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THE FUTURE // 12 Please help us to remember our friend and colleague Ross Moroz, who passed away Sept 26, 2007, by participating in the Rotary Run for Life or by making a donation. Money raised at the event will go toward suicide prevention programs in the Stony Plain area.

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Power of political action Nearly 600 people have been arrested on the lawns of the White House over the past two weeks. With over 2000 people expected by September 3, that number could jump drastically. It's part of a grassroots effort to convince President Barack Obama to stop the Keystone Pipeline, a TransCanada initiative which will run across North America from Northern Alberta to Texas. If approved it will expand Canada's pipeline capacity to 700 000 barrels a day. It's an issue that has generated a united opposition: environmental organizations that normally have trouble agreeing on methods of protest and advocacy have come together to say the project must stop.

Unfortunately for Obama, he has the distinction of being a president who knows and understands the importance of the political action that is sitting outside his door. In order for social change to happen he knows the will of the people must come together and stand up and demand better. He can't simply dismiss the protesters as crazy or extreme as Prime Minister Harper will do in a month when protesters gather on his doorstep—especially as protesters include NASA climate advisor James Hansen.

But now Obama's got a problem: this decision all comes

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down to him. He has the capacity to say no to this project without having to take it to the House of Representatives.

He can turn it down himself.

It's generally agreed that Obama is not living up to his expectations on climate policy. A study conducted by Yale Environment 360 last year found that most climate and environment advocates believe Obama is failing on climate policy. His failure to push through comprehensive climate legislation was viewed as a loss without a real fight. But as Bill McKibben put it to The Guardian at the time, "I might lose interest too if I knew I'd have to muster 60 votes to overcome Jim Inhofe, or if I faced the prospect of dealing with the silly men and women currently dominating the House of Representatives."

Now Obama has a chance to prove his commitment to solving the climate crisis entirely on his own. With Hansen coming out so strongly against the Keystone pipeline initiative that he was put under arrest for protesting on the steps of the White House, there's not a lot of wiggle room for Obama on the Keystone pipeline issue—he either turns it down and wins the hearts of environmentalists, or he gives in and loses what might be left of not only his environmental credibility but his commitment to grassroots advocacy moving into the next election. 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 POLL:

Comments from the website:

What do you think of the expected protest of the Keystone pipeline by over 2000 people on the steps of the White House?

71.4% Civil disobedience is needed to stand up for environmental issues.

28.6% It's a waste of time on the part of protesters. Government won't listen to their demands.

Civil disobedience is necessary when the moneyed-out suits, selfish investors and the uninformed would thoughtlessly ruin the planet we all need to live on.

There should be a third radio button: the Keystone pipeline is good for Alberta and we're all for the jobs it will create.

THIS WEEK'S POLL:

The Alberta government will be cutting funding to restorative justice programs. Advocates of the program argue the government is ignoring potential cost-savings by effectively preventing criminals from re-offending.

Is this a defensible cut?

1. Yes, we need to pull back on government funding of social programs.

2. No, the small investment is worth the benefit to victims and rehabilitation efforts.

Check out vueweekly.com/yourvue to vote and comment.

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A strategic recovery plan for Alberta's woodland caribou fails to protect the species, says a local environmental group. Ecojustice points out the plan, which is four years late, is actually illegal and fails to comply with the Species at Risk Act. "The bottom line is that this plan is illegal under SARA, as it defies scientific evidence on what caribou need to survive, nevermind actually recover," says Ecojustice staff lawyer Melissa Gorrie.

Tar sands development in northeastern Alberta has destroyed the natural environment caribou need to live in.

New legislation is needed to protect the vast tracts of old growth forest adn peatlands caribou need to survive.

Without intervention, a Government of Alberta report estimates caribou will disappear in less than 40 years.

Employment and Immigration Minister Thomas Lukaszuk has undertaken a review of Alberta labour laws, but has decided to do it behind closed doors and without the input of Alberta's largest labour associations. Although the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees has been urging a review of labour law, Lukaszuk recently decided to undertake a review at the behest of the Christian Labour Association of Canada and the Merit Contractors Association.

AUPE undertook a province-wide effort to urge Lukaszuk to review labour law in 2007. The union collected over 24 000 signatures to make five changes to labour law: adopt first-contract binding arbitration, full bargaining rights for public employees, one labour law for everyone, automatic certification and anti-scab legislation. The petitions, signatures and demands are on the public record as they were tabled in the legislature in 2007.

The AFL is particularly concerned at the lack of transparency involved in the current review. "The

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minister has reacted to a request from a rabidly anti-labour group by embarking on an invitationonly review being held behind closed doors," says Nancy Furlong, secretary treasurer of the AFL. "The minister chose not to announce this review publicly, and only select groups have been invited to make submissions. He has appointed a review panel that does not include a single labour representative. Finally, the lobby group that instigated this review has made biased proposals aimed only at weakening unions."

The AFL and AUPE are concerned for the antiunion bias of Merit and CLAC. "This new call for a review is simply an attempt to by the Merit Contractors and the Christian Labour Association of Canada to tilt the laws in their favour—and to lower the wages and working conditions of all Albertans," says Furlong.

The review primarily focuses on Alberta's construction industry and Lukaszuk has stated the results of the review are expected by the end of October.

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QUOTE OF THE WEEK "Canada is going to sell its dope, if it can find a buyer. So if the United States is buying the dirtiest stuff, it also surely will be going after oil in the deepest ocean, the Arctic, and shale deposits; and harvesting coal via mountaintop removal and longwall mining. Obama will have decided he is a hopeless addict."

—NASA climate scientist James Hansen on the Keystone Pipeline decision.

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Government documents reveal that Alberta Environment knew there was a problem with water

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ew documents reveal the Alberta government knew the current water management strategy for the South Saskatchewan River Basin would not adequately protect the watershed. An area already taxed by over allocation of its water supply, the river basin has been the first to exercise the ability to trade water licences and it now appears that Alberta Environment knew that would be a problem.

In documents prepared for the South Saskatchewan River Basin Steering Committee of Alberta Environment in 2005, it becomes evident the committee knew that water had been over allocated and the subsequent stopping of new applications in 2006 was not enough to prevent future destruction and overuse.

"The Alberta government knew the health of the South Saskatchewan River basin would be compromised with the introduction of a water market, and yet was content to sacrifice these ecosystems for an irresponsible ideology," says Sheila Muxlow, spokesperson with the Sierra Club Prairie Chapter, in a statement by the Our Water is Not for Sale network which has released the documents.

In 2006, the Alberta government decided to stop accepting applica-

tions for new water licences in the SSRB area but, due to the changes to the Water Act in 1999, those with existing water licences would be able to trade or sell their water allocations to others. But those allocations, however, are not accounted for in the management structure of the river basin.

A draft of the SSRB water management plan from 2005 points out the concern that existing licences should be amended to conform to new water conservation objectives. In the draft plans it is recognized that "even with an allocation cap it is expected the deterioration of the environment will continue as existing licenses divert more water to the full extent of their allocations."

But no changes were made to existing licences to address additional pressures on the region. The documents also make clear the steering committee did not research the potential impacts of climate change or future water supply and demand.

A government report in 2004 determined that existing water licence holders did not use the maxium capacity available under their license, but Alberta Environment knew the capacity of the South Saskatchewan River Basin was already overdrawn.

For environmental group Ecojustice, it was evidence that the implemen-

tation of a water market through the sale of existing water licences would prove to be problematic: "The creation of a market provides an incentive for the licensee to transfer its entitlement with the transferee inevitably making more intensive use of the water right with the necessary implication that there will be less water left for the aquatic environment," stated Fight to the Last Drop, a 2008 Ecojustice report on developing water markets in Alberta.

But government messaging at the time of the SSRB water strategy announcement was one of conservation and environmentalism: "By no longer accepting new water licences, we can ensure our river systems are better protected for this generation and generations to come, and encourage Albertans to become more efficient and innovative in their water use," stated Environment Minister Guy Boutilier at the time. "These documents highlight the fact that the creation of a provincial water market is not about preserving our environment," contended Water network member and executive director of Public Interest Alberta, Bill Moore Kilgannon.

The plan now in place was deemed so insufficient at protecting the environment that the federal Department of

Fisheries and Oceans representative resigned. According to an SSRB steering committee meeting summary, the DFO representative had "concerns with recommended WCOs [water conservation objectives]." In a statement to the minister of the Environment, the DFO rep showed concern that existing WCOs were "insufficient to protect the aquatic environment."

The summary also states the DFO showed interest in funding further research into mitgating impacts.

Now, the Council of Canadians is concerned as to what happened with the federal representatives' concern over the provincial water strategy. "We have seen little action from the DFO," says Meera Karunananthan in a prepared statement from the Our Water is Not for Sale network. Karunananthan is the national water campaigner with the Council of Canadians and would like to see the federal government take action. "Why has the federal government remained silent all of these years? And will the DFO join us in denouncing Alberta’s irresponsible market-based allocation system?"

The DFO is not the only outside body to have had concerns with the plan when under consideration in 2005 and 2006. Gartner Lee, at the time an international consulting firm, prepared a review of the water man-

agement plan for the Treaty 7 First Nations which at the time were concerned over its lack of involvement in the process.

The review is scathing, stating, "The proposed water allocation limit is too high. It does not encourage conservation or efficiency: instead it is set to satisfy all 'existing licenses, pending applications and future projects.' The river is simply left with what remains."

Similarly the review points out the water conservation objectives are not adequately defined and "need more specifics to describe how they will be implemented" and that compliance with the conservation objectives is not enforceable nor monitored.

With the release of these documents the Our Water is Not for Sale network is looking to the Progressive Conservative leadership candidates for their positions on the continued developments of water markets as a conservation effort.

"It's critical each candidate and political party outline their position on how to address the problems in our water allocation system, says MooreKilgannon, "rather than use them as an excuse to promote market ideology that will worsen our province's water problems." samantha power // samantha@vueweekly.com

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COMMENT >> ALBERTA PC PARTY

Not your parents' party After 40 years, things have changed for the PCs

As Alberta's Progressive Conservative Party to play any part in the economy for the sake celebrates its 40th anniversary of being in of the public interest, has sold off, at fire-sale power this week, much has already been writprices, every asset Albertans ever owned colten about the supposed ability of the Tories lectively, and refuses to invest adequately in to remake themselves over the years to reeducation, health care and social services. flect mainstream political thinking in It's a party that believes in privatizaAlberta. But is it a shifting political tion of public services and in letting culture over the past 40 years that the market largely regulate itself in E RENC has changed the Tories, or is it rath- INTERFE kly.com its own interest. This is definitely not ee @vuew er the case that the Tories, together your parents' Conservative Party. ricardo o r Rica d with their allies in think tanks and AcuĂąa the media, have fundamentally shifted Mainstream commentators would Alberta's political culture during their time have us believe that it was Albertans that in power? led this ideological shift and that the party There can be no question that this is not the simply followed them. The evidence does same party that got elected for the first time not support that. For example, polling done on August 30, 1971. That party ran, and got last year by the Conservative Party itself and elected, on what can only be described as an leaked to the public demonstrates that a solid interventionist public interest platform. That majority of Albertans still espouse the values platform certainly resonated with Albertans, and beliefs of the Lougheed government: fair and guided much of the policy implemented and progressive taxation, higher royalties,

by Premier Lougheed and his cabinet during well-funded public services; and government his tenure. intervention in the economy for the sake of It was right-wing policy grounded in capitalthe public interest. How can anyone suggest ism and the free market, but it included enthat the party's radical shift to the right was forceable checks and balances on that market simply the party responding to a shift in the for the sake of the public good. It reflected political views of the majority when the views a strong belief in public health care, educaof the majority have clearly not changed? tion and social services. It was based on the What has changed over the past 40 years is premise that government could, and should, the profile and influence of extremist rightprovide and pay for those services through fair wing think tanks, media commentators and and progressive personal and corporate taxes. corporate advocacy groups. The constant Lougheed understood that Alberta's natural flooding of the public sphere with these voices resources belonged to Albertans, and that can make it seem like there's a new consensus they needed to be properly compensated for on the far right when no such consensus exthose resources. He ran on a platform of drasists. At the same time, a quick scan of names is tically increasing oil and gas royalties, and did more than enough to demonstrate the degree so once he got elected. to which there is a revolving door between the Conservative Party and those think tanks, The Tories of the '70s also believed that the media outlets and corporate advocacy groups. government had a strong role to ensure the Think, for example, of back-and-forth moveeconomy worked for Albertans. Lougheed ment between the government, the Fraser bought and built an energy company so AlberInstitute, the CD Howe Institute, the Canadian tans could profit directly from the oil patch Association of Petroleum Producers and meand he refused to sign off on increased natural dia outlets like the Calgary Herald. gas exports to Sarnia in order that we could It is simply not true that the Alberta Conserdevelop our own value-added industries here vatives were passive passengers on the ship in Alberta. of Alberta politics as it veered sharply to the Because the Conservatives believed in paying right, and the perpetuation of that myth does for services through taxation, he established damage to democracy and the public interest. the Heritage Fund, which allowed us to save a It misrepresents where a majority of Albertans significant portion of oil and gas revenues and truly are in their political thinking. It leaves reduce our government's exposure to a volathe impression of a populist party responding tile market. At the same time that fund helped to the will of the people, and it completely to fund post-secondary institutions, grants for underplays the collusion between the Conserstudents and cutting edge medical and scienvatives and the think tanks to better serve the tific research. interests of their corporate friends. V Fast forward 40 years and you see a governRicardo AcuĂąa is the executive director of the ment that does not believe in people and corParkland Institute, a non-partisan, public poliporations paying for public services through cy research institute housed at the University taxation, believes oil and gas companies of Alberta. should not be burdened with royalties, refuses

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COMMENT >> LIBYA

Potential good news Let my penis go Despite obstacles, Libya might pull through

Is male circumcision barbaric or necessary?

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In war, the moral is to the physical as the fighting and get exports moving three to one, said Napoleon, and the again.

Libyan rebels certainly demonstrated That money will almost certainly the truth of that. Gaddafi had more be made available, because Libya has soldiers, they were better trained and enough oil reserves to repay it tenmuch better armed, and they did not fold, if necessary. But then the going lack courage. But the rebels firmly begets harder. lieved that they were bound to win, Many people in the rebel leadership and once Gaddafi's troops also beunderstand that the country's came infected with that belief strong tribal loyalties are divitheir resistance collapsed. sive, but keeping them out However, Napoleon also of democratic politics is not kly.com going to be easy. It's espesaid that God is on the side e e w e e@vu gwynn with the best artillery, and e cially hard because there Gwynn the rebels had nothing bigare no powerful civic orgar e Dy ger than light anti-aircraft guns. nizations (professional associaTheir real artillery was the NATO air tions, trade unions, etc) to serve as an forces that conducted a five-month alternate focus for political activity. bombing campaign on their behalf.

Moreover, the revolution succeeded Even though there are technically no early in the east (Cyrenaica), while foreign "boots on the ground" in Libya, most of the west (Tripolitania) stayed this heavy reliance on foreign miliunder Gaddafi’s rule almost down to tary support makes the rebels forces the end. So the NTC, which is only now beholden to the West in the eyes of moving from Benghazi in the east to some Libyans and many other Arabs.

Tripoli in the west, has a strong eastSo they are, but as the leaders of the ern bias. Yet the west has two-thirds revolution try to make the tricky tranof the population, and it was the fightsition from dictatorship and civil war ers in the west who carried the main to an open and democratic country, burden of the fighting. the influence of the foreigners may prove useful.

