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Balance

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In life, there is no balance, only balancing. We are constantly juggling home, work and personal interests in an effort to acheive a sense of balance in our lives.

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EVENTS LISTINGS 20 Arts 41 Film 44 Music 53 Events

Dreamspeakers offers a diverse spread of aboriginal films

The Mountain Goats' John Darnielle discusses his songwriting

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FRONT • Slideshow Heartland Reality Tour, Freedom Flotilla Rally MUSIC • Slideshow Buzzcocks, Amy Van Keeken, the Sadies, the Pack AD, Ann Vriend • The Classical Score prevue of the Cosmopolitan Music Society’s year-end concert: Music to Move You

Buzzcocks performs live at New City

FILM • SideVue Dog Days of Summer: Brian Gibson traces the downward trajectory of the talking animal comic strip-to-movie adaptation

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EDITORIAL

Vuepoint Flotilla furor Bryan Birtles

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orldwide reaction to the Israeli Defense Force's brutal takeover of an aid ship headed to Gaza has been of disbelief, shock and outrage that a government and a military could consider such a barbaric response to humanitarian aid justified. Nations such as France, Britain, Ireland, Sweden, Spain and Turkey—under whose flag the vessel sailed—have demanded answers from Israel over its illegal actions in international waters, or demanded that Israel end its cruel and immoral blockade of Gaza.

Canada's response has been somewhat different. Echoing the sentiments of the United States, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stated that Canada "deeply regrets" the loss of life, but stopped well short of condemning the massacre.

Opposition parties showed equal cowardice, with both Michael Ignatieff and Jack Layton taking "wait-and-see" approaches to a promised investigation— one that, if Canada's recommendation to the UN is followed, will see Israel investigating itself.

Though he remains a contentious leader on nearly all other fronts, Brian Mulroney's principled stand against the apartheid regime in South Africa put him at odds with the governments of Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher—a precarious and gutsy position to take. Though detractors worried about how such a move would affect Canada's diplomatic relationships with these two longtime allies, history proved that Canada was on the side of justice.

Canada is once again having its sense of what is right and what is wrong tested.

Israel's apartheid policies make Palestinians into Bantus and their homes into Bantustans. Israel's apartheid policies confine Palestinians to separate roads and regulates their movements with identity cards and restrictions. These policies rob the Palestinian people of farmland and their livelihood through "security" walls and settlements.

Doing the right thing is almost never doing the easy thing, but it's time to stand up and do the right thing. Canada must condemn—in no uncertain terms—Israel's massacre on the aid flotilla and actively oppose the apartheid policies of the Israeli government. V

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Letters CYCLING DEATH

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hat the attitudes of some motorists towards cyclists is aggressive, and thereby exceedingly dangerous to cyclists cannot be denied. ("Roads for All" May 27 –June 2, 2010) For the majority of motorists however, if anything sharing the roadway with a cyclist can be more of a momentary inconvenience than an irritant. Still it is clear that infrastructure design that is "cyclist-friendly" is needed in all our communities.

But for Ms Power to point to the case of "the injustice" of charges of criminal negligence causing death and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing death against Toronto resident Michael Bryant, former attorney general of Ontario, being dropped by the Crown Prosecutors in Ontario, does not in any way support the proposition that it is "open season on cyclists." Indeed, quite the opposite. Had Power done even a two second search of the reports on the withdrawal of the charges, she would have found that this was an instance of an "enraged and deranged" cyclist attacking and threatening someone for no apparent reason, and that person (Mr Bryant) responding

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in self-defence out of sheer terror about what might happen to him and his wife Every death that is caused by another person is a tragedy, but not every such death is morally culpable, and this was clearly one in which there was no culpability. The position taken by Ms Power impugns the reputation of Mr. Bryant, the special prosecutor, Richard Peck, a highly respected Vancouver lawyer not in any way beholden to the Ontario government, and the justice system itself. And it is that last which is truly unfortunate; with very rare exceptions all aspects of our criminal justice system are populated by women and men who devote their lives to serving the public good, and

yet they are continually attacked by the media when they uphold the law—as opposed to pandering to public sentiment.

BRADLEY V ODSEN, QC

Correction In our previous issue (May 27 – Jun 2, “Timeland”) the cover image unintentionally went uncredited. The credit for the image is "Salt Beard" by Jason de Haan. Vue Weekly sincerely apologizes for the omission.

FEATURE // EDMONTON SCHOOL BOARDS

A strange democratic animal Greater provincial control leaves school boards in territorial power limbo Mimi Williams // mimi@vueweekly.com

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hen Edmontonians head to the polls this fall to elect the Mayor and City Councillors, many voters will also make an informed decision in their choice for school trustee. Others will select randomly. A significant number will just not bother. Let's face it: if there was a totem pole of public office-holders, only the most deluded amongst those elected to our school boards would be surprised to find themselves the low man on it.

With three school boards operating in the city and 20 trustees elected to spend budgets totalling around $1.2 billion, trustee elections still attract less attention and have lower voter turnouts than those for city council.

Since they were stripped of their taxation authority in 1994, the provincial government collects the education portion of property taxes provincewide and then doles it back out to the boards on a per-student basis and through capital grants. And although they are elected locally, the Minister of Education has the power to dissolve entire boards, but not individual trust-

ees. This has caused some to argue locally-elected trustees have become little more than mouthpieces for the provincial government. In the Calgary Herald last week, Don Braid described them as "pathetic things" with no power over local education.

Harvey Chase, the provincial Liberals' Education Critic, agrees to some extent. A former member of the Alberta Teachers' Association, the MLA for Calgary-Varsity says he and his party have been calling for the province to return taxation powers to locally elected school boards for years and will be raising that point during the upcoming School Act review.

"The province used the promise of equivalency across the province to veil what was essentially a power grab," Chase says.

Heather Welwood is President of the Alberta School Boards Association (ASBA). Her organization fought the province, unsuccessfully, over that 1994 legislation all the way to the Supreme Court of Canada. Today, she seems almost reluctant to talk about the issue of taxation authority, explaining it's all one taxpayer.

"It remains the official position of the Association that some measure of taxation authority be returned to the boards," she says. "In the past few years, we have tried to concentrate our energies and resources towards providing school boards and their trustees with the tools they need to connect with their communities."

Sue Huff is the EPSB Trustee for Ward C. In 2007, Huff campaigned on a platform for change, advocating for increased community engagement and greater accountability. After handily defeating the long-time incumbent, she says it didn't take long to realize there were some pretty confining parameters within which a trustee was expected to operate.

Huff says that a lot of people, including some candidates, do not have a clear understanding of these constraints.

The result, she says, can be election campaigns focused on platforms that are "not feasible or reasonable or even possible." She describes the reality as like dancing inside a tiny box.

Though she did not serve as a trustee under the old system, when boards had taxation authority, Huff, making clear this is her opinion, describes

the current arrangement as paternalistic with the province very clearly in charge. "It's sort of like being given an allowance to spend and being told how to spend it rather than having earned the money oneself and determining one's own priorities," she explains.

Moreover, Huff believes an important part of the relationship between taxpayers and trustees was severed.

"When there's money involved, it's very immediate," she says. "There is a direct line of authority and a direct line of accountability." The current system makes it unclear who's really in charge, she suggests.

Constitutionally, and save for some protections afforded to Catholic schools under the BNA Act, school boards exist at the pleasure of the province. The Supreme Court has affirmed this and the province of Alberta has made it perfectly clear that it will exert this authority when it sees fit.

While everyone seems to agree that an important part of the trustee's role is to lobby the provincial government and serve as champions for public education, some wonder if fear of reprisal hasn't dampened the enthusiasm

trustees have for making demands on the province.

In 1999, then Education Minister Lyle Oberg fired the entire Calgary Board of Education, claiming the trustees were "dysfunctional." This past January, the current Minister, Dave Hancock, fired the 23 trustees who made up the board of the Northland School Division, citing low student achievement. Elected trustees admit these instances, though rare, can have a chilling effect.

What constitutes dysfunction is subject to interpretation, and without clear guidelines some say there can be a sense of discomfort about any sign of public disagreement, even healthy debate. It can be used to justify conducting a great deal of work behind closed doors, in order to "smooth out any rough edges" before things appear in public.

Huff, for one, hopes that the new School Act will articulate some clear guidelines in this area. "It would certainly help new trustees feel more confident in their role," she says.

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WOMANSPACE GOES TO OTTAWA The Lethbridge women's resource centre, Womanspace, presented to the Status of Women hearings in Ottawa this past week. The centre, which had been funded by the Status of Women since 1985 lost its funding this past year along with numerous other women's groups across Canada including MATCH International, Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), Alberta Network of Immigrant Women, Centre for Equality Rights in

Accommodation (CERA).

These groups, like Womanspace, were directed toward the advancement of women by assisting them in finding work, financial information and education. Womanspace reports having helped 825 women in the past 18 months from Lethbridge and the surrounding communities of Fort Macleod, Taber and the aboriginal communities on the Kainai and Piikani First Nations reserves. Womanspace was told by Status of Women that they were looking to fund "new" projects, and had previously indicated in public statements that they were looking to fund groups who were "less talk, and more action" as Transport

QUOTE OF THE WEEK "The Law of the Sea is quite plain that, when an incident takes place on a ship on the high seas (outside anybody's territorial waters) the applicable law is that of the flag state of the ship on which the incident occurred. In legal terms, the Turkish ship was Turkish territory."

Craig Murray Ex-UK Ambassador and one-time Foreign Office specialist on Maritime Law.

Minister John Baird was quoted as saying to the House of Commons on May 5.

In the last year the closing of over a dozen organizations who have had longstanding partnerships led the Standing committee on the status of women to review current funding priorities at the May 26 meeting.

SLIDESHOW >> FREEDOM FLOTILLA RALLY

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You can say whatever you like to justify your decisions. But you must know political sloganeering rings hollow to the very vulnerable women we serve. When you are on the verge of homelessness, or leaving an abusive relationship, or digging yourself out of bankruptcy due to addictions or whatever the case may be, you don't need a talking point from a politician. What you need are non-judgemental financial information and other services that help you build a better life.

And that's what has been denied to hundreds of women in Southern Alberta as a result of the decision to deny Status of Women funding to Womanspace Resource Centre in Lethbridge."

—Shannon Phillips presenting to the Status of Women hearings.

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word of the week PIRACY: [fr. Greek peirates “brigands”] (noun) Piracy consists of any of the following acts: (a) any illegal acts of violence or detention, or any act of depredation, committed for private ends by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft, and directed: (i) on the high seas, against another ship or aircraft, or against per-

sons or property on board such ship or aircraft; (ii) against a ship, aircraft, persons or property in a place outside the jurisdiction of any State; United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea Part seven Article 101

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COMMENT >> EDUCATION

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Ignoring the facts

Education provides a better return than oil and gas On Saturday, May 22, in his speech to the annual meeting of Alberta Teachers' Association, Alberta Education Minister Dave Hancock said to teachers that the fiscal reality of Alberta is that "there is very little spare money in the provincial government coffers."

His comments came as the province's teachers struggled to come to terms with the fact that Mr Hancock's government not only cut funding to education in this year's provincial budget, but has also reneged on their promise to fund the raises that they negotiated with teachers.

The results of this double-hit to the funding of schools across the province, once again, will be lay-offs to teachers, deficits to school boards, delayed or cancelled infrastructure projects and even larger class sizes.

As school boards have begun rolling out their budgets over the course of the last month, it has become clear that virtually every board in the province will be hit with at least one of the above, and most will be hit with all of the above.

Six days after Mr Hancock's speech, the Government of Alberta made a $1.5 billion announcement that they described as a "long-term investment in Alberta's future." Unfortunately, this announcement had absolutely nothing to do with adequately funding education. Instead it was an announcement of new incentive programs (read breaks) designed to have the government forego an additional $1.5 billion in royalties from the province's oil and gas sector. This is supposedly the culmination of the province's work over the last nine months to make Alberta's royalty structure more competitive with those of other jurisdictions.

The rationale provided by Energy Minister Ron Liepert for this new giveaway to the energy sector is that reducing royalties will help get money circulating in the economy again, provide jobs, and help increase the amount of tax revenue coming into provincial coffers. The government would have us believe that by giving away an extra $1.5 billion to the oil and gas sector our future will be secured and Albertans will once again have more job opportunities than they know what to do with.

The problem with this understanding, however, is that it is wrong and the government knows it.

The government regularly publishes tables of what are called economic multipliers. These tables, compiled by Alberta Finance and Enterprise using data from Statistics Canada, demonstrate what impact an investment of $10 000 in various sectors of the economy would have on economic growth (GDP) and job creation, both directly and

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including indirect spinoffs.

According to the most recent version of the government's economic multiplier tables, the education sector has a far greater multiplier—both in terms of jobs and GDP—than does oil and gas extraction. In fact, oil and gas extraction has one of the lowest multipliers of all sectors of Alberta's economy. The numbers are clear: investing in education will do significantly more for job creation and economic stimulus than cutting royalties.

Beyond the economic advantage, however, the

According to the most recent version of the government's economic multiplier tables, the education sector has a far greater multiplier—both in terms of jobs and GDP—than does oil and gas extraction.

In fact, oil and gas extraction has one of the lowest multipliers of all sectors of Alberta's economy.

government's own rhetoric around developing a new long-term vision for our education system has repeatedly emphasized the need to "get it right" and the importance of ensuring a worldclass system for Alberta. This is the best way, says the government propaganda, to ensure a prosperous future.

So if the government knows that investing in education will yield greater economic benefits, and the government says that a solid education system is the path to a prosperous future over the long-term, then why the decision to give the oil and gas industry $1.5 billion while cutting funding to education?

There are only two possible answers to this question. Either the government doesn’t understand how to read their own economic multipliers, or the government doesn't really believe their own rhetoric about investing in education and is just looking for excuses to give their friends in the oil and gas industry more money. Either way, Albertans should be outraged by their government and begin moving to take action. Otherwise we risk ending up in a province with a world-class oil and gas sector, a broken education system and a government that is perfectly content to have it that way. V

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months away, trustee candidates have started campaigning. Tina Jardine was one of about 20 people who attended an ASBA information session last week for people eyeing a school board seat. Jardine hopes to replace Gerry Gibeault for the public board in Ward I. As a former long time employee of the EPSB, she acknowledges that trustees have lost some of their power but feels there's still an important role for them to play as advocates for public education. She also talked about the need for trustees to find a way to do that without biting the hand that feeds them.

"I've attended most of the Edmonton Public Board meetings over the last three years and I sense that they are very reluctant to push," she says, adding that that's probably true of other boards in the province, as well.

All of this may point to why voter turnout is quite low. Precise calculation of voter turnout for school board elections is hampered by the fact that there has been at least one acclamation for the position of trustee in every Edmonton election in the last 20 years, when the EPSB and ECSD moved to electing trustees by ward.

In 2007, for example, Catholic voters in three wards did not cast a ballot for trustee because there were three acclamations. Despite a near record-low voter turnout of just over 27 percent, there were still 170 623 votes cast for

mayor, but only 111 417 votes cast for trustees at both boards. An analysis of voter turnout confirms this disparity has remained fairly constant over time. The last time more than half of eligible Edmontonians voted was 1995. With just one acclamation at the public board, mayoralty candidates received 218 847 votes; candidates for trustee, just 166 730.

Regardless of overall voter turnout, 20 to 35 percent of the people who do vote will consistently not cast a ballot for school trustee. Welwood attributes a large part of the apathy to the fact that 70 percent of taxpayers don't have children in schools. Boards across the province are working actively to connect with their communities, she says.

The School Act is currently under review, with changes expected to be introduced in the fall. As part of the review, the government conducted a series of public consultations last fall intended to get community input into ways in which the system might be improved. Advocates for public education are hopeful that there will be increased capacity for locally elected boards to respond to local needs, whether that be through some measure of taxation authority, or some other means.

In the meantime, candidates for trustee are out there pounding the pavement, knocking on doors, hoping people take notice, hoping that with over 113 000 children in publicly-funded schools people get out to vote. V

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COMMENT >> INTERNET LAW

Bill has no bite Security disclosure law does little to enforce compliance

Last week Industry Minister Tony Clem- two requirements. First, businesses are ent unveiled two bills touted as impor- required to report a "material breach of tant components of the government's security safeguards involving personal national digital strategy. The Fighting In- information under its control" to the ternet and Wireless Spam Act is a repeat Privacy Commissioner. The business deof the anti-spam bill that passed through termines whether the breach meets this the House of Commons last year but standard by assessing the sensitivity of died after Parliament prorogued. Since the information, the number of individuthe new bill reflects roughly the als affected and whether there is a same compromise that garnered systemic security problem. all-party support, it should reSecond, businesses are receive swift passage. quired to notify individuals The second bill, the Safeaffected by the breach "if m ekly.co vuewe guarding Canadians' Personal it is reasonable in the cirmgeist@ el Information Act, is likely to be cumstances to believe that Micha far more controversial. The bill the breach creates a real risk Geist amends Canada's existing privacy of significant harm to the indilegislation by establishing new excepvidual." The business makes its own tions for businesses and new powers for determination of whether there is a real law enforcement. risk by considering the sensitivity of the The centrepiece is a long overdue secu- information and the probability that the rity breach disclosure requirement. Over personal information will be misused. the past seven years, virtually every US state has enacted disclosure rules that While the bill is better than the curcompel organizations that suffer a secu- rent situation where there is no security rity breach that places personal informa- breach disclosure requirement, it falls tion at risk to promptly disclose that fact far short of the rules found elsewhere. to the affected individuals. By mandat- The government's proposal sets a very ing notification, the laws ensure that in- high threshold for disclosure of a breach dividuals are better able to guard against and contains no clear penalties for nonidentity theft by closely monitoring their disclosure. credit card bills, bank accounts and credit By comparison, the California law esreports for any unusual activity. tablishes a threshold of whether an From a business perspective, the laws unauthorized person acquired the inforcreate a strong incentive to protect per- mation, not whether there is real risk of sonal information since the notification significant harm (other states merely reprocess is both expensive and embar- quire harm, not significant harm). Morerassing. Moreover, the laws have per- over, the California law requires disclosuaded some organizations to rethink sure in the most expedient time possible the amount of personal information they and without unreasonable delay—far retain, since mounting data collection quicker than the Canadian plan. and retention increases the damaging Some states also establish tough penalconsequences of a security breach. ties for failure to promptly notify. For The Canadian proposal establishes example, Florida's law provides for penalties of up to US $500 000 for failure to notify affected individuals and up to US $50 000 for failure to document nonnotifications of security breaches.

Security breach disclosure was widely recognized as a major hole in the Canadian law framework, yet this proposal is a disappointment that falls short of striking the right balance between protecting Canadians, encouraging appropriate safeguards of personal information and guarding against overwhelming Canadians with too many notices.

In fact, with no penalties for failure to notify security breaches, the provisions may do more harm than good. If it becomes law, Canadians will expect to receive notifications in the event of a breach, but companies may err on the side of not notifying, safe in the knowledge that there are no established financial penalties for failing to do so.

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Michael Geist holds the Canada Research Chair in Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law. He can reached at mgeist@uottawa.ca or online at michaelgeist.ca.

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COMMENT >> NUCLEAR WAR

BOB THE ANGRY FLOWER

Imagine if ...

North Korea and South Korea go to war Start with the worst-case scenario. available in South Korea, and the US What if there really were a war in the can reinforce that number almost withKorean peninsula? Even by local stan- out limit in very short order. dards, the rhetoric has been heated A few hundred thousand North Kosince the South Korean warship Cheo- reans and a few tens of thousands of nan was sunk by an explosion last South Koreans would die in the fighting, March, killing 46 sailors, and it has but nothing else of great moment been white-hot since "indepenwould happen. It's not even likedent investigators" reported ly that there would be a major on May 20 that a North Kocounterattack into North Korean torpedo had struck the rea. Nobody would want to .com upset the Chinese by invadvessel. weekly e u v @ e Everybody is on hair-triging North Korea: better to gwynn e ger alert, and the only comleave the Pyongyang regime Gwynn munication between the two to fall of its own weight after Dyer sides is by invective: North Korea being humiliated by defeat. has shut the "hotline" down. So supBut that's what would happen if the pose there is a local clash somewhere North Koreans used only conventional along the DMZ, the demilitarized zone weapons. Whether or not they have between the two countries that follows working nuclear weapons, they unthe 1953 ceasefire line, or at sea along doubtedly have chemical and biological the disputed maritime frontier. Suppose weapons in profusion. And they would it escalates: such things sometimes do. almost certainly use them.

What would a full-scale war between That would make the bombardment North and South Korea look like? of Seoul a much uglier affair, since We are always told that North Ko- civilians would have little protection rea has the fourth-largest army in the against nerve gas or lethal bacteria, world, that it has heavy artillery within but it wouldn't have much effect on range of the South Korean capital, the military outcome. The soldiers on Seoul (which it promises to turn into both sides would have adequate proa "sea of fire" in case of war), and that tection, and their operations would be it probably has nuclear weapons. So equally hampered by the presence of would an inter-Korean war be a calam- such agents. ity? Yes, but mainly for the North.

Nuclear weapons are a different matNorth Korea's weapons are a long way ter, but it's far from certain that North from being state-of-the-art. Its air force Korea has any operational ones—that is a flying scrapyard: around 400 Rus- is, ones that would work reliably, cause sian MiG-17, MiG-19 and MiG-21 fight- an explosion at least in the kiloton ers or their Chinese equivalents (all range and are small enough to fit inside designs that first flew in the 1950s or a bomber or on top of a missile. More 60s), and only three dozen relatively to the point, for North Korea to use modern Mig-29s that are reserved for such a weapon would be suicidal. the air defence of Pyongyang. It also The nuclear retaliation of the Unithas around 200 ground attack aircraft, ed States would be rapid and overmost of them equally antiquated. whelming, and would effectively Imagine that Kim Jong-il gives the or- exterminate the entire regime (toder, and the North Korean guns open up gether, unfortunately, with a lot of on Seoul. The million-man army (half of other people). But since the North which is kept within a few hours drive Koreans must know that, they would of the DMZ) heads south, and the bulk never act in a way that would bring of the obsolete air force takes off to that fate upon themselves. Nuclear support them. Meanwhile, a shower of deterrence works. short-range ballistic missiles, similar to So why did the North Koreans act so the old Soviet-made Scuds, lands on air irrationally in sinking the Cheonan, if bases and command centres through- indeed they did? Nobody really knows, out South Korea. although they have long cultivated a What happens next depends on reputation for dangerous unpredictabilwhether or not North Korea is using ity by doing such things, big enough to only conventional weapons. If it is, be shocking but not so big as to cause then the attack fails quite fast. The an actual war. Barring an accident, this North Korean air force is easily shot event will not cause one either. out of the sky, counter-battery fire and But you can't help wishing that the air strikes destroy the artillery that is "independent investigators" that Seoul firing at Seoul, most of the Scud clones invited to look into the Cheonan's sinkmiss their targets and the North Ko- ing had not all been American, British, rean divisions heading south across the Australian and Swedish. Couldn't they DMZ are shredded by air power. have asked at least a few Asians to participate? In fact, why didn't they ask the No modern army can survive without Chinese to take part? They would have air cover: the ability of aircraft to kill found it hard to say no. V ground targets with high accuracy and in large numbers has grown a hundred- Gwynne Dyer is a London-based indefold since the Second World War. The pendent journalist whose articles are South Korean and US Air Forces have published in 45 countries. His column around 600 modern military aircraft appears each week in Vue Weekly.

