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Right of way?

Edmonton's first pedestrian fatality of 2013 happened this week—and there are likely more to come. The city hasn't seen a significant decrease in the number of vulnerable road users—pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists—who have been struck by vehicles in recent years despite the overall number of collisions going down.

What is going on? Driving under the influence, speeding and other traffic violations are usually to blame—basically being an idiot behind the wheel. It's almost as if some drivers see their vehicle as an invincible barrier between them and whatever gets in their way. Car in front driving too slow for your liking? Tail them. People crossing the street when you want to turn left? Drive through anyway. Have a few drinks in your system? You're fine to drive; you're a pro.

It was that kind of thinking—or lack of thinking—that led to a 77-year-old woman being hit by a drunk driver as she was crossing the street on the west side of the city on February 4. The 53-year-old man driving the pick-up truck is now charged with driving while impaired and causing a death. He had double the legal limit of alcohol in his system and now the lives of two families are changed for the worse because of an inebriated decision.

Stats provided by the city since 1996 have seen the number of pedestrians struck rise from 267 to 316 in 2011 (2012 stats are not yet available).

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Take into account that the population grew by about 200 000 people to reach 812 201 in 2011, but should we just accept that there will be more pedestrian deaths and injuries with a larger population instead of trying to curb this problem? The apparent decrease in collisions from 2010 – 2011 (17.7 percent decrease) might have something to do with the fact that, starting in 2011, collisions with damage totalling less than $2000 were no longer required to be reported to the police.

All motor vehicle collisions have been decreasing a little bit since 2008, but it's been nothing significant. Eight pedestrians were killed in 2011, and by last October there had already been 11 pedestrian fatalities. And there have been well over 300 pedestrian injuries every year.

Those walking in areas with traffic take a chance with their lives every time they head outdoors, and it shouldn't be that way. In Canada, the pedestrian has the right of way at crosswalks and the impatience of drivers makes a healthy activity extremely dangerous. To be fair, jaywalking is illegal too, but of the 320 pedestrians injured in 2011, 54 of them were jaywalking, and of the eight deaths, four were jaywalking. Pedestrians need to be just as conscious of road saftey as drivers and recognize that whether or not they have the right of way, if a driver doesn't see them, they could die. It's sad and absurd that we even need to talk about any of this. It should be common sense. V

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COMMENT >> FISHING INDUSTRY

Mackerel wars

Fishing disputes between countries amp up as warmer waters cause fish to migrate It's hard enough to manage a fishery stock sustainably when the fish stay put.

Once they start moving around, it's almost impossible. That's why the European Union and Iceland are heading into a mackerel war. It's a foretaste of things to come, as warming oceans cause ocean fish to migrate in order to stay in their temperature comfort zones.

The conflict this time is quite different from the "cod wars" between Iceland and Britain in 1958 and in the early '70s, as Iceland progressively extended its maritime boundaries in order to save its cod stocks from over-fishing

by British trawlers. Back then, Icelanders were indisputably in the right. If they hadn't acted decisively, their codfish would have gone the way of the world's richest cod fishery, on the Grand

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Journalist Robert Fisk gives his spin on recent events in the Middle East

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ssassinated al-Qaeda leader Osathe other direction, "one [effect] would be the beginning of ma bin Laden "is a bit of an albaWorld War Three," but the attack as executed is reported as tross around my neck," Robert Fisk "just [another] part of the civil war, and we all know why. ... tells me at Edmonton's Union Bank When bodies are found, the rebels say it's the government, the Inn, about the man he famously intergovernment says it's the rebels, and both sides have commitview three times. "Long after he's been ted pretty awful atrocities, so we don't know." murdered [and I] want to talk about What Fisk says is hardest to believe about the current Westthe Arab Awakening, which started ern take on the attack is the existence of Syria's motive. "There's just before he was murdered, and it's a line coming now that the Syrians were sending ground-to-air back to bin Laden again. I hope in 20 missiles to [Lebanese political party and militia] Hezbollah in a years' time that bin Laden would have convoy, that this is what the Israelis hit. This is Western dipfaded from my memory as well as other lomats, anonymous, usual suspects, the mountebanks and so people's." on [who are saying this]. I find this a bit strange given the fact In the world of journalism, Fisk is a rock that I know quite a lot about Hezbollah's weapons, that Syria, star, not just for the "songs" he's written, when it needs weapons desperately in order to go on fighting, but for the people he's shared the stage should actually be generously donating missiles, of all things, with, including bin Laden, Saddam Husto the Hezbollah when they've got a lot of their own." sein and Ayatollah Khomeini. Based in That being said, Fisk argues Israel's motives for allegedly atBeirut since 1976, Fisk writes for London's tacking Syria are also difficult to understand. "The Israelis have Independent, and for over four decades remained silent about Syria," he says. "They've only made one he's covered the Iranian Revolution, the condemnation of the slaughter of 60 000 people. ... There's Lebanese Civil War, the USSR's occupation no doubt that prior to the Arab Awakening, Israel was very of Afghanistan and virtually every war or happy to deal with the Arab dictators." conflict in West and Central Asia. Having Just before former US-backed Egyptian dictator Hosni authored Mubarak Had Syria bombed some military site in Israel which fell from five books, it said was a threat to it, or if it thought Israel including power, his classic Israeli was going to arm the rebels so it wanted to stop Pity the NaP r i m e a convoy of missiles, this would be regarded as tion: Lebanon Minister virtually an attack on the United States. at War, and Binyamin received more Netanyahu British and international awards than any as well as King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia "called Obama desother journalist, Fisk frequently defines his perately pleading with him to keep Mubarak. The [Syrian dictarole not to "write the first draft of history," torial] Assad family had been there a long time. For the Israelis, but, by quoting Israeli journalist Amira Hass, these were people they knew, they could 'do business with,' "to monitor the centres of power." as the old cliché goes. And I think Israel would far rather have Assad running a stable Syria than a Syria that may be falling Currently on tour across Canada with the apart and produce another," he adds in a spooky voice, "Islamist Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle state, or Caliphate, whatever you like to call it. I don't see why East, Fisk was in Edmonton on January 31 for Israel would want to put its foot in there." the University of Alberta's International Week, Fisk adds that the Arab and Iranian reactions to the attack are delivering a talk called "Arab Awakening, But laughable. "When we hear there'll be retaliation, every Arab Are We Hearing the Truth?" The day before state that's bombed by Israel announces there'll be retaliation he arrived, Russia and Iran claimed that Israel 'in their own time,' i.e., probably not [laughs], you see? I watch had bombed Syria, with CBC claiming the the TV networks with my usual skepticism and horror and target was an arms convoy headed to Lebacynicism, and that's what happened this morning: 'We've just non. When I ask him how Western press had word that Iran is threatening retaliation!' Hold on. Excuse would have treated the story if Syria had me. Give me a break." bombed a military target inside Israel, instead of the reverse, he laughs.

As for bin Laden, Fisk is clear that al-Qaeda's late murderer-in"Had Syria bombed some military site in chief knew in his final years that his own influence had plumIsrael which it said was a threat to it, or if meted. Bin Laden, says Fisk, saw the birth of the Arab Awakenit thought Israel was going to arm the rebels ing "in which not a single al-Qaeda flag and not a photograph so it wanted to stop a convoy of missiles, this of bin Laden was ever seen—I was in the streets of Cairo. He would be regarded as virtually an attack on the must have realized the young people had not followed him.

United States," Fisk says. "Although Mr Obama is And you had [Egyptian doctor and current al-Qaeda leader in no mood to be involved in yet another war. The Ayman] al- Zawahiri saying, 'Oh, we support the Egyptian peoAmericans have lost Iraq. They're losing Afghanistan. ple!' Pff. Nobody cared."

The French, be sure, will lose Mali. I think Mr Obama, Bin Laden may have despaired the collapse of his network whatever he does in the other four years, he would like into a band of Muslims who spent most of their time slaughto have a quieter time." tering other Muslims instead of occupation forces. Fisk himself According to Fisk, the claim from some Americans that said as much in print, and according to bin Laden emails that Obama simply needed a second term to accomplish a prowere released, bin Laden requested that his American deputy gressive international agenda is—given history and political in Yemen send him a translation of Fisk's article accusing alexpediency—blatantly false as Obama made no comment Qaeda of having become the most sectarian organization in about the Middle East during the inaugural address. the world.

"If he even thinks about dealing with the Middle East, the "I have no idea what bin Laden's reaction to [the translation] next presidential contender in the Democrats will say, was," says Fisk. "But he did read it. It got sent to him in Ab'Oh, please, Obama! Don't bring up Israel and Palbottabad. He referred to me a couple of times in one of his estine!' It'll be the same thing." audio tapes, presumably made in Abbottabad. He said that if As to the effects of the alleged the White House wants to know what al-Qaeda thinks," he says Israeli attack on Syria, Fisk grimly, knowing the grotesquerie of such a commendation, argues that had the "they have only to ask Robert Fisk."

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No bitterness, no hate

After getting attacked for being gay, Chevi Rabbit has been promoting tolerance wherever he goes anxious when he would see groups of men, wondering if they would call him a fag, too. His friends noticed that he was quieter and he'd ask their opinion to see if his outfits were OK, which he never used to do. Even his supportive mother suggested he stop wearing makeup because she was afraid for his safety.

"I really had to do some soul searching. And I came to the conclusion that I am actually really comfortable with myself. And I think it was their uncomfortableness with how comfortable I was. I think for the most part people—if you're from Canada, if you're born and raised here—I think we're kind of tolerant and we do like gay and lesbian people. I just think it was their problem. It's not my problem."

thrown on the ground and watched as bystanders ran to help him and chase the attacker away. Someone got a licence plate number. Others, including Rabbit, noticed the men didn't seem to fit the university neighbourhood by their style of dress, their actions and their accents.

The police arrived within 10 minutes and someone lent Rabbit a phone to call his mom since the attacker had stolen his. "Then I really comprehended what just happened. 'Oh, I did get attacked

and I got attacked because I was gay.

And I started bawling to my mom.'"

Rabbit describes himself as a gay man who loves fashion and makeup.

He's in his 20s and has never once been bullied, despite wearing makeup since his early teens. "When I got attacked I was super embarrassed because I'm so comfortable with myself. I wear makeup and just do my own thing. I'm not hurting anybody. I think it's artful."

After the attack, Rabbit became

It was a story from a friend about how her gay friend in Montréal was beaten into a coma that gave Rabbit the courage to go public with his story. "I realized that bullying is actually really common and I've lived in a bubble and it kind of burst my bubble. It's a shared story. A lot of people have been bullied, not just gay, but anybody who's a little bit different gets bullied a lot ... and my friend's story of her friend almost being beaten to death made me think that could have been me."

On February 15, Rabbit will share his story with Edmonton high school students at the #YEGrights Youth Forum, a project by the John Humphrey Centre for Peace and Human Rights.

"When I go there, I'm going to be different and I'm going to promote that you can be different and you can be a productive member of society," he says. "You can go to school, you can follow your dreams of makeup art-

dinavian fishing fleets.

They know that the mackerel stock is being over-fished, and in recent years they have set quotas for the total allowable catch. This required complex negotiations between the European Union (representing the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands) and Norway (which is not an EU member). The talks were successful, but last month the Marine Conservation Society removed mackerel from its "(safe) fish to eat" list anyway.

Bernadette Clarke, fisheries officer at the MCS, explained that "the stock has moved into Icelandic and Faroese waters, probably following their prey of small fish, crustaceans and squid.

As a result, both countries have begun to fish more mackerel than was previously agreed. The total catch is now far in excess of what has been scientifically recommended and previously agreed upon by all participating countries."

What has happened is that global warming caused most of the mackerel

to move north-west to the cooler waters around Iceland in the summer— and since they were now in Icelandic waters, Iceland began fishing them heavily. It set a quota, of course, but it is not a EU member, and this unilaterally decided quota was in addition to the one agreed between the EU and the Norwegians.

ingrimur Sigfusson told the Scottish Sunday Express: "In the summer you can see mackerel jumping on the water at the harbour, which is something new for us. The numbers coming to our waters are quite incredible and they double their weight when they are here ... Our catch will be above the scientific advice, but all I am willing to

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ast July, Chevi Rabbit was walking from his dorm at the University of Alberta to Safeway on Whyte Ave to get some food. A car pulled up and three men started calling him a fag.

Rabbit was shocked and didn't know what to do, so he said, "Thank you," and kept walking. A group of people who had been playing volleyball nearby told him what happened next: one of the men jumped out of the car, ran after Rabbit, put him in a headlock and started beating him. Rabbit was

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sues on the table, from wheat exports to airline-landing rights.

Whereas the cod fishery was the biggest industry in Iceland, and so it fought hard to defend it: British trawlers' nets were cut by Icelandic Coast Guard vessels, there were ramming incidents and there was much angry rhetoric. In the end Iceland won, as it deserved to— and it still has its cod stocks. (A president of Iceland once told me privately that she believed Newfoundland would still have its codfish too if it had been free to fight for them.)

But Icelanders are not saints, and this time they are in the wrong. The issue is the Atlantic mackerel, whose total catch went from about 150 000 tonnes in the early '50s to over a million tonnes in 1975, and then fell back to around 700 000 tonnes by 2010. A smaller relative of the tuna, its flesh is much in demand in Europe, and it has become a mainstay of the British, Dutch and Scan-

Iceland wants a much bigger share of the total allowable catch because it now has most of the mackerel in the summer, while the countries that traditionally fished the mackerel are digging their heels in and trying to hold on to their old quotas.

Last year scientists advised a total catch of no more than 639 000 tonnes of mackerel by the EU countries, Norway, Iceland and Russia. However, about 932 000 tonnes was caught—307 000 tonnes more than was safe. And almost half of that excess was down to the Icelanders, who caught almost no mackerel 10 years ago.

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say is we will be as responsible as our situation allows us to be."

Loosely translated, that means that Iceland wants a much bigger share of the total allowable catch because it now has most of the mackerel in the summer, while the countries that traditionally fished the mackerel are digging their heels in and trying to hold on to their old quotas. "We will

istry, you can do anything you want being different and there's nothing really holding you back. So although I hate public speaking, I'm going to do it because I know there's probably a little me somewhere in there who will get inspired."

Bitterness and hate haven't gained a foothold in Rabbit's life since the attack and he's been donating his time and skills as a makeup artist to underprivileged women.

"I just basically show them that somebody cares because it's not just the makeup. When I do makeup, I'm conversing with them. It's almost like therapy, too, because they were telling me about their life and I was sharing mine. It's a give and take. And they walk away feeling good."

Rabbit says that by traveling around the province working as a makeup artist for different shows and projects, he's promoting the normalization of gay behaviour.

"Yes there are differences in cultures, there are differences in personalities, there are differences in characteristics, but I think if you promote some kind of tolerance it makes everything peaceful because you can't change anybody and everybody is allowed to be who they are. ... We are quite tolerant and when you come from another country, you have to be tolerant as well. I don't think I should feel that just because the government is trying to fill the workforce with foreigners I should have to feel like I'm going to get beat up going to the grocery store."

To sign up for the #YEGrights Youth Forum visit jhcentre.org/news-blog/ yegrights-youth-forum.

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be as responsible as our situation allows us to be" could also be the slogan of the EU countries—and it isn't responsible at all.

Maybe they'll all see the light before they fish the mackerel out, but the EU is now muttering about sanctions and Icelanders don't respond well to outside pressure. Everybody involved understands what's at stake here, but they are all answerable to their own fishing industries at home, not to international law (there is none on this issue) or to some wise and impartial arbitrator. So there may not be a deal.

Goodbye, mackerel.

The problem is not really greedy Icelanders or stubborn British. It is climate change. And we will see many more disputes like this, some of them with a much higher risk of violent confrontation, as the warming proceeds and fish stocks dwindle. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999

• Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Dov Davidoff; until Feb 10 • Ruben Paul; Feb 13-17

AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old

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

DOW–SHELL THEATRE–FORT SASKATCHEWAN • CBC's The Irrelevant Show: Stars Mark Meer,

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

Donovan Workun, Jana O'Connor, Mariane Copithorne, and Neil Grahn • Feb 8, 7:30pm • $20

DOW–SHELL THEATRE–FORT SASKATCHEWAN • Clockwork Mysteries, take a journey through

time with Ted and Marion Outerbridge, masters of illusion • Mar 16, 7:30pm • $25 (adult)/$20 (senior/youth)

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy

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

side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Join Vincenzo and Ida Renzi every Friday at Foot Notes Dance Studio for an evening of authentic Argentine tango • Every Fri, 8pm-midnight • $15 (per person)

ART PARTY • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Art

with Charity Brown 7:00pm to 10:00pm, bring own supplies • $15; pre-register at info@expressionzcafe. com, 780.437.3667 • Feb 7, Mar 7, Apr 4, May 2, Jun 6

THE WAY WE MOVE

ON-STREET BIKE ROUTES 2013 GET INVOLVED

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

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

EDMONTON YOUNG PEOPLE IN ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave

• Every Fri, 7:30-8:30pm; doors at 7pm for coffee

FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Floor Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave • 780.467.6013 • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 842495 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Every Thu, 7pm

GURU DIGITAL ARTS COLLEGE • Guru Digital

Arts College, 204, 10359-104 St • Open House: Diploma programs for Digital Design, 3D Animation Production, Digital Illustration, Sequential Art, and Interaction Design Game Level Development • Feb 12, 5:30-7:30pm

HEALING CIRCLE • Call 780.570.0475 for location •

This year, the City of Edmonton will install 23 km of on-street bike routes. These meetings will be an opportunity to learn more and share your feedback. You can also view the design plans and provide your input online at edmonton.ca/cycling.

