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The new business of art Edmonton's Catalyst Theatre wasn't expecting to be the final show for the Vancouver Playhouse when it began its run of Hunchback a few weeks ago. But that's exactly what it became late last week when, after an emergency board of directors' meeting, artistic managing director Max Reimer announced the BC regional theatre would be closing, effective immediately after Hunchback's final performance. The Playhouse wasn't to finish out its announced season. It was just to stop. That shutters the doors of a theatrical institution that's spent 49 years as one of Canada's cornerstone theatres—it's like the Citadel announcing tomorrow it was going kaput, and, thanks for all the memories. It's big news, and offers a troubling view of the future for arts in the country, even if, for those familiar with the scene, it perhaps wasn't a total shock (the Playhouse has been in a financial struggle since 2008). Still, while there's plenty of ideas flowing out to resurrect the Playhouse, all very well-intentioned and important, patrons and artists need to start looking further down the line, and think about what actions can start happening now to repair what's looking like an increasingly busted theatre system. In an era of unprecedented choice for patrons of art and culture, all available with increasing convenience, pricey tick-
ets to large-scale theatrical spectacles aren't filling houses like they once were (at least in urban centres), and government-funding seems dryer than ever. Even smaller mainstage houses aren't as pulling the houses they once were—it's unlikely that the current theatre model is ever going to have the strength that it once did. Given that theatres like the Playhouse were to be the pillars of the art form across the country, artists need to find new ways of engaging their audiences, and find them quickly. It's not about dimishing quality of content, or that the calibre of theatre is waning. It's about giving an long, hard, honest look at the business of the art, how the world is changing, and finding a way of updating an archaic economic model for the modern age. It's surely a conversation long-underway, but the closure of the Vancouver Playhouse should be seen as a wake-up call to start moving beyond discussion to action, for theatre artists to find new ways of enticing people to come see what they do, if they hope to see full theatre seasons remain economically viable after the aging baby boomer bread-andbutter audience stop coming. As uncomfortable as it that may be for some to think about, those years aren't far away. Change needs to begin now, or the Vancouver Playhouse will simply be the first pillar to go in a line of them. V
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CONCERNING RESULTS According to a recent telephone survey, one out of 10 Albertan men believe there are acceptable circumstances in which to hit a woman. The survey, conducted by Leger Marketing, was released during the Breakfast with the Guys fundraiser put on by the Alberta Council of Women's Shelters, an event aimed at encouraging men to stand up
International Women's Day March against domestic violence. Concerning results include the belief by 13 percent of respondents that domestic violence was not as serious if it was the result of people becoming so angry they temporarily lose control, and that only 56 percent of men surveyed disagreed with the statement, "If a woman wears provocative clothing, she's putting her-
self at risk for rape." Not all of the results were as concerning. Nintey-one percent of men said they would intervene if they knew someone was involved in a violent relationship. According to Statistics Canada results in 2011, Alberta and Saskatchewan have the highest levels of spousal abuse in the country.
ers in the biological sciences department at the university write, "Claims by industry that they will 'return the land we use—including reclaiming tailings ponds—to a sustainable landscape that is equal to or better than how we found it' and that it 'will be replanted with the same trees and plants and formed into habitat for the same species' are clearly greenwashing."
Peatlands that were once water systems will be replaced with drained forests, which, without the water systems, do not assist the carbon capture process occurring in the current ecosystems. The study concludes that the loss of wetlands due to the industrial processes in the tar sands will result in a failure to capture 5734 to 7241 metric tons of carbon a year.
RECKLESS RECLAMATION Reclamation in the tar sands may not be the possibility some in the oil industry would like Albertans to believe. A new study published in the National Academy of Sciences, and conducted by researchers at the University of Alberta, has concluded that the damage to boreal ecosystems, specifically peatland and wetland systems, is too great to allow for reclamation to occur. Research-
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COMMENT >> CHINA
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Surviving the Great Recession will not stop the eventual fall
Political parties need motivated volunteers
China's going to crash Building a skyscraper is the ultimate into real estate. expression of economic confidence, Take the city of Wuhan, southwest of and more than half of the 124 skyscrapShanghai and about 500 km in from ers currently under construction in the the coast. It is only China's ninth-largest world are being built in China. But concity, but in addition to a skyscraper half fidence is often based on nothing more again as high as the Empire State Buildthan faith, hope and cheap credit, ing it is currently building a suband a frenzy of skyscraperway system that will cost $45 building is also the most relibillion, two new airports, a able historical indicator of an whole new financial district ly.com and hundreds of thousands k impending financial crash. e e w e@vue gwynn The Empire State Building e of new housing units. It is Gwynn and the Chrysler Building, paying for all this with cheap r e Dy the twin symbols of New York's loans from state-run banks. emergence as the world's financial Last year Wuhan municipality spent capital, were started at the end of the $22 billion on infrastructure and hous"Roaring Twenties" but completed in ing projects although its tax revenues the depths of the Great Depression. were only one-fifth of that amount. The Petronas Towers in Malaysia were The bank loans were made to special built just before the Asian financial investment corporations and do not crash of 1998. Burj al-Khalifa in Dubai, appear on the city's books. The only now the world's tallest building, was collateral the banks have is city-owned just starting construction when the land, and that is not a reliable asset in Great Recession hit in 2008. current circumstances. China avoided that recession by floodLand in Wuhan has tripled in price during its economy with cheap credit—but ing the property boom, and could quickthat credit has mainly gone into financly fall back to the old price or below if ing the biggest property and infrastrucconfidence in the city's future were to ture-building boom of all time. Such falter. That is quite likely to happen, booms always end in a crash, but this since Wuhan's housing stock is already time, we are told, will be different. so overbuilt that it would take eight "This time will be different" is the trayears to clear even the existing overditional formula used to reassure nerhang of unsold apartments at the curvous investors in the last years before rent rate of purchase, and never mind all a great economic bubble collapses. It the new stuff. was a constant refrain in the run-up to Multiply the Wuhan example by hunthe Western financial crash of 2008dreds of other municipal authorities that 09, and now it is being heard daily are also borrowing billions to finance a about the Chinese property boom. similar "dash for growth," and you have a People in the West want to believe financial situation as volatile as the "subthat China's economy will go on growprime mortgage" scam that brought ing fast because the fragile recovery the US economy to its knees. Except in Western economies depends on it. that when the Chinese property boom Twenty years of 10 percent-plus annual implodes, it may bring the whole world growth have made China the engine of economy to its knees. the world economy, even though most Chinese remain poor. But the engine is It would be nice to think that the worst fuelled by cheap credit, and most of of the recession is over in the developed that cheap money, as usual, has gone countries, and that the emerging econo-
mies will continue to avoid a recession at all. But sometimes the cure can be worse than the disease. China's strategy for avoiding the economic crisis that has gripped the developed countries since 2008 has laid the foundations for an even worse home-grown recession in the near future. "If you have had a good crisis, success can become a curse," wrote Albert Edwards, chief economist at the French bank Societe Generale, in late 2010. At that point, Chinese bank lending had almost doubled in three years; it has now almost tripled in four. The government knows that the property bubble is dangerous and is trying to switch spending to consumption, but that is a delicate operation that has to be done slowly, and there just isn't enough time. When a housing and credit bubble goes out of control, Edwards warned, "You tap your foot on the brakes and whole thing starts crashing and you can't control it." China is heading for a classic "hard landing," and when it comes, it will slow the whole global economy to stall speed. The next global recession is not far off, it will be at least as bad as the last one, and this time few of the emerging economies (except perhaps India's) will be exempt. Nobody knows what will happen in China itself when growth stops and unemployment soars, but the Communist regime is clearly frightened of the answer. Maybe it can ride the crisis out until growth resumes at a slower pace in a few years, but with its Communist ideals long abandoned, its only remaining claim on people's loyalty has been its ability to deliver constantly rising prosperity. If that collapses, so may the regime. V
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COMMENT >> MLA PAY
A confusing pay day MLA pay is a question of transparency, accountability and democracy Scott Hennig and the Canadian Taxof "Teddy" award recipients for "govpayers Federation (CTF) appear to ernment waste." On the list was Alberhave a problem with elected politita's Standing Committee on Privileges cians being well-paid for the and Elections, Standing Orders work they do. They seem and Printing Committee. The to love nothing more than committee is made up of ENCE highlighting, whenever they NTERFER .com 21 MLAs, each of whom I eekly @vuew get a chance, how much receive $1000 per month ricardo o Ricard elected representatives get for sitting on the committee. Acuña The problem is that the compaid, what kinds of raises they get, the fact that they get good mittee itself has not actually met pensions and transitions allowances, or done anything since 2008. These 21 and, most recently, that some of them MLAs, therefore, have actually been in Alberta are getting paid $1000 per getting an extra $1000 each month month for sitting on a committee that for doing absolutely nothing. never meets. It's worth noting that, up until 2008, The latter was revealed last week MLAs sitting on this particular comwhen the CTF released its annual list mittee were paid on a per meeting
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basis. Every time the committee met, they were paid for their time at that meeting. In 2008, when Premier Ed Stelmach ordered a review of MLA compensation, that formula was changed to a monthly stipend that did not depend on whether the committee met or not. This is all just part of the ridiculously complicated remuneration system that is in place for members of Alberta's Legislative Assembly. All members get a base salary of $52 092 per year, plus an annual tax-free allowance of $26 046. Those base salaries are then CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 >>
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f you don't count good will, credibility or sympathetic media, political campaigns have just two resources to rely upon: donations of money (or the things that money can buy) and the hours of menial labour that people are willing to perform for free. With a provincial election coming before the end of May and the Progressive Conservatives' financial war chest reaching quasi-legendary proportions, Alberta's opposition parties are looking to their volunteer base to bridge the gap. So, how prepared are they? And how can we tell? NDP provincial secretary Brian Stokes thinks a robust membership list is a good barometer of a party's strength and its ability to organize. "The NDP doesn't accept corporate donations," he says, "so we've always relied on our members a great deal." Figures released last month by the party for its upcoming federal leadership vote show 10 249 card-carrying members in Alberta, a number Stokes says places them in good stead. He estimates that as many as half their members will volunteer in some way during the impending campaign. The Liberals agree membership lists are important. Although the party has less than half the members the NDP can boast, they believe they've struck gold with their new "Supporter" category. Created prior to their leadership election last fall, Corina Ganton, Liberal Party operations manager, reports the category offers the party 31 000 names in addition to their 4500 card-carrying members. "This places us in a unique situation with respect to potential donors and volunteers," she says. Ganton insists the fact that only 8640 of the 26 000 members and supporters eligible to vote in their September leadership election bothered to do so is not indicative of how many will step up to the plate during the campaign. Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith told the Calgary Herald in December that her party had 30 000 members. In a brief phone conversation with Vue this week, the party's director of communications William McBeath confirmed the party had "at least that." Asked how those numbers might translate into foot soldiers on the doorstep, Mr McBeath kindly offered that someone more "in tune with that end of things" would call us back. They didn't. Media reports tell us the Alberta Party had 2000 members last May. Their media coordinator cheerfully promised that someone would get back to us with an updated figure and to talk about their "ground game" involving volunteers. They didn't.
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Based on the number of votes in their October leadership election, we know the PCs have at least 78 000 members. Party staff enthusiastically referred us to executive director Kelly Charlebois for an update, but he didn’t return a voicemail. According to estimates, only one to two percent of Canadians belong to a political party (low relative to many other western democracies) and among those, many do not extend their support in any other way. Steve Patten, professor in the department of political science at the University of Alberta, explains that most Canadians tend to join parties for a specific reason: a leadership race or a hotly contested nomination. As a result, not too much should be read into membership numbers. "They are not really a clear measure of how popular a party is with the voting public," Patten cautions. "I've seen some pretty strong parties with some pretty low membership numbers," he notes. "I would hesitate to suggest that membership numbers themselves
I've seen some pretty strong parties with some pretty low membership numbers. I would hesitate to suggest that membership numbers themselves have any bearing or reflection on the strength of the campaign teams.
have any bearing or reflection on the strength of the campaign teams." With little evidence that carrying a political party membership actually translates into active work on an election campaign, and all evidence showing that membership numbers have little to do with popular support, Patten doubts whether size matters much when it comes to party membership lists. Political parties are required to file their 2011 financial statements with Elections Alberta by the end of March. At that point, we'll have an objective idea about what sort of financial resources they've got at their disposal. As far as their volunteer power goes, rather than attempting to make any predictions based on membership numbers, Patten suggests, as the old saying goes, that the proof will be in the pudding. MIMI WILLIAMS
// MIMI@vueweekly.com
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Youth “Make a Scene” at MacEwan University Making a scene is what teenagers do best and MacEwan University is encouraging them to do just that this summer with workshops in art, photography, music, dance and digital media. “Teens have so many ideas and creative potential,” said Diane Shantz, University Advisor, “we want to give them opportunities to unlock it. She went on to tell us of the over 20 weeklong workshops this July and August at MacEwan University Centre for the Arts and Communications (CFAC), and Alberta College Conservatory of Music (ACC) campuses.
"At CFAC we have a fantastic line up of courses that bring students into the university atmosphere," says Shantz. "Youth have the opportunity to explore their creative interests with professional instructors. This is a chance for students to get a taste of their future in the arts, especially digital media workshops which include digital illustration and design, computer animation and 3D modeling." At ACC, Maureen Ha excitedly told us that, "there is a dynamic collection of workshops for youth musicians, from ensemble playing and musical theatre to workshops for indi-
Teenager with a Creative Mind? WE HAVE A [ SUMMER WORKSHOP] FOR THAT. We have workshops for youth ages 13+ that will blow your mind this summer. · · · · · ·
Art & Illustration Photography Digital Media & Design Computer Animation & 3D Modelling Music Theatre & Dance
Enjoy your summer with artistic peers while getting a taste of what your future holds in a premier arts university. Call (780) 497-4301 for more information.
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viduals interested in expanding their musical creativity." "Spring is a great time for all students, adults and youth, to enroll in our arts programming," says Brenda Philp, Manager of Continuing Education at CFAC. "It gives people a chance to shake off the winter and make this a season of creativity and learning. Between the months of April and August, we offer over 100 classes in Fine Art, Dance, Digital Media, Music, Photography and Theatre Production." For more information visit www.MacEwan.ca/ArtsConEd or call 780-497-4302.
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augmented by special allowances and pay for extra duties and responsibilities that members have. For example, the premier gets an extra $81 312, and the speaker and cabinet ministers an extra $63 912. Opposition leaders, party whips and house leaders also get an extra allowance. The committee structure exists on top of all of that, with members receiving an extra $1000 per month for every committee they sit on, up to a maximum of $3500 extra per month (chairs and deputy chairs of committees get an extra $1500 and $1250 per month for their work on these committees, also to a maximum of $3500.) In addition to all of this, there are also transportation, accommodation and meal allowances for MLAs from out of Edmonton and vehicle allowances for rural MLAs.
This structure results in a huge range of remuneration amounts for MLAs in Alberta, currently with a low end of around $130 000 per year to a high end of around $220 000. It also results in Albertans not really having a clue of how much or how MLAs are paid. The responses to the CTF release demonstrated that there are even many MLAs who have no idea what they are paid for and how much they are paid for it. All of this to say that this system seriously needs to be overhauled in order to minimize waste and maximize transparency and accountability. Most Albertan's have their salaries defined, and do not receive extra pay for showing up at work-related meetings or sitting on committees at work. And the concept of a tax-free allowance as part of an MLAs salary should also be eliminated—it is an archaic concept that suggests that some Albertans are above contributing their fair share to
the provinces various programs, services and infrastructure. How hard would it be to simply set a fair salary amount for the various positions in the legislature and simply leave it at that? Set a salary for the premier, one for cabinet ministers and the speaker, one for the leader of the official opposition, one for the leaders of other parties, and one for back-bench MLAs and that's it. No extra pay for committees or meetings or any of it. Although this is really no different than what the CTF is proposing, I do have one major point of divergence from their ongoing position on MLA salaries: I believe that MLAs deserve to be well-paid for what they do. These are people who often put their lives on hold in order to make a contribution to the public interest. In the process they not only give up their evenings and weekends to sit in the
legislature, attend committee meetings, meet with constituents and attend community events, but they also give up their privacy. MLAs are consistently in the spotlight, and are always required to be "on" when they leave their homes lest they be seen by a constituent or the media. The Alberta Legislature should have the best possible people sitting in it, and those people should be reflective of the make-up of our province. These are the people we entrust with the passing of laws and setting of policies that impact every aspect of our lives and communities—they should be well-paid for what they do. The CTF's proposals would have our politicians so poorly paid as to make it impossible for anyone but the independently wealthy to consider running for public office. What would that do to the concept of a representative assembly that is reflective of the make-up of our province?
Public service at this level is one of the most demanding and important jobs out there, and the pay should reflect that. In a world where CEOs and executive vice presidents make tens of millions of dollars every year, how can anyone object to the people that make our laws, spend our collective money and ostensibly protect the public interest being paid such a pittance in comparison? Yes, the system by which MLA remuneration is a complete mess and needs to be reformed, but let's not make the mistake of buying into the CTF's antigovernment rhetoric and promoting the myth that our MLAs are greedy and over-paid. The former hurts accountability and transparency, the latter hurts our democracy. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.
