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Brown, Black and Fierce Festival

Newly minted event inspired by the voices and experiences of IBPOC communities A few months ago, I published an interview with the fabulous folks of the Brown, Black and Fierce Collective who were seeking submissions for their eponymous festival this fall. Well, hold on to your pants because the festival lands this Saturday—November 7—and it looks like it is going to kick some serious ass.

A brief recap: the collective is dedicated to centering the experiences and voices of queer, trans* and two-spirit indigenous people, black people and people of colour (IBPOC). The collective and its festival are inspired by all the talent and power within IBPOC communities, who survive, heal and create every day in the face of much adversity. The festival is a one-day event broken up into two parts: workshops will happen through-

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out the day and will be followed by an evening of performances. It will be held at the Stanley Milner Library free of charge and open to all ages, though it prioritizes the attendance of IBPOC. (Confidential to my fellow white folks: if you go and are turned away due to lack of space, may I recommend gathering up everyone else who has been turned away and holding an impromptu conversation about how to be a white ally? And don't forget: reverse racism isn't a thing.)

Since the call for submissions this summer, the festival has received an overwhelming number of responses: there are more than 30 workshops and performances scheduled, with performers and facilitators coming in from all across North America—not bad

for a first-time festival. I had written in my previous column that this was going to be one of the most important arts events in Edmonton this year, and I stand by that assertion. Not only is it creating much-needed space for the voices and experiences of IBPOC, but it is firmly embracing art as a tool of learning; this is not a festival for passive observation.

Take a look at some of the workshops: Exploring Urgency, Accessibility, and Intersectionality as a Zinester of Colour; Anti(Patria) arca, a workshop focusing on the experiences of immigrant folks in feminist and queer activism; Emotional Topography of the City: A Map-Making Workshop; and The Elements of Kulture: A study of Critical Thought and Expression through Art as a Healing Tool.

The evening performances promise to be no less engaging or political. Performers include Marena, a folkloric dance group that was born from the love of dancing and the desire to share its members' Colombian cultural roots; Lynx Sainte-Marie, a disabled/chronically ill, non-binary/ genderfluid, Afro+Goth Poet of the Jamaican diaspora with ancestral roots indigenous to Africa (West, East and South) and the British Isles; and KazMega, who is not a rapper, nor is he a poet, nor is he a producer or composer, or beatmaker: he is a journeyman welder of artistic expression, trained to apply hot fiyah to seemingly inflexible topics and forge completely new yet sturdy observations.

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convinced that this event is going to be awesome, let me end with this: the collective put together a promo video on YouTube wherein people describe what "fierce" means to them. One of the respondents replied: "It means waking up every morning and not settling for just watching the world burn, but engaging with it and choosing to continue to love it even when things happen that are really hard to love." That's as fierce as it gets. V

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Turkey: next stop civil war?

Erdoğan has subverted democracy and aliented Turkish Kurds "You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the time..." begins Abraham Lincoln's famous aphorism about democracy—but in a multiparty democratic system, that is usually enough. In a parliamentary system like Turkey's, 49 percent of the popular vote gives you a comfortable majority of seats, and so Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will rule Turkey for another four years—if it lasts that long.

There will still be a Turkey of some sort in four years' time, of course, but it may no longer be a democracy, and it may not even have its present borders. In last Sunday's vote, Erdoğan won back the majority he lost in the June election, but the tactics he employed have totally alienated an important section of the population.

Kurds make up a fifth of Turkey's 78 million people. Most Kurds are pious, socially conservative Sunni Muslims, so they usually voted for Erdoğan's Justice and Development (AK) Party—which consequently won three successive elections (2003, 2007, 2011) with increasing majorities.

Then the Kurds stopped voting for Erdoğan, which is why he lost last June's election. In this month's election, he managed to replace those lost votes with nationalist voters who are frightened of a Kurdish secession, as well as simple souls who just want stability

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and peace—but he had to start a war to win them over.

Erdoğan threw Turkey's support firmly behind the rebels when the Syrian civil war broke out in 2011, mainly because as a devout Sunni Muslim he detested Bashar al-Assad's Alawite-dominated regime. He kept Turkey's border with Syria open to facilitate the flow of volunteers, weapons and money to the Islamist groups fighting Assad, including the Nusra Front and ISIS (which eventually became Islamic State).

He even backed Islamic State when it attacked the territory that had been liberated by the Kurds of northern Syria. That territory extends along the whole eastern half of Turkey's border with Syria, and in the end, despite Erdoğan's best efforts, the Syrian Kurds managed to repel ISIS's attacks. But this was the issue that cost Erdoğan the support of Turkish Kurds.

His solution was to restart the war against the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), the armed separatist movement that is based in the Kurdish-speaking northern provinces of Iraq. A ceasefire had

stopped the fighting between the Turkish government and the PKK for the past four years, but Erdoğan now needed a patriotic war against wicked Kurdish separatists in order to lure the nationalists and the naive into backing his party.

He duped the United States into supporting this war by allowing US bombers to use Turkish air-

the Syrian Kurds and warning that it may invade if the Syrian Kurdish proto-state (known as Rojava) tries to push further west and shut down the last border-crossing point that links Turkey to Islamic State.

At home, the independent institutions of a normal democratic state have been subverted one after another: the media, the police and the judiciary now generally serve Erdoğan.

State television, for example, gave 59 hours of coverage to Erdoğan's campaign in the past month.

All the other parties combined got six hours and 28 minutes.

So Erdoğan's AK won the election, but Turkey is no longer a real democracy. And since the half of the population that didn't vote for Erdoğan utterly loathes him, it won't be a very stable authoritarian state, either. In fact, it is probably teetering on the brink of civil war.

The people who loathe Erdoğan because he is destroying Turkey's free media, perverting its criminal justice system and robbing the state blind—he and his AK

The people who loathe Erdoğan because he is destroying Turkey’s free media, perverting its criminal justice system and robbing the state blind—he and his AK colleagues have been enthusiastically feathering their nests—will not turn to violence. bases and promising that Turkish planes would start bombing Islamic State, too. (In fact, Turkey has dropped only a few token bombs on IS; the vast majority of its bombs are falling on Kurds.)

The pay-off came on Sunday, when the votes of Turks who fear Kurdish separatism replaced the Kurdish votes that the AK Party lost last June. The problem is that the election is now over but the war will continue.

Indeed, it will get worse. The Turkish army is already shelling

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colleagues have been enthusiastically feathering their nests—will not turn to violence. The poor will not turn to violence either, even though the economic boom is over and jobs are disappearing.

But some of the Turkish Kurds will fight, and they will have the support of the Syrian Kurds just across the border. That will probably draw the Turkish army into invading northern Syria to crush the Kurds there—and once Turkey is fully involved in the Syrian civil war, all of southeastern Turkey (where Kurds are the majority) also becomes part of the combat zone.

When Mustafa Kemal Atatürk rescued a Turkish republic from the wreckage of the Ottoman empire after the First World War, he was determined to make it a European state. It was a fairly oppressive state at first, but over the decades it gradually turned into a democracy that operated under the rule of law.

That's over now. It took Erdoğan a dozen years in power to demolish that European-style democracy, but the job is done. As one despairing Turk put it recently, Turkey is becoming a Middle Eastern country.V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

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Budgeting with the D-word Despite paranoia about debt, sometimes it's necessary policy

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n advance of its first budget, Alberta's six-month-old NDP government warned Albertans that it would take until the 2019 – 20 fiscal year to get the province back into the black. According to the budget plan unveiled on October 27, the province will run a deficit of $6.1 billion this year, with the provincial debt reaching $36.6 billion by 2018. Meanwhile, Justin Trudeau was elected Canada's new Prime Minister on the promise to run deficits for the next three years.

Deficits, it seems, are in.

Small-c conservatives across the country are aghast. They've long framed deficits and debt as moral failings. In Alberta particularly, debt is seen a symptom of government excess that will invariably lead to bankruptcy and economic collapse. "If I had to grade the budget, I would give it a D for debt and deficits," quips Paige MacPherson, over the phone.

MacPherson, the Alberta director of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation (CTF), is part of the contingent of Albertans very strongly opposed to government debt. According to MacPherson and groups like the CTF, there's no reason for governments to ever rely on debt. Such groups describe budgetary deficits

using a common analogy: a government that accumulates debt is essentially the same as a family spending beyond its means, irresponsibly running up a credit card bill in order to fund unnecessary purchases. The truth, however, is somewhat more complicated.

At their core, deficits and debt are financial tools—and like all tools, they can be used well or poorly.

A family may be forced to rely on debt for any number of legitimate reasons, whether it's to pay for an emergency car repair or make ends meet after a parent becomes unemployed. The same way a family might use credit to get through an emergency, governments facing financial crises turn to deficit spending not only to keep essential programs and services running, but also to stimulate the economy. Ideally, we would have savings to deal with these situations, but reality is rarely so accommodating.

It's impossible to understand the current situation in Alberta without looking back, specifically at the government of Ralph Klein in the '90s. Faced with accumulated debt of $22.5 billion in March 1994 (equivalent to roughly $33 billion today), Klein's government instituted aggressive spending cuts to

government bureaucracy, health care, education and infrastructure in order to balance the budget, eliminating the debt in 2004.

MacPherson speaks glowingly about Klein's fiscal policy. "I think the proof is in the pudding when it comes to the improvement that low spending and low taxes had on our economy," she says. It's a view echoed by countless fiscally conservative Albertans.

Others paint a much less rosy picture of the province under Klein. In a February 23 opinion piece for the Edmonton Journal, Ricardo Acuña, a University of Alberta economist and director of the Parkland Institute, wrote that Klein "slowed down the economic recovery by putting thousands of people out of work" and "kept thousands of tradespeople and construction workers out of work while running up a multibillion-dollar infrastructure deficit."

At the end of the Klein era, the Department of Infrastructure and Transportation estimated it would require more than $7 billion to catch up on its infrastructure deficit. An additional $6.1 billion was needed for the deferred maintenance of roads, bridges and buildings.

John Rose, chief economist of the City of Edmonton, points out that a lack of spending on infrastructure has massive and long-lasting negative impacts on the provincial economy.

"People get concerned about a financial deficit, but they don't really grasp the significance of having an infrastructure deficit, and that's basically the trade-off," he says.

Deferring maintenance and new construction until the economy recovers makes the catch-up costs skyrocket, he explains, due to accelerating deterioration and the high cost of labour when the economy is hot. According to Rose, successive Progressive-Conservative governments have gotten their fiscal policy backwards.

"For decades here in Alberta, rather than having a counter-cyclical policy, where governments run deficits during bad periods and then run surpluses during good periods, we've had basically the opposite," he explains. "The provincial government has spent when the energy economy was doing quite well ... and then there's been a tendency to cut as soon as oil revenues go down."

The government has repeatedly failed to create significant savings, choosing instead to spend whatever oil revenues were available

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and make cuts when the money ran out. Klein, for instance, infamously spent $1.4 billion in oil revenues in 2006 with his "Ralph bucks" program, sending a $400 cheque to every Albertan rather than investing that money for future use—such as during the current recession.

There are many things Alberta could have done to avoid its current predicament: we could have saved oil revenues more aggressively; instituted a modest provincial sales tax when the federal government reduced the federal sales tax in 2006; or raised personal and corporate taxes. But the previous governments did none of those things, and so Rachel Notley's NDP government has inherited this mess. With minimal government savings, her choices are limited: cut spending, raise taxes or run a deficit. They've chosen a combination of moderate tax increases and deficit spending with very few cuts.

Rose's impressions of the current budget are positive overall. "Running a deficit during a period when the provincial economy is in recession is the appropriate policy," he says.

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Lack of housing Armed with a new Affordable Housing Strategy, the City of Edmonton is finally looking to make smart strides towards housing the city’s less fortunate over the next decade. Unfortunately, with no financial support from other orders of government, it looks like this plan—along with others in Alberta—is going to be dead in the water, at least in the short term.

The new Affordable Housing Strategy marks a shift away from the ineffective piecemeal approach to affordable housing that has dominated Canadian cities for far too long. Instead, it’s a strong plan structured around spreading

non-market housing across the city, emphasizing a need to tie housing to transit access, city amenities and most importantly, choice.

Rather than crowding as much affordable housing as possible into a few neighbourhoods, there will be options citywide, maximizing opportunities for low-income households to settle in areas that best suit their specific needs.

There was reason to believe that the Alberta NDPs would be on board, given the party’s stated commitment to pick up the slack after previous governments failed to deliver on the outcomes of a 10-year provincial plan, launched in 2008,

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to end homelessness. Instead, with extra spending heading everywhere from health and education to entrepreneurs looking to “get their ideas off the ground,” there seems to be nothing left for the Albertans who are already forgotten and truly in need.

Fortunately, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has pledged to significantly boost federal investment in “social infrastructure” to the tune of $20 billion over 10 years, prioritizing new housing and seniors facilities. With Edmonton and many other cities in Canada finally ready to take measured, progressive steps to create affordable housing, let’s hope Trudeau’s Liberals aren’t following the Alberta NDP’s lead in merely paying lip service to investing in one of Canada’s most pressing issues.V

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Maintaining government spending helps stabilize the economy, he notes, while aggressive cuts tend to exacerbate economic weakness and increase unemployment. While he—and just about everyone else, it seems—thinks the NDP budget is overly optimistic about a rebound in oil prices, he feels that the government is on the right track.

"It's a good time to borrow, because interest rates are low, and it's a good time to spend, because you're going to get more bang for your buck during a period of economic weakness than you are during a boom."

Although running a deficit and accumulating debt may be good policy choices, they do have long-term costs. By 2018, the annual cost to pay interest on our debt will in-

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crease from $722 million today to $1.3 billion—about 2.4 per cent of the year's total expenses. Incidentally, this is approximately how much the government spent on municipal infrastructure support in 2015.

The NDP doesn't just have to worry about the financial costs, either.

"The question really is, how long is the deficit sustainable, not just financially but politically," Rose says.

"A lot of people in Alberta are very paranoid about taking on debt."

Unless Albertans suddenly understand that government debt serves an important purpose in stabilizing the economy, Notley's government had better hope their resource predictions come true—the NDP's 2019 re-election hopes will likely hinge on the state of Alberta's deficit at that time.

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REVUE // FUSION

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Indian Fusion The Curry House Look past the long name for delicious Fijian-Indian fusion cuisine

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ome of the most interesting distillations of Indian food in town come about when that distinctive cuisine is expressed with a unique cultural influence. In addition to South Indian cuisine, which contrast the rich sauces and simmered meats we all know and love with starchier, often vegetarian dishes like masala dosa, idli and vada, we have Indian variants in town that show the influence of South Africa (Narayanni's), Sri Lanka (Kathir) or, perhaps most intriguingly, the influence of the Muslim chefs of Kolkata on Chinese cuisine (Masala Wok).

