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Watching the watchers Parliamentary democracy isn't the severe system of checks and balances found in our neighbouring republic, but there are a few positions in place to watch over those we have elected to make decisions for us. And with two of those positions coming into the spotlight in the last week, it raises some questions about how we treat the people we've appointed to ensure government is doing its job. The Parliamentary Budget Officer is a position created by the Conservative government, in its minority incarnation, to give Canadians an independent position on the state of Canada's finances, but it seems PBO Kevin Page has overstayed his welcome. Page has been vocal in the past about the high cost of the Conservative crime bill, the price tag on Canada's mission in Afghanistan and the costs of the F-35 jet procurement, which only came to light through the Auditor General. But when Page revealed he was willing to go to court to get the real numbers from the federal government it was the last straw for Minister of Foreign Affairs John Baird, who stated, "I have to say with great respect, I believe that from time to time and on occasion the Parliamentary Budget Office has overstepped its mandate." Page wants the government to reveal the details of $5.2 billion in departmental cuts and the legal opinion he's got

on his side states the government is breaking the law by failing to do so. It's Page's last year in his term and he's been accused of wanting to go out in a blaze of glory. But Page may have more to worry about. In the same week Page's determination was made clear, William Corbett, the Commissioner of Elections Canada and the man heading the investigation into the robocalls scandal, has retired. The investigation into alleged fraudulent robocalls made to voters in 200 ridings during the last federal election is still underway. According to the Ottawa Citizen, Chief Electoral Officer Marc Mayrand says the sudden retirement will have no impact on the largest investigation Elections Canada has undertaken. But the Citizen goes on to describe Corbett's replacement, Yves Cote, as "safe and methodical, but not a fighter." Corbett's retirement, alternately described as his quitting, and a resignation, has not been given a reason, and Corbett has not been available for interviews. It makes the move more than a little suspicious. Ultimately, despite the independence of these positions, there are still ways governments and bureaucracy can silence the voices, but the information they reveal will remain. As a public we shouldn't let those voices go silently or unforgotten. Somtimes we have to take our turn as watchmen. V

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SAFETY FIRST A group of landowners, environmental groups and individual Albertans are calling on Premier Redford to establish an independent review of Alberta's pipeline network. After three pipeline spills in the past month the coalition, including the Alberta Surface Rights Group and the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, is concerned for the potential impacts of an expansive network of pipelines across the province. "Given the number of aging pipe-

lines we have in Alberta, the number of new pipelines that are being built, and a general lack of understanding of the extent of the risks, a pipeline review by an independent panel is urgently needed." says Don Bester with the Alberta Surface Rights Group. On June 7 an inoperative Plains Midstream pipeline spilled 3000 barrels of oil into the Red Deer River. According to Alberta Environment, larger pipelines require Conservation

and Reclamation approval under the Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act, but monitoring and inspection isn't done by provincial regulatory inspectors. Industry is expected to monitor pipelines and report environmental issues. The petition asks for an independent assessment of the state of pipeline safety in the province and recommended changes to infrastructure changes to ensure environmental safety.

at a financial imbalance which resulted in $125 billion infrastructure deficit in 2006. Since then the federal government has improved investment in cities through the Canada Economic Action Plan and a 4.75 billion dollar investment in 2010. These initiatives brought municipal transfers to a pre1995 level. Municipalities are primarily concerned with the growth in re-

sponsibility for housing, health and social services, which are increasingly offloaded from the provinces according to a recent report by the Federation of Canadian Municipalities. Edmonton City Council has drafted a letter to be sent to the federal minister of transport, infrastructure and communities as well as all Edmonton members of Parliament.

PAYING FOR A CITY At a June 20 meeting Edmonton City Council approved its support of a new campaign to ensure federal funding for municipal infrastructure. The current federal funding structures, which provide two billion dollars a year in federal infrastructure funding, will expire with the Building Canada Plan in March 2014. Historically, Canadian municipalities have operated

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COMMENT >> EARTH SUMMIT

Getting away with murder It will be too late, but one day ecocide will be a crime There was no law against genocide in world's remaining forests, and much the early 1940s; it only became more besides. an internationally recognized This time, few leaders of the crime after the worst genomajor powers even bothcide of modern history had ered to attend. They would kly.com uewee v actually happened. Similarly, have come only to sign a @ e n gwyn e n n y there is no law against "ecosummit statement, "The w G cide" now. That will only come Future We Want," that had Dyer to pass when the damage to the enalready been nibbled to death by vironment has become so extreme that special interests, national and corpolarge numbers of people are dying from rate. "(The) final document ... contribit even in rich and powerful countries. utes almost nothing to our struggle They are already dying from the efto survive as a species," said Nicarafects of environmental destruction in guan representative Miguel d'Escoto some poor countries, but that makes Brockmann. "We now face a future of no difference because they are powincreasing natural disasters." erless. By the time it starts to hurt A plan to stop the destruction of large numbers of people in powerful the world's oceans was blocked by countries, 20 or 30 years from now, the US, Canada and Russia. The final most of the politicians who conspired text simply says that countries should to smother any substantial progress do more to prevent over-fishing and at the Rio+20 Earth Summit will be ocean acidification, without specifying safely beyond the reach of any law. what. A call to end subsidies for fosBut eventually there will be a law. sil fuels was removed from the final Rio+20, which ended last Friday, was text, as was language emphasising the advertised as a "once-in-a-generation" reproductive rights of women. And of opportunity to build on the achievecourse there were no new commitments of the original Earth Summit, ments on fighting climate change. held in the same city 20 years ago. The 49-page final declaration of That extraordinary event produced a Rio+20 contained the verb "reaffirm" legally binding treaty on biodiversity, 59 times. In effect, some 50 000 peoan agreement on combating climate ple from 192 countries travelled to change that led to the Kyoto accord, Rio de Janeiro to "reaffirm" what was the first initiative for protecting the agreed there 20 years ago. The fact

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that the document was not even less ambitious than the 1992 final text was trumpeted as a success. Rarely has such a large elephant laboured so long to give birth to such a small mouse. The declared goal of the conference, which was to reconcile economic development and environ-

ference, but that is not strictly true. Governments seeking to avoid commitments are happier than activists who wanted some positive results from the conference, and the hundreds of large corporations that were represented at Rio are happiest of all. How did it end up like this? Global greenhouse gas emissions have grown

The declared goal of the conference, which was to reconcile economic development and environmental protection by giving priority to the goal of a 'green' (ie sustainable) economy, simply vanished in a cloud of vague generalities. mental protection by giving priority to the goal of a "green" (ie sustainable) economy, simply vanished in a cloud of vague generalities. The final text does say that "fundamental changes in the way societies consume and produce are indispensable for achieving global sustainable development," but it does NOT say what those fundamental changes should be. A "green economy" becomes only one of many possible ways forward. You wonder why they even bothered. "This is an outcome that makes nobody happy. My job was to make everyone equally unhappy," said Sha Zukang, Secretary-General of the con-

by 48 percent in the past 20 years, we have lost another 3 million square kilometres of forest, and the world's population has grown by 1.6 billion— yet there is less sense of urgency than there was in 1992. You can't just blame the economy: Rio+20 would probably have ended just as badly if there had been no financial crash in 2008. Twenty years ago the issues of climate change, biodiversity, preservation of oceans and forests, and sustainable development were relatively fresh challenges. Moreover, the world had just emerged from a long Cold War, and there was plenty of energy and hope around. Now everybody un-

derstands how tough the challenges are, and how far apart are the interests of the rich and the poor countries. We now have a 20-year history of defeats on this agenda, and there is a lot of defeatism around. Politicians are always reluctant to be linked to lost causes, and the struggles against poverty and environmental destruction now seem to fall into that category. Thus we sleepwalk towards terrible disasters—but that doesn't absolve our leaders of responsibility. We didn't hire them to follow; we hired them to lead. At the recent World Congress on Justice, Law and Governance for Environmental Sustainability, one of the events leading up to the Rio+20 conference, a group of "radical" lawyers proposed that "ecocide" should be made a crime. They were only radical in the sense that a group of lawyers agitating for a law against genocide would have been seen as radical in 1935. One day, after many great tragedies have occurred, there will be a law against ecocide. But almost all the real culprits will be gone by then. V Gwynne Dyer is a London-based independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries. His column appears each week in Vue Weekly.

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Those Who Know

Author finds hope in revisiting her book on Alberta's elders "I don't think we've ever been this powerful as a people," says Meili. "I don't want to sugar coat it because we do have so many problems." In Meili's journey to capture the stories of elders across the province she listened to personal stories of poverty, experiences in residential schools, and the struggle for rights and recognition. In visiting each elder in their home Meili reveals the intricate, difficult pasts of elders who once struggled the challenges the world presents. "An elder is someone who is in full control of their emotions," says Meili. In her book Meili describes an elder as someone who has "transcended jealousy, sadness, anger and hate, and they live fully in the present."

Dianne Meili revisits Alberta's Aboriginal elders

lders play an important role in Aboriginal communities. The role, which can be one of a teacher and spiritual guide, often includes an element of keeping the culture of a community. Twenty years after first

writing her book Those Who Know, author Dianne Meili has taken the opportunity to revisit the lives of elders in Alberta communities and in doing so reveals a sense of hope in some difficult histories.

In its first printing 20 years ago, Meili made the attempt to capture not just the role of the elder, but also the personality and the history of the person who has managed this transcendence to become a community leader. The personal connection she developed with people across the province made Meili initially reluctant to revisit the stories of the communities and elders she had profiled in the original book 20 years ago. "When we started to talk about a reprint, first I thought,

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well, most of those people have passed away now and that really is an end of an era," says Meili. It wasn't something she looked at as an opportunity until she spoke with the son of Tibeyimisuw, one of the oldest elders she had spoken with 20 years ago. "He was carrying on in the old man's footprints. We had a great conversation," says Meili. "It became an awesome undertaking to talk to the nieces and granddaughters of these elders." The new edition contains updates from the families of elders she spoke with across Alberta, and talks to those who have taken on the role in the intervening years. And in many ways revisiting these stories and families highlights the role of the elder in Aboriginal communities. "I look at these people as bridges. Not everyone is a spiritual elder," says Meili. "A lot of them are natural elders in a community so they are looked to when decisions when fishing or hunting regulations come out." Revisiting the Fort McKay First Nation, Meili spoke with the community about how industrial activity has impacted hunting and fishing in an area where elder James Grandjambe has taught his family and community to hunt moose and gather medicinal plants.

"You have to make an offering to the spirit of that plant in a place that hasn't been disturbed. Now, everything is so contaminated up here the plants aren't the same," Theresa Grandjambe, James' daughter describes in Meili's book. But overall Meili was left with a feeling of hope after visiting Albert and Alma Desjarlais in the East Prairie Métis Settlement where they hold a culture camp every year in their home. "I was expecting to sit on readings but they had a sweat lodge and their grand children were splashing around," says Meili. "They were excited to be there." Meili's day job is as a cultural reporter for CFEW. "I hear about more initiatives to teach Cree or to be an elder's helper," says Meili. Partially Meili suggests, this reinvigorated effort to keep cultures alive comes from a realization of being on the brink of losing it all. "But I'm thinking more than ever that we're not going to lose things," says Meili. "Nothing's ever lost. In our dreams we get a lot of information. A ceremony might look different but the meaning of it from creation will still be there." SAMANTHA POWER

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Alberta schools join a grassroots project to educate students on residential schools

Nearly 2000 Grade 7 and 8 students attended an education day about residential schools on Friday, June 22, as part of a Truth and Reconciliation Commission national event in Saskatoon // Sandra Cuffe

he history and legacy of residential schools is almost a footnote in the Canadian history taught in public schools across the country. But along with grassroots initiatives, two territorial governments in Northern Canada are working to incorporate that history into elementary and high school curriculum. Most students in Alberta and other provinces learn next to nothing about the residential school system that was in place for over a century, with lasting impacts on First Nations, Métis and Inuit communities across the country. Now over halfway through its five-year mandate to document the history of Indian Residential Schools, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada seeks to change that. The commission held an Education Day last Friday, part of its four-day national event in Saskatoon. Nearly 2000 Grade 7 and 8 students from the Saskatoon public and Catholic school divisions as well as First Nations schools throughout Saskatchewan participated in educational activities about residential schools and heard from residential school survivors. For over a century, more than 150 000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children were sent to residential schools across the country. Many suffered physical, emotional and sexual abuse. Most were taught that their languages, cultures and traditional teachings were uncivilized and inferior. "All children being taught in public schools were told the exact same thing," said head commissioner Justice

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Murray Sinclair at the Saskatoon event. "And as a result, every single Canadian in this country has been impacted by the same policy." The commission gathers statements and documents to ensure that a national memory about the residential school system is created. Community, regional and national events are also held to raise awareness in the general public. Many non-Indigenous people tell the commission "I did not know," said Justice Sinclair. "That is a constant refrain that we hear as we travel across the country," said Sinclair. "For the future, people should never be able to say 'we did not know.'" In February, the commission issued a series of recommendations along with an interim report about its activities. It urged all provincial and territorial governments to review their curriculum and to work with the commission to develop age-appropriate curriculum about the residential school system. The Northwest Territories and Nunavut have announced that residential school history will be included in their public school curriculum. While no province has yet made a firm commitment in response to the commission's recommendations, a number of grassroots initiatives across the country engage in educational activities on the subject. Charlene Bearhead has worked in the Alberta public education system as a teacher, principal and superintendent. She is currently a Program Manager at National Day of Healing and Recon-

ciliation, an Edmonton-based non-profit that is now the umbrella organization for Project of Heart. The project engages students and teachers across the country in learning about the history and impacts of the residential school system in Canada. A display about the project was set up as part of the "Learning Place" at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission national event in Saskatoon. "This is an important part of history for all students, not just First Nations students, Aboriginal students. This is Canadian history," says Bearhead, echoing a point often expressed by the commission.

Project of Heart was started by Sylvia Smith, a teacher in Ottawa. When she was assigned a high schoollevel social studies class, Smith read through the textbook to see what information about residential school history was included. "She was appalled. There were 60 words in there," said Bearhead. "She decided that she was going to create a project for her own students." The project begun by Smith for her own class has become a national grassroots initiative. To date, more than 150 public, private and religious schools across the country have hosted Project of Heart. Youth groups, church groups, treatment centres, corrections facilities and families have also participated. The project has also developed ageappropriate material for teachers and other facilitators to first become familiar with residential school history themselves and to then engage children and youth in active learning.

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"The students research, learn about and discover what happened generally in the residential school system," says Bearhead. They learn about its development in Canada, the intent and strategy behind policies and practices, and the ongoing impacts on individuals, families and communities. Students are then assigned a particular residential school and research its location, its operators and its impacts on the students and their communities. A residential school survivor is invited into the classroom to talk about their own experiences and students then choose a social justice activity to act on the history they have learned. "And of course, when learning about residential schools, one of the most difficult things to learn is how many children died in residential schools," says Bearhead. Every participating student decorates a small tile to honour a child who died in residential school. The initial target of 60 000 tiles has already been met for a heart-shaped mosaic at the Canadian Museum of Human Rights in Winnipeg. Project of Heart hopes to create similar memorials for public display in each province and territory with the thousands of tiles that continue to be returned. "At the beginning of this school year, 2011/2012, no schools in Alberta had participated in Project of Heart," says Bearhead. But 12 schools in the province took part in the initiative this past year and 35 more are planning to do so in the fall. The closest curriculum fit in Al-

berta is the Historical Globalization course in Grade 10, but the project can be incorporated into the classroom as early as Grades 3 and 4, said Bearhead. "I think what's exciting is the number of teachers taking this on across the country," says Bearhead. "The schools are really excited about it." Bearhead hopes to have a huge exhibit of Project of Heart tiles and work at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission national event in Alberta, for which the dates and location have yet to be announced. In the meantime, the Commission urges provinces to follow the lead of Nunavut and the Northwest Territories and commit to engaging with the Commission in order to include residential school history in their public school curriculum. "We lost our childhood. We lost our families, the joy of our spirits and our innocence," Northwest Territories Minister of Education, Culture and Employment Jackson Lafferty, himself a residential school survivor, told reporters at a press conference in Vancouver this past February. "Though we have a long road ahead of us," continued Lafferty, "it is only by shining bright lights into the darkest corners of our history that we will ensure that the history will never be repeated." Sandra CUffE

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Sandra Cuffe is a Vancouver-based journalist. She covered the recent Truth and Reconciliation Commission national event in Saskatoon for the Vancouver Media Co-op.

