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A voice in the process Democracy is not easy. Most of us are not taught how to participate in the democratic process. Beyond voting in elections, little is said about how to interact with government or change policy in the years between ballots. This month in Edmonton we've witnessed two diverse tactics at getting involved in the political process. While Occupy Edmonton maintains its camp on Jasper Ave, over 100 Edmontonians attempted to have their voice heard through a public forum. The Occupiers have caught public criticism for the perceived uselessness of their action. They've been called jobless students who have too much time on their hands. Many are confused about the action, not knowing what to make of an effort that doesn't involve petitions, political parties or other, more-official channels to public office. At City Hall on Tuesday over 100

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Edmontonians attempted to voice their concerns about the downtown arena and the current funding model being proposed. Citizens voicing criticism of the procedure online called the presenters "soccer moms" who had no understanding of economics and seniors who had too much time on their hands and who wouldn't be around to see the arena built anyway, so what should they care? In each case there's a failure to understand that, at the core of it, these are people who are attempting to voice their concern about political issues in their community. Not everyone has a vast knowledge of the economic system. Not all citizens know the market fluctuations in the construction industry, or the answer to solving global poverty. We can't expect people to have the ability to synthesize their dreams into 140 characters or five-minute statements.

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Complicating the matter are people's different methods of expression: some value the written word; others want to physically act; and some don't think they will be taken seriously in established processes or that they will have doors shut in their face. But what people can express are their priorities and their hopes and frustrations for the community in which they live. This expression is sometimes only based on lived experience, and we should respect the value in that, making our best attempt to integrate the principle of what a person is attempting to contribute to the democratic process. Because, for most of us, participating in a democratic process is an experiment, but the value in our expressed perspective shouldn't be admonished—it's an attempt to contribute and, hopefully, to create a community out of our diversity that works to the benefit of all. 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.

LAST WEEK:

COMMENTS FROM THE WEB POLL

On Friday, October 14, city council approved the plan to purchase the land needed for the downtown arena. Should council have approved this plan?

I would rather have a new, Bilbao-type, knock-out architecture, downtown library. We have enough crime downtown already, why add a hockey slug festival to our no go zone?

THIS WEEK: If Edmonton city council approves the current funding model for the downtown arena, would you be in favour of a citizen-led petition to bring the question to a plebicite? 1. Yes, it's a large project involving public money. Edmontonians should have a say.

Maybe they can charge Katz an extra 20 million to buy back the land. Very bad deal overall for the taxpayer.

30.77% Yes, it's a good asset regardless of whether the arena goes through. 15.38% Yes, it's one more step toward approving the arena. 53.85% No, it was an unnecessary purchase.

2. No, I elected my city councillor to make the tough decisions.

Optimizing public dollars within the private sector ... everyone opposed to a downtown arena is required to read several text books on the subject and hand in a 10-page report to my office by Friday.

3. No, citizens have had their chance at public input.

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NewsRoundup COAL-FIRED DEBATE A legal challenge launched by Ecojustice against the approval of the Maxim coal fired power plant expansion by the Alberta Utilities Commission has been denied in provincial court. The expansion to the existing Milner plant in Grand Cache will allow Maxim to avoid new federal greenhouse gas regulations because the expansion will take place before the regulations do. Federal regulations would force the Milner plant to make a 50 percent reduction in emissions—1.5 million tonnes per year over the plant's 45 year lifespan. Justice Patricia Rowbotham stated the court would not intervene in AUC processes to set approval dates.

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A WIN FOR STANDARDS This ruling is the last legal process available to challenge the plant's expansion, but the Pembina Institute—who called for the legal challenge—has vowed it will continue to pressure Maxim to enforce the new regulations. "We are now looking to federal environment minister Peter Kent to deliver on his pledge to ensure that the new federal regulations aren't circumvented by companies like Maxim trying to sneak in under the wire," said Chris Severson-Baker, spokesperson for the Pembina Institute. "Unless Maxim redesigns its project so that it can comply with the new federal regulations, we will continue to oppose it through every possible avenue."

Local radio station K97 will remove controversial billboards after a ruling by the Canadian Advertising Standards Council. Numerous complaints were made to the council about the billboards focusing on just a woman's chest. The ruling determined the billboards "Served only to objectify women for the advertiser to focus on a woman's breasts in an advertisement for a radio morning show that had no connection to women's sexuality. Council, therefore, found that this advertisement demeaned and denigrated women and encouraged, gratuitously and without merit, at-

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titudes that offended standards of decency among a significant segment of the population, thereby contravening clauses 14 (c) and (d)." K97 program director James Gushnowski stated it was not the station's intent to offend, that it was trying for humour. "We try and be humorous and tongue in cheek in our advertising campaigns, however, after reviewing the ruling, we agree and respect the decision of the ASC." While the council holds no ability to enforce its ruling, K97 has stated it will remove the billboard.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK "'This is just a deal for Katz,' says blogger Terry McKinnon, who comes across as

tedious, purist know-it-all. Who is this guy?"

—David Staples (@dstaples) Twitter Tue, Oct 26

Empire of the beetle

Human error has allowed the overdevelopment of the mountain pine beetle

nyone who has driven through central BC recently knows what mountain pine beetles can do to a forest. Huge swaths of dead trees now blanket entire mountainsides in red. British Columbia's bark beetle outbreak was unprecedented, and it didn't take long before the insects began dropping in on Alberta. While there's a temptation to think of mountain pine beetles as a BC problem that has begun to seep into Alberta from next door, Andrew Nikiforuk makes clear in his new book, Empire of the Beetle, that nothing could be further from the truth. While bark beetles are a natural, healthy part of forest ecosystems, in recent decades outbreaks have been growing in severity and the insects have started popping up in areas where they have never been seen before. In the 1990s they wiped out more than 200 million trees in Alaska before crossing the border into the Yukon and wreaking havoc with an ecosystem that had never seen them before. In the 2000s they hit Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Arizona, New Mexico and Colorado. The outbreak in BC may be close to home, but it is far from an isolated incident. Nikiforuk spent two years crisscrossing the continent in search of bark beetles and the people whose lives

they've changed. While government and industry are quick to tally the economic costs of lost timber, it soon became clear that the true impact is on the psyches of ordinary people. In Alaska, a couple who built their home amongst a cathedral of towering Sitka spruce packs up and leaves, heartbroken by the loss of their trees. In central BC, school children begin colouring the lodgepole pines in their drawings red rather than green. An artist organizes a touring exhibition of work commemorating the lost forests which sees visitors leave in tears. The financial costs may be huge, but the communities that have been affected by bark beetles need far more than economic help. The stories of government assistance Nikiforuk relays read like a comedy of errors. For decades, politicians and industry have been caught off guard time and again and, rather than learning from past mistakes, all

too often their efforts to stop the beetles or to salvage the trees they have killed only serve to accelerate the insects' spread. Over a 10-year period, BC applied almost nine tons of arsenic and other poisons to trees in an effort to kill mountain pine beetles. The practice was ended when they discovered they were also killing off woodpeckers, one of the beetle's most effective predators. Officials have had infested forests logged during the winter in an effort to haul the beetle larvae out of an area and save the neighbouring trees, only to discover that the large stumps left below the snow line are chockfull of young. In other cases, beetle outbreaks have been noted all along the roads leading from beetle-killed timber to saw mills. But a repeating theme throughout Empire of the Beetle highlights that bark beetles are not a plague but a normal part of the forest ecosystem. They are simply "renewing an aging

pine forest in an uncomfortable time frame for logging companies and tourists." When Alaskan ecologist Ed Berg begins investigating the malady that is wiping out the state's trees, he looks for clues in their growth rings. What he finds is that, historically, the beetles have played a critical role in the forest ecosystem. "Sure enough, Berg discovered tree rings that showed big bursts of growth after repeated beetle thinnings over 250 years. The biggest growth spurts followed beetle outbreaks roughly every 50 years." The beetles act like nature's foresters, taking out old mature trees so that those that remain can grow more vigorously. The outbreaks of the past 30 years are a different story, though. They are vastly larger than anything seen before and have begun expanding well beyond the beetles' traditional territory. There is no simple cause for the shift in the bark beetles' behaviour, but there is a common thread. Decades of fire suppression have led to vast expanses of mature forest that do not occur under natural circumstances. Timber companies have planted monocultures that allow bark beetles to lay a landscape bare when normally they would only take the few species they find palatable, leaving the other trees untouched. The frigid winters that thinned bee-

tle populations and thereby served as one of the forest's best defenses have been hobbled by climate change. At the same time, the warmer weather puts trees under stress, leaving them more susceptible to beetle attacks. Climate change has also allowed bark beetles to expand their range far to the north. Not only are more trees now at risk, scientists have found that forests that did not historically encounter beetles are poorly adapted to defend against them. The story is of an ecosystem out of balance. That final point is the real kicker for Alberta. One ecologist that Nikiforuk spoke to found that beetles in the lodgepole pines of Alberta's Peace Country were producing 50 percent more young than those in southern BC. Some scientists speculate that, with a toe hold in northern Alberta, the mountain pine beetles may move into the jack pine of the Boreal and paint the country's forests red from sea to sea. Nikiforuk is quick to point out that this is far from a sure thing. "A couple of cold winters could knock those guys out," he says. But if we want to turn the tide, if we want to avoid seeing Canada become an Empire of the Beetle, we had better start learning from the past.

gesting that the decision was reversed because it angered the wrong powerful people. Either way the result was an announcement that should have been entirely positive and an easy win turning into a mess and a liability. In addition to these blunders, there have been strong criticisms of the premier’s decision to include "Stelmach old boys" like Ron Liepert, Ted Morton and Tomas Lukaszuk in her cabinet, and her decision to appoint Gary Mar to the $264 576-a-year position as Alberta's representative to Asia without an open competition or hiring process. For those Albertans who were hopeful that an Alison Redford government would bring change, openness and an end to old-boy crony politics, these decisions raised a huge red flag. Given all of the above, it is clear that as the legislature reconvenes Premier Redford already has more points against her than she has in her favour, and things are not likely to get any easier for her. The opposition parties, who have been in full-blown election mode since September, can smell blood and are ready to pounce on any misstep. The last month has seen a series of high-profile problems in Children's

Services; emergency room doctors have just issued a statement that the crisis in the province's hospitals has not abated; and she faces the daunting task of having to fulfill her contradictory promises of providing stable funding for health care and education while reducing the deficit, not raising taxes, and removing up to 40 percent of energy revenues from the provincial budget. Premier Redford has less than a year, and potentially less than six months, to prove herself to Albertans before the next provincial election. She has had a rocky start that it will be difficult to recover from, and the road ahead is littered with land mines. If nothing else all of this will make for an interesting few months in Alberta politics, and will provide a tremendous opportunity for Albertans to re-engage with public policy in this province and bring about some real change in our legislature. Only time will tell if Alison Redford is up to the task and if Albertans are up to the challenge. V

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COMMENT >> ALBERTA POLITICS

Missteps into the legislature Premier Redford starts the fall session on a shaky foot As Alberta's legislature reconvenes— cation and cancelled two controversial sort of—this week for its fall session, power line projects. Alison Redford faces the assembly All of these can be seen as moves for the first time as premier. It which will successfully disseems like an opportune motance Redford from some E C ment to take a look at how of the more controversial N E RFER she has done in her first few INTE ueweekly.com issues which had plagued @v ricardo weeks on the job, and at the tenure of her predeceso Ricard what we can expect over the sor Ed Stelmach. Of course, Acuña course of the next few months none of these are long-term before an expected spring election. solutions, but many Albertans who Although it may seem unfair to judge had been frustrated by Stelmach's the premier's performance less than lack of movement will see this as a three weeks into her tenure, much was good start. made by all the candidates during the The question is whether her early Conservative leadership race about how success on these specific issues will quickly they would move on their prioribe enough to counterbalance her very ties, and how swiftly their promised platpublic flip-flop on whether or not to forms would be made a reality. hold a fall sitting of the legislature, and There can be no question that Redher odd fumbling of the announcement ford has moved quickly on a couple on the transmission line projects. of her key campaign promises. Her first order of business after naming a Redford began by announcing that cabinet was to announce the reinstatethere would be no fall sitting of the legment of the $107 million that was cut islature in order to give her team time from education in last spring's budget. to develop a legislative agenda and She has also maintained her commitaction plan. The very next day, after a ment to order a public inquiry into the significant outcry from the opposition intimidation of doctors in the province, parties and the media, she changed her promised to hold public consultations mind and announced that there would on the future of provincial water allobe a fall sitting beginning October 24.

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Then she adjusted again stating the legislature would only reconvene for two days in October and recess until November 21. The transmission line flip-flop was even more abrupt and confusing. On the morning of October 21, the Alberta Utilities Commission issued a press release stating that, at the government's request, it had suspended the review and hearing processes on three controversial transmission lines. The press release included, as an attachment, the letter written by Energy Minister Ted Morton requesting the suspension. These projects had met with significant resistance from rural landowners and environmentalists, and had helped bolster the Wildrose Alliance's support in those areas, so it made sense that Premier Redford's government would choose to step away from them. Within a couple of hours, however, the premier was telling the media that there had been a mistake, and that the biggest and most controversial of the three projects, the Heartland Transmission Line, was in fact still proceeding. The premier blamed the problem on a miscommunication, but a number of commentators and pundits are sug-

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Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.

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Preventing dictators requires the rule of law When I was in school I used to wonder air force, dragged out of a storm who Gloria Mundi was and how she drain, man-handled into the back of had died, but it turned out to be my a pick-up truck, and showered with defective Latin. Sic Transit Gloria Munthe curses of the men around him di means "Thus passes the glory of as he bleeds to death. It becomes this world." But still, it kind of clearer with every passing fits, doesn't it? Sic Transit day that it is better to Moammar Gadhafi. be a rock 'n' roll hero m than an Arab dico Being Moammar Gadhafi .c ly k wee e@vue gwynn must have been a bit like tator, which e y Gw nn being Mick Jagger. You've doubtless Dyer explains Jagger's been playing the same role since you were very young, and evcareer choice. erybody loves you for it, at least to your face. You have actually become Am I being insufficiently serious the standard by which all others aspirhere? Should I not be condemning ing to the same role are judged. And Gadhafi's crimes, and lamenting the after a while, you start to believe that fact that he will never stand trial for you really are Mick Jagger, and not just them, and speculating on Libya's futhat guy from Dartford who can sing ture after 42 years of one-man rule? pretty well. Isn't that what pundits are for? I'm not denying that there were difPerhaps, but what would be the ferences between the two men. To the point? There are hundreds of other best of my knowledge, Mick Jagger columnists who are writing exactly never ordered anybody to be killed. that stuff, and none of them knows (Neither did Keith Richards, at least any more about Libya's future than I to the best of his recollection, and do. Gadhafi's crimes have been detailed he swears that he remembers everyin your friendly neighbourhood media thing.) Mick Jagger also has better at least once a week for the past six taste in clothes than Moammar Gadmonths. Nobody really thought he was hafi had, especially in his later years going to live to stand trial. So let's talk when he took to wearing his mother's about something interesting instead. embroidered drapes. The interesting question is this: would Sorry, that was unkind. They were acGadhafi have ended up as a delusional tually ceremonial robes befitting the egomaniac and a mass murderer if he King of Africa, which Gadhafi claimed had not had absolute power over an on occasion that he was. It was just entire country for his whole adult life? that his mother liked very heavy, gauThe answer is almost certainly no. It was dy drapes, suitable for an African king the power that made him that way. (or his vision of an African king), and He came from a bedouin family who his seamstress had a heavy-duty sewlived in a traditional herder's tent, but ing machine, so why not? he was sent away to boarding school. Another difference between Jagger His family hired a tutor for him towards and Gadhafi is that Mick is unlikely to the end of high school, which may exend his life being bombed by the French plain how he got into the Libyan mili-

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tary academy. His education was spotty and did not equip him for complicated intellectual endeavours, but he was not an ignorant man. Millions like him have led productive and blameless lives. We do not know whether Gadhafi

played well with others when he was a little boy, but he was certainly popular with his fellow junior officers when he overthrew King Idris at the age of 27. Contemporary reports portray him as an intensely serious young man, charming when he needed to be but dedicated full-time to the "Arab cause." It's a profile that he shared with millions of other young idealists

in the Arab world. So how did he end up as a dangerous but ridiculous monster? Those millions of others didn't. If some other young officer had led the 1969 coup d'etat and made himself the sole ruler of Libya for the next 42 years, Gadhafi might well have ended up as a kindly retired army officer spending his time with his grandchildren. And quite possibly that other young officer would have become the monster. Lord Acton said it 120 years ago: "Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men." By implication, he is saying that Mummar Gadhafi, Saddam Hussein, Hafez and Bashar al-Assad, and the other mass murderers who have tormented the Arab world over the past decades were shaped more by circumstances than by some intrinsic evil in their character. If Acton's analysis is right, then countries where the rule of law is supreme and civil society is strong should not produce such monsters, because they do not allow any individual to have absolute power. If that were always true, then Hitler, for example, could not have achieved absolute power, but it is usually true. So the remedy is obvious, in the newly free countries of the Arab world and elsewhere, too. Democracy is good, but you also have to build strong civil institutions and an independent judiciary. It’s just a lot easier said than done. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.

COMMENT >> HOCKEY

Civil discourse

First In the Box roundtable and no fistfights Here's a speedy recap of last week so The most pleasant surprise of this seawe can rush to the first "In The Box son so far is how well Ryan NugentRoundtable" of the year—our Hopkins has adapted his game collection of diverse Oiler fans to an NHL level. He looks like (and a Flames fan for "balthe next Big Thing. The bigm ekly.co e w e u ance"). The Oilers lost 2-1 in gest short-coming is how ox@v intheb ng & u o Y e a shootout to Minnesota, 2-0 ineffectual Nugent-Hopkins is v Da Birtles Bryan to the visiting NY Rangers and without Taylor Hall on the wing. beat the Canucks 3-2. Now let the Eric Newby, photographer and panel speak. Edmonton ex-pat in Vancouver

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"In The Box Roundtable" Question #1

The season is just starting. What do you feel is the best pleasant surprise AND what is the biggest short-coming with the Oilers so far this year? Panel Challenge: In honour of Simon Lebon's birthday (Oct 27), please include a reference to a Duran Duran song.

