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Downtown discourse The local discourse around Edmonton's downtown growth continues to bring clear forecasts of expansion, urban dynamism and prosperity—but for whom, exactly?

Between the weekly unveilings of condo and office tower plans and endless downtown boosterism in the media, Edmontonians have been too eager to ignore the core's affordable housing needs and the necessity to include non-market housing in one of Edmonton's fastest-growing neighbourhoods.

While Edmonton's housing stock continues to boom, non-market housing—those that rely on public subsidies—has virtually stalled. This is particularly noticeable in inner city neighbourhoods, which have faced a social-housing moratorium since 2012. Granted, residents and councillors alike agree that neighbourhoods such as McCauley, Boyle Street and Queen Mary Park have seen their fair share of affordable housing and that it's time for the rest of the city to step up.

Yet, with the city finally working tirelessly to build a vibrant core, there's a sense that Edmonton's less fortunate aren't part of the equation. We're finally creating a walkable downtown full of homes, jobs and amenities, but neglecting those who would benefit most from them. And with active and organized community leagues, Oliver and Downtown offer myriad ways to get involved with the city's workings, or simply ways to feel like part of a community.

Non-market housing is a difficult sell on the local level, given its reliance on provincial and federal funding, but if we shift the downtown spotlight away from corporate interests for just a second, we can show that there's ample space for affordable housing as well.

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Moving from one hotel to the next Lack of affordable housing means too many Albertan kids end up living in hotels with their families

The beginning of a new school year can be pecially in Edmonton and Calgary, charging and networks, the women in question will stressful for children and parents at the best $80 to $100 per night, you can imagine how not participate because they know they will of times. Parents worry about money for sup- quickly the tab delivered to Alberta Human be moving again within months. plies, clothes and fees. Children worry about Services adds up, especially given that most meeting new schoolmates and teachers. It of these families are staying in these rooms The Alberta Government has been paying can take a few weeks of settling in and ad- for months and months. We are talking mil- lip service for years to the idea of ending justing before a child's stress begins to pass. lions of dollars a month being spent by the homelessness and increasing the supply of Imagine how much more difficult it would government to house families in hotels. affordable housing in the province. The Tenbe if you had to go in on registration day and There is an added complication that stems Year Plan to End Homelessness, launched explain to an administrator that your current directly from the extended nature of these in 2007, has had some success in housing home address is the hotel up the road and stays. In Alberta, if you stay in a hotel for six people, but they are being replaced on the that you just don't have the money to cover months or more, the law governing your stay street more quickly than they are being school fees or pay for supplies. Imagine the switches from the Innkeepers Act to the Res- housed. In most communities there has been stress on a child who has to explain to their idential Tenancies Act. Hotels don't like the no tangible reduction in homeless numbers, classmates that they live in a hotel or who Residential Tenancies Act because they lose and in many they continue to grow. The exhas to eat junk and unhealthy treme boom-bust cycle created food because their hotel by the province's fiscal poliThe children learn not to let themselves room does not have a proper cies and lack of control over kitchen. energy developments makes make close friends, get attached to their It's hard to fathom that situthe issue even more severe— teachers or get involved in their communiation, but based on recent more in migration, more conversations with frontline abusive relationships, higher ties so that it’s not as difficult when they social workers and educarents, fewer vacancies. inevitably have to pick up and leave. tors, this was exactly how the Yes, properly investing in afschool year started for far too fordable housing would make many children in Alberta. a tremendous difference to all their ability to evict without notice and con- these families, and particularly to the chilThe problem stems from the chronic un- fiscate guests' property to cover outstanding dren. It would also save the province mildersupply of affordable housing and shel- debts, so they will not let anybody stay for lions of dollars a year in hotel bills. But in ter spaces in our province. When there are six months. What this means for these fami- order to be truly effective, that investment no shelter spaces and no available housing lies is that before the six months are up, Al- needs to be accompanied by economic polispaces, Alberta Human Services will place berta Human Services will actually pick them cies that slow down out-of-control developsingle mothers and their children in a ho- up and move them into a different hotel. ment and reduce our economic dependence tel until a suitable housing option becomes This will usually be to a hotel that falls with- on oil and gas. Neither of these solutions is available. in a different school's boundaries and catch- complicated and both can be implemented According to data from the Alberta Coun- ment. So now, a few months into the school quickly and will make a lasting difference. cil of Women's Shelters, in 2013 alone more year, they will have to do it all again. The chil- The only thing missing is the political will. V than 15 000 women were turned away from dren learn not to let themselves make close Alberta shelters. Add to that the fact that friends, get attached to their teachers or get Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of housing programs operated by local agen- involved in their communities so that it's not the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public cies are ridiculously over-subscribed, and as difficult when they inevitably have to pick policy research institute housed at the Uniyou start to see why this is happening more up and leave. Likewise, even in communities versity of Alberta. and more. With most of these hotels, es- where there are strong support programs

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Anti-ISIS group against Western military intervention

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t was a sunny Sunday at the legislature and a wedding was just finishing up as a protest organized by the Al Quds Committee started gathering. Individuals and whole families with children turned out with signs urging that ISIS, or the self-proclaimed Islamic State, be stopped.

The group, which speakers say has much deeper and older roots than sometimes represented, has recently taken control of large parts of Iraq and Syria—the speed and apparent brutality of which has several nations contemplating military action.

The demonstration was largely against the idea of direct Western military intervention being the answer, with a focus on a peaceful and supportive approach and fair representation of the issue.

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"We're trying to show the diversity, that it's not just Muslims that are against ISIS," says the event's MC, Sogand Zakerhaghighi. "We have Christians here, we have Kurds here, we have Muslims here just like there's Christians, Kurds and Muslims that are being affected by ISIS." While the group claims to be Islamic and violently enforces what they see as a strict interpretation of Islamic teachings, one of the things the protestors objected to was their use of the label of Islam, and commentators' descriptions of them as "Islamic."

"Because what they're doing, when Muslims are against what they're doing, it shows that it's not Islamic," Zakerhaghighi says.

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Whose jobs are they anyway?

Canada's temporary foreign worker program is flawed all over

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t took more than six years for Canada's temporary foreign worker program to balloon in size and only a couple of months for sweeping changes to alter the face of a program that has become a key part of Alberta's labour market.

The federal government announced changes this summer that attempted to limit the size of the controversial program, which allows employers to fill certain positions with employees from other countries when they can't find Canadians.

But cuts to the program have left employers saying they won't be able to fill jobs, foreign workers unsure if they'll have to leave the country and advocacy groups struggling to see how the program can keep the Canadian economy rolling while being fair to workers born both here and elsewhere.

"This program is such a mess all around," says Clarizze Truscott, spokesperson for the Temporary Foreign Worker Support Coalition.

"The changes that [have] been added this year haven't been helpful, if anything they punish the workers even more."

According to ministry statistics, the number of temporary foreign worker positions in Canada grew 246 percent from 2005, when the number stood at 82 210, to 202 510 in 2012. In Alberta, the program grew by 800 percent, with 74 225 positions added in that time span.

Controversy has followed the program for years, with the government removing a rule in 2012 that allowed employers to hire temporary foreign workers at less than the prevailing wage in their occupation, and making changes in 2013 to prevent employers from outsourcing jobs using the program.

In the last year, that controversy increased, with some employers accused of replacing Canadian workers with temporary foreign workers, including oilsands contractors in Northern Alberta and long-time servers at a restaurant in Weyburn,

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Saskatchewan.

"There came forth a lot of information about, you know, massive numbers of youth [who] couldn't get jobs," says Linda Duncan, NDP MP for Edmonton-Strathcona.

"Women who had worked their entire life in restaurants were suddenly laid off because of temporary foreign workers."

Big changes In April 2014, federal Minister of Employment and Social Development Jason Kenney put a moratorium on new t e m porary foreign w o r k ers for the food-service industry.

In June, Kenney announced a slate of changes that included raising the fee for making an application from $275 to $1000, increasing enforcement resources for employers breaking rules and capping the number of temporary foreign workers in low-wage positions at 30 percent this year, dropping to 10 percent by 2016.

"This balanced set of reforms will ensure that the temporary foreign worker program is only used as intended," a ministry spokesperson wrote in an email, "as a last and limited resort to fill acute labour shortages on a temporary basis when qualified Canadians are not available."

Truscott says the changes weren't positive. "We feel that it actually further victimizes temporary foreign workers, just on simple things like, they've increased the fees," she says. "The problem there is that there are still employers that believe that they cannot function without temporary foreign workers, so we feel that that $1000 will just be paid indirectly by the work-

ers themselves."

Duncan says businesses adopted the risky proposition of depending on temporary foreign workers at the encouragement of the government and now are struggling to respond to a smaller program.

"What the minister has done, by opening up the floodgates on this, has encouraged all kinds of people to put their money at risk," she says. "All of a sudden, people are in shock, because they've established a revolving door, which is the way

evolve. ... You need to do it and then be very active in monitoring it."

as part of those changes. That's a welcome change."

"Horrific situation" for skilled workers While a lot of focus has been given to low-wage workers in the service industry, Duncan says there's a "horrific situation" when it comes to skilled temporary foreign workers in the oilsands.

Last October, more than 270 pipe and mechanical workers at Husky Energy's Sunrise Project were replaced with temporary foreign workers by Saipem, according to the Alberta Federation of Labour.

In February, the AFL said 65 ironworkers at Imperial Oil's Kearl Lake site were laid off by a subcontractor and replaced by Croatian workers making half the wage of the old workers.

Duncan, who organized a public forum on the issue on September 11, says that oilsands companies rely on subcontractors to do a lot of the construction work and, in Alberta, have been able to bypass some restrictions for welders, ironworkers, heavy-duty mechanics and some other occupations as a result of a pilot project that is now closed for applications.

"That allows these brokers to continuously be flying in workers.

Sometimes they broker in Canadian workers ... but at the same t i m e , they're flying in hundreds and hundreds of temporary foreign workers," she says. "If you take a look at the reforms ... there is very little in there about addressing the issues for the skilled workers."

Ben Brunnen, manager of fiscal and economic policy for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers says that oilsands operations can be rural, northern and remote, which poses challenges for hiring and recruiting skilled workers.

"Our members rely, generally, on the temporary foreign worker program to meet short-term, highdemand labour needs and specialty expertise," he says. Brunnen says that the Husky Energy and Imperial Oil issues are employer-specific, and that the recent changes have addressed the need for greater enforcement.

"What we need to make sure is that there are sufficient compliance and enforcement mechanisms in place to ensure companies continue to hold to the spirit and intents of the program," he says. "The federal government, in their recent changes, strengthened the reporting ... and compliance with the program

Status panic Duncan says she's also heard concerns from temporary foreign workers who have applied for permanent residency.

"All of a sudden all of the rules are changed, so a lot of temporary foreign workers are really desperately looking to find out what is their status and what's going on," she says.

Truscott says that with businesses unable to renew applications for lowwage temporary foreign workers if they are over the 30 percent cap, people waiting to hear back about their immigration status are worried their applications will be cancelled when their work permits run out.

"As soon as a foreign worker's work permit runs out, but they still have pending applications, [they] will be thrown out," Truscott says. "So the rug is basically pulled under them.

Not only has this program allowed them to be exploited and abused, they're going to be punished further when they get deported at the end of their term ... or worse, they have to go undocumented."

Not only has this program allowed them to be exploited and abused, they're going to be punished further when they get deported at the end of their term. the program was before."

Employers, especially in Alberta, where the unemployment rate was 2.1 percentage points lower than the national rate in August, have said they rely on temporary foreign workers and that businesses in the service industry will suffer.

"You're going to see cases of people not being able to operate their business as well as they did before," says Simon O'Byrne, board chair of the Edmonton Chamber of Commerce. "Whether that's related to health care and simply having enough qualified people ... to the hotel industry, to the quality of service when we go get food to eat, I think that if you do not have a robust and healthy enough labour market, you're going to see hours reduced."

O'Byrne says that while there is labour mobility in Canada, there is still a labour shortage.

"Some people are mobile in this country ... but it's not enough to meet the labour force demand," he says. "I think we need temporary foreign workers, but it needs to be fluid. [The program] needs to

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Permanent fixes Truscott says her coalition pushes for equal rights for temporary foreign workers and more paths to permanent residency.

"We do not believe that the Temporary Foreign Worker program itself is good for Canada," she says.

"It is completely flawed, it is open to abuse and exploitation of foreign workers. The program itself makes victims of all workers, not just [foreign workers.]"

Duncan says the program isn't the answer to fixing labour problems in Canada and that an independent body should be brought in to investigate the program.

"Keep your family at home, we don't want to know about them, try to find a place in a basement somewhere. I mean, come on—is that what Canada is?" she asks. "There are clear answers if we have shortages in certain sectors. As we train and as we ticket, certify our Canadian workers, we may, in certain sectors, be able to bring in temporarily some people to supplement. That's a plan."

Truscott says that the government should recognize that temporary foreign workers' assignments aren't that temporary, citing the length of time to apply for roles and the four-year limit on workers, which has been cut to two this year.

"We believe that foreign workers are here on permanent jobs, not temporary jobs," she says. "Our coalition believes that if people are good enough to work in Canada, they have to be good enough to stay."

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Two new "Islamic States" Boko Haram and ISIS are giving ordinary Muslims a bad name

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A coalition of imams and organizations representing British Muslims has written Prime Minister David Cameron asking him to stop using the phrase "Islamic State" when talking about the new country carved out of Iraq and Syria by Islamist terrorists. That's what Abu Baqr al Baghdadi, who has proclaimed himself "the caliph of all Muslims and the prince of the believers," calls his newly conquered territory, but it's giving ordinary Muslims a bad name.

The British Muslim leaders declared that "the media, civic society and governments should refuse to legitimize these ludicrous caliphate fantasies by accepting or propagating this name. We propose that "UnIslamic State" (UIS) could be an accurate and fair alternate name to describe this group and its agenda—and we will begin to call it that."

Good luck with that. But meanwhile two more "UnIslamic States" are being created right now, on Libyan and Nigerian territory: same black flags, same fanaticism and cruelty, even the same ski masks. (It's a fashion statement.)

The city of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state in northeastern Nigeria, has more than two-million people. It is surrounded by the forces of Boko Haram—the name roughly translates as "Western education is forbidden"—and most of the rest of Borno has already fallen under their rule. In fact, the whole north-eastern corner of Nigeria is passing out of the government's control.

"At this very moment," Alhaji Baba Ahmed Jidda, the secretary to the Borno state government, told The Independent newspaper last week, "most parts of Borno state are being occupied by Boko Haram insurgents. Government presence and administration is minimal, with economic, commercial and social services totally subdued. Schools and clinics remain closed."

Boko Haram's ultimate goal was the imposition of an Islamic state in Nigeria ever since it began active operations in 2009. It was in touch with al-Qaeda from the start, and later with the jihadi groups in Syria that subsequently turned into ISIS (the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria) and finally into the "Islamic State" that now spans those two countries.

Only the northern half of Nigeria's population is Muslim, so that was where Boko Haram's murders and abductions were concentrated, although it also carried out terrorist bombings in the Christian parts of the country. Thirty-six hundred people were killed in these attacks in the four years up to 2013, but then there was a major acceleration: 2000 more people have been killed in just the first half of this year.

From about mid-July, Boko Haram's leader

Abubakar Shekau also changed tactics: instead of hit-and-run raids, he started to take and hold territory. In August, after his fighters captured the town of Gwoza in Borno, he released a video declaring that the area was "now part of the Islamic Caliphate." He now rules over about three million people in northeastern Nigeria and neighbouring Cameroon.

The Nigerian army rarely stands up to Boko Haram's fighters. Like the Iraqi army, which ran from far smaller numbers of ISIS troops, it is corrupt and badly equipped, but it is also deeply penetrated by Boko Haram sympathizers: last June 15 senior military officers were found guilty by court martial of passing arms and information to Boko Haram. So Shekau may end up ruling much of northern Nigeria.

Libya is considerably further down the same track. A civil war broke out between the various militias left over from the 2011 campaign to overthrow Muammar Gaddafi, the former dictator, shortly after the June election that might—just might—have produced a government that would try to disarm those militias.

It has got so bad that almost a third of Libya's population, 1.8 million people, has fled the country, mostly seeking shelter in Tunisia.

The real divisions between these warring militias are regional and tribal, but a number of them have adopted extreme Islamist ideologies, partly because it guarantees a flow of arms and money from certain governments in the Gulf. These Islamist militias have emerged as the winners both in the savage fighting in western Libya around the capital, Tripoli and also in the other major city, Benghazi, in the east.

In fact, Islamist militias with ISIS-style ideologies now control every city along the Libyan coast except Tobruk, a short distance from the Egyptian border. That is where the new parliament elected in June has taken refuge, and the parliament's members are living on a hired Greek car ferry that is serving as a floating hotel. The frontline starts just west of town— and the next town along the coast, Derna, has been declared an Islamic caliphate.

