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"Lower-income residents [feel] participation is unaffordable, given that active recreation and sport is primarily participant funded."

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History repeats It's fair to describe the EdmontonWhitemud constituency as a PC stronghold given they've only lost the seat twice since it was created in 1971, the same year Peter Lougheed brought the Conservatives to power. The first loss, in 1989, was historic in that it saw the premier of the day, Don Getty, defeated by Liberal Percy Wickman by a margin of just 535 votes. I'm sure I'm not the only Edmontonian who remembers that campaign turned around the evening Wickman placed a large rubber chicken in the chair on which Getty should have been sitting at an all-candidates' forum he chose not to attend.

Considering that Getty remains the only Premier in Alberta's history who has managed to hold his government's majority while losing his own seat, one would think current Premier Jim Prentice might have considered the dangers of skipping out on debates with his political opponents.

While Prentice's absence from debates has been symbolized with pumpkins instead of large rubber chickens, one can't help but wonder if Prentice has ever heard that old saying about those who ignore history being doomed to repeat it. Depending on the outcome of Monday's by-election in CalgaryFoothills, Prentice could become the second Premier in Alberta history to lose his own seat while leading a majority government, making history without having ever setting foot in the legislature.

Which brings me back to Whitemud, where one of two of Prentice's unelected cabinet ministers faces the very real prospect of being defeated without ever taking their seats in the front row. With former mayor Stephen Mandel finding himself in a tight race to get elected and be able to keep his new job as Health Minister, he's got to be worried that he's in the one constituency in this province that knows how to send a message to the Conservatives with a huge electoral upset. Here's hoping they do just that next Monday. V

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Recognizing Palestine

As Israel loses political support, the state of Palestine gains it

It's a slow process, this business of getting recognized as an independent state, but the Palestinians are making progress. In September of last year, Mahmoud Abbas, the long-overduefor-an-election president of the Palestinian National Authority, was given permission to sit in the "beige chair," the one that is reserved for heads of state waiting to go to the podium and address the UN General Assembly.

And now, another Great Leap Forward. On Monday, the British Parliament voted by 274 to 12 to recognize Palestine as a state. It was a private member's bill, however, and ministers in Prime Minister David Cameron's cabinet were ordered to abstain. The bill cannot compel Cameron to actually recognize Palestine, a decision which the British government will only take "at a moment of our choosing and when it can best help bring about peace."

More hot air and empty symbolism, then, or so it would seem. But the parliamentary vote is better seen as a very large straw in the wind. After half a century when Israel could count on reflexive support from the United States, Canada and the big Western European countries no matter what it did, public opinion in the countries of the European Union is shifting.

Until recently, the only EU members that recognized the State of Palestine were ex-Soviet satellites in Eastern Europe that had done so when they were Communist ruled. But early this month the newly elected Swedish government declared that it would recognize Palestine, and other parliamentary votes on the question are coming up in Ireland, Denmark, Finland and, most importantly, France.

They will probably all vote yes. As Matthew Gould, UK ambassador to Israel, said on Israeli radio after the vote in London: "I am concerned

in the long run about the shift in public opinion in the UK and beyond towards Israel. Israel lost support after this summer's conflict (in Gaza), and after the series of announcements on (expanding Israeli) settlements (in the West Bank).

This parliamentary vote is a sign of the way the wind is blowing."

Official Israel is busily pretending that this does not matter, but it does in two ways. One is the diplomatic reality that soon nothing may stand between Palestine and full membership of the United Nations except a lone, naked US veto in the United Nations Security Council, which may have to be repeated on an annual basis.

That will be one consequence of the way the wind is blowing, but much graver for Israel is the reason why it is blowing in that direction: patience with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu's perpetual delaying tactics is close to exhausted in most Western electorates. Among the young it has already run out completely.

Most people in Israel believe that Netanyahu has absolutely no intention of allowing the emergence of a genuinely independent Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the one-fifth of colonial Palestine that was not already incorporated into Israel at the end of the 1948 war. Indeed, much of his electoral support comes from Israelis who trust him to prevent such an outcome.

Netanyahu can never state his purpose openly, of course, because that would alienate Israel's supporters abroad who generally believe that peace can only be achieved by the "two-state solution" that both sides signed up to 22 years ago in the Oslo Accords. Those supporters used to be willing to turn a blind eye to his actions so long as he gave lip-service to the Oslo goals—

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but that faith is now running on fumes in the British House of Commons.

Sir Richard Ottaway, the chair of the Select Committee on Foreign Affairs and a lifelong supporter of Israel, told the House: "Looking back over the past 20 years, I realize now Israel has been slowly drifting away from world public opinion. The annexation of the 950 acres of the West Bank just a few months ago has outraged me more than anything else in my political life.

It has made me look a fool and that is something I deeply resent."

The erosion of support for Israel has been slower in the United States, where open criticism of Israeli actions in the media is rare and Congress is still (in the crude phrase of Washington insiders) "Israeli-occupied territory." But it is happening even there—and among the younger generation of Americans the decline has been very steep.

In a Gallup poll conducted last July, in the midst of the most recent Gaza war, more than half of Americans over the age of 50 said Israel's actions (which eventually killed more than 2000 Palestinians) were justified. Just a quarter of those between 18 and 29 years old agreed.

In both cases these generations will probably stick to their convictions all of their lives— but generational turnover will ensure that the opinions of the younger group ultimately prevail. It was presumably Israel's actions and positions over the past 10 years that shaped the opinions of the younger Americans. Another 10 years like that, and even the United States may have a majority that wants to recognize Palestine. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

COVER // HEALTH

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iving in a country where obesity rates are on the rise—one in four Canadian adults are clinically obese, according to the Canadian Obesity Network—the need to exercise has never been greater. In Edmonton, where the options range from working out at the gym to playing a sport to going for a walk in the river valley, you might also say it's never been easier. And yet for some, the path to a healthy, active lifestyle isn't so simple, as they remain in the dark about the current opportunities available in Edmonton, while others struggle to participate due to financial or transportation barriers.

John C Spence, a professor and Associate Dean (Research) in the Faculty of Physical Education and Recreation at the University of Alberta, says Edmonton "does a decent job" of taking the accessibility of its programs into consideration, and indeed, "82-percent of Edmontonians participated in active recreation or sport," according to a 2013 Current State Assessment Snapshot Report compiled to help inform the city's upcoming Active Recreation and Sport Plan. However, the report also revealed some challenges in the form of economic barriers, one being that "Lower-income residents [feel] participation is unaffordable, given that active recreation and sport is primarily participant funded."

The report also showed that while a large number of Edmontonians are active, "Edmonton household incomes and gender seem to be a factor in terms of who participates in active recreation and sport." An accompanying graph shows that in households with an income of more than $80 000 there was an active recreation participation rate of 87

The city is hoping to further develpercent and a sport activities partici- seven or more people. The program pation rate of 43 percent, while those jumped from an enrolment of 23 977 op all those aspects of exercise with with less than $30 000 in household people in 2006 to 31 360 people in its new Active Recreation and Sport income only had an active recreation 2012, and according to Brad Badger, Plan, which Badger and several other participation rate of 67 percent, while Director of Programs & Events and steering committee members are in their participation in sports activities Facility Director for the Kinsmen the midst of creating. They've already Sports Centre, Leisure Access pa- completed the first of three consuldipped to 18 percent.

Technically, Spence notes, our abil- trons constitute approximately 30 tation sessions with a number of the ity to get enough physical activity percent of admissions at facilities approximately 40 key stakeholders shouldn't be constrained by economic like the Commonwealth Community ranging from universities to community leagues to professional sport asdifficulties, since cost-free activi- Recreation Centre.

Spence explains that accessibility sociations. The second round of conties like walking to school, going for long runs or playing on a playground into facilities like these is important sultation will take place next month, with the goal of presenting count as exercise. It's usua final document to city ally when participating in council in late 2015. other activities like gyms/ Lower-income residents [feel] leisure facilities and orparticipation is unaffordable, The final policy will conganized sports teams— sist of a handful of broad, which often require equipgiven that active recreation and overarching goals for betment, memberships and/ sport is primarly participant tering active recreation or transportation—that and sport for all Edmonfinancial barriers can come funded. tonians, and although it's into play. still in the early concep"Economic factors do aftual stages, Badger says fect overall physical activity," Spence says. "We've seen it both when looking "at things like social possible deliverables stemming from for children [and] for adults, and we've capital and people feeling like they it could include anything from quarseen it both for overall physical activ- belong in a community, to the extent terly awareness campaigns to dataity and for sport. There's no question it that they can engage in everything bases of available recreation options does, to the extent that there are any that's out there, the extent that they within the city to an increased emrequirements to pay for services. So as can have as much of the pie too, so to phasis on physical literacy in schools. "[It] isn't just about what the City you get more into organized sport or speak." And yet, he says it's also iminto exercise, then that gradient gets portant to remember that recreation of Edmonton does, it's really what facilities are not the only—or even the the city of Edmonton as a whole a lot steeper." does," Badger says. "So with recombest—exercise option.

"It's about how we move around in mendations around roles of certain In an effort to make exercise more accessible to those facing economic our communities and engage in our associations and really trying to barriers, the City of Edmonton of- communities," he explains. "It's those piece what we call the whole sysfers programs like the Leisure Ac- activities of daily living: it's how we tem together so that at the end of cess Program, which provides free, walk to and from work, it's how we the day, people looking for active unlimited access to dozens of the walk to and from school, how we walk recreation and sport opportunities city's recreation facilities. Residents to and from the store. If people go and will have a broad range of oppormust fall within a certain household exercise in their local facility, that's tunities. [So eventually] these orincome bracket in order to qualify great. But if people can live in a place ganizations are kind of speaking to for the program, ranging from an in- where they can walk to work, or walk each other, a system has been set come of $23 861 for households of to the university if they're students, up and is trying to address some of the challenges, from females in one to $63 147 for households with that's even better, in my opinion."

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sport to finance as a barrier to volunteers in organizations."

A key aspect of the plan involves strengthening communications between the city, sports associations, community associations and other key players in Edmonton's recreation scene. By increasing awareness of what's available from within, Badger says organizations can help patrons find the best fit for their recreation needs. As an example, Badger points to programs like the YMCA's Opportunity Fund and the Community League Wellness Program, which are viable options for those who might not qualify for a service like the Leisure Access Program, but may still need some kind of financial assistance to participate.

The hope is that with more collaboration between organizations will come a more socially connected community and increased participation in a diverse amount of activities. "[The plan is] aggressive in its standpoint of trying to get everybody to work together," Badger says. "Some of the things we heard in the consultations were … 'I'm busy running a business, running an association, why would I want to do this?' And the answer is you want to be able to make Edmonton a better-coordinated city as far as active recreation and sport, as far as opportunities, as far as communication, as far as awareness campaigns, as far as programs.

It can be all of that.

"The success or the failure of it will [depend on] if everybody buys in, so the real challenge is going to be how these goals that will come out of [the plan] will be presented or how groups will see themselves aligning to it."

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The art of resistance

Alberta Eugenics Awareness Week challenges oppression I had the privilege to watch a dance performance by CRIPSiE, the Collaborative Radically Integrated Society in Edmonton. It is a collective of artists that includes people who experience disability, along with their allies.

The performance felt deeply personal and political as the group shared stories of being in a body that is stigmatized because of its differences from a perceived "normal" body.

For many of us, art can be used to translate our stories and lived experiences in meaningful ways that cannot be expressed through words. I truly believe that art can be a form of resistance against dominant stories of oppression. It has the potential to change people's lives, and to consider that each body is a unique variation of life.

CRIPSiE's performances are featured in the Alberta Eugenics Awareness Week 2014 hosted by the Living Archives on Eugenics in Western Canada. The group's Facebook page states that "an understanding of why, and how eugenics operated as it did, is relevant to all Canadians who embrace human diversity and strive to build inclusive communities."

Eugenics is the belief that human evolution can be crafted by the encouraged breeding of people who are considered the most desirable, while those who are considered

the least desirable were discouraged from breeding. At one point in time, eugenics was also extended to queer people, racialized people, poor and working-class people, and even women. This means many of us share a history of oppression, to some extent. I wonder what it would mean for other marginalized groups to ally themselves with disabled people in order to work together to fight against discrimination and create social change.

We must not forget that Alberta introduced the Sexual Sterilization Act in 1928, and it was not repealed until 1972 after thousands of people had been legally sterilized. With that said, it is scary to think that even today eugenics has not disappeared. Disability activist and scholar A J Withers writes, "every time a pregnancy is intervened upon to prevent disability, eugenics is operating. Every time someone is sterilized or administered birth control against their will or without their knowledge, eugenics is operating. Eugenics is insidious and pervasive and continues to be a threat to disabled people."

From what I have seen and heard, many non-disabled people feel pity for disabled people because they can never be completely independent and must always depend on a strong care community. It is for these reasons, and more, that many

non-disabled people hold onto the belief that living with a disability is a personal tragedy, which makes it a life not worth living—and that is not true.

Living with a stigmatized body or identity creates different ways of being in the world that provides valuable perspectives on life. There are many different ways that we can feel pride in who we are as unique human beings.

As I watched the body non-conforming dancers move together in solidarity, I felt a deep sense of vulnerability. I think that we need each other to dismantle the oppressive systems—such as modern-day eugenics—that continue to constrain our behaviours and actions.

But because we live in a world that thrives on individuality and personal responsibility, there is reluctance among all of us to admit to weakness and vulnerability. Someone once told me that vulnerability is a strength. Initially, I had no clue what they meant. But now I think when we allow ourselves to be vulnerable with each other, not only does that allow others to be vulnerable, but we find space for compassion and caring that can take us to new places of understanding ourselves—and each other. V

November 1 - 9: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. The world’s best mountain films, books, and speakers return to Banff for the 39th annual Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival. This beloved festival, brought to life at The Banff Centre, tells stories of profound journeys, unexpected adventures and ground-breaking expeditions. Get your tickets today!

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The wine world has its share of ghoulish and gory stories, and there's no better time to check them out than Halloween.

So, pop a cork (preferably from one of the sinister-themed bottles below) and read on for tales of vinous terror.

