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Remember back in 2012, on the eve of the provincial election, when most political pundits were debating whether the Wildrose party would win either a minority or majority government? There were myriad reasons given for the party falling far short of either of those expectations, but one of the most obvious was candidate Allan Hunsperger's "Lake of Fire" comments (namely, that said lake is where homosexuals would go and burn in the afterlife). The statement, and how party leader Danielle Smith handled it (suggesting he was free to speak his mind) certainly contributed to the party being shut out of the province's major urban centres (it won a mere two seats in Calgary, and zero in Edmonton).

That political gaffe should stand as a clear sign that the majority of Albertans are more socially progressive than what the Wildrose was offering. And yet, even with that party entering what sure feels like a death spiral—at least in its present, Smith-led form—it's astonishing to see Premier Jim Prentice pandering to that same extreme.

His Conservative Party's newly proposed Bill 10— which undercuts a bill by Liberal MP Laurie Blakeman, Bill 202, one that would've required schools to allow gay-straight alliances to be created—looks to set up a system of appeals students can go through if their school rejects such a group. They can follow it all the way up to the Court of Queens Bench, but really, what high-school student has the time, energy and resources to chase an appeal up the ladder of the court of law? By constructing a difficult legal climb, Bill 10 allows bigoted hatred to remain unchecked in schools by refusing to allow students to create their own safe spaces.

Still new in the premier seat, Prentice could've taken a strong stance to separate his party from the toxic extremes that tripped up the Wildrose in 2012. Instead, it seems like he's pandering to that very group, at the expense of some of the province's most vulnerable youth. V

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Presents for e'erbody on your list A Holiday Gift Guide for People Who are Broke and Not Crafty The snow is falling, the candy-cane coffee has returned and an already dogeared pile of gift guides (sadly, the Lee Valley catalogue never arrived) sits on my table, which can only mean one thing: it's time for the third-annual Queermonton Holiday Gift Guide for People Who are Broke and Not Crafty. For those of you new to this tradition, I offer suggestions for inexpensive, homemade gifts for people with little-to-no artistic talent. Consider this your analog anti-Pinterest.

Drag kit for kids Introduce the fun of gender-blending to the proto-genderqueer kids (or offspring of your conservative sibling) in your life.

Head to your local dollar store and grab some boas, tiaras, fairy wands, monocles and top hats. Swing by a thrift store to pick up ties, hats and clothes for the finishing touch. Separate out by "boy" and "girl" or mix them all up for binary-bashing good times.

fancy stuff) with a few cups of fresh fruit (strawberries, oranges, pears or raspberries are good options) and let sit for a few days in a glass jar. Strain.

Flask If you're feeling a little splashy this year, nothing says "I love you" like facilitating illicit drinking. Fill with your homemade vodka for extra goodwill.

Kettle corn It's time to head to Bulk Barn! Grab some popcorn kernels, sugar and salt. Your ratio is one part sugar, one part oil and two parts popcorn kernels. Heat the oil over medium-high heat in a heavy pot. When hot, add popcorn and sugar. Cover the pot and when the popcorn starts popping, shake pan until popping stops. Transfer to a bowl, toss with salt. Will last a few days.

Compound butter Who doesn't love butter? Mix softened, unsalted butter with jam or roasted garlic and fresh thyme. Stick it in jar or wrap it in wax paper.

Roasted chickpeas Drain and rinse a can or three of chickpeas and dry off with paper towels. Toss with salt, pepper, olive oil and some spices (garam masala or cumin are yummy). Cook at 300 F, stirring occasionally, until the chickpeas are brown and crispy, about 50 minutes. Stick them in your trusty mason jars.

Fruit-infused vodka Step up your booze-giving game this year.

Mix some 80-proof vodka (don't get the

Ornaments Not just for Christmas trees! Grab some clear glass ornaments from a craft store

along with some cheap crayons. Break the crayons into small pieces (throw away the labels) and toss five or six into each ornament—you can do a few colours or lots. Get out your blowdryer and blast the ornament with heat. Move the ornament around while you do this to ensure maximum colour swirling (or don't. Your call!)

Warning: glass will get very hot.

Homemade coasters Gird your loins and go to IKEA. Pick up some of their really cheap cork coasters (seriously, they're $2 a pack!). Use masking tape to create stripes of empty space on the coasters and paint over them with some craft paint. Add a second layer and you're good to go. (For an extra-fancy touch, use some vinyl letters you can find at a dollar store instead of tape for a customized gift.)

Junk drawer surprise This comes from a friend who was the recipient of one of these gifts and swears it was pretty amazing. Essentially, empty the contents of your junk drawer into a shoe box. Wrap and proceed as usual. I'm skeptical, but maybe my junk drawer is boring.

As always, don't forget that a cheap vase stuffed with assorted candy from Bulk Barn is a solid stand-by. Happy holidays!

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Nigeria: the band plays on

The Nigerian army and Boko Haram are both a threat to Nigerians There's going to be an election in Nigeria in mid-February and the weird thing is that it's not going to be all about Boko Haram. The Islamist terrorists are now killing people at the rate of at least 500 per month—two 9/11s a year, in a country with half the population of the United States—but most Nigerians seem to regard Boko Haram as just one more problem, and a fairly local one at that.

Up in the three north-eastern provinces of the country, where Boko Haram has now declared that it is setting up an Islamic "Caliphate" on the model of ISIS's "Islamic State" in Iraq and Syria, they do care about terrorism. They are also now starting to worry about it more in the rest of the north, where Boko Haram attacked the central mosque in Kano, the biggest northern city, last Friday, and killed at least 100 people.

But in the rest of the country, the terrorist threat has not really risen to the top of the political agenda. The forthcoming election will not focus on the stunning incompetence and sheer inertia of President Goodluck Jonathan's

government in the face of this threat.

Boko Haram's rise to prominence has taken place entirely on Jonathan's watch and at no time has he shown much interest in fighting it. He spoke out strongly when Boko Haram attacked targets in the capital, Abuja, but did nothing. For the rest, he left the problem to the army and to his northern allies, the feudal emirs who still dominate politics there.

These traditional rulers have managed to hang onto their power because the north's population is more illiterate and far poorer than that of the southern states. In order to justify their wealth and political privilege, the emirs have always stressed their traditional religious roles. So when reformers began to criticize them from a radical Islamic standpoint in the '90s, they tried to steal the radicals' thunder by bringing in Sharia law right across the north.

That didn't placate the growing Islamist opposition to the rule of the emirs. The opposition turned violent in 2009, with Boko Haram's first attacks, and despite

its extreme cruelty it enjoys some support across the north among both pious Muslims and the downtrodden. And the army, as usual, did nothing useful.

Last Friday's attack on the Kano central mosque showed all these crosscurrents vividly. The building is on the main square right next door to the palace of the emir of Kano, Mohammed Sanusi II, who frequently preaches in the mosque. Naturally, he always exhorts the populace to resist Boko Haram.

But the emir also urges people not to depend on the army, because it is useless. They should organize to defend themselves, for the soldiers cannot be trusted to protect them. "If people flee the villages (because the army hasn't come)," he said, "the terrorists slaughter our male children and abduct our girls to force them into slavery."

The Nigerian army is widely accused of corruption, brutality and even cowardice. It rarely takes the fight to Boko Haram directly, but it often fires on the crowds who gather after terrorist at-

tacks to protest at the government's failure to protect them. Nigerian army troops did that again outside the Kano central mosque last week and nobody even bothered to express their outrage.

Nobody was surprised.

This is how almost all of Borno state except the capital, Maiduguri, has slipped out of government control. So have large parts of neighbouring Yobe and Adamawa states, and Maiduguri itself, a city of two million, may fall before the election.

In these circumstances, you would expect the federal government, and especially Jonathan, to be under constant attack for having failed to act decisively against Boko Haram, but nothing of the sort.

When the four biggest opposition parties united two years ago to form the All Progressives Congress, they gave Jonathan's ruling People's Democratic Party its first serious opposition since democracy was established in 1999. But the APC's charms have faded as the election nears. It attracted lots of prominent de-

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fectors from the PDP at first, but those new recruits brought their old reputation for corruption with them.

It is this new struggle for power at the centre, not the ugly and alarming developments in the far north-east, that monopolizes the attention of the political class, for the outcome of the February election matters greatly for them. It will decide who gets their snouts in the trough for the next four years.

Voters' expectations are so low that they are not even shocked by the quite plausible accusation that Jonathan has failed to fight hard against Boko Haram because the three north-eastern states would probably vote against the PDP in the next election. Whereas if there is enough chaos in the north-east, the election will be cancelled in those states.

And so the band plays on, as Nigeria drifts towards civil war and disintegration. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Bike lanes: the road to inclusion Proper infrastructure needed now to support city's cyclists

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ith the city's streets now iced over and commuters left reeling from the first hefty snowfall, it's surprising to see support for cycling infrastructure and active transportation holding firm as a topic of civic conversation.

It's a testament to an increasingly visible cycling community whose members challenge the idea that cyclists are merely a niche group undeserving of proper infrastructure. Their commitment to spreading cycling awareness has no doubt had a large influence on city council heading into December's budget talks. If the past weeks are any indication, building better cycling infrastructure in central Edmonton is no longer a matter of if, but when.

Formed in August out of several cycling and community groups, the Edmonton Bike Coalition is asking the City of Edmonton to take the next big step to make Edmonton bike-friendly. They've already taken one step in consulting with the city's cyclists to create the Bicycle Infrastructure Plan 2014 – 2018, outlining a huge network of bikelane routes through core neighbourhoods. But while the intent is there, the money may not be. Only two routes are currently funded, but the coalition is pressing the City of Edmonton to commit $28 million over four years to ensure the rest are built.

"We're all in support of the bikelane plan that the city has laid out, which includes all of the central neighbourhoods," says coalition member David Shepherd, noting that even if the funding comes through, the city still has big decisions to make on the scope of the infrastructure.

"The majority of the support from individuals, in terms of people who are biking and people who are interested in biking, they're looking for separated infrastructure," he says.

"That's what's going to make the most people the most comfortable on the road, and probably going to be the most attractive for people who are considering biking, but don't feel safe doing so yet."

Painting an accurate picture of the city's current and future cycling community has been vital to the coalition's cause. Leading up to budget season, they developed a photomosaic project with a goal of highlighting the community's diversity. Within a month, they received more than 1100 images of cyclists of all ages and skills, each bearing a sign saying "I Bike" or "I Would Bike," hitting home the fact that marginal infrastructure is holding many back from saddling up.

"A lot of people tend to think of the cliché—the guy with the tricked out spandex, a helmet and an attitude—but really it's a wide population and a wide variety of ages, everyone from young children to senior citizens," Shepherd says.

"If we have proper infrastructure, a place where everybody can ride, it's going to make it easier for everybody."

Shepherd says most of council is on board with the plan, but the city's tight financial situation has the final say. While 83 Avenue through Old Strathcona and a short stretch of 96 Street downtown are funded, any remaining routes that slip out of this year's budget decision aren't likely to be built until 2019 at the earliest.

One of those yet-to-be-funded routes is 102 Avenue, which cuts right through Councillor Scott McKeen's downtown ward. McKeen is one of council's loudest supporters of the current bike-lane push.

For him, it's about more than simply offering safe commutes; it's also about creating an attractive place to live for the city's younger populations. The time is now, he says, and there are no better places than Old Strathcona and his downtown ward to show off cycling's potential.

"It's time that we started to invest a little more assertively into active transportation," McKeen argues. "This is the place—83 Ave and 102 Ave— in areas where there's more density, where the population tends to be younger, where people have moved to the core to have more of a walkable lifestyle. It just adds up to a place where it's the great proving ground."

With the most opportune routes identified, the issue remains of which type of infrastructure is best for Edmonton. Cyclists tend to support a separated cycle track with lanes exclusive to bicycles, protected from other transportation modes by curbs or visual buffers, but McKeen isn't so sure. He's pushing for shared-use bike boulevards, which would see bicycles and cars share marked roads, made less hostile through trafficcalming measures like speed bumps, signs and roundabouts.

While separated bike lanes are more safe and efficient, McKeen argues they simply fall into the city's addiction to fast, unimpeded commuting.

"A cyclist told me he wanted segregated bike lanes so that he could whip through. It was almost that same motorist-commuter attitude," he says. "If we create cold, sterile transportation corridors where everybody's segregated, it'll

A lot of people tend to think of the cliché—the guy with the tricked out spandex, a helmet and an attitude— but really it’s a wide population and a wide variety of ages. work well, it'll be efficient. You'll limit any interaction between those modes, but I worry that this ends up being a place that nobody wants to be around."

For McKeen, the bike lanes are as much about placemaking as they are about safety and efficiency.

The decisions on exactly how these lanes integrate into their surroundings will say a lot about how we choose to share the city's space.

"I think this decision is really big, in the sense that it's symbolic about what kind of city we want to build," McKeen says. "Are we going to start being more progressive in our urban-design and urban-transportation plan? Relative to the budget, the amount isn't much and the cor-

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ridor isn't long, but the message we'll send out in approving this is huge."

Shepherd agrees that with all the development filling core areas and the growing optimism attached to active transportation, the bikelane debate is worth much more than the $28-million ask. Cycling infrastructure is pocket change compared to the billions currently being poured into the core. In 2017,

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downtown Edmonton is going to be a very different place and bike lanes will factor just as much in the on-the-street vitality as any condo, storefront or entertainment district.

"City council needs to really step up and put their money where their mouth is on this one," Shepherd says. "If you really want that vibrant downtown, look around: all the cities that have that, they're investing in people-scale infrastructure.

"It's not building more roads and parking lots, because people don't like to go where cars are. People like to go where they can walk and bike, where they can experience and really be in the mix."

RYAN STEPHENS

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police officer named Darren Wilson shot an unarmed teenager named Michael Brown on August 9, 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri. That much we know. Witness accounts of the incident vary wildly, with huge discrepancies between what led to an 18-yearold lying dead, face down in the street.

Exactly how and why Brown died that day has led to massive unrest.

But there is a simple piece of technology that could have showed exactly what happened that day in Ferguson—or maybe even prevented it in the first place: body-worn cameras. Simply, they're small video cameras worn by police to record interactions with the public. The purpose is to keep both sides of the law honest, as the video will be an unbiased record.