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2013

DROP-IN MEDITATION CLASSES • Sherwood

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam Cres-

ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Jamie Hutchinson; Feb 7-9 • Bob Angeli; Feb 14-16

DANCE YOUR PRAYERS SWEAT YOUR

BLISS • Roots on Whyte, 3rd Fl, Conference Centre, 8135-102 St • 780.932.1109 • Opening circle and group meditation/ inspired reading, one hour dance session, followed by a closing circle/dyad connection • Every Mon until Feb 18, 7:30-9pm • $15 (donation, pay-what-you-can) 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

edy every 2nd Mon

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857

SAWA 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

Hazeldean School, 6715 – 97 Street

6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. | Presentation offered at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

spiritualawakeningcentre.com • Begins with a guided meditation moving into an affirmative state where healing on all levels occurs • Every Wed, 7-8pm

HOME–ENERGIZING SPIRITUAL COMMU-

NITY FOR PASSIONATE LIVING • Garneau/ Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Crestwood School, 9735 – 144 Street

6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. | Presentation offered at 6:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Route Locations 95 Avenue

115/116 Street

» 95 Avenue (145 St to 189 St)

» 116 Street (71 Ave to 73 Ave)

» 145 Street (95 Ave to 96 Ave)

» 73 Avenue (115 St to 116 St)

» 96 Avenue (142 St to 145 St)

» 115 Street (73 Ave to University Ave)

» 142 Street Service Roads

114/115 Street

(96 Ave to Summit Dr)

» 114 Street (34 Ave to 44A Ave)

81 Street

» 115 Street (46 Ave to 60 Ave)

» 81 Street (119 Ave to Yellowhead Tr)

106 Street & 40 Avenue

» 119 Avenue (76 St to 82 St)

» 106 Street (34 Ave to 51 Ave)

» 78 Street (117 Ave to 119 Ave)

» 40 Avenue (106 St to 119 St)

Saddleback Road

76 Avenue & 100 Street

» 112 Street (Saddleback Rd to 30 Ave)

» 76 Avenue (78 St to 100 St)

» 31 Avenue (30 Ave to 113 St)

» 100 Street (76 Ave to Saskatchewan Dr)

» 113 Street (31 Ave to 34 Ave) » Saddleback Road (111 St to 112 St) » 25 Avenue (Saddleback Rd to 119 St)

97 Street » 97 Street (63 Ave to 82 Ave) 132 Avenue » 132 Avenue (82 St to 91 St)

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté

St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • Program for HIVAID’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

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

MILL CREEK MORNING AL-ANON FAMILY GROUP • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • Open to

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780-496-1795

Learn more about and get involved in City projects affecting you and your neighbourhood.

Go to edmonton.ca/PublicInvolvementCalendar for a list of public involvement opportunities.

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Queen Alexandra

Community League, 10425 University Ave (north door, stairs to the left) • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue each month. Help develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS COLOURS IN FASHION • Telus Centre, Rm 150, U of A • 780.492.3604 • Learn about the role colour has played in fashion over the centuries; lecture by U of A prof Anne Bissonnette • Feb 12, 7pm • Free • Info: anne.bissonnette@ualberta.ca CURATORIAL LECTURE SERIES • Royal Alberta

Museum • Dancing on the head of a Pin: Unravelling nature, one mite at a time • Feb 13, 7pm • Free

HACKING LIFE • CCIS L2-190, U of A • 780.492.5344 • Part of Science Week • Feb 7, 4-5pm LATE ROMANTICISM: BRAHMS AND MAHLER • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival

Lane, Sherwood Park • Join Dr. Michael Roeder for a three-part series on the history of the symphony. In this final presentation, you’ll meet Johannes Brahms & Gustav Mahler. Brahms created stunning works, towering over other 19th century composers. Mahler, taking off from Beethoven and Berlioz, viewed the symphony as “a world,” creating highly personal “worlds” filled with instrumental colour and storytelling magic • Feb 10, 2-4pm • $10 (door)

MANAGING INTERPERSONAL CONFLICT SERIES • Oliver Community Hall, 10326-118 St,

780.423.0896 • III: Conflict Communication! Skills Practice: Feb 7 • $20 each/$50 (for 3); pre-register at mrjc.ca/training-and-education/managing-interpersonal-conflict

OPTIMAL VEG*N DIET • Stanley Milner Library

Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.469.1448 • nutrispeak.com • Presentation with Vesanto Melina • Tue, Feb 19, 7-9pm • Donatio

QUEER LENS • The Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Pride Centre's Public Education Program every Wed, 7-8:30pm • Identities and Orienetations: "Born this way", or "made" this way?; public lecture by Randi Nixon; Feb 13 SUSTAINABLE WATER FUTURES IN ALBERTA • Central Academic Bldg, 116 St, 85 Ave, U of A • Lecture by David Trew (North Saskatchewan Watershed Alliance) • Feb 11, 5pm • Free

THOUGHTFUL TUESDAY • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Carbon Nation; Feb 12, 7-9pm • Introduction to Permaculture Design; Feb 19, 7-9pm UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA–WINTER 2013 LECTURE SERIES • FAB 2-20, U of A Dept of Art and Design • In-sight: By Rebecca Beardmore Head of Printmedia, University of Sydney, Australia • Feb 7, 5:15pm

VEGETARIAN, VEGAN, AND RAW FOOD DIETS • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq • Talk presented by the Vegans and Vegetarians of Alberta • Feb 19, 7pm

QUEER

• 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

OCCUPY EDMONTON GENERAL ASSEMBLY

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

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

• Palace Banquet Hall, 3223 Parson Rd • EIGHT MINUTE DATE: Valentine's Single Extravaganza • Feb 15, 5:45pm • $45 (adv only) 780.457.8535; info@ eightminutedate.ca

VITAL CHURCH CONFERENCE–BEING DISCIPLES • Matrix Hotel, 10640-100 Ave • Christian

leaders from a variety of traditions learn from each others' ministries • Until Feb 7 • $290 for event or $613 for the event with two night accommodation at

10 UP FRONT

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

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St

VALENTINES SINGLE EXTRAVAGANZA Service for deaf or hard of hearing persons provided upon request.

Call 311 at TTY/NexTalk 944-5555 and press 0, or email 311@edmonton.ca.

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strath-

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thesolcafe.com • Meet Sundays 4:30-6:30pm

Visit edmonton.ca/cycling

WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKES • waskahegantrail. ca • Meet at McDonalds, Argyll Rd, 81 St • 10km hike– Goldbar river valley Tr led by Stella • 780.488.9515 • Feb 10, 9:45am-2:45pm; guests welcome • $20 (annual membership)

anyone who has been affected by somebody else's drinking • Meet every Wed 10-11am, admission by donation

THE SOL CAFÉ • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave •

FOR MORE INFORMATION

The Matrix; info at pr@matrixedmonton.com

VUEWEEKLY FEB 7 – FEB 13, 2013

AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–RED DEER • Sun-

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

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A

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

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 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

7:30-8:30pm at Garneau Elementary School, 10925-87 Ave; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@ teamedmonton.ca • Badminton (Co-Ed): Every Wed, 6-7:30pm; St Vincent Schl, 10530-138 St; $5 (drop-in); E: badminton@teamedmonton.ca • Cross-Country Skiing: Strathcona Wilderness Centre; E: Colette at crosscountry@teamedmonton.ca; facebook.com/ events/511701118849342 • Outdoor Skating: Hawrelak Park, Victoria Oval; E: Teresa at skating@teamedmonton.ca • Yoga: Gay/Lesbian yoga every Wed, 7:30-9pm, at Lion's Breath Yoga, 206, 10350-124 St; Instructor: Jason Morris; $10 (drop-in) • Indoor Cycling: Terwillegar Recreation Centre; drop-in; E: 311@edmonton. ca • Running: Every Sun, 10am, at Kinsmen • Swimming–Making Waves: Northern Alberta Institute of Technology (NAIT) pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@ teamedmonton.c; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Volleyball: until May 2013; E: recvolleyball@teamedmonton. ca • Curling: Every Tue, 7pm at the Granite Curling Club (8620-107 St; E: curling@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Every Tue, 6:30pm; at Ed's Rec Room, WEM; $15/week • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca

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

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 ave • 780.387.3343 • groups.yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 8:30pm INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organi-

zation for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edm-

livingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities. com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Cen-

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

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area.

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

SPECIAL EVENTS THE GREATER EDMONTON ALLIANCE 1ST ANNUAL WINE TASTING EVENT • Expressionz

Café, 9938-70 Ave • Join sommelier Ken Bracke, Aligra Wines and Spirits, and Expressionz Café chef Mariel Montero • Fri, Feb 8, 7-11pm • $60 (incl wine and tapas); proceeds to support the work of the Greater Edmonton Alliance

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper.

Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca

SILVER SKATE FESTIVAL • Hawrelak Park • silverskatefestival.org • Winter sports, activities, snow and fire sculpture, live music, folk trail; all-age winter celebration • Feb 15-18 • Free

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP

SUNDAY SWING 'N' SKATE • City Hall Plaza •

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965

THE WINTER WONDERLAND GALA • Mirage

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

• 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. SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Hockey: at the Sportsdome; E: hockey@ teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Every Mon,

Music, dancing, and free skate rentals • Sundays in Feb, 1-4pm • C-Jam Big Band; Feb 10 • Billie Zizi and the Gypsy Jive; Feb 17

Banquet Hall, 8170-50 St • thewinterwonderlandgala. eventbrite.com • Presented by the U of A Philippine Students' Association. The evening includes a full course meal, drinks, entertainment with the Shadow Twins, Angelique Bebe, and Canadian Idol contestant Bernard Quilala, dancing and a silent auction • Feb 8 • $40 (adv); in support of the Gift of Grace Foundation (thegiftofgrace.com)

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ONLY A MATTER OF TIME PETER METTLER EXPLORES THE MYSTERIES OF TIME'S PASSAGE

Fri, Feb 8 (7 pm); Sat, Feb 9 (4 pm); Sun, Feb 10 (12:30 pm); Wed, Feb 13 (9:30 pm) Directed by Peter Mettler Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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inema is the assembly of captured moments, the repurposing of the past in fragments, what Andrei Tarkovsky called sculpting in time. SwissCanadian filmmaker Peter Mettler's latest takes this most essential of cinema's raw materials, this definitive dimension of existence and identity, and claims it as its central subject. The End of Time is both a hypnagogic object of meditation and a spectacular, absorbing thematic exploration, riddled with fascinating characters and seemingly fantastical locales. It is a question machine: what is time? An illusion? Some false ordering we impose upon the passage of instants? Does its passage change depending on how we spend it? Is it really just space? Does it even exist?

Seeking answers—or, as it turns out, deepening mysteries—The End of Time takes us to the European Organization for Nuclear Research, or CERN, where physicists recreate the Big Bang in the massive Hadron Collider particle accelerator; to Hawaii, where a man named Jack Thompson knowingly lives within the annihilating lava path of an active volcano; to Detroit, where the ravages of time can be read in nature's reclaiming of the crumbling vestiges of civilization; to India, where religious ritual promises escape from time's enslavement; to Mettler's editing suite, where time is manipulated to tell stories; to some liminal space made of hypnotic geometries and flickering images generated by Mettler's own image-mixing

software. Film as journey: we feel we've been taken far away, bedazzled, perplexed, enlightened and safely returned, all in under two hours.

The End of Time follows the modus operandi of Mettler's other extraordinary first-person travelogues: Eastern Avenue (1985), Picture of Light (1994), in which Mettler goes to Churchill to film the Northern Lights, Balifilm (1997), Gambling, Gods and LSD (2003), in which Mettler travels to Switzerland, the American Southwest and India to meet people seeking transcendence through diverse means, and Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009), in which Mettler gets in a helicopter and surveys the draining of bitumen from the boreal forest, the unwitting creation of a sinister kind of land art, and landscapes that feel like homages to Antonioni's Red Desert (1964), at first spectrally beautiful, then horrifying when you realize this isn't some alien planet but our own province.

Some have regarded The End of Time as a conclusion of this cycle, but I get the impression that Mettler's approach isn't something devised for any particular project; it is a way of moving, looking, listening, being, an activity that just happens to result in some of the most important films this country has produced in the last 30 years.

I spoke with Mettler last year, when The End of Time was premièring at the Toronto International Film Festival. The film has since been selected for Canada's Top Ten and screens at Metro Cinema in conjunction with their Top Ten series. I enjoyed our conversation immensely— and you should converse with Mettler too, when the filmmaker comes to Edmonton to attend the screenings of The End of Time on Friday night and Saturday afternoon.

When you're in the act of shooting, does time stop? Or do you feel more sensitive to time's passage when the camera's running?

PETER METTLER: I think what happens when I'm shooting is that time disappears. It's one of the occasions where I feel most present. You're aware of being caught in time's flow, which you're always in, but now you've added this layer of recording. You're creating time, in a way, creating a time experience for somebody. Ironically, that makes me feel present. I'm certainly not thinking about time. It's more about when to turn the camera on and off and when to move it. It's more about body reactions than intellectual reactions.

VUE WEEKLY:

It seems there was a point in film history when all movies became, in some sense, about time, capturing pieces of time. They became self-conscious.

So it's as though you've taken this hidden subject of all movies and dragged it to the foreground.

PM: I wasn't aware of that so much. It was only by making the film that this became apparent, how you point a camera at anything and you're addressing time itself. But I didn't initially set out to make a film about time; the original subject was clouds, what goes into them, the vapours and where they come from, how they travel, how they return to the ground or the ocean. My intention was to follow those cycles in a very literal way. Petropolis came out of that, because the tar sands is a particularly toxic place that was adding all this junk into our clouds. By chance, Greenpeace contacted me to do something for them and that project spun off into its own thing. Nonetheless, by studying clouds VW:

VUEWEEKLY FEB 7– FEB 13, 2013

I started thinking about time. If you recall, a physicist in the film talks about how in some languages weather and time are the same word. So I became more aware of transition, transformation, those occurrences which are what we call time. Then it was a matter of questioning what this thing we call time really is.

There are mesmerizing passages in The End of Time in which you allow a lot of time to simply pass before the camera, the part with the lava fields being an especially memorable one. As you were figuring out what this project was, was it ever going to be just that? Just lava, say?

Just allowing time to speak for itself before the camera?

PM: I could easily see myself just making a film about lava. Not even about lava—just watching lava. [Laughs] Lava for 90 minutes! We've done this, just watched lava footage for that length of time in the editing room. It's intoxicating, really interesting where your mind goes.

But here we are, living in this particular time and use of media. So how do you present ideas? What's the format? We chose the feature film format and the documentary genre; you can't show a 90-minute lava film in that context.

The rationale involves who you're communicating with, using familiar aspects of cinematic language while simultaneously trying to lead the viewer to look at things a little differently. That lava sequence is quite long for a traditional film. I think it's about six minutes.

VW:

Numerous elements in the film break from documentary conventions.

When you introduce commentators, for example, there are no supers telling us who they are, and many of their com-

VW:

ments are abbreviated.

PM: One thing I'm trying not to do is to make a film that's just informational, you know? One that's didactic or that uses words to illustrate ideas. I'm much more interested in taking the viewer through an experience, to form their own ideas and associations. Often when we see a label telling us this is such a place or this is this person's name it rarely matters, actually.

That's true. You almost never remember.

PM: I'm trying to make you feel and see and wander and not be distracted by that stuff. I know this is a challenge, because you want to know where you are.

But I believe it's better for my ends to be provocative in that way.

VW:

Is there any correlation between the sequence of the film's sections and the order in which you were discovering these things, going to these places?

PM: Funny you should ask, because Gambling, Gods and LSD was chronological.

That was one of the rules in the edit of that film. I really wanted to respect the logic and the mystery of how experience unfolds, how one thing leads to another.

With this film that was not the case. In fact a lot of the film had already been edited by the time we were shooting in India. So it was more constructed. But I think that logic of experience was still an influence in how we were cutting.

VW:

VW: Movies

so often feel very digested by the time you see the final cut. It's exciting to watch a film where you can sense questions being asked in the midst of its making.

PM: Absolutely. I don't know where I'm CONTINUED ON PAGE 13 >>

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Here was an unlikely stopertinent and made with .com weekly e u ry. A filmmaker nobody's high production values. v josef@ f e heard of from a country s Whatever—Dogtooth was o J whose cinema nobody follows Braun nominated! A striking develgets together with an ensemble opment, you think, and surely a of actors nobody's heard of and makes major boost for the film's author, Yora low-budget, ingeniously batshit, gos Lanthimos. rather disturbing and disturbingly hilarious movie about family, repression, Along comes Lanthimos' follow-up, sensory deprivation and role-play. It's Alps (2011), which, like Dogtooth, stars celebrated at festivals but gets only a the heroic, gangly and captivating Aghandful of screens in its North Amerigeliki Papoulia. It too does well at fescan theatrical release. Then, shocktivals. Like Dogtooth, it has a brilliantly ingly, it gets an Oscar nomination for weird premise that allows for a blackly Best Foreign Film, a category normally comical, quasi-anthropological study reserved for the heartwarming, the of human behaviour. It's about a small, cozily ethnic, the supposedly socially cult-like group offering a novel service: if pertinent (and preferably with high someone you love has died, call "Alps," production values, please). The film, and they will send a substitute to astitled Dogtooth (2009), lost to Susume the role of your dearly departed, sana Bier's In a Better World (2010), comforting you through the shock until which was nothing if not (falsely) you're ready to move on and accept loss. heartwarming, supposedly socially This is a story about the strange nature

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Expanding the frame: this is more or less the idea. Welcome to our new column, which is a little like our old column, DVD Detective, except that where that column dealt exclusively with movies available on discs, Aspect Ratio (the term used to define the relationship between the height and width of the frame) leaves room to branch out. DVD Detective was born of frustration with the amount of interesting—or even great—cinema that wasn't making it into Edmonton theatres, and of an enthusiasm for the amount of lost, forgotten or little-seen cinema cropping up on home video.

