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Spending versus revenue is often painted as the bottom-line difference between left and right ideologies. Fiscal conservatives are going to save you money and those left-leaning socialists are going to spend it. With one right-of-centre and one very right-of centre-party dominating the election, Albertans could expect the conversation to be dominated by how much we will not be spending in the upcoming years, how the budget needs trimming and our spending reined in and what a spending spree the govenment has been having of late. But as the second week of campaigning closes, the only party to attempt a conversation that is not about spending is the NDP. Up is down. At the start of week two, the New Democrats released a policy platform outlining the party's plan to increase revenue by taxing corporations and increasing resource royalties. The same week the Wildrose Alliance promised 300 big ones for every Albertan three years from now when the province is back in the black. The Progressive Conservatives were busy fending off the accusation of being against women, but were establishing their promise of more family health centres and the Liberals were announcing a complete removal of tuition for post-secondary students by 2025—admittedly a noble goal.

Elections can often be about trying to look like something you're not. Conservatives show their concern for social services and socialists show they're capable of creating a balanced budget. But the contrast between the two was abnormaly stark with only the NDP talking about increasing Alberta's revenue capacity. The NDP promise of a royalty increase is a much needed, and long overdue, revenue adjustment in this province. The NDP promise isn't perfect, it prioritizes labour over environment in promising to attract more upgraders to Alberta, but it demonstrates a fiscal policy that many Albertans have been demanding for years, and was in fact a broken Ed Stelmach promise from the 2008 election. While the Wildrose is re-enacting a policy that was widely regarded as poor fiscal policy and only exacerbated Alberta's failing infrastructure. These promises can be chalked up to the attempt to change perception or blind election promises to gain your vote, but one should consider what exactly has been promised. Three hundred dollars three years from now is an attempt to buy a vote, but it's also just bad policy. Elections can be a crazy time when socialists become conservatives, but while up might be down it's always helpful to look at the starting point to get an idea of what that promise says about party. V

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BUDGET SCRAPS The federal budget is causing opposition on a number of fronts. The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives and the Sierra Club are concerned over the disassembling of environmental assessment processes included in the budget document. The Sierra Club points out that the increased pace of environmental assessments removes the public's ability to participate in the process. "Environmental assessments need to be thorough, consultative and science-based," said John Bennett, Executive Director of Sierra Club Canada. "Creating hard time limits and rushing the process compromises all these things." The CCPA points to the projects the federal

A BUS TO THE SKY government believes will benefit from this: three oil and gas pipelines, a gold mine and a uranium mine. The budget continues the seeming war on statistical agencies. The First Nations Statistical Council, the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy and the National Welfare Council. The First Nations Statistics Council was portal used by first nations communities to access data. While the National Welfare Council provided information on Canada's poor for over 40 years. In addition to cutting the long-form census two years ago, this year's budget cuts include removing $33.9 million from Statistics Canada.

PROTESTING THE BUDGET A group of Canadians organized under the banner "Not Our Budget" disrupted federal finance minister Joe Flaherty's budget speech last week. A group of 16 people were ejected from the House of Commons after standing up in the public gallery and chanting "This is not our budget. Where are we in

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your budget?" The group is continuing an online campaign posting under the hashtag #notourbudget. The federal budget contains $115 million in cuts to the CBC, environmental regulations and threatens the charitable status of organizations that engage in political advocacy.

Edmonton Transit will offer an express bus route to the International Airport starting April 29. Route 747 will run regular hours seven days a week with a one way trip costing $5 and a regular ETS pass will not be valid on the route. The route is a three-year pilot project funded by the city, airport authority and fares.

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NEWS // SENATE

A rare foray

Senate elections have a challenge in left-leaning candidate Ian Urquhart

an Urquhart likens his election bid as Senate nominee to a mini-referendum on Prime Minister Stephen Harper's environmental record. At his campaign kick-off last week, the University of Alberta political science professor told supporters at the Faculty Club that his candidacy is an opportunity for "all non-Cons" to speak out against a government which "has gutted the environmental assessment process, muzzles scientists and calls critics radicals." He talked about the important legislative and investigative work that could go on in the Senate, if "hyperpartisanship" were put aside. Running as an independent, Urquhart recalls his work as a House of Commons researcher for Joe Clarke's Progressive Conservative government. He recalls the era as a time when parliamentarians and their staffs were less prone to rhetoric and more involved in "less partisan" work on behalf of all Canadians. "Hyper-partisanship in Canadian politics today robs us of opportunities," he said in his speech. "It blinds us to the fact that politics is supposed to be about serving people." Since his arrival at the university

from Vancouver 25 years ago, he's spoken out on topics as wide-ranging as condemning the federal government's lack of response to the Chinese army's massacre of protestors in Tiananmen Square in June of 1989, to the ineffectiveness of government environmental monitoring and regulation of industry to this day. Urquhart's advocacy for the environ-

nese Multinationals and Alberta's Northern Forest. The lawsuit—ultimately settled out of court—didn't dissuade him from speaking out that same year when the Alberta government wrote off over $130 million in loans to the owners of the Al-Pac pulp mill in Athabasca. "Let's face it: the government has ended up subsidizing the fourth-larg-

He'll raise issues not raised by any of the candidates in the provincial campaign ... If there's any chance people under 50 will pay attention to this ballot, it will be because of Ian's candidacy."

ment goes back decades. In a guest column in the Edmonton Journal in November, 1994, he blasted the Klein government for abandoning regulatory responsibilities to private industry. "When it comes to environmental deregulation, everything seems to be up for grabs," he wrote. His propensity for straight talk led him to court in 1996 when a former provincial deputy minister sued him and co-author Larry Pratt for defamation, citing passages in their 1994 book, The Last Great Forest: Japa-

est company in the world," Urquhart told the Journal at the time, referring to mill owner Mitsubishi. For many years, Urquhart has been critical of the provincial government's downloading of environmental responsibility to a committee called the Cumulative Environmental Management Association (CEMA). The association, with representatives from industry, government and non-governmental organizations, is tasked with providing recommen-

dations to the government about avoiding and managing the environmental impacts of oil sands development. At a public hearing held by the committee in 2006, he told the committee it was so ineffective, it "should fire itself." Jim Lightbody, a fellow political science professor believes it's Urquhart's solid environmental track record that stands out. "He's got a sound knowledge of public policy and he'll raise issues not raised by any of the candidates in the provincial campaign." Lightbody predicted, citing the preservation of the eastern slopes as an example. "If there's any chance people under 50 will pay attention to this ballot, it will be because of Ian's candidacy." The Honorable Douglas Roche, OC, former Senator, Member of Parliament and Canadian Ambassador for Disarmament, is also endorsing Urquhart's candidacy. "The next Alberta senator should be a thinking person," he told Vue after Urquhart's speech. "Politics in this country needs a strong infusion of thinking people." Prime Minister Stephen Harper, who has championed an elected Sen-

ate for years, might want to pay close attention to this race, the fourth to be held under Alberta's Senate Selection Act. While the results are not binding on the Prime Minister, the federal government introduced the Senate Reform Act which encourages provinces to create democratic processes to elect Senate nominees. Harper has also appointed senators to positions after they've been elected in Alberta, including Betty Unger. If Urquhart succeeds in his pledge to make this election about the federal government's track record with respect to the environment and wins, we'll find out in about a year—when the next Alberta Senator is scheduled to retire—whether Harper is willing to appoint one of his most vocal critics. All provincial candidates, including those running for Senate, must hand in nomination forms by April 17. Urquhart's campaign has had volunteers out collecting signatures to complete the nomination process. Candidates for Senate appear province-wide on Albertan ballots on April 23.

much safer place if there were fewer of them around. Not because that would make a nuclear war less horrible if it happened: a hundred nuclear warheads, dropped on major cities, is quite enough to destroy any country. But because the more weapons there are, the greater the risk that some will fall into the hands of terrorists. So getting the number of active nuclear weapons in American and Russian hands down to 1000 each, and dismantling all of the "reserve" and stock-

their nuclear parity. Effective US missile defences, if they could ever be made to work, would fatally undermine that parity. Of course they never have been made to work reliably, even though the United States has deployed them in a couple of places. But the Russians have a childlike faith in (or rather, fear of) American technological prowess, so ballistic missile defence systems have to go. Abandoning them would involve Obama in an immense battle with the Republican right, and he's not going to start that battle in an election year. But that is what President Obama and Dmitri Medvedev, the outgoing Russian president, were really talking about in Seoul when they were caught on an open mike. Obama told Medvedev: "On all these issues, but particularly missile defense, this can be solved but it's important for [incoming Russian president Vladimir Putin] to give me space. ... This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility." And so he may. V

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COMMENT >> WAR ON TERROR

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Obama's "zero nuke" policy behind comments to Medvedev We have just had the second Nuclear group creates a nuclear bomb from Security Summit, in Seoul. It got surscratch. Mining uranium, refining it prisingly little attention from the into weapons-grade material, and conternational media although 53 counstructing a bomb that will actually tries attended. For the media, produce even a 20-kiloton exnuclear weapons are yesterplosion (like the Hiroshima day's issue, because nobody bomb) are tasks that reexpects a nuclear war. But a quire the scientific, technim o .c weekly e@vue nuclear weapon in terrorist cal and financial resources gwynn e Gwynn hands is the defining nightof a state. Dyer mare of the post-9/11 decade, What terrorists need is a and that's what the summit was ready-made bomb, or at least actually about. enough highly enriched uranium or "It would not take much, just a handplutonium that the only job left is to ful or so of these (nuclear) materiassemble the bomb. The only plausials, to kill hundreds of thousands of ble source of a terrorist bomb, thereinnocent people, and that's not an fore, is the nuclear weapons programs exaggeration," said President Barack of the various states that own them. Obama on his way home from Seoul. And the bigger those programs are, "There are still too many bad actors the greater the chance that either a in search of these dangerous materinuclear weapon or a large amount of als, and these dangerous materials are fissile material will fall into the wrong still vulnerable in too many places." hands. Keeping bomb-grade nuclear mateNow, it may be true (or it may not) rial out of the wrong hands requires that the US nuclear weapons estaba high level of international cooperalishment is so efficient and experition. Some progress was made on this enced that there is little risk of anyissue in Seoul, in terms of coordinatbody stealing American bombs or ing police and intelligence operations, fissile material. But American security but the real problem is that there are also depends on everybody else's nufar too many nuclear weapons in the clear establishments being well proworld. tected—and this explains why Obama Nobody has ever come up with a is a strong supporter of the "Global plausible scenario in which a terrorist Zero" project.

No other US president except Ronald Reagan has called for a world with zero nuclear weapons. In 1984 Reagan said: "A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in (the US and the Soviet Union) possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?" Obama seems to share the same goal, but his support for "Global Zero" is more nuanced.

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Nobody has ever come up with a plausible scenario in which a terrorist group creates a nuclear bomb from scratch. From a high of 65 000 active nuclear weapons in 1985, the world's stock has declined to about 8000 active warheads now, 95 percent of them under Russian or American control. There are an additional 14 000 nuclear weapons in storage, all of them Russian or American—and those may be an even greater danger for nuclear terrorism, since they are not under hourly supervision. The world will probably never fulfil Ronald Reagan's dream and abolish nuclear weapons, but it would be a

piled weapons, is probably Obama's real goal. The "Global Zero" rhetoric is mainly useful for bringing the old peace movement along for the ride. (And why would they complain? The essence of any political strategy is finding partners to ride with you at least part of the way to your destination.) However, to get Russia to sign up to a mere 1000 nuclear weapons, Obama will have to give up on ballistic missile defence. The Russians are hugely inferior to the Americans militarily by every other measure, so they cherish

Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His column appears each week in Vue Weekly.

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NEWS // ELECTION

Give us your votes A roundup of election happenings

With the provincial election officially called on March 26 parties are actively working for your vote. As the campaign enters its second week Vue Weekly takes a look at the policy announcements, races to watch and the unfolding social-media campaigns on each side. But parties are only getting started with two more weeks left to campaign and a lot can happen before voting takes place on April 23.

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RIDING ACTION

Alberta Tweets, a website developed by Armadillo Studios, has collected Twitter information during the Alberta Election thus far.

Although the Alberta Party is not polling provincially with numbers that would lead it to a seat in the legislature, there are a few ridings where the party is running strong contenders in contentious races. As well, the NDP may be poised to take back a couple seats the party lost in 2008. Here are a few ridings to watch.

For the week of Mar 25 – April 1 Alberta Tweets reports the following break-down of election-based mentions: Wildrose Alliance

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Edmonton-Calder is a riding to watch. NDP MLA Dave Eggen lost the riding by a slim margin in the 2008 election and has been running for the last three years in an attempt to take it back. With the incumbent PC candidate, Doug Elniski, not running this time around Eggen may have the momentum to re-take the riding.

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1005 Education was one of the larger conversations on Twitter with regards to the election, with #abed getting 201 mentions and #pse taking 107, compared to #abhealth at 171. * All information Alberta Tweets reports is publicly available from the Twitter API and can be read at albertatweets.ca

Edmonton-Glenora is a close race on all sides. Alberta Party candidate and former Edmonton Public School Board trustee Sue Huff has been nominated and campaigning in the riding since June 2011. NDP candidate Ray Martin has been running consistent campaigns federally and provincially since losing his MLA position in 2008, while the Liberals have nominated Bruce Miller, who held the seat in 2004. Running for the PCs is MLA Heather Klimchuk, who won the riding in 2008 by under 100 votes.

POLICY POINTS The Liberals announced tuition would be fully eliminated by 2025 if a Liberal government were elected. It's the first shift in the Liberals platform approach which has thus far focused on health care—the strong point of leader and emergency room doctor Raj Sherman. The NDP started week two of the election with leader Brian Mason announcing he would increase royalty rates on resource revenues. The NDP would aim to bring in an extra $1.90 per barrel and create incentives for companies to have bitumen upgraded here in the province. Polling high, the Wildrose started off the week by announcing that, if elected,

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Edmonton-Rutherford was won by current health minister Fred Horne in 2008 by only 57 votes. Alberta Party candidate Michael Walters has been nominated and campaigning in the riding for a year now. The riding won't be easily won by any side as the Alberta Liberals are also running former MLA Rick Miller who held the seat from 2004 – 2008. The riding has swung between Liberal and PC since its creation in 1993.

the party would re-enact an old Ralph Klein tactic. Wildrose leader Danielle Smith announced every Albertan could potentially receive $300 three years from now if the provincial budget once again heads into a surplus.

BY THE POLLS Abacus Data's polling suggests the Wildrose Alliance Party is within the margin of achieving a majority government. In the most recent poll after a week of campaigning, Abacus reports that the Wildrose has support of 41 percent of voters to the PCs' 28 percent. The Abacus poll was conducted for the Sun News Network and has the Liberals and NDP down two points, the Tories down six points and the Wil-

drose up 12 points compared to a poll taken earlier in March. Comparatively, a poll by Campaign Research finds the Wildrose sitting at 39.6 percent and the PCs at 30.3 percent. The Liberals are at 13 percent and NDs at 11.6. The poll was taken on March 26 and after only a week of campaigning the undecided vote was recorded as 20.4 percent and those voting for "other" was at 5.5 percent. Campaign Research asked the question "Thinking of the leaders of the various Alberta political parties, who shows the most support for the oilsands development?" to which 38.8 percent of those polled responded they didn't know. Alison Redford won out over Danielle Smith, with Redford taking 29.7 percent to Smith's 22.7 percent.

COMMENT >> HOCKEY

Sad end

Not much silver lining for Oilers fans We'll just fly through this weekly Oiler update. There's not much to say and not many games left anyway. You probably won't want to take notes. The Oilers lost 3-1 to Dallas and 4-1 to LA in Edmonton, then went to California to beat Anaheim 2-1 and lose 2-0 to Los Angeles.

