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Twenty-eight thousand Canadians will lose their jobs next spring. In January of 2011, Target announced it purchased the leasehold rights of up to 220 Zellers stores in Canada. It then sold 39 of those stores to American retail giant Walmart and announced Target would move into 100 – 150 locations by 2013. To the average customer, our shopping routine will likely remain unchanged. There's little difference in the services offered by Target, Walmart and Zellers. And with a recent federal cabinet decision to approve Target's acquisition, there will even be Canadian content on the shelves. Target is required to sell "uniquely Canadian cultural products." But those uniquely Canadian products don't include labour standards. Workers who have been employed by the Canadian retail outlet for over 30 years have been offered no guarantees in this transition. Experienced employees across the country will be asked to reapply for their jobs at a starting wage rate and standards. Recently, 1500 UFCW workers in Ontario ratified a three-year contract which included wage increases and an enhanced severance package in case of store closure. UFCW has launched a campaign to put pressure on the notoriously anti-union Target to employ workers at similar rates and recognize experience. The Target acquisition is not the first time
Zellers has experienced foreign ownership. In 2008 Zellers was sold to New Yorkbased NRDC Equity Partners which continued to operate the stores with the employees, standards and bargaining rights the company had previously created. But this new acquisition will be different, and it comes with the full approval of the Canadian government. The Investment Canada Act gives the Canadian government the ability to have a final say on the entry of an international company. The intent is to ensure the entry of foreign owners will have a net benefit to Canada—a benefit that apparently doesn't include the protection of work standards. The upcoming replacement of Zellers by Target, and in some cases Walmart, is not about protectionism, but should be about protecting Canadian industry and workers. Retail is a difficult job, and more often than not it is not the first choice of any worker, but decent working conditions, fair wages and the ability to improve one's own working environment should be the rights of any worker, and should be a standard we uphold in this country. With the failure of the Harper government to in any way assist Zellers workers and keep their wage and working standards intact, the federal government has shown a distinct lack of regard for Canadian workers' well-being. And that's what we should really be working to protect. V
NEWSROUNDUP BIG GOODBYE Glenn Taylor tendered his resignation as leader of the Alberta Party this week. Taylor has accepted a position with the Town of Hinton, where he was mayor before resigning to take on the leadership position full-time. Taylor's resignation will take effect September 22 at the AGM, where the future of the party will also be decided. The party has not announced any plans for a leadership race as of yet,
BEYOND PIPELINES A diverse coalition has added its voice to the call for a national energy strategy. Blue Green Canada, an alliance of unions and environmentalists encompassing Communications, Energy and Paperworkers and Environmental Defense, took the opportunity presented by the recent Council of the Federation discussion to add to the call for a national energy strategy that moves beyond just talk of oil and pipelines. "We represent workers in the oil in-
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and it's reportedly entertaining the idea of transitioning to a thinktank, while members are also being asked to consider a unity proposal with the Alberta Liberals. A survey will be sent to members this weekend asking for their preference. The Alberta Party ran candidates for the first time in this spring's provincial election. The party captured 1.3 percent of the popular vote, or 17 172 voters with 38 candidates running across the province.
dustry," said Dave Coles, president of the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union (CEP). "But we don't want a narrow energy strategy based on the oil industry alone-because there will be too few jobs and too many emissions." Blue Green Canada includes the United Steelworkers and the Pembina Institute and has worked since 2008 to advocate for a green economy that includes labour issues. "Premier Redford is right about the need for a strategy. We do need an
A new mural on a residential garage in the McCauley neighbourhood. McCauley is participating in the reclaim the lane initiative by the Neighbourhood Empowerment Team, a coalition group working to improve safety and community in neighbourhoods.
energy strategy that cuts emissions, embraces efficiency and gets serious about preparing for a changing world. But she is wrong if she thinks more pipelines and more tar sands are the way to go," says Dr Rick Smith,
executive director of Environmental Defence, The Council of the Federation occurred last weekend and included conversations on a national energy strategy titled “A Shared Vision for
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Energy in Canada,” but conversations were hampered by BC Premier Christy Clark walking out of talks due to the controversial Northern Gateway pipeline proposed between Alberta and BC.
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Political gambit
BC's Premier can't lose with demands on Northern Gateway pipeline Does BC Premier Christy Clark really chief pipeline cheerleader Stephen believe she can get Alberta to cough Harper, would entertain discussions up a larger share of the potential revon the topic with Clark when doing enue from the proposed Northso would force them to acknowlern Gateway Pipeline? Is she edge that her expressed really prepared to block the concerns about the enviCE ronment and First Nations N E R pipeline's approval unless E .com NTERF her government's five con- I ardo@vueweekly communities are legitimate. ric o d r a ditions are met? c i R Acuña Both are good questions, What Ms Clark and her adbut they are ultimately questions visors do understand is that the whose answers don't matter. They Northern Gateway Pipeline is almost don't matter because it is not really universally opposed in British Columabout the pipeline at all for Ms Clark. bia, and that her chief political rival, It's about trying to stop what, from New Democrat leader Adrian Dix has this vantage point appears to be an vowed from the beginning to oppose almost certain defeat of her governthe project fully should he become ment at the hands of the BC New Premier. Democrats in next May's provincial Christy Clark and her Liberal Party election. were in trouble in the polls before Ms Clark is an intelligent woman Northern Gateway became a public surrounded by intelligent advisors. issue. When the issue did hit public There is no way that any of them consciousness, Adrian Dix was quick actually believe that an Alberta govto condemn the project. Ms Clark, on ernment that has, thus far, refused to the other hand, was quick to waffle— ensure its own citizens get a fair share a position she maintained until issuing of oil and gas revenues will enter neher demands of Alberta earlier this gotiations to give British Columbians month. a fair share. She figured out early on that takThey also can't possibly believe that ing a position in favour of the pipethe federal government, headed by line would further hurt her electoral
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and economic interests of British Columbians, all without actually having to come out and publicly oppose the pipeline or Enbridge.
There is no way that any of them actually believe that an Alberta government that has, thus far, refused to ensure its own citizens get a fair share of oil and gas revenues will enter negotiations to give British Columbians a fair share.
Ideologically Christy Clark is probably even more of a pro-corporate anti-regulation right winger than even Ms Redford. She could not, and would not bring herself to actually come out and oppose the project outright or take on Enbridge, the huge oil and gas company behind the project. That would have gone against her beliefs and turned the few supporters she has left, BC's corporate right, against her as well. Instead, in a very creative and strategically brilliant move, she found a way to cater to the opponents of the pipeline and position herself as a vocal defender of the environmental
It doesn't matter at this point if the Alberta government agrees to negotiate or not, or even if the pipeline gets approved or not. All Christy Clark requires is that this battle play out publicly long enough to get her to the provincial election. After that, either Premier Clark will be able to sign off on a deal that helps both her and Ms Redford save face, or her opponent will win and Alberta and Ottawa will have to deal with someone in BC who is genuinely determined to stop the pipeline from happening. All she needs is 10 months, and her strategy will have worked. This political gambit of hers is actu-
ally aided by the fact that the Northern Gateway project may already be on its death bed even without her posturing. Public opposition across the country is growing, affected First Nations have vowed not to let the pipeline pass, and a damning report from the US characterizing Enbridge as Keystone Kops has the company, Redford and Harper all scrambling to show that this pipeline will somehow be different. And even if it's not already dead, it's certainly in enough trouble to all but guarantee that Ms Clark will get the 10 month reprieve she's seeking. In the end, despite the rants and vitriol from Alberta's right and the mainstream media, the only real place that Premier Clark's stunt stands to have any impact is in BC's election next May, and that's the way she wants it. Acknowledging that might help all of us here in Alberta put this circus aside and get back to discussing the real issues affecting our province. V Ricardo Acuña is the executive director of the Parkland Institute, a non-partisan, public policy research institute housed at the University of Alberta.
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Enslaved by taxes
Governments are going after tax-evaders, big and small One of the best tax-avoidance tactics not even include yachts, mansions, in the late Roman Empire was to sell art works and other forms of wealth yourself into slavery. You didn't really held overseas. have to work as somebody's slave, of It doesn't matter. The point is that course—it was more like rock star it's a very large amount of money, Hotblack Desiato being "dead equal to the annual Gross Dofor a year for tax reasons" in mestic Product of both the Douglas Adams' wondrous United States and Japan. confection The Hitch-Hiker's Some of it is the launom eekly.c Guide to the Galaxy—but dered proceeds of crime, w e u v e@ gwynn e n with the legal status of and much of it is money n y Gw r slave, you were exempt from stolen from national bude y D taxation. gets by corrupt national elites Nowadays the legal manipulations (an estimated $306 billion from used to avoid taxation are less draNigeria, $798 billion from Russia, matic, but they are spectacularly ef$1189 billion from China), but most fective. James Henry, former chief is deposited by the respectable sueconomist at business consultancy per-rich of the West. McKinsey and a member of the Henry's report, published in The Obboard of directors of Tax Justice Netserver last weekend, calculates that work, has just published a report, almost half of the minimum estimate The Price of Offshore Revisited, that of $21 trillion is owned by just 92 000 estimates the amount of wealth people, some of whom pay no tax at hidden in tax havens by the superall. A number of very small places rich at a minimum of $21 trillion: ie (Liechtenstein, Cayman Islands, Jer$21 000 000 000 000. sey) and a few larger countries like It might be as much as $32 trillion, Switzerland make a good living by he adds, but greater precision is improviding these secret tax shelters, possible when the whole point of and work very hard to protect their holding money overseas is to keep clients from exposure. it secret. Henry came up with this Back home, the "high net-worth indirange of numbers by sifting through viduals" also enjoy the services of "a data from the Bank for International highly-paid, industrious bevy of proSettlements, the International Monfessional enablers in the private banketary Fund, the World Bank and priing, legal, accounting, and investment vate sector analysts—and it does industries," said Henry. We always sort
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of knew about it; now we know the scale. Information of this sort is dangerous. It annoys those who merely work for a salary or an hourly wage, and whose taxes have to fill the gap created by the defection of the superrich. It might even destabilize the established social order. But the British
the tax authorities) is something that many people reading this article will have done. It is tax avoidance—and since there are a great many more of us than there are of the super-rich, these little private deals do add up to a serious loss of tax revenue. Let him who always insists on a receipt cast the first stone.
But it's clear enough to ordinary people that ultrarich people who avoid taxes on vast sums of money by employing expensive experts to hide their wealth overseas fall into a different category from the electrician who wants to be paid in cash. And hard-pressed governments, desperate for more revenue, are beginning to go after the tax havens.
government, at least, knows how to deal with that sort of thing. Less than 48 hours after Henry's revelations, British politician David Gauke, one of the Treasury ministers, went public with the assertion that the lower orders cheat on their taxes just as much as the rich. "Getting a discount with your plumber by paying cash in hand is something that is a big cost to the revenue and means others must pay more in tax," he said. Well, yes. Paying cash to a tradesman to get a discount (knowing that he will then not report this income to
David Gauke was almost philosophical about it. "Tax avoidance is not a recent problem," he said. "In the fourth century AD, the Roman Emperor Valens had to make it illegal for individuals to sell themselves into slavery to avoid tax. While this particular ruse seems to have fallen out of fashion, there will always be some who seek to shirk their civic duty." But it's clear enough to ordinary people that ultra-rich people who avoid taxes on vast sums of money by employing expensive experts to hide their wealth overseas fall into a dif-
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ferent category from the electrician who wants to be paid in cash. And hard-pressed governments, desperate for more revenue, are beginning to go after the tax havens. Britain has made a deal with the Swiss authorities in which UK residents with undeclared assets in Swiss banks can make a one-off payment to the British Treasury of between 21 and 41 percent on their total assets, clear the slate, and remain anonymous. The Swiss will then levy a withholding tax of 27 to 48 percent on future money going into those accounts, which will also go to Britain. Germany has negotiated a similar deal, although it is still awaiting ratification by the Bundestag. The US government has taken a different tack, demanding that Swiss banks hand over information on thousands of undeclared accounts held by American citizens. The heat is definitely on, and yet ... . Yet while all this was going on, the amount of wealth that is managed by the top 10 private banks, most of it held overseas in secret accounts, has more than doubled in the past five years. 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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LIVING FOODS SUNDAY SUMMER SERIES • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Veggie pulp crackers, not tuna pate, pecan/ leek pate • Aug 12
LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu
MEDITATION • Strathcona Library • meditationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation drop-in; every Tue, 7-8:30pm
EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) •
PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian
Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@yahoo.ca
Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm
EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome
FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St •
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
3728-106 St • 780.458.6352, 780.467.6093 • nawca.ca • Meet every Wed, 6:30pm
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
ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey
G.L.B.T.Q. (GAY) AFRICAN GROUP DROPIN) • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave
SPECIAL EVENTS
• 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
THE EXTREME TOUR–Camrose • Skateboard competition • Aug 15, 5pm (comptetition, Skate Park, 4516-65 St); Aug 15, 5-9pm (downtown concert); Aug 16 (downtown concert); Aug 16 (Main Street Camrose)
G.L.B.T.Q SAGE BOWLING CLUB • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm
A WAKE • Yellowhead Brewery • A traditional
NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,
Nuns Hospital, Rm 0651, 780.451.1755; Group meets every Thu 7-9pm • Free
SHERWOOD PARK WALKING GROUP + 50 • Meet inside Millennium Place, Sherwood Place • Weekly outdoor walking group; starts with a 10 min discussion, followed by a 30-40 minute walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)
SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ATHEISTS • Centennial Rm, (basement) Stanley A. Milner Library • Monthly roundtable 1st Tue each month • edmontonatheists.ca; E: info@edmontonatheists.ca
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 TIBETAN BUDDHIST MEDITATION SOCIETY • Palisades Centre, Jasper • gasamling.ca • Patience: Finding Peace in Everyday Life: Retreat in the Mountains featuring teachings by Kushok Lobsang Dhamchöe • Aug 16-19
VEGETARIANS OF ALBERTA POTLUCK PICNICS AT KINSMEN PARK • Kinsmen Park right next to the playground. There will be a location sign at the park. Bring: a vegan, vegetarian or raw vegan dish to serve at least 6 people plus your own plate, cup, cutlery and serving spoon • Sun, Aug 12, 5:30pm • vofa.ca for possible weather cancellations and pre-potluck sporting events
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 • Strathcona Legion, 9020-51 Ave • Meet every Tue, 7-9pm; helps members develop confidence in public speaking and leadership • Info: T: Antonio Balce at 780.463.5331
LECTURES/PRESENTATIONS COOKING DEMONSTRATIONS WITH CHEF JOHN BERRY • Callingwood Farmers' Market, Marketplace at Callingwood Centre, 69 Ave, 178 St • Creating recipes using fresh ingredients from the Market's vendors • Sun, Aug 12, 11am and 1pm
GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s Anglican Church, 8424-95 Ave • 780.454.6216 • 3rd Mon every month, 7:30pm
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
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
Irish-style celebration of life with live music by Dead Red Pine (indie-folk), and an "estate" auction • Pay-what-you-can; proceeds to Mindhive Collective and Dead Red Pine's Edmonton Fringe Festival production, A Wake and various local artists • Aug 9, 9pm
FAIRY BERRY FESTIVAL • Prairie Gardens Adventure Farm, 56311 Lily Lake Rd, near Bon Accord • Grand opening of the Mindbender and Kids Corn Mazes • Aug 4-6, 11am-5pm GUINNESS WORLD RECORD ATTEMPT IN EDMONTON • Churchill Square • 780.993.9799 • edmontonlatinfestival. com • The Edmonton Latin Festival, Edmontonians come together to break the Guinness World Record ™ for the Largest Zumba Class. Followed by live Latin bands, Spanish dancers, singers • Aug 18, noon, 10am (pre-registration at edmontonlatinfestival.com)
HERITAGE-FESTIVAL • Hawrelak Park • heritage-festival.com • Showcase of Canada’s multicultural heritage, pavilions represent cultures from all over the world • Aug 4-6 • $9.95/family rate: $9.25 per person/ free (child 2 and under)
MEMORIAL OF THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA AND NAGASAKI • Government House Park, near the Peace Pole • ploughsharesedmonton.org • Aug 9, 12-1pm
MISSION HILL DAY • Father Lacombe Chapel Provincial Historic Site, 2 St-Vital Ave, Mission Hill, St Albert • 780.459.7663 • Historic photo display, historic demonstrations, costumed interpreters will guide you throught the chapel, crypt, grotto, and cemetery. A glass of lemonade while you enjoy the view from atop Mission Hill. Crafts and games for children • Aug 12, 12-4pm
G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • The Junction, 10242-106 St • 780.387.3343 • groups.yahoo. com/group/edmonton_illusions • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 8:30pm
INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campus-based organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transidentified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca
JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • junctionedmonton.com • Open Tues-Sat: Community bar with seasonal patio • Beat the clock Tue • WINGSANITY Wed, 5-10pm • Free pool Tue and Wed • Karaoke Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, bear bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm
LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edmlivingpositive.ca • 1.877.975.9448/780.488.5768 • Confidential peer support to people living with HIV • Tue, 7-9pm: Support group • Daily drop-in, peer counselling MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB • geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • 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 and bisexual 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, 6:308:30pm; jess@pridecentreofedmonton.org
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REVUE // FOLKLORIC FEEL
Where the wild things are
Folklore meshes with naturalism in Beasts of the Southern Wild though her ghost speaks to Hushpuppy through an old basketball jersey. Hushpuppy is haunted by visions of collapsing ice caps and giant boars of the Apocalypse crashing through towns. She knows it's the end times, but she's already set her sights on a new beginning. She and Wink and a handful of their friends scoff at the authorities that have apparently forsaken them, focusing instead on creating the world afresh from what they can see and touch.
