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White male? Check I’m not saying Vern Thiessen was a bad choice. On paper, it’s hard to imagine a more qualified application for Workshop West’s artistic director position— harder to imagine them not selecting him, which they did and officially announced last week. Thiessen’s an acclaimed playwright with both a solid history in town (he taught playwriting at the U of A; the Citadel Theatre’s produced his scripts) and great success elsewhere—a recent adaptation of his, Of Human Bondage, took home seven of Toronto’s Dora awards. Given Workshop West’s own mandate of cultivating new works, Thiessen’s an ideal fit. But the other thing his hiring means is that we have another white male artistic director in town, which means Edmonton’s seven or so main stage companies all have white male artistic directors. That isn’t to say there are no women or visible minorities running theatre companies in town. There are quite a few, actually, but only when we look at specialized companies, or ones that don’t do a full season of their own. A few examples: Marianne Copithorne helms the Freewill Shakespeare Festival (one month-long, two-show festival each year); Theatre Yes’ Heather Inglis and the women-led Maggie Tree both produce a show per season; Amy Shostak is in charge of improv company Rapid Fire Theatre (that does weekend shows and few festivals, and which, for full disclosure here, I’m a part of); Christine Frederick runs Alberta Aboriginal Arts, which produces the Rubaboo festival every year; TYA company Concrete Theatre splits artistic director duties between Caroline Howarth and Mieko Ouchi. There are more in the emerging groups of fresh-out-ofschool artists and indiest-of-indie collectives around town—Punctuate theatre, which curates a full indie season as well as produces original work, has Liz Hobbs as its artistic director. But if we’re talking about the professional companies in town, nobody who isn’t a white male guides a season, and it’s been like that for a long while. Thiessen will assuredly do good things in his new role, and we’ll be lucky to have him as a regular creative force around town. More than any criticism of him, or even any sort of call for affirmative action, this is a request for stronger awareness (and questioning) of one particular point: in a bustling theatre scene such as we have here, one that prides itself on scale and scope, why isn’t that same diversity reflected, even slightly, in its biggest artistic-leadership roles? V
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NEWS // HATE TO HOPE
Putting discrimination in its place
Third annual Hate to Hope rally hopes to encourage LGBTQ individuals
Edmonton Pride Centre members decorate a banner for the rally // Lauren De Leeuw
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he amount of discrimination in Edmonton is something that the organizers of the Hate to Hope rally believe has been hiding in the closet for too long. As reported by Egale Canada, a national charity supporting LGBTQ youth, "more than one in five LGBTQ students are physically harassed or assaulted because of their sexual orientation." Chevi Rabbit is the organizer of Hate to Hope, now in its third year, and started the rally after he was assaulted two years ago by a group of men who shouted gay slurs at him while he walked towards Safeway on Whyte Avenue. But Rabbit says the rally is "broader than homophobia." He says the goal is to reach out to anyone being affected by preju-
dice whether it's because of sexual orientation, religion or ethnicity. "There's a lot of ethnicity and cultural prejudice in the city that people don't see," Rabbit says. Chelsey Smith, an advocate for gender justice issues both locally and globally, is the host of the event this year. Her viewpoint falls in line with Rabbit's. "The rally is about equality. We're coming from the perspective of homophobia, but we're reaching for equality for everyone," Smith says. "I hope that this will transcend beyond the city. While it's being hosted in Edmonton, the event itself is relevant to Albertans, Canadians and to the entire community." Junaid Jahangir, professor of economics at both the Univer-
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sity of Alberta and MacEwan University, will be speaking and representing the Muslim LGBTQ community. "Muslims are stuck in the Canadian mosaic and there are not very many resources available for LGBTQ Muslims," he says. The National Anti-Racism Council of Canada reports that since 9/11, Muslims and Arabs in Canada have endured increased amounts of discrimination. According to NARCC data, 60 percent of Muslim Canadians encountered racism in the year following 9/11 and this number has hardly decreased in the decade since then. This means that some members of the LGBTQ Muslim community are unfortunately placed into two societal "closets"—the "post 9/11" closet and the "homo-
phobic" closet. Hate to Hope will be held on July 19 at 6 pm and is a public event. It begins at 110 Street and 84 Avenue—near where Rabbit was attacked—and ends at the Alberta Legislature Grounds. Participants or rally supporters are encouraged to wear red, pink or purple to show their support. "People who are hateful and discriminatory are simply uneducated. Not in terms of lack of education or post secondary, but they are uneducated on topics regarding this issue," Rabbit says. "This rally is one of the ways that I believe I can get people to come and listen and learn something so that they can become less discriminatory." LAUREN DE LEEUW LAUREND@VUEWEEKLY.COM
NEWS // WORLD CUP
He passes, he runs, he trips over his tongue The bark and bite of the 2014 FIFA World Cup
Everything had accumulated over a month. It was pure disaster. Poor training conditions and sleep options ... I [was] just wonder where all the money was flowing ... The association get[s] so much money from sponsors and FIFA—it was certainly not used for hotels, flights, the team and the preparation ... everything was amateurish." – Kevin Prince-Boateng, Schalke midfielder and former Ghana player, in a June 29 interview with Bild after his expulsion from Ghana's national team on the day of its final WC game. The "smallest problem" he refers to was the team's dispute over player bonuses, resolved, it was widely reported, by the Ghanaian president when he had $3-million in cash flown to the Black Stars in Brazil via private jet. Prince-Boateng was kicked out after, it was claimed, he made "vulgar verbal insults" against coach James Appiah; teammate Sulley Muntari was expelled after an apparent "unprovoked physical attack" on a Ghana Football Association member.
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or 30 summer days every evennumbered, non-leap year, people across the globe gather around screens for 90 minutes to stare at, and care deeply about, 22 (physically) mature men kicking a ball around a green field with some white lines. Most people get the game; some wonder why players writhe around occasionally; people who don't watch the 64-match tournament still hear about it, thanks to a scandal or controversy or shocking result. (This year, with Google's doodles marking the event, many online surfers were usually aware of who was playing.) FIFA shakes its money-maker, louder and noisier than any vuvuzela (2010's buzzing plastic horns), more fervidly each go-around. And out of this cauldron of male soap-opera, one-sport extravaganza, nationalisms played out on turf and soccer-branding meatmarket, a few juicy morsels always bubble to the surface—quotes, quips and quirks capturing the odd basic flavour, or quiddity, of the World Cup. Here are the choicest from 2014's edition, hosted so generously by Brazil that the home squad ceded 10 goals in their last two games just to make sure the all-time record for goals scored at a 32-team WC could be equalled on the final day, in Rio, where Germany beat Argentina 1-0.
"Messi's carrying Argentina, Ney- mentarian, activist and freelance proBARE-FACED ANGER "How would you feel if someone took mar's carrying Brazil, Chiellini's carry- ducer (quoted by Sam Laird in a Mashable.com article, June 25), explaining naked pictures of you? They are ada- ing rabies." "Luis Suárez would like to thank his the drop-off in protests and public mant that they won't speak to you lot any more and I don't know whether fangs for their support." – Three of interest in protests. Demonstrations the silence will end tomorrow or last many jokes circulating after Uruguay at the FIFA Confederation Cup a year until the end of our World Cup cam- striker Luis Suárez bit Italian defender before, over the comparative lack of paign ... you blew it with this one." Giorgio Chiellini in the shoulder late funding for schools, health care and – Croatia coach Niko Kovač explain- in the second half of their June 24 public transit, had brought thousands ing, to reporters at the team's base match; it was his third chomping in- into the streets. The estimated cost on June 15, that his players would no cident and he was suspended by FIFA to the Brazilian government of hosting the World Cup is $14-billion US, longer be talking to them after two for four months. with $900-million photographers hid in bushes and They are adamant that they won’t speak to you pledged to secuforces in opsnapped players lot any more and I don’t know whether the silence rity eration during the bathing nude in will end tomorrow or last until the end of our tournament. the team's pool; the pictures World Cup campaign. LASER-POINTwere published ING FINGERS online. "This [is] not an excuse, it is a fact. There was a laser." – Russia's coach Fa... THAN HIS DETACHED BARK GOING UNDERCOVER "FIFA is getting to the bottom of the "The truth is that my colleague Gior- bio Capello, discussing his team's elimiissue by possibly bringing Neymar in gio Chiellini suffered the physical nation after their 1-1 draw with Algeria to be debriefed." – Brandon Hicks, result of a bite in the collision he on June 26. Just before Algeria's fateful cbc.ca/sports, June 25, in an article suffered with me." – Part of the apol- corner kick, the FIFA TV feed showed about FIFA investigating Brazil star ogetic statement released via Twitter a green light being flashed across the Neymar's reported underwear viola- by Suárez on June 30; nowhere did he face of goalkeeper Igor Akinfeev, who tion after photos showed the striker actually state that he purposely bit made the error that caused the goal moments later. Capello was the highwearing a brand of underwear not his opponent. est-paid coach at the WC; Russia doled FIFA-approved. out about $11.4-million US in annual RESIGNED TO PROTEST "But you ask why people are more salary to the 68-year-old Italian. HIS BITE WAS WORSE ... "Just downloaded a video of Luis interested in the World Cup? It's the Suárez's greatest moments—it was fucking World Cup. You can't do much PRINCELY SUMS about that." – Julia Mariano, a docu- "That was the smallest problem. only three megabites."
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ELEVEN FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST "We were extremely cool and realized they were cracking up, and we took advantage of that." – Coach Joachim Löw, July 8, assessing his German team's dismantling of the hosts, in their Belo Horizonte semi-final, with four goals in seven minutes and seven over 69 minutes. Brazil hadn't lost a competitive home match since 1975. They went on to lose the third-place match 3-0 to Holland, marking their first consecutive home losses since 1940. THE CUP'S HALF-EMPTY ... BEFORE IT'S BROKEN "The atmo[sphere] at the 2018 World Cup will be DOA. In 2022, it will be even worse. ... You can't just roll into Qatar to soak up the vibe. The average daily high is 40 C. If you're on the street, you're going to die. There's also the issue of moral peril. Who wants to vacation in a graveyard for itinerant workers? By 2026—after two consecutive gong shows—nobody sensible is going to want this hassle any more. Of course, that means Canada's already declared its interest. That'll never happen. We're too straight. ... No, this will end up going to some desperate, half-crooked government that will be happily robbed blind in exchange for a month's worth of agitprop. That pattern has been very good to FIFA. The organization will do even less for the fans, because that's the trend. This thing is charting a line into human oblivion." – Cathal Kelly, The Globe and Mail, July 11, looking ahead to the World Cup wonders of 2018 and 2022.
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Pride moved aside
Relocating the festival to Hawrelak has pros and cons Edmonton has come a long way since the city's first pride parade in 1992, in which participants wore bags over their heads to protect their identities. The week-long celebration we currently have, where thousands of people flock down to Churchill Square to get their gay on, is a complete turnaround from Pride's beginnings. In fact, these throngs of celebrants are the cause of Pride's latest evolution: starting next year, the Festival is relocating to Hawrelak Park. Why the move? LRT construction over the next few years will mean closures along 102 Street and at Churchill Square, the festival's main haunts. This, combined with repeated feedback from attendees that it needs
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more space, is the impetus behind the decision. According to Angela Bennett, executive director of the Edmonton Pride Festival Society, Hawrelak was chosen as the new location because of its infrastructure, size and natural beauty. It also doesn't hurt that some of Edmonton's premier festivals happen at that location, which only increases the prestige of Pride. The decision to move has certainly raised a few eyebrows, particularly concerning the parade. The original plan was to have the parade circle around the park; however, based on a tremendous amount of feedback, the festival board is revisiting that decision. An ad hoc committee is meeting this week to discuss options and the
organization intends to hold a town hall meeting in August to answer any questions the community might have. There is also some concern about transportation—while technically centrally located, Hawrelak isn't a public transportation hub. I hope the move will also address some of the longtime complaints about the accessibility of the festival space. I have mixed feelings about this news. Logistical issues aside, a move to Hawrelak removes any pretence that Pride is intended to disrupt public space with a queer presence. In response to Pride moving out of the public eye, Bennett points out that this is the first time in years the city
has allowed a new event to take place in Hawrelak Park. The fact that the city is making space for a queer event speaks to the support our community has from the mayor and council, something not all communities in this country (I'm looking at you, Toronto) can claim. (I'm also curious to know why the city can shut down whole city blocks for farmers' markets but not for Pride, but that's another conversation.) This feels like a further de-politicization of Pride. We've written on this subject before: Pride has evolved from a political protest to a corporate festival, where certain bodies are excluded and expressions of sexual and gender fluidity are narrowly defined
to be "family-friendly." While the evolution of Pride in Edmonton speaks to a certain kind of progress, I'm uneasy with the compromises our community has had to make to get here. So who is the festival for? Is it for queers who have essentially achieved mainstream acceptance to celebrate with their fellow open-minded straight allies the accomplishments of the past few decades? Or is it for those in our community who are still fighting for recognition, for a change to a system that only lets certain queers in? How you answer that question will change how you imagine what our Pride Festival should be: Rainbow Heritage Days or queer activism. V
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Gaza 2014—the war trade
Israel's third war against Gaza in eight years a sign that peace is far off
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Mahmoud Abbas, president of the Palestinian Authority, said something cryptic last Friday, shortly after the Israelis began their latest round of attacks on the Gaza Strip. Condemning Hamas' conditions for accepting a ceasefire as "exaggerated and unnecessary," he offered his condolences "to the families of the martyrs in Gaza who are fuel to those who trade in war. I oppose these traders, on both sides." What could he mean by that? Surely he was not suggesting that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu of Israel and the leaders of Hamas, the Islamist organization that has effective control of the Gaza Strip, have a common interest in perpetuating the current bloodbath for at least a little
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while longer. Yes, he was suggesting exactly that, and he was quite right. This is the third "Gaza War" since late 2008— they come around more often than World Cups in soccer—and each one has followed the same pattern. Some Israelis are kidnapped and/or killed, Israel makes mass arrests of Hamas cadres in the West Bank and launches air and missile strikes on the Gaza Strip, Hamas lets the missiles fly and away we go again. A few wrinkles are different this time. The kidnapping and murder of three young Israeli hitchhikers in the West Bank, probably by Palestinians who had links with Hamas (although it denies responsibility), was followed by the torture and murder
of a young Palestinian, probably by Israeli vigilantes. The ceasefire signed after the last round in 2012 was already being violated by both sides for some months before the real shooting started a week ago. And, most importantly, Hamas had achieved a political reconciliation of sorts with Abbas' rival organization that rules the West Bank as the Palestinian Authority. But although every turn of the wheel is a little bit different, the pattern remains the same. So why would Netanyahu be willing to launch Israel's third war against the Gaza Strip in eight years? Because the nature of his political alliances with other parties on the Israeli right, and especially with the settler lobby, means that he could not make a peace deal that the Palestinians would accept even if he wanted to (which he probably doesn't). That's why he was instrumental in sabotaging the Oslo Accords, the theoretical basis for a peaceful "two-state solution" to the IsraeliPalestinian conflict, during his first term as prime minister in 1996-99. Back in power in the past five years, his primary excuse for not moving on negotiations has been that Abbas could not deliver peace because he controlled only the West Bank, while the intransigent Hamas ruled the Gaza Strip. Then Abbas stitched together a compromise that brought Hamas
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back into a unity government three months ago, and Netanyahu claimed that he could not be expected to negotiate with a government that included the "terrorists" of Hamas. So is he now trying to destroy Hamas so that Abbas can rule unhindered over all the Palestinian territories and become a suitable partner for peace? Of course not. Netanyahu knows, on the evidence of the previous two wars, that Hamas can be battered into temporary quiescence but not destroyed. He also probably realizes that if he did manage to destroy Hamas, its place would be taken by a less corrupt and much more extreme Islamist outfit that might really hurt Israel. He is just doing this, with no expectation of victory, because Israeli public opinion demands it. Hamas' motives for wanting a little war are more obvious and urgent: it has lost almost all its sources of funding. Iran stopped funding its budget to the tune of $20 million per month when Hamas sided with the Sunni rebels in the Syrian civil war. Egypt stopped helping it after last year's military coup against Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood government, and closed the tunnels under the border through which the Gaza Strip received most of its imported goods. Those imports were Hamas' main source of tax revenue.
