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The value of the arts It's hard to take a news piece seriously when it starts with the slang term "Deadmonton." But that is only the beginning of the offensive statements made in a recent Sun TV piece on Edmonton's investment in an artist's residence, comparing Edmonton's murder rate to funding for "free" artist housing, something the hosts of "Straight Talk" find appalling. While "Straight Talk" is an editorial program and so is granted some—coincidentally—artistic license, there is generally an attempt to refer to fact in opinion-generated media. Facts such as this one: arts and culture contributed $85 billion (or 7.4 percent) of Canada's GDP in 2007. That's a fact. Another interesting fact is that the housing isn't actually free. Artists can't just drop their banjos, leave their street corners, walk up into a loft and claim it as their own. Arts Habitat is subsidized housing. Artists have to prove their income is below $29 797 a year and qualify as a professional artist—someone with specialized training and who can articulate their long and short-term goals as an artist, among other defined qualifications. Then the artist pays $2000 in membership fees, similar to a co-op system of living, after which they will pay monthly rent at a
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rate of $775. That's a fact. What's more interesting than the failure of "Straight Talk" to report facts is that in its fervour to say that the city is doing nothing about the increase in murder rate, the program failed completely to point out the things that Edmontonians are doing. The last five years have seen creative and grassroots solutions come out of the 118 Avenue neighbourhood, resulting in residents shedding feelings of insecurity and standing up against violence and decay. The Alberta Avenue initiative has encouraged the development and investment in local businesses such as the Carrot and the grassroots community group CRUD, Community Response to Urban Disorder. In fact, the grassroots organization of Edmontonians along Alberta Avenue is being used as a model for redevelopment in neighbourhoods across the city—including encouraging the development of accessible artist spaces and hubs. Of course, Edmonton has a long way to go in becoming inclusive, safe and the creative haven many of us hope that it will one day be, but it is a start on a long journey to creating the city we all deserve. And to get there, we'll need a little investment in the creative Edmontonians who make our city worth living in. We call them artists. V
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The City of Edmonton planning department has issued a demolition permit for the old Bank of Montreal building downtown. A citizenled campaign has formed to advocate its historical importance and prevent the building's destruction. What should Edmonton do to prevent the destruction of historical buildings?
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Don't forget where we came from. Save the old, no matter the cost.
COMMENTS FROM POLL "Save the old buildings, or rebuild them from the same design. They are beautiful! We have too much ugly '70s Communist
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Edmonton needs to be beautified"
"Very little of Edmonton's old stuff is worth saving, and if it costs tax money to save it, forget it!"
THIS WEEK'S POLL A Canadian boat headed to Gaza has been detained in Greece. The boat was carrying 30 Canadian volunteers as well as medical supplies to assist Palestinians being held under seige in Gaza. The Canadian government has so far remained silent on their support of the initiative and their assistance to the volunteers.
Should the Canadian government help in assisting Palestinians in Gaza?
"A historical building and the atmosphere it can lend to any city's streets is priceless.
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Call in the wrecking ball and build towards the future.
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Knock 'em down and rebuild from the same design.
Alongside that, Canada is a young country, sometimes seen to be lacking in history because urban centers sprang up not all that long ago compared to many other cities abroad. Because of this supposed lack of history, we especially need to preserve our historical buildings
1. The dispute in Gaza has nothing to do with Canada. We should stay out of it.
and the stories associated with and about them. They embody our heritage, and provide a concrete reference for people to learn about and appreciate Edmonton's history.
2. We have an international responsibility to protect and assist people under threat.
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COMMENT >> GREECE
Indispensible men
The future of two countries lies in the hands of ailing men "The graveyards are full of indisis revered by most Thais. pensable men," growled Charles King Bhumibol has spent most of de Gaulle, but French history the past two years in hospital, and would have been very different few Thais expect him to live much if he had died in 1940 (no longer (although this is never Free French government, discussed in public). When probably a Communist he goes, the crown will m probably pass to someo .c take-over attempt when ly k wee e@vue gwynn France was liberated in body who takes sides in e y Gw nn 1944) or even in 1960 (no the ongoing battle between Dyer "red-shirts" and "yellow-shirts" quick exit from Algeria, no Fifth Republic). There are a few that has divided Thailand, and has alpeople whose absence would really ready caused many deaths, over the make a difference. past few years. Two such people seem to be hovThere is an election due in Thaiering on the brink of death at the land on July 3. Opinion polls suggest moment, though we have no trustthat, as before, a majority of Thais worthy medical information about will vote for the party of former either one. In each case, their death prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra, could open the way to civil war. who was ousted by a military coup One is Thailand's King Bhumibol; in 2006. Some 90 red-shirts, the the other is Venezuela's President mostly poor and rural supporters Hugo Chavez. of Thaksin, were massacred by the Bhumibol, now 83 years old, has army in a confrontation in central been the king of Thailand since he Bangkok last year, and the army may was 21, and although he is a constitry yet again to reject a pro-Thaksin tutional monarch his influence is allelection outcome. pervasive. It has, on the whole, been Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn exercised in ways that promoted was once close to Thaksin and probThai independence, calmed domesably still secretly supports him, but tic political quarrels, and supported he is a playboy who is neither loved the emergence of democracy. He has nor respected by the public. His been the still centre at the heart of mother, Queen Sikirit, sympathizes the storm for many decades, and he with the yellow-shirts, and is ru-
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moured to be angling for the army's support to make her regent when her (estranged) husband Bhumibol dies, rather than letting the crown prince have the throne. If the two royals were to align themselves publicly with the opposing sides in a struggle for the throne after Bhumibol dies, they would substantially raise the probability that Thailand could stumble into a fullscale civil war. Whereas if Bhumibol can hang on for another year the dispute may be settled at the ballot boxes, with the army grudgingly accepting a restora-
from the army, he once led an attempted coup, and he is a full-time demagogue. The only difference is that he is a strongman of the left. And he may be dying. The official story is that Chavez was in Cuba on June 9, in a private meeting with Fidel Castro, when he suddenly fell ill. Cuban doctors were called in, and immediately operated on him for a "pelvic abscess." But he is still in hospital in Havana two weeks later, virtually incommunicado. Chavez is an inveterate user of Twitter, but he has only tweeted once in
The army, whose senior ranks have been stuffed with Chavez loyalists, might well back a "revolutionary" seizure of power. tion of the normal democratic order. He may not be utterly indispensable, but he is pretty important for Thailand right now. And then there is Hugo Chavez. He is not exactly the "dictator" of Venezuela, as US propaganda often calls him (he has been elected a number of times in free elections), but certainly he is a "strongman" in the classic Latin American style. He comes
all that time, to announce that his mother, his favourite daughter and his ex-wife had flown to Cuba to see him. He also reportedly telephoned a meeting of his ruling party's senior leaders on Monday, but that may not be true. Venezuelans are speculating that his illness may be fatal, and the people close to Chavez are struggling to re-assure his supporters. If Chavez does recover, he might lose the 2012 presidential election
NewsRoundup Europe supports Robin Hood The European Commission has recommended the implementation of an EU-wide Robin Hood tax. The tax, officially called the financial transaction tax, would be placed on financial institutions, and was originally proposed by over 50 NGOs in 2010. It's currently championed by high-profile anti-poverty advocates in an attempt to get banks contributing more to the social and environmental sector. The European Commission proposes the tax be put in place by 2018, with proposed legislation that will set a minimum taxation rate to be presented in the fall. The Robin Hood campaign estimates put revenues from the transaction tax in the billions. But advo-
anyway. He will have been in power for 14 years by then, and the mere passage of time has seriously eroded his power base. He has improved the lives of the poor, but a government with an oil income of bazillions of dollars that cannot even produce enough electricity to keep the lights on is bound to lose popularity. Should Chavez die now, however, there might not even be a 2012 election. His elder brother Adán, the governor of the state of Barinas, reminded everybody that although the socialist government won power through the ballot box, "we cannot forget, as authentic revolutionaries, other methods of fighting." And the army, whose senior ranks have been stuffed with Chavez loyalists, might well back a "revolutionary" seizure of power. On the whole, then, it would be better if Chavez survived and came back to Venezuela, only to lose the election honestly next year. Like King Bhumibol, he is the indispensable man for the next little while. After that, if all goes well, he can die whenever he wants. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.
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TOO BUSY TO CARE cates insist the funds be put toward tackling poverty and solving climate change. "It is great news that the Commission has joined the millions of ordinary Europeans who want the financial sector [to] contribute more to society." says Natalia Alonso, Oxfam International's EU head of office, "But this tax will only win popular support if the revenue is used to tackle poverty and climate change— not if it disappears into the general EU budget." The tax is proposed at a fraction of a percent which would apply to financial transactions and would also assist in dampening financial speculation, which contributed to the global recession.
Statistics Canada released survey results revealing Canadians' reasons for not voting in the 2011 federal election. Of the 7.5 million Canadians eligible to vote, more than one quarter did not cast a ballot.
27.7 Not interested 22.9 Too busy
10.1 Out of town
8.5 Illness
7.6 Did not like candidates
3.8 Forgot 1.3
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Delayed agreement The Harper government has finally come to an agreement with the provinces on $1.4 billion in affordable housing money after over a year of talks. It ensures the federal government will maintain funding while provinces have agreed to spend it on increasing the supply of affordable housing, and providing rent or shelter support. The funding provided for proj-
ects will have to be matched by the province or private support. The transfer maintains a level of funding, but adds no new money to the affordable housing fund which was announced in 2008. Each province will have to sign a seperate bilateral agreement with the federal government and specifics of the funding agreement still need to be worked out.
"Monitoring is just one component of natural resource management; you actually have to use the data to inform planning, regulatory decision-making and enforcement. You need the full package to get the job done — otherwise it's like having smoke detectors but no firetrucks or firefighters." —Jennifer Grant Pembina Institute program director in response to Alberta's environmental monitoring panel report July 5, 2011
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A matter of rights
Bloom off the Rose?
Winning rights is only the beginning
Recent Wildrose Party convention reveals extremist attitudes
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early 40 years coming, the repeal of Section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act on June 18 means Aboriginal Canadians living on reserves can file human rights complaints against their local reserve governments.
Wildrose leader Danielle Smith attempts to hold on to supporters
it was assumed to have been just one There's nothing like a policy convention more front in his ongoing battle against to show you where the heart and soul Human Rights Commissions and legislaof a party really lies. In the case of the tion in Alberta and Canada. Levant and former Wildrose Alliance Party (now rethe Wildrose see the commission, and named the Wildrose Party), the party's its duty to investigate and hold tribunals convention at the end of June was no difin cases of discrimination in Alberferent. The policies it passed, and the ta, as a nuisance and a violanature of the debate, showed it tion of free speech. It doesn't to be little more than an exE seem to have phased them C N tremist fringe party—a comE R TERFEeweekly.com that the Alberta commission bination of a party born in IN @vu ricardo o hears on average 10 cases a protest to Premier Stelmach, Ricard year, and that most of them and a home for Albertans on Acuña are employment-related cases of the extreme right of the political discrimination brought by workers who spectrum, both socially and fiscally. Will would not be able to afford lawyers and this convention prove to have been the expensive court cases. Or maybe they beginning of the end for Wildrose? get that, and that's their larger objective: One of the policies voted down by the to make it prohibitive for people to file 500 or so members that attended the discrimination complaints. Either way, convention was that a Wildrose governit's difficult to see this as anything other ment would work together with the fedthan an extremist fringe position. eral government to make it easier for immigrants with foreign credentials to enter the workforce in Canada. You would think At the same time as Wildrose memthat in a province that is becoming inbers were making it more difficult for creasingly dependent on new immigrants immigrants with foreign credentials and to work as professionals and tradespeopeople facing discrimination, they overple, it would be a slam dunk to support whelmingly passed a policy initiative depolicy expediting their ability to enter the signed to further protect the rights of one workforce. Whatever their reason was for group of people: gun owners. Apparently voting this down, many Albertans on the the rights of firearms owners have been outside will wonder if it was a decision under attack for some time, unlike immifueled by xenophobia and a reactionary grants and gays and lesbians and foreign anti-immigrant membership. professionals, and the Wildrose Party will Likewise with the decision to support take it upon itself to reverse that trend. the elimination of the Alberta Human The party also passed a number of healthRights Commission, a decision that even care resolutions calling for the creation, and the party's leader Danielle Smith heartily public funding of, private hospitals and for supported. Many party insiders referred their insertion into the existing system—a to this as the Ezra Levant resolution, as policy which goes clearly against most of
the research on the subject and the expressed wishes of most Albertans. In the end, whatever the reasons and rationales for most of these policies, they are not the policies of a moderate mainstream party seeking to grow its base of support in advance of the next provincial election. A recent article in the Calgary Herald cites extensive evidence from party insiders that Wildrose members, staff and former executives, are leaving the party in significant numbers to head back to the Conservatives. It is also important to keep in mind that this was a party largely backed and promoted by Alberta's oil industry, as a warning and protest against Premier Stelmach's attempts to fiddle with royalties. Those royalty changes have now all been reversed, and the person responsible for them is resigning. What is the likelihood that those oil companies, who already have enough public relations problems of their own, will continue to place their lot with a party that is proving to be well outside what most Albertans consider to be the mainstream of political thought and discussion? In the end, much will depend on who the Conservatives elect as their new leader in the fall, and on what Wildrose does with these policies in the next few months, but from this vantage point the future looks anything but bright for Danielle Smith and her party. V
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"It helps an individual where they had no redress previously," says John Edmond, an Ontario lawyer specializing in Aboriginal issues. Previously, Aboriginals living on reserves couldn't file complaints with provincial human rights commissions because they didn't have jurisdiction. And they couldn't go to the federal human rights commission because it was prohibited by the Act, explains Edmond: "It's a big change for the individual." Now individuals can file complaints based on discrimination in hiring practises, according to religion, age, sexual orientation and other grounds found within the Act. "It doesn't cost the individual to bring a complaint forward," says Edmond. "The commission evaluates it and if they determine it a valid complaint it moves forward and eventually could reach the tribunal." The section originally exempted complaints from being filed with the Human Rights commission because the Indian Act was under review in 1977, and so certain sections of the Act could have been found discriminatory before the review even occurred. "This final step in the repeal of Section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act ensures that First Nation people have the same human rights protections as all Canadians," said Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Minister John Duncan in a statement released on the day the section was repealed. But Assembly of First Nations Chief Shawn Atleo was not as optimistic. "Currently, First Nations lack the capacity and resources to effectively implement the changes that come as a result of the repeal of Section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act," Atleo stated, just previous to the change taking affect.
Though the repeal received royal assent in 2008, implementation was delayed three years to help reserve governments and band councils prepare for its implementation, but Atleo believes there are still pieces missing, saying, "Clear commitments must be made in order for First Nations to be in a position to ensure respect for human rights." Potential problem areas could include election procedures for band councils, leadership selection and band membership. According to the Congress of Aboriginal People, more than half of band councils use an election process different than that found under the Indian Act. If that election process is found to discriminate against participants according to any of the grounds found in the Canadian Human Rights Act, Aboriginal members now have grounds for appeal. Other potential problems could arise
with publicly owned housing and buildings, which now have to comply with the Act, including meeting the needs of those with physical disabilities. But complexities arise when considering ultimate responsibility for equality of conditions. Meeting the needs of those with physical disabilities is now a responsibility of the band council, but with public funding coming from the federal government at an unequal level than that in a provincial context, the band council itself may have a case of discrimination against the federal government. "The band council would say, theoretically for the level of education, the perstudent allocation here is x per student per year, whereas provincially it would be y number of dollars and so they would say that's a discrimination based on race and the federal government would say, 'Well, no, that's not in the [Canadian Human Rights] Commission's jurisdiction,' and then it would go to court," Edmond explains. And the repeal doesn't solve the problem of the Indian Act itself being a discriminatory document. As the Congress of Aboriginal People National Chief Patrick Brazeau pointed out to a House of Commons committee considering the repeal, "The federal government has
Currently, First Nations lack the capacity and resources to effectively implement the changes that come as a result of the repeal of Section 67 of the Canadian Human Rights Act.