Haunted Cellars The most famous case of a haunted wine cellar is probably the story from which Casillero del Diablo takes its name. Meaning "Cellar of the Devil" in Spanish, the name derives from a legend that the winery's deepest, darkest cellars were haunted by the devil. It's a cool story, but sadly 100-percent invented: the rumours were spread by the vineyard owner, Don Melchor, after he discovered a bunch of his best wines had been stolen from the cellar. He spread the legend of the devil to discourage future thievery, and the story stuck.

A much creepier tale is that of Miles Wine Cellars in New York State. The winery is located in an old mansion, built in 1802, overlooking Seneca Lake. The Miles family has owned the property since the '80s and began experiencing classic haunting phenomena as soon as they moved in: slamming doors, mysterious footsteps, unseen presences pushing on family members while they slept and flinging their blankets across the room, and mist coalescing throughout the house. Various clairvoyants have visited the property and confirmed the presence of several spirits, but rather than move out, the family embraced their non-corporeal roommates and

even named some of their wines after them. However, they like to keep the paranormal peace, so if you stay at the winery's inn you'll have to sign off on a waiver promising not to perform a séance or engage in any other activities that might stir up the spirits.

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Another major cause of wine-related death is Champagne: a bottle of bubbly is a loaded gun when the wire closure is removed, as that bottle has the same amount of pressure as a truck tire. As you probably suspect, eye injuries are the most common, but occasionally those flying corks cause much greater injuries. Chinese billionaire Dingxiang Loeng was killed this past July by an errant Champagne cork (at his 50th birthday party, no less) that hit him in the temple and caused a fatal brain hemorrhage. V

Death by Wine Drowning in wine may be a common euphemism, but some people have quite literally met their end this way.

The first documented case of a person who drowned in wine was George Plantagenet, the first Duke of Clarence and brother of King Richard III and King Edward IV. He ended up in the Tower of London in 1478, thanks to political backstabbing during the War of the Roses; rumour has it that he chose to be executed by drowning in a cask Bogle Vineyards Phantom of wine.

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Who, me? A barber? // Cameron MacRae

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hough she's in the midst of rehearsing one of the most enduring comic operas in the repertoire, it's the characters found on the silver screen that presently occupy Allison Clark's mind. Especially in rehearsal.

This take on The Barber of Seville finds Rossini's tale of turbulent-butplucky young love playing out on a

1940s film-studio lot, which has Clark scouting its scenes for moments that can showcase that cinematic scenario.

"It's so much fun. We actually decided we were going to be on the look out [over] the last two weeks for movie references we could use," the director says. "Like this section's going to be a horror movie, and this

section's going to be Michelle Pfeiffer on top of the piano ... as we've gone through, we've found new things to mine, in terms of movie-buff stuff. It's subtle, but it's fun for us."

Sitting in a coffee shop in Bonnie Doon, Clark has a comic energy about her, eyes that dart about as she talks, and widen when they find humour in

Clark was here last season directing Edmonton Opera's Die Fledermaus; this subsequent return marks the first time she's helmed a production Setting aside, Clark's found that minof Barber. (Clark had helped with a ing the comic moments out of op"creaky old" production a few years era—a genre that more often reaches back, but she wasn't directing.) This, for huge swells of emotion to convey by comparison, sparkles with youth: tragedy rather than quick laughs and that vibrant '40s setting ("the cos- comedy—isn't actually much differtumes are fantastic," she says); a ent from going for those big emotive young, all-Canadian cast of singers; swells. Though when it comes to the and the material itself: a score that Barber of Seville in particular, the pop culture's made score has a way of guiding the pretty generous use of over the years, Sat, Oct 25 (8 pm); Tue, Oct 28 humour along too. from Mrs Doubtfire & Thu, Oct 30 (7:30 pm) "It's the same as (Williams sangs part Directed by Allison Clark of the Figaro aria) to Jubilee Auditorium, $40 – $140 in any play; you work with the Looney Tunes.

"You hear 'da-dapeople who are da-dada ... da-da-da-dada' and you in front of you, and you work with think Bugs Bunny, even if you're a the text," Clark says, as a grin begins huge opera fan," she says. "We have to form. "And luckily, sometimes the all these historical impulses within us, music says, 'You should sneak over so when we hear it, it kind of feels like there.'" coming home. There's a real recogni- PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM tion factor in this piece, and in setting

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Dead Centre of Town

Creepy Edmonton history // Mat Simpson

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hotgun-wielding Madams, drunken Mounties and a good old-fashioned possession: Edmonton has a more colourful history than you might expect.

It's that time of year when we get to learn about a new facet of our city's seedier history: Dead Centre of Town, Edmonton's pop-up haunted house, has returned—this time on 1885 Street in Fort Edmonton Park.

"This year we didn't get as many haunting stories; it's more crime stories from about 1880 to 1920," says Dead Centre Creepy Edmonton history // Mat Simpson co-creator Beth Dart, who puts the

it in to a setting that's within memory.

'Cause we all know everything there is to know about moviemaking and about the '40s because of all the films we've seen. I think it's a really comfortable setting."

show together each year with her sister Megan through their company Catch the Keys Productions. "We're telling a lot of actual crime stories from the time.

A couple stories about Madams from Edmonton back then, a couple murders, a possession—lots of fun stuff."

Think of Dead Centre as a historical tour with live re-enactments: audiences will be led along the length of 1885 Street—poking around in a few buildings along the way—by the cast of 17 performers. This is the show's seventh incarnation; previous years were

throughout the year, and they also worked with Fort Edmonton Park's historians for this particular event.

"My favourite story this year is about an Edmonton Madam named Big Nelly," Dart says. "She had some drunk North-West Mounted Police come visit her late at night and she refused them, and they tried to break into her house so she shot them. But she only went to jail for a very short period of time because she also happened to be the only midwife in Edmonton at the Fri, Oct 24, Sat, Oct 25 time—so she & Fri, Oct 31 (in conjunction got out of shootwith Spooktacular) ing the NorthWed, Oct 29; Thu, Oct 30 (in West Mounted conjunction with Scary Nasty) Police because (Six shows per night starting at of the skill set 6:30 pm) held at Block 1912, she had.

1885 Street, Fort Edmonton "It's just such Avenue Theatre, Park, $15 New City, Iron Horse, a great passion project for us the Artery and the Globe Tap Bar. all," Dart contin"We haven't had to recycle any sto- ues. "Everybody that we have on the ries yet, which has been pretty great," team is really truly interested and inDart says. vested in telling the historical aspect of the stories, while also creating a They've pulled from various ar- fun, creepy experience for the audichived materials for each year's set of ence as well. It kind of feels like our stories; Dart notes that a very help- own version of Christmas, in a way." ful librarian at the Stanley Milner MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM compiles a list of interesting items

VUEWEEKLY OCT 23 – OCT 29, 2014

Skirtoberfest / Sat, Oct 25 (7 pm) Though evocative of Oktoberfest’s sausage/beer/lederhosen trifecta by design, Skirtoberfest looks to offer something a little more nuanced: an evening of music by the likes of Nuela Charles and the Lindsey Walker Band, an excerpt of acclaimed playwright Nicole Moeller’s new work, The Mothers, chocolate and wine pairings by Choklat and a silent auction of myriad prizes. It’s all a fundraiser for SkirtsAFire herArts Festival, which goes up in March as a fest dedicated to women presenting their stories through music, theatre, art and comedy. (Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, $25 in advance, $30 at the door) Rumpelstiltskin / Fri, Oct 24 (7 pm); Sat, Oct 25 (2 pm & 7 pm); Sun, Oct 26 (2 pm) Alberta Opera’s a fine purveyor of imaginative children’s theatre, that—now in its 30th season—is setting its sights on the original He Who Must Not Be Named. A musical take on the classic story, this version’s appropriate for children age five and up, and will feature, as always, some twists on the tale, so if you think you know it all, think again. (Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, $14 – $20)

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Hironao Takahashi, Jonathan Byrne Ollivier, and David Paul Kierce in Northern Ballet’s The Three Musketeers | Photo Merlin Hendy

Swashbuckling fun for the whole family!

November 7-8 780.428.6839

ALBERTABALLET. COM Become a Musketeer at Musketeers in the Making Do your young ones have an appetite for action? Feast on an array of savouries while your children decorate shields, foam swords and princess hats. Then, take a ‘Three Musketeers 101’ fencing tutorial before the performance.

Friday, November 7, 6pm Event tickets: Adults $60.00 / Children (12 and under) $40.00

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VUEWEEKLY OCT 23 – OCT 29, 2014

ARTS PREVUE // MUSIC & DANCE

Drumzy Rachel Notley

New Energy. New Leadership.

Authorized by the official agent for Alberta’s NDP 1-800-465-6587

An Alberta Opera production of

Rumpelstiltskin

October 24-26, 2014 Westbury Theatre ATB Financial Arts Barns

Things are not always what they seem in this thrilling new musical adventure!

Tickets Salena Ramzy

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riental dancing, as it should be, volved learning not just movement is a pure portrayal and demon- but drumming as well.

"If you don't understand the music, stration of the sound of the music in movement," Hossam Ramzy says, and how are you going to portray it?" he he'd be the guy to know. An endur- continues. "The Egyptian music and ing legend in Middle Eastern music, Arabian music are so intricate, and so intwined, the Ramzy's devoted melodies, with his life to pursuing Fri, Oct 24 & Sat, Oct 25 (8 pm) the rhythms, the synthesis of Convocation Hall, University of with the arrangesound and move- Alberta, $50 ments." It's somement. So the fact thing he notes can that Drumzy, the festival bringing Ramzy to town, is be tricky to teach in North America. "I being billed as a celebration of both have to break those elements down, Egyptian music and dance is a slight so they can get to grasp with what it misnomer, if only in how it separates is they're going to be dancing or porthe two; for Ramzy, sound and move- traying." ment are integrally linked, far beyond merely giving the other an auditory or The Ramzys make up the centrepiece draw of Drumzy, but they won't be visual accompaniment.

"The idea is to transmit the music alone, accompanied by musicians live to the audience," Ramzy contin- both of Hossan's personal ensemble ues, admitting to some residual jet and the University of Alberta's Midlag from Ann Arbor, Michigan, his dle Eastern and North African Music first tour stop after leaving England. Ensemble. Salena will also be per"Our logo, the circular [symbol] in forming with local bellydance group Arabic says, 'The true art of oriental Bedouin Beats, who helped bring dance is to visually hear the music.' So them to town in the first place.

"It was one of those serendipitous this is what we do, and this is what things," Denise Laclair of Bedouin exthe people love."

Born in Cairo, Ramzy took up play- plains. "I got wind he was looking for ing tabla and darbuka early, even- places in North America to perform, tually travelling to Saudi Arabia, so I immediately contacted him."

The appeal of learning from masters where he learned traditional styles; after moving to London and falling of their craft like the Ramzys' was obviin with the jazz crowd (earning the ous, but turning the pair’s stop in town title "The Sultan of Swing" along the into a two-night festival came when way), he cracked North America—Pe- Laclair realized there'd be appeal beter Gabriel tapped his expertise for yond just the bellydance community.

"He is a legend in our world, but bethe soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ. Since cause he's done so much other stuff, then, Ramzy's managed to draw a line I knew there was a good western from Led Zeppelin (performing on appeal for people who enjoy world No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert music," she says. "This was bigger Plant Unledded) to Killing Joke to Jay than him just coming out and doing Z (who sampled Hossam's version of a show. Or giving some drum workshops. It kinda grew to what it needed "Khosara") among many others.

Alongside his wife, dancer Salena to be for a performer of that stature."

Ramzy, Hossam will do some teach- PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM ing while in town too, with those in-

General: $20 Student/Senior: $17 Children: $14 (12 yrs of age and under) Group: $9 Box Office: 780-409-1910

www.fringetheatre.ca

WHAT’S ON AT UALBERTA? MFA graduation shows

Until Oct 25

The Presence of Absence - Agnieszka Koziarz, Sculpture Everything Now Forever - Nora Myers, Painting

FAB Gallery

Drumzy

Oct 24 & 25

A Celebration of Egyptian Music and Dance.

Featuring Hossam & Serena Ramzy Convocation Hall

8:00 p.m.

Blavatsky’s Tower

By Moira Buffini A blind visionary and his family, secluded in a decaying tower, face mortality. A tragi-comedie.

Timms Centre for the Arts

VUEWEEKLY OCT 23 – OCT 29, 2014

Nov 27 - Dec 6

7:30 p.m.

ualberta.ca/artshows ARTS 11

ARTS PREVUE // KNITTING

REVUE // THEATRE

Stix and the City Y

ou know a knitter, and it's not your of in-town workshops: the inaugural Stix grandmother—or not only your and the City featured knitting designer grandmother, anyway. Knitting is a uni- Sylvia Harding. This year's edition of Stix versal activity that crosses all age and features two knitting celebrities: designgender demographics, and has been for er Fiona Ellis and writer Stephanie PearlMcPhee, aka The Yarn Harlot. a long time.

"Our theme is built on Sex and the "From the day I joined, I've always seen City City—we're trying to a fair number of younger make everything have a people involved," says Fri, Oct 24 (6:30 pm) New York-y type of feel Cynthia Hyslop, co-owner DoubleTree by Hilton, to it," Hyslop notes. of Edmonton's River City (16615 - 109 Ave), $50 The weekend kicks off Yarns. "People want me to with "The Comedy Club" say that it's 'hip' because they keep thinking it's gaining in popu- presentation by Pearl-McPhee on Frilarity, but we have a big customer base day night, followed by two full days of and I think it's very diversified—we have workshops in which knitters can learn people from every demographic that and hone various skills under the guidance of Ellis and Pearl-McPhee. come into the store."

"We started doing these knitting reRiver City Yarns opened in 2002 in north Edmonton; Hyslop joined store treats as a way of bringing big-name owner (and her sister) Barb Barone a designers to Edmonton for our customfew years later. The sisters opened a ers," Hyslop says. "I think of it as outsecond location on the south side in reach: your local yarn store [or LYS, in 2007; the north side store moved to a fibre parlance] has to be more than just much bigger location in the west end an LYS; it needs to be a place for artin 2012, and they consolidated the two ists. We kind of see ourselves as being stores into one in April 2014. River City an art-supply store for people who are has hosted an annual knitting workshop fibre artists." for the past dozen years; the first 10 were an annual retreat to Jasper dubbed Mainstream news tends to present Wool, Wine and Wheels. Last year they knitting as some kind of retro yet avantchanged to a more cost-effective format garde endeavour—taking back tradition,

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as it were. Hyslop feels this is largely due to social media and the Ravelry website, which is essentially Facebook for knitters (only far more useful and without all the sponsored ads and privacy concerns). It's also driven by the ubiquity of knitwear on fashion runways, the rise of handmade as very desirable ("nothing carries the positive energy that a handknit object has," Hyslop notes), and the cult status of certain knit projects inspired by pop culture—search Ravelry for Hogwarts scarves or Katniss Everdeen's cowl and you'll start to see how far the rabbit hole goes.

