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Conversation interrupted

Mayor Mandel believes it's time for the Occupy Edmonton protesters to go home. His statement this week is the first public position Mandel has taken on the protest. Thus far the approach by the city and Melcor—the company that owns the property being occupied—appears to have been to wait for the cold to overcome the resolve of campers. Now that the cold weather eviction is beginning to seem unlikely with an announcement from the camp that they will be taking steps to winterize, it appears the city is interested in having the campers pack up and go home. In an interview on the subject Mandel cited concerns over the security and safety of people at the site, but didn't name any specifics as to what those might be. It's possible he was considering Vancouver's Occupy protest which garnered national attention this week when an Occupier overdosed, and another was found dead in her tent from an apparent drug-related issue. In an interview with the National Post, Occupiers stated that had Ashlie Gough died of a drug overdose in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside, the city and the national media would not have cared. And they're right. Had Gough died anywhere else, she would have been another statistic— mourned by her family. Now she's a political example. Van-

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Should other provinces follow Quebec's lead and refuse to fund the federal Conservative's omnibus crime bill?

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couver city officials are using the incident as an example of unsafe conditions, saying that Occupy camps are attracting a more criminal element—a dangerous community is taking advantage of the protests. But like Edmonton's tent city a few years ago, it seems to be a case of simply making uncomfortable topics, and people, easily visible to the public. Last week, Vue Weekly BackWords writer Kelta Coomber wrote of the blurred line between protest, the acts of daily living and public performance. "Every act is a political critique, meant to be witnessed and digested by the passing audience," she wrote. The physical presence of Occupy Edmonton has served as a focal point for debate on everything from our relationship with corporations, our motivations and approach toward political activity. Occupy movements have been criticized for not creating a constructive dialogue on poverty, but it appears that once the impoverished community shows up, we can't actually handle the issues that come with it. Once people are on the physical property where we would have to take collective responsibility for their actions, we no longer want those outliers involved. It's easier to send everyone home, and to force those who don't have a home back to where they aren't on display, because it seems we didn't really want to have that conversation anyway. V

Couldn't agree more. While I know politicos and lobbyists need to be expert at tearing each other down, I really think professional political operators need to remember to treat citizens differently. Your expertise there is to listen and try to help, not to slaughter the point with rhetoric. —Amanda Comment on "A voice in the process" Oct 27 – Nov 3, 2011

Gwynne Dyer says the remedy is obvious, but I can't understand what he means by this. I'd understand a statement saying that dictators have to punish people who don't obey, because this is how dictators rule. Such a statement would mean support for democracy over dictatorship. Dyer though says, "Democracy is good, but you also have to build strong civil institutions ..." So he does not think that democracy by itself is the answer. What is the remedy then? Is it really that obvious? If it is, I must be dumb because within the framework of the article I don't see it. —Skamble Comment on "Power interrupted" Oct 27 - Nov 3, 2011

THIS WEEK: Mayor Stephen Mandel believes it's time for Occupy Edmonton to vacate the downtown park they have occupied for over a month. Should Occupiers be removed from the park? 1. Yes, they are beginning to put themselves at risk. 2. No, the Occupiers have had a positive impact on the area and the group is accomplishing its aims. 3. They should move to another area or continue the protest in a different way. Check out vueweekly.com/yourvue to vote and comment.

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KEYSTONE OPPOSITION Twelve-thousand people gathered outside the White House last weekend in opposition to the Keystone XL pipeline. The protest is an extension of the opposition movement against the pipeline, which has gathered support from the cross-border united effort of Tribal Councils and Aboriginal leaders, Oregon Governor Ted Kuglongoski and numerous environmental groups. The November 6 action came just one day before the US State Department's inspector general announced it would investigate the department's original analysis of the Transcanada pipeline to ensure there was not a pro-pipeline bias. Organizer and author Bill McKibbe stated, "Since the

SAVING FOR THE FUTURE State Department didn't even bother to study that global warming question, the only real answer is to send this back for a whole new review— or, better yet, for the president to simply back up his campaign promises and deny the permit outright." The Keystone XL pipeline is proposed to run from the tar sands down through five US states into Texas. The State Department determined in August that the pipeline posed no environmental threat to the states it would be moving through. Friends of the Earth, an American environmental organization, has been calling for an investigation into the decision for two months. "TransCanada hired good friends of Secretary

Clinton to lobby for the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline and it seems to have paid off with access and patronage from the State Department," said Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. Friends of the Earth has stated that it has documented evidence that State Department employees had a pro-pipeline position previous to the decision and that there may have been correspondence assuring Canadian officials that this process would not be completely impartial. President Obama confirmed he would be making the decision on the pipeline himself, and stated to Politico.org last week that environmental impacts would be given equal weight to economic considerations.

The Freedom Waves to Gaza initiative was overtaken and boarded by Israeli officials this past week. The Canadian boat Tahrir and Irish boat Saorise were carrying $30 000 worth of medical supplies to symbolically break the Israeli blockade of Gaza. Twenty of the activists remain in Givon prison, and the whereabouts of one is unknown. Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East reports that, at the time of the raid, activists waved signs which said, "To board an unarmed boat in international waters is an act of piracy." Thomas Woodley, president of CJPME, says it is the Israeli blockade of Gaza that violates international law— not the activists attempt to enter.

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Gaza has been under Israeli blockade since June of 2007. The blockade prevents movement of certain goods which Israel maintains is important to prevent Palestinian violence. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that Israel has, at various times, blocked certain foods, wheelchairs and certain building materials—but it should allow medical supplies such as those carried by the boats to Gaza. The Canadian Boat to Gaza initiative, under which the Tahrir operates, and the CJPME advocate the Canadian government oppose the blockade of Gaza and attempt to facilitate peaceful solutions to the humanitarian crisis there.

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Well-known problems, absent solutions The national panel on Aboriginal education creates controversy over treaty rights

t's internationally acknowledged that Canada is failing to provide equal access to education for Aboriginal students, so when a new national panel was announced last year, it came to the disappointment of many that there would be yet another discussion about the state of education, rather than a constructive action plan. The problems facing Aboriginal children in Canada are well-documented. Current reports estimate funding for Aboriginal students on-reserve is $2000 to $3000 less per student than those off-reserve. Though the funding matter has been raised in Parliament, it hasn't been addressed. Similarly, graduation rates among Aboriginal populations are 40 percent lower than non-Aboriginal populations, according to the Confer-

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ence Board of Canada. Official opposition Critic for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Linda Duncan voiced that concern when the panel visited Alberta last week. "The Minister of Aboriginal Affairs has used the hearings by the panel to deflect calls for urgent action to address First Nations' access to schools, including repeat recommendations by the federal auditor general," said Duncan. "The government should be acting without delay to ensure equal access to quality education for Aboriginal children." The lack of action is especially surprising this year, as Canada is facing a review of its progress on advancing the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, which includes the need to provide equitable education to Aboriginal children.

Equitable treatement as outlined in the recent report from the Canadian Coalition for the Rights of the Child is defined as secure and sustainable capital funding, support for development and organization and delivery of culturally appropriate education to every schoolaged child. Scott Haldane, the chair of the national panel which was in Alberta this past week, says that, this time, the discussions are about action. Haldane makes clear that the concerns identified by international groups are the ones voiced by groups he is meeting around the country. "Issues of funding come up all the time," says Haldane. "Without it, it's difficult to attract teachers and maintain resources—computers that work, and keep books in the shop." But

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Duncan doesn't understand why these issues can't be addressed immediately. "Frankly, many of the already welldocumented issues should be being addressed in the interim. That includes the significant shortfall in investment in education of Aboriginal children compared to other Canadians," said Duncan in a statement last week. "The Federal Auditor General has decried the scandalous discriminatory treatment of Aboriginals and called for major structural reforms and legislated right to quality education equal to other Canadians." But it's more than an issue of funding to Aboriginal groups across the country. Over 200 Aboriginal groups and representatives in three provinces have pulled out of the national panel's roundtables due to their concern over a violation of treaty rights and access to a diverse and culturally appropriate education. Although no Aboriginal groups in Alberta boycotted the process, over 230 groups have pulled their participation in Saskatchewan, Quebec and Ontario. It's a position that breaks with the Assembly of FIrst Nations, which has signed onto the panel. "Unfortunately, the AFN, our own national First Nations organization, is not listening to us, and appears to have been co-opted by the federal government in supporting a process

that will only serve to create legislation that weakens our treaty right to education," says said Vice Chief Lyle Whitefish of the Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations in a statement released in August when the roundtables were announced. "The Chiefs Legislative Assembly Resolution #1771 rejects the national panel whose stated purpose and process will diminish the federal government's treaty obligations with respect to education," says Whitefish. The primary concern is over the creation of "one-size-fits-all" legislation that would fail to recognize the right to access culturally appropriate education. The groups are also concerned that the panel's mandate does not mention the UN Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The Federation of Saskatchewan Indian Nations, which represents 74 First Nations in Saskatchewan, is collecting information on what a treaty-based education system would look like and is submitting it to INAC and the AFN for consideration. Haldane says First Nations control of education is one of the major topics that continues to come up. "Control has been theoretically in the hands of First Nations for 20 – 30 years," says Haldane. "The people we met with say control without the mechanisms and CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 >>

COMMENT >> PALESTINE

Accidental weapon

Palestine has unintentionally found a diplomatic advantage The Palestinians have finally come a tiny step closer to real statehood. up with a strategy that may produce Their first target was the United some results. But only by accident, Nations Educational, Scientific and so to speak. Cultural Organization (UNESCO). They were fed up with 19 years On October 31 they were granted of "direct negotiations" with full membership by a vote of Israel that never made any 107 in favour, 14 against and progress towards a final 52 abstaining. ly.com k e peace settlement, and The US immediately cut e w e@vue gwynn e Palestinian leader Mahoff its huge contribution to n Gwyn moud Abbas badly needed UNESCO's annual budget— r e Dy some small victory to prop up 22 percent of the total—as a his failing popularity. So he decided punishment for voting the wrong to seek international recognition of way. The UNESCO vote, said State Palestine as a sovereign state. Department spokeswoman Victoria He didn't say that he was abandonNuland, was "regrettable, premature, ing direct negotiations with Israel and undermines our shared goal of forever, but he insists that they will a comprehensive, just and lasting not resume until Israel stops buildpeace in the Middle East." ing Jewish settlements in the occuIsrael's response was equally draspied Palestinian territories—which tic. It announced that it was speedwill be shortly before Hell freezes ing up the construction of 2000 new over. In the meantime, he is trying homes for Jewish settlers in the octo strengthen the extremely weak cupied territories. It has also cut off bargaining position of the Palestinthe transfer of tax revenues that it ians by seeking membership in the collects on behalf of the Palestinian United Nations. Authority on goods passing through He knows very well that the PalesIsrael: about $100 million a month, tinians cannot get full membership which provides half of the PA's doin the United Nations, because the mestic revenue. Without it, the PA's United States has promised to veto civil servants will go unpaid. that. But membership in the various Painful measures for the PalestinUN agencies like the World Bank and ians, but Israel is always building the World Health Organization is not more homes for Jews in the West subject to a veto, and each organizaBank, and it cuts off the flow of tion they join would move Palestine revenue to the Palestinians when-

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ever it feels like it: this is the second time this year. Nothing new there. And Washington had no choice: it is obliged by a 1990 US law to cut funding to any organization that recognizes the Palestine Liberation Organization. But this law, which the Palestinians were barely aware of when

vote at other UN agencies. And each time, Washington will be forced by law to cease its contributions to that agency. The United States would not actually lose its membership by stopping its financial support—at least not for a good long while—but it would lose all practical influence

Membership in the various UN agencies like the World Bank and the World Health Organization is not subject to a veto, and each organization they join would move Palestine a tiny step closer to real statehood. they adopted their current strategy, presents them with an extraordinary opportunity. There are 14 other UN specialized agencies, from the Food and Agriculture Organization to the World Meteorological Organization, most of them with similar membership requirements to UNESCO: a two-thirds majority vote of the existing members, and no veto. If the Palestinians apply for membership in each of these organizations over the next year or so, they will probably get the same 88 percent majority when it comes to a vote on membership. None of the countries that defied the United States and voted Palestine into UNESCO is going to humiliate itself by changing its

on these agencies, which do a great deal of the work of running the world. It would be a diplomatic disaster for Washington, and it would test America's reflexive compliance with Israel's agenda, perhaps to the breaking point. This interesting possibility is only now getting the full attention of decision-makers in the United States, Israel and Palestine. It gives the Palestinians unprecedented leverage over the United States, but it is a tool that must be used with caution, for Washington cannot back down. The United States operates under the rule of law, and the Obama administration must enforce this ar-

chaic law unless and until Congress rescinds it. This law was passed in 1990, before the Oslo Accords were signed and at a time when neither Israel nor the US even spoke to the Palestinian leadership. But Congress, which is often described by Washington insiders (though always off the record) as "Israeli-occupied territory," will certainly not repeal it. Using this new lever that has fallen into his hands, Mahmoud Abbas could actually drive the United States out of most international agencies if he wanted, but that is not in his interest. What he actually needs is some major pressure on Israel from Washington to stop building settlements and start negotiating seriously. That cannot happen in an election year, so perhaps Abbas will wait until the end of next year and the outcome of the American presidential election. The US law will stay on the books, but if Barack Obama wins reelection in 2012, maybe then he will risk putting pressure on Israel rather than see the US driven into what amounts to diplomatic isolation. Or maybe he won't. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based journalist. His column appears every week in Vue Weekly.

COMMENT >> ALBERTA EDUCATION

Re-act

Lukaszuk brings the Education Act back for round two Last week, Alberta's Education Minand trustees, and an increase in the ister, Thomas Lukaszuk, announced power and flexibility given to school that he was pulling Alberta's proboards. For the most part, however, posed new Education Act, Bill 18, from Bill 18 as it stands follows the stanconsideration as part of this fall's legdard Conservative practice of passing islative agenda. The reason he broad legislation in the legislacited for the move was that ture, and then filling out the he wanted broader consulspecifics through regulaRENCE tions passed in council. E F tation on the act, and in R E INT vueweekly.com @ particular that he wanted With all of this in mind, ricardo o Ricard to hear from stakeholders there has been no hint as Acuña that "traditionally have not to why Lukaszuk has actually been included in consultation." decided to pull this bill from the Given that the act was the result of fall sitting. His press release announcthree years of extensive consultation, ing the move, and subsequent media dialogue and discussion with school interviews, give not even a hint of boards, teachers, administrators, parwhich sections in particular he wants ents, students, academics and support to review, and what wording he is staff, it is hard to imagine which stakeseeking to change. holders Lukaszuk is talking about. As overarching pieces of legislation Part of the answer might lie in the go, the proposed Education Act is fairfact that he has promised to make ly innocuous, with only a handful of some decisions soon on how to prosignificant changes from the existing ceed with the Northland School DiviSchool Act. Of particular note among sion, where all 23 trustees were fired those changes are an increase to the by Dave Hancock in 2010. Those accompulsory education age (from tions will certainly have some impact 16 to 17), and extension to 21 of the on the section of the act dealing with maximum age for participation in the board powers and responsibilities, as school system, better defined roles well as how the act deals with First for school boards, parents, schools Nations students and communities.