spent a great deal of time, effort and money trying to support the establishment of the modern fundamentals of good governance on Indian Act reserves. It has also spent an extraordinary amount of money and effort defending the Indian Act from court challenges. Much of this effort has stemmed from the Indian Act's outdated and inadequate direction on governance-related matters within the Act's band council governance system." But Brazeau was quick to point out the Congress hoped for a speedy repeal of Section 67 in an attempt to change electoral procedures which may discriminate based on religion, marital status or residency. "Sadly, at this point in our history, we know that Canada has failed to address a significant source of real and potential discrimination against Aboriginal peoples in Canada," stated Brazeau. "Thankfully, the repeal of Section 67 from the Canadian Human Rights Act will begin to deal with this pressing issue." Samantha Power samantha@vueweekly.com
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Canadian activists are determined to assist Gaza despite setbacks Tahrir are standing by their right to move freely. There is no legal reason to detain the ships, which only contain humanitarian goods. And the members of the flotilla point to their right to movement according to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. While the Tahrir's journey ended before it could really begin, the French boat is on its way to Gaza through international waters and the activists aboard are hopeful they have still made a statement. "We're calling on the people of Canada to continue organizing," says Penner. "Showing solidarity and building an even stronger movement than ever to break the blockade." Samantha Power samantha@vueweekly.com
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materials and infrastructure, which were not included in a recent easing of the blockade, which primarily focused on consumer goods. Despite these declarations, as the flotilla prepared to set sail this year, Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird released a statement at the end of May, saying, "Unauthorized efforts to deliver aid are provocative and, ultimately, unhelpful to the people of Gaza." The Canadian Arab Federation believes the Canadian government should have explicitly supported the exercise. "So far it has only been civil society that has taken the initiative," says Mouammar. "It's time to make it clear to Israel that this is a humanitarian crisis and that this is illegal." At this point the members of the
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njustice is common place. Daily, people's rights are violated around the world. But rarely do those in privileged situations do anything about it, especially when there is a risk of violence associated with the action. So this past week when 22 Canadians embarked from Greek waters to break the illegal blockade of Gaza, many were disappointed the Canadian government did not support and stand with them. "It's a good sign that we Canadians from all walks of life, Christians, Muslims and Jews are making this sacrifice, time and money to make this trip to help people who are suffering," says Khaled Mouammar, the national president of the Canadian Arab Federation. He believes the Canadian government should have been standing up for the rights of the 22 Canadians headed toward the Gaza blockade, especially because of the risk associated with breaking the blockade—a risk that resulted in the death of nine Turkish nationals last year when the Mavi Marmara was boarded by Israeli soldiers. This year the Tahrir, the Canadian boat in the 10-boat Freedom Flotilla: Stay Human, did not make it past Greek waters. After being impounded in Crete last week by the Greek coast guard, activists aboard attempted to head to the freedom of international waters and make a run for Gaza. But that too was stopped by Greek authorities. Dylan Penner, a Canadian on board the Tahrir, explains they managed to make it 15 minutes out of port
and were approximately four miles from international waters. "We were boarded and the Greek coast guard took control of the vessel, taking it back to port," says Penner. Only the owner, Sandra Rusch has been detained, and so far the activists haven't heard anything from the Canadian government or authorities about their current situation. Penner is concerned the blockade of Gaza has been extended to Greece. "It appears the blockade of Gaza has been outsourced to Greece thanks to the economic blackmail of Greece by Israel and western nations," he says. Unexpected Israeli allies, the Greek government issued a ministerial order to prevent the departure of ships headed to Gaza. The Tahrir is among eight other ships in the flotilla that have been prevented from departing. The Greek government believes it is avoiding a humanitarian disaster by stopping the activists from reaching the hands of Israeli soldiers as happened last year. Relations between Greece and Israel have been growing since last year's attack on the Mavi Marmara left Turkey at diplomatic odds with the nation. Greece is in a vulnerable state—debtridden and plagued by protesters on every corner—and the Greek government has accepted military assistance from Israel including tear gas, according to the Christian Science Monitor. Penner says the activists aboard the Tahrir are outraged at the actions of Greece, but he says it's only made
them more determined: "The ultimate goal is to break the blockade and to get to Gaza and our goal is still to get there." While some have claimed the activists are merely being provocative in their attempts to break the blockade, Penner is adamant there is a humanitarian need to deliver goods to the 1.5 million Palestinians who have been living behind the blockade since 2007, when Israel and Egypt seized border crossings. "As a Jewish Canadian I'm deeply concerned for the criminal policies of Israel and equally misguided support and complicity in those policies by the Canadian government," says Penner. "We feel a responsibility to stand up for human rights." Since the blockade began in 2007, basics have been allowed past the borders, while items such as cement and cattle have been banned. Israel has stated the purpose of the blockade is to weaken Hamas, which originally refused to recognize Israel. The UN human rights chief, Navi Pillay, has called the blockade illegal and stated that it violates the rules of warfare, especially the Geneva Convention, which prohibits the mass punishment of citizens and which the blockade is doing. At the G8 meeting in Muskoka last year leaders released a statement that called the blockade unsustainable and said that it needed to be changed to allow in more aid. The G8 statement specifically referred to reconstruction
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hen the Annual Edmonton International Street Performers Festival began in earnest some 27 years ago, it was, quite obviously, born into a less interconnected world: no Internet, no Facebook, no YouTube. But everyone's got a camera in their pocket these days, as the relentless thrust of technology pushes better recording equipment (literally) into the palms of our hands in more portable, better quality forms, with more digital places to share the spoils. So what's the impact of that on the public art form captured in StreetFest, in a time when that sort of instant spectacle can be found with a few clicks of a keyboard? "Back in the day, a video camera was something you would never see," says Lee Zimmerman, who becomes Led for his performances, or just The Puppet Guy or The Etch-A-Sketch Guy, both of which will be at this year's StreetFest. "It was just 15 people you knew out of 100 could afford a videocamera. And now, [with] YouTube, I just plug in my name every couple of months just to make sure I haven't missed something. And a lot of people are downloading stuff that I did 20 years ago in Venice beach—those are gems. In a way, it's relieving to hear that Zimmerman seems more positive than downtrodden about technology's modern reach (he'll also be sharing his craft, teaching Etch-A-Sketch workshops as part of the festival's "Be Your Own Busker" program). His two characters make up a pair of the 36 acts who will be out in Churchill Square over StreetFest's 10-day run, ranging from old local favourites to new acts from all over the globe: The Etch-A-Sketch Guy is the world's fastest, his bio boasts, at etch-a-sketching portraiture, cartoons and more, while The Puppet Guy's tiny marionettes
Zimmerman and his puppets
present a miniaturized Rock 'n' Roll Revue of some of the biggest names of music's history. "I built the puppet show," Zimmerman says, "because I couldn't play the guitar, I loved Jimi Hendrix, and I wanted to pay for my art supplies." A varied roster is what festival producer Shelly Switzer strives for when selecting artists. She notes things like YouTube have made it easier than ever for artists to give her an impression of their act—while she herself travels, combing other festivals for new talent, a YouTube video is a quick, costeffective way for her to get a feel for any potential festival artist. "For me, YouTube is lending itself to both an artist being able to send
their stuff to me, and then there's weekends and holidays where I go to YouTube and search around, and see what's coming around. I think that, again, I can't speak in a sense for the artist's experience, but you ultimately, as an artist performing on the street, release your art to the gods, so a lot of people have been filming street performing shows for their own viewing pleasure, or taking that kind of stuff home. "I was visiting at another festival where the discussion [was] around the artist's rights to those images, but I think it's also part of, if you will, the price that they pay by performing publicly." PAUL BLINOV // PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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f Canadian playwright John Lazarus knows how to do one thing, it's how to take things to the extreme. For instance, while Shakespeare was happy to have just one "wise fool" character per play, Lazarus decided that one wasn't enough. He created an entire village of wise fools for his comedy Village of Idiots. Closing out the Walterdale Playhouse's 2010-2011 season, Village of Idiots is the story of Yosef—an army deserter running away from the horrors of genocide and war. While running away, Yosef wanders into the
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"Village of Idiots," where he finds out just how wise "idiots" can be. The comedy works amazingly well against such a dark premise, but why do audiences and playwrights find the idea of "wise fools" so intriguing? Director Linette Smith has her ideas. "The fools remind us that we can look at things in a different way," she notes. "I mean, often, we look to the experts and we look for the most complex ways to solve things when, in fact, we need to be reminded of simplicity. We need to be reminded in the world. And we need to be reminded that we need to find it together." As Smith goes on to say, Lazarus isn't the first playwright to frame a genocide as a comedy, though he certainly stirred up a lot of controversy when
he did so. "When the play was first presented in 1985 there were people who were upset about the dealing of the [antiJewish] pogroms in a comedic manner. But it's the same way that brilliant artists take something and say, 'We need to look at this from a different angle,'" Smith explains. "Lazarus does this as well. He says, 'I'm going to throw this in your face and you're going to examine yourself because of it.' "And I think that's what he intends for us to do: to look at ourselves, and to look at how we treat others because we're laughing." Smith adds, "And only really smart people can do that, because comedy is hard!" BRYAN SAUNDERS // BRYANSAUNDERS@VUEWEEKLY.COM
PREVUE // COMEDY
Miserable happiness
Doug Stanhope built a comedy career on complaints, faults and flaws
Stanhope delights in life's despair Thu, Jul 14 (8 pm) Avenue Theatre, $25
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omedy itself usually comes from a pretty miserable place," says Doug Stanhope, between cursing out his GPS as he returns to Bisbee, Arizona from an overnight camping in Flagstaff trip cut short because his three-legged dog "attempted suicide." "There's a reason that the stable is 'don't ya hate when?' not 'don't ya
love it?'" The 44-year-old American comedian—with sets built on a lethal combination of black comedy and satire—is probably the happiest unhappy person conceivable. Not only does misery pay the bills, it is a blissful condition that has Stanhope in the top tier of the American comedy world. Jokes like, "With all the horrible, horrible shit that your priest is pumping into your kid's head, his dick should be
the least of your worries, honestly. A little mouthwash and a few years of therapy'll get rid of that. That Jesus shit will torture you for a lifetime," (Deadbeat Hero, 2004) give a strong indication of the dark stripe of Stanhope's comedy. What do you call a person that takes delight in the despair life brings? "Someone used the word before and I love it—one of my new favourite words—called me a miserablist," says Stanhope. "Someone who takes joy in miserable things ... I think that's fairly accurate. If I'm not miserable, I find a way to become miserable." It seems odd that someone's misery can make others happy, but comedians, Stanhope says, are an extension of things the common man has on the tip of their tongue, but can't say. Throughout his career in comedy, Stanhope—whose illustriously dismal career has seen him co-hosting the fifth and sixth seasons of The Man Show, creating numerous CDs and DVDs, among other notables—prospers in his position in misery's elite.
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"Those are the people who shouldn't be miserablists but they're allowed to be and they tend to be, it's not celebrated like it is in entertainment," says Stanhope thankfully. "Like fuckin' airport security, meter maids—there's a bunch of people that it's OK to be a cunt." He has the equation down pat at this point, understanding that most people can't climb a career ladder with such a miserable disposition. And although miserabalist is one of Stanhope's favourite descriptors, his brand of misery is very charismatic. "I enjoy being miserable," reaffirms Stanhope. "It's not that I wake up and I hate my life by any means, but I tend to be miserable and bitch a lot— that's where my funny comes from. I enjoy bitching about things, I enjoy complaints, I enjoy finding faults and flaws, theory and logic." Stanhope admits that now—after
his career has seen nearly every level of success in the comedy world—he isn't as thrilled as he was when the career was just climbing. But at this point in the conversation, it's nearly impossible to discriminate between misery and happiness. That's the true sign of a rewarded miserable man. "I just started doing, and then I'd get gigs, I'd get enough gigs where I just lived on the road. I lived on the road for three years with no address, just piece-of-shit car after piece-of-shit car and gig to gig," says Stanhope. "Then I got an agent and a development deal, moved to LA, sat around LA doing all that shit. Every time I'd go to move, I'd get a bigger paycheck to do some other project, then stay. Then finally I said, 'It's not worth the money to fuckin' do this. I'd rather enjoy my life.' Now I'm enjoying the shit out of my life." Curtis Wright // curtis@vueweekly.com
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to the actors to convey each relationship and motivation. While the cast of Freewill are all real champions of the ye olde English language, some phrases didn't feel quite comfortable yet, so the audience warmed up to the scenario slowly. But by the time Freewill vet Belinda Cornish commandeers the stage as Fabiana, the mischievous sidekick of Olivia's drunken Uncle, Sir Toby Belch (John Wright), the characters settle and the laughter picks up.
Fuzzy sexual confusion!
Until Sun, Jul 24 (odd dates, 8 pm; weekend matinees, 2 pm) Heritage Amphitheatre (Hawrelak Park), $16.75 – $24.50 (festival passes $37)
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welfth Night is one of those plays by the good ol' Bard where you have to accept a girl passing unnoticed as she disguises herself as a guy. You must allow the lady-looks-like-a-dude premise, as it is the root cause of the shenanigans and consequent misunderstandings in this summer's featured comedy at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival. In this case, it's our gal Viola (Julia Guy) who decides to dress as her supposedly dead brother Sebastian
(Perry Gratton) in the foreign land of Illyria to gain a position in the local Duke's (Nathan Cuckow) service. Ever the romantic, Shakespeare has his characters falling in love faster then you can recite a sonnet—and so Viola, disguised, is charged with wingman-ing for the Duke, conveying his high esteem for the Countess Olivia (Annette Loiselle). But, instead, Viola falls in love with the Duke. Meanwhile, she does such a good job of playing the charismatic man, she charms Olivia to her favour, not the Duke's. The result is some fuzzy sexual confusion. It's convoluted, but so are most of Shakespeare's comedies and it falls
While many of the secondary characters, like the Countess's fool, Feste (Chris Bullough), and manservant, Malvolio (Troy O'Donnell), really extend themselves to deliver the laughs, and even the more poignant moments, the highest praise for this production must be reserved for costume designer Narda McCarroll and her wardrobe assistant Sheena Haug. The Steampunk-themed outfits that the cast sports with seemingly much pleasure are gorgeously fanciful. Lush, colourful silks and satins are layered and hooked about the more affluent characters, while the fools stomp around in the well-worn leathers and stiff cargo pants of adventurers. They are captivating in and of themselves. Perfectly convoluted for such a convoluted comedy. Kathleen Bell // kathleen@vueweekly.com
REVUE // OTHELLO
OTHELLO Until Sun, Jul 24 (even dates, 8 pm) Directed by Marianna Copithorne Heritage Amphitheatre (Hawrelak Park), $16.75 – $24.50 (festival passes $37)
o analyze a Shakespearean tragedy, it's impossible to avoid discussing the main character's "fatal flaw." In the case of Othello, one of this year's selections at the Freewill Shakespeare Festival, jealousy may be the first ingredient in the story's undoing, but Othello himself is a complicated character: perhaps his tendency to love too passionately or trust too willingly is his real fault. But like the rest of the Bard's dark tales, the inevitable death, destruction, and downfall is also waiting for the audience in all its theatrical glory. The production's first half revolves mainly around the token bad guy Iago, as he builds a distorted web of manipulation, pursuing his own ends as he poisons Othello's mind against both his wife Desdemona and the young lieutenant Cassio. John Ullyatt's portrayal of the twisted villain is appropriately conniving and sinister, but also manages a certain eloquence and subtle comedic edge that saves the role from slipping into caricature. Out of all the tragedy's characters, Iago is given the most room to connect with the audience, frequently left alone on stage to share his inner,
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vengeful intentions with the spectators alone. Ullyatt uses this unsettling connection to his advantage, frequently shooting the audience secret, knowing looks of merciless glee as if they, too, are in on his self-serving scheme. As the pieces of Iago's plot fall into place, the rest of the characters begin to crumble within it. While the play is at first all subtle maneuvering and mental manipulation, the second half is an uncontrollable emotional unraveling. And where Iago may have dominated the stage before, the rest of the characters now have their own space to react. Belinda Cornish gives a particularly haunting performance as Othello's doomed wife Desdemona, the essence of pure innocence in the wake of the destruction around her. Cornish balances her character's con-
flicting feelings of terror and dutiful resolve to create some of the play's most striking moments, with Annette Loiselle as her attendant Emilia rising to provide an appropriate emotional weight to the final scenes. As with most Shakespearean tragedies, the drama of Othello has the potential to be emotionally overwhelming. But this cast knows how to handle the plot without becoming over the top, leaving space for moments of unsettling darkness when necessary, but still offering clear moments of personable connection. Despite the possibility of becoming overly complicated, this rendering of Othello strikes the right balance between theatrical maturity and accessibility for the intimidating undertaking that is Shakespeare. Madeline Smith // madeline@vueweekly.com
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Dance 3rd Street Beat: Hip Hop for Hope • Winspear Centre • 3rdstreetbeat.com/HHH/ • At the Movies: 8th Annual Benefit Concert in Support of the Youth Emergency Shelter Society • Sat, Jul 9, 7pm • $46/$60 (dress circle)/$25 (child)
Movements Dance • Con Boland Gardens, 10107-89 St • Affair, A Jazz Soiree • Sun, Jul 17, 4:30pm • $35 at T: 780.415.5211, TIX on the Square; dress to impress, wear white Vinok Dance • Chateau Louis Hotel and Conference Centre, 11727 Kingsway • Klondyke Kapers: Music, songs, dance and verve of the Gold Rush Era, evoking the atmosphere of a Klondike Saloon featuring a BBQ, a floor show, and Klondike Liz • Wed, Jul 20, 5pm • $75, proceeds to Vinok's artistic and educational programming
FILM Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • Music is in the Air Series: Guys and Dolls (PG); Mon, Jul 11, 8 pm • There’s no Business Like Show Business (PG); Mon, Jul 18, 8 pm
Film Forum • Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton Room • Series of film screenings and public talks every month, facilitated by a guest speaker • Gimme Shelter (1969) (14A); discussion facilitated by Lori Walter; Sat, Jul 16, 1:30pm
From Books to Film series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • Screenings of films adapted from books every Friday afternoon presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • Young Frankenstein (1974) (PG) • Fri, Jul 8, 2pm • Whats Eating Gilbert Grape (1993) (PG); Fri, Jul 15, 2pm
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • SUMMER SHOW: Artworks by Tanya Kirouac, Scott Plear, Scott Pattinson, Jane Brookes, Luc Bernard, Hashim Hannoon • Jul 9-23 • Opening reception: Sat, Jul 9, 2-4pm
ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Contemporary fine craft by emerging artists; until Jul 9 • generation whY: Exploring the voices of craft makers 35 & younger; Jul 16Sep 24; opening reception: Sat, Jul 16, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: Off the Floor: Contemporary rug hookings by Rachelle LeBlanc; Jul 16-Aug 27; opening reception: Sat, Jul 16, 2-4 pm • Specimen: An exploration of insects by Calgary jewellery artist Erin Boukall; Jul 16Aug 27; opening reception: Sat, Jul 16, 2-4pm
Alberta Legislature • 10820-98 Ave • Small Beginnings Exhibit: Artworks by artists from Brooks and the community of Newell • Until Jul 27 Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.3679 • The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: A cartoonist retrospective of personalities, royalty and politicians by Yardley Jones • Opening reception during St Albert Art Walk: Thu, Jul 7 • Jul 7-30 ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • DUPES: Artworks by Wilf Kozub • Transport Tycoons: Artworks by Josh Holinaty
Art from the Streets–Red Deer • 4935-51 St • Group show • Until Jul 30 • First Friday/opening reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6-8pm Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga. ca • Sculpture Terraces: Works by Peter Hide and Ken Macklin • ANDY WARHOL: Manu-
factured; until Aug 21 • Sarah Fuller: My Banff: in the RBC New Works Gallery; until Aug 7 • BMO World of Creativity: Drawn Outside: especially for kids; Until Jan 29, 2012 • Lawren Harris Abstractions; until Sep 11 • TRAFFIC: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980: Tracking the influence and diversity of Conceptual Art as it was produced in Canada during the 1960s and 1970s; until Sep 25 • Adult Drop-in: Flight: Aerial Sculpture Landscape: Thu, Jul 7, 7-9 pm; $15/$12 (AGA member) • Visiting Curator Lecture: Anja Casser will speak about her curatorial practice; Thu, Jul 7, 6pm; free • All Day Sunday: My Edmonton: Sun, Jul 17, 12-4 pm; free with admission • $5 Warhol Wednesdays for Creative Age Festival Seniors: Seniors who bring in an AGA issued coupon, receive $5 admission for up to two seniors on any Wed, until Aug 17 • Warhol Sunglasses Drops: Giving away the Andy Warhol-inspired promo sunglasses at various locations and events in the city: Sun, Jul 10 at SOS Fest Street Concert, Fat Franks, Whyte Ave • Soup Can Drive: collecting cans of soup throughout the duration of Andy Warhol: Manufactured, to be donated to Edmonton’s Food Bank
Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • Profiles, 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • The Monster in your closet: Mark Goodchild, Chung Cheuk Hung, Laura O’Connor, Psychotic robotic art collective: Tristan McClelland & Christopher Zaytsoff (C. Robot & T. McClelland) Jul 7-30; opening reception with the St Albert ArtWalk: Thu, Jul 7, 6-9pm • Rental & Sales Gallery: Palette of Meanings: Artworks by Métis artists, Leah Dorion, and Heather Shillinglaw in celebration of National Aboriginal Day; until Jul 9 • Artist at Heart: Sat, Jul 9, 10am-12pm • ARTernative for teens: Thu, Jul 14, 6pm • Artventures: Sat, Jul 16, 1pm
