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Northlands' future For years now, Northlands' local clout has topped out at "that organization that hosts Oilers games, concerts and our summer fair—whatever its name is this year." With two-thirds of that pie prepped to move to the downtown arena, such a loss would seem like a disaster. But for an organization whose local identity has become so generic, losing the Oilers as its flagship tenants brings far more opportunity than misfortune.

So colour me baffled when I read that Northlands, whose history in these parts predates even Edmonton as we know it, announced last week that it created a committee to deliver a recommendation to its board of directors regarding the future of Rexall Place, eyeing several American sports venues as inspiration.

Granted, Northlands was attached to sport long before the Oilers came around. Northlands Park has been a Canadian horseracing hub since 1900.

Back then, Northlands was a smaller organization dedicated to fostering Alberta's agriculture industry and was the province's main outlet for showing our farming successes to the world.

Now, this mandate has become diluted among its duties as show host for a thankless pro-sports team. Even K-Days—once a source of pride in Edmonton and a hook for visitors—has rapidly lost its lustre in front of diminishing crowds, capped off with a name change so generic it literally stands for nothing.

Meanwhile, Edmonton is coming into its own as a city that's not only rapidly growing and diversifying, but also taking massive inspiration from its agricultural heritage. One needn't look farther than its many markets and exploding local food scene to see this is a rich culture to be tapped.

Understandably, it's painful for Northlands to lose the tenant that has tied the organization to the city's "champion" culture for decades, but that culture is no more, and it's high time it gets back the agricultural roots upon which the organization—and the city around it—was built. V

ASHLEY DRYBURGH // ASHLEY@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Wooing the rainbow vote

Robocalls are a reminder that the queer community is another political pawn It's a good news/bad news sort of week. Let's Canadian Radio-television and Telecommuni- increasing research into the over-representastart with the bad: if it's true that you can't cations Commission. However, I am saddened tion of LGBTQ youth among youth who are make an omelette without breaking some by yet another reminder of the fact that po- street-involved; numbers vary between 20 to eggs, it's also true that you can't run an elec- litical engagement (which in this case includes 40 percent. Many LGBTQ youth find themtion in Alberta without homophobes busting voter suppression) is predicated on anti-queer selves homeless after being rejected by family.

Their plight is further compounded by a lack out of the woodwork. As far as I could tell, the rhetoric.

But while it might be easy to dismiss this of proper program provision: some shelters campaigns leading up to last week's by-elecare faith-based and will reject tion weren't centred on issues of direct concern to the I am saddened by yet another reminder of the LGBTQ youth outright, whereas others are unsafe due to transqueer community, for better fact that political engagement (which in this phobia or discrimination. Locally, or for worse. However, that didn't stop some enterprising case includes voter suppression) is predicated the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services is partner"concerned citizens" from reon anti-queer rhetoric. ing with Youth Empowerment minding Wildrose voters that and Support Services to address part leader Danielle Smith incident as another reminder that the "Lake these problems through the Give a Rainbow implicitly supports the gays.

Yes, you read that correctly. The Edmon- of Fire" party has some unsavoury members, Campaign.

The campaign is attempting to raise awareton Journal has reported that robocalls were there's a larger context to keep in mind. placed in all four by-election ridings and that Smith is joining a long line of right-wing con- ness, funds and articles of clothing. Edmontothese calls targeted households previously servative parties, both inside and outside of nians are being asked to donate winter clothidentified as Wildrose supporters. The calls, Canada, that are actively trying to woo the ing in a colour of the rainbow (red, orange, which were anonymous and appear to origi- rainbow vote. We could read these robocalls yellow, green, blue and/or purple), which is benate from Oregon and Washington State, ask as evidence that the base is getting nervous, ing collected in the main lobby of the Faculty supporters if the fact that Smith attended gay- which suggests that attempts to become of Education at the U of A. Cash donations can pride parades where "gay men danced naked more queer-friendly are working. Whether be made through the YESS website (yess.org/ or not that means the queer community will donate). The campaign wraps up on Saturday, in front of children" matches their values.

First of all, I want to go to the pride parade (or should) trust a party like the Wildrose re- November 22 as part of the third-annual GayStraight Alliance Conference.

Smith attends, because there certainly aren't mains to be seen.

Let's support some of the most vulnerable any naked dancing men here in Edmonton, thanks to our festival's ban on nudity. Second, If any of this makes you angry, I have the people in our community while reminding the while I am happy to hear the Wildrose's com- perfect suggestion to channel your rage (and politicos, who are so entranced with our votes, munications team has rightfully denounced since living well is the best revenge, you get that there are still very real issues that exist.

For more information, check out www.ismss. these calls as "homophobic, sleazy and de- to implicitly stick it to the homophobes, too). spicable" and have filed a complaint with the Over the past decade or so, there has been ualberta.ca/GiveaRainbow. V

NEWS // BIKE RACE

Illegal, dangerous and too much fun Edmonton's underground alleycat races are beer and bicycle-fuelled insanity

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'm trying not to die as I pedal hard down the curving corners of a parking garage. Dozens of bikes with no brakes are inches away from me on all sides: column ... bike ... bike ... bike ... column ... CAR! I cut hard through the inside to see a red minivan creeping out of a space.

Shiiiiiit. I swerve left and pray whoever is riding next to me has ninja reflexes.

This is my first alleycat race—an underground bike race both recklessly dangerous and totally illegal. Since the late '80s, these urban scrambles have been a highlight for the extended circle of bike messengers, fixed-gear cyclists and generally wild people any respectable metropolis spawns.

These days, cities all around the world host alleycats and the suicidal riding it takes to win them.

Adrenaline red-lining, I whiz around a car waiting to turn out of the parking garage and I'm on a Garneau-area

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backstreet charging into the dark.

Alleycats are checkpoint races.

Minutes before the start, organizer Zach* gave us five spots to find: the John Walter Museum, the top tee-bar of the Edmonton Ski Club, Bonnie Doon Park, the Argyll Velodrome and the Garneau School. The routes, and which traffic laws to bend in the process, were on us.

"Alleycats have no legality," Zach laughs after the October 30 race.

People who win these races have legs of steel and balls to match. So it figures bike couriers, a job that rewards those who can make it from point A to point B ASAP without dying, usually dominate. But there's a whole underground subclass of urban riders racing with me.

I sprint along on my fixed-gear bike— an often-brakeless machine loved by messengers for its simplicity and derided by many as a hipster affectation.

But in this race, and most alleycats in

general, a single-speed or fixie is mandatory. I'm trailing a group that blows through stop signs then hops a curb to cut through the pitch-black field behind the haunted-looking brick Garneau School—the first checkpoint.

I see the checkpoint as I'm tearing into the light of the parking lot. A race organizer is holding out bags of candy, a nod to Halloween shenanigans. I grab it on the roll then bank left towards busy 109 Street and into a halfdozen other racers.

One rider realizes he missed the checkpoint and cuts hard across my front. I lock up my back tire—how you stop a fixie—and miss him by a whisker, but I somehow manage to blow my front tire.

Race over.

Dejected, I watch riders whiz into traffic and off to the next checkpoint.

I limp my broken machine through the chilly night across the High Level

Bridge to the finish line at the Railtown park graffiti tunnel.

I find Zach and other members of Nightriders Cult of Death, a collective of fixie-lovers and snowboarders, waiting near the grayscale spray paint.

"Damn ... flat?" Zach calls out when he sees me walking up the path.

NRCD has organized alleycats for the past five years. Zach, who works as a millwright, started the race as a way to meet like-minded people in Edmonton.

"Back then it seemed like it was just my friends and I who were riding fixedgear bikes in Edmonton," he says, pulling on a can of beer. "But this race just keeps getting bigger and better every year."

It's not long before we see a bike light coming up the path at high speed.

The winner skids to a stop, realizes he's won and lets out a whoop.

"Forty minutes!" he shouts, turning off a timer on his handlebars that also

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showed it took him 16.7 kilometres to hit all five checkpoints. Zach hands him his prize: $280 from the $10 race registration.

The winner has worked as a bike messenger in Edmonton for years.

He's raced, and won, similar races in Calgary, New York City and Chicago.

The lean, bearded and tattooed winner credits his heart, strong legs and eating two pizzas a day for his victory.

Other riders zip up from all directions a few minutes later. There are high fives all around and beers and bottles are cracked. They compare routes, laugh, drink and howl into the night. The organizers hand out trophies and prizes.

Not everyone made it to the finish line. Others, like me, had flats. Or crashed. Or got lost. But here at the finish line is the point of the whole thing: together, laughing death in the face and sharing a love for pedalling hard into the dark—even with no brakes.

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No one can prevent us from dreaming

Peace activist Dr Izzeldin Abuelaish lost three daughters to war, but no one can destroy his hope

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Abuelaish isn't simply a speaker of easy platitudes. As a teacher at the University of Toronto and a campaigner for peace, he established the NGO Daughters for Life to provide scholarships for Middle Eastern girls and women, regardless of religion or ethnicity. Such refusal to bend to hate or revenge, coupled with tireless work for the betterment of humanity, has earned Abuelaish numerous awards, including the Stavros Niarchos Prize for Survivorship, the Uncommon Courage Award, and the Mahatma Gandhi Peace Award of Canada. The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre named him among the world's 500 most influential Muslims for 2009 and 2010.

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ith Remembrance Day nearing, millions of Canadians who've never experienced war or occupation may ponder the slogan "Never Forget."

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In January 2009, then-53-year-old Palestinian infertility specialist and peace activist Izzeldin Abuelaish was employed at an Israeli hospital. He took pride in building the personal basis for trust and peace between Israelis and Palestinians. As he told the New York Times in 2009, "I wanted every Palestinian treated in [our hospital] to go back and say how well the Israelis treated them."

But on January 16, the day after Martin Luther King's birthday, and 22 days into the 2008 – 2009 Israel-Gaza war that killed 13 Israelis and 1400 Palestinians (during which time newly-elected US president Barack Obama was almost whisper-silent on Palestinian deaths), Israeli tanks twice shelled the house of Abuelaish. After having recently lost his wife to leukemia, in one moment he lost his niece and three of his daughters.

"Who is going to be killed [among] my children?" says Abuelaish via Skype from his office in Toronto, reflecting on his terror throughout the war that any of his children might die. "And then on that day ... seconds after I left my daughters' room, the awful tragedy happened."

Abuelaish, who authored an acclaimed book about his profound loss called I Shall Not Hate, will be in Edmonton this Friday to discuss his peace activism promoting women's education. He explains that he would not wish anyone on Earth to experience the suffering he did.

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"They became [body] parts, drowning in their blood."

Explaining his immediate thoughts after the explosion, he says he asked himself, "Where is Bisan, my beloved, eldest daughter who took the responsibility of her mother when she passed away? She was only 20. She was my companion, my friend, my manager, my advisor, my teacher. She was supposed to get her BA a few months later. Where is Mayar, who was number one in Palestine in math, who planned

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Abuelaish grew metal shack without electricity, run- port his younger siblings. is Nur, my niece, Educational Foundation awards "You don't leave Palestine. ... My up without much ning water or a bathroom. who came for her banquet of the light he now "I remember after 1970, when our country lives inside me. It moves with fate? She was 17 Oasis Centre, $35 seeks. Born in Jab- house was demolished by [Israeli gen- me everywhere I go," he adds. "I say to and planned to be bit.ly/1AbTWsW balia Camp in Gaza eral at the time] Ariel Sharon," he says. people, '[They] can oppress, can oca teacher. ... Their pain is running in my ears. I [couldn't] in 1955, 12 years before the occupa- "We were 11 people living in one room. cupy, can imprison, can torture, can identify them. Their bodies were shot tion of Gaza, he did not witness the I was sleeping under their feet, and intimidate, can humiliate, can do every bad thing, but no one can prevent us out everywhere. The human body, expulsion of around 800 000 Pales- studying there on the ground."

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Merkel's counter-strike

German Chancellor says Britain's David Cameron holds no cards for changing EU rules "What we have today is a story based on speculation about what (German Chancellor) Angela Merkel might have said about something (British Prime Minster) David Cameron might say in the future," said David Davis, a prominent Conservative member of Parliament, in London on Sunday. So no big deal, then?

It's a very big deal: Merkel is pulling the rug out from under Cameron. For all his tough talk about renegotiating the terms of Britain's membership in the European Union, she is saying he has no cards in his hand.

At the EU summit on October 25, Cameron said that changing the existing rules that guarantee freedom of movement for workers within the EU would be "at the very heart of my renegotiation strategy for Europe." No, said Merkel, it won't work: "We have the basic principle of free movement. We won't meddle with that."

In other words, if Cameron doesn't like the membership rules, tough.

He can hold a referendum if he wants, and leave the EU if he wins.

But there's no way he can get the other 27 members to change the basic rules of the organization just to solve his little political problem at home.

In fact, Merkel will even try to ensure that Cameron loses next year's British election so that there is no

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referendum on Britain's EU membership. Being an experienced politician, however, Merkel delivered that part of her message in a deniable way.

It was officials from Merkel's own office and the German foreign ministry who briefed the newsmagazine Der Spiegel on her plans in that regard. They were not to be quoted by name—and it was left to the rest of us to figure out what her words would do to Cameron's re-election chances.

Cameron has recently been talking about imposing "quotas" on lowskilled people from other EU countries moving to Britain, in a desperate attempt to get around the EU rules. "Should Cameron persist (in this quota plan), Merkel would abandon her efforts to keep Britain in the EU, her officials told Der Spiegel. "With that a point of no return would be reached."

Shape up or ship out.

ish voters that if they re-elect Cameron's Conservatives in the election that is due next May, they will be voting to leave the EU. The election itself becomes a referendum on EU membership—a referendum which she obviously thinks Cameron will lose.

She is probably right. For all the fulmination in the British right-wing press about the country being over-

has one of the lowest unemployment rates in Europe. The problem is perceptions—and particularly the perceptions of those who normally vote Conservative.

The right-wing media in Britain, as in most countries, pander to the nationalism and the fear of foreigners that is rampant among the older and the poorer sections of the population. Too many foreigners coming in, living off our taxes and stealing our jobs is a simple (though rarely an accurate) explanation for why this section of the population feels marginalized, so this narrative works well with them.

Britain is pulling in more EU workers than usual because its economy is doing relatively better than Germany, France, Spain, etc. The numbers are not overwhelming, but under EU rules Britain has no right to bar them, so anti-EU nationalism and anti-immigrant sentiment have grown into a stronger force than usual—but only on the right.

She is effectively telling British voters that if they re-elect Cameron’s Conservatives in the election that is due next May, they will be voting to leave the EU.

Merkel has launched a counterstrike that may well bring Cameron down. By making it crystal clear that his "renegotiation" strategy cannot work, she is effectively telling Brit-

run by immigrants from poorer EU countries, public support for EU membership in Britain is higher than it has been since 1991. It is still only a modest 56 percent, but that is a lot higher than the 44 percent support that the same Ipsos MORI polling organization found only two years ago.

The truth is that only 13 percent of Britain's population is "foreign-born," exactly the same as the immigrant share in the population of the United States or Germany. The immigrants are not taking British jobs: the UK

This would normally be to the advantage of the Conservative Party,

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whose own right-wing "backwoodsmen" share these views. In normal times, when the grown-ups are in charge, the party harvests these votes each election while never intending to do anything so foolish economically as to actually quit the EU. Cameron belongs to the grown-up majority in the Conservative Party, and is not personally anti-EU. But the emergence and explosive growth of the United Kingdom Independence Party, specifically tailored to appeal to the anti-immigrant-and-EU vote, has panicked the right wing of the Conservative Party.