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Likewise, the ongoing dispute with respect to the availability of secular education in the Morinville area has implications for how the government defines and allows for the establishment of public and separate school boards in jurisdictions around the province. Finally, Premier Redford's promise to reinstitute full-day kindergarten across the province within a year of taking office, and the desirability of enshrining that guarantee in the act could also be part of the reason for a rewrite. Ultimately, and regardless of the actual reason, the decision to engage in another round of consultations and re-draft the legislation will provide one more opportunity for Albertans to engage with the act and perhaps influence some important changes. For example, the act as currently written expands who may establish charter schools in the province and provides the ability for those schools to become permanent programs. Although this may seem harmless, examples from the United States and other jurisdictions show how the move toward charter schools is

blurring the line between public and private education, and facilitating the provision of tax dollars to what would otherwise be classified as private institutions. The reconsideration of Bill 18 provides an excellent opportunity for a broad discussion on the rationale for charter schools and their long-term impact on public education in Alberta. It also provides an excellent opportunity for Albertans to pressure the government to include provisions in the Education Act which would ban all public financing of private schools. With the public system reeling from decades of cuts and infrastructure neglect, there can be no justification whatsoever for the government to continue providing funds to these private institutions. There are also many things that the government has thus far refused to include in the act which would go a long way to securing the future of the system. Why can't we include limits on the teacher-student ratio in the act itself? How about defining what adequate infrastructure consists of? Or limit the participation of private, for-profit businesses in the

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classroom? Enshrining these things in the Education Act would remove these decisions from the closed-door meetings of council and the political whims and budgetary fancy of the government of the day. Remember that the current version of the bill was introduced in the legislature in the same session where the government decided to take $107 million out of the province's education budget. Shouldn’t we have an Education Act that prevents this sort of hypocrisy? What Mr Lukaszuk's decision has done is provide us with an opening to turn a document full of big picture good intentions into one that will actually contribute to a positive future for public education in Alberta. It is now up to Albertans to take advantage of this opportunity by demanding an Education Act that actually acts for education instead of one that just looks good on the shelf. Call the minister today and let him know you want to be consulted. V 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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COMMENT >> HOCKEY

Moving on

been motivated to give it your all? Have nagging doubts been eating away at you, or been splashed all over the local paper? Then you need Arizona's infamous Tent City Jail. I don't know exactly what went on down in Arizona to Khabibulin during his drunk-driving-related incarceration, but whatever goes on down there has fired up the old-timer, made him better, perhaps, than even 2004's Khabibulin, the one that won the Stanley Cup. Now if we could only get Belanger and Paajarvi to do a stint ... BB

Will we make the playoffs? Shhh, don't jinx it The last week of Oiler action (road trip Well, let's go to the tape: last season, on edition) saw one winning streak end November 8 of 2010, seven out of eight and another start up. The Oilers started of the Eastern Conference teams who a six-game road trip in LA with a 3-0 were in a playoff position early made shutout win. A quick jump over to the playoffs by season's end. So it Phoenix and the Oilers lost 4-2 would seem that early results in the Desert, ending a great tell you how the season will little win streak at six. A end. Based on these stats, om the Oilers should make the .c couple days and time zones ly k e ewe ox@vu later and the Oilers won 3-1 intheb e Young & playoffs. But that's the East. v a D es The story was different out tl ir in Montreal and this leaves us B n Brya with a newborn baby win streak. West. Only four of eight playoffBoy, we hope it grows big and strong. eligible teams on November 8 wound up making the cut. So, what have we EARLY RETURNS learned? There are still 68 games and IF—let's just say IF—the playoffs were six months to go. DY to start this week, the Oilers would be TAKE ME TO THE DESERT in the tournament playing for the Cup. Ever feel like your career has stalled? Come on, Dave. You're getting ahead Do you ever feel like you just haven't of yourself; the season has just started.

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OLD FACES

After watching the Kings and Coyotes games, we saw a number of old Oiler faces in non-Oiler jerseys with Raffi Torres, Matt Greene, Jarret Stoll, among others. There was a time, especially before the lockout and salary cap, that ex-Oilers (and good ones, too) seemed to be scattered throughout the league. We were unofficially the farm team for

everyone else. A player would get good, ask for more money and find it somewhere else. These days, the team is either more successful at retaining players or there simply has been less movement around the league. Here are a few notes regarding the Oiler diaspora: • Seven NHL teams have had absolutely no ex-Oilers suit up for them this season. • Joﬀrey Lupul and Marc-Andre Bergeron are the top Oilumni—both are in the top-20 in league scoring. •Tampa Bay and Los Angeles each have the most ex-Edmonton players with four each. Considering how Kings GM Dean Lombardi feels about Steve Tambellini, I can't imagine many more ex-Oilers landing on that shore. DY NEW GIRLFRIEND

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resources to provide secondary and tertiary supports and without provincial support where students are attending school is not control." Support from the provinces is becoming important not only in assisting national objectives, but in overcoming the barriers between two school systems. Children in Aboriginal communities may access education provided on reserve or in provincial systems, but the two systems are far from cohesive. "There are significant transfers of funding from First Nations to the provincial system to pay for those students who may go into the provincial system," says Haldane. "The provinces recognize that they need to do a better job because they see the graduation rates." But fundamentally the federal government is the one that needs to take the lead, as the CCRC report reiterates. Hal-

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them inside a restaurant and they're not lookin' so hot? They're sitting there eating chicken wings with hot sauce all over their face and there are six empty beer glasses in front of them and you go, "Boy, did I ever make the right choice here." That's how I felt when the Oilers went into LA and we got our ﬁrst taste of post-trade Dustin Penner. You know what I'm not looking forward to? The Oilers' first game against the Dallas Stars. On that night, it's possible that Sheldon Souray will be the one with the fly haircut, and we'll be the ones with hot sauce on our face. Still, I wouldn't take him back. BB OILERS PLAYER OF THE WEEK

Nikolai Khabibulin: Two wins with just one goal scored on him—that's good enough! DY All Ryans, everywhere: Smyth is first in scoring, Da Nuge is second, Jonesy is grinding hard and Whitney, well, Whitney will be back. BB

dane makes clear this doesn't necessarily require the creation of an Aboriginal education act, though there is some marginal support for one. "Certainly in Alberta we heard from many who said, 'Done right, developed jointly, legislation could be the answer,' because children need to be protected in terms of funding, establishment of First Nations institutions needs to be enabled through legislation and the rights of the child to a quality education," explains Haldane. "There seems to be great openness as long as First Nations are very much engaged as equal partners and as long as this legislation wouldn't undermine treaty and inherent rights. Any legislation would have to put treaty rights into action." A national roundtable is scheduled for the week of November 21 with the final report to the National Chief of the AFN and the Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development to be delivered on December 31. SAMANTHA POWER

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

Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 •

Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library, 8331-104 St; meditationedmonton.org; Drop-in every Thu 7-8:30pm; Sherwood Park Library: Drop-in every Mon, 7-8:30pm Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association •

Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 •

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

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd

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Comedy Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover • 780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway

Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Dennis Ross; Nov 10-12 • Vilmos; Nov 17-19

• 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

• 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • TJ Miller; Nov 10-13 • Hit or Miss Monday: Nov 14, 8pm; $7 • Stand Up Edmonton: Nov 15, 8pm; $12 • Ryan Belleville; Nov 16-20

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)

DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave •

Sugarswing Dance Club • Or-

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM

780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

Filthy McNasty's • 10511-82 •

780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Standup comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week • Casey Corbin; Nov 13, 9pm; no cover • Dan Quinn; Nov 20, 9pm; no cover

Just For Laughs Comedy Tour

• Winspear Centre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • First-Ever British Edition • Nov 13

laugh shop–Sherwood Park

ange 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 • Bon-

nie 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) • Nov 20

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the

• 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Casey Corbin; Nov 10-12

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

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Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP

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

Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

Cha Island Tea Co • 10332 81 Ave •

Games Night: Board games, and card games • Every Mon, 7pm

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

Your Relationship with the Unconscious and Your Own New Book • Trinity Lutheran Church, 10014-81 Ave • Presentation by Kelly Polanski • Nov 18, 7pm • $15 (member)/$10 (student/senior member)/$20 (non-member)

LECTURES/Presentations Buddhism in Daily Life •

diamondway.org/edmonton • A weekend with Lama Ole Nydahl: A weekend full of lectures focusing on various Buddhist Topics • Nov 18-20

Class Dismissed: Capital's war on workers and democracy • Maier Learning Centre (ETLC), U of A • parklandinstitute.ca/ fallconference2011/ • Parkland's 15th Annual Fall Conference: Class Matters with Leo Panitch, Allan Sears, Richard

Wilkinson and Ahmad Shokr by skype, Joan Sangster, Stephanie Bloomingdale, and others • Nov 18-20

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall • Winspear • Complimentary pre-concert info sessions in the Studio (unless otherwise noted), open to the public, light refreshments provided. Enter through Winspear Stage Door (back of bldg) • Nov 20, 12:30-1:30pm (before Dvoják’s Violin Concerto)

No MOre Broken Bones •

Central Lions Seniors Centre, 11113-113 St • 780.735.7604 • Osteoporosis presentation with Dr Brian Wirzba • Nov 16, 7-9pm • Pre-register

Sovereign ClAIMS • Lecture

Theatre 2-490, Emonton Clinic Health academy, U of A • research.ualberta.ca • Visualizing Deception in Body and Nation with Lianne McTavish and Frank Tough • Nov 15, 3:30-5:15pm • Pre-register at bit. ly/nXFDpy

The Story of Stuff • Tory Lecture 11 Theatre Rm, U of A • 780.492.9289 • storyofstuff. org • Sustainability Speaker Series, presentation with Annie Leonard • Nov 17, 7pm • $5 at tixonthesquare.ca

Rec Centre, WEM, Tue 6:45pm • Running: Kinsmen • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 St, 104 Ave • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm, St Catherine School; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm, Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd • Gay/Lesbian Yoga: at Lion's Breath Yoga Studio, every Wed, 7:30-9pm; until Dec 21

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

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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

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

the junction bar • 10242-106

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-

EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Ed-

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

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 Sage bowling club • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm

GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Badmin-

ton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: St Vincent School, every Wed 6-7:30pm, until Apr 25; $7 (drop-in fee) • Co-ed Bellydancing • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave • Bowling: Ed's

Sir Winston Churchill Square • Holiday Light Up: Music, entertainment, family activities • Nov 19, 3-6pm

JUST CHRISTMAS 2011 • Alberta Avenue Community Hall, 9210-118 Ave • 780.233.5594 • Global Market Place for quality fair trade arts, handmade crafts and other goods • Nov 18, 5:30-9pm; Nov 19, 9:30am-4pm

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B

ton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca

Christmas On The Square •

It Used To Be Cool • Dewey's

Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

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• Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave • 780.437.3667 • Fundraiser, silent auction, performance by Bobby Cameron • Nov 17, 7pm (door) • $10

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus •

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

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

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124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm •

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

Men's Games Nights • Unitarian

Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

Pride Centre of Edmonton •

Moving • 780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm; huges@shaw.ca • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellorsevery Wed, 6-9pm; admin@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Prime Timers Games Night: Games night for men age 55+; 2nd and last Fri every month; 7-10pm; tuff@shaw.ca

Lounge (Power Plant), U of A • ProChoice Dance Party Fundraiser • Nov 10, 8-11:45pm • $7

Make It! The Handmade Revolution • Alberta Aviation Hangar, 11410

Kingsway Ave • Handmade clothing, accessories, art, jewellery, treats and more; music by local bands all weekend • Nov 17-20 • $5 (door)/kids are free

Pre-Christmas Bazaar • St

Andrew's Ukrainian Orthodox Cultural Centre, 9831-75 St • Tea, bazaar and bake sale • Nov 19, 1-3pm

Pregnancy Awareness Month • Holt Renfrew Café, 10180-

101 St • 780.222.2950 • Modern Mama’s Modern Bump Brunch • Nov 20, 12pm • $39 at modernmama.ca

Pure Speculation Festival • crystalkids.org • Comics, games, movies and TV, fantasy, science fiction and horror writing. Fundraiser for Crystal Kids. Sarah Lillian (singer-songwriter, 9:30pm, Sat at the On Spec party) • Nov 18-20 Remembrance Day in Edmonton’s Countryside • Strathcona

County: Remembrace Day Memorial: Nov 11, 12-3pm; Remembrance Day Exhibit: Through Nov • St Albert: Parade/ Ceremony: 10am • Beaumont: Ceremony; 10am • Bon Accord: Remembrance Day Ceremony; 10am • Town of Gibbons: Remembrance Day Ceremony; 10am • Spruce Grove: Remembrance Day Service; 10am • Sherwood Park: Remembrance Day Ceremony; 10am

Scandinavian Christmas Market • Dutch Canadian Centre,

St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

13312-142 St • Edmonton Scandinavian Centre Association: Includes food, music–a celebration of the Scandinavian arts • Sun, Nov 13, 11am-4pm • Free

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 •

Ushering in of the Mardi Gras Season • German-Canadian

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

Cultural Centre, 8310 Roper Rd, 51 Ave • 780.466.4000 • blauenfunken-edmonton. com • The Blauen Funken Crowning of Prince Carnival, Carnival Floor Show and Dance; semi-formal • Nov 12, 7pm • $15

Edmonton Bicycle Commuters • BikeWorks, 2nd Fl, 10047 80 ave

(entrance via alley only) • edmontonbikes. ca/calendar/more/diy_retroreflective_clothing/ • DIY Retroreflective Clothing • Fri, Nov 18, 6:30-9:30pm •$5 (EBC member)/$10 (non-member); pre-register E: courses@ edmontonbikes.ca

Edmonton Bike Art Nights • BikeWorks, 10047 80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm Edmonton Nature Club • Royal

Alberta Museum • edmontonnatureclub.ca • Monthly meeting speaker series: The Future of Songbirds of the Boreal Forest with Erin Bayne • Fri, Nov 18, 7pm, 7:30pm (presentation) • Admission by donation

Fair Vote Alberta • Strathcona Library, Community Rm (upstairs), 104 St, 84 Ave • fairvotealberta.org • Monthly meeting • 2nd Thu each month; 7pm FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living •

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FILM

REVUE // THE REAL EDDIE MURPHY

TOWER HEIST

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A BRAVE, THRILLING

PERFORMANCE BY ELIZABETH OLSEN IN A FILM THAT IS FAR AND AWAY ONE OF THE

YEAR’S BEST.”

“A THRILLER THAT SHIFTS

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DREAM, MEMORY AND REALITY.”

Boy ... you look mighty cute in them jeans

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t first glance, the Tower Heist's biggest strength is timing: in development since 2005, the film comes just as anger over Wall Street's excess has boiled over into the street, causing the workaday stiffs portrayed in the movie to lash out—occupying instead of "storming the castle," although it's entirely possible that that's what comes next. The real strength of Tower Heist, however, is the return of Eddie Murphy. Not that guy who insisted his name was Eddie Murphy while he talked to animals, dressed in a succession of fatter and fatter fat suits or ran an ill-thought-out-butultimately-redeeming day care. That milquetoast Eddie Murphy is hopefully dead, replaced with the reincarnation of Delirious-era Eddie Murphy: the fast-talking, potty-mouthed, funny-ha-ha-not-funny-sad version. His ensemble of straight men/

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white boys works well too. Stiller, Affleck and Broderick—accustomed to being the centre of attention— function well as soldiers to Murphy's General, while Michael Peña's "Latino sidekick" character is better fleshed out than expected. The film's major weakness is its first half, a gaping yawn of exposition that goes on at least three

at times, inspired. Talking about it too much would give all of the good parts away, but suffice to say it contains its requisite share of the mildly insane problem solving you might expect from such a motley crew of robbers. Tower Heist is a movie that had plenty of opportunities to fail: it spent time in development hell, its cast has been better known for the last decade as mildly-humorous

These characters are not conflicted, multi-faceted players in a Hemingway novel: we don't need to know so many details. The money's gone? Check. We want to get it back? Check. On to the heist.

times as long as it needed to. These characters are not conflicted, multifaceted players in a Hemingway novel: we don't need to know so many details. The money's gone? Check. We want to get it back? Check. On to the heist. The heist itself—which encompasses most of the movie's final half—is,

hawkers of family fare and its ensemble of well-known comedic actors risked an on-screen jockeying for attention. Despite its potential pitfalls, however, Tower Heist—like the robbery it portrays—gets away with it. BRYAN BIRTLES

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PREVUE // MADE IN EDMONTON

THREE notes. "We were trying to put the control back in to our own hands. Instead of waiting for your agent to call, create your own work. Which is why I got so involved in this film; because to work, you almost have to create work for yourself."

Something's not quite right ...