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DISH // PEROGY MAKING

Perogy pinchers

All it takes to learn how to make perogies is time and a patient Baba RECIPE Perogies Dough: 5 cups of flour 1 tbsp salt 1/4 cup oil 2 cups of warm water

Filling: Potato Cheddar

5 cups mashed russet potatoes (warm) 3 cups old shredded cheddar cheese Onion powder, salt, pepper (to taste)

Cottage Cheese

2 cups dry cottage cheese 2 eggs Salt and pepper (to taste) 2 sliced green onions

Directions:

NOW WE'RE ROLLING >> Hnatiuk and Baba Hamaliuk rolling the dough into the finished product Sharman Hnatiuk // sharman@vueweekly.com

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p until now I've been a bad Ukrainian. Sure I Ukrainian danced as a kid, but the only words I know how to speak in my grandparent's language are the words of food I have hoovered over the years, but never taken the time to learn how to make.

My mother isn't Ukrainian, but she did her best over the years to keep a good supply of Babas who would keep our freezer stocked with a steady supply of traditional treats. Ruth Hamaliuk first entered my life about 10 years ago and introduced my taste buds to some of the best perogies I've ever had; she has been my adoptive Baba ever since.

Year after year, as I boiled up Ruth's perogies, I kept telling myself I should learn how to make these time consuming treasures. It turned out that a lot of my girlfriends had the same desire as me, so we organized a traditional perogy making day.

It was my job to make the potato/ cheddar mix the night before so it

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would be cool. Early on Saturday morning I picked up Ruth and we invaded my friend Michelle's newly renovated kitchen (the open design including an island was voted the best place for the female worker bees to make perogies).

While Michelle set everyone up with mimosas, Ruth set me to work on mixing the dough. I assumed that after a minute or two everything was mixed well, but Ruth had me kneading away for 10 minutes until the slightly sticky dough looked even in colour. We covered it with a dish towel and left it for an hour. After it has had time to rest you can find out if you worked the dough enough. A streaky colour across the dough means you should have kneaded longer.

Most non-Ukrainians are used to the potato cheddar store-bought variety, but the real Babas bust out the cottage cheese perogies. It's not the same as the cottage cheese you can buy in a grocery store—it looks drier.

Ruth brought us some great stuff she had picked up at a Hutterite farm near Tofield, but a similar variety is avail-

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able at the Mundare Sausage House in northeast Edmonton. Mixed up with fresh dill and green onions we were ready to make some perogies.

Ruth took a softball sized chunk of the dough, and with her marble rolling pin, rolled the dough out to the width of three to four millimietres. She took a surprisingly small glass about five centimetres in diameter to cookie-cut circles from the dough. Next we saw how she stretched the dough slightly, took about one tablespoon of potato mixture in the middle of the dough. She flipped the dough across perogy style, pinching first at the top of the semicircle and then down to the bottom.

Each of us picked a spot along the perogy line and had the technique down pretty fast. The recipe and directions are fairly easy, but the process is labour and time intensive. Thankfully, with six ladies on the line, we got through the potato and cottage cheese mixtures pretty quick and moved on to making dessert perogies. Our mixture of raspberries, blueberries and black-

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berries weren't the easiest to pinch into perogy dough but I knew they would be worth it. Ruth showed us how to add a few more calories to our Ukrainian culinary education by boiling cream with brown sugar so that we would have something to drench the fruit perogies in.

By the end of the day my belly was full and I was thinking I needed to go for a run to burn some of that cream and butter off. Each of the worker bees walked home with three perogy varieties and some great experience with my favourite Baba. We thanked Ruth for her time and her wisdom, and I was happy to hear that our skills were pretty decent. Apparently there are some people who just don't catch on; lucky for them Ruth is there rolling, pinching and selling her perogies in retirement. We've already set the menu for the next Ukrainian recipe day (cabbage rolls and Ukrainian cottage cheese filled buns). All of us waddled away wanting more Ukrainian recipes, but looking forward to more time in the kitchen with Ruth. V

1. Mix dough recipe by hand, kneading for at least 10 minutes.

Dough should be evenly mixed and slightly sticky. Cover in bowl with a towel and let rest for one hour.

2. Take a softball size piece of dough and roll out on a lightly floured surface. Dough should be 3 – 4 mm in width.

3. Cut dough in circles using a glass or circular cookie cutter.

4. Pull on dough circles slightly and fill with 1 tbsp of filling of choice.

5. Stretch dough across filling and pinch firmly from the centre out to the edges.

6. Lay perogies on plastic wrap or wax paper, and freeze individually first before putting multiple perogies in a bag.

7. To enjoy, boil perogies, allowing to float for a few minutes.

8. Serve with sour cream, bacon, sautéed onions, or a mushroom cream sauce.

Any selection of berries will work for fruit perogies. Ruth’s favourite are straight raspberry. Boil 1 cup cream with ½ cup brown sugar for a dessert perogy sauce.

REVUE // NIGIST RESTAURANT

Feel the burn

Nigist sings with complex spices

AFRICAN CUISINE >> Finding a place for itself in Edmonton LS Vors // vors@vueweekly.com

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ociety's collective palate continues to expand. The metaphorically shrinking world, the age of technology and the greater mobility of the human species enlivens our gastronomic opportunities with intriguing concoctions from countries most will never visit. The Chinese were pioneers of ethnic food in Canada. What Prairie hamlet, no matter how small, did not house a Chinese restaurant? Italian cuisine is instantly recognizable, and a multitude of Italian dishes, including pizza and spaghetti, hold permanent places of favour in the Canadian cultural fabric. Of more recent prominence are the culinary traditions of southern Asia—India, Thailand, Vietnam—and now "butter chicken" and "pad thai" roll off the tongue as easily as chow mein or ravioli. In our collective palate, though, Africa largely remains the dark continent, in the sense that most cannot easily name African dishes or cooking techniques. Africa is indeed home to hundreds, if not thousands, of culinary traditions. Gaining distinction in North America is the cuisine of Ethiopia. There are a few places in Edmonton that specialize in Ethiopian food now.

One of them is Nigist Restaurant.

Nigist is separated from a busy section of 118 Avenue by a small, fenced courtyard. Inside the small building are several booths and tables, their arrange-

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ment a bit haphazard. On the wall are various posters depicting scenes of Africa and—inexplicably—a tiger. Though clearly not the fauna of Africa, it somehow fits with the low lighting and top notes of airborne incense. The menu encompasses Ethiopian standards, which favour legumes and beef, and thus we select the vegetarian combo ($13.50) and gorud gorud ($12).

The wait is nearly 40 minutes, but some things simply cannot be rushed.

Many combinations of spices must be coaxed and cajoled over long, slow heat to release their proper nuance. At last, a platter of rolled-up injera appears from the shadows at the back of the room, followed by an even larger platter bearing colourful mounds of food.

Injera plays the dual role of cutlery and grain-based side dish. In lieu of silverware, one tears off chunks of this pliable flatbread to grasp morsels of food from a communal platter. A fermented batter of teff flour imparts a distinctive tang to this bread, and the injera of Nigist is suitably tender and tart.

Components of the vegetarian combo include kay wut, alecha atakilt and gomen. Kay wut is a brick-red lentil stew that sings with vibrant red peppers, finely minced onion and garlic.

Its glorious juices slowly percolate through the injera's pores, infusing the bread with juicy fire. Alecha atakilt is a quintessential Ethiopian stew,

favoured during fasting holidays for its absence of meat. This interpretation features split yellow peas, carrots, large chunks of potato, green cabbage and yellow onions. It is a mild contrast to the kay wut, a demure hint of ginger permitting the unadulterated essence of vegetables to stand out. Gomen is a simple preparation of spinach, onion and garlic. It's decent, but lacks the punch of its neighbours.

Gorud gorud comprises morsels of beef tenderloin glistening red with spices. A heady hit of cinnamon and cloves gives way to incendiary red chilies. The justseared meat is consistently tender. Even injera struggles to tame its fire, but it's a good burn.

The proprietor, a gorgeous Ethiopian woman with an easy smile, brings us coffee on the house. The tiny mugs are reminiscent of espresso cups. Coffee likely originated in Ethiopia, and the fragrant beverage here requires but a touch of sugar to enhance its dark hints of cocoa and African sun. A vessel of burning frankincense accompanies the coffee, an olfactory journey to realms far beyond this small building. Here is indeed a worthy ambassador of Ethiopian cuisine. Perhaps one day injera and alecha will join our vernacular. V Mon – Fri (10 am – 9 pm) Nigist Restaurant 12424 - 118 Ave, 780.482.6465

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WINE

A real mouthful

This hard-to-pronounce wine will leave your mouth satisfied Viognier (pronounced vee-oh-nyay) is an obscure white grape varietal with an unknown origin and a name that leaves many in silence at a second attempt to say it. One of the many legends surrounding the source of its name even has it being related to the "via gehennae," a Jewish geographical site meaning "road to hell." Viognier may very VIDI well have earned this name VENI, from its difficulty to grow: the vines produce low yields ly.com that are susceptible to rot eweek nn@vu je and disease, along with temJenn peramental behaviour in the Fulford wine-making process.

Despite many legends and historical hypotheses, Viognier has enlightened the New World with its aromatic lust of apricot, peaches and lush mouth feel. Increased plantings over the last decade still leave this premium grape varietal the least planted on the globe, but definitely not the least desired. Australia, along with California and other New World wine growing countries such as Chile and Argentina have caught the Viognier fever in recent years. California has the second THE NORTHERN RHONE >> Home of the most famous varieties of Viognier // File largest number of plantings and perhaps the biggest success with Viognier, in granite or schist to maintain heat, to aromas may lead the drinker to anticiafter France. maturity. It is important to note that it is pate the wine itself will have some of Although the origin is unknown, histhe maturity of the grapes that releases the same sugary character when in actory does state that Viognier has been the intense aromas and flavour profile in tuality Viognier's most popular style is grown in France for centuries. The fever the end product. to finish dry. The decadence of Viognier, of Viognier has spread from the classic In the Northern Rhone, Viognier is also with its rich, luscious fruit and sensuous growing regions in the Northern Rhone a fundamental ingredient in the Syrahs full-bodied mouth is known to pair brilto the Southern Regions of Languedoc of the Cote Rotie region. Progressive liantly with Thai food, and other worldly and Provence in recent decades. The winemakers of Australian Shiraz and cuisine with savoury spice. If oak is your Northern Rhone region of France proCalifornian Syrah have followed suit usstyle, there are Viogniers on the market duces the most famous of the Viognier ing the ancient formula of five percent that have been barrel fermented. A small wines, with Condrieu and Chateau-GrilViognier to brighten the red wine with portion of oak can result in additional let having been long known to produce perfume, provide additional texture and character and body. the rich and exotically perfumed wines. to stabilize the color.

Remember to dig in now, though, as most Here, skilled and patient vintners nurse Viognier doesn't age graciously: they are the Viognier grapes, planted preferably Viognier's almost sweet, exotic fruit meant to be drunk fresh and young. V

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COVER // NEXTFEST

Brand new faces

You can see the effects in the form of almost anyone working in theatre in this town under 35, nearly all of whom have some connection to the festival and the man himself.

This obviously gives Pirot a certain sense of pride. He's always been insistent that it is Nextfest's role not just to get local artists on stage, but to give them a leg up into the wider theatrical world. That goes simply beyond giving them a venue, too: as much as anything, Pirot is trying to instil a certain ethic into artists—and, for that matter, audiences—one that values creation and new work over interpreting the work of the masters.

"My own little bugaboo, my own little manifesto, is to keep on insisting that the most relevant work is the work that is new," he explains with the careful pacing of someone familiar with arguing his position. "We're not presenting an opportunity for people to come in here and do a Daniel MacIvor play or a Shakespeare play.

To be engaged in the initial creation of something is, I think, vital. I think everyone would love it if all the stages in town were dominated by local playwrights, that audiences would love to see that. And the more artists that we can convince that that's the most vital work you can do, the more of it you'll see in the future."

Nextfest's theatre changes with the times

EVER CHANGING >> Nextfest's theatre covers a lot of thematic ground David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

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or five years, I've been sitting down with Steve Pirot to discuss Nextfest, the emerging arts festival he's spent the last 11 years overseeing and curating, and not once has the man ever actually looked the same. He began with a kind of unassuming theatrical slacker look, slowly transitioned to a kind of reformed-flowerchild guru and now, sitting across the table

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at Conrad's Sugar Bowl—where Nextfest always hosts its play readings—he is in full biker regalia, with a leather jacket and face-obscuring, mirrored shades accenting a big, bushy beard. His ever-changing look is indicative of the fact that, though Pirot has held the same position for more than a decade, the nature of the post means he's always moving.

"What keeps me coming back is the same thing that keeps anyone coming to a garden," he explains, his deliber-

ate speech suggesting someone a touch more thoughtful than your typical engine-revver.

Since he took over, Pirot has helped birth artistic voices as diverse as the crude realism of Mark Stubbings to the surreal theatrics of Jon Lachlan Stewart (who returns to Nextfest this year with The Survival of Pigeons as Studied by Human Lovers), to say nothing of giving countless directors, actors and techies their first shot at professional theatre outside school's confines.

To that end, this year Nextfest will showcase, in some form or another, 15 new works: 11 full-on mainstage productions and four play readings, the latter of which, Pirot notes, have been given extra focus this year, in the hopes of developing them into mainstage shows for next year's Nextfest. This year's mainstage, however, is typically diverse ranging from the Rapid Fire Theatre-influenced sketch comedy of ROMP to Kyle Hinton's meditation on violence on stage Characters & Violence.

Also showing are the return of the Enbridge High School plays, featuring works

solely created by high school artists, the nigh-indescribable energy of The Juvyline Cubangbang Show, the surreal family drama Vultures, the seductive yoga of The DIRTYdownward, the adultery, lust and home repair of Paula & Strom, IRL: In Real Life, an expansive musical theatre production, and the return of Letters to Noce playwright/actress Vanessa Lever with Call Me a Liar, a kind of omnibus show that pulls in the talents of local musician Doug Hoyer to riff on the subject of lying.

The diversity is by design, of course, Pirot's way of displaying just how varied and lively the state of Edmonton's emerging theatre scene is. Well and, it seems, to prove that local new work can give you just about anything you're looking for, and that taking part in the creation of something, even if it's just as an appreciator, is ultimately one of the most satisfying feelings there is.

"I think there's a part of us that agrees that theatre should somehow be more reactive to what's going on around us, to what's going on outside the theatre right now," he says. "It wants theatre to be more about the 21st century, wants plays that are aware that the Internet exists, wants plays that know we're at war in Afghanistan right now. Sometimes we want to escape and hear about how King Henry is a hero, but I think we also want to hear about how George Bush is a villain. I think, on the inside, we all get off on creating." V Thu, Jun 3 – Sun, Jun 13 Nextfest 2010 Featuring Call Me a Liar, Characters & Violence, IRL: In Real Life, Paula & Strom, ROMP, The DIRTYdownward, The Juvyline Cubangbang Show, The Survival of Pigeons as Studied by Human Lovers, Vultures, more Roxy Theatre, Living Room Play House Full details at nextfest.ca

PREVUE // DANCEFEST@NEXTFEST

Ready to explore

Dance gets experimental at Dancefest Amy Fung // amy@vueweekly.com

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eaturing 13 new pieces by emerging dancers and choreographers from across Edmonton and beyond, Dancefest@Nextfest looks to showcase dance artists who are hungry to perform in a city with little to obsolete opportunities for professional development.

Curated by Cheryl Fontaine, a past graduate of the now defunct Grant MacEwan dance program and Simon Fraser

University, this is the second year she's organizing the dance portion of Nextfest, incorporating mentorship opportunities through Victoria School of Performing & Visual Arts and Strathcona High School.

"From experience and from my friends, and knowing the community, there's not a lot of performing opportunities in Edmonton unless you're presenting yourself," says Fontaine, who teaches dance in St Albert and was one part of the troupe New Dance Collective. "The community is tight and feel we are quite supportive

of each other, but if you want to continue performing, you have to do the festivals and present yourself or start a collective or start collaborating with other artists.

A perfect example is the Good Women Collective, who are students coming back to Edmonton to work."

Offering a variety of styles, Fontaine says that there will be a range from works strictly about movement and appreciating dance for dance to works that will focus more on image.

"We're looking for interesting themes and creative movement," continues Fontaine. "We want something that can be developed. Nextfest is a stepping stone for artists to continue on further, so it's a CONTINUED ON PAGE 19 >>

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PREVUE // RUBABOO

Self-awareness

now their primary outlet is Rubaboo, a four-day event that presents the work of Alberta artists alongside readings and excerpts from playwrights around the country. The latter is represented by such heavy hitters as the multipleDora-winning Agowke, Waawaate Fobister's story about growing up gay on the rez, but Cunningham points to the two Alberta plays, Telly James's Where the Sun Don't Shine and Tara Beagan's Dreary & Izzy, as the purest representation of what Rubaboo and AAA are all about.

"Dreary & Izzy is a really touching play about two sisters who lose their parents, one of whom has fetal alcohol syndrome ... and it talks about prejudice and what that can do to us," he explains, before pointing out that this is, amazingly, its Alberta premiere. "It's by an Alberta playwright, it takes place in Alberta, in Lethbridge and Red Deer, but it's never been produced in Alberta. She's an award-winning playwright and actress, and there's a really unique perspective on things." V

The Rubaboo Arts Festival aims to connect a community to itself David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

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hen Ryan Cunningham founded his new company, Alberta Aboriginal Arts, he had in mind the same goals he had when he partnered with Workshop West for the inaugural Rubaboo Arts Festival: creating an institution that would support and spread the work of Alberta's aboriginal community.

"As we've discovered when we're reaching out the community to try and get as many artists as we can, it's very fragmented," explains Cunningham, co-director of AAA, the organization that has taken over Rubaboo whole cloth this year. "We're hoping one of the biggest ways we'll support the community is by creating cohesion, producing events that will bring artists together and get them building networks and relationships and a community that's aware of what's happening around us."

Cunningham was inspired by a stint in Toronto, where he got a taste of how cohesive and supportive that city's

FOR THE COMMUNITY >> Andrea True Joy Fox performs in Rubaboo aboriginal community could be, and what a similar network could mean for his hometown.

"Growing up here, I was never exposed to aboriginal performance or theatre," he points out. "I wanted to come back

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home, and I realized that Edmonton has the second largest aboriginal population in the country, and that it was really important for this community to have a company that's supporting the art and artists that are here, so they

don't have to leave to work."

ticular Edmonton theatre figure was to down someone else's urine—though whether or not the deed was actually done has never been confirmed (Dart herself was supposed to switch the piss for apple juice, but ended up busy at the time of the consumption). A more recent tale involves two sweaty individuals covering themselves in saran wrap and dancing to Christian Hansen's set, with the sweaty wrap being removed afterwards, wrung out and, uhh, drank—"to see whose was the best tasting," Dart giggles, "That is art."

ing performances under the banner of "the politics of anything," and new night, Technation (June 11), "about how modern technology runs through our day-to-day life as well as our performance capability." Dart sets the concepts for each night—based on artistic trends, memory of what worked before and the strength of early submissions—the artists propose their ideas, and she combines the most promising into each evening.

And while Smut's certainly bolstered a lurid reputation for the whole thing, Dart isn't specifically pressing for shock value—though she's found that even without her guiding hand, infamy has a funny way of perpetuating itself.

"Well, people always ask, is this coming back, is this coming back?," Dart says.

Though the group has plans to program everything from theatre to music to dance, and to start bringing in touring productions from around Canada, for

Wed, Jun 2 – Sat, Jun 5 (7:30 pm) Rubaboo Arts Festival Featuring Dreary & Izzy, Where the Sun Don't Shine, more Yellowhead Brewery (10229 - 105 St), Free

PREVUE // NEXTFEST NITECLUBS

Triple dare

Nextfest's NiteClubs return in infamy Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

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ore than with the other curator jobs at Nextfest, running the NiteClubs carries certain notorious expectations alongside the title, expectations currently bearing down on Beth Dart. Not that she's worried. Reassuming her role as, in her own words, the "Über-mistress" of the NiteClubs for a third straight year, she seems gleeful to be programming the trio of eclectic, multi-disciplinary parties scattered throughout the weekends of Nextfest to uphold their longstanding reputation for late-night malarky. The only expectations that seem to be making Dart wonder come from festival direc-

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tor Steve Pirot himself. He has yet to catch the NiteClubs' most fabled night.

"The past two years, within about 10 minutes of opening the doors the venue was packed and we had a lineup the rest of the night—Steve hasn't been able to get into Smut Night because we were at capacity before he could get there," she laughs. "So he's a little nervous this year. He's heard all the stories, but he's never been able to take it in. He's never seen Smut. He's only heard the stories.

He almost feels like doesn't want to see it, because it might not live up to it. Or maybe he'll jinx it."

Given the stories floating around, you can't blame Pirot for wondering what's been going on at his festival behind capacity doors: year one, on a dare, a par-

It's not all dirt, of course: aside from Smut night (June 12), there's the fist-inthe-air-charge of Rise Up! (June 4), another returning evening theme featur-

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"Sometimes people come to me with pieces that totally fill that reputation, and then other times it's a whole different direction. It kind of depends what people are bringing to the table." V Nextfest NiteClubs Fri, Jun 4 (9:30 pm) Rise Up! the Artery (9535 Jasper Ave), $5 Fri, Jun 11 (9:30 pm) Technation the Artery, $5 Sat, Jun 12 (9:30 pm) Smut The Roxy (10708 - 124 St), $5

REVUE // THE LIARS

Us vs them

The Liars' cast and script combine into an impeccable delight David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

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ocelyn Ahlf's The Liars is actually about dinner guests from hell, but it feels more like a pleasant dinner party than anything: a breezy, witty evening that, even if it isn't especially illuminating, leaves you happy to come back for a return engagement.