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Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • Free

LAUGH SHOP–Sherwood Park • 4 Blackfoot

POTLUCK PICNICS AT KINSMEN PARK •

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.454.6216 • 3rd Mon every month, 7:30pm

MOSAIC MINDS UNCONFERENCE • Education Bldg North, Kiva Rm 2-103, Uof A • unconference.net/unconferencing-how-to-prepare-toattend-an-unconference • A conference that uses groundup, participatory processes to create the schedule creating space for peer-to-peer learning, collaboration and creativity with speaker Vik Maraj • Jun 28-29 • $5-$25 sliding scale; food and childcare provided

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

BISEXUAL WOMEN'S COFFEE GROUP • A social group for bi-curious and bisexual women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo. com/group/bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 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) • Unitar-

Road, Sherwood Park • 780.417.9777 • laughinthepark.ca • Open Wed-Sat • Fri: 7:30pm, 10pm; Sat: 7:30pm and 10pm; $20 • Wednesday Amateur night: 8pm (call to be added to the line-up); free • Dylan Rhymer; Jun 29-30

Kinsmen Park, next to playground, location sign at park • Bring: a vegan, vegetarian or raw vegan dish to serve at least 6 people plus your own plate, cup, cutlery and serving spoon • Jul 8, 5:30pm • Free

ian 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

RIVER VALLEY VIXEN • Glenora stairs • All girls

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

outdoor bootcamp every Mon, and Wed: 6:30pm • Until end Jul • Info: E: rivervalleyvixen@gmail. com

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling Scott

SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50

every Wed, 9pm

VAULT PUB • 8214-175 St • Comedy with Liam Creswick and Steve Schulte • Every Mon, at 9:30pm

WINSPEAR CENTRE An Evening of stand-up Comedy with Brent Butt; all ages; 8pm (show); $42.50, $36.50, $28.50 at UnionEvents.com, WinspearCentre.com

WUNDERBAR • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • Comedy every 2nd Tue

ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

GROUPS/CLUBS/MEETINGS AIKIKAI AIKIDO CLUB • 10139-87 Ave, Old Strathcona Community League • Japanese Martial Art of Aikido • Every Tue 7:30-9:30pm; Thu 6-8pm

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL EDMONTON • 8307-109 St • edmontonamnesty.org • Meet the 4th Tue each month, 7:30pm (no meetings in Jul, Aug, and Dec) E: amnesty@edmontonamnesty.org for more info • Free

ART BLOCK PARTY • Early Bird Café, Brittany's Lounge, Bohemia • Satoreye Dreamtime • Sat, Jul 7, 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

DATE NIGHTS AT THE GARDEN • Devonian Botonical Gardens • devonian.ualberta.ca/Events. aspx#July • Sean Sonego (Pop/Folk/Soul singersongwriter) at Patio Café; 6:30-8:30pm; Jun 28 • Every Thu 'til dusk; Jun 7-Aug 30 • Date Night admission rates: $10 (adult)/$5 (student)/$6.50 (senior) admission gates open until 8:30pm; garden open until dusk

EDMONTON BIKE ART NIGHTS • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm

EDMONTON NEEDLECRAFT GUILD • Avonmore United Church Basement, 82 Ave, 79 St • edmNeedlecraftGuild.org • Classes/workshops, exhibitions, guest speakers, stitching groups for

• Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

• 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)

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St •

SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Cen-

G.L.B.T.Q. (GAY) AFRICAN GROUP DROP-IN)

tennial Rm, (basement) Stanley A. Milner Library • Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month • edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@edmontonatheists.ca

STRATHCONA COUNTY GARDEN TOUR • 780.410.8612 • Self-guided tour of ten of the most beautiful gardens in Sherwood Park, rural Strathcona County, and NE Edmonton. Organized by the Friends of Strathcona County Library • Sun, Jul 8, 10am-4:30pm • $12/free (child 12 and under) tickets at the Strathcona County Library, Aqualine Aquatic Plants & Water Features, ABC Tree Farms, Country Roads Greenhouses, Salisbury Greenhouse

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 • Bellerose River Tr Parking Lot, Bellerose Rd, and Starkey Rd, Sturgeon County: St Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club, walk through Sturgeon County Trails and homes, 5km, 10km; Jun 28, 6:30-9pm; info: Sharon Tchir, 780.458.5769; tesschir@shaw.ca • Fort Edmonton Park, Fox Dr, Whitemud Dr: St Albert Trekkers Volkssport Club, 25th Anniversary Walk, picnic of hot dogs and potato salad for nominal cost; 5km, 10km available; Jun 30, 9:3am-1pm; info: Sharon Tchir, 780.458.5769; tesschir@shaw.ca

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 (nonmember)

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 DIYALOGUE TALKS FOOD • Blackdog Freehouse Wooftop, 10425 Whyte Ave • edmontonnextgen.ca • A cultural mix-and-mingle presented by Edmonton’s NextGen. Featuring Mary Bailey, Nate Box, Mack Male, Amy Beaith, Sharon Yeo, Kirsta Franke • Wed, Jul 4, 6:30-8:30pm • $10 at YEGlive.ca

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

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 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 • TTIQ: Education and support group for transgender, transsexual, intersexed and questioning people, their friends, families and allies; 2nd Tue each month, 7:30-9:30pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Community Potluck: For members of the LGBTQ community; last Tue each month, 6-9pm; tuff@shaw.ca • Counselling: Free, short-term, solution-focused counselling, provided by professionally trained counsellors; every Wed, 6-9pm; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • STD Testing: Last Thu every month, 3-6pm; free; admin@pridecentreofedmonton.org • Youth Movie: Every Thu, 6:30-8:30pm; jess@ pridecentreofedmonton.org

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

ST PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH • 11526-76 Ave • 780.436.1555 • People of all sexual orientations are welcome • Every Sun (10am worship)

WOMONSPACE • 780.482.1794 • 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 BIKEOLOGY • 780.982.8520 • bikeology. ca • Art Project Day: Edmonton Bicycle Commuters' Society, 10047-80 Ave, back alley: Jan Przysiezniak of Jelly Parrot Trash Crafts will guide you through making art from bicycle parts; Thu, Jun 28, 7-9pm • Bikey Breakfasts: Fri, Jun 29, 7-9am CANADA DAY CELEBRATIONS • Devonian Botonic Garden: Music in the Garden: Jul 1, 11:30am Displaced Islanders (folk rock); Jul 1, 12:30pm Up the Creek (bluegrass); Canada Day Cake: 11am; Fun in the Garden: 11am-3pm CANADA DAY KIDS FEST AT PRAIRIE GARDENS ADVENTURE FARM • Prairie Gardens Adventure Farm, 56311 Lily Lake Road, Bon Accord • Interactive nature festivities • Jun 30, 10am-6pm • $9.95/free (child under 2)

DOORS OPEN EDMONTON • 780.439.2797 • historicedmonton.ca • Historic Festival presented by the Edmonton and District Historical Society of Alberta, a chapter of the Historical Society of Alberta. Doors Open Edmonton is a celebration of our built heritage and features free tours of architecturally significant places and information seminars • Jul 3-8

SILLY SUMMER PARADE • Whyte Ave, Old Strathcona • 780.439.9166 • oldstrathconafoundation.ca • Jul 1, noon

STREET PERFORMERS FESTIVAL • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • edmontonstreetfest. com • Featuring musicians, jugglers, acrobats, unicyclists–over 1500 outdoor performances. Indoor Late Night Madness performances, daily Troupe du Jour group shows, face-painters, Be Your Own Busker workshops, and Kids’ World activities • Jul 6-15

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 • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • Group for gay refugees from all around the World, friends, and families • 1st and Last Sun every month • Info: E: fred@pridecentreofedmonton.org, jeff@pridecentreofedmonton. org

G.L.B.T.Q SAGE BOWLING CLUB • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:303:30pm GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION • teamedmonton.ca • 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

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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

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REVUE // LOVE TRIANGLE

Dance me to the end of love

Take This Waltz's Sarah Polley on desire, romanticizing Toronto and being in-between To me that song addresses what the film is about completely. One thing replaces another, but it's not necessarily better. And it too will be temporary.

SP:

One of the film's key themes is this sense of being caught between things, and one thing about being an artist that some people find hard to fathom is the fact that your whole career sort of keeps you between things. Most of your time is spent between one project and the next. Is that something that gives you anxiety? SP: Professionally, I love being between things. I don't love it in the rest of my life. Being between things professionally means you're always trying to make things happen, but during those gaps you don't always have to be doing it, which is also great. I love making films, but I also love just thinking about making films. And I love sleeping through the night, which you're generally not able to do when you're making a film. VW:

Two corners of the love triangle in Take This Waltz

Opens Friday Take This Waltz Directed by Sarah Polley

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amed after Leonard Cohen's exquisite homage to the poet Federico García Lorca, Sarah Polley's Take This Waltz, the acclaimed actress's second feature as writer/director, is in many regards the inverse of Away From Her, her debut, trading wintry places and care facilities for sweltering summer heat and urban cafés, somber earth tones for shimmering drunken fruit punch hues, a couple in their 60s and married for decades for one in their 20s and only just slipping into those first years of familiarity (and, perhaps, stagnation). Both films are equally distinguished by Polley's preternatural insight into the nature of trust, lust, dependency, secrets and the thorny complications of long-term love. It's been noted that the events chronicled in Take This Waltz, which is basically a love triangle, mirror events in Polley's own life. This may be the case, yet the result is hardly a mushy confession; lived experience only texturizes and at times actually lightens (unbearably) the film's unnerving truthiness. For all the right reasons it is probably not a good date movie. Which isn't to say that Take This Waltz isn't problematic in its execution. Michelle Williams' Margot, a married copywriter drawn to another man, is captivating, a sponge. Her every hesitation brims with wildly varied urges; we never lose track of where she is emotionally. Yet her scenes with Luke Kirby, the artist and rickshaw

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driver she falls for, lack chemistry, their first exchanges feel especially forced, while those with Seth Rogen, so endearing and sympathetic as her husband, an author of cookbooks containing recipes for nothing but chicken (read: comfort food embodied!), are intermittently undone by Polley's determination to impose a sense of welldeveloped intimacy. (Though there is something rather ingenious about the couple's ritual of whispering sweet nothings to each other that sassily describe torture and murder.) Still, I can't emphasize this enough: no matter how many reservations or accusations of bum notes one can lob at Take This Waltz it is nonetheless deeply felt, decidedly adult, wordlessly articulate, sexy, sweet, brutal and very much alive—an extraordinary film about the vagaries of desire, which is to say, something extremely rare. The last act in particular, which is both the fulfilment of a promise and the exhaustion of a longing, is haunting and brilliant in its conclusions. (Or lack thereof.) I admire this film far more than I do many others that have far fewer flaws. Also: it is a heartfelt, if geographically confused, love letter to Toronto. I was late for my interview with Polley at Toronto's Gladstone Hotel. My flight was delayed and my taxi stuck in late afternoon traffic, but Polley waited for me. I was flustered; she was gracious, relaxed and responsive: an ideal interviewee. We spoke only a short while yet I think we managed to cover a great deal. VUE WEEKLY:

Films about romance

often focus on how the lovers are meant to be together. They are to some degree about destiny. But Take This Waltz is very much about desire. Desire is a central character, a foil, something greater than the individual characters. SARAH POLLEY: I wanted to explore the theme of life having a gap in it. Of emptiness. Of the way we use desire to fill that gap. I wanted to envelop the audience in that feeling of the beginning of desire, when the world's popping in Technicolor and everything seems new and brimming with possibility—the possibility of reinventing yourself. From there we can follow desire through its natural life cycle and see what happens.

hen song come to you? SP: Right at the beginning. I was listening to it so often. There's something about its circular nature. I found it so beautiful and romantic and sad. I wanted the film to capture that same tone.

I found your exploration of those feelings very resonant, very real, but I also sensed a very deliberate use of artifice, the punched-up colours, or the idea that the object of one's desire, though found in another city, might live right across the street. SP: I definitely wanted the world to feel believable but then at moments have this fairy tale quality. This extends to the depiction of Toronto. That's Toronto in the movie, but it's also a somewhat idealized Toronto. I romanticize the city. It doesn't actually look the way I see it. I wanted it to be a little too vibrant, a little too colourful. I didn't want to be shy about injecting moments with coincidence or magic, of having a dance happen in the middle of a very messy human story.

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VW: It's a song I adore. I almost find it hard to listen to. One of the things I love about it is that it feels particularly unresolved, partly because of the waltz time, partly because the lyrics whisk us through these baroque scenarios yet never seem to land anywhere. SP: Exactly. It almost feels like it could go forever. The song kind of tangles itself up in the same way that I like to imagine the characters do with each other.

think of how both the song and the film end, with this idea that the waltz is "all that there is." Being in motion, being between things. We leave Margot feeling like she's still between things. SP: Absolutely. Perhaps she's a little more at ease with being between things, but that feeling of emptiness has followed her. And there's something about the title: 'Take This Waltz.' It's just this dance. It's not forever. It's going to change, to mutate. But you go with it anyway because those are some of the greatest moments in life, when you just go with somebody, surrender. I was also fascinated by your repeated use of "Video Killed the Radio Star." Is it me, or does this very different song not describe the film's subtext almost exactly?

VW: Are you at all interested in directing yourself as an actor? SP: I don't think so. Not unless I get way better as a director and way better as an actor. I'm so amazed that anyone can do both things simultaneously. Maybe one day I'll try it, though I worry it could be miserable. I enjoy directing and acting so much, but I feel like doing them at the same time would compromise both experiences. VW: I

ask because every now and then I'm struck by how certain actors wind up doing their best work when directing themselves. Off the top of my head, I think of, say, Clint Eastwood or John Cassavetes, even Orson Welles, as actors who might be best when directing themselves. SP: Now, that's inspiring. I never considered that. As you said that I suddenly had this flash of what it might be like to do exactly what you want to do and not have to worry about someone else's opinion. That could actually be really fun! VW: Perhaps if it was a very low-stakes

project with a small crew, something you could take a lot of time with. SP: Ooh. I love that idea. It's weird. That's the first time that's ever sounded attractive to me. The idea of feeling less inhibited, not trying to please anybody.

VW:

VW: All right! Now I want to see Sarah

Polley direct Sarah Polley. I'll have to think about it.

SP: [Laughs]

JOSEF BRAUN

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REVUE // SMALL TOWN MURDER

Bernie

Opens Friday Directed by Richard Linklater

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ichard Linklater's 14th feature chronicles the strange but true tale of Bernie Tiede (Jack Black), the young man who arrived in Carthage, Texas with some neatly pressed shirts and pants, a smart little moustache, a gift for politeness and a mortuary degree, and Mrs Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), the crabby, extremely wealthy old widow loathed by everyone in town. Bernie and Mrs Nugent became close companions, so close that, despite Bernie's apparent homosexuality, many wondered if their relationship didn't include a sexual component. But that relationship became increasingly oppressive for Bernie, and one day in 1997 Bernie shot and killed Mrs Nugent, hiding her body in a freezer. No one discovered her for nine months. Inspired by Skip Hollandsworth's 1998 Texas Monthly profile of the case, which much of the film quotes directly, Bernie comfortably hovers somewhere between semi-staged documentary and true crime feature. It's a black comedy and place study narrated by a chorus of townsfolk (the cast mixes actual Carthagians and hired actors, including Matthew McConaughey and The Whole Shootin' Match's Sonny Carl Davis) speaking direct-to-camera from front stoops or greasy spoons or seated before farm equipment. Their Bernie is a Robin Hood figure, killing the rich and donating to the town: murder as a benevolent act. "He had the ability to make the world seem kind," one of the locals says. Linklater, a Texan himself, exudes affection for his subjects and their things (check out the attention to detail in the set dressing, ie: the horse painting lampshade on Scrappy Holmes' desk). Told from the inside out, Bernie neither condescends nor soft-pedals, and seems ever-fascinated by its own incongruities and enigmas. I'd never spoke to Linklater before, but found him just as friendly and easygoing as I'd always assumed he'd be from watching his films, some of which feature an occasional director's cameo. He appears in Bernie as a deadbeat dad engaged in one of those weird contests where you have to keep your hands on a car for as long as possible.

I realize that the film is called Bernie, but I was really struck by how beautifully it works as a portrait of a community. RICHARD LINKLATER: When Shirley first read the script she said to me, "Really, it's the gossips' movie." I laughed. To some degree that's true, because it's seen through their eyes. VUE WEEKLY:

VW: That's just it. The film refrains from psychoanalyzing Bernie. It offers little about his roots. It doesn't try to get inside his head. Instead you build your portrait as much as possible from the perceptions of the Carthagians. You let them author your Bernie. RL: We'll never know what really happened between Bernie and Mrs Nugent, but we do know the effect their relationship had on Carthage. It always seemed like the most interesting choice to hear these multiple voices testify to how the events reverberated through the community. Such events are more poignant in a small town, because everyone really does know each other. Small town gossip has this unanimity to it: Bernie was the nicest guy in town and Mrs Nugent was the meanest bitch. Life is high school. Ultimately you are what everybody says you are. If you were to go to Carthage today and get in line at Sam's barbecue, you might find someone telling you how Bernie should have done it—without getting caught. VW: One

of the really intriguing things about this whole story is the way the themes of disguise and the denial of death weaves its way through Bernie's vocation and right into his crime. RL: Even in death we disguise ourselves. There's that telling line from the opening scene, where Bernie's demonstrating his craft: "You don't want him to look unhappy to be there." [Laughs] I heard that from a lady who dresses the dead as her job. She was our consultant, giving me some pointers. I thought it was hilarious. I don't think she thought it was funny. The casting of Jack Black was really inspired. He's very funny as Bernie, but he also has this quality, this very particular pathos, that feels both native to the character and distinctly Jack Black. RL: I'm so proud of Jack's work here. When you're funny no one thinks VW:

Bernie: a murderer with a heart of gold?

you're a good actor, but the truth is Jack's a great actor. And a great singer. And both skills are required for this part. Jack has this ingratiating element; he wants to be liked. But then there's this tinge somewhere in Jack that's a little off. This edge. That edge itself is funny. It's forever intriguing. That's what makes him a movie star. You've been carrying around the idea for Bernie since 1998. Did your concept of the film change a lot over the years? RL: Not much. All I did the whole time was think about the tone, and that was beneficial. Everything clicked when we met the actual Bernie. I had been writing to him for years, but when Jack and I got to visit him in prison it kind of confirmed all my hunches. He truly did seem like the nicest guy who did this one horrible act. To me, that was the story. He's not a psychopath, so the question arises as to whether any of us, under the right circumstances, could be driven to kill somebody. VW:

Bernie to prepare your remains for your grieving loved ones? RL: [Laughs] That's a great question. I've spent all these years thinking about the death industry and you're the only person to ask me that question. So I'll tell you honestly, because you deserve it: I will in no way let the death industry get close to me when I die! [Laughs] I've been researching this and there's this thing called green burial. You die, they put you in a biodegradable stack, bury you vertically so you don't take up much room and you immediately return to the soil. You don't kill a bunch of roots. They just throw you out in the woods, really. It's the least you do can do and it only costs about $200 instead of $10 000. The idea of putting all these fluids in your body and going through all this rigmarole to act like you're not dead is just crazy. It's a horrible industry, really.

can buy a casket that will keep worms off your body for an extra hundred years. At some point, when the people that loved you and even all your grandchildren have all died, you know, maybe it's time to finally let go. I've always liked the idea of cremation, though I hadn't really thought about the pollution aspect. RL: That's an issue. And it's expensive because of the fire, and because they still do all these things to treat the body beforehand. Mind you, they make you think you have to do so many things, but if you check the books there's actually very little that you're obligated to do, legally. Well, I hope that neither you nor your loved ones will have to be thinking about your death rites for a very long time. RL: Thanks, but we all get there sooner or later. Thinking about it's not so bad. VW:

JOSEF BRAUN VW:

I know. This whole idea that you

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VW: The

scene where Bernie pulls the trigger really isn't especially dramatic. It's just this moment where the barrier between fantasy and action becomes so slim. RL: And it's so easy with certain weapons. It happens in a flash. Have you given any thought to whether you'd like to be buried or cremated? Would you like someone like

VW:

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REVUE // TEENAGE MATING RITUALS

Turn Me On, Goddammit!

