoir of devastating loss and fortifying selfknowledge. Elena was Costa's big sister, already entering her early teens when Costa was born. Elena wanted to act and sing, to live only for art, but also to go beyond the theatre and break into movies. She moved to New York to realize this. But Elena's promise was thwarted by her own paralyzing despair and unreasonable expectations and prescription drugs. Petra, too, would grow up to act, sing, make art, go to New York, all

Elena received her first camcorder at 13 and, out of her desire to hone her creativity, and out of her perfectly healthy, even endearing adolescent vanity, immediately set about creating a trove of home movies—movies that, unbeknownst to her, would, along with other remarkable archival materials, become the foundation of this film haunted by her and named in her memory. Costa weaves together all this found footage with her own beguiling, at times astonishing images of water and drifting female bodies resembling Ophelia multiplied; of herself looking lost in a vast city; of interviews with those closest to Elena; and with the poignant use of the Mamas and the Papas' "Dedicated to the One I Love." Occasionally these sequences overreach in their desire to attain poetics and meaningful gesture, but what could be better to desire? Elena is drenched in much sadness. It's an abyss of grief and terror alleviated only by mere hints at self-realization (the biggest of those hints being the very existence of this film), but it also flows with tremendous beauty— beauty and fluidity are Costa's key sources of consolation. The film is so intrinsically personal that it's difficult to imagine what Costa might do next, but I can't wait to find out. JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // ACTION

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For Y

ou know it's a cartoonish filmnoir when a shutterbug's takin' pics of an affair through a skylight, a bruiser's drinkin' hisself stupid in a dive, and a greeneyed, raven-haired temptress slinks around, driving men to kill themselves. You know you're in for a whole lotta exposition when a stripper's talkin' to herself in the mirror. And you know where a flick's crude, cruddy gender politics lie when "bitch," "slut" and "whore" get tossed around as casually as a baseball at a Father's Day picnic. It's Sin City: A Dame To Kill For, where the style's the only thing going for this sequel ... and even that palls after about half-an-hour. The stylized black-and-white look, ripped out of a comic (Frank Miller's series about Basin City, that is), can still be stunning at times, with flashes of red or film-negatives of palm trees. But car chases come off like skidding animation and some action—especially involving arrows, which whiz through people like Cu-

who seems just oddball enough to go beyond monotype. No snappy lines here; melodrama and vicious violence prevail. Nothing new about vengeance, or obsession, or any of these scarred men or women smokes onto the screen. Instead, the writing's so lazy at times—the sex siren (never Now playing a true femme Directed by Frank Miller and fatale) lounges Robert Rodriguez around naked; vengeful wom an fires at an A sin of a sequel obvious mirror reflection when she's pid's lawn darts—is just Looney facing the man she's long wanted Tunes silly. A samurai sword-flashing to murder; a grotesque character's vixen seems transplanted from an- introduced, only to never appear other fantasy world altogether. And again—that this can seem less like the storylines—son returns to town a pastiche of noir than a hyper-sadoto beat his dad at big stakes, back- macho parody. There's a scuzzy sense room poker; sex siren tricks tough- of pointlessness throughout SC: ADTguy ex-lover into killing her rich hus- KF—fingers will be broken, eyes will band; stripper, haunted by her cop be gouged, people will be shot and lover's death, is bent on revenge— this noir caricature-slicked franchise remain smokily, shadowily generic. will go through its animotions. There's only one character, a back- BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM alley doctor (Christopher Lloyd),

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together on the road, though Newman notes that schedules do, occasionally, match up. "Dan was incredibly easy to work with on this record," he offers. "He's doing all the touring with us, all the shows we've played this year he's been doing with us. Neko's the one we had to chase around. I don't think