This impeccably cast comedy opens with Audrey and Simon (Lora Brovold and Andrew MacDonald-Smith) hesitating to ring the doorbell of their friends Gaby and Adam (Shannon Blanchet and David MacInnis): in a taste of the deliciously misanthropic wit that's to come, Simon asks why, if Audrey hates Gaby so much, she insists on accepting their dinner invitation, to which Audrey exasperatedly responds, "They're our best friends—we have to see them eventually!" By the time the show is over, though, they'll certainly wish they'd have continued to avoid them: before they can even get through dessert, Audrey and Simon are pulled into the opposite pair's messy relationship, a mercurial pairing that's only further complicated by Gaby's melodramatic embellishments and outright lies.

This continues on well past dinner, as Gaby worms her way into Audrey and Simon's wedding planning with increasingly horrific stories about her relationship, to the point where she's spending a week on the couch, much to Simon's chagrin. He finally manages to smooth things over with some smoothtalking and a bit of fibbing of his own, but that only sets up another dinner, a madcap comic climax where everyone ends up just as steamed as the lobster that's for dinner.

Throughout this, there are some

DON'T WANT TO HEAR IT >> Or see it, or say it // Supplied suggestions about the tricky world of adult relationships—the extent to which all of us are liars, and of course the delicate dance that is inexplicably maintaining a friendship that you actually want no part of—but these are themes that are very much of the underlying variety, as Ahlf's main concern here seems to be witty banter and sly comedy, both of which she's rather good at. Though here she also gets a major assist from the cast: everyone here is perfectly suited, and watching their personalities bounce off of each other is plenty of fun. I was slightly more partial to the men—MacDonaldSmith brings just the right amount of snarky exasperation to Simon, while MacInnis is stone-facedly perfect as a kind of dull lug dimwittedly trying to fit in—but Blanchet's flibbertigibbet and Brovold's bundle of comic emotional angst have more than their share of moments.

Structurally, the play could use a bit of tightening: there are some unnecessary subplots that have the whiff of being scenes Ahlf couldn't bring herself to excise, and they needlessly bloat a play at it's best when it is wasplike, buzzing around looking for its next comedic sting. Still, the charisma of the cast covers a lot of this up, as its rare that you feel as though you're spending too much time with these frequently very funny characters. Rarely does a dreaded evening of conversation turn out to be this much fun. V

call to artists

Until Sun, Jun 13 (7:30 pm) The Liars Directed by John Hudson Written by Jocelyn Ahlf Starring Shannon Blanchet, Lora Brovold, Andrew MacDonald-Smith, David MacInnis Varscona Theatre (10329 - 83 Ave), $10 – $25

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The Eaux Claires Transit Centre public art competition, open to all Canadian visual artists, is held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C).

Budget: $23, 750 CAD (maximum, all inclusive) Deadline: 4:30 pm on Wednesday, June 30, 2010 Installation: Spring 2011 Visit our website to download the complete public art calls: publicart.edmontonarts.ca and click on [Public Art Calls].

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PREVUE // FAILURE!

The worst of the best

Edmonton playwrights aim to crash and burn with Failure!

Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

F

ailure, it seems, is stalking Ryan Hughes. He might have brought it on himself though, by organizing a night of plays focused solely on crashing and burning with the aptly titled Fringe fundraiser Failure!.

"It's just all the little things," he sighs, as presently, the title seems to be a self-fulfiling prophecy: while designing posters for the show, Photoshop gave him some inexplicable trouble—"Apparently three gigs of memory is not enough to process my poster," he notes—and with a keypad typo, I initially gave him the wrong number to call for our interview. Not all of the unintentional failing is his own, though: while the idea of purposefully penning a trainwreck appealed to penty of playwrights, some had to drop out, finding it impossible to consciously write their worst.

"Speaking as a writer myself, I know the temptation to turn the car into the nearest telephone pole is really strong, so I think they were all really eager to do this," he says. "But then I think a lot of them found, as they were doing it, that to do it badly and still have it be something worth spending your time experiencing is a really tricky line to walk. A couple of

folks had to pull out because they couldn't manage the balance. They were just like, 'I keep trying to correct myself, I keep trying to make it better' … they couldn't do it.

They failed at failing."

Those that stayed, however, offer a diverse, curiously titled sextet of entries: Edmonton mainstays Stewart Lemoine,

The other show being fundraised for is Mostly Water Theatre's 15 minutes—the idea for Failure! actually came from MWT member Matt Stanton's brother doing a similar evening in Toronto—and the comedy collective will host the Failure! readings, with the musical plucks of Jill Pollock, and muster their own attempts at delivering unsuccessful comedy.

A couple of folks had to pull out because they couldn't manage the balance. They were just like, 'I keep trying to correct myself, I keep trying to make it better ' … they couldn't do it. They failed at failing."

Chris Craddock and Belinda Cornish offer Valour, LARRY ALWAYS WINS and Ghost Bones, respectively. Then comes Brown Chowder! Sing it Louder!, James Hamilton's musical about irritable bowel syndrome— "He kind of made up this idea on the spot, and he just gleefully sort of stuck with it," Hughes notes—Jason Chinn's Emanuella: Portrait of a Woman Misunderstood and the unbelievably named The Faggots of Wizard Lake ("A coming of age story that involves magical realism") written by Morgan Smith, playwright of the upcoming fringer Game Face which the evening, in part, serves as a fundraiser for.

It'll be interesting to see what failing at comedy looks like," he says. "If anyone can make being not funny hilarious, it'll be them." V Wed, Jun 9 (8 pm) Failure!

Featuring Valour, LARRY ALWAYS WINS, Ghost Bones, Brown Chowder! Sing It Louder!, Emanuella: Portrait of a Woman Misunderstood, The Faggots of Wizard Lake Next Act Pub (8224 - 104 St), suggested donation $15

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Shaken and stirred "At one time or another all of us go to appears only during my speeches ... an pieces," writes Siri Hustvedt, "and it isn't untamed other self, a Mr Hyde to my Dr necessarily a bad thing." I first heard of Jekyll, a kind of double." She interrogates Hustvedt though her husband, the writer the shaking woman, and tries to befriend Paul Auster, and first encountered her her. She emphasizes the essentiality of writing through Mysteries of the Rectanlanguage to reflexive self-awareness, of gle, her collection of astute, insightful putting together words so as to find and engagingly personal essays meaning through making a story on various works of visual art, of one's life. Of course, she quesbefore digging into her novels, tions that, too. "Am I looking starting with her debut, The for a narrative," she asks, "a Blindfold, which among other kly.com confabulation, to interpret a e e w e @vu things fictionalizes her experi- hopscotch debility that is no more and Josef ences with chronic debilitating no less than synaptic wiring migraines. Her new book, The and firing?" Yet she accumulates Braun Shaking Woman, or a History of ample evidence of the scientific and My Nerves (Henry Holt, $28), is a relativetherapeutic value of storytelling, quoting ly slim memoir and a seeming departure physician Rita Charon, who describes how from her body of work. Yet The Shaking "narrative knowledge, by looking closely at Woman is in many regards a synthesis of individual human beings grappling with the nearly every major theme she's ever dealt conditions of life, attempts to illuminate with. It's a nonfiction, existential detective the universals of the human condition by story with faint promise of any neat resorevealing the particular." lution, concerning the search for a missing diagnosis. It explores lingering mysteries of While hurling herself into what seems a behaviour and perception, of the body and very personal search it's interesting, and the mind—if you'll excuse the dualism— endearing, to observe how Hustvedt is while attempting to uncover established continually fascinated by other people, facts with a discipline and fervor rare in among them Neil, the boy who can rewriters of fiction. It's at times scary, always member things exclusively through the fascinating and a pleasure to read. act of writing, only to forget the informaThe Shaking Woman was prompted by tion written as soon as he sets down his an experience Hustvedt had in 2006, two pen; Bertha Pappenheim, Breuer's famous years after the death of her father. She hysterical patient who lived with a "douwas giving a speech in his memory at the ble consciousness," one basically normal, university where he taught when her body one who was always observing the other began to violently convulse. She was alfrom the outside; S, the man from whom ready in her 50s by this point and had no everything was involuntarily associated history of seizures. As her limbs began to with images, even numbers and individual shake and flail, she noticed that her ability words, so that reading a single sentence to speak wasn't impaired in the slightest. overwhelmed him with myriad detailed She gripped the edges of the podium and and competing pictures; or the psychiatwent ahead and gave the speech while ric patients to whom she teaches writing. from the neck down her body went nuts.

Hustvedt also looks to fictional people for The shaking woman returned three more help in her investigation, such as Tolstoy's times, once while giving another public Ivan Ilych, unable to accept death, Dospresentation, once while appearing on a toyevsky's epileptic Prince Myshkin, or low-key Norwegian television programme Borges' Funes the Memorious, who can't and once while hiking in the Pyrenees. forget a thing.

The attacks are obviously triggered by Hustvedt is a truly voracious reader, as something more than stage fright, a parfascinated by psychology, philosophy and ticular memory, or repressed mourning. science as she is by art, poetry, and ficFour years have passed and Hustvedt still tion. At times her points of reference are doesn't know where this shaking woman so esoteric, so indicative of deeply obsescame from. sive research, as to be nearly comical. I "I can't really see where the illness ends had to laugh out loud when she pulled a and I begin," writes Hustvedt, addressing quote from Major Trends in Jewish Mystihow neurological or psychiatric illness is cism. Yet this all-inclusive devouring of litidentified with self in a way that corporeal erature provides Hustvedt with a healthy illness isn't. A large part of this book is skepticism, a view of various phenomena devoted to trying to come to terms with so broad and alert to contradiction as to what feels like an experience with a sepakeep her from latching too readily onto rate Other, despite the fact that this Other any one theory, however fashionable. It comes from within. Hustvedt provides allows her to be as judicious as she is proreaders with a brief history of hysteria, a miscuous, so that every time she seems in condition and/or a term that's been used danger of losing the thread, of digressing and abused, discarded or renamed, yet far off from her personal detective story, whose real significance remains ambigushe always manages to loop back to the ous. She consults a number of doctors, essence of her search and feed it with both real and imagined, including psychiamore insight and precision. "The search for trists, a group who, despite her obvious the shaking woman takes me round and interest in psychology, she'd previously round because in the end it is also a search avoided. "I have the vague sense that there for perspectives that may illuminate who are hidden recesses of my personality that and what she is." And, inevitably, what HusI am reluctant to penetrate," she writes. tvedt comes to accept is that the shaking "Maybe that's the part of me that shook." woman is her, or one part of her, an indiHustvedt at one point describes the vidual like any other, unfixed, unimaginably shaking woman as "a speechless alien who intricate, and alive. V

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REVUE // VIVARIUM

Uncertain meaning

Briana Palmer's Vivarium suffers from arbitrariness Adam Waldron-Blain // adamwb@vueweekly.com

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riana Palmer's Vivarium is a series of print and drawing works centred around three sculptures. They are all bound together by their visual vocabulary: speckled, ovoid organic shapes reminiscent of seeds or fruit, a trendy, cartoon-influenced illustrative line and spots of representation featuring tiny toy animals, bits of plant matter and insects nests. A fine starting point, but even bolstered by her excessively wordy artist's statement it suffers from a sense of random meaninglessness and uncertain, hasty drawing.

Her sculptures, "Otolith," "Mesotrophic"

and "Oligotrophic" (the titles refer to an inner-ear bone structure, and environments with moderate and low quantities of plant nutrients) all consist of small examples of her favourite shaped objects, some authentically from nature, others roughly hand-constructed and some with the sheen of manufactured plastic held on round platforms at varying heights by tiny metal poles above an irregularly shaped finished wooden platform. The small sculptures are generally accompanied by a model of a termite or wasp nest, and in each work one or two of the lifted items is rotating, ticking away the seconds powered by a clock motor.

It's not immediately clear why the rotating items were selected for this task,

amidst all of their compatriots.

Palmer writes that her work is a sort of "collection of odd bits having no boundaries of choice." They are intentionally awkward and uncertain. Of all of her uncertain boundaries, the most striking is that between her self-consciously organic shapes taken from nature and her regular use of the term "artifact" to describe them and their history. Apparently this is meant to be a kind of transformation of meaning, but in her writing on unmeditated randomness and lack of discretion it seems that an easier reading of the work is equally valid: meaningless.

The difficulty with the random nature of the show is most pronounced in her

drawing. The mixed-media paper works include a lot of drawing with pencil, which generally has a hasty appearance that doesn't seem to do the zillions of dots on a specimen from nature justice, and contrasts unfavourably with the photographic and print elements she uses. It is impatient and unconsidered.

When she veers away from the tiny circles of her seedpod/nest elements into other items (plant shoots and crab legs included), the work looks like abandoned sketches, and her pencil has little presence. Photo collage-based works like "Ballyhoo" are better, but still fairly empty. Sometimes her hand-made lines, after going through a printmaking process, end somewhere interesting, but

they need lots of work in images like "Honey hole" to get there.

Shockingly, on the invitation postcard for Vivarium is a photographic-looking image containing many of the same elements cloaked in thick, deep shadows and depth. It's tremendously more exciting than the drawings on the walls of the actual show. Her ticking, unusual sculptures are better, but suffer from the same arbitrariness and mannered subject choices—or lack of choices. V Until Sat, Jul 10 Vivarium Featuring the works of Briana Palmer SNAP Gallery (10123 - 121 St)

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good place to start and really important to support."

One of last year's Enbridge Nextfest Emerging Artists is Eryn Tempest, who will be premiering a brand new work-inprogress, Cellophane Sutures: Flooded As The Sea And Sinking.

Tempest, who just moved back from a year in Vancouver, has been working with video that she started making using ink in water during her stint out west, evoking tendrilly deep-sea creatures and shapes.

"It's the beginning of a process into something I'd like to do more work with. It's exploring the idea of traveling, inhabiting other new foreign spaces, uncharted land, and I think it has something to do with texture," she says.

As her third consecutive Nextfest experience, Tempest has channeled her time into creating lengthier, prepared works that stray from her experience in improvised movement.

"This year especially, I'm viewing it as a springboard into further research into things I have not done before. I guess I'm cashing in on the works in progress as a space to get feedback and trying out things."

Having danced for the past few years under choreographers Kathy Ochoa and Gerry Morita, Tempest is beginning to find her own voice, and this new work is a realization of that potential.

"Edmonton has a lot of opportunities for people who want to do whatever the hell they want to do without subscribing to a particular style," says Tempest, who found the Vancouver scene stifling. "I appreciate coming back and having the freedom to do the things I feel are important, and things that warrant further exploration—at least for myself." V Thu, Jun 3 – Sun, Jun 13 Dancefest@Nextfest Featuring Dance First, Think Later, Dance or Die, Get Down and Dance Roxy Theatre (10708 - 124 ST), $10 Nextfest.ca for full details

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A Birthday Odyssey—30 Years Later!

Over the past 30 years, Pride in Edmonton has been designated as a ‘Day’ in some years, a ‘Week’ in others, and for a couple of years the community supported a ‘Pride Month’. Although the number of people participating in the early years numbered only a handful, Pride now has grown to attract thousands of our community and thousands of other Edmontonians as spectators. Pride really began with closed or private events, eventually developed into more open activities with a political tone, to today's very public celebrations with both political and social goals. Looking back, I realize the range of activities is staggering—Mayor's brunch, dances, art shows, drag queen races, lectures, poetry readings, business fairs, musical shows, concerts with guest artists, political rallies, religious services, baseball cup with the police, tours, picnics, and the list goes on and on.

In the early eighties I recall that Pride took place at Camp Harris, a private campground with a small cabin, outdoor grill for hotdogs and hamburgers, baseball field and open spaces. Usually organized by several gay groups, Pride at Camp Harris included sports games (usually

‘campy’ games), pot luck, a hotdog/ hamburger roast and, oftentimes a song fest around a fire. Camp Harris is long gone and is now housing in west Edmonton, not too far from West Edmonton Mall.

For a number of years GATE, the predecessor of the Pride Centre, hosted Gay Pride dances at the Odd Fellows Hall on 95 Street.

One year, volunteering to clean the hall after the dance, as I recall, my friend John and I were driving home around 4 am —being summer it was light—with my car stuffed to capacity with the leftover booze.

At a stop light, noticing a police car along side, I yelled at John to "cool it, don't look at the police officers or we might be stopped and have to explain a car full of booze at 4 am!"

By the mid-eighties Pride included a panel discussion, usually at the university with an invitation to the media. Oftentimes the panel consisted of a parent with a gay son/daughter, a community activist and a local clergy person. Family members would talk about "coming out" and its impact on family members, their friends and co-workers or school mates. Family members and clergy were almost al-

ways interviewed and highlighted in subsequent media stories.

get arriving a half hour before the parade the following day not knowing if anyone would show up, turning During much of the eighties, GALA the corner of 83 Avenue, and seeing (Gay and Lesbian Awareness Soci- 30 people already assembled! It is ety), which had spun off from GATE one of the most exhilarating memoas an activist/lobby group, took over ries of my many years with Pride! By the organizing of Pride in Edmonton. the time we marched—all 2 blocks As a member of GALA I think it was on Whyte Avenue—about 75 people 1989 and the marched with next couple GALA took the "giant paper bags of years that their step" and organized over GALA orgaheads of a the first Pride Parade in few marchers. nized a Pride Fair for the 1990 in Old Strathcona Maureen Irwin public on and I led—it the Plaza be- on Whyte Avenue. was an amaztween the ing accomLibrary and The Westin Hotel. The plishment and thrill.

Saturday set-up had tables and booths, speakers and entertainment.

Of course, you will hear many paThe highlights, as I recall, were when rade veterans of that era tell of the Councillor Glen Murray (later May- year when the Whyte Avenue march or) from Winnipeg attended and was deluged with rain—it poured spoke on two occasions and Mayor all morning and rained even harder Reimer attended and spoke at one of during the march—but we went the Pride Fairs. anyway with nearly 175 people and virtually no bystanders (and no proGALA took the "giant step" and or- testors) along the street! ganized the first Pride Parade in 1990 in Old Strathcona on Whyte Avenue.

A few years later the Pride PaMany of us set things up and deco- rade moved to Oliver beginning at rated the gazebo in the Square next Grant Notley Park (116 St. and 100 to the Old Strathcona Market for Ave) and ending at Oliver Commuthat first march and I will never for- nity League and Hall at 120 St. The

route eventually changed starting on 110 St. and going west on Jasper Avenue and again ending at the Oliver Hall. In 1993 and 1994 Mayor Reimer, amid much criticism, angry letters and calls, declared Gay and Lesbian Awareness Day for the next eight years until 2004 Mayor Smith refused to declare Gay and Lesbian Pride.

Pride really became a celebration with a parade I believe in 2003 when the route was changed to downtown on Jasper Avenue and terminating at Churchill Square with a celebration—beer tent, entertainment, dancing and thousands of queer people. The Deputy Prime Minister and members of all political parties have taken part along with thousands of Edmontonians. Mayor Mandel has proclaimed Gay and Lesbian Pride for the past six years, as well as hosting the past four Mayor’s Brunch for Camp fYrefly.

Certainly it has been quite a journey that I have enjoyed—and been very proud of!

Happy 30th Edmonton Pride 2010!

Michael Phair Edmonton Pride Week Society

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Welcome to Womonspace Pride Centre of Edmonton Womonspace is a social and recreational society that provides opportunities for lesbians to interact and support each other in a safe environment, and also contributes to the broader community. When all positions are occupied, it is run by a Board of ten womon that stagger their renewals every two years at an Annual General Meeting.

It was established in 1981 by a small group of lesbians that were in need of events to socialize and be comfortable with their own sexual identity; since that was a time when acceptance certainly wasn’t what it is today!!

Womonspace presently has over 350 members and currently opens its doors to all members of the Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered (GLBT) community and is now financially able to reach out and help many groups within the gay community.

Most recently we contributed to such organizations as: Camp fYrefly (by sending an Albertan lesbian to camp for the past two years); Cross Cancer Institute (in memory of Carol Cattell, former Womonspace President); Edmonton Humane Society; Edmonton Pride Week Society; HIV Edmonton; Imperial Sovereign Court of the Wild Rose; Pride Centre; Titts & Mitts Fundraiser; Western Canadian Pride Festival; and the WIN House.

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Womonspace hosts a number of events throughout the year including: dances; fun pool tournaments; an annual womon’s-only golf tournament; volunteer appreciation evening; participation in Pride Week events; and our most recent event addition, a children’s Christmas party in conjunction with the lesbian bar Prism Bar & Grill and other community organizations. We publish a monthly newsletter that is distributed to its members and other local businesses including: Audrey’s Books; Earth’s General Store; Grant MacEwan Student Office; HIV Edmonton; Money Pennies Eatery & Bar (Calgary); Planned Parenthood; Pride Centre; Prism Bar & Grill; Roxy Theatre; Steeps; The Travelling Tickle Trunk and Woody’s.

Womonspace will be celebrating its 30th anniversary next year and will soon be looking to its members for ideas on how to commemorate such a milestone. Current monthly event information can be found at: www. womonspace.ca or by calling 780-4821794 (you may leave a message).

the Edmonton Pride Week Society at Borden Park from 1:00-4:00 (7507 Borden Park Road – which is off 112 Avenue at either 73rd or 79th Street). Bring along your own picnic, or share in the hot dogs and drinks provided. Let’s put our efforts in to bringing back the ‘pride picnic’ that was held years ago. Games and fun for one and all!!!

Womonspace (last but not least) is proud to say that we have won the award for the best float in the Pride Parade two years running – make sure to look for us again this year!!

Colleen Sutherland President Womonspace

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Founded in 2004, the Pride Centre of Edmonton is the community centre for the gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, twospirit, queer, questioning & straight-allied community. Its mandate is to coordinate and provide health care and social services for the sexual minority and gendervariant community, their families, friends and supporters, to educate the public about the community and to provide a community centre to be used for workshops, programs, art, etc. for the benefit of the community. The Pride Centre is also home to Western Canada’s largest queer library.

We provide programs for men, women, transgendered, seniors and youth in-

cluding movie and games nights, coffee nights, groups, workshops, etc. The Centre is great place for GLBTQ2S and straight allied groups to meet and is also ideal for individuals looking for information, services or simply a comfortable environment to spend time in.

The Pride Centre is located at 9540-111 Avenue.

To contact the Centre, surf to: pridecentreofedmonton.org or call (780) 488-3234.