Daydreaming in Skoddeheimen

Fri, Jun 29 – Wed, Jul 4 Directed by Jannicke Systad Jacobsen Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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e begin with a brief tour of the ostensible highlights of the hinterland hamlet of Skoddeheimen, Norway. A disembodied voice itemizes various ordinary items in the local landscape as a way of emphasizing their stupefying lameness. The voice belongs to Alma (Helene Bergsholm), almost 16, very pretty in a pleasingly off-kilter sort of way, with her slightly askew mouth, and frisky as a panther in heat, first seen with one hand down her panties and the other clutching a phone. She calls the same sex line often enough to get regular freebies— once a month, the operator actually calls her. Alma's a clever, charismatic teenager, but she got needs. She masturbates at the drop of a hat. The movie is thus titled Turn Me On, Goddammit! (Få meg på, for faen). It's a coming of age story, emphasis on the "coming." There's this other kid named Arthur (Matias Myren), a tall and handsome,

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but slightly dopey-looking, guy who Alma fancies. While the two are alone outside during a house party, Arthur pokes Alma's leg with his dick. That is, he takes out his dick, his stiff dick, and sort of taps her with it. And that's what some call love, I guess. But then Alma goes back to the party and tells a jealous friend what transpired with Arthur's dick; jealous friend announces it to everyone at the party, and then later to everyone at school and it might as well be everyone in Skoddeheimen; Arthur denies; Alma's social life evaporates. She has become known as "Dick-Alma," small town high school persona non grata. I like very much how Turn Me On, Goddammit!, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's feature debut, makes no apologies for weaving its entirety from little more than adolescent horniness and one goofy, abbreviated, blown out of proportion mating ritual. The sense of place, the sense of attitude, the sense of humour: all of these elements feel very genuine and inviting. And I very much liked the character of Saralou (Malin Bjørhovde, who bears some resem-

blance to the young Liv Ullman), Alma's friend, who wants to get the hell out of Skoddeheimen and mosey on down to Texas to help abolish capital punishment. In a diverting subplot, Saralou becomes pen pals with a death row inmate. But, perhaps inevitably, the movie becomes increasingly conventional, and it all wears a bit thin, even with a mere 76-minute running time. Fantasies keep intruding on the narrative, which is a tactic I sometimes feel very friendly toward (see Belle de jour), but Alma's fantasies just aren't that interesting or funny. Or they're of the one-joke variety, such as Alma's hormone-fueled vision of the not obviously attractive (certainly not obvious for a 15-year-old) quickie-mart manager humping his bike helmet and dancing. I mean, is Alma's fantasy life that impoverished? The movie lands in a nice place. It's satisfying enough when Alma comes right out and calls Arthur a coward. It's less satisfying when Arthur tries to make up for it with a sort of John Hughes movie gesture. But what can you do? Teenagers: you got to let them make their own mistakes. JOSEF BRAUN

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People Like Us

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter Now playing Directed by Timur Bekmambetov

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ow Hollywood's revamping history by gashing-up famous figures of biopics past with the undead creatures of horror movies present. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter beats to the punch, presumably, George Washington: Zombie Slayer and, possibly, our very own John A Macdonald: Wendigo Trapper. AL: VH comes off like a series of forgettable History Channel-meets-Heritage Moment recreations with some axeman versus vampire video game scenes tossed in. The two main action sequences, both ludicrous, show young Abe and his nightstalker-nemesis jumping from horse to horse (as if they're playing equestrian hopscotch) and a train-crosses-burning-bridge ride. The 3D is, however, very good at

illuminating dustmotes whirling slowly through the rays of light that keep slashing through scenes. The 16th President (Benjamin Walker) is a superhero, hacking up fangboys with his silver hatchet in between cursory re-enactments of his major Wikipedia-entry moments. There's little effort to mesh the Gothic exploits with the politics of the time—the idea that vampires were Southern slaveowners, using blacks as their bloody victims, isn't taken anywhere interesting by Seth Grahame-Smith, adapting his book. Editing is choppy, some transitions are sloppy, and the camera zooms over Gettysburg as if aerialphotographing toy soldiers playing at war. But then, this is a parchment paper-thin conceit playing at being a feature-length movie. BRIAN GIBSON

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Marley Fri, Jun 29 – Wed, Jul 11 Directed by Kevin Macdonald Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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am (Chris Pine) buys and sells overstock, which is apparently a great racket for people who love to rip people off. The opening scenes of People Like Us show Sam gigglystoned on his own hustle but neglecting certain details of the job: Sam sends several thousand boxes of soup to Mexico in an unrefrigerated train car, which results in exploding soup, and now the feds are investigating him for criminal misconduct. A young hotshot wheeler-dealer spinning out of control: this guy needs to reassess his priorities! And he's going to have to: Turns out Sam's big-time record producer dad just died and Sam has to fly out to Los Angeles to do some requisite mourning with the mom (Michelle Pfeiffer) he's all but estranged from. Then Sam's dad's old buddy (Philip Baker Hall, happily accepting his paycheque thank you very much) tells Sam that while Sam won't get a dime of inheritance, he's expected to track

down someone named Josh and give him a shaving kit full of dad's money, even though Sam's knee-deep in debts. Here it comes: Moral Dilemma! But it turns out that Josh is just a kid. In fact, that Josh is Sam's nephew, the son of a half-sister named Frankie (Elizabeth Banks, making a valiant effort), progeny of an entire secret second family that Sam didn't know anything about. But instead of approaching Frankie and saying, "Hey, I'm your half-brother, here's a shaving kit full of money," Sam decides to act like he's busting a move. Sam starts hanging out with Frankie and Josh, getting in some uncle/brother practice while the whole time poor Frankie's thinking she met the love of her life. The weirdest, almost interesting thing about People Like Us is that while it's among the most overstated movies I've ever seen nobody ever mentions how deeply creepy-incestuous Sam is being. People Like Us is the directorial debut of Alex Kurtzman, who's coscripted many movies for Michael Bay—and yes, that's a warning. The

story is based on "real events," which grants Kurtzman license to drag this motherfucker out like you wouldn't believe, with inserts, mechanical montage sequences (set to AR Rahman's overblown feel-good score) and umpteen exasperating scenes where Sam almost confesses but ... doesn't. Film, the platitude goes, is a visual medium, so instead of having characters speak redundant exposition Kurtzman visualizes his redundant exposition through a barrage of photos, props and signs, like the one above Michelle Phieffer's head when she's about to undergo surgery; the sign reads "SURGERY," and has a little arrow pointing in the direction she's being wheelchaired to. (Another memorable visual aid is the "God is Love" T-shirt worn by a biker to assure us that he's friendly.) Meanwhile, Pine, in a role tailor-made for Tom Cruise 20 years ago, is working it like he wants to get a special Oscar for Most Acting. He makes a meal of every reaction shot. His face never stops moving. The energy expended could probably fuel the Starship Enterprise. JOSEF BRAUN

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t just under two and a half hours long, Kevin Macdonald's Marley is a hefty work of biography, a doc that tells more than it spares, that digs both wide and deep into the reggae legend of Bob Marley, peering at the world he existed in as much as at the man himself. It's incredibly informative, and certainly a compelling watch. Whatever the flaws that pop up from its adherence to a straightthrough, exhaustively compiled chronology—the sheer volume of it inches toward drawn-out feelings during the quieter moments of Marley's career— they're made up for by the fair-handed sense of the man Marley creates. Macdonald worked with the Marley family, interviewing many of them alongside the Wailers and an unending parade of the people (teachers, friends, children) around ol' Robert, with static talking-head interviews balanced with plenty of archival footage and images and gorgeous modern shots of Jamaica, all in turn scored by

Marley's own hazy reggae bounce. The amount of research and care that went into the film yields gems, certainly—hearing how the early Wailers were made to sing in a graveyard at night so they'd be brave enough for the stage, or watching former wives defend his faithlessness ("I became his guardian angel," says one when asked how she coped, as if she was talking about a child who suddenly got too busy for his own good and not her former bethrothed) makes for curious inroads into the life and times of the man as the narrative arcs through him finding his voice, and audience and eventually the tragedy that claimed his life. Also within that sheer breadth are patches of time that seem to yield little worth knowing—did we need a full couple of minutes describing how they used to play football in the yard?—feeling like they were extended past their necessity. Still, this will undoubtably stand as the definitive look at a musical legend. And in an era where we mostly just skim Wikipedia for tidbits of info and move along, the existence of a true Marley bible seems to carry extra gravitas. PAUL BLINOV

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PREVUE // OUTDOOR THEATRE

Freewill Shakespeare Festival Getting' Shakespearean all up in the outdoors

Until Sun, Jul 22 (8 pm; Julius Caesar on even dates, The Tempest on odd dates and 2 pm weekend matinees) Heritage Amphitheatre, Hawrelak Park, $17 â&#x20AC;&#x201C; $25, $40 festival pass freewillshakespearefestival.com

hakespeare is a theatre staple in all facets of the industry, from education to full-scale festivals dedicated to telling his legendary stories. Now, in its 24th season, our local summertime take on the Bard, the Freewill Shakespeare Festival hosted by Free Will Players, is performing Julius Caesar and The Tempest. There's no one answer to what has made Shakespeare's work timeless, but for Amber Borotsik, who is making her first Freewill appearance as Ariel in The Tempest, it comes down to the works' ability to articulate something rich and honest that's relatable to her life hundreds of years after the piece was written. "For me it's in the language, both just the poetry and the beauty of it but there's some things that he says in the writing that are like, 'Oh my god I feel

like that in my normal boring everyday life in 2012,'" she adds. For Nathan Cuckow, who plays Caliban in The Tempest and Marc Anthony in Julius Caesar, it comes down to the scope of Shakespeare's storytelling, where everything is portrayed with a heightened sensibility, whether it be love or something more diabolical. "The themes of his plays are varied, and I think go to the core of what it means to be a human and I think people universally can connect to that," adds Cuckow, who will be making his fourth appearance in the festival. Through the festival, Free Will Players aim to to make Shakespeare accessible to people of all demographics, regardless of education or experience with the work. The stories can be daunting due to the language barrier, but once audiences get past that, they'll find there's more to relate to than they originally thought, as many of the plots deal with different facets of human nautre and have some elements of comedy. "I'm not a Shakespearean actor and

that's my deal, but I just find that cutting to the root of these plays, which is just about the human condition and focusing on that essential truth is a real key to making it accessible to people," Borotsik says, adding freedom is a key theme in many of the stories, including The Tempest. "I think everyone can feel that longing for freedom, whether they're just totally mired under this insane work schedule ... and just that longing for time for freedom, for a sense of ease." "For the first 10 minutes or so, you don't understand it. It's kind of a magical thing when you start to kind of absorb it and understand it without really knowing what it is," Cuckow adds. "I mean, there's a poetic kind of aspect to the text that some people are drawn to. Shakespeare certainly had a way with words, and for others, you know, I think coming down to the park and seeing it in this context, having it be performed outdoors, there's something magic that's associated with that." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // UNEXPECTED ART

Found Festival Fri, Jun 29 – Sun, Jul 1 Presented by the Common Ground Arts Society Various locations, $5 per event, $15 day pass, $30 festival pass Schedule at commongroundarts.ca

dventure and discovery can be as close as your own backyard if you're willing to look for it. This long weekend, the Common Ground Arts Society is reinventing the way Edmontonians see their surroundings with the Found Festival. The festival is the first of its kind for the city, and artistic director Elena Belyea, a graduate of the Bachelor of Fine Arts program in Theatre and Creative Writing at the University of Alberta, says the festival is a way to give other aspiring creatives a chance to showcase their work in an accessible and affordable way. Belyea says one of the hardest aspects of being an emerging artist, particularly when it comes to theatre, is being able to afford a venue. This festival features more than 40 up-and-coming artists specializing in theatre, dance and visual art, and serves as a reminder that art can be displayed anywhere. "Doing it outside is a gift. It makes it that much more exciting," she adds. The Old Strathcona district, which

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plays host to the festival, is one Belyea says the public is very familiar with, but through this event, she thinks the public's perspective can open up to reveal new possibilities for what can be done with public spaces. "We're doing things in areas where you know, maybe you've walked by it a thousand times and haven't given it a second glance, whereas we're hop-

ing to do things where you'll be walking with a group and something flies out of an area that maybe changes your perspective on it," Belyea notes. Visitors of the Found Festival can check out a roving Shakespeare play called Midsummer's Lucid Dream hosted by Accent Lounge, which requires the audience to physically follow the actors as they perform; the

#PATIYOLO Electric Dance Party outside Wunderbar; Rigor Mortis, a choreographed piece at Southside Memorial Chapel, to name a few. Belyea hopes that groups of festival pass holders travelling together can also get to know one another and interact more than they would on an everyday basis. "It's kind of going to be like if you

accept a carpool to Calgary and you don't know anyone else in the car and you go, 'Well, we've got three hours, I guess we're going to get to know each other,'" she adds. "You're going to get to know the audience. The audience will be sort of its own little pack." meaghan baxter

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REVUE // GRAPHIC NOVELS

Metamorphosis, Milan and motherhood A post-solstice round up of current graphic notels Jinchalo By Matthew Forsythe Drawn & Quarterly 118 pp, $17.95 Goliath By Tom Gauld Drawn & Quarterly 90 pp, $19.95 Athos in America By Jason Translated by Kim Thompson Fantagraphics 196 pp, $24.99 Interiorae By Gabriella Giandelli Translated by Kim Thompson Fantagraphics 144 pp, $19.99 Are You My Mother? By Alison Bechdel Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 290 pp, $25.95

an a medium other than comix present magical metamorphosis so breezily, clashes of perspective so tragically and self-reflection so wrenchingly? From frame to frame and page to page, the medium's seemingly casual but in-your-face nature

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paints some poignant stories in this season's round-up of graphic novels. Matthew Forsythe's Jinchalo, riffing off Korean manga and folktales, is also reminiscent of Hayao Miyazaki's Spirited Away in its tale of a journeying young girl who encounters odd creatures and must chase after Jinchalo, a meddling shapeshifter. The girl, Voguchi, can be vividly selfish in her desires: she gluttonously mows through the food at home and, later, drags the illustrator onto the page to change the dream he's drawn her having. The narrative can sometimes be flitting and unclear, but the shapeshifting trickster-bird adds some intriguing darkness. It's Voguchi's avid expressions of disgruntlement, anger, and frustration—not far from Calvin or Charlie Brown—that make this near-wordless saga such a brisk little delight. Clashes in scale and size are usually the stuff of comedy, but Tom Gauld uses big and small to quietly tragic effect in Goliath, the story of an underwhelming overdog. Gauld, a Scottish illustrator and cartoonist, reworks the tale of 1 Samuel 17 as the more modern story of a humble, happy-togo-unnoticed 9-to-5er who's suddenly forced into the spotlight. Here, the colossus of Gath would rather do administrative work in the camp than be

A strange exchange from Jinchalo

a fighter, but his mere size is exploited by a single-minded strategist, who sends Goliath out to face off with any Israelite brave enough to approach him. Silent frames, arid landscapes, and nightfall draw out the sense of a vast, inexplicable fate slowly closing in. In Gauld's minimalist rendering, loneliness and helplessness stretch out between what's giant and what's little: Goliath sits, solitary, on a tall outcrop of rocks; his sword-bearer is dwarfed by the shield he has to carry; one little stone looms deathly large

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as it hurtles towards the supposed "Champion of the Philistines." A certain European ennui lingers in the latest book from Norway's Jason, making comics for more than 30 years now. The six stories comprising Athos in America tend to be crime-noir or riffs on literature, all featuring his trademark anthropomorphic animals (usually dogs and cats). There's a rather jaded, male sensibility too, that works beautifully in the first story, "The Smiling Horse," a sparse, cryptic tale of a kidnapping-gone-wrong. It's

as much eerie, metaphysical fable as crime-noir. A Bukowski homage is a bit too bitter and self-skewering, as if taken one hangover too far, and another noir tale, "So Long, Mary Ann," feels a little rote, while the title story suffers from too much exposition. At its best, though, sad yearning (of a man desperate to fix the heartbreaking result of a car accident) or fractured glimpses of lonely lives (which come together in "Tom Waits on the Moon") CONTINUED ON PAGE 21 >>

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erhaps we have television to thank for bringing dance into the mainstream. "There was a genuine fear and terror when you'd see a dance artist walk into the public," states Bobbi Westman, director of the Feats Festival of Dance, as she reflects on the early years of the now nine-year-old festival. "But I have found that there's a greater willingness to talk, a greater willingness to experience dance. I'm not sure why, maybe people have evolved in that way, or people are more comfortable with it because they see it on television—they see Dancing with the Stars, they see it's an OK thing to do. As a festival we've tried to find ways to continue sharing that and continue inviting people; inviting them into that world and letting them have a place for a week in their lives, a place to enjoy and celebrate dance." Now in its ninth year, the Feats Festival continues to employ hundreds of artists from across Alberta in staging dance shows and workshops in an extensive variety of styles—everything from swing and jazz to folk, ballet, hip hop, ballroom, contemporary and belly dancing. The presentations range from more formal presentations by professional dancers to casual folk dances into which anyone can join. "I think some of that hierarchy, that dance is just for an elite, even from

a recreational point of view, is kind of broken down a little bit. Certainly that doesn't take away at all from the professional community, and it takes an elite athlete and an elite artist to be able to create and to perform in dance," states Westman. Feats is unusual in that unlike the vast majority of festivals in the city, it doesn't operate from a single site; rather, shows and workshops are held across the entire city in a number of different venues, including the TransAlta Arts Barns, Fort Edmonton Park and the downtown City Centre Farmer's Market. Westman notes that while this decentralization presents a challenge in spreading the word and keeping the public informed, this format has nonetheless worked well in the past. "We wanted it to be more site-specific: the ability to be able to use the city and use the venue to support different dance cultures," says Westman. "It made more sense that we try to program the work in places where the work actually fit better." Ultimately, Westman hopes that the festival will provide multiple entry points for the engagement and promotion of dance in the most holistic sense. "My goal for people is that they find what excites them, and take one time out of the two weeks that it's running to join in the dance." MEL PRIESTLEY

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REVUE // LOVE GAME

Kiss Me, Kate

Until Sat, Jun 30 (7:30 pm, 2 pm Saturday matinee) Directed by Shelley Tookey MacEwan Centre for the Arts, $22.50 – $27.50

atters of the heart are never easy territory to navigate, as seen in the Cole Porter classic, Kiss Me, Kate, a feisty, witty musical romantic-comedy. The Edmonton production is brought to life by ELOPE Musical Theatre, a local theatre mainstay made up of performers from all walks of life who volunteer their time to make the productions possible. Kiss Me, Kate is essentially a play-within-a-play which follows a cast as they perform Shakespeare's The Taming of The Shrew. Offstage antics between the actors heighten and spill onstage into the second production as blowhard director Fred Graham (Gary Carter) who doubles as Petruchio and his ex-wife, Lilli Vanessi (Elizabeth Marsh), who also plays Katharine, or Kate, realize their feelings for

one another remain, just before opening night. However, Graham lands himself in hot water when a flower delivery to his onstage leading lady Lois Lane (Kathleen Sera), who plays Bianca, is sent to Lilli. Lane's boyfriend Bill Calhouin (Harley Morison), who plays Lucentio, furthers the complicated situation onstage by getting himself mixed up with a pair of gangsters and signing an IOU in Graham's name. The alternating backdrops of the onstage performance and offstage antics are seamlessly transitioned and avoid any potential confusion with accompanying set and costume changes. The energetic musical numbers, which are set to well-executed choreography, are complimented by a live orchestra, which adds an extra element that a soundtrack cannot. The cast is bursting with energy and Marsh and Carter create a charged dynamic between their characters capped

off with entertaining, innuendo-charged banter. The pair rush through a roller coaster of emotions with ease and even in the midst of a scuffle that involves a good paddling, they still keep a comedic spirit intact. Marsh is particularly entertaining as Lilli/Katharine. Where Lilli is the elegant movie star, Katharine is a woman so brash and fiery-tempered that no man desires to marry her, which Marsh pulls off effortlessly. Her ranting "I Hate Men" musical number not only shows off some truly amazing vocal pipes, but the wrath of a woman on a rampage. Marsh's partner-in-crime Carter is the perfect compliment to her character. His stubbornness and attitude are the only thing that can tame her wild streak and his musical numbers are equally entertaining in both his vocal abilities and their subject matter, which ranges from his former womanizing ways to sentimental reminiscing of happy times with Lilli. MEAGHAN BAXTER

