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Democratic money November 5 is being hailed as Bank Transfer Day in America. Organizers are calling on Americans to transfer their money from big banks to local credit unions.

Citing the bail out, the profits earned by banks on transactions, the drive to profit shareholders and the unseemly profits big banks continue to make, the campaign asks Americans to consider the option of credit unions. As part of the solution to growing dissatisfaction with big banks in the United States, this is the first concrete action that has caught the attention of a significant number of Americans.

The movement was founded on October 5 by LA art gallery owner Kristen Christian, and Bank Transfer Day caught on quickly—support on Facebook now tops 8000 people and continues to grow, even capturing the attention of various cities' Occupy movements.

Having existed for only a few days, the idea has been repeatedly covered in the national media and picked up on by credit unions in several states who are using it to boost membership.

While 8000 people is not a huge number compared to Bank of America's 59 million members, the idea of the transfer is an interesting one. Christian, in an interview

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with the Village Voice, stated she realized supporting the big banks was antithetical to her position as an independent business owner. Christian says the principles she believes in are better reflected by credit unions who are non-profit and reinvest money into the local community.

Existing on a one-member-one-vote basis rather than a one-vote-per-share-owned basis, decisions are more democratic. This structure, credit unions say, allows elected boards to make decisions which better reflect the entire membership rather than a privileged group of shareholders. It's the closest thing to democracy that exists in the banking industry, so it's interesting that there is now a national debate in the US on the subject.

Also interesting is that Christian—who is unaffiliated with Occupy Wall Street—came up with the idea after being inspired by the '"we are the 99 percent" idea. She came up with her own idea to create change, while reflecting on the ideas she saw in the national movement.

While moving several thousand citizens' chequing and savings accounts won't make much of a dent in Bank of America or any other large bank's profit margins, the growing conversation about the democratic nature of the economy is a small, but encouraging, prospect. V

Your Vue is the weekly roundup of all your comments and views of our coverage.

Every week we'll be running your comments from the website, feedback on our weekly web polls and any letters you send our editors.

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What do you make of the Occupy Wall Street movement?

88.9% I sympathize with their position and am supportive of their efforts.

0% I'm confused by their motivations, and am not supportive of the movement.

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The Corporation of Canada is forgetting that the land, water and air is shared by us all and belongs to us all—free— and we all have responsibilities to live simply.

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Occupy Wall Street is shaping up to be an incredibly important event in world history, with over 1000 cities' solidarity ''occupations'' now set to take place on Oct 15. I''ll be voicing my support at "Occupy Edmonton" (Churchill Square at 12 noon) and plan on staying until they kick me off.

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UNITED OPPOSITION US Tribal and Canadian First Nations leaders met with the US Assistant Secretary of State last week to voice unified opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline.

The US Tribal Councils voiced concern over the lack of meaningful consultation about the pipeline coming from government and industry. Environmentally, the groups are concerned about the impact the 1700-mile pipeline would have on the Mni Wiconi Rural Water pipeline which provides drinking water to the Oglala, Rosebud and Lower Brule Lakota Nations as well as several communities in western South Dakota.

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BACKFIRE low Bird Steele, who attended the meeting with Dr Jones, said in a statement, "We oppose the Pipeline; the oil it would carry contains toxic substances, which have never been identified. We don't want those toxic substances to enter our water supply. I believe there is a 99.9 percent chance that the oil pipeline will spill or leak. Who will be liable for the damage to our people and environment? We do not want a mitigation fund set up, it would be too late, we do not want this pipeline."

Along with a "Mother Earth Accord," representatives presented over 60 pages of supporting opposition from Tribal governments in the US and Canada and

Native and non-native organizations.

The Keystone XL pipeline would carry over 900 000 barrels of oil from the tar sands to the Gulf of Mexico per day.

Opposition to the pipeline has become a focal point for citizens opposed to further tar sands development and industrial development over the environment.

The presentation by Tribal councils was part of the last day of public hearings on the issue. Americans are planning future demonstrations against the pipeline, hoping to push President Obama to use his unilateral ability to stop the pipeline's construction—a decision that is expected to be made in the next few weeks.

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As reported by local media earlier this month, Edmonton Oilers President Patrick LaForge sent out an email on October 3 to an unknown number of contacts, asking them, among other things, to call 311 to voice support for the downtown arena project. "I am sending this note to our key supporters because now is the time to mobilize," read the email. "If you and your organizations support the proposed downtown arena and Edmonton Arena District, it is important that you be heard and make your support known." According to the Edmonton Journal, he

went on to encourage supporters to contact their councillors and call the city's 311 line.

But a tally of arena calls obtained for the week LaForge sent his email reveals his call to arms may have backfired. During the week October 2 – 8, city staff received 432 calls about the arena. Of these, 120 callers indicated support of the project, with another 35 supportive if certain conditions were met. Sixty-three percent (272) of callers, however, voiced opposition to the project.

City council is scheduled to receive an arena update this Friday, October 14.

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COMMENT >> ALBERTA POLITICS

A voice for change?

Alison Redford is a facade of revolution

One of the most persistent messagover-the-top attack ads the day of es following Alison Redford's victory her swearing-in ceremony. in the Conservative leadership race, There can be no question that Redand her subsequent swearing in as ford is the most thoughtful and arAlberta's 14th premier, has been ticulate premier we have had in that her election represents some time, but that in and a significant change for this of itself does not constiCE tute change.

N E province both in terms of R E TERF om where we have been, and IN rdo@vueweekly.c rica o where we are going.

The real test of change Ricard Acuña This message has been at will be the degree to which the forefront not just of comthe policies she puts in place, munications from Redford's own and the budget she adopts, differ team, but also in the framing being from what we would have gotten used by the province's mainstream under the status quo or any other media, the extremist right and even of the leadership candidates. And some of Alberta's key unions and on this front, based on her policy public interest groups. statements and positions during All three groups suggest that Redthe leadership race, no real change ford's rejection of privatized health appears to be forthcoming. care, her commitment to stable and The reinstatement of the $107 milpredictable funding for health and lion in education and the calling of a education, her promise to reinstate public inquiry are easy and fleeting, the $107 million cut from educaas they do not require any long-term tion last year and her vow to call a change or policy overhauls. The public inquiry into governance and question is what will happen to eduinfluence in health care point to a cation funding in the next provincial sharp turn to the left and a rejection budget, and what will be done with of the conservative values that have the results of the public inquiry. governed our province for the past Redford made it clear during the 40 years. leadership race that she would The Wildrose Party folks have make personal and corporate taxes gone out of their way in their mesthe primary source of revenues in saging to set Redford up as some the provincial budget, but that she sort of Marxist revolutionary whose had no intention of raising taxes. ultimate goal is to turn Alberta into Instead she will accomplish this by some sort of collective left-wing limiting the amount of natural reparadise, even launching a series of source revenues that go into the

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operating budget in any given year to $6 billion. That may seem like a significant amount of money, but if you consider that this year's budget anticipates some $10 billion in nonrenewable resource revenues, then that would mean having to make do with about $4 billion less in the operating budget.

In other words, Reford's plan is to provide stable and predictable funding to health care, education and social services at the same time she removes $4 billion from the provincial budget. Perhaps that is why her promise is only for stable and predictable funding rather than ad-

that shortfall? According to her website she will "Have the government conduct thorough operational reviews to find areas which can be privatized or funded externally through arrangements like publicprivate partnerships for infrastructure development or my proposed Social Impact Bonds designed to attract investment and spur efficiency gains in social services." How's that for a new progressive agenda and change of direction—cut costs through privatization, P3s and turning social services into a moneygenerator for speculating investors?

Sounds an awful lot like Ralph Klein's

Based on her policy statements and positions during the leadership race, no real change appears to be forthcoming.

equate or sufficient funding.

Groups like the Parkland Institute have been saying for years that non-renewable resource revenues need to be removed from the operating budget, but planning to do so without adjusting the tax system to compensate for the lost revenue just betrays the same narrow-minded ideological focus on low taxes and small government that has ruled this province since Ralph Klein came into power. Not much real change there.

How does Redford plan to cover

belief that the only good public service was a privatized one that made money for corporations. Not much real change there either.

Surely she'll offer some real change in the areas of energy and the environment, right? A quick look at the list of major donors to her campaign suggests otherwise. Would the likes of Allan Markin (chairman of Canadian Natural Resources Ltd.), MEG Energy and Cenovus all have donated between $10 000 and $30 000 to her campaign if they feared for a sec-

Examples the Oilers could follow: The '91 Nordiques: Back to playoff contention by '93, won the Cup (as the Avalanche) in '96.

The '92 Sharks: Made the playoffs by '94, only missed the playoffs three times since. They were an expansion team when they finished last.

The '98 and '99 Lightning: Made it back to playoff status by '03, then won the Cup in '04.

The '03 Hurricanes: Carolina went from last place in '03 to a Stanley Cup in '06. A dirty, rotten, filthy, purloined, sullied Cup. The '04 Penguins: Stanley Cup finalist in '08 and champs in '09.

Mixed results: The '93, '94, '95, '96 Senators: It took a while to leave the basement, but they made the playoffs every season between '97 and '08, winning the President's Trophy in '03 and making the Cup Finals in '07.

The '01 Islanders: Made it back to the playoffs in the next season and for two years after that but found last place again in '09.

Don't do this: The '00 and '02 Thrashers: Have only seen playoffs once (in '07) since finishing last—now they're in Winnipeg.

The '06 Blues: Have only made the playoffs once (in '09) since finishing last—and they just squeaked in. DY

ond that she might change the rules?

Perhaps the clearest articulation of her position on energy and environment in Alberta came during her interview on The Current, when she told Anna Maria Tremonti, "I hope I will be a great champion of the oil and gas industry, it's a very important industry in our province." She's also spoken strongly in favour of the need for the Keystone XL pipeline and the Northern Gateway pipeline.

In other words, when it comes to energy and environment it appears that Redford is already moving full-steam ahead with the status quo.

In the end, at least on the major issues at the forefront of public policy in Alberta, Redford's claim to represent change goes only as deep as the rhetoric of the media and her own strategic framing. If Albertans are looking for someone who will actually do something about their priorities of fair and adequate taxation, well-funded public services and a government run in the public interest rather than the private interest of oil companies, then they will have to look outside of Alison Redford and the Conservative Party to find it. Only then can we genuinely speak of change. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

COMMENT >> HOCKEY

So far, so good

Oilers on pace to go 82-0 after week one The Oilers (excuse us, the undefeated this teaches something to the young Edmonton Oilers) began the 2011guys that other veterans can't. Ryan 12 season with a win, something Smyth may not have physically been the team has done 16 times on the ice for the Nuge's goal on before. It took a late thirdSunday, but the goal-mouthperiod goal by rookie Ryan scramble, all-guts-no-fiNugent-Hopkins, a fivenesse goal was right out ly.com of his playbook. BB minute major penalty-kill eweek ox@vu & intheb g n u o and a shootout to beat the Dave Y tles ir B n a visiting Pittsburgh Penguins Bry The Basement Tapes and give fans a Thanksgiving Despite the acquisitions of Taylor Sunday feast.

Hall and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins, finishing in last place in a 30-team return of the mullet league that has teams in hockey Although it seems to have been hotbeds like Nashville, Florida downlayed a bit amongst the Oilers and Carolina is not a pleasant exin favour of the "future" storyline— perience for fans. I imagine it is and, granted, it's a good one—it not much more enjoyable for the shouldn't be underestimated what players, coaches and management the return of Ryan Smyth means to either. It feels like we're in a botthis team. Not only to the fans— tomless pit and it will take forever who gave him the loudest ovation to climb out. How bad is finishing on opening night—but to his teamlast? Let's see what history tells mates as well. Seeing him gutting us. Here are the experiences of it out in front of the net on powersome of the teams that also finplays, seeing his work ethic, watchished at the ass end in the past 20 ing him wield a blowdryer, all of years:

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mention in order to grow the game.

No cause is furthered by his rants and the only people entertained by them are dinosaurs like himself. It's time to go. BB

Retire Don

It's high time Don Cherry was forced into retirement—in fact, it's about a decade overdue. At least once a year we're treated to a new display of his mean-spiritedness, his xenophobia or his lack of class. His most recent attack—on former hockey enforcers now speaking out against the alarming levels of violence in our national sport—is just the latest in a long line of ill-thoughtout rants that show the one-time Jack Adams winner is out of touch with today's game. I don't know what game Cherry is watching, but today's NHL is a league whose violence needs to be curbed in the interests of player safety—not to

With one game behind us, let's go with Devan Dubnyk. DY I'll go with the "man" who helped put us into a tie for second place in our division: Nuuuuuuuge. BB

When Maija Tailfeathers chose to blockade a road this past September, it was only after months of work: meeting with government, committees, community organizing, petitions and appeals processes. Tailfeathers was attempting to stop the construction of hydraulic fracturing facilities—a process that forces water into the earth to extract natural gas and which has the potential to poison nearby water systems—on her home, the Blood Tribe reserve.

"We were neglected and ignored in terms of consulting with us before the deal was signed," she says. Exasperated, Tailfeathers put herself between industry and her home by blocking the road to the construction site. "It was a matter of there not being any more time. I can't bear the thought of those wells being built near my family's homes and of not being able to go back there and settle on-reserve and raise my children there due to the irreversible damage fracturing will do to our land."

It's just one example of the difficult choices citizens make to express their opposition to a political decision.

"The world is at a point where if most people don't take action it's not going to get better and it's not going to stop getting worse," says Denise Ogonoski, a local activist who has risked arrest and lost a job due to her political activities.

Ogonoski believes people have a responsibility to put themselves on the line and stand up for those who may not have the resources to do it them-

selves. She is an advocate of directaction tactics like those undertaken by Tailfeathers and her community.

"Civil disobedience is important to a healthy democracy. It needs to be encouraged, because if you don't have open protest and a diversity of tactics, then you're just following established rules," she says.

"If you see angry people on the street, it's a sign of their marginalization."

But it's not often respected as a form of protest, nor are the motivations of people adequately investigated.

Direct action is a political tactic used to challenge the status quo by purposely coming into conflict with the law. The use of direct action heightens the tension of an unjust law by bringing to the forefront the suffering of marginalized communities. Recently, direct action has taken a leading role in social change.

Occupations of Tahrir Square in Egypt, riots and student occupations in the UK, student occupations and general strikes in Chile and the recent Occupy movement are recent examples of direct action as political protest.

The way those actions are interpreted is often very different. Riots in the UK were characterized by the media as violence by looters taking advantage of a chaotic situation. It wasn't until blogs began reporting on the economic situation of youth and racialized communities in the UK and the police actions in that neighbourhood leading up to the riotous events that some political con-

text was given to what was happening.

Bound up in media descriptions of rioting and protest is an assumption of what counts as politics. "The dominant way we understand politics is that we rationally exchange our ideas and the idea that has the largest demonstration behind it is the idea that wins. But it's a myth: that isn't how politics works," says Chris Samuel, a PhD candidate studying social movements at Queen's University. "So the UK riots, and the window smashing at the G20, they're already understood to be violent, in part because there's this idea that you don't have to be violent because there are other options—you can just be a protest, you can just be a peaceful, nonconfrontational march."

But the processes to access government place an undue burden on groups that do not have the resources of political advocacy organizations. "A group like the Ontario Federation of Labour has paid staff, it has finances, an established network of organizations, an established relationship with police, all of these things it can bring to mobilize in this protest," says Samuel. "It doesn't mean that your claims aren't legitimate it just means that you don't have the same kind of access to that form of protest."

This bias against direct action, violent or non-violent, excludes the ideas and values behind the people in the street, the frustration with a system that is not

listening to them. "The media has an agenda to portray protesters in a certain light, regardless of how they act," says Greenpeace campaigner Mike Hudema.

"An example is the World Petroleum Congress a few years ago where there was a massive police build up before the protest, and the whole protest was very non-violent, but the issues surrounding the World Petroleum Congress weren't any better covered."

Samuel believes that part of the problem is in our definition of violence. While the destruction of a window is regarded as a random act of property damage—a form of violence—the violence of poverty is not recognized. "There's all kinds of ways you can find violence if you're attentive to suffering rather than property destruction," he says.

It's those forms of violence that many citizens are expressing outrage at when taking on unconventional forms of protest and challenging or breaking laws.

"In a wrong world there's no way to protest rightly," Samuel says, paraphrasing the political philosopher Adorno.

Hudema believes the context of direct action needs to be taken into account.

"It's harder for individuals to get involved, but those steps [to make change without direct action] have already been taken, whether they've been taken by others individually or by groups that have been working for years on issues that you care about," he says. "Journalists know these steps have been taken but don't frame actions in that way."

It's not only a problem of framing.

While the massive peaceful demonstration appears to be the most respectable method to express public dissent on an issue, the mass arrests at last year's G20 show that even that right is under threat. A report by the Canadian Civil Liberties Association revealed that police failed in their public duty to protect citizens' right to gather and protest: "The lack of transparency surrounding the designation of the security perimeter as a 'public work' led to misunderstandings about the scope of search and seizure powers and the inappropriate uses of the these powers." The CCLA determined in the report "Breaching the Peace" that this led to an atmosphere of intimidation.