Times changed, formats proliferated, the column dissolved. Yet there's only more material to discover, report on and perhaps champion. Aspect Ratio is a place where we can draw attention not only to titles on DVD or Blu-ray, but also online, on television or at festivals. Do you love movies but feel saddened by the selection of shit at the multiplex? Do you stand dazed in video stores (yes, they still exist, thankfully) or sit dazed before your computer, cowed by the density of titles that mean nothing to you? Are you drawn to the road of movies less travelled? Watch this space. of grief, but even more so about what drives people to become actors. Papoulia's character is the all-too-apt pupil, getting carried away with the role of a beloved tennis-playing daughter who died from injuries sustained in an accident.

Acting the part of another has a way of revealing a seeming paucity of self. And as any actor knows, it can be tough to come down once the show closes or production wraps.

Anyway, Alps is terrific. A close relative of Dogtooth, yet fresh and inventive. It barely got released anywhere.

It's currently available on a no-frills DVD from Kino Lorber. Lanthimos has left his economically fraught homeland to seek opportunity elsewhere.

I've met him, and I'm too not worried about him; he seems confident and resourceful. But I worry about the life of movies like his, so challenging, yet so full of promise. V

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Bullet to the Head Now playing Directed by Walter Hill

smash-cut close-ups (when Kwan's hit with a bullet, the ripping zip of it into his shoulder is startling).

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est known for a late '70s dystopia-actioner (The Warriors) and two '80s cop-and-awkward-pal actioners (48 Hours, Red Heat) before getting into Westerns, director Walter Hill returns to fire off Bullet to the Head. And, for a while, there's a bit of a charge to the roar of shootout and fight sequences, the growl of bull-necked Sylvester Stallone and the grit of a New Orleans setting. But the roar dies into a hollow echo, the growl gets gutturally onenote and the grit becomes B-movie background. With too scuzzy a heart to pump out a deep throb of action, this comeback falls short.

The premise, from Alexis Nolent's French graphic novel about an assassin, is adapted so ruthlessly that the interesting details get gutted. An assassin, Jimmy Bobo (Stallone), and his partner are doublecrossed (the partner fatally) by high-up, crooked employers killing off anyone who can be traced back to them. When Taylor Kwan, a Washington DC cop (Sung Kang), arrives to investigate, he and Jimmy hunt down the crooks. Shoot outs, hit jobs and punch ups are short and brutal, propelled by some

Stallone's on rocky ground

But the movie ends up gruff and perfunctory, over-aping Stallone's few-words, all-muscle performance.

The murky details of the corruption behind the condos-replacing-ghetto project, snaking from the "Crescent City" back to West Africa somehow, are reduced to a coveted flash drive of bank-account info, forgotten by the end. After a few leers at the ladies (two women, both made to undress pointlessly; one's dismissed as a hooker and the other's the daughter of a "hooker junkie, dead 15 years"), a steady sneer of vengeful violence sets in on the face of Bobo, his nemesis and the movie itself. And the police-criminal buddy banter's none too memorable (likely reflecting the studio's insistence that an ethnic actor be parachuted into the cop's role). At worst, as the ammo-clipping scenes in toilets, backrooms, bayou shacks and abandoned warehouses squelch along, the déjà vu that drips out is a lurid, '80s cable-channel sensibility. Peel this one back and you get more pit than pulp.

BRIAN GIBSON

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A MATTER OF TIME

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going. Which is kind of terrifying in some respects, but you have to have faith that things will find themselves. It happens that way in evolution, so why not in a creative process?

Having visited CERN and met with people who do a lot of thinking about the physics of time, do you feel more enlightened? Or did this research just compound the mystery?

PM: It was inspiring to see what they were doing at CERN. I'd always imagined physics as more defined, but talking to these people I got the impression that everything is very theoretical, philosophical, in some ways similar to the pursuit I'm on with my cinema, with observing.

They call it "basic research" when they don't know where they're going. I really became fond of that term. If you apply it to our cinematic process of exploration, you know you're going to end up with something, but you don't know what it is. That openness allows you to discover new things.

VW:

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VW: Do you feel like making this film has

altered your sense of time's passage? it's done is made me appreciate transformation more deeply. Watching clouds or something else in nature, it's just made me more appreciate of being able to be with whatever is happening right now, right here, in front of me. This moment.

PM: What

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"He understood at a very deep level that doppelgänger, that other self one may need to recognize, acknowledge and give that opportunity to blossom."

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Worth a few tears

The News From Here collects powerful, poetic works

Donna White, "Despair Wallpaper," 2012 // Donna White

Until Sun, May 5 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art Curated by Nancy Tousley Art Gallery of Alberta

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ome people cry in movie theatres.

But films have never squeezed a tear out of me. Instead—to the considerable alarm of guards—I have occasionally cried in art galleries. While cathartic, these moments happen rarely. So it was with surprise that I found myself tearing up when looking at not just one, but several works in the 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art, The News From Here. This may be a coincidence, or something to do with the fact that the curator, Nancy Tousley, honed her art criticism by analyzing poetry. (She is an English major.) Whatever the cause, many of the works in this exhibition carry poetic and deeply expressive resonance.

One of the most powerful works is extraordinarily plain: four circles, squares and ribbons. Yet, "Pipe Dreams" from the Freedom Fighter Series by Bruno

Canadien, resonates with urgency. Canadien, a Dene of mixed heritage and a member of the Deh Gah Got'ı é K ę First Nation, addresses aboriginal resistance to oil and gas development in the Mackenzie River region. For him this is no mere headline: the issue affects his home community of Fort Providence. His artwork is at once a war cry and a plea for the survival of a people. Oil, like black rivulets of blood, drips from black circles, reminiscent of cross sections of pipelines, veins or medicine wheels. Softly blown ribbons punctuate the somber, military symmetry of Canadien's composition; they ripple like Tibetan prayer flags in a mountain breeze.

To the east of "Pipe Dreams" hangs a room-sized swath of wallpaper. I am tempted to pass by it until the title, "Despair Wallpaper," forces me to look closer. I gaze up at the geometric cornice: it's a bird's eye view of women's breasts, faces and arms.

Baroque decoration belies the hidden meaning; I unfold this work's feminist and sociological message like pet-

als of a flower. Thousands of pearls make up the paisley-like pattern.

They fill the wall streaming like great rivers of tears from the eyes of the caryatid women.

My viewing is not so much interrupted as enhanced by the sound of a cello emanating from a dark room—an eerie blend of western music or a drone of a meditation horn. I walk in and see a huge, high-resolution video of vast stretches of boreal forest seen though the circular windows of a fire tower.

The camera rotates and briefly glimpses over a musician. One of the artists (Jason de Haan and Miruna Dragan) is in the room and explains that this cello was handcrafted from a block of spruce by a musician friend, Daniel Bosch. The body was disassembled—it was too big for the staircase—so the tower became the resonant chamber. "I saw it as something beautiful," he explains as he recalls watching his friend play. "The main desire [in creating the video] was to share something that we thought was worth sharing."

Alysha Creighton, one of the young-

est artists represented, created another breathtaking and literally uplifting video composed of the simple gesture of feet rising to tiptoe and then effortlessly lifting off the ground. I found her in the opening crowds. "This one was very much a piece that surprised me," explains Creighton who has a dance background and experiments with performance actions in her studio. She gasped when she first saw this clip on her camera playback screen. What fascinated her and kept me riveted was the sense of an ordinary gesture becoming mythical: a prose moment turned into poetry.

The glitter of highlights in this exhibition continued undiminished as I attended the poignant, historically insightful, superbly crafted and occasionally funny video screenings. For example, Trevor Anderson's epic tale of his great-uncle Jimmy kept me smiling and tapping my feet to catchy tunes.

But laughter is the sugar that coats unspeakable truths. Anderson follows the story of a man who dies in penury and anonymity on the streets of Van-

couver: one more of the countless untimely deaths of men born with the "detestable crime" of being gay.

My disappointment after leaving this inclusive show is not with the exhibition as with myself. I like art of all genres including traditional, twodimensional, modest-sized works. They are old friends. Here, like flashy guests at a party, innovative approaches grab my attention. I barely spend time with old friends.

This fascination with the new is happening globally. The news from here is no different than news anywhere— even India is shedding ancient art traditions and establishing its first KochiMuziris Biennale 2012, one that looks just like the others. Regional differences like indigenous languages, culinary diversity and like the Deh Gah Got'ı é K ę First Nation, are disappearing. Artists draw on a global pool of ideas. It is a change that this Biennial celebrates.

But this change, the rapid globalization of art, also deserves mourning.

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t seems like staple sitcom fodder that we've all seen before: two strangers waking up naked and hungover in bed together, unable to recall last night's events. But Northern Light Theatre's production of Ride very quickly reveals a much deeper and darker level beyond the initial awkward hilarity.

Nudity is a tricky thing. Sex has become so commonplace in mainstream television and film that a display of naked bodies is typically little more than gratuitous. But in theatre you can't flip the channel or make snide comments to alleviate any embarrassment. And in Ride, when the characters stomp across the stage completely naked, the audience is drawn into their intimacy and the tone is thus set

for the rest of the show.

Of course it starts out quite funny—you have to chuckle at the discomfort, both yours and the characters'. Written by Jane Bodie, this particular production swaps out the original Australian references for ones that are resoundingly local—as the duo attempts to piece together what happened the night before, they proceed through a list of Edmonton bars, neighbourhoods and other locales. "I'm naked in Stadium," bemoans south-side resident Elizabeth (Sereana Malani) as she hurriedly squeezes back into last night's maid-of-honour dress. "It's like a reverse strip," comments Joe (Cole Humeny), watching. "Kinky!"

As the play progresses, any remaining levity takes on darker tones; there's obviously some powerful drive that keeps the two of them in that room together for the entire next day.

Malani and Humeny deliver boldly

sincere performances that drive home the script's very troubling message about the nature of relationships: peeking out from the long, staring silences between lines of dialogue is their combined emotional baggage, and the 12 hours they spend together could be 12 years—it's like they've done all this countless times before.

Ride posits that we unconsciously slip into past cycles, and our behaviour in any and all future relationships— even a brief one-night stand—is predetermined by how things went those previous times.

Needless to say, this is not a comforting prospect. But regardless of this and the many other interpretations that could be made, Ride is a forcefully honest glimpse of contemporary intimacy, standing out as one of the more refreshingly forward pieces of theatre to come through town in a while.

MEL PRIESTLEY

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hether you buy into astrology or think it's all a bunch of hoo-ha, it's still fun to compare your own personality traits to those that are supposedly predetermined by the heavens.

Firefly Theatre's newest show does more than just give you a set of adjectives to mull over—it delivers vivid visual interpretations of each sign of the Zodiac. The program describes Zodiac Arrest as a "circus-vaudeville variety concept" with a twist. That's about as concise an explanation as you can get: the show is a highly entertaining grab bag of various artistic disciplines, focused heavily on Firefly's signature aerial work along with clowning, magic and a highly inventive physical dance retelling the story of Theseus and Ariadne.

The overarching theme uniting each act is the signs of the Zodiac: each performance is introduced by either Annie Dugan or Kristi Hansen delivering a quick spiel about the next sign being presented whilst wearing an appropriately themed outfit.

Though the momentum seemed a little languid throughout the first act, this turned out to be a slow burn that really paid off in the second half, particularly with the acts that were re-

prised: Billy Kidd's second magic act (a classic straitjacket escape) was made hilarious by her banter with a very good-natured audience member, and the reprisal of Cosipor and Suttirags' clown routine delivered much more laughs the second time around.

What remained constant throughout the show, however, was the excellence of the aerial routines. Each one was wonderfully imaginative and creative, presenting a range of different styles: it began simple, with Kadri Hansen on an aerial sling, and grew increasingly more complex. The finale was fascinating and intricate, featuring Dugan, Lisa Feehan and Michalene Giesbrecht on aerial silks.

Of particular note was the perfectly executed rhythmic contortion by Mackenzie Baert and Caitlin Marchak, as well as the hauntingly beautiful performance by Feehan in an aerial cargo net, accompanied by Jason Kodie on a pianocycle (which is exactly what it sounds like) playing a FrenchEnglish cover of "Mad World."

I could continue to describe the many virtues of this show, but suffice to say that no matter your sign (or your opinion on astrology) Zodiac Arrest will show you something that will appeal to your inner nature—whatever it might be.

MEL PRIESTLEY

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The Missionary Position the script accesses the important questions: how much of this are you doing for yourself versus for the people you're attempting to help?"

On a T-shirt-branded mission from God // Ed Ellis

Thu, Feb 7 – Sat, Feb 16 (7:30 pm) Directed by Jan Selman Timms Centre for the Arts, $11 – $22

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n 2010, a group of Baptist missionaries known as the New Life Children's Refuge attempted to move 33 orphaned children out of Haiti after the catastrophic magnitude 7.0 earthquake. Having decided not to obtain the legal Haitian documentation for the children, the group was arrested for child trafficking and the resulting legal case immediately made headlines that discussed whether or not these missionaries had really "done anything wrong." Studio Theatre's upcoming world première of The Missionary Position will explore a story based on these events that will ambitiously tackle the concepts of religious and cultural missionary work alongside the practical complexity of foreign aid.

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missioned to write this show specifically for the University of Alberta's 2013 BFA theatre graduates. For Jan Selman, professor at the U of A and the director of the show, the subject matter is directly in line with her own professional interests.

"I tend to focus on contemporary works and theatre that has a social impact," begins Selman. "The notion that every story has many perspectives and elements is honoured in this play, and it really sets out to access a variety of stories that need to be explored."

Set in an unnamed Latin American country, the show revolves around a group of Canadian missionaries sitting in a jail cell contemplating their experiences, motives and beliefs. Each character's story has been thoroughly developed and it's through these theatrical vignettes that Selman sees one of the script's successes.

"We get to know the characters very well," explains Selman. "It's here that

Grappling with concepts as large as religio-cultural imperialism and the subjective definitions of seemingly straightforward words like "aid" means that audience members will likely have a lot to talk about after seeing this show. For Selman, the show has offered an invaluable medium for evaluating her own experiences while working abroad. For the past three years, in addition to her work here in Edmonton, Selman has been working in East Africa to help develop a university-level fine arts curriculum in an interdisciplinary capacity.

"Even though it's not missionary work that I'm engaged in there, I do ask myself similar questions," says Selman. "How can I truly be of use? How can I be honest with myself about what I do and do not know about the situations I see?

These experiences have been very useful as I direct the show.

"What we're dealing with here is that the desire to make a difference is huge, but figuring out how to do that is much harder," explains Selman. "This is a very lively, funny and deeply thoughtful piece about reinforcing how alert one needs to be and how important it is to reflect honestly on how much we're listening while we're trying to be of service. We have to constantly try to find out how to be active usefully."

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you use your limited time as best you can and make sure everyone's relaxed. The first thing a director can't do is panic," notes Baker. "The cast looks to somebody to go, 'OK, we can do this,' and so I have to give that appearance regardless how I'm feeling inside."

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he cast of the Citadel's production of Noël Coward's acclaimed comedy Private Lives has had to overcome a last-minute cast change in one of its main roles. The part of Victor was originally taken on by Tim Campbell, who had to leave the production due to a family emergency, leaving the role in the hands of Jeff Meadows.

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"It's a three-day rehearsal period from zero to an audience," says Citadel artistic director Bob Baker, adding that the rest of the cast had been rehearsing for three-and-a-half weeks prior.

As Baker acknowledges, being a director is all about problem solving, so integrating Meadows into the cast was a matter of getting his scenes up to speed before unveiling the show to an invited audience last Friday, where, after only two rehearsals, Meadows required minimal line prompts.

"You just have to formulate a plan and

With the chaos ostensibly under control, Baker is ready to open the show, which follows Amanda and Elyot (John Ullyatt), a divorced couple who end up at the same honeymoon destination—both there with their new, younger partners.

Sparks fly and emotions overflow as past chemistry reignites between Amanda and Elyot, a pair of strong-willed young people trying to break the conventions of the upper-class world in which they live.

"I think relationships are always relevant ... this one's about two people that are so instinctively and chemically connected with each other that they kind of combust sometimes," Baker adds. "If you feel like you're an outsider and you find someone else who's an outsider and they share that outsiderness, that's really a special bond."

MEAGHAN BAXTER

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Le Grand Cahier Until Sun, Feb 10 (8 pm, 2 pm matinee on Sunday) Directed by Catherine Vidal La Cite Francophone, $17 – $26

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aking its Edmonton debut is the stage adaptation of Ágota Kristóf's highly regarded first novel, Le Grand Cahier (The Notebook). It's a testament to survival, coming to L'Uni Theatre by way of Montréal: audiences are introduced to twin boys abandoned to their grandmother, whom they refer to as the Witch. A backdrop of war sets the tone for the boys' account of their hardships and the people they encounter along the way, forced to develop a thick skin and display an intelligence and inventiveness beyond their years.

One half of the pair is Montréalbased actor Renaud Lacelle-Bourdon.