Cameron has had to move further and further right to placate them and compete with UKIP, so he can no longer afford to be sensible about the EU. Merkel has understood this and has effectively written him off even though she is a conservative herself. Her strategy now is to force Cameron into an openly anti-EU stance, split the right-wing vote in Britain evenly between the Conservatives and UKIP, and open the way for Labour to win the election.

Because that's the only way she can see to keep Britain in the European Union. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

FEATURE // VIDEO GAMES

// Rachelle Bugeaud

Damn, it feels good to be a gamer U of A's Understanding Video Games course opens up the world of gaming to all

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nderstanding Video Games has been a popular course among University of Alberta students, but now launched alongside Dino 101 as a Massive Open Online Course, anybody with an Internet connection can sign up and learn about how to interpret these ever-more important cultural contributions. And people in 149 countries already have.

"The idea behind the course is, certainly as we've seen recently in the media, computer games are an important cultural medium—they have become something that a lot of Canadians view as an important way of understanding the world and relating to the world," says Sean Gouglas, who teaches the course.

"So what we wanted to do in this course is to give [students] a set of

tools that they can use to try to understand what computer games are.

That they can see how they work, that they can see how they can tell stories and how you can interpret them and use them to understand the culture that produces them."

There's an online version of the course that's free for anyone, and also a version where students at other universities can sign up and get accreditation for a fee. This is good for alumni who want to stay in contact, Gouglas says, and it is a potential way for anybody else to get to know the university.

Existing U of A students are, of course, still able to enroll as usual.

As a Science, Technology and Society course and a collaboration between the Faculties of Arts and Science, it

fits into the relatively new Computer Game Certificate program, which came from an initiative from the current Dean of Science, Jonathan Schaeffer.

"It was an idea that started with the realization that computer games are, if they ever were, no longer built by a couple of people in their basement.

They're involving computing scientists, creative writers, level designers, artists, musicians, so what Dr Schaeffer wanted to do was recreate that experience for the students who are going through the program," Gouglas says. "So with an introductory course called Computers and Games, we created a team-based, problem-based learning course around video games. Students just basically go and build a game. That

course has expanded into a certificate."

The various courses on offer delve into creative writing, artificial intelligence, gameplay fundamentals and more. Once students have done a few of those, they can go into the capstone course where they build a complete game in teams. The idea for the certificate program is to not only give disciplinary and interdisciplinary experience, but also a portfolio of complete games.

Local game developer Bioware has been a part of the university's video games courses for a long time, and they've been back to help with this one.

"They gave us art assets that we were able to use in the course,"

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Gouglas says. "They've given us access to their people—we did some filming at Bioware, we've interviewed six or seven of their employees.

They've been very generous in making themselves available to help us provide concrete examples of some of the concepts that we're trying to relate in the course."

The course starts with some basic concepts. The idea is to give students fundamental tools that they'll need to understand video games. This will include things like game mechanics, story and gameplay. After the basics, the course moves onto interpretation and tackles some cultural questions, such as what gaming culture is.

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ith Alberta in need of trained hospitality workers, a partnership between the Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation and NorQuest College might help fill the gap. The Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation Hospitality Institute is coming soon, and the groups hope it will solve the problem of too few trained workers.

"The institute is going to provide hands-on training for students and also for current employers who want their staff, and potential staff, to develop hands-on leading-edge disciplines," says Natalie Minckler, executive director of the EOCF. The sorts of training on offer will include guest services, event delivery, service-industry operations, safety and supervision. Students can also take courses separately if they don't need all of them or don't have time to do them all at once.

"They're short programs," Minckler adds. "They're anywhere from 10 to 40 hours for one program, and if you want to take the whole suite of programs, you'll end with a certificate."

The partnership came about after the groups started some conver-

sations regarding the new arena, but that's not where the idea itself came from.

"We have what's called a workforce advisory council," Patrick Machacek, Vice President (Transformation) at NorQuest, says. "It consists of members of business and industry right across Edmonton and throughout our stewardship region.

"The workforce advisory group was basically saying that they were having a difficult time finding adequate training for their employees," he continues. "Because many of their employees are frontline service employees they have a lot of turnover, so they need to provide training in an efficient manner."

The group felt that if training could be better provided, they would have an easier time keeping employees around longer. Additionally, says Machacek, Patrick LaForge, President and COO of the Edmonton Oilers, wants people to think of hospitality jobs at the forthcoming Rogers Place arena more as careers, with a higher level of professionalism and opportunities for advancement. A program like this could help that happen.

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In any case, NorQuest started talking with the EOCF, resulting in this partnership, which will see the EOCF contributing $1.5 million in bursaries, with a portion going towards helping NorQuest build a new kitchen and training facilities for their Centre for Learning in 2017.

"It was an easy decision for our board because both organizations share a strong commitment to youth education in our province," Minckler says. "So with the new institute, the Oilers Foundation is providing bursaries for students who may want to enrol in the program."

There will be 100 bursaries of $1000 each on offer to students who need financial assistance. The EOCF also points to the potential to help at-risk youth.

"We have partnered with Inner City High School probably for 10 years," Minckler says. "Inner City High School provides education for at-risk youth.

We're hoping that those graduates will go on with their education path and perhaps enrol in NorQuest College and get some meaningful employment."

But of course, Minckler stresses that the Hospitality Institute will be open to anybody interested. Registration is open and classes start in January.

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there are multiple cultures—there are multiple elements of any sort of culture," Gouglas adds.

One thing Gouglas identifies is the term "gamer" itself, and the different groups that might lay claim to it, or that might problematize it.

"If you go about looking at any of the recent statistics about games, you realize that half of all gamers are women, that the average age of the gamer is about 33, 34, somewhere in there, and what's interesting is all of those people, the broader spectrum of people who are playing games now, have a stake in the term 'gamer,' and a stake in the production of culture that instantiates itself as a computer game," Gouglas explains. "The problem is that there are groups who see themselves as more 'true gamers' or 'real gamers,' and they

feel disenfranchised by this broadening out of people who play computer games, and that competing for power of trying to get attention of media, of people who produce culture, of developers, of people who view themselves as true gamers and those who see themselves as a different type of gamer, has produced a number of societal competitions or fights that are ultimately breaking forth into the popular media."

The obvious ongoing example is what's called GamerGate, which is difficult to describe but has brought up questions of the treatment of women in video games, with prominent commentator Anita Sarkeesian

EDUCATION and relatively obscure indie developer Zoe Quinn alike facing significant gender-based online harassment, along with questions of the gamer identity, the culture and the role of the media.

tion in this production of culture— but this course would speak exactly to issues like that."

The course considers questions of race, sex and violence in video games, and does so in two ways.

First is from a game studies point of view, where questions such as how people actually use these things as mechanics in games and how they become a part of the discussion of how the game and its story unfold are considered.

"If you take real-time strategy games, or most of them anyway, they're frequently set up as a race war," Gouglas says. "It's between the humans and the orcs or something

The problem is that there are groups who see themselves as more ‘true gamers’ or ‘real gamers’ and they feel disenfranchised by this broadening out of people who play computer games. "[GamerGate] is a classic example of what happens when two powers are competing for power. The fact that it manifests as rape threats, as sexism, as misogyny is an interesting statement as to how culture perceives women and how these groups perceive women and their participa-

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like that, and usually it's a war of extermination. That may seem simple on the face of it, but those simple assumptions about race penetrate all aspects of computer games. We try to draw out different ways that race and sex and violence are used in the construction and playing of a game."

It then steps back and considers how these things reflect broader cultural issues. With women, for example, it examines how their portrayal might influence people as players and developers, and how it speaks to broader patterns in Canadian and international culture.

"In most games—not all—and most characters—not all—most male characters are doers: they accomplish things in their games through their actions, and that's how they're known and become famous" Gouglas explains. "Women characters are either adornment or they're rescued, or their agency is established through their sexuality if they have any agency at all. Now, of course there's exceptions but generally, I think that's probably true.

"But to say that's true of video games is not to say it's not true of movies or television," he continues.

"These conversations that we're having about video games are no different from many of the conversations going on in other media. Yes, video games have problems in them, but they're issues that we are trying to address, and this course is just one of those ways."

You don't have to play games, be a gamer or have particular experience in the area to take the course.

The ideal student for Gouglas is just someone who is interested in how the medium is shaping the world.

With questions like those of race, sexuality, gender, violence and culture in video games finding their way into mainstream press and conversation, now might be a better time than ever for a course like this to help people examine the medium.

But that doesn't mean it's about turning everyone into a 24/7 cultural critic, unable to enjoy themselves with the games they've been playing.

We don't have to be passive absorbers of what the games we play are telling us either, and Gouglas hopes the course can help people ask better questions of the medium, but mentions that we also don't have to analyze everything.

"Sometimes, it's great to sit back and enter into a game where you're just shooting a gun and saving the world from aliens and you don't want to think too much about it."

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Two million pennies have been collected and rolled over the past five years by students at St Marcellinus Secondary School in Ontario to donate to Holocaust and genocide education and prevention programs.

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Schools in more affluent areas of Toronto are fundraising up to $700 per child to spend on extras like guest speakers, field trips and playground equipment, while lower-income schools tend to only raise an extra $3 per child on the low end and $45 on the high end, according to the Globe and Mail. Fundraisers are the responsibility of each school, but forcing families to come up with extra cash for things that used to be included in the school curriculum—like arts and sciences— means the poor are more often than not missing out on activities that wealthier families can throw extra cash at.

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REVUE // ETHIOPIAN

A LESSON IN SHARING At Abyssinia, it's all about communal dining

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ccording to Abyssinia's web- of seven available vegetable/bean site, people who eat from the dishes for a mere $14. We decidsame mesob—the traditional com- ed that a vegetarian platter and munal dining receptacle of Ethio- one each from the lamb, beef and pian cuisine—will never betray poultry selections would give four each other. So eaters a broad the question is: 10810 - 95 St experience of the are you prepared Abyssinia available fare.

Abyssinia's dinto hold yourself 780.756.8902 to a higher moral abyssiniarestaurant.com ing room is paintstandard just so ed a warm orange and adorned with you can eat some the expected Ethiopian tat: travel Ethiopian food?

Abyssinia makes a favourable ar- posters and souvenir kitsch. A huge gument for this. Their food is nicely space heater spans almost the endone and reasonably priced—if you tire length of the ceiling, making can bear the weight of the obliga- you wonder if you're sitting in a tion it entails and avow your loy- former space between buildings. alty to your co-diners in perpetuity. Despite all that, it's cozy enough They also make it easy to try out and the proprietors are friendly their wares. Located incongru- and attentive. There were a fair ously in Little Italy just down the number of diners indulging in the block from the original Italian Cen- Wednesday buffet which, charmtre Shop, Abyssinia offers no less ingly, resembled the table at an than three buffets a week, two of Ethiopian potluck more than it did which (Wednesday and Friday) are a conventional buffet.

Dining Ethiopian-style means evvegan—and a mere $15. My party of four was interested in the meaty eryone eats from the same circular side of the menu, which meant or- tray, which is lined with a spongy, dering à la carte, but a fully satis- fermented flatbread called injera, fying meal for everyone still came around which is dolloped a variety of intensely-coloured stews like out to roughly $15 each.

The menu offers an assortment some sapid painter's palette. By of preparations of beef, lamb and way of pledging your unending fechicken, including kitfo, the East alty to those present, you eat with African cousin of steak tartar, and your hands: bunching extra injera the variety of cubed meat in a (provided on the side) around globs sauce known as tibs. The vegetar- of the available delicacies and popian platter lets you sample five out ping it all in your mouth. Then you

eat the injera lining the tray.

Our palette featured curry-tinted potatoes, green beans and carrots, khaki-coloured collard greens, two big daubs of lentil stew (turmeric yellow and paprika red), stewed cabbage and a green salad (which is not that easy to eat with injera), a deep crimson pool of stewed lamb (yebeg wot) and a similarlyprepared pair of chicken drumsticks crossed over a hardboiled egg. Shortly thereafter, our server dumped a sizzling tray of the delightfully named beef cha cha into the only vacant space left.

If we didn't consciously foreswear our unswerving steadfastness to each other, we did agree that everything was delicious, redolent of garlic, ginger, cardamom, allspice, paprika, et al. Like Indian cuisine, the Ethiopian kitchen relies on clarified butter (niter kibbeh) in many dishes, which adds richness and ribsticking heft.

The saucy stewed lamb and sizzling cubes of beef—seasoned with white wine, jalapeño, rosemary and garlic—were as good as anything I've had in any Ethiopian restaurant in Edmonton, and the variety of meatless stews provided all kinds of texture and flavour variations. I particularly favoured the hearty stewed collards (gomen) and the fierier of the lentil dishes (kei misir wot). If I was forced to

note a shortcoming it would be that the pair of chicken drumsticks and boiled egg wasn't that easy to share among four people—but by the time it was an issue we were already pretty full.

We also noticed that Abyssinia offers Ethiopian breakfast and, if you have the time and $20, an

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Ethiopian coffee ceremony done table-side. Our initial experience intimated those would be well worth checking out. You may have to do some soul-searching first, though, to figure out whether you really deserve it.

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Off the beaten path Wine countries go beyond the usual suspects Wine shops are deceptive: they make it seem like wine only comes from a handful of countries around the world, but wine is actually far more prevalent. It is produced by hundreds, not a dozen, of countries throughout the globe. We just don't get a lot (or any) bottles from the smaller wine nations, usually because they simply don't export much wine (or not very far, anyway). I suspect part of it is also a fear that North Americans simply won't take a chance on obscure bottles. I say grab an offbeat bottle and prove them wrong, in the name of diversity and sidelining globalization's negative impacts. (Read: making all wine from all places taste the same.)

Uruguay The South American wine giants of Argentina and Chile far outpace the rest of the continent's wine production; Uruguay is a distant fourth in terms of South America's biggest wineproducing countries. It only exports a small fraction of its total output, and of the few Uruguayan wines you'll find around town, they are almost always made from Tannat—this is Uruguay's national grape and most-planted variety. These wines are inky dark with bold flavours and high tannin and alcohol, though increasingly producers blend their Tannat with Merlot or Malbec to soften them up and render them drinkable at a younger age.

Lebanon Lebanon is an ancient wine country, and the site of some of the world's earliest vineyards, dating back over five millennia. Several esteemed wines are produced here: Chateau Musar from the Bekaa Valley is a particularly collectible bottle and probably the best-known Lebanese wine to western enthusiasts; many collectors place it alongside their Bordeaux, Burgundy, Barolo and other cellar classics. Sadly, many of Lebanon's vineyards were destroyed during the country's prolonged conflicts, especially during the '80s and '90s. The 21st century has seen a new wave of winemaking, however,

and Lebanon is currently home to a few dozen wineries.

China I first tried Chinese wine about six years ago, and it was bloody awful.

But China's wine industry is growing at an exponential rate and its burgeoning middle class has developed a taste for the grape. Some reports have suggested that this growth, coupled with the impacts of climate change, could make China the world's biggest wine producer by 2050. The wines may not be particularly impressive now, but numerous European (especially French) wine estates are partnering with Chinese firms to craft European-style wines.