A lot of this is just ideological fashion, of course. The various "caliphates" are in touch with one another, after a fashion, but there is no master plan. However, the results are truly nasty both in Nigeria and in Libya—and the risk of over-reaction by those who feel threatened by these developments, especially in the West, is quite large. V

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great demonstration that this is not sectarian violence."

Sunni and Shia Islam are together the two largest branches of Islam, The protest's speakers criticized and the Yazidis are a Kurdish ethnothe past actions of Western governreligious group. All three groups, ments such as the US, UK and Cantogether with Christians, have found ada for their military interventions themselves targeted. in the Middle East, pointing to them "It's not even against Muslims, it's as playing a part in causing the curagainst everybody," Zakerhaghighi afrent situation. They also called on firms. "Initially when them to pull supthey first started it port from counBecause what they’re doing, when Muslims was against Mustries that fund lims of a minorthese extreme are against what they’re doing, it shows that ity sect called the groups. A comit’s not Islamic.

Shias. But now it's mon thread was against everybody a call for more and we're here to anti-war governganization that's kind of invaded the demand them to stop aggression." ments.

At its peak, the protest drew "War has never brought peace," country and maybe supported by says Sheikh Usama Al-Atar. "The best fractions of individuals within that around 75 people, many of whom held signs denouncing ISIS's actions response we would like is support community within that country.

"In fact Shias, Sunnis, Christians and and calling for peace. for the government [in Iraq] to fight "I'm here to show my solidarity with against. So basically you empower Yazidis are all united against them the government itself, you empower in solidarity. [One of the] examples humanitarians and humanity to conthe powers there—and we are talk- we have, where the Shias have now demn any atrocities caused against ing about that democratic central- hosted some of the Christians and any people," Al-Atar says.

Sunnis and Yazidis in their cities and RYAN BROMSGROVE ized government."

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dressed several aspects of the mainstream reporting he found problematic. In particular, the very nature of the conflict.

"Portraying the whole thing as sectarian violence in Iraq—I think that's the biggest misconception. It's not a sectarian violence because that's a civil war breaking within the country. You have a foreign terrorist or-

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dmonton's got a hell of a lot of fruit. And every year, a huge proportion of it rots on the ground.

Planted as lawn ornaments instead of food sources, apple trees and dozens of other fruit-bearing trees and shrubs dot the landscapes of every neighbourhood in the city. Their beautiful springtime blossoms give way to hundreds of pounds of fruit come autumn, much of which is often left untouched by the homeowner. Recovering this huge potential source of local food was the impetus behind Opera-

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tion Fruit Rescue (OFRE), a non-profit group that began in 2009 to save all those wasted apples and berries.

"It started out of a group collective and next thing you know we had trees to pick and media looking at us and we were like, 'Oh good God!'" says Mike Johnson, president of OFRE. He is standing on a newly mulched pathway in the schoolyard of McCauley School, where he and a team of volunteers just planted the first tree—an Edmonton native, Evans Cherry—in a newly-minted "micro-orchard" on the

school grounds. The micro-orchard will showcase the many varieties of fruit trees and shrubs that thrive in Edmonton's climate: from the ubiquitous apple tree to various species of cherry, saskatoon berries, rhubarb, haskap berries, seabuckthorn and highbush cranberries. It's also a major step towards OFRE's long-term goal of educating Edmontonians about the skills necessary to nurture, harvest and preserve the fruit that grows, quite literally, in their backyards.

OFRE arose out of a gathering of

people involved with a Traditional Skills group, in which people learn traditional handiworks from each other—everything from soap making to leather tanning. One of the highlights of these meetings was the desire to do something about all the wasted fruit in Edmonton. Other cities have launched similar fruit rescue programs, such as Toronto's Not Far From the Tree, so after some research, a fledgling OFRE set out on its first picks.

"My wife dragged me out on my first pick and I just fell in love with it," says Johnson, who took over as OFRE president from his wife earlier this year. "It reminded me of childhood and climbing my own apple tree when I was young. It's really interesting when you get up and start climbing some of the larger apple trees. You get a completely different view of the city: you're up in the top of the tree and you can see over the tops of several houses and you look at the back alleys and you're like, 'There are so many fruit trees on this one block.' It's insane. And you're just picking this one."

The folks involved with OFRE weren't the only ones who thought it was a great idea; shortly after the organization started they were contacted by dozens of growers (homeowners with fruit trees that need harvesting). Over the past five years demand has continued to grow exponentially, to the point that OFRE is woefully short-staffed: there are about 75 regular volunteers, but well over 600 growers. Throughout the summer, Johnson has been receiving around 20 phone calls and over 50 emails a day, which he juggles alongside his day job as a licensed architect.

"Our volunteer capacity hasn't met up with the demand," Johnson notes.

"We can't get to every single house on the list. We have multiple picks going every single day. I think today there's scheduled to be about 10 picks that should go, but unfortunately we can't fill them all with volunteers, so we'll only have one or two picks today."

OFRE has taken steps to try to better meet the demand; a major development was their acquisition of a new database that helps them organize picks much more easily and quickly. It takes a lot of coordination to ensure that volunteers are there to pick fruit at its correct ripeness level, not to mention ferrying people and picked fruit throughout the city on a daily basis. The database relieves OFRE of much of this organizational heavy-lifting and was purchased from

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Manitoba Fruit Share, another fruit rescue group.

"It basically automates a lot of the work that we were doing, so it allows us to put out three—actually no, more like 10—times more pick notices," Johnson says. "So we're actually getting out there and doing more picks."

An average apple tree produces 90 to 130 kilograms (200 to 300 pounds) of apples each summer— that's a lot of apple pies. Part of OFRE's mandate is to help educate people on other ways to enjoy and preserve their fruit; they ran a pilot project in 2012 selling jams, jellies and apple cider made from rescued fruit, but decided they would better serve the community by hosting educational workshops instead of selling the products themselves. Right now, OFRE volunteers teach these workshops on canning and cider-making occasionally, but Johnson hopes next year they'll be able to use the kitchen facilities at McCauley School to do regular biweekly workshops.

A growing list of charitable organizations are aided by OFRE's rescued fruit. Harvests are divided into four parts, with one-quarter each going to the home owner, volunteer pickers, OFRE, and Edmonton's Food Bank or other charitable organization.

"We're also looking at corporate group picks, so then we can actually have offices doing group picks as a team-building exercise," says Johnson. "So we can increase the number of picks but also build community in various different ways."

From its beginning as little more than a sheet of paper with names and numbers, OFRE has established itself as an integral part of Edmonton's local food movement. The McCauley micro-orchard represents a permanent home for the organization, where previously it was mostly just a series of fleeting visits to backyards over the summer. This tangible physical presence is crucial to their continued stewardship of Edmonton's bountiful fruit harvest.

"We can now provide educational workshops on how to properly care for trees, because trees aren't cared for the way that they potentially could be," Johnson says. "They should be looked at as an asset within our city, in the green canopy as well as food for security, so that we don't have to import apples from China or Argentina or even BC. There's enough apples in Edmonton that we shouldn't have to import a single apple."

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PREVUE // PERFORMANCE ART

A city in motion An artifact awaiting a ritual // Nika Blasser, dc3 Art Projects

Movement propels performance art in the 15th annual Visualeyez

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s a city—the collection of al festival of performance art. How structures and pathways we've we pass through urban spaces as city set our lives both in and around— restructures itself is something that Edmonton is in motion, in flux. It curator Todd Janes has been mulling seems impossible not to have been over. impeded by at least some of the end"We're over a million people now for metro less construction projects happening all over Until Sun, Sep 21 Edmonton," Janes Edmonton, but it's more Visualeyez than just maintenance Various locations, says. "How and a sisyphean battle visualeyez.org we move in our city with potholes: with a will be downtown entertainment district green-lit and ambitious LRT changing drastically."

For the festival's 15th iteration, plans spreading out across the city like new veins, the ways we navigate Janes has pulled in eight artists from the city will soon have to alter to across the continent, united by that match the new state of the pace. loose theme. Some are exploring the Given all that, movement seems notions of urban architecture, and a particularly fitting theme for this patterns of movement in the city; year's Visualeyez, Latitude 53's annu- others, like Toronto-based Pam Pat-

erson, are looking at movement on a more personal level.

"She's going to be playing around with how people are able to move and celebrate and navigate the city, with disabilities or with obstacles," Janes says. "Whether it's age or physical or mental or social isolation issues.

"She's looking for participants," he adds. "It's basically going to be a movement performance, involving other people and herself, choreographing it. And with household appliances."

For artist Blair Brennan, the festival's theme proved an easy adaptation for a project he already had underway.

"Well, I'm working with a dancer

and the theme is movement, so … ," he chuckles, standing in Dc3 Art Projects. "It worked really well. " Brennan—whose own decadesspanning survey of work, titled The Right Side of Magic, is currently running at Dc3—has partnered with contemporary dance doyen Brian Webb and musician Allyson MacIvor], for An Unlearned Human Language, a three-night series of performances in the space. During the day, the Blaircreated objects and installations will be present (along with a collection of his other works), but only in the evenings will they be animated in performance.

"I like the idea that this," he says, gesturing to the work around him, "is the artifact, and at night you see the ritual."

Brennan and Webb actually have a rich history of collaboration: the pair had a run of performance projects throughout the '80s and early '90s.

A recent collaboration in Montréal, curated by a third party, brought them back together, and Brennan found himself missing that shared process.

Having the work as a part of Visualeyez also holds a personal appeal for Brennan. "[Visualeyez is] a nice context to it: for me, the historic sense too," he says. "The first show I was in was a Latitude show. They've been a really important part of the avant-garde heart of Edmonton. They're the reason we have anything interesting in visual arts."

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PREVUE // COMEDY

Jon Mick vs The Internet J

Heeeeeeere's Jon // Eden Munro

on Mick's on a Steve Martin deadline.

Martin gave himself five years to either make it in comedy, or find a "real career" when he turned 30.

After Mick's own 30th birthday this March, the Edmonton comedian has decided to get busy making jokes or drop the act altogether by 35.

But—if these are, in fact, his last years in comedy—he'll be going out with a bang. In conjunction with the release of his third album, Local Comedian, Mick is releasing his new website, jonmick.ca on September 19—a month-long performance piece sprawling across a handful of social networks. Most of the details about the online video series have been kept under wraps, except for the fact that it will document his downward spiral after reaching local stardom.

Co-creator Bryan Birtles, of Ed-

monton web-design firm Kobot, says the project aims to "play with the medium of the internet" and will explore the trials of an individual caught in his own celebrity worship.

"Instead of playing with just what a comedian goes through and to make an album and just do a filmed performance, we can divide it between what web designers go through to make a website and what a comedian would go through to make an album and have a release," he says.

Mick adds that the project reflects the contained nature of the Edmonton arts scene and the frustration felt by artists when trying to transcend their immediate communities.

"It's kind of analyzing, through a funny lens, what it's like to be a local comedian and trying desperately to promote themselves in an isolated arts community, trying to promote ourselves to people we've

Fri, Sep 19 (8 pm) Jon Mick album/website release The Artery, $10 already sold ourselves to one hundred times over," he says.

He's hesitant to slap a profound underlying message or goal on the project, other than making people laugh. But he sees the project in a different way than just getting up on the stage and performing a set—it's a centrepiece for his career, and an attempt to create something lasting in the fleeting nature of stand-up.

"It was hard to create something of permanence that I would be proud of for years to come," he says.

In conjunction with Local Comedian, Mick feels as if he's finally hitting his comedic stride—he now has his own brand of comedy.

It's like how he began listening to music differently after he started playing drums, he says. Now, he finds funny in the everyday—this month, he's translated those obser-

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vations into two separate projects.

"I think that's what the goal of comedy is: to make connections that your brain normally wouldn't make, and that's why you laugh, because it's like, new, fresh or whatever. And that's why I constantly want to be writing. I would hate to be a comedian who's doing the same 15 minutes for two years," he says.

"As the old adage goes, there's no new dick-pic jokes under the sun."

When musing over his two latest releases, it doesn't seem like Mick takes his Steve Martin deadline that seriously anyway—he's in this for the long run.

"I want to be a comedian. I want to write and create and perform for the rest of my life and if it's not going well, hopefully the rest of my life isn't that long of a time."

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ARTS PREVUE // THEATRE

Fatboy W

Dreamin' of a riot // Ryan Parker

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hen Alfred Jarry's Ubu Roi pre- base emotional beings," Horak says. mièred on December 10, 1896, in "There's no psychological realism in the Paris—a city then-unfamiliar with things show at all.

"It's funny; you find yourself laughing at like absurdism and modernism, because they didn't quite exist yet—its one-night something you really, really shouldn't," he run saw a different sort of standing ova- continues with an audible grin. "You're in tion: the people basically rioted. Because a group of strangers, laughing at someof a play that was, really, about Jarry call- thing that's politically incorrect. And that ing out his high school math teacher as a can be very disconcerting when you're caught. We found when we were doing bourgeois tyrant.

The implications of that are something it in front of the fringe audience, people Dave Horak has been mulling over for are laughing at something, and then there was a deathly silence when everyone realsome time now. izes 'Holy fuck, "I've always been fascinated I shouldn't be with those kinds of things, like Until Sun, Sep 28 (8 pm; 2 pm laughing at Rite of Spring," the director Sunday matinees) that.' explains, citing another play- Directed by David Horak causes-riot scenario. "What Roxy Theatre, $20 – $30 Horak first was it that made everybody read Fatboy go crazy about it?"

Fatboy might be his best chance to fig- while completing his MFA in directing at ure it out. The John Clancy script, based the U of A. Turns out he knew the playon Ubu but written for a post-9/11 world, wright, though the script didn't quite takes aim at the same gleeful crudeness prove an ideal choice for his degree-capand sacred-cow-gutting sentiments. It ping thesis show. (For that, he ended up finds a quartet of clownish figures play- going with Sarah Ruhl's inquisitive intering out a spread of vulgar scenarios, gro- pretation of Eurydice.)

"I read the first couple pages and went tesquely heightened indictments of our modern way of life and the people who 'Hmm, no-one's gonna let me do this play,'" he says. "They're not gonna let me reach for unabated power.

"These characters, for the most part, do this at the university, and I just tucked aren't characters: they're live wires, or it in my back pocket."

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The Fringe's unjuried, take-it-as-it-is format proved a more appealing platform for Fatboy: Horak mounted a version at the 2012 festival which took home three Sterling awards. For this run, back with that original Fringe cast—and the first remount Horak can ever recall doing, actually—they've expanded the production values to better fill the much-bigger Roxy theatre. And maybe upped the attitude as well.

"I think it's a bit meaner, this version," he says. "Maybe because we can use the size of the venue to express it, but I think it's a bit sharper."

You get the sense that deep down, Horak hopes Fatboy, like the source material it pulls from, causes a ... well, maybe not a riot, but at least a ruckus. Some moral indignation, for sure, or and maybe some angrily raised voices. But Horak's the first to acknowledge the unlikeliness of a fullon Ubu-style disturbance.

"But maybe!" he adds. "There's nothing sacred in this. We take a jab at absolutely everything. There's not a politically correct moment with this play. It starts off with 'motherfuck', and ends with 'motherfuck.' And in-between it's a string of profanities and insane actions."

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PREVUE // THEATRE

The Violet Hour C

hoosing a play for your thesis project is a pretty big deal—but sometimes it happens by random.

"I just pulled it off the library shelf," says MFA candidate Lucy Collingwood, recalling how she first stumbled upon Richard Greenberg's The Violet Hour. "I didn't know anything about it. I'd read so many plays I was starting to lose perspective; every time I talked to someone, people were giving me recommendations— which is kind of a drag because they really want you to like it as much as they do, but you know as soon as you hear about it that it's probably not the kind of thing you want to direct.

I'm picky, I guess."

What really drew Collingwood to Greenberg's script, which has been dubbed an ode to Great Gatsby author F Scott Fitzgerald and other literary giants of early 20th century America, was how immediately evocative it was.

"I find a lot of the time when I'm reading a play, I have to work really hard to see what it can be, because they're designed to be seen and not read," Collingwood explains. "But with The Violet Hour it just popped so fast and it's so powerful; I was so absorbed by it. That's really rare for me; plays take a little bit of an effort to pick up on the page."

In keeping with the play's setting in 1919 New York, Studio Theatre's production of The Violet Hour will hold true to that era's esthetic in costume and design. The story, which is peppered with references to literary figures, centres on a young publisher who must choose between two manuscripts: his lover's memoir or a college buddy's sprawling novel.

Incongruous as it seems, time travel factors in as well when a machine Until Sat, Sept 27 (7:30 pm) starts spitting out Directed by Lucy Collingwood pages of informa- Timms Centre, $11 – $22 tion on the characters' destinies.

"It's sort of a bittersweet comedy," Collingwood says. "I don't know if dark comedy is quite the right word; it's got a lot of heart. I think it's about our innocence, particularly as young people, as we figure out who we are in the world, and as we grow older and gain the perspective of age, how that changes."

"Sometimes I feel I make it sound kind of dour when I talk about it," she continues with a laugh. "There are some heartwrenching moments, but then it comes into this sweet, touching comedy."