"Protecting the right to protest," the report stated, "must be a central objective in security planning, not an afterthought."

The CCLA's report repeatedly emphasized the right to peacefully assemble as fundamental to democracy—something the activists in the Occupy Wall Street movement are proving. "You have basically a spontaneous gathering that was fairly disorganized that has now spread across continents," says Hudema.

The Occupy Wall Street movement— while it's been criticized for not having a coherent set of demands—has demonstrated the ability to change the way people discuss politics. Ogonoski points to the broad conception of the movement as being anti-corporate as something that has brought people in. She's excited by the potential of a spontaneous movement and hopes that people continue to occupy the streets. "The most legitimate civil disobedience happens more spontaneously and—more importantly—by communities working together," she says. "Change should never be that scary that we never approach it." samantha power // samantha@vueweekly.com

COMMENT >> SYRIA

Inevitable civil war

Revolutionaries will bring down the Baathists, but then what?

Back in 1989, when the Communist reNow it's Syria's turn, and yet again gimes of Europe were tottering toward most of the people who live there fear their end, almost every day somebody that their non-violent revolution will would say, "There's going to be a civil end in civil war. It's not my job to reaswar." And our job, as foreign journalists sure them this time, because like most who allegedly had their finger on the foreign journalists I can't even get pulse of events, was to say, "No, into the country, but in any case there won't be." So most of us I would have no reassurance did say that, as if we actually to offer. This time, it may m o .c knew. But the locals were well end in civil war. Like ly week e@vue gwynn pathetically grateful, and we Iraq. e Gwynn turned out to be right.

The Assad dynasty in Syria r e y D It was just the same in South is neither better nor worse than Africa in 1993 – '94. Another non-violent Saddam Hussein's regime was in Iraq. revolution was taking on another dictaThey had identical origins, as local torship with a long record of brutality, branches of the same pan-Arab political and once again most people who had movement, the Baath Party. They both lived their lives under its rule were condepended on minorities for their core vinced there would be a civil war. So we support: the Syrian Baathists on the 10 foreign journalists (or at least some of percent Alawite (Shia) minority in that us) reassured them that there wouldn't country, and the Iraqi Baathists on the be, and again we turned out to be right.

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who were Sunni Arabs.

They were both ruthless in crushing threats to their monopoly of power.

Hafez al-Assad's troops killed up to 40 000 people in Hama when Sunni Islamists rebelled in Syria in 1982, Saddam Hussein's army killed at least as many Shias in southern Iraq when they rebelled after the 1991 Gulf War, and both regimes were systematically beastly to their local Kurds.

When the American invaders destroyed Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq in 2003, however, what ensued was not peace, prosperity and democracy. It was a brutal civil war that ended with Baghdad almost entirely cleansed of its Sunni Muslim population and the whole country cleansed of its Christian minority. Only the Kurds, insulated by their own battle-hardened army and their mountains, avoided the carnage.

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So if the Baathist regime in Syria is driven from power, why should we believe that what follows will be any better than it was in Iraq? The country's ethnic and sectarian divisions are just as deep and complex as Iraq's, and although non-violent protest continues to be the main weapon of the pro-democracy movement, there is now also violent resistance to the regime's attacks on the population.

If it goes wrong in Syria, it could be almost as bad as the civil war that raged next-door in Lebanon for 15 years: massacres, refugees, devastation. What can be done to avert that outcome? Perhaps nothing short of foreign intervention on behalf of the revolutionaries can stop it now, for otherwise the regime will fight on until the country is destroyed.

Help has to come from outside, and it's hard to imagine that happening. NATO certainly won't take this one on: Syria has four times Libya's population and quite serious armed forces. Non-military intervention in the form of trade embar-

goes and the like is unlikely to work in time, even if the rest of the world could agree on it.

There is already foreign intervention in Syria, of course, but on the wrong side.

The Shia regimes in Iran and Iraq are already giving material support to the Baathist regime in Syria on the grounds that it is a) Shia and b) steadfast in its resistance to Israeli expansion. And there is no point in hoping for timely concessions from President Bashar al-Assad, son of the late, great dictator: he is effectively the prisoner of the Alawite elite.

The Syrian revolutionaries are on their own. They will probably bring down the Baathists in the end, but by then the regime's increasingly violent efforts to suppress the revolt may well have triggered the civil war that everybody fears. Another six months like the last six months, and it will be all but inevitable. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.

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PREVUE // AUSTIN, TX

By way of Austin

Albertan filmmaker heads south to create Campus Radio Fri, Oct 14 (7:30 pm) Campus Radio Directed by Aaron Sorensen Princess Theatre

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aron Sorensen's never wasted much energy trying to divide his work in music and film into their two separate categories. Instead, he has them interlock, particularly into his films: not just in well-timed implementation of soundtrack, but in his films' actual content, music becomes an inescapable part of the narrative.

Sorensen's first film, Hank Williams First Nation—the story of a 70-year-old Cree man who begins to ponder if his musical hero, Hank, might still actually be alive, and embarks on a trip down to Nashville to unearth the truth—earned itself a couple of awards and the boastful title of third-highest-grossing Canadian film in Canada that year. By his own admittance, Sorensen made it with more knowledge of music than filmmaking.

"I'm essentially a songwriter," he says, sitting in a downtown café. "Even my

films, I approach them like they're a long and complicated song. I don't know how to separate the two. When I made Hank Williams First Nation, I knew nothing; I'd never been on a film set before. And when it came time to edit it, I didn't know better, and I did some things you don't do. The regular format for editing is to cut the picture, lock the picture, and then go in and put the music. I didn't know that, so I started selecting music as I was cutting it. I started putting music, and editing the picture to the songs and to the music. And I've done that again on Campus Radio."

If Hank Williams was his country-andwestern film, Campus Radio is his take on rock 'n' roll: shot last year near Austin— and making its Canadian premiere here on Friday—it pivots around the story of a college radio jockey who doubles as a band manager for a group prepping for a South by Southwest showcase. A new, doe-eyed singer he falls for complicates things, as does a somewhat tenuous re-

lationship with the band itself. As that plays out, the movie seems as set on telling the ubiquitous Austin story as much as spinning a fictional one: many of Sorensen's observations from the city—unicycle football, the Texas music scene, the strange cast of oddballs— found their way into his film.

"I wanted to capture a couple different things," Sorensen says. "I wanted to capture Austin, and the music culture there, and the quirkiness of Austin. The freaks and the squares kind of get along, and that's one of the things I like about it.

The redneck cowboys and the hippies really live in harmony there."

Sorensen, Alberta-born, found his way to Texas after he moved to Hollywood to become a screenwriter. While his time there didn't quite pan out quite as he'd hoped, he did find it a boon to his music career, gigging with some fellow named Billy Bob Thorton, who brought him along to an Austin show. Afterward, Sorensen, a longtime admirer of the city—"It seems like a lot of my heroes have been from Austin, and I'd never

Campus Radio's unicycling protagonist

been," he says—got a hotel room and stayed for two weeks. When his first big check came from television work, he bought a small house.

Grounding his film around the campus radio station seems to parallel the things he likes about the city itself: an eclectic mix of people, trying to find their sense of balance in their environment.

"When I was going to university, I just always thought that campus radio stations were an interesting place," he says.

"The thing I liked about them was, when

you talk about diversity, they have very diverse communities and cultures that all seemed to live together in some semblance of conformity. You have the radical lesbian hour followed by the young conservatives followed by the goth-metal piercers. I liked that. And I just love music. As a musician I used to do shows, and play live for campus radio stations. And I just liked the name. I thought it was a good name for a film."

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DVD // UTTERLY PERPLEXING!

ROAD TO NOWHERE also a tribute to actress and photographer Laurie Bird, who gave such arresting, indelible, troubling performances in Monte Hellman's Two-Lane Blacktop (1971) and Cockfighter (1974), who Hellman fell in love with, and who killed herself in 1979 at the age of 25. Road to Nowhere is Hellman's first movie in over 20 years and, after a single, delightfully baffled viewing, I'm already willing to call it one of his best.

The Road remains elusive

Now available Directed by Monte Hellman

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oad to Nowhere begins with an unidentified man pushing a DVD-R— the words "Road to Nowhere" written on its face—into a laptop. "Velma was always my window into the story," the man says, and as the disc begins to play, we see a woman—Velma?—seated on a bed, blow-drying her nails. The body of the laptop constitutes a "window" all its own, until the camera pushes in and the window falls away, and the woman on the bed is suddenly compelled to blowdry her face, as though some arctic chill was overtaking her. The image of her doing this holds for a long while, virtually static, but oddly riveting—she's preparing for something. Soon a man drives up to the woman's house, and enters; soon we hear a shot; soon after that the woman departs. She drives the man's car to

a lake, where, in another initially serene moment, a Piper Cherokee falls from the sky and crashes into the water.

What's going on? What sort of movie is this? Neither question is easily answered.

Road to Nowhere, written by Steven Gaydos, is a movie about the making of a movie about a blog about a real crime, one involving suicide, murder and money, and whose facts remain elusive. It's about a filmmaker (Tygh Runyan) entranced by a beautiful, inexperienced actress (Shannyn Sossamon) who may or may not be connected to the woman she's been contracted to play. ("I don't act," she tells him.

"That's perfect," he replies.) Drenched in mystery, blurring demarcations between what's rehearsed, what's improvised, and what's genuine, it's about how illusion overtakes all attempts to capture the real, and contains enough stories-withinstories to make it more Paul Auster than any of Auster's movies. In some ways it's

Comparisons to Mulholland Dr are inevitable and useful, too, given the movie industry milieu, the unresolved enigmas and the implication that role-playing is both inherently dangerous and quite possibly a wayward route to revelation. But Road to Nowhere, shot mostly in North Carolina, is more a chamber piece, and also less coy with regards to its knowingness about Hollywood and the spell cast over filmmakers by the work of those who came before them. There's also a marvelous a cappella performance in a bar from Bonnie Pointer, and a subtextual running commentary about the allure of new digital technology and how it further complicates the ontologies of filmmaking.

Road to Nowhere is, in short, very rich, utterly puzzling, hypnotic, and easy on the eyes and ears. I can't wait to see it again.

I don't know that I'll be able to make any more sense of its plot afterwards.

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VUEWEEKLY OCT 13 – OCT 19, 2011

FILM 11

REVUE // BULLET-RIDDEN SERMON

MACHINE GUN PREACHER Opens Friday Directed by Marc Forster

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achine Gun Preacher attempts to tell the story of how reallife Pennsylvania hillbilly bad-ass Sam Childers got out of jail, became disgruntled by his former-stripper wife's religious conversion—"bitch found Jesus," as Sam puts it—and hit rock bottom. He bullied his family, hung out in bars where sleeves are frowned upon, robbed and assaulted some dealers, ingested buckets of drugs and alcohol, and stabbed a hitchhiker multiple times before tossing him out of his car. Then Sam himself finds Jesus, gets sober, turns suspiciously nice, gets into roofing and builds his own church where folks listen to shitty music and Sam's improvised sermons.

Sam also goes to Uganda and Sudan, where he builds an orphanage in the middle of a war zone and occasionally takes up arms and wreaks bloody vengeance upon the Lord's Resistance Army. He spends a fair amount of the film's last third or so desperately trying to raise funds back home to buy a new truck for the orphanage, and I'm thinking, 'Dude, you could probably get some decent cash for a couple of those RPGs.'

Machine gun? Check. Preacher? Check.

Not that that was the first such question I found myself asking while watching Machine Gun Preacher. The film, written by Jason Keller and directed by Marc Forster, who isn't especially good with crafting spatially coherent action sequences—or, for that matter, spatially coherent garden parties—strains to impose a through-line on Childers' larger-than-life endeavours but builds neither a strong narrative arc nor a persuasive study in unlikely redemption and radical altruism. Though presumably well-intentioned, the filmmakers—I refer not only to Keller and Forster but also executive producer/star Gerard Butler—seem stumped by the

very questions that Childers' thorny biography demands reckoned with, questions, for example, about the mightily messianic hubris involved in trying to clean up someone else's civil war. Instead, the film offers a precariously sentimentalized depiction of child soldiers, a very thin portrait of what must be a near-impossible marriage, and eight varieties of bluster from Butler, including shaking, eye-bulging and sweating. Childers is without a doubt one hell of a character. Probably too much of a character for this kind of plodding Hollywood treatment.

constantly sucker-punch our hearts with emotional hype. Characters' smug, this-is-so-cool!ness is meant to knock us into submission, too. But as a fight movie, it's real dumb, tossing all sorts of predictable comeuppances and feel-goodnesses into the ring but hardly showing any training or tactical planning.

The deadbeat dad, Charlie (Hugh Jackman), is a foolhardy, ex-boxing dolt who's quickly put in his place by his estranged son, Max (Dakota Gayo). He's one of those animatronic adults in kid's clothing (imagine a

cocky Justin Bieber combined with a trash-talking Oliver Twist) whose constant obnoxiousness is apparently supposed to be endearing. So the robots aren't the only inhuman ones—they're joined by a cartoonish rich couple, a sneering Southerner, and two non-American schemers.

The movie's jingoistic, heartland subtext—scrappy American underdog beats slick foreign machine—is robotically retro, a throwback to '80s pugilistic propaganda like Rocky IV.

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REVUE // ROCK 'EM SOCK 'EM

REAL STEEL

Not nearly a knock out

Now Playing Directed by Shawn Levy

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eal Steel's potentially punchy concept—a near-future where robots fight for our amusement as a boy tries to reconnect with his distant dad—quickly gets tangled up in the ropes, then knocks itself out.

Its vision is actually damn depressing—a world where, Wii-like, people vicariously enjoy physical bloodsport through machines ... so the flick overcompensates by trying to

12 FILM

VUEWEEKLY OCT 13 – OCT 19, 2011

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REVUE // REVERSAL OF EXPECTATIONS

IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT

A particularly heated night

Fri, Oct 14 – Tue, Oct 18 Directed by Norman Jewison Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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t's the middle of the night in the middle-1960s and a handsome black stranger materializes in some backwater on the wrong side of the Mason-Dix-

on line right around the time a wealthy white industrialist is murdered. The scene seems set for a drama in which the undereducated but quietly noble negro escapes being chewed up in the wheels of injustice with the help of, say, a crusading white lawyer charged with the task of convincing the townsfolk to look past their racist presumptions.

But In the Heat of the Night (1967), based on the first of John Ball's Virgil Tibbs novels, does something much more interesting: it makes the black stranger a well-paid, nattily dressed homicide detective from Philly whose innocence is swiftly established and who winds up cracking the case the local crackers couldn't. It was an ingenious reversal of expectations, with Tibbs elegantly embodied by Sidney Poitier, probably the only actor who could have pulled it off. The film is screening at Metro Cinema this weekend, following Poitier's Thursday night speaking engagement at the Jube.

It is no slight to say that In the Heat of the Night—one of Canadian director Norman Jewison's earliest feature credits and still among his best—plays out like a very good cop show elevated by sociological innovation. (That's why the film was eventually made into a cop show.) The murder mystery

is something of a MacGuffin, making room for richer themes of tolerance, respect, professionalism, alpha-male competitiveness and the painfully protracted spread of the Civil Rights Movement. We keep watching not so much to find out whodunnit as to see how the unflappable Tibbs will finally find his way out of Sparta, Mississippi and make something like peace with its ornery, lonesome police chief Bill Gillespie. Gillespie's played by Rod Steiger, who chews gum as a way to hold off from chewing up all the scenery—mastication keeps Steiger from shouting all the time, though this too becomes overly indicative and irritating in its way. Steiger won an Oscar for this part, despite the fact that Poitier's cool approach—not to mention that of Warren Oates as a bumbling patrolman—seems to offer such a seductive, more intriguing alternative to Steiger's bullishness in nearly every scene.

Historical significance and varying per-

formance styles aside, I think that much of what keeps In the Heat of the Night fresh and worthy of repeat visits has to do with the many wonderful details that pepper the film: the plastic Jesus on Oates' dashboard; the Dr Pepper sliding between a young woman's ample breasts as she lingers naked by her kitchen window; the masking tape repairs on an old vinyl-upholstered chair; or the positioning of the corpse discovered on a Sparta side street. The dead man lays on the ground like he was in the middle of trying out a new dance—let's call it the doggie paddle. There's also sensitive editing from future director Hal Ashby, inventive shooting from Haskell Wexler, scoring from Quincy Jones, and a title tune sung by Ray Charles, an especially inspired choice to ease us into the picture. If Charles couldn't get Americans of every colour to root for a black hero, no one could.

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REVUE // OH, THE CAMPY HORROR!