Neko ever came to us on this record; we always had to go to her." Go to her they did: Brill Bruisers, the band's sixth album, was recorded in sessions including Vermont, Austin and Brooklyn. It's been four years since the New Pornographers last' album—2010's Together—and Brill finds the band heading into a joyful full-pop charge: the title track, which opens the album, greets you with the sort of singalong syllables that usually don't pop up until a chorus, and it doesn't really let up on the upbeats from there. "I had a vague idea I wanted to use some more arpeggiators," Newman says of Brill Bruisers' early demos, done mostly at his home studio with Collins. "It was just the vaguest idea. We didn't know what we wanted to do until we found it: we'd just start screwing around, and we'd hear things, and we'd think, I really like that. After a while, you begin to sense what you want the album to sound like, and the rest of the album follows, and that affects the decisions you make. Instead of making 13 songs that have nothing to do with each other, you're trying to make 13 songs that link thematically—not necessarily any lyrical theme, but just

musically." The album's more celebratory peaks are far more pronounced than the last few records Newman's been involved with: Together found the Pornos broaching more reflective, ornate tones, while Newman's last solo album thematically found itself exploring both his mother's death and his son's birth. "My last solo record was definitely a lot more introspective, and quieter. I think [on Brill Bruisers] I wanted to get back to more of a Twin Cinemavibe," he says. "I wanted to take that vibe, and give it more of a spaceyarpeggiator vibe. "This record was definitely about not having a lot of heavy things on my shoulder," he continues. "Just making a cool rock 'n' roll record." And, befitting the mood that pervades the album, Newman's feeling pretty amped about the whole thing. Maybe even impervious. "In the past, any middling to bad reviews I've had would hurt my feelings, because I would think, 'Maybe they're right,'" he says. "But on this record, I just think they're fucked in the head."

worked out really well for us," Hus says about the relationship, which was kicked off in what he jokingly calls the "romance capital of Canada," Cow Lake, Alberta. "She has her own business, so she's self-employed like me. She's an anthropologist, so she goes up north, or to countries like Borneo or Bhutan, and I work it so that I go on tour when she's gone. We work in different worlds but they overlap at times, like with our mutual interest in history." In truth, Hus has more than an interest in history—his music depends on a solid grasp of it. Much like Stompin' Tom, Hus has made a career out of drawing attention to often ignored parts of Canada, spotlighting small towns with local concerns, telling regional stories. He's done this over the course of six albums and picked up a loyal audience for his efforts. While other musicians closely watch the ebb and flow of popular music Hus

just goes on his way, indifferent to the vagaries of the industry. What he's not indifferent to are the musicians that he's been seeking out through his career. For last year's Western Star he recorded in a log cabin just outside of Nashville, picking up a few of the legends that happen to live in the area. Musicians like Glen Duncan, who put in time with Bill Monroe's Bluegrass Boys, and Kayton Roberts, an associate of Hank Snow. One of the concerts he most looked forward to during this year's summer festival season was one with Ian Tyson, one of Hus' many influences over the span of his time in music. "For me to rub shoulders with guys like that is a big deal," he says. "It was a huge thing for me to be on stage with Ian Tyson, because you just never know. I'm aware that it's coming to an end for a lot of the old-timers that I admire, so I want to touch as much of that as I can while they're still

around. Those guys from Hank Snow and Bill Monroe's band, it was important to me to capture something of their sound."

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t's always been hard," Allan Carl Newman says, in a tone of bemused acceptance. "I realize it's just the curse of this band. It's just how it always will be." Newman's discussing the difficulty of getting full roster of his powerpop super-group, The New Pornographers, together in the same room

Cinematic pop // Chris Buck

to make a record. When you count Neko Case and Destroyer's Dan Bejar among your ranks—the Pornographers being rounded out by Newman, Kathryn Calder, John Collins, Kurt Dahle, Todd Fancey and Blaine Thurier—their own touring and recording schedules make it quite the feat. Same goes for getting everyone

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Tim Hus I

f you happen to get a chance to chat with Tim Hus after his set at the Capitol Theatre on Friday, make sure to shake his hand a little more vigorously. The southern Alberta-based country-folk minstrel will be getting up the next morning, driving to British Columbia, and then tying the knot with his girlfriend of five years on Sunday. Nobody could ever accuse the always touring singersongwriter of laziness, that's for sure. "It seems to have

Fri, Aug 29 (8 pm) Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, $18 – $20 Hus: about to get hitched

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Hus is still touring Western Star, and a new album is barely in the talking stage, but he doesn't lack for songs when it does come around again. It comes easy for him, soaking up stories and jotting down details while on the road, talking to people in the towns he visits; subject matter isn't something he has to agonize over. Mostly what he's considering right now is what he'll be doing after the fall. "I was thinking I should go down and play Texas," he reflects. "All those years crisscrossing Canada, back and forth on those icy roads, I just don't know if I can handle that again this year. Winter can be such a drag, you know?" TOM MURRAY

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Pretty Taken

t makes life so much easier for music journalists when you provide them with interview questions at the bottom of your press release. Especially when you're not actually expecting them to be used as the basis for an interview. In fact, that makes it even better! The stream-of-consciousness characteristics listed by Edmonton indiefolk duo Pretty Taken (Jodi Tychkowsky and Nicholas Popowich) do a much better job of describing the band than any standard interview ever could, so we've taken the liberty of calling Tychkowsky on them as she talks about the pair's debut album, There's an Echo Now.