All of the Stix and the City workshops are sold out, but there are still plenty of spots for Pearl-McPhee's Friday night presentation—and Hyslop urges everyone, even non-knitters, to attend.

"If you're not a knitter, it helps you understand the knitter in your life," Hyslop says. "Stephanie's going to talk about why knitters are the way they are. And if you are a knitter, it's going to validate all the things that you thought were kind of geeky about yourself. You're going to have somebody saying you're not alone—and yes, they hide their yarn stash from their spouses, too."

The Daisy Theatre

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

VUEWEEKLY OCT 23 – OCT 29, 2014

Tugging your strings with theirs //

Until Sun, Nov 2 (8 pm) Citadel Theatre, $42 – $52.50

I

t takes special talent to make it the audience, not the marionettes, who's getting their (heart) strings plucked. Ronnie Burkett does it though, with aplomb: this Lethbridge-born veteran puppeteer has revamped The Daisy Theatre since it appeared on the Citadel's Club stage last year.

He's got a new set of marionettes and cabaret numbers from which he creates his vaudevillian show each night, along with a couple longstanding fan favourites: whimsical fairy-wannabe Schnitzel, addled prairie gal Edna Rural and washed-up diva Esme Massengill. Though Burkett towers in plain sight above his stage, providing all the voices and dextrous movements for his band of stringed alter egos, as soon as each one sashays on stage you all but forget about the creator—except when one of those puppets wonders aloud who's jerking their strings around.

With whip-smart banter that's off-the-cuff but spot-on, Burkett takes all sorts of pot shots throughout the night: everything's a target, from the Citadel and the Sterling awards to Alberta's oil wealth and provincial politics, to Edmonton's theatre critics (who were wellrepresented on opening night)— including yours truly, when she was reluctantly hauled on stage.

"What the fuck is happening?" cried Burkett as he spotted Liz Nicholls and Colin MacLean sharing a table. (Though he sadly neglected a golden opportunity to take a further shot at Postmedia's recent consolidation, implicated perfectly by that seating arrangement.)

Infectiously crass humour aside, there are also real moments of true tenderness and poignancy peppered throughout The Daisy: poor little Schnitzel's struggles, especially his final monologue, were easily the most touching, but the segment with aged ventriloquist Meyer Lemon and his captive dummy Little Woody Linden was also affecting. It's that heart underneath the vulgarity that makes The Daisy Theatre so memorable.

The marionettes themselves are fascinatingly detailed, and Burkett really is a master at giving them wonderfully natural gestures, from the careless flick of a diva's spangled wrist to a tenuous tightrope walk or a bawdy yet adroit striptease.

Many shows claim that multiple viewings will increase (or at least sustain) the audience's enjoyment; The Daisy Theatre is one of very few for which this is probably more truth than hype.

jenn grant

2014-2015 SeaSON

OUr STaGE. YOUr EXPeRIENCe.

A voice like brushstrokes on canvas.

Saturday, November 1 \ 7:30 pm \ $28

young drunk punk Written and performed

by Bruce McCulloch Sunday, November 2 \ 7:30 pm \ $30 Please note: This performance is intended for mature audiences.

charles ross: ONE MAN STAR WARS May the force be with you.

Thursday, November 13 \ 7:30 pm \ $28

TICKETS: 780-459-1542 \

\ ardentheatre.com

MEL PRIESTLEY

MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

VUEWEEKLY OCT 23 – OCT 29, 2014

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

DANCE DRUMZY: A CELEBRATION OF EGYPTIAN MUSIC & DANCE • Convocation, U of A • Hossam Ramzy, Serena Ramzy, Emile Basili (violin), El Gamal El Kordi (keyboard), and U of A's Middle Eastern and North African Music Ensemble • Oct 24-25, 8-10pm • $25 (student)/$50 (adult) • Dance: at Pleasantview Hall; Oct 25-26 • Percussion: Jam style session.

All levels at U of A; Oct 27, 4-7pm

BUGERA MATHESON • 10345-124 St • SHAPES & LINES: Kim Atlin and Scott Pattinson • Nov 1-15 • Opening: Nov 1, 1-4pm

graduation shows: The PRESENCE OF ABSENCE: Agnieszka Koziarz (MFA Sculpture); EVERYTHING NOW FOREVER: Nora Myers (MFA Painting); until Oct 25

ALBERTA WIDE ART SHOW: Presented by the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 St,

FRONT • 12312 Jasper Ave • VOYAGE: Amy Dryer and Verna

780.863.4040 • SOME SOLITARY BEACONS: Artworks by Erik Osberg; until Nov 15 • Pop-In and Print Workshop: launch the Swain Print Studio. Workshop: Oct 29, 6-9pm; $10 (use your own materials)/$12 (CPI supplies); RSVP at 780.863.4040

PORTRAITS: By Patrick Higgins; until Dec 7 • Works by Wendy Gervais; Oct 31-Nov 27; artist’s opening: Nov 2, 1-3:30pm

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • FOLIE DU

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 •

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park,

Vogel; until Nov 3 CORBEAU: Works by Claude Boocock; until Nov 23 • Boutique: Sculptures by Rénauld Lavoie

TASTING WITH YOUR EYES: Works by Carmen Gonzalez; Oct 24Nov 14; artist opening: Oct 25, 1-4pm • Art Therapy Fundraiser: appetizers, entertainment, silent auction items, a live art auction; Oct 24, 6:30-9:30pm

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211 • 306'ERS A WAVE FROM SASKATCHEWAN: Works by Amalie Atkins, Ruth Cuthand, David Garneau, Zachari Logan, Clint Neufeld, Alison Norlen, and Laura St Pierre • Until Nov 29

780.410.8585 • PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS: Large scale 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 • Pastel works by Tony Overweel; Oct 28-Nov 24

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Gallery Walls: RUST WORKS: Photographs by Darrin Hagen; until Oct 31 • Display Cases: Edmonton Potters' Guild present ceramic works •

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.200.2711 •

MCMULLEN • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • MISERICORDIA HOSPITAL • Main Fl, 16940-87 Ave • Edmonton Art Club Annual Fall Show • Until Oct 31 MCPAG–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 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 • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • Main: THIS ONE GOES OUT TO THE ONE I LOVE: A dark but humorous exhibition by Krista Acheson; until Nov 15 • Artisan Nook: PEN TO PAPER + + : Group exhibit; until Nov 13 • Vertical Space: WHAT COLOUR IS LOVE?: Paintings by Jude Ifesieh; until Nov 15

NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery • 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • A VIEW FROM INSIDE: Artists involved in Alberta Correctional Services; until Nov 5 • Skirtoberfest: The Lindsey Walker Band, Nuela Charles; excerpt from Nicole Moeller’s new play The Mothers; Fundraiser for 2015 festival; Oct 25

EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St, 780.893.6828 • Nov 1, 8pm

St, 780.459.1530 • St Albert Readers' Festival; until Nov 3 • Jane Christmas, author of travel memoir with host Anne Bailey; Oct 24, 7-8:30pm; $5 • Authors P S Duffy and Jennifer Robson; Oct 25, 7pm; $5 • Fred Stenson talking with Curtis Gillespie; Oct 27, 7pm; $5 • Yann Martel; Oct 29, 7pm; $10 • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St: Joseph Boyden in conversation with Diana Davidson; Oct 23, 7pm; $10

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8601 • Time Out: Liane Shaw shares stories that will inspire teachers and parents; Oct 23, 7-8pm; $10/$5 (student) at TIX on the Square, library • Soiree Of Short Stories: An evening of readings

by Astrid Blodgett, Audrey Whitson, and Jasmina Odor in County Council Chambers; Oct 24, 7-9pm; pre-register • Words In The Park: Local scribes and poets; Oct 25, 12-4pm; free, words.sclibrary.ab.ca • What Makes Olga Run? with Bruce Grierson; Oct 25, 11am-12pm; $10/$5 (student) at TIX on the Square • Polar Winds with Danielle Metcalfe-Chenail; Oct 25, 1-2pm; $10 /$5 (student) at TIX on the Square • Stories from the Other Side: reading by Anny Slegten, in the County Council Chambers; Oct 25, 3-4pm; free, pre-register • Somewhere In France, reading with Jennifer Robson; Oct 26, 2-3pm; free, pre-register

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

GOOD WOMEN • Sugarfoot, 10545-81 Ave • Peggy Baker Intensive: A full week of technique classes taught by Peggy Baker • Oct 27-31, 10-11:30am

PETER ROBERTSON • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Paintings by David Alexander; Oct 25-Nov 12; opening: Oct 25, 2-4pm

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10545-81

THEATRE

PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood

AND THEN, THE LIGHTS WENT OUT… •

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

Park, 780.467.3038 • Paintings by Jonn Einerssen and soapstone sculptures by Vance Theoret • Until Nov 8

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • Orientation Gallery: FINDING PLACE: EXPLORING HOME THROUGH FIELD JOURNAL ART: Dr Lyn Baldwin's work; until Nov 30

FILM CAPITOL THEATRE–Fort Edmonton • Rocky Mountain Horror Picture Shows double feature: Horror of Dracula, and House of Wax • Oct 23, 7:30pm EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • It Happened In Brooklyn (1947, PG); Oct 27, 8pm • $6/$5 (senior 65+/ student)/$30 (membership for the series, eight films)

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (PG); Oct 24, 2pm • World War Z (2013, 14A); Oct 31, 2pm

SPOOKTACULAR MAGICK AND MISCHIEF

GLOBAL EDUCATION–U of A • ECHA 2-420 • Film Screening: DamNation • Oct 23, 6pm • Free IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142 St • Oct 24-30 • 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 4:20pm; Thu 10am • Flight of the Butterflies 3D, G; Fri-Sun 11am, 4:35 pm; Wed 11am • Rocky Mountain Express, G; Sat 12pm; Mon 2pm; Tue 1pm • Jerusalem 3D, G; Thu 2pm • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, PG; Fri-Sat 8:05; Sun 5:45pm

METRO • Metro at the Garneau, 8712-109 St, 780.425.9212 • Reel Family Cinema: Ghostbusters: Oct 27, 7pm; The Secret of Kells, Ireland 2009, digital, Nov 1, 2pm; free for child 12 and under • Reel Rock Film Tour: Valley Uprising; Oct 28, 7pm • Gateway to Cinema: Shaun of the Dead; Oct 29, 7pm • DEDfest Festival: until Oct 26 • Killers, Oct 23, 7pm • The Drownsman, Oct 23, 9:30pm • Housebound, Oct 24, 7pm • Over Your Dead Body; Oct 24, 9:15pm • The Editor, Oct 24, 11:30pm • DEDfest Sat Morning Halloween Cartoon Party: Oct 25, 11am • Open Windows, Oct 25, 1:30pm • Starry Eyes, Oct 25, 3:30pm • The ABCs Of Death 2, Oct 25, 6:30pm • Dead Snow 2: Red VS Dead, Oct 25, 9pm • Lost Soul, Oct 26, 1pm • Among the Living, Oct 26, 3pm • Spring, Oct 26, 7pm • The Babadook, Oct 26, 9:30pm • Hallowe'en Metro Mash: Triple Bill Admission: House on Haunted Hill, 7pm; Horror Express, 9pm; Night of the Living Dead, 11pm; Oct 31, $13 (adult)/$10 (student/senior)/$8 (kids) • The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Oct 25, 11:59pm, sold out • Cult Cinema: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Oct 28, 9:30pm • Regular Metro Screenings: Evening: $12 (adult)/$9 (student/senior)/$6 (child 12 and under); Mat: $10 (adult)/$6 (student/senior)/$6 (child under 13)

WINSPEAR • The Phantom of the Opera: 1925 film starring Lon Chaney will close out your Hallowe'en revelry, with accompaniment from Dennis James, expert silent film organist • Oct 31, 11:30pm • $24

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: CAFFEINE: Robin DuPont and Sarah Pike, two BC potters, explore the theme of ‘caffeine’ and the rituals around it • 21 KONSTRUCTIONS: Cross Stitch by fibre artist Brenda Raynard; Oct 25-Nov 29; opening: Oct 25, 2-4pm • Feature Gallery: WELL IN HAND: Craft artists explore their own horse connections; until Dec 24

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • TOULOUSE-LAUTREC AND LA VIE MODERNE: PARIS 1880-1910: explores life, art and culture in turn-of-the-century Paris, through the work of Toulouse-Lautrec and his contemporaries; until Nov 16 • A MOVING IMAGE: until Jan 4 • 90 X 90: CELEBRATING ART IN ALBERTA: Part 2: Oct 24-Jan 4, 2015 • BMO World of Creativity: WORLD OF BOO: Jason Carter and Bridget Ryan; until Apr 16, 2015 • RBC New Works Gallery: AMY MALBEUF: KAYÂS-AGO: Large-scale installation; until Nov 16 • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm • Special event: Nocturne–A Masquerade Party: Oct 25, 8pm-1am • $150/$125 (member) incl food and host bar

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • 60 TIBETAN PEARLS: THE PAINTED MEMORIES OF CHOEGYAL RINPOCHE: Paintings by Choegyal Rinpoche; until Nov 1

BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • A GREATER PURPOSE: Works by Aaron Paquette • Until Oct 29

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SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • Main Gallery: Larissa Blokhuis; Oct 28-Nov 22 • Fireplace Room: Red Deer College/High School Award Winners; through Nov

SNAP • 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • LIFEBOATS: Works

by Patrick Mahon • Artist Talk: Oct 23, 5:15pm (U of A, FAB, Rm 2-20) • Community Gallery: NOT MY CLOTHES: Works

by Brittney Roy • Oct 23-Nov 22 • Opening: Oct 24, 7-9pm, artist in attendance

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • GPS ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: until Jun 1, 2015 • INDIANA JONES™ AND THE ADVENTURE OF ARCHAEOLOGY: until Apr 6, 2015; $26.50 (adult)/$19.50 (child 3-12)/$23.50 (youth 13-17), student, senior) • Dark Matters: adults only night: Oct 23, 7pm • Margaret Zeidler Star Theatre: Diggin’ Up the Past: An Archaeology Speaker Series: Robin Woywitka presents Revealing Terrain: The Role of Outburst Floods, Wind, and Wetlands in Oil Sands Region Archaeology; Oct 24, 7pm • Canadian Spacewalkers Presentation: Evening of space exploration with CBC's Bob McDonald; Oct 25, 7pm

NEW!

