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Vuepoint News Roundup Dyer Straight Bob the Angry Flower

DISH // 10/ 11 Veni, Vidi, Vino

ARTS // 12 12 Artifacts

FILM // 16 34 DVD Detective

MUSIC // 36/ 40 Music Notes 42 New Sounds 43 Old Sounds 43 Quickspins

THE GREAT OUTDOORS PULLOUT SECTION // 17 18 Foraging for food and health 22 Sailing Wabamun Lake 24 Capturing the action

26 Biking Hinton 29 Kicking Horse's grizzly refuge 30 Reading the outdoors

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BACK // 46 46 Lust for life 46 Back Words 46 Free Will Astrology

LISTINGS 15 Arts 35 Film 44 Music 47 Events

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GRASDAL'S VUE

Regulate Netflix Bryan Birtles // Bryan@vueweekly.com

n April 1, representatives from Canada's telecommunications industry sent a letter to the CRTC in an attempt to pressure it into regulating Netflix. Though the motives behind the move are questionable, the suggestion shouldn't be dismissed out of hand: Netflix should be regulated. The idea of a borderless Internet, free from the regulations and bureaucracy of bricks and mortar broadcasting is enticing, but it cannot and will not reflect the reality of cultural life in Canada. In Canada, Netflix has never operated a by-mail video-rental business the way it does in the United States, instead having always operated as what the industry is calling it: a broadcaster. As it moves to create original shows to add to its paidfor content, Netflix operates more and more like the broadcasters it competes with, but with one glaring difference: it need not heed the laws we have in place to protect our cultural industries. Canada, as the diminutive neighbour to one of the world's largest countries, is inundated with music, television, movies, websites and other cultural products from the United States. That culture's influence

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has been on our airwaves so long that some Canadians are unaware that their culture is distinct from the behemoth we share a continent with. CanCon rules act as a buffer to this irresistible influence but Netflix—which saw its profits surge following its launch in Canada—is free to make money from Canadian citizens while doing nothing to reflect the culture back to the people watching. CanCon laws are not perfect: there are loopholes you could drive a dogsled through. Broadcasters have recreated American cop shows, set them in Toronto and called it CanCon, radio stations play music bland enough to be popular the world over but which happens to have been created by Canadians instead of reflecting the cultural truths of this country. The CRTC isn't a perfect organization either: it often seems to exist solely to ensure the oligopoly that Bell, Shaw and Rogers have on telecommunications in this country. The fact that the rules aren't accomplishing their stated goal is no excuse to ignore them completely: reforming the CRTC and CanCon would be the better course than to allow American culture to simply overtake our own, and regulating Netflix so it falls in line with CanCon rules is a good first step. V

Your Vue is the weekly roundup of all your comments and views of our coverage. Every week we'll be running your comments from the website, feedback on our weekly web polls and any letters you send our editors.

WEBPOLL RESULTS

THIS WEEK'S POLL

Two leaked draft reports from the Auditor General's office have revealed varying degrees of improper spending by the Harper government on the G8 and G20 summits. Should Canadians have access to the full report before the May 2 election?

Yes 83% If the Conservatives are in violation of Parliamentary process on spending limits, Canadians need to know.

The much-maligned Sun TV launched this week. Proponents say it brings some balance to Canada's airwaves, while opponents call it "Fox News North."

No 17%

The Auditor General needs to follow procedure and wait for Parliament to be convened.

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ONLINE COMMENTS In response to "An outside perspective: US opinion leaders emphasize importance of tar sands review" (Apr 14 – 20, 2011) Good article Ricardo. Unfortunately, as with most criticism of this government or the development of oil in this province, this will at best go unnoticed. Visigoth — Comment from website In response to "Smokin': Sgambaro's is built on a perfected salmon recipe" (Apr 14 – 20, 2011) Just love Sgambaro's salmon! I was buying it at Grapevine Deli in St Albert when I made regular trips out there, and it's fantastic quality, reasonably priced, and addictive! Looking forward to 'Sgambaro's Gone Wild' ;-) Monica I — Comment from website In response to "Top of the boot: Exploring wines from Italy's Piedmont region" (Apr 7 – 13, 2011) What good is writing an article about wine if you tell us nothing other than the name of the grape and the vintage year? How about the name of the producer(s)? This was about as useful as reading a cd review about an album from California released in 2009, but never knowing the name of the band. AimeeHill — Comment from website

Closed door policy

Conservative policies close Canada's borders as candidates turn to multicultural votes says Savehilaghi. "Meanwhile, the number of accepted refugees and permanent residents has plummeted."

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A campaign launched by Colour of Poverty, an advocacy group focused on bringing attention to the poverty faced by racialized Canadians, has produced its own series of YouTube videos, "Go Ethnics Go!?" to decon-

What motivates the Canadian government to recruit temporary workers is that migrant workers are essentially indentured servants bound to specific employers and do not have minimum wage and work condition protections, cannot effectively unionize, and cannot access most social programs.

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hile the Conservative party campaign boasts of the highest rates of immigration in 50 years, the facts aren't quite supporting the claim, though that hasn't stopped the Conservatives from launching an aggressive campaign attempting to secure the votes of Canada's diverse ethnic communities. Conservatives are hoping to repeat some of the success of 2008 when Tory strategists targeted ethnic communities across Canada to capture new seats. According to a fundraising document accidentally revealed by Jason Kenney's office in early March, Chinese voters in downtown Toronto neighbourhoods make up 40 percent of the vote and are increasingly voting Conservative, from 18 percent in 2004 to 25 percent in 2008. In BC, targeting South Asian communities almost doubled Conservative votes. Continued missteps by campaign strategists in the last few weeks are helping to bring attention to poor Conservative immigration policy in the last four years, however. Sozan Savehilaghi, a member of No One is Illegal, a grassroots migrant

justice organization, points to Kenney's attempts to appeal to different ethnic communities as chameleonlike and misrepresentative. "Kenney

has drastically expanded slave-like temporary worker programs, under which migrant workers are exploited as cheap labour without basic rights,"

struct the myth of the ethnic vote, stating, "We have to show them our rights are more than a vote." Harsha Walia, an activist with No One is Illegal Vancouver makes clear, "All politicians should be aware that immigrant communities will not easily be persuaded by any empty election promises." Walia is working to bring attention to the inherent contradictions in the closed-door policies the

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VOTING FOR JUSTICE But Leadnow is not alone in this goal. A series of videos have appeared on YouTube by independent filmmaker Sean Devlin and a group of young designers, writers, comedians and actors to explain why they're voting against Harper. Unlike previous campaigns like Rock the Vote or Apathy is Boring—aimed at simply getting youth to vote—these videos are independent, feature no celebraties or expensive advertising and take a stand against Harper. Quoted in Toronto's NOW Magazine, the organizers are hoping the site connects "young, sexy, single voters with a young, sexy, informed decision."

The Canadian Youth Climate Coalition is concerned the lack of recognition continues despite the mobs. "The only time youth were mentioned in the English debate was as 'young offenders,'" Amara Possian, a young organizer with CYCC explains. "Throughout the campaign we have been kicked out of rallies and bumped from interviews, so how can politicians and media call for our generation to vote when they outright ignore us?" The CYCC will be coordinating efforts on Earth Day to bring attention to climate change, which was not represented at the debates despite a call-in campaign to the broadcast consortium. SP

Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East—a grassroots, secular, non-partisan organization working to empower Canadians of all backgrounds to promote justice, development and peace in the Middle East—has released a document that outlines the positions taken on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and other Middle East issues by Canada's four major federal parties. The document concludes that the NDP and

Bloc's policies most closely align with CJPME's principles, that the Conservatives' unwavering support for Israel's policies runs counter to the party's stated support of international law and that the Liberal Party's policies are difficult to distinguish from the Conservative Party's, which the CJPME says deviates from the party's traditionally balanced approach. The full text of the document is available at bit.ly/elxnmiddleeast. BB

QUOTE OF THE WEEK "If the Governor General wants to call on other parties, or myself, for example, to try and form a government, then we try to form a government."

DELIVERING A MESSAGE The Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) has set up information pickets at the Canada Post distribution centre in St Albert after postal workers walked off the job. Workers were given notice on April 12 that the number of parcels they carry would be cut. For workers being paid per piece of mail delivered, it could mean a pay cut of thousands of dollars per year according to Bev Ray, president of CUPW Local 730 in Edmonton. "There was no discussion with the carriers beforehand. In fact, Canada Post said

gration minister. More concerning to immigration activists is the new policies put in place under the Conservatives that threaten people in unstable and threatening situations. Refugee claims are down significantly from 2006, with the number of refugees accepted into Canada down by 25 percent since the Conservatives

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THE KIDS MIGHT VOTE Major campaigns to encourage youth voter turnout have failed in the past, but this election season youth are speaking for themselves, and many credit CBC comedian Rick Mercer with inspiring a movement of vote mobs. Students at the University of Victoria, the University of Guelph, McMaster, the University of Calgary and numerous others have rallied self-described "mobs" of students to attend the speeches of candidates and party leaders. The group, calling itself Leadnow, (leadnow.ca) encourages students to set up vote mobs to make party leaders "act like youth are going to show up to the polls."

Conservatives have put forward in the last Parliamentary session. While the Conservative platform boasts of the highest immigration rates in 50 years, immigration is actually down five percent, primarily because of cuts to family reunification strategies. Family class immigrations have seen a 15 percent decrease since Jason Kenney became immi-

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the new rules came into effect April 11, even though the letters weren't given to the carriers until April 12," says Ray. The change affects about 15 rural and subur-

ban mail carriers in the St Albert centre, but CUPW is concerned a similar change is planned at other Canada Post facilities across Canada. SP

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—Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff on what might happen should the Conservatives win the election but fail to gain the confidence of the House of Commons CBC April 19, 2011

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COMMENT >> CLIMATE REFUGEES

Dress rehearsal

Europe hasn't learned its lesson on climate change "I wonder whether in this situation it not really fleeing from persecution and makes sense to remain within the Eurepression: the revolution largely ended ropean Union," said Italian foreign that. They are economic migrants minister Roberto Maroni two taking advantage of the fact weeks ago, in a crude atthat the chaotic new regime, tempt to blackmail other EU unlike the Ben Ali dictatorcountries into taking more m ship, no longer patrols the o .c ly k wee e@vue of Italy's illegal immigrants. beaches to stop them from gwynn e But the time may come when leaving for Italy. y Gw nn Italy's northern neighbours will Ben Ali had an unwritten deal Dyer be quite happy to see Italy leave with several EU countries to conthe Union. In fact, they may even close trol the migrant flow in return for their borders with all the EU's Mediterfinancial and diplomatic support. Since ranean members. his regime collapsed in January, an estiThe current fuss has arisen because Itamated 25Â 000 Tunisian "refugees" have ly, the closest EU country to Tunisia, was flooded into Italy, mostly in boats that hit by a wave of Tunisian "refugees" afdump them on the shores of the nearby ter the recent revolution there. They are Italian island of Lampedusa.

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This is profoundly unpopular in Italy, a country with a severe allergy to immigrants from the wrong parts of the planet. Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who is currently fighting charges of bribery, abuse of power and paying for sex with underage girls, is certainly not going to defy that popular mood. Indeed, Berlusconi is on record as saying that Milan "seems like an African city" because of the number of foreigners in the streets. (Actually, only four percent of Italy's population are non-citizen foreign residents, and more than half of them are European.) So when Lampedusa was inundated with Tunisians, Berlusconi came up with a sneaky way of getting rid of them.

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Most of the "refugees" from Tunisia would rather be in France anyway, because many of them have relatives there and most of them speak some French. So Berlusconi's government just made it easy for them to go to France. Early this month Italy began issuing sixmonth temporary residence certificates to the Tunisian refugees. Once they were Italian residents, however temporary, they were legally free to go anywhere else in the "Schengen" group of countries, an area with no internal border controls that includes almost all of Western and Northern Europe except the United Kingdom. Most of the Tunisian refugees immediately headed for France. Which is why, last Saturday, the French authorities began stopping the trains that normally cross the border from Italy into France without any identity checks. The Italian government responded with feigned outrage, but the French message was clear: you can't dump your refugees on us, no matter what the Schengen Treaty says. Now fast forward 30 years, and assume that the average global temperature is two degrees Celsius higher than it was in 1990. That's a reasonable assumption if there is not a drastic cut in global greenhouse gas emissions in the next 10 years. "Global average temperature" is a number that combines cooler temperatures over the two-thirds of the planet that is covered by oceans and considerably higher ones over the one-third that is land, so in Italy it will be three or threeand-a-half degrees hotter. And Italy, like all the countries on both sides of the Mediterranean, is in the sub-tropics, which will suffer a major loss of rainfall in a warmer world. Less rainfall and much higher summer temperatures mean that less food can be grown, and few of the sub-tropical countries will be able to feed their own populations any more. Countries like Italy are rich enough to import food to cover any local crop failures now, but they may not be able to when simultaneous crop failures all around the sub-tropics drive export prices sky-high.

This is a scenario in which not tens of thousands but millions of people are fleeing the drought-stricken countries of North Africa, trying to get into Europe. But it's also a scenario in which millions of Italians, Spanish, Greeks and citizens of other EU members in the Mediterranean take advantage of the Schengen rules on free movement to move somewhere cooler that still has enough food. Like France, for example.

Countries like Italy are rich enough to import food to cover any local crop failures now, but they may not be able to when simultaneous crop failures all around the sub-tropics drive export prices sky-high. Will France (and Germany and Poland and Sweden) let all these "climate refugees" from the Mediterranean countries in? Not very likely, is it? And are strategists in the more northerly EU countries aware that this problem is coming their way? Of course they are. Nobody is going to discuss this scenario in front of the children now, but you can see what happened to the Italian trains trying to cross into France last weekend as a dress rehearsal for he future. Not an inevitable future, nor one that will be upon us the day after tomorrow, but an ugly and quite probable future nevertheless. And similar things would be happening along all the other borders where the sub-tropics meet the temperate zone. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.

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took power. A United Nations Commission on Refugees report states that asylum seekers to Canada have dropped by 30 percent and No One is Illegal quotes numbers from Citizenship and Immigration Canada which state that approval of refugee claims has dropped 56 percent in the last four years. While the number of family reunifications and refugees has fallen, the level of temporary foreign workers increased, for the first time outpacing immigration rates, and followed a 20 percent drop in skilled workers accepted according to the Alberta Federation of Labour. The AFL has been campaigning for better conditions for temporary foreign workers in the tar sands and calls the increase in temporary foreign workers dangerous for the workers and for Canadian economic recovery. "The TFW program is rife with abuse," says AFL president Gil McGowan. "Workers are charged thousands of dollars in illegal fees, often live in homes owned by employers or agencies who charge outrageous rents, are told to work long hours while being denied fair rates of pay." According to author and sociologist Nandita Sharma, "What motivates the Canadian government to recruit

temporary workers is that migrant workers are essentially indentured servants bound to specific employers and do not have minimum wage and work condition protections, cannot effectively unionize, and cannot access most social programs." A recent change in the temporary foreign worker program will place limits on the ability of workers to stay in Canada and achieve permanent residency. As of April 1 of this year, a new rule will limit temporary foreign workers to four years in Canada. As the number of workers increases, the resources for assistance have been cut. In January the government cut $53 million for immigration settlement agencies. No One is Illegal points not only to closed-door policies, but also a continued campaign against endangered refugees. Walia points to the recent situation such as the boat of Tamil refugees who were treated as "criminals who target Canadian generosity" rather than refugees who should be recognized under the reality of irregular migration. "The anti-immigrant rhetoric employed by Jason Kenney and others about 'illegals' and 'terrorists' creates a climate of fear and xenophobia," says Walia. "Rather than continuing to identify migrants as suspicious strangers to whom our hospitality is conditional, we should see ourselves as part of a universal humanity." V

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DISH

Short and sweet A four-item menu packs them in

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restaurateur, whether he or she is opening a new café or simply updating the offerings at an existing business, is faced with the most fundamental of menu quandaries: what to include? If the menu is overly long, food quality may suffer. An overlysuccinct menu may alienate customers because variety is limited. In addition, offerings must appeal to a wide audience; a narrow target audience can be the veritable kiss of death. Battista's Calzone Company challenges this notion and demonstrates that a very short menu can have mass appeal. The menu includes four different types of calzone which, for the uninitiated, resemble a small pizza folded in half. Proprietor Battista Vecchio explains, "In my travels, I noticed that calzone are very popular in places like Toronto, New York City and Montréal, but there was nothing similar here. Instead of opening something huge, I decided to start small." Battista's officially opened in October 2010 and quickly received a warm reception from Edmonton's food community. "I have some customers that come in every day," Vecchio notes, "and many of them first heard about this place through reading blogs." Vecchio adds that the wealth of