Volume on the stereo: 6. JT: I almost want to revise that to 6.5. We're not the kind of band that you crank. I mean, I listen to loud music, and when I do I turn it up, but for us it's best to hear at a quieter volume.

Wine pairings: red, pinot noir, $20 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $25. Corked, not screw top. JT: It's funny that you should ask this because I've been staring at a wine list at work as part of my job. I just think that it should be a lighter wine that has character. We're a winter band, and you definitely don't want to drink white in the dead of winter. We're also the kind of group that's harder to find, and finding a good wine at a lower price is also difficult. Recording attitudes: Jodi brings snacks and 90-percent-finished songs, Nic brings a hangover. JT: I like to make sure that everyone is happy and not hungry when recording, it's true. Also, I should point out that Nic has this skill level that in my opinion is under-appreciated. He doesn't seem to know how much he shines in the studio, whereas I'm still really intimidated by it. He actually could come in with a hangover and it wouldn't make a difference, he's so good. Instagram Filter: #nofilter. JT: The album is not over-produced, there are lots of raw moments and imperfections that shine through. We didn't put a Band-aid on anything. It's how I wanted to do it, because I'm a fan of those moments when you hear a record skip, or a voice

Thu, Sep 4 (7 pm) With Private in Public, Erin Ottosen and Cadence & Nathan The Artery, $10

goes off-key, or maybe the singer had too much red wine the night before and you can hear it in the take. I'm hoping that you can hear that magic coming through. There definitely isn't a filter on the album, though maybe we'll use something on the next one. Car: 1979 Chevette, body in great condition for Alberta roads. JT: Well, we're not the sort of band that's trying to re-invent music or anything. When you see a Chevette in Alberta and it's in good condition, you know that you're looking at a car that has a story to tell, a car with character, and that someone has taken care of it. I've seen two of those cars in the last three days; they're still on the road and in good condition. How the band got it's name: all the other band names were pretty taken. JT: When I first met Nic I was reading Patti Smith's book Just Kids, and I ended up loaning it to him. When we were trying to think of a band name and I suggested Pretty Taken I typed it into Google, and the second result were the words "... pretty taken with Patti Smith." I thought it was cool that we had both just read the book and were both thinking of Patti Smith.

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Mark Mills / Fri, Aug 29 (7:30 pm) A regular dance-floor maestro, Calgarian Mark Mills has been showing up all over Edmonton this summer, touring on the back of his April release, Triple Fire Sign. He's playing with local pop champion Doug Hoyer, too, in a doublebill of hooks, heart and beats to celebrate with hearty bodily shaking. (The Artery, $8 in advance, $10 at the door)

Endless Bummer / Thu, Aug 28 – Sun, Aug 31 What's billing itself as Edmonton's shittiest music festival is actually just one of its scrappiest, lobbing its supposedly small-scale ambitions far and deep. Over a scatter of 15 stages and "stages"—there's a show at Steel Wheels, among other unconventional show spots—some 120 bands will play Endless Bummer this year, both local acts and bands from beyond, plus comedy, an open-mic Gender Fuck cabaret, and free and secret shows. Specific details are posted on the Facebook group Endless Bummer Edmonton. (Various locations; $30 for a wristband)

Black Thunder / Wed, Sep 3 (10 pm) You like free stuff? What about free rock? Regina's prog upstart trio Black Thunder is doing a no-charge set at Black Dog, so if you like your metal like I like my coffee—black and jammy—you'd best show up with your neck all stretched out for some seriously headbanging. You must attempt to achieve a sludge trance. (Black Dog Freehouse, Free )

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Auresia vied up between a variety of producers, an idea she notes seemed a more effective, varied approach to fully realizing the kind of record she was looking to make. "I had a bunch of songs, and a bunch of producers I wanted to work with," she says. "Not necessarily only one of them, so I just decided I would see which producers vibe on which songs," Auresia explains.

