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"We need some assurances that we're safe and everything's fine and to date we're not feeling that."

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"If that's your reaction to having a bad lunch, I can't imagine what your reaction would be to other things in life!"

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"As satirical as it may be, the human side of politics is always fun to put under a microscope and take a look at."

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"I write sexually charged folk music, which sets me apart a little bit."

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Big money drops oil Two-thirds to three-quarters: that's how much of the world's known oil reserves have to stay in the ground to avoid catastrophic climate disruption.

While our government acts like climate science is some sort of liberal conspiracy, hard-nosed business types are pulling their money out of fossil fuels and putting that money in renewable energy—not out of idealism, but economics.

Last month, while hundreds of thousands marched in the streets and (most) world leaders met at the UN Climate Summit, the obscenely wealthy heirs to the Rockefeller fortune—brothers John D and William founded Standard Oil in 1870, which spawned Exxon, Mobil and Chevron—announced they were divesting from fossil fuels and investing in renewable energy. The first thing they want to pull their money from? Alberta's oilsands.

The Rockefellers, a powerful symbol of oil money and hardly hippies, are saying hydrocarbons are yesterday's fuel and the smart money is in renewables.

They're part of the Global Divest-Invest coalition, a group of 650 rich folks and 180 colleges, churches, cities and pension funds that are dropping their oil and gas investments. Together they want to divest $50 billion from fossil fuels and funnel that money into clean energy.

That sounds like a lot of money, but to the multitrillion dollar fossil-fuel industry, that's a small drop in the oil barrel. Still, money talks—and $50 billion says a lot. It says this could be a tipping point when the market starts to seriously embrace renewables.

Clean-energy technology is improving to the point where it can be competitive even without subsidies—but it still needs investment. Climate disruption is the single biggest challenge humankind has ever faced, but the rewards of developing the solutions will be just as big.

Science says it's pigheaded to expand oilsands operations at the expense of investing in clean energy. Let's tell our governments to join the smart money. V

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Prentice two weeks in

What thought has been put into changes other than winning favour at the polls?

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Shortly after winning the Conservative leadership race, Jim Prentice told the media, “After two weeks with me as the Premier, there will be no doubts in anyone's minds that this a time of renewal and a time of change. Put your seatbelts on.” So, two weeks in, it feels like an appropriate time to take a look at where we are.

There certainly has been no shortage of announcements during Prentice's time so far in office and most of them have clearly been designed to exude a sense of change in the provincial government. So far, the Premier has announced the selling off of the province's controversial airplane fleet, the development of a new rural health-care strategy, a new accountability and transparency strategy, an end to entitlements, four new starter schools, and elimination of the “Building Alberta” signs that currently exist all over the province.

All of these announcements have been made by way of press releases clearly designed to put the new Premier front

and centre, almost every one of them beginning with the phrase “the Prentice Government”—a Harper-like initiative to brand the entire provincial government with his own name.

But do any of these things actually signal change and renewal at any level beyond the cosmetic? The selling off of the airplanes was announced without any reference to whether or not the move would save money in the long term or reduce the ability of government ministers and staff to travel effectively and efficiently around the province. Was this a thoughtful policy move or a knee-jerk reaction to cater favour in publicopinion polls? The evidence suggests the latter, certainly not a change from moves by the past administration.

Likewise, the announcement of an end to entitlements and an increase to transparency and accountability was heavily outweighed by the appointment of Jay Hill, co-chair of his leadership campaign, to a plum job as senior representative for BC, Saskatchewan and the North, and the appointment of unelected people to the province's two largest ministries. Was the expectation that Albertans would pay attention to what he was saying and ignore what he was doing?

A new rural health-care strategy sounds like a fabulous idea, but it is not rural health in Alberta that is in crisis. The real issues exist in the province's major cities.

A new rural health-care strategy may help bring back voters from the Wildrose Party, but it will do nothing to address the main problems facing health-care provision in the province. Making policy from a place of electoral strategizing rather than the public interest is exactly what Albertans have come to expect from the Conservatives in

power. How does that represent any kind of change whatsoever?

And finally, the announcement of the starter schools. Not so much schools as big empty boxes dropped on to the middle of a field to give kids somewhere to hang out from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm and maybe learn something (just not music or phys ed). Yes, the infrastructure deficit in Alberta Education has reached crisis proportions and yes, more classroom space is urgently needed. This move will ease some of those pressures in the short term, a $30 million Band-aid if you will. The problem is that the announcement made no reference to how or when the appropriate number of permanent schools will be built around the province—schools that have been promised and announced by every Premier in the last 20 years without ever actually being built.

Focusing on the short term while ignoring long-term solutions and planning has been another trademark of every Conservative premier since Lougheed. Not much change there either.

In the end, Prentice can change all the signs he wants and engage in an all-out effort to rebrand our government, but the real measure of change and transformation will come from his actions and the impacts of his policies on the public interest. Based on that metric, his first two weeks of change have been no change at all. Hopefully Albertans will see beyond the cosmetic and begin loudly demanding what they were promised. If not, it is already clear that what we will continue to get from this government is exactly more of the same. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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Hong Kong: Xi's choice

Pro-democracy riots put President Xi in a tight spot The crowds of protesters in the streets of Hong Kong continue to grow, and they have spread beyond Central (the business district) to Kowloon and Causeway Bay. The police are already using tear gas and pepper spray, and rubber bullets will be next. It's not exactly Armageddon, but it's the most serious organized protest that China has seen since the pro-democracy movement on Tiananmen Square was drowned in blood 25 years ago.

Hong Kong isn't exactly China, of course, in the sense that it doesn't live under the same arbitrary dictatorship as the rest of the country.

While it has been under the ultimate control of the Communist regime in Beijing since Britain handed the territory back to China in 1997, the deal London made before the handover guaranteed Hong Kong's existing social system, including freedom of speech and the rule of law, for an-

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other 50 years.

Indeed, the “one country, two systems” deal even stipulated that the “Hong Kong Special Administrative Region” would get more democratic as time went on. There was already an elected legislative council when the British left, but by 2017, Beijing promised, there would also be a democratically elected chief executive. (The holder of that office is now chosen by a 1200-person “Election Committee” that is packed with pro-Beijing members).

But free elections for the chief executive turned out to be more democracy than the Beijing regime could swallow, mainly because it's terrified of the example spreading to the rest of China. So it broke its promise: late last month the National People's Congress in Beijing declared that it will allow only three candidates to run for chief executive and that all of them must be approved by a nominating committee

chosen by the regime.

That's what triggered the current wave of demonstrations. As Martin Lee, founding chairman of the Democratic Party, said at a pro-democracy rally in Hong Kong: “What's the difference between a rotten orange, a rotten apple and a rotten banana? We want genuine universal suffrage, not democracy with Chinese characteristics.”

This confrontation comes at a particularly unfortunate time for Hong Kong's pro-democratic movement, because the relatively new supreme leader in Beijing, President Xi Jinping, cannot afford to make any concessions.

Since he came to power two years ago, Xi has launched a massive anti-corruption purge that has made him a lot of enemies. At least 30 senior officials and hundreds of their family members and associates have been put under investigation or taken into custody.

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Thousands of other officials might also face arrest (and rightly so) if the purge spreads. About 70 officials have actually committed suicide in the past year and a half. in the communist hierarchy would therefore be greatly relieved if Xi lost power, or at least was forced to end the anti-corruption campaign. If he were to surrender to pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, he would be giving those people an excuse to unite against him in defence of the Communist Party's monopoly of power, and not just of their own personal interests.

Using excessive force to quell the protests, up to and including massacres, would also leave Xi open to criticism, of course, but mainly to criticism from abroad. As we saw in the suppression of the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989, in the end Communist Party cadres will usually support the use of violence in defence of their power and privileges.

As for the general public in China, the events in Hong Kong are already represented in the state-controlled media (to the extent that they are reported at all) as the anti-patriotic actions of people who are being manipulated by hostile foreign powers. Many ordinary Chinese people won't believe that, but they probably won't risk much to support the people of Hong Kong. (If the protests spread to the mainland, of course, it's a whole different game.)

Xi would doubtless prefer to win his confrontation with Hong Kong's prodemocracy movement peacefully, but he will use as much violence as necessary to suppress it. Massacres would do great damage to China's relations with the rest of the world, but he knows where his priorities lie. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

NEWS // TRAINS

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ransport Canada, CN Rail and the Transporta- they report it, the timelines and so on and so forth. but it's still not really happening fast enough,” tion Safety Board should all be expecting a So it's our federal government that is telling these Duncan says.

Those rules include upgrading or replacing letter this week about trains, tracks and why the rail lines what they can and cannot do. What we're two seem to have trouble sticking together. Six questioning is are those regulations strong enough, older cars used to transport crude oil or ethanol and to travel at slower speeds if carrying danderailments have happened in Slave Lake between because if they are, this shouldn't be happening.”

Warman says the regulations seem to be built for gerous goods. However, the rules do not include May and September and the town, county and loan outdated business model of rail. There has been the TSB recommendation to follow an alternate cal First Nations are fed up and ready for answers.

Slave Lake Mayor Tyler Warman says the inten- such a dramatic increase in the length and weight route away from populated areas when carrying tion is to meet with CN, TC and the TSB and figure of rail cars going through the area (many carrying dangerous goods.

“Upgrading the rail cars, frankly, I don't think is out the cause of all these derailments and what oil to market) that Warman says engines are now preventative measures will be taken going forward. put in the middle of trains to help push them along. enough,” Duncan says. “I don't think they should be allowed to store dangerous cargo without some “Basically we need some assurances that we're safe and everything's fine and to date we're not Derailments can also have disastrous effects on kind of safeguarding, they shouldn't be storing this the environment and human life. Just look at the kind of cargo in the middle of municipalities, they feeling that,” Warman says.

The town of Slave Lake has already sent letters Lac-Mégantic disaster last summer when the derail- shouldn't be allowed to a thousand-fold increase of to federal minister of transportation Lisa Raitt and ment of cars carrying crude oil led to an explosion, the shipment of this cargo without any prior public notice and comment and that's esfederal minister of public safety Peter sentially what the government has sat Van Loan, and has contacted its MP I suffered firsthand that derailment and spill back and allowed to happen.”

David Yurdiga.

Then there's the matter of reporting “We got a letter from the TSB late into the lake, so I made up my mind when I got incidents. Locals know every time a last week and apparently there's one elected that I would try to address this. train derails and yet not every derailfrom Transport Canada coming that ment is officially reported by the govsays they're making it a priority and ernment or rail companies. Duncan they're going to look into it,” Warman says. “We want to sit down and have a good, candid destroying much of the town and killing almost 50 says the federal government does not require every people. Or the Wabamun Lake derailment in 2005 incident to be reported. “And this is frankly not just discussion about what's happening on our line.” in the rail industry, I'm hearing bad things about the He says everyone he's talked to from CN, TC and when more than a million litres of oil was spilled.

“I actually have a place at Wabamun,” says MP pipeline industry and others.” the TSB since the first derailment has been forthShe says reporting of derailments and other inciLinda Duncan, “so I suffered firsthand that decoming with information.

“Let me tell you, I know more about rail then I railment and spill into the lake, so I made up my dents all comes down to statistics. “While the govever thought I would in my entire life,” Warman mind when I got elected that I would try to ad- ernment will report that the number of derailments says. “And it took a lot of research and phone calls dress this, and then of course we had the big has gone down, what has gone up is the number of and information to get it. The consensus is that CN Lac-Mégantic [derailment], but I was already significant derailments and serious threat or harm regulates itself, but it's not like that. So basically concerned and we already had a lot of Transpor- to human health and the environment. It's logical to what happens is you have two entities: you have tation Safety Board reports on problems. And be going up because of this massive increase of the Transport Canada and the Transportation Safety then, of course, just this past year we had an- shipping of dangerous cargo,” Duncan says. “What Board. The Transportation Safety Board does in- other derailment at Gainford and then this series really troubles me is if we think about when the rail lines were built and where they go, well, they vestigation only, they only do incidents. Transport of derailments in Slave Lake.”

Duncan says she is looking into why the rail indus- run all along our country's lakes and rivers because Canada sets the regulations that railway lines have to follow. So the railway lines don't get to make up try is essentially exempt from federal and provin- originally the trains were fired by coal and they needed the water to cool their engines, so the level their own regulations, they don't get to do whatev- cial environmental assessment laws.

“On the issue of rail safety, finally under great of risk is huge to sensitive environments.” er they want, there's certain criteria that they have MEDEL to follow and it's all built in there how often they pressure, the new minister of transport Lisa REBECCA REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM have to report, what they have to report, when Raitt finally came forward with some new rules,

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FRONT NEWS // ANNEXATION

FROM CITY TO COUNTY // Curtis Hauser

Leduc County is one area Edmonton's been looking to get its hands on

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or many, Edmonton feels like it's bursting at its seams. The population is skyrocketing, schools are overcrowded, and services are increasingly stretched thin. The thought of adding 30 000 Edmontonians yearly within our current boundaries is daunting.

Edmonton has maintained these same boundaries since 1982. Since then, the city's population has grown by over 320 000—or 59 percent. By comparison, Calgary has seen comparable growth but has annexed surrounding land 16 times. With Edmonton launching its first annexation proposal in three decades, the necessity of expanding outwards onto the prairies seems like a foregone conclusion.

But if Edmonton can hardly maintain its services within its current boundaries, would adding over 20 percent to the city's area help? David Hales, the City of Edmonton's executive director of regional planning, understands the worry, but says the city is confident it can succeed.

"That's all part of a growing community," Hales says. "Edmonton right now is growing by the equivalent of tacking on a Leduc or Spruce Grove every year, and that's pretty stunning when you think about it.

That's the sort of thing that this community is good at, accommodating that kind of growth. It's a challenge, but it's what we're prepared to do."

Edmonton's two-part annexation proposal extends the city's entire

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southern border further south by would remove six percent from the way for the communities to grow toseveral kilometres, bisected by the county. It might seem minimal, but gether, how we can keep industry and Queen Elizabeth II highway. The this fertile area represents a mas- business interests growing, because 36-square kilometre east portion sive loss for the entire county, put- there's a lot of activity happening for would see Edmonton's boundary ting it at a disadvantage in provid- development in the region. What we brushing up with Beaumont, while ing for the numerous municipalities really want to do is make sure the public benefits from all of these dethe 120-square kilometre west por- within the region.

"We have agreements with Beau- velopments and of course the whole tion extends south to the City of Leduc, an area that includes the en- mont, Devon, City of Leduc, War- wealth of the area."

According to Bowles, one of Leduc tire Edmonton International Airport burg, Thorsby, Calmar, whereby our residents use their facilities and we County's key strengths is that it ofand its surrounding industrial land.

Although Edmonton's plans for jointly support recreation, librar- fers an efficient and low-cost develthe land include residential, com- ies, playing fields, fire departments, opment process to arriving businessmercial and recreational uses, the Family and Community Support Ser- es. Not only are the taxes lower, but Leduc County is industrial potensmaller and more tial is mouth-waWhat they want to do is just come forward nimble at protering. With such cessing permits an influx of resiand take a big chunk of the county out. than the much dents moving to larger and more the city, the city's services are spreading increasingly vices," says Leduc county manager complex City of Edmonton. Such a thin—something that would be Brian Bowles. "As a region, we all drastic change creates uncertainty in remedied by a larger industrial tax work together in providing the best the region that often makes investors possible services to all the residents nervous, he adds. base.

Despite this, Bowles sees the City "If we hit our boundaries and we of the region. So if you're going to still keep getting the same demand take a large hunk of it, it affects not of Edmonton as too eager to posifor services from sewer, water and only us, but it affects the other mu- tion itself as the best option for the roads, to cultural services and soft- nicipalities in the region. And that's area, opting for a less cooperative approach in deciding its future. er services ... the tools that we have the part that gets difficult."

"We were encouraging from the start Bowles doesn't deny that Edmonto actually deal with those issues become diminished," Hales says. ton's continued growth is important that we all sit down and plan things "We simply don't have the taxes for the entire region, but he doesn't out," he says. "We have what we call to deal with the demands coming believe it should be at the expense IDPs [Intermunicipal Developmental Plans] with other communities, like of the county's self-sufficiency. from the outside."