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Reaching and Teaching Our Youth The Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS), Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, places research in a dynamic relationship with service so it can holistically meet the needs of sexual minorities at the university and larger community. In this regard, iSMSS operates a Youth Intervention and Outreach Worker (YIOW) program that began in December 2008 with funding support from the Edmonton Community Foundation, the United Way, and the City of Edmonton. The primary objectives of this program are: (1) to develop a year-round sexual-minority youth intervention and outreach program and an annual youth needs assessment; (2) to provide support for Edmonton’s Youth Understanding Youth (YUY) group; and (3) to create a sexualminority youth mentorship project with the Big Brothers and Big Sisters Society of Edmonton. iSMSS also hosts Camp fYrefly, now moving into its 7th year in Edmonton. The camp, which will take place July 22-25, 2010, is a 4-day volunteer-based, residential style

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summer leadership retreat for sexual-minority youth. It focuses on building their leadership potential and personal resiliency so they can thrive in their schools, families, and communities. Camp fYrefly’s philosophy and programming emphasize a by-youth-for-youth approach in which older youth, with the guidance of adult facilitators, mentor and support younger youth. The camp, guided by an arts-based educational philosophy, is jam-packed with dance, drama, music, writing, visual art, empowerment and reflection exercises, anti-oppression work, personal growth opportunities, healthy socialization, and in-depth learning activities about specific youth topics and social issues.

For more Camp fYrefly details, please visit our camp website: www.fyrefly.ualberta.ca.

Also visit: www.iSMSS.ualberta.ca Andre Grace Director iSMSS

Creating the Magic Many hands, many hours and many dollars help create the Magic…..

create stability and foster continued strategic growth.

It brings me great Pride and great pleasure to Chair the Board of Directors for this – the 30th Anniversary of our great Festival. Hearing from Boards of the past and witnessing first hand the planning of this event for the past five years (two as Chair) – I can enthusiastically say look how far we’ve come!!!

In addition to the year round planning process, Pride also depends on an essential group of over 200 volunteers to help out with logistics and operations for the Parade, Celebration on the Square, Family Picnic, Dances, Film Fest, Awards and all other Pride Week events.

This group is critical to a successful Pride and allows us to grow effectively. As you can see, Pride really is a “community” event, reliant on the contributions of many to take place at the grand scale it does.

From its humble grassroots beginning of a gathering of individuals and a proud walk down Whyte Avenue of only a few hundred, to the tens of thousands that now participate in a week full of exciting events, it is a testament to the growing acceptance of our community by the general public and proves that the dreams of few can positively affect the lives of many.

Pride Week is something our entire community can participate in, enjoy, share and help grow for many years to come.

That being said, it is important to remember that along with increased growth comes increased work and of course increased cost – so my message this year aims to highlight these efforts and share with you some of what happens behind to scenes to make Pride a great success year after year.

Although Pride Week itself encompasses 10 days of programming, the planning process happens all year round. With a dedicated Board of Directors consisting of nine as well as three paid contractors, these individuals work during the off season to make Pride happen. All in all, over 2,000 hours of planning and efforts go into Pride by this group; which is extremely important to

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Increased growth also comes with increased costs, the first Pride was probably planned for only a few hundred dollars, that being to cover the cost of Parade decorations and food for a picnic following. Pride 2010 has a budget of just under $130,000, few realizing the how much some of our events really end up costing.

Did you know our Pride Parade and Celebration on the Square cost over $75,000? That’s one expensive day! It is important to remember everything comes at a price – from planning, police, street block off, tents, fencing, port-a-potties, entertainment, sound, street performers, a bouncy tent, licensing, insurance, utilities, merchandise, truck rental, and of course cleanup – the list seemingly goes on and on. That only covers one day!

There are a lot of other costs like website, supplies, contractor fees, honorariums to non-profit supporting organizations and of course our other events that help make up the budget of $130,000.

So where does all that money come

from? Essentially, the Edmonton Pride Week Society receives revenue from three major sources: revenues collected during the Festival from ticket sales, liquor, etc. (approx $50,000); grant revenue from local, provincial and federal governments (approx $45,000); and sponsorship revenue from businesses and organizations in the community (approx $35,000).

All three are important to Pride’s current financial stability and for the future.

It is important to note the above figures are cash numbers and our Festival also receives another approximately $55,000 of in-kind sponsorship by way of advertising, products and services that are donated each year by supporting businesses. These in-kind contributions are also key to our success and save our Festival money that can be spent on other areas. In case you were wondering, the Edmonton Pride Week Society is a non-profit organization and all funds are reinvested in the community.

In conclusion, I would like to sincerely thank all of the individuals, businesses and community organizations that contribute to Pride.

Your ideas and efforts are the backbone of the Festival. This year when you are out enjoying Pride take a moment to reflect on all that has gone into it making it happen and maybe thank a volunteer yourself personally.

Be Proud Edmonton – here’s to another fabulous 30 years!!!

Matthew Malek Chair Edmonton Pride Week Society

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Proud to Support Pride in Edmonton!

At TD, we strive to be an organization where people do not feel excluded in any way – regardless of their ethnicity, physical abilities or disabilities, gender or sexual orientation and have focused our efforts on six key areas – women and members of visible minority groups in leadership roles, building an agenda for people with disabilities, creating an inclusive environment for LGBT customers and employees, Aboriginal Peoples, and serving diverse communities.

Why was the LGBT community selected as one of these priorities?

The reality was we knew customers and employees weren’t feeling as comfortable as they should, so

the bank’s Diversity Leadership Council formed an executive committee to create and drive focused programs aimed at improving the experience of our LGBT customers and employees.

and the Edmonton Exposure Arts and Culture Festival.

As part of this focus, and to make a very public statement, we’ve taken an active role in the LGBT community.

In 2010, TD is proud to participate in Pride events in Edmonton, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Kelowna, London, Cambridge/Kitchener/Waterloo, Toronto, Montreal, Quebec City, Halifax, Boston, New York, Miami and Southern Maine to support and celebrate the accomplishments of the LGBT community.

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the U.S with a particular focus on awareness programs, arts & culture, supporting youth, and AIDS. Among other activities in Alberta, TD has supported the AIDS Calgary

TD’s support of the LGBT community is about supporting a community that is an important part of our customer base and employee population. It’s also about our overall commitment to diversity – something we take very seriously. We want people to look at TD and see an example of how things should work. Have we succeeded in making TD a fully inclusive organization? Not yet, but we are well into our journey.

For more information on diversity at TD visit: www.td.com/corporateresponsibility/index.jsp

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Not Only Glitter and Glamour nificant role in many local GLBT community efforts, spearheading AIDS fundraising and services, human rights advocacy, and for many is their link to the GLBT community.

The mission of The Imperial Sovereign Court of the Wild Rose (ISCWR) (www.iscwr.ca) is to raise funds, through activities, drag shows and other fundraising efforts for organizations which either provide direct services to the gay community of Edmonton or which work to promote an accepting attitude towards gays and lesbians in the community as a whole. ‘The Court’, as we are more generally known as, has played a sig-

Each year the general public elects our figure heads and representatives known as the Emperor and Empress who in turn establish an upper house of Prince, Princess, Grand Duke and Grand Duchess. You can find most members of the Court out in the community, most every night of the year, working together to make it a better and safer place to live.

The Society is the longest running GLBT organization in Alberta and is a member of the International Court System (www.impcourt.org) which has over 65 chapters across North America. After 34 years of noble deeds, the ISCWR has reason to feel proud. Today we remain a strong, viable and important member of the GLBT community. Beyond the glitters of our crown and grand titles, we have made a difference in many people’s lives and earned a place in GLBT history.

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Let Your True Colours Shine.

TD is proud to support Pride in Edmonton.

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Dog Days of Summer

by Brian Gibson

Brian Gibson traces the downward trajectory of the talking animal comic strip-to-movie adaptation

PREVUE // FILMFEST@NEXTFEST

Turning up the celluloid Nextfest's Filmfest expands David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

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rom its humble beginnings as a relatively brief night of shorts, Filmfest@Nextfest has expanded to one of the consistent highlights of the festival, a raucous night celebrating the entertaining best of Edmonton's up-and-coming film scene. Well aware of the fest's strengths, first-time curator/full-time animator Matthew Schuurman isn't so much interested in rocking the boat as he is in turning up the rock on the celluloid side of Nextfest.

To that end, Schuurman has expanded the fest from one night to three, spreading them out across Nextfest's 10 days in the hopes of not only creating a slightly bigger celebration, but giving each event a bit more focus and attention.

"Part of [the reason] was just that last year the film night was three hours, which can be a long time in the Roxy in the summmer," Schuurman admits over the phone, just before heading off to tech to make sure

FILM SHOOT >> A scene from Escape from Death Planet the film projectors are running smoothly.

"But also this gives us a chance to do some different things with the films."

To that end, the two Saturday programs, No Vampires (June 5) and No Werewolves (June 12), are fairly standard omnibuses of

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diverse works, ranging from the return of crowd-pleasers Highwire Films with "The Stank" to the dance-collaboration film "Five." From the sci-fi action of "Escape from Death Planet" to the community action of the Youth Animation Project, an

offshoot of Calgary's Quickdraw Animation co-op, which aims to teach animation methods to people who might not otherwise have the opportunity. Things get a little bit crazier on Monday, June 7, however, with Yes Zombies! a full-on zombie film extravaganza that, besides a screening of three different zombie films, will include such treats as zombie costumes roaming down a zombie red carpet.

"Zombies in Edmonton are just the hugest—it's a sure-fire hit, and there's so many zombie communities and events and stuff," explains Schuurman. "I explained it to Steve Pirot, and he loved it, and it's become a night of its own: we're opening up the theatre on Monday, which is normally dark, and it's just going to be this event of zombie mayhem."

But while Schuurman has high hopes for everyone having a good time, he's also hoping that, like all Nextfest events, Filmfest will expose Edmonton audiences to the interesting and vital

work being done by the city's young artists, and prove that we don't need to look much beyond our backyard to have a good time.

"The film industry in Edmonton and Alberta is thin as it is, and limiting it to emerging artists makes it a shallower pond, but at the same time, there's some really impressive stuff going on out there," he says. "I wanted to show a good variety of the more experienced up-and-coming filmmakers and the people who are just breaking in. I kind of want to show the full gamut of what's going on with film, while keeping it entertaining." V Sat, Jun 5 (9:30 Pm), Mon, Jun 7 (7 pm), Sat, Jun 12 (8:30 pm) FilmFest@Nextfest Featuring No Vampires, No Werewolves, Yes Zombies!

Roxy Theatre (10708 - 124 St), $10 nextfest.ca for a full schedule

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Inner visions

Visions and Dreams capture diverse spread of aboriginal films David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

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eated at the centre of a half-circle, a sizable stogie plopped into her wizened face like a raisin protruding from a bran muffin, Maria Sabina looks a bit like George Burns, minus the spectacles. What she's saying, though, is about as far from vaudeville-era one-liners as you can get: she's speaking in a kind of impressionistic nature poetry, caught into a trance that has her chanting about animals, the sea, the mountains and her relationship to all of them.

Maria Sabina: mujer espiritu, puts us into the middle of Sabina's unique rituals as one of the last of the Mazatec curanderas, Mesoamerican shamans whose visions and healing powers are closely tied to the use of psilocybe mushrooms, which you and I likely know as magic mushrooms. Though this Mexican production was filmed in 1979, Sabina was first documented by R Gordon Wasson in the mid-'50s, and it is to this fact that the world owes the wide discovery of the mushroom's—well, let's just say di-

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verse uses. In the '60s scattershot hunt for gurus, Sabina was a minor figure, with celebrities and other truth-seekers visiting her for their own mystical experience and subsequently spreading the word about the mushroom's effects.

As the film is entirely told from Sabina's perspective, mixing translated voiceover—she never spoke anything but her native tongue—with snippets of her mystic ritual, we don't actually much get into that aspect, which is a little unfortunate: it's an interesting microcosm for the kind of New Age orientalist reappropriation that often accompanies white western forays into native spirituality, and the deep sense of loss felt by Sabina—she calls the mushrooms her "little children," and it's patently obvious how deep her convictions, native traditions with postcolonial hints of Christian ideology, run— at this misuse is one of the film's most affecting moments.

Still, the insight into this unique and all-but-lost—this was filmed in 1979, and Sabina died in 1985—tradition is interesting, even if it's somewhat hard to see it as anything but drug-induced mysticism rather than a genuinely enlightening and helpful process that we've overlooked. The reverence Sabina has even for something as simple as

tobacco, which she holds as a gift from god, is something incredibly special.

Maria Sabina: mujer espiritu is showing as part of the 2010 Dreamspeakers Film Festival, appropriately titled "Visions and Dreams." Though that's quite literal in this case, it's interpreted in a variety of ways throughout the festival: Cree filmmaker Neil Diamond's Reel Injun, for example, is a highly entertaining and enlightening look at how Hollywood has portrayed North America's indigenous people across its history, while the American-made A Good Day to Die chronicles leader Dennis Banks' time with the American Indian Movement. Of particular interest to Albertans of any background should be H2Oil, a very relevant documentary about the Albertan tar sands and its effects on the people of Fort Chipewyan and the Athabasca watershed. V Wed, Jun 2 – Sat, Jun 5 Dreamspeakers Aboriginal Film Festival: Visions and Dreams Featuring María Sabina: mujer espíritu, Reel Injun, The Plateau, The Only Good Indian, more Metro Cinema, Stanley A Milner Library dreamspeakers.org for full details

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DVD DETECTIVE >> MYSTERY TEAM

Sketch extension

Mystery Team keeps its comedy sharp for a full-length feature The prevailing wisdom is that sketch ture attempt, and an entirely legitimate comedy rarely translates well into loncase of demonstrably brilliant sketch ger-form narrative, but I have to admit comedians falling pretty flat onto their I don't necessarily understand why faces without a lot to blame. people think so. All right, sure, Still, though, there is a fairly as MacGruber reminds us, rich history of sketch comediSaturday Night Live is basians making good, or at least cally entirely incapable of enough of one to torpedo any om general rules: Monty Python making the transition to the eekly.c w e u v ve@ big screen, but that's really dvddetecti and the Holy Grail and Life just the flaws of the show of Brian are legitimate comic David writ large: most of their jokes classics (Meaning of Life is fairBerry tend to be kind of one-note—I ly middling), Wet Hot American assume that's related to the pressure Summer captures a lot of the silliness of churning out 90 minutes of material that makes The State so endearing, the once a week, since the show is never TV series Jeeves and Wooster was argureally actually as funny as anyone ably better than most of A Bit of Fry and seems to remember it—and that starts Laurie (though of course got the major to really show through when you run assist from Wodehouse) and the underthem out into feature length. watched Martin & Orloff was a fine cap The other popular exhibit in this case for the uneven but still under-appreciatis the Kids in the Hall, and fair enough: ed Upright Citizens' Brigade series.

Brain Candy isn't actually as bad as Into that mix we can comfortably add people seem to remember it, but it cerMystery Team, the debut feature from tainly isn't on the brilliant level of their Derrick Comedy. A minor Internet presTV show (though it was plagued with ence—they got their start, actually, at a lot of behind-the-scenes issues), and New York's Upright Citizens' Brigade their recent miniseries, Death Comes to theatre, one of the show's lasting legaTown, deservedly did nothing to save cies and a source of far more current their reputation in that regard. The comedic talent than it is reasonable strongest argument, though, is probably to list—with a few YouTube hits like Run Ronnie Run, Mr Show's ill-fated fea"Bro Rape," a mock-Dateline exposé,

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and "Blowjob Girl," which starred The Office's Ellie Kemper as a woman with a curious definition of good oral sex.

From those relatively puerile (if still fairly funny) roots, though, they've come up with something that leans a lot more on sweet cleverness than raunchy rudeness, without completely abandoning the latter.

Our titular trio—played by Derrick members Donald Glover (Troy Barnes from Community), DC Pierson and Dominic Dierkes—is a group of Enyclopedia Brown-style child detectives: Jason (Glover), the master of disguise, Duncan (Pierson), the boy genius and Charlie (Dierkes), the toughest kid in town. The joke is that they're on the verge of graduation and have yet to give it up, a solid sketch premise that the group actually manages to sustain a lot of comedy from: their blithe naivete lends a nice absurdity to everything from accosting a crotchety old man who's now on his death bed to pulling the elementary kids they're still busting off the playground ("You tell the principal we're taking him out into the woods to teach him a lesson about sticking his fingers in things!" Duncan tells a little girl as they drag off a juvenile they've caught for fingering pies).

It's pushed even further when the Team gets a case slightly above their pay grade (a dime or fruit roll-up): a little girl's parents have been murdered, and it might have ties to the recent labour dispute at the town lumber yard.

Spurred on mostly by Jason's burning desire to be a respected detective and burgeoning feelings for the girl's sister, they end up going through the city's underworld, Junior Detective disguise kit in tow. Although there are several hilarious scenes involving the naifs trying to buy drugs or infiltrate a strip club, a big part of the reason the film works so well is that Derrick doesn't just try to drag out the joke: they get a little bit emotional in there, too, as the trio starts to bump against the fact that they're still living in their youth.

It's not harped enough to bog down the humour—in fact, with a cameo by Kemper as the similarly deluded source of most of their cases, it provides some of the film's funniest moments—but it at least grants some pathos and an arc to a simple but very effective joke. V

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Opening Friday Splice

Directed by Vincenzo Natali Written by Natali, Antoinette Terry Bryant, Doug Taylor Starring Adrien Brody, Sarah Polley  Much like Dren, the genetic abomination that punkrock scientists Clive and Elsa (Adrien Brody and Sarah Polley) cook up in Vincenzo Natali's thriller-comedy, Splice has some interesting component parts that nevertheless go terribly awry. There's an obsession with altered flesh and moody shots that at times makes it seem like Cronenberg takes on genetic engineering, there are nods towards the obvious moral and ethical quandries of human cloning/splicing, there's even enough Freudian psychosexual drama to choke a Victorian horse. But, like his scientists, Natali is a lot better at putting those elements into his film than he is at controlling what happens with them. What begins as a promising and twisted exploration of a creepy/interesting issue pretty quickly turns into a rote thriller that's more odd and off-key than shocking or subversive.

Splice opens with Clive and Elsa giving birth to another of their babies, a slug-like mass that looks like distended brain tissue and is a mish-mash of various animal DNA, created in the hopes of farming antibodies from its grotesque form (not that this stops Elsa from cooing "It's so cute" when they finally get a look).

Their success at this endeavour—as well as the fact they're "alternative" thinkers, evidenced by their weird clothes and loud music—encourages them to start tampering with human DNA, which is quickly shot down by their superiors: it's sticky ground, they need to monetize the discoveries they have, etc. They're rebels, though, so it's not long before they've incubated another slug with some human DNA, waffle on their promise to kill it before it reaches term and are raising an alien-looking little girl in the lab basement.

With the exception of the characterizations, which are Twilight Zone simple, up until this point, Splice works.

By the time Dren is walking around and doing puzzles, Clive and Elsa's morality, scientific curiosity and parenting instincts swirl around in an engaging stew, and their relationship seems almost as much at stake as their jobs as they try to both hide and deal with what they've done, with bits of dark-ish humour and a few creepy thrills thrown in for good measure. By the time they sneak Dren out to Elsa's conveniently-nevermentioned farmhouse, though, things go almost completely off the rails: the undercurrents are exploded into over-the-top, barely believable spectacle before giving way to a finale that's little more than a cheesy creature feature. Somewhere in this hodgepodge is a clever little thriller, but as is, Splice is just a poorly integrated mess.

David Berry

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Now Playing Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time

Directed by Mike Newell Written by Boaz Yakin, Doug Miro, Carlo Bernard Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Gemma Arterton, Ben Kingsley  Making even the Middle East safe for budgetbusting spectacle cinema, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time is the invasion we were all waiting for. Today's empires don't colonize but rather colon-ize. This video-game adaptation with the longwinded title, the colon and the words that follow presumably promising abundant sequels, sweeps viewers off to CGI-enhanced ancient lands and holy

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cities and holy shit is it ever devoid of new ideas.

The opening anonymous voice-over actually begins with the words, "Long ago, in a land far away ... " (You mean, um, Iran?) Three different scenarists, not to mention Jordan Mechner, the video game's author, actually got paid to write that.

Jake Gyllenhaal plays this street rat who gets plucked from a life of scavenging by a benevolent polygamist king and grows up to be this disturbingly inflated, giant-necked super-acrobat and ultimate fighting champ with LA rocker hair and stubble and a distractingly hazy British accent. Ben Kingsley's his uncle, always looking a little fishy, wearing too much eye liner and talking too smart for his own good. An unsanctioned invasion transpires, the king is killed by a cloak soaked in something flammable, and Jake takes the rap. With the help of Bond-girl Gemma Arterton's ornery princess and a time-reversing knife, Gyllenhaal of course sets the record straight and saves the day. The fevered dumbness and political obliviousness wouldn't be so bad if things weren't so punishingly generic.

About the only thing that makes Prince of Persia relatively diverting is Alfred Molina, who keeps turning up with his entourage of black guys who don't get to talk much. Molina mostly complains a lot about taxes but goes wild for ostriches, whom he races and kisses while fretting over their habitual depressions. Molina's clearly been given a lot of room to stretch out with this potentially negligible supporting role, and that's about the smartest thing director Mike Newell does here, taking his orders from the Jerry Bruckheimer/ Disney juggernaut. The camera whips around a lot yet Newell can't seem to piece together a scene with any real coherence, particularly when there's a lot of action to track, often resorting to excessive slow-motion to cover the lack of useful coverage. Newell's made some actual movies before, most notably Donnie Brasco and Four Weddings and a Funeral, but in joining the ranks of Michael Bay he's managed to completely erase any sense of directorial personality. Given that video games, to my knowledge, don't employ directors, you have to wonder if soon enough movies like Prince of Persia won't save a few bucks and simply be helmed by robots.

Josef Braun

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REVUE // MOTHER AND CHILD

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Mother and Child intrigues as it frustrates Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

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ow in her early 50s, Karen (Annette Bening) still lives with her mom, a housebound old lady with vacant eyes.

Karen works as a physical therapist for the elderly. We know Karen had a child at 14 whom she gave her up for adoption. We sense something terribly sad about this woman who forfeited her opportunity to raise a child so that she could spend her life caring for the aged. Karen is socially impaired, lonely and angry.

