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Watching the watchers The unfolding saga of Rupert Murdoch and his News of the World is quickly turning a John Grisham novel into an unthinkable reality. Allegations of phone hacking have quickly drawn in questions of complicity by the London police, Prime Minister David Cameron's top communications advisor, and David Cameron. Many are calling this a sign of media's fall from grace, the shameful actions of an unworthy industry, but there is more wrong here than the inappropriate standards of the tabloid industry. Consolidation of the media has become standard practice in the past 20 years and Rupert Murdoch has been at the forefront of that push. Granted several waivers by the FCC to own more media properties in more markets than other companies, he owns The Wall Street Journal, Fox News, the New York Post and two film studios. Significantly, he owns over 28 local television stations across the US which means there are cities in the States that are exposed to Murdoch's vision of the world from multiple news sources, with one voice. When Murdoch is a willing guest and present force in the newsrooms of his media outlets, their editorial ability to criticize news from anything other than
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his position becomes compromised. This was witnessed earlier in the week when The Wall Street Journal, a respected and highly influential paper, ran a questionable editorial defending Murdoch's ownership and stewardship of the paper. Murdoch is an ever-present force in the operations of his company, including those in the United States. All of this makes him an influential man when it comes time for elections. Rarely do we get the opportunity to see how this affects the media's ability to be that fourth estate, the check on government and power. We are seeing just how deep an influence Murdoch and his company had on the British government and police. John Yates, a high ranking metro police officer, decided to resign for a reason—just as he decided to open, and then suddenly close, an investigation into phone hacking two years ago. The situation is not isolated to the US or Britain. Only six companies in Canada own the majority of media outlets—radio, telvision and print. Our regulators have placed a significant amount of power in hands of only six companies and while we are reluctant to limit the freedom of the press, this should not equate to abuse by its owners. V
Your Vue is the weekly roundup of your views on our coverage. Every week we'll be running your comments from the website, feedback on our weekly web polls and letters sent to our editors.
LAST WEEK'S WEBPOLL RESULTS
THIS WEEK'S POLL Provincial energy ministers from across Canada met this weekend in Kananaskis to discuss a national energy strategy. There was concern the discussions did not include enough talk of renewable energy.
Should a national energy strategy encourage the integration of renewable energy such as wind and solar?
Edmonton's SOS Fest happened this past week. This year the Fest was scaled back from three days to just one. What did you think of the event this year?
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This is a rad festival and more time and money should be put toward it!
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I was there, but it seemed pretty ramshackle this year
37.5% I didn't go. My life is boring
COMMENTS FROM POLL "None of the above. A free concert with 10 bands is pretty darn good by anyone's standards. Lots of time and money were put into it. There were no funds for a three day festival."
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1. Yes, we need to diversify our energy sources. 2. No, those technologies are unproven and unreliable. 3. We shouldn't have a national energy strategy.
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Missed opportunity
Business and environmental advocates hoped for emphasis on green energy in national talks
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he oil industry, the Alberta government, and environmental groups all agree on the need for a national energy strategy, but where that strategy takes Canada's energy future was a subject of debate this past week. Energy ministers from across the country gathered in Kananaskis to discuss the potential for a national energy strategy and environmentalists and entrepeneurs took the opportunity to petition the energy ministers to take Canada's national strategy in the direction of renewables, clean energy and zeroemission sources, while the federal government is looking to ensure the regulatory process for large scale energy projects becomes less cumbersome. Called for by Alberta's Energy Minister, Ron Liepert, the meeting this past week resulted in some joint cooperation between provinces recognizing the need for a new energy strategy. Ministers recognized the need to build a strategy based on efficiency, regulatory reforms and directed toward international trade. But even before ministers' had a chance to congregate in Kananaskis, concerns arose that one third of the costs of the three-day conference were being sponsored by oil indus-
try heavyweights such as Shell, Enbridge and the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers. It's a move that has not happened at any previous meeting of energy ministers and many feel compromises the ability of ministers to act independently. John Bennett, executive director of the Sierra Club, believes the sponsorship of the event corrupts the outcome. "We can either take the path that leads to a clean, renewable energy future and new economy, or we can be willfully blind, pretend climate change isn't happening, and go along with big oil's vision of a tar sands-driven, pipeline-filled, carbon-intense and polluted North America," said Bennett in a statement just before the conference. The joint statement at the conclusion of conference only served to increase those concerns. Energy ministers agreed to call the tar sands a "sustainable" source of energy, something the Pembina Institute believes raises questions about the goal of the national energy talks. "Nonrenewable, high-carbon sources of energy are by their very nature unsustainable. Canada needs to plan for a transition away from depending on exports of such sources, like the oilsands," says Ed Whittingham, execu-
tive director of the Pembina Institute. "A national energy framework needs to seize the economic opportunities offered by clean energy and achieve Canada's climate targets. Unfortunately, the documents released today failed to make either addressing climate change or supporting renewable energy a priority."
Participants in the open sessions of the conference such as Tides Canada were hoping the focus of the strat-
path. The rest of the world is moving much faster than we are," says Smith. "People are innovating new technology that will become the norm and if Canada doesn't invest in those technologies, we're going to be buying them from other countires." While the joint release from the ministers at the Kananaskis conference makes mention of the need to "grow Canada's status as an environmentally responsible energy supplier," the emphasis appears to be on the need to
Non-renewable, high-carbon sources of energy are by their very nature unsustainable. Canada needs to plan for a transition away from depending on exports of such sources, like the oilsands.
egy would be stronger on the need to move quickly to integrate green energy into the economy. Green energy development is moving rapidly internationally and Merran Smith believes Canada needs to move quickly. Smith is the director of energy initiatives at Tides Canada and presented on a vision of Canada being a clean energy economy by 2050, a vision over 150 businesses have signed on to. "We feel like Canada's at a crossroads and we need to decide to move down this
decrease regulatory approvals processes for national energy projects with the goal being the creation of a one project/one review system of approvals. But the one review process only creates greater concern for environmental advocates who believe the environmental review process to be insufficient as it stands. Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner Keith Stewart believes the emphasis should have been placed on greater environ-
NewsRoundup RICH GET RICHER The income gap between Canadians is growing. According to a new report by the Conference Board of Canada, an independent research group, points to a growing gap between the richest Canadians and the poorest. The gap has been growing over the past 20 years and reached 32 percent in the early 2000s. According to the report, this means 32 percent of Canada's national income would have to be redistributed in order to create a fair distribution of income across all Canadians. The Conference Board points out that despite the fact that real income per capita has increased by 17 percent since 1976, only the richest group of Canadians has managed to increase its share of national income, with most gains
mental investment and regulation rather than increasing the speed of approvals processes. "It's hard to imagine that anyone who has watched the breakneck pace of tar sands expansion honestly believes that the problem is that the approvals process is too slow. Our real problem is that the planet can't take the punishment we're dishing out," says Stewart. "The solution to that problem is to break our addiction to fossil fuels by rapidly ramping up investment in energy conservation and green energy like wind, solar and geothermal energy to create the good, green jobs that come with stopping global warming." The ministers' announcement comes just a few months after the premier's panel on economic strategy recommended that Alberta needs to transition away from dependence on oil exports due to its unsustainability. As well, just weeks ago the Alberta environment minister's independent panel revealed the need for greater environmental monitoring in the tar sands and for it to be more scientifically stringent. Energy ministers will not be meeting again until September of next year in Charlottetown. samantha power samantha@vueweekly.com
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UNEQUAL ACCESS TO WATER going to the super rich. The super rich are gaining their income not from assets but from growing income and extravagant benefits packages. American economist Paul Krugman explains, "If the quintessential high-income American circa 1905 was an industrial baron who owned factories, his counterpart a hundred years later is a top executive, lavishly rewarded for his labors with bonuses and stock options." Krugman also believes the inequality is growing due to a declining rate of unionization, stagnating minimum wage, deregulation and national policies favouring the wealthy. The average income for the poorest group in the Canadan economy rose only $2000 from $12 400 in 1976 to $14 500 in 2009.
At the Assembly of First Nations AGM, Council of Canadians executive director Maude Barlow pledged her organization's support to advocating for access to clean drinking water and sanitation for all Aboriginal people in Canada. "Almost one year ago to this day, the United Nations acknowledged that water and sanitation is a fundamental human right, equal to other rights that are enforceable under international law." said Barlow in her speech. "Even though the Harper government shamefully abstained from the vote recogniz-
ing the right to water, it is nonetheless bound by an obligation to ensure the peoples of Canada enjoy that right." In 2010 over 130 communities in Canada had to deal with inadequate access to clean water. The Auditor General's report released this past spring highlighted the failure of Canada to uphold the international right to water for Aboriginal populations. The report revealed that since an earlier audit in 2005, the federal government has failed to regulate water supplies on reserves despite having
primary jurisdiction. As well, there were no regulations monitoring the quality and safety of drinking water on reserve. "The Council of Canadians is very keen to work with the Assembly of First Nations to address the crucial issue of water and sanitation on First Nations communities across the country," said Barlow, "[as well as] use the two historic UN resolutions recognizing the human right to drinking water and sanitation to dramatically improve the situation."
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PRISON COST EXPLODES According to government reports, the cost of prisons in Canada has increased since the Harper government took office in 2005. Over the past five years prison costs have jumped 86 percent, with federal budget predictions projecting the prison system will cost Canadians $3.15 billion by 2013. The Harper government's plan for increasing the construction of new prisons came under fire in the spring session
when the government refused to reveal the cost breakdowns of their law and order agenda, which included the construction of new prisons. The government's continued refusal to reveal cost breakdowns and allocations for the prison plan led to former Speaker Peter Milliken ruling the government was in contempt of Parliament and was the first step toward the election this past spring.
"What matters is the recovery of the integrity of Britain’s governing elites." —Former newspaper baron and current baron Conrad Black, Baron Black of Crossharbour, in reference to the News of the World scandal July 15, 2011 thestraight.com
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Aboriginal right to water should be an issue Youth from 30 countries gather to learn the essentials of the current water crisis Wed, Jul 27 – Sat, Jul 30 Global Youth Assembly Centennial Centre for Interdisciplinary Studies University of Alberta campus youthassembly.ca for complete info
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anika Littlechild has been taking time from practising law on her home reserve of Ermineskin to work on Bill S-11, a bill dealing with issues of safe drinking water for First Nations people in Canada. This week her experiences will take on new meaning at the Global Youth Assembly here in Edmonton, where she'll be speaking about the correlation between water and indigenous people. VUE WEEKLY: Tell me a little bit about the work that you have done with water and indigenous people's perspective on it. Danika Littlechild: For the last couple years I've been a graduate student at the University of Victoria, Faculty of Law. The focus of my graduate work is water management and indigenous people in Canada. [I've also been] serving as an advisor on the Assembly of First
Nations Water Technical Advisory Committee. VW: How important is this topic for young people to understand? DL: I think it's of vital importance simply because I think it's one of the fundamental challenges that all generations of Canadians are facing. More so the younger generations in terms of having to deal with issues of water scarcity and issues around protection of existing source water and issues around resolving conflicts when it comes to water disputes. I think as younger generations we all really need to understand how it is that we manage water in an integrated and collaborative way to ensure that we have it for years to come and that it remains something that is an existing and viable resource for us. VW: So when you get up on the stage to talk at the Global Youth Assembly, what sorts of issues do you plan to raise? DL: I'm just going to speak from my experience working with First Nations in Canada. I think one of the
misconceptions is that in Canada we don't have any existing water crisis. It's important for Canadians as a whole to understand that we do in fact have many challenges facing us with respect to water, and a lot of different issues related to management of water, access, qual-
it doesn't only prescribe a monetary value or a value based on water as a commodity—it's much more than that. It provides balance for ecosystems for biodiversity, but it also has this cultural and spiritual role in Cree history in terms of our creation stories, ceremonies and our
The Cree understanding of [water] doesn't only prescribe a monetary value or a value based on water as a commodity—it's much more than that.
ity and ensuring that we have it for future generations. VW: Water plays a pretty big spiritual role in First Nations Culture. Tell me a little about your experience. DL: Basically, the Cree language operates on the principle of life force. So understanding what elements of ourselves and our environment have an inner life force determines how those elements are described. It defies reduction to a mere resource. The Cree understanding of
own legal orders or laws regarding human interaction and the use of water. VW: What kind of change in attitude do you think people need to have in order to conserve water for future generations? DL: I think that there needs to be a paradigm shift or something along those lines, where people have an idea of what our guiding principles around water management and the way we think about water as a resource. I think there are lessons to
be learned from the First Nations approach to water, but also there can be a lot of benefits from First Nations and the rest of Canada [working together]. If there were some kind of collaborative approach to managing water, that might take us somewhere good in terms of shifting the ethics around water to one that values it in a much more holistic way than it currently is. VW: When you leave the Global Youth Assembly, what message do you want people to take home from your lecture? DL: I'd like people to feel empowered to get involved with decisionmaking around water whether it's within their local communities or within their regions. Hopefully I can communicate some best-practice approaches, but also help young people feel empowered to engage in the governance of water, because that's what we need to do. We need to engage with the issue and understand the impact that it will have on our lives and on the lives of younger generations. Steven wagers swagers@vueweekly.com
COMMENT >> SPACE
Far beyond the stars
Private funding will not advance space exploration The sun always shines in space, so it if ever. was no surprise when Sir Paul McThis is not to say that the US Cartney called the crew of Atlantis, should have kept the shuttles going the last space shuttle, on Friday and indefinitely. They weren't safe: two sang "Good Day Sunshine" to them. of the four original Shuttles were Later in the day President Barack lost, with 14 crew, in a total of Obama called and told the only 135 trips. They were not astronauts that their miscost-effective either: they sion "ushers in an exciting each flew on average only ly.com once a year during their new era to push the fronk e e w e@vue gwynn tiers of space exploration 30 years of service. e Gwynn and human spaceflight." NASA had perfectly senr e Dy Pity it was all happy-face lies. sible plans to replace the The last shuttle mission actually shuttles. In 2004, former president ushers in an era when the only hope George W Bush approved an amof getting into space for the few bitious NASA plan to build a new remaining American astronauts will generation of powerful rockets to be to hitch a ride on a Russian or deliver people and materials into Chinese rocket. Most of them will near-Earth orbit more cheaply, but have to find jobs elsewhere. And also to put a permanent manned however brightly the sun shines, the base on the moon by 2020. day when the United States finally NASA calculated that the "Constelgives up on manned space flight is lation" programme would cost about not a good day. $8 billion a year until 2020 (the US rockets will still put satellites US defence budget burns through into orbit. The older ones were that much every five days). Maybe built by the military or the National the cost would have risen considerAeronautics and Space Administraably over time, but that's not such a tion (NASA); the newer models will big deal: creating big, new technolbe built by private companies that ogy always takes longer and costs claim they can boost cargo into more. space at a much cheaper price. But When President Obama cancelled they won't be able to put a human the "Constellation" project in 2010, being in orbit for a very long time, he talked about doing things in a
"smarter way," and how private enterprise would develop "space taxis" that would put people into orbit more cheaply. In reality, however, he was ending federal government support for manned space flight— though he did promise to invest a little more than a billion dollars a year in those "clever" private companies. That is not serious money: the US defence budget gets through that much every 12 hours. Lacking federal financial support, the clever companies will concentrate on doing things that make a profit. Putting people into space does not make a profit. Not in the short run, anyway, and the beancounters are notoriously uninterested in the very long run.