THE WAY WE MOVE
BICYCLE LANES 2012:
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Mon. March 19
5320 – 143 St
121 AVE (Victoria Trail to 77 St)
Wed. March 21
5520 – 121 Ave
WOLF WILLOW ROAD (East of 170 St)
Thu. March 22
505 Wolf Willow Road
189 ST (87 Ave to 95 Ave) **95 AVE (142 St to 189 St)
Mon. April 2
15961–92 Ave
121 ST (100 Ave to 106 Ave) **100 AVE (102 St to 121 St)
Tue. April 3
10135 – 96 Ave
82 ST (Yellowhead Trail to 137 Ave)
Wed. April 4
7515 Delwood Road
116 ST (87 Ave to Saskatchewan Dr)
Thu. April 5
10240 – 115 Ave
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COMMENT >> HOCKEY
Curses and purses
good as out of the playoffs this season. The Take-away: As good as Pronger is, he decimates teams after he leaves. Is he a witch? Does he take all the motivational posters with him when he leaves? Who knows? It took the Blues six NHL seasons to recover from the Pronger Voodoo. The Oilers are five seasons in so there's at least one more cursed year to go. "At the end of the day" Edmonton fared better than Hartford. His evil powers were obviously stronger then. DY
Let's talk about something other than the Oilers One of the NHL's most irritating up to the top of the NHL standings. but effective players was super-pest Second item: Chris Pronger's career is Claude Lemieux. The playoff whiz at risk because of concussion. started his career in Montréal, The Theory: Chris Pronger is a later played in Colorado and jinx, a curse, a gremlin. He's finished his career with great to have on your team, San Jose. The Oilers had but don't let him leave. om eekly.c w e a Claude Lemieux schedu Once he's gone, your team v ox@ intheb oung & Y e ule last week with games is whammied. v a D Birtles against Montréal, Colorado Let's go to the tape and visit Bryan and San Jose. The Oilers lost all the effects of Chris "Scorched three games: they lost 5-3 to the Habs, Earth" Pronger. lost 3-2 in a shootout to the Avs and Peterborough Petes (OHL): 3-2 to the Sharks. Pronger's junior hockey squad. In 1991-92, the team finished first in its The curse of Prongs division. In 1992-93, it was Memorial I noticed a couple seemingly unrelatCup finalists. Then Prongs left and ed hockey items recently—and then during the next two years, the Petes I found a way to put them together. had the team's worst seasons in three First item: the St Louis Blues popped decades, with 15 and 26 wins each.
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EVENTS WEEKLY
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AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm Brain Tumour Peer Support Group
• Woodcroft Library, 13420-114 Ave • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free
Cha Island Tea Co • 10332-81 Ave • Games
Night: Board games and card games • Every Mon, 7pm
COMEDY
COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment
Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • David Tsonos; Mar 15-17 • Gene Renfroe; Mar 22-24
Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 •
Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Deon Cole; Mar 1518 • Rob Little; Mar 21-25
laugh shop–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot
Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • Open Wed-Sat • Fri: 8pm, Sat: 7:30pm and 10pm; $20 • Wednesday Amateur night: 8pm (call 7804179777 to be added to the line-up); free • James Ulotoh; Mar 16-18 • Kevin McGrath; Mar 23-24
laugh shop–124th Street • 11802-124 St • 780.417.9777 • Amateur night every Wed (call 780.417.9777 to be added to the lineup); no cover Winspear Centre • Sir Winston Churchill Sq •
780.428.1414 • Wanderlust: Just for Laughs presents Danny Bhoy • Mar 23, 7:30pm • Sold Out
Dianne Buckner–Business Tips • Royal
Alberta Museum, 12845-102 Ave • Canadian Youth Business Foundation (CYBF) present Dianne Buckner, host of Dragons’ Den, will count down her Top Ten Business Tips • Mar 21, 6-8pm • Free; pre-register at cybf. ca/events/ab/
E4C’s Make Tax Time Pay (MTTP) •
780.424.7543 • e4calberta.org • Free tax preparation, access to government benefits for low-income families and people wanting help to apply for government benefit programs • MTTP tax site, dial 2-1-1, Support Network; until Apr 30
Edmonton Bike Art Nights • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm Fertility Awareness Charting Circle meeting • Cha Island Tea Co, 10332-81
Ave • Monthly meetings to learn about menstrual cycle charting • Mar 19, 6:30pm • $5
FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-
Groups/CLUBS/meetings
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 • Meet every Thu, 7pm
A, FAB 2-20 • Zheng Chongbin in conversation with Lisa Claypool • Mar 22, 5:15pm
Hatha Flow Yoga • Eastwood Community Hall,
Art and Design Lecture Series • U of
11803-86 St • Every Tue and Thu (7:05pm) until the end
Hartford Whalers: The Great Destroyer of Worlds was drafted by Hartford and played two seasons before getting traded to St Louis. Two short years later, no more Whalers. St. Louis Blues: From 1980 to 2004, the Blues did not miss the playoffs (the third longest such streak in NHL history). Calamity Chris was part of the team from 1997 until 2004. As soon as Pronger was no longer on the squad, the streak ended. Edmonton Oilers: We know this one. Let's move on. Anaheim Ducks: The Ducks with Pronger won a Cup in 2007. He was traded to the Flyers after the 2009 season. Since then, the Ducks have missed the playoffs in 2010, lost in the first round to Nashville in 2011 and are as of Apr • Sliding Scale: $10 (drop-in)/$7 (low-income)/$5 (no income)
Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne
Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm
jung forum • Education North, Rm 2-115, U of A • Groundhog Day: Time and the Psyche, presented by John Hoedl • Mar 23, 7pm Legal Resources–Advanced • Stanley
Edmonton Permaculture • Idylwylde Li-
brary, 8310-88 Ave • Monthly Speaker Series/potluck: Wild Edibles by Cherry Dodd • Mar 20, 6pm • Donation
Fracking and Its Impact on Groundwater: Lessons From Alberta • Telus Bldg, Rm 134, U of A • Information about the dangerous impacts of fracking with Karlis Muehlenbachs • Mar 21, 7-9pm
Great Expeditions • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.454.6216 • 3rd Mon every month, 7:30pm
A. Milner Library, 3rd Fl Training Rm, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Alberta Law Libraries presentation with focus on advanced legal research • Mar 21, 7-8:30pm • Pre-register at 780.496.7020, or at 2nd fl reference desk
Learn with Love • Suzuki Charter School
Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown •
Northern Gateway • Law Centre, Rm 231, U
Practice group meets every Thu
nanoNEXUS Student-Industry Mixer • Enterprise Square Atrium • Reception, planetary address by Ann Hanham, networking sessions, info booths, door prizes, nexusPITCH (Dragon’s Den style competition) • Mar 15, 6-9pm
National Cash Mob Day • facebook.com/
CashMobEdmontonAB • Your local independent store • Mar 24 • $20
Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan Community Hall, 3728-106
St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
Organization for Bipolar Affective Disorder (OBAD) • Grey Nuns Hospital, Rm
0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • Free
SEEDY Sunday • Alberta Avenue Community Hall, 9210-118 Ave • Featuring Claudia Bolli, Julia Laforge, Jim Ternier, Amanda Chedzoy, and Thean Pheh Fruit tree grafting • Mar 18, 11am-4pm
Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group • 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
Vegetarians of Alberta • Idylwylde Library, 8310-88 Ave • vofa.ca • Free screening of the documentary, Get Vegucated • Mar 22, 7-9pm • Free Visual Arts Forum • FAB 2-20, U of A • Zheng Chongbin in Conversation with Lisa Claypool • Mar 22, 5:15pm
WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 1011am, each month, stand in silence for a world without violence Y Toastmasters Club • EFCL, 7103-105 St • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331
LECTURES/Presentations
ART.TECHNOLOGY.Community–Talking North • Robbins Health Learning Centre, Grant MacEwan City Centre Campus, 109 St, 104 Ave, Lecture Hall 9-103 • Lecture by Stephen Kovats an Matthew Biederman on their projects on the Canadian North • Mar 20, 7-9pm
CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE: CONCEPT, LAW AND PRACTICE • Law Centre, Rm 231-237, U of A •
403.244.6666 • Lecture with speakers Roberta Lexier, Jennifer Koshan, Mike Hudema • Mar 15, 6:30-9:3pm • Free
Dehydrator Demonstration • Earth’s General Store, 9605-82 Ave • 780.439.8725 • Mar 20, 7:15-8:45pm • $20, pre-register at Earth’s General Store by March 17
Edmonton Nature Club • King's University
College, 9125-50 St • Monthly meeting featuring Maureen Murray speaking on The Edmonton Urban Coyote Project • Mar 16, 7pm • Admission by donation
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Parity ring
Not since the days of the Original Six has there been so much parity in the league. And while it makes for some indigestive weeks for fans leading up to the playoffs—how is it your team can go from third to 10th in a matter of days?—it certainly is exciting. Perhaps the CBA is working. It has made long dormant teams—Phoenix, Florida, St Louis—into competitive
10720-54 St • 780.887.1421 • Presentation for parents and teachers on the Suzuki Method music instruction • Mar 17, 10-11am • Free
of A • Northern Gateway What Happens To Administrative Process When Irresistible Policy Meets Immovable Objection?, seminar by Dr Hudson Janisch • Mar 16, 12-1pm
Sustainability Speaker Series– Maude Barlow • Myer Horowitz Theatre, U
of A • sustainability.ualberta.ca/speaker • Blue Covenant: The Global Water Crisis and the Fight for the Right to Water lecture by Maude Barlow on World Water Day • Mar 22, 7pm • $5 at HUB, SUB Infolink Booths, TIX on the Square; proceeds to Campus Food Bank, UAlberta’s Green Grant program
ones, even dominant ones in the case of St Louis, which underwent a miraculous turnaround on the shoulders of new coach Ken Hitchcock, and will challenge for the President's Trophy as regular-season champions after missing the playoffs five out of the last six years. With the CBA up for renewal in the near future, management and the players' union would be wise to reflect on what incredible positives the salary cap has brought us. When teams as skilled as the Chicago Blackhawks, the Tampa Bay Lightning, the San Jose Sharks and the Washington Capitals are sitting on the bubble, the NHL is more exciting than ever. BB Oilers Player of the week
Tom Renney: Glad he found his balls in his purse and tore a strip off the nocompete Oilers. BB Taylor Hall: Three straight goals versus MTL, COL and SJ. Still working hard. DY organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/ winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca
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
Pride Centre of Edmonton • Moving •
780.488.3234 • admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm
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 womonspace@ gmail.com • Lesbian social organization, monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership
Visual Arts Forum • FAB 2-20, U of A • Zheng
Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave •
One Night of Progress • Art Gallery of Alberta, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Forum debating What is progress? And is progress a good thing? with Blair Brennan, Peter Ohm, Tim Weis and Heather Zwicker • Mar 15, 7pm • $10/free (AGA member)
SPECIAL EVENTS
Chongbin in Conversation with Lisa Claypool • Mar 22, 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
EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton • eplc.webs.com •
Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965
• Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com
G.L.B.T.Q. (gay) African Group DropIn) • 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
G.L.B.T.Q Sage bowling club • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm GLBT sports and recreation • teamed-
monton.ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: St Vincent Sch, 10530-138 St, every Wed 6-7:30pm, until Apr 25; $7 (drop-in fee) • Co-ed Bellydancing • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, WEM, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 St, 104 Ave • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine Sch, 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 seniors who have gay family members • Every Thu, 1-4:30pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based
VUEWEEKLY MAR 15 – MAR 21, 2012
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
Edmonton Home and Garden Show • Edmonton Expo Centre, Northlands Park, • Mar 22-25
Elizabeth’s Antique & Collectible Sale • Alberta Aviation Museum, 11410 Kingsway Ave
• 1970-80s pop culture, vintage clothing, and more • Mar 16-17, Fri 2-8pm; Sat 10-4pm • $5 admission
Gold Medal For Kids • Packrat Louie, 1033583 Ave • Kids Kottage fundraiser–a celebration of food and wine • Mar 15 • $75 ($25 to Kids Kottage); tickets at 780.433.0123
Happy Harbor Comics • Happy Harbor Comics Vol 1, 10729-104 Ave • 780.452.8211 • 12 Hour Comic Jam Challenge • Mar 17, 10am-10pm • In support of Boys and Girls Club–Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton & Area (BGCBBBS)
MARCH FOR UNDERSTANDING • 487.988.0850
• marchforunderstanding.com • Edmonton Petroleum Club, 11110-108 St: Key To Culture Gala: Mar 17, 6-9pm; $20 (member)/$25 (non-member) • Garvey Cultural Centre, 12526-126 Ave: Mar 16, 6-9pm • AFL Meeting Rm, 10654-101 St: Trade Unions and Anti-Racism–Policy and Practices: Mar 20, 9am-12:30pm; free • MacEwan University, Robbins Health Centre, 104 Ave, 109 St: The New Reality–Does Your Company Welcome Diversity? Employment Symposium: Mar 21, 7:30am-1pm; 1:30-3:30pm; $25 (half day)/$50 (day) • Carrot Café: Mar 18, 2-5pm • Cité francophone, 114-8627 ru Marie-Anne Gaoury: Mar 24, 1-4pm • International House, U of A: Painting Pathways to Peace: Dialogue focusing on the roots of racism; Mar 18-24
Palestinian Bazaar • Transalta Arts Barns,
10330-84 Ave • Mar 17 (12-10pm); 12-6pm (bazaar, Main Foyer; free); 7-10:30pm (Concert in Westbury Theatre, $15)
Spring Bazaar • Shepherd’s Care Vanguard,
10311-122 Ave • 780.378.3302/780.474.1798 • Mar 24, 1-4pm; proceeds to resident recreation fund
Spring Zinger • St Vincent School, 10530-138
St • A Night of Comedy: Glenora Child Care Society 's fundraiser for a new community playground; and comedy with Sean Lecomber, music by the Be Arthurs, MC Graham Neil (CTV) • Mar 17, 6.30 (door), 8pm (show) • $30 at 780.452.1991
Youth Emergency Shelter • Bohemia,
10217-97 St • Art fundraiser with live music and art; no minors • Mar 16, 7pm • $5 (door)
FILM
COVER // INDEPENDENT FILM
Tue, Mar 20 – Sat, Mar 24 FAVA Fest FAVA Exhibition Suite, Metro Cinema at the Garneau Full schedule at fava.ca
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dmonton isn't the easiest place in which to cultivate an artistic scene. Ours is a transient city: after honing their skills, our best and brightest seem to perpetually leave rather than stay, departing for places with larger, pre-established scenes to further establish themselves, but in turn making it difficult for our own to coalesce and grow. That seems to apply double to the local film scene. There was, Dave Cunningham notes, a mass departure in recent memory, and while we've moved beyond that, the steady trickle of talent beyond our city limits still hasn't quite abated. "Lots of people made the exodus during Klein's years because of the money, but now people leave because of the opportunity," Cunningham explains. "And I think that's fundamentally kind of a soul-sucking thing, that people become talented in this country and in this province, that we don't stay here. And I would sure like to see that change." Still, those that stay seem to wear their residency with a certain badge of honour, proud in the face of that transience, and the Film And Video Arts Society—now celebrating its 30th year as a film co-op—seems as much a culmination of that spirit as any other local organization around town. Cunnhingham is FAVA's current interim executive director, but was also one of its founding members back in 1982 (curiously also the year that our Global Visions Film Festival started its annual showcase of socially conscious documentaries). "There probably hasn't been since the days of [then-Premier] Peter Lougheed, a kind of support for the arts in general, that there was for that brief time. ... I suspect as he came close to the end of his reign, he wanted to leave some art legacy. So he and his wife, they were behind a lot of this stuff either really or unofficially. And it was just a more benevolent environment as concerns the arts." The Film And Video Arts Society formed as an offshoot of Drama Lab, which, post-division, focused more on acting while FAVA favoured film. Cunningham was then already working as an independent filmmaker in his own right (and still is); FAVA's early days, he notes, were an "around-a-kitchentable kind of thing," where they'd borrow equipment from the National Film Board and "plan and wish for and connive to get the things we needed." Now, FAVA has a sizeable stock of their own to cater to its 400-strong membership. Cunningham decides,
We take care of our own The Film and Video Arts Society celebrates 30 years of independent film in Edmonton
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after a moment of deliberation, that FAVA is "probably the best equipped film co-op ... certainly in western Canada, maybe in Canada. "Now we have $400 000 worth of toolcrib, and every conceivable kind of film and video camera that you could want," he states. "We've managed to keep one of everything that ever was made, and we're just slightly behind the curve with the new digital technology." He's also quick to note that FAVA's importance goes beyond simply having access to equipment. It's our city's de facto film school, where the curious can come and learn the basics of the medium, from camera operation to animation to scriptwriting to costuming. Effectively, it allows an entry into a world that isn't offered anywhere else in the city, letting the scene develop
around mentorship, workshops and shared information and skills, even as its more experienced members seek to tackle larger projects. Cunningham's career took him away from FAVA for about a decade, slipping into broadcast work. But its impact on his career, he notes, is undeniable. "The things I've done in my own career that I'm most proud of couldn't have been done without FAVA. I did a four-part series on violence in prisons, where I taught 10 category-one violent offenders how to make films about themselves, and we made films about why men become violent. Although the technical quality is probably not all that great, because it's basically student inmates making these films, it's still the thing I'm most proud of."
