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City of Champions "You pick up a paper today and women's sports are invisible."

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merest pretence of a public tender, the us before we get screwed."

"By ignoring even the Katz Group isn't even kissing

"The actual fight scenes are relatively light on cuts, feature no music whatsoever, and look pretty painful in their awkwardness."

not put it out if it stunk.

"My back up plan was to I mean once you do, it's out there."

"Next time there's a legal hiccup in the fair application of Canada's marriage laws ... let's err on the side of not declaring thousands of same-sex marriages ... 'invalid'"

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He could buy us dinner Why would anyone expect that the new arena's construction would follow any more of a legitimate process than its financing? With the recent announcement that Colorado-based ICON Venue Group will manage the project— and the quasi-announcement that Kansas City's 360 Architects will design it—a small cry went up that the process was not only untendered, but led by the Katz Group, even though the City of Edmonton will, technically, own the building. Other large public building projects—the art gallery, the planned museum—had an open tendering process, with input on the design coming from citizens, so why not this one? Because it isn't a public building project. Any fool can see that the development of the new downtown arena is a private building project being paid for with public money. Buildings like the Art Gallery of Alberta and the Royal Alberta Museum are designed for the benefit of all of Edmonton's—and Alberta's— citizens. Even if you don't appreciate the art at the art gallery or the mix of history, nature and art on hand at the museum, no one can deny that the cultural activities going on inside of them go toward the greater good and that the price to enjoy

each organization's offerings proves no prohibition to members of the public. Not so with the planned arena. With concert prices through the roof, and the Oilers setting ticket prices amongst the league's highest, barriers to enter the arena amongst regular citizens—the building's supposed owners—are vast. "Oh," you say, "but what about downtown revitalization? Won't all Edmontonians benefit from a more populated, more popular city centre?" That is a possibility, but there's no reason to think a new arena— devoid of life the majority of the time—will accomplish any level of downtown revitalization. It certainly hasn't worked for the areas surrounding Rexall Place or Commonwealth Stadium. The purpose of public building is to benefit the public. Taxpayer-funded buildings in this city have, historically, not only benefited the citizens of Edmonton but were also designed and constructed through a process that was transparent to those same citizens, the people paying the bill for them. With the building of the proposed downtown arena, only one member of the public benefits: Daryl Katz. By ignoring even the merest pretence of a public tender, the Katz Group isn't even kissing us before we get screwed. V

NewsRoundup Strategy making

The City of Edmonton is asking for input on the last of its 10 year strategic planning documents. "The Way we Prosper" will look at an economic diversification plan for the city. The process began in the fall of 2011 and will continue until the fall of this year, consulting with communities and Edmonton businesses. A questionnaire has been set up on the City of Edmonton site for Edmontonians.

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The city has hired consulting firm Millier Dickinson Blais to guide the process. The strategy will attempt to find new ways to support a competitive business climate, facilitate established businesses, support high-potential sectors and become an effective partner regionally. These goals were voted on and approved by city council in March of 2011.

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Anti-logging protesters continue their stand against Spray Lakes Sawmills in the Castle protected area west of Pincher Creek. The protest began last January 11 after Spray Lakes Sawmills began moving in logging contractors and

equipment. The Castle Special Management Area has been designated a protected area, but Spray Lakes Mills was given a logging license for an 81 square kilometre area by Alberta Sustainable Resource Development.

Citizens with the group Save the Castle and Stop Castle Logging have stated they will continue to protest until Spray Lakes Mills moves to another approved logging area closer to the sawmill west of Calgary.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK "Throughout this farcical legal process that's coming to an end today, the accused

General strike

The Occupy movement has begun promoting plans for a general strike on May 1, May Day. Traditionally recognized as International Workers Day. May 1 is a holiday in 80 countries around the world. The Occupy movement is calling for no

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have been told that our actions were an attack on the rule of law, which is at the work, no school, no shopping, no banking and no trading. The general strike is said to support economic, social and environmental justice, immigrant rights, and to support housing, education and health care as human rights.

heart of our society. Well, good. Our society is racist and colonial, it's rooted in wealth and power, and so is the rule of law that upholds it." — Mandy Hiscock's statement to the court at her G20 sentencing. Jan 13, 2011 Rabble.ca

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Follow the money

New book examines where Alberta's wealth is spent Follow the Money By Kevin Taft and Mel McMillan Detselig Enterprises, 133 pp

he 2008 economic crisis was a turning point for many people across North America. For MLA Kevin Taft it was time to look into the Alberta government's claims about being a big spender. After reading a report by University of Alberta economist Mel McMillan, Taft realized there was a need to sit down and look at the numbers the Conservative government continued to turn out as proof it was spending too much. Follow the Money, a new book by Taft, with the assistance of McMillan, sets out to do just that. To the Alberta government, the 2008 financial crisis meant a renewed deficit watch. The president of the Treasury Board at the time, Lloyd Snelgrove, is quoted in the book as saying, "We were at the all-you-caneat buffet for 10 years and Albertans were lined up with us." This comment and the following rhetoric of an inflated spending pattern over the past 10 years went against Taft's knowledge of tuition increases, health care crises, teacher layoffs—how could these actions be possible in a province that was spending too much? As Taft puts it in the book, after some simple calculations, "If metro Seattle owned out-

right the second-largest oil reserve in the world, would you expect it to have deficits, potholes, tuition increases and teacher lay-offs?" Enlisting the help of McMillan is key to understanding the numbers and the success of the book. While Taft is an accomplished author, books by politicians can be viewed as politically motivated and biased, and as the intent of Follow the Money is to clear up bias, McMillan's ability to deconstruct the numbers are key to obtaining necessary clarity. McMillian has gained a reputation for going directly to the source—the raw data and understanding how numbers are interpreted. Number crunching is not a task taken on by many with enthusiasm, and statistics put out by governments and advocacy groups can become muddled and troublesome. It's perhaps what this new book is best at getting across: there are many ways to calculate Alberta's spending habits. Taft and McMillan meticulously go through each sector the Alberta government spends money on, starting with the purported albatross around every government's neck: health care. In 2010 the Canadian Institute for Health Information stated that percapita spending on health care was highest in Alberta. This number on its own can be used as ammo to prove

Alberta spends at a justifiably high rate. But when put in context of Alberta's wealth, as Taft does, Alberta is dead last in health care spending in comparison to provincial GDP. Breaking down health care by constant dollars and p e r capita spending is an obvious endeavour; it works nearly as an economic primer. At times the book can seem tedious, even repetitive of the conclusions that have been made previously: Alberta hasn't learned from its past. But where the book differentiates itself is Taft's ability to connect that spending history to government policy and advocacy action by workers to make sense of how economic decisions have been made. By breaking down the spending patterns of provincial governments since the late 1980s, and contextualizing how statistics are made to look based on population size, age, comparison by province and in context of provincial wealth, the book succeeds in providing an understanding of how to start

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looking at provincial spending and revenue with any sort of understanding. The book doesn't advocate any one point of action. It helps to provide context for the promises that have been made about spending, and then the reality of what spending

has actually occurred. Taft's book repeats a lot of what has been said, that the province is too reliant on the boom and bust of resource revenues. As a province we're to own the resources that exist in this province, but the provincial g o v ernment needs to do a better job as a curator to the benefits of those resources. Where the book succeeds is in its deconstruction of why. Taft and McMillan attempt to clearly portray the way in which Alberta's economy has expanded over the past 20 years, while government spending on public services has stalled. Working with two economics PhDs helps to focus the issue on where the discrepancy is between the perception that the province is spending too much, and the actual picture of economic security Alberta has right now. What the book really gets across is that it's time to talk economics in this province. SAMANTHA POWER

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COMMENT >> MALAYSIA

Unfounded charges

Malaysians don't believe charges brought against opposition leader

nwar Ibrahim is an unusual ethnic group in the country was man in two respects. One is the Malays, but under British rule a that the former deputy prime minhuge wave of immigration from Chiister of Malaysia is probably na and the Indian sub-continent the only senior politician reduced the Malays to only in the world to have been 60 percent of the popucharged with sodomy lation. Almost all of the om eekly.c w e (which is a crime in MaMalays were Muslim; few u v e@ gwynn e n laysia). Not only that: he of the others were. But n y Gw r e was charged with sodomy the bigger problem was that y D twice, in trials 10 years apartâ&#x20AC;&#x201D; the Malays ended up much and the charges were dismissed poorer than the newcomers. both times. The last time was just In 1969 there were bloody riots in last weekend, January 9. Kuala Lumpur that killed at least The other unusual thing about Anhundreds of people, and perhaps as war is that he has managed to build many as 2000. a real opposition alliance in MalayThe country was already growing sia, which may well end the ruling fast economically (it has averaged party's half-century grip on power 6.5 percent annually for the past in the forthcoming elections. As 50 years), and all the ethnic elites you might expect, these two facts were terrified that more violence are not entirely unrelated. would kill the goose that was laying The reason that the National Front the golden eggs. So they made new coalition has ruled Malaysia ever rules that would placate the ansince independence in 1957, even gry Malay majority by giving them though Malaysia is a democracy priority in employment, education, where you would expect an occabusiness, and access to cheap houssional change of government, is fear. ing and assisted savings. Many Malaysians of all ethnic groups Those rules are still in effect, and fear that the National Front is the the National Front, Malay-dominatonly thing that keeps the lid on the ed but embodying leading members bubbling pot of ethnic resentments. of all communities, won eight sucFor many centuries the dominant cessive elections because its "New

Economic Policy" (which was really about race) was seen as the only formula for domestic peace. However, time passes and circumstances change. Malaysia is now a middle-income country where differences in income and education between the various ethnic groups have nar-

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him to deputy prime minister, but then in the late 1990s they fell out. Their quarrels were over issues like Mahathir's toleration of corruption, but the basic problem was that Mahathir did not tolerate dissent. Anwar was dismissed as deputy prime minister in 1998, and immediately afterwards he was

The National Front, after so long in power, has spawned a multitude of corruption scandals. And then along comes a Muslim, part-Malay politician who threatens the status quo.

rowed considerably. The National Front, after so long in power, has spawned a multitude of corruption scandals. And then along comes a Muslim, part-Malay politician who threatens the status quo. Anwar Ibrahim began as a student leader demanding an even more privileged place for Malays and Muslims in Malaysia, but he has travelled a long way since then. Mahathir Mohamad, the autocratic prime minister who ruled from 1981 to 2003, picked him as a potential successor and rapidly promoted

charged with corruption and sodomy. The aim was not only to jail him but to discredit him in the eyes of pious voters. Anwar was jailed in 1999, but his sodomy conviction (based on highly implausible evidence) was overturned by Malaysia's Federal Court in 2004. Having served five years on the corruption charge, he returned to politics, but now as the leader of the People's Alliance, an improbable coalition of Islamic, Malay nationalist and ethnic Chinese parties. And in the 2008 election, the People's Alliance won one-third

of the seats in parliament. So Anwar was immediately charged with sodomy again. Even fewer people believed it this time, and a week ago, quite contrary to expectations, a court threw the charges out. "To be honest I was a little surprised," Anwar said afterwards. And now that he has emerged from that shadow, he stands a good chance of winning the election that must be held this year or next. Thirty percent of the voters are undecided, and at least half the seats in the country are up for grabs. If the People's Alliance wins, it will be because Malaysians of all ethnic groups believe that the "New Economic Policy" (which could be called the "New Ethnic Policy") is an outdated relic that facilitates corruption, and prefer a government that treats all Malaysians the same regardless of their religion or ethnicity. Then Anwar and everybody else will find out whether the country has really outgrown its ethnic obsessions. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His column appears each week in Vue Weekly.

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St Louis Curlees and the Grads lined up at the start of a game in the Edmonton Arena, June 1926

mains today, for example, with female boxers being told they should wear skirts. What sort of impact did the Grads have on that discussion of women playing men's sport? AH: Page always said they're basketball players second and ladies first. Being a lady in those days meant something clear: how you dress, how you spoke, the company you kept, your deportment—everything was by example. He and his wife Maude were upstanding citizens. Maude Page was a cultured woman who spoke French and had been a teacher. So the preconception and argument was that sports 'masculinized' women, and the Grads were an example that this wasn't the case. I've had students ask if this is comparable to the All American Girls Baseball League, but that was a feminiziation of players playing a masculine sport. They were feminized—had to wear short skirts, had to take classes in deportment—they were clearly feminized because they had to sell that team as women who were looking and dressing like women but playing a men's game—baseball, not softball. The Grads were never feminized. Because of the standards the Pages' set as how you would behave as a young woman, I'm convinced if anyone went outside those boundaries you wouldn't have got on the team in the first place. VW: What

The Grads are Playing Tonight! By M Ann Hall University of Alberta Press, 352 pp

n June of 1934 Edmonton telephone lines were jammed. The massive volume of calls to one number resulted in a complete phone blackout throughout the city for over 20 minutes. Fifty thousand Edmontonians wanted to know the result of one game: the Edmonton Grads' third game against the Oklahoma Cardinals—the deciding game in the competition to make the Women's World Games in London. While the Grads would lose that series, it would be one of very few losses for the team which holds the most victories in the history of North American sport. The Edmonton Grads were a women's basketball team that held North America's attention for 25 years as the team challenged preconceptions about gender and sport. Former University of Alberta professor and author M Ann Hall can remember hearing about the legacy of the Grads when she started playing for the University of Alberta Pandas in the '60s, but she was surprised to find there had been no book written on the subject despite the team's hold on the public's attention for over two decades. Already an author on a comprehensive book on women in sport, The Girl in the Game, Hall took on the challenge of depicting the Grads not only as a team, but also as a history of the girls who played. Hall recently spoke

with Vue about her book, The Grads are Playing Tonight! It's interesting that in a city that talks about sport so much, we don't hear more about this team. M Ann Hall: It's an old story. And unfortunately women's sport history is not a big area, and Canadian women's sport history even smaller. Men's professional sport has eclipsed any recognition of women's sport. You just look at the hype around the world junior championships in hockey recently, but that same level of hype was there Vue Weekly:

for the Grads, in many ways because the media was there. You go back and look through the media coverage in the Edmonton Bulletin and the Edmonton Journal and it's amazing. You pick up a paper today and women's sports are invisible. J Percy Page, he was recognized in those days, as the coach of the Grads. Everyone in town knew who he was. VW: You could have focused a lot of attention on Percy Page in the book, and you credit him, but you also give a lot of attention to the team as a whole. MAH: I hadn't realized the extent of the

organization, which Clare Hollingsworth, Page's son-in-law, called "a basketball factory." Page was overseeing it all. The business community in Edmonton became extremely supportive of it, particularly the Rotarians, not through money, but through jobs. Businesses gave the Grads jobs with vacation time when the team was travelling. They knew the importance of the team because at the time the city was known as "The Edmonton of the Grads." Business leaders realized they could attract business to the city. I think that has been lost through time, the role of this team in drawing at-

tention and business to the city. Is it troubling to you that this story of the Grads and women's sport in general isn't getting the recognition that it should? AH: I take the long view on this. I can see lots of improvement. I see lots of things that we never thought would happen. Olympics are pretty much on equilibrium. But the media is one area where it is worse and worse. What we're going to do about it, I don't know. When those Olympics are on, where there are women athletes the coverage in those areas VW:

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has improved. The Grads played basketball by the men's rules, not the less competitive, and less active, women's rules. What impact then do you think the Grads had on the sport of basketball? AH: One of Percy Page's objectives in all the trips to Europe was to get women's basketball in the Olympics. For men it was accepted in 1936 but it wasn't until 1976 that it was accepted for women. He believed in the game, that it was a highly suitable sport for women, and so he constantly tried for the improvement of the game and for the team itself. As well, those [women's] rules remained a huge problem in this country. Even when I played in the '60s I played women's rules. Now everyone looks back on those rules as silly. I trained as a phys ed educator and was part of a movement by the younger generation saying women need to compete as men; women need to compete at the same level as men. The Grads were an exemplar group of women who could play at that high level. In fact they were way above the competition. In the '30s there was tremendous discussion of whether women should compete at this level because, the argument was, they're not going to be able to have children. The Grads were able to get above, and in essence act as an example against that argument. VW:

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would the media reaction be to a team like this today. AH: I'm not sure you could have a team like this today. It goes back to my earlier comments about how men's professional sport takes over everything in the media. We have some of the best women ice hockey players in the world and many of them have had careers as Olympians and now they're struggling in a professional league that gets no support. For women in sport in Canada, the golden age for sport is in the '20s and '30s. Even when you look today at the amount women athletes have accomplished, they are not gaining the same level of attention that women had back in the '20s and '30s. And the factor I come to everytime is television. I can remember television coming in '52. Men's professional sport, particularly hockey, was one of the prime television programs that you watched. And there was no comparable women's sport to be televised because the war had a remarkable effect on women's sport in Canada. Even though women accomplished much during the Second World War, after the war in Canada there was a period of normalization—moving into the suburbs, raising a family getting everything back to normal—women's sport suffered unless it had some sort of feminine appeal, so this is when you get the popularity of skaters like Barbara Anne Scott and competitive team sport falls to the side. Samantha Power

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COMMENT >> ALBERTA EDUCATION

To act or to budget

The new Education Act will be caught up in budget processes

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Over the next six months, decisions will be made be made by the Alberta government which have the potential to drastically alter the face of education in this province. Of course, this being Alberta, it is also entirely possible that the only thing that will change over the next six months is the government's rhetoric about education, and that everything on the ground will actually remain the same

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sures are included in the act when it is re-introduced. Regardless, the public meetings are now wrapped up, even though the online portion of the consultation is ongoing, and we can expect a revised Bill 18 to hit the legislative agenda as soon as the legislature resumes sitting.

