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Hungry for E. coli?

She didn't call them homeless or poor as has been misquoted, but it's not a far stretch to suggest that Wildrose Party leader Danielle Smith's response to a tweet on October 21 where she agreed that the tonnes of recalled meat from XL Foods should be fed to the hungry means exactly that—to give it to homeless shelters. It doesn't mean much to recant and say you'd be first in line to buy the meat yourself. Come on: first in line to buy beef possibly tainted with E. coli? Sure, people say if it's cooked to 71 C it will be fine, but I definitely wouldn't be first in line for these cow parts and I bet Smith wouldn't be either.

To suggest that the meat should be given to the "hungry" shows a deep prejudice against those of lesser financial means—poor people. XL Foods has already gotten away with selling contaminated meat to Canadians—even after the Americans stopped importing it—and making 16 people sick. A little apology last week and saying the company takes full responsibility comes a little too late and statements from politicians that favour just giving the meat away endorses a two-tier Canada where the haves get away with crime and the have-nots deal with the consequences.

So what has XL decided to do? Dump the meat in a landfill and sell off the company; scrub their hands good and clean from E. coli residue. JBS USA bought XL Foods last week—a company that has a lawsuit pending in the US by immigrant workers in Colorado and Nebraska who say they were discriminated against because of their race

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and religion. For example, Muslim workers claim they were not given breaks to pray each day during Ramadan and that they were fired when they tried to rearrange their evening break to coincide with prayer time. Also, that they were abused verbally, had animal parts thrown at them and claim that offensive graffiti was written in the bathroom. And since many of the 2200 workers at XL Foods are temporary foreign workers, to add to their woes of being laid off for the past few weeks as they've struggled to make ends meet, when they do go back to work there will be a new owner with a less-than-stellar track record with how it treats its employees to look forward to.

But the now-former owners of XL, the Nilsson Bros, probably weren't too concerned about who bought the company, just as long as someone did, since they sold it at a loss at $50 million USD. A class action lawsuit has been filed against XL by an Edmonton man who becamse sick from contaminated meat and now another lawsuit has popped up concerning a little boy who ate hamburger soup that was made from XL beef in 2004. Only two years old at the time, he has been in a wheelchair and developmentally disabled since. XL says it was the mother's fault for not cooking the E. coli infected meat properly.

Regardless of who is right in this case, the fact remains that this is a company that has made almost 50 Canadians sick from E. coli in two instances (27 were infected in 2004) and has walked away scot free. V

NEWS // TWO-SPIRITS

Two spirits; one body

Born This Way conference aims to bring back the acceptance of days gone by for two-spirit people Fri, Nov 2 – Sat, Nov 3 Born This Way Campus St. Jean

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wo-spirits is what they call it—indigenous North Americans who might otherwise be identified as gay, lesbian or transgendered. Tracy Bear, who's chairing the Born This Way conference that will take a look at two-spiritedness, says it's as if the body houses both a male and a female spirit. Bear is a PhD candidate and in her research for her dissertation about indigenous sexuality she has spoken to many elders about the history of two-spiritedness and how it is viewed today.

“White folks waste people. In many indigenous societies there is a place for everybody, no matter what they turn out to be gender-wise or sexuality-wise,” Bear says, explaining that one elder said this to her about how two-spirit people were never treated as outcasts in the past. Many aboriginal societies would give a person designations throughout their lifetime instead of labelling them with a specific gender at birth. “They'd see how they were when they were born, they'd see how they turned out when they were a toddler, a teenager and, eventually, an adult. Recognizing that there's changes and a fluidity in a person's identity.”

In many indigenous communities these days, the acceptance of two-spirit people has diminished to the point where there is a lot of homophobia on reserves and it is a difficult issue to talk about. Bear says there's a “hetero-patriarchal normative” that most people have now subscribed to, so those who don't fit into that

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mould are snubbed.

“It's such a stigma that they were having unidentified HIV/AIDS cases of people actually passing away and never even being diagnosed," she says. "Or we'd have people who were diagnosed, but they wouldn't go to the clinic to get their medicine because of the stigma attached to it.”

Born This Way is a chance to try and break the reproach of being two-spirited. Bear says that when leaving a small community to attend university with thousands of others, students begin to expand their knowledge and questions about their sexuality pop up. The conference will be a place where those questions can be answered.

“What you start to do is grow in your own identity and part of your identity is your sexuality, so I think there's a freedom at university when you get off your small community or you leave your reserve, that you're allowed to explore and express yourself a little bit more.”

Daytime Friday will be workshops for high school students and their teachers and the event for adults will begin Friday afternoon and continue on Saturday at the University of Alberta's Campus St Jean. This is the first time a post-secondary institution has hosted a two-spirit conference. Born This Way is geared towards people who are two-spirited, people who work with two-spirited people and people who want to expand their knowledge about the subject. Register at aboriginal.ualberta.ca.

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Those Freaks next door Ryan Stock and AmberLynn Walker share their warehouse to help make Edmonton a weirder place

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anada's most famous freakshow couple are hiding in your backyard. Blink and you'd miss their secret warehouse hidden in one of Edmonton's countless industrial zones, sandwiched between the twisted metal of a scrap yard and the cracked pavement of a big-box store parking lot.

Finding the place is just the start.

Once inside, surprises await the uninitiated: a prank roll of TP in the

bathroom that unspools, confounding the seated victim; a tarantula tank with a nasty shock for anyone foolish enough to tap on the glass; and a genuine fake swinging bookcase guarding secret passageways, opened by pulling on the appropriate hardcover.

It's only fitting that the Guinness Book of World Records is the opensesame book for the clever false furniture: the owner has three of

them—Guinness World Records that is—including one for pulling an Audi A4 with a sword—a sword that was down his throat.

This warehouse—with its bloodspattered walls, amateur taxidermy equipment and ample storage for circus props—belongs to Ryan Stock and his fiancée and performing partner of more than a decade, AmberLynn Walker. Stock set his throat-

straining world record on an episode of Guinea Pig, their Discovery Channel TV show that saw him test the limits of his body's endurance. Photos from his three episodes of being blasted with non-lethal police weapons are now used in courts to show the effects of rubber bullets and Tasers.

Stock and Walker, both 31, are on hiatus from television and focusing on their live performances. You might

have seen them performing with their friend Fat Matt, the World's Fattest Contortionist, at this year's Fringe Festival with their circus-tent show Sick?—a showcase for their talent of simultaneously nauseating and entertaining an audience.

"We're a modern freakshow," said Stock, relaxing on a Victorian couch in their warehouse. "TV was great, CONTINUED ON PAGE 10 >>

COMMENT >> ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT FLAWS

No meat environmental monitoring Government plan to get serious about Alberta environment needs work Billed as a big, important announce- By establishing an arms' length sciment, the Alberta government finally ence-based environmental monitoring announced how it will move forward agency. According to the government's to deal with the problem of inad- press release, this agency "will begin equate environmental monitoring in work in the oil sands region and will the province's north—something focus on what is monitored, how Albertans have been waiting it's monitored and where it's for since the government monitored. This will include E first acknowledged the integrated and coordinated C N E FER problem two years ago.

INTER vueweekly.com monitoring of land, air, wa@ ricardo For a moment, it actually ter and biodiversity." o Ricard appeared the government a This is good news, right? At ñ u c A might be ready to start taking long last Albertans are going concrete steps to fix the problem as to get what so many had been asking Alberta's Minister of Environment for: an independent, science-based and Sustainable Development, Diana agency to establish environmental McQueen, announced a press confer- guidelines and then monitor the obence to release the recommendations servance of those guidelines. of the Environmental Working Group Unfortunately, it's never quite that and the government's corresponding straightforward with this governaction plan. ment. It turns out this wasn't actually The plan was laid out in a news re- announcing the launch of a monitorlease that, even by Government of ing agency, but rather the establishAlberta standards, was quite over ment of a management board which the top. It boasted that Alberta was will eventually report back to the set to build "the most comprehensive environment minister with recomenvironmental monitoring program in mendations on how an agency could Canada." How would Alberta do this? be created.

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It's also the case that, once the agency does get created, it won't actually be independent, but rather will report directly to the minister, who will determine what gets passed on to the public and what doesn't. The government will also get to appoint the people on the agency. Furthermore, there is still no commitment to fund the creation of this agency or its work— figuring out how to do that will be part of the work of the management board. However it gets funded, the government has been clear that all money will go through its books before getting handed to the agency.

Ultimately, the government's overthe-top media release and press conference had absolutely no meat to them whatsoever. No agency has been funded or created, no funding commitments have been made and we're in exactly the same place vis-ávis environmental monitoring in this province that we've been in for the past two years.

In case you've forgotten, this whole process started almost two years ago when the government could no longer deny that monitoring of the environmental impacts of bitumen developments was grossly inadequate. That admission resulted in the government appointing an expert panel to look at and make recommendations on the state of environmental monitoring in the province. That panel recommended the creation of an independent science-based agency to set up and oversee monitoring in the province.

The government responded to that recommendation by creating a working group of experts, which in turn recommended the creation of an independent science-based agency.

That's the group whose report the government released last week and responded to by announcing the creation of a management board to make recommendations on what an independent monitoring agency could look like.

Howard Tennant, who headed the

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working group and will chair the new management board, suggests that it could take up to two years for this board to report back to the Minister on a recommended structure and funding model for the agency. At that point, those recommendations would once again have to work their way through the government for approval.

So to recap, after two years and two reports we still have no new environmental monitoring agency, no funding model, and no timeline, but we do know that if and when that agency finally does get created it will be neither financially nor politically independent. And yet, somehow, the government can still claim with a straight face that environmental stewardship is at the top of its priority list. How gullible does it think Albertans are? 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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COMMENT >> FUTURE FUEL

Fuel from the air

Petrol made from water and air? Not a far-fetched possibility Stockton-on-Tees, a small city in north- out of the air when it was fabricated, eastern England, has only one claim it is a carbon-neutral fuel. Provided, to fame: the first railway tracks were of course, that the electricity used in made and laid in the city in 1822 and the process comes from renewable the first-ever train ran on those sources. tracks in 1825. But it might one No wonder that people day have another claim, also who worry about global related to transportation: a warming are excited about om eekly.c w e locally based start-up comthis breakthrough—but u v e@ gwynn e n n pany called Air Fuel Synthesis they should get excited y Gw has just produced the first petslowly. The question was Dyer rol (gasoline) from air and water. never IF you could create a It isn't a lot of petrol—five litres in complex hydrocarbon like petrol from two months —but Peter Harrison, just air and water, but HOW MUCH it the company's chief executive, hopes costs to do it, compared to just pumpthat within two years they will build ing oil out of the ground and refining a larger plant producing a ton a day. it. The answer in the past has been: far He envisages refinery-scale operations too much. Splitting water molecules to within 15 years. get hydrogen is expensive in terms of "We've taken carbon dioxide from air the electricity required. Carbon dioxide and hydrogen from water and turned is easily available as the by-product these elements into petrol," Harrison of burning coal or oil, but using that told a conference at the Institution of CO2 as the feedstock for artificial petMechanical Engineers in London. Since rol only postpones the moment when the carbon dioxide that goes into the it gets into the atmosphere by a few air when this fuel is burned exactly days or weeks. equals the amount that was taken If you want a truly carbon-neutral

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but we prefer live stage shows—you get that instant gratification from the crowd's reaction."

The duo does what they love—they just happen to love stuff that most consider "weird." Like the sword swallowing: there are less than one hundred performing sword swallowers on the planet—making it one of the world's rarest skills. Stock makes all his own swords at the warehouse and is teaching Walker the finer points of sword-swallowing with a long pair of hand-tailored surgical tongs.

"Right now, I'm working on being able to swallow a billiard ball," Stock said, pointing to a nine-ball with a string tied to it to keep it out of his stomach until he masters regurgitation. "But I'm working my way up with golf balls right now."

Combining Stock's passion for reimagining sideshow performance— like developing The Human MeatHead, where he uses a meat hook torqued through his nasal cavity to lift toasters and even pull cars—with Walker's business sense has meant they've been able to support them-

selves solely through their sideshow talents.

"I'm always surprised when people are shocked by me doing the human blockhead," said Stock, describing the classic stunt where a performer pounds nails—or in his case, jams a running power drill—up their nasal cavity. "Because all my friends do it— that's all I see on my Facebook feed.

I guess that's because we've been doing this for so long and haven't had an actual nine-to-five job in 11 years."

In the decade they've been performing together, including a stint with international sideshow heavyweights The Jim Rose Circus, Stock and Walker have picked up business savvy to complement and further their freaky antics. For example, Stock cautions to "never work with a promoter who cries in front of you," always get paid for your work and don't oversaturate your market—in their case, by doing too many shows in Edmonton.

Halloween, their busiest season, will see them perform more than a dozen times over four days as part of Calgary's ScreamFest.

Ever the performer, Stock, son of

fuel, then the carbon dioxide you use must come straight from the air. Prototype machines have been built (by Klaus Lackner of Columbia University and David Keith of the University of Calgary) that can extract CO2 from the air in industrial quantities, but the price per ton at the moment is about $600.

Harrison is cagey about his current production cost per litre: at the "proofof-principle" stage, everything costs a fortune. But as he told The Independent in a recent interview, "You're in a marketplace where the only way is up for the price of fossil fuel. At some point there will be a crossover where our fuel becomes cheaper."

The question was never IF you could create a complex hydrocarbon like petrol from just air and water, but HOW MUCH it costs to do it, compared to just pumping oil out of the ground and refining it.

That's far too much, but as Lackner points out, the cost of any new technology plunges steeply once it goes into volume production. And the cost of getting hydrogen from water may also drop dramatically. Daniel Nocera of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has developed a catalyst made from cobalt and phosphorus that can split water at room temperature.

Keith sees it the same way. "You're selling this fuel and they're burning it, putting carbon in the air, but then you're recapturing the same amount of carbon and selling it to them again.

That's a business model that could conceivably take a whack at the global transportation market, which is the hardest part of the climate problem to attack."

a "very supportive" Baptist minister, was staging magic shows in his native Beaumont before he was in his teens.

But thanks to a gift from his parents—a book on fire eating that now sits on his real-fake swinging bookshelf in the warehouse—he soon segued to eating glass and pounding nails up his nose.

Walker, originally from Peace River, describes herself as a "muse," but you could easily tack on photographer-

wisdom through their travels and career, Stock and Walker are keen to help other artists do what they love—and do it for a living.

"We want to open the warehouse to the arts community," Walker says.

"There's a ridiculous amount of talent in Edmonton—and a lot of artists need space, but they just can't afford it."

The warehouse has an anything-canhappen spirit. The couple have trans-

Stock makes all his own swords at the warehouse and is teaching Walker the finer points of swordswallowing with a long pair of hand-tailored surgical tongs. actor-designer-contortionist-paintersewer-balloon animal master. Indeed, the two met at the Fringe Fest 11 years ago when Walker was busking by making balloon animals.

"You need to embrace the weird in your life," Walker says. "One thing I've learned is that there's no such thing as 'normal'—and when people call me weird, I take it as a compliment."

And, having gained experience and

formed the blah-beige warehouse into an alternate reality, one where Enigma—the guy with puzzle pieces tattooed all over his body—might stop by to carve Halloween pumpkins and an average evening could feature a world record attempt for most "water balloons" snorted up the nose.

Sharing the space is an open-ended concept. It could mean a band using the warehouse to shoot a music vid-

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Maybe Harrison's process will not win the race to capture that market. Maybe the cheaper option will be to grow green algae in waste water or salt water, crush it to extract the oil and then refine the oil into petrol, diesel and so on. (Exxon-Mobil is currently spending about $100 million a year to develop that process.) But one way or another, the petrol we put in our vehicles in 25 years' time will probably not come out of the ground.

An entire industry employing millions of people, and the national budgets of entire countries, and much of the military planning by the world's great powers, all rest on the assumption that this will never happen. Of course it will. The pressure to cut greenhouse gas emissions will grow as the temperature rises, and the desire for "energy independence" will only get stronger as oil price rises. V Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries.

eo, or a performer using Stock's tools and know-how to design and build circus props. Or, like the scene when I visited the warehouse last month, it can just get weird.

Edmonton photographer Renee Robyn was using the warehouse's built-in stage and studio space to shoot promotional photos for The Profane Exhibit, a locally-produced horror movie. She ran into a snag when one of the half-dozen or so scantily-clad models asked to use her own blood for the shoot—not a fan, apparently, of the prop plasma covering the other models.

Walker, a model in the shoot and a co-star in the movie, called out to Stock in the next room: "Do we have a scalpel?"

Unfazed, he suggested a syringe— more hygienic, he reasoned. Minutes later, and thanks to the accommodating hosts at the warehouse, the nearly-naked woman was, to her satisfaction, covered in her own blood and the shoot went on.

"Just another Saturday night," said Stock, sporting a wicked grin.

JOSH MARCELLIN

// JOSH@VUEWEEKLY.COM

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FAX YOUR FREE LISTINGS TO 780.426.2889 OR EMAIL LISTINGS@VUEWEEKLY.COM DEADLINE: FRIDAY AT 3pm

COMEDY BRIXX BAR • 10030-102 St • 780.428.1099 • Troubadour Tuesdays monthly with comedy and music

CENTURY CASINO • 13103 Fort Rd • 780.481.9857 • Open amateur night every Thu, 7:30pm COMEDY FACTORY • Gateway Entertainment Centre, 34 Ave, Calgary Tr • Dave Stawnichy; Oct 25-27 • Chris Heward; Nov 1-3

COMIC STRIP • Bourbon St, WEM • 780.483.5999 • Wed-Fri, Sun 8pm; Fri-Sat 10:30pm • Mike Dambra; Oct 24-28 • Mike Vecchione; Oct 31-Nov 4 CONNIE'S COMEDY • Richard's Pub, 12150-161 Ave • Featuring Lars Callieou, Craig Sherburne, and Ken Hicks • 8pm • Call 780.914.8966 to reserve

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DRUID • 11606 Jasper Ave • 780.710.2119 • Comedy night open stage hosted by Lars Callieou • Every Sun, 9pm

FILTHY MCNASTY'S • 10511-82 Ave • 780.996.1778 • Stand Up Sundays: Stand-up comedy night every Sun with a different headliner every week; 9pm; no cover OVERTIME PUB • 4211-106 St • Open mic comedy anchored by a professional MC, new headliner each week • Every Tue • Free

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • Sterling

780·756·9311

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Scott every Wed, 9pm

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

WUNDERBAR • 8120-101 St, 780.436.2286 • Comedy every 2nd Mon ZEN LOUNGE • 12923-97 St • The Ca$h Prize comedy contest hosted by Matt Alaeddine and Andrew Iwanyk • Every Tue, 8pm • No cover

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

ARGENTINE TANGO DANCE AT FOOT NOTES STUDIO • Foot Notes Dance Studio - (South side), 9708-45 Ave • 780.438.3207 • virenzi@shaw.ca • Join Vincenzo and Ida Renzi every Friday at Foot Notes Dance Studio for an evening of authentic Argentine tango • Every Fri, 8pm-midnight • $15 (per person)

AWA 12-STEP SUPPORT GROUP • Braeside Presbyterian Church bsmt, N. door, 6 Bernard Dr, Bishop St, Sir Winston Churchill Ave, St Albert • For adult children of alcoholic and dysfunctional families • Every Mon 7:30pm BRAIN TUMOUR PEER SUPPORT GROUP • Woodcroft Branch Library, 13420-114 Ave • braintumour.ca • 1.800.265.5106 ext. 234 • Support group for brain tumour survivors and their families and caregivers. Must be 18 or over • 3rd Tue every month; 7-8:45pm • Free

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RAW FOOD • Earth’s General Store, 9605-82

Y TOASTMASTERS CLUB • Strathcona

Ave • egs.ca/node/442 • Cool Smoothies, Icy Cookies & Salty-Sweet: Easy “icy” cookies melt in your mouth. Smoothies: Hot-Apple-Pie, Mint-Patty, Beauty Smoothie, Creamy-Chai, Butter-Tart, Strawberry-Shortcake; Icy Coco Cookies, Salty-Sweet Ginger Dots • Oct 28, 6:50-9pm • $25

FLASH NIGHT CLUB • 10018-105 St • 780.969.9965 • Thu Goth + Industrial Night: Indust:real Assembly with DJ Nanuck; 10pm (door); no cover • Triple Threat Fridays: DJ Thunder, Femcee DJ Eden Lixx • DJ Suco beats every Sat • E: vip@flashnightclub.com