Sat, Nov 12 (4:30 pm) Written and directed by Ajay Patel Metro Cinema at the Garneau, $8

n its own peculiar way, rejection can end up transforming from disappointment into inspiration. For actor/producer Damian Chao and filmmaker Ajay Patel, the inability to secure funding for a short film they wanted to make proved to be a catalyst for the creation of feature-length Three. "Nobody wanted to finance a short

film at that time," Damian Chao says via email. "So myself and [writer/director] Ajay decided, 'Screw it, let's make a feature film.' So we went to Starbucks, chatted for a while, and came up with an idea that we thought was very different and very original. We set out to make it. We decided that we were not going to be denied this time. We weren't going to accept failure. He literally wrote three drafts of 87 pages in under a week." Sure enough, Patel's script managed to

secure some funding, and the pair went about fleshing out their film. The story as such revolves around Ryan, jobless and out of luck until a friend gets him a job working the graveyard shift at the warehouse he manages. It's there he meets Naomi, falls for her and, while on what appears to be an upswing in romance and finance, a girl from his past starts to re-enter his life in increasingly alarming ways. The growing paranoia starts to wear on him, and as Ryan's sanity disintegrates, he starts to sus-

pect those around him may be playing a vicious game with his mind. Chao notes the influence of psychological thrillers like Taxi Driver and Seven on Three, which has managed to earn itself a pair of AMPIA nominations this year—for Best Performance by an Alberta Actress and Best Screenplay Drama. It also gave Chao, struggling to find acting gigs around town, a chance to perform, but also try his hand in the producer's chair. "[Patel] gave me an opportunity," he

The cast and crew generously worked for free, Chao notes. They shot the film on weekends, working around day jobs—when cast and crew went back to work on Monday, Chao and Patel would shoot any necessary b-roll footage, go back to their own other jobs, and resume filming the following Friday. That sort of thankless dedication to the craft is something Chao notes makes Edmonton: the film community seems willing to help each other out for the simple love of what they get to create together. "Working on films in Edmonton is good," he says. "There's a lot of talented people in this town. Not just actors. Directors, producers, DOPs, writers—all the hardworking people who work crew jobs on films ... The film community is a very tight community: they all know each other, or know someone who knows that person. It's very rare to meet someone whom you don't at least know their name. That's rare. I do enjoy working in this town. It's not Hollywood, but the people here are real." Paul Blinov

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REVUE // SPLIFFY CHRISTMAS

A VERY HAROLD & KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS wrapped (two tree-sellers take turns playing the "Angry Black Man" to increase their profits). But while Harold and Kumar finally care for women, the movie doesn't, especially when a faux-Neil Patrick Harris treats them so nastily. A lot of ethnic stereotypes are lazily snowballed out. An accidentally-drugged baby becomes less funny with every new trip. Worst of all, A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas rolls out a bunch of the usual boring, hokey brofriends-forever, family-time and spirit-of-the-season moments. The shrugging counterculture getting seriously conventional? Now that's a bummer.

A couple of nutcrackers

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Now playing Directed by Todd Strauss-Schulson

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was the 51st night before Christmas when Generation Whatever's Cheech and Chong returned, a-toking and a-spliffing. They descended on a rocky sleigh-ride, from the highs of some 3D mockery and repackaged Christmas clichés to the lows of rolling-paper-thin stereotypes and a one-joke baby. Harold (John Cho) is now a straightshooting suit trying to please his His-

panic wife's Xmas-loving dad, visiting for the jolly-hollydays. Kumar (Kal Penn) is still a pothead, too in love with trying Merry-Jane flavours of the stoner-cold season to react responsibly to his girlfriend's pregnancy.

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3D's cut down to slacker-size (a puff of cannabis smoke becomes a wreath), this mock-epic style also works in a beer pong sequence, a few meta-jokes and Xmas touches (a scene from The Christmas Story gets ripped off more painfully) have zing, and one stereotype's nicely re-

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FILM 13

REVUE // YOU ARE THE FATHER!

SECOND TAKE // BLOODY VAMPIRES

STARBUCK

FROM DUSK TILL DAWN

A father figure to 500

Fri, Nov 11 – Wed, Nov 16 Directed by Ken Scott Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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t's hard to focus on one child, let alone 533 of them. It's a strange, unheard-of situation that David Wozniak (Patrick Huard) has found himself in, and which is ultimately the catch-22 in Starbuck's concept. The movie's premise, that a lowly, middleaged deliveryman has fathered hundreds of children due to innumerable trips to the sperm bank in his youth, is strange, quirky and full of potential. But, from a narrative standpoint, the film falls off the wayside. Who are these children? Why are they so demanding that Wozniak's identity be released? How is Wozniak grappling with this mind-bending notion? Numerous questions get posed but left unanswered in Starbuck's jumbled narrative. The movie tries to achieve too much—focusing on Wozniak's troubles with some mobsters over unpaid loans, his failed

relationship with his pregnant exgirlfriend, plus the ensuing legal case filed by 100 of his children over the disclosure of his identity. While Starbuck's plot runs at a frenetic pace, it's thankfully anchored by its star, Patrick Huard. Huard reels in Wozniak's lowly side and, instead, brings a certain humility to the role.

with the grueling decision of whether to keep one of his overdosed daughters in the hospital or discharge her, and it's one of the film's most heartfelt and powerful moments. But Wozniak is also surrounded by one too many dumb characters, including his blabbering friend-turned-lawyer and the thugs who barely seem threatening. Like the film's storyline, the cast is

The movie's premise, that a lowly, middle-aged deliveryman has fathered hundreds of children due to innumerable trips to the sperm bank in his youth, is strange, quirky and full of potential. But, from a narrative standpoint, the film falls off the wayside. His journey from a self-centered lowlife to a caring father feels authentic, and is undoubtedly a highpoint of the film. As a result, relationships do develop between Wozniak and some of his children, and they're depicted with a surprising degree of resonance and charm. At one point, Wozniak is left

surprisingly imbalanced. Although Starbuck veers off course from its initial premise, it still delivers a charming and unique take on fatherhood. It's not exactly the sweet comedy it sets out to be, but is ultimately saved by its poignancy and charm. Alex Migdal

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Clooney, post-vampire attack

Fri, Nov 11 (11 pm) Directed by Robert Rodriguez Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1996

he mayhem actually starts before we catch up with the Gecko brothers. That Richie (Quentin Tarantino) busted Seth (George Clooney) out of jail, that the pair robbed a bank, took a hostage and left a sizable body count in their wake is, rather remarkably, all back story, preceding the opening scenes depicting the infiltration of a roadside liquor retailer that results in more pointless carnage, including the roasting alive of the proprietor (very nicely played by a young John Hawkes). Richie is shot through the hand during the firefight; the bullet leaves a hole the size of a carrot stick—some sort of perverse stigmata for this sadist, serial rapist and compulsive murderer—which he bandages with duct tape. To think, all Richie wanted was a road map. Richie and Seth eventually manage to get south of the border by smuggling themselves in an RV driven by a pastor and widower (Harvey Keitel) weathering a crisis of faith by taking a road trip with his kids (one of whom is Juliette Lewis, who's casting in this sort of thing was pretty much de rigueur back in 1996). The whole gang winds up in a biker bar called the Titty Twister (though I prefer the name given in the DVD's Spanish subtitles: "Fiesta de tetas") where Selma Hayek performs a dance in a

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bikini that's almost stupefying in its hotness and everyone turns out to be Aztec vampires, a breed of revenant that's unusually easy to dismember and impale. It takes an hour to get to the vampire stuff, but from then on, rest assured, it's a solid 40 minutes of bang-bang, crunch, tear, stab, shred and splatter. DEDfest will mark Remembrance Day with a 15th anniversary screening of From Dusk Till Dawn. The movie was directed with much enthusiasm and little flair by Robert Rodriguez, but its script came courtesy of the young Tarantino, who seems to have

The whole gang winds up in a biker bar called the Titty Twister (though I prefer the name given in the DVD's Spanish subtitles: "Fiesta de tetas")

been galvanized by the genre fusion and the opportunity to toss elements of everything from Peckinpah to Graham Greene into the blender. There's not a lot of the sort of verbal fireworks we find in top-grade Tarantino, and some of the special effects are kind of lame and superfluous, but the superb cast and relentless cartoony action sequences ensure that the movie's entertainment value remains reasonably high. Josef Braun

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CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr, Jasper, 780.852.4749

Puss in Boots (G) Fri 7:00; Sat 1:30,

7:00; Sun-Thu 8:00; Sat-Sun 1:30

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) Fri-

Sat 7:00, 9:00; Sun-Thu 8:00; Sat-Sun 1:30

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Fri-Sat 9:00; Sun-Thu 8:00 CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12 5074-130 Ave, 780.472.9779

CARS 2 (G) Daily 1:20, 4:30, 7:05, 9:25 The Smurfs (G) DAILY 1:55, 4:20, 6:50, 9:20 HARRY POTTER AND THE DEATHLY HALLOWS PART 2 ( PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Daily 1:05, 4:05, 7:00, 9:50

COWBOYS AND ALIENS (14A violence) Daily 6:30, 9:10

SPY KIDS: ALL THE TIME IN THE WORLD IN 4D (PG) Daily 1:45, 4:25 RISE OF THE PLANET OF THE APES (PG

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

Contagion (14A) DAILY 1:35, 4:10, 6:35,

9:30

CRAZY, STUPID, LOVE. (PG coarse language) Daily 1:15, 3:50, 6:40, 9:15

ANONYMOUS (PG violence, sexually suggestive scenes) DAILY 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00 The Big Year (PG) Daily 1:25, 4:15, 7:15, 9:35

THE LION KING (G) Digital Cinema Daily

1:40

THE LION KING 3D (G) Digital 3d Daily

3:55, 6:45, 9:10

RA. ONE 3D (14A) Digital 3d Daily 1:00,

4:30, 8:00

Rockstar (STC) Hindi W/E.S.T. DAILY 1:30, 5:00, 8:30

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave, 780.732.2236

A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A substance abuse, crude content)

Ultraavx Fri-Sun 1:40, 3:55, 6:05, 8:15, 10:40; Mon-Wed 1:40, 4:20, 7:45, 10:15; Thu 1:40, 4:20, 7:30

A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A substance abuse, crude content)

Digital 3d Thu 10:15

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:15, 7:30, 10:15; Mon-Wed 1:20, 4:15, 7:30, 10:05; Thu 1:20, 4:15, 6:55, 10:05

PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Fri-Sun 12:15, 2:35, 5:00, 7:20; Mon-Thu 12:30, 2:30, 5:00, 7:20

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St, 780.436.8585

A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A substance abuse, crude content)

Digital 3d Fri-Sat 1:00, 1:30, 3:15, 3:45, 5:30, 6:00, 7:45, 8:15, 10:00, 10:40; Sun, Tue 12:15, 1:00, 2:45, 3:15, 5:30, 7:05, 7:45, 9:30, 10:00; Mon, Wed 1:00, 1:30, 3:15, 4:00, 5:30, 7:05, 7:45, 9:30, 10:00; Thu 1:00, 1:30, 3:15, 4:00, 5:30, 7:05, 7:45, 10:00

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat 5:20, 8:05, 10:45; Sun, TueThu 4:00, 6:55, 9:35; Mon 4:00, 6:55, 10:00 PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Digital Cinema FriSun, Tue 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 9:45; Mon, Wed 1:10, 3:30, 5:45, 8:25; Thu 3:30, 5:45, 8:25; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri-Sun, Tue 12:30, 3:00, 6:00, 8:15, 10:30; Mon, WedThu 1:30, 3:55, 7:00, 10:05

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Digital Cinema

Fri-Sun, Tue 12:50, 4:00, 7:00, 10:05; Mon, Wed 1:25, 4:25, 7:25, 10:15; Thu 1:25, 4:25, 7:25

IMMORTALS (18A gory brutal violence) Digital 3d Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:40, 5:20, 8:00, 10:45; Sun, Tue 12:05, 3:05, 6:45, 10:10; Mon, WedThu 1:40, 4:20, 7:00, 10:05 THE THREE MUSKETEERS (PG) Digital

Cinema Fri-Sun, Tue 1:25, 4:05, 7:15, 10:15; Mon 1:25, 4:05, 10:00; Wed 1:25, 4:05, 7:15, 10:00; Thu 1:25, 4:05, 7:15

JACK AND JILL (PG) Digital Cinema, No

passes Fri 1:20, 3:40, 6:05, 8:25, 10:40; Sat 1:20, 4:00, 6:10, 8:25, 10:40; Sun, Tue 12:20, 2:50, 5:45, 8:00, 10:20; Mon, Wed 1:20, 3:40, 6:30, 8:40; Thu 1:20, 3:40, 7:05, 9:30

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) Digital

Cinema Fri-Sat 12:35, 1:00, 3:05, 3:30, 5:40, 6:15, 8:20, 9:00, 10:55; Sun, Tue 12:00, 1:00, 2:30, 3:30, 5:00, 6:15, 7:45, 9:00, 10:20; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:00, 1:45, 3:30, 4:35, 6:15, 7:10, 9:00, 9:45

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (STC) No passes; Digital Cinema: Thu 10:00; Ultraavx: Thu 10:00

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat 12:10, 2:15, 4:20, 6:30, 8:40, 10:50; Sun, Tue 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:05, 10:25; Mon, Wed-Thu 1:05, 3:20, 5:40, 8:00, 10:15 JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Sat 12:05, 2:45; Sun, Tue-Thu 1:05; Mon 1:10 IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) Digital

Cinema Fri-Sat 12:15, 2:50, 5:25, 8:10, 10:50; Sun, Tue 12:05, 2:35, 5:25, 8:00, 10:30; Mon, Wed 1:35, 4:45, 7:25, 10:10; Thu 4:45, 7:25, 10:10; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

50/50 (14A coarse language) Digital Cinema

Fri-Sat 12:45, 3:10, 5:45, 8:30, 11:00; Sun 5:05, 7:35, 10:10; Mon-Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:35, 10:10

THE RUM DIARY (14A coarse language,

substance abuse) Digital Cinema Fri 1:30, 4:25, 7:25, 10:35; Sat 4:25, 7:25, 10:35; Sun, Tue 12:45, 3:45, 6:50, 9:50; Mon, Wed 1:45, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20; Thu 1:20, 4:15

J. Edgar (PG language may offend) No

PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri-Sun 1:10, 3:30, 6:00, 8:20, 10:35; Mon-Thu 1:10, 3:30, 6:30, 8:45

passes; Ultraavx: Fri-Wed 1:15, 4:15, 7:15, 10:15; Thu 1:05, 4:00, 7:00; Digital Cinema: Thu 10:15

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 10:00; Mon-Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50

The Metropolitan Opera: Anna Bolena–Encore (Classification not avail-

IMMORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Digital 3d Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:10; Mon-Wed 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:00; Thu 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:25 THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Digital 3d Fri-Sun 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:20; Mon-Wed 1:30, 4:30, 7:35, 10:10; Thu 1:30, 4:30, 7:35 JACK AND JILL (PG) No passes Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:30, 4:45, 7:00, 9:35; Mon-Thu 12:35, 2:40, 4:45, 7:00, 9:30

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) Fri-Sun 12:30, 2:10, 4:10, 5:10, 7:15, 8:00, 9:50, 10:30; Mon-Tue, Thu 12:45, 2:10, 4:10, 5:10, 7:15, 8:00, 9:40, 10:20; Wed 2:10, 4:10, 5:10, 7:15, 8:00, 9:40, 10:20; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (STC) No passes; Digital Cin-

ema: Thu 10:01; Ultraavx: Thu 10:00

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Digital Cinema Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:15, 6:20, 8:30, 10:45; Mon-Wed 1:00, 3:15, 8:15, 10:30; Thu 1:00, 3:15, 7:05

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) DAILY 9:35

IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) FriSun 12:45, 3:40, 6:45, 9:20; Mon-Thu 12:55, 3:40, 6:45, 9:15

THE RUM DIARY (14A coarse language,

substance abuse) Fri-Sun 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 10:05; Mon-Tue 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 9:55; Wed 1:15, 4:00, 9:55; Thu 1:15, 4:00, 6:50, 9:55

J. Edgar (PG language may offend) No passes Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45; Mon-Tue, Thu 12:40, 3:45, 6:40, 9:45; Wed 3:45, 6:40, 9:45; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating, Closed Captioned DAILY 12:45, 3:45, 7:00, 10:00 A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A substance abuse, crude content)

Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating, Digital 3d, Closed Captioned DAILY 12:35, 3:35, 6:55, 9:55

JACK AND JILL (PG) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating DAILY 1:05, 4:05, 7:20, 10:20 CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave, 780.472.7600

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Digital Pre-

sentation Fri-Sun 12:45, 3:45

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 6:40, 9:25; Mon-Wed 5:00, 8:00; Thu 4:45, 7:20 PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A

frightening scenes) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 2:10, 4:50, 7:25, 9:35; Mon-Thu 5:45, 8:20

PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 1:30, 3:50, 6:35; Mon-Wed 4:50; Thu 4:50, 7:30

PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d

Fri-Sun 2:00, 4:40, 7:05, 9:20; Mon-Thu 5:20, 7:40

IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 1:10, 4:15, 6:55, 9:50; Mon-Thu 5:20, 8:05

A Park For All Seasons (STC) Sun

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave, 780.421.7020

J. Edgar (PG language may offend) Closed

Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes, Stadium Seating DAILY 12:15, 3:15, 6:30, 9:30

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (STC) Digital Presentation,

Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating Thu 10:00

IMMORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal violence)

Digital 3d, Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating DAILY 12:55, 3:55, 7:10, 10:10

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) Dolby Stereo Digital, Stadium Seating, Closed Captioned DAILY 1:10, 4:10, 7:25, 10:25

PUSS IN BOOTS (G) Closed Captioned, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Wed 12:25; Thu 12:25, 3:25, 6:50, 9:50 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) DTS Digital, Digital 3d, Stadium Seating, Closed Captioned FriWed 3:25, 6:50, 9:50

THE RUM DIARY (14A coarse language,

substance abuse) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Wed 12:00, 6:15

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A fright-

ening scenes) Dolby Stereo Digital, Closed Captioned, Stadium Seating Fri-Wed 3:00, 9:15; Thu 12:00, 3:00

IDES OF MARCH (14A coarse language) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:30, 10:30; Wed 1:15, 4:15, 10:30; Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:30

Grandin Mall, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert, 780.458.9822

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) No passes Daily 1:20, 3:20, 5:20, 7:20, 9:20

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

JOHNNY ENGLISH REBORN (PG) Daily 12:50

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Daily 9:15

A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D Christmas (18A substance abuse, crude content) (18A substance abuse, crude content) Daily 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 7:00, 9:05

Digital 3d, No passes Fri-Sun 1:40, 4:20, 7:20, 9:45; Digital 3d Mon-Thu 5:25, 7:50

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language)

Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 1:20, 4:10, 6:45, 9:15; Mon-Thu 5:10, 8:10

J. Edgar (PG language may offend) Digital

Presentation, No passes Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:30, 6:30, 9:30; Mon-Thu 4:45, 7:45

JACK AND JILL (PG) Digital Presentation Fri-Sun 1:50, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10; Mon-Thu 5:30, 8:15

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

Puss In Boots (G) Presented in T3D

Daily 7:00 9:05; Fri, Sat, Sun, Tue 2:00

JACK AND JILL (PG) Daily 6:55, 9:20; Fri, Sat, Sun, Tue 1:55

IMMORTALS (18A gory brutal violence)

Daily 6:50, 9:15; Fri, Sat, Sun, Tue 1:50

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language)

Daily 6:45, 9:10; Fri, Sat, Sun, Tue 1:45

A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D Christmas (18A substance abuse, crude content) Daily 7:05 9:25; Fri, Sat, Sun, Tue 2:05 GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK

PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave, 780.433.0728

Martha Marcy May Marlene (14A sexual violence, disturbing content) Daily 6:50, 9:10; Fri, Sat, Sun 2:00

The Guard (14A coarse language) Daily 7:00, 9:00; Fri, Sat, Sun 2:30

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.444.2400

puss in boots (G) Daily 1:30, 3:30, 5:20, 7:15, 9:00

LEDUC CINEMAS Leduc, 780.352.3922

puss in boots (G) Digital 3d Daily 6:55, 9:25; FRI, Sat, Sun 12:55, 3:25

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) Daily 7:00, 9:30; FRI, Sat, Sun 1:00, 3:30

JACK AND JILL (PG) Daily 7:05, 9:20; Fri, Sat, Sun 1:05, 3:20

COURAGEOUS (PG) Daily 7:00, 9:35; FRI, Sat, Sun 1:00, 3:35

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

DEDfest: From Dusk Till Dawn

(STC) FRI 11:00

Digital 3d DAILY 12:40, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:30

Wed 12:30, 3:20, 6:30, 9:20; Thu 12:30, 3:20, 9:45

PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d DAILY

12:45, 3:45, 6:30, 9:00

REAL STEEL (PG violence) Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:45; Thu 12:50, 3:50, 6:50

IMMORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal violence) Ultraavx: Fri-Wed 1:00, 4:00, 7:40, 10:30; Thu 1:00, 4:00, 7:00; Digital 3d: Thu 10:30

THE THREE MUSKETEERS 3D (PG) Digital 3d Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:15, 7:20, 10:10; Wed 1:15, 4:00, 10:10; Thu 1:15, 4:15, 7:20

JACK AND JILL (PG) No passes Fri-Sun,

Thu 12:15, 2:45, 5:15, 7:45, 10:15; Mon-Tue 1:40, 4:40, 7:45, 10:15; Wed 4:35, 7:45, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening, No passes Wed 1:00

Billy Bishop goes to War (PG coarse

language) FRI 1:45; SUN 7:00

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) FriWed 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 9:40; Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:15, 9:40

The Autobiography of Nicolae Ceausescu (STC) FRI 3:30; SAT-SUN 1:00;

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (STC) No passes Thu 10:15;

MON 7:00

Ultraavx: Thu 10:00

Starbuck (14A mature subject matter,

coarse language) SUN 4:15 9:00; FRI, SAT, TUE, WED 7:00, 9:00

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Digital Cinema Fri-Wed 2:00, 5:00, 7:50, 10:20; Thu 2:00, 5:00, 7:50

Educated Reel: Alberta's Lost Histories (STC) THU 7:00

10:00

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

No passes, On 2 Screens Thu 10:00

lence) Digital 3d Fri-Sun 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 9:40; Mon-Thu 5:00, 8:00

9:00

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Fri-

3:15, 5:10, 7:25, 9:25

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (STC) Digital Presentation, IMMORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal vio-

ening scenes) Daily 8:55

footloose (PG coarse language) Fri-wed

JACK AND JILL (PG) No passes Daily 1:15,

substance abuse) Digital Presentation FriSun 9:00; Mon-Wed 7:50

A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A substance abuse, crude content)

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A fright-

A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A substance abuse, crude content)

THE RUM DIARY (14A coarse language,

able) Sat 10:55 2:00

GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert

JACK AND JILL (PG) Daily 6:45, 8:45; FriTue 12:45, 2:45

MONEYBALL (PG coarse language) DAILY

IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence) DAILY 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:15 THE RUM DIARY (14A coarse language, substance abuse) Fri-Tue, Thu 1:20, 4:20, 7:15; Wed 4:20, 7:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

IMMORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal violence)

Daily 6:50, 9:10; Fri-Tue 12:50, 3:10

J. Edgar (PG language may offend) No passes DAILY 12:30, 3:30, 6:40, 9:50

Puss in Boots (G) Presented in 2D Daily 7:05; Sat-Tue 1:05, 2:55

PUSS IN BOOTS: An Imax 3d Experience (G) Fri-Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:40, 7:00,

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) Daily 7:00, 9:05; FRI-Tue 1:00, 3:05; Movies for Mommies: Tue Nov 8: 1:00

A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D Christmas (18A substance abuse, crude

content) (18A substance abuse, crude content) Presented in 3D Daily 7:15, 9:15; FRI-Tue 1:15, 3:15

Puss in Boots 3D (G) Presented in 3D Daily 6:55, 8:50; Fri-Tue 12:55, 2:50

In Time (PG coarse language, violence) Daily 6:40; FRI-Tue 12:40, 3:00

9:30; Mon-Wed 1:45, 4:45, 7:00, 9:30 WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin, 780.352.3922

JACK AND JILL (PG) Daily 7:10, 9:20; Fri, Sat, Sun 1:10, 3:25

THE RUM DIARY (14A coarse language,

substance abuse) Daily 7:05, 9:35 ; Fri, Sat, Sun 1:05, 3:35

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) Daily 7:00, 9:30; Fri, Sat, Sun 1:00, 3:30

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

9:25; Fri, Sat, Sun 12:55, 3:25

2020 Sherwood Dr, Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

A VERY HAROLD KUMAR 3D CHRISTMAS (18A substance abuse, crude content)

Digital 3d Fri-Sun 12:30, 3:10, 7:45, 10:30; Mon-Thu 7:45, 10:30

FOOTLOOSE (PG coarse language) Fri-Sun 12:35, 3:35, 6:50, 9:45; Mon-Thu 6:50, 9:45 PUSS IN BOOTS 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri-

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

IMMORTALS 3D (18A gory brutal vio-

lence) Digital 3d Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:50, 7:30, 10:20; Mon-Thu 7:30, 10:20

JACK AND JILL (PG) No passes Fri-Sun 12:45, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10; Mon-Thu 7:20, 10:10

TOWER HEIST (PG coarse language) Fri-Sun 1:00, 3:45, 6:45, 9:40; Mon-Thu 6:45, 9:40 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1 (STC) No passes Thu 10:00

PARANORMAL ACTIVITY 3 (14A frightening scenes) Fri-Sun 12:20, 2:45, 5:00, 7:40, 10:00; Mon-Thu 7:40, 10:00

IN TIME (PG coarse language, violence)

Fri-Sun 12:25, 3:20, 6:40, 9:25; Mon-Wed 6:40, 9:25; Thu 6:40

THE RUM DIARY (14A coarse language, substance abuse) Fri-Sun 12:50, 3:40, 7:15, 10:05; Mon-Wed 7:15, 10:05; Thu 7:15 J. Edgar (PG language may offend) No passes Fri-Sun 12:10, 3:30, 6:30, 9:50; Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:50

VUEWEEKLY NOV 10 – NOV 16, 2011

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REVUE // ROCKY HORROR

Timeless warp

Citadel's Rocky Horror earns its classic status

A scene from Rocky Horror

Until Sun, Nov 20 (7:30 pm) Directed by Leigh Rivenbark Citadel Theatre, $20 – $103.95

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hough its roots are unquestionably in the nooks and crannies of popular culture, it seems strange to still refer to The Rocky Horror Show in the "cult" vein of classics. Sure, the number of people that dress up and go to midnight screenings and know exactly when to throw toast and what to call who when are far outnumbered by those who simply enjoy humming along with the "Time Warp" from time to time, but the script's appeal and acceptance has long crossed over into the annals of popular culture. That might be because Rocky Horror's script traces a bridging of sorts, between the mainstream (the very vanilla Brad and Janet) and the darker recesses of the marginalized (some transexual transvestites from a place probably picked because it kept the alliteration going). Rocky Horror's professed awakening of more carnal internal desires is handled in such a joyful, celebratory way, written by Richard O'Brien with such charm, that it can't help but offer a similar bridging for most people watching, no matter their particular flavour.

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Anyway, all of that is to say that although director Leigh Rivenbark could've done little wrong in the eyes of most of Sunday night's giddy packed house, he didn't rest on his laurels. He clearly gets the sort of infectious energy that a beloved show like this can have if given the royal treatment, and in that, he's done very well: Rivenbark's assembled a genuinely fantastic production that shows exactly why this thing became so beloved in the first place. On a set design sitting somewhere

to improvise a bit of hilarity while rolls were swept offstage): people dance in the seats to "Time Warp," for example. If that's your fancy, there's no guilt in indulgence here. Casting is bang on. Julien Arnold's Narrator has plenty of gravity but peppers it with innuendo; the Riff-Raff/Magenta/Columbia trio of Robert Markus, Shelly Simester and Adrienne Merrell are pretty clearly having a blast onstage together. John Ullyatt plays a Frank N Furter aware of the iconic Tim Curry perfor-

[Leigh] Rivenbark's assembled a genuinely fantastic production that shows exactly why this thing became so beloved in the first place. between Thunderdome and a European trance club, we watch Brad and Janet (Evan Alexander Smith and Joseé Boudreau, respectively) go from innocent ol' American whitebread to getting swept up Frank N Furter's kinky/ goofy scheme to make himself a musclebound hunk. The production itself has all the feeling of a rock show, a level of interaction that goes beyond the moments of rowdier crowd participation (throwing toilet paper brought the show to a standstill, though really that just gave the cast a chance

mance, but manages to find his own personality in pursed lips and huge heels. In a play filled with freaky stylings he's the one who earns the crown, though, really across the board there isn't a weak choice here: everyone capable of delivering on the scenes and songs, which are pretty dazzling spectacles, backed by a live band. This Rocky is an a undeniably vibrant production of classic, cult or otherwise. Paul Blinov

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REVUE // SHIFTING REALITY

REVUE // FAMILY FEUD

NIGHT TIME

CLEOPATRA'S SISTER Until Sat, Nov 12 (8 pm) Matinee on Sat, Nov 12 (2 pm) Written and directed by Trevor Schmidt TransAlta Arts Barns, $15 – $27

Things being not what they seem

Until Sat, Nov 12 (7:30 pm) Directed by Andrea Beça Catalyst Theatre, $22

ou just make them that way, make them in your head, make them like you." There comes a point in Night Time when you become acutely aware that things are really not what they seem—for both audience and characters alike. The performance is divided into three parts: the protagonist, Chris (Nicole Schafenacker), is a woman suffering a great deal of pain who meets three men after leaving her house one night in search of help. She first meets a neighbour who offers a place to stay, a situation that seems grounded in reality—albeit a darkly uneasy one. But as the show transitions to her second encounter, this reality is displaced and distorted. Her second meeting provides some welcome levity to the otherwise sombre, noir-like tone, yet there is still a perpetual sense of something ominous and dark lying in wait. And when we finally meet the person whom we've assumed is the real threat, somehow reality has become

so unseated that this is no longer certain. Selma Dimitrijević's script is almost painfully spare— there is nothing extraneous here, only the bare bones of language that somehow manages to be hauntingly poetic and convey a multitude of meanings in almost every line. Schafenacker does a beautiful job capturing Chris' state of perpetual confusion and vulnerability, a performance that uses subtle elegance to keep tension and suspense running high. The physical movement used in the transition scenes flows naturally from the dialogue, as the two characters move together in a kind of strange dance. Both movements and words are repeated later in the performance, acting like a refrain or chorus, yet they are also expanded upon and imbued with new meaning in each reiteration. This is powerful performance and a psychological thriller in every sense of the genre, rife with ambiguity and the blurring, shifting lines of reality. Mel Priestley // mel@vueweekly.com

istory never looks kindly on those unfortunate enough to be on the divided-and-conquered end of things. As the last pharaoh of Egypt, Clepoatra's name has survived down through the centuries, popping up in pop culture periodically, with plenty of lasting reverence for her. But does the name Arsinoë ring any bells? The titular sister didn't get the same lasting treatment in the history books and, in a new script, Northern Light Theatre artistic director Trevor Schmidt ponders a "what if" meeting of the two siblings that sheds some light on why that might have been. Namely, that being a royal in that time and place meant killing first or being killed, and Cleopatra's Sister opens at the beginning stages of such a decisive moment, innocuous to neither woman on stage. Creating a context for such an ancient world, though, takes a certain balanced heave-ho of acting and writing together. For his part, Schmidt gives the script a lyrical approach, folding all the necessary exposition into the little barbs of dialogue these two spit at each other. Some lines clunk heavy with expository detail, but more often they work quite well in delivering what we need without seeming too unweildly. On the acting side of things, it's a little less evenhanded. Nadien Chu's Arsinoé walks a careful, complex line between a weak front and showing her fangs. Her sweet sisterly facade is watchable

enough, but seeing it drop for glimmers of her inner workings is compelling. As Cleopatra, Sylvia Wong didn't seem totally comfortable with the script, which led to some diminished tension as she worked through. When she was on top of things, though, she exuding a more polished status for a more regarded queen, capable of changing her feelings with the tilt of a head. The whole production gets a gorgeous costuming and unfurls on a beautiful set that's immediately captivating. The rearranged PCL's snug alley seating splits the audience into two sides, with pillars jutting down from the ceiling, running its length, low-lit-lamps providing moody wash of light. The actors, constantly on the move, ensure that there's few moments that an aisle of pillars actually impedes sight (and if it does, try checking for faces in the mirrors below the pillars. you'll see what I mean.) The Takio drumming, courtesy of Booming Tree dressed in black in the corner, adds an unusually active soundtrack to the proceedings, booming drums or ringing bells that underscore statements left hanging in the air. The mood's important: as so much of the story is a slow build—the sisterly relationship and the situation that displays it here are all about moments of tension and slow, diplomatic release, a slow, tightening circle of two vipers looking for the moment to strike—Controlling the tone is vital, and Cleopatra's Sister doesn't quite have the steam to sustain that tension right through to its heightened climax. But more often are the moments where it all aligns. It's more lively epic than history page. Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

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YELLOW MOON

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ellow Moon is a modern gothic fairy tale, with overtures toward the classic epic adventure. Our protagonists are, as in all good love

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stories, an unlikely duo: "Silent" Leila (Sereana Malani) is a good girl of Arab descent who keeps her thoughts and inner turmoil to herself, while "Stag" Lee (Richard Lam) is a swaggering delinquent who dreams of a life as a famous criminal. The two teens unite after a chance meeting takes a violent

turn, prompting them to flee on an Odyssey-like adventure into the Scottish highlands. David Greig's script employs several different methods of storytelling to tell its tale. The script is largely narrated by a chorus of storytellers, who jump between tenses and into various characters to illustrate certain scenes. Much of the show's comedy flows from the self-referential and satirical nature of this convention, but it also provides a fascinating exploration of a series of alternate reality, "what if" tangents that never actually occur. The imposing set, a multi-tiered plywood jungle of stairs and ramps, gives the characters lots of room to move around on their journey. The production also employs an inventive set of props to add an interesting visual layer to certain scenes.