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Surprise: The play of 27-year old, 122nd draft pick free agent pickup Corey Potter. It's always great to see a guy from the Ordinary World get a chance and prove his worth. Short-coming: the Euro forwards (Anton Lander, Magnus Paajarvi and Linus Omark) have been underproducing—their offence has Come Undone. David Young, In the Box veteran

Surprise: We're early into the season and nothing has gone like it was supposed to. Defence and offence have switched places and we are living in bizarro world. Is There Something I Should Know? Kabby is on top of his game looking Hungry Like the Wolf and 'Da Nuge was supposed to be Adam Oates but is looking like Brett Hull with his View to a Kill shooting skills. Short-coming: I'm still waiting for the defence to Come Undone. And aside from the kid line our offence is definitely living in an Ordinary World. Kevin Martin, video shop owner (The Lobby) Surprise: The play of Ryan Jones has stood out to me thus far this season. He's being given a ton of responsibility

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and hasn't Come Undone yet. Short-coming: the group of Wild Boys on the back end—that is to say, wildly horrible boys—has and will continue to cost the team games with their play. Justin Azevedo, Flames fan and blogger (matchsticksandgasoline.com) Surprise: The play of 'Da Nuge. I mean, he's playing like he's not from Planet Earth! He's gobbling up passes from Hall like he's Hungry like some sort of Wolf. Honestly, those Wild Boys are not making the kid line seem like they're in an Ordinary World, they'll soon be known for their Notorious play around the league, and as long as Eberle can get his View to a Kill, we'll all Believe in Shame Burning the Ground in Rio. It's a Duran Duran metaphor-valanche!! Seriously though, The Oilers have been a pleasant surprise overall, even with the close losses to Minnesota and Vancouver. Goaltending has been slightly above par, but I'm leery of not

having a true number one, or giving that tag to Khabibulin for the short term. If this team's going to grow, Devan Dubnyk needs to be given the shot to be the clear number one. Also—anyone else expect Tom Gilbert to be this terrible? He's entering Staios levels of awfulness. Ugh. Brent Oliver, Long-time Edmonton promoter, now an agent in Winnipeg I actually thought that this year's most pleasant surprise HAS been the play of Tom Gilbert. A perennial goat, Gilbert is playing all-world out there—even if it's something people are taking their sweet time realizing. The biggest disappointment has been Theo Peckham. What happened to that guy? I never saw him as a bubble player before ... I thought he'd work his way right up to number-four on the depth chart. I'll Save a Prayer he gets back on track. Bryan Birtles, In the Box sophomore

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COMEDY BRIXX BAR • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 •

Troubadour Tuesdays with comedy and music

CEILI'S • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 •

Comedy Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd •

780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Enter-

tainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Dave Stawnichy; Oct 27-29 • Brian Work; Nov 3-5 • Dennis Ross; Nov 10-12

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM •

780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Art Shafﬁr; until Oct 30 • Hit or Miss Monday: Oct 31, 8pm; $7 • Stand Up Edmonton: Nov 1, 8pm; $12 • Bobby Lee; Nov 3-5

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119

• Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

LAUGH SHOP–Sherwood Park • 4

Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Derick Legnwenus; Oct 27-29 • Matt Billon; Nov 3-5 • Casey Corbin; Nov 10-12

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE • U of A Campus • Shoufou Alwawa Wayn • Sat, Nov 5, 8pm RIVER CREE–The Venue Enoch,

Whitemud Drive, Winterburn Rd • 780.484.2121 • Rodney Carrington-Laughter Is Good • Nov 10

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY • 10229-105 St • neil@rhodes.ca • Fermented Humour: an intimate evening of stand up comedy with Ryan Patterson • Oct 28, 8pm (door) • $10

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87

Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP •

Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm

EDMONTON BIKE ART NIGHTS • BikeWorks, 10047 80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm

EDMONTON GHOST TOURS • Meet at Rescuer Statue, Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • 780.289.2005 • Walking tour through Old Strathcona with theatrical stories of the paranormal, strange spirits and phantoms • Mon-Thu, until Oct 31, 7pm • $10 FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's An-

glican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm

THE GREEN MARKET PLACE • Expressionz Café • 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • Focus on Environmental sustainability featuring workshops, speakers, goods, services; performances each week • Every Sun, noon-5pm

HOME–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living •

Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reﬂection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm

INTRO TO WOMEN'S CYCLE CHARTING • MacEwan, City Centre

Campus • 780.668.2200 • Feminine empowerment, natural contraception, understanding hormonal and menstrual health • Thu, Oct 27, 2-3pm

LIVE LOCAL • Yellowhead Brewery,

10229-105 St • live-local.ca • Shop Local First launch party • Nov 1, 10am-12pm E: rsvp@ live-local.ca

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan

Community Hall, 3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • FREE outdoor movement!

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP +

50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood

Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10 min discussion, followed by a 30-40 minute walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS •

Stanley Milner Library, Rm 6-7 • Meet the 1st Tue every month, 7pm • Tue, Nov 1 features speaker Randal Rauser (evangelical theologian) discussing What hath God to do with the flying spaghetti monster?, edmontonatheists.ca

SUGARSWING DANCE CLUB • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA • Bonnie Doon Community Hall, 9240-93 St • vofa.ca/ category/events • Monthly Potluck: Bring a vegan, dish to serve 8 people, your own plate, cup, cutlery, serving spoon • $3 (member)/$5 (non-member) WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Edmonton

Federation of Community Leagues, 7103-105 St • ytoastmasterclub.ca • 1st and 3rd Tue, 7-9pm; every month

LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS AMY GOODMAN OF DEMOCRACY NOW! • Rm 1-430, Centennial Centre

for Interdisciplinary Science Bldg, 11455 Saskatchewan Dr, U of A • epl.ca/freedomtoread • Discussing the role of independent media in promoting social justice; followed by book signing • Sat, Oct 29, 6:30-9pm • Free

CREATIVITY PRESENTATIONS • U of A •

Education North, Rm 2-115: The Call to Create: lecture by Linda Leonard (Jungian analyst, author); Fri, Oct 28, 7-9pm; $35 (member)/$45 (non-member) • Education South, Rm 358: Creativity and the Veil of Addiction: Presentations by by Linda Leonard; Sat, Oct 29, 10am-4pm; $100 (member)/$125 (non-member)

THE FRACKING OF ALBERTA’S WATER • Telus Bldg, Rm 134, U of A, 87 Ave, 111 St • Why our diminishing groundwater is being poisoned, talk by Jessica Ernst • Thu, Oct 27, 7-9pm LIVING LOCAL CONFERENCE • Woodvale Community Hall, 4540-50 St • What's stopping you from living where you live? • Fri, Oct 28, 9am-4pm • Pre-register at #311 or W: ereg. edmonton.ca THE PALESTINE STATEHOOD BID IN CONTEXT • Telus Bldg, Rm 2-17, 87 Ave, 111

St, U of A • psnedmonton.ca • Panel discussion with Richard Falk, Mojtaba Mahdav, Ghada Ageel • Thu, Oct 27, 7-9pm • Free

REGIONAL PLANNING SPEAKERS SERIES • Kule Lecture Theatre, Grant MacEwan

G.L.B.T.Q SAGE BOWLING CLUB • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Co-ed: St. Thomas Moore School, 9610-165 St • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: St Vincent School, 10530-138 St, T: 780.914.9678; every Wed 6-7:30pm; $7 (drop-in fee) • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton. ca • Bootcamp: Lynnwood Elementary School at 15451-84 Ave; Mon, 7-8pm • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Every Sun morning • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 St, 104 Ave • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: Mother Teresa Elementary School at 9008-105A; Amiskiwaciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd • YOGA (Hatha): Free Yoga every Sun, 2-3:30pm; Korezone Fitness, 203, 10575-115 St G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E

Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors that have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4:30pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca

THE JUNCTION BAR • 10242-106 St •

780.756.5667 • Free pool daily 4-8pm; Taco Tue: 5-9pm; Wing Wed: 5-9pm; Wed karaoke: 9pm12; Thu 2-4-1 burgers: 5-9pm; Fri steak night: 5-9pm; DJs Fri and Sat at 10pm

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Conﬁdential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

• 780.488.3234; admin@pridecentreofedmonton. org • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm • Community Potluck: For members of the LGBTQ community; last Tue each month, 6-9pm • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellorsevery Wed, 6-9pm• STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm • Prime Timers Games Night: Games night for men age 55+; 2nd and last Fri every month; 7-10pm

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76

Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace.ca • A Non-proﬁt lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Conﬁdentiality assured

THE TRUE TASTE OF ARSAN • North

lery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.428.3372 • Champagne reception (7pm); Awards Show with live entertainment (8pm); Industry After Party with live entertainment (9pm) • Sat, Nov 5 • $50 (Alberta Music Members, incl: Champagne Reception, Awards Show and Industry After Party)/$95 (non-member, incl: Champagne Reception, Awards Show and Industry After Party)/$30 (Industry After Party only)

• Goethe's Understanding of Nature and the Birth of the Romantic Lied with Dr Deen Larsen • Wed, Nov 2, 2pm • Free

VEGEFILMS • Whitemud Crossing Library, 4211-106 St • Processed People; Oct 27, 7pm; donations THE WAY WE GREEN • City Hall City Room

(main foyer) • edmonton.ca/thewaywegreen • Lunch Hour Speakers Series: Lessons from Radical Industry: Transforming Business Culture, Finding Pathways to Sustainability with Nadine Gudz • Nov 8 • Free

QUEER BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave •

780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St •

780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@ﬂashnightclub.com

G.L.B.T.Q. (GAY) AFRICAN GROUP DROP-IN) • Pride Centre, moving •

780.488.3234 • Group for gay refugees from all around the World, friends, and families • 1st and Last Sun every month

HALLOWE'EN PARTY • Moose Lodge, 772,

Greishbach Millitary Base, 10811-146 Ave • 780.457.6633 • Dinner/dance: 45RPM playing classic oldies, rock 'n' roll • Sat, Oct 29, 6pm (dinner), 8pm (music) • $20 (dinner and dance) info: Nathan at 780.484.6806

HARVEST BRUNCH AND AUCTION • Delta

Edmonton South Hotel, 4404 Gateway Blvd • 780.412.2736 • SalvationArmy.ca • In support of The Salvation Army • Sat, Nov 5 • $70

INGLEWOOD SPOOK SHOW • 12515-116 Ave • Fundraiser for the Diamond Way Buddhist Centre. All ages, 3 bands • Oct 29, 6pm • $15 (adult)/$5 (under 12)

OKTOBERFEST TO ROCKTOBERFEST

• Shaw Conference Centre • 780.969.0468 • George Kash and the Black Forest Band; Kim Mitchell at midnight • $32.50 (incl commemorative Oktoberfest 2011 beer mug at the door, Bavarian Feast) • Oct 29, 6:30pm

PUBLIC INTEREST ALBERTA FUN(D) NIGHT • Sherbrooke Community Hall, 13008122 Ave • Music with St James' Gate (Celtic rock) • Fri, Oct 28, 7-11pm • $30

• 403.400.6511 • Robbie Laws, Tim Williams and Steve Pineo will join Calgary’s Dream Band • Concerts: Oct 27-Nov 5, ending with a special performance featuring Calgary’s 60-piece choir, REVV 52 • concerts: The VAT PUB–Red Deer: Oct 27, 9pm (show), tix: 403.346.5636 • Ironwood Stage–Calgary, Oct 28-29, 9pm (show), tix: 403.269.5581 • Old Timer's Cabin–Edmonton: Oct 30, 8pm (show), 5pm (door); tix: TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Sound Connection • Blues Jammers Boot Camp (Feb 21–25)

SALSAFREAKS HALLOWEEN PARTY

• Central Lions Senior Centre, 11113-113 St • Spooktacular ﬁesta–a Latin Hallowe'en party with lessons and dance to follow • Fri, Oct 28, 8pm (door), 8:30pm (dance lessons) • $15 (adv at tixonthesquare.ca)/$20 (door)/free (child under 13)

SCREAMFEST • Northlands, Hall A, 7424-

118 Ave • screamfest.ca • Hallowe'en Festival (PG-13) • Oct 27-31, 7pm-12 • $20-$40 at TicketMaster, door

SHOP TILL YOU DROP EXPO • Delta Edmonton South • Sun, Nov 6, 10am-5pm • Free in lieu of a donation to the Stollery Children’s Hospital Foundation

UNITY IN DIVERSITY CONCERT • Arden Theatre, St Albert • An extravaganza of dance, musical and cultural performances • Sat, Nov 5, 7pm • $10 at Arden box ofﬁce , TicketMaster WEESTOCK • Edmonton Aviation Heritage

Centre, 11410 Kingsway Ave • 780.288.7237 • weestock.ca • Edmonton’s indie and boutique baby show featuring Alberta vendors specializing in handmade, organic, fair trade goods for babies, toddlers, new moms, and moms-to-be • Sat, Oct 29, 10am-4pm • $5 (door)/free (child 12 and under) free

PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Moving

WOODYS VIDEO BAR • 11723 Jasper Ave

U OF A: DEPARTMENT OF MUSIC LECTURE SERIES • Fine Arts Bldg, Studio 2-7

GET ANIMATED!2011 • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • A Cross-Canada Animation Celebration: Starts with a family program, followed by more adventurous new releases anthology • Family Program (2pm): Big Drive, Waseteg, Private Eyes, The Girl Who Hated Books • NFB New Releases (3pm): Big Drive, Pumpkins and Old Lace, I was a Child of Holocaust Survivors, CMYK, Muybridge's Strings, Wild Life, Sunday • Sat, Oct 29 • Free

THE ROCKIN'-BLUES EXTRAVAGANZA

MEN'S GAMES NIGHTS • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

City-Centre Campus, Robbins Health Learning Centre, 109 St, 104 Ave • 780.492.9957 • Clement Demers (architect, urban planner) will share lessons that he has learned in using a holistic approach to urban planning. Panelists will address the themes in a pecha-kucha style presentation: The politics of planning with Ben Henderson; Planning tools and incentives with Tomas Nilsson; The relationship between land-use and economic development with Rob Marchak • Nov 3, 7pm • Free

Glenora Community League, 13535-109A Ave • 780.385.0994 • Alberta Rural Sustainable Alternatives Networks demonstrates possibilities of a new sustainable way of life focusing on developing sustainable local food systems • Wed, Nov 2, 6-9pm • $25

• Mill Woods Town Centre Mall, 2331-66 St • Haunted House fundraiser to support our free and low-cost programs • Oct 28, 31 6-9pm; Oct 29-30 (12-5pm) • $3/$7 (family of 4)

• 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

with opening guest BRIAN MCLEOD {U22}

Thursday, November 10 7:30 p.m. • $ 30 With the spirit of a 1920’s flapper, Little Miss Higgins delivers a brand of country-blues peppered with folk and jazz that is fresh yet nostalgic.

SPECIAL EVENTS ALBERTA MUSIC AWARDS • Art Gal-

AN EVENING IN TIBET • Meridian Banquet Hall, 4820-76 Ave • Dinner and Silent Auction: fundraiser for construction on a new community meditation centre in Edmonton – Gaden Samten Ling’s Alberta Centre for Peace and Meditation • Sat, Nov 5, 5:30pm (door), 6:30pm (dinner) • $50 at 780.483.5419 BE A BABY HERO • terracentre.ca • Diaper

drive, collect diapers in a team-to-team face-off in support of teen parents in Edmonton and surrounding communities • Until Oct 29

CAKEWALK 2011–CAKES AND CASH

• Oasis Conference Centre, 10930-177 St • ninahaggertyart.ca • Nov 1 • Tickets at TIX on the Square • Fundraiser for Nina Haggerty

DEAD ARTISTS COLLECTIVE (DAC) HAL-

LOWEEN HOWL • Harcourt House Annex, 10211-112 S • Tunes by Ativan Zoloft, warped designs of Spyder Yardley Jones, off the wall t-shirts of Deadwear • Sat, Oct 29, 9pm • $35/$15 (student) at TIX On the Square

EDMONTON HISPANIC BILINGUAL ASSOCIATION (EHBA) • Serbian Hall, 12920-

112 St • 780.472.0532 • 30th Anniversary Fiesta: Latin music, food, music by DJ Acuario • Nov 5, 7pm • $20 (adv)/$25 (door)

EDMONTON PHOTOGRAPHIC TRADESHOW • Mayﬁeld Trade Centre, 16615-109 Ave

• Sun, Oct 30, 9:30am-5pm • $12 (adv)/$15 (door)

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FABULOUS AT 50 • Mayﬁeld Trade Centre •

Women’s Trade Fair: Martini Party for baby boomer women featiromg speakers, entertainers, and exhibits • Sat, Nov 5, 10am-5pm • $20 (for 2 tickets adv at TIX on the Square)/$20 (per person at door)

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REVUE // A PECULIAR MASTERPIECE

THE FLY

Jeff Goldblum ... sort of

Thu, Oct 27 (7 pm) Directed by David Cronenberg Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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eth Brundle, the tragic genius at the core of The Fly (1986), is motivated to crack the secrets of teleportation not only because such innovation will challenge established concepts of time and space, but also because he suffers from motion sickness—teleportation means never having to set foot in a propelled vehicle again. This bit of character eccentricity is one of the many ingenious details that have allowed The Fly to endure these last 25 years, not only as what may be the defining synthesis of every major theme in David Cronenberg's filmography, but as the modern big-budget genre film that synthesized an intelligent query into the most vital and troubling issues faced by contemporary philosophers, scientists and policy-makers with an absolutely primal and inspired display of body horror theatrics. There is no other movie at once so smart and so disgusting. Indeed, The Fly features what remains the most astonishing vomit scene—wait, make that scenes—in cinema history. (A word of warning to the uninitiated: do not watch this movie while eating yogurt.) Rooted in the 1957 short story by George Langelaan and, of course, the Vincent Price film of the same title (1958), The Fly is several things: a

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chamber love triangle between Brundle, a journalist (Geena Davis) trying to file an article for a magazine named Particle, and her editor (John Getz); a science fiction about a man who accidentally gets into a machine with an insect and pays the abysmal consequences; and a shock-meditation on aging, death and what it means to be human. "Am I dying?" Brundle wonders after his successful self-teleportation with insect co-pilot begins to exact its gooey toll on his flesh. ("His" flesh? Or

Much credit has to be given to Jeff Goldblum, whose toothy, lanky charisma, dry humour and quiet showmanship rendered him one of Cronenberg's perfect alter egos: a smart man of action; a geek with sex appeal. And Davis, Goldblum's girlfriend at the time, is every bit his match, both intrigued and repulsed, in-love and loving and fiercely self-protective: her alarmed response to the possibility that she's pregnant with Son of Brundle-fly is deeply affecting. Its fantastic narra-

There is no other movie at once so smart and so disgusting. Indeed, The Fly features what remains the most astonishing vomit scene—wait, make that scenes—in cinema history. something else? Teleportation obliterates form in order to recreate it elsewhere.) This being a Cronenberg film, whatever existential terror or grief Brundle feels en route to becoming Brundle-fly is eclipsed by unquenchable fascination. Other versions of Langelaan's "Fly" had its protagonist lose his ability to speak relatively early in the story; Cronenberg insisted that his Brundle keep his tongue nimble as long as possible—he wanted Brundle to articulate what was happening to him until the very end, at which point a single, unbearably sad gesture is all that's needed for the experiment to reach its dire conclusion.

tive being awkwardly yet necessarily compressed, The Fly is not without its little flaws—a bit of boilerplate dialogue here, some garish lighting there; way too much showy pathos from Getz's emasculated ex—but the immense power of its unnerving ideas, the complex dynamics of its tautly told story and the nuanced performances of its leads earn its status as some very peculiar sort of masterpiece. It screens tonight (Thursday) as part of Metro Cinema's "Educated Reel" series; Cronenberg scholar Bill Beard will speak. JOsef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

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his winning streak. Some thought him reckless, but the thrill of his greatest feats are undeniable: he won the Brazil Grand Prix with his car stuck in sixth

Opens Friday Directed by Asif Kapadia Princess Theatre

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Some thought him reckless, but the thrill of his greatest feats are undeniable: he won the Brazil Grand Prix with his car stuck in sixth gear for multiple laps; his fingers had to be pried from the wheel afterward.

hough it rather daringly confines its visual trajectory to nothing but archival footage—most of which feature its hero, Brazilian racing superstar Ayrton Senna, traversing tracks the world round at dizzying speeds—it could hardly be said that Senna simply goes around in circles. Its narrative, which skims the surface of Senna's personal life in favour of his professional one, is burnished down to its mythical contours, rendering Senna's meteoric rise to World Champion and tragic death at 34 in a mid-race crackup as an Icarus tale, not one of hubris exactly—Senna spoke with great humility about his gift and his sense of

high-stakes stories of ambition. Things move fast, excitement accumulates, and we're often treated to views of the action from Senna's on-board camera.

gear for multiple laps; his fingers had to be pried from the wheel afterward. The real Speed Racer

debt to the God who endowed him with it—but of a deep faith in speed and glory that transcends reason. One memorable interview clip finds Senna describing a major turning point in his career arriving when he found himself behind the wheel and feeling as though

he was no longer conscious. But this yearning for ecstasy was balanced by a fierce intellect, one trained to make split-second risk assessments. Senna was a champion because he was ruthless on the track, and his record for accidents was nearly as exceptional as

Senna the film, directed by Asif Kapadia, edited by Chris King and Gregers Sall, and written by Manish Pandey, understands very well that adrenaline is key to its appeal, whether the audience is full of racing enthusiasts, those who crave a solid sports documentary, or those who are simply drawn to

But it should be said that this need for speed ultimately obscures everything else, and the absence of talking heads makes it tough to distinguish between the various commentators we hear speaking almost constantly on the soundtrack. So by the time Senna is over, you might feel as though you missed a great deal in the blur. Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

REVUE // MEOW

REVUE // SPOOKY SCARY

PUSS IN BOOTS

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3

Now Playing Directed by Chris Miller

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ey, here's a novel idea: release a franchise spinoff that makes no acknowledgment of the film from which it spawned, instead finds a style and a rhythm of its own, and actually manages to stand on its own merits. So it is with Puss in Boots: it's a fun little comedy-action romp that has a story to tell, and it does just that with a warm handling. The writing team (four credited) and director Chris Miller, who helmed the first three Shrek films, avoids that franchise's hurried, pop-culturereference-per-minute presentation and instead favours a select few characters, grounding its humour in their own personality ticks, tricks and caterwauls. Puss (Antonio Banderas), orphanedkitty-turned-swashbuckling feline, disgraced in his childhood home, finds

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himself teaming up with childhoodfriend-turned-bad-egg Humpty Dumpty (Zach Galifianakis) and alluring newcomer Kitty Softpaws (Salma Hayek). They're after the magic beans of mother goose lore; one quick trip up to the castle in the clouds and back down with a few golden eggs, they can salvage their reputations and Puss can perhaps go home. Banderas does what he needs to do— cheifly purr and coo and ham his way along—but the supporting cast seems stacked and capable of delivering the comedy. A murderous Jack and Jill (Billy Bob Thorton and Amy Sedaris, respec-

tively), the former of which wants to settle down and have a baby, make bit-part highlights, while Galifianakis plays more of a straightman than usual—Hollywood seems to prefer him as a weird-butmarketable funnyman—finding comedy mostly in the animation of his character. A flashback that reveals Humpty's true intention is executed with brilliant silliness. Heck, even the 3D seems well-used here; I don't know what sort of cashcow ideal got Puss in Boots greenlit, but every name involved made sure it turned out far better than most spinoffs do. Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

REVUE // HORROR COMEDY

TUCKER AND DALE VS EVIL Fri, Oct 28 – Thu, Nov 3 Written and Directed by Eli Craig Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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he tropes of horror movies are so exploited for comedy that the slasher-parody itself has become as cliché as the genre it points out the clichés of: the frolics of sexy teens, who fall victim to a mysterious serial killer, possibly one of them, are as well-worn for laughs as horror. For reference: Scary Movie came out more than a decade ago, and with it went all the easy takes on easy jokes, not that that's stopped many from treading those same grounds again and again. All that in mind, what likely makes Tucker and Dale Vs Evil so enjoyable is that, instead of dwelling on those tropes, it simply takes the next logical

step: it's a parody of parody, a fluff-gore take on the hillbillies-in-the-woods scenario that makes the backwater hicks our protagonists, the sexy teens the killers, inadvertently offing themselves, one by one, the dwindling survivors believing the hicks are to blame for the disappearance of their friend Allison (Katrina Bowden). They're right, but barely: Tucker and Dale pulled her out of the water of the spooky lake when she slipped and hit her head. Bullish Tucker (Alan Tudyk) and lovesick, awkward Dale (Tyler Labine) really are just in backwater Virginia to turn a creepy cabin into a summer home. But the teens remain convinced they're out to get them, and go on the offensive: from that departure point, the story moves along pretty effortlessly, arcing toward an increasingly ridiculous blood-

bath that's equally hilarious and crude. It isn't much more than that, really, but finding its own take on a horror-comedy genre too often bogged down in lazy cliché feels like enough. Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

VUEWEEKLY OCT 27 – NOV 3, 2011

Are you scared yet?