LIVING POSITIVE • 404, 10408-124 St • edm-

WHO BUILT THAT? MONEY, SOCIETY AND THE STATE OF THE U.S. ELECTION RACE AND BEYOND • Room 237/231, Law

G.L.B.T.Q SAGE BOWLING CLUB • 780.474.8240, E: Tuff@shaw.ca • Every Wed, 1:30-3:30pm

geocities.com/makingwaves_edm • Recreational/competitive swimming. Socializing after practices • Every Tue/Thu

Centre, Faculty of Law, U of A • Presented by Chrystia Freeland, Editor, Thomson Reuters Digital • Oct 30, 12-1:30pm • Free (RSVP to lawcomm@ualberta.ca)

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,

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 ANCIENT SOUNDS OF GREECE • University of Alberta, Tory Breezeway 2 • tanyah@ualberta. ca • Dr. Nikos Xanthoulis, an archaeologist and musician, will discuss ancient Greek music from 800 B.C. to 400 A.D., introducing musical instruments such as the salpinx (a type of trumpet) and the lyre, and shedding light on the performance of lyric songs by actually playing reconstructed instruments • Nov 1, 7-8:30pm • Free

A PLANT-BASED DIET AND YOUR HEALTH: WHAT DOES THE RESEARCH SAY • Idylwylde Library, 8310-88 Ave • Dr. Gross will present hard facts regarding healthy life style with emphasis on nutrition and will debunk myths • Oct 25, 6-7pm • Free

FOOD AND URBAN AGRICULTURE INFO

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

GLBT SPORTS AND RECREATION •

DROP-IN MEDITATION CLASSES • Sherwood Park Community Centre (Mon); Amitabha Centre, 9550-87 St (Tue, Fri) • info@ meditationedmonton.org • Every Mon, Tue 7-8:30pm and Fri 10-11:30am

EDMONTON BIKE ART NIGHTS • BikeWorks, 10047-80 Ave, back alley entrance • Art Nights • Every Wed, 6-9pm FABULOUS FACILITATORS TOASTMASTERS CLUB • 2nd Floor Canada Place, 9700 Jasper Ave • 780.467.6013, l.witzke@shaw.ca • fabulousfacilitators.toastmastersclubs.org • Can you think of a career that does not require communication • Every Tue, 12:05-1pm

FERTILITY AWARENESS CHARTING CIRCLE MEETING • Cha Island Tea Co, 10332-81 Ave • faccedmonton@gmail.com • Learn about menstrual cycle charting and share your personal experiences in a supportive group environment • 1st Mon of the month from Oct-Apr, 6:30-8:30pm • $5 suggested donation

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

HOME–Energizing Spiritual Community for Passionate Living • Garneau/Ashbourne Assisted Living Place, 11148-84 Ave • Home: Blends music, drama, creativity and reflection on sacred texts to energize you for passionate living • Every Sun, 3-5pm

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

LOTUS QIGONG • 780.477.0683 • Downtown • Practice group meets every Thu

MADELEINE SANAM FOUNDATION • Faculté St Jean, Rm 3-18 • 780.490.7332 • Program for HIV-AID’S prevention, treatment and harm reduction in French, English and other African languages • 3rd and 4th Sat, 9am-5pm each month • Free (member)/$10 (membership); pre-register

SPECIAL EVENTS HILLARY'S RIDE FOR MENTAL HEALTH FUNDRAISER • Blue Chair Cafe, 9624-76 Ave

MEDITATION • Strathcona Library • medi-

• hillarysride.ca • With Bill Werthmann, Terry Morrison & John Gorham, Thomas Slaymaker & Byron Myhre • Oct 26, 8pm • Donation (reservations recommended)

tationedmonton.org • Weekly meditation dropin; every Tue, 7-8:30pm

NORTHERN ALBERTA WOOD CARVERS ASSOCIATION • Duggan Community Hall,

PERSONS DAY BREAKFAST • Sutton Place

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

Hotel, downtown • With speaker Jan Wong.

Wong will speak about her struggle with workplace-caused depression • Oct 29, 7:309am • $55 (individuals), $20 (students/seniors/ underemployed), $550 (table of 10)

OCCUPY EDMONTON GENERAL ASSEMBLY • Grant MacEwan City Centre

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 min walk through Centennial Park, a cool down and stretch • Every Tue, 8:30am • $2/ session (goes to the Alzheimer’s Society of Alberta)

SUGARSWING DANCE CLUB • Orange Hall, 10335-84 Ave or Pleasantview Hall, 10860-57 Ave • 780.604.7572 • Swing Dance at Sugar Foot Stomp: beginner lesson followed by dance every Sat, 8pm (door) at Orange Hall or Pleasantview Hall

WOMEN IN BLACK • In Front of the Old Strathcona Farmers' Market • Silent vigil the 1st and 3rd Sat, 10-11am, each month, stand in

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PRIDE CENTRE OF EDMONTON • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608-105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • A safe, welcoming, and nonjudgemental drop-in space, support programs and resources offered for members of the GLBTQ community, their families and friends • Daily: Community drop-in; support and resources. Queer library: borrowing privileges: Tue-Fri 12-9pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, closed SunMon; Queer HangOUT (a.k.a. QH) youth drop-in: Tue-Fri 3-8pm, Sat 2-6:30pm, youth@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Counselling: Free, short-term by registered counsellors every Wed, 5:30-8:30pm, info/bookings: 780.488.3234 • Knotty Knitters: Knit and socialize in safe, accepting environment, all skill levels welcome; every Wed 6-8pm • QH Game Night: Meet people through board game fun; every Thu 6-8pm • QH Craft Night: every Wed, 6-8pm • QH Anime Night: Watch anime; every Fri, 6-8pm • Movie Night: Open to everyone; 2nd and 4th Fri each month, 6-9pm • Women’s Social Circle: Social support group for femaleidentified persons +18 years in the GLBT community; new members welcome; 2nd and 4th Thu, 7-9pm each month; andrea@ pridecentreofedmonton.org • Men Talking with Pride: Support and social group for gay and bisexual men to discuss current issues; every Sun 7-9pm; robwells780@hotmail.com • TTIQ: a support and information group for all those who fall under the transgender umbrella and their family/supporters; 3rd Mon, 7-9pm, each month • HIV Support Group: Support and discussion group for gay men; 2nd Mon, 7-9pm, each month; huges@shaw.ca Church, 10804-119 St • 780.474.8240 • Every 2nd and last Fri each Month, 7-10:30pm

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

ORGANIZATION FOR BIPOLAR AFFECTIVE DISORDER (OBAD) • Grey

MAKING WAVES SWIMMING CLUB •

PRIMETIMERS/SAGE GAMES • Unitarian

FOOD ADDICTS • St Luke's Anglican Church,

Cafeteria, 10600-104 Ave • oc.yeg.info@gmail. com • A leaderless space where everyone is welcome to organize and/or assist with all forms of Edmonton based non-violent activism • Every Tue from 6:30-8:30pm & Sat from 2-4pm

livingpositive.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

SESSION • Hostelling International Edmonton, 10647-81 Ave • Organizer of the Greater Edmonton Alliance, Madhu Sood, will be discussing the impact of Edmonton's Food and Urban Agriculture Strategy. Hosted by Oxfam • Oct 25, 6-8:30pm • Donation

FOOD CRAVINGS & EMOTIONAL EATING • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • vofa.ca • Find out why you have food cravings or sometimes feel out of control around food • Oct 27, 7pm • $20 (paid in person in cash)

GREAT EXPEDITIONS • St Luke’s AnglicanChurch, 8424-95 Ave • 780.469.3270 • 1st Mon every month, 7:30pm • Suggested donation of $3 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY VOLUNTEER INFORMATION & TOOL TRAINING SESSION • Prefab Shop, 13044 Yellowhead Trail • hfh.org • 780.451.3416, ext. 234 • Information on programs, tools, and more • Oct 27, 8:30am4pm • Free

LIVING FOODS SUNDAY SUMMER SERIES • Earth's General Store, 9605-82 Ave • Every Sun, 6:50-9pm • Pre-register; $25 (each session); info: Robyn at rawrobyn@gmail.com

women every 2nd Tue each month, 8pm • groups.yahoo.com/group/bwedmonton

BUDDYS NITE CLUB • 11725B Jasper Ave • 780.488.6636 • Tue with DJ Arrow Chaser, free pool all night; 9pm (door); no cover • Wed with DJ Dust’n Time; 9pm (door); no cover • Thu: Men’s Wet Underwear Contest, win prizes, hosted by Drag Queen DJ Phon3 Hom3; 9pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Fri Dance Party with DJ Arrow Chaser; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm • Sat: Feel the rhythm with DJ Phon3 Hom3; 8pm (door); no cover before 10pm

EDMONTON PRIME TIMERS (EPT) • Unitarian Church of Edmonton, 10804-119 St • A group of older gay men who have common interests meet the 2nd Sun, 2:30pm, for a social period, short meeting and guest speaker, discussion panel or potluck supper. Special interest groups meet for other social activities throughout the month. E: edmontonpt@ yahoo.ca

EPLC FELLOWSHIP PAGAN STUDY GROUP • Pride Centre of Edmonton, 10608105 Ave • 780.488.3234 • eplc.webs.com • Free year long course; Family circle 3rd Sat each month • Everyone welcome

101 Airport Rd

G.L.B.T.Q SENIORS GROUP • S.A.G.E Bldg, Craftroom, 15 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.474.8240 • Meeting for gay seniors, and for any seniors who have gay family members and would like some guidance • Every Thu, 1-4pm • Info: E: tuff @shaw.ca ILLUSIONS SOCIAL CLUB • Pride Centre, 10608 - 105 ave • 780.387.3343 • groups.yahoo. com/group/edmonton_illusions • Crossdressers meet 2nd Fri each month, 8:30pm

INSIDE/OUT • U of A Campus • Campusbased organization for lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans-identified and queer (LGBTQ) faculty, graduate student, academic, straight allies and support staff • 3rd Thu each month (fall/winter terms): Speakers Series. E: kwells@ualberta.ca

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY • 10242-106 St • 780.756.5667 • junctionedmonton.com • Open Tues-Sat: Community bar with seasonal patio • Beat the clock Tue • WINGSANITY Wed, 5-10pm • Free pool Tue and Wed • Karaoke Wed, 9-12pm • Fri Steak Night, 5-9pm • Frequent special events: drag shows, leather nights, bear bashes, girls nights • DJs every Fri and Sat, 10pm

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ST. ANDREW'S QUILTING GROUP ANNUAL FALL QUILT SALE • St. Andrew's United Church, 9915-148 St • Purchase precious hand-made quilts, comforters, afghans, and other comfort items. All proceeds go to charity • Oct 27, 10am-2pm • Free

SUSTAINABILITY AWARENESS WEEK • University of Alberta • sustainability. ualberta.ca/saw • Comprised of dozens of free sustainability-related events, tours and panels running across multiple university campuses • Oct 29-Nov 2 • Free

THOUSAND FACES FESTIVAL • Avenue Theatre, 9030-118 Ave • thousandfaces.ca • Celebrating the diversity of international myth through performance and visual art. Features music, dance, theatre, visual art, and storytelling presentations inspired by traditional tales from many cultures • Oct 28-Nov 11 • Free URBAN MOMMY EXPO • WECA, 6315-199 St • info@urbanmommyexpo.com • facebook. com/urbanmommyexpo • More than 60 vendors showcasing the latest finds for moms baby and parenting related items, fashion and home products, specialized services moms • Oct 27, 10am-5pm • $2, free (kids 6 and under)

FILM

"I feel like I've always known what I wanted to do, but it was a matter of how do I do what I want to do."

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Shrewd ambiguity Arbitrage an unbalanced mix of character study and thriller

What do you mean the guy behind me is staring?

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s it a mark of shrewdly measured ambiguity or just confused storytelling that Arbitrage can't seem to decide if Robert Miller (Richard Gere), a charismatic billionaire, Fortune cover-boy, beloved patriarch, hedge fund manager and the film's protagonist, is a) a well-tailored snake so solipsistic that he doesn't even seem cognizant of his moral bankruptcy or perilous irresponsibility—the kind of guy who helped to bring about the 2008 financial crisis and ruin countless lives—or b) a Job-like figure, manicured for pa-

thos, whose 60th birthday is accompanied by a blizzard of catastrophe that only someone as adept with negotiation, deceit and multitasking could possibly circumvent? I'm willing to give writer/director Nicholas Jarecki—clearly a smart guy (and the little brother of fellow smartguy filmmakers Andrew and Eugene Jarecki)—the benefit of the doubt, to call all this ambiguity and to call this ambiguity a strength, a way for us to feel complicit in Miller's activities, so emblematic of the values underlying the so-called American capitalist spirit. But there are aspects of Arbitrage—the woefully flat female supporting characters, the scenes that needlessly stray from Miller and diffuse the film's momentum—

that diminish this effect, rendering the film too artificial to hit the desired nerves.

Miller's problems include the possible exposure of big-ticket financial fraud that could thwart the desperately needed sale of his company and land his own daughter (Brit Marling), a partner in the company but unaware of dad's having cooked the books, in jail. More urgently—at least for audience members more versed in the perils of illicit sex than corrupt financial practices—Miller's mistress (Laetitia Casta), a young artist whose career and very comfortable lifestyle he's supporting, is killed late one night in an accident resulting from Miller falling asleep at the wheel. Imagining the

chaos that news of his involvement in the accident will unleash upon both his professional and personal life—he assumes his wife (Susan Sarandon, in a role undeserving of her talents) doesn't know about the affair—Miller decides not to dial 911 and instead flees the scene and calls on the son (Nate Parker) of a former chauffer whom he figures owes him a favour.

Soon a scruffy, innately suspicious detective (Tim Roth) starts sniffing around, trying to force the chauffer's son to squeal on Miller, and soon we're fully immersed into the terrain of the slickly anonymous Hollywood thriller, replete with a boilerplate dialtone genre score from Cliff Martinez and a baffling dependency on establishing shots. It's as though Jarecki, like

Miller, feels like everything will work out all right if he simply dots every i and crosses every t. Instead, the film feels overworked and overlong.

There are ways of fusing the elements of a character study with those of a thriller; I think Arbitrage might have benefitted from injecting more of the former into the latter. Gere's quite appropriately cast, perfectly convincing as a guy who works very, very hard at being a phony. Gere does fine with what he's given, but I wanted Jarecki to be a little more curious about him, to fully commit to letting the audience be the judge of Miller's actions and surrender to a truly subjective, first-person approach.

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Paranormal Activity 4

Creepy kids want to Skype too, you know

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eeeere's Katie! The possessed aunt of Paranormal Activity returns in the series' fourth entry,

which also offers up allusions to Danny's Big Wheel in The Shining and the knife in Psycho, not to mention Poltergeist's kid-talkingto-the-TV. Yet the story is starting to seem stretched thinner than a worn sheet. PA is now a kind of serialized Gothic novel-on-film that's

at least outlasted and outbested its '90s horror-franchise predecessor, The Blair Witch Project. Still, instalments are increasingly but none-too-brightly illuminating the story of Katie (Katie Featherstone) and Hunter (abducted by Katie in PA2).

When Alex (Kathryn Newton) and her family, including adopted brother Wyatt (Aiden Lovekamp), take in neighbour Katie's "son" Robbie, she starts noting strange disturbances.

So she and her video-chatting boyfriend Ben (Matt Shively) decide to set up internal surveillance for their home security, placing laptops and other cameras around the house to watch what's going on.

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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY

Blacula

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Fri, Oct 26 (11 pm) Directed by William Crain Metro Cinema at the Garneau Originally Released: 1972

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t's probably most useful to think of Blaxploitation not so much as a genre unto itself but rather as a prism through which the filmmakers can repurpose existing genres. Case in point: Blacula, American International Pictures' lowbudget, shamelessly pandering, Afrocentric spin on Bram Stoker's classic horror novel and its countless cinematic incarnations. Opening with a scene, set in 1780, in which Prince Mamuwalde (William Marshall), ruler of an unidentified African country, pays a visit to Count Dracula's Transylvanian castle in search of an ally in his campaign to end the slave trade. Dracula's hardly inclined to start caring about slaves—after all, the guy routinely feeds on the blood of others and turns them into undead creatures who do his bidding—and opts instead to appropriate Mamuwalde's extremely attractive wife, Luva (Vonetta McGee), turn the prince into a vampire and imprison him in a

coffin. Mamuwalde's torment subsides only 192 years later, when an interracial gay couple travels from "the Village" to Romania to shop for high-end antiques.

They bring the coffin back to the US and soon enough Mamuwalde wakes up, busts out and starts sucking blood.

Seemingly nonplussed by the vestiges of two centuries' worth of civilization and technological advancement, Mamuwalde wanders some version of Los Angeles, I think it's meant to be, and eventually meets Tina (also McGee), whom he believes to be the reincarnation of Luva. Mamuwalde

seduces Tina, but the interracial crime fighting duo of Dr Gordon Thomas (Thalmus Rasulala) and Lt Jack Peters (Ladies and gentlemen, Officer of the Order of Canada, Gordon Pinsent) are getting wise to the prince's neck-chomping ways and threaten to thwart Mamuwalde's union with his soul mate all over again.

According to the film's production history, the whole slavery-infused prologue was an afterthought, prompted by Marshall's demands that his character seem more dignified. Indeed, little else in Blacula seems to possess much in way of overt or in any case coherent political commentary, even on the level of what might be deemed sheer Black Power propaganda. And the film certainly doesn't shy away from using its crudely stereotyped gay characters for cheap laughs; Pinsent's best/

worst line, upon learning of the disappearance of the corpse of Mamuwalde's first victim: "Who the hell would want a dead faggot?" Being an AIP exploitation film, the production values are, ahem, not high. There are continuity errors so flagrant as to seem avant-garde, and the entire film is bizarrely over-lit considering the fact that its central character is, you know, a vampire.

But there are reasons to see Blacula beyond the ironic chuckles: a terrific opening title sequence; a pleasingly counterintuitive (given the genre) R&B score from Gene Page; an amusing, goofily cocksure supporting character named Skillet (Ji-tu Cumbuka) who swaggers into a couple of scenes with no apparent purpose other than to make Mamuwalde exit; a surprisingly solid band that plays at the nightclub where Mamuwalde hangs with his new pals; and, most especially, the outfits. Seriously.

Pretty much everything McGee wears is a knockout, especially Luva's African royalty garb or this sexy little getup Tina tops off with this kind of a cappuccino knit skullcap. Not everyone in Blacula seems as thoughtfully dressed, but clearly McGee wasn't about to be caught dead—or undead—in anything less than a memorable, welltailored fashion statement.

retro-eerie in its use of a slowly rotating camera, there's something boringly up-to-date about PA4. It's tough to care much about the fate of a generic, whitebread family and its blonde-in-distress living in an airless, gated-community Nevada.

The tension between Alex's parents is little developed and we've seen the creepy kid and freakedout teens in countless fear-fests before. While some of the latest tech is used well (one scene, where a soon-to-be victim takes up most of the view from a laptop-cam, is creepily good), other tech isn't (a video-game motion-sensing system comes off as a banal strobe-effect).

And it's clear, if you've seen PA3, what all the shadowy spirit-business is leading up to, though the build-up here is fitful.

There's little depth or subtext to come back to here and the signs of a quickly done, low-budget, onlocation movie-shoot are starting to crackle through the screen more and more. By the end of Paranormal Activity 4, there's that faint, unnerving feeling of having just been led through a haunted house for some ghoul-cool and getting only a few boo!s for one's buck.

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Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel Opens Friday Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland Princess Theatre

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ever pretty enough to be a model, Diana Vreeland (nee Dalziel, which apparently means "I dare" in Gallic) became the model of the self-made woman instead. An iconoclastic columnist and editor at Harper's Bazaar and later Vogue, she was compulsively pithy, endlessly quotable and an ever-smiling, workaholic, charismatic lioness. She had a one of a kind, uncanny talent when it came to spotting nascent glamour. Shrewdly avant-garde when it came to fashion, she's credited with turning models into celebrities and celebrities into models.

Her vision of style was about much more than clothes; it was about persona, about movement, about how one lives in the world—and it was imperative that the phenomena of style integrate itself into the greater culture.

Vreeland also seemed to have an uncanny knack for being in the right place at the right time and meeting all the right people— even if some of her claims fell into

The first lady of fashion

a grey zone between fact and fiction that she liked to call "faction."