ArtWalk–St Albert • Perron District, downtown St Albert • artwalkstalbert.com • The 1st Thu each month (Apr-Sep), exhibits run all month • Jul 7 • Venues: WARES (Hosting SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, Meese Clothing, Gemport, Art Beat Gallery, Art Gallery of St. Albert, Rental & Sales Gallery (AGSA), Satellite Studio (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, Studio Gallery, Crimson Quill Gifts, Auvigne & Jones, Roche’s Fine Things and Concept Jewelry Design
ASA Gallery • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • 780.426.0072 • Art in the Lobby: Recent works by Donna Miller • Jul 9-16
Café Pichilingue–Red Deer • 4928-50 St • 403.346.0812 • Artworks by Jodi Benson • Until Jul 29 • First Friday/opening reception: Fri, Jul 8 Centre d'arts visuels de l'alberta • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Multimedia: Artworks by Father Douglas, Madeleine Bellmond, Greg Lewis, and Claire Chauvet; Jul 8-26; opening reception: Jul 8, 7-8:30pm
Common Sense Gallery • 10546-115 St • 780.482.2685 • commonsensegallery.com • Spill: artists are invited to Avenue Theatre with a few pieces of work. Paint and easels are provided so that people can make art while listening to the live music. There will be a vote on the pieces at the theatre, the most popular pieces will be shown at one of the Common Sense Galleries; 2nd Sun each month
Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • Juiced! A Tribute to Drinking and Pouring Vessels: Pottery by Tammy Parks-Legge • Until Jul 30
Expressionz Café • 9938-70 Ave• 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Night of Artists–Fab Four: Magazine launch, art exhibit and live entertainment: Featured performers: Tiff Hall and Pulse; featured visual artists at nightofartists.com • Until Jul 30
Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • The Power of the Natural World: Artworks by Leah Dorion, part of The Works Festival; until Jul 7 • Flowing Lines: Paintings by Trevor Sale; Jul 8-29
Gallery IS–Red Deer • 5123 48 St, Alexander Way, Red Deer • 403.341.4641 • Weekend Art Market: Group show • Until Jul 29 • First Friday: Fri, Jul 8, 11am-9pm
Celebrating the ambitions, accomplishments and friendships of Archbishop Taché, OMI, and Father Lacombe, OMI; until Nov
l’Alberta, 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • cava@ shaw.ca • RêVES, Réalisation et acceptation de soi: Artworks by Sylvie Nadeau • Until Jul 20
Muttart conservatory • 9626-96A St • 780.496.8755 • edmonton.ca/muttart • The Argentum Project: Earthly Archetypes: Sculptors’ Association of Alberta's 25th Anniversary Show and Celebration • Until Sep 6
G. Michael's Hair–Red Deer • 4702
Naess Gallery–Paint Spot • 10032-81
Ross St, Downtown Co-op Plaza • We're Still Here: Artworks by Jessie Pettit, and Paul Boultbee • Until Jul 29 • Opening reception: Fri, Jul 8, 5-7pm
Ave • The Silence of Birds: Sculptures by Maggie Morris • Until Jul 30
Gallerie Pava • Centre d’arts visuels de
Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Kingdom Come: A Kind of Retrospective: Curated by Harold Pearse, paintings by Louis O' Coffey • Jul 7-23 • Opening reception: Thu, Jul 14, 5-7pm
Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Re-Charged: artworks by members; until Jul 16
Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • The Jumpers: Paintings by Erin Boake • Until Jul 29 • First Friday/opening reception: Jul 8, 6-8pm
Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • In the Studio: Artworks by Violet Owen • Sat, Jul 9-26 • Opening reception: Sat, Jul 9, 2-4pm Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery • 4525-47A Ave • reddeermuseum.com • Farm Show: A series of exhibitions newly created to explore contemporary farming issues; until Nov 13 • Farming Out Our Future: Changes that have had an impact on rural life in Alberta, 1950 to present; until Nov 13 • From Our Collection: Objects and artifacts from Central Alberta’s history; until Jul 30 • Alberta Wide 2011–Spirit of Alberta: Art show; until Aug 7
Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Wild Alberta Gallery: Wild by Nature: Every Sat and Sun, 11am and 2pm
Hub on Ross Art Gallery– Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer •
SNAP Gallery • 10123-121 St •
403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • Take Flight: Group show • Until Jul 29 • First Friday/ opening reception: Fri, Jul 8, 5-7pm
780.423.1492 • An Etching Plate Feels No Pain: Printworks by Denise Hawrysio • Until Jul 9
Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strath-
Spruce Grove Art Gallery • Melcor
cona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Landscapes, flowers, buildings and abstracts by Liz Andrusiak • Until Jul 27 • Opening reception: Jul 13
Cultural Centre, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • NATURE ROOT FORMS: Artworks by Leona Olausen; until Jul 9 • Gone to the Dogs: Pantings by Father Douglas; Jul 11-30; opening reception: Jul 16, 1-4pm
Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off
Telus World of Science • 11211-142
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St • 780.451.3344 • SESAME STREET PRESENTS: THE BODY • Until Sep 5
Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • Twisted: Pottery and digital art by Issy Covey • Until Jul 29 • First Friday/Opening reception: Fri, Jul 8, 6:30-8:30pm
VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •
Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Spaces&Pla ces:VisioningMcLuhan@100: Artworks dedicated to the centenary of Marshall McLuhan's birth; until Jul 23 • ProjEx Room: VITULAZIO: Works by Barbara Prokop; until Jul 23 • Rooftop Patio: M.A.D.E. in Edmonton on Jul 14 • Summer Incubator Series: Intervivos at Jul 7; Jana Hargarten until Jul 9; Martina MacFarlane Jul 11-16; Geoff Lilge Jul 18-23; Openings every Thu, 5-9pm/artist talks every Thu, 7pm
Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • artstrathcona.com • Summer Art Show: Landscapes and florals by Gail Farewell, Penny Lamnek, Anne McCartney, Linda Nelson, Dessirrie Plewis • Jul 9-31 • Opening Tea: Sat, Jul 9, 1-4pm McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Size Doesn't Matter: Artworks by Spyder Yardley-Jones • Until Jul 31 • Opening reception will be during the Works Art and Design Festival
Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave, St Albert • 780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing
Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-178 St • Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing
Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Installation works by Sarindar Dhaliwal and Lyndal Osbourne • Until Jul 27
Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Featuring artifacts dating back 5,000 years • The Mission Makers:
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780.421.1731 • Energize: Artworks by VAAA members in conjunction with the Works Art and Design Festival; until Jul 9 • Textile work by Alberta's Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta organization; Jul 22-Aug 27
VASA Gallery • (Studio Gallery) 11 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.5993 • Rendevous with Art: VASA Artist Run Centre featuring studio artists Bruce Allen, Miles Constable, Douglas Fraser, Monk, BruceThompson, Frank van Veen, Pat Wagensveld, and Diane Way • Until Jul 30 • Opening reception: Jul 7, 6-9 PM during St Albert Art Walk
Velvet Olive Lounge–Red Deer • 4924-50 St • 403.340.8288 • Grilled: Paintings by Paul Boultbee and Glynis Wilson Boultbee • Until Jul 29 • First Friday/opening reception: Fri, Jul 8, 7-9pm Visualeyez 2011 • Latitude 53, 10248-106 St • Performance Art Festival • Jul 15-22 Whyte Ave Artwalk • Whyte Ave, Old Strathcona • 780.432.0240 • art-walk.ca • An outdoor studio and gallery featuring hundreds of working artists • Jul 15-17, 10-5pm
Strathcona County Library– Sherwood Park • 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • Strathcona County–The Early Years: The Alberta League Encouraging Storytelling present performance of heritage stories • Tue, Jul 12, 7-8:30pm • Part of the 2011 Edmonton & Northern Alberta Historic Festival
Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm presented by the Stroll of Poets Society; $5
Wunder Bar on Whyte • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • Bi-weekly poetry reading presented by Nothing, For Now; all poets are welcome • Every 2nd Tue, 7pm (sign-up), 8pm (readings)
THEATRE Dralion • Rexall Place • A fusion of ancient Chinese circus traditions and the avant-garde style of Cirque du Soleil • Until Jul 10
Freewill Shakespeare Festival • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • 780.420.1757/780.425.8086 • freewillshakespeare.com • Shakespeare returns for Free Will Player's 23rd season in the Park • Othello and Twelfth Night • Until Jul 24, 8pm; matinees on Sat and Sun at 2 pm • $23 (adult)/$15 (student/senior); $35 (festival pass) available at TIX on the Square, at Park box office (opens at 7pm; 1pm for matinees)
Hard Day's Knights • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, WEM • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Featuring songs of the Beatles • Until Aug 21
The Scent of Compulsion • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • By Stewart Lemoine, stars Davina Stewart, Jeff Haslam, Julien Arnold, Vincent Forcier, Farren Timoteo, Kristi Hansen, Andrew MacDonaldSmith, Kristen Padayas, and Amber Bissonnette • Premier: Jul 7 • Tue-Sat, Jul 7-23 at 7:30pm; Sat mat at 2pm • Wed-Sat 7:30pm: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior); Fri, Jul 8, 7:30pm: 2-for1 night; Sat afternoons: $15; Tue 7:30pm: pay-what-you-can; tickets at TIX on the Square SEXY LAUNDRY • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • By Michele Riml, starring Eddie Mekka from Laverne and Shirley • Until Jul 24
STREETFEST–Edmonton International Street Performers Festival • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.425.5162 • edmontonstreetfest.com • Escape To Someplace Magical: Outdoor performances and Late Night Madness performances, daily Troupe du Jour group shows, artistic face-painters, colourful rovers, Be Your Own Busker workshops, and Kids’ World activities for the young and young at heart • Jul 8-17
Theatresports • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre's 30th Anniversary Edition • Every Fri at 11pm • $10 at TIX on the Square, door • $10 at TIX on the Square, door. The final four Theatresports shows of the season start Jul 8-29
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Village of Idiots • Walterdale Theatre, 10322-83 Ave • 780.439.2845 • walterdaleplayhouse.com • By Canadian playwright John Lazarus, directed by Linette Smith • Until Jul 16 • Tickets at TIX on the Square
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Schwartz And Winnie Holzman; based on the novel by Gregory Maguire; directed by Joe Mantello • The untold story of the witches of Oz. Long before Dorothy drops in, two other girls meet in the land of Oz. One, born with emerald-green skin, is smart, fiery and misunderstood. The other is beautiful, ambitious and very popular. WICKED tells the story of their remarkable odyssey, how these two unlikely friends grow to become the Wicked Witch of the West and Glinda the Good • Jul 20-Aug 7
Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Road • Edmonton Story Slam: Story Slam with On Spec Magazine: A wild night of stories of the Fantastic; onspec.ca; Jul 20; no minors • Sign up after 7pm. Show starts at 7:30pm, 3rd Wed of every month Municipal Cemetery • 118 St, 107 Ave • Stories to Thrill and Chill: Presented By T.A.L.E.S With Hostess Stephanie Benger And Storytellers Pearl-Ann Gooding, Dawn Blue, Laura O'Connor, Tethany Ellis, Jennifer Kennedy; only for adults and teens over 13 yrs • Sat, Jul 9, 8:30pm • $20 (gate) Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets
YEAR OF THE RABBIT–HARE BAND CABARET • Catalyst Theatre, 8524 Gateway Blvd • 780.420.1757 • Celebrate the year of the rabbit with a double-bill from Jason Carter, and Bridget Ryan • Jul 14-24 • Tickets at TIX on the Square, portion of ticket and art sales go to the Youth Emergency Shelter Society (YESS)
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PREVUE // SENTIMENTAL COMEDY
Starting again, at the end
Mike Mills' Beginners blends his father's story with fiction
Post-closet father-son bonding Opening Friday Beginners Written and directed by Mike Mills
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eginners begins with an ending, with introverted Californian illustrator Oliver (Ewan McGregor) mourning the loss of his father Hal (Christopher Plummer), who came out of the closet at 75, following the death of his wife, Oliver's mother, and then died five years later. Oliver inherits Hal's house and dog, who's telepathic and knows 150 words of English, and whose thoughts we glean through subtitles, which along with numerous drawings, notebooks, postcards and graffiti contribute to this film's charming, textheavy, scrapbook texture. Oliver falls in love with a gorgeous, funny French actress (Mélanie Laurent, of Inglorious Basterds), whose smile inexplicably breaks your heart, partly because she doesn't speak for the first part of the movie (due to laryngitis). As Oliver falls in love he remembers Hal falling in love, or something like it, in his final years, when everything in life was new again and he enjoyed trying on forms of expressing his sexual identity the way one tries on outfits. Oliver also remembers his mother, back when he was a boy and they used to rehearse movie deaths for fun, or go to the museum to imitate the sculptures. Memory and the present are intertwined. They bleed into each other and fold into a single narrative that's admittedly a little sketchy in some of the emotionally complicated bits yet brims overall with spontaneity and moving moments of truth and insight. Beginners is the second feature from
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writer/director Mike Mills, who previously made Thumbsucker. Mills is also a graphic designer, a musician and probably a lot of other things. He's a sweet, endlessly curious man. We met for our interview in a fancy hotel. Mills wore a tie and carried a small camera and was very generous.
MM: My first concern was with finding someone who could really get my dad right. And my dad was sort of playing a straight man, or half wanted to be a straight man, for 75 years. He didn't really have gay affectations. And I liked the idea of taking Captain von Trapp and having him be gay.
VUE WEEKLY: Beginners feels like a natural progression from Thumbsucker, and a very personal work. What prompted the story? MIKE MILLS: It all comes from my real dad, actually, who came out at 75 and passed away just as I was finishing Thumbsucker. I started writing Beginners right after that. I think I'm always going to be writing about families and relationships and people trying to figure out who they are, trying to get the bad story out of their head and get to the better story. But Beginners was a very immediate reaction to my life.
VW: It's interesting to consider how your filmmaking relates to your work as a graphic designer, the way you photograph empty spaces or incorporate text. MM: I went to art school, and I think a lot of what I do just comes from an "art" context, rather than a strictly cinematic context. With this film I felt free to put all that stuff into one project, to speak through drawings or stills. A lot of my still photography is also pretty flat or proscenium. You could say that comes from graphics, but it also comes from my love of William Eggleston, Stephen Shore or Robert Adams—it comes from the photography that I like. Also, in my family things were always vague or unexplained or confusing, so I think the way I construct images has a lot to do with trying to make things clear and expository and observable. So it's as much an emotional sensibility as it is an esthetic one.
VW: Did your father know that you were planning to incorporate his story into your next movie? MM: I said to him, "I want to make something about you and mom and your whole deal." And he was just sort of pleasantly taken aback. I interviewed him a few times, so he knew I was investigating. He was very politicized, very social, very involved in gay pride groups in Santa Barbara. So I felt he would be down with this idea of coming out more and more and in different ways. VW: Having seen the film, it's difficult to imagine anyone besides Christopher Plummer playing Hal, but were you ever feeling like you should cast a gay actor in the role?
VW: You have these flashbacks scattered throughout Beginners that seem to respond to something happening to Oliver in the present, though the parallels are always just shy of being obvious, which makes them more fun and interesting. Were these flashbacks part of one narrative thread you had in your mind, while everything in the present CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 >>
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unusual or beat back unhappiness.
tense was another thread and you then had to find ways to marry the two? Or did you just write it all in the order that it came out? MM: I wrote it as two stories. I wanted to interweave them. That was what interested me. And that's kind of how I was living: I was writing this right after my dad died, and when something like that happens it's like the past just keeps flooding into the present. The person's gone, but scenes from the relationship you shared with them are still ringing in your ears.
VW: Sounds like something you inherited from them. MM: I guess so, but you never think of your parents as funny. There are those two main things: your parents aren't funny and they don't have sex ...
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VW: In making Beginners did you rediscover memories of your parents that you'd completely forgotten? MM: I didn't unearth anything big, but it was really interesting to write from my parents' perspective. I discovered that they were funny. They liked to use humour in this subversive way, maybe just out of the desire to make life more
VW: Or they're only funny when they have sex! MM: [Laughs] Anyway, there's lots of stuff in the movie that didn't actually happen to me or my family. It's not a memoir. Your parents dying is so much bigger than making a movie about it. But making Beginners has been a way of hanging onto all these things. VW: And maybe also a way of letting go of them. MM: Yeah, that's true. Spewing all this out into the world is a funny sort of way to burn it all up. Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com
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f Megan Fox had just kept her mouth shut, she could have been in the best Transformers of the bunch. Fox's redundant, Rosie HuntingtonWhiteley, was cast as the Shia LeBeouf hand-holder/clinger in the latest instalment after Fox publicly ridiculed the blockbuster series' director Michael Bay. It certainly isn't HuntingtonWhiteley's acting that carries the ridiculously visual 3D blockbuster—she's literally a Victoria's Secret model— but there's something about her that allows Dark of the Moon to contend for smash hit of the summer, and it isn't her obscene sexuality (which is very obscene and brashly exploited.) Why talk so much about the leading lady? Because honestly there's no reason getting into the plot of Dark of the
Moon—it was never meant that way. There's a reason Huntington-Whiteley is featured in the preview more than Optimus Prime. Dark of the Moon carries the flag of the blockbuster very high. Unabashed and unreasonable, it's the 3D graphics that carry the film, slaughtering
(including the robots, especially a remarkably bad, balding robot) are charmingly bad; their almost intentionally poor acting seems so appropriate. After over two and half hours you have to quietly admire Bay's audacity in creating highly watchable nonsense—stunning visuals and sound,
Dark of the Moon carries the flag of the blockbuster very high. Unabashed and unreasonable, it's the 3D graphics that carry the film, slaughtering similar efforts by most previous action 3D flicks, including the Transformers prequels. similar efforts by most previous action 3D flicks, including the Transformers prequels. Loud, tremendously sharply edited FX dominate the theatre. And in all of this visual and sound chaos, Shia LeBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Patrick Dempsey, Huntington-Whiteley, et al
little emphasis on acting, startlingly larger-than-life alien action figures, and lastly, a preposterously attractive leading lady. This excess, like it or not, is how summer hits are made. Curtis Wright // curtis@vueweekly.com
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REVUE // TEAM COCO
CONAN O'BRIEN CAN'T STOP
He really can't stop
Thu, Jul 7 Directed by Rodman Flender Showing at South Edmonton Cinemas, Scotiabank Theatre
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nlike many in the unemployment line, Conan O'Brien had a lot to grip onto when he lost his job. The well-publicized NBC screw-over that slid Jay Leno back into The Tonight Show over the determined O'Brien left the latter with a $45-million dollar settlement and a six-month contractual television-ban. This left a show-business icon reasonably angered and contemptuous, even if on his final Tonight Show he spoke of his hatred of cynicism. But true to his word that great things would happen, O'Brien bounced back. Conan O'Brien Can't Stop documents "The Legally Prohibited from Appearing on Television Tour" as the place the comedian would use his newly liberated energy and creativity. But, unlike the production the audiences saw, the behind-the-scenes film has interesting consequences. After the NBC situation mistreated O'Brien, divided Team Coco members paid
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tribute to the populist, yet in Can't Stop he is, at times, as much asshole as he is entertainer. For as much success and dedication to entertainment as O'Brien has, Conan O'Brien Can't Stop shows a quite insecure man, whose fragile ego is validated by a mission to entertain. And he can't not push the entertainment button when the camera is on—from when he jok-
to hang out with his extremely funny side at times, while at others we witness a superstar jokingly debasing those in his camp and his mass of supporters. Can't Stop is the portrayal of O'Brien after his dishonourable discharge—a performer touched by hilarious moments, endless self-doubting with a frantic, self-fulfilling need
As the audience watches him analyze his motivations, his busy mind and his reasons for creating the song-and-dance/sketch comedy tour, we begin to understand Conan O'Brien, not only as a comedian, but also as a man. ingly fires his assistant for ordering the wrong fish to when he hatefully announces bands at a music festival, O'Brien does so comically, but with a noticeable amount of disdain. As the audience watches him analyze his motivations, his busy mind and his reasons for creating the song-and-dance/sketch comedy tour, we begin to understand Conan O'Brien, not only as a comedian, but also as a man. Can't Stop allows us
to entertain. A compilation of tales from the road as O'Brien ventures to rediscover the "gritty centre of show business" in a somewhat heated, constantly irritated way. As O'Brien fills his free time and laughably suffers through joblessness, the audience witnesses a side of the charismatic comedian unseen in this context before and at times he's relatively hard to like. Curtis Wright // curtis@vueweekly.com
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Brimming with blemish-free, perfectly groomed, fresh-from-the-gym naked bodies and a parade of women who inexplicably can't keep their hands off Cruise, Eyes Wide Shut, at times like David Lynch without the flights of imagination, at others like Roman Polanski without the genuine perversity, is not a very sexy movie. It cautions us to the potentially mortal dangers of sexual adventure, dangers that Bill evades partly through the seemingly clairvoyant protective powers of Alice, who, for example, calls Bill on his mobile just as he's about to engage a prostitute, prompting him to abort the arrangement. The next day Bill finds out that the prostitute is HIV positive; moments later he buys a newspaper bearing the headline LUCKY TO BE ALIVE. Similarly, while Bill's at the
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COMMENT >> UNDER THE MULTIPLEX RADAR
Summertime and the watching ain't easy Six of the best films out there (but not yet here) In the summer-blockbuster season, it's even easier to forget that, somewhere out there, beyond the bright-light pollution of the multiplex marquees hyping star-powered formula flicks, there are some quietly stellar films twinkling on, waiting to be spotted. So this is a mid-year rem ekly.co vuewe view of films that have brian@ Brian streaked through film fests Gibson and foreign markets, not yet landing in Edmonton ... but they're out there, online or soon on disc, or perhaps drifting down here in autumn at, say, your local arthouse cinema that's just relocated south of the river. Track them down. Let's count off a clutch of acclaimed films from the past few months that reframe our relationship with nature. "Environmental studies" becomes, in these films, an intense, sustained study of a few people in a specific place, often reminding us of the strange bond Nostalgia For The Light and ever-shifting balance with nature that we ignore at our peril.