The performers, obviously enthusiastic in their roles, bring a great liveliness to an already lively story, though at times this enthusiasm seems at odds with the ominous events. The script is also noticeably Scottish in several places, employing particularly Scottish words or names, and though nothing is lost by having the characters speak in Canadian English, it could have gained a level of realism were it performed in a Scottish brogue; at times those Scottish-isms fell flat on delivery. Nonetheless, the story is compelling and entertaining: it is an honest coming-of-age tale and portrayal of teenage troubles, highlighting our innate need to make a place for ourselves in the world—in essence, to write our own stories. Mel Priestley

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Stripped Down 3 / Thu, Nov 10 – Sat, Nov 12 For a third time, Theatre Yes is offering a peek into plays in development by some of our finest theatrical pens. Spread out over a couple of evenings, you can scope staged early drafts of new works by Jesse Gervais, Beth Graham, Doug Mertz and about a dozen more, then discuss and debate what you've just seen with the artists and the rest of the audience. (Expressionz Café, pay what you will)

Christmas Around the World / Tue, Nov 15 – Sun, Nov 20 It's a curious pairing: author/playwright/librettist Timothy J Anderson, who has titles like Resisting Adonis and Neurotic Erotica to his name, hosting Vinok Worldance's Christmas Around The World—an event that seems bycomparison far tamer than the man set to host it. Still, he's back "by popular demand," meaning his particular insights must translate well to the realm of international song and dance works. This year's lineup, being performed over six days, includes dances and music drawn from cultures as varied as Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Portuguese, Romanian, Turkish and Ukrainian cultures, handled by nine dancers, a half-dozen musicians and a trio of singers. Buffet access is included in the ticket price (the Chateau Louis Hotel & Conference Centre, $70 – $75)

The Living Room / Sat, Nov 12 (2 pm & 7 pm) Circus Montréal, that city's indie bigtop, is setting up in the AGA this weekend. It may not be Cirque du Soleil—"that's the point!" stresses the press release—but instead, its assembly of jugglers, musicians, aerial artists (including our own Firefly Theatre) and other purveyors of wonder are looking to put a family-friendly, fun-first slant on the big top entertainment. (Art Gallery of Alberta, $15) V

REVUE // CINEMA

BLESS YOU, BILLY WILDER Until Sun, Nov 20 (7:30 pm) Directed by John Hudson Varscona Theatre, $15 – $26

love the smell of napalm in the morning," goes the first line out of Emil Dyer's (Troy O'Donnell) mouth, the first cinematic reference of many in Bless You, Billy Wilder, as he takes a slow whiff of his morning coffee. We assume it's the morning, anyway: perpetually in a housecoat with frazzled hair, Dyer's the grown-up poster child for the anti-nine-to-five. His filing system is the yellow Post-its bunching up the walls of his den-turned-office. The napalm quip marks the start of an avalanche of movie quotes: Dyer's an LA screenwriter, largely unsuccessful at that, tasked with restoring an obscure film to its original nine-hour cut. It's a project he's obsessing over, and that obsession guides David Belke's script through its highs and lows. But it's the arrival of wide-eyed and cinematically illiterate Patience (Kendra Connor), the artist Dyer's agent hired to do the title cards for his restoration, that gives the story some pulse in its heart: as these characters discover each other, Wilder becomes a simple, lovely charmer from Shadow Theatre, about two people, each finding their footing with the help of the other.

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Much of the charm draws on the casting. Kendra Connor's a delight as Patience, an artist haunted by her decision to leave her

family's isolated commune to pursue her artistic inklings. She's gives Patience clever timings, tiny character tics, and is capable of balancing between humour and sadness with ease. Troy O'Donnell's got a bit more of a task in a character that spirals downward instead of up, but likewise handles his cinephile role with a fatherly charm. The script could've lingered longer on the budding of their friendship: there's a joy in

There's a joy in watching these two souls mend each other by bonding over film. It feels warm and natural; by comparison, some of the later drama feels forced by script. watching these two souls mend each other by bonding over film. It feels warm and natural; by comparison, some of the later drama feels forced by script. Patience and Emil make a compelling odd coupling who don't fall in love, but, oddly enough, do end up rescuing each other anyway. There's a warm, golden-age-ofthe-silver-screen charm to that sentiment and how it's delivered here. It's rare to see a story where our leading man and lady don't have to lock lips to find some peace of mind. Paul Blinov // paul@vueweekly.com

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At one time we knew where our food came from—can we again?

his past summer I participated in a farm internship of sorts— volunteering myself to be part of a real dinner-from-scratch experience with Danny and Shannon Ruzicka of Nature's Green Acres and Chef Blair Lebsack (culinary instructor at NAIT, owner of farm-oriented catering company RGE RD and—in the interest of full disclosure—my boyfriend). It began on a particularly cold and wet Monday of the May long weekend with the planting of a vegetable garden in a swath of mud and culminated in a chicken slaughter at the end of August. In between, Blair and I made regular trips out to help with farm

took place July 23 on Rge Rd 135, just south of Viking, Alberta—a sevencourse feast for 40 people on the land where everything served had been raised, foraged and planted in Nature's Green Acres' backyard. Even the ice tea was brewed using lemon balm and stinging nettle found beneath the front porch. Dishware was borrowed from the nearby church along with chairs and tables. If it wasn't found on the property, a neighbour filled in the gaps and generously lent a hand where needed. Danny Ruzicka's brother, Mike, welded old barrels together to make the wood burning stoves while another stove dating back to

along with Chuang. In attendance were other local chefs, many food enthusiasts, friends and family, bloggers and media writers. Preceding the dinner was a horseshoeing demonstration—Danny is a farrier as well—a tour of the pastures where the pigs, chickens and cows are

Nations settlement—large rings of rock marking where the teepee's hides were once anchored to the ground. In the evening's golden light, guests were transported back to the source of our food—the open air, cattle and wildlife within earshot while we broke bread and savoured the range of flavours.

Waters in a book she co-authored with Petrini, Slow Food: The Case for Taste. According to Petrini, "Slow Food unites the pleasure of food with responsibility, sustainability and harmony with nature." This is tangibly represented by our urban farmers' markets and in our latest crop of res-

raised and a trip to the nearby buffalo jump—an early example of hunting en masse. All this connected guests with the anticipated dinner while getting a glimpse of a day in the life. Early evening, guests cut a path to the scene of the meal—down by the creek at one long table, pristinely set, standing amidst the billowing wood smoke. Very appropriately, dinner was served in and around the remnants of a First

Farm-to-table dinners are not a new phenomenon south of the border and are gaining steam throughout Canada, thanks in part to the expansion of the Slow Food movement. Edmonton's Slow Food chapter has a mandate to promote our unique "Northern Prairie Heritage." The movement was founded in 1989 by Italian Carlo Petrini and made famous in North America by American author and activist, Alice

taurants, many of which are opting to showcase producers within a couple hundred kilometres. The word "local" has developed cultural currency—not only is this resurgence more environmentally and ethically sound, it has penetrated the esoteric foodie culture: local has become hip. Complementing our consumer

In the evening's golden light, guests were transported back to the source of our food—the open air, cattle and wildlife within earshot while we broke bread and savoured the range of flavours.

chores and prepare for the event. After long days working outside we gathered around the dinner table of the Ruzikas, owners of Nature's Green Acres farm, to discuss food philosophies, cooking and farming. As a member of Slow Food Edmonton and an avid farmer's market shopper, I have always talked the talk of local food advocacy; this summer was my opportunity to actually get my hands dirty. I never imagined that I would spend much of the summer hauling feed in the pasture and gutting still-warm chickens in the yard but, in an effort to get closer to the food source, I witnessed the real life cycle of a meal. The inaugural Range Road Dinner

the early 1900s was liberated from the original homestead; it was beat up but still in working condition. The chickens were hauled off to slaughter and the pig was loaded up just days before, the fattest one handpicked and abruptly separated from his pack. Greens were harvested in the morning and a trio of chefs—Blair, Corey Maguire and Rob Ingram—worked tirelessly through seven courses from braising beef to whipping up stinging nettle ice cream. Volunteers Yen Chuang and Kevin Kossowan arrived in time to do yard work and erect an outhouse for guests. I took charge of setting the table and donned an apron for serving duties

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practices are organizations like the Edmonton Organic Grower's Guild and Operation Fruit Rescue Edmonton. Fully endorsed by local-food advocate and blogger Kevin Kossowan, these organizations provide access to an abundant and free food supply. The EOGG provides members with the land and tools to grow their own organic food at no charge at the University of Alberta farms. Volunteers with Operation Fruit Rescue are sent packing with thousands of kilos of fruit picked from other people's properties. As Kossowan puts it, "Eating local doesn't mean you have to pay top dollar." To him, local "can be very utilitarian, frugal and simple." Through his blog, Kossowan has captured the attention of various media outlets including Forbes and The Washington Post. "I get asked regularly to sell someone's products or am given tickets to an event," Kevin continues, "but I'm trying to stay focused on what I do." Lately that includes writing about our indigenous wild foods for the Alberta Conservation Association. A musician, certified financial planner and father of three, he has no ambitions to profit from his life in food and chooses carefully where his time "can have some impact." In addition to growing all his own vegetables, butchering his own meats, hunting, foraging and preparing food for his young family, Kossowan serves on the board of the Strathcona Farmer's Market, Slow Food Edmonton and is NAIT's resident local-food expert. Recently, he took culinary students foraging in the river valley for high bush cranberries, choke cherries and some wild horseradish. He warns that he "gets geeky" when going on about the varietals of edible mushrooms he amasses during the summer months. "One forage with the Alberta Mycological Society and I was done for," he says. When pressed to summarize his approach to food, Kossowan calls it "cuisine du terroir"—even though he worries he'll be dismissed as pretentious for using such a term. According to Kosso-

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wan, what qualifies and quantifies our local terroir is really what grows in the wild, such as "The 150-some varieties of veg" grown on his small city lot. For protein, what he doesn't hunt comes mainly from Nature's Green Acres. He has "carved out the middle," teaching himself how to butcher via YouTube. "The butchering thing is about as close to farm to plate as you can get," he says. "There's no intermediary." The fact that Kossowan and his family lead a sustainable, ecologically conscious life is a happy byproduct of his interest in food: "I get into circles where slow food is an environmental

trial farms ... it doesn't tell us anything about the products or where they come from." The broad spectrum implied by the term allows for misappropriation and misinterpretation. This has already happened with the term, organic, he argues. "Organic industrial farming," he says, "it doesn't necessarily translate to good farming practices." He uses the E coli breakout in July 2010 as an example, which was connected to organic spinach in California. He sources his ingredients from "specific range roads, specific farms ... [that] are qualifying what their food

or ethical issue. For me it's not: it's about quality of the ingredient—period. If I wanted the best quality pea, I had to grow it." When asked about farm-to-plate dinners, Blair rolls his eyes. "I hate that term" he says. "Farm to plate could mean anything—factory farms, indus-

is through hard work and the natural way of farming." He calls small-production farmers "artisans," suggesting that their role in our food system is the most integral. His culinary philosophy is contingent on letting "the farm dictate the menu." As he puts it, "The ability to bring together workers, farmers

and others to eat dinner in a pasture" proves that "people want food of this magnitude—that this is something viable that can happen in Edmonton." According to Blair, the greatest success of the Rge Rd 135 dinner was the fulfilment of these personal philosophies—being so directly involved in where his food came from, his respect for the products and producers deepened. "This dinner was about ethics," he says. "Doing things the proper way ... to rejuvenate the land." Blair first connected with the Ruzickas when they attended a producer's luncheon at his former work, Madison's Grill, two years ago. They brought with them a sample of their Nouveau Beef and, from there, both parties sought ways to collaborate further. The first thing that attracted Blair to the Ruzickas was the fact that, "They're young and vibrant ... they want to move ahead in their farming practices." Nature's Green Acres is a small, family-owned-and-operated farm hand-selling its products each week at the City Farmer's Market. As the farm's marketing states, it produces "grass-fed, pasture raised, hormone and antibiotic free, natural, farm fresh" chicken, pork and Nouveau Beef. The latter is their version of junior beef— which means the cow is slaughtered before it reaches maturity.

a bucket of milk ... you'd be strung up if you gave someone raw milk today." Together, their farming philosophy comes down to a desire to eat well. As Danny puts it, "We eat good food; why not share it with others?" The driving force is better food. The Ruzicka's are continually educating themselves. Shannon reads voraciously and is cognizant of just about every health-related issue around food in addition to sustainable practices; she also just completed a butchering class at NAIT to better understand how the farm's products can and should be used. The couple admits that the best education has been trial and error and they're not shy about sharing their farming missteps. They began raising beef when cattle prices were in the toilet due to mad cow disease and have learned the hard way how vulnerable chickens can be. Danny talks about putting in an infirmary next year after successfully nursing

sick chickens back to health by feeding them extra doses of stinging nettle—a weed that grows in abundance on the couple's property. Eschewing the pressures to produce chicken at unnatural rates, they keep their farming practices "as simple as possible and keep things as close to that animal's natural environment as possible ... we're not trying to massproduce on any level and not trying to compete in any other market." Because the birds don't find soy in their natural environment they don't introduce soy to the chicken feed. As a result, their chickens are killed at nine-and-a-half weeks instead of the average commercial practice of five weeks. By the end of August, only a few of these contentious chickens remained. Close to 17 weeks old by then, they were almost the size of Molly, Danny and Shannon's two-year-old. These birds were kept back for the fam-

ily. As Danny unloaded the "killing cones" from the truck, his seven-yearold daughter Madalynne exclaimed, "I saw those in the movie, Food Inc!" Both she and her five-year-old brother Josh helped collect the chickens from their pen and kept them cool with the sprinkler in their final moments. We gathered one final time, for one final farm dinner around the Ruzicka dining room table. On the menu was roast chicken with vegetables and potatoes from the garden—at once simple and typical of any time and place. I couldn't help but feel nostalgic, but for what? The farm was never part of my childhood; I had never grown my own food, nor had a hand in killing my own dinner. Until now. Perhaps that narrative I had once imagined about unexploited farm life had actually come true. Those of us living in Edmonton are never very far from the farm. The farm is a key component of our Alberta

heritage; many of us are descended from homesteaders, ranchers and grain farmers. Prior to oil, gas and the tar sands, people came west for these wide-open spaces rich in game meats and fertile soil. It is not news that the progress of factory farming has somewhat skewed our nostalgia for the farm, and it's challenging to carve out an alternative amongst the trappings of the industrial food system. But something grew here before and perhaps it's growing again. Caitlin Fulton