So to celebrate 30 years of local independent film, FAVA's both rewarding those that choose to make their art here, and looking at exposing more of Edmonton to the film scene that some may not even know resides around them. FAVA Fest offers a few days of screenings of members works, all up for awards set to be given away at a red carpet gala on Saturday, (These aren't just pats on the back, either: each prize has thousands of dollars attached to it.) alongside an artist's panel with the likes of Trevor Anderson, Katrina Beatty, Andrew Scholotiuk and Dylan Pearce on international success. One of the nominated filmmakers is Lindsay McIntyre. She's been a FAVA member since 2000, when she moved back to town from New York. The filmmaker, who has an MFA in Film
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Production to her name, has lived and worked all over the country, and her all-around junior male is up for one of FAVA's production awards. McIntyre notes FAVA's strengths seem to shift, catering to whatever the scene requires at the time. "It evolves," she says. "Sometimes there's more of a focus on community; there have been more times in the past when workshops, and the learning aspect of FAVA have been a larger component of it—or maybe it's my perception of it. "I've lived in Winnipeg, and they have a unique identity to their film community, and Montréal as well," she continues. "They're all different. ... I don't know if they're quite as supportive. I don't know if that's an Alberta thing or if it's an Edmonton thing. I've thought about this before, if there is an identity to the film community here. Winnipeg has almost an esthetic to it. And there isn't so much an esthetic that comes out of Edmonton. It's a very isolated community from all the other centres; Calgary's three hours away, and the next place is Vancouver, which is 12 hours away. But it's unique in that sense [of support]." As it moves into its third decade of independent filmmaking, FAVA is looking to act on more ambitions than it has before. There are plans in motion for an online screening room, and to put together a feature film collective out of its hundreds of current members. As Cunningham notes, they're still looking to give opportunities to those who want to work here, to give those a reason to stay and help to make Edmonton its own film hub, rather than merely an early training ground. "I think the more of us that stay, the better it gets, not the other way around," Cunningham explains. "There's people who think, well, if it's just me makin' stuff then I won't have any competition, but FAVA's about collaboration, and the tremendous resource that our membership is. If you want to do something here, and you got any idea at all, you can find members who can teach you how to write a script, teach you how to load a Super8 camera, show you how to colour correct as a colourist show you how to edit. People can show you how to act, how to create costumes, how to do animation. We have just such a talented membership, and to a degree, the more of us there are, the more opportunity we create for ourselves. Because our community really makes its own work. They imagine something they want to do, or that's close to their heart, and then they figure out a way to do that. And that always creates work, because you can't make anything in this business by yourself. Pretty soon you've got a team around you, and that means they're all working." Paul Blinov
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We Need To Talk About Kevin A Separation are eerie links between photocopiers and ultrasounds, and the audacious deployment of a Japanese score. But soon this tale of 100 percent justifiable maternal anxiety, set in the US, starts to creak with facile choices, such as Ramsay's hokey Americana: the strip-mall travel agency with zombified employees and crumpled destination posters from 40 years ago, the supermarket where they play the muzak version of "Greensleeves."
I'm forgetting something ... right, my hellish child
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ut first we need to talk about Lynne Ramsay, or at least take a moment to emphasize just how promising the Scottish writer/director's career has been. With Ratcatcher (1999) and Morvern Callar (2002), not to mention the shorts, Ramsay quickly established herself as an ambitious young filmmaker with a strangely seductive if whispery-hermetic way with atmospheres, as well as an ability to convey female identity through existentialist channels the movies typically reserve for men. Most of us who saw Morvern Callar and its stunning
breakthrough performance from Samantha Morton had been waiting a long time to see what Ramsay would do next. That what she was doing next involved Tilda Swinton only whetted the appetite more. But We Need to Talk About Kevin, her adaptation of Lionel Shriver's bad seed novel of the same name, is the most frustrating sort of follow-up. Because from start to finish it exudes so much of what's made Ramsay's work intriguing, yet the net result feels so divested of urgency, almost hollow. It begins with moments that ooze portent: billowing curtains, memories of Swinton body-surfing amidst tomatopeople, a dysfunctional doorknob and paint-splattered house. The narrative is delivered in puzzle-like pieces, there
Everything about Kevin feels numbingly overdetermined, most especially the relationship between its protagonist—Swinton's doomed mommy— and antagonist—Ezra Miller's titular kid from hell, seemingly born to torment mother. Its portrait of marital entropy is equally flat, with Swinton's woozy motel sex with John C Reilly all-too-glumly reduced to bland bourgeois suburban boredom. (Curiously, following Carnage, this makes two in a row where Reilly has a rotten kid and is completely insensitive to guinea pigs.) At times it's tempting to describe it as a Todd Solondz movie but not funny. But the truth is that for all its problems it is unmistakably Ramsay, and thus excellent proof that auteurism is not in itself any guarantee of cinematic rewards. Josef Braun
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen Opens Friday Directed by Lasse Hallström
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he's a delightful, unusually chaste yuppie who works in investment consulting and wants to help a sagely sheikh start—you guessed it!—Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. He's the grumpyfrumpy fisheries scientist charged with making the sheikh's crazy dream a reality. She's got a handsome boyfriend, but boyfriend's a soldier about to get shipped off to some sandy war-torn hellhole. He's got a wife, but wife's taking a long-term gig in Geneva, and anyway her idea of postcoital pillow talk is, "That should do you for a good while." Our lovers-to-be are both good-looking, quirkily charming and are played by likable movie stars (Emily Blunt and Ewan McGregor). Sometimes it can feel unfairly reductive to gauge a movie's modus operandi by its synopsis. This is not one of those times. Helmed by Lasse Hallström, whose pertinent previous confections include Chocolat, Casanova and Abba: The Movie, and scripted by Simon Beaufoy, whose credits include The Full Monty, Blow Dry and Slumdog Millionaire, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, replete with a Dario Marianelli score that's overly decorative in the
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British bits and spilling over with ethnic cliché in the Middle Eastern bits, is constructed around a series of textbook conflicts, complications and resolutions slapped together so mechanically you could make a parlour game of guessing the next twist. (Except that no one who's ever seen a run-of-the-mill rom-com would ever lose.) Depending on your patience this exercise will likely range from pleasantly forgettable to utterly tedious. Less time-consuming than a fishing trip, but a whole lot more predictable.
Minister's press secretary, a spunky hard-ass who tries to turn the whole fishing in the Yemen gambit into some chipper photo-ops to distract the public from the steady stream of British body bags coming back from Afghanistan. Whatever political satire may have buoyed Paul Torday's source novel seems to have been deftly defanged for the movie version, but I still enjoyed watching Scott-Thomas stride the sidewalk in fetchingly slim power suits and tear a strip off her mopey teenage son with withering faux jive talk.
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Courting A Separation
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he credits float over the image of cylinders of light moving across flattened government-issued documents. The first scene proper unfolds over a single static shot taken in a small judicial chamber, where we learn of a petition for divorce between Simin (Leila Hatami) and Nader (Peyman Moaadi). Simin has been granted official permission to move abroad and is anxious to take advantage of it. Nader has decided against joining her, his stated reason being that he refuses to abandon his elderly father, who suffers from Alzheimer's and lives with the couple, though we gather there may be other, more complicated reasons involving a sense of comfort, of home, an idea of Iran. Simin and Nader also have an 11-year-old daughter, Termeh (Sarina Farhadi), and both parents want custody. Simin and Nader speak directly to the camera when stating their case. Just as the credit sequence is shot from the point of view of a photocopier, this first scene is shot from the point of view of a judge. Which is to say, we're the machine, we're the judge, the apparatus. We're the ostensibly neutral observer. But how neutral can we really be? Writer/director Asghar Farhadi's fifth feature, which was the first Iranian film to win the Golden Bear at Berlin, as well as the Golden Globe and the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, does indeed feel like a landmark, encompassing many of the hallmarks of the great Iranian films of the last 20 years—viewers familiar with the work of Abbas Kiarostami or Mohsen Makhmalbaf will recognize that particular way in which discussions develop over extended scenes through a busy mixture of legal, religious and ethical arguments—while possessing a gripping urgency and lack of authorial im-
position that counteracts the potential alienation that may otherwise leave certain international audiences cold. A Separation is a film about process, and about how much of it occurs outside the controls of courtrooms. Nader hires a pregnant woman to look after his father—there's a bizarre (at least to me) scene where the woman calls some sort of religious hotline to ask if it would be a sin to change the father's soiled pants—but circumstances prompt the woman to do something stupid that endangers Nader's father, and then Nader does something stupid in return, and that stupid thing causes the woman to lose her unborn child. Or does it? This is a film riddled by facts: the more we learn the more ambiguity festers. The two facts that are never in question are Simin's determination to leave Iran and Nader's to stay. Between them stands Termeh, who over the course of the film is forced to make a
This is a film riddled by facts: the more we learn the more ambiguity festers.
number of devastatingly difficult decisions. It's her future more than anyone's that's at stake, and for all the diverse forms of support her parents bestow upon her, she's given no help in choosing what to do. As A Separation is set to (finally!) open in Edmonton, Farhadi himself has just been quoted as saying that he has no intention to leave Iran, that he loves his country despite its mounting difficulties. But it may not be so easy for him to keep working there. Apparently, following Kiarostami's example, he's to shoot his next film in Europe. Josef Braun
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FILM // COMIX
American Splendor
Pekar. Peekin'.
Tue, Mar 20 (9:15 pm) Directed by Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 2003
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uper-hero comics and alt/underground comix used to co-exist peacefully. So did movies-basedon-super-hero-comics and moviesbased-on-alt-comix, at first. There was Crumb (1995) and Ghost World (2000). Then came American Splendor, about Cleveland autobiographical-comic writer Harvey Pekar. The 2003 drama-documentary plays with comic-book frames and speech/ thought balloons (and less showily than Ang Lee did the same year in Hulk). Breaking up stretches of nar-
rative re-enacted by Paul Giamatti (as Pekar) and Hope Davis (as his wife Joyce), Pekar himself appears in white space, the panel of his little world becoming filled with props and people. The approach perfectly suits a man whose life and art were as entwined as a double-helix; American Splendor channels Pekar's vision of art and life as twinned struggles. The Jewish Pekar is a Middle-America, working-stiff schlub counterpart to Woody Allen, that neurotic, middleclass intellectual Manhattanite. Allen's inwardly anxious; Pekar's bummed out. From grumpy glower to disgruntled slump, Giamatti physically embodies his introspective comics' downbeat, wryly humorous outlook. "Takin' the bus saves time, but it don't lengthen
yer life," he muses morosely; while looking in the mirror, he remarks, "now there's a predictable disappointment." His personal lookin'-down-at-thecracks-in-the-sidewalk bleeds into littleguy-on-main-street politics. In the '80s, he sees corporations co-opting salt-ofthe-earth types so, while grappling with a cancer diagnosis, he gets fed up with Letterman using him as comic relief and protests GE's control of NBC during one of his guest appearances. One of cinema's great first-date sequences is here: guy tells girl he's had a vasectomy; she throws up after their "yuppie meal." They're surprised they like each other, since both are so resigned to disappointment. And Joyce had worried about which Harvey she'd meet, given his different images depending on his comic's illustrator. We're splendidly shown how a lowerclass nine-to-fiver has his own creative selves and richly expressive life. When Pekar's observing people at his file-clerk day job, catching the snippets of spoken poetry in others' prosaic routines, the film looks ahead to the best of today's blogs. Too bad most comic-book movies now aren't Pekar-esque at all but like the worst of the blogosphere: shouting, sniping and blasting-off without any recognizable human feeling or sense of life as "pretty complex stuff."
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hough alternately abbreviated, oneiric and cryptic, Belle de jour, Luis Buñuel's mischievous adaptation of Joseph Kessel's 1928 novel, does a remarkable job of invoking, with great specificity and insight, the troubled psyche of its haut bourgeois Parisian housewife, married to a handsome and unspeakably dull young surgeon, secretly spending her afternoons working at a brothel so as to fulfill her desire for controlled debasement and humiliation. The elegantly photographed, enormously successful sophomore work of his late French period, Belle was a turning point for Buñuel, the then-sexagenarian Spaniard and onetime card-carrying surrealist. It was also the turning point for its star, Catherine Deneuve, brilliantly exploiting her icy
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reserve as a gateway to transcending reserve: the moment, following a date with the hulking Asian man carrying a lacquered buzzing box of mystery, when Deneuve raises her tousled platinum head from the bed upon which she's experienced what was likely her first truly satisfying sexual encounter, is one of the cinema's great entrances—the entrance of the complex, intimidating, empowered woman hiding behind De-
neuve's girlish neurotic. This is a story of a woman desperately attempting to juggle two seemingly irreconcilable worlds and it ends with what, however baffling it may be, functions as a convergence— the shot leading into the final sequence is, quite literally, a dissolve. And I can't recommend going to see one of Metro's screenings of it enough. Josef Braun
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Gilda Sat, Mar 17; Sun, Mar 18; Tue, Mar 20 Directed by Charles Vidor Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1946
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ilda (1946) begins with the formation of a friendship between two men that practically implores us to read it as much more. Johnny Farrell (Glenn Ford) is an American hustler abroad. He's down on his luck and his luck has found him all the way down in Buenos Aires—and that's about it for backstory. He's rescued from a lethal hold-up by casino owner Ballin Mundson (George Macready) and Mundson's "little friend," a walking stick whose foreskin pulls back to reveal a long silver blade. "You must lead a gay life," Farrell says to Mundson, and believe me, a contemporary interpretation of the lingo is not inappropriate. Mundson hires Farrell as ... what exactly? Let's say his right-hand-man. Farrell is fiercely loyal. How loyal? Mundson comes home from a holiday with Gilda (Rita Hayworth), his new bride and, it turns out, Farrell's old flame. Gilda, a singer and dancer who's every hair-flip is shot through with more sex than the deftest lapdance, is allure incarnate, and clearly married to Mundson—a peeper, a wealthy creep who buys his allies, and a monstrous control freak—for reasons other than love. Gilda still wants
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Farrell, but Farrell's drive to stay true to Mundson is enormous. What's going on here? Is this a love triangle? A love square? Who are we meant to identify with? Farrell's our narrator, but he's cagey, opaque, repressed, maybe crazy. Gilda's captivating, but astonishingly brazen for 1946. The film's key scene: Gilda performing "Put the Blame on Mame," a song about scapegoating feminine sexual power, and ending the number by inviting the lust-crazed audience to take the stage and take off her dress. Directed by Charles Vidor, written
thought-through the screenplay is. So the film's shaped mass of matter—its script—gives its clichéd noir scenes (Bonnie-and-Clyde couple talking about the last job; thugs carrying out a boss's orders) a renewed energy.
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by Jo Eisinger and Marion Parsonnet from a story by EA Ellington, and shot by Rudolph Maté, who would go on to direct the essential low-budget noir D.O.A. (1950), Gilda is almost singular in its fusion of high glamour and thorny, dark sexuality, a cautionary tale about possession and self-denial with a tidy resolution that much more striking for being implausible. For all these reasons and more, it's also a superb choice for the next film in Metro Cinema's excellent film noir series.
