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Violence no more On December 6 1989, 14 women were murdered at Montréal's École Polytechnique. Ten women and four men were also injured when Marc Lépine decided to "fight feminism" with a rifle before killing himself.

Acts of violence directed at Canadian women sadly aren't a thing of the past, and on December 6, the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women, will draw attention to this ongoing issue.

The Canadian Labour Congress has gathered some compelling statistics about violence towards women. They state that every minute a child or woman is being sexually assaulted in Canada; every week one or two women are murdered by a current or former partner; physical and sexual abuse costs Canada over $4 billion each year; homicide is the number-one killer of women in the workplace; women with disabilities are 1.5 to 10 times as likely to be abused as non-disabled women; and there are upwards of 582 missing and murdered aboriginal women.

The number 582 was from 2010, the last year the Sisters in Spirit organization was able to get numbers before program funding was cut by the federal government. The Canadian Women's Foundation reports that both Amnesty International and the United Nations have called upon the Canadian government to take action on this issue, but they haven't had any success.

Edmontontians took action against violence di-

rected towards aboriginal women not too long ago, however, when hundreds of people rallied in front of City Hall on October 6 to draw attention to the "stolen sisters"—aboriginal women who have been murdered, victimized, or disappeared.

Bridget Tolley, who was involved with Sisters in Spirit, said in a Rabble article in October that it's different when an aboriginal girl is murdered or missing. "You know, nobody cares, it seems like.

Media doesn't care, we don't get media coverage when this happens. We do our own searches. I don't know why, it seems like people just don't care about us."

StatsCan reports that the victimization of aboriginal women is nearly three times that of nonaboriginal women. A 2009 statistic says that 13 percent (close to 67 000) of all aboriginal women aged 15 and older living in the 10 provinces stated that they had been violently victimized.

Most incidents are not reported to the police.

Including nonaboriginal women in that count, 427 000 women over the age of 15 reported they had been sexually assaulted.

The good news is that rates of domestic violence have fallen, but in the past half decade they've plateaued: 2009 rates were the same as 2004. But continuing to bring up this issue and showing support to organizations who help and individuals who have been victimized is a step in the right direction.V

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he only food product that has been directly linked to rising obesity rates in North America? Sugar sweetened beverages like pop, juice—unless it's 100 percent natural—fruit drinks, energy drinks, bottled iced tea, you name it. If sugar is an ingredient in your drink, then it's an SSB. Sue Buhler, a PhD student at the University of Alberta's School of Public Health, along with her Supervisor Dr Kim Raine, has been researching the effects of SSBs on our health. What she's found is quite alarming: the association between obesity and drinking SSBs is so strong that consuming soft drinks is actually used as a predictor of obesity in the medical field.

"The reason that we're focused on sugar sweetened beverages is that they really have no redeeming nutritional qualities; the health benefits are negative. So they're associated with obesity, type 2 diabetes and several chronic diseases. There's nothing in there we need. If we took them completely out of our food supply it wouldn't matter," Buhler says.

Obesity has nearly tripled in Canadian children since the '70s. In 1978, three per-

cent of children and adolescents were obese and in 2004 that percentage was eight. Among adults the numbers are higher, but they have not jumped so drastically, with 14 percent of adults obese in 1978 and 23 percent in 2004. And those numbers don't even include all of the children and adults who are overweight.

Buhler and Raine believe that more health promotion— which includes informing the public about the dangers of SSBs, like what the Ontario Medical Association has suggested with warning labels on bottles alongside dis-

turbing images of what the diseases linked to SSBs can do to your body—paired with a tax on these beverages will make enough of an impact to draw attention to this health crisis.

The idea is to put a tax of five cents on every 100 ml, so a one litre bottle of an SSB would be taxed 50 cents. This could bring in $750 million in revenue each year and reduce consumption of SSBs by 10 – 17 percent.

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that 65 percent of Albertans would support the tax if the revenue went to support health initiatives.

"It could be a universal school lunch with healthy meals for all kids that doesn't discriminate on their need based on income. It could be subsidizing fruits and vegetables to make them more affordable. What we're talking about is a wellness foundation, which is a place where the money would go, and then from there people could apply to do any number of great ideas," Raine explains.

Right now, any money for health promotion comes from the same pot as acute care and there's not enough to go around.

"It's very hard to ask for money to promote health, but to take it away from transplants. So the good thing about this tax is it's new money, it's new revenue. So we're not pulling from healthcare dollars that already exist," Buhler explains of the idea.

"One of the reasons that we think it's necessary to make soft drinks more expensive is that they're actually way less expensive than healthier CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 >>

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anada's debt reached an all-time high last month, with a number so large your eyes might glaze over when you read it: $600 billion.

That's right, you just read billion, not million. And that's not even the worst of it. You see, Canada's debt is still growing. Nearly two weeks after reaching that record breaking milestone, at publication time, the number was over $600 729 000 000. According to the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), Canada's national debt will continue to rise at a rate of $74.6 million a day, $3.1 million an hour, $52 000 a minute and $863.27 a second.

What this means is that right now each man, woman and child in our country owes more than $17 220.

"You will have to pay for that," says Derek Fildebrandt, Alberta director of the CTF. "That is above and beyond your line of credit, that is just what you owe because politicians don't have the courage to balance the budget."

But, unlike your line of credit or a student loan, you can't just pay that debt off with a lump sum or with a larger payment after your Christmas bonus.

It's debt that you pay through your taxes. So that means the government decides how much you give and when you give.

And the government also decides whether Canada finds itself with a surplus or a deficit budget. That means

federal politicians decide whether Canada's debt continues to grow, stays stagnant, or dwindles.

Despite a few hiccups along the way, in part due to the global economy, the Conservative government says there's still a possibility it will reach its goal of balancing the budget by 2015 – 2016.

But even if it does, Canada is still at the whim of fluctuating interest rates. This year alone, we will pay $31 billion in interest.

"There is certainly a cost to debt," says Joseph Doucet, interim dean of the Alberta School of Business. "If interest rates go up by one percent … well, that's $6 billion a year. That [would] mean that all of a sudden it costs $6 billion more a year just to stay at a steady state."

To put that number into perspective, Doucet notes that $6 billion is more than the City of Edmonton's budget and it's six times the University of Alberta's operating budget.

"All that to say that things going up by one percent, that's quite costly if you think about what that means in terms of the opportunity cost or what those dollars could do," Doucet says. "It could be building more roads, or it could be transferred to the provinces for healthcare."

And, we're just talking about the $6 billion that Canada would incur if in-

terest rates went up by one percent.

Overall, $6 billion is a measly slice of the debt pie.

Think of what could be built or bought with $600 billion. Think of the services that could be expanded, the low-income housing that could be built, the doctors that could be hired.

Previously, Canada's debt peaked at $563 billion in 1997. Following that milestone, between 1997 and 2008, that number slowly declined to $458 billion. Things changed for the worse, with our federal debt now growing larger each year since 2008 "We've now more than wiped out, by far, every single dollar that was paid down on debt in all of those years," Fildebrandt says with noticeable frustration. "So all of that hard work has been completely wiped out by the government. People should be angry about it." He adds, "We had to cut spending quite significantly to get everything under control and then the government ramped up spending ... and now we're going to have to do it again some day."

What can we as Canadians do to stand up against ever increasing debt? If you ask Doucet, he'll tell you we can't do much.

"The government in power has a responsibility to manage a budget process and they have deficits or surpluses in their budgets, that's their job. Individual electors don't have a direct say

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in the course of any given term in terms of what governments do in terms of deficit or surplus spending," he says.

If you ask Fildebrandt, though, he'll tell you there is something you can do.

He'll tell you to ring your MP with a message that goes something like this: 'You won't get my vote unless you vote to cut spending.'

"That's really what it comes down to," Fildebrandt says. "Politicians run up debt because it's the easy thing to do. So, nothing is going to change until politicians understand that they will be punished for debt, they will be punished for running up unnecessary deficit. So people need to call up their MP and say, 'You will not get my vote so long as you're doing this.'"

As much as Canadians don't like seeing our country in debt, we also don't like cuts or raised taxes. So, if and when the government chooses to tighten its belt, there will be push-back. But Fildebrandt says there are ways to make cuts that are fair, referencing the ap-

proach of a former Alberta premier.

"Ralph Klein sat down with the province, looked everybody in the eye and said, 'Listen. There are going to be cuts.

It's going to hurt. But, everyone is going to feel the pain equally. We're going to get our spending under control. We're going to stop adding to the debt and we're going to pay it off and once we're done that, we can start to restore some of the programs that we need. But everybody's going to take a hit together.

We're not going to target anyone individually.'"

Fildebrandt says that's the key: treating everyone equally, so no one feels singled out. That way, no one will riot in the streets or start an uprising.

"If everyone is going to do it together, the public is much more likely to follow, even if they don't like it," he says.

To see Canada's debt increasing in realtime or to learn more about Canada's debt, visit the CTF's debtclock.ca.

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COMMENT >> PREMIER REDFORD

Tobacco scandal mostly hot air

Redford's impact on choice of lawyers in tobacco lawsuit blown out of proportion To hear the mainstream media and Alberta's opposition parties tell it, this is the biggest story to hit Alberta politics in decades. In case you missed it, here's what happened: CBC investigative reporter Charles Rusnell uncovered documents showing that Alison Redford, while she was Justice Minister, had some input into the selection of which law firm the government would hire to represent the province in a $10-billion lawsuit against the tobacco industry.

Brian Mason, leader of Alberta's New Democrats, characterized it in an Edmonton Journal story as the worst incident involving a premier he had seen in his 12 years as an MLA. Wildrose MLA Rob Anderson was quoted in the same media story as saying "the biggest scandal in the premier's office in history, period." There are calls for the province's ethics commissioner to investigate and even calls for the Premier to resign. I, however, can't for the life of me figure out why this is such a big deal.

A competitive bid process had been held in late 2010 and the selection committee identified three firms that

would be equally capable of carrying be the huge story that it is. out the lawsuit. The issue arises from An independent selection commita memo wherein Redford recognizes tee carried out the competitive bidthat all three firms would be good, and ding process and identified that all then states, "Considering the perceived three firms were equally capable. The conflicts of interest, actual conflicts Premier, for ostensibly good reasons, of interest, the structure of the highlighted which one she felt contingency arrangements would do the best job. The and the importance of a government, without RedE ENC 'made in Alberta' litigation NTERFER .com ford's involvement, entered I eekly @vuew plan, the best choice for Alinto negotiations with that ricardo o r Rica d berta will be the Internationfirm, and by the time the a Acuñ al Tobacco Recovery Lawyers." contract was signed six months One of the members of the conlater, Redford was not even in cabisortium known as International Tonet anymore. bacco Recovery Lawyers is the Calgary Hawkes will not be involved in the firm of Jensen, Shawa, Solomon, Duactual litigation, and Alberta's conflict guid, Hawkes. Redford's ex-husband, of interest laws do not even include Robert Hawkes, is a partner in that ex-spouses. It's also important to point firm. The allegation is that Redford out that one of the other three firms played a part in hiring her ex-husband's being considered has a long-standing firm to represent the province. relationship with the Conservative The Premier certainly hasn't made Party in Alberta and the third firm was this any easier for herself in the legisbased in Ontario. lature by overly minimizing her role in Did the Premier make a bad call by the process and seriously skirting the getting involved in the process? Probline between downplaying an issue and ably. Should she have owned that outmisrepresenting herself, but the botright and apologized when questioned tom line remains that this should not in the Legislature? Definitely. Is this the

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biggest scandal ever to hit Alberta, or even a scandal at all? Absolutely not.

So what's at play here? One of the things to consider, as Alberta blogger David Climenhaga so clearly articulates in a recent posting, is Wildrose Leader Danielle Smith's long-standing cozy relationship with people and organizations that shill for the tobacco industry. In her role as a Calgary Herald reporter, in her work at the Fraser Institute, and even in her current role as leader of the opposition, Smith has always advocated that taxes on tobacco products should be reduced or eliminated, that the legal age for purchasing tobacco should not be increased, and she even once argued that smoking can actually reduce "traditional risks of disease."

Is this all just a play by her and her caucus to attempt to delegitimize the Alberta government's suit against the tobacco industry? The more she hammers the way in which the law firm leading the suit was selected, the less supportive of the suit itself Albertans are likely to become.

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Another factor to consider is one that also serves the purpose of the Wildrose and the province's extremist right. As the right's think tanks and media mouthpieces have shifted our political spectrum further right than we would have thought imaginable 30 years ago, one of the main things they've tried to do is convince us that politicians are untrustworthy, corrupt and self-interested.

They've done this for two explicit purposes. The first is that it leads to the mythology that government is by nature inefficient, and that by extension all government services should be privatized. The second is that, by driving a wedge between citizens and their elected representatives, they drive a wedge between citizens and their government, and that wedge, combined with the mythology of inefficiency and corruption, is what makes us buy into their repeated mantra that taxes are too high. In other words, they rely on the fact that the more we distrust our leaders and government, the less we CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 >>

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now "inevitable." for example. As a senior Malian ofAs that deadline approached, Ban Kificial told The Guardian newspaper moon wrote his letter to the Security last month, "The Nigerian army is Council condemning the rush to military in a shocking state. There is no way action: "I am profoundly aware they are capable of forward that if a military intervention operations in Mali ... The in the north is not well conNigerian forces lack trainceived and executed, it could ing and kit, so they simply kly.com uewee v worsen an already fragile hu@ don't have the capability e n gwyn e manitarian situation and also to carry out even basic milMalian rebels in the Azawad region // creative commons/flickr/amin2511 Gwynn result in severe human rights Dyer itary manoeuvres. They have You probably haven't given much control of half the country to separatabuses. Fundamental questions on poor discipline and support." thought to the problems in Mali, but ists, would normally be of interest how the force would be led, sustained, So who will pick up the pieces if United Nations Secretary-General Ban only to other West African states. The trained, equipped and financed remain the ECOWAS force, already unKi-moon has, and his advice on miliEconomic Community of West African unanswered." popular in Mali, fails to recover the tary intervention in that West African States (ECOWAS) might back military "A military operation may be required as north? Probably Western troops, country could be summed up in two intervention to reunite the country, or a last resort to deal with the most hardbut that would trigger powerful words: forget it. Although, being a dipit might not, but the rest of the world line extremists and criminal elements in anti-Western reactions all over lomat, he actually used a great many would ignore it. Not this time. the north," Ban conceded, "but before Africa. It might produce a military more words than that. that stage is reached, the focus must be victory and reunify Mali by force, Mali's 14 million people are almost all What set alarms bells ringing in the on initiating a broad-based and inclusive but it would be a political disaster.

Muslims, but there is a deep ethnic diUnited States and Europe was the fact national dialogue ..." Diplomatic buzzThe extremists could not hope for a vide between the black African majorthat al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb words, certainly, but he is fighting for better recruiting tool. ity in the southern half of the country (AQIM) is a major force in the alliance of time and that's all he has.

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what the data shows us is that as household income goes up, people consume more sugar sweetened beverages," Buhler says, beginning a rant about how this stereotype is one of her pet peeves.

Just like how lighting up a cigarette is no longer the norm for

helped.] There are some people that don't drink soft drinks—like drinks like milk," Raine says. us—but that's just the tip of the Buhler adds that the playing iceberg. So what tobacco control field between SSBs and healthier did was instead of blaming the choices is uneven. "Milk is about person who smoked, they demonalmost double the cost and it's ized the tobacco industry which not as available either. We talk in produced the product. And I think health promothat's part of The reason that we're focused on sugar sweetened what we need tion about making the healthy to do. I mean, beverages is that they really have no redeeming choice the easy why do we sit nutritional qualities; the health benefits are choice, so to do back and accept negative. that you need the fact that to make sure Coke is a major it's available sponsor of the and it's reasonably priced or at most people in Canada, Buhler Olympics?" Raines asks. least equitably priced with an and Raine are hopeful the same Sugar sweetened beverages are unhealthy match." will happen with SSBs. the cigarettes of food, according And contrary to talk, it's not "In tobacco control, the first to Buhler, and she's hoping that just people on low incomes who thing they did was tell people spreading the word about how are loading up on the unhealthier that smoking was bad for you and dangerous they are to health and choices. those highly educated, motivated, putting a tax on them will help "I think a stereotype is that low unaddicted people quit. But that stamp them out too. income people eat more fast food was only the tip of the iceberg. REBECCA MEDEL // REBECCA@VUEWEEKLY.COM and drink more pop. Actually, So it was other initiatives [that << CONTINUED FROM PAGE 8

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will want to pay taxes, and the more likely we are to want to support their extremist right-wing ideology.

So, turning this into a big scandal enables Smith to protect the interests of big tobacco and further alienates us from our government and our desire to pay taxes. Unfortunately, the Liberals and the NDP, who should be wary of both those outcomes, seem to have fully bought-in to the story and are also working hard to add fuel to the fire.