Now playing Directed by Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman

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he latest in the found-footage horror franchise, Paranormal Activity 3 is a prequel set in 1988, as young sisters Katie (Chloe Csengery) and Kristi (Jessica Tyler Brown) are recorded at home by their mom Julie's (Lauren Bittner) boyfriend Dennis (Christopher Nicholas Smith). He suspects Katie's imaginary friend Toby is a ghostly force. Paranormal Activity 3 suffers from a clichéd witchcraft quasi-solution and the growing implausibility of Dennis carrying a camera in even the most terrifying and sudden of situations. But the stationary cameras set up in the house slowly bleed out the ten-

sion, particularly one, which slowly rotates—we wait to see what's revealed with each oscillating pan. "Boo!"s build and moments of near-fright outweigh any graphic horror, left to the end. The metacommentary on movies' phantom power is eerily effective—from the start, it's as if there's a ghost in the machine, editing and watching this footage alongside us. Dennis's filming may not detect demons so much as inspire and enrage them. Directors Joost and Schulman (Catfish) capture a creepiness in the sleepy, after-hour spaces of home. The footage both detaches Dennis from the growing horror and draws him in, while the film does the same, keeping us at a seemingly safe distance only to suck us toward the screen and the truth we want it to reveal. Brian Gibson // brian@vueweekly.com

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rom its opening apparition of a derelict ship emerging from a fog to its magnificent climactic images of beast-men rising up to exact revenge on their self-proclaimed creator, Island of Lost Souls (1932), photographed by Karl Struss—who won the first Oscar for his enduringly haunting work on FW Murnau's Sunrise (1929)—is a feast of spectacle that veers between the seductive and the grotesque. Beautifully wrought visions of land, sea and laboratory intermingle with close-ups of fire-lit faces and feline hands both delicate and claw-like, desperate to feel the warmth of a very confused castaway whose sexual desire is unknowingly drawing him closer to bestiality. But the image that lingers with me most after watching the film, late on a chilly October night, is modest in comparison: that of a single, very hairy, pointed ear. What makes this image so memorable for me is that not only is it the first sign that something terribly strange is transpiring—a foreshadowing elegantly echoed more than 50 years later in David Lynch's Blue Velvet (1986)—but it is also a sort of mute instruction for all of us watching: listen. Among the shrewder choices made by director Erle C Kenton and/or his collaborators in postproduction was that of using Arthur Johnston and Sigmund Krumgold's musical score, wonderful as it is, very sparingly. The film's celebrated atmospherics are perfected by the absence of music to soften the agonized cries of those titular souls subjected to ongoing torture in the bluntly dubbed "House of Pain." Those cries help make Island of Lost Souls a genuinely horrific horror movie. It was those cries I kept hearing as I tried to fall asleep. The story, for those who don't know, comes from HG Wells' 1896 novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, adapted here by Philip Wylie and Waldemar Young. It follows the ship-wrecked Edward Parker (Richard Arlen) as he's rescued and then abandoned by a drunken sea captain on an island without a name, where mad scientist Moreau (the gloriously go-for-broke Charles Laughton) has been vivisecting his way through the animal kingdom in search of the genes that he believes urges all animals to ascend to the traits of man. Moreau lives surrounded by mutants—one played by Bela Lugosi—mostly very hairy humanoids who wear pants and rally round campfires nightly to chant out the dictates of their patriarchal, neocolonialist master. But there is also one Lota (Kathleen Burke), the "Panther Woman," whom Moreau, presumably unable to mate with her himself, hopes to pimp out and toss into his muddying gene pool with Parker. It's unlikely Island of Lost Souls would have been made just a couple of years later when the Production Code

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was more strictly enforced, though the film's explicit exploration of evolutionary mayhem and trans-species lust still managed to get it banned in the UK for 25 years, and if you watched it in Alberta during its initial release you would have seen a sadly mutilated version. These days torture has somehow been domesticated as screen "entertainment," but Moreau's distinctive shadow still looms over the imagination. Wells' Moreau had to move his experiments off the grid and away from prying eyes; today he'd more likely be enjoying a brilliant career in bio-mechanics, a visionary helping to shape our post-human future. The real horror has, it seems, already started to come true. Criterion's exceptionally well-compiled release features their freakiest menu since Videodrome (1983); interviews with the guys from Devo, who incorporated Island into the band's conceptual framework and helped immortalize the line, "Are we not men?"; an interview with David J Skal regarding Wells in Hollywood; yet another excellent, bouncy, info-crammed audio commentary from Golden Age horror historian Gregory Mank; and, perhaps most fascinating, an interview with Richard Stanley, co-scenarist and original director of the infamous 1996 Island adaptation with Marlon Brando. Kaneto Shindo's Kuroneko (1968), which Criterion released last week, is set during the Sengoku period, a time of seemingly endless war. The film begins with a horde of starved samurai entering a very modest abode inhabited by two women, the mother (Nobuko Otowa) and wife (Kei Sato) of a young man (Kichiemon Nakamura) who was conscripted into the army of a local warlord. The samurai consume all available food, rape the women

and set their home on fire before disappearing into the grove from which they emerged. The brutality of this sequence—not unlike many sequences in Island of Lost Souls—is intensified greatly by what is absent from the soundtrack. There is no dialogue whatsoever for the first 10 minutes of Kuroneko, but the glances exchanged by the women and the invaders prompt you to steel yourself, and the image, manifesting only moments later, of the women's bodies as they lay in the ashes of what was once their home—their cadavers soon approached by some rather curious cats—is both chilling and possessive of a spectral beauty that will return throughout the course of this elegant, unsettling ghost story riddled with vicious revenge and perverse reversals. Shindo's Onibaba (1964) scared the bejesus out of me when I saw Criterion's release of it some years back, and Kuroneko wields a similar primal power, much of it deriving from carefully crafted details: a house that seems like a theatre of mist designed by Frank Lloyd Wright; the kimono who's outer diaphanous layer resembles the wings of a fly; the peculiar use of slow-motion or the breath that hangs in the frigid air. The script was founded on a Japanese folktale, yet it holds extra resonance due to Shindo's class-conscious subtext. The film's influence can be found everywhere in more recent Japanese horror films, though it received a negligent release in North America in its day. Metro Cinema screened it back in August and Criterion's deluxe treatment should secure it the much wider audience it deserves. See it when it's dark out. But listen carefully, too. Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

FILM WEEKLY Fri, OCT 27, 2011 – Thu, NOV 2, 2011

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr, Jasper, 780.852.4749

Puss in Boots (G) Fri-Sat 7:00, 910; SunThu 8:00; Sat-Sun 1:30

MoneyBall (PG coarse language) Fri-Sat

6:50 , 9:10; Sun-Wed 8:00; Sat-Sun 1:30

Film Club night–The Debt (14A violence) Thu, Nov 3 : 7:30

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) Daily 1:40, 4:30, 7:15, 10:00

THE SMURFS (G) Daily 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:15 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 ( PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:55

WARRIOR (14A violence) Daily 1:10, 4:05,

Tue 10:15

DOLPHIN TALE 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri-Sat

12:10, 2:45, 5:15, 8:10; Sun 12:05, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45; Mon 1:20, 3:50; Tue 12:00, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40; WedThu 1:20, 3:50, 6:30

Anonymous (PG violence, sexually suggestive scenes) Digital Cinema, No passes Fri-Sat 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00; Sun, Tue 12:20, 3:15, 7:15, 10:20; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening

scenes) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat 12:00, 12:15, 2:05, 2:25, 4:10, 4:50, 6:20, 7:20, 8:30, 9:40, 10:40; Sun, Tue 12:10, 12:40, 2:20, 3:00, 4:50, 5:40, 7:20, 8:05, 9:40, 10:25; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:05, 2:00, 3:15, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:20, 10:15

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:40, 10:10; Sun, Tue 12:05, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10; Mon, Wed 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:25; Thu 3:40, 6:40, 9:25; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) Digital Cinema Fri 12:25, 3:45, 7:05, 10:05; Sat 4:10, 7:05, 10:05; Sun, Tue 12:25, 3:40, 6:45, 9:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:05, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05 IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) Ultraavx, No passes Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:35, 5:20, 8:15, 10:50; Sun, Tue 12:00, 2:35, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:00, 3:45, 7:20, 10:10 50/50 (14A coarse language) Digital Cinema

COWBOYS AND ALIENS (14A violence) Daily

Fri-Sat 12:35, 3:05, 5:40, 8:00, 10:35; Sun, Tue 12:15, 2:40, 5:05, 7:40, 10:15; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:50, 4:35, 7:35, 9:55

Spy Kids: All The Time In The World In 4d (PG) Daily 1:45, 4:25, 6:30, 9:10 THE CHANGE-UP (18A crude sexual content)

IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat 12:40, 3:10, 5:35, 8:15, 10:45; Sun, Tue 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:50, 10:25; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:45, 4:20, 7:15, 9:50

7:00, 9:50

1:30, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35

Daily 1:25, 3:55, 7:10, 9:45

Thu 5:00, 7:40

PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri 7:00,

9:20; Sat-Sun 2:00, 4:30, 7:00, 9:20; Mon-Thu 5:30, 8:15

6:50, 9:05; Sat, Sun, Tue 12:50, 3:05

IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) Digital

scenes) Daily 6:55, 9:30; Sat, Sun, Tue 12:55, 3:30

Presentation Fri 6:40, 9:15; Sat-Sun 1:10, 3:45, 6:40, 9:15; Mon-Thu 5:20, 8:10

The Rum Diary (14A coarse language, sub-

stance abuse) Digital Presentation Fri 6:50, 9:35; Sat-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35; Mon-Thu 5:10, 8:00

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

Puss In Boots (G) Presented in T3D Daily 7:00 9:0; Sat-Sun 2:00

In Time (PG coarse language, violence) Daily 6:50, 9:15; Sat-Sun 1:50

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Daily 7:05 9:10; Sat, Sun 2:05 footloose (PG coarse language) Daily 6:55 Sat-Sun 1:45

Edmonton Film Society Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave

The Dam Busters (PG) Mon 8:00 GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK

2020 Sherwood Dr, Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Fri 3:30,

6:50, 9:45; Sat-Sun 12:35, 3:30, 6:50, 9:45; MonThu 6:50, 9:45

PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Digital Cinema, No passes Fri 3:00, 5:20, 7:40; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40; Mon-Thu 7:40

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG coarse language)

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Fri 3:35, 6:45, 9:55;

OUR IDIOT BROTHER (14A) Daily 7:30, 9:40 Ra. One 3d (14A) Digital 3D Daily 1:00, 4:30,

8:00

1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 10:20; Sun, Tue 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:05; Mon, Wed 1:15, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; Thu 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH

Ghostbusters (STC) Digital Cinema Mon

4:10

14231-137 Ave, 780.732.2236

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Digital

Cinema Daily 1:20, 4:15, 7:30, 10:15

PUSS IN BOOTS (G) No passes Daily 12:15,

COURAGEOUS (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat

7:00

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7020

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Daily 12:50, 3:50,

Ghostbusters 20th Anniversary

50/50 (14A coarse language) Digital Cinema

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

Anonymous (PG violence, sexually suggestive scenes) No passes Fri-Tue, Thu 12:30, 3:45, 6:45, 9:50; Wed 3:45, 6:45, 9:50; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Ultraavx Daily 1:00, 3:15, 6:15, 8:30, 10:40 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Fri-Tue,

Thu 1:50, 4:20, 7:00, 9:30; Wed 4:20, 7:00, 9:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Dolby Stereo Digital Daily 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:45 IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) DTS Digi-

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

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 1:05, 4:05, 6:35

THE THING (18A gory violence) DTS Digital,

Stadium Seating Daily 9:35

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) Daily 12:45,

IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Sun, Tue, Thu 12:35, 3:35, 6:55, 9:55; Mon, Wed 12:35, 3:35, 9:55

IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence)

50/50 (14A coarse language) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 12:55, 3:55, 6:50

50/50 (14A coarse language) Fri, Sun-Thu 1:40,

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Child

3:40, 6:40, 9:45

No passes Daily 2:00, 4:50, 7:50, 10:30 4:10, 7:45, 10:10; Sat 4:10, 7:45, 10:10

IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language) Digital

Cinema Daily 9:00

Admission Price, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 9:50

THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) DTS

DRIVE (18A brutal violence) Daily 2:10, 4:40,

Digital, Digital 3d, Stadium Seating Daily 12:50, 3:50, 7:05, 10:05

The Rum Diary (14A coarse language, sub-

The Rum Diary (14A coarse language, substance abuse) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

8:00, 10:25

stance abuse) Daily 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni Live (Classification not available)

Sat 10:55

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St, 780.436.8585

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:40, 5:25, 8:05, 10:50; Sun, Tue 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:50; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:10, 4:05, 6:55, 9:40 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Digital Cinema, No passes Fri-Sun, Tue 12:00, 2:20, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:00, 3:30, 6:45, 9:15

PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d, No passes Fri-Sat 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:45, 10:10; Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 7:45, 10:15; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:30, 4:00, 7:40, 9:50

REAL STEEL (PG violence)

CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

50/50 (14A coarse language) Digital Presentation Fri 7:05; Sat-Sun 1:50, 4:40, 7:05; MonThu 5:25

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Digital Presentation Fri 6:45, 9:30; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 6:45, 9:30; Mon-Thu 4:50, 7:50

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Digital

Presentation Fri 6:55, 9:40; Sat-Sun 1:35, 4:15, 6:55, 9:40; Mon-Thu 5:15, 8:05

THE THING (18A gory violence) Digital Presen-

tation Fri-Sun 9:25; Mon-Thu 8:00

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening

scenes) Digital Presentation Fri 7:30, 9:50; SatSun 2:10, 4:45, 7:30, 9:50; Mon-Thu 5:45, 8:20

Digital Cinema Fri-Sat 12:20, 3:20, 7:30, 10:25; Sun, Tue 12:20, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:25, 4:15, 7:10, 10:00

THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Digital 3d Fri 7:10, 9:45; Sat-Sun 1:40, 4:25, 7:10, 9:45; Mon-Thu 5:05, 7:55

THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG) Digital 3d Fri-

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Digital

Sat 1:25, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15; Sun, Tue 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:00; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:25, 10:20

THE THING (18A gory violence) Digital Cinema

Fri-Sat 10:45; Sun 10:20; Mon, Wed-Thu 9:45;

Presentation Fri 6:35, 9:10; Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:05, 6:35, 9:10; Mon-Thu 5:10, 7:45

PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Digital Presentation Fri

6:30, 8:50; Sat-Sun 1:30, 4:10, 6:30, 8:50; Mon-

50/50 (14A coarse language)

Fri, Sun-Tue, Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:30, 9:15; Sat, Wed 3:50, 6:30, 9:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

Senna (PG coarse language) Daily 6:50, 9:10;

THE LION KING (G) Digital 3d Fri-Sun, TueWed 12:45, 3:40, 6:45; Mon, Thu 12:45, 3:40

The Guard (14A coarse language) Daily 7:00,

The Rum Diary (14A coarse language, substance abuse) Daily 1:20, 4:20, 7:20, 10:15

Sat-Sun 2:00

9:00; Sat-Sun 2:30

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Daily 12:20, Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:50, 5:20, 7:50, 10:10; Mon-Thu 1:00, 4:00, 6:30, 9:00

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Digital 3d

Daily 1:15, 4:15, 7:10, 9:50

THE THING (18A gory violence) Digital Cinema Daily 1:40, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 WHAT'S YOUR NUMBER? (14A language may offend) Digital Cinema Fri-Sun, Tue-Wed 9:10; Mon, Thu 9:40 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frighten-

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni Live (Classification not available)

Sat 10:55

PUSS IN BOOTS: An Imax 3d Experience (G)

No passes Daily 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00, 9:30

Ghostbusters (STC) Mon 7:00 WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin, 780.352.3922

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening

scenes) Daily 7:00, 9:20; FRI-Sun 1:00, 3:20

In Time (PG coarse language, violence) No passes Daily 7:05, 9:30; Fri-Sun 1:05, 3:30

courageous (PG) Daily 7:00, 9:30; Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:30

puss in boots (G) Digital 3d Daily 6:55, 9:25;

FRI-Sun 12:55, 3:25

6:35, 9:35; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:35, 9:35; MonThu 6:35, 9:35

IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) No passes Fri 3:20, 7:30, 10:05; Sat-Sun 12:40, 3:20, 7:30, 10:05; Mon-Thu 7:30, 10:05

Daily 1:30, 4:30, 7:40, 10:20

IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) No passes Fri-Tue, Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:30; Wed 4:30, 7:30, 10:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Fri 3:45,

Digital 3d, Stadium Seating Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30

(STC) Stadium Seating, No passes, Exclusive Engagement, Dolby Stereo Digital, Digital Presentation Mon 7:00

3:30, 6:50, 10:15

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Fri 2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 10:30; Sat-Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:15, 7:35, 10:30; Mon-Thu 7:35, 10:30

PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Dolby Stereo Digital,

6:50, 9:55

10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

4:10, 6:45, 9:20

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) Daily 12:10,

THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Digital 3D Fri 3:25, 7:00, 10:10; Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:25, 7:00, 10:10; Mon-Thu 7:00, 10:10

PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d, No passes

THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG)Digital 3d

PRINCESS

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Daily 1:10,

Sat-Sun 12:25, 3:35, 6:45, 9:55; Mon-Thu 6:45, 9:55

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) Fri 3:15, 6:25, 9:50; Sat-Sun 12:10, 3:15, 6:25, 9:50; MonThu 6:25, 9:50