A literary Hour // Ed Ellis

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The Violet Hour

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A dark comedy. An aspiring publisher must choose between two manuscripts: his best friend from college’s masterpiece, or his lover’s compelling memoir.

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ARTS PREVUE // IMPROV

The 11 O'Clock Number

Making it up as they go

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e're always trying to achieve the perfect musical, which is an impossibility."

When Byron Martin founded an improvised musical troupe a couple of years ago, he wasn't sure if the idea would stick. But as The 11 O'Clock Number rolls into its third season, the group has pretty conclusive proof of its staying power: it's coming off of a sold-out Fringe run, has hired nine new members into the company, will be performing at a New York improvised mu-

sical festival in October, as well as expect of the audience to sit on a Theatre Alberta tour in Red through a full 90-minute musiDeer at the same time, and has cal that's made up on the spot," even done a few corporate gigs Martin says. "Chimprov is long over the past year. form but it's 40 minutes, max. To "I think the most surprising thing double that, it's asking a lot of for me personally is just how the audience to be like, 'OK, this meaningful it is to people—not is the story we're going for and just the people involved, though we're not getting out of it.'" we've all become very much like family," says Martin, artistic di- A significant change to the new rector of Grindstone Theatre season is the removal of the di(the company behind 11 O'Clock). rector position—now the six "At the Fringe we did what we players will have to call scenes call Life as a Musical, where we for each other. They will also try base the musical out a costumed around people's Fridays (11 pm) musical once a lives—we ask Varscona Theatre, $14 month, based on the audience to suggestions garshout out somenered from sothing really important that hap- cial media. Including more dance pened to them this year. We've numbers—a tricky thing to imhad a couple letters come in from provise—is also a main focus this people who had the musical about year, as Martin feels they really them, just about how meaningful up the stakes. it was for them."

"I'm just noticing the quality of Edmontonians are familiar with the shows getting better and beta longer form of improv through ter as we get more experience," Rapid Fire Theatre's weekly Chim- he says. "And it's just become way prov, but improvised musicals set bigger than myself, and bigger the bar for audience patience— than anything I could do."

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(Evolution Wonderlounge) Park(ing) Day/ Fri, Sep 19 (noon – 8 pm) Setting art in unusual locales is increasingly both relevant and frequent in how artists engage audiences, both in Edmonton and beyond. And, inspired by an open-source, San Francisco-

based project, local art gallery/ performance space The Drawing Room has gathered nearly 30 artists to reimagine the sort of public place that we literally drive onto and then walk away from.

From noon to 8pm, Parking stalls along 101A Ave at 97 Street will be inhabited and transformed into deeper curiosities: expect music, a croquet tournament, performance art, “adventure golf,” poetry, bike repair, a knitting circle and far more. No word on what parking is like. (101A Ave & 97 Street)

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Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • NEW LINES: Contemporary drawings from the National Gallery of Canada; until Oct 5 • OPENING SOON: TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND LA VIE MODERNE: PARIS 1880-1910: explores life, art and culture in turn-of-the-century Paris, through the work of Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries; until Nov 16 • BMO World of Creativity: WORLD OF BOO: Jason Carter and Bridget Ryan; until Apr 16, 2015 • RBC New Works Gallery: AMY MALBEUF: KAYÂS-AGO: Large-scale installation; until Nov 16 • Regions of Distinction: A Panel on Practice in the Capital Region; Sep 27 • Late Night Wednesdays: Open until 9pm

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St,

780.990.1161 • September Group Exhibiton and Sale: Rotating exhibit of works by gallery artists and secondary market works • Through Sep

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 •

Visualeyez: Movement: Canada's annual festival of

performance art • Various venues, until Sep 21

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor

Blvd, Sherwood Park • ACACA ALBERTA WIDE ART SHOW: Presented by the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association

historians Juliette Champagne and John Matthews; Sep 27, 7-8:30pm

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • Main Gallery: OAC Art Show; until Oct 4 • Fireplace Room: OAC Hangings; through Sep

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 NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE STOLLERY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • WHERE WE WORK: Presented by CN Rail • Until Oct 4

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • IN THE WE MANNER: Artworks by Clay

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St •

GPS ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: Combining technology, nature, and hidden treasure; until Jun 1, 2015

U OF A–Makers Space • Tuck Shop Tent • Work of Arts showcase by students, alumni, creators and researchers • Sep 19

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • Gallery A:

CONTEMPORARY COWBOY: photographic investigation of “the west” by Karly Mortimer and Jeremy Pavka • Gallery B: FROM MEAT TO BROWNIES: Works by Sarah Smith • Until Oct 25 • Opening: Sep 18, 7-9:30pm

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • IT FIGURES: Works by Richard Toczac, Samantha Williams-Chapelsky, Julie Kaldenhoven, and Gisele Jerke • Until Sep 20 WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave,

780.488.4892 • Artworks by Jean-Gabriel Lambert • Until Sep 25

LITERARY ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • Book Launch: Ella

Zeltserman, Small Things Left Behind • Sep 23, 7pm

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Author

BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • DRAWING

Event: Amanda Morash-Parsons; Sep 18, 7pm • Author Event: Janice MacDonald Meet and Greet; Sep 20, 1:30pm • Book Launch of Winterkill with Kate A. Boorman; Sep 21, 2pm • Book Launch of Jamie's Got A Gun with Gail Sidonie Sobat and Spyder Yardley-Jones; Sep 25, 7pm • Book Launch: Jacqueline Baker, author of The Horseman's Graves; Sep 28, 2pm

ON MY EXPERIENCE: Drawings by Daphne Odjig • Sep 20-Oct 1

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 St • SUBURBAN: Artworks by Tyler Baird, Gabriel Molina, and Bryce Zimmerman • Until Sep 27 DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • THE TANGLED WEB: Works by Denise LeFebvre, accompanied with stories of local writer, Trish Lane • Until Sep 30

EDMONTON BOOK STORE • 10533-82 Ave • Book Launch with Adriana A. Davies (From Realism to Abstraction, The Art of J.B. Taylor) • Sep 28, 7pm

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211

GOVERNMENT HOUSE • 12845-102 Ave • Where We Come From: A weekend of Poetry and Storytelling • Sep 27-28 • Free • Storyteller Wendy Edey, and poet Marilyn Dumont; Sep 27, 11am • Chapbook Launch: in partnership with the Writers Guild of Alberta: Marco Melfi, In Between Trains: Sep 27, 3pm • Storytellers Marie Anne McLean and Kathy Jessup; Sep 28, 11am; and poets, Ann Sutherland, Kim Mannix, Stephen T Berg, and Shirley Serviss, showcase poetry from the local harvest; Sep 28, afternoon • Storyteller, Bethany Ellis, and poet, Doug Elves; Sep 28, 3pm

• THE RIGHT SIDE OF MAGIC: Works by Blair Brennan, A survey of work from 1986-2014 including An Unlearned Human Language, a new collaborative performance/ installation with Brian Webb and Allyson MacIvor • Until Oct 11 • Performances (An Unlearned Human Language): Sep 18-20, 8pm reception to follow Sat

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

THE KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass Door Coffeehouse Reading Series • Sep 25

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124

NORTHLANDS PARK • 7410 Borden Park Rd • Book

St • 47th Annual Fall exhibit: Introducing Jim Park and featuring new colourfields of bright yellow canola fields and blue skies by Sylvain Voyer • Sep 20-Oct 4 • Opening: Sep 20, 2-4pm

launch and book signing for Nerve Line, a novel by Nancy Mackenzie • Sep 20, 5pm • Free

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 •

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St, 780.760.7284 •

Spoken Word Tue: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP)

WORK/LIFE: by Jeff Klassen; until Oct 3 • An Outdoor Flea Market and Yard Sale at 10137-97 St (Drawing Room's future home); Sep 19, 12-8pm; Sep 20-21, 10am-6pm

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 • DISCOVERING DINOSAURS: Sep 18-Jan 31, 2015 • DEF PERSPECTIVES: Paintings and drawings by Jesse Thomas; until Oct 25 • AGA at Enterprise: 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,

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: Sep 18, 7-10pm • MFA graduation shows: Agnieszka Koziarz (MFA Sculpture); Nora Myers (MFA Painting); Sep 30-Oct 25; Opening: Oct 9, 7-10pm

METRO • 8712-109 St, 780.425.9212 • Alberta Culture

GALLERY AT 501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park

How to Train Your Dragon 2 • Sep 22, 5pm (door), 5:30pm (show)

MARKING THE VALLEY: Visual Arts Alberta with the River Valley Alliance showcase the Capital Region river valley through the artworks of artists • Until Oct 7

Ayotte; Until Oct 11

St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • ABSTRACTION INTO THE SIGNIFICANT LINE: Artworks by Pat Wagensveld; until Sep 27 • Ageless Art: Layers upon Layers of Landscapes: Sep 18, 1-3pm; $15/$13.50 (Arts & Heritage member) • Art Ventures: No Brushes Allowed!: Sep 20, 1-4pm; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member)

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • BEING AND BECOMING: Figurative paintings by RFM McInnis, and figurative scultpures by Blake Ward • Sep 18-Oct 6 • Opening: Sep 18, 7-9pm, Sep 20, 2-4pm; artists in attendance

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE–U of A • Film night:

JUBILEE–KAASA GALLERY • 11455-87 Ave •

BRIGADIER-GENERAL RAYMOND BRUTINEL: And the

Motor Machine Gun Brigade; until Nov 16; opening/ book launch: Sep 18, 7pm; Book Talk: Brutinel, talk with

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron

St • Sep 19-25 • D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D, PG: Fri-Sat 1:10, 5:45; Sun 1:10; Mon-Thu 4:20pm; Tue 11am; Thu 1pm • Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D, G: Fri-Sat 2:15, 3:25, 6:55pm; Sun: 2:15, 3:25; Mon-Thu 3:10; Thu 10am • Jerusalem 3D, G: Fri-Sun 11am, Thu 2pm • Rocky Mountain Express; Sat-Sun 12pm, Mon 2pm, Tue 1pm • Flight of the Butterflies 3D, G: Fri-Sun 4:35, Wed 11am • To The Artic 3D, G: Mon 1pm; Wed 10am • Born to be Wild 3D, G: Tue 10am • Transformers: Age of Extinction 3D, PG: Fri-Sun 8:05pm

Days: Why Shoot the Teacher?, Sep 28, 7pm • Prairie Tales 16 for Young Audiences, Sep 27, 2pm, 3pm, 4pm • The Auctioneer, Sep 28, 2pm • Rock Paper Dice Enter; Sep 28, 4pm; Free; all ages • CJSR fundraiser: A Hard Day’s Night, G–50th Anniversary; Sep 22, 7pm; donation • Cult Cinema: Natural Born Killers (STC); Sep 23, 9:15pm • Culture Collective: Live variety show; Sep 25, 7pm • DEDfest Fundraiser: The Texas Chainsaw Massacre–40th anniversary; Sep 19, 9:30pm; 18+ Licensed • Ebert’s Pics: Life Itself, 14A, Sep 18, 7pm; Raging Bull, 18A; Sep 20, 9:15pm; La Dolce Vita, PG, mature theme, Italian w/ subtitles, Sep 21, 3:15pm • Edmonton Premiere and fundraiser: Voila!; Sep 20, 4pm, reception/silent auction; filmmakers in attendance; donation • Gateway to Cinema: The Matrix, 14A, violent scenes; Sep 24, 7pm; free for all students with ID • Provincial Archives of Alberta: Celebrates Indigenous Filmmaking during Culture Days: Part 1 starting at 7pm: A Métis Wedding, Ballad of Crowfoot, Foster Child, Voice of My Grandmother; Part 2 starting at 9pm: Totem: The Return of the G'psgolox Pole (feature-length documentary); Sep 27, 7-11pm; free • Reel Family Cinema: Family films: James and the Giant Peach (PG); Sep 20, 2pm; free for children 12 and under

KNOWLEDGE LAY BENEATH YOUR SKIN: Works by Mike Binzer • Sep 18-Oct 17 • Annex: EFC presents: Bent Light Collective: Sep 18, 8-11pm; $10

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, 7pm; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

BE PART OF A LIVE AUDIENCE. A REENACTEMENT OF THREE EARLY FILMS DIRECTED BY

ALFRED HITCHCOCK.

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

8627-91 St • Free interactive arts and culture. Artists from across Canada offer activities for all ages • Sep 24-28 • Presented by RAFA at La Cité francophone and surroundings

GRAY GALLERY • Robbins Health Learning Centre,

FATBOY • Theatre Network, 10708-124 St,

780.453.2440 • A live-action Punch and Judy comedy show by John Clancy, presented by Edmonton Actors Theatre, directed by Dave Horak. Starring Frederick Zbryski, Melissa Thingelstad, Mathew Hulshof, Tim Cooper, and Ian Leung • Until Sep 28

KIM'S CONVENIENCE • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, Ellis • Until Sep 30 • Opening: Sep 18, 7-9pm

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • VIEW OF THE WEST: Art from a recent historic donation to the U of A Hospital’s permanent art collection; until Oct 14; Opening: Sep 18, 7-9pm • Artists on the Wards: 15 Years of Songs and Stories; Sep 26, 7pm

PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.467.3038 • Paintings by Jonn Einerssen and soapstone sculptures by Vance Theoret • Until Nov 8

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL • Main

780.453.9100 • Orientation Gallery: FINDING PLACE: EXPLORING HOME THROUGH FIELD JOURNAL ART: Dr Lyn Baldwin's work; until Nov 30

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony

RUTHERFORD LIBRARY SOUTH–U of A • BERTHA VON SUTTNER: A LIFE OF PEACE: Profiling the life of Bertha Von Suttner, an Austrian novelist and the first woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize • Until Sep 30

Fl, 16940-87 Ave • Edmonton Art Club Annual Fall Show • Until Oct 31

MacEwan City Centre, Rm 9-113A, 109 St, 104 Ave • 10 AGAIN: Self-portraits by the 2004 MacEwan University Fine Art alumni • Until Oct 3

Plain • Paintings by Cindy Barratt, Doris Charest, Karin Richter; until Sep 25 • Paintings by Donna Miller • Sep 27-Oct 29 • Opening: Sep 28, 1-3:30pm

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • Metal sculptures

by Peter Hide • Until Oct 11 • Opening: Sep 20, 1-5pm

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St

SNAP GALLERY • 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492

St, 780.426.4180 • Main Space: MAGNETIC FIELDS: Works by Brigitta Kocsis • Front Room: WHAT SECRET

Selkirk, Fort Edmonton • Travel back in time to a currentday production of a 60's crime TV show in a restaurant • Sep 20, 6-10pm • $95 (incl hors d’oeuvres, 3-course dinner, entertainment)

Waddell Hodder, Alex Mackie instruct lightsabre training, learn moves from the film • Every Wed until Sep 24; Kids: 7-7:45pm; adults: 7-8:30pm • Free, drop-in (Bring Your Own Lightsabre)

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert, 780.459.2525 • Works by Val Solash, Peg McPherson, and Louise Piquette • Until Sep 29

THE GRAND ARTS MARKET • La Cité francophone,

FADE TO BLACK–MURDER MYSTERY • Hotel

THE FORCE–LIGHTSABRE • Churchill Sq • Janine

• PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS: Paintings by Julian Forrest • Until Oct 26

Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • ROOTS: Mixed media works by Paul Holowack • Display: Works by members of the Edmonton Weavers’ Guild • Cube Display: Edmonton Stamp Club: A salute to the World Wildlife Federation • until Sep 30

CHIMPROV • Zeidler Hall Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13

FOLKSWAGGIN’: MUSIC OF THE PEOPLE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • Celebrating icons such as Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Woody Guthrie, the Band, Everly Brothers, Carole King, James Taylor and more • Until Nov 2

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • C’EST

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley Milner Library Main

THEATRE

Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • JOINING UP!: Our Men and Women in the First World War; until Nov 16 •

• HAIR: Mark Clintberg works from imagery found in Barbershops throughout Canada and the US; until Oct 11 • COMMOTION: Series of photographs by Zachary

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9828-101A Ave • By Ins Choi, directed by Weyni Mangesha. Recommended for ages 12+ • Sep 20-Oct 11

PIRATES OF THE NORTH SASKATHCHEWAN III

• Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, 780.484.2424 • The great Admiral Northington has arranged a truce with all prairie pirates. An adventure complimented with rock hits of the '70s • Until Oct 26

THEATRESPORTS • Zeidler Hall, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until Dec 12; Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square THE VIOLET HOUR • Timms Centre, U of A, 87 Ave, 112 St • Studio Theatre • Dark comedy set in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Great Gatsby-era by Richard Greenberg, director, Lucy Collingwood • Sep 18-27 YES, LET'S! • Jubilee • Alberta Culture Days, presented

by Theatre Alberta, Citadel Theatre, Rapid Fire Theatre.

Participate in the improv workshop • Sep 26, 5-7pm

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REVUE // CRIME

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Criminal undertaking

Opens Friday A Walk Among the Tombstones Directed by Scott Frank 

A Walk Among the Tombstones a fairly gruesome, fairly straightforward detective yarn

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hen we first meet Scudder (Liam Neeson) it's 1991.