Education March 1

or get worse. Between now and the end of March, the government will re-introduce the Education Act, Bill 18, into the provincial legislature. This is the act that, after three years of extensive research, broad consultations, and numerous drafts, was introduced into the legislature last spring by former minister Dave Hancock and then removed from consideration by the fall session of

the legislature by new Education Minister Thomas Lukaszuk for the sake of further consultation. Listening to Lukaszuk speak over the course of the public consultations, it seems that the only reason he wanted to pull the act for re-consideration was so that he could spend a few months touring the province speaking about bullying, and the need to make sure that strong anti-bullying mea-

Albertans shouldn't expect the act itself to drastically alter education in the province, as it is largely full of big-picture sentiments and concepts, without anything specific and implementable. The bill is likely, however, to include a handful of significant

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changes like an increase to the compulsory education age (from 16 to 17), and extension to 21 of the maximum age for participation in the school system, better defined roles for school boards, parents, schools and trustees, an increase in the power and flexibility given to school boards, and now, some sort of anti-bullying measures. The real meat and potatoes of the process will come from the regulations that the government passes in council to actually implement the provisions of the act. Those will be especially telling given CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 >>

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COMMENT >> NORTHERN GATEWAY

The real question

Does the Northern Gateway pipeline work in the public interest?

s it in the public interest? With one and costs, and it would be disingenunotable exception, that's really the ous to pretend otherwise. only question that matters in the deIf we look at the issue purely from an termination of whether the proposed economic growth perspective, which Northern Gateway Pipeline Conservative governments and should be built or not. It's industry tend to do, then the not about who's funding pipeline would definitely be E beneficial. It would essenC N E the various sides in the deR TERFE om bate; it's not about ethical IN o@vueweekly.c tially allow for astronomical ricard o d r oil, and it's not even about growth in the number and a c i R how long the hearings will output of Alberta's tar sands Acuña take. It's about figuring out the projects, and all of the jobs, degree to which the pipeline is necmoney and government revenue that essary, and whether the benefits of would accompany that growth. building it are sufficient to outweigh The flip-side on the economic front, the associated costs and risks. as we saw during Alberta's last boom, The notable exception, of course, is that out-of-control expansion of is the question of whether or not the economy brings with it significant the First Nations over whose land downsides. Labour shortages, inflathe pipeline is to be built are in tion, increased crime, increased homeagreement with it or not. If they do lessness, and infrastructure and public not approve it, then the pipeline's services that simply cannot keep up proposed route either needs to be with the pace of growth were all part moved away from those lands, or and parcel of our last boom, and Ennot be built at all. These are soverbridge's projections are that we would eign peoples on sovereign land and expand even more quickly this time for the federal government unilatthan we did between 2003 and 2008. erally to impose this type of infrastructure on them would be a gross The reality is that these projects will violation of their rights. continue to expand even without the The question of the public interest is pipeline. According to estimates by the a bit more nuanced. Every public polCanadian Association of Petroleum icy proposal contains both benefits Producers, our bitumen production is

CAL POLITI

set to almost double over the next 10 years. This growth is not dependent on the existence of the Gateway pipeline. As geologist David Hughes pointed out in a November report, we already have sufficient pipeline capacity to accommodate all this growth (or will have once already-approved expansions are finished). In other words, we are already heading into a boom and bitumen production will continue to increase over the next decade with our without the new pipeline. If our economy will continue to grow, and even boom, then the money and jobs arguments do not carry as much weight as the Alberta government would like us to believe. The pipeline would also bring a strategic benefit with it, in that it would lessen our dependence on the US market as an outlet for our natural resources by allowing us to export our products to expanding markets in Asia. Even this benefit, however, has been overblown by proponents of the pipeline, as a significant portion of the bitumen reaching Kitimat via the pipeline would still end up in the United States by way of tankers bound for California. The expansion of the existing Kinder Morgan pipeline to the west coast will also achieve this goal

by allowing for more exports to Asia of Alberta oil. Interestingly, the folks that tout the need to lessen our dependence on the United States market for our energy have historically refused to take the two steps which would go further than any other in securing our energy sovereignty: getting out of the NAFTA energy clause, and ensuring that Alberta oil can meet Canada's needs so that eastern provinces can stop importing from volatile OPEC nations. If our goal is to end our energy subservience to the United States, than there are better ways to do this than by way of a pipeline. What this means is that the two main touted benefits of the proposed pipeline, economic growth and strategic diversification, are being over-stated by government and industry. We don't need the extra economic growth that would be provided by the pipeline, and the independence objective could be met much more effectively in other ways. As such, once we start looking at the costs and risks associated with the pipeline, it really does become obvious that the project should not proceed. This pipeline will leak. En-

bridge's own CEO has boasted that Enbridge pipelines spill about 4.2 barrels of oil for every billion barrelmiles. What this means when applied to the Northern Gateway Pipeline is 588 barrels spilled each year—about 94 000 litres. Given that the pipeline route includes national parks, northern rainforest and numerous communities, that cost alone is enough to tip the scales. If the National Energy Board and the Alberta and federal governments were to genuinely embrace their roles on behalf of the public interest, this is the type of sincere cost-benefit analysis that they would engage in (albeit in much more detail than allowed for in this space). Even a cursory look at the main benefits versus the main costs is enough to come to the conclusion that the project should not be allowed to proceed. Is this why our governments have begun trying to distract from the issue at hand with accusations of foreign interference and sabotage? It's time to hold them to task and remind them why they're there. 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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UP FRONT 9

COMMENT >> HOCKEY

No more lottery

Please Oilers, just don't finish in the bottom five The lows are pretty low in this Oiler blood pressure back up. So, I'm going to update and the high isn't that high. try to find something positive from the The Oilers lost 2-1 to New Jersey aflast trio of results. This isn't easy. Here ter a Zach Parise OT winner. Then the goes: lowly Anaheim Ducks came to As of the time of writing, there town and embarrassed the are only two teams with reOilers 5-0. A Sunday nighter cords worse than Edmonton against the LA Kings ended (Columbus and Anaheim). .com weekly e much better with 2-1 Oiler u Both of these teams beat v @ ox intheb oung & Y e OT win. Here's the knockthe Oilers. The LA Kings are v a D Birtles out punch. The Oilers winning holding onto a playoff spot Bryan streak died at one game, after the and over 15 standings points betOilers visited the last-place Blue Jackter than Edmonton. Therefore, based on ets and lost 4-2. Blech. this sample of results, the Oilers cannot beat teams worse than them and can Positive spin find success against better squads. The After last Friday's shameful home loss good news? Every team in the league to the seemingly beatable Anaheim save Columbus and Anaheim has a betDucks, I was prepared to leave a trail of ter record than our team, so the Oilers negative vibes. The strong play and win should beat them. Yeah, that's about it. against the Kings, a much better CaliYou try and make this sound better. DY fornia team, tempered the bile. The CoEnough future? lumbus loss brought some of the high

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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 • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-

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

COMEDY

Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesdays with comedy and music

Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 • Comedy Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

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

COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment

Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Tim Koslo; Jan 19-21 • Jamie Hutchinson; Jan 26-28

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Theo Von; until Jan 22 • Jay Pharoah Special; Jan 26-28 DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 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: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9pm; no cover

Horizon Stage • 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce

Grove • 780.962.8995 • horizonstage.com • Wayne Lee (Live the Laughter Hypnosis) • Fri, Jan 20, 9pm • Tickets: $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)/$5 (eyeGo)

laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark. ca • Open Wed-Sat • Daryl Makk; Jan 19-21 • Chris Gordon; Jan 26-28

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

Cha Island Tea Co • 10332-81 Ave • Games Night: Board games and card games • Every Mon, 7pm

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

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

Hatha Flow Yoga • Eastwood Community Hall, 11803-86 St • Every Tue and Thu (7:05pm) until the end of Apr • Sliding Scale: $10 (dropin)/$7 (low-income)/$5 (no income)

Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living •

Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 1114884 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity

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

Seniors United Now–St Albert • St Albert Legion, 6 Tache St, St Albert • 780.460.7736 • General meeting Featuring speaker Brian Jackson (St Albert Primary Care Network) • Mon, Jan 23, 1:30pm

Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place

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

Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

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

LECTURES/Presentations Edmonton Opera–Opera 101 • Art

Gallery of Alberta (AGA) Ledcor Theatre, lower level, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.429.1000 • A Guide to the opera–uncover the real workings of opera presented by Jeff McCune • Wed, Jan 25, 7-9pm • Pre-register at 780.429.1000

Edmonton Symphony Orchestra

I, too, have dug deep looking for positives to pull from the Oilers' season. For a long time I consoled myself on the renewed play of Tom Gilbert. Long the goat of the team, Gilbert has looked like a legitimate top-four defencemen this year, almost worthy of the inflated contract he's playing on. Or I could look at Ladi Smid, who led the league in blocked shots for the early portion of the year and continues to reside comfortably in the top-10. Or, if I was feeling really down, I might look upon the smiling visages of "the kids," and imagine the future: it'll be nothing but parades and high fives, we'll win Stanley Cup after Stanley Cup and we won't even riot, the comparisons to Gretzky, Kurri and Messier will be more than just wishful thinking. Alas, these images, this forced positivity, can only go so far. The Oilers have to get it together, and fast. It is, unfortunately, time to start

11:30am-1:30pm • $25 (member)/$35 (non-member)/$25 (student); Pre-register (on-line registration deadline: Jan 25)

Reconciliation Means Not Saying Sorry Twice • Education Centre South, Rm 176, 112St, 87 Ave, U of A • apirg.org • With Cindy Blackstock • Tue, Jan 24, 12-1:30pm • Free

Retrofitting Suburbia • Kule Lecture Theatre, Grant MacEwan City Centre, Robbins Health Learning Centre, 109 St, 104 Ave • 780.492.9957 • crsc@ualberta.ca • Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning Suburbs: Ellen Dunham-Jones will present urban design strategies for re-inhabiting underperforming suburban-style properties • Jan 26, 7pm •Free Sustainability’s Speaker Series

• Telus Centre, Rm 150, U of A • 780.492.2808 • sustainability.ualberta.ca/speaker • Just Sustainabilities: Re-imagining (E)quality, Living Within Limits: Julian Agyeman will speak about the integration of social/ spatial justice and sustainability; Jan 27, 5-7pm; free; reserve at InfoLink booths (HUB, SUB, CAB, ETLC)

Sustainability’s Speaker Series • Telus Centre, Rm 150, U of A • 780.492.2808 • sustainability.ualberta.ca/speaker • Environmental Justice from a Native Perspective: Lecture by Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe author, orator and activist • Jan 30, 7:309:30pm • Free Projection and Relationship • Rm

2-115, Education North, U of A • Presentation by Jim Chalmers • Fri, Jan 20 • $15 (member)/$10 (student/ senior members)/$20 (non-member) at door, adv at jungforum.com

U of A Art and Design • FAB 2-20 • Fine Art Building Gallery lecture series: Black and White and Read All Over: Chinese Painting and Reception with De-nin Lee • Thu, Jan 19, 5:15pm

QUEER

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave •

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

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) • Jan 27, 6-7pm (before Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto) • Jan 28, 6:30-7:30pm (before Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto)

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

203, Centre for the Arts, Grant MacEwan University, 10045-156 St • 780.497.4408 • Lecture by Calgary artist Alexandra Haeseker about her current work • Thu, Jan 19, 12-1pm

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

Grant MacEwan University • Rm

THE INSIDE SCOOP • Art Gallery of St Albert, 19

Perron St, St Albert • Free presentation on submissions and exhibitions • Wed, Jan 25, 7-8:30pm • Free; preregister at glendah@artsheritage.ca or 780.460.4310

Net Zero Energy Buildings • Grant

MacEwan University CN Theatre, Rm 5-142 • 780.378.6178 • solaralberta.ca • How Are They Working?– A Designers Perspective: Panel discussion with designers and builders: Peter Amerongen, Mark Ackerman, Stuart Fix • Wed, Jan 25, 7-8:30pm

PUBLIC SPEAKING: What does your audience ‘SPEKT’ from you? • CKUA

Library, 10526 Jasper Ave • cwc-afc.com • Interactive presentation with Michelle Devlin giving 5 key public speaking and communication skills • Thu, Jan 26,

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

FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St •

G.L.B.T.Q. (gay) African Group Drop-In) • Pride Centre, moving • 780.488.3234

• Group for gay refugees from all around the World, friends, and families • 1st and Last Sun every month • Info: E: fred@pridecentreofedmonton. org, jeff@pridecentreofedmonton.org

G.L.B.T.Q Sage bowling club •

780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:303:30pm

GLBT sports and recreation •

teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Women's DropIn Recreational: St Vincent School, 10530-138 St; E: badminton.women@teamedmonton.ca, every Wed 6-7:30pm, until Apr 25; $7 (drop-in fee) • Co-

VUEWEEKLY JAN 19 – JAN 25, 2012

worrying about the window closing. I know it seems a little early, with the Nuge on the first year of an entrylevel contract, but Hall and Eberle are on their second year and will need to be re-upped soon. Can we afford to keep all three of our blue chip players together? I don't want to sound the alarm or anything, but I do have my finger on the button. BB Facing my failure

Wish me luck on Saturday. My six-yearold daughter and I are going to see her first Oiler game. Unfortunately, because of a combination of the dynamic team crest and her inherited contrarian attitude, she decided she is a Calgary Flames fan. She calls them the "Hot C's." So we get to see a good, old-fashioned Battle of Alberta together. Good news: I can watch the sad-sack Oilers and watch an NHL game through the eyes of a six-year old, who will probably find the spectacle way more exciting than I will. I could use the recharge. Bad news: she's had her pink Flames jersey set aside since before Christmas. She'll wear it

ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton. ca • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm; bowling@teamedmonton.ca • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen; running@teamedmonton.ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@ teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762106 St; swimming@teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

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

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified 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 the junction bar • 10242-106 St •

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

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St •

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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

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 • Community Potluck: For members of the LGBTQ community; last Tue each month, 6-9pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Counselling: Free, shortterm, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org

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

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

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womons-

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

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave •

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

in public, demonstrating my failure as a parent to 16 837 other people. DY What the twits think: Oiler-related Tweets of the week

"If the #Oilers only had an enforcer, Taylor Hall never would've gotten his face cut during the shootaround." —@ andy_sayers "Come on Friday the 13th bring us a little luck ... Let's go Oilers!" —@Jamie_M_Jones (then they lost 5-0) "'So I heard Yakupov is a good player. Boys ... you know what to do.' – Tambellini addressing the team in December." —@DavidCholewa

Oiler Player of the week

Josh Green: One goal against LA, one assist against Columbus. One decade between Oiler goals. DY Ben Eager: I know one game does not a week make, but Eager looked excellent against the Blue Jackets, filling in on the top line for the face-slashed Taylor Hall. BB

SPECIAL EVENTS

Arts and Heritage–St Albert Annual Heritage Dinner • Curling Club’s

banquet hall • Cocktails, catered dinner and a glimpse into St. Albert’s past • Fri, Jan 20, 6:30pm • $100/$90 (Arts and Heritage member) at Arts and Heritage Office, Musée Héritage Museum