CHILLERAMA Fri, Oct 14 (11 pm) Chillerama Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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hillerama is, first and foremost, a particularly pulpy love letter to the camp-gore genre aficionados. Comprised of four featurettes that—along with the overarching story, of some teens watching said movies at a drive-in that's gradually becoming infested with zombies—each touches on a very different point of horror movie fandom. But more specifically, according to co-creator Tim Sullivan, Chillerama was made with a nostalgic hankering for the cinematic experience itself.

"When we created it, we wanted to bring back the event of moviegoing.

When we were kids, going to see movies at drive-ins, or taking a train into New York City to see 'em at a grindhouse," he says. "Now, it's like all you gotta do is click a button on an app on your phone and see anything. Well, great, but we felt some of that magic or that fun of the event of that moviegoing. So Chillerama is sort of about that, but then we wanted to create the experience of that by taking this film on the road."

All four vignettes are pretty hilarious, actually, slapdash in all the right ways, and each short enough not to overstay that particular spoofy welcome. Take "Wadzilla," the monster movie, detailing one man's hapless attempts to corral his

Chilling!

one giant (and growing) sperm that's developed a taste for flesh. "The Diary of Anne Frankenstein" mashes up exactly what it sounds like it mashes up, with outlandish glee, shot in grainy black and white, and with a particularly hapless Hitler attempting to follow a young girl's diary recipe to reanimate a monstrous creation. "Deathication," the shortest one here is frankly, really, gross, but brief enough to keep the joke blazingly funny, on par with any of the fake Grindhouse trailers that accompanied the Tarantino/ Rodriguez release of a few years back.

"We wanted each one to be different, Sullivan says. "Sort of like when Kiss did their solo albums in the '70s."

Sullivan's own entry, "I Was A Teenage Werebear," mixes the too-cool-forschool characters of Rebel Without a Cause with some Roger Corman beachtowel flick, some musical singing à la Grease and a lot of homoerotic angst— the werebears are the transforminginto-leather-daddy types here.

"It's no secret growing up that I preferred the boy next door to the girl next door," Sullivan says. "I knew that I

wanted my segment to be a spoof of the teen angst movies."

Still, in recreating that sort of camp for the experience of going to a movie, Sullivan's been touring with Chillerama from place to place (he'll be at the Friday screening here), doing Q&As and meeting fans, something he notes wouldn't be possible at all if it weren't for the genre's devoted fans.

"The whole idea [was] we made these films very down and dirty, and we reached out to fans even on Facebook to be extras and work on the crew and help," Sullivan continues. "We had people come from all over the world, literally, to be extras. They're so loyal, and they really do support each other. You don't hear about directors of comedies having people coming from all over the world to be in the next Adam Sandler movie. It seems like every week somewhere there's a horror film festival. You don't hear about the romancefilm fest in Denver, or the buddy cop action-movie convention."

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VUEWEEKLY OCT 13 – OCT 19, 2011

FILM 13

Still Showing FILM WEEKLY Fri, OCT 14, 2011 – Thu, OCT 20, 2011

50/50

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER

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THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, lan-

6094 Connaught Dr, Jasper, 780.852.4749

guage may offend) Daily 8:00

footloose (PG coarse language) Fri-SAt 7:00, 9:00; Sun-Thu 8:00

CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779

CARS 2 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily 1:20, 4:00, 6:50, 9:25

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

for young children) Fri-Tue, Thu 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00; Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 10:00

HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 3D ( PG violence,

What makes 50/50 one of the most touching, effective buddy-gets-apotentially-fatal-illness movies ever made is its sharp injection of humour into a situation that's almost never portrayed with any. It finds a wicked sense of comedy in back-and-forth banter which makes it seem like more of a particularly poignant Judd Apatow-type flick than a heavy drama.

frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d: DAILY 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55

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

Daily 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:45

Rise Of The Planet Of The Apes (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:00, 3:45, 6:55, 9:30

FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS (14A sexual

1:35, 4:10, 6:30

Our Idiot Brother (14A) Daily 1:50,

4:50, 7:30, 9:40

FORCE (14A brutal violence) Hindi W/E.S.T.

14231-137 Ave, 780.732.2236

Cinema Daily 1:40, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Ultraavx: Fri-Wed

12:50, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10; Thu 12:50, 4:00; Digital Cinema: Thu 7:10, 10:10

CONTAGION (14A) Fri, Sun-Thu 1:00, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40; Sat 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 THE THING (18A gory violence) No passes

Daily 2:00, 4:50, 7:45, 10:30

WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? (14A language

may offend) Daily 1:30, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10

DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily

12:35, 3:20, 6:30, 9:10

THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, lan-

guage may offend) Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:45

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) Daily 12:40, 3:45, 6:55, 9:55

THE BIG YEAR (PG) No passes Fri-Tue, Thu

1:20, 4:15, 7:05, 9:30; Wed 4:15, 7:05, 9:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

50/50 (14A coarse language) Daily 1:50, 4:45,

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language)

Fri-Sun, Tue 12:25, 3:45, 7:15, 10:20; Mon, Wed 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 10:15; Thu 4:10, 7:05, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

THE BIG YEAR (PG) No passes Fri-Sat

1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 9:45; Sun 1:15, 4:10, 6:45, 9:25; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:15, 3:40, 6:35, 9:30; Tue 1:15, 4:10, 5:15, 6:45, 9:25

Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:20, 5:50, 8:20, 10:45; Sun 12:45, 3:20, 7:40, 10:10; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:35, 10:20; Tue 12:15, 2:45, 7:45, 10:30

THE LION KING 3D (G) Digital 3d FriSat 12:50, 3:15, 5:25, 7:45, 10:00; Sun 5:25, 7:50, 10:00; Mon 1:10, 4:05, 9:25; Tue 12:50, 3:15, 5:25, 7:50, 10:00; Wed 1:10, 4:05, 9:55; Thu 1:10, 4:05, 7:05, 9:30 KILLER ELITE (14A brutal violence) Fri

12:35, 3:15, 7:20, 10:05; Sat 7:20, 10:05; Sun 12:40, 3:15, 7:20, 10:05; Thu 1:00, 4:15, 7:20, 10:05

Machine Gun Preacher (14A dis-

5:20, 7:55, 10:25; Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:45, 10:10; Tue 12:00, 2:45, 5:20, 7:45, 10:20

COURAGEOUS (PG) Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00,

7:00, 10:10; Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:10; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:00, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35

The Metropolitan Opera: Anna Bolena Live (Classification not available) Sat 10:55

North By Northwest (STC) Digital

Cinema Sun 1:00; Wed 7:00

Peter Gabriel: New Blood Orchestra In 3d (G) Mon 7:00 Paranormal Activity 3 (STC)

Digital Cinema Thu 12:05 CITY CENTRE 9

10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7020

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Dolby

Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:35, 3:35, 7:00, 9:45

THE THING (18A gory violence) Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35 IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language)

Dolby Stereo Digital Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language) Fri-

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) DTS

DRIVE (18A brutal violence) Daily 2:10, 5:00, 8:00, 10:25

THE LION KING 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri-Sat,

Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40

WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? (14A

language may offend) Stadium Seating, DTS Digital Daily 12:55, 3:55, 6:55

1525-99 St, 780.436.8585

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Ultraavx Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Digital Cinema

Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Sun, Tue 12:30, 1:00, 3:30, 4:00, 6:30, 7:00, 9:30, 10:00; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:10, 1:30, 4:00, 4:40, 7:00, 7:40, 10:00, 10:30

SUN 3:00

Attack the Block (14A gory violence,

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Digital, No

coarse language, substance abuse) FRI, SUN, MON 9:10; SAT, SUN 5:10; SAT, WED 7:00; SAT 9:00; TUE 9:30

DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri

TUE 6:45

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Fri

The Skiers Sport Shop presents: Level 1's After Dark (STC) WED 9:30 LitFest presents: Charles Taylor Prize Gala (Classification not

passes: Fri 6:45, 9:35; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:45, 9:35; Digital: Mon-Thu 4:50, 7:50

6:35, 9:10; Sat-Sun 3:55, 6:35, 9:10; MonThu 5:00, 7:40 6:40, 9:30; Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:40, 9:30; Mon-Thu 5:15, 8:00

THE BIG YEAR (PG) Fri 6:50, 9:20; SatSun 1:30, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20; Mon-Thu 5:20, 8:20 THE THING (18A gory violence) Fri 7:15,

9:50; Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 7:15, 9:50; MonThu 5:30, 8:15

Graphic Content: Superman (STC)

available) THU 7:00

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

footloose (PG coarse language) Daily 7:10, 9:30; Sat, Sun, Tue 1:10, 3:30

DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Digital Sat-Sun

The Thing (18A gory violence) Daily 6:55,

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE

The Big Year (PG) Daily 6:50, 8:55; Sat,

1:00

6601-48 Ave, Camrose, 780.608.2144

9:10; Sat, Sun, Tue 12:55, 3:10

Sun, Tue 12:50, 2:55

The Thing (18A gory violence) Daily 7:00,

Real Steel (PG violence) Daily 6:40, 9:20; Sat, Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:20

moneyball (PG coarse language) Daily

Ides of March (14A coarse language)

footloose (PG coarse language) Daily

moneyball (PG coarse language) Daily

THE HELP (PG mature subject matter, language may offend) Daily 7:30; Sat-Sun 2:05

dolphin tale 3D (G) Daily 7:15, 9:25;

9:15; Sat-Sun 2:00

6:45, 9:30; Sat-Sun 1:45

6:55 9:20; Sat-Sun 1:55

Real Steel (PG violence) Daily 6:50 9:25; Sat-Sun 1:50

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr, Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

footloose (PG coarse language) FRI

4:05, 6:50, 9:45; SAT-SUN 1:25, 4:05, 6:50, 9:45; MON-THU 6:50, 9:45

REAL STEEL (PG violence) FRI 4:10, 7:10,

10:10; SAT-SUN 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; MONTHU 7:10, 10:10

The Thing (18A gory violence) FRI 4:15,

7:05, 10:15; SAT-SUN 1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 10:15; MON-THU 7:05, 10:15

WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? (14A

Daily 7:00, 9:00; Sat, Sun, Tue 1:00, 3:00 6:45, 9:15; Sat-Sun, Tue 12:45, 3:15

Sat-SUN, Tue 1:15, 3:25 PRINCESS

10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

Campus Radio (PG coarse language) Fri

7:30; Sat-Sun 2:00, 7:00, 9:00; Mon-Thu 7:00, 9:00

The Guard (14A coarse language) Daily 7:15, 9:15; Sat-Sun 2:30

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Fri-Tue, Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Wed 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Daily 1:30, 4:30,

language may offend) FRI 4:20, 7:15, 9:50; SATSUN 1:40, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50; MON-THU 7:15, 9:50

7:30, 10:30

DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Digital 3d FRI-SUN

9:20

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) FRI

THE THING (18A gory violence) Ultraavx, No passes Fri-Wed 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30; Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:30

The Big Year (PG) No passes FRI 4:15,

6:55, 9:25; SAT-SUN 1:35, 4:25, 6:55, 9:25; MON-THU 6:55, 9:25

WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? (14A language may offend) Fri-Tue, Thu 12:45, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Wed 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

50/50 (14A coarse language) Digital Cinema:

DREAM HOUSE (14A) Fri, Sun-Thu 1:50,

3:50, 6:40, 9:30; MON-THU 6:40, 9:30

4:00, 7:00, 10:00; SAT-SUN 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; MON-THU 7:00, 10:00

FRI 4:30, 7:20, 9:55; SAT-SUN 1:45, 4:30, 7:20, 9:55; MON-THU 7:20, 9:55

IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language)

FRI 3:55, 6:35, 9:40; SAT-SUN 1:15, 3:55, 6:35, 9:40; MON-THU 6:35, 9:40

THE LION KING 3D (G) Digital 3d: FRI 3:45, 6:45, 9:15; SAT-SUN 1:20, 3:45, 6:45, 9:15; MON-THU 6:45, 9:15 dolphin tale 3d (G) Digital Cinema SAT-SUN 1:05

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

CONTAGION (14A) Digital Cinema Daily

4:50, 7:50, 10:15; Sat 4:50, 7:50, 10:15

DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily

12:30, 3:20, 6:30

ABDUCTION (14A) Daily 1:40, 7:40 MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) Digital Cinema Daily 12:40, 3:45, 6:50, 10:10

THE BIG YEAR (PG) No passes Daily 1:20,

4:20, 7:20, 9:50

50/50 (14A coarse language) Daily 12:45, 3:50, 6:40, 9:40 IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language) Digital Cinema Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00

Paranormal Activity 3 (STC) Ultra-

THE BIG YEAR (PG) DTS Digital, Stadium

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH

DEDfest: Chillerama (STC) FRI 11:00 Sure Shot Dombrowski 3 (STC)

50/50 (14A coarse language) Thu Oct 13:

The Metropolitan Opera: Anna Bolena Live (Classification not available)

avx Thu 12:01

SUN, MON 7:00; SAT 3:00; SUN 12:45; TUE 2:00

50/50 (14A coarse language) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:10

DRIVE (18A brutal violence) Stadium Seat-

Paranormal Activity 3 (STC) Ultra-

IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language)

Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St, 780.425.9212

In the Heat of the Night (STC) FRI,

Seating Daily 12:45, 3:55, 6:35, 9:50

COURAGEOUS (PG) Digital Cinema FriSun, Tue-Thu 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50; Mon 12:45, 3:40, 9:50

Cinema Sun 1:00; Wed 7:00

Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:10, 9:55; Mon-Thu 5:25, 8:05

METRO CINEMA at the Garneau

Date of issue only: Thu Oct 13 SMURFS (G) Thu Oct 13: 1:00, 3:00 spy kids: all the time in the world (PG) Thu Oct 13: 4:55 Contagion (14A) Thu Oct 13: 7:00 9:05 moneyball (PG coarse language) Thu

CONTAGION (14A) Stadium Seating, DTS Digital Daily 9:55

North By Northwest (STC) Digital

guage may offend) Fri-Sun 9:45; Mon-Thu 7:55

footloose (PG coarse language) Daily

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REVUE // VISIONS OF TREMBLAY

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MICHEL & TI-JEAN

Of father figures and social upheaval

Until Sun, Oct 23 (8 pm) Roxy Theatre, $13.50 – $27

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he "imagined meeting" is a wellworn device in the theatre. Historical figures as varied as Sigmund Freud and CS Lewis, who meet in Freud's Last Session, Pablo Picasso and Albert Einstein, who meet in Picasso at the Lapin Agile, and Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, who meet in The Meeting, have been given the treatment. Michel & Ti-Jean by George Rideout enacts

an imagined meeting between beat luminary Jack Kerouac and Québécois playwright—and member of the Quiet Revolution vanguard—Michel Tremblay. Amongst the backdrop of Tremblay's overnight success with his debut play Les Belles-soeurs, the rapid social change on both sides of the border, and—to the all-knowing audience— Kerouac's impending death, their conversation takes place.

The characterization is pitch perfect.

Rideout—with a big assist from Brian

Dooley, who plays the tortured beatnik—has captured Kerouac's vainglory, his ability to live in the past while at the same time dismissing it, and the instability of his constant alcoholic stupor. As Michel Tremblay, Vincent Hoss-Desmarais displays a knack for working-class Montréal hand gestures, the playwright's intelligence as well as his passion and subtle femininity.

The real meat of the play—as with most imagined meetings—is the way it takes a new look at the two men's

artistic outputs, especially when viewed through the context of the other. Kerouac's work becomes more French Canadian than Americana: through Tremblay's eyes, he becomes a writer concerned with family and relationships, small stories about the people he loves instead of the "great American novel" that On the Road is credited as. Tremblay, too, is put through the wringer: his play is turned into a jazz score, its characters taking on the instruments Kerouac assigns

across her written messages.

In keeping with the theme of ambient awareness, Book on Tape incorporates extensive (and very well-timed) video conversations between time-travelling future nerd Targ Wildstar (Wilkie)

and his friend Declyn Explodingmountains (Taylor Chadwick), as well as voiceovers by NADS—the digital device reading the titular book on tape.

Wilkie's script evidences clear filmic and literary influences in both plot and language, notably Kurt Vonnegut: time travel provides the driving force behind the characters' motivations and actions, just like in Slaughterhouse Five, and the dialogue is rife with non-sequiturs and colourful epithets (my particular favourite: "By the ironic mustache of Ares!"). The setting is vaguely dystopic, a common trait of science fiction—one might even describe it as postmodern due to its playfully self-conscious references to our own world (in Wildstar's future, the President of the World is named Atwood). However, the sheer geeky nature of the story keeps it from getting too heavy-handed, and though the influences are obvious, this is not

them—an attack-ready tenor sax, a honking trombone. Les Belles-soeurs is reinterpreted through Kerouac's own bebop-influenced prose style.

The play also explores the concept of being a father's son. Both Tremblay and Kerouac have complicated relationships with their own fathers, and much of the show focuses on the ways these two sons feel they have failed their respective parent. In the end, however, Tremblay comes to know the greater pain of discovering your father is a mere mortal, as his adopted father-figure heaps abuse on him and lets him down.

Michel & Ti-Jean is hampered by its tendency to go around in circles, as Tremblay attempts to squeeze more information out of his taciturn mentor.