You can add to that list the clunkynamed Indian Fusion The Curry House, which not only offers both Indian and Fijian cuisine (and beer), but also takes advantage of its unique geographical position to serve these delicacies made with elk, bison, rabbit and duck—and, for good measure, lobster.

But I'm getting ahead of myself.

IFCH (if you'll allow me this unofficial acronym) is nestled in a comfortable brick-lined nook alongside the better-known Louisiana Purchase, with surprisingly nice atmosphere for a place that looks like a convenience store on the outside. It's snug and, as we saw on a Saturday night, fills up quickly. This is with good reason, as it turns out.

I was part of a group of six, perhaps the ideal size for an Indian food-tasting expedition, allowing as it does the

opportunity to sample widely while still getting more than a couple of bites from any given dish. Having a vegetarian in tow was no problem as Indian restaurants generally have lots of meatless options, though, as noted above, the novel meaty options were alluring indeed. After some deliberation we agreed on nine dishes to try, along with naan bread and saffron rice (and Fijian beer), and set to the task of devouring the large complimentary serving of crispy pappadums with mango chutney and spicy, acidic mixed pickle.

Fiji is closer to Hawaii than it is to India, but apparently the latter has rubbed off somehow on the tiny archipelago nation. IFCH offers more than a dozen Fijian dishes so you can observe the similarities. Indeed, the dal viti ($12.99) was not that different from a strictly Indian preparation of red lentils, tomatoes, onions and fragrant spices. No one seemed that crazy about the "house special" pumpkin chokha ($12.99) at the time, but when I tried the leftover portion at home the next day, I found the mashed gourd mixed with ghee, whole spices and curry leaves to be dazzlingly rich and savoury.

There was no disagreement that the palak paneer and shahi paneer— house-made soft cheese cooked in stewed greens, and a slightly sweet cashew-based sauce, respec-

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Indian Fusion The Curry House 10322 - 111 Street 780.885.5095 indianfusionrestaurant.ca tively—were highlights of the meal, especially as far as the vegetarian was concerned. Though a pescetarian, she was less taken with the fish Goan curry, but that's her problem. I can tell you the soft morsels of basa melted on the tongue, giving way to a stealthy spiciness lurking beneath the coconut aroma of the sauce.

For meat dishes, we experimented with the duck masala ($19.99) and lamb vindaloo ($16.99). The former was surprisingly bony, but the tender shreds of duck meat easily stood up to the complex masala seasoning which, at medium spice level, moistened one's brow without burning off the whole face. The lamb vindaloo, with its malt vinegar tang, was disappointing only in that five people opted to share one order.

In all, we were impressed by the quality of the food and the service, but we were even more impressed when the entire meal, including a round of drinks, tax and tip, came to $35 a person. Those factors, and its central location, make a good case for repeat visits and a deeper understanding of Indian-Fijian fusion.

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Fancy a history lesson with that pint?

Brewpubs should embrace our beer history, not skip it

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Sometimes you only see how cool something is upon reflection.

That's what happened after my summer travels this year: something I thought of as only kind of interesting grew into one of the things I talk about most.

Tucked away in Gatineau is a brewpub called Les Brasseurs du Temps. It opened in 2009 on the banks of the appropriately named Brewers Creek, on the site of the Capital Region's first brewery, which opened in 1821. Les Brasseurs is a pleasant, enjoyable pub.

On the lower floor you can sit right beside the creek—fabulous on a summer day. They have 12 housebrewed beers on tap every day, offering a wide range of styles.

The beers were enjoyable, if somewhat uneven. I quite liked their Blanche de Koralie, a witbier that was sharp and fresh with a delicate citrus edge. La Nuit Des Temps, their stout, also offered a pleasant sip. Les Brasseurs' other beers were, at times, out of balance: either too big or too small for the style—but all were honest, well-crafted attempts. Overall it was a positive experience, but I kept returning to one other feature of the pub, which I appreciated at the time and thought cool, but didn't think was that big a deal.

Les Brasseurs du Temps has a built-in beer history museum. It consists of a spiral descending walkway that connects the upper and lower floors. The walls have a series of curated exhibits that tell the story of beer in the capital region. Tahere are old maps, draw-

ings and photos, with brewing artifacts supplementing the written narratives of the origins and development of brewing in the region. It also offers some basic lessons on beer and the brewing process.

The servers encourage you take your pint (or in my case, a couple of my sampler tray glasses) and wander down the walkway at your leisure. The exhibits, offered in both French and English, are quite strong – clearly well researched and the story well told. I learned a few things during my half hour perusing the installation.

It's an ingenious idea, seamlessly integrating a beer drinking experience with serious beer education.

Upon further reflection, I think I like the idea so much for two reasons. First, it does the best job I've seen at offering consumers substantive beer education. Most places offer some kind of info-graphic about how beer is made or showing off its ingredients, and that's the extent of their educational efforts.

Some may promote their own story, but rarely do their efforts place their operation in the context of the industry as a whole. Les Brasseurs du Temps has created a celebration of beer in general. Sure, it helps that their pub is located on historically significant real estate, but they don't use the museum to play up their brewery. It honours who came before.

Second, it incorporates the museum into the pub experience: it's not some separate room that no one goes into; it's not something they

offer for five bucks a head. It is just there—part of the pub. If you want a creek-side table, you walk through the museum. You can grab a pint and spend a couple minutes perusing a panel or two, or spend a half hour taking in the whole thing.

It is also not too intrusive: if you are there on a hot date or to talk with friends you can give the museum a pass. (Although personally, I think a beer history museum would make a hot date even hotter.)

The concept makes something stuffy—history—accessible to all pub-goers. Plus, it has the added effect of creating a stronger appreciation of beer in general. When you read the stories of the first brewers, it makes beer seem more anchored in local community, more human. I think this kind of thing can only increase consumers' understanding and enjoyment of beer.

As I have said in previous columns, Edmonton has a surprisingly rich beer history. Imagine if an establishment in town installed some panels talking about the origins of the old Molson's Brewery, or Bohemian Maid's quirky history on the south banks of the river valley? It would enrich people's sense of place and their appreciation for beer at the same time. That is a whole sight better than telling your customers, ad nauseam, that beer is made from water, malt, hops and yeast.V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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PREVUE // DANCE

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A veritable syllabus in dance history

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f the great American modern dance companies that are still around, there aren't many that remain on Alberta Ballet's bucket list. In the past handful of years, the company's presented works by Alvin Ailey, Twyla Tharp and Pilobolus, and this coming weekend, Paul Taylor Dance Company makes its first-ever tour through the province. For dance nuts, it's almost like being treated to a syllabus in dance history.

OK, so who is Paul Taylor? Now 85, the man is one of the last still-kicking choreographers of the "second generation" of modern dance (the first defined by the likes of Isadora Duncan, Ruth St Denis and Loie Fuller).

Taylor danced for George Balanchine,

Merce Cunningham, and Martha Graham before forming his own company in 1954, and has since created well over 100 dances for his corps of 16 dancers.

Parisa Khobdeh, who has danced for Taylor since 2003, describes him as a quintessential gentleman, a southern charmer.

"When I think about his work, it's not so much about what he is saying, it's what you feel. As an artist, he's so resilient; he's made two works a year, every year," she says, describing that Taylor's inspiration seems to come from anywhere; for his signature work, Esplanade, he was inspired by seeing a woman run to catch a bus.

"He's an observer, dance is just his

medium. I feel like that man leaves no stone unturned."

At this weekend's show, a diverse representation of Taylor's repertoire is on tap. The tantric Piazzolla Caldera uses the tango to explore lust—it's about sex, Khobdeh says, but she uses a different word that she expressly asks us not to use in print.

"It's hedonistic at times. It feels very sensual and sexual, but it has nothing to do with love."

Company B is Taylor's juxtaposition of home and the homefront during the Second World War, set to the well-worn harmonies of the Andrews Sisters. The piece splits the stage with bouncy, gleeful polkas backdropped by images of men at war.

Khobdeh describes it as two different levels of consciousness, where one can be enjoying life, but knowing that terrible things are happening.

"It's almost like a social hypnosis," she says. "The foreground tends to be this happy dancing, the music can be cheerful, but then in the background you see these images of war and destruction, and somewhere between these two places is this dance that exists."

The program ends with Taylor's seminal and still-loved Esplanade, a piece that celebrates, quite candidly, the joy of dance. Through a series of five sections set to Bach's violin concertos, the dancers illustrate varied

Fri, Nov 6 & Sat, Nov 7 (7:30 pm) Jubilee Auditorium, $20 – $48 scenes of human experience, from playful hopscotch to baseball slides to passionate dives into each other's arms.

"It's completely pure dance," she says. "As a dancer, that dance allows me to experience the simple things, like when I put my hand on my partner's shoulder and look at him in the eyes, or chase him across the stage as if we are racing like young children, or flocking like birds, or cutting the space like water. It's cathartic. It's so satisfying."

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PREVUE // MUSICAL THEATRE

Evangeline Until Sun, Nov 22 (7:30 pm; weekend matinees at 1:30 pm) Directed by Bob Baker Citadel Theatre, $30 – $99.75

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t's one of those grim chapters of Canadian history the country likes to overlook, for the most part: The Great Upheaval was one of a few names given to when the British forced the Acadian French out of what are now the Maritime provinces. Between 1755 and

1764, almost the entire culture scattered (historical estimates are that 11 500 out of 14 100 Acadians were uprooted). Some were sent back to Europe, but many ended up in America, settling in places like Louisiana, where their culture was more acceptingly knit into

the prevalent one. But Evangeline Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's epic poem of 1847, zeroes in on one particular take on that tragedy: the Upheaval's forced separation of two lovers on their wedding day.

When Ted Dykstra read the poem, introduced to him by his then-wife years ago, he knew it was something worth adapting.

"It was an incredible story," he notes, from his Toronto home, shortly before flying out for the show's Edmonton opening. "The poem itself is very ornate and flowery, and of a certain era—Victorian, I suppose. Not my taste in poetry,

but the story underneath, and the notion of it, and Longfellow's love for what these people went through, his sympathy and empathy for them, and his description of their community, was all amazing. I knew there was a show there."

The epic-scale musical—with a cast of 26, plus a 14-piece orchestra—arrives at the Citadel this week after a decade spent in development. Its narrative circles the titular Evangeline and search for her love, Gabriel, in the wake of the Upheaval. Dykstra—Canadian theatre royalty, having created Two Pianos Four Hands among myriad other writter/ director/performer accolades—expanded on the poem: Longfellow's original doesn't offer much insight into what Gabriel did while Evangeline searched, for example, some-

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thing that Dykstra delves into here.

The show's inaugural run was in Charlottetown in 2013; this remount co-produced by the Charlottetown Festival, again played that city before making its way here. And while it's been tightened up from its 2013 version, Dykstra notes thta the compassionate heart of the story remains unchanged.

"The most necessary things, I think, are to show what they lost, and in order to do that, you had to start the show with what they had," he explains. "Getting to know and love them, and know that the English are surrounding them, and that their rights are being taken away slowly, but that they're still happy, always hoping for the best. And then this horrible thing happens."

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The Last Five Years B

radley Moss was very clever when he chose to set The Last Five Years in an alley stage.

Throughout the one-act musical, we see Cathy (Patricia Zentilli) and Jamie (Jeremy Baumung) singing their hearts out at either end of the long, narrow corridor, surrounded by the audience on both sides and with a grand piano (which might as well be a brick wall) plunked down between them.

As the show progresses—forwards in time for Jamie and backwards for Cathy—the actors remain totally isolated on their respective ends of the narrow stage. As they sing to each other—neither one actually there to listen to their partner—the urge for them to bridge the distance grows almost overwhelming.

When they fi nally do come together, at the middle point where their timelines intersect, it's not quite as satisfying as you imagined it would be. Much like their relationship itself, their union briefly gives them more energy, but then it's back to business as usual, relegated to their own tiny plots of stage.

Because the show is split so evenly between Cathy and Jamie, it of-

ten feels like we're watching two completely separate stories. Our attention bounces back and forth between them like a tennis match.

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Jamie's story unfolds chronologically and therefore quite conventionally. The young novelist fi nds success, gets the girl, has the perfect life and screws it all up. What saves this half of the play from being a boring, reheated narrative are the various storytelling modes that Baumung uses to tell it. His standout scene comes in the form of a Jewish Christmas story that he tells to an empty chair where Cathy should be sitting.

Cathy's story is just as familiar in substance, but its reversed chronology makes it much more engaging.

We begin with her heartbreak and move backwards through anger, rationalization, love and eventually her giddy joy after their fi rst date.

Ironically, the happier Cathy gets the sadder it is to watch her story unfold. We know what's coming, and her youthful optimism only makes the show's ending all the more painful.

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One end of a relationship // Ian Jackson

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WHAT’S ON AT UALBERTA? FAB Gallery: 50th Anniversary Exhibition: Art & Design 2.0 Featuring U of A technicians who have contributed to the continued quality and success of the department.

Nov 3 - 28 FAB Gallery 1-1 Fine Arts Building

Studio Theatre: Iphigenia At Aulis

50th Anniversary Exhibition: Art & Design 3.0 Featuring award-winning faculty and researchers in the areas of visual fundamentals, industrial design, visual communication design, painting, sculpture, printmaking, drawing and intermedia.

Dec 8 - 19 Jan 5 - 9 FAB Gallery 1-1 Fine Arts Building

Euripides translation by Don Taylor

A classic presented through a contemporary lens.

Nov 26 to Dec 5 @ 7:30 pm $5 preview Wed, Nov 25 @ 7:30 pm Opening night Thurs, Nov 26 @ 7:30 pm No show Sun, Nov 29 2 for 1 Mon, Nov 30 @ 7:30 pm Matinee Thurs, Dec 3 @ 7:30 pm Timms Centre for the Arts

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The Best Brothers Until Sun, Nov 15 (7:30 pm; 2 pm Sunday matinees) Directed by John Hudson Backstage Theatre, $15 – $27

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he Best Brothers is a play of extremes. The show veers from kooky comedy (an elderly woman named Bunny decides to get a dog after an ayahuasca trip) to grim reality (after Bunny's death, her two adult sons are forced to deal with all their unresolved feelings about their mother).

In the midst of all this heartbreak and humour, Garrett Ross and Andrew MacDonald-Smith deliver a pair of perfectly polarized performances.

As Hamilton Best, the older brother, Ross is a ticking time bomb of repressed neurotic energy. He speaks with a bulgy-eyed pomposity reminiscent of Timothy Spall, and chokes out raspy criticisms of his flighty little brother. Ross has great fun with his tightly wound character and lands some amazing lines, like his delivery of a single word to describe their estranged father: "Not Charles.

Chuck."