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ey American and Tim Roth's casually racist Englishman, where speedy semilogic revs into the impulsiveness of robbing the diner right now, her "Honey Bunny" cooing, "I love you, Pumpkin!" just before standing up, pulling her gun on the joint, and snarling, "I'll execute every motherfuckin' last one a' ya'!" Or, next, there's Jules (Samuel Jackson) and Vincent (John Travolta) shootin' the Seinfeldian shit in a car before their erudite riffs on trivial matters become threatening once they "get into character" and the targets of their banter are three two-bit punks who owe their boss Marsellus (Ving Rhames) money. Usually, this self-aware dialogue comes so snappily and coolly that it only brings attention to how snappily
Sometimes, though, things get a bit too talk-happy. The film's seemingly inventive jigsaw-plot structure isn't so much smart writing as tricksy storyboarding (a movie the same year, Before the Rain, used a similar structure to more profound effect). Certain moments—like Vincent's dreamy heroininjection or the suspiciously homophobic obsession with rectums, culminating with rape by a "gimp"—are just a little too self-consciously cool or outré, too much QT on the PM (Post-Modernism). But many of these weaknesses are flip-sides of the strengths that made Pulp Fiction a hit for my generation, strengths that still impress. There's the trivial-turned-menacing, the gangster-gone-poppy, an LA underworld grounded in exactly the kind of odd retro-soundtrack it seems most hardboiled flicks always should have had, and the various sadnesses, poignancies, and tragic pointlessnesses that seep out of the best noirs. Brian Gibson
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THU 12:02
HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Ultraavx, No
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ACT OF VALOR (14A violence) DAILY 12:30, 3:30, 7:00, 9:40
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IF A TREE FALLS: A STORY OF THE EARTH LIBERATION FRONT (14A) FRI, MON, THU
11:30
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DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Digital Presenta-
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CLAREVIEW 10
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DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Dolby Stereo
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21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language,
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THE PRISONER OF ZENDA (PG) 1937, MON
8:00
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DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) FRI 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; SAT-SUN 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:30, 9:50; MON-THU 7:20, 9:40
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THIS MEANS WAR (PG language may offend,
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21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language,
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GHOST RIDER: SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE 3D
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JOHN CARTER 3D (PG violence) Digital 3d, No
passes THU 9:50
SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Closed
Captioned FRI-TUE, THU 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; WED 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00
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A SEPARATION (PG mature subject matter) FRI
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call to artists
ARTS
PREVUE // FOLK OPERA
Way, way down ... A folk-opera trip to Hadestown Call to Artists - Request for Proposals Kennedale Waste Management Facility Public Art Project Budget:
$5,000 CAD per artist for two selected designs (a total of 3 artists will be selected)
Eligibility:
All Canadian visual artists
Deadline:
4:30 pm on Thursday, April 12, 2012
Installation: June 2012 Visit our website to download the complete public art call:
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Charlotte Cornfield goes to Hadestown
Wed, Mar 21 – Thu, Mar 22 (7:30 pm) Hadestown Arden Theatre, St Albert, $32
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etween a geographically mindboggling touring schedule, side projects and a starring role in Hadestown, a critically acclaimed folk-rock opera, it's hard to imagine when Charlotte Cornfield has any down time. The singer-songwriter is making two stops in Alberta this month. First as part of the cast of Hadestown and again on March 30 opening for Rose Cousins at the Haven Social Club. Hadestown is the live stage version of the Grammy Award-winning concept album by Anaïs Mitchell featuring Justin Vernon—better known as Bon Iver—and Ani DiFranco. The music follows a variation of the ancient Greek myth in which Orpheus must
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go on a doomed quest to rescue his beloved Eurydice from the depths of the underworld. Mitchell has turned the saga into a reimagined tale, unfolding in a derivative of the United States that
"I had met her a few times before, and so I helped her find a couple of other people to be part of the cast in Alberta and it just all came together really well," Cornfield says. "At that point, my schedule was open and it's just a
I've been going through the libretto, which is the lyrics, and looking at the songs that she leads and what her role is within the story and her relationship to Hades. It's been really interesting looking at that. evokes its Depression-era past, current financial disaster and a postapocalyptic future. Cornfield says she became involved through Peter Nevins, who did the artwork for her album, as well as Hadestown. Mitchell was assembling a Canadian cast at the time, and Nevins put them in touch.
really exciting thing to do and different from other things I'm doing now, so I just jumped at the opportunity." Not that Cornfield's short on opportunities: prior to her own Canadian tour promoting her debut LP, Two CONTINUED ON PAGE 17 >>
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Horses, and performing in Hadestown, Cornfield travelled to Austin, Texas for the South by Southwest Music Festival. After the conclusion of Hadestown, she'll join the Weather Sation, the Wooden Sky and others for a cross-country trek. And in addition to her busy career as a solo singer-songwriter, Cornfield is also involved in the all-female jazz quartet TAKK, which released its debut album in November 2011, performing backup for Ben Caplan, making regular appearances with Richard King Rigby, The F in Fresh and her own side project Charred Cardboard. Before she hits the stage with Hadestown, Cornfield admits she still needs to do a bit of research into her character, Persephone, to understand her better in the traditional sense.
SWAN LAKE
Way, way down ...
"I've been going through the libretto, which is the lyrics, and looking at the songs that she leads and what her role is within the story and her relationship to Hades," Cornfield adds. "It's been really interesting looking at that." Cornfield notes that DiFranco took some liberties with Persephone's melodies during her run with the production, and says she will be interpreting the songs in their original form. This stage version differs from the album, which is what Cornfield has been listening to to prepare for the production, which she notes could pose a challenge. "I think I'm just coming out of my comfort zone a bit and being in a role where I'm singing someone else's lyrics and singing within a role is going to be interesting," she says. Meaghan Baxter
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The other residents of Hadestown
World Premiere of Kirk Peterson’s Swan Lake.
An Impossible Love, FOREVER DOOMED TO A LAKE OF TEARS.
do you think makes that myth resonate today? AM: I wrote most of the Hadestown songs during the two terms of George W Bush. It was even before the housing crisis and the recession, which is funny because the whole show became eerily relevant in the wake of that. Still, in those days there was such a sense of futility and helplessness regarding the political scene. Hadestown is a place where the rules are the rules, and you submit to them, "nothing changes," it's easier not to struggle. I think the opera was and is a meditation on how to respond to such times. Whether to have faith or doubt, whether to care or to throw up our hands. But a myth like the Orpheus myth is a prism that has been throwing light in different directions for centuries. Sometimes it illuminates a particular era or story or situation, but it can't be contained in one historical moment. I don't think a myth like that could
John Rutherford (Hades) What makes the Eurydice myth effective today? JR: I guess like any good story, or any brilliantly prophetic work, its themes are so true to life and, of course, history continues to repeat itself, and the lessons in life as they say morals seem to resonate throughout the times. .... I had a very young friend listening to it with me the other day, and he very quickly pointed out, "Wow, that's really a lot of references to World War Two." And then he immediately understood as well that these same sort of themes were taking place thousands of years ago, and then I was able to point out to him this was happening today. It's one of these stories that helps us frame a little bit about what the world's about or how life, politics, nations, people need to live. VW:
VW: What
VW: What's the rehearsal process been like? Have you had a chance to rehearse with the others? JR: No, It's all been isolated. I've done my own work on it over the past few months, so my process has been entirely solo and by myself, other than email correspondence with Anaïs herself and with her management. I find it really interesting, 'cause both her manager and Anaïs write emails very beautifully. Their communications are really quite wonderful, and Anaïs in particular, her emails are instructive as to the artsitic approach. Even her emails, her communications are poetic and quite beautiful. It's been fun just to have that interaction, on email.
Alberta Ballet Company Artist: Hayna Gutierrez
Anaïs Mitchell (Composer, Eurydice) VW: What inspired approaching the Eurydice myth as the source material for a folk musical? AM: There was no grand plan—that is, the first songs came before I knew they were going to be an opera. But once there was a critical mass and I got my sleeves rolled up, I got excited about the myth because of two things: one was the idea of the Underworld as a corporate-bureacratic monolith, an archetypal company town, the inherent unfairness and dark appeal of a place like that. The other was the idea of Orpheus, the dreamer, the lover, the artist who believes if he could just sing something beautiful enough, maybe he could do the impossible, move the heart of stone, overturn the established order. Every artist has that dream sometimes. That tragic kind of optimism.
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ever become irrelevant. Oftentimes people ask about the song "Why We Build the Wall," whether it's based on Israel/ Palestine, or US/Mexico border relations. But to me it's simpler than that. At its heart, Hadestown, and a song like "Wall" is about living in a world of wealth and poverty and the wall that inevitably springs up between the two. The song itself is not an answer but a series of questions, questions which could be asked in any era, but for me, living in the world today, I see it like this: take global warming to its terrifying logical conclusion, imagine hordes of desperate people at the door, and then places of relative wealth and security. Under such conditions, who among us would not be behind a big wall? The tough thing is that these conditions exist already, we're just not face-to-face with them yet.
MARCH 23-24 Northern Alberta Jubilee Auditorium
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PREVUE // SEND IN THE CLOWNS
Fool's Gold Cabaret Fri, Mar 16 – Sat, Mar 17 (8 pm) Living Room Playhouse, $10 – $15 It would be wrong to say that we're lacking in eager, trained clowns in Edmonton, but you could be forgiven for passing along the thought: outside of the Fringe, the opportunities to develop even short clown turns are few—especially chances to test them out with an actual audience in the room, which happens to be the vital part. "It's a form that's quite similar to stand-up," notes Christine Lesiak, "in that you really need an audience in order to develop your material. You need an audience to interact with, because it's inherent to the clown form, to be communicating with the audience." Known when wearing red nose as
Sheshells, Lesiak—who alongside clown partner Rocket (Adam Keefe) and mentor-turned-director Jan Henderson has a couple of successful fringe tours under their collective belt—has recently endeavored to give clowns across the city the opportunity to hone ideas before a crowd. Her Fool's Gold Cabaret had an inaugural one-night showcase back in October and returns now with two-nights of collected short performances, all in the style of clown, physical or otherwise interactive theatre. "To perform, one needs to have a venue, right? And in order to create, one needs a deadline," she adds, a wry, knowing note to her voice. The reason it's taken so long for something like this to emerge, with
An audience interaction at Fool's Gold
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all the red noses dotting the city? "Nobody organized it," Lesiak says. "I think it's that simple. It's a lot of work to produce a cabaret series. It's an ongoing thing ... there are so many people in Edmonton who have had a certain amount of clown train-
ing, that love it and want to be doing it, but need an excuse to be doing it. "I know for us [herself and Keefe], we count on spending three hours for every finished minute of a show," Lesiak continues. "That's a huge time commitment, so if you think of a five-
minute turn, people spend a good number of hours on each of these things." Lesiak, who curiously boasts a physics degree, found herself drawn to clown in a roundabout way, starting in taking a couple of improv classes, finding her way into that world, and from there, eventually taking a oneday clown workshop that hooked her. She notes the that both forms integrate themselves into the rest of your offstage life. "There's a philosophy around it that just basically has improved my overall quality of life," she says. "In terms of living in the moment, seeing the funny in ridiculous things, being able to look at tragedy and dark things through a lens of comedy as well. I like the verbal minimalism of clown. The show-it- don't-talk-about-it way of clown, and I really love the play with the audience. 'Cause every single show is different. That anything-could-happen energy seems to be what appeals most to Lesiak. "We go onstage at night praying something will screw up," she adds. "'Cause we know that in that instant, we will be so truthful in the moment." PAUL BLINOV
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THE FOLK WORLD’S ANSWER TO THE WHO’S TOMMY Featuring performances by Anais Mitchell, John Rutherford, Charlotte Cornfield, Andrea House, Stephen Tchir, Kris Demeanor, Rebecca Anderson and Kaley Bird.
HADESTOWN: A FOLK-POP MUSICAL Wednesday, March 21 & Thursday, March 22 7:30 pm • $ 32
Six musicians use nearly 100 objects and invented instruments to perform the colourful repertoire of the uncategorizable American music icon. You've never heard Tom Waits like this before.
The music of TOM WAITS performed by L’ORCHESTRE D’HOMMES-ORCHESTRES Tuesday, March 27 & Wednesday, March 28 7:30 pm • $ 30
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REVUE // VISUAL ARTS
Alberta Mistresses of the Modern / Banff 1947 Until Sat, Jun 3 Art Gallery of Alberta
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he narrative often repeated when it comes to the history of modernism's development in Alberta is one of a boys' club. Like elsewhere on the continent, to abstract one's work was a highly masculinized technique, lacking the refinement and delicacy thought accessible or appropriate to female visual artists. One of the problems with this story, despite its exposure of an unfortunate gendering of this approach to art making, was the exclusion of the women from this narrative who were the exception to this rule. Curator MaryBeth Laviolette begins the crafting of a new story in the exhibition, Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935 – 1975 at the Art Gallery of Alberta, celebrating and often introducing the talented, innovative women who shaped the beginning of modernist art practices in our province. The exhibit reveals the vision that was required by these women to apply modern art-making techniques to their prairie environments, proving that exploring outside of purely representational art had a place beyond Europe. In the paintings featured by Laura Evans Reid, non-natural colour, loose brushstrokes and flattened, ab-
stracted backgrounds are applied to genre scenes from the early days of Vegreville: Social Credit Party meetings, and scenes from the largest Ukrainian diaspora at the time. Beyond painting innovators, Laviolette introduces printmakers and ceramicists from the period. After hiding from the Nazis during the Second World War, Sibyl Budde Laubental brought the modern elegance of Bauhaus to early ceramic production in the province. She married the European style with local influence, digging the clay for her glazes from the banks of the Athabasca River and teaching her students to do the same. Here's hoping that Laviolette's introduction to women's contributions to modernism in the province is just the tip of the iceberg, and that this history, though often forgotten, is not lost.
Rosebud Creek at Rosedale // Margaret Shelton
In an adjoining room, Art School: Banff 1947 is an introduction to the early days of the Banff School of Fine Arts. While Banff may seem like it must have been an isolated community at that time, the exhibit tells another story—of how this place, even at an early date, became a significant site of discourse in the development of visual art in Canada. Students and faculty came from across the country, and the exhibition illustrates the
importance of that national exchange of ideas. Some of the most interesting works in the exhibition are not the landscapes but the automatic drawings, works guided by the subconscious rather than rational thought. Influenced by a West coast Jungian psychiatrist, Vancouver artist and Banff School faculty Jock Macdonald introduced fellow staff member and Alberta artist Marian Nicoll to the technique, and the results are fasci-
nating. The small watercolours from both artists with abstract shape and animal symbols are rendered with a great use of colour, overlaid with fascinating delicate line and shape in black ink. The early development of the Banff School shows the battle to define itself as more than a place to paint mountains, showing the experimentation with colour, paint handling, and the social landscape. The exhibit also does a great job of re-
vealing the ongoing influence of the war, as many artists involved with Banff at the time were part of the War Artist program. It is worth taking the time to watch the National Film Board documentary on the school, Holiday at School, for its tone of nationalist propaganda and its illustration of the identity the school was working to establish for itself. Carolyn Jervis // carolyn@vueweekly.com
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PREVUE // CULTURE SHOCK
Palestinian Bazaar Sat, Mar 17 (12 pm), evening concert (7 pm) The TransAlta Art Barns, free (allday events), $15 (evening concert)
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nfortunately, many people admit the first thing that comes to mind when they hear Palestine is war, violence, pain, struggle and any other word that could describe the horrible events that have taken place there," says local visual artist Ranya Al-Dayeh. The inaugural Humanserve International Palestinian Bazaar is hoping to change that. The full day of events features a lineup of films, art exhibits, vendors, performances and food to showcase the richness of Palestinian culture beyond what is portrayed in mainstream media. On top of the local talent on display, the bazaar will conclude with an evening concert featuring renowned hip-hop artists Mazzi and Shadia Mansour. "An event like this helps bring a more positive focus on Palestine's beauty and rich culture. It's to celebrate this country's conviction for peace and happiness," says Al-Dayeh, who will be showcasing a variety of her dynamic fine art work during the bazaar. Al-Dayeh, who is an elementary school teacher, hopes the event can break down some of the stereotypes developed about Palestinian culture and act as a way for the community as a whole to unite, regardless of ethnicity. Public engagement is an integral aspect of Humanserve's mandate in addition to its humanitarian efforts overseas in Palestine. President Vanessa Ali hopes the bazaar can show Canadians a more positive side of
Palestinian culture and help Edmontonians understand how it fits into the community's cultural mosaic. Ali sees arts as an effective way to bring people together because it is something enjoyed in different ways by all cultures. "Sometimes we don't realize how similar we are to each other until we see how, in some ways, the things that we like culturally are perhaps similar," she adds. "Wherever there's differences, sometimes that can be where people have a chance to be
An event like this helps bring a more positive focus on Palestine's beauty and rich culture.
exposed to it and find out why really enjoy it." Sara Al Souqi, a local spoken-word poet and university student, will be spreading new perspectives through her performances. In one, audiences will hear Al Sougi share her view on her home country of Palestine, and in the second, she will present a twist on the driving ban placed on women and Saudi Arabia. While the two stories don't share any commonalities at first glance, Al Sougi says she hopes they can show there is always another side to every story. "Throughout history, art is perceived as a form of resistance and expression; two aspects of that people can always relate to," Al Sougi says. "Spoken-word poetry gives a distinct and strong voice to resistance and expression and that is what makes it effective." Meaghan Baxter
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PREVUE // THE PARENT TRAP
God of Carnage Until Sun, Apr 1 Directed by James MacDonald Citadel Theatre, $20 – $82.95
other people can't see the inherent wisdom of what you're saying," she explains.
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arents don't like to hear criticism of their children from other parents, as they often see it as a reflection of their character or parental aptitude. Two very different sets of parents meet under less-than-desirable circumstances when their sons have an altercation at school. Veronica and Michael Novak's son comes out of the situation with two less teeth and they decide to host Alan and Annette Raleigh, parents of the other boy, to come to a resolution. However, what begins as a civilized discussion soon dissolves into chaos. Fiona Reid plays Veronica in the Edmonton production of the 2009 Tony Award-winning comedy God of Carnage, spearheaded by local director James MacDonald. The play has also been adapted into a feature film titled Carnage. "It's a really good examination of relationships as a microcosm of society in general and how we go about our lives," Reid says of the production, adding the story points out the hypocrisies of what people believe on a global level opposed to what they practice everyday.