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Sweetgrass (Dir: Lucien CastaingTaylor) This chronicle of shepherds in Montana (the Absaroka-Beartooth Wilderness Area) leading their flocks up to summer pasture involved eight years of filming and trailing the herders.
Directed by an anthropologist and produced by his wife, it's a minimalist study of an ancient tradition of animal stewardship. The doc, which made a number of top-10-of-2010 lists, including New Yorker critic Anthony Lane's, slips us into the "cyclical time" of the
herders, a rhythm dependent on their animals and the seasons. Out on disc now. (Similarly, Le Quattro Volte, which just hit screens a month ago in Canada's biggest cities, looks at the daily rituals of rural life in southern Italy's Calibria region. It should soon be on disc by the fall.) The Elephant in the Living Room (Dir: Michael Webber) Webber's doc ensnares us in the world of exotic pets. There's a rescuer-advocate who often has to see abandoned animals put down and a man whose post-accident depression's been largely salved by his lion—kept in his backyard pen in Ohio. In a movie that implicitly asks if there's any ownership that's foreign to our nature— "This is America, I should be free to own whatever I want"—the hiddencamera scenes offer an undeniable argument, building a "damning, but also very sad" tale. This may not get any Canadian release but should be on disc soon. Nostalgia for the Light (Dir: Patricio Guzmán) One of the most widely-acclaimed films of the year so far, this meditative film about Chile's Atacama desert follows scourers of sky and sand. Astronomers look at the posthumous light of stars; archaeologists sift for bones of ancient peoples or dead 19th-century miners; relatives search for the remains of those "disappeared" in the 1970s by Pinochet's brutal regime. It is, one critic recalls, "an astonishing meditation on memory, with a wide-angle lens that embraces the vastness of the cosmos and the smallest specks of lost humanity. It's saddening and uplifting all at once." Guzman's film only saw release in major
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Canadian cities a few months ago but should be on disc soon. Birdwatchers (Dir: Marco Bechis) This tale of natives in Brazil runs in the vein of indigenous film such as Ten Canoes and Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Even as alcoholism and teen suicide bedevil the tribe, one of them decides the time has come to occupy the land near an ancient burial site
I Travel Because I Have To, I Come Back Because I Love You (Dir: Marcelo Gomes and Karim Aïnouz) Another one we can only hope will come out soon on disc or by other means is this Brazilian film, screened in the US in late March. A plangent mood piece, just 75 minutes, it's narrated by an unseen geologist amid scrublands in the country's northeast. Currently, it
'Environmental studies' becomes, in these films, an intense, sustained study of a few people in a specific place, often reminding us of the strange bond and ever-shifting balance with nature that we ignore at our peril. that's now part of a private ranch. The recent murders over land rights and deforestation in Amazonia only make this film more forcefully relevant. Since it was released only in Canada's biggest cities in February, hope for it to be out on disc soon.
holds the third-highest critics' rating of the year on Metacritic and, though it may be for the more adventurous of you viewers out there, the film's "intimate diary" form and "visual collage" style sound intriguingly worth the watch. V
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Cars 2 (G) Daily 6:50pm 9:10; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 12:50, 3:10 Bad Teacher (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 7:05, 9:05; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:05, 3:05
Mr. Popper's Penguins (G) Daily 6:55; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 12:55, 2:50
Bridesmaids (14A crude content, coarse language, sexual content) Fri, Mon, Wed 8:50 Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Midnight showing: Fri, Jul 15: 12:00am; tickets on sale now
PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728
The Tree Of Life (PG) Daily 6:45, 9:30; Sat-Sun 2:00
Midnight In Paris (PG) Daily 7:00, 9:10; SatSun 2:30
SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM
2:20; Thu 12:40
2:00
SUPER 8 (PG coarse language, frightening scenes,
Bad Teacher (14A coarse language, crude sexual
ZOOKEEPER (PG) No passes Daily 1:20, 4:20, 7:00,
content) Daily 7:05, 9:15; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 2:05
9:40 CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 11:45, 2:20, 4:50, 7:30, 10:10
not recommended for young children) Digital Cinema Fri, Sun-Wed 12:05, 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 10:45; Sat 2:45, 5:25, 8:10, 10:45; Thu 12:30, 4:20, 10:20
LARRY CROWNE (PG) Fri-Wed 12:45, 3:20, 5:50, 8:15, 10:40; Thu 1:30, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00
Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Digital Cinema: Sat 10:30; Mon 7:00
WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400
Horrible Bosses (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 6:55 9:10; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:55
Zookeeper (PG) Daily 6:50 9:05; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:50
GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr, Sherwood Park 780-416-0150
GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d Daily 1:30, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30 TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Ultraavx, No passes Fri-Wed 12:15, 3:45, 7:15, 10:45; Thu 12:15, 3:45, 7:15
Stephen Sondheim's Company (PG) Sat
ZOOKEEPER (PG) No passes Daily 1:30, 4:15,
1:00
7:10, 9:50
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes,
CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35
violence, coarse language) Digital Cinema, No passes Daily 1:00, 4:30, 8:00; Digital 3d, No passes Thu 10:45
not recommended for young children) Digital Cinema, No passes Thu 12:05; Midnight: Thu 12:05
GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d Daily 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10
BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse language, sexual content) Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; Mon 12:50, 3:50, 6:50; Thu 12:00, 3:00, 9:50
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG violence, coarse lan-
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HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D
HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude
4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening
BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse language, sexual content) Daily 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:10
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HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude
sexual content) No passes, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Wed 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:30; Thu 12:00, 2:30, 6:30, 9:30
violence, coarse language) No passes Daily 12:30, 3:50, 7:05, 10:30
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Digital 3d, No passes Fri-Wed 11:50, 3:05, 6:30, 9:55; Thu 11:50, 3:05, 8:00
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG
guage, not recommended for young children) Digital Cinema Fri-Tue 4:00, 7:15, 10:20; Wed 3:30, 10:20; Thu 4:00, 7:15
HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) No passes Daily 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:50, 10:40
(PG violence, coarse language) Digital 3d, Stadium Seating, No passes Fri-Wed 12:05, 3:30, 6:45, 10:15; Thu 12:05, 5:15, 8:45
BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse language, sexual content) Daily 1:20, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude
BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude sexual
Beginners (14A) Dolby Stereo Digital Daily
MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS (G) Digital Cinema Fri-
MONTE CARLO (G) Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:20 content) Daily 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:30
MONTE CARLO (G) Daily 12:40, 3:20, 6:40, 9:10
12:15, 3:15, 7:00, 10:00
sexual content) No passes Daily 1:50, 4:25, 7:30, 10:05
BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Fri-Tue, Thu 1:50, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20; Wed 5:00, 7:40, 10:20; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00
BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude sexu-
MONTE CARLO (G) Daily 12:45, 4:00, 6:35, 9:15
Tue, Thu 1:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00
al content) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Tue 12:25, 3:00, 5:25, 8:00, 10:25; Wed 12:25, 3:00, 8:00, 10:25; Thu 12:25, 3:00, 6:25, 9:25
BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude sexual
SUPER 8 (PG coarse language, frightening scenes,
MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS (G) Digital Cinema
SUPER 8 (PG coarse language, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 9:55
SUPER 8 (PG coarse language, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital Cinema Fri-Tue, Thu 3:45, 6:20, 9:00; Wed 3:45, 10:10
LARRY CROWNE (PG) Daily 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 9:20 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Sat 10:30; Mon 7:00
Spartacus (STC) Wed 6:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Thu 12:03
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Thu 12:02; Ultraavx: Thu 12:01
CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St, 780.436.8585
ZOOKEEPER (PG) No passes Daily 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50
CARS 2 (G) Fri-Wed 1:05, 3:50, 6:45; Thu 3:50, 6:45; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00
CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri-Wed 11:50, 2:25, 5:10, 7:55, 10:35; Thu 11:50, 2:25, 7:15, 9:20
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Ultraavx, No
Tue-Thu 12:10, 3:30, 6:30, 9:40; Mon 12:10, 3:30, 10:00
Daily 1:30
X-Men: First Class smartly grounds the comic-book-movie genre's pop-fiction and flashy effects in a historical era of clashing superpowers and political paranoia. Some solid acting and lean storytelling push it into fine summerflick form.
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG
5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779
Tree of Life
violence, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d Fri-Wed 11:55, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:40; Thu 11:30, 2:10, 5:00, 7:50
CARS 2 (G) Daily 1:30, 7:00, 9:00
Thor 3d (PG violence, frightening scenes) Digital
Woody Allen's latest gets into something especially personal to the writerdirector: fantasy. What makes it resonate, though, is its understanding that even in fantasy our longing for that distant, obscure thing must reach its terminal point, and we have to start again, negotiating with the real world, or some rough approximation of it.
GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG frightening scenes,
(PG violence, coarse language) No passes Daily 11:30, 3:00, 6:10, 6:40, 9:40, 10:00
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Princess Theatre
KUNG FU PANDA 2 (G) Daily 1:20, 4:00
X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG violence, coarse language, not recommended for young children) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:35, 3:35, 6:55
LARRY CROWNE (PG) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG violence, coarse language) DTS Digital, On 2 Screens, No passes, Stadium Seating Daily 12:45, 5:45, 9:45
content) Daily 1:45, 4:30, 7:25, 10:00
LARRY CROWNE (PG) Daily 1:15, 3:55, 6:55, 9:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes,
LARRY CROWNE (PG) Fri, Sun-Thu 12:40, 3:40,
not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Thu 12:05, 12:10
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D
GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert Grandin Mall, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822
Cars 2 (G) Daily 12:55, 3:00, 5:05, 7:20, 9:25 Bad Teacher (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) No passes Daily 1:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:30, 9:30
MONTE CARLO (G) No passes Daily 1:05, 3:20,
BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse
5:20, 7:25
language, sexual content) Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Tue 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Wed 12:40, 3:40, 9:40; Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:35, 9:35
Green Lantern (PG frightening scenes, violence,
ZOOKEEPER (PG) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating
6:45, 8:55
Daily 12:20, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:20
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Midnight, No passes, Digital 3d, On 2 Screens, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Thu 12:01
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Midnight, No passes, On 2 Screens, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Thu 12:01
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not recommended for young children) Fri, Sun, Tue-Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; Sat 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; Mon 12:00, 3:00, 10:00
not recommended for young children) Daily 9:30
Zookeeper (PG) No passes Daily 12:45, 2:45, 4:45, Transformers: Dark Of The Moon (PG violence, coarse language) No passes Daily 12:35, 3:25, 6:15, 9:10
LEDUC CINEMAS Leduc, 780.352.3922
6:40, 9:30; Sat 12:40, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30 (PG violence, coarse language) No passes Fri-Wed 11:45, 3:15, 6:45, 10:15
Stephen Sondheim's Company (PG) Sat 1:00
The Metropolitan Opera: Die WalkⁿRe Encore (Classification not available) Mon 6:00 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Thu 12:01; Ultraavx: Thu 12:01
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 An Imax 3d Experience (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Midnight, No passes Thu 12:01
WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin, 780.352.3922
Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Daily 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D
Cars 2 (G) Daily 12:55, 3:40, 6:55, 9:40
(PG violence, coarse language) Daily 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45
Zookeeper (PG) DAIly 12:50, 3:35, 6:50, 9:35
The Zookeeper Zookeeper (PG) DAIly 12:50,
sexual content) Daily 1:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30
3:35, 6:50, 9:35
Horrible Bosses (14A coarse language, crude
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Early Bird Café's owner learned to cook at his parents' restaurant // Craig Janzen
Jimmy Ali Early Bird Café 10221 - 97 St, 780.420.6826
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any paths lead to a life in the food industry. Some choose to travel the world, and gather information and inspiration from international cuisine. Others seek formal training as chefs, thereby refining techniques and mastering recipes taught by those who have thrived in the fiercely competitive restaurant world. Yet others are born into this industry and grow up in the family business. Indeed, neither formal training nor nomadic lifestyles guarantee success. Jimmy Ali, owner of the Early Bird Café, worked at his parents' restaurant, Socrates in St Albert, before opening his own restaurant in downtown Edmonton. He started as a dishwasher but quickly ascended to the role of chef. "I worked there for over 10 years," he explains, "and thought about opening my own place. I gained many skills working there and wanted to put them to use here." The Early Bird Café took up shop on the eastern edge of downtown in mid-2010, occupying a spot that once housed a Thai restaurant. Early Bird's space is distinctly laid back, characterized by warm wood tones and an open kitchen. "Redecorating was a lot of work. We redid everything from the floors and lamps to the bathrooms," he notes. Ali adds that he wishes to replace the tables and chairs. He remarks, "They aren't bad. It's not like they are plastic cafeteria-style chairs,
The Early Bird Café, where homestyle is the norm
but some booths would be nice." There are no secrets with an open kitchen, and Early Bird's kitchen is as open as they come. The kitchen is at the front of the restaurant, and this gives Ali an ideal venue to visit with customers. "There are no surprises in an open kitchen, but it can get a bit hectic with the lunch rush," laughs Ali. "We have many regular customers that come in every day, and working out front makes it easier to recognize faces."
Early Bird's menu includes a generous selection of breakfast items, like bacon and eggs, French toast, and pancakes, while the lunch menu includes the likes of hamburgers, sandwiches and quesadillas. "Burgers are one of our most popular lunch items," notes Ali. "I think it's because they are made from fresh, lean ground beef and not frozen patties." The Early Bird Café's customer base is still growing and, as Ali observes, "Many people are still surprised to
discover us." A pub is under construction next door, and Early Bird will provide the food. "This will be a great opportunity for us to expand the menu," says Ali. "One of the things we plan to include is prime rib. Prime rib and a drink is a great combination." The Early Bird Café is yet in its early days. Ali looks forward to the influx of customers that will come with the gentrification and refurbishment
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of downtown's eastern frontier, and will continue to use his open kitchen as a venue to forge connections with customers. One cannot minimize or understate the many challenges inherent in becoming an established eatery, but Ali's skill and the growing popularity of the Early Bird Café is proof that one need not be a globetrotter or graduate of culinary school to succeed. LS VORS // VORS@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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Six facts about Scotch 1) Not surprisingly, Scotch finds its origin in its namesake country, Scotland. The first written record of Scotch dates to June 1, 1495, when it appears in the Exchequer Rolls of Scotland, records which keep track of royal revenues.
5) Unlike wine, Scotch does not continue to age in the bottle—it'll taste the same no matter when you drink it.
2) Scotch has been distilled in Scotland for centuries, possibly dating back to the ancient Celts. The Gaelic word usquebaugh, or "water of life," became "usky" and later "whisky" in English. 3) It wasn't until the mid-18th century that someone discovered that Scotch tastes better if given a chance to age and mellow. Scotch from before this period was a harsh, brutal drink and could even put the imbiber in danger. It's thought that the technique of ag-
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East Coast craft brews arrive in Alberta HOPYARD PALE ALE GARRISON BREWING, HALIFAX, NS $14.25 FOR SIX PACK
six-packs of the Hopyard Pale Ale. I could cram in an overview of all seven beer available, but thought I would focus on just one. The Hopyard Pale Ale Canada's East Coast brewers fly under is an award-winning American pale ale the radar. Few of us out here even that may best exemplify what the know who they are, and even brewery is trying to do. fewer have had the privilege It has a perfect pale ale apof sampling their wares. Yet pearance: medium orange-gold m ly.co eweek somehow they have quietly tothepint@vu with a frothy white head and Jason proven their mettle as brewers good clarity. The aroma offers Foster a pine and grassy hop aroma with of distinction. The latest arrival into Alberta from a soft, biscuit sweetness underneath. the land of Highland dance and Anne The sip produces soft malt with a toastMurray is Garrison Brewing, also from ed character along with some honey. Halifax. Garrison was Nova Scotia's first There is also a delicate fruitiness to the craft brewer, opening in 1997, and it rebeer. Hops quickly take over with piney mains the province's largest independent and grassy flavour and a noted bitter linbrewer. There is a mixed six-pack, individger. There is also some citrus and grapeual bottles of stout and imperial IPA and fruit in the hops, but less noticeable for me than the pine. The linger builds over the first few seconds after the swallow, giving me an impression more akin to an IPA than a pale ale. This is a flavourful, assertive beer. If I had a criticism it might be that the hop flavour and linger are too big for a pale ale, verging on IPA, but overall it leaves a memorable impression. I appreciate its sharp, tangy and hoppily refreshing character. Garrison, with its military name, may be trying to invade Alberta, but this is one invasion to which I would happily submit. Bring your best, Garrisonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;I am up for it. V
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EDMONTON by Paul Blinov
or years now Vue's been giving you our picks for the bestest of Edmontonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the things we feel make this place feel like home, for better or worse, and which give it character. But this year we decided to give that format a slightly different slant: we asked some of the best and brightest people we know, those whose engagement in the City of Champions spans everything from municipal politics to street art, about the places in Edmonton that make it more than just a place they live. The answers they gave are as diverse as the city's urban sprawl, from the concrete to the metaphorical, tucked-away businesses to historic landmarks, the nostalgic to the brand new. This is hardly a complete list of Edmonton's bestest, either in people or places, but it should make for a nice little cross-section of what makes this place where we all live feel a little more like a home. Welcome to Vue's Bestest 2011.