As Kyle Best, the baby of the family, MacDonald-Smith has his finger in the electrical outlet for the duration of the play. His manic, cheery energy crashes into Ross like a hurricane beating against a cliff, gradually eroding it away as Hamilton wearily concedes to Kyle's harebrained ideas.

The lightning-quick repartee between the two brothers relies upon the strong chemistry that the actors share. They go through all the little bureaucratic struggles that will be familiar to anyone who's lost a loved one: writing the obituary, delivering the eulogy and having to figure out what to do with that damned dog.

Kyle's painfully pleasant introduction before Hamilton gives his mother's eulogy is MacDonald-Smith's golden moment in the play (it's always fun to watch a good actor play a character who's acting terribly).

Ross' time to shine comes when he finally explodes—not at Kyle, but at Enzo the greyhound, who he ultimately blames for killing Bunny, ending his marriage and replacing him in his mother's affections.

The greatest pleasure in the play comes from watching both actors slip on some fancy gloves and a hat and take on the role of Bunny Best.

Hamilton's Bunny is vastly different from himself, whereas Kyle's is quite similar, suggesting the closeness (or distance) each brother felt in his relationship with their mother.

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40 Below Volume 2 A

ccording to the Weather Network, we are currently in the midst of a "rapidly strengthening El Niño event" which threatens to bring on the warmest winter since 1998.

For lovers of ice and snow and temperatures that freeze your eyelashes together, this is undoubtedly disastrous news. Fortunately, 40 Below Volume 2: Alberta's Winter Anthology is here to fill you with familiar shivers—and it promises to be "70 percent colder!" than 2013's Volume 1, which focused exclusively on Edmonton.

Like any anthology, 40 Below is a mixed bag of stories, poems and essays, some of which shine a little brighter than others. Gary Garrison's "The Blizzard of '89" perfectly captures the self-aggrandizing bluster that we spout to people in other cities about how strong we are to survive in our harsh landscape. In "North Saskatchewan," Jennifer Delisle gets us to peek beneath the river's icecrusted surface at the walleye and pike who live on throughout the winter. There are 61 pieces in total, catering to every possible taste and interest.

The only disappointment of Alberta's Winter Anthology is that it doesn't quite live up to its intended scope. Although its subtitle promises a province-wide perspective,

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Now available Wufniks Press, $21.95 Volume 2 is still dominated by Edmonton stories. There are plenty of familiar places referenced throughout the book, from the Italian market in Thomas Trofimuk's "Brumal" to Putrella the diaper-scented plant at the Muttart Conservatory in Diana S Adams' "Corpse Flowers."

This Edmonton focus doesn't necessarily hurt the collection, but it does make you wonder how readers in other parts of the province will react to the book. A few stories do take us to Calgary and the Rockies and Head-Smashed-In-Buff alo Jump, but none of these places are depicted as extensively or with such self-critical love as the capital city.

Still, since most pieces don't have a strong connection to any location in particular, readers from across Alberta should be able to identify with them.

"The day came when all that could be said of Winter had been said," writes Natasha Clark in "Old Man Winter." But after finishing Volume 2, one gets the feeling that this project could keep going for many years to come.

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DANCE BOUGE DE LÀ: BEDTIME! • Horizon Stage, 1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Combining movement with theatrics and multimedia effects this contemporary dance piece • Nov 7, 2pm • $12, all ages

BRAZILIAN ZOUK DANCE • Spazio Performativo, 10816-95 St NW • 780.974.4956 • hello@ludiczouk.com • ludiczouk.com • Drop-in Brazilian zouk social dance classes.

Classes are inclusive; everyone is welcome. No partner needed • Every Wed, 7:30pm-9pm. Runs until Dec 16 • $18 (single class), $150 (ten classes)

EBDA BALLROOM DANCE • Lions Seniors Recreational Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.893.6828 • Nov 7, 8pm

MYTHS AND LEGENDS • ATB Financial Arts Barns Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • khdanceassociation.org • Myths and Legends honours the myths of our ancestral gods. The Company will be featuring new works depicting the legends of Poseidon, Hades & Persephone and Aphrodite & Eros as well as a remount of Ms. Hughes’ critically acclaimed “Cycles” • Nov 7, 8pm • $10-$28

PAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANY • Alberta Ballet • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • One of the premier companies in the world for American modern dance, the Paul Taylor Dance Company has been pioneering and presenting masterful modern works for 60 years • Nov 6-7, 7:30pm

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm. All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

UNDERGROUND SHOWCASE CALGARY TAKE OVER • DV8 Underground, 8130 Gateway Blvd • patentleatherburlesque@gmail.com • Featuring performers from Calgary • Nov 8, 8-10:30pm • $10

FILM AN INTERACTIVE MOVIE EVENT: GREASE • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • sclibrary.ab.ca • Calling all Pink Ladies and T-Birds! Grease (rated PG) is the word! Grab the poodle skirts and leather jackets, and transport back to the 1950s for a cult classic.

Costumes and props are encouraged • register online at sclibrary.ab.ca or call 780.410.8600 • Nov 6, 7-9pm • Free

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley Milner Library Theatre, bsmt, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7070 • Film screening every Wed, 6:30pm • Free

EARTH'S GENERAL STORE - DOWNTOWN • 10150-104 St • michael@egs.ca • Saturday Documentary Screening: Cowspiracy; Nov 7, 7-9pm; Free

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • 780.439.5285 • edmontonfilmsociety@gmail.com • royalalbertamuseum.ca • royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/movies/movies.cfm • Tall in the Saddle Series: The Man From Laramie (Nov 9)

FROM BOOKS TO FILM • Stanley A. Milner, 7 Sir Winston

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Masterworks: signature pieces by some of Alberta’s brightest fine craft stars; Oct 10-Dec 24 • Less Is More: artwork by Keith Walker; Oct 24-Nov 28

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Tyler Los-Jones: A Panorama Protects its View: Jan 23-Jan 31, 2016 • Charrette Roulette: Language; Jul 18-Nov 15 • Sincerely Yours:

By Alberta artist Chris Cran; Sep 12-Jan 3 • Rough Country: The strangely familiar in mid-20th century Alberta art; Oct 3-Jan 31 • Living Building Thinking: Art and Expressionism; Oct 24-Feb 15 • She's All That: artwork by Dana Holst; Oct 24-Feb 15 • Open Studio Adult Drop-In: Wed, 7-9pm; $18/$16 (AGA member) • All Day Sundays: Art activities for all ages; Activities, 12-4pm; Tour; 2pm • Late Night Wednesdays: Every Wed, 6-9pm

Edmonton Park, 7000-143 St • fortedmontonpark.ca • Watch the stage and screen merge as attendees celebrate some of the most exciting and magical songs and dances from the early years of movie making • Nov 12-14 • $23.70

Landscape Up Close: artwork by Leslie Poole; Oct 17-Nov 7

SNAP GALLERY • Society of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Jule & McGarth; Sep 27-Nov 7

SOUTHGATE CENTRE • Southgate Centre, 5015-111 St • 780.435.3721 • Visit the Canadian premiere of the Van Gogh Museum Edition Collection, consisting of nine carefully selected

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa-art.com • Kindred: artwork by Karen Blanchet; Nov 3-Nov 27

WEST END GALLERY • 10337-124 St • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Ken Faulks, An Exhibition of New Work; Nov 7-19 • Glen Simple; Nov 14-20

STORYTELLING WORKSHOP • Edmonton Public Library - Clareview Branch, 3808-139 Ave • Learn how to tell your own stories in your own words. Generate ideas for stories from your own life, craft them into tellable tales and build confidence to tell these stories, without notes, to an audience • Nov 5, 6:30-8:30pm • Free (tickets at Eventbrite) UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Reading Series: Most Mon (except holidays), 7pm, Sep-Mar; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5 (door) WRITERPALOOZA AND BOOK SIGNING • Beaumont

AUDREYS BOOKS • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487

Library, 5700-49 St, Beaumont • 780.929.5974 • E.R. Yatscoff will be signing copies of "Final Response". Also in attendance will be seven local authors • Nov 10, 6-8pm

• audreys.ca • Laurel Deedrick-Mayne & Caterina Edwards Reading and Signing; Nov 5, 7pm • Michelle Ward-Kantor &

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11 O'CLOCK NUMBER • The Backstage Theatre, 10330 84 Ave (North Side of the ATB Financial Arts Barns) • 90 minutes of improvised entertainment that unveils scenes, songs and choreographed numbers completely off the cuff based on audience suggestions • Every Fri, starting Sep 25Dec 18 then Jan 22-Jun 24, 11pm • $15 (online, at the door) • grindstonetheatre.ca THE BEST BROTHERS • Shadow Theatre, ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.434.5564 • shadowtheatre. org • After losing their free-spirited mother in a freak accident, feuding brothers Kyle and Hamilton Best are forced to make her final arrangements together • Oct 28-Nov 15

THE CARROT GALLERY • 9315-118 Ave • Featuring the work of two local artists, Mark Hughes and Naomi Pahl • Until the end of Nov

CHIMPROV • Citadel's Zeidler Hall, 9828-101A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • Every Sat, 10pm • $12 (door or buy in adv at TIX on the Square) • Until Jun

CREATIVE PRACTICES INSTITUTE • 10149-122 ST, 780.863.4040 • creativepracticesinstitute.com • Living Room: artwork by Jeffrey Klassen; Oct 14-Nov 7

DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Be Your Own Bird: artwork by Cindy Revell; Oct 14-Nov 7

DIE-NASTY • The Backstage Theatre at the ATB Financial Arts Barns, 10330-83 Ave • communications@varsconatheatre.com • die-nasty.com • Live improvised soap opera • Runs every Mon, 7:30-9:30pm • Until May 30, 2016 (no show Dec 21 or 28) • $14 or $9 with a $30 membership; at the door (cash) or at tixonthesquare.com

DC3 ART PROJECTS • 10567-111 St • 780.686.4211 • dc3artprojects.com • Exhibiting Sound; Oct 14-Nov 14

DOUGLAS UDELL GALLERY (DUG) • 10332-124 St • douglasudellgallery.com • Dystopia: artwork by Jessica Korderas; Oct 31-Nov 14

EVANGELINE • Shoctor Theatre, Citadel Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • Evangeline is the epic story of star-crossed lovers Evangeline and Gabriel, torn apart on their wedding day as a result of the British expulsion of the Acadians from Atlantic Canada in 1755 • Oct 31-Nov 22

FRONT GALLERY • 12323-104 Ave • thefrontgallery.com • Kari Duke & Tom Gale; Nov 12, 7-9pm GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Land Shadows: artwork by Annette Sicotte; Nov 6-Dec 20; Opening reception: Nov 6, 6pm • Lake, Land, and Sky: artwork by Annnette Sicotte; Nov 6-Dec 20

GIRLS' NIGHT OUT • St Albert Theatre Troupe, Kinsmen Hall 47 Riel Drive, St Albert • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre. com • Four women stop for dinner at the establishment owned by the ex-husband of one of them. Between the salad and entrée, he ends up dead. Each has a reason to wish him dead, but perhaps one did more than wish • Nov 5-8, 12-15, 19-21

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Gallery walls: Maze: Mixed media works by Stephen Ferris; Oct 17-Nov 30

THE GLORIOUS 12TH BY RAYMOND STOREY • Concordia University of Edmonton, Trish and Al Huehn Theatre, 7128 Ada Boulevard • 780.479.9269 • howarth.caroline@ concordia.ab.ca • concordia.ab.ca • The MacKay family fears that their way of life is under siege. Into this atmosphere, opportunistic Klansmen cross the Canadian border to prey on the anxiety of citizens • Nov 6-8, Nov 31

GLENROSE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL • 10230-111 Ave • artbynv.com • Alberta Landscapes: Large scale acrylic mixed media paintings by Natasha Vretenar; Oct 20-Dec 14

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • MAIN SPACE: 13th Annual Artist in Residence Exhibition; Oct 22-Nov 21

THE LAST FIVE YEARS • C103, 8529 Gateway Blvd • theatrenetwork.ca • Novelist Jamie and actress Cathy fall hopelessly in love. However, in the city that never sleeps, the lure of professional success can be a dividing force. An intimate, musical deconstruction of a five-year love affair, told both forwards and in reverse • Oct 27-Nov 15

JEFF ALLEN ART GALLERY (JAAG) • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 109 St, 78 Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Artists Edmonton Japanese Community Association; Oct 8-Nov 11 • Artist Wendy Morris; Nov 12-Dec 16

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

LANDO GALLERY • 103, 10310-124 St • 780.990.1161 • landogallery.com • Group Selling Exhibition; until Nov 10

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

LATITUDE 53 • 10242-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Intersecting Sets: artwork by Sarah Burwash, Sweet Smelling Ashes; and Willa Downing; Oct 2-Nov 14

NICE WORK…IF YOU CAN GET IT • John L. Haar

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St

MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain •

THE SOUNDS OF MOVIES • Capitol Theatre - Fort

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • scottgallery.com •

com • Alberta Spirit: Acaca Alberta Community Art Clubs Association; Oct 1-Nov 28

BUGERA MATHESON GALLERY • 10345-124 St • bugeramathesongallery.com • Poem for Francis Beans Boyfriend: artwork by Casey McGlynn; Nov 6-20; Artist reception: Nov 6, 6-9

METRO • Metro at the Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Marlon: On the Waterfront; Nov 8 (4:15pm), Nov 9 (9:30pm), Nov 11 (7pm) • Relish Fest: Food On Film; Nov 6-7 • REEL FAMILY CINEMA: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (Nov 7), Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown (Nov 14), • STAFF PICS: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (Nov 9) • TURKEY SHOOT: Entourage (Nov 19), Fantastic Four (Dec 17)

SING-A-LONG-A SOUND OF MUSIC • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the iconic movie, the classic smash hit 'Sing-a-Long-a' musical will be screened in its complete and unedited magnificence to the delight of Julie Andrews fans everywhere • Nov 6, 7:30pm • $22

780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca • Out of Bounds: The Art of Lynn Malin; Sep 5-Nov 15

VAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • visualartsalberta.