"Where the county came from the the City of Leduc, where we sat down Leduc County sits on the other very beginning is, yes, we know and planned the area around it.

"Doing it that way has not resonated side of the table, concerned just as that Edmonton is growing. Yes, much with maintaining the health we know that Leduc County, spe- with the City of Edmonton. Instead, of its current communities as the cifically Nisku, is growing," Bowles what they want to do is just come potential for its own industrial says. "And we've always felt that forward and take a big chunk of the growth. The proposed annexation we need to plan together, find a county out."

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Fortunately, the difficult decision ultimately rests in the hands of a third party, the Government of Alberta's Municipal Government Board. The MGB will mediate the annexation proposal and make its recommendation to the Minister of Municipal Affairs before being signed off by the Lieutenant Governor.

The entire process can take upwards of five years, especially if the proposal is contested. For Hales, his impression is that this annexation has been a long time coming, and the pressure is only going to continue to mount for Edmonton.

"The city is kind of the frog in the pot," Bowles says. "You don't realize how much and how quickly it's growing until you cast back."

However, the City of Edmonton's lack of planning surely doesn't resonate with the citizens of Leduc County, who aren't happy with decades of consistency being suddenly and dramatically changed. According to Bowles, the City of Edmonton's public consultations have been close to boiling over.

"Shall we say that the two meetings the City of Edmonton held were quite feisty as county residents were voicing their displeasure," he says. "Meetings we've held, we've had a lot of people upset over it all.

"Leduc County has been around a long time, and it is a community and they don't like to see it getting pulled apart."

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DISH // THE BURG

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DISH EDITOR : MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

All is fair in love and restaurant reviews The Burg has come under fire by angry customers in a swath of online reviews

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lag down the server or post a nasty review online? Yelp, Urbanspoon, Open Table, Facebook, Reddit, Twitter: a large section of social media is devoted to restaurant criticism; if you have a bad meal, you can start spreading the word before you even leave the table. Starting a whole website devoted to bashing a restaurant, however, that does seem a bit extreme, even well into the 21st century.

"I guess I was sort of angry that they seemed to arrogantly refuse to act upon complaints," says Dillon Robinson. An IT professional, Robinson visited The Burg–an upscale burger joint downtown– and was inspired to create a website targeting the restaurant's faults. "I know restaurants are stressful to run; I normally wouldn't do something like this over a single bad experience," he says. "The problem was that after this, I kept almost obsessively looking on Urbanspoon and Yelp and all those sites, week to week—because I get some petty satisfaction over other people agreeing with me—and I would always see the same complaints over the service and the pricing and the food, even up until today."

After about two days of programming, Robinson launched The Burg is Bad (rift-vr.com/burg/), a site that uses the Kimono web crawler to pull negative words from Yelp reviews and display the totals. The site also includes an ad lib section where visitors can build their own (negative) review, as well as read through a swath of generally unfavourable reviews pulled from Yelp. Scroll to the very bottom and you'll find the About section, which explains why Robinson went to all this trouble: essentially, he feels that The Burg is just riding on the coattails of its good location in a burgeoning area of town.

"We were completely shocked – I've never seen anything like it before," says Basil Onuferko, co-owner of The Burg. "If that's your reaction to having a bad lunch, I can't imagine what your reaction would be to other things in

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life!"

It's n o t always viable or comfortable to directly address a problem with a dining experience. Onuferko admits that he usually doesn't speak up himself when he dines out and has a sub-par experience; he also feels that the various social media sites are a great way for customers to voice their concerns. But he also acknowledges that as a restaurant owner, it's very difficult to keep up with the real-time pace of social media.

"It literally would be a part-time job for somebody to sustain that," says Onuferko, who has reached out to a

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number of patrons who posted negative reviews online.

"We're just an independent restaurant, so we don't have those kind of resources behind us. Definitely we'd like to put a little more time and effort into that; I think it will become a part of the manager's duties."

Do critics, professional or amateur, expect a personal response from the restaurants they review? "I just wanted to do something knee-jerk funny and a bit mean," says Robinson, who didn't expect The Burg to respond to his site. "I'm passive aggressive when it comes to confrontation like that; I just wanted to make something and throw it out there, and not have to deal with it too much afterwards."

Slow service is a common trend in The Burg's online reviews, and a main point of contention for Robinson.

"Staffing is by far our biggest chal-

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lenge–it's very hard to get both service staff and kitchen staff," says Onuferko. "Definitely when you see a trend in reviews, you know there must be something there. That's something we take very seriously–if we see the same thing coming through reviews, that's something that we have to try and improve."

But there's certainly a lag between having and fixing a problem, and online reviews aren't always accurate in their representation of a company's current operations; some are sorted chronologically so that the most recent reviews appear first, but others sort reviews more ambiguously—notably Yelp, which uses an automated "recommendation software" that filters 30 percent of submitted reviews.

"I kept thinking, 'Are my reviews getting deleted?'" notes Robinson. "But no, they weren't deleted—if they look at your account and if they see that you're giving nothing but fives

and nothing but ones, that's somehow extremist and either you're biased or being hateful, so therefore they're not going to show it." (Yelp dodged a request for a phone interview to explain their review filtering criteria, perhaps unsurprising given that Yelp has been repeatedly sued for allegedly manipulating reviews to extort ad revenue from business owners.)

Customers now come with the weight of their online presences. Usually it's pretty obvious when a review is an exaggerated, hyperemotional rant by someone who has decided to feel personally affronted by a sub-par meal. Sadly, the fear of appearing like this—or of simply seeming like you're trying to score a free lunch—prevents a lot of customers from giving restaurants genuine, immediate feedback.

But online reviews have an unquestionable value to both businesses and potential customers, and the coming years will undoubtedly prove that neither operate in a vacuum.

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San Diego: perfect weather, cutting-edge beer

// Jason Foster

When I was in San Diego a few weeks ago, I kept running into taxi drivers who were Canadian expats. I asked each one why they absconded to southern California and their response was unanimous: "the weather."

Indeed, San Diego has perfect weather year-round: mid-twenties every day, not too humid, cool breezes coming off the ocean and very little rain. I can see why a winter-weary Canadian might opt for this quiet city on California's southernmost edge.

I can also see why a craft beer lover might want to spend a few days hanging out here. Did you know that San Diego County (population: three million) has over 80 breweries and is one of the fastest-growing craft beer scenes in North America? The area is home to some of the beer world's most respected brands, including Stone, Green Flash and Ballast Point. But in my time there I found that—just like at their world-famous Sea World—most of the action happens under the surface, in the small brewpubs and start-up breweries speckling the city.

San Diego is the epicentre of the West Coast IPA sub-style: a drier, sharper, more intense interpretation of hoppy IPA. Certainly there were plenty of examples of IPA to try, but I was just as impressed with how the local breweries handled other styles.

I should start with Stone Brewing,

for they leave a large wake. Known for their brash marketing and brasher beer, they have become one of the biggest names in craft brewing. Their brewery beer garden is unparalleled, with waterfalls and quiet nooks in which to sip beer; it is more akin to a winery garden than a brewery. I was most impressed with their latest beer, Enjoy By IPA, which is clearly dated to advise the consumer to drink it within five weeks of bottling. I had the Enjoy By 9.20.2014, which had been available for only 10 days.

San Diego has its share of long-standing breweries that make great beer.

Green Flash's West Coast IPA is a classic example of the San Diego sub-style.

Ballast Point's Sculpin IPA is worth a pint or two. Karl Strauss, San Diego's oldest brewery, still finds a way to impress with its Red Trolley Irish Red Ale.

vol). Societe Brewing, which opened only in 2012, has taken the local scene by storm. They brew brilliant, precise beer ranging from their light-bodied but sharp pale ale, The Publican, to their spicy and hoppy Belgian Blonde, The Debutante.

As for watering holes, a must-notmiss is Monkey Paw, a funky brewpub in east downtown San Diego. While the building is not much to look at, you will be sorry if you miss anything off their rotating beer list, brewed right next door. I would suggest something I tried, but it will be long gone by the time you get there—they never brew the same beer twice. As an added bo-

nus, their Philly cheesesteaks are a local legend.

For a trailblazing beer experience head over to Hillcrest Brewpub, which proudly proclaims itself as America's only gay-owned brewery. I can't confirm the veracity of that claim, but I can say I have never been at a brewery that was so enjoyably, festively and unabashedly gay. I was treated like gold and their beer names are a riot: try a Crotch Rocket (red ale) or maybe a more assertive Hop Sucker (double IPA). Lest you think they are all gimmick, however, know that the beer certainly stands on its own regardless of name.

Finally, you cannot go to San Diego

without stopping by Hamilton's Tavern.

Annually rated as one of the best beer pubs in the US, it is an out-of-the-way place that may be the best neighbourhood pub I have ever visited. Decorated with tap handles hanging from the ceiling, its 30 taps offer the best the beer world has to offer; it is the only place in San Diego that pours the much sought-after Pliny the Elder. I felt completely at home in this place off the beaten track.

San Diego is a city of surprises. It may be famous for Sea World and the San Diego Zoo, but when it comes to the city's beer scene, it's the stuff you don't know about that's the real highlight. V

But it was the upstarts and lesserknowns that caused me to stand up and take notice. AleSmith Brewing impressed with every beer I sampled, and yet while they have been around for a while they haven't developed the same reputation as Stone—I am not sure why. The aroma in their IPA (earth, pine, lemon grass, marmalade and more) is unsurpassed, and their Speedway Imperial Stout spills over with licorice, coffee, molasses and pleasant alcohol warmth (12% alc/

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Proud takes a sharp look at our current prime minister

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he central figure in Proud is a con- our country on the world stage. Yet servative Canadian prime minis- in that regard, Proud seems to stand ter, introduced moments after achiev- alone in the medium: when was the ing the zenith of political power in the last time you saw a Canadian play comment directly on the highest levcountry: a majority government.

The year is 2011. His name is Harper. el of government? On a sitting prime minister?

That "Stephen" never "I think I'm always gets uttered is irrel- Until Sun, Oct 19 (7:30 pm; drawn to plays with evant to understand- 2 pm Sunday matinees) political angles to ing who we're talking Proud them, that say someabout.

Directed by Ian Leung thing about society, And while the sce- La Cité Francophone, and particularly our nario that unfolds $8.75 – $25 society," Leung condoes tweak the truth tinues, perched in ever so slightly— the basement of the playwright Michael Healey adjusts the 2011 federal elec- former Third Playing Space Theatre, tion's outcome so that instead of the now turned rehearsal hall. I've always Jack Layton-led NDP surging into of- felt that something we miss as Canadificial opposition status, Proud posits ans when we experience art—moreso a nice big conservative majority, with now than perhaps at a different time those Orange Crush seats going con- in theatre—[is that] we don't get to servative—it's clearly been construct- see ourselves in art much, I don't think. ed with accuracy in mind, as an in to And there's a tremendous kind of examine Canada in the here and now, deeper resonance, and more profound a nation that seems more polarized meaning to it, when you do see it."

Profound, but also fun: in an era by ideology than perhaps it ever was when we regularly turn to comebefore.

"Michael Healey said he wrote it dians, rather than news organizabecause in part he wanted to under- tions, for legitimate commentary on stand or explain Stephen Harper as the world at large—most recently best he could," director Ian Leung through the viral monologues of John Oliver, but branching off of a modern explains.

You've probably wondered similar legacy established by Jon Stewart and things about the man who represents Stephen Colbert—Healey's play isn't

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afraid to draw out the comedy laden in its here-and-now scenario, to point out the absurdity of modern political process and even, maybe, find some sympathy for the devil presently occupying the country's grandest seat of power. That last part probably depends on you, though.

Proud was rejected by the company that helped Healey create it, Toronto's Tarragon Theatre, for reasons never made entirely clear by the company or playwright. (Everyone's pretty sure that having the sitting PM as its main focus of critique had something to do with it.) Undaunted, Healey originally found another stage (and performed the Harper role himself). After a few acclaimed Ontario runs, the play's is now seeing runs like this Theatre no.

6 version open all across the country.

The plot concerns Harper—ready to exercise those tendrils of majority government strength to their full extent—perplexed by the wild charisma of a young MP, whose tactless gusto is matched only by what he sees as her malleability, her ability to help him advance his long-game agenda.

The trick to a modern political satire like this, both Leung and Brian Dooley—this production's Harper—note, is in finding the balance of tone.

"Ian and I often tussle about the

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genre of this play, because on one level, it is a satire," Dooley says, sitting in a grandly padded chair that might end up his PM seat for the show. "It's always an issue of us debating how to calibrate the satire. How broadly you play the satirical edge, or how subtly.

"Even though it's satirical, it does offer a glimpse into the machinations of political office and political shenanigans, fictions or not. And that's always kind of fun. It offers an audience a glimpse into that political side of things."

In becoming Harper, Dooley notes he wasn't after straight facsimile.

He's found that even when given the freedom of interpretation, having to spout statements and ideologies that hardly align with your own can prove its own strange exercise.

"I tried not to have the burden of imitation affect me whatsoever," Dooley says. "While it's a satirical character, there's a complexity to him nonetheless, and we always try to be consistent from page one to the end of the play with that personality. But it has its challenges: it always has its challenges when you find yourself declaring things that you wouldn't necessarily ... embrace as an individual.

But you gotta make it sound like you believe it.

"Sometimes I'm fearful!" he adds with a laugh, slamming his fist down on the table. "I'm fearful of the fact of, 'Jeez, am I being infected with this?'"

Maybe you'll find yourself echoing Dooley's sentiment, and for those who want to spar more with the ideas that unfold, there's a pair of postshow discussions happening during the run: the first, on the October 9, is "centred around the question of creating around a character who is a character in real life, and the artistic and perhaps ethical questions that come up with that.," Leung explains.

The other's a panel discussion about the size of government, featuring a spread of U of A profs and Trevor Harrison from the Parkland Institute to guide the conversation.

Which seems, ultimately, Proud's point: to really open up a conversation about how government runs the way it does, filtered through the lens of satire that's perhaps an ideal way of examining why this particular government runs the way it does.

"As satirical as it may be, the human side of politics is always fun to put under a microscope and take a look at," Dooley says. "Who are these people?

And"—here he lowers his voice to a whisper—"does it really go that far?"

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The Hitchcock Radio Show / Thu, Oct 2 – Sat, Oct 4 (8 pm); Sun, Oct 5 (2 pm) Like suspense? Nobody was better at coaxing the sensation out of cinema than Alfred Hitchcock, and Capitol Theatre’s looking to draw that masterful command of craft into the live setting with The Hitchcock Radio Show. In a ‘40s style broadcast directed by Dana Andersen, five actors will play a multitude of roles as they reenact three of Alfred Hitchcock’s early works: The Lodger, Sabotage and The 39 Steps, complete with live sound effects and music. A curious, compelling way to revisit one of cinema’s most effective filmmakers. (Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, $18 [advance], $20 [door])

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Metro Shorts: Season Seven / Thu, Oct 2; Thu, Nov 27; Thu, Jan 8; Thu, Feb 19; Thu, Apr 9 (7 pm) Mostly Water Theatre’s yearly short film showcase/competition begins again this Thursday with a few new rules in place: chief among them is that the max time limit for films is now four minutes, not five (because of demand, they’re trying to fit more films into every evening.) Those slightly shorter shorts will screen before audiences and a panel of adjudicators, with filmmakers competing for sweet, glorious money for their art, as well as the equally-sweet-andglorious opportunity to screen their work for a real live audience, and all the invaluable information such a situation provides. (Metro Cinema at Garneau Theatre) V

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Happy Toes 'I

think there must be a RAM in your brain, as an actor, where lines go– where they live forever. You have to kind of re-energize that part of your brain; they're in there somewhere, but you have to search for them."

Julien Arnold has been busy recalling lines from Happy Toes, a Stewart Lemoine play that debuted six years

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ago at the 2008 Fringe Festival. Arnold is reprising his role from the original production along with the "immaculate" cast (save one member–Cathy Derkach is replacing Leona Brausen) for a remount that's wrapping up Teatro La Quindicina's current season.

"It still has the trademark wit, the

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banter between the characters," says Arnold, who feels that Happy Toes marks a shift in Lemoine's writing style. "For a long time he wrote plays that were set in the '30s, or '40s, or '50s–a little bit of historical distance, which helped him comment on issues of history and time. This might have been one of the first ones that happened in the present."

