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Telling a story Edmonton, you're beautiful. If we were ever in doubt, the past week has jogged our collective memory, the one that gets wiped with blowing snow over a frozen wasteland for eight months out of the year. But that's all over. For now we have long nights where the sun never completely sets, heat that fails to dissipate over a 24-hour period, and a river valley where it's easy to forget we're in a city at all. Despite this, there seems to be a bit of an identity crisis going on in this city. More than the conversations over our "world-class" credentials and huge public expenditures on large buildings in our downtown core, this conversation seems to reveal not our over-estimation of what this city is, but a seeming inability to define what this city is. Over 2000 entries were received by Northlands in the "Name Your Fair" contest, and whether it is a decided lack of imagination on the part of citizens, or on the part of the individual who did the final selection, names like, "EdFest" (which is already taken by another festival) "The Edmonton Exhibition" and "Edmonton Summer Exhibition" reveal a rather bland view of our city, or perhaps this particular festival. But that Northlands contest's results came just weeks after the disappointing naming suggestions for the former
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airport lands, with suggestions such as "Central Park," "Crossroads," and the bizarre "Sol'Town," it seems to point to a larger problem of mistaken identity. The most repeated complaint about the airport lands naming is the lack of history found in many of the suggestions. Many comments pointed to the obvious omission of using Blatchford Field, after Edmonton mayor Kenneth Blatchford who developed the lands. As blogger and Edmonton activist Zoe Todd points out, Edmonton's history begins before the first white developers, so why do we call it Rossdale Flats when historically it is Pehonan, Cree for "gathering place?" Names call attention to our history and begin to tell the story of how it came to be our own. In giving preference to the bland, or in the case of the suggested "Central Park," the borrowed, it fails to recognize this city's own diversity and our own story. Perhaps the most frightening part of writing a story is not knowing where the narrative will take you. The desire to be someone else's city conveys a safety in knowing what someone else is, but we can only become Edmonton if we are unafraid of recognizing our past, welcoming of our diversity and uplifting to the underground communities that make this city worth living in. V
NEWSROUNDUP HISTORIC AGREEMENT The City of Edmonton and the Confederacy of Treaty 6 First Nations have signed a historic new agreement of understanding. "The Memorandum of Cooperation and Dialogue" is the first time a municipality in Alberta has entered into an agreement like this with territorial treaty representatives. "The Memorandum of Cooperation and Dialogue acknowledges the special relationship, rich in history and culture, between the City of Edmonton and our First Nations community," said Mayor Stephen Mandel on July 6, the day the agreement was signed. "[It] speaks to the optimism we share for our future opportunity and success we will exROLLING BLACK OUTS Communities across Alberta experienced rolling black outs this past Monday as the power available to the province suffered from the breakdown of four coal-fired power plants and two gas-fired generators. When the plants went down on the afternoon of Monday, July 9, Alberta's electricity
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plore together." According to Confederacy spokesperson Ann Gladue-Buffalo the agreement will lead to conversations between council and the mayor's office about developing a new communications protocol. "The key was establishing this relationship that recognizes the representation of first nations government," says Gladue. "[Treaty 6] is not just a historical document but a living document and it applies today and it's important that the general public gain an awareness of that." Treaty representative Grand Chief Cameron Alexis expressed his hope this new agreement will lead to a formalized communication protocol which
clarifies key interests and processes. "Our First Nations have a rich history within the area that is now known as the City of Edmonton. This was a major centre of trade and commerce and also for relationship building for our Nations prior to the arrival of the Europeans," said Alexis. "We look forward to educating and informing the City of Edmonton about our role as treaty advocacy organization and our unique history, governance structures and also in dispelling myths." Edmonton, which has the second largest urban aboriginal population, is located within the regions of the Treaty 6. Treaty 6 was originally signed in 1876 by the Cree, Dene, Nakoda, and Saulteaux Nations.
generating system was unable to meet the record setting demand for 9.885 megawatts of power. The failure of the plants combined with this increased demand precipitated Alberta Electric System Operator, which is responsible for the maintenance of the Alberta Interconnected Electric System, to mandate rolling black outs across the province with-
out warning to the communities that would be affected. From 3 pm – 6 pm, electricity was randomly interrupted in communities across the province. The emergency has led political parties to question Alberta's deregulated electricy system and future plans for transmission expansion. The WIldrose Party is calling for an official investigation into the failure of the four plants,
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Edmontonians gathered July 7 on the Legislature grounds in support of Slutwalk, which was organized to draw attention to victim-blaming in cases of sexual assault. // Paula Kirman
while also saying an independent, transparent needs-based assessment needed to be conducted to determine power-line construction and transmission expansion needs. With electricity prices soaring during the blackouts the NDP is calling for an end to the deregulated electricity market. A regulated market allows you to plan your system sensibly, it avoids
manipulation of the market by companies who want to make a quick buck, and it provides Albertans with reliable and affordable electricity," says NDP MLA David Eggen. "It's hard to see a downside there." As of Tuesday afternoon, Provincial Energy Minister Ken Hughes did not provide an answer from electricity operators as to why the six plants failed.
Forever The Most Famous Guy in Town Darren Zenko passed away on July 4, 2012. Zenko wrote for daily newspapers and occasionally investigated pet ghost stories, but here in Edmonton he was best known for covering video games and the city around him for Edmonton-based weeklies Vue Weekly and See Magazine. At Vue and See, Zenko's words went beyond the superficial, digging
into the earth below the landscape of the city. There's no doubt: Zenko's pieces could be tough reads. They were dense with ideas, and if you just skimmed them over it was easy to miss the layers (upon layers upon layers) of subtext that he hid within his sentences. But settle in and try to decipher the messages, whether in his Most Famous Guy In Town col-
umn for See or Infinite Lives and Dispatch for Vue, or even inside reviews of a Quiet Riot concert or the various mall Santas around Edmonton, and Zenko would Jedi-mind-trick you into thinking about the world around you in a new, inspired way. As has been mentioned elsewhere (and often) by the man's former edi-
tors, his penchant to file late would lead to many excruciating moments as press time loomed and the space for his column was the single hole remaining to be filled. Zenko's advice to young writers was to file late in order to avoid editorial interference. As one of those editors who experienced the unnerving waits, I can say that only a man as brilliant as Ze-
nko could pull off such a maneouver. Darren Zenko excelled because he cared about the written word just as much as he cared about his voice as a writer—a voice that helped to shape how we view and love our city. That voice, and the man behind it, will be missed. Eden Munro
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iding shotgun on the way to the International a couple weeks ago, Stephen Notley said quietly, "I'm scared." Like scores in the thickening orbit around Darren Zenko's bent-up bed and body lately, Notley had long loved a limber man of iron—a daredevil with a freakishly complete utility belt of characteristics. But Zenko was also, importantly, a man whose free-flowing and hyper-articulate praise and enthusiasm were among his most superpowered medicines; ask his people. "Tell them I believe in them," Zenko stressed in an exit interview he'd arranged, among his many savvy pushes to be remembered in case the shittiest possible rolls darkened his last saving throws. Even so, Zenko believed in us, apologizing for obvious outbursts of body betrayal instead of complaining. "I feel sorry for you guys," he whispered in the cancer wing, sort of a joke, but not really. And now, by the dozens, the regular crowd shuffles into the void and we're trying to compose and stitch and maintain his immortality with art, with archive, with alcohol raised and spilled, with anecdote of his serious sexual advice given at parties to—karate-chop style—"fuck through the woman." Gonzo, even there. Failing to acknowledge the uncensorable spirit of Zenko's raw life streaking
down Whyte would be as wrong as ignoring his cartoony arpeggio laugh or that for-fucking-real genius. Better than anyone on the riverbanks, Zenko word-documented for years a weekly, stream-of-often-consciousness bounty hunt, many times starting in a mummified box full of disorganized arcana from his bedroom, ending up reordering the cosmos. One such gem: shaving your head for cancer was a pussy stance. If you really want to prove a thing, shave your balls. The newspaper editors who loved his language and hated his appalling disregard for their deadlines were backcatchers of the greatest and most intentional of defensive throws. Speaking to a crowd of new-era Gateway kids seeking advice on how to survive the media, DRZ pulled out his mantra: "File as late as possible; they won't have time to fuck up your work." Cue that laugh. My lord, his fleet, elastic brain. His trouble with deadlines was because such rolling intelligence can never truly finish a thing. There is always another angle. Working closely with him unleashed paradox—he was dismissively confident, furious and Trudeau-fingerstabbing the pedantic choices of our weakened estates of government and media, especially when it came to excusing war or the takeover of browntown by one-note, craven developers. Any-
one parroting the meaningless phrase "world class," written off forever. But he judged his own work as lividly, practically thrashing his head on the alphabet piano like Don Music if one of his proofreader-pen cartoon panels didn't meet some high personal standard. Snowballs of paper at his feet. Another coffee mug of wine down. He'd joke about the density of his work—there's plenty of time, forever really, to transmit all these ideas, right? Plenty of breathing room? Guys? But just look at who he was, so many (if not precisely "infinite") lives compressed into one crazy goofball—like a polyfaced central computer overheating a '50s pulp. He was a soothing CJSR DJ scientist bent on exploration and aural seduction, ever asking, are we not men? A woodcarver, sinew-sewer and art encourager. A patient dungeon master who refused to snuff the torch on oral history and collective imagination, even as he scripted his comic script swan song, Delving. Zenko, a son who had more contact with his parents than any of his close peers dared, love and respect and, let's face it, an underlying hope to make proud. He was a total culture fetishist who packed encyclopedic knowledge and philosophy into every barely-played-videogame review, pulling wider during late-night conversa-
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tions about everything from Achewood rap to the cricketed air in Nanton to the taxonomy of the known gods. Throw in a note-perfect karaoke "Piano Man," while you're at it, and maybe move a few inches back from the TV, OK, buddy? Shadow hide you! Darren was the author of 2.5 published books of, as he self-reviewed, "total bullshit," written nonetheless with campfire tenderness and comehither awe—and then came the shining Field Guide to Monsters. Back of the net, a-ha! A basically perfect toss of the scrote. He was a librarian-priest of the Marvel Universe, quoting canon religiously; one of his end requests was a Kirby god on his whiteboard, alongside his mysterious spirit weasel. Spellcasting, it seems, and why not? The spiller of wine liked big butts and he could not lie; this devotion he once discussed with Leonard Nimoy. He was a skeptic; he was also a believer who taught each of us on the inside thousands of things, a walking university. Even poisonous, he was hilarious. A restless outsider because of skill and fetish, Zenko was perhaps most crucially a loyal lover of damaged hearts, and these rushed in great numbers to him in the end, like some shrunken Mecca, to smell the warm peach fuzz on his head and thank him for the love
that none could own but pretty much anyone could have. He was the best friend to many, a hopelessly dedicated husband, too. As the days shrank away he snuggled with his estranged wife via handheld tech, merging tenderly their two hospital beds in separate cities over 3G: </3. And this we shall all remember forever: Zonks passed out at, seriously, every single fucking party, ever. There are hundreds of photos of his public narcolepsy. So, his body a final ruin, as he grew sleepier and sleepier holding hands on the way to last Wednesday, something familiar was actually happening. May as well lay back and enjoy it. The party—including the adventure party, his fellowship—was shutting down, fading, and so, too, he. Watery breath. Please no. Can't we just ... but so it was. Darren Zenko went peacefully, beautifully to sleep. Shadow hide you. And this sure fits: of the many souls I have ever known, his was the most human. He has been and always shall be The Most Famous Guy in Town. You spoiled us, Darren. Now we come to spread your dust in the alleys and valleys you adored, places you wandered, ever pondering. You spoiled us. Fish Griwkowsky
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NEWS // IMMIGRATION
New immigrants face new barriers
Federal budget cuts impact services for new immigrants at Citizenship and Immigration offices
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s of June 1 the federal government closed 19 Citizenship and Immigration Canada offices. The closures came with the governmentwide budget cuts, with CIC ministry expected to reduce it's budget by $179 million over three years. These closures, as well as a move toward electronic initial contact points with CIC, are meant to decrease the number of personnel and create a paperless system. It's part of a modernization agenda according to the CIC, but it's a process that will remove the first points of one-on-one contact for new immigrants. "A visa wizard, how-to video tutorials, FAQs, and proactive messaging are making it more simple for applicants to get the help they need either online or through the call centre," says CIC spokesperson Mylene Estrada del Rosario of the website. "CIC regularly consults in person and on-line with stakeholders, partners and all Canadians on its policies, programs and services." But these new points of contact present new barriers. They are currently offered exclusively in English and French, and reliance on telephone or web contact points can create a technological barrier. In Alberta, Lethbridge has the high-
est number of Bhutanese refugees in Canada: over one tenth of those who have settled in Canada. This exemplifies why new reliance on technology can create barriers outside of language skills. “These are people who have been living in Nepal for over 20 years. Some will have had a radio, some will have had a computer. Others will not,” explains Sarah Amies, the Program Director of Lethbridge Family Services Immigrant Services. Even with organizations that provide computer and Internet service it will fall to staff at settlement service agencies to work with individuals to overcome language and technology barriers.
CIC offices and settlement agencies, as well as the new immigrants flocking to Alberta's small cities." Southern Alberta has seen a substantive rise of settling by immigrants and refugees new to Canada. In 2007 Brooks had 92 new permanent and temporary residents move
The concerns raised by non-profit organizations for settlement in Alberta go beyond the new technologies expected to replace current CIC services. Agencies in Lethbridge, Calgary and Edmonton consider the impact on their own organizations and what it means for newcomers to Canada. Edmonton's Immigrant Services Association executive director Christina Nasliywa identifies this as a major cause of concern for her: "It is going to cause delays and frustrations, and it going to cause hardships on both sides, both the
there, while Lethbridge welcomed 279 new residents. But in 2011 Brooks and Lethbridge settled 537 and 509 respectively. No other urban centre in Alberta saw such an increase. Rosario reiterated the ongoing support for settlement services in Alberta's urban centres. "CIC funds Local Immigration Partnerships in nine communities in Alberta. One of the roles of these LIPs is to identify newcomer needs and devise strategies to address them," says Rosario. "In addition, service providers in
communities are in touch with the evolving needs of newcomers.” Settlement services in urban centres throughout Canada are also funded provincially, to provide an additional two years of support after the initial year the federal government funds. Support includes
CIC funds Local Immigration Partnerships in nine communities in Alberta. One of the roles of these LIPs is to identify newcomer needs and devise strategies to address them. In addition, service providers in communities are in touch with the evolving needs of newcomers.
help with English language classes and financial support similar to what is currently offered by the province, these supports are only available for a year. Through federal support, refugees are provided with the means to get from their country of asylum to Canada. However, that flight or transportation cost is invoiced to that individual or family. The bill is capped at $10 000 and the interest is stayed for the year. After a year it is assumed they will be able to find sufficient
employment. If refugees need further support after the first year in Canada they may apply for provincial support. Although CIC has increased allocations to settlement services to $75 million in 2012–2013—a $10.9 million increase from 2011–2012— agencies in Alberta do not currently have any indication if their federal funding will increase, despite increased demand on services and new pressures such as communicating with an office much further away. "Most of the direct client service that was provided with CIC will no longer be provided by them," notes Amies. "We will pick up the slack where the direct client services are concerned." Amies understands the position of the government. "I appreciate that the government is in financial difficulty and I appreciate that the status quo situation is important with planning and strategy," Amies says before adding, "what the funders have to appreciate is that inflation continues to rise. As well, in our current environment not-for-profit services are devalued." Jenn Prosser
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COMMENT >> CLIMATE CHANGE
A sure thing
Most evidence points to the existence of climate change It was 42 degrees Celsius in St Louis, nor Alexander Tkachev said: "No one Missouri, last weekend, about the can remember such floods in our hissame as in Saudi Arabia. Along the tory. There was nothing of the kind for US Atlantic coast, it was cooler, but the last 70 years." not much: 41 degrees Celsius in WashThere are very unusual events hapington DC, just short of the pening in winter too: last Janucity's all-time record. And ary only 14.7 percent of the 46 Americans were already United States was covered dead from the heat wave. by snow, compared to 61.7 m o .c weekly e@vue In Britain, it was incredpercent at the same time gwynn e Gwynn ibly wet. Almost 6 cm of in 2011. At least 300 people Dyer died in a cold wave in northern rain fell on Saturday in parts of southern England, and there were India in the previous January. over 20 flood warnings and 100 flood One could go on, enumerating comalerts in effect. The wettest April ever parably extreme weather events in was followed by the wettest June the southern hemisphere in the past (more than double average rainfall), couple of years. But that would just and July has started the same way. be more impressionistic evidence, and Russia had its hottest summer ever no more convincing statistically. The in 2010, with peat wildfires raging out events are too few, and the time peof control—over 5000 excess deaths riod is too short. But it does feel like in Moscow in July alone—but this something is going on, doesn't it? summer it's wet in Russia too. Last The most recent opinion polls indiFriday an astonishing 28 cm of rain cate that a majority even of Amerifell overnight in the Krasnodar region cans now accept that climate change in southern Russia, and flash floods is happening (although, being Amerikilled 155 people. can, many of them still cling to the beIt is a big planet, and some local relief that it is a purely "natural" event cord for hottest, coldest, wettest or that has nothing to do with human driest is being broken somewhere or greenhouse gas emissions). But opinother almost every day. But these are ion polls are not a good guide in these records being broken over very large matters either. Can we really say that areas, in regions where records go something serious is happening, and back a long time. As Krasnodar goverthat it is evidence that the climate is
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changing now? No, we can't. It's a statistical longshot, but it is possible that this is just a random collection of extreme events signifying nothing in particular. Occasionally a tossed coin comes up heads six times in a row. But usually it doesn't.
Wilder weather, if you like. That means hotter, longer heat waves, and bigger storms that bring torrential rain and killer wind speeds. But it can also mean prolonged droughts as rainfall patterns change—and much more severe winters, like the "Snowmageddon" storm
We never really experience the climate; what we feel is the daily weather that it produces. A climate that is changing will produce unfamiliar weather— and if it is getting warmer, it will be more energetic weather. Wilder weather, if you like. The best way to approach the question is to ask what we would actually see if global warming had crossed some threshold and triggered big changes in weather patterns. The actual change in the average global temperature would be almost imperceptible: only one or two degrees Celsius, or the difference in an average day's temperature between 9 am and 10.30. What we would notice is that the weather is getting wild. We never really experience the climate; what we feel is the daily weather that it produces. A climate that is changing will produce unfamiliar weather—and if it is getting warmer, it will be more energetic weather.