Fri, Sun-Thu 1:10, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35; Sat 11:00, 1:10, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35

Sat, Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:10

ing scenes) Ultraavx Daily 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

Fri 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:00, 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:40; Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:40

Anonymous (PG violence, sexually suggestive scenes) Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00

2:30, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40

Real Steel (PG violence) Daily 6:40, 9:10;

PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d, No passes

The Metropolitan Opera: Don Giovanni Live (Classification not available)

MR. POPPER'S PENGUINS (G) Daily 1:35,

9:30; Sat, Sun, Tue 1:10, 3:25

Real Steel (PG violence) Daily 6:45, 9:25;

PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d, No passes

Sat 10:55

footloose (PG coarse language) Daily 7:10,

9:20; Sat-Sun 1:55

The Rum Diary (14A coarse language, substance abuse) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:30; Sun, Tue 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:55; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:30, 10:30

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening

3:20, 6:40, 9:40

RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG

violence, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:00, 3:45, 6:55, 9:30

The Big Year (PG) Daily 9:15 The Three Musketeers 3D (PG) Daily

Daily 10:00

The Rum Diary (14A coarse language, sub-

stance abuse) Fri 3:40, 7:25, 10:15; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 7:25, 10:15; Mon-Thu 7:25, 10:15

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FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Daily 12:55, 3:00, 5:05, 7:10, 9:20 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Daily 1:05, 3:05, 5:10, 7:15, 9:25

In Time (PG coarse language, violence) No passes Daily 12:50, 2:50, 4:55, 7:05, 9:15

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening

scenes) Daily 12:50, 2:35, 4:20, 6:00, 7:45, 9:40

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the thing (18A gory violence) Daily 9:25 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening

scenes) Daily 7:00, 9:20; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:20

In Time (PG coarse language, violence) No passes Daily 7:05, 9:30; Sat-Sun 1:05, 3:30

METRO CINEMA at the Garneau Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St, 780.425.9212

Tucker & Dale vs. Evil (STC) FRI, Tue 7:00;

Sat 4:00; Sat, Mon, Wed 9:00; Sun 2:00; Sun, Thu 9:30

Beat Rhymes & Life: The Travels of a Tribe Called Quest (STC) Fri, Tue 9:00;

Sat 2:00; Sat, Mon, Wed 7:00; Sun 4:00

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The Exorcist (18A) Sun 7:00 Science in the Cinema: The King's Speech (PG) Thu 6:30 PARKLAND CINEMA 7 130 Century Crossing, Spruce Grove, 780.972.2332 (Spruce Grove, Stony Plain; Parkland County)

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In Time (PG coarse language, violence) Daily 6:45, 8:55; Sat, Sun, Tue 12:45, 2:55

dolphin tale (G) Daily 7:00; Sat-SUN, Tue 1:00, 3:15; Movies for Mommies: Tue 1:00

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REVUE // VISUAL ARTS

Take a picture Call to Artists - Request for Qualifications Kennedale Transportation Operations Public Art Project Budget:

$180,000 CAD (maximum, all inclusive)

Eligibility:

All Canadian and international visual artists

Deadline:

4:30 pm on Friday, November 25, 2011

Installation: Summer 2013 Please note this is the last open-call RFQ to be issued by the Edmonton Arts Council; the EAC is adopting a Pre-qualified Artist Pool process that will take effect in January 2012. Applications to the pool are being accepted until Dec. 9. Visit our website to download the complete public art calls:

http://publicart.edmontonarts.ca/calls/ The public art competitions listed above are held in accordance with the City of Edmonton policy “Percent for Art to Provide and Encourage Art in Public Areas” (C458C). For more information, contact the Edmonton Arts Council: p: (780) 424–2787 | e: publicart@edmontonarts.ca

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AGA exhibits explore transformations in photo and paint Until Sun, Jan 29 19th Century French Photographs From The National Gallery of Canada Art Gallery of Alberta Until Mon, Feb 20 Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France Art Gallery of Alberta

n our present moment, with the novelty of instant photo sharing available through Instagram and instant photo uploads through smartphones and tablets, it is easy to understand the excitement that the arrival of the original, commercially-viable photography must have brought. The images taken during photography's early years, the staid pictures of people working very hard to stay still for long exposure times, nostalgic rural landscapes and explorations of architecture through the picture plane are not so timeless—visually they remain a product of the mid-to-late-1800s. In the Art Gallery of Alberta's current exhibition, 19th Century French Photographs From the National Gallery of Canada, it is how the image speaks in the context of the development of technologies that makes the exhibition relatable. The exhibit is an opportunity to explore how innovation in photography from its very beginning has constantly transformed visual culture. The exhibit allows you to witness the evolution of early photography from the stiff portraits and faint landscapes created by the Daguerreotype—which produces a positive image on a metal plate—to the heightened clarity of imagery and somewhat thawed faces produced by salted paper prints and other methods that followed. In the photos by Auguste Salzmann and other intrepid

Claude Monet's "Willows at Vetheuil"

19th-century explorers like Maxime Du Camp, one can imagine how photography made the world seem smaller, bringing access to detailed images of the Middle East to the living rooms of France's middle class. This exhibition is a great opportunity to consider how photography, in a few short years, had a major impact on information sharing and ways of understanding the visual world. These ideas certainly translate once you reach the AGA's second floor and peruse a painter's interaction with this era of exciting change in A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France. In the mid-to-late part of the century, landscapes were reclaimed in a rejection of the staged and invisible brushstrokes of academic painting. These are more than easy to look at landscapes—keeping in mind the cultural context makes close looking all the more interesting. When considering the paintings created by the Barbizon School, you can see how taking painting out of the studio and into the Forest of Fontainebleau informed their loose approach to paint handling, adding a sense of imme-

diacy and wildness of nature, contrasting the highly controlled and staid imagery of French academic painting. In Anton Mauve's painting "Returning from Pasture: Evening," you can witness this turn to Realism in how landscape painting began to recognize the people who lived and worked in these rural environments. The subject is a cow herder returning from a hard day's work, rendered in soft, expressive brush marks. By keeping her faceless, Mauve pays tribute to the hard labour of all rural workers, people otherwise invisible to the art viewing audiences of urban France. The exhibition conveys the significance of making the everyday visible and worthy of immortality through paint, as well as the innovations in paint handling. In the featured late century urban landscapes of the Impressionists and those who followed, these two themes continue to be explored, creating a cohesive argument that these canvases aren't just paintings of fields and trees, but another momentous creative innovation that took place in 19th-century France. CAROLYN JERVIS // CAROLYN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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CONSTRUCTIVE ABANDONMENT Now available By Neil Farber and Michael Dumontier Drawn & Quarterly, 64 pp $15.95

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rt, for Winnipeg-based artist Neil Farber, doesn't always have to be fun. But it's great if it is. "Humour has always been a large part of my work," says Farber, a founding member of former Winnipeg art collective the Royal Art Lodge (1996-2008), whose group output also recognized the value in funniness. While former members have since moved on, Farber and fellow co-founder Michael Dumontier continue to collaborate—and keep some aspects of old times alive. "We are fairly set in our ways at this point," Dumontier says, sharing that he

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and Farber still meet roughly once a week for jolly art making at the former's house. But while there is a very prominent streak of humour running throughout the duo's work, Farber insists their goal "is for the paintings to be interesting or clever rather than just funny. "I'm probably more satisfied when we make depressing paintings—or even better, thoughtful paintings." Now, with their new book Constructive Abandonment, they've done it all. Published by Montreal-based comics and art book press Drawn & Quarterly, the smallformat book is a selection from a group of six-inch by six-inch paintings the two had been making since they struck off in their own direction three years ago. "We were trying to pick works that weren't too similar to each other and

that showed a few different moods," Farber says. They've succeeded: Constructive Abandonment is alternately whimsical, poetic, penetrating and disquieting collection of interplay between word and image. Some paintings as plain funny as two frogs sucking on table legs above the caption: "The African fellatiating house frog." On the other hand, we see a figure pinned to the Earth by a giant boulder— which serves as the "O" in "God." Vue caught up with both Farber and Dumontier to further discuss the book, their work and creative outlook. Is Constructive Abandonment a fitting presentation of your work,

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PREVUE // JAZZ HANDS

PREVUE // USE YOUR IMAGINATION

CHICAGO

PINOCCHIO

The ol' razzle-dazzle

Fri, Oct 28 – Fri, Nov 4 (8 pm) Directed by Linette Smith La Cité Francophone, $25

ew settings are as evocative of a particular esthetic as Prohibitionera Chicago—and the eponymous Broadway musical is chief among those artistic works that have sought to capture this esthetic in all its gin-soaked, flapper-dressed, jazz-infused glory. Written by John Kander and Fred Ebb and choreographed by Bob Fosse, Chicago has been one of the best-loved and longest-running Broadway shows since its debut in 1975. Based on the real-life stories of two Chicago women charged with murder in the 1920s, the musical tells the tale of two celebrity criminals: vaudevillian Velma Kelly and nightclub regular Roxie Hart. The story intertwines with several song and dance numbers influenced by jazz, vaudeville, burlesque, and even early 19th-century circus acts. "I'd seen it in New York many years ago," says Linette Smith, director of this production. "I fell in love with the movement, just the angles of the bodies, the fluidity of it, and, again, that show-within-a-show atmosphere. "I feel so fortunate to direct this show because I come from a dance background," she continues. "It's very much

a dance show, and a dancer's show. The dance and the music are number one; they're on the same page. Because of that, so much of the story is driven through those lyrics. And because dance is such a big part of it, movement in every character choice becomes a significant aspect of the show." Smith directed a student production of Chicago in her last year as a teacher at Eastglen High School, but for this new production she made the conscious decision to create completely original and unique choreography. "I didn't want to do anything I had seen or had done before," says Smith. "We wanted to keep the Fosse style, which is such a distinct style, but layer in our own character and our own drive." Due to the varied nature of the characters in the show, this production was able to incorporate performers of all ages and backgrounds. "We've got everyone from students right out of high school, Grant MacEwan graduates, people who are currently in young companies, the Citadel, and we have a retired teacher in our show," states Smith. "That has been really fantastic, to see them coming together on one piece and understanding that world together." Mel Priestley // mel@vueweekly.com

Dance puppets! Dance!

Thu, Oct 27 – Sun, Oct 30; Fri, Nov 4 (7 pm) Sat, Oct 29; Sun, Oct 30 (2 pm) Adapted by Farren Timoteo and Jeff Unger Arts Barns, $12.50 – $18

lberta Opera often gets letters from the schools it performs at. Director Farren Timoteo calls it "fanmail" with an audible smile; the received mail usually include drawings recalling all the wonders of the productions: For Hansel and Gretel, Timoteo notes receiving hand-drawn images of the show's Jolly Rancher staircases, giant candy houses and chocolate tables. Yet audiences saw few, if any, of these things with their eyes. The letters were pulling images out of the children's imaginations, put there by the company's versatile brand of storytelling: actors that double as guides to the world they see around them, sets that require more imagination than flats. These were things that,

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Timoteo notes "we assured to them were there [laugh], but really weren't. "Our greatest resource with our audience is that they have the wildest, most wonderful imaginations in the world," he says. "So if we can use that to our advantage, we get something better than anything we could've built." Still, Timoteo and composer Jeff Unger—who've been knocking out Sterling-nominated-or-winning adaptations of classic fairy tales, for a number of years now—had put off approaching Pinocchio because, frankly, there's so much imagination necessary. The story of the little wooden boy trying to trade his branch arms in for real ones is an expansive, localeswapping tale—sweeping from Italian countryside to the belly of a sea creature—that doesn't lend itself well to a minimal set that has to be transported from school to school. "He's continuously running into antagonists," Timoteo points out. "It's very Odyssey-like: it's one episode to the next."

But returning to the source material—Carlo Collodi's 1883 novel —and challenging the cast to stretch the number of roles they could fathom playing onstage proved that restrictions can yield their own ingenious rewards. Plenty of strings to manage here, but none held them down. "If we know that we can't build 15 different sets that take place throughout Italy, we have to really bash our heads together and make ourselves conceive of a theatrical device or some theatrical devices that allow us to present or imply Italy as underwater, or inside of a shark, or all these different things, in a very barebones way, that doesn't allow lights or anything like that," he says. "It can be really tough, but I always find, year after year after year, that I'm really grateful for it. It's very rewarding, 'cause once we've found a way to do it, we're glad that we didn't have lights to just go, 'Scene change!' The scene changes have to be a story as well." Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

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ARTIFACTS Dead Centre of Town: Twisted / Thu, Nov 27 (8 pm) 18+ Megan Dart doesn't seem a particularly superstitious person, but in her own words, "The coincidence is becoming too much to ignore." She's discussing a certain curse, one that doesn't plague her specifically, but seems to trail Dead Centre of Town, the annual horror show she co-produces with her Catch the Keys Productions, where ever it goes. A gory, severedtongue-in-cheek look at the history of Edmonton, it tells us the ghost stories of our home: entrenching old stories in a place in town, previous years have revealed, in a bloody way, that nowdefunct Globe Bar was in fact once a mortuary, and that the now-moved New City Suburbs had hosted performers from the vaudeville days through the moving pictures years up until its final closure as a bar and band venue.

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Those are just two examples, but you'll note that neither of these places are still in operation. Neither are most the others that Dart's used, either. The curse is that no matter where DCOT produces itself, the location has ended up knocked down, closed for business or otherwise condemned from people's use. This year's location, Avenue Theatre, has its roots deep in Edmonton history—"we tell tales from the early-andmid-1900s right up through the late90s," Dart says—but it doubles as the one she's hoping will finally break away from whatever misfortune seems to be plaguing the production venues. "We are certain that, by heading in a venue that's essentially at the heart of an important revitalization effort, we'll break our so-called curse—the Avenue Theatre has survived so much already. We're sure it can survive Dead Centre

of Town!" Stop whatever you're doing and knock on wood for them. (Avenue Theatre, $12)

Awesome Foundation / Thu, Oct 27 (7 pm) The Awesome Foundation has chapters springing up all over North America. Stemming from an initial start-up in Boston, the idea is championing great arts or science ideas with cold, hard, funding: The Awesome Foundation offers $1000 in starter cash, an amount capable of taking an idea from a pipe dream to having its wheels in motion. "We believe that Edmonton is a great city with a lot to offer, in terms of arts, science, intellect and generally wonderful people," explains Raj Dhillon, one of the trustees who've brought the foundation to town. "Bringing AF to Edmonton seemed a little overdue, and was a

chance for all of us to get involved in creating something special." Anyone can submit an idea: Dhillon and the other trustees pick what they deem the five best, and at a pitch party that happens every month, decide a winner, who gets a cool $1000 to get their idea off the ground. At the inaugural Edmonton kick-off, Ryan Beck successfully pitched a new drama program at iHuman, for youths living on the street, but Dhillon notes that they're open to a wide spectrum of ideas. (Phat Fitness)

Chi Pig art show (Oct 31 – Nov 14) Chi Pig, frontman of legendary Canadian punk upstarts SNFU, is back in Edmonton for his first ever art exhibition, which will feature not only his works— visual art both old and new, painted and collage—but also works from locals Spyder Yardley Jones, Bob Prodor

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just physically speaking? NEIL FARBER: The first thing we agreed upon was to keep the book small and affordable. It's an introduction to the kind of work we make. I was astounded with the quality of the printing considering the low price. MICHAEL DUMONTIER: The original paintings are small so we were able to reproduce them on a one to one scale. The book is a nice weight and size and I think it feels good to hold in your hands. VW: You've said the text usually comes last. Do you even think up the words before the image is settled upon? NF: We don't usually think of the caption until the painting is at least partially painted. Once there is an idea then there may need to be additional painting. There doesn't necessarily need to be a caption, if the idea can be presented without one I generally prefer that. Usually, though, there is some text

and Andrew McCaffrey. Pig's also been spending plenty of his evenings at Wunderbar while in town, and will be around for a while after his exhibition opens, so if you ever wanted to brush shoulders with a legendary punk, now's your chance. (Wunderbar, Free)

Ami McKay / Wed, Nov 2 (7 pm) Ami McKay's first novel, the Birthhouse was a number-one bestseller in Canada, took home a handful of hardware, and helped establish her name as a sharp writer whose prose keeps a keen eye on the struggles of women throughout history. The Virgin Cure, her latest novel, is inspired partly by her great-great-grandmother's leading role in women and children's healthcare in 19th-century New York, and McKay herself will be reading and signing copies in town next week. (Greenwoods Books) V

element. This can be a title or labels or conversation between the characters or a number of other things. We spend a lot of time working on this aspect. We enjoy finding the right language and usually like to present our idea as clearly and succinctly as possible, unless of course the idea is to be vague and confusing. VW: There are certain similarities between your work and comics; the paintings are akin, in form, to one-panel gag cartoons. NF: It is pretty hard to deny a similarity between some of our paintings and something like a New Yorker comic. However, we didn't arrive at this painting style trying to emulate or further the single-panel comic. You could say it's an influence, though. The drawing style I use a lot, especially in my solo work is very informed by cartoon simplicity. It really is only one of very many influences on the paintings Michael and I make, though. For example collage, illustration, diagrams, psychology, sympathy cards, inspirational plaques, children's books, folk art, poetry, music, diary writings, movie posters, surrealist and abstract painting and many other painting and drawing styles would all be similarly influential. You can just as easily see the paintings as a page from a story, or just as paintings with their titles written on the front. I see them as little surreal works exploring the relationship between images and language. MD: I agree with Neil that the better paintings are the ones that don't just function as jokes. But sometimes you have to temper the horrible subject matter with jokes and lighter material, as a kind of emotional pacing. Over the years we've become more dependent on text as a way to resolve an image and often that text can function as a punchline. So maybe we're actually getting closer to a single panel comic form, although unintentionally. At the same time, as we've moved from drawing to painting, we've lost some of the references people attribute to comics that come along with drawing itself. KENTON SMITH // KENTON@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Dance Arden Theatre • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • ardentheatre.com • Viver Brasil dance company with live percussionists • Oct 29, 7:30pm; Oct 30, 2pm • $40 at Arden box office Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 • Contemporary dance with Good Tunes with Good Women • Nov 4, 8:30pm • $20

WONDERLAND

Nov 8-13 • Tickets at Ticketmaster

Map: Abstract Collagraph Printing: Oct 27, 3:30-5:30pm, $10; Build: 3D Painting: Nov 3, 3:30-5:30pm; $10 • Adult Drop-in: Landed: Watercolour Resist Painting; Oct 27, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (member) • Green Studio, Lower Level: AGA Book Club: Icefields by Thomas Wharton; Oct 27, 7pm; free, pre-register

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert

• 780.460.4310 • ARTificial: Artworks by Paul Bernhardt, Brenda Kim Christiansen, Eveline Kolijn, and Jordan Rule; until Oct 29 • Afghanistan Through My Lens: Photographs by David Bowering; Nov 3-26; opening reception (both shows): Nov 3, 7pm • Art Gallery of St. Albert’s Satellite Studio, 130, 15 Perron St: Guilded2011– Celebrating the Artist: Community art show highlighting members of St. Albert Place Visual Arts Council (SAPVAC); Nov 3-19; opening (both shows): Nov 3, 7pm

Bearclaw Gallery • 10403-

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FILM Downtown Docs • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement level) • 780.944.5383 • Documentaries with attitude • Force of Nature: David Suzuki Movie (2010; PG); opens with William Shatner Sings O Canada (5 min) • Oct 27, 6:30pm

Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium

Edmonton Film Society

• Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • The Dam Busters (1954, PG); Oct 31, 8pm • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/ student)/$3 (child)

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From Books to Film series • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • Village of the Damned (1960, PG); Oct 28, 2pm

METRO CINEMA • Garneau

Theatre, 8712-109 St • 780.425.9212 • Finding I.D.entity (Canada, 52 min) • Nov 6, 3-6:30pm

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Myer Horowitz Theatre • Students’ Union Bldg, U of A • The MOSQUERS 5th Annual Awards Night: Performance by comedian Ahmed Ahmed • Oct 29, 6pm (door) • $10 (adv)/$15 (door)

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery •

12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • Memories of Home: Encaustic floral paintings on panel by Janice Mason Steeves • Until Nov 5

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St •

780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Natural Flow: Contemporary Alberta Glass: until Dec 24 • SALTALK: By Jim Etzkorn; until Dec 3

Alberta Society of Artists • Walterdale Playhouse,

10322-83 Ave • 780.426.0072 • Wyrd Sisters–The Exhibition: Works on the themes in the novel; by five women artists • Nov 30-Dec 10

Art Beat Gallery • 26 St

Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.3679 • Artworks by John H. Burrow • Until Nov 6

ROYAL WINNIPEG BALLET COMPANY ARTIST TARA BIRTWHISTLE. PHOTO BY DAVID COOPER.

