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Go it alone Tired of being told to "cut a cheque" whenever he would call for higher taxes on the rich, author Stephen King recently wrote a letter stating, "What charitable one percenters can't do is assume responsibility— America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts." What's important about what King points out is that it's not only about taxes, but also what governments are responsible for. Across our own country governments seem to be shrinking from those responsibilities. This past Tuesday the provincial government announced a new cabinet. The minister responsible for post-secondary education is now called the Minister of Advanced Education and Enterprise. Advanced education has been connected to technology or research previously, but never has it been connected directly to business development, which risks narrowing the scope of what's meant by education for the provincial government. Earlier this week came the complete dismantling of the visual performing arts program at Keyano College in Fort McMurray. Listed as the reason for the removal of the current staff was lower enrolment—a debatable point—and a need to focus on the skills shortage in Alberta, and the improvement of the engineering technology program.

Across Quebec, striking students protesting proposed tuition increases rejected the deal offered by the provincial government. The student strike has become a focal point for the debate over the value of an education—A particular Margaret Wente column in the Globe & Mail called arts degrees (of which she has two) without value. It would be easy to spout numbers supporting the idea that arts degrees and visual artists actually contribute to the economy, but something more than numbers is missing in the debate: collective responsibility. Somewhere along the way to becoming a civilization we decided government was a necessary tool for ensuring that we would all have at least the opportunity to choose how we want to contribute to society. With the recent recession and the sprint to implement the toughest austerity measures, job creation, industry management and selling off resources seem to be the only thing that the governments that run our countries are interested in. This attitude prevents investment in people and the reduces opportunity to choose our future. But, most importantly, it forgets the idea we decided on long ago that we have a collective responsibility. Only together are we actually a society, but instead of realizing this, our governments leave us struggling to find our way alone. V

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SHUFFLING SOME SEATS Premier Redford announced her new cabinet on Tuesday this week. A slightly smaller group at 19 members, the cabinet combines positions in a way that NDP leader Brian Mason believes will jeopardize the care of some Albertans. Pointing to the new subordinate seniors ministry, now a part of the Ministry of Health, Mason says, "They're treating seniors as people who only consume health care." In addition, Advanced Education has been paired with Enterprise, which fo-

cuses on business development and economic priorities. "Advanced Education doesn’t only serve business. It serves the social and cultural needs of the province, including training people for education and health care fields," says Mason. The Ministry of Environment is now a part of Sustainable Resources, which Mason believes will compromise the prioritization on the environment in order to serve resource development and industry. Not all ministries were paired up. Ab-

original Affairs has received its own ministry with the first priority being placed on the development of an Aboriginal consultation policy. Culture also received its own ministry, separating it out from community services. Legislature will resume session in two weeks in order to elect a leader, a position Liberal Laurie Blakeman is running for as well as Conservatives Gene Zwozdesky and Wayne Cao.

are not happening fast enough to meet this target. As well, the government has failed to calculate the costs of reaching the greenhouse gas reduction target. The report expresses concern over the comprehensiveness of regulations that are currently drafted for a sectorby-sector basis. "The Environment Commissioner has made it clear that the government does not have a plan to follow through on its climate change commitments. While some policies have been imple-

mented, they are overwhelmed by gaps in action and accountability," says Matt Horne, director of the Pembina Institute's climate change program. "What's most disappointing is the fact that the solutions to these shortcomings are readily available. Effective policy can be implemented rapidly and there are ample examples to draw from and build upon—including some from Canadian provinces. The problem continues to be that the federal government seems wholly disinterested in implementing those solutions."

FAILURE TO REGULATE The federal commissioner of the environment released its report this week. The report looks at the evolution of the environment versus jobs debate that gained traction at the Rio de Janeiro Earth Summit in 1992. Chapter two of the report evaluates Canada's progress in meeting its climate change requirements. Canada has a goal of reducting greenhouse gas emissions to 17 percent below 2005 levels by 2020, which equates to 178 million tonnes over the next eight years. The report makes clear that the reductions

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COMMENT >> MLA PAY

Approve and implement

Judge Major's MLA pay report should put the issue to rest Last week retired Supreme Court jusThe reality is that, for the most tice John Major delivered his highly part, the report is not surprising in anticipated report on MLA compenany way and its recommendations sation. The timing is unfortunate, as entirely reasonable when you conit would have been much more helpsider what John Major was working ful to have this report before the rewith and the context within which cent provincial election, in order he was working. In fact, some of to determine where exactly the recommendations have the parties stood on the been met with no criticism E C question of MLA pay and whatsoever. N E FER INTER vueweekly.com For example, there seems benefits. @ ricardo During the campaign, Ms o to be broad agreement Ricard a ñ Redford responded to the with the elimination of the u c A frequent criticism about the excomplicated committee pay istence of the "no-meet committee" structure and the elimination of the and the overly generous transition transition allowances which will see allowances that retiring MLAs will us pay out some $14 million to retirreceive by referencing Major's forthing and defeated MLAs after the last coming report and promising that election. I have also seen no major oba Conservative government would jections to the setting of base salaries adopt every one of his recommendafor MLAs at $134 000, which is about tions fully. the average of MLA pay in other provOf course, that promise changed inces and territories. almost immediately after the report There are, however, also a numwas released, as Premier Redford ber of recommendations which have made it clear that she could not supmet with strong reactions in some port the recommendation that the sectors. The first of these is the sugpremier's salary increase by 60 pergestion that the premier's salary be cent over the next three years. The increased to $335 000 over the next ultimate result is that we are now left three years. This would make Alison with a report that will be picked apart Redford the highest paid premier in thoroughly by the opposition and the country by a long-shot. When the media, making it difficult for the you look at the private sector, howgovernment to implement even the ever, and consider what the President most innocuous recommendations or CEO of a company with a budget contained therein. the size of Alberta's (some $40 bil-

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lion) would make in salary, bonuses and stock options over the course of a year, that $335 000 seems significantly less extreme. Also, as Major pointed out in the report, it does not make any sense that the premier currently makes less than provincial judges and many senior civil servants. Of course, the problem might be that CEOs, judges and senior civil servants make too much, but that was outside the scope of Major's report. There has also been controversy around the recommendation that we continue the practice of making a portion of MLA salaries tax-exempt. Judge Major's rationale is that the federal government allows this exemption, and that it would therefore be silly for Alberta to send more money to Ottawa in taxes than we absolutely need to. The counter argument, of course, is that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes regardless of who they are or where they work. This might be the only time you see the likes of the Canadian Taxpayers Federation argue that someone in Alberta is not paying enough in taxes. Speaking of the CTF, their Alberta director Scott Hennig also has a problem with the way the salary recommendations were derived. He told the Globe and Mail that Judge Major made a mistake in examining privatesector executive wages as a basis for

setting MLA pay, and that he would much rather see a citizens' panel make those decisions. This begs the question of whether a citizens' panel would de facto not be allowed to draw comparisons to the private-sector to set salaries. Mr Hennig's concern about privatesector comparisons is especially interesting given his reaction to Judge Major's recommendation that a defined-benefit pension plan be instituted for MLAs in lieu of the existing combination of RRSP allowances and transition allowances. Within hours of the report's release Mr Hennig tweeted: "There's not been a new defined-benefit, gold-plated pension plan created in the private sector in the past 20 yrs. Why now for MLAs?" Apparently it's wrong to base salary levels on what the private sector pays senior managers and bosses, but it's okay to draw comparisons for the purpose of pension plans (which the private sector has been gutting for the past 20 years). Most public servants the world over participate in defined benefit pension plans, and it makes perfect sense that MLAs, who are ultimately public servants, also be placed on that sort of pension plan. It would eliminate the ridiculous transition allowances that exist today, but also provide some retirement security for folks that place their career and earning potential at

risk by holding public office. What does not make sense is the recommendation that MLAs get their own pension plan rather than simply roll into the plan that currently exists for public servants in Alberta. It also does not make sense that Judge Major recommended an accrual rate of 2.5 percent for the MLA pension plan— especially given that the Income Tax Act currently prohibits accrual rates of more than two percent. In the end, there are some good ideas within this report that would do wonders for the structure and amount of MLA compensation in Alberta. At the very least, Judge Major's recommendations would make MLA pay fairer, easier for Albertans to understand, and much more transparent than it is today. Unfortunately, early criticism of some of the key recommendations is now putting the entire report at risk and we might be headed back to square one. I, for one, would much rather see Judge Major's report adopted in its entirety, despite its flaws and issues, than head back to square one and see this debate go on for another for years. I can't imagine I am in a minority on that front. V

them (or rather their governments) into some ill-considered action that will actually benefit the terrorists' strategy. In the post-colonial context, the violence is usually meant to make the target government behave very badly, "cracking down" in ways that will drive people—maybe its own citizens, maybe a different group entirely—into the arms of the revolutionaries. In the case of al-Qaeda, the goal of 9/11 was to terrorize and enrage the American people, but not so that they would overthrow their own government. They obviously weren't going to do that. However, their outrage would probably make the US government send massive military forces into the Arab world to "stamp out" the terrorism. That, in turn, would outrage the Arabs—who were the real object of bin Laden's revolutionary ambitions. Well, it worked, in the sense that the West has not been so unpopular in the Arab world since the time of the Crusades. But the revolutions, when they finally started happening in Arab countries in 2010, rejected the leadership of jihadis like bin Laden and sought democracy instead. He prob-

ably died a deeply disappointed man. As a professional revolutionary, however, he would have retained his interest in the strategies and methods of terrorism down to the end. Since there was not much informed analysis of those issues available in the Arabiclanguage media, he would have followed it in the English-language media instead. As did all his colleagues, probably—I always assumed that al-Qaeda's leadership was getting at least a precis of the article every time I wrote about their strategy and tactics. But for bin Laden, locked up in his house in Abbottabad, it could easily have become an obsession. I think it did, because the one thing that I and the other journalists named in his letter have in common is that we all dealt in analysis, not mere invective. Oh, and I'm pretty sure I know where he was seeing my stuff. Dawn, the leading paper in Pakistan, has run this column for the last 30 years. V

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

COMMENT >> TERRORISM

Osama the media nut

Bin Laden was a dedicated reader of this column I wanted you to be the first to know. States, and independent journalist Eric It has just been revealed by the ComMargolis in Canada, for example) has bating Terrorism Center at West Point actually written in favour of al-Qaeda Military Academy in the United States and its goals—so what did he think he that I am on a very short list of jourwould gain by sending us the stuff? nalists (eight in Western countries, The answer, I suspect, is that he had and seven others in India, Pakistan been reduced to grasping at straws. and Arab countries) to whom OsaHe had been on the run for 10 years, ma bin Laden wanted to send and trapped in that rather bare "special media material" on house in Abbottabad (now the 10th anniversary of the bulldozed) for six. He had 9/11 attacks on the United .com no real-time communicaly k e e w e@vue gwynn States. To what do I owe tion with anybody in the e y w G nn this honour? rest of the world, because if r Dye he used telephones, the InterI can't vouch for the authenticity of the letters that the American net, indeed anything electronic exforces seized when they raided bin cept the TV and Playstation, it would Laden's house in northern Pakistan a almost certainly lead the Americans year ago, but according to the CTC's to his lair within weeks. translation the plan was to send He tried to go on directing al-Qaeda these carefully selected and named by sending numerous letters, but they journalists a site address and passwould have taken weeks to reach word "at the right time" so that we their destinations, and in any case by could download his "special material." last year the organization was in an That never happened, because bin advanced state of disintegration. As Laden was killed before the anniveran ideology and a franchise it lives on, sary rolled round, but it does raise but even in that attenuated form its an interesting question. None of the ability to attract recruits and popular people he named (me, Bob Fisk of The support has been gravely damaged by Independent in Britain, investigative the events of the "Arab Spring." journalist Seymour Hersh in the United In other words, Osama bin Laden

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no longer had much relevance in the world, and he had a lot of time on his hands. But he certainly went on reading his clippings. Terrorists always read their clippings. Terrorists are a recently evolved subset of the grand old category of "revolutionaries." Their deeds, however ugly, are not "senseless": their ultimate goal is almost always to change a government somewhere. They cannot achieve it by peaceful means, and the population whose interests they think they serve is not ready to revolt, so they resort to terrorism in an attempt to motivate and mobilize the masses. I'm using the word "terrorist" here not in its pejorative sense, but its professional one. When somebody seeks to achieve political goals by using violence, and is not operating under the protection of a sovereign state, we call him a terrorist. And since the amount of violence a terrorist can bring to bear, as a non-state actor, is usually quite limited, he depends on its psychological impact more than its sheer destructiveness. The point of terrorism isn't just to frighten people, but to stampede

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Amanda Lindhout wants to connect women across the world in order to change it

n the heart of Mogadishu 24 girls and women in identical jerseys are honing skills that make them teammates. All members of the Elephants basketball team are survivors of rape or other forms of gender-based violence, and their participation in sport is an act of defiance. Training allows them to reclaim their bodies, fostering strength from the outside in. "Everybody believes in these girls," says Amanda Olson-Small, the Stony Plain woman who made the drills and scrimmages possible. Emotions are palpable for the high school phys-ed teacher as she speaks about the two dozen girls, aged 13 – 23. For months, Olson-Small hit up family and friends for donations and brokered deals with local sports stores, eventually raising $8500 in sponsorships. The fundraising is all part of the Global Enrichment Foundation's (GEF's) Hoops for Hope initiative. As one of the organization's newest board members, Olson-Small steers a sportsoriented strand of the larger SHE WILL program. The goal is to foster a sense of solidarity amongst women who are willing to risk persecution in their bid to educate themselves, gaining skills needed to become leaders in their communities. "They are going to be the change in their country," says the former University of Alberta hockey star. "They are making sustainable changes, because they're not backing down from the

inequality they're experiencing right now." A 2011 survey by TrustLaw ranks Somalia as the fifth worst place in the world to be a woman, behind only Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan and India. The country's former minister for women's development and family welfare, Maryan Qasim, describes Mogadishu as a "living hell" for females. Accurate sexual abuse statistics are nearly impossible to compile due to the influence of the country's radical Islamic group Al-Shabaab, which considers it criminal for a woman to report her own rape.

son-Small of what participation in sport can mean. "And when you can go that much further physically, you can go that much further mentally and emotionally." The catharsis of exercise is something GEF's creator relies on heavily in the aftermath of an ordeal that captured international headlines. Amanda Lindhout, a former freelance journalist, was

Running and yoga helped me reclaim my body, feel healthy and provided a physical outlet to release trauma. In Somalia the women chose basketball.

Many of the athletes on the Elephants team live in refugee camps, and some walk barefoot for eight kilometres on an empty stomach to get to practice. Some players became mothers when they were teenagers, others are orphans. The youngest participant was divorced by 13, while one of her 16-year-old teammates is still dealing with the trauma of watching her best friend get stoned to death. Despite these circumstances, everyone on the team is motivated to take on an important role within the community. They speak of becoming government officials, doctors and teachers. The hope is that basketball training twice a week, often under the guidance of a player from the national team, will equip them with the perseverance, skills and confidence needed to see their goals through. "It's almost like you're showing yourself you can go that much further," says Ol-

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With GEF celebrating its second birthday this April, Lindhout is regularly putting in 100-hour work weeks. In the past month, Lindhout's speaking engagements included Google's headquarters in New York, where she discussed GEF's plans to build enough schools for all children in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee camp and home to 500 000 Soma-

kidnapped in Somalia back in 2008 and held hostage for 15 months. She too experienced repeated sexual violence during her time in captivity. "One of the most powerful tools for me to heal was physical activity," says the Canmore woman almost three years after her release. "Running and yoga helped me reclaim my body, feel healthy and provided a physical outlet to release trauma. In Somalia the women chose basketball, and I know from talking to them that they are experiencing these same benefits." Lindhout is now making headlines for entirely different reasons, unrelenting in her mission to show Somali women will be the ones to lead their country out of 20 years of war.

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lis. She also spoke at the Clinton Global Initiative in DC at the request of the former president, sharing how her organization has fed more than 200 000 people during the African Horn's latest famine. At the time members of the Elephants team received their equipment on May 5, Lindhout was in Toronto working on plans for a new SHE WILL initiative—building Somalia's first safe house for women. Working with Somali activist Fartuun Adan, the safe house will be complete with medical care and therapy, as well as education and economic programs. This intense bond with women overseas is a bridge that is allowing other Albertans to connect with the reality

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of women's lives across the world. After hearing Lindhout's story at a teachers' convention, Olson-Small was overwhelmed by the desire to help. Together with her students at Parkland's Memorial Composite High School, she founded the Live Free group, raising more than $20 000. The funds helped sponsor some of the 36 women who are receiving a free university education through GEF. Now students will often chip in $20 for a basketball, or even a month's paycheque. Two teenagers are contemplating a career in international development because of their involvement. The young teacher feels a visceral need to show girls in Somalia that people halfway around the world care about them, and are doing what they can to help. There's hope the simple game of basketball can be a grassroots catalyst for change. "They're gaining a family out of it," says Olson-Small of how being part of a team can lift participants out of isolation. "It helps girls bond together and build each other up ... You're not playing for the name on the back, you're playing for the name on the front." For this team, the elephant is a symbol of strength. The logo allows participants to drop the stigma of victim, replacing it with the defiance of their dreams, worn directly and proudly on their person. Jessica EARLE

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Groups/CLUBS/meetings Aikikai Aikido Club • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:309:30pm; Thu 6-8pm AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm Brain Tumour Peer Support Group • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420-114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free Cha Island Tea Co • 10332-81 Ave • Games Night: Board games and card games • Every Mon, 7pm Edmonton Bicycle Commuters' Society • Sportsdome, 10104-32 Ave • Edmonton Bike Swap • Sat, May 12, 12-4pm Edmonton Bike Art Nights • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm Fertility Awareness Charting Circle meeting • Cha Island Tea Co, 10332-81 Ave • Monthly meetings: learn about menstrual cycle charting and share your personal experiences in a supportive group environment • Mon, May 14, 6:30pm • $5 FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.465.2019/780.634.5526 • Food Addicts in Recovery Anonymous (FA), free 12-Step recovery program for anyone suffering from food obsession, overeating, under-eating, and bulimia • Meetings every Thu, 7pm Home–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun 3-5pm Lotus Qigong • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu Meditation • Strathcona Library • 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 River Valley Vixen • Glenora stairs • All girls outdoor bootcamp every Mon, and Wed: 6:30pm • Until end Jul • Info: E: rivervalleyvixen@gmail.com Sherwood Park Walking Group + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10 min discussion, followed by a 30-40 minute walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta) Sugarswing Dance Club • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall Walk Alberta • Dale Fisher Arena, 32 Haven Ave, Devon: Devon Discovery Walkers River and Ravine series; 5k, 10k; May 15, 6:30-9pm; Robert Duncan at 780.963.4145; E: duncanra@shaw.ca • St Albert Place, 5 St Anne St, St Albert: St Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club; May 12, 6am-3pm; Joe Sombach, 780.458.4667; E: joe@sombach.com Vegetarians of Alberta • Bonnie 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, May 13, 5:30-7pm; VVOA Mothers' Day Potluck: Moms come for free 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

LECTURES/Presentations Energy, Mining & Engineering International Jobs Expo • Mayfield Inn, 16615-109 Ave • Meet employers and recruiters from Australia and New Zealand (expo-australia.com/jobs-at-canada-expo. aspx#40525); seminars led by employers at the expo; discover projects are underway • May 12, 10am-4pm; May 13, 10am-3pm • $10 at workingin.com/eme (child under 16 free)

QUEER BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca EPLC Fellowship Pagan Study Group • Pride Centre of Edmonton • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome FLASH Night Club • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com G.L.B.T.Q Sage bowling club • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm GLBT sports and recreation • teamedmonton.ca • Co-ed Bellydancing: bellydancing@teamedmonton.ca • Bootcamp: Garneau Elementary, 10925-87 Ave. at 7pm; bootcamp@teamedmonton.ca • Bowling: Ed's Rec Centre, West Edmonton Mall, Tue 6:45pm; bowling@teamedmonton.ca • Curling: Granite Curling Club; 780.463.5942 • Running: Kinsmen; running@teamedmonton.ca • Spinning: MacEwan Centre, 109 Street and 104 Ave; spin@teamedmonton.ca • Swimming: NAIT pool, 11762-106 St; swimming@teamedmonton.ca • Volleyball: every Tue, 7-9pm; St. Catherine School, 10915-110 St; every Thu, 7:30-9:30pm at Amiskiwiciy Academy, 101 Airport Rd G.L.B.T.Q Seniors Group • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4:30pm • Info: T: Jeff Bovee 780.488.3234, E: tuff @shaw.ca

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 INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca Junction Bar and Eatery • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • junctionedmonton.com • Open Tues-Sat: Community bar with seasonal patio • Beat the clock Tue • WINGSANITY Wed, 5-10pm • Free pool Tue and Wed • Karaoke Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, bear bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/ competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu Pride Centre of Edmonton • Moving • 780.488.3234 • Daily: YouthSpace (Youth Drop-in): Tue-Fri: 3-7pm; Sat: 2-6:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support group for gay, bisexual and transgendered men to discuss current issues; Sun: 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • HIV Support Group: for people living with HIV/AIDS; 2nd Mon each month, 7-9pm; huges@shaw.ca • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org St Paul's United Church • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship) WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • womonspace. ca, womonspace@gmail.com • A Non-profit lesbian social organization for Edmonton and surrounding area. Monthly activities, newsletter, reduced rates included with membership. Confidentiality assured Woodys Video Bar • 11723 Jasper Ave • 780.488.6557 • Mon: Amateur Strip Contest; prizes with Shawana • Tue: Kitchen 3-11pm • Wed: Karaoke with Tizzy 7pm-1am; Kitchen 3-11pm • Thu: Free pool all night; kitchen 3-11pm • Fri: Mocho Nacho Fri: 3pm (door), kitchen open 3-11pm

SPECIAL EVENTS Block 1912 Cafe • 10361 Whyte Ave • Celebration of the Hulbert Block (Block 1912 Café), is turning 100, free cake, live music, including performance by Martin Kerr • May 12, 11am-12pm Connections 2012 • City Hall, Churchill Square • Displays, presentations, and activities; connecting Edmontonians to city programs, projects and services • May 15, 12-6pm Decadent Dessert Gala & Auction • Holy Trinity Catholic Church, 200 Boundary Rd, Spruce Grove • Presented by the Allied Arts Council • May 11 • $35 available at Spruce Grove Gallery, 780.962.0664 De-Stress FesT • Rundle Family Centre, Rundle Park, 2909-113 Ave • Learn how to relieve the stresses in your life • May 12, 1-4pm • Free; part of Mental Health Week Family Fun Film Night • Grandin Theatres, 101, 22 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.242.3374 • Bollywood Film Screening: Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (PG, 2011, Hindi, English subtitles) • May 17, 7pm • $5 Guru Gala TenOther • Art Gallery of Alberta, 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Post-secondary institution that trains the next generation of the digital media workforce, with programs in digital media production, video game design, 3D animation, and digital illustration • May 11, 7pm • $30 (adult)/$15 (Alumni, student) Make It! The Handmade Revolution • Alberta Aviation Hangar, 11410 Kingsway Ave • Over 100 Canadian indie crafters and designers, live music, delicious food • May 11-13 • $5 Mens Expo • Mayfield Inn • A Mens Tradeshow that Welcomes Women • May 12-13 • $10 at ticketmaster.ca; free child 12 & under Soup for the Soul Day • Churchill Sq • 780.423.2111 • Event by Salvation Army; soup available from 12-1:30pm • May 11 • Donations That Bloomin' Garden Show and art sale • Alberta Avenue Community League, 9210-118 Ave • That Bloomin' Garden Show & Art Sale: Kids' activities, artworks, Free seed gift for mothers, gardening info/ products, presentations, workshops, compost sale • May 12, 9am-4pm Tir Eoghain Irish Dance Society • Rio Terrace Community League, 15500-76 Ave • Selling Organic Soil provided by Cleanit-Greenit. Fundraiser to purchase and maintain authentic Gaelic costumes • May 12, 9am-2pm