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that hit Washington DC in February 2010 and shut down the US federal government for a week. That last phenomenon confuses people who think colder winters prove that the climate isn't getting warmer, but complex systems like the climate can produce strange local results. As an article by CH Greene and BC Monger in a recent issue of "Oceanography" points out, the melting of the Arctic sea ice will cause colder winter weather in the temperate regions of the northern hemisphere. "Since the dramatic decline of Arctic sea ice during summer 2007," the authors point out, "severe winter weather outbreaks have periodically
affected large parts of North America, Europe and East Asia. During the winter of 2011-12, an extended and deadly cold snap descended on central and eastern Europe in mid-January (with temperatures approaching -30 degrees C)...By mid-February, the death toll had exceeded 550." How does melting Arctic sea ice cause colder winters? Much of the solar heat absorbed by the ice-free parts of the Arctic Ocean in the summer is released into the air by evaporation in the autumn. The higher atmospheric pressure in the Arctic weakens the Jet Stream, which allows cold Arctic air masses with a high moisture content to spill out into the middle latitudes. Hence colder winters and more snow in the US, Europe and northern Asia. You can't prove that all this means we are sliding into a new and steadily worsening climate right now—that the long-threatened future has arrived. The statistics aren't good enough to support that conclusion yet. But if you have to put your money down now, bet yes. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His column appears each week in Vue Weekly.
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DATE NIGHTS AT THE GARDEN • Devonian Botonical Gardens • devonian.ualberta.ca/Events. aspx#July • Every Thu 'til dusk; until Aug 30 • Date Night admission rates: $10 (adult)/$5 (student)/$6.50 (senior) admission gates open until 8:30pm; garden open until dusk • Ahhh, Rumba… the latin dance of love. Instructors from the U of A Dance Club will give a free 1 hour lesson at 7:30pm; Jul 12 Events.aspx#July • July 19: Jerk chicken, rice and beans, fresh fruit under the umbrellas at the Patio Café for $11.25/person. Add a Red Stripe and spicy acoustic latin fusion with trio Tangele (6:30-8:30)
COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Nick Vatterott; until Jul 15 • Tracey Macdonald; Jul 18-22
EDMONTON BIKE ART NIGHTS • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm
EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm
COMEDY BRIXX BAR • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesdays monthly with comedy and music CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm
FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9pm; no cover LAUGH SHOP–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Fri: 7:30pm, 10pm; Sat: 7:30pm and 10pm; $20 • Wednesday Amateur night: 8pm (call to be added to the line-up); free OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott every Wed, 9pm VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Mon, at 9:30pm WINSPEAR CENTRE An Evening of stand-up Comedy with Brent Butt; all ages; 8pm (show); $42.50, $36.50, $28.50 at UnionEvents.com, WinspearCentre.com WUNDERBAR • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • Comedy every 2nd Tue ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover
GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420-114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm HIGHLANDS GARDEN CLUB • 11424-64 St • Historic Highlands Centennial Celebration Garden Tours • Sat, Jul 14, 12-5pm HOME–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm LIVING FOODS SUNDAY SUMMER SERIES • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Spiralized zucchini noodles, cashew primavera, with roasted veggies; Jul 15 LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MEDITATION • Strathcona Library • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in; every Tue, 7-8:30pm NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • 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 RIVER VALLEY VIXEN • Glenora stairs • All girls outdoor bootcamp every Mon, and Wed: 6:30pm • Until end Jul • Info: E: rivervalleyvixen@gmail.com SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place •
Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10 min discussion, followed by a 30-40 minute walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)
780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com
SUGARSWING DANCE CLUB • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall
G.L.B.T.Q SAGE BOWLING CLUB • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm; bootcamp@ teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm; bowling@ teamedmonton.ca • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen; running@ teamedmonton.ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton. ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd
WALK ALBERTA • Blackfoot Recreation Area, Washahegan Staging Area, Cooking Lake: Devon Discovery Walkers, 5km, 12km; Jul 14, 8:30am-12; Robert Duncan, 780.963.4145, duncanra@shaw.ca VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA • Bonnie Doon Community Hall, 9240-93 St • vofa.ca/category/ events • Monthly Potluck and book sale: bring a vegan dish to serve 8 people, your own plate, cup, cutlery, serving spoon • $3 (member)/$5 (nonmember) 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 Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Strathcona Legion, 9020-51 Ave • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Info: T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331
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 • The Junction, 10242106 St • groups.yahoo.com/group/edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.454.6216 • 3rd Mon every month, 7:30pm
INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca
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
JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • junctionedmonton.com • Open Tues-Sat: Community bar with seasonal patio • Beat the clock Tue • WINGSANITY Wed, 5-10pm • Free pool Tue and Wed • Karaoke Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, bear bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm
BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/ group/bwedmonton BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 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 MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities. com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca
PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm; huges@shaw.ca • TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:309:30pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused
EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St •
counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org
PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm
SPECIAL EVENTS BEULAH ALLIANCE CHURCH • West parking lot 178 St • Community-wide fun day for the greater community of Edmonton for a BBQ, a petting zoo, bouncy castles and some live music • Jul 14 • $2 (cost of food) RACE WEEK EDMONTON • Jul 14-22 • Lap the Track: United Cycle, unitedcycle.com/lapthetrack; 107 St, 123 Ave: Sun, Jul 15, 9am • Mustang Madness/T-Bird Tour: 11140 Kingsway Ave: Sun, Jul 15 • Capital Power Go Kit Derby: Sat, Jul 14 RED PIANO FASHION SERIES • Bourbon St, WEM • Get Taken In: The latest styles in Corset and Latex fashion • Jul 15, 6pm (door) • $10 EDMONTON INDY • Jul 20-22 MIDSUMMER CELEBRATION • Wye Community Hall, 151 Bailey Estates, hwy 21, Wye Rd • Live music, dance and potluck • Jul 13, 6-10pm • Donation to Food Bank; info: Marie 780.464.2854 MINI SPEC–NIGHT OF THE LIVING SPEC • Stanley A Milner Library, Centennial Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Fundraiser for the Pure Speculation Festival in November, and for Crystal Kids with panels, games, fun contests and silent auction Featuring guests Mike Perschon speaking on Godzille and author Allan Mott • Jul 14, 12:304pm • $10 (door) SHOW AND SHINE • Marketplace at Callingwood • Refurbished and custom cars and boats, plus enjoy many other family-friendly activities in support of the Edmonton Humane Society • Sat, Jul 14, 12:30-4:30pm SOURDOUGH RAFT RACE • Terwilligar Park to Rafter's Landing, down the North Saskatchewan River • sourdoughraftrace.com • Jul 14-15 STREET PERFORMERS FESTIVAL • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • edmontonstreetfest.com • Featuring musicians, jugglers, acrobats, unicyclists–over 1500 outdoor performances. Indoor Late Night Madness performances, daily Troupe du Jour group shows, face-painters, Be Your Own Busker workshops, and Kids’ World activities • Jul 15
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REVUE // WACKY WOODY
To Rome, With Love To make an anagram of the film's titular city, the operative word in Rome is more: more characters, more stories, more goofiness. We got a middle-aged bureaucrat (Roberto Benigni) who wakes up one day to discover that he's a celebrity. He's attacked by paparazzi, is whisked off to a morning show where he describes his breakfast, is given an office of his own and a giraffe in a tight dress who's job detail involves "attending to his needs all day long." We got an unhappily retired novelty opera director (Allen, in his increasingly ridiculous looking oversized chinos) and his psychiatrist wife (Judy Davis) who've come to Rome to visit their daughter (Alison Pill) and the family she's about to marry into, a family whose patriarch is a mortician who sings like Caruso, at least in the shower. But how is Woody going to get him to realize he's a star waiting to be exploited, I mean, discovered? (I can never tell if Woody gives himself the best lines or simply delivers them better than everybody else. While discussing his proletariat-championing son-in-law-to-be, he quips, "I was Left when I was his age too, but I wasn't a communist. I couldn't even share a bathroom." Forbidden love in Rome
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o Rome, With Love begins already in motion, the camera curving around a roundabout until it lands on a statue-like traffic cop who confesses
that he speaks poor English, but is nonetheless eager to introduce us to some of his fellow Romans and their stories. It's a corny bookend device of the sort we've seen in Woody Allen's films before, the sort of throwaway cliché he enjoys employing, hopefully in the service of something more adven-
turous and unexpected. And To Rome, With Love is adventurous, though, more to the point, after more than 40 years and I don't know how many movies, this may be the most unapologetically, deliriously, busily, messily nonsensical Woody Allen comedy ever. It is also frequently very, very funny.
We got a couple of newlywed country bumpkins in the big city for the first time. She gets lost in the streets— for days! He's unexpectedly visited by a prostitute (Penelope Cruz)! His wealthy Roman relatives walk in to his hotel room just as he and the prostitute are entangled on the bed, and in a moment of panic he pretends she's his wife. The false couple are taken on
REVUE // HABEAS POPUS
We Have A Pope Fri, Jul 13 – Thu, Jul 19 Directed by Nanni Moretti Metro Cinema at the Garneau
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o chance of marriage. Systemic sexual abuse. A refusal to ordain women. And, most recently, details of alleged bribes to gain an audience with the Supreme Pontiff—details supposedly leaked by his butler. With the religion's many shortcomings and scandals, it's almost impossible to Holy See a comedy about the Catholic Church as anything short of a viciously dark satire. Yet Nanni Moretti's We Have A Pope (Habemus Papam) seems to rap the faith lightly. The conceit's out of The Sopranos—the psychoanalyst is in where s/he's least expected. Professor Brezzi (Moretti) is summoned to the Vatican by spokesman Marcin Rajski (Jerzy Stuhr) after Cardinal Melville's (Michel
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Piccoli) been surprisingly elected as Pope, but had a panic attack, unable to come to the balcony and address the gathered crowd. Even as Melville slips away from his handlers and wanders through Rome, Brezzi and the cardinals while away their time in Vatican City, unable to leave until the man assumes his heavy new burden. At first, the film sticks, rather charmingly, to Moretti's quietly humorous, observational style: Brezzi advising a cardinal on sleep-medicine, a Vatican volleyball tournament, Melville grabbing a pastry while casually sharing with one of the bakers his latest therapist's diagnosis: "I have a parental deficit." Brezzi, meanwhile, becomes more boyishly enthusiastic as he tries to boost the spirits of the serious old men around him. But the film gradually mixes in more melancholy. The faith's leader becomes
a wayward soul. Hanging around the cast of a Chekhov play, Melville ruefully notes that each has a role they've embraced. And the television news blurs with the expectant crowd beneath that balcony—both the watching media and watching masses merge into one faithful audience of unquestioning followers. To its great credit, just before the credits, We Have A Pope slips away from its droll dramedy and offers a sharp anticlimax—a pointed stab at Catholicism now. First comes a scene of quiet yet brutal bullying. Then the Church is shown to be lost and bewildered, without clear direction and a sense of the Pope as anything more than a theatrical figurehead. The declaration of its title turns out to be the emptiest statement of all. BRIAN GIBSON
// BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
VUEWEEKLY JULY 12 – JULY 18, 2012
But I don't wanna be pope!
a private tour of the Vatican and to a garden party brimming with Rome's bigwigs of business—most of whom are Cruz's clients. (A hooker who gets to hobnob with society: Davis isn't the only thing resurrected from Deconstructing Harry.) We got a young American architectural student (Jesse Eisenberg) enjoying a pleasant life abroad with his girlfriend (Greta Gerwig) until the girlfriend's beguiling actress friend (Ellen Page, excellent as the fille fatale) comes to visit. "There's something attractive about a man who's sensitive to the agonies of existence," she explains en route to a torrid affair with the hapless Eisenberg, who meanwhile receives romantic advice from an elder version of himself (Alec Baldwin, his brooding deadpan perfect for the film's most absurd character). Baldwin's introduced as an apparently normal guy, ie: not a phantom, returning the city where he spent his 20s, yet soon he meets Eisenberg and winds up tagging along on the kid's adventures. Sometimes only Eisenberg can see and hear Baldwin; sometimes others can see and hear him. It's totally inconsistent, ridiculous, and one of the best parts of the movie. What's it all about? Thrills are fleeting, fame is fickle, nostalgia is inherently false, romance is illusory. The usual Woody themes, but delivered with brio by a wonderful cast. Leave the monster truck rally superhero blockbusters to somebody else; this is my idea of silly summer fun. JOSEF BRAUN
// JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM
REVUE // ALLEGORICAL
REVUE // SAVAGELY BAD
Where Do We Go Now?
Savages Now playing Directed by Oliver Stone
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here are scintillating small surprises to be championed and then there are scuzzy little wastes of celluloid to be savaged. Helpfully, Oliver Stone's latest is even called Savages. But that can't prepare you for just how brutally empty this film is. Stone's been in bad form beforeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; World Trade Center was a jingoistic exercise of viewer patienceâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;but he's hit rock-bottom now. Beginning with the tedious tripe of Ophelia's (Blake Lively) voiceover narration ("I have orgasms, he has wargasms") and ending with a pointless narrative flourish, what's in the middle is the even duller plot. Californians Ben (Aaron Johnson) and Chon (Taylor Kitsch) run a mega-million business in THC-rich pot, refuse to work with Mexican traffickers, and end up in a war with them that involves the doubledealings of a DEA agent (John Travolta, offering the only watchable scenes). Headless corpses, blown-out craniums, and tortured, immolated bodies keep piling up, but there's no semblance of trauma or stirred emotions (beyond cold rage or toking token concern) for anyone. The computer- and phone-recorded violence-porn culminates in a replayed rape that's meant
Small tragedies strike an isolated town
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ou must ignore what goes on elsewhere," an imam instructs his congregation sagely. We're in an isolated village in some arid countryâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Lebanon, presumablyâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;where Muslims and Christians live side by side. The Imam's plea for xenophobia springs from a genuine desire for peace: outside of here sectarian violence is tearing the world apart, so why not quarantine ourselves from such unholy corruption? But it's either too late to stop the bad influence or that badness is burned too deep into human nature to suppress. Or at least it seems burned into the nature of men. The village women know better. They're tired of squabbles, tired of needless suf-
fering and death, tired of mourning, and they're going to do something about it. Where Do We Go Now?, director, co-scenarist and star Nadine Labaki's follow-up to her 2007 debut feature Caramel, is a contemporary Middle Eastern spin on Aristophanes' Lysistrata, an uneasy but intermittently appealing hybrid of farce, allegorical drama and musical. There's hi-jinx aplenty, culminating in the women feeding the unknowing men hash cakes and bringing in Russian prostitutes in to belly dance. There's also a smattering of scenes in which fantasy hijacks the narrative and a pair of comely young lovers (one of whom is the very charismatic Labaki) sing to each other of secret longings. And there are intrusions of brutal realities involving the unexploded ordinance that surrounds the village, resulting in small tragedies
that play out to the accompaniment of weepy strings. The net result is, unsurprisingly, a little muddled. Much of the humour is a little too broad, though the actors charged with conveying it are hard not to like. The commentary on tit-for-tat warfare is straightforward enough, but that's a bit of a problem itself: the lack of specificity might be a deliberate tactic for attaining that precarious thing we sometimes call universality, but it also makes the film that much more generalized, less consequential, and soft around the edges. Still, it has its moments of wit, its heart is unmistakably large, its women possess a higher form of sass, and it's endowed with much visual flair. JOSEF BRAUN
// JOSEF@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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â&#x20AC;&#x153;One of the most delightful things about â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;To Rome With Loveâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; is how casually it blends the plausible and the surreal, and how unabashedly it revels in pure silliness.â&#x20AC;? -A.O. Scott, THE NEW YORK TIMES -Peter Travers, ROLLING STONE
â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s hard not to fall under the movieâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spell and indulge in some picturesque escapism.â&#x20AC;? -Claudia Puig, USA TODAY
Ben and Chonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;named thus just to set up the inevitable "Cheech and Chong" lineâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and Ophelia, their lover, can grow pot, but not personalities. Their happy mĂŠnage-a-trois is such a void it becomes the Bermuda Triangle of characterization. Salma Hayek's wasted as a vixenish drug boss; even Benicio del Toro can't make his grinning psycho-thug memorable. The black-and-white shots that Stone tosses in can't relieve the flashy, SoCal bling-bling-video-meets-genericaction-movie feel of all the druggie dealings, which only remind us how complex, character-rich and gripping TV's Breaking Bad is. And then comes the double ending: the first reflects just how violence-celebrating and death-enchanted this entire waste of 130 minutes is while the second is a happy-dopey cop-out. BRIAN GIBSON
// BRIAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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Anne-Dominique Toussaint presents
TO ROME WITH LOVE WRITTEN AND DIRECTED BY WOODY ALLEN
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The Story of Film (Episodes 3 & 4)
Safety Not Guaranteed Opens Friday Directed by Colin Trevorrow
The Story of Film reveals the surrealist influence behind Blue Velvet
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Sun, Jul 15 – Wed, Jul 18 Directed by Mark Cousins Metro Cinema at the Garneau
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he third and fourth episodes of The Story of Film, Mark Cousins' 15-part history of innovation in movies, maps out the peaks of the silent era and chronicles the coming of sound, that cinematic sea change that not only altered how films were made and delivered, but also what films would be about. These episodes also outline the movies' major genres and, of course, those filmmakers whose work would defy generic assignation. In German director FW Murnau's American masterpiece Sunrise (1927) Cousins draws our attention to the climatic sequence in which the lovers glide, their backs to us, through city that transforms into nature and back again, a seamless effect made more special because of its relationship to the characters' subjective experience. Cousins describes how a cherry pit inspired the Odessa steps sequence in Sergei Eisenstein's Battleship Potemkin (1925), in which a baby carriage hurtles along a "world tilted forward." He surveys the parade of glorious surrealist imagery in Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí's Un chien adalou (1929),