Back then he was NYPD, with dyed moustache and goatee. He drinks a breakfast of coffee and two shots of whisky in a bar that gets robbed.

The robbers ice the barkeep. Scudder chases them down and disposes of them one at a time with a remarkably steady hand. There's more to this part of the story but we don't learn about it until later, when it's 1999, Scudder's handed in his badge, started up as an un-licenced private detective, given up booze and shaved off the 'stache and goatee, that combo having migrated to the faces of several heavies,

among them millionaire criminal Kenny Kristo (Dan Stevens) and sadistic sociopathic serial killer Albert (Adam David Thompson). The '90s were difficult years for facial hair legitimacy.

Yet, if A Walk Among the Tombstones is anything to go by, they were good years for literacy rates.

This film, based on a 1992 novel by Lawrence Block, features a drug lord who chills on the sofa with some Nabokov, a homeless boy who hangs out in libraries and is well versed in his Dashiell Hammett, a cemetery groundskeeper toiling away at a novel and another drug lord who names his dog Watson, no doubt in honour

of Arthur Conan Doyle's beloved narrator. I'm poking fun, but the truth is that it's a perfectly pleasant conceit in a perfectly watchable, if gruesome, detective yarn, whose narrative style, for the record, is modelled most closely after Raymond Chandler: like Chandler's Philip Marlowe, Scudder is usually one step ahead of us and rarely stops to explain what he's doing. Like Marlowe, Scudder is also something of a romantic. Though evidence of the internet's usefulness in detection is made obvious to him, Scudder, perhaps buying into the Y2K hype creeping into every third scene, is a devout technophobe, preferring

old school methods. Besides, early on in Tombstones Scudder befriends and quasi-deputizes TJ (Astro), the aforementioned homeless child bookworm who knows his way around a search engine and helps save the day, not to mention his own skin, by dint of his early adoption of the mobile phone.

The plot is about as complicated as gruesome detective yarn plots tend to be but, in short, it involves a series of kidnappings of the loved ones of affluent criminal kingpins who, for the usual reasons, don't want to go to the cops—so they go to Scudder, who doggedly tracks down the culprits

Liam Neeson, PI

between AA meetings, which come to assume a curiously ominous tone during the film's protracted climax, which employs a liturgical reading of the 12 steps as a sort of underscoring for much bloodletting and comeuppance.

This is veteran screenwriter Scott Frank's second feature as director and he plays it fairly straight, though you get the impression he wishes the setting was 1979 instead of 1999, or that he was actually making the film in 1974 instead of 2014. Shades of William Friedkin loom. There are worse shadows you could huddle under for two hours.

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REVUE // HORROR

As Above So Below S

ome of the weakest horror flicks tend to be the haunted-tunnels-carnival-ride kind, reducing characters to screamNow playing ers, any subtext to mere Directed by John Erick Dowdle pretext for scares, the  setting to spookyville, and the plot to what'saround-the-next-corner. The found footage As Above So Below checks off all these boxes with big, scrawled, bloody red tick-marks: a group of young people on the hunt for the philosophers' stone (holy Harry Potter!) is soon freaking out down in Paris' creepy catacombs as the underworld opens up and the story plunges into silliness, resembling, with each twist, a squiggly, wriggly, claustrophobic snakes-and-ladders game.

Scarlett (Perdita Weeks), a London professor armed with her plummy acFun in the Catacombs cent, two PhDs, and photogenic looks

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(perfect for, say, a movie), launches the flick into Da Vinci Code mode. She and George (Ben Feldman), her could-befriend-but-would-be-more, walk around France's capital deciphering burial markers, Aramaic writing and old maps of subterranean Paris, trying to find the entrance to where that legendary artifact of the alchemists has been hidden.

She's accompanied by documentarian Benji (Edwin Hodge) and some cool young Parisian guides to the catacombs.

Conforming to formula, Secondary Female Character and Visible Minority Character eat dust first. Remnants of traumatic memories pop up in alcoves, as if the City of Lights, The Shining-like, has its own special Crypt 237s underground. Musty mythological warnings (beware the entrance to hell, etc) are inscribed on walls. The principals are soon reduced to panting, yelling and

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repeating, "We've got to keep moving!"

So frenetic and preposterous does all this running around in a warren of historical-period mumbo-jumbo (Egyptian hieroglyphics; a Ptolemaic hinge; a wound-healing gemstone; a dead Templar Knight; cultists in white robes; Freudian flashbacks) get that, near the end, Ms Indiana Jones even runs, wades and climbs all the way back to the treasure horde (which could well be Ali Baba's cave by this point) in Usain Boltrecord time ... all in order to "rectify" the destruction and death she launched by stupidly prying out the damned stone in the first place. And so this creepycrawly snake becomes an ouroboros, chasing and eating its own tail until the flick falls headlong down its own orifice.

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PREVUE // TIFF 2014

Cinema as shared experience Our final dispatch from the frontlines of TIFF

Two Days, One Night

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idway through this year's Toronto International Film Festival the rain came, the movie-interviewbad diet-scheduling nightmare-late party-general hustling regimen led to inevitable exhaustion and, in my case, a head cold. The temperature dropped 20 degrees in two days, but the cold that descended on Toronto and its thousands of cocktail dressclad women was not enough to freeze out the big, bruised-heartedness of the Dardenne brothers' Two Days, One Night, which finds Marion Cotillard, the Dardennes' first movie star, marching doggedly under summer sun across Seraing, Belgium to convince her co-workers at a solar panel factory to give up their bonuses so she can keep her job. Brimming with sentiment yet fundamentally unsentimental, Two Days calls for but does not expect solidarity as it hurtles toward its inspired climax. Look for an interview with the Dardennes when the film's released in January.

Some of the underdogs represented at TIFF 2014 trumped Cotillard's protagonist, who fears her family will be relegated to public housing, by not having housing at all! But while Cotillard-as-working class caused me not a momentary ripple of disbelief, it isn't easy to get over the notion of Richard Gere as an alcoholic homeless man in Oren Moverman's Critics' Prizewinning Time Out of Mind. The hurdle is somewhat mitigated by Moverman's choice to make virtually every cramped frame of his film a palimpsest of fences, bars, passing cars and other blurred foreground objects obscuring Gere. This shrewdly saturated mise en scène serves to remind of the invisibility of its central character, a non-entity with a hand out. I have all kinds of reservations, but the accrued loneliness of Time Out of Mind clung to me. The Safdie brothers' Heaven Knows What is Time's opposite: made with zero stars and little money, it follows a young homeless addict as she traipses New York, attempts suicide, gets high,

screams and says "fuck" a lot. It's lead is, or was, a genuine homeless addict and author of the film's source material. It's an arresting film that goes nowhere. It feels fully derived from the real, though I'm not sure it gives the real anything back in return.

While we're getting real, let me tell you about the greatest nonfiction film at TIFF, which may be the greatest nonfiction film of 2014, and is certainly part of one of the greatest nonfiction cinema projects of this century. Joshua Oppenheimer's The Look of Silence is a companion piece to last year's The Act of Killing, but where that film explored Indonesia's legacy of violence by getting intimate with those who did the killing in the anticommunist purges of the 1960s, this new film, an immersive study in reconciliation, fear and forgiveness, focuses on the victims, in particular one man, Adi, whose brother was mutilated and murdered. Adi is an optometrist and pays visits on his neighbours, some of them directly involved in the killing. He tests their eyes as well as their willingness to recognize their own heinous acts. Adi was at the screening I attended. I think the gravity of what he's done with Oppenheimer must have hit him in a new way while watching the film with an audience of stunned foreigners. He was unable to even speak during the Q&A. This man's courage is unbelievably moving to me. Oppenheimer's achievement with these films will be discussed for many years to come.

A very different sort of true story gets a curious workout in Abel Ferrara's gorgeously photographed Pasolini, which stars Willem Dafoe as the late Italian polymath and cinematic provocateur. The film follows Pasolini on the final days of his life, which ended in brutal murder. The film also realizes fragments of two projects Pasolini would have made had he lived, and this aspect of Pasolini is a lot goofier. Maybe not as goofy as

the street dancers or the mime or the Harmony Korine-run massage parlour in David Gordon Green's Manglehorn, but Manglehorn is supposed to be kinda goofy. Let's call it a work of goofy beauty, a tale of longing and confusion in old age, featuring a brilliant, endlessly inventive central performance from Al Pacino as a Texan locksmith slipping into dementia. Pacino also slips into dementia and is also brilliant and inventive in Barry Levinson's The Humbling, but that movie is a goddamned mess and a gross misreading of the Philip Roth source novel.

The Japanese protagonist of Korean comic maestro Hong Sang-soo's Hill of Freedom spends much of the film reading a book about the nature of time, probably not aware that as he waits to meet an elusive Korean woman he is himself in a strange, wonderful, chronology defying little movie about the nature of time. Time weighs heavily on Geraldine Chaplin in Laura Amelia Guzmán and Israel Cárdenas' excellent Sand Dollars, which finds Chaplin's wealthy sextagenarian tourist falling perilously in love with a very young and lovely woman in the Dominican Republic. Time can be read and revered in the centuries-old architecture visited and pondered in La Sapienza, French director Eugène Green's stirring story of remarriage.

Lastly, time is chopped up, toyed with, stacked and elongated in Goodbye to Language, the enduringly iconoclastic Jean-Luc Godard's clipped, playful 3D extravaganza. It was my last screening of TIFF 2014. To my surprise, it seemed every other person I know in Toronto was there and eager to discuss and laugh and decompress afterward, a reminder that for all the pomp, red carpets and tiresome Oscar buzz, film festivals are at their best when they serve to create communities of people who cherish cinema as a shared experience.

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ennis Lehane, adapting his story deliberating and quietly focused—re"Animal Rescue" for the screen, flect Bob's mindset. (Men were like drops his slow burning, steadily bruis- bulls in Roskam's debut; here, Bob's ing Brooklyn bar tale into the lap of like his pitbull puppy.)

Belgian director Michaël R Roskam, whose very fine Bullhead (2011) was a Hardy's laconic character, who attends mass every character study of a seemingly lunkSunday but won't headed, muscle- Now playing take communion, bound man (Mat- Directed by Michaël R Roskam seems a cipher unthias Schoenaerts)  til the story's crucaught up in crime. cial, last-act twist Lehane and Rosexplains all. Marv, with Gandolfini in kam, with the help of Tom Hardy in one of his star turns, his final big-screen appearance, is a morph this New Yahk-neighbourhood- beaten-down, last-gasp Tony Soprano, noir into the portrait of one hulking pushed out of the criminal life but still bartender who seems that little bit shufflingly, beadily bitter about that; slower, more deliberate, and more it's a memorable swan song for the greatest brooding bulk to ever loom harmless than he truly is.

Bob Saginowski (Hardy) is the neph- into our small-screen consciousnesses. ew of Marv (James Gandolfini), who Schoenaerts turns a felon with a rep to still runs but no longer owns the bar uphold into a twisty snake of a smallwhere Bob's been serving up drinks time thug. Even Ann Dowd, as Marv's for years. When the bar—occasional- sister—in a crackling conversation ly a drop-off point for mob money— about their father that's full of dorgets robbed by two masked men, the mant rancour and dying hopes—gets weight falls on the relatives to get the a superb bit part. Only Noomi Rapace, $5000 back for their criminal bosses. as love interest Nadia, is given little to Bullhead cinematographer Nicolas work with, reduced to redemption for Karakatsanis shoots these stoic men Bob by the end. The Drop is most intermusing, stewing or briefly indulging in esting, instead, in its narrow-eyed look clipped conversations among weath- at men who feel alone, condemned to ered buildings' dark blues and browns a few old musty blocks of territory, full or the sickly yellow and red glow of of blind alleys and dark corners. bar lighting. And Roskam has the pace BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM of the film—unhurried but clenched,

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f 1994 Damian Abraham could catch a glimpse of 2014 Damian Abraham it's quite possible that he would howl in protest at what he saw.

Maybe not so much at the knowledge that future Abraham would have to come to grips with the hated music industry as part of the very successful Fucked Up so much as the idea that he'd be consorting with the enemy. And by the enemy we mean Gord Downie of the Tragically Hip. "That was the year when it finally became cool to be into punk, so 1994 was a really good time for me," Abraham recalls from his Ontario home, fending off a howling dog while talking about his band's upcoming tour. "The only problem was that at that point all of my friends were saying 'Yeah, man, we're into the Hip now.' I really hated them at that point because I associated them negatively with everything I hated in music. They were the opposite of what I liked, and what I wanted to be."

Twenty years later and Downie shows up as a guest vocalist on the song "The Art of Patrons" from Fucked Up's latest album, Glass Boys. For some fans of the band this might seem like the ultimate cop out, or even co-option, as Fucked Up (which also includes drummer Jonah Falco, guitarists Mike Haliechuk, Ben Cook and Josh Zucker, and bassist Sandy Miranda) continues its unlikely march towards mainstream acceptance. For Abraham it just makes sense.

"He's been absolutely amazing to me. We initially met through email and then we started talking; now he's someone that I actually go to for advice. What I really like about him, though, is that when I told him that we had a part he wanted to sing he just said, 'Yeah, I can do that.' We didn't have to go through any record labels or managers to do it. He just showed up and sang.

That's so refreshing; there have been so many times when we've talked to a musician about doing something and he'll say, 'Yeah, yeah,

talk to my manager.' Gord is now someone I look up to as a model for how to survive a music industry that just wants to chew you up."

Downie could also serve as an example of how to survive as a weirdo creative musician as you grow older. This is one of the main themes behind Glass Boys, necessary selfreflection for a group of hardcore punks who have lasted a lot longer than they expected. Abraham still seems somewhat stunned that he's actually been granted the opportunity to continue making music while many of his peers have had to struggle, or eventually make their way into the regular world. After all, with a name like Fucked Up it's somewhat obvious that the band members weren't looking into any "long-term strategy."

"There was a lot of fantasizing but definitely not much strategizing," Abraham chuckles in agreement. "We never thought this band was going to be a going concern 15 years later."

That's fairly evident by the songs Fucked Up were releasing back at the turn of the century, with topics like suicide ("A Light That Never Comes On") addressing Abraham's fractured state of mind. On the other hand, the singer says that the band can still throw itself wholeheartedly behind a number like "Baiting the Police," which still rings as true to them now as it did back when they were kids.

"It would be hard for me to sing a song like 'A Light That Never Comes On' because at that time I actually did want to die," Abraham says. "I was in a terrible place, and it would be disingenuous for me to do it now, especially because [it's] years later and I've lost a few friends to suicide. As we go along we're figuring out what we can write about; I mean, in many ways we still feel the same way as when we started, but we've changed in other ways."

That's the heart of Glass Boys, and also Fucked Up's dilemma: how to remain true to your youthful ide-

als while becoming more popular and wishing to push against genre limitations. The four albums they've released since assembling in 2001 have pushed hard against the usual hardcore rules, with 2008's The Chemistry of Common Life and 2011's David Comes To Life representing quantum leaps in both musicality and lyrical matters.

Abraham admits that some part of him remains angry and intransigent against the idea of moving more fully into adulthood, but that he's also excited at the fresh perspectives he's gaining. The idea of change as betrayal might sting in the community the band comes from, but he also knows that it's necessary. For Abraham, the question is how you do this and still sleep at night?

"You know, it's not as though we've become as big as One Direction," he laughs. "It's still turned out much, much more successful than I ever thought it would be, and I feel very lucky to have had this experience with this band. We're small in the grand scheme of things, but still doing really well. There are times when I question things, but I sleep well enough."

Abraham has even managed to keep his equilibrium through the various internet rumors that have circulated about him and the band.

The problem with success is that you tend to become a sitting duck for every accusation tossed your way; the singer is less offended than he is bemused at some of the stranger ones, like the recurring gossip that he's been hired on to become a regular correspondent on Fox News show Red Eye w/Greg Gutfeld after appearing a few times in the past.

"It wouldn't bother me except that it's been used to dismiss me in arguments a few times," Abraham laments. "I remember watching in real time as that story started spreading. It was two weeks after my eldest child was born and someone sent me a text as we were preparing

to go to Spain to play the Primavera (Sound) Festival. They said, 'Hey, congratulations on the Fox gig,' and I asked what they were talking about. They sent the link, and I immediately wrote to the website asking if they would mind taking it down. They said sure, no problem, but we found it at another website.

By the time we got to Spain it was everywhere, on too many sites to count. I guess that's the price you pay for indie-rock small-c celebrity; on one level it sucks because it's misinformation, on another it's kind of cool because it means that I've reached a point where people actually speculate about you, which is kind of funny. Also, as a band we've been responsible for misinformation ourselves, so I guess you take the chance that it will come back and bite you."

In any event it's not as though Abraham is a stranger to the media. Up until the early summer he hosted The Wedge on MuchMusic, interviewing a wide assortment of musicians over the last three years on the recently cancelled, much loved program. One of the best happened near the end of the run, Abraham going head to head with bemused rapper Action Bronson, who seemed inclined to mess with the host as much as possible.