St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • Frozen Asset: art by Tony Stallard; Sep 22-Nov 28 • Posed and Poised: artwork by Andrzej Maciejewski & Juliana Rempel; Nov 5-28; Opening reception: Nov 5, 6-8:30pm

• 780.407.7152 • friendsofuah.org/mcmullen-gallery • Father Douglas: Inspired by William Blake's writings Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience • Oct 24-Dec 6

• Robert@politik.io • picatic.com/givemeshelter • Canadian premiere of the powerful award-winning documentary titled, “Give Me Shelter” • Nov 6, 5:30pm • $25 (full pass), $50 (door), $125 (VIP)

ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave •

Alberta Alumni Association centenary; Sep 25-Jan 23

ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron

Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Films adapted from books every Fri afternoon at 2pm • Schedule: Lone Survivor (Nov 6),]

POLITIK PRESENTS - THE OFFICIAL CANADIAN PREMIERE OF KATIE CLEARY'S "GIVE ME SHELTER" • El Cortez Cantina, 8230 Gateway Boulevard

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA • 8555 Roper Road • PAA@gov.ab.ca • 780.427.1750 • culture.alberta.ca/ paa/eventsandexhibits/default.aspx • Voices from Our Past: artwork by Katherine Braid; Sep 25-Jan 23

Theatre, 10045-156 St • 780.420.1757 • It's the Roaring Twenties and a cast of outrageous characters gather in New York to celebrate the wedding of wealthy playboy Jimmy Winter. But things don't go as planned when the playboy meets Billie Bendix, a bubbly and feisty bootlegger who melts his heart • Oct 28-Nov 7, 7:30-9:30pm • $20 (adult), $15 (student/senior)

multicentre.org • Heritage Handmade Hauliday; Nov 14, 10am-3pm • The Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts Exhibition; Oct 30-Nov 25

ONCE • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • jubileeaudito-

Anne Street, St Albert • MuseeHeritage.ca • 780.459.1528 • museum@artsandheritage.ca •The Street Where You Live; Sep 8-Nov 15

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Timothy Christian "Brought to Light" Book Launch; Nov 6, 7pm • Dr. E. D. Blodgett & Dr. Manijeh Mannani "Speak Only of the Moon" Reading & Signing; Nov 7, 2pm • 40 Below: Volume 2 Book Launch; Nov 8, 2pm • Too Far Gone Edmonton Launch; Nov 9, 7pm

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nspired by Rachel Boynton's 2005 documentary of the same name, Our Brand is Crisis is just blurry enough in its mélange of fact and fiction to keep itself from having to fully commit itself to any single tack. Chronicling a Bolivian presidential election and the duelling campaigns managed by rival US-based consulting groups, the film, produced by George Clooney and Grant Heslov, written by Peter Straughan (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, The Men Who Stare at Goats) and directed, for some reason, by David Gordon Green (George Washington, Prince Avalanche), is almost many things: political satire, campaign procedural, activist drama, screwball comedy. It's also almost quite good. If nothing else, it certainly functions as a showcase for the talents and charisma of Sandra Bullock and Billy Bob Thornton, who play the masterminds whose Machiavellian maneuvers are in-

strumental to selling their respective candidates, or rather, brands, to the Bolivian voting public.

Outwardly neurotic "Calamity" Jane (Bullock) and outwardly cool Pat Candy (Thornton) seem to live only for political bloodsport.

"There is only one wrong: losing," goes one of the film's more thudding lines of dialogue, which emphasizes the characters' cynicism to such a degree that you just know some kind of more or less baloney moral awakening is coming sooner or later. (FYI, it's later, quite late actually, and indeed feels pretty phony and forcedly feel-good.) Jane and Pat's rivalry and witty exchange of references to everyone from Lau Tzu to Warren Beatty is a kind of sex, harkening back to comedies from the era before Hollywood was allowed to show actual sex. Our Brand is Crisis seems more genuinely interested in that rivalry, or that sex,

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To be sure, there's no point in Our Brand is Crisis where its authors make an all-out blundering move; rather, the film coasts on hijinks and the vaguest sort of liberal sentiment that almost anyone watching this movie will feel on board with. It's entertaining enough, but do yourself a favour and see the documentary. That's where the real story is.

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An Edwardian romance

A bearable lightness of being A Room with a View captures a certain romantic kismet Though taken from the E M Forster novel upon which it is based, the movie's title could easily be describing a cinema. The movies were in their infancy during the Edwardian era in which A Room with a View (1985) is set, and cinemas were not yet a fixture of urban landscapes, but it's worth noting that some of the esthetic distinctions of this Merchant-Ivory production harken back to the silent era, such as the use of descriptive title cards and the Richard Robbins score, so brimming with accent and illustration as to at times negate the need for dialogue altogether. Everything in A Room with a View emphasizes lightness above all. And maybe a uniquely English lightness. The incredible ease with which a social faux pas scandalizes the characters, the rampant repression, the swinging of canes and positioning of parasols, the flowery phrasing of even desperate feelings—"I do declare we're lost!" I say, it wouldn't be too hyperbolic to call A Room with a View a sort of pornography for Anglophiles. I've only just seen it for the first time, thanks to its recently having been released by the Criterion Collection, and I confess it's all a bit cucumber-sandwichy for my

tastes, though I know it is beloved, and it isn't lost on me that its makers really nailed a certain fantasy of innocence and romantic kismet.

The title is directly referenced in the very first scene as something promised but not received. Uppermiddle-class lady Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter in a star-making role) and her much older cousin-chaperone Charlotte Bartlett (Maggie Smith) are vacationing in Florence. The view from their quarters—in a pensione lousy with fellow Britons—is a disappointment. But the kindly, though too-forward, Mr Emerson (Denholm Elliott) and his brooding blonde son George (Julian Sands) are kind enough to swap rooms. It soon becomes apparent that George and Lucy would fancy swapping a lot more, but decorum, onlookers and the clown-like outfits the ladies are forced to wear keep these young lovers for getting up to much loving, save this: there is a day spent in the countryside; George at one point cries out, "Beauty! Trust! Joy!" from some tree branches which will soon collapse under his flamboyant pretensions; eventually Lucy comes upon George in a calmer moment, gazing

at the woods, and George leaps at her to plant a big one on her lips.

Charlotte witnesses this and it's game over. Back to England.

Where Lucy for some reason decides to marry Cecil Vyse (Daniel Day-Lewis), a cartoon pompous snob who looks like he might shatter if you knocked him over—and, let me tell you, this guy can't kiss.

Good thing fortune contrives a way to bring the Emersons back into Lucy's orbit. There's another bucolic scene where George gets bare-naked with Lucy's brother and a vicar (Simon Callow, who grasps the temperature of this material better than just about anybody). Wrestling, giggling and splashing about is involved. The men are intruded upon by Cecil, Lucy and Lucy's mom and Lucy sees George's willy, and I wonder if that seals their fate. I won't tell you more, but there is much incident, accident, reversals and quite lovely sunlight. The film's charms are many but they are not the sort that resonate with any aspect of human behaviour with which I am familiar. When you get this English, or this Edwardian, or, rather, late Victorian, really, it's like science fiction, I suppose. V

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he Scouts Guide to the Zombie Apocalypse shows up about five years late to its cultural crazing-out moment (all that late-'00s zombiemania). But beyond its tardy, fitful contribution to the undead evolution, this teen flick's apparently never heard of the actual women's revolution. So we're treated to some B-horror fun here and there, increasingly buzzkilled by horny-moan, male-it-in humour.

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By Me scenario sees a zombie epidemic break out from a lab, thanks to one overly curious, floor-mopping doofus (in the movie's most patient and funniest sequence), then confronted by the town of Deer Field's scouting buddies: average-Joe-hero Ben (Tye Sheridan), sex-obsessed dickhead Carter (Logan Miller) and well-meaning schlub Augie (Joey Morgan). The tone of most gorescenes is judged just right, from the

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It's this mix of blood and lust that spatteringly sputters. The script follows Carter's lead, indulging not just in juvenile jokes (the hanging-on-toa-zombie's-dick that's stretched beyond any playground-level amusement whatsoever) but in a primeval, T&A-obsessed, slagging-off of the hot-to-trot sex. The one time a girl's sexually assertive, she gets fatally cunnilingus-ed for it; Denise help-

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Sure, Hollywood still likes to pander to the teen-boy market, but this is the equivalent of vicarious pantingfor-panties (which actually happens here in one scene). Simply switching genders for a sequel—Girl Guides 2 The Zombie Apocalypse—could make this horror-comedy you'd want to sink your teeth, not some other body part, into.

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What's in a name?

The Hearts unifies in time for Equal Love

T

hough he's fronted the band since its beginnings, up until recently, Jeff Stuart wasn't a member of the Hearts.

He was divided from his band by an ampersand or an "and," depending: it was Jeff Stuart & The Hearts on the marquees and the album covers, he the frontman, they the band. A common enough trope in music, and one the six-piece came by honestly—the band coalesced around the Stuart was recording and releasing what he'd intended to be a solo album. Yet over time it's proven less-fitting, and as the band's third album, Equal Love, sees release, they've paired down the band-name, with Stuart wholly drawing himself under the banner of the Hearts, which includes bassist Christopher Quesnel, guitarist Gavin Dunn, multi-instrumentalist Dwayne Martineau, violinist Michelle Sabourin and drummer Brad Tebble.

"I think it was a natural evolution,"

Stuart offers. "When we first started working together as a band, we were just going to work on a record for me, essentially, of my songs. That morphed into the first record. But we didn't really know if we were going to continue to operate as a band, or not. I think over the process of the last few albums, we definitely solidified ourselves as more of a unit—we did become more collaborative."

Stuart's explaining this while sitting in the Empress; over in the corner, an afternoon soundcheck rattles and chugs. As far back as the end of the band's first touring cycle, he notes, the idea of doing away with the ampersand had been in discussion; this past spring, when the Hearts went down to music-industry mega-fest South By Southwest with pre-pressings of Equal Love, it was still Jeff Stuart & the Hearts emblazoned on the discs. But without having committed to artwork or production, the

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time for change was now, lest they be stuck under the mantle for another album/touring cycle.

"After we came back from Austin, we'd been talking about it, and felt, if we're gonna do it, do it now," he says. "Now or never, because we had the record ready, but we hadn't completed the artwork or anything, or taken any steps that would preclude us from doing it."

Name adjustment is hardly only alteration for the band's third release: Equal Love finds the Hearts emphasizing the synths and amplifying the soul. While the tangled-roots sound the band's has always handled remains as skill—twisting pop, roots, folk, and rock together into an indelible whole—Equal Love offers a few tracks that don't quite land there, like the single, "Cold Connection" which takes aim at a dance-floor banger— "space disco," Stuart puts it with a grin. 'We haven't gone there before."

Elsewhere, the band's unity manifests itself in shifting band roles: Sabourin takes lead vocals on "Morninglight," and Stuart and Martineau co-wrote a number of Equal Love's tracks. For the album release show, the Hearts will be joined by 100 Mile House and, unusually, a set of films: the first opener will be a series Best-of FAVA shorts. Admission includes a cd copy of Equal Love—if the pressing-Gods be merciful, vinyl will also be available.

The Hearts let a few outsiders into the process for Equal Love: artwork and mixing were handled by Maxi Javidiani and Sam Kassirer, respectively. Kassirer's known best for his work producing Josh Ritter's records: and after keeping mixing in-house previously, it took some adjusting.

"In some instances we challenged his decisions," Stuart recalls. "But he was quite invested creatively, as

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Tue, Nov 10 (7:30 pm) The Hearts With 100 Mile House, Best of FAVA Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre, $15 (advance), $20 (door), 18+ far as we can tell—he challenged us back."

Stuart seems pleased with that artistic give-and-take: Equal Love is a little looser than the band's last album, 2011's Equal Parts Reason and Moonlight—which was meticulous in its arrangement—by design.

"We were intentional about letting the songs open up a little bit more, [letting them] groove and rest in a natural place," he says. "There's still lots of great arrangements that we worked on, and Gavin has a lot to do with that. We didn't want to take the same approach we did last time, which was [where] everything was a lot more precise—this time, though there was a lot of thought and detail that went into the arrangements, we didn't want that to be the focus. We wanted the songs to breathe, and let the album flow a little bit more."

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ometimes space is needed to move forward, which the members of Yukon Blonde discovered when they decided to take a break in 2013 to pursue separate projects.

Frontman Jeffrey Innes recorded a solo album, guitarist Brandon Wolfe Scott released a country-roots record and Graham Jones went on tour with Brandon Canning of Broken Social Scene in support of You Gots 2 Chill.

"It was really fun to get that out of my system," Wolfe Scott laughs of his solo project. "I think it all just benefitted us on a confidence level, too.

It was like, OK, we can still do this and make this work; it's just providing time for personal stuff."

If you missed Innes' solo release, Super Class, it was under the name High Ends, and it was filled with vintage synths that have since found their way onto Yukon Blonde's latest, On Blonde. Its tracks are a departure

from the mellow melodies that have populated Yukon Blonde's back catalogue, featuring much more hookladen, dancefloor-ready songs.

The band, currently on a six-week tour with Hey Rosetta!, went into the studio knowing exactly what it wanted, Wolfe Scott notes—how they wanted the bass to sound, the synths to sound: "We use all old analog synths and got really obsessed with that world," he adds. "A lot of the songs weren't really arranged, so it was like, OK, this is how they need to sound; let's arrange it now."

It helped that Yukon Blonde was able to spend some more time recording this album, too. Wolfe Scott explains that past albums have been churned out over the course of two weeks or so, whereas On Blonde was a six-month process at the Hive Creative Labs with Colin Stewart, who produced Yukon Blonde's previous

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"We were writing a lot in the studio, so I guess it was more exciting that way. The songs would just kind of grow slowly and then you're really excited when it's all finished," he says, adding this is the first time they've used a mixer, too, which was more to do with timing than anything else.

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lbums are always like children. I think you just have to love them no matter what," says Don Levandier, vocalist for the Motorleague.

He's speaking over the phone from Halifax on release day for Holding Patterns, the Moncton, NB rock group's new album—it's also the date of the band's first arena show, serving as the support act for Godsmack. He acknowledges that, like children, a band's got to love its album and let it go, no matter the feedback, which has been coming in fast and furious— for better or worse.

"You're always going to get people who are like, 'Your new album's amazing!' And then you're going to get your buddies who are like, 'Yeah, I don't know, dude, you guys sound like shit,'" he says with a wry laugh.

The Motorleague hasn't shied away from dabbling in a mixed bag of genres throughout its nearly decade-long career, skate punk and stoner metal among them. Holding Patterns is undeniably a polished rock record, much to the dismay of some, who have told Levandier it "sounds like the radio."

"We've come from a background, I think, of always flirting with being a punk-rock band but never quite being punk-rock enough for the punk-rock friends that we have, but being too punk-rock for radio," he says. "It's always been really hard to find a balance of what we wanted to be as a band. We could

Vintage BC Ferries Captain’s hat circa 1979 estimate: $200 Authentic! never decide: we were kind of like half stoner-rock band and half punk band and just straight-up Foo Fighters."

Holding Patterns is certainly more akin to the latter, but it seems as though the Motorleague has found its stride. Levandier recalls the frenetic, thrashy pace of the band's first album, Black Noise, and says that inherent sense of urgency wasn't deliberate. Rather, it was a byproduct of the band being in the studio for the first time and feeling incredibly nervous about the whole endeavour. Its followup, Acknowledge, Acknowledge, was recorded over the course of three years—"the record from hell," as Levandier calls it—and the finished product wasn't cohesive.