Food Cravings & Emotional Eating • Earth’s General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Find out about food cravings presented by Margaret (psychologist, specialist on eating disorders) • Mon, May 14, 7:15pm • $10; pre-register in the store by May 12 Imagination Conversation • Winspear Centre, 9720-102 Ave • 780.428.1414 • Alberta’s innovative business leaders, entrepreneurs, educators and artists will join internationally known speakers, creativity advocates and education pioneers in an immersive, experiential conference as they work together to build a more creative Alberta • Tue, May 15-17 Introduction to Permaculture Gardens • Jasper Place High School, 8950163 St • Presentation by Alumnus Dustin Bajer • Wed, May 16, 6-9pm • $10; Pre-register: 780.492.1835, E: angela.tom@ualberta.ca Living Foods Sunday Summer Series • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • kale chips, corn/hemp chips, zucchini hummus; May 13 • Flat bread, herbed cheese, raw layered sandwiches; May 20 • Every Sun, 6:50-9pm • Pre-register; $25 (each session); info: Robyn at rawrobyn@gmail.com Lunch and Learn: Stress in the Workplace • 401, 10010-105 St • Bring a bag lunch and learn about the major causes of job stress, the impact on our health and wellbeing, how to prevent burnout • May 10, 12:10-12:55pm • Free; Pre-register at main@cmha-edmonton. ab.ca; part of Metal Health Week Oil and Democracy Speaker Series • NRE Bldg, 1 001, 9105-116 St, U of A • May 10-Jun 7, every Thu, 7pm • Contextualizing Democracy by Ian Urquhart (Independent Senate Candidate); May 10 • Institutions of Democracy by Rob Macintosh (Dejanira Ltd), David Campanella (Parkland): May 17 P.A.T.H. (Positive Action for Total Health) • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Presentation by Wade Sorochan, as he shares about his personal battle with anxiety and depression • May 11, 5-6pm; part of Metal Health Week • Free Turn Stress into Success • 401, 10010105 St • Information Session: Learn the myths and realities about stress, common signs and symptoms, how stress affects our lives and how to achieve a sense of inner peace and fulfillment • May 10, 5-6:30pm • Free; pre-register at: main@cmha-edmonton.ab.ca; part of Metal Health Week

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INTERVUE // MEXICAN CINEMA

Symptomatic cinema

Miss Bala discusses her reactive character and violence in Mexico Fri, May 11 – Wed, May 16 Directed by Gerardo Naranjo Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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nfolding in bracing, often unnervingly confusing scenes constructed from lengthy single takes, the dominant tone of Miss Bala (a bleak pun of a title, exchanging "Baja," as in Baja, California, for "bala," as in bullet) is one of traumatized trance. The film follows Laura Guerrero (Stephanie Sigman), a 23-yearold living somewhere above the poverty line with her father and little brother, somewhere on the outskirts of a city we presume to be Tijuana. Apparently on a whim, Laura decides to enter a beauty contest and, by sheer chance, subsequently becomes the pawn of a gang of drug traffickers, led by the very scary yet quietly charismatic Lino (Noe Hernandez). He sees something special in her, some unique utility. A moll? A hostage? A Mata Hari? It's not entirely clear. What is clear is that Laura's fear-fuelled helplessness and forced collaboration leave her caught in a catch-22 that's more or less symbolic of the current plight of Mexico as a whole, in the grips of a drug war that just seems to get worse. Shifting radically from the giddy, cutty, winkily melodramatic Godardisms of his 2008 tween-lovers-on-the-run film I'm Gonna Explode!, director and co-scenarist Gerardo Naranjo has his camera hold very, very closely to Laura, who spends much of Miss Bala frozen in a state of shock, rarely speaking but almost always busy, running, crawling, hiding, changing clothes, following instructions We can't know what she's thinking, even in the scenes that require some calculation on her part, but we often know how she's feeling, thanks to the peculiar doggedness of the film's MO and to Sigman's passive yet highly nuanced performance.

A dangerous sort of beauty contest

Miss Bala is chilling, relentless, intelligent and, if one's inclined to notice, quite funny in a dark, dry, acid sort of way. It's absolutely a must-see for many reasons, some esthetic, some sociological. And one of those reasons is Sigman, a skillful novice with excellent instincts, particularly when it comes to cultivating a sense of intimacy with the camera, and thus with us. I spoke with Sigman during last year's Toronto International Film Festival. She was very friendly, very excited, very forgiving of both my Spanish and my hangover, very tall in her blue dress and heels, and not altogether difficult to look at. VUE WEEKLY: How closely related are the stories of Laura Guerrero and Laura Zúñiga, the Sinaloa beauty queen whose ties to trafficking presumably inspired Miss Bala? STEPHANIE SIGMAN: I don't think they're similar at all. It's impossible for us to know what really happened to Laura Zúñiga. That's one of the reasons why

Gerardo made this a fiction. Of course, her story is symptomatic of a lot of things that are happening in Mexico, so it was useful to research. But because we went in a very different direction I didn't want to focus too much on her. VW: It seems to me that one of the major challenges for you would be that you're the protagonist, you're present in every scene, yet you're far more reactive than you are active. Much is done to Laura, but she herself doesn't really move the story forward. SS: It's funny, but I don't think I was very conscious of that challenge while we were actually in production. When I saw the final film I was kind of shocked. I guess I couldn't imagine how the pieces were going to fit. It's weird to see yourself up there. There were moments when I actually forgot that it was me I was looking at. I would grab my chair, start to react like any other person in the cinema. It was exciting! [Laughs]

Even though Laura spends most of Miss Bala in this state of suspended trauma, one of the great things about your performance is its gradations. There are distinct levels of panic or confusion or resignation. You're always doing something that, for the most part, only we in the audience can pick up on. SS: Yeah, it was always the camera and me. It's just the nature of this movie— there are only about 130 cuts in the whole thing, so what happens in any one shot is really important. Single moments go on for a long time. So I had to contain, contain, contain. We needed to keep Laura passive, which I think was Gerardo's way of commenting on the passive nature of a lot of Mexicans right now—people just don't know what to do anymore. But at the same time there's a lot of things going on inside that needs to be expressed somehow. VW:

VW: You grew up in Sonora. Has your life become more affected by violence, given how things have been escalating these last few years? SS: You're always hearing stories about a friend of a friend, but I feel like its getting closer. The degrees of separation are fewer. That's pretty frightening. Things have definitely gotten worse since when I was there just five years ago. VW: I remember back when Mexico City seemed kind of scary. These days it feels like the safest place in the country. SS: [Laughs] Yes, that reversal still seems funny to me.

Obviously Laura's ambition to become a beauty queen is different than your ambition to act, but still I wonder if that was an aspect of her character that you could relate to. SS: I feel like most girls at some point want to be models or beauty queens, to have something to do with the idea of beauty. I never wanted to be Miss Mexico, but I did want to model. I was in a contest, and I didn't win. I think every girl VW:

has that princess fantasy. But that might be a very Latin American thing. VW: That's interesting that you were trying to model, because I would think modeling skills would come in handy in a film like Miss Bala. Again, so much of what's required of you is to convey something powerful and specific with just a look, or with body language. SS: Maybe. Certainly models need to have a special awareness of the camera; even when many things are going on you have to have that undistracted relationship to the camera. VW: Throughout Miss Bala, Lino calls Laura "Canelita," or "Little Cinnamon." Is that because of the colour of her skin, not too dark, not too pale? SS: I think it has something to do with that, but it also has something to do with a story about Lino himself. Noe told me that it was related to something from Lino's youth, some girl that Laura reminded him of. VW: Was

there a lot of that? Did you all bring in backstories? SS: I would write things, but just for myself. I prefer not to share them, because the great thing about the seeing a movie is when it stimulates your imagination and lets you figure things out on your own. VW: I can only imagine that spending so much time in Laura's skin could leave one feeling deeply unsettled, kind of wrung out. Were you able to shake off the residual effects of the role? SS: I was afraid of that. I kept thinking that I was spending more than 12 hours a day in this character, and that she might start to become me. There comes a point when you start to talk like the character, eat like the character, dream like the character. But by the end I was very, very ready to lose Laura, to let her go. So I did. Just like that. Josef Braun

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PREVUE // PRAIRIE LOVE

I Heart Regina Sat, May 12 (7:30 pm) Metro Cinema at the Garneau

ituated in the southern part of Saskatchewan's vast, seemingly never-ending prairie is a city that's been often considered uncharted territory, until now. I Heart Regina is presented in Edmonton as part of the prairie regional meeting for IMAA. The production, part of Saskatchewan's Filmpool, brings together films from 13 of the city's filmmakers for an anthology that provides a glimpse

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into the stories of Saskatchewan's often misconceived capital. "Indie films are just as important as mainstream movies, if not more so, because they come from us, from our community, from the people we know and share our lives with," says Filmpool programming coordinator Tricia Martin. Mick Jagger dubbed Regina "the city that rhymes with fun" and the genre-spanning short films prove the lives of those living in a small city outside the global scope are just as important as lives lived any-

where. I Heart Regina , which brings together stories from "the centre of the universe," resembles the anthology styles of Paris, je t'aime and New York, I Love You, but in a wildly different and less glorified location. "There's hundreds of millions of people around the world that live in cities like Regina or Edmonton that aren't global cities and we think it's important stories come out of every place," says Mark Wihak, who co-produced the anthology with Vanda Schmokel, who moved to Regina six years ago from Toronto. The Queen City is often perceived negatively by other urban centres, but Wihak believes that even the

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fact a film like this came out of Regina, and there's enough active filmmakers to make it possible could be the catalyst for reciprocal projects from other cities. "Sure it's a small city, but it's always had a strong kind of cultural heartbeat and this film's one aspect of it," he says, noting the continuous growth of the city and it being hailed as the biggest small city in Canada, since it crams in elements synonymous with much larger centres into a population under 200 000. Unfortunately, this could be one of the few times a project like this may be possible in Regina, now

that the Saskatchewan government has rendered it the only province in Canada without a film tax credit. Schmokel does double duty as producer and filmmaker with Except When I Don't, which tells the story of a woman returning to Regina and dealing with the mixed feelings that accompany the move home. Schmokel sees coming home for whatever reason as having to take a look in the mirror at yourself. "This is the place that kind of gave birth to you, so coming home is sobering I think for anybody." meaghan baxter

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REVUE // OLD SCHOOL SPOOKY

Poltergeist Fri, May 11 (11:15 pm) Directed by Tobe Hooper Originally released: 1982 Metro Cinema at The Garneau

Poltergeist begins with the All-American suburban earnestness that Spielberg sometimes reflected back at his target '80s audience, only to jolt them out of their comfort. There's also the reflection of adults' wariness about TV as the remote babysitter. But, almost sweetly, TV reunites the family, too, as Carol Anne speaks to them from beyond the flickering blue afterlife of the imagebox. (In its depiction of a beatific little blonde American suddenly missing from her house, Poltergeist eerily foreshadows the surreal JonBenét Ramsay case.)

emote control is at the haunted heart of most spirit-possession movies, but Poltergeist (1982) outghosts them all. There's the remote directorial control that writer Steven Spielberg apparently wielded—his contract for ET prohibited work on another film, but many recalled him being on set almost as much as director Tobe Hooper. There's the remote curse control that supposedly hovered over the franchise after real skeletons were used: Dominique Dunne (the older sister) was strangled to death in 1983 by an abusive ex-boyfriend; Heather O'Rourke (the series'

Poltergeist: the ghost is in the machine

child star) died in hospital in 1988. And there are the remote controllers in the movie: neighbours battling over identical TV remote signals, Carol Anne (O'Rourke) talking to voices

from the TV after sign-off, and then, after energy pulses shoot out from the set one night during a lightningstorm, a demonic force's haunting of the Freeling home.

The big-screen story nicely takes its time and there are moments of suspenseful build-up. When all hell breaks loose, it seems now to flirt with camp (a tree comes savagely alive), while scenes of parapsycholo-

gists ghostbusting the house verge on the goofball. There's hokey spiritualist talk, some mother's-love hooey, and a few knowingly marketable catchphrases ("They're here!"). Plus the usual implausible hanging-around (leave the house already!), though the ending's a nice reverse on Psycho— this time, a motel provides blessed relief. The whole ancient-graveyardhaunting was done more nightmarishly, and less theme-park-like, in The Shining two years earlier. The flashes of an '80s residential development as too remote controlled, complacent, and environmentally violating give Poltergeist some bursts of energy, but as it simplifies itself into a scarefest, more and more white noise creeps in. Brian Gibson

// brian@vueweekly.com

FESTIVAL ROUNDUP // HOT DOCS

Tantalizing nonfiction

Our intrepid film critic's highlights from the Hot Docs film festival

Exactly opposite sides of the world: ¡Vivan las antipodas!

he Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, held in Toronto every spring, is a terrifically fecund, sprawling crapshoot to navigate, an all-you-can-watch buffet of non-fiction that might take any form, that lures most of us in not with high-profile talent (at least not necessarily; there are exceptions) but with tantalizing subject matter. (Or, as was the case with my favourite of this year's crop, with the promise of finding meaning and lyricism in a subject that might initially appear to have no special meaning at all). What follows is just a handful of the highlights of Hot Docs 2012. First of all, that favourite. It is a very strange, hypnotic, largely unimposing and unspeakably gorgeous international coproduction entitled ¡Vivan las antipodas!, and it is more fervently enthralled with our world and its inhabitants than anything I've seen in some time. Antipodes are popula-

tions that have settled on precisely opposite ends of the planet. (A fairly rare phenomena given that most of the Earth's surface is covered in water.) The film, directed by Viktor Kossakovsky, visits four such pairings—in Argentina and China, Russia and Chile, Botswana and Hawaii, Spain and New Zealand—and slips between these locations until, despite all their obvious differences, they begin to blur into a travelogue, an anthropological poem, and an exercise in visual rhymes: a single truck traverses a tiny rural bridge while on the other side of the world a swarm of bikes and scooters pour out of a massive ferry; an undulating field of molten lava is transfigured by a single well-chosen cut into the deeply lined flesh of a elephant. Over and over, Kossakovsky turns the world upside down—and it turns out that the world looks pretty beautiful that way. I've no idea what the future of this film will be, but I urge you to

seek it out. By contrast, something you should have no problem laying eyes on in the near future is Alison Klayman's Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry, a portrait of the celebrated Chinese artist and activist, an enormously entertaining, soft-spoken hulk of a man with a knack for getting attention, an endlessly clever, if blunt, sense of humour (see Ai's gloriously one-joke Study of Perspective series for a prime example), a tempestuous relationship to his government (which culminated in his prolonged and torturous secret detention last year), and a rather complicated family life (Ai has a young son, and his wife isn't the mother). Klayman spent years living in Beijing and has assembled a rich history of Ai's career and both its international and national contexts, with a special focus on the political, rather than the esthetic connotations of his work. Mongrel Media will begin releasing the film in July. Speaking of problems with the government, people who like their children's education to be on the non-dogmatic, non-supernatural side should prepare to get alternately upset and amused by Scott Thurman's The Revisionaries, a look at how sci-

ence and social studies text books get amended by Texas' religious conservatives and how those amendments wind up effecting what's taught to the rest of the United States. Thurman's entrée into the Texas Board of Education's machinations is goofy dentist and former TBE Chair Don McLeroy, a creationist unabashed about his belief that the world is 6000 years old and men walked with dinosaurs, a man who firmly believes that "someone needs to stand up to the experts." McLeroy is only moderately terrifying, partly because he's so clueless, so eager to promote his cause, despite ridicule, that it's almost (I say almost) endearing, and partly because he ultimately possesses only a fraction of the influence of someone like Cynthia Dunbar, who teaches law at Liberty University and has made a sub-career of going to bat for intelligent design over fact-based science when she clearly knows better, and insists that education itself is a fundamentally religious practice (and I do mean fundamental). There are, of course, different kinds of scary in the world. Jeff is the misleadingly innocuous title of Chris James Thompson's eerie, quietly insightful film about late cannibal serial

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killer Jeffrey Dahmer. Thompson constructs Jeff from mainly two elements: 1) a shrewdly selected gallery of talking heads (the publicity-seeking detective who eagerly helmed the Dahmer investigation, the far more sober case medical examiner, and a neighbor who'd befriended Dahmer back when she was an addict) looking back on Dahmer's story more than 20 years after his conviction, and 2) a series of carefully staged reenactments, not of the killings themselves but rather of Dahmer's inconspicuous preparations (buying supplies in hardware stores, stealing a mannequin) and stray moments of wandering around town alone and drinking cheap beer. What emerges from all this is a portrait of a certain kind of milieu, one where a young man with some evil notions can go unnoticed because of that milieu's predominant racial profile and, most especially, because of class. Dahmer himself remains about as enigmatic at the film's end as he did when it began. And maybe that's how it should be. A good documentary can give us tools to examine something, but it can't, and shouldn't, explain something so utterly abysmal. JOsef Braun

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DVD // THE QUIET BEATLE

George Harrison: Living in the Material World

Not pictured: a gently weeping guitar

Now available directed by Martin Scorsese

e could make one hell of a holy racket for the guy so often referred to as "the quiet one," but George Harrison had a way of seeming above it all. Not looking down but observing from the margins. In the fragments of interview that open Martin Scorsese's two-part George Harrison: Living in the Material World, which is now out on DVD and blu-ray, Harrison's son Dhani recalls a dream where he asked his late father where he'd been. Harrison replied, "I've been here the whole time." I like this picture: the omnipresent one. But later, in Part Two, Harrison's widow Olivia recalls the atmosphere of Harrison's death. "Let's just say you wouldn't need to light the room if you filmed it." So there's the other picture: the radiant one. Scorsese's picture, which somehow feels more personal to the

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director than his Dylan picture, No Direction Home (maybe it's a Catholic upbringing thing), emphasizes Harrison's essential contradictions: his cynicism and immense generosity, his lust for the material and his ardent pursuit of the spiritual. There is no reason to resolve this duality, and that's one of the reasons why, even at 204 minutes, Living in the Material World never slackens: it bears the tensions of a life lived fully aware of its own conflicts. Talking heads, insinuating stills, archival footage, print headlines: Scorsese trades in the standard materials of documentaries, but he doesn't use them lazily. The film possesses drive and purpose. It steers clear of enveloping the narrative in a pleasant, numbing glaze of beloved music. In fact, there are frequent abrupt cuts in the soundtrack to curtail nostalgia, and plenty of key Harrison-composed Beatles songs aren't even used. It's not late-period capri-

ciousness that has prompted Scorsese to helm so many music-oriented films in recent years; Scorsese has in some sense always been making documentaries about the collision of music and culture. Or so it seemed to me when I first saw (and heard) Mean Streets as a teenager. Unlike say, American Graffiti, that film's pop-heavy soundtrack wasn't about nudging us to recall some catchy tune from years past; it was about frisson, juxtaposing story and music in a way that makes us question what the music means to us on some complex, semi-conscious level. Living in the Material World performs this trick on several occasions, refreshing the familiar, thanks in part to Scorsese's access to demo tracks and to previously unseen home movies. The film doesn't just play the songs; it digs into them. And through those songs we get closer to Harrison the reluctant pop star. Living in the Material World catalogues Harrison's many tools for attaining greater proximity to the spirit—LSD, free love, Indian music, filmmaking, family, mediation—yet it's that same music business (or, if you prefer, the business of making music) that repulsed him at times that was also his surest path to transcendence. And the best of that music—"While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Something," "Here Comes the Sun," and just about everything on All Things Must Pass—thunders through the speakers at just those moments in this film that speak most directly to why Harrison's music is still cherished, and can still thrill us. Josef Braun

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VUEWEEKLY MAY 10 – MAY 16, 2012

REVUE // LEGENDARY DANCE

Pina 2D

Dancing one of Pina's great works

Sat, May 12 – Mon, May 21 Directed by Win Wenders Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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hen Pina—Wim Wenders' inventive, affectionate, oftensublime assemblage of performances and remembrances of the late, great German choreographer Pina Bauch—first opened in Edmonton, I'd noted that Hélène Louvart's cinematography imbues the film with "the most straightforwardly conceived and best employment of 3D I've seen." And I meant it! Yet I now find myself kinda wanting to retract. The reason being that Metro Cinema is giving Pina another theatrical run in good old fashioned 2D, and my dirty little secret that needs confessing here is that even when it comes to the best-looking 3D films I've seen, I'm more than content with the 2D experience. I'm trying to be a trooper

about the new technology and all, but, to be frank, 3D just doesn't get the pistons firing any faster. Actually, it kind of annoys me. Am I alone here? Maybe. Whatever. Just go see Pina in the comfort and grandeur of the Garneau. "Meeting Pina was like finding a language," says one of her dancers, and Wenders ensures that we understand what's meant by language in this context: Bausch developed a gestural vocabulary that swayed playfully between the primal and the sophisticated. Pina shows us dancers dancing with veal chops in ballet slippers outside a factory, having strange encounters on elevated trams or marching across fields in formal wear. It is, among other things, a testament to the balance of trance-like surrender and devotional craft that combine to make art this dynamic, alluring and haunting. Josef Braun

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REVUE // CRONENBERG

A History of Violence

What a modern Messiah looks like

Tue, May 15 (9:15 pm) Directed by David Cronenberg Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally released: 2005

History of Violence came smack in the middle of David Cronenberg's least prolific decade—just a trinity of films—but his most concentrated period, exploring masculinity-on-edge. Cronenberg was a cinematic examiner of bodily violence, of our physicality altered or infected. But with Ralph Fiennes' schizophrenic in Spider (then underfunded, still underrated) and Viggo Mortensen's Russian Mafioso (or is he?) in Eastern Promises, he began staring in, at men's violent urges (leading to his most restrained film— A Dangerous Method's repressed, interiors-shot drama about male-psyche examiners Freud and Jung). Of the three, the middle-man, A History of Violence, serves up religious

revisionism (neo-Christ allegory) with extra pulp (the gangster violence from its graphic-novel source). Initially, it intrigues with its juxtaposition of gory brutality and the Capra-esque setting, the Midwest town of Millbrook, Indiana (actually Millbrook, Ontario). Then it turns out Tom Stall (Mortensen), who takes out two "bad men" in his diner, used to be former mob killer Joey Cusack. So can this man's newfound "American Dream" and small-town family values justify his murderousness? But what's most provocative is the suggestion that the former JC isn't just a heartland hero but modern Messiah. He tells his wife (Maria Bello), "I spent three years in the desert" but "I wasn't born again until I met you." "Jesus, Joey" and "Jesus, Richie" are the last words his vengeful mob-boss brother (William Hurt) and he exchange (mo-

ments before, Richie had kissed him in greeting, like a treacherous Judas). He baptizes himself in a pond, then returns home for what could be the last supper with his family (including a disciple—his son, marked by the sins of his father when he savagely beat up a bully). So, is home-protecting gun-violence modern America's abiding faith? In the name of defending his family, is the father still the God-like man in whom we trust? And have simpler, cruder thrillers than A History of Violence— flicks that don't show a wife turned on by her husband's vicious strength, or skin and bone hanging from a gunshot face—simply helped us forget that body-brutalizing, mind-scarring violence lies behind the most crucial parable of forgiveness and redemption in our history? BRIAN GIBSON