She was born in Belle époque Paris, danced every night away in New York in the roaring '20s, swung into London in time for the '60s, and made friends with Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty and made the guest list at Warhol's Factory before that heady decade ended.

As a kid her folks had Nijinsky and Diaghilev over as guests and she rode horses with Buffalo Bill. She hobnobbed with Coco Chanel and spotted Hitler on the eve of the Second World War ("That moustache was hilarious… It was utterly wrong!"). Jackie Kennedy asked her for fashion advice on the eve of her husband's election. Vreeland discovered Lauren Bacall and

Twiggy and celebrated Barbara Streisand's nose. She saw Lindbergh fly over her head on his way to Paris (though that claim sounds especially apocryphal). Over the course of her 86 years she was sort of everywhere, even the movies: she was featured, by name or by thinly veiled alias, in Funny Face and Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?, and, posthumously, in Factory Girl and Infamous. Now she's finally in a movie that's all about her. It's called Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel and thought it isn't anywhere near as stylish or forward-thinking as Vreeland herself, it is a lot of fun, simply because it has so much Vreeland.

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Trishna

The titular Tess—I mean Trishna

Fri, Oct 26 – Thu, Nov 1 Directed by Michael Winterbottom Metro Cinema at the Garneau

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ith Trishna, Michael Winterbottom has transposed Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles onto contemporary India, perhaps because that country's caste system and enduring traditional values seem to lend themselves to mirroring the Victorian mores upon which Hardy's novel pivots, or perhaps because India's celebrated colour, dynamism and teeming cities appealed to the British writer/director's desire for an exotic palate. Neither of which are good reasons to make a movie; both imply naïveté or undue attention to surfaces.

Like Steven Soderbergh, Winterbottom is that rare thing: a truly prolific mainstream

filmmaker. He seems to want to do everything, which can be thrilling; the flipside is that he seems to spread himself too thin. In the case of Trishna, his third stab at Hardy (see Jude and The Claim) Winterbottom's made something pretty, emotionally inert, and ultimately sort of nonsensical—the final act is a terrible mess, whether or not you're aware of how it plays against the source material.

reversals mount and tragedy, or something, descends. I get the impression that in my synopsis I'm supposed to add "they fall in love," but that strikes me as a dubious claim, not only because, in what might have been one of the film's interesting twists, it's hard to be sure of Trishna's m otives, but also because there's so little heat generated between the lovers. There are, it seems to me, at least two big problems with Trishna: 1) the central characters are endowed with virtually no personality, and the actors can't do much to help, and 2) Winterbottom seems to want to remedy this absence by taking scenes of intimacy and constantly cutting away to cityscapes or employing an inexplicable multitude of angles, killing the tension and making it tough to pick up nuances, engage in the story, or care very much one way or the other.

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Trishna's titular protagonist (Freida Pinto) is a country girl who, following an accident that cripples her father and renders her the family breadwinner, becomes indebted to, and the lover of, Jay, a fabulously wealthy Briton (Riz Ahmed) in India to try his hand at running one of his father's luxury hotels. He gets Trishna a job, he gets in her in bed, and eventually he gets her to live with him in Mumbai for a while before

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Silent Hill: Revelation 3D

Silent Hill's take on Cirque du Soleil

Now playing Directed by Michael J Bassett

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rappling with identity is something many teenagers go through, but what if, on your 18th birthday,

you suddenly discovered you really weren't who you thought you were?

Such is life for Heather Mason (Adelaide Clemens), who, on the eve of adulthood learns that everything she presumed about her current identity— such as her mother dying in a car crash,

which also caused her blank memory of the event—is completely false. For as long as Heather can remember, she's been plagued by chilling nightmares where figures within her subconscious keep telling her to come to Silent Hill, not to mention that she and her father Christopher De Silva (Sean Bean)—or Harry Mason as he's also known—have spent years on the run from forces she doesn't fully understand.

The clues begin to fall into place when her father is kidnapped and Heather is has no choice but to go to Silent Hill, a town with a dark secret of its own that threatens to trap her forever.

The second installment in the live action adaptation of the video game by Konami comes six years after the first was released, meaning viewers may

have to brush up on the backstory before heading to theatres. Revelation goes over details that fill in some of the gaps, but it's not one to see if you're not already familiar with the franchise to some degree.

Despite its complex plot, acting also isn't Revelation's strong suit. There are moments of convincing terror, but several scenes with Clemens and Bean in particular sound scripted and are not delivered with conviction. Dialogue dwindles to being nearly non-existent towards the middle of the film once Heather enters Silent Hill where she does a lot of running around coupled with overly dramatic heavy breathing.

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It's also about as shamelessly flattering and nepotistic as you might expect a documentary to be when it's directed by the wife of the subject's grandson. Lisa Immordino Vreeland isn't shy about maintaining the myth of the very colourful family she's married into, or even about putting her own daughter into the film, reading aloud some of Vreeland's audacious early advice columns, which are full of suggestions like washing your kids' hair daily with champagne. And, well, why not?

We should see Immordino Vreeland's debut to enjoy her subject's company for an hour and a half, not to gain new insights or overturn the established biography. It doesn't hurt that the film is full of some wonderful commentators: Angelica Huston, fashion scholar Harold Koda, photographer David Bailey and model Penelope Tree offer especially great anecdotes.

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A tale of two operas // Meaghan Baxter

Fri, Oct 26 – Sun, Nov 4 Sleeping Beauty Directed by Farren Timoteo Westbury Theatre, $12.50 – $18 Fri, Oct 26 (6 pm; show at 8 pm) Fiamma The Armstong Block, 10129 - 104 St (parlour floor), $25 – $30

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wo of this weekend's theatrical openings hoist up the banner of opera in their titles, but neither put much emphasis on a traditional approach to the big O. (That's what Edmonton Opera's Aida, closing this weekend, is for.) Instead, both spin it off into new directions.

The first is long-established around the province, but Alberta Opera, now 29 seasons old, makes use of the Oword in name only: it's been quite a while since the company tackled traditional opera as it did in its early days, having long ago moved on to musical theatre adaptations of classic stories, and touring those through schools and theatres alike (the company's full title now includes the subhead "Musical Theatre For Young People"). Currently helmed by the artistic partnership of Farren Timoteo and composer Jeff Unger, it's been that way as long as Timoteo's been involved—he cautions that he isn't quite sure when the switch came, but thinks it was fairly early on in the company's history.

"I don't want to speak out of turn," he notes, "[but] when Garner [Butler] and Jeff formed their artistic union, and started composing and creating together, I think the rewards were

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pretty instant: it was fun, it was creative, it was pushing them as artists, and it felt like the right direction for Alberta Opera to go."

The company's certainly seen that shift in direction greeted warmly over the years: it played to some 75 000 students in 2011, and has plenty of Sterling nominations and wins attached to its name. Now that much-lauded artistic push is being applied to Sleeping Beauty: Timoteo and Unger have assembled a squadron of MacEwan grads to blast through 117 years of the fairy tale sleeping princess. It was the idea of toying with time, Timoteo notes, that shaped their take on the tale. Not just in what happens during the protagonist's main snooze, but also in a number of leaps in time the fairy tale offers.

"As we started looking into those, we discovered there was a whole kingdom at work here," Timoteo says. "That it wasn't just this royal family that was being affected by these changes, it might be interesting to explore how a person can make a decision, and what kind of effect that has on a whole populace of people, and how that might change over the course of years.

"Typically, in the original fairy tale, after the princess has been cursed by the evil fairy, the king or the queen bans spinning wheels," he continues. "We took that to the next level: we have the queen banning spinning wheels—spinning wheels, round everything. So we then go 16 years into the future and see how extremely that's been interpreted, and how those kinds of things change: costumes are square. We put it into the choreography, the music's in a square

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time signature. Things like that."

The other off-the-path take on opera, much newer to town, sticks to more traditional subject matter but veers off the beaten path to find new pefromance places. Mercury Opera, whose tagline is "Opera Where You Least Expect It," offers just that: last year, the company took over an LRT station. Now, it's the grounds of the downtown Farmer's Market.

Fiamma (Italian for "fire") will station itself (and audiences) in an "alleyway of light," and string together a selection of fiery female operatic numbers by an assembeld cast of Alberta vocal talent.

Darcia Parada, who created Mercury Opera and its unusual stagings in New York before transplanting to Edmonton, notes both the rarity and potency of seeing such powerful singers up close.

"Any performance can gain [from this]," she explains. "But maybe with Opera ... because singers are vibrating on such a high level when they're singing in that style, they're not trying to sing into a microphone, they're making big sound. The sound is around them.

I don't know if you've ever gotten up close to someone who was singing opera with a big, operatic voice. I mean, in our case, it's going to be amplified, because we don't have a choice. But there is a visceral thing that happens.

"When you're in a 2500-seat house— and imagine how deep the stage is— you really don't get a sense of that at all," Parada continues. "So the closer you are, the more immediate it is, in every possible way."

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PREVUE // ROCK MUSICAL

Next to Normal

Subverting the usual stigmas // Trudie Lee

Until Sun, Nov 11 (7:30 pm) Directed by Ron Jenkins Citadel Theatre, $35 – $84

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ocially conscious theatre is often responsible for engaging both the heart and mind in its creation of a story on stage. Add in the medium of rock musical and what you may end up with is a piece that pulls in three Tony Awards and the Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Next to Normal opens at the Citadel this week, and it's prepared to subvert some stigmas. Primarily, the musical addresses mental illness and how the family dynamic alters during the affecting struggle of Diana, a wife and mother.

Local actor Robert Markus will play Gabe, Diana's son, and, along with being prepared for the show's demanding musical score, he's appreciative of what the show brings to light in its unique approach to an often-veiled subject.

"I think the show does a wonderful thing," explains Markus. "It opens a discussion. This show is not all about the disorder, though. It's about how the family deals with it. That's important, because everyone can relate to having a family or dealing with issues like miscommunication, even if they can't relate personally to knowing someone

ARTIFACTS Rae Spoon Book Release Fri, Oct 26 (8 pm) Electronic/folk/pop artist Rae Spoon is swinging through town on a crossCanada tour, though not on the back of another album (though hey, we'd happily take that, too, if it was the case). Instead, the FTM transgendered singer-songwriter will be reading from their first book, First Spring Grass Fire, a coming-of-age novel recanting a young queer person's trials growing up within the confines of a Pentecostal Albertan family. Spoon will read, backed on the bill by performances from Joe Gurba (reading poetry), Doug Hoyer and musician Kris Demeanor—recently appointed Calgary's first poet laureate. (Elevation Room, $10)

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with a mental illness."

The show hosts an intimate cast of six, an aspect that Markus regards as an invitation to develop a keen sense of adventure when it comes to allowing the piece to evolve.

"Working in a cast of six is quite fun," says Markus. "Once you develop that level of rapport with one another, you really get to play. I'm blown away by the amount of commitment and honesty everyone brings."

Next to Normal calls on conversation and humour in order to create an environment of access. Most notably, though, the show employs the medium of musical. Of course, musicals come with their own stigma-related baggage, but Markus commends much about how the show approaches its subject.

"With musicals, it's really like you have two scripts. You have what the music is doing, and you have what the words are doing. As an actor it's great because you can pull from both.

I think music can take you to places just as much as words can. In fact, to have both tied together in a great score can really take you to a place that text alone can't."

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Carol Shaben Reading Mon, Oct 29 (7 pm) It sounds like a good thriller: Carol Shaben's Into the Abyss pits the only survivors of a 1984 plane crash—an inexperienced pilot, a politician, a constable and a criminal—against the elements, up in northern Alberta, fighting to stay alive. It also happens to be true: Shaben's father was one of those survivors. Setting her research into a potent narrative, Shaben will come through town to speak about the book, and the story behind it, on Monday. (Indigo Books [South Edmonton Common]) V

REVUE // VISUAL ARTS

Flax Field Until Sun, Nov 4 Works by John Freeman and Lyndal Osborne Concordia University College of Alberta

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here is something magnificently friendly and approachable about temporary art installations that pop up unexpectedly in places where people live and work. Imagine being a student at Concordia University College rushing to your morning class down the same path you have crossed every day for months.

Suddenly you are stopped dead in your tracks. Your once familiar, primly trimmed lawn has turned overnight into a field of billowing flowers. That magical sight is what John Freeman and Lyndal Osborne have created in their installation Flax Field put on by Art and Life.

Their field of flowers didn't grow up on stalks, but on 2000 rods of galvanized steel that weighs 300 lb when bundled up. The flexible rods are topped with polypropylene backed photographs of flowers—images that the artists took right in their yard. Freeman and Osborne who are both artistic and life partners live on an acreage

where they wake up to the view of a gently swaying flax field. It's a sight they have grown to love for its delicate fragility symbolically compounded by the tenacious strength of this invasive plant.

The nature-born inspiration of the flax field is a difficult one to upstage.

Beauty of nature is so profound that artists have long turned away from Aristotelian notions of art as imitation of nature with the artist as the apprentice and nature being the master craftsman. As many artists say, you simply can't compete with God. Freeman readily admits that the installation's esthetic goals are ambitious. "In order to compete with nature, you have to be excessive," he explains wryly.

It's vital for the success of artworks like the Flax Field to awe the viewer. The environment easily dwarfs outdoor art, but installations need the "Wow!" factor to succeed. It's a challenge that artists have taken to extreme lengths. For example, another artist couple, Christo and JeanneClaude wrapped whole islands with rubber tubes, or in a more recent project they proposed to cover six miles of the Arkansas River in Colorado with undulating fabric. While this takes out-

door installations to extremes, it emphasizes how hard it is to compete with nature.

The Flax Field clearly succeeds in creating impact with the Concordia University viewer. Cars are stopping. Students are sitting amidst the "flowers", and nearly everyone on campus smiles when they speak about the installation. But is it effective in the broad perspective of the awe inspiring outdoor installations genre? As I walked out into the field of flowers I wasn't so sure. It was hard not to notice that the scale was relatively modest.

Then something happened to change my first impression. As I walked amidst the flax field, sudden gusts of wind developed. The "flowers" bent to and fro in a rhythmic dance that subsided and returned.

I was mesmerized. The wind blew even stronger. The field began to "sing"! Flower flags clacked and slapped against one another. A rustling, gently drumming crescendo and decrescendo enveloped the field. A musical composition created by wind. That was magic; outdoor musical art that stands its own with, not against, the beauty of nature.

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"What I really wanted to do was have something that celebrated myth and created the possibility for audiences to immerse themselves in myths from different cultures and see how connected they are," says Mark Henderson, director for the Thousand Faces Festival. "It may sound hokey in this day and age, but to share our humanity on a fairly profound level."

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understanding of other cultures will allow people to better understand their own.

His interest in mythology was sparked by filmmaker George Lucas, although he admits he's not a fan of anything the director has done in the last 20 years. Lucas's original Star Wars trilogy was inspired by the journey pattern of Joseph Campbell's book The Hero With A Thousand Faces (hence the festival name) and Henderson says that inspiration has since changed his own life.

"I got to see a movie that wasn't about divorce or what kind of things we should eat or do or how tough Chuck Norris was," laughs Henderson, who was 12 years old at the time. "It was about a hero that was having real problems, doing something that utterly mattered, that had to happen even though it had no chance of success, but somehow we all knew that was going to happen and as that journey unfolded, even though I wasn't that exposed to myth, something profound was going on on the level that my buddies and I could cheer for, but it seemed something was happening on a deeper level as well."

The film was a catalyst for Henderson's journey into mythology, leading him to Lord of the Rings, Shakespeare, East Indian mythology and everything in between. He believes mythology and mythic art has the ability to capture the imagination across cultures and generations, whether it's a sevenyear-old discovering them for the first time or an 80-year-old.

Audiences will be immersed in a diverse and entertaining lineup that includes The Buddha Suite, a jazz composition exploring the life of the Buddha; Trad-Cirq, a family friendly circus with Alberta Aboriginal Arts based on the myth of the hero's journey; original performances by

the Good Women Dance Collective; a performance of The Wishing Tree by a collective of local theatre artists; performances of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Romeo and Juliet by Theatre Prospero; a performance by master storyteller Tololwa Mollel; and Navadurga: 9 Moods of Mother, a multi-disciplinary performance created by Grammy Award-nominated Hindustani slide guitarist Debashish Bhattacharya along with local filmmaker and media artist Shreela Chakrabartty.

"Often, you go to a concert where you kind of have to be in the know, you have to know what the stories are, you have to know the background of the music in order to appreciate it," Chakrabartty notes. "We wanted to step outside that box and instead we wanted to show what this music illustrates, so some of the tangible elements are the figures of the mother goddess, and in this case we wanted to explore the idea of the supreme mother goddess and how she manifests in nine different ways in Hindu mythology."

In addition to the manifestations in traditional Hindu mythology, Chakrabartty says they wanted to depict how the mother goddess's manifestations resonate in western society in the present day, which was done with the help of local photographer Kyla Feschu.

Overall, Chakrabartty says the festival is not only a beneficial way to celebrate and explore cultural mythology, but also to bring different cultures together.

"Nowadays we do things very crossculturally, so when you start to compare different mythologies you will start to find that they all say the same thing," she adds. "We are all human beings ... maybe we use different metaphors, but the message is always the same."

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Agokwe beyond those cultural borders. The show first debuted back in 2008 to mass acclaim, eventually taking six Dora awards in Toronto in 2009. It's coming through Edmonton courtesy of Workshop West, on a tour spanning from Toronto to Whitehorse.

Waawaate in Agokwe

Tue, Oct 30 – Sun, Nov 11 (7:30 pm) Directed by Ed Roy Catalyst Theatre, $15 – $25

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gokwe (pronounced a-gokway) is the Ojibwe word meaning two-spirited, or, in a quite literal translation, "within the man there is a woman." Agokwe the play, based on the life of its creator/performer, Waawaate Fobister, follows such a person growing up on the reserve, young and feeling those first sparkling pangs of love with a boy despite the homophobic bent of the wider culture at hand, channeling that young love

and hearbreak through a rarely explored cultural prism.

"It started off with Waawaate having a couple of monologues that he began with," explains director Ed Roy, on speakerphone alongside Fobister from Toronto.

"He had a couple of characters he was interested in exploring, and he knew he wanted to explore an aspect of his own life. So, in working together, I helped draw out the other characters that were lying in wait to help tell the story."

Though it's nestled in a cultural framework, the heart of its story has proven very capable of resonating

Fobister points out that he isn't the only aboriginal artist focusing around the idea of being two-spirited in his art: Kent Monkman, whose explorations inspired Fobister's own, as well as other poets and playwrights. They're trying to keep that cultural idea alive, while reviving a greater interest in the traditional side of where they came from.

"A lot of the culture has disappeared or is disappearing, so it was important for me to go back into it and try to revive it," Fobister explains. "That's what I do a lot of as an artist, an aboriginal artist, is to go back to the language and go back to the culture and work from there.

"For me, a lot of it's disappearing," he reiterates. "So it's important to me to try and bring it back. Our culture is who we are as people. I grew up on the reserve, and it's an identity. I want to make my identity stronger, and my people stronger."

The University of Alberta Museums return to Enterprise Square with

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o matter which social or ethnic circle a person belonged to in America in 1906, no one was exempt from some struggle or another.

Ragtime, the Tony Award-winner based on the book by EL Doctorow, is revived by the cast of Two ONE-WAY Tickets To Broadway with astounding energy, polish and flair. The story sets up three groups of characters in pre-First World War America: the middleclass white folks of New Rochelle, the repressed and ostracized black people of Harlem and the European immigrants fleeing poverty and hardship in their home countries—only to find more of the same, at least at first.

The sheer size of the cast and scale of the production was originally meant for the grandiose stages of Broadway, but director Barbara Mah has succeeded in creating a commendable revival of the piece at La Cite. The simple set is used to its full advantage, aided by the use of props, visuals and sound to suggest the feel of turn-

of-the-century New York City. A live orchestra also packs a punch, delivering a much more dynamic musical presence than a simple audio track could achieve.

With the help of the orchestra and a talented cast of vocalists, the music of Ragtime is delivered with top-notch quality. Each song is full of unwavering emotion and conviction, bringing the audience through the struggles and events that cause the three worlds to collide. The multicultural cast tackles tough themes including racism, which has politically incorrect phrases being flung about by different characters to add a sense of realism to the piece, but is still uncomfortable to hear nonetheless.