Hamas is broke, and if it stays broke its control over the Strip will weaken. Whereas a war with Israel will rally the local Palestinians to its support, and if enough of them are killed Egypt and the Gulf states may feel compelled to give Hamas financial aid. So the only real question is how many dead Palestinians will satisfy both Netanyahu's need to look tough and Hamas' need to rebuild popular support at home and get financial help from abroad? On past performance, the magic number is between 100 and 1000 dead: around 1200 Palestinians were killed in the 2008-09 war, and 174 in 2012. After that—assuming only a handful of Israelis have been killed, which is guaranteed by the fact that Israeli air and missile strikes are a hundred times more efficient at killing than Hamas' pathetic rockets—a ceasefire becomes possible. We have already crossed the lower threshold of that range of Palestinian deaths in the current mini-war, so a ceasefire is theoretically possible now, but both sides will probably press on for at least another few days. Then the ceasefire will be agreed, and both sides will start thinking about the next round, only a few years from now. But the dead will stay dead. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.
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Tequila Obsession El Cortez puts a story behind every type of tequila
A FEW FACTS ABOUT TEQUILA • There are different types of tequila, and they are broken up into blanco, joven, reposado, and Añejo depending on the aging process. Blancos are the “youngest” and often preferred most by authentic tequila drinkers as they hold onto the most agave flavour. • The cactus that the blue agave plant—used to make tequila—takes to mature is eight to 12 years. • Tequila is one of the only spirits that can come directly from the still and be bottled as well as being aged and barrelled. • Tequila has been around since the 16th century. • There is a Museum of Tequila located in Mexico City.
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or many of us, our experience with tequila has been largely limited to the cheap stuff. You know, the kind that seems to burn your throat for ages, tastes like a mixture of gasoline and lighter fluid and is often the culprit of debaucherous nights—if you can remember them amidst your throbbing headache the next morning, that is. However, your relationship with tequila is about to improve thanks to El Cortez Tequila Bar + Kitchen, which will open its doors at the end of July. The establishment is the brainchild of music-video director Michael Maxxis (think Billy Talent, City and Colour, Hollerado and Alexisonfire), who wanted to bring some of the Mexicana culture that's become ingrained in his life while living in Los Angeles back home to Edmonton. He and his girlfriend Melanie Swerden, a photographer, devised the concept of a tequila-centric bar and kitchen last winter and recruited Maxxis' old friend Alex Sneazwell (The Manor, Vons) as executive chef, Brendan Brewster to design the liquor program and Eli Diamond to manage operations. "It was originally going to be sort of a raw, gritty cantina, and then we started talking to guys like Alex and gauged their interest. All of a sudden the idea inflates and standards go up,"
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explains Maxxis, sitting amongst his business partners in the visually intriguing space that is El Cortez—but more about that element in a minute. "Everything grew and grew and grew, and what was originally going to be a $100 000 renovation that we do in a month turned out to be six months and a lot more than $100 000." But back to the tequila. El Cortez isn't going to feature any of the run-of-the-mill stuff that's given tequila its infamous reputation. Only 100-percent agave-based, authentic tequila will grace its bar—and 80 to 100 varieties at that. "A lot of the Cuervo and stuff that a lot of us have got drunk on and had a bad hangover, they only have to be 51-percent agave to be classified as tequila," Swerden says. "The rest of it they fill with sugar, corn syrup, caramel and all kinds of other junk that gives you that bad hangover." "We could carry 300 if we wanted, but we're not using tequila bottles as decorations. We want to carry a large selection, a diverse one that our bartenders can really learn and understand and really be able to communicate with our customers and educate them," Maxxis says. One of the main varieties of tequila featured at El Cortez will be Tromba, a Canadian-based company that im-
ports its product from the state of Jalisco in Mexico, where a city called Tequila is actually located. All tequila must originate here in order to be named as such, much like how Champagne must come from the Champagne region of France. "It's possible to come here and be blown away by tequila not only as a single-ounce sipping drink, but be useful in a cocktail," Sneazwell notes. "It's going to be prevalent in our [food] menu as well. I'm going to be using agave nectar quite often, replacing all sugar in the kitchen with agave, and just using tequila in brines and dressings. Hopefully everyone can kind of leave this building going, 'Man, tequila was awesome.'" "The biggest thing with the tequila is we're really looking for the customers leaving with a story," adds Diamond, who worked for an Irish pub in Calgary. "There's such history behind this one liquor and it's so interesting to see that and to learn that, and if we can educate the customers and have our servers really give that experience, it'll take this place to a whole other level." That spirit of elevating the experience of El Cortez resonates all throughout the building. The place feels as though you've suddenly took
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a wrong turn off the streets of Edmonton and wandered into a bar in Los Angeles. Everywhere you look is an homage of sorts to the Mexicana culture that pulsates throughout the vibrant metropolis—but El Cortez takes an artistic and stylish approach to the depiction and is far from a novelty bar. The team has maintained the sense of grit it originally aimed for, with antique chandeliers hanging from the ceiling, plenty of exposed brick and rustic furniture, all of which is accented by artwork featuring bandits and skeletons as well as photo collages depicting facets of Latin culture in Los Angeles. "We've really taken an uncompromising approach to everything we can. Our artwork and graphic illustrations for everything: our menus, labels, logos, everything were done by a guy named Chris Ede. He's in London, England and one of the top illustrators in the world," says Maxxis, who hopes to tie in some of his background in music with small, impromptu shows in the refinished basement. "Our graffiti is done by a guy named Leba, and then some of it's done by another guy named Smear, who you'll be able to read up on in the LA Times. He was part of the largest public-graffiti lawsuit in the history of the city of Los Angeles."
There's certainly no shortage of creativity flowing throughout El Cortez, which Sneazwell has translated to the venue's food as well. With the Old Strathcona Farmer's Market right across the street, Sneazwell is adding a local element to his modern Latin fare. Latin cuisine is based around tradition, he explains, and El Cortez offered the opportunity to take that tradition and showcase it through his own interpretation. What that means is customers will be able to expect offerings like foie gras tacos, baked queso manchego, beef-cheek tacos in adobo sauce as well as braised beef tongue with cauliflower purée and fried squash blossoms. "I've always liked to push my comfort zone, too. I've been doing this for about five or six years and to be able to do something that kind of pushes me into having to read more and study more and learn more and in turn educate my staff and educate my partners in what it is, I get excited about it and it just sparks that inspiration ... I just want to make people happy with food," he adds with a laugh. "It's exciting to be able to have that flexibility as a partner in the business and having these people support it. It's like, yeah, let's get crazy." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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REVUE // THEATRE
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The Taming of the Shrew
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It's quite a funny opening: we watch here's just no escaping the rampant misogyny in The Taming of the cast beak off at each other as they the Shrew—but what looks pretty prep for rehearsal, only to discover dire on paper can translate in surpris- that the Hawrelak Amphitheatre tarp ing ways on stage. has been wrecked and so they must The Freewill move the show. Shakespeare Fes- Until Sun, Jul 27 (8 pm; tival has chosen weekend matinees 2 pm) The tone shifts quickly as Katherone of The Bard's Directed by ine (Mary Hulbert) trickier comedies Marianne Copithorne delivers a lovely, as the sole entry Myer Horowitz Theatre, mournful song to this year: the fes- $20 – $30 start, a prelude of tival had to cut the serious issues the usual comedytragedy duo in half and move the that are at stake beneath this comvenue indoors due to a mishap with edy's silly antics. Freewill has delivthe Hawrelak Park amphitheatre. But ered a very contemporary Padua, with while audiences might miss the park citizens who arrive on Vespas (driven atmosphere (or not—there's certain- through the crowd first, of course), ly something to be said for enjoying wear Gucci hats, pose for selfies and theatre bug-free), the Freewill Play- drink Red Bull. It's precisely the coners do their best to distract you from temporary setting that makes this the venue change by pointing it out play a difficult one to swallow, however, as the play's sexual politics are directly at the start of the show.
Tame this // Andrew Paul
squeamish, if not outright offensive, in the 21st century. Hulbert plays a combative, overly aggressive—sometimes downright hostile—Katherine, giving good reason for her character's notorious reputation. As Katherine's unwanted suitor Petruchio, James MacDonald matches her swagger stride for stride—their antagonistic, almost violent initial meeting is a tempest unto itself. Freewill has done its best in trying to make this play relevant in the current age, and they do succeed at times—our main pair show glimmers of attraction to one another, which serve, I guess, as the sole foundation for their relationship—but there's just no getting around the fact that this is a man's world, and women have little agency of their own. Still, there are some excellent moments of comedy: watching Hortensio
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(Nathan Cuckow) teach Bianca (Bobbi Goddard) how to rap is a riot, while Petruchio's arrival at his wedding— straight from his bachelor party and in drag—is so ridiculous that his subsequent kidnapping of Katherine is not so much sinister as silly. Whether Petruchio's motivation is really because he sees a kindred spirit in Katherine, or whether he's simply too bullish and stubborn to back down from a challenge, is as up for debate, as it was when the play was first performed four centuries ago. Ultimately, the sexes just don't come off on equal footing—I kept waiting/hoping for Kate to wink at Petruchio in her final monologue, as satire seems the only thing that could redeem its disturbing implications. But Freewill has opted for the earnest route, and so, despite its moments of hilarity, this production still leaves one a bit squirmy.
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The Other Side of the Mountie / Thu, Jul 17 – Sat, Jul 19 (8 pm) Down at Fort Edmonton Park, Capitol Theatre continues its series of improvised klondike melodramas, with The Other Side of the Mountie. What other side? Probably jokes, the kind Mounties are always thinking about but forbidden to say aloud. (Capitol Theatre, $20) Barefoot in the Park / Until Sat, Jul 26 (7:30 pm; 2pm Saturday matinees) It’s pretty rare for Teatro La Quindicina to program a script Stewart Lemoine didn’t write. The last time was back in 2002 with Neil Simon’s The Odd Couple, and they’re returning to his body of work for the third entry in their summer-long season: a classic comedy set in ‘60s New York, it sees a newly married couple’s wedded bliss put to the test. And Lemoine still directs here, so his particular brand of sharp comic whimsy will still be present in the room, if not the script. (Varscona Theatre, $16 – $30)
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Just for Cats Film Festival/ Fri, Jul 18 – Sat, Jul 19 (7 pm); Sun, Jul 20 (1 pm) “It’s not about watching cat videos, it’s about watching cat videos together!” reads the press release for the Just for Cats Film Festival, and, yes, this is actually a real thing, curated by somebody and touring from city to city: about 70 minutes of cat videos culled from YouTube, Vine, from across the depths of the Internet (there are also a few short films). The festival promises (screen) appearances by Grumpy Cat, Lil Bub, Keyboard Cat (RIP), Henri le Chat Noir and the NONONONO cat. And it’s all for a good cause: the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies is using the event as a fundraiser to help cats in need. Which is super important, because Rum Tum Tugger’s a total deadbeat, Macavity still owes you $50 and Magical Mister Mistoffelees is never there when he says he will be. (Metro Cinema at the Garneau)
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Dogfight W
artime romances are a whole genre unto themselves, with all the clichés and stereotypes that come along with such entrenchment. So it's nice when one feels different—maybe not wholly unique, but gritty and down-to-earth. The love story in Dogfight, a musical written by Pasek and Paul based on the 1991 film, certainly qualifies. And the work of these Broadway rising stars is a fitting choice for Edmonton's young Three Form Theatre. The play is set in the early '60s, just before the start of the Vietnam War, when Americans had barely heard of that small Southeast Asian country. This quiet but
Rose may be young and naïve but significant fact provides context for the types of soldiers in this show: she's no fragile victim, and Wilat this point they've all signed up lems plays her with a practical, voluntarily, often because they hard-nosed edge that serves the came from a family with a history story well: when she discovers the in the military. truth, she lashes It explains why Until Sat, Jul 19 (7:30 pm) out instead of they engage in Directed by Curtis Labelle shrinking away. Willems' lovely, the nasty titu- C103, $20 lar act that is a throaty voice longstanding milialso fits perfectly tary tradition—a with Rose's sing"dogfight" is a competition in which er-songwriter aspirations. As her each soldier attempts to bring the unlikely suitor, Angove is believugliest date to a party. It's what able as a typical military type who unites young soldier Eddie (Steven was thrust into the role due to famAngove) with diner waitress Rose ily duty. He's just starting to iden(Jillian Willems). tify the cracks, harbouring a deep