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Edmonton-based food blogs has been a boon for his business. Notably, Avenue Magazine picked Battista's Calzone Company as one of the 25 Best Things to Eat in Edmonton. It is an enviable achievement for any restaurant, and even more so for one with a four-item menu. Vecchio prepares every calzone himself and cites his mother as a primary cooking inspiration: her meatball recipe appears in the Mama Mia calzone, which features a generous stuffing of meatballs, mozzarella cheese and homemade tomato sauce. Vecchio invented three other calzone incarnations for his menu: the Classico is reminiscent of a panini, and contains Genoa salami, capocollo, red and green peppers, and onions; the Vegetariano includes red and green peppers, olives, onions and mushrooms, as well as mozzarella and tomato sauce; the Spicy Italian features zesty sausage and Vecchio's own spice blend. The dining room at Battista's features large, bright windows and a wealth of recycled materials. The counter is made from heavy oak doors that carry a gorgeous, multi-coloured marble countertop. Vecchio chuckles and recalls discovering this marble masterpiece by a dumpster. Closer investigation revealed that the marble was

broken and subsequently discarded, and Vecchio received permission to rescue it from an undeserving fate at the dump. The countertop is indeed broken at one end, but its uneven edge appears artistic and intentional, adding additional appeal to Battista's sunlit space. Vecchio hopes to install a large TV for soccer games and commission a mural—perhaps of Roman columns—on the building's exterior. Vecchio faced a barrage of naysayers when he opened shop, and critiques covered everything from the 118 Avenue area to the brief menu. He explains, "I was tired of people telling me, 'You can't do this,' so I saw my idea to fruition, no matter how crazy other people thought it was." He adds, "I plan on being here for a long time. I could just look at the financials as one measure of success, but, for me, running Battista's is more than that. It is part of me." Vecchio's calzones have defied the notion that a small menu limits the customer base. He remarks, "Opening Battista's Calzone has been like moving to a new city, because suddenly I am meeting a huge group of people that I otherwise would not meet." V Battista Vecchio Battista's Calzone Company 11745 - 84 St, 780.758.7808

WINE

Something new

Has Malbec become the new Shiraz? As Canadians increase their consumpcelebrity wines out there for many diftion of wine every year, so too do they ferent reasons, but Malbec is a special increase their thirst for new, inbreed for more interesting reasons teresting and budget-friendly than just a great deal—not that I D I wines. Over the last decade there's anything wrong with V , I VEN we've seen Australia create that. a taste for fun, jammy, red One tongue-in-cheek theoom wines with Shiraz—a wine ry about a wine's popularity eekly.c w e u v us@ now synonymous with easy- mikeang is that it is inversely related e k Mi drinking affordability. to how difficult he name is Angus But man cannot live on Shiraz to pronounce—I'm looking at alone: there's a whole world of you, Auxerrois, Mourvèdre and wine out there, just waiting to be uncorked. For wine drinkers who cut their Thanks to teeth on fun wines like Shiraz, it's only Argentina's natural to start to look at what else is burgeoning wine out there—row upon row of bottles waiting to be taken to a good home. industry, Malbec Hence Malbec's recent rise in popuremains a pleasantly larity. Grown mostly in Argentina, this affordable option grape produces big, dark, juicy wines with strong profiles of plum and earth. that's just as fun as Thanks to Argentina's burgeoning wine Shiraz. industry, Malbec remains a pleasantly affordable option that's just as fun as Shiraz. While Shiraz's trademark is big, Viognier. This could be the reason Charspicy, fruit-forward wine that jumps out donnay is the most-ordered wine in resof the glass, Malbec offers just as much taurants: people recognize it and know inky, chewy body with ample tannins how to pronounce it. If there's any truth and a more-restrained temperament. to this, then Malbec's got the nervousBut these aren't the only reasons Malfirst-date market cornered. You couldn't bec is a rising star. There are plenty of mispronounce it if you tried.

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VINO

Joke theories aside, the most pressing reason to try Malbec is what's in the bottle, not what's written on it. As one of the six grapes allowed in Bordeaux blends, Malbec is originally from France's noble family of varietals. Mal-

bec vines were brought to Argentina in the mid-19th century—just before the majority of France's wine industry was wiped out by disease. This has been key to South America's wine renaissance: the grapes used are

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some of the only remaining species left of European vines. The fact that these vines are on Argentine soil makes them all the more affordable. For the Canadian wine drinker, this means great wines at great value. Drink up! V

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PREVUE // THEATRE

Chris Craddock spins Public Speaking into a modern fairy tale

Mockumentary updated for a new era

Boygroove's back

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Waterloo

The king of self-help says it, so it be Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

s a performer, it's a bit of a Waterloo for me," Chris Craddock says. "I've been working really hard. It's longer that any solo show I've ever done." His one-man theatrics certainly hadn't been lacking in ambition before Public Speaking, as anyone who's caught the fast-paced electro-chair spectacle of Moving Along would concur. But this one pours that ambition into its narrative: the tale of a fictional self-help king who decides to use his daughter's kidnapping to prove his dedication to his preachings— "More confident living through greater selfishness"—by abandoning her to the kidnappers. His daughter finds an unlikely protector in a junkie thug with gigantism, and it goes from there. Along with a small gamut of supporting roles, Craddock's playing them all alone on stage, threading the story ribbons into a modern fable of sorts.

"I was thinking in terms of a gritty modern fairy tale; you've got a king, but what's a king these days?" Craddock asks. "Someone who's the king of Ireland, or pop, or something, or someone who's part of the real oligarchy of business and politics. In this case, the king of self-help." Public Speaking's been percolating for a while now. Before this Theatre Network premiere, Craddock put a version of the script on its legs for the Toronto Fringe last summer, letting him and director Bradley Moss experiment and expand on their ideas of controlling sound onstage, something they're still using in this run, but have pulled back in scale. ("Innovating with technology is certainly something I want to continue to do," Craddock explains, "but in the end, this time we didn't, and I think that serves the project on the whole.") During his time as last year's writer-inresidence for the the Edmonton Public Library, Craddock expanded Public Speaking

ARTIFACTS Wrecking Ball / Mon, Apr 25 (7:30 pm) Wrecking Ball unrolls an evening of politically-tinged performance right across the country: founded in 2004, there are likeminded, same-named events happening from Montréal to Victoria on Monday. The Edmonton instalment includes a cabaret-style spread of performances from Chris Craddock, Surreal SoReal Theatre, singer/songwriter Dale Ladouceur, musician/actor Joel Crichton and playwright Marty Chan, with more performers to be announced closer to the date. So go, engage with some politics. It is, after all, election

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into a 110-page novella, an "experimental found text thing" akin to the original Hard Core Logo novel. Now, shreds of that expansion have found their way into the script; Craddock notes that, at one point, the script had doubled in length from Toronto's hour-long Fringe form. They've cut back from that, though fragments further the story's exploration into something a little wider in scope. "As I worked with his philosophy and developed his ethos, I found there was something to say about selfishness, in general, in our society," Craddock says. "As things went on, it became an examination of selfishness in our culture today." V Until Sun, May 8 (8 pm) Public Speaking Written & Performed by Chris Craddock Directed by Bradley Moss Roxy Theatre (10708 - 124 St), $21 – $50

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season. (Avenue Theatre [9030 - 118 Ave], Pay What You Can)

Chip Kidd on us all. (FAB Art Gallery [89 Ave & 112 St])

Fortune Favours the Bold / Tue, Apr 26 – Sat, May 7; opening reception on Thu, Apr 28 (7 pm). The University of Alberta's Bachelor of Design class of 2011 whip out their wares for a celebratory "last hurrah as students" show. Which is to say, this is the sort of keen eye for art and craft they're bringing into the world. Check 'em out so you could say you were there before they go bigtime

Patrick Swan / Fri, Apr 22 (8 pm) Yes, this is maybe more of a music story, but wedged between two promising musical acts—Brody Irving of the folkloric Wool on Wolves, and the sunshine strumming of Scenic Route to Alaska— speaks Patrick Swan, a Saskatchewanbased spoken-word poet of growing repute. He speaks with passion and writes in a way that elevates common life. (The Artery [9535 Jasper Ave], $10, 18+)

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Known for their hit "You Make My Hips Buck, Baby" Mel Priestley // mel@vueweekly.com

was always a big boyband fan. My cousins would teach me the little routines and stuff like that. I definitely remember doing 'Backstreet's Back.'" Being a past fan of the boy band genre has definitely helped Tim Cooper in his new role as Kevin, the Timberlake-esque leader of Boygroove—a mockumentarystyle show written by local playwright Chris Craddock and chronicling the rise and fall of a fictional boy band. "It's very à la Spinal Tap," notes Cooper. "It pulls from a lot of the facts and the things that were in the news about boy bands." Veteran fringers will remember Boygroove from 2002, when it enjoyed cult popularity on the Fringe circuit before fading into history like so many boy bands before it. Pop culture doesn't tend to age particularly well, and before this new version could be staged it underwent a makeover in both script and sound. "It has incorporated a lot of the newer aspects of things that have happened," explains Cooper, "Because in 2002 boy bands were still kind of there, but since then they've kind of fizzled a little bit— so it does make nods at that." The music was also revised, by local composer and sound designer Aaron Macri. "Aaron did a whole bunch of new tracks for the show to give it a new

feel. It incorporates the old sound of Boygroove, as well as mixing in the new kind of produced sound that you hear from artists nowadays." "The show doesn't feel dated," notes Cooper. "The updates to the script make it feel like it could be happening right now, like Boygroove could be a band that was released in 2009 and just started to push its way up." Though Boygroove presents all the pomp and fluff of boy bands ("It's song, scene-song, scene-song, scene-song— kind of like riding a roller coaster and it just keeps on going"), it also explores the darker underbelly of the genre. "We delve into the shallowness of the producer-artist aspect and how anyone could be in boy band; it's just a matter of getting chosen because you look a certain way," explains Cooper. "We also have one member of the band who—I don't wanna give too much away, but he's kind of closeted. It explores what that is like in a boy band: being gay in a boy band when you're a sex symbol." V Thu, Apr 21 – Sat, Apr 30 (7:30 pm) Matinees Sat, Apr 23 & Sun, Apr 24 (2 pm) Boygroove written by Chris Craddock directed by Trevor Schmidt starring Timothy Cooper, Mathew Bittroff, Eric Wigston, Byron Martin Catalyst Theatre (8529 Gateway Boulevard), $15 – $20

Edmonton Poetry Festival Mon, Apr 25 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; Sun, May 1 Various locations Schedule available at edmontonpoetryfestival.com

Though it never reached the precipice of disappearance or irrelevance, there was definitely a time when poetry's cultural impact seemed to be waning. Not anymore. Now, most major Canadian cities have a slam poetry community with regular shows (ours, the Edmonton Story Slam happens every month at the Haven), and both experimental and classic interpretations of the art form are once again starting to breach the public consciousness, break free of compartmentalization and redefine themselves in the hands of a new generation of eager wordsmiths. The Edmonton Poetry Festival, created in 2006 by then-poet laureate Alice Major, cuts an ample cross-section of what poets both budding and old have been doing across the country. Slam, spoken-word, visual, written and most other facets of the

poetic form are represented by a crop of talent coming to town. Ottawa's Ian Keteku and Halifax's Tanya Davis are two of them. "I think it's growing. Particularly spoken word," Keteku says, of the state of poetry in Canada. "It's growing at such an incredible rate. Almost every major city in Canada has a poetry slam or events that they do. And it's really a testament to a lot of the young voices that are seeking to have their voices heard, and have something to say." The sentiment is echoed by Davis. "Besides the government cuts that kind of keep happening and threaten arts everywhere, I think that poetry is pretty healthy in Canada today. The performance poetry circuit is growing," she says. "There's some great published-page Canadian poets. Also, more Canadian cities are getting poet laureates, there's more poetry coverage, which is prety good." Keteku and Davis are among those who have started to use Internet video to reach

out to audiences. Video poems, uploaded to the Internet, present an alternate, potentially viral way of getting a story out to a wider audience. Davis's collaboration with filmmaker Andrea Dorfman resulted in "How to Be Alone" a poignant ode to enjoying the single life set afloat by light melody and visual image. It's earned close to three million views on YouTube, and Davis notes its success has had other reverberations on her career as well. Meanwhile, Keteku co-wrote and released "El Amor Mata," a well-produced, colourstarched visual poem of love's explosive effects, for Valentine's Day. "I think the time now is that we have to do everything," Keteku says. "We have to make videos, we have to put out books, we have to keep on doing performances, we have to work with musicians. It's the only way to grow as a poet or survive as a poet in this day and age." PAUL BLINOV

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REVUE // GRAPHIC NOVELS

Picturesque page-turners

A graphic novel round-up for your summer reading lists Brian Gibson // brian@vueweekly.com

n this round-up of some of the past few months' most intriguing, fanciful, and pictographtastic comix, we're launched into a teen-nightmare-odyssey, drift back into a Second World War memoir, peek in on a couple's fraying marriage plans and learn the hows and whys of art from a magic cephalopod and a myopic monkey. Charles Burns' X'ed Out (Pantheon, 52 PP, $22.95) is much more satisfyingly trippy than his previous, Black Hole. It's a kind of psychotropic Tintin: the cover recalls Hergé's The Shooting Star and Doug dreams of himself, with a Tintinlike face (echoing a mask he wore at his Burroughs-like poetry reading at a party), wandering through a MiddleEastern-ish city. Moving between Doug's dream and reality, Burns moves his visual preoccupations—scar-faced people, slit-like apertures, teen anxiety—into a darker but more exotic realm. Doug navigates the bright desert city with a baby-like boy; dead fetuses of creatures lie around like eerie totems. A black splotch is a Rorschach blemish on skin, or a hole in the wall leading to a subterranean waste-

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land, or a speaker-grille that becomes a sewer drain gushing with blood. The splotched red-and-white egg on the cover pops up here and there, while a hive starts to loom large. This first part's eugenics ending spirals us into a growing concern with birth. Burns is juggling a lot here, but if he can thread all the splendidly strange strands together by story's end, X'ed Out could mark the spot where a masterwork began. Back in the all-too-horrible real world, Scott Chantler's war story Two Generals (McClelland & Stewart, 114 PP, $27.99) thankfully avoids historical edutainment for students about Canada's role in the 1944 invasion of Normandy. Sometimes the book does simply honour the past instead of deeply complicate it. But the details of Chantler's extensive research are plaited with the personal (Lt. Law Chantler, Highland Light Infantry, was his grandfather) for a flowing tale of drudgery, waiting, friendship and loss. There's little fighting. As Chantler and best friend Jack Chrysler get used to England, they and their men slog out weeks of tough training for a top-secret mission; some must learn to ride bikes. Once part of the largest invasion force

in military history, they dig in near Caen, waiting for the right time to attack entrenched German forces. Death comes in near-silent, sightless bursts. Chantler, whose line drawings have a certain terseness, shows only a limb here or shoe there, leaving us to fill in the traumatic gaps. The hushed, mournful ending, splayed out over Thomas Gray's poetic churchyard and

with her grandfather, only to come back to earth by his graveside. Glancing allusions to children's stories add to the wistfulness. Holmberg's moments of loneliness and grief can be wonderfully special in their sorrow. But some of the sentiment turns saccharine and the poetry gets precious. By book's end, there's literalness (a dancing man's smile turns into the half-crescent of the moon), clichéd vagueness ("Woman and her mysteries"), and mundane moments away from the monarch's magic realm. All in all, though, the small, soulful spectacles of many of the one-page trips through

Burns is juggling a lot here, but if he can thread all the splendidly strange strands together by story's end, X'ed Out could mark the spot where a masterwork began. the brutally prosaic French battlefield, ties a tender knot on the tale. Pablo Holmberg's Eden (Drawn + Quarterly, 118 PP, $17.95) is a mixed-bag of one-page confections: lovely little fairy-tales, mini-melancholies and too-precious romances. Holmberg's compression of off-kilter, magical connections (between people or between humans and nature) to four-frame strips is remarkable, especially early on. A king carries a tree up a hill to see the beautiful view; a girl dream-flies

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Eden tug tenderly on your memory. Adrian Tomine's Scenes from an Impending Marriage (Drawn + Quarterly, 54 PP, $10.50) also has a savour-each-episode, mini-coffee-table-book quality. Tomine's graphic novel Shortcomings had, well, shortcomings, but here less is more. Fourteen strips and a few little one-frame one-pagers (an allusion to Keane's Family Circus) follow urban thirtysomethings Adrian and Sarah as they discuss, debate or dispute the ins-andouts of their wedding plans. In "Invitation," the groom's artistic-perfectionism

makes for painstakingly crafted cards, which are, naturally, received with a shrug by the invited. There's an ever more embarrassing experience with potential musician-for-hire "DJ Buttercream." The book's a wryly charming, thoughtful comedy of pre-wedding stresses and an always amusing voyage into what Adrian laments is "a black hole of nuptial narcissism!" The comix-field is slowly levelling out as more women sit down at the drawing table. Longtime artist Lynda Barry's Picture This (Drawn + Quarterly, 224 PP, $31.95) is a how-to/collage/what-isart book that cuts and pastes us into an astonishing bounty of creativity, meditation, and plain old beauty. Each page is gorgeous in its own right, and only more so because of husband and collaborator Kevin Kawula's water colours. But Barry interleaves poetic meditations on art with wonderfully whimsical episodes involving young Marlys or a new character, the NearSighted Monkey. The book is generous and encouraging, from its exploration of simple collage techniques to howto moments (Barry even recommends certain materials, guides and stores on the last page). From its expression of the creator's rich imagination to its warm welcoming of the reader, Picture This wraps us in the kind of wondrous, absorbing and ultimately undefinable universe that can only be found and felt in comix. V