Sensible people having a sensible conversation // EPIC Photography
Of course, as outsiders watching the action unfold, audiences will be able to make observations about each character as they navigate the uncomfortable meeting. What seems like common sense to an observer goes completely unnoticed by the characters.
Reid says that in getting to know her character she has recognized reflections of herself in Veronica, particularly in her intensity. Veronica wants the whole situation to be solved in a way that is fair to her child, and while she thinks she's being very reasonable and gracious,
Reid says Veronica has the tendency to exude a holier-than-thou air in her demeanor. "My intensity can sometimes make me a little preachy perhaps, and not always understanding [of] other people's positions. You think you're right and you can't understand why
In addition to certain parallels to her character, having her own children helped Reid prepare to take on the role. "It's the best raw material you could have with your own kids because you understand how rage works, how all the things you intend to do that were so pie in the sky can be blown apart by anger on the part of your child, or fatigue or a fight with your husband," she says. "In this situation, we certainly see our son as having been the victim of an assault and we really think we're being quite marvelous and can't understand why the other couple seems to not offer an instant apology." Those without children can still relate through the focus on the dynamics of relationships, particularly when it comes to reactions during stress and adversity. Reid says these situations can bring out things in someone's partner they've never seen before. "Hopefully people will see themselves and see how ridiculous we can all be when provoked," she adds. Meaghan Baxter
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PREVUE // DATE IN THE PARK
Chapter Two
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Thu, Mar 15 – Sun, Mar 25 (8 pm; 2 pm on Sat, Mar 24) Directed by Amanda Bergen The Capitol Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, $20 – $28
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orget the pony rides and costumed university students—theatre patrons seeking a respite from the usual circuit in town can head to the Capitol Theatre in Fort Edmonton Park, which is kicking off its 2012 season with Neil Simon's semi-autobiographical comedy Chapter Two. "I was searching for a smaller-cast play to start off our 2012 season," explains Capitol Theatre artistic director and Chapter Two director Amanda
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Bergen. "Usually within the first couple scenes I'm pretty sure whether or not I want to do it. With Chapter Two, as I read it I just smiled through the whole thing. By the end of the play I was just really satisfied and charmed by the people I saw—they're really well-rounded characters." A show with broad appeal, Chapter Two explores the rocky re-entry of a widower and a divorcée into the world of dating in the late 1970s. Bergen notes that though the mechanics of dating have changed over the past 40 years—and Chapter Two does touch on the shift in courtship away from being solely initiated and conducted
by the man—the basic emotions have remained the same. "They just happen to be in the '70s; they really could be situated in any era," explains Bergen. "The biggest challenge is making those relationships real and sincere. There's a lot of dialogue and because it's funny, there's a lot of jokes, and especially in Neil Simon's time when he wrote it in '77, the joke is not always sarcasm as we use it today. It's a different type of humour and, I think, a different type of how they speak to each other. Staging it today, it's just finding those connections in the text." Mel Priestley
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Dance Alberta Ballet–Beyond Words • Jubilee Auditorium, 11455-87 Ave • 780.428.6839 • albertaballet.com • Swan Lake: World premiere of Kirk Peterson’s Swan Lake, choreography and staging by Kirk Peterson after Petipa and Ivanov, music by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, accompanied by the Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra • Mar 23-24
Edmonton Festival Ballet • Arden Theatre, 5 St Anne St • Foundations: Gala with Edmonton Contemporary Dancers and Edmonton School of Ballet Junior Company • Sun, Mar 18, 2pm (door), 3pm (dance) • $25 (adult)/$15 (child under 18) at Edmonton School of Ballet, 780.413.0985
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 Chocolate Farmer: Thu, Mar 22, 6:30pm Edmonton Film Society • Royal Al-
berta Museum, 12845-102nd Ave • 780.453.9100 • royalalbertamuseum.ca/events/movies/movies. cfm • The Prisoner of Zenda (1937, 101 min, PG) • Mar 19, 8pm
Educated Reel • Metro Cinema, Garneau
Theatre, 8712-109 St • Amazing Ecologies: Avatar: Pierre Boulanger will discuss the science behind the film. Jamie Pratt will show her short film, Girl Gone Wild, Episode 1: Bison • Thu, Mar 15, 7pm • $6 (online)/$10 (door)/$8 (student); Registration: Online or by phone, 780-492-4540
Film and Video Arts Society (FAVA) • FAVA FEST: Film and Video Arts Fes-
tival • Mar 20-24 • Screenings: FAVA's Exhibition Suite, 9722-102 St: Mar 20-22, 7pm, 9pm • Artist Panel: FAVA's Exhibition Suite (9722 102 St): Mar 23, 7pm • Inaugural FAVA GALA: Metro Cinema at The Garneau, 8712-109 St: Mar 24, 5:30pm (cocktails), 6:30pm (music, Jason Kodie), Screening of FAVA's 2010 Production Award Winning films The Weightless Traveller by Eva Colmers, Sacred Cinema by Mark Power, all-around junior male by Lindsay McIntyre, Scapeby Kyle Armstrong and Leslea Kroll, and Slingshot by Jimmy Bustos; 9pm FAVA GALA Awards Ceremony including five new, annual Awards of Excellence
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 • The Quiet Man (1952, G); Fri, Mar 16, 2pm • The Big Sleep (1946, B&W, PG); Fri, Mar 23, 2pm
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • GALLERY SPRING SELECTIONS: Selection of gallery artists works • Until end of Mar
ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • THINKING BIG: Unveiling public art projects; until Apr 7 • Discovery Gallery: What’s a Girl to Do? Felted hats by Edmonton artist Virginia Stephen; until Mar 24 • Women: Clay sculptures by Keith Turnbull; until Mar 24 • Artist Spotlight Meet Greet: Anna Rasmussen. Anna will be showcasing her new collection of ceramic dinnerware Beach; Mar 22, 6pm
Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.3679 • Picasso and Pinot Noir: 3rd Thu each month; $50, pre-register Artery • 9535 Jasper Ave • 780.441.6966 • theartery.ca • Stay On The Scene Spring Art Show: The Noble Thiefs and more • Sat, Mar 24, 7pm
Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA)
• 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • Rearview Mirror: Contemporary Art from East and Central Europe; until Apr 29 • Icons of Modernism: until May 21 • BMO Work of Creativity: Method and Madness: Family-focused interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • RBC New Works Gallery: The Untimely Transmogrification of the Problem: Chris Millar; until Apr 29 • MASS: Dara Humniski: until May 20 • VENERATOR: Contemporary Art from the AGA Collection; until May 21 • Art School: Banff 1947: until Jun 3 • Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1975: Until Jun 3 • Cura-
tor’s Tour: Art School with Ruth Burns; Wed, Mar 21, 7pm; $20/$15 (AGA member) • Manning Hall: One Night of Progress: forum of speakers debating What is progress? Is progress a good thing? Thu, Mar 15, 7pm; $10/free (member) • Curator’s Tour: Art School with Ruth Burns: Wed, Mar 21, 7pm; $20/$15 (AGA member) • Alberta Process Painting: until Jun 3 • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun each month, 12-4pm; free with admission • Refinery: Sewing the Heartland: Late-night art party returns with Sewing the Heartland, featuring interactive fashion projects and live Fashion Challenge; Sat, Mar 24, 9pm-2am; $35/$30 (AGA member)/$15 (AGA ultra member)
Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • Immuto: Watercolour paintings and stop-motion animations by Jennifer Wanner; until Apr 28 • Artventures: Drop-in art program for children 6-12; 1-4pm; $5 • Ageless Art: Still Life Collage: For mature adults; Thu, Mar 15, 1-3pm; $12, pre-register • Artventures: Fabulous Flowers: Drop-in art program for children 6-12; Sat, Mar 17, 1-4pm; $5
Centre d’arts visuels de l’Alberta • 9103-95 Ave • 780.461.3427
• Symbiosis: Artworks by Karen Blanchet, Rachelle Bugeaud, Barbara Kowaleski, and Tony Goobie; until Mar 20 • Artventure: Artworks by Zoong Nguyen, Thérèse Bourassa, Sarah Cleary, Keith Nolan, and Clayton Sauvé; opening: Mar 23, 7-8:30pm; Mar 23-Apr 10
Common Sense • 10546-115 St •
Spring Boards: Abstract paintings paintings by Taya Ross • Mar 23-Apr 14 • Opening: Mar 23, 7pm
Crooked Pot Gallery–Stony Plain • 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain •
780.963.9573 • Anticipation of Things to Come: Ceramic artworks by Barb Watchman • Until Mar 31
Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St,
780.760.1278 • Songs on the Wall: Beatles inspired artworks by Bernadette McCormack • Through March
Enterprise Square • 10230 Jasper Ave • 780.492.5834 • museums.ualberta.ca • Cool Stuff: Presented by U of A Museums, featuring objects and artifacts related to winter, ice, snow, mountains and polar regions; until Mar 31 • Noon-Hour Series: Nature in Winter in Edmonton with John Acorn; Mar 15 • Winter Through Roman Eyes with Jeremy Rossiter; Mar 23 • Curating Cool Stuff with Jim Corrigan; Mar 29 • Sweat of Our Brow: University of Alberta's Student Design Association; Mar 22-31; opening: Mar 22, 6pm; thesda.ca Expressionz Café Gallery
• Featuring Feral Dog Photography, Brian Zahorodniuk, Dara Loewen, Ginette VallieresD'Silva, Margot Solstice, Maggie Tate and others • Until Apr 28, Tue-Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 11am-5pm
FAB Gallery • Department of Art and
Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • Automatic Ruins: Colin Lyons: MFA Printmaking • The Alcuin Awards for Excellence in Book Design in Canada: This show covers books in eight categories (Children’s, Limited Editions, Pictorial, Poetry, Prose Fiction, Prose Non-fiction, Prose Non-fiction Illustrated, and Reference) published in 2010 • Until Mar 24
Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner
Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • Postage Stamps as Messengers of Culture: Display by Anita Nawrocki (display cases) • The Argentum Project: Chronicles of Motion: Works by the Sculptors' Association of Alberta (in the Gallery and display cases near AV Rm); until Mar 31
Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • C. W. Jefferys…His Lines Made History: Artworks by C.W. Jefferys • Until Mar 28
Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer Library • Fractals Infinitum: Digital collages by Elyse Eliot-Los, digital imagery by Janice Johnson • Until Apr 29 Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • ProjEx Room: Anusawaree (Monuments): Works by Korapin Chaotakoongite; until Apr 7 • Main Space: Unstable Natures: Works by fifteen graduate students and recent MFA recipients from across North America, dealing with moments of rupture and change caused by mechanical instability; until Apr 7 • Reception: Mar 16, 7pm Loft Gallery • A. J. Ottewell Art
Centre, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • 780.922.6324 • artstrathcona.com • Art and gifts by local artists • Until Apr 29; Sat: 10am-4pm; Sun: 12-4pm
McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital,
8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • Pattern, form, detail: Photographs of natural and manufactured landscapes by Ronald Whitehouse • Until Apr 15
Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave, St Albert • 780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing
Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-178 St
• Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing
Multicultural Centre Public Art Gallery (MCPAG)–Stony Plain •
5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Paintings by Tabitha Gilman; Mar 16-Apr 11; opening reception: Sun, Mar 18
Musée Héritage Museum–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528
• St Albert History Gallery: Artifacts dating back 5,000 years • Slavic ST Albert: Based on the research work of Michal Mynarz; until May 12
Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery. com • The Premise of Nature: Landscape paintings and photographs by Brenda Kim Christiansen; until Mar 27
Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-
102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Narrative Quest: Until Apr 29
SCOTT GALLERY 10411-124 St • 780.488.3619 • scottgallery.com • Blue Notes and Stormy Weather: Paintings by Jim Stokes • Mar 17-Apr 3 • Opening: Sat, Mar 17, 2-4pm, artist in attendance SNAP Gallery • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • Gallery Exhibition: Oh... Know: Artworks by Robin Smith-Peck and Marc Siegner; until Mar 17 • Instructors' Salon: Printworks by the instructors of SNAP's 2012 education programs; until Mar 17 • Artworks by Todd Stewart; Mar 22-Apr 21; opening reception: Mar 22 SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • Journey: Artworks by Ada Wong • Until Mar 24
Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty
Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • F.E.A.R.–FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL: Drawings, paintings, and collages influenced by paranoia, works by Chris Zaytsoff, Jocelyn Gallant and Gaye Huckell • Until Mar 31
Strathcona County Gallery@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood
Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Old Dogs/New Tricks: Featuring drawings by Father Douglas • Until Apr 7
Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • Production Pottery: Brenda Danrook and Martin Tagseth; until Apr 29
HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-
TELUS World of Science • 11211-142
104 Ave • Comics Artist-in-Residence: Paul Lavelleed available every Fri (12-6pm), and every Sat (12-5pm) until Apr 21 • Comic Jam: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Open Door: a collective of independent comic creators, meet on the 2nd and 4th Thu each month, 7pm
Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112
St • 780.426.4180 • harcourthouse.ab.ca • Main Space: SOUNDBURSTINGS NO.1: Gary James Joynes installation of several video projections that create a sequence of SoundBursts • Front Room: We Are In The Same Place: Paintings by Patrick Higgins • Until Apr 14
Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer
• Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery. com • Scenes from the Domestic: Ceramic works by Red Deer artist, Jenna Turner • Until Mar 24
Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • Eccentric Embraces of Landscapes Expressed: Artworks by Rea Vanlie • Through Mar
St • Discoveryland • Sport II: The science of sport; until May 6
VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •
780.421.1731 • Gallery A and B: ALBERTA IN A BOX: WIDE OPEN: Works by Alberta Potter’s Association • Until Apr 14
VASA Gallery • (Studio Gallery) Grandin
Park Plaza, 22 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5993 • Figurative artworks by Carla Beerens and Rick Rogers • Until Mar 31
West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave •
780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Artworks by Guy Roy; until Mar 22 • Spring Splash: Mar 24-Apr 5
LITERARY 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 • Release of Bob MacKay's book;
Tue, Mar 20, 7:30pm • Massimo Capra talks about food with his new book, 3 Chefs; chat with illustrator Dwight Allott about The Ultimate Guys’ Q & A; Wed, Mar 21, 5-7pm • Co-author CD Evans talks about the oilsands with his new novel, 5000 Dead Ducks; Fri, Mar 23, 7:30pm • Garneau Theatre, 8712-109 St: Steve Lillebuen's The Devil’s Cinema: The Untold Story Behind Mark Twitchell’s Kill Room, book launch with Todd Babiak for an interview, followed by a Q&A by the audience and book signing in lobby; Wed, Mar 28, 7pm; tickets at door • Students of Project Adult Literacy Society (P.A.L.S.) share some stories about the gift of reading and how it can change your life; Wed, Mar 28, 7pm
Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave •
780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month
Canadian Authors Association
• Campus Saint-Jean, Pavillon Lacerte, Rm 3-04, 8406 Marie-Ann-Gaboury St (91 St) • canauthorsalberta.ca • Fred Stenson presents Historical Fiction • Mar 16-17 • 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
Cheremosh Ukrainian Dance Company Studio • 4005-115 Ave •
Book launch of Ukrainian Dance: A Cross Cultural Approach by Andriy Nahachewsky • Mar 24, 7pm, with performances by Cheremosh and Shumka • Free; RSVP to E: lynnien.pawluk@ualberta.ca
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 • The Quiet Man (1952, G); Fri, Mar 16, 2pm • The Big Sleep (1946, B&W, PG); Fri, Mar 23, 2pm 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; Wed, Mar 21
Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd • A Celebration Of
Robert Kroetsch: Readings and remembrances featuring Jenna Butler, George Bowering, Jeff Carpenter, Nicole Markotic, Roy Miki, Fred Wah, Thomas Wharton; hosted by Douglas Barbour • Fri, Mar 16, 7pm • Free
Riverdale • 9917-87 St • Creative 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 St Albert Library • 5 St. Anne St, St
Albert • Author event featuring Timothy Taylor, author of Stanley Park, hosted by Curtis Gillespie • Wed, Mar 21, 7pm • Free
Strathcona County Library– Sherwood Park • 401 Festival Lane,
Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • sclibrary.ab.ca • Authors In The House: Crime fiction author Ian Hamilton talk and reading from The Wild Beasts of Wuhan; Mar 24, 2-3pm; free • Roots Go Deep–World Storytelling Day Celebration; Sun, Mar 25, 2-4pm
T.A.L.E.S. CONCERT • Art Gallery of Alberta,
Ledcor Theatre, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • World Storytelling Day: Featuring tellers and tales from many cultures and traditions • Sun, Mar 18, 2-3pm
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) • $6 minimum cover
T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New Strath-
cona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free
T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Bogani Café,
2023-111 St • Come to share a story, or just come to listen; hosted by Dawn Blue; 7-9pm; free; 2nd Wed each month
T.A.L.E.S. WORLD STORYTELLING DAY • Art Gallery of Alberta, Ledcor Theatre,
2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • ecn.ab.ca/~tales/ Events.html • TALES From the Woods: Featuring Sarah Harder-Tessier (Youth Teller), Renée Englot, Don George, Amanda Woodward, Wendy Edey, Patrick Pierse, Marie Anne McLean • Sun, Mar 18, 2-3:30pm • $10 (adult)/$5 (child)/free (under 4)
WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors
THEATRE BOEING, BOEING • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave • 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Bernard, a successful American architect living in a posh Paris apartment, has been deftly juggling three fiancées who are all flight attendants. But his supersonic lifestyle hits turbulence when his old college friend