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NASA was a bloated bureaucracy, and how private enterprise will do the same jobs more cheaply and more safely. Which may be true for launching communications satellites and the like, but is certainly not true for manned space flight and deep space exploration. When Christopher Columbus had this idea for a new way to reach Asia, he did not talk to some Spanish fishermen about scaling up their voyages (making a profit at each stage) until eventually they would cross the entire ocean. He went to the Spanish court and got state support for his venture. Almost all of the early European voyages of discovery had state backing, because the profits were not going to flow
When President Obama cancelled the "Constellation" project in 2010, he talked about doing things in a "smarter way," and how private enterprise would develop "space taxis" that would put people into orbit more cheaply.
The space entrepreneurs—Virgin Galactic, Northrop Grumman, Interorbital Services, XCOR, Orbital Sciences Corp and all their rivals— make well-honed pitches about how
for quite a while. The analogy is less than perfect, but it is relevant. Building a permanent space station, establishing a human base on the Moon, designing and funding the first voyage to Mars—
such things are not going to be undertaken by clever companies operating out of old hangars at the Mojave Air and Space Port in the California desert. They haven't the resources, and it makes no commercial sense. Does it make sense at all? That depends on whether you share the vision of the human future that Arthur C Clarke brought to his collaboration with Stanley Kubrick in the film "2001: A Space Odyssey." Back in 1968, most people assumed that that was indeed the future. It is much behind schedule, but many people still think it should be the future: that human beings should escape the confines of this single planet and get out into the universe. That enterprise has not been abandoned. The Russians, who were the first into space, have not given up on manned space flight despite their relative lack of resources. The Chinese are catching up fast, and the Indians plan to put their first person into orbit in 2015. Even the Japanese are not to be counted out. It's just the Americans who are quitting. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.
COMMENT >> NATIONAL ENERGY STRATEGY
He who pays the bills Industry and federal government derail possibility of a comprehensive energy strategy It doesn't matter if you want to call largely dependent on individual it a framework, a policy or a strategy, provinces, with no apparent unifythe bottom line is that Canada despering theme other than getting fossil ately needs some sort of document fuels out of the ground and to marguiding how our energy resources ket (mostly in the US) as quickly as are exploited, developed and possible. The negative impacts of exported. that kind of haphazard develOstensibly, that's what opment are many: signifiE cant parts of Ontario, QueC N Canada's energy and minE R ERFE ing ministers, together INT @vueweekly.com bec and Atlantic Canada a ric rdo o with the federal natural rely on imports from VenRicard resources minister, are supezuela, Algeria and increasAcuĂąa posed to be working on this ingly, more OPEC countries; our week at a conference in Kananaskis, greenhouse gas emissions from fosbut the reality of what comes out of sil fuel development are growing that conference, if anything, may be seemingly out of control; we have quite different than what most of us become almost entirely dependent would expect to see in a national enon the price of oil and US exports ergy framework. for our economic growth; there is Canada, the world's sixth largest virtually no support or strategy for producer of petroleum, with the developing renewable energy altersecond largest acknowledged renatives in the country; and rather serves in the world, is one of the than encouraging efficiency, the few countries in the world without government seems focused on aca comprehensive energy policy. Even tually encouraging more consumpthe United States has a National Ention more quickly. ergy Policy addressing such things It is good, therefore, that there is as imports, long-term energy securisome momentum among the provty, strategic petroleum reserves, cliinces and feds, and even the industry, mate change and even renewables. to try to bring some order to the enWhat we have in Canada is a patchergy sector through a comprehensive work of regulations and policies, strategy.
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The problem is that the early signals point to any future strategy being anything but comprehensive. The energy ministers' conference where these topics are being discussed was largely funded through sponsorships from the industry, including the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (one of Canada's biggest and most powerful lobby groups), Enbridge and Shell,
to renewables, climate change and efficiency. This single focus on fossil fuels is aggravated by the federal government's position going into the conference, which was that they support the idea of a common vision and standardization of regulations, but that they will not do anything which could be seen as interfering in provincial jurisdiction over energy. The result will be an energy policy that streamlines regulations
Canada, the world's sixth largest producer of petroleum, with the second largest acknowledged reserves in the world, is one of the few countries in the world without a comprehensive energy policy.
and they were treated to guided tours of Syncrude and CNRL operations in Alberta's north. At the same time, most of the high-profile submissions to the conference have come from business groups like the Canadian Council of Chief Executives. It's not surprising, therefore, that the conference is focusing almost exclusively on oil and gas development, and paying next to no attention at all
for industry, continues to encourage unfettered development of oil and gas resources, and focuses on maximizing exports through more pipelines. It will also be a policy which continues to put all of its proverbial eggs in the oil and gas basket, while ignoring the potential of renewables and looking the other way when it comes to the negative environmental and social impacts
of ongoing developments. Canadians deserve a national energy strategy which does more than reinforce the status quo. We deserve a comprehensive set of policies which provides energy security for all Canadians over the long term, ensures that if fossil fuels continue to be developed it is in the public interest, genuinely supports the development and deployment of renewables on a large scale, and outlines a plan for transitioning away from dependence on fossil fuels and their export to the United States. As long as the federal and provincial governments allow the oil and gas industry to continue paying the bills and calling the shots, however, you can bet that whatever policy we get will continue to benefit them and only them. It's too bad, given the opportunity that exists to make genuine progress on this front for the sake of the public interest. V Ricardo AcuĂąa is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.
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ARTS
PREVUE // THEATRE
Edmonton love letter
Edmonton the Musical lets local bands and theatre mix Thu, Jul 21 – Sun, Jul 24 (7 pm) Sun, Jul 24 (1 pm) Edmonton the Musical Directed by Cara-Marisa Albo Avenue Theatre, $28 – $36
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hy is it still surprising to see Edmonton championed as the setting for a book, or a play or even a song? Given Edmonton's cultural history, not to mention its richly diverse arts scene, it seems like we should be used to seeing our fair city serve as the backdrop to story and song. It's a deficit that is deservedly addressed by works like Edmonton the Musical. "For me personally, I've always loved Edmonton," states CaraMarisa Albo, the driving force behind the show. "I think when I was so down on love, the only thing that I could turn to was this love I had for the city, and it just kind of filled that heartache." Ostensibly telling the story of Jake, a
guy who's navigating the world of dating, Edmonton the Musical is actually more of a showcasing of Edmonton as the stage of life and love. Spawned from a bad breakup, Albo wrote the piece as a means of coming to terms with her fears of opening up her heart again. In addition to writing, producing, directing and choreographing the show, Albo also intended to write all the music for it—until she realized there were many others with their own breakup stories to tell. "I was listening to all these local artists, and I was like, 'No, wait—everyone that I'm listening to right now has a relationship song, or has a breakup song: wouldn't it be fun to take over 20 different looks on love from different perspectives and publish them here?'" There are over 120 other people involved with the production. The music
is as much as part of the show as the characters themselves; three stages will be used to feature each of the characters' own stories while simultaneously providing a venue for the musicians to present their own perspectives. Albo stresses that, though relationships may be universal, this story could not be set in any other city. "It's got jokes that only Edmontonians will understand—like the weirdos on Whyte Ave and busking on the [Legislature] Grounds. "It's something that I just wanted to give back to the city," she continues. "This city has given so much to me as an artist: inspiration, I'm born here, raised here, I've lived here my whole life. It's gonna show off Edmonton and all Edmonton has to offer. And it has Northgate bus stop in it, for gosh sakes!" Mel Priestley
// mel@vueweekly.com
That's Edmonton for you
PREVUE // THEATRE
Defying gravity
// Joan Marcus
Wicked gives Baum's classic OZ some lift
Hardly wicked
Until Sun, Aug 7 Wicked Jubilee Auditorium, $103.60 – $149.60
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ne of Don Amendolia's strongest, earliest memories is of The Wizard of Oz. "I was just a tiny little kid and I remember my mom standing me on a chair in the kitchen and buttoning up a sun suit that I had on, with ducks on it. I remember it clearly," he recalls. "And
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then the woman across the street and her daughter, who I ended up growing up with, came over and we went to the little theatre in our town, and I remember where we sat, I remember the movie—not in detail, but I remember being frightened by the witch." Certainly, L Frank Baum's iconic, wicked witch of the west has spooked many a-kid over the decades since that quintessential, technicolour film version arrived back in 1939. But her status as unrepentantly evil has come
under question in recent year: Wicked, the musical based on Gregory Maguire's somewhat polemic retelling of the roots of Baum's timeless The Wizard of Oz put a dent into the Oz mythos, first as a hit novel, then as smash of a Broadway musical. It follows Elphaba, the green-skinned witch to be, as a misunderstood youth, who grows up to rally against the Emerald City's corrupt government. Amendolia, who's seen a lengthy
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career in both theatre in television— he appeared on screens as varied as Wayne's World and Twin Peaks, as well as earning a Drama Critic's Circle awards for his theatre work—is donning the Emerald garb of the Wiz himself for this touring version. He notes Maguire's Oz is a more political place than Baum's is, and in the novel a darker read, certainly. But the effect that has on the story is a grounding one. "I think it gives it very deep and
strong roots. I know that likely wasn't L Frank Baum's intention to do that, but I just think it gives it real gravitas in the world," he says. "Those are important, important themes. And the more we talk about acceptance and being different and accepting people for who they are, those themes are just stronger today than they've ever been, the social pressures notwithstanding." Paul Blinov
// paul@vueweekly.com
REVUE // BOOKS
CHILDREN OF ARARAT / APHELION Children of Ararat by Keith Garebian 109 pp, $15.95 Frontenac House Aphelion by Jenna Butler 92 pp, $14.95 NeWest Press
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hildren of Ararat dares speak the truth, loudly and angrily, about the First World War death marches and massacres that journalist Robert Fisk has called "The First Holocaust." Garebian's collection is a moving reflection, in burning poetics, on the fragments of memory and body— "backbones, femurs, joints," an "eye socket"—left by the Armenian genocide. While most Canadians know at least the basic facts of the Holocaust, we remain ignorant of the mass murder of an estimated one million Armenians—
through starvation, exhaustion, burnings and drownings—by the Ottoman Empire in 1915. Unlike Germany, however, as Garebian notes in such fierce poems as "Indoctrination of a Turkish Boy," Turkey has yet to confront its culpability in these century-old deaths and deportations. He notes in his final prose reflection, "Denial—An Afterward," that the Turkish Penal Code "forbids the use of the term 'genocide' to describe the events of 1915." But, Children of Ararat insists, a genocide can't be ignored, no matter what words aren't used or how much time has passed. Survivors and their descendants remember the trauma. They see the "headless bodies, of unmarked graves, / shreds of scarves hanging in walnut trees." Some, like Garebian, whose father survived, go on to speak eloquently, even poetically, for those who were silenced. As he writes, "This tongue tries a reparation of speech / beyond the reliquary ashes
of books. / It licks the caves where the dead / lie in their long hibernation." Garebian's poetry doesn't always reach such lyricism; at times his very bluntness seems to flatten its music. Perhaps, however, his refusal to wrap that arresting word, "genocide," in any soft notes is necessary for a collection that insists on brutal honesty. For Garebian, the simple truth is that, "Anger burns my face." Jenna Butler's Aphelion isn't angry but wistful. Hers isn't a world scorched by genocide but dissolved in light: "It's really about / the way light falls in a high room," she writes, "midsummer, the wind picking out / the scent of lemons and beeswax / from old furniture." Butler engages the senses in order to assuage longing, to fill up space in the in-betweens. Aphelion describes the state of being absent, alienated, caught between two worlds; Butler's rhythms, too, reflect the