It's time for everybody to take a step back from this, pull it off of the front pages, and start paying attention to some of the issues our province is facing that will really make a difference over the long term. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 12, 2012

COMEDY BRIXX BAR • 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tues monthly with comedy and music CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd,

780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertain-

ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Leif Skyving; Dec 6 • That's Improv!; Dec 7-8 • Leif Skyving; Dec 13-15

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM, 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; FriSat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: 8pm • JR Brow; until Dec 9 • Pete Correale; Dec 12-16 DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.710.2119

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

FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave,

780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Comedy every Sun, a different headliner each week; 9pm; no cover

METRO CINEMA • 8712-109 St • Local comedian Jon Mick's celebratory Saint Mick’s Muletide Extravaganza with music by Renny Wilson and Liam Trimble, film clips, Capital City Burlesque and more • Dec 13, 7pm (door) • $10-$12 at Blackbyrd, Permanent Records, door OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling

Scott every Wed, 9pm

RUMORS ULTRA LOUNGE • 8230 Gateway

Blvd Every Thu Neon Lights and Laughter with host Sterling Scott and five comedians and live DJ TNT; 8:30pm

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with

Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Mon, at 9:30pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Ron James • Dec 16, 8pm WUNDERBAR • 8120-101 St,

780.436.2286 • Comedy every 2nd Mon

ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h

Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

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 • Join Vincenzo and Ida Renzi every Fri at Foot Notes Dance Studio for an evening of authentic Argentine tango • Every Fri, 8pm-midnight • $15 (per person) AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm DROP-IN MEDITATION CLASSES • Sher-

wood Park Community Centre (Mon); Amitabha Centre, 9550-87 St (Tue, Fri) • info@meditationedmonton.org • Every Mon, Tue 7-8:30pm and Fri 10-11:30am

EDMONTON BIKE ART NIGHTS • Bike-

Works, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm • Retrotreflective Craft Night:

Add retroreflective trim & designs to your riding clothes to help keep visible through winter night; Dec 10 , 6-9pm EDMONTON NATURE CLUB • King's

University College, 9125-50 St, 780.459.6389 • Christmas Bird Countin' around the world with speaker Dr. Richard Knapton • Dec 14, 7pm (refreshments), 7:30pm (meeting) • Donation EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •

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

FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper

plate, cutlery, serving spoon, cup). Hot apple cider provided • Dec 16, 5:30pm WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKES • Hike along the North Saskatchewan from Snow Valley to Hawrelak Park; meet at Argyll McDonalds, Argyll Rd, 81 St; Dec 9, 9:45am-2:45pm; Helen 780.468.4331, 780.467.9572; Hike along the North Saskatchewan River from Kennedale Ravine to Sunridge; meet at Argyll McDonalds, Argyll Rd, 81 St; Dec 16, 9:45am-2:45pm • Guests are welcome.

Annual membership is $20 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

Ave, 780.467.6013 • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

BELLEVUE HALL • 7308-112 Ave • Womonspace Annual Christmas dinner and dance • Dec 8 • $35 (incl meal and dance) BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B 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

Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 ave, 780.387.3343 • groups. yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 8:30pm JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY • 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 • Open Tues-Sat: Community bar with seasonal patio • Beat the clock Tue • WINGSANITY Wed, 5-10pm • Free pool Tue and Wed • Karaoke Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, beer bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm

10031-109 St, 780.422.2214 • Longest Night Service of Prayer and Hope: A service for anyone who finds Christmas a difficult season. Join us in this service of meditation and prayer, acknowledging sadness and giving voice to the hope that God is present for those who weep • Dec 17, 7pm

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

Because you’ve been very good all year.

HEALING CIRCLE • Call 780.570.0475 for

location • spiritualawakeningcentre. com • Guided meditation moving into an affirmative state where healing on all levels occurs • Every Wed, 7-8pm

HOME–ENERGIZING SPIRITUAL COMMUNITY FOR PASSIONATE LIVING • Garneau/

Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 1114884 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm

SPECIAL EVENTS 10TH ANNIVERSARY MINKA SALE/OPEN HOUSE • Windsor Park Community Hall,

11840-87 Ave, 780.436.5732 (Linda), 780.434.8105 ( Jennifer) • Hand knit sweaters, shawls, hand knit by women’s cooperative in Bolivia, the poorest country in South America. Pure alpaca/pima cotton. Proceeds go to knitters • Dec 8, 9am-3pm

A CHRISTMAS PAST • Rutherford House,

1153 Saskatchewan Dr, 780.427.3995 • Christmas music, cookies baked in a wood-burning oven, festive crafts and homemade apple cider. Learn about the evolution of Santa Claus and how Edmonton celebrated Christmas in 1915 • Dec 9, 12-4pm • Regular admission

Plus get FREE winter tires and $0 first payment in your stocking!*

LOTUS QIGONG, 780.477.0683 • Down-

town • Practice group meets every Thu

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MEDITATION • Strathcona Library • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in; every Tue, 7-8:30pm

*cannot be combined with any other offer *come see us at Southgate Volkswagen for details.

Shop indoors, year round.

3728-106 St, 780.458.6352 • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

OCCUPY EDMONTON GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

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

10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave, 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA • Riverdale

Community League • Holiday Potluck: Bring a vegan, raw vegan or vegetarian holiday dish to serve 6 people (and

DEEP WINTER SONG • Southminster-Stein-

hauer Church, 10740-19 Ave • A Mystical Evening of Music and Story: acoustic musical presentation • Dec 16, 7:30pm • $20 (adv at Earth's General Store); $25 (door)/$15 (youth/low income)/free (child 9yrs and under)

FACE OFF AGAINST HUNGER LUNCHEON

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

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

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

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave,

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave, 780.465.2019 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meet every Thu, 7pm

• Grant MacEwan City Centre Cafeteria, 10600-104 Ave • A leaderless space where everyone is welcome to organize and/or assist with all forms of Edmonton based non-violent activism • Every Tue, 6:30-8:30pm; Sat, 2-4pm

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

WOMONSPACE, 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization.

Confidentiality assured

FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH EDMONTON •

Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18, 780.490.7332 • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@ hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@ shaw.ca

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Strathcona

Legion, 9020-51 Ave • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Info: T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS LIVING FOODS SUNDAY SUMMER SERIES

• Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Every Sun, 6:50-9pm • Pre-register; $25 (each session); info: Robyn at rawrobyn@gmail.com ROBERT BATEMAN–THINKING LIKE A MOUNTAIN • Metro Cinema, 8712-109

St • Lecture by artist, environmentalist, Robert Bateman; kick-off for the Thinking Mountains conference at the U of A • Dec 11, 7pm • $10 (adv at Mountain Equipment Co-op ), door SOLAR FARMS–LARGE SOLAR SYSTEMS ARE COMING TO ALBERTA • Grant MacE-

wan University CN Theatre Rm 5-142, 105 St BLdg, 104 Ave, 780.378.6178 • Presentation by Brian Marshall and Gordon Howell • Dec 6, 7-8:30pm • Free

QUEER

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm; E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St,

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St,

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • Recre-

780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com

G.L.B.T.Q SAGE BOWLING CLUB •

780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, WEM, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 St, 104 Ave • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg,

780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling ational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave, 780.488.3234 • youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • A safe, welcoming, and non-judgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources.

Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a.

QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm • Counselling: Free every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize 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 •

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 12, 2012

• Shaw Conference Centre, Hall D • Luncheon, music by Kira Hladun, a live and silent auction • Dec 14, 11:30am-1pm • $1,000 (table of 10)/$100 (single) in support of the Christmas Bureau KIDS CHRISTMAS SHOPPE • Old Strathcona Antique Mall, 10323-78 Ave, 780.433.0398 • Kids shop where no parents are allowed, gifts between $5-$20 • Dec 8, 10am-4pm LUMINARIA • Devonian Botanic Garden • Candles light the paths of the Kurimoto Japanese Garden; hot apple cider beside the bonfires, strolling singers, ice sculpture • Dec 8-9, 5-9pm • $10 (adult)/$8 (senior/Friends of the Garden Member)/$5 (child 7-12, 6 & under free) at 780.987.3054 ext 2223 PHOTOS WITH SANTA & HORSE DRAWN HAY RIDES • Marketplace at Callingwood,

Callingwood Professional Centre lobby, 6650-177 St • Pictures with Santa • Dec 8, 11am-4pm • Charges for photos; free horse drawn hayride

POWER OF HOPE CAMPAIGN LAUNCH •

Citadel Zeilder Theatre, 9828-101A Ave, 780.452.4661 • Featuring a performance of the Schizophrenia Society of Alberta's production, Starry Night written by members of the SSA, both those who live with schizophrenia and their families, and is based on real-life experiences • Dec 7, 1-3pm

ST ALBERT MAYOR’S PRAYER BENEFIT •

Gateway Alliance Church, 13931-140 St • A Christmas Concert with music from the Steve Bell Trio in Support of the St Albert Food Bank (CD release) • Dec 6, 7:30pm • $20 at 1.800.854.3499, stevebell.com

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FILM

REVUE // SWEET, SWEET FANTASY

Fri, Dec 7 – Wed, Dec 19 Written and directed by Leos Carax Metro Cinema at the Garneau

with acrobatic panache. Is this already sounding weird? People, you all don't know the half of it.

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H

e rises from bed in the night, steps over a dog, and carefully feels his way along an expanse of wallpaper— like May in her membranous motel room in Sam Shepard's Fool For Love.

He's seeking a portal, perhaps to another dimension, perhaps just to a movie theatre, this man who, we'll soon realize, can become anyone. (He's played by who else but the inimitable, intensely physical actor Denis Lavant.) We call this man Monsieur Oscar, and once he finds his way through that papered wall and, it would seem, down some sort of rabbit hole, we then cut to the start of his workday, though surely Oscar's strange activities, each of them supernatural feats of role-play for clients never identified and for purposes left obscure, should best be considered a vocation, or even a cosmic obligation.

In suit and tie, Oscar leaves his compound, cheerfully waves adieu to the kids, passes by his ample security staff and enters his stretch limo, which is piloted by Oscar's Girl Friday, a slim, ivory-haired, ravishingly beautiful septuagenarian (Edith Scob, most famous as the titular non-visage in the horror classic Eyes Without a Face). She alerts him to the day's itinerary. Oscar prepares for each of his gigs from his mobile office, which is equipped with a bulb-framed mirror, costumes and make-up. (Only Cosmopolis displays a car with more vital amenities.) First stop: Oscar disguises himself as a hunched-over old lady muttering to herself on a busy bridge. Soon after he's donning a black full-body jumpsuit adorned with little white balls and entering a Tronosphere, where he meets a similar female creature in similar garb with whom he play-fights and faux-sexes

Maybe Monsieur Oscar is simply the world's hardest working actor. Maybe, like the hapless hero of Ursula K Le Guin's novel The Lathe of Heaven, he's simply trapped in an existence that morphs every time he turns around, and all he can do is adapt. Maybe Leos Carax, the compulsively inventive writer/director of Holy Motors, just wants to send Lavant—his ferociously talented muse, Harpo Marx, Jacques Tati, Jackie Chan and Lon Chaney all rolled into one wiry, putty-faced Frenchman—on a paid holiday to an everunfurling dreamscape, made of one-part reality, one-part unconscious roaming, one-part cinephilia. There's no road map for Holy Motors, so best do away with your search for clear answers from the get-go. You'll have more fun that way.

For those who saw the recent anthology film Tokyo!, you'll be pleased to discover that Carax has resurrected Lavant's milkyeyed, mayhem-making leprechaun, who this time around surfaces from a Paris sewer, gobbles cemetery flowers, bites the fingers off a fashion photographer's assistant and abducts a zombified Eva Mendes from a glamour shoot. Later Oscar will enter an abandoned warehouse full of mannequin parts and meet up with Kylie Minogue, a fellow career changeling, or maybe a secret agent, from somewhere in his past, and she'll sing a sad and powerful song that asks, "Who Are We?" The unbearable truth is that the answer just keeps changing, scene by scene, moment by moment, as does this luxuriant, restless, ultra-bizarre and hugely enjoyable film. Identity is fluid: this is a fact that also makes for great fantasy, a fantasy at the heart of movie-love. This movie understands that fantasy like few others do.

JOSEF BRAUN

// JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Just another day at the ol' nine-to-five

AUSTRALIAʼS ROCK STARS OF THE OPERA

THE TEN TENORS

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2013 • AT THE WINSPEAR • EDMONTON, AB TICKETS: Winspear Centre box office at 780-428-1414 or visit classicallypink.org

CBCF Classically Pink: Ten Tenors 12 FILM Size: 10.25in W x 2.1in tall BW Run Date:

Contact: Nicole Maillet VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 12, 2012 1-866-302-2223 nmaillet@cbcf.org

REVUE // LONGBOARD DOC

REVUE // SCI-FI COMEDY

Highway Gospel

Spaceballs

"Haha! Man, are we funny or what?"

Wed, Dec 12 (7 pm) Directed by Mel Brooks Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1987

S Gettin' ready for the next ride

Fri, Dec 7 – Thu, Dec 20 Directed by Jaret Belliveau & Craig Jackson Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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ocumentaries can be a handy way for the average person to have a glimpse into a specific scene or subculture that they might otherwise be completely unaware of. To that extent, Highway Gospel is an admirable attempt to acquaint a wider audience with the extreme sport of downhill longboarding and the bustling southern BC community that supports it. However, once the initial buzz of watching a completely unprotected rider soaring dangerously down an open mountain pass on his longboard wears off, the story—much like a longboard at the bottom of a hill— starts to lose momentum.

This owes more to the structure

of the film itself rather than to the film's subjects. The real-life drama of these people and their various life situations—personal injury, cancer treatment, the closing of a skatepark, or the outcomes of various boarding competitions—can be genuinely compelling at times. And by the film's end, a personal fondness has developed for the whole gang—veteran inventor "Schnitzel," drunk-driving Noah, class clown Bricin aka "Striker"—a real life fraternity of slacker heroes whose only goal in life is to ride the next hill, outrun the cops and make it to the next beer.

It's admirable when a documentarian can be as hands-off with the material as directors Jaret Belliveau and Craig Jackson are here: they let their subjects speak for themselves, foregoing any voiceover narration

and using only the sparest of title cards to give some essential exposition. That hands-off approach, however, at times leaves the film feeling a bit lacking in structure; without any real editorial or authorial voice to guide these miniature episodes into a narrative of any kind, the film feels incomplete. Perhaps the filmmakers could turn their subject matter into a successful reality TV show for Canadian television, because there are times when the movie reads less like a documentary than like a disjointed, 90-minute long reality show. Enthusiasts of extreme sports might enjoy this film's look at a unique Canadian community. Fans of FUBAR-vérité subculture might love these characters' zest for life.

Fans of neither might just want to skip this one.

paceballs, Mel Brooks' 1987 parody of a certain blockbuster sci-fi series that quickly became a parody of itself three prequels later, is mostly laboured shtick. A radar's jammed when a large bottle of raspberry jam hits it; a droid's called "Dot Matrix" (just one dated '80s reference, along with Doublemint twins spoofing themselves and a pun on "Jewish Princess.")

But when Brooks-and-co mock Lucas's fattened franchise and moviemaking-logic itself, this rickety vehicle fires off some zingers. There's the long word-crawl at the start, guru Yogurt (Brooks) hawking the full line of Spaceballs merchandise

as he holds a doll of himself, and Spaceball One, a ship so immense it takes up one minute of screen time.

There's a slow zoom in on Dark Helmet (Rick Moranis) until the camera bonks him; stunt doubles and crew members get pulled into the action.

Funniest of all, Dark Helmet and his henchman fast-forward through the movie itself, already released on "instant cassette"—the black-domed Napoleon asks where they are ("You're looking at now, sir ... We're at now now. I can't go back. We missed it, just now."), growing confused until he completely loses the plot: "What?

Where? When? Who?" Too bad, then, that so much of the movie drifts into that dead space between lame punchlines and strained antics.

BRIAN GIBSON

// BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

JAMES CUMING

// JAMESCUMING@VUEWEEKLY.COM

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 12, 2012

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Fiimed in cinéma vérité style, it centres around three women's stories—recovering addict Shelly, Courney, who supplements her story of struggling to remain clean with homemade video diaries, and Nancy, who still seems caught in the middle of it—as well as the RCMP officers in Project CARE, which looks to collect information and DNA about sextrade workers, to make identifications in case of disappearance or death.

Last week's local premiere sold out the Garneau, and before its encore screening this Sunday—a screening of the movie accompanied with a Q&A with Dransfeld and some of the women in the film—Dransfeld sat down with Vue to discuss it.

Where did Who Cares? start for you as a film?

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murdered women out there. And just the fact that we are maybe prosecuting the victims there. Maybe some hypocrisy is behind the doors, to say, 'Oh, it's the oldest profession in the world,' and men are entitled to buy sex—mostly men, certainly there are women out there [looking] to satisfy their sexual needs—so they found a solution where they, in a way, barely touch the johns with this legislation.