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seep from these four-panel pages, where Jason shows an uncanny sense of pace and juxtaposition. Interiorae, from Italian designer and illustrator Gabriela Giandelli, would be better if it were less word-heavy, too. A little banal dialogue goes a long way, and the many mundane conversations of teens and couples in a Milan apartment complex weigh down an otherwise lulling dreamscape. A floating rabbit, who serves a dream-mining entity underneath the complex, ushers us into a land of sleepy interiors. As the four chapters snowball, greyblack corners, colour-suffused walls, floating reveries, and totemic figures roll up various residents' ghostly pasts, plaintive presents, and subconscious imaginings. (At times, dreammoments echo, in the best way, the surreal figures in David B's Epileptic.) This is a book to be savoured for its atmosphere—the calm limbo that descends with the snow on five late December evenings. Alison Bechdel's memoir Fun Home, one of the best (and bestselling) comix of the last decade, was profound in its personal-essay-like reflection on Bechdel's own coming-out, even as she learned of her father's homosexuality. Bechdel melded striking, detailed images with literary allusions and post-undergraduate-level introspection. In Are You My Mother?, she

looks at her other parent. In Bechdel's densely thoughtful and sharply observant style, she moves from dreams to concerns about her self-absorption to obsessions with psychoanalyst Donald Winnicott to concerns about the distance between mother and child. While she managed her intellectual twists and turns with a certain lightness of image and tenderness of feeling before, this time Bechdel relies on Winnicott's ideas too much, not trusting ironic and poignant moments from her own life to carry more of the story's weight. The book's as much about female relationships—problems of intimacy with therapists and girlfriends—as it is about her mother, who seems aloof (though Bechdel fondly remembers weeks when her mother wrote her diary for her and her mother's acting career). Memoir and memory—allusive, elusive, anxious, yet always necessary to draw and write and work through— become distinctly female forms here. In one stirring moment, her mother, depressed after her parents' deaths, asks the nine-year-old Alison if she loves her as the repressed emotions of the Edwardian drama The Forsyte Saga play on TV. Bechdel recalls that her response could never have been soothing enough. Solace, comprehension, catharsis... that's what this recalling, this remembering is striving for. Perhaps Are You My Mother? can't wholly satisfy, because, in Bechdel's work of her life, her sense of being her mother's creation never ends. BRIAN GIBSON

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DANCE

feats–Festival of Dance

• Various Venues, 780.422.8107 • Multidisciplinary dance festival to celebrate dance from traditional folk and contemporary works to unusual and brilliant movement performances • Jun 29-Jul 14 • Historic Feats– Fort Edmonton Park: traditional dancers introducing their sacred and secular dance to all interested in learning about Edmonton’s dance history; Jul 1 • Global Dance–Jubilee Auditorium: folk dance from around the world; Jul 1, 2pm; free

FILM

Bailey Theatre–Camrose • The

Bailey Theatre Classic Movie Series: Braveheart (R); Jul 2, 7pm; $5 (door) • Dirty Harry (R); Jul 9, 7pm; $5 (door)

Edmonton Film Society • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845102 Ave • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/ student)/$3 (child) • My Sister Eileen (1955, 108 min., colour, PG); Jul 9, 8pm From Books to Film series

• Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm, 780.944.5383 • Screenings of films adapted from books, presented by the Centre for Reading and the Arts • The Descendants (2011, 14A); Jun 29, 2pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St, 780.488.6611 • Dis-

covery Gallery: Coming Up Next: ACC exhibition of contemporary fine craft by emerging artists; until Jul 28; reception: Jun 30, 2-4pm • Feature Gallery: PULP PAPER PAGES: Featuring contemporary Albertan book + paper arts; until Jul 7 • SHIFT: a transformative state of mind: Artwork by the ACAD fourth year metal program students • Negotiating Traditions–six approaches to tapestry: by former students of Jane Kidd • Jane Kidd: a sample of tapestries by prominent fibre artist, Jane Kidd; Jul 14-Sep 29

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

780.426.0072 • NINE: Artworks by Ross Bradley, Verne Busby, Carney Oudendag, Jean Richards, Barbara Shore and Glenys Switzer; an exploration of the imagery and themes in Fredrico Fillini's films • Jul 4-14; runs in conjunction with Walterdale's production, Nine; and on Jul 7-14, 10am-3pm; reception: Jul 3, 7pm

Art Beat Gallery • 26 St Anne

St, St Albert, 780.459.3679 • Paintings by Tin Yan; through Jun

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

780.422.6223 • ALEX JANVIER: Life's Work: until Aug 19 • RBC New Works: Anthropocene, 2012: Installation by Brendan McGillicuddy; until Jul 1 • BMO Work of Creativity: Method and Madness: Family-focused interactive exhibition created by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • Louise Bourgeois 1911-2010; until Sep 23 • 7 YEARS IN THE CITY: Artworks from the AGA Collection; until Sep 30 • The Automatiste Revolution: Montreal 1941-1960: Until Oct 14 • Marina Abramovi; The Artist is Present; Jul 10

Art Gallery Of St Albert (AGSA)

• What Kind of An Animal Am I?: Bekk Wells' textile based installations wittily examine the relationship between human culture and the rest of the world; Jul 5-28; opening/ArtWalk: Jul 5, 6-9pm • What Kind of Animal am I?: Artworks by Bekk Wells • Jul 5-28

ArtWalk–St Albert • Perron

District, downtown St Albert • The 1st Thu each month • Venues: WARES (Hosting

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SAPVAC), Musée Héritage Museum, St Albert Library, Gemport, Art Beat Gallery, Art Gallery of St Albert (AGSA) and Rental & Sales Gallery (AGSA), Satellite Studio (AGSA), Bookstore on Perron, Crimson Quill, St Albert Constituency, Concept Jewellery, VASA • Jul 5

Bohemia • 10217-97 St • Too Hot to

Handle: Featuring works by metal artists, pyrographists, painters, printmakers. Robert Woodbury, Honey Case, James Birkbeck, Myles Bartel, Jimmy Mac, Scarlett Eyben, Standing Vertigo, Philip Jagger, dBoddah, Kristine Wray • Through Jun

Centre d’arts visuels de l’Alberta (CAVA) • 9103-95 Ave,

780.461.3427 • Art Cornucopia: Artworks by Father Douglas, Pauline Ulliac, Sharon Lynn Williams, Sarah Michaud and Dana Rayment • Until Jul 3

Creations Gallery Space

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

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

780.963.9573 • Now, for Something Different: Ceramic works by Robert Barclay; until Jun 29 • Bowls: An Artful Study of a Simple Form; Jul 2-31

Daffodil Gallery • 10412-124 St,

780.760.1278 • Somewhere in the Hills: Abstract impressionist landscapes by Samantha Williams-Chapelsky • Jul 5-19 • Reception: Jul 12, 5-8pm

Devonian Botanic Garden •

Rooted: Perspectives on the Natural World: Group show • Jul 1, 10am-4pm

Douglas UDell • 10332-124 St,

780.488.4445 • Sylvain Voyer Seeing Alberta, Latitude 50 To Latitude 53: Paintings by Sylvain Voyer • Until Jun 30; extended to Jul 7

Enterprise Square Gallery

• 10230 Jasper Ave • Sam Steele: The Journey of a Canadian Hero: Experience the untold story of Sam Steele, Canadian leader and hero. Records of his life unseen until repatriation in 2008. An exhibition over three years in the making • Until Sep 30 • $7 (adult)/$5 (child/student/senior)/$20 (family)

Extension Gallery–Atrium • Enterprise Sq, 10230 Jasper Ave • Where we stand: Artworks by Boyle Street Commnity Services' artist and artist in residence Anna Gaby-Trotz • Until Sep 5 • Reception: Jun 28

FAB Gallery • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg, 780.492.2081 • Quotationalism Exhibition: Work that questions, meditates on and reworks the problem of visual quotation. Response and redefinition of objects from the U of A's Mactaggart Art Collection to compliment the exhibit China's Imperial Modern: The Painter's Craft, at TELUS Centre, Gallery A. Guest curators: Lisa Claypool and Maria Whiteman • Until Jul 14 • Rutherford Library South Atrium: Sublime: Works by the 439/539 Drawing and Intermedia class • Until Jun 29; open: Mon-Thu: 8am-7pm; Fri: 8am-5pm; Sat-Sun: 11am-6pm Gallerie Pava • 9524-87 St,

780.461.3427 • Altérité: Featuring the ART 5 Group (Diane Plasse, Doris Charest, Stephen Fouquet, Shoko César and Yves Caron) • Until Jul 25

Gallery at Milner • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq, 780.944.5383 • Selected items from EPL's Aboriginal collection; until Jun 30 • The Works Festival: until Jul 5 • Letters To Kelsey Stephenson: Inspired by text in Franz Kafka’s Letter to his Father, etchings by Kelsey Stephenson; until Jul 3 • Edmonton Room: Elegy: A meditation on Mortality by Sandra Vida; W(holy!) Collective, The Art of Creative Arts Therapists; until Jul 3 • Celebrating the History of Edmonton: Photo Exhibit by Mike Moruzi; Jul 1-31 HAPPY HARBOR COMICS v1

• 10729-104 Ave • COMIC JAM: Improv comic art making every 1st and 3rd Thu each month, 7pm • Open Door: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month, 7 am • Comics Artist-inResidence program: Paul Lavellee’s every Fri (12-6), Sat (12-5); until Aug 18

Harcourt House Gallery • SYMBIOSIS: 24th Annual Members’ Exhibition; until Jul 21 • Annex: 20/20 Vision–Naked Exhibition: Artworks by participants in Harcourt's model sessions • Part of the Works Art and Design Festival Harris-Warke Gallery–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store,

Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • Little to Wish for: Installation by Aly Bowd; Until Jul 28; reception and performance of My Lemonade Stand: Jul 6, 6-8pm; part of Red Deer’s First Fridays

Hub on Ross–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • In the Garden: Artworks by members of the Red Deer Art Club • Until Jun 30 Jeff Allen Art Gallery •

Strathcona Place Senior Centre, 10831 University Ave, 780.433.5807 • For The Love of Nature: Paintings by Teresa Stieben • Jun 29-Jul 25 • Reception: Jul 11, 6:30-8:30pm

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

Hwy 28A, Twp 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages

Kehrig Fine Art • Great West Sad-

dlery Building, 10137-104 St, 780.619.0818 • Silent Beauty: sculptures by Blake Ward, now also showing works by William Prettie, Gregory Swain, Andra Ghecevic and Barb Fedun as well as Raphaël Gyllenbjörn, PetleyJones, Michel Anthony and more • Until Jun 29 • Info T: Laurie Greenwood 780.619.0818

Latitude 53 • 10248-106 St,

780.423.5353 • Main Space: I Have This Dream: An exploration of contemporary surrealism works by Turner Prize* ( Jason Cawood, Blair Fornwald, and John G. Hampton), Craig Francis Power, curated by Todd Janes • Jul 5-Aug 4 • Opening: Jul 5, 7pm (with a Rooftop Patio party from 5-9pm) • Rooftop Patio Series: Art, food, sunshine, cocktails and camaraderie: guest patio host: TBA; Jun 28 • Incubator Artists: Adriean Koleric; until Jun 30; Grace Law; Jul 2-7; Dana Holst: Jul 9-14

McMULLEN GALLERY • U of A

Hospital, 8440-112 St, 780.407.7152 • New Terrain: Landscapes in Pastel: Works by David Shkolny, Judy Martin, and Catharine Compston; until Aug 26; reception: Jun 28, 7-9pm • Part of the Works Festival

Michif Cultural and Métis Resource Institute • 9 Mission

Ave, St Albert, 780.651.817∂6 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing

Mildwood Gallery • 426, 6655-

178 St • Various artists • Ongoing

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

780.963.9935 • Drawings and paintings by John Zyp; until Jul 11 • Fabric hangings by Rachelle Le Blanc; Jul 14-Aug 15; reception: Jul 15 • Paintings by Detra Powney; Aug 17Sep 19; reception: Sep 9

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

780.459.1528 • St Albert History Gallery: Artifacts dating back 5,000 years • In Focus: Photographing the Alberta and Montana Frontier, 1870-1930; Blood, Blackfoot, Northwest Mounted Police and ranching artifacts from the Royal Alberta Museum and Musée Héritage Museum will be featured with the photographs • Until Aug 19

Naess Gallery • Paint Spot, 10032-

81 Ave, 780.432.0240 • June Art Work by street artists DP and The Bandit, proceeds go to the Kids with Cancer Foundation • Through Jun • Oil landscape paintings by Greg Dohert • Through July

Nina Haggerty–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118 Ave, 780.474.7611 • NEW

EYES: Bridge Songs 2012: Featuring 4 Edmonton-based artists dealing with ideas of renewal and displacement of the old by the new • Until Jul 4 • Part of the Works Arts Festival

Peter Robertson Gallery

• 12304 Jasper Ave, 780.455.7479 • Summer Group Shows: New artworks by gallery artists; Jun-Aug • Summer Group Shows: New artworks by gallery artists; Jun-Aug • The BIG

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Idea: A Visual Exploration of Contemporary Culture and Obesity, curated by Julian Forrest; until Jul 5

Provincial Archives of Alberta • 8555 Roper Rd, 780.427.1750

• We Simply Turned to the Women: 100 Years of the Catholic Women's League, Edmonton Archdiocese 1912-2012; until Aug 31 • Historic Festival and Doors Open Edmonton: Behind the Scenes Tours of the Provincial Archives of Alberta; Jul 7, 10am-3pm

Royal Alberta Museum •

12845-102 Ave, 780.453.9100 • 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 • Wolf to Woof: until Sep 16 • The Art of Seating: Two Hundred Years of American Design: until Oct 6 • The Tsars' Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs: Oct 6-Jan 2

Scott Gallery • 10411-124 St, 780.488.3619 • JULY GROUP SHOW: Artworks by: Arlene Wasylynchuk ( just won the 1st ever Foote Prize for Visual Arts), Douglas Haynes, Gerald Faulder and Peter Hide (all featured in the AGA's new exhibition "7 Years In The City"). Featuring other Scott Gallery artists • Until Jul 20 SNAP Gallery • Society Of North-

ern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St, 780.423.1492 • Artworks by Arthur Desmarteaux and Allison Moore; until Jun 30 • The Sunny Side of Edmonton: Printworks by Jason Blower; until Jun 30 • Community Event: Energy II: Collaboration: until Jul 3

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 TELUS World of Science •

11211-142 St, 780.452.9100 • IMAX: To The Arctic (G); Born to be Wild; Rescue, until Jun 29 • IMAX: Hubble: Opens Jun 30, runs through the summer • Robots–The Interactive Exhibition: Until Sep 9 • Margaret Zeidler Star Theatre: Experience the Aurora; opens Jun 30

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 • Coming of Age: The Graduates: Artworks by 10 graduating artists from five different communities in Alberta. 2D, 3D and video/installation works by: Derrick Hoekstra and Nicole Lalonde (Lethbridge), Jean Day and Gillian Mitchell (Calgary), Thomas Sidwell and Joseph P. LaGrange (Red Deer), Lucille Frost and Megan Warkentin (Edmonton) and Naomi Deutekom & Callista MacLennan (Grand Prairie) during Nextfest and the Works Festival • Until Jul 14, Jun 30, 12-4pm, closed Jul 1 • Water Media–The Works Festival 2012: Artworks by VAAA's membership; until Jul 21

West End Gallery • 12308 Jasper Ave, 780.488.4892 • Group show • Through the summer

Works Art & Design Festival • Sir Winston Churchill Sq, and various

other venues • Energy II: Collaboration • Until Jul 3

LITERARY

EDMONTON Municipal CEMETERY • By the Mausoleum, 118 St, 107

Ave, 780.489.9621 • More Chilling Stories at the Edmonton Cemetery: with four of Alberta's professional storytellers, and puppet master Dave Tyler, presented by T.A.L.E.S.

for teens (14yrs+, adults) • $20 (gate) • Jul 6, 8:30-10pm

From Books to Film series

Rouge Lounge • 10111-117 St, 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

WunderBar on Whyte • 8120101 St, 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

THEATRE

AVENUE Q • La Cité Theatre, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury, 780.242.2824 • Two ONE-WAY Tickets To Broadway Productions • By Lopez, Marx and Whitty’s, directed and choreographed by Linette Smith, musical and band direction by Robert Bradford • Until Jun 30 • $26 TiX on the Square

Chimprov • Varscona Theatre, 1032983 Ave • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 11pm, until Jul • $10/$5 (high school student)/$8 (RFT member at the door only) Edmonton International Street Performers Festival • Sir Winston Churchill Sq • Outdoor

performances by an international cast of street artists and ndoor Late Night Maness shows • Jul 5-15

Freewill Shakespeare Festival • Heritage Amphitheatre,

Hawrelak Park, 780.425.8086 • Julius Caesar: guest director John Kirkpatrick • The Tempest: artistic director Marianne Copithorne • Until Jul 22; Tue-Sun at 8pm; Sat-Sun at 2pm; Julius Caesar: even dates (evenings only); The Tempest: odd dates and all matinées • $25 (adult)/$40 (fest pass)/$17 (student/senior); at TIX on the Square. Tue nights, Sat matinées are Pay-What-You-Will

A Grand Time in the Rapids

• Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • Set in Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1959. Thalia Cumberland, a sleek and comely widow from across the pond enlists the aid of etiquette expert Ted Todd in finessing a potentially indecorous encounter with her new paramour Boyd Mayhew • Jul 5-21, Tue-Sat: 8pm; Sat: 2pm • Wed-Sat: $27 (adult)/$22 (student/ senior); Sat afternoon: $15; Tue evening: PayWhat-You-Can

I Love You Because... • Catalyst Theatre • Three Form Theatre announces its first production, an off-Broadway musical by Ryan Cunningham and Joshua Salzman; inspired by Jane Austen’s novel Pride and Prejudice. Directed by Anthony Hall (director), Mackenzie Reurink (music director), Jillian Willems (choreography) • Until Jun 28 • $17 (adult)/$15 (student/senior) at TIX on the Square; $20 (adult at door)/$17 (student/ senior at door) Kiss Me Kate • John L. Harr Theatre,

MacEwan, 10045-156 St • ELOPE Musical Theatre; music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by Bella and Samuel Spewack • Jun 27-30 • $27.50 (adult)/$22.50 (student) at TIX on the Square

La Cage Aux Folles • La Cité

Theatre, 8627 rue Marie-Anne-Gaboury, 780.242.2824 • Two ONE-WAY Tickets To Broadway Productions • Directed and choreographed by Martin Galba, musical direction by Robert Bradford, stage managed by Allene Hodgins • Until Jun 30

OH SUSANNA! • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave, 780.433.3399 • The Euro-style variety spectacle with Susanna Patchouli and her divine co-host Eros • Last Sat each month, until Jul, 11pm (subject to occasional change)

SYLVIA • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-109 Ave, 780.483.4051 • Starring Cindy Williams and Eddie Mekka. Mature content, not suitable for children • Until Aug 19

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

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PROFILE // ITALIAN

Let the ingredients shine Italian restaurant takes advantage of Alberta's bounty

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780-497-7858 • 11358-104 Ave.