The Edmonton Police Service is almost finished a two-year pilot project to test cameras on its officers. A spokesperson for the force said they won't be granting interviews on EPS's study until their report is released, likely by the end of 2014. But information available on the EPS website shows the initial phase of the test involved 50 or so cameras, which reportedly cost around $1000 each, worn mainly by downtown-division cops with some additional testing planned for the West Edmonton Mall, Whyte Avenue and traffic beats.

While EPS results are still being tabulated, other studies have shown the cameras can do a lot of good. A

one-year pilot program in Mesa, Arizona, where 50 officers were issued cameras and a control group of 50 police had none, showed dramatic decreases in both complaints against police and the use of force. The study, completed in October 2013, found cops without cameras had almost triple the complaints, while cops with cameras had 40-percent fewer complaints, as well as 75-percent less useof-force complaints.

A similar test in Railto, California showed similarly dramatic results: officers using cameras saw use of force incidents decrease by 59 percent and complaints by citizens against police drop by nearly 90 percent. The City of Rialto estimates they saved $400 000 in legal fees from dealing with complaints, a healthy return on the $90 000 investment in the recording technology. The cameras are currently being tested by RCMP in New Brunswick and police in Vancouver, London, New York and Los Angeles.

Of course, as with the adaptation of any new technology, there are hurdles—the steepest being privacy.

Alberta's Privacy Commissioner Jill Clayton is currently investigating the Calgary Police Service's camera test and use of facial recognition software.

"We're in the dark as far as how the technology would use and store personal information," says Scott Sibbald, communications manager for Clayton.

"It's not as though the privacy commissioner is saying this is not a good thing.

We don't know. But it's worth a look into it to ease the public's fears and see how they might collect and store information."

Indeed, data storage is another big question mark. How long should authorities keep the videos and how will they be stored? And is this data vulnerable to being hacked or shared unscrupulously?

Other practical concerns include whether police should have the power to turn the device off. A 2014 study by the American group Community Oriented Policing Services says it's "critical" police have the discretion to turn the cameras off in certain situations, like when interviewing a witness who is uncomfortable with being filmed. But would this be abused by cops who don't want unsavoury interactions recorded?

You don't need to be a police officer to embrace body-worn cameras.

Last month, Edmonton East MP Peter Goldring encouraged his fellow caucus members to wear a video camera, as he does, to "prevent besmirchment"— seemingly from false sexual-harassment accusations.

As bizarre as this advice is coming from a Member of Parliament—whose job it is to shape our countries laws, not record his peers—it's certainly worth exploring for our police.

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Sushi sampling Watari raises the all-you-can-eat bar

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his is only speculation, but I can't help but wonder if Watari—the relatively new all-youcan-eat Japanese restaurant located in the space formerly inhabited by pan-Asian eatery Matahari—got its name by dropping a couple letters from the existing sign and flipping the M upside down.

Regardless, the point is that there's an all-you-can-eat Japanese place on the southern end of 124 Street and, though previous experience has taught me to lower my expectations when a place offers as much food as I can swallow for a fixed price ($27 for dinner, in this case), Watari is more than acceptable for a number of reasons.

Service isn't usually a strong point

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at all-you-can-eat places, but Watari's servers were friendly, engaged, helpful and efficient. The servers who frequented our table of four seemed genuinely interested in how we liked the food; they also guided us through the nigh-bewildering array of choices. Plus, they made sure our table always had food on it. I was also pleased with the clean, uncluttered décor, minimal televisions, just-audible J-pop soundtrack and the presence of many Japanese diners.

As with any all-you-can-eat joint, there are rules. Your meal can only last two hours. If you order more than you can eat, you pay extra.

There are limits on how much of certain items you can order— though if you can't be satisfied with

a personal allotment of 30 pieces of sashimi, you either have a tapeworm or you're a grizzly bear.

For expediency's sake, you're provided with a piece of paper listing all menu items, on which you indicate how many of each you'd like.

The server then comes and takes the paper away; shortly after, the food starts arriving at a steady clip.

While it was tempting to just eat ourselves into a sashimi coma— and the succulence of the tuna and salmon made that all the more appealing—we gave the menu a thorough testing. The resulting litany of items sampled could fill an amusing "I've Been Everywhere"-style country ditty, but highlights included the aforementioned sashimi and corre-

sponding nigiri; the spicy tuna maki, chop chop (scallop) maki and watari maki (featuring cooked salmon and a tempura green bean); the generous portion of thin-sliced blue-rare beef tataki in a citrusy sauce with seaweed and onions; the surprisingly light tempura (especially the basa drizzled with wasabi mayo); the tangy "Hawaii pokey" (marinated raw tuna with onions); and a green salad with mango, strawberry and dried cranberries wrapped in rice paper.

Remember, this is only a partial list.

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$27 per person? In the main, the food was freshly prepared, flavourful and portioned so that you could sample, then go back to the stuff you really liked. (We placed multiple orders of the beef tataki and basa tempura.) Impressively, it took us only about an hour to order, receive and eat all we could hold.

At the end of the meal, when we confessed to our server that we'd be willing to return, her advice was to book a table, especially on weekends when the place is packed pretty much all night. So, do plan ahead when going to Watari—but don't feel obliged to lower your expectations in advance.

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Making the grade The contentious issue of wine ratings

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Wine ratings are a perpetually contentious issue; possibly the biggest one in the industry, actually. It's no secret that high points mean high(er) profit, which has led many wineries to try crafting wines they think will appeal to the palates of the most influential critics.

In fact, the phenomenon of "Parkerization" arose in the '90s and was the subject of the 2004 documentary Mondovino. It describes a style of wines that Robert Parker—the single most influential critic in North America— tends to favour: big, bold and bursting with juicy dark fruits, high in tannin and alcohol.

The majority of wines that Parker rates highest usually fit this profile.

It's all just one man's opinion, of course. Or in the case of the Wine Spectator Top 100, one panel. Even though the judges supposedly taste all wines blind, tasting is inherently subjective and personal bias is always a part of it, no matter how much they try to objectify the process.

Agree with them or not, the North American market is heavily influenced by the points assigned by Parker and Wine Spectator. Recognizing the power of wine scores over the market, some local wine stores have opted to include these numbers on the shelf tags in their stores: both deVine Wines & Spirits and Bin 104 have such "shelf talkers" on some of their bottles, though I've spotted the tags in other stores as well. Inevitably, these only highlight wines that score at least 90 points or higher, as anything lower seems unworthy of attention—even though there are many lovely wines that score below 90, and even more which are just not rated at all. deVine also does an annual Top 100 tasting each January of the previous year's list. When the Top 100 wines are announced, it's always a scramble to see which ones they have in stock (this year, it was just over a dozen) and which others they might be able to snap up before someone else does.

"It's like a zoo the morning that the list comes out: all the stores are fighting to get what little there is," says deVine co-owner Dirk Chan. "The field is so competitive now; it's really cutthroat. It's act quickly and get

what you can before it's all sold out."

But while the demand for highly-rated wines has increased, Chan also notes that deVine's particular customers seem less concerned with points as a whole.

"Our customer base has kind of grown up, and are a much more mature crowd," Chan says. "They pretty much trust our own palates.

They don't need a wine critic or a score to tell them anymore."

That sentiment is echoed by Edmonton's newest wine shop, Color de Vino, which doesn't advertise any kind of wine scores.

"I never understood why you want an anonymous person to tell you something got 97 points," says co-owner Juanita Roos. "It is so interesting that people will buy something based on someone they don't know. You wouldn't do that with food, would you? You're going to buy your chicken based on an average score in a magazine?"

Allegations of favouritism (and even nepotism) always crop up around the Wine Spectator's Top 100 list, though they staunchly deny anything of the sort. Reviewing the lists over the past few years, one can't help notice a lot of the same names appearing over and over. The list is also always weighted heavily towards France, Italy and California, which makes some sense given that those three nations produce a huge quantity of wine—but it also means that the smaller producers tend to be completely glossed over, save a few: an Israeli wine made the list this year; a Canadian wine was included only once (in 2008).

"People notice that there seems to be a repetitive nature in the number of certain wineries that show up," Chan says. "Two Hands and Mollydooker are always there. The Clos des Papes is always there, and so is the Don Melchor. Some people question it: are Mollydooker and Two Hands the only two wines from Australia that are actually worthy? Of course not. I really would like to see some new ones in there." V

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King of (Irish) Cream Baileys is the most popular brand of Irish Cream on the market; often people use this brand name instead of the generic when referring to the liqueur. It is manufactured by Gilbeys of Ireland and was first introduced in 1974.

Chemistry pranks Because Irish Cream contains dairy, it curdles and coagulates when it is mixed with an acidic substance: this gave rise to an urban legend that drinking Irish Cream with tonic water will kill you. While that's completely false, Irish Cream is used in a prank drink called a Cement Mixer, in which a person holds a shot of lime or lemon juice in their mouth, followed by a shot of Irish Cream; the person then shakes their head to mix them together, which causes curdling and makes the substance very sticky and difficult to swallow.

Refrigerate it Unlike most spirits and liqueurs, an opened bottle of Irish Cream should always be stored in the refrigerator because it contains milk ingredients. Most bottles now have a best before date; once opened, Irish Cream will generally last for about six months. Baileys guarantees its particular product for up to two years (even without refrigeration). If it's lumpy, curdled or smells off, dump it.

The dude abides Irish Cream can be used to make many different cocktails, with the simplest being adding a shot to a cup of coffee. It's particularly good in a version of the White Russian: mix two ounces of Irish Cream with one ounce of vodka and half an ounce of Kahlua over ice in a highball glass, then top up with milk or cream.

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n-stage crucifixion, literally: even the most ardent method actor has nothing on die-hard Passion Players.

"That's extreme acting!" Jesse Gervais says. "It's really interesting, when the art bleeds over to the life—pun entirely intended.

When do you start to associate with your role so much that you become that role? And become the living embodiment of, say, Christ?

Gervais been thinking about these things lately, and not because Christmas is approaching: he's playing the role of Jesus Christ in Wild Side Theatre's production of Sarah Ruhl's Passion Play. Or rather, he's playing three different actors who are themselves playing Christ in three Passion Plays set in different eras.

It's not a role that Gervais says he would have imagined portraying—though he did recall, during our phone conversation on a morning before rehearsal, that he once played a Roman soldier in an elementary-school version of a Passion Play.

"I think anyone who knows me will probably have a little snicker current social, political, economic and religious climate. Guedo behind their teeth when they read this," he says, explaining he names it a "displaced play:" that is, a contemporary play that hapdidn't grow up religious. "My aunt made me go to church once, pens to be set in the past. and I asked the wrong questions. I was asking about dinosaurs "[Ruhl]'s not interested in saying, 'OK, there's riots in Ferguson and I was interested in science, and there weren't answers for me. right now so I'm going to write a play about that,'" he explains.

It upset me; it didn't make any sense."

"She comes at things sideways. One of her first plays ... was Passion Plays—dramatic depictions of the about the death of her father, but she wrote trial, suffering and crucifixion of Jesus Christ— Sat, Dec 6 – Sun, Dec 14 (7:30 about the family dog and how the family dog have an extensive history. They arose in the copes with the loss of the patriarch. I think pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) medieval era and are usually performed durthe strength of so much of her work works on Passion Play ing Lent; they are especially widespread in a subconscious, unconscious level. She's not Catholic cultures. In some areas of the world, Directed by Jim Guedo one to underline and spell things out for the the performer playing Jesus actually submits MacEwan Centre for the Arts audience; she lets them put the pieces of the himself to crucifixion—and considers the op- and Communications, Theatre mosaic together."

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Passion Plays are huge, communal endeavRuhl's Passion Play isn't an actual Passion Play, ours that involve hundreds of people—not but rather a peek into the history of this phenomjust the performers and production team, but enon. An ensemble piece requiring 11 performers, the play's first part the people who build the set, create the costumes, wrangle the is set in Elizabethan England, while the second depicts the Nazi Party's live animals, handle the marketing and promotion; it's like the infamous subversion of the Oberammergau Passion Play in 1934, in ultimate community-theatre challenge. Guedo, who has actually which Hitler declared the 300-year-old play as aligned with his anti- seen one ("I'm a good lapsed Catholic," he chuckles), ascribes this Semitic agenda. (That was the last time this particular Passion Play community spirit to part of the reason why Passion Plays have was performed during the Nazis' reign.) It was some eight years after endured for so long, in one form or another. penning those first two parts before Ruhl added the third and final "Undeniably, what I think is part of the attraction is the fact that instalment, set in the United States during the Vietnam War. While it is a community-based passion—pun intended—that brings the the characters in each part are obviously different, the same actor entire community together," he says. "It's an opportunity for a tracks through parallel roles: the three characters playing Christ are community to express itself as a group of people together, and played by Gervais. In this way it's not direct reincarnation, though Ruhl each contributes their own strengths." is certainly using this device somewhat subliminally.

Edmonton may not have its own Passion Play (the closest is in "Her plays are hard to categorize," says director Jim Guedo. "I Drumheller), but we're certainly no stranger to annual theatre would say Passion Play is atypical of her on one level because traditions; the Citadel's production of A Christmas Carol, now in of the ambitious scope and the size of it: the sprawling, sort of its 15th year, is probably the first example that comes to mind. intimate-yet-epic nature of this play fascinated me."

"I think we require these traditions; it makes us come together," says Gervais. "It's an excuse for us to gather in the same room.

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just gathering together and experiencing energy and loving each other, and hopefully all being on the same page, for a moment."

The Passion Plays that get the most attention nowadays are those in which the performer actually submits to torture and crucifixion. Even though its crucifixion was fiction, Mel Gibson's infamously violent 2004 film The Passion of the Christ was part of the reason for this, though throughout history, even the performers who don't bridge that gap between art and life have often found themselves assuming aspects of the religious figures they portray.

"There's the prestige of the role, but then it's also how do they handle it, and whether they can live up to roles that they play," Guedo notes. "And also, then, when the roles start to take over.

For the person playing Christ, after a certain period of time, do you become Christ-like? Do you become a method actor and start to live your role? Or do you implode because you cannot live up to the ideals of what the role requires?"