7 at 8 PM and the season will be put to bed at about 11 PM Edmonton time. Enjoy the respite until September.* *Except on draft day, during more arena talks, when free agency kicks in, when training camp starts, while the CBA gets discussed, when the Canucks .com fans ly destroy Vancouver k e e ew ox@vu & intheb g n IT'S ALL YOURS, REST OF again and when Tom Renney u o Dave Y irtles and Steve Tambellini get fired B THE CITY n a y Br Believe it or not, there are peoor when they don't get fired. In ple in this city who really don't care these instances, you'll have to listen about the Oilers. We may have a higher to your Oiler fan friends go on and on. percentage of fans versus non-fans Oiler-mania really doesn't sleep, does than most NHL cities but—let's face it? Sorry. DY it—watching millionaires play a game ENJOY THE GOLF, JERKS has limited entertainment value. So, to It's shaping up to be a sad end to a sad those of you who prefer to enjoy a pint season. Not even Ryan Whitney's pubwithout a bunch of yobbs high-fiving on lic calling-out of the team seemed to game night and those of you who remake any difference—the Oilers are ally don't care who won the game last stumbling toward the end. And who night, the city is almost yours again. can blame them? With the team's The Oilers last game is Saturday, April

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Brixx Bar • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesdays with comedy and music Ceili's • 10338-109 St • 780.426.5555 • Comedy Night: every Tue, 9:30pm • No cover

Century Casino • 13103 Fort Rd •

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

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ment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Dave Stawnichy; Apr 5-7 • Dennis Ross; Apr 13-14

Comic Strip • Bourbon St, WEM •

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DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 •

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

Filthy McNasty's • 10511-82 •

780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9pm; no cover

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foot Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • 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 • Brian Stollery; Apr 6-7 • Ada, Mprwest; Apr 13-14

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Overtime Pub • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old

Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:309:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

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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

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

Edmonton Nature Club • King's University College, 9125-50 St • Monthly meeting: Connecting Kids and Nature with Glen Hvenegaard, Professor of Geography and Environmental Studies, U. of A • Fri, Apr 20, 7pm • Admission by donation Edmonton Needlecraft Guild

• Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for those interested in textile arts • Meet the 2nd Tue each month, 7:30pm

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

Good Friday–annual walk •

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Hatha Flow Yoga • Eastwood

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Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living •

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Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 •

Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

Meditation • Strathcona Library • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in; every Tue, 7-8:30pm

Northern Alberta Wood Carvers Association • Duggan

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

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

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

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

Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange

Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall,

young leader out with a shoulder injury (?) he's been nursing since junior (?), most of our defencemen in the infirmary with various ailments, and with the coach still without a contract and likely to be let go quietly this summer, it must be tough to keep your head in the game. That'd be the game that most of these guys make the equivalent of a lifetime's wages per year to play. Enjoy the five months off, jerks. BB

didn't either. • Monday, April 2 at LA: Played Snakes and Ladders with my daughter; watched Top Chef Canada with my wife. In honour of the Oilers' last few seasons, the challenge was to cook offal. I still enjoy hockey and support the Oilers. I wonder when the casual fans dropped off. DY

or a witch's curse, something is going wrong with the Oilers and it needs to be fixed. I don't care if it takes bringing Semenko out of retirement, firing all of the training staff (again) or self-defense classes at the YMCA for the whole team, fix that problem and you're halfway to being a more-consistent team. BB

ENNUI I know I should be carefully watching every Oiler game so I can crack wise and share thoughts but after what will be six years since we've seen playoffs—or even a legitimate playoff race—it's been pretty tedious. Here's what I did last week instead of watching the Oilers: • Friday, March 30 versus The LA Kings: Played NHL12 on PS3. Didn't win very much. So I suppose I was honouring the Oilers in my own way. • Sunday, April 1 at Anaheim: Ate at a restaurant. The Oilers didn't choke that night. I'm happy to report that I

JUST FIX THIS ONE THING The summer is going to be filled with talk about what this team needs to fix in order to be a winner. Pollyannas will say it's just time, that the young guys simply need to mature and play more consistently. A lot of folks will say fire the coach, or fire the general manager, because when we got rid of MacT and KLowe the team was like a new beast, winning 18 Stanley Cups in a row so obviously that's a quick fix. Others will say a stud defencemen is what's needed, that the Oilers should be putting in an offer sheet for Shea Weber, or signing UFA Ryan Suter in the offseason, but here's what this team really needs: a solution to its injury problem. Whether it's bad luck, bad training staff

SILVER LINING I believe I've said this at this time for a few years now but it bears repeating, if not just to rationalize my disappointment. The one good thing about the Oilers not being in the playoffs? Playoff hockey pools get easier. I don't have to feel obligated to pick any Oiler players and won't feel like a traitor picking players from opposing teams. DY

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

10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

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Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm • TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:30-9:30pm • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm • Info: E: admin@ pridecentreofedmonton.org

Doon Community Hall, 9240-93 St • vofa.ca/ category/events • Monthly Potluck and book sale: bring a vegan dish to serve 8 people, your own plate, cup, cutlery, serving spoon • $3 (member)/$5 (non-member) • Sun, Apr 8, 5:30-7:30pm • Sun, Apr 15, 5:30-7pm

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old

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

Y Toastmasters Club • 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

Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca

FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St

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

G.L.B.T.Q Sage bowling club •

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

Education Under Fire Screening •

GLBT sports and recreation

TELUS Centre, U of A • educationunderfire. com • Addressing the Iranian government’s denial of the right to education for ideological and religious reasons. Free screening of documentary followed by a short presentation by Taeed Quddusi • Thu, Apr 5, 5-6:30pm

MEÆT 1.5 • atmeaet.com • DIYalouge forums bringing local creatives and new philanthropists together for an evening of short proposals followed by a shared meal. At the end of the meal, diners vote on which proposal receives the pot of funds to move forward with their project • Pre-register atmeaet.com • $10 (minimum donation for diners) Massive Wood Symposium • Fair-

mont Hotel Macdonald Empire Ballroom, 10065-100 St • wood-works.org/alberta • All major aspects relating to Massive Wood panels and assemblies will be discussed • Wed, Apr 18, 8am-5:30pm (incl breakfast and lunch); pre-register by Apr 11 at wood-works. org/alberta

Threads of Life • Royal Alberta Mu-

seum Theatre 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Curatorial Lecture Series: Threads of Life: The 1917 Waskatenau signature quilt: Sean Moir, Curator, Military & Political History • Apr 11, 7pm • Free

QUEER AFFIRM SUNNYBROOK–Red Deer

• Sunnybrook United Church, Red Deer • 403.347.6073 • Affirm welcome LGBTQ people and their friends, family, and allies meet the 2nd Tue, 7pm, each month

Bisexual Women's Coffee Group • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton

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

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• teamedmonton.ca • Badminton, Women's Drop-In Recreational: St Vincent School, 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 ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd

G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E

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

Illusions Social Club • The Junction, 10242-106 St • groups.yahoo.com/ group/edmonton_illusions • 780.387.3343 • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri every month, 8:30pm the junction bar • 10242-106 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, 10408124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu Pride Centre of Edmonton •

Moving • 780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm • Men Talking with Pride:

OILER PLAYER OF THE WEEK Teemu Hartikainen: The second-best Teemu in the league was the best Teemu in Anaheim with two goals to Selanne's one. DY Devan Dubnyk: This guy is showing he's got what it takes to be a number one. BB

PrimeTimers/sage Games • Unitarian Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm St Paul's United Church • 11526-

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

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • wom-

onspace.ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured • HIV Edmonton, 9702-111 Ave: Potluck and Games: Apr 14

Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper

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

SPECIAL EVENTS Child Haven • Meridian Banquet, 4820-76 Ave • childhaven.ca • 10th Annual fundraising dinner to support ten nonprofit children's homes in Nepal, Tibet, Bangladesh and India • Fri, Apr 13, 6-10pm • Adults: “Early bird” (before Apr 6): $40 (adult)/$15 (child 5-12)/free (under 5); After Apr 6: $50 (adult) Tickets in advance only, ph. 780-488-5608. Hop! Easter Fest • Prairie Garden,

56311 Lily Lake Rd, Bon Accord • Easter at Prairie Garden: petting farm, egg hunt, Dave Tyler Puppet Show, storytelling, Heather Swain, Keith Remple Band • Apr 6-9 • $9.95 (adult)

Spring Awakening Cabaret • Holy Trinity Anglican Church, 10037-84 Ave • YouthWrite Society Canada presents an evening of music, comedy and poetry with Colleen Brown, Anna Sommerville (singer-songwriter), Grant Stovel (CKUA), Rapid Fire Theatre (improv), York Underwood (comedy), SWYC (Spoken Word Youth Choir), others. A fundraiser and silent auction in support of YouthWrite • Apr 14, 7pm (door), 7:30pm (show) • $20 at 780.996.4962, door; all proceeds to YouthWrite Society Canada Western Canada Fashion Week • TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • westerncanadafashionweek.com • A fusion of art, design, fashion and music • Until Apr 5 • Tickets at TIX on the Square

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FILM // ENTER THE FIST

Re-enter the fist

Action sequences get bracing and breathless in The Raid: Redemption

rented Police Story, over the course of the three days we were permitted to hang onto it I watched it 15 times. I was obsessed by it. VW: Did you relate to the story itself or was it more the way that story was conveyed through fights? GE: I'd never seen anyone blend stunts and martial arts the way Jackie Chan did in that film. One of the things I guess I've stolen from him is this idea that every shot is designed specifically to showcase a piece of choreography. He never shot a fight where it starts with a wide and then over-theshoulder and then coverage; he was very exacting about how every shot was dictated by the action. Incredible. Did you declare your love of martial arts movies while you were in film school? GE: At that point I wasn't really into it anymore. I'm more a fan of the golden age of Hong King cinema, from the 1980s to the early '90s. After Fist of Legend I tuned out for a while. They stopped making martial arts movies with martial artists and started using pop stars on wires. It wasn't really until Ong-bak that I came back to the genre in a big way. Ong-bak was the game changer, an announcement that there were interesting things to be done with the genre still. But that came long after my time at film school. VW:

Just another day on SWAT

Opens Friday The Raid: Redemption Directed by Gareth Evans

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he Jakarta derelict monolith that serves as the sole location for Gareth Evan's The Raid: Redemption is a high-rise safe house for countless criminal scumbags, many of them apparently world-class ass-whoopers so nasty and relentless the local authorities have been disinclined to lay siege. Until the morning our story begins, when a SWAT team sneaks in and attempts to take control of the building floor-by-floor. The strategy swiftly falls apart: a gung-ho senior officer kills a child, all hell breaks loose and the invaders quickly become the ones trapped, outnumbered and underprepared. Writer/director Evans, a Welshman who moved to Indonesia to kick-start

a career in martial arts moviemaking, has built his sophomore film around familiar tropes, including some obligatory police corruption, drug lord sadism and a brother-against-brother conflict featuring his inexhaustible star and fight choreographer Iko Uwais. But there's nothing cozy and familiar about what Evans and his collaborators do with these tropes once the fighting starts. A guy tries to crawl out a window and the camera somehow follows him with absolute fluidity as he's pulled out of the window, thrown onto a table and backwards-somersaults onto the floor. A quick-thinking cop yanks a gas tank out from under a stove, stuffs it into a refrigerator, lights a match and rolls the fridge to a door, where it greets those attempting to enter with an explosion. There are extended, mercilessly punishing melees involving a martial art known as Pencak Silat,

which Evans has previously profiled in a documentary. These sequences are captured with a breathless immediacy and bracing sense of orientation rare in contemporary action thrillers. The Raid arrives in theatres on a wave of enthusiastic advance praise. Evans has already begun preproduction on a sequel and will be executive producer of a US remake. He spoke with Vue Weekly by phone last week.

Was there one in particular that prompted you to think, "I want to make one of these?" GE: The big ones were Fist of Fury and Police Story. That first time we

Were you already in Indonesia by the time of Ong-bak? GE: Nah. I was still in the UK, working nine to five, Monday to Friday, wanting badly to get into the film industry but not having any luck. So my wife, who's Indonesian-Japanese, called her contacts back home and got me a gig directing this documentary on Pencak Silat. It was the first time I saw Silat being performed and it just blew me away. Something about the juxtaposition of these beautiful, graceful movements leading up to the strike, and then the strike itself, which is

Clash's lifelong fascination began with the children's shows he saw on public television, and his arc from making his own puppets out of wayward clothing to finally getting involved with the great Jim Henson is explored in family interviews, talks with celebrities (Whoopi Goldberg nails some insight, actually), some shots of Clash wandering through some old haunts, and archival footage from an apparently very provideo camera family. The most interesting moments are probably of him

working with other puppeteers—a scene of a group of them rehearsing for Sesame Street by filming just their hands (sans puppets) going through the motions of a dance sequence, critiquing their movements, offers some curious insight into just how much training and striving for perfection there is—but director Constance Marks sews it all together smoothly, even it it feels mostly like a surface skim at only 75 minutes long. Only on the peripheries of what

VUE WEEKLY: I presume you grew up watching martial arts movies. GARETH EVANS: Everything from Bruce Lee to Jackie Chan. Anything I could get my hands on. Anything that had a ninja on the cover of the VHS box. VW:

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brutal as hell and very aggressive. I like that mix of the good and the bad. VW: How did your appreciation of Silat affect your approach to filming, to framing and camera movement? GE: I worked for three months with my choreography team on the design of the action sequences. After putting that much work into designing them it just makes sense to show everything. I don't get the convention of long-lens-close-ups being cut very fast and using sound to sell the choreography when you can really show that choreography in a wide shot and wow the audience so much more. My biggest influences are John Woo, Sam Peckinpah, Jackie Chan. There's so much clarity in their action sequences. You understand where you are in every scene. Something I really like about The Raid is its dearth of cuts and dominance of medium shots. These elements make the physicality of the fights so much more visceral, and prize the athleticism over montage. GE: That's very true. I'm glad you can see that in the film. VW:

I know you've got the sequel to The Raid already in development, but looking farther ahead, I wonder if you see a return to the UK industry in your future. Are there Wales-set stories you want to tell? Is there a way to usher the kind of high performance action to which you seem drawn into a British milieu? GE: I'd love to do something Englishlanguage after the sequel to The Raid. Maybe something UK-based, maybe something US-based. I don't know yet. Whatever it is needs to be something that I really want to do. I've got family and a home in Indonesia now, so if I'm going to be away from them for any stretch of time it's got to be for a film that I'm going to end up truly loving. VW:

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REVUE // MUPPETY

Being Elmo Fri, Apr 6 – Thu, Apr 12 Directed by Constance Marks Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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he first shots of Being Elmo are of the fuzzy red monster in waiting, the inherently mischievous glint present in his googly eyes but the rest of him hanging lifeless on a stand, waiting for puppeteer Kevin Clash to put him on. Once Clash does, the skillful touch of the lifelong puppeteer animates (and voic-

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es) one of the most beloved muppets of all time, a figure he made when another puppeteer tossed it onto Clash's lap—formerly, Elmo was gravel-voiced and caveman-like in action—asking if he could do anything with it. But one of the central, strongest points made in this simple, heartwarmer of a documentary about this little monster is that the opposite is true, too: that the puppet brought out the life in the man.

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we're shown sit some darkness, mostly implied—Marks skirts around how the meteoric rise of Elmo, coupled with Clash's devotion to doing it all, meant he started missing out on his own daughter's childhood, also presumably why Clash's wife is introduced as 'ex'—but, mostly, Being Elmo is just a nice guy success story, wrapped in the felt and fur of its subject matter. Looking too hard for the seams just diminishes the magic. Paul Blinov

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sequel near-epic only in its preposterousness, Wrath of the Titans' story is so stomped and swamped by CGI spectacle, it raises that existential question: what came first, the overblown super-sneezes of action, or the tissue-thin plot to wrap them in? The myth-misses are worse than in Clash of the Titans. Gods, their accents arising from all over Europe, are petty thugs with Freudian father-son issues. The revenge plot and its kickstarter's change-of-heart are equally baffling. His wife killed before we met her, Perseus (Sam Worthington) rounds up a few men (and one token love interest) as if they're in a heist flick. In comic relief comes Poseidon's rogue son Agenor (apparently, even for a movie with the Minotaur,

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his famous son Theseus wasn't available). And weapon-forger Hephaestus springs into the mix straight from the pages of ... Dickens?!? The spectacle bloats so full of itself, it's emptied of drama. Not one but three Cyclops (triclops?) pop up. The map for a massive, constantly moving

stone labyrinth gets tossed, but our heroes still make it to Hades. Meanwhile, we're left in entertainment-purgatory. Forget gods getting it on with humans; here, non-story meets quasishow and begets a demi-star.

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Albert Nobbs Fri, Apr 6 – Thu, Apr 12 Directed by Rodrigo Garcia Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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he titular protagonist of Albert Nobbs is a figure apart from the world. Diminutive, unobtrusive, with a waxen visage, a soft croak of a voice and eyes that rarely make direct contact with others, he's an ideal senior servant for the nearly posh Morrison's Hotel. The setting is Dublin in the late 19th century. Jobs are scarce and life desperate for those without hope of upward mobility, which is most people, and most especially unwed women of a certain age. Nobbs looks to be pushing 60, and his fear of dying in destitution is life-long and paralyzingly deep. He quietly squirrels away cash under the floorboards and dreams of one day opening a tobacconist's, but his great secret is that he is a she, though it's no secret to us since he's played by Glenn Close, who first inhabited the role on stage in the early '80s and has sought the opportunity to bring Nobbs to the screen ever since. What's kind of fascinating about Nobbs is that he seems less a woman trying to pass as a man than an extraterrestrial trying

to pass as a human being. The considerable pathos generated by this film is partly about gender, partly about class, partly about queerness and very much about sheer Otherness. Albert Nobbs is more strange—appropriately, deeply strange—and more brutally honest than I'd expected it to be. The film, directed by Rodrigo García (Mother and Child) and adapted from George Moore's 1918 short story by Close and the Irish novelist John Banville, has the ending that makes sense, rather than the one that feels nice—if anything it's perhaps too deterministic. It exudes empathy and at times is truly heartbreaking, yet it never makes the error of straining to render Nobbs easy to identify with. He's no more relatable than Benjamin Button. But while it's worth engaging with, the question as to whether or not Albert Nobbs works as story, polemic or character study is trickier to resolve. The plot is prompted by one hell of a coincidence: A painter comes to do some work at the hotel and for some reason is instructed to share a bed with Nobbs, even though the painter lives in Dublin. Amazingly, just like

Nobbs, the painter is a woman who successfully passes for a man. The painter's played by Janet McTeer, and while she looks no more convincingly male than Close, her performance is just as brilliantly textured, if very, very distinct. The painter is physically imposing, confident in his sexuality and his body, and is happily and legally married to a woman. One of the film's most compelling scene finds Nobbs paying a surprise visit to the painter's home, essentially to see how domestic bliss might be possible for someone who's situation is so ostensibly akin to his. Thus inspired, Nobbs attempts to court a teenaged workmate played by Mia Wasikowska, who's already deep in a sexually active relationship with a handsome young buck played by Aaron Johnson. The notion of the pairing of Nobbs and the much younger woman seems absurd, save for the younger couple's intuition that Nobbs may have some hidden finances to exploit. But the absurdity is perhaps part of what makes this story more complicated than it might have been. Albert Nobbs is a lot of things, but simple is not one of them.