Traditional meets contemporary // Meaghan Baxter

Vivo Ristorante 18352 Lessard Rd 780.756.7710

ivo Ristorante splashed onto Edmonton's culinary landscape in the summer of 2011, filling a gastronomic void in the city's far west end. This chic and sleek eatery boasts a family-style dining room dressed in black and silver, and features an impressive open kitchen that jumps with scents and sizzles. Manager Gregg Kenney and NAIT-trained head chef Michael Hassall enjoy a quiet moment in Vivo's board room, just steps away from pre-supper preparations, and reflect on the staggering planning that was central to Vivo's creation. "A friend of mine is a landlord and he made us aware of this location, which was originally a video store. We liked the size and the demographic in this part of the city," Kenney explains. "Although we opened officially last July, we were intentionally low key. I don't think we could have handled it if we'd gone all glitz and glamour. We just opened the doors and went for it." Hassall echoes Kenney's sentiments and notes a steady increase in diners since Vivo came to be. Vivo bills itself as Italian, and fits into several genres, including fine dining and family-style. Courses are categorized under Italian headers that correspond to appetizers, mains and des-

serts. Portions are intentionally large; Kenney and Hassall encourage diners to order several mains and share— hence, "family-style." "A lot of our menu comes from the original chef who was with us," explains Hassall. "And a lot of it was inspired by Mercato in Calgary. With our menu, we looked at the practicality of what was seasonal coupled with customer feedback." Hassall acknowledges a plethora of constructive ideas from both customers and kitchen staff. "Everybody has good ideas," he relates, "and changes happen out of necessity with reference to speed, productivity, and ingredient availability." In addition to his compatriots, Hassall draws inspiration from cookbooks. "I love looking at picture books for ideas and then bouncing ideas off others," he admits. Fresh, local and high-quality ingredients are imperative to the success of Vivo—or of any restaurant, for that matter. "We cannot cut corners. Our tomatoes come from Gull Valley Farms in Lacombe, for example, and some of our fish come from Lesser Slave Lake, and their flavour is second to none," he explains. Kenney adds that not every ingredient on Vivo's menu is local. Many of the restaurant's cured meats and cheeses are imported from Italy, a nod to the country's incomparable culinary tradition. Hassall notes, "As much as you want to write a menu

and bring in all the ingredients, you have to do it the other way around. Look at what you do have and build from there." He adds, "The whole concept of Italian food is to let the ingredients shine. They should shine and speak for themselves. Alberta offers such a bounty for this." Indeed, the bounties of both Alberta and Italy intertwine at Vivo and emerge in incarnations both traditional, such as Caprese salad with vibrant tomatoes and creamy fresh mozzarella, as well as inventive, such as a decadent twist on macaroni and cheese that features cannellini beans, pink peppercorns and sumptuous mascarpone. Kenney and Hassall both hope that Vivo will follow the precedent set by its name which, translated literally, means, "I live" or "I am alive." Hassall states, "We're always raising our standards and building a following. Things are awesome now but we want to look back in a year and be even better." Kenney agrees and adds, "We've had a lot of firsts so far." Hassall implores diners, no matter what part of the city they inhabit, to make the drive to Vivo. "It's relaxing. Come and hang out," he encourages, "Because all you need in life is good company, good wine, and the other part of the equation is good food." LS VORS

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Educating the masses

Co-op Wine and Spirits enhances the city's liquor landscape

The tasting room // Meaghan Baxter

Co-op Wine and Spirits 5962 Mullen Way 780.432.2258

t's nestled in the south end of the city, but Co-op Wine and Spirits' new 10 000 square foot centre has the variety to make it worth the trek. This is the first Co-op Wine and Spirits store to open its doors in Edmonton, and inside is an overwhelming array of wine, beer and spirits. The store not only caters to a wide range of tastes, but also an equally large range in budgets, from $6 wines to vintage bottles worth more than $100.

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Co-op may bring to mind images of grocery stores, but this monstrous retailer is far from that. An in-house sommelier is on-hand Tuesday through Saturday, as well as expertlytrained staff, to answer questions and help even the greenest of wine drinkers find something to fit their tastes "I think you can come here and get help from well-trained staff, but also you can come in here and you don't have to feel intimidated. We want people to get to know wine and to come in and not be afraid," says Coop communications manager Cindy Drummond.

Winter Dzaman, senior wines and spirits manager, is working towards her sommelier status, as are the other store managers, and says customers should never be afraid to ask a question about wine, or think it's silly. "This is how we educate ourselves," she adds "Don't think that wine is something snobby, or maybe it has to cost a lot to be outstanding. We deal with outstanding products in various price ranges. We are an everyday store for the everyday person, with a more than everyday selection." The store is also equipped with a

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Decisions, decisions // Meaghan Baxter

tasting bar and tasting room, which can be booked for private functions. The space will also host a variety of events starting in August. In Co-op's Calgary locations, Skype tastings have taken place, with wine experts from vineyards being able to interact electronically to offer guests a unique wine tasting experience they would have to travel to get otherwise. Wine enthusiasts can also take part in the wine locker program, which is also a new concept to Edmonton. Dzaman explains that customers sit down with a sommelier to discuss their unique wine tastes, set a budget, and then on the first Friday of every month, their wine locker is filled with new selections to try. Often, wines selected for the lockers are not readily available on the store floor, and Dzaman notes this is an easy way to start building an at-home wine cellar. "Some of our customers that have had it so far in Calgary say it's like Christmas every month," Drummond adds. The vintage section lining one wall of the store houses collector's items and offers something more unique for

special occasions. "Most people, they buy a wine and they drink it right away. They haven't had a chance to really try aged wines that they are drinking at the appropriate times," says operations manager Dave Haluska, adding there's wines dating back to 1981 and a port from 1855. If beer is more your thing, Co-op offers a beer passport program as well. There's a Beers of the World wall that stocks numerous varieties and flavours from around the world, in addition to domestic varieties and Co-op Gold, which Drummond says has become very popular. Many of the international varities are sold as individual bottles, and Haluksa explains that when a customer buys a bottle, they get a stamp in a passport. Once this passport is filled with 48 stamps, customers receive a beer stein that's been imported from Europe and an entry into a trip given away annually to a beer destination. Past trips have included brewery tours in Germany and Huluska says they're currently working on Ireland. MEAGHAN BAXTER // MEAGHAN@VUEWEEKLY.COM

COMMENT >> WINE

A bottle full of secrets Rosé wines overcome the stigma of cheap pinks This isn't your mother's White Zintend to pair best with foods that come fandel. For years I avoided any and from the same region. So if you're havall pink wines (also known as rosé or ing a Mediterranean dish that's heavy blush wines) because of the stigon the garlic and herbs, choose a ma of cheap pinks like White wine from that region—pink I VID VENI, Zin and Mateus: it seemed wines from southern France, impossible that a wine of specifically the regions of .com weekly e that colour could be anyProvence and the Rhone u v mel@ thing other than cloyingly Valley, usually have herbal Mel ey qualities which makes them sweet and poorly made. But Priestl while this may have been the natural partners to similarly flacase a couple decades ago, times have voured foods. Pink wines are made all changed for the better and pink wines around the world, so you shouldn't have become posh. have too much trouble finding one to Despite what their colour might pair with just about anything—but indicate, pink wines are often dry— keep in mind that, like red and white sometimes bracingly so. And while wines, pinks from the New World couna hint of sweetness isn't uncommon, tries (United States, Canada, Chile, Arrest assured that it's usually balanced gentina, Australia, New Zealand) tend by a good dose of refreshing acidity. to be much more fruit-forward than Common aromas and flavours include Old World (European) versions. raspberries and strawberries, hints of flowers, and sometimes an herbal/ A common assumption is that pink wine is made by simply blending grassy underpinning. Pink wines are white wine with red wine. While it can best served fairly chilled, almost as be made this way (and you can even much as a white wine (and feel free do this in your own glass, were you to ice the hell out of them on really hot days), and they are easily quaffed on their own. But if you fancy a glass Pink Wine Recommendations: Therapy Vineyards Pink Freud of pink with dinner, they pair well (Canada) with salmon and tuna, as well as pork, 13th Street Rosé (Canada) duck, chicken and vegetable dishes. Torbreck Saignée Rosé (Australia) An extremely useful food and wine Fireblock Grenache Rosé (Australia) pairing tip is the rule of origin: wines

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so inclined), I strongly advise against blended pinks: this is the method used for those cheap, mass-produced blush wines and they are usually pretty crappy. The notable exception is pink Champagne, which is very delicious and is the only instance in which blending white and red wine is legal in France. Most good quality pink wines are made using the "skin contact" method—this is where red grapes are crushed and the juice is left to soak in the same container as the skins for a short period of time (usually only a day or two) before the juice is drawn off into another vessel to ferment. The longer this soak time (called "maceration"), the darker and more intense the finished wine will be. A second process, called saignée (French for "bleeding") is when a pink wine is made as a by-product of red wine production: during maceration and fermentation, the winemaker decides he wants a smaller juice-to-grape skin ratio, so he bleeds off some of the

juice. (This makes for a more intensely flavoured red wine, since most of the flavour comes from the skins.) Winemakers will then ferment and bottle the pink juice separately—because why waste perfectly good wine? V

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ast year at this time, Vue asked a number of our favourite Edmontonians to talk about the places within the city that made it feel like a home (rather than a place that merely houses you and your stuff). The answers we received made up a lovely patchwork of insights into the overshadowed nooks and areas of the city that resonate with its residents. So, this year we've decided to revisit the concept with a slightly adjusted focus: rather than talking about the places that make Edmonton feel like home, we asked a number of the city's best and brightest to tell us about some of the most memorable artistic experiences they've had or seen in the City of Champions: the shows or performances that still resonate long after they wrapped up, permanently burned into warm memories by a gutconnection. The answers we received back paint a lively picture of arts in the city: some of those we talked to mentioned their own triumphant projects while others raved about what they'd seen others getting up to. A curious number of them discussed relatively recent events, which in a way suggests that artists aren't just looking back but around and finding inspiration in what they see happening today. It also sugWilfred Kozub at the Artery // Gravy

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gests that perhaps Edmonton's best artistic years are still forthcoming, or unfolding around us in the present day. Either way, it makes for a lovely patchwork of arts over the years. Trevor Anderson (Filmmaker) The Man That Got Away [With The Man That Got Away]I knew I was biting off more than I could chew. It's an epic movie musical that tells the whole life story of my great uncle, [with] six original songs that start at the top of the parkade spiral and continue all the way down to the bottom. It's a whole epic movie-musical on a downward concrete spiral with a huge cast, a cavalcade of awesomes—I think a cast of 36, and then a crew of over 60. So certainly the largest, most ambitious film project I've ever attempted. And Edmonton really stepped up and helped me with the heavy lifting, and we got it done as a real huge group effort; friends from all sorts of different artistic communities helped and contributed. People from the theatre community, the film community, the music community ... and we only had three days [laugh]. It was really something that only could've been done by that many people working that hard. I'm really proud of the result, and it's doing re-

ally well internationally, and I think all of us can be proud of that, because it was definitely a major group effort. Wilfred Kozub (Musician/Visual Artist) I had to search my brain for this, but as far as my own live stuff goes, I'd say the most memorable gig we played was about a year ago. And we play so occasionally, and so sporadically that that's the only one that came to mind. That was one that we did at the Artery. The cool thing about that was I had an art show for the month in June about a year ago. Hardly any people came to the opening of my art show, but it worked out that it didn't really matter. At the end of the art show, the last week, I decided to put together Wilfred N and the Grown Men to play a show, so that I could close it out and play to my own paintings. And not that many people came to the gig either, but that didn't seem to matter because we had an awesome time. It was a really funny evening: people really had kind of a laugh riot. But what happened was, I also do Royal Bison [Craft and Arts fair], and I would find that people would come to my Royal Bison table—where I was selling art prints and cards and CDs and vinyl and stuff like that—and say,

"Oh, I saw these paintings at the Artery." And a number of times people said that: "Oh, I saw your show." And then people would come and say, "Oh, is that 'Thunder on the Tundra'?"— they would see the vinyl, which is one of our songs—and then they'd say, "Oh, I saw your show at the Artery." It kept on coming back to that, that there actually were people there who dug it, and then they were chuckled because it was an amusing evening. So, for me, that's been a very small thing, but it seems to keep on coming back to me in little ways. Not so big in terms of people there, but there were people there. VW: You said it was an amusing evening. Was there something that made it so amusing? WK: Unlike earlier in my music career, when I was painfully shy onstage, I've become sort of a blabbermouth. And I tend to talk about stuff about our songs, little incidents, then my partner Jamie Philip joins in on it, too, and somehow I guess we're kind of entertaining. Todd Babiak (Author) The Exquisite Hour Ten years ago, I went to see a Fringe play called The Exquisite Hour by Stewart Lemoine. I had seen Lem-

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oine's plays before, of course. They were funny and terribly smart, arch, often screwball. This was different. There was a quietness and a gentleness about The Exquisite Hour, a quality of yearning I hadn't felt in any of his plays before—and it's a feeling I rarely feel in any theatre at all. The play was funny and sad at once. I can't remember if it was set in Edmonton but it felt like Edmonton so poignantly my wife and I wandered out afterward and stayed up until midnight in a hotel bar talking about its Edmontonness. Over mint juleps, I think, which we had never had before. A mint julep is a decidedly grown-up drink. The play was grown-up and the city felt grown-up, having Lemoine here thinking and writing in it. We were still kids, of course. Marty Chan (Playwright/Author) The Bone House The one that springs to mind on a personal level is my play The Bone House. It was one of those plays where I'd been working for several years writing plays for the Fringe and a couple of mainstage shows. I noticed the kinds of audiences that came to see the shows I'd written were, y'know, over 40, 50 – 60. But with The Bone House, CONTINUED ON PAGE 30 >>

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that was where I started seeing kids that I've never seen come to any of my shows before. These were Twentysomethings, teenagers. They were flocking to see the show and I thought that was an interesting change, because as I was working on that play, I kept wondering, "What kind of theatre is going to attract a younger generation to the Fringe, or to live theatre?" VW: And what do you think it was? The Bone House has quite a reputation of being a genuinely unsettling show. MC: I think it was one of those fear factors: people of a certain age like being scared, people over a certain age don't like being scared, or they get scared by other things. This was all pre-9/11, so I guess we were willing to be scared by slashers or serial killers. Jessica Jalbert (Musician) Edmonton I Love You [Comedian] Jon Mick put on a goingaway show at the Garneau Theatre: Edmonton I Love You. And that was like a nice big Edmonton-affirming show, and probably my favourite of at least last year, anyway. Jon Mick did a really good job of curating it—it was great to see so much Edmonton talent all in one night. Some of my favourite bands; the night opened up with Field & Stream doing a cover of "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother," which is kind of life-affirming in itself. And then it just pulled form across so many different scenes in Edmonton. There were lots of comedi-

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Jon Mick telling Edmonton how much he loves it // Eden Munro

ans: Jon did a set, Mike Robertson, and a couple other guys, Craig Martel. ... There were some really great films being shown—a friend of mine, Giulliano Palladino had some awesome stuff, and there were some Felt Up sketches. And then there were a whole bunch of other musical acts that I thought were pretty amazing as well. I'm never super proud of my own per-

formances, so mine wasn't anything to brag about, but we did get to play as well. It was just a super-special night, and it was awesome to see so many people out to support so many things, and just a big huge pat on the back to the Edmonton arts scene basically.