(and largely unexplored) anger and uncomfortable with his fellow soldiers' casual cruelties. Dogfight has a peculiar tone which changes in abrupt fits and starts. It begins melancholic and ends in almost total despair; along the way it is at times boisterous and then sweet, menacing and then bemusing. The young cast is up for the challenge of this bumpy journey, though not always with finesse. Angove and Willems endearingly portray the shy affection between Eddie and Rose, while Corben Kushneryk and Vincent Forcier capture quintessential cal-
lous army-guy personalities as Boland and Bernstein. The major factor hindering this production was significant sound issues: the levels were uneven and the higher registers often devolved into crackles and pops, while the mics picked up far too much ambient sound. This was amended somewhat for the second act, but not fully resolved. Still, Dogfight is a refreshing change of pace from the usual sort of romance, with a subtle persistence that provokes continual reflection and paybacks long after the fact. MEL PRIESTLEY
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REVUE // HORSE SPECTACLE
Odysseo
Equine adventures // François Bergeron
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he big-box entertainment ma- other and just, well, being horses. chine that is Cavalia is impressive; Even for those who don't know a lick the cities that see Cavalia's second about riding or dressage or breeds, creation, Odysseo, become canvases seeing a pack of gorgeous beasts for the sprawling brand months be- lazing about on the hillside, rolling fore the show even sets up in town. around in the dirt for a back scratch, So it's hard to ignore that Odysseo is is recognizable as a rarity. Unlike Cirque du Soleil shows of simifinally here, hence the buzz around the White Big Top as the show lar size, there's not much narrative in Odysseo. And with the exception of the opened last week. Much like its predecessor, Odys- lively and deft Guinean gymnasts, the seo has everything that Cavalia humans onstage don't develop characcreator Normand ter; the show really Latourelle could Until Sun, Aug 10 is about the horses. cram into a tent The Odysseo Big Top (IntersecThe relationships the size of an NFL tion of Fort Road and Yellowbetween the anifootball field, and head Trail), $39.50 – $239.50 mals and trainers every aspect of were fascinating. the show is douMost memorably ble the size for Odysseo: there are in the first half, trainer Elise Verdoncq circus acrobats, trick riders, a live leads six horses in a dream-like liberty band, a troupe of Guinean tumblers, dance about the stage; the horses are plus a dense landscape of forestry completely unbridled, yet sprint and and scenic projections on a staging halt in response to her inaudible whisarea spanning 35 000 square feet— pers. Verdoncq appears again in the and it's all covered in sand, a vast second half, riding in a full-on dressage hillside taking up the rear half of sequence, where her uncanny connection with the animal is obvious. the set. Another sequence shows two-dozen The horses, frankly, are stunning. Even when they're not doing much. horses, grouped in fours, led across And pooping on stage. The magical the stage by individual trainers, the bits occurred as the horses appeared projections giving the performers the sans trainers, interacting with each appearance of journeying through
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miles of plains. Perhaps not as flashy and exciting as the shrieking trick riders, this scene displayed a comforting respect between the species onstage—it was here that a renegade horse bucked out of line momentarily, only to be gently guided into place by a cooing trainer. The production is dripping with posh staging and costumes, and the projection design guides the show through countless landscapes and forests. The scent of wet sand and grassy projections make the hillside believable, and when the stage floods for the closing scene, it makes for a glassy, shallow pond—subsequently sloshed and kicked up by sprinting stallions and their trick-riding trainers. (At that point, it's tough to forget the poop spotted onstage earlier.) Some will be more attracted to the acrobatic feats of the human performers, but it's hard not to appreciate the lavish spotlight given to Odysseo's cast of 64 horses. They, and the 46 human performers in the show, are in residence here until August 10—with a decent possibility of extending the run. Again. FAWNDA MITHRUSH
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DANCE SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music– check web • $10, $2 lesson with entry
ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert. ca • RETREAT: Installation by Sherri Chaba; until Aug 2 • In-Gallery Artist Talk: with Sherri Chaba: Jul 24, 7-8pm • DISTRACTION OF A STATIONARY NATURE: Works by Shyra De Souza; until Aug 2 • Artist Talk: Retreat with Sherri Chaba: Jul 24, 7-8pm; pre-register; $10 (donation) • Ageless Art: for mature adults; Formed Connections: Jul 17, 1-3pm; $15/$13.50 (member), pre-register • Art Ventures: Drop-in art program for children 6-12; Twist & Turn: Jul 19, 1-4pm: $6 per child/$5.40 (member)
BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • LARGE PLACES AND LOFTY SPACES: until Jul 17 • Gallery Walk, Sip & Stroll: Featuring Chilean born artisan Rogelio Menz – found-object sculptures and furniture; Jul 17, 4-8pm
CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA
• EARLY RECOVERY: Richard Boulet–Drawings 1994-2000 • Until Jul 26
DIXON GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave, 780.200.2711 • Richard Dixon's Studio and Gallery featuring a collection of historical Canadian artworks; antique jade sculptures and jewellery; 17th Century bronze masterworks and artworks by Richard Dixon
DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • Represents some of Canada's leading contemporary artists as well as artists gaining recognition in the international art scene. Canadian historical art available
EDMONTON’S ST. JOHN’S INSTITUTE • 1102482 Ave • MONEY, SOVEREIGNTY AND POWER: THE PAPER CURRENCY OF REVOLUTIONARY UKRAINE: Presented by the Alberta Society for the Advancement of Ukrainian Studies (ASAUS), travelling exhibit curated by Bohdan Kordan • Until Jul 26
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AGA AT METRO CINEMA • Garneau Theatre, 8712109 St • High Altitude Series: The Claim • Jul 22, 7pm • $10 (AGA/Metro member)/$8 (student/senior)
OTHER
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SIDE
Theatre, 8712-109 St • Crumb (14A) • Jul 22, 9:30pm
EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • It Started With Eve (1941, PG); Jul 21, 8pm • Red Garters (1954, colour, PG); Jul 28, 8pm • Series Membership Tickets: $30 (8 films) available at screening; Single Tickets: $6/$5 (senior/student) $5/$3 (child 12 & under)
EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL • Location and time TBD • Premiere Film with Director, Michael Dowse (It's All Gone Pete Tong) VIP screening of What If (working title). Director Michael Dowse will be in attendance; Jul 30; Post-reception at Fionn MacCool's • EIFF hosts a Patio Party at Latitude 53. Nibbles, drinx, music and interesting conversation; Jul 31, 5pm
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FAVA FILM AND VIDEO ARTS SOCIETY–Metro • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Video Kitchen: new works from their introductory digital film course, Video Kitchen; Jul 21, 7pm • Main Course (STC) Jul 21, 9pm • Donation
An improvised Klondike melodrama featuring award-winning improv troupe
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GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186106 St, 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Discovery Gallery: WAITING FOR THE MAN...: Works by Irene Rasetti; until Jul 26 • FLEETING WHISPERS: Works by Robyn Weatherle; until Jul 26 • Feature Gallery: CONTINUUM: Exploring the creative exchange of teaching and learning; Until Sep 27
ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34 St, 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum.com • Open weekends during the summer until Sep 2 • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (senior/student)/$2 (child 3-12)/child under 3 free; $4 (train rides)
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ART BUS TOUR • Locations: Art Gallery of St Albert Patricia Trudeau, Emma Cayer, Monika Dery, Monique Béland, and Gail Praharenka; until Jul 22 • Jerry Berthelette, Jean-Baptiste Frantz, Govrox and guest Andrew Raczynski; Jul 25-Aug 12
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston
COMMON SENSE • 10546-115 St • AESTHETIC
Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • HIGH ADVENTURE: Byron Harmon on the Columbia Icefield; until Aug 17 • LAWREN HARRIS AND A.Y. JACKSON–JASPER/ROBSON 1924: until Aug 17 • STRANGE DREAM: Artworks by Jill Stanton; until Dec 31 • NEW WORKS AND NEW LINES: Alma Louise Visscher's installation Cathedral Cumulus with contemporary drawings from the National Gallery of Canada; until Aug 17 • NEW LINES: Contemporary drawings from the National Gallery of Canada; until Oct 5 • 90 X 90: CELEBRATING ART IN ALBERTA, PART 1: Featuring many artists; until Sep 14
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(CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Works by
EFFORT: Sculptures by Rob Willms
CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • A TOUCH OF COLOUR: Works by Jan Haines and Barb Watchman; Until Jul 31
DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St, 780.760.1278 • OFF WHYTE 2014: ART WALK HOLDOVER SHOW: This holdover show gives you a chance to see your favourites • Jul 22-31 • Artist reception: Jul 24, 5-8pm
DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St, 780.686.4211
ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERIES • 10230 Jasper Ave • Open: Thu-Fri, 12-6pm, Sat 12-4pm • FORGING A NATION–CANADA GOES TO WAR; until Aug 16; during the Works Fest • AGA at Enterprise Square Galleries: REGIONS OF DISTINCTION: Works by the Edmonton members of the Royal Canadian Academy of Arts; until Oct 26 • WHEN THE SKY FALLS: Meteorite exhibition; jul 30-Aug 3
FAB GALLERY • 1-1 Fine Arts Bldg, 89 Ave, 112 St, 780.492.2081 • FA graduating shows: DARLING SHADOW: Works by Sarah Oneschuk, MFA Printmaking final visual presentation • BLASTOFF: Works by Ali Nickerson, MFA Drawing and Intermedia final visual presentation • Jul 22Aug 16 • Closing reception: Thu, Aug 14, 7-10pm
GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St Albert, 780.459.2525 • Artworks by Kathy Hill, Andrew
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VAAA GALLERY • 2014 BREAD BASKET: Members exhibition • Until Aug 1
VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.460.5990 • STRUCTURES: Works by Byron McBride • Until Aug 1
VELVET OLIVE–Red Deer • Works by Erin Boake • Until Jul 31
HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • 2nd Fl,
THE SWEET SUITE: Works by Scott Cumberland; through to end of Aug
Sunworks, 4924 Ross St, Red Deer • UN TITLED: Furniture and paintings by Pamela Thurston, Colin Whitlock, Isla Burns • Until Jul 26
VIEWPOINT GALLERY–Red Deer • Culture
YMCA (DON WHEATON) • 10211-102 Ave • YMCA Community Canvas wall: Rotating year round exhibits.
LITERARY
KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • GLASSEARTH: Glass works by Larissa Blokhuis • Until Aug 24
AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • Writers from a Hat: For amateur writers to share: Jul 21, 7pm
LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St,
vzenari@gmail.com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm
780.990.1161 • SUMMER ON 124 STREET: Works by gallery artists and secondary market works • Until Aug 27
LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main Space: MONOLOGY: Print and photographic installation by Insoon Ha; until Jul 26 • The Art of Patio: every Thu,
5-9pm; until Aug 21
LOFT GALLERY • AJ Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 790.449.4443 • Open: Fri-Sun 106pm • ACACA ALBERTA WIDE ART SHOW: Presented by the Alberta Community Art Clubs Association • Jul 19-Aug 16, Fri-Sun, 10-6pm • Reception: Jul 26, 7-10pm
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE • 9351-118 Ave • THE KOFFEE CAFÉ • 6120-28 Ave • Glass Door
Coffeehouse Reading Series • Jul-Aug on summer hiatus. Next reading: Sep 25
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Spoken Word Tuesdays: Weekly spoken word night presented by the Breath In Poetry Collective (BIP); info: E: breathinpoetry@gmail.com
STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8601 • sclibrary.ab.ca/ humanlibrary
MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • Pastel Landscapes by David Shkolny • Jul 19-Sep 14
THEATRE
MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St,
10329-83 Ave • An Improvised Theatre: song, dance, and comedy presented by Grindstone Theatre • Every Fri until Jul 26; last show Jul 26
NINA HAGGERTY CENTRE STOLLERY GALLERY • 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • thenina.ca • SUMMER REPUBLIC II: Works by artists with developmental disabilities • Until Jul 31
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Summer Group Shows: New work by gallery artists • Until Aug 30
PICTURE THIS GALLERY • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • CANADA SCAPES AND SPACES ART SHOW: Works by Brent Heighton, Dean McLeod, Audrey Pfannmuller, Bi Yuan Cheng, Jean Peters, and many others • Until Aug 30 780.453.9100 • WORN TO BE WILD: Until Sep 7 • WESTERN THREADS: Contemporary fibre art, wall art, whimsical dolls, colourful quilts, wearable art, and pictorial rugs • Until Aug 4
SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • Group show of gallery artists • Through the summer
SECOND CUP • 9236 Oliver Sq, 11640-104 Ave • Society of Edmonton Atheists Book Club: Why I Am Not A Muslim, Ibn Warraq • Jul 20, 7pm SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta PrintArtists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • TWOHALVES: Print works by Koichi Yamamoto; Jul 24-Aug 30; Opening: Jul 25, 7-9pm; artist in attendance; Artist Workshop: July 26, 10-5pm • Community Gallery: ÉTUDES DE MOUVEMENTS: Works by Patrick Arès-Pilon; Jul 24-Aug 30; Opening: Jul 25, 7-9pm; artist in attendance SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce
(AGSA), Harcourt House, Nina Haggerty Arts Centre, SNAP, VASA, 780.460.4310/780..426.4180 • Interpretive tour of five Edmonton region art locations in one day • $15/$10 (member) incl transport; tickets at Art Gallery of St Albert, and Harcourt House • Jul 26, 12:30-6:15pm • Aug 16
and homemade implements, embroidered and woven textiles, folk ceramics, wood work, beaded and metal jewellery, pysanky, traditional toys, art by Ukrainian artists • Until Aug 29 • Admission by donation
Services Centre, 3827-39 St, Red Deer • Works by Alysse Bowd, Robin Lambert, and Erin Boake • Until Jul 30
ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave,
ENJOY DINNER BEFORE THE SHOW AT THE JOHNSON'S CAFE!