"It's hard to say if he was messing with me," Abraham says. "Off camera he was a lot cooler, but yeah, it was definitely one of my favourite moments, if not one of my best interviews, because it went so strange. We didn't exchange phone numbers at the end, if that answers your question. By and large I could always find something to talk about with anyone, and I can only name maybe a handful of interviews that went wrong. Like Jack Bugg and Liam Gallagherthough that went bad in the best way possible, because it's Liam Gallagher."

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Sat, Sep 20 (8 pm) With Alvvays Pawn Shop, $20 deal with and taking advantage of artistic latitude that many other bands aren't granted, the band is well aware that it's now on the other side of a musical divide. Success is a wonderful thing on your own terms, but growing up with an innate distrust of success causes a certain amount of apprehension.

Abraham wryly acknowledges this, and even takes a certain amount of glee in discussing it.

"You know, at some point if we'd been asked what our marker for success would be we would have pointed at the Melvins. They're a good example of a band that's done well while still having creative autonomy, with a certain amount of artistic forgiveness from their audience. They've got something good going on there. Now we have a similar platform to work from, and I realize that we've lost people because of it. The backlash has happened, and it's happened a few times. We've lost audiences and gained audiences, with maybe a few people who have come along for the entire trip."

Now Fucked Up has become a version of the Tragically Hip for a new generation, just another example of a sellout to a 16-year-old looking for something to call their own, and to some degree Abraham endorses this view.

"It's healthy to want to have your own scene at that age, to distrust what's out there. Just like we were with the Hip; we didn't know how they acted behind the scenes, how they held fast against the record company and demanded to be allowed to take who they wanted on tour, and pay them what they felt was right.

"They were 17-years-old at one point too, and, just like us, they also listened to Teenage Head. They were actually much cooler than we ever knew."

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A lot of bands sludge around for certainly never expected such a turn. years playing shows. Then, after a "It was pretty crazy. It didn't feel few albums and slowly expanding like an explosion or anything, it kind tours, if their dreams remain unsul- of happened; like we woke up one lied, it might get enough momentum day and were like, I guess this is what to play outside Canada. Then again, we're doing now."

Ought isn't like a lot of bands: afSimply accepting this fate serves ter releasing its the band in many ways. Often allowfirst full-length Thu, Sep 25 (8 pm) on Constellation With Diamond Mind, the Allovers ing its clattered rock-and-roll derecords this past Pawnshop $10 rangements and April, the quartet has already been its stark twists of emotion to evolve to the States and Europe, and is only now embarking onstage, the band cobbles together dreary post-punk poetics that inacross Canada for the first time.

"It's been really, really nice to con- stantly compel and intrigue. But nect with bigger, different audi- with no real agenda, it's something ences," the band's drummer/violinist the four seem to wring out of themTim Keen explains. "It's crazy, the fact selves. that people in like, Wales, know our "We go into our practice space and play for a really, really long time and lyrics. It's mad."

How do four guys who go to school it will become clear when something in Montréal get so far, so fast? Keen good is happening. There's a lot of

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stuff that we have to play out; terrible, cheesy stuff."

Asked how this approach to songwriting affects the live show, Keen says, "There's a lot of parts to the songs that we change and extend or increase in intensity or draw out. The live show is heavier."

Improvisation is risky and Keen hopes these deviations allow audiences to be just as affected physically and emotionally by the performance as the members of Ought themselves are, giving crowds more than just an aural experience.

"There's a certain sense of, like, exhaustion you feel when you see a really good show. I feel like I'm drained.

It's not like a pain, it's like you're wiped, like something has happened upon you. And that's the dream."

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here's some truth to the notion that Braden Gates might be a man out of time.

Young he may be, but the Fort Saskatchewan-raised singer-songwriter has been marching to the beat of drummers past in his short career, or more specifically to no drum beat at all.

"I just don't really keep up with whatever's going on in pop music," he admits, taking a break from putting up posters for his upcoming album release at the Artery. Growing up in a household where the music usually came from an instrument instead of a radio or television set might have helped with that.

"I remember enjoying hearing my dad play the fiddle when I was growing up," he recalls. "Stuff like Don Messer, old-timey music. For whatever reason that's the music I grew up loving."

Not just the music, the actual instrument. Gates started out on the fiddle, becoming part of that scene and acting as sideman for other singer-songwriters like Lucas Chaisson, who is returning the favour by stepping in to play lead guitar at Gates' release for his second album, Ferris Wheel.

Produced by Miles Wilkinson (Emmylou Harris, Willie Nelson, Dolly

Parton), Ferris Wheel represents a has definitely matured in many ways," step forward for Gates, who has been he says. "My guitar playing is better. mixing a continuing love for the old- What I wanted to do with this album time fiddle scene with a growing ap- is add little colors, more detail to the preciation for Texas singer-songwrit- songs, but still have it so that I can play them solo if I need to. I still enjoy ers like Guy Clark and Sam Baker.

"I was just attracted to the fact that doing gigs by myself, because I can do anything I want they were telling a to the song in the story in their songs," Sat, Sep 20 (7:30 pm) moment, without Gates explains. "I With Alex Vissia, Cayley Thomas worrying about started listening to The Artery, $10 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $12 what it would John Hartford when I was 14 or 15 because do to whoever is playing with me." of the fiddle playing, For someone still in their early 20s and then I got into the songwriting end of things. From there I moved on Gates has done pretty well for himto people like John Prine, Tom Waits, self. His last 9-to-5 was a number of years back, and he makes a living and of course, [Bob] Dylan." playing a tangled schedule of house Unlike his starkly recorded first al- concerts, festivals, airport gigs and bum, Break it to Me Gently, the new whatever else he can dig up. Maybe release has a number of guest turns the folk-music milieu does have it from musicians like bassist Dean over the pop-music world.

"Well, that and the fact that this kind Kheroufi, vocalist Cayley Thomas, harmonica player Rotten Dan and of music will never die," he points out. pianist Ken Stead. Gates plays guitar "It's more tangible, and it's passed down and fiddle throughout, and he feels orally. You can play it around the campthat you can hear the difference that fire with a guitar. You also don't have to a few years have made in his life, both worry about being forgotten in a year, because people will actually stick with personally and artistically.

"The songs are just better crafted. you in what you're doing."

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an Thornley was in the studio, Big Wreck album by a good sixth watching a hired percussionist of an hour isn't something Thornpound the hell out of an outro of a ley thought about or even chose to song on the new Big Wreck album. do. It was simply a consequence of The song was over but the guy kept not caring about catering to radiogoing; Thornley friendly song knew he should structures.

"I realize this fade it out. But Fri, Sep 19 (8 pm) he couldn't bring Encore, $30 – $35 probably hurts himself to do it. me financially, or "I was like, I if I really, really can't," he recalls with a laugh. "I had wanted to go on tour with Coldplay my hand on the master fader and I or whatever," he says. "But I don't couldn't pull it down! I tried, but care anymore: I'm too old to play I was so vibin' on Joaquin [Nunez, that game. I'd rather just please myself, and us. What do we get off on? percussionist]. It was brilliant."

"To me, those are the nuggets; We get off on really vampy vibe-y those are the special things," he con- outros and intros. Sometimes the tinues. "Everybody wants a catchy music can tell a story before the guy chorus, but not everybody can catch comes and uses words to tell the a moment like we did with Joaquin story. I like all that stuff, and I have playing his timbales. Those are the a feeling that people that would call themselves Big Wreck fans are things that I prefer to focus on."

And so Thornley has, especially kinda into that stuff too, y'know?" recently: both in Big Wreck—despite an 11-year gap between 2001's Thornley's speaking from home a The Pleasure and the Greed and few days before heading out on the 2012's Albatross—and Thornley, Ghosts tour. Finding a throughline his namesake act in the interim, for the album was a matter of gohis take on rock music has been to ing to the stockpile of songs he'd expand upon pop music's principle already created, or started creatverse-chorus-verse structures. Or ing. Thornley notes that that's how perhaps to ignore them altogether; he's always written: try to capture that Ghosts is, at just 13 songs, al- inspiration first, in the moment it most 70 minutes and the longest comes, and hone that into working

songs later.

"I've got a guitar in my hands most of the day, or if not, within arms reach," he says. "So whenever I stumble on something that takes me away, or that I find interesting, I'll document it. If I'm sitting in front of my computer, I'll start with the tempo, and then start laying things down. Broad strokes, just so I can really retain whatever was the initial inspiration, before I get to the nitty-gritty of writing a song."

That approach means some ideas remain dormant, unreleased for long stretches of time.

"The intro for 'Diamonds' has been around for many years," he explains.

"I think it was the verse to a song maybe—I'm talking years ago—and it's just a melody that's been in there, and will just come out every once in a while. I didn't want the song to just start with the riff from 'Diamonds,' I thought [we needed] something to intro it, and then the riff. And then it was like, 'Oh, I know!' I remember this thing I stumbled on the other day that I haven't played in years that might work.

"You just pick and choose and put all these things together, and then it's just a matter of the treatment."

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Over the last 22 years, the experimental metal band from Tokyo has released 19 full-length albums ranging within the entire spectrum of the metal genre. The band's latest effort, Noise, is not only a noise

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 record, but has elements of thrash metal, shoegaze, power-pop and ambient drone, changing styles between or even within songs. It sounds like a mess, but the common denominator for Boris is the band's undeniable affinity for beautiful, gut-wrenching heavy guitar hooks and matching that with powerful, but not jarring vocals. There is lots of room to breathe throughout the album, particularly on the 19-minute centerpiece, "Angel," but also times where a wall of noise and pummelling drums hits hard, like on the single "Quicksilver." Noise is a majestic album with plenty of head-banging moments as well as toe-tapping ones and it all seems so effortlessly put together.

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stomper of "Mocking Bird" to the horny come-ons of "Hey Baby Blues," Tolchin has sifted through the roots of America's great musical tree and dug up some choice elements while adding his own seed. Less a mish-mash of styles and more individual tributes, Tolchin hits us with a track or two of all the things that make south-eastern folk magic. It's all done very well, and none of these 11 tracks could be considered bad, but still, there's just something about this record that keeps it from being exceptional. It might be that Tolchin isn't aged enough to really nail the styles he's emulating, or perhaps it's the moments of more modern songwriting that at times come across as a honky-tonk Coldplay. It's hard to say for sure, but you should heed the liner's "listening instructions" to get the most out of it.

In an age of maximalist electronic music, Ottawa's Riohv is refreshingly subtle. Its debut album Moondance, out now on Vancouver cassette label 1080p Collection, is full of acid-ambient cuts veering from the paradisical "Just Relax (Downtown Mix)" to the roiling "Coldsnap."

With most tracks clocking in at over five minutes, longer songs wear out their welcome. "Nowhere Now" starts out exciting, with dramatic synth stabs over a gorgeous soundscape of Japanese conversation, but gives way to an increasingly abstracted and lackadaisical beat that ends after nine minutes with no sense of closure or finality.

Closer "Untitled (Outro)" is the best song on the album—and also its shortest. This hazy song, textured with the sounds of fireworks popping and fizzling, is great because it's so evocative of trying to milk those last adventures from a late summer's night. And just like summer, the song is over too soon.

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MUSIC PREVUE // DREAM POP

Alvvays

Sat, Sep 20 (8 pm) With Fucked Up Pawn Shop, $20

S

orry, guys, but when the two members of the distaff side of Alvvays take the front seat of the van you're going to have to brace yourself for some Beyoncé.

Chalk it up to a childhood listening to Top 40 radio on the East Coast, especially Celine Dion and Oasis, miles from the bands that come to mind when comparisons are made to the group. It's also a startling admission considering the loose use of the word "hipster" when describing the five-piece in some critical circles. For singer-songwriter Molly Rankin, it's particularly amusing to be described thusly, considering her background in small town Cape Breton.

"It's confusing, because it seems to be more about what jeans you're wearing than anything else," she says, talking as the band motors on its way to a gig in Fargo, North Dakota. "As far

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as I can tell it's directed at anyone who is young and wears any form of hat."

Alvvays (pronounced Always) stumbled on its currently designated "hipster" dream-pop sound not long after Rankin was attempting to release an EP of her own after leaving Dalhousie University in Halifax. The solo project quickly changed to group with the addition of Two Hours Traffic guitarist Alec O'Hanley plus keyboardist and childhood friend Kerri MacLellan, along with bassist Brian Murphy and drummer Phil MacIsaac. Relocating to Toronto the group formally became Alvvays, the spelling forced on them when Rankin discovered that there was a band signed to Sony Records with the same name.

The sound came naturally to the group after hours spent jamming in the basement, taking the measure of each other and their developing style.

"It seemed to be going that way, even the tail end of the EP was hinting at the direction," Rankin says. "The demos we did all sounded like how the record turned out. There wasn't any conscious decision in any of it; we didn't decide to change everything and decide to be a 'dream pop' band,

or redo our whole image and esthetic.

It was just what came out of us with those particular amps, pedals and guitars, in that particular basement."

Whatever it was, the Chad VanGaalen-produced debut made an immediate splash, topping the US col-

lege charts and picking up a four-star review in Rolling Stone. Meanwhile, Torquil Campbell of Stars declared the single "Archie, Marry Me" to be his summer jam. A likeably shaggy and lo-fi jangle pop record, the self-titled debut deserves every accolade it has coming its way.

For many people the most interesting part of the story is that Rankin is the daughter of fiddle player John Morris Rankin and former member of the Rankin Family, whose musical tentacles reach far from their Nova Scotia home base. Alvvays, the Rankins and their various spin-offs don't have much in common beyond family members and general quality of music, and Molly Rankin doesn't seem interested in trading on the name.

"So far the pros have far outweighed the cons as far as changing from a solo project to an actual band," she asserts.

"I can't see any cons at all now, to be honest. Just being able to escape the assumptions that people have based on a female name, let alone a familiar female name is really nice, and it's good to go off the grid and develop without people having an idea what you're going to be doing."

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Live Music every Thu; This week: Alex Petrosky and Drew Malcolm; 9pm ARDEN THEATRE Eric Bibb

(blues); Travelling the road to mercy; 7:30 pm; $40 ARTERY Birds of Chicago,

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Thirsty Thursday singersongwriter open jam with guest host: Brian Gregg; 8-12pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Jes-

sica Heine with Tyler Shea; 7:30pm; $12 BLUES ON WHYTE Too Slim

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Thu Latin Grooves; 9pm; $5 CAFÉ HAVEN Music every

Thu; 7pm

J+H PUB Every Friday:

every Thur: rotating guests; 7-11pm

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

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

Single Mothers, Fire Next Time, Rhubarbs, Snake Legs; 8pm

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Good Nature

TAVERN ON WHYTE Open

every Fri, 9:30pm-1:30am

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

Classical RIVER COMMUNITY CHURCH

Phantom of the Opera SingAlong–presented by Opera NUOVA, Led by NUOVA alumni and a 15-piece orchestra; 7:30pm (door, open early for silent auction); dress in Paris Opera style to win prizes; $44/$40/$20 at TIX on the Square, 780.487.4844; info: operanuova.ca

Opening show: Daniel Wesley, small town regular, Mohsin Zaman; 8pm NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost

Ryder (country) OASIS CENTRE Deva Premal

and Miten (sacred mantra music, meditation), Deva Premal, Miten, Manose (flute maestro) and friends; 7:3010:30pm; $30-75 OMAILLE'S IRISH PUB Peter

Kelly; no cover ON THE ROCKS Exit 303 OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Thu Main Fl: Throwback Thu:

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THE COMMON The Common

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

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu

Drive For Youth Shelter: Knuckledown, Mass Distraction, Psychotik Tantrum; 9pm; donations of winter clothing at the door

MERCURY ROOM Grand

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring

DV8 Punk Show/Clothing

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Jam

with DJs

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

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

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DJs

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open Mic: All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

CHURCHILL SQUARE/ CENTENNIAL PLAZA

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7:

Uncommon Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

Dueling Pianos (night of song requests) PAWN SHOP Mayday, the

BeatCreeps, Stone Iris, the Collective West, Waves Upon Us; 8pm RED PIANO BAR Hottest

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

Thursdays every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild

every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

Fridays

SAT SEP 20 APEX CASINO–Vee Lounge

Chronic Rock; 9pm ARTERY Braden Gates (CD

release), Alex Vissia, Cayley Thomas; 7:30pm "B" STREET BAR Rockin Big

Blues and Roots Open Jam: Every Sat afternoon hosted by the Jimmy Guiboche Band; 2-6pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: I Am Machi (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Afternoon: Big Al's House

of Blues Wam Bam Thank you Jam: free chilli hosted

by Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens; every Sat, 2-6pm BLIND PIG PUB & GRILL Live

Arsenault and Dr Zoo; 8:30pm; $15

STARLITE ROOM Protohype,

afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Too Slim and the Taildraggers

Tramp Stamper, the Lucifer Project, Bloated Pig, Statue of Demur, False Flag; 8:30pm TIRAMISU BISTRO Live

music every Fri U OF A–Makers Space, Tuck Shop Tent Dana Wylie

Life Thursdays

(singer-songwriter)