Happy Toes is a contemporary comedy set in an unnamed city, with a peculiar mystery at the centre: the wife of Arnold's character is having an affair—with him. "There's a sort of whimsical poignancy to the play," Arnold says. "It's not one of those knockabout farces where it's just a barrel of laughs the whole way through. It's more thoughtful, more gentle; it has a sort of gentle cadence to it."

"There's not a lot of action, but there's a kind of quietness to it— which is sort of a fascinating challenge as an actor," he continues. "Usually, for myself anyway, I look for the bold moments, and I often get cast as the big, bold character. So it's really a treat to be able to just do a character who's just a guy—who talks normally, who doesn't have an accent. You think that would be easier, right. But in some ways it's a little more difficult, because you have to not rely on the big character flamboyance. It's a fascinating challenge."

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“Don’t miss it.”

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Andrea Martin I

f you've ever wanted to ask Edith Prickley a this week she just reprised her role in Pippin on Broadway. "I've been very fortunate to be in question, now's your chance.

"You'll see Edith Prickley and Perini Scleroso; three mediums—when I get tired of one, luckyou'll see Aunt Voula from My Big Fat Greek ily I go on to a different one," she says. "Doing Wedding; I sing songs from shows I was in, like a one-person show is very humbling, because Fiddler on the Roof and Young Frankenstein— you think everybody's going to know you, and you might even see the of course people have their own lives; they're not thinkcharacter I won the Tony for, Andrea Martin two years ago, for Pippin," Sun, Oct 5 (7:30 pm) ing about you every second. says veteran comedienne Jubilee Auditorium, $80 – $140 But it was a very empowerAndrea Martin, speaking of ing act, and I knew it was her one-woman show, Final gonna be fun. I have my muDays! Everything Must Go! A fundraiser for sical director with me, Seth Rudetsky, and we Jewish Family Services, the show is the first wrote it like an evening in a living room: very time she'll have been back in Edmonton since informally and kind of chattery. I wanted it to filming sketch comedy show SCTV in the '70s be kind of a fun party."

Martin is best-known for her host of colourand early '80s—the third season and some of the fourth were filmed in Edmonton—along- ful personas, so naturally they will be making side a host of then-neophyte comedians includ- cameos in her solo show. But she also hopes to ing John Candy, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara delve a little deeper, as she did in her newlypublished memoir Lady Parts, and will be takand Rick Moranis.

"The show is meant to be an entertaining, ing audience questions during the show.

"I think I just naturally observe life in a humornostalgic look at my career and my life, an irreverent look at getting older and reminiscing," ous way," Martin says. "When there might be says Martin. "I really wrote it with Canadians dark days, I think my tendency's always to go in mind, because there's a lot of material from towards the light. I can't help but find funny things; I think it's been a great saviour and therSCTV in it." apy, being able to laugh."

Martin has been acting continuously for the MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM past 45 years on film, television and Broadway:

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Kim's Convenience

Don Quixote Until Sat, Oct 11 (7:30 pm) Directed by Weyni Mangesha Citadel Theatre, $31.50 – $84

Quixotic ballet // Paul McGrath

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on't you want me to succeed in life?" A child couldn't utter a weightier, or more singularly hurtful, phrase to her parent.

Kim's Convenience is a warm, funny family comedy making its Edmonton debut as the Citadel's season opener.

Penned by Toronto's Ins Choi and touring with Soulpepper Theatre, this new Canadian play (incredibly, Choi's first) has enjoyed universal praise across its national trek. It's easy to understand why, as it's an easy play to like: heartfelt, poignant, but never pedantic, and very familiar.

The story takes place in the titular convenience store, fleshed out on stage by Ken MacKenzie's grubbilyrealistic set. Store owner and Korean immigrant Appa (Paul Sun-Hyung Lee) has just received an impressive offer from a wealthy businessman to buy his store in Toronto's Re-

gent Park, back when that area was on the brink of gentrification. But Appa won't sell because he wants to pass along his store, "his story", to 30-year-old daughter Janet (Chantelle Han). An aspiring photographer, Janet is a cranky customer, totally uninterested in the prospect of chaining herself to the family store; therein resides the conflict at stake in this play: generational disconnect and the preservation (or destruction) of family legacy.

Lee carries the show wonderfully, fluently playing the brusque, domineering patriarch who is fiercely proud of his home country and obsessed with calling 911 to report illegally-parked Japanese cars. His father-daughter exchanges with Han— who is also fantastic—crackle with sincerity and, often, hilarity; the scene

where he teaches her the "awkwardly racist" survival skill of coding customers as "steal or no steal" is a riot.

This one-act clips along smoothly under Weyni Mengesha's direction; if anything sticks out, it's the swift reconciliation between Appa and his estranged son Jung (Dale Yim), which comes a little too quickly to be wholly believable. The play began life as a Fringe show; this was really the only time (aside from the brisk 80-minute runtime) where those origins really showed.

Nonetheless, Kim's Convenience is a resoundingly genuine, homegrown celebration of Canada's stitched-together, multinational fabric, specifically rooted in those uneven seams where cultures collide on foreign turf. And it's also just so very funny.

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An Homage to Billie Holiday 'M

y mom is a big fan of classi- of the company is to give a chance cal music, but we always had to young talented choreographers to the radio playing in my household," create a piece on a professional comCitie Ballet artistic director François pany," Chevennement says.

Chevennement begins. "So we always heard jazz."

In this case, that And hearing Sat, Oct 4 (7:30 pm) young choreograjazz meant hear- Sun, Oct 5 (2:30 pm) pher was Torontobased Alysa Pires. ing Billie Holiday, Timms Centre for the Arts, of course: those $20 – $40 Chevennement gilded pipes so had seen her chocapable of carreography on rying out her gorgeously mournful YouTube and asked her to consider musings on life and love. In Citie doing something for his company Ballet's opening show—for its third that also made use of vocals. She year as Edmonton's resident ballet came back with an offer of Billie, and company—Holiday's classic songs Chevennement was sold. will provide the backing score for a The other piece in Citie's opennew ballet. ing show has a much more classical "One of my goals as artistic director rooting. Les Sylphides, which pre-

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mièred back in the early 1900s, casts its dancers as fairies, brought to life in the moonlight by the words of a poet. And while much more traditional than pairing jazz and pointe, Les Sylphides is, its own way, a curio in the ballet canon: there's no discernible plot, just that loose setting to offer up the dance upon.

"The past four years, one of the traditions of Citie Ballet is we usually open with a mixed program," Chevennement explains. "We go to something people might not expect, and then we go to a story ballet.

"I want to remind the audience that ballet is not just classical repertoire; it's also contemporary work. "

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he morning after dancing his first can finally let go and enjoy themballet in more than two decades, selves," Grand-Maitre says. "And at Alberta Ballet's artistic director Jean the same time, technically, it's one of Grand-Maitre had some immediately the most challenging classic ballets in available feelings about stepping the whole cannon." back en pointe.

Which can make it tricky to draw out "It's not like riding a bike, is it?" he the humour. For which Grand-Maitre's laughs, from his thankful that Ben Calgary home, Stevenson—Orwhere his com- Fri, Oct 3 – Sat, Oct 4 (7:30 pm) der of the British pany just opened Jubilee Auditorium, $29 – $95 Empire-member Don Quixote. and "royalty in BalGrand-Maitre's let"—is helming return to the sprung floor finds him the choreography. embodying the title role; he isn't com"Let's just say comedy is a lot easier pletely sure what it was about play- to do when you have words," Granding the windmill warrior that piqued Maitre says. "Without having to fall his interest enough to step back on into clowning, you know? ... It's very, stage, actually. But he has a few ideas. very rare that you see choreogra"When I retired from dancing, I phers who can handle comedy with wasn't really thrilled by being on subtlety and movement and dance. stage; I much preferred creating danc"He comes from another generation," es and working in the wings," he says. he continues, of Stevenson. "All that (Before this, his last dance had been knowledge, that golden era of ballet, on a tour of Asia with Ballet British what they discovered and what they Columbia.) "After all these years, created is something I think is still unthere were moments when I thought, matched today. He was able to bring 'I wish I could go back out there one all that experience and all that with more time, and feel what it was like, him, and share it with us." that catharsis, this relationship with PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM other dancers in the audience, and what happens at the end of a show if it's appreciated.' And it's something; I always miss that excitement.

"This role in particular I thought was right, because Don Quixote's this crazy old man with visions and dreams, and nobody listens to him," he concludes. "I said, this is typecasting: this is the life of an artistic director."

As a ballet, Don Quixote's carved out a unique place for itself in the classical canon by being, well, funny: unlike the bulk of the major repertoire's tragedy-laced tales, the overall story— focusing Miguel de Cervantes's sprawling tome down to a single episode, and drawing inspiration for its movement from Spanish folklore—is relatively light.

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SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar

Years of Volya!–Ukrainian Dance Ensemble • Oct 10, 7pm • $30-$75 at TicketMaster

FILM EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Hollywood Icons Fall 2014 Series • The Adventures Of Don Juan (1948, colour, PG); Mon, Oct 6, 8pm EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL • Landmark Cinemas City

Centre 9, 10200-102 Ave • 780.423.0844 • edmontonfilmfest.com • Until Oct 4 • Individual FILM Tickets: day-of, 1-hr before showtime at the EIFF box office tent (next to Landmark Theatres) $13 (incl Subway® lunchbox shorts)/$25 (gala/special presentations, incl feature film & reception) • Passes: All-access, Reel Deal Pass: $129 • The 6-PACK Pass: $65 • Special Event: Down In Flames: Tony Volcano impersonator in da house; Sep 27 @ TBD • Made-in-Alberta: Cut Bank: Starring John Malkovich and Billy Bob Thornton; Sep 28, 9pm • Closing Night Gala: Gone Doggy Gone; After-Party featuring the Mike Lent Band; Oct 4, 7:30pm • SUBWAY® Lunchbox Shorts; Sep 29-Oct 3; $13 (incl lunch)

IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science,

THE DISTANCE (BETWEEN US): Works by Jim Logan • Oct 4-15

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY •

10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • MEMORY & ILLUSION: Artworks by Greg Edmonson and Elzbieta Krawecka • Oct 3-17 • Opening: Oct 3, 6-9pm; Oct 4, 1-4pm; artists in attendance • Fall Gallery Walk: Gallery artists; Oct 18-19

CITY CENTRE STAGE GALLERY–Red Deer • 4922-49 St • YOU ARE HERE:

Graduates of Red Deer College's Visual Art Program • Reception: Oct 3, 5:30-7pm

CORRIDOR GALLERY–Red Deer • Recreation Centre, lower level, 4501-47A Ave • SHRUG: Drawings by Glynis Wilson Boultbee • Until Nov 30 • Reception: Oct 3, 5-7pm CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 •

CREATIVEPRACTICESINSTITUTE.COM • SOME SOLITARY BEACONS: Artworks by Erik Osberg • Oct 10-Nov 15 • Opening: Oct 10, 7pm

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St •

780.760.1278 • INTRODUCING....: Katerina Mertikas, Tara Higgins, Blu Smith, and Veronica Funk; Oct 4-18; opening: Oct 4, 1-4pm

Dc3 Art ProJEcts • 10567-111 St •

780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • THE RIGHT SIDE OF MAGIC: Works by Blair Brennan, A survey of work from 1986-2014 including An Unlearned Human Language, a new collaborative performance/installation with Brian Webb and Allyson MacIvor • Until Oct 11

11211-142 St • Oct 3-9 • Panda: The Journey Home 3D (G) Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:25, 6:55; Sun 1:10, 3:25; Mon-Thu 3:10pm • D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (PG) Fri-Sat 5:45; Sun 12pm; Mon, Wed 4:20; Tue 11am; Thu 1pm • Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Fri 2:15; Sat-Sun 10am, 2:15; Tue 4:20; Thu 4:20pm • Flight of the Butterflies 3D (G) Fri-Sun 11am, 4:35; Wed 11am • Rocky Mountain Express (G) Sat 12pm; Mon 2pm; Tue 1pm • Jerusalem 3D (G) Thu 2pm • Jurassic Park 3D (PG) FriSat 8:05; Sun 5:45pm

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

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre,

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) •

8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Japan Film Festival: Tsunagu (Until The Break Of Dawn), Japanese w/English subtitles; Sat 2pm; free • Kantai (Hospitalité), Japanese w/ English subtitles; Sat 7pm; free • Râmen Yori Taisetsuna Mono (The God Of Ramen), Japanese w/ English subtitles; Sun 2pm; free • Canadian Mental Health Association: The Fisher King (14A); Sun 7pm; free • Staff Pics: THE PURPLE ROSE OF CAIRO (PG): Mon 7pm • Music Docs: 1991: The Year Punk Broke (STC): Tue 7pm • Global Visions Film Festival: The Culture High (STC) Wed 7pm; $20 (film, q&a, & VIP after party) at ticketf.ly/1m7j91w

RADICAL REELS–Arden Theatre •

Arden Theatre, St Albert • Presented by The Banff Centre, this year’s screening features some of the steepest, deepest, and fastest films from the Banff Mountain Film Festival • Oct 2, 7pm • $20 (adult)\$15 (student)

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave •

10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • 47th Annual Fall exhibit: Introducing Jim Park and featuring new colourfields of bright yellow canola fields and blue skies by Sylvain Voyer • Until Oct 4

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • 780.760.7284 • WORK/LIFE: by Jeff Klassen; until Oct 3 ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES •

10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • DEF PERSPECTIVES: Paintings and drawings by Jesse Thomas; until Oct 25 • AGA at Enterprise Square Galleries: REGIONS OF DISTINCTION: Works by the Edmonton members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; until Oct 26 • DISCOVERING DINOSAURS: until Jan 31, 2015 • Sea Monsters of the Cretaceous with Michael Caldwell; Oct 9, 12:15-12:45pm

89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • MFA graduation shows: • THE PRESENCE OF ABSENCE: Agnieszka Koziarz (MFA Sculpture) • EVERYTHING NOW FOREVER: Nora Myers (MFA Painting) • Until Oct 25 • Opening reception: Oct 9, 7-10pm

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave •

thefrontgallery.com • BEING AND BECOMING: Figurative paintings by RFM McInnis, and figurative scultpures by Blake Ward • Until Oct 6

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St,

780.461.3427 • C’EST OÙ CHEZ-NOUS: Art

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

GALLERY AT 501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS: Paintings by Julian Forrest • Until Oct 26 GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron

St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • Watercolours by Rhea Plouffe • Until Oct 27

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Gallery Walls: RUST WORKS: Photographs by Darrin Hagen; until Oct 31; reception: Oct 6, 6:308:30pm • Display Cases: Edmonton Potters' Guild present ceramic works • Through Oct GALLERY WALK–Edmonton • Gallery

Walk Galleries: Bugera Matheson, Daffodil Gallery, Scott Gallery • Thu, Oct 2 • First Thursday Event : Galleries open late for an informal gathering of culture lovers the 1st Thu, 5-7pm; each month, year round

GRANT MACEWAN • Centre for the

Arts and Communications, 10045-156 St • MacEwan.ca/FineArt • Visiting Artist Series: Free lecture by Jason de Haan • Oct 2, 11:30am-1pm

GRAY GALLERY • Robbins Health Learning

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

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729104 Ave • happyharborcomics.com • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: MAGNETIC FIELDS: Works by Brigitta Kocsis • Front Room: WHAT SECRET KNOWLEDGE LAY BENEATH YOUR SKIN: Works by Mike Binzer • Until Oct 17 HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • THE MR AND MRS SHOW: Works by Joshua and Tammy Slauenwhite • Oct 1-31 • Reception: Oct 3, 4-6pm JuBilEE AUDITORIUM–KAASA GALLERY • 11455-87 Ave • rivervalley.

ab.ca • MARKING THE VALLEY: Visual Arts Alberta has partnered with the River Valley Alliance to showcase the Capital Region river valley through the artwork of 28 artists.