Sparklers of the Southern Wild
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hether it falls from the sky, rises from below or trickles down a cheek, there is no end to anxiety prompted by water in Beasts of the Southern Wild. This already wildly acclaimed and awarded debut feature from American director and
co-scenarist Ben Zeitlin is set in a marshy lowland called the Bathtub, where boisterous survivors of some disaster, all poor or working class to begin with, make do with what meager supplies they can access (which apparently includes a lot of beer). Echoes of Katrina ripple unambiguously though the film, but the voice we hear reflecting upon all this chaos is that of a girl too young to even remember the hurricane that ate
Louisiana. Her name is Hushpuppy (Quvenzhané Wallis) and at six, she's already fierce and resourceful in her dirty white rubber boots, water wings and fecund mane. "I'm recording my story for the scientists of the future," she tells us. Her father Wink (Dwight Henry) is awfully sick with something or other, usually drunk and at least half-crazy. At his most Quixote-like, he attacks a nocturnal storm with shotgun. Her mother's long-gone,
The solidarity between blacks and white, adults and children, the cultivated naiveté and the quietly epic quality to this narrative about a weary father and his progeny traversing a dying landscape tempt one to sum up Beasts of the Southern Wild as George Washington meets The Road, though the mash-up comparison doesn't do favours for any of the works in question. To Zeitlin's credit, this film has its own singular ambitions, and frankly lacks the very different sorts of funk and esthetic rigour of either of its noted cinematic kin. It has an amazing sequence in which four little girls are welcomed into a floating brothel. It's like something out of Apocalypse Now. Or maybe The Odyssey, but
REVUE // DANCE
Flamenco Flamenco Dancing on their own in Flamenco Flamenco
Fri, Aug 3 – Thu, Aug 9 Directed by Carlos Saura Metro Cinema at the Garneau
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lamenco Flamenco, the latest from Spanish director Carlos Saura, a sequel of sorts to his 1995 film Flamenco, though it's just one of many Saura projects grounded in the great Andalusian style of music and dance, was made entirely within the confines of a theatre, though there is no audience to witness the film's 21 performances, only the
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battalion of now-gliding, now-static cameras led by Italian cinematographer Vittorio Storaro (who, coincidentally, is highlighted in the newest installments of The Story of Film, which Metro Cinema is also screening this week). The film is unburdened by commentary or explanation; it's all performance, which serves as its own kind of context: the history is in the art itself. Over the course of Flamenco Flamenco, we see the same gestures emerge from very different bodies with different stories to tell; we hear the same musical motifs emerge from different instruments, different hands, different voices. The film's diverse interpreters convey something of the scope of flamenco's variations on grief, longing and celebration. What's never lacking is intensity; again and again we hear the anguished, protracted, undulating vowels drawn from the viscera of some singer whose face strains and gushes; we hear the collective cries of the chorus; we see torsos expand and then whither, hips and heels prance percussively, long limbs strike poses of fortitude in times of loss. And of course we see a lot of men with fluffy mullets or long flingy curls encrusted
with too much hair product. That's just how these guys roll. What's disappointing in Flamenco Flamenco rarely has anything to do with the performances; it's a matter of how little Saura and his fellow filmmakers bring to the proceedings. Carmen and Blood Wedding, Saura's flamenco-drenched adaptations of the early 1980s, juxtaposed duration and a bold use of space against the fiery choreography in far more integral, riveting ways than what we find here, in this film that employs corny painted backdrops of landscapes and rainbows, and is often covered and edited in a manner that feels awfully close to the most conventional sort of adult contemporary music video. The are exceptions to this approach—during one piece performed under artificial rain, the camera stays very close to the dancer's front, as though trying to console her, while nearby a singer keeps asking someone to sleep in his arms—but not enough to make Flamenco Flamenco feel like an especially relevant chapter in Saura's career. JOSEF BRAUN
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there are also many scenes that feel oddly schematic and yet somehow directionless. Zeitlin was raised by folklorists, and balancing folklore with naturalism is a trick that can stump more experienced filmmakers. Beasts of the Southern Wild is at once extraordinary and sort of disappointing. Extraordinary because it brings myth, colour and adventure, even to a woefully neglected region and people of the United States, and a shared trauma still so fresh in our memory. Disappointing because its overbearing score (co-composed by Zeitlin) is so determined to not let five minutes pass without a flood of stoic uplift, because Wallis' angry pout gradually pushes the limits of precociousness, while Henry's blustery performance just pushes period (I like both actors very much, but they're too often hitting the same note); because a story such as this one, shaped around a child's experience, should leave more room for wonder and retain a more heightened sensitivity to nature and accident. I don't mean to rain on Zeitlin's well-earned parade, it's just that, like Hushpuppy, I can imagine bigger and better things a-coming. JOSEF BRAUN
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REVUE // OLD YOUNG
Neil Young Journeys Old man, take a look at your life ...
Fri, Aug 3 – Wed, Aug 8 Directed by Jonathan Demme Metro Cinema at the Garneau
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eil Young Journeys is both a concert movie and a road movie, alternating between the controlled environment of the stage and spontaneity of the open air, with countryside and small towns gliding past the windows of a moving automobile, prompting
memories that in turn prompt music cues. The film shifts between pleasingly unfussy coverage of a pair of Neil Young's intimate 2011 solo performances at Massey Hall and Young's journey in a Crown Victoria from Omemee (" ... a town in North Ontario..."), where he spent part of his childhood, to Toronto for the big shows. Along the way are amusing recollections of youth, like the story about the kid named Goof who gave Young a nickel to eat tar or
tell an old lady she had a fat ass, some very pretty scenery and Young's confession that, despite his career-long obsession with cutting edge technology and maximum sound quality, the car, with its tinny speakers and ambient highway roar, is still his preferred place to listen to music. Given the nature of his subject, more often than not director Jonathan Demme smartly opts to let his camera linger on images of the
elder singer-songwriter/guitarist/ noise guru/genre-hopper in media res, rather than try to impose excitement through a lot of needless cutting. So we get extended shots of Young's little beak of an upper lip perched on the edge of his harmonica, or, just as memorably, Young's face as seen through a psychedelically lit gob of spit clinging to his microphone microcam. The songs are mainly drawn from two sources: Young's recent Daniel Lanois-produced Le Noise, a brooding, skeletal shadow-racket, and from his major breakthrough period of 40 years ago, the era of Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Young's first recording with Crazy Horse, After the Gold Rush, his gorgeous soundtrack for a movie never made, and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's Deja Vu. As recordings the recent material and the older material couldn't sound more different, but the very particular sonic renderings Young prepared for the Massey shows make them all feel very much of a piece. Young's beloved murder ballad "Down By the River" ends with a wonderfully spooky and hushed "There is no reason for you to hide ... " There's a stirring rendition of "After the Gold Rush" performed on pump organ and harmonica, and an industrial-strength "Ohio" on a Les Paul. The show ends with a terrifi-
REVUE // FILM ON FILM
The Story of Film (Episodes 9 & 10) Sun, Aug 5 – Wed, Aug 8 Directed by Mark Cousins Metro Cinema at the Garneau
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pisodes nine and 10 of The Story of Film, Mark Cousins' chronicle of innovation and diversification in movies, immerse us in that beloved decade of widespread cinematic greatness: the 1970s. How great was it? These episodes, one devoted entirely to the New Hollywood, unleash a battery of reasons to believe in that golden time that may never again be matched. Cousins proposes that the movie brats can be classified thusly: there are satirists (Buck Henry, Robert Altman), dissidents (Dennis Hopper, Robert Altman), and assimilationists (Peter Bogdanovich, Sam Peckinpah, Francis Ford Coppola, Terence Malick). I don't really buy these categories. I have an especially hard time thinking of the mysterious, hugely ambitious, hugely personal Malick, who made Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978), as someone who was mainly renewing old genres and styles, though I appreciate how Cousins aligns Malick's poetics to those of DW Griffith, and I was happy to see Altman occupy a couple of different camps.