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DARK SHADOWS (14A) Fri-Sat 6:55, 9:20: Sun-Thu 8:00 THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Fri-Sat 6:40, 9:20; Sun-Thu 8:00

DUGGAN CINEMA–CAMROSE 6601-48 Ave Camrose 780.608.2144

DARK SHADOWS (14A) Digital Daily 7:10 9:25; SatSun, Tue 1:55 THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital Daily 6:40 9:30; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:45 The Five Year Engagement (14A coarse language, sexual content) Digital Daily 6:40 9:15; Sat-Sun, Tue 1:50 The Pirates! Band Of Misfits (G) Digital Daily 7:00 8:55; Sat-Sun, Tue 2:00 The Lucky One (PG sexual content) Digital Thu-TUE 7:10, 9:20; Sat-Sun 2:05

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THE THREE STOOGES (PG) Fri-Mon, Wed 1:55, 4:30, 6:35, 9:05; Tue,Thu 1:55, 4:30, 6:40, 9:05 DR. SEUSS' THE LORAX (G) Daily 1:00; 3d: Daily 3:00, 5:00, 7:05, 9:10 Safe House (14A brutal violence) Daily 1:35, 4:20, 7:00, 9:55 The Secret World Of Arrietty (G) Daily 1:40, 4:25, 6:45, 9:00 Lockout (14A violence) Daily 1:10, 3:30, 7:30, 9:45

This Means War (PG Language May Offend,Violence) Daily 1:45, 4:10, 7:15, 9:30

Daily 9:00

7:00, 10:10

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (Pg) Digital Daily 1:15; 3D: Fri 3:50, 6:55, 9:15; Sat-Thu 3:30, 6:55, 9:15

THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Closed Captioned, Wed-Thu 1:30, 3:45, 6:10, 8:20, 10:35

Act Of Valor (14A Violence) Daily 1:20, 4:00, 6:40, 9:20

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Closed Captioned Daily 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10

THE AVENGERS 3D (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital, Closed Captioned: Fri-Tue, Thu 1:15, 4:30, 7:45; Wed 7:45; , On 2 Screens Daily 12:15, 12:45, 3:30, 4:00, 6:45, 7:15, 10:00, 10:30

Wanderlust (14A Coarse Language, Substance Abuse) Daily 1:50, 4:15, 7:20, 9:50

CHIMPANZEE (G) Closed Captioned Fri-Tue 12:20, 2:50

The Vow (PG) Daily 1:25, 4:05, 7:10, 9:35 Silent House (14A Disturbing Content, Frightening Scenes) Daily 1:30, 3:40, 7:25, 10:00 Taur Mittran Di (PG) Punjabi W/E.S.T. Daily 1:00, 3:55, 6:50, 9:45

CINEPLEX ODEON NORTH 14231-137 Ave 780.732.2236

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A gory violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 5:10, 7:40, 11:00; Sun-Tue 5:10, 7:40, 10:05 THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, Fri 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45, 10:00; Sat 11:00, 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 9:45, 10:00; Sun-Tue, Thu 12:15, 3:30, 6:45, 10:00; Wed 3:45, 7:00, 10:15; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00; 3D: Closed Captioned Fri-Sat 11:45, 12:45, 3:00, 4:00, 6:15, 7:15, 9:30, 10:30, 10:45; Sun-Thu 11:45, 1:45, 3:00, 5:15, 6:15, 8:30, 9:30 THE AVENGERS 3D (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Ultraavx, Fri-Sat 1:15, 4:30, 7:45, 11:00; Sun-Thu 12:45, 4:00, 7:15, 10:30 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) Closed Captioned Daily 11:50; 3D: Daily 2:00, 4:20, 6:40, 8:50 21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Tue, Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:10, 9:50; Wed 1:40, 4:40, 10:05 Wrath Of The Titans (14A) Closed Captioned

AMERICAN REUNION (18A coarse language, crude sexual content) Closed Captioned Fri, Sun-Thu 1:50, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20; Sat 2:00, 5:00, 7:40, 10:20 SAFE (14A brutal violence) Closed Captioned Fri-Wed 12:50, 3:20, 5:50, 8:10, 10:40; Thu 12:50, 3:20, 10:40 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Closed Captioned, Daily 12:00, 1:00, 2:40, 3:50, 5:15, 6:50, 8:00, 9:40, 10:45 THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Closed Captioned Daily 1:20, 4:15, 7:20, 10:15 A Streetcar Named Desire (STC) Digital Wed 7:00 THE LUCKY ONE (PG sexual content) Closed Captioned Fri-Tue,Thu 1:10, 3:40, 6:30; Wed 3:40, 6:30; Star & Strollers Screening: Wed 1:00 Chicken Run (G) Sat 11:00

CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH 1525-99 St 780.436.8585

THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A gory violence) Fri-Tue 7:15, 9:45 THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Fri-Sat 11:20, 12:50, 2:40, 4:10, 6:00, 7:30, 9:30, 11:00; Sun, Tue 11:40, 2:00, 3:00, 5:20, 6:20, 8:40, 9:40; Mon, Wed-Thu 11:40, 2:00, 3:00, 5:30, 6:20, 9:00, 9:40; 3D: Fri 11:50, 12:20, 1:20, 3:10, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:30, 11:15; Sat 11:50, 12:20, 1:20, 3:10, 3:40, 4:40, 6:30, 7:00, 8:00, 10:00, 10:15, 11:15; Sun-Thu 12:00, 12:20, 12:40, 3:20, 3:40, 4:00, 6:40, 7:00, 7:20, 10:00, 10:20, 10:40 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) Fri-Wed 11:30, 1:55, 4:20; Thu 4:20; Star & Strollers Screening: Thu 1:00; 3D: Fri-Sat 12:00, 2:25, 4:55, 7:35, 10:05; Sun-Thu 11:55, 2:25, 4:50, 7:40, 10:05 21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Fri-Sat 11:35, 2:45, 5:30, 8:25, 11:10; Sun-Tue 1:00, 4:05, 7:45, 10:45; Wed 1:00, 4:05, 10:45; Thu 1:50, 4:55, 7:45 THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Wed-Thu 12:30, 2:50, 5:10, 7:25, 9:45 Wrath Of The Titans (14A) Daily 10:35 The Metropolitan Opera: Die WalkⁿRe Encore (classification not available) Sat 10:00 HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Fri-Sat 11:40, 3:20, 7:10, 10:20; Sun, Tue 11:50, 3:10, 6:40, 9:55; Mon, WedThu 11:50, 3:10, 6:35, 9:55

The Dictator (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Closed Captioned, Digital Wed-Thu 12:50, 4:10, 7:30, 10:05 THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Closed Captioned, Digital Fri-Tue 12:50, 4:10, 7:05, 10:05; Wed 1:10, 4:20, 10:25; Thu 1:10, 4:20, 7:30, 10:25 THE RAVEN (18A gory scenes) Digital Daily 1:00, 3:50, 7:10 21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Closed Captioned, Digital Fri-Tue 9:40 SAFE (14A brutal violence) Digital Fri-Tue 1:10, 4:20, 7:25; Wed-Thu 9:40 THE CABIN IN THE WOODS (18A gory violence) Closed Captioned, Digital Fri-Tue 10:25 HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Closed Captioned, Digital Daily 2:00, 6:30, 9:45 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (G) Closed Captioned, Digital Fri-Wed 1:30, 3:55, 6:40, 9:30; Thu 1:30, 3:55, 9:30

CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600

HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Digital Fri 8:10; Sat-Sun 1:25, 4:35, 8:10; Mon-Tue 4:40, 7:50; Wed-Thu 4:35, 7:50 THE LUCKY ONE (PG sexual content) Digital Fri 7:05; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:50, 7:05; Mon-Tue 4:35 SAFE (14A brutal violence) Digital Fri-Sun 9:40; MonTue 8:05

THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Digital Fri 6:40, 9:30; Sat-Sun 12:55, 3:45, 6:40, 9:30; Mon-Tue 4:50, 7:45; Wed-Thu 4:40, 7:45 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) Digital Sat-Sun 1:10; 3D: Digital 3d Fri 6:35, 8:50; Sat-Sun 4:00, 6:35, 8:50; Mon-Thu 5:05, 7:30 THE AVENGERS 3D (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Digital: Fri 7:20; Sat-Sun 12:45, 3:50, 7:20; Mon-Thu 5:00, 8:00; Fri 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 9:35; SatSun 12:20, 1:15, 1:45, 3:25, 4:20, 4:50, 6:30, 8:00, 9:00, 9:35; Mon-Thu 4:30, 6:50, 7:15, 7:40 The Dictator (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Digital Wed-Thu 5:10, 8:10 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Digital, Fri 6:45, 8:00, 9:25; SatSun 12:30, 1:00, 3:10, 4:10, 6:45, 8:00, 9:25; Mon-Tue 4:45, 5:15, 7:35, 8:10; Wed-Thu 4:45, 5:15, 7:35, 8:05

Edmonton Film Society

Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave

THINK LIKE A MAN (PG language may offend, not recommended for young children) Fri-Sat 1:05, 4:45, 7:45, 10:50; Sun-Thu 1:40, 4:40, 7:50, 10:40

SAYONARA (PG) Mon 8:00

AMERICAN REUNION (18A coarse language, crude sexual content) Fri-Sat 1:40, 4:25, 7:20, 10:15; Sun-Wed 12:05, 3:15, 7:05, 10:10; Thu 12:05, 3:15, 10:10

THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Fri-Sat 12:00, 1:00, 3:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:50, 10:40; Sun 12:00, 1:00, 3:10, 4:10, 6:30, 7:30, 9:50;

SAFE (14A brutal violence) Fri 12:15, 2:55, 5:35, 8:30, 11:05; Sat 5:35, 8:30, 11:05; Sun, Tue 12:10, 2:45, 5:20, 8:05, 10:40; Mon 12:10, 2:45, 10:40; Wed-Thu 8:05, 10:25

Mon-Thu 6:30, 7:30, 9:50; 3D: Fri, Sun 12:30, 2:40, 3:40, 6:00, 7:00, 9:20, 10:20; Sat 11:30, 12:30, 2:40, 3:40, 6:00, 7:00, 9:20, 10:20; Mon-Thu 7:00, 8:00, 10:20

DARK SHADOWS (14A) Fri-Sat 11:15, 1:25, 2:15, 4:15, 5:00, 7:05, 8:05, 9:50, 10:55; Sun-Tue 11:35, 12:25, 2:55, 3:45, 6:45, 7:35, 9:50, 10:30; Wed 11:35, 12:25, 2:55, 3:45, 6:45, 7:35, 9:55, 10:30; Thu 12:25, 3:40, 3:45, 6:45, 7:35, 10:25, 10:30

THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) Fri-Sun 12:10; 3D: Fri-Sun 2:30, 4:50, 7:10, 9:30; Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:30

THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Fri-Sat 2:00, 5:10, 8:15, 11:10; Sun-Thu 1:10, 4:10, 7:10, 10:15 A Streetcar Named Desire (STC) Digital: Wed 7:00 THE LUCKY ONE (PG sexual content) Daily 1:30, 4:35, 7:40 Siegfried Wagner Opera (classification not available) Thu 6:30 Chicken Run (G) Sat 11:00

CINEPLEX ODEON Windermere Cinemas Cineplex Odeon Windermere & Vip Cinemas, 6151 Currents Dr Nw Edmonton 780.822.4250

THE AVENGERS (PG violence, not recommended for young children) Fri 6:00, 9:20; Sat-Sun 2:00, 6:00, 9:20; Mon-Thu 8:30; 3D: Vip 18+ Fri 5:45, 9:30; Sat-Sun 2:00, 5:45, 9:30; Mon-Thu 9:30; Fri, Mon-Thu 6:50, 10:30; Sat-Sun 3:15, 6:50, 10:30; Ultraavx: Fri 4:05, 7:25, 10:45; Sat-Sun 12:45, 4:05, 7:25, 10:45; Mon-Thu 6:40, 10:10 THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS (G) Sat-Sun 12:00; 3D: Fri 4:50, 7:15, 9:30; Sat-Sun 2:20, 4:50, 7:15, 9:30; Mon-Thu 7:10, 9:30 THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Wed-Thu 8:00, 10:20 HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Fri 3:30, 6:50, 10:00; Sat-Sun 12:20, 3:30, 6:50, 10:00; Mon-Thu 6:30, 10:00

GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150

THE DICTATOR (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Wed-Thu 7:15, 9:40 21 JUMP STREET (14A crude coarse language, substance abuse, violence) Fri-Sun 12:40, 3:30, 6:50, 9:40; Mon-Tue 6:50, 9:40 HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Fri, Sun 12:00, 3:00, 6:40, 10:00; Sat 11:50, 3:00, 6:40, 10:00; Mon-Thu 6:40, 10:00 DARK SHADOWS (14A) Fri-Sat 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:30; Sun 1:20, 4:30, 7:40, 10:20; Mon-Thu 7:35, 10:20 THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Fri-Sun 12:20, 3:20, 6:20, 9:10; Mon-Thu 6:30, 9:20 THE LUCKY ONE (PG sexual content) Fri, Sun 12:00, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; Sat 11:40, 2:20, 4:50, 7:20, 9:45; Mon-Thu 7:20, 9:45 Chicken Run (G) Sat 11:00

GRANDIN THEATRE–St Albert Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave St Albert 780.458.9822

DARK SHADOWS (14A) Daily 12:45, 2:55, 5:05, 7:15, 9:30 Mirror Mirror (G) Daily 12:35 The Dictator (14A crude content, language may offend, not recommended for children) Daily 1:45, 3:45, 5:45, 7:30, 9:20 HUNGER GAMES (14A violence) Daily 4:25, 8:55 The Three Stooges (PG) Daily 2:40, 7:05

SAFE (14A brutal violence) Fri 5:30, 8:00, 10:40; Sat-Sun 12:50, 3:10, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40; Mon-Tue 8:00

THE PIRATES! BAND OF MISFITS 3D (G) Daily 1:00, 3:00, 5:00, 6:50

DARK SHADOWS (14A) Fri 3:50, 7:00, 9:50; Sat-Sun 1:00, 3:50, 7:00, 9:50; Mon-Thu 7:00, 9:50; Vip 18+: Fri 4:30, 8:15; Sat-Sun 1:00, 4:30, 8:15; Mon-Thu 8:15

The Five Year Engagement (14A coarse language, sexual content) Daily 9:00

THE FIVE YEAR ENGAGEMENT (14A coarse language, sexual content) Fri 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Sat-Sun 12:30, 3:40, 6:40, 9:40; Mon-Thu 6:50, 9:40 THE LUCKY ONE (PG sexual content) Fri 5:10, 7:40, 10:30; Sat-Sun 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:40, 10:30; Mon-Thu 7:20, 10:00

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10200-102 Ave 780.421.7020

DARK SHADOWS (14A) Digital Fri 12:30, 3:40, 7:00, 10:10; Closed Captioned, Digital: Sat-Thu 12:30, 3:40,

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

THE LONG DAY CLOSES (STC) Sub-titled Fri, Thu 7:00; Sat 9:30; Sun 4:00 MISS BALA (14A violence, sexual violence) Sub-titled Fri, Mon, Wed 9:00; Sat 1:45; Sun, Tue 7:00

POLTERGEIST–Dedfest (STC) Fri 11:15 PINA (G) Sat 4:00; Sun 2:00, 9;15; Mon, Wed 7:00 I HEART REGINA (14A) Sat 7:30 A HISTORY OF VIOLENCE (18A gory scenes, sexual content) Graphic Content Film Series: Tue 9:15 METRO SHORTS (STC) Mostly Water: Thu 9:00

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PREVUE // DANCE

Ultimate fandom

The acclaimed Elton John ballet returns Thu, May 10 – Sat, May 12 (7:30 pm) Love Lies Bleeding Presented by Alberta Ballet Jubilee Auditorium

fter 10 years of dancing title roles like Romeo and even Othello's villainous Iago with Alberta Ballet, one might assume that the vague title of Elton Fan would feel like a backseat to principal dancer Kelley McKinlay. Definitely not so, as the Fan in question actually plays the main role in Love Lies Bleeding, Jean Grand-Maître's balletic foray into the music of Elton John and Bernie Tapuin. A revival of the Alberta Ballet's 2010 production—which has garnered praise worldwide, and a CBC primetime special—the show is a special challenge for McKinlay and Yukichi Hattori, who split the main role on alternating performances. "The biggest challenge, even before approaching the characterization of the role, was just to physically do it," says McKinlay. "As the Elton Fan, you never really leave the stage. That includes costume changes onstage, getting water onstage, and still making those look like part of the show." Add elements like flying, dancing on rotating tables and roller skates into the mix, and it's a pretty intimidating world for any ballet dancer to enter. The journey of the character, he says, was another challenge en-

tirely. It starts out with a young kid who's completely obsessed with Elton John (weren't we all?). "The character wants to experience every aspect of Elton John's life, and not just Elton John, but what any superstar would go through in their career: Sexual repression, finding love, drug addiction, alcohol addiction, and the things that push you to the dark side. So it's quite a journey both emotionally and physically from beginning to end," McKinlay says. Essentially, the show is not just how Elton finds himself through the course of his career (and his songs), but it's

ing to be onstage for that. It's almost unheard of for a ballet crowd to react like that." The most interesting moment, he says, is hearing the audience respond to the opening scene of the Bridge, the final pas de deux which he and Yukichi Hattori dance together every show, regardless of who is playing the Elton Fan that night. "The Bridge starts with a 40-second kiss between the Elton Fan and his lover," explains McKinlay, "and it's unbelievable to hear an audience

Because [dance] is a passion of your life, when you hear such recognition—when the audience is on their feet and screaming and clapping and singing along—it's overwhelming to be onstage for that. It's almost unheard of for a ballet crowd to react like that." also about the Elton Fan finding himself, and figuring out how to survive in this crazy world—with 150 costumes, 60 wigs, hundreds of accessories (that's where we count the sunglasses) in tow. Oh, and there's a libretto—yes, the ballet company sings. Audience reaction has been out of this world, says McKinlay. "Because [dance] is a passion of your life, when you hear such recognition—when the audience is on their feet and screaming and clapping and singing along—it's overwhelm-

start clapping when they see that. In this day and age, for an audience to be impressed by that is shocking to me—I mean it seems pretty normal nowadays." Normal, sure. But we're pretty sure no one argues that Love Lies Bleeding is a "normal" ballet by any stretch. And its success, perhaps, is how audiences are trying to tell the classical ballet world that normal just isn't what they want anymore. FAWNDA MITHRUSH

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Ballet, Elton John style // Charles Hope

PREVUE // NEW WORKS

From Cradle to Stage Mon, May 14 – Sat, May 20 (8 pm); Sun, May 20 (2 pm, staged readings) Walterdale Playhouse, $12 – $16

wo one-act staged performances and four staged readings from local playwrights will be showcased for this year's From Cradle to Stage festival. "The idea is that staged productions are developed from the earliest drafts with assistance from dramaturgs through to a full production on our stage; they evolve from infancy to maturity," says Sarah Van Tassel, the Walterdale Playhouse's artistic director. The festival, which became an annual event six years ago, allows for new works to be developed prior to being fully staged. This year's lineup includes Apoca-

lypse Saskatchewan and The Carrying on the staged side, with Poor Defenseless Creatures, The Loneliest Number, Mary! and Magpies rounding out the readings. "What readings are is the actors don't memorize the lines, so they have music stands with their scripts on them and there's no blocking, so really, it's like observing a radio play," explains Brooke Leifso, director of Poor Defenseless Creatures and The Loneliest Number, cautioning that the works deal with some mature subject matter, particularly Poor Defenseless Creatures, which delves into the complexities of violence and abuse suffered by two young children. In contrast, The Loneliest Number explores the lives of three women facing mid-adult reality and navigating the landscape of

female friendships. The works transcend a variety of genres to bring audiences everything from comedy—as seen in Apocalypse Saskatchewan, which tells the story of three retired men in a rural prairie town who must defend their town

apocalypse is because of the behaviour of the younger generation. They see them like they act like zombies, then they decide, what if they really are zombies? They do make a convincing case." Opposite to the humour rural Canadiana is The Carrying, a movement-

The thing that I think is beautiful about this festival is that there is an end goal. That's to put it on its feet and have an audience come and see it, and I think that's so valuable for a playwright.

from a zombie apocalypse—to more dramatic moments. "Zombies are hot right now," says director Giorgia Severini. "The reason they decide it's definitely a zombie

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based piece following the story of two sisters who search for answers as to why they are continuously burdened by mysterious baggage. "The beauty of this play is that

it's simple enough that it means something very specific to us, but it's simple enough that it'll mean a lot of different things to a lot of people in general, and I think that's one of the beauties of theatre in general, but this play specifically," says director Mari Chartier. Overall, the festival can help mitigate the curse of the Canadian play, as Chartier puts it, referencing when plays fall into the trap of workshop after workshop, without ever going any further. "The thing that I think is beautiful about this festival is that there is an end goal," she continues. "That's to put it on its feet and have an audience come and see it, and I think that's so valuable for a playwright." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // AERIAL THEATRE

Operation EVAsion

In Focus / Thu, May 3 – Wed, May 30 The In Focus exhibit presents the photography of 10 blind and partially sighted amateur photographers from across Alberta. Through his or her work, each photographer challenges the assumption that beauty can only be captured with ability to see. Using light, shapes and contrast to guide their lenses the photographers captured everything from everyday household items to prairie landscapes. The collection of nearly 60 photographs will be on display in the south wing of the Rutherford Library. (University of Alberta)

Sat, May 12 – Sun, May 20 (8 pm) Directed by John Ullyatt Catalyst Theatre, $20

t was 24 years after Eva Péron's death that her body reached its resting place. Though her life has already been immortalized in the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Evita (and its 1996 film adaptation), it ends with her death. What came after—the Argentinian heroine's embalmed body lost or hidden amidst a decades-long period of political unrest and upheaval—remains one of the most mythic postmortem adventures ever undertaken, and perhaps that legendary trip alone is at least part of the reason her name still has some resonance today. Firefly Theatre artistic director Annie Dugan sees another possibility. "I saw a newspaper less than three weeks ago, and there on the front page of the buisness section, there was a big photograph of the president of Argentina, and right behind her on a building is the face of Evita," Dugan recalls over the phone. "She's still relevant there today. The changes she evoked on society are still what people want." Dugan created Operation EVAsion as a way of telling Peron's body's journey, a "narrative aerial monologue" performed solo by Dugan while she's suspended in the air, making use of her own acrobatic artistry, large white silks, live accordion accompaniment and projected historical footage to run the full length of her story's spy-novel-worthy volume of twists. It first saw a run at the Canoe Theatre fest a few seasons back, but Dugan notes she's done some serious revision since then, herself and director/husband John Ullyatt having clarified some of the more ambiguous details of the tale.