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In Darkness

FILM // ALWAYS LOOK ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

The Life of Brian Sun, Apr 8 – Mon, Apr 9 Directed by Terry Jones Metro Cinema at The Garneau Originally released: 1979

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ie, making too much the hero of this courageous Aryan.

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I'm increasingly torn when it comes to the proliferation of Holocaust films. So long as there are stories to be told, perspectives to be gained, by all means, keep them coming. Yet there's something precarious about these stories accumulating to the point where we become inured to their impact by becoming too comfortable with what amounts to a "Holocaust genre," a notion that strikes me as inherently appalling. Does In Darkness slip into Holocaust tropes? A little. The very notion of hiding in the sewers, though grounded on history, feels more metaphorical than literal, more poetic than palpable. The draining of most colours from the film's palate is a too-obvious emphasis of the misery endured under occupation; it makes the world of the film feel stylized, and less real. And if there's anything that any Holocaust narrative should remain duty-bound to uphold it's the sense that these events, even when fictionalized and wrangled up in filmic artifice, did happen, could happen, and remain unbearably real.

ased on Robert Marhsall's In the Sewers of Lvov, In Darkness is a German-Canadian co-production, directed by Poland's Agnieszka Holland (Europa Europa) and scripted by Canadian screenwriter David F Shamoon. It chronicles the true story of Polish sewer inspector Leopold Socha and the handful of Jews he helped to shelter during the Nazi occupation. Boiled down to its protagonist's arc, In Darkness could be summed up as your archetypical mercenary who recovers his humanity story. Socha begins the film a casually anti-Semitic cynic, robbing houses, looting vacated ghettos and shamelessly hustling the Jewish families who have nowhere left to turn; by the end he's sacrificing his own safety to ensure their survival. The film is more complicated sceneby-scene, with self-interest, desperation and altruism—not to mention a surprising amount of lust—so thoroughly interwoven as to become inextricable, right up to the final scene. While Socha is necessarily the film's protagonist, Holland and Shamoon steer clear of Schindler's List bullshit,

lthough it looked back 2000 years for its comic content, Monty Python's The Life of Brian was a decade ahead of its time in provoking pop-cult Christian controversy. Released nine years before twin torrents of holy outrage—over Scorsese's film about Jesus and Madonna's "Like A Prayer" video—the silly sextet's Biblical spoof was prohibited by some British town councils, picketed in New York by nuns and rabbis, and banned in Norway and Ireland. But how much hotter would the steaming Pilate of blasphemy-accusations have got if the Pythons had included their scripted mockeries of Zionism? A zealous Zionist leader of a suicidesquad, Otto (Eric Idle), sporting thin moustache and German accent, a swastika-tipped Star of David on his chest and his spiked helmet, talks to Brian (mistaken for the Messiah) about a long-awaited arrival. In the rough outtake, only on the Criterion edition, Otto declares, "The Leader will save Israel by ridding it of the scum of non-Jewish people, making it pure—no foreigners, no riff-raff, no gypsies," offering a "Hail!" salute. The screenplay for the film, which opened five months after the landmark Israel-Egypt peace treaty bro-

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kered by Jimmy Carter, had more. Otto's Hitler-ness continued: "We need more living room. We must move into the traditionally Jewish areas of Samaria. ... we can put [the Samaritans] in little camps. And after Samaria we must move into Jordan and create a great Jewish state that will last a thousand years." Carter has since criticized Israel as an apartheid state for its treatment of Palestinians, but the Pythons aimed further earlier, perhaps riffing off the 1975 UN Resolution declaring the nationalist ideology "a form of racism." They draw racial extremism- and purity-parallels between Zionism, which

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FILM // CHAPLIN

The Gold Rush

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The kid sure got around

Fri, Apr 6 – Sun, Apr 8 Directed by Charlie Chaplin Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 1925

he highest-grossing silent comedy, The Gold Rush was the film he wanted to be remembered for, Chaplin said. What's little remembered is the Tramp's tramping around off-screen with leading ladies. His relationships (at least 12) and occasionally resulting marriages (four) then shadowed his films, but are now eclipsed by their enduring genius. Chaplin's choice for actress in the Klondike comedy was Lillita McMurray, who'd been in his 1921 picture The Kid. Publicists had rechristened her Lita

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had pushed for a Jewish homeland, and Nazism, whose anti-Semitic genocide ensured that homeland's formation. Accounts conflict over why Otto's appearances were cut. Terry Gilliam thought they should stay. But testscreenings apparently confirmed what some other Pythons, including Jones, felt—the scenes slowed the story. Historian David Nash, though, in Blasphemy in the Christian World: A History, claims Otto was crucified "on the cutting-room floor, in the interests of smoothing the way for the film's distribution in America."

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Grey, 19. But she was actually 16 when she collapsed some months into shooting on the set in 1924, eight weeks pregnant with Chaplin's child. Encouraged by her lawyer uncle, Chaplin shotgunmarried her in Mexico. Carole Lombard, future star of '30s screwball comedies, auditioned to replace Grey, but Chaplin cast Georgia Hale as the dancehall girl after seeing her in Josef von Sternberg's The Salvation Hunters. (Hale nearly starred in City Lights, too, when Chaplin shot tests of her while considering replacing Virginia Cherrill.) Hale later recalled Chaplin's countless retakes for the scene between the girl

and her paramour Jack—eventually, "I was in a rage and I really slapped him awfully hard across the face and that was the take that Charlie really wanted." They had an affair during filming and Hale claimed their climactic kiss, between the Tramp and "Georgia," was genuine. But when Chaplin recut the film for a 1942 re-release, he removed the kiss. Chaplin and Grey's marriage quickly soured. Her uncle behind her, she filed for divorce in 1927, threatening to name five actresses who'd slept with her husband; the scandal roared through the press and the settlement was the largest Hollywood had seen. Decades later, Grey recalled the famous scene of Chaplin and co-star Mack Swain eating shoes—they were licorice and, with all the retakes, the two "got violently ill from eating so many ... they called off production for several days." When The Gold Rush hit cinemas in the summer of 1925, though, only viewers were in danger of feeling sick: the Berlin-premiere audience applauded Chaplin's "dance of the dinner rolls" for so long that the film was rewound and replayed, while the BBC recorded 10 straight minutes of audience laughter during one screening. Brian Gibson

// brian@vueweekly.com

FILM WEEKLY Fri, APR 6 - THU, aPr 12, 2012

CHABA THEATRE–JASPER 6094 Connaught Dr Jasper 780.852.4749

Mirror Mirror (G) Fri-Sat 7:00, 9:15; Sat-Sun 1:30; Sun-Thu 8:00

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Fri-Sat 6:45, 9:15; Sat-Sun 1:30; Sun-Thu 8:00 My Week with Marilyn (14A) film club night: Thu, Apr 12: 7:30

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose 780.608.2144

American reunion (18A coarse

language, crude sexual content) Digital Fri-Mon 7:10 9:25; Fri-Mon 1:50

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Digital Fri-Mon 7:05 9:05; FRI-MOn 2:05

Mirror Mirror (G) Digital Daily 7:00, 9:10; Fri-Mon 2:15

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Digital Daily 6:45 9:30; Fri-Mon 1:45 21 Jump Street (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Digital Fri-Mon 6:55, 9:15; Fri-Mon 1:55 CINEMA CITY MOVIES 12

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Closed Captioned Daily

1:20, 4:00

TITANIC 3D (PG coarse language, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Ultraavx, No passes Fri, Sun 2:00, 6:30, 10:30; Sat 10:15, 2:15, 6:30, 10:30; Mon 12:15, 4:20, 8:30; Tue-Thu 1:15, 7:15 FRIENDS WITH KIDS (14A coarse lan-

guage) Daily 6:20, 8:50

The Metropolitan Opera: Manon–Live (Classification not available)

Sat 10:00

An American Tail (G) Sat 11:00 CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Fri, Sun-

THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN 3D (PG violence) Digital 3d Daily 3:50, 6:55, 9:25

HUGO 3D (PG) Digital 3d Daily 1:10, 3:55, 6:50, 9:30

MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE–GHOST PROTOCOL (14A) Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:00, 10:00 BIG MIRACLE (PG) Daily 1:35, 6:40 Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance (14A frightening scenes) Daily

1:55, 4:35, 7:15, 9:35

CONTRABAND (14A violence, coarse language) Daily 1:40, 7:10 WOMAN IN BLACK (14A frightening scenes) Daily 7:20, 9:45 Housefull 2 (PG) Hindi W/E.S.T. Daily 1:30, 4:50, 9:00

Agent Vinod (14A violence) Hindi W/E.S.T. Daily 12:55, 4:20, 7:45

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse lan-

guage, substance abuse, violence) Fri-Mon 11:30, 2:05, 4:45, 7:25, 10:20; Tue-Thu 1:50, 4:55, 7:40, 10:15

JOHN CARTER (PG violence) Digital Cin-

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Closed Captioned Daily 1:00, 3:20, 5:30

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Daily

12:00, 2:10, 4:20, 6:45, 8:45

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Closed Captioned Daily 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:20

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Digital

Cinema Fri, Sun-Mon 12:00, 12:30, 1:00, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30; Sat 11:45, 12:30, 1:00, 3:10, 3:40, 4:10, 6:20, 6:50, 7:20, 9:30, 10:00, 10:30; Tue 12:20, 12:50, 2:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:40, 6:45, 7:20, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30; Wed 12:30, 12:50, 2:00, 3:40, 4:00, 5:40, 7:20, 9:00, 10:30, 11:10; Thu 12:20, 2:00, 3:30, 4:00, 5:40, 6:45, 7:20, 9:00, 10:00, 10:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

language, crude sexual content) No passes Fri-Sun 10:00; Closed Captioned Wed 12:20, 3:00, 4:30, 5:40, 7:10, 8:20, 9:50, 10:50; Fri, Sun-Tue, Thu 12:20, 1:40, 3:00, 4:30, 5:40, 7:10, 8:20, 9:50, 10:50; Sat 12:20, 1:55, 3:00, 4:30, 5:40, 7:10, 8:20, 9:50, 10:50; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

American reunion (18A coarse

language, crude sexual content) Digital Presentation Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:50, 6:40, 9:35; Tue-Thu 5:10, 8:00 GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Fri-Mon

AMERICAN REUNION (18A coarse lan-

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse

3:00, 5:35; Tue-Thu 12:35, 3:00, 5:20

TITANIC 3D (PG coarse language, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes Fri-Mon 12:10, 12:45, 4:30, 5:00, 8:45, 9:15; Tue-Thu 12:30, 12:45, 4:30, 5:00, 8:30, 9:15 FRIENDS WITH KIDS (14A coarse language) Fri-Mon 7:55, 10:25; Tue-Thu 7:55, 10:30 The Metropolitan Opera: Manon–Live (Classification not available) An American Tail (G) Sat 11:00

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies (PG) Wed 7:00

AMERICAN REUNION (18A coarse

turbing content, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d Fri-Mon 3:30, 8:00; Tue-Thu 6:40

MIRROR MIRROR (G) Fri, Sun-Mon 12:05, 3:05, 5:40, 8:05, 10:30; Sat 1:00, 3:30, 6:00, 9:00; Tue-Wed 1:00, 3:25, 6:40, 9:20; Thu 3:25, 6:45, 9:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A)

Fri, Sun -Thu 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00; Sat 11:40, 2:30, 4:50, 7:20, 10:00

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Digital

ALBERT NOBBS (14A) Fri 2:15, 7:00; Sat

4:00, 9:00; Sun 12:30, 7:00; Mon 2:45, 9:00; Tue 9:30; Wed-Thu 7:00

BEING ELMO (G) Fri 4:30, 9:15; Sat 2:00; Sun 4:30; Mon 7:00; Thu 9:15

THE ROOM (14A nudity, sexual content)

CITY CENTRE 9 10200-102 Ave 780.421.7020

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating, On 2 Screens Daily 12:30, 12:50, 3:45, 6:30, 7:00, 10:00, 10:20 WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Dolby

Stereo Digital, No passes, Stadium Seating, Digital 3d Daily 1:20, 4:15, 7:15, 9:45

American reunion (18A coarse

language, crude sexual content) Digital, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:10

TITANIC 3D (PG coarse language, disturb-

ing content, not recommended for young children) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating, Digital 3d Daily 12:35, 4:40, 9:00

12:10

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Digital 3d Fri-Mon 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9:10; TueThu 6:45, 9:00

language, substance abuse, violence) Fri-Mon 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:05; Tue-Thu 7:15, 10:00

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Fri-

Mon 1:20, 4:00, 7:30, 10:00; Tue-Thu 7:10, 9:40

SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Daily 12:50

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Digi-

tal 3d Daily 3:40, 6:40, 9:15

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse

language, substance abuse, violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:00; Wed 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; Thu 1:10, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; Star & Strollers Screening Wed 1:00

JOHN CARTER 3D (PG violence) Digi-

MONTY PYTHON'S THE LIFE OF BRIAN (14A) Sun 9:30; Mon 5:00

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Closed Captioned Daily 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50

THE BUGS BUNNY / ROAD RUNNER

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A)

(STC) Movie Food Bank Fund-Raiser: Mon 12:30; all-ages

THE WOODMANS (14A nudity) AGA Women In Art Film Series: Tue 7:00 DAZED and CONFUSED (14A) Wed 9:30 Empire Theatres–Spruce Grove 130 Century Crossing Spruce Grove 780.962.2332

language, substance abuse, violence) Digital Projection, Closed Captioned Fri-Tue 1:30, 4:15, 7:30, 10:10; Wed-Thu 7:30, 10:10

Fri-Tue 12:45, 3:45, 6:45, 9:30; Wed-Thu 6:45, 9:30

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Digital HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Digital

Digital 3d Daily 1:50, 4:50, 7:45, 10:45

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence)

Closed Captioned Fri, Sun-Tue, Thu 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30; Sat 12:45, 1:30, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 6:30, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30; Wed 12:00, 12:45, 1:30, 3:15, 4:00, 4:45, 7:15, 8:00, 9:45, 10:30

MIRROR MIRROR (G) Closed Cap-

tioned Fri-Tue, Thu 12:20, 3:20, 6:50, 9:30; Wed 3:30, 6:50, 9:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

AMERICAN REUNION (18A coarse

language, crude sexual content) Closed Captioned, No passes Daily 12:30, 3:30, 6:45, 9:40

AMERICAN REUNION (18A coarse

language, crude sexual content) Ultraavx, No passes Daily 1:20, 4:30, 7:30, 10:20

The Metropolitan Opera: Manon–Live (Classification not available) Sat 10:00

Projection, Closed Captioned Fri-Tue 12:15, 3:40, 7:00, 8:30, 10:15; Wed-Thu 7:00, 8:30, 10:15

The Raid: Redemption (18A gory

TITANIC 3D (PG coarse language, disturbing content, not recommended for young children) Digital Projection, Closed Captioned, Reald 3d Fri-Tue 12:00, 4:00, 8:45; Wed-Thu 8:45

TITANIC 3D: An Imax 3d Experience (PG coarse language, disturbing

AMERICAN REUNION (18A coarse lan-

Andrew Lloyd Webber's Love Never Dies (PG) Wed 7:00

guage, crude sexual content) Digital Projection, Closed Captioned Fri-Tue 1:00, 3:30, 7:15, 9:45; Wed-Thu 7:15, 9:45

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Digital

Projection, Closed Captioned, Reald 3d Fri-Tue 1:15, 4:00, 7:10, 10:00; Wed-Thu 7:10, 10:00 PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave 780.433.0728

In Darkness (14A coarse language, sexual

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A)

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Fri-

Being Flynn (14A coarse language, sexual content, substance abuse) Fri-Mon 1:00, 6:55; Tue-Thu 6:55