Chinese New Year of the Dragon Carnival • City Centre Mall, 102 St, 102 Ave,

East Atrium, Lower Level • ecbea.org • Metropolis Winter Festival: Arts and crafts, carnival games and calligraphy; featuring Chinese New Year: Fri, Jan 20, 4-10pm, Jan 21-22, 12-10pm • Community Pavilion, Churchill Square God of Fortune Parade: Sat, Jan 21, 11:30am-noon (starts at Churchill Square to City Centre Mall east lower level atrium) featuring performances of the traditional dragon dance, lion dances, drumming, demonstrations, martial arts; Sat, Jan 21, 11am-4pm

Flavours of Naramata Bench •

Chateau Lacombe, 10111 Bellamy Hill • Winemakers from the Okanagan Valley with award winning wines in support of the Edmonton Opera. VIP tickets offer a chance to taste wines and receive education from the winemakers • Jan 24, 7pm • $99/$155 (VIP tasting)

Fork Fest • Restaurants: A Cappella Catering,

Accent Lounge, Blue Pear, Blue Plate Diner, Chateau Louis Hotel's Royal Coach Dining Room, d’Lish, Jack’s Grill, Parkallen, Sabor Divino, Wild Tangerine • Showcasing the best of local cuisine, 10 days of multicourse menu options at 10 participating restaurants • Jan 19, 22-26

Ice on Whyte • End of Steel Park and

Strathcona Centre Community League, Tommy Banks Way, 103 St, various locations • iceonwhyte. ca • Ice carvings; a park filled with ice slides, snow carvings; interactive children's play area. The YESS café will serve hot beverages in the heated tent; featuring live music and storytelling • Until Jan 22

Metropolis • Churchill Sq and surrounding streets • Edmonton International Winter Festival: Featuring six free-standing, heated temporary structures made from Aluma Systems construction scaffolding covered with white shrink wrap, entertainment and fireworks at midnight • Until Feb 20 (Churchill Square)

ONE! LOVE • Mirage Banquet Hall, 306, 817050 St • one-international.com • One! International Poverty Relief Presents fundraising gala • Sat, Jan 28 • Tickets at tickets@one-international.com or call Paragi, 780.449.0468

Renovation Show • Edmonton Expo Cen-

tre, Northlands Park, 78 St, 115 Ave • New products, ideas, with top professionals to talk to. Meet Hillary Farr (Love It or List It), Andrew Downward (Divine Design), John Sillaots (kitchen and bath specialist) • Jan 27-29

Showgirls–Show You Care • Showgirls Limo Bus, 10527-96 St (between the Bissell Centre and Mustard Seed) • Showgirls is collecting and will hand out donations of winter gear (hats, toques, scarves, gloves, long underwear, socks, jackets, boots, blankets, hoodies, fleece, toiletries) to fill the Showgirls Limo Bus with winter clothing to support Edmonton’s homeless and needy • Jan 22, 2-4pm WINTER LIGHT–MILL CREEK ADVENTURE WALK • Mill Creek Park: starts north of Mill Creek

Pool, 82 Ave, 95A St–a 1 kilometer loop • Aurora’s Light–Story walk: Warming fires, heritage tents, roving characters and music along the trail for all ages • Jan 27-28, 7-11pm

FILM

REVUE // COLD WAR CONCISION

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Don't trust anyone in Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Opens Friday Directed by Tomas Alfredson

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he year is 1973, the milieu British secret service. Someone, we're told, is a mole, a rotten apple—a red one. Retired master spook George Smiley (Gary Oldman) is charged with smoking him out. But how? Everyone has secrets. Everyone is compromised. Everyone looks a little shifty. The world, in fact, looks shifty. If you were to layer every frame of Tinker Tailor

Soldier Spy atop one another and shine a light through you'd get a palimpsest of grimy wallpaper, gloomy skies, nervous sweat, hairpieces and funeral parlour suits. Smiley's bifocals rhyme with all those dirty windows, desk lamps and dull reflective surfaces of creaky old lifts with steel walls. You'd get a blur of European cities in multiple shades of shabby. This war isn't just cold; it's also crepuscular, analogue and ramshackle. Directed with a born voyeur's gaze

by Tomas Alfredson (Let the Right One In) from a ruthlessly taut script by Peter Straughan and the late Bridget O'Connor, Tinker Tailor thrives on atmosphere. It needs to. Because if you haven't read John Le Carré's source novel or seen the original 1979 UK miniseries—shit, maybe even if you have—following the tangled threads of this adaptation, which clocks in at just over two hours but could easily have been six, can be a challenge. Smiley's no great help here as he tends to say

little. One of the things necessarily lost in this truncated narrative is a fuller sense of Smiley's own psychic wounds. But there's something to be said for this kind of bracing, at times baffling, concision. The film is claustrophobic and never less than intriguing. And the new emphasis on the characters' sexual proclivities is quite welcome, and beautifully handled by the stellar cast, Colin Firth especially. Which isn't to say that we don't get a few clichés thrown in. "Trust no one," "Things aren't always what

they seem": people actually say this stuff in Tinker Tailor. But the unsaid is often what's most compelling in this morally murky, mystery-saturated thriller. Besides Oldman and Firth, the other actors who work wonders with misdirection and withholding include Toby Jones, Mark Strong, John Hurt, Ciarán Hinds and an especially pretty Tom Hardy— probably the year's best gallery of guilt-ridden faces.

its chain of dramatic ironies, which possess a certain satisfying symmetry. Going back to A Clockwork Orange for the first time since my teens it was these final sequences that I realized I'd forgotten. I was pleasantly surprised to see how well they work, despite the film's stiff satire on disciplinary

systems and wobbly warnings about the malleability of the mind and the persistence of aberrant urges. If you fancy a revisit the film is screening this week as part of Metro's "Four Decades of Stanley Kubrick" program.

Josef Braun // josef@vueweekly.com

REVUE // GET YOUR DYSTOPIA ON

A Clockwork Orange Fri, Jan 20 (11:30 pm); Sun, Jan 22 (9:15 pm) Directed by Stanley Kubrick Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1971

s a teenager I suppose I was impressed by the artful brutalism of it, the audacious juxtaposition of music and image, the gang rapes and vicious beatings set to show tunes and classical favourites. When you're young you need dystopias, and A Clockwork Orange, Stanley Kubrick's controversial 1971 adaptation of Anthony Burgess's novel, more than delivered, replete with its own jive talk. It also fed juvenile homophobic suspicions that parents were zombies, authority figures were buffoons and social workers just wanted to get down your pants. It wasn't that hard to identify with Alex. Sure, he murdered the cat lady, but he didn't mean it. Kubrick facilitated Al-

ex's palatability by excising the novel's pedophilia and making all of Alex's victims unbelievably irritating. Still, I find it interesting that the prison chaplain is the sole voice of reason: "When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man." (Burgess was a lapsed Catholic.) Then there was Malcolm McDowell, a bold, intelligent actor, whose Alex is so memorable, so savage yet shamelessly sympathetic. In those early scenes of Alex and his droogs prowling for the old ultraviolence, McDowell never blinks. It's a way to assert his unflinching lust, this sadist with a soft spot for Beethoven. Which makes it that much more chilling when Alex goes to prison and gets plugged into the experimental fast-tracked rehabilitation program where they feed him drugs and force him to watch nasty movies all afternoon with his eyelids held open by metal insect legs. The

A droog among men

result of this new crime-crushing tactic? A generation of ex-cons who get nauseous whenever confronted with bullies, young men incapable of intimate contact with the opposite sex. Once released from the pen Alex is anything but "ready for love." Which brings us to the third act and

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Coming attractions

A preview of the coming year in film, part one

hadowed by dark nights of superhero franchises, blue-balled by smurfin' cartoon sequels, battleshipped by board-game adaptations, snow white-outed by fairytale flicks, jump street-jacketed by '80s remakes ... will 2012 bring the apocalypse for mainstream movies? Who cares, when there are artsy, weirdsy, auteursy alternatives to anticipate, from an Iranian masterpiece and Michael Haneke's latest to Serbia-set Shakespeare and more Malick, maybe. (Release dates are for major US and Canadian cities—films often open in Edmonton two weeks later, or look for them at Metro Cinema or on disc/online a few months later.)

JANUARY Leftovers from 2011 and critics' bestof lists hit town. British star-loaded spy-chiller Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, from Tomas Alfredson (Let The Right One In), drifts in. Expose yourself to Steve McQueen's Shame, with Michael Fassbender as a sex-addicted Manhattanite. Brace yourself for Asghar Farhadi's divorce drama A Separation, the most critically-acclaimed film of last year. Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Cannes hit Once Upon A Time in Anatolia tracks a nighttime search for a body in the Turkish steppes. Longtime documentarian Frederick Wiseman's latest, Crazy Horse, looks beneath the surface of a Paris strip-

club. The beauty-pageant queen in Gerardo Naranjo's Miss Bala finds herself caught in Mexico's drug war, while the fighting force in Steven Soderbergh's Haywire, played by mixed-martial-arts fighter Gina Carano, must elude an international womanhunt. Ralph Fiennes' take on the Bard's rivalry-andrevenge-bound war tragedy Coriolanus is set in the Balkans.

FEBRUARY – MARCH From amazing animator Hayao Miyazaki's Studio Ghibli comes The Secret World of Arrietty, based on the tiny-person tale The Borrowers and co-written by Miyazaki. A scary kid pops up in We Need To Talk About

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Kevin, Lynne Ramsay's take on the novel about a mother (Tilda Swinton) dealing with her son's murderousness. Another Scot, Andrea Arnold, sweeps us into her handheld-shot, teenagecast vision of Wuthering Heights. Werner Herzog plunges us Into The Abyss of death row, staring at two men convicted of a triple homicide in Texas. Ben Wheatley marks us for Kill List, a mixture of family drama, hitman flick and horror. Markus Schleinzer creeps out with the Austrian abduction drama Michael, about a pedophile who keeps a boy captive. Terence Davies (The House of Mirth) wades into The Deep Blue Sea with his adaptation of the '50s-set Terence Ratigan play, starring Rachel Weisz and Tom Hiddleston. Joseph Cedar adds his Footnote to the short list of films set in academia— this Cannes hit concerns a strained relationship between a father and son, both professors. And the Duplass brothers, known for their mumblecore films, visit Jeff Who Lives At Home, with Jason Segal and Ed Helms as struggling brothers, one still with his parents, the other failing as a husband. Aardman Animations (Wallace and Gromit) sees March out with its 3D stop-motion The Pirates! Band of Misfits, based on Gideon Defoe's books about swashbuckling schmucks.

SPRING April fooling, high-society chronicler Whit Stillman (The Last Days of Dis-

co) returns after nine years with his oddball, colourful campus-musicalnoir Damsels in Distress. King-of-quirk Wes Anderson's back with Moonrise Kingdom, starring Bill Murray, Edward Norton and Frances McDormand in a tale of Rhode Island townsfolk searching for two young lovers on the run. Pavel Pawlikowski (My Summer of Love) re-emerges with The Woman in the Fifth, a Parisian thriller starring Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas. John Hillcoat visits The Wettest County for a Prohibition-era bootlegging family drama, with Guy Pearce and Gary Oldman. Steven Soderbergh's second of the year, Magic Mike, watches as one male stripper (Channing Tatum) teaches the poles to a young up-andcomer. José Padilha's The Wire-like look at Rio corruption, Elite Squad: The Enemy Within, should arrive. Also coming is The Scent of Green Papaya director Tran Anh Hung's adaptation of Haruki Murakami's loss-haunted novel Norwegian Wood. And there'll be Bernardo Bonello's House of Tolerance, set in a Parisian brothel 100 years ago but with its sex-work scored by modern-day music. Plus Andrew Dominik's crime thriller Cogan's Trade, with Brad Pitt as a mob-snooping point man (scout) for a hitman. Next week: films of the summer, the fall and the final few flicks to look for this year. Brian Gibson

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Haywire

Shoot first, ask no questions

Opens Friday Directed by Steven Soderbergh

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aywire reunites director Steven Soderbergh with screenwriter Lem Dobbs. Though not as revelatory or formally engaged as The Limey, the pair's 1999 sleeper, which marked a comeback for its star, Terrence Stamp, Haywire is nevertheless, like The Limey, a smart, playful vamp on old tropes: lone wolf hired muscle takes a gig that turns out to be a double-cross; she becomes a loose end; corrupt former employer now seeks to eliminate her ... you know the tune. Like The Limey, Haywire is also a film unusually concerned with geographical coherence, thus we get chase scenes that work up quite a sweat ensuring that we understand exactly how we got onto the fourth floor of this particular building or down that particular alleyway— there's even a pair of demonstrative scenes in which our heroine, Mallory Kane (Gina Carano), carefully consults a covert GPS device. Soderbergh, as always, operating as his own cinematographer, knows that one of the problems with modern action flicks is that they're disorienting in all the wrong

ways. In a film that's all about escape, pursuit, concealment and ambush, identification is dependent on knowing where the hell we are. That sense of where-we-are also applies to genre, and Soderbergh, though always looking for a novel twist, has a knack for letting us know just what kind of movie we're watching: a thriller, in this case, with the emphasis on thrills, but a thriller that doesn't insult your intelligence. While the sequences involving operations or surveillance play out in cool but propulsive montages set to David Holmes' lightly funkified suspense score—part In a Silent Way/Bitches Brew-era Miles Davis, part Shaft, part post-rock—the actual fight scenes are relatively light on cuts, feature no music whatsoever, and look pretty painful in their awkwardness. Random objects are creatively appropriated as weapons. Furniture does not always break, and such little insertions of realism add a pleasing layer of ouchiness. Yet other details, such as the tumbleweed that tumbles by during a final scene between Mallory and her new employer (Michael Douglas), allude to a certain detached sense of irreverence guiding this project.

Soderbergh has attracted his customary diverse range of acting talent, mostly recognizable stars with a little something extra to catch us off guard: Antonio Banderas with a beard, Ewan McGregor with a bad haircut (and a half-assed accent), Bill Paxton as a moustached military-fiction-writing dad. Everyone seems to be having the right amount of fun. As for the tough, terse, well-built, largely expressionfree Carano, well, lets just say she's a mixed martial arts star first and actor second. I confess that I caught myself wondering now and then whether Asia Argento was too busy. Or Michelle Rodriguez. But Carano's gung ho/no bullshit attitude, her obvious ability to do at least some of her own stunts and her lack of over-psychologizing function fairly well in what is above all a movie meant to move, to function, to divert. "You shouldn't think of her as a woman," says the baddie who betrayed her. "That would be a mistake." Indeed, Mallory is a firecracker, a killing machine with a moral compass. I guess she has feelings too. Maybe we'll get to explore them in the sequel. Josef Braun

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Joyful Noise

REVUE // CHEKHOV'S GUN? CHECK.