Elizabeth (Naomi Watts) by contrast has turned her own difficult, controlling nature into something of a social asset. She's a reputable lawyer, fiercely independent, without any familial ties, very self-assured, beguilingly attractive, sensual without sentiment. She seduces her new boss (Samuel L Jackson) in a heartbeat, and nabs her dopey married neighbour as a side dish. It's no mystery that Elizabeth is Karen's daughter, and the fact that they both inhabit Los Angeles, that they both inhabit this movie, conspicuously titled Mother and Child, prompts us to speculate how they'll eventually reunite. That such expectations are never fulfilled in any sort of

OFFICE ROMANCE >> Boss and employee in Mother and Child obvious or predictable way is a testament of sorts to the storytelling skills of writer/director Rodrigo García.

But García's feats of plot-twisting also constitute all that's finally most frustrating in Mother and Child. Much like the work of its executive producer, Babel director Alejandro González Iñárritu, the movie betrays its finer qualities in an over-extended final act riddled with dramatic ironies that feel as contrived as so many earlier scenes feel highly attuned to the peculiar and unnerving ways we negotiate our relationships. There's a third storyline here, involving Lucy (Kerry Washington) and her attempts to adopt a child, and the presence of this seemingly unrelated thread should, I suppose, be a major tip-off to the sort of Paul Haggisy, too-neatly tied-up ending we're slowly moving toward.

The restraint exhibited in certain exchanges between characters, exchanges that often resemble interrogations, is striking. The bits of dialogue whittled down to the bone, sometimes down to simple declarations, are intriguing. Editor Steven Weisberg has an immaculate sense of when to exit a scene. The performances are uniformly inviting while never being ingratiating. Bening and Watts are never more watchable than when seemingly trying

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to push others away. Jackson, in bowtie and glasses, with graying beard, and Jimmy Smits, who plays a cuddly, baffled love interest for Bening, are endearing in their inability to resist these pushy, off-putting women. There's so many appealing aspects to Mother and Child, so many items to lure us in, that the over-calculated series of last act revelations, all timed to go off in rapid, numbing succession, to ostensibly give the audience its big emotional release, become a major let down even if you see them coming a mile away. I just lauded Weisberg for his judicious trimming, but there's one additional cut he could have made that might have saved the whole movie, one that would have occurred right at the end of that scene where Watts drops off a letter at the adoption agency, when there still remained a balance of ambiguity and conclusiveness in keeping with all that's most eloquent and memorable in Mother and Child. V Opening Fri, Jun 4 Mother and Child Written and directed by Rodrigo García Starring Annette Bening, Naomi Watts, Kerry Washington Princess Theatre (10337 - 82 Ave)

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Sex and the City 2

Written and directed by Michael Patrick King Starring Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Kristin Davis, Cynthia Nixon  Once upon a time, a young gay man encountered a critically-acclaimed HBO series, only to ask the question 12 years later, "Do all women turn into thoughtless, selfserving bitches once they reach the top of the New York social ladder?"

I began to wonder about this after one of my favourite shows of my early 20s went to hell in a hand basket after following the mad popularity of its sixth and final season with a feature film, going from a weekly trailblazing dose of cultural references and unconventional romance to a lacklustre Vogue fashion spread drunk off its ass on pink martinis. Going over and over in my head for months where things went wrong, I decided to do what half of the other gay men on earth had already penned in on their calendars—see the disastrous sequel for myself on opening weekend, and just maybe, if I downed two pints at the bar next to the theatre before going in, it might not be as bad as all of the other reviews told me it would be.

Meeting Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha at the fabulous Theatre One, right next door to where a bulked-up Jake Gyllenhaal doffed his shirt for a Disney epic, I was carried off to a number of exotic locales: a perfectly legal gay wedding in Connecticut, a luxurious first class trip to Abu Dhabi and of course, that cozy little brownstone apartment with the closet that never seems to run out of space. Everybody who was anybody was there, from Liza to Miley to Penelope to Aidan, the guy that half of Carrie Bradshaw's fans wish and whine she would have ended up with.

Meanwhile, on the upper east side of the theatre, two hundred or so straight girls laughed, gasped and squealed through the whole ordeal, not caring this way or that if the movie lacked the smarts that went over most of their heads when they watched the show. They were just happy to have their very own film event to drag their boyfriends to, and have the chance to draw just as much attention to themselves in their H&M dresses and knock-off Chanel shoes as any hobbit or a Jedi might.

It was then that I realized, while this movie prioritized new outfits in every scene over its botched character arc and possibly racist undertones, maybe I was wrong to judge an event sequel that couldn't possibly be compared to itself as the cable series spring chicken whose relevance was timely and limited. Secretly looking forward to the opening of this shitbox as much as anybody else, I distinctly remembered that I also saw Spiceworld on its first day.

In short, everyone must go through life to learn that one valuable lesson: your most important relationship is with the summer franchise blockbuster you'd cut off your left arm to see before anyone else does.

Jonathan Busch

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CHABA THEATRE�JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr, Jasper, 780.852.4749

ROBIN HOOD (14A) FRI�SAT 9:15; SUN�THU 6:45, 9:15

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) FRI 7:00; SAT 1:30,

7:00; SUN 1:30

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not

recommended for young children) DAILY 6:45, 9:15; SAT�SUN 1:30

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779

RAAJNEETI (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. FRI�SAT 1:00, 4:25, 7:50, 11:15; SUN�THU 1:00, 4:25, 7:50 KITES (14A) Hindi W/E.S.T. DAILY 1:10, 4:05, 7:05,

9:55

FURRY VENGEANCE (PG) FRI�SAT 1:40, 4:20, 6:55,

9:10, 11:20; SUN�THU 1:40, 4:20, 6:55, 9:10

GUNLESS (PG) FRI�SAT 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40, 11:40; SUN�THU 1:55, 4:45, 7:30, 9:40

THE LOSERS (14A, violence) FRI�SAT 1:30, 4:40, 7:25, 9:50, 12:00; SUN�THU 1:30, 4:40, 7:25, 9:50 DEATH AT A FUNERAL (14A crude content) FRI�SAT 1:25, 4:30, 6:40, 9:15, 11:30; SUN�THU 1:25, 4:30, 6:40, 9:15

KICK�ASS (18A brutal violence) FRI�WED 2:00, 4:35, 7:15, 10:00; THU 2:00, 4:35, 7:40, 10:00

MARMADUKE (G) No passes DAILY 11:40, 2:10, 4:30,

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) In Techniolour 3D

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (18A substance abuse,

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not

7:00, 9:40

crude sexual content) No passes DAILY 12:40, 3:45, 7:10, 10:10

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

violence, not recommended for young children) No passes FRI�WED 12:15, 1:00, 3:15, 4:10, 6:45, 7:40, 9:45, 10:40; THU 12:15, 1:00, 3:15, 4:10, 6:45, 7:15, 9:45, 10:40

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not recommended for young children) No passes DAILY 11:30,

12:00, 3:00, 3:30, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30

SHREK FOREVER AFTER 3D (PG) DAILY 11:45,

1:00, 2:30, 4:15, 5:15, 7:05, 7:45, 9:30, 10:15

ROBIN HOOD (14A) DAILY 12:20, 3:50, 7:25, 10:45 LETTERS TO JULIET (PG) DAILY 11:50, 2:20, 5:00

DAILY 7:00, 9:00; Fri, Sat, Sun 2:00

recommended for children) DAILY 6:40 9:25; FRI, SAT,

SUN 1:40

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY Royal Alberta Museum, 102 Ave, 128 St, 780.439.5284

A WOMAN’S FACE (PG) MON 8:00

GALAXY�SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr, 780.416.0150 Sherwood Park 780-416-0150

KILLERS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI 4:10,

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave, 780.732.2236

SPLICE (18A disturbing content, sexual content) DAILY 2:00, 5:10, 7:40, 10:30

KILLERS (PG violence, coarse language) DAILY 1:00,

3:50, 7:10, 9:50

MARMADUKE (G) No passes FRI�TUE, THU 12:20,

2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 9:30; WED 4:50, 7:20, 9:30; Star & Strollers Screening, No passes WED 1:00

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (18A substance abuse,

crude sexual content) No passes DAILY 1:20, 4:40, 7:50, 10:40

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG violence, not recommended for young children) No passes DAILY 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:20

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

violence, not recommended for young children) Digital Cinema, No passes DAILY 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not

recommended for young children) No passes FRI�TUE, THU 11:45, 12:30, 1:30, 3:00, 3:45, 4:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:15, 10:15; WED 11:45, 12:30, 3:00, 3:45, 4:45, 7:00, 8:00, 9:15, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening, No passes

WED 1:00

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) DAILY 11:30, 1:50, 4:15, 6:45, 9:10

SHREK FOREVER AFTER 3D (PG) DAILY 12:00,

2:20, 5:00, 7:25, 10:00

ROBIN HOOD (14A) DAILY 12:10, 3:20, 6:30, 9:40 LETTERS TO JULIET (PG) FRI�TUE, THU 12:50, 3:30,

6:35, 9:00; WED 12:50, 3:30, 9:45

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for

young children) Digital Cinema DAILY 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10

DATE NIGHT (PG sexual content, language may

offend) DAILY 6:50

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) 3D DAILY 6:45, 9:00; SAT�SU, TUE 12:45, 3:00

1:00, 3:05; Movies for Momies: TUE: 1:00

SAT�SUN, TUE 12:45, 3:30

BABIES (PG, nudity) FRI�WED 12:10, 2:15, 4:20, 6:40,

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (18A substance abuse, crude sexual content) No passes FRI 4:30, 7:20, 10:00; SAT�SUN 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:00; MON�THU 7:20, 10:00

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:50, 9:15; SAT�SUN, TUE 12:50, 3:15

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

ROBIN HOOD (14A) DAILY 6:50, 9:25

9:20; THU 4:20, 6:40, 9:20; Star & Strollers Screening: THU 1:00

DATE NIGHT (PG sexual content, language may offend) FRI�WED 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:25; THU 1:10, 4:05, 10:10 HOW TO TRAIN YOUR DRAGON (PG violence) Digital 3d DAILY 1:25, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7020

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

violence, not recommended for young children) Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes, Stadium Seating FRI�SUN 12:15, 3:30, 7:30, 10:30; Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating MON�THU 12:15, 3:30, 7:30, 10:30

violence, not recommended for young children) No passes FRI 4:00, 7:00, 9:55; SAT�SUN 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:55; MON�THU 7:00, 9:55

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not

recommended for young children) No passes FRI 3:20, 6:50, 10:05; SAT�SUN 12:10, 3:20, 6:50, 10:05; MON�THU 6:30, 9:35

SHREK FOREVER AFTER 3D (PG) Digital 3d FRI

3:30, 4:50, 6:40, 7:15, 9:15, 9:45; SAT�SUN 12:00, 1:00, 2:20, 3:30, 4:50, 6:40, 7:15, 9:15, 9:45; MON�THU 6:40, 7:15, 9:15, 9:45

ROBIN HOOD (14A) FRI 3:15, 6:45, 9:50; SAT�SUN 12:15, 3:15, 6:45, 9:50; MON�THU 6:45, 9:50

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for

content, not recommended for children) DAILY 1:05, 4:10, 7:00, 10:00

violence, not recommended for young children)

DAILY 6:55, 9:20; SAT�SUN, TUE 12:55, 3:20

9:20

young children) DAILY 12:50, 3:40, 7:15, 10:25

SUN 1:10, 3:40, 6:55, 9:30; MON�THU 6:55, 9:30

SHUTTER ISLAND (14A coarse language, disturbing

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not

SPLICE (18A disturbing content, sexual content)

ening scenes) Digital 3d FRI�SAT 1:20, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20, 11:45; SUN�THU 1:20, 3:55, 6:45, 9:20

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (18A substance abuse, crude sexual content) DAILY 7:05, 9:10; SAT�SUN, TUE 1:05, 3:10

MARMADUKE (G) No passes FRI 4:20, 7:05, 9:20; SAT�SUN 11:45, 1:50, 4:20, 7:05, 9:20; MON�THU 7:05,

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID (G) DAILY 1:50, 4:05, 6:30

ALICE IN WONDERLAND 3D (PG violence, fright-

1:05, 3:05

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (18A substance abuse, crude sexual content) DTS Digital DAILY 12:50, 3:50, 7:15, 10:00

SHE'S OUT OF MY LEAGUE (14A coarse language, crude content) FRI�SAT 9:00, 11:10; SUN�THU 9:00

MARMADUKE (G) DAILY 7:05, 9:05; SAT�SUN, TUE

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) 2D SAT�SUN, TUE

crude content) FRI�SAT 1:35, 4:15, 7:20, 9:30, 11:50; SUN�THU 1:35, 4:15, 7:20, 9:30

tent) DAILY 1:45, 4:50, 7:10, 9:45

130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove, 780.972.2332 (Spruce Grove, Stony Plain; Parkland County)

7:25, 10:10; SAT�SUN 1:30, 4:10, 7:25, 10:10; MON�THU 7:25, 10:10

HOT TUB TIME MACHINE (18A substance abuse,

THE BOUNTY HUNTER (PG violence, sexual con-

PARKLAND CINEMA 7

DTS Digital, Stadium Seating DAILY 12:05, 2:40, 5:15, 7:50, 10:35

SHREK FOREVER AFTER 3D (PG) Digital 3d, No

passes, Stadium Seating FRI�SUN 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05; Digital 3d, Stadium Seating MON�THU 12:10, 2:35, 5:00, 7:35, 10:05

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not rec-

ommended for young children) Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating, No passes FRI�SUN 12:00, 12:30, 3:15, 3:45, 7:00, 8:00, 10:15; MON�WED 12:00, 12:30, 3:15, 3:45, 7:00, 8:00, 10:15; Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating THU 12:00, 12:30, 3:15, 3:45, 8:00, 10:15

ROBIN HOOD (14A) DTS Digital DAILY 12:20, 3:35,

6:45, 9:55

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Dolby Stereo Digital DAILY 12:40, 3:40, 6:50, 10:10

KILLERS (PG violence, coarse language) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating DAILY 12:25, 2:55, 5:30, 8:05, 10:40

CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for

young children) FRI�SUN 12:40, 3:50, 6:55, 9:45; MON� THU 5:25, 8:25

ROBIN HOOD (14A) FRI�SUN 12:30, 3:30, 6:35, 9:40; MON�THU 5:10, 8:15

SHREK FOREVER AFTER 3D (PG) Digital 3d FRI� SUN 1:40, 4:20, 6:40, 9:00; MON�THU 4:50, 7:50

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not

recommended for young children) No passes FRI�SUN 1:00, 4:30, 8:00; MON�THU 4:30, 8:00

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

violence, not recommended for young children) No passes, On 2 Screens: FRI�SUN 12:50, 1:20, 3:45, 4:15, 6:30, 7:05, 9:15, 9:50; MON�THU 5:00, 5:30, 8:10, 8:35

KILLERS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI�SUN 1:30, 4:10, 6:50, 9:25; MON�THU 5:20, 8:20 SPLICE (18A disturbing content, sexual content) FRI�

SUN 2:00, 4:45, 7:20, 9:55; MON�THU 5:50, 8:45

MARMADUKE (G) FRI�SUN 1:50, 4:25, 6:45, 9:10; MON�THU 4:40, 7:45

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (18A substance abuse,

crude sexual content) No passes FRI�SUN 1:10, 4:00, 7:00, 9:35; MON�THU 5:40, 8:30

DUGGAN CINEMA�CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave, Camrose, 780.608.2144

LETTERS TO JULIET (PG) FRI 3:40, 6:55, 9:30; SAT�

young children) FRI 3:45, 7:10, 10:10; SAT�SUN 12:45, 3:45, 7:10, 10:10; MON�THU 7:10, 10:10

GARNEAU 8712-109 St, 780.433.0728

EXIT THROUGH THE GIFT SHOP (14A) DAILY 9:10; SAT�SUN 3:30

MAO’S LAST DANCER (PG) DAILY 6:50; SAT�SUN 1:00

RUSH: BEYOND THE LIGHTED STAGE (14A) FRI�

SAT, JUN 11�12: Midnight

GRANDIN THEATRE�ST ALBERT Grandin Mall, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

violence, not recommended for young children) No passes DAILY 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7: 15, 9:25

KILLERS (PG violence, coarse language) DAILY 1:35, 3:35, 5:35, 7:35, 9:35 SEX IN THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not recom-

mended for children) No passes DAILY 1:05, 3:45, 6:25, 9:05

MARMADUKE (G) No passes DAILY 12:45, 2:35, 4:20,

6:00, 7:45, 9:30

recommended for young children) DAILY 6:45, 9:30;

PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A

sexual violence, disturbing content) DAILY 6:45, 9:30;

SAT�SUN 2:00

MOTHER AND CHILD (14A sexual content, coarse language) DAILY 6:50, 9:20; SAT�SUN 2:30

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400

SPLICE (18A disturbing content, sexual content) FRI�

SUN 11:50, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45; MON�THU 12:10, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45

KILLERS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI�TUE, THU 12:30, 4:00, 7:10, 9:45; WED 4:00, 7:10, 9:45; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00 MARMADUKE (G) No passes FRI�SUN 11:40, 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:15; MON�THU 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 9:15 GET HIM TO THE GREEK (18A substance abuse, crude sexual content) No passes DAILY 1:30, 4:45, 7:40, 10:30 PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG violence, not recommended for young children) No passes FRI�TUE, THU 12:00, 1:15, 3:00, 4:15, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:40; WED 12:00, 3:00, 4:15, 6:50, 7:50, 9:40, 10:40; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not

recommended for young children) No passes FRI� SUN 11:30, 1:45, 2:50, 5:30, 6:30, 9:00, 9:50; MON�THU 12:00, 1:45, 3:15, 5:30, 6:30, 9:00, 9:50

SHREK FOREVER AFTER 3D (PG) DAILY 12:15,

1:00, 2:45, 3:45, 5:15, 7:30, 10:00

SHREK FOREVER AFTER: AN IMAX 3D EXPE� RIENCE (PG) FRI�SUN 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; MON�THU 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30

ROBIN HOOD (14A) FRI�SUN 11:45, 3:15, 6:45, 10:10; MON�THU 12:00, 3:15, 6:45, 10:10

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital Cinema DAILY 12:45, 4:10, 7:20, 10:20

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for

DATE NIGHT (PG sexual content, language may offend) Digital Cinema DAILY 7:45, 10:15

THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO (18A

WESTMOUNT CENTRE

young children) DAILY 8:55

sexual violence, disturbing content) MON�TUE 7:00

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) No passes DAILY 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00

LEDUC CINEMAS Leduc, 780.352.3922

111 Ave, Groat Rd, 780.455.8726

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not

recommended for young children) No passes, Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:45, 10:00; Dolby Stereo Digital: SAT�SUN 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00; MON�THU 5:10, 8:20

MARMADUKE (G) DAILY 7:10, 9:20; SAT�SUN 1:10,

3:20

ROBIN HOOD (14A) Dolby Stereo Digital FRI 6:30, 9:45; SAT�SUN 12:00, 3:15, 6:30, 9:45; MON�THU 5:00, 8:10

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) DTS Digital FRI

violence, not recommended for young children)

DAILY 7:05, 9:30; SAT�SUN 1:05, 3:30

SHREK FOREVER AFTER DIGITAL 3D (PG) DAILY 7:00, 9:25; SAT�SUN 1:00, 3:25

SEX IN THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not recommended for children) DAILY 6:50, 9:40; SAT�SUN 12:50, 3:40

METRO CINEMA 9828-101A Ave, Citadel Theatre, 780.425.9212

REEL INJUN (PG violence, coarse language, mature

7:10, 9:30; SAT�SUN 12:45, 3:45, 7:10, 9:30; MON�THU 5:30, 8:00

MARMADUKE (G) DTS Digital FRI 7:00, 9:20; SAT� SUN 12:30, 3:00, 7:00, 9:20; MON�THU 5:20, 8:30

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin, 780.352.3922

GET HIM TO THE GREEK (18A substance abuse,

crude sexual content) DAILY 6:55, 9:35; SAT�SUN 12:55, 3:35

subject matter) FRI 7:00

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

young children) DAILY 6:50; FRI, SAT, SUN 1:50

THE PLATEAU (STC) FRI 9:00

DAILY 7:05, 9:35; SAT�SUSN 1:05, 3:35

SPLICE (18A disturbing content, sexual content)

PRINCE OF PERSIA: THE SANDS OF TIME (PG

DAILY 1:15, 4:00, 7:30, 10:20

violence, not recommended for young children)

BACK TO THE GOOD LAND W/ PELEA DE

SHREK FOREVER AFTER (PG) DAILY 7:00, 9:25;

KILLERS (PG violence, coarse language) FRI�WED

DAILY 6:55 9:10; FRI, SAT, SUN 1:55

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St, 780.436.8585

1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:50; THU 4:20, 6:50, 9:50; Star & Strollers Screening: THU 1:00

IRON MAN 2 (PG violence, not recommended for

MARMADUKE (G) Movies For Mommies: FRI: 1:00;

Daily 7:05, 9:05; Sat-Sun 2:05

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TIGRES (STC) SAT 1:00 MARA'ACAME W/ HACH WINIK (STC) SAT 3:00

violence, not recommended for young children)

SAT�SUN 1:00, 3:25

SEX AND THE CITY 2 (14A sexual content, not

recommended for young children) DAILY 6:50, 9:40;

SAT�SUN 12:50, 3:40

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PREVUE // THE MOUNTAIN GOATS

The incorruptible Mountain Goats John Darnielle on perilous hopes and The Life of the World to Come Mary Christa O'Keefe // marychrista@vueweekly.com

J

ohn Darnielle gives the impression of being perpetually barely contained. The Mountain Goats' creator is famously prolific, with a discography running longer than his rangy arms and spanning nearly two decades. Even his slowest songs, elegiac and tenderly paced, churn turbulently somewhere, however distantly, while the balance of his work shudders out of him in furious bursts of feeling and intention, with varying degreed of abandonment and bedlam. He sings with conviction— whole-hearted, whole-bodied—often accompanied by acoustic guitar so vigorously generated his hands are blurs.

Live shows are sweat-soaked, though he rarely strays from the microphone.

As in music, so in conversation. Lit with the glow of ideas, he sloshes over the sides of topics, and concepts, references and themes spill into one another, streams of thought trickling off in new directions. If curiosity manifested in unslakable thirst, Darnielle would beat Tantalus at a drinking game.

Little wonder his music percolates with so many characters, narratives and landscapes—one vessel couldn't hold it all.

Darnielle has a humbler vision of his songs. "I compare it to origami or

THE MOUNTAIN GOATS >> Left to right: Jon Wurster, John Darnielle, Peter Hughes making miniatures. I tell little stories I hope will be useful for a few people," he says. "If it's more than a few, great.