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In addition to his farming duties, Danny Ruzicka works full time as a farrier—most farmers nowadays have to have a day job. Growing up on a cattle and horse ranch, Danny always knew he wanted to farm. When the economics of grain farming didn't quite pan out—"Well over $600 000 for a combine and a quarter section of land and that's not even putting the crop in," he says—he and Shannon turned to raising livestock instead. Shannon's interest in food began early and, more than most, she had a "very food-steeped childhood." She recalls her grandfather being a very serious cook, sitting next to the oven for hours basting the turkey. "He died very early because he was obese," she jokes. "Schwan's was his best friend and he was done in by butter brickle." She, like Danny, grew up in a farming community that was a different world, uncomplicated by the economics of mass production. As Shannon says, "If grandpa did something for someone else he was sent home with

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Something is going on at Big Rock. The brewery is Alberly.com ta's entry into the big beer eweek int@vu tothep sweepstakes. Having opened Jason in the 1980s, Big Rock has, in Foster the past decade or so, grown big enough to be available across the nation and to dwarf any of the Prairies' other craft brewers. In the past few years, beer aficionados have criticized Big Rock for watering down its beer to attain mass appeal. As a longtime consumer of Big Rock, I can attest that the company's beer is not what it was a decade ago. Such is the fate of many breweries that grow big. However, in the past year or so, Big Rock has made a sincere attempt to re-connect to its craft beer history. The company recently installed a small, experimental brewhouse, which it affectionately calls Kasper Shultz, in honour of the original brewmaster. It is the size used by small craft brewers and Big Rock uses it to experiment with new beer. From those a bit of raisin and plum and brown sugar. time, and a light bulb went on. The time experiments the company decided to However, this drops away quite quickly in the oak wood, even if short, would launch a line of seasonal beer formed to be replaced by butterscotch, vanilla, lighten the body and add the vanilla on the system (and stepped up for prowood and a touch of whisky. I also pick and woody character to the beer. Big duction volume). The beers attempt to up some mild woody notes. It is like a Rock didn't produce a Wee Heavy; they re-connect to Big Rock's craft brewing past, and so far there has been mixed results—some have been quite flavourIn the past few years, beer aficionados have ful while others have disappointed. criticized Big Rock for watering down its beer to The fall version is what the brewery calls a Scottish-Style Heavy Ale. Big Rock is a bit evasive regarding what style it is supposed to represent, so I decided to try it first before judging. It is a dark copper beer with a medium white head and a calm presence to it. The aroma emits brown sugar, rich toffee, burnt caramel and some dark fruit. As I sip, I pick up at first rich toffee sugar,

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sweet Innis & Gunn. At first I was disappointed. I entered the beer expecting something like a Wee Heavy, which should be substantial, rich with caramel and imposing. This beer is much lighter and balanced than that. Then I realized the beer was aged in oak barrels for an unspecified

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STYLE // FLATTER:ME

YOU'VE GOT TO FLATTER THEM An Edmonton expat's belt addresses wardrobe and labour issues

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designed it for myself because my ass is bigger than my waist. There—I said it." Claire Theaker-Brown didn't spend her life sketching gowns into notebooks, or dreaming of the runways of Milan. Making a living as a garment designer wasn't the fulfillment of a lifelong dream—it happened almost by accident. After graduating from the University of Alberta, Theaker-Brown set off for Shanghai, armed with a minor in Mandarin and a desire to learn more. She lived a rather typical life for an expat—a nice apartment in a city where the cost of living is low, a job at a PR firm—but every morning she looked into the mirror and saw a

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problem. It wasn't that she was unfulfilled—she had a bump under her shirt from her belt. "I always have this problem of jeans having a gap in the back," she says. "When I wear a belt there's this bump in the front, so it looks like hell." It was a small problem, to be sure, and even Theaker-Brown is—charmingly—self-deprecating when she discusses the lengths she went to solve it. Still, she was perfectly positioned: with access to the markets in Shanghai and her language skills, she was able to create the belt she wanted. As soon as she did, however, interest in her new belt started to trickle in—and manufacturing and selling her belts started to seem a viable option.

"When I'm on a project, I can't shut up about it," she says. "I was always talking about this perfect belt project and more and more women, my friends, my family and then friends of my family started to want one as well. I started getting emails from people I didn't even know saying, 'If you're going to get one of these made, can you make one for me too?'" Just this past July—after nine months of prototyping and testing— the Flatter:Me belt debuted. Disdainful of Chinese labour conditions, Theaker-Brown set out to manufacture her belt in Shanghai, but in a socially sustainable way. She employs a small team of tailors, pays each of them three times what the average

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Shanghai salary is, and ensures that working conditions are the same as those in Canada. "It's been very challenging for me to explain that Flatter:Me's 'Made in China' brand is not the 'Made in China' brand that's gotten such a miserable reputation—a very well deserved reputation," she says. "Just because things aren't made in Canada doesn't mean that things aren't made well, doesn't mean that they're not made by people respected for what they do and doesn't mean that they're made by people not paid well for what they do." The decision to make Flatter:Me in China wasn't simply about exploring

ethical manufacturing in a country not typically known for it, but also a way to keep the price at a reasonable level—a major concern for TheakerBrown while she lived in this country. "I've always been a huge supporter of the locally-made movement here, but the last time I lived in Canada I was a student," she says. "I would end up going to Nokomis and browsing all the time, but I could only afford to buy one garment in the January sale every year." Having never run a business before—apart from the illicit reselling of products from her mother's flower garden—doubt can consume the normally-confident Flatter:Me proprietor but, with her belts in stores throughout BC and Alberta, and moving into Ontario, her doubts are quickly being allayed. "My first sales trip was last summer and I introduced Flatter:Me to about 20 boutiques and 14 of them took it," Theaker-Brown recounts. "Now they've been on the market for long enough that I'm getting feedback that's so gratifying. People say exactly what I'm experiencing: 'They're the only belt I wear now,' and, 'They never leave my belt loops,' and, 'I can get so much more wear out of my clothes.'" BRYAN BIRTLES

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ONE OF A KIND Make It! seeks to provide an alternative consumer experience

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he handmade movement in fashion is here to stay: Etsy isn't going anywhere, handmade clothes can be found at the downtown farmers' market and hipster craft shows continue to proliferate. Jenna Herbut was one of the brains behind

Edmonton's early forays into hipper craft shows—her and partner Ally Ng (who still runs Handmade Mafia) put on the Stop and Shop in 2007— and Herbut, along with her brother Chandler, will bring the Make It! craft show back to Edmonton from November 17 – 20. It all started with Booty Beltz, Herbut's first foray into the garment business. As the popularity of her belts increased, Herbut found herself

burnt out by the wholesaling aspect and started to sell her work at craft fairs instead, but even that seemed a bit disappointing. "I just felt like the whole craft show thing just was kind of stale, [had a] lack of fun," she says. "The first show I produced in Edmonton had a bar, had DJs, had live music so it was just a way of twisting a traditional craft sale and making it cool and hip so that people my own age would come."

That's been the guiding principle behind all of her subsequent sales as well as Make It! which is held in Edmonton and Vancouver: make sure it attracts younger consumers. It's something that, as the DIY movement takes greater and greater hold on the culture, is getting easier. "I think our generation is really sick of buying all this mass produced crap that doesn't have any connection," Herbut says. "Especially in a

city like Edmonton where we have the big mall, South Edmonton Common and all the big chains, it feels really special to come to an event like Make It! and interact with all these designers. It's finding something you'll never find anywhere else in the city, and the story behind it—especially for gifts—is a really attractive quality." BRYAN BIRTLES

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ntario "death country" band Elliott Brood released its latest album Days into Years in late September on the group's new label, Paper Bag Records. Guitarist and multiinstrumentalist Casey Laforet gave us insights into the album's creation. How long did it take to make Days into Years from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording? Casey Laforet: I guess it was a little over a year from the beginning of the recording process to end. Songs for the record were started a little earlier than that. We often play songs live at shows before they make it onto records. Vue Weekly:

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first? CL: Every song is different. Some come with lyrics in mind first, and

VW: Did the songs come from one person fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group? CL: Mark and myself generally write all the lyrics, but arrangements and instrumentation are done by the group as a whole. We spent a lot of time trying out different instruments on this recording. VW: What

were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? CL: We always get good live takes and work from there. We add overdubs and things after that. We actually wrote a lot of parts in the studio this time which made them a little more spontaneous, I guess. Recording with John Critchley is always a great experience. We have an excellent working relationship and he offers a fourth perspective on the songs. Were there any other songs written that were left off the album? CL: Yes there were. We still have a bunch of songs that have still never made records. We have a B-sides catalogue like any other band. We actually completely rearranged the song "Lines" to the way it exists on the record. It probably would not have made the record in its original form. VW:

These guys don't look a day over years VW: How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Days into Years to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along? CL: I think the former is true. We had a broad idea of the theme of the record when we started, and we did have most of the songs chosen, but the overall mood of the album really came about when we sequenced everything. It gave the album a solid storyline.

VW: You worked with John Critchley to produce the album. What drew you to him and what did he bring to the process? CL: We had worked with him on our last album and he is a great engineer, so it was an easy choice. We're really comfortable at his studio and he really gets great sounds from the band. You really have to like a person you're going to spend endless months with.

"I don't think anything has changed since we were little kids," says Brad Barr, lead vocalist and the older of the pair. "On a subtle level, we balance each other out. We do get in arguments, but everything gets resolved very quickly. It's one of the nice things about playing with your sibling: we move right through the problem areas, talk about them, get them out in the open." The brothers' debut album represents a new emergence of their combined musical efforts: a mixture of delicate folk harmonies and hushed acoustic instrumentation with swampy blues guitar riffs and hypnotic dance rhythms. Amidst it all is the angelic sound of harpist Sarah Page, the brothers' childhood love of the blues, rhythms borrowed from West

African influences and Barr's contemplative, searching lyrics. "Lyrically, there definitely seems to be the theme of paradoxes in the universe, whether it's in nature or in our own mythologies: heaven and hell, sun and moon, day and night.

map that led you to Days into Years, what would it look like? CL: Interesting question, but I think the album is a sum of our experiences thus far as a band. We've been really lucky to have seen a lot of the world, and we've been through a lot together. This is our most personal album thus far. I think the map would be covered in dirt roads and closed highways. Bryan Birtles

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If you were to trace the musical

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THE BARR BROTHERS

Step up to the Barrs

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he Barr Brothers' history reaches much further into the past than most bands. Siblings Andrew and

Brad Barr have been making music together from their earliest childhood days, but it's only now that they're channeling their creative energy into a project that's wholly their own, as they write, play and manage their music themselves.

the end." While Barr acknowledges the album's disparate set of songs arose from separate worlds of influence, he's confident that it still contains a cohesive musical narrative. And as he and his brother continue to create

It's one of the nice things about playing with your sibling: we move right through the problem areas, talk about them, get them out in the open. All these paradoxes exist out in the world, and they must exist inside us as well. That, for me, is a really good lyrical playground," Barr says. "At times [the album] feels like a journey, experiencing some highs and lows and hopefully arriving at some kind of a gospel meltdown feeling at

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together, they uncover new musical identities in their songs. "It's just our nature to keep finding new ways to do these songs, to keep them alive," Barr says. "Otherwise they would just be monolithic." Madeline Smith

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PREVUE // DOUBLE ALBUM

SARAH SLEAN

The two sides of Sarah Slean

Wed, Nov 16 (8 pm) Myer Horowitz Theatre, $38

arah Slean has always been a dual-minded musician: her musical spirit's been split between that of a pop chanteuse, winking out witticisms while a piano swoons and sways beneath, and that of a wizened composer, dabbling with dashes of strings and increasingly complicated arrangements. Her two approaches seemed to be heading towards an intersection on 2008's The Baroness, with strings adding wingspan to her poppier numbers that, in turn, broached more mature themes and complex arrangements. But after a year of positive sea-change—she married fellow musician Royal Wood in 2009 and toured to Africa with the Art of Time ensemble, among other milestones—Slean found herself setting a new course. Her just-released Land & Sea rends those two musical personas apart. It's a double album that relegates the two sides of her sound to a separate disc each. "I've had these strains in my music since the beginning, but they've never been so stridently their own, and insisting that they have ownership of their own landscape. So I decided, 'Why not let them do that?'" Slean explains from a London, Ontario tour stop. "As soon as I thought of the whole concept of Land & Sea, and the contrast of the lyrical perspective as well, as soon as that became clear to me, there was no going back. ... I feel like in context of the other, they have a richer meaning." Each disc is headed up with a different collaborator on production duties. On Land—the "pop" album which, due to the feasibility of bringing an entire orchestra on tour, will be what Slean and her band primarily draw from on tour—Slean invited Joel Plaskett to produce; on Sea (the

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string-swept one), she's cast composer Jonathan Goldsmith in the same role. Neither one worked in the ways that Slean had previously crafted albums in, both relying more on feeling than perfected execution. Which was, Slean admits, a disarming shift at first. "It's so funny that a real, diehard rationalist intellectual kind of person like me, who's all about, 'Let's learn everything inside out, let's over-rehearse and let's build this album from the ground up using all the technology available— let's make it perfect,' [that] I drew to me these two people who are all about intuitive recording and intuitive playing. I think there was something in me really yearning for that. Because I really took my time on The Baroness, and tried to make it really polished. This time, I wanted to have the immediacy and the energy, and Joel was perfect for that." Sea proved to be more of a nervewracker. Having only two days with a 21-piece orchestra to record the album, Goldsmith pushed her not to overthink the prep, insisted they record her together with the orchestra (Plaskett did the same with the band, recording live off the floor), and insisted they go without a click track to maintain a base tempo for each musician listen along with. "I think this is part of my spiritual evolution, if I may wax poetic," she continues, of adapting to a looser recording process. "I really feel like this is what I'm learning as I get older, that y'know, people like me with big ambitious ideas about art, and really wanting to make something great and to discover my potential and all of those lofty big things, I often go at it with this very determined ambitious plan. And that's really not the way life works, at all. At all." Paul Blinov

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PREVUE // DROP-POP

LIGHTS

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conversation with Lights (neé Valerie) Poxleitner gives you the impression that she thinks a pace or two faster than her mouth can process. Ideas tumble out at a youthful, excitable velocity, and answers become paragraphs as her thoughts unspool as quickly as they can make their way to the exit. To be fair, Poxleitner has a lot racing through her mind these days. Siberia, her second album, pulls in some uncharted influences that had no place on her previous The Listening. It maintains her icy-synth pop structure, but outfits that framework with a new influence: dubstep. After first hearing the drop 'n' bass genre on the 2009 Warped tour, Poxleit-

ner notes, she started to ponder its strange allure. "It's this way it makes you feel: and it's probably the element of a bit of heaviness, combined with the gritty raunchy sort of bass, slow beats that are really groovy and the sparseness of it—there isn't actually a whole lot happening, and I thought, y'know, 'How can something that has so few elements really be this enticing?'" she explains. "I thought the only thing missing was a little bit of melody, and I thought, 'What would happen if I tried melding my essentially very soft, light melodies to something this dark and this heavy and this slow?' Siberia, the result, strips away some of her previous work's polish, instead outfitting Poxleitner's pixie pep with some extra muscle. A number of tracks were culled from a jam with Holy Fuck

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members Brian Borcherdt and Graham Walsh; elsewhere, Canuck-rapper Shad shows up to add a few verses.