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Cinematic martyrdom

Martin Scorsese's controversial Last Temptation still incendiary

The power of Dafoe compels you

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t's almost reassuring that The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), a film of ideas, is still so incendiary: the most complained-about broadcast on British TV in the '90s, kept off Blockbuster's shelves, and still banned in the Philippines and Singapore. It was released, after the director's first effort years earlier was scotched by nervous management at Paramount, to protests and a firebombing in a Paris cinema. Martin Scorsese's film is quietly radical and deeply inspiring. For most of its 162 minutes, it simply follows some of the best-known stories of Christ—saving Mary Magdalene from a stoning, raising Lazarus, the Crucifixion—but manages to avoid episodic-ness and staginess thanks to a fervid commitment by Willem Dafoe as Jesus, a swirling, cross-cultural score from Peter Gabriel and some thrilling interpretations of the Bible. Jesus is a revolutionary, even a socialist ("What difference does it matter what you own?"), who wants "to change how [people] think and feel," as Pontius Pilate (David Bowie) recognizes. Espousing selfcriticism, Jesus tells Judas (Harvey Keitel) we must change ourselves through love, rebuilding our foundation—the soul, not the body. But Jesus also reinterprets

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the Old Testament, seeing God as not wrathful but loving. And it's Judas, sent to kill him, who instead encourages and follows him, even reminding him of his duty to God in the film's extended dream coda (where women are again, troublingly, associated with temptation— this time, the lure of a complacent home life). Jesus lies in Judas' arms one evening; Judas' abiding faith in him is the film's true mortal love. Scorsese and cinematographer Michael Ballhaus take inspiration from paintings—scenes are shot, chiaroscuro-like, with much shadow and light. Close-ups—particularly of anguished Dafoe—some rushing zooms, and hallucinatory moments propel this story of struggle between spirit and flesh. The landscape (the film was shot in Morocco) is windswept and rocky as if it, too, is being harshly punished. The Lazarus episode's re-energized by Jesus' shock at the leprous hand stretched out for him from within the cave; Mary Magdalene's (Barbara Hershey) endurance of male clients in her brothel reminds us what she had to suffer. The Last Temptation of Christ (adapted from Nikos Kazantzakis' 1955 novel) could only have come at a time of post-Darwin doubt, an age when God seems dead to so many. Jesus himself

is wracked by fear and doubt, at times unsure if he's following God or being tricked by Satan, but the film's constant intensity, its fierce devotion to struggles of faith and inner belief, is entrancing, largely thanks to Paul Schrader's urgently questioning dialogue. And then there's the last temptation, when Jesus imagines himself taken from the cross to lead a normal life. When he dashes his desperate dream and returns to his martyrdom, Scorsese achieves a rare moment of transcendence on film—a sense of struggle overcoming the earthly, even the flickering illusion of realist-filmmaking itself. In those final moments, the film itself is overcome, overexposed—until it burns out into white. It may be the closest cinema has come to expressing a pure, heaven-sent belief in something far beyond even its all-seeing eye. V Thu, Apr 21; Sat, Apr 23 (9pm) Fri, Apr 22 (7pm) The Last Temptation of Christ Directed by Martin Scorsese Written by Paul Schrader, Jay Cocks, Nikos Kazantzakis, Scorsese Featuring Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey Metro cinema (9828 - 101a ave)

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Model: Brandi Mogge Cover photo: Eden Munro

OUTDOORS INSIDER Need a lift? After four years of operations, the Rabbit Hill Freeride Park is officially closed. The bike park opened in 2006, enduring several seasons despite struggling with weather, operating costs and low season-pass enrolment. The latter was the final nail in the coffin. Year over year, shortfalls proved too costly and this spring, hill staff made the decision to shut down bike operations permanently. The closure was received by some riders as a sign of a dying scene. Just a few months earlier, the Alberta Downhill Racing Association (ADHRA) quietly dissolved as well.

"A couple people started saying, 'Downhill is dying in Alberta.' No! It's a worry, but people shouldn't get into a mad panic," says Deanne Coish. "We're working on things, you just have to be patient." Coish is a forum moderator on pinkbike.com and has co-organized Park Cycle Racing events, including the Rabbit Hill Downhill. This year, she is going it solo as Alberta Cup Downhill Racing. Races are planned for Hinton and Red Deer. Some mountain bike enthusiasts are also working with the City to get another venue up and running at Leger Park near 118 Avenue. No lifts are in the plans, but dirt jumps, bridges and

Jeremy Derksen // jeremy@vueweekly.com

other features are under consideration. To join up or show your support, get in touch with the Edmonton Mountain Bike Alliance on Facebook. Respect your deck As soon as the roads are dry, out come the longboards. It's still early season though, and there are lots of hazards to watch out for like gravel, puddles and— depending on the temperature and time of day—ice. Under these circumstances, a little extra precaution and gear maintenance is required. "Don't let your board get soaking wet or it will bend, warp and delaminate and all those fun things wood does," says

Tim Mercer at Local 124. "Bearings may also stick." As preventative maintenance, Mercer suggests packing bearings with grease. If your board does get wet, he says, make sure to dry it as soon as possible using a blowdryer. More generally, Mercer advises checking your board regularly. "Do a quick runover every time you go out," he says. "You can just throw it down and go, but that's how you lose an axle nut." Other key things to check are the kingpin nut, truck hardware and, every couple months, the grip tape. But above all, consider safety precautions. "Just be extra careful, watch out for gravel and ice," Mercer warns. "It'll

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make you slide a lot more—or just stop you instantly." On the run Coming off a sold-out 2011 season, 5 Peaks Northern Alberta (5peaks.com) is planning some exciting things for the new season, including a new night race in Fort Saskatchewan on April 30 and a new race site in Camrose this July. Nationwide, the 5 Peaks trail running series recently grabbed honours as the "Best Trail Running Event" according to readers of Get Out There magazine. This is an excellent series for all levels of ability. If you've been planning to try it out but putting it off, don't waste any more time.

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From foot to plate

Foraging while trekking adds a taste of the wild BObbi Barbarich // Bobbi@vueweekly.com Illustrations by Elizabeth Schowalter

rudging through the bush works up an appetite, but packaged foods aren't the only way to fill the hunger gap. Although the supermarket sack is easy, many store foods come from the ground you're standing on. We're ingrained to let corporations tell us what to eat, but you can spark your own gathering instincts with a good book, a curious eye and one important rule of thumb: never trust a mushroom. By the age of 12, wilderness medicine instructor and Remote Areas Emergency Medicine and Survival executive officer Brian Phaneuf was so intrigued by the wild, including its plants, that he was able to convince even his untrusting sister that cattails were edible. Munching on the cucumber-like white parts, he learned a valuable lesson about wild cuisine shortly thereafter. "I never thought to rinse off the parts I had eaten, and didn't realize the swamp where they were growing was a polluted run-off area." Since his first significant bout with indigestion courtesy of his foraging obsession, Phaneuf always harvests from clean areas, rinsing plants before eating them. After all, there are more animals than your dog using shrubbery for their deposits. Though he could write his own book after teaching outdoor survival and first aid for several decades, Phaneuf recommends delving into the library before the bush. Some of the best guide books are those specific to the area in which you're exploring, but Botany in a Day by Tom Elpel teaches the reader how to identify plant families by their general characteristics, rather than scrutinizing each individual plant. Whenever you hike, take a book with full-colour pictures like Edible and Medicinal Plants of the Rockies by Linda Kershaw or a Peterson Field Guide. But pictures in books don't always translate as well as learning from a pro. Taking a wilderness survival course like the ones Phaneuf teaches means you can shadow, ask questions and quickly identify which plants you can eat and which ones to leave under your feet. Should Phaneuf

offer you a cattail, wash it thoroughly. Eating in the wild takes a considerable amount of courageous digestion, and doesn't end when you close your guidebook. "[Identifying] an edible plant is a continuous learning thing. While in the Sequoia Forest of California, a friend of mine showed me how to harvest sugar from the underside of eucalyptus leaves. Small white dots of a sugary substance dotted each leaf. Only after I had enjoyed quite a few leaf loads did he bother to tell me that the sugars were bug excrement. Sure enough, at the centre of each dot was a little critter. Oh well, hopefully a good protein source." One skill an explorer must consistently hone is the ability to pay attention. Everything may look green when you're moving through the bush, but a deep squat and a close eye reveals that all that green stuff is actually individual plants. And just because they don't look like what you see on the grocery shelf doesn't mean they're inedible.

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To successfully forage, examine the dandelions on your lawn as you would your bagged spinach. Notice leaf shape, smell, te x t u re , presence of little hairs or bumps, colour changes and flower type. These attributes tell you what the plant is. Compare characteristics to your book or course notes, and suddenly you've figured out how to find your own food. Rations for a weeklong hiking trip become considerably lighter when you can shop along the way. Beyond their campfire-story potential, Phaneuf's teaching experiences regularly show him the mistakes careless eyes make. "Probably the most drastic mistake is harvesting what appears to be wild carrot when the actual plant picked is water hemlock ... a disastrous mistake which can rapidly cause death. Another common one I have seen is having an adamant person nibble on Arnica montana, believing it CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 >>

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Food gone wild Here is a list of common edible and medicinal plants native to Western Canada. Remember, however, foraging is a skill that takes time to develop. Read up, take classes and make the effort to learn plant distinctions before attempting it on your own, to avoid disastrous consequences. Berries Raspberries, blackberries, mulberries, blueberries and juniper berries are all edible, but make sure you know for certain what you're eating before popping it into your mouth. There are some basic ways to distinguish each fruit. Raspberries and blackberries are aggregate fruits—made of many tiny, round berries stuck together and each has its own seed. Beware of poison ivy often in the vicinity. They look somewhat alike but poison ivy has three leaflets and no thorns. Mulberries and blueberries grow on shrubs. Not an aggregate berry, their skins are smooth and the blue, black or red fruit's centre contains all its seeds. Crowberries also grow on shrubs. The black

berries are small and manage to stay on the needled evergreen throughout winter. Juniper berries are also smooth, with a dusted blue appearance. All juniper species have a distinct cedar-like aroma. Its twigs and berries are edible but smell the tree to be sure you have juniper—juniper's cedar lookalikes can make you ill. Bearberries are red and smooth, and also grow on a shrub with leaves rather than needles. If you happen to eat too many berries and wind up with the runs, make a tea using dried blackberry root bark. Pine Pine trees have long needles continued on page 20

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continued from page 18 grouped in bundles. The evergreens have aromatic, sticky sap and the seeds of all pine species are edible. Boil or bake young cones, which drop in spring. The juicy inner bark of young trees is also edible. Beyond breakfast, use pine resin to waterproof matches. Heat it and the resin also becomes glue. Wild dock/wild sorrel Often found in unappealing places like road sides and waste areas, wild dock is a stout plant with most of its leaves at the base of its 15 – 30 centimetre stem. Its roots look a bit like a carrot and it has purplish flowers. Wild dock and sorrel are very tender. You can eat the leaves fresh or cooked but to get rid its bitter taste, boil the leaves and change the water while cooking. Wild rose I grew up thinking wild roses were poisonous. In fact, entirely the opposite is true. Both the flowers and buds are edible raw or boiled, but only the outer portion of the fruit is digestible. Some species' inner, seeded portions can cause uncomfortable gut pains. After the flower petals fall, a wild rose's hips are rich with vitamin C. You can even eat the young, peeled shoots. Fireweed This ubiquitous plant grows up to two metres tall and has beautiful pink flowers and lance-like leaves. You'll see fireweed's stark brightness in burned areas, stream banks, lakeshores and alpine slopes. Leaves, stems and flowers are all edible but grow stringy and tough through summer. Clover Although all clovers are edible, red clover is the sweetest. It grows almost everywhere in full sunlight. Pick the flowers from the flower head and eat them raw or cooked, or stew to make tea. You can also eat the leaves when young, but leaves can lead to stomach cramps in those with sensitive digestion. Burdock You've seen burdock in meadows and cleared lands—often confused with thistle, these large herbs stand two metres tall, have broad leaves and several tubular pink or purple flower heads. Once the flowers dry, burdock's seedpods are often the big burrs sticking to your socks. Eat burdock's young shoots and leaves as salad greens, its inner stem pith raw, and boil or roast its roots. It's believed burdock also has medicinal properties, stimulating digestion and bile secretions. To make a poultice, grind burdock's leaves, add water to make a paste, spread over a bandage and apply to poison ivy, sunburn or other skin irritations. Cattails These overgrown corndogs standing alongside nearly every water source. Every part of the cattail is edible. Before the flower forms, peel and eat the shoots. They have a refreshing, mild zucchini-cucumber taste. Select the

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longest unflowered shoots. Separate outer leaves from the core and pull the inner core with both hands, and pull it out all the way to the base. Peel and discard the outermost layers of leaves until you reach the tender core. Use the sticky gel left on your hands to thicken soup. You can also clip off portions of the green flower head. Dandelion When dandelion first emerges, gather the leaves before the flowers appear. Dandelion leaves left to flower are very bitter. Frost, however, lessens its bitterness so harvest in early spring or late fall. You can also eat the yellow portion of dandelion flowers. Remove its bitter base before munching. Nettle Stinging nettle grows several feet high with tiny flowers and fine, hair-like bristles on its stem and under leaves. Young shoots and leaves are tasty; boil for 10 minutes to remove the sting. Arnica Arnicas are perennial herbs with erect stems standing 15 – 60 cm tall. Their yellow flowers appear throughout July and August. Plentiful in the Rockies, Arnica has many species with similar attributes. Known as a stimulant, it's usually prepared as a tincture. An excellent painkiller, it also reduces bruising and swelling. Do not take internally or put on open wounds—it causes intestinal blistering. Coltsfoot Another perennial herb, coltsfoot has large basal leaves and its purple, white or yellow flowers grow on a red stem 30 cm tall in early spring. It's found in moist areas like swamps and riverbanks. The young stem and leaves are edible raw while its roots should be roasted. Coltsfoot is a cough suppressant and relieves lung congestion. Inhale its smoke while burning or take internally for cramping. In a poultice, coltsfoot can ease insect stings and sores. Pineapple Weed Related to chamomile, pineapple weed has a small, pineapple-shaped yellow flower. It's common in waste areas, sidewalk cracks and along old roads. Eat pineapple weed raw or make tea. Crushed leaves, stems and flowers can repel insects or clean your hair. As a relaxant, pineapple weed treats digestive issues like gas, diarrhea and stomach aches. It can also ease skin itching. Arrowhead An aquatic plant with arrow-shaped leaves and potato-type tubers, arrowhead is an aquatic plant happy to grow in the mud. The root is a starchy vegetable similar to a potato. Reindeer moss You'll find this common lichen in open, dry areas. Though edible raw, it's very crunchy and brittle. Soak it with some wood ashes to remove bitterness, then dry, crush and add it to other food. V

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to be an Oxeye daisy. The numb mouth quickly makes the student realize the mistake." While plants offer nutrition, they can also quell pain, inflammation and stop infection after a backcountry mishap. Phaneuf recommends always bringing a first aid kit, but certain plants effectively replace Polysporin and rubbing alcohol. "Common chickweed can be mashed, flowers and all, and then applied to boils and skin eruptions to soothe them. The fresh juice has been used to soothe swollen or itchy eyes." Plentiful in the Rockies, Arnica latifolia, though poisonous if ingested, eases swelling, bruising and pain when its roots are mashed and spread on skin. "Plantain is also very common and can be used in many ways. Its seeds are a bulking laxative ... the leaves can be bruised and applied to wounds as an astringent and antibac-

terial." It's also completely edible. To make a poultice (a moist preparation to put on an injury), mash the plant with some water to make a paste and spread on gauze large enough to cover the wound. Secure the poultice with fresh gauze. With bountiful plant life, Phaneuf feels the best way to keep your tummy full and happy is by going with what you know. "It's better to be sure of 10 than vaguely familiar with 100." And this goes especially for mushrooms. "I would avoid mushrooms completely. Even supposedly safe ones can make you sick depending on what growth medium they were in or if they were harvested along with toxic plant parts." Without many calories, Phaneuf maintains mushrooms aren't worth the risk. Even when you are able to identify them, a great number of mushrooms fall somewhere between safe and poisonousâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;

neither particularly good or particularly bad to eat. Unless you become a mushroom expert, leave the tempting muffin tops to the experts. V On the web wildmanstevebrill.com raems.com/edibles/wildmededibles.htm