Fortunately, Ruhl's play doesn't make such intense demands on its performers.

"I'm not taking it home, even though I like to imagine buying cigarettes as Christ," Gervais says with a laugh. "When I was in theatre school, I thought it would be a really good idea to do some chewing tobacco, because I was playing a cowboy. I put some in right before the show, and oh man—I was green on stage; I nearly vomited. That was my brush with method acting.

"I've been watching a lot of movies where actors have been portraying Christ, and it's really funny watching them try to achieve that special glow on their face," he continues. "Inner glow is a reference to something that one of the characters expresses in the play; I suppose it's the feeling of grace, or just being Jesus-like. It's a really hard thing to describe, other than just emanating love in every instance: when you're getting scourged hard, you're getting nailed up on a cross."

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t's a strange thing, doing a show around Christmas, because you don't have much time to indulge yourself in everything you'd want to do around Christmas," James MacDonald says.

A mildly rueful chuckle accompanies the end of his sentence; for five years now, MacDonald's been part of the Citadel's everlasting take on A Christmas Carol—now in its 15th consecutive year—with four of those spent in the crotchety guise

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of Ebenezer Scrooge (his first year, he played Marley). It's meant that he's committed his recent holiday seasons to rehearsals and performances while most folks are basking in December's more usual, festive sentiments.

"I saw two people going to the Festival of Trees yesterday, and thought, 'Oh ...'," MacDonald continues. "And I was thinking about watching It's A Wonderful Life, and going, when do I have time to watch?"

Not that he's complaining. MacDonald's own family holiday traditions revolved around Charles Dickens' tale, either watching the film or seeing a theatrical take on it, and he's found that performing as part of A Christmas Carol offers a similar sense of fulfilment. Even though the arc's a big one for an actor to go through nightly—Scrooge has to believably turn from scowling curmudgeon to neighbour-loving saint in the course of a sole evening's trip through past, present and future—it still manages

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"It's a hard show to perform; that's why I have an alternate," he says. "It's a very hard show to do, even every night, let alone twice a day. It takes its toll physically and emotionally. It's quite a journey I go on, but there's a real reward at the end. You do a Shakespearean tragedy, and you feel pretty lousy at the end, and you kind of have to go pour yourself a martini at the end. But with this one, there's such a great catharsis, and such a good feeling, and we top this one every year with the donations to the food bank that we ask from the audience. And that little thing, of being able to talk to the audience and ask them to make those donations, it really does warm my heart, or make me feel that kinship with people at Christmas."

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Capital City Burlesque's Holiday Extravaganza Fri, Dec 5 (8 pm) and Sat, Dec 6 (8 pm) Roxy Theatre, $20 in advance, $25 at the door you could probably guess who that is," Hellcat says. "But the other lives in the wintry Canadian north and is very seldom seen but loves to tap dance."

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hy can't you just be normal?" The doctor takes an immediate and It's the lament of so many frus- obvious interest in the wide-eyed trated siblings to their odder brethren youngest Blavatsky, Ingrid (Natalie (and seems especially pertinent with Davidson), whose gauzy dress and the festive season quickly approach- shawl sets her apart visually from ing). But awkward holiday dinners her unkempt brother Roland (Joseph aside, very few families could honestly Perry) and primly starched sister— and whose ignocompare their own rance of personal quirks to the finelyUntil Sat, Dec 6 (7:30 pm) space sets her honed neuroses Directed by Sandra Nicholls behaviour apart present in each Timms Centre For The Arts, from them, too. member of the Bla$11 – $22 The first act peels vatsky household. back the increasThose who saw the first half of Studio Theatre's two- ingly strange layers of this family; show Buffini festival will recognize their social awkwardness makes it the same tilted, askew square that funny at times, though it is also forms the majority of the stage. In quite poignant. The performances Blavatsky's Tower, the second show as a whole are quite strong and able

by British satirist Moira Buffini to to keep abreast of the subtler nugrace the Studio Theatre stage this ances of Buffini's script. Perry is parseason, that square has been reimag- ticularly good as the manic son and ined as the concrete floor of the pent- brother; his first lengthy monologue house suite of the eponymous tower: is particularly compelling. The sec300 feet off the ground, 25 stories ond act's chief concern is how the and 406 steps up—and populated by Blavatsky children are going to live, now that they are no longer bound a family of total loons.

The tower was designed by the patri- to their recently deceased father. arch of the family and was intended to (Hint: it's not an easy transition.)

If the sheer amount of notes I be the crowning monument of a small town; in actuality it has become the scribbled during the performance family's tomb and, to the tenants on the is any indication, Buffini's script is lower floors, a slum. Each family mem- a thinky, richly complex and tantaber has chosen, for different reasons, to lizingly meaty piece. Literary refercloister themselves within its walls as ences abound, but are subtly sprinopposed to facing the outside world— kled and cleverly used; they are the "wasteland" as they call it, which is integrated into the story like Easter eggs, not wrecking balls. They call populated by "the crushed."

On the particular day we meet the their father Dada; one can't help but Blavatskys, older sister Audrey (Bobbi snicker at the obvious satirical refGoddard)—the only one who leaves the erence to the Dadaists—whom the house to work and support the rest— Blavatskys would surely abhor. Yet has brought a doctor (Hunter Cardinal) as much as it's a veritable feast of up to their apartment to visit their ailing high philosophy, literary references father. The entrance of that outsider into and socio-political debate, Blathe Blavatsky's private life is the catalyst vatsky's Tower also delves peculiarfor the play's action, and one of the pil- ly into such banal things as family lars of the script's philosophical studies. rights over the bodies of deceased Their father (David Barnet) has "devoted members. It's a great introduction to his life to suffering," you see: truth is Buffini's work, for those who haven't painful, and therefore he suffers. In turn, seen any yet, and certainly the more his toxic philosophy has brought suffer- memorable of the two that Studio ing in various forms to his children, who Theatre has just done. have each perverted their own set of MEL PRIESTLEY MEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM high-minded ideals.

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et that leg up higher ... do it again! Somewhere in the snowy alcove of Edmonton is a room full of women who have been zealously practicing burlesque since the summer. Every high kick and look must be perfect, with no rhinestone or glittery limb out of place.

"We've been rehearsing at least twice a week since August, but we're hoping to start coming in every day," says Holly Hellcat, a member of Capital City Burlesque. "We've got an amazing dance coach that nitpicks the everloving shit out of our routine, yelling at us to do it again and do it better—but that's how you get good."

Capital City has been woodshedding for the past three months to prepare for its annual Holiday Extravaganza.

It's a Christmas-themed celebration of women and fabulousness: expect glit-

ter, rhinestones and feathers, group and solo numbers and, of course, tasseled boobs.

"It's about 50-50 naughty to nice," Hellcat laughs. "I think Santa would have us on the middle."

Capital City Burlesque, a proud member of Edmonton's flourishing burlesque scene, has been sashaying on its home turf and across North America for more than a decade.

Proudly DIY and inclusive, the group makes its own outfits and embraces a rainbow of body types.

There are five or six new dancers making their debut in this show.

This year, Hellcat says there will be dancing toy soldiers, Christmas balls, snowmen, yeti, gingerbread men and some special guests.

"One is a person who likes to dress in red and you only see once a year—

You may have seen Capital City Burlesque at the 2013 Fringe, where the troupe performed its much-loved Space Ladies from Planet Elvis show.

CCB has also done an AC/DC tribute with a live band, a geek-themed show and a Halloween performance.

And the ladies have taken their saucy routines to festivals in Vancouver, Calgary and Las Vegas.

Hellcat says the last couple of years have seen burlesque's popularity, "explode" in Edmonton to the point where the city can support four or five performances in Edmonton monthly.

This has birthed sub-genres like the male boylesque and the fake-bloodsoaked gorelesque.

"Every dancer you see has a unique twist on the genre," she says. "It's a celebration of people's self-expression, and it's performers who have a sense of humour and guts. You quickly realize that it's not about hypersexualization of the person on stage."

After the Christmas show, Hellcat says CCB hopes to prepare another Fringe entry.

"We just really would love to see people come out and have fun," she says. "There's nothing better than going up there and hearing the audience cheer you on."

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DRAWING ROOM • 10253-97 St • 780.760.7284 • TELEGRAPH HILL: Coup Boutique and Drawing Room present paintings by Charlotte Falk • Until Dec 24

Main Fl, 10230-111 Ave • Daily 10am-8pm • 780.735.7999/403.949.4991 • WHITE: Photography series by Karen Lee, exploring the graphic and atmospheric elements of winter • Until Dec 31

ELLIS BUILDING LOFTS • 10123-112 St • ART LOFT – Episode #2: held at private lofts in downtown YEG. Enjoy music, food, and libations while being surrounded by and electrifying silent / live art auction • Dec 12, 8-11pm • All inclusive food/drink tickets: $40 (regular), $60 (Cognac Experience)

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • WHAT TIME IS IT: Works by Brian Batsch; until Dec 5 • ALL WRAPPED UP: Featuring works for the Holiday Season; Dec 6-25

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • savacava.

ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230

com • MINIATURES AND MORE: minature paintings.

Includes the artwork of Gilles Lavoie; Dec 5-23 • Reception: Dec 5, 7-8:30pm; some artists in attendance

Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • DISCOVERING DINOSAURS: until Jan 31 • aGa at enterprise Square Galleries: SONAR: Sound Art Explorations

by Edmonton Artists; until Jan 4 • POP POP: A DESIGN POP UP SHOP: Locally made goods available for purchase include print objects, home wares, fine art

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com •

show/workshops with Carlos Barrionuevo and Mayte Valdes in celebration of International Tango Day and Christmas • Dec 4-7; more info at facebook.com/ events/647135062052523

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • multicentre.org • Digital Photography by David Kleinsasser; Nov 29-Jan 2

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • TAKE YOUR BEST SHOT: Explore St Albert through the lens of young photographers • Until Jan 18• Reception: Dec 4, 6–8:30pm

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Free film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Happy Christmas (14A); Dec 10 • Free

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FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (PG); Dec 5 • Fantastic Mr. Fox (PG); Dec 12

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Main: IMAGINE (a place of dwellings): Oil paintings by Cynthia Booth; until Dec 31 • artisan Nook: SMALL TEMPTATIONS: Group show of small art-works and hand-crafted objects; until Dec 31 • Monoprint Cards: Demo; Dec 4, 7-7:30pm NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE STOLLERY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • thenina.ca •

IMAX THEATRE • TELUS World of Science, 11211142 St • Panda: The Journey Home 3D (G); Fri-Sun: 1:10pm, 3:25pm; Mon-Thu: 3:10pm • Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D (G) Fri: 5:45pm; Sat: 10am, 2:15 pm, 5:45 pm; Sun: 10am, 2:15pm; Tue: 11am, 4:20pm; Thu: 10am, 4:20pm • Rocky Mountain Express (G) Fri: 11am, 4:35pm; Sat & Sun: 11am; Mon: 2pm; Tue: 1pm • Jerusalem 3D (G) Fri: 2:15pm; Sat & Sun: 12pm, 4:35pm; Wed & Thur: 2pm • D-Day: Normandy 1944 3D (PG) Mon & Wed: 4:20pm • Home Alone (PG): Fri: 7pm • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (PG) Sat: 7pm • How the Grinch Stole Christmas (G) Sun: 5:45pm • Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark (PG) Fri & Sat: 9:30pm

ron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • OUR LUMINOUS LAND: Paintings by Jim Visser; Dec 4-Jan 31, 2015; opening: Dec 4, 6-8:30pm

BEARCLAW GALLERY • 10403-124 St • CHRISTMAS SHOW: New works by Jane Ash Poitras, Jason Carter, Linus Woods, and others; Dec 6-31

BLUE CURVE GALLERY • Glenrose Hospital,

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780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • HOLIDAY EXHIBITION: New works by gallery artists and secondary market works • Opens Dec 3

St • 780.407.7152 • WHAT'S BEFORE AND BEHIND: Portraits by Patrick Higgins; until Dec 7

FILM

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Per-

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St •

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112

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

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Strange Dream: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • A Moving Image: until Jan 4 • 90 x 90: Celebrating Art in Alberta: Part 2: until Jan 4 • SONAR: Sound Art Explorations by Edmonton Artists; until Jan 4 • BMO World of Creativity: World of Boo: Jason Carter and Bridget Ryan; until Apr 16 • VIEW FROM A WINDOW: Photos by Edward Burtynsky, Robin Collyer, Eamon MacMahon, Laura St Pierre; Dec 6-Mar 1 • art For lunch: Conversation with the Artist: Colin Smith, Dec 5; Daina Warren: Curating Contemporary Aboriginal Art, Dec 11 • Open Studio adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • Melt: Image Transfer and Wax Collage: Dec 10 • SUBURBIA: A MODEL LIFE (Photographs 1970s-80s); Dec 6-Mar 1 • Curator’s tour: Suburbia: A Model Life: 2nd Level: With Kristy Trinier; Dec 9, 7pm; $15/$8 (member) • Film: Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level: NFB at your aGa: Radiant City, by Jim Brown and Gary Burns, Canada, 2006; Dec 10, 7pm • RBC New Works Gallery: OBSCURE INVERSIONS: Colin Smith; Dec 6-Mar 1 • Conversation with the artist: Colin Smith; Dec 5 • all Day Sundays: Moving Images; Dec 7; Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Film: NFB at Your AGA: Ledcor Theatre, Lower Level: Radiant City: film by Jim Brown & Gary Burn, Canada, 2006; Dec 10, 7pm; free with gallery admission • late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • HIS LINES MADE HISTORY: Works by Ontario artist C.W. Jeffreys • Until Dec 17

Michelle Lavoie • Until Jan 28

SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing,

106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • FeatuRe GalleRy: Well in Hand: Craft artists explore their own horse connections; until Dec 24

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona

MACEWAN UNIVERSITY CAFÉ–City Centre Campus • Rm 7-266 • ARTIFACTS: Paintings by

Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • Dec 6, 8pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-

St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Alison Hitner: This exhibition will concentrate on films set in worlds that have experienced distinct or drastic environmental alterations; Dec 11-Jan 22 • Front Room: How Would Mary Feel? by Lori Victor; Dec 11-Jan 22