Mon 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 3:10, 3:30, 3:50, 6:20, 6:40, 7:00, 9:30, 9:50, 10:10; Tue-Thu 6:25, 6:40, 7:00, 9:30, 9:50, 10:10

matter) Fri-Mon 3:10, 9:10; Tue-Thu 9:10

tal 3d Fri-Tue 1:40, 4:40, 7:40, 10:40; Wed-Thu 12:30, 3:30, 10:40

content, disturbing content) Fri-Mon 2:00, 6:45, 9:20; Tue-Thu 6:45, 9:20

Digital 3d Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:20, 7:10, 9:40; Tue-Thu 6:50, 9:20

A Separation (PG mature subject

Fri 11:00

Projection, Closed Captioned, Reald 3d FriTue 3:00, 6:15; Wed-Thu 6:15

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A)

MIRROR MIRROR (G) Closed Captioned

Presentation Fri-Mon 12:50, 3:20, 4:00, 6:30, 7:10, 9:10; Tue-Thu 4:30, 5:40, 7:40

Sat 7:00; Sun 2:45

TITANIC 3D (PG coarse language, dis-

Ultraavx Fri, Sun-Mon 12:30, 2:50, 5:30, 8:15, 10:45; Sat 12:20, 2:45, 5:25, 8:15, 10:45; Tue-Thu 1:15, 4:40, 7:45, 10:10

brutal violence) Fri, Sun -Mon 12:15, 2:40, 5:20, 7:45, 10:50; Sat 12:15, 2:40, 5:20, 7:45, 10:40; Tue-Wed 1:25, 4:20, 7:30, 9:55; Thu 1:25, 4:20, 7:15, 9:55

Captioned Fri-Tue, Thu 12:00, 12:30, 1:30, 3:15, 3:45, 4:45, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:15; Wed 12:00, 1:30, 3:15, 3:55, 4:45, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 9:45, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Digital

CHAPLIN'S GOLD RUSH (G) Fri 12:30;

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Digital Projection, Closed Captioned Fri-Tue 12:30

The Raid: Redemption (18A gory

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Closed

guage, substance abuse, violence) Digital Presentation Fri-Mon 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:40; Tue-Thu 5:25, 8:05

Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212

MIRROR MIRROR (G) Digital Presentation Fri-Mon 1:00, 1:30, 3:40, 4:10, 6:45, 7:50, 9:15; Tue-Thu 5:00, 5:30, 7:30, 8:10

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence)

Digital 3d Daily 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:45

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse lan-

METRO CINEMA at the Garneau

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A)

11:35, 2:10, 4:35, 7:10, 9:40; Tue-Thu 12:40, 3:40, 7:05, 9:35

Sat 10:00

Closed Captioned Daily 1:10, 3:40, 6:40, 9:00

Presentation Fri-Mon 1:40

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Digital

Fri-MOn 1:00, 3:25

WRATH OF THE TITANS (14A) Fri-Mon

JOHN CARTER 3D (PG violence) Daily 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:55 Closed Captioned Daily 7:50, 10:40

4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600

Mirror Mirror (G) Daily 7:00, 9:25;

MIRROR MIRROR (G) Digital Projection

JOURNEY 2 THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND (PG) Digital Cinema Fri-Mon 12:35,

14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

CLAREVIEW 10

Daily 6:50, 9:40; FRI-MOn 12:50, 3:40

WRATH OF THE TITANS 3D (14A) Digital 3d, No passes Fri-Sun 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 6:50, 8:10, 9:30; Digital 3d Mon 1:45, 3:45, 4:15, 6:50, 8:10, 9:30; Tue-Thu 4:50, 5:20, 7:50, 8:15

Mirza: The Untold Story (STC) Punjabi W/E.S.T. Daily 1:05, 4:40, 9:20 CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH

ing, Digital 3d Fri-Tue 1:15, 3:50, 6:50, 9:40; Wed 1:15, 3:50, 9:40; Thu 1:15, 3:50, 9:30

The hunger games (14A violence)

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse

9:40

The Vow (PG) Daily 1:25, 4:05, 6:45,

PINA 3D (G) DTS Digital, Stadium Seat-

Wrath Of The Titans (14A) In Digital 3D Fri-Mon 1:10, 3:35; Daily 7:10, 9:35

Presentation, No passes Fri-Sun 1:20; Mon 1:20

guage, crude sexual content) No passes Fri, Sun-Mon 11:40, 1:10, 2:20, 4:15, 5:10, 7:00, 8:00, 9:50; Sat 12:40, 1:10, 2:50, 4:15, 5:30, 7:00, 8:10, 9:50, 10:50; Tue-Thu 1:35, 1:40, 4:15, 5:15, 7:10, 8:00, 9:50, 10:40

Goon (18A language may offend) Daily 1:20, 3:55, 6:35, 9:15

MIRROR MIRROR (G) DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Daily 1:30, 4:30, 7:30, 10:25

3d Fri-Mon 4:10, 6:45, 9:00; Tue-Thu 5:15, 7:35

3d Fri, Sun-Mon 11:55, 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 10:05; Sat 12:00, 2:55, 5:15, 7:30, 10:05; TueWed 1:05, 3:15, 5:35, 7:50, 10:20; Thu 1:05, 3:15, 5:35, 7:45, 10:05

SAFE HOUSE (14A brutal violence) Digital Cinema Fri-Wed 7:35, 10:35; Thu 7:20, 10:35

violence) Digital Cinema Daily 1:15

guage, substance abuse, violence) Closed Captioned, Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital Daily 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:15

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX 3D (G) Digital

ALVIN AND THE CHIPMUNKS: CHIPWRECKED (G) Daily 1:50, 4:25 THE ADVENTURES OF TINTIN (PG

21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse lan-

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Digital

UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING (18A

gory violence) Daily 4:10, 9:50

(PG coarse language) Digital Presentation, DTS Digital, Stadium Seating Fri-Wed 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 9:30; Thu 12:40, 3:40, 6:40, 10:30

Mon 11:30, 2:15, 4:40; Sat 11:30, 2:15, 4:25; Tue-Wed 12:25, 2:45, 5:05; Thu 12:20, 2:45, 5:00

ema Fri, Sun-Mon 12:40, 3:50, 7:05, 10:15; Sat 3:50, 7:05, 10:15; Tue-Thu 1:20, 4:25, 7:25, 10:25

5074-130 Ave 780.472.9779

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

brutal violence) Daily 1:15, 4:20, 7:20, 10:10

content, not recommended for young children) No passes Daily 12:00, 4:00, 8:00

WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922

Wrath Of The Titans (14A) In Digi-

tal 3D Daily 1:10, 3:35, 7:10, 9:35

The hunger games (14A violence)

Daily 12:50, 3:40, 6:50 pm and 9:40 pm

Mirror Mirror (G) Daily 1:05, 3:30, 7:05, 9:30

American reunion (18A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 1:00, 3:30, 7:00, 9:30

MIRROR MIRROR (G) Fri-Mon 1:00, 3:40, 6:30, 9:20; Tue-Thu 6:30, 9:10 AMERICAN REUNION (18A coarse language, crude sexual content) No passes Fri-Mon 1:30, 4:20, 7:40, 10:20; Tue-Thu 7:20, 10:05 TITANIC 3D (PG coarse language, dis-

turbing content, not recommended for young children) Digital 3d, No passes FriMon 12:30, 4:30, 8:30; Tue-Thu 7:30 GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave St Albert 780.458.9822

DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Daily 1:00, 3:00, 4:55, 6:45, 8:35

21 Jump Street (14A crude coarse lan-

guage, substance abuse, violence) Daily 12:45, 2:55, 5:00, 7:05, 9:10

Mirror Mirror (G) Daily 1:05, 3:15,

5:20, 7:20, 9:25

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) No passes Daily 12:35, 3:20, 6:15, 8:55

Wrath of the titans (14A) No passes Daily 1:35, 3:30, 5:30, 7:25, 9:20 LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc 780.986-2728

American reunion (18A coarse language, crude sexual content) Daily 7:05, 9:35; Fri-Mon 1:05, 3:35

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ARTS

PREVUE // IMPROV

Stoking the comedy flames Rapid Fire Theatre showcases new improv styles at Bonfire

Making it up as they go

Tue, Apr 10 – Sun, Apr 15 Bonfire Festival Varscona Theatre, $25 (festival passes), $10 (per show)

THEATRE NETWORK

PRESENTS

“Pure joy. Great, great theatre.” – CBC Radio Starring: Peter Balkwill, Pityu Kenderes, Trevor Leigh Directed by: The Old Trout Puppet Workshop

MAR 20 - APR 8, 2012 2 for 1 Tuesdays Mar 27 & Apr 3 The Roxy Theatre 10708 124 St 780.453.2440 theatrenetwork.ca

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onfires have been used as nighttime tradition to bring people together and share stories for centuries, and in granting its new festival that name, Rapid Fire Theatre is injecting some serious comedy into the craft of storytelling. Rapid Fire players have brought together long-form improv formats gathered from improvisation festivals in North America and Europe to bring something new and fresh to the Edmonton improv scene. The company does a weekly longform show called Chimprov, but artistic director and Rapid Fire player Amy Shostak says that the Bonfire festival is the first time long-form improv will be showcased on this scale by the company. "This festival is totally an ensemble-based festival. People who have just been doing improv for a year or two are being mixed up with people who have been doing improv for 20 years," Shostak says. "It's been a really good learning experience for us in developing our younger players, but also getting to play with people we don't normally play with." An example of such improv forms is the Harold, one of the most classic long-form styles. Shostak adds that Rapid Fire has never done a Harold in the classic sense, which involves theme-based exploration that's not

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focused on plot or narration. Along with the Harold is the Neutrino Project, which she says is like nothing Rapid Fire normally performs onstage. The Neutrino Project involves improvisers receiving a suggestion from the audience and taking off with a film crew to shoot an on-location film that's raced back to the theatre to be revealed to the crowd. "One of the cool things is that the larger ensemble basically pitched brand new ideas for what they wanted to try within the bounds of longform improv," Shostak says. Long-form improv opens the doors for experimentation and character building, but the lengthier run times mean the cast has to put their creativity skills to the test in order to pull of a successful show. "Long-form improv is basically a group of structures where you get one suggestion and you go for 45 minutes or so, and so I guess the challenge there would be sustaining that time and starting with strong enough platforms or strong enough ideas that will sustain you through that 45 minutes," Shostak explains. "Basically, you're setting yourself up for success or not for success." Ben Gorodetsky is a cast member of Rapid Fire as well as drama student at the University of Alberta who is acting as festival intern for Bonfire's first year. "I was interested in supporting the company and improv in general from

the other side, from the administration angle because as fun as it is to get on stage and make the laugh-emups, to build the support to have a festival like this is just as, it not more important than the actual comedic content," he says. In addition to interning, Gorodetsky is directing two performances and co-directing a third. One is a form of improv called Ghost Jail that fuses improv performance and writing, while his other directing effort is 3-Trio, which is a form of improv that fuses music, visual arts and theatrical improvisation. As co-director, he's spearheading Bonfire Shorts, which consists of three 15 to 20 minute shows. One called The Wild Years is improv in the style of the legendary Tom Waits, which Gorodetsky describes as a production full of Waitsian grime and whisky-soaked poetry. "Hopefully it opens up connections between the music community and the visual community and the comedy community, as in the case of 3-Trio," he says of the festival's effect, adding that including Canadian institutions like an improvised show in the style of the Vinyl Café opens up an even broader scope. "I think it might introduce people who don't really have a point of reference to improv to a different and exciting world of improv comedy and paying homage to classic forms, and therefore, bridging the gap between different generations." MEAGHAN BAXTER

//MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

REVUE // VISUAL ARTS

The Untimely Transmogrification of the Problem provided and let yourself get lost in the bizarre tales the artist has so skillfully crafted. The work requires you to surrender to Millar's non-linear and absurd tales. As if the detail in the wall works wasn't enough to

with outcrops and levels containing countless references to sci-fi monsters, steam-punk esthetics and various forms of detritus from material culture, all re-imagined. Millar's work is a fascinating collision of meticu-

This fantastical approach to storytelling that borrows, perverts and remakes visual and popular culture references is the source of the artist's brilliance, and the viewer's fascination and frustration.

Chris Millar's 370H55V // Heather Saitz

Until Sun, Apr 29 Works by Chris Millar New Works Gallery, Art Gallery of Alberta

cience fiction has been home to the imaginations and creative outlets of many, and it is clear that a love of this genre has opened up the creative possibilities for Calgarybased, Sherwood Park-raised artist Chris Millar. Currently in the AGA's New Works Gallery, The Untimely Transmogrification of the Problem introduces us to the creative, bizarre weaving of tales through alternate universes concocted by Millar's imag-

ination. This fantastical approach to storytelling that borrows, perverts and remakes visual and popular culture references is the source of the artist's brilliance, and the viewer's fascination and frustration. The large-scale painting at the door, "Friend," is a wild comic-strip style narrative meticulously painted in his illustrative style. The story features protagonists Captain Kirk, Spock and Bones from the original Star Trek series embarking on misadventures involving many penises, body fluids and inter- or extra-planetary creatures. It is worth considering the twisting of the popu-

lar culture referents to magnify their homoeroticism, and consider the vulgarity from the context of boyish imaginings. Within the gallery, paper, paint, gel medium artworks with sculptural components line the walls, each telling fantastical, surreal stories with text accompanying images of wannabe rock bands or purple, four-breasted women creatures. The delicate painted stars on the walls surrounding each work encourage the consideration of every piece as its own little alternate universe. Take advantage of the magnifying glasses

marvel at, the central freestanding sculpture in the room, "370H55V," shows another stage of progression in the artist's practice. A clear plastic staircase spirals up to a tree-rooted, somewhat industrial-looking space

lous, controlled execution and wildly manipulated images, a reminder of the boundless and never entirely intelligible nature of the imagination. CAROLYN JERVIS

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he concept for whisper, Catalyst Theatre's joint production with Studio Theatre, is refreshingly simple: it tells the stories of the experiences and people in our lives that make up who we are. The finished product, however, is far from simple. For Catalyst Theatre regulars who are used to visually spectacular shows, whisper does not disappoint. The set and video projection designs by Bretta Gerecke and Mel Geary are phenomenal treats for the eyes, and the original music score that Jonathan Christenson and Matthew Skopyk have created is extraordinary. These aspects showcase the truth of how powerful design can be in theatre when it is in perfect conversation with the meaning of a production. The dynamic set is not the only visually captivating aspect. The production houses layers of different ways to express the stories simultaneously. As each story is whispered into another’s ear and then spoken aloud, others mirror the sentiments through movement pieces,

hanging screens depict images and video, or appropriately symbolic tableaus are acted out in the background. The variety of theatrical mediums are so well combined that though the stage is nearly always busy, it never becomes overwhelming to take the narrative in as a whole. As the story itself is a piece about life, it invariably deals with death. Much of the meaning we find in life is either inspired by, in spite of or in the face of death. These sentiments are reflected in the moments when whisper becomes profoundly sad. The loss of Tristan Mi—the cast’s classmate and friend—is woven into the plot in incredibly touching and poignant ways. Of course, the play by no means centers around this one story, but it was rather artfully included as one of the significant stories that now make up the actors’ lives. Right up to the end of the piece, where the cast leaves a space for Tristan on stage, the production plays on its most powerful stories, and the result is a show that is honest, sweet, sad, funny and downright brave. Saliha Chattoo

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The Love of the Nightingale Wed, Apr 4 – Sat, Apr 14 (8 pm; Matinee Sun, Apr 8 at 2 pm) Directed by Alex Hawkins Walterdale Playhouse, $12 – $16

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world view focused on power can be a dangerous thing. The Walterdale Playhouse's production of The Love of the Nightingale—Timberlake Wertenbaker's modern take on the Greek myth of the rape of Philomena and the journey of two sisters determined to reunite—delves into the struggle for power and compromise, as well as the strength of loyalty, fidelity and lack thereof, the search for justice, and challenges audiences to reconsider the actions of others. "One of the things I really like about Greek plays in general is that they're non-realistic. They evoke rather than depict something," explains director Alex Hawkins of the production's portrayal of these themes. "They evoke feelings, they evoke images, they're sort of indirect rather than directly depicting something. They're trying to cause the audiences to think about and to picture and to react." Hawkins adds that The Love of the Nightingale examines a recurring theme among Greek plays that argues whether people's actions are manipulated by the gods or simply driven by their own human desires. An example of this is the play's villain Tereus, King of Thrace, who truly believes he is an honourable person, despite the horrific acts he commits against others. "I think it's possible now to say that there are things that perpetrators do and they don't necessarily understand why they've done those things," Hawkins notes, of not only Tereus's actions, but current events of the past decade, like the Russell Williams murder trial. While Tereus is the antagonist, he's not a villain in the traditional sense.This posed a challenge for