Collaborations aside, though, Poxleitner points out that exploring dubstep's new sonic dimensions al-

lowed her to ease up a little: on The Listening, she tightly controlled every sound on the album, but here she's loosened the reins somewhat, as well as adding the simple confidence of putting a few more tours behind her. "Getting better at what you do allows you to be confident and not feel like you have to go back and fix everything," she says. "That's not to say the last record was like fixing a bunch of mistakes. It was what I wanted to do at the time: it sounded perfect, and it was very smooth and very clean. But maybe my tastes have changed, maybe I've gotten a little better at what I do, but the new record is essentially a little bit less perfect, a little more raw, and I'm pretty confident in that, y'know?" PAUL BLINOV // PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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Breathy, ethereal pop from Toronto, it's hard to believe at times that Snowblink's spare but tightly-woven sound is crafted by only two people. This sounds like something that would convince you to join a commune that is, admit it, a little cult-y. You'll find yourself surrounded by bearded guys and raven-tressed women in flowing white robes and they'll be finger picking nylon-stringed guitars and hitting bodhran drums and you'll think to yourself, "It doesn't matter how I got here." Bryan Birtles

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The Famines The Complete Collected Singles (Mammoth Cave)  The no-bullshit title of The Complete Collected Singles hints at the barren approach to noisy rock that Montréal/Edmonton's the Famines has been blaring since its inception. Bringing together 12 primal garage stompers from the past few years into one slab of vinyl, The Complete Collected Singles provides an ample sampling: amps cry out, microphones buzz, the fidelity bristles and each track heaves along like some sort of kinetic guitar 'n' drum speedwagon that's hemorrhaging all of its necessary parts. But the more bits the band loses, the faster they go, and The Complete Collected Singles is the soundtrack to a glorious crash 'n' burn. Paul Blinov

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Snowblink Long Live (Out of this Spark) 

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 "I used to watch Twin Peaks on repeat / Then it kept me up all night," sings Jom Comyn on "The Boiling Inferno," a somewhat telling moment on Sunstroke. Intentionally or not, Sunstroke feels like a David Lynch film, if not necessarily in esthetics, then in structure: like many of the filmmaker's works, Sunstroke's songs present one sonic world before slipping below the surface to show another, darker one lurking just beneath. Opener "Hatchet in Garage" starts off with a barreling, driving guitar and drum-led push; if you aren't listening closely Comyn's Beat Happening-ish vocal delivery, it could run its course pleasingly enough without you picking up on lyrics like, "If I had half a mind / or even if I had a whole mind / maybe I wouldn't have to cut my veins and arteries." That bleaker sentiment becomes a bit more obvious as it goes on, and the music alters with it: "Rain Dance" uses jangly guitar jabs and an unyielding drum march to buoy lines like "Every day it rains a little," while instrumental "Heatstroke" releases little bursts of pensive guitar, flurries of flute and sporadic drumming. It wouldn't be fair to call Sunstrokes bleak, as Comyn's darker moments of songwriting mesh well with his experimental dabblings, feeling more like a flashlight shone into the dark rather than the cry of someone simply dwelling in it. Sunstrokes sounds like an artist feeling out his niche, looking for its edges as he continues to press toward its limits.

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Ox tUCo (Cosmic Dave's Record Factory)  Ox's fourth record is a loose, rambling set that begins with a Neil Young starting point—a sparse cover of Young's "Out on the Weekend"—before it delves into underground radio, long miles across the Canadian landscape and the occasional haze of drugs. Songwriter/ bandleader Mark Browning began the record as a soundtrack for a never-made '70s-style road movie featuring a self-destructing band called tUCo, and his songs conjure the tale as the album plays out. The first half of tUCo evolves out of the countryflavoured indie rock of Ox's previous albums, albeit with a tougher edge to the performances: the instruments weave in and out of the songs, ramshackle one minute, then united in a monstrous crunch the next. As the record spins on, though, it heads even further away from the main roads, venturing into a series of instrumental detours that serve to further the tale. Following a call-andresponse vocal of "Trans Canada / It's a rock 'n' roll suicide," comes the '60s underground sounds of "tucoseven," which feels wrong at first, yet settles perfectly into the record's structure as a brief interlude before "Tuco Pt 69" deconstructs the rock 'n' roll even further before pulling it all back together in a united collision of rhythm and melody that galvanizes the band for the ride out through the final songs. Of course, all of that might be reading something into Ox's tUCo, but that's what happens when you record an album so perfectly suited to soundtrack a road movie that doesn't exist. Eden Munro

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Animals as Leaders Weightless (Prosthetic)

PREVUE // CD RELEASE

TANYS NIXI

Tanyss Nixi releases her latest album this saturday at the Empress

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mongst the wealth of new experiences that Edmonton songwriter Tanys Nixi went through creating her newest album Sell Your Clothes and Keep Your Thoughts—experiences which included earning a lucrative Rawlco Radio grant, working with engineer Lori Gawrilyuk, producer Terry Tran and masterer João Carvalho—it was working more collaboratively with husband James Patterson that was, perhaps, most rewarding. "I'm sort of sick of myself sometimes because I've been writing for a long time," she laughs. "That's really helped me get out of my own little track. I have these habits, everybody has habits and although I'm always looking for ways to

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change and grow I'm still me at the end of the day. It definitely helps to have that outside influence." For Nixi and Patterson, playing music is not a means to an end, it's the end in itself. Neither is it about trying to become a "giant folk star"—if such a thing exists—but simply an attempt to reclaim some small portion of humanity from the gaping maw of society. "Both of us have tried to toe the line and have the kids and the money, but we keep finding that we can't live that way: we just keep hitting the same wall and having to jackhammer through it," Nixi says. "The theme—not just on this record but the central theme to most of my material—is a lot of ranting and raving about that sort of thing." Bryan Birtles

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 At times you're not entirely sure what it is you're listening to. Elements of a Gameboy soundtrack, Tool-like bass lines and echoing guitar effects all meld into one another—often not coherently—to create Animals as Leaders most recent album Weightless. There is some redeeming work in amongst the strange compilation of dance effects and techno elements: the guitar work on tracks like "Do Not Go Gently" and elements of the bass lines worked into much of the album reveal a great technical skill, but the album itself just doesn't come together cohesively to demonstrate the band's full potential. Samantha Power

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Tue, Nov 15 (7 pm) With Hey Rosetta! Myer Horowitz Theatre, $22.50 "In Australia, our third EP tour, fittingly called the 'Dark Storm' tour, was actually made more than metaphorical when a series of floods followed us everywhere we went. We

literally drove over bridges and roads that were swallowed by water a few minutes later. A large portion of the towns we would play one night would be declared disaster zones on the news the next. We didn't take it as far as to blame ourselves, but it was eerie." —Singer Hayley Mary

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Bunker Sports Pub Open Jam every Sat afternoon; hosted by the Recollection Blues Band; 3pm

Suede Lounge Juicy DJ spins every Fri

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

CASINO EDMONTON Colleen Rae and Cornerstone (country) CASINO YELLOWHEAD Jordon Doell (country) Coast to Coast Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm The Common Goodlife Saturdays: Waylon Sherrington, Kenzie Clarke, Sweetz and Dane; 9pm Crown Pub Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm Devaney's Irish PUb Lyle Hobbs THE DISH NEK Trio ( jazz); every Sat, 6pm Eddie Shorts Saucy Wenches every Sat

Horizon Stage Judy Collins; 7:30pm; $40 (adult)/$35 (student/ senior)/$5 (eyeGo) Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 Jeffrey's Café Marco Claveria (Latin music); $15 L.B.'s Pub Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends jam 5-9pm McDougall United Church The Voices West main concert; Kokopelli's choral festival; 7:30pm; $16/$13 (student) at TIX on the Square NEW CITY Warning to Avoid, Rhodes; no minors; 8pm (door); $10 New West Hotel Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Early show: Jeff Hendrick–The Love Jones Band; 6-9pm; Late show: Hot Club Edmonton: WCMA Award Winning Group incl Daniel Gervais (Grand Master Champion 2011); 9:30pm-12 O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

On the Rocks 80-D; 9pm; $5 PAWN SHOP Early free show: Bebop Cortez, Bombchan; 7pm (show); no cover Red Piano Bar Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am Rose and Crown Pub Andrew Scott Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Sherlock Holmes– WEM Tony Dizon Sideliners Pub Sat Open Stage; 3-7pm Starlite Room Elliott Brood, One Hundred Dollars; 9pm The Studio Music Foundation Ground up, Dirtbags, Order of Chaos; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show) West Side Pub West Side Pub Sat Afternoon: Dirty Jam: Tye Jones (host), all styles, 3-7pm Wild West Saloon Roger West Yardbird Suite Double Bill: Marty Majorowicz Syndicate, Marc Beaudin; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

Classical Winspear Jens Lindemann, Richard Eaton Singers; 8pm

DJs 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:

VENUE GUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 Apex Casino–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St. Albert, 780.460.8092 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BANK ULTRA LOUNGE 10765 Jasper Ave, 780.420.9098 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse–Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blacksheep Pub 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 Boneyard Ale House 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663 Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Bunker Sports Pub 615 Hermitage Rd 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 Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 Common Lounge 10124124 St CONCORDIA SCHOOL OF MUSIC Robert Tegler Student Centre, Concordia University College, 73 St, 112 Ave, 780.479.9355 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 Devaney’s Irish Pub 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 Dow's Shell Theatre– Fort Saskatchewan 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.6400 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St Early Stage Saloon 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Eddie Shorts 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ‎ Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Expressionz Café 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.996.1778 FLASH Night Club 10018105 St, 780.969.9965 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604. CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 Giovanni School of Music Recital Hall 10528 Mayfield Rd HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO

haven social club 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 Hogs Den Pub 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Horizon Stage 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove, 780.962.8995 Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Iron Boar Pub 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Jubilee Auditorium 11455-87 Ave junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lizard Lounge 13160118 Ave Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Muttart Hall Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) Nisku Inn 1101-4 St

NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House 11802124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola.com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Orlando's 1 15163-121 St Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Whitemud Crossing, 4211-106 St, 780.485.1717 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 1086057 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, 8882170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous Pub 10108149 St Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 St R Pub 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 Second Cup–Mountain Equipment 12336-102 Ave, 780.451.7574; Stanley Milner Library 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq; Varscona, Varscona Hotel, 106 St, Whyte Ave Second Cup–89 Ave 8906-149 St

Second Cup–Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 Sideliners Pub 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St Sportsworld 13710104 St STARLITE ROOM 10030102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave The 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 Wild Bill’s–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WILD WEST SALOON 12912-50 St, 780.476.3388 Winspear Centre 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WOK BOX 10119 Jasper Ave WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com Yellowhead Brewery 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 Yesterdays Pub 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295

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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 Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY McNASTY’S Fire up the your night every Sat with DJ SAWG 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: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SPORTSWORLD Roller Skating Disco every Sat; 1pm-4:30pm and 7-10:30pm Suede Lounge DJ Nic-E spins every Sat Suite 69 Every Fri Sat with DJ Randall-A TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cobra Commander, Battery, Jake Roberts, Ten-O, Cool Beans, Hotspur Pop and P-Rex; every Sat Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN NOV 13 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

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Sunday Brunch PM Bossa; 10:30am-2:30pm; donations Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun; 6pm; $25 if not dining Blues on Whyte Ballgag N' Chain Gang 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 DOW–Shell Theatre–Ft Saskatchewan Matthew Good, Lights of Endangered Species Tour, Daniel Wesley; 7:30pm; $54.75 Eddie Shorts Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm Expressionz café Songwriters Stage, various hosts; all ages; 7-11pm Festival Place Juan Martin (flamenco guitar); 7:30pm; $32 (table)/$30 (box)/$28 (theatre) at the Festival Place box office, TicketMaster 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 Live Hip-Hop Show: Beast, Jaide, Trippz, Dash B, Tee Y Son, Jimmy Rhythm; no minors; 9pm (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 On the Rocks JK and the Static, Breena MacQuarrie; 9pm; $5 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: Rollanda Lee; 3:30-5pm; collection at door Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Co-op Live music every Sun; 2-4pm Yardbird Suite Edmonton Blues Society: Memphis Bound Finals: Breezy Brian Gregg, Dan Sinasac (solo/duo category); Boogie Patrol, Jimmy and the Sleepers (band category); 1:30pm; $10 at TIX on the Square, Sound Connection, Myhre's Music, Fusion Music Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical CONCORDIA SCHOOL OF MUSIC Concordia Symphony Orchestr; 2pm; $12 (adult)/$10 (student/ senior)at TIX on the Square, door First Baptist Church Living Sound: Da Camera Singers, Tonus Vivus, the society for new music 3pm; $20 (adult)/$15 (student/senior) Muttart Hall–Alberta College Mikolaj Warszynski- Zuzana Simurdova (piano duo), Tatiana Warszynski (violin), Joanne Yu (cello); 3pm; $25/$15 (student/ senior) at Gramophone, Camelot Travel, door

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 Filthy McNasty's Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq FLOW Lounge Stylus Sun SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover Sportsworld Roller Skating Disco Sun; 1-4:30pm; sports-world.ca

MON NOV 14 Artery The Once;7:30pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Too Slim and the Taildraggers Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm Haven Social Club Ohbijou (folk, rock), Snowblink, guests; 8pm; $15 (adv) NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Thea & Tiff–T & T; 6-9pm PAWN SHOP Obscura, Abysmal Dawn, Last Chance To Reason, Death Toll Rising; 7pm (door); tickets at Blackbyrd PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: 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 Filthy McNasty's Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE NOV 15 Blues on Whyte Too Slim and the Taildraggers Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm Jubilee Auditorium Matthew Good, guests; 8pm; $35-$42.50 at UnionEvents.com, TicketMaster L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am Myer Horowitz Theatre Hey Rosetta, The Jezabels; 7pm (door); all ages NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Thea & Tiff–T & T; 6-9pm O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

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

HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm

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

Myer Horowitz Theatre Sarah Slean, guests; all ages; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $28.50

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

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

Second Cup–124 Street Open mic every Tue; 8-10pm SEcond Cup–Stanley Milner Library Open mic every Tue; 7-9pm Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover Sportsman's Lounge Open stage every Tue; hosted by Paul McGowan; 9pm Yardbird Suite Tue Night Sessions: Craig Brenan Trio; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: One Too Many Tuesdays with Rootbeard Brixx Bar Troubadour Tue: hosted by Mark Feduk; 9pm; $8 Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every CRown Pub Live hip hop and open mic with DJs Xaolin, Dirty Needlz, Frank Brown, and guests; no cover DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Tue; dance lessons 8-10pm NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue

WED NOV 16 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Blues on Whyte Too Slim and the Taildraggers Cha Island Tea Co Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm DV8 The Beatdown, Utopian Skank, Our Sound Machine; 9pm 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

NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House Thea & Tiff–T & T; 6-9pm Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; Slow pitch for beginners on the 1st and 3rd Wed prior to regular jam every Wed, 6.30pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember) Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5 Second Cup–89 Ave Rick Mogg (country) Second Cup–Mountain Equipment Open mic every Wed; 8-10pm Starlite Room Five Alarm Funk, Slowcoaster, Wild Rose Orchestra, The Consonance; 7pm (door)

Classical McDougall United Church Music Wednesdays at Noon: Suzanne Langor and Sylvia Shadick-Taylor (horn and

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DJs BANK ULTRA LOUNGE Rev'd Up Wed: with DJ Mike Tomas upstairs; 8pm BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe; Wooftop: Soul/Breaks with Dr. Erick Brixx Bar Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover The Common Treehouse Wednesdays Diesel Ultra Lounge Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs Filthy McNasty's Pint Night Wednesdays with DJ SAWG 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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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19) The title of this week's movie is Uproar of Love, starring the Fantasy Kid and The Most Feeling Machine In The World. It blends romance and science fiction, with overtones of espionage and undertones of revolution for the hell of it. When you're not up to your jowls in archetypes, you might be able to muster the clarity to gorge yourself on the earthly delights that are spread from here to the edge of the abyss. TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20) How's your relationship with your muse? Don't tell me that you're not an artist so you don't have a muse. Even garbage collectors need muses. All of us need to be in touch with a mysterious, tantalizing source of inspiration that teases our sense of wonder and goads us on to life's next adventures I say it's high time for you to infuse your connection with a dose of raw mojo. And if for some sad reason you don't have a muse, I urge you to go out in quest of new candidates.