As he explains, the twins are not named throughout the production, but that doesn't matter—names are minor details. He and co-star Olivier Morin move as a unit and portray the entire cast themselves via quick voice changes and accompanying movements.

"Our main goal is to bring the truth, even if it's sometimes just a body positions. We don't look like a grandmother; we don't look likedate a priest.

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two young kids playing them, but the truth of the essence of the character gets to you, the public," Lacelle-Bourdon explains. "One of the dangers is not to play a caricature of the people, but to play the real person, to be in the right place, in the spirit ... it's not to make people laugh, it's to make them believe."

The twins are very strange, LacelleBourdon admits, adding their strangeness is almost a gift and sets them apart from the everyday child on the street. They get tougher, both physically and mentally, to endure the sufferance of war and what they face at their grandmother's.

"Everybody around them are distorted by their fear, and it's dangerous, so that's not normal for kids to try and get smarter and get stronger to face that. They're like adults in a way ... or even smarter than adults actually," he says, adding that this aspect made it less of a stretch to take on the role of a child as an adult. "We say that we are twins and people see that, and we say that we're young and all the situations we're in and the public believes it somehow. I'm surprised every time, but it works."

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(CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Prendre Le FrançaIs Par Les cornes: Works by Sarah Cleary, Doris Charest, Gaston Charest, other members • Until Feb 26 • Reception: Feb 13, 7-8:30pm; filming of the documentary, francophonie CHATEAU LACOMBE HOTEL • 10111 Bellamy

Hill • LoVe LocaL: Fruits of Sherbrooke present over 40 local arts ansd craft vendors for first pre-valentines event–dedicated to the ones you love • Feb 10, 10am3pm • Free

CROOKED POT GALLERY–STONY PLAIN

DANCE NORTHERN LIGHTS CLASSIC • Central Lions

Seniors' Centre, 11113-113 St • Ballroom and Latin dance competition hosted by DanceSport Alberta • Feb 9-10; Sat, 9:30am (dancing starts)

• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • Winter warming-casseroles, tea pots, mugs and more: a variety of slab, wheel thrown, decorated works selected for display by gallery members • Through Feb

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • ToPograPhIc soUnd: Very large photo-based works by Gary James Joynes; including Tritone, and Ouroboros • Feb 7-Mar 16 • Opening: Feb 7, 6-10pm

GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St. Albert, 780.459.2525 • 69¢ LB.$1.52 K: Pastel works by Father Douglas • Until Feb 25 GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • DISPLAY CASES: BoTanIcaL heroIne: Polymer clayworks by Kristin Anderson • dIsTance To The SUN: Photography by Tyler Enfield; until Feb 28; Fundamentals of Photography (for new DSLR camera users) with Tyler Enfield: Feb 16, 1-4pm HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave

• OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month; 7pm • Comics Artist-in-Residence: with Kyle Sams; Every Fri 12-6pm and Sat 12-5pm; until Apr 7

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112

St • Main Gallery: IN MATERIAL: Works by Marie de Sousa • Front Room Gallery: RESET: Student art and design show; until Mar 1

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM • Basement Gallery •

T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Parkallen Community

JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA • Convocation Hall

cIrqUe d'hoFFmann: Artworks by members of the ASA; artshow runs in conjunction with Edmonton Opera's Les contes d’hoffmann by Jacques Offenbach • Through to Mar

KING’S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE • Atrium, 9125-50 St, 780.465.3500 • JUST FOOD: Touring art exhibit exploring the human right to food • Until Mar 15, Mon-Fri 8:30am-4:30pm • Free KIWANIS GALLERY–RED DEER • Red Deer Public Library • BorrowIng arT: The Red Deer Public Library Art Lending Program • Until Feb 19

Hall, 6510-111 St, 780.667.8253 • talesstorytelling.com • Come One–Come All...: Hear what storytelling is all about in a comfortable, casual atmosphere; share a story or just listen • 2nd Mon each month until Jun, 7-9pm • Free • Bring inside shoes and your own mug

• Canadian Literature Cemtre's Brown Bag Lunch series: Stewart Lemoine • Feb 13, noon • Free

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 • Feb 11 • $5

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

LOFT GALLERY • Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor, Sherwood Park • Works by members of the Edmonton Art Club, juried exibition • Feb 9-24; Sat-Sun 12-4pm • Opening: Feb 9, 1-4pm

bilee Auditorium • Vohon Ukrainian Dance Ensemble presents Kolektsiya featuring Baba Yaga • Feb 15, 7pm; tickets at TicketMaster

THEATRE

MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY–RED DEER •

THE 11 O’CLOCK NUMBER! • Varscona Theatre,

FILM

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital,

BLIND DATE • The Club at the Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • The sensational improvised production Blind Date returns! Different every time, Rebecca Northan’s Mimi selects a lucky man in the audience to play her date, not just for a few minutes, but for an entire evening. Blind Date explores the sometimes bizarre rituals of dating and the very real emotions in the pursuit of love • Feb 13-24 7:30pm; no shows on Mon; Tue-Sun 7:30pm except Feb 23 at 4pm, and 9pm • Start at $35 at 780.425.1820

VOHON UKRAINIAN DANCE ENSEMBLE • Ju-

Kerry Wood Nature Centre • ceLeBraTIng aLBerTa: Works by members of the Alberta Society of Artists • Through Feb

8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • The sPIrIT oF agIng: Photographs by Sharon Moore • Until Mar 24

BAILEY THEATRE–CAMROSE • 5041-50 St, Camrose, 780.672.5510 • Nordlys Film and Arts Festival: Award-winning films from around the world, local music and entertainment; Fri: Screening of Canada’s Monsieur Lazhar; Sat: screening of Music from the Big House, followed by Rita Chiarelli (blues music) • Feb 15-17 • $50 (weekend pass) at Bailey box office, online

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–ST ALBERT •

5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • caTchIng THE LIGHT: The life and photography of Victor Post • Until Mar 31

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • Works by Byron McBride • Until Feb 15

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Library Theatre, Stan-

ley A. Milner Library bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • Vanishing Point; Feb 13, 6:30pm; STC, Canada, 2012

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper

Ave, 780.455.7479 • Group exhibitions: Artworks by gallery artists • Until Mar 23

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Mu-

RED DEER COLLEGE LIBRARY • THE PANELS:

seum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • Sudden Fear (1952, PG); Feb 11, 8pm • Each film: $6/$5 (senior/student); $30 (membership, series)

conVersaTIons wITh The coLLecTIon: until Mar 8 • PORTHOLE GALLERY ( just outside the Library front doors): ceramIcs: Works by Carlene Larue and Kt Furness; through Feb

GLOBAL AWARENESS WEEK • Grant MacEwan University, City Centre Campus, Rm 9-201 • Documentary screening of Colin Beavan's No Impact Man • Feb 7, 2pm

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,

780.453.9100 • rIVer's edge: Until Apr 10 • INUUjaq: Dolls of the Canadian Arctic; Until Apr 28

METRO CINEMA • 8712-109 St • Free informal

SHELL THEATRE FOYER–FORT SASKATCHEWAN • women's works: Works by members of

discussion/presentation with Peter Mettler with film Studies professor, Liz Czach; Feb 9, 4-6pm • Mettler will also be in introducing and hosting a Q & A with his film The End Of Time; Feb 8, 7pm

the Redwater ART Society • Open to the public every Thu and Fri, 11am-2pm • Feb 7-Mar 1 • Opening: Feb 8, 6:30pm; artists in attendance

NFB FILM CLUB • Calder Library • Monthly film se-

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619 •

ries featuring animated and documentary films from the National Film Board of Canada • Feb 6, 6:30pm

seLecTed works 1995-2011: Artworks by Arlene Wasylynchuk • Feb 9-26 • reception: Feb 9, 1-4pm

NORDLYS FILM AND ARTS FESTIVAL • nordlysfestival.com; baileytheatre.com • Feb 15-17 • Featuring award-winning films from around the world, local music and entertainment • $50 (weekend pass) at the Bailey box office/online

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print -Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • AGAIN AND AGAIN: Printworks by Sukha Worob; artist talk: Feb 15, 6pm • The comPLacency oF SEEING: Printworks by Rebecca Beardmore • Opening: Feb 15, 7-9pm • Feb 14-Mar 24 • Artist Talk: The complacency of seeing: In-site, by Rebecca Beardmore; Feb 7, 5:15pm, at the U of A, FAB Bldg, Rm 220

UP FOR DISCUSSION: A FILM SERIES • Stanley

Milner Library Theatre (bsmt), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.700 • Film screening, and a lively exploration of current and timely topics of concern • Flight from darkness, not rated, Canada, 2006; Feb 7, 6:30pm

STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501 • 501

Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • NOMADIc BoUnce: Works by Jason Baerg • Until Feb 24

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

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; until Apr 1

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-

106 St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: EARTHLY ELEMENTS: Charles Lewton-Brain and Les Manning in recognition of contributions and work; until Feb 16 • Feature Gallery: GOLDEN EDGE: Artworks by 16 craft artists; until Mar 30

UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA MUSEUMS • Enterprise Square, 10230 Jasper Ave, 780.492.5834 • PassIon ProjecT • ImmorTaL BeaUTy • Extended run until Mar 2

ALBERTA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS–WALTERDALE GALLERY • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83

Ave, 780.426.0072 • ImPermanence: Works by Val Solash; runs in conjunction with Walterdale's production of Summer and Smoke • Until Feb 15

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: awareness oF an aLTered worLd: Richard Boulet and Sue Seright • Gallery B: FIGHTING NORMAL: Laurie MacFayden and Amy Willans • Until Mar 2; Closed Feb 16

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir

Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints; until Mar 3 • EDO: Arts of Japan’s Last Shogun Age: a wide variety of Edo period art forms with focus on prints known as ‘ukiyo-e’; until Feb 10 • PaUL FREEMAN: feature two life-size casts of stags whose antlers seem to have turned against them; until Feb 10 • The news From here: The 2013 Alberta Biennial of Contemporary Art: Curated by Nancy Tousley; until May 5 • This Alberta Biennial showcases the work of several Alberta filmmakers and performance artists.

Filmmakers with guest curator Nancy Tousley for an interactive Q&A session • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm; free with admission • 5 arTIsTs, 1 LoVe: Black History Month art show, works by Pamela Parker, Phillip Risby, Lorien Maheu, Melissa Aytenfisu, and Blanche Thompson; until Mar 1 • Cold Night, Hot Date: Valentine's Event, intimate and elegant evening; 3 floors of passion-inspired food and cocktails; exhibition tours; art inspired activities and games; romantic films in the AGA theatre • Feb 14, 7pm; $95 (each)/$190 (couple) • Refinery: INTERFACE at Refinery: Late-Night Art Party; dress all in white to become a living canvas with film/light projections; Feb 9, 9pm-2am; $45/$39 (+GST member)

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • MIGRATING coLony: Charcoal drawings and raku installation

by Erin Schwab • PasserIForms II: Paintings and mixed media works by James Trevelyan • Feb 7-Mar 16 • Artventures: Drop-in children's for ages 6-12; $5 each Beautiful Birds: Feb 16, 1-4pm • Preschool Picasso: Art for ages 3-5; Feb 9, 10:30-11:30am; $8/ class; 3D Feathered Friends; Feb 9 ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY •

Loft Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artwork by society members, and a gift shop of artist made items; open Feb-Jul

BRINSMEAD KENNEDY GALLERY • 10434-122

St • Naturally Abstract: artwork by David Blaine, featuring abstract images discovered in natural environments • Until Feb 28

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper

Ave, 780.482.2854 • New work by artists Peter Deacon and Barbara Amos; Feb 16-Mar 1; opening: Feb 16, 2-4pm, artist in attendance

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BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ • 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 •

Slam at the Chair: Story slam • 7-10pm (7pm sign-up) • $5 (donation)

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE • 10225-97 St • V-Day Teen Angst Night: Presented by Words with Friends • Feb 13, 7:30pm

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ • 9938-70 Ave • Olive Tree Project, Peg Barcelo-Jackson, Ginette D'Silva, Alice Dolphin, Dara Loewen • Ongoing

FAB GALLERY • Dpt of Art and Design, U of A, Rm

1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 780.492.2081 • sPLIT seconds, SOFT EDGE: Sam Walrod's final visual presentation for Masters in Painting; until Feb 16 • Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada; until Feb 16 • FAB 2-20: In-sight: Lecture by Rebecca Beardmore; Feb 7, 5:15pm

GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Retrospective of Nathalie Shewchuk-Paré's artwork • Until Mar 5

CARROT COMMUNITY ARTS COFFEEHOUSE

works, 4924 Ross St • arT oF The Peace: Works by Peace River Country artists • Until Feb 9

• 9351-118 Ave • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm

HUB ON ROSS–RED DEER • 4936 Ross St, Red

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912 Whyte Ave • The Ol-

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAGG) •

Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave • LIFE THROUGH MY LENS: Photographs by Kevin Allen • Feb 1-27 • Reception: Feb 13, 6:30-8:30pm

JOHNSON GALLERY–SOUTH • 7711-85 St,

780.465.6171 • Miniatures by Thelma Manary, Rita Briansky, Ann Huculak, Susan Gardiner, Olson; photos by David Baine; graphite works

by Glen Gaillet; watercolours by Jim Painter • Through Feb

VUEWEEKLY FEB 7 – FEB 13, 2013

DAYS OF WINE AND ROSES • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Trunk Theatre. Donal and Mona leave Belfast for a new start in 1960s London. Strangers in an unfamiliar city, they fall in love with life, each other and the bottle • Feb 15-23; %ue-Sat 7:30pm; Sat mat 2pm • $22 (adult)/$18 (student/senior)/Preview: Feb 14: $11 (adult)/$9 (student/senior) DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May 27, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office EVIE'S WALTZ • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave •

Shadow Theatre. Clay and Gloria Matthews' son has just been expelled for bringing a gun to school; then the intervention barbecue is torpedoed by his fiery accomplice-girlfriend • Until Feb 10 • $16-$27

LE GRAND CAHIER • La Cité francophone, 8627-91 St, 780.469.8400 • Adaptation of Agota Kristof ’s novel, The Notebook. Presented by L'UniThéâtre, production

by Groupe Bec-de-Lièvre. Presented with English surtitles • Feb 7-9, 8pm; Feb 10, 2pm • $17-$26 A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC • John L. Haar Theatre, Grant MacEwan University, Centre for the Arts, 10045-155 St • Follows the universal subject of love, in all its wondrous, humorous and ironic permutations • Feb 7-16, 7:30pm (2pm matinee) • $17 (adults), $12 (student/senior) THE MISSIONARY POSITION • Timms Centre,

112 St, 87 Ave, U of A • By Greg MacArthur. A group of deeply committed young missionaries in a third world country, save children they perceive as lost • Feb 7-16 (no show on Sun) • $11-$22 at TIX on the Square, Timms box office

MURIELLE • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • When Old Woman Teller awoke, it immediately seemed like the day it would be radically different • Feb 14-24 • $18 (general/adult); $15 (student/senior); $12.50 (child)

RIDE • PCL Studio, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84

Poets: Poets' Haven Weekly Series • Feb 10

Deer • 403.340.4869 • • ART FROM THE HEART: Works by Judy Weismiller Berger • Until Feb 28

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

LITERARY

AUDREYS BOOKS • 107 St, Jasper Ave • Stroll of

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–RED DEER • Sun-

Rm, 10065-100 St, 780.425.8086 • Valentine elegant brunch in support of the Freewill Shakespeare Festival; fundraiser and live auction • Feb 10, 11am-2pm • $85 (each)

PRIVATE LIVES • Shoctor theatre at the Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • A laugh-out-loud battle of the sexes by Noël Coward. An effervescent comedy of manners set in the 1930's • Until Feb 24 • $35 at box office

Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; Oct-May, 7pm (door)

N, U of A, 11204-87 Ave, Rm 2-115 • creaTIVITy, HEALING AND THE DREAM: Paintings by Karen Williams • Feb 8, 7-9pm • $15/$10 (student/senior)/$25 (non-member)

BRUNCH O’ LOVE–FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL • Fairmont Hotel MacDonald, Wedgwood

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St. Albert, 780.460.5990 • LeT’s dance: Works by Karen Blanchet • Until Feb 23

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.441.6966 • Literary

EDUCATION BLDG NORTH • Education Bldg

10329-83 Ave • Grindstone Theatre presents a two act improvised musical every other Fri, 11pm • Feb 8, 22 • Tickets at TIX on the Square

ive Reading Series: Jeff Carpenter • Feb 12, 7-8:30pm

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave •

Open Door meeting: If you own any books by Scott McCloud like Zot!, Understanding Comics, Reinventing Comics or Making Comics, bring them to the next Open Door meeting • Feb 14, 7pm

Ave • A man and a woman wake up in bed togethernaked-and neither can remember how they got there • Until Feb 9

SUMMER AND SMOKE • Walterdale Playhouse,

10322-83 Ave • By Tennessee Williams, set in Glorious Hill, Mississippi in 1916 • Until Feb 16; Feb 10, 2 pm • $12-$18 at TIX on the Square

THEATRESPORTS • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm THE V.I.P. KID’S SHOW • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Variety, Improv and Puppet show with Kate Ryan, Davina Stewart, Donovan Workun, Dana Andersen, Cathy Derkach and friends • $6/$60 (VIP pass) • Feb 9, 23, 11am WHERE THE BLOOD MIXES • Roxy, 10708-124 St

• Feb 12-Mar 3

WIFE BEGINS AT FORTY • St Albert Kinsmen Hall, 47 Riel Dr, St Albert, 780.668.9522 • Dinner Theatre in St.Albert presented by St Albert Theatre Troupe • Feb 14-Mar 2 • $47.50 (incl roast beef buffet and show) WILDFIRE TEEN IMPROV FESTIVAL • Citadel

Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm

Ziedler Hall, 9832-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Canadian Improv Games (grades 9-12) Feb 12-16, 7pm; CIG finals: Feb 17, 2pm • The Nosebowl (grades 10-12) Feb 19-23, 7pm • The WildFire Jr (grades 7-9) Feb 26-Mar 2, 7pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 •

ZODIAC ARREST • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta

RIVERDALE • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam •

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

Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • A zodiac-themed show features performances by Edmonton’s circus and physical theatre artists • Until Feb 10 • $28 (general/adult); $25 (student/senior/equity); $22 (child 12 and under)

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Ski mountaineers compete for Canada in World Championships

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or the third time in four years, Reiner Thoni will be on the start line at the International Ski Mountaineering World Championships this year.