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actor Justin Deveau, who had to learn to portray evil acts while maintaining Tereus's belief that his actions were honourable. "I think the instinct when you're playing a villain is to vilify it up ... but his actions are quite horrific, so the audience is going to put that vilification on him already, so I don't need to help them with that," Deveau explains. "I guess the biggest challenge was to fight to urge to throw in a bit of the hand wringing, mustache twirling, 'I'm going to tie you to a train track' kind of thing and just completely keep that out and just play it straight as if everything he said, he honestly meant and honestly felt." While taking on the villainous role of Tereus was a challenge, Deveau says playing the bad guy has a freeing quality. "I think that potential to do horrid things is in everybody, so it is very freeing to let it out once in awhile and just be nasty," he adds. On the other side is Procne, the eldest of the two sisters, played by Marsha Amanova, who she describes as very logical and very Athenian in her way of thinking. "For her, it's all about words and discussion and word play and talking things out in order to understand them," she explains, adding this all changes when she's placed in a new culture where the way of thinking is opposite to her own and driven by emotion rather than logic, which becomes motivation to reunite with her sister. Just as Deveau found it difficult to understand some of Tereus's actions, Amanova had similar issues understanding Procne's justification for her actions. When it comes down to it, she says it's up to the cast to make the audience understand where the character is coming from and that there is not one right and wrong. "In so many ways we take it for granted there's grey areas and I think this play really muddles that," she says. "It takes the black and white and it counteracts them against each other." meaghan baxter

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780.482.2854 • Prairie paintings by Terry Fenton • Apr 14-27 • Opening: Apr 14, 2-4pm, artist in attendance ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • THINKING BIG: Unveiling public art projects; 'til Apr 7 • Discovery Gallery: OBSESSION: Group show curated by Jill Nuckles; 'til May 5 • April Artist Spotlight–meet and greet Stephen Evans; Apr 5, 6-8pm

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780.426.0072 • Diverse Scapes: Rural and urban landscapes; runs with The Love of the Nightingale • 'til Apr 14 Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.422.6223 • Rearview Mirror: Contemporary Art from East and Central Europe; 'til Apr 29 • Icons of Modernism: 'til May 21 • BMO Work of Creativity: Method and Madness: Family-focused interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; 'til Dec 31 • RBC New Works Gallery: The Untimely Transmogrification of the Problem: Chris Millar; 'til Apr 29 • MASS: Dara Humniski: 'til May 20 • VENERATOR: Contemporary Art from the AGA Collection; 'til May 21 • Art School: Banff 1947: 'til Jun 3 • Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1975: 'til Jun 3 • Alberta Process Painting: 'til Jun 3 • !Women in Art Film Series: at the Garneau Theatre: Film, The Woodmans; Apr 10, 7pm; films occur the 2nd Tue each month (Mar-Oct); $10 (adult)/$8 (AGA/ Metro member/student/senior) • Open Studio: Adult Drop-In: Crank: Clay Machine: Apr 5, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (AGA member) Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert, 780.460.4310 • Immuto:

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• Featuring Feral Dog Photography, Brian Zahorodniuk, Dara Loewen, Ginette Vallieres-D'Silva, Margot Solstice, Maggie Tate and others • 'til 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 • Giant Steps: Bachelor of Design graduate show • 'til Apr 14 • Reception: Apr 5, 7-10pm Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Water: Photographs by Joel Koop; 'til Apr 30 • Why am I here? Group exhibit by U of A Art and Design students in the display cases and cubes near the AV Room; 'til Apr 30 Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Old Dogs/New Tricks: Featuring drawings by Father Douglas; 'til Apr 7 • Entrelacé: Artworks by Patricia Lortie Sparks; Apr 7-May 16 HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104 Ave • Comics Artist-in-Residence: Paul Lavelleed every Fri (12-6pm), every Sat (12-5pm) 'til Apr 21 • Comic Jam: Improv comic making 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Open Door: independent comic creators meet on the 2nd and 4th Thu each month, 7pm Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St, 780.426.4180 • 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 • 'til Apr 14 Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St, 780.423.5353 • ProjEx Room: Anusawaree (Monuments): Works by Korapin Chaotakoongite; 'til Apr 7 • Main Space: Unstable Natures: Works by graduate students and recent MFA recipients across North America; 'til Apr • Main Space: The Big Foldy Painting

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St, Stony Plain, 780.963.9935 • Paintings by Tabitha Gilman; 'til Apr 11 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: 'til May 12 Peter Robertson Gallery • 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Abstract paintings by Robert Christie • 'til Apr 17 Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • Narrative Quest: 'til Apr 29 • Faces of Labour: 'til Jun 24 • Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large: 'til Sep 3 • Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; the effect of fashion's demand for feathers on bird populations; 'til Jan 6 SNAP Gallery • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Artworks by Todd Stewart; 'til Apr 21 SPRUCE GROVE ART GALLERY • 35-5 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.0664 • 100 Miles-360 Degrees: Artworks by 360 Grit; 'til Apr 14 Stollery Gallery • Nina Haggerty Centre for the Arts, 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • F.E.A.R.– FALSE EVIDENCE APPEARING REAL: Drawings, paintings, and collages by Chris Zaytsoff, Jocelyn Gallant, Gaye Huckell; 'til Mar 31 • UNIQUE MYTHICAL VESSELS: Corwin Cherwonka pottery, sculptural works • 'til Apr 16 • Reception: Apr 12, 5-7pm; Steven Johnson (guitar)

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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; 'til Apr 25, 121:30pm • Book Launch of Triggers by Robert J. Sawyer; Apr 11, 7pm; free Blue Chair Café • 9624-76 Ave, 780.469.8755 • Story Slam: 2nd Wed each month Canadian Authors Association • Campus Saint-Jean, Pavillon Lacerte, 3-04, 8406-91 St • Fri Evening Presentations: 8pm; free (member/1sttime guest)/$10 (return guest) • Sat: 9:30am-4pm; $40 (member)/$70 (non-member) lunch incl Empress Ale House • 9912-82 St • Olive at the Empress: poetry from students of The U of A's 394 and 494 WRITE classes • Apr 10, 7pm Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets T.A.L.E.S. STORY CAFÉ SERIES • Rosie’s Bar, 10475-80 Ave, 780.932.4409 • 1st Thu each month, open mic opportunity • 'til Jun, Apr 5, 7-9pm • $6 T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Bogani Café, 2023111 St • Hosted by Dawn Blue: Share a story, listen; 7-9pm; free; 2nd Wed each month

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ew superfoods seem to be popping up every day, with claims that if you pack your diet with these nutritional powerhouses, you're on your way to good health. It's important to remember that superfood is an unscientific nutritional term bestowed on foods with high nutritional content and health benefits, with few negative attributes. There is no concrete criteria of properties a food must have before claiming the title of superfood. As a result, the term is thrown around loosely by marketing

companies, no matter what form the food actually takes in the product. Robin Anderson, registered dietician and owner of Revive Fitness, explains that in order to reap the benefits of nutrient-dense "superfoods," it's important to consume the food in a form that most closely resembles its natural state. "It's like with acai berries: you can get them with chocolate for goodness sake, and that's where I think marketers start throwing them into food and we think we're doing our body a good

thing by eating them, when really, they're just sugar-covered berries," she notes, also using deep-fried kale chips sampled by her office staff as another example. On its own, kale is extremely nutritious, but the added fat cancels out the health benefits. Yves Sauvé, an associate professor of ophthalmology at the Univesrity of Alberta, doesn't believe in the term superfood, and, like Anderson, he agrees that the term is used too loosely. Through his nutitional research, which focuses particularly on

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choice in a processed form. Omega-6 is found naturally in foods like pumpkin seeds and sunflower oil. He adds that there's nothing wrong with soya products, but moderation is key. "Some Omega-3, we call them superfood because they're in a context where there's so much Omega-6 because of the soya-derived products that we find almost everywhere in processed food, so it becomes a superfood because it's required to counterCONTINUED ON PAGE 21 >>

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Bringing the Pacific inland Great sushi can be found in Edmonton

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ushi is unforgiving, for its minimalist presentation hides neither knife slips nor sloppy arrangements. The artistic expression in the preparation and presentation of sushi is an inextricable component of the dining experience and may, at its worst, evoke a clumsy crayon scribble or, at its best, the fluid finesse of a watercolour painting. Sabu Sushi Bar proudly epitomizes the latter. Sabu occupies an inconspicuous spot that once housed the Buddha Bowl and, prior to that, Jugs Pub. The building's interior presents a palette of chocolate brown and white accented by round paper lampshades and framed Japanese prints. It's a familyrun operation; the son runs the front of the house while his father works behind the sushi bar. Dinner commences with a fragrant cup of sencha green tea that whispers with toasted brown rice grains. It complements Takoyaki ($6.50), which are small, spherical octopus dumplings. These auburn, piping-hot balls are a toothsome combination of chopped octopus, dashi, eggs and mayo. Salty and savoury, they whet our appetites

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for subsequent sushi. Salmon sashimi ($9.95) presents an artistic pinwheel of coral-hued salmon slices, each gently arranged like a flower petal. A tangle of daikon and a rosette of wasabi wait on the side. Each slice is thick enough to provide substance, but thin enough to slowly melt on the tongue, releasing the rich flavours so integral to salmon. Bulgogi roll ($14.95) is a departure from traditional Japanese recipes, and reflects

the owners' Korean heritage. This clever cultural combination fills a sizeable sushi roll with shreds of juicy bulgogi beef. Ginger, soy and scallions recapitulate quintessential Korean flavours, though the roll's sheer size makes it difficult to pick up and maneuver. Two colourful rolls conclude our meal. Rainbow roll ($12.95) is visually stunning. Overlapping slices of tuna, mackerel, salmon and avocado conceal glossy white rice that, in turn,

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hides a mild filling of surimi. The flavour is remarkably understated. Each flavour, instead of competing for attention, reveals itself and then defers to the next. Instead of manifesting itself as a blur, each bite is a slow meander from one distinct flavour to the next. Rock n roll ($14.95) showcases sweet and spicy barbecued eel. The eel rests upon a rice roll decorated with bright orange roe and sesame seeds. The rice could be stickier to

improve the ease of handling. Regardless, the eel steals the show. Many diners lament the relative paucity of excellent sushi in Edmonton and long for the masterpieces so prevalent on the West Coast. For those who pine for the Pacific or for anyone seeking sushi both artistic and delicious, I immediately direct them down 82 Avenue to Sabu. LS VORS

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Six things about chocolate Money doesn't grow on trees, but chocolate does Chocolate is produced from the seeds of cacao pods—or beans, as they're also known—that grow on the tropical Theobroma cacao tree. This evergreen tree is usually between four to eight metres tall and native to the Americas. These seeds have been cultivated for approximately 3 000 years in Mexico, Central and South America, with the earliest documented use recorded around 1100 BC.

It means what? The name chocolate comes from the Aztec word "xocalati" meaning bitter water. This might seem like an odd name for something so sweet, but

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the Aztecs made a drink consisting of cacao beans, chilies, achiote and corn meal. Some research suggests that hallucinogenic mushrooms were also an ingredient.

No wonder we're broke More than $7 billion is spent each year on chocolate, whether it's to satisfy cravings, to give as a gift or for special occasions. If that wasn't enough, it's also estimated that the average person consumes 12 pounds of the sweet stuff each year.

Don't ditch the double-double Chocolate is known to be a source of caffeine, but it won't replace your morning coffee and won't hurt if

you're trying to cut back. You'd have to eat more than a dozen chocolate bars to get the same amount of caffeine as a cup of coffee.

An excuse to indulge ... as if you needed one Not all chocolate is good for you, and the stuff that is good is only beneficial in moderation, but choco-holics can rejoice in the fact that dark chocolate is a source of antioxidants.

In the spirit of Easter More than 90 million chocolate bunnies are manufactured each year. The fuzzy little creatures became Easter treat staples starting in Germany in the 1800s. V

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act very, very high loads of Omega-6 that we get from processed food," Sauvé explains. Highly marketed superfoods aren't going anywhere, and Anderson and Sauvé both say the key to healthy eating is maintaining a balanced diet, rather than loading up on certain foods because they're deemed as superfoods. Anderson advises gradually incorporating nutrient-rich superfoods into your diet and says it's important to recognize other key sources of vitamins and minerals to ensure balance. Cutting out certain items to make room for more of a particular superfood is not the way to go. "There are still some really healthy things, so if I'm taking away all of my carrots and my peppers because I think kale and broccoli are the superfoods, then I'm missing out on other vitamins and minerals that would be present in those other foods," she explains. Both say there are not certain superfoods that are better than others, since it depends on the context in which they are consumed in, as well as how they're incorporated as part of a balanced diet. However, some beneficial foods to consider include kale

and other dark green vegetables such as broccoli and brussel sprouts, which contain antioxidants called lutein, zeaxanthin and beta-carotene. Sauvé notes these are important factors in maintaining vision. Berries, such as raspberries, blackberries and cranberries are rich in antioxidants and Sauvé says that intensely coloured foods such as pomegranates tend to have very high antioxidant content. In terms of protein, Anderson advises choosing fatty fish, such as salmon, arctic char, rainbow trout and light or white tuna, which contains less mercury. Fatty fish are a good source of Omega-3, which is essential for brain function, development and growth, as well as lowering the risk of heart disease, cancer and arthritis. Next time you're at the grocery store, load up on a mixture of colours when it comes to fruits and vegetables, as each possesses different vitamins and minerals. Anderson says it's important to keep in mind what's in season as well, as that's when these foods have the most nutritional value, superfood or not. If an item is not in season, she suggests frozen options that aren't covered in extra condiments as a nutritious alternative. MEAGHAN BAXTER

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With so many foods labelled as a superfood, it can be difficult to know what to choose. In addition to the foods mentioned by Anderson and Sauvé, here are a few others to incorporate in your diet: Sweet potatoes: These veggies are jam-packed with fibre, phytonutrients and antioxidants like beta carotene and vitamin E. It has been found they may also reduce the risk of cancer. Since sweet potatoes are low-glycemic, they also provide more energy for longer periods of time than other types of potatoes. Beets: The root vegetables get their vibrant colouring from disease-fighting anthocyanins. They're also packed with vitamin C, which helps boost immune function and protect against cataracts. Quinoa: This pseudo-cereal is not only a great source of protein, but it's also considered a complete protein because it contains all eight of the essential amino acids required for tissue development. Quinoa is gluten-free and low in saturated fat, as well as containing higher amounts of calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, potassium, iron and zinc, not to mention less sodium than wheat, barley and corn. Black beans: Beans in general are a great source of protein, but one cup of black beans contains 15 grams of protein, all without the saturated fat found in other protein sources like red meat. Black beans are also low-glycemic and high in soluble fibre, which can help lower cholesterol and protect heart function. They are also a good source of thiamin, which helps the body convert carbs to fuel energy needs. Mangoes: The tropical fruit is high in beta-carotene, which is also what gives their flesh its colouring. Beta-carotene helps protect against heart disease and keep eyes healthy. They're also loaded with vitamin C, which helps the body absorb iron, which is another benefit to eating mango.

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WINE

Lettuce surprise you

Breaking the rules and pairing wine with salad The snooty side of food pairings preaches "No Wine with Salad." I fed on this falsehood for years, following the widely-held VIDI VENI, mantra like an evangelical wino. Then one day, a m ekly.co vuewe miraculous salad and vino taylor@ combo made me rethink Taylor Eason my reliance on traditional not-so-wisdom. Not that I was always so cool and contrarian. Before my re-awakening, I lapped up all the drivel wine magazines and writers spit out. But, like a rebellious teenager rejecting religion, I slowly realized it wasn't adding up. the-day salad dressings mostly conSalads are simply another dish with tained robust vinegars like distilled sauce slathered on it. Match the white or cider that rendered wine lifesauce with the wine and you win. To less and dull; it made sense to teach give tradition some credit, back-inwine-with-salad avoidance. Times

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have changed, however. Now that less acidic rice or sweeter balsamic vinegars and lime and lemon use are common, wine and dressing can snuggle up and make sweet, tart love. Since we're dealing with delicate, cold food, it makes sense to choose wines that fit a similar profile: whites and rosés. The ideal salad partner is sparkling wine or Champagne—their refreshing acidity equals the body of a salad, bringing new meaning to friends with benefits. But if bubbly is out of budget, here are other suggestions for salad and wine hookups.

Caesar Salad

Ah, the favourite salad of the masses. Did you know this popu-

lar appetizer was invented by Italian immigrant Caesar Cardini who owned a restaurant in Tijuana, Mexico? Legend has it he created the dish in 1924. Given the locale and the year, this probably means it wasn't paired with wine, so its garlicky, salty, anchoviness is tricky. But I found New Zealand Sauvignon Blanc, with green, grapefruit crispness massages it just right.

Bacon-Based Dressings

These days, it's raining bacon and I'm gleefully outside with my mouth wide open. For summer salads featuring salty, smoky pork belly as the main event, go for dry rosé, especially something with some ballsy

earthiness to it.