Now at least they confiscate their cars, and they have to pay fines and go to john school for a day. But still, the ones who are heavily prosecuted and get heavy fines, are the women.

They are victims. most of them come from families that have been abusive, sexually abusive, so they have mental issues, and there's the question of what comes first, the egg or the chicken. Most of them are drug addicts; I'd be a drug addict too, if I had to be out there on the street.

How did you find the women that ended up being the focus of the documentary?

RD: Well, you have to hang out in the community. So from social agencies to pubs. That's what you have to do: you have to go where they are, and start to talk to them, and gain their trust. They have to sense that you are honest, that you are genuine in your approach. It seemed to work out.

Nancy was OK with being filmed, but her face was blurred out for the

Where did Courtney's video diaries come from? Was that something she was doing on her own, or something you asked her to do?

RD: I asked her to use the video camera. We gave her a little bit of training on how to use it ... it's a little shaky but it's very authentic. She's just an amazing woman. She took control of her life, and she's very articulate, and has a vision in all of this and what she's VW:

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movie. So she wasn't fully comfortable with it?

RD: We talked a lot, the National Film Board and I, [producer] Bonnie Thompson and I, about the ethics of this film.

Certainly all the women who were on the street were masked, because we didn't have a chance in most cases to ask them. In Nancy's case, the reason we thought we should mask her is she didn't have control of the story, unlike the other women, because there were people were talking about her and her relationship with this guy. And then the other thing is I showed the rough cut to all of these women, and I couldn't track her down anymore. She just disappeared. And the RCMP tried to find her, I asked some social agencies to look out for her, but I couldn't reach her. So she may have moved on then already, to a life away from the streets and away from prostitution.

And it would be horrible for her to have to live with that.

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doing. That's one of the major reasons we thought she should capture some of these moments. And I would say, for example, when she goes out to see her trauma counsellor, and she arrives there on the wrong day, and she's very devastated about it, and at losing her ID and her phone and so on at the same time—I wouldn't know how you could film that in a way that is as real and devastating. And it's a wonderful example of what happens to people who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. I would say most of the women that work the streets do.

For the women you did show the rough cut to, did they have much feedback? Did they want many changes made?

RD: No, they didn't want to have any changes made. It was hard for them to watch this, because it was a reflection of who they are. It would be hard for anybody to see what it's like. And in Shelly's case it was really interesting: she came for the rough-cut screening with Don, with her friend. And because their lives are really full of drama, and things may change any moment, there's no security at all, no security. Any moment you can get attacked—any moment. There's crisis all the time. So that's what these women are occupied with all day. To get through the day and to make smart choices, that they won't get killed or harmed in any way.

I think Shelly and Don didn't really realize that they have this beautiful love story with each other. And through the editing process and so on, it was narrowed down to really featuring their relationship. And I think that they were just blown away by it; I think they had to see the film to understand that they had something special there. They were hugging and crying. They loved the film, certainly. We were expecting to get some commentary on the film, but instead, they were focusing on each other. It was beautiful to see.

VW:

When it comes to your style of filmmaking, where you're very removed from it, how do you find remaining objective in that. Do you find it's difficult?

RD: It's moreso ... there's this one approach, when you start a film: this is the approach I have as a human being that I care, or I'm appalled, or I'm angry about certain circumstances, and I want to highlight them. But I know for the viewers to really understand the devastation and the drama that's going on there— even though in that moment you would love to help them and just step in and say, 'Hey, I can give you this number, or why don't you do this?'— ... instead, you have to step back. That's not really difficult. I just know that this scene will do the job ... and this is my work. And it's my job to capture these moments, and to bring these films to people so that they have a chance not only to rationally understand what is happening there, but I want them to experience it. To be emotionally involved. It's a little bit difficult to do sometimes, in cinéma vérité, but it's very rewarding in the end.

VW:

Paul Blinov

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CINEPLEX ODEON Windermere Cinemas

Brave (G) 3D: THU, Dec 6: 3:50, 7:00, 9:10 Ice Age: Continental Drift (G) THU, Dec

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Here Comes The Boom (PG violence) THU, Dec 6: 4:04, 6:50, 9:20

Dredd 3d (18A gory brutal violence)THU, Dec 6: 4:10, 7:20, 9:30

The Dark Knight Rises (14A) THU, Dec

6: 4:35, 7:50

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The Master (14A sexual content, nudity, coarse

language) THU, Dec 6: 3:45, 6:40, 9:35

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SON OF SARDAAR (PG violence) Hindi

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24/7 In Love (PG sexually suggestive scenes)

brutal violence, not recommended for young children) THU, Dec 6: 7:20, 9:45

Talaash (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. THU, Dec 6:

LINCOLN (PG violence, language may offend, not recommended for young children) Closed Caption & Descriptive Video THU, Dec 6: 6:30, 9:45

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SKYFALL (14A violence) Digital Presentation,

12:10, 2:30; 3d: THU, Dec 6: 5:00, 7:30, 9:55

Dolby Stereo Digital Fri-Sun, Tue 12:10, 3:40, 7:00, 10:15; Mon, Wed-Thu 3:00, 6:25, 9:40

RED DAWN (14A) THU, Dec 6: 2:00, 4:30, 8:00,

TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART

10:20

WRECK-IT RALPH (G) THU, Dec 6: 3d: 7:10,

2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recom-

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SKYFALL (14A violence) Digital Presentation

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HIGHWAY GOSPEL (14A coarse language) Fri

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PITCH PERFECT (PG language may offend,

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KILLING THEM SOFTLY (14A course lan-

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 3d (14A violence) Digital 3d, No passes Thu 10:00

LIFE OF PI (PG) Digital Presentation Sat-Sun

1:00

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Sat, Mon 7:00; Wed 9:15

THE ROOM (14A nudity, sexual content) Fri 11:15

THE POLAR EXPRESS–Reel Family Cinema (G) Sat 2:00 WHO CARES (18A disturbing content) Sun 4:00 AN EVENING WITH ROBERT BATEMAN

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RED DAWN (14A) THU, Dec 6: 1:00, 3:30, 6:55,

9:20

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10:20

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TWILIGHT SAGA: BREAKING DAWN PART 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recom-

(14A violence) No passes Thu 10:00

Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 2 (PG violence, disturbing content, not recom-

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KILLING THEM SOFTLY (14A course language,

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The Hobbit An Unexpected Journey

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Is there an app for that?

The Good Women Dance Collective explores a Convergence of technology and movement Thu, Dec 6 – Sat, Dec 8 (8 pm) L'Uni Theatre, $15 – $20

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insley Hillyard isn't impressed with her new iPhone. The sprightly contemporary dancer and co-founder of the Good Women Dance Collective juggles the cell in one hand with her old flip phone in the other, noting that she hasn't been able to merge contact information between the two devices— she's been carrying both to ensure she can reach her friends.

Try as she might, Hillyard is hoping to get in touch with Kevin Green, who's running a bit late for our interview. Green, the visual artist and tech-master behind (de) Compose, has been working with the Good Women on Convergence; the presentation is a double bill that includes Green's piece, which employs five projectors to create a landscape of light and images that interact with the dancers, as well as Hillyard's own creation, Face Time.

Despite efforts to text, message, or email Green, an old-fashioned phone call ends up doing the trick.

"He's on his way," she smiles, hanging up with a hint of exasperation.

The instance of technology mussing things up has been occupying Hillyard's mind of late; the whole theme of Convergence this year, now in its second incarnation, concerns modern connectivity.

"There's a lot of interactive tech-

nology [in the show] that could totally ruin everything if it doesn't work," she admits, "which is fine, that's just life."

A good amount of that interaction in Face Time is use of the eponymous app along with Skype and smartphones to examine connections between people that are mediated by technology. Hillyard began her exploration of the app after hearing its promotional boast: "Be two places at once."

"I mean multi-tasking is difficult, but to actually be two places at once is just impossible, or if you are doing it you are splitting your attention," she says. "I wanted to poke fun at that by using dance, because to dance you actually do have to be together. If you're not together it just falls apart.

There are little nuances or even just chemical reactions that your body goes through when you are with other people—when you're in the same room, you smell other people. I don't pretend to know any of the biology behind it, but there are facets of that that aren't met when you're meeting with a screen."

While her choreography for the piece has changed drastically since its first conception as a solo performed by Alida Nyquist-Schultz, the piece has now become a fleshed-out, 40-minute quartet.

Now in their fourth year, the Good Women are also celebrating the addition of a new core member to their fold: Joining Hillyard, Nyquist-Schultz and Alison Kause is Kate Stashko, who moved to Edmonton from Montréal earlier this year.

"To be involved with Good Women you have to be dedicated to Edmonton, that's a huge part of our mandate. I feel pretty great that she came back to be with us after being [in Montréal]. That's a huge compliment to us from her," Hillyard says.

Green—who over the years has worked in pretty much every theatre in town in his capacity as a technician, designer, or stage manager—joins in on the conversation here, noting that the collaborative process with the dancers has been inspiring.

"This is all new to me," he says. "I've worked on maybe 150 different shows since college, and this has been a real opportunity to create and be on that side of the fence."

His idea for (de)Compose was borne out of a rather magical occurrence back in April at the Good Women's What's Cooking event, which gave dancers and performance artists an opportunity to test-drive new ideas on an audience.

"I basically went in and I said 'I'm an artist, they're dancers—I just want to

try and paint with light," Green says.

"So I brought my tablet and Photoshop and hooked it up to the projector and we ended up doing this really beautiful, abstract thing with bright colours. The audience ate it up." So much so that they requested Green and the dancers to try the experiment three more times that evening.

"It essentially opened up this world where art is huge and the dancers are immediate, it becomes really visually stunning," Green says. Branching off of the ideas that were stirred up that night at What's Cooking, Green decided to juxtapose themes of highly structured life and its more natural moments.

"What I wanted to show is that we're all trapped some days by the way we live our lives in society, but there's also a fluid, organic, nature of life. For real happiness or real human experience, we do need both of those things," he explains. "We can't harmoniously have a structured world and a non-structured world, which I think is kind of a good theme to go along with the idea of connectivity. Part of the whole idea of modern connectivity is that you're using technology— you're using stuff that is built and rigid to make a connection."

Hillyard notes that the idea of "convergence" itself is to make connections—but the theme where dance and technology interact was incidental this year. The first Convergence

event was about bringing dancers together. Now, with the four Good Women performing with Green plus a handful of projectors, there'll surely be numerous, intriguing and interesting connections to be found—risks of technical difficulties be damned.

So what if it all doesn't work as planned? With the projectors, Green will be implementing lighting design and video montages in real time, becoming as much a performer himself as the dancers onstage.

"That's where you have to trust each other as a company. I mean, there's a bunch of people in the room—somebody's going to do something entertaining," Green chuckles. "As far as this show goes, they're Edmonton's number one contemporary dance group— I mean if everything goes horribly wrong I'm just going to turn on the strobe light and they're going to dance," he adds. Hillyard laughs.

"It's kind of funny. You're connecting with each other to create the idea of connecting on a more disparate level, which is ironic," Green muses. "We do rely on these things everyday.

The show is kind of putting it to the test a bit. It's kind of like, 'OK technology, put your money where your mouth is.'"

Fingers crossed that Hillyard's iPhone smartens up by curtain time.

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“A feel-good movie that makes for an awesome date-night out.”

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The List

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ntering the Westbury theatre for The List, you'll find that the regular black-box space has been turned into an empty outer sanctum, a large barrier of air encircling a much smaller space separated by a thin membrane of white curtain.

Pass through that, and you'll find the Woman (Melissa Thingelstad) is already present in the room—a kitchen setting, cast completely in white—but utterly lost in thought, sitting stationary, her eyes occasionally darting around. It's an at-

mosphere of intruding into dark, private thoughts, and lends the room an extra air of heightened intimacy before it even begins.

When it does, Theatre Yes's production reveals The List to be an impressively affecting dramatic one-hander, deftly handled by Thingelstad and arced by director Heather Inglis. We're told there's a death right off the top, but in its beginnings it seems impossible to get there: the woman's simply coping with some isolation issues, and a slowly growing sense of malaise regarding the rhythm of motherhood and a life in the country that isn't as all-consuming with her husband as she'd hoped.

Out of that, The List's central drama

and crux emerges naturally, free of contrivance, led on by Thingelstad's absorbing slow-burn performance.

She's a maker of endless lists, and when Caroline, the one friend she's managed to make asks a favour, she puts it low on her priorities, puts it off, makes another a note of it then forgets what the new note was noting. You have done this before. Perhaps that's what makes the simple premise gripping, here: it's a worstcase scenario born out of your own, 'Ehh, what's the worst that can happen?' thinking.

That and maybe the level of detail at play. Jennifer Tremblay's Governor General's Award-winning script, as translated by Shelly Tepperman, is constructed out of vivid, human poetry that elevates the everyday routines it talks about. Also, that white cloth encircling the stage acts as a canvas to be projected onto: lists in progress, landscape backgrounds—whatever the Woman's mind finds itself wandering to. Every element is carefully constructed and, eventually, it leads her outside to a strikingly gorgeous, haunting final image—one that'll resonate more than bigger dramas I saw all year. The List is quietly devastating.

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is the first year he's made the idea City Burlesque performers. a reality.

"Whether or not it's a massive failure Why go to all this effort to throw a remains to be seen," he laughs.

Christmas party? Mick says it probomedian Jon Mick loves ChristHowever, failure seems like a far ably has something to do with his mas—a lot. In fact, he even stretch when people are in the holown holiday memories, which he claims to love the festive season iday, not to mention party, mood. describes as being of the National more than Cheetos, which comes in The event has been in the works Lampoon's Christmas Vacation vaat a close second. since the beginning of October, riety, where good intentions have a To celebrate this unwavering affecwhich Mick says means he's been tendency to go awry. tion, Mick is hosting the inaugural in the Christmas spirit for far too "My father had somebody play SanSaint Mick's Muletide Extravaganza, long, but the final details are all ta Claus for us when we were kids an all-out Christmas blowout featurstarting to come together. He's and he didn't dress up very well and I ing an array of local entertainment put together a full-scale producknew it was my dad's friend Barry— and copious amounts of beer. (And tion with a script and story line— I think he was probably hung over, if you're feeling generous, bring an with Mick being joined onstage for which probably led to why he didn't unwrapped gift and spread the good his hosting duties by his "teenage dress up very well. My brother's bicheer for Santa's Anonymous.) sons" played by Richard Lam and cycle got stolen on Christmas Eve "It's the best time of the year. EvJamie Cavanagh, the antithesis of one year, like right off our back deck eryone's really nice to each other himself as the over-zealous, Christand I was somehow implicated in it and there's always good parties and mas-loving dad. because of the company I kept in high good food; winter isn't intolerable "It's a glimpse into my Christmas school ... I love Christmas, but I alyet ... getting dressed up in layers future, or what I imagine it to be," ways have these really high hopes for and wearing ugly sweaters is all part he says of the production, which inChristmas that never really pan out, and parcel of it," Mick says, adding cludes a parody of the Nutcracker so maybe I'm trying to make up for it," the food and libations are what suite by Good Women Dance Colhe notes, adding the show is going to makes Christmas the top holiday of lective, musical performances by be completely and utterly over-thethe year for him. the likes of Jessica Jalbert and Doug top. "Too much Christmas, but in my The idea to throw a Christmas Hoyer, works by local filmmakers world, there's no such thing."

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rent mounting of the show is the play's Canadian premiere, following in the big footsteps of the original 2010 Broadway production.

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dmonton has several Christmas theatre traditions—shows that run every December, year after year.

After debuting last year to sold-out crowds, Capitol Theatre's take on The Velveteen Rabbit looks to be another show to add to the holiday roster.

"The Fort is a place that people come to experience their holiday in a traditional way," says Amanda Bergen, artistic director of Capitol. "People have their things that they do at Christmas

each year; I think we just wanted to touch on that, have something that people could come, year after year, to experience with their kids as they grow up, or as new kids come into the family."

Last year Capitol Theatre commissioned local playwright and actor Chris Craddock to write a stage adaptation of Margery Williams' classic children's story, The Velveteen Rabbit. The show puts a contemporary spin on the original 1920 tale and features a mixture of actors, puppets, marionettes and moving set pieces. Bergen notes that last year's inaugural production was very well received, prompting them to stage it again this year.

"Chris had a really great way of writing the play at a child level and a more adult level," notes Bergen. "So families coming, the parents were enjoying themselves just as much as the kids; everybody was really engaged."

The show itself remains largely unchanged from its first incarnation.

"We're prettying things up a little bit; we're doing some things we might not have had time or money to do last year," says Bergen. "Just adding a little bit in terms of some props, some of the background images. We did change up one of our actors—one wasn't able to return, so we recast the role. That was really the only big change."

Bergen also points out that for

families on a budget, The Velveteen Rabbit is a great alternative to the bigger Christmas shows. "Because we're able to keep it kinda simple with four actors playing multiple roles, and with the puppets taking the spotlight as well, we can have a lower ticket price. Your whole family can come and it doesn't break the bank."