The born and raised Jasperite, who now resides in Valemount, BC, will be representing Canada in Pelvoux, France from February 9 – 15, along with his teammates Andrew McNab and Melanie Bernier.

The trio are all on the Canadian National Team, and have been living in France and competing across Europe since January 8.

There are five race categories at the International Championships: vertical, teams, sprint, individual and relay.

Thoni says most racers will pick three of the five races to compete in. But, he plans on doing four—all but the sprint. In the team race, Thoni will be competing with Revelstoke's McNab. Ski mountaineering is a sport that combines backcountry skiing with mountaineering. The Alpine Club of Canada describes it as "racing over steep alpine terrain using ski touring gear, gaining and losing elevation (up to 3000 metres worth) past a series of checkpoints set along ridges and peaks.

"Some parts of the course require skinning up snow slopes, some involve scrambling with the skis on packs, and some slopes reward polished downhill technique. Some technical courses may also require boot packing or traversing fixed lines."

A race typically takes between two and three hours, and the winner is the athlete who crosses the finish line first.

The sport is just beginning to pick up steam in North America—with the first North American Championships taking place in 2012—whereas in Europe the sport is already huge.

"There's really a culture in Europe for it," says Thoni. "So, you pretty much have to come to Europe to experience it. It's kind of like hockey in Canada."

Because ski mountaineering—also known as skimo—is so popular, and there's so much money in it for European athletes, the level of competition is much higher there than in Canada and the United States.

So, although Thoni came out on top at the North American Championships in the sprint and individual races last year, he's not expecting a first place finish in Pelvoux. Rather, he's hoping to break the top 10.

"When you come over here," he says of Europe, "all the racers, their job is to train all year, and there's big money in it for them, so you really gotta focus to place top 10 or top 20."

Because ski mountaineering isn't yet an Olympic sport, there's no government funding available to the Canadian National Team. So, unlike European athletes, the Canadian team has to seek out sponsorship on its own, and in many cases, on top of sponsorship from organizations like the Alpine Club of Canada, the athletes have to pay out of their own pockets to spend the season—January through April—competing in Europe.

To afford it, Thoni spends the spring and sum-

mer either planting or falling trees in the Robson Valley.

"It's funny," he says, "you talk to the people that are here [in Europe] and they're like 'Oh! You work? You do pretty good for a person who has to work and pay their own way.'"

But, the good thing about tree planting for three months of the year, says Thoni, is that it doubles as training because it requires endurance and strength—two things that are integral to ski mountaineering.

"With ski mountaineering, you're using your arms and your legs, but you're also going uphill so you're recruiting your whole body and all the muscles. You're demanding a lot.

"If you look at some of the finishes of the vertical [race], some of the top guys, as soon as they cross the finish line, they'll just fall over onto each other. They're totally and completely destroyed," says Thoni, noting that he really enjoys watching and competing with those athletes.

"It's really fun to just see if you can compete at the level that you need to to race against those guys," he says. "Every year the levels are getting higher and higher [in North America], closer to the European levels. Hopefully in a few years it will all be the same. It will be fun to see."

To follow along with Thoni's races and adventures in Europe this winter, check out his blog, theoutsideout.blogspot.ca or read McNab's updates on getradrevelstoke.com.

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Although warm, the snow only got a little soft by mid-afternoon and not slushy like in the spring. All in all, it was a really pleasant spring-like weekend at the beginning of February. There were burgers sizzling on the back-door barbecue and there was an open-air ice bar at the mid-mountain Paradise Chalet.

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Marmot Basin is hosting a Rail Jam in its terrain park on Saturday, February 9. Skiers and boarders can enter for only $5. But, get there early because registration opens at 9 am upstairs in the Caribou Lodge. The competition starts at 11 am.

On Saturday at Lake Louise, the Billabong Flaunt It Tour is kicking off its seventh season. This is an all-girl event where competitors ride in both slopestyle and rail-jam formats. Although designed to be a fun event, significant cash prizes and a trip to the season's final event in Sierra-At-Tahoe, California are up for grabs.

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oing vegetarian, vegan or even raw can conjure up thoughts of a bland, salad-ridden diet devoid of any semblance of flavour or any ingredients you even recognize. Before you start protesting the notion of a little dietary shift, don't think of it in terms of what you may be giving up, like—gasp—meat. Think of it in terms of the potential it has for making a positive impact on your long-term health.

To help ease any uncertainties and offer some guidance in the process, dietician and author Vesanto Melina is currently touring to various Canadian cities conducting workshops with dietitians, and teaming up with Vegans and Vegetarians of Alberta for a public talk in Edmonton.

Melina's interest in nutrition grew out of a love of cooking that developed during high school home economics class, and she eventually made the switch to vegetarianism in the '70s, along with several of her friends, who would each take turns whipping up different vegetarian dishes, all trying to outdo each other. Twenty years ago, Melina, now 71, made another major change in her diet and became vegan.

"I was writing our first book, which is called Becoming Vegetarian, and I was writing a chapter called 'Without Dairy,' and I suddenly realized it was completely easy to do that, to go without dairy and also to get good nutrition," says Melina, whose other titles include Becoming Vegan, Becoming Raw, Food Allergy Survival, Raising Vegetarian Children and Cooking Vegetarian, which features chef-approved recipes for both quality and simplicity.

Melina chuckles that she was her own first convert, learning that dairy was not the only way to achieve bone health and take in many of the nutri-

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ents prevalent in dairy products, such as calcium.

She notes that a large portion of the world's population does not rely on dairy, and, in many cases, it can be a counter-productive dietary element, citing that many of the cancers North Americans battle are of the hormone-related variety, such as breast or prostate cancer—which could possibly be linked to animal products.

"We do know you can reduce your risk of prostate cancer when you eat more plant foods, different foods that are from plants have so many antioxidants in them, and the same with breast cancer.

If you avoid being overweight and eat a more plant-based diet you reduce your risk of colon cancer—you'll cut your risk in about half, so it's quite significant," she says, adding that shifting to a plantbased diet can cut people's risk of cardiovascular disease by approximately 25 percent.

Of course, any lifestyle change is an adjustment and takes time, but Melina says changing your diet does not have to be a complicated process and one that dooms you to tasteless, unappetizing meals. She notes that items in recipes that may already be in your regular rotation can be swapped out to make a meal vegetarian or vegan. For example, red lentils can be substituted for meat in pasta sauce for a source of protein—an important nutrient to ensure you are getting enough of in a plant-based diet—or mixing flax seed with water to replace an egg in baking recipes such as muffins.

"A lot of times, how people progress is first of all recognizing they have some foods already that they really like that are vegan," Melina says. "For example, they might have some soups that are lentil- or pea-based that they make or even buy in a canned form ... people are already eating, in this day and age, a fair number of vegan items."

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Taking the reins

Cara Luft steps into the producer's chair

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map that led you to Darlingford, what would it look like?

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see if they would fly (so to speak) and to see what needed tweaking.

VW: 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? CL: We did a little bit of everything. For the bed tracks, we recorded live off the floor. By doing that we created a solid foundation that had a great live feel, which helped other players when laying their own parts over top. We also VUE WEEKLY: How long did it recorded the string quartet live take to make Darlingford off the floor. There is one song from the initial songwritthat was recorded off the ing through to the end of floor in front of a live audily.com eweek an@vu h g a the recording? ence, with no edits or punche m an CARA LUFT: It took a good ins. For the other parts, we Meagh r Baxte year and a half from the inipieced things together. This was tial writing to when the album was due to past experience and comfort manufactured. In large part this was level and also due to circumstances: I due to my intense touring schedule had a lot of guest musicians, many of and the fact that I produced the alwhom lived great distances away, and bum myself—we had to find times to it wasn't feasible to fly them to where record between tours, and I needed to we were. It was the first time where we be able get out of "performer" mode incorporated distance recording —we and into "producer" mode. One of the would email tracks to various players benefits was that I could try out many (based in Liverpool, London, Nashville, of the new songs in a live setting, to Vancouver and Toronto), they would

The road to Cara Luft's latest album Darlingford was not a smooth one. The Juno Award-winning singer-songwriter endured numerous personal hardships, but spun them into material for her record. Prior to her performance in Edmonton, Luft spoke with Vue about the process of making Darlingford, and stepping into the role of producer.

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then use their home studios or a local studio to record their parts, then email them back to us. Sometimes this meant lots of phone conversations about what I was looking for, sending examples back and forth, but I chose musicians who I trusted and whose own creativity I loved, and I wanted them to bring their own ideas to the songs, to stamp them with their own unique flavours and sounds. There was one harmony singer based in the UK whose voice I absolutely loved and I really wanted him to sing on one of the Traditionals. We would have these hilarious Skype sessions, where we'd sing harmony lines back and forth to each other until we had it nailed. It was a first for me, a truly modern approach to tracking a record.

VW: How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Darlingford to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

CL: Initially when I met up with Lewis to write, I just wanted to write songs, regardless of what they were about.

I had gone through a rough personal time and knew that I would probably end up writing about that experience, but I wasn't quite sure what shape the writing would take, and I was a bit nervous as I'm not a very prolific writer and hadn't written a lot since my last album (The Light Fantastic). I felt like I needed someone to help unplug the cork to get the creativity flowing (so to speak). As we started talking, it became clear that the songs would have similar themes—love, loss, faith and recovery, of fighting our demons and the cards we've been dealt, of new beginnings and finding hope in life again. Our goal

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was to write about these themes and somehow balance the personal with the universal, to express raw emotion, but frame it in terms anyone could relate to and understand. I think we accomplished that.

working with other artists (there aren't a lot of female producers out there), but for my next project I think I'd like to take a co-producer role and bring alongside someone who can offer another perspective.

VW: You ended up producing the album

VW: To record, you teamed up with Lloyd Peterson and set up in remote locations. What did this lend to the recording and creative process? Why did you forgo the traditional route of recording in one studio?

CL: After the songs were written, I realized how much I longed to record in a non-traditional space, away from bells and whistles and anything "clinical."

The songs dealt with many personal things, with matters of the heart, and the idea of recording in a standard studio seemed to be the wrong way to capture the essence of the songs. I had heard about people recording in remote locations and thought I'd explore the idea. Lloyd had been doing a lot of location recording and was more than happy to pack his studio up and bring it to wherever I wanted. I loved the idea of being in a remote space where we wouldn't be worried about emails or phones or daily home life, where we could just focus our energies on the songs and the recording. All the preproduction was done in an old church in Rosebud, AB, and most of the guitar tracking was done in a remote chapel in the Foothills outside Cochrane, AB. We recorded these parts in Alberta because I was offered the use of 10 vintage Martin guitars that were in Calgary. So my engineer flew out with all his gear, we borrowed a huge van, packed it full of guitars and gear, and headed to the Foothills. The rest of the project was recorded in a 100-year-old wooden church in Darlingford, MB. V

yourself. What was that experience like?

CL: In all honesty, it was perhaps the most difficult and most rewarding thing I've done in my career. I've recorded a lot of albums, and I was very handson with my last album (TLF). I know I have great musical instincts, as well as having an understanding of and great appreciation for the recording process, but I wasn't quite sure how I'd do wearing the producer hat. I initially wanted to co-produce with someone else, but ended up taking the reins myself after receiving a lot of encouragement from others. What helped is I surrounded myself with people I trusted, people who could act as sounding boards and help guide me through the process.

For instance, Lloyd (my engineer) has worked on most of my albums and knows me very well. When we were recording my vocals he helped me capture the best performance possible for each song, as I just couldn't step back enough to tell myself. The hardest part about producing your own project is keeping perspective. It's often very hard to step back from the intensity of one's own project and see the entire picture. The stress can be—and is— overwhelming, but I'm glad I did it and had that experience. I received a lot of positive feedback from everyone involved with the project, and have been encouraged to spread my wings and produce other projects. I'm definitely interested in honing those skills and

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PREVUE // DEATH BALLADS

Jully Black

All about soul

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here was something about the number eight that Jully Black could not ignore. One by one, the R&B songstress begins ticking off the commonalities the number has in her life: she's the eighth child her mother delivered, her birthday is November 8, her producer's birthday is December 8 and above all, it signifies a new beginning and has

become the namesake of her forthcoming album, 8IGHT. "We go through the seven days of the week and usually we start back at one, but really, there's an eighth day and a ninth day and a tenth day," Black says, her energy and enthusiasm for the album evident. "This is my fourth album and I've been doing a lot of this independently with a brand-new team of rocking individuals who have their finger on the pulse of what's new, and with me being in this business for so

Ben Sures long I'm able to teach them a bit of what I know. Everything's all the way new and with infinity turned around, it's an eight."

However, with the new comes a throwback to Black's beginnings in soul music, which began as a child when she sang in church. The style of 8IGHT, which Black has coined "the new Motown," is something of a cross between Etta James and Tina Turner, bringing a contemporary vibe to the soulful sound that she feels most at home with, one that allows her to be transparent with her stories and emotions.

"I think sometimes as songwriters, we tend to try to get too complex and a little bit too eclectic," she states. "If you listen to a Beatles song, it was straightforward and you know what the story was about.

You didn't have to guess, is there a hidden message in there? Is there a double entendre? With music, you shouldn't have to think so hard, in my opinion."

Some of this tell-it-like-it-is approach was seen on Black's EP, Dropping W(8), which was released this summer in advance of the album. While the dance beat-fueled disc is not a direct prelude to 8IGHT, Black says she had written approximately 60 songs for the album, and it was time to let a few go and "drop the weight."

On 8IGHT, Black goes even further with soulful and heartfelt stories, despite some difficult subject matter.

During the writing process, Black decided that she felt comfortable sharing with her fans that she was molested as a child.

"Through the 8IGHT process, it's healed me and helped me find forgiveness, and I was able to write a letter to the person who did that to me," she admits, adding the cathartic experience also allowed her to see her divorced parents as friends, realizing she had carried a great deal of resentment that had kept them apart. "Its been a journey of complete healing."

Helping her through this journey were long-time friends YoungPete Alexander and Luther Brown, who lent their producing and writing chops to the album. Not only did working with her buddies inject a sense of fun into the process, but Black says it also brought a sense of accountability that she has not always experienced from other producers.

"Sometimes when you work with people that don't know you, they're more fans than people who expect more of you. I find that's happened a lot, where people are more in awe than actually pushing me to do better or telling me to sing that again," she explains. "I need that to continue to grow or I'm going to be stagnant."

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he death ballad has been a staple in folk music since people began picking up guitars and singing songs, with the greats combining just the right mix of intrigue and tragedy with a moral twist.

"I wonder if it's the same as gruesome fairy tales with a moral that disturb and excite children," says Ben Sures of the intrigue that continues around the songwriting style, ahead of a stop in Edmonton for the Death Ballad Love Tellers tour with Bubba Uno and David P Smith. "It's like stories being handed down; I think it fits the same bill."

Now in its third year, the Death Ballad Love Tellers tour will première new songs penned by each member of the trio—death ballads, of course—written specifically with the tour in mind, with plans to record an album together when it wraps up. The in-the-round performance brings each performer's unique flair to the songwriting style, with Sures on guitar, accompanied by Smith on ukulele and Uno on accordion, switching off performing songs from each of their solo repertoires.

Preparing his own death ballads has been a tricky process for Sures, who explains that there's a delicate balance a songwriter needs to be cognizant of during the writing process.

"It's a very fine line to be gruesome and glib, and in a way you can almost be tacky just singing a brutal song," he says, adding a death ballad has to bring much more to the table than simply listing off a series of macabre events and leaving it

as is. "The challenge is that moral twist or painting a picture of the character that's doing it ... for me, the goal is to pull it off in a way that it accurately conveys a balance to the story, walks the fine line of making you uncomfortable, but not being superficial."

While there's no hard and fast evidence as to when exactly death ballads began, Sures notes they're probably "as old as the hills," used as a way for people to pass stories down between generations.

"Whenever troubadours were invented, I'm sure some version of the death ballad was invented," says Sures, who was introduced to death ballads through the likes of Johnny Cash, Pretty Polly, Hollis Brown and Bob Dylan.

Whether it's death ballads or love confessionals, the tour is the opposite of esoteric. Each story is told in the most literal sense, steering away from the abstract in favour of entertaining, with each performer bringing their own style to the mix. Sures dubs Smith as a master of confessional storytelling—a songwriter who made him want to go back and start at zero the first time he heard him—while Uno is a six-foot-plus force to be reckoned with on ukulele, spinning tales of zombies.

"Usually in the folk circles, I'm the most kind of different songwriter because I touch on so many subjects and the way I perform, but with these two I'm so middle of the road," Sures chuckles. "It's great for me. It totally expands me and gets me thinking."