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Dugan as Eva

"It's a very convoluted story, to put it mildly," Dugan says "I was telling it chronologically, so there'd be a lots of going back and forth between the characters. We decided to detangle it a bit. Even if we're going back in time, we're staying with one character. It allows me as the storyteller to keep the drive going." EVAsion was supposed to see a Fringe run this past August, but a number of reasons, including a knee injury, made it impossible. But Dugan isn't quite seem ready to just leave the story behind quite yet: Peron's actions, both agreeable and not, continue to stick with her. "That was three performaces of the

show, ever. And three wasn't enough," she explains, of the initial Canoe run. "We just felt like we cracked it, and wanted to keep going. "I think each time I come back to it, I find myself a little bit more passionate about it," Dugan continues. "I continue to research the politics, the history, what the chain of events were that led to Eva Péron being able to do the things that she did. The size of her accomplishments, they just continue to amaze me. "It's such a strange thing: I have so much admiration for her, but it's tempered by things she did that I don't have admiration for." PAUL BLINOV

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Harcourt House Annual Fundraiser / Sat, May 12 (7:30 pm – 10 pm) See the work of some of Edmonton's finest visual artists while supporting one of our artist run centres by checking out Harcourt House's 12th annual fundraiser. Alongside the annual art auction held in the revitalized Annex building, artist-in-residence Sydney Lancaster will have her studio open to the public, along with other artists who invite you to observe their creative habitat. Funds raised will go towards future exhibits and education programs. (Harcourt House, $15 – $20)

The Coming Out Monologues / Thu, May 17 (7:30 pm) The Coming Out Monologues is a theatrical performance inspired by Eve Ensler's Vagina Monologues. The performance, created in partnership between the University of Alberta and the Institute for Sexual Minority Studies and Services (iSMSS), explores the social, safety and health issues that are unique to sexual minorities in an attempt to move awareness beyond the campus. Speakers and a discussion will be held after the performance. (Arts Based Research Studio, Education Building, University of Alberta, $6 – $11)

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Until Sun, May 20 (8 pm, 2 pm on Sundays) Directed by Bradley Moss Roxy Theatre, $13 – $27

Scott Peters and Dave Clarke, preventing the story's twists and turns from becoming mind-boggling and helping shape an otherwise sparse stage. Different lighting tones and patterns characterize various scenes and make it easy to recognize which one the pair have jumped into. The technical aspects further amplify the

mood of different scenes, such as the pulsing thud of a heartbeat as Ray awaits the doctor's diagnosis. Aside from a couple of chairs, the only prop used throughout the production is a jacket, which begins and ends the story crumpled in a heap on the stage. The jacket becomes personified throughout the story as

it represents different aspects of the four elements of the story: the past, the present, the play and the show. In On It also offers interesting insight into navigating the unexpected, living the life you want to live and creating a loving, fulfilling present. Thankfully, in this MacIvor avoids falling into cliches and presents platitudes about life in a

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aniel MacIvor, a well-known stalwart in Canadian theatre, has woven together an intricate yet entertaining multi-plot production that's wrought with dry, intelligent humour and turbulent emotions. The two-man cast of In On It consists of Frank Zotter and Nathan Cuckow, who bring a bare stage to life. Their characters alternate between two lovers on the brink of collapse, a dying man who discovers his wife had an affair and is leaving him on the day of his diagnosis and the two men creating a play within the play, which is interpreted and re-interpreted. Zotter and Cuckow are wildly entertaining as they transition between their characters, often in the span of a single line. Their chemistry onstage is genuine and, whether it's biting comedy or an explosive argument, their portrayal retains a sense of verisimilitude. The pair frequently address the audience, which breaks down the barrier between actor and audience and draws viewers even further into the intertwined worlds.

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PREVUE // SING IT OUT LOUD

The Swingin' Sisters Club Fri, May 11; Sat, May 12 (8 pm); Sun, May 13 (12:30 pm & 3:30 pm) Directed by Tim Yakimec Capitol Theatre (Fort Edmonton Park), $20 – $28

love history; I'm a history buff," Kate Ryan says. She specifically notes a love of the history of this country and this province, and, for a while, she was actively merging that passion for place into two of her other big ones, performance and song. Ryan worked for the City of Edmonton, developing plays based on our history. "As artists we're storytellers, and the best stories come from history," she notes. It's that timecapsule element of art that likely led Ryan, alongside her sister Bridget and Beth Portman to develop The Swingin' Sisters Club, a cabaret-style collection of songs best deemed vintage. Settling into the 1940s era of song with a plot that finds these three taking over a smalltown radio station to boost morale, it carries tunes with titles like "Tuxedo Junction" and "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy," running from ballads to jitter bugs to big swing-ers, with a lot of wartime influence seeping in from the era these songs existed in. "We kept coming across these great stories about women during the war," Ryan says. "They came across so much, just tough times to keep their spirits,

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just to keep things alive and moving while the rest of the world was experiencing devastating events. Through these stories, it was like, 'Let's celebrate these stories we've been finding.'" The Sisters Club first premiered back at the 2006 Fringe, then saw a reprisal in 2008, with some touring through Alberta and BC. Ryan notes that returning to the material for a third go-around "Felt like yesterday, but it's not. A lot has happened to all of us since. We're coming back together and bringing something that, for us, is richer and more mature. That's the

thing about this music: it's timeless in many ways, but also, the older and wiser we get, there's so much more that we find in it." Sisters really is art as preservation, too: if these three weren't going out and collecting these stories and songs, they'd soon be lost to the passage of time. "These women aren't around much longer," Ryan says. "It's a generation that will be greatly missed, and I am so greatful for this music and the stories. They are leaving an incredible legacy." PAUL BLINOV

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4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • Annual Spring Garden Show: Pottery for the garden by Marion Majeau, Robert Ford, and friends; until May 31

780.760.1278 • Without Pretense: Paintings by Heidi Smith • Until May 25 • Reception: May 10, 5-8pm

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U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • • Michael Eubank: MFA Painting; until May 11 • InSight: Visualizing Health Humanities: Collaborative exhibition presenting an array of practice, research and teaching in Medical Humanities at the U of A; until May 11

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Library • 780.944.5383 • Being Elmo: A Puppeteer's Journey; May 17, 6:30pm

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Museum, 12845-102nd Ave • 780.453.9100 • Sayonara (1957, colour, PG); May 14

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8712-109 St • Edmonton Media Arts Party 2012 and I Heart Regina Screening • May 12; 6-7:30pm and 9-11pm (reception and silent auction); 7:30 (film screening) followed by artist talk and continuation of the Spirit of Helen fundraising reception and Media Arts Party

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS Agnes Bugera Gallery • 12310 Jasper

Ave • 780.482.2854 • Walking and Painting in the Back Country: Jerry Heine; opening: May 12, 2-4pm, artist in attendance; May 12-25

Alberta Avenue Community Centre • 9210-118 Ave • That Bloomin' Garden Show & Art Sale • Artworks by various artists • May 12, 9am-4pm

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • Discovery Gallery: Confluence: Robin DuPont's exploration of soda fired pottery; May 12-Jun 16; reception: May 12, 2-4pm • Feature Gallery: PULP PAPER PAGES: Featuring contemporary Albertan book + paper arts; until Jul 7

Alberta Society of Artists Gallery • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner

Kehrig Fine Art • Great West Saddlery

Building, 10137-104 St • 780.619.0818 • Silent Beauty: sculptures by Blake Ward, Michel Anthony, paintings by Raphaël Gyllenbjörn, wall hangings by Anna Torma, and other artists • May 10-Jun 29 • Opening: May 10, 6-10pm; artist in attendance

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1 • 10729-104

Ave • Comic Jam: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Open Door: a collective of independent comic creators, meet on the 2nd and 4th Thu each month, 7pm

Harcourt House • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.426.4180 • Main Space: SOUNDBURSTINGS NO.1: Gary James Joynes installation of several video projections that create a sequence of SoundBursts • Becoming: Group show, artworks based on a model's pregnancy. Curated by Andrea Lewis; until May 26 • Education Annex: Art in the Annex II: Spring auction: May 12, 7:30-10pm; $15 (adv)/$20 (door) Holy Trinity Catholic Church– Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • Spruce Grove Art Gallery's 7th Annual Decadent Dessert Silent Auction and Gala • May 11 • Tickets at Spruce Grove Art Gallery, 780.962.0664

Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • With Spirit and Soul: Artworks by students from Notre Dame High School • Until May 31

Jeff Allen Art Gallery • Strathcona Place

Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave • 780.433.5807 • Wimmin in Wax: Encaustic artworks by various artists • Until May 30

Jubilee Auditorium • 11455-87 Ave • Love

Lies Bleeding–The Exhibition: Artworks by Alberta Society of Artists members based on or inspired by music and lyrics of Elton John • Until May Jun 15 • Reception: Thu, May 10

• 780.426.0072 • A Balance of Order and Chaos: Solo exhibit of paper works by Erik Cheung; runs in conjunction with the one-act play festival From Cradle to Stage; May 14-19 • Open to the public: May 19, 10am-3pm

Jurassic Forest/Learning Centre •

Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne St, St Albert

Library • Awesome Art Show: Artworks by students from Red Deer Middle Schools • Until May 27

Art Gallery of Alberta (AGA) • 2

Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • ProjEx Room: Monotone Voice: Works by U of A's artist-in-residence, Yusuke Shibata; until May 12; "Skater" presentation on techniques for producing performative video with Yusuke Shibata: May 12, 1pm • Main Space: The Big Foldy Painting of Death: By Ian Forbes; until May 12 • Hidden Truths: Multimedia art by artist collective of Federally incarcerated women; until May 12 • Main Space: Mouth and Duet: Installation, and performance by Andrew Forster; May 18-Jun 23; opening: May 18, 7pm

• 780.459.3679 • Picasso and Pinot Noir: 3rd Thu each month; $50, pre-register

Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • ALEX JANVIER: Life's Work: May 18-Aug 19 • RBC New Works: Anthropocene, 2012: Installation by Brendan McGillicuddy; May 18-Jul 1; Conversation with the Artist: May 17, 6pm • Icons of Modernism: until May 21 • BMO Work of Creativity: Method and Madness: Familyfocused interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • RBC New Works Gallery: MASS: Dara Humniski: until May 20 • VENERATOR: Contemporary Art from the AGA Collection; until May 21 • Art School: Banff 1947: until Jun 3 • Alberta Mistresses of the Modern: 1935-1975 • Art School: Banff 1947: Until Jun 3 • Alberta Process Painting: until Jun 3 • InGallery Talk: Art School Confidential; May 13, 2pm • Open Studio: Adult Drop-In: Map: Collograph Print-Making: May 10; Blend: Pastel Portraiture: May 17, 7-9pm; $15/$12 (AGA member); $15/$12 AGA members • All Day Sunday: Art activities for all ages 3rd Sun each month, 12-4pm; free with admission

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA)

• 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • High Energy XVIII: Artworks by young artists from Bellerose Composite, École Secondaire Paul Kane and Sainte Marguerite d’Youville, St. Albert Catholic, and Outreach high schools; until May 28

Common Sense • 10546-115 St •

780.482.2685 • Back Alleys and Side Streets–Finding Beauty in the Overlooked Urban Environment: Photographs by Russell Bingham • Until May 19

Creations Gallery Space • Sawridge

Inn Lobby, 4235 Gateway Blvd • A Warriors Cry: Artworks by Veran Pardeahtan • Until Jun

15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Kiwanis Gallery–Red Deer • Red Deer

780.432.0240 • No Name Place: Printworks by Taryn Kneteman • Until May 30 • Reception: May 17, 5-7pm Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • Full Circle: Abstract paintings by Sheila Luck • Out of Place: Photos by William Anderson • May 12-26 • Opening: May 12, 2-4pm; artists in attendance

Propaganda Hair Salon • 10808-124 St • Pieces of outro: Artworks by Outro • Through May

Royal Alberta Museum • 12845-102 Ave

• 780.453.9100 • Faces of Labour: until Jun 24 • Winged Tapestries: Moths at Large: until Sep 3 • Fashioning Feathers: Dead Birds, Millinery Craft and the Plumage Trade; curated by Merle Patchett and Liz Gomez, show examines the effect of fashion's demand for beautiful feathers on bird populations at the beginning of the twentieth century; until Jan 6

Rutherford South Library • U of A

Campus • In Focus: Blind Photographers Challenge Visual Expectations: Photos by blind and partially sighted photographers exploring the built environment • Until May 30

A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts

Haven Social Club • 15120 Stony Plain

From Cradle to Stage: An Evening of One-Acts • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-

Ave • Wild Life/Courage • Mon, May 14, 7pm

Riverdale • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm • facebook. com/group.php?gid=264777964410 E: creative. word.jam@gmail.com Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • Come to share a story, or just come to listen; hosted by Dawn Blue; 7-9pm; free; 2nd Wed each month WordCraw • Start and finish at Bohemia,

WunderBar on Whyte • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

TELUS Centre • U of A Museums, Gallery A, Main Fl, 87 Ave, 111 St • 780.492.5834 • Open: Thu-Fri 12-5pm; Sat 2-5pm • China's Imperial Modern: The Painter's Craft: Curated by Lisa Claypool • Until Jul 14

THEATRE

TELUS World of Science • 11211-142 St • To The Arctic (G) IMAX • IMAX Adventure: Daily films • When Venus Transits the Sun: Full-Dome Show in the Margaret Zeidler Star Theatre U of A Museums–TELUS Centre • Gallery A, Main Fl, 87 Ave, 111 St, U of A • 780.492.5834 • China's Imperial Modern: The Painter's Craft: How did modern ways of making paintings and prints emerge from the ink painter’s studio, enter the public sphere, and help shape people’s lives in China during the late imperial era? • Until Jul 14; Thu-Fri, 12-5pm, Sat 2-5pm

VAAA Gallery • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St •

780.421.1731 • Gallery A: There is no remedy against the truth of language: Assemblages by William G. Prettie • Gallery B: Human Voices: t Photos by Gerry Yaum • Both shows: until May 26

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave •

780.488.4892 • Sanctuary Series: Artworks by Ariane Dubois; until May 17

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 •

The Adulteress • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • 780.433.3399, VB 1 • Teatro La Quindicina presents this new play by Stewart Lemoine. Stars Briana Buckmaster, Shannon Blanchet and Eric Wigston • Until May 12, Tue-Sat 7:30pm; matinees: Sat 2pm • Wed-Sat evenings: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/senior)/Sat mat: $15 at TIX on the Square; Tue: Pay-What-You-Can

Apocalypse Prairie: The Book of Daniel • Livingroom Playhouse, 11315-106 St • 780.454.0583 • Azimuth Theatre explores the historical, cultural, political, and psychological landscape of Alberta by Steve Pirot, music by Aaron Macri • Until May 12, 8pm • Pay-WhatYou-Will

CHICAGO • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615109 Ave • Tickets: 780.483.4051, Toll free: 1.877.529.7829 • Broadway Musical • Until Jun 17

Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave

• Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only)

The Coming Out Monologues: Performance & Colloquium • 4-104,

Education North, U of A • Theatrical performance about the experiences of coming out as a sexual minority person, followed by speakers Michael Phair and Lisa Goldberg • May 17-18 • $5 (student)/$10 (non-students) at door

112 St, 87 Ave • 780.492.2495 • U of A Studio Theatre • By Euripides, directed by Donna Marie Baratta (MFA Thesis) • Euripides’, a retelling of the myth of Jason and Medea challenged the moral universe of Athenians in its day. Today this classic story of a woman so blinded by jealousy and rage that she kills her own children still stands as a powerful cautionary tale of the madness that may ensue when love and loyalty are betrayed • May 17-26, 7:30pm; May 24, 12:30pm • Tickets at Timms box office, TIX on the Square

Mom's The Word • Bailey Theatre, 5041-

50 St, Camrose • 780.672.5510 • Written by six performer-moms who have endured the agonies and ecstasies of parenting presented by Camrose Main Street Players; adult themes and language • May 10-11, 7:30pm; $20; May 12, 1pm: $20; May 12, 6:30pm: dinner theatre: $45; May 13, 11:30pm: brunch: $40 • Tickets at Bailey Box Office

Operation EVAsion • Catalyst Theatre,

8529 Gateway Blvd • Firefly Theatre and Circus • Operation EVAsion is based on the bizarre but factual account of the multiple disappearances of the corpse of Eva Peron. Created and performed by Firefly’s Annie Dugan, Operation EVAsion is a fusion of narrative, aerial arts, & multimedia, with live music by Jason Kodie, projections and lighting by Jeff Osterlin and direction by John Ullyatt • May 12-20, 8pm; May 19, 2pm; no show May 14 • $20 at TIX on the Square

The Sound of Music • Citadel Shoctor

Theatre, 9828-101A Ave • 780.428.2117 • Music by Richard Rodgers, lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, book by Howard Lindsay and Russel Crouse, directed by Bob Baker, starring Rejean Cournoyer • Until May 20; extended to May 27

The Swingin’ Sisters Club • Capital

Theatre, Fort Edmonton Park, Fox Dr, Whitemud Dr • Stars Bridget Ryan, Beth Portman and Kate Ryan • May 11-13; Fri-Sat 8pm; Sun 12:30 and 3:30pm; May 11: dinner theatre; May 13: Mother's Day Brunch • $28 (adult)/$20 (student/ senior)

TheatreSports • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • Improv runs every Fri, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change) • $10/$8 (member)

HARCOURT HOUSE ART EDUCATION ANNEX 10211-112 STREET

For more information please contact Harcourt House Gallery 780.426.4180 | harcourthouse@shaw.ca

Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission Ave, St

St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Watercolours by Elaine Funnell; until May 23

MEDEA • Timms Centre for the Arts, U of A,

TICKETS $15 IN ADVANCE $20 AT THE DOOR

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440-112 St • 780.407.7152 • 25: Artworks by U of A Hospital staff in celebration of the Friends of University Hospital's 25th Anniversary; until Jun 17

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

IN ON IT • Theatre Network, 10708-124 St • 780.453.2440 • By Daniel MacIvor, directed by Bradley Moss, sound designer Dave Clarke, stars Frank Zotter and Nathan Cuckow • Until May 20 • 2-for-1 Tue: May 15 • $13.50-$27 at theatrenetwork.ca

SATURDAY MAY 12TH, 7:30−10PM

Community Association, Argyll Community League, 6750-88 St • Annual spring exhibition and sale: Artworks by Edmonton Art Club Members • May 26-27; Sat 10am-6pm; Sun 12-4:30pm • Opening: May 25, 6-9pm

Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-178 St • Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing

83 Ave • 780.439.2845 • Local playwrights works are selected from an open competition in the fall and developed with assistance of dramaturges, through to full productions • May 14-19 • $12$16 at TIX on the Square

ART IN THE ANNEX II 2012 SPRING AUCTION

LOUNGE GALLERY • Edmonton Japanese

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

Barns, PCL Studio, 10330-84 Ave • Rabid Marmot Productions • An amusing glimpse into the angst-ridden teen years of society’s most beloved comic-strip characters by Bert V. Royal • May 1727 • $20/$17 (student) at door, TIX on the Square

NFB Film Club • Idylwylde Library, 8310-88

Sugar Bowl • 10922-88 Ave • Acrylic on canvas paintings by Cuban artist Anabel Quan. • Through May

Strathcona County Gallery@501

Dog Sees God: Confessions of a Teenage Blockhead • TransAlta Arts

EXILS • 780.469.8400 • L'UniThéâtre • By Robert Bellefeuille and Philippe Soldevila • Production of Théâtre de la Vieille 17, co-production with Théâtre l’Escaouette and Théâtre Sortie de Secours • May 10-13

• 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • Artworks by Ila Crawford; until Jun 24

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • WalKing on Walls: University of Alberta senior Print Show; until May 19 • Community Event: Mother’s Day Event: make a unique gift for your mom on her special day; May 13

• 780.433.3399 • Improvised soap opera featuring • Every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office

Rd • 780.915.8869 • Edmonton Story Slam: writers share their original, 5-minute stories; followed by a music jam • 3rd Wed every month • May 16, 7pm (sign-up); 7:30pm (show) • $5 (registration from writers to support the Society)

10217-97 St • The Word Crawl Express (Yellow School Bus) leaves at 6pm • Kasbar, 10444-82 Ave: Literary Cage Match: who tells the funniest story of the night with Matt Prins, Michael Hingston, Trevor Kjorlien • Expressionz Café, 9938-70 Ave: Patrick Swan, Mikey Maybe • Audrey's Books, 10702 Jasper Ave: Reading by Jannie Edwards, Rebecca Traquair, Jason Lee Norman, Kasia Gawlak, guests • May 12, 5pm start

SNAP Gallery • Society Of Northern Alberta

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave

Saturday, May 12, 8 pm Sunday, May 13, 2 pm The Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns 10330 - 84 Avenue $20 General Admission Tickets available through Tix on the Square More info at www.ekosingers.com

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"I am the one who turns fire loose upon food—peppers, python, poppyseed bread—and provides for family and neighbours."

very barbecutionist needs a solid range of equipment at their disposal to prepare for any and all grilling adventures. Here are some of the ideal pieces you should arm yourself with before setting out.

Serrated Tongs

Tongs are an essential tool for the outdoor chef who needs extra reach and dexterity; perfect for handling delicate and juicy cuts of meat or vegetables. Use a tong with teeth. Serrated tongs can better grip meat. It's also important to find tongs that aren't too heavy, and long enough to reach deep into your grill without roasting your hand. (+2 grill dexterity)

Basting Brush

Barbecuing is all about the juice, so a

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basting brush or sauce mop is an absolute necessity to keep the meat moist and the flavors flowing. The sauce mop is a petit version of the traditional household mop (wooden handle and white strings) and is best used for thinner sauces. The threads absorb the sauce and evenly baste the meat. A silicone baste brush is ideal for thicker barbecue sauces and allow you to pile on the flavor. Baste baby baste! (+2 taste, +1 satisfaction)

Insulated gloves

When it comes to protecting your flippers you have two choices, each with their own purpose: rubber insulated gloves or heavier, leather gloves. Either choice involves some bulkiness, which makes things a little awkward, but a total necessity around open flame. Rubber gloves are perfect

for lifting and shredding meat without burning your fingers. They also clean easily so feel free to get saucy. Leather gloves are ideal for handling the hardware, such as grills, pans and skewers. (+3 vs burns)

Grill topper

What can make a moist, nine-ounce filet better (besides wrapping it in bacon)? How about a perfectly grilled veg medley of mushrooms, baby spuds and red pepper? Grill toppers are where veggies go to mix and sizzle and can be placed directly over heat to provide for even cooking. Known as the barbecue wok, the grill topper can be picked up to toss and shake up veggies or smaller portions of meat. Get the non-stick variety to ensure hasslefree plating and cleaning. (requires "flavour medley" skill)

Digital meat thermometer

Mastering the pit requires diligence when monitoring temperature to ensure culinary perfection. Don't rely on colour cues as they can be very misleading. (+4 vs illusions, requires "sight beyond sight" skill)

Spatulas

It's better to lift meat than to poke it, which can cause the meat to lose moisture and dry out, but you also need a tool that won't rip or tear a nice fish filet. Try to find a thin metal or stainless steel spatula that can glide along the grill easily and lift or flip filets and patties without splitting. (+1 grill dexterity, +2 meat flip)

Grill Grates

Fake it until you make it and cheat your way to 'cue master. Grill gates give

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you sear marks so tight Dave Thomas would be jealous. The grates also help to reduce flare-ups, so amateurs need not to worry about charring their meat. (+2 satisfaction, +2 presentation)

Grill Brush

A meat overdose should make you sweat, but cleaning your grill shouldn't, so when all the tasty goodness ends and before the meat sweats kick in, tidy up your grill with a heavy duty grill brush. The Grill Daddy Pro brush seems to be melting hearts and caked on gristle everywhere due to its steam power and two-handle system. Leaving your barbecue a mess not only changes the taste of your food but also leaves you exposed to harmful bacteria. (+1 cleanliness, +1 godliness) Tejay Gardiner // tejay@vueweekly.com

TASTE OF 124!