ADULT ONLY EVENING

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

OCTOBER 31 6 PM - 10PM

DRESS UP AND EXPERIENCE A

FREAK SHOW AN EVENING OF FUN AND SCARES

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 • Gallery A: Jean-Rene LeBlanc • Gallery B: BITS & PIECES: Patricia Coulter (mixed media works); opening: Oct 30, 7-9:30pm

VASA • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • Artists with Disabilities (VASA Special Program show) • Through Oct

THE WORKS • Jackson Power, 10635-95 St • INSTALLATION VIEW: Works by Devon Beggs, Sydney Lancaster, Rhea Lonsdale. Ali Nickerson, curated by Stacey Cann; until Oct 25 • YMCA (Don Wheaton) • 10211-102 Ave: Canvas wall: Rotating year round exhibits • UNCANNY BREACH: Works by Lucille Frost • Until Jan 2015

LITERARY ARDEN • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • Yann Martel: The Power of Literature (STARFest) • Oct 29, 7-8:30pm • Tickets at St Albert Library, 780.459.1530, starfest.ca

U OF A • CCIS 1 140 • Free Film: Sins Invalid: performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, followed by Q&A with Patty Berne via Skype • Oct 25, 2:30pm (door), 3-4:30pm • Free

SCOTT • 10411-124 St • Abstract works by Harold Feist; until Nov 8

Scary Nasty

A Halloween Improv Special October 30 8pm WWW.FORTEDMONTONPARK.CA

AUDREYS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Konn Lavery, book signing of Mental Damnation: Dream; Oct 25, 1:30pm • Rick Ranson's collection of real-life stories, Bittersweet Sands: 24 Days in Fort McMurray!; Oct 29, 7pm; Part of LitFest • Clint Malarchuk, book launch of the Crazy Game; Oct 30, 7pm

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's, 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Tue- Fri, 5-8pm • This week: Scrambled YEG Music by Rob Taylor, dance by Maura Fair Rae, art by Chris Chalifoux, poetry by Bill Gainer and Wolf Carstens; Oct 23, 5-8pm; $10 (door)

KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass Door Coffeehouse

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

Through Oct

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LITFEST • Kids in the Hall Bistro, City Hall: Me, My Selfie,

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • DOROTHY KNOWLES: CANADIAN LANDSCAPES Oct 25-Nov 8 • Opening: Oct 25, 2-4pm

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ENTERPRISE SQUARE • 10230 Jasper Ave • Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • DEF PERSPECTIVES: Paintings and drawings by Jesse Thomas; until Oct 25 • DISCOVERING DINOSAURS: until Jan 31, 2015 • Lecture: Beyond the Borders: U of A Dinosaur Research Outside of Canada with Philip Currie; Oct 23, 7pm FAB • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • MFA

JAKE'S • 10441-123 St • The Edmonton art Club: juried show • Oct 25-Nov 28 • Opening: Oct 24, 7-9pm JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 780.433.5807 • POTPOURRI: Works by Cliff and Rosemarie Cunningham, Peter Letendre, and Mike Yamada; until Oct 29 • Works by Ontairio artist C.W. Jeffreys; Oct 31-Dec 17 LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • LAND OF LOVE: DEPICTION OF ORIGINAL PERSIAN ART: Local paintings and calligraphy showcasing the culture of Iran • Until Oct 25

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CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13

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GOOD EVENING MONSIEUR CHOPIN • Campus St-Jean Auditorium, 8406-91 St • By Maria Nowotarska, Joanna Sokolowska-Gwizdka, English subtitles. Starring Maria Nowotarska, Agata Pilitowska, and Marek Pilitowski • Oct 26, 4pm • $20 (adult)/$10 (senior/student, TKP/ PCS member) LA CORNEILLE • La Cité francophone, 8627-91 St • L'Unithéâtre, by Lise Vaillancourt. directed by Micheline Chevrier • Oct 29-Nov 9 • $26 (adult)/$22 (senior)/$17 (student) at lunitheatre.ca, 780.469.8400

LOVEPLAY • Timms, U of A Studio Theatre • Oct 30-Nov 8 • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); Mat: $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 (senior); preview: $5 (all); Mon: 2-for-1 MAESTRO • Citadel, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre Improv • 1st Sat ea month, 7:30-9:30pm • Nov 1, 7:30pm • $12 (adv at rapidfiretheatre.com)/$15 (door)

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by Carlo Goldini, songs by Grant Olding, featuring the Be Arthurs, directed by Bob Baker • Oct 25-Nov 16 PAJAMA PARTY • Arden, St Albert • Family Series: Noisy Theatre with Mary Lambert • Oct 23, 11am • $10 (adult)/$5 (child)/free for child under 2 PIRATES OF THE NORTH SASKATHCHEWAN III • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, 780.484.2424 • An adventure complimented with rock hits of the '70s • Until Oct 26

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Until Sun, Oct 26 Dedfest Metro Cinemat at the Garneau Full schedule at dedfest.com

Dedfest brings a scatter of contemporary horror films to Edmonton

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ust like the unkillable slasher in some '80s horror series (take your pick), Dedfest is returning now for its seventh iteration, collecting a swath of horror films from around the world and letting them paint the Metro Cinema screen every imaginable shade of red. With plenty of films to choose from—including a Saturday morning Halloween cartoon party and Friday's secret screening, which, ahem, might just be the new Takashi Miike film, for those who like that sort of thing—we've rounded up and watched a scatter of the festival's films to help guide your choices, though there's plenty more to choose from. T'is the season, after all.

Reviews by: Meaghan Baxter (MB), Paul Blinov (PB), Brian Gibson (BG). All screenings at Metro Cinema at the Garneau.

Sat, Oct 25 (9 pm) Dead Snow 2 Directed by Tommy Wirkola

 "It sounds like a cliché, but it's not," says Martin, tied down in a hospital bed, recounting his previous run-in with a group of zombie nazi soldiers, then after cursed gold, now after revenge. I'm not so sure about it being cliché—I mean, individually, sure, zombies or Nazis can be a little overdone these days, but zombie Nazis kind of compliment each other nicely, and especially since this sequel shows that such

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Mommy

An unhealthy family bond

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a ridiculous mash-up idea has some enduring punch for the premise. Big on gore and gore-based humour, Dead Snow 2's rollicking revenge tale picks up immediately after the events of the first film, but heightens every part of the scenario: Martin ends up with one of those Nazi zombie arms attached to him, a trio of pretty hilarious American zombie killing nerds show up, and there's a climactic battle involving tanks. For delivering on its sheer over the top gusto, Dead Snow 2 proves its idea to be deserving of one more rise from the grave. PB

Sat, Oct 25 (1:30 pm - 3:10 pm) Open Windows Directed by Nacho Vigalondo

Sun, Oct 26 (1 pm) Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley’s Island of Doctor Moreau Directed by David Gregory

 Nick Chambers’ dreams are coming true—he gets to meet Jill Gooddard, an actress he has a one-sided love affair with and the star of his blog. That is, until Chambers (Elijah Wood) is informed via an online call that the meeting with Gooddard (Sasha Grey—yes, that Sasha Grey) has been cancelled. The bearer of the bad news is a mysterious stranger named Chord (Neil Maskell), who sucks Chambers into a computerhacking scheme that takes an unsettling and dangerous twist. The film plays out almost entirely via windows on Chambers’ computer, a mechanism that proves effective and assists in ramping up the film’s suspense. The plot may have its holes and weak points, but as Goddard’s digital space is invaded and her privacy obliterated, Open Windows reinforces just how vulnerable technology has made us. MB

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tribute to an unbreakable motherson bond that kinda-sorta-maybe hints at the possibility of perversion being fundamental to its durability; a half-hearted quasi-polemic about a "fictional Canada" that only perfunctorily questions the role of government intervention in fraught familial situations; a tale of two people that can't shut up befriending a woman who can barely complete a sentence. Quebec wunderkind Xavier Dolan's fifth feature is, like its predecessors, almost a lot of things. I'm tempted to say it's almost good, but the film, and the hullabaloo surrounding it, deserves to be appraised with more nuance than such good-bad binaries allow—even if the film itself often lacks such nuance in its characterizations.

Mommy is Canada's official submission for the upcoming Opens Friday Best Foreign Language Oscar, Directed by Xavier Dolan and, in one of 2014's more per plexing moments in movie culture, it won Dolan half a Jury Prize at Cannes—the other

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A rip-roaring arson-investigation of a notorious flame-out. Director David Gregory gathers original director Richard Stanley, actors (including Fairuza Balk, Marco Hofschneider, and Rob Morrow), crew, and studio executives to recall the devolved debacle that was The Island of Doctor Moreau (1995-96). Stanley’s scholarly and a tad eccentric—a Panama-hatted South African up-and-comer, the son of a roving anthropologist, and a great-grandson of explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley, he was passionate about adapting HG Wells’ book. He even called on a charm-casting warlock pal to ensure his project went well.

Rashomon-like, the actors recall their trust in Stanley, while the execs recall his aloofness and his disinterest in necessary meetings (Stanley himself can be reticent; Morrow’s hard to gauge). By the time Marlon Brando’s arrival on set was delayed by family tragedy, Val Kilmer was getting stroppy, and a hurricane hit the Northern Australia set, the writing was on the crumbling wall. Here’s a fascinating look, rife with bizarro anecdotes and goofy twists, at how kookily overblown yet pitifully pettiness-filled a film’s production can be ... and how an auteur’s long-burning vision can get snuffed out by the flukes and forces of a few fateful months, in a decade when outsider studios (like New Line) met exploding star-power (Alisters’ salaries gobbling up a flick’s budget). BG

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half belonging to Jean-Luc Godard, a filmmaker nearly 60 years Dolan's senior and, by the standards of your average cinephile, at least 60 times more important a filmmaker. That Dolan has talent is without question. That all of that talent makes it on-screen without much in way of shape, discipline, accrued wisdom or coherence apparently strikes some as heroically audacious. I strikes me as a career-in-progress.

Mommy is a mess—and it isn't an arresting a mess as Dolan's sprawling 2012 love story Laurence Anyways.

Its story of suburban working class family in constant crisis is bloated with cliché-ridden music-video-like sequences (cue the Counting Crows and Oasis, played in their entirety), lazily conceived supporting characters (see Patrick Huard as the lawyer love interest) and too many scenes that find Steve (Antoine-Olivier Pilon), its troubled teenager and Mommy's boy, to physically abuse or humiliate

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everyone around him, from his loved ones to a cabbie at whom he hurls racist slurs, while asking us to merely shrug it all off because we feel sorry for him. Mommy gushingly celebrates familial bonds but is uninterested in grappling with the consequences of the precarious scenario it depicts.

What Mommy really has going for it are the same things that all Dolan's films have going for them: amazing, emotionally dextrous performances, most especially from Anne Dorval, who plays Diane, the titular single mother of an adolescent boy prone to fits of violent behaviour, and Suzanne Clément, who plays Kyla, Diane's kindly neighbour. I'll give Dolan credit for his role in shaping those performances, but I'm hardly going to claim that as grounds for comparison with one of the most visionary—and genuinely audacious—figures in the histoire(s) du cinema.

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // ANIMATED

A skeletal sort of holiday

The Book of Life

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he Land of the Remembered, and Eurydice, Theseus and the unruled by a stitch-lipped La derworld scenes in Greek and Roman Muerte, raven-haired beneath a som- epics.) But when, too often, it gets brero ringed with lit candles; The Hollywooden—sexy-girl figures, lovestory moments, Land of the Forpop songs—this gotten, ruled by Now playing afterlife odyssey her foe and love, Directed by Jorge Gutierrez blends and blands the snow-beard-  out much of its ed, gap-toothed, green-glowing Xiforeign flavour.

After Xibalba, eager to switch kingbalba. The Land of the Remembered, bursting with festive colours and doms, convinces La Muerte to make piñata papier-mâché floats and the a wager on whether the musician happy spirits of ancestors, reunited, Manolo (voiced by Diego Luna) or the all candle-glow eyes and smiling soldier Joaquin (Channing Tatum) will wooden faces. And the blockish mari- marry Maria (Zoe Saldana), the lord onettes of San Angel's Manolo and of the unremembered dead cheats, Joaquin, all chiselled faces and shoul- killing Manolo—can he return from ders like epaulettes and fingers like beyond to win his lady love and vanquish the big-bad-bandit Chakal? bony joints.

These are the wonders of Jorge Gutierrez's Day of the Dead animated- The frame story—a museum guide feature The Book of Life, best when tells this tale to jaded city kids toit dives deep into Mexican myth and day—seems unnecessary but serves legend. (World Lit 101 students may as a buffer for youngsters who might notice faint overlaps with Orpheus get spooked by the story's darker

shades and neatly bridges past and present at the end. San Angel's comic relief—pigs, a trio of nuns, a mariachi band—doesn't overstay its whimsical welcome, and there are some strikingly strange touches, from Radiohead's "Creep" strummed out in a bullring to Manolo's many matador ancestors.

But most of the songs are contempAmerican pop-pap; Maria, for all her supposed independence, is drawn like a Barbie with Bambi eyes; the underworld sequence soon turns video-gamey. And there's no flashing flourish of an estocada (death-blow for a bull) at the end—after its Día de Muertos focus on remembering one's ancestors (Manolo's helped by family present and passed), the story falls on its sword, ending with a clichéd "you can write your own story" moral straight out of the American Dream playbook.