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and notes how its influence can be detected in later films such as David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986). He examines the early work of Yasujiro Ozu and juxtaposes the deep humanity of Japan's cinema in the 1930s with the brutality of its political activities. All of these examples of development to some extent anticipate the coming war and the moving image's heightening of our awareness of global atrocity. But for most of us episode three's revelation will arise from Cousins' emphasis on China in the '30s, a thriving industry that among other things gave us Ruan Lingyu, who, despite having commited suicide at the age of 24, was the first major star in history to dazzle audiences with an arrestingly naturalistic performance—decades before the screen debut of Marlon Brando. Episode four's genre rundown is fleet and fun, with Cousins' characterizing an entire century of horror movies by moving from Der Golem (1915) to Frankenstein (1931) to Eyes Without a Face (1960) to Audition (1999). He shifts logically from the gangster genre to the samurai genre. He draws links between the visual effects of Busby Berkeley musicals to Jean Coc-
teau films to Inception (2010). He notes how sound helped feminize comedy, strengthening and complicating its female characters, even while Hollywood was becoming more and more of a boy's club, and one of the great masters of the Hollywood comedy—and nearly every other Hollywood genre—was Howard Hawks. But it is again the outliers who get the last word: Leni Riefenstahl, the Nazi collaborator who also happened to be a genius, Jean Vigo, the most lyrical, personal, inventive and rebellious French filmmaker of the '30s (and maybe of all time) and Mário Peixoto, the Brazilian who made the great, nearly lost silent experimental masterpiece Limite (1930). Cousins also stops to note the emergence of a certain Englishman by the name of Alfred Hitchcock, who, like Hawks, would become both an innovator and a powerful figure Hollywood. Cousins ends episode four with his list of seven reasons why Hitchcock was "the greatest image-maker of the 20th century." Sound like excess praise? Check out this week's installment of The Story of Film and see if you're not convinced. JOSEF BRAUN
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he movie's title, and a substantial part of its premise, comes from an actual classified ad found in a 1997 issue of Backwoods Home, placed by someone who said they invented a time machine and was looking for a travel companion. Some time later a dude named John Silveira claimed he wrote the ad as a way to find a girlfriend. The movie would probably work better if it were also about a guy who just wanted to find a girlfriend, instead of a half-assed melding of romantic comedy and science fiction. Things get rolling when smarmy Seattle staff writer Jeff (Jake Johnson) spots the ad and pitches a follow-up story. The magazine, an alt-weekly with one massive budget for human interest stories—talk about science fiction!—gives Jeff the go-ahead, complete with bottomless per-diems and not one, but two interns. Intern One is Darius (Aubrey Plaza), our heroine, a mopey, wise-cracker. Intern Two is Arnau (Karan Soni), your token South Asian tight-assed computer nerd who can't talk to girls, but surely has a heart of gold. The interns take the gig relatively seriously while Jeff, we quickly realize, contrived the
assignment so he could hook up with an old flame living in Ocean View, the town where Mr Time Travel has his PO box. "Everything cool is gone," bemoans Darius, and indeed, just about everyone in Safety Not Guaranteed is coping with unresolved issues in their past: Jake and his old flame, Darius and the mother she lost to an accident years ago and Kenneth (Mark Duplass), who posted the ad, a lonely kook with a Loverboy haircut and a fake ear, who lives in a dilapidated house in the forest, works at a big box store and likes to play with guns, do dive-rolls and, apparently, build time machines in his spare time. Kenneth has something in his past that he feels bad about too, and the time machine represents his opportunity to set things straight. For a movie about the vagaries of destiny, Colin Trevorrow's directorial debut, written by Derek Connolly, sure feels predictable. The science of time travel is left a total mystery while the coming together of Darius and Kenneth, and the piling on of obstacles plays out as mechanically as clockwork. The ending is especially unconvincing, but at least Plaza and Duplass are likable enough. JOSEF BRAUN
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CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr Jasper 780.852.4749
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) DAILY 1:30, 7:00, 9:10 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:30, 6:40, 9:10
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ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (G) DAILY 7:00, 9:00; SAT-SUN; TUE, THU 1:00, 3:00 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:40, 9:20; SAT-SUN, TUE-THU 1:40 MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) DAILY 6:50 9:05; SAT-SUN, TUE, THU 1:50 TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) DAILY 7:20 9:25; SAT-SUN, TUE, THU 2:10 BRAVE (G) DAILY 7:10, 9:10; SAT-SUN, TUE, THU 2:00
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DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) DAILY 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:15 BATTLESHIP (14A violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 9:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) DAILY 12:50; 3D: DAILY 2:55, 5:00, 7:10, 9:15 THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) DAILY 1:40, 4:35, 7:25, 9:40 THE HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) DAILY 12:50, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05 CHIMPANZEE (G) DAILY 1:15, 3:10, 5:05, 7:00
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED (G) DAILY 12:50; 3D: FRI-WED 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:40; THU 3:20, 10:40 BRAVE (G) FRI-WED 11:50, 2:20, 4:50; THU 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45; 3D: FRI-WED 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; THU 12:30, 3:00 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (G) No passes DAILY 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50; FRI-WED 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; THU 12:10, 2:40, 5:50, 8:20, 10:10 SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:10, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55 TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) FRI-WED 11:55, 2:35, 5:20, 8:05, 10:55; THU 1:00, 3:40, 6:45, 9:15 SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, substance abuse) DAILY 12:35, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00 THE AFRICAN QUEEN (G) Digital Cinema WED 7:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) Reserved Seating, No passes THU 12:05; Ultraavx: THU 12:05 MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) FRI, SUN-THU 11:35, 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35; SAT 2:15, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35 PEOPLE LIKE US (PG coarse language, substance abuse) FRI-WED 7:25, 10:15 WWE MONEY IN THE BANK 2012 (Classification not available) Sun 6:00 BIG (STC) SAT 11:00 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME 3D (PG) FRI-WED 11:45, 2:20, 5:05, 7:30, 10:05; THU 11:45, 2:20, 5:05, 6:45, 9:05 TO ROME WITH LOVE (PG language may offend, not recommended for young children) FRI-SAT, MON-WED 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50; SUN 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35; THU 5:25, 8:10, 10:50; Star & Strollers: THU 1:00 THE DARK KNIGHT MARATHON (STC) No passes THU 6:40
CINEPLEX ODEON WINDERMERE CINEMAS Cineplex Odeon Windermere & Vip Cinemas, 6151 Currents Dr Nw Edmonton 780.822.4250
TAKE THIS WALTZ (18A nudity, sexual content) DAILY 1:45, 4:15, 6:55, 9:35
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, No passes FRI-SUN 12:00, 3:10, 6:50, 10:00; MON-THU 2:30, 6:00, 9:10; VIP 18+: No passes FRI-SUN 12:00, 3:20, 6:50, 10:30; MON-THU 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:30; 3D: ULTRAAVX: FRI-SUN 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30; MONTHU 1:00, 4:10, 7:10, 10:20
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MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:20; MON-THU 12:40
COCKTAIL (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. DAILY 12:55, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00
BRAVE (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:10; MON-THU 1:20; 3D: FRI-SUN 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:20; MON-THU 3:50, 7:20, 10:20
DARK SHADOWS (14A) DAILY 1:35, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50 WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU'RE EXPECTING (PG language may offend) DAILY 1:25, 4:25, 7:30, 9:55
THE FIVE-YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) DAILY 9:10 JATT AND JULIET (PG mature subject matter) Punjabi W/E.S.T. DAILY 1:05, 4:10, 7:35 BOL BACHCHAN (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. DAILY 1:00, 4:20, 7:45
CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, No passes DAILY 12:00, 3:10, 6:15, 9:20; 3D: FRI-SUN 1:30, 4:40, 7:45, 10:50; MON-WED 1:45, 5:00, 8:20; THU 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 11:00; 3D: ULTRAAVX: FRI-WED 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; THU 1:45, 5:00, 8:20
THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE, THU 12:40, 6:30, 9:40; WED 12:40, 9:40 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED (G) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN-THU 1:10, 3:30, 6:10, 8:30; SAT 11:00, 1:10, 3:30, 6:10, 8:30 BRAVE (G) Closed Captioned FRI-WED 12:10, 2:40, 5:10; THU 12:10, 2:40; 3D: FRI, SUN-THU 1:20, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15; SAT 11:20, 1:20, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Closed Captioned, No passes FRI, SUN-THU 11:45, 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:10; SAT 11:00, 11:45, 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:50, 10:10; 3D: DAILY 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10 SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-WED 7:35, 10:25 TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:15, 2:45, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40 SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 10:15 THE AFRICAN QUEEN (G) Digital Cinema WED 7:00 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) Reserved Seating, No passes THU 12:02, 12:03; ULTRAAVX: THU 12:01 MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:40, 4:35, 7:20, 10:00 SAFETY NOT GUARANTEED (14A coarse language) FRI-TUE, THU 2:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:30; WED 4:20, 7:15, 9:30; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00 PEOPLE LIKE US (PG coarse language, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 3:40 BIG (STC) SAT 11:00 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME 3D (PG) DAILY 1:50, 4:10, 6:40, 9:00 THE DARK KNIGHT MARATHON (STC) No passes THU 6:40
CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes FRI-TUE, THU 11:35, 12:15, 2:45, 3:25, 5:55, 6:30, 9:05, 9:40; WED 11:35, 12:15, 2:45, 3:25, 5:55, 6:45, 9:05, 9:40; 3D: No passes FRI-WED 12:55, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20; THU 11:55, 3:00, 6:10, 7:50, 9:20, 11:00; 3D: ULTRAAVX: FRI-WED 1:30, 4:40, 7:50, 11:00; THU 12:45, 3:45 THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) FRI-SAT, MON-TUE, THU 12:05, 3:30, 7:05, 10:25; SUN 12:00, 9:45; WED 12:05, 3:30, 10:25
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Closed Captioned, No passes FRI-SUN 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10; MONTHU 1:10, 3:30, 6:50, 10:10; 3D: FRI-SUN 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40; MON-THU 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50 TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:40, 3:30, 7:00, 9:50; MON-THU 12:40, 3:30, 7:00, 9:40; VIP 18+: DAILY 2:00, 5:45, 9:15 MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) Closed Captioned FRI-SUN 12:50, 3:50, 6:40, 9:30; MON-THU 12:50, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20; VIP 18+ : DAILY 1:00, 4:30, 8:15 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME 3D (PG) DAILY 3:20, 6:30, 9:00
CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave 780.421.7020
Digital DAILY 1:00, 4:10, 8:10; 3D: Digital 3d DAILY 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30
KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) Digital Presentation DAILY 1:45; 3D: DAILY 4:20, 7:00, 9:20 SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, substance abuse) Digital Presentation, No passes FRI-SUN 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35; Digital Presentation MON-THU 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:35 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Digital Presentation, No passes DAILY 1:50, 4:20, 7:05, 9:25; 3D: Digital 3d DAILY 1:20, 3:50, 6:40, 9:00 THE DARK KNIGHT MARATHON (STC) Digital Presentation, No passes THU 6:15 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) Digital Presentation, No passes, Midnight THU 12:01
EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave
ROMANCE ON THE HIGH SEAS (PG) 1948, colour; MON 8:00
GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, No passes DAILY 12:45, 3:50, 6:55, 10:00; 3D: DAILY 1:15, 4:20, 7:25, 10:30 MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED (G) Closed Captioned DAILY 11:50, 2:10, 4:30, 6:50, 9:20 BRAVE (G) Closed Captioned DAILY 2:20, 4:55; 3D: DAILY 11:45, 7:30, 10:05 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Closed Captioned, No passes DAILY 12:00, 2:25, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; 3D: DAILY 12:30, 2:55, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:25 SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:50, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Digital Presentation DAILY 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 9:40 PEOPLE LIKE US (PG coarse language, substance abuse) Digital Presentation FRI-WED 9:15 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children)
BRAVE (G) Closed Captioned FRI-SAT, MON-WED 12:15, 2:45, 5:15; SUN 12:15, 2:45; THU 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 8:10, 10:40; 3D: FRI-WED 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40; THU 12:40, 3:10 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Closed Captioned, No passes DAILY 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; 3D: DAILY 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10 PROMETHEUS (14A gory scenes, disturbing content) FRI-SAT, MON-WED 7:50, 10:50; Sun 10:50 TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE, THU 12:30, 3:00, 5:40, 8:15, 10:50; WED 5:40, 8:15, 10:50; Star & Strollers: WED 1:00
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES : THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A violence) No passes THU 12:01 THE DARK KNIGHT MARATHON (STC) No passes THU 6:40
WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) DAILY 1:05, 3:40, 7:05, 9:40 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) 2D: DAILY 1:10; TUE 7:10; 3D: DAILY 3:30, 7:10, 9:30 MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) DAILY 1:00, 3:35, 7:00, 9:35 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) 2D: DAILY 12:55; TUE 12:55, 6:55; 3D: FRI-MON, WEDTHU 3:45, 6:55, 9:45
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE’S MOST WANTED (G) DAILY 2:55 BRAVE (G) DAILY 1:05, 3:05, 5:00, 7:05, 9:10 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) No passes DAILY 1:00, 3:00, 4:55, 6:55, 8:50 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes DAILY 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:15
LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc 780.986-2728
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) DAILY 2D: 1:10; 3D: DAILY 3:30, 7:10; 3D: DAILY 9:30; 2D: TUE 7:10; 3D: TUE 9:30
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) 2D: TUE-THU 12:50; 3D: TUE-THU 3:45; 3D: WED-THU 6:55, 9:45; 2D: TUE 6:55; 3D: TUE 9:45
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JASON LIVES: FRIDAY THE 13TH–PART V (STC) DedFest: FRI 11:30
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) Digital Presentation DAILY 1:25, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED (G) DAILY 12:50; 3D: FRI-TUE 3:15, 5:30, 8:00, 10:20; WED 3:15, 10:20; THU 3:15, 5:30, 8:00
KATY PERRY: PART OF ME 3D (PG) DAILY 12:30, 3:00, 5:20, 7:45, 10:10
KATY PERRY: PART OF ME 3D (PG) No passes DAILY 12:55, 4:45, 6:45
TO ROME WITH LOVE (PG language may offend, not recommended for young children) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-TUE 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:25; WED 1:15, 4:15, 7:35, 10:25; THU 1:35, 4:40, 7:35, 10:25
BRAVE (G) Digital DAILY 1:10; 3D: DAILY 3:40, 6:45, 9:10
THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:10, 7:00
WWE MONEY IN THE BANK 2012 (Classification not available) SUN 6:00
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) DAILY 8:45
MARINA ABRAMOVIC: THE ARTIST IS PRESENT (14A nudity, violence) AGA: FRI, SUN, TUE 9:00; SAT, THU 7:00
4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600
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THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes DAILY 12:15, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50; 3D: Ultraavx: FRI-WED 1:30, 4:30, 7:50, 11:00; THU 1:30, 4:30, 7:50; 3D: THU 11:00
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) No passes DAILY 12:50, 2:50, 5:00, 7:15, 9:25
KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) Closed Captioned, Digital 3d Reald 3d, FRI-TUE 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:15; WED 1:45, 4:45, 10:15; THU 12:35, 3:15
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED (G) Digital FRI-WED 12:45, 3:20, 6:35; THU 12:45, 3:20
SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN: AN IMAX 3D EXPERIENCE (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes FRI-WED 1:00, 4:10, 7:20, 10:30
Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave St Albert 780.458.9822
WE HAVE A POPE (PG coarse language) FRI, TUE 7:00; SAT 4:00, 9:15; SUN 2:00, 7:00; MON 9:30; WED-THU 9:15
CLAREVIEW 10
IN THE FAMILY (PG) SAT-SUN 3:00
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:20, 3:10, 5:50, 8:30, 11:00
GRANDIN THEATRE–ST ALBERT
SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, substance abuse) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital, No passes DAILY 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 10:10
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Midnight, No passes THU 11:59
WHERE DO WE GO NOW (PG coarse language, substance abuse) FRI 7:00, 9:00; SAT-SUN 1:00, 7:00, 9:00; MON-THU 7:00, 9:00
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) Reserved Seating, No passes THU 12:05; ULTRAAVX: THU 12:01
KATY PERRY: PART OF ME 3D (PG) DAILY 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:05, 9:30
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) DAILY 1:00, 3:35, 7:00, 9:35
THE DARK KNIGHT MARATHON (STC) Digital, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, Midnight, No passes THU 6:15
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG coarse language) FRI 6:50, 9:10; SAT-SUN 2:00, 6:50, 9:10; MONTHU 6:50, 9:10
MEN IN BLACK 3 (PG violence) Closed Captioned Fri-WED 4:15, 10:20; THU 4:15
BIG (STC) SAT 11:00
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI-TUE, THU 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:30; WED 1:35, 4:35, 7:20, 10:30
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (G) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes Reald 3d, DAILY 1:10, 4:10, 7:05, 9:45
10337 Whyte Ave 780.433.0728
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 11:55, 2:30, 5:05, 7:40, 10:20
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) DAILY 1:05, 3:40, 7:05, 9:40
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) Closed Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital DAILY 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50
PRINCESS
SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) No passes THU 12:01
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes FRI-WED 12:30, 3:40, 6:50, 10:00; THU 12:40; 3D: Dolby Stereo Digital: DAILY 12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20
BRAVE (G) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital FRI-WED 12:40; THU 12:30; 3D: DTS Digital DAILY 3:50, 6:40, 9:40
6:20, 8:50
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A violence) Closed Captioned THU 12:00
THE STORY OF FILM; AN ODYSSEY–PARTS 3 & 4 (STC) SUN 4:30; WED 7:00 BULLY (PG mature subject matter, coarse language) Free, Edmonton Youth Council: MON 7:00
EMPIRE THEATRES–SPRUCE GROVE 130 Century Crossing Spruce Grove 780.962.2332
SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:10, 3:00, 6:40, 9:40 KATY PERRY: PART OF ME (PG) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:30, 3:30, 6:50, 9:20 BRAVE (G) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:20; 3D: Reald 3d DAILY 2:50, 6:45, 9:10 THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, Reald 3d DAILY 12:00, 3:10, 6:30, 9:30 MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:40, 3:20, 6:15, 9:00 TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 9:45 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:50; 3D: Reald 3d DAILY 3:40,
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ARTS
COVER // GRIDLOCKED POLITICS
The writing on the wall The impasse between street artists and the law points to a necessary discussion