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PREVUE // OLD-TIME FOLK

Pharis and Jason Romero

Banjo builders and pickers

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their debut A Passing Glimpse earning them a 2012 Independent Music Award for American Album of the Year and a 2012 Canadian Folk Music Award for Emerging Artist of the Year. The pair are currently on the road supporting their new album Long Gone Out West Blues, a disc that sees the Romeros further expand their songwriting ability while paying tribute to their old-time influences with some traditional tunes.

"We never want to lose our roots and the traditions that have inspired

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hances are decent that you haven't heard of Horsefly, BC, but the tiny hamlet—population 700, to be exact—is home to a pair of musicians who have reached far beyond the community's borders.

Jason Romero, regarded as one of the top banjo-builders in the world, and his wife Pharis, formerly of the old-time act Outlaw Social, are moving up in the folk world as a duo,

us over the years," says Pharis, over the phone from the couple's home in Horsefly, where her family goes back four generations. "When people would go into the recording studios in the early days of recording, they would get one take. Some artists, they would go in and record 20 songs in a day, and the skill and passion and creativity, it just comes out in those recordings ... we're really attracted towards specific sounds, and a lot of those early recordings have these sounds and tastes in the arrangements and harmonies that we both really love."

The Romeros write separately, but do so with the other in mind, finishing off the individual writing efforts as a duo. The result on Long Gone Out West Blues is a firmly-rooted sense of place, paying homage to the small

community they reside in.

"We live on 40 acres and our neighbours are quite a ways away. We can't see them, but the community is tight-knit and close and has all the same things any community out there might have: all the same problems, but all the same love about it as well," Pharis says, adding this resonates in her songs in particular.

While the duo are busy recording and touring, they also run a bustling banjo-building company, with their workshop doubling as a recording studio thanks to its acoustics. Romero banjos have become recognized around the world for their craftsmanship and tone, with a two-and-a-half year waitlist for one of their handmade, one-of-a-kind masterpieces. Currently, the Romeros produce four or five a

month, crafting each completely by hand, right down to the hardware.

Jason began playing banjo approximately 10 years before he started building them, and now he designs and builds a full fleet, from banjo mandolins to cello banjos.

"For us, I think it's a really neat balance because the business that we do, it ties in perfectly to the performance aspect of it," Pharis notes. "We perform with all of the instruments that we make as well, except for the old vintage guitars that we play—we like to play nice, old Martins—but all the banjos and resophonic guitars that we play are ones that Jason has made, so we're sort of thinking about each thing in reference to the other when we're thinking about each aspect of our career."

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PREVUE// THEATRICAL HARD ROCK

Incura

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t only makes sense that Canadian band Incura throws "theatrical" in front of hard rock when defining its genre. The five-man group, originally from Lethbridge and now living in Vancouver, puts on nothing short of a show.

By the end, the band is literally dripping with sweat, spit and black paint, and sometimes even a little bit of blood and vomit—although, lead singer Kyle Gruninger jokes, "I've stopped eating shawarma before shows" to stop the vomiting.

But, it's not just the bodily fluids and the paint that make an Incura show theatrical: it's the band's energy and Gruninger's movements, facial expressions and passionate falsetto—all things he picked up while studying theatre at the University of Lethbridge and later performing in Vaudevillian shows with New West Theatre.

"I bring all of that into my live per-

formances," he says, noting that bands need to give fans a reason to come out and buy a ticket. "I don't want to listen to the CD at a show. I have the CD. I paid for it. I want to see you play it and I want to see you throw your guitar around and fall over on stage and scream and bleed and throw up. I want to see it all."

So, all is what Incura gives.

"At our shows, nobody will be just standing on stage playing in their Tshirt and jeans," he says.

The band—made up of Gruninger on vocals, Jono Olson on bass, Jim McLaren on keys, Royce Whittaker on guitar and Phil Gardner on drums—plays music that's hard to define, sometimes jumping in one song from metal to prog-rock to opera.

"When people say, 'We're a little bit of everything,' we actually mean it," says Gruninger, adding that the easiest way to describe Incura's sound is theatrical hard rock.

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and calling them out in a way that elucidates how ridiculous and funny life can become. On "Health Plan," singer Matt Korvette screams that his secret is to "Stay away from doctors." On "Teenage Adult" he stabs at the responsibility-shirking generation of 30-year-old children known as "millennials," singing, "You haven't changed in 15 years / But still, you're past your prime."

Honeys is not set apart simply by the lyrics or the subject matter, however: it's the tightest set of jams Pissed Jeans has put out to date. The band has long been willing to wallow in feedback, to let a song devolve into a steaming mass of noise but, on Honeys, Pissed Jeans reins in some of those qualities to put forth a more-focused effort. It loses none of the effect or the catharsis of loud guitars and distortion-soaked tones, but it gains an immediacy that is more satisfying.

With only a single track that breaches the four-minute mark, Honeys is like a pointed stick in your ear. It's like a truck without a muffler zooming past your bedroom at night, a riot of noise that wakes you from a light sleep and is gone before you can even rub your eyes. In plenty of ways, the un-muffled truck and this album deliver a similar message: dealing with annoying assholes is a big part of being an adult.

There are people who like drugs in a casual way, as an every-few-parties habit to leaven an already enjoyable evening's passage. Then there are the people who like drugs the way you might like a morning cup of coffee, the ones who have a glass jar full of buds as a livingroom centrepiece.

This latter camp is where LA-based Foxygen stakes its claim. We Are The 21st Century Ambassadors Of Peace And Magic dreams longingly of that golden '60s era of both musical and ingestible experimentation: the harmonies here are gentle, the melodies golden—even when they're about bittersweet things— and the lyrics occasionally comprised of utter nonsense ("It's arms and legs / bacon and eggs" goes one couplet in "Oh Yeah"). The production keeps everything soft 'round the edges: rubber-band basslines, low-in-the-mix guitars and organ/synth/pianos all rub shoulders, but in a hazy sonic jam.

All of which to say: Foxygen isn't even really trying to put a modern spin on the sounds it loves, just embrace it wholeheartedly. The band's actually quite good at doing just that, and in its finest moments, 21st Century enlivens these old sounds as it basks in the past. Opener "In The Darkness" directly calls back to Sgt Pepper's, even, with a "we'd like to introduce you to ..." line mid-way through, while the fuzzy jam and shredded vocals of the title track recalls some Rolling Stones' rock 'n' roll swagger.

It's to 21st Century's detriment that it's easiest to talk about the album in terms of bands and sounds it's emulating, rather than its own indelible sound. But the album also proves that there's worse a band can do than linger in the past, especially when it grasps the nuances of its influences as well as Foxygen does here.

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PAUL BLINOV

FRI FEB 8

TRAMP STAMPER CD RELEASE W/ THE PREYING SAINTS, BOGUE BRIGADE & THE GIVE ’EM HELL BOYS

SAT FEB 9

INCURA

W/ NEEDLES TO VINYL, LOOKING EAST, FAIR BLUE & MATT MACHETE

THU FEB 14

ENSLAVED

WINTER RITE 2013 TOUR W/ PALLBEARER, ROYAL THUNDER & ANCIENT WISDOM

FRI FEB 15

FUTURE ROOTS PRESENTS THE NORTHER INVASION WITH

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& BUTCH CLANCY FRI FEB 22

D.O.A. FAREWELL TOUR W/ NO PROBLEM, L.A.M.S. & PANIK ATTAK

SAT FEB 23

ALTERRA CD RELEASE

W/ ONE DAY LATE, REND & TRANSISTA

SUN MAR 3

MARDUK & MOONSPELL

W/ INQUISITION, THE FORESHADOWING & DEATH WOLF VOICES FROM THE DARK TOUR

Pissed Jeans Honeys (Sub Pop)  If there's a trend in contemporary music that I welcome above all others, it's mundane subject matter (a couple years ago I might have said cowbell, but we all gotta move on). Credit card debt and cubicle work are far more relatable than Brixton riots or robots that enslave the earth as part of a dystopian future. Even the various permutations of love, lust and longing—while relatable—are played out after nearly a century of pop music.

Take, for example, the track "Cafeteria Food" off of Pissed Jeans' latest album, Honeys. Could there be anything more commonplace than complaining about the project manager at your office?

And who hasn't taken a daytime fantasy about their boss too far, dreaming about being informed via intra-office email that the "big time broker" who always has a cruel word for his office mates has died?

It's in the specificity of the fantasy— "Stick figure family on the back of your car / You know I find that to be rude"— and in the way it taps into pop culture— "You're dead / You died / And I'm feeling like I'm 'Not the Father'"—that sets it apart from punk songs that fight against "the man" without specifying exactly which man we're talking about.

The album continues on in this vein, taking the most routine tasks and mundane features of early adulthood

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TRUST W/ ERAAS

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Esben and the Witch Wash the Sins Not Only the Face (Matador)

& CYGNETS

@VueWeekly: Haunting, doomful Icelandic pop-meets-doom rock full of ambience and mood swings. For fans of Austra, PJ Harvey, Mogwai & drama.

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Hayden Us Alone (Arts & Crafts)

@VueWeekly: Wildly personal album from an indie Canuck-20 years after his 1st cuts were penned.

WEDNESDAY PINT NIGHT’S

$2.75 DOMESTIC PINTS

Holly Williams The Highway (Georgiana)

SAT FEB 9

@VueWeekly: An absolutely gorgeous & expressive album from a country legend family tree proves that she isn’t sneaking in on her namesake. #Americana.

DARREK ANDERSON & THE WENDEL CLARKS W/ GUEST NADINE KELLMAN

The Bronx IV (Ato)

@VueWeekly: Very crisp and solid rock album with absolutely no mariachi elements. Worth checking out, for at least a spin or two.

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FIRSTS, LASTS AND FAVOURITES

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After landing in the Top 20 on the UK albums charts with his album Last Smoke Before the Snowstorm, British singer-songwriter Benjamin Francis Leftwich is back on the road touring in support of his latest EP, In the Open. Leftwich shared his Firsts, Lasts and Favourites with Vue. First album The first album I remember buying was a pop hits compilation that I bought one Christmas when I was like seven or eight, I think. I used to listen to the radio all the time and always really liked the big tunes, so I used my Christmas allowance buying a pop compilation.

First concert The first concert I saw was in Fib-

bers in York and a Welsh folk singer called Amy Wadge was headlining.

I remember being totally in awe of everyone playing. I met Amy after the show and remember being really star struck. Hayley Hutchinson was supporting, who was amazing. This gig was when I was like 14. Hayley ended up singing on my debut album which is kind of funny. Hayley is amazing!

Last album I recently bought There’s No Leaving Now by Tallest Man on Earth. I really think he is one of the best living songwriters in the world right now. I was lucky enough to play a few festivals with him in Europe in the summer, and he is an amazing performer and a nice dude. I really love his mu-

sic. Totally amazing.

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Last concert The last concert I saw was The 1975 in York at Fibbers again. They are my UK and US label mates and Matty, their singer, is one of my close friends. They’re an amazing band with a wealth of amazing uplifting songs. Check it out.

Favourite album My favourite album ever is Nebraska

by Bruce Springsteen. The songs, performance and sonics are all amazing and it feels so special and complete. I really love it.

Favourite musical guilty pleasure Taylor Swift or the Script. Amazing songs!

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ocal alt-folk-rap group MayDay and the BeatCreeps is set to drop its debut EP, We Are Little Volcanoes, but before taking the stage in front of a hometown crowd, band members Shane Ducharme and Wade Rimstad shared the band's Soundtrack picks with Vue.´

At home

Morning: The musician morning is usually around noon.

That said, we like to have something upbeat and close to home. Corb Lund—his new album Cabin Fever in particular—usually does the trick.

Noon: I guess noon would be like 2 pm, or maybe 3 pm.

Either way, we'll usually have Scenic Route to Alaska helping us through the hangovers.

Night: One evening a week is set aside for the band bubble bath and exfoliation sesh. We all crowd into the bathroom and scrub away our lingering worries and woes that compile over a week of hard playing. Obviously the soundtrack of the night is Aqua (not the new age Aqua but the "Barbie Girl" era Aqua). Goood times.

Sat, Feb 9 (8 pm) With kickupafuss, the Blackstone Artery, $10

On the road

Morning: If we're lucky enough to be in radio range of CKUA, we'll be letting Baba spice up our morning however he sees fit.

Noon: By now, the crew's in need of a mid-day sing along, a pick-me-up that'll help bump up our folk-hop credibility and fan our ferocious confidence. Outkast ATLiens is the album of choice. "Me And you, yo momma and yo cousin too ... " Night: Whether or not we've wheeled some ladies into the scenario by now, Bahamas will be playing through the speakers. He'll set the mood if we have, and help soothe our lonely hearts if we haven't. V

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WAR STORY

Shane Philip

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Thu, Feb 14 (8 pm) Avenue Theatre, $14 Losing anything is a stress-inducing experience, particularly when it involves a large sum of money and access to your only means of transportation. One-man folk-rock show Shane Philip shares his War Story from the road with Vue— let's hope his experience in Edmonton is a less panicked one.

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JAVA EXPRESS–Stony

BRIXX Hosted by Christian and Justin of Canyon Rose Outfit: Open turntables; E: kevin@ starliteroom.ca to book 30-min set

Fri: Titilope Sonuga; 7:30pm; all ages; by donation

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Chloe Albert (pop/jazz singer), and her band; 8pm; $10

CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 (pop)

L.B.'S PUB Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am; Leigh Friesen (singersongwriter); 9-10pm

THE COMMON The Common Uncommon Thursday: Every Thu rotating guests each week

DV8 Motorhezbollah, Dead Guys Eye, W.M.D.

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Lindsay Nagy; 8pm (music); no cover NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu; contact John Malka 780.447.5111 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover PUB 1824 Sinder Sparks Show; 8-12pm

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 Taking Back Thursdays KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage; 7pm; no cover LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Fri

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos at 8pm

ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

RICHARD'S PUB Live R&B bands (dancing); 8pm

OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays

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

RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu

THE RIG Every Thu Jam hosted by Lorne Burnstick; 8pm-close

UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey

FRI FEB 8

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Adam Holm

AVENUE THEATRE Lucid Skies, Immunize, Elements, the PostConsumer Plastics

Classical

HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove

HORIZON STAGE Denis Chang Quartet

EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Open Jam Nights: Musicians are invited to come and join Jammin' Jeff Millar and Trish Jameson alternate hosting; $5

WINSPEAR CENTRE An Evening to Support: Fundraiser for the Support Network

J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm

coat, borrowed the bar owner's coat and canvassed the streets. I had my partner Lisa send keys on a bus just in case I didn't get my coat back. I gave up my search and decided to go upstairs to my room and have a nap. I was woken up by the bar owner and he had my coat in his hand. I was so happy. Apparently someone at the table I was sitting at picked it up thinking it was his friend's and put it in his truck. He went skiing all day and noticed the coat in his truck at the end of his ski day. Thankfully he was honest and returned it with all my money in the wallet and my keys in the pocket.

Soon after that I wrote a song about the event called "Stranded." It's on my Live at Baker Studios album. V

Plain Acoustic/singer songwriter the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-10pm; no cover

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm

ELEVATION ROOM God Save the Trio, Three Sun Sea, Love Supreme; 8pm; $10

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I had a gig in Golden, BC four years ago at The Lyric Bar. During my set break I went outside, came back in and inadvertently took my winter coat off at the table I was sitting at. When I went to play I forgot to grab my winter coat, but somehow during my set someone else did.

The pockets of my coat contained my wallet with around $1000 in it, and the keys to my van. After the show, I packed my gear up and went to load out, but my coat was nowhere to be seen. I started working my way into a panic state after scouring the bar for my coat.

I didn't sleep a wink that night.