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The University of Alberta Museums return to Enterprise Square with

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A Christmas Carol

Fri, Nov 30 – Sun, Dec 23 Directed by Bob Baker and Geoffrey Brumlik Citadel Theatre

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hristmas is fuelled by tradition, and amongst Edmonton's is the annual run of A Christmas Carol at the Citadel—now in its 13th season.

James MacDonald has been involved in the production in various capacities over the last four years: his first as assistant director before moving to the role of Jacob Marley and then becoming the alternate for the curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge.

This year, MacDonald has taken over the principle spot for the character.

"I think this year more than last year I had the opportunity to get really moment to moment to moment of what drives the guy, and I made some really good discoveries about what kind of

person he is," MacDonald notes over the phone during a break from rehearsals.

"He's not just mean for the sake of being mean. In some way, everyone's trying to convince him to quit being so awful about Christmas; he's trying to convince everybody what fools they are to be embracing Christmas, so it gives me a much stronger fight than just being a cranky old guy, you know? Every year the company's slightly different and we have the opportunity to rediscover the character and rediscover the relationships based on the cast."

For MacDonald, entering his 25th year as an actor, taking on such a recognized and eponymous role is something of an emotional journey, and a difficult one at that. He recalls last year's production as one where he felt he glided through to the final uplifting redemption of Scrooge

because it's the most enjoyable part to play. This year, he went a little deeper to get a better grasp on what Scrooge goes through each step of the way.

"He's not a nice guy and to dig into that stuff, it can be really hard ... it puts you in a pretty dark place and then you have your redemption at the end, but it can be physically and emotionally exhausting to do that," he adds. "At the end of the night you feel like you've been through the wringer, but you're also exhilarated. You're a little bit sad and you can't figure out why, you're a little bit gleeful; you're kind of reliving the whole emotional experience."

Embodying Scrooge's rollercoaster journey is one thing, but MacDonald says over the years, he's learned that to really drive a character home, you have to bring a small piece of yourself to the role.

"I'm at a point in my life where my life has prepared me for this. You have your regrets and you have your guilt and you have your joy and you have all those things that make up this character, so it's putting me at a place where I can access those things and not get ahead of myself," he explains. "At the beginning of the play he's at an extremely different place than he is at the end.

You really have to pay attention to each moment and let the moments build on each other as opposed to driving it through yourself, which is really scary as an actor because you feel a little bit like you're on the edge of a diving board most of the time, but that's how I think it should be done."

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at the zoo, a setting that's imaginatively captured on stage through stylized metal pipes crafted into animal shapes, at once suggesting the bars of the Tiger's cage as well as the topiary garden that Musa (Ben Gorodetsky) creates for Uday (Matthew Yipchuck)—the two characters who are easily the most engrossing. Gorodetsky does a fantastic job as the deeply conflicted topiary artistturned-translator Musa, while Yipchuck is similarly absorbing as the sadistically capricious Uday Hussein, son of President Saddam. Also of note is the cast's adept handling of the fair number of Arabic phrases peppering the script; it's clear a good deal of time was spent perfecting these foreign syllables.

The recently-deceased Tiger is the main narrator of the story, a sarcastic, foul-mouthed character who is critical to the entire tone of the piece. While Panther does nail some of the Tiger's most

powerful lines, some work still needs to be done in delivering the consistently weighty presence demanded by this difficult role.

"What if my very nature is in direct conflict with the moral code of the universe?" muses the Tiger. A self-proclaimed existentialist and atheist, she is having difficulty grappling with the idea of God—especially one who seemingly requires the subversion of her predatory nature. The juxtaposition of the Tiger's ruminations with the human characters provides some fairly obvious commentary on the supposed nature of war and human cruelty, and a good chunk of it feels suspiciously like American war propaganda. Still, despite the bleak tone and clichés carrying through the first act, the second half delivers some much-needed and well-crafted levity, and it's these moments of humour finely balanced by brutality that are the show's most poignant—and honest.

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• COMMONPLACE BEAUTY: Works by Kari Duke; reception: Dec 6, 5-8pm • CHRISTMAS KEEPSAKES: Group Show; Dec 8, 2-4pm • SHORTBREAD & SHERRY: Dec 6, 5-8pm

Milner Library Theatre • Film screening, and a lively exploration of current and timely topics of concern • Dec 13, 6:30pm

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 •

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

Artworks by Michel Allen • 'til Jan 16

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Feature Gallery: PASSAGES: a group exhibition exploring the passage of time; 'til Dec 24

Albert, 780.459.2525 • EXUBERANCE: Oil paintings by Gail Seemann • 'til Dec 21

ALBERTA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS GALLERY • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave, 780.426.0072 • FESTIVE SPIRIT: Artworks by ASA members • 'til Dec 15 in conjunction with the play The Misanthrope ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • CHRISTMAS STORE AND GALA: Art and crafts by members of the Spruce Grove Art Gallery • 'til Dec 22

ART BEAT GALLERY • 26 St. Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.3679 • Treats from around the world, and see brand new works • Dec 6, 6-9pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO Work of Creativity: METHOD AND MADNESS: Familyfocused interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; 'til Dec 31 • BEHIND THIS LIES MY TRUE DESIRE FOR YOU: Mark Clintberg; 'til Dec 30 • MISLED

BY NATURE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE BAROQUE: Key artists include David Altmejd, Lee Bul, Bharti Kher, Tricia Middleton, Yinka Shonibare, Sarah Sze; 'til Jan 6 • BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints; 'til Mar 3 • IMPRINT: A selection of print-making artists, whose work reveals an attention to different print-making technique, as well as an interrelationship; 'til Jan 6 • EDO: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age: a wide variety of Edo period art forms with focus on prints known as ‘ukiyo-e’; 'til Feb 10 • PAUL FREEMAN: feature two life-size casts of stags whose antlers seem to have turned against them; 'til Feb 10 • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm; free with admission • Adult Drop-in: Distort: New Perspectives in Drawing; Dec 6; Cast: Plaster Sculpture: Dec 13

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • GAME PIECES: Paintings

by Margaret Witschl; Dec 6-Feb 2; opening: Dec 6, 7-9pm

ARTS HAB • 3rd floor-10217-106 St • One and Friends Holiday Studio Sale/Open House 2012 • Dec 8, 12-1am ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • Loft Gallery/A.J. Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artworks and a small gift shop of artist made items; open Oct-Dec, Feb-Jul

BRINSMEAD KENNEDY GALLERY • 10434-122 St • NATURALLY ABSTRACT: artwork by David Blaine, featuring abstract images discovered in natural environments • 'til Feb 28

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.482.2854 • CHRISTMAS CHEER: featuring works by gallery artists that inspire romance, nostalgia, comfort and joy; Dec 6, 5-9pm

BUTTERDOME CRAFT SALE • U of A Butterdome • Craft Sale • Dec 6-9; Thu-Fri: 10am-10pm; Sat: 10am6pm; Sun: 10am-5pm CAFÉ HAVEN–Sherwood Park • NVSart is featured • Sep-Jan

CAFÉ PICHILINGUE–Red Deer • 4928-50 St, Red Deer • TIME TRAVEL: Works by Wendy Meeres • 'til

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

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • STARS: Linocut prints by Cheryl Anhel • 'til Dec 31

GALLERY IS–Red Deer • 5123 Alexander Way • GALLERY IS 4 CHRISTMAS: Susan Woolgar, Erika Schulz, Jeri Lynn Ing, and Victoria Schulz • Through Dec • Reception: Dec 7, 12-8pm GALLERY ON MAIN–Lacombe • 2nd level, 4910 50 Ave, Lacombe, 403.782.3402 • RURAL TRAVEL: Paintings by Gail Scheuring • 'til Dec 7

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month, 7am • Comics Artist-in-Residence: with Kyle Sams; Every Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm; 'til Apr

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: IN MATERIAL: Works by Marie de Sousa • Front Room Gallery: ROOTED: Works by Corey Hardeman • Dec 6-Jan 18 • Opening: Dec 6, 8-10pm • Artist Talks: Dec 6: Hardeman: 7pm; de Sousa: 7:30pm HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer, 403.346.8937 • CONNECTING PLACES: Paintings by Galia Kwetny; 'til Dec 29 • Reception: Dec 7, 6-8pm HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer, 403.340.4869 • INDIGENOUS IMPRESSIONS: Works

by Claudine Fleury • 'til Dec 31 • Reception: Dec 7, 4-6pm; Gift of Music, Concert, 7pm JEFF ALLEN GALLERY • Strathcona Place Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • OUR WORLD ART SHOW: Works by Joyce Boyer, Dessirrie Plewis, Elaine Tweedy, Sylvia Godina • 'til Dec 19 • Reception: Dec 12, 6:30-8:30pm JOHNSON GALLERY • 7711-85 St, 780.465.6171 • New works by Ada Wong, Yardley Jones, George Weber, Illingworth Kerr, Alex Halliburtron and Noboru Kubo (pottery) • Through Dec-Jan

KING’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE • 9125-50 St • IMMIGRANT: Paintings and installation piece by Rosemary Sloot • Mon-Fri, 8:30am-4:30pm; 'til Jan 15

KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • Members Only Show and Sale: Artworks by Red Deer Arts Council members • 'til Jan 1 • Reception: Dec 7, 6:30-8:30pm

LELDE MUEHLENBACHS STUDIO • 9604-45 Ave • You have waited long enough…: Retrospective, paintings, photos, eggnog • Dec 15, 1-7pm

MANDOLIN BOOKS • 6419-112 Ave • NVSART: Textured abstract art; Oct-Jan

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY • Kerry Wood Nature Centre, 6300-45 Ave • OKTOBER: Staff and Volunteers of the Kerry Wood Nature Centre • 'til Dec 12

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • REFUGE: PRINTED IMPRESSIONS: Group exhibition of graduate Printmaking students and staff from the U of A Printmaking Department • 'til Jan 13

MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL • Main

VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • Trent Leach

780.455.7479 • Group exhibitions: Artworks by gallery artists; Dec 8-Mar 23 MODEL, THE MYSTIC AND THE MUSCLE: 11 new paintings by outro; 'til Jan 12

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Rd, 780.427.1750 • THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT ALBERTA: A Centennial for Alberta Workers: examining labour’s role in the growth and prosperity of the province • 'til Dec 21

RED DEER COLLEGE LIBRARY • Four Corners Gallery: THE IMPORTANCE OF LINE: Artworks

by Elena Rousseau; 'til Jan 9 • The Panels: BEHIND GLASS: Prints by ART 375 visual art students; 'til Dec 11 • PortHole Gallery: SMALL SCALE WORK: Past Artists in Residence: 'til Jan 11 • First Fri: Dec 7, 'til 11pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • FASHIONING FEATHERS: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; curated by Merle Patchett and Liz Gomez, show examines the effect of fashion's demand for beautiful feathers on bird populations at the beginning of the twentieth century; 'til Jan 6 • THE TSARS' CABINET: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs; 'til Jan 2

ST JOHN’S INSTITUTE • 11024-82 Ave • PRAIRIE DREAMSCAPES: REIMAGINING OUR ROOTS: Alberta launch of art exhibit by the Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts • Dec 7-Jan 19

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619 • PANFORTE: Artworks by Douglas Haynes, Kelly Krueger, Gabor Nagy, Robert Sinclair, Marianne Watchel, the Selfridges • Dec 8 -22 • Opening: Dec 8, 2-5pm SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta Print -Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • PRINT AFFAIR: Silver and Gold annual fundraiser, silent auction and sale; Dec 8, 7pm-12; $20 (non-member)/$15 (member) • Members show and sale; Dec 10

Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Avxe, 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • 1st Thu each month; Sep-Jun

T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • Come to share a story, or to listen; hosted by Dawn Blue; 7-9pm; free; 2nd Wed each month UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave, 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm; Presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • Dec 17 • $5

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

THEATRE AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS • Holy Trinity Anglican, 10037-84 Ave • E: raycrofte@hotmail. com • Charming Christmas story opera is written by American composer Giancarlo Menotti • Dec 20-21 • All ages • $15 (adult)/$5 (child) at door BENGAL TIGER AT THE BAGHDAD ZOO BY RAJIV JOSEPH • Timms Centre, 112 St-87 Ave, U of A • The lives of two American Marines and an Iraqi translator are entangled forever by an encounter with a foul-mouthed tiger that haunts the streets of war-torn Baghdad, searching for meaning, forgiveness, redemption and a bloody meal • 'til Dec 8 (no show on Sun) • Evening: $11 (student)/$22 (adult)/$20 (senior); Mat: $11 (student)/$17 (adult)/$15 (senior)

BROADWAY, CHRISTMAS AND BEYOND • Festival Place, Sherwood Park • Presented by Colm Wilkinson • Dec 7-8, 7:30pm • $58-$70 at TicketMaster, Festival Place box office

CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 10pm, 'til Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at Tix on the Square)

1:30pm; $20 • Tickets at Cathel Books

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, 'til May, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office LIONEL BART’S OLIVER • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • Dec 19-30 • $36 (adult)/$24 (child) at the Festival Place box office, Ticketmaster THE LIST • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • A woman who is a compulsive list-maker, reconstructs the events leading up to neighbours death • 'til Dec 9 • $27 (adult)/$20 (student/senior/artist)/$15 (child under 18); Sat mat Pay-What-You-Will at door

THE MISANTHROPE • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • When a playwright with the “unfashionable habit of speaking his mind” becomes enamoured with a self-serving American film star, the results unveil the deception and decadence of the modern High Court • 'til Dec 15 NCIS • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM, 780.484.2424 • Dr. Ducky and his colleague from Los Angeles, Hetty, are off to Canada to attend a conference with the Royal Canadian Navy investigative Services, where they run into trouble.

Ducky is accused of committing murder and has been given 'til the end of the conference to prove his innocence • 'til Jan 26

THE SNOW GLOBE FEFSTIVAL OF CHILDREN'S THEATRE • C103, Catalyst Theatre, 8529 Gateway Blvd, 780.431.1750 • Three productions: The classic and upbeat music of Babes In Toyland, the sword flying adventure of Robin Hood, and the world premiere of the heart warming Birdie On the Wrong Bus by Ellen Chorley • Dec 18-22 • Single: $10 (child)/$12 (adult) at TIX on the Square; Festival Passes at catalysttheatre.ca

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm THE VELVETEEN RABBIT • Capitol Theatre • The charming story of imagination, transformation and growing up • Dec 7-9, 11, 12, 14-16, 18, 19, 21-24

A CHRISTMAS CAROL • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave, 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Adapted by Tom Wood. Directed by Bob Baker and Geoffrey Brumlik. Based on the story by Charles Dickens • 'til Dec 23, Sat mat: Dec 22, 1:30pm • Tickets start at $35 at the Citadel box office

THE V.I.P. KID’S SHOW • Varscona Theatre,

A CHRISTMAS STORY • Bailey Theatre, Camrose • baileytheatre.com • Presented by the Churchmice Players • Family Night: Dec 13, 7:30pm, $20/$50 (family); Dinner Theatre: Dec 14-15, 6pm (door), 6:30pm (dinner), 7:30pm (show), $46; Dec 15,

WITH BELLS ON • Roxy Theatre, 10708-124 St • Presented by Guys in Disguise and Theatre Network • Dec 12-23, 8pm; Sun at 2pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Series for children where young and old can enjoy a Variety, Improv and Puppet show with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach and friends • Dec 8 • $6/$60 (VIP pass)

STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • PHOTOGRAPHY IN A STATE OF EXCEPTION: Documents of Contemporary War; 'til Dec 21 • The Wordless Book and other deserts; 'til Dec 21

TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • STAR WARS IDENTITIES: THE EXHIBITION: explores the amazing nature of human identity through the magic of the Star Wars universe and its legendary characters; 'til Apr 1

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave, 780.492.5834 • PERCEPTIONS OF PROMISE: BIOTECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND ART: 'til Jan 5 • PASSION PROJECT: 'til Jan 26 • IMMORTAL BEAUTY: The work of 84-year-old master calligrapher Shiko Kataoka; 'til Jan 26 • PERCEPTIONS OF PROMISE: BIOTECHNOLOGY, SOCIETY AND ART: challenging viewers to consider the positive and negative possibilities of biotechnology in general and stem cell research in particular; 'til Jan 5 • The Biomedicalized Body: Curator's Talk with Lianne McTavish, discussing how conceptions of the human body have changed since the Renaissance; noon-hour talk for the exhibition Perceptions of Promise: Biotechnology, Society and Art

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • URBAN ANIMALS: Works by Jason Carter: Paintings exploring urban vs. natural environment • Dec 6-Jan 19; closed: Dec 22-Jan 9 • Opening/Book Launch for Urban Animals: Dec 6, 7-9:30, artist in attendance

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert, 780.460.5990 • WET PAINT: Small artworks by VASA artists • 'til Feb 2 • Reception: Dec 8, 1-4pm

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • WINTER COLLECTION: New works

by Claudette Castonguay, Fraser Brinsmead, Arianne Dubois, Brent R. Laycock and others • 'til Dec 31 • MINGLE AND JINGLE Reception: Dec 6, 5-8pm

LITERARY ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.441.6966 • Literary Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; OctMay, 7pm (door) • Book launch of Heather Simenay McLeod’s The Little Yellow House, and Intermission, featuring readings and music with Katherena Vermette, Jasmina Odor, and Pamela Cunningham and others; Dec 9, 6pm (door) AUDREYS BOOKS • Marty Chan's book launch of Squatchmas • Dec 15, 3-5pm

CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

Now in two locations!