liminal. She often pauses mid-line, as in "Granville Island, 1997," when she writes: "dusk condensing tenebrous / interstitial sweep of shadows / pockmarking brickwork." Her best poems are buoyant, perhaps reflecting the freedom she unexpectedly finds on the margins, in her case between the borders of North America and Europe, where she leaves, as she writes in "Cutline," "hieroglyphic sparrowtracks." Unfortunately Butler's poetry is sometimes a touch precious and weighed down by scientific and academic terms, as when she refers to a garden as "vegetative hegemony." These moments detract from a collection that is, for the most part, refreshingly musical and delights in immersing us in worlds that are, for Butler, the outsider, forever new. Robin Durnford
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call to artists
REVUE // BOOKS
BULLFIGHTING
By Roddy Doyle 214 pp, $22 Vintage Canada
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reland, perhaps because it's such an oral culture, with its songs and storytelling, has boasted far more "great writers" per capita than most countries over the past few centuries. Now, one of Ireland's best living bards, Roddy Doyle, offers Bullfighting, his second short-story collection, a book spilling over with voice. It's no mean feat to write prose as if you just happened to catch someone's conversations or stream-of-consciousness, but that's how easy Doyle makes it seem here. These 13 stories enter middle-aged men's thoughts and memories: reflections on a changing marriage, or a worrisome medical diagnosis, or years of school-teaching, or the animals the family has had, or the way a wife sleeps. Some of these
men walk Dublin streets but seem to be moving in circles, "roundabouts," their minds revolving around a nagging concern or haunting worry. Yet each story has the forward momentum, the feel and flow, of a dramatic inner monologue, slow-burning to the flash of a moment—of confession, of realized happiness, of a change that crept in. (The only downside to this choruslike collection is that, if you read too many tales in a row, one man's voice starts to blur into another.) Doyle's achievement isn't just his wry humour ("grand" is used in all its ironic variations; cancer is "dignified ... a fuckin' achievement" compared to a diagnosis of diverticula) or his short but always sharp sentences, but the easy flow of these husbands' and fathers' thoughts. In "The Slave," where the man's discovery of a rat in his house unsettles him, he moves from
why he drinks coffee (picked up the habit in Florida) to conceiving their baby there (in Orlando) to the storm and the music on the radio then, to a tender, connecting thought: "It all seemed to fit. The music and the weather. Even though it was pissing outside and he was singing about the desert. But it was American. And we were there. Myself and herself, after all those years. And that kind of explains why we've one child that's eight years younger than the others. He's a souvenir, God love him. Him and the coffee." But memory and storytelling turn on us, and the narrator, in the collection's centrepiece, "Funerals." There, a man starts to take his parents, more and more, to funerals for different people they knew. But his own fudging of the truth has become something far more disconcerting in them, he realizes. Catholic school abuse shadows a few tales. The recent economic boom hangs like a spell, a bubbling charm that shimmers away in "Animals" and bursts in "Funerals." After darkly hilarious banter between brothers over the narrator's wayward wife Ciara, the Iceland volcanic eruption becomes a bittersweet metaphor in "Ash," where the reconciled couple's words of comfort for their daughters also hint at death: "–It's just for a while. Things will get back to normal after the ash drifts away. Or falls. –Falls? –Yeah. –Will it hurt? –No, said Ciara. It won't." It's those seemingly painless little moments that can change the mood, alter the colour of the day, and lighten or darken the future, that these men are bullishly fighting for or against in Doyle's collection. And with prose like this, it's a beautiful fight to follow. Brian Gibson
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Call to Artists - Request for Qualifications Borden Park Public Art Project Budget:
$212,000 CAD (maximum, all inclusive)
Eligibility:
All Canadian and international visual artists
Deadline:
4:30 pm on Thursday, August 25, 2011
Installation:
Summer 2012
Call Callto toArtists Artists--Request Requestfor forQualifications Proposals
Highlands Branch Library Public Art Project Budget:
$39,500 CAD (maximum, all inclusive)
Eligibility:
All Canadian visual artists
Deadline:
4:30 pm on Tuesday, August 25th, 2011
Installation:
March 2013
Call to Artists - Call for Portfolios The Edmonton Arts Council public art program invites artists to submit their portfolios to be kept on file for direct calls. Deadline: ongoing. Visit our website to download the complete public art calls:
http://publicart.edmontonarts.ca/calls/ The public art competitions listed above are held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C). For more information, contact the Edmonton Arts Council: p: (780) 424–2787 | e: publicart@edmontonarts.ca
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ARTS WEEKLY FAX YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO 780.426.2889 OR EMAIL LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3pm
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) until Jul 30 • ARTernative for teens: Thu, Jul 28 6pm
ArtWalk–St Albert • Perron District,
FILM Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • Ledcor Theatre, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Jean-Michel Basquiat, film by Jean Michel Vecchiet, 2010 ; Thu, Aug 11, 7pm; Free with Gallery Admission • 14 Americans: Directions of the 1970s, A film by Michael Blackwood and Nancy Rosen, 1981; Thu, Aug 25, 7pm; Free with Gallery Admission Film Forum • Stanley A. Milner Library, Edmonton Room • Series of film screenings and public talks every month, facilitated by a guest speaker • Superman (1978) (14A); Marty Chan will discuss what makes an archetypal hero; Sat, Jul 30, 1:30pm • Crash (1996) (R); Sat, Aug 27, 1:30pm
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 • Until Jul 23
ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • generation whY: Exploring the voices of craft makers 35 & younger; until Sep 24 • Discovery Gallery: Off the Floor: Contemporary rug hookings by Rachelle LeBlanc; until Aug 27 • Specimen: An exploration of insects by Calgary jewellery artist Erin Boukall; until Aug 27
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 • Until Jul 30
ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave • Deviation: Artworks by Brent Irving • Through Jul
Art from the Streets–Red Deer •
downtown St Albert • artwalkstalbert.com • The 1st Thu each month (Apr-Sep), exhibits run all month • 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
Café Pichilingue–Red Deer • 492850 St • 403.346.0812 • Artworks by Jodi Benson • Until Jul 29
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 • Until Jul 26
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
Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • Off Whyte: Holdovers from the Whyte Avenue Art Walk; featuring special guest picks from Rachel Notley • Until Aug 3 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 • Flowing Lines: Paintings by Trevor Sale • Until Jul 29
4935-51 St • Group show • Until Jul 30
Gallery IS–Red Deer • 5123 48 St,
Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2
Alexander Way, Red Deer • 403.341.4641 • Weekend Art Market: Group show • Until Jul 29
Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Sculpture Terraces: Works by Peter Hide and Ken Macklin • ANDY WARHOL: Manufactured; 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 • $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 • Soup Can Drive: collecting cans of soup throughout the duration of Andy Warhol: Manufactured, to be donated to Edmonton’s Food Bank • Taste of Desserts and Liqueurs: Jul 21-30, 11am-11pm, not Saturdays ( Jul 21 and 30); part of Taste of Edmonton, eventsedmonton.ca/taste. php • Adult drop-in: Blot: Ink Transfer Drawing; Thu, Jul 21, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (AGA member) • Adult drop-in: Factory: Screen-Printing; Thu, Jul 28, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (AGA member)
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Gallerie Pava • Centre d’arts visuels de l’Alberta, 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • cava@shaw.ca • CIrcle of Live: Paintings by Jerry Berthelette • Jul 23-Sep 13 • Opening reception: Jul 23, 1-4pm G. Michael's Hair–Red Deer • 4702 Ross St, Downtown Co-op Plaza • We're Still Here: Artworks by Jessie Pettit, and Paul Boultbee • Until Jul 29
Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Kingdom Come: A Kind of Retrospective: Curated by Harold Pearse, paintings by Louis O' Coffey • Until Jul 23
Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Effections: We need to talk, video installation work by Immony Men; • Front Room: Making War: Artworks by Todd Tremeer • Jul 22-Aug 27 • Artist Talk, opening night with Immony Men: Thu, Jul 28, 7pm; opening reception: Thu, Jul 28, 8-10pm • DRAW–DRAWing the Community Together at Harcourt, SNAP, and Latitude 53; Edmonton’s Artist Run Centres host Annual Draw Event kicking off at Harcourt House and SNAP and will then conclude with an evening party at Lati-
tude 53; Jul 30, 12-5pm (Harcourt and SNAP); 12pm-12am (Latitude)
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
Hub on Ross Art Gallery– Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • Take Flight: Group show • Until Jul 29
Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Landscapes, flowers, buildings and abstracts by Liz Andrusiak • Until Jul 27 Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages
Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • Twisted: Pottery and digital art by Issy Covey • Until Jul 29
Latin Art Gallery • Bow Room Grant MacEwan, 10910-104 Ave • 780.802.4436 • latinartgallery.ca •
Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Spaces&Places:VisioningMcL uhan@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: FSC Consulting Engineers, Geoff Lilge on Jul 21; Coup Boutique and Duchess Bake Shop on Jul 28 • Summer Incubator Series: Paul Smith; Jul 25-30 • Geoff Lilge until Jul 23; openings every Thu, 5-9pm/artist talks every Thu, 7pm • DRAW–DRAWing the Community Together at Harcourt, SNAP, and Latitude 53; Jul 30, 12-5pm (Harcourt and SNAP); 12pm-12am (Latitude)
• The Argentum Project: Earthly Archetypes: Sculptors’ Association of Alberta's 25th Anniversary Show and Celebration; until Sep 6 • When Butterflies Dance: Watercolours by Elaine Funnell; Jul 29-Sep 9
Naess Gallery–Paint Spot • 10032-81 Ave • The Silence of Birds: Sculptures by Maggie Morris • Until Jul 30
Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • In the Studio: Artworks by Violet Owen • Until Jul 26
Picture This Gallery • 959 Ordze Rd, Sherwood Park • 780.467.3038 • PictureThisGallery.com • PRAIRIE POP ART: Pop art by Dean McLeod, and Steven Csorba • Until Aug 30
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 SNAP Gallery • 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • co-exist: Artworks by Japanese artist Ryuta Endo; until Aug 9 • DRAW–DRAWing the Community Together at Harcourt, SNAP, and Latitude 53; Jul 30, 12-5pm (Harcourt and SNAP); 12pm-12am (Latitude)
Spruce Grove Art Gallery • Melcor Cultural Centre, 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • Gone to the Dogs: Pantings by Father Douglas • Until Jul 30
Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre,
Telus World of Science • 11211-
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 • Until Jul 31
142 St • 780.451.3344 • SESAME STREET PRESENTS: THE BODY • Until Sep 5
McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Size Doesn't Matter: Artworks by Spyder Yardley-Jones • Until Jul 31
Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Point of Departure: Artworks by Lyndal Osborne • Until Jul 27
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 • Basic Elements: Paintings by Pam Wilman Adeline Rockett, Yuriko Kitamura and Joanne Moore; Jul 29Aug 23; opening reception: Sun, Jul 31
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: Celebrating the ambitions, accomplishments and friendships of Archbishop Taché, OMI, and Father Lacombe, OMI; until Nov
Muttart conservatory • 9626-96A St • 780.496.8755 • edmonton.ca/muttart
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VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Land of Varied Perspectives: Textile work by Alberta's Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta organization • Until Aug 20 (closed for August long weekend) • Opening reception: Thu, Jul 28, 7-9:30pm • Weaving demonstrations: Sat, Jul 23, 1-3pm
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
Things Are (2009) (PG); Fri, Jul 29 , 2pm
Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Road • Edmonton Story Slam; no minors • Sign up after 7pm. Show starts at 7:30pm, 3rd Wed of every month Indigo–South Edmonton Common • 18 Ave, 99 St • Book signing by Edmonton author/ screenwriter Don Banting, author of Two Shadows Have I • Sat, Jul 23, 1-5pm Riverdale • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets Stanley A. Milner Library • 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • Writers’ Corner: EPL’s Writer in Residence; featuring a different author each month; last Sun each month at 1:30pm
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 WunderBar 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 (signup), 8pm (readings)
THEATRE 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 MacDonald-Smith, Kristen Padayas, and Amber Bissonnette • Tue-Sat, until Jul 23, 7:30pm; Sat mat at 2pm • Wed-Sat 7:30pm: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior); 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
Velvet Olive Lounge–Red Deer
Theatresports • Varscona Theatre,
• 4924-50 St • 403.340.8288 • Grilled: Paintings by Paul Boultbee and Glynis Wilson Boultbee • Until Jul 29
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 until Jul 29
Visualeyez 2011 • Latitude 53, 10248-106 St • Performance Art Festival • Until Jul 22
LITERARY Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave • 780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month; closed in August
Coles–Northgate Centre • 137 Ave, 97 St • Book signing by Edmonton author/ screenwriter Don Banting, author of Two Shadows Have I • Tue, Aug 16, 11am-3pm
Edmonton Film Society (EFS) • Royal Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • Swing Time (PG); Mon, Jul 25, 8pm
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 • The Iron Giant (1999) (PG); Fri, Jul 22, 2pm • Where the Wild
Wicked • Jubilee Auditorium • By Stephen 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 • Until Aug 7 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 • Until Jul 24 • Tickets at TIX on the Square, portion of ticket and art sales go to the Youth Emergency Shelter Society (YESS)
FILM
"The point is that the Potter craze, like a lightning-scar in a bottle, is impossible to capture twice ... the Potter success is a phenomenon of a very specific time, already seeming long ago and far away."