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Ellen Chorley (Theatre Artist) A Midsummer's Lucid Dream One of my favourite things I've seen for quite a long time was A Midsummer's Lucid Dream, which was by Thou Art Here productions. It was A Midsummer Night's Dream but they did it in the University. You had to come down to the LRT station, then they did the whole play roaming through the LRT station up the university, through HUB and then into the Fine Arts Building, and up and down the stairs in the Fine Arts Building. It was frickin' amazing. ... They had an audience member be Bottom—they didn't have anyone else in the show, it was just the Lovers and Tanya and Puck and Oberon and the Duke and Dutchess at the beginning. For me, I've seen a lot of roving or environmental theatre that's started to work for me, but then it gets to a point where it doesn't work anymore for me. But for this show I felt for the whole time that everything that was environmental really worked. Like the fairies were all people that were working at the university—they were all in maintenance clothing, stuff like that, which was sort of magical but also was like, "I could actually believe that's what would happen here." It was honestly like I was seeing Midsummer Night's Dream for the first time in my life. That's how new it felt to me, and I got really excited by it, and I thought the direction and the performances also really really helped me to buy in to it. ... They're doing it again at the Found Festival in a different location, and I'm going to go again. Because I loved it so much. Chris Craddock (Playwright/Performer) When I was like 21, 22, I saw a trio of shows, all in one season, which I feel were seminal to my taste and direction as a theatre artist myself. And they were Daniel MacIvor's House, which he was performing himself on I believe his original national tour. That was in the now defunct Kaasa Theatre, and it was presented by Workshop West. It was the first real solo show I had seen, and obviously it was masterful. And I said, "I too will make solo show," because they rocked. They could rock. I could see that, and what he was doing was so athletic and challenging, and it just seemed like, y'know, the thing to do. Daniel MacIvor made it look good [laugh]. And I said, 'I too.' I also saw Polygraph by Robert Lepage and Marie Brassard. That was their famous collaboration. Some say

it's the show where we went, "Whoa, Robert Lepage, this guy, he makes the best shows." [laugh] 'Cause it was physical, and it was strange, and it had multimedia, and it had movement, and it was sexy, it had nudity, it was nonlinear and yet it told a story. It was artistic and yet accessible. It made me see that innovation was important as well as content. And the third, Brad Frasier's Unidentified Human Remains ... along the same line, it was modern and sexy and profane, political. Those three shows really showed me what theatre could be, I think, and I tried to make theatre since then that was a combination of those experiences. And I'll tell you what. They were all either produced or presented by Workshop West Theatre. Workshop West was kicking ultimate ass back then, and that season made me. [laugh]. Maybe it was over two seasons, but it was within short order. 'Cause I saw them all in the Kaasa Theatre, and it's a goddamn shame that they made it into a fuckin' air conditioner. VW: Where was it? CC: It was downstairs at the Jube. Calgary had one just like it and they both turned into fuckin' air conditioners. Christine Lesiak (Clown artist) This is Cancer This is Cancer is the one that jumps to mind immediately. The way Bruce [Horak] walks the knife edge of comedy and tragedy. The boldness of the show. The structure merged with improvisation. As an artist, it's inspirational to me, and one of the main reasons I was hellbent on studying bouffon this year. VW: When you say boldness, what do you mean? CL: The audacity of having a character that personifies something as universally hated as cancer come out and seduce the audience. Knowing some people in the audience will want to punch you.

endearing, and worked really well. Other than that, I would say seeing Gobble Gobble play at the SOS Street Festival. That was a really unique experience, because you had everybody—young and old, you had homeless people, Hudson's douchebags, all out just dancing to CJ's insanity. I thought it was really cool that many people come together, and like something that is kind of quirky, and challenges you. It wasn't something that was easy, and you expected—honestly, I thought it was going to flop. And I just saw how well it worked. It was amazing. The other experience was one semi recently, The Found Festival fundraiser at Wunderbar. When Distance Bullock closed out the night. It was one guy playing in our back room, everything running through his amplifier, and 50 people just sitting down around him on the dirty floor, not even whispering or breathing loud—nothing to ruin the mood of the whole thing. I've never seen anything like it. I've never seen that large a crowd engrossed by somebody they didn't know. Nobody knew him coming in. And he just came in and won over the room. If someone came in and were talking at even a quiet level, people were shushing them like, 'Don't, this is a moment. Then the people would go, 'Oh shit, this is a moment.' And you try to create those moments all the time, but it's really rare to achieve them, and sometimes you don't except them to be achieved.

Katrina Smy (General Manager, Mile Zero Dance) In terms of forward-thinking and innovation, I'd like to toot our own horn this time, and say that Mile Zero Dance's "Unplugged" Salon (January 2012) was truly daring and inspirational, and something I had not seen attempted in a theatre performance in Edmonton. Our infamous Art Salons (since 2005) feature short works from artists of all disciplines, and scan the range from emerging to professional, and boast both local and visiting artists, and are veritable smorgasbords of new work and experimentation. And experiment we did with 'Unplugged'! Staged at The Westbury Theatre, we generated the power in the theatre for sound, lights, and video, through bicycles. Collaborating with the genius of Music Is A Weapon, who provided us with the bicycles and a bank of batteries (we provided the manpower), we created a groundbreaking theatre event, where the audience was divided into small crews who actually had to pedal for power to generate the next act in the show. Dylan Toymaker provided LED light design wizardry to create a beautiful, intimate, colour palette for artists to work with. Going into this, we really weren't certain how effective it would be, or how much we may have to do without, in terms of light and sound. In the end, we were able to produce a really

solid, fun show that looked great, and it was a good challenge for the artists involved too, to have to think outside the box a little, in terms of how they were going to stage and light themselves. The evening included works from Mump & Smoot's Mike Kennard, alternative puppeteer Simon Glassman, Azimuth Theatre's Apocalypse Prairie, Edmonton's poet-laureate Anna Marie Sewell, dancer Richard Lee, and an intimate, acoustic set from reggae band Souljah Fyah. Our 2011/12 season "Off the Grid" was seeped in ideas about technology and performance, and most of the season's productions were about experimenting with cutting-edge motion technologies and audio interfaces used in performance. So with 'Unplugged', we went in the opposite direction, and looked at conservation and energy as a curiosity in art making. As an independent dance artist working in Edmonton since 1995, I have always felt Edmonton to be a prairie city that is home to an incredibly talented and intrepid arts community. Pushing the boundaries of what is possible, while being grounded in a rich history, is part of what makes the Edmonton arts scene so exciting. And the audiences here are open to dialogue and possibility, and are willing to forge ahead with artists on innovative journeys. Well done Edmonton. Keep pushing the envelope of what is possible." PAUL BLINOV

// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM

Gobble Gobble at SOS Festival // Eden Munro

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PREVUE // SLOW AND STEADY

The Method is strong with this one The Crystal Method approaches its 20th year with the help of 'The Force'

On the road again // Maura Lanaham

Fri, Jun 29 – Sun, Jul 1 Boonstock Music & Arts Festival Gibbons, AB Schedule at boonstock.ca

o find oneself a fan of the Crystal Method is to adopt patience as a primary virtue. Just four full-length albums are spread across the electronic duo's almost 20-year career, buoyed by a soundtrack here, a mix for Nike there, and the occasional EP to fill in the

years-long gaps between releases. But even with those little tide-meovers, whenever new material seems to be on the verge of release, it can just as easily ebb backwards with equal force. Case in point: Sling the Decks, a forthcoming EP, was announced for a spring release months ago. Now that we're past the solstice, it's still officially forthcoming, without so much as a firm release date. When we speak, Method man Ken Jordan points out he's technically still got five days before summer begins,

though he also admits he's already bumped its release farther into summer in his mind. (And sure enough, it didn't come out in those final few days.) "If you've ever noticed our release schedule, we're unbelievably slow. We're not a single-per-month band," he says, chuckling across a phoneline at home in LA, shortly before setting out on a string of summer shows that will bring him and musical partner Scott Kirkland to the Boonstock Music & Arts festival in Gibbons, AB.

"We just like to get it right," he adds. "Our process is more in the studio, using all of the gear we have—at this point, we don't finish music on our laptops. We get things started sometimes, but we need time in the studio, and we're on the road a lot. That's generally the thing that holds us back." Formed back in 1993, perhaps it's the Crystal Method's emphasis on the live show rather than the album that's kept it going. Jordan points out that

even as the DJ, dance and electronic scene changed over the past decades, being active and touring components of the scene kept the band on its cresting wave rather than drifting away into obscurity. They've both kept up with leaps in technology, he notes, but he and Kirkland still draw on analogue gear with just as much emphasis. "We still use our old analogue synths," he says. "[We were] just working yesterday with a Roland Jupiter 4, which came out in 1978—very few presets, but one of the presets is called 'The Force.' The keyboard came out like one year after Star Wars did. It sounds good! "The four stands for, it has four voices; you can make a four-note chord," he continues. "But one of the voices can't be tuned, and so it's stuck in some weird interval, like six halfsteps above or six half-steps away ... it makes really interesting sounds with the arpeggiator on." As they approach the two-decade watermark as a band, slowing down isn't on Jordan's mind, though regrettably, speeding up seems just as unlikely. He seems happy to maintain the Method as it is. At least for now. "It's all great memories and great experience," he says on looking back. "The main thing is we still love working on music, we still love performing. [We] plan on doing it for... a while longer. I don't know about 20 more years," he laughs. "But definitely a while longer." PAUL BLINOV

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The Lad Mags Fri, Jun 29 (7:30 pm) With Dead Ghosts The Artery, $10

our multi-talented ladies and a dude on drums make up one of Edmonton's newest acts to rock out on the local music scene. The Lad Mags, who are self-described as one part scrappy garage rock and one part '60s girl group, came together this April. The idea for the project sparked between guitarist/vocalist Amelia Aspen and guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist Roz Christian, and the idea kept resurfacing for the better part of a year before they finally decided it was time to take action. From there, they enlisted keyboardist, guitarist and vocalist Dara Humniski, whom Aspen works with at the

Edmonton Arts Council, their friend Candice Kelly on bass and vocals and drummer Joe Stagliano, who Aspen discovered via Facebook when he posted he was bored and looking for a band. Overall, the female-dominated dynamic has turned out to be a good move for the group. "We sort of lucked into the perfect combination," says Aspen. "Joe is possibly the most laid back human I've ever met, in the best way. He still gets really excited about stuff, but he's pretty laid back and just lets us do our thing." The group has been an interesting change of pace for Christian, who was outnumbered by guys in her previous bands Brontoscorpio and the Frosted Tipz. She says Stagliano acts as a bit of dude backbone and the other girls

create an atmosphere that's supportive and conducive for creativity. This supportive atmosphere has been even more beneficial considering the group has varied experience when it comes to the music industry. The Lad Mags is Humniski's first band and Kelly plays in one called April and the Other Months, but Aspen says it is also a relatively new act. She adds that there's consistently small moments of mentoring one another that happen in a very casual, natural way. "Everyone's bringing something totally different, and because everybody's not crusty old established people who are really set in their ways, we're learning a lot from each other," Aspen notes. "There's a sort of innocence they

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bring which is totally rad to work with and inspiring in a way," Christian adds of the more novice members. "It's just kind of refreshing ... whereas working with men there are often dominant forces in the room that struggle to overpower one another. I found this experience, partly because some of us are novices and partly because we're women, it just seems like a very supportive vibe."

The Lad Mags may still be in its early stages, but the five-piece is wasting no time getting its name out there. The band's first show, the kick-off to its first mini tour and first release all coincide at the same time. "It's a bit of a pants-shitter," Aspen says with a laugh. "It's kind of terrifying, but at the same time, why not?" MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // GOOD VIBES

Third Branch

Sat, Jun 30 (4 pm) Empress Alehouse

ummer is meant for chilling out with some good music to fit the laid-back mood, so consider Third Branch's debut album your new summer soundtrack. The disc is filled with reggae and roots infused beats that boast a little edge, all while keeping a mellow yet upbeat vibe intact.

Third Branch has been in the works since 2007, when three of the current members met while in school at Grant MacEwan. Originally, the group was a trio with a folky sound that consisted of Marie Golonka, Kyle Mosiuk and Melissa Walker. "We were just writing a few songs and learning Bob Marley covers and taking them to the farmers' markets and busking," says Golonka, who does

vocals and guitar for the group. Things changed when Mosiuk met drummer Amy Wolkowski while working at Planet Organic. From there, Third Branch added Wolkowski's pal Kenny Unrau, a multi-instrumental percussionist, to round out the sextet. "It totally changed our sound and we all got inspired and started writing," Golonka adds of the lineup. Third Branch hunkered down for three months and compiled all the material for its release, which is an allEdmonton collaboration produced by Justin McDonough of Koffee Productions and mastered by Steve McGonigle at Blackbox Studios "We were just wanting to get something out to the public to have in their hands," Wolkowski notes. Golonka pens the majority of the lyrics, which are inspired by everyday life. She says she always has to have a notebook at the ready, because inspiration strikes at any time. She draws

on people in her life as well, such as in the song, "Dirty," which was influenced by an ex-boyfriend. "Those are always good for inspiration," she says with a laugh. "It's little everyday things. People that I run into; people that are important to me." While the lyrics generally come from Golonka, the band maintained a collaborative approach to pull the album together. It was challenging at times, with six different personalities and opinions vying for their ideas to be heard, but Golonka says the key was

to approach everything positively. "You're all striving for the same goal, so that got us through it," she adds. This positivity is reflected through the group's music, and is one of the aspects of reggae that drew them to the style to begin with. While they're not hardcore, traditional reggae, its influence is evident amidst the folk and electro melodies, and brings what Wolkowski describes as a West Coast feel to the Edmonton music scene. MEAGHAN BAXTER

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PREVUE // SWEATY BEATS

The Belushis Fri, Jun 29 (8 pm) With Black Earth DV8 Tavern

good time.

he world of the Belushis is inhabited by a unique cast of characters who come together in a brash, in-your-face, sweat-drenched brand of rock 'n' roll. Guitar player and vocalist Kirk Macdonald, also known as Mr Magic Chords, is the moody asshole who keeps everyone in line, joined by Triple X Shock Rock (guitar player Gerry Clipperton), the absent-minded stoner; Evil Drizzle (drummer Jason Kennedy), the forlorn, Eeyore-type who doesn't get too excited about anything and Dirty Ferdy (bass player Ferdy Belland), the drunken loudmouth party guy. Together, they craft lyrics driven by inside jokes that Macdonald says are fueled by three general themes: drinking, sex and partying. "The whole idea of the band from the beginning was kind of just a party band. It was music to party to; it was never supposed to be that serious," Macdonald says, adding that the name comes from John Belushi and his Animal House persona, which seemed fitting for a band all about having a

This riotous party feeling has been captured once again in the Belushis third album Shaker, which stands up to its reputation as a party starter and prolonger through a blistering lineup of tracks that run on high from start to finish. This style has earned the band the label of sweat rock, but it's one the Belushis don't shy away from. While the sounds are far from similar, the Belushis take an approach similar to the Ramones, where as soon as one song ends, the next begins. Macdonald says the band tries to pack as much as they can into the live shows to keep the momentum consistent. "It gets a little frantic because you're constantly moving. You don't even have time to splash some beer down your throat a lot of the time, so naturally we all start to get kind of sweaty up there, some of us more than others," Macdonald notes, adding he likes to think of himself as the least sweaty of the bunch. "It really comes out of the fact that we don't get up there to strum our guitars and stare at our shoes. We're there to have fun and put on a show." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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Shuffle Demons Sat, Jun 30 (8:30 pm and 10 pm) Old Strathcona Performing Arts Centre, $20 for one set or $30 for two sets Part of the Edmonton Jazz Festival Schedule at edmontonjazz.com

lmost two decades after the band's last release, Shuffle Demons are back with Clusterfunk, a new album rich with the jazz-funkfusion sound the band has become renowned for. Shuffle Demons disbanded in 1997, but when its 20th anniversary rolled around in 2004, the band decided to reunite for a tour, not knowing how well it would turn out. New songs began to take shape as the band played together and they decided it was time to document them for a comeback. "We kind of had road rash, you know? We did a lot of touring in the '90s and we were just getting tired of sitting in a van together," says saxophone player and vocalist Richard Underhill, who has been with the band since 1984. "It was really nice to come back and see each other and fall into the same familiar. It's like wearing an old shoe; it just feels really good." The challenge in working together again came from finding middle ground amidst the band's evolved musical tastes, which required a more

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conscious approach than Shuffle Demons were used to, as it wasn't uncommon for them to improvise songs in the past. Underhill adds the band didn't want to make the mistake that can sometimes happen on comeback records by throwing in too many accompanying elements, like guest vocalists or new instruments. Instead, they wanted to make

a record that stayed true to Shuffle Demons' roots. "We wanted to make this a new starting point for us," Underhill says, adding fans shouldn't expect any rap songs this time around, which had become a staple in the past. "We've drawn on our roots, on the Shuffle Demons sound and tried to propel that forward."

While making a comeback posed its challenges in each band member's musical evolution, that same change also presented new opportunities for the band. Underhill admits that the band started with lots of enthusiasm but not a great deal of technique, whereas now, they've got a better balance of both. Underhill hopes that a new genera-

tion of fans, particularly those who are young instrumentalists, can take something away from the band. "I think there's a lot of energy in the music, whether it's on the album or in the live show," he says. "As they say, it's groovy and the kids can dance to it." MEAGHAN BAXTER

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Time can be tough on bands. There are those that were never built to last and bust up in a burst of flames (or sometimes just a fizzling puff of smoke), and there are those that trudge towards the end of the line playing the same songs night after night, soundtracking memories but devoid of creative spirit. But then there are those bands that refuse to die, sometimes even finding a spark later on in the game. That's the case with the Hangmen, who hit the LA scene in the late '80s only to be worked over by an industry that wanted nothing other than to cast the band in the million-selling mould of Guns N' Roses. The pressure cracked the band and the group disappeared for a time, only to return a decade later led by singer/guitarist Bryan Small and strumming out some mean punk and country-tinged tunes that were both gritty and damaged at their best. And in 2012 Small is still mining the same frayed territory for his songs, letting his heart hang on every ringing, distorted guitar chord, joined here by ex-Supersucker guitarist Ron Heathman, whose tastefully ragged playing sits well within Small's songs of trouble.

While New Inheritors consisted of symphonic sounds and dark lyrics, Wintersleep's latest, Hello Hum, is layered with electronic elements, bouncing melodies and more feelings of uplift than the band's most successful record to date, Welcome to the Night Sky. Hello Hum, a record that is essentially about heartbreak and romantic longing, somehow manages to give hope despite distant vocals that sometimes sing about losing it. "Hum" is a great introduction, a phenomenal and complex concoction that includes distortion, electronica and a faint piano melody that both trudges and swings., while the peak of positive energy is reached on "Resuscitate," a hum-worthy song that feels like a harmonious ping pong ball.

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Glen Hansard Rhythm and Repose (Anti-)

Season. Still, the album contains a lot of his trademarks: crescendos, swelling violins, and while the album offers up some quietly contemplative tracks, it's at its best when Hansard unleashes the intensely raw vocals that he's known for. But what really makes the album work as a whole is Hansard's ability to match what could be taken as sophomoric love poetry with some beautifully-crafted music. On his first solo album this talent takes the rawness of Hansard's expression to create an intimate connection.

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Whether it's creating college rock with his band the Frames or his Academy Award winning collaboration with Marketa Irglova in Once, Glen Hansard's trademark is his love of the epic rise and fall of emotion. Hansard's collaboration with Irglova allowed him to move to a much more intimate, unplugged approach to his emotional expression than the Frames did, and his first solo album, Rhythm and Repose, allows him to showcase that intimate, slower pace that he took with the Swell

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This band was always less GNR—or at least less Slash than Izzy Stradlin—and more Social Distortion— which makes it unsurprising that Social D's Mike Ness produced the Hangmen's 2007 effort—and East of Western doesn't break that mould. Nothing wrong with that, though, especially for a band that sounds as though it could only exist in the shadows of last call at some roadhouse on the edge of LA (again, rather than on the Sunset Strip like the industry wanted during the group's early years). East of Western stomps along steadily, a short and tight record that still manages to wander some varied territory in the country-punk swagger of "Drink Smoke," the rolling heartbreak of "Had a Girl," where Small cries "When I met you / That's when luck ran out on me," and the hypnotic pull of "Haunted." Time hasn't broken Small, and, in fact, has given him the opportunity to focus and develop his lyrical tales of the beaten down. At times he doesn't sound like a man who will make it much farther, but he's done just that for this many years and it's that struggle for survival that he captures in his words. Musically, the band is as tight as ever—keeping in mind that the songs are still loose and rambling—with longtime bassist Angelique Congleton holding the bottom together with style while Small's guitar locks into the steady pounding of Dino Guerrero's drums, leaving plenty of room for Heathman to colour the songs with his countrified punk licks. Save for Congleton, the only conistent voice in the Hangmen for the past couple decades has been Small, but as long as those two are there, and as long as Small keeps scratching out songs like these, time is on the Hangmen's side.