Unfortunately these mostly haven't landed in Alberta yet, but keep an eye out—they're on the way.

India A Sauvignon Blanc from India just earned that country's first interna-

tional wine award: Grover Zampa, India's largest wine exporter, unanimously claimed the International Trophy for best Sauvignon Blanc at the 2014 Decanter Asia Wine Awards. If you didn't even know India produced wine, you're not alone; the country's wine industry is tiny, and the annual per capita consumption of wine is a miniscule nine millilitres. Viticulture does have a long history in India, though, arriving several thousand years ago and peaking during the British colonization. But it was decimated first by the outbreak of phylloxera in the late 1800s and then by the Indian government's prohibitionist policies. Most Indian vineyards are used for table grapes and raisin production, but a wine revival is underway; eventually we'll see a few more wines join the single Indian wine (Sula Dindori Viognier) currently available on the Alberta market. V

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The Gravitational Pull of Bernice Trimble finds a family coping with a difficult diagnosis

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ne of the things I find the most I felt undecided at the end, of what I terrifying is losing your mem- might be capable of. It's kind of that ory," Beth Graham says. "It's who you case-by-case thing, I guess. You don't are. I think we really are our memories; know until you're in that situation, even our relationships with people, how you'd handle it. they're based on memory."

In terms of broader timing, The GraviThe way in which the brain stores tational Pull arrives on the Roxy stage and recalls information, or eventually just as the questions of right-to-die starts failing to do so, started to play legislation are coming before the Suout on the actor/playwright's own a preme Court of Canada for the first few years ago. It's the anchoring idea time in 20 years. of The Gravitational Pull of Bernice "Maybe that was surfacing, too, as I Trimble, but more proximally, the is- was writing," she says. sues of an aging mind entered into her own life. Her husband's parents Sitting in the Roxy Theatre's lobby, are getting on in years, she notes, and Clarice Eckford—who plays Iris, one of after a dementia scare that thankfully Trimble's daughters, the middle child turned out to be a false alarm, Graham and ostensibly the story's protagofound herself pondering how we care nist—and Susan Gilmour—the Edfor older generations, watching her monton-born musical theatre dynamo, spouse start doing just that. here shifting tone to tackle the title "I was witnessing that happening to role—sit considering the same ideas. him, him becoming the caretaker of his "We're not set up very well for dying parents," she recalls over the phone and dementia," Gilmour says, a careful from Calgary. "I hadn't really thought gravitas to her tone. "I think we're a soabout it in depth before." ciety that prefers not to think about At the time, Grait until we have to. ham had been And now because Until Sun, Nov 23 (8 pm; 2 pm working on a script there's a huge popSunday matinees) for the Citadel ulation of us, the Directed by Bradley Moss Theatre's playboomers, and beRoxy Theatre, $23 – $29 writing program, yond, and getting though her initial to this age, I think idea had lost its lustre. that's why this is coming up more.

"I was really hating what I was writ- More people are thinking about it." ing; I got to this point of total selfThe subject matter is heavy, at its loathing, I'm guessing like every writer core, but both actors note the amount has experienced," she laughs. "I had this of humour that comes across in the other idea in my mind, and I was like, situation—a very human reaction to I'm just gonna ditch this thing I hate, very bad news. and for the next two days, I'm going to "Despite the fact that it deals with this write this other idea and see where it really devastating subject matter," Eckgets me. And for those two days I was ford says. "It has a lot of levity. It moves." just writing and—this rarely happens "We do that in life" Gilmour adds. to me—I was going. I couldn't stop. "Most of us make choices to find I knew the ending, I was writing to- the way around the challenges. Bewards that, and it came out. I ditched cause that's survival. You can look at the other play, never to go back." the glass half full or half empty. And The result was The Gravitational you're faced with the choices everyPull of Bernice Trimble, which Theatre day, when you read the newspaper.

Network is giving its Edmonton pre- The trivial or the cataclysmic, of whatmière as the first show of the com- ever you're going through that day, pany's 40th season. In her kitchen, you make a choice about how you're the eponymous matron gathers her going to deal with that." three adult children to tell them of Leaning on the lighter side of the her Alzheimer’s diagnosis. The result- matter's proven effective: The Graviing emotional quagmire shapes itself tational Pull of Bernice Trimble had into something a little sharper than an acclaimed run in Toronto's Factory your typical kitchen drama, letting big- Theatre last fall, and Graham was in ger, more complicated ideas of care on the rehearsal process of that and what that means emerge to circle show, too. She notes that highlightaround that personal core, of a family ing the moments of levity around the attempting to navigate and accept a situation was what she took from her difficult diagnosis. script's inaugural run.

Not that writing a play on the sub"I think the secret is you've gotta go ject's made Graham's own feelings on for the humour," Graham says. "Even the matter any clearer. though there's all this emotion under"As I was writing, I thought, well, I'd neath, you can't go there too hard." like to be able to do it, to be able to PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM help out," Graham says. "God, I dunno.

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ARTS PREVUE // BALLET

The Three Musketeers ography, just to be certain of it before it's happening with a live audience watching. It's the first time the company's produced the ballet adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' enduring classic tale of adventure and brotherhood, which is one of those rare showcases for male dancers in a field of dance that doesn't often grant them the opportunity to be front and centre.

Awaiting dramatic escape

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he thing about sword fighting you have to remember is it's very dangerous," Jean Grand-Maître says.

"Even if it's dulled, you can still poke out an eye, puncture skin, break limbs.

You can hit people in the wrong place."

The finer points of weapon-based stage-combat don't often get discussed in the same breath as the nuances of ballet, but Grand-Maître did program an adaptation of The Three Musketeers into Alberta Ballet's season; now, the artistic director finds

himself sorting through the precarious possibilities thereof.

It's not even the movements of swordplay that prove tricky for ballet dancers, he notes, but getting everyone on stage comfortable enough with the action to be safe about it.

"Ballet came from sword fighting, originally," he says. "The courts had fencing, and from all those fencing positions came a lot of ballet positions.

So for the dancers, it's not like you're learning a different language, neces-

PREVUE // POETRY

This version features the choreography of Canadian David Nixon, whose acclaimed career has arced from time as a principle Fri, Nov 7 & Sat, Nov 8 (7:30 pm) dancer in our own National Ballet to Jubilee Auditorium, $29 – $95 massive success in Europe, where he's currently the artistic director of sarily. But it's scary for them; you're Leeds' Northern Ballet. A man known really sword fighting. The blades get for developing narrative ballets—he's close to your face and there's people put Gatsby en pointe—Musketeers offighting behind you—all around fered Nixon a chance to show off the you—you have jump over tables, grab masculine side of his company, which objects, throw them at people, fight had appeal for Grand-Maître as well. with benches. There's hand-to-hand "It's an opportunity to have men combat you have to learn, and how to dance," he points out. "If you look at be safe doing it." classical ballet, it's often a woman's To minimize the potential dangers, world still today—one of the few Grand-Maître is having the dancers careers where it's really based on arrive at the theatre 45 minutes early women more than men. And David to every show to run the fight chore- was looking for narrative that could

give him a chance to show off his men, because he has great male dancers [at Northern Ballet]—so do we—and so Three Musketeers was giving a chance for the men to shine."

Alberta Ballet doesn't always have the funding to pull in guests like Nixon, Grand-Maître adds—"we're the leastfunded ballet company in Canada," he states, not ruefully but simply as a matter of fact—but when the company can bring in outside talents, he's found it to be particularly revealing, both for the dancers and for himself.

"It enables me to discover new dancers through the eyes of other choreographers," Grand-Maître says. "Because they'll see a dancer in a very romantic role, when I've always seen that dancer as not a romantic artist, necessarily. And these choreographers come and say, 'No, I think she should be the queen, and she should be the romantic archetype in the ballet.' And then I discover the dancer, because they live up to this challenge. I see different colours and facets of each artist in the company that I probably would never have discovered if I didn't have guests artists coming in here and shaking things around."

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here is an intimacy in poetry sim- to hear?,'" Smith explains. "If you ply not found in many other art wanna hear something sad, they've forms. The relationship between au- got something sad to read to you. If dience and artist is normally one to you want to hear something funny, one—one poet, one reader. The text they've got something that you can hear. Whatever exmust be stripped down to the esperience you want Sun, Nov 9 (8 pm) sentials, as there's going into those The Cask & Barrel, $10 / + tips private readings, no room for superfor private readings fluous words. And you can talk to in a truly stunning your poet and poem, there is a explain to them what you're hoping to hear." laying bare of the soul.

As if that's not enough to make anyone a little artistically hot 'n' both- The poets on hand often move ered, the Edmonton Poetry Brothel through the evening in character, has returned to make any subtle in- having chosen a nom de plume and ference about the intimacy of poetry fashioned a particular persona for the Brothel. And this Sunday you explicit.

"We sort of have a sexier spin on can even sit down with the Brothel's poetry," admits Brothel organizer and Madam for the first time.

"To hear someone's voice saying it, Madam, Morgan Smith. "We sometimes pick poems that are a little it adds a whole other level to the experience," Smith promises. "To be more saucy."

Settling into a new location at the one on one with the poet making Cask & Barrel downtown on 104 eye contact with them and you're Street, the Brothel mixes whisky with not trying to not be seen by the poet words and features a night of poetry in the crowd—you're sitting across performances, belly dancing and mu- from them."

It's enough to make you blush. And sic. According to Smith, the "heart and soul" of these evenings are the pri- more than enough to convince a vate poetry readings, where patrons passive listener that a soliloquy can can pay for a one-on-one reading with not only be sweet and sensitive, but also sexy. the poet of their choice.

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ith writers submitting their works from Vancouver to St John's, you merely have to look at a map to understand the affection and pull the Loud & Queer Cabaret has garnered over its 20+ years of existence.

"It tells a really cool story about the migration of the Edmonton queer community and the artistic community," says Cabaret co-director and co-host Darrin Hagen. "People grow up in Edmonton, they get their first start in Edmonton and then they move away to other cities and they become important writers and artists in those other cities.

But they still have that Edmonton con- way to put them all on stage. nection and the roots, and I love when "When you put the poetry in the they send work back." mouth of an actor who will spend some While Loud & time with it and Fri, Nov 7 & Sat, Nov 8 (7:30 pm) Queer has been actually perform it Westbury Theatre in the ATB known to present and work through Financial Arts Barns, $27.50 everything from it, suddenly the belly dancing to poetry takes on a avant-garde imwhole new life," provised music, the focus has always Hagen explains. "I love the way [the been the written word and giving writ- Cabaret] is really versatile. Any format ers a chance to have their pages per- can work on stage." formed in front of an audience. From excerpts of plays to short stories to CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 >> poetry, Hagen and his cast figure out a

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Elusive connections

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elling two stories at once is an am- pense, and does so quite successfully: bitious feat for a novel: on stage, the scene freezes right when a revit's an even taller order. Calgarian elation or incisive argument is delivered playwright Arun Lakra has done just and switches back to the other; the two this with his second script, Sequence, scenes follow a similar pacing and crescendo into an arresting double apex.

Shadow Theatre's season opener.

The show delves into some big issues—the issues, really: science and Things become muddied when the religion, luck and fate. The first story performers don't correctly measure the centres on stem-cell researcher and pause between scenes well enough, or genetics professor Dr Guzman (Coralie when they accidentally cut into the preCairns), who is going blind from a ge- vious scene before it's finished; thanknetic disease and has summoned one of fully this doesn't happen often enough her students, Mr Adamson (Chris Cook), for it to become a serious problem. One also can't help but a devoutly religious Until Sun, Nov 16 (7:30 pm) measure each side paraplegic who had Directed by John Hudson against the other; the statistically Varscona Theatre, $11 – $27 the scenes between astounding misfortune of incorrectly Zotter and Suliak stand out as most answering all 150 questions on an exam. The other story compelling as the pair has great chemfeatures the arrogant, sexist "Luckiest istry, plus their story is simply the more Man in the World" (Frank Zotter) who unique of the two.

Lakra's script is elegantly written and has bet double or nothing on the Super Bowl coin toss for the past 20 years refuses to spoon feed the audience. It's and won every time. We meet him at tempting to try to slot the stories into the launch of his book; a persistent fan each other or sort them into a larger, (Caley Suliak) stays afterwards for rea- overarching tale, but it just doesn't sons that are much deeper than they work that way. Rather, the two halves are united only by theme and a series initially seem.

Placing two disparate stories along- of interwoven coincidences that are side one another is an unusual dramatic dropped like breadcrumbs in key mostructure that asks the same ultimate ments. Following this trail won't lead to question explored by the script: why? a neat little resolution: in Sequence, as Visually and dramatically it's undeniably in life, the deeper connections between engaging, once the audience recovers events and people are elusive and refrom the dizzying effect of stepping into main just out of reach. two stories at the same time. Sequence MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM uses this device primarily to build sus-

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With enough material to fill two nights at the Westbury Theatre, Hagen says there are almost 30 artists represented this year with pieces that touch on everything from the rom-comical to the political to the experimental.

"You can tell what the community is thinking a lot of years by what material comes in," Hagen says. "For instance, in the mid-'90s where everything was about AIDS, because that's what we were going through and everyone was writing about it. The year almost takes on a theme accidentally by virtue of

what's being submitted."

"And if a theme emerges," Hagen continues, "the amount of different viewpoints within that context is always stirring to me."

As Loud & Queer continues to attract writing from coast to coast, Hagen remains motivated by those emerging artists who need a platform to see their first piece performed.

"It's necessary because a community needs to be nurtured into taking its first steps sometimes," Hagen says. "And to remember that you are part of a bigger community. That's important."

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Loveplay

Generations of love // Ed Ellis

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reatures like me will always exist."

English playwright Moira Buffini is the current doyenne of Studio Theatre: the new crop of BFA drama students are tackling not one, but two of Buffini's plays in Studio Theatre's current season. The first is Loveplay under the direction of Jan Selman, which spans 10 eras all set on the same patch of ground, here represented by a versatile tilted stage that is creatively transformed into the next scene by a series of devices: set pieces pop up or snap together, banners unfurl, curtains drop. (Set and costumes by Robert Shannon.)

Each scene is a particular example of historical sexual relationships, as viewed through the lens of Buffini's contemporary feminism. We begin in 79 AD with a Roman soldier (Dylan Parsons) attempting to teach a prostitute (Morgan Yamada) the significance of a coin. ("It's usually a chicken," she tells him dubiously.) From there we

hurtle forward, pausing to peek at the next few ages and the way that first transaction has evolved and skewed: in the Renaissance it's a trio rehearsing a love scene of exaggerated pomp and courtly gentility, in the 1960s it's a quartet of "free" lovers that don't seem particularly liberated, and in the present it's a troubled quintet brought together by a matchmaking service.

Until Sat, Nov 8 (7:30 pm) Directed by Jan Selman Timms Centre, $11 – $22 The students attack Buffini's challenging script with fervour, if not always finesse. While not a playwright who's in the habit of pulling punches, Buffini also avoids the soapbox rhetoric or bombastic preaching that can often accompany these discussions.