110 AVE

108 AVE

10137 124 Street | 780-488-9188

10810 124 Street | 780-455-7474

13 The Blue Pear

28 Violino Restaurant

10643 123 Street | 780-482-7178 10133 125 Street | 780-757-8701

CASUAL / BISTRO

5 6

124 ST 15

106 AVE

10103 124 Street | 780-488-0690

12 European Sweetness Coffee Bar & Deli

32 Glenora Bistro

21 Oliver Smoke & Deli

27 Manor Casual Bistro

5 Simply Done Café

12212 107 Avenue | 780-454-5476

10139 124 Street | 780-482-3531

10343 124 Street | 780-944-0537

10109 125 Street | 780-482-7577

10728 124 Street | 780-423-1807

12417 Stony Plain Road | 780-488-6641

12507 102 Avenue | 780-452-4669

12427 102 Avenue | 780-488-7274

12411 Stony Plain Road | 780-732-4832

LOUNGE / PUB

10216 124 Street | 780-756-0806

10240 124 Street | 780-760-0101

10720 124 Street | 780-488-4999

10704 124 Street | 780-452-1168

OTHER

10723 124 Street | 780-454-9463

30 The Bothy Wine & Whiskey Bar *

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FAMILY

24 Treats Café

BAKERY

9 Somerville Wine Room 22

19 Steeps

10713 124 Street | 780-453-3663

10124 124 Street | 780-760-8060

34 Cococo Chocolatiers *

10235 124 Street | 780-488-7656

25 Original Joe's Downtown

103 AVE

10623 124 Street | 780-488-7897

22 Dahlia's Mediteranean Bistro

12520 102 Avenue | 780-452-3034

102 AVE

11003 124 Street | 780-452-2282

10802 124 Street | 780-448-1590

23 GoGo Lounge *

20 21

1 Midnight Sun Chinese

CAFÉ

8 Hooliganz Pub

10108B 124 Street | 780-452-8262

10722 124 Street | 780-455-4550

11 Eddie Shorts Bar & Grill

31 Matahari PanAsian Dining

6 Clever Rabbit Vegetarian Café

29 Urban Diner

18 19

Koutouki Greek Restaurant

10719 124 Street | 780-452-5383

18 The Dish & The Runaway Spoon 26 Starbucks

105 AVE STON Y PLA IN

14 Numchok Wilai Thai

3 Col. Mustard’s Canteen 13

2 Cosmos Greek Restaurant

4 Café Tiramisu

10750 124 Street | 780-452-3393

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ETHNIC

33 Café De Ville

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DINING

7 Duchess Bake Shop

17 Pizza 73

12412 Stony Plain Road | 780-473-7373

35 World's Finest Donair

12106 Jasper Avenue | 780-454-7771

* Opening this summer

15 Albert's Family Restaurant

10604 124 Street | 780-488-9096

20 Back Home Fish & Chips

JASP

12323 Stony Plain Road | 780-451-7871

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16 Boston Pizza Glenora

10543 124 Street | 780-482-4471

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BARBECUE >> BEER

Summertime combo What's a barbecue without a good beer?

Somerland Gold Moor Brewing Company, Somerset, England $11.99 for 660 ml bottle

want to talk about some other barbecue-worthy beer.

mind as an option. An equally quenching example is Moor Beer Company's Somerland Gold. It is a hazy, light yellow beer that spills over with a voluminous white head. The aroma exudes a soft, grainy cereal malt and a grassy hop. The flavour starts with a soft, grainy malt sweetness, some earthiness and a strong lemony character. The hops arrive in the middle. They are moderate but make their presence

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BARBECUE // VEGGIES

Go veggie

Tips for vegetarian grilling

If you do choose to barbecue veggie meats, make sure to read the directions carefully. Some mock meats aren't meant for grilling and you'll end up with a charred mess. Veggie meats also cook differently than real meat does since they don't have the same natural juices and fat, which can cause them to stick. Prior to grilling any sort of veggie meat, be sure to scrape your grill clean of any stuck-on remnants. Follow that up with a thorough wipe down with a piece of paper towel dipped in oil. Spraying the grill with non-stick cooking spray is also an option. An alternative protein to veggie meat is tofu. Make sure it's the extra firm or well pressed variety. Tofu also has a tendency to stick, so be sure to apply non-stick cooking spray or oil to the grill prior to cooking. Tofu can be marinated and grilled on its own or used as an extra ingredient for grilled vegetable skewers. Below are some recipes to get started. One offers a great option for veggie burgers that step away from the storebought variety, and the other is a little more creative and great for vegans too. meaghan baxter

// meaghan@vueweekly.com

arbecue doesn't have to mean meat. Just because you don't favour meat dripping in tons of sauce doesn't mean you can't fire up the grill as the weather warms up. Meat lovers, listen up, because you just might like some of the vegetarian options too. Vegetarian barbecuing can be much more creative than simply slapping a veggie burger or other meat substitute on the grill and calling it a day. Before you fire up the grill, if there's been any meat cooked on it, ensure any leftovers are scraped off and the grill is clean to avoid meat contamination. Separate veggie options from meaty ones if you're grilling for an omnivorous crowd.

Moth∂r’s Day

RECIPE Chickpea Veggie Burgers (marthastewart.com) Prep time: 15 minutes Total time: 25 minutes Yields: 4

Halloumi wrapped in red pepper with lemon and chilli (bbc.goodfood.com) Total time: 30 minutes Yields: 4

Ingredients 1 can (15 ounces) chickpeas, drained and rinsed 4 scallions, trimmed 2 slices white sandwich bread 1/3 cup peanuts or almonds, unsalted 1/2 tsp ground cumin 1 tsp fresh ginger, chopped Coarse salt and ground pepper 1 large egg Olive oil 1 tbsp Dijon mustard 1/3 cup mayonnaise Whole-wheat English muffins and lettuce, to serve with burgers

Ingredients 4 red peppers 200g block halloumi cheese , sliced into 4 1 red chilli , finely chopped Oregano chopped to make 2 tsp or 1 tsp dried 4 black or green olives , cut into slivers 1 lemon , zest and juice

Directions Heat grill to high. In a food processor, combine chickpeas, scallions, bread, peanuts, cumin and ginger; season with salt and pepper. Pulse until roughly chopped. Remove half the mixture to a bowl; add egg to food processor. Process until smooth; add to reserved mixture in bowl, and mix well. Form the mixture into four 3/4-inch-thick patties. Brush each side generously with oil; grill until charred, 3 to 5 minutes per side. Serve the burgers on English muffins with lettuce, mustard, and mayonnaise.

Crabtree & Evelyn Gardener’s Gift Basket

Where else but Hole’s would you find a decorative watering can brimming with Crabtree & Evelyn products? Includes gardener’s hand therapy lotion, nail and cuticle therapy, hand soap and a nail brush.

Vintage Charm Floral Arrangement

Punctuated with purplish-greys and wisps of sage-green foliage, this arrangement’s decidedly petal-pink palette is Mother’s Day perfection. Fall in love with it at the Floral Studio at Hole’s.

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Nourish and pamper Mom with goodies from Rocky Mountain Soap Company. Made in Canada with natural ingredients, this gift set smells good enough to eat! Visit Amaranth Whole Foods Market to check out their entire selection of soaps, lip balms and body butters.

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Directions: Grill or roast the red peppers whole until they begin to soften (if you like them skinned, keep going until you can skin them). You need them soft enough to wrap the cheese but not too soft or you won't be able to cook them again. Open out each red pepper by making a cut down one side and trim the tops and bottoms off so you end up with a strip. Put a slice of halloumi in the center of each strip. Sprinkle over some lemon zest and juice, divide the chilli, oregano and olive between them, then roll the red pepper around the halloumi. It doesn't matter if the cheese sticks out at each end. Tie the rolls with some kitchen string that you have soaked in water (or secure with a cocktail stick) and press down with the palm of your hand so they flatten slightly. Heat the barbecue. Barbecue the red peppers on both sides for five minutes or until they are starting to char and the cheese is softening and browning at the ends (keep an eye on the string as it could burn off).

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BARBECUE // EXOTIC MEAT

Out of the BBQ rut Exotic meats spice up grilling

urgers and steaks have become the standard for meaty summer grilling staples, but why not step outside the box and try something like, say, python? They're not the first option that comes to mind for grilling, but exotic meats offer a unique way to experiment on the grill. They're higher on the price scale, but pack interesting flavours that hold up on their own without being dressed up with tons of marinades or spices. Beef is big business in Alberta, but Edmonton has its own little hideaway where meat lovers can broaden their horizons. Smokin' Iron Farms is a family run business that opened in 2006 and boasts a lengthy list of exotic and not-so-exotic cuts. "When I opened up my store six years ago, I wanted to be a little bit different than Safeway or Superstore," says manager Barb Kalata, who has been in the meat cutting industry for more than 25 years. Mmm ... tastes like kangaroo // Meaghan Baxter

Python, which Kalata describes as having a flavour similar to catfish, is the most expensive of the exotic varieties she stocks, sometimes ringing in at $75 per pound. She says, in general, customers rarely buy an entire pound,

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opting instead for smaller portions. Alligator has a similar flavour and Kalata says both have a slightly stringy texture. They also have numerous health benefits, such as being low in

fat and very high in protein. Camel, muksox and kangaroo all have a flavour resembling wild game found here at home. Kalata puts ostrich, available ground or as steaks,

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into this flavour category as well. Ostrich is also considered to be one of the healthiest meats, as it is extremely lean, high in protein and iron, and low in cholesterol.

The standout in terms of unique flavour on the exotic roster is horse, which Kalata said doesn't compare to any regularly consumed meat, due to its overall sweet taste. Its texture also falls into the stringy category. Since the exotic meats are generally packaged in small portions due to their higher price tags, Kalata advises using them as appetizers, rather than a main course. The cuts are generally on the thin side, which makes for quick cooking times. Kalata advises placing the meat directly on the grill and only cooking each side for a couple of minutes before flipping. She says exotic meats are served best when cooked to medium, as they get too tough when well done. "It's fun, especially if you have a bunch of company over. Serve them these little appetizers and it's a hit," she says, adding people shouldn't be afraid of branching out in their meat choices, as she's never had a bad comment about them. For those who aren't quite ready to dig into kangaroo or python, rabbit, quail, pheasant, venison or bison are good alternatives to standard beef or chicken. meaghan baxter

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BARBECUE >> WINE

The perfect pair

Don't forget about the sauce when pairing meat and wine It's not about the meat; it's about what you put White meat and seafood: savoury on the meat. Dry white wines pair wonderfully with white The typical barbecue and wine pairing rules meat or seafood flavoured with citrus, herbs usually focus only on the type of food being and other savoury seasonings. Lemon-based grilled, and completely overlook the dominant sauces are great with dry, unoaked whites that flavour in the finished dish—whatever you're are high in acidity, like French Chablis (or anslathering on that piece of beef, chicken other unoaked, cool climate Chardonnay), I or vegetable. Pair a bold, dry red (the Spanish Albariño or Italian Pinot Grigio. D I V VENI, usual suggestion for grilled red meat) Herbed dishes are lovely with Sauviwith a plate of ribs smothered in gnon Blanc, Pinot Blanc and dry sparkly.com uewee sticky sweet teriyaki sauce and you're kling whites. mel@v Mel in for an unpleasant surprise: the sugey Vegetables ar in the sauce will make the wine taste Priestl like bitter vinegar. Dry whites will pair with most grilled vegWith this in mind, here are the guidelines you etables, and will also go with the non-grilled should actually follow with regards to pairing items on the table like salads. Choose somewine with your next barbecue feast. thing fairly innocuous like white blends from France, Canada or Italy, or a dry sparkling white Red meat: sweet like Spanish Cava. For veggie burgers, go a little Stick to light, fruity reds that are low in tanheavier—rosé is a good choice, as it straddles nins. (Tannins cause your mouth to dry out, just the line between red and white wine so they like what happens when you drink really overhave fruity berry flavours with light tannins, but steeped black tea.) Beaujolais and other wines are still light and refreshing. made from the Gamay grape are good, as is very fruity Pinot Noir—look for ones from California, A couple last tips: pop your reds in the fridge Chile and New Zealand. If you just can't get your for about half an hour before you serve them— lips around those lighter reds, you could try a in warmer weather they can get too warm and sparkling red wine or Californian Zinfandel— then all you'll get is booze burn; and if you use they have extremely ripe, jammy fruit flavours. wine in the sauce or marinade, that same wine It might sound crazy, but sweet dessert wines should pair nicely with the finished meal. V can also be really tasty when paired with sweet barbecued meats—something like a ruby port RECIPE or other fortified red wine. Red Wine Chipotle barbecue sauce 1 tbsp vegetable oil Red meat: savoury, herb and/or peppery 1 clove garlic, minced or crushed This is the type of dish with which you can break ¼ tsp ground cumin out the dry, robust reds: a black pepper steak is 1 tsp ground chipotle pepper powder magic with a peppery red from the Rhone Val1/3 cup dry red wine – Cabernet Sauvignon, ley, or a similar blend like Australian GrenacheMalbec or Zinfandel, or something else simiShiraz-Mourvedre. Syrah and Cabernet Sauvilarly robust gnon are also great choices. For fatty cuts of 1 tbsp brown sugar meat like burgers or ribs, look for something 1 tbsp dark soy sauce with ripe red fruit flavours: Chilean Carmenere, 1 tbsp red wine vinegar Californian Merlot, or Spanish Tempranillo. 1 tsp Worcestershire sauce ½ cup ketchup or crushed tomato Red or white meat: spicy Spice and alcohol do not mix: the combination In a saucepan over medium heat, sauté the of a dry, high-alcohol red wine mixed with spicy garlic in the oil for two minutes, or until garsauce is a form of gastronomical masochism. lic becomes fragrant but not browned. Add But if you just can't have your barbecued meat cumin and chipotle pepper and stir for a few without slathering it in Frank's Red Hot, steer seconds, then add red wine and brown sugar. clear of any and all dry wines, red or white, Simmer for two minutes, then add soy sauce, and choose something a little sweet—sugar vinegar and Worcestershire sauce. Simmer and spice definitely do mix. Die-hard wine pairanother two minutes, remove from heat and ing traditionalists may cringe when they read allow to cool before using. this, but even red meats taste all right paired with sweet white wines, if the meat is really Orange & Honey White Wine Sauce tongue-searing spicy. Look for the words "late 1 tbsp vegetable oil harvest" on the label; common late-harvest 1 clove garlic, minced or crushed wines are made from Riesling, Semillon and 1 cup dry white wine – unoaked Chardonnay, Muscat, though a late-harvest or dessert wine Pinot Blanc, Sauvignon Blanc, or something made from red grapes will probably pair betelse citrusy ter with red meat; try to find one made from 3 tbsp honey Cabernet Franc. ½ cup orange segments, chopped into bitesized pieces White meat and seafood: sweet This is an easier combination as sweet white In a saucepan over medium heat, sauté the wines are easy to find. Try an off-dry German garlic in the oil for two minutes, or until garRiesling or French Gewurztraminer, or a sweet lic becomes fragrant but not browned. Add sparkling white—look for the words "sec," white wine and heat, then stir in the honey. "demic-sec," or "dulce" on the label; the most Simmer for five minutes. Add the orange pieccommon type in local stores is Italian Spumanes and simmer another five minutes. Remove te. An off-dry rosé wine is also a good choice from heat and allow to cool before using. and plenty of examples can be found from New World countries.

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eat plus heat. It's a pairing we've been practising since our early cro-magnon ancestors first took up hunting as a protein-upping add-on to gathering. Even now that we have indoor heat sources capable of cooking food within our shelters without burning the place down (well, usually), there's still an undeniable pull to cook outdoors come summertime, to gather around the communal grill and pass an evening with a lazy sizzle in the air. But there's been a somewhat recent expansion on what exactly that means: more than ever, meat plus heat on the barebecue is a diverse operation, with plenty of options and nuanced choices available for the backyard griller looking to upgrade their barbecue output. Though that basic pull of cooking outdoors remains unchanged, we've expanded on how we're doing that cooking. "I think people enjoy getting out in the backyard and just enjoy the fresh air and take their time in cooking something that they can present to other people, their own family, what have you," explains Cameron Mitchell, president of Barbecue Country. "And not that that's any different from stovetop cooking or things like that. But barbecuing's been around a long time, and I think it's associated with a good-time-feeling activity. It doesn't seem like a chore. " Barbecue Country's a three-decade company in town that Mitchell bought from its original owner family, the Mallers, back in 2002. It caters to the casual and the enthusiasts alike, and even has its own jingle that plays while you're on hold, written and performed by a local artist. Mitchell himself seems knowledgable: on the fly, he pretty much effortlessly traces the evolution of home grilling from the original charcoal grills through the propane and gas heated mainstays of the past few decades—which improved on charcoal by cutting down the time required to heat the grill. Now, though propane and gas grills have enjoyed decades of dominant popularity since being introduced, Mitchell notes that about seven years ago, he noticed that charcoal started creeping back into the picture. "I think a lot of people have had

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good experience with propane and gas over the last 20 to 30 years, and they wanted to experiment a little bit and try something different," he says. "Not that it would replace the gas grills; it would just be in addition to." Alongside charcoal's return to popularity came the demand for variety in the form of different types of charcoal briquettes. They all have different perfumes and infuse the meat with subtle complexities (Mitchell notes that he now has five or so varieties in the store to cater to that demand). That was only the beginning: a few years later, demand started to grow for home smokers, which use tiny amounts of wood burning on very low temperatures to cook meat over extended periods of time. Moreso than with charcoal, burning different types of wood offers a way of putting a new twist on backyard cooking. A new twist on an old experience was what Joe Vanderhelm found when he invested in a home smoker of his own. The 28-year-old teacher at J H Picard High School had his interests piqued after watching a YouTube video of a couple who made their own BLT—baked the bread, grew the lettuce and tomato, and, most intriguingly to Vanderhelm, made their own bacon. "I didn't even know that was something people could do," Vanderhelm, says. "But they showed how with a smoker they could cure their own bacon. I was like, 'I need to do this. I need to make my own bacon.' So the first step was getting my own smoker." Since acquiring the smoker and making bacon, he's tested it out with a selection of other meats: salmon filet, pork shoulder, beef brisket, roast and ribs—and enjoyes experimenting with the different types of smoke and meat combinations he can create. "I got excited about different combos: sometimes I'll make a bacon that's from a maple wood, and then sometimes I'll make a bacon from an applewood-cherry wood; I'll combo those together, and you can taste the slight little differences. Sometimes I'll start smoking something

for, say, maybe three hours, just to get the smoky flavour in. It's not fully cooked yet, then I'll finish it off on the grill, or I'll finish it off on the oven, or something like that. So the one way I'd say [a smoker] changed my approach to grilling was it was a great opportunity for flavour." "This is an hours long process," he continues. "So you really need to be patient, and because you need to be monitoring it and adjust levels and things like that, it feels like something you've earned, in a lot of ways." Where the need to expand on simple BBQing comes from, Mitchell speculates, is from an increase in the diffusion of new ideas. "The industry has certainly been helped with a lot of the different cooking shows on TV, on the food channel ... There's a number of Canadian and US chefs that do outdoor barbecue-style shows. And then of course the smoking competitions down in the US—the Jack Daniels' Invitational would be the Super Bowl of smoking competitions. ... Whether it's the TV shows or the events are getting more press, people are reading about it." What comes after smokers as the next big barbecue upgrade, Mitchell isn't quite sure. But, ultimately, whatever it is will likely be another way of tweaking that simple, initial point: to get out and enjoy the process of grilling. "I think what you see if you look over the course of 30 or 40 years, is the same type of cooking coming to the surface in a new way," he says, "based on some ideas that people have about making it better, or easier, or more fun. "I believe people are spending more time at home," Mitchell continues. "And whether that's out of necessity or a conscious decision they're making because that's what they want to do, they are spending more time at home, and, as a result, they want to be able to do more things. And that's where the extension of the gas grill comes in, having a charcoal kettle or a smoker, where they can experiment, and have some fun." Paul Blinov

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A short history of the barbecue the company was renamed Kingsford Charcoal Co in his honour.

The barbecue and the grill • Backyard barbecuing and grilling became popular in the '50s and '60s. However, there are distinct differences between the two. Barbecue is slow cooking in the traditional southern sense, whereas grilling is cooking directly over high heat for shorter periods of time. The social aspect of barbecue gatherings in the past was reintroduced and became a way of life for entertaining and family gatherings. • George A Stephen invented the Weber kettle grill in 1952 .

The approach of summer has become synonymous with firing up the grill and the mouth-watering aroma of barbecued goodness. In honour of this impending summer tradition, here's a look back at where it all began and how barbecuing has evolved into the culinary delight we know and love today. Bar·be·cue [bahr-bi-kyoo] Noun: a meal or gathering at which meat, fish or other food is cooked out of doors on a rack over an open fire or on a special appliance Verb: cook (food) on a barbecue. —oxforddictionairies.com • The origins of both the word and cooking technique are unclear, but some theories say they originated in the Carribean and moved into other cultures. The first recorded use of the word in the English language, as cited by the Oxford English Dictionary, was in 1697 by the British buccaneer William Dampier. It's also been said that the proper form of the word barbecue appears 25 years earlier in the writings of John Lederer after his travels in the American southeast. • Etymologists believe the word barbecue derives from the word barabicu, which is from the language of the Taino people of the Carribean and the Timucua of Florida. They say it entered European languages in the form barbacoa, which translates to "sacred fire pit." Barbacoa traditionally involved digging a hole in the ground and placing meat with a pot situated underneath it. It usually used a whole goat, allowing the juices to make a broth that drips into the pot. The pot and meat were then covered with maguey leaves and coal and set alight. • It's also argued that First Nations tribes in Canada invented barbecuing, as they were said to have been experts at smoking meats. • In Britain, barbecuing refers to a fast

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cooking process done directly over heat, whereas grilling means to cook under a source of direct, high heat. This is known as broiling in Canada and the US. In American English, grilling refers to a cooking process done over high heat, while barbecuing refers to a slower process utilizing indirect heat and hot smoke.

Back in the day • During the 19th century in the southern United States, pork was the barbecue staple, as it was seen as a low-maintenance food source. Pigs could be released to forage for themselves in forests and when food supplies were low, they were caught and eaten. The credit for introducing the pig to the Americas and to the American First Nations goes to the Spanish. In return the First Nations introduced the Spanish to the concept of slow cooking with smoke.

eries, or "pig-pickins." Traditional southern barbecue grew out of these early gatherings. • Following the end of the Civil War, freed men started setting up barbecue stands along the sides of the road in the southern states. It was an industrious way of making a living and several are credited for enhancing barbecue cooking in the US. Henry Perry in Kansas City, Missouri and John Blackwedler in Salisbury, North Carolina were among the barbecue chefs who passed their knowledge of the craft on to others in the area.

• Spanish colonists settled in South Carolina in the early 16th century at Santa Elena. This early American colony is where Europeans learned to prepare "real" barbecue. They were a little ahead of the times, as the name hadn't been applied to the area by the English at this point.