Main Space: CLASSROOM OF CULTURE REFLECTION— CONFUCIUS: City Edmonton Project, photogram-based floor pieces by Jing Yuan Huang • Until Jan 17

EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Seniors

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 •

CAPITAL CITY BURLESQUE • Roxy Theatre, 10708, 124 St • Holiday Extravaganza for adults • Dec 5-6, 8-10pm; lobby open at 6pm for beverages • $20 (adv)/$25 (door) at Roxy Theatre box office

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • 780.425.9212 • Reel Family Cinema: Big, Dec 6 • Global Visions Festival fundraiser: Brothers in the Buddha; Dec 6, 4:15pm; tickets at Ticketfly; facebook.com/events/298157457044605/ • Gateway to Cinema: Almost Famous; Dec 10

Photographs by Chan Hawkins; Dec 1-31

BEHOLD!: Artists from Youth Empowerment and Support Services; • Nov 29-Dec 21

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Recent paintings by Phil Darrah • Until Dec 9

REMEDY CAFÉ–DT • 10279 Jasper Ave • GHOSTS OF JERUSALEM: Abstract photography series • Nov 29-Dec 25

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Presentation: Creating an Approriate CV for Your Career:

Dec 6, 11:30am-1:30pm • BRIDGE: Works by Sergio Serrano; until Jan 17

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St •

FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St • 780.492.2081 • Art & Design 50th Anniversary Exhibition curated show; Dec 9-20, Jan 2-10

780.760.1278 • Colours and light: Paintings by Alain Bédard; until Dec 6 • Christmas Group Show; Dec 9-24

GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park

DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.200.2711 • Featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks; antique jade sculptures and jewellery; 17th Century bronze masterworks and artworks by Richard Dixon

• 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • THE BLUE HOUR: Megan Hahn's photo transparencies; Until Dec 21

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Paintings by Robert Scott; including new work conceived in Slovenia; until Dec 6

Albert • 780.459.2525 • Oil paintings by Marina Bazox and Olga Duc • Until Dec 22

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Gallery Walls: Water and Light:

Currey Lewis, book signing of her memoir, A Twisted Fate: My Life With Dystonia; Dec 6, 1:30-4pm

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artists from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com SCRIPT SALON • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, Upper Arts Space, 10037-84 Ave • A Monthly Play Reading Series: 1st Sun ea month With A Different Play By A Different Playwright TALES–Monthly Storytelling Circle • Parkallen Community Hall, 6510-111 St • Monthly TELLAROUND: 2nd Wed each month • Sep-Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Info: 780.437.7736; talesedmonton@hotmail.com UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Every Mon, 7pm; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door)

THEATRE BENJ PASEK AND JUSTIN PAUL • Arden Theatre • Presented by St Albert Children's Theatre • Dec 6

BLAVATSKY'S TOWER • Timm's Centre, U of A • U of A Studio Theatre • By Moira Buffini, a tragic comedy about a blind visionary and his family, secluded in a decaying tower, facing mortality. Directed by Sandra M. Nicholls, starring David Barnet, Hunter Cardinal, Natalie Davidson, Bobbi Goddard, and Joseph Perry • Nov 27Dec 6 • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); Mat: $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 (senior); preview: $5; Mon: 2-for-1 CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun 13

A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Citadel Maclab Theatre • Adapted by Tom Wood, based on the story by Charles Dickens, directed by Bob Baker, starring James MacDonald as Ebenezer Scrooge. Recommended for ages 7+ • Nov 29-Dec 23 A CHRISTMAS KAROL • John L. Haar Theatre, MacEwan University, Centre for the Arts and Communications Campus, 10045-156 St • An oldfashioned nativity play • Dec 6, 2pm

ROYAL BISON FAIR HOLIDAY 2014 • Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre • Dec 5-7 • acebook.com/RoyalBisonCraftFair

Theatre • Presented by St Albert Children's Theatre • Dec 3-6 • $26 (adult)/$20 (child/senior) at Arden box office

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • Works by Katherine Sicote, and Gerald Faulder • Until Dec 6

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists. com • SNAP Members Show and Sale; Dec 6-20 • Printshop: PRINT AFFAIR PRETTY PAPER: Dec 6, 8pmlate; $25/$20 (member)

A CHRISTMAS STORY–THE MUSICAL • Arden

CINDERELLA • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton • A Traditional Christmas Pantomime, a family friendly musical comedy production including songs, slapstick comedy and gender-crossing actors • Dec 10-Jan 3 • $12 (mat adult/senior/child); $22 (evening, adult)/$18 (senior)/$15 (child under 12)

Main Gallery: SNOW: Member Novelty Show; until Jan 24 • Fireplace Room: Donna Fillion; through Dec

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • varsconatheatre.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs Every Mon, 7:30pm • Until Jun 1; no show on Dec 22 and 29 • $13 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

STRATHCONA PUBLIC LIBRARY • 8331-104

MAESTRO • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • Rapid

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com •

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St •

and everything in-between; Dec 1-14; thesda.ca/ poppop • extension Gallery: enterprise Square atrium: NORTHERN NURSING–A LIFE IN PORTRAITS: Works by Heather Clayton; daily until Dec 17

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Brenda

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Orientation Gallery: WILDLIFE PHOTOGRAPHER OF THE YEAR: Nov 28-Apr 12 • NOWHERE PEOPLE: Photos, giving a human face to the global issue of statelessness, by Greg Constantine; Dec 6-Mar 22

St • 780.496.1828 • Landscapes, birds, and still life paintings by Svetlana Troitskaia • Until Jan 2

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LITERARY

telusworldofscienceedmonton.com • GPS 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)

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 • visualartsalberta.com • Gallery a: Jean-Rene LeBlanc • Gallery B: BITS & PIECES: Patricia Coulter (mixed media works); Until Dec 6

WALTERDALE THEATRE GALLERY • 10322-83 Ave • EQUINOX: Alberta Society of Artists show open during the run of Six Degrees of Separation • Dec 3-13 WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • JINGLE & MINGLE: Group exhibit; Dec 6-31 YMCA (Don Wheaton) • 10211-102 Ave • yMCa Community Canvas wall: Rotating year round exhibits

• UNCANNY BREACH: Works by Lucille Frost; Until Jan 2015

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

PASSION PLAY • MacEwan Centre for the Arts Theatre Lab (Rm 189, 10045-155 St • Presented by Wild Side Productions by Sarah Ruhl. Directed by Jim Guedo, starring Robert Benz, Amber Borotsik, Braydon Dowler-Coltman, Belinda Cornish, Nathan Cuckow, Jesse Gervais, Kristi Hansen, Dave Horak, Cody Porter, Natasha Prasad and Fred Zbryski • Dec 6-14 • $25$35 at TIX on the Square

SIX DEGREES OF SEPARATION • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • Director Louise Large. Inspired by the real-life story of David Hampton, a con man who managed to convince a number of people that he was the son of actor Sidney Poitier • Dec 3-13, 8pm, TueSat; Sun mat at 2pm • $12-$18 at TIX on the Square SPRING ALIBI • Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • A story about self-discovery, voyeurism, and the 8-track tape. For ages 16+ • Dec 7, 4pm

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm • Until Dec 12; Jan 16-Jun 12 • $12/$10 (member) at TIX on the Square

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FILM

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REVUE // WESTERN Opens Friday Directed by Tommy Lee Jones Princess Theatre 

Presumably trying to avoid dysentery out on the trail

HARDSHIP ON THE HOMESTEAD Tommy Lee Jones-directed The Homesman a worthy post-western

W

e all know Tommy Lee Jones' face from his dozens of memorable roles in blockbusters and Oscar favourites alike (No Country For Old Men, The Fugitive, and to a lesser extent Men In Black). His two previous efforts as a director—the adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's stage play The Sunset Limited, and the critically acclaimed The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada— weren't his most popular films but, like The Homesman, they were quiet

labours of love intended not so much to make an immediate impression on the viewer, but to leave the viewer pondering the larger picture for weeks afterwards.

Set in pre-Civil War Nebraska, The Homesman starts with Hilary Swank as Mary Bee Cuddy, a hardworking homesteader and devout Christian whose independent nature (and "plain" looks) has left her unmarried as she sees the other side of 30. This film isn't really about Mary's love life,

REVUE // DRAMA

Rome, Open City R

ome was liberated by the Allies in the winter of 1944. By the summer, preparations were already underway for a film, shot in the still war-ruined streets on whatever short ends could be scavenged, that would tell a story about what Rome had just endured under Nazi occupation. One version of

its genesis claims that the script was constructed in a single week in Federico Fellini's kitchen. Apocryphal or not, this gives us some idea of the urgency and necessary haste involved in bringing director Roberto Rossellini's Rome, Open City (1945) to a world still at war. That sense of urgency was a key element in

though: it's about the hardship that people faced in a land full of hardship and heartache. Three women in the town go mad, succumbing to the traumas of the frontier: dying infants and inhuman husbands. It falls on Mary to take the three women, at turns catatonic and raving, across the snowy prairie and back east to a church that can care for them and return them to their families. Tommy Lee Jones, in a seemingly secondary role, is the scoundrel loner that

Mary finds on the end of a rope and only cuts down because she needs help in her daunting trek.

making Open City a truly revolutionary work, the quintessential neorealist film, something that would forever change the cinema's way of rendering trauma and turn a previously unremarkable filmmaker into a legend, hero and a kind of adventurer. Metro Cinema is reviving Open City for a brief run starting Friday.

People are ushered from room to room or rooftop to rooftop. People are forced into the streets. People are taken places where horrific things are done to them, either corroding their souls and prompting the sorts of betrayals one never recovers from or tormenting their bodies in ways that will either cripple or kill them. The film follows a number of Romans working with the Resistance: the engineer-leader Giorgio Manfredi, his friend Francesco and Francesco's pregnant fiancée Pina. Manfredi was played by Marcello Pagliero, an important filmmaker who would collaborate further with Rossellini. Pagliero gives a

performance of tremendous integrity, exuding an air akin to Jean Gabin at his most stoic, but the one to watch here is the woman playing Pina, a smaller, abbreviated, but unforgettable role. It's difficult to speak of Anna Magnani without making her sound like the embodiment of so many clichés about feisty Italianness, but this woman brought volcanic emotional textures and verisimilitude to the screen. She would later win an Oscar for The Rose Tattoo (1955), but the film to watch her in— after you've seen what she can do in Open City—is Pasolini's Mamma Roma (1962), where she gives as complete a performance as can be imagined from a single actor in a single film. Her work for Rossellini combines desperation with immense strength and, even when she finds herself collapsed in the street, silenced, her skirt riding up above her garters, she proves that dignity is not a matter of decorum.

The scenario seems familiar at first: a selfish cowboy outlaw forced by circumstance into adopting a domestic role, butting heads with a nononsense woman. But this is a film with no formula—essentially a western wherein all the problems of the characters would be best solved by going back east. At every turn, the

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overt story of the film and the compelling psychology of the characters exist to call into question the entire project of Western colonization, even while draped in the iconic imagery and beautiful scenery inherent in the genre. To that extent, this film inhabits the same plane as recent post-westerns like Meek's Cutoff and The Proposition, and it makes a worthy addition to Jones's own directorial filmography.

JAMES CUMING

JAMESCUMING@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Fri, Dec 5 – Sun, Dec 14 Directed by Roberto Rossellini Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1945 Much is made of Open City's almost documentary approach, but this tends to be exaggerated in a way that does a great disservice to Rossellini and his collaborators. The film is bracingly raw in its way, but it's also crafted. The music is far too animated to feel like reality. And the editing of those torture sequences reveal a keen cinematic intelligence with regards to what Hitchcock called "putting the audience through it." See Open City for its historical value and its innovations, but also admire it for its creativity, resourcefulness and sheer movieness.

JOSEF BRAUN

JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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ARTS REVUE // ANIMATED

Penguins of Madagascar

Now playing Directed by Eric Darnell, Simon J Smith 

Flightless birds on an adventure

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rom its icily satirical start— mocking nature docs, especially March of the Penguins, under the doleful, Teutonic direction of Werner Herzog, voicing himself—to its madcap, monsters-in-Manhattan megapocalypse end, Penguins of Madagascar is more than a snappy, silly, spy-caper franchise spin-off, with whip-smart comic timing and nary a dud joke. It takes those cutest widdle critters—the tuxedoed grooms-with-flippers of the animal kingdom—then slides, drops, floats, cannon fires, submarines, gondolas, flies, ships, skydives, sails

PRESENTS

and jet-packs them through a story constantly and cannily undercutting the cuteness factor on which so much animal animation relies.

Skipper (voiced by Tom McGrath), Kowalski (Chris Miller), and Rico (Conrad Vernon) save a rolling egg from certain death-by-leopard-seal.

Out hatches Private (Christopher Knights), an English-accented penguin and the cutest (and so most takenfor-granted) of this flightless foursome, soon hatching plots and plans.

After breaking into Fort Knox to get to the last vending machine with cheese dibbles—itself a comment on

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animals getting used to human junkfood—the penguins are captured by Dave (John Malkovich), an octopus bent on revenge against penguin-kind for reducing him to a spurned zoo-attraction after people flocked to ahhh! and oooo! over all the cuddly-looking members of the family Spheniscidae on display instead.

So, there's woolly wackiness, zippy zaniness—a cephalopod chase through Venice's canals is stupendo as antic-comedy—and many topnotch visual gags (the penguins rolling through a crosswalk or pos-

ing as kids' backpacks). There are fine puns, Kowalski's harsh truths, a hilarious dibble-crunching scene and tech-powered super-agent team North Wind, headed by arrogant, regal Classified (Benedict Cumberbatch), is played for some sharp laughs about leadership. Deft details include a petrified wolf's paw impressed on a polar bear's furry chest and the velvety sheen of the penguins' pates. And Rico remains a wonderfully crazed gobbler of all objects vaguely edible (his lunatic glint is disturbingly amusing just on its own). But the bonus is the

cuteness-critique—a parade of penguins is turned into green mutantmonsters by the tentacled villain's Medusa ray and people flee, calling in the exterminators. Twenty-Firstcentury homo sapiens capitalismus, Penguins of Madagascar reminds us, nipping at the hands that feed it, we have become addicted to packaging animals for convenient consumption, whether as meat to eat or anthropomorphic, lovable little treats to coddle.