What's useful about these categories is how they break down the dominant themes of the post-classical American 1970s into social commentary that thrived on the erosion of long-held taboos and genre revisionism as historical revisionism, ie: McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971), Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) or Chinatown (1974). Martin Scorsese is, of course, all over episode nine, with multiple nods to Taxi Driver (1976), its screenwriter Paul Schrader, and Schrader's own development as director—though those familiar with Schrader's work may be surprised to hear Cousins declare Light Sleeper (1992) to be his masterpiece. Cousins is careful to emphasize that for all the triumphs of the New Hollywood, American movies in the '70s were nonetheless slow to embrace colour, ethnicity and women. So what a delight to see African-American filmmaker Charles Burnett and his masterful Killer of Sheep (1977) get such prolonged attention in episode nine. Which serves as a nice segue into episode 10, which will gradually bring us back to Africa, and introduce the socalled "third cinema" as exemplified by Senegalese filmmakers Djibril Diop Mambéty and Safi Faye, and to Latin
America, where Cousins acknowledges the milestones made by Patricio Guzmán and Alejandro Jodorowsky. But even when looking beyond the US, many of the peaks of the '70s remain within the borders of the long-established national cinemas, Germany's most especially, where the generation whose parents voted for or at least tolerated Hitler would use the movies to renovate their national identity. It's there that we meet Wim Wenders, Werner Herzog ("the most important landscape filmmaker since John Ford"), Margarethe von Trotta and the rigorously radical and insanely prolific RW Fassbinder. Cousins also pays homage to the iconoclastic documentaries of Japan's Kazuo Hara, to England's Nicolas Roeg— of whose Performance (1970) Cousins says, "if any movie in the story of film should be compulsory viewing for filmmakers, maybe this is it"—and to Italy's Bernardo Bertolucci, who made two masterpieces (The Spider's Stratagem, The Conformist) in 1970 alone. Bertolucci tells a wonderful anecdote about a café meeting with Jean-Luc Godard, who said not a word but gave Bertolucci a postcard of Mao with a venomous comment regarding The Conformist's fatal concessions to bourgeois beauty written on the back. Cinematic beauty as political statement? It was in the '70s that the medium's battle-lines were most clearly drawn. JOSEF BRAUN
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cally twisting feedback-operatic version of Le Noise's "Walk With Me." But among the newer material the song that made the biggest impression on me was "You Never Call"—a song that cries out to be covered by Willie Nelson—in which Young repeats a line that evokes death as "the ultimate vacation with no back pain," and spots a dead friend's car in the parking lot outside a hockey game. Following 2006's Neil Young: Heart of Gold and 2009's Neil Young Trunk Show, Neil Young Journeys marks project number three between Demme and Young. (Actually three and a half, if you count 1994's The Complex Sessions, a 30-minute document of the recording of Young and Crazy Horse's excellent Sleeps With Angels.) Theirs is an ideal collaboration, one founded in mutual respect and an understanding of how sound and image can collide meaningfully and heighten our sense of how the music whispers its way into being or rumbles to life. Here's hoping they continue to find fresh ways of interacting and of tracking Young's graceful slide into those golden years he's been writing about since he was a young man. "24 and there's so much more ... " JOSEF BRAUN
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THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 3D (PG violence,
passes DAILY 1:50, 4:40, 7:30, 10:15
2:00, 2:30, 3:00, 5:30, 6:00, 6:30, 9:15, 9:45, 10:15; TUE, THU 1:00, 2:00, 5:30, 5:50, 6:30, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00; WED 1:00, 2:00, 5:30, 5:50, 9:00, 9:30, 10:00; ULTRAAVX: FRIMON 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:45; TUE-THU 2:30, 7:00, 10:30
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) Ultraavx, No passes
FRI-MON 11:45, 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45; TUE-THU 2:20, 5:10, 8:00, 10:45
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content,
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 2:10, 5:00, 7:45, 10:35
nudity, substance abuse) FRI-MON 11:35, 2:10, 5:00, 7:50, 10:25; TUE 1:55, 4:35, 10:35; WED-THU 1:55, 4:45, 7:25, 10:35
SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, sub-
stance abuse) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 4:30, 10:10
SESAME STREET PRESENTS: FOLLOW THAT BIRD (STC) SAT 11:00
THE CAMPAIGN (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) No passes THU 10:00
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 12:45, 3:10, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40; TUE-THU 12:50, 3:20, 5:40, 8:10, 10:40 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID DOG DAYS (G) Closed
Captioned, No passes FRI-MON 12:30, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:00; TUE-THU 12:45, 3:00, 5:05, 7:35, 9:50
HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Closed Captioned, No passes
TUE, THU 2:00, 4:30, 7:10, 9:40; WED 4:30, 7:10, 9:40; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00
STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Closed Captioned
Cineplex Odeon Windermere & Vip Cinemas, 6151 Currents Dr Nw Edmonton 780.822.4250
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frighten-
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Closed Cap-
tioned FRI-MON 12:30; TUE-THU 1:20; 3D: FRI-MON 2:50, 5:30, 7:55; TUE-THU 3:50, 6:30
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) VIP 18+: No passes
DAILY 1:20, 3:50, 7:15, 9:45
FRI-MON 2:30, 6:30, 10:30; TUE-THU 3:00, 6:30, 10:30; ULTRAAVX: DAILY 1:00, 4:00, 7:20, 10:10
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) DAILY 1:15, 4:45,
8:30; FRI-MON 12:00, 2:00, 3:30, 5:30, 7:00, 9:10, 10:30; TUE-THU 2:45, 5:30, 6:30, 9:10, 10:00
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Cap-
tioned FRI-MON 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:10; TUE-THU 1:30, 4:10, 6:40, 9:10
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual content, nudity, substance abuse) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 1:40, 7:35
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) Closed
Captioned FRI-MON 12:40, 3:40, 6:30, 9:10; TUE-THU 1:40, 4:30, 7:00, 9:30
SESAME STREET PRESENTS: FOLLOW THAT BIRD (STC) SAT 11:00
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID DOG DAYS (G) Closed
CINEPLEX ODEON SOUTH
Captioned, No passes FRI-MON 12:20, 3:00, 5:20, 7:40, 10:00; TUE-THU 1:50, 4:40, 7:10, 9:40
1525-99 St 780.436.8585
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) FRI-MON 6:40, 9:50; TUE 6:35, 9:45; WED-THU 12:55; 3D: FRI-MON 1:00, 4:45, 8:00, 11:00; TUE 12:55, 4:05, 7:10, 10:15; WED-THU 4:05, 7:10, 10:15
STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 10:30; TUE-THU 9:00
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) FRI-MON 12:00,
3:30, 7:00, 10:40; TUE-THU 2:30, 6:50, 10:20; FRI-MON 1:30, 5:10, 9:00; TUE-THU 1:10, 4:50, 8:30; VIP 18+: FRIMON 12:30, 1:30, 4:30, 5:30, 8:30, 9:30; TUE-WED 1:00, 2:00, 4:45, 5:45, 8:30, 9:30; THU 1:00, 2:00, 4:45, 5:45, 9:30
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED (G) FRI-MON 11:45; TUE-THU 12:35, 3:00
BRAVE (G) FRI-MON 11:25, 1:55, 4:20, 7:25, 9:55; TUEWED 1:40, 4:10, 7:05, 9:35; THU 1:40, 4:10, 7:05
CITY CENTRE 9
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) FRI-MON 11:10,
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) Closed Captioned
1:35, 4:05; TUE 1:25, 3:55; WED-THU 2:05; 3D: FRI-MON 11:50, 2:20, 4:50, 7:45, 10:20; TUE 2:05, 4:35, 7:35, 10:00; WED-THU 4:35, 7:35, 10:00
SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) FRI-MON 12:30, 4:00; TUE-THU 12:50, 3:45
FRI-WED 1:30, 3:00, 6:15, 8:00, 10:00; THU 1:30, 3:00, 6:15, 8:00, 9:55
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) Closed
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN 3D (PG violence,
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) No passes FRI-MON
11:00, 12:40, 1:45, 3:45, 4:45, 6:45, 7:50, 10:00, 10:45; TUEWED 12:45, 1:25, 4:00, 4:25, 7:20, 7:30, 10:10, 10:40; THU 1:25, 4:00, 4:25, 7:20, 7:30, 10:10, 10:40; Star & Strollers Screening: THU 1:00
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) FRI, SUN-
MON 11:55, 2:55, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40; SAT 2:55, 5:35, 8:10, 10:40; TUE-THU 1:45, 4:55, 8:05, 10:45
frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned, Digital 3d DAILY 2:00, 6:30, 9:40
TO ROME WITH LOVE (PG language may offend, not recommended for young children) Digital FRI-TUE 1:35, 4:20, 7:10, 9:55; WED-THU 1:35, 4:20, 7:10 TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed
SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, sub-
stance abuse) FRI-MON 7:15, 10:35; TUE-THU 6:55, 10:05
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) FRI-MON
Captioned, Digital FRI-TUE, THU 2:05, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15; WED 2:05, 10:15
THE INTOUCHABLES (14A) Digital Presentation,
French Version FRI-TUE 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:00; WED 10:00; THU 10:05
12:50, 3:15, 5:45, 8:20, 10:55; TUE-THU 1:10, 3:50, 7:15, 9:50
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID DOG DAYS (G) No passes
content) No passes THU 10:00
MON 1:40
MARLEY (PG substance abuse) SAT 2:00; MON 8:45
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (G) Digital 3d
THE STORY OF FILM; AN ODYSSEY– PARTS 9 & 10 (STC) SUN 4:30; WED 7:00
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) Digital FRI,
THE BIG LEBOWSKI (14A coarse language, substance abuse) SUN 10:00
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID DOG DAYS (G) Digital
IMAGES FILM FEST ACROSS CANADA: 25TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR (STC) RADICAL RECESS:
DAILY 4:10, 6:30, 8:50
TUE-THU 4:15, 7:05, 9:35; SAT-MON 1:45, 4:15, 7:05, 9:35 FRI, TUE-THU 4:15, 6:40, 9:10; SAT-MON 1:50, 4:15, 6:40, 9:10
HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Digital WED-THU 3:50, 6:45, 9:25
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) Digital, No passes FRI,
TUE-THU 4:00, 6:50, 9:35; SAT-MON 1:10, 4:00, 6:50, 9:35
THE CAMPAIGN (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Digital, Sneak Preview, No passes THU 10:00
GALAXY–SHERWOOD PARK 2020 Sherwood Dr Sherwood Park 780.416.0150
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frighten-
MON 2:00; A LETTER TO THE LIVING: TUE 7:00
EMPIRE THEATRES–SPRUCE GROVE 130 Century Crossing Spruce Grove 780.962.2332
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) Digital
FRI-TUE 12:45, 3:00, 7:15, 10:00; WED-THU 3:00, 7:15, 10:00
HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Digital WED-THU 3:30, 6:20, 9:30
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital FRI-TUE 12:30, 3:30, 6:20, 9:30
ing scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 1:10; TUE-THU 4:10; 3D: FRI-MON 4:10, 7:10, 10:10; TUE-THU 7:10, 10:10
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Digital
BRAVE (G) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN-MON 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15; SAT 11:10, 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15; TUE 2:15, 4:45, 7:15, 9:45
DAILY 3:50, 7:00, 9:15
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) FRI, SUN-THU 2:10; SAT 11:50, 2:10; 3D: DAILY 4:30, 6:50, 9:20
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned, No passes FRI, SUN-THU 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15; SAT 11:10, 2:00, 4:45, 7:30, 10:15
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Captioned FRI 2:05, 4:40, 7:20, 9:50; Sat 11:35, 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50; SUN-MON 2:05, 4:40, 7:15, 9:50; TUE-WED 2:05, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40; THU 2:05, 4:35, 7:05 THE CAMPAIGN (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) No passes THU 10:00
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) Closed Cap-
tioned FRI, SUN-THU 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05; Sat 12:25, 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:05
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID DOG DAYS (G) Closed Captioned, No passes FRI-MON 12:55, 3:15, 5:35, 7:55, 10:15; TUE-THU 2:40, 5:05, 7:25, 9:50 HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Closed Captioned, No passes WED-THU 1:55, 4:20, 6:45, 9:10 STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Closed Captioned FRI, SUN-THU 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:30; SAT 11:40, 2:10, 4:35, 7:00, 9:30 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A)
Closed Captioned FRI, SUN-THU 3:00, 3:50, 6:30, 7:20, 10:00; SAT 11:30, 12:20, 3:00, 3:50, 6:30, 7:20, 10:00
SESAME STREET PRESENTS: FOLLOW THAT BIRD (STC) SAT 11:00
GRANDIN THEATRE–ST ALBERT Grandin Mall Sir Winston Churchill Ave St Albert 780.458.9822
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) DAILY 2:50, 8:05 TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) DAILY 8:55
FRI-TUE 12:10
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT 3D (G) Reald 3d
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) Digital FRI-TUE 12:15, 3:15, 6:40, 9:45; WED-THU 3:15, 6:40, 9:45 THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) Digital FRI-TUE 1:00, 2:45, 7:30, 8:45; WED-THU 4:00, 7:30, 8:45 DIARY OF A WIMPY KID DOG DAYS (G) Digital FRI-TUE 1:20, 3:40, 6:50, 9:00; WED-THU 3:40, 6:50, 9:00
PRINCESS 10337-82 Ave 780.433.0728
THE BEST EXOTIC MARIGOLD HOTEL (PG
coarse language) FRI 6:50, 9:10; SAT-MON 2:00, 6:50, 9:10; TUE-THU 6:50, 9:10
BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD (PG mature subject matter, disturbing content) FRI 7:00, 9:00; SAT-MON 2:30, 7:00, 9:00; TUE-THU 7:00, 9:00
SCOTIABANK THEATRE WEM WEM 8882-170 St 780.444.2400
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) DAILY 12:45; 3D: DAILY 4:00, 7:15, 10:20
BRAVE (G) Closed Captioned FRI-WED 1:20, 4:20, 7:10, 9:40; THU 1:20, 4:20, 7:10 ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) Closed
Captioned DAILY 12:20; 3D: DAILY 2:50, 5:15, 7:40, 10:10
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned,
No passes DAILY 12:50, 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; ULTRAAVX: DAILY 1:50, 4:50, 7:50, 10:45
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:40, 3:10, 5:40, 8:15, 10:45 SAVAGES (18A sexual content, brutal violence, substance abuse) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE 4:10, 10:15
THE CAMPAIGN (14A coarse language, crude
STEP-UP REVOLUTION (PG) DAILY 12:50, 6:10
sexual content) No passes THU 10:00
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) DAILY 1:00,
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) Closed
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) No passes
Captioned FRI-TUE, THU 12:30, 3:00, 5:30, 8:00, 10:40; WED 5:30, 8:00, 10:40; Star & Strollers Screening: WED 1:00
3:00, 4:55, 6:55 DAILY 1:05, 3:05, 5:05, 7:05, 9:10
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID DOG DAYS (G) No
DIARY OF A WIMPY KID: DOG DAYS (G) No
WED 1:55, 4:35, 7:25, 10:05; THU 1:55, 4:35, 7:25
passes DAILY 1:25, 3:25, 5:25, 7:25, 9:15
passes DAILY 12:10, 2:40, 5:10, 7:45, 10:15
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) Closed Captioned, Dolby Stereo Digital, Digital, No passes DAILY 1:40, 4:30, 7:20, 10:10
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) No passes DAILY 1:35,
STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Closed Captioned DAILY 12:00, 2:30, 5:00, 7:30, 10:30
STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Digital 3d FRI-
MADAGASCAR 3: EUROPE'S MOST WANTED
FRI-MON 11:20, 1:50, 4:35, 7:05, 9:40; TUE-THU 1:05, 3:35, 6:50, 9:15
10200-102 Ave 780.421.7020
Captioned, Digital, Dolby Stereo Digital DAILY 1:50, 4:40, 7:45, 10:20
THE CAMPAIGN (14A coarse language, crude sexual
BRAVE (G) Closed Captioned FRI-WED 1:45, 4:15,
CINEPLEX ODEON WINDERMERE CINEMAS
ing scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 12:30; TUE-THU 1:20; 3D: FRI-MON 3:50, 6:50, 9:50; TUE-THU 4:20, 7:30, 10:30
frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Closed Captioned DAILY 1:00, 4:00, 7:10, 10:20 (G) Closed Captioned FRI-MON 11:45; TUE-THU 1:30
7:40, 10:40; THU 2:00, 4:40, 7:40, 10:20
Cinema: KIDS FREE all ages SAT 12:00
HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Closed Captioned, Digital
Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital WED-THU 1:45, 4:25, 7:15, 10:10
THE CAMPAIGN (14A coarse language, crude sexual content) Digital Presentation, Dolby Stereo Digital, No passes THU 10:00
CLAREVIEW 10 4211-139 Ave 780.472.7600
THE AMAZING SPIDERMAN (PG violence, frightening scenes, not recommended for young children) Digital DAILY 3:30, 6:30, 9:30
BRAVE (G) Digital FRI, TUE 3:50, 6:45; SAT-MON 1:20, 3:50, 6:45
TED (18A crude content, substance abuse) Digital FRI,
TUE-THU 4:20, 6:35, 9:20; SAT-MON 1:30, 4:20, 6:35, 9:20
STEP UP REVOLUTION 3D (PG) Digital 3d FRI,
TUE-WED 4:10, 6:40, 9:15; SAT-MON 1:40, 4:10, 6:40, 9:15; THU 4:10, 6:40
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) Digital FRI, TUE
4:00, 6:40, 9:00
LEDUC CINEMAS 4702-50 St Leduc 780.986-2728
HOPE SPRINGS (14A) Closed Captioned, No passes WED-THU 1:10, 4:10, 7:20, 10:15
3:40, 7:10, 9:40
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) DAILY 1:00, 4:40, 8:30; FRI-WED 2:00, 6:30, 10:00; THU 2:00, 10:00
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) DAILY 2D: 1:10;
MAGIC MIKE (14A coarse language, sexual
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) DAILY 1:10,
DAILY 3D: 3:30, 7:10, 9:30; TUE 2D: 7:10; TUE 3D: 9:30; FRI-MON, WED-THU 3:30, 7:10, 9:30
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) DAILY 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:10
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) DAILY 1:00, 3:35, 7:00, 9:35
METRO CINEMA AT THE GARNEAU Metro at the Garneau: 8712-109 St 780.425.9212
NEIL YOUNG JOURNEYS (PG coarse language) FRI, SUN, MON 7:00; SAT 4:00, 9:00; WED 9:15; THU 9:00
FLAMENCO, FLAMENCO (STC) Sub-titled.