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the same art on the walls and exactly the same menu. They actually had a chance—this is all gossip—they had a chance to open up on 4th Street behind the Sobey's and that new bunch of buildings there. And they would've had to raise the prices on the menu, so they waited another year, so that they could find a place that could keep the restaurant menu exactly the same. So in this day and age, that just is impressive, and I got to back within three or four days of opening. ... I don't think I've ever experienced a restaurant where I've had such a close relationship with the staff and the food and the experience.
Brian Webb (dancer, choreographer)
BW: The space, and it's my favourite space, is the empty John L Haar Theatre at the MacEwan Centre for the Arts. And the reason that's my favourite space is that it's the space of potential for me. That's where almost all of my dances since I moved to Edmonton in 1979 have been premiered. It's like home for me.
Don Iveson
(city councillor, Ward 10) VW: You'd mentioned the [Saskatchewan Drive] dog park and the trails off that as the place that makes Edmonton feel like home to you. DI: I wouldn't want to describe it as the dog park, because that's not how I see it. It's the very top of the river valley in Belgravia, looking west out over the river and out over the city. I live nearby now, but one of the reasons why my family chose it is that I grew up not too, too far away from there— two neighbourhoods over—but when I was a kid we were running around those trails that lead to Hawrelak park and lead west into the equine centre, and back over to Whitemud creek. We were carrying around in there on our bikes, and playing flags back in the '80s when we were kids. So I've always really been attached to that natural space there. But it's kind of the boundary: the thing that I find really compelling about it is that it's an edge. It's a boundary, between the city, the neighbourhood and the built environment we spend most of our time in, and a natural space, where you can be in nature either by the river or in a forest. That's very calming. VW: Almost the best of both worlds. DI: Exactly, and you can move back and forth between them, and you can be alone there, if that's what you want. But if you stick around for more
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than 10 minutes, you're going to run into a neighbour as well, usually with dog, and we know each other by our dogs' names in a lot of cases [laugh]. So it can be both a reflective place and a very social place—it's kind of the intersection of urban and natural, and social and seclusion. And there's something about that boundary between all those places occurring in one location. I treasure it, I guess.
it's been the place where like closing night of the Fringe after we've packed up all our gear, we go have dinner at the Bistro, and anyone's birthday, we have dinner at the Bistro, my mom's in town, I take her to the Bistro—she loves the cabbage soup. It's just one of my favourite places to take people. Everyone feels welcome and friendly and the food is never less than amazing.
tro was that big old mural they had on the back wall, of the Austrian hillside. And there was even a little spot of grease up in the sky where someone had tossed their fried cheese. Who knows? Could've been a greasy forehead and some brill cream—hard to say. But when they were opening up the new restaurant, some people who had been long-term clients of the old
VW: Was there a time when you realized it was this special? BW: Well, I've always thought it's a great space. I present a season now of national and international contemporary dance, and many companies feel it's one of the very nicest spaces for contemporary dance in the whole country. So, you start hearing this, and I've always liked the space, and
VW: So not only is there quality of food, but there's atmosphere around it. DH: I love the fact that it's upper crust without being elitist or stuffy. I was really happy. Have you been to the new one? Well, there's a good story about it actually. Because one of the things that was remarkable about the old bis-
bistro said, 'Y'know, we've been looking in our basement and we used to have one of those old murals.' And they looked and it was still in the wrapper. So they've got a new version of the mural of the European countryside on the back wall again. And they've got the same lamps, the same furniture—they've been recovered—
you start to realize this is a very good facility.
Darrin Hagen
(author, drag artiste) DH: Oh my God, the Bistro Praha. It's gotta be the Bistro Praha. And I'm so glad they're open again. There's a lot of reasons—I've been going there for 20 years; it was where Kevin and I had our first date—before we were official, he took me to the Bistro Praha. And I remember them bringing the tomato-and-onion salad, and I kind of went, "Is this it?" and he went, "Wait till you see how much food is coming," because he of course had ordered the courdon bleu. VW: It's just reopened? DH: Yeah. We were in Mexico with friends of ours, and we were talking about restaurants in Edmonton, and I mentioned the Bistro Praha, and they had never been there. And I was like, "Oh my God, it's my favourite restaurant in the world, we have to go," and we came home, and the week later was the fire in that building and it was closed down for two years. So I was just crushed, because for 20 years
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VW: What's kept it so good? BW: It's a house of 350 seats, so it's intimate, but it's got a good-sized stage, and all the sight lines in the theatre are perfect. So a very well-equipped theatre, so I think it's just amazing.
VW: When did you discover it? MK: In the first year I bought a house in Ritchie, and one of the reasons I bought the house was 'cause it was close to the ravine, for taking my dog for a walk. VW: It just feels like home? MK: Yeah, 'cause there's water. I have a cabin in Ontario, and it's on a river. And just that sort of attachment to being in the wilderness.
Mitch Holtby
(musician) MH: Personally, the place I do spend the most time is in my studio. I know that's not as interesting as some other places. ... It's the place to hide during the winter months, and to come out of your shell during the summer months. For most of the year, for me, it's just where I can feel more creative. I do like having it in my house, because most of the times I use it, it's after two in the morning.
The Bandit
(public artist) TB: For me, it's Whyte Avenue. I just think it's the heart and soul of this city. All my favourite shops are there, all my favourite people are there, my favourite restaurants. It's probably the one place in Edmonton I keep going back to and gravitate towards over and over and over again. VW: When did you realize it was special to you? TB: I think I've always kind of known. It probably started early in my teens; there were a bunch of different record stores that aren't there anymore that you could go to find stuff that you couldn't imagine finding anywhere else in the city. My love for Whyte avenue just stemmed from there. VW: Given that Whyte Ave has started to go in a different direction—not as many used record stores, and that sort of thing—is it still special to you? TB: Yeah, it is. I think especially what I'm doing now with my art, you kind of find new places and new spots. In the last little while, I've started walking down the back alleys of Whyte, and it's just interesting how many beautiful things you'd find: spots, and fire escapes, and balconies. It's almost beauty where you wouldn't expect to find it. I didn't realize until recently half the stores on Whyte Avenue are just old houses. You walk down this back alley, and they're all houses. It's really neat. You'd never tell from looking at the storefronts, but it's all these rows and rows of houses which I think is really cool. I don't know if people ever take the time really to walk down those back alleys and discover all the little surprises and art and stickers and people and stuff that you can find back there.
Gabe Wong
(graphic designer) GW: For me, the waste management plant really encapsulates Edmonton and the people who come into Edmonton, what we're all about, in a way. The thing about the Edmonton Waste Management Centre is it's one of the leaders in North America and in the world of waste management. [It's] diverting 60 – 70 percent of our household waste from the landfill, and this is way above other cities in Canada, or even around the world. For instance, Vancouver, who always touts itself being like a really green city, is only at 52 percent, Toronto's at 40 percent. Calgary's only at 20 percent of their waste, And London—in England, not Ontario—is at 22 and New York City at 33. And the target for Canada is just 50 percent ... but, we're going to be opening a new facility that turns all of the waste that we can't recycle or compost into a biofuel station which will divert 90 percent of our waste from the landfill. And that is insanely high; I think it's going to open next year or 2013. I feel like Edmonton isn't really known for taking a lot of risks because not many people know about how awesome this facility is, and how much waste we actually divert, and how we're a leader. And I think it all has to do with Edmonton's inferiority complex. The people who come into Edmonton often aren't from Edmonton; they're from small towns, rural areas, immigrants or from the north. These people are general risk-takers, that's the reason why they're coming here, and a lot of them are leaders, too, because a lot of them are the first ones to come to the city to go to university, all that kind of business. So we always have huge amounts of talent coming into Edmonton, and we don't really have a way of keeping them. And I think it's because the same people who
make everything great are the same people who refuse to talk about how great we are. They're always risk-takers, they like to look forward, all the time, and they don't really pat themselves on the back for a job well done, or not for long, anyway. There's always a new, next thing, and Edmonton sort of falls into that trap where we don't like to talk about ourselves all that much. We're not like Vancouver, which is like, 'Oh, we're so great, we're so green.' It becomes over the top after a while. And I appreciate that about Edmonton, how we're pretty humble, but it's kind of a double-edged sword, so we have this really great stuff going on, but no one outside of Edmonton knows of it, and no one inside of Edmonton knows of it. So what's going to attract people to stay, or people to come in? So it kind of puts us in an awkward situation—I think that's exactly the strength and the problem of Edmonton, and how the waste management facility is a metaphor of that. And just to finish it off, it's kind of a marketing problem. We just need to tell people sometime, at some point, and celebrate what makes us really good to ourselves and to other people, so that encourages people to stay, to have pride in the city.
Michael Kennard
(clown [Mump, of Mump & Smoot], instructor at the University of Alberta) MK: I was thinking one of my favourite places was down in the Millcreek Ravine, where I take my dog for a walk. It reminds me a bit of Northern Ontario. I was born and raised in Toronto, and didn't move here until about four years ago.
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VW: Is there something about the latenight hours that strikes that inspiration? MH: Yeah, I've definitely noticed it for myself, and everyone I've talked to would feel the same way. It just puts me in a certain mindset, being up at like 3 or 4 am, I guess. It seems to be the creative mindset. I think a lot of people experience that sort of thing. VW: Anything else about it that makes Edmonton feel like home? MH: I would just say mostly the winter thing. Everyone has to find their own spot to hibernate and hang out during the cold winter nights. Mostly for me, it's like winter at 3 am. There's nowhere else I'd feel more at home than at home, I guess. Alice Major (poet) AM: There's so many parts of the city that mean a lot to me, but one of the parts I actually really like is that drive, you know when you come up Calgary Trail, you're coming into the city, there's that sort of crochet-hook bend of Victoria, and it goes down the hill, and you can see the High Level Bridge, and you can see the panorama. I love that spot because I feel like I'm coming home. And that, on a summer evening, is to me just the most beautiful sight. VW: Can you think of a time when you realized that was such a special view? AM: There was one time I remember coming back; you know, I never expected I would stay in Edmonton. I was leavin', this was just a pass-through place. And somehow or another, you can drive back and forth across the North Saskatchewan and never really notice it. For many years, it was hard to access the river, it's not like it's there on your doorstep a lot. And so I would just drive back and forth, and I knew there was a river running through my city, and I just didn't quite register emotionally with it. And then this time, I was coming back from Toronto, where my family still lived—it was late summer, the leaves were maybe starting to go a bit of that
sort of golden-green that they get at the end of the summer—and it was the first time I thought, 'This is home.' And I couldn't put a year on that, I just remember very distinctly that view. All of a sudden, I had left what I thought was always home in Toronto, and all of a sudden, this was home.
David Berry
(expat, former Vue staff writer, current copy editor at the National Post) DB: I often, especially now that summer has finally rolled around, find myself thinking about the High Level Bridge an awful lot. Just all the times that I crossed it one way or the other, whether that was like 25 degrees outside and the sun was coming down, and just biking across it on my way from one thing to another, or at night, usually coming back from one very specific thing. But I find that really reminds me of home, I guess because, without insulting the rest of Edmonton, most of my Edmonton experience was in the one interesting part of town, which is like downtown and Whyte Ave, joined up by the bridge. I spent a lot of time even thinking about how I was going to cross that, or crossing that. VW: When did you realize that it was this special thing for you? DB: I think it was when I found out you could rent the street car to have like a party on top of the High Level Bridge. I heard you could do that once, you could get it for a couple hours, and I thought that would've been awesome, 'cause I always really liked taking that little thing. It was like the LRT route we should've had that never materialized. So I think then I realized, the fact that that appealed to me so much, it made me realize I liked it. And then being here, and thinking back to that, really gets to me. It's just one of those things that I really miss now that I can't be on it at all. VW: Had it changed in your mind at all since you left Edmonton? DB: I think it's taken on this mythic, romantic-like layer, I guess. I don't ever have to think about choking on exhaust as I walk up the hill or anything like that. Now it's perfectly preserved in so much sentimental amber. That's probably changed, but yeah. VW: Any more places come to mind? DB: In slightly more practical terms, I really miss the Garneau Pub. Basically since I officially moved into the city until when I left, I was always fairly close to going there, and it smells like home. I can still smell the stale beer and sadness that made it so appealing. And also, the Dutchess Bake Shop, because there really isn't a bake shop as good as that anywhere else that I've found. Seriously. Totally delicious. More delicious than anything else I've come across. VW: Even in Toronto? DB: Yeah. They don't know how to bake here. That's the conclusion I've come to. CONTINUED ON PAGE 26 >>
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(theatre performer, co-artistic director of indie5) MT: One is Mandolin books, the place that I kind of came across last year when I was working on a project, and I've found I don't go there often enough for them to know my name, but often enough that it feels familiar. It's where I go when I'm obsessing about a project in a creative way, and I sit there, and inevitably every time I've been there I've gotten into a little bit of a neurotic state in my head, gotten up, wandered around with the books and found a book that had to do with whatever I was working on. So I kind of feel that there's a little
bit of synchronicity, you could say, in the place. It's the home for my creative spirit, I guess. And the other place, coming from a place of pure honesty ... there are lots of places that are Edmonton to me, where I look forward to coming back, go to this restaurant or that. But what feels like home for me is the Fine Arts Building at
the University of Alberta. Because that's what brought me here, that's where I became more of an adult, where I got my two best friends, where I found my boyfriend and fell in love, so there's ties of my own personal life in that place too. And it's more just about neat little areas. There's this great place behind the city market building, behind the parking
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lot, and what I love about Edmonton is that it has its random back alleys and backs of buildings that are living stories that are aching to be told. VW: When it comes to the bookstore, when did you realize it was special to you? MT: I was there when I think ... I'd finished
working on Hedda Gabler last year, and I was milling around with certain ideas about other projects to start working on. We had been, I think, at either Culina's out there or another place, and just decided to walk in and check it out and sit down and do some work. And I was kind of obsessing about the bad girls of theatre a little bit, and I started thinking about what has been the notion of a bad girl over time in fiction, and non-fiction and started to wander the store and came across Anna Karenina, and I was like, 'Well there's a bad girl.' And that's actually been fueling an ongoing process with a dear friend of mine that I collaborate with, which we're still working on and contemplatingâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;it's been a yearand-a-half love affair with searching for this information. And that's really where I think it got started. It also feels like it's home to other people, which I like. It's got that community feel, and then over time it's just been spark after spark, and every time I want to be creative, that's where I think of going.
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PREVUE // DANCE TO ROCK
Turn up the ka-boom
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Christian Hansen finds his inner Iggy with revamped Autistics
Live at the Pawn Shop
Fri, Jul 8 (8 pm) Christian Hansen & The Autistics With Paperplanes and Dragonboats Artery, $15
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uitar's my primary instrument, and for a long time it's what I wrote on. And when the Autistics first started to happen, I don't know why, but I was just so bored with playing guitar, I didn't really write on guitar," explains Christian Hansen. "And then, I don't know—then one day it was like, 'I kind of like guitar again.'" It's true Christian Hansen & the Autistics built their reputation as a dance show on pulsing keys and programmed beats, but it started out with a six-stringer. Hansen's first album, The Super Awkward Album, was essentially nine cuts of guitar driven swoops, but it was when the Autistics coalesced around him that he traded the instrument in for keyboards and samples. The resulting album, Power Leopard, leapt away from singer-songwriter stature towards the jungle of the dance floor. "When the Autistics just began, I think I needed to let go of the guitar so we could explore the possibilities of the theatricality of the band," he says. "So now, I think it's about merging that intensity and
that theatricality that we love doing, but merging it more with creating songs live." Hansen and his band —currently just keyboardists Ava Jane Makus and Molly Flood—are now straddling both sounds. Guitar has been creeping back into the live set, as the band rides out a sea change: there have been personnel changes (bassist Scott Shpeley is no longer
rock 'n' roll vibe. "I think it was just ... I'm always changing what I'm into, so I think now what's coming out is all the bands I listened to when I first started to really love music, which was a lot of punk and a lot of really straight-ahead rock 'n' roll. "It was a change that we were all feeling," he continues, "We felt like we needed to start bringing in new elements. Everyone was wanting to actually play their instruments
We felt like we needed to start bringing in new elements. Everyone was wanting to actually play their instruments more.