UNION HALL 3 Four All

YARDBIRD SUITE Tommy Banks And P.J. Perry; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

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

UNION HALL Ladies Night

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Randal

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks:

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

jam every Sat; 3-7pm

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker

SUITE 69 Release Your Inner

7:30pm; facebook.com/eve nts/534247463343114/?re f=6&ref_notif_type=plan_ user_invited

Back Thursdays stage; 7pm; no cover

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

RIVERDALE HOUSE CONCERT SERIES Back Porch Swing;

Kenny James, Tortons, Killups; 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat

BOHEMIA DARQ Saturdays: Industrial - Goth - Dark Electro with DJs the Gothfather and Zeio; 9pm; $5 (door); (every Sat except the 1st Sat of the month)

Open mic; 7pm; $2

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Open Jam Nights;

LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE– Rotunda Beneath the Apple

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

no cover

ARTERY Local Comedian:

Album Release and Website Launch Featuring Jon Mick with Smokey and Liam Trimble with Craig Martell, Jesse Crowley, Cayley Thomas, and more; 8pm; $10 (adv)

DV8 Ellesmere, Shockload,

EXPRESSIONZ CAFE Open

Tree: Opus12 Chamber Concert Society; 12-1pm; free

Thursdays: Andrew Scott; 7pm; Marshall Lawrence, 8:30pm; no cover; all ages

ATLANTIC TRAP AND GILL Duff

FIONN MACCOOL'S–South

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Andrew Scott, 7pm; Marshall Lawrence, 8:30pm GAS PUMP September Is

Singer/Songwriter Month: every Thu, 8pm J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam

Thu; 9pm KELLY'S PUB Jameoke Night with the Nervous Flirts (singalong with a live band); every Thu, 9pm-1am; no cover L.B.'S PUB Thu open stage:

the New Big Time with Rocko Vaugeois, friends; 8-12 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open

stage; 8pm; all ages (15+) NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost

Ryder (country) NORTH GLENORA HALL

Robison Afternoon: Sat afternoon Wam Bam Chili Jam hosted

by Rotten Dan and Sean Stephens; 2-6pm, free chili for all

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Oliver Swain

and Corbin Keep; 8:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Too Slim

and the Taildraggers BOURBON ROOM Dueling

pianos every Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRIXX BAR Marten Horger,

Whitebear; 9pm; $25 THE BUCKINGHAM The Fortrelle's at the Buck; 8pm CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

Electrik Squirrells

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

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live

PAWN SHOP Zeus, Astral Swans, the Elwins; 8pm

CASINO EDMONTON Jameoke

with the Nervous Flirts

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

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

pianos at 8pm

Counterfitz (rock)

RENDEZVOUS PUB The

DV8 Snakebite, Daywalker,

Recollection Blues Band; 8pm (show)

ENCORE Royal Tusk, Big

Mancub; 9pm

RICHARD'S PUB Blue Thursdays (roots); hosted by Gord Matthews; 6:30-9pm

Wreck; 8pm; unionevents.com

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz);

30th B-Day Bash: The Fuzz Kings; 8pm; no cover; all ages

most Thursdays; 7-10pm

FIONN MACCOOL'S–Edmonton City Centre Steve Gunn's Dirty

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Edwards Piano Duo; 8pm; $20/$15 (student/senior)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Every Friday DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Strictly Goods:

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

Flows: Live Hip Hop and open mic every Fri with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, guests; 8:30pm-2am; no cover THE COMMON Good Fridays:

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

Fri; 9pm

Jordan (rock by request) Counterfitz (rock) Grizzly Trail and Down The Hatch; 8pm FIONN MACCOOL'S–South

Jesse and The Dandelions; 8pm FESTIVAL PLACE Canadian Children's Music Group: Splash' N Boots; 2-4pm; $15 (child)/$20 (adult) FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts; 4pm; this week: Spekters, the Mayzels; no cover FIONN MACCOOL'S– Edmonton City Centre

Re-Wine Saturdays Present: Jesse and the Dandelions; 8pm; no cover; all ages GAS PUMP Saturday

Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam

every Sat; 3:30-7pm HOLY TRINITY New Music

Edmonton: See You Or Something In September; 6-11pm; tickets at TIX on the Square

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Jeff

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

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; late show: Danita

MERCER TAVERN Homegrown Friday: with DJ Thomas Culture RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie,

rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SET NIGHTCLUB NEW Fridays: House and Electro with Peep This, Tyler Collns, Peep'n ToM, Dusty Grooves, Nudii and Bill, and specials

Dueling Pianos (night of song requests) PAWN SHOP Fucked Up,

Alvvays QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL

Northern Light Folk Club: Little Bird (John Wort Hannam and Karla Adolphe); 7pm (door), 8pm (music); $25 (door); $20 (adv) at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Myhre's Music; child 6-12 adv 1/2 price reimbursed at door RED PIANO BAR Hottest

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RICHARD'S PUB The Terry Evans Sat Jam (rock): every Sat; 4-8pm RENDEZVOUS PUB My Mother

the Carjacker, First Aid Kit, Kevin Frey, Sweatpants; 8pm (door) 10pm (show) STARLITE ROOM All Our Bass

Belong to You...: Eprom, Trippy Turtle, G Jones, Jpod; 9pm STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

Twiztid: Brothers Grim, Double A, Doom Squad; 8pm U OF A: the Big Tent at the Quad Alumni Weekend: The Wet

Secrets live in (rock ‘n’ roll); licensed event, no minors; 8pm; $10 (Early tickets)/$12 (door) incl one drink ticket and sweet treats; register at alumni.ualberta.ca/events/ alumni-weekend/free-candy

YARDBIRD SUITE Tommy

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK

Classical

FIONN MACCOOL'S–Edmonton City Centre Craft Addict

OVERTIME Sherwood Park

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat

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

APEX CASINO–Vee Lounge

KNOPPERS HALL–KING'S UNIVERSITY The Redekopp

OMAILLE'S IRISH PUB Peter

Kelly; no cover

Electrik Squirrells

BOURBON ROOM Live Music

FRI SEP 19 Chronic Rock; 9pm

ON THE ROCKS Exit 303

with DJs

WUNDERBAR World Peace Day Edmonton; Sat bands; Day: Dana Wylie Band, Jen Paches, Sierra Jamerson, Gin and Fish, Whyte Draggin Sauciety; 1pm (door); Evening: Strangled, the Get Down, Electric Revival, Bill Bourne Band, THITH; 7:30pm (door); tickets at Blackbyrd, Permanent Records, door; worldpeacedayedmonton. com

CASINO EDMONTON Trace

Stage; 1st Thu each month, 7:30pm-10:30pm

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SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues

Hendrick; 9pm; $10

Banks And P.J. Perry; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions:

Alt Rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who

Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down

It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat:

Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective

Saturdays underground: House and Techno MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

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

LEGENDS Saturday Jam and open mic with Nick Samoil and guests

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop,

LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Jam every Sat, 9:30pm-1:30am

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

NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost

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

and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

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

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

ON THE ROCKS The Rob Taylor Project; 8pm; Rock for Dimes Charity Contest; $10

DJs

Open mic every Tue

(open stage) after the bands set

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

RED PIANO Every Tue: the

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul,

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

Saturdays: every Sat hosted

by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN SEP 21 ARTERY The CRBM presents

CJSR Fundrive Doug Hoyer with Power-Buddies and Master Splinter and with Strange Fires; 5pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm; Edmonton Blues Society presents Solo/Duo Qualifiers #2: Van Funk, Kevin Kulshitsky, Charlie Jacobson, '80s Dad and Lightning Child, Marv Gemmell; noon (door), 1pm (competition); $10 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky STARLITE ROOM Sonata

Artica (Pariah's Child World Tour); 7pm (door), 7pm (show); $31-$75 WUNDERBAR World Peace

Day Edmonton; Sunbands: Day: Scott Cook, Nadine Kellman, Celeigh Cardinal, Billie Zizi, Jay Gilday; 1pm (door); Evening: McGowan Family Band, Blind Roots, Love Electric, Gilles Zolty, Field Basansikis; tickets at Blackbyrd, Permanent Records, door; worldpeacedayedmonton. com

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A

fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus

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

MON SEP 22 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover; this month: Castle; 10pm BLUES ON WHYTE Kelly Richey

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy

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

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

TUE SEP 23

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Big Dreamer Sound jam hosted by Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O'brien; this weeks guest: G.W. Myers; every Tue 8pm-12am

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY F&M,

BLUES ON WHYTE Kelly

Richey DRUID IRISH PUB Open

Stage hosted by Chris Wynters Tue; 9pm; This weeks guest: Darryl

Matthews DRUID IRISH PUB Open

Stage hosted by Chris Wynters; this weeks guest: Sebastian Berrera Tue; 9pm HOUSE CONCERT: BAH! Entertainment–Spruce Grove Matt Masters (folk/

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY

Monday open mic

Charlie Austin; 9am; donations

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ The Erica

BLUES ON WHYTE Too Slim

Dawn Quartet; 9pm; $10

and the Taildraggers

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night

Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4 NEW WEST HOTEL 4's a

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Lyle

Crowd (country)

FESTIVAL PLACE 20th

ON THE ROCKS Moonshine Mondays with the Dungarees

Anniversary Series: Dan Sinasac (singer-songwriter, CD release); 7:30pm HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the

Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm JEFFREY'S CAFÉ The Jamie

Henry Four (jazz; 8pm; $10 LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Every Sun Jam with Loco-MoFos, hosted by Bob Cook; 8-12pm NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday

Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

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

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

STARLITE ROOM Lacuna

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch:

Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

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

ARTERY Ella Zeltserman (poetry); 7pm (door); all ages

country); 7:30-10:30pm; $20 (adv to reserve at bahconcerts@gmail.com, Ben & Amanda Hodgson 780.571.2286); all money goes to the artists; participate in the snack pot-luck; tea, coffee, water provided by the hosts; BYOB if you wish

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic

Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm

Coil, Devil You Know, Starset, Incura; 7pm (door), 7pm (show); $31

hosted by Tim Lovett

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

RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live

Lovett and his Acoustic Group; 7:30pm; $64-$125 at TicketMaster L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night

Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue

Open Jam: Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; 4's a Crowd (country)

Trace the Sky, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Cardinal, Run After Dark, Construct the Sky!; 6:30pm

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

Session: Tom van Seters; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Kelly

Richey DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed

open mic with host Duff Robison ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every

Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover FESTIVAL EDMONTON CHANTE–BONNIE DOON AND STRATHCONA AREAS Free

music festival with French and English acts from across Canada including slam, electronic, rock music and more

Colleen Brown, and The Old World Record (benefit concert in support of HEAL programs); 6:30pm (door), 7-11pm (music); $25 at YEGlive.ca; ticket sales support HEAL, HEALInternational.ca

NEW WEST HOTEL 4's a

DJs

the Atlas Moth, guests

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-

Crowd (country) OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PAWN SHOP Russian Circles, PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam

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

presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)

BRIXX Metal night every

ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower

Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday:

Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental

Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays:

Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED SEP 24 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY The Artery's

Pancake & Roots Explosion Featuring Jesse Northey with Jake Ian and Erin Faught and with Zachary Moon; 7:30pm BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

New Music Wed: Featured band hosted by Lochlin Cross and Leigh Friesen

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

Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover STARLITE ROOM The Wooden

Sky, High Ends; 8pm; $18 ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays:

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

DJs

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Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every

Wed

SEP/19 MARTEN HORGER AND WHITEBEAR SEP/26 BLACK SUN EMPIRE SEP/27 BASTARDS OF WAR ASTRAL HARVEST AND ZODIAC SERIES PRESENTS

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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 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467

SEP/19 SEP/20

CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604-111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DIVERSION LOUNGE 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 901388 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, 8882170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–South Holiday Inn Conference Centre, 4485 Gateway Blvd

FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOLY TRINITY 10037-84 Ave IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546126 St, 780.453.2249 J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St KNOPPERS HALL–King's University 9125 50 St LA CITÉ FRANCOPHONE– Rotunda 8627-91 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St, 780.999.9665

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303108 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 OASIS CENTRE 10930-177 St 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 QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL 10425 University 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 RIVER COMMUNITY CHURCH 11520 Ellerslie Rd ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253

ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St 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 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 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 YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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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 GRIEF JOURNEYS 8-WEEK BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GRUP • Pilgrims Hospice, 9808-148

Show • Sep 20, 7:30pm

St • Help, support, and resources: 8-week grief support group; every Mon evening, Sep 22-Nov 24; $120 for 8-weeks (sliding scale); info/register: Jesse McElheran at 780.413.9801, ext 307 or jessem@ pilgrimshospice.com

Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy

LOTUS QIGONG, 780.477.0683 • Downtown •

COMEDY ARDEN THEATRE–St Albert • The Irrelevant

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 • Jamie Hutchinson; Sep 18-20 • Hannibal Thompson; Sep 25-27

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM, 780.483.5999 • Big Jay Oakerson; until Sep 20 • Kathleen McGee; 7pm; Sep 21 • Mick Foley Special Presentation; Sep 23, 7:30pm; $30 • Deon Cole special presentation; Sep 25-28 DINWOODIE LOUNGE–U of A • Dinwoodie

Comedy Night with Trent McClellan featuring Sterling Scott • Sep 24, 6pm (door), 6:30 pm (show)

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.710.2119 •

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

sale with Mothers In Support of Fair Trials! • Sep 20, 11am • Proceeds to the Legal Aid Society

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-

ARGUMENTS FOR AND AGAINST THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS • Mechanical Engi-

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

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia

• 16648-109 Ave • 3rd Night of Krush-It Comedy Contest Semi-Finals: Show starts with Paul Brown (100.3 the Bear) as MC. Judges decide who continues. Comics be there for 7:30pm • Sep 25

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

REXALL PLACE • Russell Peters; show contains

adult language and sexual content • Sep 18, 8pm

RIVERCREE–The Venue • rivercreeresort.

com/the-venue • Shaun Majumder; Sep 19, 6pm (door), 8pm (show); $29.50 • Bob Saget; Sep 26, 8pm (show); $59.50 • Don Burnstick; Sep 27, 8pm; $24.50

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

YUK YUK'S • 13103 Fort Rd, 780.481.9857 • yukyuks.com Paul Reiser • Sep 19-20, 8pm, 10:30pm • $39.95 GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON •

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

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

BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church, 11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana

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

EATING DISORDER SUPPORT NETWORK OF ALBERTA • Strathcona Library meeting rm, 8331-

104 St • $60 (for ea 6-week session); pre-register at eatingdisordersupportnetworkofalberta.com • Until Oct 15, 6:30pm

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) •

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

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G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

MISFITS • Front of the Legislature • Rally and bake

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm

Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia.

Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY •

neering Bldg, Rm 2-1, U of A • Society of Edmonton Atheists and the University of Alberta Atheists and Agnostics present Richard Carrier • Sep 21, 7-9pm

CULTURAL CAFÉ • Visual Arts Studio Association

of St Albwet (VASA), 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave • Linda Huffman will give a presentation on the essential need for affordable and accessible arts spaces in the capital region, as well as a discussion on future cultural sites in St Albert and how needs are changing with a growing population. In conjuction with StArts Fest and Alerta Culture Days • Sep 25, 5:30pm • Pre-register/ info at 780.459.1692

ENGINEERING EXPO 2014 • Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex, U of A • engineering. ualberta.ca/expoSep20 • Interactive displays and demonstrations of technologies, guided tours through teaching and research facilities for teens and adults.