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PREVUE // EXISTENTIAL SURVIVAL
The running man
Jerzy Skolimowski on Essential Killing Now available on DVD Essential Killing Written & Directed by Jerzy Skolimowski
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mbiguity haunts the gaping silences and panicked escapes of Essential Killing. Our protagonist (Vincent Gallo) never speaks a word. We never learn his name, though we spend almost the the entirety of the film's runtime watching him run. The few moments of flashback we get are of a religious nature, but that's about all we glean. There are visions of a woman and child that could be his wife and kin, too, but it's never specified. He's captured somewhere in the Middle East after blowing up American soldiers with a rocket launcher. He's detained and tortured, then transferred to a POW camp somewhere in Eastern Europe. The transport vehicle swerves off the road and tumbles open, releasing him back into the wilds handcuffed and barefoot, a prisoner in a harsh, unforgiving winter climate that's the polar opposite of his home. To be searching for a way back, he'd need to have at least some inclination as to where he was; instead, without any direction, he becomes a cornered animal—except his back is up against a wide open, very unforgiving landscape crawling with soldiers hunting him. Writer-director Jerzy Skolimowski has made, at the very least, a sort of existential man-against-animal-self survival movie, cloaking the politics of a situation and using them as a springboard into a something very different altogether: a film far more internalized, more visceral. The wandering structure and mostly silent acting in Essential Killing are potent, especially focused around Gallo's raw performance. The enormity of his situation slowly fills his eyes as he recognizes the futility of his situation while panic, hunger, exposure and an animalistic desperation all set in. Now available on DVD, Essential Killing is the second film Skolimowski's made after an almost two-decade absence from film (the first being Four Nights With Anna). Skolimowski took a phonecall with Vue a few months ago when Essential Killing did a run of theatres (it never actually opened here). Frank and often quite funny, Skolimowski was blunt about his disdain for politics, casting the role and how film ruined his life. VUE WEEKLY: Politics in the movie are kept very vague. Did you think making this a political movie would
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take away from the story you wanted to tell? JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI: No. You see, I'm not interested in politics. One of the reasons for that is that I made a political film years ago, it was called Hands Up, and that was the antiStalinist picture which I made in Poland in 1967. And this film practically ruined my life, because it forced me to immigrate from Poland, and I had to lead a gypsy life, going from country to country, and making the films in wherever I could. So I'm really not fond of politics. I tried to stay away. It is unfortunately a political subject. But I decided to choose the treatment of it in a kind of poetic or philosophical approach. So I'm not using any names, and the descriptions of the places or the facts, it's all very vague and ambiguous. Because I think the story is much larger than any particular facts. So it doesn't matter if it starts in Afghanistan or Iraq or Pakistani border. And it doesn't matter if it ends in Poland or Lithuania or Romania; all those three countries apparently were receiving the CIA planes with prisoners from the Middle East. And only Lithuania's government admitted that those were the facts. As I said, it doesn't matter, because the subject is much wider than this, and for me the most important subject of this film is the process that changes the human being into the wild animal, which fights for his life. It's like a wild animal: it has to kill, or it will be killed by somebody else.
would be right for the role? JS: We know each other; we met several times in California in some social occasions. I like him, and I always like him as an actor. And by chance two years ago, when I was in Cannes film festival, I attended the opening night of the director's fortnight, where Francis Ford Coppola was showing his Tetro. Vincent was playing the lead in this film. And when we were walking out of the cinema, I spotted Vincent walking in front of me, and I noticed certain animalistic qualities in his movements. He walks in a very specific way, kind of a little wobbly, or something very strange. And since I already had the script for Essential Killing, I thought "Oh, well that would be a really good quality, a good characteristic for the main hero, if he's got something of an animal himself." So instinctively, I approached Vincent and said, "I have a script you should read, perhaps." And he asked me if I had it, I said, "Yes, it's in the hotel"—we stayed in the same hotel in Cannes. We walked there, I gave him the script and two hours later he was calling me and saying, "Oh, this is a wonderful script. I want to do it, I must do it, I'm from Buffalo, I'm used to the very cold weather, I love running barefoot in the snow." At that moment, I felt he was exaggerating a little, but I said, "OK Vincent, take it easy. It's May now, we'll be shooting in the winter, so more than six months from now. Grow your beard, grow your hair and let's talk later."
VW: How did you know Vincent Gallo
VW: You talked about leaving Poland
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and having to live a gypsy lifestyle. How long did it take you to get back to making films? JS: I had a 17-year break. After I made a movie in 1990, I was so unhappy with it, I said, "OK, I have to stop making movies for a while, have to rethink my so-called career. I have to really carefully choose the next project for my film. In the meantime, I will take some painting," which is my great passion, and I never had time to paint [while making movies]. So living in Malibu, I had a very comfortable large house, there was a swimming pool and a
large garden, and I could really start to paint professionally. Which I executed very well, this opportunity. I had many, many exhibitions all around the world. I sold my work to the museums, to the private collectors: Jack Nicholson bought four of my paintings, Dennis Hopper got three. I fulfilled my dream to become a really recognizable painter. And that brought me back into believing I am an artist again. I was kind of rejuvenated. And with that feeling, I was able to start making films again. Paul Blinov
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recisely where do you draw the line with nostalgia? It's a yearning presumably as old as memory, but its danger is remarkably self-evident, especially if you're looking over the summer film release schedule. Not to unfairly judge something before I've seen it, but The Smurfs looks roughly as pleasurable as shoving a little blue ice pick straight into your frontal lobe, and it surely owes its existence as much to young parents' childhood memories as to fart jokes and escaping a heat wave into an air-conditioned theatre. But then there is Disney's Winnie the Pooh, an adventure of the tubby little
cubby all stuffed with fluff that feels less like an anachronism than a perfectly preserved specimen, mined out of amber and put on screen. It really couldn't be a purer return to childhood charms unless the theatre sold peanut butter and honey sammiches and let me drag in my grandmother's couch. And it's also probably the best children's film that Pixar hasn't made in about two decades. It's kicked off by a dual search for more honey for the perpetually tummy-rumbly Pooh and a tail for the endlessly dour Eeyore, and it is wonderfully playful and meandering, taking the Hundred Acre Wood gang—bounciful Tigger, pompous Owl, neurotic Piglet, prissy Rabbit and Kanga and Roo—through a world where the storybook's words regu-
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larly intrude, the woods are stalked by the horrible mischief of the "Backson" monster and most of the jokes are simple wordplay. It is a formula unchanged since the storybooks, but I do not look forward to a world where a toddler would rather watch Cars 2 than this. But, you know, maybe this is all just reason clouded by memory. Winnie the Pooh, after all, is the character whose preciousness made Tonstant Weader fwow up, and his chief charm is an innocence that could make a sixyear-old look jaded. It's almost certainly nothing even as tenuous an adult as myself should be enraptured by, but then a peanut butter and honey sandwich would probably taste a lot better than that salad, wouldn't it? David Berry
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HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS, PART TWO
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icking up where the first part slogged off, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 proves just as deadly dull a movie. It still suffers from the symptoms of weakly written and directed 21st-century fantasy-movie epic-itis. There's visual overstatement (a coal-black world with endlessly dark skies and shadow-infested buildings), stone-heavy plot exposition, and lots of deaths and battling that come off as mere backdrop for an inevitable one-on-one showdown (banally choreographed and based on who had the last proper ownership of a wand). David Yates, who directed the previous three instalments, too, clings tediously to connecting-the-FX-actiondots, lots and lots of slow zooms, or a few 360-degree aerial shots. Pacing
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and logic get shouldered aside: the big showdown's interrupted by a banal afterlife conversation; the arch-nemesis, as if in a bad Bond movie, never bothers to check for himself that his hated foe, the bane of his existence, is actually not breathing (surprise!). There's just one flash of visual dexterity, offering a macabre moment with a death-by-serpent scene. "Words," says one seemingly sage fellow, " are ... our most inexhaustible source of magic." So why isn't there any playful or thoughtful dialogue here? Instead, the cliché of keeping loved ones in your heart is trotted out, repeatedly. The first semi-joke in the movie actually comes, 90 minutes in, from the venomous Voldemort— looking down on Hogwarts School, he sibilates, "They never learn." The only bursts of colour, and of nicely mixed wonder and melancholy, come in a short flashback.
Back in the deadly hollow presentday, self-seriousness (masquerading as maturity), CGI-laden plot (falling short of spectacle), and predictable action sequences smother all possible acting flourishes, inventive touches or thoughtful moments. The megabudget's race through the shallows of plot shoots the movie past all hope for emotional depth or story profundity. One glimmer of thoughtfulness—when Harry (Daniel Radcliffe) becomes a kind of self-conscious tragic hero, realizing how stifling his fate may be, seeing his future as a prison he must step into—soon mists away. And then the bare truth of the Harry Potter franchise reveals itself: a book series ended up being dully, flatly and scratchily transcribed onto audio-visual tape. Brian Gibson
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COMMENT >> DVD
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The Music Room's transfixing score effortlessly carries the picture Satyajit Ray made The Music Room
(1958) between the second and third instalments of his beloved Apu Trilogy (1955, '56, '59), the films that launched the great Bengali director's career and convinced the world—if not quite the Indian public—that Indian movies could occasionally stray from the dictates of the flamboyant song and dance cinema that we instantly associate with "Bollywood" to this day. With The Music Room, Ray in fact did incorporate musical performance into his work, but rather than doing so in Far from Bollywood the old stop-everything-and-sing fashion, he made the music integral to the story and texture of the film, which of the titular room to the surface of a turns out to be the very opposite of glass of tea from which an insect porbaroque-bombastic melodrama. This tentously struggles to escape. is a sombre, meditative, crepuscular film, about pleasure, devastation and It's no slight on The Music Room to aristocracy in slow decline. Its gorsay that it might lull you asleep geous musical performances if you watch it when you're are given plenty of space tired—it's literally spellE binding. The musical secV to luxuriate, but they enI T C TE kly.com tions, in which gifted mutrance rather than excite D E e vuewe se jo f@ the listener. I'm not sure I've sicians perform in Roy's e Jos f seen—or heard—anything music room (even when the n u a Br quite like The Music Room, and expense of having them peronce it was over I'd felt like I'd woken form threatens to exhaust his dwinfrom a dream. The film is now availdling funds) are deliciously drowsy: able on Blu-ray and DVD from the Cria bunch of guys lying around in their terion Collection. pyjamas on carpets and big pillows, Opening credits appear over an imsmoking hookah pipes while sitars and age of a hovering chandelier which looms closer and closer, until we cut to an arresting close-up of Biswambhar Roy (the great Chhabi Biswas), a middle-aged zamindar, or land-owning nobleman, who sits in a big chair on the roof of his crumbling palace, which stands isolated in a vast, hazy landscape that feels like it's a world away from anyplace. Its flat surroundings reveal vestiges of a regal past: a lone elephant, a starved horse, traces of a road now seldom used, the skeleton of a ship. The Music Room takes place entirely within this landscape; you get to feeling like Roy is somehow sequestered here, in this place where tragedy befalls him during the film's extensive flashback; and when he attempts to leave it, it's as though some force buried in the earth has determined to keep him there. Throughout, Ray's camera explores this landscape, the palace and everything in it with steady, mesmerizing grace. This is a film founded in music, but also in magisterial spaces, from a sky full of lightning to the immense high ceilings
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tablas vibrate and patter, singers sing of love and desire, and dancers, their legs strewn with bells, move in seductive rhythms that only add to the warm complexity of the music. And it's a good thing too, that the music and atmospheres of The Music Room so effortlessly carry the picture, because (and here's my only complaint about the disc) with the white subtitles on the black-and-white images I couldn't read half of the dialogue. Movies have been around for over a century now; they've seen advances in sound, colour and depth that the mediums forefathers could never have imagined. But we still haven't figured out how to make subtitles legible. V
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FILM WEEKLY Fri, JUL 22, 2011 – Thu, JuL 28, 2011
CHABA THEATRE–JASPER HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 1:30, 7:00, 9:00 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:30, 6:45, 9:15
CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779
HOODWINKED TOO! HOOD VS. EVIL (G)
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Fri-Sun 12:35, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:25; Mon-Thu 12:35, 1:30, 3:30, 4:30, 6:30, 8:00, 9:25
WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 1:10, 3:40, 7:15
not recommended for young children) Daily 12:55, 3:40, 6:55, 9:40
PARKLAND CINEMA 7 130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove, 780.972.2332 (Spruce Grove, Stony Plain; Parkland County)
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Presented in 2D Daily 6:30, 9:30; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 12:30, 3:30
Captain America: The First Avenger
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
RIO 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 1:50, 4:20, 6:45,
LOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening
(PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Daily 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:45
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A sexual content, coarse language) Daily 7:05, 9:25; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:05, 3:25
7:05, 9:55
LIMITLESS (14A) Daily 1:40, 4:10, 7:20, 9:35 SOMETHING BORROWED (PG sexual
content, coarse language) Daily 1:35, 4:15, 7:30, 10:00
MONTE CARLO (G) Daily 1:20, 3:55, 6:35, 9:10 WATER FOR ELEPHANTS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:10, 4:30, 7:15, 9:45
SOUL SURFER (PG) Daily 9:15 JUDY MOODY AND THE NOT BUMMER SUMMER (G) Daily 2:00, 4:40, 7:10 DELHI BELLY (14A coarse language, sexual content) Hindi W/E.S.T. Daily 9:25
scenes, not recommended for young children) Ultraavx, No passes Fri 1:00, 4:15, 7:15, 10:20; Sat-Tue 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 10:55; Wed 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 10:45; Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 10:50
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON (PG violence, coarse language) Fri 12:40, 4:00, 7:30, 10:50; Sat-Thu 12:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Digital 3d Fri
12:10, 3:30, 7:00, 10:15; Sat-Thu 12:40, 4:00, 7:30, 10:50
BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse
language, sexual content) Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00
WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 11:30, 1:20, 3:10, 5:00, 7:00
HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language,
W/E.S.T. Daily 1:30, 4:45, 8:00
ZINDAGI NA MILEGI DOBARA (STC) Hindi
crude sexual content) Daily 12:45, 3:15, 5:45, 8:15, 10:45
FOREVER AND A DAY (PG) Daily 1:25, 4:05,
BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude
6:50, 9:20
sexual content) Daily 1:05, 3:35, 5:55, 8:20, 10:45
Singham (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. Daily 1:00,
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A sexual con-
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ZOOKEEPER (PG) Daily 11:45, 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 9:50
CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 1:15, 4:10, 6:50, 9:20
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG violence, not recommended for young children)No passes Daily 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Daily 1:45, 4:45, 7:45, 10:45
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Fri-Tue, Thu 12:00, 1:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00; Wed 12:00, 3:00, 4:00, 6:00, 7:00, 9:00, 10:00; Star & Strollers Screening, No passes Wed 1:00
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Ultraavx, No passes Daily 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Fri-Sat, MonThu 9:10; Sun 12:20, 9:10
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Digital 3d
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BRIDESMAIDS (14A crude content, coarse language, sexual content) Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 1:10, 3:50, 7:15, 10:10; Sun 3:50, 7:15, 10:10
WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 11:40, 1:20, 3:10, 5:15, 7:10
HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language,
crude sexual content) Daily 12:50, 3:20, 6:00, 8:20, 10:50
BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Fri-Sun, Tue-Thu 1:50, 4:20, 8:00, 10:15; Mon 1:50, 4:20, 10:15
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A sexual content, coarse language) No passes Daily 11:50, 2:20, 5:00, 7:50, 10:40 Spartacus (STC) Sun 12:30
scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50; Digital 3d Mon-Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:55, 9:50
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes,
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With SNL star Kirsten Wiig at the helm, Bridesmaids shows the social relationships of women in a multi-dimentional way that goes beyond simply being catty or desiring each other's jobs or boyfriends. Also, it's funny. Really funny.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening
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9:00
Bridesmaids
scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Fri 11:30, 12:00, 2:45, 3:15, 5:45, 7:15, 9:00, 10:30; Sat-Thu 11:30, 12:00, 2:45, 3:15, 5:45, 6:30, 9:00, 9:40
9:10; Thu 1:40, 4:10, 9:40
Horrible Bosses (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 1:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30
(PG violence, not recommended for young children) Presented in 3D Daily 7:00, 9:40; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:00, 3:40pm
FAST FIVE (14A violence) Daily 1:15, 4:00,
Terrence Malick's new work is an elliptical, headlong exploration of memory and meaning. He's strayed farther from the familiar than ever before, giving us a (semi-autobiographical?) film made of glimpses, reveries, music and disembodied voices surrounding a family in Waco, Texas in the 1950s.