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little under a month ago, the EdBusiness Association in the past; pubwith wider audiences. appreciate seeing art on these types of who use it for free. No buff required, monton Police Service arrived at lic acceptance of the art form as an art Still, under unflinching laws and limobjects. I also believe that it's a public and will even save Capital City Clean The Paint Spot's Naess Gallery with form is in the midst of enjoying a long ited legitimate alternative opportunispace and that the public shouldn't be Up a few bucks in the end." a warrant to strip the art from the crest upwards. ties, where do graffiti artists go? How forced to look at something that they Of course, unsolicited art on public walls. But unsolicited art is still unsolicited, does the art form grow in a city when don't want to. This includes advertisand private walls will remain illegal. The just-opening exhibit was by no matter the subjective assessment legitimate options for street artists ing. This is why I stress the non-permaAnd even if there was an increase in street artist DP (short for Daft Punk), of its quality, and the bylaws that fine are limited to a paltry number of freenence of my work and use materials the number of freewalls, some would and as quick as it had gone up, the those who pick a public place as their walls—blank wallspace where artists like stickers and magnets." still paint on the streets. The Bandit exhibit was packed away, computers canvas are there with purpose: to try can do art—and nothing else? The His efforts have increasingly driven admits to a certain defiance inherent in searched and DP's contract with the and protect people from what they Edmonton Art Council's encouraged a wedge between vandalism and the idea of street art as being one of gallery taken. The warrant was served don't want to have on their property the city for more freewall space, but street art: back in the spring, The the form's draws. But more than ever, to investigate a case against the artist (especially since, as part of those bythere's just one official graffiti zone Bandit organized an easter egg hunt. the conversation about separating for alleged earlier, outstanding vanlaws, owners of graffiti-tagged build(and one unofficial one). Announced over Twitter and the the street art from the vandalism and dalism offenses. ings have to foot the clean-up bill for "I would rather see a quirky little art Foundmonton blog, more than 100 damage is an important one to have in It's a happening that underscores unwanted public art. They can also piece than have an ugly, half-painted fist-sized Bandit magnets were hidthe city—not just to talk about having the difficult state of impasse that the be fined if it isn't cleaned up with 14 neglected wall," Fjordbotten states. den along Whyte Ave and the Old these talks, actually having them— street art com"Nobody wants Strathcona area, for whomever to find with freewalls, the less-permanent It is a grey area, and law can't deal with grey area. munity finds itthose. As a busiand claim—quite literally found art, methods of artists like The Bandit, self in: although When it becomes a subjective opinion of, 'If it's ness owner, I'd finders keepers. And both The Bandit and DP's tilt towards gallery showings, public opinion rather fight against and DP's Paint Spot shows are raising good art it can stay there, if it's not good take it pointing to a way to make street art of the style has billboards and money for the charity Kids with Canpublic without the costly cleanup. away', or, 'It's OK to be here, but it can't be there,' improved sigsandwich boards cer (after DP's work was seized, other "There is rebelliousness inherent in the law can't deal with that." nificantly in the than rubbing out local artists donated works to fill the street art," The Bandit says. "That is past decade or street art. Howwalls). The emphasis is on a positive what makes it so important, so excitso to the point where some can condays, even if they don't actually mind ever, it is a grey area, and law can't contribution to the city. ing, so engaging. It's expressing yoursider going the gallery route, the law it.) The politics of street art are in a deal with grey area. When it becomes "This is the kind of community that self and your ideas in a very public remains static towards street artists gridlock. a subjective opinion of, 'If it's good art I'm trying to create. I see myself as and open forum. In certain cases, like and the cultural rebelliousness of doit can stay there, if it's not good take the conscious of Edmonton's street the one in our city, it opens up a very ing art wherever they will. The city of Although street art's evolution as a it away', or, 'It's OK to be here, but it art community and I try to lead by powerful dialogue that, in our particuEdmonton has a sizeable anti-graffiti style has drawn it away from earlier can't be there,' the law can't deal with example," says The Bandit. "I am conlar case, I don't think that the powers push going for it—Google "wipe out stigmas of attachments to violence that." fused by the hypocrisy of the City of that be really want to hear. This city graffiti" and Edmonton's program is and gangs, in some eyes, those conthe Arts having the most grey walls of is desperately trying to make any kind link number two—but even in DP's nections still linger: the Edmonton PoPerhaps in response to that ambiany metropolis that I have ever seen. of artistic expression in the streets gallery case, it's a damned-if-you-did lice Service's website, pulling its defiguity, some street artists are finding I'm trying to engage our city and do look criminal. Through organizations message to the artists who work in nition of graffiti from Webster, defines ways of releasing public art that's just street art in a way that is acceptable like Capital City Cleanup and by acts the style: if street artists try to move it as "'An inscription, slogan, drawing, as visible but doesn't leave expensive to our current social and political clilike penalizing property owners with towards more legal channels for exetc, scratched, scribbled, or drawn, ofdamage. mate." unsanctioned art on their walls our hibiting their work, those whose early ten crudely, on a wall or other public Alongside DP's exhibit was a likecity is making it very clear that only pieces graced street corners and wall surface.'" The EPS further frame that minded showcase the art that There is rebelliousness inherent in street art. space find themselves facing steep definition with, "It will always carry of the works of The they sanction That is what makes it so important, so exciting, so fines. the name of the gang and sometimes Bandit, whose iconand that they engaging. It's expressing yourself and your ideas "There are a lot of really good artthe street name or "moniker" of the ic balaclava-wearcommission has in a very public and open forum. In certain cases, ists who are on the cusp of wanting to person who wrote the graffiti. [...] ing image has likely any value to Edcome up and having shows and being It is not necessary for citizens to be replaced the Listen like the one in our city, it opens up a very powerful monton's inherpaid for their art," says Kim Fjordbotable to decipher the exact meaning of Bird as our city's ent culture and dialogue that, in our particular case, I don't think ten, owner of The Paint Spot. "But graffiti, but it is important that they most recognizable esthetic. That's that the powers that be really want to hear. [they] can't go mainstream because at recognize it as gang-related and take regular street imwhy I've never some point in life, all these artists did steps to notify the police." age. (His exhibit broken any laws public art that will get fined." The implication that graffiti is alwent untouched by police.) Fjordbotten hopes that the exposure through my expression. I want to She notes the police officers who ways tethered to gang culture seems, The Bandit's solution to the gridlock to the seizing of DP's art show will lead show this city how important street seized the art were admiring the at best, archaic. Unsolicited street art politics of street art has been to create to an increase in such a discussion. In a art is to our culture and that it can be works as they packed them up (also, has its vandal costs, of course, and a non-permanent works. Pieces that, in statement made after his works were done in a conscientious and courtethat any of the DP pieces that had alcertain portion of it is indeed tied to some cases, you can take with you: his seized, DP emphasized the need to ous way. I think that if the art is good ready been purchased can be collectcrime, but it's false to imply that every tools are stickers and wheatpaste and start seriously discussing increasing that it will speak for itself and that it ed from the EPS when they've finished unsanctioned piece of work going up magnets. He doesn't damage property the number of freewalls in Edmonton. doesn't necessarily have to break any their investigation). For a long time on city walls has such a connection. with spray paint, and in an email inHe noted that he's open to discussing laws to be important and to seem now, the question hasn't been whethBy pushing the esthetic and quality terview, The Bandit defines the public paying the fines he owes, and asked dangerous. Bandit really is tailormade er or not street art is an artistically upwards, the street artists are steering spaces he chooses as, "The public propthe cost of a freewall in hopes of befor the City of Edmonton, the City of valid form of expression: from the street art away from that. Twitter's beerty that is grey and dirty and sterile. ginning a fundraising campaign. Champions, the City of the Arts. Banobvious cultural torchbearer, Banksy, come a method of local street artists Ugly grey power boxes, giant rusted "By giving freewalls to our commudit is funny and dangerous and cheeky to lesser-known artists splashing imcommunicating with fans and each othpoles that house corporate advertising nity, we are giving artists young and and adorable all in one breath. Bandit age and text on the walls of public er while preserving anonymity, building that we are forced to be inundated with old a place to develop their skills and is really trying to speak to this city and spaces, graffiti art characterizes and positive communities around the form on a daily basis, and who could forget challenge their imaginations," goes show them how viable and beautiful defines some cities just as clearly as without giving up their identities. And those ugly grey cement blockades that part of the statement. "Murals are and necessary street art is and can be iconic architecture does. Fjordbotten local blog Foundmonton collects and are everywhere. These things are cold a nice gesture, but a freewall is just in our society." PAUL BLINOV notes that DP's stencil work has been records the locations of street art, not and mean and could use a little warmthat, it’s FREE. It evolves, transforms // PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM commissioned by the Old Strathcona for removal, but to index and share it ing up, a little art. I believe that people and is constantly maintained by those
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PREVUE // CEILIDH TIME
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rab your kilts and get ready for two days of Scottish and Celtic culture. The familyfriendly annual Celtic Gathering brings together tradition through entertainment, demonstrations and not to mention, tons of food and beer, including free haggis sampling for those brave enough to try the dish. "That's what we do here at the park, is that we honour heritage and we're always trying to share that with people. This is another way we can do that," says Charlene Roche, special events coordinator for Fort Edmonton Park. Visitors can take in pipe bands and drumming competitions as part of the Northern Canadian Pipe Band Championships. Not pictured: kilts, most likely
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"It's a very dynamic time at the park and lots of music for your ears," Roche adds. Sports fans can take in the feats of strength displayed by participants in Heavy Games. Competitors will go head-to-head in rounds of caber tossing and hammer throws. Traditional Scottish and Celtic dancers will also hit the stage for demonstrations and performances over the two-day festival. On Saturday night, it's time to party with a Ceilidh (pronounced kay-lee). The event is ticketed separately from the Celtic Gathering and is 18-plus only. Roche says it promises to be an entertaining evening filled with singing, dancing and storytelling accompanied by entertainment from the band Celtic Fusion. MEAGHAN BAXTER
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REVUE // MIDLIFE CRISIS
Nine
Until Sat, Jul 14 (8 pm) Directed by Kristen Finlay Walterdale Playhouse $14 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $18
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alterdale Playhouse's 2011/2012 season ends with a bang with its production of Nine. The acclaimed Broadway musical follows famous Italian film director Guido Contini (Cory Christensen) as he stares down the barrel of a midlife crisis and a marriage that is falling apart thanks to his career. When he heads out on a holiday to a spa with his wife Luisa (Kristin Johnston) in an attempt to remedy their marriage, he begins a journey of self-exploration through memories and dreams as he tries to make his next great masterpiece. This weaving of reality, dreams and memory introduces the audience to Contini's mistress, Carla Albanese (Erika Noot), who loves Contini despite being married herself and wants more than the physicality that is the
foundation of their relationship, and Claudia Nardi (Nadine Veroba), Contini's muse, who wants him to see her for the person she is, not just his inspiration. The switches are accentuated by complimenting light effects, which aide the transition, but the plot still requires viewers to pay attention closely if they want to keep up. The rest of the set is made up of soft-hued film strips and reels, with three stripper poles used to spice up a couple of the musical numbers, including "A Call from the Vatican." Noot demonstrates some impressive pole work, which requires her to belt a high note in a less-than-upright position at its finale. She captures Carla's sensual nature without crossing the line into sleaze and is an easily likeable and relatable character through her own heartaches with Contini.
throughout. When he's with each one, she's the only person that matters. He truly loves his wife, whose gamut of emotions is navigatedwith ease by Johnston, but needs the companionship of Carla and inspiration from Claudia, who Veroba portrays with an ethereal elegance befitting of her movie
star status. The music is truly what has made the story such a success, and the Walterdale cast pulls of demanding choreography and vocals effortlessly with the accompaniment of a live instrumental quartet. On top of high-energy musical numbers and an intricate plot, the cast
was required to take the Italian aspect one step further with accents, which can be tricky territory. However, each cast member pulled off every rolling "R" and nuance as if it were second nature. MEAGHAN BAXTER
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Christensen's chemistry with each of the women feels genuine
One of the women in Guido Contini's life
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DANCE FEATS–FESTIVAL OF DANCE • Westbury
Theatre in the TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave, 780.422.8107 • MADE IN ALBERTA: Showcase; Jul 13, 8pm; $15 at TIX on the Square • FRESH FEATS: From the next generation of Albertan dancers; Jul 14, 8pm; $15 at TIX on the Square
VINOK WORLDANCE–Klondike Kapers • Chateau Louis Hotel, 11727 Kingsway • A look back to the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s. An outdoor gourmet barbecue in Chateau Louis’s palatial courtyard • Jul 18 • $75 at TIX on the Square
FILM BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • The Bailey
Theatre Classic Movie Series: Black Beauty (1994, G); Jul 16, 7pm; $5 (door) • Fight Club (R): Jul 23, 7pm; $5 (door)
EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta
Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • Romance On The High Seas (PG); Jul 16, 8pm • Mad About Music (PG); Jul 23, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/student)/$3 (child) FILM FORUM • Stanley A. Milner Library • Series of film screenings followed by facilitated discussions. Join us this summer for another round of intriguing films and guest speakers • Edmonton Room: Barton Fink, 14A; Jul 14, 1:30pm
FROM BOOKS TO FILM SERIES • Stanley
A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm, 780.944.5383 • Coraline (2009, PG); Jul 13, 2pm • The Golden Compass (2007, PG); Jul 20, 2pm
tries; Jul 14-Sep 29 • TrAnSlATiOnS: Jane Kidd's recent tapestry work; Jul 14-Sep 29; reception: Jul 14, 2-4pm • neGOTiATinG TrAdiTiOn: Five approaches in contemporary tapestry; Jul 14-Sep 29; reception: Jul 14, 2-4pm • SHiFT: A TrAnSFOrMATive STATe OF Mind: Works by senior students and graduates from the 2012 ACAD Jewellery and Metals Program; Jul 14-Sep 29; reception: Jul 14, 2-4pm
CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.9573 • BOWlS: An Artful Study of a Simple Form • Until Jul 31
Artist-in-Residence program is proud to extend Paul Lavellee’s term. Visit him every Friday (12-6) and Sat (12-5); until Aug 18
DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St,
ALBERTA SOCIETY OF ARTISTS • Walterdale
DaffoDil Gallery • Off-Whyte: ArtWalk
HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • SYMBiOSiS: 24th Annual Members’ Exhibition; until Jul 21 • Illuminate: Free event with different workshops and events at each of the locations at Harcourt House, SNAP, FAVA, Nina Haggerty. Ends with an after party at Harcourt (6-10pm); Jul 21
Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave, 780.426.0072 • nine: Artworks by Ross Bradley, Verne Busby, Carney Oudendag, Jean Richards, Barbara Shore and Glenys Switzer; an exploration of the imagery and themes in Fredrico Fillini's films • Until Jul 14; runs in conjunction with Walterdale's production, nine; and on Jul 14, 10am-3pm
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • Alex JAnvier: liFe'S WOrk: until Aug 19 • BMO Work of Creativity: MeTHOd And MAdneSS: Interactive exhibition by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • lOUiSe BOUrGeOiS 1911-2010; until Sep 23 • 7 YeArS in THe CiTY: Artworks from the AGA Collection; until Sep 30 • THe AUTOMATiSTe revOlUTiOn: MOnTreAl 1941-1960: Until Oct 14 • ABSenCe/ preSenCe: Catherine Burgess; Jul 14-Oct 14 • BeHind THiS lieS MY TrUe deSire FOr YOU: Mark Clintberg; Jul 14-Dec 30 • Tuesdays on the Terrace: Every Tue, 4-8pm, Jul and Aug; AGA admission includes art-inspired cocktail from ZINC Restaurant, live musical stylings on the 3rd fl terrace • One Evening/Two Artists: More art, more insight; Conversation with the Artists: Mark Clintberg: Behind this lies my true desire for you, 6pm; Catherine Burgess: Absence/presence, 7pm; BGQ on the Terrace, 7:30pm; Jul 13; free with gallery admission ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • WHAT kind OF An AniMAl AM i?: Bekk Wells' textile based installations wittily examine the relationship between human culture and the rest of the world; until Jul 28 • WHAT kind OF AniMAl AM i?: Artworks by Bekk Wells; until Jul 28 • SqUAre One: Fundraiser and exhibition; until Aug 9 • ARTernative: For teens; Get Drawn In: Jul 19, 6-8pm;: $5 • Artventures: Drop-in art for children aged 6-12: Animal Finger Puppets: Jul 21, 1-4pm; $5 ART WALK–Whyte Ave • Along Whyte Ave
780.760.1278 • SOMeWHere in THe HillS: Abstract impressionist landscapes by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky • Until Jul 19 • Reception: Jul 12, 5-8pm Holdover showing a variety of artworks from the Whyte Avenue Art Walk. Includes a peoples choice selection • Jul 21-31
ENTERPRISE SQUARE GALLERY • 10230 Jasper Ave • SAM STeele: THe JOUrneY OF A CAnAdiAn HerO: Experience the untold story of Sam Steele, Canadian leader and hero. Records of his life unseen until repatriation in 2008. An exhibition over three years in the making • Until Sep 30 • $7 (adult)/$5 (child/student/senior)/$20 (family) • Street Performers Festival Special Daily tours; until Jul 15, 12:30pm with admission • Catch The Klondike Crooks: Scavenger hunt for the young and the young at heart; Jul 20 EXTENSION GALLERY–ATRIUM • Enterprise
Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave • WHere We STAnd: Artworks by Boyle Street Commnity Services' artist and artist in residence Anna Gaby-Trotz • Until Sep 5
FAB GALLERY • Department of Art and Design,
U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg, 780.492.2081 • qUOTATiOnAliSM exHiBiTiOn: Work that questions, meditates on and reworks the problem of visual quotation. A response to and redefinition of objects from the U of A's Mactaggart Art Collection to compliment the exhibit China's imperial Modern: The painter's Craft, at TELUS Centre, Gallery A. Guest curators: Lisa Claypool and Maria Whiteman • Until Jul 14
FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • SUMMer SAlOn: Group show • Through Jul-Aug
JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY • Strathcona Place
STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501
KEHRIG FINE ART • Great West Saddlery Building, 10137-104 St, 780.619.0818 • SilenT BeAUTY: Artworks by Blake Ward, William Prettie and more • Wine and cheese reception: Jul 12, 6-8pm
TELUS CENTRE • U of A Museums, Gallery
Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 780.433.5807 • FOr THe lOve OF nATUre: Paintings by Teresa Stieben • Until Jul 25
KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer
Public Library • FlOWer SCApeS: Works by Elaine Tweedy • Until Aug 19
LATITUDE 53 • 10248-106 St, 780.423.5353 • Main Space: i HAve THiS dreAM: An exploration of contemporary surrealism works by Turner Prize ( Jason Cawood, Blair Fornwald, and John G. Hampton), Craig Francis Power, curated by Todd Janes • Until Aug 4 • Rooftop Patio Series: Art, food, sunshine, cocktails and camaraderie: guest patio host: CityTV on Jul 12; Coup Boutique and Barber Ha on Jul 19 • Incubator Artists: Dana Holst: until Jul 14; Perry Medina; Jul 16-21
A, Main Fl, 87 Ave, 111 St, 780.492.5834 • Open: Thu-Fri 12-5pm; Sat 2-5pm • CHinA'S iMperiAl MOdern: THe pAinTer'S CrAFT: Curated by Lisa Claypool • Until Jul 14
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211-142 St, 780.452.9100 • IMAX: Hubble: Through the summer • rOBOTS–THe inTerACTive exHiBiTiOn: Until Sep 9 U OF A MUSEUMS–TELUS Centre • Gallery
A, Main Fl, 87 Ave, 111 St, U of A, 780.492.5834 • CHinA'S iMperiAl MOdern: THe pAinTer'S CrAFT • Until Jul 14; Thu-Fri, 12-5pm, Sat 2-5pm
VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St,
780.421.1731 • COMinG OF AGe: THe GrAdUATeS: Artworks by 10 graduating artists from five different communities in Alberta. 2D, 3D and video/ installation works; until Jul 21 • COlOUr COnSpirACY: Exhibition by the Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta; Jul 19-Aug 11; reception: Jul 21, 1-3pm
GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St,
MICHIF CULTURAL AND MÉTIS RESOURCE INSTITUTE • 9 Mission Ave, St Albert, 780.651.8176
FROM BOOKS TO FILM SERIES • Stanley A.
ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-
GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library
Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • WHere i live: Pinhole photos by Wenda Salomons • Until Jul 31
HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104 Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Open Door: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month, 7 am • Comics
• Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing
LITERARY Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • Coraline (2009, PG); Jul 13, 2pm
HAPPY HARBOUR COMICS • 10729-104 Ave • Book launch for Minister Faust's new book War & Mir, volume i: Ascension • Jul 18, 7:30pm
MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony
HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB • 15120 Stony Plain Rd, 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: writers share their original, 5-minute stories; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month: • Jul 18, 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm (show) • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society)
Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing
MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5
St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Artifacts dating back 5,000 years • in FOCUS: Photographing the Alberta and Montana Frontier, 1870-1930; Blood, Blackfoot, Northwest Mounted Police and ranching artifacts from the Royal Alberta Museum and Musée Héritage Museum will be featured with the photographs • Until Aug 19
NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave,
780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • explOrinG lAndSCApeS: Oil landscape paintings by Greg Doherty • Until Jul 31 • Reception: Jul 21, 2-4pm
NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery •
9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • A TAle OF TWO CiTieS: Collaboration between Edmonton's Nina Haggerty artists and Calgary's Arts and Studio C • Jul 12-Aug 3 • 100th Exhibition celebration/opening: Jul 12, 5-7pm with live music • Illuminate: at Harcourt House, SNAP, FAVA, Nina Haggerty • Free event with different workshops and events at each of the locations ending with the after party at Harcourt (6-10pm); Jul 21
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • SUMMer GrOUp SHOWS: New artworks by gallery artists; through to Aug
PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Rd, 780.427.1750 • We SiMplY TUrned TO THe WOMen: 100 YeArS OF THe CATHOliC WOMen'S leAGUe, Edmonton Archdiocese 19122012 • Until Aug 31 ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102
Ave, 780.453.9100 • Maskwacîs (Bear Hills); until Sep 3 • WinGed TApeSTrieS: MOTHS AT lArGe: until Sep 3 • FASHiOninG FeATHerS: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; curated by Merle Patchett and Liz Gomez, show examines the effect of fashion's demand for beautiful feathers on bird populations at the beginning of the twentieth century; until Jan 6 • WOlF TO WOOF: until Sep 16 • THe ArT OF SeATinG: Two Hundred Years of American Design: until Oct 6 • THe TSArS' CABineT: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs: Oct 6-Jan 2 • Behind-the-Scenes Tours: Behind-the-Scenes Tours of the Western Canadian History Collection: French language tour: Domestic Collection: Fine and Decorative Arts Collection: Jul 4, 2-3:30pm; Medical Collection: Fine and Decorative Arts Collection: Jul 3, 5-6, 10:30am-12; Tours for age 12+; walking and standing for 90 mins; Pre-register: T: Cathy Roy 780.453.9123; E: cathy.roy@gov.ab.ca
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780.488.4892 • Group show • Through the summer
MILDWOOD GALLERY • 426, 6655-178 St • Mel
Plain, 780.963.9935 • Fabric hangings by Rachelle Le Blanc; Jul 14-Aug 15; opening reception: Jul 15 • Paintings by Detra Powney; Aug 17-Sep 19; opening reception: Sun, Sep 9
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• 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park, 780.410.8585 • WiTneSS: Recent works by Sherri Chaba and Lyndal Osborne • Until Aug 19
WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave,
BLUE CURVE GALLERY • Glenrose Rehabilita-
Artworks by Elaine Berglund, Claire Chauvet, Valerie Solash, Danielle Morency; until Jul 17 • ART BY YveTTe MOrin: To honor the 10th anniversary of her passing; Jul 20-Aug 14; reception: Jul 20, 7-8:30pm
Deer • 403.340.4869 • ArT FrOM THe inSide: Works by Wanda Cassidy • Until Jul 31
MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • neW TerrAin: lAndSCApeS in pASTel: Works by David Shkolny, Judy Martin, and Catharine Compston; until Aug 26
TériTé: Featuring the ART 5 Group (Diane Plasse, Doris Charest, Stephen Fouquet, Shoko César and Yves Caron) • Until Jul 25
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS
CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • HArMOnY:
HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red
SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • lOCATinG SpiriTUAliTY/FrOM OBJeCTS TO iCOnS: SNAP opens ups its archives for a show curated by Tess Hawkins; until Aug 8 • Gallery: Artists Book Competition; Jul 14-Aug 11; opening reception: Jul 14 • Illuminate: Free event with different workshops and events at each of the locations at Harcourt House, SNAP, FAVA, Nina Haggerty. Ends with an after party at Harcourt (6-10pm); Jul 21
MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY–Red Deer • Kerry Wood Nature Centre • inSeCT pOrTrAiTS: Artworks by Charity Briere • Until Jul 27
St Albert, 780.459.2525 • SOnGS OF innOCenCe: Paintings based on the writings of William Blake by Father Douglas • Jul 27-Aug 29 • Reception: Thu, Aug 2, 6:30-8pm; part of the St Albert Art Walk
tion Hospital, 10230-111 Ave • reFleCTiviTY: Artworks by William G. Prettie • Until Aug 30
works Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • liTTle TO WiSH FOr: Installation by Alysse Bowd; Until Jul 28
• JUlY GrOUp SHOW: Artworks by: Arlene Wasylynchuk (recent winner of the Foote Prize for Visual Arts), Douglas Haynes, Gerald Faulder and Peter Hide (all featured in the AGA's new exhibition "7 Years In The City"). Featuring other Scott Gallery artists • Until Jul 20
GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Al-
between 100 St to 108 St • art-walk.ca/map • Outdoor studio and gallery featuring working artists • Jul 13-15
106 St, 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: COMinG Up nexT: ACC exhibition of contemporary fine craft by emerging artists; until Jul 28 • Feature Gallery: SHiFT: a transformative state of mind: Artwork by the ACAD fourth year metal program students • neGOTiATinG TrAdiTiOnS: Different approaches to tapestry by former students of Jane Kidd • TrAnSlATiOnS: Jane Kidd'S recent tapes-
HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • Sun-
SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619
RIVERDALE • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 •
Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets
WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors
THEATRE CHIMPROV • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member, door only) EDMONTON INTERNATIONAL STREET PERFORMERS FESTIVAL • Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.425.5162 • Outdoor performances by an international cast of street artists; indoor Late Night Maness shows • Until Jul 15
AN EVENING OF ONE ACT COMEDIES • Capi-
tol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park • Comedy at the Capitol Theatre s• Jul 19-29 (no show Jul 23); Dinner theatre: Jul 19, 20, 24-26; 8pm • $28 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)
FREEWILL SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL-2012
• Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, 780.425.8086 • Julius Caesar: even dates (evenings only) • The Tempest: odd dates and all matinées • Until Jul 22, Tue-Sun at 8pm; Sat-Sun at 2pm • $25 (adult)/$40 (festival passes)/$17 (student/senior); at TIX on the Square; Tue nights and Sat matinées are Pay-What-You-Will
A GRAND TIME IN THE RAPIDS • Varscona
Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Set in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1959. Thalia Cumberland, a sleek and comely widow from across the pond enlists the aid of etiquette expert Ted Todd in finessing a potentially indecorous encounter with her new paramour Boyd Mayhew • Until Jul 21, Tue-Sat: 8pm; Sat: 2pm • Wed-Sat: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior); Sat afternoon: $15; Tue evening: Pay-What-You-Can
MARY POPPINS • Jubilee Auditorium • Jul 24-29, Tue-Fri 8pm; Sat 2pm, 8pm; Sun 1pm, 6:30pm • Tickets at TicketMaster
NINE • Walterdale Playhouse, 10320-83 Ave •
Musical based on Fellini's 8½, book by Arthur Kopit, music and lyrics by Maury Yeston, directed by Kristen M. Finlay, music direction by Sally Hunt, choreography by Adam Mazerolle-Kuss • Until Jul 14, 8pm • $14-$18 at TIX on the Square, door
SYLVIA • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • Tickets: 780.483.4051 • Starring Cindy Williams and Eddie Mekka (from TV’s Laverne & Shirley) • The classic love triangle-husband, wife, and...dog? Mature content, not suitable for children • Until Aug 19
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PREVUE // VIVA ITALIA
Classically Italian
Nefeli's Ristorante does traditional just right Nefeli's Ristorante 5940 - 153 Ave 780.488.5952
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ucked away in a strip mall in the northeast end of the city is a cozy little place known as Nefeli's Ristorante, a place that prides itself on topnotch Italian cuisine as well as making each and every guest feel like family. Nefeli's opened its doors in November 2011, but has quickly built up a loyal following of customers via its excellent word of mouth reviews, which speak just as highly of the service as they do the food. The testaments of praise continue in messages covering the restaurant's walls, all penned by customers. Behind the culinary delight are business partners Chad Protasiewich, who spent 15 years dealing in customer service in the car industry before following his dreams of owning a restaurant, and Joseph Jamal Eddine, an industry veteran who not only keeps his guests entertained, but cooks all the dishes from scratch. "The art of cooking is cooking with love," Eddine says. It is evident that Eddine thoroughly enjoys what he does. He comes in
each day at 2 pm to make sauces and doing all of the prep work before the doors open at 5 pm. Each dish that passes through the kitchen from his cooks, who take care of the finishing touches, must pass Eddine's inspection. During business hours, Eddine and Protasiewich are out entertaining guests, mimicking the social dining experience in Italy. "When you're in Italy, it's not just eating it's more of an event," says Protasiewick, who spent a month there last summer. "We don't want you to eat and run. We want you to take your time, get to know us ... people go out to eat before an event, but we want them to go out to eat and make that their night." As for the food, expect pasta that leans towards the traditional. Less is more when it comes to sauce and each dish blends together fresh, simple ingredients and are served in heaping portions. Guests can start off a meal with classic bruschetta or jumbo tiger prawns pan seared in butter and garlic, which have become customer favourite. Pasta dishes, which Eddine adds are all gluten-free, range from standards like tortellini, arrabiatta and penne, spaghetti, angel hair or
Italian in suburbia // Meaghan Baxter
fettucini with house-made tomato, cream or tomato-cream sauce to speciality creations. Penne putanesca, which is pasta sautéed with mushrooms, capers, bell peppers, black olives and beef tenderloin strips with some added spice from jalapeño peppers finished off with tomato sauce and parmesan cheese is one such
creation that the restaurant has become known for, along with the carbonara. Eddine says this is a dish that requires special attention and the end result is a flavourful blend of pasta, smokey bacon, mushrooms, garlic, parmesan cheese and egg garnished with fresh basil. Nefeli's also offers catering for
events from weddngs serving 400 people to small family gatherings, offering a wide selection of pasta, salads and entrees, as well as desserts such as the housemade tiramisu. "We love the public, that's why we're in the business," Eddine adds. MEAGHAN BAXTER
// MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
Joseph Jamal Eddine, left, and Chad Protasiewich // Meaghan Baxter
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WINETIME
The Building Blocks of Wine When tasting wine, most emphasis is your tongue and cheeks, leaving your placed on aromas and flavours—but mouth raspy and dry. Drinking really wine is comprised of several chemical dark, heavily-steeped black tea does compounds that must be recognized the same thing, because tea leaves and analyzed in order to gain a full have tannins as well. understanding of wine. Keep Tannins mainly come from the I D I V in mind that each of these skins and seeds of grapes, , I VEN compounds are perceived with additional tannin comas tactile sensations, not ing from oak barrels, so m kly.co uewee mel@v flavours. wines with the highest tanMel ey nin content are inky dark, r P iestl oaked wines—usually young Acidity Quite literally, this is the acid conreds made from grape varieties that tent of wine. You can sense a wine's have higher tannin content, like Cabacidity when you have a sip and feel ernet Sauvignon and Syrah. Lighter a rush of saliva towards the front of reds, like Pinot Noir and Merlot, have your mouth; it's the same sensation lower tannins. that happens right after biting into Since it can be pretty uncomfortable something sour, like a lemon wedge. to drink a very tannic wine, decantAcidity exists in all wines to varying (pouring the wine into another ing degrees. Generally, more acidcontainer, preferably one with a wide, ity makes a wine seem dry and vice flat bottom) for a few hours is a good versa—so if the acidity is very low the way to "open up" a tannic wine. Eatwine will feel heavy and flat, and if the ing food, especially red meat, will also acidity is high it will feel like it's striphelp alleviate some of the drying efping the enamel off your teeth. High fect. Many high tannic wines are also acid wines usually come from cooler meant to be aged for several years climates, while lower acid wines are before being opened. typically made in hot climates. Alcohol Tannin Obviously wine has alcohol, but this Tannins are bitter, astringent and very is often an overlooked element when drying—akin to rubbing the inside tasting wine. Alcohol is perceived as of your mouth with a cotton swab; heat, so wine that's high in alcohol will they suck all the moisture out of quite literally burn your nostrils and
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palate. Appropriately, the term "hot" is used to describe a wine with high alcohol content, particularly when it's overly noticeable or unbalanced. Hot wines tend to come from hot climates (California, Australia, southern France, southern Italy) because in these regions grapes ripen extremely well and have correspondingly high levels of sugar. Since sugar is the driving force behind fermentation (yeast consumes sugar and alcohol is created as a byproduct), grapes with high sugar content will ferment into wine with high alcohol content. Alcohol is also sweet, so a wine with high alcohol will often give the impression of sweetness on the palate; it also makes a wine feel like it has a fuller body. Sugar All wine has residual sugar, though in dry table wine this is such a small amount that it doesn't make the wine seem sweet on your palate—or at least, not to the same degree as milk chocolate or Coca-Cola. In wine, it is important for sweetness to be counterbalanced by acidity— otherwise the wine will be cloyingly sweet and leave your mouth feeling unpleasantly fuzzy; akin to the sensation after eating a whole package of Skittles or other candy. V
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PROVENANCE
MEAGHAN BAXTER // MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
Six things about waffles Movie Night is back, Every Tuesday @ 7:00 Check website for screenings featured www.4thandvine.ca
Dessert for breakfast
L'eggo my Eggo
baked; Hong Kong, where they're
Waffles seem to stand in a class of
In the '30s, three brothers from San
known as "grid biscuits" and topped
their own, but they're actually con-
Jose, California introduced frozen waf-
with butter, peanut butter and sugar.
sidered cakes. They began as wafers
fles to supermarket shelves through-
Chocolate and honey melon flavours
in the Middle Ages in what is now
out the United States. The product
are often used as well. There's also
Belgium. Early varieties were cooked
was called Froffles, but soon earned
Dutch stroopwafels, which are thin
similarly to how they are now: the
the nickname "eggo" due to its eggy
cookie-like treats with syrup in the
batter was poured into an iron made
tasting batter. The name stuck and
middle.
of two small metal plates, which
the brothers began to use it in mar-
was held over a fire. Add electricity
keting.
iron.
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Too much of a good thing The world's largest waffle was made
and you've got a modern day waffle Think outside the toaster
in 1986 in Chicago, measuring more
While Belgian and American waffles
than 3000 sq ft.
Perfect pairing
are the most common, there's also
The waffle ice cream cone was alleg-
other international varieties such as
A side of what?
edly invented at the 1904 St Louis
Scandinavian, which are often heart
Waffles are commonly served with a
World's Fair, when an ice cream ven-
shaped; Liege, which are sweeter,
side of protein, like bacon, but in the
dor asked a waffle vendor to roll up
richer versions of their western Bel-
United States it's not uncommon, es-
waffles to hold ice cream when he ran
gian counterparts with pearl sugar
pecially in the south, to have a side of
out of cups to serve his customers.
throughout that caramelizes when
fried chicken with them. V
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Tuesdays on the Terrace / Until the
of Public Health and the Faculty of
ues a tradition of providing Edmon-
end of August (4 pm – 8 pm) Every
Agricultural, Life and Environmen-
tonians with the best of the city's
Tuesday, admission fees to the Art
tal Sciences is run entirely by volun-
culinary scene. This year, 65 percent
Gallery of Alberta buy more than the
teers. The labour, seeds and plants
of the festival's lineup are new addi-
chance to experience great artwork.
are all donated and multiple varieties
tions, bringing unique and inventive
For the price of admission, enjoy a
of vegetables, herbs and flowers are
fare to the festival sure to satisfy a
complimentary art-inspired cocktail
available during market hours for the
range of tastes and diets. The new-
from ZINC restaurant, served on the
price of a donation. Proceeds from the
comers include TZiN Wine & Tapas,
third floor terrace. Exhibition spaces
garden go to the Tubahumurize As-
ZINC, Molly's Eats, Caffè Sorrentino,
close at 7 pm. Tuesdays on the Terrace
sociation in Rwanda, a not-for-profit
Three Amigos Authentic Mexican
will be moved indoors to the AGA
organization supporting socially and
Restaurant, the Italian Bakery, Guru
third floor Terrace Café if weather
economically
women
Fine Indian Cuisine, Share Restaurant
requires.