Cell 211

Queens in the court of Joyful Noise

Now Playing Written and directed by Todd Graff

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n the beginning (of 2012), Todd Graff created the joyful and the noise. Darkness was upon the face of deep winter. But Todd said, let there be light, and this Joyful Noisething, it was light to the point of blinding-migraine optimism. And Todd said, let there be "uplift," and there was such uplift the plot drifted into space. And Todd made a gospelchoir so full of folksy, pious people that it should appear on Google Earth as Folksy Piousville, Georgia. And Todd cast Sass-Queen Latifah and Wax-Dolly Parton as Vi Rose and GG, always butting heads so adorably. And Todd created GG's bad-boy nephew—so bad he instantly brightens up Vi's son, who has Asperger's,

and radiates sunny love with Vi's daughter Olivia. And Todd said, Let this Southern town have economic problems but no political solutions—winning a national gospel competition shalt be enough. And Todd blessed the choir with an American Idol makeover, circa 2001, so they sang, "now my God and I are the best of homeys," and there was more forced uplift than in GG's double-G bra. But lo, there was none of the crackling noise necessary in drama, not even when Olivia got upset with her strict mom and the script defended Mom as if, like an Old Testament Todd, she was to be obeyed and praised absolutely. And so it was that, out of a void of tension and self-questioning, there came eye-splitting gospel-muzak. Brian Gibson

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Prison gone wrong

Fri, Jan 20 – Tue, Jan 24 Directed by Daniel Monzón Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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hekhov's gun" in prison movies seems to be the razor blade. Once it appears, you know someone's got to be killed with it. So it proved in the first half-hour of Jacques Audiard's masterful A Prophet (2009) and so it proves, with painfully sharp realism, in the first scene of Spain's award-winning Cell 211 (2009)—its inmate slits open the veins above his wrists and bleeds out in the grotty, water-filled sink. Yet the dingy, claustrophobic horror of that opening seems to fade. Juan Oliver (Alberto Ammann) visits the prison a day before starting his job as a guard, only to suffer an injury and be abandoned as a riot breaks out, led by Malamadre (Luis Tosar), with Basque/ ETA prisoners (considered terrorists) as bargaining-chip hostages. Juan's out-of-nowhere predicament strikes

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the viewer as implausible, his memories of his pregnant wife are all rather pretty and gilt-edged, and there's just never quite enough of a lingering sense of threat. But the shadows lengthen over the prison administration: it negotiates in

eyed portrait of a naïve guard turned murderous prisoner, trapped inside as the media outside tells him of his tragic loss, makes for a mesmerizing movie. The last line goes to a prison official, saying to an investigating tribunal (but looking at us), "Any more questions?" And it's the happy ignorance of those

Its wild-eyed portrait of a naïve guard turned murderous prisoner, trapped inside as the media outside tells him of his tragic loss, makes for a mesmerizing movie.

bad faith, chief guard Utrilla (Antonio Resines) is brutal, and riot police use force against spouses and family gathered outside the jail. By the last half-hour, the story's seething skepticism towards the surveillance-state (Juan explaining the government's attitude: "We're trash and what you do with trash is take it out so it doesn't stink") and its wild-

on the outside that Cell 211, in its best moments, condemns. True to its title, its message was of oppressive, haunted-horror all along—prisons are where we don't just lock away but make more monsters, banishing them to dark spaces buried deep within our society, out of sight and out of mind. Brian Gibson

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Of hurricanes and pollination

// Emanuel Licha

Latitude 53's first exhibits of the year probe the framing of issues both large and small

A frame from Emanuel Licha's "War Tourist" installation

Until Sat, Feb 11 Striking a Pose Works by Emanuel Licha, curated by Marie-Hélène Leblanc Pollination Proposition Works by Nicole Rayburn Latitude 53

atitude 53's first exhibits of the year thematically relate in their respective interrogations of disasters: one investigates tourism in sites of terrible destruction, while the other relates to the dramatic decline in honeybee population. That is where the similarities end. In the main space, Striking a Pose by Emanuel Licha and curated by MarieHélène Leblanc, video works explore bearing witness to sites of tragedy through tourism and journalism. "War Tourist" features a series of five televisions, each showing a video charting a tour of New Orleans, AuschwitzBirkenau, Parisian suburbs, Chernobyl, and Sarajevo, respectively. Each film creates space for a quiet consideration of what it means to travel to sites of atrocities. The guide to postKatrina New Orleans speaks to the camera as he describes how control of the city was regained, and illustrates how many homes fell victim to flooding from the military-built

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levee rather than the hurricane. As this information is digested, the critical distance from the other side of the television allows for learning as if one is watching a documentary film, while also imagining their location as tourist. How much is travel to an atrocity site exploitative, allowing for the thrill and horror of the event from the event to be experienced without the risk faced by the victims? How much of this is important learning, bearing witness, and paying tribute to those who suffered? In "How Do We Know What We Know?" Licha does a brilliant job of opening up questions about journalism of such horrors through coverage of the recent political unrest in Syria. His film reveals the production behind a "real" live conflict, jumping between American news footage and video that records its production from the otherwise hidden windy hillside in Turkey. As the American production team leaves, a member of the local camera team asks a telling question: "How will it be when they're gone?" Licha punctuates this question by showing how journalism makes an event real, alluding to the invisibility of stories that aren't told in front of the camera. The question the film raises about the production of such knowledge, and the stories untold about the impact of

video journalism on communities that find themselves inundated by these international visitors, will keep you wondering what is happening beyond the frame the next time you turn on the news. The video in the ProjEx Room, lination Proposition" by Nicole burn, is unfortunately much provocative. There is no doubt

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there are critical ideas to be explored in the alarming deaths of honeybees, these creatures' fundamental importance to our sources of sustenance, and the insect/human/industry power dynamic that results. However, I am not convinced that a woman in a prosthetic nose probing white and purple flowers with the end of it aids a beneficial investigation of these issues. This act comes across as an attempt

ARTIFACTS The Walterdale's donor-voted fundraiser / Fri, Jan 20 (7 pm) For the past few years, The Walterdale Playhouse has had a choose-your-own-theatrical-adventure element to its season of shows: for the cost of a $20 donation, donors can vote on a script they'd like to see included in the company's upcoming season. Now, it's between Frederick Knott's Dial 'M' for Murder, a yet-to-be-finalized translation of Dracula or Conor McPherson's Irish-bar drama The Weir. The winning script will be revealed live at the theatre on Friday (though you can cast a last minute ballot there, then), with the announcement being preceded by excerpts from all three scripts, plus food, prizes and entertainment. (Walterdale Playhouse, Free)

Date Night / Sat, Jan 21 (7:30 pm) Ever longed to go comic book shopping with über-geek Mark Meer? Desperate for a trashy night of karaoke with awardwinning playwright Chris Craddock? Those are just two of

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at humour through this very phallic gesture, which apparently is meant to pose an alternative to bee pollination. The sanitary white space and use of decorative flowers connote pollination, yes, but fail to purposefully relate to the bigger picture of bees as critical to global food production, as argued in the artwork description. Carolyn Jervis

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the dates up for grabs at Rapid Fire Theatre's second annual Date Night fundraiser. It's a live auction—of dates, ranging from the aforementioned two to skiing, rock climbing, or winning a real guitar—with bits of improv interspersed between rounds of bidding. Even if you don't place a winning bid on anything, you probably won't go home without at least a chuckle for your time. (Varscona Theatre, $5)

Indie Artist Preview Night / Mon, Jan 23 (8 pm) Nestling into its new home at the Living Room Playhouse, Rabbit Marmot Productions is hosting an evening where any interested indie company, performer or daredevil can have 15 minutes of stage time in what's essentially a theatrical open mic. There are still spots available on the bill (details at rabidmarmot.ca), but announced thus far are a pair musicians and a reading of a new play in progress. Marmot artistic director Nicholas Mather will emcee the proceedings. (Living Room Playhouse, free) V

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Big Shot

// Paul Blinov

Until Jan 22 (8 pm; 2 pm Sundays) Directed by Georgina Beaty Roxy Theatre, $16 – $21

lready one of the more intimate prosceniums in Edmonton's theatre landscape, Surreal So Real's revamped production of Canadian fringe favourite Big Shot manages to make the Roxy Theatre positively claustrophobic. Its all-black-everything design raises soliloquist and play author Jon Lachlan Stewart above the audience, drastically shortening the area between his head and the ceiling, cramping and condensing the action into a small, dark space. The intent was to make the stage appear to be a Vancouver SkyTrain station—its raised platforms putting riders far above the heads of pedes-

Jon Lachlan Stewart in Big Shot

trians—but the result bears little resemblance to the wide-open vistas the City of Glass is known for. Far from being a problem for the

production, however, this claustrophobic design serves as an apt metaphor for the play itself: each of the characters in Big Shot is cramped in

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one way or another. The recovering heroin addict, the shopkeeper embittered by the loss of his son, the deadbeat dad, the struggling mother, their maladjusted son and the cuckolded cop, are each brought together by a single tragic moment on the SkyTrain. The show's greatest strength is Stewart's full-body characterizations. Unlike many one-man/many-characters productions, Stewart does not zip back and forth between characters; instead, he morphs slowly from one to another, ensuring each is right. His range—from precocious six-yearold, to Japanese pensioner, to struggling single mother—is vast, every nuanced facial expression, arm positioning, nervous tic in the right place, performed at the right time.

Big Shot does suffer from an inability to leave questions unanswered, or leave motivations mysterious, and this inability pads the script. What feels a little heavy at an hour and a quarter might feel just right at an hour or even 50 minutes, with some extraneous backstories extricated, while keeping the repetition and revelation that makes up the play's structure. In a theatre scene that has adopted the mantra of "Safety First" over the past couple of years, Big Shot—lifted from the experimental confines of the Fringe and onto a bigger stage—succeeds at telling a story in a way that pushes the boundaries of the easily-understood into more meaningful territory. BRYAN BIRTLES

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Motif

Seussical

orchesis dance group presents

Dance

// Daniel Alexander

2012

of Decidedly Jazz Danceworks

featuring guest choreographer

SARISA FIGUEROA

A Who and a Cat

Until Sun, Jan 29 Directed by Allen MacInnis Citadel Theatre, $49.35

eussical is an entertaining musical romp through some of Dr Seuss's most beloved tales. The plot revolves around Horton the elephant (George Masswohl) and his quest to save the microscopic planet Who. Along the way, he is charged with caring for an abandoned egg, and develops his own quiet goal of "finding one small friend in the universe who believes in him." Horton's community turns on him for being different, but he continues to fight for his dreams, all the while repeating his mantra to anyone who will listen: "a person's a person, no matter how small." The plot also focuses on the stories of Jojo the littlest Who (Jennifer Villaverde) and Gertrude McFuzz (Jane

Johanson). Gertrude, having fallen in love with Horton, attempts to change her appearance to get him to notice her. After enduring some peer pressure and an arduous physical journey she learns the important lesson of loving herself exactly as she is before loving someone else. In turn, young Jojo learns to let her imagination run wild despite her parents' attempts to squash her creativity as they beg her to "think some normal things instead!" To illustrate the many messages, the play imaginatively flirts with the line between heavy issues and a child-friendly way to express them. The main stories all weave together to convey some big take-home messages that circle around the common Seuss philosophies—such as believing in yourself and opening your mind—that have turned the stories into treasured classics.

The production houses an extremely talented cast and the set, props, and costumes were bright and whimsical. Damien Atkins delivered a wonderful performance as the Cat in the Hat, and Masswohl stole the audience's hearts as his character strove to constantly stand up for the underdog. To the performance's detriment, however, the cast's overall energy was lacking. While the piece found its groove quickly with a strong storyline, the energy levels never quite took off. The musical numbers had everything you would want them to—great technical elements, catchy tunes, engaging lyrics—but more energy was needed to keep up with the childlike enthusiasm that the other aspects of the play spoke to.

January 27 and 28, 8pm

Myer Horowitz Threatre Students’ Union Building, University of Alberta

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PREVUE // DANCE

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he well-loved Mile Zero Salon series has undergone big changes over the past couple seasons; not only have the multi-disciplinary parties grown in terms of venue and performance space, they've also begun to employ a cast of diverse curators that pushed the salon concept into the realms of true Edmontonia, much thanks to the long-term plans of MZD artistic director, Gerry Morita. Last season's salons, titled Boom and Bust respectively, studied the economies we Albertans tend to find ourselves in. This season's salons, The Wired Body and this weekend's finale, Unplugged, ruminate on ideas of the human relationship to technology. At least in some form or another. The challenge for the artists participating in Unplugged? Try to "unplug" not only from the theatre's power supply, but also from any techno-habits employed in creating their art. Unplugged's emcee, the irresistible and hilarious Jill Pollock—perhaps

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best-known for her plucky ukulele humour—is quite excited to test out her hosting skills on the swath of artists lined up for the salon. "I'm a fan of everyone performing, it's a rad lineup," says Pollock. "Gerry contacted me after seeing a show of mine and asked me to perform in MZD's 2008 Salon, Fall Back. I was so honoured to be part of such a multi-media show with dance, spoken word, film and, of course, ukulele. I'm stoked to be a part of this show, too—the integrity and quality of MZD, the talent of the performers [and] also the concept. "I am very much an active member of our green community and think their 'unplugged' concept of going off the grid is wonderful. Beautifully artistic, yet conscious and proactive," Pollock says, elaborating on a few of the bits she's most interested to see. "I am partial to Simon Glassman and his puppets. I saw a short film he did at Mostly Water Theatre's Metro Shorts last year, and it won over my heart and my giggles. Also, Man Dance [Richard Lee] is intensely soothing to watch, if I can put those two qualities together."

an excerpt from Azimuth Theatre's Apocalypse Prairie, a promisingly horrifying clown bit from Michael Kennard (sometimes known as Mump, of Mump & Smoot), Edmonton's poet laureate Anna Marie Sewell, MZD regulars Katrina Smy and Theresa Dextrase with Jeff Carpenter and Izumi Kuribayashi in a new dance work, Shawn Pinchbeck's Polyphonic Photo Booth (which sounds like fun, whatever it is), plus an acoustic set by Souljah Fyah and, finally, Music is A Weapon's bike-generated smoothies—they're also going to be helping to power whatever they can throughout the evening, pedal-style. As for what Pollock plans to bring of her own to the foray, she coyly hints that she does have a plan—but isn't giving it all up—that's the bonus for ticket holders. "I haven't played a gig in a long time, so, yes, I will be playing my Uke a wee bit," she says. "I haven't decided which songs to play, it might be an act of randomness as to what comes out of the hat, but you can sure bet it'll be a barrel full of monkeys." Fawnda Mithrush

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Dance Mile Zero Dance • Westbury

Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • 780.424.1573 • milezerodance.com • Unplugged: A Mile Zero Dance Salon featuring a variety of interdisciplinary performances • Sat, Jan 21, 8pm • $15 (member)/$20 (general) at door

Shumka Dancers • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • A Ukrainian Christmas Folk Ballet: Shumka's collaboration with the Ukrainian State Folk Dance Virsky. Based on E.T.A. Hoffman’s tale The Nutcracker, a full-length retelling through Ukrainian dance • Jan 20-21 • Tickets at TicketMaster, shumka.com/tickets

FILM Cinema At the Centre • Library

Theatre, Stanley A. Milner Library basement, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.496.7000 • epl.ca • Centre for Reading and the Arts showcases little-known films every month

Downtown Docs • Stanley A.

Milner Library Theatre (basement level) • 780.944.5383 • Documentaries with attitude • The Greatest Movie Ever Sold • Thu, Jan 19, 6:30pm • Free

FAVA • 9722-102 St • 780.429.1671 •

Main Course: Intermediate production • Until Apr 28; every Sat, 10am-2pm • $795 (early bird, by Oct 28, 2011)/$845

From Books to Film series •

Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • 2001: A Space Odyssey, 141 minutes (1968) PG, based on Arthur C. Clarke’s The Sentinel; Fri, Jan 20, 2pm • Planet of the Apes, 119 minutes (2001) PG, Tim Burton’s 2001 remake; Fri, Jan 27, 2pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 •

albertacraft.ab.ca • The Recipients: 2011 Alberta Craft Award Recipients; until Feb 18 • THINKING BIG: Unveiling public art projects; until Apr • Gallery Shop's monthly artist spotlight: Retrospective of Margie Davidson's quilted landscapes; until Jan 31 • Artist Spotlight Talk: with Margie Davidson; Jan 26, 6-8pm

Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St,

St Albert • 780.459.3679 • Picasso and Pinot Noir: Every 3rd Thu each month; starts Jan 19, 7-9pm; $50, pre-register

Art from the Streets–Red Deer • 4935-51 St • Group Show; Art

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Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq •

780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO World of Creativity: Drawn Outside: especially for kids; until Jan 29 • 19th Century French Photographs: until Jan 29 • Prairie Life: Settlement and the Last Best West, 1930-1955: until Jan 29 • A Passion for Nature: Landscape Painting from 19th Century France: until Feb 20 • State of Nature: until Feb 20 • Rearview Mirror: Contemporary Art from East and Central Europe; Jan 28Apr 29 • RBC New Works Gallery: Chris Millar; Jan 28-Apr 29 • Studio Y Youth Drop-in: Sense: Installation Art: Thu, Jan 19, 3:30-5:30pm; $10 • Adult Drop-in: Figure: Tonal Drawing: Thu, Jan 19, 7-9pm, $15/$12 (member) • Art for Lunch: Theatre Foyer: Casual and informative discussions about AGA exhibitions, held during the lunch hour, 3rd Thu every month • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun every month, 12-4pm; free with admission

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

780.460.4310 • Lost and Found: Photos

by Paul Burwell; drawings and sculptures by Cynthia Fuhrer; until Jan 28 • Artventures: Spectacular Snowflakes: drop-in art for ages 6-12; Sat, Jan 21, 1-4pm; $5

Legislature • West Lawn, 109 St, 98 Ave • IceonWhyte.ca • Ice and snow carvings by artists from Heilongjiang, China • Until Jan 22, 11am-9pm

Bruce Peel Special Collections Library • Rutherford Library,

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A

U of A • I'm No Superman: The comic collection of Gilbert Bouchard: Until Feb 28

CENTRE D’ARTS VISUELS DE L’ALBERTA • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427 • Group show • Until Feb 28

Corridor Community Gallery–Red Deer • Recreation Cen-

tre, Lower Level, 4501-47A Ave, Red Deer • Artworks by Marianne Harris • Through Jan

Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain •

780.963.9573 • Northern Lights: In celebration of the Alberta Winter Gameswinter themed pottery and giftware • Until Feb 29

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St, 780.482-2854 • Gallery artists • Through Jan Expressionz Café • 9938-70 Ave• 780.437.3667 • expressionzcafe.com • Group show, admission by donation • Through Jan, Mon-Sat, 11am-5pm

FAB Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Andrea Kastner: MFA Painting; Jill Ho-You: MFA Printmaking; Jan 24-Feb 18 Gallery at Milner • Stanley A.

Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/artgallery • The Light of the Lakeland: Watercolour landscapes by Patricia Coulter • Steel Bridges: Works by James Gaa • Until Jan 31

Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St,

780.461.3427 • Le Rapprochement: Photos by Suzanne Bourdon, Paul Brindamour, Robert Fréchette and Iva Zimova–a collective of four photographers from Québec • Until Feb 22

Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-

112 St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse. ab.ca • Main Gallery: Mind Control Tricks: Paul Freeman • Front Room Gallery: forma: Wenda Salomons; until Jan 21 • Main Gallery: discards: Works by Griffith Aaron Baker; Front Room: Getting Anxious: Works by Margaret Witschl • Jan 26-Feb 25 • Opening reception: Thu, Jan 26, 8-10pm; artist talk with Griffith Aaron Baker at 7:15pm

Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden

Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • Pictures from a Sick Mind: Works on paper by Ontario artist, Chris Shoust • Until Feb 12

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Seniors Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • seniorcentre.org • The Adventure Continues: Landscape photos by Patt and Ben Nearingburg • Until Jan 25 Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • The Gardens at Trevarno: Artworks by Sally Towers-Sybblis • Until Feb 26

Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Nature: Paintings inspired by poet Chon Sang-Pyon’s poem, Back to Heaven; artworks by Kyung Hee Hogg • Until Feb 5

Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission

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

Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655178 St • Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing Misericordia Community Hospital • 16940-87 Ave • Year End

Show and Sale: Artworks by members of the Edmonton Art Club • Until Jan 28

Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain •

780.963.9935 • A Soldier's Story: Paintings by Judy Martin • Until Feb 8

Musée Héritage Museum– St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert •

780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Artifacts dating back 5,000 years • Take Your Best Shot: Photos by youth (8-18 yrs old) • Until Feb 5

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-

81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • So What Happens Now?: Artworks by Jan Melissa Soleski • Until Jan 29

Peter Robertson Gallery •

12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • Winter Group Show: New artworks by gallery artists • Until Feb 4

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • A River Runs Through It: Until Feb 5 • Narrative Quest: Until Apr 29 Strathcona County Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Blair Brennnan, Richard Boulet and Patrick Reed • Until Feb 26

SNAP Gallery • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Artworks by Mark Franchino • Until Feb 11

TELUS World of Science • 11211-142 St • Titanic: The Artifact Exhibition: human stories told through artifacts recovered from the wreck site of the Titanic and extensive room re-creations; until Feb 20 • Discoveryland VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: Pictographs by Seka Owen; until Jan 21 • Gallery B: Perception-Life on Venus/Life on Mars: Photographs by Anne Marie Resta; until Jan 21 Visual Arts Alberta Association • VAAA Gallery, 10215-112 St, 3rd

Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd. com • Spirit of the People: Stand-Up Medicine Bear • Through Jan

Fl • 780.421.1731 • Gallery A: Travelling Within Dreams: Paintings by Ricardo Copado • Gallery B: Body/Language: Large drawings by Daniel Evans; Jan 26Feb 25; opening reception: Thu, Jan 26, 7-9:30pm

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre • 15 mins N of Edmonton off

Visual Arts Studio Association of St Albert • Grandin Park

Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Educationrich entertainment facility for all ages

Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer •

Plaza, 22 Sir Winston Churchill Ave • 780.460.5993 • Postcards from Paris: Artworks by Julie Kaldenhoven • Tribute: Paintings by Victoria Armstrong • Until Jan 31

Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St •

LITERARY

Red Deer Library • The Gardens at Trevarno: Artworks by Sally TowersSybblis • Until Feb 26

780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • Main Gallery: Striking a Pose: Videos by Emmanel Licha, chronicles the exploits of the “War Tourist,” a character in search of compelling situations in conflict spots around the world; until Feb 11 • ProjEx Room: Pollination Proposition: Artworks by Nicole Rayburn; until Feb 11 • Sat, Jan 29, 12-4pm Ice Sculptures in McCauley. 5-10 pm; an all ages skating party in McCauley's outdoor rink called dancing under the winter stars

Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 • Literary Saloon: reading series the 2nd Thu every month; Oct-May, 7pm (door)

Audreys Books • 10702 Jasper Ave • 780.423.3487 • CAA Writer in Residence Jannie Edwards in the store every Wed; Until Apr 25, 12-1:30pm

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

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Canadian Authors Association • Campus Saint-Jean, Pavilion

Lacerte, Rm 3-04, 8406 Marie-AnnGaboury St (91 St) • canauthorsalberta.ca • Greg MacArthur presents The Playwright • Jan 27-28 • Fri Evening Presentations: 8pm; free for members and first-time guests/$10 (returning guests) • Sat workshops: 9:30am-4pm; $40 (member)/$70 (non-member) lunch included

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Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony

Plain Rd • 780.915.8869 • edmontonstoryslam.com/schedule.html • Edmonton Story Slam followed by a music jam; no minors; 7pm (sign-up), 7:30pm (show), 3rd Wed of every month

Leva Cappucino Bar • 11053-86

Ave • olivereadingseries.wordpress.com • The Olive Poetry Reading Series: 2nd Tue each month; Sep-Apr, 7pm, open mic to follow

Riverdale • 9917-87 St • Cre-

ative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm • facebook.com/group. php?gid=264777964410 E: creative.word. jam@gmail.com

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St •

780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Stanley

Milner Library, Rm 7, 6 Fl, 100 St, 102 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • 2nd Fri each month until Jun, 7-9pm • Free event

T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave • 780.932.4409 • talesstorytelling.com • 1st Thu each month, open mic opportunity • Until Jun, 7-9pm • $6 (min) T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New

Strathcona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free

Upper Crust Café • 10909-86 Ave

• 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • Featuring local spoken word artists Jenine Dumont, Nancy MacKenzie, Janet Smith; Jan 23; $5

WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-

101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

THEATRE Big Shot • Roxy, 10708-124 St, various other venues throughout Edmonton • 780.453.2440 • attheroxy.com • Theatre Network, presented by Surreal SoReal Theatre, by Jon Lachlan Stewart, starring Jon Lachlan Stewart, directed by Georgina Beaty • A young boy recreates a brutal tragedy he witnessed. He pitches the horrific event to you, the audience, as the greatest movie ever made, weaving in and out of the various characters involved • Previews: until Jan 22 • Tickets at Theatre Network’s box office, 780.453.2440 Blind Date • Citadel Rice Thea-

tre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • citadeltheatre.com • Rice Alternative Series: Created and performed by Rebecca Northan, produced by Kevin McCollum. Rebecca Northan plays Mimi, and one lucky man in the audience will play her Blind Date • Jan 28-Feb 19

The Canoe Theatre Festival • La Cité Francophone, 8627-91 Street

• various locations • 780.477.5955 • workshopwest.org • Workshop West Theatre • Line-up: No2: By Toa Fraser | Performed by Madeleine Sami Produced by Silo Theatre; The Last 15 Seconds: Multicultural Theatre Space; The House at the End of the Road: Inner Fish Performance; Homeless: By Jeremy Baumung; Ladies Who Lynch: The Serial Collective • Until Jan 22 • Tickets at Workshop West box office, 780.477.5955, ext 301; E: boxoffice@ workshopwest.org

Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only) Corner Gassed 2 • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • jubilations.ca • Brent and the rest of the town find themselves stuck in the middle when Owen and his best friend Frank both decide to run for Mayor of Cat Creek • Until Jan 21 DATE NIGHT! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre, an evening of improv and a LIVE auction where you'll have the chance to bid on hot dates with our hot players • Jan 21, 7:30pm • $5 (door); proceeds to travel expenses for visiting artists during Improvaganza 2012 DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • 780.433.3399 • rapidfiretheatre. com • The live improvised soap opera featuring improvisors Dana Andersen, Matt Alden, Leona Brausen, Peter Brown, Belinda Cornish, Tom Edwards, Jeff Haslam, Kory Mathewson, Mark Meer, Sheri Somerville, Davina Stewart, Stephanie Wolfe, and Donovan Workun • Every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office THE HIGHEST STEP IN THE WORLD • Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne St ,

St. Albert • ghostrivertheatre.com • Ghost River Theatre’s aerial spectacle • Directed by Eric Rose, stars David van Belle, produced by Lee Cookson, projection and sound by Ben Chaisson, motion graphics by Court Brinsmead, flying direction by Adrian Young, production design by Ami Farrow • A 75-minute solo performance that integrates dazzling video projection and flying technology. At the heart of the show is a human meditation on the necessity of risk: How do we deal with times of great change? And what do we need to find in ourselves to take a chance and step off into the unknown? • Jan 27-28, 7:30pm

Ice on Whyte • Alberta Legislature’s West Lawn, 109 St, 98 Ave • IceonWhyte.ca • Rapid Fire Theatre • Sun, Jan 22, 7-8pm • Free admission Jump for Glee • Jubilations Dinner Theatre, 2690, 8882-170 St, Phase II WEM Upper Level • 780.484.2424 • jubilations. ca • It is time to put on a great show. Unfortunately, there are transportation problems and only six people from William Mackenzie King High can make it to the event • Jan 27-Apr 1 Lig and Bittle • TransAlta Arts

Barns, Westbury Theatre, 10330-84 Ave • concretetheatre.ca • fringetheatre.ca • 780.409.1910/780.439.3905 • Concrete Theatre • Arts At The Barns: By Elyne Quan and Jared Matsunaga-Turnbull • Jan 27-28 • Tickets/info: Online: fringetheatre. ca; 780.409.1910

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • varsconatheatre.com/ohsusanna • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros, God of Love! Laughs! Music! Cocktails! • Runs the last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change) Seussical™ • Citadel Shoctor Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.428.2117 • citadeltheatre.com • Family Series: Music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, book by Lynn Ahrens and Stephen Flaherty, co-conceived by Lynn Ahrens, Stephen Flaherty, Eric Idle, directed by Allen MacInnis; a Lorraine Kimsa Theatre for Young People production. The world of Dr. Seuss comes alive in this colourful musical production • Until Jan 29

TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv runs every Fri, until Jul, 11pm (subsject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member)

THE WEDDING SINGER • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • With a brand-new score that pays homage to pop songs of the 1980's, back to a time when hair was big, greed was good, collars were up, and a wedding singer just might have been the coolest guy in the room • Until Feb 5

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Mediterranean fare

Ousia melds flavours of Greece, Turkey and North Africa 10846 - 82 Ave 780.761.1910 hen Matthew Lakis decided to open a Mediterranean restaurant on Whyte Avenue near 109 Street, he had no intention of it being another fast-food joint offering up souvlaki and pitas to the late-night crowd. Instead, the young restaurateur is introducing Edmonton to the sophisticated side of Mediterranean cuisine with a designer menu showcasing flavour-fusion inspired by countries and cultures throughout the region. Opening a restaurant that showcased his background and upbringing has always been a dream. Lakis has ethnic ties to Cyprus, an island with culinary influences from neighbours such as Greece, Turkey, Egypt and Syria. "I grew up in South Africa, and the school I went to had kids from Greece, Portugal, Spain, and from the Middle East," explains Lakis. "I loved being exposed to that diversity of food as a kid, and my family started adopting some of their cooking." He moved to Canada at the age of 12, and by high school he was a dishwasher working for Chef Darcy Radies in one of Edmonton's celebrated kitchens, the Blue Pear. He worked his way up in the kitchen, and the early exposure to the local gourmet food scene paved the way to Lakis's enrolment in the culinary arts program at NAIT. "Having one-on-one experience with someone like Darcy opened my eyes to what can be done," explains Lakis. "He allows and encourages you to bring creativity to the workplace."

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// Bryan Birtles

A Mediterranean oasis on Whyte Ave

Lakis is eager to be the first to expose people in Edmonton to a new type of cuisine. "There are Greek, Turkish and North African restaurants in Edmonton, but there is no one crossing borders with flavours like this." The sophisticated menu is sure to change the perception of Mediterranean food; the take-away souvlaki has been ditched for a dinner menu which features Moroccan-spiced chicken kebab, slowbraised lamb, and wild mushroom and mascarpone risotto.

The starter dishes are inspired by a traditional tapas experience. "I went to Barcelona last year and I just love how they eat: little plates are packed with so many flavours, colours and complex textures to sample," explains Lakis. The feta phyllo parcel, considered a signature dish, combines feta in a phyllo pastry—deep fried so the cheese becomes soft and oozing— with Turkish honey and honeycomb. The Ouzo-cured gravlax, a Mediterranean twist on a Scandinavian salmon

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dish, is paired with candy beets, basil goat cheese mousse, and lemon gelée. "There is so much that you can do with this type of food that people haven't experienced in Edmonton," explains Lakis. Even the Sunday brunch is designed to offer something new. "We have a lamb and chorizo hash, which is a very hearty dish for the winter months. Our crêpe features macerated fruit from the weekend farmers' markets served with mascarpone and brandy crème anglaise."

While the inspiration for the menu has an international flavour, the journey began with influences from his family. "When we opened, my mother was back in the kitchen with an apron on, showing everyone how to properly make desserts," laughs Lakis. "She loves the restaurant; she's probably in here every day." The result is a gourmet Mediterranean fusion of flavours that is unique to Ousia, and mother-approved. Sharman Hnatiuk

// sharman@vueweekly.com

BEER

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Hop heads rejoice—the Hop Box arrives in Alberta Hop Box Phillips Brewing, Victoria, BC $24.99 for 12 pack

only thing Phillips brews, and it could have offered other styles. But I must admit this fits the brewery's personality to a tee. As regular readers will know, in this Phillips Brewing loves its hops. It spespace I normally select one beer to cializes in bitter, hoppy beer. As menreview. I tell a bit of the brewtioned it also has brown ale, ery's story, offer some backporter, pale lager and others ground on the beer and in its arsenal. But the bitter m offer my evaluation of the o beer are its first love. .c ly ek vuewe beer. Pretty good formula, tothepint@ Phillips is an unusual brewJason on the whole. ery in more ways than one. Foster Founded 10 years ago, Matt However, this week there was just no way I could restrict myself Phillips financed the start-up Spike to one beer. You see, I wanted to reLee-style with a half-dozen credit cards view something from Victoria's Phillips and a personal line of credit, as no bank Brewing, which recently entered the would give him a loan. As the only emAlberta market. I like the brewery's ployee for the first 18 months, he hand story and I like its beer. But when dedelivered beer around town in his Subaciding what to pick, I stumbled across ru station wagon, and even lived at the its sampler 12-pack. Most craft brewbrewery to minimize expenses. The first ers offer a sampler pack as a low-risk brewhouse was cobbled together with way to introduce its beer to new conspare parts and built from scratch by sumers, usually offering a range of Phillips: a classic example of DIY brewproduct to please all palates. ing. Today, Phillips employs more than This sampler was unusual. They call 20 people and distributes beer across it the Hop Box, and it contains three BC, and now Alberta—and those credit bottles each of four different India cards are long since paid off. Pale Ales. Yes, four versions of IPA— one of the hoppiest beer styles. I can But enough of the backstory. What say with a fair degree of confidence about the four IPAs in the box? The first that it is the only brewery in the world I sampled is the brewery's anchor beer, that offers a sampler pack consisting Hop Circle IPA. A medium gold beer, it only of IPAs. The thing is, it is not the holds a substantial head and releases

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a grassy, fruity hop aroma balanced with some biscuit backbone. The sip provides a soft, toffee malt upfront and some grassy hops in the middle. The linger is a classic American hop quality, with citrus, grass and a light fruit character of peach, pineapple and pear. A nicely balanced American-style IPA. The Skookum Cascadian Brown Ale, one of the first Canadian attempts at a new style invented in the northwest US, Dark IPA—sometimes called Cascadian IPA—is a hybrid between a brown ale and an IPA. The Skookum pours mahogany brown with a light tan head, offering chocolate and nut aroma blended with a grassy hop accent. The flavour is similarly blended. It starts with milk chocolate and roasted almond sweetness but the beer sharpens quickly with the onset of a grassy, woody hop flavour. The finish is both nutty and bitter. This isn't the best version I have tasted of this new style, but it does offer an intriguing balance of flavours. The third is also an intriguing experiment. It is an IPA made from a single type of hop to spotlight the character of that hop. They call it Grow Hop and use only the American classic hop Cascade in it. The aroma gives away right away which hop it is; sharp and grassy with a distinct grapefruit note. The fla-

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vour also channels Cascade, balanced by a light biscuit malt base. A lovely beer that proves that a great IPA need not be complicated. Cascade can hold up the entire hop bill on its own. I hope Philips does more in this series. My favourite of the four might just be the Krypton Rye Pale Ale, which despite the name is an IPA and as the name suggests uses malted rye. A light gold beer with a rocky white head, the aroma is sharp and citrusy with big hops and a touch of angular malt. The first part of the sip delivers a spicy, almost peppery, malt sweetness accented by some light fruit. This is the rye talking—it adds a sharp spiciness to a beer. The hops are equal to the task, providing a satisfying grapefruit and pine bitterness. The linger has a lovely blend of citrusy hop and peppery malt. This beer works for me because through the rye it offers a new dimension to IPA that accents the hop really well.