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A Nightmare on Elm Street T

ina (Amanda Wyss) can't get over edge out the slasher-flick competithis nightmare she had about a tion: it fed on primal anxieties congrody guy with long fingernails— cerning sleep and the vulnerability and it turns out that maybe her best it imposes upon the sleeper. And the friend Nancy (Heather Langenkamp) longer we go without sleep, the less had the same dream. We'd better lucid and more hysterical we become. have a sleepover! And, while we're at Which helps excuse the annoyingly hysteria of our toit, let's invite Nanken final girl, who cy's non-threat- Tue, Oct 28 (9:30 pm) is in most of her ening boyfriend Directed by Wes Craven later scenes as flat Glen (ladies and Metro Cinema at the Garneau and shouty as her gentlemen, Johnny Originally released: 1984 tippling mother Depp). And if the (Ronee Blakley, very threatening and aptly named Rod (Jsu Garcia) the fragile singing star of Robert Altshows up too, so much the better— man's Nashville) is dreamily sedated. he can take the rap when, following Written and directed by Wes Crasome noisy nookie, Tina gets carved ven, A Nightmare on Elm Street has up and viciously tossed about her become iconic, despite the fact that bedroom by invisible forces until she no one old enough to tie their own lands in a bloody heap. Something shoes could possibly be frightened by evil came out of Tina's nightmare to Freddy Kruger (Robert Englund), the get her, and it'll come for her pals too heavily scarred bogeyman with the homemade claws and dopey dialogue once they succumb to sleep.

Even in 1984, the set-up was very fa- and the origin story that makes no miliar. Movies about horny teens get- sense. Big spoiler alert: Freddy was ting hacked to bits by a seemingly un- a serial child killer who was in turn stoppable killer with a gimmick were torched to death by the parents of a dime a dozen. But A Nightmare on our teen heroes. He's haunting the Elm Street had something extra to teen dreamers so as to take revenge

on their parents, but why didn't he take his revenge when the teens were kids since, you know, he likes killing kids? I suspect is the answer is that dead teens made for better box office.

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It seems to me that the strongest, creepiest moments in A Nightmare on Elm Street feature no Freddy at all: that scene where dead Tina turns up in Nancy's English class wearing a see-through body bag, or the truly horrific sequence in which a character is sucked into their bed before being boiled into pulp and spewed back out as though from the mouth of a volcano—now that freaked me out when I saw it as a kid. To be sure, the film has much charm and some nice jokes; I just can't help but feel its elevated reputation has more to do with sheer novelty than any real stake it might claim as a great work of horror. But check it out for yourself, if you're so inclined. Metro Cinema is screening it on Tuesday night, along with a locally made short film titled The Beginning of a Nightmare. Director David N.O. will be in attendance.

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John Wick J

ohn Wick (Keanu Reeves) resides in a vast modernist manor in the Jersey woods. Its décor, like Wick's wardrobe, so is uniformly titanium and ashcoloured that for long stretches we could be watching a black and white film. Wick's home resembles a luxury tomb, which seems apt: his beloved wife has died, though she had the foresight to arrange to have an adorable puppy delivered the day of her funeral to console Wick in his grief.

But, in a perverse twist of fate, that Opens Friday goes to hell too: Directed by Chad Stahelski the spoiled idiot  son (Alfie Allen) of some Russian

Keanu and puppy, in happier times

Mafiosi (Michael Nyqvist) eyeballs Wick's slick '69 Mustang at a service station and decides to break into Wick's house, beat him up, steal his ride and kill his puppy. At this point in John Wick we still don't know much about who Wick is, but the fact that he doesn't call the cops after the spoiled idiot son and his cronies depart should tell us something.

Turns out Wick's a highly regarded contract killer who managed to go straight—and a former associate of the spoiled idiot son's mighty powerful pa. Now that Wick's lost his wife, car and pooch he's pretty much got nothing left to do but kill the spoiled idiot son and whoever else gets in the way. That whoever else turns into, oh, maybe a hundred hired douchebags in tailored suits who get shot, kicked, punched, stabbed, head-butted, blown up and run over in dizzyingly quick succession. John Wick is a revenge movie.

It was written by Derek Kolstad and is the directorial debut of stunt coordinator Chad Stahelski (though as of time-of-writing IMDb also says it's the directorial debut of actor/stuntman David Leitch). Its violence alternates between clean-cool and messy-ugly, it contains a pleasingly minimal amount

of bullshit that doesn't need to be there, it's neither very distinctive nor completely generic and it uses Keanu's natural placidity fairly well.

But what I like best about John Wick is the colourful way it populates its comic-book crime milieu. There's a crack team of dead-guy disposal experts who show up with Windex and body bags at the drop of a corpse; there's a posh hotel that prides itself on being a non-partisan, killing-free zone for thugs of all stripes, a sort of Mafia Switzerland in the middle of Manhattan; there's a crowded nightclub strewn with monochromatic psychedelia that allows Stahelski to stage a small homage to Point Blank, with Reeves casually assuming the Lee Marvin poses; there are sundry bad-asses (one of whom is played by Willem Dafoe) who might save Wick's life or snuff it out depending on the number of zeroes in the commission.

The film's conceits are all wildly overthe-top but they're mostly played out with minimal fuss, almost no scenery chewing, some gallows humour, and a nice little cameo from Ian McShane.

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The Supersuckers release self-proclaimed masterpiece, Get The Hell

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ot too long back the Supersuckers were opening for a version of Thin Lizzy assembled around original drummer Brian Downey and guitarist Scott Gorham.

Happy to be on the same bill as such an influential band, even in a reduced state, the Supersuckers gleefully started incorporating a snippet of the classic "Jailbreak" into its final song before announcing that the Irish band was up next. What was meant as heartfelt homage was taken as a snide swipe by Gorham, who took lead singer Eddie Spaghetti and his band aside to ask that they don't do it again.

"It was a little bit fuddy duddy-ish," says Spaghetti, speaking from his Seattle home while the sounds of domesticity rattle around him. "I mean, everything was great, and we were really enjoying ourselves, but Scott thought we were

taking the piss. We told him that we weren't, but he said that we should just do what we do, and let them do what they do."

What Gorham didn't realize is that the Supersuckers actually were doing what they always do: affectionately prodding at rock 'n' roll while still unabashedly participating in the game.

The band has been doing this for more than a quarter of a century, with a few pit stops here and there for countrymusic digressions, and the Supersuckers have just hit a high-water mark with their latest release, Get The Hell, according to Spaghetti.

"We have no business putting out a record this good this late in the game," he says with a certain amount of bemusement. "Twenty-plus years and it's our masterpiece. I feel like we had to go through an awful lot

of crap to get to this, but it definitely strengthened our resolve."

Continuous problems holding a lineup together, issues with the band's own label and the loss of its longtime manager caused the band to ground to a halt around 2009, not long after the release of the perhaps presciently titled Get It Together. The Supersuckers went on hiatus and Spaghetti embarked on a solo career, releasing Sundowner in 2011 on Bloodshot Records. The singer's lone venture didn't last for long, however; he linked back up with guitarists Dan Bolton and Marty Chandler, added drummer Captain Von Streicher and began touring again. Reinvigorated, the group was soon in the studio and recording new tracks at Willie Nelson's Arlyn Studios in Austin, Texas.

"We just wanted to kick ass on this record," Spaghetti adds. "It was actu-

ally a lot like when we made our first album, because we had so long to write the songs, and we were able to pick out the best ones, rather than just recording songs to fill it out."

With record in hand the band discovered the same dilemma that every other band was in. While the industry was fulsome in its praise of the Supersuckers, not too many labels were actually interested in putting their money where their mouth was. The band was somewhat sympathetic to this issue, having lost money on its own venture, Mid-Fi Records.

"Nobody sells records anymore," Spaghetti admits. "Even the bands that used to sell millions aren't selling that many.

It wasn't that long ago that people actually bought your shit. If someone had told me years ago that there was going

Fri, Oct 25 (8 pm) With Dolly Rotten, Penetrator Pawnshop, $18 to come a time when people would stop buying what you make I might have started doing something else entirely."

Don't make the mistake of thinking that Spaghetti is angry or bitter about the change in the industry. He's got an excellent new album, a band that continues to kick ass on a nightly basis and a desire to continue to do so.

"This is what I have to do," he admits. "I feel like if I tried to change what I do it would be an unprecedented disaster. I'm proud of the songs I write, and I feel the legacy we'll leave behind will speak for itself. It might take the death of the band for us to attain any real success, but I'm okay with that."

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t is a story of incredible strength and courage," Lizzy Hoyt says of the title track on her fourth album, New Lady on the Prairie.

The figure at the centre of this tale is Hoyt's great-great aunt, who immigrated to Canada from Ireland in the early 1900s.

"Having had an experience of living abroad [in France] while I was at university and encountering culture shock and experiencing that loneliness probably had something to do with it," Hoyt says of her decision to make her great-great aunt's story a focal point of her album. "At least when I went

abroad I could phone home or Skype.

I didn't have to wait three weeks for a letter, and so just the sort of personal strength that I feel like she must have had to come out here on her own as a young woman to northern Alberta in the bush lands—I'm in awe. I love the idea of thinking back and imagining what that would have felt like."

Hoyt learned about her tenacious great-great aunt (known to her as Aunt Bell, though Hoyt is unsure of her full name) from her grandmother, but filled in any blanks with her own imagination.

"We've got photos of her and I feel like anything I've heard about her and her stories, she looks like them in her photos," Hoyt adds. "She's very proud looking—not in a conceited way—but very proud and strong and dignified. In those times, too, something that struck me was she looked so much like a woman, like a lady.

They all wore dresses.

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clothes in a bucket on her own, she's still wearing a dress."

Poignant storytelling is a hallmark of Hoyt's music—she was awarded the Queen's Diamond Jubilee Medal by the Governor General for her contribution to commemorating Canadian veterans and history through music, which can be heard in the haunting song "Vimy Ridge" on her previous album, Home. New Lady on the Prairie creates a connection to different parts of history with tracks like "Wars of Germany" and "The Pantheon," which brings to life the likes of Jean Moulin and Nobel Prize winner Marie Currie.

Hoyt, an accomplished fiddle player in addition to being a decorated folk songwriter, wanted to forge a connection to her audience through the album's instrumental elements as well. Rather than get hung up on tiny details, Hoyt set out to recreate the musicality of her live shows.

"When I'm performing live I'm easily able to connect to my music making and connecting with people and, you know, touching people, making them feel something," she explains. "I wanted to have the same experience in the studio."

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f there was one moment where Curtis Ross had an illuminated understanding about the power of three-chord rock 'n' roll, it was when he taught a group of kids how to slam into "Wild Thing" by the Troggs.

Something of a shredder himself, the one-man force behind electrofunkers Bebop Cortez found himself hypnotized watching his charges at the Centre for Arts & Music entrain, taking pleasure in the basic chord changes.

"They just kept going at it," he marvels. "They were having so much fun playing it that I couldn't really get them to pay attention to the fact that they had to eat soon."

Ross understands such obsessions; he's got multiple hard drives full of the skewed party jams he records at home under the Bebop monicker, and we only get to hear the ones that escape his finicky aural standards. Bebop albums are few and far between, with a seven-year gap appearing between 2004's Romantic Panther Commander and 2011's Who Bangin'.

Ross allows that he endlessly frets over his albums, tweaking right up until the moment when he reluctantly releases them.

The careful work has paid off in excellent reviews, though Ross himself admits that it's awfully hard for some people to place where his music sits.

His own taste is literally all over the sonic map, taking in plenty of '70s funk, occasional dabs of '80s hairmetal guitar wizardry, hip-hop beats and plenty of filthy movie quotes.

Like his students, Ross takes a certain amount of glee in bringing things down to the basics.

"I've actually started incorporating pop songs into the set sometimes," says Ross, who also records as Preyers with long-time collaborator Rosalind Christian. "Some of my students will come in singing a Taylor Swift song, and it starts to work on me, so I'll add it to the show. I'm not sure how the audience was reacting to that kind of thing, but it was pretty fun to do."

Ross hastens to add that there will be no Taylor Swift numbers on the set for his show at the Wunderbar, where he'll be supporting the Backhomes and Betrayers. He'll be slinging a selection of favourites from his two albums, plus a few from an upcoming EP release, which Ross

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Fri, Oct 24 (9 pm) With the Backhomes, Betrayers Wunderbar, $10 has rather whimsically decided in the course of this interview will be released for Christmas of this year.

The EP, which he also decided on the spot will be called Yoga Jazz, will come only four years after Who Bangin', which possibly means that Ross has either found a way to speed up his process or that he's simply tired of the long waits between albums. Then again, maybe he's found a pattern of release that suits his non-existent public-relations attempts.

"That's the funny thing," he muses.

"I've noticed that people tend to get into the albums two years after I release them. Because I'm really bad at selling myself they have to be discovered. The idea of going on Facebook or Twitter and trying to make people go to my shows makes me very uncomfortable. I just don't like that feeling. I guess that means that I'll be discovered in 2050 or something, when I'm long gone."

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hink of the components that make up most for Blues Album of the Year. Hill hopes to earn bands: a guitar or two, a bass, drums, vo- another nomination for his latest instalment, cals. Now imagine playing those by yourself Solo Recordings Volume 2, released earlier this year—he's already logged 86 all at once, plus a harmonica. shows in support of the disc That's what Steve Hill does Thu, Oct 30 (7:30 pm) and plans to get right back each and every night.

Festival Place, $25 in the studio to work on Vol"I have a bass drum, a snare, ume 3 once his Canadian tour a hi-hat that I play with my feet, and I have a drum stick on my guitar's wraps up at the end of November.

"I have a few songs I've been working on, but headstock, so I play the cymbal. I modified my guitar so I can play bass and guitar at the same the big difference is going to be all the experitime," Hill explains casually, as if it were a sim- ence I've had in the last year, playing so much," says Hill, though he's reluctant to divulge any ple thing to be a one-man band.

Hill spent 20 years touring and recording details about the album just yet. "My playing's as a singer and guitar player—sharing the better; I think my songwriting's better also. But stage with the likes of Ray Charles and ZZ just the fact that I'm working all the time, it Top—before building his one-man operation keeps me in a mood where I'm always thinkthree years ago. It began with singing and foot ing about it, I'm always working on it, so it just stomping while playing guitar before gradually gets easier." incorporating additional instruments.

"It's much more personal. It's pretty raw, you Hill isn't giving himself much down time these know? And it keeps it simple, which I like," Hill days, but he wouldn't have it any other way.