2804 Calgary Trail NW, Edmonton • 780 758-4400 #30, 580 St. Albert Trail, St. Albert • 780 460-4400

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Olive Read-

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Sushi and clown cabarets Delicious Japanese cuisine was just the beginning

// Meaghan Baxter Sakana Japanese Cuisine 7908 - 104 St, 780.760.1880

M

y Saturday night was going really well and I fully expected a sushi feast with a comely co-diner to be the most memorable moment of the evening. Then I was molested by a sex-clown.

Perhaps I'm getting ahead of myself.

The plan was to meet at Sakana Japanese Cuisine in Old Strathcona, then make our way over to the Fool's Gold Clown Cabaret at the C103 (formerly Catalyst Theatre) to maybe eat some licorice, have a few laughs—you get the idea.

Sakana is one of a handful of plucky little sushi joints which, along with Maki Maki, Kabuki and Sake Bistro, have risen up to the challenge the old guard in Old Strathcona/Garneau, namely Tokyo Noodle House and the mighty Kyoto dynasty. More notably, Sakana has finally revamped the interior of the Calgary Trail strip-mall space that previously housed various ChineseVietnamese operations disinclined to efface the two-decade-old imprint of New Asian Village. Finally the recessed silhouettes of onion domes in the walls have given way to deep, comfortable bo oths, ambient lighting and a decent paint job.

My previous trips to Sakana have revolved around their dinner bento box ($17.95), mainly because I've

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// Meaghan Baxter found myself dining solo and it's nice to get, say, salmon teriyaki on rice, fried scallops and sashimi (as well as miso, a green salad and some fruit) in one affordable package. But on this night I would have a sushi-philic co-diner with whom to share an even broader assortment of Japanese comestibles.

Having found the place only lightly patronized on prior visits, I was a bit surprised to see it fairly bustling and apparently I wasn't the only one—a single server who had been caught off-guard was taking care of the whole dining room, including a large table that commanded a lot of attention. Our service didn't really suffer for it, but you could see the poor food-slinger was a little frantic around the eyes.

My co-diner and I negotiated a reasonable feast for two; she proposed edamame ($4.50), vegetable tempura (full order, $8.99) and spicy tuna maki ($4.50), while I was responsible for selecting the evening's nigiri. I also suggested rainbow maki ($10.99) because who doesn't love that? And I wanted an order of

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goma-ae salad, but they were out of spinach, so we settled for chuka salad ($5.80) instead. As always, a light, fizzy Japanese lager was the apposite accompaniment.

Once the food started coming, which didn't take long, plate after plate emerged from the kitchen in rapid succession. First, it was the chuka salad, a khaki tangle of seaweed drizzled with a slightly sweet dressing and dotted with sesame seeds. The al dente texture and slightly tidal flavour probably won't appeal to all palates, but it got along with mine just fine. Beside it sat a brimming bowl of edamame— boiled green soybeans in the pod— which everyone loves for their high content of folate and manganese.

Actually, it's the starchy crunch and liberal dusting of sea salt that we all love.

Next came the basket of vegetable tempura, featuring broccoli, red pepper, yam and eggplant. My codiner contrasted a previous, off-putting tempura experience with the present serving, which was light and CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 >>

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ungreasy, the thin coating an ideal veneer for the perfectly tender-crisp veggies.

Last but not least, the wooden slabs bearing the fishy part of our repast touched down. The rainbow maki—an inside-out roll with strips of salmon, red snapper, cooked shrimp and avocado outside and crunchy beads of tempura inside— lived up to the generally accepted standard for such preparations, and the spicy tuna maki boasted a sliver of avocado to offset its assertive cayenne snap.

Nor did the nigiri disappoint—that's the portion of fish atop a bed of rice that most of us think of when we think of sushi. At $4.95 per two pieces, the portions were ample. I found the tuna a little bit wanting taste- and texture-wise—they were out of my preferred tuna belly—but I assume that had more to do with the catch of the day than any fail-

ing on Sakana's part. In any case, the salmon more than compensated in mouth-filling flavour and butteriness. Chop chop is diced scallop mixed with mayonnaise and orange beads of roe, served on rice in a neat fold of seaweed. Again, not everyone likes their bivalves raw and creamy, and it's not the easiest nigiri to eat, but I've long been an admirer and was pleased to find Sakana's version both deliciously fresh and free of jarring particles of grit.

Thus sated, we proceeded to the clown cabaret where a zaftig harlequin poured into a red corset, whose adoption of a pseudonym suggests premeditation, abducted me from the audience, handcuffed me to a phallic flotation device known as a noodle and proceeded to use me as a stripper pole, her clownish bustle grazing my bikini parts. A patron of a clown cabaret is pretty much signing on for some forced crowd participation and I like to be a good sport, but I did not consent to that!

In any case, this brief episode of jape-related trauma, accompanied by some distressing nigiri burps, did nothing to diminish my satisfaction with Sakana. I'll just remember to keep my indulgence in sushi and clown cabarets more strictly compartmentalized in the future.

SCOTT LINGLEY

// SCOTT@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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// Meaghan Baxter

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BEER

Beer: a good read Vue's beer guy shares his top picks

I am often asked how I developed my knowledge What if your favourite beer-ie is thinking about of beer. The answer is multi-faceted, including getting into homebrewing? Well, the longtime bibrewing beer and drinking a lot of beer. But a ble of introductory homebrewing—the one I cut central element in my beer education has been my teeth on 20-plus years ago—is Charlie Papareading beer-related books. I have always enjoyed zian's The Complete Joy of Homebrewing. It is not picking up a book that extols the virtues and rea light read, but by the time you are done, you veals the secrets of my favourite elixir. will be completely ready not just for your I thought it might be interesting to write first batch, but also to make it through a column looking at beer books. The timintermediate and early advanced ing is appropriate given it is the height phases. First published in 1984 when kly.com homebrewing was in its infancy, the e of the holiday shopping season, so feel e w e vu epint@ free to hide this column from your fa- toth latest edition was published in 2003.

Jason vourite beer fan so you can surprise them.

If you want something that takes you r e t Fos A classic of beer books is the "beer atlas"— large, glossy coffee table spreads that travel through some of the best beer the world has to offer. A genre pioneered by Michael Jackson (the British beer writer, not the creepy singer), it has been a few years since a quality example was released. Until this fall, when The World Atlas of Beer, co-written by Tim Webb and Canadian Stephen Beaumont, was released. Big, beautiful and informative, it travels the world offering tasting notes for more than 500 craft beer to be found. Alberta's entries include Alley Kat's "Old Deuteronomy" and Big Rock's "McNally's Extra".

A book that offers a more general look at beer itself, rather than through the early prospecific beers, is The Brewer's Apcess a little more slowly, prentice, written by Matt Allyn then try How to Brew by and Stone Brewing's Greg Koch.

John Palmer. It is more up-to-date than Joy, but not quite as thorough.

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Also attractive and accessible, it intersperses chapters on beer ingredients, processes and styles with profiles of some the US's most respected craft brewers.

If humorous, entertaining stories about beer are more your speed, then you must pick up one of Pete Brown's books. This British beer writer doesn't write educational tomes—although you will learn a few things. His job is to tell funny stories that revere beer and increase the public's appreciation of its value to civilization and drinking with your mates.

His books are both intelligent and wickedly fun. He has three out currently and any of them would make a good gift: Man Walks Into a Pub, Three Sheets to the Wind and Hops and Glory.

If you want some Canadian content, there isn't an equivalent atlas for Canadian beer.

However, consider picking up Brew North

by Ian Coutts, which is a gentle trip through Canada's brewing history. There are more thorough books on Canadian beer history, but none are packaged as well to appeal to casual readers and beer aficionados alike.

What if you have a beer fan who is also big into politics? Well, then the book for them is Fermenting Revolution by Mark O'Brien. This book is both an homage to the joys of beer and a treatise on how to use beer to change the world. From advancing environmental sustainability and enhancing local economies to undermining patriarchy, O'Brien links good craft beer with important political causes. Written in an upbeat, hopeful tone, it will surely motivate you to take action with beer to save the world, rather than drown your sorrows in it.

Finally, if you have the most crazed, intense beer geek in your life who might find all of these books pedestrian, then pony up for a copy of The Oxford Companion to Beer, edited by Brooklyn Brewery's Garrett Oliver. Produced by the unparalleled Oxford University Press. Covering everything from abbey beer to zymurgy (the science of yeast fermentation), it has entries addressing beer history, brewing science, beer styles, important breweries and tons of other technical information. While it is not a perfect collection— there have been complaints about some of its historical and scientific inaccuracies—it remains the premier resource for the beer equivalent of The Big Bang Theory's Sheldon.

I realize that in this world of Amazon, you can find these books a click away, but I want to urge you to try your local bookstore first. Get them to special order it. If all else fails, then turn to online sources. But beer has always been a product that celebrates local and we should buy our books in the same fashion. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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SNOW ZONE // STRENGTH TRAINING

The training life Freestyle skiing, a year-round fitness commitment

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lthough freestyle skiers only compete during the frigid winter months, their training takes place allyear-round.

In the summer, the skiers devote their time to dry land training, water ramps and trampoline exercises and in the winter, they're away from home for weeks on end training on location before each competition.

When they're not competing, these athletes are visiting the gym six days a week and hitting the slopes on the weekends.

It's a life of sacrifice and commitment, but it's rewarding. Edmonton's Emilie Brown, a 17-year-old skier on the Alberta Mogul Team, says she wouldn't change her life of homework on the road, devoting evenings to the University of Alberta gym, and spending weekends driving to and from Jasper to ski Marmot Basin.

"It's a lot of work," she admits, "but it's so rewarding. So it's worth it."

This is the start of Brown's second season on the Alberta Team. In her first year competing at the provincial level, she finished second in Alberta.

It was her best season yet and she hopes it will only get better, so she can prove herself worthy of the next level.

"I hope to be on National Team one day, maybe not next season, but the season after that or in a couple of seasons," Brown says. "I think that would be pretty neat. It's definitely one of my goals."

To reach that goal, Brown knows that she has a lot of hard work ahead of her.

With the competitive season around the corner, she's already on the road, training for the Canadian Selections at Apex Mountain.

"For the first week, we'll do a lot of jumping, just hiking the jumps over and over and over again until we get a good solid jump and get more confidence with our tricks," Brown explains.

"Once the competition gets closer, we'll probably get into the mogul course and work strictly on moguls and then, a few days before the competition, we'll put it all together and do top to bottoms, which is like skiing an entire run and not breaking it up."

The Canadian Selections, which take place December 13 to 16, are especially important for a young skier like Brown.

"It's a competition where the national coaches evaluate every upcoming skier

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... They're almost scouting to see who's up and coming and who's next in line for the National Team."

With that in mind, the pressure is on for Brown and her teammates to train hard in order to score a perfect run.

That training isn't limited to the hill, nor is it limited to the days leading up to a competition.

Lindsey Materi, Brown's strength and conditioning coach at the U of A, says there's a lot that goes into preparing a skier's body for a course.

Five to six days a week, while the athletes are at home, they visit the gym to do lunges, dead lifts, Olympic-style weight lifting, jump training (plyometrics) and cardio workouts like bike sprints. According to Materi, strength and endurance training is used to quicken an athlete's rate of force development—the speed at which they are able to reach their peak level of force.

"In moguls, how fast you can produce that maximum force is going to be often more important than just the maximum force you can produce," he says.

Materi structures workouts to ensure that rate is always improving. One of the ways to do that is by including Olympic weight lifting exercises in an athlete's routine.

"If you look at the weight lifting movements ... you're having to exert a large amount of force, but in order to create that momentum to get [the weight] to its end position, you have to do it very quickly, so that's one reason we utilize the weight lifting components with our freestyle skiers," he says.

Plyometrics also helps athletes increase their rate of force development.

"Typically what we do for plyometrics is we'll do jump variations, things like rudimentary jumps, hurtle jumps, side-to-side bench hops, things where there's a quick ground-contact time with the objective of further decreasing that ground contact time," Materi explains. "You're utilizing the stretch shortening—or stretch elastic—component within the muscle to create large forces more quickly."

Brown says strength training is the thing that keeps her in the game.

"In a sport like mogul skiing, there's a big chance of messing up because you're going super fast and you're trying to perfect

so many different things within a run. If you have a strength foundation behind you, then it's a lot easier if you mess up to pull yourself back into it," she says. "So the whole strength aspect is pretty important. Like, when we're landing jumps and getting right back into the moguls, if you don't have that basic strength there, you won't make a perfect landing and you won't be able to make it back in as quickly as you should."

For athletes like Brown, it's important to maintain that level of strength yearround, so they're ready for the competitive season when it rolls around in December.

"It used to be in sports that you could ultimately peak for the competition at the end of the year and garner a lot of success, but with the qualification system now you have to be prepared right off the word go," explains Materi. "So, with each and every competition being an opportunity for points and gaining that access to the national team by the end of the season ... by the time [the athletes] get on the snow, they essentially have to be ready to go to achieve early season results."

That's why freestyle skiers find themselves in the gym 12 months a year, and why there are dry land camps during the summer months. According to Brown, the camp held each August is the most intense.

"We'll do a couple hours of trampoline in the morning and then we'll do about 20 jumps on the [water] ramps, which is a lot, and then we'll go back for lunch and we will do the same thing in the afternoon. So, trampoline and then water ramps and then, after that, dry land, which is yoga and either cardio or weights or bike sprints."

As a teenager, Materi says he likely wouldn't have been able to handle the responsibility and time commitment of such a training routine.

"It always amazes me how well they manage their time. It's something I probably couldn't have handled at that age. It truly is a commitment level of a full time job and then when you consider that these athletes are still at school full time and some of them even maintain a part time job on top of it, it's incredible what they can accomplish."

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Edmonton's Emilie Brown, a 17-year-old skier on the Alberta Mogul Team, and other freestyle skiers at her level, train year-round to ensure they're in tip-top shape for the competitive season.

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thing, the track should have been slower for Vonn because of the snowy conditions during the ladies events.

These races are usually won by tenths and hundredths of a second, but on Friday, Vonn was nearly two full seconds clear of her nearest competitor.

It sure would be interesting to see how she'd fair against the men on the same day.

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American alpine ski racer Lindsey Vonn wants to race with the men at Lake Louise. And last weekend, she proved she is definitely in a class of her own as once again she swept all three women's World Cup races at Lake Louise. The same feat she pulled off a year ago on this same track.

Some are skeptical and so far the International Ski Federation has denied her request to compete this one weekend with the men. During the December 1 downhill, Vonn was clocked at 137 km/hr, a full 2 km/hr faster than the men who raced the same course on the previous weekend.

Race conditions do vary, but if any-

The first amateur ski and snowboard competition of the season has been posted. On December 16, Lake Louise host the season's first Heavy Metal Rail Jam. Open to skiers and boarders of all

ages, this event is a great way for you to hone your competitive edge, see where your skills rank and maybe win a few bucks and prizes.

During a "jam" format, competitors do not have a set number of runs; rather it's a timed event where you can take as many runs as you like during a specific time period. Usually the course is pretty small, consisting of a combination of three rails and boxes.

Registrations are accepted online or at 8:30 am on race day at the Sitzmark Lounge. Cost is $25 and you get 20 percent knocked off your lift ticket price. If you're not ready to compete, maybe a good look is in order to see what it's all about. The music should be entertaining in itself. V

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Pack it in

Six days. Ten thousand steps. One ski pass.

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ow much is a full season's ski pass worth? The answer, for some individuals in Jasper, was blowing in the wind. A north wind, that is.

With expected snow.

Last month, accompanied by ski patrollers carrying avalanche transceivers, shovels and probes, 11 skiers and snowboarders stomped out parallel footprints up and down Marmot Basin's gnarliest terrain.

For nearly a week, these volunteers tromped through sometimes waistdeep snow, on rock-strewn slopes up to 25 degrees, in often bitter winds, for eight hours a day. All in exchange for a season's pass to Marmot Basin.

They are the bootpackers. They don't wear fancy uniforms. They don't use expensive equipment. And

they go through a lot of duct tape.

"Bootpacking is a Rocky Mountain avalanche mitigation technique," explains Kerry MacDonald, director of public safety at Marmot Basin. "By stomping holes in the snowpack, bootpackers break up the early season rain crust and persistent weak layers the Rockies are known for."