UKRAINIAN MUSEUM OF CANADA–Alberta Branch • 10611-110 Ave • Open Mon-Fri • Artifacts
St • Main Gallery: A RECORD OF EVENTS: BY Jesse Sherburne; until Aug 8 • Panel Discussion: Jul 22, 6:308:30pm • Front Room: THE PHARAOH’S FOREARM AND THE KING’S FOOT: Works by Tegan Smith; until Aug 8 • Closing Celebration: Aug 8, 8-10pm • Art Bus Tours: Jul 26 and Aug 16
780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Vertical Space: SEQUENTIAL PROCESS: Works by Daniel Hackborn • Artisan Nook: OBJECTIFICATION: Works by Stacey Cann • Until Aug 19
TURKEY SHOOT–METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Plan 9 From Outer Space (STC) Live comedic commentary; Jul 23, 7pm
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112
NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,
MOVIES AT THE CAPITOL–Fort Edmonton,
Family films • Jason and the Argonauts (G) Jul 19, 2pm • Classic Winnie the Pooh: Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree; Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day; Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too!; Jul 26, 2pm • Free admission for children 12 and under
Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/ art-gallery • MY MAGICAL ETHEREAL JOURNEY: Paintings by Jose I Marquez Lugo • Until Jul 30
Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • JOINING UP!: Our Men and Women in the First World War; until Nov 16 • THE HOME FRONT: Life in St. Albert During the First World War; Until Aug 31
Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • The first-ever festival devoted to the best in cat-themed You-Tube videos. Half of all proceeds go to the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies • Jul 18-19, 7pm; Jul 20, 1pm
REEL FAMILY CINEMA–Metro • Garneau Theatre •
GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library
MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St
JUST FOR CATS FILM FESTIVAL–Metro •
OPERA IN CINEMA–Metro • Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • Mozart's Don Giovanni; Opera in two acts with one interval. Sung in Italian with English subtitles • Jul 20, 3pm • $17 (adult)/$14 (senior/student); Metro passes accepted
GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • SURFACESCAPES: Works by June Mielnichuk; and KRAZY SCULPTOR: Works by Yves Gauthier • Until Aug 19
Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • multicentre.org • Installation work by Cynthia Sibley; until Jul 24 • Mixed media works by Sarah Smith; Jul 24-Aug 27; artist reception: Aug 3, 1-3:30pm
FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner Library Audio Visual Room (main floor), 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Friday afternoon at 2pm • Inside Hana`s Suitcase (2010, PG); Jul 18, 2pm • Capote (2010, PG); Jul 25, 2pm
780.442.2013 • Doctor Dolittle; Jul 24, 7:30pm • Chitty Chitty Bang Bang; Jul 31, 7:30pm
Raczynski, and Natasha Vretenar • Until Jul 28 • Works by Liz Meetsma, Betty Tessier, and Sandy Mitchell; Jul 29-Sep 2; Opening: Aug 7, 6pm; artists in attendance • Artworks by Liz Meetsma, Betty Tessier, and Sandy Mitchell; Jul 29Sep 2; Opening: Aug 7, 6pm; artists in attendance
Grove, 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Main Gallery: Dianna Sapara • Until Aug 9
STEPPES GALLERY • 1253-91 St • BACKGROUND RADIATION: Ink sketches, paintings, and woodcuts by Tadeusz Warszynski • Until Jul 26
STRATHCONA COUNTY ART GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • ART: OBJET DE SPORT: Canada 55+ Games – Aug 27-30 • Until Sep 6
SUMMER SIP AND STROLL • 124 St Galleries • 5 galleries will be open late on 124 Street: Daffodil, Lando, Scott, Bearclaw and Bugera Matheson • Jul 17, 4-8pm
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St • Events: WILDLIFE RESCUE: until Sep 1 • K'NEX: THRILL RIDES: until Sep 1
THE 11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • Varscona Theatre,
BAREFOOT IN THE PARK • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Teatro la Quindicina • Romantic comedy set in 1960s New York • Until Jul 26, Tue-Sat 7:30, Sat mat at 2pm • Wed-Sat: $30 (adult)/$25 (student/senior); Sat mat: $16; Tue evening: Pay-WhatYou-Can
DOGFIGHT • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • Canadian Premiere presented by Three Form Theatre, a musical by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul • Until Jul 19, 7:30pm • $20 at TIX on the square, door FOOTSLOOSE! • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, Phase II WEM, Upper Level, 780.484.2424 • By C. Haley and R. Apostle • Belmont is a quiet community in the heart of the Prairies. Edith Ogilvy, on her first day as the new mayor, enacts a new bi-law strictly forbidding anyone within the town limits from dancing. Featuring hits from the film • Until Aug 24
THE FORCE–LIGHTSABRE • Churchill Sq • Janine Waddell Hodder, Alex Mackie instruct Lightsabre Training. Learn Specific Moves And Fight Sequences From The Film Together With Fellow “Jedis-In-Training” From Around The City • Every Wed Night until Sep 24; Kid Training: 7-7:45pm; Adult Training: 7-8:30pm • Free, drop-in (Bring Your Own Lightsabre)
FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL • Myer Horowitz Theatre, U Of A • freewillshakespeare.com • The Taming Of The Shrew • Until Jul 27 • $30 (adult)/$50 (Festival pass)/$20 (student/senior)/$2 (child under 12) at TicketFly THE LAST ROMANCE • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • By Joe Dipietro, starring Jamie Farr in a hilarious and heartwarming story that proves it’s never too late for romance and second chances • Until Aug 3 ODYSSEO • Yellowhead Tr, Fort Rd, near 12403 Mt Lawn Rd • cavalia.net • By Cavalia Under the White Big Top, a larger-than-life theatrical production • Until Aug 3 • $24.50-$139.50 at cavalia.net, 1.866.999.8111
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE MOUNTIE • Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton • Our Mountie finally gets his man! Join us as we continue our dashing Mountie adventures. A different show every night presented by the Die-Nasty troupe • Jul 17-19, 8pm • $20
SAME TIME NEXT YEAR • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • Romantic comedy by Bernard Slade, presented by Festival Players, directed by Ian Johnston, starring Elizabeth Marsh and Gary Neil Carter • Jul 18-27, 7:30pm • $20 at Festival Place box office WICKED • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Broadway Across Canada • Long before that girl from Kansas arrives in Munchkinland, two girls meet in the land of Oz. One, with emerald green skin, is smart, fiery, and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious, and popular • Until Jul 20
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REVUE // DAMN DIRTY APES
Damn lacklustre apes!
Dawn of the Planet of the Apes trades complex ideas for B-movie posturing
Where's Heston when you need him?
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he reboot marked, of course, the rise, and one of the disappointments of this Dawn is how predictably it sets up yet another sequel—no doubt Ascent or Reign or Genesis. Dusk seems an awfully long way off. Yep, Planet of the Apes is back, thumping its big CGI chest again, but it's lots of apes-on-horses-withsticks-and-spears—more B-movie hollow wood than the first, merrier go-around-again. Some of the pleasure of Dawn's cuddlier and more complex predecessor came from the story's soliciting of sympathy, from homo sapiens viewers, for apes being mistreated by people. Here, other than one bigot still
Francisco taken back by nature. The one iconic shot here is sublimely bizarre—humans so happy to see a gas station in Muir Woods lit with power again, amid young sequoias that have sprung up, storeys high, around it, while apes watch them from horseback. The problem's that the movie obviously wants Now playing superbly digitallyDirected by Matt Reeves rendered but still B-schlock images, like that of Kuba firing two guns from atop his steed, to be the memorable moments. And for all the film's blaming the "simian flu" pandemic— use of depth for 3D—hydro-dam triggered by human lab-workers—on chambers; a tower-top battle—it's adthe apes, and ape-leader Caesar (Andy dicted to pat lines and clichéd scenes Serkis, using motion-capture technol- of individual heroism (even dumber in ogy) saying that lab-scarred, vengeful a post-plague world where societies Kuba "learned hate from humans," this are being rebuilt) or sentimental nonflick's entirely uninterested in bio-eth- sense, from the usual battle between ics, the complexities of our primate alpha males to the Florence Nightinrelatives, or in any other way com- gale stereotype of an often weepy but plicating the build-up to action. The sweet and soothing woman (Keri Ruseffect? A hazy allegory for fear and sell) cooing over a baby ape. Those are intolerance sea-mists, more and more, the moments that give the box-office into shot after shot of apes' sneering game away—this franchise wants to cater/pander to some imagined teen mouths or staring eyes. market that was weaned on Disney What complexity to be had lies in nature docs but now just want their those CGI details, from the striking chimps horse-ridin' and gun-totin'. expressions of Caesar and co to a San BRIAN GIBSON BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
REVUE // DOCUMENTARY
Crumb him through drawing, the result being sometimes satire and sometimes fantasy of the most brazen, grotesque, perverse incarnations. Often it's both. What's morally or politically troubling about Crumb's monstrous, big-assed, powerful-legged—and, in at least one case, decapitated—women or his nostalgia Tue, Jul 22 (9:30 pm) for byDirected by Terry Zwigoff gone eras t makes you wonder if Metro Cinema at the Garneau awash more filmmakers shouldn't Originally released: 1994 in racist be turning their cameras imagery is all on on their most intimate acquaintances: Terry Zwigoff had played the table, and Zwigoff invites several in a band and been good friends with articulate commentators to examlegendary American cartoonist Robert ine it, some of whom regard Crumb Crumb for over 20 years before finish- as a contemporary Brueghel, others ing Crumb (1995), a film that benefits a narcissistic pornographer of the enormously from the director's intimate most dangerous kind. I don't think understanding of, and access to, his this is Zwigoff's attempt at objectivsubject. The film, screening Tuesday as ity. I think he's just trying to get things part of Metro Cinema's ongoing "Cult" right, to look at Crumb's work from as series, draws a portrait of the artist in broad a perspective as possible. middle-age, on the verge of leaving his San Francisco home forever to re-settle You might argue that Crumb's in France with his wife. work is of secondary importance to The film describes a deeply eccentric the story of the Crumb brothers. nerd and preternatural curmudgeon Zwigoff and his crew accompany who learned to make a life for himself Robert on visits to his housebound, by submitting to a relentless compul- pharmaceutically dependent brother sion to interpret the world around Charles, who still lives with mother
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in a house frozen in time, passing his days re-reading the Victorian novels he adored as a boy. There are also visits to Robert's ascetic brother Maxon, who lives alone in a San Francisco fleabag apartment and meditates on a bed of nails. There are alludes to a history of sexual assaults. There's something truly unsettling about how closely Charles and Max's biographies resemble less fortunate variations on Robert's. Robert seems to care for and even admire his brothers, yet is so overcome with despair over their lifestyles and psychological frailty that all he can usually do in response to their stories is emit more of his trademark dry chuckles. Truth is you'll probably laugh, too, while watching Crumb, which never succumbs to pity or sentimentality and often celebrates that one essential element that might just keep the Crumb brothers—and some of the rest of us—alive for as long as we can bear it: a healthy sense of humour. Long before he made fiction movies, Zwigoff proved himself a masterful storyteller, and I don't think he could honestly tell any story without recognizing its inherent laughter. JOSEF BRAUN
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FILM REVUE // ROMANTIC DRAMA
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A Truman Show delusion
Reality finds a fishmonger imagining himself under the reality-TV lens
Unlikely lovers
Words and Pictures T
he unlikely lovers of Words and Di Pego's script sees itself as both Pictures, each representing one a love-as-redemption story and a of those things, take the form of prep- schoolhouse drama, and manages school teachers: Words honours Eng- neither convincingly. The two sides of lish prof Jack Marcus (Clive Owen), a that never really gel, or gain gravitas: former hot-shot writer now in a rut, instead, it's contented to pad its runwho packs a thermos of vodka for time with a grab-bag of problems— lunch, calls his stuJack's alcoholism, dents droids and Opens Friday his difficult relainfuriates the oth- Directed by Fred Schepisi tionship with his er teachers with Princess Theatre son and impending job review, the multi-syllabic word games. Pictures is emotional dramas new teacher Dina of the kids (selfDelsanto (Juliette Binoche), a bitter, doubt, unwanted advances between acclaimed abstract painter whose ad- classmates), plagiarism, the fate vancing arthritis makes it near impos- of the school magazine—and then sible to work at her former level of quickly resolves or quietly abandons them one by one, without giving any craft. Their hate-flirting begins almost im- a greater sense of impact or a deeper mediately, Dina and Jack at odds but understanding. There are consistency issues too, parhappy to keep pushing each others' buttons, mocking each other's cho- ticualrly in tone. Director Fred Schepisi sen mediums of art, and rallying their keeps oscillating between light and classes into a literature-versus-visual heavy with no particular coherence. arts battle that inspires the kids (or Jack's a charming rogue until the story so we're told, anyway). Along the way, needs him to be a disaster; Owen tries that mutual disdain converts into fuel to sell it, but he's unconvincing. It's Binoche who fares best out of for passionate fires of romance, but it all plays out in a flat, herky-jerky arc anyone here—her icy stare and obthat seems unable to make you care noxious outbursts of anger are fun to for either of them, the kids or pretty watch—especially when you're just as annoyed with everything unfolding much any part of the scenario. around her. The problem is, well, words: Gerald PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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Are they still watching me? I need to pee!
Matteo Garrone's Reality (2012) is, like his previous film Gomorra (2008), which also won the Grand Prix at Cannes, set in Naples. It's not a Naples of Camorra gangsters, though, but of ingenuous workingclass Italians, specifically Luciano (Aniello Arena) and his extended family. Luciano's a fishmonger who sidelines as an actor when he's not running a fishy business involving re-sold domestic robots. After auditioning for Grande Fratello, Italy's version of Big Brother (and one of the world's most successful realityTV programs), he's convinced he'll get on the show and starts to think producers are watching his every move, assessing his character. And so, in this echo chamber of fame-for-fame's-sake, real life imitates reel life. There is, in fact, a "Truman Show delusion," named for the 1998 film, whereby sufferers (more than 40 documented cases so far) believe they're being watched or recorded by reality-TV producers—some even imagine their own relatives are acting out a script. (Arena was in his own imprisoning reality while making the film; he's serving a life sentence for murder, convicted for killings carried out as a Camorra hitman—kill-
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ings he denies—and was granted special parole to play the part.) From its opening—a Louis XVstyle wedding, with Grande Fratello winner Enzo as a guest star, helicoptered in—there's a lurid, Felliniesque sheen to Garrone's floating camerawork, drifting through Cinecittà Studios or a mall or a waterpark or a nightclub. The light's often too bright and bedazzling, colours are garish, and Luciano's own family is a little too brash and loud and eager. This is reality tweaked, dialed up to 10.1. (Neapolitan drama also tends towards the surreal and the tragicomic—Luciano, dragging it up in a blue wig and eyelashes and heavy makeup for a jokey role as Enzo's girlfriend at the wedding, already seems a bit of the sad clown there, but the mixture of pathetic and so-foolish-it's-not-quite-funny only gets darker and deeper.) Arena's near-sneer fades as his large eyes become more and more fixated on Luciano's dream. (Enzo's repeated mantra, offered in English, is "never give up!") His sharpest break with reality comes when he stares at a cricket in a room at home. But the film's sharpest turns
come in its cheeky, sideways satire of Roman Catholicism (about 90 percent of Italians identify themselves as observers of the faith). Luciano thinks he's being watched and his seafood-selling co-worker agrees, thinking he means God; Luciano gives away his possessions to the poor in the hope it'll get him into the "House" ... and when he asks two older, pious women about how much more patience he'll need for entry, they assume he means Heaven. The spectacle of the Pope on the balcony at the Vatican is just a short sneak away from the Rome studios where the surveillance show continues, day after day. Loredana Simioli gives a touching performance as Maria, distraught for her husband, who seems to be losing his sense of self, no longer "being" but only "seeming," as the local priest declares. The film ends as it began, with a God's eye shot, although it also gives Luciano the last laugh—but is it a knowing laugh, seeing all that he's fallen into as a kind of cosmic joke, or the laugh of a man who's slipped off into the void of a bedazzling camera culture, all-watching and always watched, all the time? V
REVUE // JIM JARMUSCH
Down By Law
Tom Waits for two others
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he opening tracking shot begins with a hearse parked outside a cemetery—”You’re digging your own grave,” one character will soon warn another—before rolling past dilapidated clapboard houses and subtropical colonial semi-ruins out front of which men get frisked by the fuzz. Later, another such tracking shot slides through a prison corridor, past crowded cells, exhausted bodies draped over the bars, walls strewn with stray thoughts and rows of lines counting off the days. Later still this lateral view-on-the-move is applied
to the bayou, monstrous trees looming over swampy shores. A downbeat noir street survey-prison break-lost in the wilderness fantasia, Down By Law (1986), like a number of Jim Jarmusch films, loves the number three: three parts, three general locations, three characters: Jack the pimp (John Lurie), Zack the deejay (Tom Waits) and Roberto the wanderer (Roberto Benigni). Down By Law also loves juxtapositions, between hipster reticence and cheerful immigrant babble, between the embracing of genre tropes and genre subversion, between play-
ing cool and urgency—’Jockey Full of Bourbon,’ the whip-smart Waits mambo that suffuses the film, urges its addressee to “Fly away home/ your house is one fire/ your children all alone.” But is anybody listening? Down By Law exudes love for many things and I’ve loved it back in return since my first time. Metro Cinema is screening the film as part of what I hope is an on-going Jarmusch retrospective, prompted by the release of Jarmusch’s latest, the vampire-domestic comedy-long-term love story Only Lovers Left Alive. Down By Law
was Jarmusch’s third feature, but it ture experience rather than a collecalready displayed several patterns tion of vignettes occurs in the second that would define much of the writer- third, in the dank cell shared by Jack, director’s work: variations on themes, Zack and Roberto, scrapping, schemthe employment of actors who aren’t ing, screaming for ice cream. All of normally actors but have cultivated them wound up inside by some mixa persona in anture of bad luck other field (both Thu, Jul 17 – Wed, Jul 23 and bad behavLurie and Waits Directed by Jim Jarmusch iour. Take any two were established Metro Cinema at the Garneau of these guys and in music long be- Originally released: 1986 animosity would fore this), playoverrule every ating to strengths tempt at anything while throwing yourself a curveball. requiring cooperation, but as a trio Jarmusch had never been to New Or- they function—at least until one of leans or anywhere in Louisiana when them meets the woman of his dreams he set out to write Down By Law— in the middle of the swamp and the but he knew the movie version. And remaining two must part ways, ramhe went down there with Dutch bling down arbitrarily chosen paths to cinematographer Robby Müller, one who knows where. I would love to see of the greats, who shot a gorgeous, these characters turn up somewhere lustrous black and white that simulta- else, in some other Jarmusch film. neously rendered the landscape more Perhaps if we keep watching they’ll abstract and emphasized its starkest turn up on some trash-covered cordetails, creating a phantasmagorical ner somewhere, trying to figure out travelogue that converses fluently what screwy kind of movie they’re in with Lurie’s fragmented jazz score, this time. For now, just enjoy this one. which often sounds like insects and Next week you’ll see some new faces drunken birds emitting protracted inhabit Jarmusch’s hallucinogenic drone-songs in call and response. western told form the perspective of an accountant and an Indian. The inspired convergence of charac- JOSEF BRAUN JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM ters that makes Down By Law a fea-
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PREVUE // FOLK
Music from the
DEPTHS Mary Gauthier talks about her new album Trouble and Love
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ary Gauthier is on day two of a three-day songwriting workshop she's hosting and confesses to feeling a little tired. Not that she's showing it during this interview; the New Orleans born singer-songwriter sounds positively energized by the amount of work she has to take care of before winding up her classes and hitting the road for the next six or so months. She's got a new record, the widely acclaimed Trouble and Love, plus a brand new Canadian record deal with Six Shooter Records. Everything is going her way, which sounds somewhat at odds with the songs of heartbreak and loss she's been celebrated for since appearing seemingly out of nowhere in the '90s, a late blooming performer who only really started to get going in her mid-30s. By that time she was settled in as a successful chef and restaurant owner in Boston, a career cut short when she was arrested for drunk driving and decided to sober up and devote herself to music. Vue Weekly spoke with her about sad songs, business relationships and how to find the best restaurants in a city you've never been to. VUE WEEKLY: You're one of the few
musicians I've seen who keeps the art and the business separate in their lives, but also recognizes the importance of each. MARY GAUTHIER: One of my mentors is Fred Eaglesmith, a songwriting hero and someone I consider to be a friend. He always said, "Mary, you need to get out of the music business and get into the Mary business." Because Fred is ultimately in the Fred business, you
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know? As we proceed through the music business it gets harder to wrap your head around it, it's been devastated and ravaged by all of these changes. It makes more sense to be in the Mary business. That being said, I'm partnering with a label that gets that; Shauna (de Cartier of Six Shooter) absolutely gets that. She knows that I'm an entrepreneur, and they never get involved in anything to do with my creativity. We're business partners, we're two entrepreneurs doing business together. That's real different than mafia-driven music business.