You can imagine having no way to get into my van, no money and no coat to wear outside with a temperature of -20 C. This was not good. I made up a poster for a lost

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

VUEWEEKLY FEB 7 – FEB 13, 2013

ARTERY Zombie Gras

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ David Gogo; 8:30pm; sold out BLUES ON WHYTE Karen Lovely BOHEMIA Rock & Roll Fri: Yores, Upon The Arctic Shelf, Layne L'Heureux BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover CAFFREY'S Electric Squirrels CARROT Live music every

CASINO EDMONTON Mojave Iguanas (rock)

DEVANEY''S Rob Taylor

ELEVATION ROOM Lucette, Trevor McNeely (EP release), Emma Perri; 8pm; $10 FANDANGOSLIVE Shannon Smith FESTIVAL PLACE Jully Black HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Cara Luft, Ariane Mahryke Lemire HIGH RUN CLUB Stan Gallant (pop, top 40) JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Jeff Hendrick (R 'n' B vocals and sax); 9pm; $10 LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover NOORISH Fernando Toledo ON THE ROCKS Dean Lonsdale and the Ramifications OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Tramp Stamper (CD release), the Preying Saints, Bogue Brigade, the Give 'em Hell Boys; 8pm (door); $10 at Blackbyrd Myoozik PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat, this week with: ; $5 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am RIVER CREE–VENUE Jason Bonham's Led Zeppelin Experience; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $39.50 ROAST COFFEEHOUSE AND WINE BAR 10359 104 St, 587.521.1563

ROAST COFFEEHOUSE AND WINE BAR Singer songwriter open stage hosted by Marty Pawlina with guest Erin Faught; 7:30pm ROSE AND CROWN PUB Stuart Bendall

ST BASIL’S CULTURAL CENTRE Full Moon Folk Club: Pharis and Jason Romero, the Travelling Mabels; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (adv at the club, Acoustic Music Shop, TIX on the Square)/$22 (door) SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Adam Holm STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Music: White Pongo; Comedians: Liam Creswick, Craig Martel, Danny Martinello, York Underwood, Liam Leroux; no minors WUNDERBAR Humans, Kusch; 9pm; $10 YARDBIRD SUITE The Best of Alberta Jazz Series from Edmonton/Calgary: Brenan Brothers; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO: Irving Berlin–From Ragtime to Ritzes: Jack Everly (conductor), Judy McLane, Ted Keegan, NaTasha Yvette Williams (vocals), Tony DeSare (vocals, piano); 8pm; $20$89 at Winspear box office

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels THE BOWER Zukunft: Indie and alternative with Dusty Grooves, Fraser Olsen, Taz, and Josh Johnson THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh; this week with: Cosmo Baker THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Fri LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri STARLITE ROOM KLUB OMFG ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door) SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Show with Stratosphere; 10pm - 2am TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT FEB 9 ARTERY MayDay, the BeatCreeps (We Are Little Volcanoes EP release party), KickupaFuss, the Blackstone AVENUE THEATRE Medical Pilot, Cash Bone, From the Sky Down, the Archaics; 6pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: The Threads (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Dave Babcock and his Jump Trio; 8: 30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Karen Lovely

Duplessis, Mad Dog Blues Band, every Sat 10pm2am, $5 (door) DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm DEVANEY''S Rob Taylor DV8 No More Moments, the Myconid, Penitentz, Fight to Swill; 9pm EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Open stage jam with host Tommaso Zillio (Edmonton Guitar); last Sat each month, 2-5pm; admission by donation FANDANGOSLIVE Shannon Smith FILTHY MCNASTY'S Darrek Anderson and the Wendell Clarks, Nadine Kellman; 4pm; no cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Girl Meets Bear, Eyland, Revenge of the Trees HIGH RUN CLUB Stan Gallant (pop, top 40) HORIZON STAGE Sheesham and Lotus JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Christina Schmolke (pop/ rock singer/songwriter); 9pm; $10 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Black History Month Gospel Concert

NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm

ON THE ROCKS Dean Lonsdale and the Ramifications OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Incura with Needles to Vinyl and Looking East along with Fair Blue & Matt Machete

guests THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm FLUID LOUNGE R&B, hip hop and dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali; every Sat LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Collective Saturdays underground: House and Techno

SHELL THEATRE–Fort Saskatchewan A Circumpolar Soundscape; 7:30pm; $34.50 Adults, $31.50 Seniors and Youth.

LUCKY 13 Every Fri and Sat with resident DJ Chad Cook

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Derina Harvey

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Adam Holm

PAWN SHOP Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm)

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Built on Despondency, Lucid Skies, Die Upon a Day, In the Details; Nonminors WUNDERBAR Nick Everett and Everybody, Smokey and the Feelings; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE International Jazz Series from Norway/ Netherlands: Mats Eilertsen Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $22 (member)/$26 (guest)

Classical

WINSPEAR CENTRE ESO: Irving Berlin–From Ragtime to Ritzes: Jack Everly (conductor), Judy McLane, Ted Keegan, NaTasha Yvette Williams (vocals), Tony DeSare (vocals, piano); 8pm; $20$89 at Winspear box office

O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, 2-6pm; Evening: Down to the Crown: Marshall Lawrence presents great blues with Trevor

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Marilyn Manson, Butcher Babies; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); all ages; $55.50

LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover

CAFFREY'S Electric Squirrels

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 (pop)

ROSE AND CROWN PUB Stuart Bendall

CONVOCATION HALL Music at Convocation Hall: Breaking New Paths for the Violin

O2'S–West Saturday Jam with the Jimmy Guiboche band every Sat, 1-5pm

CASINO EDMONTON Mojave Iguanas (rock)

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am

L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends, 5-9pm; Evening: Love Junk

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE The Tubsteppers, Small Town Knife Fight; 8pm; $8

CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2

PUB 1824 Every Fri & Sat, this week with: ; $5

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 BOHEMIA Flowlab and Hardcore Liberation present: Science: with DJ Ambiguous, Nattikk, Lego THE BOWER For Those Who Know...: House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests 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 Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN FEB 10 ARTERY A Sunday Evening with Corin Raymond and the Sundowners, Carrie Day, Bramwell Park BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers; 10am-2.30pm; donations CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; every Sun, 7pm CITY HALL Swing 'n' Skate: Skate to live swing band; C-Jam Big Band; 1-4pm; free DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover FANDANGO'S Singer songwriter open Stage every Sun NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm O2 JOES–North Sunday Jam hosted by Andrew White; 4pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Matt Blais (CD release) RICHARD'S PUB Sun Jam hosted by Joint Chiefs; 4-8pm THE RIG Every Sun Jam hosted by Better Us then Strangers; 4-8pm ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE Edmonton Interfaith Centre for Education and Action (EIC): Building Bridges Between Faith Traditions: Annual multifaith concert (music, dance and chants from around the world); 3pm; $25/$20 (student/senior/ EIC member)

Classical HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH Julianne Scott (clarinet), Sarah Ho (piano); 2pm; admission is by donation MUTTART HALL Alberta College Percussion Ensemble, John McCormick (conductor), Anna Kozak (violin); 2pm;

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.4256 info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000

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CHURCH 10037-84 Ave HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110, 780.452.1168 J+H PUB (Overdraught Pub), 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 THE KING'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE Nicholas B. Knoppers Hall, 9125-50 St, 780.465.3500 ext. 8084; kingsu.ca L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave MUTTART HALL Alberta College Conservatory of Music, 10050 MacDonald Dr, 780.633.3801 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave,

780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2 JOES–North 13509-127 St, 780.451.7799 O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE Concordia College, 7128 Ada Blvd, concordia. ab.ca ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St,

780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE 780.413.6159 ST BASIL’S CULTURAL CENTRE 10819-71 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

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$8 (door) ROBERT TEGLER STUDENT CENTRE British Isles: Concordia Symphony Orchestra Concert; 2pm; $15 (adult)/$12 (student/ senior) at TIX on the Square, Concordia Student Accounts, door WINSPEAR Music at the Winspear: Wind and Winspear

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am http://www.facebook.com/ groups/214433451919439/

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

Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover BRIXX BAR Benjamin Francis Leftwich, guests; 8pm (door); no minors; $13 at Prime Box Office, unionevents.com, Blackbyrd

CROWN PUB A Sexy Night with DJ Pheonix and MJ with Sleepless DJ, DJ Breeze and more every Mon; 9pm-2am

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Scott Cook FANDANGO'S Open mic Music Industry Night every Mon JUBILEE AUDITORIUM The Tenors

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

MON FEB 11

BLUES ON WHYTE Samantha Fish BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt

BLUES ON WHYTE Samantha Fish

DJs

DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Diana Krall; Glad Rag Doll World Tour; 8pm

Classical

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

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YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: Thom Bennett Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5 (door)

BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests:

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm

L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am

KING'S UNIVERSITY COLLEGE King's Highlight Concert: Dr Joachim Segger (piano); 8pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (senior/Alumni)/ free (with King's student ID)

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK The Campfire Hero's (acoustic

DJs

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Rob Taylor SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Tony Dizon

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover;

OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage

rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and notso-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: It’s One Too Many Tuesdays: Reggae, funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard CROWN PUB Underground at the Crown Tuesday: Trueskool and live hip-hop with residents Jae Maze, Xaolin, Frank Brown; monthly appearances by guests Shawn Langley, Locution Revolution, and Northside Clan DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays:

with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Rob Taylor

WED FEB 13

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Open stage every Wed hosted by The Canyon Rose Outfit, 8:30pm, free

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12

HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Michael Gress; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Death Ballad Love Tellers (Ben Sures and Bubba Cook), 10pm, no cover; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm

J+H PUB Acoustic open mic night every Tue hosted by Lorin Lynne; Everyone will have 10-15 minutes to play

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Samantha Fish BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Velvet Hour: every weekday with Bill Bourne, Moses Gregg, Matt Blackie and guests; 4-7pm; no cover CROWN PUB The Dan Jam: musical styles from around the globe with Miguel and friends; musicians are invited to bring their personal touch to the mix every Wed DEVANEY''S Duff Robison

NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) PUB 1824 Open jam session every Wed, hosted by Indigo Storm; 8pm

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

RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

FIDDLER'S ROOST Little Flower Open Stage every Wed

RICHARD'S PUB Live Latin Band Salsabor every Wed;

JONESIN'CROSSWORD THUR, FEB 14, AVENUE THEATRE, OPEN SKY MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS:

SHANE PHILIP

W/ NO HEAT TOMORROW

SAT, FEB 16, AVENUE THEATRE, OPEN SKY MUSIC FESTIVAL PRESENTS:

SOULJAH FYAH, THE BOOM BOOMS, THE SOULICITORS SUN, FEB 17, AVENUE THEATRE

LINDI ORTEGA

& DUSTIN BENTALL & THE SMOKES W/ ERICA VIEGAS

MON, FEB 25, THE ARTERY

JUSTIN RUTLEDGE

W/ THE PROVINCIAL ARCHIVE

FRI, MAR 1, THE ARTERY

REUBEN AND THE DARK

W/ JORDAN NORMAN, AND F&M

FRI, MAR 8, AVENUE THEATRE

STEPHEN FEARING

W/ ARIANE MAHRYKE LEMIRE

FRI, MAR 9, THE ARTERY

WED, MAR 13, AVENUE THEATRE

THE WHYTES

& PORTAGE & MAIN W/ GUESTS

UNION AND AVENUE PRESENT SAT, MAR 23, AVENUE THEATRE

BORN RUFFIANS

W/ THE ELWINS

TUES, MAR 26, ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE

HAYDEN

W/ LOU CANON

THU, APR 4, AVENUE THEATRE

TWO HOURS TRAFFIC

& RAH RAH W/ SHORT OF ABLE

SONIC 102.9 FM, AVENUE THEATRE, AND UNION EVENTS PRESENT FRI, APR 5, AVENUE THEATRE

YUKON BLONDE & ZEUS W/ GROUNDERS FRI, APR 13, AVENUE THEATRE

3 INCHES OF BLOOD & GOATWHORE

W/ EYE OF HORUS, AND SILENT LINE

WED, APR 17, AVENUE THEATRE

PICKWICK DANIEL WESLEY

W/ GUESTS

FRI, APR 19, AVENUE THEATRE

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DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Really Good...

Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends THE COMMON The Wednesday Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

"Follow My Lead"--it's a symbolic gesture.

SAT, FEB 16, THE PAWN SHOP

BRASSTRONAUT W/ THE COLLECTIVE WEST, AND LOCOMOTIVE GHOST

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

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W/ MAYDAY AND THE BEATCREEPS, W/ GUESTS

KINGDOOM

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Tony Dizon

Across 1 Dirk Benedict co-star 4 "Well, aren't you the fancy one?"

10 Maidenform competitor 14 "Positively," to Pierre 15 "Let me handle the situation" 16 Stratford-___-Avon 17 Mail-order publications for those who make kids' sandwiches?

20 Migraine sensation 21 "The Iceman Cometh" playwright 22 "There will come ___..."

23 Easter or Christmas 25 Hockey legend Bobby 28 Stint on Broadway 29 "The way I see it," online 30 "Consarn it, ye varmint!"

32 "I Spent My Summer Vacation Rolling a 300" and such?

35 Deli loaves 36 "Do this or ___" 37 "Laters" 40 New York Shakespeare Festival founder Joseph 43 About 2 stars for canned hipster beer?

48 Musical sequence 51 Wheels 52 Signal

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53 India Pale ___ 54 Passes into law 56 Early late show host Jack 57 Hyundai model 59 Helsinkian, e.g.

60 Reason to watch "Sesame Street" and "Nova" on mute?

65 Just around the corner 66 Kind of off-road motorcycle racing 67 "The Star-Spangled Banner" contraction 68 Pull on a tooth 69 N.Y congressman Anthony taken down by a sexting scandal in 2011 70 The Ravens got four in Super Bowl XLVII: abbr.

Down 1 Floor cleaner 2 Bathtime sounds 3 San Diego neighbor 4 Cremona currency, once 5 Wilberforce University's affiliated denom.

6 Part of DJIA 7 How more and more old movies can be viewed 8 Jazz pianist Krall 9 Show up to

10 He-cow 11 Words of regret 12 Captain's journal 13 Plug-___ 18 Yell out 19 Opera set in Egypt 22 1970s synthesizer brand 23 Rapscallions 24 Flockmates 26 Parisian street 27 Apt. ad stat 29 Different ending?

31 "Blast!"

33 Cartoon skunk ___ LePew 34 Walk like you're cool 38 Sciences' counterpart 39 "___ Te Ching" 40 Handheld device, for short 41 Big ISP, once 42 Keep slogging 44 Rum from Puerto Rico 45 "Sorry, you're on your own" 46 Full of subtlety 47 Bayer Leverkusen's country: abbr.

49 Department store section 50 When someone will be back, often 55 Be penitent 56 Epitome of easiness 58 Pen sound 59 Flower: Sp. 60 He had the first billion-view YouTube video 61 Squeezing serpent 62 Closest star to you 63 Wrath 64 Hosp. areas ©2013 Jonesin' Crosswords

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VALENTINE'S SINGLE EXTRAVAGANZA Eight Minute Date Friday February 15, 2013 ($45) Speed Dating, Buffet Dinner & Dance.

Call 780-457-8535 www.eightminutedate.ca

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Are you an animal lover?

WHARF Rescue is looking for volunteers We are a nonprofit animal rescue that provides shelter to homeless,neglected animals Please check www.wharfrescue.ca for more information

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LIVE MUSIC AT “THE ROSE”

STUART BENDALL FEBRUARY 8 & 9

AMY WEYMES FEBRUARY 15 & 16

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Habitat For Humanity - St. Albert Experience Community Hands’ On! Beginners to trades people welcome, groups and individuals welcome. We provide all tools and equipment. All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training. No minimum number of shifts required. Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Louise.

Habitat For Humanity Volunteer Orientation February 8, March 9 and 22 from 8:30am – 4:00pm at the Prefab Shop (13044 Yellowhead Trail).

We are hosting a tool training and information session for new volunteers - or not-new volunteers - who would like to gain some basic knowledge of tools and learn more about how our organization works! Over 80% of all our participants have said that it increased their comfort level to volunteer on an HFH build site by at least 75%.

You will have the opportunity to have your questions answered and meet some of our staff!

Habitat for Humanity invites all women to build with us during Women Build Week: Mar 12 16 at our St. Albert site .

If you are a woman who wants to help families in our community, there is an important role for you on our build sites, whether you have no construction experience or a tool belt of skills. We provide all tools, equipment and lunch. All volunteers participate in onsite safety orientation/training.

No minimum number of shifts required. Check our website www.hfh.org to register as a volunteer online or contact Louise Help someone in crisis take that first step towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities SACE is recruiting volunteers for our 24 hour crisis line. Please visit our website: www.sace.ab.ca

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The Banff World Media Festival (BANFF) is the world's foremost television and digital media content creation event, bringing together over a thousand television professionals from dozens of countries. In a conference setting at the Fairmont Banff Springs Hotel. As a beneficial catalyst for growth and prosperity in Canada's television industry, BANFF could not happen without our invaluable team of volunteers!

The event will be taking place from June 9 – 12, 2013. Please have a look at our website for more information. www.banffmediafestival.com

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The Brick Sport Central is searching for volunteers to donate their time helping with collection, inventory, repairing, as well as outfitting children in need of sports equipment. Call for more information and a tour 780-477-1166 The Silver Skate Festival is looking for volunteers to help get Edmontonians skating, skiing, sledding and sculpting February 15 – 18 in Hawrelak Park.

Call (780) 488-1960 or visit www.silverskatefestival.org or email volunteer@silverskatefestival.org to apply.

Volunteers required for St. Albert's RunWild Marathon May 5, 2013 www.runwild.ca

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Acting Classes

$1000-$6500 off tuition for the March Acting Program Up to 50% OFF! Apply at: www.vadastudios.com

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Akokiniskway Gallery of Rosebud, AB is currently accepting submissions and is sending out a call to artists from around the province and at all stages in their art careers. For more information on this call please contact the curator, Valerie Speer at vals@rosebudmerc.com Art Gallery of St. Albert (AGSA), a contemporary public art gallery, seeks proposals from artists working in all styles and mediums for exhibition in the 2014 calendar year. Submissions must include an artist statement, CV and up to ten images of work. For full details head to: artgalleryofstalbert.ca/exhibitionsevents/call-for-submissions Artists live/work studio available March 1st. ArtsHab One $812 /mo Details at www.artshab.com/spaces/artshabone or call Jeff at 780-439-9532

Call for Featured Artists - 2014 The Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove welcomes all Alberta Artists to submit a proposal as a Feature Artist for a solo or group show to be held at the Spruce Grove Art Gallery located in the Melcor Cultural Centre at 35 – 5th Avenue, Spruce Grove. The portion of our gallery dedicated to our Feature Artists is about 32 feet of wall space. Application dealine is June 30, 2013. For details on application criteria please visit www.alliedartscouncil.com Calls to Artists :: Illuminite Edmonton on the Edge is excited to host illumiNITE for second year running! This year's event runs the entire February long weekend - February 16-18, 2013.

As part of the event, artists, designers and the creatively inspired are invited to join in the design competition that will create the outdoor gallery in the Alley of Light.

More specifically, the competition encourages the creation of innovative and edgy installations that incorporate the element of light. These creations will bring warmth, spririt and life to an otherwise dark and empty pocket park north of the Sobeys on 104th Street, also known as the Alley of Light.