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Auresia: following the meditative pull of Reggae

here's a meditative kind of pull more worldly musical wanderings: that reggae has," Auresia says, though flavours of salsa, dancestanding on a West Coast beach to hall and pop all pepper her mureach a faint phone signal. "The one sic, it's that heartbeat rhythm of drop is very entrancing with the roots-reggae that she filters all heartbeat. It just her other influpulls you in to Fri, Aug 29 (6 pm) ences through. whatever vibe is Padmanadi That approach is going on—usually more apparent it's a very happy, than ever on Rivery fun, very loving vibe. I like that: sin'!, Auresia's sophomore album: it's very raw; it's very real." a glowing collection of Reggae The genre is what anchors the mixed in with myriad sounds and Montréal-based musician's other, influences. Its 13 songs were div-

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Pairing producers with the sounds they liked most proved a fruitful exercise: the likes of Dave Beatty (who's worked with Nelly Furtado) and Omar Martinez Rosell (who's worked with Bieber), helped her expand her sound in multitudes of ways by focusing on the songs they were most intrigued by. "Because every producer was really excited about each song, we got a lot out of each," she says. "Different flavours that I maybe wouldn't have been able to get if I'd worked with one producer. I guess I would've had more uniformity on the sound of the album, but that's not what I was going for. I wanted to have a diverse, eclectic, encompassing and broad spectrum of my influences. So I chose different types of producers, not just reggae." PAUL BLINOV

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"This is really exciting for us," the art in a group way, and even if you bassist says. "We've done this before don't agree on what it was that you with the orchestra, where we played experienced, or even necessarily like Christmas carols and a few of our it, it's still a different feeling than if own songs, but this time it will be 10 you do it on your own." He especially enjoys the idea of alof our originals. When you have the power of so many musicians behind lowing the audience to experience you it's an amazing thing; they'll take the sound of the orchestra outside of a melodic line that one of us will the usual concert hall confines. "It's more fun for people when normally play and multiply it by 20 people or so. Suddenly it becomes so you're in a location like a park, which much bigger than what we're used to is relatable. It helps people to relate a little more when it's outdoors, I think, hearing." For the Celtic Colours concert in as opposed to going to the Winspear, Kinsmen Park, the ESO brought in Ed- which might seem more intimidating monton-based composer and arrang- for some people." The McDades will be throwing in er Allan Gilliland to weave orchestral a couple of songs elements into the slated for its upMcDades' music. Sun, Aug 31 (8 pm) coming third alUnlike most such With the Edmonton Symphony bum, the bands' projects, both Orchestra first in seven years the band and the Kinsmen Park, free after winning orchestra have the Juno for Best been given plenty of time to get to know the new ar- Roots/Traditional Album in 2007 rangements, with three practices with Bloom. They're a busy bunch, scheduled. McDade is happy with the scattering to play with other groups results, and looks forward to playing (all are in-demand players), coming them outdoors, with the added ele- together to back up family patriarch ment of a gigantic Lite Brite to set Terry a few times a year, occasionally touring together when schedules them off. "I think you'll really see it when don't conflict. Now that they're ready there's a big splash or a roll. There'll to record again, McDade feels that also probably be more textural stuff they're also at a good stage in their going on, mellow colors for parts that relationship, better able to come to demand that, and moments when the grips with the occasional artistic diflights speed up in response to what ference that crops up among bandmates. we're doing." "I think we're all a little more relaxed McDade is a self-professed fan of about things," he says. "We're all public art, so however the experi- more open to different ideas, wherement turns out, he's glad to have as before we could be quite adamant about what we thought was right for participated. "It's something that doesn't happen a song. It's like we're more cohesive enough, people coming together to as a unit, and it's much easier to deal experience art as a group," he notes. with matters." "Too often we're at home watching TOM MURRAY TOM@VUEWEEKLY.COM and listening on headphones. When VUEWEEKLY AUG 28 – SEP 3, 2014 you're with a group you experience respond in kind. olon McDade hasn't actually seen the controversial multicolour lights on the High Level Bridge yet, and there's a good chance he won't for a while longer. The bassist and his band The McDades likely will have their backs to the display as they make use of the lights as part of their concert on Sunday evening. In collaboration with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra the Celtic-fusion family band—made up of siblings Solon, Shannon (fiddle, vocals) and Jeremiah (multi-instrumentalist and vocals)—are performing orchestral arrangements of their music while the flickering LED lights