like a Beyoncé song. That's some poor business planning, isn't it? MG: [Laughs] That's exactly right, but on the other hand I'm 53 and every year my career gets bigger. Maybe this isn't a sprint, maybe it's a marathon. Maybe music with integrity, that has a rootedness in truth, can actually do well, have a longer shelf life. Maybe that's what careers look like. Not that I'm saying that Beyoncé is a flash in the pan; also, she'll be richer than I am forever. If I could write a Beyoncé song and stay connected to who I am, I definitely would.
VW: How did you end up hooking up with Six Shooter? MG: Oh, I've been keeping an eye on Shauna. You can tell how good she is because her staff all love her, and she makes them feel valued. Those are the kind of people I want to work with. I just knew that I didn't want to go alone in Canada on this record, I wanted to work with human beings that I liked and admired, whose personalities and values matched my own. All roads led to Six Shooter. We're both on the board for Americana Music Association, so we've had time to get to know each other over the years. She has integrity, which is a very odd word in the music business. That's important to me, and it gets more so as I get older.
VW: Maybe a happy song is just down the road? MG: I have a friend here, Darrell Scott, he wrote this song called "It's a Great Day to Be Alive" and it's beautiful. Somebody or other made it into a hit for country radio [Travis Tritt], and it was written after five days spent deathly ill, sick as a dog in bed. On the fifth day he woke up and wasn't sick, gingerly got out of bed and wondered, "Am I really better? Can I make breakfast and keep it down?" The song came out of that context, the flipside of the struggle with illness that turned into joy. That's the kind of happy song I like, one that comes out of struggle.
VW: Trouble and Love continues a theme through your work that wouldn't exactly be considered commercially viable. You're mining emotional terrain that has gotten you critical accolades not only from music journalists but also heavyweight songwriters, but isn't exactly going to sell
VW: The struggle is what interests you most, though? MG: Pulling hope out of the situation, the desire to live, to continue despite the carnage that love sometimes creates in your life. I think that's what's most interesting. VW: You seem to have made a successful divide between the pain that in-
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forms your music and the rest of your life. Someone like Townes Van Zandt didn't seem particularly good at that. MG: The difference between Townes and I is real simple: he couldn't get sober and it finally killed him. I would have loved to have heard a sober Townes song; I know he struggled, and it's tragic and sad, and it feels like a waste. VW: There's that myth of the drunk ge-
nius, the artist who can only function by destroying themselves. As if the alcohol was what facilitated the genius. MG: Steve Earle has done a good job
of debunking that. He got sober and he stayed that way, I think coming up on something like 15 years. His songwriting continues to be excellent and he grows as an artist every year. He's not going to be that tragic myth of die young, stay pretty. He's moving everything forward. I think maybe that myth is dying out, anyway. Some 20-yearold might grab a bit of it, but there are now enough people out there who are up front about their addiction struggles that they give an alternative to consider. TOM MURRAY
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DINING OUT TIPS FROM
MARY GAUTHIER
Grandparents on both sides of Mary Gauthier’s family owned restaurants, so it was almost inevitable that she take part in the family business. Gauthier was as successful a chef as she was a businesswoman, and food is still an important thing to consider when on the road. “I’m good at picking out restaurants, I know things your average person wouldn’t. Like, most of the time, if a chef is the owner and he’s working in the kitchen, that night you’ll get a great plate of food. I look for places that have local cuisine, not brought from too far away, that have a certain sensibility. Healthy, but not crunchy; I don’t want it to be too healthy, not to the point where it’s not delicious.” Gauthier has no problem with Yelp, the food website that has caused many restaurant owners to cry foul. “There’s a lot to be said for Yelp. I check out the top five restaurants in town on there and go to whichever one suits my financial or culinary desires of the moment. I can find holein-the-walls that I never would have found out about back in the day. Man, iPhones are great for things like that, it’s really made the touring life so much easier.” V
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Kevin Drew through this on a personal note, I can look around and just watch as I find it becomes cold and people are putting their concerns into the wrong ideas and occupying their time—forgetting to day dream, forgetting to look out the window, just staring at their phones and looking at their photos and wanting to be judged and wanting to be loved and liked through constant addiction."
Navigating the social addiction // Norman Wong
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hat does intimacy mean these days? What about connection? Yes, we're connected to a multidisciplinary source of social-media feeds, messages, likes, emails and tweets, yet the thought of picking up the phone and actually speaking to someone becomes odd and awkward. We search to be liked and allow ourselves to be judged by our "friends" with status updates and photos of even the most trite day-to-day occurrences. We're often so busy keeping up with all of this that we forget about those who are right in front of us, because we're too obsessed with a digital universe rather than focusing on the beauty of the one unfolding around us. Kevin Drew—yep, the one from Broken Social Scene—has cracked these
Drew confesses he's a "text junkie" but limits himself to a flip phone so he can only do the basics and restrict his screen time. "I get jealous of people's phones. How fucking ridiculous is that?" he asks of people's ostensible inability to focus on one thing at a Thu, Jul 24 (7 pm) time. He believes our With Modest Mouse constant reliance on Shaw Conference Centre, $46.50 social media and validation is breeding a society of narcissists and the hazard is that it takes away from what's real and the connection issues wide open on his latest album, of true human contact. Darlings. Its synth-driven melodies "I think it's constant communication take an unabashed, honest approach and I think it's a massive effort to reto sex, love connectedness and inti- mind each other about the moments. macy, and, more importantly, the rise I think the hardest thing for me is to live in the moment: I'm stuck in the and fall of these in today's society. "I think it started when I first maybe past and I'm stuck in the future and played spin the bottle ... and it never re- I'm just trying to fucking do the day, ally stopped from that point forward," and I drive myself insane sometimes, says Drew with a soft laugh when but I think it's a massive, massive efasked about the concept of the record, fort of communication," he says of adding he quickly became a romantic— what it will take to bring back a little these days he's a self-described "failed intimacy to our lives. "People say, romantic"—attracted to getting the 'Well, it's a changing time.' You have girl, the breaking up and all the ups and the right to govern your own life. You have the right to protest, you downs in between. "You just sort of keep getting older have the right to have beliefs and be and you find yourself either free of strong in yourself." BAXTER those patterns or stuck in those pat- MEAGHAN MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM terns and I think, as I see this and go
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Jack Semple I
t's often noted that blues fall down ton. For the gig he'll be reunited with like rain in every third song out the cross provincial band (Edmontoof the Mississippi delta, but it was nians Steve Hoy and Andrew Glover actual rain that guitarist and singer- plus fellow Saskatchewanite Dave songwriter Jack Semple had to deal Chobot) that he just recorded a live with last week. DVD with at Saskatoon's Village The recent flood- Fri, Jul 18 – Sat, Jul 19 (9 pm) ing in Saskatch- Big Al's House of Blues Guitars, a vintage instrument shop. ewan left half an $20 – $25 inch of rain in SemSemple is proud ple's basement, of the effort, though thankfully none of the veteran which used eight cameras and full multi-track recording mixed in 5.1 surbluesman's equipment was damaged. "Mostly it just gave me an ex- round sound. cuse to move my studio around; it "It's a calling card, really," he explains only really wrecked our cordless of the DVD, which should come out in the next few months. "Part of the phones," he laughs. Besides bailing out water, Semple reason is to expand into markets like has had to prepare for an upcoming the US and Europe, but I'm also much two-night weekend appearance at more interested in my band these Big Al's House of Blues in Edmon- days. I've done solo guitar work before,
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Semple is also focusing on song-
writing, something he admits to ignoring as he's sharpened his skills as one of the country's finest players. "Songwriting is a more stabilizing factor, and it's kind of a way to synthesis talent and life experience into one object that you can hand to someone else. They can then summon the same emotion that you intended to put into it. That's what a good song does, at least," he chuckles. "I'm getting better at it, and who knows? Maybe someday Delbert McClinton or Bonnie Raitt will cover one of them. A song lasts a lot longer than a guitar solo, right?"
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Devin Cuddy I
t's a common enough conundrum for there. He's not just a longtime friend, he's also kind of an uncle, you know?" young musicians. What Keelor brought to the Devin You're just starting your first real band, and you've got a family friend Cuddy Band's second record, Kitchen who has some advice on how to pro- Knife (to be released July 29 on Camceed. You know; the guy who thinks eron Records) was a knowledge of he knows it all because he plays guitar what would and what wouldn't work with your dad, and likes to keep up on in his studio. "He definitely helped with getting the current styles. He'll drop names like the Velvet Underground, the Jay- the right sounds. It's his studio and he knows, so he'd hawks or Hank Wilsay something like liams, and wants 'You know, use to show you sweet Mon, July 21 (9 pm) this bass,' and he'd acoustic guitar licks. Churchill Square, free be right. I mean, Worst of all, he's eager to record you in this is a guy who has been making records for decades." his home studio. And if Cuddy was initially a little leery A potentially embarrassing situation, though not quite so much if your dad is about undue influence from the Blue Blue Rodeo's Jim Cuddy, and that fam- Rodeo mothership, he changed his ily friend is his perennial songwriting tune rather quickly. "Sometimes he'd have a suggestion buddy, Greg Keelor. "It was actually a really comfortable and I'd think, 'Yeah, I don't know about situation for me," says Devin Cuddy that,' but then I'd listen back a few over the phone from Manitoba, where weeks later and decide that he was abhe and his band are about to play a solutely right." show with Alan Doyle of Great Big Sea. "Just the fact we had someone produc- Cuddy is honest about his early influing who has that experience was great. ences, which come directly from his There wasn't that initial shyness, or the dad's voluminous record collection, nervousness you get when you don't which featured quite a bit of jazz. "I just gravitated to the New Orleans know what the other person is about, because the connection was already sound, maybe because it's fun and I
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love the tradition of people coming together to make music," Cuddy says. "I started playing the trumpet, which meant that I began to be really influenced by Louis Armstrong. It was the first style that I really got a handle on, and when I started playing piano it just all came together for me." Cuddy and his band (Nichol Robertson, guitar; Zack Sutton, drums; Devon Richardson, bass) have done well with their sound, workshopping it through plenty of live gigs and a debut album (Volume One) that drew comparisons to songwriters like Randy Newman for dark, tongue-in-cheek numbers like "My Son's a Queer." Country and folk music also became a factor in the musical stew. Blue Rodeo added them to a late winter tour, which last January came through Edmonton; cries of nepotism were stilled when it was shown that the junior Cuddy could actually take on the old man and his buddies. Cuddy says that Kitchen Knife has developed further along the lines of Volume One, with added steps into gospel and blues. "It's all roots music, right? You eventually end up back there anyways, and it's the music that I'm most drawn to."
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Shimmering Stars I
n 1967, former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau gave a speech regarding homosexuality, in which he stated: "There is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation." Shimmering Stars' new album Bedrooms of the Nation plays on many of Trudeau's statements but also contains the band's own perspective on the social breakdown of our culture. But don't be fooled by the seriousness of the album title: this band is sincere in its songwriting, but after the music making is over for the day, the group is just as laidback as the waves that the Beach Boys—who also happen to be one of Shimmering Stars' major musical influences—sing about. This is the group's second album and, according to drummer and vocalist Andrew Dergousoff, it's going to have a louder vibe than the first one. "The first album was more of a sock–hop/revival sound," he says. "Now we're bringing in noisier elements to the new album."