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening
ZOOKEEPER (PG) Fri-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 6:40,
MONTE CARLO (G) Daily 1:05, 3:45, 7:05
FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A sexual content, coarse language) Daily 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55
THOR 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes)
Tree of Life Princess Theatre
violence, not recommended for young children) Fri-Sat, Mon-Tue, Thu 11:55, 2:40, 5:20, 8:10, 10:50; Sun 11:55, 2:40, 10:00; Wed 11:55, 2:30, 10:50
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scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Fri 12:30, 3:45, 6:45, 9:55; Sat-Thu 12:30, 3:45, 7:15, 10:20
Daily 1:45, 3:50, 6:30
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.
(PG violence, not recommended for young children)Digital 3d, No passes Fri 11:30, 3:00, 7:30, 10:30; Sat-Thu 1:45, 4:50, 7:50, 10:50
GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG frightening scenes, 6094 Connaught Dr, Jasper, 780.852.4749
Midnight in Paris Princess Theatre
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
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ZOOKEEPER (PG) Fri 11:30, 2:00, 4:30, 7:15,
tent, coarse language) No passes Fri-Wed 11:45, 2:30, 5:15, 7:50, 10:30; Thu 5:15, 7:50, 10:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00
LARRY CROWNE (PG) Daily 9:30 The Metropolitan Opera: Tosca Encore (Classification not available) Wed 6:30 CITY CENTRE 9
(PG violence, coarse language) Presented in 3D Daily 7:30; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:45
Friends With Benefits (14A sexual content, coarse language) Daily 7:00, 9:20; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 2:00 Captain America: The First Avenger (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 6:50, 9:30; Sat-Sun, Tue, Thu 1:50
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Presented in 3D Daily 6:45 9:35; Sat-Sun, Tue, Thu 2:05
Horrible Bosses (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 6:55 9:10; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 1:55 GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr, Sherwood Park 780-4160150
CARS 2 (G) Daily 1:05, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG violence, not recommended for young children) No passes Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:35 (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 10:15
Tue, Thu 12:55, 2:50
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 –3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Daily 6:40, 9:20; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 12:40, 3:20; Movies for Mommies: Tue, Jul 26: 12:40
Horrible Bosses (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 6:50, 8:55; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 12:50, 2:55 Zookeeper (PG) Daily 8:50 Cars 2 (G) Daily 6:55; Sat, Sun, Tue, Thu 12:55, 3:10
Bad Teacher (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 9:10
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The Tree Of Life (PG) Daily 6:45, 9:30;
Sat-Sun 2:00
Midnight In Paris (PG) Daily 7:00, 9:10;
Sat-Sun 2:30
SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400
ZOOKEEPER (PG) Daily 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40 CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 12:20, 3:20, 6:45, 9:20
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HAL-
scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes, On 2 Screens, Dolby Stereo Digital, DTS Digital, Child Admission Price Fri-Tue, Thu 12:30, 12:50, 3:30, 3:50, 6:30, 7:15, 9:30, 10:15; Wed 12:30, 12:50, 3:30, 3:50, 6:30, 7:15, 9:55, 10:15
LOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER
scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Daily 12:05, 3:15, 6:30, 9:40
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening
(PG violence, not recommended for young children) Bargain Matinee, Child Admission Price, Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes, Stadium Seating Daily 12:15, 3:15, 7:30, 10:30
HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Child Admission Price, Bargain Matinee, Dolby Stereo Digital Fri, Sun-Tue, Thu 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:10; Sat 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40; Wed 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes, Digital 3d, Stadium Seating, Child Admission Price, DTS Stereo Daily 12:00, 3:00, 7:00, 10:00
scenes, not recommended for young children) No passes Daily 12:40, 1:30, 3:50, 4:45, 7:00, 8:00, 10:10
(PG violence, not recommended for young children)Ultraavx, No passes Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10
HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frightening
GREEN LANTERN 3D (PG frightening scenes, violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 9:10
TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language) Digital 3d
Daily 12:00, 3:15, 6:35, 10:00
WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 12:15, 2:15, 4:15, 7:00
HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language,
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DISH Three amigos
// Bryan Birtles
Tres Carnales is an authentic taqueria built on a strong bond
The house that carnales built
Tres Carnales 10119 - 100A St 780.429.0911
T
he collective brainchild of Daniel Braun, Chris Sills and Edgar Gutierrez, Tres Carnales is a far cry from the sombreros and nachos which many Canadians associate with Mexican cuisine. This taqueria, dressed in warm hues and lively illustrations of lucha libre, opened to great acclaim on June 30. "People were practically breaking down the door to get in. The response has been incredible," laughs Sills. Braun, Sills and Gutierrez hail from diverse backgrounds and were united by a shared passion for the food industry and Mexican street food. "I worked in both casual and fine
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dining in Edmonton and Victoria for almost 20 years," Edmonton-raised Sills recounts, "but decided to drop everything and go surfing in Mexico and Central America." Gutierrez is a Red Seal chef with an enviable resume that includes Copper Pot, Normand's and Hundred Bar and Kitchen. Braun grew up in León, Mexico, and immersed himself in the food industry at the tender age of 17. Love and, eventually, a Canadian wife brought Braun to Edmonton. He remarks, "I've worked in a number of restaurants here and it gave me a good feel for how things work here compared to Mexico." "In Mexico," explains Braun, "you order as many tacos as you can eat and pay afterwards, like an honour system."
The Carnales trio recreates this self-accountable method; a customer chooses his or her food and drink and the tab may be closed, where one pays immediately, or open, where one continues to order food until satiated. "It gets loud and crazy in here, but already we're recognizing repeat customers and learning names," says Sills. Tres Carnales joins a growing roster of eateries recolonizing Rice Howard Way. "We went through three real estate agents," relates Sills, "and we found this place by chance." The three restaurateurs imported much of the décor from Mexico, which adds to the establishment's authentic and decidedly non-kitschy feel. "It's a labour of love for all of us,"
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affirms Braun. Sills agrees and adds, "We just built the kind of restaurant we wanted to work in. And in a perfect world, there would be a beach out there for surfing!" The taqueria is amongst a scant few restaurants in Edmonton that prepare authentic Latin American food, as opposed to the heavily Americanized Tex-Mex with which many diners are accustomed. "We've had some people asking for nachos and burritos," notes Sills, "but Mexican people don't eat like that. It's tourist stuff." The menu is chiefly comprised of tacos and tortas (sandwiches) in a tantalizing spectrum of flavours. Among these seven flavours are Al Pastor, which features pork shoulder with tomatoes, cilantro and guacamole, and Vegeteriano,
which includes grilled chilies and corn. "We wanted to showcase real Mexican food so that it becomes a cultural experience," Braun says. "The bottom line for restaurants in Mexico or Canada is to make people happy," smiles Braun. Diners are clearly happy at Tres Carnales: the enthusiastic response bespeaks hunger for an authentic taqueria. Braun, Sills and Gutierrez chuckle that their restaurant's name is often the subject of mistranslation. Sills laughs, "It's not Tres Carnes, which would mean 'three meats.' 'Carnales' is Mexican slang for something like 'homeboy' or 'of the flesh.' It means a stronger bond than just friends." LS Vors
// vors@vueweekly.com
BEER
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Tea beer turns out to be a pleasant surprise seemed too much like a novelty beer. He repeated the offer, predicting I would be $2.99 FOR 500 ML CAN pleasantly surprised. Not wanting to be rude, I accepted. I told the guy there was no way I would The beer in question was Lemon Tea like that beer. But he insisted. I Beer, a summer specialty wheat hesitated again, but he perbeer Mill Street crafted with sisted. So I took a sip. a blend of Orange Pekoe The guy in question was and Earl Grey tea and some m ly.co eweek int@vu p Steve Abrams, Co-founder of lemon. This "iced tea" beer e th to Jason Mill Street Brewery. He was has become a bit of a rage Foster in Europe recently. I have been talking to me at a wine festival, of all places, last fall. We had been dismissive, seeing it as another efchatting beer and had worked through fort to appeal to non-beer drinkers by tastes of their line of quality beer, like taking the beer out of beer (read: Bud the Coffee Porter and the Tankhouse Light Lime). Fruit wheat beer has nevAle. Then he presented a can of this er been my favourite and the thought strange oddity and suggested I try it. I of diluting the beer character even crinkled my nose and politely suggestfurther by mixing in tea (which on its ed it might not be the beer for me—it own I have no issues with) seemed LEMON TEA BEER
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The taste has a soft wheat-sweet up front, plus some black-tea character. Lemon moves in near the end, sharpening and freshening the beer. It is a blend of iced tea with honey and some wheat malt. The tea addition offers some twig-
appeals to both those who don't really like beer but want a refreshing summer drink and beer fans looking for something interesting and unusual. It isn't a novelty at all, in my mind. Just a good beer. V
They made a beer that appeals to both those who don't really like beer but want a refreshing summer drink and beer fans looking for something interesting and unusual. viting, refreshing beer. AND it still tastes like beer. It pours medium gold with a thin white head, forming islands of foam on the surface. There is a slight haze to it, likely from tea tannins. The aroma is classic iced tea—earthy tea, lemon and a little honey to accent.
gy tannin, the lemon a citrus sharpness and the wheat base is soft and mellow. The blend of flavours really does work. There is enough beer in there to keep me happy, but the tea and lemon make it an ideal summer quencher. I am not entirely sure how they did it, but they did. They made a beer that
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MUSIC A new festival in a city known for its wealth of them, New Music West's arrival in Edmonton from Vancouver heralds not just a four-day opportunity for artists to showcase their talents, but also a few chances for them to gain a somewhat significant and more direct financial reward: there's a pair of hefty $20 000 prizes to be awarded over the course of NMW. The thought of that substantial amount got us at Vue wondering about, first, what the festival hopes to achieve, and, second, what an artist could really do if suddenly awarded that much cash. We've examined each in a pair of articles.
N
othing's cheap in the music industry. Even if the Internet has allowed everyone to saturate the world with his or her art, it's still a massive commitment to play even a gig, never mind create a basic album. You can begin by talking about the tangibles: buy some gear, book a show, record an album, manufacture that album, tour the album and repeat. Financially, things start adding up real quick. That's a cursory glance, but you probably get the idea. Consider this analysis of the recording aspect: in a June 2011 article from National Public Radio entitled "How Much Does It Cost To Make a Hit Song?," Rihanna's Loud was dissected into costs based on interviews with industry folk. From the "Writing Camp"—a room where the best pop writers pen the next hit—to
promoting the finished product, "Man Down," the single from Loud, cost over $1 000 000 alone. So, yeah, music can be an expensive business. Would a financial windfall change a band's life? Well, it certainly can't hurt. Steve Jordan founded the Polaris Prize in 2006 for this very reason. The Polaris—Canada's version of Britain/ Ireland's famous Mercury Prize—sees a group of Canadian journalists and bloggers debate and pick the fulllength album that merits appreciation and financial recognition regardless of commercial success. The prize of $30 000—in previous years it was $20 000—is a considerable amount of money for a band to receive but, as Jordan notes, "We make no judgments on how they spend
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their money, we just hope they spend it. We're rewarding people for their artistic work; how they choose to spend it is completely up to them and more power to them." Austra's Katie Stelmanis—whose electronic goth-trio's Feel It Break is nominated for 2011's Polaris Prize— understands that prize money is only one part of a greater equation. "I think that when you are in a band you have to think of money being fluid, otherwise it will drive you crazy," says Stelmanis. "Twenty or 30 000 dollars would obviously be a huge bonus, but we wouldn't go crazy with it, just add it to the pot we are constantly adding money to—and more often taking from—that keeps our project afloat." If you're looking to record something
of album quality, most of the time you have to be willing to pay. "The three factors are 'good,' 'fast' and 'cheap'. They're equal factors and you only get two of them," says Kevin Deitz, head engineer at Metalworks Studios in Ontario. "If you want it good and fast, it's not cheap. If you want it cheap and fast, it's not good." "Sometimes it takes someone from the outside, with an outside ear. Someone who shares the vision and helps a band get there," says Barry Allen of Edmonton's Homestead Recorders, discussing the inadequacies of home recording. Certainly, with home recording the price is right— an adequate setup, not including a computer, can be had for as little as $500—but in the mind of Allen and other engineers, it's not the same ex-
perience. "To become a good band, the more recording you can do, the better. It gets them prepared," says Allen about the pros of home recording. Yet, the processes of going into a studio and recording at home are worlds apart. "If you're looking for demo-style, great," says Allen. "You need a team of people and until a band can get to a level that they can get the team, they have to step into a friend's basement to record. Somewhere they can at least get started. Otherwise it's hard, it's really hard." Could that higher level be reached with $20 000 or $30 000 in prize money? "You bet—you could make a great record with that," says Allen.
new, fertile locale. While Edmonton cannot command the attention of the industry the way Vancouver could, Robertson is confident he can change that. "We plan to grow that over the next few years and convince industry people to fly into Edmonton and see the festival." Beyond that, NMW's first year in Edmonton will be highlighted by one rare, substantial feature, one which Vancouver never enjoyed: the festival will reward good music, not only through exposure, but financially, too. For the first time NMW is offering
two separate $20 000 prizes—one for greatest live performance, judged throughout the festival, the other for best song, judged at the conference. "The idea is really not the money in the end, it's to spur people to write songs and to remind them that there are financial rewards out there for great artistry and talent," says Robertson. "I don't think the point is one person gets 20 grand and that's going to make them a big star. It's to show that Canada supports the arts."