Libyan society was atomized under Consider the tasks that the revoluGaddafi, quite deliberately, in order tionaries now face. First, the rebel to make each individual isolated and leaders must prevent their victorious powerless when dealing with the retroops from taking revenge on the gime. Now all those horizontal links regime's erstwhile supporters. The that are collectively known as "civil last thing they need is a bloodbath in society" must be recreated, without alTripoli or anywhere else. lowing tribal and regional loyalties to Then they must choose some thoutake over. Which is why the fact that sands of today's ragtag fighters to the revolution has powerful foreign serve as a conventional and disband supporters could be useful to Libya. the rest of the militia forces that Britain and France, in particular, have sprang up to fight Gaddafi's army. A committed a great deal of political lot of people who fought for the revocapital to the success of the Libyan lution are going to feel cheated, and revolution. They carried out more than they still have guns. half of the air strikes in support of the The revolutionaries must then find rebels, while other European democa way of dealing with Gaddafi (if and racies and Canada, all NATO members, when they catch him) that does not did the rest. (The United States only deepen the already grave divisions contributed surveillance capabilities in Libyan society. Many people from and occasional Predator drone strikes Gaddafi's tribe and its allies fought after the first few weeks.) for the regime, and half the families These European allies need to justify in the country include someone who their intervention to their own people, worked for Gaddafi's government at so they will do everything in their some point during his 43-year rule. power to make sure that there are no Then they have to write a constitumassacres, that Gaddafi and his close tion, hold a free election, and form a allies, when caught, are handed over legitimate government to which the to the International Criminal Court for National Transitional Council (NTC) trial (much better for the stability of will hand over all its powers. They also the country than trying him in Libya), have to restart the economy and get and that the process of building a money into people's hands as quickly democratic government in Libya goes as possible. Many Libyans have not as smoothly as possible. been paid for four months now.

They have a great deal of leverage That task will be a lot easier if the over the rebel forces at the moment, country's foreign currency reserves, and they will use it to keep the revomuch of which are held abroad in aclution on the tracks. Despite all the counts that were frozen by the United obstacles to a smooth transition that Nations during the conflict in order to Libya faces, the outcome here could cut off Gaddafi's cash flow, are now be surprisingly positive. V released rapidly to the new Libyan Gwynne Dyer is a London-based jourgovernment. It will also want to bornalist. His column appears every week row a lot of money abroad to repair in Vue Weekly. the oil facilities that were damaged in

len Callender thinks it should be illegal to circumcise a male child.

An uncircumcised man, Callender is also the founder of the Canadian Foreskin Awareness Project (CANFAP). You might have noticed, or attended, Callendar's free workshop at the Fringe this year. It's a presentation he's taken to cities across Western Canada to spread his message.

As Callender points out it is already illegal under section 268 of the Criminal Code of Canada to cut the genitals of a female child in anyway unless absolutely medically necessary. Why then, Callender asks, is it still okay cut off a boy's foreskin? "Chopping off a large part of a boy’s penis is completely incompatible with modern values of personal and religious freedom," he says. "If we’re going to protect the genitals of girls from unnecessary surgery, then our constitution requires that boys receive equal protection under the law."

When asked point blank why he thinks there's a double standard, Callender is stark: "Because circumcising boys is in the Bible. That's the only reason there's a double standard. In the Bible, God says to Abraham to circumcise his sons and slaves. Now, I think we all know that buying somebody and circumcising them against their will, that's evil, that's wrong ... but the first half of that commandment is still considered okay by most people."

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This assertion, however, doesn't sit well with Rabbi David Kunin, the spiritual leader of Edmonton's Beth Shalom Synagogue. "For reasons of religious freedom in Canada, I’m worried about people labeling circumcision and trying to enforce norms of a majority culture. But, in addition, I think there is significant medical evidence of positive values to circumcision," Rabbi Kunin points out.

Dr Peter Metcalfe, an Edmontonbased pediatric urologist adds: "I think it's hard to lump female circumcision and male circumcision together as the same thing. The type of female circumcision that gets a lot of press is basically an amputation of the clitoris which would be akin to amputating the penis. So there's a big difference between what we refer to as female circumcision and male circumcision," says Metcalfe. "Female circumcision is a hugely morbid procedure. In some places it has a mortality rate of up to five percent. So one in 20 girls are dying, if not higher. And it completely removes part of their genital sensation and significantly interferes with their ability have intercourse and to have babies, so I think it's very difficult to compare the two."

Dr Metcalfe adds that—in Canada, at least—there's no difference between a circumcised and uncircumcised boy. "The kids are going to be no happier or healthier with or with-

Religious tradition or mutilation? out their foreskin," says Metcalfe. “It certainly might make a difference in Africa where HIV is a huge problem: [in countries like Swaziland] upwards of 50 percent of people are infected with the virus. In those situations, circumcision seems to reduce the risk of HIV in an order of magnitude of about 10 percent over two years. And so the World Health Organization has adopted a stance that circumcision should be performed in those countries."

Dr Metcalfe adds, however, that the difference in Edmonton is that we don't have HIV infection rates of 50 percent. Statistically speaking, tens of thousands of children would need to be circumcised in Edmonton to prevent a single transmission of HIV in the city. In Edmonton, he adds, we also have much better ways of preventing the transmission like condoms and abstinence. "The way I explain it to parents is that there is no medical benefit to doing it but there certainly are a lot of religions and cultures that feel it is extremely important. And I don't

think you can argue against that." says, Metcalfe. "For more than 2000 years, mohels have been performing circumcisions. If they feel it is such an important part of their religious beliefs and they can do it in a safe way, then I don't think we have the right to say that it cannot be done."

Callender claims that circumcision impairs sexual function but Dr Metcalfe again counters this argument. "I don't think there is any scientific or even cultural data to back that up. Most circumcised men have normal, happy, healthy sex lives," Dr Metcalfe notes.

For Callender however, this is all deviates from the main issue: "The main issue is whose foreskin is it? Is it the parents' foreskin? Is it God’s foreskin?

In this country, a girl's foreskin is hers by the law. It is protected until she is an adult and then she is allowed to modify it however she likes after she becomes an adult. Why doesn't a boy have the same rights?"

Bryan saunders // bsaunders@vueweekly.com

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Food for the mind

Latitude 53 initiative brings the theory out of the classroom Theory for Dinner Next session: Wed, Sep 7, (7 pm) Latitude 53 Reading: Guy Debord, The Society of the Spectacle

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his is no ordinary reading group.

Without an intellectual best-selling paperback to be found, Theory for Dinner bypasses the ordinary retail bookshelf to meet the need for more challenging, less pedestrian reading.

Beyond the rigours of a university seminar class, it's nearly impossible to think of a space or event that exists for the sole purpose of reading challenging texts with the support for discussion, questions, interpretation and challenges. Latitude 53's current writer-in-residence Anne Pasek observed that this was a concern to people she talked to in Edmonton's arts community. She started Theory for Dinner in July to address this "missed engagement with intellectual thought and intellectual conversation."

While theory is often quite intimidating, Pasek has made great efforts to make Theory for Dinner accessible.

Each month Pasek announces the month's text on the Latitude 53 blog: "It's a short reading you can find for free on the Internet from a contemporary or recent thinker or philosopher." The only money that needs to be spent on attending the session is perhaps on the other key part of the theory reading session—dinner. Participants are asked to bring a small potluck offering to share. "I'm inter-

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ested in the idea of Epicureanism," says Pasek, who sees the significant act of sharing a meal as a way to develop comfort and community.

Pasek's efforts to create an accessible format for understanding theory and sharing a meal also brings down the intimidation factor for dense texts that, for many, are full of engaging ideas they cannot quite grasp.

Pasek jokes about the readings, saying, "They're short, so you don't have to suffer long," but Theory for Dinner is tailor-made to support the sharing

Pasek gears readings toward a 'practical bent that supports our work as cultural practitioners, workers and everyday people.' of ideas in a comfortable and casual atmosphere. Pasek gears readings toward a "practical bent that supports our work as cultural practitioners, workers and everyday people."

For Pasek, whose writing is featured on Latitude 53's blog about three times a month, the monthly session is a welcome foil to the impersonal Internet: "It's great to return to candid, face to face conversation," she says.

Arts lovers and community members need not be starved for challenging thoughts, good food or good company any longer.

Carolyn Jervis // carolyn@vueweekly.com

REVUE // USE OF SPACE

Past and future

New works at Latitude 53 look forward and backward Until September 9 Future Future Age[s]

by Jason de Haan Until September 9 Saturday Morning, The Diner

by Sarah Fuller, Lindsay MacDonald, and Lia Rogers Latitude 53

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he current exhibition in Latitude 53's main space pushes imagining about the future into unusual conceptions of time. Artist Jason de Haan's Future Future Age(s) presents drawing and sculpture as "illustrations of a future past tense." These works create stories about the future passing of time—what happens before a future

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moment and how it may be reflected upon in that future's future. Though these may seem like convoluted questions, they are explored with concrete subjects through narrative and interventions into natural systems.

In the collage, "Proposal for Geyser Supporting Alien Tropicals," de Haan creates an enclosed space in which a self-supporting biological system is maintained through constant steambased water circulation. This reconciliation of the absurd and fantastical with a natural system is a particular focus in the artist's creative practice.

De Haan explains that "natural systems are not as set in stone in terms of imagination" as they are often assumed to be—a particular fascination

for the artist. A black box purportedly contains Dawson City northern lights, captured during a residency in the Yukon town in a child-like attempt to physically contain something immaterial, the container acting as a physical memento of the event instead.

This is what is fascinating about de Haan's work, this quiet defiance of the rules, of containing the uncontainable, through imagination and creativity.

This is an exhibition high in concept, but unfortunately low on content.

The sparse exhibition is not just minimal, it lacks enough work in the space to create a well-resolved show. This is a compliment to the artist that the exhibition leaves the desire to see more, but it is also a challenge to him to con-

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sider more fully how his objects and not just their ideas can fill and visually work together in an exhibition space.

Also posing questions about the use of an exhibition space to its full potential is the exhibition currently in Latitude 53's ProjEx Room: Saturday Morning, The Diner. Artists Sarah Fuller, Lindsay MacDonald, and Lia Rogers bring the small town Alberta diner into the art space through video recordings of the Alberta Cowboy Trail's best eateries.

As you watch the video from a diner booth, peruse the laminated menu and play with the inoperable tabletop selection box, it is clear that an important prairie history is being recorded

and celebrated. The question remains, however, as to whether this could be a more fully realized art installation to support that history more fully. A refinement of exhibition elements, such as making the video quality higher, and a revision of the "menu" of diners captured in the interviews and videos, could really enhance the focus on the marvelous history and culture of small town Alberta the artists have captured, not to mention enhance the feel of the show. Exhibitions such as this one raise the challenging question of how the recording of histories can be shared with fidelity without the erasure of art-based process and practice.

Carolyn Jervis // carolynjervis@vueweekly.com

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GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • Memoryscapes: Landscapes, oil on canvas by Greg Edmonson • Sep 3-16 • Opening reception: Sep 3, 2-4pm; artist in attendance ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • generation whY: Exploring the voices of craft makers 35 & younger; until Sep 24 • Making a Spectacle of Myself: Metal works, retrospective of eyewear by Calgary artist Jackie Anderson • Victorian Inclinations: Metal works by Calgary artist Jennea Frischke • Sep 3-Oct 15 • Opening reception: Sep 3, 2-4pm Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.3679 • The Heaths: Artworks by Fran, Karen, and Mel • Sep 1-30 • Opening/Artwalk: Sep 1, 6-9pm Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • Heaven: artworks

by Craig Talbot, Patrick Arès-Pilon, and Angela Talbot • Surreal Series: Artworks by Dawn Saunders Dahl • Until Sep 25 Art from the Streets–Red Deer • 493551 St • Group Show • Through Sep • Opening reception: Sep 2, 6-8pm Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • Sculpture Terraces: Works by Peter Hide and Ken Macklin • 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 • Hoots, Cackles and Wails and Hunting Blind; Robin Arseneault and Paul Jackson; until Sep 25 • UP NORTH: Artworks by four contemporary artists from three circumpolar countries: Jacob Dahl Jürgensen, Simon Dybbroe Møller (Denmark), Ragnar Kjartansson (Iceland), and Kevin Schmidt (Canada); Sep 10-Jan 8 • Adult Drop-in: Tape: Large Scale Drawing; Sep 1, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member) • Adult Drop-in Workshop: Form: Abstract Sculpture; Sep 8, 7-9pm; $15/$12 AGA (member) Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • Profiles, 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • ARTificial: Artworks by Paul Bernhardt, Brenda Kim Christiansen, Eveline Kolijn, and Jordan Rule • Sep 1-Oct 29 • Opening reception/ArtWalk: Sep 1, 6-9pm ArtWalk–St Albert • Perron District, downtown St Albert • The 1st Thu each month (Apr-Sep), exhibits run all month • Sep 1 BiblioThéque Saint-Jean • 8406 rue Marie-Anne Gaboury, 91 St • J'ai changé! / I've Changed!: Artworks by Doris Charest • Sep 8-25 • Opening reception: Sep 8, 5-7pm Café Pichilingue–Red Deer • 4928-50 St, Red Deer • 403.346.0812 • Artworks by Steve Johnson • Through Sep CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Tengent: Artworks by Sharon Rubuliak, Sylvie Pinard, Denise Parent and Nathalie Shewchuk-Paré; until Sep 6 • Autumn Harvest: Artworks by Danièle Petit, Doris Charest, Urmila Z. Das, and Katherine Restoueix; Sep 9-21

Common Sense Gallery • 10546-115 St • 780.482.2685 • 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. The most popular pieces will be shown at one of the Common Sense Galleries • 2nd Sun each month Confucius Institute • 13750 Woodcroft Ave • 780.716.3282 • 1ST ALBERTA DIGITAL INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION: Sep 5, 10am5pm; free • Presentation, at Dynasty-Century Palace Restaurant, 200, 9700-105 Ave on Sep 6, 5:30-10:30pm; $20 Crooked Pot Gallery– Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain, Alberta • 780.963.9573 • All Fired Up After 35 Years: Parkland Potters Guild and Crooked Pot Gallery 35th anniversary pottery show • Sep 3-30 • Open house: Sep 10, 11am-4pm Enterprise Square • 10230 Jasper Ave, U of A • A New Ball of Wax ˆ Wimmin in Wax • Until Sep 21, 7am-11pm FAB Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • VOID: Ryan Wolters: MFA Drawing and Intermedia • Things that Rise in the Morning: Matthew Arrigo: MFA Printmaking • Until Sep 24 FEB Canada Studio • 10425-79 Ave • 780.989.5599 • Calligraphic paintings by Silas Chen; artworks are based on Chinese primitive writings • Until Sep 4 Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • You Looking At Me: Artworks by artists from the Nina Haggerty Centre • Sep 1-30 Gallery IS–Red Deer • 5123 48 St, Alexander Way, Red Deer • 403.341.4641 • Shift: Artworks

by Jeri-Lynn Ing • Until Sep 30 • First Friday/ Opening reception: Sep 2, 6-9pm Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • CIrcle of Live: Paintings by Jerry Berthelette • Until Sep 13 Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • Artworks by Jacob Amon, and works from the NHCA Collective; until Sep 1 • Kaleido Festival: Sep 9-11 Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: Fire Successional: Installation by Tiki Mulvihill • Front Room Gallery: Narrative paintings by Kevin Friedrich • Both shows: Sep 9-Oct 7 • Artist Talk: Sep 9, 6pm • Opening reception: Sep 9, 7pm Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • Soul Sisters– A Journey to the Hearth: Installation by Sabine Schneider and Glynis Wilson Boultbee • Until Sep 9 • Opening reception: Sep 2, 5-8pm Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • Wellness Through Art: Group show • Through Sep • Opening reception: Sep 2, 5-7pm Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • Instructors and Students Showtime: Artworks by Strathcona Place’s instructors and students • Until Sep 21 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 • Out of the Hole: Artworks by Robin Byrnes • Through Sep • Opening reception: Sep 2, 6:30-8:30pm Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • Main Gallery: Future Future Age(s): Featuring a cube containing Dawson City northern lights, quartz crystal balls, a tree trunk adorned in gold and a set of supposedly haunted mirrors– series of five sculptural installations by Jason de Haan; until Sep 9 • Theory For Dinner: with writer-in-residence Anne Pasek; Sep 7, 7-10pm Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • Artworks by members of the Edmonton Art Club • Sep 10-Oct 2; Sat: 10-4pm; Sun: 12-4pm • Opening reception: Sep 10, 1-4pm McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • In the Moment:

Featuring Alberta landscapes by Kristen Federchuk, Judith Hall, Judy Martin, Donna Miller • Until Oct 2

the fourth annual photography competition and exhibition. Awards will be announced at the opening reception • Until Oct 2

ed by Nothing, For Now; all poets are welcome • Every 2nd Tue, 7pm (sign-up), 8pm (readings)

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

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LITERARY Indigo North Town Centre • 9450-137 Ave • Book signing of Don Banting's new book Two Shadows Have I • Sep 1, 12-5pm Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • 1st Thu each month; Sep-Jun • Season Opener: A Taste of the Festival: A preview of the annual T.A.L.E.S. Storytelling Festival • Sep 1, 7-9pm • $6 (min) T.A.L.E.S. Storytelling Festival– River of Dreams Fort Edmonton Park, Whitemud Dr and Fox Dr • 780.932.4409 • Sep 4 and Sep 5 • Morning storytelling workshops: with Sean Buvala: Fidget, Flicker, Finesse: Improve Your Storytelling With focused Gestures and Movement on Sep 4, 8:30am-noon; The Five Keys to Energize Your Artist Marketing on Sep 5, 8:30am-noon; pre-register • Afternoon Festival Storytelling: Performances on four stages along 1905 Street, featuring Sean Buvala and storytellers Sun-Mon, 1-5pm; Try your mouth at storytelling: Open mic stage on Mon, 4-5pm • Sunday Evening Festival Concert: at Egge’s Barn with Sean Buvala, music by Maria Dunn, MC Chris Allen (CKUA); Sep 4, 8pm; concert tix: $18 (adv at 780.932.4409)/$20 (door); Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm presented by the Stroll of Poets Society; $5 WINSPEAR CENTRE • The Studio, Side door, 9720-102 Ave • Classical figurative sculptures by Blake Ward; Presented by Kehrig Fine Art • Sep 8-11, 11am-10pm; Blake will be there nightly, 6-10pm WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • Bi-weekly poetry reading present-

Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, Sep 2011-Jul 2012 • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only) DIE-NASTY SOAP-A-THON • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • 50 straight hours, one amazing story • Sep 9, 7pm-Sep 11, 9pm • $50 (pass) available at TIX on the Square; tickets/passes at Varscona Theatre box office starting Sep 9 at 5pm FOUR LADS WHO SHOOK THE WORLD: THE BEATLES STORY PART 1 • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051, Toll free: 1.877.529.7829 • The story of the Beatles early beginnings in 1957 thru to their last performance in America in 1966 • Sep 6-Nov 6 Kaleido Family Arts Festival • 780.244.5854 • KaleidoFest.ca • Arts festival bringing art to the streets • Sep 9-11 • Free The Last Concert–Buddy Holly and Friends • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • Tribute to Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and The Big Bopper, story about an impromptu show they put on for the locals at a truck stop • Until Oct 23 A Little Night Music • Festival Place, 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.464.2852 • Romantic comedy, music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, book by Hugh Wheeler, orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick, co-directed by Mary Jane Kreisel and Barbara Mah, Music Directed

by Gail Olmstead presented by Festival Players • Sep 8-11, 7:30pm; Sep 11, 2pm • $28 (adult)/$18 (child) available at Festival Place box office, and TicketMaster TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Improv runs every Sep 2011Jul 2012, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member)

Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery • 4525-47A Ave • Farm Show: Exploring 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 • For Home and Country: 100 years of Community Service, exhibit of the Alberta Women’s Institute; until Sep 4 • From Our Collection: through Sep Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Creatures of the Abyss: Fullscale models of exotic sea creatures, preserved specimens, and interactive elements and multimedia presentations; until Sep 11 • Composed Exposures: Photographs by museum staff members; until Nov 25 • Wild Alberta Gallery: Wild by Nature: Every Sat and Sun, 11am and 2pm Sideshow Gallery • 9609-82 Ave • 780.433.1430 • Take Me Home: Artworks by Judi Chan • Until Sep 3 SNAP Gallery • 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • Eyes in the Wild: Printworks by Tim Grieco and Lisa Rezansoff; until Sep 3 • Artworks by Sonia Higuera; Sep 8-Oct 8; opening reception Sep 8 Strathcona County Art Gallery • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • Wild Thing • Sep 1-30 Telus World of Science • 11211-142 St • 780.451.3344 • SESAME STREET PRESENTS: THE BODY • Until Sep 5 VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Galleries A and B: Alberta Spirit: Featuring award winning art works by the membership of the ACACA • Until Oct 1 (closed for statutory weekend); opening reception: Sep 9, 7-9:30pm Velvet Olive Lounge–Red Deer • 4924-50 St, Red Deer • 403.340.8288 • Artworks by Dawn Candy • Through Sep Visual Arts Alberta Association • 780.421.1731 • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • Open Photo 2011: Off-site exhibition,

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REVUE // LIKE LOOKING IN A MIRROR

THE FUTURE

THERE’S A REASON WE’VE NEVER GONE BACK TO THE MOON.

Miranda July's The Future

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erformance artist and author Miranda July made her debut as a filmmaker with Me and You and Everyone We Know. It was very much an ensemble film: its momentum, its insights into behaviour and communication, and most especially its abundant humour, were generated in part through its ability to deftly navigate a collective experience. July's own screen presence however can be problematic—she seems perpetually overwhelmed, afflicted with a naïveté that doesn't quite convince—but, since her role in Me and You was just one among the Everyone, it fell far short of hampering that film's special charisma. The Future, her highly imaginative, often frustrating followup, offers a much heavier dose of July the film actress, who plays not only the lead but also lends her voice to the film's cat narrator. What's more, she's cast as her character's partner a guy who's about as much like July as a guy could be.

We first see Sophie (July) and Jason (Hamish Linklater) seated on opposite ends of their couch, in mirror positions with mirror Macs in their laps and mirror heads of lovely curls atop their similarly lanky frames. The Future follows

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this couple as their amusingly outsized anxiety over their decision to adopt a cat—and thus assume what for them constitutes unfathomable responsibilities—leads each to question their humdrum lifestyles— she teaches creative movement to small children; he does call-in tech support—and seek out new sources of stimulation through YouTube dance projects, volunteer canvass-

via the Internet's peculiar way of granting distance and proximity at once, by the unlikely relationships forged with the older men—one of whom, a single father, becomes a lover; his daughter responds to the arrival of a new stepmom by digging herself a grave in the backyard— and, of course, that cat, whose looming presence causes such disruption.

(July's cutesy cat voice is easily the

July's own screen presence however can be problematic—she seems perpetually overwhelmed, afflicted with a naïveté that doesn't quite convince. ing and mutually secret friendships with older men, all of which gradually comes to destabilize their domestic harmony. The film is thus, on one level, the story of an apparently functional yet fairly inert relationship being pushed to its limits. But the individuals who make up this couple are so maddeningly alike in their habitual passivity that whatever promises to keep them together would seem to have less to do with romantic bonds than with codependency and the precarious comfort of someone just like you—or whatever we call that gravitational pull that compels certain identical twins to cohabitate for life.

most irritating thing in The Future; I much preferred the subtitled dog in Beginners, which, as it happens, was directed by July's husband.) As the relationship begins to collapse, the stakes manifest in suitably oddball ways: Jason stops time for as long as he can—you'll just have to trust me on this one—and converses with the moon, while Sophie moves in with her lover, is followed by a discarded T-shirt that finally envelops her like a cocoon, and winds up doing a fascinating interpretive dance inside of it.

Once these meta-rituals have been undertaken, The Future finds its way toward a not very satisfying resolution, though, admittedly, that lack of satisfaction may be intentional.

Intimacy is a central theme in July's work, and is smartly addressed here

Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

COMMENT >> DVD DETECTIVE

Only the good ...

The too-short life of French filmmaker Jean Vigo I keep thinking of that most cherished Jean Vigo, and I'm now able to think a scene from L'Atalante (1934)—one little more lucidly about L'Atalante's of the most beautiful movies ever singular lyricism, and its echoes in evmade—the one that forms a bridge erything else Vigo managed to make between the middle and last parts. The during his too-short career. young lovers have separated; the man is miserable. He recalls One of the first examples of something the woman told what would later be called E V him just after they were I the essay film, Vigo and T TEC wed, that in her village they D E vueweekly.com co-director Boris Kaufman's josef@ say that if you dunk your 23-minute À propos de Nice f Jose head underwater you will (1930)—the city where Vigo n u Bra see the face of your beloved. So had spent time recovering from the man climbs up on the deck of the tuberculosis, and where he met his barge of which he's skipper and plungwife—is restlessly inventive and irreves headlong into the wintry-cold canal. erent, as much under the spell of Un And there, below the water's surface, chien andalou (1929) as it was the fashthe villagers' promise manifests in viion for "city films." It features sail boats, sions of the woman, all in white, dancwandering crowds and people lazing in ing, smiling, a luminous pearl in the liquescent gloom. And it strikes me that this scene invokes the promise of the movies: we submerge ourselves in the dark, hoping to find something like consolation, or excitement, or enlightenment, in the apparitions hovering before us.

A romantic analogy, obviously, but such notions come when you immerse yourself in the work of Jean Vigo, who died at 29 after having only completed four films, who received scant love while alive but whose posthumous acclaim has found him heralded as the French cinema's patron saint, a genuine martyr, having literally been killed by filmmaking, his fragile health unable to withstand the bone-chilling location work necessary to complete his masterpiece. I first saw L'Atalante on my birthday, at the Anthology Film Archives, during my first visit to New York. It put me in some kind of a trance. I seemed to be walking on sea legs afterward, and much of what had just passed before my eyes lingered only as a spectral blur. Thankfully, Criterion has now released The Complete

the sun, car races and can-can dancers (Vigo among them), edited in a manner that's both elegant and mischievous. It also features gorgeous arial photography, foreshadowing the distinctive gaze from above that would return in each subsequent Vigo.

Taris (1931), a commissioned, nineminute documentary on swimming champion Jean Taris, is surprisingly charming and extraordinarily sensual, with images of Taris' torso twisting below the water's surface. A final sequence finds him diving in reverse before suddenly appearing in a suit and walking (via superimposition) back into the waves.

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A scene from Jean Vigo's sole feature film, L'Atlante

Blows (1959), Zéro de conduite (1933) is a 44-minute narrative film about the increasingly exhilarating bouts of trouble that a group of boys get into at a provincial boarding school. This ode

to childhood disobedience—laying the groundwork for the adult anarchism Vigo ascribed to—makes a cine-poetry of spasms of rebellion, building to an CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 >>

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nother in the long sightline of vengeful-female-assassin flicks from Luc Besson (Nikita and The Professional; he's co-writer and coproducer here), Colombiana gets off some fire-flashes of interest but nothing more sustained.

Colombia, if not Colombiana, is present in the lithe form of Cataleya (Zoe Saldana), who, as a young girl in 1992 Bogotá, escapes the hit on her family by her father's ex-boss and druglord, Don Luis, getting to Chicago and the protection of her uncle; she becomes a killer-for-hire as she plots revenge. There are some grazing shots that almost leave a mark: young Cataleya's barrio-hardened survival skills; the grown-up

Cataleya's flinty, reckless detachment; the US's own sordid corruptibility (the CIA gets into bed with Don Luis). Refreshingly, there are more scenes of her stealthy evasion of surveillance and slipping through ducts and vents than clichéd shoot'em-ups.

The romance subplot is rote, though, and there are some ludicrous moments: a public shooting lesson; the FBI's sudden high-tech tracking of Cataleya after they'd had no idea she was even a she after four months of investigation. Colombiana ends on a melancholy note, questioning the cold burn of vengeance, but it seems so hollow-point that we're left unsure why the movie ever had us watching this sad sociopath of a woman all along. brian Gibson // brian@vueweekly.com

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seal hunt protest—though it does go overboard once in awhile. In terms of storytelling, however, it is inspirational, drawing on the magnetic power of the man himself and using it as a catalyst for the environmental movement.

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nvironmentalist, pirate, experienced sailor, television star, absent father, poor husband, pied piper. Paul Watson is a lot of things, but subtle he is not.

Beginning with his role in the founding of Greenpeace, Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul Watson attempts to cement the legend of the larger-than-life daredevil willing to go to any length to save marine animals.

From ramming and sinking boats to being beaten by seal hunters, Watson is always

in the middle of the action and—unlike his compatriots in Greenpeace, who kicked him out for his refusal to subscribe to the organization's nonviolent ethos— will resort to whatever tactic draws the most attention to his message.

The film is replete with stunning marine vistas, and its use of vintage footage and photographs is seamless, sometimes innovative. It walks a fine line between presenting its subject in a heroic light while not outright condoning his use of force—plenty of attention is paid to the reasons Watson was forced out of Greenpeace after a particularly violent

The film suffers toward the end, losing its forward momentum as it attempts to shoehorn Watson's early life as well as a campaign from the Galapagos—the film focuses largely on Watson's recent Antarctic missions, the ones familiar from his television show Whale Wars—into the narrative, causing it to drag. A few false endings later and the viewer has tired of the plot by the time the credits role—only to have another ending creep in over the triumphant music.

Though this undoes a lot of the work the film did to cause the viewer to see Watson as his youthful shipmates see him—as a slightly messianic figure—it cannot undo all of it. Watson is the definition of magnetic, and his charm and determination saves more than just whales—it even rescues this film.

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arnessing the essence of its predecessor's enduring appeal while managing a significant upgrade on its deficiencies—namely, the annoying performances—the new Fright Night is the rare horror remake that justifies its existence and some. Directed by Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl) and scripted by Marti Noxon, (Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the film relocates to the Nevada desert suburbs and offers an amusingly transparent yet far-more obviously seductive vampire baddie in the handsome shape of Colin Farrell, who, like the rest of the superb cast, displays a perfect understanding of the delicate tonal balance needed to pull this off—he takes the supernatural stuff just seriously enough to invest his role with stakes.

Fright Night is about a teenager named Charlie (Anton Yelchin) who discovers his new neighbour Jerry (Farrell) feasting on innocent blood at the exact moment his girlfriend Amy (Imogen Poots) wants

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to divest the both of them of their virginity; distracted by the bloodshed right next-door, Charlie just can't do it, and Amy doesn't buy his excuses. Meanwhile, Charlie's single mom (Toni Collette) might actually fancy Jerry, and his nerdiest friend (Christopher Mintz-Plasse) goes AWOL while investigating an apparently vampire-related disappearance.

No one, the cops included, buys Charlie's fantastical claims about Jerry, so it's up to him—and, eventually, an ultra-cheesy Vegas showman (the especially funny David Tennant)—to stop Jerry, restore order, and resume intercourse.

nal, on one level we've got a story about our hero's attempt to destroy a terrifying supernatural beast, while on another we've got one about what our hero has to do to overcome his performance anxiety and satisfy the sexual needs of his imminently desirable girlfriend. Both trajectories work very well, and aside from a few regrettable special effects and the 3-D presentation, which, as usual, is just annoying and headache-inducing, we end up with a terrific, witty piece of well-made entertainment that's at once smartly contemporary and an enjoyable throwback.

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naturalist, descending into griefstruck madness—is a gruesome bit of business. Certain motifs—a spiral, child's drawings, even koi in a pond—build the intrigue. Madison's especially riveting, playing Sally as a wide-eyed, tight-lipped, scaredsadly child. She's full of anxiety but necessarily distrustful of her workdriven father, who doesn't take her seriously. The film moves us through the house and estate at her eye-level, from the dark shadows of her bedroom to the overgrown, enticing spaces she explores in the garden.