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Architects Daybreaker (Distort)  The lyrics on Architects' Daybreaker move from teenage poetry—"If you could speak, I'm sure you'd say: 'There's more to me than meets the eye'"—to a societal commentary— "Corruption hangs in the air you breathe / In the land of the free." It reveals a similar wavering between a mainstream teenage screamo to a heavier, pulsing sound that lends the album a bit more power, but overall there's little to differentiate Architects from the plethora of hardcore bands out there. // SAMANTHA@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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PREVUE // SCRAPPY PUNK

Slates

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or a band that only emerged from the greater Edmonton music scene in late 2008, the scrappy, melodic punks of Slates have managed to dot their passports with a veritable rainbow of stamps. One of the band's earliest treks was out to Cuba—which partly inspired the 2011 LP Prairie Fires—and more recently Slates spent a month playing its way across Eastern Europe. The band booked the tour itself; operating as a DIY outfit seems to be an effective modus operandi for the band both here and abroad. But for all that travel and independence, the place that Slates hasn't traversed to yet is here—the farther reaches of this country. Its members have certainly covered the territory in various other outfits, but never together as Slates, an oversight that drummer Dallas Thompson is looking forward to remedying in short order. "It's kind of funny how that worked out, eh?" he says, a few weeks shy of setting out for the eastern side of the country. Slates is touring behind a new

EP, the seven-inch Wangwee, which pairs three blistering scrapper-punk originals with a cover of the Dogs "The Most Forgotten French Boy"— a groovy, melodic '80s song from France that Slates' version sharpens up considerably. It's also the first release to feature the band's revised lineup: unchanged are Thompson on drums and the guitarist/vocalist duties of James Stewart, but former bassist Stefan Duret has traded his four string for the electric six held by former bandmate Eric Dunn, with newcomer Lee Klippenstein—who had previous already toured with the band on its Europe trek—replacing him in the rhythm section. Thompson points out that Klippenstein's contributions have already proven to be more than just a fresh face. "He was one of the first to bring some new ideas," Thompson explains. "One of those songs [on Wangwee] was him and James. [They] got in there one night super early on, and they just went to town. So, yeah, he stepped right into those shoes." PAUL BLINOV

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Beach- Canada Day Weekend: Dangerous Guise (r&b, soul, funk, blues, rock); Jubilee Hall: King Beats (rock/pop) for dinner/dance (6-midnight); info: wabamun.ca/ centennial

L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:30-11:30pm; no cover NEW CITY Cross-Canada Tour Kickoff: Slates, Ben Disaster and the Cosmonauts, The Allovers, Stepmothers; 8pm (door)/9pm (show); $10 (door)

NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm; 4's A Crowd NOLA Sandro Dominelli Band (JUNO award winners) O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm OLD STRATHCONA PERFORMING ARTS CENTRE A/B Trio (contemporary); Film With Jazz: Oxygen For The Ears (contemporary); The Shuffle Demons (jam band); part of Jazz Fest ON THE ROCKS Mourning Wood OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP Stars of The Discovery Channel show Guinea Pig: Ryan Stock and Amber Lynn; 8pm (door); $10 (adv)

SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Stan Gallant SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm STARLITE ROOM Destroy All Cities: Aesthetic Perfection, X-Rex, Comaduster, Blak Opz; 9pm

BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm

WILD OATS AND NOTES– Tofield Allice Kos Band, Karma Vigilantes, John wort Hannam, Kayla Patrick, J.R. Shore, Darren Johnson, Maria in the Shower, Lily Hall, BB and the Backsliders, Ayla Brook, Bill Durst; 1pm (music); $50; free (youth under 16); wildoatsandnotes. com

DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

WUNDERBAR Fat Dave Crimewave, guests; 8:30pm

ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove DJ every Sat

YARDBIRD SUITE Terell Stafford (hard bop); part of Jazz Fest

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG

Classical

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

TIMMS CENTRE FOR THE ARTS Opera Nuova' Vocal Arts Festival: Handel's Alcina, sung in Italian with English surtitles; 7:30pm

ROSE AND CROWN Andrew Scott

DJs

SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Duane Allen

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace

BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night

FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes

JUNCTION BAR LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri NEW CITY LEGION Polished Chrome: every Sat with DJs Blue Jay, The Gothfather, Dervish, Anonymouse; no minors; free (5-8pm)/$5 (ladies)/$8 (gents after 8pm) O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Jay every Fri and 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 Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style

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Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri

FRI JUNE 29

TALLEST TO SHORTEST WITH MARIA IN THE SHOWER, THE O’SPREY’S, BROKEN CLOUDS

CANADA DAY SUN JULY 1

BISON BC WITH BLACK MASTIFF, THE GET DOWN, LAVAGOAT & GALGAMEX MON JULY 9

JORDAN COOK AKA REIGNWOLF WITH BOMBCHAN & LONGSHADOWS

TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

SUN JUL 1 BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Sunday Brunch: Farley Scott's Jazz Passages trio; 10:30am2:30pm; donations

WED JULY 11

BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining

WITH WASTER XERXES & GUESTS

BOONSTOCK FEST– Gibbons Main stage: Dani Jean, Silo, GOB, Buckcherry, A Day to Remember, Billy Talent, Wright and Wong, Avicii; 3:30pm; tickets at boonstock.ca

THIS IS HELL WED JULY 18

LIVING WITH LIONS WITH DAYTRADER, MAJOR LEAGUE & STRONG HEARTS

JUST ANNOUNCED SUN AUG 12

KILL DEVIL HILL FEATURING VINNY APPICE (DIO, BLACK SABBATH, HEAVEN & HELL) & REX BROWN (PANTERA, DOWN) FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

SAT JUNE 30

GUINEA PIG’S

RYAN STOCK & AMBER LYNN

PERFORM LIVE AT THE PAWN SHOP TRANSMISSION SATURDAYS

WITH DJ BLUE JAY & EDDIE LUNCHPAIL | $4 PINTS & HI BALLS

SAT JUNE 30 FREE SATURDAY SHOW

MAYDAY & THE BEAT CREEPS WITH FIGHT IN THE FIELDS

STAND UP COMEDY

SUNDAYS

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SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests

CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm CHURCHILL SQUARE Gateway Big Band, Jennie Vanderkerkhove, Cam Neifield and the Road to Django, Third Branch, Low Flying Planes, Nik 7 and Jaycie Jayce, Kumon Plaza Dan, Renny Wilson, Nik 6, Jaycie Jayce

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover

RED PIANO Canada Day: Dueling piano show: playing Canadian classics; 2-for-1 entertainment fee

DOUBLE D'S Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm

RICHARD'S PUB Sun Live Jam hosted by Carsons Cole; 4pm

DV 8 Canada Day: Snaggletooth, Snakebite Kroovy Rookers EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio Series: Special Canada Day Performance: Big Hank Lionhart and a Fist Full of Blues, Andy White (Irish singersongwriter); 7:30pm; $8/$72 (Patio Series season pass) 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 GAS PUMP CLUB AND BAR Sophie and the Shufflehounds; 9pm; no cover LEDUC–Canada Day Celebrations Local showcase featuring Brendan Guy, Zirka Ukrainian Dance Ensemble and Hendersheetz, Derina Harvey Band, Stereos; Outdoor movie (Transformers), fireworks NEWCASTLE PUB Sun Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY LEGION DIY Sunday Afternoons: 4pm (door), 5pm, 6pm, 7pm, 8pm (bands) NEW SAREPTA AGRIPLEX Canada Day: D. T. S. P., 2 bands and DJ; 4pm O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am ON THE ROCKS Rawlco's Showtime Concert Series: One Day Late, Falklands, Souljah Fyah Sundays O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Open stage hosted by the band the Vindicators; 4-8pm every Sun PAWN SHOP Canada Day: Bison BC, Black Mastiff, The Get Down, LavaGoat, Galgamex; 8pm (door); $15 (adv)

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

ROSSDALE COMMUNITY HALL Canada Day Little Flower Open Stage 14th Anniversary Party; 3-11pm

LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am

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

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

LAKE WABAMUN– Baseball Diamond:

Dragonfly Music Festival: Rusty Reed, Whitemud, Jess Lee, Ian McArthur, Marshall Lawrence, The Herbs, Rayne-Anne Latchford, Anne McKinnon, Ashley Theberge, Fantastic Brown Dirt, Suggested Serving, Beyond Addiction, BUTS (Better Us Than Strangers), Mary's A Fox, Endivera, Outsided, Forty Below; 12pm; $10/$15 (gate); camping $20 WILD OATS AND NOTES– Tofield Picture the Ocean, Darren Johnson, Jack Dekeyser, Tin and the Toad, Myrol, Rebecca Lappa, Petunia, Chloe Albert, Raygun Cowboys, Weber Brothers; 1pm (music); $50; free (youth under 16); Jun 29-Jul 1; wildoatsandnotes.com WUNDERBAR Weird Canada Day: Brazillian Money (tape release), Monomyth, Taiwan, Trash Island, Jessica Jalbert, Rocktimus Crime, Renny Wilson, Calvin Love, Yaocave, Seahorse, Banshee YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

Classical TIMMS CENTRE FOR THE ARTS Opera Nuova' Vocal Arts Festival: Handel's Alcina, sung in Italian with English surtitles; 1:30pm

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

MON JUL 2 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: High Society; no cover CHURCHILL SQUARE Shred Kelley, the Living Daylghts, Maria in the Shower, Brother Octopus, Mercy Years DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Jason Howard, singer/ songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm NEW WEST HOTEL Tradewinds OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic instrumental old time fiddle jam every Mon; hosted by the Wild Rose Old Tyme Fiddlers Society; 7pm ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm WUNDERBAR Look Away, Thee Ahs (Vancouver), Marlaena Moore; 9pm

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

TUE JUL 3 BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays guest with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm CHURCHILL SQUARE Works Fest: BEAMS All-stars, dancers; Jung People, Mike Angus, Del Barber DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Queen Extravaganza, Jeff Scott Soto; 8pm; $39.50/$29.50/$24.50 at UnionEvents.com, Ticketmaster.ca 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); 9pm2am every Tue; no cover PADMANADI Open stage every Tue; with Mark Davis; all ages; 7:3010:30pm R PUB Open stage jam every Tue; hosted by Gary and the Facemakers; 8pm RED PIANO All request band Tuesdays: Joint Chiefs (classic rock, soul, R&B) every Tue SECOND CUP– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Jason Howard SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM AJ Goodvin

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

WUNDERBAR David Simard (Montreal), Bailey Sutton, Brian Coffey; 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson

DJs

LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook NEW CITY LEGION Madhouse Mon: Punk/ metal/etc with DJ Smart Alex

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: alternative retro and not-so-retro, electronic and Euro with Eddie Lunchpail; Wooftop: It’s One Too Many Tuesdays: Reggae,

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 BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 1022597 St, 780.497.0011 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 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 901388 Ave, 780.465.4834 THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 9938-70 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 8906-99 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLOW LOUNGE 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604.CLUB FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GOOD EARTH 9942-108 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

VUEWEEKLY JUNE 28 – JULY 4, 2012

HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOGS DEN PUB 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 JUNCTION BAR 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 LAKE WABAMUN–Wabum Marina Village of Wabamun 50 St, 780.450.3234 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 NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999 NEW CITY LEGION 8130 Gateway Boulevard (Red Door) NISKU INN 1101-4 St NOLA 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390 NORTH GLENORA HALL

13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2'S ON WHYTE 780.454.0203 O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL 13509-127 St, 780.454.0203 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 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 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 ST TIMOTHY'S ANGLICAN CHURCH 8420-145 St SECOND CUP–89 AVE 8906-149 St SECOND CUP–Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929

• Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE–Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 TRANSCEND COFFEE– Elevation Room 10349 Jasper Ave TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655 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 ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St

M O C . Z Z A J N O T E DMON

K C I T D N A PA S S E S VUEWEEKLY JUNE 28 – JULY 4, 2012

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funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard

LIVE MUSIC

JUNE 29-30 JASON HOWARD JULY 2 JASON HOWARD JULY 4 DUFF ROBINSON JULY 6-7 DOUG STROUD edmontonpubs.com

DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB

BUDDYS DJ Arrow Chaser every CROWN PUB Live Hip Hop Tue: freestyle hip hop with DJ Xaolin and Mc Touch DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue NEW CITY LEGION High Anxiety Variety Society Bingo vs. karaoke with Ben Disaster, Anonymouse every Tue; no minors; 4pm3am; no cover RED STAR Experimental Indie Rock, Hip Hop, Electro with DJ Hot Philly; every Tue RED PIANO All Request Band Tuesdays: Classic rock, soul and R&B with Joint Chiefs; 8pm; $5

WHAT’S YOUR FAVOURITE DAY OF THE WEEK? SATURDAY & SUNDAY, BREAKFAST UNTIL 4PM SUNDAY, CELTIC MUSIC MONDAY, SINGER SONG WRITER TUESDAY, WING NIGHT WEDNESDAY, OPEN STAGE, PIZZA w/ JUG NIGHT THURSDAY, CHEAP JUG NIGHT

SUITE 69 Rockstar Tuesdays: Mash up and Electro with DJ Tyco, DJ Omes with weekly guest DJs

WED JUL 4 AVENUE THEATRE Media Skare Records and Alternative Empire

Bring To You: Blind Witness, Betrayal, The Fallacy; 6pm (door); $15 (adv)/$18 (door)

FIDDLER'S ROOST Little Flower Open Stage every Wed with Brian Gregg; 8pm-12

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

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Wooftop: DIYalogue: Edmonton's NextGen; 6:15pm (door); $10 (adv)

GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY Breezy Brian Gregg; every Wed; 12-1pm

RICHARD'S PUB Live Latin Band Salsabor every Wed; 9pm

CHA ISLAND TEA CO Whyte Noise Drum Circle: Join local drummers for a few hours of beats and fun; 6pm CROWN PUB The D.A.M.M Jam: Open stage/original plugged in jam with Dan, Miguel and friends every Wed DEVANEY'S Duff Robinson EDDIE SHORTS Electric open jam with Steven Johnson Experience every Wed ELEPHANT AND CASTLE–Whyte Ave Open mic every Wed (unless there's an Oilers game); no cover FESTIVAL PLACE Qualico Patio Series: The Weber Brothers, The Beaverhill Brass Quintet; 7:30pm; $8 at Festival box office

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Open stage every Wed with Jonny Mac, 8:30pm, free HOOLIGANZ Open stage every Wed with host Cody Nouta; 9pm NEW WEST HOTEL Free classic country dance lessons every Wed, 7-9pm OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jason Greeley (acoustic rock, country, Top 40); 9pm-2am every Wed; no cover PLAYBACK PUB Open Stage every Wed hosted by JTB; 9pm-1am PLEASANTVIEW COMMUNITY HALL Acoustic Bluegrass jam presented by the Northern Bluegrass Circle Music Society; every Wed, 6:30-11pm; $2 (member)/$4 (nonmember)

SECOND CUP–149 St Open stage with Alex Boudreau; 7:30pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Jason Howard SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM AJ Goodvin WUNDERBAR The Greys, Camembert, Fucking Lottery, Mahria; 9pm ZEN LOUNGE Jazz Wednesdays: Kori Wray and Jeff Hendrick; every Wed; 7:30-10pm; no cover

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: RetroActive Radio: Alternative '80s and '90s, post punk, new wave, garage, Brit, mod, rock and roll with LL Cool Joe BRIXX BAR Really Good... Eats and Beats: every Wed with DJ Degree and Friends

BUDDY'S DJ Dust 'n' Time every Wed; 9pm (door); no cover THE COMMON Treehouse Wednesdays DIESEL ULTRA LOUNGE Wind-up Wed: R&B, hiphop, reggae, old skool, reggaeton with InVinceable, Touch It, weekly guest DJs FILTHY MCNASTY'S Pint Night Wednesdays with DJ SAWG FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Latin and Salsa music every Wed; dance lessons 8-10pm LEGENDS PUB Hip hop/R&B with DJ Spincycle NEW CITY LEGION Wed Pints 4 Punks: with DJ Nick; no minors; 4pm3am; no cover NIKKI DIAMONDS Punk and ‘80s metal every Wed RED STAR Guest DJs every Wed TEMPLE Wild Style Wed: Hip hop open mic hosted by Kaz and Orv; $5

JONESIN'CROSSWORD “Meet the Beetles”--you're gonna bug out.

MATT JONES // JONESINCROSSWORDS@VUEWEEKLY.COM

DOWNTOWN

June 28-30, DUANE ALLEN • July 3-7, JASON HOWARD

WEM

June 28-30, STAN GALLANT • July 3-4, AJ GOODVIN July 5-7, ALESHA & BRENDON • SUNDAY NIGHT KARAOKE EDMONTONPUBS.COM

Across

JUNE 29 & 30

Andrew Scott

JULY 6 & 7

Jerrett Bordian

In Sutton Place Hotel #195, 10235 101 Street, EDMONTONPUBS.COM

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1 Part of a bartender’s lineup 7 NCO rank: abbr. 10 It’s clenched 14 Too 15 Desserts with layers 17 ___ hearts (one of 52) 18 “Coming on stung all the time...” 19 “I’ll climb on your kitchen countertop, if it makes you feel alright...” 21 Beaver Cleaver exclamations 22 She recorded the album “21” 23 “Every Kiss Begins with...” jeweler 26 Group of schools in one area, for short 27 Place for an orchestra 29 Weasel that’s white in the winter 31 Ray varieties 34 Ned’s new love interest, on “The Simpsons” 35 “The girl that’s driving me mad is chirping away...” 39 ___-purpose 40 “My Fair Lady” lyricist 41 Canadian capital 44 Snake that killed Cleopatra 45 Thunder gp.