CURTIS WRIGHT
// CURTIS@VUEWEEKLY.COM
A new direction
A revamped New Music West aims to help out smaller artists Thu, Jul 21 – Sat, Jul 23 Various locations newmusicwest.com for info More like carnivals than concerts, festivals like Coachella, Sasquatch and Bonnaroo may be wild spectacles full of international stars, but it's difficult for emerging artists to catch a break. New Music West considers itself a different kind of festival, the kind that seeks to get behind the smaller bands and teach them a thing or two about becoming bigger ones.
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"I think it's more important than ever these days. The music industry has undergone massive changes and it's really about the band building a fan base, using the Internet effectively— really relying on themselves, and honing their craft," says Jory Robertson of 29 Productions, co-producer of New Music West alongside Union Events. "It is so much different than it used to be: you could hone your craft, but you didn't need to build an audience if you found the right people in the industry to take you to the next level. Those people are gone. It's really about
building it yourself." Founded in 1990 in Vancouver by Frank Weipart, NMW has served as a musical launching pad for many Canadian and international bands, including Silversun Pickups and Billy Talent. With over 20 years behind it, NMW now finds itself with a new, younger face at the helm of the festival and conference. Robertson saw the potential of NMW, as well as Weipart's waning interest, and negotiated a deal to be the organizer. He also noted that it might be time to move the festival into a
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CURTIS WRIGHT
// CURTIS@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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New Music West Conference 2011 WIN a $20,000 Cash Prize for Best Song! Open to ALL! at the NMW 2011 Conference – Saturday July 23rd Courtesy of the Harvard Broadcast Exposure Award, presented by Lite 95.7FM Featuring: Music & Technology Keynote from Milun Tesovic, founder of Metrolyrics at the age of 15. Metrolyrics is the 3rd most popular music website in the world with 45 million hits per month! How to Get Your Song on the Radio with Program Directors from top radio stations. Tickets Available Now - $25: www.newmusicwest2011.eventbrite.com Where: The Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel - 10155 105 Street - Edmonton, Alberta
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Saturday All of the Above Secret Broadcast Broken Ride
*SONG SEARCH contest details: Song drop off at 11AM at the Coast Plaza Hotel (CD, iPOD, USB). All original songs are eligible for entry. One song per ticket. Artists performing in the Festival gain free entry to the Conference, but must purchase one ticket per song to enter the contest. INDIVIDUAL DOOR TICKETS AVAILABLE AT ALL SHOWS $10 AT THE DOOR FOR ALL SHOWS EXCEPT STARLITE ROOM AND DAN BERN ON JULY 21 Limited festival wristbands $20.00+s/c available NOW online at PrimeBoxOffice.com and UnionEvents.com, & Blackbyrd Music
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Thursday Sydney York Samantha Savage Smith Dojo Workhorse Cockatoo Cygnets
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Saturday Asim Chin Sex With Strangers Summer Games Mass Choir
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Thursday Miesha and the Spanks Hale Hale The Get Down Black Mastiff
Friday Bigger Fish Than Guns Needles To Vinyl The Apresnos One Day Late The Red Threat
PREVUE // COUNTRY ROCK
THE RE-MAINS Mon, Jul 25 (10 pm) Black Dog, free
T
he geographic enormity of Canada has proven itself a bane for countless homegrown acts looking to tour its lengths, but a fruitful repeat journey for Australia's the Re-Mains. The band has made three country crosses in the past few years, touting its countrified take on bar room rock 'n' roll to as many festivals or live rooms as will give the band space to perform. The Re-Mains' first Canadian tour saw the band play 64 shows over four months, coast to coast, traveling the country in an $800 beater of a van. And the group has been back twice since then: the band seems to spend more time here than in its own former British colony, for which frontman Mick Daley, effectively
comes down to a more welcoming, larger country-rock scene here, even if there's long strips of highway between each show. "Fuck, it's about four times as big as Australia," Daley admits over an uncertain phoneline somewhere in Saskatchewan, before adding, "We do drive far in Australia as well. Our tours are pretty messy there as well." "Canada's got a much bigger music scene for our kind of music, what we call country rock 'n' roll," Daley continues. "Obviously, there's more people in Canada, and just more people who do what we do, so it's just a bigger scene here, particularly here with the festivals, which we just don't get in Australia. Small population over there, for bands like us, and a smaller demographic of people into that."
Daley and his band are coming through town again in support of Courage ... and Shuffle the Cards, a Canada-only compilation album featuring some new music, some older tracks and a wealth of live recordings ripped from radio or live off the barroom floor. But still, recording generally seems to take a backseat to simply getting out and playing shows for Daley (Even on Courage, the live tracks have a notable energy above and beyond the studio work). To him, the appeal of keeping to the road is an undefinable pull, though a strong one. "Any musician gets some kind of fulfilment out of what they do," he says, "and it isn't, most of the time, monetary satisfaction, but just something about the artform that you enjoy doing, the live performance and the recording and the whole culture that
All the Re-Mains
goes with it. "Particularly in Australia, to do the gig you just have to drive vast distances and I guess it's much the same here,
really. It's either do that, or go [be a] play-in-a-bedroom sort of band." Paul blinov
// paul@vueweekly.com
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PREVUE // LIVE DANCE MUSIC
SECRET SQUARES Thu, Jul 28 (8 pm) With Beat Burglar, Miyuru Fernando Wunderbar, $10
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here are a number of elements that sets Secret Squares— comprised of the singularly-named HAL9000 and Kusch—apart from compatriots in Edmonton's dance music scene. To start, the two weren't exactly the most rabid electronic music fans when they set out to make music together. Having played in various musical ensembles at the University of Alberta, the two definitely had a background in music—which they have used to their advantage— but most of their experience came in other genres. When it came to making dance music, everything was on the table. "Our approach really gave us a lot of freedom and I think it turned out really special because it took us out of our element: both of us were doing something completely different than we ever had before so it became more about musicality and less about sticking to our safe zones," explains Kusch. "HAL9000 was writing baroque changes over quarter kick drum
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Secret Squares hiding behind rectangles so our influences come from everywhere—there's no genre we haven't been influenced by." Secret Squares also sets itself apart by playing live. Instead of simply DJing the tracks off its new, self-titled album at the release party, the duo will instead be recreating the experience, allowing themselves the freedom of improvisation and discovery. "We didn't want to be the guys standing behind the turntables with their fingers on the knob not doing anything," Kusch says. "We're using a program called Ableton Live and what we do to
perform is we stem down each of our tracks into Ableton and then we have the ability to throw in each sound individually and then affect it with the mix that we have. Basically we've given ourselves the opportunity to produce tracks live, and there's the ability to jam because you have full control of every aspect of each song—you can make a new song out of two different parts on the spot. That's huge for us because it turns the program into an instrument. It's really fun." BRYAN BIRTLES
// BRYAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
PREVUE // THE REAL SASQUATCH?
THE SASQUATCH GATHERING Fri July 22 – Sun July 24 Featuring Flying Fox & the Hunter Gatherers, Bill Bourne, Cockatoo and many more Rangeton Park, $60 sasquatchgathering.com for info
'W
e're not the guy at the Gorge," says John Armstrong of Alberta's Sasquatch Community Arts Centre. "They're not as old as we are, you know? We actually changed our name to avoid confusion ... somebody wrote me an email saying 'You've got Ben Harper?!' No, I don't. I wish! I think he would go over well, and I think he'd enjoy it too." And even though the very modest Alberta Sasquatch Gathering is celebrating its Sweet 16, and the Washington version is only about to enjoy a 10th birthday, the festivals are entirely different, both in size
and in philosophy. Sasquatch in George, Washington brings in hundreds of thousands of people. Sasquatch in Alberta is built on ethos, not size. "Written into the mandate is the note to explore the unexplored wild spaces of Alberta and encourage people to enjoy and care for the outdoor environment," says Armstrong. "It's grown over the years, but we still want to keep it under 1000 people." It's in the unexplored aspect of the festival where it has its strongest appeal. Since it began, the Sasquatch Gathering has set up on seven different sites, having new fans and longtime loyalists travel to the sites that have included Nordegg and this year's venue, the breathtaking Rangeton Park near Evansburg. The travelling festival aspect, along with the humble size and spirit, allows for greater luxuries.
"I sometime joke that this is the festival with no rules," says Armstrong. "They tend to have to impose rules when they're dealing with thousands of people whereas we don't." And one last thing: with the amount of people and the corporate structure, you couldn't possibly imagine having a potluck dinner at the Gorge. Yet—even if just under 1000 attendees are a mindblowing amount of mouths to feed—this is something the Sasquatch Gathering is proud of. "It's really a community," says Armstrong. "If you've forgot tent pegs, someone's got them, if you need a wine opener; someone has you covered. It's music and dancing and hutting. Everyone is looking out for each other. A little tight-knit community that gathers every year for the weekend." CURTIS wright
// CURTIS@vueweekly.com
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PREVUE // POST-NAPSTER DANCE MUSIC
PETE TONG
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Friday, Aug. 26th 2011 from 5pm - 1am Coast Edmonton Plaza Hotel (10155 105 st)
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Sat, Jul 23 (6 pm) Oil City Roadhouse, $35
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hough he remains one of the world's most popular DJs, one of the still-vital purveyors of electronic and dance music from before the filesharing era, he's done so in spite of the turn-of-the-millenium implosion of the major label business model that choked the genre. The industry all went Pete Tong, as goes the saying that borrows his name: label support for electronic/dance music dove alongside record sales, as it was electronic and dance artists who first felt the backlash of that, notes Tong. "I always say the dance music scene, in the same way disco blew up, and then was shot in the head and exterminated in the late '70s early '80s, with people burning 12-inches in base-
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ball parks," he says, "I felt when the Napster thing hit, and file sharing ... I think electronic music, the dance departments, they were the first to go, the first to suffer." But the DJ scene was also first to adapt to what's become the new, more Internet-friendly way of doing things wherein an artist makes the lion's share of their living off of live shows, not record sales. "I think electronic music and dance, subconsciously or unconsciously found itself adapting to the business ethics or the business practices that we are all living by today," he says. "With file sharing, suddenly you could make a record in Chile or San Francisco, you could send it to me as a file, I could play it on Radio 1, and that DJ could get a call from Hong Kong or Malaysia to go and
get a gig." Tong points out how global the dance scene has become, how it finally broke in America and how even the audience culture has changed, attracting younger and younger fans, in part thanks to a budding American festival circuit. Ten years on, it seems that going Pete Tong might just have been the best way for things to have gone. "It's quite interesting when you see an act like Deadmau5, who was almost a stadium artists before he ever really sold any records," Tong says. "David Guetta was a sell-out act on the road, and selling a few records in France, before the world discovered him, and it was kind of a sure thing: He practically filled the Stade de France, 80Â 000 people, for his own DJ gig." Paul Blinov
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Manraygun / Sat, Jul 23 (4 pm) If a band has managed to capture the sounds of Springsteen and the Clash, while infusing them with New York art punk, the group is worth admiring. Admire them. (Empress Ale House, Free)
Cars & Guitars / Wed, Jul 20 – Sun Jul 24 To coincide with the loudest race in town, Edmonton's Indy presents four different shows that cleverly merge cars and their natural counterpart, guitars. Beaver Hills Park, Rice Howard Way, the Yellowhead Brewery and the Roxy Theatre host rootsy and loud rockers including: the Twisters, Lee Rocker of the Stray Cats, Los Straightjackets, the Raygun Cowboys, Jaydee Bixby and more. Be sure to check out raceweek.ca for schedules. (Various venues, various Costs)
Elizabeth / Sat, Jul 23 (8 pm) Full of a sound usually reserved for British popsters, cunningly combined with punk-rock undertones and energetic, hook-filled tempos, Vancouver's Elizabeth celebrates the April release of Hazards, Horrors and Liabilities. (Wunderbar, $10)
The Vibrators / Tue, Jul 26 (7 pm) The Vibrators are so legendary that the band has toured with Iggy & the Stooges. This probably gives them rock cred. And if that doesn't convince you, the Vibrators' first release—Pure Mania—is considered one of the best punk albums of all time. Not bad. (New City Legion, $16)
River City Revue / Sat, Jul 23 (8:30 pm) Join Edmonton’s latest burlesque troupe doing their artistic thing— which should be memorable to say the least. Joining the party is Molly Rose, Kiki Quinn, Gigi Vega, Zorra Adora, Harmonee Sweet, Ava Lively, Coco Cerise, Rexy Belle, host Paul Bezaire and local funkers, the Boogie Patrol. (Artery, $15)
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Wugazi 13 Chambers (Doomtree) The wow-factor once associated with clever mash-ups has dimmed somewhat from its more heraldic moments. The Grey Album, DJ Dangermouse's career-launching mix that spliced JayZ's The Black Album with the Beatles' White Album, comes to mind as the one that launched a thousand discs of like-minded mixing: Weezer Blue plus Jay-Z's Black. Jaydiohead. Beatallica. But even within the pseudo-genre that's emerged, your enjoyment ultimately resides less in the artistry and more in the simple recognition of things you've already heard, because the skill of mashing up rarely moves beyond that initial concept of bringing two unexpected things together. The best mashups try to use one artist to reveal something about another but, as a whole, mashups seems to have evolved closer to meme culture than anything else. Still, every so often something captures that baffling original magic of the very idea of putting two musical ideas together. Doomtree hip-hop collective has spliced eternal DC punks Fugazi with eternal hip-hop provocateurs the Wu-Tang Clan to make Wugazi. Charmingly silly name aside, it's easily the best release the amalgam genre's seen in years. Admittedly, even here the most en-
joyment is going to come with the songs that you recognize, but the aggression of Wu-Tang's raps benefit greatly from Fugazi's hardcore, spartan instrumentals, and vice versa: Fugazi seems groovier, though no less rigid, and Wu Tang benefits from the newfound bed tracks by seeming just as confrontational in more fleshed out way. Opener "Sleep Rules Everything Around Me"—which mixes Wu Tang's "Cash Rules Everything Around Me," plus Fugazi's "I'm So Tired"—actually makes the two tracks seem made for each other, a downpour of minor chord keys that still carry enough bravado to cushion Wu's raps. It's all pretty eclectic, from known hits to deep cuts of either band, and seamlessly mashed together into something new. Beyond that, what really sets Wugazi apart is just how stand-alone all of these songs are. You can know a half of one, both parts, or neither; the meld is good enough to stand on its own merits. Sure maybe you'll gravitate toward the ones you know best, but chances are you'll just listen the whole thing through. 13 Chambers transcends both halves of its heritage to be a worthy new whole of its own. Paul Blinov
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Timmy Curran Options (Independent) Jack Johnson's sound has only minimally evolved as his stock has dramatically risen— the formulaic strategy is palpable and any variation is light at best. And why would he alter? Clearly Johnson started as a campfire strummer, humming simple melodies for his own enjoyment—he can't be accused of altering his sound for mainstream achievement. Johnson's music can best be described as mellow. Yet, proving that surf-folk needn't be swallowed into the massive commercial apparatus, an artist with a carefree approach and a sound like Timmy Curran's proves that a professional surfer turned singersongwriter can diversify his sound into more than the beachy, stripped-down surfer prototype might indicate. Curran's first, Citsusa EP, was certainly more complementary to the sounds of JJ's Brushfire Fairytales, where Curran's third full-length shows growth, sounding more like an ensemble pop album, done simply yet crowded with more thought and electricity than a chilledout surfer might be celebrated for. "Bail" displays a whispery Curran singing over an uncomplicated piano riff reminiscent of early U2, while album high note "Suddenly" enjoys a lovely girl-boy harmony over a simple strum and quiet violin. Most often Options details simple indie-rock ideas, coupled with effortless, charismatic vocals, but it is Curran's varied sound that makes the album an easy to enjoy standout and different than a surfer might be known for. Curtis Wright