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Ducking the boom

basic sailing Skills

Skills get drilled into the head at sailing school Sonya solomonovitch // sonya@vueweekly.com

here are two common ways to get into sailing in Alberta: either you learn your basic nautical skills in Cadets or it's a long-standing family tradition. Then there is the third way, which is what brought me and half-adozen other people to Northern Alberta Sailing College for a weekend of sailing lessons: you stumble on it by accident. Because none of Alberta's big cities are located on large bodies of water, Albertans are rarely exposed to any sailing action. It is only when they go on weekend getaways that they might see some ads or some sailing event

taking place that gets them thinking, "Maybe I could do that." "Sailing is Alberta's best-kept secret," says sailing instructor Alison Rayner. "Luckily for me, it runs in my family, so I always knew I had no choice but to be a sailor." The first thing we learn during our two-day course is how to rig our own boats. There's a kind of satisfaction that comes with being able to tie all the knots—such as the figure eight, the bowline and the reef knot—and raise the sails on your 420 dinghy (so named because they are exactly 420 centimetres long). When it comes to sailing, Rayner gives two important pieces of advice, which seem contradictory at first. Be-

fore we go out on the water, she tells us there is no need to force things by playing tug-of-war with the wind. "We don't trap the wind," she says, "we harness it." On the other hand, she later tells us we have to remember that we are in charge of the boat. Only when I get on the water do I understand how both of them apply. The wind can blow strongly or change direction in a sudden gust, in which case there is no use fighting it because, let's face it, Mother Nature is stronger than the average human. The trick is to know how to use the wind and still go in the direction you want. On the first day, there is a light wind, perfect for beginners on a first at-

tempt at sailing. Even with the relatively gentle wind and mirror-smooth water however, it is difficult to master one of the most important concepts of dinghy sailing: not getting hit on the head with the boom. By the end of the afternoon I'm thinking that these 420 dinghies were obviously designed by a sadist. The boom is located exactly at head level for a person sitting on the gunwale, which is where one is supposed to be in order to steer and balance the boat. But with a bit of practice, knowing when to duck becomes second nature. On the second day of sailing, we experience the range of weather conditions on Lake Wabamun. At first there is a light rain, but not enough to prevent us from going on the water. Aside from the slight drizzle, the weather is perfect for learning with only a very slight wind. We are finally able to sort out the steering and taking in of the sail. In the afternoon, the wind picks up, and our little dinghies pick up speed. We have to return to shore— it's too soon for us to sail in such high winds—but at least we get a taste of how exciting sailing can be. Lake Wabamun is probably the ideal place for beginners. The winds are light and one does not have to worry about tides and waves. Although there are some hot days in the summer when the boats are completely becalmed, there are usually enough windy days to allow for some quality sailing time. Despite there being relatively few places for non-boat owners to learn to sail, there is a widespread sailing and racing culture in Alberta. "The racing culture is relaxed but definitely alive," Rayner remarks. "There are wor ld-class regattas run on this lake for dinghy sailing." I've got a long way to go before being ready to attempt the fine sail adjustments required to race in a regatta. Still, with the basics down, it was an amazing rush to tighten the mainsail and feel the boat pick up speed. Harnessing the wind to its full potential is definitely something to look forward to, once you know when to duck. V On the web northernalbertasailingcollege.com

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1) Steering in a straight line Harder than it sounds. It's best to pick a point out in the distance to steer towards, not forgetting to make little adjustments with the rudder.

2) Sheeting in and sheeting out (deciding when to pull in or let out the sail) When going downwind, you can get more speed out of your boat by letting the sails out. When going upwind, pulling the sails in will have the same effect.

3) Knowing capsizing procedures Once you have capsized, it is important to hang on to the boat, otherwise you might get swept away, especially if there is a strong wind. Once you are in the water, one person points the bow into the wind, while the other flips the boat right side up.

4) Using various clues (like flags) to determine wind direction

5) Knowing that you're in control You can decide whether to tack or not to tack, no matter what the wind is doing. V

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Photo: Eden Munro

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Model: Brandi Mogge

By Bryan Birtles

t's become a truism of the information age that if there isn't a photo or video, then it didn't happen. With cell phones ubiquitous, there aren't many moments that don't get captured, but the stunning vistas that go hand in hand with adventure sports require much more than the anemic workings of a cell phone to capture the triumphs of besting nature. Capturing an adventure is much more than standing around at the top of a mountain for a group shot. To really capture the action, an adventure photographer has to be deep inside the action, has to be almost as good as the athletes he or she is capturing. It should come as no surprise that many top adventure photographers are accomplished adventurers themselves. Born in Minnesota and currently living in Colorado, Beth Wald has been close to nature her entire life. As a kid, she spent summers camping in the wilds of Minnesota and winters skiing the state. When she went away to university, she discovered rock climbing and, through the sport, her career. When she and her friends needed gas money to keep travelling throughout the US and Europe and find new ascents to conquer, she turned to writing and photographing their climbs in order to keep them on the road. Eventually, her photos put her in the pages of Outside Magazine, Climbing and Newsweek. "I really liked the photography part and I really liked working hard at getting the shots versus just being along on the climb and taking some snapshots," she says. "And I realized pretty quickly that I was going to have a lot more success being a photographer than being a professional climber." New Mexico resident Michael Clark took photography and art lessons as a kid, but when he got to university he played it straight, getting a degree in physics and becoming a physicist. But the rock climbing bug bit him too and eventually he melded his new interest with his old, shooting rock climbing and other sports and landing his work in the likes of National Geographic,

Gear

With a good eye and some colour correction, any point-and-shoot will do the job, but to really excel you're going to want to invest in some good gear. Not only because it'll get the job done more efficiently, but the higher-grade materials it's constructed of will help it last longer, too. "I have one lens that I've been using for 12 years and I've even fallen off a horse with it right on the camera that was in my hand," says Beth Wald. "Both the camera and the lens survived."

Stamina

Not only are you going to be doing what the athletes you're shooting are doing, you're going to be doing it weighed down with more gear than they have. Make sure your body is up to the task before you get yourself into a position that could prove dangerous because you weren't prepared for it.

Sports Illustrated and The New York Times. "Through rock climbing I was going around the world to these amazing places and doing a lot of mountaineering," he says. "I was just going to these places that lend themselves to photography, so I started shooting pictures." So how do you move from taking snapshots to really capturing the action? The most important thing is preparation. Whether climbing, mountain biking, surfing or cliff diving, the action in adventure sports is swift, and the best way to make sure you capture that split-second movement is to be ready for it. Finding out everything you can about the location you'll be shooting is a paramount consideration. "If you can, the number-one thing for preparing is to go to where you're going to be shooting, the location itself, and to see when, or if, good light ever hits that location," says Clark. "That gives you a really good idea about how you're going to go about it in terms of preparing and setting it up and what shot you're looking for." You should know intimately the gear you'll be using—75 metres up a rock face isn't the best time to be fiddling with your f-stop. Here's where practise makes perfect: no matter how pro your gear, you can learn it inside and out by taking pictures constantly while you're still on the ground, learning the ways to maximize your light, figuring out what works well in terms of composition so you can shoot by intuition. Then, when you're in the middle of a high-stakes shoot, you'll be automatic. Also, says Wald, you don't want to spend any time fixing something onsite: get everything packed and ready to go beforehand. "I usually get everything completely checked out and packed and ready to go—lenses cleaned, filters ready—the night before so I'm not stumbling around in the morning," she says. "I can just

"You need to be in fairly good shape because you're carrying 120 lb packs all over the place," says Michael Clark.

A back up

Like Doc Brown, where you're going you won't need roads, but you will need a way to back up all the shots you took. Because space and weight is an issue, and because you may not have any electricity, you'll want to find a way to back up your pics that doesn't require a laptop. A Nexto eXtreme, or something like it, provides a good, battery-life friendly way to store photos without the need do anything but pop your memory card into the device. "I've got that down to a science," Beth Wald says of backing up her photos. "The technology is changing, but I've got a pretty good system for backing up photos in the field with no electricity. Solarpanel charging technology is getting bet-

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ter too, so it'll be easier in another year or so than it has been."

Experience

Don't go plunging into adventure photography without ever having participated in an adventure sport. Mountain biking, rock climbing, cave diving—these pursuits aren't tiddlywinks. You need to acknowledge the dangers and work within your limits, not get the shot no matter the cost—the cost could be your life. No matter how long it takes, safety is the most important consideration. "You're never tied into one piece of gear—you should always have a backup. Your camera gear is clipped to you, the camera is strapped to your harness so if you drop it, it doesn't go all the way to the ground. Everything is doubled up," says Clark. "If you're on El Cap in Yosemite, you might be setting up ropes for three days for a two-hour shoot." V

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Busy beavers Hintonites build bike legacy

moniker on the North Shore-inspired boardwalk and skinny track and I was soon questioning how this gem was formed from the rough front slopes of the Rockies. According to Kalk, "Corporate support and grants from the town

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Pegging the shocks [peggin thuh shoks] –idiom (Canadian): 1) To completely compress the front shock absorbers on a mountain bike. Synonyms: "Ouch, that hurt"; "I didn't think that was that high"; "That came out of nowhere."

If you look at biking meccas like Fernie and Squamish, the amount of trail maintenance is incredible—and most of it isn't organized. People will say at the start of the season, 'I'm gonna dedicate 20 hours to my favourite trail' and it works.

n a mountain bike, the word "that" tends to be a very operable pronoun. You tend to hit, jump, drop, shimmy, ride, roll and smash a whole host of "thats" when riding. Sometimes you know the correct jargon and can put a name to "that," but often your fellow riders will understand just fine whatever "that" you've just encountered. The big question is, though, how did "that" get there? For the answer you have to go straight to the women and men wielding their pulaskis, saws, adzes and McLeods. At a big resort, they are the paid trail crew, but at community mountain bike parks such as the wildly successful one run by the Hinton Mountain Bike Association, they are riders like the rest of us. Generous with their time and backs, they are demonstrably the heart and soul of any decent park.

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scene. Watching them turn tabletops into stages and Ashley turn any skinny rail or boardwalk into her plaything left me inspired, and frankly, a bit jealous. The cost-accessibility, progressiveness, quality and variation at the Hintonites'

According to HMBA president Stephen Hanus, "If you look at biking meccas like Fernie and Squamish, the amount of trail maintenance is incredible—and most of it isn't organized. People will say at the start of the season, 'I'm gonna dedicate 20 hours to my favourite trail' and it works." At the burgeoning bike mecca of Hinton, this "ownership" the

club refers to is evident throughout the 37 acres under their purview. Rolling through the park with the unfairly nicknamed Ashley "Crashley" Kalk, it is clear that there is something special going on in Hinton and I want to find out what. A few turns on the downhill flow track, into the Drop Zone, and a few solid attempts to steal Ashley's

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and government were huge," raising $400 000 to bring the two-stage construction to fruition. That, combined with the volunteer trail/construction crew and designer/ builder Jay Hoots, has shaped the berms, bridged the boardwalks and cleaned up the landings before us. Into the most popular section of the park—the dirt jumps—I tried not to undo all the hard work as I did my best to launch into the air without completely embarrassing myself, a task that became infinitely harder once a few talented riders, stars of last June's first-annual Beaver Bike Festival, rode onto the

tire-treads has undoubtedly and exponentially increased the local riders' skill, style and stoke. Now, this could be a classic chickenand-egg-type situation, but I agree with Hanus when he says, "What we're really doing here is educating and inspiring the next generation who will get to grow up with this place." "That" is quite a legacy to gift to the future and one that could be emulated to great success in communities throughout Alberta and, hopefully, in our own hometown. V On the web bikehinton.com

continued from 25 drink some coffee and leave." Then there's the preparation you need to engage in during your whole life: you need to have a knack for adventure. You'll never hack it taking adventure photographs if you don't intimately know the rhythms of the sport and don't have a flair for being outside. You need to be able to keep up, because an adventure photographer doesn't just meet some mud-caked people at the end of a trail and ask them to say, "Cheese": they have to be right in the thick of things. "I think the challenge is that you're doing what the other people are doing but you're trying to stay ahead of them and

then you're taking pictures and trying to pack your stuff up and trying to get ahead of them again to get in the right position," says Wald, who, in addition to adventure sports, spends a lot of time photographing cultural life in far flung places like Chile and Afghanistan. "You have to be very strategic: you're on the move with a group of people and you can't necessarily set shots up. I've had some very challenging trips that way." Even with all the setup in the world, however, things can go wrong. In those instances—as Michael Clark found out— the adventure you're photographing can

be more heart pounding than you wanted. Photographing climbers on the Cathedral Spires—steeple-like rock formations in the Black Hills of South Dakota—Clark almost met his end. He had ascended to a gully to capture the climbers as they moved past him, after which they would get his rope to the other side and he would climb up, but, as he was hanging, he looked up at his rope and noticed that something was very wrong. "Twenty or 30 feet below the top of the spire are these quartz crystals that are three or four inches long and sticking out of the rock, and the edges of these quartz crystals are razor sharp," he recounts.

"By the time I got to 40 feet below the top and saw the rope going over one of those crystals I could see the entire core of the rope was exposed—which is a really bad sign. From where I was it looked like I was hanging from the sheath, which has no load bearing capacity at all, so I was pretty sure I would die at any second, right then and there. "I yelled up and the guy looked over and he saw what was going on and I didn't have to say a word and he said, 'I'm gonna get you a rope.' It felt like forever before that rope dropped to me. I was pretty sure I was gonna die before that rope ever got to me—I thought I had seconds to live, if

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that. When that rope dropped to me I tied in faster than I've ever tied in before." That close call didn't stop Clark, who returned to Cathedral Spires a few days afterwards and shot through frazzled nerves. Because it's one thing to go on an adventure, but it's another thing, as Beth Wald and Michael Clark both well know, to go on an adventure and return with proof. V On the web Visit michaelclarkphoto.com to see the work of Michael Clark. Visit bethwaldphotography.com to see the work of Beth Wald.

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Kept Grizzly

// Elizabeth Schowalter

Resort refuges pose hard questions

KIRK zembal // kzembal@vueweekly.com

is name is Boo. That's the answer to the question the staff at Kicking Horse Mountain Resort Grizzly Bear Refuge get asked most often. The questions they themselves have are harder to answer. Questions regarding ethics, conduct, suitability, adaptability and interference. See, the place is like a zoo that doesn't want to be a zoo. Boo—an orphaned, now-adult grizzly bear—is fenced in, yes, but he's got a lot more natural environment to do his thing than in a zoo. He's also got a gondola running over his head. The dichotomy of having a grizzly bear refuge on the slopes of a ski hill is not lost on anybody and it probably factors into every discussion of expansion, throwing another bear in there and so on. Kicking Horse is not the only place to mix a little conservation into the resort blender, of course. The Grouse Mountain Refuge for Endangered Wildlife, at the north tip of North Vancouver comes to mind—home to grey wolves, merlins (a much cooler name than the colloquial "pigeon-hawk," no?), grizzly bears, peregrine falcons and spotted owls. It was actually Boo and his sibling Cari's first home. At first glance, mountain resorts seem ideal for animals in need of sanctuary because they've been orphaned or injured, or lack essential survival skills. The terrain and environment is much more suitable than an urban environment and if the owners/operators are willing to put up

the money to care, feed and doctor their wards, why not? However, it's clear that there is a little unspoken uneasiness in those entrusted to care for Boo. It's apparent—as are most human uncertainties—in the stories they tell, not the questions they answer. Before long, they resort to the "Yes, but ... " Yes, he's free to hunt and forage, but he is fed his three squares a day. Yes, he instinctively digs himself a den every winter, but he is later moved into a more suitable enclosure by the staff. Yes, he's an adult male grizzly bear, possessing the natural instincts of his kind, sometimes fierce and unpredictable. But it is unlikely he'd survive in the wild. About the best solace they can take from this slight cognitive (or commercial?) dissonance is in the story they most like to tell. Yes, Boo, when confronted by his nature (and a local blonde), dug his way under his cage and out into his biological home. Yes, he was lonely, so he escaped and found companionship and likely sired a litter. When he grew tired of hunting on his own, however, when the blossom of his little fling faded, when the comfort and predictability of his former life at the KHMR Grizzly Refuge became irresistible, Boo wandered back, was persistent, and was let back into his home. V On the web kickinghorseresort.com/mountain/activities/grizzly_bear_refuge-summer.aspx