Although making music together is the members' passion, Dergousoff says that in their down time they enjoy finding the "hole in the wall" restaurants or music stores and just hanging out. "If there's a tiki bar involved then that's great," says Dergousoff. "Karaoke and line dancing? That's even better." Beer is also a passion of the group: Dergousoff says that band members Rory McClure and Brent Sasaki have recently become slightly obsessed and scientific about making the perfect homebrew. "They are getting really good. We all just get together and everyone brings a bunch of beers to try," says Dergousoff. "If we had our way we would all be living in some Thu, Jul 24 (8 pm) kind of farm collec- Wunderbar tive, brewing beer and making music." Music-making and beer drinking? Sounds like the life. LAUREN DE LEEUW
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our vans are often not the most glamorous of vehicles, but despite the tendency to cause mechanical nightmares and undue stress they get the job done. Union Duke, a folkrock five-piece based out of Toronto is still driving the same van that took the band to its first show more than a decade ago. "It's a GMC Safari and it's a beauty," says frontman Ethan Smith of the trusty tour van. "We do all our own work on it," adds bandmate Jim McDonald, who was one of Union Duke's three original members along with Smith and Matt WarrySmith, before expanding the band's sound with the addition of bassist Will Staunton and guitarist Rob McLaren about two years ago. The van's currently got just over a
Sat, Jul 19 Fionn MacCool's City Centre Free quarter-million kilometres logged on the odometer and will be pushed well over 300 000 by the time the band wraps up its cross-Canada tour in support of its new album Cash & Carry, the product of five days spent off the grid in a log cabin hear Argyle, ON. "We definitely saved a lot of money. Also, it's a completely different vibe," says Smith, whose "honorary uncle" (aka friend of his father's) lent them the space. "[In a studio] you're on the clock as opposed to having all day, all night, whatever you want to do. It was also more of a family thing. We were cooking for ourselves and everyone would take breaks for food and sleep there ... and I think you just get a totally different product when everyone's doing that."
lowed the group to lay down the melodies for Cash & Carry, with the vocals recorded in studio. The big-city-meetscountry disc is filled with plenty of finger-pickin' guitar, sing-along harmonies and stomping beats that drive familiar and relatable musings of love and loss. Oh, and a cheap shirt. "I think most of the songs are informed by our personal experiences, so there's a lot about relationships, and not necessarily things that have happened specifically to us," McDonald explains. "A lot of the songs are based off relationships— not necessarily just romantic ones, but ones we have with other people, people we come across in our life." "And the cheap shirt obviously refers to the song 'Dime Store Shirt," Smith says. "There's a lot of lyrical content in our songs about not being super classy—maybe classy is the wrong word—but working with what you've got and being able to live with things that maybe aren't so perfect and building life around that." "And taking a very do-it-yourself attitude to everything," McDonald notes. "Not just music, but everything in general." "I think people can get lost in having other people do things for them," Smith adds. "If you're uneducated about the things in your life you can really be at other people's mercy." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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e were very much looking for a bear, but we didn't see one," Hollie Fullbook recalls, with a laugh, of a recent night spent in Yosemite. "We were looking very hard. It's a crazy environment: we don't really have any kind of granite formations in New Zealand. Just the colourings of the rock ... it's like a totally alien landscape to us." The songwriter behind Tiny Ruins, along with bassist Cass Basil and drummer Alex Freer, is a ways into the band's first headlining tour of North America. (She holds out hope to see a bear in Canada.) If trekking through a different part of the world has offered Fullbrook and her bandmates anything, it's been the chance to scope out the textures of faraway places as they play Brightly Painted One: a quietly beautiful selection of silvery singer-songwriter musings. Fullbrook's gilded voice glides above the band's stayed, nuanced instrumentals. There are great troughs of space in its production, and a gentle reverb that gives
it an otherworldly, ethereal chill: sometimes brass or strings will flare up out of the ether, make their emphasis, and slip away again, but mostly it's just the trio and a reflective air. Capturing that atmosphere was on Fullbrook's mind when she was going into its recording session. After taking the bedroom approach to Tiny Ruins' first album, Some Were Meant For Sea—mostly just Fullbrook alone, with a guitar, in a large space—and its follow-up EP Haunts, she was looking to try out more expansive song structures with production to match. "With Haunts, we did it exactly the same as my first record," she explains. "We recorded it live, in quite a big room which had a lot of natural reverb and that kind of woodsy atmosphere, and we recorded it to tape. And that was kind of an experiment to see whether we wanted to continue in that vein for the album. But from that experience, we decided we actually wanted to do the op-
Recording in Auckland Auckland, in Healey's own studio space, dubbed the Lab—"this underground [grouping] of passageways and small rooms"—Fullbrook found its smaller size ideal for catching the sound she was chasing. "We played the whole record through a bunch of amplifiers in the corridors of the Lab, and then we recorded that sound," she says. "That created the overall ambiance of the record." "I think the songs lent themselves to that naturally, and when we played them live, they definitely suited that aural landscape, I guess?" she continues, wrestling with her answer. "It was more of a feeling. I think, also, the fact that we were now working more as a band than me on my own: [for the first record] I was pretty much going from my bedroom to making an album, and I hadn't really played live a whole lot. Whereas with this album, we've got three years since that first one. Now we've been touring a lot, and playing more as a band. I think it's more of a natural progression to where we are right now—or, I should say, a year ago, when we were recording it." PAUL BLINOV PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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SET NIGHTCLUB SET Saturday Night House Party: With DJ Twix, Johnny Infamous
K-DAYS–KoodoNation Stage Our Lady Peace
SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your
LEAF BAR AND GRILL
Open Stage Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm; Evening: Cyril Sneer; The Second Coming
LEGENDS Saturday Jam
and open mic with Nick Samoil and guests
LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Jam every Sat, 9:30pm1:30am
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
VUEWEEKLY JUL 17 – JUL 23, 2014
MUSIC 23
beats with DJ Lazy, guests
TAVERN ON WHYTE
Soul, Motown, Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am
JUL/18
UBK AND ALL BLOWN UP PRESENT
JUL/19
A SPECIAL COMEDY EVENT WITH
JUL/26 JUL/27 AUG/1 AUG/8 AUG/11 AUG/14 AUG/15
STANTON WARRIORS
CRAIG GASS
ALL BLOWN UP PRESENTS
DIRTY AUDIO & TIN CUP A TRIBE CALLED RED UBK PRESENTS
GOD MODULE & IVARDENSPHERE BADBADNOTGOOD
UNION EVENTS PRESENTS
BLACK JOE LEWIS
RUN THE JEWELS MISERY SIGNALS & MALICE X
W/ GUESTS
UNION HALL Celebrity
Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous
Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays
SUN JUL 20 ARTERY SPEAK!, Men in
Reflection featuring Ahmed Knowmadic, Rend, Revenge of the Trees; 7pm
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun Electric Blues
JUL/18 WITH MALICE W/ DIEUPONADAY & BLACK XIII
JUL/21 JUL/22
ANDREW JACKSON JIHAD W/ HARD GIRLS, DOGBRETH & WHISKEY WAGON
A LA MER W/ BORDEEN & DANIEL ETOROMA
AUG/8
UBK PRESENTS
AUG/21
NIGHT VISION PRESENTS
AUG/23
PHAELEH BLOND:ISH TAIKI NULIGHT UBK PRESENTS
UPPER LEVEL OF STARLITE JUL/19
24 MUSIC
THE BREAKBEAT REBELLION:
DRUM N BASS MONTHLY W/ ENDBOSS, TYPECAST, STEEZY, BRUCEY-B & KRSPY
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
BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku
Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; Sarah Burton ; 10pm; no cover
BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ
Durst
Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett Sunday Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 9am-3pm
BLUES ON WHYTE Grady
Champion
CHURCHILL SQ–Taste of Edmonton The Frolics,
6pm; the Fortrelles, 7:15pm; Scherrie and Lynda formerly of the Supremes, 9pm
DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun
Night Live on the South Side: live bands; all ages; 7-10:30pm
HOG'S DEN PUB Rockin'
A HUNDRED YEARS W/ DARK SARCASM & FORSAKEN RITE
Kilgour (of the Clean and Mad Scene), Theo Angell, Ben Disaster; 8pm
MON JUL 21
Celtic Music with Duggan's House Band 5-8pm
JUL/17
WUNDERBAR Hamish
Jam and BBQ hosted by Marshall Lawrence and the Lazy Bastards; 4-8pm
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY
TRASH N THRASH THURSDAYS PRESENTS
RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Country Showcase and jam (country) hosted by Darren Gusnowsky
the Hog Jam: Hosted by Tony Ruffo; every Sun, 3:30-7pm
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
BLUES ON WHYTE Bill
BRIXX BAR Andrew Jackson Jihad, Hard Girls, Dogbreth, Whiskey Wagon; 7pm; $15 CHURCHILL SQ–Taste of Edmonton The Carlines, 6pm; Jenie Thai, 7:15pm; Devin Cuddy, 9pm DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday open mic
JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Rollanda Lee
K-DAYS–KoodoNation Stage Loverboy MERCURY ROOM Music
Magic Monday Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY
JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Shelley
Mon singer-songwriter night: hosted by Sarah Smith; 8pm
K-DAYS–KoodoNation Stage Bachman & Turner
NEW WEST HOTEL Jo
Jones
LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG Every Sun Jam with Loco-MoFos, hosted by Bob Cook; 8-12pm
NEWCASTLE PUB The
Sunday Soul Service: acoustic open stage every Sun
O’BYRNE’S Open mic
every Sun; 9:30pm-1am
ON THE ROCKS Sweet Vintage Rides
Macdonald (country)
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
ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic Night with Darrek Anderson from the Guaranteed; every Mon; 9pm
DJs
no cover; relaxed dress code
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
RICHARD'S PUB Tue Live
Main Floor: Blue Jay’s
Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay
Music Showcase and Open Jam (blues) hosted by Mark Ammar; 7:30pm
SANDS HOTEL Country
DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic with Hair of the Dave
music dancing every Tue, featuring Country Music Legend Bev Munro every Tue, 8-11pm
TAVERN ON WHYTE
DJs
Classic Hip hop with DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am
TUE JUL 22 ARTERY Madi Allen and
Brian Christensen (double EP release), Madi Alle; 7:30pm
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Big Dreamer Sound open jam with guest, hosted by Harry Gregg and Geoff Hamden-O'brien; every Tue 8pm-12am
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: The Night with No Name featuring DJs Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests playing tasteful, eclectic selections
BRIXX Metal night every Tue
DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY
Wed open mic with host Duff Robison
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover
FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio Series: The Felt Hat String Band, the Fuzz Kings; $8 at the Festival Place box office K-DAYS–KoodoNation Stage Official Village People NEW WEST HOTEL Jo
Macdonald (country)
OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL
Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue
Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member)
BRIXX BAR A La Mer, Bordeen, Daniel Etoroma; 8pm
RED STAR Experimental
RED PIANO BAR Wed Night
Indie rock, hip hop, electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue
Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5
CHURCHILL SQ–Taste of Edmonton Two Bears North, 6pm; Scarlett Jane, 7:15pm; the Harpoonist and the Axe Murderer, 9pm
SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs
REXALL PLACE Blake Shelton; 7:30pm Rossdale Hall Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover
WED JUL 23
WUNDERBAR Bella Union
DRUID IRISH PUB Open
ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL
BLUES ON WHYTE Bill Durst
Stage Tue; 9pm
K-DAYS–KoodoNation Stage Marianas Trench L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm
LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam: Trevor Mullen
MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue
Country Dance Lessons: 7-9pm; Jo Macdonald (country)
O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam
every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm
OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Open mic every Tue RED PIANO Every Tue:
DV8 Creepy Tombsday:
Open stage Wed with Trace Jordan; 8pm-12
BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES New Music Wed: Featured band hosted by Lochlin Cross and Leigh Friesen (open stage) after the bands set
BLUES ON WHYTE Bill
Durst
BRITTANY'S LOUNGE PJ
artist Tiny Ruins (folk pop), Jessica J'albert, and guests; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)
ZEN LOUNGE Jazz
Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover
DJs BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays: Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover
Perry Trio; 8-11pm
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE
BRIXX BAR Lettuce
Main Floor: RetroActive
Produce Beats
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm
BRITTANY'S LOUNGE
Jazz evening every Wed; 8-11pm
CHURCHILL SQ–Taste of Edmonton REND, 6pm;
the Nervous Flirts Jameoke Experience (sing-along with a live band); 7:30pm-12am;
Matt Blais, 7:15pm; Tupelo Honey, 9pm
Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–CITY CENTRE 10200 102A Ave, 780.424.4534, primepubs.com FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FORT LOUNGE 13403 Fort Rd HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOGS DEN PUB Yellow Head Tr, 142 St IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546126 St, 780.453.2249 J+H PUB 1919-105 St J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016132 Ave, 780.757.2121 LEGENDS SPORTS BAR AND TAP HOUSE 9221-34 Ave, 780.988.2599 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIVE AT SLY'S–THE RIG 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.0869 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911
MERCURY ROOM 10575114 St NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St
Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe
BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats THE COMMON The Wed Experience: Classics on Vinyl with Dane NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed
RED STAR Guest DJs
every Wed
VENUEGUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave "B" STREET BAR 11818111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLIND PIG PUB 32 St Anne St, 780.418.6332 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFÉ TIRAMISU 10750124 St CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park
CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHICAGO JOES 9604 -111 Ave COMMON 9910-109 St DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DIVERSION LOUNGE 3414 Gateway Blvd, 780.435.1922 DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Sask 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 901388 Ave, 780.465.4834 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882170 St EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100
VUEWEEKLY JUL 10 – JUL 16, 2014
ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower School, 10135-96 Ave SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SET NIGHTCLUB Next to Bourban St, 8882-170 St, WEM, Ph III, setnightclub.ca SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810124 St, 587.521.6328 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO– St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St
EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM
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EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Stanley Milner
Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Monthly roundtable discussion group. Topics change each month, please check the website for details, edmontonatheists.ca • 1st Tue, 7pm; each month
EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD •
COMEDY
Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/ workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm
Black Dog Freehouse • Underdog
EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) •
Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover
CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •
780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Bob Angeli; Jul 18-19 • That's Improv!; Jul 25-26 • Ben Proulx; Aug 1-2 • Marvin Knawczyk; Aug 8-9 • Cory Robinson; Aug 15-16 • Danny Acapella; Aug 22-23 • Sean Baptiste; Aug 29-30
COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM •
780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Hit or Miss Mondays: Amateurs and Professionals every Mon, 7:30pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; last Tue each month, 7:30pm • J Chris Newberg; until Jul 18, Jul 20 • Jim Breuer Special; Jul 19 • Isaac Witty; Jul 23-27 • Nick Vatterott; Jul 30-Aug 3 • Barry Brewer; Aug 6-10