Avalanche technician Peter Caputa (left) leads a motley crew of volunteer bootpack-

Bootpacking gets the hill ready for the season. When new snow fills in the tens of thousands of footprints made all over the mountain, it creates columns that help anchor the snow to the slope. Think of the difference between shovelling your walk directly following a fresh snowfall compared to after the kids have tramped all over it.

ers down Peak Run at Marmot Basin. Bootpacking consolidates the early season snow pack so it's more stable throughout the ski season. // Bob Covey

"When you squish the snow down, you're more likely not to hit ground," MacDonald says.

For the last eight years, as it has expanded its operations and fired up its chairlifts ever earlier, Marmot Basin has utilized members of the

public to don the bootpacker's bib.

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"Anytime we put the bootpack crew in avalanche terrain, we've mitigated the avalanche hazard beforehand," he notes.

That's not to say there aren't risks involved. Walking down steep ice, through narrow chutes and over lurking rocks, all while trying to avoid frostbite, are some of the more harrowing chores. Getting to the to-be-stomped slopes in thin coverage can be sketchy, too. Inevitably, bootpackers discover why they're called the Rocky, not the Grassy Mountains.

Barb Sharp, a seasonal Parks Canada employee, says she'll take the gouges in her skis over ones on her body any day.

"It's a good time to take it super slow," she says. "You have to realize if you hurt yourself, a season's pass won't do you any good."

Yes, the coveted pass. While each bootstep in November brings Marmot Basin that much closer to opening its prized terrain, the bootpackers are more focused on their end goal: not having to hoof it up the mountain anymore.

Ryan Davies, who after bootpacking until 4 pm each day barely has enough time to peel the duct tape from his pants cuffs before clocking in for a night shift at Famoso Pizzeria, explains: "You're getting into some insane exposure, sometimes minus 30 degree temperatures, you're falling down icy slopes, rolling over rocks and there's a good chance that you're going to ruin whatever equipment you brought with you. Damn right it's about the pass."

Which is why, after completing six days of what MacDonald calls a "ridiculously demanding job," members of the bootpacking crew were checking the Weather Network to assess whether they should try to make first chair the next day.

"Forecasting north wind and snow," Davies says. "Who's going up tomorrow?"

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Bob Covey is a freelance journalist in Jasper. His scoured snowboard indicates he earns his season's pass by bootpacking.

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MUSIC

PREVUE // KLEZMER PUNK

Weirdo salute

In novel and song, Geoff Berner celebrates the strange

Sat, Dec 8 (8 pm) Geoff Berner With Smokey, Jill Pollock New City, $12

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trange music lured me into the life that I lead now," Geoff Berner says. "I shout at people and pay the accordion, and they pay me. That's my job."

At that point in conversation, Berner is both totally serious and absolutely

thrilled—the road less travelled is where he's found the appreciation of an audience that, as his website puts it, consists mostly of "odd, bookish people who like to drink." A oncepunk rocker who's maintained that spirit but embraced the klezmer music of his jewish heritage, Berner's songs spiral around you like a roving caravan of compellingly boozy marvels. His latest album, Victory Party—co-crafted with the guiding hand

of Socalled's Josh Dolgin—lets accordion scores weave nimbly among the hypnotic grooves of low bass and the rustic mélange of a spread of folk instruments, all meshing into danceably drunken rhythms beneath Berner's sometimes clever, sometimes funny, always sharpened lyrics for the world at large around him.

A strange mix of elements you could suppose, but, as he suggests, the value of strange people making sounds

isn't one to underestimate.

"They can change your life," he says.

"They can redeem your life, they can alter, they deepen your experience of life, and make it richer."

So Berner and his band are carouseling into town for his "Chanuka Party," fresh from from a five-week stint in Europe. But in his future looms a new project: Berner's debut novel, Festival Man is due out in 2013.

The plot centres around the Calgary Folk Fest, and a particular real-life fellow that Berner's fictionalized for the sake of the story.

"There was one particular character in my life and the lives of a lot of other musicians, who was this guy who ... made shit happen," he says. "Sometimes he made good things happen, and sometimes he made bad things happen, in the music world.

"He just became this nexus for a lot of the things I wanted to say about the value of strange people and strange music," Berner continues. "It's a novel about the way people who you might consider bad in a lot of ways, make the world a lot less boring. In some ways, boring is worse than just bad."

Festival Man's release is being accompanied by an album, hopefully— currently seeking its funding through an ongoing Indiegogo campaign—of some of Berner's favourite artists covering his songs. From Corb Lund to Rae Spoon, it's an eclectic mix befitting the company.

"They all chose their songs. They all picked their songs, and it was really interesting which songs they picked," he says. "They weren't the ones I thought they were going to do. On this album, Corby Lund does my song about urban gentrification—'That's what keeps the rent down, baby.' I thought he might want to do a country song [laugh]. But in a way, that's kind of underestimating him as an artist, y'know. He makes unpredictable choices. That's why he's not boring."

Or, in other words, a little strange.

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FIRSTS, LASTS AND FAVOURITES

Kelly Joe Phelps Sat, Dec 8 (8 pm) Haven Social Club, $20 (advance), $25 (at the door) After, three years and a whole lot of soul searching, Kelly Joe Phelps teamed up with Steve Dawson to record his latest album, Brother Sinner and the Whale. Prior to making a stop in Edmonton, Phelps shared his Firsts, Lasts and Favourites with Vue. First album The first album I paid money for was Stevie Wonder's Talking Book. That was followed quickly by Chicago V, and BachmanTurner Overdrive, the record that has "Takin' Care Of Business," on it [Bachman-Turner Overdrive II]. BTO, oh yeah ... I think I bought the O'Jays after that, "money money money money ... money!" Soul train, y'all.

First concert The first concert I saw? Well, I never did go to big stadium shows of any kind, so no "rock" memories or stories for me!

The first concerts I went to were nerdy, folk music shows at coffee shops that were all ages allowed, and I started doing this when I was 16. I went to a ton of them, daily if I could find them. The Pacific Northwest has always been rich when it comes to acoustic music and musicians, so I didn't ever go hungry.

Last album The last album I bought was a recording by the Brotherhood of the Valaam Monastery, chanting Russian Christian Orthodox liturgical music, and it's amazingly beautiful. Astounding music.

Breaks my heart and folds it back together.

Last concert The last concert I saw was quite a long time ago; Lucinda Williams in Denver, Colorado in 2006 or 2007. That was the last date of a tour I had been the support act for. I don't get out much. I tend toward reading.

Favourite album My favourite album in the whole, wide world hands down is Miles Davis' record, Seven Steps To Heaven. It's not typically a Miles Davis record that one holds up as the epicentre or cornerstone of his recordings, but it's the best record ever made, in my mind. The best record ever made. The best record ever made. Oh my, what a record!

Favourite musical guilty pleasure My favourite musical guilty pleasure has three parts; Stereolab is my dream-music of choice, and is the most played iPod kinda ching-chang. Nirvana, though, that's my blood and guts, my chain-saw and weathered skin, my function button. However; when I hear anything at all sung by Julie Andrews, I am bought and paid for and sold. She's the Queen I genuflect toward, my first and truest love. Oh, what a lovely she is! V

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ON THE RECORD

A musical journey

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Hannah Georgas finds cohesion on new album Fri, Dec 7 Hannah Georgas With Mother Mother Edmonton Event Centre, $40.25 Two-time Juno Award nominee Hannah Georgas has been steadily gaining momentum ever since the release of her debut full-length album This Is Good in 2010. The singer-songwriter just wrapped up a stint touring with Kathleen Edwards and is now the supporting act for Mother Mother. Before the show in Edmonton, Georgas told Vue about the process of recording her latest self-titled album.

VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make your new album from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

HANNAH GEORGAS: The writing and demo

process began in January 2011 and I finished up at the end of the summer. I made most of my demos in my apartment in Vancouver and also spent a little bit of time on Salt Spring Island writing and recording. I flew out to Toronto in September to meet with my producer, Graham Walsh. We spent just over two months recording the record.

When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way?

Lyrics first? Music first?

HG: I made an effort to sit down everyday at my piano and practise mostly classical music. From there I'd try to create. The melody is usually what sparks first for me.

Whatever is going on in my head tends to come in my music. From time to time the process does change. Sometimes music VW:

first, sometimes melody, sometime a lyric.

In this situation it was the melody.

What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? HG: Graham and I spent two-and-a-half weeks at his house doing preproduction together. We sent off our preproduction demos to Loel Campbell (drummer) and Tim D'eon (guitarist) to get familiar with.

The four of us met and spent seven days recording the bed tracks in a studio just outside of Stoney Creek. After we finished our bed tracks, Graham and I spent the next month doing overdubs at his house.

We pieced the music together one track at a time for the most part. There were lots of moments on the record where we captured great takes and kept them as is.

VW:

VW: Were

there any other songs written that were left off the album? Why? HG: I had three or four tunes that I demoed on my own that didn't make the cut for recording with Graham. Graham and I recorded two other songs that didn't make the cut for the record. I wanted to save those tunes to release at a later time.

I thought it would be nice to share them a little later down the road.

VW:

How did you decide which songs to

include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted this album to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

HG: I wanted the album to feel cohesive and feel like the songs all belonged together. I had a strong idea of how I wanted this album to sound and feel for sure. Whenever I finished writing a song in my apartment, I would write the song title on a piece of paper and stick it on my bedroom wall. By the end of the summer my wall was covered with my songs.

For some reason that helped me picture what songs belonged on the record.

VW: If you were to trace the musical map

that led you to this album, what would it look like?

HG: I began my musical journey in Vancouver about six years ago and met lots of great people that helped me find my way to where I am now. I recorded my EP and my first full- length in Vancouver. I'm really thankful that I met Graham and was able to make my latest record in Toronto.

It opened up a whole other world and chapter filled with wonderful and talented people that have really influenced who I am. V

VW: You

co-produced the album with Graham Walsh. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process?

HG: I was a big fan of Graham's music and I found out through word of mouth that he's a great producer. I wanted Graham's electronic influence to come through in my music. Graham has great ideas and is genius at all things electronic. He's an incredible and multifaceted artist and also has great music taste. We were really in line with how we wanted the record to take shape sonically.

PREVUE // PUNK

The Flatliners

Fri, Dec 7 (8 pm) With Knucklehead, Ben Sir Pawn Shop, $15

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rom dive bars to concert halls across North America, Europe and Japan, The Flatliners' first decade was spent gathering a dedicated following, armed with an in-your-face sound that blends '90s skate-punk, ska and reggae influences. With three full-length albums under its collective belts, The Flatliners are marking year 10 by going back into the vaults and re-releasing its debut album Destroy To Create on vinyl via Fat Wreck Chordsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a label that initially rejected the recording, stating the sound wasn't for them.

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"It's a strange walk down memory lane and it's a weird way to tap into your own psychosis," explains vocalist and guitarist Chris Cresswell from Toronto, where he's hunkered down at home for the day to avoid some "freezing cold" temperatures. "We wrote those songs between the ages of like 14 and 16 ... so it's odd. It evokes a pretty awkward feeling to be honest."

The Flatliners had humble beginnings, simply learning to play instruments and penning a few songs together before realizing the group wanted to make a go at it. This humbleness is something Cresswell has obviously maintained despite the growing recognition of the

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band, speaking with a sense of gratitude for the experiences The Flatliners have had and the people who have supported them along the way.

"I can't really believe how much we've been able to pull off in the last 10 years.

Just to be able to see how we can travel around the world playing music and just reaching these corners of the world we never thought we'd be able to go anyway ... it's unbelievable when you think we've been able to do that just because we've written some songs together," Cresswell says, acknowledging it's important to make the most of each experience. "If you're going to go all the way to Russia or Japan or something you're going to want to make sure you're taking in some of that culture because you may never see it again. There's never any guarantee you're going to be back to any of those places."

As for the next 10 years, Cresswell plans to take things one step at a time, continuing to make music, but having things figured out a little bit more.

"There's a very slow learning curve ... but I've enjoyed with us the slow build of this band, getting a little bit more aware of what we're doing and better at what we're doing and the band growing each year," he concludes.

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PREVUE // ROOTS

Prairie Roots Revue Fri, Dec 7 (8 pm) With Zachary Lucky, Ryan Boldt and more Elevation Room, $10 (advance), $15 (at the door)

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fter a successful inaugural season touring, at times in out-of-the-way towns in Saskatchewan, Prairie Roots Revue is heading west, expanding its now annual tour into Alberta.

"Everywhere we went, people were really into it," says Zachary Lucky, a successful artist in his own right, over the phone from Saskatoon. He's one-fifth of the revue lineup, joined by Carly Maicher, Kacy & Clayton and Ryan Boldt of Deep Dark Woods. "Ryan, being in Deep Dark Woods, and Carly and I are on tour a fair bit, we're playing in cities like Edmonton and Calgary and Saskatoon and Win-

nipeg two or three times a year and to take what we do into smaller places, it kind of changes the dynamic a bit. People in those towns don't always have music coming through and I think it just creates a very interesting dynamic, especially with the time of year. In December, people are coming together, y'know?"

However, the demand has grown and while Prairie Roots Revue will still be visiting smaller communities, Edmonton gets a chance to get in on the action as well. Lucky says the group went into the experience a little blind last year, not knowing what to expect, but the collaborative idea worked, and now, they're building on that success. The aim is to keep the venues small for a more intimate, personal experience with the

audience: all of the artists are onstage at once, playing in the round, feeding off one another as opposed to individual sets. Just don't call it a songwriter's circle.

"I hate the term songwriter's circle ... songwriter's circles can be train wrecks sometimes. I like to think it's a little more of a show than a songwriter's circle, but some people might call it that," Lucky says of the format, which came at the suggestion—make that order—of Fred Penner during a show he joined the group for in Winnipeg. "You just start playing a song and it might end up being great, or you start playing a song and it could go terribly wrong, but that's the beauty of it."

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SOUNDTRACK

Corb Lund FRI, DEC 7, THE ARTERY

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Fri, Dec 7 (8 pm) Edmonton Expo Centre, $39.50 The venerable Albertaborn honkey-tonk troubadour has a song catalogue that spans the gamut of emotions and topics, most recently heard on his latest album Cabin Fever. Prior to his upcoming show in Edmonton, Lund shared his soundtrack picks with Vue.

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TUES, DEC 11, THE HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

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At home

On the road

Morning: Eagles, One of These Nights Country disco (see: title track) gets me going for a day of administrative drudgery and email answering. And the feathered hair and big gnarly 'staches inspire my morning grooming a little bit sometimes. (ps: Movember is amateur night)

Morning: Bobbie Gentry, Fancy or The Delta Sweete (or else anything with "Casket Vignette" on it) Country darkness like this mellows me out and helps me handle being hung over in the back of a bus. I have a trans-generational crush on Bobbie and her words comfort me.

Noon: Neil Diamond, Hot August Night.

This is live from LA, and for some reason, it creeps me out if I hear it at night. In the afternoon it makes perfect sense. I think he's either too hip or not hip enough for late night. Like maybe he's so hip I just can't handle it when it's dark out.

Noon: Merle Haggard, A Friend in California This is one of my favourite Hag records, but unlike lots of his stuff, it doesn't feel like a night album. I think it's because of the brainy, weird be-bop jazz stuff that Clint Strong gets up to. Check out the sequel to "Okie from Muskogee."

Night: Witchery, Witchburner By evening I'm drunk enough that Viking, church-burning covers of Accept and WASP songs make perfect sense. On to Valhalla!!

Night: Turnpike Troubadours, Goodbye Normal Street Speaking of Okies, this is what I literally hear every night lately because the Troubs are the opening act on our Canadian tour. They're from Oklahoma and they're awesome, that's why we brought 'em. V

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LDR's highly stylized songs—cowritten and produced with Daniel Heath—are carefully calculated to pique the niche affectations of the H&M crowd (a company which the "Blue Velvet" cover was recorded for, by the way). Yet the returns on that songwriting model diminish with every track that doesn't so much as bat an eyelash away from the established strings-andsad-swoons form.

The album's at its best—both albums are, actually—when the strings back off and Del Rey's voice has room to rise up alone.

Here, it happens somewhat on "Blue Velvet," but best on "Yayo," a wounded little number with a cabaret vibe. Together, they make a compelling case for a voice capable of great things. Elsewhere, though, it's starting to feel like the work of a songbird trapped in an unshakable cage that she's built for herself. In it, style wins out over substance.

Casually made over four years split between Edmonton and Montréal, Showers in the Dark finds the City Streets' Rick Reid capably dabbling in a varied spread of ideas. Singer-songwriter tendencies bump shoulders with electronic flourishes on "Distractions," which begins as a plucked acoustic line that's quickly matched with a bubbling up of programmed drums, electronic outbursts and fuzzy electric guitar—that original guitar line simply sinks into the sonic waves as a rising, deeper sense of darkness invades its space.