The modern age • By the turn of the 20th century, barbecue had increased in popularity. Rather than being reserved for special occasions, it became an everyday staple and barbecue restaurants began to open in the late '20s and '30s. Some of the more successful stands were converted into restaurants, transforming barbecue from a takeout mobile food to a sit-down delicacy. Some of the barbecue restaurants established in the mid-1920's are still in business, including Sprayberry's in Newman, Georgia and McClard's in Hot Springs, Arkansas.

• While beef and chicken tend to the modern barbecue staples, prior to the American Civil War, Southerners ate five pounds of pork for every one pound of beef consumed. This was due to poverty during this time period, and no part of the pig was wasted. Pig slaughtering became a celebration amongst the neighbourhood. In Cajun culture, this became known as bouch-

• The modern charcoal briquette was invented by EG Kinsgford in the early '20s. He was a relative of Henry Ford and saw that Ford's production lines were producing a large quantity of wood scraps, which were just being discarded. Kingsford suggested that Ford establish a charcoal manufacturing facility alongside the assembly line and sell the product. After his death,

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• The outdoor gas grill was invented in the '60s in Little Rock, Arkansas by William G Wepfer and Melton Lancaster while working for the Arkansas Louisiana Gas Company (ARKA). Gas gave cooks another option to traditional charcoal and wood.

On the sauce • Early barbecue sauces were made less thick than today's varieties and mostly vinegar-based. Traditional barbecue sauces, which varied region to region with some being vinegar-based, some tomato-based and others mustard-based, gained prominence in the early 1900s. Commercial companies began marketing store-bought varieties in the '40s. • In 1977, it's said the barbecue industry was revolutionized by Dr Rich Davis of Kansas City with the invention of his KC Masterpiece barbecue sauce. It even took over in places like Memphis, Tennessee, where purists eat their ribs dry. • Barbecue contests also began across the United States during the '70s. Contests became standalone events, rather than being confined to county fairs. They were done in a similar fashion to chili cook-offs seen in Texas and were the catalysts in professionalizing barbecue. Pros like Mike Mills, Paul Kirk and John Willington got their starts showing off their skills in these competitions. Today, there are more than 500 barbecue contests in the United States each year. • Canada has its own competitions and associations. BBQ on the Bow in Calgary is a popular draw each year by The Barbecue on the Bow Society, as is the Canadian Festival of Chili and Barbecue by a society of the same name in British Columbia. Other associations include the Canadian Southern BBQ Association, Canadian BBQ Association and the Western Canadian BBQ Association. • In 1985, the Kansas City Barbecue Society (KCBS) was formed with a

mission to celebrate, teach, preserve and promote barbecue as a culinary technique, sport and art form. It has become the leading authority for the standardization of professional barbecue judging. The KCBS has become the most recognized barbecue organization in the world, boasting more than 14 000 members and sanctioning more than 300 contests each year. • In the last decade, The Food Network has popularized barbecue even further and brought celebrity status among culinary circles to grill masters. TLC's hit BBQ Pitmasters has also introduced North America to some of the continent's finest, who readily share their secrets with viewers.

Popular grilling items • Hamburgers, which fall into the grilling category, as they take little time to prepare and are cooked over direct heat, were invented in Hamburg, Germany and go hand-in-hand with the mechanical meat chopper, invented by Dr Karl Drais in the 19th century. Hamburgers were first featured on an American menu, thanks to German immigration, in 1826 from Delmonico's in New York. However, according to the Library of Congress, Louis' Lunch in New Haven, Connecticut has claim on the original American hamburger. It's been served there since 1895. • Hamburgers would be nothing without their buns, which were invented by a fry cook named Walter Anderson in 1916. He later co-founded the popular White Castle chain in 1921. • Hot dogs have a little more complex origin. The frankfurter comes from, of course, Frankfurt, Germany. These sausages were known as Frankfurter Würschten and have been around since the 13th century when they were given to people during royal coronations. The word wiener, also used to describe hot dogs, comes from Vienna, Austria, whose German name is "Wien." The food, which was originally a mix of pork and beef, made its debut in the United States around 1870 on Coney Island when German immigrant Charles Feltman started selling sausages in rolls on Coney Island. However, the invention of the hot dog has also been ascribed to the wife of a German named Antonoine Feuchtwanger, who sold them on the streets of St Louis in 1880. Americans also lay claim to the hot dog and say Harry M Stevens, a sports concessionaire, had his vendors sell German sausages and rolls to spectators at the New York Polo Grounds. He called them Dachshund sandwiches, but it's alleged a New York Post cartoonist couldn't spell dachshund, so when he drew a cartoon of it he called them hot dogs. Hey, they didn't have spell check back then. Meaghan Baxter

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BARBECUE // BAKING

Baked goods

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he word "barbecue" calls to mind images of big, mouth-watering steaks, not bread and cupcakes. But listen up grill masters, because you can turn your backyard barbecue into a baking machine. The barbecue can be used as an exceptional baking tool as well as its regular purpose of grilling your favourite dishes. Think about it: all that's needed to bake bread and similar items is an enclosed space with lots of heat. A barbecue has exactly that. Granted, some elbow grease is required prior to baking, in order to remove any meat remnants that could cause your cupcakes to taste like hamburgers, and potentially some ex-

tra equipment for certain recipes, but it beats heating up the entire house when temperatures start to climb. Both flat and raised varieties of bread can easily be made on the grill, which more closely resembles the wood-fire ovens of artisan bakers. Grills produce more heat than household ovens do, which means faster baking times, but more room for burning to occur. Keep a close eye on the bread throughout the recommended baking time. It also doesn't hurt to keep an oven thermometer handy and place it near the bread to monitor the temperature of the grill. Sweet treats like cupcakes are also

an option for the barbecue. Be sure to place a cookie sheet underneath the cupcake pan to help the batch bake evenly. Baking recipes for the grill may each call for different methods and equipment to ensure great results. Before you place any added cookware on the grill, like pizza stones or cookie sheets, be sure it's safe to do soâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;some do not stand up to the heat and flame of a grill. If you have a newer barbecue, check the manufacturer's website to see if it offers any accessories to help with baking, as many are touting the versatility of modern grills. meaghan baxter

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RECIPE Tailgate cupcakes on the grill (epicurious.com) Makes 12 cupcakes Ingredients: Vanilla cupcake batter 1 1/3 cups sugar 2 large eggs 2 1/4 cups all purpose flour 3 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp salt 1/2 cup shortening 1 cup milk 1 tsp vanilla Buttercream frosting 1/2 cup unsalted butter (soften until very soft) 1 lb confectioner's sugar 3 tbsp milk 1 tsp vanilla extract optional: food colouring Equipment needed Cupcake pan Cookie sheet Cupcake papers Frosting tubes

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Mix batter In a large mixing bowl, combine sugar, baking powder, salt and flour, blend together on low speed Add shortening, milk and vanilla and mix on medium until well-blended, scrape down sides of the bowl Add eggs one at a time and beat well between eggs, always on a low setting, scrapping down the sides of the bowl as you go Beat on high speed until well-mixed (about two minutes) Bake Cupcakes Preheat grill to approx. 325 degrees (about 10 minutes on high if you do not have a gauge) Place cupcake papers into the cupcake pan Fill each cupcake paper until it's about three quarters full, continue to hand-mix the batter as you divide it into the pan Place the cookie sheet on the grill then place the cupcake pan on top of the cookie sheet (this will keep the bottoms from cooking too fast and result in a more evenly cooked cup-

cake) and close the lid Cook cupcakes for about 21 minutes or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean Remove and let cool, then remove cupcakes from the pan Make Frosting In large bowl, combine butter, vanilla and milk and beat until smooth Add confectioner's sugar and mix on low for a minute before switching to high-speed Mix well until creamy (add more milk if necessary) and of firm consistency If you intend to add multiple colours, divide frosting into two bowls then gradually mix in the food colouring in each until you reach the appropriate shade of your chosen colours Place frosting in separate frosting tubes Once cupcakes have cooled, squeeze generous portions of frosting from the frosting tubes, starting at the outside edge of the cupcake and swirling to the centre. Experiment with different textured decorating tips.

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Bring your appetite The world's largest commercially available burger, according to the Guinness Book of World Records was made at Mallie's Sports Grill in Southgate, Michigan on January 26, 2011. The monstrous burger weighed in at 144.7 kg (319 lb) and is available for $1800.

High roller The most expensive burger was created by Chef Hubert Keller at the Fleur restaurant at the Mandalay Bay Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The FleurBurger 5000 comes with a $5000 price tag and is made with Kobe beef topped

Not your average Big Mac McDonald's menu isn't standard around the world. The iconic Big Mac, which was first served in 1968 for 49 cents, gets a different twist in India with the Chicken Maharaja Mac, since the Hindu people do not eat beef. In Greece, they often ditch the bun and replace it with a pita, while in China, rice patties are sometimes used as a bun substitute.

More refined than processed Cheeseburgers generally bring to mind thin slices of bright yellow processed cheese, but other varieties have much more flavour. If you want to experiment, Gruyère, Comté, Brie, Taleggio, Fontina melt just as well as the processed varieties. Other options that pack a punch in terms of flavour are aged cheddar, Monteray Jack, aged Provolone or Parmigiano-Reggiano. V

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Regardless, it's still good Adding cheese to the classic hamburger—invented in Hamburg, Germany in the 19th century—became popular in the mid-1920s to mid-1930s. Numerous restaurants were competing for the bragging rights of creating the first cheeseburger. Allegedly, the credit goes to Lionel Sternberger in the mid-1920s at the age of 16 while working as a fry cook at his father's sandwich shop, The Rite Spot in Pasadena, California. However, others argue they deserve the honour. In 1936, the trademark for the name cheeseburger was awarded to Louis Ballast of the Humpty Dumpty Drive-In in Denver, Colorado.

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link and you just might miss it. Bubba's BBQ & Smoke House, a plain white trailer only recognizable from the name painted on the side, situated on a non-descript lot behind Superstore on Gateway Boulevard, is quickly transitioning from a well-kept secret to popular lunch destination. It's only accessible from the east side heading north on Gateway, and it may take a couple of attempts to actually make the turn in time, but once you make it in, you'll be treated to some of the most mouth-watering southern barbecue north of the border. Bubba's called 8525 Davies Rd homeprior to moving north and re-opening at its current location in late November 2011. At the original location, Bubba's built up a loyal following of regular customers in search of a reprieve from standard lunch takeout. It's taken a little time, but since the lot is between two of the busiest streets in the city people have begun to notice the line ups, where customers come from all over the city, and even as far as Sherwood Park, to get a taste. There's no seating available, so everything is packed to go, unless you plan to eat in your car, which many do. The man behind all the buzz is Rand "Bubba" Petersen, whose hunting buddies coined the nickname, which seems fitting, as the moniker is a common one among men in the southern US, which is the inspiration for Bubba's menu. Petersen started Bubba's as a retirement hobby that's now evolved into a full-time job with no signs of slowing down. He worked in the construction industry doing exterior repairs, but his love is cooking, which he was able

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to put to good use as a cook at Hy's Steakhouse prior to that. "Barbecue is my favourite style of food," Petersen says. "It goes extremely well with takeout and it's cattle county. A lot of people like their beef and pork around here, so southern barbecue fits in extremely well. It's very much in need around here." Each day, Petersen mans the joint solo, offering a single, hearty dish that's been smoked and slow cooked for hours prior to serving. Everything's done in traditional southern style with flavourful sauces, seasonings and rubs. Customers are served a hefty portion along with side dishes like baked beans and rice for $11, cash only. "I do most things on my own. It's hard to find people that want to work and you trust on their own when you're not there, so you have to start yourself and

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build from there," he says. If you want to get in on the goods, plan to get there early. The takeout window officially opens at 11:30 am, but the line up often starts around 11 am. Closing time is technically 2:30 pm, but as Petersen says, it goes until the food runs out, which is usually earlier. The menu features chicken and ribs on Mondays, Tennessee pulled pork on Tuesdays, Carolina pulled pork on Wednesdays, beef brisket on Thursdays and finally, Bubba's pork ribs on Fridays. Beef brisket and Bubba's pork ribs are the crowd favourites so far, but the rest aren't far behind. "It takes a lot of work and there's not very much of it around because it's difficult to do right. It takes a lot of dedication," Petersen says of southern CONTINUED ON PAGE 43 >>

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barbecue dishes. Petersen is a self-taught barbecue expert. He credits his knowledge to many years of poring over cookbooks, eating at various barbecue restaurants in the states coupled with a love of meat. He says the secret to great barbecue is patience and taking the time to do it right; no cutting corners. Good southern barbecue is much more than slapping some meat on the grill and hoping for the best. He adds that finding a good barbecue book is the best way to start. "I sort of gathered information and styles from a bunch of different sources and kind of melded them together into my own," Petersen says, adding he still stays true to traditional styles. A common mistake, aside from rushing the process, is using too much

heat and not understanding the texture of the meat and fat content. Reduced fat may be good in some areas of a person's diet, but not when it comes to barbecue. "It's a moisture thing primarily. The more fat something's got on it, the more easily you can make it tender when you cook it, if you cook it properly," Petersen notes. "It's a good thing for cooking. You don't have to eat all the fat." Currently, Petersen is working to gather investors to expand Bubba's with franchise locations. Regardless of how big it eventually gets, Petersen prides himself on delivering a high quality product to customers, and the feedback he's received reflects that. "It's not a way to get rich," he adds. "But it's very satisfying and you can still do well if you do the right things and work hard at it."

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golden fork awards 2012 Vue Weekly is pleased to present the winners of the 14th annual Golden Fork Awards. Since its beginning in 1999 the Golden Fork Awards has evolved from the "chain" days of the early 2000s when it seemed as if Pizza 73 and Boston Pizza won all the awards. This led to our splitting the awards in 2009 into Indie and Chain categories, ensuring that locals are not overwhelmed by massive marketing machines. For our purposes here, a chain is defined as being any restaurant with more than one location, part of a franchise or not locally owned. So, with over 5000 votes cast, here are the results of the 2012 Golden Fork Awards.

GOLDEN fork awards 2012

BEST Restaurants •Best FINE DINING

•Best SUBURBAN RESTAURANT •Best COFFEE SHOP

•Best AFRICAN

IndIE: Corso 32

IndIE: Café Haven

IndIE (TIE): Credo

IndIE: Langano Skies

Runner-up: Prairie Bistro

Runner-up (tie): Elm Café & Wild Earth Coffee

Runner-up: Habesha

Second Runner-up: Riverhouse Grill

CHAIN: Transcend

Second Runner-up: Narayannis

10345 Jasper Avenue 780.421.4622 | corso32.com

9 Sioux Rd Sherwood Park 780.417.5523 | cafehaven.ca

Runner-up: Hardware Grill Second Runner-up: Red Ox Inn

10134 - 104 St 780.761.3744 | credocoffee.ca

transcendcoffee.com

CHAIN: Ruth’s Chris ruthschrisalberta.ca

•Best BREAKFAST

•Best TEA SHOP

IndIE: Barb and Ernie’s

•Best MID PRICE IndIE: The Marc

9940 - 106 St 780.429.2828 | themarc.ca Runner-up: Blue Plate Diner Second Runner-up: Next Act

•Best Mediterranean IndIE (TIE): Sofra

9906 - 72 Ave 780.433.3242 barbandernies.com

IndIE: Cha Island Tea

10332 - 81 Ave 780.757.2482 | cha-teaspot.com

10345 - 106 St 780.423.3044

Runner-up: Highlevel Diner

Runner-up: Cally’s teas

10846 - 82 Ave 780.761.1910 | ousiarestaurant.com

Second Runner-up: Sugarbowl

Second Runner-up: Acquired Taste Tea Company

CHAIN: Cora

CHAIN: Steeps

Ousia

Runner-up: Parkallen

steepstea.com

CHAIN: Café Beirut

•Best BRUNCH

•Best PUB

•Best GREEK

IndIE (TIE): Sugarbowl

IndIE: Next Act

IndIE:Yiannis

Highlevel Diner

Runner-up: O’Byrnes

chezcora.com

CHAIN: Famoso

9920 - 82 Ave 780.432.3334 | langanoskies.com

cafebeirut.ca

famoso.ca

•Best BUDGET IndIE: Tres Carnales

8224 - 104 St 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com

10922 - 88 Ave 780.433.8369 | thesugarbowl.org

10119 - 100A St 780.429.0911 | trescarnales.com Runner-up: Dadeo

10912 - 88 Ave 780.433.0993 | highleveldiner.com

Second Runner-up: Route 99

Runner-up: Blue Plate Diner

CHAIN: Burrito Libre

Second Runner-up: The Druid

CHAIN: Hudsons hudsonstaphouse.com

CHAIN: Culina

burritolibre.com

10444 - 82 Ave 780.433.6768 | eatmorelamb.com Runner-up: It’s All Greek to Me Second Runner-up: Cosmos

CHAIN: Koutouki koutouki.ca

culinafamily.ca

Best Breakfast

a History of 2011

2010

2009

2008 2007

Highlevel Barb & Route 99 Barb & Barb & Dinner Ernie's Ernie's Ernie's

•Best ITALIAN IndIE: Corso 32

10345 Jasper Ave 780.421.4622 | corso32.com Runner-up: Cibo Second Runner-up (TIE): Piccolino & Tasty Tomato

CHAIN: Sicilian Pasta House sicilianpastakitchen.com

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•Best FRENCH

•Best JAPANESE

•Best east indian

•Best seafood

INDIE:The Marc

INDIE: Furusato

INDIE: Daawat

INDIE: Vons Steakhouse

RUNNER-UP: The Creperie

RUNNER-UP: Sushi Wasabe

RUNNER-UP: Khazana

RUNNER-UP: Sabor Divino

SECOND RUNNER-UP: Bistro La Persaud

SECOND RUNNER-UP: Maki Maki

SECOND RUNNER-UP: Guru

SECOND RUNNER-UP: The Marc

CHAIN: Café De Ville

CHAIN: Mikado

CHAIN: New Asian Village

CHAIN: Billingsgate

•Best CHINESE

•Best VIETNAMESE

•Best Mexican / Latin American •Best vegetarian

INDIE: The Lingnan

INDIE: Phobulous

RUNNER-UP: Golden Rice Bowl

RUNNER-UP: Thanh Thanh

SECOND RUNNER-UP: Happy Gardens

SECOND RUNNER-UP: Pho Hoang

9940 - 106 St 780.429.2828 | themarc.ca

cafedeville.com

10582 - 104 St 780.426.3975 | thelingnan.com

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10012 - 82 Ave 780.439.1335 | furusatojapaneserestaurant.com

mikadorestaurant.com

8701 - 109 St 780.988.2696 | phobulousedmonton.com

SECOND RUNNER-UP: Bi Bim Baap

INDIE: The King & I

8208 - 107 St 780.433.2222 | thekingandi.ca RUNNER-UP: Viphalay SECOND RUNNER-UP (TIE): Boualouang & Syphay

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INDIE: Padmanadi

10119 - 100A St 780.429.0911 | trescarnales.com

10740 - 101 St 780.428.8899 | padmanadi.com

RUNNER-UP: Acajutla

RUNNER-UP: Noorish & Café Mosaic

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•Best eastern european

Best Brunch

a History of

INDIE: Bistro Praha

10117 - 101 St 780.424.4218 | bistropraha.com RUNNER-UP: Continental Treat

2011

SECOND RUNNER-UP: Taste of Ukraine

•Best THAI

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CHAIN: Burrito Libre

•Best KOREAN

RUNNER-UP: Lee House

INDIE: Tres Carnales

SECOND RUNNER-UP: The Three Amigos

doans.ca

8813 - 92 St 780.466.2330 edmontonkoreanfood.com

10309 - 81 Ave 780.439.0041 | vonssteakhouse.com

newasianvillage.com

CHAIN: Doans

INDIE: Bul Go Gi House

10015 - 82 Ave 780.469.3517 | daawat.ca

2010

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BEST DISHES •Best APPETIZERS

•Best BREADS

•Best TAPAS

•Best DIM SUM

INDIE (TIE): Corso 32

INDIE: Treestone Bakery

INDIE: Tzin Wine & Tapas

INDIE: Golden Rice Bowl

Cibo Bistro

RUNNER-UP: Dauphine Bakery

RUNNER-UP: Lit

RUNNER-UP: Noodle Noodle

2ND RUNNER-UP: Prairie Mills

2ND RUNNER-UP: MRKT

2ND RUNNERS UP (TIE): Beijing Beijing & Urban China

CHAIN: Cobs Bread

CHAIN: Zinc Restaurant

10345 Jasper Avenue 780.421.4622 | corso32.com 11244 - 104 Avenue 780.757.2426 | cibobistro.com RUNNER-UP: Hundred Bar & Kitchen

CHAIN: Earls

8612 - 99 St 780.433.5924 | yvanchartrand.com

cobsbread.com

10115 - 104 St 780.428.8946 | tzin.ca

zincrestaurant.ca

•Best SANDWICHES/WRAPS

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•Best STEAK

•Best PUB FOOD

INDIE: Vons Steakhouse

INDIE: The Next Act Pub

RUNNER-UP: Pampa Brazilian Steakhouse

RUNNER-UP: Red Star

RUNNER-UP: Highlevel Diner & Elm Cafe

2ND RUNNER-UP: Lux

2ND RUNNER-UP: O'byrnes

CHAIN: Burrito Libre

CHAIN: The Keg

CHAIN: Original Joe's

•Best SALAD

•Best SUSHI

INDIE (TIE): MRKT

INDIE: Furusato

•Best SOUP INDIE: MRKT

10542 Jasper Ave 780.757.6758 | mrktcafeteria.com

burritolibre.com

10542 Jasper Ave 780.757.6758 | mrktcafeteria.com

The Next Act Pub

8224 - 104 St 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com RUNNER-UP: Greenhouse Restaurant

CHAIN: Chopped Leaf

10309 - 81 Ave 780.439.0041 | vonssteakhouse.com

kegsteakhouse.com

8224 - 104 St 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com

INDIE: Elm Café

10140 - 117 St 780.756.3356 | elmcafe.ca RUNNER-UP: Drift Food Truck 2ND RUNNERS UP: Col. Mustards

CHAIN: Burrito Libre burritolibre.com

originaljoes.ca

a History of

10012 - 82 Ave 780.439.1335 furusatojapaneserestaurant.com

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Best Atmosphere 2011

2010

Sugarbowl Blue Plate Dinner

RUNNER-UP: Sushi Wasabi 2ND RUNNER-UP: Maki Maki

CHAIN: Mikado

mikadorestaurant.com

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•Best HAMBURGERS

•Best TAKEOUT

IndIE: The Next Act Pub

IndIE: Elm Café

Runner-up: Drift Food Truck

Runner-up: Tres Carneles

2ND Runner-up: Col. Mustards

2ND Runners up: MyEmpanadas

CHAIN: Rodeo Burger

CHAIN: Oodle Noodle

8224 - 104 St 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com

10140 - 117 St 780.756.3356 | elmcafe.ca

rodeoburger.com

oodlenoodle.ca

•Best BUTCHER

•Best FRENCH FRIES

IndIE: Acme Meats

IndIE: Dadeo

9531 - 76 Ave 780.433.1812

10548 - 82 Ave 780.433.0930 | dadeo.ca

Runner-up: Real Deal Meats

Runner-up: Drift Food Truck

2ND Runners up: Ben’s Meats

2ND Runners up (TIE): The Next Act Pub & La Poutine

CHAIN: Sunterra Market

CHAIN: Rodeo Burger

sunterramarket.com

rodeoburger.com

•Best BAKERY

•Best ORGANIC

IndIE: Duchess Bake Shop

IndIE: Noorish

10720 - 124 St 780.488.4999 | duchessbakeshop.com

8440 - 109 St 780.756.6880 | noorish.ca

Runner-up: Bee Bell Bakery

Runner-up: Highlevel Diner

2ND Runners up: Dauphine Bakery

2ND Runners up: Wild Tangerine

CHAIN: Cobs

CHAIN: Planet Organic

cobsbread.com

planetorganic.ca

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a History of

most innovative menu 2011

2010

Corso 32

Wild Flower Grill

2009 Bistro Praha

2008

2007

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BEST OTHERS •Best NEW RESTAURANT