This production achieves the overall impact of her script but isn't always

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able to capture the subtler depths of Buffini's wit and satire. A few of the performances stand out: the Enlightenment scene between a scientific lady (Kabriel Lilly) and an illiterate stonemason (Dylan Parsons) is particularly charged, as is the 19th-century liaison between a closeted vicar (Maxwell Theodore Lebeuf) and his artist lover (Parsons).

The script's weightiness is accompanied by a good dose of selfdeprecating humour as we face the silly, sad, scary ways humans have courted sex and love over the past two millennia. Nonetheless, Loveplay has a very serious backbone.

Previous ages reverberate as haunting screams and echoed lines of dialogue, reminders that while the trappings have changed, we're really no different creatures than that first pair in the woods, haggling over the price of their exchange.

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f the many moments of daffy himself, too, is a highlight example, brilliance that play out over but they're generously scattered One Man, Two Guvnors' runtime, one throughout. of the best comes early on: Francis Henshall (John Ullyatt) running at The script draws permission for broad stereoa firm pace soon finds himself chastype from the ing, well, himself Until Sun, Nov 16 (7:30 pm; 1:30 era, and then the around the stage. pm Sunday matinees) 15-strong cast There's a confron- Directed by Bob Baker just dig into those tation that comes Citadel Theatre, $35 – $89 stereotypes with to blows, and the aplomb (it's hard way the moment's warped logic plays to pick favourites, but Jesse Gervais out to its punchline (well, kickline), is a highlight, as is Andrew Macyou realize just how ridiculous a night Donald-Smith's well-aged Alfie). you're in for. Rigid logic's been tossed The action's encircled by a skiffle to in the dustbin in favour of a more band, the Craze (local ukulele dynaelastic comedy in this update of Ser- mos the Be Arthurs), who open the vant of Two Masters, one that bends show with first-wave Brit-invasion stereotype and era parody into effec- vibes, play during intermission, and tive modern-day nonsense while still cover for the show's many transirooting itself deep within its chosen tions. The band members sit down time period. There's a Thatcher joke, with the audience in the front row, which adds to the show's slightly for crying out loud, and it lands.

Set in Brighton Beach, 1963, One unhinged party vibe, as does the auMan Two Guvnors, has a lot going on dience participation.

The first scene, perhaps because of in terms of plot: Henshall broke and hungry, finds himself accidentally the necessity of setting up a tripleemployed twice-over, and desper- part scenario, struggled to land on ate to prevent each from discovering opening, and the bountiful asides to the other, ends up crashing through the audience do get a little wearia pair of love stories (and a murder some by the second act—when we're case to boot). That said, the plot's still having the difficulties of the scealmost moot, an excuse to play out nario explained to us in detail when a so much ridiculousness, which is knowing gesture or pained expression when the script's at its best: when would convey the same. But those the characters are trying and flail- are minor quibbles when the rest of ing to achieve some great—or bet- Two Guvnor's runtime is a such grand ter yet, minuscule—task set out for parade of joyful irreverence. them. Henshall's struggles to serve PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM two meals at once while feeding

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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • GUILDED: LET NATURE STUN YOU: Works by St Albert Place Visual Arts Council Members; Nov 6-29; opening: Nov 6, 7-9pm • GUILDED: Showcasing the work of SAPVAC Guild members; Nov 6-29; opening: Nov 6 • Bookbinding Workshop: Medieval Diary: Art workshop for adults; Nov 8, 1-3pm; $25/$22.50 (member) pre-register • Preschool Picasso: Floral Art Fun: Nov 8, 10:30-11:30am; for 3-5 yrs; pre-register; $10/$9 (Arts & Heritage member) • Art Ventures: Foil Art: Nov 15, 1-4pm; drop-in art program for children ages 6-12; $6/$5.40 (Arts & Heritage member)

BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • New works by Jessica Desmoulin and Dianne Meili; Nov 8-19 BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • SHAPES & LINES: Kim Atlin and Scott Pattinson • Until Nov 15

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • TANGENT: Works by Louise Piquette, Valérie Solash, Karen Blanchet, Deborah Lenihan, and guest Mary Deeprose • Opening: Nov 7, 7-8:30m, artists in attendance • Nov 7-18

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • SOME SOLITARY BEACONS: Artworks by

Community Canvas wall: Rotating year round exhibits • UNCANNY BREACH: Works by Lucille Frost • Until Jan 2015

LITERARY AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Maurice Mierau discuss his latest book, Detachment: An Adoption Memoir (Freehand); reading by Tim Bowling • Nov 7, 7-9pm

In Poetry Collective (BIP); E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com

STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.467.8189 • Remembrance Day • Nov 11, 12-3pm • Donation

TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736

U OF A • Arts Bldg student Lounge: Regenerations– Canadian Women's Writing, wine and Cheese; Nov 13, 4:30-6pm; free • 4-115 Humanities Centre (Canadian Literature Centre office): A Blue Pencil Café: Thea Bowering: Nov 13, 10-4pm; Kimmy Beach: Nov 14, 10-4pm; free; pre-register at E: greenawa@ualberta.ca 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)

THEATRE CATCH ME IF YOU CAN: THE MUSICAL • John L. Haar Theatre, MacEwan, 10045-156 St • Musical based on the film • Until Nov 8, 7:30pm • $15-$20

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

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • DISCOVERING DINOSAURS: until Jan 31, 2015 • Lecture: Dino 101: Meet the TA Team; Nov 13, 12:15-12:45pm • AGA at Enterprise Square Galleries: SONAR: Sound Art Explorations by Edmonton Artists; Nov 6-Jan 4, 2015

DIE-NASTY • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • Live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, 7:30pm • $13/$9 (member) at the door, tixonthesquare.com

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • MFA graduation show: MIND BODY PHONE: Emilie St. Hilaire, MFA Drawing and Intermedia • Until Nov 29 • Opening: Nov 6, 7-10pm

ELEPHANT WAKE • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • • Catalyst Theatre. By Joey Tremblay • Nov 12-29 • Mon-Thu: $20 (student/senior)/$22 (adult); Fri-Sat: $22 (student/senior)/$26 (adult)

FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • PAINT SONG: Works by Steve Coffey; Nov 8-24; opening: Nov 8, 2-4pm

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Nov. 13TH-15TH, 2014 - 8:00pm A new show every night!

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

• Roxy, 10708 124 St • Theatre Network • By Beth Graham, starring Jason Chinn, Clarice Eckford, Patricia Zentilli, and Susan Gilmour • Until Nov 23 • $23-$29 at 780.453.2440; Tue: Pay-What-You-Can

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park,

HOLLYWOOD BOUND • An Improv show–motion picture comedy by the members of the Die-Nasty improv troupe • Nov 13-15, 8pm • $18 (adv)/$20 (door)

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, St Albert,

LA CORNEILLE • La Cité francophone, 8627-91 St • L'Unithéâtre • By Lise Vaillancourt. Directed by Micheline Chevrier • Until Nov 9 • $26 (adult)/$22 (senior)/$17 (student) at lunitheatre.ca, 780.469.8400

780.459.2525 • Pastel works by Tony Overweel; until Nov 24 • Oil paintings by Marina Bazox and Olga Duc; Nov 25-Dec 22

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley Milner Library Main

LOUD AND QUEER CABARET • Arts Barns Westbury

Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Gallery Walls: STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN: Paintings by Lori Frank;

Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • Presented by Guys in Disguise, Workshop West Playwright Theatre & Fringe Theatre Adventures • Nov 7-8

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Club juried show featuring selected works by members • Until Nov 28

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780.496.1828 • Landscapes, birds, and still life paintings

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TELEGRAPH HILL: Coup Boutique and Drawing Room present paintings by Charlotte Falk • Until Dec 24

Rm • NEON, Poland, 2014 • Nov 6, 6:30-9pm; followed w/reception and discussion with director Eric Bednarski • Free

118 Ave, 780.426.5642 • Works by the Edmonton Potters' Guild • Nov 8, 10am-3pm

STRATHCONA PUBLIC LIBRARY • 8331-104 St,

780.488.4892 • Gabor Naggy; until Nov 13 • Shi Le; Nov 15-27

DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St, 780.760.7284 •

POLAND IN THE ROCKIES/THE EDMONTON POLISH CONSULATE • Stanley Milner Library Centennial

ALBERTA AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTRE • 9210-

Grove, 780.962.0664 • Main Gallery: Larissa Blokhuis; until Nov 22 • Fireplace Room: Red Deer College/High School Award Winners; through Nov

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • DOROTHY KNOWLES: CANADIAN LANDSCAPES: Showcase of fresh-from-the-studio paintings and watercolours as well as works from other periods; until Nov 8

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Artist in Residence Sara French explores how Visual Art is portrayed in the newspaper • Front Room: INHERITED NARRATIVES: Photo installations with performances that questions the structure of narrative; until Nov 28 • House Party: Fundraiser; Nov 29, 7pm; $40 (adv)/ $50 (door)

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• Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks and artworks by Richard Dixon

780.410.8585 • THE BLUE HOUR: Megan Hahn's photo transparencies • Nov 7-Dec 21 • Reception: Nov 7, 7pm

Breathing (STC); Nov 8, 4pm

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave,

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • LIFEBOATS: Works by Patrick Mahon • Community Gallery: NOT MY CLOTHES: Works by Brittney Roy • Until Nov 22

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.200.2711

IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211-142

• Reel Family Cinema: Alice in Wonderland; Nov 8, 2pm • Ratatouille; Nov 15, 2pm • Local Film Premiere: Just Keep

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • Abstract works by SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta

• 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

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • FOLIE

METRO • Metro, Garneau, 8712-109 St, 780.425.9212

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • MY ASIA: Works by Cam Wilson • Until Nov 29

Harold Feist; until Nov 8

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211

Rm 1-08: Film: Revolutionary Medicine: A Story of the First Garifuna Hospital; Nov 6, 5pm • Edmonton Clinic Health Academy: Film: If A Tree Falls: A Story of The Earth Liberation Front; Nov 13, 5pm • Free St • Nov 7-13 • Panda: The Journey Home 3D, G; Fri-Sat 1:10, 3:25, 6:55; Sun 1:10, 3:25; Mon-Tue 12pm; WedThu 3:10pm • D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D, PG; Fri-Sat 5:45; Sun 12pm; Mon-Tue 11am, 1:10; 3:25; Thu 1pm • Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D, G; Fri 2:15; Sat-Sun 10am, 2:15; Wed 4:20; Thu 10am, 4:20pm • Flight of the Butterflies 3D, G; Fri-Sun 11am, 4:35; Mon-Tue 10am; Wed 11am • Rocky Mountain Express, G; Sat 12pm; Mon-Tue 2:15pm • Space Station 3D, G; Mon-Tue 4:35pm ª Jerusalem 3D, G; Thu 2pm • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark, PG; Fri-Sat 8:05; Sun 5:45pm

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

LOVEPLAY • Timms Centre, U of A • Studio Theatre • Until Nov 8 • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); mat: $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 (senior); preview: $5 (all); Mon: 2-for-1

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MAGGIE-NOW COMPLETE CYCLE OF ALL THREE PLAYS • Arts Barns Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave •

JAKE'S GALLERY • 10441-123 St • The Edmonton art

Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave, 780.433.5807 • Works by Ontairio artist C.W. Jeffreys • Until Dec 17

Prosperous Paddies production based on the book by Betty Smith, adapted and directed by Jennifer Spencer. Starring Adam Blocka, Kendra Connor, Brenna Corner, Julie Golosky, Mark Henderson, Elliott James, Will Laird, Jenny McKillop, Roxie Michelle, Luc Tellier, and Vanessa Wilson • Nov 14-22 • Tickets at Fringe Theatre Adventures box office, 780.409.1910

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St, 780.990.1161

MAX AND RUBY IN THE NUTCRACKER SUITE

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona

• New sculptures by Stewart Steinhauer • Through Nov

• Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 • Musical for the whole family • Nov 19-20, 2pm, 6:30pm • $16 (child)/$26 (adult) at Festival Place box office

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • The Fine Art of Schmoozy: Fundraiser, a night of fairytales

and fashion with live music, food, cocktails, silent art auction, a fashion auction from Edmonton designers and boutiques • Nov 15, 8pm-late • $50 • schmoozy. eventbrite.ca

A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM • Alberta Ave Community Centre, 9210-118 Ave • Directed by Jeff Page, starring Perry Gratton, Lianna Makuch, Liz Hobbs, Kohl Littlechilds, Ben Stevens, Andréa Jorawsky, and Miranda Allen, and Chris Dela Cruz • Nov 7, 11am • Donation at door

LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park; 780.449.4443 • ACACA ALBERTA WIDE ART SHOW: Presented by the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association

NAKED CYBER CAFÉ • 10303-108 St • MY BLOCK IN THE HOOD: LIFE IN MILL WOODS: Young artists share social issues within this corner of Edmonton • Nov 15, 7-10pm • $5-$10 (door) • performance and visual art submissions to Ozgaake@gmail.com

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • WHAT'S BEFORE AND BEHIND: Portraits

by Patrick Higgins; until Dec 7

MOJO DESIGN INC • #1 10340-134 St, 780.455.5229 • VIGNETTES: Woodworkers Edition, a one-night only pop-up design show • Nov 6, 4-8pm

ONE MAN TWO GUVNORS • Citadel Shoctor Theatre • By Richard Bean, based on the Servant of Two Masters

by Carlo Goldini, songs by Grant Olding, featuring the Be Arthurs, directed by Bob Baker • Until Nov 16

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

ORESTES 2.0 • Timms 2nd Playing Space, U of A •

Plain • COMFORT CLOTHING: Works by Wendy Gervais • Until Nov 27

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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 • BRIGADIERGENERAL RAYMOND BRUTINEL: And the Motor Machine Gun Brigade; until Nov 16 • Remembrance Day exhibitions and activities: Nov 11, 10am-1pm

THE SECRET GARDEN • Concordia Tegler Auditorium, TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • GPS

NAESS GALLERY • 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • Main: THIS ONE GOES OUT TO THE ONE I LOVE: Works

by Krista Acheson; until Nov 15 • Artisan Nook: PEN TO PAPER: until Nov 13 • Vertical Space: WHAT COLOUR IS LOVE?: Paintings by Jude Ifesieh; until Nov 15

ADVENTURES CANADA EXHIBITION: Combining technology, nature, and hidden treasure; 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) • Margaret Zeidler

NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE STOLLERY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • YESS PART II: Artists from Youth Empowerment and Support Services • Nov 6-22

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Paintings by David Alexander • Until Nov 12 PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.467.3038 • Paintings by Jonn Einerssen and soapstone sculptures by Vance Theoret • Until Nov 8

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

Euripides’ play and delves into fate, family, moral obligation and politics as addapted by Charles Mee, produced by ABBEDAM • Nov 12-16, 7:30pm; Nov 15-16, 2pm • $10 (student/senior)/$5 (preview)/$15 (adult)/$10 (preview) at TIX on the Square, door

Star Theatre: Diggin’ Up the Past: An Archaeology Speaker Series: Rob Losey presents the Archaeology of Dog Domestication; Nov 7, 7pm • X Doesn't Mark the

Spot: Archaeological Mapping of Metis Daily Life on the Canadian Prairie, by Kisha Supernant; Nov 14, 7pm

U OF A MUSEUMS • Human Ecology Bldg Gallery, Main Fl, 116 St, 89 Ave • LOIS HOLE: THE QUEEN OF HUGS • Until Mar 22

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • Gallery A: Jean-Rene LeBlanc • Gallery B: BITS & PIECES: Patricia Coulter (mixed media works) • Until Dec 6

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave • Authors for Altrui-+sm: With Cassie Stocks, Rick Lauber, Alison Neuman, Halli Lilburn, Jennifer Snow, Laini Giles, Alison Clarke, for a Charity Book Sale and Silent Auction • Fundraiser for the Rainbow Society of Alberta along with the Alberta Caregivers Association • Nov 8, 12-4pm SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's , 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm

LOIS HOLE LIBRARY • 17650-69 Ave, 780.496.5999 • Women Talking about Women in Genre Fiction: PreSpec Panel with Candas Jane Dorsey, Karen Dudley, Janice MacDonald, S.G.Wong, Eileen Bell • Nov 13, 6-9pm

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FALL STYLE // YOUTH

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The Pride dress // Richard Pryde Hughes

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hat is fashion? Is it simply nice clothes, this season's trends and "it" designers? At iHuman Youth Society, fashion acts as a common language that connects young people and teaches them about self-esteem while forging a creative outlet.