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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 • youraga.ca • Sculpture Terraces: Works by Peter Hide and Ken Macklin • BMO World of Creativity: Drawn Outside: especially for kids; Until Jan 29, 2012 • 19th Century French Photographs: until Jan 29 • Prairie Life: Settlement and the Last Best West, 1930-1955: until Jan 29 • A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France: until Feb 20 • State of Nature: until Feb 20 • RBC New Works Gallery: Arlene Wasylynchuk: Saltus Illuminati: until 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); until Jan 8 • Art for Lunch: Theatre Foyer: Casual and informative discussions about AGA exhibitions, held during the lunch hour, 3rd Thu every month • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm; free with admission • Studio Y Youth Drop-in:

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124 St, 780.482.1204 • ATCHEMOWIN (The Storyteller): Mixed media works by Jane Ash Poitras, in conjunction with the book launch for Cultural Memories and Imagined Futures: The Art of Jane Ash Poitras by Pamela McCallum • Until Oct 27

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 • Cohesion: Artworks by Suzanne Gaultier, Claude Boocock, Emma Cayer, Sylvia Grist, and Nathalie Rondeau • Oct 28-Nov 15 • Opening: Oct 28, 7-8:30pm

Centre Gallery • Allen Gray

Continuing Care Centre, 500528 Ave • Oil paintings by Rune Anderson and Watercolours by Lois Anderson • Until Oct 31

Daffodil Gallery • 10412124 St, 780.482-2854 • The October Show: Group exhibit featuring mostly local artists • Through Oct Douglas UDell • 10332-124

St • 780.488.4445 • Black and White: Works by Dean Drever • Until Nov 5

FAB Gallery • Department of

Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Lessons From Couch Fort: Industrial design works by Allison Murray; until Oct 29 • Garden of Muses: Cindy Couldwell: MDes Visual Communication Design • The Social Object: Jenna Hill: MDes Industrial Design; until Oct 29 • FAB, 2-20: Lecture by London printmaker Denise Hawrysio; Oct 27, 5:15pm

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 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Out There: Group exhibit by Kim Lew, Camille Louis, and Andrea Soler; until Oct 31 • Origami Festival display in the cubes near the AV Room; until Oct 31; Origami Drop-in: Edmonton Room: Oct 29-30

Gallery IS–Red Deer • 5123

48 St, Alexander Way, Red Deer • 403.341.4641 • His Hands ... my hand: Pastel paintings by David Coates • Until Oct 29 • Gallery closing doors as of Dec 24

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St,

780.461.3427 • Transcendance Sur Un Air De: Artworks by Doris Charest and Danièle Petit; installation with music and interviews • Until Nov 23

Haggerty Centre–Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre

for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • Unfolding Neighbourhoods: Jill Thomson and the NHCA Collective • Until Nov 11

Harcourt House • 3rd Fl,

10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Space: PileDriver: Series of paintings by David Janzen; until Nov 12 • Front Room: Personal Matter: A study of portraiture through the various inanimate possessions by Stacey Cann; until Nov 12 • Annex Special Event: Dead Artist Collective Halloween Howl: Oct 29, 9pm

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Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • Art is Dangerous: 8th Annual Fundraiser. Proceeds to assist Gallery operations • Nov 4-12 • Opening/First Friday; Nov 4, 6-8pm Hub on Ross–Red Deer

• 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • All the Art We Do: Group show • Through Oct

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • Serenity II: Waterolours by Yumiko Hoyano; Nov 4-25 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 • latitude53.org • FOMD Laboratory: Embodied Projections: Residency and show with Canadian performance artists Margaret Dragu and Freya Björg Olafson; until Oct 29; closing reception/artist talk: Oct 27, 2pm • DRAWn Together: Collection of sketchbooks; curated by Mary Ann Dobson • ProjEx Room: The Open Crowd: Artworks by Andrea Williamson; until Oct 29 • taxonomia: Maria Whiteman’s Science-fantasy photographs • Working Order: Works by Karen Zalamea; both shows: Nov 4-Dec 17; opening: Nov 4, 7pm Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • Art by local artists • Until 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 • Until Dec 4 Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave, St Albert

• 780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing

Mildwood Gallery • 426,

6655-178 St • Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing

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

51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Paintings by Loraine Stephanson • Oct 27-Nov 30 • Reception: Nov 6

Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne

St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Featuring artifacts dating back 5,000 years • The Mission Makers: Celebrating the ambitions, accomplishments and friendships of Archbishop Taché, OMI, and Father Lacombe, OMI; until Nov

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot,

10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Pastel paintings by David Shkolny • Through Oct

Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave •

780.455.7479 • tf: 1.877.826.3375 • Paintings by Phil Darrah; until Nov 1 • Another Still-Life: Artworks by David Cantine; Nov 4-23; opening: Nov 12, 2-4pm, artist in attendance

Commerce Place • Down-

town Edmonton • 780.467.3038 • PictureThisGallery.com • Western Lights Artists Group, fall art show . jazz music with Andrew Glover (piano) daily during lunch • Oct 31-Nov 4 • Opening: Oct 31

Red Deer Museum • 452547A Ave • Farming Out Our Future: Changes that have had an impact on rural life in Alberta, 1950 to present; until Nov 13 • From Our Collection: Objects and artifacts from Central Alberta’s history; 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; until Nov 25 • Wild Alberta Gallery: Wild by Nature: Every Sat and Sun, 11am and 2pm

St Andrew's United Church • 9915-148 St • St Andrew's Quilting Group annual fall quilt sale • Oct 29, 10am-2pm SCOTT GALLERY 10411-124 St • 780.488.3619 • Connecting with Landscape: Arlene Wasylynchuk and Gerald Faulder • Until Nov 1 SNAP Gallery • 10123-121 St •

780.423.1492 • Gallery: The Mine Field: Artworks by Alexandra Haeseker; until Nov 19 • Community Event: The Exquisite Corpse: Day: print monsters on the Vandercook SP-20 letterpress; evening: Halloween party • Oct 29

SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • Uta Preuss: Featuring pottery works • Until Nov 12 • Reception: Oct 29, 1-4pm

Storefront Studio • 6324-106 St • 780.486.0104 • HEARTSHOW • Nov 4-Nov 6 evenings • Opening: Nov 5, 4-8pm; live music TELUS World of Science • 11211-

142 St • Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition: Stories told through artifacts from the site of the Titanic • Until Feb 20

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Galleries A and B: Al Henderson's artworks based on memories of his military mission in Afghanistan • Until Nov 5 Velvet Olive Lounge–Red Deer • 4924-50 St, Red Deer • 403.340.8288 • Pressed: Artworks by Carol Nault • Through Oct

Chicago, the musical • La Cité

Theatre, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.242.2824 • Two ONE-WAY Tickets To Broadway Productions • Directed and choreographed by Linette Smith, musical direction by Stephen Delano, stage managed by Pat Eyford • Oct 28-Nov 4 • $25 at TIX on the Square

Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83

Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul 2012 • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only)

Cleopatra’s Sister • Transalta Arts Barns PCL Studio, 10330-84 Ave • 780.471.1586 • Northern Light Theatre, stars Nadien Chu and Sylvia Wong • The final and dramatic meeting between Cleopatra and her sister (and rival) Arsinoe, only one woman can emerge victorious • Nov 4-12 Corner Gassed 2 • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • Oct 28-Jan 21

Dead Centre of Town: Twisted • Avenue Theatre, 9030-118 Ave •

780.477.2149 • Catch the Keys’ interactive historical Hallowe'en theatre experience. Stars Stuart Hoye, Adam Keefe, Christine • Oct 27, 8pm • $12 (door)

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83

Ave • 780.433.3399 • The live improvised soap opera featuring improvisors Dana Andersen, Matt Alden, Leona Brausen, Peter Brown, Belinda Cornish, Tom Edwards, Jeff Haslam, Kory Mathewson, Mark Meer, Sheri Somerville, Davina Stewart, Stephanie Wolfe, and Donovan Workun • Every Mon,

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • Simply Landscape: Bev Rodin • Oct 29-Nov 10 • Opening: Oct 29, 1-4pm

until May, 2012, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets available at the box office

Porter • Nov 4-12 • $22/$18 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square

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Pinocchio • TransAlta Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • 780.409.1910 • fringetheatre.ca • Alberta Opera • Adapted by Jeff Unger and Farren Timoteo; music by Jeff Unger; directed by Farren Timoteo • Oct 27-30; Nov 4 • $18 (adult)/$15 (student/ senior)/$12.50 (child)

• Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • The story of the Beatles early beginnings in 1957 thru to their last performance in America in 1966 • Until Nov 6

• Varscona Theatre 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre celebrates Hallowe'en with an improv comedy battle between the genres of fantasy and science fiction • Oct 28, 11pm • $15 at door, TIX on the Square

Hey Ladies! • Roxy, 10708-124 St, other venues • 780.453.2440 • Starring Davina Stewart, Cathleen Rootsaert, Leona Brausen • Oct 28 • Tickets at Theatre Network’s box office Loud and Queer Cabaret • La Cité Francophone Theatre, 8627-91 St • 780.477.5955 • workshopwest.org • Workshop West Theatre present an eclectic mix of acts, tracts, rants, dance, plays, scenes, monologues and more • Nov 5-6, 7:30pm • $30 at TIX on the Square Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL World Tour • Rexall Place • Cirque du

Soleil's fusion of visuals, dance, music and fantasy that immerses audiences in Michael's creative world; written and directed by Jamie King • Nov 1-2 • Tickets at TicketMaster

NIGHT TIME • Catalyst Theatre, 8529

Gateway Blv • 780.271.0975 • Cowardly Kiss Theatre presents this haunting psychological thriller by Selma Dimitrijevi, directed by Andrea Beça, Choreography by Ainsley Hillyard, stars Nicole Schafenacker, Brennan Campbell, Patrick Errington, and Cody

• 780.433.3399 • The All Hallows edition of the Euro-style variety spectacle, hosted by international glamour-ghoul Susanna Patchouli • Oct 29, 11pm • $10 (door)

The Rocky Horror Show • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • Book, music and lyrics by Richard O’Brien, directed by Leigh Rivenbark. Musical-horror-comedy • Oct 29-Nov 4 TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Improv runs every Fri • $10/$8 (member) Will Stroet • Arden Theatre, St Albert • Noisy Theatre • Will Stroet performs bilingual interactive, upbeat songs • Nov 2 • $5 (Kid)/$10 (adult) Xanadu • John L Haar Theatre, Grant MacEwan, 10045-156 St • By Douglas Carter Beane; music and lyrics by Jeff Lynne and John Farrar; based on the Universal Pictures film. A roller-skating musical comedy adventure set in the eighties • Until Oct 29, 7:30pm; Oct 23, 2pm and 7:30pm • Tickets at tixonthesquare.ca Yellow Moon • Timms Centre, 87 Ave, 112 St, U of A • Studio Theatre • By David Greig • Nov 3-12

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LITERARY Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA)/ EPL • Green Studio, Lower Level, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • epl.ca • AGA Book Club: Discuss the connections found between the visual arts and literature; Icefields by Thomas Wharton • Oct 27, 7pm • Free; registration required

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780.423.3487 • Launch/reading of Corinne Jeffery's first novel, Arriving: 1909-1919 • Oct 29, 3pm • Hallowe'en Story Hour with Janice MacDonald and Richard Stevenson, prize for best costume; Oct 30, 2pm

Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave • 780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month

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Winter can be treacherous, but it can also be fun. You don't want to be cooped up in the dark for the next eight months do you? Of course you don't! So check out this guide to not being a shut in during the coldest months of the year.

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Squeeze another winter out of your jalopy

Rock 'n' roll mechanic Ted Wright's top four tips for beating the subterranean homesick winter blues stinking Volkswagen over the mountains from balmy Vancouver, and it doesn't have a block heater? Have no fear: any reputable shop can provide and install several widely-available types of block heater, from the type that heats the coolant, to the less-common one that heats the oil pan. Remember to check your antifreeze condition and strength too. Now get ready for Hell.

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When the Get Down's Ted Wright isn't making a guitar fucking wail, he's making cars fucking work at his day job as a mechanic. If you want your car to make it through another winter—good luck—here's the way you do it: BIGGER IS BETTER

I learned this one from my dear ol' Dad: buy the biggest fucking battery that will fit into your tiny Honda/ Boogie Van/Obscure Foreign Make's engine bay. Cut away excess metal parts if you must. If your car has a

weak or slow starter, doesn't catch after turning over three or four times, or is just plain tired, a good quality, fully charged and maintained battery can mean the difference between having to catch a cab, and, regrettably, making it to work on time. And

yes, I am talking to you, you bearded, no-good musician types.

EDMONTON BLOCK HEATER You actually DO need a block heater. "My car starts in any temperature or weather, even at –30 C, every time!" Bully for you, you must be driving a Mercedes or have indoor parking. If that cord has been dragging on the ground for the last six months, have it tested, and make sure that it still operates. What's that, hippie? You just dragged your groovy patchouli

Spend the extra 30 bucks one time and put synthetic oil in. No, it's not a government plot—synthetic oil really does perform during winter time the way they show it on TV. This type of oil helps your engine turn over quicker because it stays thinner at lower temperatures and decreases the danger of oil starvation to crucial engine parts, like bearings. If you don't believe me, leave a bottle of regular oil outside overnight some time, and pour it out after a good –25 or so jag. The stuff comes out like molasses. Try blowing that through a straw, and you'll see what your engine puts up with.

TREAD ON ME If you can afford them, buy winter

tires. Again, not a government plot, and not a scare tactic. I was coming home from a weekender of shows ending in Edson a bunch of years back. Our van was equipped with winter tires, but one went flat on the way back. I readily recall having to make a panic stop on the highway, and guess which tire lost traction? Yep, the cheap all-season that was on for the spare. Since then, none of our vehicles have spent a winter without them. Consider this: where are the roads usually the worst in the winter time? In the city, right? Doesn't it make sense to go with a dedicated winter tire? Traction is greatly increased, and therefore the stopping distance between you and the guy with truck nuts on his bumper is decreased. If you cannot afford to purchase winter tires, make sure that your all-season tires have adequate tread life (typically 50 percent or better), and are checked for pressure AT LEAST ONCE A MONTH, and more often in the coldest months. Air shrinks—along with other things—in the cold and before long, your whip is ridin' dirty on 15 psi of air. TED WRIGHT // TED@VUEWEEKLY.COM

WINTER MUSIC Alice Kos's winter album pick: Fairport Convention, Unhalfbricking Singer-songwriter Alice Kos's melancholic debut album You Missed It All will be released soon. Angie Mason's winter album pick: Shuttle358, Understanding Wildlife "Good company for the quiet meditative mind-space that is experienced during those silent winter moments that seem frozen in time." Angie Mason hosts Borscht in Space, Mondays at 7 pm on CJSR.

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How to keep cool The Man Fur: It is time to get rugged and stop complaining about the eight months of winter. Do something about it: trap a fur or move.

In addition to being a freelance stylist, fashion writer and velvet enthusiast, Sandy Joe Karpetz is a former British Vogue intern. Seek out her blog at the-pretty-secrets.blogspot.com for more of her insights.

In life, there is one thing you can always turn to for endless lessons and revelations: Seinfeld. From the proper way to order soup to the true meaning of the holiday season (The Airing of Grievances, a Festivus for the rest of us!), it is the one thing that will never let you down. Naturally, style can be drawn from this sitcom too. I give you your new fall/winter 2011 fashion inspiration: "Witchay Woman" and "Desperado."

The European Carry All: A satchel fit for an outlaw vagabond ... or some guy with more than an overstuffed wallet and a phone. Just remember: it is not a purse. It's not a lie if you truly believe it. The Giddyup Bandana: Scarves are overdone. Ties are too dressy. Topographic-map-printed bandana's are where it's at—a Death Valley-themed one is the apogee of bandit style. This needs no elaboration. Unfortunately you will have to put off wearing your "Urban Sombrero" for the next six to eight months.

WINTER MUSIC Caity Fisher's winter album pick: Jessica Jalbert, Brother Loyola Singer-songwriter Caity Fisher's next show will be at the release party for Jessica Jalbert's Brother Loyola. What a curious coincidence! Paul James Coutts's winter album pick:

Enslaved, Axioma Ethica Odini "This one clears all snow for pure Viking conquest." Paul James Coutts is the singer and guitarist for Free Judges.

The Nicole Miller: Maxi dresses are not only chic and flattering but just plain sensible for winter. They are effortlessly elegant and providwe ample coverage for your chilled bones. When picking out the perfect frock, lace detailing is encouraged. Beware of salt stains. The More Than A Man Fur: It is about time we start embracing our Canadian heritage and what this country was truly founded upon: fur. Ethics aside, there is nothing warmer than a pelt of dead animal draped upon you. If you are uncomfortable with this idea, I recommend starting off small—a weasel neckpiece will do. Or fun fur ... whatever.

Sandy Joe Karpetz // karpetz@vueweekly.com

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Stayin' alive

Don't get hypothermia out there Whether skiing, skating, tobogganing or just going for a long walk in the winter, the key to staying warm—which is the key to staying alive—is layering. You need to have the freedom to add and remove layers because changing conditions dictate your strategy for staying warm and staying alive. Too little clothing and you’ll get cold, which could lead to hypothermia and death. Too much clothing could lead you to perspire too much. That moisture could freeze causing hypothermia and death.

If you're going to be doing some physical activity outside during the winter you should, as a rule, be a little bit cold just before you begin and allow the activity to warm you up. Otherwise, you're likely overdressed which can be just as dangerous as being underdressed. BRYAN BEITLES

// BRYAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Making sure your gear is ready Caring for your equipment

own rarely take the time to properly care for their equipment. "I would say probably 80 percent of people don't," he says, noting that proper care for your personal equipment should begin after your last run of the prior season with proper storage. Aside from simply finding a nice dry place to stash your skis or board, applying a coat of storage wax—a layer of wax put on the skis that's left thick rather than being treated— prevents the base from drying out. Before you take to the hills after the snow starts to fall, Tiedemann also notes the importance of a general tuning before hitting the slopes: a cleaner to strip any old wax, a new coat and treatment, a sharpening and polishing.

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long and powdery one. Factor our own local hills in with Edmonton's proximity to the Rockies and the opportunities to chop up fresh powder are as plentiful as goatees at a jazz convention. With that in mind, a lot of people own their own gear, even

if they aren't competitive racers. But just as many don't take good care of that gear. Joel Tiedemann, senior sales associate at Pacesetter Ski Shop—an Edmonton institution since 1973—notes that, aside from the racing community, those who

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Proper storage is the essential rule of thumb here: during the actual season, how you stash your skis between weekend trips to the mountains is just as important as the offseason treatment. Making sure your equipment is dry before it gets stored after days on the hill— Tiedemann recommends toweling it down, to ensure that any wetness doesn't linger—can go far toward ensuring your equipment maintains pristine performance for plenty of seasons to come.

Sure, you can have any of this done on an actual ski hill rather than go to a shop. But waiting until you're actually out there wastes valuable time you could otherwise be using for skiing. "For what it costs, it's not that expensive," Tiedemann says. "If you do it a couple times a season, your skis are going to last longer, [and] work better." PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

WINTER MUSIC Stefan Duret's winter album pick: Women, Public Strain "That album sounds like a snow storm." Stefan Duret est le bassiste du groupe musical, Slates. Le groupe vient de rentrer d'une tournée européenne. Joe Gurba's winter album pick: múm, Finally We Are No One Joe Gurba—who performs hip hop under the name The Joe—owns the label Old Ugly, home of the likes of Doug Hoyer, Caity Fisher and Mikey Maybe.

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Kids and cold

Preparing to get physical

Preparing the kids for the outdoors

Everett LaRoi is a guitarist and singer with folky, rocky Edmonton band Manraygun. He's also a pretty good dad. Here are his tips for getting kids through the winter. 1) Get kids and dogs outside everyday that's warmer than –20 C, or risk CFMS (Cabin Fever Meltdown Syndrome).