•Best beer list

•Best SERVICE

IndIE: Tres Carnales

IndIE: Sugarbowl

IndIE: Cha Island Tea

10332 - 81 Ave 780.757.2482 | cha-teaspot.com

10053 Jasper Ave 780.401.2222 | unionbankinn.com

Runner-up: Cibo

Runner-up: Wunderbar

Runner-up: Cibo

Runner-up: Wildflower

Second Runner-up: Noorish

Second Runner-up (TIE): The Next Act Pub & The Pourhouse

Second Runner-up (TIE): The Marc & The Next Act Pub

Second Runner-up: Creations

CHAIN: New Asian Village

CHAIN: Hotel MacDonald

•Best when going solo

•Best SPORTS BAR

•Best PLACE FOR PEOPLE WATCHING

IndIE: Cha Island Tea

IndIE: Twisted Kilt

IndIE: Sugarbowl

Runner-up: Sugarbowl

Runner-up: On the Rocks

Runner-up: The Next Act Pub

Second Runner-up (TIE): Dadeo & Tres Carnales

Second Runner-up: The Druid

Second Runner-up: The Black Dog

CHAIN: Burrito Libre

CHAIN: Hudsons

CHAIN: Julio's Barrio

10119 - 100A St 780.429.0911 | trescarnales.com

10922 - 88 Ave 780.433.8369 | thesugarbowl.org

newasianvillage.com

•Best hotel restaurant IndIE: Madisons

Fairmont.com/macdonald

•Best pre theatre resataurant IndIE: The Next Act Pub 8224 - 104 St 780.433.9345 | nextactpub.com Runner-up (TIE): Packrat Louie & The Marc

CHAIN: Famoso famoso.ca

•Best resataurant for lovers

10332 - 81 Ave 780.757.2482 | cha-teaspot.com

17328 Stony Plain Rd 780.488.9478 | thetwistedkiltpub.com

burritolibre.com

10922 - 88 Ave 780.433.8369 | thesugarbowl.org

hudsonstaphouse.com

juliosbarrio.com

IndIE: Corso 32

10345 Jasper Ave 780.421.4622 | corso32.com Runner-up: Hardware Grill

Best Vietnamese

a History of

Second Runner-up: Cibo

CHAIN: Melting Pot meltingpot.com

2011

2010

Thanh Thanh

Pagolac *new catagory

•Best INNOVATIVE MENU IndIE: Corso 32

10345 Jasper Ave 780.421.4622 | corso32.com Runner-up: Noorish Second Runner-up: Vivo

CHAIN: Culina culinafamily.com

•Best late night/all night •Best PATIO

•Best atmosphere

IndIE: All Happy Family Restaurant

IndIE: The Black Dog

IndIE: Sugarbowl

Runner-up: Steel Wheels Pizzeria

Runner-up: Sugarbowl

Runner-up: Tres Carnales

Second Runner-up: Corso 32

Second Runner-up: Cha Island Tea

CHAIN: Earls Tin Palace

CHAIN: Culina

10011 - 106 Ave 780.421.8297

CHAIN: Remedy Café

•Best wine list IndIE: Hardware Grill

9698 Jasper Ave 780.423.0969 | hardwaregrill.com

remedycafe.ca

10425 Whyte Ave 780.439.1082 | blackdog.ca

earls.ca

a History of 2011

Runner-up: Bibo Second Runner-up: Parkallen

CHAIN: Culina culinafamily.com

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10922 - 88 Ave 780.433.8369 | thesugarbowl.org

culinafamily.com

Best Pizza 2010

Tony's Pizza Tony's Pizza Palace Palace

2009

2008

2007

Famoso

Rosebowl

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REGIONAL INSPIRATIONS with chef cory welsch

Inspired by our local market’s and the finest in local produce, meats, and cheeses that summer has to offer, we are excited to offer you an unprecedented spring and summer menu. My Mom always told me to stop playing with my food - now it is what I am paid to do. I am very lucky to be able to do what I love. Tempt your palate at Moriarty’s. - Chef Cory Welsch Moriarty’s Bistro|Wine Bar 10154 100 Street, Rice Howard Way Edmonton, Alberta www.moriartysbistro.com

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•Best kid friendly

•Best FOOD FESTIVAL OR EVENT

•Best food truck

•Best SUSTAINABLE DINING

IndIE: Café Tiramisu

IndIE: Heritage Festival

IndIE: Devine Wines

IndIE: Noorish

Runner-up: Bin 104

Runner-up: Tres Carnales

Second Runner-up: Vines Wine Merchants

Second Runner-up: Clever Rabbit

10750 - 124 St 780.452.3393 | cafetiramisu.ca Runner-up: Padmanadi & Café O Play

CHAIN: Italian Centre

heritage-festival.com

10111 - 104 St 780.421.9463 | devinewines.ca

Runner-up: Taste of Edmonton Second Runner-up: What the Truck

italiancentre.ca

•Best INDIE GROCERY MARKET

•BestBEVERAGE FESTIVAL OR EVENT •Best FOOD TRUCK IndIE: Rocky Mountain Wine Festival

IndIE: Drift Food Truck

8910 - 99 St 780.439.4555 | wildearthfoods.ca

Runner-up: Beerfest

Runner-up: Fat Franks

Runner-up: Earth’s General Store

Second Runner-up: Taste of Edmonton

Second Runner-up: Filisticks

•Best INDIE WINE STORE

•Best FARMER'S MARKET

IndIE: Devine Wines

IndIE: Old Strathcona Farmers' Market

IndIE: Wild Earth Market

Rockymountainwine.com

8440 - 109 St 780.756.6880 | noorish.ca

CHAIN: Culina culinafamily.com

driftfoodtruck.ca

Second Runner-up: Strathcona Farmers Market

CHAIN: Italian Centre italiancentre.ca

•Best BEER STORE IndIE: Sherbrooke Liquor

11819 St Albert Trail 780.455.4556 | sherbrookeliqour.com Runner-up: Keg n Cork Second Runner-up: Devine Wines

10111 - 104 St 780.421.9463 | devinewines.ca

10310 - 83 Ave 780.439.1844 | osfm.ca

Runner-up: Bin 104

Runner-up: City Market, on 104st

Second Runner-up: Vines Wine Merchants

Second Runner-up: St Albert Farmers' Market

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PREVUE // THE GLOW

From whence you came DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

Mount Eerie ends a three-year silence with a pair of releases

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Tue, May 15 (8:30 pm) Mount Eerie With Smokey, Huckleberry Wunderbar, $25

ith the exceptions of one fiveyear period in Olympia and a winter in Norway, Phil Elverum has lived his life in Anacortes, Washington. Its population hovers around 16 000 people, and by Elverum's own account it's somewhat quiet and boring, although he quickly points out "I don't mean boring in a bad way." Anacortes has been the largest single source of inspiration for Elverum's music, both in his early years recording as the Microphones—under which he released the indie-classic The Glow, Pt. 2, in doing so positioning himself as one of the most quietly affecting songwriters working today—and in his newer Mount Eerie outfit, its name plucked from a mountain just south of the town. Aside from him being born there, the allure of Anacortes is somewhat ambiguous to Elverum. There wasn't one moment when he realized that his hometown would come to hold so much value in his art. "It was more backwards than that," he starts to explain over the phone from Anacortes. "I think I realized that after having made a bunch of

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art, looking back on it it was like, 'Oh, this is all about this place.' And recently I've maybe made more of a deliberate effort to do that thing that was already kind of happening by itself. "It's still mysterious to me," he continues. "What it is that makes this place feel unique, and what draws me to it. It's a quality that I can't articulate, so I guess that's why I keep trying to make these songs and albums and other artworks about it, because it's still unarticulated to me, even though I keep trying." No matter the project, Elverum's music growls and shifts like a wind storm. It's a soft acoustic whisper for a moment and fiercely storming noise for the next, shaped as much by the personal slant of the lyrics as by the guitars and percussion and more eclectic instrumentation that whirl up out of the recorded ether and vanish just as quickly. It's been three years since the last Mount Eerie album, though he's on the cusp of releasing a pair of fulllengths: in May, Clear Moon arrives, with a companion album, Ocean Roar, to follow in the fall. Elverum notes that he'd been recording constantly for the past couple years, but with experimentation

in mind, not the "clear intention" of putting out an album. It was only in December when he took stock of what he'd accumulated that the songs seemed ready to fall into two distinct camps. "This is the first time that it's ever been that ambiguous for me," he notes, "Before this I've always been working on an album, and knew, somewhat, the shape of the album or the idea of the album from early on. But for this one, I moved into a new studio space, and put together this new space with a friend, and, I don't know, I just wanted to give myself a lot of time to get reacquainted with the space and recording and songwriting in general. Even what music was. I didn't have songs, even. I just had some vague ideas of certain types of sounds I wanted to put together to see how they worked. "It was actually hard, because a deadline can be an effective motivator," he continues. "But I feel like I discovered things I wouldn't have gotten to otherwise, letting myself spend three weeks on trying to re-record this organ part by putting the microphone in all different types of places in the room, and just thinking about it, and taking my time, spacing out." PAUL BLINOV

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PREVUE // BLOCKBUSTER SONGS

Ron Sexsmith

Long Player, Late Bloomer // Supplied

Fri, May 11 (7 pm) With Jeff Stuart & the Hearts Royal Alberta Museum Theatre, $26

aking a chance paid off for Ron Sexsmith on his 11th album, Long Player, Late Bloomer. After 2008's Exit Strategy of the Soul failed to bring in successful results, Sexsmith lost some of his confidence and admits he fell into a funk. Instead of giving up, he decided to go out on a limb and approach award-winning producer Bob Rock, whose industry credits tend to be on the heavier side, with bands like Metallica, Mötley Crüe and the Cult. "I was at a point in my career where I felt the previous two or three records seemed to have come out and died," Sexsmith recalls. "I don't really know what I was looking for, something that was more focused, and Bob brought all that experience that he has, and he's a great musician. I felt like I was in good hands." The pair became quite close over

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the five-week recording process, and while Sexsmith was proud of his less commercially successful releases, Long Player, Late Bloomer is one he's truly excited about and feels has reenergized his career. So far, the record has been quite successful from a commercial standpoint, despite receiving little airplay at home in Canada. It's also helped him regain his confidence onstage. Sexsmith is entering the last leg of his tour for Long Player, Late Bloomer with a new confidence as opposed to his previous tours, where he could barely open his eyes onstage. "I had my band, all of those things that help me when I was out onstage, make me feel like a rockstar or something, which sounds kind of frivolous, but that's the way you want to feel onstage," he adds. Writing the songs for this album also provided an outlet for the mindset Sexsmith was in. He and his wife had gone on a trip to New Mexico,

where she rented him a guitar and the words began to flow. He describes the resulting lyrics as being a tad grumpy in some cases, but humourosly so. They became fun songs for him to write, but the mood is interspersed with love songs and result in an album he's dubbed his "action movie." "It's like the whole sound of it, it's like a big blockbuster," he notes. "I think records are a lot like movies, because you try to make a cohesive record that has a sound to it and I think I've been making records that were like European films or something." Once the tour wraps, Sexsmith plans to focus on finishing up his new album, due out next year. This time, he teamed up with Mitchell Froom, who produced his earlier releases. Sexsmith says the songs are night and day, reflecting a new mindset and new direction. MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // CELTIC PUNK

The Real McKenzies

As real as McKenzies can be

Sat, May 12 (8 pm) With the Reverend Horton Heat Starlite Room, $30.50

he Real McKenzies keep getting better with age. "Yeah, like a fine Scotch," laughs guitar player Mark "Bone" Boland. A rambunctious rock 'n' roll lifestyle can take its toll on a person, but Boland credits it for keeping the band alive and kicking for the past 20 years. "I think because we haven't settled into what you would call a normal lifestyle, the stresses of that world haven't really gotten to us because they don't re-

ally apply to us," he adds, referencing the theory of relativity that suggests when an astronaut travels through space, they don't age as quickly. "I think that as we drive around the world longer and longer, we don't age as much as people that sit at home in front of their computers." After the band's last jam-packed touring schedule, the Real McKenzies are back on the road again in support of Westwinds, the group's first studio album in four years. The album takes listeners on a rollicking sea-tossed journey and, as Boland says, while lead songwriter CONTINUED ON PAGE 60 >>

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PREVUE // FOLK-POP

Steph Macpherson

Steph Macpherson in her natural habitat

Fri, May 11 (8 pm) With James Keenan, Jeff Morris and Mark Irving Haven Social Club

teph Macpherson has had quite the last couple of years. Since releasing her debut EP in November 2009, she's opened for the likes of Sarah McLachlan, Tom Cochrane, Sugarland, Sheryl Crow and Erykah Badu, not to mention an appearance at Lilith Fair. Now, she's back with the release of her debut full-length album Bells & Whistles, a collection of 10 folk-pop tunes that have gained Macpherson even more exposure as one of the country's up-and-coming singer-songwriters. Her musical ventures began at the age of four when her parents enrolled her in piano and voice lessons. Now, she's a multi-instrumentalist who plays guitar and mandolin, and admits she wouldn't mind learning to play the banjo. Macpherson credits Sarah Harmer as one of her early influences, particularly when it comes to songwriting. Bells & Whistles is an honest, thought-provoking record full of diverse instrumentation and lyrical storytelling, which were influenced by Macpherson's own experiences in all facets of life. "I write a lot about myself and about traits that I may or may not like about myself in different situations, or about

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Paul McKenzie draws on some historical inspiration, there's always a song or two about whisky. "By incorporating new blood, the vampiristic Scottish attitude can continue to be achieved," notes McKenzie, adding that the key to the band's success has been a mix of cannons, swords, whisky and bagpipes that is completely mad. While the album is still a fun mix of boot-stompers and perfect for drunken sing-alongs, Boland views it as being a

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experiences that other people, friends or family or someone have had recently that I felt a certain way about. I like to try and end them all on a hopeful note because I do think I'm a hopeful person," Macpherson explains, adding that writing about these feelings and situations helps her work through them. She admits there have been times when she's written a song and it wasn't until she played it back that it shed light on an issue she realized she needed to work through. With Bells & Whistles, Macpherson feels she's matured personally as well as musically, and has a better handle on the direction she wanted to album to go in. She's also re-recorded two songs from her EP, "Open Book" and "Something In You," which she wasn't one hundred percent satisfied with the first time around. "It's a song that's really close to me in terms of what it's about, and I wanted it to sound right and I didn't feel like it was quite right last time," she says of "Something in You," adding that in the case of "Open Book," she ended up describing a scene to her producer, Jason Cook when asked how she wanted it to sound. "I wanted it to feel like a memory, an autumn memory with warm sun through golden leaves ... I think it sounded how I wanted it to in the end." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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more mature release that h eads back to the group's roots in classic rock. They were also able to take their time in the studio with Westwinds, which Boland says is evident in the finished product. "On some of the other albums, people have complained that it actually sounds like we were under the gun and we had to get the hell out of there; someone was tapping their watch," he says. "That wasn't happening on this record and I think it comes through. It sounds more natural." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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NEWSOUNDS

d'Eon Music For Keyboards vol. II: "What's My Age Again" Variations (Hippos With Tanks)  d'Eon, an experimental-synth artist best-known for a split seven-inch with Grimes, does 14 keyboard interpretations of Blink-182's "What's My Age Again" as Music For Keyboards vol. II, available online for free in advance of his upcoming proper full-length. To

Kalle Mattson Lives in Between EP (Parliament of Trees) 

read about it on paper makes it sound like some sort of ultimate hipster injoke, but most of the variations stand alone as gently rollicking soundscapes; d'Eon's a composer with an intuition for when setting the mood is enough and when a little more thorough keyboard riffing is necessary. So the variations come out as tranquil, beautiful and spectral, like how a gathering of faeires might sound as recollected by a synthesizer. Only at "Variation V" does he go anywhere near a recognizable part of "What's My Age Again"— before and after that, you wouldn't guess the source material. So really, Music for Keyboards Vol. II is a curious inversion of a cultural norm: comedy usually skewers some kind of sincerity for its laughs (usually by elevating it to a ridiculous extreme). Why can't sincerity do the same, and pull its serenity up out of what began as a joke?

For only having three years as a songwriter under his belt, Kalle Mattson has an exceptional handle on storytelling and weaving together an abundance of imagery for the listener. His Dylan-inspired vocals ring soft yet confidently against intricate instrumentals ranging from stripped-down finger plucking to more intricate string, horn and synth arrangements. The sounds all blend together seamlessly, never seeming out of place, with the exception of a distortion and reverb heavy bit in "The Shore" that teeters towards excessive. A stand out is the closing track "Miles In Between," where a graceful string arrangement takes centre stage against Mattson's vocals.

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Joe Satriani Satchurated: Live in Montreal (Epic) 

The Cribs In the Belly of a Brazen Bull (Wichita)  Pop takes a backseat to rock influences on this fifth album from the Cribs. The record breaks out with “Glitters Like Gold,” streaming unabashed with the influence of producer Steve Albini, who the trio worked closely with

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for this record. The vocals tend to be drowned out and slurred, but once you get past trying to grasp the lyrical content the masterfulness of guitarist Ryan Jarman and drummer Ross Jarman sweep you along from track to track. And just when you begin to feel the songs pulse with familiar high-strung chords and chant-like choruses, “Confident Man” slows it all down and brings you back in, getting you prepped for a second coming of instrumental fury and a brief return to the band’s punk roots with “Chi-Town.” This British group has amassed a huge following, forcing it (grudgingly) out of Wakefield basement venues and onto stadium stages for all to appreciate, and, as the finesse of this latest album shows, the Cribs keep getting better.

The age of the guitar hero is long since past, and these days it can be pretty easy to run down the lazy route of criticizing anyone with a tendency to play a lot of notes in their instrumental songs. But the truth is, this live offering from Joe Satriani is a fairly impressive document of just what the man is able to do. Satriani has always been impressive in his ability to craft memorable instrumental melodies, and there's something to be said for the sound of a crowd singing along with the man's guitar. And the band that Satriani has assembled here is one of the more impressive groups that he's played with: at no point do the other players sound like they're simply providing the instrumental backing for guitar wankery. Instead, every player on stage is locked in with Satriani, and together they infuse the songs with subtlety and thunder at various points in the two-disc set.

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Tenderness, "Below Me" Coming from Toronto weirdos Tenderness, "Below Me" is an ethereal take on pop music. Airy, spacious production gives every inch of sound its own space to echo through—the molasses-speed percussion, the strangely hypnotic vocal line ("You move below me like an undertow / Beautiful and frightening") and the little plunks and pinches of keyboard. It seems transparent, a true ghost of a song, and is strangely compelling in being that way.

Ben Folds Five, "Do It Anyway" The first glimmer of a new Ben Folds Five album, posted for free online, is a speedy keyboard run that finds the trio in perfect lockstep: breathless piano gets bolstered by a spaghetti western bounce from the bass and driving drums as Folds riffs on doing the things you really don't want to do. It feels familiar, and warmly so. V

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Elevation Room– Transcend Coffee Heart

Wild Bill’s–Red Deer

Blues: every Friday Night hosted by the Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca

bands every Sat; 9:30pm

Crown Pub Acoustic blues

every Fri; 9pm

Starlite Room KLUB

Avenue Theatre Motives,

Coast to Coast Live

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Fri

Los Kickit Bros (rock); 7pm (door); $8 (adv)/$10 (door)

Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous

TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close

THE Common Boom the

Aaron and Harlequin; 8pm; $39.45

Krush Ultra Lounge

Rose and Crown

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

Platinum VIP every Fri

Century Casino Lee

DV8 All Strikes Reggae

On The Rocks Salsaholic:

Lucky 13 Sin Thu with DJ

CHROME LOUNGE

Café Haven Barb Harmatys; 7pm

The Druid Irish Pub DJ

Mike Tomas

Bunker Thursdays

R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights

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

Headwind (classic pop/rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover

Halen, Kool and the Gang; 6:30pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $29.50, $59.50, $89.50 & $149.50 at Wireless Box OfficeTM

Level 2 lounge Funk

BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser

Café Coral De Cuba

Jekyll and Hyde Pub

Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown

(indie rock); $10

The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every Fri; 9pm; no cover

Death by Robot, Mercy Years; 7pm; tickets at Brixx

Devaney's Irish pub

Haven Social Club

Jeffrey's Café Rend

Boneyard Ale House

Brixx Bar Early Show:

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

PAWN SHOP Belvedere

KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm

spinning retro to rock classics to current

Buffalo Underground

HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with

J R Bar and Grill Live

Blacksheep Pub Bash: DJ

Haven Social Club

DJ Damian

Jam Thu; 9pm

Every Friday DJs on all three levels

every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover

Jambouree with Charlie Scream every Thu

Skydiggers (country/folk/ rock), Peter Katz, Jason Plumb; no minors; 8pm (door); $15 (adv)

Fri; no cover

bohemia Ramshackle Day Parade: Calgary Noise Invasion (noise-tronic sounds); no minors; 8pm show; $5

On the Rocks Exit 303 Overtime Sherwood Park Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

Queen ALexander Hall Edmonton Blues Society: Swing the Cat with Joe Piccolo; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (music); $5 (member)/$10 (guest)

Red Piano Bar Hottest

dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm-2am

Rexall Place The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys; 8pm; $35-$55 at TicketMaster Roberston-Wesley United Church Salute To The Proms: Mill Creek Colliery Band; 7pm; $18/$14 (student/senior)

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MUSIC 63

Rose and Crown Andrew Scott

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Lyle Hobbs Sherlock Holmes– WEM Mike Braniff Sideliners Pub Sat

open stage; 3-7pm

Starlite Room The Reverend, Horton Heat, Real Mckenzies; No Minors; 8pm (door); $25 at unionevents.com WUNDERBAR Dangercat

(Winnipeg), Feast or Famine, Nervous Wreck, the Nguyen Nguyen Situation; 9pm

Yardbird Suite The Best

of Alberta: Jon McCaslin Quintet (Sunalta CD release); 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $16 (member)/$20 (guest)

Classical Convocation Hall

Colours of Spring: Kokopelli Choirs; 7pm; $20/$15 (student)

Don’s Piano Showroom St Albert

Chamber Music Recital Series: David Grainger Brown (guitar), Hiromi Takahashi (oboe), Joel Kristiansen (guitar); 7:30pm ; $25/$20 (adv tickets at Art Gallery of St Albert)

Holy Trinity Anglican Church Spirits: I Coristi Chamber Choir: Debra Cairns (conductor), Josephine van Lier (baroque cello), Marnie Giesbrecht (organ); 7:30pm; $21.75, $16.75 at TIX on the Square, , donations for the Food Bank

Royal Glenora Club

Night on Broadway: Edmonton Columbian Choirs; Dinner and Cabaret ; 6pm (cocktail), 6:30pm (dinner & show); tickets: T: Beth at 780.430.6808

Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre Cosmopolitan Music Society: Joint Concert: Mon Band and St Albert Community Band; 7-9pm