ENGG ZONE activities for children 6-12 • Sep 20, 10am-2pm • Free

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

GEEK WISDOM • Centennial Centre for Inter-

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83

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

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing,

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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave

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

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-

cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma Tashi Ling Society, 10502-70 Ave • Tranquility and insight meditation based on Very Ven. Thrangu Rinpoche's teachings. Suitable for meditation practitioners with Buddhist leanings • Every Thu, 7-8:30pm • Donations; jamesk2004@hotmail.com

TOASTMASTERS

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

WE VOTE CBC–EDMONTON CENTRE •

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

AN EVENING WITH ALEXANDRE BILODEAU

• E1-001, Engineering Teaching and Learning Complex (ETLC), U of A • Alumni Lecture: Enjoy insights from a two-time Olympic Champion • Sep 19, 7pm • $10 at uab.ca/aw2014

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

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103

• MacEwan University City Centre, CN Theatre Rm 5-142 • Evening seminar by Rob and Michelle Avis; How to grow fresh produce in a greenhouse heated by solar energy in Alberta? • Sep 24, 7-8:30pm

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

ALBERTA PASSIVE SOLAR GREENHOUSES

St Jean, Rm 3-18, 780.490.7332 • madeleinesanam.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

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP

• Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave, 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton. ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/Connie's Comedy

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/Connie's Comedy

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

Practice group meets every Thu

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave •

• 16648-109 Ave • 2nd Night of Krush-It Comedy Contest: Show starts with Paul Brown (100.3 the Bear) as MC. Judges decide who continues. Comics be there for 7:30pm • Sep 18

WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515 Delwood

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté

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

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

Central Lions Centre, 11113-113 St • If you are concerned about the damage being done to the CBC attend this meeting presented by the Friends of Canadian Broadcasting's national electoral campaign • Sep 22, 7pm

disciplinary Science, CCIS, 1-140, U of A • How to launch and have a successful tech career • Sep 19, 2-3:30pm • Free

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

SOUTH EDMONTON GARDENING VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN GROUP • Park Allen Hall,

11104-65 Ave • Bring vegetarian, vegan, raw dish for 6 people; featuring speaker Francois Michaud (French Raw Chef), on Converting your existing Kitchen into a Healthy kitchen • Sep 28, 5pm; reserve at 780.463.1626

URBAN GREEN COHOUSING INFORMATION SESSION • Old Strathcona Library, upstairs,

8331-104 St • Introducing the cohousing model and present the Urban Green Cohousing project • Sep 21, 2-4pm

WE CAN END POVERTY 2015 PANEL •

Grant MacEwan University, Foyer of Robbins Health Learning Centre, 109 St, 104 Ave • UNAC-Edmonton Branch 65th anniversary, celebration and panel discussion about Canada’s role in achieving the UN Millennium Development Goals • Sep 18, 5:307:30pm • Free

WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT SCIENCE •

Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Science, CCIS, L1-160, U of A • Join two social media trailblazers who are shaping critical conversations about science and the environment–and making our community better • Sep 18, 4-5pm • Free

WHY SMART PEOPLE MAKE DUMB MISTAKES WITH THEIR MONEY • Courtyard by

Marriott, 10011-184 St, 780.991.0349 • An Evening With Dr Kerry Johnson who will share insights from his book, Behavioral Investing: Why Smart People Make Dumb Mistakes With Their Money • Sep 25, 7pm • $50; proceeds support the Nina Haggerty Centre

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave,

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

Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based

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

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

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

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

on the Wards: Songs and Stories (Al Brant, Maria Dunn, Bev Ross, and Shirley Serviss); Sep 27, 7pm (door), 7:30pm (concert), 8:30pm (intermission), 8:45pm (concert part 2); 9:45pm (finale)

DBG CRAFTERS FALL SALE • Devonian Gardens, 1227 Alberta 60, Parkland County • devonian.ualberta.ca • Handmade crafts from the bounty of the fall Garden • Sep 27-28 DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to: 780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; 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) DIRTY DOGS GET WASHED TO RAISE MONEY FOR PETS WITH CANCER • Dirty Dog

Spa, 10019-167 St • Get your dogs washed and ready for fall at Dirty Dog Spa • Sep 20, 9am-7pm • Proceeds to support the Animal Cancer Therapy Subsidization Society (ACTSS)

DOLL CLUB OF EDMONTON SHOW & SALE • Alberta Aviation Museum, 11410 Kingsway Ave • Experience all the things related to the hobby of doll collecting, showing dolls, teddy bears, toys, miniatures, clothing, supplies and more • Sep 28, 10am-4pm • $5

THE EDMONTON COMIC AND ENTERTAINMENT EXPO • Edmonton EXPO Centre, 7515-118

Ave • Pop culture convention event with comic book artists, vendors, guests including the Big Bang Theory's Simon Helberg, and Kunal Nayyar, Jim Beaver (Supernatural), Dead Cain (Lois & Clark: the New Adventures of Superman), Alice Cooper, Jessica Nigri and J August Richards (Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, Arrow) • Sep 26-28 • $20 (adv Fri pass); $25 (adv Sat pass, Sun pass/Fri pass at door); $55 (adv, 3-day pass); $5 (adv child day pass/child 1-day pass at door); $10 (adv child 3-day pass/child 3-day pass at door); $30 (Sat/Sun pass at door); $60 (3-day pass at door); $80 (adv deluxe weekend pass); $249 (adv VIP 3-day package) at edmontonexpo.com/tickets/ purchase-tickets/#sthash.xEn54fn7.dpuf

EDMONTON DOLLHOUSE MINIATURE SHOW AND SALE • Executive Royal Inn West

Edmonton, 10010-178 St • A special display “A Camping M.E.E. Will Go!” Explore dollhouses, room displays, and more • Sep 21, 10am-4pm • $5 (adult)/$2 (6-15)/Under 6 free, no strollers

FASHION WEEK • Arts Barns Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • wcfw.ca • Ten nights of runway shows, design competitions and performers • Sep 18-27, 8-10:30pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

FESTIVAL EDMONTON CHANTE • Bonnie

Doon and Strathcona areas • edmontonchante. com • Music festival with acts from all over Canada, with music in French and English and includes slam, electronic, rock music and more • Free • Sep 24-28

greeN aND golD DaY 2014 • U of A Campus • alumni.ualberta.ca • Students, staff, grads and all Edmontonians are encouraged to wear their green and gold gear on Sep 19 to celebrate Green and Gold Day, part of the U of A Alumni Weekend 2014 • Sep 18-21 ITALIA WITH GUSTO • Porsche Centre,

17007-111 Ave • An elegant and festive event showcasing the multitude of wines produced throughout Italy • Sep 25, 7-9:30pm • $100 at mealsonwheelsedmonton.org, 780.429.2020 • Fundraiser for Edmonton Meals on Wheels

OPEN MINDS WALK AND RUN • Rundle Park Family Centre, 2909-113 Ave • A 2.5km 5km

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

and 10km walk/run in support of the Schizophrenia Society of Alberta • Sep 20, 10am-1pm • $40, pre-register online

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

PHANTOM OF THE OPERA SING-ALONG

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 2014 ALBERTA CULTURE DAYS • culture.

alberta.ca/culturedays • Sep 26-28

ARTISTS ON THE WARDS–Alberta Culture Days • McMullen Gallery, U of A

Hospital • Songs and Stories (Al Brant, Sparrow Grace, Bev Ross, and Shirley Serviss) Sep 26, 7pm (doors), 7:30pm (concert), 8:30pm (intermission), 8:45pm: 9:45pm (concert part 2 finale) • Artist

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• River Community Church, 11520 Ellerslie Rd • Presented by Opera NUOVA, Led by NUOVA alumni and a 15-piece orchestra • Sep 18 and 25, 7:30pm (door, open early for silent auction); dress in Paris Opera style to win prizes; $44/$40/$20 at TIX on the Square, 780.487.4844; info: operanuova.ca

SHENANIGANS, SOCKS AND SERVICE •

Quad on North Campus • An all-out sock-ball fight to kick-off the U of A Alumni Association’s upcoming centenary celebrations. Socks (representing alumni volunteers and acts of volunteerism) available for alumni, staff and students to throw–all for a donation to the Salvation Army, Boyle Street Community Services and iHuman • Sep 19, 12:30pm

TIBETAN BAZAAR • Alberta Avenue Hall, 9210118 Ave • Market with Himalayan merchandise, traditional Tibetan food, teachings on meditation by Kushok Lobsang Dhamchöe • Sep 20-21, 10am5pm • $5; free for child under 12 U OF A–ALUMNI AWARDS EVENT • Jubilee Auditorium • uab.ca/aw2014 • Kicking off Alumni Weekend: Celebrating the accomplishments of 41 outstanding graduates • Sep 18, 7pm

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Coming Events

Next Up is an amazing and transformative program for young social and environmental justice leaders between the ages of 18 and 32.

Successful applicants will participate in an intense seven month program. These young leaders will develop life-long relationships, explore different leadership styles, meet some of Western Canada’s leading change-makers, learn new leadership, and organizing skills to compliment their ongoing development as progressive leaders.

Get the application here: nextup.ca/apply_now 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

DID YOU DO SOMETHING WITH YOUR HAIR?

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A RESEARCH INVITATION FOR NONRESIDENT FATHERS. Are you a divorced or separated non-custodial 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 email, phone, or in-person interview about your experiences being a nonresident parent.

Contact Jim at vaughanj@uleth.ca

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Help Wanted

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

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

Help Wanted

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

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

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

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Volunteers Wanted

Can You Read This?

Help someone Who can’t!

Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills.

Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities

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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 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

VUEWEEKLY SEP 18 – SEP 24, 2014

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Little Green Thumbs Volunteer Opportunity Do you enjoy working with youth? Are you an avid gardener or would like to learn more about indoor gardening?

Sustainable Food Edmonton is looking for a new crop of volunteer Growing Facilitators for the Little Green Thumbs program.

Try out an amazing opportunity to interact with kids through the complete life cycle of plants.

The application deadline is September 19. If you would like more info, please email lgtcoordinator@sustainablefood edmonton.org with your expression of interest. You can also check out the website, www.sustainablefoodedmonton.org

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

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

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/

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Volunteers Wanted Volunteer with us! **Recruiting board members**

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

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

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

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

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ACRYLIC ARTISTS! Don’t miss GOLDEN Working Artist Samantha WilliamsChapelsky’s lecture/demo on the 1001 ways you can use GOLDEN acrylic paints, mediums, gels & pastes.

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 17, 7-9PM in the Studio at The Paint Spot. Further information: 780.432.0240; accounts@paintspot.ca; www.paintspot.ca. (GOLDEN gives a very generous Just Paint goodies bag to all attending artists!)

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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: Royal Bison Art and Craft Show, Edmonton Application Deadline: October 1, 2014 The Royal Bison is two weekends in a row this holiday season! Mark your calendars, folks – the winter Royal Bisons will happen November 27-29 and December 5-7, 2014!

November 27-29, 2014 info@royalbison.ca

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.

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 is not a specific call for projects, it is a request to keep your portfolio on file at the EAC.

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

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

Artist In Residence: Coaticook, Quebec Artist in Residence program allowing multiple artists to have free access to a workshop fully equipped with a small housing.

The Application period for 2015 will be held from September 2 to October 17, 2014.

For additional information, contact us at (819) 849-2721 or head to: http://ville.coaticook.qc.ca/accueil .html

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Line-X Edmonton

is in need of Rubber Processing Machine Operator (9423); F/TPermanent; $20.00/hr + Medical, Dental and Disability Insurance; Working Hours: 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, 2 fixed days off on weekends; Duties: Set up and operate machinery used for mixing, moulding and curing rubber materials or products; Load or feed rubber, pigments, filler, oil and chemicals into machines; Check and monitor processing conditions and product quality; Adjust machines to proper setting as required; Train or assist in training new workers; Perform other related duties as required; Requirements: Completion of secondary school is required; Experience is an asset but not required; On-the-job training is provided; Mail, Fax or E-mail resume; Employer: 1214646 Alberta Ltd o/a Line-X Edmonton; Business/Work Location: 17395 108 Avenue, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T5S 1G2; E-mail: jag@linexcoatings.com; Phone: 780-487-9720; Fax : 780-444-2715

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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.

To download the submission form head to: http://www.mailoutinteractive.c om/Industry/LandingPage.aspx ?id=1589040&lm=27313179&q =768295019&qz=c0e91d3de4 0726fff654c1be92bfb2fa

Call to Artists for Caprices Fine Arts Pre-Holiday Event Call to artists for Caprices Fine Arts Pre-Holiday Event Saturday Nov 15 at the Inglewood Community Hall , Calgary, 10am to 5pm.

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

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

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

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

http://www.emailmeform.com/ builder/form/er27bvY7c0dhM9 0B9dX49

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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>

Doc Ignite Submission Guidelines Applications Hot Docs is accepting applications for Doc Ignite on an ongoing basis until further notice.

Please note that currently only 5 projects per year will be selected. If you are interested in having your project featured, please complete the application form http://www.hotdocs.ca/docignit e/doc_ignite_submission_guid elines/

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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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

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.

International Call to Artists, Mexican Ceramics Special Artist Residency 2015 Arquetopia – Puebla, Southern Mexico Self-directed terms of 6 to 24 weeks during 2015 creating at a prominent ceramics factory studio in the majestic central historic district of Puebla, southern Mexico.

Application deadline Sunday, November 2, 2014. www.arquetopia.org E-mail info@arquetopia.org for more information.

Rehabilitation Hospital (GRH) Arts in Rehab Council is now accepting art submissions for the 2015 season. They are a health-care facility unique to Alberta and are devoted primarily to high-level rehabilitation care of seniors, adults and children. This facility is visited by approximately 160,000 individuals annually, including inpatients, outpatients, visitors, volunteers and staff.

The Arts in Rehab Council was developed to create opportunities for patients and staff to be exposed to Alberta and Canadian art and artists.

The Council focuses on exploring sources for artwork exhibition or acquisition and evaluates any and all art works for display.

The Deadline is Oct. 31st, 2014. http://visualartsalberta.com/blo g/wpcontent/uploads/2014/09/2015Call-for-Artists.pdf

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

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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Toy Guns Dance and Art Gala: Artist Call Come support Toy Guns Dance Theatre by being a part of this artistic adventure! Toy Guns is inviting artists to create work during our Art and Dance Gala in early November. There is a small sign up fee of $20, and in return you will receive a gift basket with over a $50 value, a canvas to create your work on at the gala, as well as an opportunity to exhibit and sell your previous works to a new and diverse audience. The piece you create that evening will be auctioned off to help Toy Guns upcoming performance in April.

Sign up via email: richelle@toygunstheatre.com Please send a message including your name, how to contact you, and a short message saying you would like to create art work at the gala to be auctioned

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Musicians Available

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

780-462-6291

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Musicians Wanted

Bassist, 53, seeks blues guitarist or keyboardist for quiet jams in Leduc. sirveggi@telus.net, ph 986-2940.

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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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Blake, you answered my ad for blues jammer but left no phone number. sirveggi@telus.net, ph 986-2940

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

Please call 780-901-7677

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

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

VUEWEEKLY SEP 18 – SEP 24, 2014

Auditions

Dance

For brain and body excercise, entertainment and fellowship join the Fast Track Square Dance Program from Oct 17 to Nov 30, 2014. Contact Stephen @ 780-434-7227 or Fern @ 780-434-6249

3100. Appliances/Furniture Moving or just need something removed?

Driver with truck available for weeknights & weekends.

For inquiries call Justin at 780-257-7429 Old Appliance Removal Removal of unwanted appliances. Must be outside or in your garage.

Rates start as low as $30.

Call James @780.231.7511 for details

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Winners Nomex IIIA Royal Blue Arctic Winter Jackets High Vis Markings, Large reg and XL Tall Avail New - $250 587-520-9746 Leave msg

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Tools

For Sale Housmann 12” compound rail/mitre saw with stand. New with warranty - $375 587-520-9746 For Sale Rigid 10” portable table saw with rolling stand. New in the box. Lifetime Warranty Model R4510 - $400 587-520-9746

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Wanted to Rent

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

Reasonable rent for storage preferred 587-520-9746

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Automotive

2000 Acura TC 3200 4 DR V6 Auto, full load, silver, needs transmission $450 587-520-9746

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Cars

2000 Mercedes Benz 230c 2.34 Cyl Kompressor Engine 7 spd, overdrive transmission 4 DR Gold ,Fully Loaded Good condition, snow tires 36-42 mpg $4000 587-520-9746

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Automobile Service

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

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

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Psychics

Intuitive readings: Oracle cards, crystals and chakra readings.

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

Facebook: Follow Your True Path.

Call Desiree: 780-868-0636 for appointment

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Latex Paint - 20 Litres Low lustre Eggshell Almond $50 for pail 587-520-9746 leave msg

ALBERTA-WIDE CLASSIFIEDS •• for sale •• MEIER Classic Car & Truck Auction. Saturday, September 20, 11 a.m. 6016 - 72A Ave., Edmonton. Consign today, call 780-440-1860.

UNRESERVED FARM TOY Auction for Norm Wygle! All makes including Big Buds, Precision, Prestige, Custom!

10 a.m., Saturday, September 27, Wainwright, Alberta.

Scribner Auction 780-8425666; www.scribnernet.com.

com or via fax to 780-4345373; www.parkpaving.com.

FREIGHTLAND CARRIERS, a tri-axle air ride flatdeck carrier is looking for Owner/Operators to run Alberta only or 4 Western Provinces. Average gross $18 - 25,000/month. 1-800-9179021. Email: ed@freightland.ca.

WANT TO HELP others and earn addition income? The 2nd Call next generation locating service is now hiring a limited number of S.A.F.E.R. Officers. Phone 780-632-3945.

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

103; egauctions.com.

EXPERIENCE is an asset. We offer free recruitment services for people aged 45 and over across Canada. Register now at: www.thirdquarter.ca or call toll free 1-855-286-0306.

UNRESERVED COIN and Currency Auction. Friday, Sept. 26, 6:15 p.m. All types: Canada, US, Foreign, incredible selection! Wainwright, Alberta. Scribner Auction, 780-842-5666; www.scribnernet.com. No Buyer’s Fee!

JOURNEYMAN Heavy Duty Mechanic required for oilfield trucking company. Will consider 3rd year apprentice or higher. Full-time position.

Phone resume to: 780-8426444. Fax 780-842-6581.

Email: rigmove@telus.net.

UNRESERVED AUCTION. Oct. 23. 9 a.m. Bill Armstrong Trucking Ltd., Thorhild, Alberta.