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Saturdays

SUN AUG 31 ALBERTA'S OWN MUSIC FESTIVAL Indie Showcase:

Monster Truck, Opensails, Aviator Shades, Soulful Noise, Ashley's Rejekts, One Day Late, No Heat Tomorrow; albertasown.ca BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Sun Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

hosted by Tim Lovett BLUES ON WHYTE Russell

Jackson, Alex Zayas DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun

Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic

BLUES ON WHYTE Big Dave

Mclean DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY MERCURY ROOM Music

Dueling Piano show

retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

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

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

SUITE 69 Stella Saturday:

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

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

MON SEP 1

Monday open mic

Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

Grove The Slocan Ramblers

RED PIANO Back to School

Prismatic World Tour: Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves; 7pm; $29.50, $46, $90.50, $150.50 RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky SONIC BOOM–Northlands

Edmonton's Alternative Music Festival: Jack White, Death Cab for Cutie, the smalls, Fitz and the Tantrums, STARS, the Airborne Toxic Event, the Mowgli’s, Sleeper Agent, Bad Suns; 11:30am (gate); $99.99 (single day); info at sonicboomfestival.com

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

singer-songwriter night: hosted by Sarah Smith; 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays:

A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

Open Jam: Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt

Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Evening: Sonny and the Hurricanes (country)

live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul

with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm BLUES ON WHYTE Big Dave

Mclean DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic with host Duff Robison

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

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

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

RED PIANO Every Tue: the

Open mic every Tue

Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover Melissa Etheridge This is ME Solo with Joe Nolan; 7:30pm; $35, $65, $95

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

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Prismatic World Tour: Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves; 7pm; $29.50, $46, $90.50, $150.50

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes (country)

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

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

REXALL PLACE The

Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A

Open Mic Monday Nights with Adam Holm WUNDERBAR The Doers,

Souvs and Forest Tate

DJs Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

DJs

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue

Main Floor: Glitter Gulch:

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny and the Hurricanes (country)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

in the City: Celtic Colours: ESO with the McDades, Robert Bernhardt (conductor); 8pm; free

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every

Blue (Saskatoon), Teledrome (Calgary), Rhythm of Cruelty, Feel Alright (Calgary), Dri Hiev (Calgary), Post Namers, No Aloha (Montreal), Coast Guard; 6pm; $10

KINSMEN FIELD Symphony

8-12pm

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Rock 'N Soul Jam;

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

WUNDERBAR Powder

Classical

Premier: I Am Machi, Latcho Drom, At Her Feet; 7:30pm

(4-piece bluegrass band); 7:30-10:30pm; $20 (adv to reserve at bahconcerts@ gmail.com, Ben & Amanda Hodgson 780.571.2286)

Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic

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

TUE SEP 2 BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Big Dreamer Sound jam hosted by Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O'brien; this weeks guest: Natalie Bryson; every Tue 8pm-12 BLUES ON WHYTE Big Dave

Mclean DRUID IRISH PUB Open

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative

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

Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: 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

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, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Rossdale

Hall Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover WUNDERBAR Doctor Jokes ZEN LOUNGE Jazz

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

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive

Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed

WED SEP 3 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Stage Tue: 9pm

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

HOUSE CONCERT: BAH! Entertainment–Spruce

ARTERY Sound of Edmonton

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–South Holiday Inn Conference Centre, 4485 Gateway Blvd FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOUSE CONCERT: BAH! Entertainment–Spruce Grove Westgrove, Spruce Grove IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 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 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St,

587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St

Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every

Wed

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750-124 St CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-

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118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CELLAR LOUNGE–Petroleum Club Lower Level, 11110-108 St CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

VUEWEEKLY AUG 28 – SEP 3, 2014

ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower School, 10135-96 Ave SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 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 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 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 CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Sean Baptiste; Aug 29-30 • Bob Angeli; Sep 5-6 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 • Jassimae Peluso; Aug 28-31 • Dan Soder; Sep 3-6 • Lars Calleiou; Sep 7, 7pm • Mike Dambra; Sep 10, 7:30pm