Levandier says it nearly broke the band, and that weight is evident in many of the album's tracks. In contrast, Holding Patterns is a slick, anthemic record that Levandier says the group felt in complete control over. It also didn't hurt that the band has finally solidified a lineup—Shawn Chiasson, Nathan Jones, Francis Landry and Levandier—which has been in place for about two years now.

"This is the fi rst [album] where the guys in the band are the guys that made the record, and there's only four musicians on the record, which is wonderful," Levandier notes.

"We've defi nitely had our share of lineup changes. Being a band from New Brunswick, being from way out

Wed, Nov 11 (8 pm) With Dying Arts The Buckingham, Free east and just trying to truck across Canada so many times, it's taken its toll on members, for sure—people who want to do it and then realize what a grind it is ... but these guys in the lineup we've had now, it's the core band."

The band lived together in an apartment while recording at Toronto's Vespa Studios, allowing the guys to stay in the right headspace for the record, its songs a much more collaborative writing effort than some of the Motorleague's previous material. The songs explore the idea of being stuck in a cycle, not necessarily a menacing one, but a pattern that a person has accepted as part of their life.

"I think that's defi nitely what we've felt like we've been doing, trucking out there on the road and playing and playing and playing—and we wouldn't change it—but it defi nitely feels like you kind of get stuck in a groove," Levandier says. "There's a lot of interpersonal aspects to that, too. You know, just [in] relationships with people. You kind of feel like you get stuck in the same patterns over and over again, and you just kind of come to accept it, and it's not necessarily a bad thing."

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t took three years for the Elwins to follow up on its 2012 debut album, And I Thank You, but the indie-pop quartet hopes its new release was worth the wait.

"We tried to make this record a little more direct and concentrated with the pop feel of it, and people are digging on that, which is really cool," says Matthew Sweeney, lead singer and guitarist of the Ontario-based band.

The new album, Play for Keeps, was released back in February, and it has garnered positive reviews for its catchy hooks and poppy energy. It's also got some attention from unexpected quarters—the album's first single, "So Down Low," was featured in a Canada-wide ad for Fido, promoting the LG G3 smartphone.

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to us because they liked the song," Sweeney says.

It's a long way from the band's beginnings in 2008, when Sweeney and high school pal Travis Stokl, a drummer, decided to parlay their shared interest in the Flaming Lips into a talent-show act. They were later joined

by Feurd on guitar and keyboard, and spent a few years playing festivals and shows, including SXSW, before releasing their first full-length album in 2012. Frankie Figliomeni joined the band later that year, after the departure of the group's former bassist.

The Elwins are currently touring Canada and the United States, but the band plans to head back to the studio to record its third album after returning home to Toronto later this month.

"We want to keep things going at a good pace, strike while the iron's

Wed, Nov 11 (8 pm) With Rich Aucoin Starlite Room, $18 hot, and get back in there and continue the momentum," Sweeney says.

"We're feeling creatively juiced up and ready to go."

Meanwhile, the band has been hard at work at its second music video off the album, for "Show Me How to Move." In October, the band put out a casting call on Facebook asking for "dads (or people who look like dads) who are comfortable with moving & shaking around a little bit." The 'dadthemed' video is another in a line of bright, fun videos that allow the band to show off its silly side.

"We're the most creative and productive when we're having fun."

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t was an enjoyable record to make, and that hasn't always been the case," Michael Dawson says.

"It felt positive, it felt collaborative, it felt like we were given the results we were looking for."

Dawson, one-seventh of indie-pop band Library Voices, is talking about his group's latest LP, Lovish. The record, which comes four years after 2011's Summer of Lust, almost didn't come to fruition as a result of some serious calamaties that put a halt to Library Voices' career. The band has experienced a succession of bad luck since its formation, including having band equipment stolen from its van, replacement gear destroyed in a flood the following year and an apartment eviction that sprung from the music video for "Generation Handclap." But it was an incident in 2013 that directly impacted whether the band would continue forward: singer/guitarist Carl Johnson was jumped,

beaten and left unconcious in his home city of Regina, SK, which resulted in brain damage and required a lengthy recovery time. (Though Johnson now can't smell foul odours as a result of the incident, his songwriting capabalities were left intact, and he went on to write seven of the tracks on Lovish.)

In 2014, the band released a seventrack EP, For John, that paid tribute to the passing of friend and former Buffalo radio DJ John Farrell. That album marked a new sound for the group, which saw a departure from its ultrapop offerings on previous albums for a lo-fi feel, accompanied by hazy vocals and fuzzy guitars, rock sound.

Lovish continues in that vein, but it's kicked up a notch thanks to the workings of Alex Bonenfant and Dave Plowman (METZ, Crystal Castles) who mixed the album. The record was self-produced by the

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Regina-based septet—rounded out

by Dawson, Johnson, Amanda Scandrett, Mike Thievin, Paul Gutheil and Brennan Ross—and recorded in the band's home city at SoulSoundStudios, which used to be a funeral home. Thematically, the album plays with the subject of love, but in a way that isn't too saccharine.

"Each of the songs either touch on a love lost or love sought-after theme.

None of which are a full-fledged love song by any means. I don't think I have the capacity to lyrically write something ... that will be people's wedding songs," Dawson explains. "I just have to self-sabotage everything with a little bit of dark humor. Lovish is the closest we've come to for an album of songs about love found and love lost. None of them would justifiably be stated as a love song per say, it's love-ish."

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algary's Ghostkeeper is set to release its first new music since 2013's Horse Chief! War Thief!

The two-track EP titled Sheer Buffalo, which will light the way for a full-length release in spring 2016, is an elegant, complex, startling foot forward in a totally new direction for the band.

Each release following Ghostkeeper's 2007 debut, And the Children of the Great Northern Muskeg, has been increasingly daring. What began as an indie-rock outfit has morphed into a progressive, noiseinspired, almost post-rock collective on Sheer Buffalo.

There is a compulsion in music journalism to compare bands to one another, to draw a picture that's relatable, but Ghostkeeper presents a certain problem when attempting to the do this. Its first three albums can be described as a marriage of Pavement and the Velvet Underground.

Lead singer Shane Ghostkeeper (his actual last name) sounds remarkably like Lou Reed. Backed by spouse Sarah Houle on drums and supported by a band that was both loose and tight at the same time, its pop-rock structure, coupled with arrhythmic jangling, elicited a sound that college radio would have made famous. All of this is entirely gone on Sheer Buffalo—so long, helpful comparisons.

Like Ghostkeeper's music, the explanation for this change is not a simple one. Even when asked directly, Houle can't nail it down.

"We had a producer on the last album who was also a band member [guitarist Jay Crocker], who's moved on to another project," she says. "[He] played a lot of technical guitar. There was a lot back and forth stuff between Shane and Jay—that was their way of playing together— we've taken that element out."

In the absence of Crocker's guitar and production esthetic, Brad Hawkins, the band's sound engineer, (whom Houle endearingly refers to as a "mad scientist") has employed a litany of homemade synthesizers and mail-order gadgetry to help articulate the heavy textures and layers present on Sheer Buffalo.

This shift in execution is more impressive when considering the coming LP has been conceived as a highly structured concept album exploring the social and political ramifications of the oil industry in the northern Alberta, as seen through the fictional narrative of two First Nations protagonists.

"It's been a way to get our music across and the complexities of taking a stance against pipelines and drilling," Houle says. "We have fam-

Sun, Nov 8 (7 pm) Bohemia ily members who are making their livelihoods off of it.

"What we are interested in is the conversation about more sustainable energies, growing your own foods and [creating] awareness about what kind of sacrifice we're making by continuing with oil and gas," she adds.

For Houle, whose vocals are featured prominently on the new EP and will make up half the songs on the coming full-length, the songwriting process she describes is perhaps the best explanation of the band's new dynamic.

"I take a song that I've written on guitar, and then we start with a beat from a drum machine," she says.

"Then we take the guitar out and start building up with synths—using [our] imaginations to try and push the story through sound, so that it creates an atmosphere, so that it's cinematic."

Emerging after a nearly three-year hiatus, Ghostkeeper has become a deeply compelling act. In pushing expectations, Ghostkeeper has accomplished its band leader's goal: "to not sound like anyone else."

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The Edmonton Classical Guitar Society turns 20 this year. To celebrate, the organization is throwing a special concert featuring Edmonton-based guitarists including Sebastian Robles, Marek Orszulik, Trevor Sanders performing with Guillaume Tardif and Ernst Birss with Merrill Tanner. (Muttart Hall, $25 regular admission, $20 student/seniors/ ECGS members)

ANDREA NIXON / SAT, NOV 7 (8 PM) NORTH OF HERE / FRI, NOV 6 (8 PM)

If Dolly Parton and Reba McEntire were to collaborate, the sound would be something like Edmonton-based Andrea Nixon.

(Cafe Blackbird, $10)

BEN DISASTER / SAT, NOV 7 (10 PM)

THE BRAINS / SAT, NOV 7 (8 PM)

LEST WE FORGET: A MUSICAL TRIBUTE / SUN, NOV 8 (6:30 PM)

REBECCA LAPPA / TUE, NOV 10 (7 PM)

North of Here is a four-piece folk-rock band hailing from Sherwood Park. Check out the group’s new album, Make Hay While The Sun Shines. (Mercury Room, $13 in advance, $15 at the door)

Ben Disaster, the Edmonton punk four-piece, is calling it quits—the individual band members will be doing their own projects. Show your goodbyes with a good ol’ mosh pit. (Starlite Room, $10)

Halloween might be over, but that doesn’t mean the spirit of it has to stop. Catch a night of insane, undead, pyschobilly horror with the Montréal-based group.

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A Remembrance Day tradition that sees the Cosmopolitan Music Society playing ceremonial military marches to popular wartime music in honour of Canadian servicemen and women. There will be a silent auction at 6:30 pm, with music following at 7:30 pm. (Winspear Centre, $25)

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Edmonton-based folk-pop musician Rebecca Lappa was recently awarded with Adult Alternative Recording of the Year at the 2015 Edmonton Music Awards. Her album, Tattered Rose, has been nominated at this year’s Canadian Folk Music Awards, too.

(Daffodil Gallery, $15)

CANADIAN FOLK MUSIC AWARDS / FRI, NOV 6 – SUN, NOV 8

Three Edmonton musicians have been nominated at this year’s Canadian Folk Music Awards: Laura Vinson, Lizzy Hoyt and Rebecca Lappa. (Citadel Theatre, $48)

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ON THE ROCKS Salsa Rocks: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; Cuban Salsa DJ to follow UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

CASINO EDMONTON Vera (pop); 9pm

FRI NOV 6 ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jason Greeley;

WUNDERBAR Ghostkeeper 7" release

Stan Gallant

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Annual Fall Fundraiser in support of Clean Scene Network for Youth; 9pm; $10; No minors

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Thirsty

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Mike Rud with Sienna

Thursday Jam; 7:30pm

Dahlen; 8:30-10:30pm; $15

BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott Band;

BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott Band;

9pm

9pm

BOHEMIA Official Opposition, Himiko &

BOURBON ROOM Dueling pianos every

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

8pm (doors), 8:30pm (show); $15; 18+ only CAFE BLACKBIRD Kay Dasilva & Mary Stevenson; 7:30pm; $6 CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu; 7pm CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Thu Open Mic:

All adult performers are welcome (music, song, spoken word); every Thu, 1:30-3pm

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Sat Open mic;

WILD EARTH BAKERY–MILLCREEK Live Music Fridays: this week featuring; Each Fri, 8-10pm; $5 suggested donation

every Thu; 9pm

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK China White

$20; 18+ only

7pm; $2

8pm

more; 9pm; $10

Prairie Son; 8pm; $10

STARLITE ROOM Troyboi; 9pm (doors); TIRAMISU BISTRO Live music every Fri

ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Live Music ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Open Mic with

(alt/country); 9pm

Fri Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

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

Dads and guests; 8:30pm (doors), 9:30pm (show); $12; 18+ only CAFE BLACKBIRD Kim Lesaca Group;

with Chairs and Slow Girl Walking; 9pm; $10; 18+ only YARDBIRD SUITE 9th Annual Yardbird

9:30pm

FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Traffic

Jam Concerts Duo Violins; Gamba And Harpsichord Barry/Denysenko Duo, Josephine Van Lier, Marnie Giesbrecht; 5pm; $10 (door)

HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH

Hicks with special guests Cold Creek County and Jason Benoit; 7:30pm; $39.50-$42.50

Guitar Society 20th Anniversary Concert; 8-10pm; $25 (regular), $20 (student/ senior/member), $10 (youth)

CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK China White

7:30pm

HORIZON STAGE Bouge de là: Bedtime!;

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Live music every

WINSPEAR CENTRE Sibling Harmonies

2pm; $12; All ages

featuring Will & Anthony Nunziata; 8pm; $24-$93

LB'S PUB Persons of Interest "Debut";

Fri: this week with Melody & Kyron; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

MERCURY ROOM Tequila Mockingbird Orchestra with the Whiskey Sheiks and Billie Zizi; 8pm; $15 (adv) MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

Live Local Bands every Sat NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider; 7pm O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm;

DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

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O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB Dylan Farrell;

9pm ON THE ROCKS Live Music; 9pm ORLANDO'S 1 Bands perform every

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KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage CASINO EDMONTON Vera (pop); 9pm CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Nervous Flirts

THE BOWER Strictly Goods: Old school

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Doug Stroud

(country/pop/rock); 9pm DV8 SWISHA-T with Philip Solo and

Brothers Grim; 9pm; $15 (adv) EL CORTEZ CANTINA Subculture - the

FESTIVAL PLACE Time Warp; 7:30pm

RED PIANO Every Thu: Dueling pianos RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most

Thursdays; 7-10pm RIVER CREE Gary Puckett and The Union Gap with Gary Lewis and The Playboys; 6pm (door), 8pm (show); $24.50 SMOKEHOUSE BBQ Live Blues every

Thur: this week with Tom Olsen & the Wreckage; 7-11pm TAVERN ON WHYTE Open stage with Michael Gress (fr Self Evolution); every Thu; 9pm-2am

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN Two-

Fisted Friday Presents: The Sherry-Lee Trio; 8pm; No cover; All ages HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH HTAC

Open Stage; 7:30-10:30pm

THE COMMON Good Fridays: nu disco,

hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Justin Foosh DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

every Fri THE PROVINCIAL PUB Friday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Brodeep RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock,

funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm MERCURY ROOM North Of Here CD

UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

release party with Lucas Chiasson and Ariana Brophy; 8pm; $13 (adv), $15 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider; 7pm O'MAILLE'S IRISH PUB Dylan Farrell;

9pm ON THE ROCKS Live Music; 9pm

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9:30pm

Throwback Thu: Rock&Roll, Funk, Soul, R&B and 80s with DJ Thomas Culture; jamz that will make your backbone slide; Wooftop: Dig It! Thursdays.