780-398-2294. Cat D6C-LGP, Standard, winch; Cat D7HXR high drive; 2 Cat D8H-46A’s, P. shifts; Finley Hi-Way Hydrascreen; 2 Ardco 4x4’s; 1994 - 870 Galion (Komatsu) Grader; 1984 - 4500 Volvo loader; quantity of Cat attachments; 20 pickup trucks & more. View online: www.prodaniukauctions.com.

ATTENTION PHARMACISTS! Looking for pharmacist who would enjoy doing clinical style pharmacy in rural Alberta town.

No evenings or weekends! Tired of “lick, stick, count, & pour”?

Contact us. Email to: rita@ ritas.ca or fax 780-674-3912.

•• business •• opportunities SOON GOVERNMENT LAW will mandate every bar provide a breathalyzer. Learn how to be the first in your area to cash in. Call 1-800-287-3157 ext. 3; breathalyzerineverybar.com.

GET FREE vending machines.

Can earn $100,000. + per year.

All cash-retire in just 3 years.

Protected territories. Full details call now 1-866-668-6629.

Website: www.tcvend.com.

ATTAIN FREEDOM homebased work, minimal start-up costs. No experience required.

Free training and support.

Take this opportunity to check it out: www.mkibo.com.

WORKING FOR someone else’s dream? Want to define your own hours? Earnings limited only by your own efforts. Anti-aging and wellness company, celebrating its 30th anniversary, is seeing energetic individuals willing to share their personal stories, time and have a willingness to “learn while you earn” attitude. Contact: rightmindset.edm@gmail. com or call/text 780-239-5559.

THE DISABILITY Tax Credit. $1,500 yearly tax credit. $15,000 lump sum refund (on average). Covers: hip/knee replacements, arthritic joints, COPD. Apply today! 1-844-453-5372.

•• career training •• MEDICAL BILLING trainees needed! Learn to process & submit billing claims for hospitals and doctors! No experience needed! Local training gets you ready to work! 1-888-627-0297.

•• employment •• opportunities PARK PAVING LTD. in Edmonton has immediate openings for Journeyman Heavy Duty Mechanics and Apprentice positions in our state-of-theart Sherwood Park facility.

Send your resume via email to: employment@parkpaving.

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

INTERESTED IN the Community Newspaper business? Alberta’s weekly newspapers are looking for people like you. Post your resume online. FREE. Visit: awna.com/for-job-seekers.

EXPANDING OILFIELD TRUCKING company requires immediate Class 1/Class 3 Drivers, Boiler Operators, Labourers and Mechanics. Experience in oilfield service or hauling dangerous goods preferred.

Email: Robbie@brekkaas.ca.

CLASS 1 DRIVER needed for L/S hauling based out of Westlock. For info email rob@jubileefarms.ca.

EAGLE RIVER Chrysler Ltd. is currently looking for a full-time Service Advisor. Great work environment. Competitive wages. Excellent benefit package incentive and bonus plans.

On the job training available.

Previous experience would definitely be an asset. To apply please fax your resume to 780-778-8950. Email it to: service@eagleriver.ca or mail it to: Eagle River Chrysler, P.O. Box 1558, Whitecourt, AB, T7S 1P4. You can also apply in person to the Service Manager - Dennis LaFreniere.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): These horoscopes I write for you aren't primarily meant to predict the future. They are more about uncovering hidden potentials and desirable possibilities that are stirring below the surface right now. When I'm doing my job well, I help you identify those seeds so you can cultivate them proactively. Bearing that in mind, I'll pose three pertinent questions. 1) What experiments might stir up more intimacy in the relationships you want to deepen?

2) What could you change about yourself to attract more of the love and care you want? 3) Is there anything you can do to diminish the sting of bad memories about past romantic encounters, thereby freeing you to love with more abandon?

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): The old Latin motto Gradu diverso, via una can be translated as either "Continuing on the same road, but with a different stride" or "Going the same way, but changing your pace." I think this is excellent advice for you, Taurus.

By my reckoning, you are on the correct path. You are headed in the right direction. But you need to shift your approach a bit—not a lot, just a little. You've got to make some minor adjustments in the way you flow.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): For years, Donna and George Lewis used a 33-pound, oval-shaped rock as a doorstop in their Tennessee home. Later they moved it to their garden. Then one day George analyzed it with his metal detector and realized it had unusual properties. He took it to scientists who informed him it was a rare and valuable four-anda-half-billion-year-old meteorite.

With this as our subtext, Gemini, I'm asking you if there might be some aspect of your life that is more precious than you imagine.

Now is a favourable time to find out and make appropriate adjustments in your behaviour.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): I've got a radical proposal, Cancerian. It might offend you. You may think I'm so far off the mark that you will stop reading my horoscopes. But I'm willing to take that risk and I'm prepared to admit that I could be wrong.

But I don't think I am wrong. So here's what I have to say: there is a sense in which the source of your wound is potentially also the source of the "medicine" that will heal the wound. What hurt you could fix you. But you must be careful not to interpret this masochistically. You can't afford to be too literal. I'm not saying that the source of your pain is trustworthy or has good intentions. Be cagey as you learn how to get the cure you need.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): The prestigious New England Journal of Medicine published a study with

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a conclusion we might expect to see in a tabloid newspaper or satirical website. It reported that there is a correlation between chocolate consumption and Nobel Prizes. Those countries whose citizens eat more chocolate have also produced an inordinate number of Nobel laureates. So does this mean that chocolate makes you smarter, as some other studies have also suggested? Maybe, the report concluded. Since it is especially important for you to be at the height of your mental powers in the coming weeks, Leo, why not experiment with this possibility?

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): I rarely waste my time trying to convert the "skeptics" who attack astrology with a hostile zeal that belies their supposed scientific objectivity. They're often as dogmatic and closed-minded as any fundamentalist religious nut. When I'm in a tricky mood, though, I might tell them about the "Crawford Perspectives," a highly-rated Wall Street investment publication that relies extensively on astrological analysis.

Or I might quote the wealthy financier J P Morgan, who testified that "Millionaires don't use astrology; billionaires do." That brings us to my main point, Virgo: the astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be a favourable time for you to put in motion plans to get richer quicker. Take advantage!

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): When Libra-born Mohandas Gandhi was 19, he moved to London from his native India to study law. Soon he got caught up in the effort to become an English gentleman.

He took elocution lessons and learned to dance. He bought fine clothes and a gold watch-chain.

Each morning he stood before a giant mirror and fussed with his hair and necktie until they were perfect. In retrospect, this phase of his life seems irrelevant. Years later he was a barefoot rebel leader using nonviolent civil disobedience to help end the British rule of India, often wearing a loincloth and shawl made of fabric he wove himself. With this as your inspiration, Libra, identify aspects of your current life that contribute little to the soul you must eventually become.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): This might be controversial, but I suspect that for now your emphasis shouldn't be on sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll. Instead, your specialties should be hardearned intimacy, altered states that are solely the result of deep introspection, and music that arouses reverence and other sacred emotions. You are entering a phase when crafty power is less important than vigorous receptivity; when success is not nearly as interesting as meaningfulness; when what you already understand is less valuable than what

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): You are entering a phase when you will reap rich rewards by nurturing the health of your favourite posse, ensemble or organization. How is the group's collective mental health? Are there any festering rifts? Any apathetic attitudes or weakening resolves? I choose you to be the leader who builds solidarity and cultivates consensus. I ask you to think creatively about how to make sure everyone's individual goals synergize with the greater good. Are you familiar with the Arabic word taarradhin? It means a compromise that allows everyone to win—a reconciliation in which no one loses face.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): The good news is that America has more trees than it did a hundred years ago. Aggressive efforts to replace the decimated old-growth forests have paid off.

The bad news is that the new forests have a far less diverse selection of tree species than the originals. The fresh batches are often crowded into smaller spaces, so wildfires are more massive and devastating. And because so many of the forests are young, they host a reduced diversity of plant and animal life. All in all, the increased quantity is wonderful; the lower quality not so wonderful. Is there a lesson here for you? I think so. In your upcoming decisions, favour established quality over novel quantity.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): If Pope Francis isn't travelling, he comes out to meet the public in St Peter's Square every Wednesday. During one such event last January, he took a few moments to bestow tender attention on a talking parrot that belonged to a male stripper. I foresee a comparable anomaly happening for you in the coming days. A part of you that is wild or outré will be blessed by contact with what's holy or sublime. Or maybe a beastly aspect of your nature that doesn't normally get much respect will receive a divine favour.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "My definition of a devil is a god who has not been recognized," said mythologist Joseph Campbell. "It is a power in you to which you have not given expression, and you push it back. And then, like all repressed energy, it builds up and becomes dangerous to the position you're trying to hold."

Do you agree, Pisces? I hope so, because you will soon be entering the Get Better Acquainted with Your Devil Phase of your astrological cycle, to be immediately followed by the Transform Your Devil into a God Phase. To get the party started, ask yourself this question: what is the power in you to which you have not given expression? V

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Sperm blocking on its way Male birth control is making headlines once again Three years ago, I wrote about a promising new male contraceptive method called RISUG (reversible inhibition of sperm under guidance.)

It involves injecting a polymer into the vas deferens which lasts up to 10 years and can be dissolved with another injection. RISUG, or Vasalgel, has been used in India for many years. When I last wrote about it, a not-for-profit group called the Parsemus Foundation had just signed a technology transfer agreement to develop it for the market in the United States.

At first glance, Vasalgel might seem like a lot of fuss over nothing. It's basically another way to do a vasectomy (without the ectomy).The difference is that Vasalgel is cheaper and less invasive than a vasectomy and much more easily reversible.

Men typically do not have a vasectomy unless they are quite certain that they are done, or don't want to ever start, fathering babies. Vasalgel could work in the completely opposite way. Men, particularly young men, could have the procedure to ensure that they don't father any babies until they want to.

Vasalgel, on the other hand, can last studies are expensive and the people It would be the first non-permanent with the big bucks, the pharmaceuticontraceptive that men could control up to 10 years without needing to remember to "take" anything. Also, cal companies, don't want to invest. completely on their own. It would give them the ability to manage their at this point, there appear to be no It's not going to be a big enough moneymaker to pique their interest. fertility in a way they've never had side effects.

Since Parsemus before. took on the projThere is Men, particularly young men, could have the proect almost four currently work on a years ago, they cedure to ensure that they don't father any babies have fundraised hormonal until they want to. enough money contracepfrom individuals tive for to finish a trial men as well, that would be in rabbits and start a trial in baboons. The study has yieldtaken in a similar way to convenVasalgel has been used in India for more than 15 years with good suced promising results so far—not one tional birth control pills for women. cess, but there has never been a baboon baby to report. But now they That, however comes with a lot of drawbacks, such as potentially seriformal reversibility study. That will must test to see if baboon babies are possible when the gel is dissolved. ous side effects and the need to rebe required for approval in North America. The problem is that those At the beginning of this month, they member to take a pill on a schedule.

announced receipt of $50 000 from the Packard Foundation to finish the reversibility segment of the study.

It's a hard slog for Parsemus. After the monkey study is finished, they will have to conduct clinical trials in humans. They are currently projecting that Vasalgel will be available in 2017, but with more than three years passed just to get through this second phase and much more expensive human trials coming up, it seems a rather hopeful prediction. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sexpositive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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you want and you're likelier to wind COCHLEAR TURN ON I'm the bisexual everyone loves to up in relationships with people who Is it weird to find cochlear implants hate because I want to be in a poly want what you want—or, more (a device for people with profound relationship with both a man and a likely, you'll wind up in relationships hearing loss that looks like a plaswoman. I am a woman who is into with people whose wants are differ- tic circle implanted in their skull) commitment, loyalty, love, trust ent but come close enough to yours attractive on twentysomething and honesty. I am not looking to that you can hammer out a work- guys? I don't know if it's because I cheat on anyone. work in a field related to audiology able compromise.

But I discovered after one failed Because there is no settling down or because it makes them look kind marriage to a man and one long- without settling for, LTB, and that of vulnerable but cool at the same term relationship with a woman applies to bisexual and monosexu- time. I saw two guys in a row this that I want to be in a romantic, sex- als, monogamists and polyamorists. week with them, and I was like, ually committed relationship with a Good luck. damn. Is this weird? If not, how do man and a woman at the same time.

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This could possibly involve three- GET IT TOGETHER Love Implant Boys way sex, but probably not. It is more I'm a 31-year-old white gay man. I've about sharing my life intimately never been in a relationship. I've had It is weird, LIB, but that shouldn't with both a man and a woman. Un- some extremely shady events in my stop you from pursuing attracfortunately, I don't know if I will ever sexual history, including but not lim- tive boys with cochlear implants. find that perfect balance because so ited to meth use, group sex, using my And you pick those boys up the far all my potential serious partners body to get drugs from disgusting same way you pick up boys who have been turned off by the idea that older men, etc. Now I live with my don't have cochlear implants: you I want to be with two people and be- parents, go to school part-time, and smile at them, you talk to them, lieved that I should "get over it" and have no money because I don't work. you flirt with them. If you estabjust be in a monogalish that the mous relationship Turn yourself into someone you'd be open to dat- attraction is with them—straight mutual, you ing—not a perfect person, but a person in good hang out, or gay. Should I keep searching? Is what working order, a person with his shit together— you make I want as valid as out, you fuck and then you'll be datable. what other people 'em silly. You want? If so, how do don't necesI broach the subject without turning Am I datable? I believe I'm not. What sarily have to disclose that their people off? exactly do I have to offer to a poten- cochlear implants were what iniLove Them Both tial partner? I fear if I don't start to tially drew your eye, LIB, but be try dating for real that I'll continue sure to tell them that isn't the You are not the bisexual every- to repeat my previous shady behav- only thing you find attractive one loves to hate, LTB. You're the iours. Which I did last night, wherein about them if you do disclose. bisexual everyone is looking for. I sucked five cocks and smoked a Tons of MF couples are out there truckload of meth, although it was SOOO SENSITIVE! desperately hunting for "unicorns," the first time I smoked in a year.

I'm writing about the premature aka bisexual women who are open Gay Lost Cause ejaculation guy in last week's colto dating couples. Bisexual women umn who wanted tricks for guys open to three-way sex in the con- Would you date you? who are uncut and too sensitive. text of a committed poly triad are I realize that's harsh, GLC, but I'm uncut and the head of my cock in particularly high demand. Any- someone who can handle a truck- was really sensitive, just like UNone who reads my column knows load of meth in one night—to say CUT, but my problem wasn't prethis, LTB, and presumably you're a nothing of five cocks—should be mature ejaculation. As a young reader. (You wouldn't be writing to able to handle a little bluntness. man, the head of my penis was so me for advice if you hadn't been Now back to the question at hand: sensitive that sexual contact with reading the column, right?) So ei- would you date you? If you wouldn't anything other than my own hand ther you have lousy retention skills date someone in the condition you're was unpleasant. Knowing I didn't or you're pretending not to know currently in, GLC, then it's highly un- want to have an unsatisfying sex how in demand you are because— likely that anyone else would. The life forever, I decided to desensitize consciously or subconsciously— idea that there are millions of single my dick. I started by keeping my complaining about evil monosexu- people seeking romantic relation- foreskin retracted in the shower. als and boring monogamists is ships with train wrecks is a fantasy At first, even water running over more appealing to you than actu- promoted by Hollywood. People it was extremely uncomfortable. ally finding what you want. generally look for partners who are Then once that made enough progYou might wanna pray on that. in good working order. No one is ress, I started keeping my foreskin Moving right along: your wants are perfect, of course, and no one who retracted inside my underwear for just as valid as anyone else's, LTB, wants to be partnered seeks perfec- as long as I could stand it each but we don't all get what we want. tion. But you do need to have your day. Eventually things improved to You'll have a better chance of find- shit together to attract someone the point that sexual contact with ing what you want if you're open who has their shit together. If your someone else was no longer the about your wants and if you refrain shit isn't together, get it together. challenge it had been. This was a from dating people who don't want You don't have to be an Adonis or gradual process, though it was so the same things you want. Seek out financially secure or without chal- long ago now, I couldn't tell you those couples looking for unicorns, lenges, GLC, you just have to be on if it took weeks or months. But I seek out poly-identified singles and top of your problems and working got to do it at my own pace and be up-front about your wants with to overcome them. stopped once the sensitivity level anyone who seeks you out. Some So maybe you're not datable right was working for me. people will be turned off when now. Your goal should be to make Happy To Have A Hoodie you broach the subject, LTB, but so yourself datable in two years' time. what? Those people are wrong for Focus on school, look for work, save Thanks for sharing, HTHAH. you. Why would you want to waste your money and stay the fuck away one moment of your time and ro- from meth and the men who use it. This week on the Lovecast, the permantic energy on people who are Turn yourself into someone you'd ils of vibrator addiction: savageloveturned off by the idea of openness be open to dating—not a perfect cast.com. V and/or committed poly triads? It's person, but a person in good worknot exactly rocket science: don't ing order, a person with his shit to- @fakedansavage on Twitter date people who don't want what gether—and then you'll be datable.

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