The exhibition represents parts of the river valley from Devon to Fort Saskatchewan • Until Oct 7

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red

Deer Public Library • COMMON THREADS: Works by the In-Definite Arts Society • Until Oct 19 • Reception: Oct 3, 6-8pm; with guest, Mike Dawe reading excerpts from his new book, Red Deer: A Memorable City

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St •

780.423.5353 • Karine Giboulo • Oct 3-Nov 8

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery,

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

mArJoriE WooD GALLERY–Red Deer • Kerry Wood Nature Centre

• TRANSFORMATION: A COLOURFUL MOVEMENT: Paintings by Michael Huyzer • Until Oct 13 • Reception: Oct 3, 5-7pm

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital,

8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • VIEW OF THE WEST: Prairie art with pieces from a recent historic donation to the U of A Hospital’s permanent art collection. Works by H.G. Glyde, Illingworth Kerr, Marion Nicoll, Alex Janvier, and others • Until Oct 14

MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL • Main Fl, 16940-87 Ave • Edmonton Art

Club Annual Fall Show • Until Oct 31

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg,

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MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain

• 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Paintings by Donna Miller • Until Oct 29

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert

• 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • JOINING UP!: Our Men and Women in the First World War; until Nov 16 • BRIGADIER-GENERAL RAYMOND BRUTINEL: And the Motor Machine Gun Brigade; until Nov 16

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81

Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Main: THIS ONE GOES OUT TO THE ONE I LOVE: A dark but humorous exhibition by Krista Acheson; Oct 4-Nov 15 • Artisan Nook: WAR PIGS: Benjamin Rennich's photo-transfers and 3-D papier-mache work; until Oct 3 • THE 1ST ANNUAL PUPPET HARVEST: By Laura Rezko • Vertical Space: WHAT COLOUR IS LOVE?: Paintings by Jude Ifesieh; until Nov 15 • Receptions: Oct 16, 6-9pm

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE STOLLERY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 •

thenina.ca • Where We Work: Presented by CN Rail • Until Oct 4

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304

Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Sheila Luck; Oct 4-21

PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze

Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • picturethisgallery.com • Paintings by Jonn Einerssen and soapstone sculptures by Vance Theoret • Until Nov 8

RED DEER MUSEUM • reddeerartscouncil.

ca • TRUDY GOLLEY: LUCENT WORKS IN LIGHT AND SHADOW; until Oct 26 • ONCE + FUTURE: Canadian contemporary ceramics curated by Robin Lambert; until Oct 19 • Receptions: Oct 3, 7-9pm; Remarks: 7:15pm; Performance by the Wishing Girl, Alysse Bowd

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum. ca • Orientation Gallery: FINDING PLACE: EXPLORING HOME THROUGH FIELD JOURNAL ART: Dr Lyn Baldwin's work; until Nov 30 SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • Metal sculptures by Peter Hide • Until Oct 11

SNAP GALLERY • Society of North-

ern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • HAIR: Mark Clintberg works from imagery found in Barbershops throughout Canada and the US; until Oct 11 • COMMOTION: Series of photographs by Zachary Ayotte; Until Oct 11

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY •

35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Main Gallery: Photography Show; Oct 6-25 • OAC Art Show; until Oct 4 • Fireplace Room: Malissa Lea; through Oct

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • GPS ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: Combining technology, nature, and hidden treasure; until Jun 1, 2015

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112

St • visualartsalberta.com • 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

Spoken Word: Featuring writers and an open mic for performances for short stories, book excerpts, poems • 1st Wed ea month, 7:30pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St •

780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church,

Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun ea month With A Different Play By A Different Playwright

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle

• Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave •

780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, 7pm; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

WORD ON THE SQUARE • Churchill Square • Tue at noon, Ted Bishop with host Michael Hingston present local authors reading and discussing their work • Ted Bishop w/ host Michael Hingston; Oct 7, 12-1pm • Diana Davidson w/ host Michael Hingston; Oct 14, 12-1pm THEATRE CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-

101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • 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 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Celebrating icons such as Bob Dylan, Simon and Garfunkel, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Woody Guthrie, the Band, the Everly Brothers, Carole King, James Taylor and more! This is a trip around the globe celebrating the music and traditions of its peoples • Until Nov 2

HAPPY TOES • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Remount of Lemoine's comedy starring Julien Arnold, Leona Brausen, Jeff Haslam, Ron Pederson, and Davina Stewart. Presented by Teatro Theatre • Oct 2-18, Tue-Sat, 7:30pm; Sat, 2pm; No show Sun, Mon; Tue evening: Pay What You Can HITCHCOCK RADIO SHOW • Capitol

Theatre, Fort Edmonton • fortedmontonpark. ca • An evening of adaptations of three early films directed by Alfred Hitchcock: The Lodger, Sabotage, and the 39 Steps. These stories come to life in the style of a 1940s radio broadcast, with five actors playing dozens of characters, live sound effects and musical underscoring • Until Oct 4, 8pm; Oct 5, 2pm

KIM'S CONVENIENCE • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • By Ins Choi, directed

by Weyni Mangesha. Recommended for ages 12+. Funny new play follows the dreams and challenges of a loving but fractured KoreanCanadian family who operates a corner convenience store • Until Oct 11

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Improv, a high-stakes game of elimination that will see 11 improvisers compete for audience approval until there is only one left standing • 1st Sat each month, 7:30-9:30pm • Oct 4, Nov 1, 7:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

VIEWPOINT GALLERY–Red Deer •

PIRATES OF THE NORTH SASKATHCHEWAN III • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690,

Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • Artists with Disabilities (VASA Special Program show) • Through Oct Culture Services Centre, 3827-39 St, Red Deer • Works by Darren Petersen, Brian McArthur, and Dawn Candy; until Oct 31; Reception: Oct 3, 4:30-6:30pm

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Rod Charlesworth • Oct 4-16 • Opening: Oct 4, 1-4pm; artist in attendance YMCA (Don Wheaton) • 10211-102 Ave • YMCA Community Canvas wall: Rotating year round exhibits LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail's book release party, book signing for Polar Winds: A Century of Flying the North, and author reading; Oct 5, 2-4pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-1008 St • The

8882-170 St, Phase II WEM, Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • The great Admiral Northington has arranged a truce with all prairie pirates. An adventure complimented with rock hits of the '70s • Until Oct 26

PROUD • La Cité Francophone, 8627-91 St

• Satirical play by Michael Healey, directed

by Ian Leung, featuring Brian Dooley, Melissa Thingelstad, David Horak and Richard Lee Hsi • Oct 2-19 • $8.75-$25 at TIX on the Square

SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church,

Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun each month with a different play by a different playwright

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until Dec 12; Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square WORKSHOP SHOW • Citadel's Ziedler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre • Oct 2, 7:30-9:30pm • $8 at eventbrite.ca

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STYLE

FEATURE // FAST FASHION

Runway hits, mall lifts

Strutting the catwalk at WCFW. Inset: a Malorie Urbanovitch design // Meaghan Baxter

F

ashionistas drooling over that Chanel skirt or Givenchy blouse strutting Paris Fashion Week need not hold their breath: within 10 days, Zara will likely have a near-identical copy on their shelves, for one-tenth of the price.

The name of the game is fast fashion and it's been revolutionizing the way we consume our clothing for the past decade. Large retailers, such as Zara, Forever 21 and H&M, now employ advanced trend forecasters privy to the styles that will be walking down major fashion weeks' runway, before they walk down the runway. The result? On-trend garments available at a moment's notice and a fraction of the upscale designer price—but they don't come without their consequences.

Edmonton fashion blogger Janis Galloway of Dress Me Dearly says the lightning-quick designing, producing and shipping of fast-fashion garments reflects the advanced communication styles of the big brands and the increasing demands of customers.

"Fashion is now so democratized with access to these shows and trends. I don't have to be at Paris fashion week to see Chanel's collection," she says. "By the time I see that Chanel skirt that I want walking down the runway, Zara already has it in production and is probably delivering it to the store by the end of the week."

In most countries, copyright laws protect textiles, but not garment designs, so original designers are vulnerable to having their work ripped-off and resold.

Forever 21 is notorious for lifting near-identical runway styles. Despite being sued for copyright infringement more than 50 times by designers such as Diane von Furstenberg and Anna Sui, they have never been found guilty.

Galloway adds that the profit margins outweigh the legal fees for the copycat brands.

"If you produce a jacket that looks similar to the Fall 2014 Céline coat, but then you put dif-

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ferent pockets on it, it's already a different item.

So therefore they can't prove that you copied it, even though it looks exactly the same," Galloway explains.

Nobody's perfect, though. We're all products of our environment, Galloway says, and expecting the products when we want, at the price point we want mirrors our culture of disposable-income consumerism.

But she warns frivolous shopping habits come at a high price to the environment, considering the fuel expelled to quickly transport garments from the factory to the store. As well, fast fashion apparel is more likely to fall apart and be

Edmonton's "fashion problem" spurred Sandra Sing Fernandes to launch Western Canada Fashion Week in 2005. After returning from establishing her own fashion and design company in New York, she realized the city's fashion scene's growth was stunted compared to other arts.

While theatre had grassroots companies and the Fringe Festival, emerging designers were left with few opportunities to get their start.

Nearing its 20th season this spring, WCFW has jump-started the careers of established Canadian designers such as Sid Neigum and Nicole Campre. Fernandes notes, however, that big brands still loom over local success stories.

In most countries, copyright laws protect textiles, but not garment designs, so original designers are vulnerable to having their work ripped-off and resold. disposed of (each Canadian, on average, throws away seven kilograms of clothing and textiles per year), and since many textiles are made with synthetic, petroleum-based fibres, they can take decades to decompose.

"I'm not anti-fast fashion. I think we're all guilty of purchasing it. We all have it in our closets. Sometimes you just want to go and buy a $7 shirt that you can wear for a season and dispose of it," Galloway notes. "But it encourages a type of consumerism that isn't exactly healthy or sustainable."

Galloway says the solution lies in the local. She suggests shopping from designers within the city not only cuts down on harmful pollution, but often ensures more high-quality garments less likely to fall apart. Edmonton designers still need much more support to start the shift to local styles.

"We've been talking a lot about how big brands have certainly taken over the world. It's much harder for young local designers to get their stuff on the racks. Because the buying power often goes to the bigger brands that are well-known and there's sort of a monopoly going on," she says.

Corporate competition aside, Fernandes acknowledges WCFW is still a vital event to expose budding designers to producing their own shows. People are now travelling from across the country to showcase their work at Edmonton's fashion week and she's noticing smaller brands gaining traction in the city.

"We're in a really amazing growth period. There's a lot of talent," she says.

Galloway is still skeptical that the talk about fashion is adding up to results, and benefits,

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for designers.

"We're good at talking about shopping local and supporting local, but I don't know if the proof is in the pudding yet. But I think we'll get there," Galloway says. "We're all addicted to the ability to go into a store and buy what we want immediately. I think it takes a huge kind of philosophical shift to wean ourselves off of fast fashion."

She believes ditching fast fashion doesn't have to be difficult. Though a common complaint about shopping local is the price tag, she says that the investment usually pays off in the end.

Instead of purchasing six coats, for example, buying one quality, classic piece may be even cheaper than buying less-expensive products which will likely fall apart.

Galloway highly recommends checking out Edmonton designer Malorie Urbanovitch's work. With garments made from high-quality wools and silks, she's convinced they're a worthy investment.

"If you just invest in really classic pieces that you can wear for years to come, then the price, in some cases, can be less than buying fast fashion," Galloway says.

Fernandes sings Urbanovitch's praises as a WCFW success story. After getting her start at the event, her styles are lauded nationally and available locally at Gravity Pope.

Urbanovitch is, to Fernandes, hopefully one of the first of many to make a name for themselves after starting in Edmonton. It can't be done, though, without the local consumer making the first move.

"It's part of our culture and it should be embraced as such instead of being left as something frivolous," says Fernandes. "We look at our food and wonder where it comes from and what's in it, and I think it's time we do the same thing with fashion."

KATE BLACK

KATE@VUEWEEKLY.COM

FEATURE // STREET STYLE

Name: Craig Boa Profession: Hairdresser at The Weekly Barbershop Describe your style: Basic with the main emphasis being a tailored fit. Love layering dark pieces. Murdered.

What’s your favourite store in Edmonton? The Helm

Name: Patricia Jastrzebski Profession: Hair Stylist at The Weekly Barbershop Describe your style: I like to be comfy.

What’s your favourite store in Edmonton?: Oak + Fort, Noul

Name: Anton Atienza Profession: Freelance publicist, freelance stylist Describe your style: My style in general is very laid back and contemporary. I tend to follow trends, but at my own pace. I’m most comfortable in a T-shirt, leather jacket and skinny jeans.

What’s your favourite store in Edmonton?

My favourite stores in Edmonton would have to be Holt Renfrew, Gravity Pope (Tailored Goods and Shoes) and Simons.

Name: Pearl Naomi Profession: Human Resources by day / Blogger at houseofwilla.com by night Describe your style: My style is all about mixing contrasting elements. I often combine feminine and edgy. I love to mix something formal, like a pencil skirt, with something casual like a graphic tee with a rapper on it. I think of my style as sort of “urban chic.” I don’t discriminate by brand, so I’ll wear an investment piece, like a Burberry trench, with an inexpensive top from Forever 21 or H&M. What’s your favourite store in Edmonton? Noul

Photographed and compiled by Sandy Joe Karpetz

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REVUE // NOIR

FILM

FILM EDITOR : PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

A new level of noir Gone Girl explores the disappearance of a spouse with Hitchcockian suspense Opens Oct 3 Gone Girl Directed by David Fincher

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pretty blonde head is stroked by a masculine hand that looks equally capable of tenderness or terror. The owner of the hand wonders what's inside that head. "What are you thinking? What have we done to each other?" The story of a wife who goes missing and the abyss of suspicion her husband's plunged into in the wake of her disappearance, Gone Girl undergoes several sea change-shifts, offering multiple perspectives then promptly prompting us to question the validity of those perspectives. Adapted by Gillian Flynn from her own novel and directed with characteristically cool precision

by David Fincher, the film is murder mystery, domestic horror, the blackest of comedies, social satire—perhaps the only way of containing all these is to call it noir. Above all, it's a forensic analysis of love turned venomous in decay. In keeping with many Fincher films, it reaches heights of intrigue and resonance by focusing on detail and causality: it's a marriage procedural.

Nick and Amy Dunne (a brilliantly cast Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike) moved from New York to Nick's hometown of Carthage, Missouri after both lost their jobs and Nick's mother fell ill.

Was financial strain the source of their

marital mire? Was it the confines of Carthage? Was it some inherent flaw in love's DNA, something that went undetected during those early days in which each longs to fulfil the other's bliss-blinded vision of their beloved?

We know from Nick's private conversations with his sister Margo (Carrie Coon) that things likely went south long before they moved to the Midwest, but after Amy disappears Nick is compelled to behave as though their marriage was idyllic. Once signs of struggle are found in his house the investigating detectives (the superb Kim Dickens and Patrick Fugit) clearly view

Nick with suspicion. Once Amy's disappearance makes the news, it becomes fodder for a media machine eager to package tragedy into sensational narrative—and Nick's initial resistance to ostentatious displays of grief immediately render him the potential bad guy.

dwell in the towering town's tunnels have been turned, by the tall tales of Archibald Snatcher (voiced by Ben Kingsley), into nocturnal ogres to be afeared. The Pied The Boxtrolls Piper-like parvenu Directed by Graham Annable, declares he'll rid the Anthony Stacchi town of the subterraNow playing nean pests and then  be allowed into Porthandcraft-like, ley-Rind's boys' (and it resembles a cheese) club. But an blend of claymation, Gilliamesque actual boy taken in by the Boxtrolls, grotesquerie and pop-up book ef- Eggs (Isaac Hempstead-Wright), is defects—and a strong cup of English termined to save them and may get eccentricity. help from two of Snatcher's henchIn Cheesebridge, white-hatted Lord men, who worry they're not the stoPortley-Rind's house at its summit, rybook good guys (confusingly "extercardboard box-wearing trolls who minating justice") they'd like to be.

Cheesebridge is a daffy delight of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Anglo-nitwittiness, voiced in clottedcreamy British tones. The adults are foolish, self-obsessed fops; men's moustachioed, jagged-toothed, crookedgrinned, white faces are variously rouged, powdered or waxen—under wigs or silly hats. (There are echoes of Nick Park's Wallace and Gromit series, from the wonky cheese-obsession and a stomping contraption-creature to Richard Ayoade's Wallace-like voice as "stooge" Mr Pickles; Snatcher's fate is decidedly Monty Pythonesque.) From chanting mobs to negligent town elders, adults are the monsters, while it's little people, labelled and contained by the ignoramuses looking down on them, who must free the town from their convenient, collective myth-take.