a member) and the band is in the beginnings of a move to Toronto, originally slated for August but now delayed a few months so they can fit in a flurry of potential tour dates. And there's also this burgeoning creative shift: Hansen notes his songs are moving away from purely dance cuts to songs a little more old-school rock 'n' roll in nature. What that ultimately means will be realized on Dance Floor Death Core, the band's next full-length with a yet-to-be-finalized release date. "I'm not sure where that comes from," he says, of the new-found
more, and then when I started writing these songs that were less dance music, more rock, more new-wavetype stuff, it was just kind of painfully obvious that these new songs would need the kind of a bombastic nature that comes from a live drum kit, and a live guitar and a live rhythm section. The laptop thing, it works, and it certainly is economical in a lot of ways, but, for me, what I care most about is the end result, and nothing compares to that snap of a live kit, a live rhythm section." Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com
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PREVUE // FOLKSY PICKIN'
SCOTT COOK Sat, Jul 9 (4 pm) Empress Ale House (Free)
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hen it comes to his music, it doesn't really feel like Scott Cook has an end goal. As far as clichés go, it's the journey, not the destination that inspires Cook's laid-back folk songs and his musical way of life. Inspired most by the classic American poet Walt Whitman and the original travelling man, Woody Guthrie, Cook has slowly developed a following of fans and critical reviews. Cook's third solo venture, Moonlit Rambles, enjoys a folk backbone while blending in country twang, fireside sing-a-longs and leisurely beach vibes—a mood that sits nicely behind Cook's personal philosophies. "I've always admired folks like Woody Guthrie and travelled after that ethic," says Cook. "I think that's something we can do as singers: go around and try and
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Scott Cook practises peace, love, and understanding
spread peace, love and understanding. That's as simple as I can put it." Certain moments replace Cook's nearly constant fear of making cold-calls to media outlets, radio stations and other things involved in the business side of music. A personal promoter/publicist/ musician in one, the relentlessly busy Cook seems to have built up his craft with a few specific goals in mind. "Festivals are kind of the reason I started doing this—traveling around in the sum-
mer time," says Cook. "Always liked going to festivals, and now I play at them—if I can get paid to do it, that's fine by me." Through his straightforward, calm music and his radically relaxed demeanor, Cook quietly gains new fans and friends— something that makes it all meaningful. "The best part is being able to connect with people and to travel around and see everybody," says Cook. CURTIS WRIGHT // CURTIS@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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PREVUE // GARAGE-ROCK DUO
THE PACK AD Sun, Jul 10 (1:30 pm) Whyte Ave, 103 St stage Part of SOS Fest Complete schedule at sosfest.ca
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here aren't many rock bands that can put "hip-hop feud" on their resume. And although the members of the Pack AD are far from having any sort of gangster swagger, they've had a beef with another pack from day one. "Before we thought that we would be anything, we called ourselves 'The Pack,' not thinking there were other 'Packs,' which of course there were," says drummer, Maya Miller. "We got deleted off of MySpace like four times—we think it was the management team from the rap group the Pack from California." Eventually, the drum-and-guitar garage-rock duo—filled out by guitarist Becky Black—added the AD ("kind of like a Bush X thing"), putting the feud to bed. Not remotely a fan of California's the Pack—who, I'm informed are not even the original Pack—Miller certainly knows a lot about them. "They actually went to theatre school," says Miller, removing any type of hardened street credibility the hip-hop team might have had. "See, I know too much about them! I should start my own book—Pack comparisons." As the Pack AD has moved on from this petty quarrel, the band has had time to focus on its evolving music. Days after the announcement of the group's upcoming album release, the due-inSeptember Unpersons, Miller shakes off the comparisons to duos like the White Stripes and the Black Keys, contending that as a two-piece, such
Pack it up, pack it in
things are bound to happen. If the comparisons haven't ended yet, Miller is confident Unpersons will end them. "There isn't a single blues beat on this new album," says Miller. "We've dropped the whole blues-rock album. It's more ... punk. Punk being a good excuse for sloppiness." Retaining some of the more stereotypical hiphop ethos, Miller laughs that the money hasn't been exactly rolling in for the duo as of yet, but lightheartedly hopes the louder sound can change that. "We'll just keep getting louder and then just stop," laughs Miller. "They'll pay us to stop being so loud. Like, you're too fucking loud. Here's a music cheque, now go away." Looks like the Pack AD does have that swagger, after all. Curtis wright curtis@vueweekly.com
PREVUE // ELECTRO DANCE PARTY
NRMLS WLCM Fri, Jul 8 (8 pm) NRMLS WLCM showcase With Kumon Plaza, Artisan Loyalist, The Paronomasiac, Summer Games, more Pawn Shop, $5
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t's been a while since NRMLS WLCM, the glitched-out electro dance label of Shout Out Out Out Out's Nik Kozub and Jason Troock, let loose any big, jittery vibrations through the Edmonton music scene. Not that those involved with its innerworkings have themselves been silent, but the label itself seems a little more subdued these days, in terms of both output and general visibility. Even this Friday's NRMLS WLCM party, originally intended to be part of SOS Fest, should've been shaking fannies city wide a long time ago: it's almost exactly a year overdue. "Last year at SOS Fest we wanted to do a showcase, and just through complications with what we wanted to do and not being able to secure a venue, and that kind of thing, we wound up not doing it," explains Kozub, taking a break from recording with Shout Out, one of the label's flagship acts, ("We're having a synth day today"). They were a bit more precocious in their planning for a party for SOS year two, marking out their Friday night territory well in advance only to see the Fest get hit with budgetary woes, shrinking from a weekend-long party of club shows in a scattering of venues to a main-stage only, Sunday event. "Our idea that we'd put together looked like it was going to get kiboshed," Kozub says. "But then we just decided to do it anyway. This is the show we were going to do at SOS Fest.
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"I think that people got into the whole vibe of SOS Fest last year, and how there was so much going on in all these different venues," he adds. "You could move around a bunch of different places, and see a bunch of shows, and all the shows seemed to do pretty well, so we wanted people to still have an opportunity to do something like that this weekend, even though it's just the mainstage thing—which will still be great, of course. I'm glad SOS is still doing that." Even though it's not tethered to a weekend of like-minded shows, Kozub's keeping the cost low, with just $5 cover—"A dollar a band. And the DJs come free," Kozub jokes—and pulling out a smattering of acts broken that pull from electro-dance haze that seems to cradle this city: the chillwave rhythms of Kumon Plaza, synth-twiddling electro from Artisan Loyalist, Summer Games' endless, melancholic shimmer, and Kozub's own solo, nonShout Out work as The Paronomasiac—plus "a fairly predictable secret guest." It's not necessarily a showcase of the current NRMLS roster, Kozub notes, but more a showing of the current crop Kozub's interested in. "At this point, Jason and I, we've been meeting a lot and talking a lot about revitalizing what NRMLS WLCM is, and doing more events as well as more releases. Y'know, budget constraints are always in place for us—we're broke dudes—so we want to release more things, and I'm sure we would want to work with all the artists on the bill. The when and how is the issue." Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com
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PREVUE // TRAVELLING PUNKS
// Eden Munro
OLD WIVES
Just how old is your wife, anyway?
Fri, Jul 8 (7:30 pm) With the Weekend Kids, Fire Next Time, Oh Messy Life, the Dizzies Ritchie Hall, $10 (all ages) Sat, Jul 9 (8 pm) With the Weekend Kids, Freshman Years Wunderbar, $7
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wo of Edmonton's pop-punk bands are celebrating new releases by playing kick-off shows this weekend. Old Wives and the Weekend Kids will be touring Ontario together throughout July with new EPs in hand; Liam Harvey Oswald's brash punk outfit Old Wives is set to release Backed In A Corner, and the Weekend Kids have recorded Run This Town, an EP follow-up to the band's 2010 release Friends and Foes. Oswald and company are excited to be out on the road with the Weekend
Kids, who represent the new generation of Edmonton pop-punk bands. But even for Old Wives, relative veterans in Edmonton's punk scene, booking the tour for both bands showed its share of hardships, as Oswald explains. "Booking a tour in Canada was a nightmare," he says. "Most of our shows are in southern Ontario and Quebec, but everything west of there fell apart. It was tough. And then the venue we had booked in Winnipeg flooded." As a fervent believer in DIY, Oswald agrees that the digital age has made it easier for bands to get their music out and get out on the road. By the same token, he notes, it's getting harder to find spaces to play in Canadian cities due to crowded bills. "In the last five, 10 years, it's slowly getting harder because there's more bands who are willing to get on the
road and make something of themselves," he notes. "Promoters won't even open your emails unless you're represented by a label, and a lot of package tours now are taking up more space too. "Ten years ago when Rob [Wright] and I were booking for Les Tabernacles, it was really easy for us to hop on a few dates with Supersuckers or Nashville Pussy. Now with these package tours, there's no chance for local bands to play or jump on a show out of town. "It's unfortunate because I'm pretty proud of our new record—I know the Weekend Kids are too—and, with the exception of us swearing a little too much like we always will, it's definitely more marketable than anything we've done before, where the songs are more catchy and radio-friendly." MIKE ANGUS // MIKEANGUS@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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MUSICNOTES
Flo Rida / Fri, Jul 8 (9 pm) Flo Rida rides into Edmonton on the momentum of his insanely all-over-the-place songs "Low" and "Can't Handle Me Now," in what should be a somewhat-predictable-but-rowdy performance. (Edmonton Event Centre, $36 – $46)
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The Afterbeat / Fri, Jul 8 (9 pm) Straight from the home of the Jets, the two-toned ska sounds of the Afterbeat are synonymous with summer. Welcome the boys from Winnipeg. (New City, $10)
DJ Shadow / Wed, Jul 13 (8 pm) From his debut on the turntablist, genre-inspiring Entroducing..... to his soulful collabs with Jurassic Five DJ Cut Chemist on Product Placement, DJ Shadow (Josh Davis) has become one of the most-respected names in hip-hop DJ culture. DJ Shadow is a legend whose visit to Edmonton is long overdue. (Edmonton Event Centre, $30)
The Consonance / Sat, Jul 9 (8 pm) A soulful and light jazz band kicking off a six-week North American tour, the Consonance will brighten your Saturday night. (New City)
Agaperaygunpexperiments / Sat, Jul 9 (8 pm) And the winner for longest band name is: Agaperaygunpexperiments. Presumably very experimental, the self-proclaimed "art against the frontlines," band is releasing a CD. (Artery, $10)
Titans Eve / Sunday, Jul 10 (8 pm) A metal show in a tiny venue? This could get interesting. Titans Eve's latest album is based on Milton's Paradise Lost, so it might get deep too. (Artery, $10)
The Tragically Hip / Thu, Jul 14 (7 pm) The heart of Canadian music returns to Edmonton with notable openers Broken Social Scene and Hey Rosetta! (Northlands, $59.50)
The Freshman Years / Sat, Jul 9 (8 pm) These pop punks sound like the summer of your Blink 182’s teenage years. Releasing their first full-length, Riverdale, The Freshman Years are part of an album release extravaganza, with the Old Wives and the Weekend Kids releasing new EPs. Show up early to check out Rusty and The Freshman Years set the stage for the Old Wives and the Weekend Kids. (Wunderbar, $7)
Pitbull / Thu, Jul 14 (9:30 pm) Fresh off the release of Planet Pit, Cuban Pitbull is known for his countless cameos and club bangers that will surely all get played at his first Edmonton performance (Edmonton Event Centre, $50)
SLIDESHOW
BLACK KEYS June 29, 2011 / Rexall Place
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NEWSOUNDS
Game of Thrones Ramin Djawadi (Varese Sarabande)
LMFAO Sorry For Party Rocking (Interscope)
Film composer Ramin Djawadi had the same challenge HBO took on when tackling the complexity of George RR Martin's Westeros, relating the intricacies of an entire world of people, cultures and environments without overwhelming the audience. Djawadi has managed to artfully score pieces that highlight the individual nature of different environments in order to create an entire world. Djawadi has aptly paired themes to their cinematic counterparts, without losing a sense of the whole. The stark realities of the North found in Djawadi's theme for the zombie-like white walkers is eerie in its simplicity, and continues to haunt long after listening. While the tracks following the nomadic tribes across the sea focus on drums and traditional folk-music elements. Djawadi has created a soundtrack that manages to encompass the soaring drama in the world of Westeros and create a connection to its characters without overwhelming the listener.
If you've created a party genre of jokerap/club anthems exclusively based on booze, women and excess like LMFAO have, there's really no reason to answer any questions about direction or motivation. Boldly unapologetic, Redfoo and SkyBlu rap/sing over Euro club beats and '80s cheese synth about various liquor brands, their strong desire to throw some money into the air and their sheer confidence that the liquor/money combo will procure throngs of thong-wearing women who they can then throw the money at. It's cyclical. Taken for what it's worth, Sorry For Party Rocking is an album meant for inventing a picture of the hard-partying lifestyle while creating the anthems for it. Oddly infectious club beats with an exclusively summer sound, Sorry For Party Rocking isn't sorry at all—its obnoxious, unreformed and will quite likely own the pop charts. curtis wright // curtis@vueweekly.com
Thievery Corporation Culture Of Fear (ESL Music, Ltd)
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Perhaps now known as the king of chill, Thievery Corporation doesn't roam too far from its established template with each new album. True to form, Culture Of Fear is a satisfactory edition to a pleasurable trip-hoppy, ambient collection. Continuing down a slack path, the group's latest has too much vacancy to really stick out. An ambient, lounge-filled, laid-back groove opens the album on "Web of Deception," followed by album highlight "Culture of Fear," which has a smooth spitting Mr Lif rapping over a minimal bossanova beat. Distinct moments are few and far between from here on out. And rather than being mediocre, what hurts Culture of Fear is the wandering: lacking the real character found on other Thievery Corporation albums—specifically the heavily political Radio Retaliation—Culture Of Fear slips too far into the background to be substantial. Then again, the Washington, DC-based DJ duo has always explored multiple genres, magically compounding them into a cohesive set. Culture of Fear needs that glue. curtis wright // curtis@vueweekly.com
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QUICKSPINS WHITEY HOUSTON
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Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber has long been saddled with an embarrassing comparison to ivory-toothed pop star Donny Osmond, leader of the Osmond Brothers and half of the duo Donny & Marie. A better comparison is to Bobby Curtola, Canada's original teen idol. Not only is Curtola Canadian, but his meteoric rise to fame after being discovered quite by accident—as well as other similarities—closely mirrors the Bieb's experience.
BORN
Justin Bieber March 1, 1994 in London, ON
Bobby Curtola April 17, 1944 in Port Arthur, ON
EARLY EXPERIENCE
Taught himself to play guitar, piano, drums and trumpet. Sang R&B covers for his mother, who would record them and put them on YouTube for family and friends to see.
During Curtola’s second year of high school, he started the band Bobby & the Bobcats, which quickly became the most popular band for sock hops in Port Arthur, ON.
DISCOVERED
Talent manager Scooter Braun accidently clicked one of the Bieb's YouTube links and liked what he saw. He convinced Bieber's mother Pattie Mallette to fly the kid out to Atlanta to record demo tapes. He later introduced him to Usher and got Bieber signed to Island Records in 2008.
In 1959, Curtola was discovered singing at a high school hop by a representative of Tartan Records and signed to a recording contract which produced his first hit, “Hand In Hand With You.”
HAIR
Justin Bieber popularized a mop-top style of hair amongst teenage boys and lesbians.
In the ‘50s and ‘60s, Bobby Curtola’s pompadour hairstyle was popular among rockers, mechanics and fans of the Fonz. It continues to be popular with psychobilly musicians.
NOTED TELEVISION APPEARANCES
David Cook This Loud Morning (RCA)
The Ellen Degeneres Show, The View, CSI
Northcote Gather No Dust (Black Box) Heartfelt and well strummed He sounds like he needs a shower And 1000 hugs
The Bob Hope Show, Dick Clark’s American Bandstand
COMMERCIAL ENDORSEMENTS
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Cheese-based boyish pop Targets teenage wallets and Adult funnybones
Limp Bizkit Gold Cobra (Interscope)
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JUSTIN BIEBER VS BOBBY CURTOLA
Heavy modern rock For albums that I detest This one is not bad
Boris Heavy Rocks 2011 (Sargent House)
CD + LP
Coca-Cola
NOTED FIRSTS
The first artist to have seven songs from a debut album chart on the Billboard 100
The first Canadian artist to have an album achieve “gold” status Awards
AWARDS
Won the "T-Mobile Breakthrough Artist Award" at the American Music Awards in 2010
Made a member of the Order of Canada in 1998
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THU JUL 7 Accent European Lounge The Most Bless'ed Man, Washboard and yhe Beautiful; 9:30pm11:30pm; no minors; no cover Blues on Whyte Tim Vaughn CARROT Café Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm The Docks Thu night rock and metal jam Druid Irish Pub DJ every Thu at 9pm dv8 Acoustic Chaos Thursdays: bring your guitars, basses, drums, whatever and play some tunes Haven Social Club Tracy Thomas, guests (pop/rock); 8pm; $10(adv) The Hideout–Red Deer JR Shore; 9pm J and R Open jam rock 'n' roll; every Thu; 9pm
Brixx Urban DNA– SonReal Where's Waldo Tour: with DJ Rich-A, The Greater Good, Lee'On; 9pm; $10 (adv at Foosh, Blackbyrd) Century Room Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close Chrome Lounge 123 Ko every Thu THE Common So Necessary: Hip hop, classic hip hop, funk, soul, r&b, '80s, oldies and everything in between with Sonny Grimezz, Shortround, Twist every Thu Crown Pub breakdown @ the crown with This Side Up! hosted by Atomatik and Kalmplxx DJ Druid Irish Pub DJ every Thu; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu
Jeffrey's Café Sean Sonego (pop/rock); $10
FILTHY McNASTY’S Punk Rock Bingo every Thu with DJ S.W.A.G.