"I think I love it more now than when I was says of playing solo. "What I wanted to do, basically, was do something that sounded like what 20 years old. I'm crazy about music and being a they did at Chess Records in the '50s ... these musician—I'm not jaded or anything," Hill says, guys used to play real simple stuff, like some adding his enthusiasm doesn't waver regardtracks from Muddy Waters in the late '50s and less of whether there's 5000 people or 50. "I early '40s was just bass drum and harmonica always give it all I've got, and I figure the more and vocals, you know? I've always liked that." shows I do the better I get. I don't get to do It wasn't long before Hill released his first the one-man band thing if I'm not on stage, and solo album, Solo Recordings Volume 1, a blend because it's such a big set up to do that I don't of rock, country and blues tunes that won Best really do it at home, so I get to practise at the Self-Produced CD at the Memphis Interna- same time." tional Blues Challenge in 2012 and earned the MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM Montréal-based musician a Juno nomination

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e've become slightly nocturnal crea- ate, and I don't know, there was a sense of tures, usually rolling out around getting to the end of that and feeling like midday," says Boy & Bear vocalist and gui- we'd taken a big step forward in terms of the tarist Dave Hosking, who sound we wanted to move happens to be the first Sat, Oct 25 (8 pm) toward as a band." member of the Australian Starlite Room, Sold out indie-rock six-piece to reBoy & Bear is already gain consciousness after a looking towards its next record and has begun work on new tracks. show in Montréal.

"I've got coffee brewing. I'm a happy man," Hosking says the group's material will continhe laughs, insisting he wasn't woken up for ue to embrace the old-school melodies that have shaped its previous work while pulling the interview.

The group is in the midst of its Get Up and the style into the 21st century. What that Dance tour, in support of Harlequin Dream, sounds like exactly, he's not sure, but feels which was released in August 2013 and went the picture is becoming clearer. What fans can expect, though, is pop that breaks the on to hit No 1 in Australia.

Harlequin Dream, a collection of tracks bubble-gum formula and relies on vintagethat wouldn't sound out of place alongside style guitar tones and subtle melodies in the Fleetwood Mac's catalogue, was the start of vein of Fleetwood Mac, the Mamas & the Paan evolution of sorts for Boy & Bear, though pas and the like—that and songs that will be Hosking hopes that description isn't too dra- ideal for driving with the windows down.

"I love listening to music in the car—that's matic. He notes that while Boy & Bear's debut album Moonfire did well at home, it didn't my favourite space," Hosking adds. "Your fohave the success the group had hoped for cus isn't entirely on the music, it's just sort overseas. The band, which was heading into of there with you. I think I'm more and more Harlequin Dream with a new bass player (Da- writing for that space. I'm writing that sort vid Symes) and new management, chipped of groove ... it's not a ballad and slow, but away at recording the album over an eight- it's not like foot-in-the-floor sort of stuff. It's month period at a small studio in Sydney kind of right in the middle and I think I really love that. It has an understated energy to it." until it was satisfied in the finished product.

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Classical music isn’t dead yet. Guitarist Emma Rush is bringing back the true old school with compositions from David Kellner, Mauro Giuliani, Carlo Domeniconi, Oliver Hunt, Joaquin Rodrigo and Jose Luis Merlin. (Muttart Hall, Alberta College; $25 regular admission; $20 for students, seniors and ECGS members)

RIDLEY BENT / FRI, OCT 24 (7 PM)

Ridley Bent does alt-country filled with stories about characters who rarely stay on the straight and narrow. (St Basil’s Cultural Centre; $18 in advance, $22 at the door)

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NERVOUS TALK / SAT, OCT 25 (9 PM) The punk-ish (their term) Vancouver-based four-piece just wants a green planet, OK? Get on board and help ‘em out. (Wunderbar, $10)

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JUNG PEOPLE / SUN, OCT 26 (9 PM) Who says you need words to tell a story? Jung People’s first full-length album Gold Bristle manages to tell the tale of the golden pig of the Norse god Feyr without a single one.

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The Beatles may be one of Britain’s most famous exports, but the Strawbs are considered its most successful when it comes to progressive folk rock—and the group is still going after four decades in the business. (Festival Place, $30 – $34)

DOA / WED, OCT 29 (8 PM) Remember when DOA frontman Joe Shithead Keithley retired in 2012 to take a stab at politics?

That didn’t quite work out, so DOA is back in business. Oh, and the band is working on a new album to be released in 2015. (Pawnshop, $15)

GUNNER & SMITH / THU, OCT 30 (7:30 PM) The folk five-piece is gaining traction south of the border, and helping its home province of Saskatchewan become known for more than flat farmland, cold weather and some die-hard football fans. (Artery; $8 in advance, $10 at the door)

MAYDAY PARADE / THU, OCT 30 (5 PM) Fun fact: Mayday Parade’s debut EP sold more than 50 000 copies without any label support. Now the group is working on its fifth studio album, due out sometime in 2015.

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STARLITE ROOM Boy & Bear;

WUNDERBAR Nervous Talk

(The 'Couv), Everyday Things, Line Traps (Victoria), guests; 9pm; $10 YARDBIRD SUITE International Jazz Series: From Amsterdam Køgging; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

Classical JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

Edmonton Opera: Barber of Seville; sung in Italian with English supertitles; 8pm; complimentary Opera Talks: 45 mins before the curtain, downstairs in the Kaasa Lobby; Main Floor tickets start at $40, at box office, 780.429.1000, TIX on the Square ST ALBERT UNITED CHURCH

Edmonton Vocal Minority; 3-5pm (Diversity Fair), 5pm (potluck dinner); free, dinner guests encouraged to bring potluck meal

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt

Rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr Erick THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID DJ every Sat; 9pm ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten FLUID R&B, hip hop and

dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 Collective Saturdays

underground: House and Techno MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey

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

and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Sat: Global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN Your Famous

(country)

Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing

Skirtoberfest: The Lindsey Walker Band, Nuela Charles; 7pm (door) 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

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

OMAILLES Stephen Lecky &

SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro,

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat,

VUEWEEKLY OCT 23 – OCT 29, 2014

MUSIC 23

old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am UNION HALL Celebrity

Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

OCT/24

JUSTIN MARTIN BOY & BEAR

SUN OCT 26

(DIRTY BIRD USA)

ARTERY High Noon Brunch with

OCT/25 OCT/27 CARNIVAL OF DEATH

FT.

NOV/1

FT.

NOV/4 NOV/6 NOV/12, 14 - 16 NOV/13

ST. LUCIA: THE NIGHT COMES AGAIN TOUR W/ SPECIAL GUEST VACATIONER

BLUES ON WHYTE Ross Neilson

Brunch: Jazz on Sunday with

DUGGAN'S Monday open mic

DUGGAN'S Celtic Music with

ON THE ROCKS Moonshine

Mondays : Lonesome Dove

DV8 Of Temples, Obliterate

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental

and Zachari Smith (father and son indie folk duo); 7:30-10pm; $20; rouseconcerts.ca/ index.htm LEAF BAR Russell Jackson;

9:30pm MERCURY ROOM Five Alarm

Funk, the Gibson Block, guests; 7pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door) NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday

Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder

(country)

TASMAN JUDE

W/ GUESTS

DMB PROMOTIONS PRESENTS

“CBGB’S” HALLOWEEN MASQUERADE

NOV/1 NOV/8 NOV/20

BASEMENT FREAKS GANZ BREACH

Lettuce Produce Beats

EVERY WEDNESDAY @ 6PM JOIN US IN A WEEKLY EXPLORATION OF SOUND!

NOV/21

24 MUSIC

SWEAT: THE NU-DISCO DANCE PARTY

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Big Dreamer Sound jam with hosts Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O'brien; this weeks guest : Justine Vandergrift; every Tue 8pm-12am BLUES ON WHYTE Ross Neilson

Band BUCKINGHAM Simpsons Trivia: Treehouse of Horror Edition!; 8pm DRUID Open Stage Tue: hosted

by Chris Wynters featuring this week: Reid Maul; 9pm FESTIVAL PLACE The Strawbs;

7:30-11pm; $30-$34 L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm LEAF BAR Tue Open Jam:

Trevor Mullen MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Evening: Trick Ryder (country)

SHERLOCK HOLMES PUB–U of A Open Mic Monday Nights

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every

with Adam Holm

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

STARLITE ROOM Carnival

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

of Death–Kataklysm and Suffocation, Jungle Rot, Pyrexia, Internal Bleeding; 6pm (door)

Classical

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest:

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

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip

Open mic every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the

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

Keys, Jake Bugg; 8pm; $35, $55, $75 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 WINSPEAR The Blue Dot

Tour with David Suzuki and Friends, Bruce Cockburn, Royal Wood, Greg Keilor (Blue Rodeo), K-OS; 7pm; $35-$150/$20 (student) at

Winspear box office YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Session: The Fusionauts; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

Classical JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

Edmonton Opera: Barber of Seville; sung in Italian with English supertitles; 7:30pm; complimentary Opera Talks: 45 mins before the curtain, downstairs in the Kaasa Lobby; Main Floor tickets start at $40, at box office, 780.429.1000, TIX on the Square

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and

not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections BRIXX Metal night every Tue DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Swing, Funk, Soul, R&B, Rock&Roll and Electro/ Disco sounds of the last 70 years with DJ Thomas Culture SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED OCT 29 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open

stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARTERY JJ Shiplett with Alex

Vissia and Ego the Jackal; 7:30pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES

Thirsty Thursday singer/ songwriter jam: guest host Emo LeBlanc

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 Ross

Neilson Band BRIXX Lettuce Produce Beats BUCKINGHAM Monster Mash DUGGAN'S Wed open mic with host Duff Robison; 8pm-12am ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every

Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

MERCURY ROOM Crystal

Shawanda, guests

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick

Ryder (country) ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted

by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park

Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PAWN SHOP The True North Strong and Free (Unfarewell Tour), D.O.A., Jenny 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 Wed Night Live:

hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover WINSPEAR An Evening with Sarah Mclachlan; 6:30pm (show), 7:30pm (door); Oct 29 sold out; $60, $90, $120 WUNDERBAR Halloween Bands As Bands: The Zombies, the Vaselines, the Ramones, Swans, Slam Dunk!; 9pm ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

Classical MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH–Banquet Hall

Music Wednesdays at Noon: Neda Yamach and Janna Olson (violin and piano); 12:10-12:50pm; free, bring bag lunch MUTTART HALL Edmonton Recital Society: Ivan Ženatý (violin), Martin Kasík piano); 7:30pm; edmontonrecital.com; $35 (adult)/$25 (senior)/$10 (student) at TIX on the Square, door

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

VENUEGUIDE

W/ TELLER, DMT AND SHAEDES

UPPER LEVEL OF STARLITE

Dreamer Sound jam hosted

by Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O'brien; this weeks guest: Tony Kaye; every Tue 8pm-12am

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

Classical WINSPEAR Great Is Our Lord: Sacred Music Festival: Concordia School of Music Choirs and Handbell Ensemble with guest choirs, Craig Courtney; 3pm; $20 (adult)/$17 (senior/student/

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Big

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

DJs

Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky

ARTERY Ann Vriend (new album, For the People In the Mean Time), Rooster Davis Group (Brought and Soul'ed– Show and Video Shoot); Be an extra in the video shoot; 7:30pm

with Kris Harvey and guests

Pigeon Breeders, Slow Girl Walking

RICHARD'S PUB Sunday

TUE OCT 28

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE

WUNDERBAR Jung People,

Sun; 9:30pm-1am

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

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

WINSPEAR ORGANiC (Organ in Concert) Series: The Royal Canadian College of Organists Edmonton (RCCO Edmonton): Edmonton women organists play the Davis Concert Organ, the Beat Goes On!; 7:30pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (student) at Winspear box office, door

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every

OCT/25 OCT/31

(country)

Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

HOUSE CONCERT–Sherwood Park Graham Heights Andrew

TWIN FORKS W/ NORTHCOTE & HIGHS

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

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

W/ GUESTS

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

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

HOG'S DEN Rockin' the Hog

THE STRUMBELLAS THE SMALLS

Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Band

DIVERSION Sun Night Live on

KILL FRENZY

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

hosted by Tim Lovett

BLUES ON WHYTE Todd Wolfe

A DIRTY BIRD HALLOWEEN

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

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday

Band; 9pm

W/ PUMPKIN, GREAT DANE & KNIGHT RIDERZ

LEVEL 2 Stylus Industry

ARTERY Bird 2.0: The Freak Show Featuring Mary-Lee Bird Band; 7:30pm

Charlie Austin; 9am-3pm; donations

THE FUNK HUNTERS

Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun

Nisku Open mic every Sun

APOCALYPSE

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

MON OCT 27

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–

OCT/31 FUNKIN’ ZOMBIE

DJs

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

- KATAKLYSM & SUFFOCATION W/ JUNGLE ROT, PYREXIA & INTERNAL BLEEDING

child) at Winspear box office, Concordia’s Student Accounts Office, 780.479.9304

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave APEX CASINO–Vee Lounge 24 Boudreau, St Albert ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET 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 BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425 BRITTANY'S 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750-124 St CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CELLAR LOUNGE Edmonton Petroleum Club, 11110-108 St CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DIVERSION LOUNGE 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DUTCH CANADIAN CENTRE 13312-142 St, 780.990.8786 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

VUEWEEKLY OCT 23 – OCT 29, 2014

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOUSE CONCERT–Sherwood Park Graham Heights Sherwood Park, T8B 1B6 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 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR 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 101 St, one block south of Jasper Ave, 780.468.4964 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St,

587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MURPHY'S PUB–Leduc 4723-50 Ave, Leduc, 780.739.7707 MUTTART HALL–Alberta College 10050 MacDonald Dr,

780.905.5861 NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE 9225-118 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 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO Bourbon St, WEM, 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 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower School, 10135-96 Ave ST ALBERT UNITED CHURCH 20 Green Grove Dr, 780.458.8355 ST BASIL'S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SIDELINERS 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 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 WINSPEAR 4 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YESTERDAYS 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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

COMEDY ARDEN THEATRE • 5 St Anne St • 780.459.1542

• Young Drunk Punk, written and performed by Bruce McCulloch • Nov 2, 7:30pm • $30 at Arden Theatre box office

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 Sean Thomson and Howie Miller as our headliner. Call (780) 290-0071 to reserve • Oct 29, 9pm (show) • 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 • Keon Polee; Oct 23 • Jeff Leeson; Oct 24-25 • Brian Work; Oct 30-Nov 1-2 • Tom Liske; Nov 6-8