But Gone Girl is most closely aligned with Nick's point of view. We're inclined to believe him, even when we know he's no angel. Yet Amy's version of their marriage intercepts the Nick narrative: we're offered passages from her diary that detail a protracted honeymoon period tainted only by refer-

ences to a devious chin (a nice bit of business that playfully pokes fun at Affleck's physiognomy). As the duelling plots thicken we wonder when Amy's tale of marital bliss will overlap with Nick's history of misery and suffocation. Gone Girl proliferates in subplots and slippery twists, accumulating crimes and misdemeanours, building toward a satisfying thriller climax and a denouement distinguished by its poisonousness as a date night movie, an even more unnerving mirror held up to married life than Before Midnight.

I mentioned noir. While Fincher's supple classicism and delight in making the darkest mainstream movies imaginable recalls Hitchcock, throughout Gone Girl I kept thinking how much this material would have appealed to Billy Wilder, who was never better than when he met a script that could vindicate his cynicism with earned wit and a sense of lived experience. Flynn's script depends on certain flights of artifice (which I will refrain from spoiling) yet resonates in countless ways.

The concern with optics informing the story will no doubt come into play in the film's reception: a woman can be accused of misogyny just as easily as a man, but the fact that Gone Girl's primary authorship is divided between a man and a woman probably helps to navigate a minefield of gender representation—we'll be discussing how that plays out for some time. For now we can simply surrender to this film's seductive sway, its cool surfaces and wicked humour, its myriad traps and wrong turns which, like the Dunnes' cat, we can only sit and silently witness. But wait, whose side does that sphinx-like tabby take in the end?

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n adaptation of Alan Snow's thick, illustrated novel Here Be Monsters!, Laika studios' The Boxtrolls is, surprisingly, a little thin storywise (though its most interesting idea is the line between sensational story and self-serving lie). But it more than makes up with its scintillating stop-motion style—textured and

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Portley-Rind's daughter Winnie (Elle Fanning) is occasionally overpronounced in her priggish uppityness; the movie has stretches of inaction (especially for the under-10 crowd), not placing us long or leisurely enough among the grubeating, salvage-savvy Boxtrolls, whose eyes glow like candlelight in the dark. But the cobblestones and light-dappled water beneath a sewer grate, the grumbling underling wielding a cricket bat and tender tinker-trolls in their cardboard clothing, even the giant cheese-wheel and drag-queen Madame Frou Frou ... it's all just deftly weird and wonderful enough to be one of the year's most animated pleasures.

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REVUE // ACTION

The Equalizer

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he first fifth or so of The Equalizer is an exhaustive introduction to a mysterious protagonist. Bob (Denzel Washington) is a middle-aged widower who works at a Boston big box building supply store. Though he volunteers to coach a co-worker through a weight-loss regimen, Bob has no close friends. No one knows much about him or his past, though Bob claims to have once been one of Gladys Knight's Pips. Bob seems like a square, lives like a monk, and, while his public persona seems laid back, he takes an almost autistic approach to discipline, timing everything he does with a stopwatch, scrubbing his sneakers daily, and carefully wrapping his own teabag in a pristine napkin before going to the local diner where he spends his sleepless nights reading Hemingway, Cervantes and Ellison or exchanging friendly banter with a young sex worker (Chloë Grace Moretz) who, one quickly surmises, is in a lot of trouble. It's trouble that animates the hidden Bob, the Bob we came to see, the Bob who takes out a quintet of very scary Russian heavies in half a minute with a corkscrew and a paperweight and whatever else is at hand.

Written by Richard Wenk (The Mechanic, The Expendables 2), The

Equalizer, inspired by the eponymous 1980s television series about a former CIA operative, reunites Washington with his Training Day director Antoine Fuqua. Fuqua knows we came to see Bob kick ass but wants us to wait for it, approaching The Equalizer as equal parts character study and exploitive vigilante actioner. My problem with this approach is that there's only so much character to study and the action sequences are even more belaboured than the quiet ones. Fuqua chooses, for example, to gives us an awkward prelude to Bob's first act of violence that's a bit like Joseph Gordon Levitt's Googlemap street scan in Premium Rush, shooting the camera into Washington's eyeball before showing his analysis of his adversaries, the room and its contents. Fuqua shoots actions from four angles when one would suffice.

He lingers over things when swiftness seems called for.

It needn't be thus. One elegantly edited sequence elides an act of violence altogether, moving from a scene in which Bob witnesses a robbery and memorizes the perpetrator's licence plate, to a scene in which he calmly borrows a sledgehammer from the store's supply, to one in which a ca-

Now playing Directed by Antoine Fuqua  shier discovers that one of the stolen items has inexplicably reappeared to one in which Bob calmly cleans and replaces the sledgehammer to its original place. This sequence is a fine example of narrative economy very much in keeping with the central character's sensibility. It also drew great laughs from the audience with whom I watched the film. We understood exactly what transpired and took perverse satisfaction in the compact way it was implied. This sequence is, unfortunately, an exception in The Equalizer, a 132-minute film that ends four times but could have been a sleek, say, 93 minutes and ended at its peak of inevitable vengeance.

What irony. Washington is well cast as Bob, and Bob, though his murderous, pre-emptive ethics are exceedingly dubious, appeals to us because he's obsessed with making everything clean, mean, efficient, no bullshit. I would much rather have seen his cut of the movie.

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Opens Friday Directed by Philippe Falardeau 

The Good Lie

Now we're stateside!

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he first lie, its goodness debatable, happens before the film even starts: the chipper-looking artwork (not to mention the program note for the Toronto International Film Festival, where the film premiered) gives the distinct impression that The Good Lie focuses on Reese Witherspoon,

who plays an adorably spunky Kansas City employment counselor hoisted with a trio of Sudanese refugees in need of tools to start a new life in the US. Thank goodness the film, directed by Philippe Falardeau (Monsieur Lazhar) and written by Margaret Nagle (Boardwalk Empire), isn't merely

a retread of The Blind Side's racial dynamic, opting instead to follow its blindsided orphans from a childhood spent fleeing bloody civil war to an early adulthood spent confined in a Kenyan refugee camp to belated acceptance into the American Refugee Program. Their repeated uprooting, sense of terror, and search for some semblance of home and family provides the film with its trajectory.

Witherspoon doesn't show up until about a third of the way in, and she is, unsurprisingly, designed to be our way in. The anthropological exposition and cultural hypersensitivity that renders the African

section of The Good Lie respectful but stiff mostly falls away once we're stateside. But just because Witherspoon's character is easier to identify with doesn't mean that she takes over the movie. The Good Lie sticks with its so-called "Lost Boys of Sudan" as they navigate a culture that couldn't be more foreign and for the most part is not all that inviting. There's a healthy amount of comedy in the fish-outof-water business (these guys have never laid eyes on a phone before) but their experiences trying to hold down jobs and hold onto their camaraderie and spiritual integrity are chronicled in a laudably unsen-

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timental, sometimes downright brutal, way.

To be sure, there are more sophisticated migrant narratives out there (in fact we just had one open a few months ago—it's called, aptly enough, The Immigrant), but you can't really argue with anything that happens in the plot of The Good Lie. It's just that in its efforts to be reverent, accessible, inoffensive and as clear as possible (ie: flashbacks to remind us of trauma that we could hardly forget) the film feels a little flat and a little generic and its lead characters are handled with kid gloves.

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Launched back in 1996 by Robert Redford as Sundance Channel, what's now SundanceTV lit out from movies into original programming in the early '00s. But no show reflects better on Redford's Sundance Film Festival, every January in Utah, or on the channel than its first original series, Ray McKinnon's Rectify, now in its second season (also available on Netflix Canada).

In its impressionistic, deliberately paced, character-driven first season, Rectify was better Americanindie material than most of the feature films that Sundance screens in Park City each winter.

The show's first season—six episodes—simply follows Daniel Holden (Toronto-born Australian Aden Young) daily through his first week home from death row, after

new DNA evidence has vacated his conviction for the rape and murder of his girlfriend in his late teens.

Vacancy, occupation and preoccupation may be the series' watchwords.

Home is Daniel's childhood house, in Paulie, Georgia, now occupied by his mother Janet (J Smith-Cameron), stepfather, younger stepbrother and, temporarily, sister Amantha (Abigail Spencer). Daniel often feels eerily remote, even vacant, throughout his return—like a ghostly relic in his own family and deeply alien in the now 21st-century hometown that left him for dead two decades ago ... and many in Paulie believe that Daniel should still be in prison, awaiting lethal injection (in 2001, the state ceased using the electric CONTINUED ON PAGE 24 >>

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The Zero Theorem era in place of Christ's head; desktopscreen in place of an altar—so long as he works on the "zero theorem," which will prove that 0=100%, ie, all is nothing ... the universe has no purpose.

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oosed from the comic posse that was Monty Python, riding off to pursue his own wild visions, Terry Gilliam fired and forged a career that's easy to chart. There's the first half ('80s and '90s), with its conquering curiosities and towering masterpiece, Brazil (1985). Then there's the second half, a rambling trail that's more the mark of a knight valiantly tilting at windmills (Gilliam's tried, three times since 1998, to make an adaptation of Don Quixote).

What sustains The Zero Theorem, Gilliam's latest dystopia-vision, a projection of our IT world as scripted by

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chair after it was deemed "cruel and unusual punishment").

Even as it stifles the Southern clichés—vengeance, family feuds and even sister-in-law Tawney's (Abigail Clemens) religiosity neither drive the plot nor are treated conventionally—McKinnon's first season (270 minutes, or one epic-length feature film) uses flashbacks and dream sequences with claustrophobic brilliance. Daniel recalls his friendship with Kerwin (Johnny Ray Gill), in the neighbouring cell for murder (the details of which are only revealed early in the second season).

Their poignant bond's tied by trying to keep each other sane, even faintly hopeful, in their separate, confined spaces, year after year after year. (The show's serious con-

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Gilliam is reworking past preoccupations: low-level worker tilting against management; an escape into fantasy—Qohen virtually connects with Bainsley (Mélanie Thierry) in a Hawaiian landscape torn from a pulp paperback cover. That Oct 3 – 4, 6, 8 – 9 romance is pretty Directed by Terry Gilliam stale; Bainsley remains a clichéd Metro Cinema at the Garneau sexpot. But the  mix of elements in this pop-eyed, Pat Rushin, is its lingering on solitude. Euro-corporate world, from religion Qohen Leth (Christopher Waltz) is a clashing with virtual techno-faith in shut-in "entity cruncher" who wants Qohen's retreat to young cynic Bob to stay more shut in—outside is a (Lucas Hedges) hanging out with the lurid funfair of info-tickers crawling older oddball, keeps the film engagalong walls, various Not-Allowed ing. Waltz is very good as the twitchy, signs hanging in a park in the form hermetic programmer, always referof a large X, and Mancom cubicles ring to himself in the first-person where workers pedal while using a plural. And in a film that tidily sums console to play a game as their su- up its iconoclastic director's grandipervisors stroll around in blue vinyl ose clashes, all meets nothing in the raincoats. Qohen, eagerly awaiting a haunting central image, a sucking phone call that he's sure will reveal swirl of nebulae and galaxies into a his purpose, gets permission from dark vortex. management (Matt Damon) to stay in BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM his home, a former monastery—cam-

cern with religious ideals—grace, faith, mercy—is part of premiumcable's recent interest in American fundamentalist religions, from Big Love to The Leftovers.) Daniel's best friend is a man he can almost never see; his family are people he thought he'd never be among again; his town is mostly folks who never wanted to see him again. And in the fifth episode, "Drip Drip," Daniel's surreal return becomes a Pantheistic, even fiendish, mixture of dream and exile when he leaves town for a while—his odyssey culminating in a clash, a long time brewing, with step-brother (and Tawney's husband) Ted Jr (Clayne Crawford).

Ted Jr may be the series' only weak spot—a bit too much of a Southern ol' boy, a little too crass and blinkered—but the second season tries to cast his red neck

in some new light and different hues. His misplaced machismo runs against the show's deep portraits of women: bowed but never broken Janet; fierce Amantha, always looking to fight for her brother; never quite serene, always yearning Tawney. And Ted Jr contrasts sharply with Daniel, whose disappearance from society and self-educated book learning in jail over two decades make him a voided but then self-filled-in man—or a dead man walking, as Ted and others want to see him—a long-ago person who became a non-man with that conviction for his horrific crime against a young woman, and now is trying to be a man among them again, though he no longer knows his place or his home ... though he has long ago lost his innocence, and has seen darknesses in men that Ted and others can't even fathom. V

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Just a little bit of Pixies dust The Pixies know how to come together and live in the moment

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t probably comes as no surprise With Santiago and Lovering now to anyone when guitarist Joey San- in LA, it was incumbent on Black tiago drawls that the Pixies aren't to make the trip out from his East exactly a "hippie Coast home for commune type of the recording, Mon, Oct 6 (6:30 pm) band." the first to not The members The Pixies feature original never seemed to With Royal Blood bassist Deal. Sibe particularly Shaw Conference Centre, $70 mon Archer took close, even back on bass duties when they were for recording purthe toast of the underground in the poses, while long-time producer Gil late '80s and early '90s. Standing Norton worked the board. The result apart from other bands as well as sounds no less like the Pixies than themselves, they developed a sound their other more revered albums, that informed large numbers of up- but unfortunately stands as a comcoming groups that popped up after promised reunion album without the them, though they themselves fell presence of Deal. apart just as the time seemed ripe Otherwise, Santiago seems happy for them to break out. with the result. Whatever issues he Everyone knows that story, just and his bandmates have had in the as they know that Santiago, vocal- past, he feels that they're currently ist Black Francis (now Frank Black), on a good path. bassist Kim Deal and drummer Da"We all get along because we're colvid Lowering decided to give it an- leagues," he stresses. "It's a good kind other go in 2003, reuniting for some of relationship because we know how high profile dates around the world. to separate things. There are disagreeThey re-emerged as an oldies act, ments, of course, but that's normal cranking out the songs that most of when dealing with three different their audience loved but had never characters. We know the biz; we know heard live; the band compounded show biz, and we know how to do the this reputation by touring their 1989 show. We're comfortable enough to album Doolittle in its entirety on do business with each other." the 20th anniversary of its release Santiago is also more than happy in 2009. with current bassist Paz LenchanBeyond a song or two it seemed tin (Zwan, Perfect Circle), who took that the Pixies was content to go over duties in 2013. on this way, until last September, "Hey, we've played a bunch of conwhen the band started releasing EPs, tinents together so we're obviously three in total, which were eventu- getting along pretty well." ally compiled into one album, Indie He's much cagier about Deal, who Cindy. What was it that got the band left in 2013 before recording took back in the studio? Was it restless- place. At the time there was a band ness? Possibly a creative dam had consensus that Deal was welcome burst? Maybe an aversion to playing back if she chose to rejoin, and while "Monkey Gone to Heaven" for the Santiago doesn't rescind this, he also millionth time? seems somewhat, well, indifferent.

"Ah, it just takes time," says San"If it happens then it happens. I can't tiago from his home in Los Angeles. think about it, it's her decision; what "The moon and the stars had to come matters is the present moment. I together for this to happen, you don't worry about the future or hem know? And, yeah," he admits, "maybe and haw about the past. I mean, I we thought that we'd gone around don't want to sound dismissive, but the world playing the same batch of people should be concerned about songs from the old catalogue enough where they are in the moment rather times. It was time to entertain our- than where they'll be in the future. selves after entertaining everyone We should live minute to minute; else. That's what the studio is, you that's a healthier way to go." know: getting to entertain yourself TOM MURRAY TOM@VUEWEEKLY.COM instead of other people."

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Fish & Bird T

here's an ambulance siren completely overwhelming Taylor Ashton's voice as he speaks over his cell phone outside a New York café.

The wail goes on for an awfully long time, splitting the skulls of both Ashton and his Edmonton interviewer, no doubt making the singersongwriter wish that he hadn't left Mayne Island, the tiny West Coast piece of land where his band Fish & Bird recorded their latest album, Something in the Ether.