However, that's the point: to give conviction to the story and depict how truly destructive racism can be, because despite decades separating Ragtime with the present day, it's not a thing of the past. On top of this is murder, heartbreak, love and hope for a better life: a lot for one cast to tackle, but this one does it well.

Among the lively cast is Coalhouse Walker Jr, (Orville Charles Cameron) a ragtime pianist from

Harlem with mounting success who is trying to win back Sarah (Cherisse Browne), who, unknown to him, has given birth to his son. Cameron's charismatic and heartfelt portrayal of Coalhouse captures the struggles he faces and his powerful, soulful voice is perfectly suited for the vocal demands of his character.

Similarly powerful performances are delivered by Nicole English as Mother and Martin Galba as Tateh, a struggling European immigrant who desperately wants a better life for himself and his young daughter. The addition of historical characters such as Evelyn Nesbit, Henry Ford, Harry Houdini and Booker T Washington help anchor the story to a time and place, as well as contribute to the realism of the story's themes.

The only time the production faltered was when spoken lines were required during some of the large musical numbers, as some characters were difficult to hear over the orchestra. However, it's a minor factor in an overall entertaining revival of a classic.

Split Petcetrix by Marilène Oliver

November 8, 2012 to January 5, 2013 Main Floor, Enterprise Square 10230 Jasper Ave. | Bay/Enterprise Square LRT station 780.492.5834 | www.museums.ualberta.ca www.perceptionsofpromise.com Gallery Hours Thursday and Friday: 12 – 6 pm | Saturday: 12 – 4 pm facebook.com/ualbertamuseums @UAlbertaMuseums

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FILM AUDIENCE PARTICIPATION MOVIE EVENT • Stanley A. Milner Library • Monty Python and the Holy Grail: Celebrate Halloween early with an interactive movie experience. Dress in costume and bring along props to participate with other fans of this classic film • Oct 27, 7pm

BAILEY THEATRE–Camrose • 5041-50 St, Camrose • 780.672.5510 • baileytheatre.com • Rocky Horror Picture Show; Oct 26 • Hallowe'en Movie Marathon; Oct 28 • Tim Burton Film Festival (STC); Oct 28, 2pm; $5 (per movie), $10 (day pass)

CINEMA AT THE CENTRE • Stanley A. Milner Library Theatre (basement) • Gremlins 2: The New Batch (14A); Oct 31, 6:30pm

DOCUMENTARY: FAT, SICK & NEARLY DEAD • Idylwylde Library, 8310-88 Ave • vofa.ca • A story of two men from different worlds who each realize that the only person who can save them is themselves • Oct 25, 7-8:45pm • Free (donations accepted)

EDMONTON FILM SOCIETY • Royal Alberta Museum Auditorium, 12845-102 Ave • royalalbertamuseum.ca • $6 (adult)/$5 (senior 65 and over/ student)/$3 (child) • Arsenic and Old Lace; Oct 29, 8pm

FROM BOOKS TO FILM SERIES • Stanley A. Milner Library, Main Fl, Audio Visual Rm • 780.944.5383 • To Catch A Thief (G); Oct 26, 2pm

GALLERIES + MUSEUMS AGNES BUGERA GALLERY • 12310 Jasper Ave

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GALLERIE PAVA • 9524-87 St, 780.461.3427 • AME NUE: Artwork by Sabine Lecorre-Moore; Sep 22-Nov 14

landscape with vibrant colour and dynamic brushwork; Oct 27-Nov 13; Opening reception: Nov 3, 2-4pm

PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES OF ALBERTA •

GALLERY 7 • The Bookstore on Perron, 7 Perron St, St. Albert • 780.459.2525 • INSPIRED BY TRAVEL: Watercolour artwork by Pat Trudeau; Oct 1-29 • A RETROSPECIVE: artwork featuring Marolyn Beck (medium of pencil crayon & watercolour); Oct 30-Nov 26

8555 Roper Rd • 780.427.1750 • provincialarchives. alberta.ca • THE PEOPLE WHO BUILT ALBERTA: A Centennial for Alberta Workers: examining labour’s role in the growth and prosperity of the province • Sep 6-Dec 21

GALLERY AT MILNER • Stanley A. Milner Library Main Fl, Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.944.5383 • epl.ca/art-gallery • RENAISSANCE MADONNAS: Paintings by Kristine McGuinty; Edmonton Weavers' Guild; WHIMSY, WONDER AND WOMEN: Collaged artworks by Rona Anderson; Oct 1-31

Portraits by Gerry Rasmussen; Oct 2-Nov 24

HAPPY HARBOR COMICS V1 • 10729-104

QUIRKY ART CAFE • 6535-111 St • Recent ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM • 12845-102 Ave • 780.453.9100 • FASHIONING FEATHERS: Examines the effect of fashion's demand for beautiful feathers on bird populations at the beginning of the 20th century; until Jan 6 • THE TSARS' CABINET: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts under the Romanovs: Oct 6-Jan 2

SCOTT GALLERY • 10411-124 St • 780.488.3619

Ave • OPEN DOOR: Collective of independent comic creators meet the 2nd & 4th Thu each month, 7am

• DIAGRAMS FOR THE PROMISED END: artwork

by Sean Caulfield; Oct 13-Oct 30

HARCOURT HOUSE GALLERY • 3 Fl,

SNAP GALLERY • Society Of Northern Alberta

10215-112 St • Main Gallery: SYDNEY LANCASTER, NESTS: Part of the artist in residence program; Oct 18-Nov 24 • Front Room Gallery: EVANN SIEBENS & KEITH DOYLE, ICARUSCAR: a screen-based sculptural installation involving the myth of a flying car; Oct 18-Nov 24

Print-Artists, 10123-121 St • 780.423.1492 • snapartists.com • 30TH ANNIVERSARY PORTFOLIO EXHIBITION AND 2013 LETTERPRESS CALENDAR; until Oct 21 • THE FORMATION OF THE WORLD: artwork by Fuki Hamada; Oct 25-Nov 24; Opening reception: Oct 25, 5-7pm

HARRIS-WARKE GALLERY–Red Deer •

STEPPES GALLERY • 1253 & 1259-91 St •

Sunworks Home and Garden Store, Ross St, Red Deer • 403.346.8937 • harriswarkegallery.com • FUNDRAISER: BEER AND PIZZA: Artists donate a piece of art that would fit inside a solo beer cup or a 10" x 10" pizza box; Oct 29-Nov 9

Fractured Light: Featuring: Sandy Cross, Krista Hamilton, and Annette Siccotte • Oct 20-Nov 21

JAKE’S FRAMING • 10441-123 St • Gallery Show: featuring selected works by Edmonton Art Club members; Oct 6-Oct 26

LATITUDE 53 • 10248-106 St • 780.423.5353 • latitude53.org • HOW THE WEST WAS WON: by Aimée Henny Brown; Sep 28-Nov 10 • CIRCUMSTANCES WITH SOME EARTH AND SKY: by Kent Tate; Sep 28-Nov 10

STRATHCONA COUNTY GALLERY@501 • 501 Festival Ave, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8585 • strathcona.ca/artgallery • SPYDER BITES (working title): Sep 14-Oct 28

VAAA GALLERY • 3rd Fl, 10215-112 St • 780.421.1731 • VAA Bay 3rd Annual FUNdraiser 'Think Small' / Membership Show: Visual Arts Alberta membership show and sale; Oct 18-Nov 24 • Off-site - Jubilee Auditorium: OPEN PHOTO 2012 AT THE NORTHERN ALBERTA JUBILEE AUDITORIUM: Competition and exhibition of some of Alberta's finest photographers; Oct 26-Nov 18; Opening reception: Kaasa Gallery at the Jubilee Auditorium on Oct 26, 6-8pm

• 780.482.2854 • agnesbugeragallery.com • New work by artist Catherine McAvity; Oct 27-Nov 9; Opening reception: Oct 27, 2-4pm, artist in attendance

MCMULLEN GALLERY • U of A Hospital, 8440112 St • 780.407.7152 • GLASS JOURNAL: by Manola Borrajo-Giner; Sep 1-Nov 4

ALBERTA CRAFT COUNCIL GALLERY •

MISERICORDIA COMMUNITY HOSPITAL

VASA GALLERY • 25 Sir Winston Churchill Ave,

• 16940-87 Ave • 780.432.6678; wands@web.net • Reflectivity: a series of mixed media assemblages completed within the past year • Sep 30-Nov 10

WEST END GALLERY • 12308 Jasper Ave •

10186-106 St • 780.488.6611 • albertacraft.ab.ca • Feature Gallery: PASSAGES: a group exhibition exploring the passage of time; Oct 6-Dec 24 • DELINEATE: new work by Medicine Hat clay artists Jenn DemkeLange and Elizabeth Burritt; Oct 27-Dec 1

ALLIED ARTS COUNCIL OF SPRUCE GROVE • Spruce Grove Art Gallery, 35 – 5 Ave, Spruce Grove • 780.962.0664 • alliedartscouncil.com • The Light of the Lakeland: Feature Artist Patricia Coulter (watercolour); Oct 22-Nov 10; Opening reception: Oct 27, 1-4pm

ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA (AGA) • 2 Sir Winston Churchill Sq • 780.422.6223 • youraga.ca • BMO Work of Creativity: METHOD AND MADNESS: Family-focused interactive exhibition created

by Gabe Wong; until Dec 31 • BEHIND THIS LIES MY TRUE DESIRE FOR YOU: Mark Clintberg; Until Dec 30 • MISLED BY NATURE: CONTEMPORARY ART AND THE BAROQUE: Key artists include David Altmejd, Lee Bul, Bharti Kher, Tricia Middleton, Yinka Shonibare, Sarah Sze; Sep 15-Jan 6 • BEAUTIFUL MONSTERS: Beasts and Fantastic Creatures in Early European Prints: European Prints; Oct 13-Mar 3 • IMPRINT: Artwork reveals an attention to different print-making technique, as well as an interrelationship; Oct 13-Jan 6 • Studio Y Youth Drop-in: DIY: Open Studio 2D: Thu, Oct 25, 3:30-5:30pm; $10 • Adult Drop-in: Push: Printmaking Experiments: Thu, Oct 25, 7-9pm, $15/$12 (member)

MUSÉE HÉRITAGE MUSEUM–St Albert • 5 St Anne St, St Albert • 780.459.1528 • Wind Work, Wind Play: Weathervanes and Whirligis: over 30 pieces of wind-powered folk art from the collection of the Canadian Museum of Civilization • Oct 29-Jan 13

NAESS GALLERY • Paint Spot, 10032-81 Ave • 780.432.0240 • paintspot.ca • Artwork by Wanda Benterud featuring collage/mixed media; Oct 5-31

NINA HAGGERTY–Stollery Gallery • 9225-118 Ave • 780.474.7611 • ninahaggertyart.ca • THE AVE WE HAD: interactive photographic display; Oct 4-Nov 5 • Historical discussions about Alberta Avenue; Oct 25, 6-8pm

PETER ROBERTSON GALLERY • 12304 Jasper Ave • 780.455.7479 • probertsongallery.com • PERCEPTIONS IN SCAPES OF MY LAND AND MIND: Featuring interpretations of the Canadian

St. Albert • 780.460.5990 • vasa.ca • 5 TALES ON ABSTRACTION: A group exhibition; Oct 3-Oct 27 780.488.4892 • westendgalleryltd.com • Rod Charlesworth: An exhibition of new work; Oct 13-25

LITERARY CANADIAN AUTHORS ASSOCIATION • Campus Saint-Jean, Pavillon Lacerte, Rm 3-04, 8406 Marie-Ann-Gaboury St (91 St) • canauthorsalberta. ca • Merilyn Simonds presents A Writer's Place and Honing the Word; Oct 26-27 CARROT CAFE • 9351-118 Ave • vzenari@gmail. com • Prose Creative Writing Group • Every Tue, 7-9pm JANE AUSTEN SOCIETY • Stanley Milner Library, 7 Sir Winston Churchill Square • 780.451.9243 • Halloween Horrors: Horrid words from dreadful characters • Oct 27, 2-4pm

LITFEST 2012 • Various locations around Edmonton • litfestalberta.org • Non-fiction con-

tent comes to life. Avid readers with non-fiction content and creators through a series of events such as panels, readings and presentations • Oct 17-28

ROUGE LOUNGE • 10111-117 St • 780.902.5900 • Poetry every Tue with Edmonton's local poets

STARFEST • St. Albert Public Library, 5 ST. Anne St, St. Albert • starfest.ca • Presentations with Canadian writers • Oct 20-27 • $5 (each event)

UPPER CRUST CAFÉ • 10909-86 Ave • 780.422.8174 • strollofpoets.com • The Poets’ Haven Weekly Reading Series: every Mon, 7pm; presented by the Stroll of Poets Society • $5

WORDS IN THE PARK • Strathcona County Community Centre, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • words.sclibrary.ab.ca • Showcases writers from Strathcona County and beyond • Oct 27, 1-4pm • Free

WUNDERBAR ON WHYTE • 8120-101 St • 780.436.2286 • The poets of Nothing, For Now: poetry workshop and jam every Sun • No minors

AGOKWE • Catalyst Theatre, 8529-103 St • A talented pow-wow grass dancer and a star hockey player meet briefly at a hockey tournament afterparty. Bashfully, they confess their desire for each other. However, youth, distance and isolation strive to pull them apart when tragedy intervenes • Oct 30-Nov 11, 7:30pm, 2pm (matinee, Sat-Sun) • $25 (adults), $20 (seniors/students), $15 (self-identifying aboriginal peoples)

ALBERTA THEATRE - IN THREE ACTS - ACT II • Strathcona County Library, 401 Festival Lane, Sherwood Park • 780.410.8600 • Rising Action: Focuses on the creation of new Alberta drama in “alternative” theatres such as the Theatre Network and others. Includes Alberta’s wide range of stages, playwrights and plays and a live performance of a scene from a Stewart Lemoine comedy, by actors from Teatro La Quindicina • Oct 28, 2-4pm • $10 (general), $5 (students)

CAVALIA: A MAGICAL ENCOUNTER BETWEEN HUMAN AND HORSE • Edmonton City Centre Airport • Featuring 49 horses and 39 riders, acrobats, aerialists, dancers and musicians from around the world, Cirque du Soleil co-founder Normand Latourelle created this dream-like performance that explores man’s longstanding relationship with horses • Sep 11-Oct 28 • $39.50 - $124.50 + applicable taxes and fees

CHIMPROV • Citadel Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Rapid Fire Theatre’s longform comedy show: improv formats, intricate narratives, and one-act plays • First three Sat every month, 10pm, until Jul • $12 (door or buy in adv at Tix on the Square)

DIE-NASTY • Varscona Theatre, 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • die-nasty.com • The live improvised soap opera • Every Mon, until May, 7:30pm (subject to change) • Tickets at the box office

FIAMMA • Downtown 104 St Promenade • Heat up the urban landscape as autumns’s chill begins to take hold. Singers will be clothed in exquisite

Center Auditorium, 73 St & 111 Ave • Based on a true story. Follows the personal journey of Sarah, a fictional classmate of Lynne and Steven, as she deals with this tragedy of Lynne's death, Steven's crimes and searches for truth and justice • Oct 26-28; Nov 2-4

NEXT TO NORMAL • Citadel Theatre, 9828101A Ave • 780.425.1820 • citadeltheatre.com • About a family coping with the complexities of modern life – heartbreak, compassion and hope • Oct 20-Nov 11

OH SUSANNA! HALLOWEEN SPECIAL • Varscona Theatre • 10329-83 Ave • 780.433.3399 • A spooktacular salute to All Hallows Eve! An evening of scary songs, creepy cocktails, and skeletons galore, guided by international glamour-ghoul Susanna Patchouli • Oct 27, 11pm

PORC-ÉPIC • La Cité Francophone, 8527 MarieAnne Gaboury St • 780.469.8400 • lunitheatre.ca • Presented with English surtitle. A provocative and whimsical blend of absurdity, black comedy and lyricism • Oct 31-Nov 11, 8-10pm • $17-$26 A Ave • rapidfiretheatre.com • Improv • Every Fri, 7:30pm and 10pm

THE IRRELEVANT SHOW • Roxy, 10708-124 St • attheroxy.com • A live recording of CBC Radio's award-winning sketch comedy show • Sep 29-Nov 10 THE MEMORANDUM BY VACLAV HAVEL • Timms Centre for the Arts, 112 St - 87 Ave • studiotheatre.ca • A Managing Director tries to decipher an important memorandum written in a new, completely incomprehensible language that has been created to streamline office communications • Nov 1-10; Preview Oct 31 at 7:30pm

SLEEPING BEAUTY • Westbury Theatre, TransAlta Arts Barns, 10330-84 Ave • fringetheatre.ca/arts_at_the_barns.php • Within the stone walls of a long forgotten castle, a beautiful princess has slept for hundreds of years. When she is finally awakened, she finds herself in an unfamiliar time where everything she once knew has completely changed • Oct 26-Nov 4

SPRING AWAKENING • John L. Haar Theatre, Grant MacEwan University, Centre for the Arts Campus, 10045-155 St • The unforgettable journey from youth to adulthood with power and passion • Oct 26-Nov 3, 7:30pm (2pm matinee) TYPHOON JUDY • Roxy, 10708-124 St • attheroxy.com • As Typhoon Viola swirls around Hong Kong, Judy Garland lies comatose in a hospital, the victim of a storm of her own making. As she drifts towards the light, “Typhoon Judy” enters a desolate rehearsal hall with a lone piano player and begins to tell tales of her life with comedy, anecdotes and of course, song • Oct 11-Oct 29

THE WEIR • Walterdale Playhouse, 10322-83 Ave • walterdaleplayhouse.com • In a small, rural bar in western Ireland, four men gather every night to drink and tell stories. One night, they are joined by a young woman from Dublin. What starts as a visit to the local pub turns into a night of ghostly tales and an unexpected twist that changes everything • Oct 23-27

DANNY MICHEL WITH QUIQUE ESCAMILLA

19 Perron St, St Albert • 780.460.4310 • artgalleryofstalbert.ca • GUILDED: selected works from local artists and celebrates diversity in the Visual Arts in St. Albert; Oct 4-27

Performing songs from his brand new album,

Black Birds are Dancing Over Me

ART SOCIETY OF STRATHCONA COUNTY • Loft Gallery/A.J. Ottewell Gallery, 590 Broadmoor Blvd, Sherwood Park • Artwork is changed on approximately eight week rotations, the gallery includes a small gift shop of artist made items; open Oct-Dec, Feb-Jul • Workshop: Brent Laycock (acrylics), Oct 24-27

Friday, November 9, 2012 7:30 pm / $30 ....................................

BOHEMIA • 10217-97 St • Art+Muzak: curated

Arden Theatre Box Office .5. . St. . . . . Anne . . . . . . . . .Street ....................

by Victoria Guzman-Vasquez; Oct 26

CROOKED POT GALLERY–Stony Plain •

FAB GALLERY • Department of Art and Design, U of A, Rm 3-98 Fine Arts Bldg • 780.492.2081 • GRADUATE DESIGN GROUP SHOW 2012: A selection of work by students graduating in the Master of Design program; Oct 2-27 • Rm 1-1: TRANSITIONS: Work by Technical Staff from the Department of Art and Design; Oct 23-Dec 1; Reception: Oct 25, 7-10pm

INNOCENCE LOST • Robert Tegler Student

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ART GALLERY OF ST ALBERT (AGSA) •

4912-51 Ave, Stony Plain • 780.963.9573 • LEAVING SUMMER BEHIND: featuring works of Clarice Cameron and Dianne Brown; Oct 2-31

costumes • Oct 26

“One of the finest musical works of our time. This is a career album.”

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FRONT GALLERY • 12312 Jasper Ave • 780.488.2952 • Maryanne Jespersen: New Work; Oct

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Or, at least, that's how Tony Parisi, a snowmobile guide in Valemount, BC, describes it. Parisi, who has level 2 certification from the Canadian Avalanche Association, has only been caught in an avalanche once, although he's responded to many during his years as a guide.

His incident was so many years ago now that he can't even pin down the date. But, he does remember how it feels.

At the time, Parisi was performing a ski cutâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a stability test where a skier crosses an avalanche starting zone to see if it initiates an avalanche.

"But I got tripped up by a rock," he says. "I was lucky because it wasn't a large accumulation of snow, so I was probably only about 20 centimetres under, maybe a little more. It wasn't much of an avalanche.

"If a mountain of snow had come down, it would have been a bigger ordeal than that."