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hankfully, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark has no intention of living up to its title. From the wispy voices of creatures floating through candlelit darkness to a child crawling forward under her bedsheets to see what's there, lurking just out of sight, this film creeps into the nighttime nooks and crannies of a haunted house. The child's Sally (Bailee

Madison), sent to live with her dad (Guy Pearce) and his new girlfriend (Katie Holmes) in a grand old Rhode Island house they're restoring. Soon, she discovers a basement and starts hearing scuttling creatures implore her to "Come play with us."

In his directorial debut, Troy Nixey deftly expands Guillermo Del Toro and Matthew Robbins' smart adaptation of the 1973 made-for-TV movie into a brooding big-screen chiller. The prologue—with the house's famous Mr Blackwood, a

Delectably drawing out a horrorstory that owes more to the gothic atmosphere of late-Victorian writers (such as Arthur Machen, namedropped here, and Algernon Blackwood) and the haunting looks of Kubrick's The Shining than to any shock F/X, Don't Be Afraid of the Dark loses little force when the creatures are revealed. Instead, their murderous mischievousness mixes eerily with Sally's increasingly stifling sense of abandonment and longing. The ending's wonderfully macabre, with dad's selfishness brutally punished and his girlfriend's budding maternal instinct darkly twisted.

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unforgettable climax in which the students declare war on their masters, arming themselves with pillows and converting their dormitory into a battleground strewn with feathers.

Finally, L’Atalante, sadly, Vigo’s sole feature, tells the story of a woman who weds the skipper of a barge. She’s never been outside her village, and though marriage promises to show her the world, she soon realizes that it will mostly be seen only in passing.

For the man, this marriage seems to represent a compromise between domesticity and freedom. Vigo conveys their troubled yet passionate romance through a delicate mise-en-scène, flowing with languorous lateral movement, haunting images of water and fog, displays of bizarre objects gathered from around the world, scenes of touching intimacy, and abundant earthy humour in the form of Le père Jules (the great Michel Simon), the bumbling old sea dog who often steals the show with his rants, accordion playing, and one-man wrestling matches. ...And, with this review of one of the most welcome releases of the year, this column is going on something like a hiatus while we continue to sort through a period of change here at Vue Weekly. But do watch this spot: we’ll be back with reports from the land of home video in one form or another, sooner or later. V

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CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr, Jasper, 780.852.4749

SMURFS (G) Fri 7:00; Sat-Sun 1:30, 7:00 HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language,

crude sexual content) Fri, Sat, Sun 9:00; MonThu 7:00, 9:00

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Daily 7:00, 9:00; Sat, Sun 1:30

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779

THOR (PG violence, frightening scenes) Digital

3d Daily 10:00

ZOOKEEPER (PG) Daily 1:35, 4:05, 7:10 KUNG FU PANDA 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily

1:10, 3:30, 7:15

GREEN LANTERN (PG frightening scenes,

violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:25, 4:30, 7:20, 9:50

COWBOYS AND ALIENS (14A violence) Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:00, 9:35

SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Digital 3d Daily 12:40, 2:50, 5:10 THE CHANGE-UP (18A crude sexual content)

Daily 2:10, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:40, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40 30 MINUTES OR LESS (18A crude sexual content) Daily 8:45, 10:50

COLOMBIANA (14A violence) Digital Cinema Daily 1:50, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20

X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (PG violence, not rec-

ommended for young children, coarse language) Daily 9:20

WINNIE THE POOH (G) Daily 1:45, 3:55, 6:50 BAD TEACHER (14A coarse language, crude

sexual content) Daily 1:20, 4:40, 7:25, 9:40

Friends With Benefits (14A sexual con-

tent, coarse language) Daily 1:40, 4:20, 7:10, 9:30

Mr. Popper's Penguins (G) Daily 1:30,

4:10, 6:40, 9:15

SUPER 8 (PG coarse language, frightening

scenes, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:15, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (PG) Daily 1:45, 4:35, 6:45, 9:10

BODYGUARD (PG coarse language not suit-

able for young children) Hindi W/E.S.T. Daily 1:05, 3:50, 6:35, 9:25

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave, 780.732.2236

Cars 2 (G) Daily 1:00 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 3:45, 6:40, 9:30

SMURFS (G) Daily 12:45, 3:20, 6:30 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D (PG violence, frighten-

ing scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d Fri-Tue, Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45; Wed 12:50, 3:50, 9:45

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (14A

violence, frightening scenes) Daily 2:00, 4:45, 8:00, 10:30

violence) Digital 3d Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:50, 5:30, 8:05, 10:45; Sun 12:05, 2:50, 10:45; Mon 12:40, 3:45, 7:15, 10:00; Tue, Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15; Wed 1:30, 4:30, 10:15

APOLLO 18 (14A) Fri-Sun 1:15, 3:45, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30; Mon 1:00, 3:30, 5:30, 7:45, 9:55; Tue-Thu 1:45, 4:25, 7:20, 9:40

SHARK NIGHT 3D (14A gory scenes) Ultraavx

violence) Digital 3d Daily 7:30, 10:15

APOLLO 18 (14A) Daily 1:15, 3:30, 6:10, 8:20, 10:40

THE DEBT (14A violence) Fri-Tue, Thu 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 9:50; Wed 4:15, 7:15, 9:50; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

SHARK NIGHT 3D (14A gory scenes) Ultraavx

PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN: ON

content,coarse language) Daily 1:00, 3:45, 7:00, 9:45

CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A gory

CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A gory

Daily 1:45, 4:20, 7:50, 10:10

BRIDESMAIDS (14A sexual content,crude

may offend) Fri-Mon 12:10, 3:25, 6:50, 10:10; Tue-Thu 1:00, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15

5:20, 8:00, 10:40; Mon 12:20, 3:20, 6:00, 9:00; TueThu 1:55, 4:35, 7:10, 10:00

Daily 1:30, 4:00, 6:15, 8:30, 10:45

STRANGER TIDES 3D (PG frightening scenes, violence) Digital 3d Daily 12:55, 4:00, 6:55, 9:55

THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, language

THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, language may offend) Fri-Tue, Thu 12:30, 3:40, 6:45, 9:55; Wed 3:50, 6:45, 9:55; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

THE HANGOVER PART II (18A crude sexual content, nudity) Daily 10:05

Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:35; Mon 12:30, 3:15, 7:10, 9:55; Tue-Wed 1:40, 4:10, 7:45, 10:15; Thu 4:10, 7:45, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Digital Cinema Citizen Kane (STC) Wed 7:00

THE DEBT (14A violence) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:40,

Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 8:25, 10:40; Mon 12:15, 2:30, 5:25, 7:50, 10:05; Tue-Thu 1:10, 3:45, 7:00, 10:00

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Fri-Sun 1:20, 3:40, 6:10, 8:30, 10:45; Mon-Tue, Thu 1:20, 3:40, 7:20, 9:40; Wed 1:20, 3:40, 9:50

Warrior (14A violence) Sun 7:00 Citizen Kane (STC) Wed 7:00 CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7020

THE DEBT (14A violence) Stadium Seating, Dolby Stereo Digital Daily 12:15, 2:00, 7:25, 10:10 CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St, 780.436.8585

Cars 2 (G) Fri-Mon 12:30; Tue-Thu 1:35 CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:15, 4:05, 7:05, 10:05

SMURFS (G) Fri-Mon 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45;

Tue-Thu 1:25, 3:55, 6:30

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening

scenes, not recommended for young children) Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:45, 7:15, 10:20; Mon-Thu 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:50

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (14A

violence, frightening scenes) Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:05, 5:35, 8:10, 10:35; Mon 12:45, 3:30, 6:55, 9:30; Tue-Thu 1:20, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10

SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Digital 3d Fri-Mon 12:00, 2:15, 4:30, 7:10, 9:25; Tue, Thu 1:10, 3:30, 6:50, 9:15; Wed 1:10, 3:30, 10:00

THE CHANGE-UP (18A crude sexual content) Fri-Mon 10:15; Tue-Thu 9:10 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG

violence, not recommended for young children) Fri-Mon 12:05, 2:35, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Tue-Thu 1:15, 4:15, 6:40, 9:30

30 MINUTES OR LESS (18A crude sexual

content) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:25, 7:25, 9:45; Mon 12:50, 3:10, 5:20, 7:35, 9:45; Tue-Thu 1:05, 3:25, 7:15, 9:55

HORRIBLE BOSSES (14A coarse language,

crude sexual content) Fri-Mon 3:50, 7:30, 10:00; Tue-Thu 4:15, 7:00, 9:45

CRAZY STUPID LOVE (PG coarse language)

Fri-Mon 1:05, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50; Tue-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 6:45, 9:50; Thu 4:00, 6:45, 9:50; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

COLOMBIANA (14A violence) Digital Cinema

APOLLO 18 (14A) Dolby Stereo Digital, Digital,

Stadium Seating Daily 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 10:05

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Dolby Stereo

Digital Fri-Wed 12:25, 2:45, 5:15, 7:40, 10:25; Thu 12:25, 2:45, 7:30, 10:25

SHARK NIGHT 3D (14A gory scenes) Dolby

Stereo Digital, Reald 3d, Stadium Seating Daily 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:35, 9:55

CRAZY STUPID LOVE (PG coarse language)

Stadium Seating, DTS Digital Fri-Tue, Thu 12:10, 3:10, 7:15, 10:15; Wed 12:10, 3:10, 10:15

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG

violence, not recommended for young children) Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:05, 2:40, 7:10, 10:20

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (14A

violence, frightening scenes) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:15, 2:50, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

COLOMBIANA (14A violence) DTS Digital,

Stadium Seating Fri-Wed 12:00, 3:05, 7:00, 9:50; Thu 12:00, 3:05, 9:50

THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, language may offend) Dolby Stereo Digital Daily 12:00, 3:20, 6:30, 9:45 CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

(PG violence, not recommended for young children) Fri 6:50, 9:20; Sat-Mon 1:25, 4:15, 6:50, 9:20; Tue-Thu 5:20, 8:15

30 MINUTES OR LESS (18A crude sexual content) Fri 7:20, 9:55; Sat-Mon 1:50, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55; Tue-Thu 5:50, 8:45

SMURFS (G) Fri 6:40; Sat-Mon 1:20, 4:05, 6:40; Tue-Thu 5:15 SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE

WORLD IN 4D (PG) Digital Sat-Mon 1:15, 4:00, 6:45; Tue-Thu 5:30

CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A gory violence) Digital 3d Fri-Mon 6:45, 9:25; Tue-Thu 8:00

Eco-Pirate: The Story of Paul

Watson (14A disturbing content) Fri, Sun, Tue, Thu 7:00; Sat 4:00; Sat, Mon 9:00; Sun 2:00; Wed 9:15

ONE DAY (PG mature subject matter, coarse

The Future (14A) Fri 9:15; Sat 2:00; Sat,

COLOMBIANA (14A violence) Fri 6:35,

The Room (14A nudity, sexual content) Fri

language, not recommended for children) FriMon 9:35; Tue-Thu 8:10 language) Fri-Mon 9:10; Tue-Thu 7:50

9:00; Sat-Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:35, 9:00; TueThu 5:10, 8:05

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Fri 7:30, 9:50; Sat-Mon 2:00, 4:40, 7:30, 9:50; Tue-Thu 5:40, 8:30

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (14A violence, frightening scenes) Fri 7:10, 9:40; Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40; Tue-Thu 5:55, 8:35

SHARK NIGHT 3D (14A gory scenes) Digital 3d Fri 7:15, 9:45; Sat-Mon 1:40, 4:50, 7:15, 9:45; Tue-Thu 5:25, 8:30

APOLLO 18 (14A) Fri 7:00, 9:15; Sat-Mon

1:00, 4:20, 7:00, 9:15; Tue-Thu 5:45, 8:20

Cars 2 (G) Fri 6:30; Sat-Mon 12:50, 3:45,

6:30; Tue-Thu 5:00

Mon 7:00; Sun 4:00; Sun, Tue, Thu 9:00

11:00

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

APOLLO 18 (14A) Daily 6:50, 9:15; Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue 12:50, 3:15

SHARK NIGHT 3D (14A gory scenes) Daily 6:55, 8:50; Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue 12:55, 2:50

Colombiana (14A violence) Daily 6:45, 9:00; Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue 12:45, 3:00

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (14A

violence, frightening scenes) Daily 7:15, 9:20; Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue 1:15, 3:20

Our Idiot Brother (14A) Daily 7:05,

8:55

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

APOLLO 18 (14A) Daily 6:55, 9:10; Sat,

Sun, Mon 1:55

SHARK NIGHT 3D (14A gory scenes)

spy kids: all the time in the world (PG) Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue 1:05, 2:55 30 Minutes or Less (18A crude sexual content) Daily 9:10; Sat, Sun, MON, Tue 3:10

Presented in 3D Daily 6:50, 9:00; Sat, Sun, Mon 1:50

Smurfs (G) Daily 7:10; Sat, Sun, Mon,

Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (14A

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

CRAZY STUPID LOVE (PG coarse language)

(PG) Daily 7:00, 9:05; Sat, Sun, Mon, Tue 1:00 3:05; Movies for Mommies: Tue, Sep 6, 1pm

violence, frightening scenes) Daily 6:45, 9:15; Sat, Sun, Mon 1:45

Daily 6:45 9:15; Sat-Sun, Tue, Thu 1:45

spy kids: all the time in the world (PG) Daily 7:05 9:05; Sat-Sun, Mon 2:05

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr, Sherwood Park 780-4160150

SMURFS 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri 3:40, 6:30,

9:15; Sat-Mon 12:45, 3:40, 6:30, 9:15; TueThu 6:30, 9:15

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (14A

violence, frightening scenes) Fri 4:05, 6:50, 9:30; Sat-Mon 1:15, 4:05, 6:50, 9:30; Tue-Thu 6:50, 9:30

SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Digital 3d Fri 4:10, 6:55,

9:20; Sat-Mon 1:30, 4:10, 6:55, 9:20; Tue-Thu 6:55, 9:20

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Fri 4:25, 7:20, 10:00; Sat-Mon 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:00; Tue-Thu 7:20, 10:00

Tue 1:10

PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

The Trip (14A) Daily 6:50, 9:00; Sat, Sun,

Mon 2:00

Certified Copy (PG coarse language)

Daily 7:15; Sat, Sun, Mon 1:00; no show Wed, Sep 7

Potiche (14A) Daily 9:10; Sat, Sun, Mon

3:00

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400

CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE FIRST AVENGER (PG violence, not recommended for young

children) Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:50

SMURFS 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 12:40, 3:20, 6:30

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 (PG violence, frightening

scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital Cinema Daily 1:45

COLOMBIANA (14A violence) Fri 4:00, 6:45,

TRANSFORMERS: DARK OF THE MOON 3D (PG violence, coarse language)

THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, language may offend) Fri 3:30, 6:40, 9:55; Sat-Mon 12:20, 3:30, 6:40, 9:55; Tue-Thu 6:30, 9:45

DON’T BE AFRAID OF THE DARK (14A

9:25; Sat-Mon 1:10, 4:00, 6:45, 9:25; Tue-Thu 6:45, 9:25

CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A gory violence) Fri 4:15, 7:10, 10:10; Sat-Mon 1:20, 4:15, 7:10, 10:10; Tue-Thu 7:10, 10:10 APOLLO 18 (14A) Fri 4:30, 7:00, 9:40; Sat-

Mon 1:45, 4:30, 7:00, 9:40; Tue-Thu 7:00, 9:40

3d Fri 4:35, 7:35, 10:15; Sat-Mon 1:35, 4:35, 7:35, 10:15; Tue-Thu 7:35, 10:15

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Fri 4:20, 7:30, 10:10; Sat-Mon 1:50, 4:20, 7:30, 10:10; TueThu 7:30, 10:10

GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert Grandin Mall, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

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SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Digital 3d Daily 1:15, 3:30, 6:40, 9:20

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

(PG violence, not recommended for young children) Fri-Tue, Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:50, 9:45; Wed 4:00, 6:50, 9:45; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

30 MINUTES OR LESS (18A crude sexual content) Fri-Tue, Thu 1:50, 4:15, 7:00, 9:40; Wed 1:50, 4:15, 10:20

FINAL DESTINATION 5 3D (18A gory violence) Digital 3d Daily 5:00, 8:00, 10:20 COLOMBIANA (14A violence) Daily 12:50, 3:50, 7:00, 10:00

Date of Issue only: Thu, Sep 1 Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (14A

THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, lan-

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Thu, Sep 1: 1:20, 3:25, 5:25, 7:25, 9:25

CONAN THE BARBARIAN 3D (18A gory

violence, frightening scenes) Thu, Sep 1: 1:10, 3:15, 5:15, 7:15, 9:25

Our Idiot Brother (14A) Thu, Sep 1: 1:25,

3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20

SMURFS (G) Thu, Sep 1: 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00 30 MINUTES OR LESS (18A crude sexual content) Thu, Sep 1: 9:15

spy kids: all the time in the world (PG) Thu, Sep 1: 12:55, 2:50, 4:35, 6:30

CRAZY STUPID LOVE (PG coarse language)

Thu, Sep 1: 8:25

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Date of Issue only: Thu, Sep 1 Conan The barbarian (18A gory violence)

Thu, Sep 1: 12:50, 3:35, 6:50, 9:35

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Don’t Be Afraid of the Dark (14A

violence, frightening scenes) Thu, Sep 1: 1:05, 3:25, 7:05, 9:25

spy kids: all the time in the world (PG) Thu, Sep 1: 12:55, 3:20, 6:55, 9:20

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FRIGHT NIGHT (14A gory violence, coarse

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violence) Digital 3d Fri-Sat, Mon-Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15; Sun 1:20, 4:20, 10:15

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REVUE // INDIAN FUSION: THE CURRY HOUSE

Culinary voyage

// Bryan Birtles

Tasting not only India but the island of Fiji at Indian Fusion

Indian Fusion: The Curry House, just south of Grant MacEwan University

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he Pacific Islands are sorely underrepresented in Edmonton's culinary scene, while dining options that represent Caribbean islands, notably Jamaica and Trinidad, continue to expand. Typical Caribbean dishes, including jerk chicken, roti and goat curry, are now familiar and widely available to Western audiences. Western perception of Pacific Island culinary traditions, conversely, tends toward spit-roasted pig, poi and other luau fare. While not wholly incorrect, this perception is chiefly borne of a thriving Hawaiian tourism industry, rather than the everyday food preparation of Pacific Islanders. A great disparity persists in our knowledge of Caribbean versus Pacific Island cuisine, and yet both are influenced by a culinary superpower: India.

Indeed, the heady spice blends of the Subcontinent lend their distinctive tang and zip to many Caribbean and Pacific Island dishes. At least one option for sampling Pacific Island cuisine exists in Edmonton. Indian Fusion: The Curry House occupies a snug space southwest of Grant MacEwan University. The walls and tables are dressed in rich burgundy, and a floor to ceiling mirror gives the illusion of space. Saffron yellow napkins bloom like papery flowers from mouths of wine goblets. Natural light spills in through a sizeable, west-facing window and a fecund spider plant cascades down a wall. The space is intimate but does not feel small.

Indian Fusion's menu spans the familiar territory of butter chicken, vindaloo and korma, but significant attention is given to the Pacific Islands, namely,

Fiji. We select two Fijian dishes, rooster julum ($14.95) and pumpkin chokha ($10.95), as well as two lesser-known Indian dishes, mattar paneer ($12.95) and fish goan curry ($14.95). A complimentary plate of fragile pappadums punctuates a significant but not unpleasant wait. The pappadums are riddled with fiery black peppercorns, and a salty-sweet tamarind dipping sauce calms their bite.

Rooster julum dresses juicy chucks of fowl in thick, brick-red sauce. The meat itself is darker and more deeply flavoured than chicken, but the presence of small bones is somewhat irritating. It is a trade-off; meat cooked

angles of firm, white cheese with toothsome green peas. A tomato-based sauce sings with curry and crunchy coriander seeds, while a generous sprinkle of cilantro leaves adds additional zest.

The residual heat of the dish is significant and dulled little by the naan.

Finally, fish goan curry includes firm, white basa filets with a rich coconut sauce. Goan cuisine, which hails from the southwestern Indian province of Goa, heavily favours fish and coconut.

Both are inherently sweet, and liberal addition of red chilies accentuates their mild essence. Sturdy triangles of whole-wheat roti ($1.95) are handy implements for rescuing the residual dregs of sauce.

Perception of Pacific Island culinary tradition tends toward spit-roasted pig, poi and other luau fare. While not wholly incorrect, this perception is chiefly borne of a thriving Hawaiian tourism industry, rather than the everyday food preparation of Pacific Islanders. on the bone typically possesses greater nuance than its boneless counterpart, but the bones themselves may be sharp and numerous. Fortunately, the ample cilantro and tomatoes that adorn the tangy sauce compensate for the devilish bones.

Pumpkin chokha matches autumn-orange cubes of the eponymous squash with coriander and crispy fried kaffir lime leaves. Initial flavours of citrus and spice give way to a well-rounded dĂŠnouement of sweet pumpkin. It is an unexpected and most welcome combination of ingredients, and one that is supremely amenable to pillowy pieces of warm naan ($2.25).

From the Indian side of the menu, mattar paneer pairs large, tangy rect-

Restaurants in Edmonton that offer dishes of the Pacific Islands are scarce, but Fijian curries of Indian descent are available at Indian Fusion. This is but one component of the Fijian culinary tradition and is not characteristic of all south Pacific cuisine, which is an improbability, given the thousands of islands that riddle this expansive body of water. That aside, the ingredients are well thought-out, the preparation thoughtful and the flavours cohesive.

Ultimately, Indian Fusion presents the opportunity to sample the dynamic flavours of both India and Fiji, providing the diner with a tantalizing culinary voyage well worth the taking.

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Canada's beer capital

Can Halifax rightly claim to be the first city of beer?

Normally when I travel it is often linked happy for many weeks. to my day job and is usually only for I should start with the breweries. Halia few days. So I try to focus on the fax has two twin breweries (born within places that will give me the best sense months of each other) and a couple of of the beer scene. This spring, life cirbrewpubs. The two main craft brewers cumstances landed me in Halifax for are Propeller and Garrison (both sell an extended period; enough time in Alberta). While they may be the that I didn't have to triage and same age, their personalities prioritize to get the best are vastly different. Propeller glimpse. I could explore at is, mostly, a British-inspired kly.com brewery. Its main line includes e e w leisure and really soak in e int@vu tothep Halifax beer happenings. wonderful examples of EngJason r e t And what did I find? Well, lish Ales—bitter, pale ale, IPA, Fos Halifax may have one of the liveporter. I enjoyed many a pint of the liest and most intriguing beer scenes in porter and bitter and never regretted the the country. There is enough beer gopurchase. They have been branching off ing on to keep any enterprising beer fan into more German-inspired beer lately,

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with a hefeweizen and a pseudo-pilsner.

The largest brewery in Atlantic Canada, Propeller's beer is world-class when fresh, although it suffers a bit through age and transportation.

Garrison goes a different direction. Its main line follows the "how-to-open-acraft-brewery" model—a brown ale, a light-bodied blonde ale, a red ale, a fruit wheat beer and a stout. All are wellmade and make for a decent quaff. However, they also toss in two other regular beer that I consider their stand-outs.

Garrison's Hopyard Pale Ale and Imperial IPA are assertively hoppy with a crisp malt base to keep them drinkable. The Hopyard ended up being a go-to beer for me when Propeller wasn't available. And the Imperial is perfect for sipping slowly while reading the Globe and Mail on a warm Saturday afternoon.

Canada's oldest operating brewpub is Granite Brewing. The brewery sells its beer almost exclusively out of the Henry House—which was my favourite physical space in Halifax. The pub is in the basement of an historic building with stone walls, a fireplace, very little light and a classic 19th-century British (or is it Scot?) atmosphere. I could (and did) spend hours there feeling very Victorian.

The beer is a bit hit or miss, but the dark, malty Peculiar was always spot on.

While Henry House was my favourite space, the Hart and Thistle became my favourite haunt. It is right down on the water. The atmosphere is a bit generic, although the floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the harbour create an enticing view. What kept bringing me back, however, was the beer. The crazy hoppy, one-of-a-kind beer brewed by hop genius Greg Nash. Out west few will know Mr Nash, but he is a mainstay of Atlantic brewing and has a national reputation for uncompromising, assertive, slap-youin-the-face hoppy beer. Mr Nash loves his hops and it shows.

While I was there he released the hoppiest beer ever brewed in Canada. Hop Mess Monster v.2 rang in at 1012 IBUs (which stands for International Bitterness Units and, trust me, that is a hell of a lot of hops). It was far more drinkable than expected—a tribute to his brewing skill. The Hart and Thistle has two Nash beer on at a time and he never brews the same beer twice. Plus, don't mess with Tony, the formidable matron of the H&T (just a gentle warning).

Halifax's highlight has to be its pubs.

I have never seen so many colourful, crowded, characterful pubs anywhere— and most are in walking distance of each other right downtown by the harbour.

Each has its own feel and its own client

base. The Split Crow (which inaccurately proclaims itself Canada's oldest pub) is a haven for music and a younger crowd.

Maxwell's Plum has 60 beer on tap, include selections from all the regional craft brewers. The Wooden Monkey specializes in great food. Plus, there are many others. What is even better is that none of them dare exclude the local breweries. Finding local craft beer is easier than anywhere else in the country.

Yes, Alexander Keith's dominates the market like nothing I have ever seen, but I could always find at least a couple taps of Garrison, Propeller, New Brunswick's Pump House or Quebec's St Ambroise.

Many tourists head to the Lower Deck, having been told it is some kind of Halifax rite of passage. Trust me, give it a pass.

The beer selection is anemic and the atmosphere rather lame. There are plenty of better pubs within walking distance— in fact the Hart and Thistle is in the same building—so search out some local and get a real sense of Halifax.

Haligonians like to drink their beer in pubs. The local pastime is to head out with a few friends for a couple of pints, maybe watch a hockey game, but mostly talk and listen to music. As a result, pubs are far more developed and lively than anywhere I have been in Canada.

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Six facts about soup

HOW OLD IS THIS SOUP?

SOUP ≠ STEW

The earliest evidence of soup dates to 6000 BCE. Until this time, boiling couldn't be used as an effective cooking process because waterproof containers had not been invented.

The major differences between soup and stew is cooking time and temperature: soup is boiled quickly over high heat while stew is cooked over a long period of time at a low temperature.

MEALS ON (HORSE AND BUGGY) WHEELS Portable soup first appeared in the 18th century, and was created by boiling soup down until it formed a thick paste that could later be rehydrated. This method was used by explorers and seamen who would need food that could keep for years while on their travels.

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Condensed soup was invented in 1897 by Dr John T Dorrance while working for the Campbell Soup Company.

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REVUE // HIKING GUIDES

Milking the mountains

Two guidebooks show how to get the most out of hiking the Rockies Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies

By Graeme Pole Mountain Vision Press The Aspiring Hiker's Guide 1: Mountain Treks in Alberta

By Gerry Shea Rocky Mountain Books

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hen it comes to hiking guidebooks, usually the more reliable and detailed information it contains, the better. However, what you leave out is as important as what you put in, argues Graeme Pole, author of Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies, arguably one of the most influential and durable hiking titles in Canada.

In three editions spanning 30 years, Classic Hikes has endured a lot of changes in Canada's Rockies.

Pole accepts that a guidebook encourages exploration but when confronted with the decision whether to include a trail passing through highly sensitive habitat, he prefers to err on the side of preservation.

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Get the most out of your mountain hikes "I left out a few trails that were in the second edition because either they were burned over or scoured by pine beetle," says Pole. "I didn't want the book to come out and

then two years later for it not to be accurate anymore."

"In the second edition of the book I put in Mount Indefatigable in Kananaskis Country. Then in 2006,

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because the pocket of forest on the east side of Mount Indefatigable is used by grizzly bears from time to time—and I actually had a bear encounter there myself—they closed

it with no public consultation," Pole recounts. "Some guidebooks said, 'To heck with you, I'm leaving it in.'

"I talked to the people in K-Country and asked, 'What's your intention here?' and they explained that they really wanted a little pocket of bear habitat that was good for seasonal use to be left intact ... So I said, 'OK, I'll leave it out.'"

In his approach to outdoor ethics, Pole reveals the hard-earned bias of a true outdoorsman who loves his craft but recognizes the risks.

He himself has spent a lifetime in the backcountry. The first edition of Classic Hikes took 10 years of exploration and multiple visits to each and every trail (totalling 48 in the first edition). That number has since expanded to 63 in the later editions, spanning Banff, Kananaskis, Jasper, Robson, Yoho, Kootenay, Waterton and Akamina-Kishinena parks.

Such familiarity has bred a keen instinct for wilderness preservation. As he writes in the foreword CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 >>

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to the latest edition, "Let us not run roughshod in the cathedral."

Of the 63 treks in Classic Hikes, sadly I know only a handful. But for the hiker wishing to delve more deeply into the rich natural resource of the Canadian Rockies stretching from Mount Robson Park to the Waterton Lakes National Park—on both sides of the BC/Alberta border—this could be the one resource you'll need.

If you want more to back your travels and inspire additional forays, in particular of the scrambling variety, the first volume in Rocky Mountain Books' new Aspiring Hiker's Guide series may also be worth adding to the catalogue.

The Aspiring Hiker's Guide 1: Mountain Treks in Alberta shares some overlap with Classic Hikes, but also contains some departures. There are far fewer hikes in total (16) but the inclusion of another 16 scrambling routes sets it apart.

The actual trail descriptions have

a utilitarian feel, with topographic maps of each route and GPS coordinates. There are fewer sidebars illuminating less obvious aspects of the trails, such as flora and fauna profiles. However, for those with a penchant for navigation over exploration, the Aspiring Hiker's Guide cuts straight to the chase without any unwanted distraction.

As painstaking as these guidebooks may be, however, nothing can supplant first-hand knowledge.

Every trail is different, each new day. That's the beauty of it. Whatever guides you choose, let it open doors to your own new experiences, beyond the confines of any book.

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For an extended conversation between Graeme Pole and Jeremy Derksen, including Pole's views on 30 years of change in the Rockies, trail practices and other matters, visit the Outdoors Insider blog at outdoorsinsider.wordpress.com.

OUTDOORS INSIDER Every now and then I come across moving dates from May to October a good quote I can't quite reconcile. due to heavy spring snowpack. If there One is from Lord Byron's Childe Hararen't enough racers registered by old's Pilgrimmage: "I love not man the deadline, the race will be cancelled— less, but Nature more." so if you've been fence sitting, betI love nature and being outter act quickly. Race organizers doors but I struggle with have confirmed that all fees RS will be refunded if the race the notion of loving nature O U T D O O more than humanity— is cancelled. Whether or kly.com uewee v @ unless we consider humannot it goes ahead this year, y jerem Jeremeyn ity to be not outside nature it will be back next year Derks but a part of it. In this view, with its new fall date so make seasons are not climatic battles sure to add it to the calendar. we must survive, landscapes are not ours simply to dominate and we are Cyclo-paths not the masters in some grand univerThe mountain bike season may be sal design. winding down but the cyclocross seaSo take a deep breath, relax, then son is just starting. It's a great way go kill it—on wheels, feet, water or to capitalize on the shoulder season. wherever. That's truth, nothing more.