through counselling, vocational train-
and IRIE Foods on Whyte. Joining the
(Art Gallery of Alberta, $12.50, free
ing, health education and employ-
restaurants will be numerous food
for AGA Members)
ment opportunities. (University of
trucks, which have quickly become
Alberta South Campus)
the new food craze in the city, along
marginalized
Green and Gold Community Garden
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with a host of wine, beer and spirits
/ Tuesdays (7 pm – 8:30 pm) and
Taste of Edmonton / Thu, Jul 19 –
for guests to sample. Visit eventsed-
Saturday (11 am – 1 pm) The two-
Sat, Jul 28 Now in its 28th year, the
monton.ca for more information. (Sir
acre joint project between the School
Taste of Edmonton festival contin-
Winston Churchill Square)
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ADVENTURE
Mud Hero
A roster of mud obstacle races, including Mud Hero, Tough Mudder and Spartan Races, have been introduced internationally over the past decade, and each brings along its own set of challenges designed to test participants, but make sure they have a lot of fun along the way. While several have wrapped up their Alberta dates for the year and others have sold-out, there's plenty of time to get in top shape for next season. Even if you're not participating this time around, these races are just as entertaining to watch. Not to mention, there's a big party at each of them once the chaos is all said and done. Mud Hero, which has been dreamt up by the Crazy Canuck Events team, takes place on Sunday, July 22 in Kananaskis Country. It's completely sold out for the year, and Crazy Canuck co-founder Ted McLeod, who has 20 years of event management experience as well as spearheading Chico racing, credits its overwhelming popularity to people wanting to break out of the gym routine to get some exercise. "They don't want to just go out and do a run, they want to do a run and do something else along with that run, so I think that's been the rise in popularity of this type of event," he adds. "People just want to challenge themselves in a new and different way." It's an opportunity to have a ton of fun while conquering fears of mud and mayhem. The adrenalinepumping course is de-
signed with participant enjoyment in mind, rather than pushing yourself to your breaking point. "A lot of other obstacle courses, they really want to test the mettle of the participants and they have exceptionally challenging obstacles. We still want people to have fun," McLeod adds. "We think that people can get a little dirty, a little dusty and still have a good time while doing it. That's always kind of been our mantra in the past in all of our events is making sure participants are still challenging themselves ... but we want to make sure people are having fun too." Throughout the 6 km sprint around the ranch, participants will encounter obstacles such as an uphill tire run, mud bash balance beam, hay bale hurdles, hero walls, and a few surprises. McLeod says there's a sense of camaraderie amongst competitors, since they're able to sign up with friends, as well as make new ones along the way. Helping one another over difficult obstacles is not only allowed, but encouraged. "It's about challenging yourself and getting yourself through it, and sometimes, as with life, you have to rely a little bit on others to do that, so that's the reason why we promote that aspect," McLeod notes. Participants don't have to be in peak physical
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condition to participate in Mud Hero. They do, however, need to be 15 or older by the end of this year. McLeod says participants who are more fit are pushed to the front and different waves are run in order to match people of similar abilities. Tough Mudder made its Canadian debut in Whistler, BC at the end of June, but you've got from now until July 20 and July 21, 2013 to get ready for the next round. This race is not for the faint of heart and requires some more intense training prior to participating. The race bills itself as "probably the toughest event on the planet," and for good reason. The 16-19 km was designed by the British Special Forces to test the strength, stamina, mental grit and camaraderie of participants. Like Mud Hero, Tough Mudder was designed to provide a reprieve from typical running races and even though its tough, the fun-loving atmosphere continues. As the website states, participants are met at the finish line with a beer and a live band to reward them for sweating it out. A word to the wise, don't sign up for Tough Mudder solo. The course boasts 15 military-style obstacles involving mud, fire, ice-water and 10 000 volts of electricity that require some encouragement from your teammates. There's also 12 ft walls and underground mud tunnels to contend with
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where you may need a boost. No one gets left behind, and like Mud Hero, it's encouraged that participants help each other to the end. It's not about beating a time here, just challenging yourself physically and mentally. The challenges awaiting those brave enough to take on Tough Mudder include swimming through an ice bath called Arctic Enema, trying to stay out of more cold water during Ball Shrinker, which requires Mudders to walk along a rope while holding onto another overhead; dodging live wires through Electroshock Therapy and navigating flames four feet tall in Fire Walker. Rocky Benz, 24, is one of this year's participants who finished the entire course, which has a 70 percent completion rate. He and his friend Justin DeMontarnal joined approximately 15 000 people at the race in Whistler. "Since we both played sports and go to the gym regularly, we decided that this would a fun event to try," says Benz, who had never participated in a mud race before and completed Tough Mudder in three hours. However, he says his time would have been faster if a couple of the obstacles hadn't been congested with people. Six weeks prior to the event, Benz and DeMontarnal took on a race-specific training program. Three days a week
they would work out doing a triplets program, which involves six triplet sets with three exercises per set. They would complete three sets of each exercise with 10 reps each. "We wanted to build muscle endurance with this workout," Benz explains. "The other three days we would go for a run, usually around five to 10 kilometers depending on how we were feeling. Friday was a day off from both." The Tough Mudder website has a section dedicated entirely to training and offers a boot camp fitness program combining resistance training with high-intensity cardio workouts to get prospective Mudders up to speed. After all the training and preparation, Benz admits he was slightly nervous on race day, but excited at the same time to take on such an intense challenge. "The emcee at the starting line really got everyone going and pumped up before start time," he recalls. "The atmosphere was great throughout the entire race." While the obstacles provide a gauntlet to wipe out even the toughest of competitors, Benz says the hardest CONTINUED ON PAGE 25 >>
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aspect was 12 miles of running on a mountain, since it involved lots of rocks and inclines. "The race took a toll on my body and it took a couple of days to recover," Benz says, adding his feet and legs were sore from the rocks. "The event comes to Calgary next year, so Justin and I will probably do it again. Although, this time, we are going to try and get a large group together." Spartan Race hits Calgary on August 18, as well as September 22 in Squamish, BC. The franchise hosts 50 races worldwide and claims to be obstacle racing at its toughest and a step above the rest.
"Well, we do time people, so everyone gets their own time, plus we have penalties, so if you don't complete some of the obstacles, you have to do burpees," says race director Dean Stanton. "It's better to take your time and achieve completion of the obstacles than to race through it and not finish. You'll go through your energy pretty quickly if you're having to do burpees." Spartan Races offer three levels of obstacle courses complete with its own set of challenges. Unlike other obstacle races, participants go in blind, as the maps and obstacles are not released ahead of time. "People have an idea what the obstacles are, but we don't tell what the route is or what all of the obstacles
are, because the element of surprise is something we really like our competitors to experience," Stanton adds. The easiest of the ranks is The Spartan Sprint, which offers participants a taste of the challenge with three miles and 15 obstacles including mud runs, trail racing, as well as physical and mental challenges. The race has a 99 percent completion rate and the top three male and top three female racers gain free entry into a Super Spartan race. Participants must be 14 years of age or older to compete. Super Spartan is the next in the Spartan Races hierarchy and ups the stakes with eight miles and 20 obstacles in a battlefield of mud. The top three males and females take it one step further and move on to the Spartan
Into the deep
A new way to experience Jasper
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cuba diving is often considered synonymous with sunny, tropical destinations, but Jasper has its own treasures of the deep to discover. Jasper Dive Adventures, founded a year-and-a-half ago by Nathan D'Heer, who made his first dive in the Grand Cayman Islands at age 11 and now has a decade of diving experience under his belt, offers numerous certification courses from beginner to rescue diving. All courses provided by Jasper Dive Adventures are part of the Professional Association of Diving Instructors (PADI) training organization. While divers in Jasper's lakes, which include Lac Bouvert, Horseshoe Lake, Patricia Lake, Pyramid Lake, Lake Annette and Lake Edith won't include a rainbow of tropical fish, they do boast
some striking typography of their own. D'Heer notes this landscape includes overhanging cliffs, glacier vents and caves. Besides encounters with local aquatic life, D'Heer adds there's always the possibility of spotting wildlife above the surface. "There was one occasion where we surfaced from our dive and a moose and her calf were swimming across the lake right in front of us," he recalls. Aside from experiencing Jasper from a whole new perspective, there is also the chance to visit a piece of history through the remains of the Project Habbukak prototype in Patricia Lake. After a history briefing on the project, which was a top-secret World War II mission by the British forces to construct an aircraft carrier of pykrete, a mixture of wood pulp and ice, to use against German U-boats in the
If that weren't enough, Spartan Races is also host of the Death Race, a 48 hour back-breaker which comes complete the intimidating slogan, "you may die." However, Stanton says that's for show, as no one's actually died, and in all Spartan racing events, injury rates are lower than traditional running races. The Death Race is designed to challenge body and mind through intense tasks, such as lifting 10 to 30 lb rocks for five hours, crawling through mud under barbed wire, chopping wood for two hours, carrying a 20 lb stump or after 20 hours of racing, test your mind and memorize the names of the
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Beast, a 12 mile, 25 obstacle course dubbed the "Race from Hell."
mid-Atlantic, divers get to visit it for themselves. The guided tour requires divers to have their open water certification, which can be completed through Jasper Dive Adventures and will certify successful participants to dive anywhere in the world. "Not many people know about it, so I thought that this historical asset to the park should be utilized so people can learn a little more about the park's history," D'Heer adds. Diving in Jasper is considered to be of the cold water variety, with temperatures ranging from 3.8 degrees Celsius to 6.6 C, 150 ft below the surface at the Habbukak wreck, but D'Heer advises those who are new to the sport to go in with an open mind. "Some of the best diving on the planet is in cold water," he adds. "Experiencing diving in cold water and in cold lakes at altitude really helps with your diving ability as a whole. If you can dive in cold water, then you're going to be an absolute pro when you can just jump in." The diving courses are done in wet suits, which will keep divers at a comfortable temperature in Jasper's chilly waters, but for even more frigid dives, D'Heer says divers can obtain their dry suit certification. Divers must have their open water certification prior to being trained with a dry suit, which essentially seals around a diver's feet, wrists and neck to keep water from getting in. Underneath, they add further insulation with fleece jackets or similar outerwear. "If you have your open water certification, then I personally try and push that you take a dry suit course before you go into anything else, because it opens up so much more for you," D'Heer advises. Contrary to popular belief, new divers do not have to be expert swimmers. D'Heer says he's taught very poor swimmers, and even a woman with no legs, to dive. All a person needs to be able to do is sink and feel comfortable in the water.
Canmore Challenge Trail Running / Sat, Jul 14 The Canmore Challenge is made up of three trail running races that are 12 km, 8 km and 4 km in length. There's also a 1 km run for children 12 and under. The courses are designed for runners of all ages and abilities and this year's event serves as the Canadian Mountain Racing Championship. Visit canmorechallenge.com for more information. MEC Summer Classic / Sun, Jul 15 (9 am) The five and 10 km races wind runners through Edmonton's picturesque river valley, starting in Whitemud Park on Fox Drive and winding around Fort Edmonton Park before returning back to the start at the Mountain Equipment Co-op store. karelo.com for more information and registration (12328-102nd Ave, NW, $15) Alberta Summer Games / Fri, Jul 27 – Sun, Jul 29 The city of Lethbridge will host 3000 young athletes from across the province as they compete in 15 different sports including baseball, beach volleyball, mountain biking, BMX cycling, swimming and triathlon. 2012albertasummergames.ca
first 10 US presidents or a Bible verse, hike to the top of a mountain and recite it back in order. The Death Race, however menacing it sounds with a 15 percent completion rate, ties into the Spartan Race goal of improving participants' overall body fitness. "I really think where these things came out of is people were just getting really bored of doing the same old, same old, which is sort of running races and what have you," Stanton notes of the obstacle races. "I mean really, you show up at the start line and a lot of people are all dressed up and everyone's acting crazy and it's kind of got the energy of a rock concert." MEAGHAN BAXTER
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for more information. Photography Workshop at Sunshine Meadow / Fri, Jul 27 – Sat, Aug 18 (6 am – 4 pm) Sunshine Meadows has been named Canada's No 1 hike by Lonely Planet and during the height of wildflower season, photography enthusiasts can join National Geographic award-winning photographer Mark Unrau for an in-depth workshop. Each session will have a maximum of 12 people and learn essential skills to capture stunning images, including the fundamentals of macro photography. (Sunshine Meadows, Banff, $350) Adult Dig-It Camps / Until Fri, Aug 31 Campers join the 2012 Bison Pound Public Excavation Project for an opportunity to discover remnants of Alberta's past. The excavation takes place at the Bodo Bison Skulls Site, where it is believed there is a wellpreserved bison bone bed from a 500 year old communal bison kill site. No previous excavation experience is required and camps are two or four days in duration. Visit bodoarchaeology.com for more information. (Provost, AB) V
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y art tells me what to do, nobody else," says Canadian music stalwart Tom Wilson, joking that he was born with authority issues and doesn't handle being told what to do very well. Even at age four, when most children are dreaming of becoming super heroes, Wilson was determined to become a writer and a musician, and nothing was going to stop him. Now, at age 53, he continues a prolific career that's accomplished exactly what he set out to do decades ago. A self-described workaholic, Wilson has collaborated with the likes of Sarah McLachlan, Colin James, Billy Rae Cyrus and the Rankin Family, as well as numerous eclectic music projects of his own. Aside from his solo work, Wilson tours and records extensively with Blackie and the Rodeo Kings, which is gearing up to release a new album after the wildly successful Kings and Queens, which included female music royalty such as Lucinda Williams and Emmy Lou Harris. The trio will hit the road again in November for a cross-Canada tour. "Blackie and the Rodeo Kings is a real group effort," Wilson notes. "It's a project that is a labour of lust. It's something that came together without any egos. Wilson's latest project has been the musical collective LeE HARVeY OsMOND, which is often described as "acid folk". Wilson is the core member and is joined by a few Cowboy Junkies and a few Skydiggers for a sound unique to the country's folk scene. The group's debut album was A Quiet Evil in 2009 and a second album, Folk Sinner, is slated for a fall release, which sees Wilson team up with Hawksley Workman, Michael Timmons, Oh Susanna, Sean Dean from the Sadies and members of Wilson's former band Junkhouse. "I love Canadian folk music, but the one thing it lacks is balls and LeE HARVeY OsMOND is kind of folk music with a giant pair of nuts on it," Wilson adds with a laugh. Folk Sinner is an ode to Highway 6 south connecting Hamilton and Lake Eerie. The highway is the home of Six Nations Indian Reserve, tobacco fields, echinacea fields and a summer resort, which Wilson says creates an interesting chemistry between those who travel it that he wanted to capture with his songs. "It's a mystic highway and I decided
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to dedicate a lot of my writing to that highway because I owe a lot to it," he notes. "I was at BBC in London, England and they suggested that LeE HARVeY OsMOND had a lot of southern influences and I said, 'yeah, southern Ontario.'" Blackie and the Rodeo Kings and LeE HARVeY OsMOND share the number one spot on Wilson's priority list, meaning its unlikely he'll release another solo album. He says he gets enough satisfaction in music through his involvement with each band and no one really needs another Tom Wil-
son album. However, there is one solo venture he continues. Wilson took up painting the second time he decided to get sober, which he's sustained for 13 years. His vivid artwork, which has been commissioned and shown in galleries, including the Daffodil Gallery in Edmonton, is inspired by love and he believes the only thing more addicting than substances is creative energy. "My art is the best therapy a fellow like me could ever ask for," he says. MEAGHAN BAXTER
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Melvins Lite
Melvins, hoping for no more 'quakes
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e were at the airport in Christchurch getting ready to leave, almost about to put our bags on, when the earthquake hit," Dale Crover recalls. It was the first of two earthquakes to
catch Melvins on its 2011 tour (that's gotta be some sort of record): after the New Zealand quake, the richter scale rattled upwards again—with much greater force—when the band flew to Japan. Melvins had just finished a Tokyo soundcheck when the ground started to rumble. "We were trying to get out of the building, and couldn't find our way
out. Which was a big bummer." Crover recalls, dryly. "What we thought was an exit, after running down two flights of stairs, was a locked door. So we were kind of panicking; somewhere along the way, I don't know when or how, I managed to dislocate my pinky. We were literally just finished soundcheck. I still had sticks in my hand, and my gloves I use for drumming on."
Still, Melvins survived, and the odds of a third earthquake being what they are—knock on wood!—the band is back on the road supporting an album called Freak Puke. The "Lite" affixed to the Melvins name this time around reflects not a softening of sound but a paired down lineup: the same sludgy jams and guitar growls will reward those present—or, as Crover offers, "We'll still kick your ass." The tour sees Melvins as three-piece instead of the usual five, with band mainstays Crover and guitarist/vocalist Buzz Osborne joined by Trevor Dunn on stand-up bass. "We'd played with Trevor before, but y'know, more regular-style electric bass," Crover says, noting it's not a permanent reduction in band size, just an experiment the band wanted to test out.
"The other guys in our band, we figured those guys tour and do other things when the Melvins aren't, but there was always the understanding that we may do something else for the heck of it." A lighter lineup might make prove beneficial to this particularly daunting Melvins outing: after the Canadian leg of shows, the band is attempting to do 51 shows in all 50 states (plus Washington, DC) in 51 days. "George Thorogood attempted to do it in 1980," Crover says. "They got through about 30 shows, and then they got tired. But I'm guessing those guys got much bigger production than us. The key will be not to sit up all night, partying. As long as we're on the road and out of there." PAUL BLINOV
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PREVUE // THANKFUL DEBUT
The Elwins
Newmarket's happiest band // Rachel Lee Tentcher
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he Elwins are keeping it real. The foursome has crafted a debut release evoking soulful lyrics backed by upbeat melodies and a healthy dose of old school vibes, all played on, gasp, real instruments rather than the synthheavy beats of modern pop. Hailing from Newmarket, Ontario, the band began as a duo spearheaded by Matthew Sweeney and Travis Stokl. The pair went to high school together and had spent years writing original material. Sweeney and Stokl eventually made the decision to expand, and recruited high school friend Feurd, who had left for college, and Chris Shannon through the local music scene. Now, the band is touring across the country to promote its debut fulllength album, And I Thank You, which was recorded over a month spent at the secluded Bear Creek studios outside of Seattle with Bill Moriarty and Ryan Hadlock. "It was the best recording experience I've ever had," Feurd says of the cottage-like studio. "We went into Seattle maybe twice to see a show, but really, just to be able to focus so much and really just live the recording process for a whole month was such a treat."
summer, but the band took some extra time getting advice from close confidants before releasing it to the public. The end result is a retro-influenced blend of pop crafted with expert musicianship and vintage-inspired harmonies rarely heard in mainstream music. "I guess as a debut, we just wanted to try and represent the songs, and you know, our kind of vibe as well," Feurd says. "I guess that's a bit of old school pop like from the '60s, like The Beach Boys and The Beatles." The album title continues the playful sense that resonates throughout the disc, despite the lyrics being on the more serious side at times. Feurd explains it began as an inside joke about Sweeney and Stokl's driving instructor. The man had a very thick accent and when he would phone to arrange lessons, he would end each conversation with the phrase, "and I thank you." As time went on, the meaning grew to encompass more than humour. "We were playing around with that being the album title and it kind of took on a new meaning as well, just saying thank you to everybody who's been a part of it and who's listened to the music and helped us out," Feurd adds. In addition to its debut release, the band has toured with Arkells, Tokyo Police Club and made appearances at major festivals including SXSW and NXNE. MEAGHAN BAXTER
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PREVUE // TRUTH IN SONG
PREVUE // ANALOGUE WONDERS
Mary Gauthier Fri, Jul 13 (8:30 pm) Blue Chair Cafe, sold out
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t's difficult not to write about personal subject matter for singersongwriter Mary Gauthier, who believes above all that it's important to tell the truth. "I think it would be hard to write about something you have no idea what you're talking about," she states simply. A long, difficult road brought Gauthier to this point in her career. After being given up for adoption at the St Vincent's Infants Home in New Orleans by her unwed mother in 1962, she was brought into a family where there was a great deal of turmoil. Her adoptive father was an alcoholic and her adoptive mother often had thoughts of suicide. At 15, Gauthier struck out on her own, searching for somewhere to call home. Gauthier began a downward spiral into substance abuse, spent several stints in detox and found shelter through halfway houses and crashing with friends. She spent her 18th birthday in a jail cell in Kansas before she was kicked out of the state. Gauthier then enrolled in philosophy at LSU, but had to drop out in her senior year. She moved once again and settled in Boston, where she got a counter
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job at a cafĂŠ, eventually becoming manager. With the help of her friends, she enrolled in school again at the Cambridge School of Culinary Arts. This gave her the training she needed to open her own restaurant, Dixie Kitchen, which specialized in New Orleans Cajun-style fare. This was when Gauthier got sober and began seriously working on her music. "I just decided that I wasn't going to get good unless I went for it full-time, so I gave up everything I was doing and went for it," Gauthier says.
Gauthier hired a private detective to search for her birth mother. She found her, but when she called her six months later, her mother denied a meeting. "If I had to do it again, I'm not sure I would do it," she says of the experience. The ordeal with her mother sparked the inspiration for Gauthier's acclaimed album, The Foundling. The disc takes listeners through her journey with each song, from "GoodBye," which describes the emptiness felt several years before the search began to "March 11, 1962," a spokenword track about the final conversation with her mother. Other parts of the story include "The Orphan King," written about the trip Gauthier took back to her orphanage and "Another Day Borrowed," the album's epilogue. "I think it's an important story to be told and I think there's a lot in it that relates to a lot of people," she says of the album. "I think there's a lot of adoption stories and you know, the interesting thing for me is to find a universal experience, so I'm just trying to dig in and find ways to connect with other people through my story."