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Parisi says it was just enough to give him an idea of what it feels like to be buried.

"You can feel the snow pushing harder and harder against you, just like if someone had their hand around you, squeezing tighter and tighter and tighter until it becomes very difficult to breathe," he explains. "Luckily there were people watching me and they came and dug me out right away."

Had his companions lost sight of him, Parisi's recovery would have been more painstaking.

It would have required the use of transceivers, probes and shovels, the three must-haves when travelling in the backcountry.

A transceiver is both a transmitter and receiver. Anyone who spends time in the backcountry should own one of these, says Steve Blake, visitor safety specialist in Jasper National Park.

"It's something you wear on your body for the day," he says. "It sends out a single pulse, like a beeping pulse that is inaudible to you, but if you're buried, other people with transceivers can switch theirs to re-

ceive mode and they can pick up your signal and the device will tell them which direction to search."

Then, once your companions have reached your location, they will assemble a probe and start poking around in the snow until they hit what feels like a person.

"And at that point you leave your probe in and you shovel down the length of the pole until you get to the person. So, that's why transceiver, probe and shovel are all a kit," Blake says, noting there's another piece of equipment that can help a person stay on top of the snow, in the case they're swept away by an avalanche.

"It's called an avalanche balloon pack," he says. "Some of them blow up around your head and some just inflate on your back.

"If you're caught in an avalanche, what you do is you inflate the balloon pack and that helps you from being buried."

Although all of these tools are integral to a speedy recovery, Blake says they're worthless if the person using them hasn't been trained.

"You can get all of this nice equip-

ment in a Christmas present, but without practising it and knowing how it works and knowing how to do the essential terrain recognition, it's not going to do much good."

So, Blake recommends that before taking a trip into the backcountry, everyone should first undertake avalanche training with a mountain guide or avalanche expert.

He also suggests checking avalanche bulletins and doing a quick practice test with your companions before your adventure: "You should start your trip by having a real conversation about what people have for equipment and doing a bit of practise with your transceiver and your probe and shovel before you go."

This is especially important because it's your companions knowledge and equipment that will determine whether you're pulled out of the snow dead or alive following an avalanche.

And, if they aren't trained, or if they freeze up, your chances of survival will diminish quickly.

Blake says if a person is found within 15 minutes, it's likely they'll live to tell the story, but if that time

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is doubled, the person's chances of survival diminish to 50 percent.

With such a short time frame, your companions are your best hope for survival, says Blake, noting that is especially true in Jasper National Park.

"Depending on where you are in the park and how long the notification takes for the event, it could take us half an hour to two hours to respond to an accident because we don't have a helicopter on the ground here in the park.

"So, if you're thinking, 'What's my best use of time when someone is stuck in an avalanche,' it's to find that person. You only go for help when you've exhausted your efforts."

The last fatal avalanche in Jasper National Park was on Mount Athabasca in August 2008.

"That's the other thing that you have to remember with a place like Jasper, with the Columbia Icefields, it snows all year around, so the avalanche problems can exist year around."

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WINTER ADVENTURE // DRIVING

Eyes on the road

Tips and tricks for safe winter driving

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he first snowfall of the season has winter sport enthusiasts chomping at the bit to hit the slopes, but before venturing out, keep a few things in mind to ensure a safe trip.

A heavy dump of snow can mean ideal ski and snowboard conditions, but it tends to mean the opposite for highways.

Rick Lang, manager of novice operations for AMA driver education, advises avoiding a trek to the mountains during the first major snowfall of the year, despite it being the day diehards dream of all summer long.

"Even though the skiing or snow-

boarding might be fantastic, most people have not got into the winter driving mindset: driving too fast for conditions and causing problems for themselves and anyone on the road around them," Lang explains.

Before you think about packing up your gear, make sure the vehicle you're relying on to get to the slopes is in good working order. Lang advises a trip to a mechanic for an end-to-end inspection, with particular attention to the car's battery and electrical system.

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who has been snowboarding for 15 years and makes frequent trips to the mountains each season, says winter tires are a must.

"I really don't know why they're not legally required for every car. The handling and stopping is night and day," Ekkelenkamp said, adding all-wheel drive is another aspect of a vehicle that can make all the difference. "I can't stress enough how big a difference all-wheel drive and winter tires make ... I've been in fishtails and slides and the all-wheel drive found some traction and snapped me back straight before I could do anything; and I I really don't get stuck either."

He advises maintaining a safe following distance from vehicles in front of you, which preferably means a four second gap from your front bumper to their back bumper.

"I try to drive with my headlights on rather than just my daytime running lights, so my rear and side markers are totally visible to anyone else who is on the road," Lang says, adding that this, accompanied by a safe following distance, can avoid rear end collisions.

Lang also notes that even if road conditions are favourable, it's important to be cautious of ice, particularly

kilometres over the speed limit when it's icy."

"You have three direct controls over the vehicle: steering, braking and acceleration," adds Lang. "Try and do the three separately. What I'm really saying is don't brake and steer and at the same time or accelerate and steer at the same time because you've got so much friction to use and you've got part of it for steering and part of it for breaking."

Being mindful of dwindling daylight hours and traffic volume is another thing to consider when travelling this winter. Ekkelenkamp leaves as don't know why [winter tires are] early as 4:30 am to go to Marmot not legally required for every car. The Basin in order to Even if the large make it by the handling and stopping is night and day. components of time the lifts the vehicle are open, and then in order, the litturns around and tle things matter too. Ekkelenkamp in shaded areas or stretches of road goes home the same day. He says the advises checking wiper blades and near bodies of water. ideal time of year for these types of windshield washer fluid levels before One of the key ways to avoid slidtrips is in the spring, when daylight is heading outâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;and making sure your ing on ice is to travel at a safe speed, available for much longer periods of washer fluid is a variety that doesn't which Lang says should be within the time. He says that helps keep fatigue freeze. posted speed limit, even if it means at bay and allows for better visibility.

Ekkelenkamp traded in packing his taking extra time to get to your desRegardless of the time of day or 2000 Audi A4 to the brim for a roof tination. Ekkelenkamp notes that givyear, or even the type of vehicle you rack two seasons ago. He notes its aling yourself extra time is particularly drive, it is important to take winter ways important to check the rack is important on curvier mountain roads, driving seriously. safely secured and to tie everything where the margin of error is much "The main thing is slow down, endown properly to avoid a potential less. joy the journey rather than trying to disaster on the road.

"Settle down and don't panic if you get there as quickly as possible," says Once your vehicle is equipped to slide a little bit or get into a slide," Lang. "The goal is to have a great time handle the elements, Lang says there Ekkelenkamp advises. "When people skiing or snowboarding, not waiting in are still things to take into considstart over-correcting is when it gets the hospital for a friend if something eration before striking out, such as really nasty and you spin out and end does go wrong."

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he temperature is beginning to drop, the last of the leaves are hanging on for dear life and there's that inexplicable bite in the air that says winter is on its way. For some, it's a long stretch of contempt until the snow melts, but for others, it's time to play.

In Alberta, we're fortunate to have a winter playground in our proverbial backyard, with the Rocky Mountains a manageable drive away. Whether you choose to stick closer to home, with local ski hills, or venture a little further out, there's lots to take in this winter.

And, thankfully, the season is long enough that it could be possible to hit up everything on your winter wish list. Many of the hills open their doors in mid-November or early December, and don't close until the May long weekend.

But, before you think about hitting the hill, here are few things to keep in mind this winter season.

Mathew Palmer, who has been snowboarding for 12 years and has worked as an instructor, rental associate and lift operator at a variety of resorts from Rabbit Hill to Lake Louise, says it's important to ensure your gear is in tip-top shape before hitting the slopes.

"The most important part of your set-

up are your boots. If your boots don't fit properly, your trip will be filled with fatigued legs and very sore feet," notes Palmer, who has an abundance of experience boarding at resorts such as Panorama, Kicking Horse, Fernie and Revelstoke, to name a few. "For skis and boards, it's always a good idea to get a full tune up at the beginning of every season and halfway through— that's an iron wax and edge tuning."

Once the gear's ready to go, next comes the task of deciding where the heck to go. Palmer says each mountain or ski area has something to offer, but he notes Revelstoke is one to check out if steepness and deep terrain is desired; Whitewater for its tree runs; Fernie for the amount of snow; Lake Louise for its inbounds back country runs and Whistler for its abundant nightlife and Peak-2-Peak gondolas.

"The best time for planning a ski trip is mid-February to late March," Palmer suggests. "This is usually when temperatures aren't as harsh. If you can find time to get away mid-week, the crowds are few and far between no matter which ski resort you go to. If you do go during the weekends, avoid going to the bottom lifts."

Aside from a range of terrain, level of difficulty and amenities, each resort or ski area offers a host of events throughout the year to keep visitors entertained.

Palmer notes the Slush Cup at Sunshine Village each May as a highlight of the season.

Other events to potentially add to your winter calendar include the Kokanee Free Ride on May 4 at Lake Louise, the Canadian Rockies Snow Battle Saturday, Nov. 24 and Sunday, Nov. 25 at Marmot Basin, the Telus World Ski and Snowboard Festival Friday, April 12 to Monday, April 22 in Whistler, as well as a variety of competitions for all ages and abilities.

So, what are you waiting for? Get out your gear and a calendar and start planning your winter season.

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REVUE // KOREAN

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Lee House earns its reputation for reliable Korean cuisine

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here it is, the moment you walk through the door—that aroma.

Just like the faint, astringent scent of pickled ginger and wasabi perfumes a sushi joint, or the garlicky exhalation of those enigmatic pink meat orbs wafting across the tables at your neighbourhood Vietnamese noodle house, there's a pleasant, fragrant humidity to a Korean restaurant that tells your stomach you're about to eat banchan, bulgogi and bibimbap.

But what is it? I confess a dire ignorance of Korean cookery's particulars.

I've reveled frequently in its marinated and grilled meats, its hearty, kaleidoscopic soups, its crunchy bean sprouts and mountain vegetables, its crispy mundoo and quasi-tempura. But mostly I don't have a whiff about the means and modes of preparation.

Maybe that's why I decided it was time for a trip to Lee House—I leave Korean food to the pros. Eclipsed as most local Korean eateries are by the longevity and reputation of Bul Go Gi House, the House of Lee has nonetheless established a reputation for its house specialty—fried chicken shel-

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lacked with a distinctive sauce, livid crimson portions of which are conspicuous on almost every table.

Lee House does not stint selectionwise, but they make it easy on newbies by summarizing the house specialties on the first page of the menu. I had made my mind up ahead of time and didn't want to be confused by more choices. We had to wait a bit to be served, but we could see our young server laden with plates, whooshing through the tightly plotted floorplan—she was run off her feet. Still, she managed a smile when she finally stopped at our table and quickly jotted our order: vegetable pancake ($9.95), bibimbap ($13.95) and the star of the show, gam poong gi ($16.95)—oh, and two bottles of Korea's favourite beer

beansprout salad, kim chi and pickled daikon kept our mouths amused in the short interval before the mains.

First out of the kitchen was the gam poong gi, the smaller version of Lee House's signature fried chicken, which is to say, balls. A low mound of exquisitely crisped—but not breaded—glis-

Things started, rightfully, with banchan—the assortment of vegetable sides (and rice) that are part of any Korean restaurant meal worth its sesame oil. (for all I know), Hite ($4 each).

Things started, rightfully, with banchan—the assortment of vegetable sides (and rice) that are part of any Korean restaurant meal worth its sesame oil. Small metal bowls of crunchy

tening spheres of chicken drenched in sweet, smoky, spicy barbecue sauce, adorned with minced carrot and sesame seeds, to be precise. Be warned though—the unique deliciousness of gam poong gi might permanently sup-

plant cravings for chicken wings.

The bibimbap showed up soon after, with its attendant squeeze bottle of gochujang, the zesty red chili paste that makes bibimbap sing. Some assembly is required, as it arrives at your table as a bowl of steamed rice arrayed with distinct piles of julienned carrot, zucchini and cucumber, steamed spinach, bean sprouts and, in this case, a little dried seaweed, all topped with a sunny side-up egg. Your job is to gochujang it up how you like it, then mix everything together. Lee's is not the most phenomenal bibimbap I've ever had—a little bulgogi beef in there wouldn't hurt—but it covered all the bases and proved to be just the right amount for two people.

The vegetable pancake was a little tardy—I was already almost

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full of chicken balls—but was a tasty enough disc of eggy dough stuffed with carrot, zucchini, cabbage and lots of green onions. I'm usually not crazy about onionfilled things, but was untroubled by their profusion here, and the pancake made a nice starchy mop for gam poong gi sauce. The proprietor dropped by after we'd eaten about half to inform us the pancake was burned and we would not be charged for it. It might have been a tiny bit over done, but well within specs from my vantage, which just goes to show what I know about Korean food.

I do, however, know what I like and I've found it reliably at Lee House.

SCOTT LINGLEY

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can suggest to people who are new The aroma gives off honey, biscuit, to exploring the world of beer. toffee and a bit of brown sugar, along Both of those motivations led with hints of toast and red fruit jam. me to try a Québec beer recently The taste begins the same way, with arrived in Alberta. Brasserie Bierbri- a soft fruitiness and a grainy sweeter is a small, young brewery created ness accented by honey. It has a light

by Charles Bierbrier, whose last name toasted bread character to it. The is German for "brewer of beer." body is light, but not lacking flaAs Bierbrier tells it, with a vour. Near the end the beer name like that he was desbegins to sharpen, partly tined to open a brewery— with a gentle floral hop bitm ly.co eweek which he did in 2005. His tothepint@vu terness, but also with a bit Jason goal was to not compete of astringency. The finish is Foster both drier and more balanced with the boundary-pushing beer of renowned Quebec brewthan I would have guessed from ers like Dieu du Ciel or Charlevoix, but the aroma. to create an easy-to-drink beer that It is not a perfect beer, but I find mymaintained craft quality. self enjoying it immensely. It doesn't work my taste buds too hard, but still His approach has been highly suc- offers enough to keep me interested cessful in the Montréal area, where he through the whole glass. now produces three different beers.

But, my friends, with a name like The foray into the Alberta market is Bierbrier, I must ask the "Brier Queshis first attempt at cross-provincial tion": Can I drink it watching curling? sales—but only with the Premium Unquestioningly, yes. Which means BiAle, the original and flagship brand. erbrier is a fine candidate for my list of The moniker "premium ale" doesn't recommended "gateway" beer. V tell us much about the beer, which is too bad. But it seems to me something Jason Foster is the creator of onbeer.org, of a blonde ale. It is pale orange with a website devoted to news and views on a meek head struggling to form at all. beer from the prairies and beyond.

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DISHWEEKLY Food and Agriculture Project public hearing / Fri, Oct 26 Registered speakers will have the opportunity to share their views with Edmonton City Council regarding the draft strategy of Fresh: Edmonton's Food and Urban Agriculture Strategy. The strategy aims to increase access to local food in the city's neighbourhoods, stimulate the local economy and reduce the ecological footprint.

The public is welcome to attend even if they are not registered to speak. Visit edmonton.ca for more information. (City Hall) Food Matters / Sat, Oct 27 (1 pm) On average, a grocery store item travels 2400 kilometres to make it onto store shelves, meaning most cities have a three-day food supply if these imports were suddenly

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unavailable. As part of LitFest, authors and experts will provide panel discussions and examples about how urban and rural food production can help restore a comfortable balance. Participants will also be able to make their own apple pie with the help of NAIT culinary instructors and learn about pickling from Mojo Jojo Pickles. (Santa Maria Goretti Centre, $25 or $10 for students and groups of 10 or more) Savouries / Sat, Oct 27 (6 pm) LitFest combines Italian food, wine from British Columbia and four uniquely diverse Canadian authors, including Andrew Nikiforuk, Carmen Aguirre, Jerry Haigh and Marcello Di Cintio. (Santa Maria Goretti Centre, $50)

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PREVUE // FOLLOW THE BOSS

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Jason Collett skips the stigma of political songwriting on Reckon

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bout halfway through Jason Collett's liner notes for Reckon, he writes, "It seems politics are unavoidable if you choose to write about or engage with the world in front of you. I didn't set out to make a record with these overtones, but neither did I try to stop it. I just did my best to avoid the shrill rhetoric that makes most political songwriting unlistenable."

There's a slight pensiveness to that paragraph: though the singer-songwriter and longtime Broken Social Scene member has always kept his pen sharply trained on the realities of the world, with Reckon, Collett also seems acutely aware of the stigma of having made what's undeniably a "political" album. Lyrically, it takes an unflinching look at the damage done

by America's 2008 economic crisis, which Collett's seen firsthand during his regular south-of-the-border touring: "parts of small cities just shutting down," he puts it at one point, over the phone from his home in Toronto.

But, he's also quick to point out that the album's central focus came about organically.

"It just sort of crept in," he begins.

"At some point I realized, 'Well, I've got a lot of songs commenting on the current economic crisis.' And then I had to figure out how best to go about making an album with that undercurrent, so allowing a certain amout of levity with some of the more dance-able numbers. Its genesis was not any idea other than just being present in the moment, I suppose.

"One could say it's a political record, and I'm comfortable enough saying that," Collett continues. "But you could also just say, in very practical terms, it's just of the times. And

it is kind of matter of fact that way, and that's how I allowed it to be: without any grand rhetoric. It's pretty plainspoken in its narratives—of loss, essentially. If it's to be distilled at all, the running thread is loss.

That's not just about lost job and lost homes, but it's also about the loss of any illusion that our political and financial institutions know what the fuck they're doing."

Regardless of any political bent, Reckon's songs carry their burdens like a torch to rally behind: the music acts as a lifting counterpoint to heavier lyrics, spanning the guitarled rollick of "Black Diamond Girl," the string sweeps of opener "Pacific Blue," and bass-led grooves of "I Wanna Rob a Bank." These are songs you could move to.

To Collett, the weaknesses of outright polticial songwriting seems to be when it simply recounts its agenda set to tune. The finer political

songwriters out there—he names Bob Dylan and the Boss in that category—worry more about narrative than rhetoric.

"There's a whole meta-narrative to the Springsteen trajectory," he says.

"You can follow his characters from being young and innocent and believing in the dream, to that dream failing them, to, on his last record, being polticized by it.

"I think he's kind of a brilliant writer that way," he continues. "He tells stories. They're not protest songs as we sort of assume political songs are. I think, bottom line is, if you're gonna write with a message, you have to be shrewd enough not to turn people off. Ultimately, you're trying to communicate, so that's the challenge.

And ultimately they have to have great grooves and great melodies, y'know, ... [or] you're serving no purpose other than your own."

PAUL BLINOV

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PREVUE // SPOOKY SOUNDS

The Frolics Sat, Oct 27 (8 pm) With Micelli, Rebuild/Repair Wunderbar, $8

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alloween is full of creepy songwriting inspiration, and local three-piece the Frolics took it and ran with it on its latest EP. Band member Scott Fralick took the time to tell Vue all about it.

album, Bombastic, so we thought, "Let's demo them and give them away at our gig." We reserved the last Saturday before Halloween with Craig at WunderBar in June. The first 50 people get the three song demo. The first song is "Hell House," naturally enough, followed by "Evil Twin" and then "Led Sled."

What makes a good Halloween song?

SF: For the Frolics, a good Halloween song has to rise from the darker side of our sound. That means dirtier bass, VW:

VW: Why did you want to do a Hallow-

een EP? SF: The Frolics had spooky songs that didn't fit the tone of our last

distorted guitar and vocals that sound like a zombie choir.

Where did you look for inspiration? What did the recording atmosphere add to the overall feel?

SF: These songs were written with our previous drummer, Jeff Emsley, who moved to England. "Hell House" was written for punk-home in Vancouver. "Evil Twin" rose from the dead during a jam at a really nasty, ugly jam space on the city's south side. "Led Sled" was a bass riff that made the undead dance. The recordVW:

ing was done in the back room of a local and notorious fast food joint in a dubious part of the north side.

Randall James of Rebuild/Repair did the recording and mixing. He did an amazing job.

VW: Can we expect a Christmas EP next?

SF: We're already planning it. But we need inspiration and money to record. Anyone wanna gift studio time to the Frolics this Christmas?

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PREVUE // GETTING ALONG

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onestly, it's hard enough with two people who have polar opposite opinions in the room let alone having five," says Zachary Gray of the Zolas during a pit stop at a steel guitar factory in the middle of nowhere between Toronto and Montréal.