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Spring reads

Using the season for reflection

jeremy Derksen // jeremy@vueweekly.com

pring is time to tune the bike, check the tent for leaks and generally prepare to launch into the outdoors. But we often forget to attune our minds as well as our gear and bodies. It's harder to be conscious of our agency in the natural world when we're hurtling through at high speed, so spring is also a good time to read up and engage with some of the bigger problems confronting us as outdoors consumers, and come to terms with them. Local imprint NeWest Press (newestpress.com) has been publishing award-winning literature for over 30 years, with an emphasis on environmentalism, adventure and outdoor living. Here are some suggestions from the recent NeWest catalogue, and one charitable endeavour by two local authors. Last summer, a close friend of mine upped stakes and moved to northeastern Alberta, where he planned to build his own home and live off-grid on a plot of land he'd bought there. Unlike most people, I figured he'd manage okay. He's handy with a rifle, he's a journeyman electrician and he's got the right mix of stubborn and tough. However, living off the land or in the bush is an ideal easier dreamed than done. Deep down, many romantics and outdoorsmen harbour fantasies of hewing their own wood, building a home, farming their own land and catching their own meat. Very few actually do it. That's what makes Ted Ferguson's

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Back Roads (2008, NeWest Press) such a compelling read. Ferguson had next-to-no outdoor survival skills or homesteading experience when he uprooted his family, left urban life in Vancouver and headed for the same remote, rural Alberta countryside over 20 years ago. Back Roads recounts the hardships and obstacles the family—Ted, his wife and eight-year-old son—faced trying to establish a home: obtaining running water, surviving bitter cold, handling troublesome animals and

Deep down, many romantics and outdoorsmen harbour fantasies of hewing their own wood, building a home, farming their own land and catching their own meat. Very few actually do it.

vehicles alike, and navigating backwoods social customs. Among the locals in the nearby town and surrounding farmlands, almost nobody figures they'll last. They're up against the odds in an unforgiving land—a scenario familiar to most adventure addicts. Unlike so many Everest attempts or one-man sea crossings,

however, all the Fergusons are trying to eke out is a simple way of life stripped of superficiality. I'm giving my friend good odds, but I'm also planning to hand him my copy of Back Roads the next time I see him. Of course, every reading list needs some good action, and that's where The Darkening Archipelago (2010, NeWest Press) fits. The second novel in an environmental thriller series featuring pro-

Spring is also a good time to read up and engage with some of the bigger problems confronting us as outdoors consumers, and come to terms with them. tagonist Cole Blackwater, it moves with the dark, fluid grace of an underwater predator. The plot revolves around the death of an Aboriginal community leader and a suspected salmon farming conspiracy in the fictional town of Port Lostcoast (set near the real life Broughton Archipelago on BC's coast). Blackwater, a friend of the deceased, arrives to attend the potlatch and soon gets mixed up in the intrigue. In both setting and characterization, author Stephen Legault mines issues that are close to the surface in Canadian culture. Racial conflict and environmental advocacy feature prominently, but (aside from the rare non-sequitur or jarring adjective like "glaucous-winged") without detracting from the action or getting preachy. In fact, this subject matter only serves to amp up the tension as Legault's characters—both people and ecosystems—balance on the edge of disaster. It may be fiction, but with its portrayals of environmental abuse and marginalization of Aboriginal culture, The Darkening Archipelago hits close to home. So what do we do about the mistakes of the past? How do we correct our current errors? We could start by Listening to Trees (2008, NeWest Press). By examining one natural resource industry—forestry—and its impacts and changes over the last half-century from the point of view of a seasoned forestry professional, Andreas Kare Hellum's impassioned treatise offers perspective on the real risks of accelerated, unchecked industrialization. Hellum first began work as a forester in the 1950s, apprenticing in Norway. Back then, trees were still felled by saw and axe, and transported by log drives down the river. The sudden introduction of chainsaws and logging trucks wrought a change in how foresters operated. Having travelled the world consulting on forest reclamation in many of earth's most sensitive ecosystems, Hellum has seen the devastating effects of increased global demand up close: clearcut rainforest, replanted forests lacking diversity and economic degradation among local peoples. Reading this book, you get the impression that many of today's forests—especially those we have "reclaimed"—suffer as a result of human arrogance. We forgot to listen to what the forests were telling us. With the benefit of hindsight, one can only hope we don't keep making the same mistakes. At times, it's hard not to think that Western society is just one great porcupine's problem. In the philosopher Schopenhauer's analogy, the problem arises when a group of porcupines gather for warmth during the winter. While being close helps them survive the cold, they can't help hurting each other with their quills. Yet there are ways we can co-exist harmoniously, and that's the focus of a local book published in July 2010, Porcupine's Problem. It's a true story written by Michelle Suttie and her son Denver, about an encounter with an injured porcupine on the side of an Edmonton road. Rescuing the animal led to the Sutties volunteering at the Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton. Michelle and her son, now nine years old, wrote the book as a fundraiser for the society (for more information, visit wildlife-edm.ca). We're a society stuck with quills and grievances, but the only way to get past them is to learn to appreciate one another. These titles offer a good start towards understanding and, over time, reconciliation with the world and its many occupants with whom we must share. V

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African Cats Opening Friday Directed by Alastair Fothergil, Keith Scholey Narrated by Samuel L Jackson

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commentary runs all over this thing there's a conspicuous dearth of zoological facts to be gleaned. Unless you consider "water buffalos are grumpy" to be a statement of high educational value.

The first thing you should probably know about African Cats is that, despite its being billed as such, in no way should this Disney production be mistaken for a documentary. Brimming with truly spectacular, no doubt arduously apprehended images of Kenyan flora and fauna, of mist, thunderheads and endless skies, the presence of the cameras recording the action are never acknowledged; though the film features plenty of fighting and killing, the bloody brutality and messy mating habits of the film's subjects are discreetly eschewed; Harry Potter composer Nicholas Hooper's heavily illustrative score emphasizes adventure movie theatrics over observational accentuation; and while Samuel L Jackson's colour

Assigning names to and even presuming to discern the thoughts of its cast of lions, cheetahs and crocodiles, ("To Mara, Fang is the best dad ever"), Jackson's effortlessly charismatic voice-over anthropomorphizes these animals to the max, exploiting their abundant cuteness to explore, among other themes, the difficulty of single-parenting. (Incidentally, Fang's not such an ideal patriarch after all: he hogs all the food, abandons his wife and doesn't say thanks when the lady lions defend the pride from a rival lion gang. The narrative imposed on these animals is not dissimilar to that of a gangster saga, replete with a conflicted moral code about traditional family values.) Highly questionable as this approach

Samuel's pride

may be, there's no argument that it can occasionally prove perfectly entertaining, such as in the scene where Jackson offers a sotto-voiced approval of a cheetah's attack on a gazelle ("Successssss!").

It makes you wish co-directors Alastair Fothergil and Keith Scholey would have let Jackson off the leash a little more so he could go all the way and improvise a few funny voices for the animals. Alas,

if only Disney didn't cling to their irritating dictum to render everything at once tasteful and utterly shameless. Josef Braun

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The High Cost of Living

The high cost of coffee

Opening Friday Written and Directed by Deborah Chow Starring Zack Bradd, Isabelle Blais Princess Theatre (10337 - 82 Ave)

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The High Cost of Living begins with a collision course already in progress. Scenes of drug-peddler Henry's (Zack Braff) night of pharmaceutical pill pushing, driving FDA-approved junk to junkies in Montréal get played off of cuts of Nathalie (Isabelle Blais)—cleaning up from her own baby shower, which her husband almost missed completely and then went back to work immediately thereafter—starting to feel early labour pangs. Henry turns the wrong way onto a one way. She steps off the curb to look for her cab, and Henry's car knocks her over. In the aftermath he high-tails it but, racked by guilt, tries to find out if he'd killed someone; Nathalie loses the baby, but 34 weeks along still has to carry the reminder while waiting for for a medically induced delivery of the stillborn. He finds

her, and, unexpectedly, friendship springs up. But of course she doesn't know what he knows, and the looming spectre of deeds done starts to hang over what blossoms between the two. It's a movie about grief and guilt and moving on, shot on the gorgeously aged streets of Montréal. The scenario's charged-up, if heavy handed, and handled well enough by its principle cast— Braff doesn't really do rough around the edges, but has enough of a vibe of late-20s apathy to justify his drift through the edges of illegal life, while Blais deftly handles her overshadowing emotional grief without feeling two-dimensional. Casting isn't the weakness here. There's a surface-level sheen to writer/director Deborah Chow's storytelling, which lets an emotionally charged-up situation stand as the totality of its depth, instead of using it as a springboard. Her script, frequently points out what's already apparent in the situation, and by front loading them—early scenes de-

picting Nathalie getting teary-eyed seeing babies, a friend who brings her kid to lunch may as well have been a montage for all their emotional impact—deflates the bigness of the emotional stakes a little more each time you're (frequently) reminded of them. It's not that those little moments aren't relevant, but they're crammed together, and then never explored. Chow's painting with pretty broad strokes elsewhere, too: Nathalie's husband is framed as unlikable right from the start, but we never go deeper into finding out much about either of them, or their relationship, outside of those initial ideas: he's too busy to care, and she's too wounded to stay. That all said, The High Cost of Living is also Chow's first feature debut and, despite its flaws, not a terrible place to start. If she starts to dig a little more into the grit of her own creations and keeps the talent infront of the lens, she might find some rewarding gems. PAUL BLINOV

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COMMENT >> DVD

Internal insurgence

White Material unfurls in peculiar flashbacks Dogs cross a dirt road under headlights. A heightened by Tindersticks' prowling lightflashlight searches an abandoned house to house beam of a score. Yet everything key find a man in military garb, a hole in to the narrative has been planted his belly, lying wide-eyed and dead herein and will unfurl and amass on a bed. Somewhere smoke volume from here on, honed by roils through darkness and actions whose savagery cannot flames lap at a building. A womom be softened by the narcotic .c ly k e vuewe an climbs aboard a crowded lyricism of their delivery. ctive@ dvddete bus, the sole white face among New from Criterion, White MaJosef her fellow passengers (and how terial is Claire Denis' third feature n u a Br white it is, sprayed with freckles, depicting whites in Africa, following looking papery-fragile against the red her autobiographical debut Chocolat dirt and harsh sun). A peculiar flashback (1988), and her inspired transposition of structure reveals itself, the first 15 minHerman Melville's Billy Budd into contemutes of White Material (2009) functionporary Djibouti in Beau Travail (1999). Coing as a vestibule, along which fragmenwritten with novelist Marie NDiaye, the film tary scenes are arranged in a seductively centres on Maria Vial (Isabelle Huppert), disorienting manner, their cryptic fluidity foreman of a coffee plantation in an unnamed country increasingly consumed by revolutionary (and counterrevolutionary) violence. Maria was to inherit the plantation from her ex-father-in-law (Michel Subor): she feels she belongs there, not so much entitled as embedded. When government emissaries urge her to depart (a helicopter even passes over at one point, commanding evacuation through a megaphone, raining down survival kits), Maria chooses to ignore them, staying focused on the harvest, for which she needs to rally a new group of labourers after their predecessors hastily quit: like the servants in The Exterminating Angel (1962), the staff knows it's time to split long before the bosses. We see her speak to her black neighbours and employees as equals, blind to the fact that in their eyes the new crisis has reduced Maria to "white material," just another vestige of the colonial past, less person than troublesome anachronism, a kind of ghost. The era that facilitated her forging a life here is rapidly closing, if not already long-gone with the wind, though Maria's similarity to Scarlett O'Hara ends with her fierce tenacity. It's the quality that defines her, and when it finally breaks near the film's very end, it causes a violence to erupt within Maria that's the stuff of Greek tragedy.

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White Material's overt political scenario is largely peripheral to the main action: the child soldiers swarming the countryside, the pro-insurgent DJ narrating the rebels' advance over the airwaves like Supersoul in Vanishing Point (1971), and, though based on Thomas Sankara, the film's rebel leader, known only as the Boxer (Isaach de

a house right next to Maria's. He's now selling off the plantation behind Maria's back to pay off his debts. Maria and André's son Manuel (Nicolas Duvauchelle) meanwhile has grown into a lazy, aimless young man, born and raised in Africa but an outsider nonetheless, who suddenly finds a dubious sense of purpose by identifying with the

We see her speak to her black neighbours and employees as equals, blind to the fact that in their eyes the new crisis has reduced Maria to "white material," just another vestige of the colonial past, less person than troublesome anachronism, a kind of ghost. Bankolé), remains a mysterious, iconic figure throughout, though, in a wonderful detail, we glimpse a tattoo on his arm that reads "Jamais K.O." or "never knocked-out," which seems bitterly ironic until Denis' eloquent final image implicitly applies this bit of bravado to the spirit of Boxer's cause, rather than his mere mortal existence. (An amusing coincidence: the name of Bankolé's character is echoed in the matchboxes Bankolé's nameless protagonist collects in The Limits of Control, released the same year.) But White Material's internal politics play out vividly in the stray destinies of the Vial family. Maria's ex-husband André (Christophe Lambert, his voice reduced to a Gallic growl since his Highlander days) has married and had a child with a black woman and lives in

child soldiers, disposing of his blonde hair, and attempting to position himself as their prospective leader by gleefully and recklessly bribing them with goods. As with Maria's final wrathful act, something about Manuel's transformation feels a little more symbolic than real: our agrarian heroine's offspring is but a different sort of bad yield. Yet I can't honestly say that these initially jarring, metaphorical dramatic shifts spoil anything essential in my deep engagement with White Material, partly because the performances of Huppert and Duvauchelle are so superb, and partly because their actions do finally feel of-a-piece in this unforgettable work from one of our greatest directors, who, as always, rigorously follows her own elliptical, idiosyncratic muse. V

JEsus Christ Superstar Thu, Apr 21 & Sat, Apr 23 (7 pm) Directed by Norman Jewison Metro Cinema (9828 - 101A Ave)

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As The Last Temptation's stoic but somewhat still campy cousin, the film version of Jesus Christ Superstar (1973) has half the depth and double the glitz to offer. Andrew Lloyd Webber's rock-opera remains theatrical on screen, from the broad, big-cast choreography to its allsung dialogue, and honestly feels like a dated timepiece: the very psychedelic '70s score with obvious vocal overdubs, the hippie costuming, and sweeping camera work all give it period feel, of a time when nobody was quite sure how to bridge the Broadway stage and the silver screen. This quintessential film version may

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deservedly hold some nostalgia value for those who grew up with it, and bemusement (and a couple of genuinely good musical songs) for the uninitiated. With its meta framing—the wordless opening and closing scenes are of the cast assembling in the desert to, perform the film we see—it manages to balance its total straight-faced cheese with a certain charm. Ted Neely's Christ finds some very human moments while belting out songs like he was fronting Skid Row, but the show's really anchored by the late Carl Anderson as Judas, the Bible's most famous traitor. His performance transcends the screen-adaptation-of-a-stageplay feel that colours much of the rest in campy shades. PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@vueweekly.com

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7:10, 9:50

RED RIDING HOOD (PG violence, frightening scenes) DAILY 1:50, 4:15, 7:25, 9:35 JUST GO WITH IT (PG crude content) DAILY 2:00, 4:40, 7:20, 9:55

CLAREVIEW 10

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3:30

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THU 5:10, 8:30

HOP (G) FRI�MON 1:40, 4:10, 6:30, 9:00; TUE�THU 5:15, INSIDIOUS (14A frightening scenes, not recommended for children) FRI�MON 2:00, 4:40, 7:05, 9:35; TUE�THU 5:50, 8:40

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Presentation FRI�MON 1:15, 3:50, 6:35, 9:15; TUE�THU 5:20, 8:05

RIO 3D (G) Digital 3D FRI�MON 1:20, 4:00, 6:45, 9:10;

ARTHUR (PG not recommended for young children) DAILY 9:30

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

THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST (STC) FRI 7:00;

SAT 9:00

JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (STC) SAT 7:00 AMERICAN: THE BILL HICKS STORY (STC) THU 7:00 PSYCHO (STC) THU 9:00

PARKLAND CINEMA 7 130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove, 780.972.2332 (Spruce Grove, Stony Plain; Parkland County)

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) DAILY 6:45, 9:05; SAT�SUN, TUE 10:45, 12:55, 3:15 LIMITLESS (14A) DAILY 7:05, 9:00; SAT�SUN, TUE 11:10, 1:15, 3:20

THE MECHANIC (18A brutal violence) DAILY 7:25,

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SOUL SURFER (PG) DAILY 7:00, 9:15; SAT�SUN, TUE

10:00

THE GREEN HORNET (14A violence, coarse language)

DAILY 1:35, 4:35, 7:05, 9:30

mended for young children) FRI�MON 1:30, 4:15, 6:50, 9:30; TUE�THU 5:40, 8:20

DUGGAN CINEMA�CAMROSE

TRUE GRIT (14A violence) DAILY 1:25, 4:10, 7:00, 9:30

HOP (G) DAILY 7:05, 9:15; SAT�SUN 2:05

THE KING'S SPEECH (PG language may offend)

RIO (G) DAILY 6:55, 9:10; SAT�SUN 1:55

DAILY 1:55, 4:25, 7:15, 9:45

HOP (G) SAT 2:20 ARTHUR (PG not recommended for young children)