Check out my interview with Bikeridr.

In my last seasonal column I thought com's Sheldon Smart, "More CowI'd suggest a few ways to seek some bell!" (again, under bikes on my blog) of that truth. As for me, I'll be carryfor a primer. ing on (as always) on my blog at outdoorsinsider.wordpress.com.

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As harvest looms, Edmonton trails burst with colour. Check out the Waskahegan Trail Association (waskahegantrail.ca) for prairie hikes out beyond city limits. There may even still be time to get in a paddle down the North Saskatchewan (edmontoncanoe.com)—a great way to see the season turn in the valley. For a nightcap on September 4, head to Beaver Hills Dark Sky Preserve for its anniversary celebrations (http://www. pc.gc.ca/pn-np/ab/elkisland/visit/visit4.aspx#beaver).

Yeah, there's season left but before we know it, fall will turn to winter.

Sure, you could park your bike for the season, but if you've ever considered winter riding but were a little intimidated, the Edmonton Bicycle Commuters hosts winter cycling courses every October. The tirestudding sessions are especially popular, running about $10 and one hour to stud a tire. But, according to EBC pres Chris Chan, courses fill up fast.

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COVER // OH WE GOT FESTIVALS

Is Hollerado a place for loud people that like to ski?

Sun, Sept 4 (11 am) Hollerado As part of Sonic Boom Edmonton EXPO Centre ($79.50 – $199.50)

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ollerado's greatest strength is its ability to take the ball and run with it. The band operated almost solely on naïve optimism from the outset, certain that if the members kept at it, good things would happen. Touring was an exercise in getting away with it, in pulling a fast one from coast to coast. Rather than book a proper tour, Hollerado showed up in a town and found a venue that looked like it was worth playing at. Then someone from the band would march in, tell the promoter that his group had just had a show cancelled down the street and ask if they could play there that night. Half the time it worked.

Now Hollerado doesn't have to trick promoters into hiring the band

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anymore. And the shows are getting bigger and bigger, whether a sevencity residency tour, a tour through China or this weekend's Sonic Boom festival. As bassist Dean Baxter explains, as long as the shows are interesting, the band is happy.

"Festivals are all so different—it's a circus of people and who doesn't love the circus?" he says, before explaining that Hollerado hasn't become totally comfortable with the idea that it's the kind of band that gets invited to festivals. "We still consider ourselves civilians there ...

We still feel like we're at the kids table and just hanging out. We're still asking permission to do anything backstage or at any event."

The Ottawa Blues Fest marked the band's first foray into festival performing. It wasn't a great success by any means, just family and friends and a couple hundred people waiting for this group of kids

to get on with it so Lynyrd Skynyrd could start. The band's second festival outing packed a lot more panache: after lucking into a cultural exchange tour to China, the band found itself in front of thousands of people, all of whom had never heard of Hollerado.

"It was unbelievable," Baxter says

something to get swept up in. The intimacy that a bar or hall affords is transformed into an experience that allows for more to happen, for a wilder type of excitement.

"They're two different types of energy," he says, comparing bar shows to festivals. "At a festival you're in front of hundreds of people outside

of the experience. "People were cheering and they didn't know why they were cheering, we didn't know why we were cheering, it was just mutual excitement for the unexpected on both our parts."

A festival, he says, has a different kind of energy to a bar show.

It's something more collective,

and they're all cheering and there's crowd surfing and stuff going on and it's hard not to feel that excitement and energy."

Even though Hollerado has left behind the days where it finagled its way into clubs, the band hasn't lost the ability to finagle. After a tongue-in-cheek tweet about how

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the band would like to meet with the mayor in every city it plays got the attention of Mayors Naheed Nenshi of Calgary, Gregor Robertson of Vancouver and Pat Fiacco of Regina, the band had the outline of its upcoming "Meet the Mayor" tour that will see Hollerado ask questions about art, politics and local issues of mayors across Canada. Baxter sees this tour as a continuation of the same troublemaking spirit and seat-of-the-pants techniques the band has always utilized.

"We still try and get away with as much as we can," he says. "Our success has maybe afforded us the ability to apply such techniques on a more ridiculous scale—like this whole mayor tour coming up, there's not a lot of bands that can finagle their way into meeting some mayors—but it seems to be working."

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PREVUE // MAJOR LEAGUE F-HOLES

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he root note of the F-holes, a band that approaches roots music with as much a sense of playful inventiveness as a nod to tradition, formed long before the band ever did.

Patrick Alexandre, who handles vocals, bass and harmonica duties, started playing music with banjo/guitarist Eric Lemoine and drummer Evan Friesen back in their early teens. That fraternal connection to his fellow musicians, Alexandre notes, is something he's always looked for in bands, even beyond his own.

"You read about Zeppelin, and John Bonham and Robert Plant were really good friends before [the band]."

Alexandre says, home at Winnipeg for a brief touring break before heading out west. "I like reading biographies a lot, and that's always what I'm looking for. I'm looking for that friendship in bands and that brotherhood ... bands do inevitably get to that point, after being together for so long. You think of a band and that's been touring together for 10 years, they know each other inside out. But it helps if you guys are best friends for 10 years before that too."

Now fleshed out by Blake Thomson on guitar and saxophone and James McKee on trumpet and trombone, that longtime familiarity ensured

the F-holes' second album, Angels in the Corner, was built around the strengths of the people in the band, rather than a more generic approach to songwriting.

"Me and Eric, the banjo player in the group, we share the writing.

And I can't really speak for him, but for myself I would say that writing songs, at least the music part, I would have the band in mind. So I'm thinking, 'Oh, Evan's going to do a great drum thing here, and then the trumpet can come out blaring at this part.'

Whereas before, a lot of the songs on the first album, most of them i'd say, they were just written as songs that could be done by any band, really. But these ones were more crafted to the F-holes songs."

It's that direction, of greater fusion, that he'd like to see the F-holes continue towards.

"I see this band progressing towards a more shared writing experience, he continues. "Even on this album, not the writing so much but all the arranging. We're working on this together, we're building songs together.

Sometimes there's just a little skeleton of a song, and it's up to James to add some skin colour and for Evan to add some meat on the bones. But we're looking to make that even more of a shared experience."

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ON THE RECORD

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Domestic bliss

Creating Low Domestic with Drawn Ship Thu, Sep 8 (8 pm) Drawn Ship With Kim Churchill Haven Social Club, $10 Hailing from Vancouver, Drawn Ship is a minimalist two-piece that manages to fill out its sound without much of the bombast that often accompanies a two-piece. Instead, the group's debut album, Low Domestic, focuses on texture and layering to create its tight weave. Drummer Gregg Steffensen spoke with Vue Weekly over email about his and compatriot Lyn Heinemann's work.

How long did it take to make Low Domestic, from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording?

Gregg Steffensen: This is a somewhat difficult question due to the "initial songwriting" phase being uncertain. Fifty percent of Low Domestic was culled from songs that Lyn had been collecting prior to the formation of Drawn Ship. This period could span one to two years.

So if we base this timeline only on the other 50 percent, that is songs written by Lyn during the formation of the band, it would be one year Vue Weekly:

from demos to final master.

When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first?

GS: Lyn writes the lyrics simultaneously with acoustic guitar at home, the arrangements are rough at this point. Gregg then listens to them privately at home and sketches an arrangement out and formulates initial ideas for drums. We then come together in our jamspace and hack out what you hear later.

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VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? Did you record as a band live off the floor or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? GS: The first session at Mushroom Studios was for drums, a lot of the primary guitar lines, and scratch vocals. These sessions were done live.

We did a variety of proximities between the drums and guitarâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;for instance, "Fists" is done with the guitar amp so close to the kit that the snare chains rattle. So that take you hear on the album is the live take.

I should point out that the vocals done at this point were used only as scratch tracks, not in the final re-

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cording. The remainder of the album was tracked individually at District Four.

So the answer here is both. We wanted a "dirty and big" sound, a lot of this texture was achieved with the initial bed track sessions, the rest with amps, mics, effects, etc.

VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album?

GS: Yup, four.

VW: How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Low Domestic to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along?

GS: The latter is true here, in fact it was pretty easy to see which ones did not work, we only disagreed over one track. Basically the ones left off were too "Poppy," not to put this in a negative light, they just didn't fit with the emerging theme.

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Releasing its first album, entitled Circles, this weekend, Mass Choir's Matt Skopyk took the time to outline some of his musical history for Vue Weekly

FIRST CONCERT

FIRST ALBUM

LAST ALBUM

The first concert I saw was the New Kids on the Block's Step

By Step Tour '91. I was in Grade 2 and NKOTB was the best thing in the world to my group of friends. We even had a cover group called Young Kids on the Street at the time. My mother took me to the concert and I was so nervous I made myself sick. Had to leave half way between the set—heartbreaking!

The first album I bought wasn't technically an album. It was the Ghostbusters 2 soundtrack. It was awesome, awesome New Jack Swing stuff. I got hooked at a young age.

Seriously, how is the slime-drenched Statue of Liberty "Higher" scene not inspiring?

The last digital album I bought was Slave Ambient by the War on Drugs.

The last physical album I purchased was Doug Hoyer's Walks with the Tender and Growing Night— great songs, great production. A truly awesome record!

LAST CONCERT

FAVOURITE ALBUM

MUSICAL GUILTY PLEASURE

The last concert I saw was Ace of Base at Capital Ex. Man, what a debacle.

My favourite album is definitely Radiohead's OK Computer. It still blows my mind that this happened 14 years ago. How time flies.

The entire MuchMusic Dance Mix catalogue, but it's hardly a guilty pleasure. It's a public pleasure.

It's why we started Mass Choir!

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Nightbringer Hierophany of the Open Grave (Season of Mist)  Black-metal albums can sometimes be weighed down by suffocating atmosphere, laying on the low growls and trance-like rolling guitar effects a little too heavy, but Nightbringer's newest album avoids these pitfalls while still creating an atmosphere of the mystical contemplation of death. The fuzzy guitar effects are well-used to develop a deathly atmosphere while alternating appropriately with melodic devices to create a feeling of movement throughout the album. While earlier tracks blend into one another, as the album develops, each song begins to take it's own defined shape. Alternating between rasping lyrics and growled vocals offers a frantic yet purposeful and wellexecuted approach. Integrating melodic interludes such as the acoustic guitar elements in "Via Tortuosa" and the organ opening on "The Angel of Smokeless Fire" gives each track it's own narrative definition.

Samantha Power

Violent Kin People (Independent) 

Brendan Kelly & The pick up’s

The slinky guitars on the latest from Violent Kin—featuring the Kardash siblings, SJ and Maygen—wind their way through a record full of steady, propulsive beats and here-and-gone-again glitchy sounds, draping the music in layers of twists and turns.

SJ and Maygen split the vocals, and each brings their own character to the party while sitting comfortably within a shared musical landscape seemingly born of programmed beats ripped from the '80s and indie rock escaped from the '90s, or some combination anyway, along with a healthy dose of deconstruction. It's a violent, combustible combination, and there's nary a boring note to be found in the mix.

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Washed Out Within and Without (Sub Pop)  Sounding like Ace of Bass on a handful of quaaludes, Within and Without flows like an electric sea and covers you like a blanket of LEDs. You don't so much listen to it as you fall into it as the album envelops you in a single idea that moves from song to song.

From beginning to end the tempo stays near-constant, the jam casually, carefully revealing itself over time. A look at the cover reveals what this album might be best for: getting your fuck on.

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Dave Stewart The Blackbird Diaries (Surfdog)  This is a long way from Dave Stewart's old band, the Eurythmics, but it turns out he's fairly gifted when it comes to folk rock. The melancholy swirls of "Cheaper Than Free" (where Stewart duets with Stevie Nicks) and "All Messed Up" (featuring Martina McBride) pack more of a punch then the more rollicking tunes which feel too lighthearted and familiar, dragging on despite the jumping music. Overall, the album is a little disjointed and nothing new, but Stewart and his band could likely bring the house down on the Folk Fest's main stage.

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'm kind of the guy from the hills that the blues cats know is up there, but probably won't ever come out," Bill Durst says. "But I came out. It's kind of fun, because I came out fairly fully formed."

Durst isn't self-mythologizing about his own relative obscurity here. Now into his 60s, his legend as a guitarist in the upper echelon of six-stringers is disproportionately small to his skill and history, obscured by lengthy gaps in his career.

Having battled his way through the alcoholism that plagued his earlier days—between Durst's time fronting Can-rockers ThunderMug, or earlier solo releases— he's now finally returned with The Great Willy Mammoth, his first studio session in years, and one that's growing acclaim as he slowly gets the word out about both the album and himself.

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"A person came up to me at the Kitchener Blues fest who was obviously well knowledged about the blues and all that," Durst says, "and they were very impressed by the show.

She just said to me, 'Why have I never heard of you before? You're not young; how could you have escaped me?'"

Durst chuckles. On the phone, driving to Canmore to tour, his spirits are high. Durst has assembled a tight power trio—with him are bassist Darius

McKinley and drummer Justin "Just B" Burgess—to tour with, and now he's simply enjoying getting out and playing for audiences again.

"I should go out and play for as many people as I can, really, and I just do that thing. And I should've been doing that thing years before. But it's weird; now I'm an old cat, but I'm still kind of like the new guy."

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Artery Tzadeka,

Corvid Lorax (CD release party); 9pm; $10 (door)

Blues on Whyte

Brixx Radio Brixx

with Tommy Grimes spinning Rock n Roll; 8pm (door); no cover

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THE Common So

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The Docks Thu

Crown Pub

Uncle Wiggly's Hot Shoes Blues Band

CARROT Café

night rock and metal jam

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every Thu at 9pm

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Haven Social Club Gordie Tentrees

and Lonesome Buckaroo, Ayla Brook, The Floating Feathers (blues/folk); 8pm (door); $15 (adv)/$20 (door)

J and R Open jam rock 'n' roll; every Thu; 9pm Jeffrey's Café

Carol Lynn Quinn; acoustic rock duo); $10

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Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku Beaumont Blues Fest after-fest party and Open stage hosted by Marshall Lawrence; 9pm

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X-Change

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Marybeth's Coffee House– Beaumont Open mic

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Naked Cyber café

Lucky 13 Sin Thu

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Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu

Ric’s Grill Peter

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the Dog (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

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Sokyrka, Zoe; 8pm; $15 (adv)/$20 (door)

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music every Sat

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Vreid and Kampfar, Necronomicon (Norwegian Black Metal matinee); no minors; 5pm; $12 at Yeglive.ca, Blackbyrd

180 Degrees Street VIBS: Reggae night every Sat

Fluid Lounge Scene

Rose and Crown Pub Lyle Hobbs

Touch It, hosted by DJ Papi; every Sat

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Quinton Reddy

Sherlock Holmes–WEM Tony Dizon

West Side Pub

New City Evil

prom” 2011: DJs the Gothfather and Skip Dinkerson; prizes for best costumes; no minors; 8pm (door); $5

New West Hotel

Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm

O’byrne’s Live band

every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

On the Rocks UTB Pawn Shop

electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ

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

Red Piano Bar

Jeffrey's Café

Saturdaze Labour Of Love Long Weekend Bash; 9:30pm

every Sat; 9pm

every Sat

Starlite Room

Level 2 Lounge

Goza and Dane; 9pm

Druid Irish Pub DJ

DJs

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single: $20-$39 (adult)/$15 (child reserved)/free (child grass)

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Wild West Saloon Whiskey

Boyz

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

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three levels every Sat: Main Floor: Menace Sessions: alt rock/ electro/trash with Miss Mannered; Underdog: DJ Brand-dee; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic Hip-Hop and Reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz

Blacksheep Pub DJ

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

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Christian every Sat

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Newcastle Pub

Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

New City Legion

PAWN SHOP

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Overtime– Downtown Saturdays

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every Sat

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Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

Beaumont Blues Festival Monkey

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Overtime– Downtown 10304-111

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St,

The Common

VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730107 St, 780.414.0233

Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St,

Diesel Ultra Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.