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119
• Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm
EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave •
Empress Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm
KRUSH ULTRALOUNGE/CONNIE'S COMEDY • 16648-109 Ave • Komedy Krush: hosted by Connie's Comedy starting with open mic comedy • Jul 17, 9pm; featuring David Dempsey; followed by a Capital City Singles "Name that Tune" • Komedy Krush: hosted by Connie's Comedy starting with open mic comedy • Jul 31, 9pm; featuring Ryan Patterson; following Name that Tune with Capital City Singles
edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com
Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org
• Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free
ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio
(South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Argentine Tango with Tango Divino: beginners: 7-8pm; intermediate: 8-9pm; Tango Social Dance (Milonga): 9pm-12 • Every Fri, 7pm-midnight • $15
BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Mount Zion Lutheran Church,
11533-135 St NW • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Mon every month; 7-8:45pm • Free
CALM ABIDING MEDITATION RETREAT • Providence Renewal Centre, 3005-119 St • gasamling.ca • Join Tibetan Buddhist monk Kushok Lobsang Dhamchöe for a day of instruction and practice of secular Calm Abiding Meditation • Sat, Jul 19, 9:30am-4:30pm • $60 (incl lunch); E: info@gasamling.ca; T: 780.479.0014
CANADIAN INJURED WORKERS ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (CIWAA) •
Augustana Lutheran Church, 107 St, 99 Ave • canadianinjuredworkers.com • Meeting every 3rd Sat, 1-4pm • Injured Workers in Pursuit of
Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web • $10, $2 (lesson with entry)
TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS)
TOASTMASTERS
Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019, 780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm
HISTORIC WALKING TOUR
• Meet at the Little White School, 2 Madonna Dr, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Along the walk archival photographs, stories and historic buildings bring the story of St Albert, both past and present, to life • Every Thu, 6:30pm through the summer • $3 (donation) • Jul 24 (Downtown) • Aug 14 (Riverside) • Aug 28 (Downtown) • Sep 11 (Riverside)
KIDS WITH CANCER SOCIETY PARENTING GROUP • 11135-84 Ave •
Psychotherapy Group for parents of children with childhood cancer. Upcoming topics include-generating hope; information and problem solving strategies; communication and closeness and more • 2nd Thu each month until Sep 11, 10am-12
LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION •
GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS
AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave,
SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican
NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,
Groove every Wed; 9pm
Swing, 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry
Café, 2023-111 St • 780.440.3528 • 3rd Sun each month; 2:30-4pm • $5
EDMONTON UKULELE CIRCLE • Bogani
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Comedy
comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free
SUGAR FOOT SWING DANCE • Sugar
• Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519
Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • madeleine-sanam.org/en • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register
OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic
Association International) meet the 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm
3728-106 St • 780.435.0845 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey
Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free
SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP •
Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month • Jul 17, 7-9pm
SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY
• Call 587.520.3833 for location • deepsoul. ca • Combining music, garage sales, nature, common sense, and kindred karma to revitalize the inward persona • Every Wed, 7-8:30pm
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)
SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • 780.973.5311 • nashvillesongwriters.com • NSAI (Nashville Songwriters
• Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus
St; Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators. toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm
• Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club:
2nd Fl, Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave; 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact: Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331
VEGANS AND VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA/VOICE FOR ANIMALS •
Downtown Earth's General Store, 10150-104 St • Vegan Bake Sale • Jul 26, 11am-3pm
WASKAHEGAN TRAIL HIKE •
waskahegantrail.ca • Meet at the NW corner of Superstore parking, 51 Ave, Calgary Tr; Carpooling available from here • 10km guided hike in the country in the Mix-Cloverlawn area along Mud Lake, with hike leader Stella, 780.488.9515; Jul 20, 8:45am-3pm • Hike the 309km Waskahegan Trail for a 10km guided hike along the middle section of Coal Lake with hike leader David 780.434.2675; Jul 26, 8:45am-3pm • 8:45am-3pm • $5 (carpool); $20 (annual membership)
WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 772798 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@ gmail.com WILD ROSE ANTIQUE COLLECTORS SOCIETY • Delwood Community Hall, 7515
Delwood Rd • wildroseantiquecollectors.ca • Collecting and researching items from various periods in the history of Edmonton. Presentations after club business. Visitors welcome • Meets the 4th Mon of every month (except Jul & Dec), 7:30pm
WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old
Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS
SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave, upstairs • 780.554.6133 • Free instruction into the meditation on the Inner Light • Every Sun, 5pm QUEER
AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer
• Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month
BEERS FOR QUEERS • Empress Ale House, 9912 Whyte Ave • Meet the last Thu each month BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm
VUEWEEKLY JUL 10 – JUL 16, 2014
• groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton
BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave
• 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-
103 St • 780.424.0077 • yourgaybar.com • Community Tue: partner with various local GLBT groups for different events; see online for details • Happy Hour Wed-Fri: 4-8pm • Wed Karaoke: with the Mystery Song Contest; 7pm-2am • Fri: DJ Evictor • Sat: DJ Jazzy • Sun: Beer Bash
G.L.B.T. SPORTS AND RECREATION
• teamedmonton.ca • Blazin' Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary School Gym, 10925-87 Ave; Every Mon and Thu, 7pm; $30/$15 (low income/student); E: bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Mindful Meditation: Pride Centre: Every Thu, 6pm; free weekly drop-in • Swimming–Making Waves: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; E: swimming@teamedmonton.ca; makingwavesswimclub.ca • Martial Arts–Kung Fu and Kick Boxing: Every Tue and Thu, 6-7pm; GLBTQ inclusive adult classes at Sil-Lum Kung Fu; kungfu@teamedmonton.ca, kickboxing@ teamedmonton.ca, sillum.ca
G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre,
10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm
INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-
based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, 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
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
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ALBERTA AVE BUSINESS ASSOCIATION–POP UP MARKET • Alberta Ave,
85 St-90 St • A muliticultural theme, with a roaming 3-piece Marioche band; free pancake and fruit breakfast, 10am-12 noon (betw Eastwood Community Hall and St Alphonsus Church), with music by Recycle Percusion • Jul 19, 11am-4pm
DATE NIGHT AT THE DEVONIAN BOTANIC GARDEN–LEARN TO RUMBA
• Devonian Gardens, 1227 Alberta 60, Parkland County • Learn to Rumba with the U of A Dance Club. Enjoy food from the Loft Patio Café then back to the Pine Pavilion for an evening dance lesson. Call 780.987.3054 info • Jul 1, 6-10pm • $11 (adult)/$6 (student)/$8 (senior)/$8 (Friends of the Garden)
DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; text to: 780.530.1283 for location • Classic Covers Shindig Fundraiser • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars: upcoming Century Casino show as well; Twilight Zone Razamanaz Tour; all ages • Fundraising for local Canadian Disaster Relief, the hungry (world-wide through the Canadian Food Grains Bank) DÎNER EN BLANC EDMONTON • Secret
124 St • edmlivingpositive.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
Location • Très chic picnic, imported from Paris, is equal parts mystery tour, pop-up feast and je ne sais quoi– a secret affair, an evening of elegance, will take over an undisclosed public space whose location will be revealed only a couple of hours prior to the event. Enthusiasts dressed in white will attend the secret location • Jul 17, 7-11:30pm • $35 + membership at edmonton.dinerenblanc.info/register
MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •
TASTE OF EDMONTON • Churchill Square
LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-
geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and nonjudgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for female-identified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men 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
• eventsedmonton.ca • Food festival. In the day hosting culinary workshops; at night featuring a pop-up tastings, including live music • Jul 17-26 • Tickets at TIX on the Square
Music:
• Bryan Finlay; Jul 17, 7pm • Maracujah; Jul 17, 9pm • Skratch Bastid; Jul 18, 6pm • SIIINES; Jul 18, 7:45 pm • Smalltown DJs; Jul 18, 8:30pm • Jesse & The Dandelions; Jul 19, 6pm • Scenic Route to Alaska; Jul 19, 7:15pm • Said The Whale; Jul 19, 9pm • The Frolics; Jul 20, 6pm • The Fortrelles; Jul 20, 7:15 pm • Scherrie and Lynda formerly of the Supremes; Jul 20, 9pm • The Carlines; Jul 21, 6pm • Jenie Thai; Jul 21, 7:15 pm • Devin Cuddy; Jul 21, 9pm • Two Bears North; Jul 22, 6pm • Scarlett Jane; Jul 22, 7:15pm • The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer; Jul 22, 9pm • REND; Jul 23, 6pm • Matt Blais; Jul 23, 7:15 pm • Tupelo Honey; Jul 23, 9pm • The Give 'Em Hell Boys; Jul 24, 6pm • Dead City Dolls; Jul 24, 7:15pm • Frijid Pink; Jul 24, 9pm • Windmills; Jul 25, 6pm • KAY; Jul 25, 9pm • Young Benjamins; Jul 26, 6pm • JPNSGRLS; Jul 26, 7:15pm • Christian Hansen; Jul 26, 9pm
UNIFY FESTIVAL • Oasis Centre, 10930177 St • 780.451.9227 • Satsang, yoga, transformational breathwork, kirtan, presenters/speakers, live music, conscious food, DJs, eco village, visionary art, interactive dance and play • Jul 27, 10am-1am • More info/online registration at noorish.ca/unifyfest
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Pique Dance Center 10604 105 Ave 780-239-6122 piquedancecentre.ca Weekly drop-in Adult dance classes; Beginner to Advanced levels offered, large variety of styles offered. $12 per 60 minute class and $16 per 90 minute class
Share The Chair The “Share The Chair” contest celebrates the AGA’s 90th Birthday and its 1924 Rockies exhibitions To enter the “Share The Chair” photo contest, Parks or AGA visitors just need to post a Red Chair photo – either a scenic or a selfie – to www.youraga.ca/SharetheChair or post to Twitter using the hashtag #AGASharetheChair by 11:59 pm on August 16, 2014. The photos can be taken at the Red Chair sites in the Parks, or at the Red Chair installed on the second level near the 1924 Rockies exhibitions at the AGA. The grand prize is a trip for two to Jasper’s Dark Sky Festival, courtesy of the Sawridge Inn and Tourism Jasper. The Dark Sky Festival runs from October 17-26, and features Col. Chris Hadfield. Weekly draws throughout the contest period will also be made for AGA admission passes and Parks Canada Discovery Passes. The grand prize will be drawn on August 17, 2014 during the AGA’s 90th Birthday celebration. The winner will be contacted by the AGA on August 18, 2014.
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Parents Empowering Parents (PEP) Society supports & educates families dealing with the effects of substance abuse in youth & adult children. Do you feel embarrassed, exhausted, hopeless, or alone as a result of a child struggling with substance use and/or abuse? PEP can help. Call 780.293.0737 or see www.pepsociety.ca for more information.
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EPL Free Courses: Edmonton AB Check out the Free Online Interactive Instructor Led Courses offered through the Edmonton Public Library. Some of the courses for visual artists would include: Creating WordPress Websites, Secrets of Better Photography Beginning Writer’s Workshop many more… For a list of Free Courses visit: https://www.epl.ca/learn4life For information and instruction on how to get started https://www.epl.ca/learn4life
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Fund Development Intern The Abbotsfield Music Program Society (AMP) operates a non-profit music school that provides free music lessons and instruments to underprivileged children in the Beverly area. The Fund Development Intern will locate funding sources, determine grant eligibility and deadlines, prepare funding support materials, and write grant applications. For more information head to http://joinscip.ca/organization-log-in
Membership and Community Engagement Intern The Abbotsfield Music Program Society (AMP) operates a non-profit music school that provides free music lessons and instruments to underprivileged children in the Beverly area. The Membership and Community Engagement Intern will help AMP achieve more visibility in the Beverly area, and will help locate potential new board members . For more information head to http://joinscip.ca/organization-log-in
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Give some, Get some. Come have some fun, a little exercise and be recognized. We require volunteers almost every day of the week to help at various bingo locations around the city (WEM, Castledowns, south side). You give your time (4-6 hour shift) and we recognize your efforts. You do not need any experience as everything will be taught to you and you will be completely supported. Calll Christine at 780-953-1510 or email at christine.poirier@cnib.ca for more information Bingo is a smoke-free and friendly environment. Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network`s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers for Edmonton`s 24-Hour Distress Line. Interested or want to learn more? Contact Lindsay at 780-732-6648 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com Help the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation create a future without breast cancer through volunteerism. Contact 1-866-302-2223 or ivolunteer@cbcf.org for current volunteer opportunities
Social Media Intern The Abbotsfield Music Program Society (AMP) operates a non-profit music school that provides free music lessons and instruments to underprivileged children in the Beverly area. AMP requires someone to help with their web-based means of information sharing, media and public relations. For more information head to
Help someone in crisis take those first steps towards a solution. The Support Network’s Crisis Support Centre is looking for volunteers! Interested or want to learn more? Contact Maura at 780-392-8723 or visit our website: www.TheSupportNetwork.com
Special Events Coordinator Intern The Abbotsfield Music Program Society (AMP) operates a non-profit music school that provides free music lessons and instruments to underprivileged children in the Beverly area. AMP is planning a series of special events to promote the school program. The Special Events Coordinator Intern will work with the Board of AMP to brainstorm, plan and stage these events. To apply, head to:
The 9th Annual Kaleido Family Arts Festival is currently seeking volunteers for the run of the festival September 12-14 2014. The next Volunteer Fun & Social Nite is on July 22, 2014 from 6-8pm at the Alberta Avenue Community League (9210-118 ave), supper will be included! RSVP for this event is required. For more information on the festival or for a volunteer application form please visit www.kaleidofest.ca/volunteer or call The Carrot at 780.471.1580.
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Be a part of Edmonton’s biggest and best summer Festival; volunteer for the 33rd Edmonton International Fringe Theatre Festival, August 14-24! You’ll meet new people and try new things all while having whole lot of fun! And with 13 different teams to choose from, we have something special just for you! Take advantage of this great opportunity and apply online now at www.fringetheatre.ca
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Visual Arts Committee offers Artists an opportunity to exhibit their works, Exhibitions may be one artist or combined with a complementary display by other artists. See here for Alberta Health Services Call for Art 2015 For more information, please call 780-735-4430 or email volunteer.RAH@albertahealth services.ca Submissions required by September 26,2014
Can You Read This? Restoring Indigenous Safety through Kinship (RISK) Program Land-based leadership training for Edmonton urban indigenous youth ages 14-16. Includes summer/fall/winter activities. Apply by July 25. More info at www.indigenousyouthrisk.com or(780) 944-9288.