In 1997 at age 35, Gauthier released her first album, Dixie Kitchen, named after her restaurant. She earned several awards for the release and her career was off to a promising start. However, it was her second album that was her big break. Drag Queens and Limousines earned a four-star rating from Rolling Stone and Gauthier quickly became a strong presence at festivals throughout the US and Europe. She doesn't regret her later start in the industry and says in the end, it really doesn't matter how old you are. "You just start when you start and I'm not even sure we know what later or earlier means," Gauthier says. Heartache struck once more when
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rmed with a new drummer and an arsenal of proto-punk tracks roving between mellow '60s melodies and '90s hair pop, Babysitter is continuing its ascent in the Canadian indie scene. The trio from Victoria, BC welcomed drummer Aden (last name withheld by request) a long-time friend of founding members Kristian (last name withheld by request) and Andy (last name withheld by request) into the fold this spring. "I think it's the perfect fit," says Kristian, who does guitar and vocals, adding that while the band's been fortunate to have good drummers from the start, there's been quick change over each time. "It's never really slowed us down in between. It seems like as soon as somebody leaves, a new one comes along that's even greater." Babysitter's drawn on an eclectic mix of influences from the likes of Neil Young, Nirvana and Royal Trucks to cultivate its own brand of rock. Kristian says they've always maintained an interest in capturing analog sound on tape and seven inch records that's true to what's done live off the floor. "We've always been interested in analog sound and a certain purity that we felt was missing maybe in modern mu-
sic," Kristian adds. "We've actually voyaged into the world of digital recording a little more recently, just out of convenience." The recording process is a seemingly never-ending one for Babysitter. The band is currently working on the next installment of its ever-evolving saga. Babysitter Tape VI is currently in the works, but Kristian says there's no set release date, as it's been an ongoing recording along with the band's other projects. A seven inch of re-recordings was released on Dub Dutch Records as well as a split seven inch with Korean Gut on Student Loan Records. If that weren't enough, Babysitter has a forthcoming collaborative tape with friend JLK from Montreal. A second tape that's been an experimental project over the past six months has also been released, which includes recordings prior to adding Aden to the lineup. Not having a drummer required Kristian and Andy to get creative, which saw them experiment with saxophones, clarinets and different percussion elements. Recordings from the period where Aden was getting up to speed were also added for a diverse mix of jams. "It's all mixed together sort of collage style, so it's like a 60 minute long nonstop song," Kristian adds. MEAGHAN BAXTER
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NEWSOUNDS With the announcement of the 2012 Polaris Prize short list just around the corner on July 17, we decided to take a look back at some of the long listed albums that we've reviewed here over the past year, along with a couple that slipped through when they were released in 2011.
// Daniel Boud
Fucked Up David Comes to Life (Matador) In the age of 99cent downloads, there aren't many bands thinking in terms of whole albums, and Toronto's Fucked Up seem among the least likely candidates to be doing so. After spending years putting out highly-collectible seven-inches, the band finally turned its attention to the album format, first with 2006's Hidden World—which sounds like a collection of singles—then with the more-complete The Chemistry of Common Life in 2008, and finally with the brand new David Comes to Life, a concept album/rock opera that will function as the group's magnum opus. Five years in the making—guitarist Mike Haliechuk has claimed the group started writing the album in 2006— David Comes to Life recounts, in four acts, the story of David Eliade and Veronica Benson. Set in Northern Britain
in the late-'70s, David and Veronica are a factory worker and an activist who fall in love, only to have it end tragically. Like much of Fucked Up's work, it is dense, requiring a dozen listens before all of the elements can be distinguished. It's packed with multiple guitar tracks, multiple drums, back-and-forth male and female vocals. It bleeds outside of the lines of hardcore, punk and anything else the band has been tagged with, employing acoustic guitar and other instruments seemingly totally incongruous with Fucked Up's sound in ways that avoid being tacked on or cloying. Artistically, it's a huge leap forward for the band—seemingly impossible considering the group's previous record won the 2009 Polaris Prize. Orchestral in its arrangements, inventive in its storyline, focused in its intent, David Comes to Life could make the band with the unprintable name into the band with the household name that you can't say in your parents' house.
In Greek myth the Mares of Diomedes were known to be savage, wild and magnificent. Flesh-eating horses, the only thing that tamed them was the devouring of their own master, the King of Thrace. Terese Lanz and Stef MacKichan chose their name well when the two reincarnated as a doom duo three years ago. The Pilgrimage, the band’s newest album, exemplifies savage, wild and truly magnificent doom. The album moves as a whole with stunning technical guitar work and vocals from Lanz. The technical skill and thoughtful approach to characterizing each track with lyrical themes grounded in mythology works to provide engaging momentum in a genre that can get lost in the sludge. The Pilgrimage demonstrates an evolution for the duo, creating a much deeper and commanding savagery, integrating whispery vocals and growly death screams supported by thunderous (and marvelously proficient) drums. Somewhere between the band’s first album, The Moulting, and this one, the Mares consumed their master, and savagery is at their own command. SAMANTHA POWER
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// Colin Hart
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Shooting Guns' first album has a handy timeline in its title. A bookmark to say: here's where we belong. The instrumental metal band from Saskatoon draws the obvious comparison to Black Sabbath. Sludgy guitar riffs and tracks that take full advantage of well-developed hooks place the band firmly in the Sabbath circle of metal, but the band is not simply an imitator. Taking risks on tracks like "Stay Awake Forever" which opens with a more direct and driving guitar riff, picks up a hook and doesn't let it go for three minutes and thirty seconds. Other instrumental metal bands can
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Mares of Thrace The Pilgrimage (Sonic Unyon)
sometimes lose themselves in the vast expanse of noise they are creating— and in the hands of bands like Sleep it can be amazing, but what Shooting Guns does best is keep its riffs tight and loops contained. The result is an album that clocks in under 40 minutes but manages to deliver the hypnotic intensity of that took Sleep one (glorious) hour in Dopesmoker. Perhaps explaining its Polaris Prize nomination, Shooting Guns manages to create an atmosphere of hypnotic intensity through well developed hoops, synths and a steady tempo keeping you totally engaged while also managing to deliver a complex album in tracks that don't go over six minutes, thus allowing for a cohesive and creative album. SAMANTHA POWER
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Handsome Furs Sound Kapital (SubPop)
Cadence Weapon Hope In Dirt City (Upper Class)
"When I get back, when I get back home ... I won't be the same no more," utters Dan Boeckner in a mixture of resigned sigh and reserved indignation. It's the opening line on Sound Kapital, Handsome Furs' third and possibly best LP, and serves as a thesis-encapsulation of what's to come: tales of travel, taken down in the moment and crafted into songs with that same observational intensity, songs that kick up the kind of gut-level sentiment that rises when you know something's amiss in the world around you. Boeckner and bandmate Alexei Perry have reshaped the Handsome Furs' sound around keyboards and electronica—guitar, while still prominent, is relegated to supporting duty instead of spotlight focus—and it's a shift in sound that pays off in abundant returns. While the band pulls some hallmarks of '80s Euro-club styles—at times, Sound Kapital feels like Kraftwerk, albeit by way of actual human warmth and passion, and maybe some punk attitude tossed in for good measure—never does it feel like retro posturing for the sake of the pose. Sound Kapital is a selfsovereign creation, one that draws on the strengths of early electro dabblers and upgrades them with warm waves of sound and rallying anthems. It's thrilling stuff. "When I Get Back," the opener, mixeshopeful sentiment with a worldwizened lyricism, in front of pulsing synth and textured drum-machine beats. "Damage" starts with a recording of a hostage situation Boeckner and Perry overheard on a cabbie's police scanner in Manila, and builds and compresses with urgency until it erupts in fury of guitar and bitter sentiment near the tail end. The piano-led "Serve the People" slowburns through spacey-synth rumbles as Boeckner wearily describes how, "Kids are making noise with the generators on / 'til the cops said move along." The album's crowning moment, though, is "Repatriated": a reflectionby-way-of-declaration-of-independence, it benefits greatly from its analogue keyboard investment and Boeckner's howling croon. The instrumental backing is textured and evertwisting in small ways, with keyboards and guitars offering up little riffs and one-off barbs of noise that keep even its slower moments feeling lively. Boeckner's always been a guitarist who crafted guitar riffs that seem to percolate in subtle, shifting ways, and that's translated well in the keyboardheavy delivery, which the Furs make good use of. There are the ghosts in these machines, and Boeckner and Perry release them here in all of their joyful sorrows.
Roland Pemberton has come a long way since "Oliver Square," but Hope in Dirt City is, at heart, imbued with just as much Edmonton as that first song. He now calls Montréal home, but the City of Champs still pops up lyrically on Dirt City, and he's noted in pre-release interviews that the album is partly his way of working through moving out of the city that crowned him Poet Laureate for a few years. (And, for full disclosure's sake, Pemberton used to file articles for Vue). Hell, the Dirt City of the title is our own. So, in a way, his mind still dwells here, drifting through his old hometown. But the real trek for Pemberton has been in terms of his skill, both as rapper and producer, and the diversified wealth it's given to his creative output: Hope in Dirty City, four years in the making, is Roland Pemberton's finest album, a shifting vortex of lively beats and rubbery rhymes. The samples that back his raps are lively and smooth—Pemberton reportedly constructed the beats, had them re-recorded with a live band including keyboards from fellow Edmonton expat Jered Stuffco, and his
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own uncle Brett Miles on sax, and then sampled those live band takes for the finished product. His rap delivery has its own indelible bounce, but he expands what he does with it. Lead single "Conditioning" finds him singing, tackling the choral hook in a killer rocker-yelp as the satisfying climax to its slow-burn build. "Small Death" pairs reggae groove and a saxline while he slows his delivery. Variety seems to have rubbed up on his collaborators, too: Buck 65 has a guest verse on "(You Can't Stop) The Machine" but raps in a higher register than his usually gruff Waitsy tone. The title track, which closes the album, breaks down from a gritty '80s riff as Pemberton pleads to an ex over wavering synth lines. It's all compelling, but "Crash Course for the Ravers" might be Pemberton's finest track to date. It anchors a spastic energy with a driven, focused bassline while Pemberton picks apart the party scene with deft, blasting lyricism and a sax solo to boot. Quite simply, it's hard to imagine this album not being everywhere in the next couple of months. Pemberton may not live here anymore, but he's still putting out music that's very worthy of hometown pride.
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progresses: the wavering vocals and underpinned synths of "Waste No Tears," and the gentle eight-minute admittance of "Throw It Away," suggest an artist more interested in pushing sonic boundaries than sitting still in a genre. PAUL BLINOV
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The title is an apt one: on Mark Davis's third solo album, Eliminate the Toxins, he cleanses stale air out of the roots genre, invigorating its sound and stretching out its possibilities. From the lingering darkness of opener "How Many Angels" and immediate followup of the plugged-in release of the title track, Davis's songwriting gets increasingly experimental as the album
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DV8 Sally In The Valley with 2 Bears North and Blue Note Mr
ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu
KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage; 7pm; no cover L.B.'S PUB Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE– Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR Open stage Thu; all ages; 9pm-close; no cover NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro; Silverado NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Thu; no cover RICHARD'S PUB The Red Hotz; 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Stan Gallant
BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Mary Gauthier; 8:30pm; $20 sold out BLUES ON WHYTE E.C. Scott
BRIXX BAR Early Show: Step'd Up and Jungle Fever with Funk Bunker: Dubstep and Drumstep massive; Late Show: XoXo to follow (every Fri)
DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm
JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Connor Newton Trio (jazz group) 12, $10
BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca
CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close
DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm
J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm
AVENUE THEATRE Celph Titled, Apathy, Suicide Kings, KG Precise, DJ Swann, DOOMSQUAd, J-Reds, Stripes + Brothers Grim, Mr.Liqz; $20 (adv at Avenue Theatre)/$25 (door)
BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Sean Ashby (blues/ rock); 8pm; $12 (adv)/$15 (door)
CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests
HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Rocky Burnette (rock), guests; no minors; 8pm; $20 (adv)/$25 (door)
FRI JUL 13
BRIXX High Fidelity Thu: Open turntables; E: kevin@starliteroom. ca to book 30-min set
CARROT CAFÉ Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm
EDDIE SHORTS Good Time Jamboree with Charlie Scream every Thu
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SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM AJ Goodvin
FILTHY MCNASTY’S Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill FLASH NIGHT CLUB Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow
CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON The Red Hotz (pop/ rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Dean Ray Band (pop/ rock) COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Lyle Hobbs DV8 Oi! Polloi!, (alt punk), Intensives, Kroovy Rookers, guests; 9pm; $15 (adv) THE FIDDLERS ROOST The Great North Blues Band (CD release); 8pm GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB SIRENS present: Sonny Rhodes (blues), Kenny "Blues Boss" Wayne; 8pm (door); $15 (adv)/$20 (door)
PAWN SHOP Silent Line (metal), These Colors Don't Run (dual CD release party), guests; 8pm; $10 (adv) PEMBINA RIVER NIGHTS–Evansburg Andrew Scott, Bill Poss, Darren Johnson, Dave McCann, Dustin Bentall and Kendel Carson, Fred Eaglesmith, Furia, Ken Hamm, Jenie Thai, Mary Gauthier, Mason Rack, NQ Arbuckle, Tatam Reeves, T Buckley, F-Holes, Tim Huss, Tom Wilson; two-day pass: $130 (gate, incl camping); one-day pass: $75 (gate incl Sat camping) at asmallshieldmusic.ca/ tickets.html, Myhre's Music, Claire's (Evansburg), MidWest Glass (Edson), Acoustic Music RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am ROSE AND CROWN The Salesmen SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Stan Gallant; SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM AJ Goodvin STARLITE ROOM Melvins Lite with Retox; 9pm STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Quietus (CD release), guests; 8pm SUNNYBROOK HOTEL Mister Lucky WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pmclose WUNDERBAR Scenic Route to Alaska, The Elwins, Nick Everett Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Choralies Internationales Choralies Festival: Gala Concert: An Explosion of Sound; 8pm; $25 (adult)/$15 (senior/student); DJs
IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover
BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover
EXPRESSIONZ CAFE Interrupted Flow (CD release party), guests; 7:30pm (door); 8pm (show); $10
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels
JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Ashley Theberge (pop, jazz); $10
BLACKSHEEP PUB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current
OVERTIME– Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step
JEKYLL A5 L.B.'S PUB The Mason Rack Band; 9:30pm; no cover
RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu
BONEYARD ALE HOUSE The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover
LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover
BRIXX BAR Silence Be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm
NEW WEST HOTEL Silverado ON THE ROCKS Mourning Wood
BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm2am every Fri and Sat; no cover
CHROME LOUNGE
TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pmclose
VUEWEEKLY JULY 12 – JULY 18, 2012
BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights
Platinum VIP every Fri THE COMMON Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FILTHY MCNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Jay every Fri and Sat OVERTIME– Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno REDNEX–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Connected Las Vegas Fridays Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays
SAT JUL 14 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 ARTERY Clean Up Your Act: Scotland Anarcho Street Legends, Oi Polloi (alt punk), No Problem, Stressed Out, guests; all ages; 9:30pm; $15 (adv)
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Diamond Dust (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Hot Super Hot; 8:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; E.C. Scott BRIXX BAR Dire Omen, naraka, Kryosphere; 9pm CAFÉ CORAL DE CUBA Cafe Coral De Cuba Marco Claveria's open mic (music, poetry, jokes); every Sat, 6pm; $5 CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 CASINO EDMONTON The Red Hotz (pop/ rock) CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Dean Ray Band (pop/ rock) COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Lyle Hobbs THE DISH NEK Trio ( jazz); every Sat, 6pm DV8 Spastic Panthers, Zero Cool, the Mange EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Snoop Dogg; 8:30pm; tickets at TicketMaster, Foosh, Soular
ELEVATION ROOM– Transcend Coffee Rah Rah (alt rock), Mark Davis, Renny Wilson; all ages; 8pm; $10 (adv) GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Tom Wilson (blues ); 8:30pm; $26 (adv)/$32 (door) HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat HYDEAWAY C.M. allages concert IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover NEW CITY Mortillery, Excruciating Pain, Bastard Death Machine, Slag Duster; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $8 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat, 3-6pm; Silverado NOORISH CAFÉ Slack Key Slim; 7pm; donation O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm
ON THE ROCKS Mourning Wood OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PEMBINA RIVER NIGHTS–Evansburg Andrew Scott, Bill Poss, Darren Johnson, Dave McCann, Dustin Bentall and Kendel Carson, Fred Eaglesmith, Furia, Ken Hamm, Jenie Thai, Mary Gauthier, Mason Rack, NQ Arbuckle, Tatam Reeves, T Buckley, F-Holes, Tim Huss, Tom Wilson; two-day pass: $130 (gate, incl camping); one-day pass: $75 (gate incl Sat camping) at asmallshieldmusic.ca/ tickets.html, Myhre's Music, Claire's (Evansburg), MidWest Glass (Edson), Acoustic Music RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am ROSE AND CROWN The Salesmen SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Stan Gallant;
FOUNDATION Arrival of Autumn, Fifth Legacy, Atrium; all ages; 8pm SUNNYBROOK HOTEL Mister Lucky WUNDERBAR Babysitter, Morals, Energetic Action, Skin Classical FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH La Grandmesse de Gilles Vigneault, Chorale Saint-Jean 75th Anniversary Concert; 8pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (senior/student) MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Chantez les grands chansonniers, Les Chansons des roses; 3pm; $15 (adult)/$10 (senior/student) DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat
SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM AJ Goodvin
BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm
SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm
BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
STARLITE ROOM Local Showcase: Bomb Squad Rookie, Heaviside, Alterra; 9pm STUDIO MUSIC
BUFFALO UNDERGROUND
Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY MCNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Jay every Fri and Sat OVERTIME– Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP
ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave
COMMON
9910-109 St
CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618
HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010
13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767
ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave
DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB
AVENUE THEATRE 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149
DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834
BISTRO LA PERSAUD 861791 St, 780.758.6686
THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082
DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928
BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522
DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554
HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381
DV8 8307-99 St
IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin
OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588
J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403
PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814
EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663
JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890
EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW
JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381
PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St
ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411
EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667
BLACKSHEEP PUB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BONEYARD ALE HOUSE 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663 BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011
EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain
ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave
HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOGS DEN PUB 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110
JUNCTION BAR AND
KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100
BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099
EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667
BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636
LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786
FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378
LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495
CAFÉ CORAL DE CUBA 10816 Whyte Ave CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca
FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St
LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St
FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557
CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580
LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave
FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018105 St, 780.996.1778
MARYBETH'S COFFEE
CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467
FLOW LOUNGE 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604. CLUB
CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467
HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203
FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700
NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730
FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676
NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999
CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail
GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY 9942-108 St
NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door)
COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675
GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB 11824-103 St
NORTH GLENORA HALL
CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482
SILENT LINE & THESE COLOURS DON’T RUN!!