What begins as Kerouac's reticence to answer the young Tremblay's questions eventually drags into a frustrating lack of movement in a play that is already at a great risk of being staid, set as it is in a bar and revolving around a conversation rather than action. Likely, Michel & Ti-Jean would have more impact if it were to cut a half hour from its runtime, or perhaps become a one act.

Nonetheless, as a "what if?" scenario that explores not only two lions of 20th century literature but also the cross-border culture of North America's French fact, Michel & Ti-Jean successfully explores the nature of creation in a time of upheaval, both personal as well as political.

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REVUE // 21ST-CENTURY NERDFEST

BOOK ON TAPE Until Sat, Oct 15 (8 pm) Directed by Taylor Chadwick Transalta Arts Barns, PCL Studio, $10

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ocial media has become a 21stcentury buzz term, and while everyone has several hundred friends on Facebook, most people don't take their increasingly digitized interactions too seriously.

This phenomenon of online exchanges replacing face-to-face human contact comprises the heart of Trent Wilkie's new work. His third play in a year, Book on Tape is a multimedia mash-up of cheeseball sci-fi comedy and surprisingly thoughtful commentary on the future of human relationships.

The show provides a definition of ambient awareness in the second act; essentially, this is a term for the new form of social awareness arising from communication between individuals

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via social networking websites. Book on Tape's main character, Jen Bennett (Joleen Ballendine) is a misanthropic online companion to various social rejects, a job she excels at because her dripping sarcasm doesn't translate

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simply a reiteration of a Vonnegut story; it is definitely Wilkie's own.

The show's faults are limited to a few extraneous bits of dialogue, some of which seemed to be improvised, and an intermission felt unnecessary— this is only a 90-minute show and the break really disrupted the flow and energy of the performance. Nonetheless, Book on Tape is an entertaining, original and thoughtful play in which Wilkie showcases his talent for comedy and his knack for demonstrating that conventional theatre can benefit from the inclusion of multimedia elements. Only time will prove whether or not this is a truly prescient move— but after all, if the fate of human interaction is ever-increasing digitization, doesn't it make sense that this should leak into theatre as well?

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REVUE // ILLUMINATING THE SPECTRUM

FAR FROM CRAZY

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from relying too heavily on cliché.

The most expected (and oft-dramatized) types of mental illness make appearances in the show, including schizophrenia, Alzheimer's, autism and depression, though more overlooked forms, like anorexia and senile dementia, are also depicted.

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ome of the world's greatest artists were infamous for having some form of mental illness; similarly the subject of mental illness has provided the basis for many works of art. (Van Gogh comes to mind immediately, as does a host of Hollywood crazies.) The brainchild of Nicholas Mather and Jenna Greig, Far From Crazy features a collection of eight short, dramatic pieces exploring the subject of mental illness. The connection between art and mental illness

is an underlying theme in several of them. Though the message is delivered a little heavy-handedly at times, it is nonetheless an unsettling idea that artistic genius and creativity are symptoms of mental illness.

But aside from exploring art as pathology, Far From Crazy is primarily concerned with presenting personal accounts of dealing first-hand with mental illness. Most of the pieces portray a family member's reflections on their troubled loved one; occasionally we hear a first-person perspective. It is this foundation in the intensely personal that keeps most of the pieces

As is expected in a compilation of several distinct pieces, some come across stronger than others. In particular, Charity Principe's two monologues are very well done, as is the piece on autism performed by Kyall Rakoz and CJ Rowein. Others feel a little rough around the edges and might have benefited from additional workshopping; there were also several moments in which the dialogue felt unnatural and just didn't quite fit with the characters.

Nonetheless, the concepts driving this show are both absorbing and prevalent, and it is encouraging to see a host of young performers and playwrights exploring such weighty issues.

Until Sat, Oct 22 (8 pm) Directed by Sarah Van Tassel Walterdale Playhouse, $12 – $16

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n the precipice of her first season as the artistic director of the Walterdale theatre, Sarah Van Tassel seems adjusting to the shift from her own independent company, Guts & Guile, to working within the confines of a the long-established community theatre she'll be heading up artistically for the next two years.

"There's a fairly large learning curve," she admits, adding quickly, "It's been really nice so far."

Van Tassel had to pitch her proposed

season to the Walterdale's board of directors for approval, and all but one of her scripts got the thumbs up. The replacement for one that didn't is Neil LaBute's Reasons to Be Pretty, which opens the season with an exploration of perception and obsession with image, channeled through four struggling, working class friends and their interlocking, increasingly complicated relationships with each other.

Reasons to Be Pretty, and the rest of her Walterdale season—a reimagining of a certain Shakespearean tragedy called Wyrd Sisters, Michel Tremblay's Albertine in Five Times, and The Love

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of the Nightingale, an adapted Greek legend—continues to develop similar themes to what Van Tassel's been exploring with her own company. In the case of this particular show, it's the archetypes that women play. She's hoping her selections let audiences see a lot more of the population of strong female actors around town. "[In] theatre in Edmonton, and theatre in general, there's such great female actors out there, and you hear often that there's not enough roles for all these women. I think that there are," Van Tassel says. "It's just a matter of whether or not people are doing them."

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GUY VANDERHAEGHE Mon, Oct 17 (7 pm) A Good Man Reading

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lthough Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man concludes a loose western trilogy of sprawling historical novels, he'd never intended to write them as a linked series. When he first began to develop The Englishman's Boy, he saw it as a standalone novel but research in the era continued to pique his interest, and led him toward a second, The Last Crossing, and now a conclusive third look at the era.

"I had no idea that I would continue on with this location or this period. And then, some ideas started percolating for The Last Crossing," he says from his Saskatoon home. "Then I thought that the

final marking point of what I think of as a period of great transition in the West, that meant the end of one way of life for Native Peoples, and European domination—that could be marked by Sitting Bull's arrival in Canada, and finally, his return to the United States."

Which is exactly where A Good Man positions itself, on the final years of the 1870s/early 1880s on the rural spread of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Montana.

As with Vanderhaeghe's previous works, it unshakeably grounds itself in historical detail and period research, refusing to dwell on the western genre's fanciful '50s and '60s television re-imaginings— he calls those portrayals "mythic." Vanderhaeghe notes that his preference for rooting his writing in actual history, even if a lot of the legwork never ends up on the actual pages, has its own payoff.

"I think [history] gives me a background to ground my characters in," he says. "A lot of the research I do never appears in the books, but it allows me to feel a certain comfort in writing about the period, and it gives me, I think, the detail to particularize my characters' stories, and make them more intimate in some way.

Y'know, if you're writing contemporary fiction, the reader who's reading your book has a picture in their minds about what's the world that the characters are inhabiting. I think that becomes slightly more difficult when you move into historical fiction, because people don't meet the daily details of life in that period in their own lives. So I think that's one of the reasons I try very hard to understand the period, and by that I mean not just the sort of clothes people wore, but to a certain extent, how they viewed the world and how they thought about it."

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PREVUE // GET YOUR READ ON

LITFEST Until Sun, Oct 23 Various locations litfestalberta.org

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hough she'd go on to emerge as a poet, Alice Major's childhood exposure to science left its own indelible mark on her mind, beginning around the age of 10, when her mother bought her a book on relativity.

"I have no idea why my mother gave me a book about relativity," she laughs, "but I found it fascinating. I found it quite mind boggling, actually."

Now, decades on, having become one of our most enduring poets, (and first poet laureate), Major's looking to probe the perceived gap between science and art. She sees a connection where others see a rift.

"I am really interested in edges, in what happens at the gaps," she says, before slightly adjusting her thought.

"Not the gaps, I don't like gaps ... I like connections, of human brains, human functions. "I practise an art form that humans have been practising since the beginning of language. And we think of science as something that is brand new, something that is being done now, and we often think of it as being very alien from art. And I just want to explore what science can tell me about what I'm doing."

Her upcoming book, Intersecting Sets: A Poet Looks at Science, explores

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that divide. It's a series of essays, mixing memoir and observation, that sees Major bridging the connections between the two disciplines through examining her own life, her readings in science and what she's found in creating her poetry.

It's arriving just as Edmonton's Litfest gets into full swing, with authors as varied as Canuck humourist Will Ferguson and Ross King—whose The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism earned the Governor General's award in 2006—to locals like Major and writer-in-exile Jalal Barzanji taking to various stages around town.

Major's particular event, happening Tuesday at the Stanley A Milner the-

atre, explores not just her own meditations in the forthcoming book (which launches there), but also the work of playwright David Belke, whose Sterling-clinching play the Science of Disconnection explored the criminally ignored life of physicist Lise Meitner, with actress Coralie Cairns performing exerpts, and electroacoustic guitar artist Shawn Pinchbeck.

With that combined lineup, Major's looking to make the evening more than just a static run of readings.

"I see a bit of a dialogue among people between David and Shawn and I," she notes. "It's not just a stand up-sit down kind of thing."

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PREVUE // ACCLAIMED THEATRE

BASHIR LAZHAR Until Sun, Oct 16 (8 pm) Directed by Piet Defraeye Avenue Theatre, $10 – $15 he cultural mosaic, our national metaphor for unity and cultural perseverance, doesn't hold up to scrutiny very well. It defines the preservation of each piecemeal part and, in a quintessentially polite Canadian move, each segment is theoretically left unaltered by the others. But any actual unity it professes to offer is left unaccounted for; connect a bunch of cultures of varying sizes, let them coexist and let come what may.

What that does is leave the minorities to fend for themselves, in a cultural sense, and Bashir Lazhar picks up on the realities of that.

The titular fellow (and only speaking figure in Evelyne de la Chenelière’s play) is an Algerian-born immigrant, perpetually wide-eyed and on the verge of excitable panic. He finds himself substitute teaching in Montréal, but struggles to comfort his sixth grade class in the wake of a tragedy, while dealing with his own damaged past and the present intolerances that our country doesn't ever really account for.

"It's not about the revolution or the political tension or conflict that happens," Michael Peng, who plays Bashir, explains.

"It's about, now he's in Canada, trying to deal with systems that he doesn't understand. And there's a racism here that is

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very polite, very repressed, and it's hidden in different ways. So it's much more delicate and much more fragile and it's harder to pin down here in Canada, because we have official multicultural policy. But there's still very many differences, and do we really tolerate, or, toleration is one step, but do we really accept? That idea of acceptance, and actual involvement and participation in these cultures, that's very different."

All that to say Bashir Lazhar explores, with nuance and texture, the realities of being a newcomer to Canada. It doesn't preach, but simply presents this particular story through Peng's performance.

After premiering here back in the 2009 Fringe, it's now on the tail end of a summer remount that toured Antwerp, Kiev, London and the Edinburgh Fringe. In the latter, the production earned itself some particularly high international praise: Peng received a Best Actor nomination in the Stage Edinburgh Awards For Acting

Excellence, one of five nominated from the festival's 2300-plus performances.

That makes this weekend's Edmonton run a victory lap for Peng and Wishbone Theatre, but one he's thankful to gets to do at all: last year he suffered a cranial bleed (and had to pull out of Workshop West's production of An Almost Perfect Thing). He's doing better, he notes, but his brush with death has certainly increased his sensitivity to the world around him, and the purpose of his art.

"Entertainment is great. Making people laugh has a purpose, absolutely," Peng states. "But there's a political dimension, there's a real-life, askingquestions-and-pursuing-ideas level that I think it's important for artists to be engaged in. Because artists go there first, on behalf of the regular people, and then the other people come along.

It's usually artists who are there first.

That's our responsibility."

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Orchid Gala / Thu, Oct 13 (7 pm) For the Orchid Species Preservation Foundation's 20th Anniversary, the group's hosting a fundraiser stemming from that particular species: not only will all the pyramids of the Muttart be open for the wandering, but Culina chef Heather Dosman's put together an exclusive menu inspired by orchids, and Capital City Burlesque's drawn on the same to inspire some titillating dances regarding "the mystery and intrigue" of the flowers. (Muttart Conservatory, $120)

Timeraiser / Sat, Oct 15 (7 pm) An art auction that sets its bidding prices not in cash, but in volunteer hours, Timeraiser's done well in combining the fancies of a silent auction and the opportunity to find a volunteer group to work with. To date, it's contributed

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some 93 000 volunteer hours to the community and this year the evening itself will be perking up ears with the including of Amy van Keeken's Rock 'n' Roll Sing-A-Long. (TransAlta Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre, $20)

Stewart Lemoine book launch / Sun, Oct 16 (2 pm) Witness to a Conga and other plays collects Stewart Lemoine's last three Fringe scripts—the titular one, plus The Oculist's Holiday and Happy Toes—into a NeWest Press-stamped book, and to celebrate its release Teatro's throwing an afternoon of excerpted performances. It stars the usual Teatro gang, and promises refreshments to be served alongside the crystalline, witty dialogue heard ringing out from the stage. (Varscona Theatre, free)

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PERE ET FILS Sat, Oct 15 (7:30 pm); Sun, Oct 16 (2:30 pm) Presented by Citie Ballet Timms Centre for the Arts, $15 – $55

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hen famed Polish composer Henryk Górecki passed away late last year, choreographer Waldemar Bartkowski had just finished creating an evening for Citie Ballet that honoured the work of Chopin—2010 was named Chopin's Year, marking that composer's 200th birthday with artistic events commemorating the milestone worldwide.

As a guest choreographer, Bartkowski returned to Edmonton again in 2011 with an idea to pay homage to Gorecki with a new series of ballets for Citie; the resulting presentation, titled Pere et Fils, will see its world premiere this weekend at the Timms Centre.

"Bartkowski has a very European style," explains Citie's artistic director Francois Chevennement. "It's movement from folk dance revamped and redone into his own style, which is a mixture of neoclassical ballet and Polish folk movement."

Though if one isn't very familiar with Polish folk dance, Chevennement adds, it'd be tough to distinguish the hints of it in Bartkowski's work.

Citie Ballet's hour-long program includes three short pieces that salute the seminal Polish composer—though the music is not all Gorecki's own.

"Three ballets, three composers," says Chevennement, who actually first met

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Bartkowski as a young dancer in France; he performed in one of Bartkowski's first ballets, also a Gorecki piece. "The reason the full ballet isn't Gorecki is that the music is kind of heavy. We found two other composers that also use minimalist sound, Terry Riley and Arvo Pärt. Gorecki was considered a spiritual minimalist, so [his music] is all related to religion."

A heavy topic indeed. But Citie's presentation includes lighter fare to start: "AnulKa" is a lively duet between two sisters, actually based on Bartkowski's own daughters, and "Conversation Between" is a dance that examines the dynamics of the triangular relationship between three people (those who took in Citie's performances at the Kaleido Festival in September might remember this piece, with three dancers floating curiously on and around square cubes).

The third and most intriguing piece, called "Mother Do Not Cry," utilizes Citie's whole company of dancers. Scored

by Gorecki's "Symphony No 3," with additional music from Mikolaij Gorecki— the composer's son—the piece is broken into four movements: Solitude, Desire, Dream and Deliverance. The original symphony was written in reference to a popular Polish story about a young girl who was put in jail during war and had written a prayer on the wall of her cell.

"It's pretty intense," Chevennement says.

"The three pieces are all so different.

There is a different mood in each, but the one that touches me the most is 'Mother Do Not Cry,' especially with the story behind it. It provokes such emotion.

"There is actually one song in it where I cry every time," he says, adding that the piece ends on a hopeful, uplifting note.

"For me, it's amazing to see a choreographer that I danced with over 20 years ago, along with a piece of Gorecki's music with another theme. It's fantastic from my point of view."