Electronic, roots and rare groove with DJ's Rootbeard, Raebot, Wijit and guests

and new school hip hop & R&B with DJ Twist, Sonny Grimez, and Marlon English; every Fri

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Amplified Fridays: Dubstep, house, trance, electro, hip hop breaks with DJ Aeiou, DJ Loose Beats, DJ Poindexter; 9:30pm (door)

LB'S PUB Colin McDonald Band; 9pm

UNION HALL Parkway Drive with guests; 7pm; 18+ only

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Thu Main Fl:

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Danita (country);

9:30pm

NORTH GLENORA HALL North Glenora

at 8pm

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Live music;

(jameoke); 9pm

Until Nov 7 Hall - Open jam and dance; 7-10pm; $5

DJs DJs on all three levels

Official Give Me Shelter After-Party and Retro Dance Meltdown; 10pm; $10 (door), $25 (Adv Full Event)

NEW WEST HOTEL Trick Rider; 7pm

OVERTIME Sherwood Park Live music;

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT NOV 7 9910 The Brains (alt/country/punk) with

Los Kung Fu Monkeys and The Preying Saints; 8pm; $15 (adv) ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jason Greeley;

RENDEZVOUS PUB The Order of Chaos,

Thursday: Rotating Guests each week!

Shocker, Solborn; 8pm; $15

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ

SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN Derina

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Heather Blush & the

Uppercuts; 8:30-10:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon:

Jam with Back Door Dan; Later: Taylor Scott Band; 9pm

BOURBON ROOM Live Music every Sat

every Thu

Harvey (celtic/folk/rock); 9pm

Night with Jared Sowan and Brittany Graling; 8pm

FILTHY MCNASTY’S Taking Back

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Cody Mack

BRIXX BAR Ben Disaster With Ultra

KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage;

7pm; no cover

Lights Folk Club: Canadian folk music awards nominee showcase; $20 (adv), $25 (door) RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am SERVUS CREDIT UNION PLACE–ST. ALBERT Tim Hicks (country); 7:30pm; $39.50 and up SHERLOCK HOLMES–DOWNTOWN Derina

Harvey (celtic/folk/rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Cody Mack

(alt/rock); 9pm SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Andrew Scott

(alt/country); 9pm SNEAKY PETE'S Sinder Sparks K-DJ Show; 9pm-1am STARLITE ROOM Protest The Hero (Kezia 10Yr Anniversary) with guests; 8pm (doors); $26; 18+ only WUNDERBAR Twin River with guests; 9pm; $12; 18+ only YARDBIRD SUITE 9th Annual Yardbird

Festival of Canadian Jazz (Nov 6-14) Double Bill: Audrey Ochoa; David Blake Trio • $24 (members), $28 (guests)

ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CATHEDRAL In

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

THE COMMON The Common Uncommon

PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Northern

Classical

PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

(rock/pop/indie); 9:30pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Annual Fall

Fundraiser in support of Clean Scene Network for Youth; 9pm; $10; No minors

Northern Lights Folk Club: Canadian folk music awards nominee showcase; $20 (adv), $25 (door)

9:30pm PALACE CASINO–WEM Mojave Iguanas

8pm

PALACE CASINO–WEM Mojave Iguanas (rock/pop/indie); 9:30pm

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am

Thursdays

9pm LEAF BAR AND GRILL Open Stage Sat–It's the Sat Jam hosted by Darren Bartlett, 5pm

FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN Craft Addict Thursday Presents: Penny and Jim; 7pm; No cover; All ages

8pm; all ages (15+)

GO AUTO ARENA–ST. ALBERT Tim

HILLTOP PUB Open Stage, Jam every Sat; 3:30-7pm

FESTIVAL PLACE Lee Harvey Osmond;

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ Thu open stage;

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Free Afternoon Concerts: this week with Hungry Hollow with guest Remco Dalmaijer; 4pm; No cover

POLISH HALL Krystyna Stanko Quartet;

8pm; $10

7:30pm

Thu and Fri DJ and dance floor; 9:30pm

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Doug Stroud (country/pop/rock); 9pm

MUTTART HALL Edmonton Classical

Open Jam Nights; no cover

MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET

DRAFT BAR & GRILL Danita (country);

GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth

EARLY STAGE SALOON–Stony Plain

CD release Party with guest Richard Inman; 7pm; $10 (adv), $12 (door)

from Accounting, Angstrum & Aghora, Dad's Clone; 7pm; $5

Alberta Mozart Society presents Anders Muskens; 8pm; $20 (general), $15 (youth/senior)

Party Jam hosted by the Barefoot Kings; Ukulele lessons 7:30pm followed by Jam at 8:30pm

MERCURY ROOM Justine Vandergrift

guests; 9pm; $10

Classical

CORAL DE CUBA Beach Bar: Beach

jam with hosts: Rob Kaup, Leah Durelle

CHA ISLAND Shawn Pinchbeck & CLINT'S HAUS Jesse Stewart, Johnson

Vinyl Night: Every Thu; 8pm-late; Edmonton Couchsurfing Meetup: Every Thu; 8pm

L.B.'S PUB South Bound Freight open

CENTURY CASINO Vietnamese Concert; 7:30pm (door); $10 (regular), $20 (VIP)

Festival of Canadian Jazz (Nov 6-14) Double Bill: Tom Van Seters Trio; Tara Kannangara Quintet • $24 (members), $28 (guests)

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Bring Your Own

with One Percent (R&B/soul); 8pm every Thu

CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Nervous Flirts

(jameoke); 9pm

(alt/rock); 9pm

Gash, Dream Whip, Versions; 9pm (door), 10pm (show); $10; 18+ only

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Andrew Scott

CAFE BLACKBIRD Andrea Nixon & The

Remembrance; 7:30pm WINSPEAR CENTRE Fantasy Worlds &

Forgotten Realms; 2pm; $15-$30

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: alt rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop, R&B and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimez & instigate; Underdog: Alternating DJs THE BOWER For Those Who Know...:

Deep House and disco with Junior Brown, David Stone, Austin, and guests; every Sat THE COMMON Get Down It's Saturday

Night: House and disco and everything in between with resident Dane

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DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

Classical

with Hair of the Dave

Hobbs; 8-11pm, every Wed

ENCORE–WEM Every Sat: Sound

EDMONTON CITY HALL Royal Canadian

TAVERN ON WHYTE Classic Hip hop with

every Sat

TUE NOV 10

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Wailin' Wednesdays Jam; Every Wed, 7:30pm; All ages

MERCER TAVERN DJ Mikey Wong

Artillery Band 3rd Annual Concert 'A Musical Salute: A Tribute To Our Veterans'; 2-3pm; Free ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH

THE PROVINCIAL PUB Saturday Nights: Indie rock and dance with DJ Maurice

Baroque Chamber Music Treasures; 3pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Tuesday

Night Jam with host Harry Gregg and Geoffrey O'Brien; 8-11pm

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and

WINSPEAR CENTRE Lest We Forget:

BLUES ON WHYTE Jesse Roads Band;

A Musical Tribute; 6:30-9:30pm; $25 (available through Tix On the Square)

9pm

DJs

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

and Light show; We are Saturdays: Kindergarten

NOV/6 NOV/7-8

electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

UBK PRESENTS

TROYBOI

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays:

global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Mkhai

CONCERTWORKS.CA PRESENTS

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous

PROTEST THE HERO

Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM Swing Dance

(KEZIA 10YR ANNIVERSARY)

Party: Sugar Swing Dance Club every Sat, 8-12; no experience or partner needed, beginner lesson followed by social dance; sugarswing.com

W/ MANDROID ECHOSTAR (NOV 8), & GUESTS

NOV/11

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

TAVERN ON WHYTE Soul, Motown,

RICH AUCOIN

Funk, R&B and more with DJs Ben and Mitch; every Sat; 9pm-2am

W/ THE ELWINS

NOV/13

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every

Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

THE NOISE PRESENTS

TESSERACT

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

NOV/14

PLATINUM BLONDE

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open

mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

W/ GUESTS

NOV/16

SLUM VILLAGE

NOV/18 NOV/20 NOV/21

DEAR ROGUE

DANCE CODE STUDIO Flamenco Guitar

Classes; Every Sun, 11:30am-12:30pm DIVERSION LOUNGE Sun Night Live on

W/ GUESTS

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

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

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9:30pm-1am RICHARD'S PUB Sunday Jam hosted by

Mark Ammar; 4-8pm STARLITE ROOM Protest The Hero

(Kezia 10Yr Anniversary) with Mandroid Echostar & guests; 8pm (door); $26; 18+ only WUNDERBAR War Baby with The Dead

Fibres and Math Debate; 9pm; $10; 18+ only YARDBIRD SUITE 9th Annual Yardbird

Festival of Canadian Jazz (Nov 6-14); Zack Lober: The Ancestry Project YELLOWHEAD BREWERY PJ Perry (jazz);

11:30am

NOV/6

LIBRARY VOICES W/ SURF DADS. & GUESTS

NOV/7

BEN DISASTER

W/ ULTRA GASH, DREAM WHIP, VERSIONS

NOV/13

JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

JESSE ROPER W/ STONE IRIS, & GUESTS

NOV/14

THE TOWN HEROES W/ STONE IRIS, & GUESTS

NOV/17

JCL PRODUCTIONS AND STARLITE ROOM PRESENT

INDIAN HANDCRAFTS W/ GREYS, & GUESTS

NOV/19

JCL PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS

KACY & CLAYTON

W/ RYAN BOLDT (OF THE DEEP DARK WOODS), & ALAMEDA

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Harvey and guests NEW WEST HOTEL Tue Country Dance

CARROT COFFEEHOUSE Nashville Songwriter Group; 6:30-10pm (confirm attendance at col_kside@hotmail.com)

Lessons: 7-9pm • WITH: Sonny & The Hurricanes

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Monday open

Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

mic

NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & The

Hurricanes PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE The Hearts album release

The Hearts with with 100 mile house and Films from Fava; 7pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door) OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Bingo Toonz

every Tue ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE Live

music with the Icehouse Band and weekly guests; Every Tue, 9pm

ROUGE RESTO-LOUNGE Open Mic

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun;

TIM CHAISSON W/ GUESTS

MERCER TAVERN Alt Tuesday with Kris

NEWCASTLE PUB The Sunday Soul

Service: acoustic open stage every Sun

NOV/5

Trevor Mullen

Duggan's House Band 5-8pm

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

THE STARLITE ROOM IS A PRIVATE VENUE FOR OUR MEMBERS AND THEIR GUESTS. IF YOU REQUIRE A MEMBERSHIP YOU CAN PURCHASE ONE AT THE VENUE PRIOR TO / OR AFTER THE DOOR TIMES FOR EACH SHOW.

LEAF BAR AND GRILL Tue Open Jam:

with Darrell Barr; 7-11pm

SANDS HOTEL Country music dancing

THE VHS TOUR W/ GRIZFOLK

W/ OLD MAN CANYON

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

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

DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Celtic Music with

PAPER KITES

L.B.'S PUB Tue Variety Night Open stage

Nights: Capital City Jammers, host Blueberry Norm; seasoned musicians; 7-10pm; $4

9pm

LIVENATION.COM PRESENTS

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

MERCURY ROOM Music Magic Monday

BLUES ON WHYTE Taylor Scott Band;

W/ THE X PRESIDENTS, MITCHMATIC, & N3K

featuring this week: Chris Wynters; 9pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Once; 8pm

9-11pm

Passages trio 3; 9am-3pm; Cover by donation

DAFFODIL GALLERY Tattered Rose

Concert; 7-10pm

Mondays with Jimmy and the Sleepers; 8-11pm

DV8 Trans-Canadian Video Album Tour;

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Brunch - Jazz

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

DRUID IRISH PUB Open Stage Tue:

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Blue

9pm

BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Sun BBQ jam hosted with the Marshall Lawrence Band; 4pm

UNIONEVENTS.COM PRESENTS

MON NOV 9

BLUES ON WHYTE Jesse Roads Band;

SUN NOV 8

W/ THE CONTORTIONIST, ERRA, SKYHARBOR

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

DJ Creeazn every Mon; 9pm-2am

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds BLUES ON WHYTE Pete Turland; 9pm BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Scrambled YEG:

Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue- Fri, 5-8pm THE BUCKINGHAM Motorleague w/ guests Dying Arts + More; 8pm (doors); Free; 18+ only DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY Wed open mic

with host Duff Robison EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE CFR Concert

Series - Chad Brownlee; 9pm FIDDLER'S ROOST Hannah Shira Naiman; 8-10pm; $10 ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW Open mic Wed: Hosted by Jordan Strand; every Wed, 9-12 jordanfstrand@gmail.com / 780-6558520 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park Jason

Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover NEW WEST HOTEL Sonny & The

Hurricanes PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 ROSSDALE HALL Little Flower Open Stage with Brian Gregg; 7:30pm (door); no cover

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

STARLITE ROOM Rich Aucoin & The Elwins; 8pm (door); $18 (adv); 18+ only

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday Session: 9th

Annual Yardbird Festival of Canadian Jazz (Nov 6-14): Hookloop; $5

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A Open Mic Night hosted by Adam Holm; Every Mon

DJs

DJs

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Brit

BILLIARD CLUB Why wait Wednesdays:

SIDELINERS PUB Singer/Songwriter

Pop, Synthpop, Alternative 90’s, Glam Rock with DJ Chris Bruce; Wooftop: Substance: alt retro and not-so-retro electronic and dance with Eddie LunchPail

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

Monday Night Open Stage; Hosted by Celeigh Cardinal; Every Mon (except long weekends), 8:30-11:30pm; Free WINSPEAR CENTRE Hey Rosetta! with

Wed night party with DJ Alize every Wed; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll witih LL Cool Joe and DJ Downtrodden on alternate Weds

opening act: Yukon Blonde; 8pm; $27-$34.50

BRIXX Metal night every Tue

DJs

Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

BRIXX BAR Eats and Beats

WED NOV 11

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue

Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay DV8 T.F.W.O. Mondays: Roots

industrial,Classic Punk, Rock, Electronic

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly,

THE COMMON The Wed Experience:

Classics on Vinyl with Dane

B STREET BAR Live Music with Lyle

VENUEGUIDE 9910 9910B-109 ST NW ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ALL SAINTS' ANGLICAN CHURCH 10035-103 St NW ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704 Calgary Trail South "B" STREET BAR 11818-111 St BIG AL'S HOUSE OF BLUES Yellowhead Inn, 15004 Yellowhead Trail BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Dr, Nisku, 780.955.2336 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BOURBON ROOM 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert THE BOWER 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.425; info@thebower.ca BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 St, 780.497.0011 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 THE BUCKINGHAM 10439 82 Ave, 780.761.1002 http://thebuckingham.ca BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CAFE BLACKBIRD 9640-142 St NW CAFÉ HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CAFFREY'S IN THE PARK 99, 23349 Wye Rd, Sherwood Park CARROT COFFEEHOUSE 9351118 Ave, 780.471.1580

CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780.424 9467 CENTRAL SENIOR LIONS CENTRE 11113-113 St CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CLINT'S HAUS 9922-79 Ave NW COMMON 9910-109 St DAFFODIL GALLERY 10412-124 St NW DARAVARA 10713 124 St, 587.520.4980 DRAFT BAR & GRILL 12912-50 St NW DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUGGAN'S BOUNDARY 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8130 Gateway Blvd EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain, 780.963.5998 EDMONTON CITY HALL 1 Sir Winston Churchill Square EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE 7515118 Ave NW EL CORTEZ CANTINA 8230 Gateway Blvd ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE–WEM 2687, 8882-170 St FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FIONN MACCOOL'S–DOWNTOWN

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10200-102 St FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH 10025-105 St NW GO AUTO ARENA–ST. ALBERT 400 Campbell Road, St Albert HILLTOP PUB 8220 106 Ave HOLY TRINITY ANGLICAN CHURCH 10037-84 Ave NW HORIZON STAGE 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove IRISH SPORTS CLUB 12546-126 St, 780.453.2249 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JAVA XPRESS 110, 4300 South Park Dr, Stony Plain, 780.968.1860 KELLY'S PUB 10156-104 St L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEAF BAR AND GRILL 9016-132 Ave, 780.757.2121 MKT FRESH FOOD AND BEER MARKET 8101 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.2337 MERCER TAVERN 10363 104 St, 587.521.1911 MERCURY ROOM 10575-114 St MUTTART HALL 10050 MacDonald Drive NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 8170-50 St, 780.490.1999 NEW WEST HOTEL 15025-111 Ave NOORISH CAFÉ 8440-109 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A Ave O2'S–West 11066-156 St, 780.448.2255 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE 8426 Gateway

Boulevard ORIGINAL JOE'S VARSITY ROW 8404-109 St ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St O'MAILLES IRISH PUB 104, 398 St Albert Rd, St Albert ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 OVERTIME–Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PALACE CASINO–WEM 8882-170 St NW PARKVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 9135-146 St NW PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave POLISH HALL 10960-104 St NW THE PROVINCIAL PUB 160, 4211-106 St RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780.457.3118 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 RIVER CREE 300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch ROBERTSON WESLEY UNITED CHURCH 10209-123 St NW ROCKY MOUNTAIN ICEHOUSE 10516 Jasper Ave, 780.424.3836 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St SANDS HOTEL 12340 Fort Rd, 780.474.5476 SERVUS CREDIT UNION PLACE– ST. ALBERT 400 Campbell Rd, St Albert SHERLOCK HOLMES–

DOWNTOWN 10012-101 A Ave SHERLOCK HOLMES–U OF A 8519-112 St SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM 8882-170 St SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St SMOKEHOUSE BBQ 10810-124 St, 587.521.6328 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 1292397 St, 780.758.5924 STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION 10940-166 A St SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM 10545-81 Ave TAVERN ON WHYTE 10507-82 Ave, 780.521.4404 TIRAMISU 10750-124 St UPTOWN FOLK CLUB 7308-76 Ave, 780.436.1554 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 WILD EARTH BAKERY– MILLCREEK 8902-99 St, wildearthbakery.com WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com YARDBIRD SUITE 11 Tommy Banks Way, 780.432.0428 YEG DANCE CLUB 11845 Wayne Gretzky Dr YELLOW HEAD BREWERY 10229105 St NW YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

EVENTS WEEKLY EMAIL YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO: LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM FAX: 780.426.2889 DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3PM

COMEDY BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE • Underdog Comedy show: Alternating hosts • Every Thu, 8-11pm • No cover CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open Mic Night: Every Thu; 7:30-9pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Fri-Sat: 8:30pm • Marvin Krawczyk; Nov 5-7 • Sean Thomson; Nov 12-14

SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FAMILY SUPPORT DROP-IN GROUP • Schizophrenia Society of Alberta, 5215-87 St • schizophrenia.ab.ca • The Schizophrenia Society of Alberta-Edmonton branch provides a facilitated family support group for caregivers of a loved one living with schizophrenia. Free drop-in the 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7-9pm

SENSATIONAL LADIES NIGHT • Warp 1 Comics & Games, 9917-82 Ave • 780.433.7119 • facebook.com/ sensational.ladies.night • A night dedicated to women indulging in various geekeries with other women once a month in a friendly and safe environment. Featuring a book club, board game nights, art jam and much more. No prior geekery knowledge required • 3rd Wed of every month, 6-8pm • Free

Comedy Night: featuring a professional headliner every week Every Sun, 9pm

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

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

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

BABES IN ARMS • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave • A casual parent group • Every Fri, 10am-12pm

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Bsmt, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild. org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue ea month, 7:30pm EDMONTON OUTDOOR CLUB (EOC) • edmontonoutdoorclub.com • Offering a variety of fun activities in and around Edmonton • Free to join; info at info@edmontonoutdoorclub.com FOOD ADDICTS • Alano Club (& Simply Done Cafe), 17028-124 St • 780.718.7133 (or 403.506.4695 after 7pm) • 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 FORT SASKATCHEWAN 45+ SINGLES COFFEE GROUP • A&W, 10101-88 Ave, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.907.0201 (Brenda) • A mixed group, all for conversation and friendship • Every Sun, 2pm

ILLNESS SUPPORT AND SOLUTIONS • Robertson Wesley United Church Library, 10209-123 St • 780.235.5911 • Crohn's Colitis, I.B.D. Support and Solutions • Every 2nd and 4th Tue, 7-9pm

LGNYEG (LADY GEEKS UNITE) • Happy Harbor Comics, 10729-104 Ave • lgnyeg.blogspot.ca • Geek out with fellow geek ladies. Featuring movies, board games, artists and so much more • D&D FAQ; Nov 5, 7pm

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, obad@shaw.ca; Group meets every Thu, 7-9pm • Free

POOR VOTE TURNOUT • Rossdale Hall, 10135-96 Ave • poorvoteturnout.ca • Public meetings: promoting voting by the poor • Every Wed, 7-8pm

SAWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon, 7:30pm

QUEER 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

andrea@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca

ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608-105 Ave • 780.387.3343 • edmontonillusions.ca • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 7:30-9pm

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave

LIVING POSITIVE • #33, 9912-106 St • 780.424.2214

TEAM EDMONTON • Various sports and recreation

• livingpositivethroughpositiveliving.com • In office peer counseling, public speakers available for presentations, advocacy and resource materials available • Support group for gay men living with HIV: 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Daily:

• 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) activities • All-Bodies Swim: Bonnie Doon Leisure Centre, 8648-81 St NW; pridecentreofedmonton.org; Every 3rd Sat of the month, 9:30-10:30pm • Badminton: Oliver School, 10227-118 St; badminton@teamedmonton.ca; Every Wed (until Feb 24); $5 (drop-in) • Board Game Group: Underground Tap & Grill, 10004 Jasper Ave; Monthly on a Sun, 3-7pm; RSVP to boardgames@teamedmonton. ca • Bootcamp: Oliver Community Hall, 10326-118 St; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca; Every Thu, 7pm; $30 (full season), $15 (low income or students)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.org,

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet

SONGWRITERS GROUP • The Carrot, 9351-118 Ave •

EMPRESS ALE HOUSE • 9912-82 Ave • Empress

1100 Youville Drive West (Millwoods Area) • 780.735.9919 • deysi.campos@covenanthealth.ca • covenanthealth.ca • Nov 14, 8:30am-3:30pm • $40 (registration fee and lunch)

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

THE DATING GAME • On the Rocks, 11740 Jasper Ave DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm DJ to follow

15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E:Tuff69@telus.net

SEVENTIES FOREVER MUSIC SOCIETY • Call

Wed-Fri, Sun 7:30pm; Fri-Sat 9:45pm • Battle to the Funny Bone; every Mon at 7:30pm • Triple Threat Tuesday; every Tue at 7:30pm • Andrew Schulz; Nov 11-15 NW • Nov 8, 7:30pm

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom,

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

WOMEN'S WELLNESS PROGRAM PRESENTS: ANNUAL PRIME TIME FOR CONFERENCE "FEEDING YOUR SOUL" • Grey Nuns Community Hospital,

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

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 •

SEEING IS ABOVE ALL • Acacia Hall, 10433-83 Ave,

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: Massive Mondays Comedy Night with Nadine Hunt; 8pm; New Headliner Weekly • Tue: You Don't Know Show with Shiwana Millionaire; 8pm; Weekly prizes and games • Wed: Karaoke with Shirley; 7pm-1am • Thu: Karaoke with Kendra; 7pm-1am • Fri-Sat: Dancing and events until close • Sun: Karaoke with Jadee; 7pm-1am

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

SUGAR FOOT BALLROOM • 10545-81 Ave • 587.786.6554 • sugarswing.com • Friday Night Stomp!: Swing and party music dance social every Fri; beginner lesson starts at 8pm.All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check web; $10, $2 (lesson with entry) • Swing Dance Social every Sat; beginner lesson starts at 8pm.All ages and levels welcome. Occasional live music–check the Sugar Swing website for info • $10, $2 lesson with entry

SPECIAL EVENTS 7TH ANNUAL SANTA'S LITTLE HELPERS CHRISTMAS SHOPPING EXTRAVAGANZA • River Cree Resort Marriott Hotel, 300 East Lapotac Blvd • kingsleyevents.com • kingsleyevents@shaw.ca • Over 140 local vendors in one place • Nov 15, 10am-5pm • $2 (50% of proceeds go to the Christmas Bureau)

TAKE OFF POUNDS SENSIBLY (TOPS) • Grace United Church annex, 6215-104 Ave • Low-cost, fun and friendly weight loss group • Every Mon, 6:30pm • Info: call Bob 780.479.5519

BROWN, BLACK, AND FIERCE COLLECTIVE • Stanley Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • brownblackfierce@gmail.com • brownblackfierce.tumblr. com • Combining daytime workshops with evening performances.The Festival is by and for indigenous, black, and people of colour, centering the voices of queer, trans, gender nonconforming, and two spirit people • Nov 7, 10am-10:30pm • Free; All ages

TOASTMASTERS • Club Bilingue Toastmasters Meetings: Campus St. Jean: Pavillion McMahon; 780.667.6105 (Willard); clubbilingue.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 7pm • Fabulous Facilitators Toastmasters Club: 2nd Fl, Canada Place Rm 217, 9700 Jasper Ave; Carisa: divdgov2014_15@outlook.com, 780.439.3852; fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org; Meet every Tue, 12:05-1pm • N'Orators Toastmasters Club: Lower Level, McClure United Church, 13708-74 St: meet every Thu, 6:45-8:30pm; contact bradscherger@hotmail.com, 780.863.1962, norators.com • Terrified of Public Speaking: Norwood Legion Edmonton, 11150-82 St NW; Every Thu until 7:30-9:30pm; Free; contact jnwafula@yahoo.com; norwoodtoastmasters.org • Upward Bound Toastmaster Club: Rm 7, 6 Fl, Edmonton Public Library–DT: Meets every Wed, 7-8:45pm; Sep-May; upward.toastmastersclubs.org; reader1@shaw.ca • Y Toastmasters Club: Queen Alexandra Community League, 10425 University Ave (N door, stairs to the left); Meet every Tue, 7-9pm except last Tue ea month; Contact:Antonio Balce, 780.463.5331

Jasper Ave NW • rockymountainwine.com/edmonton.html • Offering the opportunity to sample an extensive variety of world-class wine, scotch, premium spirits, import and microbrewed beer along with gourmet culinary creations from local restaurants, hotels and food purveyors • Nov 6-7

WEDNESDAY NITE FAITH FOCUS • First Presbyterian

FABULOUS@50 EXPERIENCE • The Venue at River

DEEPSOUL.CA • 587.520.3833; call or text for Sunday jam locations • Every Sun: Sunday Jams with no Stan (CCR to Metallica), starring Chuck Prins on Les Paul Standard guitars; Pink Floydish originals plus great Covers of Classics: some FREE; Twilight Zone Lively Up Yourself Tour (with DJ Cool Breeze); all ages

EDMONTON ROCKY MOUNTAIN WINE & FOOD FESTIVAL • Shaw Conference Centre, Halls A – C, 9797

Church, 10025-105 St • 780.422.2937 • firstpresbyterian. ca • fpc@telus.net • Continuing in-depth examination of the action-packed ‘Acts of the Apostles’ • Every Wed until Nov, 6:30-8pm

Cree Casino, 300 East Lapotac Blvd, Enoch • fabulousat50. com • Creating the golden days of Old Las Vegas, which comes complete with Elvis and friends. Featuring speakers, comedy, and trade show • Nov 7

WICCAN ASSEMBLY • Ritchie Hall, 7727-98 St • The Congregationalist Wiccan Assembly of Alberta meets the 2nd Sun each month (except Aug), 6pm • Info: contact cwaalberta@gmail.com

GIRLS' NIGHT OUT • St.Albert Theatre Troupe • 780.222.0102 • stalberttheatre.com • Four women meet for dinner.They have a mutual acquaintance in common, with whom they all share some volatile history of one sort or another. Said acquaintance ends up dead! Who did it?