FRI, TUE 9:00; SAT, THU 7:00; SUN 2:00; MON 4:00
THE ROOM (14A nudity, sexual content) FRI 11:00 THE LAND BEFORE TIME (STC) Reel Family
content, nudity, substance abuse) Closed Captioned FRI-TUE 1:10, 7:20
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES: THE IMAX EXPERIENCE (14A) DAILY 12:00, 3:30, 7:00, 10:30
WETASKIWIN CINEMAS Wetaskiwin 780.352.3922
THE WATCH (18A crude sexual content) DAILY 1:10, 3:40, 7:10, 9:40
ICE AGE: CONTINENTAL DRIFT (G) DAILY 2D:
1:10; DAILY 3D: 3:30, 7:10, 9:30; TUE 2D: 7:10; TUE 3D: 9:30
THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (14A) DAILY 12:00, 3:20, 6:40, 10:10
TOTAL RECALL (14A violence) DAILY 1:00, 3:35,
7:00, 9:35
12 FILM
VUEWEEKLY AUGUST 2 – AUGUST 8, 2012
ARTS
REVUE // VISUAL ARTS
Of dirt and dreams
Dirt City | Dream City engages artists with a community on the verge of change
Can I get a hand here?
Until Thu, Aug 30 Dirt City | Dream City Jasper Avenue, 95 – 96 St full schedule available at dirtcitydreamcity.ca
A
fter eons of stasis, Edmonton's downtown is in flux, struggling
to make up for lost time and woefully delayed infrastructure and urban design upgrades. While it is hopeful and positive change for this town, no action is without consequences. Revitalization goes hand in hand with gentrification. The Edmonton Arts Council's public, outdoor exhibition curated by
New York artist and curator Kendal Henry, Dirt City | Dream City encouraged an art-facilitated exploration of a community on the verge of change. The Quarters, the new moniker given to a section of the Boyle McCauley neighbourhood around Jasper Avenue and 95th and 96th Streets, is intended
to support a beautiful, historic, central area plagued with crime and homelessness to a large population of Edmonton's most disenfranchised. The selection of work created by 15 local artists especially for the project all told a story about this troubled, yet important relationship between the outsider artist and the neighbourhood's residents. Nickelas "Smokey" Johnson's giant red wooden hand, which had bones protruding from its severed wrist, proved to be a poignant and accessible gift to the neighbourhood. Speaking to issues of displacement and violence, the work also managed to be a humble, welcoming gesture, its upturned palm being used as a resting place for neighbours and passers-by every time I saw it. The true success of the artworks in the show can be measured by how they were taken up by community members, but were also important modes of communication about the area for outsider art goers. Aaron Paquette's teepee
and site for rest and healing, as well as Jes McCoy's interactive sculptures and failing obstacle course, had interactivity that was also actively taken up by the neighbourhood. It was great to see local artists successfully grappling with these challenging relationships, and proving that contemporary art can be for everyone. The exhibition proved that art can uniquely facilitate connection and understanding. What remains troubling is that this project is the initial phase of redevelopment that will inevitably uproot some of our city's most vulnerable populations. Although artists often end up being placed as change agents who lead renaissances in rough neighbourhoods that result in pushing those in poverty further to the margins, let's hope that the revitalization is as selfaware and focused on respecting existing neighbours as the bulk of this unique and timely art exhibition is.
Still, at least part of me sympathizes when he shows genuine embarrassment at owning no books translated from either Montenegrin or Macedonian. And his comparison of a library to an invasive climbing plant—"The gardener, unless he willing to chop it down, can only indicate the direction he wants it to take"—is lovely. Eventually, Bonnet cops to the real
reason he can't justify, in this book or in any book, owning twice as many titles as Jules Verne had leagues: he just likes them. He likes looking at them, and he likes flipping through them. His library, he says, feels like a snug little second womb. "As you see, it is not always a rational matter."
CAROLYN JERVIS
// CAROLYN@VUEWEEKLY.COM
REVUE // BOOKS
Phantoms on the Bookshelves Now Available By Jacques Bonnet Translated from the French by Sian Reynolds Overlook 144 pp, $19
ing out loud—could there possibly be less of an onus to make a convincing argument? Every single person who picks this up is already onboard. It's not a case of preaching to the choir so much as to other ministers.
T
he number is staggering, but it doesn't come from the author himself. You can get a clue from the title of the first chapter in Jacques Bonnet's memoir/ode to hoarding: "Tens of Thousands of Books." And you can get another from the photo on the back cover, which shows a garage—presumably Bonnet's—crammed to the ceiling with overloaded bookshelves, a neglected-looking ping-pong table sitting in the middle. Maybe Bonnet is too humble to get specific. Maybe he's embarrassed. Either way, only James Salter, in his introduction, gives us even a ballpark figure of exactly how many books his friend owns: 40 000 and climbing. This is obviously impressive, in a way. But here's a thought I kept returning to during the 36 hours it took me to zip through Phantoms on the Bookshelves: given the subject matter (greedily acquiring more books than you can ever read), the format (a book), and the audience (other ardent readers)—not to mention the fact that it was written in French, for cry-
And it turns out that, actually, no, Bonnet—an author, publisher and translator—doesn't feel the need to do much in the way of justification. He speaks about the quasi-religious power of having so many books close at hand, and does some of the usual anti-technology, kids-today grumbling. He describes his own collection as a working library, "the kind where you don't hesitate to write on your books, or read them in the bath." Several
chapters are devoted to principles of organization, as well as one satisfying (but loving) invective against the scam that is art books: misshapen, obscenely expensive and almost never reprinted. But mostly what Bonnet does here is revel in the majesty of his own collection, in the process dispensing a bunch of charming historical anecdotes about libraries and books in general. He lists all the books he can think of in which libraries play a main role. And, best of all, he throws around recommendations like so many bread crumbs. (Personally, I'll be tracking down Carlos Maria Dominguez's The Paper House, Jules Renard's The Scrounger, and, since it just keeps coming up, Elias Canetti's Auto-da-fé.) As for celebrating Bonnet's bibliomania, well, I can't quite go that far. Considering how little opposition this book is going to receive, I feel it's my duty to dig my heels in a bit. Sometimes I think I'm one of the very few readers who doesn't aspire to an extreme library: I don't want to be crushed to death by columns of old paperbacks, and I also don't want the eerily minimalist lifestyle of someone who reads only ebooks. I like keeping my favourites at hand, but it also feels liberating as all hell to give the lesser stuff away. I recommend Bonnet try it sometime.
ARTIFACTS ETS Historical Transit Tours (Thu, Aug 2; Sat, Aug 4) For a 13th year, the city of Edmonton is running historical bus tours with local historian Doug Cowan offering running commentary on the history of Edmonton along its route—all on a vintage bus, no less. All tours depart from the north side of City Hall, bus stop number 1123. (City Hall, $5) Quidam / Wed, Aug 8 – Sun, Aug 12 The bodily wizards over at Cirque Du Soleil make their yearly return to town with Quidam. The loose plot charts a bored young girl's escape into the titular world of imagination from the significantly grey-er one she lives in with her parents, but the plotting in Cirque shows is
VUEWEEKLY AUGUST 2 – AUGUST 8, 2012
MICHAEL HINGSTON
// MICHAEL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
PAUL BLINOV
// PAUL@VUEWEEKLY.COM
always simply an excuse to string together incredible, dynamic circus acts. In particular, Quidam features the German wheel, Spanish Webs, Aerial Hoops, andthe Chinese yoyo—better known as "The diabolo." (Rexall Place, $54 – $116) CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize Winner The grand prize winners of the CBC Creative Nonfiction Prize were announced last week, with Toronto's Hilary Dean winning the English prize for her work Holy Bald-Headed, taken from her as-of-yet-unifinished memoir about mental illness and recovery. In addition to a sizeable cash purse, the win brings her into Alberta for a two-week writing residency at the Banff Centre.
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ARTS WEEKLY Camrose • 780.672.5510 • baileytheatre.com • The Bailey Theatre presents: Wild, Wild West: after the parade enjoy a free family matinée; Aug 2, 2pm • Blue Hawaii; Aug 6, 7pm • $5 (door) • Cabaret, recommended for mature audiences; Aug 13, 7pm; $5 (door)
• BENTS CUP PROJECT: Cathy Terepocki’s ceramic “souvenirs”; Sep 15-Oct 20 • Feature Gallery: SHIFT: a transformative state of mind: Artwork by the ACAD fourth year metal program students; until Sep 29 • NEGOTIATING TRADITIONS: Different approaches to tapestry by former students of Jane Kidd • TRANSLATIONS: Jane Kidd's recent tapestries; until Sep 29 • TRANSLATIONS: Jane Kidd's recent tapestry work; untl Sep 29 • NEGOTIATING TRADITION: Five approaches in contemporary tapestry; until Sep 29 • SHIFT: A TRANSFORMATIVE STATE OF MIND: Works by senior students and graduates from the 2012 ACAD Jewellery and Metals Program; until Sep 29 • James Lavoie: Edmonton glass artist experimenting with cement • CONNECT: emerging Calgary glass artist Leah Nowak; Aug 4-Sep 8 • August Artist Spotlight: Sam Uhlick (potter): until Aug 31
EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal
ALBERTA RAILWAY MUSEUM • 24215-34
FAX YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO 780.426.2889 OR EMAIL LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3pm
FILM BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • 5041-50 St,
Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • royalalbertamuseum.ca • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/student)/$3 (child) • The Benny Goodman Story (1955, 116 min, colour, PG); Mon, Aug 13, 8pm
FAVA • The Art of Projection: Site-specific
St • 780.472.6229 • AlbertaRailwayMuseum. com • Celebrate Canada's Railway Heritage: Walk through railway cars, the caboose; see how Canada has been brought together by rail. Take a train ride • Aug 4-6, 10am-5pm • $5 (adult)/$3.50 (student/senior)/$2 (child);/ free (2yrs and under); $4 (train rides) • Open weekends during the summer
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2
MOVIES ON THE SQUARE • Churchill Square • edmonton.ca/attractions_recreation/ attractions/downtown/movies-on-the-square. aspx • Movies on a 3-story high inflatable screen • 780.944.7740 • Journey 2, The Mysterious Island: Aug 3, 7:30pm • The Adventures of TIN TIN: Aug 4, 7:30pm • Free
GALLERIES + MUSEUMS AGNES BUGERA GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave • 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • Abstract acrylic and encaustic paintings by Barrie Szekely and Tanya Kirouac • Aug 13-31 • Reception: Sat, Aug 18, 2-4pm, artists in attendance
ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY • 10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft. ab.ca • Discovery Gallery: PURE FORM: The Coalescence of Glass and Concrete by James Lavoie; Aug 4-Sep 8; opening reception: Sat, Aug 4, 2-4pm • Discovery Gallery: FIGMENTS & FRAGMENTS: Glass works by Leah Nowak; Aug 4-Sep 8; opening reception: Sat, Aug 4, 2-4pm
ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) • 19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • SQUARE ONE: Fundraiser and exhibition • Until Aug 9 • GET THERE FROM HERE: Artworks by Nicole Bauberger • Aug 2-Sep 1 • Opening: Aug 2, 6-9pm • Artventures: Drop-in art 6-12 yr-olds; Painting Places: Aug 18, 1-4pm; $5 • ARTernative: Art for teens; pre-register;
ARTIST RUN CENTRE
ASSEMBLAGE, COLLAGE & SOFT SCULPTURE instructed by Alma Visscher October 17th –November 21st | Wed, 6pm –9pm
DAFFODIL GALLERY • 10412-124 St • 780.760.1278 • daffodilgallery.ca • BLOOMING 2012: Floral artworks by Bernadette McCormack, Karen Bishop, Cindy Revell, Heidi Smith, Teresa B Graham, Alain Bédard, Joel Koop and others • Opening reception: Aug 11, 2-4pm, live music from Memorable Music • Closed Sat, Aug 4, Aug 28-Sep 4, regular hours: Wed, Sep 5
DEVONIAN BOTANIC GARDEN • Parkland County Art Show; Aug 3-6, 10am-6pm • Devon Pottery Guild Show: Aug 4-5 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
FAB GALLERY • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • VISIBLE PLANET: Artworks by Yuske Shibata, international ( Japan) visiting researcher, produced during his residency at the U of A • ADHESION: Jill Ho You's final visual presentation for the degree of Master of Fine Arts in Printmaking; until Aug 25; reception: Aug 2, 7-10pm
FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952 • SUMMER SALON: Group show • Through Aug
instructed by Sydney Lancaster & Stacey Cann September 8th, 9am –4pm
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-in-Residence program is proud to extend Paul Lavellee’s term. Visit him every Friday (12-6) and Sat (12-5); until Aug 18
instructed by Ross Bradley October 9th –November 13th | Tues, 6pm –9pm
AND MORE... for more info or to register visit our website at harcourthouse.ab.ca or call us at 780.426.4180 Alberta
GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner
HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-
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Foundation for the Arts
Perron St, St Albert • 780.459.2525 • SONGS OF INNOCENCE: Paintings based on the writings of William Blake by Father Douglas • Until Aug 29 • Reception: Thu, Aug 2, 6:308pm; part of the St Albert Art Walk Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • EXTRAORDINARY VIEWS OF COMMON PLACES: Photographs by David Baine; until fdaff Aug 31 • Gallery Display Cases: Display of pinhole photography cameras and accessories by Wenda Salomons; until Aug 31
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• 4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • BLOOMS GALORE AND MORE: Functional and hand built pottery by Tracy Mandreck and Helmut Jantz; Aug 1-31; reception: Sat, Aug 4, 11am-3pm
GALLERY 7 • Bookstore on Perron, 7
CLASSES & WORKSHOPS | FALL 2012
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CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain
GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • Alberta, her landscapes and her animals: Paintings by Robert McLean • Until Sep 19
HARCOURT HOUSE
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BLOCK 1912 CAFÉ • 10361-82 Ave • PLACES
Russell Smethurst • Until Aug 31
Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • ALEX JANVIER: LIFE'S WORK: until Aug 19 • 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 • ABSENCE/PRESENCE: Catherine Burgess; until Oct 14 • BEHIND THIS LIES MY TRUE DESIRE FOR YOU: Mark Clintberg; Until Dec 30 • Tuesdays on the Terrace: Every Tue, 4-8pm, through Aug; AGA admission includes an art-inspired signature cocktail from ZINC Restaurant, served up with live musical stylings on the AGA 3rd floor Terrace • One Evening/ Two Artists: More art, more insight; Conversation with the Artists: Mark Clintberg: Behind this lies my true desire for you, 6pm; Catherine Burgess: Absence/Presence, 7pm • Women in Art Film Series: at the Garneau Theatre: Wanda Koop; Aug 14, 7pm; occurring the 2nd Tue each month; $10 (adult)/$8 (AGA/Metro member/student/senior) • On the Terrace, 7:30pm; free with gallery admission 4935-51 St • Reception: Fri, Aug 3, 6-8pm
downtown St Albert • artwalkstalbert.com • The 1st Thu each month, exhibits run all month • Venues: WARES (Hosting 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 • Thu, Aug 2
CAFÉ PICHILINGUE–Red Deer • Artworks by
ART BEAT GALLERY • 26 St Anne St, St
ART FROM THE STREETS–Red Deer •
ARTWALK–St Albert • Perron District,
tation Hospital, 10230-111 Ave • REFLECTIVITY: Artworks by William G. Prettie • Until Aug 30
FILM FORUM • Stanley A. Milner Library •
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 • Patton, (1970) 14A; Fri, Aug 3, 2pm • The Dirty Dozen, (1967) PG; Fri, Aug 10, 2pm
Sherwood Park • 780-410-8505 • strathcona. ca/artintheplaza • A leisurely outdoor Sunday stroll through the West Plaza where artists will have original works available • Sundays, until Sep 30, 11am-4pm
BLUE CURVE GALLERY • Glenrose Rehabili-
Albert • 780.459.3679 • Paintings by Bev Bunker • Opening: Aug 2, 6-9pm; part of the ArtWalk
FROM BOOKS TO FILM SERIES •
ART IN THE PLAZA • 2001 Sherwood Dr,
I’VE BEEN AND FACES I’VE SEEN: Paintings by Emmanuel Osahor • Until Sep 8