"It doesn't really matter what colour your skin is or if you're rich or you're poor, or if you're young or you're old—fashion is fashion," says Natasha Lazarovic, co-ordinator of the fashion program at iHuman, located just off of Jasper Avenue and 102 Street in a building that used to house a peep show, though all remnants of the venue's seedy past have been transformed by some creative graffiti and renovations to turn it into a positive and creative space for the program's youth. "Fashion is the common denominator, and each kid wants to be fashionable, each kid wants to be cool, each kid wants to pretty, each kid wants to be stylin', boss. It goes with the subcultures around here—the gang kids, they still have a sense of style. Straight-up they've got style; it's their style associated with their thing. So yeah, of course fashion is important. It's like putting a roof over your head: we all need to put something on in the morning, so you might as well make them feel good about what they put on." iHuman works with an eclectic group of youth exhibiting high-risk lifestyles, teaching them how to reintegrate into the community through social support and outreach programs. The fashion program is one of three creative courses offered at iHuman, along with art and music—the entire basement of the facility has been transformed to house recording studios and a performance space. Upstairs, Lazarovic works with girls ranging from age 14 to 21 in a colourful studio filled with ongoing and completed projects along with shots from photo shoots where the youth acted as models.

"The core of this program is around self-esteem and it's around dignity and it's around working with youth, mostly women, and capturing them in a different light so they can see themselves with a different worth,"

says Lazarovic, who is a designer herself and has a high-end couture costume line called Temna Fialka and has worked in the industry for more than 20 years. "It's all around making better choices. If they can look at themselves and see that holy cow, they're beautiful, that's a gorgeous image of them—like the ones you see on the wall—as comparative to their daily lives where they're put down or they're abused or they're feeling horrible and they have no self-worth, it just gives them that extra punch to make a better choice next time."

"When I was younger, it kept me from going out drinking when I had photo shoots the next day," says Roxanne Tompkins, 17, who has been in the program for four years and hopes to become a social worker someday.

"When you see the pictures and the outcome of it, it makes you feel a whole lot better about yourself," adds Shyannah Sinclair, 16, who has been in the program for almost three years and has always had a keen interest in fashion.

The program operates on a very loose schedule—in fact, there really isn't one other than Lazarovic being in the studio from 11 am until 6 pm every day, though she hopes to start a curriculum of self-esteem workshops and introduce guest instructors once iHuman moves into a new, larger space. She says that, for now, she has to take advantage of the time the youth happen to drop by the studio.

There, Lazarovic works with them on accessories, head pieces, masks, styling, sewing, makeup application and photography. The program also collaborates with the art component of iHuman, creating intricate pieces such as the Pride dress, a garment made up of an ornate assortment of handpainted butterflies.

There are also opportunities for the youth to market their wares, particularly when it comes to accessories, though Lazarovic is in the midst of building this aspect of the program.

"The goal behind that is to put them into local retailers and then when it sells, the money goes back to the kids.

iHuman keeps 10 percent of it to pay for the materials and obviously time, but everything goes back to the youth.

The point behind that was to teach the kids that they can make money doing honest things and teaching them skills in which they could survive off of," she explains. "Unfortunately we haven't found the right retailers yet who would successfully sell the stuff, because a lot of it would be dream catcher earrings. The youth are making it so it's not perfect, and people need to be able to value the imperfection of that, so I'm still on the hunt for the appropriate retail spaces that would be successful in marketing and selling that."

Another key component of the program is regalia, as the majority of the youth are First Nations. Lazarovic is currently working on making mukluks from scratch with her students, incorporating everything from drafting the pattern to choosing the appropriate type of hide to work with to teaching the students how to hand-bead their creations. However, Lazarovic notes it is important to incorporate other cultural elements into her students' fashion education as well.

"We work in a demographic with 95-percent First Nations youth, and there's a lot of political stigma and there's a lot of political stuff that goes on," Lazarovic says, noting she became familiar with the culture as a child through her father's work with Indian Affairs. "I really find it important to teach them about other cultures in the work and other cultures' struggle and their pain. I mean, genocide happens in every other culture, not just their own, so they can maybe start to see the work from a different view and appreciate other cultures and incorporate them into their own sense of being. I'm not trying to dismiss the value of First Nations culture; it's an absolutely beautiful culture and it does need to be rectified, but what I'm saying is, knowledge is power. So if you can see the world through many different eyes you just become a wiser person in general."

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FALL STYLE // STREET STYLE

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all has been good to the City of Champions this year. There hasn't been had any significant snow fall, and the temperatures have stayed above freezing. However, the arrival of November has brought a chill to the air that is a precursor of what's to come. But, just because it's time to pull out the cold-weather essentials doesn't mean you can't look fashionable. Check out these outfits that local Edmontonians have put together and take some cues for your own wardrobe.

Emily Mattingsley Occupation: Teacher Describe your style: Hobo is the new boho.

Fall must-have: A toque and wool socks.

Favourite places to shop in Edmonton: Garage sales, clothing exchanges and hand-me-downs from stylish friends.

What she's wearing: Beige jacket, garage sale in Tofino; jean jacket, Goodwill in Calgary; dress, Goodwill in Edmonton; tights, can't remember; shoes, The Pretty Secrets vintage; bag, Sitka; necklace, real seashells from adventures around the world.

Alistair Waugh Occupation: General practitioner Describe your style: Classic Fall must-have: A good pair of gloves.

Favourite places to shop in Edmonton: Hudson's Bay Company, Gravity Pope, Jaisel.

What he's wearing: Boss Trenchcoat, Printemps sweater, Liberty shirt, Naked and Famous jeans, Grenson shoes, Pierotucci briefcase, Guy Weadick replica belt buckle by Olson Silver from the Glenbow Museum.

Chelsey McPherson Occupation: Teacher Describe your style: I'd say casual chic.

Fall must-have: Hats. Fall is lasting so long this year. Embrace the wool hat.

Favourite places to shop in Edmonton: Bamboo Ballroom, Aritzia, Winners, Noul. But really, if there is a store, I'll shop in it.

What she's wearing: Pants and shirt, Urban Outfitters; hat, Joe; sweater, Uni Qlo; jacket, Jacob; fox-fur scarf, Winners; shoes, Noul; necklace, Bang Bang Bjoux.

Dylan Rhys Howard Occupation: Film and video producer/director Describe your style: My brother described it as "small-town chic" the other day. I think I like that a lot.

Fall must-have: My must-have for any season is a good pair of boots. I finally invested in a pair of Red Wings this year, and it was probably one of the best decisions I've ever made about anything.

These Iron Rangers won't be good in winter because they don't have any grip, but until the streets are lined with ice, I'm loving every minute.

Favourite places to shop in Edmonton: Lately, I really like going to Red Ribbon to buy jeans. The store is so quaint and wonderful, and people are always incredibly nice to me there. Plus, every time I'm there I seem to find a pair of Levi's on sale that fit perfectly.

What he's wearing: Toque, Simons; "jean vest thing," Value Village; hoodie and T-shirt, American Apparel; jeans, Levi's 511s from Red Ribbon; boots, Red Wing Heritage Iron Rangers from Red Wing Shoes on 99 Street.

Photographed and compiled by SANDY JOE KARPETZ

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he international title of this ad- tion of grandma's house. The villagaptation, based on the cult novel ers call her The Witch, and the old Le Grand Cahier, written in French lady seems ready to live up to the tiby Hungarian author Agota Kristof, tle, gulping down homemade hooch, is The Notebook, which means that regularly beating the boys and holnow when you mention that you saw lering at them by the affectionate The Notebook, you have to clarify: nickname: "Bastards!"

"Not that The Notebook, I mean the The plot lives somewhere between Hungarian Second World War one." "Predictably Conventional Second Rather than a source World War of weepy love sto- Fri, Nov 7 – Wed, Nov 12 Film" and "Eurories, however, the Directed by János Szász pean Art Film," titular tome is used Metro Cinema at the Garneau but it definitely to chronicle the skews towards  wartime experiences the uncommon of pre-pubescent as the familiar, twin brothers (unnamed, like every warm, fuzzy elements slowly trade character) when their loving parents places with the scary, untrustworthy send them away to the presumed elements in a fairly shocking, yet safety of their grandmother's remote completely organic and believable country hut to wait out the end of way. The Nazis are the least of the the war. The pampered, effusively boys' troubles, and from their perloving environment of home cracks spective, which this film does a good in sharp contrast to the cold desola- job of aligning us with, it makes

sense. Not that the film goes easy on the Nazis—it just doesn't bother with them, because this film is about the boys and their growth through hardship into the other side of the war, dodging regular police, pedophilic civilians, and Red Army "liberators."

The war's out there, but the film is about the internal conflict of enduring all of the harsh stuff outside.

The film asks a lot of its two coleads, twins András and László Gyémánt, who have to basically stand as the bedrock of this whole semi-fairytale, eyes-of-a-child look at wartime Hungary. All things considered, they do a damn fine job of it, their childhood lack of acting chops mixing with very smart directing and editing to create the enigmatic yet believable performances the film needs.

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the guys carrying the cameras, and they're there to put you and your dangling guts and all your shock and misery on the evening news.

Lou Bloom (Jake Gyllenhaal) is one of those guys. Or rather, he fashions himself into one after accidentally discovering his calling, "a flaming asshole of a job" to which he feels perfectly suited, mainly because he's a baby-faced sociopath

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who likes to watch with those eyes like giant, cold marbles. The missing link between Videodrome and Crash, Nightcrawler, written and directed by Dan Gilroy, chronicles Lou's rise to the top of his profession by sinking about as low as a person can with regards to empathy. He learns to monetize carnage CONTINUED ON PAGE 24 >>

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Boardwalk Empire peers into the hypocrisies of Prohibiton-era America "No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true." â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Nathaniel Hawthorne It's no surprise, if you know the work of the man behind Boardwalk Empire, that this almost criminally underappreciated showâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;its fourth and penultimate season now out on discâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;is about the masks that men don. Terence Winter's characters can be masked men as metaphorical robbersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the main figure's Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), bootlegger-king of Atlantic Cityâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;or twofaced literally, like Richard Harrow (Jack Huston), a veteran whose prosthetic mask hides the lower left part of his face, blown off in the trenches.

Winter worked at Merrill Lynch in 1987, during the crash, while studying nights to be a lawyer (useful background for his screenplay for Martin Scorsese's portrait of super-testosteroned money-raking in The Wolf of Wall Street). He moved into TV and made his name on The Sopranosâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; that show about a don's split mobster manhoodâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;where he penned some of the best episodes ("Pine Barrens," "Long Term Parking," "The Second Coming").

But Thompson's no raging bull like Tony Sopranoâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;he's the show's hollow core, acting the respectable businessman to keep to the shadows, where he devises new routes for booze shipments or brokering pacts with Ăźber-refined Arnold Rothstein (Michael Stuhlbarg), shrewd gambler and the prime suspect in fixing the 1919 World Series.

The series (Scorsese directed its 2010 première; the final season jumps seven years to 1931) dissects Prohibition through slashes of violence, dark-corner schemes and uneasy unions. That's when the US became super-schizoidâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the state dressed up in respectability as it banned alcohol, only for the Roaring '20s to roar all the louder in speakeasies or from the muzzles of mobsters' guns. Crime got organized as the social fabric frayed.

Trickle-down laws (women getting the vote) and economics changed the culture slowly, Boardwalk Empire argues; booze and political corruption (the Harding administration's

scores of scandals, especially in the Justice Department) flood the municipal level as Nucky, Atlantic City's Treasurer, spreads his empire, allying with George Remus in Cincinnati and Capone's Chicago crew.

This richly detailed history peers through the boardwalk's cracks and seams at an America rife with hypocrisies, double-dealing and myopic crusades. A dentist injects a man with cocaine, legal though liquor wasn't.

Zealous Prohibition Agent Nelson Van Alden's (Michael Shannon) religious fervour embodies an era when the 18th amendment had been backed by countless Protestants, the KKK had 50Â 000 men march on Washington in 1925, and the Scopes Trial upheld the unlawfulness of teaching evolution in a state school. (When Van Alden's sanctimoniousness backfires and he lapses into sin, he remodels himself "George Mueller" and becomes embroiled in a droll domestic farce with his immigrant wife.)

Winter and co also follow former prostitute Gillian (mother of Jimmy Darmody, another hollowed-out First World War veteran), played by

Gretchen Mol. No mere scheming mother, she gradually and horribly reveals the psychic wounds inflicted on females, treated as underlings or under-things, by men of power like the Commodore (Dabney Coleman) and Nucky, whose original sin, it becomes inexorably, tragically clear, cannot be redeemed or laundered by money.

While more conventional than Sopranos alumnus Matthew Weiner's Mad Men (also centred on a re-made man), Winter's series is denser and tauterâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the strand-stories of unmaking, unmasking and unmanning are pulled into a tight, textured weave by each season's end. Illiterate mob boss Chalky White's (Michael Kenneth Williams) efforts to build a middleclass family are unstitched by his affair with singer Daughter Maitland; Nucky's impetuous brother Eli (Shea Whigham) pushes his son so far that he slips into the very underworld he wanted him to avoid. The last shot of the fourth season is of one man's mask, slipped off at last ... but he's revealed his deepest, darkest self far too late and so far away, down under the boardwalk, as the waves come crashing in. V

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atricia Highsmith's literary career was boosted by the movies—Hitchcock's adaptation of her 1950 debut Strangers on a Train bottle-rocketed her into the public's attention—but then her thrillers spark-showered down so many screenadaptations that some drifted in under the cover of darkness. There's something aptly low-key and distant about that—books by an American émigré and outsider (the bisexual Highsmith, who lived abroad starting in 1963, was unsociable, alcoholic and atheist), usually about cool con-men and sexually ambiguous psychopaths stealthily plying their craftiness in Europe, attract top-notch non-American directors whose adaptations get released to little bottom-line attention back in the US. How many remember The American Friend (with Dennis Hopper), German auteur Wim Wenders' 1977 take on the third in Highsmith's "Ripliad" quintet? Ripley's Game (with John Malkovich) was sharply adapted again in 2002 by Italian director Liliana Cavani (The Night Porter), but went straight to disc in North America. In 2005, Canadian-born Brit director Roger Spottiswoode's version of Ripley Under Ground (with Barry Pepper), buried three years, was finally released to scant fanfare, reviews or audiences.