That's track one, and in it, Showers definitely leads with its most interesting tone. Elsewhere, ideas are more traditionally structured, though certainly still capable: the simple guitar and beat that guides "Dark Matter" is alluring, as are the raw, rock-bottom recording of "Divorce Song #1" and the ramshackle banjo run of "Baby, I'm Always On Your Side." There's a Murder City Devils cover, too, "18 Wheels," that pulls back that song's angry Halloween theatrics to find the writing's quiet poignancy.

The EP is short—Dark's seven songs run about 15 minutes total— but pretty sweet, particularly in its more experimental leanings.

PAUL BLINOV

PAUL BLINOV

Lana Del Rey Paradise (Interscope)  Ostensibly a companion piece to last year's heralding Born to Die, Paradise could be called Lana Del Rey's out-takes collection if there was any indication that these eight songs were somehow less deserving of a place among that album's doomy swoons. It's like LDR threw dartboards at a big list of her songs and these are the ones that didn't get hit on the first round: no better or worse or even all that different, collected and released second solely by virtue of fate and chance.

And by that, I mean Paradise captures Lana Del Rey still doing exactly what Lana Del Rey does on Born to Die: her voice swoons like the fleeting American dream, delivered with a disaffected sort of grim determination that she offers up as strings swell into mountains of sound around her. She laments fading loves, hopes for new infatuations, coos for the bad boys she's drawn to like a moth to an erupting volcano. She does a stunning version of "Blue Velvet" here, the song's title hook a perfect match for her voice.

The problems, then, come in terms of variety: this is the sec-

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Jonny Greenwood The Master Soundtrack (Warner)

@VueWeekly: Radiohead rock wizard creates another odd soundtrack, which is anything but standard. An uneasy and unforgettable experience on its own.

Chad Valley Young Hunger (Cascine)

@VueWeekly: Glossy and shiny electro pop. Smells strongly of 80s synth and Tears for Fears. A pleasant, bubbly listen.

Howard Shore The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey Soundtrack (Universal)

@VueWeekly: The London Philharmonic Orchestra can basically dust off the old shelf for some kind of awards. Very large and epic start to the 1st tale.

Green Day Dos (Warner)

@VueWeekly: Plumbing the depths of sad sack pop-rock, calling in every trick that got em here. They're having a mid-life crisis, clearly.

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VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 12, 2012

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THU DEC 6 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live music every Thu; 9:30pm11:30pm; no minors; no cover; this week: Joel Crichton and Jenie Thai ARTERY Bill Bourne (CD release for Songs From a Gypsy Caravan, with Scott Cook, Moses Gregg, Bramwell Park; $15 (door)/$12 (adv on yeglive.ca) BLUES ON WHYTE Trevor Finaly CAFÉ HAVEN YIKES, Katelyn Borle; 7pm CARROT CAFÉ Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm DV8 Jack Sabbath with Tribal Garage, Hamiko Deathnoize; 9pm; $8 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE Mother Mother, Hannah Georgas; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $29.50; all ages FESTIVAL PLACE Jimmy Rankin; 7:30pm; $36 (table)/$34 (box)/$32 (theatre) at the Festival Place EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Open Jam Nights: Musicians are invited to come and join Jammin' Jeff Millar and Trish Jameson alternate hosting; $5 EDDIE SHORTS Good Time Jamboree with Charlie Scream every Thu FANDANGO'S Lori Kole J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Keaton Meunier (contemporary jazz group); $10 KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage; 7pm; no cover L.B.'S PUB Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Tiff Hall; 8pm; no cover MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Open stage Thu; all ages; 9pm-close; no cover MONTY'S PIZZA Lewis Estates (pop, rock, jazz); 8-10pm; $8 NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover PUB 1824 Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm RICHARD'S PUB Live R&B bands (dancing); 8pm

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Mavens of E-town; 8:30pm; $10

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

BLUES ON WHYTE Trevor Finaly

YARDBIRD SUITE The Best Of Alberta Jazz Series: Audrey Ochoa Quintet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $14 (member)/$18 (guest)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: wtft w djwtf - rock 'n' roll, blues, indie; Wooftop Lounge: Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam BRIXX Hosted by Christian and Justin of Canyon Rose Outfit: Open turntables; E: kevin@starliteroom.ca to book 30-min set CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close THE COMMON Uncommon Thursday: Indie with new DJ each week with resident CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill FLASH NIGHT CLUB Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays OVERTIME–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

FRI DEC 7 ARTERY Wil (alt folk), Ryan McMahon, guests; 8pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door) BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca

BOHEMIA An evening of Loud, Adolyne, Crown of Antlers, Upon the Arctic Shelf, Black Dracula BRIXX BAR Early show: Unity Through Tragedy and guests TBA; Late Show: Silence Be Damned with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad CAFÉ TIRAMISU Lionel Rault; 7:15-9pm CAFFREY'S Love Junk CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO YELLOWHEAD Whiskey Boyz (country/ rock) COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm DV8 The Hi Strung Downers; 9pm EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Four Legs Good (rockin' roots stringband); $5 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE Mother Mother, Hannah Georgas; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $29.50; Sold out ELEVATION ROOM The Prairie Roots Revue: Zachary Lucky, Carly Maicher, Ryan Boldt, Kacy & Clayton, James of Dark Wood; 8pm, $10 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$15 (door) EXPO CENTRE HALL C– Northlands Corb Lund, Turnpike Troubadours; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $39.50 FANDANGO'S Lori Kole GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Valdy (folk); 8pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door) IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover L.B'S PUB Smokey Oasis, Rocko; 9:30pm2am LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

Classical JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The Singing Christmas Tree: 8pm; $20–$60 at TicketMaster; proceeds to Santas Anonymous and Edmonton’s Food Bank WINSPEAR Handel's Messiah: Stephen Stubbs (conductor), U of A Madrigal Singers with Leonard Ratzlaff (conductor), YannickMuriel Noah (soprano), Wallis Giunta (mezzosoprano), Colin Balzer (tenor), Gordon Bintner (bass-baritone) 7:30pm; $20-$75 at Winspear box office

DJs

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am SIDELINERS PUB The Give ‘em Hell Boys; 9pm; no cover

FLATLINERS 10TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm

W/ KNUCKLEHEAD, SLATES, BEN SIR & FRESHMAN YEARS

THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Show with Stratosphere; 10pm 2am

SAT DEC 8

TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

PULLEY & BELVEDERE W/ FIRE NEXT TIME, DOWN THE HATCH, & NERVOUS WRECK

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Connected Las Vegas Fridays

FRI DEC 14

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

CONNECTED ENTERTAINMENT PRESENTS...

THE KOKANEE FREERIDE MOUNTAIN TOUR WITH THE M MACHINE

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12

**FREE BEFORE 11PM, $15 AFTER**

ARTERY Bishop, Friar and Radars Most Excellent Karaoke Get Down, Good For You; 8pm

THE RETURN OF THE FAMOUS “I LOVE 80S” DANCE PARTY!!!

FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels BLACKSHEEP PUB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current BONEYARD ALE HOUSE The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP every Fri THE COMMON Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FILTHY MCNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri

HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close

PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat; $5

FRI DEC 7

SAT DEC 8

NOORISH CAFÉ Slack Key Slim; 7-10pm; donation

PAWN SHOP The Flatliners (punk rock), Knucklehead, Slates, Ben Sir; 8pm; $15 (adv)

SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri

BLACK DOG

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri

BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover

NEW CITY LEGION Calista, Living Radio, Van Gohst (rock); $8 (adv)/$10 (door)

ON THE ROCKS Heather McKenzie Band; 9pm; $5

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat OVERTIME–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno REDNEX–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

AVENUE THEATRE MasqueRAVE 3 Hatter's Ball featuring Poppa Squats DJ, Tripswitch, Thompson Highway; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

SAT DEC 15

JUST ANNOUNCED MON DEC 31

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Luke Blu Guthrie (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

NYE 2012 MAD BOMBER SOCIETY & THE RAYGUN COWBOYS 2 BANDS + 1 STAGE = 1 EPIC PARTY!!

BLUES ON WHYTE Trevor Finaly

SAT JAN 26

BOHEMIA Make Out City, Small Town Knife Fight, Matthew A and the Keys ; 9pm; $10 (door)

THE RETURN OF CHOKE W/ FIRE NEXT TIME, THE OLD SINS & 400 STRONG

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 200200Cut, Love Supreme, Tangele; ( jazz); 8pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door)

SUN MAR 3 MARDUK & MOONSPELL W/ INQUISITION, THE FORESHADOWING & DEATH WOLF VOICES FROM THE DARK TOUR

BRIXX BAR Rock For Santa: Furia, Silo, Keep 6, Oldbury, Looking East; 8pm (door), 8:30pm (bands); Santa's Anonymous fundraiser, bring a donation for Santa's Anonymous; $10 (adv from bands)/$15 (door)

MON MAR 4

TRUST W/ ERAAS & GUESTS

CAFFREY'S Love Junk CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO YELLOWHEAD Whiskey Boyz (country/ rock)

FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm CROWN PUB Series at the Crown Pub: with Smoky Oasis; Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am

SAT DEC 8

DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm

MOTHERS

THE DISH NEK Trio ( jazz); every Sat, 6pm DV8 Practical Slackers, Cheap Date

FREE SHOW 4PM

UNWED FILTHY FUED

MONDAYS

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain Four Legs Good (rockin' roots stringband); $5

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 12, 2012

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EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Machine Gun Kelly (hip-hop); 8pm; all ages FANDANGO'S Lori Kole FILTHY MCNASTY'S Unwed Mothers; 4pm; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Kelly Joe Phelps (gospel/ R&B); 8pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door) HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat HYDEAWAY Marleigh and Mueller (classic pop/jazz/ musical theatre); 8pm; 3rd Sat each month; $10 IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Jim Findley Trio (vocal jazz) featuring Ruth Blais; $10 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover NEW CITY LEGION Chanukas Party: Geoff Berner, Smokey, Jill Pollock; 8pm; $12(adv)/$15 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm O’BYRNE’S Live band

every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Heather McKenzie Band; 9pm; $5 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Belvedere, Pulley, guest; (hard rock); 6pm; $22 (adv) PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat, this week with: ; $5 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RIVER CREE–The Venue Fab Four; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $29.50 SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm WUNDERBAR Early Show: Audio/Rocketry, Salinas, Stepmothers, 4pm; Late show: Brazilian Money, The Soft Option (Calgary), Will Scott, OJ Pimpson, Everybody, 8:30pm YARDBIRD SUITE The Best of Alberta Jazz Series: Paul Richey and The Fusionauts; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $14 (member)/$18 (guest)

Classical

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The Singing Christmas Tree: 3pm, 8pm; $20-$60 at TicketMaster; proceeds to Santas Anonymous and Edmonton’s Food Bank MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Wintersong: Kokopelli Choir; 2pm, 7pm; $10-$20, at TIX on the Square ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE Winter Winds: Festival City Winds Music Society; 7:30pm; $10 (door); festivalcitywinds.ca WINSPEAR Handel's Messiah: Stephen Stubbs (conductor), U of A Madrigal Singers with Leonard Ratzlaff (conductor), YannickMuriel Noah (soprano), Wallis Giunta (mezzosoprano), Colin Balzer (tenor), Gordon Bintner (bass-baritone) 7:30pm; $20-$75 at Winspear box office

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick

BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY MCNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Signature Saturdays

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat

SUN DEC 9 BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH First Presbyterian Church Choir, Marnie Giesbrecht and Joachim Segger (directors), U of A Handbell Ringers, Robert deFrece (director); 4pm; donation

BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat

9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834

HOGS DEN PUB 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr

13535-109A Ave

HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110

O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766

HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381

ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767

Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin

O2'S ON WHYTE 780.454.0203

SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006

J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924

JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890

OVERTIME–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St

JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588

STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099

BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

OVERTIME– Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock,

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: PM Bossa; 10am-2:30pm; donations

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BISTRO LA PERSAUD 861791 St, 780.758.6686 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLACKSHEEP PUB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861

THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411

BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981

ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave

BOHEMIA 10217-97 St

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-

BONEYARD ALE HOUSE 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663

70 Ave, 780.437.3667

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011

FANDANGO'S 12912 50 St, 780-406-1940

JOHN WALTER MUSEUM 9180 Walterdale Hill JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768

NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St

PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave

TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860

LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786

PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495

REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955

TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey. ca

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St

RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722

FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St

CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10025-105 St

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025-101 St

FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018105 St, 780.996.1778

MONTY'S PIZZA 1027 Potter Greens Dr

FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700

MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE 9502-100 Ave, Morinville

ROBERTSON-WESLEY

MUTTART HALL–Alberta College Conservatory of Music 10050 MacDonald Dr

ROBERT TEGLER CENTRE Concordia University College of Alberta, 112 Ave, 73 St

CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000

FOOSH 10544-82 Ave, 780.491.6980 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676

CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482

GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY 9942-108 St

CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail

GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB 11824-103 St

COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675

HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO

COMMON 9910-109 St

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010

CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359

VUEWEEKLY DECEMBER 6 – DECEMBER 12, 2012

SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707

L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100

BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636

CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467

STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave

SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969

FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378

CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580

SECOND CUP– Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 •

PLEASANTVIEW

BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099

CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750124 St

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DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron Street, Devon, AB

LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard NISKU INN 1101-4 St NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN & MUSIC HOUSE 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola. com NORTH GLENORA HALL

RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 UNITED CHURCH 10209123 St

UNITARIAN CHURCH OF EDMONTON 10804-119 St VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com WESTWOOD UNITARIAN CHURCH 11135-65 Ave WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414

ROSEBOWL/ROUGE

WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St,

LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253

780.436.2286

ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 ST JOSEPH’S BASILICA 10044-113 St SECOND CUP–89 AVE 8906-149 St

Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining BLUES ON WHYTE Christmas Bow: hosted

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MCDOUGALL CHURCH Celebrations of Christmas: The Columbian Choirs; 2:30pm; $10-$15 (door, choir member) MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE Handel’s Messiah: Edmonton’s Concordia Symphony Orchestra, Concordia Chorus, soloists from ProCoro Canada, Dr. Joy Berg (conductor); 3pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (senior)/$10 (student) at tixonthesquare.ca, door 1 hour prior to performance MUTTART HALL– Alberta College Conservatory of Music Un'alma innamorata (a Soul in Love): Linda Perillo (soprano), Jeremy Spurgeon (harpsicord); 7:30pm; $35 (adult)/$25 (seniors)/$10 (students) at TIX on the Square ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH Alberta Baroque Ensemble (concert of Music for a Festive Season); 3pm; $20-$25 at TIX on the Square ST JOSEPH’S BASILICA Hymns and Readings For Christmas: Greenwood Singers; 7:30pm; tickets at door, St Joseph’s College, 780.492.7681 ext 231 WESTWOOD UNITARIAN CHURCH Keri Lynn Zwicker; 7:30pm (show); $15 (door, TIX on the Square) WINSPEAR CENTRE Cantilon Choirs: Dancing Day; 2:30pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (student/ child) at TIX on the Square

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HOGS DEN PUB Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm

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

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Classical FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Quel est l’Enfant–What Child is This: A Christmas concert by Chorale St. Jean; 3pm; $5-$20 (door) JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The Singing Christmas Tree: 3pm, 8pm; $20$60 at TicketMaster; proceeds to Santas Anonymous and Edmonton’s Food Bank

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm3am SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

MON DEC 10 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE JK and the Statics DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm FANDANGO'S Open mic Music Industry Night every Mon LEGISLATURE BUILDING’S ROTUNDA Christmas classics: Edmonton Concert Pops; 8pm; free

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Classical FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH The Many Moods of Christmas: Greenwood Singers, U of A Faculty of Education Handbell Ringers; 8pm; $20 (adult)/$18 for (student/senior) at TIX on the Square JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Huron Carole: Tom Jackson, Sarah Slean, Matt Dusk, Susan Aglukark; 8pm; $40-$60 at Ticketmaster Bringing Good Cheer UNITARIAN CHURCH OF EDMONTON Solstice/ Christmas celebration: Edmonton Vocal Minority and Chorealis; 7pm; free; 780.488.1498; evmchoir.com

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JONESIN'CROSSWORD "Into the Great Wide Open" A wild grid for the 600th Jonesin' puzzle.

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57 Blemish 58 Political theorist Hannah 59 Reggae musician ___-Mouse 60 Train depot, for short 61 Foot, in kid-speak 62 Rail option, to Rodrigo

Down 1 Fry's cohort, on "Futurama" 2 Corazon of the Philippines 3 Went into heat, like a moose 4 Soviet news agency 5 Getting from ___ B 6 Be necessary 7 Good name for a Dalmatian 8 Medley 9 Scrooge's kvetch 10 Brian once of Roxy Music 11 Precisely 12 Test answer 13 Prop for Mr. Peanut 18 Admiral Ackbar phrase 19 Flabbergast 24 Like some massage

Across

30 B, L or T, e.g.

1 What Burger King tried to serve

31 Quicktime file extension

on a sundae in 2012

32 Genetic message "venue"

6 Sheep's sound

33 OTC sleep-aid introduced in

9 L times VI

2012

12 Stopping point in a Carlo

34 H.S. diploma alternative

Levi novel

35 Three-letter Best Picture

13 Fails to live up to

nominee

15 Arty district

36 "Later, skaters"

16 Character voiced by Danny

38 Bait shop stock

DeVito, with "The"

39 "Buffalo Stance" singer Cherry

17 "See above," in footnotes

40 Mountain chain in Utah

19 Gp. for doctors

41 "Count us in!"