Gray and Tom Dobrazanski formed the duo back in 2008 after the disbanding of Lotus Child, which they were both part of. Gray says being in a band wrecks the fun of being in music sometimes with conflicting opinions and drama—but that's not to say it's all smooth sailing for the Zolas.

"Tom and I never agree on anything, so the fact we can even accomplish it with two people is amazing," he adds of the duo's songwriting. "The process works like this: I write a song, or a bit of a song that I think has a lot of promise and I think I know how I want it to sound and then I bring it to Tom and he hears it and has a completely different idea and I become convinced that he's deliberately trying to ruin my idea."

Gray says that he's able to revisit the song again once a couple of days have passed and there are no emotions involved, at which point he'll admit that

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the end result works even if it's not exactly what either of them had wanted to start with. Gray notes that it's the songs that have the most struggle amongst the two of them that are the ones he ends up liking best, and that resonate most with fans.

The push and pull from the pair has resulted in the Zolas' latest album Ancient Mars, for which the duo had a clear intent from the get-go. Gray and Dobrazanski wanted to make an album that broke the mould of Canadian music with an otherworldly, beat-oriented album. In pursuit of the ethereal sound permeating from the album, a lyrical concept for the album took shape.

Ancient Mars, Gray explains, references the heyday of the planet that is being discovered piece-by-piece:

evidence of water sources, vegetation and maybe even life. It's a world away from our own, but Gray connects the faraway time period with relationships.

"Two million years later, looking at it now, there's no evidence of that whatsoever, and in some way that's like the relationships in our twenties, or the little heydays we have with groups of our friends where at one point it's the most exciting and optimistic and teaming part of our lives and we can't imagine our lives without it, but two years later you run into that ex-boyfriend or ex-best friend at a supermarket and it's barren," he explains. "To me, ancient Mars is that beautiful place you can't go back to once you've left."

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FIRSTS, LASTS AND FAVOURITES

Sunparlour Players Fri, Oct 26 (8 pm) With Kalle Matson Artery, $18 (advance), $22 (door)

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For the first time in three years, Sunparlour Players is hitting the road for a headlining tour across Canada. This time, the group has a little something special for fans.

The duo's new EP, Sunparlour Preserves, will be presented to buyers on an old-fashioned recipe card with a download card and a preserve recipe for listeners to try their hand at.

Before making a stop in Edmonton, Andrew Penner shared his firsts, lasts and favourites with Vue.

First album RUN DMC - Raising Hell

Last concert Black Milk in Toronto, ON

First concert Liona Boyd

Favourite album It changes daily - Today its Toots & the Maytals Funky Kingston.

Last album Sigur Ros - Valtari

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PREVUE // DEEP DARK FOLK

The Deep Dark Woods Sun, Oct 28 (8 pm) Starlite Room, $22.75

T WITH KALLE MATTSON AND THE LUCKY PENNIES

FRI, OCT 26, THE ARTERY //////////////

SUNPARLOUR PLAYERS SUN, OCT 28, THE STARLITE ROOM ////////////// NO MINORS

THE DEEP DARK WOODS

WITH MARK DAVIS

FRI, NOV 2, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

AN INTIMATE EVENING WITH SHANE KOYCZAN SAT, NOV 10, THE HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB JCL AND URBAN DNA PRESENT

WITH JO THRILLZ, AND DJ’S TWIST & SONNY GRIMEZZ AND POLITIC LIVE

SON REAL & RICH KIDD WITH GUESTS

SAT, NOV 10, THE PAWN SHOP ////////////// NO MINORS

JULIE DOIRON, W/ JESSICA JALBERT MON, NOV 12, AVENUE THEATRE ////////////// NO MINORS

CUNNINLYNGUISTS

WITH TONEDEFF, SADISTIK & DJ FLIPFLOP

FRI, NOV 16, AVENUE THEATRE //////////////

PAPER LIONS

WITH LES JUPES, AND GUESTS

SAT, NOV 17, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

AMELIA CURRAN

WITH JOE NOLAN & GUESTS

FRI, NOV 23, ROYAL AB MUSEUM THEATRE ////////////// ALL AGES & LICENSED

THE WOODEN SKY

WITH WILDLIFE

FRI, NOV 30, AVENUE THEATRE //////////////

TOM FUN ORCHESTRA

WITH WILD ROSE ORCHESTRA AND GUESTS

FRI, DEC 7, THE ARTERY //////////////

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WITH RYAN MCMAHON, AND GUESTS

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he Deep Dark Woods is riding a seemingly perpetual wave of success that has accompanied its latest album The Place I Left Behind—, which was released over a year ago.

The frenetic pace the band has been moving at will finally slow down after Christmas when the members take a much-needed couple of months off to regroup. Singer and guitarist Ryan Boldt says he did not expect the album to achieve the success it did, and is still a little taken aback by it all, but isn't letting it go to his head.

"It's been pretty cool, but I don't really think about it all that much. I just try and keep my head on straight and play," he says over the phone during a four-day break before the band hits the road for a tour of western Canada.

The Deep Dark Woods caught the attention of critics and fans alike with

its third album, Winter Hours, which went on to win Best Roots Group at the 2009 Western Canadian Music Awards. The Place I Left Behind carries on the band's signature alt-country style while dealing with temporal geographic alienation of the Saskatchewan prairies, telling captivating stories through folk and roots music in the form of murder ballads, lovesick hymnals and rock-driven stompers.

"I'm just stuck inside for a couple months of the year, so I've got nothing else to do but write songs," Boldt says of the downright chilly winters that plague his home province. "I'm also really influenced by American music and English music a lot ... people like Shirley Collins and the Stanley Brothers, of course Dylan and Neil Young, the Band and all that sort of stuff. It's just a mash-up of folk music and R&B and rock 'n' roll."

a independent step for the Deep Dark Woods: the band took complete control over the recording process, forgoing the help of producers to create the sound it was hoping to achieve.

The members did, however, team up with engineer Darren van Niekerk at The Sonic Temple in Halifax, NS to tackle the technical side of recording. Boldt notes he's not opposed to returning to working with a producer in the future, it'll just be a matter of finding someone who can capture what he's looking for.

"I'm really picky with who I would want to get. I only like a certain sort of sound and anything else doesn't do it for me. It has to be a certain somebody and, someday, hopefully we'll be able to get those certain people," he adds. "You can't compromise. If you compromise, then you'll make a terrible record and the fans see that."

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PREVUE // HALLOWEEN MUSIC

Cameron Carpenter Wed, Oct 31 (9:30 pm) The Cabinet of Dr Caligari Featuring Cameron Carpenter Winspear Centre, $29 – $49

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mong the ranks of silent films, The Cabinet of Dr Caligari has long maintained its status as a classic of the horror genre. To mark this Halloween, it gets another chilling element added to its intrigue with the accompaniment of master organist Cameron Carpenter.

Carpenter has composed his own macabre score to accompany the murder and mayhem of the film, as well as assorted pieces from across the horror and science-fiction spectrum.

Carpenter, who began taking keyboard lessons at age four before moving to the organ, discovered The Cabinet of Dr Caligari during his first winter studying at Julliard in 2001.

He says at the time he was skipping most of his classics to watch six or seven films a day. Although, those

missed classes don't seem to have hindered his rise to success, and he has become known worldwide for his original renditions of classic musical scores.

"I don't believe in a historical concept of silent-film accompaniment.

There is a kind of nostalgia attached to the idea of silent films as something from the golden days of the '20s, which, of course, comparatively few people remember, and this is dangerous, because it can short circuit an honest assessment of silent film as film," he notes of any considerations he took when composing the score for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. "Many silent films are practically unwatchable now except as a sort of exercise in camp, which becomes exhausting quickly.

Caligari is different, partly because it stands as a major visual work as well as a tightly organized and visually produced film of great pacing and cohesion. The score must have

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this cohesion."

Horror films and the thundering, eerie sound the organ is able to produce seem like the perfect match, but Cameron says while it may be a cliche that the organ is "right" for any subject matter involving the supernatural, this is simply just a cliched use of the instrument.

"In fact, the organ is generally one of the most opportune instruments for cinematic music, since it avails the player of greater dynamic range, greater pitch spectrum and therefore richer contrasts and variations of musical context than any other instrument—all of which are well-suited to musically supporting the literality of action on the screen of whatever kind," he says. "My usage of the organ for this film will therefore not tend in general toward, you might say, the 'organic,' but then it almost never does."

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PREVUE // HUNKY DORY

Royal Wood

King of sunshine

Fri, Oct 26 (7 pm) With Elisapie Isaac Horowitz Theatre, $20

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oyal Wood's music has always carried itself on an updraft. His melodies have an enduring warmth to them, even in their darker moments, while his instrumentals, often piano led, roll along with aplomb, cradling the emotional core of his writings firmly in the other side of bittersweet. Hell, his cover of

Adele's "Someone Like You" is practically a cheerful send-off, its chorus revealing a joyus guitar line and far more I'm-movingon-and-I-really-sincerely-wishyou-the-best sentiment than the original's more mournful tones.

That's not to say Wood sugarcoats or rose-tinges his view of the world, but he certainly isn't faking any big drama in the name of a song, either. He simply excells at celebrating the world he finds himself in.

So if Wood's new album, We Were Born to Glory, seems particularly upbeat, the guy's come about it honestly: the singer-songwriter is cresting on a high that's both professional (increasing acclaim for his albums, plenty of touring) and personal (he's now three years wed to fellow musician Sarah Slean), and those past few years have crystalized into the honeycoloured peaks of Glory.

"You meet all the basic needs of food and shelter, and you're left to ponder our greater existence," Wood notes during a phonecall from the road. "I think that's just where I'm at now."

That throughline emerged after a disciplined month of songwriting. folowing "three or four" tours behind 2010's The Waiting, Wood took himself off the road in Montréal to focus on writing.

He emerged with a mountain of songs—50, total—which he whittled down to 13 for Glory, finding its focus, both musical and lyrical, lay in embracing the beauty of the world he saw around him.

"There was definitely a thread of hopefulness that I hadn't really connected to as deeply as I found myself doing now," he

says, of pairing 50 songs down to an single album's worth. "It seemed to be far more uptempo, as well. The record made sense as to how I wanted it to go, and the journey I wanted to take the listener on."

Glory also marks a first in terms of Wood opening up his process: whereas on previous albums he's commanded every aspect of production—playing almost every instrument, acting as sole producer, arranging any orchestration that needs arrangement, doing the album mixing—here he brought in Dean Drouilla to co-produce, and others to mix it.

Letting go of his usual level of control wasn't easy at first, he

notes, but necessary to make good on one of the album's themes of growth.

"I certainly had trepidation at first—it's a new way to work— but I want to always do that, because If you just fit in where it's safe, I don't think you're gonna expand, and you're not gonna learn anything, and you're certainly not going to reach whatever potential you set out to have. The whole idea of The Glory in the first place [is] 'We were born to glory'," he says. "I can't advertise a philosophy and not actually follow through on the recording of it."

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PREVUE // HIP HOP

Jaze Dubya Tue, Oct 30 With Mory Stentz, Realistik, MissDfy, Randall Merkury, Xaolin Monk, Baggy Lean, Dirty Needlz Crown Pub

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or local hip-hop artist Jaze Dubya, it all began with Snoop Dogg. Growing up in a house more likely to have Aerosmith or Mötley Crüe blaring from the speakers than hip-hop beats, the genre seemed like an unlikely fit for Jaze Dubya, but in Grade 5 a friend introduced him to Snoop Dogg's Doggy Style album and he was hooked.

"I fell in love with it from the get-go," he says, adding it wasn't long before he and his friend could rap the album by heart.

"Basically, it was the beat that brought me to them, the style of word play they had, the lyrics— not necessarily what they promoted—but it was the lyrics and styles they brought to music."

The old-school vibe from Jaze Dubya's early hip-hop influences is the cornerstone of his latest release, The J.A.W EP. He describes the six-track disc, which features a host of local hip-hop talent, as a

much more personal and less aggressive collection than his previous work.

"I've been studying word play and stuff like that.

It's more personal; it's on a more real level," he adds.

"I talk about a lot of real issues going on in my life and the world around me ... I've got a song about my daughter being born, I've got one song about at one point wanting to walk away from music and basically my girlfriend saying, 'You're not quitting this; you're too good.'"

Jaze Dubya says while he considered leaving music at one point, he has no intention of doing so anymore, instead moving fullsteam ahead with his label Green Heist Productions.

"Green Heist was a pretty natural transition in me putting out better quality music and music that people would really hold onto as opposed to this run-ofthe-mill, get-out-of-my-face crap people hear today," he states. "That's just not me."

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NOVEMBER 12 Avenue Theatre, Edmonton

DECEMBER 19 Starlite Room, Edmonton

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like "Hurt Me Tomorrow" and "Bulletproof Pride"—but it gets stifled by over-production while the push to sound commercial leaves potentially good tracks sounding rather bland. "Is Anybody Out There?" would have been a fine song if it weren't for Nelly Furtado's overly poppy and nasal vocal delivery, while "The Sound of My Breaking Heart" (produced by RedOne) sounds the same from beginning to end. The anthemic and Coldplay-tinged "Better"—natural follow-up to "Wavin' Flag"—was clearly made for the radio, but, fortunately, it manages to retain K'naan's lyricism and ability to self-reflect. K'naan shines best on tracks where he is completely solo, such as the quirky, rapidfire poetry of "Waiting is a Drug" and "Simple," in which raps against sparse African instruments and layered vocal harmony takes us back to the rapper's roots.

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Dum Dum Girls End of Daze (Sub Pop)  "Tonight I sing my eulogy," goes the ending of "Mine Tonight," the opening number of the Dum Dum Girls' End of Daze EP. That line and its heartsick rejoinder— "Won't you sing it with me?"—are cushioned by echoing, shoegaze guitar lines in a pairing that sets the course for these five B-sides culled from the Only In Dreams sessions. At its best, the Dum Dum Girls bend distorted guitar romantics instrumental swoops and swoons around that hazy rock-band crunch to bracket chief Dum Dum Dee Dee's lyrics and melodies with a dynamic edge.

The EP could use a little more of that

aspect: "Trees and Flowers" and "Lord Knows" bleed into each other with a similar slowed tempo and guitar jangle and weary longings. Still, "Season in Hell" rises up to close it off like a gorgeous, triumphant '80s rocker, and in doing so reintroduces the lively dynamic that so often lends this band its potency.

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Sea Pinks Freak Waves (CF Records)  Sea Pinks is a band—well, not really, it's a solo project by one Neil Brogan who plays all the instruments on record then drafts local musicians to back him at live shows—that is the sonic equivalent of a day at the beach that ends in a thunderstorm and a harried run back to the car. The songs come laid back, lo-fi, surfy without being kitschy, with a dark undertone of melancholy and betrayal through the faraway reverb. It's a fair metaphor for Belfast, the city Sea Pinks hails from. A city by the sea with no beaches, where

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K'naan, having enlisted the help of several big shot names like Lupe Fiasco did on his latest record, has come up with his own version of Lupe's illreceived Lasers. Despite a promising title, Country, God or the Girl feels both too shallow and too showy.

K'naan's not lacking in creativity here—it sprouts throughout in tracks

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 To hear singer/guitarist Paul Stanley tell it, his expanded role as producer was absolutely necessary for Kiss to continue as a recording entity: Stanley was determined to recapture the energy the band had back when it was in its '70s heyday.

To hear singer/bassist Gene Simmons tell it, the band's new album is a meat-and-potatoes affair: the purpose was not to deliver any surprises but to zone in on the type of material that made the band famous.

To hear the album, Monster, it can be said that both were correct to some extent: the production is solid, loaded with energy, but without the sloppy charm that former guitarist Ace Frehley brought to the band, and the songs are unsurprising, with a few standouts—the street corner harmonizing and oldschool rock 'n' roll riffing on "Eat Your Heart Out" and the cheese 'n' swagger mix on "All For the Love of Rock & Roll"—but the rest of the album wears thin as Simmons and Stanley (alongside latter-day members Tommy Thayer and Eric Singer) play dress-up in their old clothes, both literally and metaphorically.

Despite some tough licks from the guitars and bass, it's pretty ridiculous sounding to hear Simmons loudly proclaiming "The devil is me" when he's already pulled back the curtains and revealed himself as a gentle goofball on his reality series.

Monster works as a throwback tribute to the past, and it's superior to most of what the band has done since the late '70s, but it doesn't cut it when stacked up next to the band's best work.

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Hank Williams "Live" 1952 Starring Joe Matheson / Fri, Oct 26 (7:30 pm) OK, so it's not the real deal, but it's the closest you're ever going to get at this point, considering the man died in 1953. (Arden Theatre, $35)

Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds and Snow Patrol / Sat, Oct 27 (6:30 pm) Two headliners for the price of one? Doesn't happen every day, so take advantage now.

(Edmonton Expo Centre, $29.50 – $69.50)

The Uncas / Sat, Oct 27 The Uncas are back and playing a theatrical Halloween show—Halloween in Space, to be precise—along with Blue Goat and the Give 'em Hell Boys. Light speed ahead. Or warp speed if you're one of them. (Avenue Theatre, $12 in advance, $15 at the door)

A Life Once Lost / Sat, Oct 27 Three years of blood, sweat and tears went into the band's latest effort, Ecstatic Trance. OK, maybe no blood or tears, but the wait is said to have paid off with a sense of expression they've never shown before. (Pawn Shop, $20)

Big Sugar / Mon, Oct 29 and Tue, Oct 30 Coming back after a decade with no records can be tricky business, but it seems Big Sugar found something sweet with the 2011 release of Revolutions Per Minute and the success just keeps on going. (Starlite Room)

The Chucho Valdés Quartet / Tue, Oct 30 (8 pm) To say Chucho Valdés has had a prolific career is an understatement: the man has 80 albums to his credit and eight Grammy Awards. (Winspear Centre)

Crystal Castles / Mon, Oct 29 If you loved the old-school synthesizers and keyboards on Crystal Castles' previous two records, you may be in for a shock this time around. A strict "no computers rule" is changing things up, but who knows, you might just like it.