BRIAN GIBSON

BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // COMEDY

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Back again, still unhappy with the management

Horrible Bosses 2 S

o, let's review—2011's Horrible Bosses was "a blatant thud of mediocrity ... [with] the line '[She's] had the crazy fucked out of her' gunning for top-spot in 2011's Laziest Misogyny Joke ... a tossed salad of bullshitting-guys dialogue ... lots of swearing, panicking, and some threeyear-old anal-fixation jokes are added for spice." Translation into Hollywoodese for studio execs? $209.6

million grossed worldwide. Conclusion? Green-light the sequel!

Now it's late 2014 and here we are, in a grim dystopia where the mere trailer for a new entry in the 35-yearsand-still-cosmically-overrated Star Wars franchise is somehow big news, where fantasy series routinely get their final entry bisected, just to maximize profits, and Horrible Bosses 2 exists. Yep, Nick (Jason Bateman), Kurt (Jason Sudeikis), and Dale (Charlie Day) are back, this time plotting to kidnap Rex Hanson (Chris Pine) to get back at his father Bert (Christoph Waltz), a horrible boss who screwed the trio out of a business deal.

There's lots of flirting with racial stereotypes and mock accents, Jennifer Aniston pops up again to lower her career as the nymphomaniacal dentist who talks smut like she's working a sex-chat-hotline or writing fan-fiction about Christian Grey (it's hard to imagine her line "I col-

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lect cocks" appearing in AFI's Top 100 Movie Quotes of the Decade), and the trio gab and blowhard and yammer on and on. About one actual joke dribbles out amongst the spatter from every 10 spewed. Mostly, Kurt and Dale are morons who keep blurting, brain-farting or otherwise dragging the bromance-threesome into trouble. There's lots of high-fiving, hugging, talks about who's got balls or not, and more guys'-gang guff.

And yet, there's a genuinely clever little gag during a car chase—freshening up that musty cliché where the getaway car busts through a padlocked chain-link fence—and there are one or two sly twists in the kidnapping plot. For a sequel unnecessary by any standard other than Hollywood's bottom-line, Horrible Bosses 2 middle-manages to be less offensive, less stupid and less unfunny than its predecessor.

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e're told that panthers "eat the heart first" in Serena's first moments, which find George Pemberton (Bradley Cooper), rifle in hand, looking to bag just such a cat. It's 1929 in Smoky Mountain, North Carolina, and Pemberton, a timber baron, is trying to bring the railway through town in the wake of the stock-market crash. Everyone's poor. Workers keep dying (rattlesnakes and faulty equipment, mostly). And, pressingly, with the market gone bad, the money isn't really there.

Anyway, Pemberton finds his panther: the titular Serena (Jennifer Lawrence), the lone survivor of another timber family who perished in a fire.

He chases her down on horseback (seriously) to introduce himself, and "I think we should be married" is like the third thing out of his mouth. Which, well, works: the very next scene is a

love making/marriage montage. And then Serena slowly, surely, starts exerting her influence over his work.

Which starts out great—she's got excellent techniques for rattlesnake control—until her efforts seem to get a little less trustworthy and a little more dangerously manipulative.

All of which to say: Serena, the film, looks to split the difference between a shifting power-dynamic romance and what's-her-true-motive? thriller, but it doesn't juggle either of those elements particularly well. Director Susanne Bier is happy to drop one of those angles for long spells, picking it back up well after its urgency has dissipated. It's kinda like Macbeth in early 20th-century America, if you'd like, but it only half-heartedly goes after the crown.

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Cooper and Lawrence—in their third recent onscreen pairing, following the Silver Linings Playbook (2012) and American Hustle (2013), which I guess makes them the screen couple of the moment—don't mesh quite so well this time around. His grit-your-teeth frontier stoicism and her restrained, slow-burn passion and status plays are individually solid, but don't quite blend into convincing romance. Serena is a unhurriedly paced film—albeit with some jarring flashes of violence—but to a fault: the urgency of either of its key throughlines rarely comes across with the potency necessary to make either of them all that satisfying.

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The inciting incident of Cold in July plays out in just a few carefully edited, flat, almost perfunctory minutes—with so many incidents to come, this one's best gotten out of the way as efficiently as possible.

Richard (Dexter's Michael C Hall) and Ann Dane (Two Lovers' Vinessa Shaw) are woken in the wee hours by the sound of someone in the house. Richard nervously, but quietly, loads his father's old revolver.

Richard finds a strange man looting his living room. The man is not armed. But this is a tense moment, there's a sudden scare, a slip of the finger and suddenly a great deal of what was once inside the strange man is now splattered on the Danes' wall, sofa, art and knickknacks. The police come and assure Richard that he has nothing to worry about. He killed in self-defence.

We're in east Texas. There is the sense that in these parts this sort of killing, accident or not, is not only permitted but encouraged. A man's home is his castle, and this man, Richard, the mousy, moustached, mulleted, station-wagonpiloting proprietor of a framing store, was merely doing what men do. Men kill other men.

Men kill, or at least try to kill, other men quite a lot in Cold in

July, which was cleanly directed

by Jim Mickle (Stake Land) and is based on a Joe Lansdale novel written in 1989, the year in which this film is set, a peak-year for precisely the sort of regional, twisty neonoir that this film invokes. What could have been a unique event in Richard's life winds up setting off a chain of ever-stranger and bloodier events. He's soon visited by Russel (Sam Shepard, who makes menace seem so easy), the ex-con father of the man Richard killed. Russel starts threatening Richard's own son—this is a story concerned with the uneasy responsibilities a man assumes when he has a son. Then comes a telling scene in which Richard and Ann and their boy come home to find the front door ajar, its lock busted. Richard demands that Ann immediately take the boy and get away, while timid Richard, instead of joining them, takes a tire iron from the car's trunk and, heart racing, enters the infiltrated house.

What the hell is he thinking? Cold in July is a wisely cagey film, so we can only speculate, but the feeling one gets as the film goes along is that the spilling of blood creates a hunger for more blood. Even Richard can't help but instinctively seek more of it, now that he's had

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a taste.

So much cinema is grounded in the vicarious pleasure we take in watching the hero commit justifiable homicide. As Cold in July goes on its way, moving through crime-film tropes and horror tropes and finally becoming something akin to a western, an unlikely alliance is forged between Richard and Russel and, eventually, a cowboy dandy pig-farmer private dick (Don Johnson, who's terrific) and welcome mediator for our two gruff, po-faced dads. Each of these men, or rather, their behaviour, attests to the implication that all men are, under the right circumstances, capable of heinous things.

What separates our heroes from the bad guys are levels of heinousness or their rationales behind their acts of violence. Cold in July would make a pretty good double-bill with Kill List. The film goes through so many radical narrative shifts it almost seems like a dream—and Lansdale claims the novel was actually based on a dream. It's a morally complicated, not entirely buyable, immaculately acted, independent genre work that premièred at Sundance, failed to hit Canadian screens, but is now available on DVD and Bluray from Mongrel and well worth checking out. V

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lose Talker is all about the references. Hell, the band's named after a Seinfeld episode. And although the group wears its influences on its collective sleeve—musical heros include Local Natives, the National and the Antlers—the Saskatoon-based indie band aims to be indescribable.

"We take immense pride that it takes three or four adjectives to describe what we do," says vocalist and guitarist Matthew Kopperud as the boys drive north on the I5 through beautiful California after a gig in San Francisco.

Like so many debaucherous rock bands, Close Talker started at a Bible college outside Vancouver when lead singer Will Quiring met Kopperud. The pair later recruited fellow Saskatonians Jeremy Olson and Chris Morien and put out the group's debut EP Timbers in 2013. Close Talker's indie-pop melodies soon turned heads across the country.

Close Talker is touring in support of its latest release Flux. The album, recorded over three weeks in Montréal this past spring, is the sound of a young band challenging itself.

"We put a lot of intention into each part," Kopperud says. "We worked with lots of different arrangements before we put it on the record. We

were very intentional. We wanted to push ourselves musically and artistically and not write just what was predictable or catchy; we wanted songs that we'd love."

Edmonton and Saskatoon have a lot in common: there's that flat prairie, the Saskatchewan river cutting through the middle and, of course, the eight months of winter. And, like Edmonton, Kopperud says the Paris of the Prairies has a strong music scene full of passionate and creative people. He points to projects like Acronyms, a Saskatoon supergroup of musicians, as an inspiring example of the quality of music coming from the city.

"Saskatoon is incredibly vibrant—and it's also diverse," he says. "It's not music that you can pigeonhole and say, 'oh, that's from the prairies' when you listen to it."

For now, the young band—all are in their early 20s except bass player Olson, who is 33—are happy to just be travelling, playing music and meeting new people.

"We'd encourage people to come out and listen to us—come put some gas in our tanks," Kopperud laughs.

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Elizabeth Shepherd E

lizabeth Shepherd cruises east on Highway 1, her baby daughter dozing in the back of their Subaru.

With her husband, she's driving east to Brandon, Manitoba, where she'll perform the following night. As the frozen prairie glides past, the internationally celebrated jazz artist is thinking about what it means to live on this complicated planet.

"Becoming a mother really forced me to take my responsibilities as a human seriously," the Montréal-based singer and pianist says over the phone.

"There's this little person looking up to me. It made me realize that I'm responsible for someone else and that we're all collectively responsible for generations to come."

From this global awareness comes The Signal, Shepherd's fifth album.

It's a swirling mix of world politics, Rhodes piano, '90s hip hop and feminism. It's a mature, accessible record full of ideas that will likely open new audiences for the Juno- and Polaris Music Prize-nominated artist.

The Signal deals with serious subjects: Monsanto's enforced monoculture in India; Quebec's proposed ban on religious symbols; a tribute to Trayvon Martin's mother, Sybrina; and the story of a 12-year-old Ethio-

pian girl who was saved by a group of seven rapists by female lions. These are songs about women—triumphant women, oppressed women—and Shepherd calls the record her "personal feminist manifesto."

The sonic inspiration is as far-reaching as the subject matter. Shepherd says she had a sheltered childhood musically, raised with only Salvation Army brass band and classical piano.

Her mid-to-late teens were years of voracious discovery, where she eagerly consumed the rock and pop she'd missed.

But it was hip hop that sealed her destiny. She remembers falling in love with '90s hip hop—she dated a rapper for seven years who introduced her to the streetwise rhymes, tight drums and samples.

"I was really drawn to the samples in this Fugees record," Shepherd says.

"Then I was reading the notes and I found it was a Herbie Hancock sample.

And that's really how I got into jazz, from working backwards from hip hop. Hip hop really is the grandchild of jazz."

For The Signal, Shepherd got to work with one of her heros: Lionel Loueke, legendary guitarist for Her-

bie Hancock and other jazz giants.

Keenly aware of the New York-based Loueke's huge standing in the jazz world, Shepherd nevertheless mustered up the courage to ride her bike up the street to a Montréal jazz club where he was performing. She humbly handed him some music and told him she wanted to work with him.

To her astonishment, Loueke called her up from New York and a musical partnership was born.

"I love his musical voice," Shepherd says. "He's really about the music.

And he's very generous and humble so I felt very at ease."

The Signal, with its confidence and groove, Fri, Dec 5 (8 pm) is jazz with broad ap- Yardbird Suite, $24 peal. Shepherd says she hopes Canadians will learn to be open-minded when it comes to the "j-word."

"Sometimes, people in Canada, as soon as they hear jazz it's a curse word—they want nothing to do with it because they assume it's going to be something it's not," she says. "But jazz by definition is raw and free and really groovy at its core. It's music that gets in your soul and shakes you up."

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hile Absolutely Free was onstage in Toronto for the release of its debut album, Absolutely Free was also onstage in Hamilton doing the exact same thing.

Wait, what? The Hamilton gig was performed by the flesh-and-blood band. The Toronto one, part of the Long Winter festival, featured holograms of the band playing the album for the assembled audience.

"We just wanted to present the album… you know how people have a listening party? It's kind of a classic thing," says Moshe Rozenberg, Skyping in alongside his bandmates Matt King, and Mike Claxton. (At least I think it was Rozenberg; their

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voices sound pretty similar over Skype.) "But we didn't just want to be at a bar, or something awkward.

We wanted something ridiculous and spectacular. Originally we were thinking something like a laser light show would be cool. And then the people we were working with got really ambitious, and said, 'Hey, we can do holograms.'"

It wasn't the first unusual live show the band's committed itself to; in fact, that's proven to be the band's stock in trade: beyond holograms, Absolutely Free's also scored a feature film and a series of National Film Board animated shorts. The band has played to a

single person at a time as part of a theatre festival, thrown a video dance party a la the MuchMusic ones you attended in grade school, and set up at an indoor swimming pool during its evening swim hours.

That sort of visual bravado meshes well with the music. The band, formed from the ashes of art-punk outfit DD/MM/YYYY, drifts from rolling psychedelia (there's a "Tomorrow Never Knows" drumbeat driving "Beneath the Air") through haunting, unchained digital pop that reflects the sort of sonic adventurousness of Chad VanGaalen.

I don't mean that reductively.

The band's self-titled album was

produced by Fucked Up's Mike Haliechuk, who offered some grounding for the group's more outthere musical choices.

"In some instances, he sort of normalized our ideas," King explains. "Because we have a tendency to get carried away, and get deeper and deeper. He sorta drew some lines, and stopped us from making things too elaborate, in some instances. He's a very blunt guy, and we love him for it."

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vays, and taking holograms on the road isn't all that feasible (yet).

Claxton notes that it's the number of unusual gigs the band does that keeps the normal ones from feeling too rote.

"The fact that we have all these other outlets for presenting our ideas and our music keeps the live shows still exciting to us," he explains. "Because we keep dipping into other avenues and experimenting in different ways, it keeps us from getting jaded on playing our set at a regular venue that sells beer. It keeps us excited about that."

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edal to the metal," laughs Bruce Charlap, known better by his stage moniker Eugene Ripper, from his hotel room in Halifax.

"Time is short; no time to rest."