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Now The Two Faces of January, from one of Highsmith's non-Ripley books, has snuck onto screens this side of the Atlantic. The directing debut of Iranian-English screenwriter Hossein Amini (Drive), it wends through Greece, Crete and Turkey.

The story—named after Janus, god of beginnings and endings, looking back and ahead—opens in 1962, in Athens, where the Acropolis provides a stately historic façade as one dapper man's deceptions catch up to him in the present. In the Greek capital, cold-eyed businessman Chester MacFarland (Viggo Mortensen, excellent) and wife Colette (Kirsten Dunst) hire Rydal (Oscar Isaac, excellent), a tour guide and small-time grifter. After a fateful confrontation in their hotel room, the couple turn to the Greekspeaking, cash-skimming Rydal for more help.

There's the homoerotic frisson of interest and intrigue so common to Highsmith's works—Rydal's curious about Chester from the start, apparently because he resembles his father, recently dead. Chester's wary of Rydal the more he talks to his younger, suave, blond wife.

The moment when Rydal realizes a As a character study, Nightcrawler works quite well. We watch as Lou learns the hustle, takes on an easily exploited and otherwise unemployable sidekick, and attempts to get all his ducks in a row by coercing or, more to the point, blackmailing his most frequent, attractive and ruthless client, trash-news director Nina (Rene Russo) into a faux-romance.

(Fauxmance?) "I also like the way you smell," he reassures her over dinner at a kitsch Mexican joint; he's about as persuasive in his wooing as Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle, but he's got her over a barrel and, since she's heartless too, she almost admires it.

Lou is a cypher you can't take your eyes off of, like Lawrence Tierney in Dillinger or Born to Kill. I don't think there are many A-list handsome actors who could pull this off, but Gyl-

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darker truth of Chester's misdeeds, he stares towards him and Chester puts his wedding-ringed hand around his wife's (to comfort her or himself?) ... as complicity, solicitude and self-interest blur and shimmer in the sun, the Highsmith-ian triangle of danger, deceit and desire tightens into a noose. (Within this tangle of suspense, the thread of the labyrinth myth—architect Daedalus and son Icarus; Theseus slaying the Minotaur—is unspooled, too.)

Amini marks Chester's dissolution, from a husband in charge to a man lost in a fog of suspicion, amid the faded grandeur of the Mediterranean. In one sequence, tinged with the early morning's cold grey, a fisherman slaps a squid dead against rocks as Chester, hungover and bedraggled, lifts himself from the bench where he's slept. His eventual fall, haunted by echoes of patriarchy, filial disillusion, and a return to the fatherland, is a pitiful tragedy-in-miniature. A crisp, elegant throwback to a classic era of character-driven thrillers, set amid the ruins and remains of classical antiquity, The Two Faces of January unearths many dark little secrets ... and pleasures.

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lenhaal, in films like Zodiac and Prisoners, has proven himself capable of embracing darker roles and remaining compelling while doing nothing at all to ingratiate himself.

Where Nightcrawler becomes a bit of a letdown is in its confusion of tones. With its totally overblown score and intermittently slapdash direction it stumbles between the lurid grime of genuine noir and the cheaper, more humdrum thrills of large-writ satire. It takes the easy route to black comedy, firing potshots at a very familiar target—the total sensationalization of so-called news—when it might have delved into murkier psychological terrain while making the same sociological points more subtly. Still, check it out.

You may need to shower afterwards.

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t took a tipsy fall through a friend's window on New Year's Eve to prompt F & M back into the music wars.

The Edmonton-based chamber-folk trio might seem like the last people to engage in destructive hijinks, but consider the year the band had just gone through. Multi-instrumentalist Bryan Reichert was hobbling on a broken leg, husband and wife Ryan and Rebecca Anderson had just been defrauded on condo renovations, and Ryan one-upped Reichert with a broken hand. Can you blame F & M for turning to red wine for consolation? It was Ryan, attempting to put his shoes on at the end of the night, who smashed the window.

"Thankfully our friend, who owned the house, was really good about it," Rebecca says. "She said, 'You know, I was looking at replacing that window, Rebecca.'"

In truth the Andersons were already talking about casting off the ill favoured year behind them before Ryan had his inadvertent Mötley Crüe moment, which was less a fall through a window and more a slip of the foot, but let's not let the facts get in the way of a good story. After all, F & M is a band that thrives on a certain amount of emotional theatricality, and its latest release, At Sunset We Sing, proves that its past masters at it. That and a kind of winsome melancholy that makes the trio perfect rainy Sundayafternoon listening while disposing of the remainder of a bottle of wine.

"I think that people get confused about the term melancholy," Ryan notes. "It might be that my background is Danish, and the Danes, from Hamlet to Lars von Trier, are good at melSat, Nov 8 (8 pm) ancholy. It's not sad, though I do F&M understand that it's not for everyWith Mark Davis, Ariane M Lemire one, and it's not a mood that you The Artery, $10 – $12 can always be in. Except for us," he laughs. "We always feel that way."

"It's a little like eating rich food,"

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Ask them about New Year's Eve

Rebecca breaks in. "You might not want to have it all the time, but there's something about having that meal and sitting there with your fat stomach, content. I enjoy sitting there with my fat darkness, brooding away. When you come out everything is brighter."

Food comes into conversation with the Andersons a lot, as does cinema and wine. The pair are fans of the red, perking up when discussing favourites like the 2008 Volnay Vieilles Vignes from France, or the Portuguese Monte das Mouras de Arraiolos Tinto, which F & M will be serving at the album release for At Sunset We Sing. Sounds snobby? Well, it's not; the band's genuinely enthusiastic about too many things, and unabashed about where its influences (Tindersticks, Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, Portuguese Fado music, world cinema) come from.

"I know that we're not for everyone," Ryan concedes. "Still, there's room for what we do out there. When (2010's) Sincerely came out it was on top of the folk charts across Canada for six weeks; we knocked a little-known act called Jeff Tweedy and Mavis Staples down to number two. There's space for contemplative and thoughtful music, and that's what we're about."

"I'm proud of what the three of us have done here," Rebecca finishes.

"We all bring something different to the table, and on this album I think we've all pushed ourselves a little more. I think this is the first album we've ever made where I haven't regretted one or two songs, or not liked a musical decision that we made. I can actually listen through and be happy with the result, and we've had it in our hands since April."

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The Lazys

Certainly not lazy

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he Lazys had an enviable time at Canadian Music Week, to say the least. The Australian hard-rock band's first trip to the festival back in May resulted in meeting—and later collaborating with—Ian D'Sa of Billy Talent, signing with The Agency Group and Bumstead Productions, connecting with venerable producer GGGarth Richardson and claiming the title of CMW Buzz Band of 2014.

"Before we first came here to CMW we were told there was a great rock 'n' roll scene in Toronto, and that lived up to its name," says vocalist Leon Harrison, during a slightly snowy drive to Winnipeg from Barrie, ON. "Obviously in Australia rock 'n' roll isn't on the forefront, but Canada has a great name for live music."

The Lazys have earned a name in live music, too. The five-piece, filled out by Matt Morris Fri, Nov 7 (8 pm) and Liam Shearer on guiWith One Bad Son, Heaviside, tar duties, Glenn Williams Thrillhouse on bass and Jay Braslin on Pawnshop, $10 drums, places a heavy focus on its intense, energetic live

shows—"good old-fashioned entertainment," Harrison adds.

The tenacious atmosphere of the Lazys' live performances aligns with the crop of high-octane rock tunes that make up its self-titled release (produced by Richardson), including the single "Shake It Like You Mean It," cowritten by D'Sa. "He's almost taken us under his wing. ... He's given us heaps of advice on the road, off the road. We learned a lot from him [about] songwriting," Harrison notes. "I'd just probably draw on the fact that he's so honest with his music. It's not so much something I could point out that I learned, but it's more that we listened to him and, you know, the song we came up with, due to the fact we were so keen to get him into this project and he's so talented, that's what I learned. You push yourself and what you might come up with is great."

The band also teamed up with John-Angus and Colin MacDonald of the Trews to pen the track "Hard Luck." When big-name co-writers aren't in the mix,

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Harrison and Morris generally take on most of the writing duties. But Harrison says throwing D'Sa and members of the Trews into the mix had a positive impact on that creative dynamic.

"Matt and myself have been writing songs now for probably, I don't know, eight years—as long as the band's been together," Harrison says, adding the rest of the guys provide input from time to time. "During that time we did form a great bond and a songwriting partnership where it was quite easy to sing his lyrics and he was quite happy to play my guitar lines or whatever. We worked on this great relationship, but because of that I think also we had an open mind coming into this record. As a partnership we have to do everything we can to make the best music we can. So when you have guys like Ian and the boys from the Trews wanting to work with you, it's not something that we can, like, I've never liked the 'pride' word or whatever, I just want to get in there and make the best music possible."

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h my god," Adam Cohen says, exhaling deeply. "The catastrophic failure that I experienced in trying to capitalize on the wind having been in my sails."

The folksy singer-songwriter had certainly caught an updraft with 2012's Like A Man. The son of Leonard found himself with a gold record in Canada for the first time in his career. But coming off the subsequent tour, anxiety started settling in to the follow-up.

"I had never experienced success before," he recalls, on the phone from his backyard in LA. "Suddenly I was intimidated by the idea of satisfying expectations, and the very promise I made—which was that I had found my voice, and that from this point forth was going to be faithful to it—I was unable to deliver on. " Cohen half wrote and recorded an album, plagued by dissatisfaction and insomnia—"Your unconscious speaks first, he says. "That's when I knew something was wrong"—until he just had to scrap it. Nothing was coming out as he wanted; none of it felt honest.

"The tracks themselves didn't resemble my innermost vision of what I wanted to do," he says. "They weren't as stirring, as raw, as real. They didn't dignify the tradition that I come from in the way I wanted to have them dignify it. And then the writing, which I was incredibly happy with, wasn't shining through."

Home between his family home in Montréal and Hydra, Greece (the same island his dad wrote Beautiful Losers on). Cohen brought musicians into the far more intimate settings to try and prompt a different vibe to the songs. The rooms themselves, he notes, offered their creative contributions.

"Creaky floorboards," he recalls.

"The actual resonance and shape of a room, the proximity that a small room forces all the players into, the casualness of a space, the informality of a space; all of those things inform the record. In my case, these were desired attributes. That high informality.

The comfort, the camaraderie, the smallness that it forced."

And even with ocean sitting between the two disparate spaces, Cohen found that the impromptu studios shared a unified feel "Remarkably similar, despite the enormous distance between them," he notes. "Both providing the kind of comfort and familiarity, and a reminder of what it was that was my dream as a kid, which was to make the kind of music, to try and do in music what others did in music for me."

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So Cohen started chasing the idea of honesty. He left the studio, and for the first time in his career— which stretches back to a self-titled release in 1998—did some home recording. Splitting the new sessions for what's now emerged as We Go

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Steve Coffey & the Lokels 'I

'm continuing my exploration of by a show at the Blue Chair Café with us little people on this vast land- his band the Lokels the night before. scape," says musician and painter Coffey's artwork captures the sprawlSteve Coffey from ing and varied nahis home in Vul- Fri, Nov 7 (8:30 pm) ture of the Canacan, AB. "I guess I'm Blue Chair Café, $15 dian landscape, as pushing my palette, well as the mark too, you know? I'm Sat, Nov 8 (2 pm – 4 pm) mankind has made searching for the The Front Gallery on it. But the influzen rather than the ences on the works storms. It's kind of in Paint Song ex... trying to find a tend beyond Canbalance between chaos and calm." ada's borders and reflect some of the This search has been captured in impressionist work Coffey took in durPaint Song, an exhibition of 17 oil ing a trip to Europe this past summer. paintings Coffey will be showing at the "It's been years since I've seen 'em, Front Gallery on Saturday, preceded so it just had a really profound effect

on me, and a lot of the pieces were painted after that trip," says Coffey, who visited famed galleries like the Musée d'Orsay in Paris, easily admitting he shed some tears in the process.

"Tears of joy. It's kind of like when I see a Group of Seven exhibition—same thing. I get all blubbery and emotional."

Art can have that effect on a person, and Coffey went with it. The impressionsts have always stood out to him—he cites Rembrandt, one of the first "punks" as one in particular—for the way they "reflect their own light," and taking in those storied works instilled a need in Coffey to explore that light in his own work.

"It's just really interesting because it sort of identifies a light of different places and how different it is, but you know, the impressionists ... it's sort of that shimmer that they create that I'm interested in," he explains.

And then, of course, there's Coffey's music. He and the Lokels have been working on a new album, and he's worked some of those songs into the set. The disc, titled Ghost Farmers Dancing, is due out next summer (if all goes well), and the folk-rock-roots group decided to bring some '60s vibe to its melodies.

"I've been listening to Captain Beefheart," Coffey laughs when asked about his interest in that era. "He passed away, but his name is Don Van Vliet, but he was the frontman of a band called Captain Beefheart. He's a big inspiration to me because he was also a painter, and quite a notorious, renowned painter. He actually kind of started moving away from music and got more and more involved in his canvases. But his albums, his early albums, are just crazy.

"My desire, I'm not interested in being known as a roots artist ... I think we've tried to push that and continue to stay away from categorization to a certain extent," Coffey continues, moving onto a new train of thought.

What would he like to be known as, then?

"Other than an asshole?" he jokes.

"What would I like to be known as?

Just a creative individual. I'm not interested in being known as anything beyond that."

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out in minutes and cost a pretty penny, so this might be the closest many of us will get to seeing Mother Monster herself. This is the debut performance by the Tribulations, a local performance group who are working on getting the real Lady Gaga out to the show, but no promises. (Holy Trinity Anglican Church)

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PUTTIN ON THE FOIL / SAT, NOV 8 (8 PM) The headliners are visiting from Calgary, but there's plenty of local flavour to round out this metal bill—Static Infection, Betty Sue's a Tramp and Bootleg Saint, to be exact. (Rendezvous Pub, $10 in advance, $15 at the door)

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Do you miss Halloween already? Sc Mira recently released a Halloween mix tape appropriately titled Candy Apples and Razor Blades, which includes two tracks from the cult classic Phantom of Paradise and a cover of “Halloween” by the Misfits. If Halloween isn't your thing, the band's also got a new single called “On My Own” from its forthcoming EP, due out in 2015. (Royal Alberta Museum)

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ost bands get a lineup and stick with it—or try to, at least— but a constantly rotating cast of musicians is what makes Twin Forks, well, Twin Forks.

"I hate this word—it's so hippie-dippie—but it's community," says frontman Chris Carrabba (also of Dashboard Confessional), and one of the band's only steady members along with bassist Jonathan Clark.

The folk-rock group came through town back in March with Clark, Ben Homola of Bad Books and Suzie Zeldin of the Narrative, but Homola and Zeldin have been swapped out for Shawn Zorn on drums, Kelsie Baranoski on mandolin and a more recent switch from Kimmy Baranoski on vocals to Sarah Ellen Bost. But more on that in a minute.

"We are all committed to many other bands," Carrabba explains.

"The other guys are in these other bands, and they don't necessarily get to make the call as to when those bands do tour or don't tour, whereas I get to make the calls on that other band, so I get to chase this band a bit. Those people are still in the band. Suzie, since she quote unquote hasn't been playing with us has played, I don't know, 10

or 20 times with us, when she can play with us."