(Edmonton Event Centre)

Departures / Wed, Oct 31 The name is a fitting one for this independent group. Since outgrowing the comforts of home touring, the band has struck out for greener pastures, stopping in Edmonton to regale fans with its latest effort Give In Or Resist. (Wunderbar)

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THU OCT 25 ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE Folk/jazz/ pop/singer-songwriter live music Thu: Lauren Busheikin and The Ambivalence; 9:30pm11:30pm; no minors; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE Mississippi Heat; Oct 22-27 BOHEMIA New Music Bohemia: works for saxophone and percussion with Allison Balcetis and Alyssa Baker; $10 (general), $5 (student) BRITTANYS LOUNGE Kenny Hillaby hosts a jazz session night every Thu with Shadow Dancers, Maura and Jeanelle; no cover CAFÉ HAVEN Music every Thu: this week with Letters To Sunday; 7pm; No cover CARROT CAFÉ Zoomers Thu afternoon open mic; 1-4pm COOK COUNTY SALOON Charlie Daniels Band with Brett Kissel; 8pm DOW CENTRE–FORT SASK Prairie Oyster;

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DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Thu at 9pm DV8 Tarantuja with Endprogram and Fuquored; 9pm EDDIE SHORTS Good Time Jamboree with Charlie Scream every Thu J R BAR AND GRILL Live Jam Thu; 9pm JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Jess Smith and Beautiful Love; $10 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 LIT ITALIAN WINE BAR Lindsey Walker; 8pm; Free MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont Open mic every Thu; 7pm NAKED CYBERCAFE & ESPRESSO BAR Open stage Thu; all ages; 9pm-close; no cover NEW CITY LEGION Karaoke From the Crypt, hosted by Brendan Fraser; 8pm (doors); No cover NEW WEST HOTEL Canadian Country Hall of Fame Guest host Bev Munro; LATER: Ghost Rider; Oct 22-27 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 Owls By Nature with Red Ram and The Cavalry along with Mayday & The Beatcreeps; 7pm; $10 (adv) PUB 1824 Open jam session every Wed, hosted by Norm; 8pm

RICHARD'S PUB Live R&B bands (dancing); 8pm

COMMUNITY LEAGUE Cleanse Kill and more; 7pm; $15 (adv)

RIC’S GRILL Peter Belec ( jazz); most Thursdays; 7-10pm

ARDEN THEATRE Hank Williams; 7:30pm

WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close WUNDERBAR Renny Wilson; 9pm

Classical JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Aida; 7:30pm WINSPEAR CENTRE An Evening with Dr. Maya Angelou; 7:30pm

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 BAR Hosted by Christian and Justin of Canyon Rose Outfit: 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

ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jimmy Whiffen; Oct 26-27 BISTRO LA PERSAUD Blues: every Friday Night hosted by The Dr Blu Band; 8pm (music); drblu.ca BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ Bill Werthmann & Friends Hillary's Ride; 8pm; donations BLUES ON WHYTE Mississippi Heat; Oct 22-27 BOHEMIA Art+Muzak BRIXX BAR Early Show: Endivera with Yellowknife; 6pm Late Show: XoXo to follow (every Fri) CAFE TIRAMISU Emily Seal; 7:15-9pm; No cover CARROT Live music every Fri: this week with Mat Halton & Lynette McKell; all ages; 7:30pm; $5 (door) CASINO EDMONTON Kixxsin; Oct 26-27 CASINO YELLOWHEAD Catalyst; Oct 26-27 CLUB AT THE CITADEL After Hours Jam Session with Next To Normal band; 10:30pm; $10 COAST TO COAST Open stage every Fri; 9:30pm COMMON Mod Club Halloween Party; 9pm; $7 DEVANEY'S Quentin Reddy; Oct 26-27 DV8 Raygun Cowboys with Hellfire Special; 9pm

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

EARLY STAGE SALOON Hot Rockin' R&B, The Forty Below Band featuring Lynne Chwyl; Oct 26-27

FLUID LOUNGE Take Over Thursdays: Industry Night; 9pm

CENTRE The Bounce Freaky Deaky feat DJ Vice and Eric Cubeechee; 8pm; 18+

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Requests every Thu with DJ Damian HALO Fo Sho: every Thu with Allout DJs DJ Degree, Junior Brown KAS BAR Urban House: every Thu with DJ Mark Stevens; 9pm LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Funk Bunker Thursdays LUCKY 13 Sin Thu with DJ Mike Tomas ON THE ROCKS Salsaholic: every Thu; dance lessons at 8pm; salsa DJ to follow OUTLAWS ROADHOUSE Wild Life Thursdays 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 THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Show; every Thu; 8 - 12pm 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

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EDMONTON EVENT

ELEVATION ROOM– TRANSCEND COFFEE Rae Spoon Book Release Featuring Rae Spoon with Kris Demeanor and Doug Hoyer; 8pm; $10

8pm (doors), 9pm (show); 18+

FLUID LOUNGE Hip hop and dancehall; every Fri

NEW WEST HOTEL Ghost Rider; Oct 22-27

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro with DJ Damian; every Fri

ON THE ROCKS Mourning Wood; Oct 26-27 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm2am every Fri and Sat; no cover PAWN SHOP The Ultimate Clownclad Iron Maiden Tribute Featuring Power Clown with L.A.M.S. and Cocaine Moustache and many more; 8pm; $12 (adv) PUB 1824 Live music very Fri & Sat; $5 RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Fri; 9pm2am RENDEZVOUS PUB Kryosphere, Hammerdrone, Bleed, The Anatomy of Terror; 8pm; $10 RIVER CREE–THE VENUE 80’s Halloween Party featuring the Spazmatics; 7pm (doors), 8pm (show); $10 ROSE AND CROWN PUB Mark McGarigal; Oct 26-27 STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Rockster, Cult of Self, Half Mast, 100 Years, White Pongo; 18+ No minors; 6pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10 STARLITE ROOM Haunted Haus Party Featuring The Funk Hunters, Heatwave And Rubi Dan; 9pm WESTSIDE PUB Chillfactor; 9:30pm WILD BILL’S–Red Deer TJ the DJ every Thu and Fri; 10pm-close YARDBIRD SUITE Tony Malaby's Tamarinado; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE The Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel; Oct 26-27, 8pm

COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE– MORINVILLE The BeatleManiacs; 8pm MUGGN'Z FAMILY RESTAURANT–DEN SPORTS PUB Halloween Party with performances

by Andew Scott; 9pm MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Royal Wood with Elisapie Isaac; 7pm; $20 (adv) NEW CITY LEGION Wall Street Massacre 2012 Tour with Angelspit, Cyanotic, My Parasites;

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat OVERTIME–Downtown Fridays at Eleven: Rock hip hop, country, top forty, techno REDNEX–Morinville DJ Gravy from the Source 98.5 every Fri RED STAR Movin’ on Up: indie, rock, funk, soul, hip hop with DJ Gatto, DJ Mega Wattson; every Fri SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Fuzzion Friday: with Crewshtopher, Tyler M, guests; no cover SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Release Your Inner Beast: Retro and Top 40 beats with DJ Suco; every Fri TEMPLE Silence be Damned: with DJs Gotthavok, Siborg, Nightroad; 9pm THIRSTY CAMEL The Sinder Sparks Showwith Stratosphere; 10pm 2am 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

SAT OCT 27

BLACKSHEEP PUB Bash: DJ spinning retro to rock classics to current

LIZARD LOUNGE Rock 'n' roll open mic every Fri; 8:30pm; no cover

NEWCASTLE PUB House, dance mix every Fri with DJ Donovan

BAR-B-BAR DJ James; every Fri; no cover

HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Democrafunk and Hello Beautiful; 8pm; $7 (adv), $10 (door)

JEKYLL AND HYDE PUB Headwind (classic pop/ rock); every Fri; 9pm; no cover

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

Y AFTERHOURS Foundation Fridays

BLACK DOG

JEFFREY'S CAFÉ Paul Ledding; $15

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

DJs

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

FUSIA/CORAL DE CUBA Del Son a la Salsa: Lessons in Son,Cha Cha Cha,Salsa Rueda de Casino and more with Orlando Martinez (Fiesta Cubana Dance School); 9:30pm; $5

FREEHOUSE Every Friday DJs on all three levels

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

ALBERTA BEACH HOTEL Open stage with Trace Jordan 1st and 3rd Sat; 7pm-12 ARDEN THEATRE Stuart McLean & The Vinyl Café; 7:30pm; $50 (adults), $30 (students, 18 and under) ARTERY Blurred Lenz Featuring Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers with Jenie Thai and Swear By The Moon along with NUNTA; 8pm ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL Jimmy Whiffen; Oct 26-27 AVENUE THEATRE Blue Goat Productions presents Halloween In Space, feat The Uncas, Blue Goat, with guests BAILEY THEATRE The Hallowe'en Masquerade Ball with Punch Drunk Cabaret, The Criminals, Naughty Divas; 8pm (doors), $19 (box office or online) BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Hair of the Dog: Flying Fox and the Hunter Gatherers (live acoustic music every Sat); 4-6pm; no cover

BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–NISKU Halloween Bash Featuring The Mishaps; 9pm BLUE CHAIR CAFE Carli and Julie Kennedy; 8:30pm; $10 BLUES ON WHYTE Every Sat afternoon: Jam with Back Door Dan; Mississippi Heat; Oct 22-27 BRIXX BAR Double CD Release with Desert Boots, Spencer Jo and the RiverJacks, Joe Vickers; 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 CASINO EDMONTON Kixxsin; Oct 26-27 CASINO YELLOWHEAD Catalyst; Oct 26-27 CENTURY CASINO David Wilcox; 7pm (doors); no minors; $44.95 (TicketMaster, door) COAST TO COAST Live bands every Sat; 9:30pm COMMON Terror On The Dancefloor; 9pm; $7 CROWN PUB Acoustic blues open stage with Marshall Lawrence, every Sat, 2-6pm; every Sat, 12-2am DEVANEY'S Quentin Reddy; Oct 26-27 DEVON HOTEL PALS Acoustic Open Mic with Tim Harwill; Every Sat 4-6:30pm THE DISH NEK Trio (jazz); every Sat, 6pm DOW CENTRE–FORT SASK Tales from the Road Featuring Joe Supple with The Alberta Country Gentlemen; 7:30pm; $17 (adv)

EARLY STAGE SALOON Hot Rockin' R&B, The Forty Below Band featuring Lynne Chwyl; Oct 26-27 EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Monster Mash Halloween Bash, Shout Out Out Out Out with DJ Eric Cubeechee; 8pm; 18+, no minors EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE Snow Patrol – Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds with special guest Jake Bugg; 6:30pm (doors), 7:30pm (show); $29.50, $45.50 & $69.50; all ages FILTHY MCNASTY'S Halloween Kickoff Party with Cygnets and Rhythm of Cruelty; 4pm; No cover GAS PUMP Saturday Homemade Jam: Mike Chenoweth HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB Haven Halloween Party Featuring Boogie Patrol and Utopian Skank with Powerload; 8pm; $15 (adv), $20 (door)

LOUISIANA PURCHASE Suchy Sister Saturdays: Amber, Renee or Stephanie with accompaniment; 9:3011:30pm; no cover

S&M (STUDIO & MEAD

MACLAB CENTRE–LEDUC The Beatlemaniacs; 7:30pm

SIDELINERS PUB Sat open stage, 3-7pm; LATER: Purple City, 9pm, no cover

NEWCASTLE PUB Big Hank and a Fist Full of Blues, Annual Halloween Bash; 8:30pm; $10 (adv), $15 (door) NEW CITY LEGION Exits Riot In Paradise, Any Last Regrets, Letters To Elise; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); 18+ NEW WEST HOTEL Country jam every Sat; 3-6pm; LATER: Ghost Rider; Oct 22-27 O’BYRNE’S Live band every Sat, 3-7pm; DJ every Sat, 9:30pm ON THE ROCKS Mourning Wood; Oct 26-27 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Dueling Piano's, all request live; 9pm-2am every Fri and Sat; no cover

HILLTOP PUB Sat afternoon roots jam with Pascal, Simon and Dan, 3:30-6:30pm; evening

PAWN SHOP Revocation with A Life Once Lost and Ken Mode; 6pm; $12 (adv)

HOOLIGANZ Live music every Sat

PUB 1824 Live music every Fri & Sat; $5

HYDEAWAY Marleigh and Mueller (classic pop/jazz/ musical theatre); 8pm; 3rd Sat each month; $10

REDNEX BAR–MORINVILLE The Jaks; 9pm; $10

IRON BOAR PUB Jazz in Wetaskiwin featuring jazz trios the 1st Sat each month; $10 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Experience The Beatles with RAIN; Oct 27-28 L.B.'S PUB Sat afternoon Jam with Gator and Friends; 5-9pm EVERY SAT: Halloween Bash with RETRObution; $10; with dress theme: the 80's

RED PIANO BAR Hottest dueling piano show featuring the Red Piano Players every Sat; 9pm2am RENDEZVOUS PUB A hundred Years, Frightenstein, The Hustle; 8pm; $10 ROSE AND CROWN PUB Mark McGarigal; Oct 26-27 ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE Bahamas, with Jason Collett; Sold out

HALL) Dissonance, Armifera, Shark Infested Daughters, Domitian, Coffin Fit, Dead as December; 8pm

SHAW CONFRENCE HALL Scream; 8pm STARLITE ROOM Capital City Burlesque Presents Freaky Geeky Halloween with musical guests the Rolling Blackouts; 9pm STUDIO MUSIC FOUNDATION Dissonance, Armifera, Coffin Fit, Domitian, Dead as December; 18+, no minors; 6pm (doors), 9pm (show); $10 TREASURY Halloween Saturday; 9pm; $10 WUNDERBAR The Frolics (Halloween Show) with Guests; 12pm YARDBIRD SUITE JD Allen Trio; 8pm (doors), 9pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

Classical MUTTART HALL Iwona Glinka; 8pm; $25 (adults), $20 (students and seniors), $15 (Polish Culture Society members); Available from Tix on the Square and at the door WINSPEAR CENTRE The Sounds of Simon & Garfunkel; Oct 26-27, 8pm

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

FRI OCT 26

BANDS AS BANDS

THE ULTIMATE CLOWNCLAD IRON MAIDEN TRIBUTE BAND POWER CLOWN W/ L.A.M.S. AS D.R.I. • COCAINE MOUSTACHE AS ZZ TOP • HIPPYCHICK AS GORILLA BISCUITS • MEMBERS OF: E-TOWN BEATDOWN, SECRET RIVALS & THIS IS WAR AS ‘HEROES OF HARDCORE’ & BAD ACID - BLACK ZEPPELIN

BUFFALO UNDERGROUND Head Mashed In Saturday: Mashup Night DRUID IRISH PUB DJ every Sat; 9pm

SAT OCT 27

Doors @ 6 SCION A/V METAL PRESENTS

ELECTRIC RODEO– Spruce Grove DJ every Sat

REVOCATION W/ A LIFE ONCE LOST, KENMODE & NETHERWARD

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

WED OCT 31

ANTEDILUVIAN

FUNKY BUDDHA–Whyte Ave Top tracks, rock, retro every Sat with DJ Damian

DIRE OMEN

& MORBIS INFERNUS

FUSIA/CORAL DE CUBA Mixing in the House every Sat: DJ Fuego and his Latin Groves with Mojito in Hand From Cuba; 9:30pm-2am; $5

THU NOV 1

ENDAST

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

W/ ALL ELSE FAILS,

THESE COLORS DON’T RUN, SUBMERGE & TYRANT

JUNCTION BAR AND EATERY LGBT Community: Rotating DJs Fri and Sat; 10pm

FRI NOV 2

MAD BOMBER SOCIETY 15 YEARS OF BLOOD SWEAT & BEER’S -

NEWCASTLE PUB Top 40 requests every Sat with DJ Sheri

PERFORM ‘ATOMIC A-GO-GO’ & ‘BUTCHERS, STOMPERS & CHEAT’S’ IN THEIR ENTIRETY!

O2'S TAPHOUSE AND GRILL DJs every Fri and Sat

W/ THE VON ZIPPERS & THE PREYING SAINTS

VENUE GUIDE ACCENT EUROPEAN LOUNGE 8223-104 St, 780.431.0179 ALBERTA AVENUE COMMUNITY LEAGUE 9210-118 Ave ALE YARD TAP 13310-137 Ave ARTERY 9535 Jasper Ave ATLANTIC TRAP & GILL 7704-104 St AVENUE THEATRE 9030118 Ave, 780.477.2149 BAILEY THEATRE 5041-50 St, Camrose 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 BLUE CHAIR CAFÉ 9624-76 Ave, 780.989.2861 BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT 10643-123 St, 780.482.7178 BLUES ON WHYTE 1032982 Ave, 780.439.3981 BOHEMIA 10217-97 St BONEYARD ALE HOUSE 9216-34 Ave, 780.437.2663 BRITTANY'S LOUNGE 10225-97 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 CAFE TIRAMASU 10750124 St CARROT CAFÉ 9351-118 Ave, 780.471.1580 CASINO EDMONTON 7055 Argylll Rd, 780.463.9467 CASINO YELLOWHEAD 12464-153 St, 780 424 9467 CENTURY CASINO 13103 Fort Rd, 780.643.4000 CHA ISLAND TEA CO 1033281 Ave, 780.757.2482 CHROME LOUNGE 132 Ave, Victoria Trail

WED NOV 7 CLUB AT THE CITADEL Rice Theatre, 9828-101 A Ave COAST TO COAST 5552 Calgary Tr, 780.439.8675 COMMON 9910-109 St COOK COUNTY SALOON 8010 Gateway Boulevard CROWN PUB 10709-109 St, 780.428.5618 DEVANEY’S IRISH PUB 9013-88 Ave, 780.465.4834 DEVON HOTEL 1 Huron Street, Devon, AB THE DISH 12417 Stony Plain Rd, 780.488.6641 DOW CENTENNIAL CENTRE 8700-84 St, Fort Saskatchewan DRUID 11606 Jasper Ave, 780.454.9928 DUSTER’S PUB 6402-118 Ave, 780.474.5554 DV8 8307-99 St EARLY STAGE SALOON– Stony Plain 4911-52 Ave, Stony Plain EDDIE SHORTS 10713-124 St, 780.453.3663 EDMONTON EVENTS CENTRE WEM Phase III, 780.489.SHOW EDMONTON EXPO CENTRE 7515-118 Ave 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 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 HAVEN SOCIAL CLUB 15120A (basement), Stony Plain Rd, 780.756.6010 HILLTOP PUB 8220-106 Ave, 780.490.7359 HOGS DEN PUB 9, 14220 Yellowhead Tr HOOLIGANZ 10704-124 St, 780.995.7110 HYDEAWAY 10209-100 Ave, 780.426.5381 IRON BOAR PUB 4911-51st St, Wetaskiwin J AND R 4003-106 St, 780.436.4403 JEFFREY’S CAFÉ 9640 142 St, 780.451.8890 JEKYLL AND HYDE 10209100 Ave, 780.426.5381 JUBILEE AUDITORIUM 11455-87 Ave 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 MACLAB THEATRE 4308-50 St, Leduc MARYBETH'S COFFEE HOUSE–Beaumont 5001-30 Ave, Beaumont, 780.929.2203 MCDOUGALL UNITED CHURCH 10025 Macdonald Drive MORINVILLE COMMUNITY CULTURAL CENTRE 9502100 Ave, Morinville MUGGNZ' FAMILY RESTAURANT–DEN PUB 412, 6655-178 St MUTTART HALL 10050 MacDonald Drive MYER HOROWITZ THEATRE Students' Union Building 8900-114 St

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 NOLA CREOLE KITCHEN & MUSIC HOUSE 11802-124 St, 780.451.1390, experiencenola. com NORTH GLENORA HALL 13535-109A Ave O’BYRNE’S 10616-82 Ave, 780.414.6766 ON THE ROCKS 11730 Jasper Ave, 780.482.4767 O2'S 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 PUB 1824 12402-118 Ave, 587.521.1824 REDNEX BAR–Morinville 10413-100 Ave, Morinville, 780.939.6955 RED PIANO BAR 1638 Bourbon St, WEM, 8882-170 St, 780.486.7722 RED STAR 10538 Jasper Ave, 780.428.0825 RENDEZVOUS 10108-149 St RICHARD'S PUB 12150-161 Ave, 780-457-3117 RIC’S GRILL 24 Perron Street, St Albert, 780.460.6602 ROSEBOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE 10111-117 St, 780.482.5253 ROSE AND CROWN 10235101 St ROYAL ALBERTA MUSEUM THEATRE 12845-102 Ave R PUB 16753-100 St, 780.457.1266

S&M (STUDIO & MEAD HALL) 10940-166A St SECOND CUP–89 AVE 8906-149 St SECOND CUP– Sherwood Park 4005 Cloverbar Rd, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 • Summerwood Summerwood Centre, Sherwood Park, 780.988.1929 SHAW CONFERENCE HALL 9797 Jasper Avenue SIDELINERS PUB 11018127 St, 780.453.6006 SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE 12923-97 St, 780.758.5924 SPORTSMAN'S LOUNGE 8170-50 St STARLITE ROOM 10030102 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 10028102 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

PABST BLUE RIBBON & THE KRAKEN BLACK SPICED RUM PRESENT..

MUNICIPAL WASTE W/ NAPALM DEATH, DAYGLO ABORTIONS & EXHUMED

SOLD OUT!!!

FOR TICKETS- PLEASE VISIT WWW.YEGLIVE.CA

IS BACK FOR OUR ANNUAL HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY OCT 27!!!!

DJ’S EDDIE LUNCHPAIL AND BLUE JAY, WILL BE SPINNING ALL YOUR FAVOURITE ALTERNATIVE/INDIE/GOTH/PUNK/ELECTRO/NEW WAVE DANCE HITS, PLUS HALLOWEEN FAVOURITES ALL NIGHT LONG!!

VUEWEEKLY OCTOBER 25 – OCTOBER 31, 2012

$4 HIBALLS - $4 PINTS ALL NIGHT LONG!!!