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visits and each of his three fiancées change their flight schedule • Until Apr 8
Chapter Two • Capital Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Fox Dr, Whitemud Dr • fortedmontonpark.ca • Written by Neil Simon, directed by Amanda Bergen • Mar 15-25 (not on Mar 19), 8pm; Mar 24, 2pm; not recommended for children 12 and under • $28 (adult)/$20 (student/senior) • Dinner and Theatre: Mar 15-18, 20, 23-25; Dinner Tickets: $32 (adult)/$16 (child) Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only) The Country • Varscona Theatre,
10329-83 Ave • 780.434.5564 • shadowtheatre. org • Shadow Theatre • By Martin Crimp • Richard and Corrine have escaped to a new and peaceful life in rural England, but when an unconscious young woman is discovered outside their door, it threatens to unravel their illusion of marital bliss • Mar 21-Apr 8, 7:30pm, 2pm • $15 (previews); Fri-Sat night: $26/$23 (student/senior); Tue-Thu, Sun mat: $22/$20 (student/senior)
DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83
Ave • 780.433.3399 • die-nasty.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
God of Carnage • Citadel Shoctor
Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • 780.428.2117 • citadeltheatre.com • Mainstage Series: By Yasmina Reza, translated by Christopher Hampton, directed by James MacDonald, starring Fiona Reid. This comedy introduces us to two sets of parents who meet after their sons have a fight at school. An encounter that seems good-natured at first swiftly digresses into hilariously bad manners and complete comedic chaos • Until Apr 1
Hadestown • Arden Theatre, 5 St. Anne
St, St Albert • 780.459.1542 • Anais Mitchell and the Hadestown Orchestra; A Folk-Pop Musical. Based on the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice set in Depression-era America, this story tells the tale of lovers torn apart not by death, but by the desire to escape poverty by moving to Hadestown, an underground gold-mining community overseen by the merciless Mr. Hades • Mar 21-22, 7:30pm • $32 at TicketMaster, Arden Theatre
ignoraNce • Roxy, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440 • attheroxy.com • Theatre Network • By The Old Trout Puppet Workshop with Anonymous Contributors • A puppet documentary about the evolution of happiness. The Old Trouts seek the origin of bliss amongst the ignorant. The show has been written on the web for all to comment, criticize, or contribute. Visit www.theoldtrouts. org/ignorance • Previews: Mar 20-21; Mar 22-Apr 8 • Tickets at Theatre Network’s box office, 780.453.2440 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 • Until Apr 1 LA LISTE • La Cité Theatre, 8627 rue
Marie-Anne-Gaboury • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • L'UniThéâtre • By Jennifer Tremblay with English surtitles • Production of Théâtre d’Aujourd’hui (Montréal); stars Sylvie Drapeau as a woman who inadvertently causes the death of a neighbour by neglecting a favour • Mar 22-24, Thu-Sat 8pm; Sun mat: 2pm • $25 (adult)/$21 (senior)/$16 (student) at W: lunitheatre.ca, La Librairie Le Carrefour, TIX on the Square
LE PORTRAIT GOOBLE • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • L'UniThéâtre (School Tour) • By Jon Lachlan Stewart • Production of Théâtre la Seizième (Vancouver) • Touring until Mar 23, Apr 10-27
The Music Man Junior • Dow Centre, Fort Saskatchewan • 780.998.3741 • Mar 15-16, 7pm • $10
OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre • 1032983 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)
Spring Fling • Sutton Place Hotel,
10235-101 St • attheroxy.com • Theatre Network's annual fundraiser: an evening of entertainment, fine dining, and lavish shopping • Mar 15
TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv runs every Fri, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member)
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Find a restaurant
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PROFILE // LIBERTÉ, ÉGALITÉ, FRATERNITÉ
C'est un bon café
Café du France est un melange de la France et la Méditerranée
A little slice of France // Meaghan Baxter
Café du France #111, 11523 - 100 Ave 780.447.2690
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very so often, a woman just wants to have a lunch date with her mom. Being the Francophiles that we are, we headed to Café du France, the elegant new restaurant in LeMarchand Mansion. As soon as we enter, I realize that the stately old building is a perfect home for this place. The brick, wood and stone of the Mansion create a romantic backdrop for diners; paintings, many depicting scenes of French life, dot the walls, adding colour and ambience. A panoramic view of the Seine—I mean the North Saskatchewan—only adds to the charm, as does the background music: when those notes tango out from an accordion, my imagination joins in for a few steps. We arrive early, but the place is already hopping—tables include everyone from work colleagues to seniors. I order a latté ($4), and my mom goes for a regular coffee. My latté ar-
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rives; the foam on top rises, all fluffy, high above the edge of the glass. For an appetizer, I order the bowl of soup with a fresh croissant ($8.95). The soup comes in two choices, of which I select potato leek. For my main dish, I consider the pasta à la Normande ($11.95), pasta with cream sauce, chicken and broccoli. The server informs me that the latter dish would take about 30 minutes to prepare; this wouldn't be a problem, except that we had parked at a parking meter just outside the building after scrounging from our purses just enough change for 90 minutes (only pay-parking is available right next to the building, by the way). Instead of the pasta, I order a caesar salad ($8.95), and my mom orders the spanakopita, which is one of the Mediterranean offerings. When my soup and croissant arrive, I see that I'm in for a treat: the croissant is flaky, light as air and enormous. We split it, and my mom remarks that "This is how a croissant should taste." If only all croissants
were as buttery and fresh as this one, substantial and satisfying. I'm already really happy, and I haven't even tried the potato-leek soup yet. This is not some runny, wimpy attempt at a cream soup. Oh, no. This is garlic and pepper and cream, cream, cream. I feel the need to tell my mom about five times how much I enjoy the soup, especially that interplay of strong pepper and mild leek in a tango of their own. By the time we finish the soup, I'm starting to feel full, but the salad's also huge, and very, very fresh. And there's that garlic again. My mom likes her spanakopita, too, remarking that it's soft, there's plenty of spinach and that the feta cheese isn't too salty. As much as we enjoy our visit and want to try dessert, we realize that we don't have much time left on the meter, and we're very full already. I definitely want to go back and try their desserts, or maybe I'll return for another lunch date with my mom. Maria Kotovych
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PROVENANCE
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Six Facts About Guinness: to those in certain fruits and vegetables, are responsible for health benefits. This is due to the fact that they slow down the deposit of harmful cholesterol on the artery walls. As if you needed another excuse to drink up.
Something's fishy
As with the production of many types of beer, Guinness brewing involves using isinglass from fish. The substance, which is obtained from dried swim bladders of fish, is a form of collagen used as a fining agent to settle out suspended matter in the vat. The substance is retained in the floor of the vat, but it's possible that small quantities could be carried over into the beer.
Don't try this in Canada If you were to order a pint of Guinness in Ireland, the bartenders would know what you're talking about if you asked for a pint of plain, the good stuff, your best or Irish Mother's milk. If you aren't in a state where you can be articulate, just hold up your forefinger and that'll do the trick.
The pour needs to be long enough that the contents in the glass is a perfect black. The rest of the pint must be poured at the same 45 degree angle. The end result should be a creamy head and served at 42.8 F.
So that's where it came from
Guinness is responsible for starting the Guinness Book of World Records. In 1954, the head of Guinness at the time got in an argument with some friends while out on a hunting trip and they decided to commission a reference book containing hard-to-prove facts. It was originally meant as a way to settle disputes over such things. The first edition was given to bars stocking Guinness as a promotional item.
Pouring is an art No false advertising here
Guinness's marketing slogan, "Guinness is Good for You" may be more than a clever pitch. Studies have shown it can be beneficial for the heart and the antioxidant compounds, which are similar
by a rest, which is crucial.
Don't just go pouring a pint of Guinness like any old beer. This beer requires a little skill. A "perfect pour" should take 119.53 seconds. The pint must be poured at a 45 degree angle followed
Out of Ireland While the Irish made the beer famous, 40 percent of all Guinness is actually sold in Africa.
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BEER
Beer of empires In Mother Russia, beer drinks you! 1000 Monkeys Russian Imperial Stout Paddock Wood Brewing, SK $19.99 for six pack When Catherine the Great, Empress of Russia, tried it, she immediately fell in love with it. So much so, she contracted a brewery to make it ex.com weekly t@vue clusively for her to ensure tothepin Jason she had a steady supply. And Foster thus Russian Imperial Stout was born, a style that is all stout but more. Ms Catherine was known to be something of a sot, but she did know a good beer when she found one. Russian Imperial Stout is one of the most challenging beer styles to brew, demanding both heft and balance. Few brewers try their hand at it, particularly in Canada. However, Saskatoon's Paddock Wood was brave enough to give it a try, with the brewery's new seasonal, 1000 Monkeys. At 10 percent alcohol, it's a beer that demands both attention and respect, lest you pearance is thick and rich. The aroma find yourself unexpectedly planted on offers dark chocolate, medium roast your backside. coffee and burnt sugar. I also get some caramel and cocoa in the mix. Alcohol The beer pours deep black with a is present but not overpowering. thick, dark tan head that forms a subI take a sip and get dark chocolate, stantial blanket over the beer. Its apcoffee and toffee to start. A bitter
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roast picks up partway through and lasts through the linger. Adding complexity are some dark fruit esters, cocoa, caramel, brown sugar and burnt chocolate. This is a very complex and deep beer. Alcohol plays a background role, but does make its sub-
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stantial presence felt. I love the complexity in this beer. Throughout the whole glass I detected new flavours and aromas. It is rich, intense, fruity, chocolaty and ready for almost anything. I can imagine this is how Catherine might have liked it.
is still an enjoyable, if rather intense, sipping beer. One can see why Catherine became rather enamoured with this style. Its substantial presentation can be quite addictive. 'Tis a pity the Bolsheviks didn't take a similar liking to it. Their loss. V Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, a website devoted to news and views on beer from the prairies and beyond.
MUSIC
PREVUE // ROCKIN' COUNTRY
A little bit more rock 'n' roll Jake Ian toughens up his sound on fourth studio album
THU MARCH 15
leerOy stagger withhisband
WITH sean brewer, the switchmen, AND ayla brook FRI MARCH 16
METAL ALLIANCE there Can Only Be One Battle world Class white trash, Cleanse kill, these Colours don’t run, stallord, silent line, from another time SAT MARCH 17 St. Patty’S day early Show
James renton, ian mcintosh ben sir, James Davies, ben olson doors at noon
Jake Ian & the Haymakers
Thu, Mar 22 (9 pm) DV8 Tavern, $12
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t's been less than a year since Jake Ian & the Haymakers released Honey I Lost My Way, but the Albertabased quartet is already back at it with its latest release Sad and Lonely Broken Man. Frontman Ian is constantly writing new songs and says he's already begun planning tracks for the next record. "If you're not moving forward, you're kind of standing still, and I always want to be moving forward," he adds. Ian & the Haymakers have become known for their down-home country sound, but the bandleader says this time around, the album leans more towards rock 'n' roll. Ian didn't have a particular concept in mind to convey a more upbeat vibe when putting the album together, but says the title track is a reference to guys he knew growing up who al-
ways seemed to be trailed by a string of bad luck. "I guess if you analyze the record enough, you can kind of see a little bit of that character in all of the songs," he muses. When Ian and his band hit the studio in August, he already had seven of the album's songs penned, with the remainder quickly falling into place. This ability to crank out song after song comes from taking time out to reflect. "I just kind of stop and take a minute, step away from my life at that point," Ian says. "In English class in high school they always make you do those reflection papers, so I think it's a natural thing to do in life. I just apply mine to my songs." Ian's push to move forward doesn't mean he won't step back into the past. The majority of the songs that made the cut for Sad and Lonely Broken Man are brand new, but there were two he revisited that were written ap-
SOUNDTRACK
One Way State
Morning: The Black Keys, El Camino. Blues-tinged garage rock that's uplifting and experimental, yet it feels like you've known it forever.
The Edmonton alt-rockers in One Way State have forged a path free of limitations with the release of the new EP The Right Time, a vehicle for tales of life's ups and downs. Guitarist Nick Moir shares his personal soundtrack at home and on the road.
SAT MARCH 17
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the orDer of chaos face first, AND enemy sUrPlUs early show, Doors aT 6pm FRI MARCH 23
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METAL MONDAY
whiskey rose
CD RELEASE SHOW
WITH snakebite AND cheaP Date
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Meaghan Baxter // meaghan@vueweekly.com
At home
Fri, Mar 16 (7 pm) Brixx Bar & Grill
proximately six years ago. "I never like to throw out a song. Sometimes I just keep it and rework it a little bit," he says, referencing a ballad from the album titled "First Bend in the Trail," which has become his favourite from the record. "It's a very spacious song. There's a lot of room for individual things to kind of come to the surface. The backup vocals in it, for example, are really strong. It's a touching song." Ian takes songwriting cues from the greats who came before him, like Lyle Lovett, John Prine and Bob Dylan. One of his other songwriting idols, Townes Van Zandt, has a presence on the album through the band's rendition "Dollar Bill Blues," which is their first cover. "I've always enjoyed his music and that song has always been one of my favourites," Ian says. "It turned into a pretty rockin' version of it, though."
On the road Morning: Arcade Fire, The Suburbs. Inspiring album to get started on the drive to the next city or show, but moody enough for some introspection.
Noon: Mumford & Sons, Sigh No More. It just grabs you with its pure focus and makes you think of simpler times—like maybe a couple of years ago.
Noon: Sam Roberts, Chemical City. When driving through the mountains or crossing the prairies this will colour the scenery perfectly. It makes you proud to be going wherever the van is headed.
Night: Radiohead, In Rainbows. Some of us can't get through a day without some Radiohead. It might be a bit of an addiction. Challenging, yet still lets you settle in for a while without making you think too much.
Night: Gorillaz, Gorillaz. Mixes it up when pulling into town. The street lights and new sights blending perfectly with the tracks and making the guy with dreadlocks next to you groove to the beats.V
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WAR STORIES
Yukon Blonde
Thu, Mar 22 (8 pm) Pawn Shop, $12 (advance), $15 (door) Chilly Canadian winter weather caused some havoc for Yukon Blonde during the band's Western Canadian tour with Plants and Animals. Bass player John Jeffrey gives Vue the details. War stories ... I think our entire winter tour of 2011 counts as a war story. We had an amazing opportunity to open for one of our favourite bands, Plants and Animals, in February 2011 for eight shows or so through Western Canada. I had just joined the band in December and hadn't played a show with them until our first stop on the tour, which happened to be at the Commodore Ballroom in Vancouver. For those who don't know, it's one of the most famous venues in the city, and probably our favourite in the country. That was a great show, and an honour for us to play. Unfortunately this particular time of year (February) in Canada is not the most forgiving. The
FIRSTS, LASTS & FAVOURITES
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weather was insane and we couldn't catch a break. Every drive took us literally twice the length it normally would. Our drive from Nelson to Edmonton that usually takes us eight hours ended up being 24 hours. Our van, a 1993 Dodge Passenger at the time, had no sealing on the doors or windows so all the cold air blew right in. Our heater also didn't work. We were basically just sitting outside without getting snowed on. Nick from Plants and Animals suggested we light candles in there to heat ourselves. In retrospect we're pretty lucky we made it through all those drives; our van was unstoppable. We didn't miss one show. The van was broken into later on the tour in Toronto, but luckily the only thing stolen was the GPS. There were a lot of other factors in play during that time, family crisis, recording deadlines, girlfriend issues ... they all definitely added to the stress. It's hard to really describe how shitty that was. Things have looked up since then though, especially with getting a new van. It has a heater. V
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Petunia & the Vipers Sat, Mar 17 (8 pm) Haven Social Club, $10
Petunia got his start playing on every major street corner across Canada and New York City prior to moving up the ranks to a touring musician. These days, he hits the road as Petunia & the Vipers, and the group's self-titled release has been earning rave reviews for its rockabilly swing and melodic ballads. Before he hits Edmonton for a St Patrick's Day show, Petunia shared his firsts, lasts and favourites.
First album The first album I bought, as opposed to my first favourite album, Looney Tunes, bought for me when I was 10, is harder to remember. I think it was a David Bowie album, like Ziggy Stardust.
Favourite album What a loaded question. It's got to be some country or blues compilation, constantly a revolving thing. Tom Waits’ last record was in rotation for a while, the Minimalist Jugband is excellent ... etc.