But mainly stories I tell are kind of strange, and in a sense I'm inspired by stories of extreme pain, so I assume the number of people who relate to what I'm talking about will be small. I don't worry about writing stuff that's accessible to large groups, but I hope that for the few who'll be drawn to what I do, it'll be there for them. That's

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what I do: I try to make little tiny objects that are maybe of comfort or use to somebody."

The Life of the World to Come, his most recent album, finds Darnielle concerned with offerings less freely given.

The record is an elliptical investigation of belief, without pretense or judgment, through the lens of the Bible as it dwells in the collective consciousness of modern America, each song titled simply

with the book and verse it connects with. It's devotional music, useful and wrenchingly beautiful, but devotion lavished on human experience rather than any godhead.

Christian mythology deals with the ultimate exchange: the hope of trading a physical world and body for empyrean ones—outside the grasp of grief, purified, endless.

"I think redemption's a bizarre concept," Darnielle muses. "Let's say I give you a coupon to buy something and you go to the store, what does the store do? They redeem it, right? It's a transactional thing. In the realm of the spirit, that seems odd. This whole concept of redemption, which I think is unique to modern religions like Christianity, sours the game in some way. It introduces this early capitalistic sense of 'I'll give you this, you'll give me this in exchange,' which I think in spirituality is disastrous."

Darnielle laughs, "I know the verse a good biblical scholar would bring into this. I think it's in Hebrews: 'now faith is the substance of things yet hoped for."* Faith is the substance of things you don't have yet—what you expect to trade in your faith for. Which is confusing, because if the object of your faith should prove itself, you don't have faith anymore, right? The conflict in this record

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is you have physical bodies suffering in the real world, thinking about a dream world or other world or earlier world, hoping to find someplace in this imagined place where there'll be more comfort than in the actual one, even though it seems apparent the actual one is the only one on which we can rely. That's what it's about: the fact you carry this other one inside you at all times. You already have it, inside the physical prison that encases it."

Yet if this path is new to Darnielle, this is familiar Mountain Goats terrain. His characters often forge slippery relationships between forgiveness and transformation, with recognition and suffering as catalysts.

"They're finding a spire somewhere in the bottom of a well," he explains. "There's this idea of a sort of exchange moment in my little stories: when somebody reaches a certain point, they'll have given enough to get something for their troubles. Forgiveness is one thing, but how can you have redemption with people? You can accept or reject them, understand or forgive them, but to redeem them is to assign a value to them, and of course the value of anybody is infinite, right?" V *King James Bible, Hebrews 11:1 – "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."

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PREVUE // THRICE

Making the best of it

Thrice's newest album stays hopeful in the face of tragedy Mike angus // mikeangus@vueweekly.com

T

o hear Thrice's drummer Riley Breckenridge talk about the band's new album Beggars, you'd never know it was penned, as if presciently, before all four members were left to grapple with family members diagnosed with cancer, and in the case of guitarist Teppei Teranishi, the passing of his mother.

"The basic concept behind Beggars is that life is a gift, and we need to be grateful for that. That's really hit home with us because we've had a lot of personal and family tragedy and illness over the last seven months.

"So it's about just looking at life as a

gift, not a right—that a lot of things are out of your control, and to hope that you can make the best of the situation."

Equally stunning is Beggars' uplifting and anthemic power, the way it pushes and pulls, equal parts tension and hope.

Sonically this is achieved through the rawness of the band re-exploring its rock roots after the sprawling concepts of the four-EP The Alchemy Index.

"The Alchemy Index was a concept record where we took the four elements and, lyrically and sonically, assigned certain qualities to each element and pushing song ideas into those categories," Breckenridge explains. "In doing that, we ran into a lot of experiment-

ing, from electronic programming to blues to atmospheric stuff and heavy moments ... it was an exercise more than a record," he laughs.

"With Beggars, it was exciting to take everything we learned with The Alchemy Index and instead of pushing ideas out towards certain sonic themes, we got it back to a more band-centric theme and played it as a band. It was really exciting just getting back to being a rock band again."

The four-piece, rounded out by vocalist/guitarist Dustin Kensrue and Riley's brother Ed on bass, produced this record itself from the band's home studio, and was insistent on tracking

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as much of the record as possible live off the floor.

"We tried to keep that process as much as possible. We didn't hold out for the perfect take; it was more about getting the feel right," Breckenridge notes. "If there were tiny mistakes, like feedback or string noise, that's fine.

It's something that adds character to a record, and I think we tried to hang on to that, to make it sound like humans making music.

"Nowadays such a high priority has been placed on perfection that you end up getting a lot of homogenizedsounding records. You can't really tell one band from another—one drummer from another, one guitar player

from another—it's like the person has been taken out of it."

Now that the band is back on the road, Breckenridge anticipates the summer tour at hand, which culminates with return appearances at both Leeds and Reading Festivals.

"The first time we played main stage I remember being terrified. It's a huge festival," he laughs. "The stage is massive, there's so much press and so many bands that you admire that it's too much to take in. The act of playing a show is terrifying. So to be able to go back and to know what to expect, I think we're going to have a really good time with it. I'm stoked." V Mon, Jun 7 (7 pm) Thrice With Kevin Devine Starlite Room, $24

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

THU JUN 3 ARTERY The Kayla and Erin

Original Six; 7:30pm (door); $10 (door)

HOOLIGANZ Open stage

Show; 7:30pm

Thu hosted by Phil (Nobody Likes Dwight); 9pm-1:30am

BLACK DOG

J AND R Classic rock! Woo!

FREEHOUSE DJ Echo; 9pm BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Thu

Night Jazz: Thom Bennet; 7:30pm; $8

BLUES ON WHYTE Sonny

Rhodes

CHRISTOPHER'S PARTY PUB Open stage hosted by

Alberta Crude; 6-10pm

COLAHAN'S Back-porch

Jam with Rock-Steady Freddy and the Bearcat; every Thu 8pm-midnight

CROWN PUB Crown Pub Latin/world fusion jam hosted by Marko Cerda; musicians from other musical backgrounds are invited to jam; 7pm-closing THE DRUID IRISH PUB

Live music with Darrell Barr; 5:30-8:30pm, DJ at 9pm

DUSTER'S PUB Thu open jam hosted by the Assassins of Youth (blues/rock); 9pm; no cover

DV8 Open mic Thu hosted

by Cameron Penner/ and/or Rebecca Jane

DV8 The Blame Its, Desert

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Lauren Gillis (indie pop singer/ songwriter); $10

L.B.'S PUB Open jam with Ken Skoreyko, Gordie Mathews and Fred Larose; 9pm-12:30am LIVE WIRE BAR Open

Stage Thu with Gary Thomas

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Nights; 7-10:30pm; sportsworld.ca

STOLLI'S Dancehall, hip hop with DJ Footnotes hosted by Elle Dirty and ConScience every Thu; no cover

WUNDERBAR DJ Thermos Rump Shakin' Thu: From indie to hip hop, that's cool and has a beat; no cover

Big Rock Thu: DJs on 3 levels–Topwise Soundsystem spin Dub & Reggae in The Underdog

FRI JUN 4

BRIXX BAR Radio Brixx with

ARTERY Rise Up!

Tommy Grimes spinning rock and roll

BUDDY'S DJ Bobby Beatz;

Underground House every Thu with DJ Nic-E

THE DRUID Dublin Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Punk Rock Bingo with DJ S.W.A.G.

FLUID LOUNGE Girls

Night out

FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Requests with DJ Damian

180 DEGREES Sexy Fri night NiteClub (multi-disciplinary performance), Ariane Mahryke Lemire; 9pm (door); part of Nextfest

AVENUE THEATRE

Christian Hansen, The Autistics, Paper Planes, Dragonboats; all ages; 7pm (door); $12 (door)

AXIS CAFÉ Samara Von Rad

(adult contemporary/rock); 8pm; $10

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Gordie Matthews, Donna Duran, Byron Myhre; 8pm; $10

BLUES ON WHYTE Sonny Rhodes

CARROT Live music Fri:

5:30-9pm

GLENORA BISTRO Sandro

Dominelli Trio; 8:30-10:30pm; $75 (incl performance, 3-course meal)/$175 (incl limousine to and from event, performance, 3-course meal)

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

National Divide, Toy Singers; 7:30pm (door); $10 (door)

HOOLIGANZ PUB Rock 4 Santa: Empire Assassins, Mars and Venus, Desert Bar, hosted

by Scott McCord (100.3); $10 (adv)/$12 (door) to Edmonton Christmas Bureau IHUMAN YOUTH SOCIETY Gemini Magee, Good Fella, Blouty, Jacob the Artist, Lost Poetic, To Sent, friends; all ages; 6:30-8pm; $6 (door) IRISH CLUB Jam session; 8pm; no cover

IVORY CLUB Duelling

piano show with Jesse, Shane, Tiffany and Erik and guests

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Jeff Hendrick (R 'n' B singer/ songwriter); $10 JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB

Every Fri: Headwind (classic pop/rock); 9pm; no cover

GAS PUMP Ladies Nite: Top

40/dance with DJ Christian

Sherry Lee Wisor; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

HALO Thu Fo Sho: with Allout

CASINO EDMONTON

DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown

D.L.A. (pop/rock)

LEVA CAPPUCCINO BAR

KAS BAR Urban House: with

CASINO YELLOWHEAD

DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm

Suite 33 (pop/rock)

NEW CITY SUBURBS

CEILI'S Matt Landry and the Dryland Band

Bingo, Dexter Nebula, DJ Shnaw

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Absolut Thu: with DJ NV and Joey Nokturnal; 9:30pm (door); no cover

MURRIETA'S BAR Boogie Woogie to Beethoven: Greg Zawaski (solo piano); 8:3010:30pm

NORTH GLENORA HALL

LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE�Beaumont Open

Mic Thu; 7pm

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ

Open stage every Thu; bring your own instruments, fully equipped stage; 8pm

Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers

Mike Tomas

PAWN SHOP

Bingo at 9:30pm followed by Electroshock Therapy with Dervish Nazz Nomad and Plan B (electro, retro)

Undiscovered Singing Competition

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players; 8pm-1am

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec ( jazz); every Thu; 7-10pm

Latin Twist: free Salsa Dance Lessons at 9pm

ROXY LOBBY The Juice;

GOOD EARTH CAFÉ Lisa

SECOND CUP�Varscona

Market Forces, The Ways, The

Escapack Entertainment

CENTURY ROOM

jam; 7-11pm

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

BILLY BOB’S LOUNGE

JAMMERS PUB Thu open

ELECTRIC RODEO� Spruce Grove Open Stage

B every Thu; 11:30am12:30pm

DJs

9pm; no cover before 10pm; Shiwana Millionaire Wet Underwear Contest

PROHIBITION The Skylife, White Lightning; $5

ENCORE CLUB With A

WINSPEAR ESO and Winspear Overture; 12-1pm; free

Open stage, play with the house band every Thu; 9pm

Boots (tour kick-off party); 9pm

Thu: Bring an instrument, jam/sing with the band, bring your own band, jokes, juggle, magic; 8-12

Classical

10pm; part of Nextfest

NEW CITY SUBURBS

ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic Thu: Dance lessons at 8pm; Salsa DJ to follow

PLANET INDIGO�St Albert

Hit It Thu: breaks, electro house spun with PI residents

PROHIBITION Throwback

Thu: old school r&b, hip hop, dance, pop, funk, soul, house and everything retro with DJ Service, Awesome

RENDEZVOUS PUB Metal

COAST TO COAST Open Stage every Fri; 9:30pm THE DRUID IRISH PUB

Live music with Darrell Barr; 5:30-8:30; DJ at 9pm

DV8 Celebr8: The Smokin' 45s (rockabilly), Ronnie Hayward (roots/rockabilly), Los Diableros (surf/instrumental), Kroovy Rooker, Zero Cool (punk), Slippyfist (punk); 5pm EARLY STAGE SALOON� Stony Plain The Rault

LB'S Barry Cameron Band Live music every Fri

NEW CITY LOUNGE Mod Club: Travy D, Blue Jay

NEW CITY SUBURBS The Dickies, Let's Dance, guests

ON THE ROCKS Mourning

Wood with DJ

PAWN SHOP Lions For

Sheep (CD release), Doug Hoyer, Steam Engine; 9pm (door), 10pm (music); $10

RED PIANO BAR Hottest

Brothers Band (blues)

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players; 9pm-2am

EDDIE SHORTS Blue Lemon

RENDEZVOUS PUB

EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE Cosmic Gate, Blake Jarrell, Bhavesh

ENCORE CLUB 4 Play Fri

Live music every Thu night; 7-9pm

Thurzday with org666

WILD WEST SALOON Trick Ryder

SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco: Thu Retro

GAS PUMP Slow Moe

CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 901388 Ave, 780.465.4834 DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.

CLUB DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St, DV8TAVERN. com EARLY STAGE SALOON 491152 Ave, Stony Plain EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ELECTRIC RODEO�Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ENCORE CLUB 957 Fir St, Sherwood Park, 780.417.0111 FAIRMONT HOTEL MACDONALD 10065-100 St FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLOW LOUNGE 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.CLUB FLUID LOUNGE 10105-109 St, 780.429.0700 FRESH START CAFÉ Riverbend Sq, 780.433.9623 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 GLENORA BISTRO 10139-124 St, 780.482.3531 GOOD EARTH CAFÉ 8623-112

St, 780.434.4892 HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HILL TOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.452.1168 HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IHUMAN YOUTH SOCIETY 10231-95 St IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin IVORY CLUB 2940 Calgary Trail South JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIVE WIRE 1107 Knotwood Rd. East MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont MORANGO’S TEK CAFÉ 10118-79 St MURRIETA'S BAR 10612-82 Ave

NAKED CYBERCAFÉ 10354 Jasper Ave NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY 10081 Jasper Ave, 780.989.5066 NIKKI DIAMONDS 8130 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.8006 NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 ORLANDO'S 1 15163-121 St OVERTIME Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLANET INDIGO�Jasper Ave 11607 Jasper Ave; St Albert 812 Liberton Dr, St Albert PLAY NIGHTCLUB 10220-103 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave PROHIBITION 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 REDNEX BAR�Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955, rednex.ca RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS PUB 10108149 St RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-

FRESH START CAFÉ Live music Fri; 7pm; $7

and the Replays (pop/rock);

Burnstick

STARLITE ROOM

Barnburner, The Get Down, Black Mastiff; 9pm

STEEPS�Old Glenora Live

Music Fri

WILD WEST SALOON Trick Ryder

VENUE GUIDE 180 DEGREES 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 AXIS CAFÉ 10349 Jasper Ave, 780.990.0031 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BILLY BOB’S Continental Inn, 16625 Stony Plain Rd, 780.484.7751 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOOTS 10242-106 St, 780.423.5014 BRIXX BAR 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464153 St, 780 424 9467 CHRISTOPHER’S 2021 Millbourne Rd, 780.462.6565 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 CONVOCATION HALL Arts Bldg, U of A, 780.492.3611 COLAHAN'S 8214-175 St, 780.487.8887 COPPERPOT Capital Place, 101, 9707-110 St, 780.452.7800 CROWN AND ANCHOR 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696

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101 St ROXY LOBBY 10708-124 St SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment 12336-102 Ave, 780.451.7574; Stanley Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; Varscona, Varscona Hotel, 106 St, Whyte Ave SHERBROOKE COMMUNITY HALL 13008-122 Ave, 780.453.1428 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 SPORTSWORLD 13710-104 St SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS�College Plaza 11116-82 Ave, 780.988.8105; Old Glenora 12411 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.1505 STOLLI’S 2nd Fl, 10368-82 Ave, 780.437.2293 TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 UPPER CRUST CAFÉ 10909-86 Ave WHISTLESTOP LOUNGE 12416-132 Ave, 780. 451.5506 WILD WEST SALOON 1291250 St, 780.476.3388 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 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

YARDBIRD SUITE Yardbird Suite Blues: Eddie Vaan Shaw Jr, Graham Guest Band; 8pm (door)/9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest) at TicketMaster

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL

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

Woogie to Beethoven: Greg Zawaski (solo piano); 8:3010:30pm

Sat: requests with DJ Sheri

ARTERY Kemo Treats (CD

NEW CITY LOUNGE

Todd and Alex

Classical

release party), Abigail's Cross, DJ Service; 8:30pm; no minors; $10

WINSPEAR A Night at the

AVENUE THEATRE Bridge

Oscars: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins, (conductor); 8pm; $24-$79 at Winspear box office

DJs AZUCAR PICANTE Every Fri: DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation BANK ULTRA LOUNGE

Connected Fri: 91.7 The Bounce, Nestor Delano, Luke Morrison

BAR�B�BAR DJ James; no

cover

BAR WILD Bar Wild Fri BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Fri DJs spin Wooftop and Main Floor: Eclectic jams with Nevine–indie, soul, motown, new wave, electro; Underdog: Perverted Fri: Punk and Ska from the ‘60s ‘70s and ‘80s with Fathead

BOOTS Retro Disco: retro dance

BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser;

8pm; no cover before 10pm

CENTURY ROOM

Songs Faerie (music, art); 7pm

AXIS CAF�METRO ROOM Erica Viegas (folk/pop), Lisa Nicole Grace; 8pm; $10

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: The (immortal) F.D. Jones; (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sam and

FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte

Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian

GAS PUMP Top 40/dance

with DJ Christian

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Formula

Fri: with rotating residents DJ's Groovy Cuvy, Touretto, David Stone, DJ Neebz and Tianna J; 9:30pm (door); 780.447.4495 for guestlist

NEWCASTLE PUB Fri House, dance mix with DJ Donovan NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE DJ Anarchy Adam (Punk)

PLAY NIGHTCLUB The first bar for the queer community to open in a decade with DJ's Alexx Brown and Eddie Toonflash; 9pm (door); $5 www.playnightclub.ca REDNEX�Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5

RED STAR Movin’ on Up

Fri: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson

ROUGE LOUNGE Solice Fri SPORTSWORLD Steppin'

Off Jasper: hip hop, dance, top 40 with DJ Papa T, DJ Xion; $10 (adv at Sportsworld, E: futureoneentertainment@ hotmail.com)

STOLLI’S Top 40, R&B, house with People’s DJ

STONEHOUSE PUB Top 40 with DJ Tysin

TEMPLE Options Dark Alt Night; Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); $5 (door) WUNDERBAR Fri with the Pony Girls, DJ Avinder and DJ Toma; no cover

CARROT Open mic Sat; 7:30-

10pm; free

CASINO EDMONTON D.L.A. (pop/rock)

CASINO YELLOWHEAD Suite 33 (pop/rock)

COAST TO COAST Live

bands every Sat; 9:30pm

CROWN PUB Early: Acoustic

with a live band featuring Maple Tea

PAWN SHOP Toxic Avenger,

Project

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players; 9pm2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Demon

Republic, No Witness

ROXY LOBBY Cris Derksen; 10pm; Part of Nextfest

SHERBROOKE COMMUNITY HALL

Crystal Kids Street Fest and Fundraiser: Dangerous Guise; 7-11pm

STARLITE ROOM Jet Black Stare, Radio For Help, Bullets In Overdrive, Seventh Rain; 9pm (door); $12 (door)

PAWN SHOP SONiC

Presents Live On Site! AntiClub Sat: rock, indie, punk, rock, dance, retro rock; 8pm (door)

PLANET INDIGO�Jasper Ave Suggestive Sat: breaks

electro house with PI residents

RED STAR Sat indie rock, hip hop, and electro with DJ Hot Philly and guests

RENDEZVOUS PUB Survival

metal night

SPORTSWORLD Roller

Skating Disco Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm

STOLLI’S ON WHYTE Top 40, R&B, house with People’s DJ TEMPLE Oh Snap!: Every Sat, Cobra Commander and guests with Degree, Cobra Commander and Battery; 9pm (door); $5 (door) WUNDERBAR Featured DJ

and local bands

Y AFTERHOURS Release Sat

SUN JUN 6 AVENUE THEATRE

Open Stage Jam hosted by The Vindicators (blues/rock); 3-8pm

ROXY LOBBY James Clarke Trio; 10pm; Part of Nextfest

SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm

Classical CONVOCATION HALL

Master Classes: Opera Nuova, Kim Barber and Kathleen Lohrenz Gable; 7pm; $12 (adult)/$10 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

FAIRMONT HOTEL MACDONALD Strawberry Tea: Wedgewood Room; Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; 1:30pm; $80

FINE ARTS BUILDING�Rm 1-29 Master Classes: Opera

Nuova; 7pm

STANLEY MILNER LIBRARY Edmonton Raga-

Mala Music Society: Abhisek Lahiri (sarod), Partha Sarathi Mukherjee (tabla); 6pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (senior/student) at door

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ An Intro to the Opera: Opera Nuova featuring NUOVA artists; 2pm; $12 (adult)/$10 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square WINSPEAR Music to Move You: Cosmopolitan Music Society; 7:30pm

WILD WEST SALOON

EARLY STAGE SALOON� Stony Plain The Rault

Trick Ryder

YARDBIRD SUITE Yardbird

BEER HUNTER�St Albert

BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: with

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Brothers Band (blues)

EDDIE SHORTS Luke Dowler EMPRESS ALE HOUSE Chris Page and Jill Zmud; 4-6pm

GAS PUMP Blues Off Jasper every Sat; 3-6pm; all musicians welcome GRANITE CURLING CLUB 8620-107 St Summer Splash: Mocking Shadows, Souljah Fyah, Gaye Delorme, Johnny Tornado, Erin Faught; $35; 780..439.7450 for tickets

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Look

Mexico, Volcanoless In Canada; 7:30pm (door); $10 (door)

HILLTOP PUB Open stage/

Suite Blues: Eddie Vaan Shaw Jr, Graham Guest Band; 8pm (door)/9pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest) at TicketMaster

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Aria

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT

Extravaganza: Opera Nuova; 7:30pm; $15 (adult)/$12 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

WINSPEAR A Night at the

Oscars: Edmonton Symphony Orchestra, William Eddins, (conductor); 8pm; $24-$79 at Winspear box office

DJs AZUCAR PICANTE Every Sat: DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi

HOOLIGANZ The McGowan

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Family Band, Dawn in the city; 10pm; $5 (door)

HYDEAWAY Early Show: Me Next, The Have-Nots, friends, 4-8pm; Late Show: Xplosionation, Scantily Clad and the Well Dressed Men, friends, 9-11:4pm IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in

Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10

IVORY CLUB Duelling piano

Sat DJs on three levels. Main Floor: Menace Sessions: alt rock/electro/trash with Miss Mannered