Charlap is reflecting on a particularly busy 2014—likely the busiest year of touring in his career—and a year ahead that is shaping up to be just as frenetic, mirroring the two trips to Europe he made in 2014 along with a full Canadian tour. Charlap's upcoming Edmonton gig is the second-last on a tour that's already taken him through Germany and the UK, but he's not wasting any time before moving on to mixing his next recording: an EP titled Fast Folk Underground 4 that he recorded with John Critchley at Green Door Studios in early September. It promises to be a further exploration of Charlap's punktinged folk melodies.

The EP is due out next year, but Charlap will be playing the new tracks on this tour, along with those from his previous album Hangman. He describes the disc as one filled with songs that follow less of the introspective personal internalization that ran through Fast Folk Underground 3 and have a

heavier focus on "neo-noir" fictional than meandering down a dirt road narratives—"with some sort of in a donkey cart, for example. Charsalacious intrigue to them of mur- lap says the plot remains the same in that the characder, lust and bad ter loses his true days and broken Thu, Dec 11 (9 pm) love at the end hearts and, you With John Guliak, and winds up desknow, death and the Fashion Police titute and broken decay. All the fun Brixx, $10 hearted. stuff, you know?"

"I think we were he laughs.

Charlap points to the album's two saying, 'What if Ministry did a folk key tracks, "Hangman" and "Peter song,'" Charlap recalls, adding the Brady's Bad Day" as examples of idea was to take a dark folk ballad narratives. "Hangman" was an idea and make it sonically fierce and that had been percolating for some loud. "It encapsulates maybe the time, as Charlap moulded the cen- freedom of going outside of the tral outlaw character into its cur- personal muse and inside the great house of song and the great narrarent incarnation.

"It's a very classic archetype of tives out there, to take something an outlaw [at the] gallows pole and say, 'Let's work with this from reflecting, reflecting about the an editorial point of view; let's work crossroads that led to this moment with it from a narrative structure and the construct of what's next," point of view and we'll bring this he adds. "He doesn't know and the into a modern context.' And then only one he can ask is the hangman in the studio, where you've got the ability to be able to say, 'Well, how at this point." do you want to paint this picture?

As for "Peter Brady's Bad Day," Well, let's paint it loud and heavy Charlap took a plot line in the tra- because that's not what anyone dition of an old English children's would expect from a folk song.' But ballad and updated it for a modern that's part of my sonic vocabulary." context. The titular character is go- MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM ing down a highway in a GTO rather VUEWEEKLY.com | DEC 4 - DEC 10, 2014

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The Crooked Brothers

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t took the Crooked Brothers seven years to write a "happy" song—the effort was there, but the Manitoba trio found it too easy for the jovial tunes to come off as trite and cheesy. One finally stuck on the band's Postcard EP, thanks to the in-

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spiration of a good relationship, but don't expect many on the Brothers' new record Thank You I'm Sorry, at least not in the traditional sense.

"There's a couple of sideways happy songs," says Darwin Baker, who juggles playing instruments like

banjo, mandolin and guitar alongside bandmates Matt Foster and Jesse Matas. "We're always kind of attracted to playing with feels, having sometimes a song with a sadder message over a happier melody, or vice versa."

This disparity is evident in the big heavy bottom to it." single "Kennedy," which reveals soft folk melodies and three-part The heavier sound seems fitting harmonies singing lyrics that are given some of the album's subject much more upbeat than the instru- matter, which often delves into the mentation would have the listener darker facets of humanity. Take "Orbelieve—though the video kicks gans on Demand," for instance. The things up a notch song was penned with the addition Fri, Dec 5 (8 pm)

by Matas and inof Julian Brad- With the Whiskey Sheiks spired by his unford (Del Barber, Artery, $10 in advance, cle, a human-rights Moses Mayes) $13 at the door lawyer who inveson upright bass, tigated the ChiEmmet Van nese government Etten (The Weber Brothers, Ron- harvesting organs from executed nie Hawkins) on drums and Eric prisoners, such as those who were Lemoine (The F-Holes, Little Miss imprisoned after the Falun Gong reHiggins) on pedal steel, who were ligion was outlawed and the governpart of the heavier rhythm section ment found those who followed it the Crooked Brothers brought on were typically quite healthy.

"This is a real thing that happens for Thank You I'm Sorry, recorded in three different studios through- where some of them are executed out Manitoba, mostly for the sake and their organs are harvested for transplant," Baker adds of the of logistics.

"We listen to all kinds of music in song's macabre backstory, noting the van or on our own at home, and the band's always been intrigued we're really attracted to that heavy by darker stories. "It's kind of dealrhythm section kind of hip-hop ing with our own down feelings style—Amy Winehouse's Back to sometimes and also looking at the Black record was kind of a reference potential of humanity to kind of do point for rhythm-section sound for horrible things, but there's also the this record," Baker explains. "It's just potential for wonderful things." kind of a sound that we like out of a MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM rhythm section, especially, [with] a

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Chic Gamine

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ost of us aren't thinking about Christmas in the middle of summer, but Chic Gamine had to get in the spirit a few months early in order to record Christmas Vol 1.

"We ended up recording the record on Hornby Island this summer, so it was really weird because it was very, very hot and we were sweating in this tiny studio," says one of Chic Gamine's vocalists Annick Brémault, adding the studio was a barn on the British Columbia island.

"I think it came across that we had the Christmas vibe, even though we recorded in such hot surroundings."

Upon listening to the five-track disc, one would never know the members of Chic Gamine—which includes a new addition in Benoit Morier on bass and guitar—were singing about holiday cheer while sweating it out. Christmas

The holidays can conjure up the gamut of emotions for people, be it joy, loneliness or anything in between. Brémault acknowledges this and says Chic Gamine wanted to capture the happiness of the holiday season as well as some nostalgia and melancholy in other parts of the record. The band, which plans to release its next full-length record in the new year, kept these emotions in mind when writing the original Christmas tracks "Noel (au coin do Portage et Main)" (Christmas at the corner of Portage Sun, Dec 7 (2:30 pm and 7:30 pm) and Main) and "Un biscuit et un verse With Stuart McLean as part of de lait" (A cookie and a glass of milk). the Vinyl Cafe Christmas Tour "Unless inspiration directly strikes Jubilee Auditorium, $43.90 – you about something, which it can $67.90 totally do, I think you have to figure out what kind of Christmas song Vol 1 melds past and present with three you want to write—some people original songs and two covers—but write beautiful carol-like songs or very they aren't the standard carols you'll no romantic ones or whatever," Brémault doubt hear over and over again during says, noting none of the members of Chic Gamine had penned a Christmas the season.

"We wanted it, in a way, to be some- song previously. "There's a whole varithing we would want to listen to, and ety of things you can do. In the French also because some of the songs are one I decided to pull out all the kind originals we wanted kind of our perspec- of cheesy stops that I've ever heard in tive on Christmas and what that means cheesy Francophone Christmas carols, to us," Brémault says of the cover tracks like the modern ones. So you know, I like "Last Christmas" and "The Friendly put in some references to my mom's Beasts," one of her personal favourites. and my grandmother's cooking and "The covers that we did, we went to- stuff like that. We all tried to do it difwards some that maybe tugged at our ferently, I think. I couldn't picture myheart strings or that we thought were self writing a sentimental Christmas funny. We tried to do it to our taste ballad at the time." and what we thought people around us MEAGHAN BAXTER MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM might appreciate."

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"People are not expecting a banjo to play 'Ace of Spades'—it's hilarious," says LeBlanc over the phone as she wanders the aisles of a Giant Tiger in Winnipeg, searching for ugly Christmas sweaters to wear for the opening show of her tour.

LeBlanc, 24, grew up in Rosaireville, NB, a tiny French-speaking village of less than 50 souls. In a time when record sales are scant, even for established artists, her self-titled French debut sold 80 000 copies—good enough to be certified platinum in Canada. Those are huge numbers, especially considering they

her music as "folk-trash," a mélange of rootsy hillbilly blues and the metal of her rebellious youth.

That she's singing in English this time around was unexpected—and not just in French-proud Quebec where she lives now.

"I was the most surprised of anyone when I started writing in English," says LeBlanc, who has a classic Quebecois accent. "I hadn't wrote Mon, Dec 8 (7:30 pm) anything in English Artery, $8 in advance, since I was 14. Then one $10 at the door song popped out and then another and soon I thought about doing an English EP ... I mean, why not?"

Her new English songs open the door were mostly driven by Quebec and the to touring west across the prairies French half of New Brunswick.

Not content to bang out another al- through to the West Coast. LeBlanc is bum right away, LeBlanc embarked on a a road warrior whose love of the highUS road trip visiting some of music's ho- way was born in her tiny hometown. In liest temples: Nashville, Memphis, New Rosaireville she and her friends would Orleans and Austin. LeBlanc was espe- do "ups and downs," Maritime slang cially stoked for Louisiana. The Acadians for driving laps. Her family—a geogof New Brunswick and the Cajuns of rapher dad, a trucker uncle and other New Orleans are ancestral kin, and both family members who moved west for work—told her stories that stoked her have a deep and storied love of music.

"As soon as I said I'm from New Bruns- wanderlust.

"Touring is like a drug," LeBlanc says. wick and I play the banjo, they were like, 'alright!'" Leblanc says. "There was "I think I'm just made for it. I can't be in one place for more than three days." instant acceptance."

She's not too worried about the Those musical experiences—soak- future, figuring "maybe 2016" for her ing up country in Nashville and Austin, next album. For now, she's happy to visiting Graceland in Memphis—are roll highways and whip rooms into a stamped on Highways, Heartaches frenzy with her Frenglish and dangerand Time Well Wasted, her new EP of ous banjo. breakneck banjo, galloping drums and JOSH MARCELLIN JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM cranked guitars. LeBlanc likes to style VUEWEEKLY.com | DEC 4 – DEC 10, 2014

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Bohlin (conductor), Richard Eaton Singers, Mireille Asselin (soprano), Lauren Segal (mezzo-soprano), Lawrence Wiliford (tenor), Cameron McPhail (baritone); 7:30pm

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Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: Mod, Brit Pop, New Wave & British Rock with DJ Blue Jay; Wooftop: Metal Mon: with Metal Phil (fr CJSR’s Heavy Metal Lunch Box)

Dreamer Sound jam hosted by Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O'brien; every Tue 8pm-12am; this weeks guest: Eva Foote BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

BLUES ON WHYTE Krystle Dos Santos

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

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue:

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM An Intimate

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open

SUN DEC 7

Evening with Frank Mills–Mr Music Box Dancer; $69.90

ARDEN THEATRE A Christmas Story,

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open

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

open mic

featuring Alberta Music Christmas Party Open Stage; 9pm stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm Jam: Trevor Mullen

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Electric Blues Jam and BBQ hosted by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm

Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4 ONE THE ROCKS Moonshine

Mondays with The Dungarees

NEW WEST HOTEL Tue

Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue;

the Musical; 7:30pm

Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 9am-3pm; Donations BLUES ON WHYTE Eddie Turner and

the Trouble Twins; Chrismas Bow DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live

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

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm; contact Vi Kallio 780.456.8510 RIVER CREE–The Venue Bands On

The Run: The Road Hammers, Doc Walker, Black Jack Billy; 6pm (Door), 8pm (Show); $39.50 ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music

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

with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Adam

HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin' the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm

Holm (folk/pop) WINSPEAR Make Something Happen

Edmonton ; 8pm

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Stuart McLean Vinyl Cafe Christmas; 2:30pm

Classical

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

CONCORDIA Concordia Community Chorus and Bella Voce Women's Choir of Concordia; 7pm

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH

9:30pm-1am RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Country

Showcase and jam (country) hosted

by Darren Gusnowsky WINSPEAR ProCoro: The Little Match

Girl Paaion; 9pm

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with

Kris Harvey and guests

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

WED DEC 10 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage

Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12 ARDEN THEATRE St. Albert

Community Band Winter Concert; 7-9:30pm; $12 (adults), $8 (students/seniors) BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Juke

Joint Jam hosted by Bob Cook and the Shake Outs; 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

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

with host Duff Robison ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open

mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780655-8520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

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

OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Open mic

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live:

every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue: the Nervous

Flirts Jameoke Experience (singalong with a live band); 8pm-12; no cover; relaxed dress code RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live Music

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

hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Christmas Party: 15 nights before Christmas for live music and a ball; Pot luck (please bring) ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

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

DJs

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session:

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

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

Classical JUBILEE AUDITORIUM A December

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

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

The Many Moods of Christmas: Greenwood Singers; 8pm

To Remember; 7pm

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM An Intimate

DJs

Evening with Frank Mills - Mr. Music Box Dancer; 7pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Classics on Vinyl with Dane

Brit Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce;

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

TRINITY LUTHERAN EVANGELICAL

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience:

VENUEGUIDE MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE 8900114 St, U of A ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 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 http://thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523,

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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 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 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70

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Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 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 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132104 St MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999

NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 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 THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St 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 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 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 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

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

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

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

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

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 • Lars Callieou; Dec 3-7 • Theo Von; Dec 10-14

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall, 10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm • Movie: Tommy Douglas: Keeper of the Flame, Dec 3

CONNIE'S COMEDY AT THE DRAFT BAR & GRILL • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St •

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

CONNIE'S COMEDY AT FIONN MACCOOL'S • 4485 Gateway Blvd • Open Mic then followed by headliner PJ McGuire • Dec 6, 7pm

CONNIE'S COMEDY AT THE DRAFT BAR & GRILL • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With Matt Labucki and Tommy Savitt as the headliner • Dec 10, 7:30pm

CONNIE'S COMEDY AT THE DRAFT BAR & GRILL • Draft Bar & Grill, 12912-50 St • With Matt Labucki and Tommy Savitt as the headliner • Dec 10, 7:30pm

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

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

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

Cool's City Centre, 3rd Floor 10200-102A Ave • Open Mic Comedy and follows with PJ McGuire as the headliner • Dec 10, 7:30pm

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

TRAILER PARK BOYS DEAR SANTA claus go F#ck YourselF Tour • Jubilee Auditorium, 10030-102 St • Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are back with a brand new live show, but this time they are not alone Mr. Lahey and Randy will be there in all their drunken glory • All ages • Dec 15, 8pm • $59.95, $47.50, $34.50 Advance + S/C