First concert It was a classical music concert in Grade 6. I tapped my fingers to the grooves all the way through, thinking that I was sophisticated enough to play and understand properly music so lovely at some point, but not really believing so. Mia Braithwaite sat next to me and I thought I was impressing her by tapping my fingers.
Favourite musical guilty pleasure I feel most guilty (musically speaking) while playing musical instruments I am not accustomed to playing or skilled at in earshot of anyone else. It is generally far more pleasurable playing a new kind of instrument than a kind which I’ve been playing for years. I feel most musically guilty while playing badly and consciously within earshot of any other human being, especially while playing loudly. Although I am very comfortable squawking in the presence of animals. In fact, the presence of animals greatly enhances this guilty kind of pleasure. Especially while the animals are making their own noises in conjunction with my own and we’re all making our own sounds very loudly—what I call a real cacophony—that is a pure delight. V
Last album Ronnie Arthur’s Orchestrio.
Last concert Frank Fairfield in Los Angeles on my last tour there a couple weeks ago.
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ON THE RECORD
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The weirdness
An inside look at the making of BA Johnston's Hi Dudes! Wed, Mar 21 (10 pm) The Empress, Free BA Johnston of Hamilton, ON has embarked on a Canadian tour following the release of his eighth studio album Hi Dudes! on Feb 21. Prior to his Edmonton stop, he took the time to answer a few questions about the making of the album. VUE WEEKLY: How long did it take to make Hi Dudes! from the initial songwriting through to the end of recording? BA JOHNSTON: That is a really great question. Sadly, I'm not really sure. I guess it took from the time the last album came out (September 2011) until I sent it to the record plant in December. So, I guess, like, 16 months. I did spend a big chunk of that time touring, so I wasn't writing any songs then. I also drove to the world's largest arcade in New Hampshire three times. No songwriting then either. Also, I have to do a lot of chores for mother. So, I didn't write any songs then either.
VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first? BAJ: For the songs that have the cool beats, I just get them on my email and then sing over them in the computer room. Guitar-wise, I tend to have ideas for songs and then I try and re-arrange the two chords I know in a new way to fit the idea. It's getting harder to find ways to make those two chords sound fresh.
VW: Did the songs come from one person fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group? BAJ: I write all the songs, well, except the beat stuff. I then drive to Toronto and record them with a dude named Paul Linklater in his basement, and then he does the rest of the work after I leave. It usually takes me about two hours to record all my parts. Not sure how long it takes for him to make it sound good. VW: What were the recording sessions like for this album? Is this the kind of thing you recorded live or did you piece it together one track at a time? Why? BAJ: The recording sessions usually work like this: I try and get like four songs done. Before I can forget them, I drive to Paul's house. He lives beside a 241 Pizza. So, I usually eat a slice before and save the second one for after. I then go into his basement and just record my parts. I'm not good enough to play along with anything, so I have to go first. After I leave, Paul does all the work. This has been how all my records have been recorded except substitute Stephan or Dave for Paul. VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album? BAJ: No. I never leave songs off a record intentionally. During Stairway to Hamilton there were a few songs that we forgot to put on the record. I'm a firm believer in deep cuts and filler tracks.
VW: How did you decide which songs to include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Hi Dudes! to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along? BAJ: I don't usually have a clear idea on what I want an album to sound like. I tend to write songs while watching television. So, often the songs are about what is on television. Sometimes when I'm driving the minivan, I get an idea. If I don't forget it before I get home I try and make it into a song. I usually write songs about, like, six different things, so all my records kind of sound the same anyway. Also my guitar playing hasn't improved since 1978. VW: You worked with Paul Linklater and Stephan Mcleod on the album. What drew you to them and what did they bring to the process? BAJ: I have worked with Stephan Macleod (Halifax-Windom Earle) since around 2006. I've toured with his band a bunch and he gives me beats for free which is awesome. I had toured with Paul's band the Pinecones in the past and needed to record with someone who lives near Hamilton, is affordable, doesn't hate my music and is awesome. Paul is all of those things. Due to my musical limitations I need someone who not only records, but will play a million instruments on the record to disguise how crummy it is. VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Hi Dudes!, what would it look like? BAJ: A musical map, I'm not sure what that means. Hamilton doesn't stand for many metaphors. Basically, I drove a Toyota Previa to a KFC, bought a poverty bucket and then ate it as I cried alone watching Back to the Future 2. V
PREVUE // POWER POP
Bend Sinister Sat, Mar 17 (9 pm) With Electric Six, Cygnets Starlite Room, $16
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always loved the ritual of getting a record," Joseph Blood recalls. "With your headphones on, you just spend the whole record analyzing the artwork and reading the liner notes. That's the thing I loved as a kid, and it's great that that's starting to come back, and that bands can start doing that thing again." His own band included: the pressing of LPs is transitioning well from nostalgic motion to the general way of things, and it's a return that Blood and Bend Sinister, the band he plays guitar for, are soon to embrace for the first time. Sinister's releasing its first pressed LP in a few months, a rare full-length from a band that more frequently puts out EPs like On My Mind, the short release
it's currently touring behind as a teaser for the album to come. "We're classically minded: we like to think of it as a 'record.' It's coming out on vinyl, so we like to spend a lot of time tinkering with transitions between songs," Blood explains. "The EP is just ... we had all this extra music that wasn't going to make the record, but we can put it out anyways, and people can still get it." Not that any of it sounds like discarded ideas: like Supertramp trying to pull a fast one on Cheap Trick, Bend Sinister sounds like some lost member of vinyl's original era, not part of a younger resurgence. It realizes big, anthemic, keyboard-driven pop songs, the appeal of which Blood attributes to what happens as a culmination of each of its member's ideas together.
"It's a mix of our influences. As musicians outside of Bend Sinister we all play a variety of music. It runs the gamut, but [with] Bend Sinister, that's kind of what we do, and we like it. It's a charge to play really loud, extravagant rock 'n' roll songs. I guess that's just what Bend Sinister does. It's not like it's the only thing we do as artists, I suppose, but we're kind of old school: we like Cheap Trick, we like those big anthemic songs that people can get a little crazy to. "It's not really in vogue right now," he admits. "I think part of it is it's difficult to put a band together that can do that. That's why you see a lot of people playing with looping machines, or duos, 'cause it's just financially easier. But it's fun though, when you see a band that just does that." Paul Blinov
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NEWSOUNDS
d'Eon Music for Keyboards Vol. 1 (Hippos in Tanks)
Before offering us a new poporiented LP later this year, d'Eon has gifted the world with a collection of ambient and meditative works from 2003 – 2011. The title is apt: all 14 songs create a warm space with swirling synthesizers and keyboards, like a fog being lifted by the gentlest breeze to let the sun breech through. Comparisons to Boards of Canada are welcome to a point; this is no chillwave spin-off, but more of a focus on tranquility, reminiscent of the ethereal Windham Hill Records sound of the '80s (in particular Scott Cossu & Mark Isham). d'Eon welcomes us into the Nouveau New Age. (Available for free via hipposintanks.net.) Douglas Hoyer
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Christian Mistress Possession (Relapse Records)
Said the Whale builds on the momentum achieved with 2009's Islands Disappear, turning in a 15-track collection of feel-good folk-rock. Little Mountains has a crisp, clean sound that hits all the right notes. The combination of toe-tapping beats and languid acoustic tracks mixed with the group's storytelling approach to songwriting creates an organic sound often missing in modern music. The group manages to throw in doses of Canadiana during "Big Wave Goodbye" without getting kitschy, while other stand outs include the fast-paced "Loveless" and piano-driven closing track "Seasons." Meaghan Baxter
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The Jezabels Prisoner (Dine Alone)
Christian Mistress is another band to deliver a solid contribution to the resurgence in the traditional heavy metal sound. Twin guitars duel out the solos, combine with a drummer that errs on the side of classic rock over thrash and a lead singer who can belt out frayed vocals attempting a soaring lift off. "Possession" uses these talents to full advantage, delivering intricate guitar riffs while Christine Davis' vocals take a raspy speaksinging approach that often attempts a more soaring and ethereal sound. The dual approach works to ground the track and lead a talented quintet that could easily get lost in a battle of the guitar solo. The result is a band that has found a way to tap into each other's talents without stepping all over each other.
Prisoner doesn't make the best first impression, with its opening track being a strange mashup of pipe organ, a frantic baseline and operatic vocals that all seem like they're fighting for the spotlight. Get past that, though, and the remainder of the album is highlighted by lead singer Hayley May's distinct vocals. Her multi-octave range weaves easily throughout melodies and easily fits with the ever-changing mood of each song. At times, the lyrics get erratic and the focus on strange metaphors can miss their mark, but standouts like "Nobody Nowhere," "Rosebud" and "Deep Wide Ocean" are a testament to the band's unmistakeable sound that shakes up the norm and makes the Jezabels anything but ordinary.
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Tim Fite Ain't Ain't Ain't (Anti-) Tim Fite's final installment to his "Ain't" trilogy is the result of four years of cutting and pasting musical samples into song collages. He succeeds in creating a series of tracks that flow neatly together and don't sound like the end result of a cut-and-paste project, but the album misses the mark in other areas. It kicks off with the upbeat folk-rock tune "Hold Me All Night," but over the course of the album, things begin to flatline with incredibly slow-moving songs that take on a laborious quality, like "Goodbye," which is practically dead air for the last three minutes. The quirky lyrics become overly so as well, and Fite goes in so many different directions during songs that it's hard to know what he's trying to get at. Meaghan Baxter
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OLDSOUNDS
Pink Floyd The Wall: Immersion Edition (EMI) Originally released: 2012
The Wall: Immersion Edition is not for casual fans of Pink Floyd. This seven-disc box set is made for two other groups: the hardest of the hardcore Pink Floyd completists, and those people who have a facination with record-making. It's unlikely anyone else would find much of interest here, and even those groups might feel a little cheated, even with the presence of a souvenier scarf and three marbles inside the box. The first four discs are nothing new: one and two feature the original record while three and four are taken up by a previously released live performance of the album. They're both just fine, but widely available without the scarf and marbles. The final disc is a DVD, but the real find here comes
LOONIE BIN Cadence Weapon, "Loft Party" "Loft Party" makes for a welcoming precursor to Rollie Pemberton's long-gestating third album: over an ominous slowburner beat, the Edmonton ex-pat lays down an urban-chic smackdown, his rubbery flow going over secret shows, Stephen Harper and getting caught by the vice squad. Sounds like a tough weekend, but presented here, it's an invitation to party that's difficult to ignore.
on discs five and six, made up of finely crafted programmes constructed out of demos recorded by vocalist/bassist/ primary songwriter Roger Waters, vocalist/guitarist/sometime songwriter David Gilmour and the band as a whole. A large number of Waters' tracks are excerpts, put together to offer a roving glimpse at the bare bones and lumps of clay that would eventually be worked into the finished version. The band demos are largely the same type of alternate, unfinished versions that would continue to evolve. Gilmour's original demo of "Comfortably Numb" is interesting as the music is there, but the vocal consists entirely of Gilmour humming the melody wordlessly. It's a fascinating look into the construction of The Wall, but only for listeners interested in that sort of thing, and it's a big box just for a couple discs of demos.
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Kathryn Calder "Who Are You?" A canadian indie double-darling, former member of Immaculate Machine and sometimes-member of the New Pornographers, Vancouver's Kathryn Calder actually manages to carve a bit of a path away from either act with "Who Are You?" It is still colourful canuck pop, but of her own flavouring: guitar plucks give way to poppy, digitized vocal-samples as backing instrumentation, while Calder questions the haters in the refrain.
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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Maurice John Vaughn DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE Chris Tomlin Band NEW WEST HOTEL Saddle Ridge (country) PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm REXALL PLACE Hedley, Classified, Anjulie, My Name
NISKU INN 1101-4 St NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN & MUSIC HOUSE 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola. com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave NORTH SHORE CLUB 8111105 St, 780.437.7181 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2'S PUB 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203 OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Londonderry Mall, 66 St, 137 Ave, 780.476.3625 OVERTIME–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 PLAYBACK PUB 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL 10860-57 Ave 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 RICHARDS BAR 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 SECOND CUP–89 AVE 8906-149 St SECOND CUP–Sherwood
Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 THAT'S AROMA 11010-101 St TRANSALTA ARTS BARNS– Westbury Theatre 10330-84 Ave TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 THE VAULT 8214-175 St, 780.481.8558 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 715050 Ave, Red Deer, 403.343.8800 WINSPEAR CENTRE 4 Sir Winston Churchill Square; 780.28.1414 WUNDERBAR 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 Y AFTERHOURS 10028-102 St, 780.994.3256, yafterhours. com YELLOWHEAD BREWERY 10229-105 St, 780.423.3333 YESTERDAYS PUB 112, 205 Carnegie Dr, St Albert, 780.459.0295
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VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave AVENUE THEATRE 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BISTRO LA PERSAUD 8617-91 St, 780.758.6686 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 CAFE HAVEN 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523. cafehaven.ca 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 CONVOCATION HALL Arts Bldg, U of A, 780.492.3611 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 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 EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE 7515-118 Ave EDMONTON IRISH SPORTS AND SOCIAL SOCIETY 12546126 St, 780.453.2249 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 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 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 GAS PUMP 10166-114 St, 780.488.4841 JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE– Grant MacEwan 10045-155 St GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY 9942108 St GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB 11824-103 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 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 JOHN L. HAAR THEATRE Grant MacEwan, 10045-156 St 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 MACLAB CENTRE FOR THE ARTS–Leduc 4308-50 St, Leduc MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025-101 St NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY LEGION 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door)
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BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail 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
Arden Theatre Hadestown: A Folk-Pop Musical: Anaïs Mitchell; 7:30pm; $32 Bailey Theatre– Camrose Celtic Night with a catered dinner by Garvin's; Celtic entertainment by MairiIrene McCormack; 7pm; $35 at Bailey box office BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Blues on Whyte Maurice John Vaughn 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 eddie shorts Good Time Jamboree with Charlie Scream; Every Wed 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 Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery Breezy Brian Gregg; every Wed; 12-1pm HAVEN SOCIAL Club Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm New West Hotel Saddle Ridge (country); free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted
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Wunderbar King Vulture (Moving Away Show), Help (new project from The Joe); 8:30pm; $5
Classical McDougall United Church Bill Damur and Gail Olmstead (flute and piano); 12:10-12:50pm; free
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post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe 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; 4pm3am; 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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Did you graduate from St. Joes in 1987? Come celebrate our 25th reunion. Tickets $20. Proceeds to Blue & White Fund. Go to stjosephgrad87.com for info and payment options Edmonton Meals on Wheels is asking for all high school students to submit original soup recipes for their "I Love Homemade Soup" recipe contest. One winner will have his/her recipe as a soup du jour which will be enjoyed by all EMOW recipients. Submit entries by April 30th. 2012
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Artists Wanted
Art Walk 2012 is looking for gifts for their volunteers! We are collecting small art works, prints and cards to give as "Thank You" gifts to our wonderful volunteers. Please contribute (if you can) by bringing a small item with you on registration day (March 3rd @ The Paint Spot). We will promote these items as perks to attract more volunteers. Interested in Volunteering? Email: artwalkartpages@hotmail.com
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Fax 780-424-5561 or call 780-429-2020 PAYES Foundation Presents: 3rd Annual Parkland's Got Talent March 24, 2012, 2:00 - 5:30 pm Horizon Theatre, 1001 Calahoo Rd, Spruce Grove Celebrity Judges include: John Lindsay, Linsay Willier, James Jones, Orville Green & Dori Whyte Tickets ($30) are available at www.payes.org/events or by calling (780) 963 - 5941
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Habitat For Humanity requires office volunteers to help with volunteer recruitment. Flexible hours If interested, please contact Angela at arobichaud@hfh.org or call (780) 451-3416, ext. 223 Habitat for Humanity requires volunteers for our St Albert project! Beginners to trades people welcome! Tools, equipment, training & lunch provided. No minimum number of shifts. www.hfh.org or call Shefali at 780-451-3416 ext 234 If you're not having fun, you're fired! Be a volunteer driver for seniors with Lifestyle Helping Hands Seniors Assoc. Monetary honorarium to help with gas. 780-450-2113 or lhhsa@telus.net Needed for our Seniors residence, volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit! Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 P.A.L.S. Project Adult Literacy Society needs volunteers to work with adult students in: Literacy, English As A Second Language and Math Literacy. For more information please contact (780)424-5514 or email palsvolunteers2003@yahoo.ca The Leading Edge Physiotherapy RunWild Marathon on May 6, 2012 is looking for volunteers. Course Marshals, water station crew, kids fun zone attendants, start/finish line crew, set up crew, clean up crew, food tent servers etc. Visit www.runwild.ca to sign up and for more info! Volunteer readers and broadcasters wanted. Help Accessible Media Inc. (AMI) make newspapers accessible to Edmonton's print-restricted. Phone: 780-451-8331 Email: jeff.samsonow@ami.ca
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Acting Classes
FILM AND TV ACTING Learn from the pros how to act in Film and TV Full Time Training 1-866-231-8232 www.vadastudios.com Los Angeles Director, Tom Logan In Edmonton, Apr 27, 28, 29 World famous Acting for Film & TV. Seminars Space Limited Call 780-975-7022
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Gallery at Milner Call for Submissions The Edmonton Public Library invites emerging artists working in any two-dimensional medium to submit proposals to show art work in the Gallery at Milner, located on the main floor of the downtown Stanley A. Milner Library. For more information visit: www.epl.ca/art-gallery Deadline for submissions is March 30
Looking for three male actors Approximately 20-25 years old for a short film to be filmed in Edmonton, March 11 & 18th. Email Spencer at swashbuckler1986@hotmail.com or call 780-962-7885 if interested.