BUDDY'S DJ Earth Shiver 'n' Quake; 8pm; no cover before 10pm

CENTURY ROOM

Underground House every Sat with DJ Nic-E

EMPIRE BALLROOM Rock,

hip hop, house, mash up

show with Jesse, Shane, Tiffany and Erik and guests

ENCORE CLUB So Sweeeeet

JAMMERS PUB Sat open jam, 3-7:30pm; country/rock band 9pm-2am

ESMERALDA’S Super

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Debbie Williams and Jan Randall (jazz); $15

FLUID LOUNGE Sat Gone Gold Mash-Up: with Harmen B and DJ Kwake

L.B.’S PUB Early Show:

FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro

Gatorjam Rock Blues Jam with Gator, Neil van Dijk, Wayne Allchin, every Sat, 5-9pm, no cover; Late Show: The Red Hots, 9:30pm-2am

Playboys (blues/roots); 7:3010pm

Sat open stage: hosted by Dr. Oxide; 7-10pm

MURRIETA'S BAR Boogie

Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

Alberta Cancer Foundation fundraiser featuring Jamaoke with Maple Tea; 6pm

mic Sat: hosted by Sally's Krackers Sean Brewer; 3-5:30pm

MORANGO'S TEK CAFÉ

OVERTIME Jamaoke: karaoke

Black Polished Chrome Sat: industrial, Electro and alt with Dervish, Anonymouse, Blue Jay

ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Sun

Strike Anywhere, Bane, Touche Amore, Lowtalker; all ages; 6pm (door); $16 at TicketMaster, Blackbyrd, Unionevents.com

SAT JUN 5 Reggae night every Sat

Wood with DJ

NEW CITY SUBURBS

with Robb Angus (Wheat Pool); 9:30pm-1am

Power, Domitian, Fleeting Arms, Guardians Of Power, Kriticos, Dire Omen, Sawed Off, Jezibelle; 9pm

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation

180 DEGREES Dancehall and

ON THE ROCKS Mourning

REDNEX�Morinville Trinity

(video premiere), Dualside, guests; 9pm (door); $12 (door)

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE�Beaumont Alberia

Fri

3-7pm; DJ 9:30pm

BRIXX BAR Future Echoes

DV8 Celebr8: Guardians of

Freakin Frenzy Fri: Playing the best in country

O’BYRNE’S Live band Sat

Rhodes

CHROME LOUNGE

ESMERELDA'S Ezzies

Polisihed Chrome Sat: DJs Blue Jay, Dervish, Anonymouse (electro/alt/industrial)

BLUES ON WHYTE Sonny

Open Stage during the day; Late show: The Alberta Playboys, 8-12

EMPIRE BALLROOM Rock, hip hop, house, mash up; no minors

NEW CITY SUBURBS Black

DBZ & KGZ, Connected Neon Nights Residents Polly Yesterday, Paüse, Doug Ellis; $12 (first 120)/$17 (after)

Jessica Heine; 8pm; $12

Underground House every Fri with DJ Nic-E Platinum VIP Fri

Jezibelle Miskatonic, Careful with that Axe (aka Hellicon);

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Punk Rawk Sat with

Sat

Parties: Every Sat a different theme

with DJ Damian

HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Signature

Sound Sat: with DJ's Travis Mateeson, Big Daddy, Tweek and Mr Wedge; 9:30pm (door); $3; 780.447.4495 for guestlist

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40

Jazz on the Side Sun: Rob Thompson (piano)

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sun

DJs Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

Sun Afternoons: Phil, 2-7pm; Main Floor: Got To Give It Up: Funk, Soul, Motown, Disco with DJ Red Dawn

BUDDY'S DJ Bobby

Beatz; 9pm; Drag Queen Performance; no cover before 10pm

brunch: Nuages Duo (gypsy jazz); 10am-2:30pm; donations

FLOW LOUNGE Stylus Sun

BLUES ON WHYTE Jesse

NEW CITY SUBURBS

Peters

B�STREET BAR Acoustic-

based open stage hosted

by Mike "Shufflehound" Chenoweth; every Sun evening

CROWN PUB Latin/world fusion jam hosted by Marko Cerda; musicians from other musical backgrounds are invited to jam; 7pm-closing

Get Down Sun: with Neighbourhood Rats

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

SPORTSWORLD Roller

Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sports-world.ca

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

WUNDERBAR Sun: DJ Gallatea and XS, guests; no cover

DV8 Celebr8 DV8: Solid Golds; 9pm

MON JUN 7

EDDIE SHORTS Sun open

ARTERY Johnnie Ninety-Nine

Celtic Music Session, hosted by Keri-Lynne Zwicker, 4-7pm

stage hosted by Rob Taylor

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB SAC

presents: Bluebird North, June Rendition: James Murdoch, Amy van Keeken, Samantha Schultz, Ben Sures (songwriters in-the-round); 7:30pm (door); $12 (door, TIX on the Square)/$10 (SAC member)

HYDEAWAY Sun Night

Songwriter's Stage: hosted by Rhea March

J AND R BAR Open jam/stage every Sun hosted by Me Next and the Have-Nots; 3-7pm

MEAD HALL Weekly Folk

Night: Megan Young and the Horny Boy Cowards, guests; 6:30pm; $5

NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul

Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm

NEW CITY Open Mic Sun

hosted by Ben Disaster; 9pm (sign-up); no cover

O’BYRNE’S Open mic Sun

and the Hornets (CD release and fundraiser)

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

BLUES ON WHYTE Brian

Lee

BRIXX BAR SHAD,

Grand Analog; 8pm; $15 at TicketMaster, Blackbyrd, Foosh, unionevents.com

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB

Open stage Mon with Ido Vander Laan and Scott Cook; 8-12

DV8 RedD Monkey, Blue Sky Rain; 9pm NEW CITY This Will Hurt you Mon: Johnny Neck and his Job present mystery musical guests PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

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COMMENT >> WORLD CUP

Nike World Cup ad is epic

Sadly, it fails to make 1970s prog band Focus popular again I live a double professional life. I am a he lives out his life wearing a wife-beatmusic writer, columnist and (former) er, eating bangers and mash in a trailer partner in a live venue. But, nowadays, park. (Sorry, it's England: should use most people would recognize me "caravan," not "trailer.") as a soccer columnist. I mean, Most of the ad is augmented if columnists actually got by the classic-rock guitar riffs recognized. of "Hocus Pocus," by Dutch The new Nike ad that has prog band Focus. It was a hit .com the whole world in a tizzy in 1971. That's right, nearly weekly e u v @ steven brings together two of my 40 years ago. But, with the n Steveor appearance in the world's passions: the music biz and d San the world's greatest game. If most talked-about advertising you haven't seen it, Nike's "Write campaign, the song has been rethe Future" campaign kicked off with an packaged. epic three-minute ad that was released On iTunes, you will find a five-song on the Net and then aired for the May Hocus Pocus World Cup 2010 EP, with 22 Champions League final with even the original version of the song, the more pomp and circumstance than a mixdown that appears on the commerSuper Bowl ad. cial, plus other remixes.

The ad—and, really, it's more a short film with a heck of a lot of product But, so far, the band hasn't been able to placement than what we'd traditionride the wave of the commercial's sucally consider an "ad"—features all of cess. A week after the commercial was the top global superstars signed to the released, the song couldn't be found on Nike stable, plus Homer Simpson, Roger the UK's top 100 singles chart. The UK Federer and Kobe Bryant. Basically, the chart is the best indicator because the short film shows a series of alternate ad campaign is as mainstream there as realities dictated by what could hap"Just Do It" was in North America; and pen at the World Cup. If Wayne Rooney the Brits have a real penchant for putleads England to victory, he is knighted ting old songs back on the charts, as and the UK economy soars. If he loses, Rage Against the Machine can attest.

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PROHIBITION Chicka-Dee-Jay Mon Night: with Michael Rault ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE The Legendary Rose Bowl Mon Jam: hosted by Sean Brewer; 9pm

STARLITE ROOM Thrice,

Kevin Devine; 7pm (door); no minors; $24 at Blackbyrd, TicketMaster, Unionevents.com

DJs BAR WILD Bar Gone Wild

Mon: Service Industry Night; no minors; 9pm-2am

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE New Pornographers,

12-1pm; free

9pm

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Open mic

Nights: with DJ Harley

GOOD EARTH CAFÉ Lisa B

ESMERALDA’S Retro Tue; no cover with student ID

NEW CITY Circ-O-Rama-

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Tough

FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music,

OVERTIME Dueling pianos featuring The Ivory Club

BRIXX BAR Really Good...

The Mountain Goats; 7pm (door); all ages; $27.50 at TicketMaster, Blackbyrd, Unionevents.com

every Tue; 11:30am-12:30pm

Guys and Girls Cry, Challenger Exploding, The Old Sins; 7:30pm (door); $10 (door)

L.B.’S PUB Ammar’s

Moosehead Tue open stage; 9pm

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Open Mic; Hosted O’BYRNE’S Celtic Jam with Shannon Johnson and friends

BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time;

OVERTIME Tue acoustic jam

by Ben Disaster; 9pm

(eclectic tunes)

TUE JUN 8 BLUES ON WHYTE Brian Lee BRIXX BAR Troubadour

Tue: Michael Dunn and Tatam Reeves; hosted by Mark Feduk of Red Ram/Uncas

CROWN PUB Underground

At The Crown: underground, hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Jae Maze; open mic; every Tue; 10pm; $3

DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage with Chris Wynters with guests Jesse Dee and Jacquie B; 9pm DV8 Corporation, Feast or Famine, The Wrecktals; 9pm

spooky with DJ Vylan Cadaver

PROHIBITION Tue Punk

Night

RED STAR Tue Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly

WED JUN 9

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Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society every Wed evening

PROHIBITION Wed with Roland Pemberton III

RED PIANO BAR Cops and

Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest Wed Night: Brit pop, new wave, punk, rock ‘n’ roll with LL Cool Joe Eats and Beats with DJ Degree and Friends

BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time; 9pm; no cover before 10pm

DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE

Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs

every Wed; open DJ night; 9pm-close; all DJs welcome to spin a short set

BRIXX BAR Really Good…

Eats and Beats: DJ Degree every Wed, Edmonton’s Bassline Community; 6pm (music); no cover

ROXY LOBBY Luke and

LEGENDS PUB Hip

Jam with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm

COPPERPOT

every Wed; 8-10pm

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE

every Wed night: Mah/ Goodman Quartet

SECOND CUP�124 Street

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE Daniel and Fowler

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE ‘abilly, Ghoul-rock,

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Wed

RIVER CREE Wed Live Rock Band hosted by Yukon Jack; 7:30-9pm

FLUID LOUNGE Mon Mixer DJ Chad Cook every Mon

dance lessons 8-10pm

Licious: Gypsy and circus fusion spectaculars; last Wed every month

DJs

FLUID LOUNGE Wed

ROXY LOBBY Lyra Brown;

LUCKY 13 Industry Night with

BUDDY'S DJ Arrow Chaser;

Robbers, guests; 8pm (show); $5 (w/dinner reservation)/$8 (door)

hosted by Robb Angus

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G.

BRIXX BAR Troubadour Tue: The Balconies and Sean Brewer, hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8

9pm, free; Frances May (Jody Glenham, Richie D), Darren Frank, 7pm (door), 8pm (show), $10 (door)

Main Floor: Eclectic Nonsense, Confederacy of Dunces, Dad Rock, TJ Hookah and Rear Admiral Saunders 9pm

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Heck, this past week in the UK, Billy Joel found himself at number 86. Now there's a name you probably thought you'd never hear again.

The piano man himself was joined by were three football-themed songs on the charts. Leeds United Team and Supporters were at number 10 with "Leeds Leeds Leeds (Marching on Together)" and there were a couple of novelty songs about the England World Cup squad.

Don't know if any are as good as Pop Will Eat Itself's "Touched By the Hand of Cicciolina" or New Order's "World in Motion" recorded for the 1990 World Cup. But Focus didn't make an appearance.

Maybe the world isn't ready for a chugchugging guitar line accompanied by yodelling. Yup, yodelling. That's the signature of the song.

Probably because the song was such an odd choice in the first place makes it successful as part of the ad. But maybe it's just too prog to be catchy enough to become a hit again. V

Steven Sandor is a former editor-in-chief of Vue Weekly, now an editor and author living in Toronto.

10pm; Part of Nextfest

Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm

SECOND CUP�Stanley Milner Library Open mic

every Tue; 7-9pm

SIDELINERS PUB Tue All Star

Open Stage hosted by Paul McGowan and Gina Cormier; every Tue; 8pm-midnight; no cover

STEEPS�Old Glenora Every

Tue Open Mic; 7:30-9:30pm

YARDBIRD SUITE Tuesday

Sessions: Dave Morgan Quintet; $5 (member)/$5 (guest); 7:30pm (door)/8pm (show)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: CJSR’s Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: with DJ Gundam

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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: Glitter Gulch Wed

BLUES ON WHYTE Brian

Lee

RESTAURANT Live jazz CROWN PUB Creative

Tess Pretty; 10pm; Part of Nextfest

SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment Open Mic STEEPS TEA LOUNGE� College Plaza Open mic

every Wed; hosted by Ernie Tersigni; 8pm

original Jam Wed (no covers): hosted by Dan and Miguel; 9:30pm-12:30am

STEEPS TEA LOUNGE� Whyte Ave Open mic every

DV8 Chad Kichula, Ben

TEMPLE Wyld Style Wed:

Wed; 8pm

Disaster; 9pm

Live hip hop; $5

EDDIE SHORTS Goodtime

Classical

jamboree Wed open stage hosted by Charlie Scream

Rock This

IVORY CLUB DJ ongoing

hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle

NEW CITY LIKWID LOUNGE DJ Roxxi Slade

(indie, punk and metal)

NEW CITY SUBURBS

Shake It: with Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; no minors; 9pm (door)

NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs every

Wed

STARLITE ROOM Wild

Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm

STOLLI'S Beatparty Wed:

CONVOCATION HALL Song

FIDDLER'S ROOST Little

Flower Open Stage Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

Soirees–French Melodies: Opera Nuova; 7pm; $12 (adult)/$10 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

House, progressive and electronica with Rudy Electro, DJ Rystar, Space Age and weekly guests; 9pm2am; beatparty.net

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

WINSPEAR ESO Overture;

WUNDERBAR Wed with

Open stage with Jonny Mac,

new DJ; no cover

ing in a warehouse on the outskirts of Prague. I think it added some urgency to it," Barnett explains excitedly. "We'd wake up and get a beer at midnight, and play music for six hours until the sun rose. We were eating off hot plates, living in this warehouse condition built by these punks that came out of a '90s European squat movement called the Autonomen, who are now a full-time touring apparatus called Nomen. So that was an amazing experience, surrounded by all this history and culture of punk rock and beyond, in a hotbed of ideas with no other distractions."

This type of dedication to the craft has become a signature trademark of the band. After 10 years, the members have devoted themselves to putting the music ahead of their own egos and touring the globe relentlessly.

"We all arrived [in Prague] at different times, and we became this accidental four-piece for the demo process, and by the time we all got there, some of the songs had changed. I'm not gonna get too precious about it—it's hardcore punk—but at the same time we take this pretty seriously. It has to be heartfelt, vulnerable, fun, all of these things within the framework of these punk songs that write themselves through us." (Avenue Theatre, $20.75) —Mike Angus

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Fri, Jun 4 (9 pm) / Lions for Sheep Anyone who's played in a band can identify with the tone in Erik Grice's voice. The vocalist/guitarist for Edmonton's Lions for Sheep almost cringes as he talks about the group's earliest recordings that precede this Friday's release of the band's second album, Nostalgia.

Previous recordings found LFS finding its footing as a rock band, but with Nostalgia the five-piece has put forward an outwardly confident, mature album that sees it honouring a list of Canadian influences, from Neil Young and the Band up to the Constantines.

"The new record does have some older songs, but they're a lot more mature with more substance to them," Grice explains.

"We're constantly listening to new and classic Canadian music, and I think one of the things that influences us is not only their sound, but the integrity and the reputation they have."

Recorded at Phonetic Sound with Jeff Olson, the band also worked with producer/engineer Calvin McElroy to ensure an overall consistent sounding album.

"Jeff was great at recording us live off the floor, as he had the space, and we got to use a lot of vintage equipment and homemade amps," Grice explains. "Calvin is more of a producer, he knows his stuff.

If we asked for a specific bass sound from a band we liked, he'd definitely know what we were talking about.

"Now that we're out and learning what

Sun, Jun 5 (11 am – 9 pm) and 6 (11 am – 7 pm) / Heart of the City Festival For the seventh year the Heart of the City Festival is setting up in Little Italy's Giovanni Coboto Park for two days of music ranging from hip hop and blues to rock and folk. There will also be free art workshops hosted by local artists, a collaborative mural and the ArtStart tent for children. See hotcmf.com for the complete lineup. (Giovanni Coboto Park, free) —Eden Munro

Sun, Jun 6 (8 pm) / Strike Anywhere An intense collection of politically conscious punk rock, Virginia's Strike Anywhere has returned with its fourth studio album Iron Front. As a self-proclaimed movement as much as a band, frontman Thomas Barnett says the five-piece sought to retain all the emotion and urgency of its perennial themes—globalization, police brutality and human rights—while taking itself out of its usual recording process to write and work the material in the Czech capital.

"We did all the writing and initial demo-

Sat, Jun 5 (5:30 pm) / Summer Splash #5 The Support to Individuals at Risk in Everyone's Neighbourhood Society (SIRENS) is presenting its fifth incarnation of Summer Splash, the group's major fundraiser.

Featuring talent such as Powder Blues Band and Gaye Delorme, the event raises funds to support aboriginal youth and the mentally ill in Edmonton.

The group's next fundraising event—scheduled for July 24—will feature Big Brother and the Holding Company, and special discounted tickets can be purchased at this week's concert. (Granite Curling Club, $35) —Bryan Birtles

SOUNDTRACK >> CHRISTIAN HANSEN & THE AUTISTICS Soundtrack is a new column that asks an artist or band about the soundtrack of their life in morning, noon and night, at home and on the road. This week is Christian Hansen & the Autistics.

At Home

MORNING Billie Holiday Lady Day 1933 – 1944 A reminder of a world less complicated, or at least that's how it sounds. Fresh coffee, homemade pancakes and a little Ms Holiday remind us to stop being such modern tools.

NOON Neko Case Fox Confessor Brings the Flood This is perfect for a Saturday afternoon home alone. Gently moves you along through lunch and laundry, timed around languid verses, leaving room for a third cup of coffee on the couch.

NIGHT Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime Even when it's January in Edmonton, this album will lift you out of a snow drift . Close the blinds, crank the heat and pour yourself a fishbowl of wine. Suddenly, spring is just around the corner.

On the Road

MORNING The Strokes Is This It? This album is bottled lightning: impossible to explain, impossible to recreate and very hard to resist. A true breakfast of champions. Plus Julian Casablancas is dreamy.

NOON Rolling Stones Hot Rocks '64 – '71 There is nothing better than blazing through the Rockies in your parents' 1989 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera, with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" further damaging the already crippled speakers.

NIGHT Jeff Buckley Grace When it's February and you jump into the heated car of your favourite person and she has Grace drifting through the stereo, you know you are home. V Christian Hansen and the Autistics' new EP, Swans, will be released Fri, Jun 4 at Avenue Theatre.

VUEWEEKLY // JUN 3 – JUN 9, 2010

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PREVUE // SHAD

Performing for prairie towns Touring rapper Shad has high hopes for Canadian hip hop lewis kelly // lewis@vueweekly.com

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f the many unusual things about Shad, the most striking might be how unassuming he is. In casual conversation he comes across as low-key and demure, shifting easily from discussing the name of his latest record to the prospects of impending NBA free agents.

You'd be forgiven for expecting a little more of the swagger often projected by rappers, especially prodigiously talented ones with albums short-listed for the prestigious Polaris prize on their resumes.

Then again, Shad's persona might be

an elaborate ruse: the man does have a business degree and currently works towards a graduate degree at Simon Fraser University in BC. A Machiavellian scheme to take over the world could be bouncing around inside his brain, along with the innumerable rhymes.

"Business school kind of teaches you to think in a strategic kind of way about whatever it is you're doing," he says.

Shad's impressive career arc testifies to the use of planning a few moves ahead.

After winning a radio-station talent contest, the Kenyan-born, Ontario-raised rapper used the prize money to record his 2005 full-length debut, When This Is Over. The 2007 followup, charmingly ti-

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tled The Old Prince, won critical acclaim all over the country.

Now comes TSOL, which Shad says mimics its predecessor fairly closely.

"I think it's not too much of a departure," he says. "It's probably a little more upbeat."

TSOL doesn't lend itself to immediate dissection in the way The Old Prince does, though. If pushed to define just what the letters stand for, Shad diplomatically declines.

"I like the idea of it being something that's not a word," he says. "To me it sort of represents the way that language sometimes is insufficient for expressing some of the things we think

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MAN OF MYSTERY >> Rapper Shad refuses to reveal the meaning of his latest, TSOL or feel, and that's why we have music or other forms of art."

But while Edmonton's creative scene enjoys a modest reputation nationwide, it's not exactly known as a hip-hop mecca. Shad says he likes playing prairie towns, though. Witness past gigs in Saskatoon, or the current tour kicking off in Winnipeg.

"Hip hop is everywhere and there's fans of it everywhere, and particularly in places where they don't necessarily get a lot of hip-hop shows, sometimes those communities can be the most excited and the most supportive at

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shows," he says.

Shad's appreciation of Edmonton as a musical destination ties in to his thoughts on the future of Canadian hip hop in general.

"I think it's going to continue to grow rapidly and I think there will be some unique voices coming out of Canada," he says. "I'm excited for the future of Canadian hip hop." V

Mon, Jun 7 (8 pm) Shad with Grand Analog Brixx Bar & Grill, $15

PREVUE // GOBBLE GOBBLE

Look into the future

Cecil Frena offers a glimpse of what's to come David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

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aybe "conquering hero" is overselling it a bit, but nevertheless, Cecil Frena is coming back to his hometown on a higher note than he left it. Edmonton, of course, already knew what a gem it had in the restless concert promoter who goes by the name Push Pins and, particularly, in the chip-tune-electro freak-out artist who goes by the name Gobble Gobble. Frena's debut under that name—after a history of hardcore acts that didn't exactly point to a turn as the head-smashing best way to have a dance party in town—Neon Grave-

yard, was one of last year's Edmonton highlights, a swirling and corporally obsessed tape release that managed to crush existential dread, elation, astrological phenomena and odes to dead prostitutes into a swirling and relentless electronic soundscape.