FRI�SAT 1:00, 4:20, 7:15, 9:55

HANNA (14A violence) FRI�SAT 12:40, 3:30, 6:40, 9:20 INSIDIOUS (14A frightening scenes, not recommended for children) FRI�SAT 1:40, 4:30, 7:40, 10:15

LIMITLESS (14A) FRI�SAT 1:20, 4:15, 6:55, 9:25 RIO (G) FRI�SAT 1:30, 4:00, 6:30 RIO 3D (G) FRI�SAT 12:10, 2:, 5:10, 7:30, 10:00

10:55, 1:00, 3:05; Movies for Mommies TUE 1:00

ARTHUR (PG not recommended for young children) HOP (G) DAILY 7:10, 9:05; SAT�SUN, TUE 10:45, 12:55,

3:00

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6601-48 Ave, Camrose, 780.608.2144

YOGI BEAR (G) DAILY 1:35, 3:45

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO (Clas-

FRI�MON

RIO (G) Digital Cinema, No Passes FRI�MON 1:30, 4:00, 6:40; TUE�THU 6:40

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JANE EYRE (PG) DAILY 6:50, 9:10; FRI�SUN 2:00 THE HIGH COST OF LIVING (14A) DAILY 7:00, 9:00;

FRI�SUN 2:30

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400

AFRICAN CATS (G) No Passes FRI�MON 11:45, 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; TUE, THU 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; WED 4:45, 7:15, 9:45; Star & Strollers Screening, No Passes WED 1:00

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG violence, not recom-

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RIO 3D (G) Digital 3D, No Passes FRI, SUN�MON 11:50, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; SAT 12:10, 2:30, 4:50, 7:15, 9:40; TUE�THU 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:20

SCREAM 4 (14A coarse language, gory violence, not

SOUL SURFER (PG) FRI�SAT 1:10, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15

HANNA (14A violence) Digital Cinema FRI�MON 1:20,

YOUR HIGHNESS (18A crude sexual content, nudity)

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SOUL SURFER (PG) FRI�MON 1:10, 4:05, 6:45, 9:45;

HANNA (14A violence) Digital cinema DAILY 1:20, 4:20,

recommended for children) FRI�SAT 12:45, 1:50, 3:40, 4:45, 6:50, 7:50, 9:30, 10:30

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YOUR HIGHNESS (18A crude sexual content, nudity) FRI�SAT 2:00, 4:50, 8:00, 10:25

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St, 780.436.8585

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO (Clas-

sification not available) SAT 11:00

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SCREAM 4 (14A coarse language, gory violence, not recommended for children) Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating DAILY 12:30, 3:30, 7:10, 10:10

recommended for children) FRI�MON 1:40, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10; TUE�THU 7:30, 10:10 4:10, 7:15, 10:05; TUE�THU 7:15, 10:05

TUE�THU 6:45, 9:45

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MON 1:35, 4:35, 7:25, 10:15; TUE�THU 7:25, 10:15

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SOURCE CODE (PG coarse language, violence) Digital

Cinema DAILY 9:40

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WED 6:50, 9:30; THU 10:15

MEMPHIS (PG coarse language) THU 7:00

GARNEAU 8712-109 St, 780.433.0728

WIN WIN (14A coarse language) DAILY 7:00, 9:10; FRI�SUN 2:00

ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW May 28, tickets

on sale now

Grandin Mall, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

SCREAM 4 (14A coarse language, gory violence, not recommended for children) DAILY 12:40, 2:45, 4:45, 7:15, 9:20

INSIDIOUS (14A frightening scenes, not recommended for children) Digital Presentation, Stadium Seating DAILY 12:05, 2:40, 5:25, 8:00, 10:35

DAILY 1:05, 5:00, 6:55

ARTHUR (PG not recommended for young children)

GNOMEO AND JULIET (G) DAILY 12:35, 2:10, 5:45

Stadium Seating, DTS Digital FRI�TUE, THU 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45; WED 12:50, 3:50, 9:45

HOP (G) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating DAILY 12:20, 3:00 LIMITLESS (14A) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating FRI� WED 6:40, 9:40; THU 9:40 YOUR HIGHNESS (18A crude sexual content, nudity)

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RIO 3D (G) Digital 3D, Stadium Seating DAILY 12:10, 2:50, 5:25, 7:55, 10:30

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SCREAM 4 (14A coarse language, gory violence, not

recommended for children) DAILY 2:00, 5:00, 8:00, 10:45

DAILY 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30

7:20, 10:15

SOUL SURFER (PG) FRI�TUE 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10;

WED 3:40, 6:30, 9:10; THU 12:40, 3:40, 9:45; Star & Strollers Screening WED 1:00

ARTHUR (PG not recommended for young children) DAILY 1:10, 4:10, 6:45, 10:10 HOP (G) FRI�MON 11:45, 2:20, 4:40, 7:10, 9:30; TUE�THU 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:10

SOURCE CODE (PG coarse language, violence) Digital

Cinema FRI�TUE, THU 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20; WED 1:40, 4:40, 10:20

INSIDIOUS (14A frightening scenes, not recommended for children) FRI, SUN�THU 1:50, 5:10, 7:50, 10:40; SAT 2:30, 5:10, 7:50, 10:40 SUCKER PUNCH: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A violence) FRI�WED 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; THU 1:00, 4:00 LIMITLESS (14A) Digital Cinema DAILY 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:20

GRANDIN THEATRE�ST ALBERT

HANNA (14A violence) Dolby Stereo Digital DAILY 12:25, 3:15, 7:15, 10:15

RIO 3D (G) Digital 3D DAILY 7:00, 9:25; FRI�MON 1:00,

3D DAILY 1:20, 3:55, 6:50, 9:10

sification not available) SAT 11:00

A liquor-guzzling Matthew McConaughey makes for a surprisingly good Noir lead: with him in the (gum)shoes of lawyer Mick Haller—caught up in the deceptions of his latest client's murder case—and alongside a strong supporting cast, the flick's conventions have just the right blend of grit and twist.

MEMPHIS (PG coarse language) THU 7:00

SCREAM 4 (14A coarse language, gory violence, not

14231-137 Ave, 780.732.2236

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mended for young children) DAILY 6:55, 9:30; FRI�MON 12:55, 3:35

recommended for children) FRI�MON 1:10, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40; TUE�THU 5:25, 8:25

AFRICAN CATS (G) No Passes FRI 2:40

The Lincoln Lawyer

WED 7:00

SCREAM 4 (14A coarse language, gory violence, not

JUSTIN BIEBER: NEVER SAY NEVER 3D (G) Digital

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH

Garneau Theatre (8712 - 109 St) Writer/director Tom McCarthy provides a perfectly likeable if belaboured go-for-it movie that may very well get him his broadest audience yet. Paul Giamatti stars as a high school wrestling coach who takes a wayward youth into his house only to discover he's a natural on the mat.

MULRONEY: THE OPERA (PG coarse language)

RIO (G) DAILY 6:55, 8:55; SAT�SUN, TUE 11:10, 1:15, 3:10

4:20, 6:45, 9:00

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1:05, 3:25

WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG violence, not recom-

TUE�THU 5:00, 7:50

GNOMEO AND JULIET 3D (G) Digital 3D DAILY 1:30,

Win Win

Seating, DTS Digital DAILY 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:55

8:00

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12

Princess Theatre (10337 - 82 Ave) This BBC adaptation of Charlotte Brontë's classic has compelling performances and imagery rich with detail, even if it never quite finds a balance in jumping backwards and forwards in time.

SOURCE CODE (PG coarse language, violence) Stadium

DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: RODRICK RULES (G) PAUL (14A language may offend) DAILY 3:05, 8:50

THE METROPOLITAN OPERA: CAPRICCIO (Clas-

sification not available) SAT 11:00

FAST FIVE (STC) Ultraavx, No Passes THU 12:01 FAST FIVE: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (STC) No passes

THU 12:01

MEMPHIS (PG coarse language) THU 7:00

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin, 780.352.3922

ARTHUR (PG not recommended for young children)

HOP (G) DAILY 7:05; FRI�MON 1:05, 3:20

RIO (G) DAILY 1:00, 3:00, 5:05, 7:00, 8:55

ARTHUR (PG not recommended for young children) DAILY 9:30

HOP (G) DAILY 1:20, 3:20, 5:15, 7:15

SCREAM 4 (14A coarse language, gory violence, not

DAILY 3:45, 7:20, 9:20

YOUR HIGHNESS (18A crude sexual content, nudity) DAILY 9:05

LEDUC CINEMAS Leduc, 780.352.3922

SCREAM 4 (14A coarse language, gory violence, not

recommended for children) DAILY 7:05, 9:25; FRI�MON

recommended for children) DAILY 7:10, 9:30; FRI�MON 1:10, 3:30

SOUL SURFER (PG) DAILY 6:55, 9:25; FRI�MON 12:55, 3:25

RIO 3D (G) Digital 3D DAILY 7:00, 9:20; FRI� MON 1:00, 3:20

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Smashy be thy name

Fat Dave rechristens his rock trio in time for a record release

Ol' Smashy, back when the band was the FD Soap Co Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

was 14, and kids and their dads at 14 kind of go this way," Fat Dave Johnston recalls, gesturing in two different directions. "He was trying to find something we could bond over. We went shopping for a shotgun so we could shoot something together. We went all over town; it was a fairly exhausting day as I recall. And the last stop we made was at Avenue Guitars. And the guitar was on the wall." That hanging six-string, a japanese telecaster reissue of a 1962 model, was to be Dave's first, the one he still plugs in and plays after decades of turn-it-up rock 'n' roll, and one that now lends its nickname to his most recently reconfigured rock band: Ol' Smashy. Johnston, sitting calmly in a downtown coffee shop while his energetic twoyear-old daughter Lucy bounces beside him, says that after so much time, the guitar feels like an extension of himself. "I've had newer guitars ... they come and go. But this one's always there. And because it's been modified so much, and kind of beat up along the way ... it's really not worth anything to anyone but me at this point. Couldn't get rid of it if I wanted to."

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As Lucy mixes their drinks together with a tiny spoon—"She's helping make dinner, so mixing things is a big part of it," he sighs. "She'll take half a cup of orange juice, and pour it in your coffee"— Johnston explains the name shift, following his rock band's titular lineage from the Fat Dave Crime Wave to The FD Soap Co to this latest incarnation. It was

limited 150-copy run of the seven-inch single as Ol' Smashy's inagural recording, a three-song mix of throwback rock 'n' roll, equal parts sped-up blues and knockdown rock. "Music goes on the Internet. That's its final destination," Johnston says. "And since music's on the Internet, anybody who really wants to have their music

If you're gonna have a formal release or something, it might as well be fun [and] do whatever you want. a transition borne of frustration. "People were getting it wrong, constantly," he says. The FD Jones Soda Co was apparently a popular misnomer. But Johnston notes that all mistakes aside, Ol' Smashy is just a better band name for a bunch of upstart rock 'n' rollers: Johnston on guitar, backed by longtime collaborator John Phillips on drums and newfound bassist Thom Golub. Even though frustration led him to the name swap, Johnston calls it "the secondworst possible time" to switch: weeks before the release of a hand-numbered, vinyl single for "Cryin' Over You." It's a

heard, it's free on the Internet. If you're gonna have a formal release or something, it might as well be fun [and] do whatever you want. And since we all sort of feel that limited vinyl releases are cool, that's what we did. It's not like it's going to be any less accessible. And it's just going to be this nice little thing that elitists will think is fun, but everybody else can still hear." Wed, Apr 27 (10 pm) Ol' Smashy With Jake Ian Black Dog, free

The Manvils Wed, Apr 27 (8 pm) With the Frolics, Noisy Colours Wunderbar, $10

Vancouver's the Manvils makes iron-clad modern rock, sharpened with pop hooks and fortified with grit-guitar lines and vocalist Mikey Manville's weathered delivery. After a couple of early, formative releases, the band earned some rave reviews for 2009's self-titled full-length, bolstered by a music video for "Turpentine" featuring a performance by John Savage (of Thin Red Line and The Deer Hunter fame). Now, Manvils is blitzing through our province in a brief, Alberta-only tour to promote a new EP. Frontman Mikey Manville took an email interview with Vue to discuss the forthcoming release, road-testing new songs and taking aim at nostalgia. VUE WEEKLY: You've just recorded a new EP. Were there any specific ideas or goals you had for the material when you went into the studio? MIKEY MANVILLE: To enter the studio as a three-piece for the first time allowed us to focus more on space and the momentum that we wanted to capture on each take. It seemed more natural to balance the "in control/out of control" wild sound that the three of us all feed off of. This new batch of songs reflects a balance that we continue to strive for as recording and performing players. VW: Did you do most of the songwriting outside the studio, or experiment as you

recorded? MM: This was the first time that we toured during the writing process ... Every time we played shows, we would make mental notes as to how the crowd reacted to the new material. We even caught crowds chanting a new chorus with us, which was great, as it had been written the previous weekâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that was a sign that things were sounding solid. It was a totally different experience than in-session experiments that we also took advantage of, sonic-wise. VW: Your press notes describe your previous, self-titled album as one that "reigns true to the nostalgic era of rock 'n' roll." Is that still the sound you're after? MM: It's definitely got an old-school flavour, but there was a conscious effort to implement even more defined hooks from all of us. At times, I think we may have more nostalgic elements implemented in our songwriting than ever before ... it's fun stuff. PAUL BLINOV

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Holy Grail

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Vocalist James-Paul Luna's firsts, lasts and favourites: Last Concert First Album

La Bamba motion picture soundtrack.

Blitzkrieg and Accept at Hammerfest, Wales

Favourite Album

George Harrison and Eric Clapton at Tokyo Thunderdome [when I was] five years old.

My current favourites, back and forth, are Dust, Hard Attack (1972 catchy hard-rock album featuring Richie Wise who later produced early KISS albums and with Mark Bell, aka Marky Ramone, drumming) and Judas Priest, Stained Class.

Last Album

Guilty Pleasure

First Concert

Stats

• Formed in 2008 from ex-members of White Wizzard • Originally called Sorcerer • First full-length, Crisis in Utopia, released in 2010 • The home of two bad-ass moustaches

Graveyard, Hisingen Blues (Import).

1970s stompy glam rock—Slade, Sweet, Cockney Rebel, Alex Harvey, etc.