Westbury Theatre

Jambalaya–A New Orleans Tribute: Eko Singers; 8pm; $20 at TIX on the Square

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

Overtime–Downtown

Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School

Palace Casino Show

Lounge DJ every Sat

PAWN SHOP Transmission

Saturdays: Indie rock, new wave, classic punk with DJ Blue Jay and Eddie Lunchpail; 9pm (door); free (before 10pm)/$5 (after 10pm)

RED STAR Indie rock, hip

hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge

Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm

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

BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm

Sou Kawaii Zen Lounge

Boneyard Ale House DJ

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

Suite 69 Stella Saturday:

FILTHY McNASTY'S Fire up

your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG

with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm

Fluid Lounge Scene

Union Hall Celebrity

Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hiphop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali

Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro

Signature Saturdays

Vinyl Dance Lounge Y AFTERHOURS Release

every Sat with DJ Damian

Saturdays

HALO For Those Who Know:

SUN MAY 13

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) O2's Taphouse and Grill DJs every Fri and Sat O2's on whyte DJ

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 Mother's Day Brunch: Jim Findlay Trio; 10:30am-2:30pm; donations

Blue Pear Restaurant Jazz on the Side Sun: Mother's Day: Don Berner; 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining

Blues on Whyte Megan Lane

Jay every Fri and Sat

Yardbird Suite Tuesday Night Session: Bryan Qu Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5 Yellowhead Brewery Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical Edmonton Petroleum Club

Double D's Open jam

Enchanted Evenings–A Mother’s Day Special Event: Opera Nuova, Theodore Baerg (baritone), Irena Welhasch Baerg; 5:30pm ; tickets at operanuova.ca

Eddie Shorts Open stage

McDougall United Church Edmonton Youth

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover every Sun; 3-8pm

with Dan Daniels every Sun

Secrets, the Word Alive, Mest, Attack Attack; 5:30pm; $35.50

electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri

TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap

Newcastle Pub Top 40

Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm

Suede Lounge House,

electric rodeo–Spruce Grove DJ every Sat

Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

Cha Island Tea Co

Edmonton Event Centre Escape the Fate;

retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

junction bar and eatery LGBT Community:

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

Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M

Sat; 9pm

house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes

Caffrey's–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam:

Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove Zumba! with Dawn Morgan

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); Begrime Exemious, Up In Smoke, Agressive Dementia, Morbis Infernus; $10 (door); 8pm (door), 9pm (show) On the Rocks A Name Unheard, the Whytes O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am On the Rocks Seven

Strings Sun:

O2's tap house and grill Open stage hosted

by the band the Vindicators; 4-8pm every Sun

Richard's PUB Sun Live

Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm

TWO ROOMS Live Jam

every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner)

and Children’s Choir Spring Concert: Primary Choir, Boys’ Choir, Girls’ Choir and Youth Choir; 2:30pm; $10

Muttart Hall Alberta College Conservatory of Music Connections Concert Series. Emerging student musicians and faculty performances; 2pm; $20/$10 TIX on the Square Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre Spring Symphonie– Music for Mothers and Others: Edmonton Philharmonic Orchestra, Murray Vassjo (conductor), Anni Yu (violin); 2pm; $10/ free (child 10 and under)

St Andrew’s United Church This Shining Night: Vocal Alchemy 10th Anniversary Concert: Jordan Van Biert (conductor), Satomi Tozawa (piano), David Wilson (guest conductor), Adam Pappas (violin), Brett Ludwig (piano), Keith Rempel (bass), Thom Bennett (drums), Dan Davis (sax), guest singers; 7:30pm; $17/$15 (door); $15, $12 (adv) at vocalalchemy. com, TIX on the Square

Westbury Theatre

Jambalaya–A New Orleans Tribute: Eko Singers; 2pm; $20 at TIX on the Square

Winspear Centre

Esquire Men’s Chorus–A Concert for Mother’s Day: Michael Zaugg (conductor), Joachim Segger, accompanist); 2pm; $30

VENUE GUIDE Accent European Lounge 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTery 9535 Jasper Ave Avenue Theatre 9030-118 Ave, 780.477.2149 Bistro La Persaud 8617-91 St, 780.758.6686 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE 10425-82 Ave, 780.439.1082 Blackjack's Roadhouse– Nisku 2110 Sparrow Drive, Nisku, 780.986.8522 Blacksheep Pub 11026 Jasper Ave, 780.420.0448 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 Blue Pear Restaurant 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 10329-82 Ave, 780.439.3981 Bohemia 10217-97 St Boneyard Ale House 921634 Ave, 780.437.2663 Brittanys Lounge 1022597 St (behind Winspear stage door) Brixx Bar 10030-102 St (downstairs), 780.428.1099 BUDDY’S 11725B Jasper Ave, 780.488.6636 Café Coral De Cuba 10816 Whyte Ave Café Haven 9 Sioux Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.417.5523, cafehaven.ca CARROT Café 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 Casino Edmonton 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 Casino Yellowhead 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 Century Casino 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 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 9910-109 St Crown Pub 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 Diesel Ultra Lounge 11845 Wayne Gretzky Drive, 780.704.CLUB

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Devaney’s Irish Pub 901388 Ave, 780.465.4834 THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 Don’s Piano Showroom 8 Riel Dr, St Albert 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 Edmonton Petroleum Club 11110-108 St Electric Rodeo–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave Elevation Room– Transcend Coffee 10349 Jasper Ave Expressionz Café 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 Festival Place 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 10511-82 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH Night Club 10018-105 St, 780.996.1778 FLOW Lounge 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.CLUB Fluid Lounge 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery 9942108 St Good Neighbor Pub 11824-103 St HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO haven social club 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HAYloft Acres Strathcona,

VUEWEEKLY MAY 10 – MAY 16, 2012

East of Edmonton HillTop Pub 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 Hogs Den Pub 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr Holy Trinity Anglican Church 10037-84 Ave HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 Hydeaway 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 Iron Boar Pub 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 jeffrey’s café 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 junction bar and eatery 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 Krush Ultra Lounge 16648-109 Ave L.B.’s Pub 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 Lit Italian Wine Bar 10132-104 St Lizard Lounge 13160-118 Ave Marybeth's Coffee House–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 McDougall United Church 10025-101 St Muttart Hall Alberta College, 10050 Macdonald Dr 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 O2's on Whyte 780.454.0203

O2's Taphouse and Grill 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203 O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre 8426 Gateway Blvrd, 780.432.9333 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 Overtime–Downtown 10304-111 St, 780.465.6800 Overtime Sherwood Park 100 Granada Blvd, Sherwood Park, 790.570.5588 PAWN SHOP 10551-82 Ave, Upstairs, 780.432.0814 Playback Pub 594 Hermitage Rd, 130 Ave, 40 St Pleasantview Community Hall 10860-57 Ave Queen Alexandra Hall 10425 University Ave 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 Richard's PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 Ric’s Grill 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 Roberston-Wesley United Church 10209-123 St ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 Rose and Crown 10235101 St Royal Alberta Museum Theatre 12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9156 Royal Glenora Club 11160 River Valley Rd Sacred Diva Healing Centre 10830-124 St St Andrew’s United Church 9915-148 St

Second Cup–89 Ave 8906149 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 University of AlbertA– Humanties Centre Lecture Theatre 1 11487-89 Ave 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 Westbury Theatre Trans Alta arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave 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

VUEWEEKLY MAY 10 – MAY 16, 2012

MUSIC 65

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy

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

MON MAY 14 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover

Blues on Whyte Damon Fowler

Devaney's Irish Pub Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm

Jubilee Auditorium B.B. King; 8pm

Overtime Sherwood Park Monday Open Stage Pawn Shop Metal

Mondays: Massacre, Metal, Quietus, Death Toll Rising, Untimely Demise; $15 (adv)

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm

Richard's PUB The K-Tels Rose Bowl/Rouge Lounge Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

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

Crown Pub Mixmashitup

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

FILTHY McNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson

Lucky 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook NEW CITY LEGION

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

TUE MAY 15 Blues on Whyte Damon

Fowler

Brixx Bar Ruby Tuesdays: Lauren Mann and the Fairly Odd Folk, Light Travels with

host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm

Druid Irish Pub Open

stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm

DV8 Whitemud, Surviving Suzanne; 9pm Jubilee Auditorium

Listener Appreciation Concert: Gene Watson with Duane Steele and the Stellas; 7pm

L.B.’s Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am

New City Trusty Chords

Tuesdays; $5 (door)

O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam

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

Overtime Sherwood Park The Campfire Hero's

(acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover

Padmanadi Open stage

Days; 6pm (show); $49, $69, $99

Richard's PUB The K-Tels Second Cup– Summerwood Open stage/

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

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

Sherlock Holmes– WEM Tony Dizon

Red Piano All Request

Wunderbar Mount

Eerie (Anacortes), Smokey, Huckleberry; 8:30pm

Yardbird Suite Tue

Night Sessions: Bryan Qu Quartet; 7:30pm (door), 8pm (show); $5

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail every

R Pub Open stage jam

CRown Pub Live Hip Hop

Red Piano All request

band Tuesdays: Joint Chiefs (classic rock, soul, R&B) every Tue

Rexall Place Nickelback, Bush, Seether, My Darkest

RED STAR Experimental

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Andrew Scott

every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:30-10:30pm every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm

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

Buddys DJ Arrow Chaser

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

Band Tuesdays: Classic rock, soul and R&B with Joint Chiefs; 8pm; $5

Suite 69 Rockstar

Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED MAY 16 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE

Miguel and friends every Wed

Mannequin (rock), Dearly Beloved, guests; $12 (adv)

eddie shorts Every

Playback Pub Open

Elephant and Castle– Whyte Ave Open mic

PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL

Wed: electric open jam with Steven Johnson Experience

every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover

Fiddler's Roost Little

Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

Red Piano Bar Wed

HAVEN SOCIAL Club

Richard's PUB Live Latin

Breezy Brian Gregg; every Wed; 12-1pm Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free

HOOLIGANZ Open stage

every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm

Blues on Whyte Damon

New West Hotel Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm

Brittany's Lounge

Aroot's Bazaar (Gypsy Latin band) every Wed

Cha Island Tea Co

Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm

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

Crown Pub The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan,

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

Good Earth Coffee House and Bakery

Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month Fowler

Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am

(acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover

PAWN SHOP Die

Night Live: hosted by dueling piano players; 8pm1am; $5

Band Salsabor every Wed; 9pm

Second Cup–149 St

Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm

Sherlock Holmes– Downtown Andrew Scott Sherlock Holmes– WEM Tony Dizon WUNDERBAR Big Eyes (Seattle); 8:30pm

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; 4pm-3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed

RED STAR Guest DJs every

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and

Wed

TEMPLE Wild Style Wed:

Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

JONESIN'CROSSWORD "Stretch Those Quads!"–a hardcore freestyle workout MATT JONES // JONESINCROSSWORDS@vueweekly.com

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Across 1 Second half of a ball game? 5 Used (to) 15 She uses a bird to sweep the house 17 Computer overhaul 18 Arian Foster stats 19 Little sip 20 Gold, to Guatemalans 21 "Who Wants to Marry a Multi-Millionaire?" network 22 Bodybuilder's units 24 Word before Earth or City, in computer games 27 Drab shade 29 She was Dorothy on "The Golden Girls" 30 Org. that listens for alien signals 31 It's obsolete 35 Jovial question from someone eager to help 36 It covers Miami, Montpelier and Montreal 37 SOPA subject 38 Opera follower? 39 New Year's, in Hanoi 40 Mandolin relative 41 Nancy Grace's network 42 Southwest sch. whose mascot is

King Triton 44 Daily grind 45 Homey 46 "___ Ho" (Best Original Song Oscar winner of 2008) 47 The D in OED 50 Easy lunch to prepare 56 Insider's knowledge 57 Viktor Bout or Adnan Khashoggi 58 Dark form of quartz Down 1 Off-kilter 2 Messed with the facts 3 World Series precursor, for short 4 "As I see it," in chatrooms 5 Tack on 6 Shorten nails 7 Smoke 8 Palindromic prime minister of the 1940s-60s 9 Leather sharpener 10 Old rulers 11 Chemist Hahn 12 Oneself, cutely 13 Roxy Music name 14 Room for board games, perhaps

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16 Person with a booming voice, often 21 Donut shop option 22 Upgraded 23 Fail spectacularly, like a skateboarder 24 British structure of WWII 25 "No need to pay" 26 Bishops' wear 27 Grain alcohol 28 Put someone in their place 29 Some hats worn on The Oregon Trail 30 Lose your composure, in junior high-speak 31 "Anchors ___" 32 Senator Jake who flew on the Space Shuttle Discovery 33 The plate 34 Ophthalmologist's concerns 42 Implored 43 Richard who played Don Barzini in "The Godfather" 44 Vacation time, in slang 45 ___ the Younger (Arthurian knight) 46 Director Campion 47 Zoologist Fossey 48 Disgusting 49 Cereal with gluten-free varieties 50 Org. that bestows merit badges 51 "Love, Reign ___ Me" (The Who) 52 420, for 20 and 21: abbr. 53 "Just as I suspected!" 54 "On the Road" protagonist ___ Paradise 55 "Never heard of her" ©2012 Jonesin' Crosswords

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): In one of your past lives, I think you must have periodically done something like stick your tongue out and gotten away with it. At least that's one explanation for how confident you often are about speaking up when everyone else seems unwilling to point out that the emperor is in fact wearing no clothes. This quality should come in handy during the coming week. It may be totally up to you to reveal the truth about an obvious secret. Can you figure out a way to be relatively tactful as you say what supposedly can't or shouldn't be said?

calico, Cleopatra, demands chicken for breakfast and beef stew at night, and all of it absolutely must be served in a pink bowl on the dining room table. Caligula insists on fish stew early and tuna later. He wants it on a black plate placed behind the love seat. Nefertiti refuses everything but gourmet turkey upon waking and beef liver for the evening repast. I'm bringing your attention to this, because I think you could draw inspiration from it. It's in your interests, at least temporarily, to keep your loved ones and allies happy with a coordinated exactitude that rivals Irene's.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): Taurus actor Daniel Day Lewis will star as American president Abraham Lincoln in a film to be released later this year. Hollywood insiders report that Lewis basically became Lincoln months before the film was shot and throughout the entire process. Even when the cameras weren't rolling, he spoke in the cadences and accent of his character rather than in his own natural voice. It might be fun for you to try a similar experiment in the coming weeks. Fantasize in detail about the person you would ultimately like to become, and then imitate that future version of you.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): The moon's pale glow shimmers

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): The idea of a housewarming

party comes from an old British tradition. People who were moving would carry away embers from the fireplace of the home they were leaving and bring them to the fireplace of the new home. I recommend that you borrow this idea and apply it to the transition you're making. As you migrate toward the future, bring along a symbolic spark of the vitality that has animated the situation you're transitioning out of.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): "We all need a little more courage now and then," said poet Marvin Bell. "That's what I need. If you have some to share, I want to know you." I advise you to adopt his approach in the coming days. Proceed on the assumption that what you need most right now is to be braver and bolder. And consider the possibility that a good way to accomplish this goal is by hanging around people who are so intrepid and adventurous that their spirit will rub off on you.

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AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): If you've been tuning in to my horoscopes during the past months, you're aware that I have been encouraging you to refine and deepen the meaning of home. You know that I have been urging you to get really serious about identifying what kind of environment you need in order to thrive; I've been asking you to integrate yourself into a community that brings out the best in you; I've been nudging you to create a foundation that will make you strong and sturdy for a long time. Now it's time to finish up your intensive work on these projects. You've got about four more weeks before a new phase of your life's work will begin. PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Is your BS-detector in good condition? I hope so, because it's about to get a workout. Rumors will be swirling and gossip will be flourishing, and you will need to be on high alert in order to distinguish the laughable delusions that have no redeeming value from the entertaining stories that have more than a few grains of truth. If you pass those tests, Pisces, your reward will be handsome: You'll become a magnet for inside information, valuable secrets, and unusual but useful clues that come from unexpected sources.

COMMENT >> LGBTQ

Gender bender comics Breaking down mainstream norms

"Reading it won't make you gay," said an audience. In 1976, the daily politithe sign plastered all over Gay Calcal strip Doonesbury became the first gary's booth at the recent Calgary widely-distributed comic to introduce Comic and Entertainment Expo. The an openly gay character. For Better or high-energy booth attendant was enFor Worse and Boondocks, two other couraging passers-by to take a copy of highly syndicated newspaper daily comGay Calgary's eponymous monthly ics, followed suit in subsequent demagazine, which featured incades. Alison Bechdel, creator terviews with geek celebriof the long running Dykes to ties like Wil Wheaton and Watch Out For, has busted ly.com Amanda Tapping. "But it's k both queers and comics out e e w @vue ashley not just for gay people! Evof the underground closet y e Ashl h eryone likes Wil Wheaton," with her memoir Fun Home. A g r u Dryb the attendant was quick to regraphic novel, Fun Home ranked assure two skeptical-looking female on a number of prestigious "Best Books twentysomethings. The reminder of 2006" lists and was almost universeems especially apt in the context of sally well-regarded by critics. With the mainstream comics that are primarily a 1989 repeal of the American Comics projection of white heterosexual male Code Authority's outright ban on depicfantasies. If one reads comics because tions of homosexuality in 1989, queers one wants to be Superman, then perhave slowly filtered into mainstream haps there is a heightened anxiety that superhero comics. The most notable reading about a gay character will inexample is DC's Batwoman. Part of the deed make you gay. But I digress ... I will Batman family of superheroes, Batadmit that I was pleasantly surprised to woman features a lesbian character in see a group of homos set up at a comic the title role and, equally important, con. It made me wonder: what is the is one of the best written titles in DC's current state of queers and comics? catalogue. Undoubtable, queers are starting to Since at least the 1970s, underground make in-roads in all forms of comics. queer comics have been circulating; Do we still have a long way to go? with the advent of the Internet, anyAbsolutely. Despite her kick-ass ways, one with an Internet connection and a Batwoman can still be spotted in the drawing program has been able to find hyper-sexualised poses so endemic

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of female superheroes. And as far as I know, she's the only non-ensemble headlining gay superhero around (queer nerds: feel free to correct me!). Perhaps a better question might be: what is it like to be a queer comic-book fan these days? I have nothing but my own experience to go on here. No one harassed my partner and I as we walked around, which has not always been my experience in Calgary (although the fact that we were accompanied by my brother and his newly-purchased axe may have helped), and I saw some delightfully gender-bending costumes. But I also couldn't help but notice the resounding silence of the audience the one time I heard a panelist casually mention a gay character. This leaves me with the perennial, unsatisfying answer that things are better than they were, but not yet as good as we might like. If comic-book communities are, at their most ideal, a haven for everyone who has never quite fit to fantasize about a world where we finally have power, then queers should be legion in these communities. And whether everyone is ready to admit it or not, I bet we are. I just wish the day Gay Calgary's nerd interviews were greeted with anticipation rather than apprehension would hurry up and get here. V

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Unscrewing the pooch

Plus advice for a threesome and another kick in the balls I am a 26-year-old straight guy. My advice. I am still in love with my ex. I straightness and guyness are recent am prepared now to be the boyfriend revelations, and it feels amazing that she wanted me to be. But E G to be able to confidently state how do I prove to her that I A SAV this. Here is my trouble: I've am no longer the apathetic, had gender issues for the distant and repressed lover m o ekly.c vuewe past five years. My now ex- savagelove@ that she was with for three Dan girlfriend of three years said years? I find myself overavage whelmed with regret. She saw S she couldn't be with me anymore due to these issues. Our breakme as someone who couldn't do up was a result of my apathy in the the things she needed, when in reality I bedroom, which was tied to my gender was just paralyzed by my insecurities. issues, and her fears of me transitionFOUND MYSELF LOST ing into a woman. I can see now that my insecurities about myself caused You're not asking me for some advice, me to be a selfish partner in many FML. What you're doing is handing me ways, but mainly in the bedroom. I a dog with a bloody, torn-up ass and now realize I was allowing my sexual saying, "Hey, Dan, I totally screwed the kinks to get the best of me. I get very pooch. Unscrew it for me, wouldya?" turned on by the idea of giving head Some days, half the mail is from reto a guy, but in reality it is not somemorseful pooch-screwers, and I do thing that I enjoy. I also find lingerie to what I can to unscrew their pooches. be very arousing. I allowed myself to That's part of my job. But not every focus so heavily on those aspects of pooch can be unscrewed, FML, and my sexuality that I became insecure in your pooch looks eternally screwed my masculinity inside and outside of to me. the bedroom. I also ended up ignoring It wasn't your gender issues or kinks the majority of my sexual desires as a or anxieties that screwed that pooch. result of my insecurity in my gender You don't have to apologize for your identity. I have now stopped repressgender issues. You were working ing my lust toward women in general, through some serious shit. What something I had been doing that negayou can be faulted for, FML, is your tively affected my ex. thoughtlessness, your inconsiderI am asking you, I suppose, for some ation and your neglect. You were so

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wrapped up in your own drama that you could barely perceive, to say nothing of meet, your girlfriend's reasonable sexual and emotional needs. We don't have to be perfectly healthy or issue-free before entering into a relationship, of course. If that were the standard, no one would ever be in a relationship. However, we do have to be in relatively good working order, and you were not. Your girlfriend wasn't looking for an issue-free guy; no such animal exists. But she wanted a guy who could have his issues and still make an effort to meet her needs. And your poor, neglected, taken-for-granted girlfriend stuck it out for three long years, hoping you might turn into that kind of guy-withissues, before finally calling it quits. And damn her timing, right? Because everything magically fell into place the moment she walked out. So what can you do now? You can tell your ex that you've come to a couple of big realizations: you know yourself to be a straight man now and you can see that you were a terrible boyfriend then. You were so wrapped up in your own anxieties and kinks and insecurities that you couldn't meet her needs then but you can now. The only way you prove this to her, of course, is if she takes you back. Considering the price she paid when you were struggling—inconsiderate, selfish, thoughtless, neglectful boyfriends are no fun, gender issues or no gender issues— she's likely to pass. Because life is basically one big issue after another, and she may have concluded that you're incapable of having an issue and being a decent boyfriend simultaneously. If she doesn't take you back—if that pooch can't be unscrewed—resolve to learn from your mistakes, FML, and refrain from screwing the

next pooch that comes your way. I am a lesbian-identified bi woman who has been with my ladyfriend (also a LIBW) for seven years. She recently brought up her desire to have a threesome. I've had a handful of group-sex experiences, and I know that they can be fun but they can also go very wrong. I am worried that she isn't prepared to see me have sex with a man, and I fear that once we are in the moment she won't be assertive enough to stop something that she may have agreed to beforehand but suddenly isn't comfortable with. What is the best way to test the waters? Our next concern is who to invite into our bed. We would prefer it to be someone we wouldn't have to see again, so friends are out. However, I am concerned about just finding a random person on CL or Adult Friend Finder because, being in a lesbian relationship, we definitely have run across men who think we "just need the right penis." Basically, I want a man who I know is friendly with the queer community and will respect our relationship and our boundaries. Where do we look for this? ANOTHER BI WOMAN Established couples that want safety, respect and a measure of accountability from their very special guest sex stars, ABW, should look first to flirty friends and friendly exes. But you two, like so many threesome-seeking couples, want the perfect person to materialize immediately before sex and disappear immediately after. That means finding and vetting a stranger. And online personal ads are the best way to accomplish that. State in your profile that you're looking for someone who (1) is queer-friendly, (2) respects your relationship and (3) doesn't think the

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