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Pagan's Mind Heavenly Ecstasy (Steamhammer) Heavenly Ecstasy is the fifth album from Norwegian metal band Pagan's Mind. Grounded in melodic elements that define progressive metal, lead singer Nils Rue's transcendent vocals soar over driving, heavy bass tracks and the first song, "Eyes of Fire," opens with an expectation of something great. The expectations of an epic, near-concept-like album are assisted by the lyrical elements drawing on themes of space and philosophy, and the presence of Ronny Tegnar's keyboards assist in creating a space journey. But even though all the elements are there the album seems to have left behind a drive to create the unexpected. Forceful guitar work and rapid drums keep the album heavy but they're not particularly inventive. Still, going into the group's 10th year as a band, Pagan's Mind has clearly found its sound and put the expected pieces forward. Samantha Power
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Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am
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Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10
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Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays
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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)
Blue Chair Café Sun Brunch: Hawaiian Dreamers, 10:30am2:30pm, donations; Evening: Jazz Drumming Masterclass Concert; 7pm; $12
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DV8 8307-99 St
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
Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain 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
J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403
Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800
Sideliners Pub 11018127 St, 780.453.6006
jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890
Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717
Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924
HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Iron Boar Pub 491151st St, Wetaskiwin
JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 Karma's–Sylvan Lake 117 Lakeway Blvd, Sylvan Lake, 403.887.1808 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 kelly's pub 11540 Jasper Ave
O'Maille's 398 St Albert Tr, St Albert, 780.458.5700 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767
PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 1086057 Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955
L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100
Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722
Expressionz Café 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667
LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786
RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825
Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park • 780.449.3378
LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495
Rendezvous 10108149 St
FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St
Lizard Lounge 13160118 Ave
FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557
Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203
FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 1034182 Ave, 780.433.9676
CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail
GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841
Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675
Good Earth Coffee House 9942-108 St
Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618
HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO
Diesel Ultra Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB
haven social club 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HillTop Pub 8220-106
Orlando's 1 15163-121 St
Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929
Ave, 780.490.7359
McDougall United Church 10025-101 St 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
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
Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602
Vinyl Dance Lounge 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com
ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253
West Side Pub 15135 Stony Plain Rd
Rose and Crown 10235101 St Roxy Theatre 10708124 St, 780.453.2440 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
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 21 – JUL 27, 2011
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stage every Sun hosted by Me Next and the Have-Nots; 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)
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
O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am
SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover
On the Rocks Big Rock Jam: Matt Blais and Jason Kirkness; 2-8pm
Sportsworld Roller Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sportsworld.ca
ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm Race Week Music Festival • Yellowhead Brewery Series: Race Week Rock & Roll Red Carpet Wrap-Up Party: Clayton Bellamy, The Stray Cats Lee Rocker; 6pm; raceweek.ca Roxy Theatre Race Week Music Festival–Live at the Roxy:
MON JUL 25 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: Re-Mains; no cover Blues on Whyte Avey Brothers Devaney's Irish Pub Andrew Scott
TUE JUL 26 Blues on Whyte Avey Brothers Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am; guests this week: Michael Will (harmonica/ vocals), George Hauser (bass), Brent Mcnabb (guitar) O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm Second Cup–124 Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm
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DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Tue; dance lessons 8-10pm NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue
WED JUL 27 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Blues on Whyte Avey Brothers Devaney's Irish PUB Duff Robinson eddie shorts Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover Festival Place Felix in Love, Samantha Schultz; 7:30pm; $8 at Festival Place box office, TicketMaster Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover Expressionz Café Open stage with Randall Walsh; every Wed; 7-11pm; admission by donation Fiddler's Roost Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 Good Earth Coffee House Breezy Brian Gregg every Wed; 12-1pm HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm1am 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 Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm Second Cup–89 Ave Rick Mogg (country) Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Rob Taylor
DJs BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Rev'd Up Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm
SNFU // Fri, Jul 23 Starlite Room, $16 Burlesque-A-Pades, starring Angie Pontani Sasquatch–Sweet Sixteen Age of Reason, Michelle Boudreau, Bill Bourne, Paul Bromley, Ken Brown, Cockatoo, Ethan Collister, Kevin Cook Band, Tophie Davies, Flying Fox & the Hunter Gatherers, Breezy Brian Gregg, Steven Johnson, Nadine Kellman, Jason Kodie, The Low Flying Planes, Jim & Penny Malmberg, Nineca, Ol' Smashy, The Time Flies, U22 Song Circle, featuring Braden Gates, Robert Mulder, Jordan Norman & Alex Vissia, The Vibe Tribe' visuals by Tim Folkmann; $60 (adv weekend pass)/separate day/evening passes available at Blackbyrd, E: info@ sasquatchg $70 (gate)/free (child 12 and under 12 accompanied by an adult), YEGlive.ca Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm
DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ
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kelly's pub Open stage every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm Northlands The Midway State; 8:30pm PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: every Mon with DJ Blue Crown Pub Minefield Mondays/House/Breaks/Trance and more with host DJ Pheonix, 9pm FILTHY McNASTY'S Metal Mon: with DJ S.W.A.G. Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex
VUEWEEKLY JUL 21 – JUL 27, 2011
SEcond Cup–Stanley Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm Second Cup–Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Rob Taylor 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: hosted by Mark Feduk; 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
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 Windup Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed Starlite Room Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5
EVENTS WEEKLY FAX YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO 780.426.2889 OR EMAIL LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3 PM
EXPRESSIONZ Open Market • 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Open market focusing on arts and crafts, health products, well-being, and more. Speakers, open stage, poetry, theatre and other events scheduled during the market throughout the month • Every Sat, 10am-3pm
Fair Vote Alberta • Strathcona
COMEDY Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesday's with comedy and music
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 Thu-Sat and late show at 10:30pm on Fri-Sat; $12 (Thu)/$19 (Fri/Sat) • Yuk Yuk's Comedy Clup presents: Scott Dumas; Jul 22-23 • Yuk Yuk's Comedy Club presents: Tony Binns; Jul 29-30
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu, 8:30pm; Sat, 8pm and 10pm • Jon Charles; Jul 22-23 • Tom Liske; Jul 29-30
Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; FriSat 10:30pm • John Beauhler; until Jul 24 • Hit or Miss Monday: Jul 25, 8pm; $7 • Brown on Bourbon: Jul 26, 8pm; $12 • Tom Simmons; Jul 27-31
DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm hydeaway • 10209-100 Ave • Super Awesome Comedy: Talk Show with Scott Belford on alternative weeks: Wed, Jul 27
laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Paul Sveen; Thu-Sat, Jul 21-23, 7pm (door); tickets: $10 (Thu)/$20 (Fri)/$20 (Sat) • Daryl Makk; Jul 28-30
River Cree–the Venue • rivercreeresort.com/thevenue.php • Whose Live Anyway? Improv comedy and song with Ryan Stiles, Greg Proops, Chip Esten, and Jeff B. Davis • Jul 23
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
CALM ABIDING MEDITATION RETREAT • Providence Centre, 3005119 St • Tibetan Buddhist monk Kushok Lobsang Dhamchöe leads a one-day retreat • Sat, Jul 23, 10am-4pm • Donation; Pre-register/E/info: Elke at elke.kriegel@ gasamling.ca
CHESS FOR STUDENTS • Roving 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
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
Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Wed MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St; meditationedmonton. org; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm
Mill Creek Ravine–Walk • Meet at Earth's General Store, 96 St, Whyte Ave • safeteam.ca • 5km walk, fundraiser for Saving Animals From Euthanasia (SAFE) Team • Sat, Jul 23, 12pm
Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm; through the summer
Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • FREE outdoor movement!
Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10 min discussion, followed by a 30-40 minute walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)
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
Winspear Centre–Summer Tours • Learn about the Winspear Centre's lobby, chamber, and backstage areas • Jul-Aug
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, Aug 13, Sep 10, 1-2:30pm • $20; register at 780.454.0701 ext 221; e: info@gatewayassociation.ca (drop-ins are welcome)
Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Edmonton Federation of Community Leagues, 7103-105 St • ytoastmasterclub.ca • 1st and 3rd Tue, 7-9pm; every month
LECTURES/Presentations 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 • Fri, Sat, Sun: Jul 22-24, Jul 29-31 • Jul, Aug: Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays • Sep: Fri, Sat, Sun
QUEER
G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group •
WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 •
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
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
Illusions Social Club • The Junction, 10242-106St • groups.yahoo. com/group/edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm
Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm
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
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
the junction bar • 10242-106 St •
Youth Understanding Youth
• 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
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
• yuyedm.ca • Meets every Sat, 7-9pm • E: info@yuyedm.ca, T: 780.248.1971
Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious
LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-
AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer
and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/ bwedmonton
BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm 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, 10227-118 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
VUEWEEKLY JUL 21 – JUL 27, 2011
124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling
MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu
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-2pm; 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
St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)
SPECIAL EVENTS Capital EX–Northlands Park • A carnival atmosphere electrifies the city's longest-running summertime exhibition • Jul 22-31 Devonian Botanical Gardens • Parkland County, 5kms north of Devon, Hwy 60 • Rose Day: Jul 24 • Parkland County Art Show: Artworks by artists from the Parkland Country Art Club in the classroom; Jul 29-Aug 1 • Devon Potter's Guild Art Show: Works by Devon Pottery Guild members in the Crafter’s Workshop; Jul 30-31 The Edible Garden Tour • 780.819.5382 • wildgreen.ca • Discovery of Food Growing Projects in Edmonton: tour featuring gardeners who have a passion for edible landscaping, local food production and permaculture • Sat, Aug 13, 9:30am-4pm • $27; pre-register; car pooling available Edmonton Indy • City Centre Airport • Jul 22-24 • Single day standing room pass available at TicketMaster Environmental Coordination Office of Students (ECOS) • 89 Ave, between 110 and 111 St • 780.905.5935 • 2011's first Campus Community Garden, open house • Sat, Jul 23, 11am-2pm • Free
Ghost Tours–Old Strathcona • Meet at Rescuer Statue, next to Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave • 780.289.2005 • edmontonghosttours.com • Stories of the paranormal, deceased, spirits, and phantoms • Mon-Thu, until Sep 1, 9pm • $10 each (dress for weather and walking)
Heritage Festival • William Hawrelak Park, 9330 Groat Rd • A celebration of our heritage • Jul 30-Aug 1
Heritage Weekend • Fort Edmonton Park, Fox Dr, Whitemud Dr • Keep your own family history alive and well by taking in some of these events • Jul 30-31 People For Palestine • Mirage Banquet Hall, 360, 8170-50 St • 780.905.8281 • peopleforpalestine.com • Fundraiser and dinner for Palestine featuring a panel of speakers Skype from London, England, a Q & A session, a short documentary, followed by a dinner • Mon, Aug 1, 6:30pm • $20
Taste of Edmonton • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Edmonton's restaurants create menus that allow all to sample their culinary delights • Jul 22-Aug 2
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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FREEWILLASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) I dreamed you were in a cake store. Every delicious kind of cake you could imagine was there: carrot cake, strawberry cheesecake, gooey butter cake, rich chocolate cake, birthday cakes that must have been baked in paradise. Sadly a big sign on the wall said, simply, "Absolutely no cakes available for Aries." What do you think my dream means? More importantly, what are you going to do about the situation? I suggest that in my next dream, you get a friend to buy a cake for you. Either that, or go to a different cake store. One way or another, the astrological omens say it's high time for you get the cake you want.
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our true peers," says astrologer Caroline Casey, "our real allies cannot find us." If, after taking inventory, you find that your circle is largely composed of cohorts and comrades who match your levels of vitality and intelligence, that will be excellent news; it will signal an opportunity to begin working on an upgraded version of your social life that will increase your access to synergy and symbiosis even further. But if your survey reveals that you're hanging out too much with people whose energy doesn't match yours, it will be time for a metamorphosis.
SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) There's a lot of grafTAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) Fill in the blanks, Taurus. Don't let the blanks keep screaming at you with their accusatory silence. Just fill in the freaking blanks with whatever you've got to fill them with. I realize you may be tempted to wait around for a supposedly more ideal moment. But I'm here to tell you that this is as ideal as it gets. So please express the hell out of yourself in the empty spaces, my dear; create yourself anew in the void—however improvisational or inexact it might feel..