I think I mentioned that Philips brews other beer as well, including some good Belgian-style ales. But hops is what the brewery is about, and if you are too, you need to pick up this oneof-a-kind sampler pack. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.

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slow-motion powder cloud crystallizes before me like a wormhole—universe altering and time suspending. Passing through, I enter a state of existence known as flow. In one part of my mind I know I'm at Marmot Basin in Jasper, punching through softpack in Milk Run and Elevator Chutes, taking the powder in Birthday Bowl—but my forethoughts are fixated purely on optimal movement through this living landscape, outside of time. Then, with a sudden jolt, I snap back to the present. It's 3:44 pm. Precisely.

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I know because when you wake up from the flow of a day spent dashing from one experience to the next, it's like opening your eyes to a beeping alarm clock, LED lights glowing: 3:44, 3:44, 3:44. So what's the big deal about 3:44? It's just one minute away from lift closing at the Knob Chair. Having just charged through Charlie's Bowl and ripped through the thin gossamer of the continuum once more, off a diving board in the middle of the run, all I can think is, "Again." No words necessary, I motion to my riding partner. We simultaneously kick into high gear, aiming for the lift. Skidding into the hard-packed loading zone, I pull up to see a rickety wooden sandwich board showing a lift with

a red circle and line drawn through. Closed. Glancing up, I see the lucky last riders a mere six chairs ahead. Not prepared to give up yet, the two of us reach the same conclusion at once: the Ridge! This time we make it—barely. Moments later, standing atop the Ridge, I glimpse the shimmer of another wormhole. Time plays a bigger role in the alpine experience than we sometimes realize. Seasonal cycles leech into the psyche, stirring limbic responses as fall turns to winter and snowflakes begin to sift through the hourglass. "When?" we ask. For Marmot Basin the answer is usually Remembrance Day weekend, the resort's traditional, if tentative open-

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ing day. Next comes the waiting, praying for snow and, when it comes, the superstitious algorithms calculating how long it will last and how to maximize our slopetime. In its simple, ordered way, the daily rhythm of the resort is almost sensuous. In Alberta, mountain resorts tend to open at 9 am. Marmot's no exception. For diehards, this means the 20-minute drive up to the resort often starts in pre-dawn light, mired in dark blues and purples. Ascending switchbacks, the road climbs into day with warm orange hues and diamonds glittering like promises in the snow. From 8:30 am on, parking lots slowly begin to fill—decks of cards spread across the snowy earth for gods to shuffle. The first ski shuttle arrives at

8:50, later disgorging ever-increasing loads of skiers on the mountain at 10:20 and 12:35. Tick, tock, inhale, exhale, ebb and flow. All the calendars and hourly schedules are useful to the skier who wants to plan a smooth trip. But as important as event dates, opening hours and travel departure times are for planning your day, knowing the migration patterns of the masses is also useful to avoid the traffic in search of a different flow. Either way, time impacts us all at the hill in some way. For the most part it is inescapable, except in those rare instances. But that escape is exactly what the true Jasper experience offers. CONTINUED ON PAGE 27 >>

REVUE ICE ON WHYTE

// Craig Janzen

Runs until Jan 22.

This year's Ice on Whyte features beautiful ice sculptures lighting up the night, several vocal complaints about the weather*, a giant ice slide, frost-bitten ears, a children's play area, icicles on noses, live musical entertainment, numb fingers and more! *Don't worry, it's supposed to get better soon.

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SNOW ZONE // SNOWMOBILING

Sled revolution, part 2 Environment, access and economy On the web altasnowmobile.ab.ca thegoldentriangle.ca ironhorsetrail.ca

ross over the BC border and you'll find snowmobilers ripping it up in the backcountry from Fernie up through Revelstoke and into Valemount. Look around town and many of the rigs and trailers will be sporting Alberta plates. Mountain sledding really doesn't happen in Alberta, one of the reasons those tragic sledding avalanches in Western Canada over the last few years happened in BC and not here. Snowmobilers just aren't hitting Alberta's mountains; not because the mountains here are any less appealing or more dangerous, but because, legally, they can't. Back in the 1970s and early '80s, the federal and provincial governments passed laws prohibiting snowmobile access to many of the eastern slopes of the Rockies (and within national parks entirely). Watershed protection and wildlife conservation were among the key reasons for the decision, cites Neal Watson, a spokesperson with Alberta Sustainable Resource Development. Since then, little has changed. Turned away from the mountains, sled sport in Alberta focused on touring the

Sled Sled Revolution

foothills, valleys and prairies, where it remains today. Geographically, that's what the province has most of anyway—and Alberta's trail networks and prairie landscapes offer ample opportunity for recreation, boasting between 5000 and 6000 kilometres of maintained trails. But the province is missing out on a major recreational and economic devel-

opment opportunity in Chris Brookes' view. "These land closures have driven a lot of economic activity to BC," says the executive director for the Alberta Snowmobile Association. But the closures don't reasonably reflect snowmobiling's environmental impact, he argues. "Our trails melt in the spring. Come summertime, other than the cutlines through the trees that we groom, you won't know our machines were there." However, the government still has concerns. Wildlife disturbance from the noise and presence of snowmobiles, damage to vegetation and pollution from exhaust and engine leaks are among sledding's negative environmental impacts, Watson cites. "Snowmobiles can cause compacting and icing over, which can damage vegetation," he explains. Despite lowered noise volume from more efficient machines, "Winter is a stressful time for wildlife, so

we want to avoid disturbance as much as possible during that time," he adds. "Historically, we have to go back to what Albertans have told us are their priorities." Based on prevailing attitudes, the current approach isn't likely to change any time soon, Watson reveals. Take the Alberta Rockies out of the equation and that still leaves plenty of land ripe for riding in the province. When you've got machines that can travel at speeds of over 180 kilometres per hour, you can find adventure almost anywhere, on any terrain. Take Whitecourt, the "Snowmobile Capital of Alberta," one of three community hubs on the Golden Triangle— a 350-kilometre touring loop that also encompasses Fox Creek and Swan Hills. Clubs like the Whitecourt Trailblazers, one of over 30 local sled groups in Alberta, organize regular group rides and,

occasionally, as they did in 2009, bring in elite events like Sled Invasion. However briefly, Whitecourt was the host locale for the Guinness World Record for distance backflip on a snowmobile. If that kind of daredevilry doesn't get the adrenalin pumping, not much will. But it's not all about adrenalin. "Snowmobiling at its core is a communitydriven sport," Brookes says. Large, multigenerational rides are common and for many it's a family activity. But there's also an element of necessity in that equation. "If you break down in cold temperatures far from help, you've got a long walk back." For that reason, sledders often prefer trails that inscribe circuits or have access points to communities. While some areas like the Golden Triangle, Iron Horse Trail or Lost Creek-York Creek trail (in the Crowsnest Pass) are well serviced with warm-up areas and trails to connect communities, there are still many areas that are not. Closing loops and connecting trails and communities is high on the Alberta Snowmobile Association's radar. With that in mind, the association has forged good working relationships with the Alberta government and other stakeholders working to develop Alberta's recreational corridors. But there's more work to be done, in advocacy, education and outreach before the larger vision of a connected, accessible snowmobile trail system can be realized. Because in the end, it's not just about building trails and accessing land, it's about the people who lay claim to that land. And that may well be where the next frontier lies. Jeremy Derksen

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"Environment, access and economy" is the second in Jeremy Derksen's three-part series on sled sport in Alberta. Watch for the final piece on January 26.

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Walking in a winter wonderland

inter is back on track after a much-needed dump of snow this week, and as skiers, sledders and snowshoers effervesce with glee, the organizers of this year's Winter Light Adventure Walk are also in buoyant spirits. "We've really been wanting snow," says festival director Pamela Anthony. "One of the guiding principals of this festival is to celebrate winter ... the walk is magical when the creek is filled with lots of snow." The adventure walk, now in its fourth year, is a "mysterious and mag-

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ical journey" along a short trail in Mill Creek Ravine Park that sparkles with light installations, she explains. Local artist Dylan Toymaker has transformed a walk through the woods into a snowy spectacle for adults and children of all ages. Guided by a cast of weird and wonderful woodland creatures, visitors enter a giant living fairytale and adventure through the light-filled trees, lanterns in hand, as the story unfolds. "It's an open air story, an original work, about Aurora, Queen of the Northern Lights and her animal

Adventurers join the trail just north of the Mill Creek Pool and are met with warming fires and free hot chocolate. There's also a lantern-making tent, where attendees can craft their own guiding light using materials provided and become part of the shimmering light parade. Dressed in carnival-style costumes, a crowd of entertainers and singers are on hand throughout the walk to guide visitors on their way and tell them Aurora's tale as they journey toward her Winter Meadow. The walk isn't designed to be a strenuous hike, Pamela adds, and an alternative trail is available for those with strollers or mobility issues. Attendees should wear sturdy winter boots and dress appropriately. The Mill Creek Adventure Walk is free of charge and will take place on Friday, January 27 and Saturday, January 28, from 7 pm – 10 pm. Visit winterlight.ca for more information. Kate Irwin

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friends," Pamela enthuses. "We have a huge public lantern display and the entire creek comes alive with lights ... it's wonderful to see grownups and kids with stars in their eyes."

score. After the first win last month, he vowed not to take off the yellow leader's bib and so far, he's been true to his word, stretching his lead to 110 points. Our Canadian ladies weren't far behind Kingsbury's heroics in Quebec. Justine Dufour-Lapointe captured the silver medal in her mogul event and Spruce Grove's Chelsea Henitiuk wasn't far behind in fourth place—her best-ever finish on the tour. This weekend, they'll all be competing again at Lake Placid, NY, before heading west to Calgary to compete at Canada Olympic Park on January 28 and 29. If you want to see gifted athletes pounding bumps and soaring through the air, this will definitely be your best opportunity this winter. Both moguls and aerials will be contested when the tour rolls into Calgary.

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Canadian freestylers crank up the heat

One of Canada's freestyle stars, Mikael Kingsbury, continues to dominate the World Cup mogul circuit with his third win in a row last weekend at Mont Gabriel, Quebec. Even with the country's Olympic champion, Alex Bilodeau, making his season debut, Kingsbury was not thrown off his stride and held onto his perfect

Sunshine Village has announced the opening of the massive Rogers Terrain Park—one of the best in the Rockies. Located near the base of the Great Divide Chair, the park opened with about 14 features, including jumps, rails and boxes where boarders and skiers can hone their freestyle skills. The park stretches across 12 acres of ground—enough to keep any park rat entertained. In the past, other resorts managed to overshadow Marmot Basin's terrain park, but not any longer. With its new snowmaking equipment in place, staff groomed an impressive park on the lower mountain earlier this season. This is a dramatic change from years gone by, when only a few features were gathered together at the top of Paradise. The new park comes with the bonus of great views from both high-speed quad chairs, so you can see all the action and wipeouts as they unfold. An impressive array of expert terrain at Fernie Alpine Resort is now much easier to access, thanks to the official opening of the resort's new Polar Peak Lift. This new chair reaches the upper slopes of the Currie Bowl. You won't find any green runs up there, but for experienced skiers and boarders, this opens an awesome selection of terrain previously only reached by those willing to take a hike. If you're looking for something to do this weekend, then be sure to take in Fernie's Raging Elk Cardboard Derby on January 21 at 1 pm. Competitors assemble their crafts from cardboard and other recyclables, dress in outrageous clothing and hurdle down the slopes to the delight of judges and spectators. The only challenge for observers is figuring out the best place to stand—at the start to enjoy the trash talking, near the middle where things inevitably start falling apart or at the finish to see competitors try to steer their craft to a halt on the target. V

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Sweet, sweet solitude

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Between those two bookends of first and last lift, everything else is up to chance. On heavy snowfall days, opening may be delayed for upper mountain chairs—the Ridge and Knob in particular—due to avalanche control work. Avy bombs rap like gavels on judgment day, pounding out seconds that last for hours. Powder seekers wait it out in agony, knowing that the exquisite torture will give way to euphoria—in time. Delayed openings generate excitement, tension and finally—as the chair begins spinning to ferry skiers up to fresh new snow—release. It can take years of exploring to figure out how to stretch a powder day beyond

the first few hours, once all the open runs are tracked. But if you do it right, you can exploit a good 25-centimetre snowfall (like the one Marmot had in early January) for nearly three days. Eventually, that knowledge becomes intuitive, and you learn how to manifest it on the mountain. Flow. No consulting trail maps, no lengthy discussions about where to next—you just go. When you're in that flow, you're not paying attention to the efficiency of lifts. In some unconscious way it may register that the mountain skis bigger than it did before the Canadian Rockies Express and the new Paradise Quad went in. Theoretically, with the addition of those two lifts, you could increase your actual skiing time by approximately 150 per cent by riding them

exclusively. However, what matters is not the geek factor of travel time, but the lack of impediments as time loses meaning, replaced by the uncommon sensation of true freedom. Too soon, of course, it all comes to an end as 4 pm brings last lifts at the Paradise, Ridge, Canadian Rockies Express and Eagle (with the exception of the School House at 4:30 pm, to ferry weary riders and skiers back to their cars). Likewise, the season; this year Marmot Basin has tentatively pegged May 6 as its closing date, seemingly far away and yet looming close as the wheels of time churn on. Along the way are the milestones: the holiday season, Family Day weekend, Easter and, of course, Jasper in January. The annual return of this event, now in its 23rd year, is one of those traditions that has become intricately linked with winter in Jasper, offering the chance to reflect on history with lectures and exhibits, slow down a rapid day with tea or a bowl of chili, or perhaps rediscover childhood with a snowball fight at the new Yukigassen battle. Observing these rites is a way of both marking the passage of time and entering into the flow of the season, a way to harness the fleeting moments. The hours, days and years may pass, but somewhere out there is a wormhole with your name on it.

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PREVUE // FOLK

Live from the cold

Gordie Tentrees and the recording of Naked in Scandinavia nitely in my head, but with an audience I was gone immediately in that [performing live] direction.