presentation with Christina Battle • Wed, Aug 8, 7-10pm; Wed, Aug 15, 7-10pm; Wed, Aug 15, 7-10pm; Fri, Aug 17, afternoon setup and FAVA's summer party • Free for members; preregister at 780.429.1671 Series of film screenings followed by facilitated discussions. Join us this summer for another round of intriguing films and guest speakers: August is a month of World War II: • Edmonton Room: Paris is Burning, 14A; Sat, Aug 11, 1:30pm
Facescapes; Thu, Aug 16, 6-8pm; $12 • Ageless Art: Lovely Landscapes: Thu, Aug 16, 1-3pm; $12; preregister • Preschool Picasso: Art for 3-5 yr olds; $8; Aug 11, 10:30-11:30am (Marvelous Mono-prints)
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HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl, 10215-112 St • Main Gallery: SPACE AGENCY: Video, sculptural installation by McLean Fahnestock; Aug 2-Sep 8; Opening/Artist Talks: Thu, Aug 2, 6:30-10pm • Front Room Gallery: WISH YOU WERE HERE: Photos by Kristen Wilkins
HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer • Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery. com • 3 FROM 4: Works by Erin Boake, Andrea Dillingham, Justina Smith, Paula Sommers • Aug 3-Sep 8 • Reception: Fri, Aug 3, 6-8pm
HEMINGWAY CENTRE GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • 780.460.5990 • RE-EMERGENCE: Paintings by Carol Johnson • Aug 2-Sep 1 • Opening reception: Thu, Aug 2, 6-9pm; part of St Albert artwalk
HUB ON ROSS–Red Deer • 4936 Ross St, Red Deer • 403.340.4869 • hubpdd.com • FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Works by Sarah E. Smith • Until Aug 31 • Reception: Fri, Aug 3, 4:30-6:30pm
JAKE LEWIS GALLERY • Jake's Framing, 10441-123 St • 780.426.4649 • jakesframing. com • Artworks by Gerry Dotto, Karen Bishop (of Daffodil Gallery), Glenys Switzer • Until Aug 25 JURASSIC FOREST/LEARNING CENTRE • 15 mins N of Edmonton off Hwy 28A, Township Rd 564 • Education-rich entertainment facility for all ages
KIWANIS GALLERY–Red Deer • Red Deer Public Library • FLOWER SCAPES: Works by Elaine Tweedy • Until Aug 19
LATITUDE 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • 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; until Aug 4 • At the Rooftop Patio Series: Advertising Club of Edmonton, music by Jessie Beier; Thu, Aug 4, 5pm • Incubator Artists: Daniel Chielewski, Aug 6-11; Leslie Sharp; Aug 13-18 • AND ALL THE QUEEN’S MEN: Mixture of media, from painting to bedazzled found objects to electronic motion-triggered sculpture by Jorden Blue and David Doody; Aug 9-Sep 8 • ProjEx Room: SURREALIST GESTURES: Works by Blake Betteridge; Aug 9-Sep 8 MARJORIE WOOD GALLERY–Red Deer • Kerry Wood Nature Centre • LITTLE FORTS IN PECULIAR LOCATIONS: Works by Robin Lambert • Until Sep 12 • Reception: Fri, Aug 3, 5-7pm
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
MICHIF CULTURAL AND MÉTIS RESOURCE INSTITUTE • 9 Mission Ave,
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
SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • 780.488.3619 • CELEBRATING ALBERTA LANDSCAPES: Artworks by Martha Cole, Mitchell Fenton, Arne Handley, Hilary Prince, Jim Stokes and others • Aug 2-21
SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • LOCATING SPIRITUALITY/FROM OBJECTS TO ICONS: SNAP opens ups its archives for a show curated by Tess Hawkins; until Aug 8 • Gallery: Artists Book Competition; until Aug 11
STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • WITNESS: Recent works by Sherri Chaba and Lyndal Osborne • Until Aug 19
TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE • 11211142 St • 780.452.9100 • edmontonscience. com • IMAX: Hubble: Through the summer • ROBOTS–THE INTERACTIVE EXHIBITION: Until Sep 9 U OF A MUSEUMS–TELUS Centre • Gallery A, Main Fl, 87 Ave, 111 St, U of A • 780.492.5834 • museums.ualberta.ca
VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • COLOUR CONSPIRACY: Exhibition by the Hand Weavers, Spinners and Dyers of Alberta; until Aug 11
VELVET OLIVE LOUNGE–Red Deer • Works by Paula Sommers • Until Aug 31
WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave • 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Group show • Through the summer
LITERARY BLEEDING HEART ART SPACE • 118 Ave, 94 St (behind the Carrot Café) • Poetry and Justice: Performance poets Joel McKerrow with Titilope Sonuga • Thu, Aug 2, 7:30pm • Donation
RIVERDALE • 9917-87 St • Creative Word Jam • Every 3rd Sun of the month, 6-10pm • facebook.com/group.php?gid=264777964410 E: creative.word.jam@gmail.com
St Albert • 780.651.8176 • Aboriginal Veterans Display • Gift Shop • Finger weaving and sash display by Celina Loyer • Ongoing
ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St •
MILDWOOD GALLERY • 426, 6655-178 St • Mel Heath, Joan Healey, Fran Heath, Larraine Oberg, Terry Kehoe, Darlene Adams, Sandy Cross and Victoria, Pottery by Naboro Kubo and Victor Harrison • Ongoing
STRATHCONA COUNTY LIBRARY ANNUAL BOOK SALE • Strathcona County
MULTICULTURAL CENTRE PUBLIC ART GALLERY (MCPAG)–Stony Plain • 5411-51 St, Stony Plain • 780.963.9935 • Fabric hangings by Rachelle Le Blanc; until Aug 15 • Paintings by Detra Powney; Aug 17-Sep 19; opening reception: Sun, 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 • paintspot.ca • Works by Erik Cheung • Reception: Thu, Aug 9, 5-7pm NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart. ca • A TALE OF TWO CITIES: Collaboration between Edmonton's Nina Haggerty artists and Calgary's Arts and Studio C • Until Aug 3
780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets
Community Centre, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • Pick up some great deals on gently-used books, CDs and DVDs • Aug 17-18, Fri, 9:30am-8:30pm; Sat, 9:30am-4:30pm • Proceeds go to purchasing new materials for the library’s collections. For more information, please call 780.410.8600 or email info@sclibrary.ab.ca.
T.A.L.E.S.–STRATHCONA • New Strathcona Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.400.3547 • Monthly Tellaround: 4th Wed each month 7pm • Free
T.A.L.E.S. TELLAROUND • Bogani Café, 2023-111 St • Come to share a story, or to listen; hosted by Dawn Blue; 7-9pm; free; 2nd Wed each month WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors
THEATRE HELLO DOLLIES • Bailey Theatre–Camrose, 5041-50 St, Camrose • 780.672.5510 • baileytheatre.com • Aug 11
PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • SUMMER GROUP SHOWS: New artworks by gallery artists; through to Aug
QUIDAM • Rexall Place, Northlands Park • 1.866.212.4183 • cirquedusoleil.com • Cirque du Solei: A young girl's escape into a world of imagination • Aug 8-12
PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA
SYLVIA • Mayfield Dinner Theatre, 16615-
• 8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • culture. alberta.ca/archives • WE SIMPLY TURNED TO THE WOMEN: 100 YEARS OF THE CATHOLIC WOMEN'S LEAGUE, Edmonton Archdiocese 1912-2012; until Aug 31
ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • Maskwacîs (Bear Hills); until Sep 3 • WINGED TAPESTRIES: MOTHS
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109 Ave • Tickets: 780.483.4051 • mayfieldtheatre.ca • Starring Cindy Williams and Eddie Mekka (from TV’s Laverne & Shirley) • The classic love triangle-husband, wife, and...dog? A witty, intelligently comedic and tender tale about life and love in the middle years. Mature content, not suitable for children • Until Aug 19
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t's more than delivering plates and more than a temporary job for extra cash. Serving can turn into a lucrative, stable career if you've got what it takes, and it takes a lot. The fast-paced, sometimes borderline chaotic atmosphere can be too much for some to handle, but those who stick with it and make serving a lifelong career are in it because they love it, particularly when it comes to public interaction and transforming a meal out into a memorable experience for their guests. "To me, it's not about service, it's about hospitality," says Ed Cordova, a server at Lux, the flagship of the Century Hospitality Group, who has been in the industry for 30 years. "You can get service from a bank machine, but you need a real person to get hospitality. Service is the foundation of your section. The way I look at it is service is making sure cutlery's there, glasses are polished, taking drink orders, bringing the food out, but hospitality is actually remembering names, favourite drinks, talking about things." Andrea Olson, who owns the Red Ox Inn with her husband and has been in the industry for 23 years, says it comes down to becoming a host for guests and servers taking ownership of the restaurant as if they were hosting a dinner party at their own home. She adds that top-notch food is definitely important, but if a restaurant has terrible service, it's unlikely a customer will return. "They go hand-in-hand," adds Red Ox Inn server Sandy Morton, who has been in the industry for 21 years and
has become a crowd favourite at the restaurant for his attentiveness, personality and knowledge of the menu. "There's only so much people as potential customers will take, and they'll only take bad service probably twice and they're done." Cordova simply point out that food is food, but people are looking for the whole package. If customers have an experience where the food does not meet their expectations, but the service has been impeccable and everything has been done to remedy the situation, they leave with a more positive outlook on the establishment. Both servers state that product knowledge is key to feeling confident in one's ability as a server, and will make guests feel like they are in much better hands, particularly when they are at fine dining establishments where prices are steep. This knowledge also reflects a sense of pride and ownership servers take towards their restaurant. From correct verbage to being able to offer suggestions for wine pairings and knowing the difference between cuts of steak, servers need to be able to answer any question a guest can throw their way. "We have confidence in our product that we're putting out. Believe in what you're selling," says Lux co-manager Jill Domes, who has been serving for 12 years and has stuck with it because of the ever-changing atmosphere and her love of working with the public. A key element in ensuring guests have a positive dining experience is the server's ability to read their tables
and maintain a sense of intuition towards their guests' needs. "In this industry, you have to have a really good sense of what your table wants from you. There's some tables that want you to be a little more personable with them and really make it their night and dote a little bit, and then there's tables that don't," Domes says. "It's about being able to find the middle ground and make them happy no matter what style it tends to be." "It's really easy to please people when you have the tools, the knowledge," Olson notes, adding that her team works hard to tailor the experience to each guest and create a rapport with them that makes them feel welcome and comfortable.
at O'Byrne's Irish Pub, who has been in the industry for 10 years, but just started with the pub in April. O'Byrne's manager Dean Mergel adds that he expects servers to be attentive, but know when to back off. This is all part of the personality he looks for when hiring new staff. "If somebody comes in and just wants to drop off a resume and there's no interaction, that shows me, that's your first impression. That's your initial OKhow are they going to interact with the guests that come to your establishment," he notes. However, attentiveness does not mean a server is simply looking for a big tip. Some do, but the pros maintain that the most important thing is
It's not about service, it's about hospitality ... You can get service from a bank machine, but you need a real person to get hospitality. Service is the foundation of your section. The way I look at it is service is making sure cutlery's there, glasses are polished, taking drink orders, bringing the food out, but hospitality is actually remembering names, favourite drinks, talking about things." The same holds true at neighbourhood pubs. It's a different kind of experience and different demographic, but the experience is just as important nonetheless. The same expectations of staff are prevalent. "I think people assume that servers are just these pretty, smiling faces. You have to be people smart, you have to be money smart, you have to know how to read different situations." says Marie Golonka, a server
customer satisfaction, not the money. "I'm not thinking about that every second of what I do. I'm not saying, 'How high can I jump for you?' because that's what I'm doing. I'm doing it because I want you to enjoy yourself," says Lux lounge server Serena Fretwell, who has been in the industry for a decade. "I do take it personally when people felt they haven't had good service." "I find it really uncomfortable when
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people as me questions like, 'How much should I tip you?'" Golonka adds, noting the question has come up more than once. "People ask that and then they get quite shocked when they see how uncomfortable it is for us. It's not about that. It's about people leaving with a positive experience." Of course, experiences don't end on a high note 100 percent of a time, and servers need to be equipped with the know-how to salvage a less-than-ideal situation. In an era of easily accessible technology, customers have now become critics through websites such as Urbanspoon, and there are instances where the server may not have been aware of an issue that could have been remedied. "A lot of times people are uncomfortable complaining about the food, or if it's not what they expected, because nobody wants to be that person who sends it back—well, most everyone doesn't want to be that person," Golonka says, adding social media keeps her on her toes, because the last thing a server wants is to see their name pop up in a negative review. When things do take a turn for the worse, she says it's important to remember the customer is always right. Olson says she never wants a customer to leave feeling that they have not had good service and would rather they tell her upfront than go home and let it out via the Internet. "We care about it. We want people to know if something's not OK, that's not OK with any of us," she notes. MEAGHAN BAXTER
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he Alberta government thinks you should tip more. While tips are entirely up to a customer's discretion (except in some instances of group seatings at restaurants) and the Alberta government doesn't recognize tips as wages, it's depending on you, the customer, to help supplement servers' incomes so it, and the restaurant industry, doesn't have to. Last year, after a review of the minimum wage, Alberta implemented a two-tier system where servers who deal with alcohol earn a lower wage than those who don't. The government's reason: those who serve alcohol make higher tips, balancing out their wage. Anti-poverty advocates campaigning for a living wage argue this is leaving workers vulnerable to earning a wage below the low-income cut off. Since September 2011 servers of alcohol in Alberta earn $9.05 to the general minimum wage of $9.40. According to the Minister of Employment and Immigration at the time, Thomas Lukaszuk, the wage differential was put in place to recognize the tips received by front-line alcohol servers. "Having a different minimum wage for liquor servers recognizes that these individuals earn a significant part of their income from tips," said Lukaszuk in a press release announcing the change. "It will also give business owners greater flexibility in the way they pay other staff, such as cooks and dishwashers." But as any server knows, tips are not a guarantee. According to the Alberta government's profile on minimum wage workers, only one in eight minimum wage earners worked in the food and beverage industry where they might earn tips. And even then, if they are earning tips, those tips may not go toward the worker. Tip-outs, where managers and business owners take a portion of tips, are a common practice in restaurants and bars and there is no regulation or employment standard stopping employers from
collecting a portion of the tips coming in. In Ontario, NDP MPP Michael Prue has spent several years advocating the implementation of legislation which would amend the employment standards act to prevent employers from taking any portion of an employee's tips. But there is no similar move here in Alberta, nor is there any requirement for employers to advise of tipouts that might occur. According to Jay Fisher, a spokesperson for Alberta Human Services, there is no interest in legislating tips or tipping procedures. "We leave it up to the employer. Some employers like to leave the tips completely to the server and others put them in a pot and split them up; government doesn't feel it belongs in that transaction," says Fisher.