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 • Michael Malone; until Oct 26 • James Davis; Oct 29-Nov 2 • Pete Correale; Nov 5-9 DRAFT BAR /Connie's Comedy • 12912-50th

Street starting at 6:30 pm • Silly Pints or Laughs and Lagers: with TBA Headliner • Oct 29 • Call Connie: 780.914.8966, E: conniescomedy@gmail.com to get on roster

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

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/Connie's Comedy • 16648-109 Ave • Komedy Krush Halloween Comedy Show that we team up with Capital City Singles. We have Mike Dambra as our headliner for this holiday show • Oct 30, 9pm • Call Connie: 780.914.8966, E: conniescomedy@gmail.com to get on roster LONESTAR CANTINA–Onoway/Connie's Comedy • One Night Stand: Mike Dambra, Keith

Sarnoski, and Sean Thomson • Oct 23, 6pm (door), 8pm (event) • Tickets at 780.967.9193

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic com-

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

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy Groove every Wed; 9pm WINSPEAR CENTRE • Laugh for Life Gala: A Mustard Seed & Kids Kottage Benefit Featuring comedians Tim Hawkins and John Branyan • Oct 25, 7pm • $57.50-$79.50 at Winspear box office

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

EDMONTON GARDENING VEGETARIAN AND VEGAN GROUP • Park Allen Hall, 11104-65 Ave •

780.463.1626 • Vegetarian potluck featuring Demonstrate how to Grow herbs in our Kitchen all year long by speaker Douglas Lehman. Bring vegetarian/vegan/ raw dish for 6 • $8 • Oct 26, 5pm (potluck), 6:30pm (speaker)

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

GREEN DRINKS • greendrinksshoplocal.

eventbrite.ca • Every month people who work in the

THE BLUEDOT TOUR–DAVID SUZUKI •

environmental field meet up at informal sessions known as Green Drinks • Yellowhead Brewery: Shop Local: Meet some of Edmonton's finest local retail business owners under one roof; Nov 5

Winspear Centre • Sharing the wisdom of a life full of action and celebrates Canadians who are standing up for the people and places they love. A special evening of inspiration, music and learning. With Bruce Cockburn, Greg Keelor, and Royal Wood • Oct 28, 7pm • $20 (student)/$35 (adult)

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

CONTEMPORARY PRACTICES IN HAND EMBROIDERY • TELUS Center room 150, U of A •

Free public lecture by Ann Salmonson, presented by the Fashion Culture Network • Oct 28, 7-8 pm • Free

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, 3728-106

EDMONTON OPERA • Ledcor Theatre, AGA, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • edmontonopera.com/ discover/opera101 • Edmonton Opera production and creative teams, provide context and background about The Barber of Seville • Oct 25, 8-10pm • Free FALL FERMENTING AND PICKLING: PRESERVING YOUR ABUNDANT HARVEST

• Noorish Café, 8440-109 St • 780.756.9642 • With Jennifer Ly • Oct 27, 7-9pm • $45

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS • uofa.ualberta.ca/events/

festival-of-ideas#sthash.Eb0PFgSj.dpuf • Stanley Milner Library–Edmonton Rm: Discovering Oates; Nov

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

6, 7pm; free

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

THE LIST OF DIOTIMA: STUDYING POLITICAL SCIENCES • Hm Tory 10-4, U of A • The list of

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

diotima: Studying Political Sciences by Matthais Zimmer • Oct 30, 3:30-5:00pm

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall, 10135-

OVERCOMING ANONYMOUS: WHY SMART WOMEN NEED TO SPEAK UP • 106 Education

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

Bldg Education Centre South • With Shari Graydon • Oct 23, 12-1pm • Free

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83

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

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

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY •

SUSTAINABILITY AND THE NEW GERMAN ENERGY POLICY • Telus Centre 150, U of A • Oct

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

29, 5-6:30pm (lecture); 6:30-8pm (reception) • Free; RSVP by Oct 27 to euce@ualberta.ca

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing,

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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave •

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

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

bsmt, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Public forum featuring bio medical physicist and water fluoridation expert James Beck • Oct 28, 1:30-3:30pm • Donation

QUEER BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912

Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave •

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

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION •

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

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS BEYOND VARIETY: EXPLORATIONS IN VARIEGATED CAPITALISM • Hm Tory 10-4, U of

A • Lecture by Jamie Peck • Oct 23, 3:30-5pm

teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton. ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

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

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-

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

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.

org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured • Halloween Dance at Bellevue Hall: Oct 25

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 AROUND THE WORLD WITH IL DUO • Packrat

Louie, 10335-83 Ave • Opera NUOVA Dinner Cabaret: A 4-course meal, satire of local comedic musical duo "Il Duo" featuring Ron Long, Cling Hagel and pianist Gail Olmstead • Oct 26, 5-9:30pm • $90

ART THERAPY FUNDRAISER • Daffodil Gal-

BEAD MARKET • Ramada Edmonton S, 5359 Calgary Tr • Huge selection of charms, gemstones beads, chains, findings and more • Nov 1, 11am5pm • Free

• 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

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, 1370874 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

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave •

WATER FLUORIDATION: DO YOU KNOW WHAT IS IN YOUR WATER? • SAGE Auditorium

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

Meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion

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

SUSTAINABILITY AWARENESS WEEK • U of

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St

TIBETAN BUDDHIST MAHAMUDRA • Karma

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian

lery, 10412 124 St • An evening with CBC’s Mark Connelly, MLA Matt Jeneroux, and City Councillor Scott McKeen; delicious appetizers, entertainment, silent auction items, a live art auction • Oct 24, 6:30-9:30pm

A • sustainability.ualberta.ca/saw • Free workshops, tours and events, it’s the seventh annual Sustainability Awareness Week (SAW) • Until Oct 24

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

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

of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people

BLACK AND WHITE FUNDRAISER • Festival

Place • Featuring the Shivers ('60s and '70s British Invasion), an all-inclusive event including gourmet dining stations, beverages, live and silent auctions and entertainment • Nov 8 • $150 (in support of community based performing arts opportunities at Festival Place)

BLACK ARTS MASQUERADE PARTY •

Gallery@501, 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • Dress in your most theatrical attire. Party theme will consist of the ever popular supernatural and fantasy television shows including American Horror Story, the Walking Dead, and Game of Thrones • Oct 31-Nov 1 • $20

CAT FANCIERS SHOW • Ramada Conference

Centre, 11834 Kingsway Ave • Oct 25-26, 9am-4pm • $8 (adult)/$5 (senior/kid)/$20 (family of 4); kids under 6 free

CHRISTMAS IN OCTOBER CRAFT AND GIFT SALE • Festival Place, Sherwood Park •

780.461.2003 • xmasinoctober.com • A fun family day connecting with the local crafters and artists • Oct 24, 1-8pm; Oct 25, 10am-5pm; Oct 26, 12-4pm • Support of the Christmas Bureau; $1 (door donation)

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations: rare LIVE Rendevous Pub Rock Show Sat, Dec 6, 9pm • 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) DIFFERENCE AND DIVERSITY: AN EVENING OF PERFORMANCES • Education North 4-104,

U of A Campus • Featuring local artists and performances, 6:30pm (door) • Oct 24, 7-9pm • Free

EDMONTON STARTUP WEEK • Various venues • A 5-day celebration of learning, discussion, and networking at community driven events focusing on speakers and sessions, adventures, and mentoring.

Full schedule at edmontonstartupweek.com • EPCOR Tower Lobby: Launch Party 5: Oct 23, 6:45-10:30pm; $25 (adult)/ $15 (student) • How Big Companies Are Thinking Like Startups Too; Oct 24, 8:30-10am; free • Pre-register for individual Edmonton Startup Week events at edmontonstartupweek.com/tickets E-VILLE ROLLER DERBY • Edmonton Sports-

dome, 10104-32 Ave • Roller derby: the E-Ville Dead take on the Rage N’ Fyre. Halloween costume prizes • Oct 25, 6pm (door), 7pm • $10 (adv at brownpapertickets.com)/event/899547/$15 (door); child under 10 free

FASHION WITH COMPASSION • Shaw

Conference Centre Hall D • fashioncompassion. ca • Featuring fashions from luxury retailers, runway models, and a host of fashion and life-

VUEWEEKLY OCT 23 – OCT 29, 2014

style inspired fundraising activities • Oct 30 • $125 (luncheon)/$275 (gala dinner) at 780.418.6996

HERE’S NINA! • Chateau Lacombe ballroom • Fundraiser event with Sheri Somerville, Stewart Lemoine and the cast of the Varscona Theatre's variety show, That's Terrific, for a madcap musical-info-variety-style extravaganza • Nov 4, 7pm (reception) • $100/$850 (table of ten) at tixonthesquare.ca; proceeds to daily costs of Nina Haggerty Centre LEST WE FORGET: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE • Winspear Centre • A 25-year

long Remembrance tradition continues as the Cosmopolitan Music Society fills the Winspear Centre with music, ceremony and colour in celebration of Canada’s servicemen and women.

Lest We Forget: A Musical Tribute, an evening including everything from ceremonial military marches to popular wartime music • Nov 8, 7:30-10pm • $25

MYSTIC MARKET • The Buckingham, 10435 Whyte Ave • Dirt City's own vintage market • Oct 25, 10am-4:30pm

NOCTURNE–A MASQUERADE PARTY •

AGA, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • A Moulin Rouge Halloween masquerade party with Cancan and burlesque performances, an absinthe bar, music by Jason Kodie, and DJs Girls Club. All exhibitons will be open for viewing • Oct 25, 8pm-1am • $150/$125 (member) incl food and host bar

PHOTOGRAPHIC TRADE SHOW • U of A Universiade Pavilion (Butterdome) • Western Canada's largest photographic Tradeshow featuring 13 of the industries key suppliers demonstrating the latest in photographic technology • Nov 2, 9:30am-5pm • $12 (adv)/$15 (door) at mcbaincamera.com/ept/tickets.html, McBain Camera location POP CULTURE FAIR • Alberta Aviation

Museum, 11410 Kingsway Ave • popculturefair. com • Pop-up market specializing in pop culture items such as toys, videogames, music and movies • Oct 26, 10am- 4:30pm • $7/free (kids 10 and under); come dressed as your favorite pop culture character for free admission

ROCKY MOUNTAIN WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL • Shaw Conference Centre, Halls A – C

• Sample wine, scotch, premium spirits, import and micro-brewed beer with gourmet culinary creations from local restaurants, hotels and food purveyors • Oct 24, 5-10pm; Oct 25, 12-4pm; Oct 25, 6-10pm • $16-$33.50

SCHOOL OF WITCHCRAFT AND WIZARDRY: Science is Magic • Katz Group Rexall

Centre for Pharmacy and Health Research, 8601-114 St • Let's Talk Science for ages 5-1 • Oct 25, 10am-4pm • Free

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm SKIRTOBERFEST • Nina Haggerty, 9225-118 Ave • SkirtsAFire herArts Festival celebrating the success of SkirtsAFire 2014, while taking a peek at what’s lined up for 2015 with chocolate, wine, food and entertainment by the Lindsey Walker Band, Nuela Charles, excerpt from Nicole Moeller’s play The Mothers; silent auction • Oct 25, 7:30-11:30pm • $25 (adv) at skirtsafire. yapsody.com/event/index/5602/skirtoberfestan-evening/$30 (door); proceeds to the 2015 festival SPOOKTACULAR–Magick And Mischief

• Fort Edmonton • Dress-up for this carnival of soothsayers, magicians and other ghoulish characters. Back by popular demand: The Haunt • Family Friendly Nights: Oct 24-25, 6pm • Adult Only Night: Oct 31, 6pm • fortedmontonpark.ca/events/spooktacular/

STARTUP EDMONTON LAUNCH PARTY 5

• EPCOR Tower Lobby • edmontonstartupweek. com • Meet Edmonton entrepreneurs, watch demos of their products and celebrate this startup community • Oct 23 • $25 (adult)/$15 (student) at edmontonstartupweek.com

STRATHCONA COUNTY MUSEUM– Spooky Saturday • 913 Ash St, Sherwood

Park • 780.467.8189 • Activities and crafts • Oct 25, 6-9pm • $5; free for ages 5 and under

THRILL THE WORLD EDMONTON • MacEwan University’s City Centre Campus, Multi-Purpose Rm, 6-126 • ttwedmonton. weebly.com • Part of a Worldwide, Simultaneous Dance of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” hosted by the Flashmobs Club, a Students' Association of MacEwan University club • Oct 25, 4pm TURKISH REPUBLIC DAY • Ramada Hotel, 11834 Kingsway • The Turkish Canadian Society Reception and Dinner in honour of the 91st Anniversary of the foundation of Turkish Republic.

Featuring Turkish delicacies, folk dance and live music by the Azerbaijan Cultural Society • Oct 30, 6-10pm • $30 (youth/student)/$40 (adult)

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

Coming Events

November 1st marks the start of the 23rd Annual “LIGHT UP YOUR LIFE” campaign in support of palliative/hospice and continuing care in the communities of Stony Plain, Spruce Grove, Wabamun, Seba Beach and Parkland County.

Help us reach our $1,000,000.00 Milestone of total donations since the first campaign in 1992.

All donations are receipted for taxation purposes.

For Information Contact: Linda McCreath at 963-5691.

Mail donations to: Light Up Your Life Society, 4405 South Park Drive, Stony Plain T7Z 2M7 or you may donate on line at: www.lightupyourlife.org

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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Personals

Gent seeks nice lady fun, friendship, love Ph. 244.6280 - Dougy

ALL OF OUR CLASSIFIEDS ARE ONLINE ALL THE TIME VUEWEEKLY.COM/ CLASSIFIED/

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Courses/Classes

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

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

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

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Volunteers Wanted

Become a Victim Services Volunteer Advocate!

Work in conjunction with the RCMP to provide immediate assistance, support, information and agency referral to victims of crime and trauma in Strathcona County and provide support to victims through the criminal justice system. Please contact Jessica at 780-410-4300 or by email at jessica.hippe@strathcona.ca for more information!

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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Volunteers Wanted

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Artist to Artist

1st Assistant Director needed for film project. Must be familiar Arrislex Film Camera (get them from FAVA).