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave •

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 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 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) • 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

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

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Down-

KOMEDY KRUSH/CONNIE'S COMEDY •

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

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

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

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP

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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •

town • Practice group meets every Thu

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

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

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia. ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of AlbertaEdmonton 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

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

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

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

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)

EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-

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) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free

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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday

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

• 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

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

TOASTMASTERS

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

DATE NIGHT AT THE DEVONIAN BOTANIC GARDEN–MOVIE NIGHT •

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

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)

• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus

St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; 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

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

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

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm

QUEER 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

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/

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

BURLESQUE FESTIVAL • Fort Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • Performers from around the globe • Sep 11-14 • Tickets/info at YEGLive, Pawn Shop, Blackbyrd

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

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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased 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

DAUGHTERS DAY • City Hall • daughtersday.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

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

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to:

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

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

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

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

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

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

SPECIAL EVENTS 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

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

FALL FAMILY FESTIVAL • Devonian Gardens • 1227 Alberta 60, Parkland County • 780.987.3054 • devonian.ualberta.ca/ Events/FallFamilyFestival.aspx • Create your own scarecrow, build a bird/bat house, make a dried flower arrangement • Sun, Sep 7, 2:30-3:30pm

THE FOOD TRUCKS ARE COMING… • St Albert 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

FRUIT GROWER'S FESTIVAL • Devonian Gardens • 1227 Alberta 60, Parkland County • 780.987.3054 • devonian.ualberta.ca/Events/ FallFamilyFestival.aspx • Sample the abundance of fruits that can be grown here in a Zone 3 garden. Experts from the Fruit Growers Association will answer your questions about fruit-growing in Alberta, speakers will discuss the challenges and pleasures of fruit growing on the prairies • Sun, Sep 14, 11am-4pm • Free w/regular admission HARVEST FAIR • Fort Edmonton • Port Wine Tasting at the rustic Clerk's Quarters: Aug 30-31, 12pm, 2pm HONEY HARVEST FESTIVAL • John Janzen Nature Centre, 7000-143 St • 311 • edmonton.ca/attractions_events/john_janzen_nature_centre/event-days.aspx • Learn all about native bees and learn what is happening to the bees, and actively participate in bee conservation efforts. Live music, mead and beer from local masters, a guest speaker, hive demonstration, opportunity to create your own take away native bee homes. A mini marketplace with honey and artisan products • Sep 12, 7am-10pm

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-ride-tickets11781668287?aff=es2=1

TOUR OF ALBERTA • Churchill Sq • casafamilyride.org • Ride the streets of Edmonton in support of Children’s Mental Health. Ride begins with a mass start at Churchill Sq at 10am, and loops back to finish at the starting point. Fundraiser for CASA Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health • Sep 7, 10am

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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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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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A RESEARCH INVITATION FOR NONRESIDENT FATHERS. Are you a divorced or separated father who no longer lives with your child(ren)? I am a researcher from the University of Lethbridge and would like to invite you to participate in an hour-long interview about your experiences of being a nonresident parent. Contact Jim at vaughanj@uleth.ca

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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

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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

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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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 Dance Your Heart Out! Calling All Flash Mobbers! We’re looking for volunteers to help with a flash mob called Heart Surprise at the Kaleido Family Arts Festival in September! You will get to wear a cool red suit while you dance and spread joy and hugs. All ages and skill levels are welcome. Choreography is simple and will have two rehearsals prior to the festival. Email kaleidotheatre@gmail.com if you are interested in participating or if you have any questions at all! 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 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

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Habitat For Humanity Women Build Week Oct 21-25 If you are a woman who wants to help families in your community, there’s an important role for you on our build sites! Your gift of time will give hard-working families an opportunity to build equity in a home, and in their futures. Volunteers are trained and equipped to perform their tasks safely and accurately by expert Habitat staff and take home an inspiring sense of accomplishment and satisfaction. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch. Habitat Volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation and training. Contact Info: Kim Dedeugd kdedeugd@hfh.org 780-451-3416 ext 232 Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities 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 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. 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

Volunteers Wanted

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. 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. 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

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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 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 for Poets - The Verse Project We aim to create a roster of 10 feature poets, spanning a range of genres. Each of these poets will be showcased on our website with a photo, biography, and details of their poetic experience. We want to be transparent, so we are asking interested poets to submit (or, in some cases, resubmit) their CVs to The Edmonton Poetry Festival. Our Verse Project committee will choose the final ten poets. Submission Guidelines If you are interested please visit www.edmontonpoetryfestival.com

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Call for Submissions: Boyle Street Plaza Art Exhibition Program The Call invites artists who work or live in the Quarters, Boyle Street, Riverdale and McCauley. Artists selected for a studio visit will be contacted in September. Email: quartersarts@boylestreetcl.com

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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.