Lemon Juice-Based

Finding the match to citrus acidity is as easy as grabbing a cheap white off the grocery store shelf. Choose anything light-bodied that sings with lemon-lime like Spanish albariño, pinot grigio and Australian rieslings. Can't go wrong. But let's face it, most people crack the seal on bottled Ranch (my favorite white trash pleasure) and blue cheese sauces. Those brawny flavors are insolent in the face of wine but a slightly sweet riesling or off-dry rosé can conquer either of them. If these fail you, you might run for a wheat beer. V

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The Bats are back And the bro vibes are at peak level

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Fri, Apr 6 (7 pm) With Touche Amore, Sight for Sewn Eyes Pawn Shop, $15 Two-time Juno Award nominated rockers Cancer Bats are back on the road to promote Dead Set on Living, which hits shelves in mid April. Lead singer Liam Cormier took some time before the band's show at the Pawn Shop to tell Vue all about the album's creation process. How long did it take to make Dead Set on Living, from the initial songwriting through to the end of the recording? LIAM CORMIER: We started writing the record the last week of July and we finished recording everything by the second week in November in 2011. So all told it took us three and half months from first jam to finished mixing. VUE WEEKLY:

VW: When you were writing the songs, did you come at them in a particular way? Lyrics first? Music first? LC: We always write the music first and I'll let that set the mood for where the lyrics will go. I'll have some ideas that I've written down while on tour. Even when I do write down lyrics, they're always more general themes I could

work into a song or a single line that I liked. Once we have the songs down and I know the parts won't change, I'll start to put those ideas or lines into each song I feel is appropriate. VW: Did the songs come from one person fully formed, or were they sketches that were then filled out as a group? LC: We write everything together. Each of us may have a few very rough ideas that they'll bring to the group but no one ever has a finished song that they bring to show the rest of the group. With us it's very democratic, where all four of us have to sign off on all songs before we're ready to move on and record. That goes for all my lyrics as well. I make sure that all of the guys in the band are into what I'm singing about and that it represents all of us in the band—that they're not just my ideas I'm pushing forward. 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? LC: We tried to record as much of the album live off the floor as we could. We didn't want the album to be overly

edited and relying too heavily on computers to fix any parts. This meant we had to have all of our parts figured out well in advance and to be all playing really tight with one another. So while Mike [Peters] was recording his drum parts, we had Jaye [Schwarzer]'s bass cabs set up in two separate isolation booths and I was in a third booth singing along with every track. In the end it was a lot more work, but the end result is a studio record that sounds the closest to us live as I think we've ever been able to achieve. VW: Were there any other songs written that were left off the album? LC: We wrote and recorded 15 songs total for this album. We really wanted to have some extra songs to use for split seven inches with other bands or to be part of comps or other things like that, so we made a point of having as many songs as possible this time around. VW: How did you decide which songs to

include on the album? Did you have an idea of what you wanted Dead Set on Living to be when you started, or did the finished shape emerge as the writing and recording went along? LC: It's always tough picking out the tracks for an album and deciding which

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ones to hold back. With this record we had a lot of songs that made sense to include that followed the whole vibe of the album and the overall relative story line that we had going on. We also tried to pick really strong songs as B-sides that were just total bangers that could stand on their own. In the end I'm really happy with how well the album flows. The whole thing feels a lot shorter than the 40-minute running time. VW: You worked with Eric Ratz and Kenny Luong to produce the album. What drew you to them and what did they bring to the process? LC: We've done all of our records with Eric and Kenny. Each record that we've done together, we seem to get a better system going to get everything finished and to be working at our best potential. I think because we're nowsuch good friends that there's nothing we can't say or suggest and no one's ego will get in the way or take offence. It's really just six best friends hanging out trying to make the best heavy record that we all can. VW: If you were to trace the musical map that led you to Dead Set on Living, what would it look like? LC: Our musical map would start with

the four of us as young lads in our bedrooms, jamming out to our favourite cassettes. Scott listening to White Zombie, Jaye to Black Sabbath, Mike to Propagandhi and myself to Led Zeppelin. From there we would all forage our way through the wild jungles of metal, punk-rock, hip hop, thrash, electro, garage, screamo, sludge, funk, doom, power, violence and anything else we could get our savage hands on. We would all meet at different points, through former bands "gigging" together. Strong bonds would be made over the years and eventually the four of us would be united together, as brothers, under the Bats flag. We would then tour the globe relentlessly, our necks like iron from years of headbanging under our belts. Our hands worn rough like leather from years of DIY everything. Our bro vibes would be at a peak level of near madness and then, and only then would we finally find ourselves ready to undertake the writing of album number four that would later become known as Dead Set on Living. That's how I see our map, and I would have it read aloud by a 1000-year-old goblin and the whole thing would be illustrated in goat's blood. V

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PREVUE // ROCK THEATRE

The Trans-Siberian Orchestra Mon, Apr 9 (7:30 pm) Jubilee Auditorium, $29.50 – $69.50

ne part rock concert and one part live theatre, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra is taking Beethoven's Last Night for its last spin before creating a new rock-opera extravaganza. The band portrays the fictional tale of the last night of Ludwig von Beethovan's life, where, with the help of Fate and her son Twist, he outsmarts the devil Mephistopheles from taking his soul along with his final masterpiece, the 10th Symphony. Trans-Siberian Orchestra founder and director Paul O'Neill has fused influences from Pink Floyd, Queen, the Who and Yes to create the genre-crossing TSO. His decision to tour Beethoven's Last Night, which

Another go around for Beethoven's Last Night

blends together progressive rock, Beethoven's classic melodies and theatrics, has been questioned numerous times, since the group has a newer album, Night Castle. There's a

method to O'Neill's madness, however: the tour coincides with the release of an expanded, narrated version of Beethoven's Last Night. O'Neill says this is how he originally intended the album to be, with storytelling woven in amongst the tracks to immerse the listener in Beethoven's world. Having a 90-page booklet illustrated by renowned artist Greg Hildebrandt, complete with accompanying poetry, doesn't hurt either.

"It's finally released the way I've envisioned it, where if you've had a rough day, you come home, your order a pizza, when the pizza gets there you just put this on your stereo, sink back in your favourite couch and within minutes, you're not at home; you're with Beethoven wandering the streets of Vienna on the last great adventure of his life," O'Neill explains.

century Vienna, but O'Neill says the story portrays themes of overcoming hardship that will resonate with a modern audience. During the height of Beethoven's success at age 25, he began to lose his hearing, eventually becoming completely deaf. Rather than succumb to the hardships he had endured— which began during his childhood at the hands of an abusive, alcoholic father—Beethoven continued pursuing his passion and composed some of the most iconic music in history. "If Beethoven could overcome all of these obstacles that were dropped in his pathway in life—not just overcome them, triumph over them—it kind of puts all our own problems in perspective," O'Neill says. "If TSO does its job right, when you come to see Beethoven's Last Night, or when you listen to the new release, you won't think you're going to be able to beat the problems you're facing, you'll know it." meaghan baxter

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equipment," Mangle says of the group's simplistic production methods. "If I make an effort to control the variables before we get going, then we can stay focused and the product is stronger."

place, according to Mangle, which made the group feel more at home, since recording in studio isn't necessarily a comfortable envionment for the band. Mangle describes studio recording as exhausting and stressful because of the time constraints, whereas at home, they can work on songs at a more relaxed pace, since a studio bill isn't tallying up. "The recording process at home is so much linked to our home life," Mangle explains. "We don't live together, but because we hang out so much, the recording and practicing and performing is so tied to our lifestyle that I think going into the studio is a bit foreign, but it's exciting."

PREVUE // GARAGE ROCK

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eep it simple stupid. That's what I learned in high school," says Aaron Mangle. An oxymoron of complex simplicity is what drives the bare-bones garagemeets-surf rock of Cousins. With the release of The Palm At the End of My Mind, the Halifax band has cultivated a polished yet reverb-filled sound driven by heavy guitars and drums, recorded over the better part of a year, in part at home on a four-track and with the help of Dave Ewenson at the Echo Chamber. "I can get carried away with things really easily if I have access to lots of

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Ewenson, considered a friend of the group, has hit the road with the band in the past, and Mangle says they trusted him to stay true to their vision for the record by not dressing things up with too much production. "We were thinking of doing a whole record there and I'm glad that we just did a part of it because I think it adds a different sort of depth to the record," Mangle notes of the split sound that resulted from two different recording methods. The Echo Chamber is a scrappier

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PREVUE // BAND IN THE BUBBLE

Under Edmonton skies Going to Graceland showcases Paul Simon's opus Sat, Apr 7 (7 pm) Going to Graceland Arts Barns, Westbury Theatre, $27

etting aside, for a moment, its certified five-times platinum status in both the US and UK, the lasting relevance of Paul Simon's Graceland—the shimmering jewel in the solo Simon oeuvre—seems to dovetail on the forward-thinkingness of its songwriting. Graceland's passportstamping mash-up of American folk pop with the then-mostly-untouched influences of South African music (interspersed with only slightly dating flecks of '80s style) seems to point forward to the pulpy mash-up of styles and sounds and post-modern placement that seems the norm in music today. Sure, It's far from the first album to borrow from another culture (see also: the very beginnings of rock 'n' roll), but its landmark acclaim and sales cast a long cultural shadow that's deeply coloured the years

that followed. That our own Going to Graceland cover show, originally a one-off New Year's show, has sold out multiple follow-up performances, both here and in Calgary, points to how Graceland's influence didn't stop at the turn of the decade, or through the rise of other musical styles, or ever really wane. It's a beloved album, pure and simple, and that tends to carry weight beyond generations. "It's influenced most of the band," Chris Budnarchuk says. "The band, having a lot of singer-songwriters in the group that do their own thing, everyone's influenced by this album." The band in question is a nine-piece supergroup forged from the members of Le Fuzz and the James Murdoch Band, to perform Graceland in its entirety, live (Budnarchuk's behind the drumkit). The lineup's still one-under-a-dozen short of Simon's 20-piece touring Graceland band, but Budnarchuk notes that the assemblage of musicians they have gives them ample

room to not just cover the songs, but reinvigorate and adjust these arrangements to their own specifics. "That's the fun of it, I guess," he says. "We didn't have to deconstruct [the songs] and start over, but certainly we didn't say play it note for note either. So there's been a bit of influence from all the songwriters in the band, as well as all the other people who play with these songwriters and influence the music. So there's a bunch of play off of each other, a little bit of improvisation, and some fun spots where that gets showcased a little bit. "While we're trying to recreate the song and deliver it in a way that's still true to the song, we're not Paul Simon. We're not a 20-piece band, and we come from probably a lot of different places than maybe they did. So we take it from there. We give you the basics of it and add our little stamp in a few spots."

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ave you ever been in a band?" Jim Cuming asks. "It's like having five girlfriends. There's the commitment, and then there's the practices, and then you play a show. And it's like, 'Oh my god, I'll just make it work, it doesn't matter, I'll make it work.' And that's totally enough to keep it going. But then it's like, 'Oh, you're not calling me anymore ... ' It's the weirdest thing." And sometimes that weirdness wins out. Cuming—better known on stages around town as the heartily voiced Jom Comyn—is parting ways with his backing band the Mandemic. As a unit, the five like-bearded musicians—Comyn, Tyler Butler, Nick and Stefan Dehod and Mike Kropiniski—found themselves conjuring up a wave post-rock guitar sounds, having formed partly out of one of Cuming's previous bands, Hills Like White Elephants, and solidifying into a five-man lineup around the time of Cuming's first release, Comynge Tegythere. But a few more albums down the road, the difference between Cuming's songwriting and recordings and live performance with the band, was more noticable: the deeper, richer vein of experimental folk-rock of Cuming's albums would erupt into something different entirely as the three guitars and a rhythm section attempted to make room for each other. "I would write songs not really think-

That conductor is probably not part of the Mandemic

ing about it, and then I would bring it to the band, and obviously, it would be crazy," he says. "It would be guitars everywhere. It was strange sometimes. After a while, towards the end, I tried to write songs with that in mind, but it didn't quite work. I'm not very good at writing songs deliberately. I just have to do sort of whatever." Still, it's not a bitter split: Cuming and the Mandemic are giving themselves a proper send off that Cuming is having recorded, both for posterity and as a future live album to be released, to capture the Mandemic as it existed. "I have my thing for recordings, and

that [the Mandemic] sounds way different when we do it live, I thought, 'well it'd be cool to get that thing. 'Cause I do value this band, and if we're done, I'm really nostalgic too, and like to capture things. ... Basically, I've never heard us. So I want to hear what we sound like. "We're all still friends, and I want to be friends with all of them," Cuming continues. "but to do that, and not continue doing this thing that we do together. You see the parallels? It's just like a fucking relationship, man." Or five of them. Paul Blinov

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PREVUE // METAL

This Is War Sat, Apr 7 (7 pm) With Exit Strategy, Netherward Pawn Shop, $10 Sat, Apr 14 (7 pm) With DRT, Death Toll Rising Duggan Hall, $8 (all ages)

he road to a debut album hasn't been an easy one to navigate for the members of This Is War: since forming in 2008, the band has suffered the deaths of several family members and friends, several drummer changes and a member's battle and triumph over cancer. "It was a shocker to find out, that's for sure," says bassist Paul Thompson of his diagnosis in February 2011. "Nothing prepares you for that, but it's a good thing I've got a tight band be-

hind me and lots of good friends and family. I never once thought it would be the end of me, so I just said I'm going to kick its ass and see you later." Despite its challenges, guitar player and creator Jeff Kittlitz—who lost his father the day the band began recording the 100-percent independent album—says behind its angry persona, the band's message is a positive one. The songs are a collaborative effort and all six members have to be on board before anything gets recorded. "We've known each other a long time and we're very close that way and it shows onstage and with our songwriting," Kittlitz says. "It definitely helps influence writing songs, whether we're all angry that day or somebody had a bad day or a good day or whatever. We try to capture a bit of everything."

This is This Is War

Mack LaHaye, who performs vocals and writes the majority of the group's lyrics, says his inspiration comes from personal struggle, issues about humanity itself and family sickness, which affected his grandmother. "Basically they're just really real lyrics about what matters most in life," he adds. The band's diverse age range also works to its advantage. The six member span from 19 to 34, and Kittlitz says the amount of experience and musical influences everyone brings to the table can only benefit the band as they cultivate their own unique sound.

"They keep us young and we keep them responsible, or is it the other way around?" Kittlitz jokes of "the kids," as he calls the younger members. This is the first step into metal for Kody Cole, who stepped into the role of drummer after the album was recorded and the group's former drummer left. He also happens to be one of the youngest members at 19. "I just feel lucky enough to be part of it. Most kids my age don't get opportunities like this, so I'm trying to take full advantage," Cole says, who was playing blues rock with his dad and other acts before joining This Is War.

SOUNDTRACK

Now that the band has a solid lineup and an arsenal of new material, the guys hope they can continue gaining momentum. "Everyone's really committed now," Kittlitz says. "At the beginning there was a lot of excitement, which is good, but it just seems right now, we all seem to be more on the same page and the chemistry seems to be fitting really well." "We've got a lot to pull from with all six of us contributing and speaking up equally," Thompson adds. "There's no shortage of things out of our bag." Meaghan baxter

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Meaghan Baxter // meaghan@vueweekly.com

The Cat Empire At home Morning: The Best of Creedence Clearwater Revival. What a band! Such feel-good music. What better way to get you going in the am? (Apart from coffee, of course.) Noon: Live at Okonokos by My Morning Jacket. This is a great double live CD. Recorded really well and the band performance is awesome. Night: Espresso compilation. A mix of latin/sambas/bossa novas with cool melodies and great artists like Burt Bacharach and Serge Gainsbourg. Good background music at dinner.

On the road Morning: Below the Bassline by Ernest Ranglin. What a recording! The best mix of jazz/reggae I've ever heard. Ernest was a pioneer at this. Good waking up music because it's cruisy, and no vocals in your face. Noon: Houses of the Holy by Led Zeppelin. This is probably my favourite of all their albums. This album is great anywhere, anytime, not just at noon!

Sat, Apr 7 (8 pm) Starlite Room, $32.50 The six-piece from Down Under is celebrating its 10th anniversary, an achievement many bands can only dream of—and each band member is still under the age of 30. Drummer Will Hull-Brown shared his soundtrack at home and on the road with Vue prior to the group's stop in Edmonton.