Across 1 Month where Star Wars Day falls on the 4th 4 Posh word of surprise 8 Pax ___ (1st and 2nd centuries A.D., roughly) 14 "Go, torero!" 15 Stick in the database 16 Password partner 17 Daring predicament? 19 White part of the eyeball 20 Christmastime 21 "Bring the punk out for a second performance!" 23 Sign it's time to throw something out 25 Ruins a perfect game 26 Go like the tide 29 They lay dark green eggs 30 Tuna type 33 Engulfed in flames 34 Suckers 35 Former CIA agent/spy Aldrich ___ 36 Cooking a metal point, like you would with short ribs? 39 "Sesame Street" roomie 40 Guitarist Lofgren 41 ___ Martin (luxury car) 42 "___ little bit nervous..." 43 Personal list item 44 Egg-shaped things 45 In ___ (at heart) 46 "The Giving Tree" author Silverstein 47 Sheep named after a late AC/DC frontman? 51 Involved in 55 Donny Osmond, by birth 56 Where monsters are created? 58 Copy room cartridges 59 Napoleon's isle of exile 60 Article written by Voltaire 61 Football Hall of Famer Jim 62 "Kilroy Was Here" band 63 "Reach for the ___!" Down 1 Techno artist behind "Everything Is Wrong" 2 Multigenerational baseball surname 3 Tarzan's trademark 4 Category that telepathy falls into 5 Mess up the audio 6 Circumvent 7 Cotillion figures 8 #1 Paula Abdul hit of 1991 9 Awards on Feb. 26, 2012

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10 Liquefies plastic, say 11 Bellicose god 12 Robert De ___ 13 Just ___ (small amount, as of hair gel) 18 Bad mark 22 Entices 24 Pindaric poems 26 Teacher of the Torah 27 Zimbalist, Jr. of "77 Sunset Strip" 28 One-named R&B artist 29 Bird in the opening of "The Colbert Report" 30 Surname associated with expensive Italian violins 31 Biblical king 32 Numerals on novels 34 Be toadyish 35 Vodka with artistic ads 37 Sort of 38 Icicle's spot 43 Black key that's the first of a threesome 44 Passionate utterance 45 Cyberspace 46 Refine metal 47 Ashtray item 48 Alternately, as abbreviated in chat rooms 49 iPod variety 50 Lincoln and Vigoda 52 Too 53 Tetra's house 54 Do as you're told 57 Instrument that wails ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

LAST WEEK'S ANSWERS

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20) Funky pagan scientists at Zen State University have found that the regular consumption of Free Will Astrology can be effective in smoothing unsightly wrinkles on your attitude, scouring away stains on your courage, and disposing of old garbage stuck to your karma. They've also gathered testimony from people who claim to have experienced spontaneous healings of nagging ailments and chronic suffering while under the influence of these oracles. If I were you, I'd try to take advantage of such benefits right now. You could really use some healing. Luckily, it looks like there'll be an array of other curative options available to you as well. Be aggressive about seeking them out. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22) Given the lush and exotic astrological factors now coming to bear on your destiny, and due to the possibility that something resembling actual magic may soon make an appearance, I am taking a leap of faith with this week's horoscope. There is a hypothetical scene described by the English poet Samuel Coleridge (1772 – 1834) that would normally be too outlandish to take seriously, but I suspect it's a possible match for your upcoming adventures. "What if you slept," he wrote, "and what if in your sleep you dreamed, and what if in your dream you went to heaven and there you plucked a strange and beautiful flower, and what if when you awoke you had the flower in your hand? Ah, what then?" LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22) I was musing on how slow I am to learn the lessons I need to master. But I felt better after I came across the logo for the Jung Institute in San Francisco, which is dedicated to the study of psychology and psychotherapy. The symbol that it has chosen to embody its ruling spirit consists of four snails creeping their way around a centre point—a witty acknowledgment of the plodding nature of the human psyche. I bring this to your attention, because it's important for you to give yourself credit for how much you've grown since the old days—even if your progress seems intolerably gradual. VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22) It will be a good week to have nice long talks with yourself—the more, the better. The different sub-personalities that dwell within you need to engage in vigorous dialogues that will get all their various viewpoints out in the open. I even recommend coaxing some of those inner voices to manifest themselves outside the confines of your own head—you know, by speaking out loud. If you feel inhibited about giving them full expression, find a private place that will allow them to feel free to be themselves.

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LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22) During the reign of President George W Bush, many Americans viewed France as being insufficiently sympathetic with American military might. So enraged were some conservatives that they tried to change the name of French fries to freedom fries and French toast to freedom toast. The culminating moment in this surrealistic exercise came when Bush told the UK's Prime Minister Tony Blair, "The French don't even have a word for entrepreneur"—unaware that "entrepreneur" is a word the English language borrowed from the French. The moral of the story, as far as you're concerned, Libra: make sure you know the origins of everyone and everything you engage with, especially as they affect your ability to benefit from entrepreneurial influences. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21) The Cunnilinguistic Dicktionary defines the newly coined word "mutinyversal" as "rebellion against the whole universe." It would be an excellent time for you to engage in a playful version of that approach to life. This is one of those rare times when you have so many invigorating insights to unleash, that you really should act as if you are mostly right and everyone else is at least half-wrong. Just one caution: as you embark on your crusade to make the world over in your image, do it with as much humility and compassion as you can muster. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21) In Mongolia there's a famous fossil of two dinosaurs locked in mortal combat. Forever frozen in time, a Velociraptor is clawing a Protoceratops, which in turn is biting its enemy's arm. They've been holding that pose now for, oh, 80 million years or so. I'm shoving this image in your face so as to dare you and encourage you to withdraw from your old feuds and disputes. It's a perfect time, astrologically speaking, to give up any struggle that's not going to matter 80 million years from now. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19) "In your experience, who is the best-smelling actor that you’ve worked with?" TV host Jon Stewart asked his guest Tom Hanks. "Kevin Bacon," replied Hanks. Why? "He smells like a mix of baby powder and Listerine," Hanks said. Keep this perspective in mind. I think you should be engaged in a great ongoing quest to put yourself in situations with pleasing aromas. I mean this in both the metaphorical and literal sense. To set yourself up for meaningful experiences that provide you with exactly what you need, follow your nose. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18) According to my reading of the omens, you can finally take advantage of a long-standing invitation or opportunity that you have always felt unworthy of or unready for. Congratulations on being so doggedly persistent about ripening the immature parts of yourself. Now here's an extra bonus: This breakthrough may in turn lead to you finding a lost piece to the puzzle of your identity. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20) My acquaintance Bob takes a variety of meds for his bipolar disorder. They work pretty well to keep him out of the troughs, but he misses the peaks. Last time he saw his psychiatrist he told her he wished he could stop taking the complicated brew of drugs and just take a happy pill every day. The psychiatrist told him that if he ever found such a thing, she'd love to take it herself. Wouldn't we all? I'm pleased to report that you are now very close to locating the next best thing to a happy pill, Pisces. It may require you to at least partially give up your addiction to one of your customary forms of suffering, though. Are you prepared to do that? V

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"How you found out about your parent's divorce?" Family therapist Vikki Stark is conducting a study of the impact in children of how they learned about their parent's divorce. If you are an adult who was a child/teen when your parents were divorced or are currently a child/teen of divorce - help kids in the future through your participation! Visit: SurveyMonkey.com/s/ChildDivorce to access the Study questionnaire online

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Call to Artists - Request for Qualifications Beginning in 2012, the Edmonton Arts Council will no longer be using open calls for RFQs. Instead, the EAC will establish a resource list of pre-qualified artists from which to request proposals for qualifying Percent for Art projects. Applications will be accepted to this pool only until December 9th, 2011, and the list of successful applications will remain active until 2014. The next intake of applications will take place late in 2013.

Pre-Qualified Artist Pool 2012-2014 The Edmonton Arts Council is now seeking applications to the pre-qualified artist pool for eligible Percent for Art projects with budgets over $100,000 CAD. Budget Range: $100,000 - $500,000+ CAD (All-inclusive) Deadline for Submissions: 4:30 pm on December 9, 2011 Term of Pre-Qualified Artist Pool: 2012-2014

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YEAR IN REVIEW Whoa ... what the hell happened this year? If you can't remember, we can help you. Also, rehab could probably help too.

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COMMENT >> LGBTQ

Voice of the community

After 20 years, CJSR's Gaywire grows to reflect a diverse community "Longest running show" is not a title easily achieved in volunteer radio, but after 20 years on-air Gaywire, CJSR's queer-news program, is one of the station's most enduring programs. Overcoming the cycles of attrition and interest, the show has managed to develop a strong presence in the community while also leaving the door open to new hosts, new voices and a different approach to news. Current show producer Jil Jorgensen makes clear it's just an extension of a community that needs to have the show on-air. "We fell into it. We weren't interested in journalism, and the nature of this community is that people just graduate to other things," says Jorgensen. The rotating nature of the show allows for new hosts to adapt to a new media environment. During this year's FunDrive, Gaywire producers played an interview with founding producer Kristy Harcourt. Jorgensen says it was an interesting reflection on how far the show has come, and how different queer issues have evolved in mainstream media. "Twenty years ago, people listened because there wasn't info about the gay community readily available," says Jorgensen. Now people can access that information in a lot of different ways and larger debates about gay marriage, homophobia and bullying can be heard on mainstream media. "We like to use Gaywire to present an alternate view of gay news and culture that is readily available in mainstream media," says Jorgensen. "Twenty years ago, talking about gay people on air was an alternative

view and now it's queer responses to things happening in the community. When a friend of ours is assaulted, how is the media talking about it and how is the community responding to that?" That approach has allowed the show to take on issues that would not normally be thought of as particularly queer issues, but still affect communities across the city and around the world. The show has covered issues of poverty, prison justice and disability issues. "All of the hosts personally identify as queer, so we approach it as, 'If, as a queer person, this issue involves or interests me, we find a way to

Drive and throughout the year shows that listeners appreciate. Although donations during FunDrive were in smaller amounts, Jorgensen says she was impressed because they made the same amount of money as years past. Donors felt comfortable donating in smaller amounts and listeners feel comfortable calling in and sharing their stories and events. "We get dozens of emails and events listings every week from a broad range of people and it's nice to keep that going and document a section of Edmonton's community. It's like a scrapbook," says Jorgensen. "None of us who host view

Twenty years ago, people listened because there wasn't info about the gay community readily available.

integrate the issue.'" That personal approach has resulted in a more conversational tone during the show, something listeners have embraced, even if it took show hosts a while to understand it was alright to not know everything about radio and journalism. "In the past, people have had a really specific vision about how they view the show," says Jorgensen. "There's been some hesitation around adjusting the show based on the people involved, but I think over time it's continued to reflect what a certain group of us are looking for in media." The show of support around Fun-

Gaywire as our personal project or show." It's the reason she continues to be involvedâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the show belongs to the community. SAMANTHA POWER

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COMMENT >> SEX

Smug and tug

A letter from a smug jerk and a sex club rant I'm an evangelical Christian in a country sexually compatible. where that is not a political statement. That you wound up married to a man My husband and I have been married with whom you're sexually compatible five years. We have great sex several despite not fucking him once or twice times a week despite having two kids before marriage can be credited to under age two. We get along so well one of two things: you were smart that even a couple of my athefigured you two would E (you ist friends have admitted they be sexually compatible and SAVAG want what we have. What those calculations proved kly.com correct) or you were lucky e most of them don't know e w e vu elove@ is that we waited until after savag (you hoped you two would Dan e the wedding to have sex—or be sexually compatible and, g a Sav even kiss. as luck would have it, you Most secular folk would consider it were). But don't pretend that your reckless to tie the knot before making happiness was guaranteed by waiting sure we were "sexually compatible," or by God. whatever that means. You seem like a It's understandable that you're pretty secular guy, so let me ask you: pleased that everything worked out what exactly were we supposed to for you, HMW, but your smugness watch out for? and self-satisfaction seems a little Consider our specific situation: two un-Christian, if I may say so. Where's adult virgins, ready to promise to our the humility? Where's some of that God, friends, family and government there-but-for-the-grace-of-God-go-I that we will stick together until one of stuff? There are plenty of people out us dies. Is there anything we could have there who made the same choices learned about each other through sex you did—they waited, they made a that would have changed our minds? solemn promise before God, family, I'm not stupid (I'm a physician), but I friends, etc—and their marriages fell can't figure this one out. Please tell me apart due to issues of basic sexual what disaster we might have brought incompatibility. upon ourselves by not going for a test And finally, HMW, I can think of a ride first. million examples of things you "could HAPPILY MARRIED WOMAN have learned about each other through sex" on your wedding night that might For someone who claims she isn't stuhave led you to change your mind pid, HMW, you're doing a pretty conabout waiting. I'm just going to toss vincing job of playing dumb. one out there: suppose your husband You damn well know what "sexually announced when you got to your honcompatible" means, HMW, as you're eymoon suite that he wouldn't be able lucky enough to be married to a man to climax unless you took a massive with whom you're sexually compatshit on his chest before vaginal interible. You want the same things he course commenced. Would that have wants (I'm taking your word for that), changed your mind about the advisyou satisfy each other equally (takability of marrying him without fucking your word for that), and you're ing him once or twice first? both content (taking your word for that). That's what people mean by I'm a 26-year-old woman who lives with

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two other women around the same age. My roommate G has a boyfriend. She introduced me to two of her guy friends. This past weekend, I went barhopping with the two guys. Long story short, I slept with one of the guys. After I told my roommates about that night, G revealed that she had slept with the guy before. Now G is upset with me. I would like to sleep with this guy again, and I don't feel like G is right to make me feel like crap or make this all about her. Any thoughts? HAD SOME FUN You know that scene at the end of Inglourious Basterds when Brad Pitt's Nazi-killin' character pulls out a huge

knife and carves a swastika into the forehead of the one Nazi he isn't allowed to kill, because he wants everyone to know the dude was a Nazi even after the war? Unless your friend G is willing to do something similar—carve her initials into the forehead of every random dude she fucks—she can't complain when a friend accidentally hooks up with a guy she hooked up with two years, two months, two days or two hours ago. G is not right to make you feel like crap, HSF, and I recommend that you fuck the shit out of this guy at least two more times to drive that point home. The wife and I regularly attend a straight sex club here in Texas. There's another couple who comes to the par-

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No, HAWT, you don't. The website for the sex club you attend emphasizes more than once that couples who attend are not obligated to swing or play with others. It would be unfair to extend an invite like that— come and enjoy the sexually charged atmosphere, play only with each other

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ties. They're very attractive. They get naked, they have sex with each other, but they don't play with others. Basically, they hang out with swingers, but they don't swing themselves. We think that amounts to prick- and twat-tease behaviour on their parts. Do we have a legit beef? HUSBAND AND WIFE TOGETHER

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or not at all, it's all good!—and then slap a "prick- and twat-tease" label on a couple who comes and doesn't play with others. And just because this couple isn't swinging today, HAWT, doesn't mean they won't be swinging someday. Perhaps after they see that swingers really do respect their limits—once they've seen, again and again, that they're not going to be pressured into doing anything they're not ready to do—they'll become comfortable enough to start playing with others. Glaring at this hot couple from across the room, HAWT, will only serve to delay the arrival of that happy day. Speaking of sex clubs: last week the Portland Press Herald reported about the closure of a club in Sanford,

Maine, where opposite-sex-attracted adults were having opposite-sex sex in a building that was—THINK OF THE CHILDREN—kinda close to a public library that wasn't open when oppositesex-attracted adults were gathering to indulge their sick opposite-sex desires. But, you know, still! Adults were having sex in a place that was kinda close to a place where children who don't have access to the Internet at home sometimes go to "read"! The owners of the club didn't have a permit to operate an adult business in Sanford, and they're not going to get one, because Sanford doesn't issue permits for adult businesses, which means one more small business has been destroyed by burdensome government regulation. (Where are the teabaggers when we need 'em?) Anyway, this quote from the police spokesperson in the Portland Press Herald's report jumped out at me: "The officers were appalled at the number and variety of sexual acts being performed—and one of the officers has worked vice crimes—right out in the open where everybody was sitting." My goodness! Opposite-sex-attracted adults were having opposite-sex sex in front of, gee, other oppositesex-attracted adults who paid to get in and wanted to watch. But at least the children of Sanford are safe from the adult sex parties that they couldn't attend and didn't know were going on until the details were splashed all over the front pages of a daily newspaper that's available for their perusal in the public library where they go to look at porn on the Internet. Good work, everybody! Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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As the temperature drops and the last remaining leaves blow from the trees, I find myself feeling a little sorry for the barren branches. Trees that were once green and proud are without shelter. Their old tree souls knock around in their frozen wooden bones, no skin to cover their skeletons. This animist fantasy, reminiscent of a Hayao Miyazaki film, was provoked by the magical thinking inherent in the knitted intervention found on Rice Howard Way. Carlo McCormick, the author of Trespass: A His-

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tory of Uncommissioned Urban Art, offers his rationale for such an inspired artwork: “If we are to believe in the power of ideas, as we must, we must understand that it is not in the thoughts we keep to ourselves but only in sharing them that ideas obtain their potential. This is the primary reason that public space offers such a fertile tableau for unsolicited artistic expression.” 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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