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48 “Moonrise Kingdom” director Anderson 49 Unsettled feeling 52 “Black diamonds” 53 “Ah, look at all the lonely pincers...” 56 “And you’re burrowing for no one but me...” 59 Scottish dish that looks gnarly 60 Ground rule doubles and stand-up triples 61 Els and Grunfeld 62 Hurried home? 63 Enzyme suffix 64 Knox in 2011 news

Down 1 Phone company with an orange logo 2 Sheep 3 Like cans sold cheap 4 Dobie Gillis’ friend Maynard G. ___ 5 Matty or Felipe of baseball 6 Network that brings you the movie “Piranhaconda” 7 Did cloak-and-dagger work 8 “The Fox and the Grapes,” e.g. 9 Like jambalaya 10 “I’m gonna live forever” musical

11 Number on the right side of a clock face 12 Amtrak stop: abbr. 13 Mao ___-tung 16 Bieber ___ 20 Hot Wheels company 23 Jason at point guard 24 Photographer Geddes 25 Positive vote 27 Lobbying gp. 28 Tattoos, slangily 30 Former Israeli PM Golda 31 Actress Kunis 32 “The dog ___ my homework” 33 Layers 35 Like kitten videos 36 What Charlie Brown says when he’s mad 37 Run-___ (some sentences) 38 Sales agent 39 ___ Corning 42 “America’s Most Wanted” host John 43 Blood issue 45 Brain 46 Treated way too nicely 47 Milano of “Who’s the Boss?” 50 Tiny fliers 51 Smell, for one 52 Competitor of Aetna and Humana 53 ___ out a living (scraped by) 54 Perlman of “Cheers” 55 In the vicinity, as guesses go 56 Channel that reairs “The Big Bang Theory” 57 Potent ending? 58 CBS franchise ©2011 Jonesin' Crosswords

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Casino Volunteers for WIN House The Edmonton Women's Shelter is in need of volunteers for our upcoming Casino. Dates are August 4th and 5th at the Century Casino. Please email Deanna at ewsmrktg@telusplanet.net for more information and/or to get involved. Community Garden Volunteer Help maintain a small garden and landscaping outside the Meals on Wheels building. The produce and herbs from the garden will be used as part of Grow a Row for Meals on Wheels. Contact us at 780-429-2020, or sign up on our website at www.mealsonwheelsedmonton.org Environmental News Radio Needs You! Terra Informa is an environmentally themed radio news show that is syndicated across Canada. We are run by volunteers and we need more help! No experience necessary! We will provide you with all necessary training. Curious? Contact us at terra@cjsr.com, terrainforma.ca or call Steve at 780-432-5566 Needed for our Seniors residence, volunteers for various activities or just for a friendly visit! Please contact Janice at Extendicare Eaux Claires for more details jgraff@extendicare.com (780) 472 - 1106 P.A.L.S. Project Adult Literacy Society needs volunteers to work with adult students in: Literacy, English As A Second Language and Math Literacy. For more information please contact (780)424-5514 or email palsvolunteers2003@yahoo.ca Participate in Habitat For Humanity Edmonton's 90 Day Blitz! From June 15 - Sept 15 we are prefabricating walls and putting up 18 homes at our St. Albert site. Beginners to trades people welcome! We provide everything you need to work, including lunch! You provide your time, energy and heart. Group sizes vary from 5-25 people per day. Shifts are Tuesdays - Saturdays 8:30 to 4. No minimum number of shifts. Visit www.hfh.org & contact Louise at 780-451-3416 ext 222 or lfairley@hfh.org SACE is recruiting volunteers for our 24 hour crisis line. Contact us at: CharleneB@sace.ab.ca Volunteer with Students for Cellphone Free Driving at Heritage Festival! Free food, tickets Call 780-492-0926 Volunteer with us and gain valuable Office Administration and Data Entry Skills! Volunteer your time to a great cause with the Heart and Stroke Foundation. Apply online at www.heartandstroke.ab.ca under Volunteers or send a resume to volunteer@hsf.ab.ca Volunteers needed ASAP for Boysdale Camp Clean up, deck repairs, roof repairs, insulation of cabins, electrical, dry walling, brush cleaning and much much more. Email dave@boysdalecamp.com for details Volunteers needed for the 21st edition of The Great White North Triathlon, July 1st, for all positions, course marshals, lifeguards, kayakers', transition, traffic direction, parking patrol, security. Contact LeRoy, the volunteer coordinator for more info: at 780-478-1388 or email: royal.legend99@gmail.com

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Whyte Ave - Art Walk July 13 - 15. Seeking dedicated, energetic volunteers who will contribute a minimum of TWO 4-hour shifts. The Festival is an interactive outdoor art exhibition spanning over 4 km along Whyte Avenue. Volunteers will enjoy walking the assigned routes, assisting artists and orientating the public. For details visit www.art-walk.ca

WynterMynt Records, Edmonton's newest Indie Record Label is looking for volunteers for a couple scouting positions. These volunteers should have a love for live music, have some understanding to the Indie/Folk music scene and are willing to go out on weekends to scout new talent around the city with weekly reports back to the label on their findings Contact Stephanie Leong at stephanie@wyntermyntrecords.com

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Beginning September of 2012, amiskwaciy Academy will be opening its doors to new and returning potters. Beautiful new space. Competitive guild fees. Classes to be offered. Seeking guild president. For more info please call 780-990-8487

Call for Artists: Decorate a Lampost Contest at Kaleido 2012. The 24 hour Decorate a Lampost Contest is returning to Kaleido Family Arts Festival on September 8-9, 2012! To enter, complete and sign the entry form at www.artsontheave.org and send it with a short project proposal and artist bio to kaleidoprogram@gmail.com by July 16th, 2012

CALL FOR METAL ARTISTS The Reynolds-Alberta Museum in Westaskiwin, Alberta will be hosting it's first annual Metal Art Show and Sale on September 29 and 30, 2012. We're inviting artists who primarily work with metal to display and/or sell their work at our museum during Alberta's Culture Days weekend. For details please visit: www.visualartsalberta.com

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Call for Submissions 2013/14 Gallery Exhibition Programming Submission Deadline: June 30, 2012 Harcourt House Arts Centre is currently accepting submissions for our 2013/2014 gallery exhibition programming for the Main Gallery and Front Room Gallery exhibition spaces. For full submission details please visit www.harcourthouse.ab.ca

HAPPY HARBOR -Call to Artists We are now accepting applications for our next Artist-inResidence position. Term begins September 1st. Please visit our website for full details. www.happyharborcomics.com

Feats Festival A video contest for everyone, Dance Magic Dance is a chance to get moving and win some Feats Festival prizes. Go solo or gather friends and family and film your original choreography. The deadline to enter is Wednesday, July 11th. It's free to enter! To view contest rules and submit your video please visit www.abdancealliance.ca or call 780-422-8107

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SEARCH FOR ARTISTS: The Jeff Allen Art Gallery (JAAG) 10831 University Ave (109st & 78 Ave) The Jeff Allen Art Gallery is presently accepting applications for Exhibits in 2013 and 2014. This is a gallery interested in promoting local talent. It would be an opportunity to have public exposure with minimal costs. Interested Artists call Terrie Shaw at 780-433-5807 for more information or to obtain an application

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): If you play solitaire, your luck will be crazy strong in the coming weeks. If you have candid, wide-ranging talks with yourself in the mirror, the revelations are likely to be as interesting as if you had spoken directly with the river god or the angel of the sunrise. Taking long walks alone could lead to useful surprises, and so would crafting a new declaration of independence for yourself. Please understand that I'm not advising you to be isolated and lonely. I merely want to emphasize the point that you're due for some breakthroughs in your relationship with yourself.

LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): "In purely spiritual matters, God grants all desires," said philosopher and activist Simone Weil. "Those who have less have asked for less." I think this is a worthy hypothesis for you to try out in the next nine months. To be clear: It doesn't necessarily mean you will get a dream job and perfect lover and 10 million dollars. (Although I'm not ruling that out.) What it does suggest is this: You can get all the grace you need to understand why your life is the way it is; you can make tremendous progress as you do the life-long work of liberating yourself from your suffering.

(Apr 20 – May 20): Is there some unique way you express what it means to be human? According to my understanding of the longterm astrological omens, the coming months will be your time to cultivate this specialty with unprecedented intensity; it'll be a window of opportunity to be more practical than ever before in making your signature mark on the world. Between now and your next birthday, I urge you to be persistent in celebrating the one-of-a-kind truth that is your individuality.

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(Aug 23 – Sep 22): A plain old ordinary leap of faith might not be ambitious enough for you in the coming months. I suspect your potential is more robust than that, more primed for audacity. How would you feel about attempting a quantum leap of faith? Here's what I mean by that: a soaring pirouette that sends you flying over the nagging obstacle and up onto higher ground, where the views are breathtakingly vast instead of gruntingly half-vast.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22):

(May 21 – Jun 20): "Message in a bottle" is not just a pirate movie cliche. It's a form of communication that has been used throughout history for serious purposes. England's Queen Elizabeth I even appointed an official "Uncorker of Ocean Bottles." And as recently as 2005, a message in a bottle saved the lives of 88 refugees adrift in the Caribbean Sea on a damaged boat. Glass, it turns out, is an excellent container for carrying sea-born dispatches. It lasts a long time and can even survive hurricanes. In accordance with the astrological omens, I nominate "message in a bottle" to be your metaphor for the rest of 2012. Here's one way to apply this theme: Create a message you'd like to send to the person you will be in five years, perhaps a declaration of what your highest aspirations will be between now and then. Write it on paper and stash it in a bottle. Store this time capsule in a place you won't forget, and open it in 2017. GEMINI

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): Every 10 000 years or so, reports the Weekly World News, hell actually does freeze over. A rare storm brings a massive amount of snow and ice to the infernal regions, and even the Lake of Fire looks like a glacier. I foresee a hell-freezes-over type of event happening for you in the coming months—and I mean that in a good way. The seemingly impossible will become possible; what's lost will be found and what's bent will be made straight. For best results, be ready to shed your expectations at a moment's notice.

"The dream which is not fed with dream disappears," said writer Antonio Porchia. Ain't that the truth! Especially for you right now. These last few months, you've been pretty good at attending to the details of your big dreams. You've taken the practical approach and done the hard work. But beginning any moment, it will be time for you to refresh your big dreams with an infusion of fantasies and brainstorms. You need to return to the source of your excitement and feed it and feed it and feed it. (Oct 23 – Nov 21): A Chinese businessman named Hu Xilin is the champion fly-killer of the world. Ever since one of the buzzing pests offended him at the dinner table back in 1997, he has made it his mission to fight back. He says he has exterminated more than 10 million of the enemy with his patented "Fly Slayer" machine. And oh by the way, his obsession has made him a millionaire. It's possible, that your story during the second half of 2012 will have elements in common with Hu Xilin's. Is there any bad influence you could work to minimize or undo in such a way that it might ultimately earn you perks and prizes—or at least deep satisfaction?

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec 21): From the 14th through the 18th centuries, many towns in England observed a curious custom. If a couple could prove that they had gone a year and a day without ever once being sorry they got married, the two

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of them would receive an award: a side of cured pork, known as a flitch of bacon. Alas, the prize was rarely claimed. If this practice were still in effect, you would have an elevated chance of bringing home the bacon in the coming months. Your ability to create harmony and mutual respect in an intimate relationship will be much higher than usual. CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "If I had my life to live over," said Nadine Stair at age 85, "I would perhaps have more actual problems, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones." I suggest you write out that quote, Capricorn, and keep it close to you for the next six months. Your task, as I see it, will be to train yourself so you can expertly distinguish actual problems from imaginary ones. Part of your work, of course, will be to get in the habit of immediately ejecting any of the imaginary kind the moment you notice them creeping up on you.

(Jan 20 – Feb 18): Astronomer Percival Lowell (18551916) was instrumental in laying the groundwork that led to the discovery of Pluto. He was a

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awkwardness and uncertainty and good sex necessitates some discussion beforehand. It's just not as exciting as being swept off your feet, having all of your desires magically met without ever having to say a word. The reality is that we can never really have that and be safe at the same time, so reading about it is crazy hot. 50 Shades of Grey is not a new thing. These types of books, and even this story, have been around forever. But until now, most of us would never admit to reading them. We would steal them from our mom or older sister's bedside dresser or sneak them into our pile of "legitimate" books at the bookstore checkout. Now you can walk into any Chapters and pick this smutty book up off the front table 50 Shades of Grey display, walk right up to the counter and buy it because everybody's buying it. You can even talk to your friends about it because they've all read it too. The shame is dissolving and I think that, literary merit or not, that is a good thing. V Brenda Kerber is a sexual health educator who has worked with local not-forprofits since 1995. She is the owner of the Edmonton-based, sex-positive adult toy boutique the Traveling Tickle Trunk.

visionary pioneer who helped change our conception of the solar system. But he also put forth a wacky notion or two. Among the most notable: He declared, against a great deal of contrary evidence, that the planet Mars was laced with canals. You have the potential be a bit like him in the coming months, Aquarius: mostly a wellspring of innovation but sometimes a source of errant theories. What can you do to ensure that the errant theories have minimal effect? Be humble and ask for feedback. (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Throughout the 16th century and even beyond, European explorers trekked through the New World hunting for the mythical land of El Dorado: the Lost City of Gold. The precious metal was supposedly so abundant there that it was even used to make children's toys. The quest was ultimately futile, although it led the explorers to stumble upon lesser treasures of practical value—the potato, for example. After being brought over to Europe from South America, it became a staple food. I'm foreseeing a comparable progression in your own world during the coming months: You may not locate the gold, but you'll find the equivalent of the potato. V

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My younger brother and I are close. thing for a while, but said it's really He came out of the closet last year, difficult to meet anyone who he feels although it wasn't much of a surprise a connection with. I've never done because everyone knew he was gay online dating, but I have heard the since forever. Everyone is happy he's same points from others who've tried out because it kind of takes the it. I asked him if he ever goes E elephant out of the room, to gay bars, because that G A SAV and our immediate and exwould obviously change tended family are all really the ratios around, but apm o kly.c uewee supportive. But for the last savagelove@v parently it's a little insenDan six to nine months or so, he's sitive for a straight guy to Savage say that, and he said he's not been really depressed about not ever having had a boyfriend. really into that scene. Anyway, I He's 21 and he's always talking about just wish I could give him some good how he wants to find a boy to be with advice without being unintentionally in a relationship and not just for sex, offensive (the gay bar suggestion). but he says it's impossible for him to I'd still like to offer him any advice meet said boy. I can for him to meet a guy he feels Me being straight, the only advice strongly about. SEEKING ADVICE FOR FAMILY I've ever been able to give him is to just try new things and that way you'll There are 3.5 billion men on the meet new people, as really that's the planet. only advice you can give someone Even if we accept the lowest eduwho's looking to meet a potential cated guesstimate of the percentage partner. My brother, however, framed of the population that's gay—1.7 perhis issue to me in a way I've never recent—that means your brother has ally thought of—which is that only nearly 60 million potential romantic a small fraction of the population is partners to choose from worldwide; gay, and an even smaller fraction of he has 2.5 million potential romantic that may be compatible with him, so partners in the United States alone. meeting new people for a gay guy Other informed guesstimates of the is actually a lot harder than it is for percentage of the population that's straight people. gay are much, much higher—seven or He's been on the whole online dating

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eight times higher—so your brother's odds of finding a partner are probably much better. But let's put that 1.7 percent figure in perspective: Jews represent just 1.7 percent of the population of the United States. So even if the percentage of the population that's gay is "just" 1.7 percent, your brother has the, um, same cross to bear—and the same odds of success—as an American Jew who wants to marry another American Jew. It sounds like your brother is going through a common if rarely discussed stage of the coming-out process: Wallow in Self Pity and Bite the Head Off Anyone Who Tries to Help. That's why he was offended by your perfectly reasonable, not at all offensive suggestion that he get out there and hit some gay bars. Yes, the bars aren't for everyone. But if you're single and want to meet people—gay or straight—you need to be moving on all fronts: online dating, hitting bars and clubs, volunteering, and just generally getting out of the fucking house. Your brother is 21 years old and he just came out, SAFF, and his frustration is understandable. He's been watching his straight peers (and his straight brothers) hook up and fall in love since middle school and he feels anxious to make up for lost time. But he won't find that first boyfriend if he isn't willing to put himself out there—and that means giving the guys he meets online a chance, giving the bars a chance, and giving the people who are trying to help him out a break. My girlfriend of two and a half years and I are ready to move in together. Finally! I am so excited to take this next step, and so is she. The problem is that I work third shift four to five nights a

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week and she works a regular day job. I can't help but feel that we aren't going to get the full experience of living together with our work situations being what they are. I won't be waking up every morning to her saying, "Good morning, beautiful," etc. What can we do to make this a better situation and take advantage of the next step? Thanks. THE NEXT STEP

Here's a tip, TNS: don't spend too much time comparing your actual relationship, which will always be shaped by circumstances not fully in your control (like your work schedules), to your idealized notions about what a romantic relationship should look like. That only ensures constant disappointment. Don't get me wrong: once you move in with your girlfriend, there will be days that begin with her rolling over and saying, "Good morning, beautiful." But there will also be days that begin with your girlfriend rolling over and farting. The trick to loving your LTR is to fully appreciate the moments that rise to the level of your romantic ideals ("Good morning, beautiful") without obsessing about those moments that disappoint (split shifts, ripped farts). Good luck! I'm a guy. I've been with my girlfriend for almost two years. I love her, but in the last year, sex has been an issue. I feel attracted to her, but I find myself easily distracted these days, kind of worried during sex, which has resulted in me either coming super fast or losing my erection altogether. As a result, she does not orgasm at all. It's gotten to the point where I'm afraid to be intimate with her for fear of letting her down. I have gone to see doctors to

try to understand if my medical conditions—severe sleep apnea, elevated blood pressure—might have something to do with it. I'm in treatment for these things and I've started going to a therapist, too. I am thinking of buying some sex toys to use while I work to overcome my problems. My girlfriend doesn't own any, and she says she doesn't masturbate because she tried it once and never came. How do I approach her with the idea of using sex toys during sex? Should I? I just want her to experience an orgasm even if I need to get some extra help from a vibrator. DEVIL IN THE DETAILS

Incorporating some adult toys—vibrators and dildos—into your sex life isn't just a great way to maintain your sexual connection while you work on your physical and mental issues, DITD, it's also a great way to take the pressure off your dick. Performance anxiety and worries about leaving your partner unsatisfied can combine to create a hugely destructive, dick-deflating negative feedback loop. As for your girlfriend… A woman who doesn't masturbate— because she tried it once and it didn't work—has hang-ups, DITD. And a woman with hang-ups is much likelier to forgive a partner for having purchased some sex toys than she is to give a partner her advance permission to go and purchase some sex toys. So find a good local or online sextoy store and buy whatever you think looks like fun. Find the Savage Lovecast (my weekly podcast) every Tuesday at thestranger.com/savage. mail@savagelove.net @fakedansavage on Twitter

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