4) Stock up on charcoal briquettes for the retro barbecue before they're pulled from the shelves for the winter.

2) Go to Totem—swap last year's skates for new ones that fit.

5) Save the epic winter blues drinking/eating binge until after the kids go to bed.

3) Sort through heaps of mismatched kids mittens—find two that look alike for each kidlet.

Everett LaRoi // everett@vueweekly.com

he cold weather and dark days of winter can create a major interruption in the workout routine. Heading into the warmth of the gym, or worse, the comfy surroundings of the couch, mean that when it's time to get out to the ski hill, or even shovel the walk, we may not be ready for the physical exertion required. Jason Roncesvalles, owner and head strength and conditioning coach at CrossFit Armoury, says transferability is the key to maintaining body strength and flexibility throughout the seasons. "During the summer people are active outdoors. That's functional movement, whereas in winter a lot of people end up going to traditional gyms and they lose the functional movement when they're confined to machines," says Roncesvalles. "The transferable benefit to real life isn't the same." Exercising using real movements like squats and dead lifts rather than bicep curls can improve the transferability of the exercise from the gym to real life. And it will improve the likelihood you'll develop the real muscle and core strength necessary to survive the ski hill. But regardless of being inside the gym or out, a key to preventing injury is to maintain a level of activity throughout the year. Dr Donald Voaklander at the Alberta Centre for Injury Control and Research recommends any exercise that maintains balance. "If you do weight-bearing activity all year round the nerve system will be

trained up to moving and it will protect you more," he says, which will help to prevent slips and falls on the ice and snow in the winter months.

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WINTER MUSIC Amy van Keeken's winter album pick(s):

Chet Baker, Baby Breeze and Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Girl From Ipanema: The Antonio Carlos Jobim Songbook " These two albums are on steady rotation during the cold months when I am snug as bug in my house, making soup, baking cookies and cuddling my dogs." Amy van Keeken plays in the Secretaries and the AwesomeHots.

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Voaklander also recommends proper outerwear. "You want to make sure the footwear you're wearing is appropriate," he says. "Sometimes you grab the broom and think, 'I'll just dust this snow off before I go to work' while in your dress shoes, and that can cause the most accidents." That overestimation of ability can cause big problems, even if you're just taking the toboggan out for a test drive, says Voaklander: "Emergency departments report a lot of sliding injuries, head injuries and surprisingly it's adults on the hill, jumping on the toboggan after a beer." If you're in that state, it's unlikely you're wearing the proper equipment. Voaklander recommends preparing for the weather, saying that dressing in layers, mittens instead of gloves, waterproof boots, helmets for skating, toboganning and on the curling rink will decrease the likelihood of injury and frostbite for any activity in the frozen hinterland.

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REVUE // I (HEART) ALBERTA BEEF

As Lux as promised

salty bacon Hollandaise raise this dish to yet a higher echelon of decadence. The riot of textures and flavours make it increasingly impossible to slow our poutine consumption rate prior to our entrées' arrival.

Downtown steakhouse opulently satisfying Lux Steakhouse Commerce Place 10150 - 101 St, 780.424.0411 ood steak is an integral part of Albertan culture, and there are many spots in Edmonton where one may procure a fine slab of beef. Lux Steakhouse is a notable, downtown magnet for those in search of steak. A venture through the stately wooden door reveals a dining room that possesses few corners. Instead, circles are the dominant shape. The booths are curved, as are several walls. Large circles dominate the ceiling. This relative absence of corners easily guides the eye around the large, black and tan room. Unobtrusive jazz swings in the background and, mercifully, very little noise escapes from the lounge in the back. Lux is indeed a steakhouse, but its oversized menu also features a raw bar, which includes the likes of carpaccio and oysters, and an intriguing suite of sides, such as truffled bacon creamed corn and Stella Artoisbattered onion rings. A delicate amuse-bouche appears;

// Craig Janzen

Lux Steakhouse is all circles, no angles

it presents a tender, seared scallop kissed with wasabi mayo resting atop a tiny tumble of corn relish. This juicy morsel whets our appetites while we await our chosen mains: a 12 oz classic ribeye ($34) and an 8 oz New York steak ($29). We will share the featured side: blue cheese gnocchi ($12). In the

meantime, we lounge in the soft and spacious booth and tuck into lobster poutine ($13). Skinny, skin-on fries fill a bone-white, rectangular platter. They are crisp and delicious alone, but the addition of large chunks of lobster meat elevates this traditionally humble dish to new heights of opulence. Lashings of

My massive ribeye shares quarters with a delightful tangle of frites, and a vegetable quintet that includes an asparagus spear, a Brussels sprout, a carrot, and a cauliflower floret. All are colourful and fresh, yet do not compete with the steak for attention. The ribeye, cooked medium-rare, is served with a side of three peppercorn demi ($3). It is at once imposing and delicately tender. The peppercorn demi adds a peppery kick, but steak this good needs no embellishment. The New York steak covers similar territory, though the grain of this cut makes for a sturdier beef experience. The blue cheese gnocchi are deceptively sharp to the nose; blue cheese has a well-deserved reputation for pungency, but here the cheese is buttery and remarkably mellow. The gnocchi, which are house-made, are pillow-soft and possess none of the pastiness that plagues the store-bought variety. The muted muskiness of the blue cheese gnocchi both complements and en-

hances the deep, robust essence of the beef. An accompanying glass of Vilalta Valpolicella Ripasso ($10) smells much different than it tastes. Its scent is peppery and a wee bit acidic, but it tastes luxuriantly of ripe cherries, plums and structured spices. The massive meat and satisfying sides leave little room for dessert, but it would be a shame to leave without having tasted at least one of the enticing offerings on Lux's dessert menu. We choose Carrot Cake ($9) and Colossal Chocolate Cake ($9). The double-layered carrot cake is sufficiently studded with crisp walnuts and adorned with tangy cream cheese icing. Chai ice cream, which cleverly condenses the warm flavours of chai into a smooth, cool package, and bourbon maple syrup allow one to customize each bite of cake. Colossal chocolate cake is a behemoth to behold: here is a slice of cake that is six layers high and could easily feed a family of four. It is impressive in its excess, and packs a chocolately punch to match its size. At Lux, the portions are nothing less than daunting but the intricacies of flavour present in each dish prove that size does not trump finesse. LS Vors // vors@vueweekly.com

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BEER

Peer pressure

Our beer guy's friends talked him into it of pilsner malt. The aroma makes me a bit nervous, I must admit. The flavour presents differently than expected. A light fruit sweetness at first, with some wheat and sparkling soda. The grapefruit is

It tastes frighteningly like Mountain Dew to me. Sugar sweetness with a dash of citrus sharpness.

Stiegl Radler Grapefruit Stiegl Brauerei, Salzburg, Austria $2.99 for 330 ml bottle

not a huge fan. More accurately, this beer is a shandy—a blend of beer and fruit juice—which really increased my skepticism. Shandies are One of the things about being a beer normally designed for people who guy about town is that you want Mike's Hard more than develop friendships with beer. However, there is no other beer people. That is questioning how refreshnatural—people are often ing they can be on a hot kly.com uewee drawn to those with simi- tothepint@v summer day. So, trusting Jason lar interests. And as mutual my friends, I picked up a Foster bottle. The beer is Stiegl Rabeer fans, we often share informal reviews, debate the merits dler from Austria, a lager blended of various beer and swap new finds. with grapefruit juice. I appreciate hearing other views and learning of something new in town I It presents with a hazy, pale whitehaven't tried. straw colour. The head barely apThis summer a few different peopears and offers only a wimpy white ple, completely independently of ring. The aroma is all grapefruit. I am each other, mentioned an odd new not exaggerating. It comes across beer and suggested I try it. I was with a sharp, tangy, sour-citrus charhesitant, for the primary reason it acter that is unmistakable as grapeis a fruit beer, a style of which I am fruit. Lingering backstage is a touch

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more subdued, offering up a generic citrus sharpness to accent the sugary sweetness of the beer. It re-asserts itself in the linger, providing that classic dry bitter-sweet aftertaste. I detected all that, but the thing I mostly thought about as I sipped it? Mountain Dew. Yes, it tastes frighteningly like Mountain Dew to me. Sugar sweetness with a dash of citrus sharpness. Now, Mountain Dew uses orange, rather than grapefruit, for its citrus kick, but I tell you this is its doppelganger. I shouldn't be too surprised. That is basically what a shandy is—soda pop with a bit of alcohol. And I do mean a bit. Stiegl Radler clocks in at only 2.5 percent, which means you are basically drinking not much more than pop. However, that clearly adds to its hot day quotient. I can't say I enjoyed it, but I will admit to being fascinated by it. It does a great job of what it wants to do. It is light, refreshing, tart and sweet and truly unique. I suspect my friends were commenting on it for the same reasons I am intrigued by it. It is something of a conversation starter. Just don't ask me to drink another bottle. V

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Tue, Nov 1 (10 am) Shop Local First Month launch Yellowhead Brewery

ven though Halloween's still around the corner, it isn't too early to turn your thoughts to holiday shopping says Live Local, an Edmonton-based community organization committed to promoting local business. What started as Original Fare, a group promoting local restaurants,

has now morphed into Live Local as a way to promote a wider variety of local businesses in Edmonton. Supporting local business is a practice that has cumulative effects on local economies, says Jessie Radies, the group's founder. "For every dollar you spend in a local business, it generates approximately three times the economic value to the community compared to spending that dollar in a non-local business," she says, citing a study of Austin

In support of these larger goals, Live Local will launch the fourth annual Shop Local First Month in November, in the hopes that citizens will consider frequenting locally owned businesses when they're out doing holiday shopping or picking restaurants to eat at with friends or for holiday parties. "The holiday season and back to school is when a lot of our retailers make their income for the year, so while your wallets are open and you're out doing your shopping, make sure you're thinking about local business," says Radies. "Patronize them—that's the best way to support local business."

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ince he released his first solo EP, The Inhuman Condition, a decade ago, there has been a "Sam Roberts sound." You've heard it on the radio or seen it at the Junos, it's been present at numerous university campuses pouring out of dorm rooms or welcome-week stages. For the most part, the recipe has been solid—two parts earnest rock, one part folk, a dash of Canadiana, some beard scrapings and voilà: Sam Roberts. With the latest album, Collider, the newly christened Sam Roberts Band— all the previous releases were attributed simply to Sam Roberts—broke the mould that delivered the group to the Junos, Lollapalooza, the Grey Cup and the Olympics. "I had an acoustic guitar and I started with a riff that sounded like it could have been on a previous record, but when it came to overdubbing ideas—which is how I write—I put a dub bassline on it instead of a folky bassline and that was it," Roberts explains of the shift in sound. "It was off to the races from that point." Roberts followed his rhythmic ideas

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and ended up with a group of songs that were much dancier than his previous material, nearer to club bangers than his grassy festival anthems. When it came time to record them, he tapped Brian Deck of Chicago band Red Red Meat and proceeded to allow Deck

Releasing an album that comes a bit out of left field might give an artist trepidation, but for Roberts it was nothing but excitement. "I was nervous about it but in an excited kind of way, [like] when you have an idea and you want to share

They call it a release: you release an album and that's a literal thing, but it's an emotional thing as well. more input into the record than Roberts had ever previously been comfortable allowing a producer. "In the preproduction he sent me a list of things—'Why not strip this away? Why not replace this guitar with a keyboard line?'—he gave me a list of things to try to implement and I'd go back and try them and sometimes they worked and sometimes they didn't," Roberts says. "I found that a lot of his ideas were compelling and they got all of us interested in the possibilities of where they could lead us. So we decided to throw all of our eggs in his basket and see where it led us."

it with people. That's why we play in a band, we get these ideas and we work really hard on them and then you have this overwhelming urge to share them with other people," he says. "They call it a release: you release an album and that's a literal thing, but it's an emotional thing as well. You finally give this over to other people and you stop worrying about what they think. That moment of sending it out there, there's an incredible amount of freedom that comes with that." Bryan Birtles // bryan@vueweekly.com

FIRSTS, LASTS, AND FAVOURITES

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DAN MANGAN Thu, Nov 3 (7:30 pm) McDougall United Church, $32

First album

Last album

The Simpsons Sing The Blues (Featuring: "Do The Bartman" and "Deep, Deep Trouble.")

Does traded-for count? It hasn't come out yet but been listening to The Daredevil Christopher Wright's The Nature Of Things. It's awesome.

First concert

Charlotte Diamond (I was four. Especially dug the song "4 Hugs A Day") Last concert

ou know who Dan Mangan is. The man who just put out the new album Oh Fortune and graced our cover a couple years ago returns to Edmonton singing his new songs. He gives Vue the lowdown on some of his musical history.

I can't remember the last time I went to a show that wasn't another band we were touring with, or at a festival we were playing. The other day we played with a band in New York called Deleted Scenes. They were badass.

Favourite album

Depends. My default answer to that is Radiohead's OK Computer, but it's tied to a time in my life and an era of music. Musical guilty pleasure

I've always been secretly down with Bran Van 3000's "Drinkin' in LA."

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PREVUE // METAL OR MELLOW

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BLACK LABEL SOCIETY

Even Zakk Wylde doesn't know what he'll do next

Tue, Nov 1 (6:30 pm) With Judas Priest, Thin Lizzy Shaw Conference Centre, $82.25

akk Wylde's legacy among metal's great guitarists is all but set in stone. Time spent slinging a six-string with Ozzy made him a wellknown name; his work fronting Pride and Glory and now Black Label Society has kept him one. But it's his refusal to rest on his laurels, constantly reaching outside the confines of the genre for inspiration, that keeps him at the vanguard of the genre's biggest acts. Wylde's not afraid to step away from bristling riffs, slow things down and maybe toss in a ballad or two. "I was in the gym and [The Rolling Stone's] 'Wild Horses' was on. And the next thing you know, I ended up writing 'Darkest Days,'" he says. "That's the beautiful thing of it: it's a box of Cracker Jacks. I don't know what I'm going to get until I get to the bottom of it. I can't tell you what the next album's going to sound like." Of course he can make a guitar chug or whip a solo with the best of them, but the most recent Black Label Society release, The Song Remains Not The Same, focuses on the band's softer side, acting as a companion piece to last year's Order of the Black. Half is comprised of rearranged, mellowed versions of Order songs, the other half a handful of covers— Neil Young's "Helpless," Simon and Garfunkel's "Bridge over Troubled Waters," and a curious, guitar-led take on "The First Noel." "It depends on which side of the bed I woke up on that day," Wylde says, of determining the direction of a song. "If we listen to some

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Led Zeppelin right before we go into the studio, it's like, 'Oh, let's do something like that. Let's do a cool riff and a chorus. Something riff-based.' You could hear 'Heart of Gold' on the way in after we go out to Subway to get something to eat, and it's like, 'Dude, let's do something mellow like that.'" Having his own studio, the Black Vatican, a

That's the beautiful thing of it: it's a box of Cracker Jacks. I don't know what I'm going to get until I get to the bottom of it.

stone's throw from his house has given him a place to try ideas out, and record freely— "Not that that ever stopped me back in the day," he's quick to point out. But no matter the particular inkling that makes him pick up a guitar or head toward the piano bench, Wylde's surrounded himself with people capable of playing whatever he needs them to. "When you have classical musicians come in and record, they don't sit there for six weeks recording your 'Long and Winding Road,' he says. "They just come in, and somebody has the sheet music for them, and they go alright, roll tape. They're outta there in about an hour and a half. It's called learning to play your instrument. That's what you do." Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

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PREVUE // ALBUM RELEASE

JESSICA JALBERT Fri, Oct 28 (8:30 pm) With Caity Fisher, Catgut Wunderbar, $5

ver the course of a conversation, you get the feeling that Jessica Jalbert dismisses her abilities more than she ought to. A certain amount of that can be probably be chalked up to pre-release trepidation: her album, Brother Loyola, is finally seeing the light of day after a morethan-a-year-long recording process. It's also her very first release under her own name, and with a flurry of pre-album bustle—rehearsal, press, buying fabric for the backdrop—being compacted around a day job, you can forgive the nerves. "I have nothing against DIY stuff; I mean, mine is a DIY too. But personally I have really ... I wouldn't say

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Jessica Jalbert's album Brother Loyola will be released Friday

high standards, but, sort-of-high standards," she laughs. "I did have a lot of recorded material out that I just never really wanted to put it out there for consumption. And then we spent a

year recording this one, so, I better put it out." Jalbert's voice, a magnetic siren's croon, has long been a secret weapon

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deployed on other people's records. On her own, it speaks with confidence of its own particular musings: recorded by René Wilson, who performs in his own FM-pop project Sugarglider (and also drums in Jalbert's band), Brother Loyola's a dreamy refuge of guitar pop, bedroom songs written to keep the mysteries of the universe in mind amongst the washes of sound. "Paris Green" dwells on a very toxic colour pigment, once widely used; "Stupid Hollow" seems to address some of her own self-doubts—"I need some conviction, or some kind of prescription / Because every other minute I am second guessing every second guess," goes one verse—set to a roving pace and an uppity drum march. "Aubrey de Grey" examines the eponymous, real-life scientist whose research looks to end the aging pro-

cess in humans. It's the sort of ethical grey area that Jalbert seems drawn to writing about. "The reason that I wrote that song is because 'Aubrey de Grey can stop decay' is like a perfect song lyric. Well, kind of," Jalbert says. "I found it fascinating. I thought about it a lot. I guess the way I write songs is I'm thinking about something in my head, I'm thinking about something in my head, then I realize something rhymes. "If I've been thinking about it enough to find a rhyme, it's probably something I care about, or probably something I'd want to write about. I guess. The same thing probably happened with 'Paris Green.' ... Lots of things rhyme with green, and it's a beautiful idea." Paul Blinov // Paul@vueweekly.com

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SOUNDTRACK

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At home Ry Cooder, Into The Purple Valley One of the rare albums that I loved when I was 13 and still listen to regularly when I'm at home. Ry's take on dustbowl ballads, blues and rockabilly. Some of the greatest slide guitar work ever. Sounds way better on vinyl for some reason.

Steve Dawson, rocking a Canadian tuxedo

ultiple Juno winner Steve Dawson barely takes a step without falling into music. Not only has he released five solo albums, but he's worked on countless more as a band member, sideman or producer. Prior to his appearance in Edmonton, Dawson gave Vue a look into his musical day.

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Duke Ellington with Max Roach and Charles Mingus, Money Jungle This was recommended to me by one of my favourite drummers, Jay Bellerose, and with good reason. Hearing Max Roach attack the drums on this album is amazing, plus the sheer craziness of this lineup of jazz greats holed up in a room, apparently fighting all the time, makes for some amazing music. I think it's the best sounding jazz album ever. Brian Eno and Daniel Lanois, Apollo My Bass player, Keith Lowe got me into Eno, and this is my favourite. Beautiful ambient sounds accompanied by trippy steel guitar— music meant to watch the moon landing to, with a country-tinge inspired by the fact that the astronauts were cowboys. It's a great late-night listen and really puts you in a zone.

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On the road morning

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The Band, The Band Just could never get enough of this great record, and it gets the day off to a bang. This was recorded in Sammy Davis Jr's pool house!

Leo Kottke, Greenhouse This is a stellar, almost solo-guitar album that really cuts through in the van, unlike most acoustic records. The peak of Leo's early greatness, mixed with strange little songs. I've always loved his singing too, which he says sounds like a flock of geese farting.

Sam Cooke, Nightbeat My favourite night-driving record. Sam Cooke needs no introduction, but this obscure album finds the great soul singer laying down a bunch of laid-back blues tunes, all live off the floor, with a killer band. He never did anything like this again.

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Pass the Sugar

Big Sugar records new album—a decade after its last one

Gordie Johnson and Big Sugar are back

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the full-on reggae rock of Revolution Per Minute this past summer. Johnson recently spoke with Vue Weekly about the creation of the new album.