Genre: Action Adventure/ Time Travel Must be willing to travel Jasper National Park (townsite) for some on location filming.

Production is in pre-production right now. If you are a part of FAVA, you are more than welcome.

For more information please contact the main director, Craig at crgsymonds49@gmail.com *Must be patient, hard work is a necessity, wage is negotiable (A Non-Union Production) 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 to Artist

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

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

FOR APPLICATION FORM, questions please contact us.

Email: bszechy@yahoo.com Call For Exhibition Proposals: Red Deer, AB Harris-Warke Gallery, Red Deer Deadline: January 31 annually The gallery encourages exposure to a wide variety of Arts. In addition to painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, jewellery, textiles and all combinations of mixed and multi-media, They hope to feature some of the less often exhibited art forms, such as literary art, landscape art, culinary art and music. We are open to an eclectic definition of art. In concert with this mandate, the downtown location facilitates a viewing public from various walks of life.

Questions and comments should be directed to: harriswarke@gmail.com Call for Nominations: 2015 Outstanding Sculpture Educator Award The ISC’s Board of Trustees established the Educator Award to recognize individual artist-educators who have excelled at teaching sculpture in institutions of higher learning. An exemplary career combining personal studio practice and measurable academic performance form the evaluative basis of this award.

Successful candidates for this award are masters of sculptural history, theory, processes and techniques, who have devoted a major part of their careers to the education of the next generation and to the advancement of the sculpture field as a whole. http://www.sculpture.org/docu ments/awards/educator/info.sh tml 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.

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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS MAKE SOMETHING EDMONTON AND FAVA TV Make Something Edmonton was commissioned by Mayor Stephen Mandel to provide an answer to the question: “Why do you live in Edmonton?”

MSE and FAVA TV are partnering to commission filmmakers to address that very question by making shorts with budgets up to $10,000.

The following themes should be considered when pitching new works: - Problem solving through creativity - Social, artistic and commercial entrepreneurship - Economy that allows for risktaking - Grassroots collaboration (a.k.a. urban barn raising) - A lack of aristocracy - anyone with a good idea can start something here Have a completed work that already addresses these themes? Apply and we might give you $1,000 for the rights to screen it.

What’s Edmonton to you? Why do you choose to live and make films here? How does Edmonton infiltrate your work?

Show us! http://www.fava.ca/30th/grants/ 43-grants/261-grants Call to Makers, Mercer Collective: A Maker’s Market You must MAKE, BAKE or CREATE what you sell. You can not be a reseller of goods not produced by you.

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

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

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

Toy Guns’ Dance and Art Gala You have the opportunity to create your choice of artwork during the event, which will be auctioned off to support Toy Guns.

November 15th @ St. John’s Institute For more details please head to www.toygunstheatre.com

VUEWEEKLY OCT 23 – OCT 29, 2014

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Artist to Artist

Location Manager needed for film project.

Genre: Action Adventure/ Time Travel Must be willing to travel Jasper National Park (townsite) for some on location filming.

Production is in pre-production right now. If you are a part of FAVA, you are more than welcome.

For more information please contact the main director, Craig at crgsymonds49@gmail.com *Must be patient, hard work is a necessity, wage is negotiable (A Non-Union Production) 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.

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.

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

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.

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 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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Artist to Artist

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

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

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Musicians Available

Guitarist singer available Country, light rock, 50’s, 60’s 780-458-7133 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 Wanted: Female Singer country, light rock, 50’s & 60’s 780-458-7133

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

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big gift. Halloween costume suggestion: a sacred portal, a divine gateway, an amazing door.

TAURUS (APRIL 20 – MAY 20): It's urgent that you expand your options. Your freedom of choice can't lead you to where you need to go until you have more possibilities to choose from. In fact, you're better off not making a decision until you have a wider selection. To playfully drive home this point to your subconscious mind, I suggest that this Halloween you consider disguising yourself as a slime mold. This unusual creature comes in more than 500 different genders, at least 13 of which must collaborate to reproduce. Here's a photo: bit.ly/yellowslime.

VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): Our evolutionary ancestors Homo erectus loved to eat delicious antelope brains. The fossil evidence is all over their old stomping grounds in East Africa. Scientists say this delicacy, so rich in nutrients, helped our forbears build bigger, stronger brains themselves. These days it's harder, but not impossible, to make animal brains part of your diet. The Chinese and Koreans eat pig brains, and some European cuisines include beef brains. I'm confident, however, that your own brain will be functioning better than ever in the coming weeks, even if you don't partake of this exotic dish. Be sure to take advantage of your enhanced intelligence. Solve tough riddles! Think big thoughts!

Halloween costume suggestion: a brain-eating Homo erectus.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUNE 20): In the animated sci-fi TV sitcom Futurama, Leela is the mutant captain of a spaceship. In one episode, she develops an odd boil on her hindquarters. It has a face and can sing. The actor who provides the vocals for the animated boil's outpouring of song is Gemini comedian Craig Ferguson, whose main gig is serving as host of a late-night TV talk show on CBS. Telling you this tale is my way of suggesting that you consider going outside your usual niche, as Craig Ferguson did, to offer your talents in a different context.

Halloween costume suggestion: Kim Kardashian as a nurse wearing ebola protective gear; science educator Neil deGrasse Tyson as a male stripper; a cat wearing a dog costume, or vice versa.

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): Native American hero Sitting Bull (1831 – 1890) was a renowned Lakota chief and holy man. He led his people in their resistance to the US occupation of their land.

How did he become so strong and wise? In large part through the efforts of his doting mother, whose name was Her-Holy-Door. Let's install her as your exemplar for now. May she inspire you to nurture beauty and power in those you love. May she motivate you to be adroit as you perform your duties in service to the future.

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LEO (JUL 23 – AUG 22): This is one of those rare times when it's OK for you to just throw out the dirty dishes that you are too lazy to wash. It's also permissible to hide from a difficult person, spend money on a supposedly foolish indulgence, eat a bowl of ice cream for breakfast, binge-watch a TV show that provokes six months' worth of emotions in a few hours, and lie in bed for an extra hour fantasizing about sex with a forbidden partner. Don't make any of these things habits, of course. But for now, it's probably healthy to allow them. Halloween costume suggestion: total slacker.

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): "The egromenious hilarity of psychadisical melarmy, whether rooted in a lissome stretch or a lusty wobble, soon defisterates into crabolious stompability. So why not be graffenbent?" So said Noah's ex-wife Joan of Arc in her interview with St Crocodile magazine. Heed Joan's advice, please, Libra. Be proactively saximonious. I'M KIDDING! Everything I just said was nonsense. I hope you didn't assume it was erudite wisdom full of big words you couldn't understand. In offering it to you, I was hoping to immunize you against the babble and hype and artifice that may soon roll your way. Halloween costume suggestion: a skeptic armed with a shock-proof bullshit-detector.

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SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): In AMC's famous TV drama, a high-school chemistry teacher responds to his awful luck by turning to a life of crime. The show's title, Breaking Bad, refers to what happens when a good person cracks and veers over to the dark side. So then what does "breaking good" mean? Urbandictionary. com defines it like this: "When a criminal, junkie or gang-banger

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gets sweet and sparkly, going to church, volunteering at soup kitchens and picking the kids up from school." I'm concerned that you are at risk of undergoing a similar conversion, Scorpio. You seem so nice and kind and mild lately. I guess that's fine as long as you don't lose your edge. Halloween costume suggestion: a criminal with a halo, a sweet and sparkly gang-banger or a Buddhist monk junkie.

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 –DEC 21): I've got two possible remedies for your emotional congestion. You might also want to make these two remedies part of your Halloween shtick. The first remedy is captured by the English word "lalochezia." It refers to a catharsis that comes from uttering profane language. The second remedy is contained in the word "tarantism." It means an urge to dance manically as a way to relieve melancholy. For your Halloween disguise, you could be a wildly dancing obscenity-spouter.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19):

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AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): Two physicists in Massachusetts are working on technology that will allow people to shoot laser beams out of their eyes. For Halloween, I suggest that you pretend you have already acquired this superpower. It's time for you to be brash and jaunty as you radiate your influence with more confidence. I want to see you summon reserves of charismatic clout you haven't dared to call on before. Costume suggestion: The X-Men mutant named Cyclops or the legendary Native American creature known as the thunderbird, which emits lightning from its eyes.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): The African nation of Swaziland has passed a law prohibiting witches from flying their broomsticks any higher than 150 meters above ground. That will a big problem for Piscean witches. There is currently an astrological mandate for them to swoop and glide and soar as high and free as they want to. The same is metaphorically true for all Piscean non-witches everywhere.

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In the online hunt for a guy to have some aboveboard, under-the-sheets fun with, I run into snags because I'm trans (I disclose on my profile) and because I'm married. I'm babystepping my way toward an offline search for guys, going to events hosted by the local gay pride centre. I've been thinking of not wearing my wedding ring at these meet-ups, as I worry it says I'm taken and offlimits. Would it be dishonest for me to present as unmarried as long as I make it clear that I'm not looking for romance?

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My response is likely to wind up on antigay websites, TOLD, so let me preface it with this: we only started hearing that monogamy wasn't just the cultural expectation/default setting for married couples but a crucial, essential, definitional element of marriage when same-sex couples began to press for marriage rights.

Married heterosexual swingers were fucking around (and recruiting other married heterosexuals into their "lifestyle," a term swingers embrace!) decades before the marriage-equality movement got off the ground. And religious conservatives, while not fans of swinging, never argued that nonmonogamous heterosexual couples weren't really married or that they should be barred from marrying. So it seems that monogamy—like children and religion— only defines marriage when same-sex couples want to marry.

Anyway, TOLD, you don't have to be married to be monogamous or monogamous to be married—and most gay male couples, married or not, aren't monogamous. So go ahead and wear your wedding ring. While a wedding ring on a straight married man (or woman) will be assumed to mean "taken and off-limits," the same assumption doesn't apply in the case of a married gay man. If someone at one of the events you're attending is interested in you, he's likely to flirt with you first and make polite inquiries about your marriage (monogamous? Monogamish? Open? Poly?) second. Your trans disclosure is likelier to be the bigger deal—and a far bigger obstacle for most (but not all) gay men—than your wedding ring.

Good luck.

ways had the higher libido and the more positive attitude toward sex in all of my relationships, but right now, I feel overwhelmed and, honestly, a little put off. I want to feel GGG again, but am having trouble.

What do you think?

WHENCE THIS FEELING? The guys you were with before you met your husband—all those sexnegative/less-sex-positive guys with their lower-than-yours libidos—did you ever complain about them? Did you ever gripe to friends about always being the one who had to initiate? Did you ever think about writing me a letter asking how to get those guys to be a little more adventurous in bed? And now you're complaining about being with a guy who has a higher libido and who is just as sexpositive as you are? My advice: stop pathologizing your husband. You probably didn't appreciate it when past partners made you feel like your

a child, and I have ABSOLUTELY NO sexual interest in children.

However, in my fantasy, I am nine years old and being seduced by a gorgeous man in his 30s. It ends with us having intercourse. I don't feel guilty—no harm done, after all—but I do feel strange. Help me out: fight the fantasy? Or is it OK? KINKY IN DISTRESS You're not fantasizing about having sex with children—excuse me: You're not fantasizing about raping children—you're fantasizing about being a child who is "seduced" (read: raped) by a gorgeous man (read: a rapist). Your fantasy is unrealizable except through consensual "age play," a kink that has not been linked to pedophilia. So while your fantasy is very deeply squicky (VDS), KID, no one is harmed when you indulge yourself in your VDS fantasy. But be careful with whom you share it, KID, lest you wind up attracting an actual pedophile (someone who wishes you were a nine-year-old girl) or repelling someone who can't wrap his head around the essential harmlessness of your VDS fantasy. (Some recommended reading for you, KID: The Toybag Guide to Age Play by Bridgett "Lee" Harrington.)

Your fantasy is unrealizable except through consensual “age play,” a kink that has not been linked to pedophelia.

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My husband recently admitted that he masturbates once a day, sometimes twice. My confusion stems from the fact that we have sex once a day, sometimes twice. We've had problems in the past with him staring at other women (everyone does it, but I do feel discretion in front of a spouse is required) and with him wanting more novelty in bed (watch porn, wear lingerie, use toys). I've al-

libido was a problem. Your husband's libido isn't a problem either. If you're not interested in porn, lingerie or toys, say so. But look on the bright side: You're lucky enough to be with a guy whose libido exceeds your own (for a change!), WTF, so your needs will never be neglected. Yahtzee.

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I recently moved to a new apartment where most tenants are retirees—I am a 25-year-old, just for reference. My SO and I enjoy loud play.

She is very vocal, which happens to be one of my biggest turn-ons. But I'm worried we are being too loud.

My old place had thicker walls and younger neighbours. I am concerned not only that we are waking up my neighbours, but that we may find ourselves on the receiving end of a noise complaint. Trying to stay quiet hasn't worked; it's hard for her to do, it hurts her feelings and it makes it less fun for me. Is there a way to politely bring the topic up with my neighbours to see if we've been bothering them?

STRESSING OVER UNWANTED NEIGHBOURLY DISPUTES If your neighbours haven't made it an issue, why would you want to make it one? Maybe thinner walls and older ears resulted in a wash, SOUND, leaving your older new neighbours just as insulated from your loud sex as your younger old ones used to be.

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SHARING IS CARING, KIDS The poop being used to treat microflora imbalances is "strained, centrifuged and frozen," according to a report in the New York Times. This medicinal-grade poop now comes in pill form, and researchers predict that these shit pills—administered orally—could save the lives of 14 000 Americans every year. (I call on President Obama to appoint a microflora imbalance czar.) Since the poop in your butt hasn't been strained, centrifuged and frozen—you would have to be the Felix Unger of scat fetishists to go to that kind of trouble—sharing anal toys is unlikely to provide the same health benefits to your partners.

So the advice around plugs and other ass toys remains the same: no sharing during play, abort if santorum is present, wash toys with hot water and soap before reuse. However, we may need to revise the insult "eat shit and die" in light of this new lifesaving/shit-eating treatment. But telling someone to "eat shit and balance your microflora!" doesn't have the same punch. V On the Lovecast, Dan chats with sex-party luminary Polly Superstar: savagelovecast.com. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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