WITH FOR REASONS LOST, EYE OF HORUS & STALLORD WED JULY 18
LIVING WITH LIONS WITH DAYTRADER, MAJOR LEAGUE & STRONG HEARTS
SAT JULY 21 EARLY SHOW THE RETURN OF
JAR
W/ HOLLYWOOD ASSASYN
THU JULY 26
INTO ETERNITY
W/ GATEKEEPER, ENEMY SURPLUS & DISPLAY OF DECAY FRI JULY 27
IRON MAIDEN AFTERPARTY WITH STRIKER SAT JULY 28
VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179
FRI JULY 13 A DOUBLE CD RELEASE PARTY FROM
NISKU INN 1101-4 St
O2'S ON WHYTE 780.454.0203 O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203 OVERTIME–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 1086057 Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 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 R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 SECOND CUP–89 AVE 8906-149 St SECOND CUP– Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929
• Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St
SKELETONWITCH WITH BARNBURNER & TERRORFIST
FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA
STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333
SAT JULY 14 FREE SATURDAY SHOW
CALISTA WITH LAST CHANCE HEROES
STAND UP COMEDY
SUNDAYS
YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295
VUEWEEKLY JULY 12 – JULY 18, 2012
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Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays
SUN JUL 15 BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/ jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Jim Findlay Trio; 10:30am-2:30pm; donations BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun: Audrey Ochoa; 5:308:30pm; $25 if not dining CAFFREY'S– Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover DOUBLE D'S Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm DV8 W!nslow, guests EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun FILTHY MCNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq HOGS DEN PUB Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm
every Sun; 9:30pm1am ON THE ROCKS The Blackstone, Willhorse O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Open stage hosted by the Vindicators; 4-8pm every Sun RICHARD'S PUB Sun Live Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm SUNNYBROOK HOTEL Mister Lucky TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) WUNDERBAR The Record Swap and Sale, 2-7pm; Evening: Ball Gag n' Chain Gang, Sean Burns YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE Célébrons le Grand choeur des Choralies: Choralies Internationales Closing Concert; 3pm; $25 (adult)/$15 (senior/student) DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy FLOW LOUNGE Stylus Sun LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover
MON JUL 16 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: The Magnificent 7s; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Grady Champion DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/ songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm; Sean Brewer JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Slash, Myles Kennedy and the Conspirators, Monster Truck; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $29.50, $45 NEW WEST HOTEL Boots and Boogie OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage
NEW CITY Fringe Pre-party; 8pm (door)
PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm
O’BYRNE’S Open mic
REXALL PLACE Neil
NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm
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Diamond; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $19.99, $39, $69, $99, $149 ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay CROWN PUB Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up) FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook
TUE JUL 17 BLUES ON WHYTE Grady Champion BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays: with guests Ruby Tuesdays Presents Alastair Jessen (CD release), Mandy Faye; $5 after 8pm DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm DV8 Danny Rebel and the KGB (ska), Third Branch (roots, Reggae, funk); 9pm
retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: It’s One Too Many Tuesdays: Reggae, funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard
OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover
BUDDYS DJ Arrow Chaser every
PAWN SHOP Living With Lions (pop punk rock), Day Trader, Major League, Strong Hearts; 8pm; $12 (adv)
CROWN PUB Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue RED PIANO All Request Band Tuesdays: Classic rock, soul and R&B with Joint Chiefs; 8pm; $5 SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs
WED JUL 18 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month BLUES ON WHYTE Grady Champion
EXPRESSIONZ March Music Inc: School of Song: Summer Songwriting Camp with Rhea March
CHA ISLAND TEA CO Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm
L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm1am
CROWN PUB The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed
NEW CITY Void TV NEW WEST HOTEL Boots and Boogie
DEVANEY'S IRISH
O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm
PUB Duff Robinson
OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK The Campfire Hero's (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover
EDDIE SHORTS Electric open jam with Steven Johnson Experience every Wed
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(Mar 21 – Apr 19): During an au-
has long been a boon to tourism in the
thor tour a few years ago, I was a guest
area. The natives are happy that the tales
on San Francisco radio station KFOG. Out
of its existence are so lively. I'd like to
of nowhere, the host asked me, "So who
propose using the Loch Ness monster as
was I in my past life?" Although I'm not
a template for how to deal with one of
in the habit of reading people's previous
your scary delusions. Use your rational
incarnations, I suddenly and inexplicably
mind to exorcise any anxiety you might
had the sense that I knew exactly who
still be harbouring, and figure out a way
he had been: Savonarola, a controversial
to take advantage of the legendary story
15th-century Italian friar. I suspect you
you created about it.
ARIES
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may soon have comparable experiences. (Aug 23 – Sep 22): "The soul
Don't be surprised if you are able to glean
VIRGO
new revelations about the past and come
should always stand ajar," said 19-century
to fresh insights about how history has
Emily Dickinson poet in one of her poems,
unfolded.
"That if the heaven inquire, He will not be obliged to wait, Or shy of troubling her."
(Apr 20 – May 20): Tease and
Modern translation: You should keep
tempt and tantalize. Be pithy and catchy
your deep psyche in a constant state of
and provocative. Don't go on too long.
readiness for the possible influx of divine
Leave 'em hanging for more. Perfect your
inspiration or unexpected blessings. That
most enigmatic smile. Drop hints and
way, you're likely to recognize the call
cherish riddles. Believe in the power of
when it comes and respond with the alac-
telepathy. Add a new twist or two to your
rity necessary to get the full benefit of its
body language. Pose questions that no
offerings. This is always a sound principle
one has been brave or smart enough to
to live by. But it will be an especially valu-
ask. Hang out in thresholds, crossroads,
able strategy in the coming weeks. Right
and any other place where the action is
now, imagine what it feels like when your
entertaining.
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GEMINI
(May 21 – Jun 20): American
LIBRA
(Sep 23 – Oct 22): Some people
political leaders who have never been
wonder if I'm more like a cheerleader
soldiers tend to be more gung-ho about
than an objective reporter. They think
sending US fighting forces into action
that maybe I minimize the pain and ex-
than leaders who have actually served
aggerate the gain that lie ahead. I under-
in the military. So said former Marine
stand why they might pose that question.
captain Matt Pottinger in TheDailyBeast.
Because all of us are constantly besieged
com. I recommend that you avoid and
with a disproportionate glut of discourag-
prevent comparable situations in your
ing news, I see it as my duty to provide a
own life during the coming weeks. Don't
counterbalance. My optimism is medicine
put yourself under the influence of deci-
to protect you from the distortions that
sion-makers who have no direct experi-
the conventional wisdom propagates.
ence of the issues that are important to
Having said that, I'd like you to know that
you. The same standard should apply to
I'm not counterbalancing at all when I give
you, too. Be humble about pressing for-
you this news: You're close to grabbing
ward if you're armed with no more than
a strategic advantage over a frustration
a theoretical understanding of things.
that has hindered you for a long time.
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(Jun 21 – Jul 22): Let's hypoth-
lotte Joko Beck. "This includes every
esize that there are two different kinds
mosquito, every misfortune, every red
of freedom possible for you to pursue.
light, every traffic jam, every loss, every
One is simplistic and sterile, while the
moment of joy or depression, every ad-
other is colorful and fertile. The first is
diction, every piece of garbage, every
characterized by absence or emptiness,
breath." While I appreciate Beck's advice,
and the second is full of rich information
I'm perplexed why she put such a heavy
and stimulating experiences. Is there any
emphasis on lessons that arise from dif-
doubt about which is preferable? I know
ficult events. In the weeks ahead, you'll
that the simplistic, sterile freedom might
be proof that this is shortsighted. Your
be easier and faster to attain. But its val-
teachers are likely to be expansive, be-
ue would be limited and short-lived, I'm
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and wield your clout based on what you
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afraid. In the long run, the tougher liberation will be more rewarding.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): A lathe is
a machine that grips a chunk of metal or
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one wielding a tool can form the chunk
Scottish lake. They call it the Loch Ness
into a desired shape. From a metaphori-
Monster. The evidence is anecdotal and
cal point of view, I visualize you as being
LEO
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held by a cosmic lathe right now. God or fate or whatever you'd prefer to call it is chiseling away the non-essential stuff so CONTINUED ON PAGE 37 >>
COMMENT >> ALT SEX
A continuing debate Should the state ban male circumcision?
Last month Cologne, Germany barred skin, foreskin is actually packed with the circumcision of male children nerve endings. No one knows exactly unless it is deemed medically neceshow many but the estimates are in the sary. Although I am a big fan of forethousands. Some researchers claim to skin and think it should be left as it have found special types of receptors is in most cases, I wondered called Meissner's corpuscles whether governments can which can detect very light actually ban circumcision. It touch. These are the same turns out they can and do, kinds of receptors we have m o eekly.c @vuew but usually only for girls. in our fingertips and lips. brenda Brendear Those corpuscles play a In Canada, female genital Kerb cutting is illegal. The criminal very important role in helping code specifically states that cutting us perceive and define sensations. off or altering the labia or the clitoris A study done in 2006 found that the of anyone under 18 is aggravated asglans of the penis in intact men is sigsault unless done for medically necnificantly more sensitive to touch than essary reasons. Glen Callendar, of the in those who have been circumcised. Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project, Callendar agrees that foreskin is an believes that Canada should follow important part of sexual experience. in Cologne's steps and add the word "My foreskin is by far the most sensi"prepuce," which refers both to male tive and orgasmic part of my penis," He foreskin and the clitoral hood, to that says, "Circumcision removes well over section of the criminal code. half the nerves of the penis, as well as "If a girl has a right to keep all of her the most sensitive parts, diminishing sex organs and decide for herself if sexual sensation for a lifetime." she wants any of them cut off, a boy Foreskin also moves in a funky way and an intersex child have the same because it is a double layer of skin right," Callendar says, "This is basic and mucous membrane. It has what equality and basic human rights, and some have called a "gliding" motion. it's time for Canada to protect all chilResearchers suspect that it functions dren equally." this way in order to make movement From the 1950's the late 1980's male more comfortable and reduce friction. circumcision was pretty much routine It also has the convenient side effect in Canada. But as more research is of making masturbation easier. It's coming out about what foreskin actulike a built-in masturbation sleeve. In ally is and what is does, attitudes are fact, circumcision was prescribed as a changing. preventive measure for "masturbatory insanity" and hysteria in Victorian EngFar from a simple vestigial piece of land. It was thought that without his
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foreskin, a man would be less sensitive and less able to masturbate and therefore more pure in thought and body. Although there are, of course, other sides to the circumcision debate, I think that Glen may be onto something in his fervent support of foreskin. He is so passionate about it that he travels North America showing people all the magical things his foreskin can do. Yes, that's right, in a demonstration somewhat like puppetry of the penis, Glen has showed his foreskin to almost 4000 people since 2010—1000 of them right here at the Edmonton Fringe last year. And he's only getting started. "Later this year, he says, I will roll out an epic series of online foreskin demonstrations that will show Canada and the world that the male foreskin has immense erotic potential." He hopes that this "exposure" will make Canadians want to save the foreskin and push our government to ban infant circumcision too. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local notfor-profits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.
will be like you're chewing gum while walking down a city street and then suddenly you sneeze, catapulting the
as to sculpt a more beautiful and useful
gooey mess from your mouth onto
version of you. Although the process
the sidewalk in such a way that it gets
may be somewhat painful, I think you'll
stuck to the bottom of your shoe,
be happy with the result.
which causes you to trip and fall, allowing you to find a $100 bill that is
(Dec 22 – Jan 19): I'm hop-
just lying there unclaimed and that
ing you will take maximum advantage
you would have never seen had you
of the big opportunity that's ahead for
not experienced your little fit of "bad
you: an enhancement of your senses.
luck." Be ready to cash in on unfore-
That's right. For the foreseeable future,
seen twists of fate.
CAPRICORN
you not only have the potential to ex-
(Feb 19 – Mar 20): ): Having
perience extra vivid and memorable
PISCES
perceptions. You could also wangle an
served as executive vice-president of
upgrade in the acuity and profundity of
the Hedonistic Anarchists Think Tank,
your senses, so that they will forever-
I may not seem like the most believ-
more gather in richer data. For best re-
able advocate of the virtues of careful
sults, set aside what you believe about
preparation, rigorous organization, and
the world, and just drink in the pure
steely resolve. But if I have learned any-
impressions. In other words, focus less
thing from consorting with hedonistic
on the thoughts rumbling around inside
anarchists, it's that there's not neces-
your mind and simply notice what's
sarily a clash between thrill-seeking
going on around you. For extra credit:
and self-discipline. The two can even be
Cultivate an empathetic curiosity with
synergistic. I think that's especially true
everything you'd like to perceive better.
for you right now, Pisces. The quality
AQUARIUS
(Jan 20 – Feb 18): What
kind of week will it be for you? It
and intensity of your playtime activities will thrive in direct proportion to your self-command.
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COMMENT >> SEX
Dumping: devotees, poly dreams and pounds Dan discusses violations of trust, fulfilment and sex as a diet incentive I'm a smart, professional woman in my
using my chair during sex—except with
fucker like you mean it. You can't be a
motherfucker again") might be an op-
kind of relationship he's in now, with its
mid-30s who dates the same. I also hap-
our roles reversed. Because I try to be
lesbian about this. No "taking a break,"
tion. But you two should start seeing a
perks and drawbacks, to the hypotheti-
pen to use a wheelchair; I was diagnosed
GGG, I consented, as long as she agreed
no "putting things on hold," no "schedul-
counselor together if you TTMFB, you
cal polyamorous scenarios he used to
shortly after my first birthday with a mo-
to couples therapy, which she did. In
ing an appointment" with your couples
should take things four times as slowly
contemplate, which would've had their
tor neuron disease. I have about as much
therapy, she said she had no idea I was
counselor. You're dumping her. The end.
this time, and she should get a phone
own perks and drawbacks. I'd say your
in a chair before we met—which
Your soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend needs to
that doesn't have a camera.
relationship is only doomed if you can't
is plausible, as it was a blind
understand that, as a direct result of her
date—and she just felt lucky
unbelievably selfish actions, she was
I'm a straight 32-year-old woman who has
when I showed up in a chair
promptly and unambiguously dumped.
been in a monogamous relationship with
and then didn't know how to
It's the only way this motherfucker will
a guy for two years. Recently, we took
My husband and I have been together for
tell me. So ... we've been work-
ever be able to wrap her head around
the plunge and moved in. Before moving
three years and we're not having as much
just how thoroughly she violated you.
in, we had experimented with some kinky
sex as we used to. A big part of the prob-
physical strength as a quadriplegic but I have full sensation. (Boy howdy, do I!) I am careful about who I date because of my physical dependence
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on the people around me. I am also wary of folks who call them-
ing it out.
bring yourself to take his "yes"—yes to you, yes to monoamory—for an answer.
selves "devotees." These are individuals
Until last night. We were out with
(It doesn't help that she lies to you—I
stuff. (I have never come so hard or fast as
lem: In the time we've been together, he's
with disability-related fetishes. They
friends, she asked me to take a picture
mean, excuse me, but who sets a friend
the first time I fucked him in the ass with
put on a lot of weight. I'm not looking to
gravitate toward amputees, but some
on her phone, and I found pics of me,
up on a blind date with someone in a
a strap-on.) Then he told me, after mov-
blame his weight gain for my libido issues.
are attracted to women in chairs. I'm
from the neck down (clothed, thank
wheelchair without mentioning that
ing in, that he had given some thought to
I just need to shut up and put out more,
not sure what about this bothers me so
god), and pics of my chair. I quickly sent
fact?) And now, thanks to her, pictures
poly relationships before committing to
and I'm working on that. But I'm wonder-
much; I suppose it feels reductionist, and
them to myself and then, later, checked
of you are floating around fetish web-
me. Now I am feeling insecure about the
ing if it's ethical to suggest incentivizing
I've spent my adult life becoming more
them on Google Images. My fears were
sites. Your soon-to-be-ex-girlfriend de-
viability of this relationship. Although he
his weight loss with more sex. Sex every
than a girl in a chair.
confirmed: She's been posting these
stroyed your sense of sexual safety and
claims no desire to be in a poly situation
time he drops three pounds followed by
I'm sure you can see where this is go-
photos, without my consent, to "devo-
shat all over the trust that had been
now, I can't help but feel that I alone will
sex once a week once he hits his target
ing. I started dating a lovely, successful,
tee" websites. I feel sick and heartbro-
placed in her by her dream girl. (That
ultimately not be able to fulfil him entirely.
weight? I don't think losing the beer belly
witty, beautiful woman a little more
ken. I haven't confronted her yet.
would be you, GIMP.) And for what? A
He is a soul mate who I can see growing
will make me want to drop my pants all
cheap thrill? Bragging rights?
with over time. But I worry this relation-
the time, but it couldn't hurt, right?
Dump the motherfucker already.
ship is doomed.
Like Boys Slimmer
Fem Fetish Frosh
than a year ago. As time progressed,
What do I do, Dan? In every other
it became clear that we were sexually
way, this woman's a catch, and I re-
compatible. Things have been great. At
ally care about her. At the same time,
And then, GIMP, after your ex has had
the eight-month point, I told my BFF
I feel like my trust has been horribly
some time to wallow in regret (you were
that this might be "the one." At the nine-
violated. Is it time to DTMFA?
the girl of her dreams!) and self-recrim-
This probably isn't what you want to
spond positively to the challenge—if
month point, she confessed to being a
Girl In Massive Pain
ination (how could she have been so
hear, FFF, but here goes: you alone will
he's not weepily sensitive about his
fucking stupid!), give her a call. Depend-
ultimately never be able to fulfil your
weight, if he likes set goals and specific
ing on what you hear—and hopefully
boyfriend entirely ... just as he alone will
rewards—then I think you should toss
you'll hear an extended apology and that
never be able to fulfil you entirely. One
this proposal on the table right next
she's in therapy—you can make up your
person simply can't be all things to an-
to that bag of Doritos. Of course, I
mind about whether you wanna TTMFB:
other person—sexually or otherwise—
couldn't give you the same advice if the
"take the motherfucker back."
devotee. I was crushed. But I trusted her, as I had gotten no icky feelings from her. Then she said that she wanted to try
Yes, GIMP, it's time to DTMFA. And you gotta dump the mother-
and unmet needs, unfulfilled desires and
genders were reversed because ... well,
It sounds like your girlfriend has many
unexplored possibilities are prices we
it looks like we're out of room. So we'll
good qualities, GIMP, and it sounds like
pay to be in LTRs. Monogamous, polyam-
have to leave the gendered politics of
you two clicked. Maybe your girlfriend
orous, Femdom, or whatever: all coupled
fat for a future column. V
can be salvaged. Maybe losing you will
people walk around feeling a little unful-
be the shock she needs to get help. If it
filled. (Single people, too.) Because no
Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly
is—if she went and got help of her own
one gets everything they want.
podcast) every Tuesday at thestrang-
accord, not because she thought it would
So, FFF, while some aspects of the poly-
win you back (because that wasn't on the
amorous lifestyle appeal to your boy-
table)—then bizarro DTMFA ("date the
friend, he has decided that he prefers the
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