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Launch: Homage A Gorecki, Pere Et Fils (Homage To Gorecki, Father And Son), choreography by Waldemar Bartkowski • Oct 15, 7pm; Oct 16, 2:30pm • $15-$55 at TIX on the Square New City–Glitter Ball • 8130 Gateway Blvd • Vibe Tribe Gypsy Circus Society: hosted by Luna Dance Fusion: dance by the Bedouin Dance Company (Calgary), Vibe Tribe Gypsy Circus, Raq-a-Belly dance, Polly Rocket of Capital City Burlesque, Luna Dance Fusion, Flowlab, Moon Unit, Eclipse • Oct 14, 9pm (door), 10pm (show) • $15 (adv at Bedouin Beats)/$18 (door); fundraising event Talents of Ukraine • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • 120 years of Ukrainians in Canada: Song and Dance Company of Ukraine “Donbas” • Oct 14 • Tickets at TicketMaster

FILM

Arden • 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1542

• Radical Reels • Oct 16, 7:30pm • Tickets at Arden box office Bibliothèque Saint-Jean • Campus Saint-Jean, Pavillon McMahon, 8406 rue Marie-Anne Gaboury, 780.465.8615 • Auditorium: NFB film Force of Nature: The David Suzuki Movie; Presentation 1: Oct 17, 7pm • Students’ Lounge: Presentation 2: Oct 20, 12pm • Free Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • The High and Mighty (PG) • Oct 17, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior/student)/$3 (child) From Books to Film series • Stanley Milner Audio Visual Rm, 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books • Misery (1990, 14A) • Oct 21, 2pm Home Movie Day • Stanley Milner Library, Edmonton Rm • Bring in your home movies to see (on 8mm, Super 8mm, 16mm) • Oct 15; 12 noon-4pm (inspections with archivists); 2-4pm (screening) • Info E: amarquis@epl.ca

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper

Ave, 780.482.2854 • Memories of Home: Paintings on panel by Janice Mason Steeves • Oct 15-Nov 5 • Opening: Oct 15, 2-4pm ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Making a Spectacle of Myself: Metal works, retrospective of eyewear by Calgary artist Jackie Anderson; 'til Oct 15 • Victorian Inclinations: Metal works by Calgary artist Jennea Frischke; 'til Oct 15 • Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass: 'til Dec 24 • Slat-fired clay works by Jim Etzkorn; Oct 22-Dec 3; opening: Oct 22, 2-4pm Alberta Society of Artists • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave, 780.426.0072 • Peaks of the Canadian Rockies: Artworks by members of the Alberta Society of Artists, in conjunction with Walterdale's performance of Reasons to Be Pretty 'til Oct 22 Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.3679 • Artworks by John H. Burrow • Through Oct

Art from the Streets–Red Deer

• 4935-51 St • Art from the Streets: Group show • Through Oct Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • BMO World of Creativity: Drawn Outside: especially for kids; 'til Jan 29, 2012 • 19th Century French Photographs: 'til Jan 29 • Prairie Life: Settlement and the Last Best West, 1930-1955: 'til Jan 29 • A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France: Oct 15-Feb 20 • State of Nature: Oct 15-Feb 20 • RBC New Works Gallery: Arlene Wasylynchuk: Saltus Illuminati: Oct 15-Jan 15 • 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); 'til Jan 8 • Lectures and Artist Talks: Ledcor Theatre: Michael Fried: photography and its importance in contemporary art; Oct 15, 2pm; $15/$10 (AGA member) • Art for Lunch: Theatre Foyer: Landscape Painting and the Invention of Photography: Oct 20, 12:10-12:50pm; free • All Day Sunday: Art activities Photo Play; Oct 16, 12-4pm; free with admission • Studio Y Youth Drop-in: Film: Video Explorations: Oct 13, 3:30-5:30pm; Melt: Wax Landscape Creations: Oct 20, 3:305:30pm; $10 • Adult Drop-in: Textures: Acrylic Painting: Oct 13, 7-9pm; Build: 3D Painting: Oct 20, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (AGA member)

Bearclaw Gallery • 10403-124 St,

780.482.1204 • ATCHEMOWIN (The Storyteller): Mixed media works by Jane Ash Poitras, in conjunction with book launch for Cultural Memories and Imagined Futures: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras by Pamela McCallum • Opening/book signing: Oct 15, 1-4pm • Oct 15-27 Bibliothèque Saint-Jean • Campus Saint-Jean, 8406, rue Marie-Anne Gaboury, 91 St, 780.465.8775 • library.ualberta.ca/hours_fr/ index.cfm • Project Kenya 2011: Photography, artifacts and info about Project Kenya and partner, Me to We • 'til Oct 23, during opening hours Café Pichilingue–Red Deer • 4928-50 St, Red Deer • 403.346.0812 • Artworks by Russell Smethurst • Through Oct

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA

• 9103-95 Ave, 780.461.3427 • Painting from Within: Artworks by Annette Ayre, Louise Piquette, Normand Fontaine, and Crystal Riedeger and Louise Halvorsen • Opening: Oct 14 Centre Gallery • Allen Gray Continuing Care Centre, 5005-28 Ave • Oil paintings

by Rune Anderson and Watercolours by Lois Anderson • 'til Oct 31 Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St, 780.482.2854 • The October Show: Group exhibit featuring mostly local artists • Through Oct Enterprise Square • 10230 Jasper Ave, U of A • ECAS, Edmonton Contemporary Artists' Society's annual exhibition: Artowrks by member artists; daily, 'til Oct 16, 11am-5pm • Glimpses: Paintings by Elaine Andersen, Bette Lisitza, Wanda Resek, Lorraine Schuld, Pearl Westfall, Victoria Wirth; 'til Oct 19 FAB Gallery • Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg U of A, 780.492.2081 • Lessons From Couch Fort: Industrial design works by Allison Murray; 'til Oct 29; reception: Oct 20, 7-10pm • Garden of Muses: Cindy Couldwell: MDes Visual Communication Design • The Social Object: Jenna Hill: MDes Industrial Design; 'til Oct 29; reception: Oct 20, 7-10pm Front Gallery • 12312 Jasper Ave, 780.488.2952 • natural habitat: Artworks by Jeff Sylvester • Through Oct Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Out There: Group exhibit by Kim Lew, Camille Louis, and Andrea Soler; 'til Oct 31 • Reception: Oct 15, 2-4pm • Gallery display cases: Weavers': Oct 22, 11am-3pm • Origami Festival display in cubes by AV Room; 'til Oct 31 Gallery IS–Red Deer • 5123 48 St, Alexander Way, Red Deer • 403.341.4641 • His Hands ... my hand: Paintings by David Coates • 'til Oct 29 Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Xoxo From Paris: Artworks by Elaine Berglund; 'til Oct 19 Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • Carving Ground: Artworks by Cheryl Anhel and Lisa Rezansoff • 'til Oct 14 Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.426.4180 • Main Space: PileDriver: Series of paintings by David Janzen • Front Room: Personal Matter: Portraits through possessions

by Stacey Cann • Both shows: Oct 13-Nov 12; opening/talks: Oct 13, 7-10pm; talks: Stacey Cann 6:15pm; David Janzen 7:15pm Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • Sunworks, Ross St, Red Deer, 403.346.8937 • Homesickness Harmony and the Poetics of Hope: Installation by Red Deer artist, Robin Lambert • 'til Oct 21

Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St,

403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • All the Art We Do: Group show • Through Oct Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave, 780.433.5807 • Seasons: Paintings by Charles Beck • 'til Oct 27

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre

• Off Hwy 28A, TWP 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 Oct Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St, 780.423.5353 • FOMD Laboratory: Embodied Projections: Residency and show with Canadian performance artists Margaret Dragu and Freya Björg Olafson; 'til Oct 29; closing reception: Oct 27 • DRAWn Together: Collection of sketchbooks; curated by Mary Ann Dobson • ProjEx Room: The Open Crowd: Artworks by Andrea Williamson; 'til Oct 29 Loft Gallery • A.J. Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park, 780.922.6324 • HANG ALL THAT ART: Annual Fall Exhibition, Show and Sale: Art Society Of Strathcona County's silent auction; Oct 14, 1-9pm; Oct 15, 10-5pm; Oct 16, 11-4pm • Art by local artists: Oct 14-Nov 27, Sat 10-4pm, Sun 12-4pm McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • Shifting Patterns: Artworks by Alex Janvier, George Littlechild, Bert Crowfoot, Paul Smith, Dawn Marie Marchand, Dianne Meilli, Heather Shillinglaw, curated by Aaron Paquette • 'til Dec 4 • Celebration: Oct 13, 3-7pm; with Elder Tony Alexis; drumming/round dance by Thundering Spirit

780.421.1731 • Galleries A and B: Al Henderson's artworks based on memories of his military mission in Afghanistan • 'til Nov 5 • Reception: Oct 13, 7-9:30pm Velvet Olive Lounge–Red Deer • 4924-50 St, Red Deer • 403.340.8288 • Pressed: Artworks by Carol Nault • Through Oct West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • Soulprint: Artworks by Joanne Gautheir • Oct 15-27 • Opening: Oct 15 • Gallery Walk Weekend: Oct 15, 10-5pm; Oct 16, 12-4pm

LITERARY

ARTERY • 9535 Jasper Ave, 780.441.6966 • On lit a l'artere with Barobliq Featuring: Francois Pare, Pierrette Requier, Josee Thibeault. LitFest celebrates nonfiction in both official languages; Oct 13, 6:30pm; $20 (adv) • Writers Cabaret for Literacy with Carrie Day: LitFest showcase of six authors; a fundraiser supporting the extraordinary work of the Centre for Family Literacy (CFL); Oct 16, 6:30pm • Book Launch: John Leppard with The Raving Poets; Oct 20, 7pm From Books to Film series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm, 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books • The Haunting (1963, PG); Oct 14, 2pm Grant MacEwan University • City Centre Campus, Rm 5-205 • Making Writing your Business with Marty Chan (EPL's Writer-in-Residence) • Oct 15, 2-4pm • Free; pre-register at mail@writersguild.ab.ca Greenwoods Books • 7925-104 St, 780.439.2005 • Talk by Ken Tingley on his book, The Ride of the Century: The Story of the Edmonton Transit System; tour an antique bus in the parking lot; Oct 13, 7pm • Tesseracts 15 Launch: reading by several authors; Oct 15, 3pm • Guy Vanderhaeghe reading/book signing his new book, A Good Man • Oct 17, 7pm Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd • Edmonton Story Slam: a night celebrating nonfiction stories with LitFest • Oct 19 LitFest • Venues through downtown, 780.498.2500 • The Edmonton Nonfiction Festival: A celebration of true stories includes readings, panel discussions, and presentations • 'til Oct 23 • Tickets/passes at TIX on the Square Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain Rd, 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam followed by a music jam; no minors • Sign up after 7pm. 3rd Wed each month; $5 Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets Spruce Grove Library • 35-5th Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.4423 • A Taste of Scots: LitFest event with author Ken McGoogan; readings and stories from McGoogan's new book, How the Scots Invented Canada • Oct 15, 2-4pm • Free Sutton Place Hotel • Ballroom, 10235101 St • Room to Read initiative, talk by Emily Leys • Oct 13, 7:30pm • $10 U of A Press • City Centre Mall: Preview of Alice Major's new book, Intersecting Sets; and François Paré's talk about his research into the Francophone diaspora in English Canada: Oct 13, noon • City Centre Mall: Book launch/talk by Jalal Barzanji, author of The Man in Blue Pyjamas; Oct 17, noon • Stanley Milner Library Theatre: Book launch/talk by Jalal Barzanji, author of The Man in Blue Pyjamas; Oct 17, 7pm • Stanley Milner Library Theatre: Preview of Alice Major's new book, Intersecting Sets; and David Belke and Shawn Pinchbeck: Oct 18, 7pm • Tickets at tixonthesquare.ca 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 WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • Bi-weekly poetry reading presented

by Nothing, For Now; all poets welcome • Every

Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave, St Albert,

780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-178 St • Group show

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-

51 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • Paintings

by Loraine Ure • 'til Oct 26

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert

• 5 St Anne St, St Albert, 780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Artifacts dating back 5,000 years • The Mission Makers: Celebrating the ambitions, accomplishments and friendships of Archbishop Taché, OMI, and Father Lacombe, OMI • 'til Nov Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • Pastel paintings by David Shkolny • Through Oct Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Abstract paintings by Phil Darrah • Oct 15-Nov 1 • Opening: Oct 15, 2-4pm

Red Deer Museum and Art Gallery •

4525-47A Ave • Farming Out Our Future: 'til Nov 13 • From Our Collection: Objects and artifacts from Central Alberta’s history; through Oct • James Bower and the United Farmers of Alberta: through Oct Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • Composed Exposures: Photographs by museum staff members; 'til Nov 25 • Wild Alberta Gallery: Wild by Nature: Every Sat/Sun: 11am, 2pm SCOTT GALLERY 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619 • Connecting with Landscape: Arlene Wasylynchuk and Gerald Faulder • Oct 15-Nov 1 • Opening: Oct 15, 2-4pm SNAP Gallery • 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Gallery: The Mine Field: Artworks by Alexandra Haeseker; Oct 13-Nov 19; opening: Oct 13 • Unveiling of the 2012 SNAP Calendar, hand printed on SNAP’s letterpress; Oct 15-16 SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • Senior’s Show and Competition; 'til Oct 22 • Uta Preuss: Pottery works; Oct 24-Nov 12; reception: Oct 29, 1-4pm TELUS World of Science • 11211-142 St • Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition: human stories told through artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the Titanic and extensive room re-creations • 'til Feb 20 VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St,

2nd Tue, 7pm (sign-up), 8pm (readings)

THEATRE

Bashir Lazhar • Avenue, 9030-118 Ave •

Wishbone Theatre • Stars Michael Peng and Nicola Elbro, director Piet Defraeye • Oct 12-15, 8pm; Oct 16, 2pm • $15 (adult)/$10 (student/senior) at tixonthesquare.ca BOOK ON TAPE (The Play) • TransAlta Arts Barns PCL Studio Theatre, 10330-84 Ave, 780.409.1910 • By Trent Wilkie; stars Joleen Ballendine and Trent Wilkie • 'til Oct 15, 8pm • $10 (PG +14) at Fringe Theatre box office Chimprov • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and oneact plays • First three Sat each month, 11pm, 'til Jul 2012 • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only) The Curse of Pigeon Lake • New Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, 780.442.5311 • Musical by playwright Nick Green, music by Joel Crichton • Oct 15-16, 21-23 Death of a Salesman • Citadel Shoctor, 9828-101 A Ave, 780.428.2117 •

By Arthur Miller, directed by Bob Baker, starring Tom Wood, Brenda Bazinet, John Ullyatt • 'til Oct 16 DIE-NASTY • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, 'til May, 2012, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at box office Far From Crazy • Living Room Playhouse/Azimuth Theatre, 11315-106 Ave • Eight playwrights, eight new works; a collection of short plays aiming to shed light on mental illness • 'til Oct 16 • $20 (door, TIX on the Square)

FOUR LADS WHO SHOOK THE WORLD: THE BEATLES STORY PART 1 • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave,

780.483.4051 • The story of the Beatles • 'til Nov 6

The Hoof and Mouth Advantage

• Varscona, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • Cowritten by Jocelyn Ahlf and Stewart Lemoine.

Stars Cathy Derkach and Andrew MacDonaldSmith • 'til Oct 22, Tue-Sat 7:30pm, Sat 2pm • Tickets at TIX on the Square

The Last Concert–Buddy Holly and Friends • Jubilations Dinner Thea-

tre, 2690, 8882-170 St, WEM, 780.484.2424 • Story about an impromptu show put on for the locals • 'til Oct 23

Masked Marvels and Wondertales • Arden, 5 St Anne St, St Albert,

780.459.1542 • Family show • Oct 22, 2pm • $18 (child)/$20 (adult) at Arden box office Michel and Ti-Jean • Roxy, 10708-124 St, 780.453.2440 • Theatre Network • By George Rideout; directed by Bradley Moss; stars Brian Dooley and Vincent Hoss-Desmarais • 'til Oct 23 • $13.50-$27 at theatrenetwork.ca Party Like It's 1969! • Roxy, 10708-124 St • Theatre Network's psychedelic "Autumn" of Love After Party • Oct 14, 10:30pm, following Fri's show; costumes appreciated reasons to be pretty • Walterdale, 10322-83 Ave, 780.439.2845 • By Neil LaBute, directed by Sarah Van Tassel • 'til Oct 22 • $12-$16 at TIX on the Square TheatreSports • Varscona, 10329-83 Ave • Improv runs every Fri, 'til Jul 2012, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member) Xanadu • John L Haar Theatre, Grant MacEwan, 10045-156 St • MacEwan Theatre, book by Douglas Carter Beane; music/lyrics by Jeff Lynne, John Farrar • Oct 21-29, 7:30pm; Oct 23, 2pm, 7:30pm • Tickets at tixonthesquare.ca

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These days I am hearing more and more stories about someone picking up a six-pack of some new craft beer they never ly.com heard of only to discover eweek int@vu tothep when tasting that it is nothJason ing of the sort. I call it pseudoFoster craft beer—beer packaged and marketed to mimic craft beer but with none of the quality and passion.

I define pseudo-craft as a beer sold to obfuscate rather than illuminate. Instead of proudly displaying the beer's ingredients, process, style and ownership, the marketing attempts to hide the real origins of the beer and confuse the buyer about what it really is. The most famous example is Alexander Keith's India Pale Ale. As I have mentioned before, this beer is not an IPA, which should be hoppy with a light toasty malt. It isn't even an beer, it tries to identify accurately what ale; it is a pale lager. The name is used to you will get, either by naming it after make the consumer believe they are getthe style it roughly represents, or by ting something other than a pale lager. indicating what they were aiming for.

Thus it obfuscates.

And it tries to be upfront about who I mention this now because I am seethey are and what they do, keeping the ing a growing trend in pseudo-craft, and unavoidable marketing hyperbole to a am concerned by it. A real craft beer is tolerable minimum. brewed with an eye to tradition. It esThe big boys have done pseudo-craft chews the use of cheap adjuncts like for years. Their Keith's and Rickard's corn syrup and rice. When naming a brands are clear examples of trumped-

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up craft credentials. However, they are upping their efforts at cracking the craft market lately. The reason is that the craft segment is the only beer market experiencing growth. Sales of standard lager are in decline. So they need to find a way into the only bullish market.