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GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) "Do you know how to resolve an unresolvable paradox?" asked a Facebook friend named Pi. He answered his own question: "You figure out the 'error' in the initial premise or assumption." And that's my prescription for you this week, Gemini. Do not be tempted to bang your head against the wall so as to shake loose a nonexistent answer to the wrong question. Instead, stop yourself in the middle of your angst and think: "What would be a more productive way to formulate the riddle I need to untangle?" CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) An innovative jobseeker named Travis Broyles put an ad on Craigslist in Atlanta. Among the tasks he said he would perform for money were the following: draw your face on a balloon; build you a cardboard car and make vroom-vroom sounds while you drive it; change his political leanings; rename your Pokemon; or provide you with star treatment for a month, hiding in the bushes like a paparazzi and taking candid photos of you. I recommend that you come up with your own version of a list like this, Cancerian. It will help stimulate your imagination about what gifts you have to offer the world, which is exactly what the astrological omens are suggesting. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) As I ponder your immediate future, I'm reminded of a scene from The Simpsons. Here's the situation: While visiting the home of a colleague, the superintendent of schools is surprised to witness an anomalous outbreak of spectacular light. "Aurora Borealis?" he exclaims. "At this time of year? At this time of day? In this part of the country? Localized entirely within your kitchen?" "Yes," replies the colleague. I suspect that you will soon enjoy a metaphorically comparable visitation, Leo.
VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) My astrological colleague Antero Alli praises the value of anxiety. He says that when you feel that unsettling emotion, it's because you're experiencing more uncertainty than you like to—and that can be a good thing. It could mean you're about to experience the fertility that comes from wading into the unknown. An outbreak of novelty may be imminent, giving you the chance to welcome interesting surprises into your life. In fact, says Alli, the anxiety that comes from unpredictable mysteries may herald the arrival of an influx of creativity. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) "The I Ching counsels that if we are associating with others who are not
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fiti scrawled in a variety of languages on St Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. A fairly recent arrival is a plea, in English, to resuscitate a defunct American TV sitcom. "God, Bring back Arrested Development," the guerrilla prayer reads. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Scorpio, now would be a good time for you to be equally cheeky in promoting one of your pet causes. Consider the possibility of taking your case to a higher authority. To fight for what's right, you may have to make your mark in a place whose sphere of influence is bigger than yours.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) Do you stare for hours every day into little screens like those on smart phones, computer monitors and TVs? I recommend that you tear your gaze away from them more than usual in the coming week. A change in your brain chemistry needs to happen, and one good way to accomplish it will be to feast your eyes on vast panoramas and expansive natural scenes. Doing so will invigorate your thinking about the design and contours of your own destiny. So catch regular views of the big picture, Sagittarius. Treat clouds and birds and stars as if they were restorative messages from the wide-open future. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) A Facebook friend posted a quote by seminal psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud: "Being entirely honest with oneself is a worthwhile exercise." In response, another Facebooker named Dean disagreed: "Oh, I say let yourself have a little denial, and touch base with reality on a needto-know basis." Another respondent named Paulie took that sentiment one step further: "Reality and I have an understanding. I don't mess with it and it doesn't mess with me." In light of the current astrological omens, I suggest you try the first one for at least the next two weeks.
AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) You really need to tell your stories. It's downright urgent. There's a backlog of unexpressed narratives clogging up your depths. It's like you have become too big of a secret to the world. So please find a graceful way to share the narratives that are smoldering inside you—with the emphasis on the word "graceful." I don't want your tales to suddenly erupt like a volcano all over everything at the wrong time and place. You need a receptive audience and the proper setting.
PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) Piscean actor Javier Bardem said this to Parade magazine: "I don't know if I'll get to heaven. I'm a bad boy. Heaven must be nice, but is it too boring? Maybe you can get an apartment there and then go to hell for the weekends." I caution you Pisceans against this line of thought in the coming weeks. You may imagine that you can get away with sneaking away to hell for just a couple of days a week, but I don't share that optimism. Rack your brains to drum up as much adventure as possible in safety zones and sanctuaries where you know for sure you'll stay healthy and sane.
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COMMENT >> LGBTQ
Fifty ways to leave
Edmonton's a town for leaving and coming back I've seen long, drawn-out goodbyes, ed that some folks who don't feel quick and dirty Band-Aid breakups, like they're getting anything out repeat offenders and the old "flip of the city aren't putting enough the bird while riding into the into it. I think that carries sunset." By now I've seen at weight. least 50 queers come and In the consideration of go. From Edmonton, that leaving it's important to m .co weekly e@vue is. I'm sure the themes of distinguish between needs. michell lle Miche rat Obviously there are legitiarrival and departure can a Thom be extended to non-queer mate claims for better supidentified heterosexuals, but port. There are things that can't leaving does seem like it's a thing be reasonably or easily changed by for gays. individuals. This address is not diOn the whole, Edmonton is not rected toward folks who feel alone, perfect. But nobody is. If long-term alienated or outcast. Rather, it's a commitment is the ideal outcome plea to those who probably have the in relationships (which is a column fewest reasons to feel alone or hard for another day), this goal is most done by. likely to be met by those who aren't searching for a myth of perfection. Someone recently (hypothetiI'd argue that the same is true when cally) asked something that ofdealing in cities. I won't undertake a ten comes up when talking about defence of the city, in part because folks who have come and gone, I'm sure that's been done, but also and come again: "What the fuck is because I haven't really encountered the point of leaving if you're goa robust critique of it to start with. ing to come back?" I'd like to think Reasons to leave and methods maybe the point of leaving is to of leaving vary, but I have noticed come back. Sometimes people just a trend of dismissal. I won't say have places to go, sometimes they that other cities don't have better need a break, sometimes they things to offer, but it is off-putting want to learn a bunch of rad stuff when people slam Edmonton for and bring it back with them, someits failures to provide them with times they want to be somewhere all they need. It might be suggestwith enough people being awe-
some that they don't feel the need to be constantly on. And I'm sure I've met a person or two who just needed to check if the problem in their life was the location, or who wanted to crack into a new dating pool for a while—the latter being the thing that makes it a particular thing for queers. I've known a number of people who have left Edmonton in really gentle ways, and they always seem genuinely relieved and happy when they come back. While trying to avoid some of the most painfully cliché analogies between leaving cities and lovers, I'm sure it's at least true that the best ones always make you want to come back. Often before you've even left. I've always preferred the kind of break ups that weren’t black and white. Maybe instead, progressions back to friendship for people who failed together the best they could. With some time apart, while always knowing there would be at least mutual affection from a distance. Maybe part of that has to do with questioning the lines we draw between friendship and romance. Sometimes all it takes to get the thrill back from a city is to leave it for a while. V
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Where's the control?
Female ejaculation, jealous boyfriends and defining relationships You probably get this question every JSM, September 2007). They conday. I'm a man who loves it when my cluded that lady ejaculate isn't piss, girlfriend fucks me with a strapit's come: "The fluid emitted on. Another great thing: My E were clearly different than SAVAG girlfriend ejaculates freurine voided prior to sexquently and plentifully ual activity," they wrote. om eekly.c w e when we have sex, and "The values show that the u v ve@ avagelo she has done so when she's s source of fluid expulsion n a D e g a pegging me. Which leads during orgasm is not urine, v a S to my question: What are the but is rather similar to male possible issues from getting female ejaculate." ejaculate in your ass? I am thinkAs lady ejaculate is chemically siming about modifying a toy in a way ilar to gentleman ejaculate, OMFG, that might enable her to squirt up the risks of a lady ejaculating in your my ass. It probably won't work, but ass would presumably be similar to I am going to try. Because if it does the risks of a gentleman ejaculatwork ... ing in your ass: You would be at risk Oh My Fucking God of acquiring any sexually transmitted infection she might have. But if I get questions about female ejacuyour lady ejaculator is disease-free, lation every day—where does that OMFG, then letting her come in shit come from? How the hell can I/ your ass is a risk-free, if not squickmy girlfriend learn to do that shit? free, activity. Is that shit really piss?—but you're the first person to ask me about I'm a 24-year-old female living in modifying a sex toy so as to enable London, where I have just finished a a woman to come in a man's ass. degree in circus arts. I'm in a rela(You're going to want to patent that tionship with a great guy. The probthing if it works, OMFG.) lem is that while I have had longAllow me to quickly dispense with and short-term relationships before, the usual questions: it comes shoothe hasn't, and he can be very emoing out of a woman's urethra; practionally needy. For example, he can't/ tice, practice, practice; that shit isn't won't sleep without me in the bed. piss. How do we know it's not piss? We've been together for 10 months, Science! and he often tells me that I'm everyIn 2007, a crack team of sex rething in his life. I've told him that unsearchers in Vienna "collected" der no circumstances is this normal, lady ejaculate from two lady ejacand I've confirmed my right to have ulators—not a huge sample, admita life outside of him. The real crux of tedly, but two lady ejaculators are the situation is this: I worked on and better then none—and rushed their off as a stripper in a high-end club lady ejaculate to the lab, where it for two years. I haven't done it while was "evaluated biochemically." They with him because of the physical depublished the results of their study mands of my degree. Now I'm done in the Journal of Sexual Medicine and broke and want to return to this ("The Female Prostate Revisited: work. This is an issue for him, as you Perineal Ultrasound and Biochemican imagine. I won't compromise: the cal Studies of Female Ejaculate," job was great for me and allowed me
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such sexual (and financial!) liberation. I didn't orgasm for the first time until after I took control of my own sexuality via stripping. I don't know how to handle this issue: he knew this about me when we met and says he hoped it wouldn't carry on. I feel upset that he hasn't accepted the whole of me and I guess part of me wonders if I'm in the wrong relationship. I love this man, but I feel trapped. Clown College Graduate Inexperience might explain extreme emotional neediness, CCG, but it's
Allow me to quickly dispense with the usual questions: it comes shooting out of a woman's urethra; practice, practice, practice; that shit isn't piss. How do we know it's not piss? Science!
no excuse. It's just as likely that your boyfriend's clingy, manipulative shtick—he just can't sleep alone, you're his everything, if you go back to a job you loved before you loved him, well, he'll be vewy sad—looks to me like controlling, emotionally abusive behaviour in pathetic sadclown drag. But you like him, CCG, so let's give him the benefit of the doubt, shall we? Tell your boyfriend that you're going back to your old job and he has a choice to make: get over it or get over you. If he sucks it up and makes an effort to change, he was just an insecure little douchebag and, hey, you helped him get over it! If he doubles down on the whining and clinging, then he's a controlling dick and you're well rid of him.
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A quick comment on monogamy: I agree with you on the point that we tend to assume that all the other couples we know are in monogamous relationships, when in reality many are not. Recently, my mom told me that she wouldn't mind if my father had an affair. Sex has become harder for her since menopause, and she doesn't consider it the be-all and end-all of a marriage. I've been married for a year, with several years of dating before that, and sex and arousal can be difficult for me and I have a lower libido than
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my husband. I'm not complaining— my husband is a wonderful lover and has been good about taking things at the right pace for me. And when the sex works, it's amazing. One thing that really takes the pressure off me, though, is that we agreed long before marriage that faithfulness for us meant honesty, not exclusivity. My husband knows that if he wants to fool around, he can—so long as he's safe and honest (with me and with her). The same goes for me. Does my marriage, or my parents' marriage, count as monogamous? We look monogamous and probably will always look that way—and at the moment, we all are. But we've agreed that strict monogamy isn't a requirement. Since I doubt that we're alone in this attitude, you can add this group of "theoretical nonmonogamists" to the list of people who
get wrongly classed by your critics as totally monogamous out of a lack of imagination and knowledge about other people's lives. Invisible In Canada I'm convinced that there are a lot more PTBMCs out there than people realize—that's "perceived to be monogamous couple," a married/ partnered couple with an understanding about when outside sexual contact is permissible. But for most of these couples—for you, IIC, for your parents, for me and my husband—the term "nonmonogamous" isn’t a good fit. Tell an AMC—"actually monogamous couple"—that you're nonmonogamous, and they'll assume you're a couple of huge sluts, ie, that you're actively seeking outside sex partners or that you’re swingers. There's nothing wrong with seeking outside sex partners (in moderation!) or swinging (ditto!), but that’s not what you’re doing, IIC, it’s not what your dad has permission to do, and it’s not what my husband and I are doing. So if we—you, me, your mom—tell an AMC we're "nonmonogamous," we have to spend the next 15 minutes qualifying that statement. And that requires us to disclose more details about our actual sex lives than (1) we wanna say and (2) they wanna hear. So I've got a new word to describe relationships like yours, mine, and your mom's, IIC: "monogamish." We're mostly monogamous, not swingers, not actively looking. Monogamish. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger. com/savage.
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PARK(ing) day installation, Luxembourg on September 17, 2010 Who does the city belong to? Ownership of the commons is a recurring question that is constantly negotiated at the ground level by property owners, artists, city bureaucrats and maintenance crews. Now the artist-run centre Latitude 53 is weighing in on the debate, launching a call for submissions to dancers, visual artists, musicians, graffiti artists, filmmakers and anything in between for a public art event called In/stall/ed, happening on August 27 in the McCauley neighbourhood. The event is based on PARK(ing) Day (rebargroup. org/projects/parkingday/), an open-source project from San Francisco-based firm ReBar. It has become an annual, worldwide event that invites city dwellers everywhere to transform metered parking spots into temporary parks for the public good. In recent years, participants have built interventions ranging from free health clinics, urban farming and ecology demonstrations, political seminars, art installations, free bike repair shops and even a wedding ceremony! Although temporary, PARK(ing) Day has inspired direct participa-
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tion in the civic processes that permanently alter the urban landscape. Latitude 53 hopes that In/stall/ed will not only highlight the versatility of public spaces, but also showcase a broad range of artists and encourage people to wander the McCauley community. The aim of the project is to explore the public/private divide in our communities and ask the question: who owns these spaces and how can people manipulate these areas through their own creative skills? They are looking for a total of 20 artists (singular artists and collectives are both welcome) to participate in the project, and each group or artist will receive a $100 honorarium for their participation. The deadline for In/stall/ed submissions is August 1. Please go to their site latitude53.org/gallery/submissions/In/stall/ ed to apply. 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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