Evanescence Gallery and Art Studio, 61 - 8 Avenue SE, High River, AB is offering Gallery Space to artists to display and sell their work for a nominal monthly fee. They are currently looking to add three more artist colleagues beginning February 1, 2013. Contact them at evanescencegallery@gmail.com or call 403-796-4873 for more information.

Send your submission with Blues in the subject heading line of your email. Please direct all submissions and inquiries to arlene@evanescencegallery.com.

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McMullen Gallery - Call for Submissions We will be selecting 4 or 5 shows for the 2014 – 2015 exhibiting season. Submissions may be emailed or mailed and the deadline is Tuesday April 2nd @ 4pm. The McMullen Gallery is open to a wide variety of styles; both traditional and contemporary approaches that:Present highquality original artwork that is colourful, joyful, uplifting, soothing and / or inspiring.

Appeals to visitors of various ages, social, and cultural backgrounds, and engage our visitors who include hospital patients, staff and visitors.

For further information please email: diana.youngkennedy@albertahealth services.ca

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University City Public Sculpture Competition: University City Condo's in Calgary has launched a Sculpture Competition that is open to students to established artists. The budget is $100,000 CAD, the deadline for submission is June 1, 2013, and it is for Albertan artists only. More information about the competition can be obtained from the website. http://www.universitycity.ca/sculpturecompetition

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

Please call 780-901-7677

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The Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove welcomes all Alberta Artists to submit a proposal as a Feature Artist for 2014 for a solo or group show to be held at the Spruce Grove Art Gallery located in the Melcor Cultural Centre at 35 – 5th Avenue, Spruce Grove.

The deadline for submission is June 30, 2013. Please see their website for full details alliedac@telus.net.

Oil City Derby Girls is holding it's winter intake session for anyone over the age of 18 wishing to join the world's fastest-growing sport.

Come and join our women's team or the River City Riot, OCDG's mens team.

Thursday February 7th at the Oil City Grindhouse 14420-112 Street (Metrosportsplex) From 7-9 pm For more info or questions email joinus@oilcityderbygirls.ca

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The Giovanni Fine Art Gallery is putting together an artist of the month feature that will highlight one Edmonton area arist's work, changing on a monthly basis beginning in January 2013.

Please submit your digital portfolio of 3 to 5 pieces that highlights your various styles and mediums. All work must be child/family friendly. Email to Emily Dymock, school@giovannimusic.ca or call her at 780-489-9764.

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Publisher/ General Manager Aberdeen Publishing has an opening for the position as Publisher/General Manager of the Prince George Free Press.

We are seeking a proven leader with the entrepreneurial skills to continue and further enhance the strong growth this paper has experienced over the past six years.

Ideally, you should have a good understanding of all facets of newspaper operations with emphasis on sales, marketing and financial management.

In addition, our new publisher should be well suited to working with community groups and clients as well as developing sponsorship opportunities for the newspaper.

As publisher of the Free Press, you will help develop strategy for the newspaper as it continues to serve this diverse marketplace.

Aberdeen Publishing is one of Western Canada’s largest independent newspaper companies with properties in British Columbia and Alberta.

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We thank all applicants. Only those considered for an interview will be contacted.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "What we need is more people who specialize in the impossible," said poet Theodore Roethke. For the foreseeable future, Aries, you could and should be a person like that. I'm not saying that you will forevermore be a connoisseur of amazements and a massager of miracles and a magnet for unexpected beauty. But if you want to, you can play those roles for the next few weeks. How many exotic explorations and unlikely discoveries can you cram

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into your life between now and March 1? How many unimaginable transformations can you imagine?

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): North America's most powerful and iconic waterfall is Niagara Falls, which straddles the border between the US and Canada. In 1969, the US Army Corps of Engineers managed to shut down the American side of this elemental surge for a few months. They performed their monumental magic by

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building a dam made with 27 800 tons of rocks. Their purpose was to do research and maintenance on the stony foundation that lies beneath the water. I'm thinking that you Tauruses could accomplish a metaphorical version of that feat in the coming weeks: some awesome task that allows you to peer beneath the surface and make refinements that enhance your stability for a long time.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): National

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Geographic reports that dung beetles have an intimate relationship not only with the earth but also with the stars.

Scientists in South Africa found that the bugs use the Milky Way Galaxy to orient themselves while rolling their precious balls of dung to the right spot for safekeeping. The bright band of starlight in the sky serves as a navigational aid. I nominate the dung beetle to be your power animal in the coming weeks, Gemini. It will be prime time for you, too, to align your

movements and decisions with a bigger picture and a higher power. (Read about the research here: tinyurl.com/ GalacticBeetles.)

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): You should go right ahead and compare oranges and apples in the coming week, Cancerian. Honey and butter, too: it's fine to compare and contrast them. Science and religion. Bulldogs and Siamese CONTINUED ON PAGE 37 >>

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cats. Dew and thunderclaps. Your assignment is to create connections that no one else would be able to make ... to seek out seemingly improbable harmonies between unlikely partners ... to dream up interesting juxtapositions that generate fertile ideas. Your soul needs the delight and challenge of unexpected blending.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): The collection called Grimm's Fairy Tales includes the story "The Devil and His Grandmother." In one scene, the devil's grandmother is petting and rubbing her grandson's head. Or at least that's what the English translations say. But the authors wrote in German, and in their original version of the text, grandma is in fact plucking lice from the devil's hair. Your job in the coming week, Leo, is to ensure that no one sanitizes earthy details like that.

Be vigilant for subtle censorship. Keep watch for bits of truth that have been suppressed. You need the raw feed that comes straight from the source.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): In her book Jung and Tarot, Sallie Nichols notes that the sixteenth card in most Tarot decks portrays lightning as a hostile force: "jagged, zigzag strokes that slash across the sky like angry teeth." But there's one deck, the Marseilles Tarot, that suggests a kinder, gentler lightning. The yellow and red phenomenon descending from the heavens resembles a giant feather duster; it looks like it would tickle and clean rather than burn. I suspect you'll be visited by a metaphorical version of this second kind of lightning sometime soon, Virgo. Prepare to be tickled and cleaned!

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Years ago, "bastard" was a derisive term for a child born to unmarried parents. It reflected the conventional moral code, which regarded a "birth out of wedlock" as scandalous. But I think we can safely say that this old dogma has been officially retired. According to recent statistics compiled by the CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention), over 40 percent of the kids born in the US are to unmarried mothers. Just goes to show you that not all forbidden acts remain forbidden forever. What was unthinkable or out of bounds or not allowed at one time may evolve into what's normal.

I bring this up, Libra, because it's an excellent time for you to divest yourself of a certain taboo that's no longer necessary or meaningful.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): While trekking up Mount Katahdin in Maine, naturalist Henry David Thoreau had a "mountain-top experience" that moved him to observe, "I stand in awe of my body." You're due for a similar splash of illumination, Scorpio. The time is right for you to arrive at a reverent new appreciation for the prodigious feats that your physical organism endlessly performs for you.

What could you do to encourage such a breakthrough? How can you elevate

your love for the flesh and blood that houses your divine spark?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): How do you like your caviar? Do you prefer it to be velvety and smooth, or would you rather have it be full of strong, fishy taste? If it's the first option, beluga caviar is your best option.

If the second, sevruga should be your favourite. What? You say you never eat caviar? Well, even if you don't, you should regard the choice between types of caviar as an apt metaphor for the coming week. You can either have velvety smoothness or a strong taste, but not both. Which will it be? Set your intention.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "Dear Astrology Guy: I have been reading your horoscopes since I was 19. For a while, I liked them. They were fun riddles that made me think. But now I've soured on them. I'm sick and tired of you asking me to transform myself. You just keep pushing and pushing, never satisfied, always saying it's time to improve myself or get smarter or fix one of my bad habits. It's too much! I can't take it any more! Sometimes I just want to be idle and lazy.

Your horoscopes piss me off! - Crabby Capricorn." Dear Crabby: I've got some good news. In the coming week, you are completely excused from having to change anything about yourself or your life. Stay exactly the same! Be frozen in time. Resist the urge to tinker. Take a vacation from life's relentless command to evolve.

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Spinsters speak out

Single and loving it despite the Valentine's marketing It's that time of year again—the radio have in common is that we're tired of is filled with ads for diamond rings explaining ourselves." and just about every restaurant is offering special deals for two on FebruBut why do we need this now? Helen ary 14. With so much emphasis Gurley Brown was writing about on coupledom, it makes it Sex and the Single Girl way seem like the single person back in 1962, and if that is the odd one out. wasn't enough, the turn of om eekly.c w e Eleanore Wells, blogger the century brought us the u v @ brenda a d and author of The Spin"Love Letter to the Single n e Br er sterlicious Life: 20 Life LesWoman" in Sex and the City.

Kerb sons For Living Happily Single It may seem like we've come a and Childfree begs to differ. She notes long way towards embracing the sinon her blog that about 30 percent of gle woman, but I believe we are only adult women in America are single— OK with her if her fabulous single life many happily so. "So many women is just a passing phase on the road to assume that a single woman is an unmarriage and babies. After all, even happy woman," she says. "I happen to the swinging singles of Sex and the know that isn't necessarily the case."

City all ended up in long-term relaWells began to write Spinsterlicious tionships by the end of the series. Yep, after a conversation with married cowe love our single ladies, but only if workers made her feel like an object they're just having a good time until of pity. "I had just returned from an they decide to settle down. If there is awesome vacation in Tuscany, was no settling down on the horizon, we dating a great guy and had a successstart getting judgy. I asked Wells why ful business. It was unclear to me she thinks that. what they were "feeling sorry" about "Marriage and kids are a tradition ... I began the blog because I realized and when traditions start to go soft, that this is and should be an ongoing it scares people," she says. "Sometimes conversation. My readers love having when married women are confused a place to come to where they can about my being single and happy with have a community and share with likeit, I think they're processing this in minded women. We're all different their minds because they never knew in many ways, but the one thing we they had a choice and may have taken

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a different path if they had the guts to."

Ouch! That seems a bit harsh, but maybe she's right. Most women these days would probably say that marriage and children are a choice, not an obligation, but as a 40-something woman with no children I can say there is massive social pressure to get married and have babies. Is it so insidious that we might make that choice because we feel there's something wrong with us if we don't? Wells thinks so and hopes her book could help change that.

"My hope is that, once we make being single socially acceptable, then it will lead to better marriages because women won't feel so compelled to do it; they'll only do it if it really feels right ... which should make for better marriages."

As for Valentine's Day, Wells encourages single women to embrace it and their single lives. "I think we need to lighten up about Valentine's Day, put some fun back in it, take the angst away. Let's make it about all kinds of love, not just romantic love." V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-forprofits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Young art student Andrzej Sobiepan snuck into Poland's National Museum with a painting he had done himself and managed to surreptitiously mount it on one of the walls. It hung there for a while before authorities noticed it and took it down. "I decided that I will not wait 30 or 40 years for my works to appear at a place like this," he said. "I want to benefit from them in the here and now." This is the kind of aggressive self-expression I'd like to see you summon in the coming weeks, Aquarius. Don't wait for the world to come and invite you to do what you want to do. Invite yourself. PS: the English translation of Sobiepan's Polish last name means "his own master."

What can you do to be more of your own master?

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Before any system can leap to a higher level of organization, says poet Susan Goldsmith Wooldridge, it has to undergo dissolution. "Unraveling or disintegrating is a vital, creative event making room for the new," she declares.

Guess what time it is for the system we all know and love as YOU, Pisces?

That's right: it's a perfect moment to undo, dismantle and disperse ... as well as to unscramble, disentangle and disencumber. Be of good cheer! Have faith that you will be generating the conditions necessary for the rebirth that will follow. "To change from one reality to another," writes Wooldridge, "a thing first must turn into nothing."

(Her book is Poemcrazy.)

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Turned on by cheating, but only if the "guidelines" are followed I'm a 27-year-old man in a two-year Your letter confused me, CUCK. relationship with a 26-year-old womHere's why: you describe your relaan. My last partner cheated and lied tionship as open, then as poly, then and did some unforgivable things. I as a "cuckolding thing." wasn't blameless—I stayed with her First things first: polyamorous long after I realized it wasn't relationships and open relaE G working—but our relationtionships are two differA SAV ship did unearth a kink. ent things. Some poly After I found out about her relationships are open, m o ekly.c vuewe cheating, I got extremely savagelove@ but many poly relationDan turned on thinking about it. ships are closed—that is, Savage three people (or more) are I never told her.

Enter my next girlfriend. We involved with each other excluwere together a few months before sively, ie, no randoms, no romancing I brought up my kink. She was very potential fourths, fifths or sixths. accommodating (dirty talk about The reverse is also true: not all open her cheating, making up stories relationships are poly. Two people in about cheating) and then, after some an open relationship may allow fuckmonths, she admitted that it was ing around with other people with something she wanted to try in real the understanding that there will be life. I said I was OK with it as long no dating or—God forbid—falling in as I had the option to pursue other love with anyone else. partners as well. We agreed on some And then there's cuckolding. The rules and gave it a shot. She set up whole "cuckolding thing" is about the a date through OKCupid and had sex female half of a heterosexual couple with someone; I hooked up with an breaking the rules and then rubbing ex. Everything seemed to be turning her partner's nose in the evidence out great. Then two weeks later, she of her cheating. (Some cuckolds get got drunk and told me she had seen off on literally having their noses the OKCupid guy again without askrubbed in the evidence.) Cuckolding. I was so upset, I nearly broke up ing is eroticized betrayal, CUCK, and with her. Having the guidelines igyou spent months fantasizing with nored felt like a betrayal. She later your girlfriend about being betrayed. admitted to seeing him one other All that dirty talk, all those made time without talking to me first. up stories—remember? But when Are we going through the normal it came time to turn your fantasies trip-ups of a newly open relationinto reality, CUCK, you laid out the ship? Or are these lies an indication rules for what sounds like a fairly that she can't be trusted? I feel like it standard open-not-poly relationship: might be hard to find someone else she could fuck other people and so who is into my kink and maybe we're could you. Once again, I'm confused: just having a hard time navigating the cuckold in a "cuckolding thing" polyamory. I love my partner and I typically doesn't get to fuck around. want to make this cuckolding thing He gets fucked around on. work if we can. Suck it up or break If your discussions with your girlit off? friend were as confusing as your letConfused Upon Cheating Kink ter, CUCK, it's possible that she was likewise confused. It's possible that

she thought the rules applied to you and not to her. It's possible that she figured she was free to break the rules because betrayal turned you on. Now she knows that betrayal turns you on as a fantasy and not a reality.

I'm giving your girlfriend the benefit of the doubt here, CUCK, but seeing as you love her and want to make this work, and seeing as girlfriends who are open to cuckolding are hard to come by, on and in, I think you should give her the benefit of the doubt, too. Time will tell if she's an honest "cheater" who can be trusted or a lying cheater who must be dumped.

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tive, lady-empowering advice would be to accept that it's just the way her pussy works. I would order you to incorporate the vibrator into oral and/or vaginal sex and not stress out about it. And if you were putting pressure on your girlfriend— if you were making it clear to her that this "inability" to climax from your oral skills alone bothered you, if you were having a sad each time she "failed" to climax during oral—I would slap you around for being an insecure prick.

Why shouldn't the same advice apply here?

Vaginal gets you all the way there, oral gets you almost all

The whole "cuckolding thing" is about the female half of a heterosexual couple breaking the rules and then rubbing her partner's nose in the evidence of her cheating. (Some cuckolds get off on literally having their noses rubbed in the evidence.)

I'm a guy who can't orgasm during oral sex. I can during vaginal. It's frustrating, as I can see it bothers my girlfriend. But while I get close, I don't quite reach the apex of that hill. I suspect it's a control issue.

During vaginal, I have some level of control—during oral, I don't. Help.

Almost There Maybe it's not a control issue, AT. Maybe oral doesn't do it for you—it can't get you up and over them thar hills—because ... oral doesn't do it for you. If it were your girlfriend who had difficulty climaxing from oral alone—let's say she required a vibrator to get her over them thar hills—the standard-issue, sex-posi-

the way there—maybe that's just how your dick works. On the off chance there could be a psychological block, AT, experiment with letting her get you almost all the way there and then stroke yourself to get the rest of the way there.

Stroke to the point of no return— "orgasmic inevitability"—and then put your dick back in her mouth and blow your load. With time and without sads, AT, you may find the number of strokes you need to get up and over the hill diminishing until you don't need them at all. Or you may not—because this may be how your dick works.

My girlfriend and I are having sex on a not-so-every-day basis, but

that doesn't matter anyways. The thing is, I've been lasting longer and lonager every time we do have sex. However, she can't last as long as I can, and eventually we'll start having to use lube and then maybe 30 minutes later, it'll start to hurt more. As if I'm "tearing" her or something. I'm left "blue balled" for fear of hurting her further, and she feels bad for not having me finish. What do I do? Fake it or just use copious amounts of lube?

Bluer And Bluer Balls Who says you can't finish? If it's taking you forever, and your girlfriend's pussy is giving out, pull out and stroke yourself until you finish.

You could also incorporate strategic stroke breaks into your fuck sessions, BABB, to get you closer to the edge and give her pussy a rest.

And you might find she's able to last longer if you engage in a little midplay—think foreplay, but halfway through—during those stroke breaks: make out while you stroke yourself, eat her pussy, play with her clit. I bet your girlfriend will need less lube if she's less bored and/or more turned on during those epic fuck sessions.

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