A prize draw will be held after each performance for those who guess correctly • Nov 5-8, Nov 12-15, Nov 19-21

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS GREEN DRINKS; GREENING YOUR HOME • Yellowhead Brewery, 10229-105 St NW • Meet and mingle with green home experts about composting, backyard bees, net zero homes, and more • Nov 4, 7-10pm • $10 (adv), $15 (door)

EVENT

HEALTHY LIVING CONFERENCE & FAIR • OTS (Oilfield Technical Society) Hall 2104-156 St • Wellness options, mini sessions, vendors, speakers • Nov 7 • $2, free (kids under 17)

HUMAN RIGHTS ARE UNIVERSAL: A MUSICAL EXPLORATION WITH MICHAEL GFROERER • Robertson-Wesley United Church, 10209-123 St • rwuc. org/sac.html • Every Sun, 3-5pm; Oct 18-Dec 6

RASC REGULAR MEETING SYNTHESIS OF ELEMENTS IN STARS • Telus World of Science,

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue: Retro Tuesdays with Dj Arrow Chaser; 9pm-close • Wed: DJ Griff; 9-close • Thu:Wet underwear with Shiwana Millionaire • Fri: Dance all Night with DJ Arrowchaser • Sat:Weekly events and dancing until close • Sun:Weekly Drag show with Shiwana Millionaire and guests; 12:30am

EVOLUTION WONDERLOUNGE • 10220-103 St

11211-142 St NW • edmontonrasc.com • This talk merges James Edgar’s love of woodworking, astronomy, genealogy, chemistry, physics, and poetry from Northern Ireland • Nov 9, 7-9:30pm • Free

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

Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges:Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed Sun-Mon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in:Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night:Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for femaleidentified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month;

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RUTHERFORD HOUSE REMEMBERS • Rutherford House Provincial Historic Site, 11153 Saskatchewan Drive • 780.427.3995 • louise.mckay@gov.ab.ca • history. alberta.ca/rutherford • Celebrate the courageous Canadian men and women of World War 1, both at war and on the home front. Includes appetizing recipes from the time period, music and so much more • Nov 8, 12-4pm • Free-$6 SCANDINAVIAN CHRISTMAS MARKET • Dutch Canadian Cantre, 13312-142 St • escaedmonton@gmail. com • Featuring ethnic baking, crafts, sandwiches and more • Nov 8, 11am-4pm • Free SCRAMBLED YEG • Brittany's Lounge, 10225-97 St • 780.497.0011 • Open Genre Variety Stage: artist from all mediums are encouraged to occupy the stage and share their creations • Every Tue-Fri, 5-8pm WORLD TOWN PLANNING DAY • Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St • citylab@edmonton.ca • edmonton.ca/ citylab • Watch the documentary Urbanized followed by a reception and the opportunity to chat with the planners, policy makers and urban designers who have a hand in shaping our own great city • Nov 8, 2-5pm • Free

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Call For Artisans - The Carrot Christmas Bazaar The Carrot Community Arts Coffeehouse is hosting a Christmas Arts Bazaar on November 27 and 28 in conjunction with Just Christmas, a Fair Trade Justice at Christmas craft fair at the Alberta Ave Community League. 2000 people expected to come to Alberta Avenue in pursuit of artisan Christmas gifts, and we are looking for local artisans to be part of our boutique sale at The Carrot.

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Thirty-seven years later, Ben & Jerry's is among the world's bestselling ice-cream brands. Its success stems in part from its willingness to keep transforming the way it does business. "My mantra is, 'Change is a wonderful thing,'" says the current CEO. As evidence of the company's intention to keep re-evaluating its approach, there's a "Flavor Graveyard" on its website, where it lists flavours it has tried to sell but ultimately abandoned. "Wavy Gravy," "Tennessee Mud" and "Turtle Soup" are among the departed. Now is a favourable time for you to engage in a purge of your own, Aries. What parts of your life don't work anymore?

What personal changes would be wonderful things?

TAURUS (APR 20 – MAY 20): Before he helped launch Apple in the 1970s, tech pioneer Steve Wozniak ran a dial-a-joke service. Most of the time, people who called got an automated recording, but now and then Wozniak answered himself. That's how he met Alice Robertson, the woman who later became his wife. I'm guessing you will have comparable experiences in the coming weeks, Taurus. Future allies may come into your life in unexpected ways. It's as if mysterious forces will be conspiring to connect you with people you need to know.

GEMINI (MAY 21 – JUN 20): Small, nondestructive earthquakes are common. Our planet has an average of 1400 of them every day. This subtle underground mayhem has been going on steadily for millions of years. According to recent research, it has been responsible for creating 80 percent of the world's gold. I suspect that the next six or seven months will feature a metaphorically analogous process in your life. You will experience deepseated quivering and grinding that won't bring major disruptions even as it generates the equivalent of gold deposits. Make it your goal to welcome and even thrive on the subterranean friction!

CANCER (JUN 21 – JUL 22): Here's the process I went through to create your horoscope. First I drew up a chart of your astrological aspects. Using my analytical skills, I pondered their meaning.

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VIRGO (AUG 23 – SEP 22): Should a professional singer be criticized for her lack of skill in laying bricks? Is it reasonable to chide a kindergarten teacher for his ineptitude as an airplane pilot? Does it make sense to complain about a cat's inability to bark? Of course not. There are many other unwarranted comparisons that are almost as irrational but not as obviously unfair. Is it right for you to wish your current lover or best friend could have the same je ne sais quoi as a previous lover or best friend?

Should you try to manipulate the future so that it's more like the past? Are you justified in demanding that your head and your heart come to identical conclusions? No, no and no. Allow the differences to be differences. And more than that: Celebrate them!

LIBRA (SEP 23 – OCT 22): In the mid-19th century, an American named Cyrus McCormick patented a breakthrough that had the potential to revolutionize agriculture. It was a mechanical reaper that harvested crops with far more ease and efficiency than hand-held sickles and scythes.

But his innovation didn't enter into mainstream use for 20 years.

In part that was because many farmers were skeptical of trying a new technology, and feared it would eliminate jobs. I don't foresee you having to wait nearly as long for acceptance of your new wrinkles, Libra. But you may have to be patient.

SCORPIO (OCT 23 – NOV 21): Is it possible to express a benevolent form of vanity? I say yes. In the coming weeks, your boasts may be quite lyrical and therapeutic.

They may even uplift and motivate those who hear them. Acts of self-aggrandizement that would normally cast long shadows might instead produce generous results.

That's why I'm giving you a goahead to embody the following attitude from Nikki Giovanni's poem "Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)": "I am so perfect so divine so ethereal so surreal / I cannot be comprehended except by my permission."

SAGITTARIUS (NOV 22 – DEC 21): Regard the current tensions and detours as camouflaged gifts

“Turn it Down”-- but not all the way.

from the gods of growth. You're being offered a potent opportunity to counteract the effects of a self-sabotage you committed once upon a time. You're getting an excellent chance to develop the strength of character that can blossom from dealing with soul-bending riddles. In fact, I think you'd be wise to feel a surge of gratitude right now. To do so will empower you to take maximum advantage of the disguised blessings.

CAPRICORN (DEC 22 – JAN 19): You are slipping into a phase when new teachers are likely to appear.

That's excellent news, because the coming weeks will also be a time when you especially need new teachings. Your good fortune doesn't end there. I suspect that you will have an enhanced capacity to learn quickly and deeply.

With all these factors conspiring in your favour, Capricorn, I predict that by January 1, you will be smarter, humbler, more flexible and better prepared to get what you want in 2016.

AQUARIUS (JAN 20 – FEB 18): American author Mark Twain seemed to enjoy his disgust with the novels of Jane Austen, who died 18 years before he was born.

"Her books madden me so that I can't conceal my frenzy," he said, even as he confessed that he had perused some of her work multiple times. "Every time I read Pride and Prejudice," he wrote to a friend about Austen's most famous story, "I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone." We might ask why he repetitively sought an experience that bothered him. I am posing a similar question to you, Aquarius. According to my analysis, the coming weeks will be an excellent time to renounce, once and for all, your association with anything or anyone you are addicted to disliking.

PISCES (FEB 19 – MAR 20): The Sahara in Northern Africa is the largest hot desert on the planet.

It's almost the size of the United States. Cloud cover is rare, the humidity is low, and the temperature of the sand can easily exceed 170F. (80C.) That's why it was so surprising when snow fell there in February of 1979 for the first time in memory. This once-in-a-lifetime visitation happened again 33 years later. I'm expecting a similar anomaly in your world, Pisces. Like the desert snow, your version should be mostly interesting and only slightly inconvenient. It may even have an upside. Saharan locals testified that the storm helped the palm trees because it killed off the parasites feeding on them. V

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: There comes a time in every relationship where you have to confront the question: "Is this worth it?" With any luck, it's an easy question to answer—perhaps so easy that you aren't even aware you're asking it, but progress naturally into a deeper emotional and temporal commitment. But sometimes the question doesn't arise until much later, when lives are so intertwined that the idea of divesting seems unimaginable.

With enough motivation and mutual effort, any relationship can work—but I've come to learn that "working" is sometimes not enough and that perhaps not ev-

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In order for some struggling relationships to survive, both parties must be willing to persevere through a seemingly endless mire of doubt, sacrifice, disappointment and despair, only to find that even in the absence of the struggle, they remain unfulfilled.

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As reassuring as it might feel to draw rigid lines around certain issues like infidelity, individuals and partnerships are too nuanced and

variable for any such criteria—it is truly a matter of personal values. What I do know and believe is that sometimes the hardest choice is the best choice.

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comes with profound relief. But for most, it is accompanied by a host of overwhelming, confusing and agonizing emotions. This is especially true when the decision is not mutual.

It is easy to find sympathy for the person who is left behind. Our values of commitment are often reflected in the support we show to the person who was willing to fight to stay in their relationship. I would argue that there is also bravery in being the one who shoulders the burden of ending a fading relationship. At times, separation is the merciful thing to do.

I'm afraid that I can't tell you

With enough motivation and mutual effort, any relationship can work—but I’ve come to learn that “working” is sometimes not enough and that perhaps not every relationship is worth saving in the reverent moments when a couple decides to separate. I have seen couples contemplate their values, grieve lost expectations and reconcile a different future than the one they had imagined. For some, the decision

what to do, but I will say is that you need to be absolutely certain that you are making the right decision. It would likely be helpful to speak with a professional: whether for couples or individual therapy, counselling can help you find your way through. If I can offer you any reassurance as you work through your decision, it's that from the worst pain imaginable can come an opportunity for genuine healing, growth and happiness. As Sartre said: "Life begins on the other side of despair." V

Tami-lee Duncan is a Registered Psychologist in Edmonton, specializing in sexual health. Please note that the information and advice given above is not a substitute for therapeutic treatment with a licensed professional. For information or to submit a question, please contact tami-lee@ vueweekly.com. Follow on Twitter @SexOlogyYEG. Dan savage savagelove@vueweekly.com

DEAR READERS: Two weeks ago, I announced I would be taking a nice long break from questions about miserable sexless marriages. (I don't get questions about happily sexless marriages.) I tossed out my standard line of advice to those who've exhausted medical, psychological and situational fixes ("Do what you need to do to stay married and stay sane"), and I moved on to other relationship problems.

Readers impacted by sexless marriages—men and women on "both sides of the bed"—wrote in to share their experiences and insights. I've decided to let them have the last word on the subject.

THE OTHER WOMAN

Since you don't want to give any more advice to readers stuck in sexually unfulfilling marriages they can't or don't want to end, will you allow me to give a little advice from the perspective of the other woman, ie, the person who makes it possible for them to "stay married and stay sane?" I contacted an old flame when my marriage ended. He was married. His wife refused to have sex with him but also expected him to stay faithful to her. Their kids were still in school. He honestly believed that staying together was the best thing for the kids. I went into it thinking it was going to be a fling, a temporary thing to get me over my husband and back in the game.

But the sex was mind-blowingly good. And here's the thing about amazing sex: It bonds people. We fell in love all over again. He told me our affair made his sexless mar-

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riage bearable. He was happier and a more patient father, he bickered less with his wife. He made me feel beautiful, desirable, known and accepted—all feelings that had been lacking in my marriage. But I was in the shadows. Every assignation was a risk. I couldn't introduce him to my friends, my son or my family.

After four years, I couldn't take it anymore. My ego was shredded. So I ended it. I was tired of the fear, lying and hiding, and being secondary. My advice to readers stuck in sexless marriages who cheat to "stay sane:" beware of unintended consequences. You can have an affair with the most discreet, careful partner who accepts your circumstances, who makes no demands, who provides you with both a warm body to fuck and the passion that has drained out of your marriage. You can be careful not to get caught. It might be incredible for a while. But the chances of nothing going wrong and of everyone remaining happy over the long term are vanishingly small. It's a matter of time before someone gets hurt.

Ruby Tuesday

IT CAN GET BETTER

Your advice to people whose partners have checked out of their sex lives is on target. But would you be willing to share a voice from the other side of the bed? Until a year ago, I was always appalled when I would read letters like these. Who would stop having sex?! Who would stay with someone who didn't want to have sex?! Then I got sick. My illness came on slowly, but the first

noticeable symptom was my sex drive vanishing. My lady parts were drier than a desert. No amount of lube helped. Sex hurt, and I didn't want it. My journey through the medical system was a battle.

Trained medical professionals poopoo'd me. They told me this is what all perimenopausal women experience and I should just deal with it.

I was told to "get started" and then maybe I would enjoy it. I was given lists of supplements to try. Finally, in response to other health problems, my doctor diagnosed me with diabetes. Within weeks of taking medication and changing my diet, my engine started running again.

It's not what it was, but I don't feel dead below the belly button anymore. During this time, my husband was supportive. I did my best to make him happy. I'd like to think that if I had continued to suffer a loss of libido for years, I would be brave enough to give him permission to find satisfaction elsewhere, but it would break my heart. My points, briefly: Legitimate things happen to people that make them lose their sex drive. Medical support for people brave enough to say "I've lost my mojo and need help to get it back" is not always there, and the solutions aren't always easy or fast. Too often, people (especially women) are told that losing their sex drive is normal and they should just get used to it. No one should be forced to accept a sexless relationship if that's not what they want.

And if you've lost interest in sex and don't really care to get it back, you don't have the right to impose

celibacy on another person. But in a long relationship, each partner is going to face challenges—and one of those challenges might be helping your partner fight to regain their libido.

Bed Death Survivor

EXCLUISVE AFFAIR

I'm the "other man" to a woman whose husband won't fuck her. The guy must be gay or asexual, because his wife is beautiful, smart and great in bed. I've never wanted marriage or kids, so this arrangement works well for me. The only time it got awkward was when my girlfriend—this other guy's wife— broached the subject of monogamy.

Asking for a monogamous commitment when you're married to someone else? Seemed nuts. But I hadn't slept with anyone else for three years, or even wanted to, so I was already monogamous in practice.

Monogamous In Theory Now Too

LOOK IN THE MIRROR

If my ex-husband wrote to you, he'd say I didn't want to have sex with him anymore and he was going crazy. The truth is, I wanted to have sex—but I didn't want it to be in one of the same three positions we'd been doing it for seven years. I was bored and asked for some variety, and he refused to do it. My boredom turned into frustration, and frustration turned into anger. At a certain point, the idea of having sex with him made me want to beat the living shit out of something. Was I supposed to continue satisfying

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him when my needs weren't being met? Our mistake was waiting until I hit the angry point to get into therapy. We should have gone when I was bored. He wound up having an affair and blamed me because I didn't want to have sex with him.

But there was a good reason why I didn't want to have sex with him.

Maybe before you advise people in "sexless" marriages to have affairs, you could tell them to do some selfexamination first?

Husband's Always Right

FOR SANITY'S SAKE

You wrote that you're sick of telling people trapped in sexless marriages to do what they need to do "to stay married and stay sane." I want to thank you for all that repetition. I needed it. But leaving my sexless marriage was what I needed to do to stay sane. My husband of 10 years berated me publicly, telling anyone who would listen that I was a whore. Had I not had your corpus of work on the matter of marital partners who have zero interest in sex but still demand enthusiastic monogamy, the journey through this would have been longer. Four years later, I still get excited that I actually get to have sex—awesome, giving, experimental, fun sex.

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