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Night: Focus 3. Focus are a Dutch prog-rock band from the '70s. While they have some very obscure songs in their catalogue, Focus 3 has some of the best like "Sylvia," "Anonymous II" and "House of the King." Good music for me to pump up before doing a show. V

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ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Sister Gray

(Indie rock, Melissa Woolger (singersongwriter); 9:30pm11:30pm; no minors; no cover ARTERY F&M, Mae Anderson, Martin Johann Kloppers; silent art auction for the Youth Emergency Shelter Society; 8pm; $8 (adv)/$10 (door)

BLACKJACK’S ROADHOUSE–Nisku

Marshall Lawrence (solo acoustic blues); 8:30pm11pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Jägerettes; 10-11pm

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

Valiant Thieves; 8:3010:30pm; $15 BLUES ON WHYTE Fist Full of Blues

BRITTANYS LOUNGE Kenny Hillaby hosts a jazz session night every Thu with Shadow Dancers, Maura and Jeanelle; no cover

CAFÉ HAVEN

UnderAlice; 7pm; donation

CARROT CAFÉ

Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO

Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm DV 8 TAVERN Jim Nowhere, Vox Humana; 9pm

show), Sangsara, Keep 6, Dual Side; no minors; 9pm (door); $10 at Blackbyrd RICHARDS BAR Live R&B bands (dancing) RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE The Thaw At

The Shaw: Five Finger Death Punch, guests

SHERLOCK HOLMES–Downtown Quentin Reddy

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Tony Dizon YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Spring Fling Dance: Back Porch Swing; 7:30pm

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every

Thu and Fri; 10pmclose WUNDERBAR Improv Festival; 9pm

Classical FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH Maundy

Thursday Service of the Shadows: service for reflection, quiet and contemplation with the First Baptist Church Choir; 8pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE

Titanic, the musical: Two One-Way Tickets to Broadway, Edmonton Metropolitan Chorus, Anna Beaumont; 7:30pm; $25 (adult)/$20 (student/senior)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

Floor: wtft w djwtf– rock 'n' roll, blues, indie; Wooftop Lounge: Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam BRIXX High Fidelity Thu: Open turntables; E: kevin@starliteroom.ca to book 30-min set

J R BAR AND GRILL

Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ

123 Ko every Thu

Le Fuzz, Tiller's Folly; no minors; 7pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

CENTURY ROOM

Live Jam Thu; 9pm

CHROME LOUNGE

Danielle Lowe (country/ pop) L.B.'S PUB Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am

THE COMMON So Necessary: Hip hop, classic hip hop, funk, soul, r&b, '80s, oldies and everything in between with Sonny Grimezz, Shortround, Twist every Thu CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

Good Funkin' Thursday: All Good Funk Alliance; 9:30pm

LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Brett Miles and

Jamie Philps duo; 8pm; free

MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE– Beaumont Open mic

every Thu; 7pm NEW CITY Caught Off Guard (Ska), Maintain the Status Quo, Our Sound Machine; no minors; 8pm (door); $8

NEW CITY LEGION

Bingo is Back every Thu starting 9pm; followed by Behind The Red Door at 10:30pm; no minors; no cover

NEW WEST HOTEL

Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro: Eldorado Creek (country) NOLA Jazz dinner shows: Ralph Pretz, 6pm

NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose

Old Time Fiddlers every Thu

PAWN SHOP

KingDoom (CD release

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu

FILTHY MCNASTY’S

Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill

FLASH NIGHT CLUB

Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover

FLUID LOUNGE

Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Requests

every Thu with DJ Damian HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close KAS BAR Urban House:

every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE

Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas

ON THE ROCKS

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

OVERTIME– Downtown Thursdays

at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu

TAPHOUSE–St Albert

Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every

Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

Y AFTERHOURS

The Heaven, Hell, and Earth all weekend costume party: Heaven: Bedroom, Big Daddy, Gemini, Chad "Chef" Cook; 2-7am (no entry after 5am); $5 off cover if dress to theme

FRI APR 6

AVENUE THEATRE

Bring Us Your Dead, For Reasons Lost, Silent Line (metal); all ages; 6:30pm (door), 7pm (show); $10 (adv)/$12 (door)

BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca

BLUES ON WHYTE

Fist Full of Blues BOHEMIA Ramshackle Day Parade and Tonus Vivus: the noise music of Zebra Pulse, Pigeon Breeders, Potier, MUGBAIT, and soloists Thom Golub, Allison Balcetis, Ruth Guechtal; no minors; 8pm; $5 (door) BRIXX BAR Early Show: A Hundred Years, Screaming Daisies; 7pm (door); Late Show: XoXo to follow CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; 7pm; $5 (door)

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live music on the

Island; 9pm every Fri and Sat; donation

COAST TO COAST

Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm

CROWN AND ACHOR Sophie and the Shufflehounds; 9:30pm

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Stan Gallant DV8 Paul Filek (CD release); 9pm

EDDIE SHORTS

Special Surprise Guests

EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Kasabian; all

ages; $32 at Blackbyrd, unionevents.com

FRESH START BISTRO live music

every Fri; 7-10pm; $10

GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB T.K. and the

Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Stef Lang,

guests; 8pm; $12 IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ

Dawn Chubai ( jazz singer); $10

JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/rock); every Fri;

9pm; no cover

LIZARD LOUNGE

Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover NEW CITY Vixenesque present Gorelesque, Slagduster, Blackest Sin; no minors; 9pm (door); $10 (door)

NEW WEST HOTEL

Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro: Eldorado Creek (country)

ON THE ROCKS

Mourning Wood PAWN SHOP Cancer Bats, Touché Amore, A Sight for Sewn Eyes; 7pm; $17

RED PIANO BAR

Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm-2am RICHARDS BAR Fri and Sat Nights DJ (dancing)

ROSE AND CROWN Andrew Scott

SHAW CONFERENCE CENTRE Armin Van

Buuren, Morgan Page, Jochen Miller, Filo, Peri; no mnors; 8pm (door); $52 (adv batch 1)/$62 (adv batch 2)/$72 (adv batch 3)/$97 (limited VIP) at Foosh, Shadified, Restricted Elite

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Quentin

Reddy

SHERLOCK HOLMES–WEM Tony Dizon

STARLITE ROOM

A Hundred Years, Screaming Daisies (groovy rock/indie pop); 7pm, $8 (door)

STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Kali

Reunion Show, Wake, Mahria, Suicidal Cop, Detroit; all ages; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); $12

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every

Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

WUNDERBAR Cousins,

Camembert, Wand (formerly First Nations); 9pm; $7 YARDBIRD SUITE Tyler Hornby Quintet: Cole Porter Tribute; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

Classical CITY HALL–CITY ROOM The Seven Last Words of Christ, Joseph Haydn: Enterprise Quartet; 12pm; free

ROBERTSON-WESLEY UNITED CHURCH The Seven Last Words of Christ, Joseph Haydn: Enterprise Quartet; 10:15-11:30am; free

WINSPEAR CENTRE

Good Friday: Amazing Grace: Pro Coro, Jolaine Kerley (soprano), U of A's Madrigal Singers, Leonard Ratzlaff (conductor); 7:30pm

DJs BAR-B-BAR DJ James;

every Fri; no cover

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every

Friday DJs on all three levels

BLACKSHEEP PUB

Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current

BONEYARD ALE HOUSE The Rock Mash-

up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U

Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights

CHROME LOUNGE

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

THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every

Fri

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks,

rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Com-

personal!

1001 Calahoo Road, Spruce Grove

2011/2012

John Reischman & the Jaybirds

SATurdAy, April 14 – 7:30 p.m.

Toe tapping bluegrass. www.thejaybirds.com

City Hall Ticket Centre

780-962-8995

Tickets

$25 Adults, $20 Students & Seniors, $5 eyeGO

www.horizonstage.com

ROYAL INN EXPRESS

munity: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

NEWCASTLE PUB

House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan

OVERTIME– Downtown Fridays at

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

REDNEX–Morinville

DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri

SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE

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

SUEDE LOUNGE

House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri

VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Connected Las Vegas Fridays

Y AFTERHOURS

The Heaven, Hell, and Earth all weekend costume party: Hell: Bedroom: DJ KVN, Seelo Mondo, Nestor Delano, Big Daddy; Bassment: Degree, Sean Champagne; The Underground: DJ NV; $5 off cover if dress to theme

SAT APR 7

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with

Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 ARTERY Wild Prairie Folk Club: Zaac Pick, Joshua Hyslop, The Collective West (singersongwriters, folk); $6 (door)

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of

the Dog: Scott Cook, Gabrielle Papillon, Corinna Rose (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE

Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Late Show: Fist Full of Blues

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bohemia Lythotripsy (indie/rock), The Bridle Party (gloom pop), Marc Anderson; no minors; 9pm; $7 (door)

Brittany's Lounge

Carrie Day; 8-10pm Brixx Bar Nosis (CD release), the Blank Trio

Café Coral De Cuba Cafe Coral De

Cuba Marco Claveria's open mic (music, poetry, jokes); every Sat, 6pm; $5

Century Casino Chilliwack; 8pm

Cha Island Tea Co Live music on the

Island; 9pm every Fri and Sat; donation

Coast to Coast

Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm Crown Pub Marshall's 3 Year Anniversary 12 Hour Open Stage; 2pm THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm

Devaney's Irish pub Stan Gallant DV8 Savage Henry and the Infamous One Pounders, guests; 9pm

Eddie SHorts Whiskey Wagon

Empress Ale House Nadine and the

Black Wonders (1 year anniversary); 4-6pm

Expressionz Café Uptown Folk Club: Connie Kaldor; 8pm; tickets at Alfie Myhre's Music, Acoustic Music Shop

FESTIVAL PLACE

Johanna Sillanpaa (jazz, CD release); 7:30pm; $24 (table)/$22 (box)/$18 (theatre)

Filthy McNASTY'S Bebop Cortez, Mitch Holtby; 4pm; no cover

Haven Social Club Girlfriends and

Boyfriends, Knibb High Football Rules, Phoenix Thunderbird; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) at Blackbyrd HillTop Pub Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan,

3:30-6:30pm; evening Hooliganz Live music every Sat

Horizon Stage

Connie Kaldor; 2pm Hydeaway Marleigh and Mueller (classic pop/ jazz/musical theatre); 8pm; 3rd Sat each month; $10 Iron Boar Pub Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10

Jeffrey's Café

Harley Symington (guitar driven pop/jazz); $10 l.b.'s pub Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm New City Jakalope, Left Spine Down, Psykkle; no minors; 9pm (door); $10 (door)

New West Hotel

Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro: Eldorado Creek (country) NOLA Jeff Hendrick and the Love Jones Band; 9pm

New West Hotel

Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm O’byrne’s Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm

On the Rocks

Mourning Wood Pawnshop This is War (CD release), Exit Strategy, Netherward; $12

Queen Alexandra Hall Northern Lights

Folk Club: Andrew and Zachari Smith; $18 (adv at TIX on the Square, Acoustic Music, Myhre's Music)/$22 (door)

Red Piano Bar

Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am Rendezvous The Ezly Lay Band, The Cataylst Imprint, Showbiz, Kevin Frey; 8pm (door); $10

Richards Bar Fri

and Sat Nights DJ (dancing)

Rose and Crown Andrew Scott

Royal Alberta Museum Raga-

Mala Music Society: Mythili Prakash (Bharathanatyam), Aditya Prakash (vocal), Kasi Aysola (nattuvangam), Rajna Swaminathan (mridangam), Krishna Kumar (violin); 7:30pm

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Quentin Reddy

Sherlock Holmes–WEM Tony

Dizon

Starlite Room Cat Empire, guests; $31 at Blackbyrd

Studio Music Foundation Dfa,

Ripper Cutter, The Brat Attack, Antediluvian, Deadhead Catastrophy; no minors; 7pm (door), 9:30pm (show); $12/or $20 (both Fri and Sat shows)

TransAlta ARTS Barns–Westbury Theatre Going

to Graceland: The James Murdoch Bnad, members of Le Fuzz; 8pm; $29.50 at TIX on the Square Wunderbar The Fight, Troy Snaterse, Blair Drover; 9pm; $7

Yardbird Suite

Hal Galper Trio; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $20 (member)/$24 (guest)

Yellowhead Brewery Jom Comyn;

$11 at Blackbyrd

Classical McDougall United Church Easter Interlude: Don Ross (clarinet), reflections by Timothy J. Anderson; 3pm; free; info at 780.428.1818

Royal Alberta Museum

Auditorium

Edmonton Raga-Mala Society: Sharanagathi (to surrender): Bharathanatyam performance with Mythili Prakash, Aditya Prakash (vocals), Kasi Aysola (nattuvangam), Rajna Swaminathan (mridangam), Krisha Kumar (violin); 7:30pm; $20/$15 (door)/free (RagaMala patrons)

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick Blacksheep Pub DJ every Sat

Boneyard Ale House DJ Sinistra

Saturdays: 9pm BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

Buffalo Underground Head

Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night Druid Irish Pub DJ every Sat; 9pm

electric rodeo– Spruce Grove DJ every

Sat

FILTHY McNASTY'S

Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG Fluid Lounge Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali

FUNKY BUDDHA– Whyte Ave Top tracks,

rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes

junction bar and eatery LGBT

Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm Newcastle Pub Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

New City Legion

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

Overtime– Downtown Saturdays

at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School Palace Casino Show Lounge DJ every Sat

PAWN SHOP

Transmission Saturdays: Spring Fling: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm) RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

ROUGE LOUNGE

Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge Your

Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Suede Lounge

House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri Suite 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm Union Hall Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

Vinyl Dance Lounge Signature Saturdays

Y Afterhours The

Heaven, Hell, and Earth all weekend costume party: Earth: Bedroom:

VENUE GUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) Ledcor Theatre, lower level, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.429.1000 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 10225-97 St (behind Winspear stage door) Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Café Coral De Cuba 10816-Whyte Ave CARROT Café 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 Cha Island Tea Co 10332-81 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail Coast to Coast 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 Common Lounge 9910109 St Crown And Achor 15277 Castledowns Rd

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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 Early Stage Saloon– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain Eddie Shorts 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ‎ Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Empress Ale House 9912 82 Ave Expressionz Café 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 First Baptist Church 10031-109 St, 780.422.2214, fbcedmonton.ca FLASH Night Club 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery 9942-108 St

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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 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 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132-104 St Lizard Lounge 13160118 Ave Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Muttart Hall Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr Newcastle PuB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 New City Legion 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door)

Nisku Inn 1101-4 St NOLA Creole Kitchen & Music House 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola. com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2's PUB 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203 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 1086057 Ave Queen Alexandra Hall 10425 University Ave R Pub 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 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 Robertson-Wesley United Church 10209123 St Robin Hood Learning Centre 141 Broadway Boulevard, Sherwood Park, ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 St Royal Alberta Museum 12845-102 Ave

Second Cup–89 Ave 8906-149 St Second Cup–Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 Sideliners Pub 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 Sportsman's Lounge 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave Suede Lounge 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 Suite 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 Taphouse 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 Treasury 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 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

DJ Wadjit, Christian J, DJ Kuusic; Bassment: Tyler Collins, Chad Cook, DJ Dezire; Underground: Emilio, Andrew; 1-8am (no entry after 5am) $5 off cover if dress to theme

SUN APR 8

BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam

every Sun; 2-6pm

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett

BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ

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

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz

on the Side Sun: Mike Morriseau; 6pm; $25 if not dining BLUES ON WHYTE Tim Vaughn BRIXX Dead in Memphis, Lucid Skies; 9pm

CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues

Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover DOUBLE D'S Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq HOGS DEN PUB Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm

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

NEW CITY LEGION DIY

Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) NOLA Jeff Hendrick and the Love Jones Band; 9pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Souljah Fyah Sundays O2'S PUB Open stage hosted by the band the Vindicators; 4-8pm every Sun PAWN SHOP Radioflyer, Distant Calm, The Apollo, Doctrine; 8pm; $8 (adv) RICHARDS BAR Sun Live Jam open mic; 4pm

STARLITE ROOM

Calling all Jungalists; long weekend drum and bass party TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) WUNDERBAR Real Boys, Cygnets, Souvs; 9pm; $7

WINSPEAR CENTRE

Easter Celebration: Stefan Mitchell, 4 Stories High, Laura Berman, Craig Benelli, Brian McLeod, Martin Kerr, Susan Jane Hodge, Anna Beaumont, Karen Porkka, Browne Anderson, Gord Oaks, Daniel Secker, Thom Golub; presented by: The Centre for Spiritual Living; 10am-12pm; free

YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage:

Every Sun, 8pm

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night:

every Sun with Atomic

Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy COMMON Golden Era Long Weekend Throwdown: Old Skool Hiphop, Rap, Funk, R&B & Mashups with Allout DJ's, Sonny Grimezz, Twist, Instigate and Jackson; $5 (door) FLOW LOUNGE Stylus Sun

SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on

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

stage every Mon; 9pm WUNDERBAR live music; 9pm

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE

Winspear Presents series: Soweto Gospel Choir; 8pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

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

CROWN PUB

Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up)

MON APR 9

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman

FILTHY MCNASTY'S

Mon: live music monthly; no cover

BLUES ON WHYTE Tim

Vaughn

DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Brian Gregg

Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

NEW CITY LEGION

JUBILEE AUDITORIUM

Trans-Siberian Orchestra: Beethoven’s Last Night; 6:30pm (door)/7:30pm (show); $29.50, $45.50, $69.50 all ages

MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Kathleen

ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open

Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

TUE APR 10

BLUES ON WHYTE Tim

Edwards, Hannah Georgas; 7pm (door), 8pm (show); all ages; $27.50

NEW WEST HOTEL

Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro: Tradewinds (country)

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every

Vaughn

DRUID IRISH PUB

Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB

An Evening with Gurf Morlix; no minors; 8pm (door); $20 at Blackbyrd L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am NEW CITY Trusty Chords Tuesdays: James

Renton, Spencer Jo, Ben Olson; no minors; $5 (door)

NEW WEST HOTEL

Tradewinds (country) O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm PADMANADI Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm RED PIANO All Request Band Tuesdays: Classic rock, soul and R&B with Joint Chiefs; 8pm; $5

ROBIN HOOD LEARNING CENTRE

Sherwood Park Elks Fundraiser: Krushelnicki, The Brandon Isaak and Keith Picot Duo; 7pm (door), 7:30pm (Music); $15 at TIX on the Square

SECOND CUP– Summerwood Open

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

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Tony Dizon SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Andrew Scott STARLITE Early Show:

Yelawolf, Doom; 6pm (door); $25 at Blackbyrd, PrimeBoxOffice. com, UnionEvents.com, Brixx WINSPEAR On This Shining Night: King's University College Concert, Chamber and Community Choirs, Calgary and Immanuel Christian High School Choirs; 8pm WUNDERBAR Comedy; 9pm YARDBIRD SUITE Tue Night Sessions: Dan

FRI APRIL 6

THE DEAD SET ON LIVING TOUR

CANCERBATS

WITH TouCHé AmoRE AND A SIGHT FoR SEWN EYES SAT APRIL 7

CD RELEASE

THIS IS WAR

WITH EXIT STRATEGY AND NETHERWARD FRI APRIL 13

DUBSTEP BLOWOUT FEAT.