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 Artists: Persian Art Show, October 17-25, 2014 “Land of Love”: Depiction of Original Persian Art Seeking visual art in the form of paintings in any medium or style, as well as calligraphic pieces centered on Iran’s vibrant and diverse culture. Submission deadline is September 7, 2014 Please email your submissions and/or questions to Mona at mrazavy11@hotmail.com. “Latitude 53 Society of Artists is a not-for profit artist-run center”

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.

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CALL TO EDMONTON AREA ARTISTS: UNIQUE COLLABORATIVE ART PROJECT & EXHIBITION You’re invited to participate in PERSPECTIVES: An exhibition of the art and heart of Alberta. This is a unique collaborative art project and exhibition in support of needy children around the world. World Vision Canada is hosting an exhibition in Edmonton featuring the art of Alberta residents who want to use their talents to raise awareness of the plight of children in poor communities around the world. Deadline for submissions: September 13, 2014. Selected submissions will be exhibited alongside the original photographs at the exhibit on September 20, 2014 at West Edmonton Mall. For access to the original photographs for re-creation, and for submission information, please contact the Event Producer: Nichole@nicholeleeevents.com 1 (800) 854-8180 ext. 23 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 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> Microgrant Program: St Albert, AB StArts Fest Microgrant Program The St. Albert Cultivates the Arts Society is pleased to announce a new opportunity for St. Albert artists to fund their inspirations and dreams. Applicants must be a resident of St. Albert for at least one year. Click here to see additional information on StArts Fest Microgrant Program http://startsfest.ca/starts-festmicrogrant

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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 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. 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. 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

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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 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. 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/ 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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Veteran blues drummer available . Inﬂuences include BB King, Freddie King, etc. 780-462-6291

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Fiftysomething musicians need quiet guitarist or keyboardist for blues jamming in Leduc. sirveggi@telus.net ph 986-2940. 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 blues rock musicians to do project with. Original music, inﬂuences incl. Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, and Iron Maiden. Call Randy at 780-479-8766

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Looking for players for blues rock Contact Derek at 780-577-0991 Looking for Rob, Donald, Paul and Kevin Members of Remnants of Sorrow Call Randy at 780-479-8766

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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

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): In the coming weeks it will be important for you to bestow blessings and disseminate gifts and dole out helpful feedback. Maybe you already do a pretty good job at all that, but I urge you to go even further. Through acts of will and surges of compassion, you can and should raise your levels of generosity. Why? Your allies and loved ones need more from you than usual. They have pressing issues that you have special power to address. Moreover, boosting your largesse will heal a little glitch in your mental health. It's just what the soul doctor ordered. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): The Icelandic word hoppípolla means "jumping into puddles." I'd love to make that one of your themes in the coming weeks. It would be in sweet accordance with the astrological omens. You are overdue for an extended reign of freelance play ... for a time of high amusement mixed with deep fun and a wandering imagination. See if you can arrange to not only leap into the mud, but also roll down a hill and kiss the sky and sing hymns to the sun. For extra credit, consider adding the Bantu term mbuki-mvuki to your repertoire. It refers to the act of stripping off your clothes and dancing with crazy joy. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): During the course of its life, an oyster may change genders numerous times. Back and forth it goes, from male to female and vice versa, always ready to switch. I'm nominating this ambisexual creature to be your power animal in the coming weeks. There has rarely been a better time than now to experiment with the pleasures of gender fluidity. I invite you to tap into the increased resilience and sexy wisdom that could come by expanding your sense of identity in this way.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): I'm getting the sense that in the coming days you will be more casual and nonchalant than usual. More jaunty and unflappable. You may not be outright irresponsible, but neither will you be hyper-focused on being ultra-responsible. I suspect you may even opt not to be buttoned and zippered all the way to the top. It's also possible you will be willing to let a sly secret or two slip out and allow one of your interesting