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Help someone Who can’t! Volunteer 2 hours a week and help someone improve their Reading, Writing, Math or English Speaking Skills. Call Valerie at P.A.L.S 780-424-5514 or email palsvol@shaw.ca
Want to make a difference for patients and their families at the Cross Cancer Institute? Volunteer with the Alberta Cancer Foundation today and help redefine the future of cancer in Alberta. Opportunities are available throughout the year. www.albertacancer.ca/volunteer 1.866.412.4222
Volunteers Wanted
The Safeway Walk for Muscular Dystrophy is a fully accessible fundraising event that’s fun for the whole family! We need your help to provide essential mobility equipment, build awareness, and fund leading research on neuromuscular disorders. Encourage your friends, family and coworkers to sponsor your Walk, as you raise funds and awareness to help enhance the lives of Canadians living with a neuromuscular disorder. Saturday September 6, 2014 10am-2pm Gold Bar Park, 10955 50 Street NW, Edmonton AB T6A 1K8 www.walkformusculardystrophy.ca
Contact: Rachael Chan Fundraising and Community Development Coordinator, Alberta/NWT, 780.489.6322 x5104, rachael.chan@muscle.ca
Volunteer Opportunities CWY seeks youth participants Canada World Youth (CWY) is now accepting applications for its Youth Leaders in Action (YLA) program. The YLA program is designed to give youth (aged 17 to 25) valuable international and community development experience. Participating youth can apply to join CWY projects in Tanzania, Benin, Ghana, Nicaragua, Peru, Ukraine, Vietnam or Indonesia. Projects are either 6 weeks or 4 to 6 months in duration. For more information or to apply head to: http://canadaworldyouth.org/ap ply/youth-leaders-in-action/
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Call for Edmonton & Area Artists City of 100 Artists is proud to present to the community our first live art auction event hosted by HIMCA. We provide an alternative platform for artists to exhibit and sell their work. Only 100 artists will be selected to participate. Application deadline: August 15, 2014 For more information please visit: www.himca.ca/cityof100artists or contact cityof100artists@hotmail.ca
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Art on the Patio will join art, music, and food, as artists and artisans display and sell their work during the very popular Festival Place Patio Series. This is a free opportunity that will be scheduled for four dates this coming summer. Six artists per week will be scheduled. Artists may book a maximum of two weeks. This event will occur on Wednesday evenings. Set up time will be from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm, and take down after the evenings performance concludes (approximately 9:30-10:00 pm). Interested in learning more? Email artgallery@strathcona.ca ARTIST IN RESIDENCE: BUDAPEST The Open Call will begin on June 25, 2014, we have every months jury selection until April 15, 2015. Apply early! HMC International Artist Residency Program, a not-forprofit arts organization based in Dallas, TX / Budapest, Hungary – provides national and international artists to produce new work while engaging with the arts community in Budapest, Hungary. FOR APPLICATION FORM, questions please contact us. Email: bszechy@yahoo.com
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Calling All Creative Art & Design Teams for A 24 Hour Deck-Out A Lamppost Contest On Alberta Avenue (118 Ave) for the Kaleido Family Arts Festival The goal of this project theme is to create engaging, whimsical and vibrant imaginary characters along 118th Avenue to delight festival visitors young and old. • 6 Creative Teams will be selected by our jury, to bring their fantastical 3D visions to 118 Avenue by designing, creating and installing their Giant Beings on six (6) pre-assigned lampposts on the Kaleido Family Arts Festival Site. • Each team will be given 24 hours to ‘Deck Out a Lamppost’ as a Giant Being from myths, legends, faery tales or pure imagination, for the enjoyment of over 40,000 eager festival go-ers. • The Lamppost Installations will begin on Saturday, September 13th and must be completed within 24 hours, by Sunday, September 14th for the Judging Panel. • Creative Teams will be made up of up to 3 artists/designers/builders • Submission Deadline: Thursday, July 31st, 2014 • Each Team must submit a simple, clear proposal & project description with rough sketches, along with their completed Application Form, to Allison at kaleido.installation@gmail.com • Participating Teams will receive a $100 project credit at Edmonton ReUse Stores. • Judges will select the Prize Winners on Sunday, September 14th, and the Judges’ decision will be final . • Lamppost dimensions & images will be available upon request. For information contact: Allison Argy-Burgess | Installation Art Manager kaleido.installation@gmail.com
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS – EDMONTON TIMERAISER Calls are now open for artists and nonprofits to apply for the 5th Edmonton Timeraiser! Last year Timeraiser connected 27 nonprofits with skilled volunteers in their community and invested $13,689 into the local arts community. Help us make this year’s event the biggest yet! Our Call to Community is now Open If you are a nonprofit looking for skilled volunteers or an emerging artist interested in selling your work be sure to apply. Don’t miss out on being part of this exciting event! Help us spread the word about the Call to Community by sending your networks to: www.timeraiser.ca/edmonton. Calls close September 12th.
Call For Submissions 2014/15: Artist In Residence After the success of our first Artist and Residence Program with Jon Lachlan Stewart and The Genius Code, we look forward to hosting another artist in residence next season. Further details by clicking the link below. The application deadline is August 1, 2014, and direct questions can be asked to Eva (eva@catalysttheatre.ca, 780.431.1750) until July 19th. http://www.mailoutinteractive.c om/Industry/LandingPage.aspx ?id=1603841&lm=37741796&q =760559519&qz=2a4bd3486a 5903f246e78f7b32a2826d
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Call to Makers, Mercer Collective: A Maker’s Market You must MAKE, BAKE or CREATE what you sell. You can not be a reseller of goods not produced by you. Costs: $60 per market December show is $200 Additional Fees Table Rental is available at $10 per show. Please specify 6 ft or 4 ft. Limited quantities available. Show Dates: March 29,April 26, Sept 27,October 25, November 22 December 13-14 – $200
http://www.emailmeform.com/ builder/form/er27bvY7c0dhM9 0B9dX49 Central McDougall/Queen Mary Park Revitalization in conjunction with the North Edge Business Association (NEBA) and the Prince of Wales Armouries Heritage Centre has a new public market in central Edmonton . . . the “URBAN MARKETPLACE” at the Prince of Wales Armouries Heritage Centre. You are Invited to apply for a space in the Summer Series. The URBAN MARKETPLACE will provide you with an 8’ x 8’ space and a minimum 1 table (set up and tear down) for your use. The table/space rental is for the summer series for successful applicants. Applications for multiple booths may be considered. Vendors for this event will be chosen via juried selection. The URBAN MARKETPLACE reserves the right to select all vendors as part of the creation of the “market mix”. For more information please contact, Cheryl Deshaies at 780-442-1652 or cheryl.deshaies@edmonton.ca Figure Drawing with Daniel Hackborn With live models. Tuesday evenings, 6-9PM. Instruction available 1st Tuesday of the month. Drop-in sessions, $15. Ask about package discounts. Watch for theme evenings! The Paint Spot, 10032 81 Avenue 780.432.0240 www.paintspot.ca. Make A Movie in Just 24-hours 24/ONE, the 10th anniversary edition is now OPEN for Registration. This annual event is the ultimate, heart pumping, movie making challenge. We kick off the weekend before EIFF opens and World Premiere the Top 10 short films (7-minutes or less and family friendly) during the film festival. Register now. And catch all the zzzzzzz’s you can. 24/One teams are required to have a minimum of one (1) person 18 years of age as of Sept. 20, 2014. http://www.edmontonfilmfest. com/24one NAESS GALLERY/ARTISAN NOOK/VERTICAL SPACE SUBMISSIONS Exhibition submissions are being accepted at The Paint Spot. The Naess Gallery’s deadline for the 2015 season is August 31. Neither the Artisan Nook nor the Vertical Space have deadlines. All three exhibition spaces welcome emerging artists and curators. Individuals and groups are invited to make a submission. For further information please visit www.paintspot.ca or email questions to accounts@paintspot.ca.
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PREMIERE ART FAIR SEEKS ARTISTIC TALENT Art Vancouver is calling on galleries representing artists working in all mediums to enter its four-day art fair May 21 – 24, 2015. Local and international galleries, collectors, designers, architects and media expected to attend this event at Vancouver’s award winning Convention Centre. Deadline for application is November 1, 2014. For more information including booth sizing and prices go to www.artvancouver.net or contact info@artvancouver.net. The Alberta Council for the Ukrainian Arts is pleased to announce that they are accepting submissions for our new online “Directory of Ukrainian Artists in Alberta”. Originally printed in 1993, the directory proved to be a comprehensive guide to Ukrainian artists in our province. Unfortunately, much of the information is no longer current. Additional information and submission forms are available by contacting: Elena Scharabun Directory Coordinator, ACUA directory@acuarts.ca 780-975-307
The Gust Gallery in Waterton Lakes National Park is seeking submissions for mainly 3 dimensional pieces in ceramic, porcelain, glass and wood. The Gust Gallery embraces the artists and landscape of Southern Alberta. The breathtaking vistas of the Rockies, their Eastern Slopes and southerly plains are paid homage to by the extraordinary talents of artists working in two and three dimensional mediums. If you are interested or have questions email: gustgal@telus.net or call Edith Becker, ph: 403-859-2535 or cell: 403-827-0084 www.gustgallery.com
Call for Artists: Casa Gallery Exhibition Proposals – Lethbridge, AB Submission Deadline: July 30, 2014 Casa Gallery accepts proposals from individuals and groups in all media, from the traditional to the experimental. Exhibitions are typically booked 2 years in advance, and adjudication is done to ensure both quality, and an equitable representation of various media. Casa Gallery does an annual ‘Call for Submissions’ for its ongoing exhibition programming. Submissions will only be accepted between the dates posted. Proposals submitted at other times will not be looked at. The next dates for submitting proposals are: May 1, 2014 – July 30, 2014. Proposal reviews will take place in July, 2014. For more information head to: http://www.casalethbridge.ca/g allery-opportunities
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): "I have complete faith in the continued absurdity of whatever's going on," says satirical news commentator Jon Stewart. That's a healthy attitude. To do his work, he needs a never-ending supply of stories about people doing crazy, corrupt and hypocritical things. I'm sure this subject matter makes him sad and angry. But it also stimulates him to come up with funny ideas that entertain and educate his audience—and earns him a very good income. I invite you to try his approach, Aries. Have faith that the absurdity you experience can be used to your advantage. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Bananas grow in Iceland, a country that borders the Arctic Ocean. About 700 of the plants thrive in a large greenhouse heated by geothermal energy. They don't mature as fast as the bananas in Ecuador or Costa Rica. The low amounts of sunlight mean they require two years to ripen instead of a few months. To me, this entire scenario is a symbol for the work you have ahead of you. You've got to encourage and oversee growth in a place that doesn't seem hospitable in the usual ways, although it is actually just fine. And you must be patient, knowing that the process might take a while longer than it would in other circumstances. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): While at a café, I overheard two people at the next table talking about astrology. "I think the problem-solvers of the zodiac are Cancers and Capricorns," said a young, moon-faced woman. "Agreed," said her companion, an older woman with chiselled features. "And the problem-creators are Scorpios and Geminis." I couldn't help it: I had to insert myself into their conversation so as to defend you. Leaning over toward their table, I said, "Speaking as a professional astrologer, I've got to say that right now Geminis are at least temporarily the zodiac's best problem-solvers. Give them a chance to change your minds." The women laughed, and moon-face said, "You must be a Gemini." "No," I replied. "But I'm on a crusade to help Geminis shift their reputations." CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Mozart debuted his now-famous opera Don Giovanni in Prague on October 29, 1787. It was a major production, featuring an orchestra, a chorus and eight main singers. Yet the composer didn't finish writing the opera's overture until less than 24 hours before the show. Are you cooking up a similar scenario, Cancerian? I suspect that sometime in the next two weeks you will complete a breakthrough with an inspired, last-minute effort. And the final part of your work may well be its "overture;" the first part will arrive last. (PS: Don Giovanni was
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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): "We must learn to bear the pleasures as we have borne the pains," says writer Nikki Giovanni. That will be apt advice for you to keep in mind during the coming months, Leo. You may think I'm perverse for suggesting such a thing. Compared to how demanding it was to manage the suffering you experienced in late 2013 and earlier this year, you might assume it will be simple to deal with the ease and awakening that are heading your way. But I'd like you to consider the possibility that these blessings will bring their own challenges. For example, you may need to surrender inconveniences and hardships you have gotten used to, almost comfortable with. It's conceivable you will have to divest yourself of habits that made sense when you were struggling, but are now becoming counterproductive.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): "There is no such thing as a failed experiment," said author and inventor Buckminster Fuller, "only experiments with unexpected outcomes." That's the spirit I advise you to bring to your own explorations in the coming weeks, Sagittarius. Your task is to try out different possibilities to see where they might lead. Don't be attached to one conclusion or another. Be free of the drive to be proven right. Instead, seek the truth in whatever strange shape it reveals itself. Be eager to learn what you didn't even realize you needed to know.
VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): I would hate for your fine mind to become a liability. As much as I admire your native skepticism and analytical intelligence, it would be a shame if they prevented you from getting the full benefit of the wonders and marvels that are brewing in your vicinity. Your operative motto in the coming days comes from Virgo storyteller Roald Dahl: "Those who don't believe in magic will never find it." Suspend your disbelief, my beautiful friend. Make yourself receptive to the possibility of being amazed. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Kris Kristofferson is in the Country Music Hall of Fame now, but it took a while for him to launch his career. One of his big breaks came at age 29 when he was sweeping floors at a recording studio in Nashville. He managed to meet superstar Johnny Cash, who was working there on an album. A few years later, Kristofferson boldly landed a helicopter in Cash's yard to deliver his demo tape. That prompted Cash to get him a breakthrough gig performing at the Newport Folk Festival. I wouldn't be surprised if you were able to further your goals with a similar sequence, Libra: luck that puts you in the right place at the right time, followed by some brazen yet charming acts of self-promotion. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): In her poem "Looking Back," Sarah Brown Weitzman writes that she keeps "trying to understand / how I fell / so short of what I intended / to do with my life." Is there a chance that 30 years from now you might say something similar, Scorpio? If so, take action to ensure that outcome doesn't come to pass. Judging from the astrological omens, I conclude that the next 10 months will be a favourable time to get yourself on track
CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Architects in ancient Rome used concrete to create many durable structures, some of which are still standing. But the recipe for how to make concrete was forgotten for more than a thousand years after the Roman Empire collapsed in the fifth century. A British engineer finally rediscovered the formula in 1756, and today concrete is a prime component in many highways, dams, bridges and buildings. I foresee a similar story unfolding in your life, Capricorn. A valuable secret that you once knew but then lost is on the verge of resurfacing. Be alert for it. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Beginning in 1798, European cartographers who drew maps of West Africa included the Mountains of Kong, a range of peaks that extended more than a thousand miles east and west. It was 90 years before the French explorer Louis Gustave Binger realized that there were no such mountains. All the maps had been wrong, based on faulty information. Binger is known to history as the man who undiscovered the Mountains of Kong. I'm appointing him to be your role model in the coming weeks, Aquarius. May he inspire you to expose longrunning delusions, strip away entrenched falsehoods and restore the simple, shining truths. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): In the simplest, calmest of times, there are two sides to every story. On some occasions, however, the bare minimum is three or more sides. Like now. And that can generate quite a ruckus. Even people who are normally pretty harmonious may slip into conflict. Fortunately for all concerned, you are currently at the peak of your power to be a unifying force at the hub of the bubbling hubbub. You can be a weaver who takes threads from each of the tales and spins them into a narrative with which everyone can abide. I love it when that happens! For now, your emotional intelligence is the key to collaborative creativity and group solidarity. V
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conscious about showing affec- that she's an escort. Or she knows Two questions, Dan. tion for his dependable old dog I know but didn't want to mention 1) Recently, I went to a bar with than for his brand-new girlfriend. it. Either way, we've been on a few my brother and encountered a You don't mention what he's do- dates since, and at some point, I'd friend from high school. My broth- ing for his dog that he doesn't like to tell her that I know and I'm er told me that, toward the end do for you (table scraps? Belly OK with it. Should I? of the night, my friend followed rubs? Shock collars?), NHG, but Not A John him into the bathroom and made the longer you "wait around," the a drunken pass at him (which ap- more demonstrably affectionate It's also possible that this woman parently involved a clumsy grab at your boyfriend is likely to become. works in a department store and his penis). 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