The latest salvo was Molson-Coors' announcement this summer of a new branch called Six Pints devoted to craft

beer. It won't brew anything. There will be no new breweries or a new breed of craft beer. Instead it will market new "craft brands" created at the usual Molson operations. It is also the holding company for Creemore and Granville Island, both of which it now owns. My guess is that this is the first manoeuvre in a nascent pseudo-craft-beer war between MolsonCoors and AB Inbev (Labatt).

To be clear, pseudo-ness is not about ownership. Creemore, Granville Island and Unibroue (owned by Sapporo) all continue to be craft breweries because they make beer (and sell it) using craft principles. Conversely, in my opinion independently owned Minhas Craft Brewery (to use one example available in Alberta)—makers of Mountain Crest, Swiss Amber, Lazy Mutt, 1845 pils and others—falls into the pseudo-craft camp. Why? Well, let me lay out some facts, as well as the answers I received from co-owner Manjit Minhas when I spoke with her about it. And then you can decide for yourself.

The comapny promotes itself as an Alberta brewing company. Its brewery is located in Wisconsin. Minhas says corporate offices and brewing location are separate concerns. "There is manufacturing and then there is marketing. Manufacturing is global now. That is a reality."

The website proclaims a "brewing tradition since 1845." Even though the building has operated since that date, Minhas bought the brewery in 2006. Minhas says the company has seen no confusion about the claim.

Other than Mountain Crest, the company promotes most of its beer as "craft beer." The packaging looks like a craft brewery's. The names reflect traditional beer styles—bock, pils, amber ale, farmhouse ale, IPA, Oktoberfest. I have sampled many of them and my experience is the beer does not align with the style promised on the label. Minhas acknowledges the beer doesn't match the promised styles: "Each brewery has its own style and taste. Everyone has to decide what works for their customer. Our bock is lighter. If it was a traditional bock, they wouldn't finish the bottle."

Do they use adjuncts? Minhas won't say. In my tasting, many of the beer present that distinct flavour I associate with the addition of corn sugar.

I also find it can be frustrating determining the origin of Minhas beer. I was in a pub recently that had an unfamiliar stout on tap. The bartender had no idea who brewed it. Repeated web searches revealed nothing. It took quite a bit of investigative work on my part to find out it was brewed at Minhas's brewery in Wisconsin. I must wonder about the secrecy.

What difference does all this make?

Maybe none. But my opinion is that beer consumers have a right to know what they are drinking. And they shouldn't have to be Hercule Poirot to find out. Honest marketing is about transparency. If a brewery fails that test, I believe you should be thinking hard about whether you should be giving them any of your money. V

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versus Canadian cooks: "Canadians tend to be more flexible with ingredients, like substituting whole wheat pasta in place of regular pasta. Brits, on the other hand, are more purist about Italian cuisine, perhaps because of the relative ease of travel between the two countries."

Get Cooking is yet in its infancy, and Joel is working on raising its public pro-

file. "I've conducted hands-on classes, like vegetarian and Thai cuisine, and am working with Vines Riverbend Wine Merchants for pairing wines with each menu," she explains.

Joel's teaching style recapitulates her life of cooking, education and travel.

"Treat high-quality ingredients with skill," affirms Joel. "It's about the sheer love of food, and not fancy techniques."

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VERY SCIENTIFIC According to dessert taxonomists, the brownie may seem like a cross between cake and fudge, but it is actually classified as a "bar cookie."

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ries proved so popular that plenty of other products were named after them including a slot machine, a brand of soda and even Kodak's Brownie Camera, which popularized photography.

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Blondies are dessert squares that resemble brownies but are flavoured with brown sugar instead of cocoa. Blondies were created in 1982 and named after the new-wave band that had recently had a hit with the song "Heart of Glass."

FAR OUT, MAN Brownies have long been considered an excellent way to consume marijuana. Writer Alice B Toklas included a recipe for "Haschich Fudge" in her 1954 book The Alice B Toklas Cookbook—a recipe given to her by beat painter Brion Gysin—so for much of the '60s, hash brownies were referred to as "Alice B Toklas Brownies." V

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osh Dolgin isn't a guy who does simple well. That's not so much a criticism as an observation: he's the braintrust of the musical kookaburra that is Socalled, and the bands' latest album Sleepover started off with such (relatively) minimal intentions: after the previous, hydra-headed Ghettoblaster featured some 45 guest musicians, Dolgin set out to make a record with far less going on.

"I thought, I'd love to just simplify things, pare it back a little bit, basically feature the musicians who were actually on tour, and the actual sound of the group. So I started with that in mind," Dolgin says on the phone from his Montréal home. "It was really gonna be that sound."

But Dolgin kept, "Running into cool people, running into friends who are amazing musicians [and] making new friends." And the final guest list on Sleepover kept expanding until it tallied some 35 musicians, ranging from 95-year-old pianist Irving Fields to Feist-producer Chilly Gonzalez, and running an unclassifiable mixture of familiar sounds shaped together in new ways: klezmer meets rap; rococo humps R&B; pop blends with classical. In a very broad way, you could peg Sleepover as an album with its roots in R&B, but only if the genre was interpreted by members of genres like soul,

reggae, klezmer and rap. And that's just the core sounds here. Let's leave it at "difficult to pin down."

All that said, Dolgin's not particularly concerned about his inability to rein in the guestlist, even if that had been initial goal.

"In the end of it all, I realized that's what I like to do, and that's what Socalled is," Dolgin says. "It's really a bunch of voices that shouldn't be heard together, necessarily; a bunch of styles, a bunch of cultures and differ-

Dolgin notes that 35 people didn't physically pass through the studio with him; many sent their contributions from afar. Sleepover's an album constructed digitally, and, really, only possible because of today's technological landscape.

"There probably wouldn't have been an audience for it, but the music itself just wouldn't have been possible 15 years ago," Dolgin says, on whether an album like this could've been crafted a decade ago. "Just in terms of the

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You could peg Sleepover as an album with its roots in R&B, but only if the genre was interpreted by members of genres like soul, reggae, klezmer and rap. And that's just the core sounds here. Let's leave it at 'difficult to pin down.' ent ages and people from all over the place really coming together to try to make one thing."

He shifted the ground by mixing klezmer music into a more modern scene when he first emerged with HiphopKhasene in 2003, setting the framework for the post-modern grabbag of sounds he'd continue to explore.

And in hearing Dolgin talk about his music, he comes across as a talented guy with a Rolodex-mind for sounds: it seems like when he hears something he wants, he files it away until he finds a place, then places a call.

technology that diffuses the music around, and also the technology that also allows it to be possible to record all these types of musicians, basically creating the music virtually. Not everybody being in one room like in the old days, where you had to go to a studio and record something and that was it.

It was one piece of tape and basically whatever you could do with that piece of tape you could do, that was it. You could maybe mail the tape away, in the hopes that somebody would record on top of it—there's ways around it—but now it's so virtual that really, the sound of the music is only possible now."

Currently on tour with a relatively svelte, four-member backing band,

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It's a take on a style that's landed them a coveted top 20 spot in The Peak Performance Project. A Vancouver radio station competition that puts bands through a veritable boot camp of industry knowledge—"They basically made us get up really early and

possible prize, certainly isn't helping his mind wander through the possibilities, as the band makes plans to release its debut album in February.

"Publicity, tour support, videos, vinyl, all that sort of fun stuff," he imagines.

But regardless of whether they take home a top prize, the industry training of the contest, plus the bands' time logged crossing the country in other bands, has proven its own kind of invaluable experience.

"So far it's worked out really great, in terms of timing, surprisingly," Braun says. "There hasn't been a lot

What we try to do is take a really basic structure and really basic song, and really bend it and twist it in a way that almost disguises its simplicity. Maybe that's a weird way to think about it.

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ococode's self-assigned descriptor, of being "an unfamiliar band made up of familiar faces," is actually probably the most apt way to describe the band: it's a sideperson supergroup of sorts, of faces you've possibly seen in concert, just not performing their own material. Guitarist/vocalist An-

drew Braun plays guitar for Hannah Georgas, while vocalist/keyboardist Laura Smith's had a budding career under her own name in and around Vancouver, and the rhythm section, bassist Shaun Huberts and drummer Johnny Andrews, have both logged time as members of Tegan & Sara's touring band.

Configured together though, the four of them peddle in putting an elevated art-school shimmer on the

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standard pop-rock formula, pairing some indie-rock staples—swooping, trade-off boy-girl harmonies and jangly guitar lines—with an off-kilter, shifting sense of structure.

"I guess, unless you're trying to make pure pop music, that seems to be the goal of most people," Braun explains.

"For me, what we try to do is take a really basic structure and really basic song, and really bend it and twist it in a way that almost disguises its sim-

go to class all day for a week" Braun says—and putting on some shows, then letting audiences vote for a winning group. First place takes home $100 000, third place gets a cool $50 000, and second splits the difference. (Previous years' top 20s have included Yes Nice, Said the Whale, Aidan Knight and We Are the City).

It's clear Braun's not trying to get his hopes for snagging the golden purse too high, yet—though the final Peak project, of creating a budget for that

of conflict. And it's kind of nice to have the groundwork of connection, from being out on the road and meeting people in a different situation. It's nice when you can come back and people will be like, 'Oh yeah, I remember you.' There are a lot of connections we've got from it. The rest of our band has been pretty active as sidepeople as well. So, combined, we have a decent rolodex."

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VUE WEEKLY: How did you pick the songs you recorded on your latest album, Roots?

JOHNNY WINTER: It didn't take me long at all. These were songs I grew up on that influenced me so when it came time to choose the songs it took me less than a day

Almost every track has a special guest. Tell me about picking those artists as well as working with them.

Did you get together with each one or did you record separately and then put the track together?

JW: My guitarist/producer Paul Nelson chose and contacted them depending upon which ones he felt would be best for the particular song on the CD. Warren Haynes, Jimmy Vivino and John Medeski came to the studio to record their parts. The rest, like my brother, recorded at their own studios VW:

Fri, Oct 14 With James Cotton Polish Hall, $60 Having begun his recording career at the age of 15, Johnny Winter took the time to look backward upon some of his influences on his latest record, Roots—at the tender age of 67. In addition, this past week marked the release of William Shatner's latest album, Seeking Major Tom, which features Winter as a special guest. The busy blues musician took the time to talk about his latest endeavours with Vue Weekly.

This record was produced by Paul Nelson. What drew you to him

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and what did he add to the process?

JW: Yes, Paul produced Roots and I'm thrilled with the work he did. He also plays on it and he is one hell of a guitarist in his own right. He added a meticulous eye to detail every step of the way while holding true to the sound of the originals and the more modern twist needed to make things current

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JW: It's very easy for me nowadays especially with a project like this. These songs were second nature to me VW:

VW: Tell us about working with William Shatner on his upcoming album.

Is it true you're a bit of a Trekkie?

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DAVID FRANCEY caught up with Francey via email to discuss the album, recording live off the floor and the effect that the endless news cycle has on our culture.

Your musical career began relatively late in your life. How did you turn to music at that point in your life?

DAVID FRANCEY: It was a late start alright, and I worked both construction and music until we took the first Juno [for 2001's Far End of Summer].

Then the choice became obvious, and music won out.

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avid Francey's musical career began in his 40s, but he's been putting out albums and hitting the road with the eager tenacity of a much younger man. Ever since 1999's Torn Screen Door first valuted him into the public consciousness as a singer-

songwriter with a modern spin on traditional folk strucutres, he's hardly slowed the out pour of releases, and his efforts haven't gone unrecognized: Francey has three Junos stashed on a shelf somewhere, alongside a handful of folk and acoustic awards and nominations.

Late Edition, his ninth album, explores Francey's reactions to news, personal, political or otherwise. Vue

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VW: The songs on Late Edition all detail your reactions to different types of news. What drew you to writing songs about that? Did the idea of building an album around those ideas come before the songs were written, or after?

DF: I've always been interested in the news of the world, and do tend to write about it occasionally. The idea for grouping the songs under the banner of Late Edition came when the CD was finished and the song selection suggested the title.

reflect on or delve into the aftermath of the story.

VW: The liner notes mention the album was recorded live off the floor at Moraine Studios in Nashville, and that "the experience was exhilarating and immediate." Why approach the recording that way?

DF: I would have to answer that it is because it is just that—exhilarating and immediate. When you are playing with musicians who are capable of recording on the fly like that, I feel it serves the songs themselves.

I have reflected on them for a long while before we ever reach the studio, so recording the album in two days and capturing the excitement of the new work is very rewarding and I think appropriate.

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DF: In some cases the news has been turned into just another form of entertainment, coming at a fierce pace, often sensationalistic, and in some cases replacing the hard news of the day with the trivial. I think the 24/7 format demands a new tragedy to keep us watching, denying time to

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MIKE EDEL Wed, Oct 19 (8 pm) With Sister Gray, Tyson Motsenbocker Wunderbar Born on an Alberta wheat farm, Mike Edel later moved to Victoria and his music reflects the two locations: it is one part self-refective cowboy and one part exuberant pop star.

Just before Edel plays in Edmonton, he took the time to outline some of his musical history.

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Their debut full length, Firecracker/ Cloudglow is a make-out machine.

Without a single misstep, 12 tracks blaze by, braiding a triumvirate Built To Spill, Pavement, Shins friendship bracelet. Their raw instrumentation does not give way to any one formula, giving each song it's own location in a Cannon Bros geography that will hopefully grow into a robust discography.

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The Weeknd Thursday (Independent)  That Abel Tesfaye's already shown a fine disregard for setting the music industry's typical wheels in motion, going about the business of his art without touching the regular playbook—his debut, House of Balloons, was released online for free earlier this year, and made it to the Polaris Prize shortlist without any physical release or more than a handful of live shows to his name—speaks somewhat to the immediacy of the time in which we live as much as the artist carving out his place in it.

So to follow House up a few months later with another free album, Thursday, seems well within his preferred mode of operation. Another dosage of IcyR&B and empty-eyed soul music, it finds Tesfaye locking into a holding pattern, attempting to build on the triumphs of House of Balloons while further defining the Weeknd sound in subtle ways.

It's mostly unaffected, it seems, by the immediate fame that's befallen him—

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guest verse in "The Zone" by Drake notwithstanding—retreading much of the same ground as House, detailing the same lonely lows and superficial surface of the club scene. It's where Tesfaye seems at his best, when he's immersing himself in the scene and commenting on it from within. Opener "Lonely Star" is driven by a warmer, more urgent instrumentation while "Thursday" pairs lonely echos of synth with his yearning, digi-brushed croon.

Lyrics seem to be his weakness; Weeknd songs err on the side of vapidity in their observational structure as often as they don't. The music buoys it, presenting it in a way that tilts it from bravado to comment through embodiment, but repeating the same weary subject matter is bound to wear thin eventually. Not yet though. Two albums of this quality in such a brief span of time—with a third supposedly on the way before the end of 2011—bodes well for the Tesfaye. If he doesn't simply settle into a sound, but continues trying to push and expand it, he might find himself impossible to ignore.

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Sunparlour Players Us Little Devils (Outside)  Ping-ponging between softer introspective songs and swirling barroom dirges, the best moments on Sunparlour Players' Us Little Devils come when it hits either extreme: the furious, floor-rumbling swirl of "Red Blood Red of Home" or the slower, subtler build of "2 Minds Listening" masterfully channel their energy into intriguing, magnetic ways. The songs caught somewhere between the two, though, usually leaning more towards the softer side, languish without the pure strengths of either force at play.

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Alice Cooper Welcome 2 My Nightmare (Universal)  Alice Cooper and producer Bob Ezrin—along with a crew of misfits drawn from Cooper's current touring band, the original musicians from Welcome to My Nightmare and the Alice Cooper group, and guests like Ke$ha and Rob Zombie—return to the scene of the nightmare with a follow-up to 1975's Welcome to My Nightmare. The original is a tough act to follow, but high points abound, with Cooper successfully pulling off disco ("Disco Bloodbath Boogie Fever"), surf rock ("Ghouls Gone Wild") and an epic, processed opener ("I Am Made of You," where he gives voice to the rebirth of a long forgotten nightmare). The odd falter is obscured by the tight plotting, and, even more than the first Nightmare, this one tells a good story and works as a complete album.

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Frank Turner / Wed, Oct 19 (8 pm) Incredibly prolific, Frank Turner has—in only six short years as a solo artist—released four albums, four EPs and two compilation discs. Plenty of artists won't have that kind of output by the time they've been at this for decades, but Turner, formerly the vocalist of hardcore band Million Dead, just can't stop putting out folky, sincere releases. (Starlite Room, $17)

The Cooper Brothers / Sat, Oct 15 (7:30 pm) Even though the duo has taken the past two decades off from performing and recording music, Canada was eager to re-embrace the Cooper Brothers when the first opportunity arose. The brothers—who toured with the likes of Joe Cocker and the Doobie Brothers in the '70s—put out a well-received song called "That's What Makes Us Great" to celebrate the Vancouver Olympics and then, all of a sudden, they were back.