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

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

CENTRAL EUROPEAN CAFÉ • Convocation Hall, Faculty Lounge 320 • Join the Wirth Institute for Austrian and Central European Studies in the 4th Central European Cafe. An informal afternoon of social, intellectual and cultural exchange with a Central European theme. Tea, coffee and light refreshements served during this interdisciplinary exchange of ideas • Dec 5, 2-3:30pm • Free

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops,

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

World of Science, Margaret Ziedler Theatre • A Strathcona Archaeological Society Presentation. With Dr. Hugh McKenzie, Grant MacEwan University (Anthropology) • Dec 5, 7pm • Admission free with SAS membership or TWoS admission or membership

EIGHTH ANNUAL HUMAN RIGHTS AWARDS • ATB Financial Arts Barn, 10330-84 Ave • Announcing the winners of this year's awards and celebrate our local heroes • Dec 10, 7-9pm • Entrance by donation • info@ jhcentre.org • 780.453.2638 • jhcentre.org/ news-blog/dec-10-2014-intl-human-rights-day

FORWARD THINKING SPEAKER SERIES • Stanley Milner Library Theatre • Whatever the Issue, Community is the Answer: Talk/presentation by Margaret Wheatley • Dec 8, 5pm • Free, pre-register at epl.ca/margaret-wheatley

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

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot,

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

BIOARCHAEOLOGY OF CRANIAL SHAPING (HINT: IT WASN’T ALIENS) • Telus

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

LAUGHS & LAGERS COMEDY • Fionn Mac-

VEGANS AND VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA • Riverdale Community Hall •

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia

16648-109 St • Open Mic followed by Tommy Savitt as headliner • Dec 11, 9pm

KOMEDY KRUSH • Krush Ultralounge,

Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward. toastmastersclubs.org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98

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

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)

• N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower

Holiday Potluck: Holiday favourites: Bring vegan or vegetarian dish to serve 6 people, your own plate, cup, cutlery, and serving spoon. We will have hot apple cider • Dec 7, 5:30pm • $3 (member)/$5 (non-member)

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Cory Robinson; Dec 4-6 • Leif Skyving; Dec 11-13

With Matt Alaeddine and Simon King as the headliner • Dec 3, 7:30pm

1pm

MARGARET WHEATLEY • Stanley Milner Library Theatre • epl.ca/margaret-wheatley • Internationally renowned writer and consultant talks about healthy community engagement • Dec 8, 5pm • Free, must sign-up to attend at http://bit.ly/1yMJLWE

9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

PUTTING CHILDREN FIRST. THE 2014 GALL CONFERENCE: A FOCUS ON CHILDREN'S RIGHTS • ATB Financial Arts

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

Barn, 10330-84 Ave • Third Annual Gall Conference is intended for anyone with an interest in improving the well-being and ensuring the fulfillment of children's rights in our community • Dec 10, 10am-5pm • $100 (per registrant), $60 (students); (Includes refreshments, lunch, and evening snacks) • info@jhcentre.org • 780.453.2638 • jhcentre.org/news-blog

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm.

All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry)

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall,

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

• 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

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

QUEER • 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

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

St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:051pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-

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

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

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

Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

membership. Confidentiality assured

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave

105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

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

G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/ student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@ teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@teamedmonton. ca, sillum.ca G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: Tuff69@telus.net 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 • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

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

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.org, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with

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

SPECIAL EVENTS CELEBRATE THE SEASON • Alberta Legislature and grounds, 9718-107 St • assembly.ab.ca/visitor/WhatsNew_ListEvents. html • A winter wonderland: 300 trees sparkling with lights; south grounds skating rink; free hot chocolate served in the rotunda in the evenings following the Dec 4 Light-up; choir performances at noon and 6pm daily • Dec 4-23 • Free

CHRISTMAS REFLECTIONS • Fort Edmonton Park, 7000 - 143 St • Shop for Christmas gifts in the heritage stores, warm up by a bonfire, savour a warm cup of cider or hot chocolate, visit costumed interpreters along the streets, sample baking from the wood stove, construct Christmas crafts and much more • Dec 12-Jan 3 • General admission: $18 (adult), $13 (child), $16 (student/senior), free (kids under 2)

CONNECT, CARE, CONSERVE ELEPHANT ART GALA • Edmonton Valley Zoo • An art gala celebrating the paintings Lucy has created with partnering artists, and to raise awareness for Elephant Conservation • Dec 9, 5-9pm • $5

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations: rare LIVE Rendevous Pub Rock Show Sat, Dec 6, 9pm • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank)

HOLIDAY ARTS MARKET AND VARIETY SHOW • Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105 St • An eclectic assortment of holiday makers, local retail businesses and entertainment • Dec 11, 7-10pm • $10 (adv, door, online at eventbrite. com) • culturecollective.ca

HOLIDAY BAZZAR • Roxy Theatre, 124 St • A Night Of Knick-Knackery Featuring Vendors And Entertainment • Dec 4, 5-9Pm • Donation

FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS • Edmonton Valley Zoo • Staging a spectacular exhibition of artistic light installations within the Edmonton Valley Zoo. There will be winter crafts, ice skating, fire dancers and more • Dec 5-11, 5-9pm • $5 (person), $20 (family) LUMINARIA • Devonian Botonical Gardens • Cider by the bonfires, strolling ice sculptures, Snow Sprites. Thousands of candles and millions of stars • Dec 6-7 MINKHA SWEATER SALE • Windsor Park Community Hall, 11840-87 Ave • 780.434.8105 • minkhasweaters.com • Pure alpaca/pima cotton sweaters, shawls, scarves hand knit by women’s cooperative in Bolivia • Dec 6, 9am3pm 8 All proceeds go to the knitters

RESPITE 'N REJUVENATE • McKernan Respite Centre, 11341-78 Ave • See the Respite centre, with facility tours, and live folk music provided by Eva Foote. Alley Kat Brewery will also be onsite with craft beer tastings and light snacks will be provided by The Common • Dec 12, 3-6pm SANTA PHOTOS & HAY RIDES • Marketplace at Callingwood • Meet Santa Claus, get your photo taken with him and get it printed instantly. Hop on a free horse-drawn hay ride • Dec 13, 11am-4pm • callingwoodmarketplace. com

SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm SOUND LIGHT AND MOTION • Winspear Centre • makesomethingedmonton.ca • Make Something Edmonton hosts a celebration of Edmontonians and their projects • Dec 8

STUART MCLEAN–Vinyl Café Christmas • Jubilee Auditorium • Dec 7 • $60.40-$67.90 at TIcketMaster

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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!

Call for Volunteers A reminder that we are currently recruiting volunteers for International Week 2015!

This year I-Week runs from January 26-30, and we are looking for volunteers to fill various positions including: helping with event preparations, assisting with publicity campaigns on and off campus, introducing guest speakers, and helping to ensure that I-Week events run smoothly.

For more information or to apply online http://www.globaled.ualberta.c a/en/AboutGlobalEducation/Vo lunteer.aspx Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism.

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

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Call for Volunteers We are excited to begin recruiting our amazing team of volunteers for International Week 2015! This year I-Week runs from January 26-30, and we are looking for volunteers to fill various positions including: helping with event preparations, assisting with publicity campaigns on and off campus, introducing guest speakers, and helping to ensure that I-Week events run smoothly.

While volunteering you can make new friends, learn about topical world issues, develop new skill sets, work with likeminded people, and have fun in the process! Sign up to volunteer today and help make International Week 2015 a success!

For more information contact the Global Education Volunteer Coordinator Tatiana Duque at duqueval@ualberta.ca 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 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 Want to make a difference for patients and their families at the Cross Cancer Institute?

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

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

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Christmas in Action with Habitat for Humanity For those who want to give back at Christmastime, we are looking for more volunteers to join us Tuesdays to Saturdays from Dec 1 – 13! We are looking for individuals or groups from 7– 25 volunteers for construction and individuals to join us at our ReStore, our new and used building supplies store. Convincing details! • We offer a great volunteer experience! We know, because we as staff do build days too! • If you’re with a group, your group will be teambuilding: you will be interacting differently and working together in a brand new way • There is indoor work at our prefabrication shop and our ReStores • We have heated indoor work and outdoor work at our Neufeld Landing location • We take plenty of breaks to keep everybody warm on a chilly day • We have hot drinks and free hot lunches for everyone • All equipment and tools are provided • Beginners to tradespeople are welcome • Last but not least, we have a heartwarming task – building homes for families We hope you can join us!

Contact Vilija Rodgers for more information or to sign up at vrodgers@hfh.org or 780-451-3416 ext 236.

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.

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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 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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ACRYLIC ARTISTS! Don’t miss GOLDEN Working Artist Samantha WilliamsChapelsky’s lecture/demo on the 1001 ways you can use GOLDEN acrylic paints, mediums, gels & pastes, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2015, 7-9PM in the Studio at The Paint Spot (10032-81 Avenue, Edmonton).

Admission, $10, confirms your place and is refunded to you at the event as a coupon. Plus, GOLDEN gives a generous Just Paint goodies bag to all attending artists! Further information or RSVP: 780.432.0240; accounts@paintspot.ca; www.paintspot.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.

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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 Art in Transit is now accepting submissions for Sketching the Line, returning for its second year to screens in Spring 2015!

Sketching the Line is a public exhibition that showcases the work of Canadian and international artists who explore the inspiring and creative potential of their daily commute.

Submit your sketches for a chance to participate in the upcoming exhibition. Selected works will be featured on PATTISON Onestop screens in the Toronto transit system, Edmonton transit system and the Calgary Airport, reaching well over one million travellers each day. An honorarium will be awarded to all participating artists.

Deadline January 31,2015 http://www.artintransit.ca/archi ves/sketching-line-callsubmissions.html?mc_cid=925 2147d70&mc_eid=08064c2cf8 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).

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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 One Act Play Submissions: Stage Struck! is a one-act play festival sponsored by the Alberta Drama Festival Association, Edmonton Region. The Festival will be held at La Cite on Feb 27-28, 2015. For more information or to request a registration package, contact Mary-Ellen Perley at 780-481-3716 or email at mperley@shaw.ca. Award winning playwright Vern Thiessen is our adjudicator this year!

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

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Line-X Protective Coating is in need of Rubber Processing Machine Operator (NOC 9423);

Thermex Metal Treating Ltd. is in need of Heat Treating Operators – Metal Processing (NOC 9411); F/T-Permanent; $24.00/hour + Medical, Dental and Long Term Disability and Life Insurance; 40 hours/week, Shift hours (6:00AM-2:30PM; 2:00PM-10:30PM: 10:30PM -6:00AM); weekend days off; Duties: Prepare parts for processing, including cleaning, masking, proper fixturing; Load prepared parts into furnaces; Operate furnaces of various types, including internal quench, box tempers, pit carburizers, pit tempers, gas nitrider, salt bath nitrider; Ensure that furnace set points are correct, including proper temperature and carbon potential settings; Monitor loads, quench at appropriate times; Perform as-quenched hardness testing, when required; Perform hardness testing, using various methods including Rockwell, Brinell, Tele-Brinell, portable Rockwell, and portable Vickers, on tempered loads; Organize and perform re-tempering as required; Perform final inspections and signoffs on completed jobs; Ensure efficient maximal use of available furnace time; Maintain proper and thorough records on order travelers and production logs; Basic shop / equipment maintenance and clean-up; Requirements: Completion of secondary school; At least 1 year relevant previous experience in heat treating is required;

F/T-Permanent; $20.00/hour; 8 hours/day, 40 hours/week, 8:00 AM – 4:30 PM, 2 fixed days off on weekends; Duties: Set up and operate machinery used for mixing, moulding and curing rubber materials or products; Load or feed rubber, pigments, filler, oil and chemicals into machines; Check and monitor processing conditions and product quality; Adjust machines to proper setting as required; Train or assist in training new workers; Perform other related duties as required; Requirements: Completion of secondary school is required; Experience is an asset but not required; On-thejob training is provided;

Mail, Fax or E-mail resume: Employer: 1545501 Alberta Ltd o/a Line-X Protective Coating; Business/Work Location: 7229 50 Street NW, Edmonton, AB, Canada T6B 2J9; E-mail: admin@linexcoatings.com; Phone: 780-989-0039; Fax: 780-432-5755

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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

Call for Visual Artists: Everything Cannot Be True: art with/in the everyday Taking place March 5 – 8, 2015, the exhibit will occupy the main gallery at the Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225 – 118 Avenue This is a wonderful opportunity for your artwork to be presented to a diverse festival audience, partaking in Variety Showcases, Comedy, Theatre and Play Development, Music, Dance, Spoken Word, Visual Art, Artistic Collaborations, Yoga, and Family events.

Five artists will be chosen to display up to 3 works apiece, alongside two artists representing both the Nina Haggerty Centre and the SkirtsAfire Festival. We are looking for women working in all mediums, and hoping for as vast a range as possible.

Please read our prospectus below, for further details on the focus of the exhibit. Interested applicants will submit at least 3 to 5 high quality images of recently completed work, including a bio and artist statement.

Deadline for applications is Friday, December 19, 2014.

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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.

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Micro-Residency Program, CultureHub, New York Deadline: December 12, 2014 Submit a copy of your resumé or CV, links to portfolio or work samples, a proposal of no more than 500 words, and a short biography. The application deadline is December 12th, 2014.

For more information and a full list of available resources please contact residency@culturehub.org or visit http://www.culturehub.org/resid ency/ <http://carfacbc.us2.listmanage.com/track/click?u=a05 abc75b65eaa7c803675a2a&a mp;id=16541923cc&amp;e=08 064c2cf8 CultureHub http://carfacbc.us2.listmanage.com/track/click?u=a05 abc75b65eaa7c803675a2a&a mp;id=16541923cc&amp;e=08 064c2cf8

NATIONAL CALL TO ARTISTS: Rogers Place Arena – Community Rink, Sculpture in the Landscape The Sculpture in the Landscape public art competition is a National Call open to all professional artists residing in Canada and is held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C).