Gordie Tentrees loves playing in the cold

Gordie Tentrees Sat, Jan 21 Black Dog (4 pm) Northern Lights Folk Club (8 pm)

ailing from the Yukon, Gordie Tentrees has always had to go far and wide to perform his music. Recently, however, he released his first live album, recorded in a place that was particularly far from home. Entitled Naked in Scandinavia, the album was recorded in Finland. Tentrees opened up to Vue Weekly about the making of the album. How do you prepare differently for a performance you know will be recorded for an album? Gordie Tentrees: I put more thought into song selection, live sounds and also visualize what I wanted to come across in my show that day. Trying to think of it as just another show is the hardest part. Finding a balance in my mind between recording and performing live was defiVue Weekly:

VW: Tell me about how you chose the songs that would be on the live album. GT: Songs were selected based on their strength lining up against each other. I wanted to also include some new songs mixed with older ones combined with stories about them, as I knew some people often enjoy the stories more than the song. I was also performing solo, so I wanted tunes I felt comfortable with [on] the instruments I was using: acoustic guitar, dobro, harmonica and porchboard bass. VW: How much higher are the stakes for a performance you know will be recorded for posterity—was there a backup plan if things didn't go well? GT: There was a bit of pressure on myself to play well and connect well live with the audience, but I figured if it did not turn out well I would not use it. I had a songwriter/producer/engineer friend (Sarah Macdougall) with me on tour at the time and after much talk of getting some gear to record live shows we finally found it in Finland, built right in. I trusted her opinion with the end result and was lucky to be on tour with her then at the time for that reason. Sarah sings and plays melodica with me on a tune as well. My backup plan was to not put it out if it stunk. I mean once you do, it's out there. Having a tourmate who is also a producer/engineer was helpful.

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VW: You perform all over the world, what made you want to record a live album in Finland? GT: To be honest it happened that day and could have been in Texas or Italy. The original plan was to record some live tracks from several shows during the tour I was on. I was on a threemonth, eight-country, 80-plus-concert tour at the time, I figured it would be neat to get clips of all the shows and put them together. I hit Finland near the end of the tour so after that many nights in a row I was feeling very comfortable. When I got to Helsinki I met Juha Ruenanen at Livegraphy Studio where this album was recorded. He had recorded live albums with Martha Scanlan and the Foghorn String Band previously in his room with his gear and he made me feel like an opportunity was in the making. I definitely have Juha and Sarah to thank for helping me to capitalize on it. I feel in love with Scandinavia, it reminds me of all the best parts of Ontario were I grew up, so I feel pretty good that it happened there. Bryan Birtles

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formed that were left off the album? How did you make those decisions? GT: There was one song, "No Integrity Man," that I really wanted on there but I left out. It requires some intensity and commitment but that day I just did not have it. I actually forgot a line in the tune—not that the audience noticed but I thought after hearing it back that it would bother me more to keep it on there than not.

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FIRSTS, LASTS, AND FAVOURITES

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Threza Schlenkrich First album

I actually won The Carpenters' Greatest Hits when I was about nine years old, from a 630 CHED radio station phone-in contest thingy. My Mom told me the answer to the question and the album was delivered to our house in the next hour. We wore that record out listening to it until it became so scratched we had to throw it out.

Last concert

I played a New Year's Eve gig at a City of Grande Prairie family facility this past New Year's. The Rockin' Rhythm Cats were up before me—they [had] great dancing, upbeat music. [It's] an all-family band from Rycroft, Alberta. Favourite album

First concert

The first concert I saw was Long John Baldry in Fort McMurray. I was about 15 years old. Sat, Jan 21 (7 pm) Bohemia, $15

ailing from Grande Prairie, singer-songwriter Threza Schlenkrich may have entered the music business later in life than most—her first granddaughter was two years

old when she released her first album—but that hasn't stopped her from keeping pace with her younger compatriots. Coming to Edmonton to support the release of her second album, Call to the Sparrow, she shared some of her musical milestones with Vue Weekly.

Currently my favourite CD is Hymns from the Desert, by Alana Levandoski. Every song is stellar.

Last album

Musical guilty pleasure

I heard Colleen Brown playing live in the CBC studio on the radio and liked her so much, I went online and bought her album Foot in Heart.

I guess it's listening to Anne Murray's "Cotton Jenny," a song I remember from my childhood.

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NEWSOUNDS

Dario Mollo and Tony Martin The Third Cage (Frontiers) 

Kate Bush 50 Words for Snow (Fish People)  On 50 Words for Snow, Kate Bush surrounds her naturally deepening voice with higher male pairings for seven songs, her guests ranging from Elton John on "Snowed in at Wheeler Street" to her own son Albert backing on opener "Snowflake"'s spacious meditations. Musically, the album's sparse and uncluttered, often just piano and vocals, with subtle splashes of drums and small flourishes of other instrumentation. That limited scope is by choice, though, and from those self-imposed limits come some incredibly beautiful reflections and moments, Bush's fantasies of love and loss carefully wrapped in measured, haunting pop and ghostly jazz.

This album isn’t completely awful. The combined powers of Tony Martin and Dario Mollo create some solid heavy metal tracks. Former Black Sabbath frontman Martin is given a chance to really extend his classic vocals, while guitar player—and composer of the majority of the tracks—Mollo puts together some great hooks and solid party anthems. Unfortunately, there are some stand-out terrible tracks. One of the few is an unfortunate attempt at an upbeat love ballad—“One of the few that could really love you / One of the few that refuse to cry / One of the few that really cares about you”—which is just awful. But anthemic tracks like "Wardance" and "Wicked World" somewhat make up for the complete missteps. Samantha Power

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Kathleen Edwards Voyageur (Maple Music)

The Devil's Blood The Thousandfold Epicentre (Metal Blade)

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The Devil's Blood taps into a classic and epic sound of early heavy rock that is growing in popularity, yet this is no copycat or tribute band. Using elements familiar to any fan of Blue Cheer, Black Sabbath or Pentagram, the Devil's Blood manages to create a refreshing throw back to the early days of heavy metal. The entire album resonates with guitar solos that feel almost improvisational, but flow with the oldschool, clear and resounding vocals by Farida Lemouchi. While Lemouchi's early vocals waver slightly at times, she ultimately brings an operatic echoing quality throughout the album that will entice you to sit and listen to the album in its entirety.

Much has being written of both the divorce that Kathleen Edwards went through since her last album and her new relationship with Bon Ivor's Justin Vernon, and the effects of both upon Voyageur, but there's really not a lot of reinvention happening here. Edwards engages in the same sort of push and pull she always has lyrically, mixing heartfelt feelings with playful twists, and musically the album often flows breezily along without stirring up much dust. At times, though—in the lonesome sparseness of "House Full of Empty Rooms" and the tripping organ-andguitar mix of For the Record"—she reaches for the edge and sparks a glimmer of what may be yet to come.

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John K Samson, "When I Write My Master's Thesis" In advance of his forthcoming full-length, The Weakerthans' main man sends ahead a pretty Weakerthans-y rocker, tracing, in his usual on-point intimate details, a grad student's life unspooling all around his academic venture. It's set to garage-rock guitars and economic drumming; in other words, it's pretty much par for the John K Samson course. But if you have a soft spot for Winnipeg's favourite sons and/or happen to be a young academic, this is probably your new jam.

Mother Mother, "Bright Idea" Somewhere between Eureka, Mother Mother's flawed-but-not-meritless third album, and this made for-TV-commercial-tune, the band seems to have let its creative sparks dim to a particular low. There's a thick, glossy production covering "Bright Idea," but the real issue is that the band's most interesting components—the off-kilter boy-girl harmonies, the oddball lyrics—are sandblasted into a generic, saccharine ode to living your own life, how anything's possible and how love sure is great, isn't it? It's as bland as the cheese it's helping sell.

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jazz quartet that seems to put having fun at the top of its goals, Run Stop Run has nonetheless piled up the accolades. Following a well-received self-titled album last year, the group has hit the road, making a stop in Edmonton. Bandleader William Carn took the time to soundtrack his life at home and on the road.

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On the road

At home

Dick Oats, Standard Issue Miguel Zenon, Esta Plena Love the energy on the album—great way to start morning I find this album inspiring and it helps me get focused on music for the day. the day. Radiohead, The Bends My favourite Radiohead album! Dean Martin, Return to Me I always put on some Dean Martin while I'm cooking.

NOON

David Binney/Edward Simon, Oceanos Love the writing and playing on this album.

NIGHT

David Cross, Shut Up You Fucking Baby Always love listening to some stand up comedy on the road because it keeps us awake and laughing on long drives, and the time seems to pass more quickly

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Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Ryan Timoffee; 6pm; $25 if not dining 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 Eddie Shorts Acoustic jam every Sun; 9pm FILTHY McNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq Hogs Den Pub Dirty Jam: hosted by Tye Jones; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 4-8pm ice on whyte–Alberta Legislature’s West Lawn: AB Trio, 5:30-6:30pm, free; High-level Streetcar: Daniel Gervais; 6-7pm Newcastle Pub Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) New West Hotel Live country music Mon-Sat; Silverado NOLA Late show: The Lean Machine, 9:30pmmidnight O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks Funkafeelya and the Soulicitors ORLANDO'S 2 PUB Open stage jam every Sun; 4pm Pourhouse Bier Bistro Singer-songwriter open stage with Jay Gilday; every Sun, 9pm-close WunderBar Catgut (CD release), Diehatzu Hijets, Flint, Sir Ma'am Ma'am; 8:30pm Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical Art Gallery of Alberta–Ledcor TheatrE Gala: Edmonton Recital Society (ERS) with Amanda Forsyth (Cello), Angela Cheng (piano); 7:30pm; $40 (adult)/$35 (senior/ student) at TIX on the Square

Robertson-Wesley United Church All Broken Up: WindRose Trio featuring Sarah Ho (piano); 2pm; $20/$15 at TIX on the Square, door Westin Edmonton Opera: Opera Brunch: Food and an intimate recital by the artists starring in the production of The Mikado; 11am (brunch), 12:15pm (recital); $50 (child)/$70 (adult) Winspear Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto: ESO, Lucas Waldin (conductor), Scott MacIsaac (piano), Robin Doyon (trumpet); 2pm; $20-$25

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay Crown Pub Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuuze, J Plunder, guests 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

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BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy. Dance parties have been known to erupt FLOW Lounge Stylus Sun SAVOY LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover

Blues on Whyte Donald Ray Johnson Druid Irish Pub Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters with guest Julie Jonas; 9pm Grant MacEwan University Composition; 7:30pm L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am New West Hotel Live country music Mon-Sat; Boots and Boogie NOLA Early Show: ABtrio Approx. 6-9pm O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm Padmanadi Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:3010:30pm R Pub Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover Sherlock Holmes– WEM Amy Heffernan Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Wunderbar The Left Behinds, Consilience, Mr Fox and the Lonely Lights, Lucky and Stoned; 8:30pm Yardbird Suite Tue Night Sessions: Dino Dominelli Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5 at door

MON JAN 23 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover Blues on Whyte Donald Ray Johnson Devaney's Sean Brewer New West Hotel Live country music Mon-Sat; Boots and Boogie NOLA Early Show: ABtrio Approx. 6-9pm 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

Classical City Hall– City Room Sneak preview: excerpts from Alissa Cheung’s recital Made in Canada; 12 noon

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VENUE GUIDE 180 Degrees 10730-107 St, 780.414.0233 Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Art Gallery of Alberta– Ledcor Theatre 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq Avenue Theatre 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blacksheep Pub 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St Boneyard Ale House 921634 Ave, 780.437.2663 Brittanys Lounge 1022597 St (behind Winspear stage door) Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Carrot Café 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 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 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 901388 Ave, 780.465.4834 THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 Dow's Shell Theatre–Fort Saskatchewan 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan, 780.992.6400 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St Eddie Shorts 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ‎ Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Expressionz Café 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH Night Club 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 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 Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery 9942108 St Good Neighbor Pub 11824-103 St Grant MacEwan University Centre for the Arts and Communications Campus, John L. Haar Theatre,

10045 - 155 St 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 Holy Trinity Anglican Church 10037-84 Ave HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Iron Boar Pub 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin JAMMERS PUB 11948-127 Ave, 780.451.8779 J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132-104 St Lizard Lounge 13160-118 Ave Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Maclab Centre for the Arts–Leduc 4308-50 St, Leduc Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999

New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) Nisku Inn 1101-4 St NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola. 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 10860-57 Ave Pourhouse Bier Bistro 10354 Whyte Ave, pourhouseonwhyte.ca Queen Alexandra Hall 10425 University Ave REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 Red Piano Bar 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 Rendezvous 10108-149 St Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 Robertson-Wesley United Church 10209-123 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 St R Pub 16753-100 St,

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JAN 20-21 DERINA HARVEY JAN 23 SEAN BREWER JAN 25 DUFF ROBINSON JAN 27-28 AMY HEFFERNAN edmontonpubs.com

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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 Ruby Tuesdays guest with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every CRown Pub Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin And Mc Touch DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue 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 JAN 25 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Blues on Whyte Donald Ray Johnson Cha Island Tea Co Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm Crown Pub The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed Devaney's Duff Robinson 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; Send Breezy to Memphis Farewell Party: Potluck snacks; Live music; all ages; all styles of music Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery Breezy Brian Gregg; every Wed; 12-1pm Grant MacEwan University Percussion; 7:30pm

HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm Jubilee Auditorium City and Colour (alt rock), The Low Anthem; 7pm (door); $44.50 (adv at UnionEvents. com) New West Hotel Live country music Mon-Sat; Boots and Boogie Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm NOLA Early Show: ABtrio Approx. 6-9pm Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass Wed jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; 6.30pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Red Piano Bar Wed Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm1am; $5 Second Cup–149 St Open Stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm

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Sherlock Holmes– WEM Amy Heffernan Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Derina Harvey Winspear David Garrett: Rock Symphonies: David Garrett (violin), ESO, Franck van der Heijden (conductor); 7:30pm; $91.25-$159.50

Classical Art Gallery of Alberta–Ledcor Theatre Opera 101: backstage with Jeff McCune; 7pm; free Convocation Hall Edmonton Chamber Music Society: Rossetti String Quartet with Rina Dokshitsky (piano); 8pm; $35 (adult)/$25 (senior)/$10 (student) at tixonthesquare. ca, Gramophone McDougall United Church Julie Amundsen and Janna Olson (cello and piano); 12:1012:50pm; free

DJs 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 FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

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Across 1 "___ wish" (line from "The Princess Bride") 6 Makers of the 90, 900 and 9000 10 "Gnarly!" 13 Sorer than sore 14 Gp. that'll teach you how to serve 15 "It was 20 years ___ today..." 16 Universal's 1985 Chevy Chase comedy 17 Burger chain with a bird mascot 19 Invasive crawling plant 20 Universal's 1976 Richard Pryor comedy 21 Pronoun separated by a slash 25 Have the desire 26 "Later!" 29 Late writer/philosopher/"psychonaut" McKenna 31 With 44-across, Universal's 1977 Burt Reynolds comedy 33 "Did I do that?" character 37 Chew toy filler 38 MCD divided by X 39 Movie role played by George Burns and Morgan Freeman 41 "Gangsta Lovin'" rapper 42 Twin Falls' state 44 See 31-across

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47 Not at sea 49 Capital home to the Viking Ship Museum 50 Result 53 "Had you fooled for a second there" 55 Universal's 1984 Emilio Estevez flick 57 Knuckle-cracking, e.g. 61 World capital within the Distrito Federal 63 Universal's 1980 Olivia Newton-John musical 64 "Breaking Bad" network 65 Abbr. for a president 66 Adjective for fairy tales and Nick Jr. shows 67 Vote shown on C-SPAN 68 Spoiled kid 69 Come after Down 1 Gp. concerned with rights 2 Place to store tools 3 Former Israeli Prime Minister Rabin 4 With perfect timing 5 "That's disgusting" 6 Big ___ (California region) 7 "Hey, wait ___!" 8 When duels take place, often

9 Scary-looking fish 10 Morocco's capital 11 Like some hiring practices 12 "Tiny Bubbles" crooner 13 "I'm not typing right now" acronym 18 "For sale by ___" 22 "Kilroy Was Here" group 23 One wish for the new year, on many a greeting card 24 West end? 26 Fusion chef Ming ___ 27 In the thick of 28 ___ Bora (mountain area in old bin Laden news) 30 Lawn tools 32 Friedrich Hayek's field 34 Adidas alternative 35 Resident ___ (PlayStation game) 36 Actor Jared who sings in 30 Seconds to Mars 40 Follow instructions 43 Hostess snacks 45 Move like a wallaby 46 Words after "Look, ma!" 48 Soviet monster 50 Country singer Keith 51 Prefix before tan or frost 52 Not focused 54 Pen-desk connector, at some banks 56 "The Godfather" film scorer ___ Rota 58 Singer Erykah 59 "This'll be the day that ___..." ("American Pie" refrain) 60 One day: abbr. 62 Be a thespian 63 Classic Jaguar ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