CLUB

780.431.0179

Devaney’s Irish Pub

ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre

The Docks 13710 66

9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE

9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 St, 780.476.3625

DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928

10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098

DUSTER’S PUB 6402118 Ave, 780.474.5554

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82

DV8 8307-99 St Early Stage Saloon 4911-52 Ave,

Ave, 780.439.1082

Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku

Stony Plain

Blacksheep Pub

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2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861

Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178

BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981

bohemia 10575-114 St Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099

BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper

Ave, 780.488.6636

Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467

Casino Yellowhead 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467

Century grill

3975 Calgary Tr NW, 780.431.0303

CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail

Coast to Coast 5552

Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675

Common Lounge 10124-124 St

Crown and Anchor 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696

Crown Pub 10709109 St, 780.428.5618

Eddie Shorts 10713124 St, 780.453.3663

780.489.SHOW ‎

Electric Rodeo– Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411

124 St, 780.995.7110

Hydeaway 10209-100

Ave, 780.426.5381

Iron Boar Pub

4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin

JAMMERS PUB 11948127 Ave, 780.451.8779

J AND R 4003-106 St,

780.436.4403

jeffrey’s café 9640

142 St, 780.451.8890

JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381

junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St,

780.433.6768

kelly's pub 11540 Jasper Ave

L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100

9912-82 Ave, 780.758.2754

Expressionz Café 9938-70 Ave,

13160-118 Ave

FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557

FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.CLUB

172 St, 780.481.2786

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Lizard Lounge

Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203

Naked Cyber café 10354 Jasper Ave, 780.425.9730

Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave,

Fluid Lounge 10888

780.490.1999

FUNKY BUDDHA

8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door)

Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676

GAS PUMP 10166-114

St, 780.488.4841

HALO 10538 Jasper Ave,

780.423.HALO

haven social club

15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010

HillTop Pub 8220106 Ave, 780.490.7359

Playback Pub 594

Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St

New City Legion

Nisku Inn 1101-4 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82

Ave, 780.414.6766

ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Orlando's 1 15163-

121 St

780.758.5924

Sportsworld 13710-

104 St

Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099

STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82

Pleasantview Community Hall

Ave

REDNEX BAR– Morinville 10413-

Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969

10860-57 Ave

Red Piano Bar 1638

11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495

8906-99 St

82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814

KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave,

Empress Ale House

780.437.3667

PAWN SHOP 10551-

780.756.5667

LEGENDS PUB 6104-

FIDDLER’S ROOST

Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717

100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955

Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave

St, 780.465.6800

Overtime Whitemud

Bourbon St, WEM, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722

RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-

149 St

Suede Lounge 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707

Symphony Under the Sky Heritage

Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, 780.428.1414, edmontonsymphony.com

Taphouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860

Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602

Treasury 10004 Jasper

ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St,

Vinyl Dance Lounge 10740 Jasper

780.482.5253

Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca

Rose and Crown

Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com

R Pub 16753-100 St ,

Stony Plain Rd

Second Cup– Mountain Equipment

Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer,

10235-101 St

780.457.1266

12336-102 Ave, 780.451.7574; Stanley Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; Varscona, Varscona Hotel, 106 St, Whyte Ave

Second Cup–89 Ave 8906-149 St

Second Cup– Sherwood Park 4005

Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

• Summerwood

Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

Sideliners Pub

11018-127 St, 780.453.6006

West Side Pub 15135 Wild Bill’s–Red Deer 403.343.8800

WILD WEST SALOON

12912-50 St, 780.476.3388

Winspear Centre

4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414

WOK BOX 10119 Jasper

Ave

WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286

Y AFTERHOURS 10028-

102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours.com

Yesterdays Pub

112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

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Beer Hunter–St Albert Open stage/jam

every Sun; 2-6pm

DJs

Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku

BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry

Beaumont Blues Fest after-fest party and Open stage hosted by Marshall Lawrence; 9pm

Blue Chair Café Sun Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 10:30am-2:30pm Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on

the Side Sun, 6pm; $25 if not dining

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

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

2nd Annual Block Party: BBQ, live music, beer tasting, prizes; no minors; free with Food Bank donation

Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sunday

Funday: with Phil, 2-7pm; Sunday Night: Soul Sundays: '60s and '70s funk, soul, R&B with DJ Zyppy

FLOW Lounge Stylus Sun

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on

Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

Sportsworld

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

Double D's Open jam

MON SEP 5

DV8 Tavern Rehashed,

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman

every Sun; 3-8pm

guests 9pm

Eddie Shorts Acoustic

Mon: live music monthly; no cover

Expressionz café

Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter

jam every Sun; 9pm

YEG live Sun Night Songwriters Stage; 7-10pm

J and R Bar Open jam/ stage every Sun hosted by Me Next and the HaveNots; 3-7pm Level 2 lounge

Sunday Nite Long Weekend Finally; 9:30pm

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)

open stage every Mon; 8pm

kelly's pub Open

stage every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm

NEW CITY Chachi On Acid, guest; no minors

and under)/free (child grass); single: $20-$39 (adult)/$15 (child reserved)/free (child grass)

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 Phoenix, 9pm

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

Lucky 13 Industry

Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

NEW CITY LEGION

Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE SEP 6 Druid Irish Pub

Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm

L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam

with Ammar; 9pm-1am

New West Hotel Nash Ramblers

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

Padmanadi Open

New West Hotel

stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:3010:30pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

R Pub Open stage jam

Nash Ramblers

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

every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm

Second Cup–124 Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm

SEcond Cup–Stanley Milner Library Open

O’BYRNE’S Open mic

Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open

stage every Mon; 9pm

On the Rocks UTB

Wild West Saloon Whiskey

Second Cup– Summerwood Open

every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

ORLANDO'S 2 PUB

Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm

Red Piano Back to School dueling piano show; 8:30pm (show) Second Cup– Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every

Sun; 2-4pm

SONIC BOOM 2011

Northlands grounds Jane's Addiction, Metric, Social Distortion, Cake, Dee Lo Green, Manchester Orchestra, The Joy Formidable, Middle Class Rut, Mollerado; all ages event with licensed areas; 11am (gate), 11:30am (show)/$79.50 (general), $129.50 (VIP)/$199.50 (Platinum VIP) at Unionevents.Com, TicketMaster

Boyz

Classical Symphony Under the Sky The

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; Rhapsody in Blue at 2pm; tickets: weekend pass: $125 (adult reserved)/$82 (adult grass); $54 (reserved child 12

mic every Tue; 7-9pm

stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover

SIDELINERS PUB All Star Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm Sportsman's Lounge Open stage

every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm

Wild West Saloon Whiskey Boyz

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 own Pub Live hip hop and open mic with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, Frank Brown, and guests; no cover 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 SEP 7 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month

Empress Ale House Ben Sures

(folk); 8pm (door)

eddie shorts

HOOLIGANZ Open

stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm

New City SSRI’, Gorgon Horde, Action News Team, The Left Behinds; no minors; 8pm (door), 9pm (band); $8 New West Hotel Nash Ramblers

Nisku Inn

Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm

Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted

by JTB; 9pm-1am

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Slow pitch for beginners on the 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam every Wed, 6.30pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember)

Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Rexall Place Ke$Ha Presents The Get $Leazy Tour: LMFAO, Spank Rock; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $25, $35.50, $49.50 Second Cup–89 Ave Rick Mogg (country)

Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm

Wild West Saloon Whiskey

Boyz

DJs

Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave

BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Rev'd Up

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

PREVUE SYMPHONY UNDER THE SKY Fri, Sep 2 – Mon, Sep 5 / Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, $54 – $125

Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: RetroActive Radio Wed: alt '80s and '90s, Post Punk, New Wave, Garage, Brit, Mod, Rock and Roll with LL Cool Joe; Wooftop: Soul/breaks with Dr Erick

Brixx Bar Really

Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover The Common

Treehouse Wednesdays

Diesel Ultra Lounge Wind-up

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

Boom Afterparty- White Lightning, The Weekend Kids, Sister Grey, Shelbi, Dualside, Heavyside, Degree, More; 9pm

LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle

NEW CITY LEGION

Wild West Saloon

Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover

Whiskey Boyz

Classical Symphony Under the Sky The Edmonton

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Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free

Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover

Starlite Room Sonic

Symphony Orchestra Family Matinée: Al Simmons at 2pm; Evening: Ian Tyson and the ESO at 7pm; weekend pass: $125 (adult reserved)/$82 (adult grass); $54 (reserved child 12 and under)/ free (child grass); single: $20-$39 (adult)/$15 (child reserved)/free (child grass)

HAVEN SOCIAL Club

NIKKI DIAMONDS

Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed

Starlite Room

Take in a few more summer nights with Symphony Under the Sky, where the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra performs, uh, under the sky. Six concerts featuring everything from Mozart to Broadway to Gershwin to a concert led by Ian Tyson.

VUEWEEKLY SEP 1 – SEP 7, 2011

Wild Style Wed: HipHop; 9pm

TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

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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 Li-

COMEDY bohemia • 10575-114 St • Open mic comedy • Fri, Sep 2

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 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm • Yuk Yuks presents Stan Thomson; Sep 2-3 • Yuk Yuks presents Michael Gelbart; Sep 9-10, 8pm and 10:30pm COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Thu, 8:30pm; Sat, 8pm and 10pm • Sean Baptiste; Sep 2-3 • Marty McLean; Sep 9-10 Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; FriSat 10:30pm • Dov Davidoff; Sep 1-4 • John Roy; Sep 7-11

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Andy Canete; Sep 1-3 • Brian Stollery; Sep 8-10

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

brary, 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, undereating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

Sharara Entertainment Group/Shree Yoga • 9238-34 Ave • Grand Opening; open house: tea and juice at 1:30pm, Ribbon Cutting Ceremony at 2:30 pm, dance entertainment guests including Naresh Bhardwaj, Deepak Kumar, Amarjeet Sohi, Sohail Quadri • Sun, Sep 4 • Register at shararaentertainmentgroup@ hotmail.com

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

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton • eplc.

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)

webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

Society of Edmonton Atheists • Stanley Milner Library, Rm 6-7 • Meet the 1st Tue every month, 7:15pm

Handmade Mafia Market •

Spirituality for 50+ • Life Enrich-

Strathcona Baptist Church, 8318-104 St • handmademafia.com • Craft Fair • Sep 10, 10am

ment Centre • 780.462.4491 • life-enrichment. ca • Meetings: Ways to make the rest of your life the best of your life • Sun, Sep 4, 11am

Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living

Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange

• 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

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

Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

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

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331-

Yoga in the Park • St Albert’s King-

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 •

104 St; meditationedmonton.org; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm • Willpower Institute Meditation: 12520135 Ave, 780.451.9535/780.459.0470; willpowerinstitute.com; Orientation: Fri, Sep 9, 7-9pm; starts Mon, Sep 12, 7pm

Meditation Drop-In • Strathcona County Bldg Meeting Rm 3: meditationedmonton.org; Amitabha Buddhist Centre; every Mon starting Sep 12, 7-8:30pm; $10 Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • FREE outdoor movement!

swood Park • Sat, 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, 7103105 St • ytoastmasterclub.ca • 1st and 3rd Tue, 7-9pm; every month

LECTURES/Presentations INTRODUCTION TO TIBETAN MEDICINE • Alberta Avenue Hall, 9210-118 Ave • Presented by Amchi Kunga Chodak; hosted

by Gaden Samten Ling Tibetan Buddhist Meditation Society • Sep 16, 7-9pm • Donation

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 • Sep: Fri, Sat, Sun

Pecha Kucha Night 11 • Myer Horowitz Theatre, Students' Union Bldg, U of A • edmontonnextgen.ca • Wed, Sep 14, 6:30pm

The Way We Green • City Hall City Room (main foyer) • edmonton.ca/thewaywegreen • Lunch Hour Speakers Series: Solar Power & the Municipal Context • Sep 13

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer • 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

Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/ bwedmonton

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

34 BACK

VUEWEEKLY SEP 1 – SEP 7, 2011

FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@ flashnightclub.com 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 G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors that have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Wed, 1-3pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca

Illusions Social Club • The Junction, 10242-106St • groups.yahoo.com/group/ edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm

the junction bar • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • Free pool daily 4-8pm; Taco Tue: 5-9pm; Wing Wed: 5-9pm; Wed karaoke: 9pm-12; Thu 2-4-1 burgers: 5-9pm; Fri steak night: 5-9pm; DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

Pride Centre of Edmonton • 9540-111 Ave, Norwood Blvd • 780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm; huges@shaw.ca • Seniors Drop-In: Social/ support group for seniors of all genders and sexualities to talk, and have tea; every

Tue and Thu, 1-4pm; tuff@shaw.ca • TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:30-9:30pm; admin@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellorsevery Wed, 6-9pm; 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) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured

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

Youth Intervention and Outreach Worker • iSMSS, U of A • 780.248.1971 • Provides support and advocacy to queer youth 12-25; you don't need to be alone

Youth Understanding Youth • yuyedm.ca • Meets every Sat, 7-9pm • E: info@yuyedm.ca, T: 780.248.1971

SPECIAL EVENTS Corn Maze • Garden Valley Rd, west of Edmonton • 780.288.0208 • edmontoncornmaze.ca • Open through to mid Oct • $10 (adult)/$8 (youth, 5-12)/free (under 5)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)

Expressionz Café Birthday Celebrations • 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • Sep 15-17 • Seniors Day: Sep 15 • School and Theatre Day: Sep 16 • Fringe After play theatre/comedy; host Kevin McGrath, Family Day; School of Life Open House; The Time Flies performing and cabaret; Sat, Sep 17 Kaleido Fam-

ily Arts Festival • Arts on the Ave area, 118 Ave • kaleidofest.ca • Mix of local and international talent. No-tie gala, art exhibits, dancers, drumming, stilt walkers, theatre, belly dancers, living statues, musicians galore, a giant snakes and ladders game and more • Sep 9-11 • Alberta Ave community hall, 93 St, 118 Ave: Corn Roast Fundraiser For Kaleido At The Alta Ave Farmers Market; Sep 8 • Behind the Alberta Ave community centre: Outdoor Cinema: Herbie, the Love Bug on a giant inflatable screen; Fri, Sep 9

PEACE IN THE PARK • Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park • peaceinthepark.weebly.com • United we jam! Presented

by The Centre for Spiritual Living Edmonton • Sep 11, 11am-6pm • $25 (adv at YEG LIVE, TIX on the Square)/$30 (door)

JONESIN'CROSSWORD

MATT JONES // JONESINCROSSWORDS@vueweekly.com

"We Don't Play That"--schoolyard equipment nobody likes.

FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) To pave the way for your next liberation, you will have to impose some creative limitation on yourself. There's some trivial extravagance in your current rhythm that is suppressing an interesting form of freedom. As soon as you cut away the faux "luxury" that is holding you back, all of life will conspire to give you a growth spurt.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) Using two tons of colourful breakfast cereal, high school students in Smithfield, Utah helped their art teacher create a gymnasium-sized replica of Vincent van Gogh's painting "Starry Night." After admiring it for a few days, they dismantled the objet d'art and donated it as food to a farm full of pigs. You might benefit from trying a comparable project in the coming days, Taurus. What common everyday things could you use in novel ways to brighten up your personal palette? It's high time to try some experiments in play therapy.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) "The energy you use to read this sentence is powered, ultimately, by sunlight," says science writer KC Cole, "perhaps first soaked up by some grass that got digested by a cow before it turned into the milk that made the cheese that topped the pizza. But sunlight, just the same." That's a good thought to meditate on during this phase of your astrological cycle. You will thrive by remembering your origins, honouring the depths that sustain you, and by reverently returning to the source for a nice, long drink of magic.