20 "You pick the place"

43 Quid pro quo deal

21 Cocktails with a recipe on the

46 Highest-ranking

Kahlua label

47 Botanist Gray

28 Break room thefts that suck

50 They're not usually syndicated

(especially when you put your name

55 Sighting subject

on them)

56 Costanza mantra

25 Plastic for pipes 26 Tries again with a trial 28 Move like a bobblehead doll 29 "Mairzy ___" (1940s novelty song) 30 Easy instrument to strum 31 "Walking on Thin Ice" songwriter Yoko 32 Sought office 35 Folds in an iPod 36 Rocks, in a bar 37 Subjects of "either oar" situations?

40 Caustic cleaner 43 T-shirt size options: abbr.

44 Former NBA star ___ Mutombo 46 Gordie on the ice 47 "So, back to what I was saying..."

48 Montana's capital 49 Minor villains in "The Lion King" 53 Hit Rodeo Drive, e.g.

54 Old pal 55 Type of "pet" that's really a plant 56 Multi-purpose product's benefits 57 Greek consonants 59 Judas Priest singer ___ Halford 60 Wedding words 61 Longtime Notre Dame coach Parseghian

with

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Spencer Silver was a co-inventor of Post-it notes, those small, colorful pieces of paper you can temporarily attach to things and then remove to use again.

Speaking about the process he went through to develop this simple marvel, he said, "If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment.

The literature was full of examples that said you can't do this." I'd like to make him your patron saint for the next few weeks, Aries. Like him, you now have the chance to make practical breakthroughs that may have seemed impossible, or at least unlikely. Ignore conventional wisdom—including your own. Trust your mischievous intuition.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): The axolotl is a kind of salamander that

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has an extraordinary capacity for regenerating itself. If it loses a leg in an accident, it will grow a new one in its place. It can even fix its damaged organs, including eyes, heart and brain.

And get this: there's never any scar tissue left behind when its work is done. Its power to heal itself is pretty much perfect. I nominate the axolotl to be your power animal in the coming weeks, Taurus. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you now have an extraordinary ability to restore any part of your soul that got hurt or stolen or lost.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): In the coming months, I hope that you will get sweet revenge. In fact, I predict that you will get sweet revenge. Keep in mind that I'm not talking about angry, roaring vindication. I don't mean

you will destroy the reputations of your adversaries or reduce them to humiliating poverty or laugh at them as they grovel for mercy while lying in a muddy gutter. No, Gemini. The kind of revenge I foresee is that you will achieve a ringing triumph by mastering a challenge they all believed would defeat you. And your ascent to victory starts now.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): I would love to speak with you about your hesitancy to fully confront your difficulties. But I will not speak forthrightly, since I'm pretty sure that would irritate you. It might even motivate you to procrastinate even further. So instead I will make a lame joke about how if you don't stop avoiding the obvious, you will probably get bitten in the butt by a spider. I will try to subtly

guilt-trip you into taking action by implying that I'll be annoyed at you if you don't. I will wax sarcastic and suggest that maybe just this once, ignorance is bliss. Hopefully that will nudge you into dealing straightforwardly with the unrest that's burbling.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): "Drama is life with all the boring parts cut out of it," said Leo filmmaker Alfred Hitchcock.

By that criterion, I'm guessing that your experience in the coming week will have a high concentration of magic and stimulation. You should be free from having to slog through stale details and prosaic storylines. Your word of power will be succulence. For best results, I suggest you take active control of the unfolding adventures.

Be the director and lead actor in your drama, not a passive participant who

merely reacts to what the other actors are doing.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): One of my spiritual teachers once told me that a good spiritual teacher makes an effort not to seem too perfect. She said some teachers even cultivate odd quirks and harmless failings on purpose. Why? To get the best learning experience, students must be discouraged from over-idealizing the wise advisors they look up to. It's crucial they understand that achieving utter purity is impossible and unrealistic. Being perceived as an infallible expert is dangerous for teachers, too; it makes them prone to egotistical grandiosity. I bring this up, Virgo, because it's an excellent time to reduce the likelihood that you'll be seduced by the CONTINUED ON PAGE 45 >>

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illusion of perfection.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): This would be a good week to talk to yourself far more than you usually do. If you're the type of person who never talks to yourself, this is a perfect time to start. And I do mean that you should speak the words out loud. Actually address yourself with passionate, humorous, ironic, sincere, insightful comments, as you would any person you care about. Why am I suggesting this? Because according to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you would benefit from the shock of literally hearing how your mind works. Even more importantly: the cheerleading you do, the encouragement you deliver and the motivational speeches you give would have an unusually powerful impact if they were audibly articulated.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In the fairy tale "Beauty and the Beast," a grotesque human-like creature hosts the heroine in his home, treating her like a queen. She accepts his hospitality but rejects his constant requests to marry him. Eventually, he collapses from heartache. Moved by the depth of his suffering, she breaks into tears and confesses her deep affection for him. This shatters the spell and magically transforms the Beast back into the handsome prince he originally was. Your life may have parallels to this story in the coming months, Scorpio. You might be tested. Can you discern the truth about a valuable resource that doesn't look very sexy? Will you be able to see beauty embedded in a rough or shabby form?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): If you thoroughly shuffle a deck of cards, the novel arrangement you create is probably unique in all of human history; its specific order has never before occurred. I suspect the same principle applies to our lives: each new day brings a singular set of circumstances that neither you nor anyone else in the last 10 000 years has ever had the pleasure of being challenged and intrigued by. There is always some fresh opportunity, however small, that is being offered you for the first time. I think it's important for you to keep this perspective in mind during the coming week. Be alert for what you have never seen or experienced before.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): I wish I could do more than just fantasize about helping you achieve greater freedom. In my dreams, I am obliterating delusions that keep you moored to false idols. I am setting fire to the unnecessary burdens you lug around.

And I am tearing you away from the galling compromises you made once upon a time in order to please people who don't deserve to have so much power over you. But it's actually a good thing I can't just wave a magic wand to make all this happen. Here's

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Postively queer Reflecting on the gains for the LGBTQ community Rarely do we take the time to reflect on what is positive in our queer communities, what is positive about the conm ekly.co cept and moniker vuewe alexa@ 'queer,' and what Alexa e n is positive about beDeGag ing queer. Our queer communities have been marred with episodes of tragedy, sickness and death.

Often, when we recount our collective queer histories, we focus on stories of police brutality, harsh conversion therapies, daily discrimination, disease and poverty. And while these realities have, in many ways, strengthened our communities as we rally around a common cause, we seldom reflect on the ways in which being queer, belonging to queer communities and engaging in queer politics are positive in and of themselves.

Sure, we have Pride parades and Pride weeks every year, but over the past two decades these events have become corporate celebrations of the most 'normal' (white) lesbian and gay members of our communities. Since these celebrations have increasingly lost their political raison d'être, queer communities and queer people have found little to celebrate within these official Pride festivities. Moreover,

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queer politics and expressions have assumed a critical perspective as they are continually considering, questioning and challenging societies' ascriptions for acceptable sexuality, gender, race and ability. When constantly engaging in critical, radical politics, it can be difficult to pause and consider the positive gains that have been made by and within our communities.

Vivek Shraya's film and book project What I Love About Being Queer, seeks to give queers the opportunity to reflect on what it means to be queer and why we are attached to and embrace the concept (despite its shortcomings). The film features "34 Beautiful Queers" discussing what they love about being queer. Shraya did not give any of the participants a definition of queer, allowing them to consider what the term meant to them and to speak freely. Exposure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and Culture Festival, screened Shraya's film to a room packed with queer Edmontonians on November 29.

The film's participants discussed many facets of what it means to be queer and why the term remains salient. Many of the reflections considered the political and radical power of the term: "This ability ingrained in queer culture of questioning

everything in a way that can be disruptive or subversive or even sometimes divisive but it's also really beautiful." Participants also paid respect to the historical struggles of our communities and focused on how queers have built communities out of tragedy: "I never try and remove myself from the fact that many people have profoundly struggled and the queer community has pushed the boundaries for me to live the life I want to live."

The majority expressed why they love having queer sex, engaging in (sexual, friendship and/or familial) relationships with other queers, and expressing queer sexuality. Interestingly, several speakers stated that because mainstream society does not define queer sex and sexuality, there is freedom to discover, experiment with and embrace one's own unique sexuality and sexual preferences.

After the screening, several audience members expressed that the film enabled

them to come together and feel good about being queer and being part of queer communities.

Audience members were invited to participate in the project by writing what they love about being queer on a postcard. Shraya is collecting responses, in the forms of postcards, letters and online messages from across North America to create a book about the project.

At the same time, Exposure has started a postcard campaign, asking Edmontonians to consider what queer means to them: "Queer: Offensive or Empowering?

Inclusive or Elitist? Identity or Political Strategy? Inspiring or Tired? All of the above? None of the above? Let's have a conversation about it."

Both Shraya's project and Exposure's campaign highlight that the concept remains controversial, yet powerful, resilient and important within our communities. V

a much better solution: you will clarify your analysis of the binds you're in, supercharge your willpower and liberate yourself.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): In his book Even Cowgirls Get the Blues, Tom Robbins talks about a gourmet who "gave up everything, traveled thousands of miles and spent his last dime to get to the highest lamasery in the Himalayas to taste the dish he'd longed for his whole life, Tibetan peach pie. When he got there ... the lamas said they were all out of peach. 'OK,' said the gourmet, 'make it apple.'" I suspect you'll be having a comparable experience sometime soon, Aquarius. You may not get the exact treat you wanted, but what you'll receive in its place is something that's pretty damn good. I urge you to accept the gift as is.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "Having 'a sense of self' means possessing a set of stories about who we are," according to William Kittredge in his book The Nature of Generosity. He says there are two basic types of stories: the first is "cautionary tales, which warn us" and therefore protect us.

The second consists of "celebratory" tales, which we use to heal and calm ourselves. I believe that you Pisceans are now in a phase when you primarily need celebratory stories. It's time to define yourself with accounts of what you love and value and regard as precious.

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COMMENT >> SEX

A volley of poly outrage

Dan's previous comments about polyamorous people foster a ton of email Sometimes I kick the proverbial hornet's nest intentionally—"bullshit in the Bible," for instance—and sometimes I kick the hornet's nest accidentally. I honestly didn't expect the outraged response I got after I wrote that poly wasn't a sexual identity in the "sexual orientation" sense of the term. Some people identify as poly, of course, just as some people identify as, say, dominant or submissive.

While I recognize that poly (or D/s) can be central to someone's sexual identity, I've never viewed it as a sexual orientation and I didn't think this was a controversial point of view.

Many poly people disagree. I've received a ton of impassioned emails from polyamorous readers, most of whom see themselves as poly-oriented, not just poly-identified. And while some seem confused—I've never denied the existence of polyamorous people, I never said that people couldn't or shouldn't identify as polyamorous—I'm turning the rest of this week's column over to the polyoutraged.

I've been poly all my life, since well before I knew there was such a possibility. As far back as grade school I've

of us are built to love more than one are. However, I feel some people can generally had a crush on more than person at a time. one boy/guy/man and as an adult I be innately one or the other. My husPoly Of Long Years can't imagine a life where I'm limited band and I decided to have a threeto one man, even though I love my way. My husband could barely keep To enshrine the homosexuality/het- his dick hard when fucking our third. husband deeply. When I was with erosexuality spectrum as the one He couldn't get into it until I got insomeone before I knew about polysexual motivator around which volved directly, and even then it didn't amory, I'd cheat. I wouldn't want to, but sooner or later I'd E individuals can choose an really do much for him. (Believe me, SAVAG identity seems strange to our third was any straight guy's meet someone else and fall me. I'm a hetero-identified dream. The only reason he wasn't into in love so hard that I had ly.com eweek u man, but I could be in a that is because he's really only into to be with the other perv @ e lov savage homosexual relationship me.) When he's in love with someone, son, too. I hated cheating. I Dan if a situation forced me to all he wants is that person. He's very hated dishonesty. I hated mySavage choose a partner from out- one-person-and-one-person-only oriself. Reading Dossie Easton and side of my preferred sexual-gender- ented. In contrast, although he satisJanet Hardy's book The Ethical Slut orientation. (Jail, for example.) It fies me and I love him, I want other changed my life. I finally understood wouldn't change how I identify, but partners. I feel that I'm polyamorous the person I had been my whole life.

I'm poly. I'm not monogamous and I can't choose to be monogamous. I I honestly didn't expect the outraged response I got will always have the capacity to love after I wrote that poly wasn't a sexual identity in more than one person and the incathe "sexual orientation" sense of the term. pacity to keep myself from falling in love with others—the way you will always have the capacity to love men romantically and no capacity to love it would change the relationship I'm innately. I feel I am wired to be like women. It's a choice whether I act on in. However, the fact that closeted this. I didn't choose it. Likewise, my that capacity, just like it's a choice homosexual men operate in hetero husband couldn't choose to be polywhether you act on your attraction relationships and fuck their wives, or amorous. He can practice polyamory, to men, but it's not a choice whethhetero guys fuck other hetero guys and he has for my sake, but naturally er I fall in love with more than one in jail or submarines doesn't make he's a monogamous person. I appreciperson at a time. Some people might the identities of gay and straight any ate that you advocate nonmonogamy. just flirt with the lifestyle, but some less valid.

I credit you with helping to save my Thinking Straight marriage. We married as virgins and were clueless about sex. But my husI believe sexuality exists on spec- band and I have a great sex life—and trums. Not just one spectrum from I'm free to pursue people on the side— gay to straight with bi in the middle, because we read your column. but several spectrums. One spectrum I Am How I Am is how sexual you are, from those with little to no sex drive to people Hetero/poly guy here. I'm part of a who have very active sex drives. There live-in quad and we all raise our kids is also, perhaps, a spectrum from mo- together, so I'm pretty far down the nogamous to polyamorous. You say polyamory rabbit hole. Figured I'd that monogamy and polyamory are add my two cents to the discussion. things people do, not things people I don't think that polyamory can re-

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ally be defined as an "orientation" because that's an improper way to describe what polyamory is. I can still be attracted to monogamous people and being poly doesn't change or alter that fact. I do, however, think that polyamory—or, by contrast, monogamy—can be defined as a sexual identity and that's where I think your advice to PP went astray. Consider: a gay man can be attracted to a straight man, correct? Similarly, I can be attracted to people who identify as monogamous. But that attraction doesn't separate individuals from their identity. Gay men tend to date other gay men and would generally be advised not to go chasing after straight men. In the same way, I try my best to stick to other people who identify as poly. Poly is very much an identity, Dan, and poly people form communities around that identity. We face some unique challenges (how do you raise kids in this environment? How do you balance time between partners?), while some other life challenges are made easier (four parents makes getting kids to soccer easier). I'm not saying that we need to add a "P" to LGBTQQIA, but I don't think we can just be written off, either.

Poly Identified Emailer I'm a bisexual, polyamorous 24-yearold woman. From the very first time I was faced with a cute boy who wanted to date me, I knew that I couldn't be in a closed/exclusive relationship. I knew it as instinctively as I knew that I found women attractive as well as men. I had never heard of open relationships or polyamory. I was a virgin, so it wasn't about sex. I didn't have anyone else on the horizon and I really liked the boy, so it wasn't about keeping my options open. And yet I knew—I knew—that I couldn't agree to be his girlfriend without the freedom to date, flirt, sleep with and love other people. Six years later, I started dating someone I think might turn out to be the love of my life.

He's a match for me intellectually, sexually and emotionally. We make each other so happy, it's silly. Even so, even in the best relationship I can possibly imagine, I know monogamy is not for me. Incredibly, he feels the same way. Maybe there are very few people like me—I think most people fall somewhere in the middle, with probably more oriented toward monogamy than not—but poly people like me exist.

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jDecember Luminaria i 8 & 9, 2012 – 5-9pm

In the dark of winter, come to the Devonian Botanic Garden to stroll in peace and light. Cider by the bonfires. Strolling carolers.

Snow sprites. Thousands of candles and millions of stars.

Bring the family or a friend. Light a candle for a loved one. Come for the quiet enchantment.

This Weekend!

Tickets available at the gate.

www.devonian.ualberta.ca With support from:

Adults $10 • Seniors $8 Friends of the Garden $8 Kids 7-12 $5 • 6 & under Free (Prices do not include GST)

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