Big Sugar released its last full-length record a decade ago, with bandleader Gordie Johnson folding the group and moving south to Texas to escape the pleasure-destroying pressures that the music industry brought to bear on him and his musical compatriots at the time. After three albums of metalheavy Texas blues with Grady, in 2010 Johnson put his old band back together for some festival dates before releasing

VUE WEEKLY:

What made now the time that you wanted to put Big Sugar back together? GORDIE JOHNSON: Because I feel like everybody spiritually and musically is realigned. There were a lot of conflicting tensions in the group before. It just seemed like all the forces of nature were pitted against us and we were just trying to make our music and live our lives, and it just felt like everything

had to have a meeting and be put to a vote and committee to decide on it. It just got to be a drag, and it was making the music not fun to play. I can never just walk out there and go through the motions because it's making somebody money, including me. I don't do this for money: I do this because it's what I do. You can't buy my allegiance to a thing I don't believe in. We're happy to just let ourselves be weird, and if we feel like playing a bunch of reggae jams one night, well, that's tough. If you don't dig it, you're at the wrong show, man. If we want to get all tripped out or we want to play some old blues, we're going to do what we're going to do. Come on in, anybody's welcome, but we didn't promise we were gonna please everybody. We're just there making our music. It just seems like now at this point in history it's a really good time to do that. Even making Revolution Per Minute was, I don't think instantaneous, because it does take a lot of planning and effort, but it certainly was a trouble-free and everything-moving-in-a-positive-direction experience in the studio. All I did was record it. There were no technical interventions necessary. Even when it came down to mixing

that was all obvious, too, because I took the audio back down to Texas with me and I was watching reggae movies on the screen in the studio and dancing around. I didn't even use a chair. I was like, "This is mixing?" This is a technical thing you do and yet I'm dancing around like I'm in a reggae dance hall the whole time I'm mixing a record. This is a really good sign, man. VW: How long did it take to make Revo-

lution Per Minute once the band got back together? GJ: We had done a bunch of shows last year, just festival shows, you know, and of course we played a bunch of the old songs—that's what we have, you know—and we started infusing those with new attitudes and approaches and some new jams put in between to tie the songs together, and it was just this huge wellspring of new ideas that we were putting into the old songs, and I was like, "Oh, oh, oh. Everybody hold that thought." I had a bunch of songs that I'd been gathering up for years that had no home because I had no Big Sugar. Let's go into a jam space for a couple of hours and just see what these songs would sound like. Literally, one evening we went in a

jam space and we played through the songs and we were like, "Let's go into the studio tomorrow." The next day we went to the studio, we spent a week, week and a half recording; I only took a couple of days to mix it. Once we said, "Yes, we're doing this," it all came together pretty quick. In the liner notes, you thank [the Black Crowes'] Chris Robinson for the initial inspiration for "A Revolution Per Minute." GJ: He's a brethren that I've known for years and years and we really bond over our common love of reggae music and Jamaican culture and Rastafarianism and all these different levels, and he's always been a guy where it's not a professional relationship: we don't work together, we play together. I went into the studio on my own one day with my engineer and I played some drums and some bass and some guitar and I just made a bunch of old-school reggae rhythm tracks and I was like, "I'm gonna send these to CR and just blow his mind." And he was like, "Man, you should do something with that. You should put Big Sugar back together and make it all sound like that." Yeah, I could do that. VW:

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William Shatner Seeking Major Tom (Cleopatra)  By William Shatner's own admittance in the liner notes of Seeking Major Tom, this concept album—a 20-song, twodisc concept album at that—about music's most famous wayward spaceman is an idea he had "for good or bad." Likewise, your feelings on the album, or at least its concept, are probably preordained already, depending on whether the idea of Shatner assembling an A-list of musical guests to explore the "story" of Major Tom through cover songs makes you want to roll your eyes or high five everyone you can see. Whichever of the two you're listening for, it will deliver that. Credit where credit's due: Shatner's been smart enough to sell himself as in on his own joke for the past 10 years or so, and here he's clearly playing to that image while trying to give it some credibility. Also, and perhaps more pertinently: Shatner's legitimately better

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at spoken word than the airy stereotype of him suggests he is: sometimes it's hammy, but his gravelly delivery is also often well-thought out, timing and silence used as effectively as voice and emotion. Still, vocals aren't enough to totally carry a song, and the real weaknesses here are in the music itself. Ben Folds worked wonders producing Has Been, Shatner's prior album, and ex-LA Guns bassist Adam Hamilton can't recreate the same magic here. The one-two stumble of "Space Cowboy" and "Space Trucking" really deadens the pace after a promising urgency of "Major Tom" and wonder of "Space Oddity." His "Rocket Man" never soars. "Bohemian Rhaposdy" is just the hammiest thing, because, really what else would it be? I can appreciate the inclusion of a deeper cut like Hawkwind's "Silver Machine," and "Lost in the Stars" has a stilled, quiet beauty to it in the interplay of Shatner, sax and piano. As Seeking Major Tom sprawls ever onward, the "narrative" works quite well, actually, even if the songs only deliver intermittently, picking up on disc two after a somewhat lengthy slog. Seeking really will serve to reaffirm whatever beliefs you already have about Shatner, and in truth, this isn't his finest opus. Just his most self-aware one, designed not to boldly go where no spoken word album has gone before, but simply stay the course Shatner's already on. It does just that, but not much more. PAUL BLINOV

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Iced Earth Dystopia (Century Media)  Despite Iced Earth's rotating lineup the band has managed a consistent sound grounded in the realm of traditional heavy metal. Taking cues from Iron Maiden and Judas Priest, Iced Earth's guitar work doesn't stray from the vision of the British new wave of heavy metal that the band has perfected over the years. Despite a few tracks incorporating more operatic elements, and one ballad dipping into the realm of pop rock, the album moves well with quick, melodic guitar solos and double guitar work. Dystopia breaks with the concept album format Iced Earth has used in its most recent albums, but it's for the best: returning to more traditional roots gives the album its strength. SAMANTHA POWER

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Treasa Levasseur Broad (Slim Chicken)  For Broad, Junonominated Torontobased blues singer Treasa Levasseur recorded the album with four different bands in various studios, yet she offers a surprisingly consistent record. Treasa collaborates with each band effortlessly, letting her vocals and Wurlitzer trade off with shredding harmonica and the horn shots of Richard Underhill (Shuffle Demons). An odd step on the record is "Do Run," a well-crafted lament to a road-weathered lover, which sadly sits in MOR adult-contemporary production, an illfitting stylistic choice on an album otherwise full of such upbeat, danceable blues. DOUGLAS HOYER

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Tom Waits Bad As Me (Epitaph)  It takes a while into Tom Waits' latest record before he really lets go. It's not that the quality is subpar, just that he's become something of a dependable songwriter/sonic sculptor since his well-documented rebirth on 1983's Swordfishtrombones. From the opening hurried and ramshackle blues of "Chicago" Waits jumps right back into his well-worn role as a carnival barker, laying his words of wisdom— "Maybe things will be better in Chicago" here, "The only way down from the gallows is to swing" elsewhere— and tales of society's rejects— "Gunplay Maxwell and Flat Nose George / Ice Pick Ed Newcomb / On a slab in the morgue"—over top of a variety of junkyard rhythms just as he's done for the past near-30 years. It's solid, and he delivers everything that's expected after perfecting the approach, even upping his game some by tightening the songs into short bursts of creative fury rather than letting them meander as he's occasionally done. But come the album's penultimate track, "Hell Broke Luce," Waits rises above the comforting noise that is his norm and finds an apocalyptic wave that he hasn't ridden since 1992's Bone Machine, roaring and spitting his words inside a soundscape of grinding noise, guttural guitars and rattling drums. It's a thrilling moment that the rest of the album can't quite compare to as it retreats into the familiar comforts rather than veering straight for the edge of the unknown.

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Chickenfoot III (eOne)  Take two parts Van Hagar (singer Sammy Hagar and bassist Michael Anthony), one part Chilli Pepper (drummer Chad Smith) and one part guitar hero (Joe Satriani), blend well and ... you get a band weighed down by insipid songwriting that doesn't come close to matching the enthusiasm the players put into the performances. EDEN MUNRO

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Coldplay Mylo Xyloto (EMI)  Out of all the bad bands out there, Coldplay's probably the best of them. And they know how to put on a show. BRYAN BIRTLES

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Open stage every Thu, 9pm; no cover New City Legion Bingo is Back every Thu starting 9pm; followed by Behind The Red Door at 10:30pm; no minors; no cover New West Hotel Trick Rider NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Every Thursday Night: Nick Martin; 10pm NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu Pawn Shop Paper Lions; 8pm (door) Ric’s Grill Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm Second Cup–Varscona Live music every Thu night; 7-9pm Starlite Room Capital City Burlesque: Nightmare Jamboree with Amy van Keegan VAT PUB–Red Deer The Rockin'-Blues Extravaganza: Robbie Laws, Tim Williams and Steve Pineo with Calgary’s Dream Band; 9pm (show); tix at 403.346.5636 Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close Wild West Saloon Johnny B Wunderbar Mark Sultan, Brazilian Money, Hang Loose; 8:30pm Yardbird Suite Perfectly Hank–The Music of Hank Mobley: Mike LeDonne; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $18 (member)/$22 (guest)

Classical Jubilee Auditorium Edmonton Opera: Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci; 7:30pm

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180 Degrees DJ every Thu Black dog Freehouse Underdog: Underdog Sound Revue: garage, soul, blues with Stu Chel; Main Floor: Soul/reggae/ punk/funk/junk with DJ Jaime Del Norte; Wooftop Lounge: Various musical flavas including funk, indie dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass and house with DJ Gundam Brixx Radio Brixx with Tommy Grimes spinning Rock n Roll; 8pm (door); no cover Century Room Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close Chrome Lounge 123 Ko every Thu THE Common So Necessary: Hip hop, classic hip hop, funk, soul, r&b, '80s, oldies and everything in between with Sonny Grimezz, Shortround, Twist every Thu Crown Pub Breakdown @ the crown with This Side Up! hosted by Atomatik and Kalmplxx DJ Druid Irish Pub DJ every Thu; 9pm electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY McNASTY’S Punk Rock Bingo every Thu with DJ S.W.A.G. FLASH Night Club Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover FLUID LOUNGE Dancers Paradise: DJ Creeazn, 3SB; 8:30pm FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown KAS BAR Urban House:

every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm Level 2 lounge Funk Bunker Thursdays Lucky 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas On The Rocks Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow Overtime–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step rendezvous Metal night every Thu Sportsworld Roller Skating Disco: Thu Retro Nights; 7-10:30pm; sportsworld.ca Taphouse–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves Union Hall 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

FRI OCT 28 Artery James of Dark Wood, Patrick Dunn, Stacy Lloyd Brown; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) Avenue Theatre Distant Calm (metal/rock), Silent Line, Any Last Regrets; 8pm (door), 8:30 (show); $10 (adv)/$12 (door) Blackjacks Roadhouse

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Ken Flaherty, Dale Fortier; 8:30pm (show); no cover

9pm Brixx bar Fair Blue with Dusty Tucker band (Red Deer), guests CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; Lyra Brown; 7pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON All The Rage CASINO YELLOWHEAD Blackboard Jungle Century Casino Los Lobos Hallowe'en Dance; 8pm; $39.95 CHROME LOUNGE 4th Annual Gully Creepa– Hallowe'en Bashment; 9pm Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm Coast to Coast Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm Dow–Shell Theatre Rik Emmett (Emmett plays Clapton); 7:30pm; $42.50 (adult)/$39.50 (senior/ youth)/$5 (eyeGO to the Arts) DV8 Jezibelle, Kill Matilda, Whiskey Rose; 9pm Edmonton Event Centre Scream (dance/ electronic); 9pm (door); tickets at Foosh (Whytve), Shadified (Northgate), Restriced Elite (Kingsway), Occulists (WEM) FRESH START BISTRO Prairie Cats; 7-10pm; $10 GAS PUMP The Uptown Jammers (house band); every Fri; 5:30-9pm

Blue Chair Café Bob Jahrig, Anna Sommerville, Marc Ladouceur; 8:30pm; $10

Haven Social Club Ariane Mahryke Lemire, guests; 8pm; $10 (adv at Blackbyrd)/ $12 (door)

Blues on Whyte Scott Holt

Irish Club Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover

bohemia Makin' Noise presents: Hellaweird Hallowe'en at bohemia!;

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Jekyll and Hyde Pub Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover L.B's Pub Dandy Little Orchestra; 9:30pm-2am Lizard Lounge Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover New City Compound Helter Skelter: Beatles/'60s Hallowe'en Costume Party: 2 Sets By Pepperland; no minors; 8pm (door); $10 New West Hotel Trick Rider NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN The Red Hotz; 9:30pm12am On the Rocks Hallowe'en Weekend with Bonafide; 9pm; $5 PAWN SHOP Nomeansno, E-town beatdown, Old Wives; 8pm (door); $15 (adv) Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am Rexall Place Foo Fighters, Cage the Elephant, Mariachi El Bronx; all ages; 6pm (door), 7pm (show); $39.50/$49.50/$59.50 Sherbrooke Community League Hall Public Interest Alberta Fun(d) Night: St James' Gate (Celtic rock); 7-11pm; $30 at 780.420.0471 The Studio Music Foundation The Elkies, Fire for Effect, Carl for Breakfast, Serf X, Real Camino, Empire Assassins; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show) Wild Bill’s–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close Wild West Saloon Johnny B WOK BOX Breezy Brian Gregg every Fri; 3:305:30pm Wunderbar Jessica Jalbert (CD release), Caity Fisher, Catgut; 8:30pm Yardbird Suite Perfectly Hank–The Music of Hank Mobley: Mike LeDonne; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

Classical Winspear Centre ESO: Viva Italia!: Poperazzi (vocal trio), the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra; 8pm

DJs 180 Degrees DJ every Fri AZUCAR PICANTE DJ Papi and DJ Latin Sensation every Fri BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Connected Fri: 91.7 The Bounce, Nestor Delano, Luke Morrison every Fri BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs spin on the main floor, Underdog and the Wooftop Blacksheep Pub Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current

New City Compound Helloween–Sick XXVI: Hard industrial with DJ Dervish; no minors; 8pm (door); $10 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 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover 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

Boneyard Ale House The Rock Mash-up: DJ Makk spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover

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BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

Treasury In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long

Buffalo Underground R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights

Union Hall Ladies Night every Fri

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 Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

Vinyl Dance Lounge Connected Las Vegas Fridays Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

SAT OCT 29 ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 Artery Corin Raymond, Jonathan Byrd, Kim Beggs (country folk); 8:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) Avenue Theatre Hallowe'en Party: Knee Deep in Grass, Hot Super Hot, Blue Goat; no minors; $20 (adv); 7pm (door), 9pm (show) Black Dog Freehouse Hair of the Dog: The Give 'Em Hell Boys (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

Newcastle Pub House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan

Blue Chair Café Steve Dawson; 8:30pm; $25

Devaney’s Irish Pub 901388 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 Expressionz Café 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 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 FRESH START BISTRO 484 Riverbend Sq, 780.433.9623 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO haven social club 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 Hogs Den Pub 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr

HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Iron Boar Pub 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 kelly's pub 11540 Jasper Ave L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132-104 St Lizard Lounge 13160-118 Ave Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Muttart Hall Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr Naked Cyber café 10354 Jasper Ave, 780.425.9730 Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) Nisku Inn 1101-4 St NOLA Creole Kitchen and Music House 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola. com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave

Blues on Whyte Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; evening: Scott Holt

Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10

Bone Yard Ale House Hallowe'en Party: Straight 88, The Bear Band, Jillian Foote, Exit 303; 10pm

jeffrey's Rollanda Lee (jazz classics); $15

CASINO EDMONTON All The Rage CASINO YELLOWHEAD Blackboard Jungle Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm The Common Terror On The Dancefloor; 9pm 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 DV8 Hallowe'en: The Dirtbags, Snake Bite, Bat Leth, R n' R Rats; 9pm Eddie Shorts Saucy Wenches every Sat Edmonton Event Centre 5th Annual Hallowe'en Thriller (dance/ electronic); 9pm (door); tickets at Foosh (Whyte), Queue (Whyte), Shadified (Northgate), Custom Costumes (Calgary Tr), Soular (WEM), Rain Salon (WEM), Alexis Clothing (WEM) Expressionz Café Open stage for original songs, hosted by Karyn Sterling and Randall Walsh; 2-5pm; admission by donation Filthy McNasty's Hallowe'en Party: Swear by the Moon; 4pm; no cover Gas Pump Blues jam/open stage every Sat 3:30-7pm Haven Social Club Hallowe'en party: Boogie Patrol, The Canyon Rose Outfit, Scantily Clad, The Well Dressed Men (blues, funk, soul); 8pm; $15 (adv) HillTop Pub Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening: Hallowe'en Howler: Jimmy Buiboche and the Fender Benders Hooliganz Live music every Sat

Jubilee Auditorium Sam Roberts Band, Zeus; all ages; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $29.50/$39.50/$55 at TicketMaster, livenation. com L.B.'s Pub Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends jam 5-9pm; extended Jam 9:30pm-2am Level 2 lounge Saturdaze: Haunted House: Justin Martin; 9:30pm Newcastle Pub 6108-90 Ave

Newcastle Pub Hallowe'en Bash: Fist Full of Blues; 8pm (door); $10 (adv at Blackbyrd)/$15 (door) New West Hotel Trick Rider NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Martin Kerr; The Red Hotz; 9:30pm-12am O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm On the Rocks Hallowe'en Weekend with Bonafide; 9pm; $5 Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am Rexall Place Roger Daltrey Performs the Who's Tommy; 8pm River Cree–The Venue Joan Jett and the Blackhearts; 8pm; $59.50 Starlite Room Bison B.C., Wake, Sonorous Odium, Begrime Exemus, Netherward, guests West Side Pub West Side Pub Sat Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones (host), all styles, 3-7pm Wild West Saloon Johnny B Wunderbar The Sorels, White Beauty, The Methletes, DJ Sex Crime Yardbird Suite Music for Jazz Trio and String Quartet: Jan Jarczyk Trio, Edmonton String Quartet; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blacksheep Pub 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 bohemia 10575-114 St Boneyard Ale House 921634 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 Century grill 3975 Calgary Tr NW, 780.431.0303 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 Common Lounge 10124124 St Convocation Hall Arts Bldg, U of A, 780.492.3611 Crown and Anchor 15277 Castledowns Rd, 780.472.7696 Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 Diesel Ultra Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB

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O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Orlando's 1 15163-121 St Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 10860-57 Ave 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 Sherbrooke Community League Hall 13008-122 Ave Sideliners Pub 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsworld 13710-104 St Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE–Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Studio Music Foundation 10940-166A St, 780.484.0099 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 Westside Pub 15135 Stony Plain Rd 780 758 2058 Wild Bill’s–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 715050 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WILD WEST SALOON 1291250 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

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Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Holtby (going away show), Sugarglider, Liam Trimble, Catgut; 8:30pm

Suede Lounge DJ Nic-E spins every Sat

Yardbird Suite We Four– Celebrating John Coltrane; Two shows: 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); and 9:15pm (door), 9:30pm (show); Each show: $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

Convocation Hall Contempo New Music Ensemble, Roger Admiral (piano); 7pm; admission by donation

Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A

Winspear Centre Symphonic Sorcery– Symphony for Kids: Lucas Waldin (conductor), Doug McKeag (host); 2pm

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

Winspear Centre ESO: Viva Italia!: Poperazzi (vocal trio), the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at 8pm

Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

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 Blacksheep Pub DJ every Sat Boneyard Ale House DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm Buffalo Underground Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night Diesel Ultra Lounge The Annual Sexy Hallowe'en Extravaganza; 9pm Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm 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, 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: The Little Pawn Shop Of Horrors Hallowe'en Bash; 9pm (door), $5 (adv) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests Rouge Lounge Hallowe'en Party: Meet Singles, Moulin Rouge Masquerade soirée; Chicago House, sexy brats with DJ Mkhai, DJ Rezzo; 9:30pm

Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN OCT 30 artery Corin Raymond, Jonathan Byrd, Kim Beggs; 8:30pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) 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: Hawaiian Dreamers; 10:30am2:30pm; donations Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Don Berner-Saxophone; 5:308:30pm; $25 if not dining Crown Pub Band War 2011/Battle of the bands, 6-10pm; Open Stage with host Better Us Than Strangers, 10pm-1am DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover Double D's Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm DV 8 Tavern The Stockers; 9pm Eddie Shorts Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm Expressionz café Songwriters Stage, various hosts; all ages; 7-11pm Flow Ultra Lounge Masquerade Ball: Hallowe'en Dance 'til Dawn; 9pm Hogs Den Pub Dirty Jam: hosted by Tye Jones; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 4-8pm Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm New City Compound Heavy Metal Hallowe'en: Skullfist, Hrom, Mortillery, Stinger, Guardians Of Power; no minors; 8pm (door); $10 NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am Old Timer's Cabin The Rockin'-Blues Extravaganza: Robbie Laws, Tim Williams and Steve Pineo with Calgary’s Dream Band; 5pm (door); 8pm (show); tix at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Sound Connection On the Rocks Jake Ian and the Haymakers, Tatam Reeves ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm Pourhouse Bier Bistro Singer-songwriter open stage with Jay Gilday; every Sun, 9pm-close Ritchie United Church Jazz and Reflections: Kent Sangster Trio; 3:30-5pm; collection at door Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm Wunderbar Teddy

Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical Muttart Hall–Alberta College Ivan Zenaty (Czech violinist ), Stanislav Bogunia (piano); 7:30pm; $30 (adult)/$20 (senior/ student) at TIX on the Square, door Winspear Centre A Thousand Tongues to Sing: Concordia University College School of Music, Robin John King, guest; 7:30pm; $18 (adult)/$15 (student/senior)

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: 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

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Blues on Whyte Keith Hallett

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month

Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm Edmonton Event Centre People and Things Tour: Jacks Mannequin, The Academy Is, Lady Danville (alt rock); all ages; 6pm; tickets at TicketMaster, UnionEvents.com Haven social CLub Dustin Bentall Outfit, Joe Nolan (country/folk/rock); 8pm; tickets at Blackbyrd L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am Maclab Centre–Leduc Faust: A German Folk Legend: Robert Bruce (composer/piano), DJ and reception in the lobby (pre-show) 6pm; $12 at Leduc Recreation Centre 780.980.7120, TIX on the Square New West Hotel Herbs O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm

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

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

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SEcond Cup–Stanley Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hallowe'en Rock Star Costume Party: The Allovers (members of Whitsundays, Faimes and the floor) as Motorhead; no cover Blues on Whyte Keith Hallett Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm kelly's pub Open stage every Mon; hosted by Clemcat Hughes; 9pm New City Compound Old World Sparrow, guests; costumes; no minors; 8pm (door); $10 New West Hotel Herbs PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm Starlite Room Bands as Bands 2011 Wunderbar Chi Pig of SNFU Art Show /music: The Chokeouts, The Spartans; 8:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay Crown Pub Minefield Mondays/House/Breaks/ Trance and more with host DJ Phoenix, 9pm

Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover Shaw Conference Centre Judas Priest, Black Label Society, Thin Lizzy; 6pm; all ages; $69.50 Unionevents.com, TicketMaster SIDELINERS PUB All Star Jam every Tue; with Alicia Tait and Rickey Sidecar; 8pm Sportsman's Lounge Open stage every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm

Churchill Square Every weekday (weather permitting): Breezy Brian Gregg (SW corner); 121:15pm eddie shorts Acoustic jam every Wed, 9pm; no cover Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover Fiddler's Roost Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12 HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm New West Hotel Herbs 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 Wunderbar Chris Daly, Layne L'Heureux, Dan Smith; 8:30pm

Classical McDougall United Church Music Wednesdays at Noon: Charles Austin (piano); 12:10-12:50pm; free; info at 780.468.4964

Yardbird Suite Tue Night Sessions: The Parkers; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

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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

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; this week: Celeigh Rose Cardinal, Alex Leggett (from Ontario) 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

Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm3am; no cover

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

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

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

Blues on Whyte Keith Hallett

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

Brixx Bar Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover The Common Treehouse Wednesdays DIESEL Westside Connection: DJ Crazy Tunes and Doug Crawford; 9pm LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed Starlite Room Wild Style Wed: Hip-Hop; 9pm TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

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JONESIN'CROSSWORD

MATT JONES // JONESINCROSSWORDS@vueweekly.com

"Free to Be"—no theme, just freestyle madness

Across 1 Document of 1215 11 Set one's sights 14 Arrangement of resources or funds 15 "So Big" author Ferber 16 Hang in there till the end 17 Little girl's dream birthday present 18 Actress Ann of "The Whales of August" 19 301, in ancient Rome 21 To the back of the ship 22 Words yelled on the porch 25 It merged with Bell Atlantic to become Verizon 26 Shady figure? 28 1990s wrestling show on USA (until the league changed its name) 30 Flubs 32 Fashion legend Christian 34 Potato pancake 35 Rum desserts 37 Toots & the Maytals genre 38 Fathers 39 Leg of a race, in French 40 Chilean currency 42 Riga resident 43 Washington-area airport 45 "Star Trek: Voyager" station 46 ___-Hulk (Marvel superheroine) 47 Feature at the end of some wire cutters or French nails 49 More widespread 52 Ultra-bright 53 Copper head? 54 Dish out little barbs 57 Like a "Let's Make a Deal" door selection, odds-wise 59 Dollar competitor 60 Digit-al agreement? 61 Vessel in some rites 62 Metalworkers' locales Down 1 Furniture in a spa 2 Cloud type 3 Disco fixture 4 Nighttime in Nogales 5 Actress Amy of "Angel" and "Dollhouse" 6 Like a stone mound set up as a memorial 7 Top-of-memo abbr. 8 Movie with Blu the macaw

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9 Affect 10 Aphid that creates a milky food for other insects 11 Fuss 12 Traveler's stop 13 One of a dozen 15 Huge blunder 20 Monks' hoods 22 Instruction for Johnny, in a "Breakfast Club" monologue 23 Preservationist working at a museum 24 Suddenly surge forward 27 Have trouble with the "missus"? 29 Canadians, vis-a-vis Cambodians, e.g. 31 Trees of the future 33 Sound like a heavy smoker 36 Scary words on a school paper 41 How some indie bands' singles are released, for music connoisseurs 44 Gets down 48 "Am I right?" at the end of UK sentences 50 Unable to sit still 51 Vowel sound 53 Similar 54 Stick in the microwave 55 Wall climber 56 Turn down 58 Storm heading: abbr. ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS

FREEWILL ASTROLOGY

ROB BREZSNY // FREEWILL@vueweekly.com

ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) "Life is not just a diurnal property of large interesting vertebrates," poet Gary Snyder reminds us in his book The Practice of the Wild. "It is also nocturnal, anaerobic, microscopic, digestive, fermentative: cooking away in the warm dark." According to my astrological reckoning, you'd be wise to honour all the life that is cooking away in the warm dark. It's the phase when your luminescent soul throbs with more vitality than your shiny ego. Celebrate the unseen powers that sustain the world. Pay reverence to what's underneath, elusive and uncanny.

that have been sealed away in your subconscious mind.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) Speaking on behalf of the cosmic powers-that-be, I hereby give you permission to make your love bigger and braver. Raise it to the next level. If it has been hemmed in by a lack of imagination, saturate it with breezy fantasies and flamboyant dreams. Cut it free from petty emotions that have wounded it, and from sour memories that have weighed it down. What else could you do to give love the poetic license it needs to thrive?

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) You could preside over your very own Joy Luck Club in the coming days. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the levels of gratification possible could exceed your normal quota by a substantial margin. You may want to Google the Chinese character that means "double happiness" and use it as your ruling symbol. And it might be time to explore and experiment with the concepts of "super bliss," "sublime delight" and "brilliant ecstasy."

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) You've heard the old platitude, "If life gives you lemons, make lemonade." The owner of a pizzeria in Mildura, Australia updated that sentiment in 2010 when the area was invaded by swarms of locusts. "They're crunchy and tasty," he said of the bugs, which is why he used them as a topping for his main dish. It so happens that his inventive approach would make good sense for you right now. So if life gives you a mini-plague of locusts, make pizza garnished with the delectable creatures. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) Some doors are almost always locked. On those infrequent occasions when they are ajar, they remain so for only a brief period before being closed and bolted again. In the coming weeks, I urge you to be alert for the rare opening of such a door. Through luck or skill or a blend of both, you may finally be able to gain entrance through—or perhaps exit from—a door or portal that has been shut tight for as long as you remember. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) Microbiologist Raul Cano managed to obtain a 45-million-yearold strain of yeast from an ancient chunk of amber. It was still alive! Collaborating with a master brewer, he used it to make a brand of beer. One critic praised Fossil Fuel pale ale for its sweetness and clove aroma, while another said it has a "complex and well-developed taste profile." I see this as a metaphor for you: extract the vital essence from an old source, and put it to work in the creation of a valuable addition to your life. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) "When I read a book on Einstein's physics of which I understood nothing, it doesn't matter," testified Pablo Picasso, "because it will make me understand something else." You might want to adopt that approach. It's almost irrelevant what subjects you study and investigate and rack your brains trying to understand; the exercise will help you stretch your ability to master ideas that have been beyond your reach—and maybe even stimulate the eruption of insights

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LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) "Sit, walk, or run, but don't wobble," says the Zen proverb. Now I'm passing it on to you as advice worthy of your consideration. Maintaining clarity of purpose will be crucial in the coming weeks. Cultivating unity among all your different inner voices will be a high art you should aspire to master. Whatever you do, Libra, do it with relaxed single-mindedness. Make a sign that says "No wobbling," and tape it to your mirror.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) For over a hundred years, an English woman named Lena Thouless celebrated her birthday on November 23. When she was 106, her daughter found her birth certificate and realized that mom had actually been born on November 22. I'm guessing that a comparable correction is due in your own life. Something you've believed about yourself for a long time is about to be revealed as slightly off. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) "Everyone is a genius at least once a year," said scientist Georg Lichtenberg. According to my reading of the astrological omens, the coming weeks will be your time to confirm the truth of that aphorism. Your idiosyncratic brilliance is rising to a fever pitch, and may start spilling over into crackling virtuosity any minute now. Be discriminating about where you use that stuff; don't waste it on trivia or on triumphs that are beneath you. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) You're ready to shed juvenile theories, amateurish approaches or paltry ambitions. I'm not implying you're full of those things; I'm just saying that if you have any of them, you've now got the power to outgrow them. Your definition of success needs updating, and you're up to the task. The Big Time is calling you—or at least a Bigger Time. Try this: Have brainstorming sessions with an ally who knows your true potential and can assist you in formulating aggressive plans to activate it more fully. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) I know a woman who claims on her Facebook page that she speaks four languages: English, Elvish, Mermish and Parseltongue. My Facebook friend probably also knows Pig Latin, baby talk and glossolalia, although she doesn't mention them. I'd love for you to expand your mastery of foreign tongues, even if it's just one of the above—and the coming weeks and months will be an excellent time to begin. You will have a greater capacity for learning new ways to talk than you have since childhood. V

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Harcourt House Arts Centre is currently accepting submissions for our 2011/2012 gallery exhibition programming for the Main Gallery and Front Room Gallery exhibition spaces. For proposals to be considered submission packages must be postmarked by November 30, 2011. For more information please visit www.harcourthouse.ab.ca

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Men with two faces

Conservative party "It Gets Better" video an insult One has to wonder who at the Concontroversial—like the word "gay." as if he could tell supporters he was servative party floated the idea to It's almost funny—so absurd, late wearing it for them and deny it to shoot an "It Gets Better" video. Nothto the game and off-mark. All speakanyone else. His absence from the ing like the party that strips you of ers featured have bad voting records video his party members released your rights telling you why on queer issues. Vic Toews is just might be the most heinous part you ought to keep slogging vehemently anti-gay marof this indignity. I don't need to tell through. Inexplicably, the riage and he along with you that Jack Layton had made one, party listened and to comMike Wallace, Rona Amand even Michael Ignatieff's isn't m ekly.co vuewe memorate last Thursday's brose, David Sweet and half bad. The video's an affront on tam@ a Tamar Spirit Day it released its own Deepak Obhrai all voted it's own, but Harper's absence is a ka Gorzal version, featuring an array against it in 2006. The video noticeable slight to queer Canadiof Conservative politicians. includes Don Meredith, a former ans. If any of these members really Titled and edited like a PSA, it's pastor who believes being gay is a did believe what they were saying, quite an awkward video. Dedicated choice. I suppose then that it gets they can be sure they don't have any to Jamie Hubley, it starts off with better once you decide to stop being support from the top. two badly synced but heartfelt messages from two unknown people. The video includes Don Meredith, a former pastor Then it's a parade of 10 MPs and who believes being gay is a choice. I suppose then one Senator telling the camera that that it gets better once you decide to stop being gay? "it gets better" in the most robotic way possible, followed by a recommendation to ask for help when you gay? Of the 10 MPs featured, only All I can hope is that somewhere need it. These same lines are then Shelly Glover and John Baird voted over in Inuvik or Antigonish a young repeated by each speaker for no apfor Bill C-389, last session's gender gay dude caught that video and manparent reason. The only individuals identity protections. These are the aged to watch the whole thing— to say anything unique are the two people who can make it better and looked into the eyes of the worst speakers from the beginning who at every turn it seems they have kind of men with two faces like Vic are not politicians. The rest not chosen not to. Toews and Mike Wallace—took his only read obviously from a cue card, pain and outrage and turned it inward they appear to offer what's probably Last year for Spirit Day, a day on in the right way, into strength, and he a line off the back of a Kids Help which many MPs wore purple to realized that he had to keep going, Phone brochure. They don't talk show their support against homo/ finish school and make a real life for about anything queer or related to transphobic bullying, Stephen Harper himself so that he can get them out bullying and they never say anything wore a tie with minor purple stripes, of power. Somebody has to. V

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To flog or not to flog

Plus, an update on the first same-sex marriages in Canada My boyfriend and I are in college and people get off on the tension that doing the long-distance thing until an erotic power imbalance creates, June 2013. Over the years, he's grantand nothing says "you're in charge" ed me increasing amounts of freequite like your partner having the dom to be intimate with women— freedom to do people and things I'm female, and date women while that you're not allowed to do. Or we're apart—but I still don't have maybe the idea of you being with full autonomy. It's much better than other men makes the boyfriend feel it used to be, but lately another one threatened and insecure, while the of my "needs" has been eating at me: idea of him being with other women my masochism. He's repeatedly turns you on. If that's the case, refused me permission to let E UPS, then you're not doing SAVAG someone lay into me with a something that makes him flogger. That's all I ask! unhappy (sleeping with m ekly.co vuewe In order to abide by the other men) while he's do@ e v lo savage rules of his jealousy, am ing something that makes Dan I missing out on a huge you happy (sleeping with Savage facet of the best years of my other women). life? I don't even want to have anyFor me, UPS, it comes down to this: thing sexual with the person who if you're happy—if you're getting flogs me! I just want them to beat off on your unfair deal—then I'm me! And this might be relevant: he happy. has the freedom to do whatever he But are you happy? Or are you still wishes but—God only knows why— happy? If this deal isn't working anyhe never indulges in anything more more, UPS, then it's time to negotiate than the odd vanilla woman here a new, perhaps slightly fairer deal. and there. Also, I'm not allowed to His insistence that you mess around attend fetish clubs because he knows only with other girls while you're I'll make bad choices if I do (I'll play!), apart is understandable—I don't but the burner and fetish scenes are think it's fair, UPS, but I can underconverging here in Los Angeles and stand it—but the "no flogging" rule I'm going to get in trouble soon! seems ridiculously arbitrary. Battle University Pain Slut your sexual submissiveness and negotiate from a position of strength: You've given your boyfriend permistell your boyfriend that you'll consion to do who he wants, what he tinue to stick to his no-other-dudes wants, when he wants. But you're rule on the condition that he lift his not allowed to do half of humanisilly flogging ban. ty—the male half—or get your ass beat at a BDSM club? I'm a 21-year-old college student living That hardly seems fair, UPS. in San Diego. I have some sex-related But my knees don't automatically issues/questions that I'd like to talk jerk when I hear about a couple with with a counselor about. These issues an arrangement that appears to be are complicated—porn consumption, "unfair" on its face. If Person A ensex work, ability to orgasm, etc—but joys more "freedom" than Person I hesitate to go through my insurB, it doesn't necessarily follow that ance; since I'm still on my parents' Person B is being wronged. Some plan, that would involve me talking

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to my parents about this. They are very nosy and also very traditional, so I can only imagine the shitstorm. What are my other options? Is my university health care something that would cover this? Would my university report back to my parents about what I was seeking counseling about? I'm getting along fine, but this is negatively affecting my sex life and I'm tired of it. Uneasy Collegian Seeks Discretion Rules about patient confidentiality apply even to college students,

UCSD, so your student health centre is not going to rat you out to mom and dad. But you don't have to take my word for it. "I want your reader to know that care provided at UCSD Student Health Services and the Counseling and Psychological Services is confidential," writes Regina Fleming, director of Student Health Services at the University of California, San Diego. "We don't bill insurance for visits to Student Health, though sometimes the cost of lab tests are put on the student's account; these charges do not specify what type of tests were done. [And] all services at our Counseling and Psychological Services are free." My girlfriend of four years cheated on me. I'm in college now; we've been dating since high school. She and a male friend hooked up four times when they were both drunk. This guy was supposed to be her best friend, and it turns out he was into

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her. I asked her once about their relationship, and she assured me that nothing had or ever would happen between them. That was a few weeks after she cheated on me. She rationalizes the events in a manner that makes her seem like she's not to blame and she constantly tells me how much she really loves me. Do I hook up with another girl and tell her about it? Cucked Over College Kid

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over 30—do you know who are still with and/or married to their highschool sweethearts? The answer is either zero or approaching zero. A breakup was inevitable-ish all along, COCK, and now seems like a pretty good time to pull the plug. And while your girlfriend is telling you she loves you, and while she may still have feelings for you, she's slamming her hand down on the self-destruct button because—consciously or not—she wants out, too. In your advice to The Straight Best Man, you suggested that the first gay couples to legally wed in both Canada and the United States ended up divorcing and that this fact was largely unknown because anti-divorce and anti–gay marriage evangelical Christians have essentially dodged the issue in a bid to divert attention from their own spectacularly high rates of marriage implosion. While the first American same-sex marriage ended in divorce, I can hap-

pily report that the first legal samesex marriages in Canada are still going strong 10 years later. A gay couple, Joe Varnell and Kevin Bourassa, and a lesbian couple, Anne and Elaine Vautour, were married in a joint ceremony on January 14, 2001, at Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto (MCCT). At that time, the government was still refusing to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples. To solve this problem, the church, on advice from their legal team, did an end run around the pre-authorized license requirement, using the ancient, but perfectly legal, Christian tradition of proclaiming the banns of marriage. While the government refused to register the marriages as valid, on June 10, 2003, the Ontario Court of Appeal declared that the marriages had been legally performed, and ordered the Province of Ontario to register them immediately. The court also ruled that a ban on same-sex marriage was unconstitutional and ordered the province to begin issuing marriage licenses for same-sex couples that same day. Both couples remain happily married, having renewed their vows in a public ceremony at MCCT on the occasion of their joint 10-year anniversaries earlier this year. Nice Thing To Be Wrong About, Eh? I'm happy to stand corrected—I'm delighted—and I'd like to send my belated congrats to Joe & Kevin and Anne & Elaine on the occasion of their 10th anniversaries. Here's to many, many more happy years together! V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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Codyville began eight years ago when Rod and his wife moved to a house along 95 street in the Norwood neighbourhood with the “greatest landlords in the world,” according to him. The toy firetruck they bought for their grandson Cody needed a home, so Rod built the Codyville Firehall in the front yard. Now, he is also the owner of a bright red truck with Codyville Fire Department emblazoned on the side of it. Over time, they have added more and more elements to the elaborate display, including lights, music and more recently a McCody's. The house has attracted a lot of attention since they have been decorating their home for the last eight Christmases and two Halloweens. Rod describes the response from the community as extremely positive. Sixties music can be heard coming from a portable stereo, encouraging people to stop and even dance. “The streetwalkers even like it,” he boasts. Neigh-

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bours feel free to drop in and sit down on the bench in the yard. It is not unusual to find him offering coffee to guests. Codyville has become a landmark on the street and brings people together. Rod and his family are a great example of people actively building community and fostering relationships that contribute to the improvement of the area, often labelled as dangerous. Cody, about to turn 5 years old, rides up and down the sidewalk in his fisher price firetruck, picking up garbage and greeting neighbours with his Grandpa. Rod lived in Beverly, before returning to the area he was born, and raising 11 of his 18 grandchildren. He says, “I'd like to say it's for the kids, but its mostly for me.” 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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