Across 1 Want badly 6 High jumper of nursery rhymes 9 Somewhat 13 Czech writer/former president Vaclav 14 Simple rhyme scheme 16 Kumquat cover 17 Linda of "Dynasty" 18 At the head of the line 19 Frittata need 20 Playground equipment that'll move if you're really, really patient?

23 Gross-sounding fruit 24 Acknowledgement to the captain 25 Movie computer 28 Foot: Lat. 29 Leather shoe, for short 30 Sorta-striped feline hybrids 32 Former New York senator Al 35 Tiny bit 36 Playground equipment only the extremely strong can dive into?

41 Was in the red 42 Cast out 43 Cause hunger 46 A, in Austria 47 Encyclopedia unit abbr.

50 Screechy singer Yoko 51 Blood classification 54 Opera set in Egypt 55 Playground equipment that incorporates boxing?

58 You can buy bars of it 60 Congresswoman ___ Lowey 61 Get together 62 Don't believe it 63 Teen follower 64 Campground dwellings 65 "Potpourri for $200, ___" 66 School grouping, in some states: abbr.

67 Get a good workout Down 1 Destroy, in a way 2 Destroy, in another way 3 Becomes of use 4 Starbucks 20-ouncer 5 Lanchester of "Bride of Frankenstein" 6 Sweet hook?

7 With a BMI over 30 8 Does some floor work 9 Side length squared, for a square 10 "Whatever"

11 Verb ender 12 Viking scores, for short 15 Did a faceplant 21 One of The Judds 22 Lanka lead-in 26 Opposing side 27 Exam for future attys.

29 Cheese partner 31 Au-gment?

32 "Grease" actress Conn 33 Animator Avery 34 Village Voice-given achievement 36 "The Uplift ___ Party Plan" (Red Hot Chili Peppers album) 37 McGregor who played Obi-Wan 38 Attention-getting submission, back in the day 39 It may be airtight 40 Spy novelist Deighton 44 NYSE unit 45 Laughing creature 47 Clear Eyes competitor 48 One-named folk singer 49 Like some developments 52 Rose McGowan, on "Charmed" 53 Rob of "90210" 54 Nixon running mate 56 Tippy-top 57 "Roseanne's ___" (reality show) 58 ___ Na Na (Woodstock act, for some reason) 59 Family name in the "Popeye" series ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) Speaking about her character Harry on the TV show Harry's Law, Cancerian actress Kathy Bates said, "Harry is her own woman.

She isn't going to take guff from anybody. I'm very much like her. I try to be diplomatic, but sometimes pterodactyls fly out of my mouth." I wouldn't always advise you to follow Bates' lead, but in the coming week I do: Be as tactful and sensitive as possible, but don't be shy about naming the difficult truths or revealing the hidden agendas.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) "My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view," said gardener H Fred Ale. I urge you to try a similar approach in your own field. Conjure up more empathy than you ever have before in your life. Use your imagination to put yourself in the place of whomever or whatever it is you hope to nurture and influence.

And be perfectly willing to make productive errors as you engage in this extravagant immersion.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) Avante-garde author Gertrude Stein was renowned for her enigmatic word play and cryptic intuitions, which brought great pleasure to her long-time companion Alice B Toklas. "This has been a most wonderful evening," Alice once remarked after a night of socializing.

"Gertrude has said things tonight it'll take her 10 years to understand." I expect that something similar could be said about you in the coming week.

It's as if you'll be glimpsing possibilities that won't fully ripen for a while; as if you'll be stumbling upon prophecies that will take months, maybe even years, to unveil their complete meaning.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) I periodically perform a public ritual called Unhappy Hour. During this focused binge of emotional cleansing, participants unburden themselves of their pent-up sadness, disappointment, frustration and shame. They may

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choose to mutter loud complaints or sob uncontrollably. At the end of the ceremony, they celebrate the relief at having released so much psychic congestion, and they go back into the world feeling refreshed. Many people find that by engaging in this purge, they are better able to conjure up positive emotional states in the days and weeks that follow. It's a perfect time for you to carry out your own Unhappy Hour.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) Age of Mythology is a computer game in which participants strategically build up their own civilization and conquer others.

There are "cheats" to bend the rules in your favour.

The "Wrath of the Gods" cheat gives you the godlike powers of lightning storms, meteors, and tornadoes. With "Goatunheim," you can turn your enemies into goats. But the cheat I would recommend for you right now, whether you're playing Age of Mythology or the game of your own life, would be "Wuv Woo," a flying purple hippopotamus that blows rainbows out its back end and blasts loveydovey hearts from its mouth. (PS Using it will make other good cheats easier to access.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) Of all the tribes of the zodiac, Sagittarius is most skilled at not trying too hard. Not that you're lazy or lax. When it's time for you to push toward your goal with more force, you know how to cultivate a sense of spaciousness. You've got an innate knack for maintaining at least a touch of cool while immersed in the heat of the struggle. In the coming week, I suggest you make an extra effort to draw on these capacities. You will need them more than usual.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) Wild mountain goats in northern Italy have been photographed moseying their way up and across the near-vertical wall of the Cingino Dam. It looks impossible. But they outmaneuver the downward drag of gravity, motivated because they enjoy licking the salty minerals that coat the face of the dam. I foresee you having a comparable power in the coming weeks.

Rarely have you been able to summon so much of your mountain goat-like power to master seemingly unclimbable heights.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) Phrygia was an ancient kingdom in what is now Turkey. In its capital city was the Gordian Knot. According to legend, an oracle predicted that whoever could untie this intricate knot would become the king of all Asia.

Early in his military career, Alexander (soon to be Alexander the Great) visited the capital and attempted the task. He was unsuccessful, but then whipping out his sword, he easily sliced through the gnarled weave. Some regarded this as the fulfillment of the prophecy, others say that he cheated—didn't do what the oracle had specified.

And the truth is, his empire fell apart quickly. The moral of the story, Aquarius: Untie the knot, don't cut through it.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) "If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day," sings Leonard Cohen. Of all the signs of the zodiac, you're the top expert in simulating the look and feel of an ocean. But even experts sometimes need tuneups. And this is one of those times when you will benefit from upgrading your skills. If your intentions are pure and your methods crafty, you just may reach a new level of brilliance in the art of living oceanically. V

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COMMENT >> LGBTQ

Acceptance of bigotry

Celebrating bigotry in art is a questionable practice I do my best to ignore the haters, unchangers like Public Enemy, 2 Live Crew shit and as a female, you're slapping a less they're powerful groups like lawand NWA. The argument is often that lot of women in the face.' I'm like, 'That's makers or organized bigots, so when Tyler's lyrics are OK because he doesn't what I do. I slap bitches.'"

Tyler the Creator won an MTV mean it, and that censoring them Music Video Award, voted on would limit their art. It's hard It's interesting that they've seen a lot by viewers, I realized that his to know when gay bashing of press in predominately white-geared threat level had shot to the or raping sluts became art. media but have continued to be ignored m ekly.co vuewe top of the ol' rainbow-threatCritics repeatedly refer to in mainstream hip hop. If one of the tam@ a Tamar o-meter, because now the apTyler as a genius but there's arguments is that this stuff is to be exka Gorzal peal of his hate-rap has spread little evidence in his attempts pected from rap, why aren’t they supbeyond the realm of hipster music to defend himself, telling NME "I'm ported in their own genre? It just may bloggers to the general public.

The horrifying content of Tyler and The argument is often that Tyler's lyrics are OK his group Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill because he doesn't mean it, and that censoring Them All’s music cannot be overstated. them would limit their art. It's hard to know when The song "Swag Me Out" has eight full gay bashing or raping sluts became art. verses of kidnapping, raping and murdering women, as well as a shout-out to two Nazi dykes shittin' in a synagogue not homophobic. I just think 'faggot' hits be that real hip hop sees Odd Future which is neither particularly witty nor and hurts people. It hits. And 'gay' just for what it is: an incendiary group of anprofound. The song "She" details a date means you're stupid. I don't know, we gry children jabbing at society. Perhaps with a girl Tyler really likes, and all the don't think about it, we're just kids. We if we lived in a world without violence violent things he will do to her if she don't think about that shit. But I don't against women and homo/transphobia doesn't have sex with him. So many of hate gay people. I don't want anyone to this sort of satire could be celebrated, the songs involve killing women and think I'm homophobic." but for now these kids are just repeatgays that it's harder to find the ones The group does count one woman as a ing the language of bigots without unthat don't. member and she's openly gay. Syd Tha derstanding.

The music itself is nothing special.

Kyd is their producer and has said about I'm not mad at the Odd Future gang.

Their mix of hip hop and electro beats their content "Actions speak louder Disengaged kids with minor talents are isn't new and nothing that artists like the than words, and they treat me as an likely to produce provocative material.

Neptunes haven't done already. Readequal." However, Syd might fit right in, It's the community at fault here: the criting what critics have to say about Odd saying "When I first started really fuckics, the voters, the bloggers and all the Future is near heartbreaking. They've ing with Odd Future heavy, my dad was everyday people who are supposed to likened Odd Future to music gamelike, 'Really? They talk about some crazy be better than this kind of bigotry. V

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COMMENT >> SEX

When is cheating not cheating?

Savage clears up a few misconceptions about what he said about ethical cheating I'm in a bad place. I have been in a Before I can answer your question, monogamous marriage for 19 years LAH, give me a second to spit out all and have two kids. At least I think the words your husband has stuffed we're still monogamous. My into my mouth. husband is an avid reader of HaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhE SAVAG your column and loves to cckk—p'toooo. bring up the idea that it is Okay, LAH, here's a litom eekly.c w e perfectly normal to have u tle something I recently v love@ savage outside sexual relationships wrote that sums up my n a D with other people as long position on outside sexual Savage as you stay committed to your relationships: "Cheating is spouse. permissible when it amounts to the Here's the thing: We started our least worst option, ie, it is allowed marriage saying that we would alfor someone who has made a moways be truthful and faithful to nogamous commitment and isn't each other. He has changed and I getting any at home (sick or disabled haven't. I'm GGG, he probably gets spouse, or withholding-withoutmore blowjobs than most married cause spouse) and divorce isn't an men, and I love having sex with him. option (sick or disabled spouse, or He is far less likely to initiate sex withholding-without-cause-spousethan I am (which makes me think who-can't-be-divorced-for-some-karhe is spending time with someone ma-imperiling-reason-or-other) and else). If one partner decides that the sex on the side makes it possible they need outside activity, regardfor the cheater to stay married and less of how much sex they get at stay sane. (An exception can be made home, is it okay to go ahead and do for a married person with a kink that that without informing the partner his or her spouse can't/won't accomwho they had previously made a modate, so long as the kink can be monogamous commitment to? He taken care of safely and discreetly.)" thinks if my needs are being met, As you are not sick, disabled, or withthen I have nothing to complain holding without cause, LAH, and as about. My main need is for honesty, your husband doesn't have a kink that and it doesn't feel like that need is he's outsourcing to spare you, please being met. tell your husband on my behalf that When I ask him if he is having afI think he's a cheating piece of shit, a fairs, he gets angry and accuses me word-stuffing douchebag, and an emoof being insecure and immature. (I tionally abusive asshole. Mr LAH may would like to know if I'm at risk of read my column avidly, but his behavgetting a sexually transmitted infecior and lame rationalizations indicate tion.) He says you agree with him that he's also reading it selectively. If that it is okay to lie if the other peryour husband walked into my office, son has their needs met and doesn't LAH, I would be tempted to slap him find out. I am at my wit's end and with my laptop. am deeply unhappy and think about It is, of course, perfectly normal for leaving him, but I don't want to end people who've made monogamous a relationship that works in so many commitments to want to have outside other ways. sexual relationships. It's perfectly norLonely At Home mal to daydream about fucking other

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people, to masturbate to thoughts of fucking other people, to check out other people who you would be fucking if (1) you weren't in a monogamous relationship, and (2) they wanted to fuck you. And it's perfectly ridiculous the way people make themselves miserable scrutinizing their partners for evidence that they want to fuck other people. (Jealous types, please note: Your partner sometimes thinks about fucking other people, just like you sometimes think about fucking

Your wife can't deal with you masturbating about others and she hits you? DTMFA.

other people. Going ballistic over a little discreet and considerate porn use or meaningless flirting is an idiotic waste of your time, it's unfair to your partner, and I consider it grounds for DTMFA'ing your ass.)

That said, LAH, it is perfectly obnoxious to go ahead and fuck other people in violation of a monogamous commitment unless you have grounds. And while it doesn't sound like your husband has grounds, it certainly sounds like he's fucking other people. I suspect that your husband is fucking someone you know—a coworker, a neighbour, a friend, a relative (shudder)—and, realizing that it's only a matter of time before you find out, he's bullying you into retroactively giving him permission to fuck other people and unfairly dragging me into it.

In your shoes, LAH, I'd be thinking about DTMFA. Not because of the cheating—monogamy isn't important to me—but because of the lying and the bullying.

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age. So in any given week, I get off on "Wincest," hypnosis porn, and erotic literature involving cat people. I'm also a young husband who's gone a few years past your recommended date for laying down his kink cards. I've been deliberating whether to out myself to my wife, but there's a rub: The last time she found out I had masturbated to someone other than her, she hit me.

I cried and swore I would never look at porn again. Of course I just became more careful about hiding it.

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Is there a limit on the necessitated disclosure of my wet dreams? I don't have to tell her the one where I'm having sex with her best friend while she, having been turned into a dog, looks on stupidly, right? Can I settle for "I masturbate to women who aren't you"?

Wife Abusive, Not Kinky Fuck full disclosure, WANK. Your wife can't deal with you masturbating about others and she hits you?

DTMFA. I'm a 50-year-old married man with adult children. My wife and I live under the same roof but sleep in separate bedrooms. We have become roommates. Perhaps we will stay together, or perhaps we'll divorce once the housing market improves and we have a slightly bigger pie to cut in half. But we hardly talk and never have sex. Where does a man in my situation find women to have sex with and spend time with? I don't mean an escort or a hooker. It's not all about the sex act for me. I tried some websites like AshleyMadison.

com and SugarDaddy.com with no luck. Do you think there are women out there who are single or divorced and would enjoy being treated like a queen by a healthy, respectful, decent-looking man who is technically married?

Please Help Me I know there are women out there who would be up for what you have to offer, PHM, because I get letters from them all the time. Some of these women are in the same boat you are—married in name only and looking for some companionship and intimacy. If you didn't find one during your first Internet search, my advice is to keep looking.

And Mr and Mrs LAH? PHM's situation is a good example of a circumstance under which cheating is not only permissible, it's not even cheating. He may be married, technically and legally, but the sexual dimension of his marriage is over.

He is in no way betraying his wife, or putting her at risk of acquiring a sexually transmitted infection, when he seeks outside sexual relationships.

Can you see the difference between what you're doing, Mr. LAH, and what PHM is doing? V

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A new mural by Genevieve Simms, located at the newly renovated Nature Centre, honours its namesake. The imagery in the triptych leads the eye around the painting like a meandering path reminiscent of a river through the riverbed. She describes her process as “arranging the basic symbols of the portrait, flora, fauna and water by breaking them down into graphic shapes, colours and patterns.”

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Simms writes, “The painting began with a basic linear pattern on a blue background to depict waves in the water. This basic pattern is also reminiscent of writing on paper. As a policy maker, one of John Janzen's first steps in contributing to the creation of parkland in Edmonton's river valley would have been through communicating these intentions in words and on paper.”

The mural is part of the renovations to the John Janzen Nature Centre. If you've never visited before, take some time to see this hidden gem nestled along Fox Drive beside Fort Edmonton Park. And next time you're cursing the traffic-clogged bridges, don't overlook the river valley and the valuable natural parkland that flows under you. 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 the local visual culture.

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