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Currently, a person earning the minimum wage is likely living under the low-income cutoff. Statistics Canada figures show a full-time minimumwage earner in a major city falls $6000 under LICO. Additionally, servers and restaurant workers are likely not earning the benefits of full-time union workers as, according to the Alberta government's own numbers, 95 percent of non-union employees are minimum-wage earners. According to
Having a different minimum wage for liquor servers recognizes that these individuals earn a significant part of their income from tips." As the Alberta government considers its Social Policy Framework and the ways in which to meet its target of eliminating child poverty in five years, anti-poverty advocates recommend taking another look at the minimum wage differential. In June, Public Interest Alberta and the Alberta College of Social Workers released data showing 418 900, nearly one in four Albertans, earned less than $15 an hour. And according to the Alberta Federation of Labour's numbers from its submission to the committee on the economy last year, 42 percent of low-wage earners, those earning $10 an hour, are over 25 and likely to have family responsibilities, despite the persistent perception that low-wage earners are high school students or part-time and temporary workers. According to the ACSW, the minimum wage differential is only exacerbating the income gap and is resulting in an unequal wage distribution based on gender. At the time, the new minimum wage was implemented in November 2011, Lori Sigurdson stated,
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the Alberta government over 26 000 workers earn the minimum wage. Public Interest Alberta has been advocating the province to implement a living wage. according to the ACSW, in order to earn a living wage in this city—a wage at which workers can afford the basic necessities—an average hourly amount of $16 – $17 is required. This means servers earning $9.05 would have to earn over seven additional dollars an hour through the uncertainty of receiving tips. The minimum wage in Alberta is set to change again this September, but not for those serving alcohol. This September, the formula for calculating the minimum wage will be based on annual average weekly earnings and changes to the Consumer Price Index. The general minimum wage will become $9.75 an hour, but the minimum wage for servers will remain at $9.05 until the general minimum wage becomes $10.05, at which point the two will increase with the one dollar difference. Alberta is not the only province to use the wage differential, but it currently has the third lowest minimum wage in the country. SAMANTHA POWER
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A different meaning In the early 20th century, jellybeans was a term bestowed on men who dressed stylishly to attract women, but possessed no substance or any other commendable qualities. Eat at your own risk The Harry Potter series capitalized on nasty flavoured jelly beans with Berty Bott's Every Flavour Beans, but a candy called BeanBoozled takes things one step further. The beans come in boxes of 10 colours and 20 flavours. For every one tasty colour, there's an equally disgusting companion, and the idea is that consumers never know which they're going to get. Flavours include skunk spray, moldy cheese, baby wipes, rotten egg and vomit. They just appeared No one knows where jelly beans came from, but they're believed to be a descendent of Turkish Delight and sur-
faced in the 1800s. It is also believed that Jordan Almonds could be another possible origin of jelly beans. A lengthy process It takes seven to 21 days to make a jelly bean. Part of the process is called known as panning, which is essential in creating the hard outer shell and chewy centre. Old favourites The average jelly bean assortment contains eight flavours. Standards include grape, black licorice, strawberry, lemon, orange, lime and cherry. The good stuff Jelly Belly, which has become the gourmet standard in the jellybean world, was invented in 1976. They were the first jelly beans to be sold in single flavours and have a flavour menu. There were enough of the candy eaten last year to circle the earth more than five times. V
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rand New has been cultivating a loyal following since striking punk-pop gold with its debut Your Favourite Weapon in 2001 and the stylistic leap of Deja Entendu, but now, the four-piece from Long Island is ready to strike off down a new path. The band's latest release was Daisy in 2009, and while reports have circulated stating Brand New is working on a new album, lead singer and guitarist Jesse Lacey admits that the band has no set recording schedule in place. Brand New is free-flowing in the music business: the four-piece has cut ties with its label and management in favour of returning to its independent roots. "I think that really allows us to explore every avenue we feel we need to musically," he says, noting that Brand New always retained creative control with its label, but that the reality of someone is funding an album is that they always have some degree of influence. "We had come full circle back to a point in our lives where we had really felt like the ideas that we had were more in line with where we started as a band."
Rather than launch right back into recording, Brand New has began working on the infrastructure in which it produces music and creating a stronger web presence for Procrastinate, its vehicle for projects with other artists. Lacey says it's not a label by any stretch, but rather, a way for Brand New to work on its own music and help fellow artists. "I think we just want to have a place that people can go to hear our music as we release it and hear music of anyone that feels they want to work with us," Lacey notes, adding Brand New isn't looking to make a profit from the bands who work with them. The return to the do-it-yourself approach for Brand New also marks a new chapter for its own music. Lacey has noted that Daisy was the end of a road for the band and it was time to backtrack. Daisy was a success for Brand New, but Lacey says while he enjoys the album, it also makes him anxious to listen to due its chaotic, noise-driven nature. "When you decide to make noise and be chaotic, sometimes you sacrifice things like melody and order, and I think those things have places in our music as well," Lacey notes. "To get back there, it's kind of like we can't
move forward, you have to move back and figure out where you left those things out and take a new course." As for where this new course will lead, Lacey says the hopeful melancholy that has defined Brand New will continue, but content-wise, the songs will contain more conclusions than questions to life's conundrums. He attributes these answers to where he is at his current age, which is his early 30s, and having time to truly reflect. "It's just in every year that goes by, you either come up with more questions for things or you start answering things and I think in the years spent in my life since the last time we recorded a record, I have both," he adds. While there isn't a new record on the immediate horizon, Lacey acknowledges that fans need something new, and soon. While they still come to hear the songs that won them over, Lacey says Brand New can't continue performing the same tracks and hopes to unveil new material in the next year. "We have this buzzing in us that we want to do things and I hope that we can see those things through," he says. "I think people expect more from us and I think we expect more from us."
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Iron Maiden might be the only band on the planet able to get away with breaking the rock 'n' roll rule and wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the band's own name. Playing in Edmonton on Friday for the third time since 2008, the band showed little regard for conventional arena-show wisdom, using a basic set design that showcased what fans desire from the 37-year-old band: straight-up, wellexecuted and technically adept metal. The limited set design reflects the 1988 Seventh Son tour, which the band has crafted its set list after. And its bare bones essentials still encapsulate all the open space that
hyperactive singer Bruce Dickinson needed to run, jump, climb and fight against three different Eddies, all while asking the crowd to scream for him nearly twenty times. With hits like "Run to the Hills," "Can I Play With Madness" and the always epic "Number of the Beast," it was a setlist to satisfy any Maiden fan and it worked for the Edmonton crowd this past Friday. Giant Eddies, a running screaming Dickinson and Steve Harris's unequalled bass work: who needs anything more? SAMANTHA POWER // SAMANTHA@VUEWEEKLY.COM
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our have become two as local poprock act Chasing Jones releases its latest album, Loves Got Teeth, as a duo. Brothers Adam and Nick Di Lullo began collaborating together in 2007, and soon recruited drummer Blair Brown, who had returned home from Los Angeles, as well as bassist Dwayne Ulliac. The four-piece achieved successful radio play for the singles "Anniversary" and "Amelia," but the Di Lullos have gone in a new direction and refocused their music, which includes exploring its acoustic side. "Our musical direction was not where we were wanting it to go," Adam says of the former four-piece. "Cutting it down to two, to just Nick and I, we're kind of on the same page with everything and it shows in our music now." Nick adds that ideas can become diluted once they've been passed around by four people, and while sometimes the extra opinions can bring out better results, they can also digress too much from the initial
starting point. He feels that Chasing Jones is back on track, making the type of music they've always wanted to, which is inspired by pop-rock legends of the '90s. The result has been a new album that Adam says can be just as easily stripped down and played acoustically or with a full band, as it was during recording. The brothers note this wasn't the case with Chasing Jones' previous work, which had very little substance left to it once different aspects were taken away. "With this album, we had what we call the campfire test," Nick explains. "We have to be able to play the songs with one singer and an acoustic guitar." Loves Got Teeth was influenced heavily by relationships, which is clearly evident on the first single "Lost in You." "A lot of it stems from relationships, mostly because you have the most experience with that kind of stuff usually," says Nick, who writes the majority of the lyrics. "I think this album has a little more of a positive feel to it compared to the other two and it's also something everyone can relate to."
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The Gaslight Anthem Handwritten (Mercury) New Jersey's Gaslight Anthem has been on an upswing for a few years now, with lead man Brian Fallon growing steadily as a songwriter and gaining fans like the most famous guy from Jersey who's not Jon Bon Jovi or a fictional gangster. And it's all been deserved, too, as Fallon wrapped his heart up in the characters who populated his songs. With Handwritten the band has made the jump to a major label, picked up a pretty major producer in Brendan O'Brien (who's been behind the boards for Bruce Springsteen and Pearl Jam, among many others), and Fallon called on his bandmates to contribute more to the songwriting lest the group simply end up the backing for the singer's solo project. There's a shift in Fallon's lyrical approach as well, as he turns the spotlight on himself more than he has in the past, at one point asking, "What can I keep for myself if I tell you my hell? / What would be left to take to my grave? / And what's left for you, my lover to save? / What's left for only you to take?". The result of all this change is not a particularly revolutionary Gaslight Anthem record, though. Right off the album's opening the band is tight as it runs carefully through a couple of songs that sound very much like songs that could have been leftovers from
the previous disc. There's nothing wrong with them, but there feels like a stunted progression with the band running through the Gaslight motions instead of heading off on a new trip as they've done with each preceding release. When the band does stretch out on Handwritten, it sounds less like a progression of the Gaslight Anthem's songwriting and more like the players are channeling some of their influences: specifically, both "Keepsake" and "Too Much Blood" sound a lot like the Gaslight Anthem doing Pearl Jam doing Neil Young & Crazy Horse. Not that any of that is bad. It's ridiculous to put pressure on an artist to constantly reinvent themselves. The songs will spill out as they come, and even if Handwritten hasn't gone far from American Slang, Fallon and his bandmates have crafted a solid album. Perhaps the most interesting part of this record, however, is in the questions it raises about the band's future. Will this become the norm for the Gaslight Anthem? Will they be satisfied to hold the ship steady and settle into a familiar sound? Or will they follow Neil Young's famous turn after he'd found the comfort of Harvest and then decided to head for the ditch where he felt he could make more interesting music? It will be interesting to follow along and see if there's a Tonight's the Night or On the Beach in the band's future.
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A flamboyant collage of highly fantastic sounds at one moment, an array of often remarkably lowkey ones at another; Frank Ocean's first commercial release doesn't need to lean on the praise his sexual fuzziness seems to be garnering to be considered a near-masterpiece. Nothing like the slinkiness and pop-icon status of "Novacane" from Ocean's Nostalgia Ultra mixtape, or the pure power-machismo he sat beside on "No Church in the Wild," from the Kanye West/Jay-Z demigod-project, Watch the Throne, Channel Orange develops best from the moments of strummed pain and unrestricted sound found in Ocean's wild honesty and his roped-in crooning. His candour is right at home with all-access to captivatingly dense sounds and his shuddering melodies—ones that magically overlap with scattered, zoned-out and soulful R&B production. Maybe the album's highlight, maybe not, "Pyramids"—the album's obvious opus, both in structure and in decadence—mirrors the Channel Orange agenda: it's a travelling piece of doomed romance and lyrical wonder, joined with a constantly-unfurling slice of R&B allure. Channel Orange may be Ocean's first, but it's moments of throwback soul and innovative R&B show the right amount of musical restraint and pure integrity could make this the album of the year. CURTIS WRIGHT
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Feistodon, "Black Tongue / A Commotion" Download Two titans of non-overlapping genres got together to release a split 7'' on record store day last year, and this is what came of it. Feist, in her cover of Mastodon's "Black Tongue," (From The Hunter) amps up her folkloric feel by getting doomy in a really, really earthy way: over Sabbath guitars and a wandering shuffle of a beat, Feist sounds like a ghost hovering above your bed, waking you at the witching hour to warn you that she's out for revenge and that you'd best watch your head in the days to come. Meanwhile, Mastodon just tackle "A Commotion" (from Feist's recent Metals album), replacing the original's subtle urgency with some muscle-y sludge-riff chugging and a chorus that becomes headbangworthy in the band's hands. Overall, the pair of songs skew more towards Mastadon's sound than Feist's— perhaps what happens when a folk artist pairs with a much louder metal band— but the results are very worthy of both band's legacies, adding muscle to the sounds of Feist and dimension to those of Mastodon. How about a full Feistodon album, guys?