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FREEWILL ASTROLOGY ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): The Macy's ad I saw in the newspaper had a blaring headline: "Find Your Magic 2.0." The items touted to help us discover our more deluxe sense of magic were luxurious diamond rings. The cheapest was $2150. I'm going to try to steer you in another direction. I do believe you are in an excellent position to do just that, but only if you take a decidedly non-materialistic approach. What does your intuition tell you about how to hook up with a higher, wilder version of the primal mojo? TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): The US Constitution has survived 222 years, longer than the constitution of any other nation on the planet. But Thomas Jefferson, might have had a problem with that. He believed our constitution should be revised every 19 years. I would apply that same principle of regular reinvention to all of us as individuals—although I think it should be far more frequently than every 19 years. How long has it been since you've

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amended or overhauled your own rules to live by? I suspect it's high time. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): "It is respectable to have no illusions—and safe—and profitable and dull," said author Joseph Conrad. I propose that we protest the dullness of having no illusions. Let's decry the blah gray sterility that comes from entertaining no fantastic fantasies. How boring it is to have such machine-like mental hygiene! I urge you to celebrate your crazy ideas. Treasure and adore your wacky beliefs. Study all those irrational and insane urges running around your mind to see what you can learn about your deep, dark unconsciousness. (PS: I'm not saying you should act on any of those phantasms. Simply be amused by them.) CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): If you were a medieval knight going into battle with a full suit of armour, the advantage you had from the metal's protection was offset by the extra energy it took to haul around so

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much extra weight. In fact, historians say this is one reason that a modest force of English soldiers defeated a much larger French army at the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. The Frenchmen's armour was much bulkier, and by the time they slogged through muddy fields to reach their enemy, they were too tired to fight at peak intensity. The moral of the story, as far as you're concerned: To win a great victory in the coming weeks, shed as many of your defense mechanisms and as much of your emotional baggage as possible. LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): One way or another, you will be more famous in the coming months than you've ever been before. That might mean you'll become better known or more popular ... or it could take a different turn. To tease out the nuances, let's draw on Naomi Shihab Nye's poem "Famous." "The river is famous to the fish. // The loud voice is famous to silence, / which knew it would inherit the earth / before anybody said so. // The cat

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sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds / watching him from the birdhouse. // The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek. // The idea you carry close to your bosom / is famous to your bosom." VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Three famous actresses formed the British Anti-Cosmetic Surgery League last year. Rachel Wiesz, Kate Winslet, and Emma Thompson say they believe people should be happy with the physical appearance that nature gave them. Is it rude of me to note that unlike most of the rest of us, those three women were born gorgeous? It's easy for them to promise not to mess with their looks. Do you ever do that? Urge other people to do what's natural for you but a challenge for them? If you want to influence someone to change, be willing to change something about yourself that's hard to change. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): I predict major breakthroughs in your relationship to intimacy and togetherness in 2012,

Libra—if, that is, you keep in mind the following counsel from psychologist Dr Neil Clark Warren: "Attraction and chemistry are easily mistaken for love, but they are far from the same thing. Being attracted to someone is immediate and largely subconscious. Staying deeply in love with someone happens gradually and requires conscious decisions, made over and over again." SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): Purslane is a plant that's also known colloquially as pigweed. It's hearty, prolific and spreads fast. It can grow out-of-control, covering a large area with a thick carpet. On the other hand, it's a tasty salad green and has a long history of being used as a cooked vegetable. As a medicinal herb, it's also quite useful, being rich in omega-3 fatty acids as well as a number of vitamins and minerals. Moral of the story: keep pigweed contained—don't let it grow out of CONTINUED ON PAGE 37 >>

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Recognizing nongendered titles a struggle, even at Xtra There's been a label brouhaha brewing was a faux pas, which would mostly be over at Xtra! Canada's Gay and Lesbian OK if he had just removed it after Tronic News. It's not actually that hard a job asked. Instead he defended himself proto refer to people how they want to be fusely, used the creepy "some of my best referred to, as much as we've been friends are trans!" argument and making a fuss about it lately. A basically reacted in a variety of simple business most of the transphobic ways. After calls time, every now and then for a boycott he would later om .c accommodating when reissue what was deemed an ly k e vuewe tam@ quests come up. We've been apology, but the bizarre piece a r Tama a doing it for years, certainly the of writing blamed Tronic more k l a Gorz part where things flow, adept and than it repented. A few weeks change. That's all just part of the game, later Calgarian singer-songwriter Rae except some people just really don't Spoon would turn down an Xtra! cover want to change. and interview because they wouldn't reIt started in November when Xtra respect "they" as their chosen pronoun and fused to honour artist Elisha Lim's reexplained it in their blog. Surprisingly, quest to be referred to by the pronoun Xtra! allowed poet and 11-year column "they." Although the magazine did run a writer Ivan Coyote to do a piece criticizstory quoting Lim saying these words, it ing them on it called "'They' is me." would not honour the pronoun switch. A few weeks later Xtra interviewed Lexi Xtra! is a queer magazine with three Tronic, a trans and sex worker's rights main publications in Toronto, Ottawa activists. Edmontonians may remember and Vancouver and a website that covher for the time she spent hosting weekers news and current events across ly drag shows here and others might Canada and the world. It's been runhave caught her as one of the original ning since 1984 and is the only place stars of Showcase's breakthrough sex to get comprehensive Canadian coverseries KinK. The story's editor, Danny age of gay news. Xtra! has long served Glenwright, decided to share the story the issues that matter to me and my on his personal Facebook wall and when community, like Queers Against Israeli he did so he added Tronic's birth name. Apartheid's exclusion from Pride ToTronic was naturally uncomfortable ronto and Alberta's fight for gender with this, especially since it turned out re-assignment surgery. The magazine is the two had known each other since fast and thorough with coverage, and childhood in Winnipeg and shared many is better diversified both with race and acquaintances. Glenwright, an editor at sexual and gender variance. an LGBTQ paper, claimed he didn't know It is forgiveable that Danny Glenwright sharing the birth name of a trans person called Lexi Tronic the wrong name. Few

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control—and it will be your friend. Does anything in your life fit that description? SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): As he approaches his 70th birthday, retiree and Michigan resident Michael Nicholson is still hard at work adding to his education. He's got 27 college degrees so far, including 12 master's degrees and a doctorate. Although he's not an "A" student, he loves learning for its own sake. I nominate him to be your role model for the coming weeks. Your opportunities for absorbing new lessons will be at a peak. I hope you take full advantage of all the teachings that will be available. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): The Bible addresses the subjects of money and possessions in about 2000 verses, but devotes only 500 verses to prayer and 500 to faith. My advice in these horoscopes usually tends to have the opposite emphasis. But this time, I'm going to be more like the Bible. Please proceed on the assumption that you have a mandate to think extra deeply and creatively about money and possessions in the coming weeks. Feel free, too, to pray for financial guidance and meditate on increasing your cash flow.

trans people I know get upset at anyone who is truly trying to get the process right. They know it's hard too. They understand. All Tronic wanted was the removal of Glenwright's post, which he refused to do and felt he had the right "to spark debate." In Ivan's column she reveals, aghast, that a student contacted her having been given the class assignment to identify her birth name. Who are these people who think others identities are their playthings? As for Spoon and Lim, their request for a new pronoun may seem terrifying and new to scared editors, but a time will come that they'll have to surrender to calls for a third label, whatever that may be. We're living in a society where modern, accepting people mostly agree that gender is fluid and grey, but we still don't have common words to describe that. Or we could just scrap the labels all together. That might work, too. I really like Xtra. Its main webpage shows a focus on queer Canadian and global issues that are not seen on most mainstream gay sites. The visual diversity on the magazine's images—of skin colour, gender expression, age—is unparalleled. That's why this is all so terribly frustrating for activists. If we can't get Xtra on our side, how can we win over anyone else? V

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Here's one of my favourite quotes from American philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson: "I hate quotations. Tell me what you think." The current astrological omens suggest that this is an excellent message for you to heed. It's crucial for you to know your own mind and speak your own thoughts. It's smart to trust your own instincts and draw on your own hard-won epiphanies. For best results, don't just be skeptical of the conventional wisdom; be cautious about giving too much credence to every source of sagacity and expertise. Try to define your own positions rather than relying on theories you've read about and opinions you've heard. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Why did Mark Gibbons strap a washing machine to his back and then climb to the top of Mount Snowdown in Wales? He did it to raise charity money for the Kenyan Orphan Project. If, you try anything as crazy as he did, make sure it's for an equally worthy cause. Don't you dare take on a big challenge simply to make people feel sorry for you or to demonstrate what a first-class martyr you can be. On the other hand, I'm happy to say that you could stir up a lot of good mojo by wandering into previously off-limits zones as you push past the limitations people expect you to honour. V

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Because Dan will tell you if you're doing it wrong My 13-year-old son came out to us this "On behalf of advocates for lesmorning. He plans to tell his brothers bian, gay, bisexual, and transgender in the next few days. We love youth everywhere, let me E G and accept our son, and this be the first to say 'Thank A SAV news isn't surprising (but you,'" says Eliza Byard, when will the stereotypical executive director of m o ekly.c vuewe neatness kick in?), but we do savagelove@ GLSEN (glsen.org), the Dan have some concerns. He has, Gay, Lesbian & Straight Savage Education Network, which apparently, already made the news public at school. Any pointers works to create safe school you can give? We want to make sure environments for LGBT—and he knows that we love him and don't straight—youth. "Simply by giving care about his sexuality, while at the your son your love and support, you same time preparing him to deal with have already significantly increased those people who do. Also, any advice his chances of living a happy and you can give for when he starts dating fulfilling life. The importance of an would be appreciated. accepting home cannot be overstatDAD SEEKS SUPPORT ed." (The damage that can be done

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by a hostile family also cannot be overstated: LGBT youth whose families are hostile are eight times likelier to commit suicide than their straight peers. Hostile parents can't make their gay kids straight, but they can make them dead.) "The bad news is that school can be a miserable place for LGBT youth," says Byard. "GLSEN's 2009 National School Climate Survey found that nearly nine out of 10 LGBT teens experienced harassment in school in the past year. The good news is that engaged parents can make a huge difference." So, DSS, while it's admirable that you want your son to understand that you "don't care about his sexuality," you also have to make your son understand that you care about him and that you're aware of the challenges he faces. "Talk to your son and learn more about his school and his experiences there since coming out," advises Byard. "What kind of response has he received? What supports are in place for him at school? Does the school have a Gay-Straight Alliance? Do students have access to LGBT-affirming resources in the library? Does the school have policies that address bullying? Are there adults in the school community whom he trusts and feels are supportive?" Call your son's school, DSS, and set up a meeting. Making sure his teachers and school administrators know that you're on your son's side—and they know you intend to hold them accountable—can go a long way toward creating a safe environment for your son at school. "Send a GLSEN Safe Space Kit

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(safespacekit.com) to your son's school to give educators the tools they need to provide support and create a safe space in their classroom for your son," advises Byard. "Visible signs of support, such as a GLSEN Safe Space sticker on a door, can fundamentally alter the school experience of an LGBT youth by helping them identify those adults in the community who are supportive." As for dating and sex ... "Treat your son with the same awkwardness you would your other kids," says Byard. "I'm speaking as a mom myself now. Make sure he has access to all the health and safety information he needs. (Sitting down to watch reruns of Will & Grace together won't cut it.) I have two daughters and want to be absolutely sure they have access to all the information they need to make smart and healthy—and potentially life-saving!—decisions. Make yourself available to talk whenever he needs and welcome his boyfriends inside the house the same way you would if they were girlfriends." I'm into BDSM and my safe word is "safe word." It's short, memorable, and unmistakable in its intent. Someone recently told me that "any serious BDSM player" would laugh me out of the community if I used that. Is she right? Is she just being a dickhead? Should I have to say something silly like "grapefruit" in order to get my point across? GRAPEFRUITS AREN'T GOOD

I may not be the best person to adjudicate this dispute, GAG, as my safe word is "popcorn." (And, yes, I cross my arms over my chest when I use it, as demonstrated here: tinyurl.com/safewordpopcorn.) But in my opinion, the woman who informed you that you would be laughed out of "the community" for your choice of safe word is being a huge dickhead. In fact, it sounds like she has a bad case of You're Doing It Wrong. YDIW is a social-skills disorder that members of the BDSM community are at particular risk of acquiring. (Others at heightened risk: religious conservatives, sports fans, advice columnists.) BDSMers with YDIW feel they have a right to inform other BDSMers that they're doing it wrong—whatever it might be—even if the "it" being done wrong poses no risk to the YDIW sufferer or anyone else. BDSM players should speak up, of course, when they witness other BDSMers doing something dangerously wrong. BDSMers who observe dangerous or nonconsensual play at public parties have a responsibility to speak the fuck up before

someone is seriously injured. The secondary, tertiary and quaternary goals of creating a BDSM community were the sharing of skills, the promotion of good play practices and the holding of dangerous or malicious players to account, respectively. (The primary goal? Getting BDSMers laid.) But some BDSMers confuse a responsibility to speak up when they witness dangerous play for an invitation to critique other people's kinks, sexual interests, preferred fetish roles, safe words, etc. YDIW in BDSMers—and social conservatives—can be treated and cured through the application of "NO ONE GIVES A FUCK WHAT YOU THINK, ASSHOLE." It should be applied liberally whenever YDIW flares up. I enjoyed your pieces and posts about monogamish couples. However, it's time for a Savage Love column or two dedicated to people who are in successful monogamous relationships! I have been with my partner for 10 years. Sure, we'll both flirt with a cute waiter and dance with hot guys at gay clubs, but we always go home together. It pisses me off when people assume that, because we are gay, we're having sex with every Tom, Dick and Harry. COUPLE OF COMPATIBLE KEEPERS

That's a wonderful idea, COCK. People in successful, long-term monogamous relationships—even those of you who aren't but think you are—are invited to send in their stories. Letters from monogamous sufferers of YDIW will not make it into the column, however. If you can't write about your monogamous relationship without disparaging those in nonmonogamous or monogamish relationships then, um, you're doing it wrong. (I told you advice columnists were at heightened risk of YDIW.) Tell us why monogamy works for you, how you've made it work, and what the upsides are. But please refrain from telling everyone who isn't doing it the way you do it that they're doing it wrong. That's my job. CONFIDENTIAL TO CANADA'S UNKNOWN LAWYER: Next time there's a legal hiccup in the fair application of Canada's marriage laws where same-sex couple are concerned, let's err on the side of not declaring thousands of same-sex marriages— mine included—to be "invalid," shall we? Let's skip the shitstorm next time and jump right to the fair and just resolution. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage.

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As my eyes adjust to the lofty interior from the bright winter light outside, MASSive cloud-like shapes come into view. The delicate diptych fills my field of vision, shifting as I approach it. On the left, a loose, open network of fine stokes. On the right, bold marks define a voluminous accumulation of animal-esque fibres.

MASS, by Dara Humniski, took eight days to hand-draw directly on the walls of the AGA’s Manning Hall, graffito-style, in the true historical sense of the word: that is, a work of art produced by scratching or penning a design onto a surface. At the “Conversation with the Artist” last Thursday, Catherine Crowston, the AGA's Acting Executive Director and Chief Curator, commented that Humniski's work speaks to a broader trend in the discipline of drawing, elevating the act of drawing from a strictly preparatory activity to an end in itself. Humniski said she was attracted to the temporal-

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ity of the drawing. It exists for a period of time and then it is painted over again, like a palimpsest, to make room for the next artist, but will remain beneath the surface until the walls come down. In the future, Humniski would like to fill a gallery space with drawings on a human scale with an added element of performance. “For the length of the exhibition, I would draw every day the gallery was open, all day, directly on the walls. The last night of the show would be the reception,” she says. To fully experience the artwork it must be viewed in person, which you can do for free for the duration of the exhibit until May 20 in the main entrance to the gallery. V Chelsea Boos is a multidisciplinary visual artist and flâneur. Back words is a discussion of her dérives and a photographic diary of the local visual culture.

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