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Highlands Street Festival - Call for Vendors Highlands Street Festival is looking for artists to show their work at this year's festival, Sunday June 3rd from 10am 5pm. Showing table - $20 Selling table - $40 *Electricity not available, vendors must provide their own table,chairs and canopy For more info please visit: http://bit.ly/yuDq9m
VISUALEYEZ Canada's Annual Performance Art Festival -Call for ProposalsThe Thirteenth annual Visualeyez festival of performance art happens from September 10 16, 2012, exploring on the curatorial theme of loneliness. Deadline for submissions is April 27, 2012 For submission details please visit: www.visualeyez.org
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Musicians Available
Drummer looking to join metal or hard rock band. Double kick, 12 yrs exp, 8 yrs in Edmt indie band, 7 albums, 250 live shows, good stage presence, dedicated, catch on quick, no kids, hard drug free. 780.916.2155 Experienced bass player looking to play with established band. Between the ages of 35 and 55. No heavy metal or punk but willing play 80's power metal Call Tony 780-484-6806. Female singer, No Doubt style, looking to start a band. If interested please call Lisa at 587-520-1805
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Energetic female vocalist needed to co-share fronting vocals in established pop-rock dance band. Tamborine and percussion an asset. B-52, Cyndi Lauper etc. Call Priscilla at 780-965-5677 or 780-450-5677 Guitarists, bassists, vocalists, pianists and drummers needed for good paying teaching jobs. Please call 780-901-7677 If you would like to showcase your band on the Northside and have your fans come out to see you for free, please contact TK & The Honey Badgers at 780-752-0969 or 780-904-4644 for interview. Fan minimum is 20 people. Looking for musicians for a 60'S style weekend rock band project (Ages 50+). Car shows, corporate shows and socials. Please call Glenn at 780-646-0833 Rock band with 70's/90's sound looking for experienced vocalist. 20+ original songs already written just waiting for the right voice! Call or text Lincoln @ (780)278-2444 Thrash metal band (GableGrip) looking for singer, must be able to sing clear and some screams. Serious inquiries only Call Shawn at 780-996-1643 or Russ at 780-916-7870
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Artists Wanted
Feature Artists - 2013 Call for Entries The Allied Arts Council of Spruce Grove is now accepting applications for our 2013 Feature Artists. For more information go to www.alliedartscouncil.com or phone the Spruce Grove Art Gallery at 780-962-0664
The McMullen Gallery is seeking proposals for April 2013 - March 2014. We are seeking accomplished artists with proven exhibiting experience, to present solo and group exhibitions in our busy gallery. For more information please visit www.friendsofuah.org or call 780-407-7152
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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): This week you may learn the real reason the tortoise beat the hare and the shocking truth about the relationship between Cinderella's fairy godmother and the handsome prince. Nursery rhymes will scramble and fairy tales will fracture. Thor, the god of thunder, may make a tempting offer to Snow White. The cow's jump over the moon could turn out to have been faked by the CIA. Sounds like a rowdy good time for all! TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): "Roots and wings. But let the wings grow roots and the roots fly." That was written by Spanish poet Juan Ramon Jimenez and now I'm passing it on to you. In the coming weeks you'll be wise to bring your soaring dreams down to earth for a pit stop. The highs need the influence of the lows. There's one further nuance to be aware of: I think you will find it extra interesting to interweave your past with your future. Give your rich traditions a taste of the stories that are as-yet unwritten. GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): Is it possible you were a spider in a previous life? If so, please call on the abilities you developed back then. You need to create an extra big, super-fine web, metaphorically speaking, so that you can capture all the raw materials you will need in the coming weeks and months. Stimulate daydreams in which you visualize yourself as a mover and shaker who's skilled at snagging the resources and help you require. CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): British writer Kenneth Tynan asked a movie director about how he'd film an advancing army. Did it matter whether the action went from right to left across the frame or left to right? "Of course!" said the director. "To the Western eye, easy or successful movement is left to right, difficult or failed movement is right to left." Use this information to your benefit. Every day for the next two weeks, visualize yourself moving from left to right as you fulfill a dream you want to accomplish.
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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Hanadi Zakaria al-Hindi is the first Saudi Arabian woman to be licensed to fly a plane. But there's an absurd law in her country that prohibits women from driving cars, so she needs a man to give her a lift to the airport. Is there any situation in your own life that resembles hers? Maybe you've got permission and power to operate in a sphere that's meaningful to you even though you skipped a step along the way? Now would be a good time to think about whether you should do anything about the discrepancy, and if so, how to do it.
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VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Recent scientific studies have confirmed what Native American folklore reports: Badgers and coyotes sometimes cooperate with each other as they search for food. The coyotes are better at stalking prey above ground, and the badgers take over if the hunted animal slips underground. They share the spoils. I suggest you draw inspiration from their example. It's prime time to consider forming symbiotic relationships or seeking out unusual partnerships that play to both parties' strengths. LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): How did the Vikings navigate their ships through rough northern seas on cloudy and foggy days? Medieval texts speak of the mysterious "sunstone," a "Viking compass" used to detect the hidden sun. Modern theories suggest
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that this technology may have been Iceland spar, a mineral that polarizes light, making it useful in plotting a course under overcast skies. Do you have anything like that? Now would be an excellent time to enhance your connection with whatever it is that can provide such power. SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): If you set up two mirrors in just the right way, you can get a clear look at the back of your head. You're able to see what your body looks like from behind. I suggest you try that exercise sometime soon. It will encourage your subconscious mind to help you discover what has been missing from your self-knowledge. As a result, you may be drawn to experiences that reveal things about yourself you've been resistant to seeing. You could be shown secrets about buried feelings and wishes that you've been hiding from yourself. Best of all, you may get intuitions about your soul's code that you haven't been ready to understand until now. SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): According to my Sagittarius friend Jonathan Zap, the Greek playwright Aristophanes had an ambivalent attitude about divine blessings. He said that no great gift enters the human sphere without a curse attached to it. I'm sure you know this lesson well. One of last year's big gifts has revealed its downside in ways that may have been confusing or deflating. But now here comes an unexpected plot twist, allowing you to add a corollary to Aristophanes' formulation. Soon you will find a second blessing that was hidden within the curse in embryonic form. You'll be able to tease it out, ripen it, and add it to the bounty of the original gift. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): Writing in the science magazine Discover, Corey S Powell says, "There's an old joke: If you tell someone the universe is expanding, he'll believe you. If you tell him there's wet paint on the park bench, he'll want to touch it to make sure." I invite you to rebel against this theory. I think it's quite important for you to demand as much proof for big, faraway claims as for those that are close at hand. Don't trust anyone's assertions just because they sound lofty or elegant. Put them to the test. AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): It's an excellent time to better appreciate your #@%(!)* vexations. In fact, let's go ahead and make this Honor Your #@%(!)* Irritations and Annoyances Week. To properly observe this holiday, study the people and things that irk you so you can extract from them all the blessings and teachings they may provide. Are you too tolerant of an annoying situation that you need to pay closer attention to? Is it time to reclaim the power you've been losing because of an exasperating energy-drain? Is there a valuable clue or two to be gleaned from a passive-aggressive provocateur? PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Seahorses have an unusual approach to reproduction. It's the male of the species that cares for the eggs as they gestate. He carries them in a "brood pouch" on his front side. Of course it's the female who creates the eggs in the first place. After analyzing the astrological factors coming to bear on your destiny, I suspect you will benefit from having a seahorse-like quality in the coming weeks. Whatever gender you are, your archetypal masculine qualities should play an especially strong role as you nurture a project that's in its early developmental phases.
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The Pride Centre of Edmonton finds renewal after tragedy Sat, March 17 Pride Centre fundraiser Junction Bar & Eatery, $10
for some visitors, gone are the uncomfortable 1970s couches; funds raised allowed them to buy all new furnishings. There is still a lot to do and the next It's been seven months since arson phase of renovations will likely tackle closed down the Pride Centre of Edmonthe kitchen, boardroom and a longton. It seems the fire, which doesn't promised coffee bar. Matchem appear to be due to anti-gay emphasizes that community bias, might prove a positive response has been amazing change for the city's most so far and that the Centre is .com visible queer organization. already doing better than it ly k e e vuew tam@ The closure gave them an opwas at this time last year. a r Tama a portunity to respond to comOne of their main needs right k l a Gorz munity concerns about the locanow is operational costs, things tion and accessibility of their old space like rent and utilities, the slightly less and the new building—set to open next sexy budget issues that don't get covweek—has managed to rectify all those ered by grant funding. Now that the worries. "It's an entirely different world," PCE has finally been able to secure PCE executive director Ashley Matchem charitable status, donors can get a tax says about the renovations and re-openreceipt and Matchem tells me that they ing. "Our new space is all one level so it's can also choose to outline where they completely accessible. We have a much want their money to go. bigger common area which opens up completely to our library with a separate The Centre relies entirely on grants and community washroom that's accessible." donations to provide a wide variety of The new location is just north of Grant services including programs for all ages, MacEwan. They signed a 10-year lease support and discussion groups, resourcand have already completed renovaes, social clubs and one of the largest tions on what they deemed the most queer-themed, multimedia libraries in popular and needed of their services, Western Canada. Their youth programthe main space, youth space and comming has been extremely successful munity bathroom. They've rectified all this year, perhaps in response to public past transportation issues and it's now attention on bullying, and representaeasy to access by transit and has a pritives from the Centre have been going vate parking lot. Perhaps most happily into schools, service providers and youth
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groups to raise awareness. Matchem says many organizations have had them back for multiple sessions. She's also very proud of their counselling program, where registered therapists come in once a week to offer free sessions. For those without spare cash who want to give back to the community, the Centre is always in need of volunteers and is currently looking for new board members. "To give you an idea, we have 75 volunteers who are involved in a number of different capacities and four staff, so we rely on our volunteers immensely," Matchem says. With St Patrick's Day coming up, there is another way to support the Pride Centre's new endeavors: a group of students at the University of Alberta have planned a fundraising night at Junction Bar & Eatery. Amanda Hart-Dowhun is a member of the U of A's OUTlaw group. She says the organization has wanted to put on a fundraiser for the Pride Centre for almost two years, but funding and resources has limited them to one large event annually, usually a guest lecture. Hart-Dowhun hopes this event will be a perfect opportunity to combine a good time with a worthy mission. "It's a cause a lot of people would like to give to but the nice thing with this is for 10 dollars or 12 at the door you get to donate to a great cause and have a good time while doing it." V
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Ball up those messy hotel sheets and leave a tip for the maid Thank you for your advocacy of moblood, female ejaculate, etc all over the nogamishy. (Monogamishness?) When sheets, what to do? Is it better to cover I fell in love with my gloriously kinky the bed in towels and stain them inand GGG wife several years ago, we stead? Are dirty sheets all in a day’s were honest about our sexual work for the housekeeper, or E G A desires—vast and wide-rangV should we refrain from such A S ing—and we negotiated an activities in hotel rooms? om We don’t want to make the .c arrangement that works ly k e ewe ve@vu for us. We encourage each savagelo housekeeping staff miseraa D n other’s outside crushes, and ble—and we always leave a e Savag we both just want to be present tip for the maid!—but we don’t while one of us is banging that outside want to refrain from sex just because crush. Your column gave us the tools my wife is on her period! we needed to talk with other potentially SHEETS TARNISHED AFTER INTENSE kinky folks. Thanks! NOOKY Anyway, on to our question: when one is staying at a hotel, what is the You’re welcome for monogamishamy— protocol for engaging in sheet-staining the correct noun form of the adjective activities? For example, if a session monogamish—and I’m delighted that might spread santorum, menstrual it’s helped you and the wife negotiate successful encounters with “outside crushes,” STAIN, and I trust that you and the wife strive to make sure those encounters are as rewarding for the crushes as they are for you two. Now, about those sheets ... If you’ve booked a hotel room, STAIN, and it’s shark week for the wife or a certain former senator routinely drops in (drops out?) when you have anal sex, there’s always the option of bringing your own santorum- and/or menstrual-blood-colored/stained towels from home. But let’s say you don’t want to bring towels from home—which is an admittedly anal-in-the-other-sense-ofanal thing to do. Should you lay the hotel’s towels down on the bed or mess up the sheets? “Mess up the sheets, please,” said the head of housekeeping at the hotel where I happened to be staying when your question arrived. (HOH agreed to speak to me on the condition that I not name her, the hotel where she works, or even the city where it’s located.) “We bleach
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the holy heck out of those sheets,” HOH continued. “And it is easier to get stains out of sheets than towels. And sheets cost less to replace—at least ours do.” Anything else someone should do if they’ve made a mess of the sheets? “If you want to be a total sweetheart,” said HOH, “strip the bed. Pull the sheets off and leave them balled up on the floor. All the ladies know what that means, and I promise you that no one goes poking in sheets left on the floor. They toss that ball in the cart and send it straight to the laundry.” Where they bleach the hell/blood/santorum out of ’em. Finally, STAIN, thanks for mentioning that you always leave a tip for the maid. It made me feel less alone—I always leave a tip for the maid, too—and it gives me the opportunity to encourage others to do the same. Anyone who can afford a night or two in a hotel— on business, on vacation, on someone else’s wife—can afford to leave a few bucks for the maid. I’m a 25-year-old straight man. One of my best buddies is gay, and I’m in gay bars with him twice a week or so. (We like to drink!) My question: what’s the correct response when I get hit on by men in gay bars? If a guy comes on strong, I kind of feel bad saying, “I’m straight.” Because I don’t want him to think I’m saying, “You’re disgusting.” So what’s the etiquette for a straight guy in a gay bar? Is it wrong to say you have a boyfriend instead of just saying you’re straight? NOT OVERLY CONCERNED LOST USELESS ENTITY Guys who either don’t have boyfriends or do have boyfriends but are in monogamish relationships will frequently say “I have a boyfriend” to get rid of a guy at a bar who they don’t find attractive.
So be honest, NOCLUE. Finding out he never had a shot at you because you’re straight will be easier on a guy’s ego than having to wonder what it is you and your imaginary boyfriend didn’t find attractive about him. Now, some gay dudes will be annoyed when they discover that the guy they’ve invested 10 whole minutes in eye-fucking isn’t gay, but most will welcome your presence as proof that—forgive me—it gets better. Straight dudes hanging out in gay bars with their gay friends? Straight dudes who are secure enough in their own sexuality that they’re comfortable with being viewed as a sex object by other men? Sure signs of progress, NOCLUE. That some gay dudes will have to waste a few precious minutes of their lives flirting with men they can’t suckfuckrimdatemarry is a small price to pay to be reminded that we live in a less homophobic world. I have a super-hot, considerate, caring girlfriend with a high libido with whom I share many long-term goals. The problem is that she bugs the shit out of me. She chews with her mouth open, she listens to music I dislike and she swears at inappropriate times. I’m in my mid-30s and not sure what I should do. Settle? SECOND THOUGHTS We have something in common, ST: I once met a guy who was super-hot and caring and considerate, a guy whose libido matched my own and whose long-term goals aligned with mine, and who just so happened to bug the shit out of me. Here’s what I did: I married that motherfucker. My husband still bugs the shit out of me sometimes, just as I doubtless bug the shit out of him sometimes. But there’s no such thing as a bug-free
boyfriend/girlfriend/husband/wife/unicorn/gimp/whatever. LTRs are about identifying the bugs that some caring and consistent prodding can fix—like that chewing-with-her-mouth-open shit—and accepting and finally learning to ignore the bugs that no amount of prodding will ever change. And take it from me, ST: hot, considerate, caring, similarly libidinous and shared long-term goals isn’t a package that comes along every day. You could do a lot worse. STRAIGHT-RIGHTS WATCH: In 2010, Americans voted Republican hoping— despite 30 years of evidence to the contrary—that the GOP might know something about creating jobs. Surprise! Turns out that all the GOP knows how to do is wage war on American women. The GOP’s attack on abortion morphed into an attack on Planned Parenthood which morphed into an attack on access to contraception which finally morphed into an attack on the 98 percent of American women who use or have used contraception. (Sluts and prostitutes, one and all, according to Rush Limbaugh.) The GOP’s war on choice, contraception, cancer screenings, and women won’t end until the fuckers waging it are driven out of office. Pissed off? Great! Do something about it. Go find a pro-choice Democrat who’s running for office against an anti-choice/ anti-woman motherfucker and send that Dem a check or, if you live in his or her district, volunteer for that Democrat. Fight back! V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter
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