Latitude 53 Rooftop Patio Series: Round 4: Intervivos; 5pm
FLUID LOUNGE Thirsty Thursdays: Electro breaks Cup; no cover all night
L.B.'s Pub Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred Larose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am
FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian
Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm Naked Cyber café Open stage every Thu, 9pm; no cover NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu Pawn Shop Prepare for Change Pre-Party: New Youth Edmonton, A.O.K. (Assault of Knowledge), Martin Kerr, guests; 8pm (door), 9pm (show) Ric’s Grill Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm Rusty Reed's House of BLues Hippie Junction; $5 Second Cup–Varscona Live music every Thu night; 7-9pm Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey
HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm Level 2 lounge Funk Bunker Thursdays Lucky 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas On The Rocks Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow Overtime–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step rendezvous Metal night every Thu Sportsworld Roller Skating Disco: Thu Retro Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world.ca Taphouse–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves Union Hall 123 Thursdays
Blues on Whyte Tim Vaughn
Wild Bill’s–Red Deer Jordan Cook; 8pm
Brixx bar Bad Acid, Frankie McQueen and The Spins; 9pm; $12 (door)
Wild West Saloon DLO
CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Catalyst CASINO YELLOWHEAD Whiskey Boyz Coast to Coast Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm Double D's Mr Lucky (blues roots) Early Stage Saloon Mick Daley and the Remains (country rock from Australia) Edmonton Event Centre Flo Rida; cancelled, refunds available at points of purchase FRESH START BISTRO live music every Fri; 7-10pm; $10 GAS PUMP The Uptown Jammers (house band); every Fri; 5:30-9pm Haven Social Club Craig Cardiff (folk/rock, singer-songwriter), David Blair, Erica Viegas; 8pm; $15 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$20 (door) The Hideout–Red Deer The Heartbroken; 9pm Irish Club Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover s Jeffrey's Café Dino Dominelli ( jazz trio); $10 Jekyll and Hyde Pub Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover LB's Pub Graham Brown Band Lizard Lounge Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover NEW CITY LEGION The Blame-Its, The Afterbeat, Wild Rose Orchestra, The Social Threat; no minors On the Rocks Exit 303 Pawn Shop NRMLS WLCM: The Paronomasiac, Summer Games, Artisan Loyalist, Kumon Plaza, with DJs Nik 7, Jaycie Jayce, Dane; 8pm (door); $5 (door) Pembina River Nights –Evansburg 100 Mile House, Campus Thieves, Dustin Bentall, Myrol, Rae Spoon, Tatam Reeves, Trevor Tchir, The Weber Brothers, Mary Gauthier, Tania Elizabeth; 4:30pm (fest starts); $130 (gate, 2-day pass incl camping Fri and Sat ); One Day Pass incl camping Sat only; child 14 and under free
Starlite Room SonReal Where's Waldo Tour: DJ Rich-A, The Greater Good, Lee'On; 9pm
Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close
That's Aroma Open stage hosted by Carrie Day, anad Kyler Schogen; 7-9pm
Artery Christian Hansen & The Autistics, Paperplanes, Dragonboats; 8pm; $10
Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close
Atlantic Trap and
River Cree Lynyrd Skynyrd; 8pm; sold out
Gill Chuck Rose (Celtic); 9:30pm
Rose and Crown Stuart Bendall
Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Elis in the House; 8:30pm; $35 (dinner/show)/$15 (show only)
Rusty Reed's House of Blues Jack Semple; $20
Wild West Saloon DLO
DJs 180 Degrees DJ every Thu BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Tight Jams: every Thu with Mike B and Brosnake; Wooftop
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Lounge: various musical flavas including Funk, Indie Dance/Nu Disco, Breaks, Drum and Bass, House with DJ Gundam; Underdog: Dub, Reggae, Dancehall, Ska, Calypso, and Soca with Topwise Soundsystem
FRI JUL 8
Blue Chair Café U22 Songwriter Showcase: Patrick Dunn, James of Darkwood Duo, Kalsey Kulyk, Braden Gates, Jenie Thai; 8pm; $10
VUEWEEKLY JUL 7 – JUL 13, 2011
Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am
Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Starlite Room Distant Calm (CD release), Fringe, The Promethean Labyrinth, People Call It Home; 9pm; $10 (door)
WOK BOX Breezy Brian Gregg every Fri; 3:305:30pm Wunderbar The Moonshine Ramblers with The Burning Streets and James Renton; $5
DJs 180 Degrees DJ every Fri AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Connected Fri: 91.7 The Bounce, Nestor Delano, Luke Morrison every Fri 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 bohemia Black Light Dance Party: featuring DJs Raebot Wijit, Moe Lowe, Des Tone (AKA Synoflex), Lux Nigra, and special projections courtesy of Good/ Morning; no minors; 8pm; $7 (door) 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
SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco Fri Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world. ca Suede Lounge Juicy DJ spins every Fri Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A Temple Options with Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; every Fri Treasury In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long Union Hall Ladies Night every Fri Vinyl Dance Lounge Connected Las Vegas Fridays Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays
SAT JUL 9 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 Artery Agaperygunexperiment (CD launch), Pizzarrea!, Dirty City Hearts; all ages; $10 (door) Avenue Theatre Jae Maze/DoloMite, Chubbsmusic, Esscensemc Rome Angel, Trippz, Prosper; 9:30pm Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the Dog: Cockatoo (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover Blues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Tim Vaughn bohemia Aunty Panty, Flint, Action News Team; no minors; 9pm; $5 (door) Brixx Bar Xplosionation, The Party Martyrs, All the Kings Men; 9pm; $12 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Catalyst
The Druid Irish Pub DJ every Fri; 9pm
CASINO YELLOWHEAD Whiskey Boyz
electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri
Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm
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 junction bar and eatery LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm Level 2 lounge Formula Fridays: Hirshee; 9:30pm Newcastle Pub House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan Overtime–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock Hip hop country, Top forty, Techno Rednex–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri ROUGE LOUNGE Solice Fri Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M and guests; no cover
The Common Goodlife Saturdays: Dane, Twist, Kinsella; 9pm; $5 (door) 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 Double D's Mr Lucky (blues roots) DV8 Without Mercy, Dahlmer's Realm, Until Dawn; 9pm Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain Sean Burns Eddie Shorts Saucy Wenches every Sat Empress Ale House Scott Cook; 7:30pm Filthy McNasty Dana Wylie, Victoria Baldwin; 4pm; no cover Gas Pump Blues jam/ open stage every Sat 3:30-7pm Haven Social Club The Weber Brothers, Chris Carmichael, Lyra Brown (rock); 8pm; $10 (adv at Blackbyrd) The Hideout–Red Deer The Graham Brown Band, Jordan Norman; 9pm; $5 HillTop Pub Open stage every Sat hosted by Blue
Goat, 3:30-6:30pm
Stuart Bendall
10pm
Hooliganz Live music every Sat
Rusty Reed's House of Blues Jack Semple; $20
Buffalo Underground Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night
Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 Jeffrey's Café Diana Stabel (pop/rock singersongwriter); $10 Level 2 lounge Keep it Tight and Bright: featuring DJs K Stylez, Sean Champagne, Wadjit, Rezident Funk, DJ NV, Dezire, Micky Sasso; 9:30pm (door) NEW CITY LEGION Early Show: The Consonance, Noisy Colours, Whiskey Wagon; no minors; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $8 (adv)/$10 (door) O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm On the Rocks Exit 303 Pembina River Nights –Evansburg Audio/Rocketry, Bill Durst, Derek Miller, The Fabulous Ginn Sisters, Fred Eaglesmith, Janet Panic, Jenie Thai, Karen Bryce, Mark Sterling, Mary Gauthier, Souljah Fyah, Tatam Reeves; 12:20pm (music starts); $130 (gate, 2-day pass incl camping Fri and Sat ); One Day Pass incl camping Sat only; child 14 and under free Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am Rendezvous Metal Mountain Fundraiser: Necronaut, Kryosphere, Dire Omen; 8pm (door), $10 Rose and Crown
Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Starlite RooM Miskatonic, Enduring the Fall, Shreddin' Onions; 9pm; $12 (door) West Side Pub West Side Pub Sat Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones (host), all styles, 3-7pm Wild West Saloon DLO WINSPEAR Hip Hop for Hope: 3rd Street Beat; 7pm; benefit concert in support of the Youth Emergency Shelter Society
DJs 180 Degrees Street VIBS: Reggae night every Sat AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat Bank Ultra Lounge Sold Out Sat: with DJ Russell James, Mike Tomas; 8pm (door); no line, no cover for ladies before 11pm 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
Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FLUID LOUNGE Intimate Saturdays: with DJ Aiden Jamali; 8pm (door) FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian GAS PUMP DJ Christian every Sat HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes junction bar and eatery LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm Newcastle Pub Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri 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 Transmission Saturdays: Alt, DJ, punk-rock RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests Sou Kawaii Zen
Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M
Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover
SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco every Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm
Double D's Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm
Suede Lounge DJ Nic-E spins every Sat Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cobra Commander, Battery, Jake Roberts, Ten-O, Cool Beans, Hotspur Pop and P-Rex; every Sat Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by Ryan Maier Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays
SUN JUL 10 artery Devine Equal Tour: Titans Eve, Marry Me, Murder, No Witness; 8pm Beer Hunter–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett Blue Chair Café Sun Brunch: PM Bossa; 10:30am-2:30pm; donations Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun; Don Berner; 6pm; $25 if not dining Crown Pub Band War 2011/Battle of the bands, 6-10pm; Open Stage with host Better Us Than Strangers, 10pm-1am DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every
Eddie Shorts Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm Expressionz café YEG live Sun Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm Expressionz café YEG live Sunday Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm every Sunday The Hide Out–Red Deer Mary Gauthier, Tania Elizabeth; 6:30pm J and R Bar Open jam/ stage every Sun hosted by Me Next and the HaveNots; 3-7pm Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) NEW CITY LEGION Shreddin’ Onions, The Accident Will, Straight 88; no minors O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks Big Rock Jam 2-8 | James Murdoch, Neil MacDonald, Malibu Knights ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm sos festival sosfest.ca • 103 Street Stage: Whyte Ave, 103 Street: Scenic Route to Alaska (alt folk) 12pm; The Pack a.d. (alt punk rock) 1:30 pm; Wool
VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 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 962476 Ave, 780.989.2861 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 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 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 Century grill 3975 Calgary Tr NW, 780.431.0303 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 The Common 10124-124 St, 780.452.7333 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 The Docks 13710 66 St, 780.476.3625 Double D's 15203 Stony Plain Rd, 780.486.1133 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 Empress Ale House 9912 - 82 Ave 780.758.2754 Expressionz Café 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 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 1034182 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 491151st St, Wetaskiwin J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378 The Hideout–Red Deer 411-37400, Hwy 2, Red Deer, 403.348.5309 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 13160118 Ave Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 Naked Cyber café 10354 Jasper Ave, 780.425.9730 Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) Nisku Inn 1101-4 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Orlando's 1 15163-121 St
Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Pembina River Nights –Evansburg Rangeton Park, 780.514.453; asmallshieldmusic.ca/tickets. html Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 1086057 Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 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 10108149 St Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 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 • Summerwood
Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 Sideliners Pub 11018127 St, 780.453.6006 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsworld 13710104 St Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Suede Lounge 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Taphouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca Uncle Glenns 7666-156 St, 780.481.3192 Vinyl Dance Lounge 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com West Side Pub 15135 Stony Plain Rd 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 10028102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295
VUEWEEKLY JUL 7 – JUL 13, 2011
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On Wolves (pop/rock) 2:45pm; The Dudes (rock) 4pm; Gobble Gobble (electronic/pop) 5:30pm • 105 Street Stage: Whyte Ave, 105 St: Luke & Tess Pretty 12:30pm; The Heartbroken (alt rock) 1:45pm; Peter Elkas (rock) 3pm; Little Miss Higgins (blues) 4:30pm
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 Sportsworld Roller Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sports-world.ca
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 NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex
TUE JUL 12 Blues on Whyte Mike Dangerous Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm Edmonton Event Centre Mac Miller, Toa, Yic, Cashew, Addiction, DJ Creeasian; all ages, with licensed area; 8pm (door); $25 at TicketMaster, Foosh (Whyte Ave), Room 322 (124 St), Soular (WEM)
Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover SIDELINERS PUB All Star Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm Sportsman's Lounge Open stage every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro every Tue; with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: From dub to disco: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard Brixx Bar Troubadour Tue: comedy and music with Mike Headache, Matt Alaeddine, and J.P. Fournier; 9pm; $8 Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every CRown Pub Live hip hop and open mic with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, Frank Brown, and guests; no cover
MON JUL 11
L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am
BLACK DOG
O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm
DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue
Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:3010:30pm
FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Tue; dance lessons 8-10pm
R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm
NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover
FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Mike Dangerous Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm kelly's pub Open stage every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm RoseBowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm
DJs
Rexall Place New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, Matthew Morrison; 7:30pm (show); $29.50, $49.50, $69.50, $89.50 Rusty Reed's House of Blues Open Stage: Moses Gregg, Grant Stovel, guest Second Cup–124 Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm SEcond Cup–Stanley
RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue Union Hall New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys, official after party with DJ set by Nick and Howie (official after party); $15 at Union Hall
PREVUE
The Heartbroken
SOS Fest / Sun, Jun 10 (12 – 7 pm) / Whyte Ave / sosfest.ca
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VUEWEEKLY JUL 7 – JUL 13, 2011
WED JUL 13 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Blues on Whyte Mike Dangerous eddie shorts Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE DJ Shadow (dance/electronic); no minors; 8pm (door); tickets at TicketMaster, UnionEvents.com 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 Festival Place Patio Series: Caladh Nua, Gabriel Yacoub; 7:30pm; $8 at Festival Place box office, TicketMaster 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 Early Show: Violet Height (pop/folk); 7pm; $10 (adv); Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, no cover HOOLIGANZ Basler 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 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 Rusty Reed's House of BLues Gord Matthews Band, guest Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm
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 Edmonton Event Centre DJ Shadow (dance/electric); 8pm; tickets at TicketMaster, UnionEvents.com LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/ R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed Starlite Room Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; presents Swollen Members with Wayz, K Blitz, Rezza Reckt, Chubbs; 9pm
EVENTS WEEKLY FAX YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO 780.426.2889 OR EMAIL LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3 PM
COMEDY Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesday's with comedy and music featuring Mike Headache, Matt Alaeddine, and J.P. Fournier • Jul 12, 9pm
Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 • Comedy Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover
Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Shows start at 8pm ThuSat and late show at 10:30pm on Fri-Sat • $12 (Thu)/$19 (Fri/Sat) • Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club presents: Stan Thomson; Jul 8-9 • Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club presents: Damonde Tschritter; Jul 15-16 COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu, 8:30pm; Sat, 8pm and 10pm • Dave Stawnichy; Jul 8-9 • That's Improve; Jul 15-16
Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Felicia Michaels; until Jul 10 • Hit or Miss Monday: Jul 11, 8pm; $7 • Brown on Bourbon: Jul 12, 8pm; $12 • Sean Patton; Jul 13-17 • Hit or Miss Monday: Jul 18, 8pm; $7 • Brown on Bourbon: Jul 19, 8pm; $12 • John Beauhler; Jul 20-24
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave •
CHESS FOR STUDENTS • Roving
Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Edmonton
ChessNuts Training Facility, 203, 12013-76 St • 780.474.2318 • Learning and playing opportunities for students Kindergarten through Grade 12; tournaments, including team matches for elementary schools. All levels; E: societyofchessknights@shaw.ca
Federation of Community Leagues, 7103105 St • ytoastmasterclub.ca • 1st and 3rd Tue, 7-9pm; every month
Devonian Botanical Gardens– Tea events • Devonian Botanical Gardens, Parkland County, 5kms north of Devon, Hwy 60 • Japanese Tea Ceremony: Jul 10 • High Tea at the Garden: High Tea served in the Pine Pavilion overlooking the Grebe Pond: Jul 10
EXPRESSIONZ Café • 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • Marketplace: Artisans and creative businesses; 1st Sat every month, 10-3pm • Old Time and Country Rock Jam/ Dance: 2nd Sun every month, 1-5pm Fair Vote Alberta • Strathcona Library, Community Rm (upstairs), 104 St, 84 Ave • fairvotealberta.org • Monthly meeting • 2nd Thu each month; 7pm
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm
Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm
The Legislature Presents • Alberta Legislature, 10820-98 Ave • Doors Open Edmonton: Gain in-depth knowledge about how the Legislature was built • Jul 8-10
LECTURES/Presentations Are You on the Strathcona County Family Tree? • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • Spend an afternoon with local historians and explore the recently-constructed Strathcona County Family Tree • Sat, Jul 16, 2-4pm • Free, pick-up tickets at the library
Edmonton Transit Historical Tours • Tours depart from North Entrance of City Hall, 9920-103A Ave • takeETS.com • Board one of the historical fleet buses and be entertained with stories of Edmonton’s birth and development, listen to the the stories behind the areas we pass every day • Until Aug 6
Experience the Energy Tours– Fort Mcmurray • Oil sands Discovery Centre, junction of Hwy 63 and MacKenzie Blvd, Fort McMurray • See the inner workings of the oil sands industry • Jul 8-10, 15-17, 22-24, 29-31
STRATHCONA COUNTY GARDEN TOUR • Strathcona County . 780.410.8612 • Presented by the Friends of Strathcona County Library • Sun, Jul 10, 10am-4:30pm • $12 (child 12 and under are free) from the check-out desk at Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park; Aqualine Aquatic Plants, ABC Tree Farms, Country Roads Greenhouses, Salisbury Greenhouse, and at Salisbury Greenhouse or Aqualine on the day of the tour at 9am
780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm
Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Down-
QUEER
hydeaway • 10209-100 Ave • Super
town • Practice group meets every Wed
Awesome Comedy: Talk Show with Scott Belford on alternative weeks: Wed, Jul 13,
MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331-
AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer
104 St; meditationedmonton.org; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm
• Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month
Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Com-
Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious
• 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Amateur night every Wed • Ken Valgardson; Jul 7-9 • Adam Norwest; Jul 14-16
munity Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm; through the summer
and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/ bwedmonton
Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey
BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper
Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge • 12923-
Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • FREE outdoor movement!
Jubilee Auditorium 11455-87 Ave • Just for Laughs Presents Jerry Seinfeld • Jul 8-9 • $90-$140 at TicketMaster laugh shop–Sherwood Park
97 St • 780.758.5924 • Comedy night hosted by Matt Alaeddine, featuring Andrew Iwanyk • Jul 10, 8pm
Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm
AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm
Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420-114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free
Campus Community Garden • U of A Campus Community Garden (N of 89 Ave, betw 110 and 111 St) • su.ualberta. ca/services/ecos/garden/ • Open house • Produce, free vegan BBQ, gardening demos, Music is a Weapon will lead a drum circle • Sat, Jul 9, 11am-2pm • Free
Society of Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner Library, Rm 6-7 • Meet the 1st Tue every month, 7:15pm
Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall
Vegans and Vegetarians of Alberta • Kinsmen Park • Potluck picnic, bring a homemade vegetarian, vegan or raw vegan dish for 6 people, serving spoon, plate, utensils • Sun, Jul 10, 5:15-7pm • Free through the summer
Winspear Centre–Summer Tours • Learn about the Winspear Centre's lobby, chamber, and backstage areas • Jul-Aug; Mon, Jul 18, 10am
WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence Yoga in the Park • St Albert’s Kingswood Park • Sat, Jul 9, Aug 13, Sep 10, 1-2:30pm • $20; register at 780.454.0701 ext 221; e: info@gatewayassociation.ca (drop-ins are welcome)
Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm
EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@ yahoo.ca
G.L.B.T.Q. (gay) African Group Drop-In) • Pride Centre, 9540-111 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Group for gay refugees from all around the World, friends, and families • 1st and Last Sun every month • Info: E: fred@pridecentreofedmonton. org, jeff@pridecentreofedmonton.org GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Co-ed: St. Thomas Moore School, 9610-165 St, coedbadminton@teamedmonton. ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: Oliver School Gym, 10227-
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118 St; badminton@teamedmonton. ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@ teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Lynnwood Elementary School at 15451-84 Ave; Mon, 7-8pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Every Sun morning; running@teamedmonton. ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: Mother Teresa Elementary School at 9008-105A; Amiskiwaciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd; recvolleyball@teamedmonton. ca; volleyball@teamedmonton.ca • YOGA (Hatha): Free Yoga every Sun, 2-3:30pm; Korezone Fitness, 203, 10575-115 St, yoga@teamedmonton.ca
pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Suit Up and Show Up: AA Big Book Study: Discussion/support group for those struggling with an alcohol addiction or seeking support in staying sober; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org; every Sat, 12-1pm • Youth Understanding Youth: LGBTQ youth under 25; Every Sat, 7-9pm; yuyedm.ca, yuy@shaw.ca
G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors that have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Wed, 1-3pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca
Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper
Illusions Social Club • The Junction, 10242-106St • groups.yahoo. com/group/edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm
INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca the junction bar • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • Open daily at 4pm, food service available from the eatery until 10pm; rotating DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm; Movie Monday; Wingy Wed 5-9, and Karaoke at 9pm; free pool Tue-Thu
LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling
MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
Pride Centre of Edmonton • 9540-111 Ave, Norwood Blvd • 780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm; huges@ shaw.ca • Seniors Drop-In: Social/support group for seniors of all genders and sexualities to talk, and have tea; every Tue and Thu, 1-4pm; tuff@shaw.ca • TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:30-9:30pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Community Potluck: For members of the LGBTQ community; last Tue each month, 6-9pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellorsevery Wed, 6-9pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free; admin@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Prime Timers Games Night: Games night for men age 55+; 2nd and last Fri every month; 7-10pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Art Group: Drawing and sketching group for all ages and abilities; every Sat, 11am-2-
St Paul's United Church • 1152676 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm
Youth Intervention and Outreach Worker • iSMSS, U of A • 780.248.1971 • Provides support and advocacy to queer youth 12-25; you don't need to be alone
Youth Understanding Youth • yuyedm.ca • Meets every Sat, 7-9pm • E: info@yuyedm.ca, T: 780.248.1971
SPECIAL EVENTS 4th Annual Green Festival • Devonian Botanical Gardens, Parkland County, 5kms north of Devon, Hwy 60 • Go green at the Devonian Botanic Garden • Jul 17 Alberta Historic Festival • Alberta Legislature, 10820-98 Ave, and various venues • Step back in time with a free guided tour led by a costumed tour guide • Jul 8-17
Doors Open Edmonton • albertahistory.org • Free tours of architecturally significant buildings in and around Edmonton • Jul 8-10
The Handmade Mafia • Strathcona Baptist Church, 8318-104 St • Monthly community handmade market • Jul 15-16
Historic Festival • Festival features special events and activities at Museums and Historic sites in Edmonton and across Northern Alberta • Jul 8-17
International Street Performers Festival • Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 100 St, 102 Ave • Jul 8-17
Lap the Track • Edmonton Indy Track, City Centre Airport • 10 km race; fundraiser for spinal cord research and treatment • Sun, Jul 17, 6pm • Pre-register at lapthetrackedm.com
Sourdough River Festival • Terwillegar Park to Rafter’s Landing, North Saskatchewan River • sourdoughraftrace. com Sunday pancake breakfast in support of YESS. Canoers; large comedy rafts launch to water-fight down the North Saskatchewan • Jul 16-17 Summerfest and Auction • Millennium Place, Sherwood Park • mccreliefsale.com • 1.888.622,6337 • Bike-a-thon, beef supper, live and silent auction, food booths, children's entertainment Wall-E, musicians, fiddlers and bands on Fri. Auctions, food booths, antique car show on Sat • Jul 8-9, 8am; supper at 4:30-7pm • Fundraiser for International, National and Local relief
walk for animals • Meeting at Earth's General Store, 96 St, Whyte Ave • safeteam.ca • A 5km walk through Mill Creek Ravine • Sat, Jul 23, 12-3pm
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MATT JONES // JONESINCROSSWORDS@vueweekly.com
"Better Living Through Chemistry" —a simple formula.
FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) It's my observation that women find it easier than men to tune into their natural rhythms. The menstrual cycle helps cultivate that ability. We men experience less dramatic physical shifts, and that seems to give us license to override messages from our bodies for the sake of ambition, laziness or convenience. But whatever gender you are, I believe that in the coming weeks it's crucial for you to be acutely aware of what's going on inside your beloved flesh-and-blood vehicle. This is one time when you need to be intimately aligned with its needs. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) One of the greatest kings of the ancient Persian Sassanid Empire was Shapur II (309-379). Shortly after his father died, he was made king while still in his mother's womb. Officials set his crown upon his mother's pregnant belly. He ruled from then until the day he died, 70 years later. I'm naming him your patron saint for the second half of 2011. My sense is that the seed of some great accomplishment is already germinating within you. It may take a while to be fully born, but I suggest we consecrate its bright future now.
Across 1 Stirs (up) 6 The Emerald Isle 10 Far from appetizing 14 Go with the flow 15 "___: First Class" 16 Matty or Felipe of baseball 17 Result of The Hulk's first press conference? 19 Darkness 20 Toilet paper layer 21 Two-___ (some bathing suits) 23 Wanna-___ (poseurs) 24 Half of zwei 25 Font close to Verdana 27 Where a journalist's stories get turned in 31 Iditarod finish line 32 Analgesic target 33 Rather than 37 Greek letters that look like P's 38 Shoes near the Reeboks and Nikes 39 Ceremonial act 40 Come out on top 42 Yours and mine, in the sticks 43 "I screwed up" 44 Jon running for president 47 Chinese fondue 49 Indie rock band ___ Riot 50 Tool paired with a bucket 51 Huffington behind the Huffington Post 53 ___-tai (cocktail) 56 Working away 58 "Let's see who can prepare for their colonoscopy first," et al? 60 Jupiter's Greek counterpart 61 Scott Baio co-star Moran 62 "Moon Over ___" (original theme song for The Drew Carey Show) 63 Muppet who speaks in the third person 64 Stunned state 65 French section of the Alps
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Rent star Anthony Adam Lambert was on it Word before Gaga or Antebellum Prefix for dermis "I'm with ___" (T-shirt phrase) Over the top Candy-colored computer
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8 Stopwatch button 9 Contest participants 10 "___ the lizard king" (Jim Morrison) 11 Nightspot where you can't be too big or too small? 12 Asian peninsula 13 Big laughs 18 "I got dibs!" 22 Jimmy Choo specialty 24 Viewing range 26 Brash contestant on The Apprentice 27 Sales rep's handout 28 Number learned on Dora the Explorer 29 Drug that's only smoked in pictures? 30 Jewish delicacy 34 Gloomy 35 ___ vez (again, in Spanish) 36 Actress Sherilyn of Twin Peaks 38 Soaked up 41 Early baseball Hall-of-Famer ___ Rixey 45 Word said a lot by Mork 46 Vagabonds 47 Baltic Avenue building 48 Headwear for Miss America 50 Activity on a placemat 52 Tombstone locale: abbr 53 Game show producer Griffin 54 Sphere start 55 Words before "old chap" 57 1800s Chinese general now found on menus 59 Lamb lament ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords
LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS
GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) I've got no problem with the real world. But I also consider myself a militant lobbyist for all the Other Worlds— the domain of everything that's invisible to the naked eye and irrelevant to the schemes of the rational ego. These alternate realities consist of the unconscious, the dreamtime, the spiritual sphere and the realm of the ancestors. In my astrological opinion, you're due for a major upgrade in your relationship with these dimensions in the next 12 months. Now would be a good time to get started. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) While listening to the sound collage radio program "Over the Edge" on KPFA, I learned that a new primary color has been detected. It has its own distinct hue that's impossible to describe. Discovered by Dr Wohan Squant, he has named the color "squant." I wish I could predict you're about to create or find something equally revolutionary, but I can't go quite that far. Nevertheless, you've entered a phase when you have the power to tinker with and even transform fundamental laws of your universe. So who knows? Maybe you're on the verge of a shift almost as revolutionary as the discovery of squant. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) Are you feeling the sting of disappointment? Maybe you should consider the possibility that you are simply getting an opportunity to correct a misunderstanding— that life isn't being mean to you and you're not being punished. I'd like to propose that you are, in fact, in the first phase of your healing. Listen to Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore: "We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us." VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) "The more one dwells on oneself," says psychoanalyst Adam Phillips in his book Going Sane, "the more one is likely to suffer." He thinks people need to avoid excessive introspection. "My project as a psychoanalyst," he writes, "is to free them to not have to think about their lives so much." While I feel he overstates the case, I do suspect his message would be good for you to heed in the coming weeks. For maximum success and robust mental health, take a generous portion of your attention off yourself and focus it on living your life with compassion, curiosity and concern for others.
VUEWEEKLY JUL 7 – JUL 13, 2011
ROB BREZSNY // FREEWILL@vueweekly.com
LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) "One must choose in life between boredom and suffering," proclaimed author Madame de Staël. I beg to differ. After analyzing the astrological omens, I expect you will consistently steer a middle course between boredom and suffering, being able to enjoy some interesting departures from the routine that don't hurt a bit. There may even be pain-free excursions into high adventure mixed in, along with a fascinating riddle that taxes your imagination in rather pleasurable ways. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) I accompanied a friend and his family to a small fairgound where a local school was having a fundraiser. Right away we came to an activity that involved climbing a ladder made out of rubber and coated with some slippery substance. One girl, about seven years old, was having a moment of rowdy bliss as she tried to ascend. "It's impossible—but fun!" she cried out to her mom. Your assignment in the coming week is to find an adventure like that: one that's impossible but fun. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) "It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape," wrote Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. "It is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly." I'm alerting you to the fact that a new truth is now floating into your world. It'll be misty and sparkly, yet somehow also decisive and lucid. It will be sharply tonic, like good, strong medicine that has a pungent yet oddly delicious flavor you've never tasted before. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) If there were a useful website with the domain name AmIAGoodPersonOrNot.com, I would advise you to go check it out. The same is true if there were websites like AmIAuthenticOrNot.com, AmIYummyOrNot.com. What I'm trying to tell you, is that this would be an excellent time for you to find out more about yourself from objective sources—or any other kind of sources, for that matter. Solicit feedback. Ask for updates on how you're doing. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) Ninety-six percent of all adults say they would change something about their appearance. That statistic leads philosopher Jonathan Zap to observe: "Suffering associated with body image has reached such epidemic proportions in our culture that it must be counted as one of the greatest spiritual plagues ever to be visited upon mankind." The good news is that the coming months will be an excellent time for learning to be at more peace with how you look. I invite you to formulate a three-point plan to come to a perspective in which you will love your body exactly the way it is. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) On her website Reuniting.info, Marnia Robinson reported a discovery that may be useful to you. Wandering around a county fair, she encountered an animal trainer who had an alligator resting serenely on his lap. She asked him why the creature was so well-behaved. "I pet it daily," he said. "If I didn’t, it would quickly be wild again, and wouldn’t allow this." Apply that lesson in your own life. Bestow regular tenderness and loving touch to the feral, untamed, primitive influences in your life—including any that may reside within you. V
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All You Can Eat Yoga Everyone welcome! Thursday's starting July 7 at Solis Wellness 5016 - 106 Ave ----------------------------------------New 4 week yoga session's starting July 11 include: Seniors, Parents, Mums'n'Tots, Pre & Post Natal. at Birth Source 5024-106 Ave. ----------------------------------------Info: 7thayceyoga@gmail.com (780)909-WELL(9355)
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Lite 95.7 Community Scoop Strollerobics is a great way To stay active and spend time with your new baby For all the information Check out www.edmonton.ymca.ca
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Personals
From Sweden --- Very attractive educated lady with no children looking to meet friends or a gentleman. Looking for fellow social drinker and non-smoker, 45-50 years old, well educated. 780.453.7957
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Legal Notices
Notice: the following individuals have recorded their Secured Party Creditor documents at the Washington State UCC office. Myrna Mae Winch, Sharon Rose Tischer, Christine Anna Harmacy
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Help Wanted
CommuniTEA Infusion, a community building project across Edmonton, looking for Volunteers. Info: edmontonlearningcommunity.co m/communitea.html Contact: 780-801-3231
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Words will always hurt
We need Edmonton Public School Board's LGBTQ policy On a weekly basis we hear about teams and coaches finally doing someone who made a comment that something to better the sports world they shouldn’t have. New York's for queers, it's a problem that there Brown Coffee Co's anti-gayhas never been a player who marriage tweet lost them has declared his queerness tons of business last week. while playing in any proOr Tracy Morgan's hofessional sports league in m o eekly.c @vuew mophobic stand-up rant, North America. By fining tamara a Tamar which was full of hate, inhomophobic comments, ka l Gorza sulting victims of bullying, who are we helping? They're called us a variety of names and making the arenas safe for us and made it clear that he may not even forgetting about the kids who never think homosexuality exists. make it to the locker room. Public pressure forced Morgan to apologize by filming a PSA and As usual, the solution starts with youth. In that area, Edmonton is meeting with offended audience ahead of the curve. Since Queermembers. Maybe he meant it, maymonton last profiled it, the Edmonbe it was all just a part of the game. ton Public School Board's policy to Punishing homophobes is a tricky protect LGBTQ students is moving one: what counts as good compenahead. At the end of spring, the pubsation for hurt feelings? lic was encouraged to answer a surIn professional sports, athletes vey regarding the policy and more pay cash for offensive comments. than 2000 responses were sent in. Players who have made homophoI spoke with School Trustee and bic comments, usually a slur hurled queer ally Sarah Hoffman to find at another player or ref, are fined. out if Edmontonians are ready to The NBA's Kobe Bryant and Jaokim recognize that homo/transphobia Noah were both recently fined for is a significant threat to students. throwing the other f-word at a refHoffman was clear: "They can't help eree and an opposing fan, respecbut do it, remember last fall? Young tively. Bryant’s fine was $100K out people who took their own lives beof the several million he's taking cause they didn't feel safe and inhome this year. cluded in their communities. If we While it's an improvement to see
pretend it isn't an issue, we fail our students." The policy is meant to ensure that all EPSB schools are welcoming and supportive of queer students, but also of queer staff and families. The resolution passed in the spring and is now being developed by a committee and will be presented back to the board in the fall, where it will have to pass three readings. Hoffman tells me repeatedly that this policy aims to create a safe, respectful and inclusive environment: a benefit to all of Edmonton's students. The terms she uses go beyond simple tolerance and extend to making sure that LGBTQ kids are valued and welcomed into school. Hoffman recommends contacting your trustee to show your support, especially youth, saying that to the school board, "A voice of one student means the same as the voice 10 parents." Vowing to fight bullying should not be a contentious issue. Slowly, with people like Hoffman on our side, we can create environments that are supportive, nurturing and free of put-downs and slurs. If we get it right when they're young, maybe we won't need to fine anyone on the basketball court. V
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Gay marriage and a flacid penis
Not to mention The Book of Mormon and a man interested in something more Three months ago, I met a woman who the night before we saw The Book of I'm really into physically, emotionally Mormon. And, hey, being in New York and mentally. She's someone I could for the marriage-equality victory was see myself with. Problem is, when we nice. It was great. But The Book of started having sex, she insisted on Mormon—holy shit! a condom for birth control. I OK, FLACID, if your dick E SAVAG haven't worn one in probgoes limp once you put it ably eight or nine years. (I'm inside her, stop putting it m ekly.co e 33 now.) I would be hard, inside her. Just for now. w e u e@v agelov then put on the condom and sav Have oral sex, masturbate n Da e g start having sex, and go limp together, have lots of imagia v a S because of the feel. This hapnative, non-penetrative sex, all pened many times over the first couple the while paying careful attention to months, leading to frustration on both her vulva, clit, orgasms, etc. A few our parts. She went on the pill a couple dozen successful, low-stress sexuweeks ago to deal with the issue, but al encounters with your girlfriend now I've got a mental issue going on should help break the association and still go limp once we start having your dick has made with her and failsex. As soon as I get inside her, it's all ure. Good luck. I think about and things turn to shit. I feel like it's not a physical problem, Yay, we won gay marriage in New as it hasn't happened before, so I'm York. I'm so happy, I could cry. But not not sure that drugs would even work. I tears of joy. Here's the deal: I support don't know what to do. It's at the point gay marriage. I'm a freakin' lesbian. of ruining this relationship. I've been with my partner for 10 years. Futile Limp-Ass Cock Is Dreadful We live together. We're the proud parents of the two cutest dogs ever. We Before I get to your question, FLACID, suffer through each other's families I wanna pull rank—it's my column, and we're treated as a married couple people—and briefly mention the for all intents and purposes by everystaggeringly amazing thing that hapone in our lives. I've made passionate pened two weekends ago while I was speeches to friends and family memin New York: the 8 pm performance of bers about the importance of gay marThe Book of Mormon at the Eugene riage. So in 30 days, we can get marO’Neill Theater on the Saturday of ried in New York. Everyone will expect Pride weekend. I didn't think it was us to get married. But I don't want to. possible, but Trey Parker, Robert LoI'm happy in my relationship, I have no pez and Matt Stone's brilliant new plans to leave, but I don't want to be musical about well-intentioned Mormarried. I think part of the strength of mons on a mission exceeds the hype. our relationship comes from being toIt's the funniest, dirtiest, smartest gether because we want to in the mothing that this showqueen has ever ment, not because we promised to in seen on Broadway. a moment that has long passed. How Yeah, yeah, something else happened do I tell my partner and everyone else in New York while I was in town: a bill that I love her with all my heart but legalizing same-sex marriage was apdon't want to marry her? Or anyone proved by the state legislature, and else, ever? Defense Of Marriagephobic Asshole signed by Governor Andrew Cuomo,
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Same-sex marriage is legal in New York, DOMA, not compulsory. But instead of telling your partner that you don't want to marry her, or anyone else, ever, tell her you need time. This freedom is new, hard won and not going anywhere. There's no rush to commit to committing, DOMA, and no rush to commit to never committing. And you might want to ask your girlfriend how she feels. If she hasn't been dropping hints, picking out china or proposing, it's possible that she feels just as conflicted or ambivalent about marriage as you do. I’ve just ended a four-year relationship with a great man who didn't lay his kink cards on the table until way too late. He's your typical straight guy
Hey, being in New York for the marriage-equality victory was nice. It was great. But The Book of Mormon—holy shit! with a she-male fetish. Apparently, the dom pegging I provided wasn't enough, because I found a secret email account where he was soliciting she-male escorts. I'm genuinely more pissed that he didn't tell me he wanted to explore this—real cock—and didn't give me the opportunity to make his fantasy fit into our life together. I can't tell if any of these escorts ever met with him, and in usual heteromale fashion, he is mortified that I know about his darkest cock-fetish secret at all. So my question is this: as a GGG girlfriend who would honour just about any fantasy, is this secret search for a stranger the betrayal I think it is? I get it that our play isn't the same as the real thing, but isn't cheating cheating? Willing But Not Enough
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The snooping-is-wrong absolutists will shit themselves if "snooping is wrong" doesn’t appear somewhere in this response. So here it is, gang, right at the top. Heck, I'll toss it out again— "snooping is wrong"—even though I disagree. No long-term relationship is snoop-free, just as no long-term relationship is lie-free, porn-free or thinking-about-fucking-someone-elsewhile-I'm-fucking-you free. And when a little snooping uncovers something like this, well, it's retroactively selfjustifying. On to your question, WBNE: your ex's secret search is the betrayal that you think it is. No question. Cheating is cheating, and the kind of cheating your ex was engaged in or contemplating amounts to a Very Serious
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Betrayal. He put you at risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection*, assuming he saw a sex worker, or he was thinking about putting you at risk, assuming he was about to. And it was all so unnecessary: he had a GGG girlfriend who he could've opened up to about his secret kink. He could've negotiated a deal that allowed him to explore this without betraying you or putting you at risk. But he didn't ask for permission because he was deeply ashamed, first, and terrified of losing you, second. And now he's really got something to be ashamed of—the lying and sneaking around—and he's lost you. Unless ... Unless you can find it in your heart to forgive him. His kink cards are face up on the table now; you know his deepest,
darkest sexual fantasies, and, more importantly, he knows you know. Yes, he betrayed you, but forgiveness is meaningless if it's limited to trifles and never comes after a Very Serious Betrayal. If his kink is something you would've signed off on had he gone about things differently, perhaps you could take him back on the condition that he go about things—finding things, sucking things, getting fucked by things**—very, very differently from now on. *I'm not saying that a man who visits a sex worker is automatically going to get a sexually transmitted infection; a good sex worker is typically more thoughtful about sexual safety than your average freebie slut. But outside sexual contact is outside sexual contact. Whomever it involves, it involves risk for the insider back at home, and it should be disclosed and discussed in advance. **I'm not calling MTF sex workers "things." I'm calling their things things. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.
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It finally feels like summer and it's the perfect time to be on the patio, taking in the sights and sounds of the street with child-like wonder. When I look around, it's the simple, ubiquitous things that strike me as most inherent to Edmonton's visual environment. Take this chalk drawing on the cement at Churchill square. It is perhaps the artist's first foray into public art. It has opened up possibilities never before imagined by her young
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mind, the infinite interactive opportunities that exist where the hand meets the surfaces of the city, the malleability of public views, the ability to contribute to the urban culture she now belongs to. V Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and avid flâneur. Back Words is a discussion of her explorations in Edmonton and a photographic diary of our local visual culture.
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