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the excellent Temporary Resident album came out, Imaginary Cities seems to be in full-on coast mode. Seasides marks the second post-album release to feature no new music, just revisions and reinterpretations of the songs from that album. (With one exception: it's nice to have a recorded version of the band's cover of Cake's "Mexico," which is a live staple). And while it's lovely and fine to hear the band's glowing power-pop chug toned down to a simpler acoustic or piano version, at this point even a trickle of something new would go a long way to building excitement for a future release, rather than simply stretching out the band's previous accomplishments. PAUL BLINOV
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he '80s are back in a big way. Idyl Tea is celebrating the rerelease of its 1986 vinyl EP How I See This Table with a long-weekend double bill, which is also its only Edmonton show this year. Prior to taking the stage at New City, vocalist and guitarist Everett LaRoi shared his soundtrack picks with Vue Weekly.
At home Morning Elvis Presley, The Sun Sessions Get those pancakes on the griddle with renewed enthusiasm and zeal—entertain the kids with classic Vegas-era Elvis Presley karate moves ...
Noon Ratatat (random song downloads) On a first listen one could easily write these guys off as a novelty act, but the music ends up speaking for itself by enduring repeated listenings and surviving music geek scrutiny—inventive, quirky and amusing little mash-up masterpieces. Night Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Boatman's Call Nick Cave in a decidedly chilled mood settles into the piano for the duration, singing murder ballads and love songs —top up my Malbec honey ...
On the road Morning Ted Hawkins, The Next Hundred Years
Lovingly captured to analogue tape by ex-Prince engineer Susan Rodgers, this is my favourite Ted Hawkins release—perfect for winding up a mountain highway or dawdling down a country road looking for antique shops. Noon Mark Davis, Eliminate the Toxins Mark's best solo release to date was firmly parked in the family car for weeks. Good driving songs by this underappreciated Canadian songwriter—my son knows most of the words. Night Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska Night driving is perhaps the best time to truly appreciate a good lyric, and what could be more appropriate fodder for thoughts on a lonesome highway then this stripped-down classic by the Boss.
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he folk thing is fun, but it's also fun to smash a guitar once in a while," Phil Holtby admits. And fair enough: he seems a fellow pretty certain about both matters. Holtby's early recordings, released as DoT, strung together threadbare folk sentiments with a lone acoustic guitar and a hypnotic vocal delivery. His current project, Catgut, attends to the latter, smashier impulses. It makes a retro-tinged rawkus that builds a musical totem out of the early, grungy aspects of '90s alternative-rock—distortion pedals, pummel drumming, a lingering sense of disaffection. (As if
in tribute to its heritage, the aboutto-be-released Fightpicker album is coming out on cassette tape as well as download.) Catgut's amped-up approach may not be a permanent sonic reform for Holtby, he notes, but it is where he's currently culling inspiration from. "I'm still doing the folk thing," Holtby says. "but that's on a break right now. Everything's devoted to Catgut. It just started with a love for—more an interest I guess—of '90s music: Guided by Voices, Sonic Youth, and big interest turned into I found out I couldn't just write folk songs." An initial Catgut EP, Goosegg Smooshkeg, saw release back in January, but Fightpicker is a more fully-shaped and realized album, with Holtby backed
by Jesse Silkie and Andrew Furlong in power-trio configuration. About to set out on a Fightpicker tour, Holtby notes that he's taken far longer to record and perfect his rock songs than he ever did with his softer catalogue, but that the delayed process seems to imbue them with a greater staying power. "Normally a folk song just kind of happens in a few minutes, but these songs, I toil over for months and get the distortion out and shit like that. ... but these are definitely a lot more crafted. "I get sick of my songs pretty fast," he continues. "But these ones I didn't mind playing over and over again, and I still don't mind and can't see myself minding, so it actually worked out pretty well."
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ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Laura Swankey (jazz), Matt Graham (singer-songwriter); 9:30pm-11:30pm; no minors; no cover ARTERY The Give 'Em Hell Boys (Barn Burner CD release), James Renton, the Cavalry; 8pm; $10 BIG VALLEY JAMBOREE– Camrose THU–KICK OFF: Molson Canadian Saloon: Jordan Doell, Kira Isabella, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Jason McCoy, Clayton Bellamy; no minors BLUES ON WHYTE John Nemeth Blues Band BOHEMIA Krang (7inch release party), Feral Children, Zombifyus; no minors; $5 BRITTANYS LOUNGE Kenny Hillaby hosts a jazz session night every Thu with Shadow Dancers, Maura and Jeanelle; no cover CAFÉ HAVEN Joshua Gillingham; 7pm; no cover CARROT CAFÉ Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm EDDIE SHORTS Good Time Jamboree with Charlie Scream every Thu J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Alfie Zappacosta; $35 KRUSH ULTRA LOUNGE Open stage; 7pm; no cover L.B.'S PUB Open jam with Kenny Skoreyko, Fred LaRose and Gordy Mathews (Shaved Posse) every Thu; 9pm-1am MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR Open stage Thu; all ages; 9pmclose; no cover NEW CITY Jack Accident, the Sweathearts, Ashanti Marshall; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $5 (door) NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro; Double Highway NORTH GLENORA HALL Jam by Wild Rose Old Time Fiddlers every Thu OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Jesse Peters (R&B, blues, jazz, Top 40); 9pm2am every Thu; no cover PAWN SHOP Anvil (metal), Titans Eve, Bad Acid; 8pm (door); $20 (adv) RICHARD'S PUB Jeffrey Adam; 8pm RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec (jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Stan Gallant SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Alesha and Brendon WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WUNDERBAR The Chantrelles (Victoria) / Teddy Holtby (Brooklyn, NY), Teapot Hill (Vancouver), DJ
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DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: wtft w djwtf - rock 'n' roll, blues, indie; Wooftop Lounge: Musical flavas incl funk, indie, dance/nu disco, breaks, drum and bass, house with DJ Gundam BRIXX High Fidelity Thu: Open turntables; E: kevin@starliteroom.ca to book 30-min set CENTURY ROOM Lucky 7: Retro '80s with house DJ every Thu; 7pm-close THE COMMON Uncommon Thursday: Indie with new DJ each week with resident CROWN PUB Break Down Thu at the Crown: D&B with DJ Kaplmplx, DJ Atomik with guests DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Thu FILTHY MCNASTY’S Something Diffrent every Thursday with DJ Ryan Kill FLASH NIGHT CLUB Indust:real Assembly: Goth and Industrial Night with DJ Nanuck; no minors; 10pm (door); no cover FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays
Four Chords of Wood, The Good Brothers, Blue Highway, the Quebe Sisters Band, the Roys, Rhonda Vincent, Michael Martin Murphey, the Gibson Brothers BLUES ON WHYTE John Nemeth Blues Band BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Jessica Stuart Few (jazz, pop); 8pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) BRIXX BAR Early Show: Transista, Better Us Than Strangers, Reflections; Late Show: XoXo to follow (every Fri) CARROT Live music every Fri; all ages; 7:30pm; $5 (door) COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Adam Holm DV8 Necronaut, Death Assembly, Harvest The Infection (Van) EARLY STAGE SALOON Kayla Hotte and the Rodeo Pals, Brother Matt Hotte (fiddle) GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB T.K. and the Honey Badgers every friday; 8:30-midnight; no cover IRISH CLUB Jam session every Fri; 8pm; no cover JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Alfie Zappacosta; $35 JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover L.B.'S PUB Harpdog Brown and the Bloodhounds;9:30pm; $5 9:30pma LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Customer Appreciation, FxFarmer of Funkanomics LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover NEW WEST HOTEL Double Highway
LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas
OIL CITY ROADHOUSE My Darkest Days, guests; 8pm
ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow
OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover
OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays
PAWN SHOP Forester (rock), On your Mark, Rumble Cats, Tanner Gordon; 8pm; $10 (adv)
OVERTIME–Downtown Thursdays at Eleven: Electronic Techno and Dub Step RENDEZVOUS Metal night every Thu TAPHOUSE–St Albert Eclectic mix every Thu with DJ Dusty Grooves UNION HALL 3 Four All Thursdays: rock, dance, retro, top 40 with DJ Johnny Infamous WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close
FRI AUG 3 AVENUE THEATRE The Apresnos (rock), Shelbi, Pistols at 20 Paces, Naked Beauty; 8pm; $10 (adv) BIG VALLEY JAMBOREE– Camrose FRI MAIN STAGE: Sean Hogan, Myrol, Adam Gregory, Emerson Drive, Kellie Pickler, Blake Shelton; MOLSON CANADIAN SALOON:
Mickey Pye, Charlie Major, Curtis Grambo BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca BLUEBERRY BLUESGRASS FESTIVAL– Stony Plain FRI: Calvin Vollrath, Prairie Sky, Mark Phillips and the IIIrd Generation, Colleen Rae,
VUEWEEKLY AUGUST 2 – AUGUST 8, 2012
RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am RIVER CREE Bamboo dito...Banboo Doon :Saga, Headcakes, Lemmy Gutierrez, Leah Gutlay; all ages; 5pm (door); 6pm (show) SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Stan Gallant SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Alesha and Brendon STARLITE ROOM Ivardensphere, Comaduster, Sangsara, Psykkle, Virtual Terrorist, Silence be Damned DJs; 9pm WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WUNDERBAR Morals, Action News Team
DJs BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels BLACKSHEEP PUB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current BONEYARD ALE HOUSE The Rock Mash-up: DJ NAK spins videos every
Fri; 9pm; no cover BUDDY’S DJ Arrow Chaser every Fri; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND R U Aware Friday: Featuring Neon Nights CHROME LOUNGE Platinum VIP every Fri THE COMMON Boom The Box: every Fri; nu disco, hip hop, indie, electro, dance with weekly local and visiting DJs on rotation plus residents Echo and Shortround THE DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Fri; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Fri FILTHY MCNASTY'S Shake yo ass every Fri with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri HILLTOP PUB The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu and Fri; 9:30pm-close
Folk (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover BLUEBERRY BLUESGRASS FESTIVAL– Stony Plain SAT: Instrumental, Vocal and Harmony Workshops, Open stage, Calvin Vollrath, Mark Phillips and the IIIrd Generation, the Larsgard Family, the Gibson Brothers, Blue Highway, Four Chords of Wood. the Good Brothers, the Quebe Sisters Band, Rhonda Vincent, the Roys, Michael Martin Murphey BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; John Nemeth Blues Band BRIXX BAR The Dryland Band, the Spins And Between Brothers; 9pm CAFÉ CORAL DE CUBA Cafe Coral De Cuba Marco Claveria's open mic (music, poetry, jokes); every Sat, 6pm; $5 CARROT CAFÉ Sat Open mic; 7pm; $2 COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm
JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm
CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am
NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan
DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Adam Holm
NEW CITY HipHopinthePark: The Swoop aka DJ Weezl, DJ Dice vs. DJ Roach, the Eville Turntable Choir incl KazMega, Dice, Creeazn, BaggyLean, Budakron, guests; 8pm (door), 9pm (show); $10 (door)
THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm
O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat
DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic: hosted by Tim Harwill; 4-6.30pm
DV8 Snaggletooth, Snakebite, Sexloader EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain Harpdog Brown and his Band
O2'S ON WHYTE DJ Jay every Fri and Sat
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Longshadows; 4pm; no cover
OVERTIME–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno
GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth
REDNEX–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm TREASURY In Style Fri: DJ Tyco and Ernest Ledi; no line no cover for ladies all night long UNION HALL Ladies Night every Fri VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Connected Las Vegas Fridays Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays
SAT AUG 4
HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat HYDEAWAY Marleigh and Mueller (classic pop/ jazz/musical theatre); 8pm; 3rd Sat each month; $10 IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Where's Lula (pop); $10 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover NEW CITY The Sorels, White Beaut, guest; 8pm (door), 9pm (show) NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm; Evening: Double Highway O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm
ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12
OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover
BIG VALLEY JAMBOREE– Camrose SAT MAIN STAGE: Pear, the Good Brothers, High Valley, Thompson Square, Dwight Yoakam, Toby Keith; MOLSON
PAWN SHOP West of Hell (metal), Eye of Horus, guests; 7pm; $8 (adv)
CANADIAN SALOON:
Samantha King, Aaron Pritchett, Kal Hourd BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Smoked
RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am SHERLOCK HOLMES– Downtown Stan Gallant
SHERLOCK HOLMES– WEM Alesha and Brendon SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage; 3-7pm STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Death Sentence, the LAMS, the Intensives WUNDERBAR Slates (coming home show)
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: The Menace Sessions: Alt Rock/ Electro/Trash with Miss Mannered; Wooftop: Sound It Up!: classic hip-hop and reggae with DJ Sonny Grimezz; Underdog: Dr. Erick BLACKSHEEP PUB DJ every Sat BONEYARD ALE HOUSE DJ Sinistra Saturdays: 9pm BUDDY'S Feel the rhythm every Sat with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat FILTHY MCNASTY'S Fire up your night every Saturday with DJ SAWG FLUID LOUNGE Scene Saturday's Relaunch: Party; hip-hop, R&B and Dancehall with DJ Aiden Jamali FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian
DJ Sheri 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
J.J. Voss, Chris Henderson BLACKDOG FREEHOUSE Creemore Springs long weekend patio party and BBQ: Free dogs and veggie dogs, 4-6pm; Live music by Needles to Vinyl, guests, 9pm DJs on The Wooftop! BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett
BLUEBERRY BLUESGRASS FESTIVAL– Stony Plain SUN: Instrumental, Vocal and Harmony Workshops, Gospel hour, Backroad's String Band, Mark Phillips
Mike Soviet, dance party led by DJ Steve Glen; 6pm 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 CENTURY CASINO Tình Khúc Quê Hu'o'ng Và Tuoi Tre (Vietnamese concert), Dan Nguyen, Lam Anh, Andy Quach, Linda Chou, Saigonese Band, and more; 7pm (door), 7:30pm (show); $45 at Century Casino CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts
Soul Service (acoustic jam): Willy James and Crawdad Cantera; 3-6:30pm NEW CITY Idyl Tea (alt rock), Concealer, guests; 8pm; $10 (adv)/$12 (door) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Open stage hosted by the Vindicators; 4-8pm every Sun PAWN SHOP Rocky Mountain Rebel Music (R&B), 780 Ska, Micelli; 8pm; $12 (adv) RED PIANO Live dueling pianos long weekend party RICHARD'S PUB Sun Live
ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Soulfix: with DJ Dylan Kennedy SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Signature Saturdays Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays
HALO For Those Who Know: house every Sat with DJ Junior Brown, Luke Morrison, Nestor Delano, Ari Rhodes
SUN AUG 5
JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm
BIG VALLEY JAMBOREE– Camrose SUN MAIN STAGE: The Heartbroken, Williams and Ree, Asleep at the Wheel, Michelle Wright, Kix Brooks, Rascal
NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with
Flatts; MOLSON CANADIAN SALOON: Darlene Tuleta,
BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm
RMRM/ Sun, Aug 5 Rocky Mountain Rebel Music, or RMRM as the nine-piece funk/ska/rock/jazz/electric/reggae/you name it outfit is known, isstopping in Edmonton to promote its new album, Vic Sound System (Pawnshop) V and the IIIrd Generation, the Good Brothers, the Roys, The Gibson Brothers, Calvin Vollrath, the Quebe Sisters Band, Blue Highway, Four Chords of Wood, Michael Martin Murphey, Rhonda Vincent BLUES ON WHYTE Brent Parkin BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun; 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining BOHEMIA Zeitgeist Media Festival: visuals by Just Joe Clarke, music by Ryjin the Recounter and
with a jam session; 7pm DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB Celtic open stage every Sun with Keri-Lynne Zwicker; 5:30pm; no cover DOUBLE D'S Open jam every Sun; 3-8pm EDDIE SHORTS Open stage with Dan Daniels every Sun FILTHY MCNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq HOGS DEN PUB Open Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm NEWCASTLE PUB Sun
Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner) WUNDERBAR Nu Sensae, Energetic Action YELLOWHEAD BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm
DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim
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 BIG VALLEY JAMBOREE– Camrose Camrose Fair Grounds, 4250 Exhibition Dr, Camrose, 780.672.4426 BISTRO LA PERSAUD 861791 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 BLUEBERRY BLUESGRASS FESTIVAL Heritage Park, 4202-50 St, Stony Plain, 780.963.2151 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 9216-34 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 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 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron St, Devon THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW ELECTRIC RODEO–Spruce Grove 121-1 Ave, Spruce Grove, 780.962.1411 ELEPHANT AND CASTLE– Whyte Ave 10314 Whyte Ave EXPRESSIONZ CAFÉ 993870 Ave, 780.437.3667 FESTIVAL PLACE 100 Festival Way, Sherwood Park, 780.449.3378 FIDDLER’S ROOST 890699 St FILTHY MCNASTY’S 1051182 Ave, 780.916.1557 FLASH NIGHT CLUB 10018105 St, 780.996.1778 FLOW LOUNGE 11815 Wayne Gretzky Dr, 780.604. CLUB FLUID LOUNGE 10888 Jasper
Ave, 780.429.0700 FUNKY BUDDHA 10341-82 Ave, 780.433.9676 GOOD EARTH COFFEE HOUSE AND BAKERY 9942-108 St GOOD NEIGHBOR PUB 11824-103 St HALO 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.423.HALO HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOGS DEN PUB 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY 10242-106 St, 780.756.5667 KAS BAR 10444-82 Ave, 780.433.6768 L.B.’S PUB 23 Akins Dr, St Albert, 780.460.9100 LEGENDS PUB 6104-172 St, 780.481.2786 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE 11607 Jasper Ave, 2nd Fl, 780.447.4495 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR 10132-104 St LIZARD LOUNGE 13160118 Ave MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR 10303-108 St, 780.425.9730 NEWCASTLE PUB 6108-90 Ave, 780.490.1999
NEW CITY 8130 Gateway Boulevard NISKU INN 1101-4 St NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O2'S 51 Ave, 103 St 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 1086057 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 R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266 SECOND CUP–89 AVE 8906-149 St SECOND CUP–Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park,
780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 SIDELINERS PUB 11018-127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030-102 St, 780.428.1099 STEEPS TEA LOUNGE– Whyte Ave 11116-82 Ave SUEDE LOUNGE 11806 Jasper Ave, 780.482.0707 SUITE 69 2 Fl, 8232 Gateway Blvd, 780.439.6969 TAPHOUSE 9020 McKenney Ave, St Albert, 780.458.0860 TREASURY 10004 Jasper Ave, 7870.990.1255, thetreasurey.ca TWO ROOMS 10324 Whyte Ave, 780.439.8386 VEE LOUNGE, APEX CASINO–St Albert 24 Boudreau Rd, St Albert, 780.460.8092, 780.590.1128 VINYL DANCE LOUNGE 10740 Jasper Ave, 780.428.8655, vinylretrolounge.com WILD BILL’S–Red Deer Quality Inn North Hill, 7150-50 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
VUEWEEKLY AUGUST 2 – AUGUST 8, 2012
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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 LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am SAVOY MARTINI LOUNGE Reggae on Whyte: RnR Sun with DJ IceMan; no minors; 9pm; no cover
MON AUG 6
Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up)
band Tuesdays: Joint Chiefs (classic rock, soul, R&B) every Tue
FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson
SECOND CUP– Summerwood Open stage/open mic every Tue; 7:30pm; no cover
LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook
TUE AUG 7 BLUES ON WHYTE the Avey Brothers BRIXX BAR Ruby Tuesdays with host Mark Feduk; $5 after 8pm; this week guests: Mayday and the Beatcreeps, Rott'n Dan (Boogie Patrol) And Ramblin Dan, Lustre Creame In
ARTERY Craig Cardiff (folk rock), the Living Daylights; 7:30pm
CENTURY CASINO The Gatlin Brothers; 8pm; $44.95
BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover
DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm
BLUES ON WHYTE the Avey Brothers
DV8 Begrime Exemious, Honour and Devour, Bridgeburner
DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm
JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Yanni; 7:30pm; $80-$110
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
DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay CROWN PUB Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ
L.B.’S Tue Blues Jam with Ammar; 9pm-1am O2'S Singer/Songwriter Night hosted by Darrell Barr every Tue; 7-10pm O’BYRNE’S Celtic jam every Tue; with Shannon Johnson and friends; 9:30pm OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK The Campfire Hero's (acoustic rock, country, top 40); 9pm-2am every Tue; no cover PADMANADI Open stage 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
WUNDERBAR Jim Nowhere, guests
DJs 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, funk, soul, boogie and disco with Rootbeard 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
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Political parties pick and choose the message from meetings Wildrose leader Danielle Smith has terview with Smith after hearing that been meeting with LGBTQ Alberthe leader was interested in "building tans—well, at least a select few—to bridges." Smith and the founders of gather information about our commuIDYG discussed conscience rights, nities and "build bridges." These meetfeminism, transgender equality and ings are unsettling, to say the social programs. least, as Smith and her party During the IDYG interhave made some hate-filled view, Smith said that she and dangerous statements had met with members m ekly.co vuewe about LGBTQ Albertans. of the SMLC who stated alexa@ Alexa e that LGBTQ Edmontonians During this year's election, n DeGag are more concerned with doSmith defended Wildrose candidate Allen Hunsperger and his mestic assaults and drug/alcohol condemnation of homosexuals to a abuse, than they are with hate-molake of fire. Smith also threatened to tivated violence and bullying. Wait, shut down the Human Rights Comwhat? The SMLC—a group mandated mission, and promised that referento work with Edmonton Police Serdums would be used to vote on convice for the public safety and security tentious moral issues, and ultimately needs of the LGBTQ community—is on the rights of minorities. After the stating that LGBTQ Edmontonians Wildrose's loss in the election, Smith are more concerned with drug/alcohol refused to participate in Edmonton's abuse and domestic assault than they Pride Week parade and opening party are with hate crimes and bullying? (not that many would have been jubilant to see her there), and then deRanking serious social issues in clared that gender reassignment surterms of severity and priority can be gery is an elective procedure. a complicated and often useless enWith this history of outright antagodeavour: domestic violence and bulnism toward LGBTQ Albertans, why lying are both social breakdowns that does Smith have a sudden interest need to be addressed urgently. But in getting to know our communities? surely hate-motivated violence and Moreover, why are some LGBTQ orbullying are of constant concern for ganizations agreeing to meet with the SMLC, especially in light of the her? So far three organizations have case of Chevi Rabbit who, while walkmet with her: a Calgary-based transing home in the Garneau area on July gender group, the Edmonton-based 19, was attacked and robbed by sevqueer blog "I Dig Your Girlfriend," eral men who were yelling homopho(IDYG) and the Edmonton Police Serbic slurs. The case is currently being vice's Sexual Minorities Liaison Cominvestigated as a hate crime. mittee (SMLC). IDYG initiated an inI spoke with Kris Wells, chair of the
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SMLC, who stated that the committee did not "downplay the fact that hate crimes or violence are ever-present realities." He further explained that the committee was speaking specifically in relation the LGBTQ issues in relation to the police and crime, and that the committee spoke about many issues without prioritizing any. Wells stated that the SMLC decided to speak with Smith knowing that "the challenge of meeting with politicians is the political spin." Clearly Smith has cherry-picked issues from the meeting that serve her political ends, but the SMLC set up the perfect conditions for her to do so. When organizations (such as the SMLC) speak on behalf of our complicated and diverse communities (in private meetings), they risk over-simplifying complex problems, silencing voices, and prioritizing certain issues over others. When you bring these limited views and perspectives to a politician who is desperate to clean up her party's deplorable image, you run the very real and dangerous risks of enabling a politician to use your community for their political gain. The SMLC may have built a bridge with Smith, but in so doing they have dealt a serious blow to their relationship to Edmonton's LGBTQ communities. V
AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): In old Chi-
while, French writer Honoré de Balzac
na, people used to cool themselves by
(1799-1850) was very poor. He lived in
sipping hot drinks. After taking a bath,
a place that had no heat and almost
they buffed the excess water from their
no furniture. To enhance his environ-
skin by using a wet towel. When greet-
ment, he resorted to the use of fanta-
ing a friend, they shook their own hand
sy. On one of his bare walls, he wrote
instead of the friend's. To erect a new
the words, "rosewood paneling with
house, they built the roof first. You're
ornamental cabinet." On another, he
currently in a phase of your astrologi-
wrote "Gobelin tapestry with Venetian
cal cycle when this kind of behaviour
mirror." That's the level of imaginative
makes sense. In fact, I suspect you're
power I encourage you to summon in
most likely to have a successful week if
the coming weeks. So much of what
you're ready to reverse your usual way
you'll need will come from that simple
of doing things on a regular basis.
magic. CAPRICORN
(Dec 22 – Jan 19): It's an
PISCES
(Feb 19 – Mar 20): I'm really
tired of you not getting all of the ap-
excellent time to overthrow false gods
preciation and acknowledgment and
and topple small-minded authorities
rewards you deserve. Is there even
and expose fraudulent claims. Anyone
a small possibility that you might be
and anything in your environment that
harbouring some resistance to that
do not fully deserve the power they
good stuff? Could you be giving off a
claim should get the brunt of your ex-
vibe that subtly influences people to
uberant skepticism. When you're done
withhold the full blessings they might
cleaning up those messes, turn your
otherwise confer upon you? Accord-
attention to your own inner realms.
ing to my analysis of the astrological
There might be some good work to
omens, the coming weeks will be an
be done there. Can you think of any
excellent time for you to work on cor-
hypocrisy that needs fixing? Any pre-
recting this problem. Do everything
tending that would benefit from a
you can to make it easy for people to
counter dose of authenticity?
offer you their love and gifts.
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COMMENT >> SEX
Proper etiquette
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I love my boyfriend and I am happy when he's happy, but the frequency with which guys make passes at him has started to make me uncomfortable. I told him this, and he tells me he isn't going to tell them to stop because he doesn't see what the problem is, and that it would seem standoffish to say anything negative about these passes. He tells me that it's not like he's making passes back and most of the time he insists I'm misinterpreting an innocent interaction. These guys are actively flirting with my boyfriend, and he takes it as a compliment! Am I being appropriately protective or am I being a jealous douche? SCARED AND PROTECTIVE
If your friends—yours and/or his— are making passes at your boyfriend, SAP, then you have a right to be angry. Good gay etiquette dictates that friends either refrain from making passes at insanely attractive guys who have boyfriends or that they make passes at the insanely attractive guy and his boyfriend. If your friends are making the passes at your boyfriend only, or they're making passes at him and/or you when they know your relationship is exclusive, then you and your boyfriend need to let your disrespectful and/or clueless friends know that they're being huge assholes. But there's not much you can do about strangers making passes at your boyfriend, SAP, particularly if your boyfriend enjoys the attention— and it sure sounds like he does. You've got a hot boyfriend, SAP, and that has its perks, but it has drawbacks, too. Putting up with other people innocently hitting on your boyfriend—innocent because they don't know your boyfriend is partnered, SAP, and because your boyfriend isn't exactly exuding a fuck off vibe—is the
price you'll have to pay to be with this insanely attractive guy. Willing yourself to take these passes and your boyfriend's clear enjoyment of them in stride, SAP, is a wiser course than allowing something that's outside your control to become an ongoing source of conflict in your relationship. Staying with friends of friends in their guest suite and discovered a "funnel gag" sitting on the floor next to the bed. (I took a picture and did a Google Images search!) My best guess is that it fell there after its last "use," as it was on the side of the bed nearest the wall and it could have been overlooked during "cleanup." Do I say something? What's the "etiquette" in a situation like this? What do people use these things for?!? GUEST ASKS GRACIOUSLY
People don't use them to "water" stubborn plants, GAG. And the proper etiquette in a situation like this is to ignore the mislaid sex toy. Leave the gag where you found it and say nothing about it to your hosts, your mutual friend or any syndicated sex-advice columnists. Whether your hosts stumble over the gag after your visit or realize it's missing and slip into their guest suite to retrieve it during your visit, GAG, your discretion will allow your hosts to tell themselves that you didn't discover it. I'm a senior in college and a lesbian, and I have a question about strap-on etiquette. My previous girlfriend and I bought one together, and I really enjoyed being on the receiving end of it. When we broke up, she took it since she felt like she had "bonded" with it. My current GF and I have been thinking of getting one, but I'm not sure how I feel about another joint purchase. I like her a lot, but I don't
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know if our relationship will last after I graduate next spring, and the prospect of having to get a new toy every time I break up with someone isn't appealing. Would it be reasonable, as a generally receptive partner, to buy a strap-on that I can bond with and ask future partners to use it? Is it selfish to be thinking of the eventual end of a relationship when shopping for toys? SEEKING TOY-RELATED ADVICE PRONTO
A strap-on isn't a funnel gag, STRAP. By which I mean to say ... Even if a strap-on is a joint purchase, even if it was purchased for the pleasure of the person "on the receiving end," it's not uncommon for the wearer of a particular strap-on—the person on the giving end—to come to regard the strap-on as an extension of her body and bond with it. Such was the case with your ex. And even if your ex had allowed you to keep that strap-on, STRAP, odds are good that your new girlfriend would also have seen that old strap-on as an extension of your ex's body and insisted on it being replaced. My advice: Go halfsies on a new strapon—on the harness and the dildo—and one or two other sex toys of comparable value and utility. If the relationship ends, your new ex-girlfriend keeps the strap-on, you keep the funnel gag. PROGRAMMING NOTE: "Chick-fil-A" is an obvious synonym for "pegging." I mean, obviously, right? I shall now use Chick-fil-A in a sentence: "Her boyfriend's kinda homophobic, but I hear he loves Chick-fil-A." V
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