DoWNLINK ROTTUN RECORDINGS - CANADA SUN APRIL 15

NASHVILLE PuSSY &WITHSuPERSuCKERS TRAmP STAmPER THU APRIL 19

d.O.a WITH THE DIRTBAGS, PANIK ATTAK, AND RAPID LoSS

Snyder & Associates presents

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KITTIE

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All Things

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8:00 pm Friday, April 13, 2012 All Saints’ Anglican Cathedral - 10035 103 St. Tickets: $18-20 (plus agency fees) TIX on the Square: (780) 420-1757 or www.tixonthesquare.ca Also available at the door www.greenwoodsingers.org

SAT APRIL 7

FREE SHOW 4PM

BeBop Cortez

stand up comedy

sundays

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Davis Quartet; 7:30 pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

DJs 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; This week: The Orchard, Jessica Denise $5 after 8pm Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser every CRown Pub Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

NEW CITY LEGION

High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm-3am; no cover RED STAR Experimental

Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue Suite 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED APR 11 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Blues on Whyte Tim Vaughn

Cha Island Tea Co

Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm Crown Pub On The Road: Little Flower Open Stage; 8:30pm 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 Horizon Stage Jimmy the Janitor; 7:3pm

New West Hotel

Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm; Tradewinds (country) Nisku Inn Troubadours and Tales: 1st Wed every month; with Tim Harwill, guests; 8-10pm Playback Pub Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:3011pm; $2 (member)/$4 (non-member) Red Piano Bar Wed

JONESIN'CROSSWORD

Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm-1am; $5

Richards Bar

Wednesday Nights: Live R&B bands (dancing)

Second Cup–149 St Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Tony Dizon Sherlock Holmes– WEM Andrew Scott Wunderbar Coalspur (CD release), Book of Caverns, Todos Caeran, Minuet; 9pm; $7

Classical Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA)

Edmonton Opera–Opera 101: A Guide to the opera; uncover the real workings of opera, presented by Jeff McCune; 7-9pm; preregister at 780.429.1000

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main

Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe

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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"Cutting in Line"–hey, no fair! Across 1 "The Alienist" author Carr 6 Stitch's friend, in a Disney movie 10 Vegetable in Cajun cuisine 14 By itself 15 With 60-down, "The Price is Right" prize worth freaking out over 16 Lousy 17 End up winning and coming second at the same time? 20 One of a biblical 150 21 "___ the loneliest number..." 22 Start 26 "Yo, ___!" 28 AKC winner plus a mini Shetland? 31 Actress Skye of "Say Anything" 32 ___ bran muffins 33 It may be obtained in a bed 34 Blind followers 36 Honey ___ (KFC sauce) 38 Belgian city of WWI battles 42 Mai ___ (drink) 44 Lawyers' gp. 46 Dinghy need 47 Soldier's comment akin to "It's time to join the line, dear"? 51 How some meds are taken 52 Wedding dress fabrics 53 Participate in a bee 54 Qatari leaders 57 Narrator's goal to maximally project his voice? 63 Effortlessness 64 Insurance variety 65 Ex who gave "The Donald" his nickname 66 "South Park" co-creator Parker 67 Word in many Scottish place names 68 Spine-tingling Down 1 Tube top? 2 Every last bit 3 Mauna ___ (macadamia nut brand) 4 End-of-letter abbr. 5 Went off like a microwave 6 Singer ___ Del Rey 7 Part of IHOP 8 "Brothers" in the 2008 market collapse

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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

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2005.

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CALL FOR METAL ARTISTS The Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Westaskiwin, Alberta will be hosting it's ﬁrst annual Metal Art Show and Sale on September 29 and 30, 2012. We're inviting artists who primarily work with metal to display and/or sell their work at our museum during Alberta's Culture Days weekend. For details please visit: www.visualartsalberta.com Harcourt House Arts Centre is currently accepting submissions for our 2012/2013 Artist in Residence. For proposals to be considered submission packages must be submitted in by May 31, 2012. For more information please visit www.harcourthouse.ab.ca or call Brittney Roy at 780-426-4180 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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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

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Please study this testimony: "Born in a rancid, bat-infested cave at the base of the smoldering Sangay Volcano, I was raised by the half-bear demon princess Arcastia. At the age of four my training as a ninja shaman began when I was left naked and alone next to a stream of burning lava with only two safety pins, a package of dental floss, and a plastic bag full of Cheerios. My mission: to find my way to my spiritual home." Now, I'd like you to compose your own version of this declaration: a playful, over-the-top myth about your origins that gives you a greater appreciation for the heroic journey you've been on all these years.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Our ancestors owned slaves and denied education to girls. What were they thinking? Time magazine asked renowned historian David McCullough if there was anything we do today that our descendants will regard as equally insane and inexcusable. His reply: "How we could have spent so much time watching TV." I'll ask you to apply this same exercise on a personal level. Think of some things you did when you were younger that now seem incomprehensible or ignorant. Then explore the possibility that you will look back with incredulity at a tweaked form of self-indulgence you're pursuing today.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): "I can't tell if I'm dealing well with life these days or if I just don't give a sh-- any more." I stumbled upon that comment at someecards.com, and I decided to pass it along for your consideration. You may be pondering the same riddle. I'm here to tell you that your recent equanimity is not rooted in jaded numbness. Rather, it's the result of some hard work you did on yourself during the last six months. Congrats and enjoy! CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): What excites you? What mobilizes your self-discipline and inspires you to see the big picture? I encourage you to identify those sources of high-octane fuel, and then take extraordinary measures to make them a strong presence in your life. There has rarely been a better time than now for you to do this. It could create effects that will last for years. A further nudge from Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Every great and commanding movement in the annals of the world is the triumph of enthusiasm. Nothing great was ever achieved without it."

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): I came across a book and deck of cards that were collectively called Tarot

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Secrets: a Fast and Easy Way to Learn a Powerful Ancient Art. I snorted derisively, since I myself have studied Tarot intensively for years and am nowhere near mastery. Later when I was meditating on your horoscope, I softened my attitude a bit. The astrological omens do indeed suggest that in the upcoming weeks and months, you just might be able to learn a rather substantial skill in a relatively short time.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Writing in The New Yorker, Joanna Ravenna paraphrased German philosopher Nietzsche: "The best way to enrage people is to force them to change their mind about you." I'd like to see you mutate this theory in the coming weeks. If possible, see if you can amuse and entertain people, not enrage them, by compelling them to change their minds about you. I realize that's a tricky proposition, but I have faith that you can pull it off.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): In 1892, when Wrigley was just starting out as a company, its main product was baking powder. Free chewing gum was included in each package as a promotional gimmick. But soon the freebie became so popular that Wrigley rearranged its entire business. Now it's a multi-billion-dollar company that sells gum in 140 different countries—and no baking powder. Maybe there's something like that on the verge of happening in your own life, Libra: What seemed like the main event could turn out to be secondary, or what seemed incidental might become a centerpiece. Is there something you are overvaluing at the cost of something you are undervaluing? SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): People in intimate relationships are hypersensitive to negative comments from their partners. Psychologists say it takes five compliments to outweigh the effects of a single dash of derogatory criticism. I'm sure the ratio is similar even for relationships that aren't as close as lovers and spouses. With this in mind, I urge you to be extra careful not to dispense barbs. They would be especially damaging during this phase of your astrological cycle— both to you and to those at whom you direct them. Instead, why not dole out an abundance of compliments? They will build up a reservoir of goodwill you'll be able to draw on for a long time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): Researchers report that the typical man falls in love 5.4 times over the course of his life, while the average woman basks in the glow of this great mystery on 4.6 occasions.

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I suspect you may be close to having a .4 or .6 type of experience: sort of like infatuation, but without the crazed mania. That could actually be a good thing. The challenging spiritual project that relationship offers may be most viable when the two people involved are not electrifyingly interwoven with every last one of their karmic threads. Maybe we have more slack in our quest for intimacy if we love but are not obsessed.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "I couldn't wait for success," said rich and famous comedian Jonathan Winters, "so I went ahead without it." I suggest you try it out. Is there any area of your life that is held captive by an image of perfection? Consider the possibility that shiny concepts of victory and progress might be distracting you from doing the work that will bring you meaning and fulfilment. If you're too busy dreaming of someday attaining the ideal mate, weight, job, pleasure, and community, you may miss out on the imperfect but amazing opportunities that are available right now.

AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): On Reddit.com, Kaushalp88 asked the question, "What is the most badass thing that you have ever done, but that other people weren't impressed by?" Here's his own story: "I was at an ice-cream shop. At the exit, there was a small raised step I didn't see. I tripped over it with my ice cream cone in my right hand. The ice cream ball sprung out of the cone. I instinctively lurched my left hand forward and grabbed it, but at the same time I was already falling toward the pavement. I tucked my head into my chest and made a perfect somersault, rising to my feet and plopping the ice cream back in the cone." I suspect you will soon have comparable experiences—unusual triumphs and unexpected accomplishments. But you may have to be content with provoking awe in no one else beside yourself.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): "Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow." So says a Swedish proverb. Can we talk about this? Of course there are real hazards and difficulties in life, and they deserve your ingenious problem-solving. But why devote any of your precious energy to becoming embroiled in merely hyped-up hazards and hypothetical difficulties? Based on my analysis of the astrological omens, now is a propitious time to cut shadows down to their proper size. It's also a perfect moment to liberate yourself from needless anxiety. I think you'll be amazed at how much more accurate your perceptions will be as a result.

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Dan talks felines, big dicks and meth heads this week, I have an awesome relationship with boyfriend was having a wank when an awesome guy. He loves me and the cat jumped on him, for a few motakes care of me. I'm GGG and he's ments he divided his attentions bevanilla. I only draw the line at poop, tween stroking the cat and stroking animals and children. But he's never himself—those moments you were asked me for anything other than unlucky enough to witness—and at vanilla sex. Which is why I don't some point he pushed the cat know what to do. I went E off his chest and turned back SAVAG downstairs late the other to the task at hand. night, and he was sitting But, again, you were m ekly.co vuewe on the couch masturbatthere, CAT, I wasn't. So did @ e v lo savage ing while stroking the cat, it look like your boyfriend Dan which was sitting on his chest. Savage was masturbating about the The cat was sitting ON him, Dan, cat, with the cat or at the cat? WHILE he was yanking himself. I don't Or did it look like your boyfriend was know if he saw me. I went right back masturbating in the immediate vicinupstairs and went to bed. In the mornity of the cat? These are questions ing, he acted like nothing happened. that only you can answer. Now I don't know what to do. Confront And here's a question that only him? Get him help? Get rid of the cat? your boyfriend can answer, CAT, and I CAN'T ANALYZE THIS think you should put it to him: "I came down the other night and you were Pets want to be petted, and some beating off with the cat sitting on pets are pushy about getting their your chest—what was that about?" pet on. Bearing that in mind, CAT, And here's the answer you're likely I want you to pick the two likeliest to get: "I was jerking it and the cat scenarios out of these four options: jumped up on me and I petted her A. Your boyfriend is attracted to for a minute mid-wank—but I didn't your cat. want to lose my hard-on and have to B. Your awesome boyfriend—unlike start all over, so the part of my brain so many other boyfriends—is capathat regulates higher boner function ble of doing two things at once. instructed my right hand to go into C. Your boyfriend fantasizes about erection-maintenance mode. But I fucking the Almond Roca out of your wasn't perving on the cat, honey, I cat's ass. swear." D. Your awesome boyfriend needed Your awesome boyfriend will say to rub one out and he was considerthat even if he was perving on the ate enough to slip out of bed and go cat, CAT. But if he has the decency downstairs—so as not to wake you and good sense to lie to you about (he's awesome like that)—and there it, you should have the decency and he was, lying back on the couch, congood sense to pretend to believe him. centrating on the task at hand, when the cat jumped up on his chest. I'm a 25-year-old straight male who's Now, you were there, CAT, and I into big-dick porn. I'm not into the wasn't, which means you're in a much dicks per se, Dan. It's the domination better position to judge. But I think B and dirty-talk aspects of big-dick porn and D are the likeliest scenarios: your that turn me on, ie, hearing a woman

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say things like "That's huge!" "Stop!" "You're too big for me!" I'm not too bad off down there, but I want more. Significantly more. Do you have any recommendations on enlargement techniques? Pumps, pills, whatever? I have a partner who is sub and very GGG. I would really like to be able to play these fantasies out, but I know nothing of the feasibility. AN ENLARGING PROBLEM There's nothing you can do to make your dick bigger. Pills only waste your money, pumps only bruise your dick. (Yes, a pump can make your dick look a little bigger, temporarily, but your temporarily bigger dick will also be a whole lot softer, AEP, and what's the use of that?) Your only options for safely exploring your big-dick fantasies are strap-ons ("Not Just for Dykes

know, I know—meth has a bad reputation. But people used to say that smoking pot caused insanity! Don't believe the hype! Being a meth addict is not good, but occasional use never hurt anyone. I only do it maybe five times a year, and unlike what you see in anti-meth ads, I'm not crazy, I don't have holes in my skin, and I'm not a junkie. Instead, I'm a straight-A female student from a wealthy suburban family. You know when I really like to get some meth? Around finals, so that I have lots of extra time to study. Stop bashing meth, Dan! OCCASIONAL METH USER Your pot analogy is a big fail, OMU: different drugs have different risks, to say nothing of different chemical compositions and psychotropic effects.

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Anymore") and "cock extenders," ie, hollow dildos that a guy can wear on his dick. You'll find a nice selection of cock extenders here: tinyurl.com/ cockextend. Finally, AEP, I trust that you stop when your girlfriend—or any woman—says, "Stop!" unless you and your partner have pre-agreed to a safe word that (1) isn't "stop" but means "stop" and (2) allows her scream, "Stop!" to her heart's content. I agree with almost everything you say, Dan, but I have one complaint: you have made several comments over the years bashing meth users! I

That anti-drug crusaders overstated the dangers of marijuana to advance their anti-hippie, pro-incarceration or blatantly racist political agendas does not prove that meth is safe. Meth, unlike pot, is highly addictive. While there's no such thing as a fatal dose of pot, there is such a thing as a fatal dose of meth. And while abusing pot—and pot can be abused—makes a person lethargic and lardy, abusing meth makes a person crazy and dead. But hey, why should you take my word about meth, college girl? What do I know about meth? It's not like I've ever used meth, right? "Most meth addicts started out feel-

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ing like meth was the perfect fix to a 'problem' like needing extra time to study," says gay porn star Trenton Ducati. "I started out using meth 'occasionally,' too. Pretty much all meth users start out that way. And it's not novel to think your life is in control, and that you've got it all together— everybody who gets addicted to meth thinks that." Trenton says that people who use meth—even occasionally—are the worst judges of whether they have a meth problem. "Meth wound up taking me places that I'm sure OMU doesn't want to go," says Trenton. "There is just no way to use meth safely. Even if she is not willing to listen to those who've come before her—and it sounds like she's not—she could at least refrain from promoting a drug that has ruined so many lives." (Gay-porn fans—particularly fans of behind-the-scenes pics of porn shoots—can follow Trenton Ducati on Twitter: @TrentonDucati.) And maybe you didn't learn the word "sophistry" when you were cramming for the SATs, OMU, but you might want to look it up. It's never too late to expand the ol' vocabulary—or to put down the meth pipe. CONFIDENTIAL TO LGBT KIDS WITH CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN PARENTS: Matthew Vines is your new best friend. Watch his video about what the Bible does and doesn't say about being gay and send the link to your mother and father: tinyurl.com/ matthewvines. V Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. @fakedansavage on Twitter

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