The strategy works for Twin Forks, but doesn't come without its inherent challenges. Carrabba searched high and low when it came time to find someone to step in for Zeldin, flying across the country to try out female musicians who were not only talented, but that he connected with.

His search ended two blocks down the street in his home base of Nashville when he met Kelsie and Kimmy Baranoski.

"I have a rule you can't split up siblings, so we asked both to join the band," he says. "We immediately had an extraordinary new level of euphoria as a band. I wasn't expecting it to get better in that regard because it was so good to begin with, and then as happens in life, Kimmy got pregnant, which we're very excited about because we love Kimmy. ... Sure wish we had Kimmy in the band, but she's going to have one cute baby, I'll tell you that. And eventually she'll be back in the band, because no one gets out of this band."

All the lineup shuffling aside, Twin Forks continues to push forward with new music, and Carrabba is in the

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midst of writing songs for a new album, though it's unclear when it will be released. On Twin Forks' previous self-titled disc, Carrabba restricted himself from using the words "heart" and "love" as a method of teaching himself when and when not to use the oft-overused sentiments. The rule is over at this point, and Carrabba's focus has shifted to working on his guitar playing, which incorporates a mix of Travis picking and bluegrass flat picking.

"That's my new thing: finding more and more ways to get deeper into the guitar in terms of composition. Also, I think I've taken a lot of lessons from 'your band is what you think it is' and then you get in front of people and you find out what your band is," Carrabba explains, noting that doesn't necessarily mean writing to cater to fans, but realizing and acknowledging how songs connect with them. "I think that right now I'm in freedom zone and I can write just freely."

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Sat; 3:30-7pm

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and

The Night, the Lady Gaga Put Your Paws Up Tribute Ball starring Ariana Whitlow, Erika Noot, Evan Westfal and Gregory Caswell; 8-10pm $15 at tixonthesuqare. ca

Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; EVENING: Rockzilla; 9:30pm

Thursdays

RENDEZVOUS PUB Puttin On The FoiL, Betty Sue's a Tramp, Static Inflection; 8pm

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Marry

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

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

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

HORIZON STAGE The Classics; 7:30pm

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

every Thu

raiser: the Shivers ('60s and '70s British Invasion); $150 (in support of community based performing arts opportunities at Festival Place)

DJs DJs on all three levels

PAWN SHOP Moonmuseum, Tropic Harbour, Feverfew, Badger; 8pm

MUTTART HALL Songs and Letters of

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon:

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Marco Corbo (CD

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Dueling

Pianos

$10

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Marry The Night, the Lady Gaga Put Your Paws Up Tribute Ball; 8-10pm $15 at tixonthesuqare.ca

Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111

Dungarees with DJS

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Kokopell, Òran; Pax; 7:30pm; $20/$15 (student)

BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild

cover ON THE ROCKS CFR Weekend with the

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Prairie Cats; 8:30pm;

J+H PUB Every Friday: Headwind and friends (vintage rock 'n' roll); 9:30pm; no minors, no cover

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Ryder (country)

DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage

LEGENDS Saturday Jam and open mic with Nick Samoil and guests LONESTAR CANTINA–Onoway Danger Pay Rocks (classic rock covers); 10pm-

electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance

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

school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy,

VUEWEEKLY NOV 6 – NOV 12, 2014

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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

SUN NOV 9 ARTERY Devin Cuddy Band, Picture the

ALL SMALLS SHOWS FOR EARLY INGRESS, FOOD AND DRINKS*

NOV/13

TWIN FORKS W/ NORTHCOTE & HIGHS

NOV/ 19 - 20

FORCEFIELD TOUR W/ TOKYO POLICE CLUB & SAID THE WHALE

NOV/21 NOV/22

TRUTH

SHAKEY GRAVES W/ RAYLAND BAXTER & GUESTS

NOV/28 RYAN HEMSWORTH

“SUCKER FOR PUNISHMENT TOUR”

NOV/29 DEC/3

PLUMP DJS

JOHNNY MARR

EX SMITHS GUITARIST, WORKED W/ MODEST MOUSE, BECK & PAUL MCCARTNEY W/ GUEST MEREDITH SHELDON

DEC/ 4&5 DEC/5

ASKING ALEXANDRIA

THE MOVING ON TOUR **ALL AGES**

ALVVAYS **18 + / 10PM DOORS**

W/ GUESTS ABSOLUTELY FREE

Ocean, guests; 8pm (door); no minors; $15 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$18 (door) BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun Electric

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

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch: PM Bossa;

9am; donations COOK COUNTY Julian Austin; 8pm (door) DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on

the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with

Duggan's House Band 5-8pm HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm MERCURY ROOM The Township, guests;

7pm Service: acoustic open stage every Sun O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

Lettuce Produce Beats

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

UPPER LEVEL OF STARLITE NOV/21

SWEAT: THE NU-DISCO DANCE PARTY

THE STARLITE ROOM IS A PRIVATE VENUE FOR OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR GUESTS. IF YOU REQUIRE A MEMBERSHIP YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE AT THE VENUE PRIOR TO / OR AFTER THE DOOR TIMES FOR EACH SHOW.

32 MUSIC

Farrell Band, guests; 8pm NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald

(country) ON THE ROCKS Prohibition Party with

the Dungarees PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

PAWN SHOP Planet Smashers, the RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky YARDBIRD SUITE Sandro Dominelli Trio

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

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live:

CONVOCATION HALL Edmonton

hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

Buck 65 with guests; 7pm; $30 (adv) at Blackbyrd

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

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

DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

TUE NOV 11

Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail 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

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Big Dreamer

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue hosted by Chris Wynters: featuring this weeks guest: Stephen Lecky; 9pm

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

WED NOV 12

Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover

STARLITE ROOM The Smalls, guests; 8pm (door); sold out YARDBIRD SUITE Pugs and Crows

(fr Vancouver); 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest) 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: Nola Shantz and Alexandra Munn (soprano and piano); 12:1012:50pm; free

DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover

ARDEN THEATRE Adam Cohen;

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed

7:30pm; $38

ARTERY The Sadies (rock), guests;

7:30pm; $20 (adv)

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES New

'80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

Music Wed: Featured band hosted by Lochlin Cross and Leigh Friesen (open stage) after the bands set

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam:

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests

'80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

Lessons: 7-9pm; Joe McDonald (country)

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

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with

MON NOV 10

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Open mic

Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: Mod, Brit Pop,

Classical

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE

Trevor Mullen

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul

Golub Quartet; 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show); $5

ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit

Classical

Education: Brian Lewis in Recital; 6:45pm; $5 (STE member)/$10 (STE families)/$30 (general) suggested donation

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: Thom

NEW WEST HOTEL Joe McDonald

(country)

DJs

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

CONVOCATION HALL Society for Talent

WINSPEAR Old Friends: Tommy Banks and PJ Perry; Tommy Banks (conductor & piano), PJ Perry (saxophone) 7:30pm; $39-$89

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

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

Sound jam hosted by Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O'brien; every Tue 8pm-12am

Discovering Baroque: Alissa Cheung, Jeremy Spurgeon, and Petar Dundjerski; 7:30pm; donation (door)

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

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

(fr Edmonton/New York); 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

ALL SAINTS ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL

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

with host Duff Robison

ROSSDALE HALL LITTLE Flower Open

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with

Brains, Boids, the Soulicitors; 8pm

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

Chamber Music Society (ECMS): Les Violons du Roy; 8pm

RED PIANO Dueling piano special performance; 8pm; 2-for 1 entertainment fee

TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404

9:30pm-1am

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

GANZ BREACH W/ TELLER, DMT AND SHAEDES

MERCURY ROOM Matthew Barber, Dylan

DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry

NOV/8 NOV/20

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday open mic JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Oh What a Night! a Musical Tribute To Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons; 7pm

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

NOV/6 THE STRUMBELLAS NOV/12, THE SMALLS W/GUESTS 14 - 16 *BRIXX WILL BE OPEN 1 HOUR PRIOR TO THE DOOR TIMES FOR

New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR’s Heavy Metal Lunch Box); Dub Vulture–Dub in the Pub (a prerememberance day show) at 9pm

Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

THE COMMON The Wed Experience:

Classics on Vinyl with Dane metal every Wed

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm

every Tue

BRIXX BAR Lettuce Produce Beats;

RANCH Jenny (Ace of Base

6pm

frontwoman); 9pm (door); $20 (adv)

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic

VUECARES

WHOOMP THERE IT IS!

VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALL SAINTS’ ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL 10035-103 St ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll

Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 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 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER'S ROOST 7308-76 Ave FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOLS Holiday Inn,

VUEWEEKLY NOV 6 – NOV 12, 2014

4485 Gateway Blvd FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St LONESTAR CANTINA–Onoway 50 St, Onoway MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025-101 St MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MUTTART HALL–Alberta College

10050 MacDonald Dr NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTHGATE LIONS SENIOR CENTRE 7524-139 Ave NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253

ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower School, 10135-96 Ave ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE 12845 102 Ave SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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 • Charles Ross: One Man Star Wars, May the force be with you • Nov 13, 7:30pm • $28 at Arden box office, TicketMaster

Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd,

780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Tom Liske; Nov 6-8 • Larry XL; Nov 13-15

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 • Pete Correale; until Nov 9 • Rob Little; Nov 12-16

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

FIONN MACCOOL'S CITY CENTRE/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 3rd Fl, 10200-102A Ave •

Laughs & Lagers Comedy: Open mic comedy follows with guests Sean Lecomber and Sean Baptiste • Nov 12, 7:30pm (show) • Call Connie: 780.914.8966, E: conniescomedy@gmail.com to get on roster

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave, 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm GRIEF JOURNEYS 8-WEEK BEREAVEMENT SUPPORT GRUP • Pilgrims Hospice,

9808-148 St • Help, support, and resources: 8-week grief support group; every Mon evening, until Nov 24; $120 for 8-weeks (sliding scale); info/register: Jesse McElheran at 780.413.9801, ext 307 or jessem@pilgrimshospice.com

LOTUS QIGONG, 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

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

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

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

PACKING AND STORING ARTWORK • Harcourt House Education Annex, 10211-112 St, 780.421.1731 • Free professional development workshop with Sara McKarney • Nov 15, 1pm • Free, pre-register by Nov 12 to info@ visualartsalberta.com POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall,

10135-96 Ave • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm

RADICAL RELATIONALITY: UNSETTLING RACISMS AND SETTLER COLONIALISM • CAB 281, U of A • Rita Dhamoon, Co-sponsored by departments of Political Science & Women’s and Gender Studies • Nov 12, 3-4:30pm

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

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

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • Capital One Just For Laughs Tour With Demetri Martin, Jon Dore and others • Nov 9, 7:30pm

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

KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/Connie's Comedy

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY

• 16648-109 Ave • Komedy Krush: Open Mic followed by a headliner and this show we have Chris Gordon • Nov 13, 9pm • Call Connie: 780.914.8966, E: conniescomedy@gmail.com to get on roster

OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Surf 'n' Turf/ Comedy Night • Nov 10, 7pm • $39.99 ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy

Groove every Wed; 9pm

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

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

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

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 • Ballroom: Fri 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)

DEATH CAFÉ • Pilgrims Hospice, 9808-148

• 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

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avon-

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

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

EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) •

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

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

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS ALBERTA & THE GREAT WAR: PERSONALITIES & PERSPECTIVES • Provincial Archives of Alberta, 8555 Roper Rd • series of lectures every Wed in Nov • Alberta Women in World War One: A Genius for Organization, by Adriana A. Davies • Nov 12, 7-9pm • Free

AUGUSTANA CAMPUS–Camrose •

4901-46 Ave, 780.679.1100 • Mayer Family Community Hall, Performing Arts Centre, Augustana Campus: The Reading Brain: Creating Connections in Fiction and Digital Texts, lecture

by Dr Kokkola; Nov 10, 12pm; free, RSVP to mpratt@ualberta.ca

DAVIS FEHERTY • Winspear • Unique Lives &

Experiences: With Davis Feherty • Nov 9, 7:30pm

ELIXIRS & SMOOTHIES FOR WOMEN’S HORMONE BALANCE • Noorish Café, 8440-109 St, 780.756.9642 • With Madeline MacKinnon • Nov 10, 7-9:30pm • $55

FESTIVAL OF IDEAS • uofa.ualberta.ca/

events/festival-of-ideas#sthash.Eb0PFgSj.dpuf • Stanley milner library–Edmonton rm: Discovering Oates; Nov 6, 7pm; free

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

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

TALL WOOD DESIGN SEMINAR • Engi-

neering Teaching and Learning Centre (ETLC) Solarium, U of A • Checker Building– A 20-storey conceptual wood building • Nov 14, 8am-1pm • Preregister at mailoutinteractive.com/Industry/ Redirect.aspx?u=1045862&q=795010196&lm= 32753671&r=622483&qz=28157f22dc564772f 2d9fd12e80cd973

QUEER

9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month

SUGAR FOOT • Sugar Swing, 10545-81 Ave;

St, 780.642.8703 • deathcafe.com • A relaxed setting where you can join open, honest discussions to explore the questions you’ve always had about life, dying • Nov 16, 2-4pm • Donations welcome

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

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-

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

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

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

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

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

CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) • Augustana

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98

• 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)

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

(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

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; SepMay; 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

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters meetings: Campus St; Jean: Pavillion

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

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

BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House,

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave,

780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted

by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

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

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

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave, 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

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

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

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave, 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental dropin space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St, 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

for Children and Families • Nov 7, 7-10pm

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)

CANMORE CHRISTMAS ARTISANS' MARKET • Canmore Collegiate High School,

1800-8 Ave, Canmore • artisans and artists from Canmore and surrounding areas, for the Bow Valley's premier market of handcrafted items • Nov 15-16, 11am-4pm • $3 in support of the Canmore Preschool Society

CHRISTMAS ON THE SQUARE • Churchill

Square, Downtown Arts District • Holiday Light Up • Nov 15, 4-7pm

CREATIVE EXPRESSIONS GALA • Italian Cultural Centre, 14230-133 Ave, 780.944.4687, ext 222 • a4hc.ca • Fundraiser presented by Action for Healthy Communities, an evening of food, entertainment DJ, dance, silent auction.

Featuring a painter creating an original piece of art on site to be sold in the auction after • Nov 15, 6pm (door), 6pm (dinner)-1am • $48.65 (adv only) at a4hc.ca/event/creative-expressionsfundraising-gala/ 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 (worldwide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank) THE FINE ART OF SCHMOOZY • Latitude

53, 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Fundraiser, a night of fairytales and fashion with live music, food, cocktails, silent art auction, a fashion auction from Edmonton designers and boutiques • Nov 15, 8pm-late • $50 • schmoozy. eventbrite.ca

LEST WE FORGET: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE

• Winspear • Cosmopolitan Music Society: A Musical Tribute, an evening including everything from ceremonial military marches to popular wartime music • Nov 8, 7:30-10pm • $25

OWL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS • Wild Birds Unlimited, 12204-107 Ave, 780.965.7397 • See the Colonel, a tame owl, with Dr Gord Court • Nov 15, 11am-4pm • Free PURE SPECULATION FESTIVAL • Ramada

Hotel, 11834 Kingsway, 780.454.5454 • purespec.org • Science fiction/fantasy, science, and gaming convention featuring panels, costume contests, gaming rooms, family programming • Nov 14, 6pm • $50 (adv pass) • lois Hole library, 17650-69 Ave, 780.496.5999: Women Talking about Women in Genre Fiction: Candas Jane Dorsey, Karen Dudley, Janice MacDonald, S.G.Wong, Eileen Bell; Nov 13, 6-9pm

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

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's, 10225-97 St,

780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist WHAT ARE THEY GOOD FOR? from all mediums occupy the stage and share WOMONSPACE, 780.482.1794 • womonstheir creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING. pace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Nonprofit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership.