"It's a beautiful place, and we're lucky that Adam (Iredale-Gray, who co-founded the band as a duo with Ashton back in 2006) and his family have property on there. It's the kind of place where you really have to focus, because there aren't any city distractions," he laughs. "None like these, at least."

Not that Ashton is discounting the effect that a hopping city can have on a songwriter; Fish & Bird, after all, aren't your average folk outfit peddling homespun rural yawn and bucolic nostalgia. They've picked up plaudits for going well beyond the usual acoustic meander, tagging themselves as equally Radiohead as they are roots music.

"When I work out the beginnings of songs I get super inspired by walking

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around a city. There's so much going on, and so many people's energies; you have eight-million people inflicting what kind of day they have on you.

You have to take it somewhere after that, though."

Where Ashton takes it is back to the band, a new development given Fish & Bird's past modus operandi of showing up with songs already arranged and ready to go. Now a five-piece with the addition of drummer Ben Kelly, guitarist Ryan Boeur and bassist Zoe Guigueno, Fish & Bird is a full on collective where everybody's voice is heard.

"For [Something in the Ether] we went in with very loose sketches of songs, and we all sat together in the living room or outside to hammer out arrangements," Ashton says. "Being together on the island really made an impact because we were stuck together.

I was talking to some friends here in New York, and they were saying that they had structured a deal where they went in from 9 am to 6 pm, recorded, and then went back to their separate apartments for supper, or went out to play a gig. That's kind of intriguing to me I have to admit, and maybe something I'd like to try in the future."

The band is spread across the con-

Wed, Oct 8, 7:30 pm Fish & Bird The Artery, $12 – $15, available at the door or from Yeglive tinent at the moment, with Kelly and Boeur back in Vancouver, Iredale-Gray attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, Ashton hopping between cities and Guigueno committed to other projects. This seems to be in keeping with the ethos of the band, who appear to have fallen together in a completely random manner.

"It does continue to develop," agrees Ashton, who is definitely favouring New York at the moment. "We turned from a duo into a five-piece in such a natural way, and we picked up Ben and Ryan just because they happened to be in the audience and we knew them.

With Zoe we're not really sure where it'll be in six months' time, because she has other things. All of this just happened, and was so gradual. In a way it's like actual family in the sense that you can't choose your family, but you can choose your friends. Well, in a sense we didn't actually choose our band, it just kind of happened."

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t's Friday afternoon, and Robert Alfons is walking around Salt Lake City with a certain amount of bemusement.

The front man for Toronto morose synth-pop outfit Trust just played in town the night before, and now he's rather enjoying the eerie cleanliness of the centre of all things Mormon.

"All the lawns are so well maintained," he says in a hushed voice, as though afraid of being mistaken for an interloper. "It's so prim and proper, and I'm not sure what to make of it.

That being said, we did have the best show of our tour here last night."

It's often been pointed out that staid cities often have intense underground scenes, but in this case we can probably point the finger at his band's growing reputation as a live act. Started in 2010 as a project with Maya Postepski and Alfons, Trust became Alfons' exclusively when his bandmate left to focus exclusively on Austra. They managed one album as the original lineup, 2012's TRST, with Alfons taking over the reins to write the followup, this year's Joyland.

Joyland has upped the ante, so to speak, making an impression on the Billboard dance charts and picking up favourable reviews from the likes of Pitchfork, The Guardian and Consequence of Sound, all focusing on the very real emotional darkness under those digital sounds. Alfons seems a little tongue-tied when the subject of his success comes up; while he acknowledges that he's done quite well for himself, he also doesn't quite know what to make of it.

"It's kind of weird, I guess," he stammers. "I see things growing for sure, but I don't quite know what to say.

There seems to be a humble way about me that people see and like, so

I guess that has something to do with it. I'm definitely confused by people even showing up for shows."

If he's bashful about speaking to the subject of his growing popularity, he does open up when discussing the remix of Joyland track "Capitol" by fellow travellers and friends Black Marble.

"Oh, I love them," he exclaims about the New York based duo. "They did such a great job on the song. On one of my first New York shows they supported me, and I'm such a fan of what they do."

Alfons is currently touring with "a couple of girls from Montréal," who

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While he comes across as surprised at the attention he's gaining and the opportunities he's had over the last few years, he's also clearly canny about making sure that he doesn't self destruct from overplaying.

"You have to get off the road eventually," he muses. "Things have to be kept fresh and exciting. It becomes harder and harder to pull out a good performance if you don't."

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Secret Chiefs 3 / Fri, Oct 3 Always on the road (they’ve played 300 shows in the last seven years) Secret Chiefs 3 are finally pulling into town. The instrumental rock group is fluent in just about every genre from death metal to surf rock and will lead you into a musical mystery. (Starlite Room, $15)

Bombay Bicycle Club with Milo Greene / Thu, Oct 9 They’ve been in warmer climates up until this show but the indie boys from London know how to heat up a room on their own. Go and brag that you saw them when they were still newbies.

(Starlite Room, $28.50)

The Scrags / Sat, Oct 4 All the way from Stockholm, it’s the Scrags! Here’s a bit from the press release that will tell you all you need to know about the band and its show: “They were called notorious rock ‘n’ roll bastards, raised on some of the most nutritious meat bones in the history of rock such as The Stooges, Modern Lovers, Black Flag. Lately, new components have appeared: broken synthesizers and spaced out vocal effects that embeds the noise in darker landscapes.” There you go. (The Artery)

Amon Amarth with Sabaton and Skeletonwitch / Fri, Oct 3 These Swedish metalheads are jacked to be touring in Canada.

Let’s show them why Canucks know how to rock harder than anywhere else. (Union Hall, $35)

WiL / Thu, Oct 9 The rootsy songwriter has a new album out— El Paseo—and a new animated video: youtu. be/qdzLKw28b_0. (The Artery)

Booker T / Sat, Oct 4 Hammond B3 organ master Booker T is coming. If you know him, then you know you want to see him. If you don’t know him, then you should probably get familiar before you miss him. (Festival Place, $40 – $48)

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melia Merhar first started her love affair with the ukulele back in 2006.

The Yukon based singer-songwriter was hitchhiking around Vermont when she first discovered the charms of the four stringed instrument, noting that it was both easily transportable and fairly simple to pick up. Put together with a propensity for writing daffy songs filled with risqué lyrics and double entendres, plus a love for performers like Memphis Minnie, Bessie Smith and Big Mama Thornton, and Merhar's metamorphosis into Big Mama Lele makes complete sense.

"It's a bit of a niche thing that I'm doing," Merhar explains from her Yukon home. "I write sexually charged folk music, which sets me apart a little bit."

Considering most people using the ukulele on the folk circuit tend to wrap those pretty chords around quirky-but-harmless lyrics, it's an undeniable fact that Merhar is somewhat apart from her peers. After all, would your average uke player pen

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a song called "High Bush," which relates to a woman primping and preparing for an upcoming date with her paramour? Or "Whiskey Dick Blues," a lament that calls attention to a common late-night problem while also pointing out possible solutions?

"It's not just about the whiskey dick," Merhar says. "It's about the reaction.

'You get me so excited then we watch your dick fall.' The worst thing about whiskey dick is that when your dick doesn't work you act like the night is over when it's not. You have a tongue and fingers, after all."

You have to admit that she has a point, even if that point might be one that you've never considered, at least in song. Merhar has made it her stated business to write about the moments in life that don't normally have a song attached to them, and so far she's done a fine job of it, adding kinkiness to correspondence ("Letters are Better"), frowning at hipsters who can't perform in La Belle Province ("Montreal Boys") or happily celebrating her zaftig figure

("Do I Look Fat in This?")

Merhar is on the Singles tour, which does double duty as both the name of her current collection of songs as well as an indication that she actually is single, and looking. Sex positive as she is, she's not too thrilled when some men take this as an open invitation that hasn't been issued.

"I've got a song for exactly that problem," she confides. "It's called 'Dirty Old Man You Ain't Gettin' None,' and I tend to end my show with it. It was written about my hitchhiking days, but it's good for the show as well. In some of the areas where I'm known usually you'll see all the women singing along to the chorus to it. It's kind of a nice way to break the tension when someone is bothering me."

It's likely also a good way to indicate to drunk bar patrons that they'll be heading home solo at the end of the night.

"Or at least not in the arms of Big Mama Lele," Merhar giggles.

TOM MURRAY

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n September 30, 2014, Kirby passed away from complications from cancer and liver failure.

It's a heartbreaking loss for the Edmonton music scene. Kirby never separated the scene from the people who gave life to it, keeping it turning and evolving over time, whether they were longtime stalwarts or just kids breaking out and finding their own way into the world of music.

Kirby did a million things to support the scene because she did a million things to support the people.

I started writing for Vue Weekly in 2005 and I met Kirby early on in my run at the paper when she'd set

up interviews I'd been assigned to.

I took over editing the music section a year later and from then on shared many calls and emails with her. In all the time that's passed, it was always a joy when Kirby would call me up as a publicist and we'd end up just talking music (once we had the business out of the way, because she never forgot about the artists she was taking care of). She was one of my favourites because she cared so much.

Kirby's love for sound was infectious, as were her enthusiasm and dedication to helping everyone along the way, from musicians to promoters

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to journalists. She was always honest and direct. She loved music and was at the heart of this city's music scene.

She affected everyone, whether they knew her personally or not. She knew how to make things happen and she made Edmonton a better place. Kirby was an incredible person, always willing to offer advice and guidance in small or large doses, and I learned plenty from her over the years. Just like so many other people in this city, I'm going to miss Kirby, and I'll never forget her. It's a sadder world today without her, but a much richer world for having had her as long as we did.

—EDEN MUNRO

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Built On Glass, the debut album from Australia's Nick Murphy, otherwise known by his stage name, Chet Faker, is a slow burner infused with soul-inspired melodies. The album is split into two distinct halves— the first is focussed on beat-driven, radio-friendly pop songs while the

more experimental second half is in expansive R&B-electronic territory, kind of like James Blake-light.

For the most part, Built On Glass is a satisfying collection of downtempo, romanticized tunes, albeit lacking a clear direction but proving Faker is a talented vocalist. As a producer, though, Faker's ideas seem too scattered and the deep emotional connection he delivers at certain points with his calming voice is lost during the slinky instrumental sections which feel too long and too lounge-y.

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Opening with ominous atmospherics and vocal repetition, Cultural Envelope starts strong, making you feel that there are calculated choices behind the simple, stripped down arrangements. Yet, as it carries on, this simplistic approach,

although calculated, seems based less on impact than it is limitation.

The somber tones walk that fine line between gentle prodding and honest grace, but the more you play with it, the more it seems to fall apart. As a result, by the time you get halfway through, all hope that genius is imminent is washed away with an aftertaste of disappointment and frustration. These simple and understated acoustic guitars dipped in ambiance and echoes briefly blip brightly with horns on the title track, but that is not enough to wash away the sense that, on the whole, it's all too dry to excite the listener.

LEE BOYES

Despite it's tongue-and-cheek title, this record does not express much in terms of laughs. What it does display is a solid and impressive array of aged pop-rock sensibilities, presented with more grounded control than you may expect from one of pop's biggest "crazies."

Granted, the array of writing collaborators makes it clear that this ain't all O'Conner, but the songs also make it clear that, regardless of collaborators, the woman is doing what she's always strived to do: make great music. "Dense Water Deeper Down" has a swaying joy that fits well into what you'd expect of O'Conner, yet "Voice of my Doctor" has a taste of New Country, but with a much more sinister feel than any glitter gowned cowgirl could muster. "James Brown" is, as you'd expect, funky, but at the same time nothing at all like the JB's. Each song has it's own contemporary genre leanings, and with 12 tracks all barely hitting the threeminute mark it plays very much like a sampler of what O'Conner is capable of, and all of it is well crafted and impressively catchy.

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Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross, Gone Girl OST (20th Century Fox) @VueWeekly: A creepy, haunting & wonderful score to what seemingly has to be a great movie as well. If nothing, this thing slays.

Tricky, Adrian Thaws (K7) @VueWeekly: Missing the days when Massive Attack & Portishead dominated a certain sector? Tricky is still here. Pretty wild wobblertype headphone thing.

Buck 65, Neverlove (Warner) @VueWeekly: As much a blues album as it is hip hop, Buck's divorce ode flows along less jittery & anxious than you'd hope.

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Stage; 1st Thu each month, 7:30pm-10:30pm FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking

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Rules (Album Release), Cahoots; 8pm Afternoon: Sat afternoon

Wam Bam Chili Jam hosted

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J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam

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Symphonie Fantastique: Jean-Philippe Tremblay (conductor), Conrad Tao (piano); 7:30pm; $24-$79

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Friday DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Strictly Goods:

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

CABARET Krystle Dos Santos: A Motown Soul Revival; 8pm; $25 CORAL DE CUBA Sirens Re-Launch Party: Featuring Watermelon Slim, Big Dave McLean, the Barry Campbell Band, Blues Flyer, King Deng, Fab and Friends; 7-11:30pm; $25 (adv)/$30 (door); sirensthecharity.com FESTIVAL PLACE Booker T (blues); 7:30pm; $40-$48 at Festival Place box office

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage,

FESTIVAL PLACE Vishten

(Celtic Acadian trio); 7:30pm; $28-$32 at Festival Place box office L.B.’S PUB DLO Little Name

Big Party J+H PUB Every Friday:

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

Boogie OMAILLES IRISH PUB Ron

Pederson; no cover ON THE ROCKS Love Junk

with DJs OVERTIME Sherwood Park

Dueling Pianos (night of song requests)

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every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

Fridays

SAT OCT 4 APEX CASINO–Vee Lounge All

the Rage; 9pm

Cresswell, Brian Wahlstrom, Worst Days Down

ARDEN David Myles (roots), 100 Mile House; 7:30pm; $28

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

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PAWN SHOP Joey Cape, Chris

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

presents: The Scrags, Ben Disaster, the Fight, the Archaics; 8pm

ROSE AND CROWN PUB Mike

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Dominey; 8pm

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Isobel Trigger, Whale and the Wolf, KickupaFuss; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE The Yardbird Suite All Stars Under the Direction of Craig Brenan play the music of the Thelonious Monk Big Band; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

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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

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Grove DJ every Fri FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop

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SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–U of A Cody Mack; 9pm-1am

Fri; 9pm

NEW WEST HOTEL Boots &

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WEM, Bourbon St Mike

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: this week: Between Brothers (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every

Rouge, OM, Funk Sway, and The Hillties

Main Fl: Throwback Thu:

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–

CABARET Krystle Dos Santos: A Motown Soul Revival; 8pm; $25

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu

Harvey; 9pm-1am

Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm L.B.’S PUB Cool Dads

Sat; 9pm Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage Sat–It’s the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm;

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

LEGENDS Saturday Jam and open mic with Nick Samoil and guests

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NEW WEST HOTEL Boots &

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Pederson; no cover ON THE ROCKS Love Junk

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Old School DJ PAWN SHOP Transmission

Presents: Trust, Crater and the Cygnets; 9pm QUEEN ALEXANDRA HALL

Northern Lights Folk Club: John Mann; 7pm (door), 8pm (music); $20 (adv Acoustic Music, Myhre’s)/$25 (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

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey PAWN SHOP Transmission

Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm); 1st Sat each month RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM

Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com SUITE 69 Stella Saturday:

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

RIVER CREE–The Venue The

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

Fab Four; 6pm (door), 8pm (show); $29.50

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SUN OCT 5 ARTERY Splashing the

Water Loudly (CD release), Sewepagaham, Chris Andrew, Toto Berriel, Sandro Dominelli, Wayne Lavallee, Daniel Gervais, others; 7pm

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OCT/20 RURAL ALBERTA ADVANTAGE W/ JULY TALK

OCT/21

DIRTY HEADS ROME WITH SPECIAL GUEST

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

TIMBRE CONCERTS AND HIPHOPCANADA PRESENT:

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“A DIFFERENT KIND OF WILD TOUR” W/ GUESTS

OCT/18

IDES OF WINTER W/ WITH MALICE & TERRORFIST

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Pixies, Royal Blood; all ages; 6:30pm (door); $55 at livenation.com SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–U of A Open mic Monday with

YARDBIRD SUITE 6 Minute

Adam Holm; 8pm

Warning (rock, pop, jazz, classical, choral)

DJs Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest:

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE (Raga-Mala

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

hosted by Tim Lovett

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio;

9am-3pm; donations BLUES ON WHYTE Shirley

Johnson (from Chicago) BRIXX BAR Grieves (A

Different Kind of Wild Tour), guests DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night

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

Music with Duggan’s House Band 5-8pm FESTIVAL PLACE Glass Tiger

(pop rock); 7:30pm; $40-$48 GAS PUMP Sophie and the

Shufflehounds present the 2nd Annual Edmonton’s Women Of Song in support of the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation: hosted by Sophie and the Shufflehounds, featuring Angela MacKenzie, Mary Thomas, Dale Ladoucuer, Paula Perro, Rita McDade and bands; Tim Koslo (MC), silent auction, turkey dinner buffet; 2pm; $25 (adv) at the Gas Pump, Fusion Music, Sherwood Park, Resonate Music School HOG’S DEN PUB Rockin’ the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

OCT/5

Open mic night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

Classical

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RAS BEE & MONEY MONSOON

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE– Nisku Open mic every Sun

Park Acreage John Mann;

“MONEY BEE EP RELEASE PARTY” W/ GUESTS

RICHARD’S PUB Sunday Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky

Kallio 780.456.8510

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

HOUSE CONCERT: Sherwood

OCT/3

POLISH HALL Kent Sangster’s Obsessions Octet (classical, tango, jazz); part of Polish Canadian Fall Festival, presented by the Polish Culture Society; 3pm; tickets at TIX on the Square, 780-420-1757, the door

Legends of Broadway: Andrea Martin - Final Days!