Budget: $300,000.00 CAD (maximum, all inclusive) Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 pm on Wednesday, January 14, 2015 Installation: August 2016 The EAC and the City of Edmonton invite artists to address any questions by email to abowes@edmontonarts.ca

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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 SKETCHBOOK SHOW – CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS) We are looking for sketchbooks to show in a small exhibition that will open the New Year in our Artisan Nook Gallery at The Paint Spot (10032 81 Avenue, Edmonton).

If you have a sketchbook you’d like to share, please bring it into The Paint Spot before the end of December or let us know that you are planning to bring it in during the 1st week in January. Show runs January 5 to February 17, 2015.

We want to show the multitude of creative things you can do with a sketchbook. Especially if you use a variety of media or are the possessor of a strong drawing style – we need your books!

Please join us. For more information call us at 780.432.0240 or email accounts@paintspot.ca.

A perk: Exhibiting artists receive a 20% discount for the duration of the exhibition!

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The From Our Dark Side competition is a national English-language contest seeking the best in Canadian female-driven genre film ideas, written by women.

Genre films can include thrillers, science fiction, fantasy, horror - or an imaginative combination of these.

We’re looking for the strongest and most original concepts that really grab us - we encourage writers to let the creative genie out of her bottle.

Writers are invited to submit their maximum 3-5 page outlines by January 15, 2015 for a chance to win a cash prize and a mentorship package designed to help them get their projects to the screen. Mentors include female genre directors such as Rachel Talalay (Dr. Who), Karen Lam (Evangeline) and Amanda Tapping (Continuum), as well as marketing expert Annelise Larson.

The competition is organized

by Women in Film and Television Vancouver (WIFTV), and supported by Super Channel, Telefilm Canada and Creative BC. For contest rules & registration, visit our website at www.womeninfilm.ca

The Reel Shorts Film Festival is accepting submissions until midnight on Monday, December 15 for the 9th festival May 6-10, 2015 in Grande Prairie, Alberta. There is no submission fee and filmmakers will be paid screening fees if their film is selected. All Official Selections are eligible for the Audience Choice Award and three Juried Awards: Best Live Action Short, Best Animated Short, and Best Documentary Short.

Each winning film will receive an award designed by Grande Prairie sculptor Grant Berg and made by Decca Industries in Clairmont with a base made by D.R. Sales Woodworking in Grande Prairie. Submission details can be found at reelshorts.ca/submit/

The Emmanuel College Art Department offers an eightweek artists residency to four artists each summer. The residency supports a diverse group of artists, providing time and space for established and emerging artists to develop 2020.

Musicians Wanted Opportunities for artists to their work. exhibit in Budapest: Open Applications are now being call for book artists! Library Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, accepted for the 2015 Thoughts 5 :An exhibition of pianists and drummers needed residency. All applications the Book as Art for good paying teaching jobs. must be received by Feb 1st, Artist’s Books and book-related Please call 780-901-7677 2015. art http://www.emmanuel.edu/aca Deadline: March 1, 2015 demics/programs-of-studyfee: USD$ 35 From storage to workspace.

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): The National Science Foundation estimates that we each think at least 12 000 thoughts per day. The vast majority of them, however, are reruns of impressions that have passed through our minds many times before. But I am pleased to report that in the coming weeks, you Aries folks are primed to be far less repetitive than normal.

You have the potential to churn out a profusion of original ideas, fresh perceptions, novel fantasies and pertinent questions. Take full advantage of this opportunity.

Brainstorm like a genius.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): I enjoy getting spam emails with outrageous declarations that are at odds with common sense. "Eating salads makes you sick" is one of my favourites, along with "Water is worse for you than vodka" and "Smoking is healthier than exercising." Why do I love reading these laughable claims? Well, they remind me that every day I am barraged by nonsense and delusion from the news media, the Internet, politicians, celebrities and a host of fanatics. "Smoking is healthier than exercising" is just a more extreme and obvious lie than many others that are better disguised. The moral of the story for you in the coming week: be alert for exaggerations that clue you in to what's going on discreetly below the surface.

Watch carefully for glitches in the Matrix.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Every one of us, including me, has blind spots about the arts of intimacy and collaboration. Every one of us suffers from unconscious habits that interfere with our ability to get and give the love we want.

What are your blind spots and unconscious habits, Gemini. Ha! Trick question! They wouldn't be blind spots and unconscious habits if you already knew about them. That's the bad news. The good news is that in the next six weeks you can catch glimpses of these blocks and make a good start toward reducing their power to distort your relationships.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Now and then, it is in fact possible to fix malfunctioning machines by giving them a few swift kicks or authoritative whacks. This strategy is called "percussive maintenance." In the coming days, you might be inclined to use it a lot.

That's probably OK. I suspect it'll work even better than it usually does. There will be problems, though, if you adopt a similar approach as you try to correct glitches that are more psychological, interpersonal and spiritual in nature. For those, I recommend sensitivity and finesse.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): What feelings or subjects have you been wanting to talk about, but have not yet been able to? Are there messages you are aching

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to convey to certain people, but can't summon the courage to be as candid as you need to be? Can you think of any secrets you've been keeping for reasons that used to be good but aren't good any more? The time has come to relieve at least some of that tension, Leo. I suggest you smash your excuses, break down barriers and let the revelations flow. If you do, you will unleash unforeseen blessings.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): In 1662, Dutch painter Rembrandt finished The Oath of Claudius Civilis. It was 18 feet by 18 feet, the largest painting he ever made.

For a short time, it hung on a wall in Amsterdam's town hall. But local burgomasters soon decided it was offensive and returned it to the artist to be reworked.

Rembrandt ultimately chopped off three-fourths of the original.

What's left is now hanging in a Stockholm museum, and the rest has been lost. Art critic Svetlana Alpers wishes the entire painting still existed, but nevertheless raves about the remaining portion, calling it "a magnificent fragment." I urge you to think like Alpers. It's time to celebrate your own magnificent fragments.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): You now have a special talent for connecting things that have never been connected. You also have a magic touch at uniting things that should be united but can't manage to do so under their own power. In fact, I'm inclined to believe that in the next three weeks you will be unusually lucky and adept at forging links, brokering truces, building bridges and getting opposites to attract. I won't be surprised if you're able to compare apples and oranges in ways that make good sense and calm everyone down.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In 1989, Amy Tan birthed her first novel, The Joy Luck Club. Her next, The Kitchen God's Wife, came out in 1991. Both were bestsellers.

Within a few years, the student study-guide publisher CliffsNotes did with them what it has done with many masterpieces of world literature: produced condensed summaries for use by students too lazy to read all of the originals. "In spite of my initial shock," Tan said, "I admit that I am perversely honoured to be in CliffsNotes." It was a sign of success to get the same treatment as superstar authors like Shakespeare and James Joyce. The CliffsNotes approach is currently an operative metaphor in your life, Scorpio.

Try to find it in your heart to be honoured, even if it's perversely so. For the most part, trimming and shortening and compressing will be beneficial.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): With both symbolic and practical actions, Sagittarius-born Pope Francis has tried to reframe

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the message of the Catholic Church. He's having public showers installed for the homeless in Vatican City. He has made moves to dismantle the Church's bigotry toward gay people. He regularly criticizes growing economic inequality and keeps reminding politicians that there can be no peace and justice unless they take care of poor and marginalized people. He even invited iconic punk poet Patti Smith to perform at the Vatican Christmas Concert. You now have extra power to exert this kind of initiative in your own sphere, Sagittarius. Be proactive as you push for constructive transformations that will benefit all.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): The limpet is an aquatic snail.

When it's scared, it escapes at a rate approaching two inches per hour. If you get flustered in the coming week, Capricorn, I suggest you flee at a speed no faster than the limpet's. I'm making a little joke here. The truth is, if you do get into a situation that provokes anxiety, I don't think you should leave the scene at all. Why? There are two possibilities. First, you may be under the influence of mistaken ideas or habitual responses that are causing you to be nervous about something there's no need to be nervous about. Or second, if you are indeed in an authentic bind, you really do need to deal with it, not run away.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Science-fiction novelist Philip K Dick has been one of my favourite authors since I discovered his work years ago. I love how he reconfigured my mind with his metaphysical riffs about politics and his prophetic questions about what's real and what's not. Recently I discovered he once lived in a house that's a few blocks from where I now live.

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I have been insecure about the way my vagina looks for as long as I can remember. When I was young, I would fantasize about the day I would grow pubic hair long enough to cover its unsightliness. That day never came and I was left with an enormous insecurity about it. My labia minora is oversize quite a bit. I know that this is not uncommon, but its unattractiveness holds me back from receiving oral sex. I don't even let my long-term boyfriend go down on me because I'm afraid he'll think it's gross and ugly.

He assures me that he doesn't care about the way it looks, but I can't bring myself to let him do it. Any advice that might help dispel a lifetime of genital embarrassment?

Minora Is Majora

enjoy the sensations and pleasures of oral sex, if not for her genital embarrassment, why not have a glass of wine or a beer and kick back and see if she can enjoy it even briefly?" Or why not pot, MIM? Speaking from personal experience: pot works wonders for some people with body issues. (Individual results may vary.)

"MIM could do it in the dark if she wants. She should breathe deeply and play music she likes," Herbenick says. "Make it less about sex and more about exploration. She might find that she can get over her insecurities. Really! And wouldn't that be cool and possibly, quite literally, life-changing?

"There are also events MIM could attend, like Betty Dodson's bodysex workshops in New York (expensive

"I study vulvas and vaginas, and what people think of vulvas and vaginas, so of course I want MIM to love hers," says Dr Debby Herbenick, a sex-research scientist at Indiana University and a sexual-health educator at the Kinsey Institute. Herbenick coauthored Read My Lips: A Complete Guide to the Vagina and Vulva, and along with her co-author Dr Vanessa Schick, she researched what people like or dislike about vulvas and vaginas. What they learned should come as a comfort to you, MIM. "Just as many people in our study talked about loving long labia as talked about loving smaller labia," Herbenick says. "So long labia are not universally regarded as 'unsightly.' In some cultures, women start pulling their labia from an early age to make their labia minora longer."

I would suggest that you get your hands on a copy of Read My Lips, MIM. Herbenick also recommends Femalia and I'll Show You Mine, two other books that celebrate the broad diversity of vulvas. "The Vagina Monologues is another mustread," Herbenick says, "especially the monologue about Bob. It's about one woman who, through positive sexual experiences with a vulva-loving partner, comes to appreciate her vulva."

Which brings us to your partner, MIM. He's into you and would like to go down on you. If you're quoting him accurately—if he's telling you that he doesn't care how your vulva looks—then he's doing "assurance" all wrong. He's saying, "I am willing to go down on you despite the unattractiveness of your vulva," when he needs to be saying, "Your vulva is beautiful and I want to go down on you." Show him this column, MIM, and after he apologizes for screwing up the assurance thing, let him go down on you already.

"What would it cost MIM to allow her boyfriend to try to give her oral sex, even if just for 30 seconds?" Herbenick asks. "If she thinks she would

but empowering) that are all about helping women enjoy their vulvas and their sexuality. For a stay-athome version, MIM could watch Dodson's video Viva la Vulva by herself or with her boyfriend."

So let's say you've read the books and watched the videos and attended the seminars and smoked the pot and allowed the boyfriend—also high, perhaps blindfolded—to go down on you, and you feel no differently about your vulva. What then?

"If nothing helps MIM see her long labia for the national treasure they are, then yes, there's surgery," Herbenick says. "And while marketing for labiaplasty has mostly been a thing for the past 10 to 15 years, doctors have been doing these surgeries for ages. A few tips for MIM if she decides to go this route: her insurance may not cover it and, yes, it can be painful (it's surgery), and it will take several weeks to heal before she can have sex or even sit comfortably again. A challenge with vulva surgeries, of course, is a possible risk of loss of or change to sensation, and there is very little research on the longterm outcomes of these surgeries, in spite of the claims on many surgeons' websites."

Herbenick suggests that if you opt for surgery, you look for a surgeon who has done many labiaplasties.

"I'm not a fan of the way some doctors market their surgeries but, yes, some women feel better about their genitals after getting the labia they want," Herbenick says. "MIM should review before and after photos first so she can see what kind of labia she's likely to have afterward. Many surgeons have a certain 'style' that they tend to do over and over again."

But please, MIM, Herbenick and I both want you to give books and videos and seminars a chance first.

"If MIM is open to receiving vulvaloving propaganda from me, I will gladly send her a care package of books, postcards and other fun things in hopes that she might learn to love her labia," Herbenick says.

"But I'd also be among the first to send her a congratulatory card on her new labia if she decides surgery is the right option for her. After all, I'm a vulva supporter whether that person's vulva is the one they were born with or the one they had made for themselves sometime later in life." Follow Dr. Herbenick on Twitter @DebbyHerbenick.

BUTTS!

I am a 24-year-old woman who loves everything butt—except butthole.

Anal penetration and anilingus are hard limits for me, but the most sensitive erogenous zones on my body are my cheeks, crack and coin slot. But I can't figure out a clear way to communicate this. Terms like "ass play" generally mean assHOLE play.

I can't be the only person who feels this way. Help a girl get her ass worked (but not fucked), and give me a term!

Nuts For Butts

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Some sexual interests and/or limits are too complicated to be expressed with a simple term, NFB. So you'll have to use your words: "I love having my butt played with—cheeks, crack, coin slot—but my butthole is off-limits. Get on my ass, not in it."

NOT TO SOUND PISSY

This girl just hit a bump with her boyfriend. I offered to do something he secretly wanted to try and he said, "Urinate on me." I get the fantasy— surrender, being marked, the naughtiness. However, I can't imagine liking it and I do not want to build it into our repertoire. Set aside that I have no idea how to do it so it's sexy, safe and sanitary. Is it OK to negotiate "one-and-done" and put it on my "No" list afterward?

Wet And Wild You can certainly negotiate a "oneand-done" agreement, WAW, but if you find the idea of pissing on your boyfriend upsetting—if the thought doesn't just leave you cold but actually revolts and/or traumatizes you— then you don't have to go through with it. (You're not trapped in some piss-fetish version of The Merchant of Venice, WAW. You don't need a Portia to rescue you from this verbal contract.) As for sexy, safe and sanitary: you don't have to find it sexy, he's not going to drown, droppeth your gentle rain upon him in the tub.

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