ON THE RECORD

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Dig it, man

Crooner Matt Dusk brings his live energy to Festival Place Toronto-born Matt Dusk has made a name for himself as a classic crooner who is hipper than hip, so when the time came for him to record a live album, he could think of no better place than Las Vegas, the home of hip crooning throughout the decades. The album, Live from Las Vegas, comes complete with a DVD—the special was recorded for PBS—and will be released just after Edmonton fans have a chance to hear the crooner live. Dusk answered some of Vue Weekly's questions by email on his way across Canada. Vue Weekly: How do you prepare differently for a performance you know will be recorded for an album? Matt Dusk: I try and gauge the audience's reaction to the song. Ultimately music is about communication. If the audience ain't crying or smiling, that song goes to the graveyard! VW: Tell me about how you chose the songs that would be on the live album, both the originals and the covers. MD: When I lived in Vegas, I was always listening to the music that was playing over the house audio system. Always big band, and always the greats. Las Vegas has a connection to those great big band hits, so it was easy to choose the standards. The originals I recorded were chosen to be the icing on the "big band" cake. Singing standards is a lot of fun. Singing your own is even more. Each one of the "new" songs had to add something musical to the show. VW: How much higher are the stakes for

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a performance you know will be recorded for posterity—was there a backup plan if things didn't go well? MD: Practice! Practice! Practice! I sang almost six hours a day for a week before the recording of the show. When I arrived on the stage, I was ready. It's not about being perfect, it's about being prepared. VW: Some songs were left off the CD— tell me how you made those decisions. MD: Firstly, we had a time limit of 54 minutes for PBS. Secondly, when you record a live show, there are always "moments." These are created by the synergy between the musicians, audience and myself. These intangibles ultimately

created the "core" songs. VW: Tell me about performing in Las Vegas. MD: Las Vegas is the city of sin. I'm not saying it to be cliché. I'm saying it because I lived there for almost four years. There is a real laissez-faire attitude. And performing there is much more exciting as people have a tendency to be a little more rowdy ... and I dig that! V Fri, Apr 22 (7:30 pm) Matt Dusk Festival Place $33.25 – $39.25

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MUSICNOTES Johnny Quazar & the Swingbots / Fri, Apr 22 & Sat, Apr 23 (10 pm) Two sets of cosmic rockabilly on the Easter weekend. Does anything more have to be said? OK, how about that the theramin is one of the instruments? Yeah, that's right. Trippy. (Sportsman's Lounge [8170 - 50 St], free)

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to activist to anthropologist—is touring behind a new album, Human, and he'll be bringing his mixture of African and contemporary rhythms and thoughtful, frequently political lyrics, sung in both English and Zulu, along with a full electric band that includes backing vocalists and dancers, to Edmonton. (Winspear Centre, $42) Tsehay Debebe / Sun, Apr 24 (8 pm) Celebrating the heritage of Ethiopia, Tsehay Debebe combines traditional and modern Ethiopian rhythms with "Eskesta," a traditional Ethiopian dance. (Haven Social Club, $20)

Johnny Clegg / Sat, Apr 23 (8 pm) South Africa-based Johnny Clegg— who's been labeled everything from singer-songwriter to guitarist to dancer

Troubadour Tuesdays / Tue, Apr 26 (8 pm) Every week the tunes drift up the stairs over at Brixx as the bar holds Troubadour Tuesdays. Usually hosted by Mark Feduk, the upcoming night will feature the songs of Rob Taylor, Manuela and Andrew Scott. (Brixx Bar & Grill, $5)

Johnnie Ninety-Nine and Shiloh Lindsey / Thu, Apr 28 (8 pm) Drawing from deep wells of heritage and highways, farmers and outlaws, the sun-soaked prairies and the heavy skies of the West Coast, Johnnie Ninety-Nine and Shiloh Lindsey are setting out together on a spring tour that'll be riddled with songs of hurt and loss. (Blue Chair Café, $10)

Lil' Wayne / Thu, Apr 28 (7 pm) Lil' Wayne's sold a hell of a lot of records— over 10 million, according to his press— but he wants to remind everyone what he does, so he's titled this trek the I'm Still Music tour. It's a good bet that all the guests he's packing along—Nicki Minaj, Rick Ross, Travis Barker and Mixmaster Mike—are music, too. (Rexall Place, $71.01 – $163.26)

Amy Thiessen / Thu, Apr 28 (8 pm) & Sun, May 1 (9 pm) Calgary-based singersongwriter Amy Thiessen is releasing her debut, independent full-length, Give Up the Fight, landing here in Edmonton for a couple of shows of soul-fed folk, along with some outright rock and even a few ancient mantras thrown in for good measure. (Jeffrey's Café & Wine Bar, $10 [Apr 28], On the Rocks [May 1])

SOUNDTRACK

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Kate Reid & Evalyn Parry

Fri, Apr 22 (8 pm), Junction Bar, $15

Kate Reid and Evalyn Perry are undoubtedly a musical match—both singersongwriters are known for their explorations of gender, sexuality and identity and make a travelling tag team as they head out across the country together. Landing in Edmonton this weekend, the two shared the soundtrack for their lives, separately at home and together on the road.

At home Any new-age instrumental music with animal sounds, birds, goats, farm animals ... I know, it's weird! (KR)

On the road morning

CBC 1, the Current and Q—keeps me connected to what's going on, both hosts are great interviewers [and have] great guests. (EP) Yo Yo Ma, baroque classical—it's great focus music for doing my music business work. (KR) Ali Farka Toure—great work music, to get me focused and inspired. (EP) Phil Ochs vinyl, '80s pop (German and Englishspeaking) on vinyl, women's folk music ... love listening to this when I'm making dinner, hanging out with the kids. (KR) Iron and Wine—great lyrics/poetic, quiet winddown listening. (EP)

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NOON

NIGHT

Tanya Davis's Clocks and Hearts Keep Going, CBC, any Top-40 country music station on the radio or CKUA if we're in Alberta. (KR, EP)

The Allman Brothers because they make awesome, rocking driving music with killer guitar solos and great lyrics. (KR, EP) The National's High Violet—epic arty rock, great for night driving. (KR, EP)

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NEWSOUNDS Duff Mckagan's Loaded, The Taking (Armoury) 

Loaded's latest record—awkwardly tagged with frontman Duff Mckagan's name up front—is a long way from the streets of Los Angeles where said frontman made his mark playing bass with Guns N' Roses. It makes sense, too, since Mckagan's lived in Seattle for most of his life, and the vibe of this album is dark in a different way than GNR was. It's still rock 'n' roll, for sure, but Mckagan's voice is ragged and well-suited to the grungy riffs and rhythms that mark The Taking. There's a consistent sound to the album, but it's well-travelled, too, veering from the pounding grime of "Lords of Abbadon" to the sweeping ethereal rock of "We Win" to the old-school deep-in-the-pocket groove of "Cocaine." Eden Munro

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Jennifer Castle, Castlemusic (Flemish Eye) 

Jennifer Castle has a voice like cold smoke. A bluesy chanteuse who sings with such icy heart that you can feel your marrow quiver, she dresses her folk arrangements down to a fittingly skeletal state. Castlemusic makes a satisfying blend of traditional stylings and sparser arrangements, yet its nine songs don't make up a downer of an album. Opener "Summer" has feedback guitars gently oscillating beneath her lightly husked voice; "Neverride" is a quiet, beautiful ode to joy, replete with a beautiful slide-guitar refrain to end on. "Powers" is a heady spirit-quest of a song wherin she croons some bong-ready vision lines, and even more uppity is the stuttered guitar wash of "Poor Man," which flirts with barroom alt-country. So, while Castlemusic feels like inner reflections from a fortress of solitude, that pristine, crystallized introspection carries the heavy sentiment of isolation while still keeping its head held high. It's the sounds of someone looking deep inside and smiling. Paul Blinov

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tUnE-yArDs WHOKILL (4AD) 

Merrill Garbus is a prosaic drug. Trying to review W H O K I L L is not unlike explaining a joke— most of the magic will inevitably be lost. It's as though she was reinventing jazz without having ever heard it, her songs leaping up and down scales with reckless gambol. It says no to every convention yet never exits the realm of melody nor indulges in the dissonant haunts of most experimental music. Inasmuch as W H O K I L L is challenging it is equally rewarding, each song a perplexing new recipe. The key ingredient does not change though: Garbus's incredibly expressive pipes that anchor the whole album to her fascinating character. JoE Gurba

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Royal Bangs Flux Outside (Glassnote) 

Royal Bangs brings its Tennessee-tinged genre blending back with Flux Outside. The passionate compositions are alternately full of humming electric tension in quiet moments like "Dim Chamber" and full-out fury on balls-out jammers like "Bull Elk." Instrumentally, Royal Bangs incorporates a multitude of texture with no shortage of umf, the percussion choices being particularly acute. Unfortunately, though the lyrics leave nothing wanting, the vocal melodies are, at times, fairly predictable. Thus, it's hard to know how much of the band's virtue is owing to clever production. Either way, Flux Outside has some serious gems not worth sleeping on. JoE Gurba

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THOMAS BREATH (Totally Disconnected) 

With a calculated tone, B R E A T H does well to embody it's title. An ethereal and windy neo-croon inundates the album with the poetic brevity of a haiku. Like a dark hollowing funnel cloud, T H O M A S impeaches the soul with pleading lyrics like, "Save me / Save me from you." Occupying the same wavelength of artists like James Blake and How To Dress Well, T H O M A S already has the talent, control, and tastemaker sensibilities to ascend to likewise heights of critical acclaim. One can only hope this one breath will spawn a career devoted to this burgeoning genre. Joe Gurba

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QUICKSPINS WHITEY HOUSTON

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Hot Tuna Steady As She Goes (Red House) Flaccid and tired blues Sonic equivalent of Watching old folks eat

OLDSOUNDS BRYAN BIRTLES

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NEIL YOUNG'S WORST Neil Young is, frankly, a Canadian legend. A multiple Juno and Grammy Award winner, a member of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame, two-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (solo and with Buffalo Springfield), and an Officer of the Order of Canada, there aren't many who have been so influential or pushed as many boundaries as Young has through not only his music, but also his charitable work and championing of political causes. While he was pushing boundaries, however, he sometimes fucked up. Granted, Neil Young's worst albums only make him cooler, because at least he had the guts to go out on a limb in the first place. Still, Young has had a knack for doing it royally.

1) Everybody's Rockin' (1983) Kopek White Collar Lies (Religion Music) Giant glossy rock With the lyrical weight of Teen suicide note .

Pantha Du Prince XI Versions of Black Noise (Rough Trade) I quite like Pantha And I loved that last album Yet remix tops it!

Snailhouse Sentimental Gentleman (White Whale) The unsung hero Making classic discs for years Workin' at Denny's

A collection of rockabilly tunes, the cover of Everybody's Rockin' features Young in full-on greaser mode, hair in a slick pompadour, in a white suit on a "shocking" pink background. The album itself is pure kitsch with almost no redeemable qualities, though it is something that soccer moms could dance to. One awesome element of the album, however, is that it served as a "get stuffed" to Geffen Records, which demanded a rock 'n' roll album after 1982's Trans was a flop.

2) Trans (1982) Inspired partly by Kraftwerk and partly by Young's attempts to communicate with his son Ben who has cerebral palsy, Trans utilized a vocoder for much of the album, distorting his voice into something that is often recognizable, mirroring his son's inability to communicate. Despite its pure intentions and interesting process, the album is nearly unlistenable. Trans and Everybody's Rockin' got Young sued by Geffen for producing music that wasn't commercial. Young countersued for breach of contract and David Geffen himself was forced to apologize.

3) This Note's For You (1988) Young's foray into the blues, This Note's For You continues in the grumpy tradition that inspired Trans and Everybody's Rockin', but this time makes it more explicit. Young takes aim at the commercialism of rock 'n' roll, but the tired blues wankery on the album is bar band-level at best. The most interesting part of the album is the video that accompanied the title track, a high-concept effort that lampoons using music in advertising.

4) Sleeps With Angels (1994)

Jimmy Zee Devil Take Me Down (Independent) Tubby white-guy blues Sounds like he's singing with a Mouthful of pizza

Destruction Day of Reckoning (Nuclear Blast) Insane German thrash Where a spoonful weighs a ton Dies ist Zerkleinern

Young may be the godfather of grunge, but he had a tough time reigning himself in enough to make Sleeps With Angels: it has double the raggedness and none of the pop sensibility that grunge had. The punk anthem "Piece of Crap," the black sheep of the record, is amateurish and simplistic, somewhat juvenile for someone who was, even in '94, an elder statesman of rock 'n' roll. Plus, this record was better when it was called Tonight's the Night.

5) Living With War (2006) Young once said about this album, "I was hoping some young person would come along and say this and sing some songs about it, but I didn't see anybody, so I'm doing it myself," but in the years between the time he wrote some of his greatest anti-government songs and the time he wrote Living With War, Young lost some of his knack for the understated poetry of a song like "Ohio," and replaced it with the on-the-nose sentiment of "Let's Impeach the President." The inspiration is noble, but the execution suffers. V

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WILD BILL’S�Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WILD WEST SALOON Kory Wlos Apr 21-23

Classical CONVOCATION HALL Celebration Concert Featuring Lafeyette String Quartet with Tanya Prochazka; 8pm; $30 (door)

(doors); $10 tickets available from bands $12 at the door; all ages welcome BLUES ON WHYTE Jason Elmore & Hoodoo Witch Apr 21-23 BOHEMIA Ramshackle Day Parade; featuring a plethora of Edmonton's own Noise musicians; 7pm (doors); $5 (door); no minors BRIXX BAR Holy Grail with guests Samandriel & Guardians of Power; $20 CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; Matt Morris and Mandy 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON The Classics Apr 22-23 CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Top Tones Apr 22-23 CATALYST THEATRE Boygroove; 7:30pm Apr 21-30

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COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm

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AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat

Zwicker; Special guest Rob Taylor; 5:30pm; no cover

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Connected Fri: 91.7 The Bounce, Nestor Delano, Luke Morrison every Fri

BRIXX BAR NLD with Centerfold and Ides of Ruin

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Sold Out Sat: with DJ Russell James, Mike Tomas; 8pm (door); no line, no cover for ladies before 11pm

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BAR�B�BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE DJs spin on the main floor every Fri; Underdog, Wooftop BLACKSHEEP PUB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP every Fri THE COMMON Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO�Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri GAS PUMP DJ Christian; every Fri; 9:30pm-2am

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WUNDERBAR Sean Brewer with The Switchmen; 9pm; $5 (door)

ARTERY Afterbang Entertainment Presents: Scenic Route to Alaska with guests; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $10 (door); no minors

Classical

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available by donation at the door foodbank donations encouraged)

FESTIVAL PLACE Matt Dusk ( jazz)

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AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri

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Comyn and Doug Hoyer; 8pm (doors); $10; no minors BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Give 'em Hell Boys (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Harold Wollin, Chloe Albert, Farley Scott Will Cramer; 8pm; donations

CASINO EDMONTON The Classics Apr 22-23 CASINO YELLOWHEAD The Top Tones Apr 22-23 CATALYST THEATRE Boygroove; 2pm, 7:30pm Apr 21-30 COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; Laid Back Saturday African Dance Party with Dj Collio, every Sat, 12-2am DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Rob Taylor; 9pm; no cover Apr 22-25 DOUBLE D'S Mister Lucky Apr 22-23 DV8 Unlearn, Geister, Falsehood, Rapid Loss, Kanker; 8pm EARLY STAGE SALOON�Stony Plain Ryan Cook EDDIE SHORTS Saucy Wenches every Sat FILTHY MCNASTY'S Dana Wylie and Nadine Kellman; no cover GAS PUMP Blues jam/open stage every Sat 3:30-7pm HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Shelbi with What The Water Sees and Machete HILLTOP PUB Open stage every Sat hosted by Blue Goat, with All The King's Men 3:30-6:30pm HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Carmen Lucia; $10 JULIAN'S�Chateau Louis Zawaski; 7pm; no cover JUNCTION BAR Kate Reid; 8pm; $15 MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE Two Lights; 7pm; donations accepted MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Easter Interlude: An In-Between Time: Street with music by P. J. Perry (saxophone), Chris Andrews (piano) and reflections by Timothy J. Anderson; 3pm; Free O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Long Weekend Triple bill with Ratt Poison Apr 22-24 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am RENDEZVOUS Unity Through Tragedy (metal) and guests; $8 (door) RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES James Harman Apr 22-23 SHERLOCK HOLMES � WEM Jimmy Whiffen with Jeremy Borshna Apr 19-23

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE DJs on three levels every Sat: Main Floor: Menace Sessions: alt rock/ electro/trash with Miss Mannered; Underdog: DJ Brand-dee; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO�Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FLUID LOUNGE Intimate Saturdays: with DJ Aiden Jamali; 8pm (door)

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri NEW CITY LEGION Polished Chrome: every Sat with DJs Blue Jay, The Gothfather, Dervish, Anonymouse; no minors; free (5-8pm)/$5 (ladies)/$8 (gents after 8pm) OVERTIME�Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: RNB, hip hop, reggae, Old School PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat PAWN SHOP Neon Nights : Riot On Whyte RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco every Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm SUEDE LOUNGE DJ Nic-E spins every Sat SUITE 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A

NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Seven Strings Sun: Long Weekend Triple bill with Ratt Poison Apr 22-24 ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sunday Funday: with Phil, 2-7pm; Sunday Night: Soul Sundays: '60s and '70s funk, soul, R&B with DJ Zyppy FLOW LOUNGE Stylus Sun SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by Ryan Maier

MON APR 25

VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Signature Saturdays

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

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN APR 24

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun: this week with Mike Lent-Bass 6pm; $25 if not dining CATALYST THEATRE Boygroove; 2pm, 7:30pm Apr 21-30

DJs

CROWN PUB Band War 2011/ Battle of the bands, 6-10pm; Open Stage with host Better Us Than Strangers, 10pm-1am

180 DEGREES Street VIBS: Reggae night every Sat

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne

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HYDEAWAY Open stage jam every Sun

SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sportsworld.ca

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sun Brunch: Jazz Passages Trio: Farley Scott and guests; 10:30-2pm; donations

WINSPEAR World at Winspear Presents: Johnny Clegg

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Liyo Productions presents An Ethiopian Celebration Tsehay Debebe with Tomas Ewnetu and Gezahenz Mamo & DJ Addis Dankira

TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cobra Commander, Battery, Jake Roberts, Ten-O, Cool Beans, Hotspur Pop and P-Rex; every Sat

WILD WEST SALOON Kory Wlos Apr 21-23

BOHEMIA Art+Muzak! Chantel Hilton and her Silky Lungs, Sounds by Mira Nova, The Samara Von Rad Band, plus comedy by: Briony Pocket Stand up Act; 8pm (doors), 9pm (music); Free for members (memberships

EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Country/ country rock Jam and Dance hosted by Mahkoos Merrier, 2nd Sun every month, 1-5pm, admission by donation; YEG live Sun Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm

MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Easter Celebration: with music featuring the Doug Berner Brass Quartet and the Dresden Philharmonic Youth Choir ( joining the McDougall Choir); 10:30am

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

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE�Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

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EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ YEG live Sun Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm

GAS PUMP DJ Christian every Sat

STARLITE ROOM Jason Zerbin with A La Mer, the Most Blessed and Wolfsons

YARDBIRD SUITE Ryan Oliver Quintet, Eldar Djangirov

BALLROOM The Next Big Thing: (vocal/band), Dance showcase; Mixmaster (DJ); hottest talent search every Sun; until May 29

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

BEER HUNTER�St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm

BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Jason Elmore & Hoodoo Witch Apr 21-23

EDDIE SHORTS Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm

FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian

SPORTSMANS LOUNGE Johnny Quazar & the Swingbots; 10pm Apr 22-23

WUNDERBAR Krang with Shooting Guns; 9pm; $5 (door)

DV8 Blacked Out, Armifera and Genetic Decay; 8pm

BLUES ON WHYTE John Primer Apr 25-30 CATALYST THEATRE Boygroove; 7:30pm Apr 21-30 DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/ songwriter open stage every Mon; Special guest Rob Taylor; 8pm DV8 Brash Tax, Loaded Dice and Cricket; 8pm KELLY'S PUB Open stage every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH Connections with Dresden Youth Choir from Germany; 7:30pm; $15 Adults and $13 Students & Seniors (60+) - available in advance at TIX on the Square, plus applicable service fees, and at the door PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

SECOND CUP�Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover

STARLITE ROOM Nero End of Exams Party

SIDELINERS PUB All Star Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm

WUNDERBAR Atacama Republic with Kay There House Builder; 9pm; $5 (door)

SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE Open stage every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm

Classical

WUNDERBAR HOFBRAUHAUS Stuesdays: Every Tue Wunderbar's only regular DJ night; Jason Webley with Sherry-Lee Wisor Trio; 9pm; $10 (door)

WINSPEAR Chris Cornell and guests; 6:30pm; sold out

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: every Mon with DJ Blue CROWN PUB Minefield Mondays/ House/Breaks/Trance and more with host DJ Pheonix, 9pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G. LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: Bryan Qu Quartet

Classical WINSPEAR Chris Cornell Soul Acoustic Songbook Tour with guests; 6:30pm (doors), 7:30pm (show); Sold out

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and notso-retro every Tue; with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: eclectic electronic sounds every Tue; with DJ Mike Duke

NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE APR 26 BLUES ON WHYTE John Primer Apr 25-30 CATALYST THEATRE Boygroove; 7:30pm Apr 21-30 DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters - this week's special guests F.D. Jones Soap Co.; 9pm

BRIXX BAR Troubadour Tue: hosted by Mark Feduk; Special guests Rob Taylor, Manuela and Andrew Scott in the Brixx Bar & Grill; 9pm; $8 BUDDYS DJ Arrow Chaser every Tue; free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover CHROME LOUNGE Bashment Tue: Bomb Squad, The King QB, Rocky; no cover

L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

CROWN PUB Underground At The Crown: hip hop; open mic every Tue, 9pm-2am

WUNDERBAR HOFBRAUHAUS Stuesdays: Wunderbar's only regular DJ night every Tue; Jason Webley, with Sherry-Lee Wisor Trio and audio/rocketry

WED APR 27 AVENUE THEATRE The Bird Sang Song with Aegis Fang, Basic Space; 7:30pm (doors), $10; no minors BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; The F.D. Jones Soap Co.; 10pm; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE John Primer Apr 25-30 BRIXX BAR Really Good… Eats and Beats: DJ Degree, friends every Wed; 6pm; $5 CATALYST THEATRE Boygroove; 7:30pm Apr 21-30 CENTURY GRILL Century Room Wed Live: featuring The Marco Claveria Project; 8-11pm CROWN PUB Dan Jam/open stage every Wed; 8pm-2am EDDIE SHORTS Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover ELEPHANT AND CASTLE�Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ Open stage with Randall Walsh; every Wed; 7-11pm; admission by donation FIDDLER'S ROOST Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE Breezy Brian Gregg every Wed; 12-1pm HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free; Early Show with Jason Webley; 7pm

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm

FUNKY BUDDHA�Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Tue; dance lessons 8-10pm

NISKU INN Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm PLAYBACK PUB Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am

SECOND CUP�124 Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm

NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover

SECOND CUP�Stanley Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm

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

PADMANADI Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Big Rock Open Jam Moses Gregg, Grant Stovel with special guest

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Slow pitch for beginners on the 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam every Wed, 6.30pm; $2

(member)/$4 (non-member) RED PIANO BAR Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 RIVER CREE Live rock band every Wed hosted by Yukon Jack; 7:30-9pm RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES Gordie Mathews Band SECOND CUP�Mountain Equipment Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm WUNDERBAR HOFBRAUHAUS Open mic every Wed, 9pm; The ManvilsRock with The Frolics and Noisy Colours; 9pm; $5 (door)

Classical SHOCTOR THEATRE The Tallest Man on Earth with guests; 8pm; $18.50 (adv)

DJs BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Rev'd Up Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio Wed: alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll with LL Cool Joe; Wooftop: Soul/breaks with Dr Erick BRIXX BAR Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover THE COMMON Treehouse Wednesday's DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed STARLITE ROOM Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

VENUE GUIDE 180 DEGREES 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 28 DEGREES 5552 Calgary Tr ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BILLIARD CLUB 10505 Whyte Ave, 780.432.0335 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 1042582 Ave, 780.439.1082 BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE� Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 BLACKSHEEP PUB 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10575-114 St 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 CATALYST THEATRE 8529 Gateway Boulevard, 780.431.1750 CENTURY GRILL 3975 Calgary Tr NW, 780.431.0303 CHATEAU LOUIS 11727 Kingsway, 780 452 7770 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 COMMON LOUNGE 10124-124 St CONVOCATION HALL Arts Bldg, U of A, 780.492.3611

CROWN AND ANCHOR 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696 CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704. CLUB DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DOUBLE D'S 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.486.1133 THE DOCKS 13710 66 St, 780.476.3625 DOW'S SHELL THEATRE�Fort Saskatchewan 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.6400 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON 4911-52 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 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE�Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 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 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE 9942-108 St

HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423. HALO HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin 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 JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 KELLY'S PUB 11540 Jasper Ave 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 LIZARD LOUNGE 13160-118 Ave MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025-101 St MUTTART HALL Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr NAKED CYBER CAFÉ 10354 Jasper Ave, 780.425.9730 NEST NAIT Main Campus, 11762-106 St NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY LEGION 8130 Gateway

Boulevard (Red Door) NISKU INN 1101-4 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535109A 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�Downtown 10304111 St, 780.465.6800 OVERTIME Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave REDNEX BAR�Morinville 10413100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235-101 St R PUB 16753-100 St ,

780.457.1266

RUSTY REED'S HOUSE OF BLUES 12402-118 Ave, 780.451.1390 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 SECOND CUP�Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 ʸ

Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 SHOCTOR THEATRE 9828-101 A Ave, 780.426.4811 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 SNEAKY PETE'S 12315-118 Ave SPORTSWORLD 13710-104 St SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE�Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway

Blvd, 780.439.6969

TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca UNCLE GLENNS 7666-156 St, 780.481.3192 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com WHISTLESTOP LOUNGE 12416132 Ave, 780. 451.5506 WILD BILL’S�Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WILD WEST SALOON 12912-50 St, 780.476.3388 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOK BOX 10119 Jasper Ave 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

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Can feminists be pornographers? Feminist Porn. The term might seem like an oxymocerns. Alison Lee, director of the Feminist Porn Awards ron, given that pornography was one of the main tarsays that the hallmark of feminist porn is something gets of attack by many feminists during the '80s and much more complicated than simply being made by early '90s. Women like Andrea Dworkin and Cathaa woman. rine MacKinnon argued that pornography is exploi"I think that porn production is still heavily domitive and degrading to the women involved in nated by men," she says. "Women making porn making it, and that its depiction of women is still a feminist act in that it goes against the is harmful to society as a whole. But over kind of work that women are expected to the past 20 years, the face of the adult do, and it pushes them into a field of proindustry has slowly changed and the duction where they need to work against .com ly k e e @vuew number of women involved in the indussexist attitudes merely by showing up and brenda try has grown. In fact, this past weekend being behind the camera. But it isn't just Brendear the sixth-annual Feminist Porn awards were about who makes it—it's about how perKerb presented by the women of Toronto sex shop formers are treated and represented and how Good For Her. They, and the many women who their own desires are taken into account; it's about participate in and attend the awards, think that makcreating safe, positive spaces both for performers and ing porn can be a feminist act. audiences to explore their sexuality, and it's about repWhen you measure the objections of the anti-porn resenting the diversity of all people's sexuality." lobby against the criteria for selecting nominees for The argument that pornography portrays women acthe Feminist Porn Awards, something starts to click: cording to narrowly defined gender stereotypes and 1) The work depicts genuine pleasure, agency and that their choice and control is negated is directly addesire. These movies may also include a focus on condressed here. These are movies in which all performnection, communication and collaboration between ers, not just women, are treated with care and respect the performers and/or between the performers and and where the diversity of their sexual desires are defilmmakers. picted and celebrated. 2) The work expands the boundaries of sexual repThis is a type of filmmaking, perhaps even the newresentation on film, challenges stereotypes and presest wave of porn, where choice is not only allowed but ents a vision that sets the content apart from most celebrated and clearly depicted and where sex is not a mainstream pornography. This may include depicting tool or a weapon but a personal, unique and individual a diversity of desires, types of people, bodies, sexual expression. Isn't that what feminism is all about? practices, and/or an anti-racist or anti-oppression Visit Good For Her's website at goodforher.com for framework throughout the production. a list of this weekend's winners and a description of their films. V Those who object to porn often claim that it's not the sex that concerns them but the sexist depiction Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has of women and the exploitive nature of porn. If that's worked with local not-for-profits since 1995. She is the the case, it would seem that filmmakers who would owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy qualify for these awards have addressed those conboutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) Now comes one of the supreme tests that most every Aries must periodically face: Will you live up to your promises? Will you follow through on your rousing start? Here's a secret to succeeding at this test: You can't just try to force yourself to "be good." Nor does it work to use shame or guilt to motivate yourself. Somehow you've got to marshal pure, raw excitement for the gritty detail work to come. You've got to fall in love with the task of actually fleshing out your dreams. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) In his book on intuition, psychologist David G Myers defines it as "the capacity for direct knowledge and immediate insight, without any observation or reason." Myers encourages to cultivate this undersung way of grasping our raw experience, but also warns us of the perils of intuition if it's untempered by logic and analysis. It can lead us down rabbit holes where we lose track of the difference between our fantasies and the real world. It can cause us to mistake our fears for accurate ESP or get lost in a maze of self-fulfilling prophecies. I bring all of this to your attention, Taurus, because the coming weeks will be an excellent time for you to hone and purify your intuition. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) One of the most impressive elements of the Egyptian uprising in January and February came after it was all over. Eighteen days of street protests created a huge

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mess in Cairo's Tahrir Square and the surrounding area. When Hosni Mubarak finally resigned and reforms began percolating, thousands of demonstrators returned with brooms and rubber gloves and garbage bags to set the place back in order. I urge you to follow a similar sequence in the coming weeks, Gemini. Agitate for change; rebel against the stale status quo; fight corruption and ignorance; and once your work has led to at least a partial success, clean up after yourself. CANCER ( Jun 21 – Jul 22) "Sometimes nature seems more beautiful than strictly necessary," said physicist Steven Weinberg as he admired a hackberry tree stoked with blue jays, yellowthroated vireos and a red cardinal. You may find yourself thinking similar thoughts in the coming week, Cancerian. From what I can tell, life is primed to flood you with simple glories and exotic revelations, with signs of eternal splendor and hints of sublime meaning, with natural wonders and civilization's more interesting gifts. LEO ( Jul 23 – Aug 22) I became an ordained minister in the Universal Life Church when I was 19 years old. Since then I have officiated at numerous baptisms, initiations, weddings, divorces, ghost-banishings and the taking of primal vows. In all my years of facilitating these ceremonies, I've rarely seen a better time than right now for you Leos to seek a cathartic rite of passage. You may even be

ROB BREZSNY // FREEWILL@vueweekly.com tempted to try several. I recommend you do no more than two, however. Are you ready to break a taboo or smash an addiction? Renounce a delusion or pledge your devotion or leap to the next level? VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) It would be an excellent time for you to acquire the Zombie Apocalypse Preparedness Kit, a package of goodies prepared by domestic expert Martha Stewart. I say this not because a Zombie Apocalypse is looming, or any other kind of apocalypse for that matter. Rather, the kit's presence in your life might encourage you to make fun of your fears. And that would be a perfect way to cooperate with the current cosmic tendencies, which are conspiring to diminish the inhibitions that your anxieties hold in place. Remember one of the key rules in the game of life: humor dissipates worry. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) Eighty years ago, an explorer who visited the Maori of New Zealand found they had such good eyesight that many were able to detect Jupiter's four largest moons with their naked eyes. That's the kind of vision you could have in the coming days, Libra. The astrological omens say you have the potential to see further and deeper into any part of reality you choose to focus on. Inner truths that have been hidden from you are ready to be plucked by your penetrating probes. For best results, cleanse your thoughts of expectations. Perceive what's actually there, not what you

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humiliation. You will find it easier than ever before to forgive and forget any close companion who hurt you. So get out there, Capricorn, and launch the joyful process of restoring your love muscles to their original potency. AQUARIUS ( Jan 20 – Feb 18) "Search For Self Called Off After 38 Years," read the headline in The Onion. Quoting 38-year-old Andrew Speth. "Well, I looked deep into the innermost recesses of my soul, and you know what I found? An empty, windowless room the size of an aircraft hangar. From now on, if anybody needs me, I'll be sprawled out on my couch drinking black-cherry soda and watching Law & Order." I wonder if Speth is an Aquarius? Many of my Aquarian acquaintances seem to have hit a dead end recently in their quest to fulfil the ancient maxim "Know thyself." If you're like that, please hang on. The floodgates of selfdiscovery will open soon. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) Odds are high that you know very little about Africa. Can you name even 20 of its more than 50 countries? Are you aware that its land mass is bigger than Europe, China, and the US combined? I bring this up, Pisces, because it's an excellent time for you to fill the gaps in your education about Africa—or any other subject about which you are deeply uninformed. Don't get overwhelmed by this assignment, though. Choose maybe three areas of ignorance that you will concentrate on in the coming weeks.

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Rock The Square Festival 2011. Winston Churchill Square. Edmonton and area bands, singers. To participate as a band, volunteer, non-profit exposition or sponsor visit http://rockthesquare.com EAC: Kingsway LRT Station Public Art Project Deadline: Mon, May 2, 4:30pm; http://publicart. edmontonarts.ca/calls/ National Stiltwalkers of Canada are celebrating 10 years. Ever stiltwalked? Want to learn? NSC offers workshops. For more info www.stiltcanada.ca

Any artist, musician, or performance artist interested in being featured at the Local Art Showcase @ Old Strathcona Antique Mall, E: Jenn@oldstrathconamall.com

MUSICIANS

Entry level singer looking for band with good sound and equipment, willing to practice rock through to metal T: 780.434.0124 Seeking mature keyboard player, rhythm guitar player, or steel guitar player, for a corporate function cover band, with a focus on country music. (Back-up vocals a definite asset.) View Upstreet Band at bandmix.ca/ georgem, or call George at 780.499.185421 issue1 Modern rock band FTGU seeks talented bass player and drummer. Jam space preferable. Contact SID: ftgusinger@hotmail.com Feb 10 2011 Electric ukulele player seeking rockabilly/alternative, country or indie-pop band. Contact Luke at 780.919.1395 Feb 10 2011 Might go on past 8 weeks Vocalist wanted – Progressive/Industrial/metal; age 17-21. Contact justinroyjr@gmail.com

COSMOPOLITAN MUSIC SOCIETY Opportunity for amateur adult musicians and singers to learn and perform concert band and choral music under professional music direction. Contact Darlene at 780.432.9333; generalmanager@ cosmopolitanmusic.org

VOLUNTEER Volunteer website for youth 14-24 years old. youthvolunteer.ca Flower Fest 2011 Jul 15-17 telusplanet.net/public/ bzgregg/flowerfest.html; Flower Fest volunteer performers T: 780.429.3624 for time spot in the program Glamorous Grads program: Drop-off new/gently worn cocktail dresses, gowns, shoes, handbags (all sizes) to Londonderry Mall's customer service. until Apr 30 Do you remember someone who believed in you when you were a child? Be that person in a child's life today. All it takes is one hour a week, which may not be much to you but will make all the difference in the life of a child. Be a Big Brother or Big Sister! Be a Mentor! Call Big Brother Big Sister today. 780.424.8181 The Support Network: Volunteer today to be a Distress Line Listener. Apply on line thesupportnetwork.com or call 780.732.6648 The Heart and Stroke Foundation: looking for Volunteers With Heart; W: heartandstroke.ab.ca S.C.A.R.S.: Second Chance Animal Rescue Society. Our dogs are TV stars! Watch Global TV every Sat at 9:45 AM where new, wonderful dogs will be profiled. scarscare.org

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