Everything Must Go! NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

Music Society: Space Wind and Fire (Indian classical fusion); 6pm; $20/$15 (senior/student)/ free (Raga-Mala member) edmontonragamala.ab.ca/

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 OCT 6 ARTERY Del Barber, guests

(folk) 7:30pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE JW Jones (CD release party for Belmont Boulevard); 9pm DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Mon

singer-songwriter night; 8pm FESTIVAL PLACE George

Canyon (country); 7:30pm; $58-$65 at Festival Place box office JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Boz

Scaggs; 7:30pm MERCURY ROOM Music

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

(country)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

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 OCT 7 BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

Big Dreamer Sound jam with hosts Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O’brien; this weeks guest is Justine Vandergrift; every Tue 8pm-12am BLUES ON WHYTE JW Jones (CD release party for Belmont Boulevard); 9pm BOHEMIA Acoustic Tue:

Shelder the Electric Clamfish (folk originals and covers with some spoken word); 8-11pm; admission by donation DRUID IRISH PUB Open

RICHARD’S PUB Tue Live

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

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

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Session: Brad Shigeta Swingtet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5 YELLOWHEAD BREWERY

Mark Fewer (violin, jazz and classical); 7:30pm; $45 (adult/senior)/$20 (student)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and

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

Open Jam: Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday

with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Rodeowind (country) O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Open mic every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous Flirts Jameoke

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there’s an Oilers game); no cover NEW WEST HOTEL

Rodeowind (country) OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Rossdale Hall Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover ZEN LOUNGE Jazz

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

Music Wednesdays At Noon: Jennifer Bustin and Elaine Dunbar (violin and piano); 12:10-12:50pm; free (bring your friends and bag lunch, coffee and tea available)

WED OCT 8

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue

open mic with host Duff Robison

RED STAR Swing, Funk, Soul, R&B, Rock&Roll and Electro/Disco sounds of the last 70 years with DJ Thomas Culture

FESTIVAL PLACE George Canyon (country); 7:30pm; $58-$65 at Festival Place box office

Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

Beats; 6pm DUGGAN’S BOUNDARY Wed

Classical

SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

L.B.’S PUB Tue Variety Night

BRIXX BAR Lettuce Produce

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe’en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

Stage Tue hosted by Chris Wynters: featuring this week: Amplify This Sound; 9pm

ON THE ROCKS Moonshine Mondays: with the Dungarees

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

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

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY Fish & Bird (indie

folk), guests; 7:30pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door)

BIG AL’S HOUSE OF BLUES

New Music Wed: Featured band hosted by Lochlin Cross and Leigh Friesen (open stage) after the bands set BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

BLUES ON WHYTE JW

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH–Banquet Hall

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO: Mozart and His Admirers: Shalom Bard (conductor), Sara Davis Buechner (piano); 7:30pm; $24-$59

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

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

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

Jones (CD release party for Belmont Boulevard); 9pm

Wed

MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave POLISH HALL Lower Hall, 10960-104 St 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 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE

10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE 12845-102 Ave SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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 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 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 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CITADEL AT THE CLUB 9828101A Ave CORAL DE CUBA 4990-92 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DIVERSION LOUNGE 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

VUEWEEKLY OCT 2 – OCT 9, 2014

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 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 HOUSE CONCERT: Sherwood Park Acreage Graham Heights, Sherwood Park T8B 1B6; rouseconcerts.ca/index.htm IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH–Banquet Hall 10025101 St, South entrance, 780.468.4964 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911

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

COMEDY Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover

BOURBON ROOM/Connie's Comedy • 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert • Silly Pints or Laughs and Lagers: with Shawn Gramiak and Sean Lecomber • Oct 8, 9pm (show) • Call 587.290.0071 to reserve • Call Connie: 780.914.8966, E: conniescomedy@ gmail.com to get on roster

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 • Brian Stollery; Oct 2-4 • Bob Beddow; Oct 9-10-11

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • Brad Wollack; Oct 3-4 • Ian Bagg; Oct 8-12 • Call in Sick to Work; Oct 10, 12pm; $26.95 DRAFT BAR/Connie's Comedy • 12912-50 St • Comedy with Danny Martinello and Sean Lecomber as our headliner • Oct 8, 6:30

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

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

FESTIVAL PLACE • Sherwood Park • CBC’s The Irrelevant Show: An evening of new comedy sketches and songs • Oct 10, 7:30-11pm • $28-$32

FIONN MACCOOL'S/Connie's Comedy • 4485 Gateway Blvd • Silly Pints: Open mic followed

by Mike Dambra • Oct 4, 7 pm • Call Connie: 780.914.8966, E: conniescomedy@gmail.com to get on roster

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • 11455-87 Ave • Final Days! Everything Must Go: with Andrea Martin; part of the Legends of Broadway series sponsored by Jewish Family Services • Oct 5, 7:30pm • Tickets start at $69.50; proceeds support Edmonton families in need with funds going to bereavement services, counselling, resettlement, seniors programming

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/Connie's Comedy • 16648-109 St • KRUSH_IT Comedy Contest Finals: Connie's Comedy with 100.3 the Bear, Krush Ultralounge: 8 finalists showdown for 1st, 2nd, and 3rd spots. Proceeds to Bear's Children Fund • Oct 2 • Call Connie: 780.914.8966, E: conniescomedy@gmail.com to get on roster

Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

• Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana

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

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

DEEPENING MEDITATION PRACTICE WEEKEND • Parkallen Community Hall, 1110465 Ave • With Debra Ann Robinson • Oct 17, 7-9pm; Oct 18-19, 9-4:30pm • $80 (weekend), pre-register by Oct 15 E: jamesk2004@hotmail. com, 780.437.3688

EATING DISORDER SUPPORT NETWORK OF ALBERTA • Strathcona Library meeting rm, 8331-104 St • $60 (for ea 6-week session); preregister at eatingdisordersupportnetworkofalberta. com • Until Oct 15, 6:30pm

EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com

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

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican 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

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

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté 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

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

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

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall, 10135-

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

96 Ave • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm

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

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

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 •

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

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

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

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10min discussion, followed by a 30 to 40-min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-

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 • Lowcost, 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

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

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

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS COMMUNITY SERVICE-LEARNING AND CHANGE • Chateau Lacombe Hotel, 10111 Bellamy Hill • Engagement Scholarship Consortium Pre-Conference Workshop • Oct 6, 8am-4:30pm • $55-100

CBAN CANADIAN BIOTECHNOLOGY ACTION NETWORK • Roots on Whyte, 8135-102 St, 305 Conference Rm • cban.ca • Genetically Modified Food and Our Future featuring Lucy Sharrat, presentation on how farmers and consumers will be impacted by a GM 'non-browning' apple & GM alfalfa • Oct 3, 7-9pm • Free; pre-registration at Blush Lane Organic Market at Roots on Whyte

CONFESSIONS OF AN ARTIST: ENOUGH IS ENOUGH • King’s University, 9125-50 St • Chapel Talk: Series of public lectures by visual artist, Betty Spackman: Confessions of an Artist: Enough is Enough; Oct 8, 11am • Intelligent Humility; Christianity and the Arts; Oct 8 7:30pm • Found Wanting: A Multimedia Installation Regarding Grief and Gratitude; Thu, Oct 9, 7:30pm • Free

FLOWER ESSENCES • Roots on Whyte, 8135102 St, 305 Conference Rm • Change your life with the flower essences Aficionado Roberta Shepherd HHP • Oct 2, 6:30pm • Free

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.4693270 • Travel slide presentations: St Petersburg and Trans-Siberian Railroad, Russia (2012) by Donna Hamar • Oct 6,

VUEWEEKLY OCT 2 – OCT 9, 2014

7:30pm • $3 donation

HURTIG LECTURE • Telus 150, U of A • Taxes, Austerity and Inequality with Ashely Esarey • Oct 2, 7pm SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction in meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm VEGTOBER WORKSHOP • Earth's General Store DT, 10150-104 St • Vegans & Vegetarians of Alberta AND Earth's General Store present: Crackers, Chips and Dips that Won’t Stick to Your Hips • Sat, Oct 4, 7-9pm • $30 • bit.ly/1B4oxp7

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

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo. com/group/bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

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

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

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

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership.

Confidentiality assured

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

SPECIAL EVENTS BREWFEST! • Edmonton Petroleum Club, 11110 108 St • A pop-up market Presented selling local handmade goods by Creative Edmonton; performances by local musicians • Oct 10, 6:30-11:30pm • $15 at eventbrite.ca; proceeds to Edmonton's Wings of Providence Organization

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)

LADIES' DAY OUT AT CABELA'S–South • 6150 Currents Dr • cabelas.ca/find-a-

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

store/edmonton/2 • A celebration of women in the outdoors with interactive activities, demonstrations, and seminars • Oct 4 • Free, pre-register at samantha.guertin@cabelas.ca, 780.628.9218

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

OKTOBERFEST • Expo Centre, Northlands, 7515-118 Ave • Celebrating local beer and food, featuring both local and authentic Bavarian breweries with authentic Oktoberfest music from the German Knights Band, dancers, games, prizes and more • Oct 3, 4-10pm; Oct 4, 2-9pm • $19 (adv at albertabeerfestivals.com)/$25 (door)

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 • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214 • livingpositivethroughpositiveliving. com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

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;

PAINT THE TOWN RED GALA • Arts Barns, 10030-84 Ave • Musical by Billie Zizi, David Sereda, silent auction, and comedy by Elvira Kurt, Trevor Boris. Then on to the limo buses over to Buddy’s Nite Club for the Red Party • Oct 3 • $100 at Pride Centre, 780.448.3234; online: eventbrite.ca RE-BEAUTY • McKernan Hall, 11341-78 Ave • 780.488.7926 • karoantonio.com/rebeauty-2014/ • Art Made from Recyclables and Waste Silent Auction Fundraiser • Oct 11, 7pm • $50 at https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/re-beautysilent-auction-tickets-8964588325?aff=es2&amp; rank=1&internal_ref=login

VECHIRKA! • St Basil’s Cultural Centre, 1081971 Ave • Ukrainian Catholic Women’s League of Canada fundraiser to support Home of Hope featuring Ukrainian delicacies, authentic folk music, and live art demonstrations 6:30pm(door), 9pm (program • Oct 9 • $50 at 780.473.0779, E: barb. hlus@gmail.com

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Coming Events

THE LOFT ART GALLERY AND GIFT SHOP Loft Gallery - AJ Ottewell Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park - Open Saturdays and Sundays noon to 4 pm. October showing is “The Color Purple” and the November/December showing is smaller artwork for Christmas.

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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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Help Wanted

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

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

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

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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 someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

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

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

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

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

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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

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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!)

“ART IS IN THE AIR” .. 2014 Fall Art Show and Sale, presented by the Art Society of Strathcona County, at the A. J. Ottewell Community Centre (Red Barn), October 17, 1-9 pm with Reception 7-9 ( artists in attendance), and October 18, 10-4 pm, and October 19, 12-4 pm. Silver Collection. A variety of new artwork by local artists Art on the Patio will join art, music, and food, as artists and artisans display and sell their work during the very popular Festival Place Patio Series.

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

Artists may book a maximum of two weeks.

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

Interested in learning more?

Email artgallery@strathcona.ca

Artist In Residence: 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

Call For Submission: Directory Of Ukrainian Artists in Alberta Do you weave, embroider or make pottery ? Do you write stories, pysanky or music ? Do you direct a choir, dance group or play in a band ? The Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts would love to hear from you and everyone else involved in the arts.

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

Additional information and submission forms are available by contacting: Elena Scharabun Directory Coordinator, ACUA directory@acuarts.ca 780-975-3077

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.

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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/

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.

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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.

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VASA, in cooperation with Beverley Bunker, is soliciting submissions for a visual art exhibition for June 2015 from professional and emerging artists in the Edmonton region of Alberta. The deadline for submissions is Dec 1, 2014.

Submissions must be sent electronically to mb.constable@gmail.com.

A group show to offer an opportunity for women figurative artists to showcase their expressions of women only experiencing everyday life, expressed as portraiture, female form (nude) studies, narratives, etc., in visual form. http://www.vasa.ca/

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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

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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Musicians Available

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

780-462-6291

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Musicians Wanted

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

Please call 780-901-7677

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

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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

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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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Plans for International Week 2015 (Jan 26-30) are underway! This year, I-Week programming will try to make sense of the world’s most current and pressing conflicts.

We will consider causes, consequences and possible solutions, and will devote special attention to the plight of refugees and displaced persons.

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

We invite students, staff, faculty and community members to join us in this conversation! If you are interested in offering a session, hosting an event or getting involved in I-Week, please contact Lisa Lozanski at lllozans@ualberta.ca or 780-248-2040 to discuss your idea.

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Formal proposals must be submitted online by November 3, 2014.

VUEWEEKLY OCT 2 – OCT 9, 2014

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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Selling Com. Wood working machinery & tools, band saw sawmill, Thomas Skid Steer, Dodge 1-ton truck, reclaimed old growth character elevator wood, & much more. See www.montgomeryauctions. com or call 1-800-371-6963.

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We pay cash for deliveries to our yard. We do farmyard cleanups. Call 780-914-7560 or visit www.sturgeonbusparts.ca.

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

1 - September 15). The Spruce Point Park campground and marina facility is located on Lesser Slave Lake approximately 285 kms northwest of Edmonton, Alberta near the Hamlet of Kinuso. For complete package and details please call 780-775-3805 or 780-805-0801 or email: sprucepointpark@gmail.com.

Position will remain open until suitable candidate is found.

ROADEX SERVICES requires O/O 3/4 tons, 1 tons and 3 tons for our RV division and O/O Semis and drivers for our RV and general freight deck division to haul throughout North America. Paid by direct deposit, benefits and company fuel cards. Border crossing required with valid passport and clean criminal record. 1-800-8676233; www.roadexservices.com.

MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTION is an in-demand career in Canada! Employers have workat-home positions available.

Get the online training you need from an employer-trusted program. Visit: CareerStep. ca/MT or 1-888-528-0809 to start training for your work-at-home career today!

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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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.

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MEDICAL TRANSCRIPTIONISTS needed! Employers seeking over 200 additional CanScribe graduates. Student loans available. Income-tax receipts issued. Start training today. Work from home! www. canscribe.com; info@canscribe. com. 1-800-466-1535.

SPRUCE POINT Park Association is now accepting applications for the position of: Park Manager (Seasonal May

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48 hour Express Service available at select supporting Distributors. Call 1-888-263-8254.

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FREEWILLASTROLOGY

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): As I hike through the wilderness at dusk, the crickets always seem to be humming in the distance. No matter where I go, their sound is farther off, never right up close to me. How can that be?