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SHIMMY AND SHAKE • Arden, St Albert • Family Dance Party • Nov 9, 1pm TIMERAISER • Boyle Street Plaza, 9538-103A

Ave • timeraiser.ca/edmonton • A volunteer matching fair, silent auction and night out. Rather 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; than bid money on artwork, bid volunteer hours prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchenand 3-11pm Customizable secure. From storage to workspace. hosts Julian Faid and Omar Mouallem for a jam • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen packed evening including live painting by Justina from 8' - 53'.

3-11pm • Thu:Steel Free containers pool all night; kitchen Smith; acrobatic silks featuring Firefly Theatre 20' & 40' skids 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri:with 3pmoptional (door), 4' landings & Circus; tunes by DJ Thomas Culture • Nov 8, available. Mount with twist locks. kitchen open 3-11pm 780 440 4037 | SEACAN.COM 7-10pm • $20

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave,

SPECIAL EVENTS

BID N SIP FUNDRAISER • Inglewood Hall,

780.455.1818 • Wine Tasting–Classic Wines 101, art auction, appetizers, and wine collection draw in support of Community Options–A Society

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-

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

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/ student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca •

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UNITY IN DIVERSITY • Arden, St Albert • An evening of artistic presentations and cultural entertainment presented by the Baha’i Community of Canada • Nov 8, 7pm • $15 at Arden box office

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BID N SIP Fundraiser Nov. 7th 7-10 pm Inglewood Community Hall In support of Community Options-A Society for Children and Families Wine Tasting – Classic Wines 101, Art Auction, Appetizers and Wine Collection Draw Call 455-1818 for tickets and info.

CHRISTMAS MARKETPLACE Presented by the artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County Saturday, November 15 10 to 4 pm Sunday, November 16, 12 to 4 pm.

At the A. J. Ottewell Community Centre (Red Barn) 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park Artists presenting their “crafty” personality, with a variety of items: knitting, sewing, handmade crafts & giftware, baked goods, and small artwork, cards, prints, and much more!!

Free admission. Donations to the Christmas Bureau are welcomed!

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

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Help Wanted

BASELINE RD DAIRY QUEEN

is in need of Food Counter Attendants (NOC 6641); F/T-Permanent; $12.50/hr + Chamber of Commerce Group Insurance (Life, Disability, Long Term and Short Term Disability); 8 hrs/day, 40hrs/week, Shift work (9:00AM-5:00PM and 3:30PM-11:30PM), 2 varied days off per week; Duties: Take orders from customers; Prepare, heat and finish simple food items; Portion and wrap food products according to preparation charts, both dine-in and take-out; Serve customers at counter; Stock inventory; May handle cash and cash out in till; Perform other related duties as required; Requirements: Some secondary school education is require; On-the-job training is provided; Mail, Fax or E-mail resume; Employer: Jarrow Holdings Ltd. o/a Baseline Road Dairy Queen; Business/Work Location: 20 Cranford Way, Sherwood Park, AB, Canada T8H 2A6; E-mail: base_dq@telus.net; Phone: 780-449-3373; Fax: 780-449-2589

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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.

To Shorten Winter’s Sadness: Accord Ensemble presents a concert of winter choral favorites on Nov. 22nd, 7:00 p.m. at Christ Church 12116-102 Ave. Tickets available at the door $15 Adult, $10 Student/Senior. Come out for a fun and enjoyable evening with your friends and family! www.accordensemble.com

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

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

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

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

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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

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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 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.

The Habitat for Humanity November Build Challenge Canadians ski, skate, snowmobile, fish and participate in many other winter activities! Why not make a Habitat build day one of your winter activities?

Habitat needs your help to keep going strong until the end of this year. We are looking for 32 groups of 10 – 25 people to volunteer with us this November. Would you be one of them?

Contact Kim Dedeugd for more information or sign up at kdedeugd@hfh.org or 780-451-3416 ext 232 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 Wanted: Volunteers for our Long Term Care facility!

Individuals or groups welcome!

Vulnerable Sector search by EPS is required Please contact Janice Graff Volunteer Coordinator – Extendicare Eaux Claires for more information: jgraff@extendicare.com 780-472-1106 ext 202

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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT CALL FOR ARTISTS FOR VAULT EXHIBIT SPACE seeks proposals from artists interested in utilizing this space for short term exhibitions of single artworks created or tailored for this space. Further details on the specifications of the space as well as images of this space can be found on our website.

ArtGalleryofStAlbert.com.

For more information please contact Jenny WillsonMcGrath, Exhibition Curator/ Interim Director jennyw@artgalleryofstalbert.ca 780.651.5741

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

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

Artists may book a maximum of two weeks.

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

Interested in learning more?

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

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

FOR APPLICATION FORM, questions please contact us.

Email: bszechy@yahoo.com Call For Emerging Artists: Calgary AB Stride Gallery – Calgary, AB Submission Deadline: November 15, 2014 This special call is directed to emerging artists (artists who have completed postsecondary education within the last 5-years). Proposals received by midnight (MST) on Sunday, November 15 will be considered for a February/March 2015 group exhibition at Stride Gallery. To read more about Stride Gallery, browse the online exhibition archive and to view the gallery’s floor plans and complete submission requirements, please continue to review the submissions page. http://www.stride.ab.ca/submis sions.html 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 Submissions for Prairie Wood Solutions Fair Award recognition for outstanding wood architecture.

New online submission process is now open, visit the following link to our website for information on the nomination process and to create and application.

Contact Communications Coordinator, Barbara Murray at 780-392-0761 or bmurray@wood-works.ca for more information. Important dates: Nomination deadline: January 23, 2015 Gala and award presentation on March 17, 2015 Fairmont Hotel Macdonald, Edmonton, AB

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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 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 For Submissions: Santa Fe, Mexico Artists, performers & developers are now invited to submit their work CURRENTS 2015 – Santa Fe’s International New Media Festival Deadline: December 1, 2014 categories include: New Media Installations, Outdoor Architectural Mapping and !

Outdoor New Media Installations, Single Channel Video and Animation, Multimedia Performance, Fulldome Projection, Experimental or Interactive Documentary, Web-Art/ArtGaming/ Mobile Device Art-Apps, Oculus! Rift, Robotics and 3D Printing! technology and the !arts in collaboration Submission Guidelines: http://currentsnewmedia.org/su bmission-guidelines/ Gini’s Restaurant Small fine dinning establishment have completed several large upgrades to their restaurant and they would like to offer some wall space to local artists to display/sell their artwork.

Contact Steve Konojacki at his cell 780.707.6507 for more information or make arrangements.

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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 Loft Art Gallery and Gift Shop – Open November 1 to December 21 with smaller artworks by the artists of the Art Society of Strathcona County.

Open Saturdays 10 to 4 pm and Sundays 12 to 4 pm for your viewing and purchasing pleasure. Unique art pieces and gifts for the holiday season.

Visit the A. J. Ottewell Community Centre, and enjoy!

Opportunities for artists to exhibit in Budapest: Open call for book artists! Library Thoughts 5 :An exhibition of the Book as Art Artist’s Books and book-related art Deadline: March 1, 2015 fee: USD$ 35 Book as Art exhibition organized at MAMU Gallery, Budapest June 12 – July 3, 2015 . The exhibition curator Beata Szechy.

Part of the AIR/HMC, Budapest, International Artists in Residency program. info, application form e-mail Beata Szechy bszechy@yahoo.com http://www.hungarianmulticultural-center.com Facebook: Budapest International Artist Residency Silver Skate Festival 9th Annual Cessco International Snow Sculpture Symposium February 13 – 16, 2015 Hawrelak Park, Artists are invited to let their creative side run wild and are invited to apply to create sculptures in their own individual style. A People Choice and Artist Choice will be announced at the Everyone is a Winner Ceremony.

Two – Three person teams create works of art from an 8’ high x 8’ wide x 8’ deep block of snow within a 30’ x 30’ area and each snow sculpture is as unique as the artists that create them. The twelve pristine sculptures create a ephemeral sculpture garden for the Silver Skate audience to enjoy Please find attached the link to the Silver Skate Festival Snow Sculpture Symposium Application http://www.pocobrio.com/go/do wnloads/SSF-SculptureRegistration-Form-2015.pdf Application Deadline: December 15, 2014 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

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The SkirtsAFire herArts Festival is seeking designers and artists to enter the 2015 Found Items Skirt Design Competition for this year’s festival March 5-8, 2015.

Submission deadline is November 28th, 2014.

The theme of the Skirt Design Competition this year is ‘Found Items; Finding the Magic in the Mundane’. All designs must be constructed of found upcycled materials and must be wearable. Six skirts will be selected to be constructed for the festival and showcased at our media launch. The skirts will then be judged by a celebrity panel where first, second and third prizes will be awarded. The first prize skirt will be featured at the opening ceremonies with our Honorary 2014 Skirts Lynn Mandel and Sarah Chan and our Honorary Skirt for 2015, Rachel Notley.

All six skirts will be featured in our cabaret space throughout the Festival.

To enter, a conceptual drawing and application must be submitted by November 28th.

To download the application form, full guidelines or for more information please visit http://skirtsafire.wordpress.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 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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Guitarist singer available Country, light rock, 50’s, 60’s 780-458-7133

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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?

Driver with truck available for weeknights & weekends.

For inquiries call Justin at 780-257-7429

ALBERTA-WIDE CLASSIFIEDS •• AUCTIONS •• ANTIQUE & COLLECTABLE Consignment Auction. Sand Hills Community Centre, Sat., Nov. 8/14. Starts 10 a.m. sharp!

For complete directions, listing & pictures: www.spectrumauctioneering.com. Phone 780-960-3370 / 780-903-9393.

ANTIQUE TRAP & Collectable Auction. November 8, 10 a.m. Elk Point, AB. Bear, wolf, traps, tins, crocks, CNR caboose stove & more. Double D Auctions 780-645-1589; globalauctionguide.com DISPERSAL AUCTION for Flare Distributers. Saturday, November 8, 11 a.m.

Equipment, Tools, Office and more! Six kms North of Wainwright, Alberta on Hwy 41. Scribner Auction; www. scribnernet.com 780-842-5666.

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VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Photographer Joel Leindecker can kick himself in the head 127 times in one minute. Guinness World Records affirms that his achievement is unmatched. I'm begging you not to try to top his mark any time soon. In fact, I'm pleading with you not to commit any act of mayhem, chaos or unkindness against yourself—even if it it's done for entertainment purposes. In my view, it's crucial for you to concentrate on caressing yourself, treating yourself nicely and caring for yourself with ingenious tenderness in the coming weeks.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): The writing of letters is becoming a lost art. Few people have a long enough attention span to sit down and compose a relaxed, thoughtful report on what they have been doing and thinking. Meanwhile, the number of vigorous, far-reaching conversations is waning, too.

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SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Near the end of the 19th century, an American named Annie Londonderry became the first woman to ride a bicycle around the world.

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Her 15-month journey took her through countries that would be risky for a single woman on a bike to travel through today, like Egypt and Yemen. What made her adventure even more remarkable was that she didn't know how to ride a bike until two days before she departed. I'd love to see you plan a daring exploit like that, Scorpio—even if you do not yet have a certain skill you will need to succeed.

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CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): It's a favourable time for you to meditate intensely on the subject of friendship. I urge you to take inventory of all the relevant issues. Here are a few questions to ask yourself: how good of a friend are you to the people you want to have as your friends? What capacities do you cultivate in your effort to build and maintain vigorous alliances? Do you have a clear sense of what qualities you seek in your cohorts and colleagues?

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So, SPANKME, where can you find Banish Abusive Doms Because you're all so close. your kink community? Where everyBut the train has already left the body finds their kink communities Jian Ghomeshi is the CBC radio host station, BRAHS: your wives are dothese days: online. who was fired last week after three ing each other, and they'd like to date "FetLife.com has profiles of more women levelled accusations of sexu- each other, and you and your brother than 300 000 spanking fetishists, al assault against him. Eight women want to keep watching your wives including several groups specifically have now spoken to the press; two fuck and then fucking your respective for people in the Bay Area," Keenan have allowed themselves to be wives in front of each other. I would says. "FetLife is a good way to chat named. Ghomeshi claims that he is advise you all to get together for nonwith people online and ease into the into BDSM and that all of these en- alcoholic beverages and for everyone scene. On FetLife, she can also learn counters were consensual, BAD, but to promise that you will be mature, about where local spanking enthusi- I don't believe that Ghomeshi is a reasonable and forgiving adults if/ asts go for parties and munches." consensual kinkster. I believe he's a when this—the wives dating, the Munches are informal get-togethers serial abuser who leveraged his fame semi-incestuous (but maritally biwhere kinksters meet to talk, not to against the women he assaulted and nary) quad-ways—comes to an end. play. You might connect with a po- who is now hiding behind the cul- Agreeing to an amicable breakup in tential playmate at a munch, but you ture of consent that characterizes advance of a breakup is no guaranwon't be pressured to play right away. responsible BDSM communities and tee that things will end amicably, of "When she starts to meet potential practitioners. So I think it would be course, but it improves the odds. playmates, the most important thing a mistake for BDSMers to work his As for the incest and long-term I can recommend is to be as detailed name—even in a negative sense— angles: watching your brother fuck and honest as possible," Keenan says. into their lingo/slang/shorthand, someone strikes me as creepy, "What are her fantasies? Does she BAD. He's not one of you. He never BRAHS, but it doesn't meet the legal want to be spanked with a hand, was. (I wrote two long posts about definition of incest. So Yahtzee for hairbrush, belt, paddle or something Ghomeshi on my blog—Google my you. And while I haven't heard of an else? Does she want to call her part- name and his and they pop right up.) arrangement like this working out ner 'sir' or 'ma'am'? Would she preover the long term, BRAHS, I've also fer a punitive dynamic or does she BROS BEFORE ... WIVES? never heard of an arrangement like fantasize about erotic spankings? Is My brother and I married two incred- this. Some things you expect to work she excited by any of our kink's side ible women. Our wives were good out don't, and some things you don't dishes, like standing in a corner, writ- friends before we started dating them. expect to work out do. Good luck, ing lines, being scolded or getting her My brother has always been my best gang. mouth washed out with soap? What friend, so the four of us spend a lot implements, activities, words or pain of time together. Recently, a couple This week on the Lovecast, it's Dan thresholds are absolutely off-limits? of drinks turned into a bunch, and Savage and RuPaul! Listen at savagelSuch specific details can feel embar- then my wife and sister-in-law started ovecast.com. V rassing at first, but if she talks about making out. Then they fucked. It was them honestly with a potential part- the hottest thing I've ever seen. We @fakedansavage on Twitter

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