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eccentricities to shine. I think this is mostly fine. My only advice is to tilt in the direction of being carefree rather than careless. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In his novel Les Miserables, French author Victor Hugo chose to write a convoluted sentence that was 823 words long. American novelist William Faulkner outdid him, though. In his book Absalom, Absalom!, he crafted a single rambling, labyrinthine sentence crammed with 1287 words. These people should not be your role models in the coming weeks, Leo. To keep rolling in the direction of your best possible destiny, you should be concise and precise. Straightforward simplicity will work better for you than meandering complexity. There's no need to rush, though. Take your time. Trust the rhythm that keeps you poised and purposeful. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): As you know, real confidence has no bluster or bombast. It's not rooted in a desire to seem better than everyone else and it's not driven by a fear of appearing weak. Real confidence settles in when you have a clear vision of exactly what you need to do. Real confidence blooms as you wield the skills and power you have built through your hard work and discipline. And as I think you already sense, Virgo, the time has come for you to claim a generous new share of real confidence. You are ready to be a bolder and crisper version of yourself. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): As I understand your situation, Libra, you have played by the rules; you have been sincere and well-meaning; you have pressed for a solution that was fair and just. But that hasn't been enough. So now, as long as you stay committed to creating a righteous outcome, you are authorized to invoke this declaration, originally uttered by the ancient Roman poet Virgil: "If I am unable to make the gods above relent, I shall move hell." Here's an alternate translation of the original Latin text: "If heaven I cannot bend, then hell I will stir." SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "Start every day off with a smile and get it over with," said the misanthropic comedian W C Fields. I know it's weird to hear those words coming from a professional optimist like me, but just this once I recommend that you follow Fields' advice. In the near future, you should be as serious and sober and unamusable as you have ever been. You've got demanding work to attend to; knotty riddles to solve; complex situations to untangle. So frown strong, Scorpio. Keep an extra sour expression plastered on your face. Smiling would only distract you from the dogged effort you must summon. Unless, of course, you know for a fact that you actually get smarter and more creative when you laugh a lot. In which case, ignore everything I said. Instead, be a juggernaut of cheerful problem-solving.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Mahalia Jackson (1911 – 1972) was a renowned African-American gospel singer who lent her talents to the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King, Jr often called on her to be an opening act for his speeches. She was there on the podium with him on August 28, 1963 in Washington, DC when he delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech. In fact, it was her influence that prompted him to depart from his prepared notes and improvise the stirring climax. "Tell them about the dream, Martin," she politely heckled. And he did just that. Who's your equivalent of Jackson, Sagittarius? Whose spur would you welcome? Who might interrupt you at just the right time? Seek out influences that will push you to reach higher. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): When Europeans first explored the New World, ships captained by Italians led the way. But none of them sailed Italian ships or represented Italian cities. Cristoforo Colombo (today known as Christopher Columbus) was funded by the government of Spain, Giovanni de Verrazzano by France, and Giovanni Caboto (now known as John Cabot) by England. I see a lesson here for you, Capricorn. To flourish in the coming months, you don't necessarily need to be supported or sponsored by what you imagine are your natural allies. You may get further by seeking the help of sources that are not the obvious choices. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Walter Kaufman had a major role in clarifying the meaning and importance of Friedrich Nietzsche. His English translations of the German philosopher's books are benchmarks, as are his analyses of the man's ideas. And yet Kaufman was not a cheerleader. He regarded Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra as brilliant and triumphant, but also verbose and melodramatic: a "profusion of sapphires in the mud." I love that phrase, Aquarius, and maybe you will, too, as you navigate your way through the coming weeks. Don't just automatically avoid the mud, because that's probably where you will find the sapphires. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): I'm not tolerant of greed. Acquisitiveness bothers me. Insatiableness disgusts me. I am all in favour of people having passionate yearnings, but am repelled when their passionate yearnings spill over into egomaniacal avarice. As you can imagine, then, I don't counsel anyone to be piggishly self-indulgent. Never ever. Having said that, though, I advise you to be zealous in asking for what you want in the coming weeks. It will be surprisingly healing for both you and your loved ones if you become aggressive in identifying what you need and then going after it. I'm confident, in fact, that it's the wisest thing for you to do. V

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