Do they move away from me as I approach? I doubt it. I sense no leaping insects in the underbrush. Here's how this pertains to you: my relationship with the crickets' song is similar to a certain mystery in your life. There's an experience that calls to you but forever seems just out of reach. You think you're drawing nearer, about to touch it and be in its midst, but it inevitably eludes you. Now here's the good news: a change is coming for you.

It will be like what would happen if I suddenly found myself intimately surrounded by hundreds of chirping crickets.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): In three years, you will comprehend truths about yourself and your life that you don't have the capacity to grasp now. By then, past events that have been confusing to you will make sense.

You'll know what their purpose was and why they occurred.

Can you wait that long? If you'd rather not, I have an idea: do a meditation in which you visualize yourself as you will be three years from today. Imagine asking your future self to tell you what he or she has discovered.

The revelations may take a while to start rolling in, but I predict that a whole series of insights will have arrived by this time next week.

more secure route: working hard to create a treasure that's like a cultivated pearl.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): In June 2012, a US senator introduced a bill that would require all members of Congress to actually read or listen to a reading of any bill before they voted on it.

The proposal has been in limbo ever since and it's unlikely it will ever be treated seriously. This is confusing to me. Shouldn't it be a fundamental requirement that all lawmakers know what's in the laws they pass? Don't make a similar error, Leo. Understand exactly what you are getting into, whether it's a new agreement, an interesting invitation or a tempting opportunity. Be thoroughly informed.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Oliver Evans (1755 – 1819) was a prolific Virgo inventor who came up with brilliant ideas for steam engines, urban gas lighting, refrigeration and automated machines. He made a radical prediction: "The time will come when people will travel in stages moved by steam engines, almost as fast as birds fly, 15 or 20 miles an hour." We may be surprised that a visionary innovator like Evans dramatically minimized the future's possibilities. In the same way, I suspect that later in your life, you might laugh at how much you are underestimating your potentials right now. In telling you this, I'm hoping you will stop underestimating.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): The journey that awaits you is succinct but epic. It will last a relatively short time but take months to fully understand. You may feel natural and ordinary as you go through it, even as you are being rather heroic. Prepare as best as you can, but keep in mind that no amount of preparation will get you completely ready for the spontaneous moves you'll be called on to perform. Don't be nervous! I bet you will receive help from an unexpected source.

Feelings of déjà-vu may crop up and provide a sense of familiarity—even though none of what occurs will have any precedents.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): When Jimmy Fallon was a senior in high school, he received a weird graduation gift: a troll doll, one of those plastic figurines with frizzy, brightly coloured hair.

Around the same time, his mother urged him to enter an upcoming comedy contest at a nearby club. Fallon decided that would be fun. He worked up a routine in which he imitated various celebrities auditioning to become a spokesperson for troll dolls.

With the doll by his side, he won the contest, launching his career as a comedian. I foresee the possibility of a comparable development in your life: an odd blessing or unexpected gift that inspires you to express one of your talents on a higher level.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): In the wild, very few oysters produce pearls—about one in every 10 000. Most commercial pearls come from farmed oysters whose pearls have been induced by human intervention. As you might expect, the natural jewel is regarded as far more precious. Let's use these facts as metaphors while we speculate about your fate in the next eight months. I believe you will acquire or generate a beautiful new source of value for yourself. There's a small chance you will stumble upon a treasure equivalent to the wild pearl. But I suggest you take the

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): "Dear So-Called Astrologer: your horoscopes are worse than useless. Mostly they are crammed with philosophical and poetic crap that doesn't apply to my daily life. Please cut way back on the fancy metaphors. Just let me know if there is money or love or trouble coming my way—like what regular horoscopes say!

-Skeptical Scorpio." Dear Skeptical: in my astrological opinion, you and your fellow Scorpios will soon feel the kind of pressure you just directed at me. People will ask you to be different from what you actually are. My ad-

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Tomatoes are a staple of Italian cuisine now, but there weren't any tomatoes in Europe until the 16th century, when Spanish explorers brought them from Central and South America. Likewise, Malaysia has become a major producer of rubber, but it had no rubber trees until seeds were smuggled out of Brazil in the 19th century. And bananas are currently a major crop in Ecuador thanks to 16th-century Portuguese sailors who transported them from West Africa. I foresee the possibility of comparable cross-fertilizations happening for you in the coming months, Sagittarius. Do you have your eye on any remote resources you'd like to bring back home?

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Years ago, you experienced an event that was so overwhelming you could not fully deal with it, let alone understand it. All this time it has been simmering and smouldering in the depths of your unconscious mind, emitting ghostly steam and smoke even as it has remained difficult for you to integrate. But I predict that will change in the coming months. You will finally find a way to bring it into your conscious awareness and explore it with courage and grace. Of course it will be scary for you to do so. But I assure you that the fear is a residue from your old confusion, not a sign of real danger. To achieve maximum liberation, begin your quest soon.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): This is prime time to do things that aren't exactly easy and relaxing, but that on the other hand aren't actually painful. Examples: extend peace offerings to adversaries.

Seek reconciliation with valuable resources from which you have been separated and potential allies from whom you have become alienated. Try out new games you would eventually like to be good at, but aren't yet. Get a better read on interesting people you don't understand very well. Catch my drift, Aquarius? For now, at least, leaving your comfort zone is likely to be invigorating, not arduous.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Your oracle is built around the epigrams of conceptual artist Jenny Holzer. From her hundreds of pithy quotes, I have selected six that offer the exact wisdom you need most right now. Your job is to weave them all together into a symphonic whole. 1) "It's crucial to have an active fantasy life." 2) "Ensure that your life stays in flux." 3) "I have every kind of thought, and that is no embarrassment." 4) "Animalism is perfectly healthy." 5) "Finding extreme pleasure will make you a better person if you're careful about what thrills you." 6) "Listen when your body talks." V

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Getting all cuddly

Cuddlr is for everyone out there looking for a good cuddle session You've probably heard of Tinder and Gindr, but have you heard of Cuddlr? It's a new app for people who just want to cuddle. At first I thought it must be a joke. Why would anyone want to hook up with a stranger just to cuddle?

Don't most people think of cuddling as a prelude to sex anyway?

I tracked down Cuddlr's creator, Charlie Williams, to find out if it's for real. "Lots of people have had a similar reaction to yours," he says.

"It's not something we do and not something we talk about." But apparently it's something people want. Williams says they've had 70 000 downloads since the app launched on September 18. Someone in New Zealand has already logged 55 cuddles.

The app is simple. When you log in, it shows you first names and pictures of people within a 30 minute walking distance of you that are open for cuddling. You can ask them for a cuddle or they can ask you. When you get a request, you have an hour to respond. Williams says it's not meant for planning dates and developing relationships, it's for finding someone close to you that's available for a nice hug when you want one. "I don't think this app is just for people who

aren't getting hugs, everybody gives different cuddles and it can be nice to explore that."

Williams says it's about more than hugs. "Communication is so important, but we're not always very good at it. So having something like cuddling, where you have to talk about it because it's not even well-defined— what is a cuddle exactly? That will get people better at communicating, so that in their relationships or work or whatever else they can be better at knowing what they need, and vo-

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After talking to Williams and watching the Cuddlr video, the cynic in me softened. Physical touch

don't get to give and receive simple physical affection as much as we might want or need. Cuddlr is a way to do that in a simple, structured and, hopefully, safe way. The first step of consent is already built in with sending and accepting a request and, as Williams says, the cuddlers will need to talk about what kind of cuddle they want.

Non-sexual touch can be as intimate, sometimes even more so, than sex. Being that vulnerable

Physical touch is a basic human need and yet our culture is conflicted about it. is a basic human need and yet our culture is conflicted about it. Often we are scared to hug or touch others for fear of crossing boundaries or having that touch interpreted as sexual. That means that a lot of us

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SOUNDING OFF

A straight male friend practises sounding and has for years. I am pretty sure he does other things that he isn't telling anyone about—not even his wife. He has some medical questions about sounding. I am a pediatric nurse, so he brought his concerns to me, but the questions are totally outside my area of expertise. Nothing emergency-room-worthy is going on, but he needs answers and refuses to speak with his regular MD about sounding. I am wondering how to find an MD in his area who would be knowledgeable and nonjudgmental.

Needs Useful Referral Soon PS: Thank you for your advice over the years. Because of you, I am comfortable with the questions he asked me even if I did not have the answers.

never be able to forget it. Deep breaths, everybody. Let our shared trauma bring us closer together, not drive us apart.

OK! On to your question, NURS: your friend is a self-sounder and has been for years. So just how dangerous is sounding?

"Some sounders end up in emergency rooms to remove a stuck object, leading to interesting X-rays and many good party conversations for us urologists," King says. "But there is very limited medical literature on this topic beyond mostly case studies. However, one recent survey study associated recreational sounding with general high-risk behaviours and increased risk of STIs. Additional complications can include bleeding, infection, urethral stricture, perforation and erectile dysfunction.

Some of these issues may cause longterm impairments or require surgical correction."

A couple qualifiers from a nonmedical nonprofessional (me): sounding by itself doesn't lead to higher rates of STIs. While an inept sounding session could leave a person with a raw and bloodied urethra, and this rawness would place

bleeds. It won't be a regular thing, so she's OK with a bit of pain and discomfort. And it won't be during her period, so that obvious solution is out. She asked for my advice—I'm the local sex guru—but this one has me stumped.

Happy Hymen Hunting

Good news, HHH! Your friend doesn't have to endure pain and discomfort to treat her boyfriend to a few "virginity bleeds" on his birthday.

"An artificial hymen also known as artificial virginity kit (and popularly referred to as a Chinese hymen or fake hymen) is a type of prosthetic membrane created for the purpose of simulating an intact human hymen," reads the highly disturbing copy at HymenShop.net. "Insert the artificial hymen into your vagina carefully. ... When your lover penetrates, it will ooze out The National Coalition for Sexual Freea liquid that appears like blood, not dom maintains a "Kink Aware Professiontoo much but just the right amount. als Directory" on its website ncsfreedom.

Add in a few moans and groans and org. The doctors, counsellors, lawyers, you will pass through undetectable!" real-estate agents, etc aren't vetted by As creepy as the boyfriend's fetish the NCSF, so inclusion on the list isn't might seem, the fact that some woma recommendation. But it would be a en have to use these artificial hymens good place for under duress— your friend to women who So while shoving a metal rod into your urethra start looking need to "pass" for an irregular themselves off is more dangerous than not shoving a metal rod MD, someone as virgins on into your urethra, it’s not as dangerous as the he can open their wedding limited medical literature would seem to suggest. up to about nights—is far, sounding and far creepier than whatever else a woman using he's doing. In the meantime, I asked a doc a person at higher risk of contracting one to indulge her boyfriend's kink. for some thoughts about the risks and an STI should they be exposed to one, rewards of sounding. it's the propensity toward high-risk be- HITS TO THE NOSE "Sounding refers to the insertion haviours generally that places sound- I'm a 29-year-old gay man. I recently of foreign bodies into the urethra," ers at greater risk of contracting STIs, ended a 10-year relationship that was said Dr Stephen H King, MD, a board- not the sounding itself. King agrees vanilla and lacklustre sexually. I'm now certified urologist. "Under controlled with me on this point. thrilled to be exploring sex with a new medical conditions, urethral sounds, Also, people who don't get objects boyfriend (of four months) who is GGG which are typically curved and steril- stuck in their urethras—sounders who and as kinky as I am. The issue is that ized metallic or plastic rods, are gently don't progress to larger and larger ob- my boyfriend wants me to hit him and inserted onto the urethra [pee hole] in jects before finally moving on to heads give him a bloody nose during sex. While order to dilate a stricture [narrowing] from decapitated snakes—don't make this sounds hot, it worries me because that blocks the flow of urine out of appearances in emergency rooms, the he was abused as a child and I'm afraid the bladder. The lining of the urethra medical literature or urologists' party this might trigger something negative for is typically very sensitive and delicate, conversations. So the sample here is him. He keeps bringing this up and I want and this procedure can be quite un- skewed, with sounders who are shov- to do it for him. What do you think? comfortable for most people." ing only sterilized, well-lubricated, and Just A Love Tap But not everyone with a metallic reasonably sized metal rods into their or plastic rod sticking out of their urethras underrepresented in the medi- I think you should shove a couple of urethra right now is experiencing dis- cal literature, cocktail party convo, etc. artificial hymens up your boyfriend's comfort. "Some people, likely a signifSo while shoving a metal rod into nose and hit him just hard enough to icant minority, derive sexual pleasure your urethra is more dangerous than break them, JALT, because punching from urethral stimulation," King says. not shoving a metal rod into your someone in the face is dangerous. You "This includes both men and women. urethra, it's not as dangerous as the could break his nose, for starters, and Sounders [not to be confused with limited medical literature would you could kill him, for finishers. But if Seattle's soccer players!] have been seem to suggest. this is something he simply must exknown to insert a wide variety of "My guess is there are many people perience and if he'll find someone else objects, including but not limited to who sound without significant prob- to do it to him if you won't (someone catheters, tubes, beads, pencils, bat- lems," King says. "If performed in a who may not be as invested in his teries, drill bits and even the head of very clean (ideally sterile) fashion health, safety and longevity), here are a decapitated snake. Yes, the latter with minimal trauma to the urethral a couple of questions you need to ask has been reported." lining, sounding maybe be relatively him first: has he done this before? If I think we all need a moment to pro- safe. The sounder, however, should so, did it bring back unpleasant memocess that last detail. Someone found be aware of these risks." ries of his abuse? And does he have the head of a decapitated snake—or health insurance? someone found a snake and decapitated BREAKING THE SEAL But, honestly, I think you should go it—and thought: "You know what? I'm My friend's boyfriend has a virgin- with the artificial hymens. going to stick this in my urethra." This ity fetish. Particularly the part where probably wasn't something anyone who the girl bleeds a bit. Arguments that On this week's Lovecast, Dan and Ann hasn't shoved the head of a decapitated "breaking the hymen" is mythical Landers' daughter face off on tantric snake into their urethra even thought bullshit haven't swayed his fetish. His sex: savagelovecast.com. V human beings were capable of before birthday is coming up and she'd love King shared this with us. And now we'll to surprise him with some virginity @fakedansavage on Twitter

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1 “Let’s go,” to Dora 6 It can make a date 10 Show segments 14 Rewrite 15 Carmen or Cartman 16 “We’ve got trouble!”

17 Terrible dictionary definition of fortified wine?

19 iPod model 20 Tater Tots maker 21 Time out for Timothy Leary 23 Take back 25 Empty ___ syndrome 26 Instrument for Hawaiians and hipsters 29 Paper format?

32 Shaggy’s voice 36 Without company 37 Kenny Loggins’s “Danger ___” 38 “Ewwww!”

39 Hero’s pursuit 40 Ninth Greek letter 41 Plumlike fruit 42 One of Holder’s predecessors 43 Called off 44 California’s Big ___ 45 Major inconveniences 47 Pad prik khing’s cuisine 49 Queen of hip hop 54 Spiny anteaters 58 Put under 59 Speaker of Cooperstown 60 Be a hasty actor?

62 Nutmeg-flavored drinks 63 Killing time 64 Center of activity 65 Needing a massage 66 Mad Libs category 67 Sporty Jaguar

10 Family tree branches 11 #1 hits like “All About That Balsa” and “Shake It Oak”?

12 “The Bluest Eye” author Morrison 13 Pick up a few things 18 Cold and clammy 22 Dennis’s sister, in “Always Sunny” 24 Washington-area airport 27 Supposedly crazy birds 28 Join the club 30 Start the pot 31 In need of jumper cables 32 X, in a love letter 33 “Because freedom can’t protect itself” org.

34 Fashionable school for hybrid outerwear?

35 Potato feature 37 Popular wine, for short 39 Farmer’s storage 43 Co-star of Bea, Betty, and Rue 45 Suckered 46 Right there on the map 48 ___ fit (tantrum) 50 Word said with a head slap 51 Iggy Azalea hit 52 Accepted without question 53 “Siddhartha” novelist Hermann 54 Active volcano in Sicily 55 Comfy shoe 56 Brad’s role in “Inglourious Basterds” 57 Colleague of Scotty and Spock 61 Stimpy’s counterpart ©2014 Jonesin’ Crosswords (editor@jonesincrosswords.com)

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