PRIZES FOR BEST COSTUMES!!! • $10 COVER

SAT OCT 27

FREE SHOW 4PM

CYGNETS W/ RHYTHM OF CRUELTY STAND UP COMEDY

SUNDAYS MUSIC 45

OVERTIME–Downtown Saturdays at Eleven: R'n'B, hip hop, reggae, Old School PALACE CASINO Show Lounge DJ every Sat

Jam: hosted; open jam every Sun, all styles welcome; 3-7pm JUBILEE AUDITORIUM Experience The Beatles with RAIN; Oct 27-28

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

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)

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

STARLITE ROOM Big Sugar; Oct 29-30

RED STAR Indie rock, hip hop, and electro every Sat with DJ Hot Philly and guests

NEW CITY LEGION July Talk with guests; 8pm (show), 9pm (show) O’BYRNE’S Open mic every Sun; 9:30pm-1am

BREWERY Asim Chin (CD release); 7pm; $15 (adv)

ROUGE LOUNGE Rouge Saturdays: global sound and Cosmopolitan Style Lounging with DJ Rezzo, DJ Mkhai SOU KAWAII ZEN LOUNGE Your Famous Saturday with Crewshtopher, Tyler M SUEDE LOUNGE House, electro, Top40, R'n'B with DJ Melo-D every Fri SUITE 69 Stella Saturday: retro, old school, top 40 beats with DJ Lazy, guests TEMPLE Oh Snap! Oh Snap with Degree, Cool Beans, Specialist, Spenny B and Mr. Nice Guy and Ten 0; every Sat 9pm UNION HALL Celebrity Saturdays: every Sat hosted by DJ Johnny Infamous

ON THE ROCKS Seven Strings Sun: Dead City Dolls O2'S TAP HOUSE AND GRILL Live rock bank every sun with Joint Chiess REXALL PLACE Marianas Trench with very special guests Down With Webster and Anami Vice; 6pm (doors), 7pm (show); $29.50 & $4, Me+3 4-Pack Tickets $140; all ages RICHARD'S PUB Sun Live Jam hosted by Carson Cole; 4pm STARLITE ROOM The Deep Dark Woods with Mark Davis; no minors TWO ROOMS Live Jam every Sun with Jeremiah; 5-9pm; no cover; $10 (dinner)

Y AFTERHOURS Release Saturdays

YARDBIRD SUITE Matthew Stevens Quartet with special guest Christian Scott; 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show); $24 (members), $28 (guests)

SUN OCT 28

BREWERY Open Stage: Every Sun, 8pm

VINYL DANCE LOUNGE Signature Saturdays

BEER HUNTER–St Albert Open stage/jam every Sun; 2-6pm BLACKJACK'S ROADHOUSE–Nisku Open mic every Sun hosted by Tim Lovett BLUE CHAIR CAFE Sunday Brunch: PM Bossa; 10:30am2:30pm; donations BLUE PEAR RESTAURANT Jazz on the Side Sun: this week with Audrey Ochoa 5:30-8:30pm; $25 if not dining BLUES ON WHYTE Great North Blues Band BOGANI CAFE Edmonton Ukulele Circle; 3rd Sun of each month; 3:30-5pm; $5 fee CAFFREY'S–Sherwood Park The Sunday Blues Jam: hosted by Kevin and Rita McDade and the Grey Cats Blues Band, guests every week; 5-9pm; no cover CHA ISLAND TEA CO Live on the Island: Rhea March hosts open mic and Songwriter's stage; starts with a jam session; 7pm CLUB AT THE CITADEL Master Class with Bob Baker; 2pm; $10 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 FESTIVAL PLACE MonkeyJunk; 7:30pm FILTHY MCNASTY'S Rock and Soul Sundays with DJ Sadeeq HOGS DEN PUB Open

46 MUSIC

YELLOWHEAD

Classical MUTTART HALL Zemlinsky Quartet; 7:30pm; $35 (adults), $25 (senior), $10 (students)

DJs BACKSTAGE TAP AND GRILL Industry Night: every Sun with Atomic Improv, Jameoki and DJ Tim BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Soul Sundays: A fantastic voyage through '60s and '70s funk, soul and R&B with DJ Zyppy LEVEL 2 LOUNGE Stylus Industry Sundays: Invinceable, Tnt, Rocky, Rocko, Akademic, weekly guest DJs; 9pm-3am http://www.facebook.com/ groups/214433451919439/

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

MON OCT 29 BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Sleeman Mon: live music monthly; no cover BLUES ON WHYTE King Muskafa; Oct 29-Nov 3 DEVANEY'S IRISH PUB Singer/songwriter open stage every Mon; 8pm EDMONTON EVENT CENTRE Crystal Castles with Health and Kontravoid; 8pm; 18+ NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs; Oct 29-Nov 3 OVERTIME SHERWOOD PARK Monday Open Stage

ROSE BOWL/ROUGE LOUNGE Acoustic open stage every Mon; 9pm

YELLOWHEAD

Classical WINSPEAR Measha Brueggergosman; 7:30pm

DJs BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Blue Jay’s Messy Nest: mod, brit pop, new wave, British rock with DJ Blue Jay CROWN PUB Mixmashitup Mon Industry Night: with DJ Fuzze, J Plunder (DJs to bring their music and mix mash it up) FILTHY MCNASTY'S Metal Mondays with DJ Tyson LUCKY 13 Industry Night every Mon with DJ Chad Cook

Tue Night Sessions: Secretmen; 7:30pm (doors), 8pm (show); $5 (members & guests)

Classical WINSPEAR CENTRE The Chucho Valdés Quartet; 8pm

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

DV8 Creepy Tombsday: Psychobilly, Hallowe'en horrorpunk, deathrock with Abigail Asphixia and Mr Cadaver; every Tue

PLAYBACK PUB Open Stage every Wed hosted

by JTB; 9pm-1am

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

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

BLUES ON WHYTE King Muskafa; Oct 29-Nov 3

WED OCT 31

BRITTANY'S LOUNGE Phat Tuesday in The Quarters, The Rooster Davis Group, New Orleans Jump & Boogie; 8-11pm

ARDEN THEATRE Bluebird North; 7:30pm; $40 BAILEY THEATRE The Freaky Geeky Halloween Show featuring Capital City Burlesque; 8pm (doors); $25 (box office or online)

DRUID IRISH PUB Open stage every Tue; with Chris Wynters; 9pm

BLACK DOG FREEHOUSE Main Floor: Glitter Gulch: live music once a month; On the Patio: Funk and Soul with Doktor Erick every Wed; 9pm Eric Ruppel 780.884.5176 eruppel@ualberta.ca

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

BLUES ON WHYTE King Muskafa; Oct 29-Nov 3

NEW WEST HOTEL Herbs; Oct 29-Nov 3

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ARIES (Mar 21 – Apr 19): Big opportunities are coming up for you. Even if you cash in on them, though, they aren't likely to make an immediate practical impact.

They are subtle and deep, these prospects. They have the potential of catalyzing monumental shifts in your long-term unfolding, but will take a while to transform your dayto-day rhythm. So what are these openings? Here are my guesses: 1) You could root out a bad seed that got embedded in your subconscious mind before you knew any better.

2) You could reinterpret the meaning of certain turning points in your past, thereby revising the flow of your life story. 3) You could forgive yourself for an old sin you thought you'd never let go of. 4) You could receive a friendly shock that will diminish some sadness you've carried for a long time.

Rob: I seem to be marooned in an interesting limbo. The sights and sounds are not exactly pretty, but they keep me perversely entertained. I'm sampling tastes that are more sour than sweet, thinking that sooner or later the sweetness will start to prevail—but it never does. Sometimes I feel like I'm in a trance, unable to do what's best for me. Can you offer any help? Like maybe give me a password that would break me out of the trance?

– Meandering Gemini." Dear Meandering: This is one of those rare times when you have cosmic permission to favour what's calming and reassuring rather than what's amusing and stimulating. Your password is sanctuary.

TAURUS (Apr 20 – May 20): This would be a good time to get introspective and meditative about your urge to merge ... to think objectively about the way you approach togetherness ... to be honest with yourself about what strengths and weaknesses you bring to the art of collaboration. The most important question you can ask yourself during this inventory is this: "How do I personally contribute, either knowingly or unconsciously, to the problems I experience in relationships?"

Here's another query you might consider: "How hard am I willing to work to create the kinds of intimacy and alliances I say I want?"

CANCER (Jun 21 – Jul 22): On September 22, the San Francisco Giants played a baseball game against the San Diego Padres. In the fourth inning, Giants' third baseman Pablo Sandoval sprinted to the edge of the field, then hurled himself over a railing and into the crowd in order to snag a foul pop-up. The fact that he landed upside down but perfectly unhurt wasn't the most impressive aspect of his feat. Nor was his improbable ability to wield such precise concentration while invoking so much raw force. Even more amazing was the pink bubble that Sandoval blew with his chewing gum nanoseconds before he dived. It was a supremely playful and successful Zen moment. That's the spirit I hope you will bring to your efforts in the coming days.

GEMINI (May 21 – Jun 20): "Dear

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LEO (Jul 23 – Aug 22): Your unconscious mind will be more accessible than usual in the coming weeks. It will reveal its agendas more clearly and play more of an active role in your life. Is that a good thing or a bad thing? It will depend on how open-minded you are toward the surprises your secret self will reveal. If you try to ignore or repress its eruptions, they'll probably wreak chaos. If, on the other hand, you treat this other part of you as an unpredictable but generous ally, you may be able to work out a collaboration that serves you both.

VIRGO (Aug 23 – Sep 22): Urbandictionary.com defines "Skymall solution" as "an absurdly single-purposed tool or solution that solves a problem you don't actually have." The term is derived from the famous Skymall catalog, which sells unusual specialty products. According to my analysis of the current astrological omens, you should be wary of any attraction you might have to Skymall solutions. Do you really need a King Tut tissue box cover or an ice cube tray that makes ice in the shape of dachshunds or a stencil set for putting messages on your bundt cake? I doubt it.

Nor do you need their metaphorical equivalents.

LIBRA (Sep 23 – Oct 22): Right before I woke up this morning, I had a dream that one of my teeth fell out. As I lay there groggily in bed, my mind searched for its meaning. "What does losing a tooth symbolize?" I asked myself. "What is its psychological meaning?" I promised myself that when I got up, I would google that question. But my rumination was interrupted by a dull ache in the back of my mouth and it was only then that I remembered: yesterday, in actual waking life, I had a real tooth yanked out by a real dentist. The moral of the story, Libra: be wary of making up elaborate stories and mythic assumptions about events that have simple, mundane explanations.

SCORPIO (Oct 23 – Nov 21): This is an excellent time to explore the frontiers of wise foolishness.

I'm hoping you will take full advantage of learning opportunities that might require you to shed your excess dignity and acknowledge how much you don't know.

Are you brave enough to disavow cynical thoughts and jaded attitudes that muffle your lust for life? Are you smart enough to understand how healthy it would be to go out and play like an innocent wild child? Make yourself available for delightful surprises.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov 22 – Dec

21): Zombies used to be terrifying, but then they became a featured motif in pop culture, often in humorous contexts, and now there's a growing acceptance and even affection for them. Here's the view of Max Brooks, author of The Zombie Survival Guide: "Eventually rock 'n' roll morphs from Sid Vicious to the Jonas Brothers. Same thing with vampires: we went from Dracula to Twilight to make them peachy and G-rated. I guarantee you someone is working on a way to take the fear out of zombies and market them to children." Your assignment, Scorpio, is to do to your personal fears what the entertainment industry has done to zombies: turn them into amusing caricatures that don't trouble you so much. For example, visualize an adversary singing a duet with Justin Bieber.

CAPRICORN (Dec 22 – Jan 19): "You must learn from the mistakes of others," said humorist Sam Levenson. "You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself." That's excellent advice for you right now, Capricorn. In order to glean the teachings you need most, you won't have to bumble through a single wrong turn or bad decision yourself. There will be plenty of blundering role models who will be providing you with the precise inspiration you need. Study them carefully.

COMMENT >> LGBTQ

Two-spirit play eye opening Agokwe a semi-autobiographical look at growing up queer Want to see a brilliant, one-man cousin. Goose wants to hook Jake show that tells the story of young up with Cheyenne —Mike's couspeople marginalized by race and in—so that they can both lose gender in small communities? their virginity. Jake struggles with Agokwe is your answer as it tells his attraction to Mike and after a the story of two-spirted young chance meeting, sparks fly. But afpeople and their struggles in Canter Goose catches the two boys toada's aboriginal community. gether, devastating results ensue.

Winner of six Dora Awards, Agokwe is semi-autobiographical, Agokwe (the Anishinaabe word which makes its themes all the for "two-spirited") is curmore poignant. Growing up rently on a national in the Grassy Narrows tour—stops include EdReserve in Ontario, Fom monton, Whitehorse, bister struggled with his o .c ly eek @vuew ashley Saskatoon, Toronto and sexuality and at one point Ashley h was bashed so severely he Vancouver. Waawaate Fog r Drybu bister is both the writer and awoke to find himself in an performer of the play which was ambulance. Fobister weaves his originally a short monologue bestory of coming out and bullying fore it developed into its current with Anishinaabe culture and tra75-minute production (award-winditions. The National Arts Centre ning director Edward Roy served puts it best when it notes that as dramaturge for the play.)

"Agokwe is unique in its coverThe story takes place in Kenora age of the complexity of sexual at the annual All Nations Hockey orientation within a cultural conTournament, the social event of text. It explores the attitudes of the year where Ojibwa from surhomophobia as yet another affecrounding communities can come tation imposed upon traditional together and score—both in the First Nation value systems as a rink and outside of it. Mike is a direct result of colonist influence." star player and is lusted after Fobister is part of a growing numequally by two cousins, Jake and ber of people—in Canada and inGoose. Jake is a closeted teenternationally—who are making art ager and Goose is his hilarious and starting conversations about

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queer indigeneity. If you're interested in learning more, I highly recommend the excellent collection of creative writing Sovereign Erotics: A Collection of Two-Spirit Literature (and, if you're more academically inclined, its sister publication Queer Indigenous Studies) which seeks to bring together two conversations—queer and Indigenous—that have not always been easy companions. The contributors repeatedly argue for the transformational potential of art: it both offers a validation of queer indigenous lives and perspectives, but also creates engagement with people in wider communities.

With Agokwe, Fobister not only explores how histories of colonization influence homophobia in indigenous contexts, he also makes space for a vital, vivid representation of a young, queer aboriginal person who won't be silent in the face of sexual and racial discrimination.

Agokwe runs from October 30 – November 11 at the Catalyst Theatre (no show on October 31).

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AQUARIUS (Jan 20 – Feb 18): Every November, thousands of writers participate in National Novel Writing Month. They pledge to compose at least 50 000 words of a new novel in that 30-day period. In accordance with the astrological omens, Aquarius, I propose that you commit yourself to a comparable project in your own field. Is there a potential masterpiece on which you could get a substantial amount of work done? Is there a major transformation you've long wanted to undertake but have always had some excuse to avoid? I predict that you will attract unexpected help and luck if you summon the willpower to focus on that task.

PISCES (Feb 19 – Mar 20): Don't believe the climate is changing?

Go ask the birds what they think.

Sixty percent of all the feathered species in North America have moved north in the past 46 years.

Scientists are pretty sure their migration is a response to the warming trend that's afoot. I like the idea of tuning in to how animals behave in order to get accurate information about the state of the world. Would you consider doing more of that, Pisces? According to my astrological analysis, the coming months will be a time when you can learn a lot from non-human intelligences.

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Lame sex with a long term

Spicing up a loving relationship and when kids really look at porn for the first time What the hell do I say to my straight 14-year-old son about porn? Should I say anything?

My sister tells me that all the research shows my son has been looking at porn for three years already. Am I too late?

Distressed Anxious Dad According to the Today show and The Boston Globe and the American Family Association and most of what pops up when you google "kids and porn," DAD, you're three years late to this pants-shitting party. "The average age a child first views internet pornography is 11," Matt Lauer warned parents on Today seven years ago. "And those kids don't look away."

But the alarming statistic Lauer cited—which was used to justify all sorts of proposed crackdowns on online porn—turned out to be total bullshit. Way, way back in 2005, Seth Lubove, a writer for Forbes, traced the stat back to its source. The Today show got it from The Boston Globe, The Boston Globe got it from Family Safe Media, "a small firm in Provo, Utah, [which] is in the business of scaring parents

into buying software to protect can get in huge and potentially their kids from Internet smut." life-derailing trouble if he gets Family Safe Media got it from caught watching or downloadInternet Filter Review, a website ing the wrong kind of porn, e.g., that markets content-blocking underage, kiddie, etc. You should software. Internet Filter Review tell your son that the sex in porn got it from The Drug of the New bears about as much resemMillennium, a self-published blance to real-life sex as action book about the dangers of movies bear to real-life life.

E porn addiction. Lubove And warn him that a lot G SAVA tracked down the of porn is made by and self-published author, for guys who have no m ly.co eweek and guess what? He savagelove@vu other sexual outlets, i.e., Dan couldn't recall where guys who have no wives, Savage no girlfriends and no hope. he got that stat. Somewhere along the line, Third Many of these guys—many, not Way, "a Washington think tank most, but many—are angry and that helps Democrats grab on to resentful and their anger and rered-state issues," was seriously sentment is a poison that creeps pimping the bogus stat to creduinto a lot of porn; sometimes the lous conservative Dems. poison is obvious, sometimes it's Lubove reviewed actual renot. If you put it in your straight search done by legit social scienson's head that the poisonously tists—a real study! A statisticalmisogynist shit he'll see in some ly significant population sample! porn is there to appeal to angry A random-sample survey!—and losers who can't get laid, DAD, reported that most kids don't your son will be less likely to start actively seeking out online internalize it—because your son porn until age 14. doesn't want to see himself as So you're not too late, DAD. an angry loser, right?

Now, here's what I think you Finally, DAD, if your son is should tell your son about porn: watching porn, he's masturbatthere's a lot of it out there, some ing. Tell him to vary his routine: of it's pretty fucked up, and he left hand, right hand, a little lube, a lot of lube, firm grip, loose grip. You don't want your son to ruin himself for partnered sex by using the "death grip"— a fist clenched tighter than any human throat or pussy can clench—during solo sex. And send him to makelovenotporn. com for a brisk, sex-positive porn-versus-reality check.

LOVE

A while ago, I broke up with my long-term boyfriend. A few months after the breakup, I met

someone new and we started sleeping together. It was the best sex of my life. Wild, passionate and unpredictable. New Guy wasn't looking for anything serious, and neither was I, so we kept things very casual. After a couple months of amazing sex with New Guy, my long-term boyfriend came back into the picture. I told him I'd been seeing other people, but that I missed him and wanted to make things work between us.

All good, right? Wrong! I love him so much and I think we could have a very happy life together, but when we have sex, it just seems so dull and average compared to the volcanic sex that I was having during our time apart. Do I sacrifice an amazing sex life for a happy life of decidedly average sex with the man I love? Help!

Missing Amazing Sex You're not going to be happy having safe, boring, predictable sex with Mr Long Term for the long term, right? Not after all that wild, passionate, unpredictable sex with Mr New Guy. So if things don't improve, your relationship with Mr Long Term is doomed. So you have nothing to lose by slapping your cards down on the table, MAS. Tell Mr Long Term the truth: the sex has to get better. Now, maybe Mr Long Term is the problem (he could be lousy at sex) or maybe it's the combo of you and Mr Long Term that's the problem (maybe you two just don't click sexually) and the relationship is doomed no matter what you do. But there's a chance your problem is a relatively common hang-up, MAS. It's possible that you, or Mr Long

Term, or you and Mr Long Term feel inhibited during sex because you're in love and people who are in love are supposed to have sex one way (you're supposed to make safe, boring, predictable love). But people who aren't in love—people like you and Mr New Guy—are free to have sex another way (they're allowed to have wild, passionate and unpredictable fucks).

Give Mr Long Term permission to fuck you like he's never going to see you again. You should fuck him the same way. Fuck each other like the stakes are low—fuck like it's casual, fuck like it could end at any time.

The "lovemaking" inhibition can be literally fucked to death, if it's indeed the problem here, and once you've fucked it good and dead, you'll see that you can have a happy life, a committed relationship, and wild, passionate, unpredictable sex—with the same person!

But you gotta want it bad enough to fuck for it.

I'm a straight woman in a monogamous, long-distance relationship with a straight man. Last weekend, I went out with my roommate (also a straight woman, also in a committed relationship). We went to a club, took some E and did way too many tequila shots. We stumbled home and ended up fingerbanging each other in my bed.

I have never had sexual feelings for my roommate and she says she doesn't have them for me. Do I have to tell my boyfriend about this indiscretion? I know he would be confused and upset. It was a strange, one-time thing that I plan on never doing again.

Not A Lesbian I Think If it was a one-time thing, if you learned your lesson, if you're sure it won't happen again, if you didn't contract anything and if there are no fetuses gestating (which, barring a miracle, is not an issue for you), you don't need to disclose this indiscretion. Chalk it up to the E and the tequila, change your sheets, scrub under your fingernails and spare your boyfriend the upsetting details.

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