Now, though, others have started to take notice: thanks to some connections made while he was getting schooling in San Francisco, Gobble Gobble has gotten attention up and down the West Coast, culminating in a highly favourable review of one of his latest tracks, "Wrinklecarver," on indie gatekeeper Pitchfork.

Getting set to cross Canada on a tour with Alberta ex-pats Braids, it seems as

though he's poised to destroy minds and soles across the country.

Wrapped up in the stress of returning and prepping to leave again, Frena was unavailable for a proper interview. What he was able to do, however, was provide— in his inimitable style—a horoscope (one of his hobbies) for a baby born on the date of his homecoming show, June 5. It's almost as enjoyable as seeing him live.

Astrological prescripts for a child born to a modest assembly on June 5 within the walls of Castle Awesome: You, birthed in bike month, are a June baby. Your element is air, Gemini, and thus you examine yourself lightly, prostrate before the spectacular astral phallus. You don masks and are never the same being when you speak to another, in the hallowe'd pagan spirit of the October coitus that conceived you (your parents copulating in their costumes).

VUEWEEKLY // JUN 3 – JUN 9, 2010

Terminally curious to the point of mischief, you love to know things and places that are secret and in the private corners of your mind, you christen the inaccessible as the sacred. But the converse is true as well; namely that you are every day surrounded and overwhelmed by the mundane and attempt with a perverse ambition to rebrand its dull edges with the gleaming wand/fist of mystery. Youthful and lively, you nevertheless have perplexingly etched your Earthly task in the granite grammar of commandment: not to walk on water but to dance on air. V Fri, Jun 5 Gobble Gobble With Braids, Stalwart Sons, Fuck the Tundra, Jazz Castle Awesome (castleawesome@ gmail.com for address)

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ALBUM REVIEWS

New Sounds

Born Ruffians Say It (Paper Bag) 

David Berry // david@vueweekly.com

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orn Ruffians' debut, Red, Yellow and Blue, was immediately catchy for its big, bouncy pop hooks, but it holds up to closer scrutiny thanks mostly to its subtler juxtaposition. The bright pop— which was actually remarkably complex not only for a relatively stripped-down three-piece, but for something that hit so immediately and potently—was often backing lyrics by frontman Luke LaLonde that were if not necessarily dark, at least full of longing, confusion, touches of melancholy and sometimes marked disdain, the tunefully frustrated travails of someone coming up into an adult world that's no less certain or clear than an adolescent one. Complex emotions and direct songcraft swirled into something that had both wit and energy to spare.

There are still moments of this heady mix on the group's second full-length, Say It, but more often both LaLonde's lyrics and the band's sound have become more like the other, which isn't necessarily an improvement. Musically, though the group is obviously

drawing on a wider pallette, the band is far more sedate, and LaLonde has responded with sentiments that are often a bit simpler, and Born Ruffians works better when it's letting the frontman revel in his measured confusion while the band blitzes along, capturing his underlying but more lively frustration.

A pretty good example of this is "What to Say," where LaLonde's simple ruminations on being tongue-tied are laconically laid out over a backing track that's sleepy as Sunday morning, the rhythm section competing for who can sound more laid back. The combination makes the sentiments sound less like soul-searching than a minor annoyance, like he might as well be complaining about burnt toast. Compare to a track like RY&B's "I Need a Life," which ripped through worries about loserdom with the pent-up energy of a reluctant shut-in, and it suffers even more.

Luckily for the group, the members have a very natural ear for pop to fall back on that rescues some of their unfortunate tendancies here. "The Ballad of Moose Bruce" is a kind of lament for a lost man, but it's braced against a steady drum thump and lets itself loose in its last moment in a kind of exultant cacophony.

Album opener "Oh Man" rides a groovy rhythm section and an occasional wail through a song that blames the victim for a cheating lover, while closer "At Home Now" channels the slacker spirit of '90s college fuzz rock into the band's lament-pop framework, and proves that the players can write a song that's laid back but still interesting.

That, at least, is enough to leave some hope that the group just needs to grow into this new skin a bit more. It has, after all, stepped out a bit of the comfort zone on the second album; now the members just need to figure out how to balance what they're learning with what they know. V

Ginsberg's Inkling Ummm (Neferiu)  I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, but the mind of John Creary remains intact, for now. Ummm is just the sort of record the underground heads lick their chops for. Ginsberg's Inkling embodies the pensive art rap we expect from Neferiu Records. Fans of Thavius Beck and Daedalus will appreciate Creary's attention to production; fans of Mike Ladd and Buck 65 will appreciate the poetic lyricism, though at times too deliberately vague. The combination creates an anomalous gauze of haunting immediacy and an inherent lullaby quality. Apply gauze generously.

Joe Gurba

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Mireille Moquin Si J'etais Moi (Independent) 

The music swells up slowly, gently, as Mireille Moquin's EP begins with "Somewhere," a song that builds determinedly from simple beginnings into a work of beauty, pedal steel guitar perfectly complementing Moquin's voice and guitar.

Where open air and subtlety mark the first song, the title track comes on steady, both musically and lyrically with Moquin's words of thanks ("Thanks for picking me up when I was down / For letting me follow you around / When I was lost / Needed to be found"), while the piano/distorted guitar combo of "Chanson pour Y van" offers a jauntiness that provides the relief before the mournful closer, "L'oiseau." While Moquin works on a full-length album, this EP does everything a great EP should do, hooking the listener and leaving them wanting more.

Eden Munro

// eden@vueweekly.com

Tobacco Maniac Meat (Anticon) 

Tobacco makes music for space-gazing stoners: twisting, shifting synths that endlessly reverberate while pitch-shifted robo-vocals command things like, "put me in to your milkshake." Yet Maniac Meat grounds even its most fully baked ideas in a hazy pop sensibility, and a guest appearance from Beck doesn't hurt, either.

Paul Blinov

// paul@vueweekly.com

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VUEWEEKLY // JUN 3 – JUN 9, 2010

Band of Horses Infinite Arms (Columbia)  "NW Apt," the penultimate track of Band of Horses' third album, encapsulates the record nicely: a mildly catchy country-rock introduction raises expectations that ultimately go unfulfilled, undermined by forgettable instrumental tracks and largely boring lyrics. Horses singer Ben Bridwell's subtle tenor twang vocals sound distinctive as always, but his band's inability to support his voice with memorable sounds and his own mediocre songwriting chops make it hard to justify listening to Infinite Arms more than once or twice.

Lewis Kelly

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Shad TSOL (Black Box) 

Shad is arguably Canada's strongest ambassador contending in the realm of distilled hip hop, and TSOL is the proof and the pudding. It hits on all cylinders: formidable intelligence, flawless and inventive flows, rock-solid rhymes, creative song structures and concepts, and a hefty sense of humour. Above all that, within a trad-rap framework, Shad is carving his own sound and style out of the blinding white noise. As Canadian citizens, let's all hope that he'll surmount Drake as Canada's number one export. TSOL is the skeleton key: 10 points, five stars, two thumbs up. One love!

Joe Gurba

// joe@vueweekly.com

Kate Nash My Best Friend Is You (Fiction) 

Kate Nash's sound is wonderfully rich on her sophomore album, thanks to layers of violin, ukulele, glockenspiel, organ, bongos and more. She maintains the fun style of her first album on "Paris" and "DoWah-Doo," but takes risks on much of the album. Themes of escape, jealousy, and the indignities of womanhood are prominent throughout, and she experiments with different, edgier sounds.

She screams about homophobia over grungy guitar licks, and thanks a lover for giving her an STD after cheating on her and letting her be last to find out. It seems Nash is all grown up.

Angela Johnston

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tionally fertile soil.

No one finds the heart of a song like Darnielle. He's unsurpassed at reOriginally released: 1997 making a genre in ways that are unexpected, often stripping out The Mountain Goats emerged at conventions believed to be imom eekly.c the dawn of the '90s from John mutable and necessary for its w e u v sta@ Darnielle's explorations with an marychri ta coherence, but when he's done, s i r h C acoustic guitar, headstrong voice, Mary eefe the light strikes it differently and O'K dual-cassette recorder, boundless ennew truths are revealed. Think of thusiasm for music the Vince Guaraldiand ideas, and capacinduced childhood ity for buttonholing kinetic frenzy our most anarchic evoked by "Dance emotions. Full Force Music" (The SunGalesburg came out set Tree), recallin 1997, after a clutch ing anxious family of remarkable early holidays and the recordings had cosolace of TV spealesced a trademark cials. "Song for sound, and Darnielle Dennis Brown," off sometimes gaththe same record, is ered friends around an aching Jamaican to fill out the ochymnal in a chiarcasional song. After oscuro bass line, Galesburg, it'll be and "Horseradish four years before a Road" (Coroner's Mountain Goats re- GALESBURG >> A self-imposed masterclass Gambit) knits tocord begins without gether the tension a moment of magnetic hiss. of tango with the cool precision of Glenn Something about Galesburg makes it Gould. His covers are likewise revelatory: the stand apart from the rest of Darnielle's ofdelicate wistfulness of Carly Simon's "You're ferings, an elusive quality that can't quite be So Vain" emerges after ditching its anthemic attributed to any one mood, theme, instruchorus, and Thin Lizzy's "The Boys Are Back mental approach or set of imagery. Sure, In Town" packs the gut-punch of aging masthere are concordances, but nothing obviculine pride as youthful dreams dim. ous, and besides, Darnielle largely drinks Listening to Galesburg, I hear Darnielle's from the same well, albeit from different usual lyrical preoccupations ("This morning vessels, limning the intractable quirks of I know / Who you are," on the opener), and the human psyche and shadowlands of also his love of music: iconic Springsteen-like our relationships to ourselves, each other, fist-pumping on "Weekend In Western Illithe natural world, the oversoul, the things nois," the Velvet Underground's clatter and we make for each other, our fevered nightgospel swirled together on "Down Here" and mares and fervent aspirations. the spare soul-stroll distilled on "US Mill."

Galesburg encompasses all that, but also Maybe our best clue is when Darnielle's travels the breadth of the Great American voice breaks with emotion on "Ontario" Songbook with astonishing sweep. I've often during its rollicking Ike & Tina climax: "My wondered if the album wasn't Darnielle's selffavourite records / My favourite books / imposed masterclass of songwriting, because People I've loved / People I've almost loved." so much of it resonates with classic eras and The equivalence is telling, giving a sense of movements within American popular music, creative lineage and reminding us that the Memphis to New York, while moving through defining act of humanity has always been its landscapes. This not only makes for magour ability to share the deepest parts of nificent songs, but also sows them in excepourselves through making culture. V

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he recent signing of Montréal's Barn Burner to venerable heavymetal label Metal Blade has meant plenty of increased exposure for the band, and the opportunity to tour Europe and the United States later this year. It's also meant that Canadian fans of the band have been treated to a sneak preview of the group's upcoming material thanks to the two extra tracks that appear on Metal Blade's re-release of the group's debut, Bangers.

"Initially those two new songs were gonna be on our next album and because Metal Blade wanted the album to be a bit longer we went, 'OK, we've got these two songs ready,' so we went in and recorded them for that purpose.

It's definitely like a bit of a window with what's going on with the next record," says frontman Kevin Keegan, before explaining that the newer material moves the band ever-so-slightly away from its Thin Lizzy-esque, classic rock esthetic. "With the newer stuff it's getting a bit more fierce but it still has a definite classic rock and classic metal vibe, but trying to be more contempo-

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rary about it."

But signing to Metal Blade hasn't been all hookers and blow for the hard working Montréalers; in fact, it's been nothing but more hard work. Instead of sitting back and declaring themselves rock stars, the band members see it more as an opportunity to increase their workload.

"You gotta re-up your commitment, you gotta do more," enthuses Keegan.

"It allows us to go further with it, but going further with it costs more. The more we do the more we'll be able to break even, but we're still breaking even. Before we were doing less and breaking even and now we're doing more and breaking even. But we'd

rather be doing more and breaking even—it's a hell of a lot more fun that way." V

about actually cranking out excellent results that manifest a comprehensive vision of your intentions. I'm talking about working hard and smart to serve the big picture, not working frenetically and mechanically to rid yourself of nervous mental energy.

Be a master of the details; don't let the details master you.

in regards to your sexual life, but in other areas as well. There may be times when you could prevent an influx of unnecessary chaos simply by conducting a conversation in your imagination rather than by having it with the actual person who seems to be agitating or enthralling you.

says she was the victim of "self-inflicted friendly fire." I worry that you'll soon be tempted to carry out a metaphorical version of that, Capricorn. Please don't.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22)

There are very few people who can lick their own elbows, and up until now you have probably not been one of them. Judging from the current astrological configurations, however, I'm guessing that a lot of you Sagittarians are about to be more flexible, limber and acrobatic than usual—not just in your mental attitudes but possibly even in your physical abilities. Metaphorically speaking, you'll be able to bend over backwards without damaging your dignity.

You could also stretch and twist yourself into poses that have previously been impossible. Maybe you'll find a way to plant a kiss on your own elbow.

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be brighter, the emotions richer and the If you'd like to be in supreme alignment teachings more highly concentrated. If you with cosmic rhythms this week, I suggest give yourself to the surge with relaxed that you completely avoid using the fenthusiasm and focused receptivity, your word. As a general rule, the more precise evolution will be expedited. and the less lazy you are in using language, the more willpower you'll CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) have and the better able you'll I think you're ready to stand up be to attract the experiences Y and reclaim your power from G O L you want. It's always invigo- A S T R O m the soul-sucking influences that ekly.co vuewe rating to choose your words have been swindling you. I think l@ il w e fre creatively and kindly, of course, it's better if you stay low-key as Rob y but especially now. you transform the dynamics that Brezsn have been grinding you down. The TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) adjustments may be nowhere near as If you grow a mere acre of peanuts, in major as you imagine. Why? Because most a good year you'll harvest a big enough of what you need to do is make shifts in crop to make 30 000 peanut butter sand- your own attitude. The necessary changes wiches. That might be more than you need. in outer circumstances will arise naturally If you just plant enough peanuts to fill a once you've done that. basketball court, you'll still have enough to make over 3200 sandwiches, which would LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) provide you with more than eight every day If I were writing the story of your life as for a year. This is a good phase of your as- a fairy tale, the current chapter would be trological cycle to be thinking thoughts like filled with enchanted events. You'd hear these, Taurus. You will have more insight animals' thoughts in your head and you'd and motivation than usual if you formulate remember your past lives. You'd be able long-term plans to create abundance for to find accurate oracles in the shapes of yourself. clouds, the ringing of distant bells and the patterns of shadows on the sidewalk. You GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) would see the help that's invisible to everyAs they orbit the planet, astronauts wit- one else and know what to do in order to ness as many as 15 sunrises and sunsets get the love you want. Take advantage of each day. Time isn't really sped up for the available mojo, Leo. Use it to set people them, but it seems like it. I expect you to free, including yourself. experience a similar feeling in the coming weeks, Gemini. You may have the fan- VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) tasy that you're living the equivalent of How skilled are you at getting things done four days every 24 hours. The light will and making things happen? I'm talking

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In her essay "Write Till You Drop," author Annie Dillard offers advice to aspiring writers. I'm going to quote a certain passage that happens to be apropos for you Libras right now. "Spend it all, shoot it, play it, lose it, all, right away, every time. Do not hoard what seems good for later ... give it, give it all, give it now. The impulse to save something good for a better place later is the signal to spend it now. Something more will arise for later, something better. These things fill from behind, from beneath, like well water. Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you."

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21)

In a Rolling Stone interview, musician John Mayer suggested that Tiger Woods could have avoided his terrible troubles if he had just chosen to masturbate more. Rather than literally acting out his obsessive sexual urges with a million women who weren't his wife, why not contain them in the fantasy realm? I suggest you consider applying this principle as you make your decisions in the coming weeks, Scorpio—not just

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21)

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19)

The TV comedy series Community takes place on the sleepy campus of a community college. In one episode, an inept female security guard chases the lead character, Jeff, hoping to catch and cite him for a farcical misdemeanor. As she races along, shouting for him to stop, she takes out her can of pepper spray and shoots several streams in his direction. The cloud of noxious stuff doesn't reach him, but she runs face-first into it as she continues her pursuit. It irritates her eyes and forces her to halt. Later, in telling her associate what happened, she

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18)

Here's how author Leo Buscaglia described the rigorous requirements for being a great lover. You must "continually have the subtlety of the very wise, the flexibility of the child, the understanding of the philosopher, the acceptance of the saint, the tolerance of the scholar, and the fortitude of the certain." I'm sorry to report that no one I've ever known has met those high standards.

In the coming weeks, however, you Aquarians will have the potential to get halfway there. Life will conspire to boost every effort you make to be a great lover.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20)

Recently I was remembering the names of streets near the house where I grew up in Allen Park, Michigan. Although I didn't register it at the time, they were lyrical, euphonious and evocative: Philomene, Shenandoah, Osage, Luana, Cleophus, Gahona. As I walked and played on them day after day for years, my imagination breathed in the magic of their exotic sounds, unobtrusively nurturing my poetic sensibilities. I bring this up, Pisces, in the hope of inspiring a comparable rumination in you. Think back on the riches of the past whose importance to your development you may have underestimated. It's a good time to reconnect with the power and glory of influences that brought out the best in you almost without your knowledge. V

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Whose Pride?

In light of the threat to funding, the PT board in a four-to-three decision banned the use of the phrase "Israeli Apartheid" from the parade, thus for all intents and purposes banning QuAIA from participating. With this move it seems PT has put the future of Pride in greater peril than just the possible loss of income. In an open letter to PT, founders of Pride have called on PT to rescind the ban, stating, "This sets a very dangerous precedent for the exclusion of certain political

perspectives within our movements and communities from Pride events."

A generous reading of PT's decision and even Edmonton Pride Week Society's decision last year to give parade title sponsorship to TD Trust (something the group has not repeated this year) suggests that groups are accepting money with strings attached, implicit or otherwise, to ensure that they will be able to provide ever-lasting positive experiences for those that they think they are serving.

Most LGBT endeavors, like Pride, start with the mission to improve lives. Quickly the pressure to grow and succeed becomes distractionary. Suddenly mandates can be corrupted by outcomes and supposed community expectations, resulting in knee jerk reactions to continue and get bigger.

Unquestioned growth in the modern queer context creates over-simplified fabled ideals around a monolithic LGBT community and while there is a possibility of a greater majority being served due to growth, how

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Identity struggles emerge as corporate sponsorship gains ground On March 10 of this year Pride Toronto supporters and PT got nervous. In a letter (PT) released a notice regarding the reviewing a conversation that the City Pride Parade stating "Participatof Toronto had with PT, Executive ing groups must agree ... to Director of Culture for the City have their messages and sigof Toronto stated, "A review nage approved by the ethics will be made as to whether they m o .c kly committee of Pride Toronto can ban a group on the basis of uewee ted@v in advance of the event." Due being called 'Queers Against Isd e T to public outcry, PT reversed its raeli Apartheid.'"

Kerr decision saying that it would no Formed in 2008 during Toronto's Islonger be vetting content before the raeli Apartheid Week, QuAIA has worked parade. Sadly the victory was short lived. to draw attention to the Palestinian cause, From the beginning it was clear to mem- calling out those who may defend Israel's bers of Queers Against Israeli Apartheid actions due to their (limited) support of gay (QuAIA) that PT's attempt to control mes- rights and illustrates the ways in which race, saging was related to them. Last year, after statehood and sexuality are interrelated. This marching in 2008, it was suggested that rubbed many people the wrong way includQuAIA be banned from the parade. Funders, ing Toronto mayoral candidate Giorgio Mam-

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are some being excluded? Who needs Pride more? Straight people? Enshrined prosperous gays? Or marginalized queers navigating an often subtly yet undeniably violently oppressive world?

In reality, immigration, discrimination and patriarchy are all real battles being waged by queers everyday in Canada. Is Pride with its roots in activism, acting around current issues or is it just leveraging its past success to act now as a vehicle of the marketplace?

What LGBT organizations, including Pride, should be considering is: who benefits from growth and how can growth corrupt once noble intentions?

Locally as Edmonton Pride continues to grow there is an evolving feeling that it is becoming less accessible for some, both physically and culturally. In the end, support, sponsorship, nor the threat of losing either, should overly impact LGBTQ endeavors. Sure money matters, growth has it benefits, but in the end neither should not be the factor that reigns on our parade. V

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was at a club and this hot girl dragged me back to her place and when I woke up I was chained to the bed and there were bite marks all over me ... could I get an STD?") or claims of extremely unusual fetishes or practices.

OK, I don't really wonder. There's little doubt that these jokers no longer write in anywhere near as often as they used to because there are now a zillion places to post whatever foolishness you want to post, and possibly even gain an audience.

Fewer jackasses seem to feel the need to try to trick what they hope are earnest or unwary advice-givers into accidentally granting the desired exposure. I kind of miss them. They were so ... creative, although I'm not sure anyone ever topped the "girl" with the bugs up her hoo-ha.

So I cannot blame this guy for trying.

Plus, he did a really good job with the details ( "a small, lively fly," the head "just rising" above the surface of the water). And look, he got me to run it. Not because I

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we might consider whilst doing so is this: Does this individual seem like the kind of person who would wait for me to get plastered and then stick a live eel up my ass?

No, I don't believe this really happened, any more than I believe the fly guy. The eel story has yet to show up on Snopes, but it bears all the hallmarks of an urban legend: no names, no dates, an exotic setting that renders it unverifiable, many uses of "apparently," and "it seems."

It seems one ought not to believe everything one reads, as, apparently, much of what one reads is nonsense.

I'd like to think I've done a sort of public service by passing these two disgusting stories on to you, my beloved readers: Anything else you're likely to encounter today—stepped-in dog poop, a hair in your soup—will seem positively wholesome by comparison. No need to thank me!

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think there is actually such a practice as "Fly on the Island," but because it's funny and gross and I'm kind of bored today. At any rate, it's not nearly as gross or horrible as the story that made the rounds of my sex-geek posse last week sometime; perhaps you've seen it? The one about the Chinese eel.

It seems a gentleman was brought in, already dying, to a Sichuan hospital, where it took the doctors a surprisingly long time to discover the eel lodged where no eel was meant to go. Though dead, it had been alive when inserted, and eels have teeth.

The likely cause was eventually established—he had apparently been drinking with friends, and had passed out. His friends had decided it would be amusing to insert a live eel into his anus while he was comatose.

I suppose it's churlish to chide the guy after his agonizing death and all, but it does occur to me that we do get to choose our friends and one criterion

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