Now with a new album, entitled In From The Cold, the Cooper Brothers make a triumphant return to the stage. (Festival Place, $33 – $37)

Mieke Maligne / Wed, Oct 19 (7 pm) Do you like pop? Do you like jazz? Then you are going to love Mieke Maligne's debut album, Just the Sun. Melding her pop sensibilities with producer Sandro Dominelli's jazz leanings, Just the Sun is the hybrid that will chase away the winter. Its official release party happens on Wednesday. (Yardbird Suite, $20)

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Pavel Steidl / Sat, Oct 15 (8 pm) If you've ever heard Pavel Steidl—and you may have, as the Edmonton Classical Guitar Society brought the performer to Edmonton in 2009—you'll know the breathtaking talent of this virtuoso performer. But I've got a question: what's up with the weird way classical guitarists hold their guitars? It's like they're cradling a really big, weird-shaped baby between their legs. I'm just sayin'. (Muttart Hall, $30)

All Else Fails / Fri, Oct 14 (9 pm) "When all else fails" couldn't be a more apt phrase for the times we're currently living in: the banks have failed, the universities have failed, the economy has failed, businesses are dropping like flies and jobs are drying up. So what the fuck are we going to do? Well, we're going to dance. (DV8)

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Coast to Coast

Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm

Devaney's Irish Pub Derina Harvey DV8 Netherward, Knife fight in the OR, All Else Fails, Bedside Bombs; 2:30pm

Edmonton Event Centre The Big Show

with Shout out out out out; 8pm; all ages

Festival Place

Café Series: Rankin, Church and Crowe; 7:30pm (show); $18 at Festival Place box office

Festival Place

Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

New West Hotel Rockin' Randy

Maclab Centre– Leduc Family Series:

Al Simmons; 7pm; $10 at TIX on the Square

NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Early Show:

Jeff Hendrick's Love Jones Band (R&B); Late Show: Alfie Zappacosta, 9:30pm

On the Rocks Go!; 9pm; $5

PAWN SHOP Future

Roots Presents: Mt Eden (Dubstep Party); 8pm (door)

Polish Hall Johnny Winter and James Cotton; $60 at Blackbyrd Red Piano Bar

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

Rose and Crown Pub Lyle Hobbs Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Rob Taylor

Sherlock Holmes–WEM Tony

Dizon

Starlite Room

No Witness, Empire Assasins, Bad Acid

Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pmclose

Wild West Saloon Trick Ryder WOK BOX Breezy

Brian Gregg every Fri; 3:30-5:30pm

Wunderbar

Deadhorse (Calgary), Krang, Sir Ma'am Ma'am; 8:30pm

Yardbird Suite

Listen Here–The Music Of Eddie Harris; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $14 (member)/$18 (guest)

Classical Convocation Hall Music at

KAS BAR Urban

House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm

He Said–She Said 2011: Sue Foley and Peter Karp (blues); 7:30pm; $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) at Festival Place box office

Convocation Hall: Brahms Cello Sonatas; 8pm

Level 2 lounge

FRESH START

180 Degrees DJ

Funk Bunker Thursdays

Lucky 13 Sin Thu

with DJ Mike Tomas

On The Rocks

Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow

Overtime– Downtown Thursdays

at Eleven: Electronic

BISTRO Amy Thiessen

DJs every Fri

(folk, blues, soul); live music every Fri; 7-10pm; $10

AZUCAR PICANTE

GAS PUMP The

BANK ULTRA

Uptown Jammers (house band); every Fri; 5:30-9pm

Haven Social

Blacksheep Pub

Jeffrey's Café June Mann Quartet ('70s pop and jazz classics); $10

Lizard Lounge

Blue Chair Café

Friday DJs spin on the main floor, Underdog and the Wooftop

Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current

session every Fri; 8pm; no cover s

L.B.'s El Dorodo;

Under the Big Big Sky: Russell deCarle (Prairie Oyster); 7:30pm; $38 russelldecarle.com

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

Irish Club Jam

Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

ARDEN Theatre

BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover

DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri

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

House The Rock

Mash-up: DJ Makk spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover

Brixx bar Psynights: DJ Rakim

BUDDY’S DJ Arrow

Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

Buffalo Underground R U

Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights

CHROME LOUNGE

Platinum VIP every Fri

THE Common

Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround

The Druid Irish Pub DJ every Fri; 9pm electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ

every Fri

FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri

Funky Buddha– Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri

GAS PUMP DJ

Christian; every Fri; 9:30pm-2am

junction bar and eatery LGBT Com-

munity: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

Level 2 Lounge

Fridaze: Level 2's 6 Year Anniversary Party with Neighbour; 9:30pm

Newcastle Pub

House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan

New City Glitter Ball:

Vibe Tribe Gypsy Circus Society, hosted by Luna Dance Fusion featuring dance performances

by The Bedouin Dance Company (Calgary), Vibe Tribe Gypsy Circus, Raq-a-Belly dance, Polly Rocket of Capital City Burlesque, Luna Dance Fusion, Flowlab, Moon Unit, Eclipse with DJ Emilio and Urban Monks; dance after the show; no minors; 9pm (door), 10pm (show); $15 (adv at Bedouin Beats, Mars & Venus and Rowena)/$18 (door); fundraising event

Overtime– Downtown Fridays

at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno

Rednex–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri

RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri ROUGE LOUNGE Solice Fri

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge

Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover

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SPORTSWORLD

Roller Skating Disco Fri Nights; 7-10:30pm; sports-world.ca

Suede Lounge Juicy

DJ spins every Fri

Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A

Temple Options with

Greg Gory and Eddie Lunchpail; every Fri

Treasury In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long Union Hall Ladies Night every Fri

Vinyl Dance Lounge Connected Las Vegas Fridays

Y AFTERHOURS

Foundation Fridays

SAT OCT 15 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage

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

Black Dog Freehouse Hair of

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

Blue Chair Café Al

Brant; 8:30pm; $15

Blues on Whyte

Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Evening: Jack De Keyzer

Brixx Bar The

Able Kind, Six String Rrevolution

CASINO EDMONTON Stars Tonight

CASINO Yellowhead Colleen Rae and Cornerstone

Coach's Corner Sports Bar– Morinville Warning To Avoid

Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm

Concordia University Krystaal

(R&B/pop, gospel, urban and world, African); 6-9pm; free

Crown Pub Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; Laid Back Saturday African Dance Party with Dj Collio, every Sat, 12-2am THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm

Devaney's Irish Pub Derina Harvey DV8 Shocker, Feast of

Fury; 9pm

Eddie Shorts Saucy

Wenches every Sat

Empress Aile House Bernard

Afternoon of Original Songs; 4-6pm

Expressionz Café

Open stage for original songs, hosted by Karyn Sterling and Randall Walsh; 2-5pm; admission by donation

Festival Place

The Cooper Brothers (country); 7:30pm; $38 (table)/$36 (box)/$34 (theatre) at Festival Place box office

Filthy McNasty's

The McGowan Family Band with guest Celeigh Rose Cardinal; 4pm; no cover

Gas Pump Blues jam/ open stage every Sat 3:30-7pm Haven Social Club Rob's Birthday

HillTop Pub Sat

afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening: Tye Jones and the Tall, Dark 'n' Dirty Band (a celebration of life in memory of Charlene O'Hara benefit show); 9:30pm

Hooliganz The Give

'Em Hell Boys; $5

Iron Boar Pub Jazz

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

Jeffrey's Café Althea

Cunningham (RnB/jazz/ rock singer); 8pm; $12 (door)

L.B.'s Big Hank and a

Fist Full of Blues with Mark Ammar; 9:30pm

Level 2 lounge

Michelle C (Carmel Chocolate Star Tart CD release); 9:30pm

Maclab Centre– Leduc Louisana HayRide;

7:30pm; $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior) at tixonthesquare.ca

New City Compound Big John

Bates; no minors

New West Hotel

New West Hotel Country jam every Sat, 3-6pm; Evening: Rockin' Randy

NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Early Show:

Jeff Hendrick's Love Jones Band (R&B); Late Show: Alfie Zappacosta, 9:30pm

O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm On the Rocks Go!; 9pm; $5

Bash and Steam Whistle Oktoberfest: Kemo Treats (rap), Zyla and the Blackstone; 8pm; $10 (adv)

Red Piano Bar

Diesel Ultra Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB Devaney’s Irish Pub 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 Dow's Shell Theatre– Fort Saskatchewan 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.6400 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St Early Stage Saloon 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Eddie Shorts 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ‎ Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Empress Aile House 9912 Whyte Ave., 780-758-2754 Expressionz Café 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH Night Club 10018105 St, 780.969.9965 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.

CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 Giovanni School of Music Recital Hall 10528 Mayfield Rd Glenrose Hospital Theatre 10230-111 Ave HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO haven social club

15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 Hogs Den Pub 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Horizon Stage 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780-962-8995 Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Iron Boar Pub 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 kelly's pub 11540 Jasper Ave L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lizard Lounge 13160118 Ave Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Muttart Hall Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr Naked Cyber café 10354 Jasper Ave, 780.425.9730 Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) Nisku Inn 1101-4 St NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola.

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

Rose and Crown Pub Lyle Hobbs Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Rob Taylor

Sherlock Holmes–WEM Tony

Dizon

Starlite Room Young the Giant, guests; 8pm; $23 at Blackbyrd

West Side Pub

West Side Pub Sat Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones (host), all styles, 3-7pm

Wild West Saloon Trick Ryder Wunderbar The

Liptonians (Winnipeg) / The Zolas (Vancouver); 8:30pm

Yardbird Suite

Listen Here–The Music Of Eddie Harris; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $14 (member)/$18 (guest)

Winspear Centre

ESO: Mendelssohn's First Piano Concerto: Mei-Ann Chen (conductor), Ilya Yakushev (piano); 8pm; $20-$75 at Winspear box office

DJs 180 Degrees Street

VIBS: Reggae night every Sat

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

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Saturday

evenings feature DJs on three levels; Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt rock/Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hiphop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz

Classical

Blacksheep Pub DJ

Muttart Hall– Alberta College

BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm

every Sat

Edmonton Classical Guitar Society: Pavel Steidl; 8pm; $30 (adult)/$25 (student/ seniors/ECGS member) at TIX on the Square, Avenue Guitars, Acoustic Music Shop, ADW Music, door; $10 (youth, 12 and under) through society, door only

every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

Westin Edmonton

every Sat; 9pm

Opera: Opera Brunch: food and a recital by the artists starring in the production of Cavalleria Rusticana / I Pagliacci; 11am (brunch), 12:15pm (recital); ticketa at 780.429.1000, edmontonopera.com/ events/brunch.php

Buffalo Underground Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night

The Common Hey

Sport!: Allout DJs, Dane, Kenzie Clarke; 9pm

Druid Irish Pub DJ electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat

Fluid Lounge Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks,

VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blacksheep Pub 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 bohemia 10575-114 St Boneyard Ale House 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663 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 Central Lions Recreational Centre 11113-113 St Century grill 3975 Calgary Tr NW, 780.431.0303 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coach's Corner Sports Bar–Morinville 2, 9515-100 St, Morinville Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 Common Lounge 10124124 St Concordia University 7128 Ada Blvd Convocation Hall Arts Bldg, U of A, 780.492.3611 Crown and Anchor 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696 Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618

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VUEWEEKLY OCT 13 – OCT 19, 2011

com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Orlando's 1 15163-121 St Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 Muttart Hall–Alberta College 10050 Macdonald Dr, 587.708.2044 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 1086057 Ave Polish Hall 10960-104 St Pourhouse Bier Bistro 10354 Whyte Ave, pourhouseonwhyte.ca REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-149 St Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 St R Pub 16753-100 St,

780.457.1266

Second Cup–Mountain Equipment 12336-102 Ave, 780.451.7574; Stanley Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; Varscona, Varscona Hotel, 106 St, Whyte Ave Second Cup–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 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsworld 13710104 St Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Suede Lounge 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232

Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969

Taphouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca Vinyl Dance Lounge 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com Westin 10135-100 St Westside Pub 15135 Stony Plain Rd 780 758 2058 Wild Bill’s–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WILD WEST SALOON 12912-50 St, 780.476.3388 Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOK BOX 10119 Jasper Ave WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com Yellowhead Brewery 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian

GAS PUMP DJ Christian every Sat

HALO For Those Who

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

junction bar and eatery LGBT

Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

Newcastle Pub Top

40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

New City Legion

Polished Chrome: every Sat with DJs Blue Jay, The Gothfather, Dervish, Anonymouse; no minors; free (5-8pm)/$5 (ladies)/$8 (gents after 8pm)

Overtime– Downtown Saturdays

at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School

Palace Casino Show Lounge DJ every Sat

PAWN SHOP

Transmission Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm)

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your

Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

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

Suede Lounge DJ

FLOW LOUNGE Shawn Desman Live (the official after party); 9pm

Hogs Den Pub Dirty

Jam: hosted by Tye Jones; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 4-8pm

Newcastle Pub Sun

NEW CITY LEGION DIY

Wunderbar Armadillo

Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands)

O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays

Y AFTERHOURS Release

Saturdays

SUN OCT 16 Beer Hunter–St Albert Open stage/jam

every Sun; 2-6pm

Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku

Open mic every Sun hosted

by Tim Lovett

Blue Chair Café

Sunday Brunch: Farley Scott's Jazz Passages trio; 10:30am-2:30pm; donations

Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on

the Side Sun: Ray Baril (sax); 6pm; $25 if not dining

Century Casino Ray Griff

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

Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm

Pourhouse Bier Bistro Singer-

songwriter open stage with Jay Gilday; every Sun, 9pm-close

REXALL PLACE Selena Gomez and the Scene with guests Shawn Desman, Christina Grimmie; 6pm (door), 7pm (show); sold out Ritchie United Church Jazz and

Reflections: Dan Skakun Trio; 3:30-5pm; collection at door

Songwriters Stage, various hosts; all ages; 7-11pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay

The Common Boom

Sun; 2-4pm

The Box, Sonny Grimezz, Allout DJs; 8pm

Wunderbar Socalled

Crown Pub Minefield

(Montreal), A.O.K., Mikey Maybe, Katie Moore (Montreal); 8:30pm

Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy. Dance parties have been known to erupt

FLOW Lounge Stylus Sun

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on

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

Sportsworld

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

MON OCT 17

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman

Mon: live music monthly; no cover

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 OCT 18

Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm

kelly's pub Open stage New West Hotel

Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm

Druid Irish Pub

Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm

Horizon Stage David

Francey (folk, songs from his new CD, Late Edition); 7:30pm; $25 (adv)/$30 (door)

L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am

New West Hotel Jesse Lee

NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Early Show:

Padmanadi Open stage

every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm

R Pub Open stage jam

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

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

SEcond Cup–Stanley Milner Library Open mic

NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Early Show: Don

every Tue; 7-9pm

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

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

Berner Trio (jazz)

NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Don Berner Trio

Lounge Open stage

every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm

Wunderbar

Rococode (Vancouver), The Secretaries, The Fight; 8:30pm

Yardbird Suite

Tuesday Session: Andrew Glover Quartet; $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard

Brixx Bar Troubadour Tue: hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8

Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser

every

CRown Pub Live hip

hop and open mic with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, Frank Brown, and guests; no cover

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

Level 2 lounge

3rd Annual Wing It: Wednesdays DJ Comp; 9:30pm

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor:

Churchill Square

Devaney's Irish Pub

Sportsman's

Churchill Square

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm

Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm

Nisku Inn Troubadours

Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm

WED OCT 19

Incognito

Don Berner Trio

Incognito

SIDELINERS PUB All Star

Blues on Whyte

Blues on Whyte

Jesse Lee

jam every Sun; 9pm

the Leaders of Tomorrow: U of A Dept of Music: Wendy Niewenhuis, Chee Meng Low, Sandra Joy Friesen, Colin Labadie, Daniel Brophy, Yoana Kyurkchieva, Viktoria Rieswich-Dapp; 8pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (senior)/ $10 (student)

Second Cup– Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every

Double D's Open jam

Expressionz café

Convocation Hall Winspear Centre– Enmax Hall Celebrating

Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover

Eddie Shorts Acoustic

Classical

ORLANDO'S 2 PUB

Wreck, guests

every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm

every Sun; 3-8pm

Zine fundraiser; 8:30pm

Monday Noon Music: 12pm; free

BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night:

Saturdays: every Sat hosted by

Rebellion, Canon Blue; 8pm

On the Rocks Train

Suite 69 Every Fri Sat

Union Hall Celebrity

stage every Mon; 9pm

Starlite Room Boxer

DJs

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

Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open

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

Nic-E spins every Sat with DJ Randall-A

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

Second Cup– Summerwood Open

Glitter Gulch: live music once a month

Blue Chair café Lennie Gallant; 8:3010:30pm; $25

Blues on Whyte Incognito

Churchill Square

Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm

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

(jazz)

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

Second Cup–89 Ave

Rick Mogg (country)

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

Starlite Room Frank

Turner, SleepingSouls, Andrew Jackson Jihad, Into It. Over It.; $20 at Blackbyrd

Wunderbar Mike

Edel (Victoria), Tyson Motsenbocker (California); 8:30pm

Yardbird Suite Mike Lent (bass), Jim Head (guitar), Bob Tildesley (trumpet), Wes Inaba (piano), Dominelli (drums/ percussion), Mieke Maligne (vocals); (CD release of Just the Sun); 7pm (door), 7:30pm; $20, at TIX on the Square Classical McDougall United Church Music

Wednesdays at Noon: Kerri McGonigle and Leanne Regehr (cello, piano); 12:10-12:50pm; free

DJs BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Rev'd Up Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '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

eddie shorts Acoustic

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

Elephant and Castle–Whyte Ave

The Common

jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover

Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

FESTIVAL Place

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"Change of Address"--can you deliver?

FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) If it's possible, don't hang around boring people this week. Seek out the company of adventurers who keep you guessing, unruly talkers who incite your imagination and mystery-lovers on the lookout for new learning experiences. Cultivating novelty is your mandate right now. Outgrowing your habits would be wise, fun and cool. Changing your mind is a luxury you need and deserve.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) "My grandfather always said that living is like licking honey off a thorn," wrote the Slovenian-American author Louis Adamic. Here's the thing, though: If you manage to get a smooth thorn without any prickles, the only risk is when you're licking the honey close to the sharp end. Otherwise, as your tongue makes its way up the sleek surface of the rest of the thorn, you're fine—no cuts, no pain. According to my analysis, you have just finished your close encounter with the sharp point of a smooth thorn. Now the going will be easier.

Across 1) Its fruit is made into paste 6) Prince William's mother 11) Some radios 14) Before 15) Cold War era columnist Joseph 16) Pitchblende, for one 17) "___ believe we've met..."

18) Actress Thurman, after joining the "More Than a Feeling" band?

20) Abe, after being demoted to the dollar bill?

22) "Spamalot" creator Idle 23) Prefix meaning one-tenth 24) Scream from atop a chair 25) Class that requires little effort 26) Compass dir.

27) Rapture 28) Batting stat 30) Hebrew letter 31) Skillet 32) Driving hazard 34) Divine guidance from an "Entourage" agent?

37) Came to fit, as clothing 38) Get prepared for battle 39) No longer active, as a Sgt. 40) Suffix after employ 41) ___ Butterworth's 42) Railroad stop: abbr.

45) Love, to Laurent 47) Massive Brit. lexicon 48) Frequent documentary subj.

49) Lives in print?

50) Explorer Walter's new company?

53) Bonham Carter's personal ambulance staff?

55) ___ Lippi (painter of "Madonna and Child Enthroned") 56) Vexation 57) Dustpan "co-worker" 58) Shaq's surname 59) Part of AMA 60) Spray perfume 61) Talking Head David Down 1) Groups of craftsmen 2) Private garments 3) Right away 4) Leonardo's hometown 5) Choir member 6) Coleman of "9 to 5" 7) "Do ___ like I'm kidding?"

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8) Part of AMA 9) Staff figure?

10) Abbr. on military mail 11) Excellent, to Roger Ebert 12) He taught Daniel-san 13) Capri's Blue Grotto, for instance 19) Teacher's org.

21) Catlike 25) Downy ducks 27) Oscar winner Bardem 28) Rand Paul's father 29) Rum brand with a fruit bat on the label 31) "Batman" sound effect 32) ___ Speedwagon 33) Aries animal 34) Grand opening 35) Went back to the drawing board with 36) Rehab relapse sign, for short 37) Order from a villain to the henchmen 41) Start of a tryst request 42) "Dora the Explorer" antagonist 43) Historic musical "Alley" of Manhattan 44) Scherzinger of the Pussycat Dolls 46) Fair ___ laws 47) "Stand and Deliver" actor Edward James ___ 48) Likely to complain about everything 50) Not an everyday occurrence 51) "___ Flux" (MTV cartoon) 52) Toothpaste amount 54) "Community" network ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) On the front of every British passport is an image that includes a chained unicorn standing up on its two hind legs. It's a central feature of the coat of arms of the United Kingdom. I would love to see you do something as wacky as that in the coming week, bring elements of fantasy and myth and imagination into some official setting. It would, I believe, put you in sweet alignment with current cosmic rhythms.

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) I've come across two definitions of the slang term "cameling up."

One source says it means filling yourself with thirst-quenching liquid before heading out to a hot place on a hot day. A second source says it means stuffing yourself with a giant meal before going out binge drinking, because it allows you to get drunk more slowly. For your purposes, I'm proposing a third, more metaphorical "cameling up." Before embarking on a big project to upgrade your self-expression— quite possibly heroic and courageous—I suggest you camel up by soaking in an abundance of love and support from people whose nurturing you savour.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) I love Adele's voice.

The British pop singer has a moving, virtuoso instrument—technically perfect, capable of expressing a range of deep emotion, strong in both her high and low registers. And yet there's not a single song she does that I find interesting. The lyrics are clichéd, the melodies uninspired and the arrangements are standard fare. Does what I'm describing remind you of anything in your own life? A situation you halflove and are half-bored by? If so, what can you do about it? You may be able to improve things if you act soon.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) There's a good chance that you will soon find something you lost a while back. It may even be the case that you will recover an asset you squandered or you'll revive a dream that was left for dead.

The universe is rewarding you for the good work you've done lately on taking better care of what's important to you. You're going to be shown how much grace is available when you live your life in rapt alignment with your deepest, truest values.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) Chris Richards wrote a story in the Washington Post in which he

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complained about the surplus of unimaginative band names. At this year's SXSW music festival in Austin, he counted six different bands that used "Bear" and two with "Panda." Seven bands had "Gold," including Golden Bear. You're in a phase of your life when it's especially important not to be a slave of the trends—a time when it's crucial to your well-being to come up with original language, unique descriptions and fresh approaches. So what would your band's name be?

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) You've got to cry one more tear before the pungent comedy will deliver its ultimate lesson and leave you in peace. But meanwhile, the catharses and epiphanies just keep on erupting. You're growing more soulful and less subject to people's delusions by the minute. Your rather unconventional attempts at healing are working— maybe not as rapidly as you'd like, but still, they are working.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) "Most people who profess a deep love of the Bible have never actually read the book," says religious writer Rami Shapiro. If they did, they'd know that Satan is not implicated as the tempter of Adam and Eve. Homilies like "This too shall pass" and "God helps those who help themselves" never appear in the scriptures. And contrary to the Ayn Rand-style self-reliance that evangelicals think is a central theme of their holy book, the Bible's predominant message is that goodness is measured by what one does for others. I bring this up as a teaching about how not to proceed in the coming weeks. You really do need to know a lot about the texts, ideas, people and situations upon which you base your life.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) "The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote to the emptiness of existence." So says the Gertrude Stein character in Woody Allen's film Midnight in Paris. As an aspiring master of crafty optimism myself, I don't buy the notion that existence is inherently empty.

I do, however, wish that more artists would be motivated by the desire to create cures for the collective malaise that has haunted every historical era, including ours. I invite you to take up this noble task yourself in the coming weeks, whether or not you're an artist. You now have much more than your usual power to inspire and animate others.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) The world-famous whiskey known as Jack Daniel's is produced in Moore County, Tennessee, which prohibits the sale of alcohol in stores and restaurants. So you can't get a drink of the stuff in the place where it's made. I suspect there's a comparable situation going on in your life. Maybe something you're good at isn't appreciated by those around you. Maybe a message you're broadcasting gets more attention at a distance than it does up close. Is there anything you can do about that?

The coming weeks would be a good time to try.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) Once you drive your car into Norway's Laerdal Tunnel, you're in for a long haul through the murk. The light at the end doesn't start appearing until you've travelled almost 14 miles. As a metaphor for your life, I estimate that you're at about the 12-mile mark. Keep the faith. It's a straight shot from here. Can you think of any cheerful tunes you could sing at the top of your lungs? V

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COMMENT >> LGBTQ

Expose an anniversary

Exposure Festival continues to celebrate diversity in its fifth year After four successful years, Expoword and poetry, hosting parties and The board and volunteers of this sure: Edmonton's Queer Arts and displaying art that explores themes year's Exposure Festival are working Cultural Festival enters its fifth year including gender performance and to build on our community's history with the theme of "Queer Revolunon-conformity, heteronormativity, of political resistance and revolution." This year's festival will extwo-spirit theory, queer icons, sotion. As such, the goal is not just plore our shared social and cial justice and equality, and to push back against homophobia political history while lookthe business of art. and it's certainly not to ask for toling to the future of queer erance from larger society. Instead, om .c activism and art.

While the festival seeks Exposure hopes to create environly k e vuewe alexa@ Founded by five-term to expose queer artists to ments and events that embody, Alexa e new audiences, it is ever- engage and celebrate (as opposed City of Edmonton counciln DeGag more unique as it encourages to merely defend or protect) "ablor Michael Phair, the festival first took place in the fall of 2007. and depends upon the participation normal" sexualities. Participating in According to the organization's of its attendees. Exposure does not these events is thus a political act in website, "Exposure uncovers, highThe goal is not just to push back against lights and celebrates queer arts and homophobia ... Exposure hopes to create culture ... Exposure presents queer environments and events that embody, engage and artists working in diverse media. By celebrate (as opposed to merely defend or protect) creating environments where artists can explore queer culture and take 'abnormal' sexualities. risks, the festival cultivates creative synergies, thought-provoking displays, social commentary and new place its audience in a position where itself. Exposure invites activists and possibilities for inhabiting sexuality they can only passively observe the artists to join the revolution and and gender. Exposure questions and art or performances. Attendees are think seriously and critically about inspires, celebrates and expands the invited to join art-making, drag and sexuality, question social norms and spectrum of queer expression." vogue, and "Mindful Queer Body" regulations, and inspire each other The volunteer-run board has workshops and performances. Parto take social and political action in worked in collaboration with arts ticipation is encouraged so that partheir own communities. and culture organizations in the city ticipants can meet and interact with This year's festival runs from Octoand across the country. The program each other, and can foster solidarity, ber 20 to 23. Admission to all of the features artists, activists and scholcollaboration and co-operation withevents is free or by donation. All venars who will be offering workshops, in and across our local and national ues are fully accessible and located giving lectures, performing spoken queer communities. near public transportation routes. V

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COMMENT >> SEX

Text this, jerk

If you're going to blow, sometimes you've got to blow up I'm a college freshman. I thought that would be extremely difficult. college would be the place to come It wouldn't be impossible—some out, but the sad fact is that college gay people managed to find lasting hasn't changed anything. I'm still unlove back in the bad old days—but able to admit my sexuality to my it would be difficult. And the sneakfriends, teammates, classmates ing around and hiding and lying E and hallmates. I have thought G would ultimately warp their A SAV about joining the LGBT orpsyches and their lives. ganizations, but those guys If you don't want to get m o kly.c uewee are too "out" for me. Not savagelove@v warped, CU, you're going Dan that there's any problem to have to come out. And avage once you're out, you don't S with that. I just don't think that being gay is anyone else's business have to hang out with gay people unless I want them to know. The hardwith whom you don't click, and you est part is seeing other freshmen go don't have to be gay the way, say, out to parties, hook up and date when the LGBT groupers on your campus I don't have the opportunity to do so. are gay. Remember: gay men who are I've resorted to going on Craigslist, but out at your age (18?) tend to be a my encounters have been weird. What bit gayer than the average gay dude. should I do?

They're out in part because they can't CLOSETED UNDERGRAD be in. And God bless 'em and more power to 'em and the gay rights/libYou're not required to disclose who eration movement would never have you're going out with, CU, or the gengotten off the ground without 'em. der of the folks you would like to go But since you can pass, CU, you've out with. But keeping your sexual had the option of waiting. orientation a secret indefinitely—not You have, of course, the option of your sexual interests (which you can never coming out. But as you're diskeep to yourself), but your sexual oricovering, CU, it's hard to date in the entation—will ultimately warp your closet, and DL-enabling sites like CL psyche and your life. and Grindr aren't going to deliver the Think about it from the other side: kind of connections you want. So what would the straight guys on your long as you're limited to quickly arteam have to do in order to hide their ranged hookups with guys you don't straightness from you? They could know, can't risk getting to know never mention their girlfriends, go out and can't be seen with in public, all on dates or hook up with someone of your encounters are going to be they met at a party. They would have weird. Not because all the guys on to hide their porn and be careful not CL or Grindr are weird—there are to check out girls in public. They could good guys on both sites—but benever get engaged, get married or cause you're trying to have a life and have kids. They might be able to have keep it secret, that tends to attract furtive, secretive and shame-driven weirdos without lives. sexual encounters with other closetLook, CU, you're only 18. You've got ed heterosexuals they met online or in time. But what you're going to realplaces where closeted straight people ize, in not too much more time, is that gathered to have anonymous sex, but dating and finding love—or even just finding love—true and lasting love— sex—inside the closet is nearly impos-

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sible. You can remain in the closet and keep your business secret, but you won't have much of a life in there. And when you realize that, CU, you'll come out. First to a friend or two, then to your family, then to everyone. And once you're all the way out, you'll find that the guys you've been focusing on—the "too out" guys—aren't the only gay guys out there. Just some of

You should've snatched that camera from his hand and stuffed it so far up his ass you could've sent yourself a picture of the roof of his mouth.

the best.

I know it's hard. But you can do it.

All it takes is opening your mouth and saying the words.

Last night, I was blowing a male friend.

When I glanced up from "my work," I saw that he was texting someone. I didn't say anything and finished the job, but I was offended. Another friend says I should've mentioned it because he might have been taking a picture.

At the very least, what he did was rude. Any insight from you?

WHEN BLOWING BLOWS He was taking pictures or making a video and may have been emailing pics/vids to his buddies in real time— don't be an idiot, WBB—and you should've snatched that camera from his hand and stuffed it so far up his ass you could've sent yourself a picture of the roof of his mouth. Please cut this out and tape it to the mirror in your bathroom: any girl who's uninhibited enough to blow a "friend" has to be uninhibited enough to blow up at that friend if she spots him taking sex pictures without her consent.

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I'm a straight male, age 26. I've been with my girlfriend for seven years.

We're lucky in that we have a group of friends who are into having sex with us. My question is, what is the proper etiquette for condom use between my girlfriend and me when others are present? We don't use condoms when we're alone, so we haven't been using condoms when we're in front of others.

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They are using them, and I use them if I have intercourse with another girl, so the risk for the two of us intuitively seems minimal. Is there anything we should be concerned about?

GROUP-SEX ROOKIE If you and your girlfriend have been tested and you're "fluid bonded" (ugh!

That term!) and you're not having sex in front of strangers at, say, a swingers club or party where someone might misinterpret your condom-free sex as a licence to initiate condom-free sex with randoms to whom they are not fluid bonded—preventing these worst-case/biggest-idiot scenarios is why many organized swingers clubs require condoms-for-all during group/ public parties—then I don't see why you and your girlfriend should have to use condoms with each other. So long as you're careful about always putting on a condom when you need one, you're both willing to assume the higher risks of acquiring one of the STIs that can be passed through skinto-skin contact, and seeing you two go condom-free doesn't make your friends so insanely jealous that they

can't get it up/on in your presence, then knock yourselves out.

This is in response to Messed-Up Junk.

His junk sounds just like my junk! But my junk isn't messed up. I'm a transman—so a two-inch "micropenis" actually sounds pretty damn good! Anyway, I wanted to say this to MUJ: don't let your junk stop you from hopping in bed with whomever you damn well please. I know lots of guys with junk like yours who get plenty of action from lots of fine ladies—and gents.

As long as your junk gives you sexual pleasure and you are willing to pleasure your partner, there is much fun to be had. Yes, having a body that's different can be terrifying. Be honest and up-front, but don't let your head and your fear get in the way of hot sex.

PUMPED-UP JUNK Thanks for sharing, PUJ. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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My initial encounter with real street art was in Montréal, home of world renowned artist Roadsworth. I remember the first time I came upon flocks of birds and winding vines stencilled on the sidewalk with yellow paint while walking through the labyrinthine paths at Les Habitations Jeanne-Mance. The discovery of his work changed the way I saw the city, and how street artists lend an unexpected sense of play and human touch to the urban environment.

A new book about Roadsworth, written by Bethany Gibson with text by the artist himself, serves as a retrospective. This is not a typical story of a graffiti artist. By the time he was charged by police, given jail time and fined $250 000, he had so touched the people of Montréal with his visual

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puns on road markings and shadows of objects created by street lamps that they rallied behind him until he was let go with community service (painting a street-art project in the plateau).

The book sheds light on his influences, namely Andy Goldsworthy, his political agenda and the artistic themes behind his huge body of work. It is beautifully illustrated with photos taken primarily by the artist since the beginning of a prolific 10-year career that has taken him around the world. v Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and avid flâneur. Back Words is a discussion of her dérives and a photographic diary of the local visual culture.

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